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6 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 19, 1915. DUIM PROTESTS RECALL IS UNJUST AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR WHOSE RECALL IS DEMANDED AND HIS WIFE. 9 Diplomat in Letter to Lan sing Says He Feels Hu miliation Deeply. CHARGES ARE RESENTED Efforts to Obtain Better Working Conditions for Fellow-Countrymen In Pressnre of Cri sis Are Related. frTETW YORK, Sept. 18. (Special.) Dr. Dumba, Auetro-Hungrarian Ambas sador, has addressed to Secretary of State Lansing: a letter protesting against the request for his recall as unjust, and complaining; bitterly of re trictions imposed by the American Government cennorship of the wireless on his communications with his home government restrictions not placed upon the diplomatic representatives of the allies of this country, he declares, because they enjoy the uncensored use of the cable. The letter Is devoted mainly to a de fense of the Ambassador's plan to find other work for the nationals of his government employed In American mu nition plants. Exception Taken to Charge. Except to say that he takes excep tion to Mr. Lansing's charge that he confessed to having conspired to bring about strikes in American munition works, the Ambassador makes no re erence to the intercepted letter to the Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs on which the request for his recall was based. In that letter he said he was "under the impression that we could, if not en tirely prevent the production of war material in Bethlehem and in the Middle West, at any rate strongly dis courage it and hold it up for months, which, according to the statement of the German military attache, is of great Importance and which amply out weighs the relatively small sacrifice of money. Fellow Countrymen in Mind. "But," he added in the letter, "even if the disturbances do not suceed, there is a probability at hand that we shall compel, under pressure of a crisis, fa vorable working conditions for our op pressed fellow countryman." The letter which Dr. Dumba has ad dressed to him was read to Secretary Lansing tonight at the Hotel Balti more. "That is deeply interesting," was the Secretary's comment. Dr. Dumba, in his letter does not question the power of the Government to dismiss him by handing him his passports, bur he says when the Gov ernment resorts to the humiliating course of preferring charges against him to his government without his be ing advised of such action, it is unjust and contrary to diplomatic usage. (iermai Precedent Cited. Dr. Dumba continues: "The German government issued a proclamation calling the attention of its citizens residents in this and other foreign countries to the severe pen alties they would incur by participating in the manufacture of munitions for the countries with which Germany is at war. As a result of the proclamation hundreds of German citizens surren dered their positions in American muni tions factories. "I was subsequently advised by my government of the issuance by it of a similar proclamation, in which atten tion was also directed to our military penal code, under which the engaging in or continuance In such activities by our citizens in foreign countries is made a crime punishable by imprison ment from 10 to 20 years and under certain circumstances by death. Plea Made A sains t Order. "I thereupon made strong representa tions to my government for a suspen sion of the operation of this law against citizens of Austria-Hungary resident in this country and urged in support of my plea the following among other considerations: "1. That, whereas, the German workmen were in the main prosperous, highly trained specialists and mechan ics, our citizens were largely poorly paid unskilled laborers, most of whom were unable to read or write any lan guage other than thier own, who were working under conditions of unspeak able hardship and who would find it difficult if not impossible to secure ether employment. "2. That it would be harsh to de clare them criminals and outlaws with out providing the machinery for ac quainting them with the fact that they were violating the laws of their coun try and. that as there is no official record of these citizens extant, an ex planation through the newspapers pub lished in the languages with which they are familiar would be necessary. "3. That it would be necessary also, before enforcing such provisions, to ar range for employment agencies, through which other employment might promptly be secured. Violation of I. aw Not Intended. "My government, however, concluded that the same measure of loyalty might justly be exacted from its citizens in this country as from those at home. "I was accordingly instructed to usa every proper means of dissuading our citizens from committing this crime of high treason against the country to which they owed their allegiance. At the time of the publication of your