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VOL. XXXVII NO. 30.
PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER io, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PAR
VOCIFEROUS
IN ITS WELCOME
Millions on Streets Cry
"Long Live Wilson."
HUNDRED GUNS BOOM SALUT
Guard Band Greets Guest With
'Cror-Cnonnlorl Pannor "
PRESIDENT DEEPLY MOVED
American Executive, on Heachlng
Paris. Escorted From Station
to Temporary Residence.
f fBv the Associated Press.)
PARIS. Dec 1. President and Mrs.
Wilson made their entry into Paris this
morning, greeted by well-nigh half the
population, not only of the city but of
the surrounding districts.
Th.r were attended by President
Poincare. Premier Clemenceau and
others tmohg the most eminent figures
of France. Flowers were dropped
around their carriage, airplanes winged
overhead, (um Bounded. But observ
ers were Impressed with something
more than the magnitude and beauty of
the receDtlon. by some quality of
warmth that made it different from
the visits to Paris recently made by
the sovereigns of the allied nations.
Aaarrira Pre.Jmlaatlas; Word.
The city is ablase with illuminations;
the boulevards are thronged with
crowds, dancing and singing and
throw insr confetti. The Place de la
Concorde has been turned into a great
dancing pavilion, where American sol
diers are favorite partners. America
is the predominating word here to-
slight.
The Imagination and Interest of
France has been stirred by the Presi
dent of the United States as no other
leader beyond the borders. All clasaea
and parties in this country have united
to pay honor to the United States
through its President. They greet him
as the representative of ideals now
dawning upon Europe. .
"In the eyes of the Immense crowds
welcoming hsn." says the semi-official
Temps, -President Wilson represents
two Invincible forces the material
force which permitted the war to be
won. and, also the force which will
sanctify peace."
Svlaiera Line Aveaaee.
Thirty-six thousand soldiers, the
flower of the French army, lined the
avenues from Dauphlne Gate to the
Murat mansion, which, during their
tay in Paris, will be the home of the
President and his wife. Alpine Chas
seurs and Zouaves, fresh from the bat
tlefields of jChampagr.e. and Colonial
troops rom whose uniforms the mud
f the Somme had only a few days ago
been removed, occupied the post of
honor. They gently, but firmly, kept
order amongst the enormous crowds
which ever pressed forward in eager
ness to have a closer look at the guests
of France.
President Poincare's luncheon at Ely
see palace at - o'clock was attended by
20 guests. The Presidential party ar
rived at 11:45. passed through th lines
with the 11th Alpine Chasseurs, who
acted as a guard of honor in the court.
The President of France and Madame
Poineare met their guests and Presi
dent Poincare, giving hla arm to Mrs.
Wilson, and President Wilson to
Madame Poincare, they proceeded to
the drawing room, s-ert the other
guests --ere assem bled. Then, in ac
cordance with the French custom, M.
Poincare presented the men and Mad
ame Polnrare presented the wo ;a to
ITfsldent and Mrs. Wilson.
The tables, set In the form of a
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f HIGH SPOTS IN THE WEEK'S NEWS AS CARTOONIST REYNOLDS SAW THEM.
AMERICAN WAR FLEET
IS HOMEWARD-BOUND
RIVERSIDE DRIVE TO BE DECO
' RATED GORGEOUSLY.
New York Plans Grand Reception Jn
Honor of Returning Sailors
and Marines.
NEW TORK. Dec. 14. When the
great fleet of 72 American war craft,
which have been aiding In npholding
the supremacy of the allies overseas.
steams Into the Hudson December 22 it
will find Riverside Drive decorated
more gorgeously than ever in honor of
the aallors and marines.
The war fleet, now homeward bound,
will be greeted three miles off Sandy
Hook by more than 400 harbor craft.
and It is expected to be escorted to
anchorage by many foreign warships
now In Atlantic waters.
The fleet will anchor in the Hudson
River, off Riverside Drive, and landln
stages wlir be erected at convenient
points. The official reception to the
sailors and marines will take place
there. At night the drive will be 11
luminated from Seventy-second stree
to Grant's tomb.
