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SUITOR KILLS SELF
WHEN WIDOW FLEES
SENATORS SEAT
2 STEAMERS AND TUG
RAH DIRGE
SPEED FIENDS SENT fir
-m xirmwi'o niMCDAl lUL
BATTLING FOR LIFE
GEORGIA WOMAN
HEARING IS BEGUN
BY 1. HARDING
WOMAN ESCAPES WHILE MAN
IS HUNTING PISTOL.
BESSIE DOLLAR AND STUART
OBJECT LESSON IS GIVEN TO
RECKLESS DRIVERS.
DOLLAR HELPLESS.
NECKLACE GIVFN UP
TO HELP FIJ'.HEST
CAMPAIGN IS q C?IED INTO
EVERY PAf is CITY.
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CHALLENGED
Germany Is Preparing
Says Glemenceau.
L
IS
Move Against Democratic
t. Government Already
-C . Declared Afoot.
GREAT CRISES ARE FAGED
European Situation Is Re
viewed and Action of
t Turks and Soviet Cited.
' NEW YORK, Nov. 21. (By the
Associated Press.) The militarists
of Germany already are preparing
another war, Georges Clemenceau,
war premier of France, declared
tonight in the first address of his
American tour.
"Don't you read the newspa
pers?" he demanded. "Don't you
know what that means?"
The Tiger of France, speaking
fervently at the Metropolitan opera
house, reviewed the situation in
Europe, pointing to a rapproach
ment of the Turks and soviet Rus
sia as ominous war clouds.
German Coup Suspected.
In the meantime, he declared,
Ludendorff and other German mili
tarists were planning a coup
against the democratic government
there.
Describing the present as a iime
of "greatest crises," he urged that
the United States should renew
conversations with France and Eng
land, which, without definitely
committing this country to' any set
programme, would present to Ger
man eyes a 'picture of the three
unpleasant folks who faced her in
the war.
He said that sooner or later
America would have to interest
herself in the post-war affairs of
Europe, because she could not con
tinue to be comfortable and wealthy
If Europe was covered with blood.
Hope for Peace Expressed.
He expressed hope that the
United States might establish a
plan as to what was to be done in
carrying out the terms of the peace
treaty and join with England and
France inimposing it upon Ger
many. He was frank in his criticism of
America's post war attitude, de
claring that America had a large
share in imposing the peace terms
and had a duty to see that they
were enforced.
Challenging the worth of 'Ger
many's signature to a treaty, the
Tiger declared that if France had
known in 1918 that reparations
would have been unpaid four years
later, she would have gone on to
Berlin.
He received a great burst of ap
plause for the assertion.
M. Clemenceau, who protested
that he came to America on no
official mission but as a private
citizen to present the truth as he
saw it, declared that reparations
was an American idea, because
President Wilson had come forward
with his famous 14 joints, and the
armistice represented essentially
the American point of view.
At mention of Woodrow Wilson
there was another great burst of
applause.
Great Crisis' Declared Faced.
Expressing the hope that Amer
ica could find some way of renew
ing conversations with France and
England, looking toward enforce
ment of the peace traety, Clemen
ceau said:
don't want to speak of the
league of nations. But I might, I
might." .
The Tiger said he did not be
lieve in the league as a means of
preventing war, but that he be
lieved in it as a means of arranging
matters, deferring war and giving
peoples time to think.
"You have seen one of the great
est dramas in the world," he said.
"We are now in the greatest
crisis. Nobody knows when it will
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Portlander Commits Suicide After
Threatening to Shoot Ob
ject of Affections.
ST. HELENS, Or., Nov. 21. (Spe
cial.) Enraged because she refused
his proposal of marriage and de
termined that her affections should
not be given another, William Wil
son, aged 59, of Portland this morn
ing attempted to take the life of
Mrs. Ellen Evans and, not succeed
ing, sent a bullet through his head.