mes sage I had not yet been able to take steps toward the carrying out of these instructions and had, of course, no in tention of doing so in any way that would violate the laws or offend against the customs of the country whose hospitality I have enjoyed and whose friendship my country deeply appreciates and is anxious to retain. "I respectfuly insist that there is nothing in the letter in question that is capable of being so construed when read in the light of the facts." Replying to the charge of impropriety on his part in having sent his letter by Mr Archibald, Mr. Dumba calls at tention to the predicament in which he is placed by his government in having nis messages censored Tor him to com municate privately with his govern ment. "Under such conditions," writes Dr. Dumba, "I have no apologies to offer." LAD SENT BY PARCEL POST Tliirul Carrier Takes Cliilcl, Sttanipcd and Addressed, to Burton. VANCOUVER. Wash., Sept. 18. (Special.) Little Leo Bolen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bolen, of 1412 "Columbia street, wanted to go to see his grand mother, Mrs. W. R. Bolen, at Burton, on a rural route. Leo was taken to the parcel post window just before the driver, George Fitch. rural carrier, started out, weighed, addressed and tagged with 25 cents worth of stamps. He was taken to his grandmother and delivered with out damage in less than two hours later. v A i ctW '$ I ; - . fv b4 nW?L-:- I P fcu&jw GRAY The place for every man to patronize who cares for styles, quality and the most courteous treatment. CHESTERFIELD Suits and Overcoats are better than other clothes. They have an absolute guarantee of service and we see to it that they are properly fitted before they go out of the store. Not too high-priced Suits, $20 and up to $40. Overcoats, $15 to $40. Stetson and Borsalino Hats, Fine Haberdashery. A pleasure to show goods here. . M. G WASHINGTON AND WEST PARK JR. AY DR. AXD MRS. CO XSTAMI.V DVMBA. This snapshot of Dr. Constantin Dumba and his charming wife was made last week at the entrance to "The Poplars." their country home in the exclusive colony at Lenox, Mass.. high among the Berkshire Hills, the hills which Mrs. Dumba has grown to love to such a degree that parting from them Is like the loss of a dearly esteemed friend. ' Though the Austrian Ambassador is silent on the subject of his recall demanded of the Austrian government by President Wilson, Madame Dumba says: "ever was so astounded at anything in my life. Even vet. At hardly seems real that my husband and I have been asked to leave this country, where we have made so many warm friends. But I guess it is only an other one of the hardships this dre.ad ful war is demanding of the world." EVASION IS DECRIED Eastern Suffragists Take Lead in Conference. EXPLOITING IS RESENTED Social Affairs of Exposition More Brilliant Tlian Ever Guate mala's Xatal Day Celebration Is Noteworthy Function. BY ANNE SHANNON MONROE. ' OREGON EXPOSITION BUILDING. San Francisco, Sept. 16. What is It? A Congressional Union conference or a Woman Voters' convention? That point came near disrupting whatever It Is at Wednesday's session in the Illi nois building, when Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy rose to ask a question that grew out of this mystification and was rather sharply dismissed by Miss Mabel Vernon, of Delaware, who had invited questions. You see, the official programmes are headed, "Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage," with a sub-head, "Women Voters' Convention." If It were really a woman voters' conven tion, then it should be officered by women voters and the delegates should be women voters; but the fact is that it is largely officered by Eastern suf frage workers who have no votes and the delegates are largely of the same disfranchised class; and still they are putting measures through and sending envoys to Washington to persuade Con gress and the President to pass the Susan B. Anthony amendment, which will enfranchise the women of all states, in the name of the women voters. Western Women Exploited. It gives many independent Western women a feeling that they are being exploited. Perhaps the cause is Just and the method a direct one, but is it exactly open-faced? Is it the thing for the Western women voters to be repre sented as sending forth these envoys, when it is really the Congressional Union, an Eastern organization, that is manipulating the whole thing? Dr. Lovejoy, of Portland, who asked the chairman what was the qualification of a delegate and was Informed that membership in the Congressional Union was necessary, with the inference that to be a voter was not necessary, was only one of a good many women who were not pleased with the exploita tion idea, but voiced their sentiments only in whispers. It was suggested that Dr. Lovejoy was present for the purpose of opposing, in the name of the National American Woman's Suf frage Association, the policy of