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86 Pages Section One Pages 1 to 22 SIX SECTIONS VOL. XXXV XO. 20. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SEES GRAVE DANGER FOR PARTY Appeal Made toTake Up Peace as Issue. DISAFFECTION IS ADMITTED Enough Voters Alienated to Cost Several Close States.' FIGHTING CHANCE WANTED "From What Source Can We Draw . Recruits Necessary?" Asks ex l Secretary, and Urges His Plan as Only Hope Left. LINCOLN". Neb.. May 13. In a signed article published today W. J. Bryan Oe clarea the Democratic party in order to win the coming campaign must "move toward peace" and thereby capture the peace element in the Republican party. He begins hia article by quoting from a Chicago newspaper's editorial In which Mr. Wilson is called a minority President, in that he received fewer votes than Roosevelt and Taft combined and says the Democrats must face the fact that a united Republican party will enter the campaign with a popu lar majority of 1,300.000 votes. Demoeratte Disaffection Shown. Continuing, he says: "To the normal Republican advan t.-ige must, be added the disaffection among German and Irish Democrats. "Without attempting to decide whether the President was wiBe or unwise in tatting the course that alienated them the tarty is confronted with the f.itt that this alienation will cost it a large number of votes enough to defeat ti;e party in .several closi states. "From what source can we draw the number of recruits necessary to give the party a fighting chance? From one source and from one source only namely, the peace element of the Re publican party. We cannot draw votes from the var element. "Peace Klement" Counted On. "There is a peace element in the Re publican party, as shown by the vote cast for Henry Ford in Michigan. Ne braska. and other states. This is the only element to which the Democratic party can appeal and to appeal to this clement it will be necessary to do more than has yet been done. If any con siderable number of Republicans fel friendly to the President, they would have shown it by writing in his nam as their choice when they expressed themselves at the primary. "If this element is to be conciliated it must be done by a move toward peace. The opportunity is here. Th German government in accepting thi Government's position in the subn-rin controversy gives as one of its reasoii. for doing so its unwillingness to be responsible for extending or spreading the war. It refers to the fact that it lias twice expressed a desiro to consider terms of peace. Way to Peace Declared Open. "The way Is open. Will the President take advantage of the opportunity? Failure to secure peace would bring no humiliation, while success would be of tremendous advantage to him politically, as well as a blessing to this country and the world. "He can at one stroke destroy all the Advantage the Republican party has and make the race on the record of a peacemaker. Will he give voice to the world's conscience to humanity's hope?" Delegations to Travel Together. SEATTLE. Wash.. May 13. The Re publican and Progressive delegates to the National conventions in Chicago next month will go East together on t-pecial cars, arrangements having been made by a representativ of the two delegations. BRYAN FOES OF ADEQUATE DEFENSE DEFEATED CONFEREES AGREE OX BILL FOB LARGER ARMY. Force of 206,000. Capable of Ex pansion to 254,000; Militia Re serve of 425,000 Provided. WASHINGTON, May 13. A standing Army of 206.000 men, capable of being expanded in emergency to 254.000 and backed up by a Federalized National Guard of 425.000 as a reserve, finally was agreed on today by House and Senate conferees on the Army bill. The agreement will be reported to Congress early next week and the measure, the first of the Administration prepared ness bills, is expected to be before President Wilson for his signature soon afterward. Advocates of adequate National de fense regard tnls conference agreement as a triumph. The minimum enlisted strength would be attained under the conference agree- ent within the next five years and it is stipulated that at no time snail me total be less than 160,000. . The conference report also provides for Government nitrate manufacturing plants to cost not to exceed $20,000,000, for vocational education in the regular Army and for establishment of military training camps for volunteer citizens, whose transportation, clothing and subsistence expenses while In training would be paid by the Federal Govern ment. Other salient features of the measure provide for a board to investigate the advisability of establishing liovern ment munition plants and a board to recommend mobilization of industries. Authority is given