The official welcome by the city to
the officers of the fleet will take place
t the City Hall December 24. when
Mayor -Hylan will receive Admirals
Mayo, Rodman and Rogers. The same
day the sailors and marines, togetbe
with soldiers recently returned from
the battlefields, will parade down Fifth
avenue. If official sanction Is obtained.
WYOMING IS RETURNING
Battleship Arrives at Plymouth With
Ambassador Aboard.
PLYMOUTH, England. Dec. 14. (By
the Associated Press.) The American
battleship Wyoming, with an escort of
destroyers, arrived he- today from
Brest with John W. Davis, the Amerl
can Ambassador to the Court of St.
James, and Mrs. Davis and Admiral
Sims. The party was met by Admiral
Thursby, Cor--lander-in-Chief at De-
vonport.
The Yyoming immediately put to aca
gain to rejoin the other units of t" j
fleet and proceed homeward for Christ
mas, i
40-YEAR WISH GRANTED
Woman Suffrage President Made
Policewoman.
WASHINGTON', Dec 14. Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw, honorary president f?
the National Woman Suffrage .--T-
tatlon. wa sm-orrudn today as a pe-
wiai iiiciuver vi mj r asmngion ponce
force. At a reception last night Dr.
Shaw told of a 40 years' desire to serve
a policewoman.
Superintendent Pullman, of the local
force, invited her to bis office to talk
over the 'situation, and when ehe ap
peared the regulation oath was admin
Istered and she was given a badge.
BRITISH STEAMER ASHORE
Liner Carrying Passengers and Car.
go Reported Grounded.
HALIFAX. N. 8.. Dee. 14 The British
teamer Corinthian, from St. John, N.
B.. for London, with passengers and
cargo, went ashore today on Northwest
Ledge, off Briar Island. Steamers were
sent out from Yarmouth to her assist
a ace."
Details of the grounding ' and of
eather conditions were lacking here.
The Corinthian is an Allen liner of
(3(8 tons.
RAINS FORECAST FOR WEEK
Nearly Normal Temperatures Will
Prevail Over South Pacific
WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. Weather
predictions for the week beginning Sun
day, issued by the weather bureau to
day .are:
Pacific States Frequent rains over
northern portions and generally fair
over southern portion during the week.
although slight prospect of rain early
in th week. Nearly normal tempera
tures.
PEAGE AND LEAGUE
SINGLE OBJECTIVE
President Declares Aims
Actually One. '
TWO ADDRESSES DELIVERED
Permanent Accord for World
Is Purpose of U. S.
WAR IS HELD PEOPLE'S WAR
American Executive, in Response to
Poincare Welcome and Talk to
Socialists, Gives Views.
PARIS, Dec. 14. In two speeches to
day. President Wilson reaffirmed that
the making of peace and the creation of
a league of nations must be accom
plished as one single objective.
Responding to the welcome of Presi
dent Poincare at the luncheon given in
his honor. President Wilson declared
that winning tha war was not alone
enough, but that the people of the
United States had entered it with the
object of making the peace a permanent
peace for the world.
Nations Mast Co-operate.
Responding to the greeting of the
Socialist delegation, the President re
iterated that the war had been a peo
ple's war and that the defeat of mili
tary autocracy alone was not sufficient
to fulfill its objects. He again declared
that the co-operation of the nations
for the security of the peace to be made
was wholly necessary.
Replying to an address by President
Poincare, President Wilson said:
Mr. President: I am deeply indebted
to you for your gracious greeting. It
s very delightful to find myself in
France and to feel the quick contact
of sympathy and unaffected friendship
between the representatives of the
United States and the representatives
of France.
You have been very generous in
what you were pleased to say about
myself, h-t I feel that what I have
id and what I have tried to do has
been said and done only in an attempt
to speak the thought of the people of
the United States truly and to carry
that thought out in action.
Mere Victory Net Enough.