seeking the passage of the amendment, but this was an entirely erroneous interpreta tion of her justifiable query. The fur ther sessions proceeded without open friction, but the undercurrent of dis satisfaction on the part of the woman voter was not eradicated. Social Functions Brilliant. The social life of the exposition, while suffering a falling off in the number of functions, is marked by greater brilliance than ever. Guate mala's natal day. commemorating the ninety-fourth anniversary of her in dependence, was celebrated Thursday at the exposition, concluding -jrltli & dinner dance. In the evening at the Fairmont Hotel. The entire atmosphere was Spanish in the extreme, the gal lantry and graciousness of the hosts, Commissioner-General Jose Flamenco and Consul-General Padilla, and the beauty of their wives, purely Spanish in type, being particularly noteworthy. The gowns of the women were perhaps the most gorgeous affairs in the way of gowning shown so far at the fair. President O. N. Clark, of the Oregon commission, and Mrs. Clark represented our state, Mrs. Clark looking beautiful in an elaborate gown of white crepe de chine draped in imported lace, over which she wore an embroidered man darin coat of mauve color. The Daughters of the American Rev olution were entertained at luncheon Thursday in the California building by the exposition officials, Mrs. I. L. Pat terson. Mrs. C. S. Jackson. Mrs. J. Thorburn Ross and Mrs. Fred G. Frink being guests from Oregon. The speak ers drew subjects for their speeches, Mrs. Patterson drawing "Aviation" and making the hit of the luncheon with her witty response. They were the guests of the Y. W. C. A. Thursday evening at a beautiful dinner, the speeches following being largely on Y. W. C. A. activities at the exposition, their Zone restroom for Zone women employes, their nursery, where tired mothers may check their babies, and other ramifications of the work, of which the general public hears all too little in these days of many doings. Captain and Mrs. H. L. Heath, of Honolulu, have been renewing old friendships in the Oregon building. Captain Heath was a McMinnville boy, going out to the islands as Captain of volunteers from Oregon, later get ting Into the hemp business there. Mrs. Heath was a Salem girl. 3 OF 176 ACCIDENTS FATAL Insurance Commission. Reports for Week of September 17. SALEM. Or., Sept. 18. (Special.) Of 176 accidents during the week end ing September 17, -three were fatal, was reported to the State Indus trial Accident Insurance Commis sion. Of the total reported. 111 were subject to the provisions of the work men's compensation act: 33 were from public utility corporations, 28 were from firms or corporations which have rejected the act, and four were from those not employing labor in hazard ous occupations. Accidents by industry are as follows: Sawmill. 37; logging, 26: railroad oper ation, 23: iron and steel works, 10; paper mills. 7; meat packing, 7: con struction. 6; department store, 4; and of the following, 3 each, passenger on railroad, cannery, auto works, tele graph company, and two each for the following, light and power, building construction, contractor, quarry, cream ery, carpentering, wood saw, laundry, machine shop, paving, window clean ing and mining. The remainder have one each: Railroad construction, bridge construction, wood pipe manufacturing, oil company, lime and gypsum, tres passer on railroad, traveler on high way, . longshoring, cereal milling, brick yard, machinery merchant, sasfc and door, coal company, bakery and garage. SPACE IS If! DEMAND Oregon Schoolchildren to Ex hibit at Stae Fair. Submarine Sinks British Tanker. LONDON. Sept. 18. The British tank steamer San Zeferino has been tor pedoed and sunk by a submarine. Three members of her crew of 42 are miss ing. The San Zeferino, of 6430 ton gross and 420 feet long, was built last year and owned in London. Health officials of the Philippines are en deavoring to develop an industry in the dried juice of -he papaya for msdic&l usa as a substltut for .pepsin. CLUB WORK TO BE SHOWN Several Counties Complete AVill Enter as "Well as 10 00 Indi viduals JFYom AH Parts of State. SALEM, Or., Sept. 18. (Special.) That the Educational building, former ly the main pavilion at the Oregon State Fair, will scarcely hold tho ex hibits of those wishing space was the statement made today by E. F. Carle- ton, superintendent of the children's Industrial department. The State Fair marks the .culmina tion of the year's work in the Boys' and Girls' Clubs, and reports coming from all parts of the state to the state department of education show that great progress has been made during tho past year. Full county exhibits will be made by the children of Marion. Jackson, Lane Linn, Malheur, Wasco, Polk, Tillamook and Douglas Counties, v.