THE MORNIXG OREGOXIAN, FRIDAY, NOVE3IBER .3, 1922 15I1I8T01ST1TE VOTERS APATHETIC Republican Victory Seems to Be Assured. REGISTRATION IS 450,000 School Bills Expected to Draw to Polls People Uninterested In Candidates. PTJGET SOrND BUREAU. Seattle, Wash., Nov. 2. Candidates for of- ice and political party managers .vho have been finding cause for norry in the apparent indifference f Washington state voters snouia 1U0 find some cause for encourage nent in the registration figures and n reasonable deductions therefrom. :ity registration has fallen off leavily from the figures of 1920, vhen the presidency of the United -itates and the governorship of the tate, one United States senator and ive representatives in congress vere all Involved; but country regis- ration shows an increase, and the otal registration in the state is nuch larger than in 1918, the last r.eceding political off year. With the close of registration on October 17, Spokane had registered ibout 6000 less and Tacoma about .000 less than in 1920. In most of he smaller cities there has been iroportional shrinkage. The big ilump is in Seattle, where registra ion is now about 27,000 less than n 1920. Oh the other hand, the ountry districts, wherein registra ion is necessary only once in four ears, provided the voter turns up at ach general election, have held heir 192-0 figures and added many tew names. City Registration Ntw. City registration is all new this .ear. The spring municipal cam paigns were tame by comparison with many of the fights of former . ears and did not excite or scandal ise the electorate to the point of leavy registration. Conditions were lifferent in 1920, when radicalism was an issue in nearly every city campaign and the former laborites md non-partisan leaguers were uusy in every part of the state. In Seattle's 1920 city campaign, for example, more than 100,0-00 citi- ens qualified to vote by register ing. James A. Duncan, radical sec retary of Seattle's central labor -ouncil, was then a candidate tor nayor against Major Hugh M. Cald well. Caldwell won by a big ma jority. Duncan is now the farmer- labor candidate for United States senator and Major Caldwell is tour ing: the state speaking for Senator Poindexter and the republican ticket. Seattle Interest Keen. The big -national and state issue of 1920 ran Seattle's registration up to nearly 120,000 in advance of the all elections. By that time Spo kane's registration had reached 41,204 and Tacoma's was 38,400. This year's showing is Seattle 92.245, Spo kane 35,147, Tacoma 33,427. Registration returns made by all cities and country precincts to the secretary of state indicate an aggre gate registration over the whole state of approximately 450.0(H). in round numbers. Party leaders and ampaign managers have usually felt that they were doing pretty well to bring out 05 per cent of the registered vote on election day in an off year. On that very conservative basis the slate vote November 7 should be around 290,000 to 300,000. Even with no more than a 65 per cent vote it seems impossible to fig ure success tor .either of the parties opposing the republican. In 1920, with a total vote of 444,684, the re publican vote for president was 223,137, considerably more than half, or a clear majority over all. Jones' Victory Recalled. Wesley L. Jones was re-elected senator with 217,069 votes as against 99.309 for his nearest competitor, the farmer-labor candidate. Going back to the off year of 1918, the total vote cast in the state was only 215.684. Of this number 112,166 were republican votes, as against 81.350 for the democratic ticket and 7S70 for the socialists. It is necessary to refer all the way back to the upset of 1916 to f'nd any statistical ground for anti-republican-hopes. Kven in that year. with a total vote cast of 392,709, the republican vote for president was 167,208 only 16,180 less than was given the democratic candidate while Senator Poindexter was elected with 202,287 votes as against lJ5.oj for 1ns democratic opponent This year's party managers, prop- prly concerned with the success of their party tickets, naturallv ap praise the situation on the evidence of general apathy toward the strife between individual candidates. There has been no wild rushing of voters to attend campaign meetings and hear the issues discussed; nor has there been any noticeable rush of contr'bulions toward the several campaign chests. Overoonfldencr Is Blamrd. Republicans ascribe all this to overconfidence. But overeonfidenen is to the election of a republican i' rm tm riifriliiiiiiij'raiiiifff r t i n ii. Dau Dream 7s Usually Due to Constipation .When you are constipated, not enough of Nature's lubricating liquid is pro duced in the bowel to keep the food waste soft and moving. Doctors prescribe -Mninl hAiaiicA i q.la 1:1... . ... u, m JiJt i k otid line this natural lubricant and M tkna renlarm it Ji xnujoi is a lubricant not a medicine or laxative so cannot gripe. Try it today. Bilious ? Jut Aycr's PEi at bedtime. Act on the liver. Centtv hxithw. Stu All vegetable. Sold tor 70 yew. 'Ask yoox druggist. 