"From the first the thought of the
people of the United States turned to
ward something more than the mere
winning of this war. It turned to the
establishment of eternal principles and
right and justice. It realized that
merely to win the war was not enough;
that it must be won in such a way and
the questions raised by it settled in
such a way as to insure the future
peace of the world and lay the founda
tions for the freedom and happiness of
Its many peoples and nations.
"Never before has war worn so ter
rible a visage or exhibited more grossly
the debasing influence , of illicit am
bitions. I am sure that I shall look
pon the ruin wrought by the armies
f the central empires with the same
repulsion and deep indignation that
they stir In the hearts of the men of
France and Belgium.
"And Belgium, I appreciate as you
do, sir. the necessity of such action in
the final settlement of the Issues of the
war as will not only rebuke such acta
f terror and spoliation, but make men
verywhere aware that they cannot be
ventured upon without the certainty of
ust punishment.
War Oae t Itedeanptloa.
I know with what ardor and en
thusiasm the soldiers and sailors of
the United States have given the best
that was 'in them In this war of re-
emption. They have expressed the
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THE OREGONIAN TO LEAD
IN COVERING THE WORLD
PEACE CONFERENCE.
TTHE OREGONIAN will lead in
its field in covering the
-approaching world peace con
ference. Associated Press service is uni
versally recognized as a synonym
for reliability, completeness and
excellence. Full Associated Press
reports from the peace confer
ence will appear daily in The
Oregonian.
The greatest existing staff of
special correspondents is the
! staff of the New York World.
I By arrangement just concluded
The Oregonian will receive and
publish the daily cable reports of
the World staff at the peace con
ference. .This staff will include:
Charles M. Lincoln, managing
editor of the World, who will be
on the ground and actively di
rect the World correspondents,
and who himself is noted as a,
correspondent par excellence,
with a reputation on two con
tinents. Herbert Bayard Swope, one of
the editors of the World, who is
now on his third trip to Europe
since the outbreak of the war,
and who won the Columbia' Uni
versity prize for journalistic
work in 1917, with his book, "In
side the German Empire."
Louis Seibdld, who has been
Washington, D. C, correspond
ent "for the World and has ini
tiated some of the greatest ex
poses of recent years, includ
ing that of the Dumba intrigue
in 1915.
James M. Tuohy, head of the
World's London office and a
recognized authority on Euro
pean affairs. ,
Joseph W. Grigg, who has
been with the British headquar
ters staff in France.
Cyril Brown, formerly Berlin
correspondent for the World,
who has been assigned to the.
German peace delegates.
Lincoln Eyre, who has un
usually intimate .connections with
the French leaders and has been
assigned to the French delegates. '
. William Cook, of the World's
Paris staff who will assist Mr.
Eyre.
Cabled reports from this great
staff of correspondents at the
peace conference will be tele
graphed daily to The Oregonian,
direct from the ,. office of the
World in New York. Their pub
lication in The Oregonian will be
simultaneous with their appear
ance in the World. Their cabled
reports will be supplements with
additional feature, articles by
mail.
This special service from the
World Bureau, supplementing
the nnequaled service'of the As
sociated Press, assures to' read
ers of The Oregonian all the
news that will be worth while
from the peace conference.
Disloyal Case on Trial.
Al Schoenborn, of Carus, Clackamas
County, is on trial in the Federal Court
for making a series of miscellaneous
remarks which are considered viola
tions of the espionage act. The draw
ing of a Jury began yesterday.
A
TEER'S
SEALED BY DHAFT
Selective .Service Plan
Lauded by Crowder.
SUCCESS IN WAR PROVED
National Army Is Declared to
Equal World's Best.
PLAN TERMED DEMOCRATIC
Old Volunteer System Said to Be
Faulty In That It Does Not Rec
ognize War as Industrial Clash.
NEW TORK, Dec 14. "Taps" to the
volunteer system of raising armies in
war time by the United States was
sounded here tonipht by Major-General
Enoch E. Crowder, Provost Marshal-
General, in an address to the retiring
members of 189 New York draft boards.