to the Government to seize and operate private munition plants in time of war. WOMAN DELEGATE OPPOSES Spokane Democrat Sajs She Believes Suffrage Not a Success. SPOKANE. Wash.. May 13. Mrs. Elizabeth Christian, one of Washing ton's delegates to the Democratic Na tional Convention, in an address at Democratic meeting here today said she intended to vote against a plank declaring for universal suffrage if one is included in the Democratic platform at St. Louis. She declared there is a doubt in her mind whether suffrage Is a success, as only 30 per cent of the women vote suffrage states and that the vote is not representative. Mrs. Christian closed her address by proposing that the Democratic dele gation from Washington vote for Judge George Turner, of .Spokane, for v ice President. NEIGHBOR'S LAND CROPPED W. N. Teeter Laid l'p With Broken Leg, so Friends Till His Farm. BAKER. Or.. May 13. (Special.) Even if W. N. Teeter is laid up at his home at Wingville with a broken leg, his crops are nof suffering, and he will have the usual bumper yield by the time he is able to harvest them, His big-hearted neighbors are doing It for him. Mr. Teeters shattered the Uone in his left leg while operating stump-pulling machinery early this Spring and has not been able to work since. This week eight drills put in the seed and the crops are ready to sprout. PRESIDENT GOES ON CRUISE Wilson Expected to Visit Ruins of Jamestown While Away. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., May 13. The yacht Mayflower, with the President and Mrs. Wilson aboard for a week end cruise, anchored off the shipyard here today. The naval yacht Sylph was waiting: off Newport News, and soon after the President arrived he and Mrs. Wilson left the Mayflower and went aboard. The Sylph started immediately for a trip up the James River, and it was expected the President would visit the ruins of Jamestown. HIGH LIGHTS ON T 15S -hi ir w a w mm PRhrAREDNESS CRY New York Has 150,000 in Parade. ITCH. OF PATRIOTISM HIGH Spirit of Real Democracy Is Manifest Throughout. GREAT AWAKENING SHOWN Hundreds of Thousands Cheer Marchers All Professions and Trades In Complex Lire of Big City Represented. NEW YORK. May 13. New York ex pressed its attitude on the question of National preparedness today by holding the greatest civil parade in the history of the country. An almost countless host of men and women, estimated at more than 150,000, representing all walks of life in the Nation's metropolis, marched for 12 hours, 20 abreast, be hind bands playing patriotic airs. through flag-bedecked streets lined with hundreds of thousands of cheer ing spectators. Ail the professions and trades which which make up the complex life of the city were represented. Sharp Contrasts Sbowlng. In one division were 'he street sweep ers in their uniforms of white, while in another were the dignified justices of the Supreme Court of New York There also were the clergy nearly 200. representing every denomination in the Nation's greatest city. Lawyers, physicians, trained nurses, veterans o the Spanish-American war. were in line. But the most popular division was mad up of the city's 10,000 National Guards men Infantry, cavalry and artillery who brought up the rear. "This," declared Major-General Leon ard Wood, in command of the Depart- ment of the East, who reviewed the pa rade, "is the greatest argument Amer ica has ever known In favor of pre pardeness against elements that are at present unknown. It shows an in terest in preparedness that amounts to a National awakening. This is wha we need. It shows that the time ha come o do something in the matter of National preparation." Aeroplane Hover Overhead. The great civic army began march ing at 9:30 A. M. and the last of them did not pass the reviewing stand Madison Square until 9:33 o'clock to night. The mammoth pageant began auspi ciously. Just as Mayor Mitchell and party of municipal officers left th City Hall at the head of the first dl vision an aeroplane appeared abov lower Broadway and hovered aroun the great skyscrapers. The paraders marched rapidly, more than 10.000 passing a given point with In an hour. With few exceptions, the marchers carried small American flags. Most of them also wore buttonhole emblems. At frequent intervals came one of the 200 bands and the musicians were the only persons in the civic divisions who wore uniforms. Thouaanda la Women's Division. The women's division, estimated to number between five and six thousand, began to appear before the reviewing stand about 6 o'clock. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Mrs. J. Borden Harriman were among those in line. The new armored motor battery, the first thus far acquired by any National Guard organization, was greeted with cheers all alone the line of march. (Conrtudcl on ra? 3. Column 3.) SOME EVENTS IN THE AS 1' ' INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, TBS de frees; minimum, i decrees. TODAY'S Fair; north westerly winds. Mexico. Mexicans co-opera tins under "zentlemen's agreement. Section 1. pace 3. War. Saloniki best fortified city in world. Section i. page 4. National. Representative McArthur says his record open one. Section 1, pace J. Army bill providing for 20-tf.OoO men and militia reserve of 2o.OOO agreed on. Sec tion 1. page 1. All stamp taxes to be abandoned in new , revenue plan, section x. page 6. Dumntic. Illinois suffragist making fight on proposal to lorm woman s party. bection x page 1. Chi co pastor convicted on girl's charge. bection 1, pase Z. Bryan fears Democratic defeat unless party espouses peace. Section l, page l. Two killed In auto race at New York. Sec tion 1, page o. Straw vote of Republican and Progressive legislators snows Hughes rat in lead. Section 1, page 5. Sport. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 6, tan Francisco a (11 innings); ernon o. Los Angeles 5; Oakland A, Salt Lake 4. Section page 2. Stanley Coveleskle pitches Indians to victory over lanKs. section z, page Alexander, for Phillies, shuts out Reds. Section 2, page 2. Only 13 American League batters hit .300 or better. Section i!, page 5. Rose Festival regatta plans laid. Section page 4. Ritchie to meet Crura an here in bout June . Section 2. page 4. Bradfcrds and Wild Cats play at Montavilla iTOiy. section page . Two new twlrlers will Join Beavers. Sec tion -z, page 3. Vancouver beats Ridgeflcld at track. Sec tion page 3. Jefferson High School athletes win inter- scholastic track meet at Eugene. Sec- tlon 2, page t. Albany Guardsmen ranked fourth anion's nation s riflemen. Section 2, page 4. Yale wins track meet from Harvard. Sec tlon 2, page 7. Portland and Eugene golfers to play to day, bection 2, page 6. George Smith wins Kentucky derby. Sec tion 2, page 6. Idaho track team defeats Pullman. Sec tion 2. page 6. windnagle makes Meredith break world's record to beat him. Section 2. page 1 Couch is leading Coast League pitchers. section page State trap shoot opens tomorrow. Section . page 4. Commercial and Marine. Buying of wheat for export is resumed. Section 1, page 21. Chicago wheat advances on Hessian fly re ports from Kansas, bection 1. page 21 Industrial stocks strong, with motors in lead. Section 1, page 21. Mayachl Maru ( In with sulphur and hard wood. Section 2, page 16. Trade Improvement in Spokane territory. beciion l, page 21. Pacific Northwest. Seattle officials press booxo eases. Section 1, pace Idaho Democrats meet Thursday. Section 1 page 7. Roseburg makes preparations for Strawberry festival, section l, pace s. Oddfellows will convene in Roseburg on May 2-. section i. rase 1-. Washington woman Democratic delegate wll oppose National suffrage. Section 1 page 1. Wallowa Judge gives ?1l to have suit In court dropped. Section 1. page 1. Railroad race to B.nd from Willamette Val ley Indicated. Section 1, page 8. Representative 81nnot may be nominated by tnree parties, bection 1. page 7. Columbia County Is In throes of anual re call f u!s. Section 1. page 5. 50 bankers ''robbed" to ral.e funds to back Oregon City queen candidate. Section page 6. Charles A. Merer convicted at Vancouver of second degree murder. Section 1, page 6. Portland "4 Vicinity. Senator Cummins to be guest today of Portland Press Club. Section 1, page la. Portland shown to rank high from residence atandpoint. Section 1, page -0. IT. E. Reed makes plea for greater city commercially. Section J, pago -0. Military pageant to bo feature of Memo rial day. Section 1, page -u. Dry law cuts use of liquor about 03 per cent. Section J, page :!0. Sun smiles for opening of Oaks. Section 1. pae ly. Welfare board completes tentative draft of regulations for women. Section 1. page 18. Reed conference discusses lawa for father less child. Section 1, page 1. Portland provides funds for Columbia naval ba.se fight. Section 1, page 16. Roads leading to Columbia Highway to be beautified. Section 1. page 16. Elderly man denies he intended to shoot bank officials. section 1, pago 16. City la preparing viaduct and approach to interstate bridge, bection 3, page 12. nve firemen, refusing to clean up, are suspended. bection 1, page 14. Bishop Hoguo says ministers" wives havs hard role. section 1. page 14. Prize-winning degree team of Seattle to participate In Festival. Section 1. page 13. Mr. Kerchen flatly denies charges against him. Section 1, pago l.i. Portland's floral parade to be greatest in History. bection i. rago