-h!!s there will be not less than a tnou&and individual exhibitors, representing practically every county in the state. In addition to these, all of the state institutions will have attractive edu cational exhibits, including the Oregon Agricultural College, the University of Oregon, the Training School, Mute School, School for the Blind, School for Feeble-Minded and the State Asy lum. There also will be exhibits from the city schools of Portland. Salem, the Mothers' Congress of Oregon, the State Library and the Social Hj-glene Society of Oregon. I In connection with the educational exhibits, the State Fair Board has pro vided for a boys' camp, to consist of two boys from each county scoring the highest iri their club work, and for a girls' camp composed of two girls from each county who make the best record in their club work. J. Percy Wells, County Superintend ent of Jackson County, has been ap pointed superintendent of the boys' camp, while Mrs. N. C. Maris, of Port land, and Mrs. L. P. Harrington, of Creswell, will have charge of the girls' camp. Applications have already been made for 34 boys and 32 girls. "The great sucess of this work," said J. A. Churchill. Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction, "is due to the plan of organization in this state, which is said by the United States Department of Agriculture to be the best of any state." The State Superintendent keeps two assistants in the field organizing the children's clubs. .As soon as a club is organized the names are sent to the extension department of the Oregon Agricultural College. Then bulletins on the various projects are prepared and mailed to every club member. Twelve thousand boys and girls have enrolled In the club work this year, and through the co-operation of the Fed eral Government it , has been possible to mail to them the bulletins prepared by. the Oregon Agricultural. College, ARMY PRISON IS DUE Plan for Military Correction Regarded as Failure. DESERTIONS ARE FREQUENT Old System to Be Restored but Offi cers Are Keportecl to Be Im pressed "With. Belief That Pen alties Are Two Severe. FAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18. (Spe cial.) Prison reform in the United States Army has shown Itself to be something of a failure after eight months of trial. - and. it is probable that the oloA, United States military prison idea will be returned to if the next few months show the same failure as the past few months. Last February United States military prisons ceased to be. They were suc ceeded by United States disciplinary barracks. The object or the change was to take military prisoners sen tenced for all sorts of military offenses into disciplinary companies, drill tnem, try to reform them and. when they showed signs of desiring to live decent ly, return them to the Army to serve out the unexpired terms of their en listments. The nlan called for the remodeling of poor soldiers rather than making convicts out of those who nad gone astray. Men who returned to duty with troops and served out their en listments retained citizenship, received honorable discharges and did not have the stigma of ex-convicts upon them. Twenty per cent of the men wno have been restored to duty after serv ing in disciplinary companies have de serted the service and are missing. At Alcatraz. in San Francisco Bay, the Pacific branch of the United States disciplinary barracks has returned 25 men to active duty. Five of these have deserted. What proportion of the bal ance will complete their enlistment can only be guessed at. Many officers of the judge advocate's department of the Army a-e strongly opposed to the disciplinary barracks idea, believing that the military prison idea is preferable under certain con ditions, the conditions being that the military authorities make less severe the punishments inflicted upon offend ing soldiers In time of peace. They point out the fact that such punish ments. In military law, are more severe than in civil courts, soldiers receiving sentences of dishonorable discharge and many months imprison ment for the same offenses that, if committed in civil life, might bring a small fine in a police court or, at the most, a few days imprisonment. Desertion, insubordination and similar things of course must be punished severely if the discipline of the Army Is to be maintained, but the feeling is growing that, for many other offenses, the military law is altogether too severe on the enlisted man. If the dis ciplinary barracks idea Is a failure in other respects it has been successful in bringing this fact home to many of toe lniiueniiai onicers oi me Army. that there should be no eventual dis agreement, because the traditional pol icy of the Latin-American governments in any event is to follow the lead of the United States on such questions. Even those of the conferees who were doubtful themselves as to whether or not the recognition of Carranza would be advisable did not hesitate to indi cate that if the United Statps reached such a decision there would be Iden tical and unanimous