He earnestly advocated that the select
ive service system should become the
permanent method of raising American
Armies in the future.
General Crowder , declared that the
selective service law had enabled the
Government in this war to register 23,
740,000 Americans, put into the field
nearly 3.000,000 fighters and to have in
readiness to entrain on November 11.
when the armistice was signed, 2,000,
000 more soldiers, all within a period
of IS months.
Drafted Troops Praised.
It would be a 'calamity," General
Crowder said, for the United States to
revert to the volunteer system in view
of such a successful test of selective
service, adding that the American con
scripts had shown the valor, ag
gressiveness and initiative of the most
seasoned troops.
'What of the army y6u have raised?"
asked General Crowder, referring to
the drafted men, who bad been sent
overseas. "The answer comes back
from France in no uncertain terms,
These men you have sent to the colors
have proved thernselvesth.e equals., Jn
aggressive iishtlng and soldierly bear-
ng of the veterans of France and
England." , '
Draft Law ' Successful.
, General Crowder's speech was an ex
position of the successful work of the
selective service law, which, he said.
had responded "so smoothly and so well
to our dual form of state government
and National 'control that it would be
calamitious if it ' should not become
a recognized part of our governmental
system of raising armies in time of
war."
The Provost Marshal-General con
trasted the draft methods of the United
States with those of England and
showed how this country had profited
by the mistakes made by the British,
who, after three years of trial with the
volunteer system and the disorganiza
tion of industry, weret obliged to adopt
conscription.
England's Troubles Told.
"After 17 months of war had wit
nessed the disastrous fighting at Galli
pot I, Mesopotamia and the Balkans and
the deadlock on he western front," he
declared, "the new army of England
was 1,700,000 men short of' its then au
thorized strength." The volunteer sys
tem was now to be abandoned, he went
on, after "it had throttled the industrial
life of the nation, and undermined the
whole economic structure."
When the United States War Depart
ment, in its effort to heed the lesson
learned by England, sought the enact
ment of the selective service. General
Crowder said that the traditional
method of raising armies by the volun
teer system was so strong with the
American people that it was "deemed
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VOLJJfJ
INFLUENZA INCLUDED
IN QUARANTINE CLASS
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH ACTS
TO COMBAT EPIDEMIC.
Legislature Will Be Asked to Ap
propriate $05,000 for Agency
During Next Two Years.
SALEM, Or.. Dec. 14. (Special.)
Spanish influenza passes under the list
of quarantinable diseases in Oregon .as
the result of action taken by the State
Board of Health at its annual meeting
held here today. Plans . were inaugu
rated for the education of the public
toward granting the state board addi
tional funds for meeting emergencies
such as confronted it in the influenza
epidemic.
Dr. A. C. Seeley, of Roseburg, was
continued as secretary of the board
and State Health Officer, while Dr.
F. M. Brooks, of Portland, was elected
president, and Dr. C. T. Bacon, of La
Grande, vice-president. '
The board contemplates asking for
an appropriation of $95,000 for the next
biennium, ' as compared to the $25,000
for the past two years, the experience
of the biennium just closing Indicating
that its work is materially hampered
by lack of funds.
Dr. Seeley will be placed largely in
charge of the spreading of propaganda
intended to educate1 people up to
point where the vast importance of the
work of the state board is seen and
public sentiment is developed to such
an extent that the appropriations
sought will be granted.
It is proposed by the state board to
divide the state into five districts, with
a deputy in each. This official is to be
a deputy of the state health officer
and carry on the work of the health
board in the district in which he is
employed.
Members of the board consider the
use of vaccine in influenza cases as of
considerable importance, it being said
that no deaths have been reported of
cases where the serum has been ap
plied.
LORRAINE'S CHRISTMAS ON
Knights of Columbus Distribute
American Toys to Children.
METZ, Friday, Dec. 13. (By the As
sociated Press.) Knights of Columbus
workers began today the distribution of
more than $50,000 -worth of American
toys to the children of Lorraine.