Wilson, who had been keeping com
pany with Mrs. Evans for the past
two years, came from Portland Sat
urday and was a guest at the Evans
home. After breakfast, when Mrs.
Evans' 20-year-old son had gone to
work, Wilson renewed his proposals
and was again refused. He then
asked for a promise that Mrs. Evans
would not receive the attentions of
ether men while he was away. She
declined to promise this. Leaving
her in the kitchen, he went to the
room he had occupied the night be
fore, packed his grip and fully
dressed as if to depart. Coming into
the kitchen, he seized Mrs. Evans by
the throat, stating that he was go
ing to kill her. Evidently thinking
he had his pistol with him, he
reached for his hip pocket and, find
ing it was not there, went to the
bedroom to get it. r
While he was gone Mrs. Evans es
caped through the kitchen door and
ran to the house of a neighbor close
by. As she entered the neighbor's
back door Wilson appeared on the
porch of the Evans home, pistol in
hand. Seeing that the woman had
escaped, he stepped into a woodshed
near the porch and fired a bullet
through his head. Sheriff Welling
ton was notified and went to the
scene. Neither of the women had
heard the report of the pistol and
thought Wilson was hiding in the
house. '
The sheriff discovered his body In
the shed. Life was extinct.
Mrs. Evans has resided in St. Hel
ens for the past year and prior to
coming here livsd in Warren. Her
husband died three years ago and
for the past two years Wilson, who
was an intimate friend of Evans,
has been paying her attentions.
Coroner White is trying to find rel
atives of the suicide and his two
daughters, who are reported to live
somewhere near Portland.
HILO IS HIT BY QUAKE
Considerable Excitement hut No
Damage Is Reported.
HILO, Island of Hawaii, Nov. 21.
(By the Associated Press.) A
slight earthquake was experienced
here early this morning, but ho
damage was reported. The tremor
caused considerable excitement be
cause of reports from the United
States Sunday telling of an earth
disturbance that had practically
wiped out the city. These reports
were due to a mistake in radio
reading.
ALGIERS, Nov. 21. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Two earth ehocka
yesterday, following five tremors
Sunday evening, sent the inhabi
tants of Fromentin, near Cavaignac,
into the open country. 1
The quakes damaged the prin
cipal buildings so that they are
crumbling.
BRITONS VOICE PROTEST
Ship, Owners Complain of Com
petition of Americans.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 21.
British shipowners are complaining
because of competition by American
ships in the trade between Great
Britain ajid the United States, ac
cording to official reports received
today by the government from Hull,
England.
British steamship companies as
sert, the reports declared, that there
is growing evidence that American
exporters are diverting to American
vessels traffic which ordinarily
should be carried in British bottoms.
frequently i-n spite of express stip
ulations that British tonnage should
be employed.
DIVORCED COUPLE DEAD
Husband, It Is Thought, Slew
Wife and Then Took Poison.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Nov. 21. When
an undertaker called at the home of
Mrs. Christian Kern today to notify
her that her former husband had
been found dead in a lodging house,
her lifeless body was discovered on
a bed with a scarf tied tightly
around the neck. Investigation, the
police said, leads them to believe
that Kern had gone to her home
and strangled her and returning to
the lodging house had. taken poison.
The couple were divorced several
months ago. Kern was 65 and his
wife SO years old.
DEATH ENDSL0NG FAST
Woman Succumbs After Going
50 Day.s Without Food.
RENO, Nev. Nov. 21. Death today
ended a50-day fast by Mrs. Pearl A.
Cochran, 85. Her physician said last
night she had not had a morsel of
food during that time.
A year ago she had her attorney
swear out a warrant charging her
self with insanity, but at the time
was regarded as sane. She told him
and her physician that food of any
kind did not agree with her and
would eventually kill hei,
Mrs. Felton Takes Oath
at Epochal Ceremony.
CROWDS WITNESS SCENE
Speech of Walsh, Montana,
Delays Historic Event.
