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THE SUXDAT OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, 3IAKCII 16, 1919. 7- PARIS REGARDED AS . jBATETO MILLEHNIUM . Commissions Seeking Every i Known Reform Present., DRUG TRAFFIC INCLUDED Ends of Earth Throng to France to Seek Remedies for Iniquities of Years' Standing. BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. . tCopyriebt. r ,he Nw roT Hemld Company. All Rlgbts R wrved. PARIS. Paris has become at once an Adullam's cave for the discontented, a Bethlehem stable to which the wise seekers resort and a Mecca for pilgrims of all sorts. There haa never before b-en a scene like it. Between the tiarden of Eden and Gabriel's trumpet there has been nothing so nearly resembling- a general Judgment day. They have come from the east and they have come from the west; all seeking the gate to a millennium. Only on the spot may one perceive how the ends of the earth have thronged to Paris seeking, at the hands of the peace commission, a remedy for ancient inqulties. All little nations are here, officially and nofficially. nd. what Is perhaps more sTgnificant. the small, forgotten groups which have maintained their identity throughout centuries of stress, yet are not recog nized as being nations. Side by side with them, in seeking access to the 'Ommtssion as a whole, or to influential members or suborbinates. are commis sions from America and Great Britain. hoping that by a stroke or the pen tne conference will rectify what they deem Injustices. There is something at once sublime and pathetic in this childlike confidence that the peace commission may be able to remedy all the ancient Ills of earth. Aaarrleaa Coammlaaiona la Paris. tha rnmmlsiions and commis loners bound elsewhere find that all iHi lead through Pans, eimuitane there were here two American rnmniiiuions one. headed by Presiden Henry Pratt Judson of the University of Chicago, homeward bound from Persia and Armenia, where they had been investigating and administering famine relief. Their stock of fresh knowledge upon near eastern condi tions could not have scaped the many handed outreach of the American com missioners and their assistants. What it mns to have straight, wise, un biased and fearless reports from such perplexing regions as these, concerning which s Dec la I pleaders nave oeeu w i" sistent, only tha peace commission can know. The other commission, bound for Con atantinople and Turkey generally, is headed by Dr. James L. Barton of the Amri..n enmmittee for relief in the ntur east. Its shipload of food is al ready on the sea. bound for the Ar menians. A sub-commission of Mr. Hoover's famous body is likewise here en route to Turkey, in augury of the day when governments will handle f.tnlnix the world around and there will be no longer need for the volun tary campaigns and funds for relief. Divorced from sentiment and adminis tered scientifically, food administration will become, as It was in Belgium, a matter for which the government It self assumes responsibility. Thus, by the c-operation of strong neighbors. each nation will care for Us own. Metaoalata Have Commlimioas. Ranging over France and going as far as Rome, there have been three lm- nnriint American and Canadian Jieino tlist commissions, representing the wothnriixt i-hurch north, south and in Canada. The last named is primarily to deal with the military and to look up the several hundred preachers and theological students who were in the Canadian army, with a view to utiliza tion in the new day that has already dawned fo.- this church In Canada. The recent general conference at Hamilton Hnnrri the most radical social pro gramme ever enacted by a religious body. Soldier members and ministers are counted upon to make this effective. General Superintendent cnawn is in rhirn of this commission. Bishops Anderson and Henderson and Secretary Frank Mason North are the Methodist Episcopal delegation survey ing Europe to consider way of spend ing the JSO.000.000 their church is to be asked to give this year as a centennial commemoration of Methodism. They have churches In France and Italy and the character and extent of their in crease is under consideration, as well as decision upon the new points in Eu rope and the near east to be entered by their denomination. From the southern Methodist church la a commission on which are Bishops Atkins, Lambuth and Cannon and Sec retary Pinson. as well as two laymen. They have decided. It is reported, not to enter France or Italy, but to under take a large educational work in Poland or Czecho-Slovakia. All Rrf.rna Repreorated. There has also arrived a commission to urge the peace conference to enact a law making religious liberty obliga tory in ail countries. Every reform under heaven seems to have its representatives in Paris, some of whom, by the way. never get nearer tha conference and its members than to look from the sidewalk upon the commissioners passing in their auto mobiles. Most of these special pleaders j will get no consideration whatever. But out of the membership of the peace commission itself. I learn, has come the suggestion