z. Republican press of Oregon Is supporting Moore campaign, section 1. pago 10. Army bill may Increase Oregon militia by 220O men. Section 1. page lO. WEEK'S NEWS AS CAST u nun nniiT nrv iiitfi nun i oca ISSUE IN POLITICS Trouble at Birth of New Party Indicated. LLINOIS LEADS IN ATTACK "Men and Women Working To gether" Is Slogan. MEANWHILE BANNERS -FLY Plans Made for Big Parade Jane 7, nnd Society Women Are Trying on Black Straw Sailors to Be 'Worn on March. CHICAGO, May 13. (Special.) An attack on the plan to form a woman's party was issv.ea today by the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, while offi cials of the Congressional Union, pro moters of the idea, were opening regis tration headquarters at 73 East Wash ington street. At the same time a cam paign was launched by the Union with posters. banners and various advertising devices to boom the woman's party convention, which will be held June 5. 6 and 7 at the Black- stone Theater during the time the Re publican convention Is In progress at the Coliseum. Twelve woman speakers will bigin holding brief suffrage meet ings on Monday under The auspices of the Congressional Union, on street cor ners, in. factories or shops, offices, col lege dormitories and at labor union gatherings. Sex l.lnea Are Assailed. "Confusion and duplication of work" will be the effect of the Congressional Union's activities in Chicago. It Is de clared In the statement issued by the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association. The proposal to form a party "on sex lines" Is also assailed. ,and the union Is de fined as "a detached group of Eastern suffragists." Officers of the union declined to reply t- the broadside today, although taking exception to the term, "detached group.' It was pointed out by Miss Hortense McDonald, of the convention committee, that the union's main strength lay In its membership in the Western suffrage states. Non-Partlaan Movement Advocated The statement from the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association declares that this organization, recognized by all political 1 forces, la the logical body to deal with suffrage Issues In Illinois. It was urged that the Congressional Union consider this phase," the state ment continues. "They have persisted n misrepresenting the facts to the pub lie. Their policy is to hold the party in power responsible for the failure of Congress to pass the Federal suffrage amendment. To both the state and National or ganizatlons this Is an illogical policy and It is generally admitted that it never could be adopted with success. The state association la opposed to the blacklisting of candidates or the for mation of parties along aex lines. We stand for men and women working together." Party's nirtta to Be Celebrated. Mrs. Ada Klatman, campaign manager of the Congressional Union, today be gan directing the hanging of banners and placing of posters proclaiming the "woman's party convention. It will be preceded by a ceremony at Lincoln monument In Lincoln Park, entitled the "birth of a party." with speechmaking and songs by a large chorus. "Come, help catch the vote for all American women." was the slogan ae a recruiting station for the suffrage iConricif.l on Page -. Column 3.) BY THE PEN OF CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. JUDGE GIVES $10TO HAVE CASE DROPPED WALLOWA JURIST SAVES COCX- TY EXPENSE OF TRIAL. Litigants "Differ Only to Extent of Sum Xamed Plaintiff Accepts Offer Suit Ends. ENTERPRISE. Or, May 13 (Spe cial.) To aave Wallowa County the ex pense of trying a lawsuit In which the litigants were only $10 apart. Judge J. W. Knowles. In the Circuit Court late Tuesday, paid over that amount to the plaintiff out of his own pocket and the suit was dismissed. If the case had gone on through the Circuit Court, the Judge figured it would have cost the county at least 130. The suit was brought by J. A. Bur leigh against Lillian Splcer. Mr. Bur leigh appeared on his own behalf In the Circuit Court, and Mrs. Splcer waa represented by D. W. Sheahan. When the case was called Judge Knowles In terrupted. "I have been informed." he said, "that plaintiff and defendant are only 110 apart in this case." The lawyers replied that was the truth. "Then I will give the plaintiff 110 to settle the suit." said the Judge, "and the matter can be ended right here." Judge Knowles added that he has long striven to have a change in court procedure made whereby petty cases cannot.be taken to the Circuit and Su preme Courts, dt would be wisdom for the county itself to make settle ments in such minor cases and thus save the heavy expense in the upper court. But the Judge never before has given such a striking demonstration