CHIVALRY CARRIES DAY
'Grand Old lady" Smiles When
Called to Rostrum to Give
Her Pledge to Country.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 21.
Mrs. W. H. Felton of Georgia took
the oath of office today as the first
woman United States senator.
It was true that her term prob
ably will be only for a day, but the
ceremony crowned with success the
efforts the 87-year-old woman had
made to blaze the path for Ameri
can womanhood" in the senate, and
it was indicated that she would be
content to step aside tomorrow in
favor of Walter F. George, who, was
elected November 7 as her successor
to fill the unexpired term of the
late Senator Watson. It was to fill
a vacancy, caused by his death that
Mrs. Felton was appointed last Sep
tember to serve until the November
elections.
Senate Chamber Is Crowded.
The seating of Mrs. ISelton at
tracted a crowd to the senate which
rivaled ( that which had gTeeted
President Harding a short time be
fore at the house, where he ad
dressed congress in Joint session.
And she was at once showered with
congratulations upon the signal
honor.
When she was directed to proceed
to the rostrum for the administer
ing of the oath of office, her face
broke into a smile. On the arm of
Senator Harris of Georgia and lift
ing her gown daintily, she walked
down the center aisle and up to
the vice-president's desk, where
Senator Cummins, Iowa, president
p tempore, was presiding in the
absence of Vice-President Coolidge.
President Pro Tempore Sainted.
As Senator Cummins motioned
for her to raise her right hand, she
exhibited her only sign of unfam
iliarity with the proceedings, wav
ing her hand to Mr. Cummins and
smiling as if receiving a similar
salute. Senator Harris nudged her
arm, however, and she then raised it,
gazing intently at Senator Cummins
as the oath was delivered and giving
her response In a low voice. .
The seating of Mrs. Felton had
been expected, in view of the tacit
agreement of senate leaders to in
terpose no objection in the face of
possible technical precedents as to
her status after the election No
vember 7 of her successor. But for
a time today it appeared as though
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THE TIME TO DECIDE
Little Stories Life Hearten
Worker ' ar
Drive 3w
& 4new Belief;
e Excellent.
A drive, even for human happi
ness, is a good deal like any other
projectile it must leave the muz
zle before its velocity can be esti
mated. That is why the captains
of the Community Chest campaign,
which enters its third day this
morning, are somewhat reluctant to
predict a brief and forceful finish.
For, so they maintain, at least the
half of a week is required for im
petus and public education, or muz
zle velocity. Believing this, from
the experience of other drives, they
are making no boasts nor are they
flirting with gloom.
"We are confident," said General
E. C. Sammons, chairman of the ex
ecutive committee, "that our flying
squadron and field organization are
superior to those of the past. We
have profited by the mistakes of
other years. Within the next day
or so the return3 will demonstrate
the attitude of the city toward a
great philanthropic enterprise and
will indicate the tactics that must
be employed to finish the campaign
and fill the chest.
"It is too early to be gladly op
timistic, too early to be downcast-
and we are neither one nor the
other. We are determined, and we
are pledging our faith in the good
sense and kindliness of the average
resident of Portland. . They have
not failed us heretofore, and there
is no reason to believe that they
will fail us now."
The official audit of returns for
the first two days of the drive, com
pleted last night, showed contribu
tions totaling 171,364.32. In view
of. the fact that the campaign is but
gaining headway, chest officials ex
pressed no disappointment at the
relatively meager result, but were
alike confident that from now on
the approach to the quota will be
more speedy. To fill the chest
(648,329 must be raised.
There were hundreds of weary
campaigners in the city last night,
men and women who had given up
their own affairs to take the mes
sage of the chest to every section
of the city, and among them there
were current little stories of life
that hearten the worker and renew
belief. There are always such stories
during a great city-wide drive and
they are invariably tonic to the
crusaders.
One of these potent narratives In
miniature concerns a Portland ma
tron who desired, as many women
do, a necklace of beauty and value.