that action must be taken upon the traffic in habit forming drugs. The peril from these to the weaker peoples is quite as great as from militarism. China, especially. Is menaced, not only by opium, but also by morphia and cocaine, which are peddled by itin erant Japanese merchants. The war prevented the final and full interna tional ratification of the opium agree ment. Now. more thoroughly and drastically, the end sought is to be se cured by the conference. Certain na tions have apparently, for commercial reasons, fostered the traffic in drugs, ao that the moral fibre of entire peo ples is threatened. The police power of the league of na tions ia to be invoked to protect the helpless multitudes who are to bulk Urn in world democracv. and who must be kept safe for their new re sponsibilities. A high authority informs me that opium and all other habit forming drugs are to be effectively banned by action of the commission. Thus the strong west la exercising watchcare over the east. tainlv there la no disoutlnz that Amer- !j ica'a moral sense Is the most potent force operating In the conference. When one considers the ideals pro- i posed to and by the peace conference it appears as if the millennium ia just around the corner. But when one listens to the claims of the various commis sions and special pleaders, who have ao thronged Paris that hotel rooms are scarcely obtainable, he quickly con cludes that at least there will be time for one more round of drinks and one more game of poker before the millen nium breaks. For the old Adam is here in force, and even sitting at the con ference table. Circus posters are modest and blush ing intimations of uierit as compared with the claims that are being pressed here, both by "causes" and by coun tries. The colossal self-assertiveness of many or most of the nations met in Paris has fairly staggered the Ameri cans. Little peoples, which formerly had nothing except a fate of suffering and persecution, are demanding large, choice portions of the map for them selves. Victims Eater Claims. Victims of atrocities and persecution, who a twelve mcntl, ago vere gasping for life Itself and crying out to civiliza tion for succor, are now swaggering and strutting and asserting claims of unbelievable magnitude. These small nations of the near east are in no dan ger of dying from humility. It is the kindliest judgment to say that they have become Intoxicated by the air of freedom. Of course, they have the example of various great powers to incite them. "Imperialism" is the only word that can describe .the ambitions of certain of the nations represented at the con ference. "Evidently America is the only country that is really not after anything here," remarked one great man who is on the inside of things. But America stands so powerfully for the exact antithesis of these self aggrandizing schemes that it Is the belief of most observers that, with the support of Great Britain, she will carry the conference through to a consum mation in accord with the ideals ex pressed by the president. I Lodge Candidate Thinks Quake Part of Initiation. E. I.. Smith mt Hood River Recalls Severe Shock at Olympla More i Thaa Forty Years Ago. . H OOD RIVER, Or., March 15. (Spe- knowledge of Oregon earthquakes, E. L. Smith, pioneer northwestern citizen, is reminded by an appeal of Dr. John Branner, geologist of Stanford univer sity, for Information on early-day quakes in the Beaver state, of an in teresting temblor at Olympia, Wash more than 40 years ago. "It was the most severe earthquake shock I ever felt." says Mr. Smith, who resided at Olympia with his family while secretary of Washington terri tory. In fact there were two distinct. heavy shocks. "I was master of the Masonic lodge there at the time. E. P. Ferry, prom inent in Washington history, was een'or warden. We were initiating a candidate, who was at the altar when the first shock came. It startled us so that we ceased our work, and then in a few seconds the second shock rattled the building until I thought it would certainly fall. My home was only a few blocks away. It was built on high underpinning and I was afraid that the quake might have shaken the building off its foundation. Hastily requesting the lodge to be at ease. . I rushed from the building with my fel lows and en route home overtook Mrs. Smith, who had been attending a choir practice nearby. We found our daugh ter. Jessie, now Mrs. J. F. Watt of this city, with the other children gathered around her out in the middle of the street, all safe. Finding no damage. I hurried back to the hall to close the lodge. In our alarm and hurry we forgot our candidate. He had been left all this time hoodwinked. I'll never for get when we gathered around htm. "You thought you d scare me," he re marked, "but you didn't."