3- O- Ajr Ov. candidate Senator Poindexter, for example doesn't necessarily mean that republicans are going- to stay away from the polls on election day. Party managers, in a word, are not giving enough credit to the pull of various unpartisan issues in which a good many thousands of voters are intensily interested. Initiative No. 46, the 30-10 plan, and referen dum No. 13, affecting physical ex amination of children in school, are particularly powerful incentives to voting this year, and Influential forces are arrayed on either side of the various other questions sub mitted directly to the people. All these things will bring voters to the polls, though they have no effect-in bringing voters to strictly party rallies. Judged by the figures of the more recent past elections and by rea sonable analysis of present condi tions, it would seem that better than a 65 per cent vote might well be ex pected. The same sort of judgment will indicate that, whatever the proportion of the vote to the regis tration, the republican share should rup to half the total and will prob ably be a clear majority over the combined vote of the divided demo cratic and farmer-labor opposition. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF COUNCIL RESIGNS. Dr. R. E. Close Takes Position as Worker With Anto Saloon Jjcaguc. Although announcement has not been made from any official source, it became known yesterday that Dr. R. E. Close had resigned as executive secretary of the Portland Council of Churches and that the registration was accepted- at a meeting of the council last Friday. Temporarily the functions formerly performed by Dr. Close has been transferred to the shoulders of J. W. Palmer, social and church work sec retary of the Y. M. C. A. That straightened financial cir cumstances of the church council liad something to do with the resig nation was admitted by a member of the federated body last night. This man, a well-known minister, who did not wish to be quoted, said that Dr. Close's retirement was brought on partly because of the fact that the church council has been forced to make retrenchment in the expense of conducting the secretary's office and partly because Dr. Close, hampered as he was de clared to have been by a diminished appropriation, found it hard to fill the shoes of his predecessor, Dr. Ralph C. McAfee, who quit the same position nearly a year ago to go to Kansas City. Dr. Close has taken a position as field worker with the Anti-Saloon league of Oregon. In tendering his resignation the ex-secretary said he had received an advantageous offer. "The salary of executive secretary of the church council," said the member before mentioned, "has been $2750 a year. In making ar rangements for carrying on the work in future it was found neces sary to reduce the expenses of the office and abolish the position of assistant secretary. Dr. Close, no doubt, felt that Tie could not con tinue in the office and do himself Justice under these circumstances. "Under the temporary arrange ments made Mr. Palmer of the Y. M. C. A. will assume the duties of executive secretary of the council in addition to his other work until a permanent successor to Dr. Close is elected, or other plans carried irvto effect." MIL DECISION SOUGHT CHAMBER DIRECTORS TO DE BATE ISSUE TODAY.' Unmerger Case Represented by Three Camps; Special Com mittee Report Opposed. Directors of the Chamber of Com merce will endeavor to arrive at a decision this afternoon in regard to adoption or disapproval of the re port of the special chamber commit tee on the railroad unmerger situa tion as it affects the interests -of Oregon. The committee, after an exhaustive inquiry into all phases of the divorce of the Central Pacific from the Southern Pacific, made the recommendation that the Central Pacific be left a separate railroad system, the belief being expressed that this would best serve Oregon and its future. The directors, however, were not convinced that the decision was the correct one ani have since with held their approval of the report, there being at least three camps into which chamber directors are divided One favors an independent Central Pacific, another is for Its retention by the Southern Pacific, while a third group believes it will be to the best interests of the state for the property to be entrusted to the Union Pacific. A proposal has been made that the matter be put to a referendum vote of chamber members, but this is being opposed on the ground that the matter is highly technical and the rank and file of the chamber will not be prepared to vote intelli gently upon it, since the subject de mands a careful study. MEMORIAL IS PLANNED Chaplains Who Lost Lives in War to Be Honored by Churches. WASHINGTON, D., C, Nov. 2. Decision to establish a national memorial to the army, navy and ma rine corps chaplains who gave their lives in the service was reached today at a meeting here of the gen eral committee on army and navy chaplains of the Protestant churches of the United States. Twenty-two chaplains made the supreme sacri fice, according to the committee's record. The committee decided also to press claims before congress for larger appropriations In the annual army and navy budgets for the pay of chaplains. Proebstel Farmer Dies, VANCOUVER, Wash., N-. 