Moreover, she had the money to
purchase the trinket and she Wfvs
on that very mission when she
paused to read the placards of the
Community Chest' in a store win
dow. These concerned the. near-east'
relief and they were not nice read
ing they were the sort of thing
the world would like to forget, if it
could. Turning, she entered the
store.
"Where may I subscribe to the
chest?" she asked. "The thought of
owning a necklace, while there is
so much sorrow and suffering,
doesn't appeal to me."
Stories of the chest are incongru
ous in setting, but alike in human
character, and equal to that of the
matron who didn't buy the neck
lace is the one concerning a certain
north-end bonlface. who has been
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TO BE CAREFUL IS BEFORE
.t
Sea' Monarch,' With Two Storm
Battered Craft Hooked Tan
dem, Heads lor Coast.
SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 21. The
tug Sea Monarch has hooked the
steamships Bessie Dollar and Stuart
Dollar the former with her power
killed and the latter with her rudder-
gone together, x tandem, the
Dollar Steamship company an
nounced here tonight after receiving
a message from Captain" Orison A.
Beaton, master of the Sea Monarch.
The message said tWo three craft
were 507 miles west of Cape Flat
tery. In response to a request by Cap
tain Beaton the tug Sea Lion was
ordered to the scene from San Francisco.
The Stuart Dollar, which lost her
rudder some days ago and was being
towed to this port by the Sea Mon
arch, being in the middle of the
string, is able to aid the tug by the
use of her engines, it was explained,
while the Bessie Dollar, which yes
terday reported engine trouble, can
help by steering in the rear.
Storm-battered In the Pacific the
steamers Bessie Dollar, Stuart Dol
lar and the tug Sea Monarch, sent
out distress calls this afternoon
which were received at the United
States naval radio station here. The
coast guard cutter Haida was ord
ered to proceed immediately to the
assistance of the three vessels.
The cutter Algonquin, stationed
at Astoria, Or., was also ordered to
proceed to sea and give all aid
possible.
The Sea Monarch was dispatched
from Seattle recently to the assist
ance of the Stuart Dollar, which had
sustained a broken rudder in a
heavy gale. The Bessie Dollar, in
ward bound from the far east for
Victoria, B. C, reported early today
that she was standing by the Stuart
Dollar, which was in tow of the
Sea Monarch.
The three vessels reported by
radio this afternoon that they were
encountering especially heavy
weather and that the Sea Monarch
was unable to handle her tow.
DENVER FACES EPIDEMIC
100 Reported Dead From Small
pox Within Few Weeks.
DENVER, Colo., Nov. 21. Com
pulsory vaccination in Denver as a
t-reventivo pf smallpox, which has
been prevalent here for several
weeks, was declared in effect today
by Dr. William Sharpley, manager
of health. A statement issued by
Dr. Sharpley said that persons who
disregarded the order would face a
penalty of a fine of not less-ihan $10
or more than $200.
There have been 100 deaths in
Denver from smallpox within a few
weeks, declared Dr. Sharpley.
BOOTLEG KING CORRALED
Gotham Offender Fined $10,000
and Sent to Prison.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2L Anthony
Cassese, described by the authorities
as the "bootleg king," was convicted
by a jury in federal court late to
day on a charge of conspiracy to
violate the Volstead act.
Judge Knox sentenced him to two
years in the Atlanta penitentiary
and imposed a fine of $10,000.
AN ACCIDENT OCCURS-
If I If
I
Commerce Body Reviews
Supreme Court Case.
SIX STATES REPRESENTED
Union Pacific.
TILT NARROWLY AVERTED
Official Denounces Entrance of
California Organization Into
Fnmerger Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 21.