- He had thought the earthquake shocks a part of his initiation. MARSHFIELD SITE DEEDED Title to City Park Quieted and Ar mory Will Be Built. MARSHFIELD. Or.. March 15. (Spe cial.) The last legal obstruction to a clear title to the city park, which is proposed as a site for the armory, was eliminated this week when W. H. Thom as, representing the Davis heirs, who had a questionable claim on the prop erty, and City Attorney J. T. Brand came to an agreement over a settlement. Mr. Thomas came from Missoula, Mont.', to negotiate the matter and. without any emolument, granted a quit claim deed signed for all the Davis heirs. The city will pay Mr. Thomas' expenses to Coos Bay and returning to Missoula. It is expected the matter of getting the armory started now will proceed speedily without any lurtner interruption. Hart SchafFner &.Marx Clothes New Hats New Shirts New Neckwear Everything; new that men ' prefer. for What's New Spring? Waist-seam suits are leaders with young men, single and double breasted variations, slanting pockets, crescent pockets, cuffs, piping, etc. Varsity suits for 1919 are the thing for men who like more style re straint; these models do not have the waist-seam; two and three button creations. Everything for men by Hart Schaffner & Marx $30, $35, $40, $45 and Up Sam'l Rosenblatt 6? Co. The Men's Store for 4 Quality and Service . -miiiiSili if . A . --' i . b " -f f I -' r f yVJ - - ' I J I 'if X - A m W: , i i v - -.- .fcepriieU I91S Bart Sehaffpcr gata , Gasco Bldg. Fifth and Alder 15c All Times Kids Always 5c Today and Until Tuesday Night Only this week. The minimum wage to be paid is J85 a month. Formerly the low wage was $75. The board also re elected R. L. Kirk as city school su perintendent for a period of two years at a yearly salary of 2500. FARMERS' BUSINESS GAINS Warehouse Increases Capitalization From $10,000 to $30,000. MOSCOW, Idaho, ' March 14. (Spe cial.) The Farmers' Union Warehouse company of Moscow h?s increased its capital from $10,000 to 150,000. There are 72 stockholders, most of whom were present. The action was made necessary by the increased business of the corpo ration, which erected a concrete grain elevator last fall at a cost of $34,000. The corporation was formed July 5. 1910, with a capital stock of $10,000. It leased the grain warehouse of the Mark P. Miller Company, on the O.-W. R. & N. tracks. Later it bought the Northern Pacific Elevator company's warehouse and the Interior Warehouse company s warehouse and did a gen eral grain business. In 1912 the com pany started a general merchandise store and- built tip a business amount ing: to $75,000 a year. Coos Woman Deputy Assessor. MARSHFIELD, Or., March 11. (Spe cial.) Coos county has its first fem inine deputy assessor in the appoint ment of Mrs. Maud McAdams to that position for the rural districts south of Bandon. County Assessor J. P. Beyers has eight other deputies now at work, including I. Lando. for Marshfield; F. J. Monroe. North Bend: C. K. Jackson. north portions of the county and rural district between Coqutlle and Coos Bay; L. D. Smith, Coos river and Catching inlet; H. C. Dipple, Bandon; Leo J. Cary, North and East Forks of the Coquille river and the tributaries; Harry De ment. South and Middle Forks of the Coquille and tributaries; C. A. Schroe der, Coquille valley between Myrtle Point and Bandon. Assessors Beyers is covering Coquille, Myrtle Point and Powers. cial.) The county commissioners have appointed Mrs. George K. Gilmore tem porary superintendent of the new coun ty infirmary to succeed her late hus band, whose death occurred recently from influenza. SOLDIER WAKES IN MORGUE Albert Haines Taken From Hospital, S apposed ly Dead. MARSHFIELD, Or., March 15. (Spe cial.) Albert Haines, a Marshfield sol dier now in the convalescent hospital at Camp Lewis, wounded by a shell In the Argonne forest. Is one of many sol diers who had queer experiences dur ing the war period. After being treated at a back hospital, Haines lost consciousness and when he regained his faculties, found himself in the morgue, where he had been placed with the dead. On awakening Haines at once saw the situatioi and set up a wail which brought attendants who removed him to a more cheerful part of the hospital. The shell which wounded Mr. Haines, struck his tent while he was sleeping, wounding as well, two comrades who were in the same tent. Haines was rated as an expert marksman and was at one time three weeks in the fight ing without changing clothing and two days without food. LAND -OPENING. 10,000 acres of irrigated land to be thrown open April 15. 1919. For full particulars see classified farms for sale column in today's paper. Adv. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to extend -our heartfelt thanks to the D. B. L. lodge. No. 167; Mount Hood lodge. No. SI, D. L. L.; the ladies of the Ester Circle, the painters' union, No. 10, and our many friends for the beautiful' flowers and sym pathy shown us in our time of sorrow. AdV. - MKS. lj. BUS1 AJSU f AA11 L, I . Superintendent's Widow Honored. WALLACE, Idaho, March 15. (Spe- ST. PATRICK'S SOLDIER DANCE COTILLION HALL MARCH 17 Entertainment and . Special Attractions . EVERYBODY INVITED Dalles Teachers' Sularies Up. THE DALLES. Or.. March 15. (Spe cial.) Salaries of all teachers in the local schools were increased 15 per cent at a meeting of the school board PreaJblMoa Workers presrat. 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