action as hereto fore. The general opinion of those confer ees who would express themselves was that the Carranza movement was In the ascendancy from a military point of view and that unless unforeseen cir cumstances developed the requirement of "material capacity" would be satis fied; but whether the Carranza authori ties possess the "moral capacity" for stable government is a question which the conferees thought would lend it self to further study and consideration. MORE TIME GIVEN MOORE (Continued From First Pago.) drawals by the Government on the Xeschutes River have hampered efforts to obtain the proper power facilities, but I believe that it will not be long until the restrictive legislation will be overcome." Governor Withycombe expressed doubt to Mr. Moore as to the possibil ity of building a pipe line from the lakes to the Deschutes River, a dis tance of 175 miles, for $1,250,000. as Mr. Moore said his engineers estimat ed could be done. Month Given to Get S-cnrlt l-. Mr. Moore, following the granting of the extension on conditions named, an nounced that he would go to San Fran cisco and then on to New York, to ar range to rurnish the $15,000 in securi ties. The board will give him about a month to obtain the securities. That the Jason Moore interests will assume the unpaid debts of the com pany which attempted to utilize the lakef some years ago, was the un qualified declaration of Mr. Moore. It will be remembered that when the American Soda & Potash Company he came involved In financial difficulties It left between $000 and $10,000 in un paid bills in the Summer and Ahert Iakcs country. It is generally under stood that opposition in the last Legis lature to the passage of the Moore lake-lease bill was fathered by those who objected to granting any conces sions unless the new company agreed, to settle these old obligations. "If we are allowed to go ahead," said Mr. Moore In discussing this mat ter, "my people will be willing to pay these old debts and by so doing we will enter the field with a clean slate." Jin. Mooitrc KKunxs to crrv Man Wliii Deals in Millions Is Mod est In Talk and Appearance. Jason, Moore returned to Portland from Salem last night with his attor ney. C. A. Sheppard. He has planned t remain In Portland until Wednesday. Mr. Moore is a quiet, umissumtnar man of bilness-like demeanor. He doesn't bear the outward appearsnoa of the professional promoter. Con trariwise, he dresses plainly and speaks of himself modestly. He appears to have confidence in his project and talks of spending $20,000,000 as nonchalantly as the ordinary man does about buying a new hat or a cigar. He is staying at the Oregon Hotel. C0-OPRATI0N COMES SOON (Continued From First Pare.) ment the time has now come to carry out the policy agreed on at the confer ence of the 11th. In case of the impos sibility of recognizing a de facto gov ernment springing from a common agreement of all the factions. "Therefore, the de facto government aspiring to recognition must possess, should this policy be approved by all the governments, the material and mor al capacity necessary to protect the. lives and property of nationals and for eigners. Each government shall Itself judge such capacity and recognition likewise will be extended by each gov ernment separately at such time as it may deem proper. Recognition will naturally entail the appointment of diplomatic representatives accredited to the head of the government recognized. Pacification Held Domestic Issue. "The American diplomatic represent atives hold that In adopting thle reso lution and in considering the situation of Mexico at previous conferences, as well as In addressing to persons con stituted In authority in Mexico the cir cular of August 15 last, they merely exercised in the most judicious man ner possible the indisputable interna tional right of taking- the preliminary steps toward the recognition of de facto government In case of civil war vested in all governments. without thereby interfering either directly or indirectly in the internal affairs of Mexico. Such interference has not at any moment been contemplated. "It has always been the sense of the conference that the pacification of Mex ico is a question to be decided exclu sively by the Mexicans themselves and it trusts that a government recognized by all the governments of the world will be able to attain that result and assure the welfare of the sister coun try." i While some of the conferees may at the end of three weeks reach different opinions as to the government that ought to be recognized, confidence is expressed, by, many of the. conferees Trip to Celebate Xew Koatl JfManned. ABERDEEN. Wash., Sept. IS. (Spe cial.) The matter of joining In an ex cursion to Wlllapa Harbor cities on the occasion of the opening of the Mil waukee line some time early next month, is being discussed by harbor business men. 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