The appeal of the Southern Pacific
company to be allowed to retain
control of the Central Pacific, de
spite a supreme court decision or
dering the merger dissolved, came
to' hearing before the interstate
commerce commission today with
six western states, the Union Pa
cific railroad and numbers of com;
munities, traffic associations and
stockholders appearing as interven
ers. Two general officers of the
merged system, L. J. Spence, director
of traffic, and F. L. Burckhalter,
assistant general manager, com
pleted direct statements supporting
the application before the first day's
proceedings ended.
While the Union Pacific appeared
to oppose the Southern Pacific posi
tion, the array of interveners- was
divided for and against its proposals.
Fred H. Wood, counsel for the
Southern Pacific, challenged the en
trance of the California Producers'
and Shippers' association, terming
it "merely the Union Pacific 'operat
ing under an alias," a charge which
E. F. Tredwell, for the association,
promised to meet at the proper time,
but as cross-examination of wit
nesses was reserved, the proceed
ings continued without any sharper
raising of the issues.
; TraJTric tndy Presented. . .
Mr. Spence presented at length a
study of traffic conditions on the
Pacific coast, emphasizing partlcu
larly his statement that the South
em Pacific's association with the
Central Pacific has not operated to
divert transcontinental traffic south
ward and away from the Ogden
route. Panama canal traffic, he
contended, had largely eliminated
any tendency which might ever have
existed to make the Southern Pa
cific's Sunset route a competitor of
the Central Pacific's Ogden route.
The two systems today, he insisted,
were complementary, welded into
one unit by long association and the
disregard of corporate ownership
during new construction and expan
sion of terminals.
This unity would be disrupted by
the dissolution ordered by the su
preme court, Mr. Burckhalter as
serted, adding jn summing up that
the disruption would result in an
additional expenditure of $2,600,000
annually in additional general ex
pense for two companies to render
exactly the ' same transportation
service the Pacific coast is now re
ceiving. New Shop Factor.
Shops built and owned by one
company, now used by both, would
have to be vacated in part in some
places, he said, and others built
elsewhere. Terminals owned by one
corporation and only to be entered
over lines of another and designed
for Joint use, he contended, would
only in part eliminate what he
termed "waste of capital assets."
At Sacramento, Cal., he said, the
merged system had a manufacturing
establishment with a $1,004,000 an
nual payroll, converting waste metal
hauled in from all the lines into fin
ished products reused by both con
cerns, and its continuance would
necessarily be embarrassed.
By both witnesses, the merger of
the two companies, now stamped as
illegal, was described as of such
long-standing as to leave them now
a single unit.
Lease Is Proposed.
The application pending before
the commission seeks to allow the
Southern Pacific to retain control
of the Central Pacific under lease
until such time as the Interstate
commerce commission may deter
mine whether it desires to authorize
the consolidation of the two roads,
in accordance with the terms of the
transportation act permitting con
solidation generally. The tentative
consolidation plan of the commis
sion, now under consideration, pro
poses the retention of the merger.
Approximately "75 per cent of the
traffic originated by the Southern
Pacific in central California for
eastern points is routed via the
Ogden Gateway and the Central Pa-
cific lines, Mr. Spence estimated.
He denied that any loss of traffic
to the Ogden Gateway is involved
by reason of the Central Pacific's
association with the Southern Pa
cific. F. L. Burckhalter, assistant gen
eral manager of -the Southern Pa
cific, told the commission that in
the 30 years of unified operation
the question of divorce of corporate
ownership had never been consid
ered. Terminals in one city are
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Cleveland and Los Angeles Judges
Annonnce Purpose to Im
pose Limit Sentences.
CLEVELAND. Nov. 21. Six con
victed traffic law violators accom
panied by two police officers were
given an object lesson in reckless
driving when they were ordered
today by Municipal Judge Sawtcki
to attend the funeral of Catherine
Giimore, aged 7, who was killed
by an automobile last , Saturday
while crossing the street in front
of her home.
In addition to attending' the fu
neral five of the men were' given
fines and a sixth, who was charged
vith driving while intoxicated, was
given a 30-day Jail sentence, fined
$50 and costs and deprived of the
right to drive for one year.