2. (Special.) Sam Moody, aged 60 years, a farmer living near Proeb stal, dropped from a tree in his or chard yesterday and died a few mo ments later, presumably from heart failure. He was apparently In good health when he went into the or chard to pick some fruit. Ha was found in a dying condition eome time later by Mrs. Harding, his mother-in-law, A doctor wan called, but whan he arrived Moody was dead. Moody's only esurvivlng rela tives are brothers who live in the east. Phone yta? want ads te The Oregeaian, Main 7078, IDA BABIES EXAMINED MOTHERS ARE TOLD HOW TO ' CARE FOR OFFSPRING. Clinic Jjecturer at Health Exposi tion Assisted by High School Students in Eugenics Subtract six from the number ofJ months a baby is old and the number left is how many- teeth the infant should have. That's the way vou figure for babies under two years of age and the information was di vulged by a young high school girl who attended the clinic held yes terday afternoon at the health ex position in the auditorfum under the auspices of the Co-operative Infant Welfare association. Dr. C. U. Moore conducted the clinio and examined nearly 100 velvet-skinned prides 0f Portland. In calling attention of the mothers to the defects of their offspring the doctor frequently called on the members of a high school class in eugenics and the fact about teeth was one of numerous bits of in formation volunteered b ythe young students. The babies examined yesterday were all far above normal, as they were being entered in the contest being staged by the health exposi tion to determine the most nearly 100 per cent American in Portland. One of the most strongly accentu ated features of the contest was the fact that breast-fed Infants are far and away healthier and better look ing than the poor mewlers that start o na bottle. One of the principal points of difference between the bottle-fed and the breast-fed baby is the tint of the skin. Those who take the food provided by nature are noted fo rthe delicate pink of their satiny coats. Babies fed on artificial milk have white skins. . Dr. Moore advised every mother who came before him of the ad vantages of breast feeding and de clared that in only rare instances is their any excuse for bottle feeding. Mother's milk, he said, contains all the elements that make for heaithy babies up to weaning time. But in some cases other foods must be given to supplement this natural food. It used to be ten years ago, said the doctor, that no mother would think of feeding an Infant under two years of age vegetables. It is modern practice to begin feed ing vegetables at the age of seven or eight months. Many medical works on baby feeding are now out of date, declared the clinic lecturer. Atablespoonful of raw cabbage juice a day is a good thing to give some infants. Tomato juice or that of oranges are also advisable under certain conditions. These and many other interesting and useful bits of knowledge were imparted by the doctor at yesterday's clinic. 70, IS SUICIDE F. W. DAVIDSON KILLS SELF INT OREGON HOTEL. Ill Health Cause of Act, Declare Friends of Southern Ore gon Prospector. Suicide was the resort of F. W. Davidson, mining prospector, about 70 years old. as an escape from ill health and disability after a life of activity in the open air. He shot himself ' through the head with a .38-caliber revolver in his room in the Oregon- hotel some time between 10:30 Wednesday night and noon yesterday. The body was found by hotel employes. Friends declared that Davidson for the past year or more had feared the loss of the use of his legs. His act was evidently not premidated. for the police found a letter ad dressed to his widow, Dora E. Da vidson, Whitehall, Mich., in which he told of plans to go south to spend the winter in California. A chambermaid discovered the body when she went to make up the room about 1:30 yesterday after noon. The revolver was beside him. Davidson was last seen at 10:30 Wednesday night. No report of a shot reached hotel authorities. Wesley W. Caviness, surveyor general and a friend of the dead prospector, said that he had spent some- time in Malheur county and other parts of southern Oregon. Asbestos and oil were his interests, he said. CHECK SUSPECT HELD Carl Baker Flees Twice, but Is Caught and Put in Jail. . ' Carl Baker, alias Miller, was ar rested yesterday en a charge of at tempting to. pass a forged check on the Blaesing Granite company, Third and Madison streets, in Davment for a "tombstone for his mother's grave." After listening to the man's tale. H. J. Bleasing, manager of the com pany, went to the telephone to call F. H. Brandea, who Baker said was his employer and whose name ap peared on the check. Then Baker dashed to the street. "Bleasing ran, after him. A horde of pedestrians joined in the chase. Two blocks away Baker was caught. While waiting for the police patrol, he again broke away, but was caught and taken to the Jail. Creswell to Have Chautauqua. CRESWELL, Or., Nov. 2. (Spe cial.) Creswell will have a winter Chautauqua under the management of the Ellison-White company, the dates being November 15 to 20 in clusive. The local organization was perfected Monday with the follow ing officers: C. H. Sedgwick, presi dent; Mrs. Ethel Everson, vice president; Clay Stone, secretary, and Leonard Zinr.iker. treasurer. The entertainments will be held in the Woodmen hall. Clos a mew They are Another Shipment of Peon" Corduroys THE much-talked-of corduroy trousers are here in four good colors and a full range of sizes. Tailored of excellent qual ity of corduroy and cor rectly modeled after the style made so famous by Rodolph Valentino They are stylish, practical and inexpensive $6.50 Pr. Sam'l Rosenblatt & Co. The home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes Fifth at Alder Gasco Building IIXICIT RELATIONS WITH SISTER-IN-LAW CARRIED OX. Acts, However, Declared to Have Nothing to Do With Accusa tion of Wife Murder. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2. Charges that he had illicit relations with his sister-in-law. Miss Helen Lange, are freely admitted by Henry Wilkens, on trial for wife murder, "but that has nothing to do with this case," Frank J. Murphy, Wilkens' counsel, said today in his final argument to the jury. "Henry Wilkens succumbed to the same temptation that has changed the history of the world and has made thrones oUer," Murphy said, "but that is not to be considered in determining the question of his guilt or innocence here." Murphy referred to the testimony fo Frank Seebank, mechanic for Wilkens, as "reluctantly glen." See bank testified that Arthur Castor, accused as a co-consipartor with Wilkens in the murder of Mrs. Wil kens, viBited the Wilkens' garage both before and after the murder. "Seebank did not have the bearing of a truthful man," Murphy said. "Statements by Robert Castor re garding Wilkens' relations with Miss Lange could have been gotten from Seebank." Robert Castor is a brother of Arthur Castor. Both were prosecu tion witnesses. "Walter and Arthur Castor planned to hold up Mrs. Wilkens on the ocean when she was shot," Mur phy said. "They did not plan to kill her. "We do not deny the testimony that Wilkens met Robert Castor at an isolated spot in the city after the rflurder, but Robert Castor mere ly tried to blackmail Wilkens on that occasion. He did not know Robert Castor's real identity until Castor appeared in court." It was indicated to day that the case would not go to the jury until Saturday morning, as I. M. Golden, assistant district attorney, intends to occupy all of tomorrow's session in his closing argument. - REPRESENTATIVE McARTHCR REVIEWS RECORD MADE. Address at Gresham Deals With Republican Accomplishments Under President Harding. GRESHAM, Or., Nov. 2. (Spe cial.) In a campaign speech here tonight Representative McArthur enumerated the various pieces of legislation which the present repub lican congress has enacted in the interests of American agriculture. He discussed the emergency . and permanent tariff acts, . the act for the regulatio nof packers, he grain exchange law, the act by which the war finance corporation was revised nd a revolving fund created for the purpose of making loans to farmers, the act conferring upon farmers the right to form organizations for the marketing of their products, the agricultural inquiry commission and the conference called by President Harding for the purpose of consid ering the problems of American agriculture. In summing up the record, he declared that no congress In the history of the government had enacted so much important ed Cap at Low Fmg her en boys! legislation in the Interests of Ameri can agriculture as has the present congress. Mr. McArthur also discussed the general record of the present con gress and stoutly defended Its ac tlon in repealing the excess profits tax. He said that the repeal was recommended by President Wilson and his three secretaries of the treasury McAdoo, Glass and Hous ton as well as by President Hard ing and Secretary Mellon. He de clared that the excess profits tax was a war measure and that its operation in time of peace only served to drive capital into non taxable securities. MASS MEETING TONIGHT . OPPONENTS OF SCHOOL BILL TO OUTLINE VIEWS. Gathering to Be at Peoples Thea ter; Dr. Pence, Ir. Sisson, Mr. Montague to Talk. Opponents of the compulsory edu cation bill will outline reasons for the rejection of the measure at a mass meeting to be held tonight at the Peoples theater. Dr. Edward H. Pence, pastor of Westminster Pres byterian church; Dr. Edward O. Sis son of Reed college, and Richard W. Montague, lawyer and member of the library board, will be the principal speakers. Ben Selling will preside. The meeting will be open to the general public and is to be held under the auspices of the non sectarian and ProU-stant committee for freedom in education. There was an interesting debate on the bill last night at the First Methodist Episcopal church, Mr. Montague taking the negative and George B. Cellars the affirmative. Rev. B. E. Parker, pastor of the church, presided. Opponents of the bill are prepar ing a whirlwind finish for their campaign. In addition to tonight's meeting at the Peoples theater two other meetings will be held in dif ferent sections of the city and four in outside cities. At 3:30 P. M. today the women's service club will conduct a meeting in hall J of the Labor temple. Mrs. Laurence Phillips will be the prin cipal speaker. 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