of his contention. C. R. SMITH DIES IN EAST Head of Menaslia. Wooden ware and Coos Bay Concerns Succumbs. MARSH FIELD, Or., May 13. (Spe cial.) News of the death of C. R- Smith, head of the Menasha Wooden ware Company and the Southern Ore gon Company, with large holdings in Coos County, was received here today by Herbert Armstrong, manager of the, company's business on Coos Bay. Mr. Smith, who was 6J. died at his New York home yesterday. Some time ago he was injured in a Pullman car when en route to the Coast, and spent sev eral weeks in a Spokane hospital. The two companies have holdings of over 30.000 acres of timber land in this section. DAYLIGHT SAVING ADOPTED Royal Decree Issued In Sweden; Denmark Follows Example. STOCKHOLM, via London. May 13. By royal decree the daylight saving plan has been adopted in Sweden. It will be effective from May 15 to Sep tember 30. COPENHAGEN, via London. May 13. The Danish Parliament has empowered the government to follow the other Scandinavian countries In their daylight saving meaaures. SECOND QUAKEHITS BOISE Shock Felt Only in Higher Buildings and No Damage Results. BOISE. Idaho. May 13. Friday night's violent earthquake here waa followed Saturday evening by a slight shock at 4 minutes after 9 o'clock. It was no ticed only in the city's higher buildings and not at all at street level. No damage was done. " REPORT OF RAID UNTRUE Story That Score of Americana Were Killed Is Disproved. DEL RIO. Tex.. May 13. There Is no truth In a report of a raid last night by Mexicans in the vicinity of Sanderson, Tex., It was learned here today. The report said Mexicans conducted a raid, killing a score of Americans. WOMAN CHAMPIONS FATHERLESS CHILD Reed Conference Dis cusses Lavys Needed. DEFECTIVES FOUND INCREASING Segregation to Check Feeble mindedness Is Advised. STATE MARKETS PROPOSED Central Distributing Arrnrv for Farmers Would Be in Portland, With Branches Over State. J.alKr Opposes Merger. Oregon's most crying needs for new social legislation, and how they might be relieved by new laws, were con sidered by the speakers of the third section of the Oregon State Confer ence or Social Agencies, which was held at Reed College late yesterday. Mrs. Robert H. Tate, chairman of the Oregon Child Welfare Commission, de livered the first addresa on the prob lem. "The Illegitimate Child." and sug gested a plan by which the conditions under which such children must live might be vastly improved. "We have failed in our relations to these little ones, who are social out casts." said Mra. Tate. "We have pro vided them with no adequate means of legal protection. It is in no way neces sary tnat we should condone the sjcta of the parents by seeking to protect their innocent children. ""spport and Name should Be r.lvta e should have a law In Oregon which, like those of Norway, would en title the child to support from either or both ot lta parents, preferably the one who waa economically most able to lurnish support, and that it might have legal right cither to its father's er its mother's name." In pleading for a new commitment law for the feeble-minded. J. N. Smith. superintendent f the State Institution for the feeble-minded, asserted that the present meana f dealing with thi un fortunate class in Oregon only aug mented its numbers and tiie danger to society. since we have adopted humanitarian methods for dealing: with these people." he said, "we have been coddling and building them up so that they have been more able to reproduce their kind. Feeble-minded adults produce feeble minded children. Most of those who are sent to the state institution for feeble-minded arrive after they have already had one or more Illegitimate children. Pcrmsaest Vgrrgallos Advised. After they have been there for some time their parent., relatives or any other guardian w ho have the legal -right, come and remove them to that they may return to normal society. Al most invariably they return to us again. after having been sent to the maternity home, or marry some feeble-minded man to rear a family and perpetuate the misery and crime Indefinitely. "It Is better for society and better for themselves that they be permanent ly segregated. If we had a law which would prevent the removal of feeble minded from the state institution until a special board had passed on their fit ness to mingle again with normal so ciety. I am sure that f ecble-mindedness would soon be on the wane." State Pablle market TL'rged. A plan for state public markets was proposed by Charles H. Chapman. "I would remedy the conditions which aru making small industrial farming so meager and unsuccessful in its returns by a system of state public market. ti'oncludedon r&Ke 6. Column 1.)