The judge said he intended to
fellow the same policy in the fu
ture and that he would send traffic
law violators to morgues, hospitals
and funerals to view their victims.
One hundred and fifteen persons
have been killed in Cleveland this
year by automobiles.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 21. A
19-year-old girl was one of 16 per
sons sentenced to Jail here today
for speeding.
Police Judge Chambers sentenced
the offenders to terms varying from
two days to 10, depending on the
speed with which they were driv
ing their automobiles.
"This speeding has got to stop,
and stop now," said the court.
Judge Chambers granted the girl
offender a stay of sentence until
tomorrow morning on her pla. for
time to go home and break the
news to her parents.
$50,000 PAID FOR PLANT
New Strawberry Is Expected to
Revolutionize Industry.
THREE RIVERS, Mich., Nov. 21.
Fifty thousand dollars for a
single strawberry plant was paid
today by Frank E. Beatty, presi
dent of the R. M. Kellogg company,
fruit growers.
The plant is to be known as the
"Rockhill," In honor of its breeder,
Harlow Rockhill of Conrad, la. The
price is believed here to be the
highest ever paid for a single
strawberry plant. The plant bears
in early summer and begins again
in the late summer, bearing con
tinually until frost comes.-
The purchaser said today he
believed the plant he had purchased
would revolutionize the strawberry
industry.
$500 PAID FOR 20 EGGS
s
Prod uct of Champion Woodland
Hen Brings Record Prices.
KELSO, Wash, Nov. 21. (Special.)
Five hundred dollars for 20 eggs
is probably a world's record price,
but that was the price paid to II. M.
Leathers, poultry fancier of Wood
land, for 20 eggs to.be laid by his
world champion hen, which laid 335
eggs in a year at the egg-laying
contest at the Western Washington
experiment station at Puyallup this
year.
Mr. Leathers has been engaged in
poultry raising for years. The hen
is a White Leg-horn, a cross of the
Oregon Agricultural college and
Tajnored breeds.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
50 degrees; minimum, 41 degrees.
TODAY'S Increaaing cloudiness; east
erly winds.
Foreign.
Cabinet of north China government re
ported to have resigned. Page 3.
National.
Centralization of government rapid in
last SO years. Page 5.
Mrs. W. H. Felton of Georgia takes oath
of office as United States senator.
Page 1.
Railway divorce hearing is begun. Page 1.
President Harding challenges foe In de
fense of ship subsidy measure. Page L
Subsidy bill expected to arouse many ene
mies in congress. Page 6.
Domestic'
Kansas-, opens legal fight to drive Ku
Klux Klan from state. Page S.
Germany plans new war, declares Clemen
ceau. Page L
Cleveland judge orders aped fiends to
attend victim' funeral. Page 1.
Cost of hip subsidy put at $15,000,000
anuually. Page tt.
Ford is regarded as business wizard.
Page 26.
Pacific Northwest.
Suitor kills self when widow fleep. Page 1.
Storm-battered t earners 500 miles from
Cape Flattery paved by tug. Page 1.
Dr. Morrison wins suit with diocese.
Page 1.
Sports.
High school title at stake today. Page 15.
r. A It'irtrviuul n nla awntf V. ......
I Vara 14.
Sport for women to be controlled.
Page 14.
Billiards, crown 'regained by Hoppe.
Page 15.
Stanford hopes to hold Bears to three
touchdowns. Page 13.
Commercial and Marine.
Local wheat market responds to eastern
advance. Page 24.
(Jains outnumber losses in New Tork
bond market. Page 25.
Three book passage for South America.
Page 12.
Stock market irregular and spiritless.
Page 25.
Prices of grains all Bhow advance.
Page 24.
Portland and Vicinity.
Deadlock stands in senate contest
Page 11.
Evidence closed in $600,000 Wemme suit.
Page 13.
Road work for 1923 is mapped out.
Page 18.