Christmas trees have been placed
along the roads and parcels have been
hung on them. Each parcel bears a
card, reading: '
"From the land of Washington to the
children of. the land of Lafayette and
F6ch. - Merry Christmas." -
HEAVY RAINS CAUSE FLOOD
Closing of Mills at Montesano Chief
Damage So Far.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec. 14. (Spe
cial.) Heavy raitis of the past few
days have sent .some of the county
streams over their banks. The chief
damage so far has been the closing
down of fhe mills at Montesano.
At high tide today there was a foot
of water over the road in places be
tween Aberdeen and Montesano. The
stages were able to make the runs,
however.
MRS. CLARK SUES COLONEL
Former Portland Man, Now In Serv
ice, Defendant In Washington.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. Mrs. Mar
cella Clark today brought suit in the
courts of . the District of Columbia
against her husband. Colonel Alfred E.
Clark, formerly of Portland, for main
tenance. Colonel Clark has been here for sev
eral months In the office of the Judge
Advocate-General.
CHARLES' FUTURE DUBIOUS
Switzerland Doesn't Care to Enter
tain ex-Emperor.
MUNICH. Friday. Dec. 13. (By the
Associated Press.) Switzerland, it is
understood here, has declined to per
mit ex-Emfieror Charles or Austria-
Hungary to reside In Switzerland
OREGON RALLIES TO
OF
Christmas Rollcall Drive
Starts Tomorrow.
"JOIN" SLOGAN OF CAMPAIGN
Mayor Baker Urges Support of
Great Mercy Movement.
PARADE IS NOON FEATURE
Memberships, Not Funds, Is Goal
of Organization; Whole State
Ready, Says-. Manager.
RED CROSS CHRISTMAS ROLL
CALL STARTS TOMORROW,
CLOSING DECEMBER 23.
This is not a drive to raise
funds, but to enroll members.
Ending the war has not demob
ilized the Red Cross; it will con
tinue as an active organization,
ready to respond to calls.
A membership of 50,000,000 is
wanted, which is twice the num
ber secured last year. This means
Oregon must double the number
of members enrolled a year ago.
There will be no future war
fund drives by the Red Cross. The
membership will maintain it.
No quotas have been set, other
than "universal membership."
This is Red Cross Sunday and to
morrow morning the drive for mem
bers will be launched. Unless the
weather Interferes a splendid showing
will be made. It is the hope that
about 400,000 people will be enrolled
in this state. This is not a quota, how
ever, but a mark to be aimed at. It is
approximately" twice the number of
members signed in the Christmas roll
call ot a year ago.
To officially '.' recognize Red Cross
rollcall week Mayor Baker has issued
the following proclamation:
The week of December 16 to 23 is
hereby proclaimed Red CrosB rollcall
week in the city of Portland. All citi
zens are urged to contribute their sup
port by enrolling as members in the
American Red Cross and thereby
placing Portland In the front rank of
universal membership in this great hu
manitarian organization.
. "Join" Motto of CnmpniRn.
Let us remember that the United
States has millions of men in tho
United States, France, Russia, Belgium,
Siberia and Germany and in other parts
of the world whose every want and
need must be met. Every person in
America owes a debt to these men and
Red Cross week is a good time to pay
a big installment.
"It Is our duty to our men in the
Army and Navy, to' their dependents,
to ourselves and to shell-torn Europe,
where reconstruction and demobiliza
tion problems require the watchful
ness and aid of the greatest big sister
of all, the American Red Cross.
"(Signed) GEORGE L. BAKER.
"Mayor."
"Join" is the motto of the campaign.
There will be no "Jazz" business and
no taking up of collection, for it is not
money, but memberships, that the Red
Cross seeks. "Where's your button?"
will be asked of every adult in Ore
gon before the end of the drive, which
closes December 23. No receipts will
be given, but members will be enrolled
and will receive a button, service flag
and 10 Christmas seals. People will not
be solicited a. second time if they dis
play the button.
"Make this a Red Cross Christmas."
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Column 1.)
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