Woman gives up necklace to help fill
chest. Page 1.
More interest in -stock show urged.
Page 17.
Loyal legion plans change to help locals
in admuuttrauoB. work. Pag. X2
Chief Champions Ship
Subsidy Measure.
BRIEF SPEECH DYNAMIC ONE
Opposition Is Recognized
and Frankly Faced.
AMERICAN IDEAL VOICED
Alleged Turpose to Enrich Fa
vored Few at Expense of .Na
tional Treasury Sconted.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 21.-
President Harding, in an address
today to a joint session of congress,
urged speedy enactment of the ad- .
ministration's shipping bill as a.
means of cutting: down present
losses through operation of govern
ment ehips and putting: America at
the forefront "in the peace triumphs
on the seas of the world."
.t the very outset of the 30-min-jte
speech, which was heard with
the closest attention, the president
frankly declared that those standing-
with him might as well recog
nize that there was "divided opinion
and determined opposition."
It would be helpful in clearing
the atmosphere to start with recog
nition of this fact, the president
said.
With great emphasis the presi
dent challenged "every insinuation"
that the bill was framed for the
benefit of "favored interests" or for
the enrichment of the special few
at the expense of the public treas
ury. He declared that first of all
he was appealing to save the treas
ury. Mistaken Prrjndlcr Rapped.
Calling attention to 'the "hostility
in the popular mind" to the word
"subsidy" stressed, he said, by the
opposition, the president asserted
that government aid would be a
fairer term than subsidy in defining
what he was seeking to do for the
upbuilding of the American mer
chant marine.
"But call it 'subsidy' since there
are those who prefer to appeal to
mistaken prejudice, rather than
make frank and logical arguments,"
he said.
"We might so call the annual loss
of $50,000,000 which we are paying
now without protest by those who
most abhor the word; we might as
well call that a 'subsidy.' If so.
I am proposing to cut it in half, ap
proximately." Discussing the problem confront
ing congress, the president outlined
three courses of action. The first,
he said, was constructive, which em
braced passage of the bill; the sec
ond, obstructive continued govern
ment operation and attending gov
ernment losses; the third, destruc
tive, involving the sacrifice and,
scrapping of the merchant fleet.
American Ideal Cheered.
"I have come to urge the construe- t
,tive alternative, to reassert 11
American 'we will,' " he exclaimed,
which brought the first applause
during delivery of the speech.
The next applause greeted tha
president's declaration that he re
joiced that higher standards for la
bor on American ships had been es
tablished and merest justice sug
gested that "when congress fixes
these standards It is only fair to ex
tend government aid in maintaining
them until our shipping lines are so
firmly established that they can face
world competition alone."
The farm bloc, including; members
on tine democratic side, applaud-ed
again when the president said crediit
systems under government provision
and control must be promptly and:
safely broadened to relieve the agri
cultural classes.
There was a variety of comment
by members, but for the most part
this followed party lines.
Mondell Lands Message.
Representative Mondll, Wyoming,
the republican leader, said:
"I consider the president's mes
sage an exception-ally strong and
forceful one. I do not recall ever
having heard a case more logically
or convincingly presented. The pres
ident's arguments in favor of leg
islation along the lines proposed ars
unanswerable."
The view of opponents of the bill
was expressed by Representative
Garrett, Tennesee, democratic lead
er, who said:
"From the standpoint of those
who favor the bill the president
placed the matter in what I suppose
will be generally regarded as a
strong light. Of course, from the
standpoint of those of us who are
opposed to the measure, he did not
answer the fundamental objections."
The shipping bill, over which tas
big fight of the session will begin
Thursday, was filed with the house .
by Chairman Greene of the mer
chant marine committee a few
minutes before the oresident reached
the capitol. It differed in some re
spects from the measure introduced
weeks ago and was reported with
out a record vote. Tomorrow the
rules committee is expected to give
it right of way and the programme
calls for action on the special reso.
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