The Sunday Oregonian., February 29, 1920, Section One, Page 21, Image 21

THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND. FEBRUARY 29. 1920
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JAPANESE FACTIONS
SPLIT ON SUFFRAGE
Imperial Decree Causes Dis
solution of Diet.
POLICE . FIGHT MEMBERS
ncI-lo-lluiid Contest lakes Place
In ParliHmenC as Government
Measure Is Opposed.
U'ASHI.VtrrOX, F. b. 28. (By the
Associated Press.) The fight in Japan
for universal suffrage resulted in the
dissolution of the Japanese diet last
Thursday by imperial decree. The
einptror's action was taken at the re
quist of Premier Hara, cable advices
today from Tokio said. It followed
violent scenes in the lower house of
parliament.
The first news of the seriousness
of the controversy between the gov
ernment and the majority parties in
the diet to reach the L'nited States
was contained in an Associated Press
dispatch from Tokio under date of
February 14, received in this country
last Tuesday.
Government Attacked.
This dispatch said the opposition
attacked the government for opposing
the universal suffrage measure and
that the president was obliged to in
tervene. The police fought members
in the lobby and the military was
called upon to restrain crowds out
side attempting to break Into the
building.
The government last month brought
forward a measure extending the
right of franchise to Japanese males
whose direct tax exceeded three yen.
Labor la Excluded.
Although excluding the entire body
of labor, farm laborers and mechanics,
this measure was described as a con
siderable enlargement of the old and
restricted suffrage list and the gov
ernment was said to have desired to ;
test It by the election of a diet be-
for-- consenting to any measures of
further extension.
markets and will leave Monday, for
the east.
The association, which is national
in -scope and includes in Us member
ship dress manufacturers and jobbers
throughout the country, was formed
shortly over 'a. year ago by Mr. Mos
essohn. who reports that the growth
of membership has been remarkable.
The purpose of the association Is to
bring about closer relationship be
tween the raw material producer, the
manufacturer and the retailer.
The present high cost of clothing,
stated Mr. Mosessohn. is due to a
shortage in the raw material market.
unusuaJ and sometimes unjust de
mands of labor and a demand on the
part of the people to an extent never
before known for expensive clothing.
The unusua demand for .luxurious
dress creates a great demand for that
quality of goods and an underdemand
for the old-time bargain articles, he
declared. That the unusual circum
stances would be overcome and that
prices would begin to decline within
a few months, was' the opinion of the
former Portlander.
UBGR GETS MLF PROFIT
DEGLINE OF FARMS
ONE BIG PROBLEM
Herbert Hoover Points Out
Possible Dangers Faced.
WORKERS GO TO . CITIES
Development of Agriculture ti
Keep Pace With Development of
Industry Held Xecessary.
NATIONAL CASH REGISTER
COMPANY TO SPLIT 50-50.
Division Will Be Made After 6 Per
Cent on Investment of Firm
Has Keen Deducted.
DAYTON. Ohio, Feb. 28. The Na
tional Cash Register company, em
ploying approximately 7000 persons
In its plant here, today announced a
60-50 profit-sharing plan for employes
for 1920. Only employes in the Day
ton plant will share in the profits.
John H. Patterson, president of the
company, announced that tne proni
of the company will be determined
by outside accountants and that after
the net profits have been determined
an amount equal to 6 per cent inter
est on the company's investment will
be deducted. The remaining profits,
the statement said,, will be divided
into two equal shares, 50 per cent to
the company and 50 per cent to be
divided among the employes.
The profits to be distributed among
the employes will be divided into two
parts, half to executives and foremen j
and half to other employes.
No employe will receive profits until
he has been with the company six
months.
12 FIRES PUT OUT IN DAY
TWO-STORY BLILDIXG DAMAGE
KSTIMATED AT $1300.
3!ost of Blazes Discovered . on
Roofs or in Chimneys Major
ity of Losses Small. .
The two-story frame residence of
Louis E. Myers, 1214 Francis avenue,
was damaged to the extent of $1000
and the furnishings an additional
$300 as the result of a fire starting
from sparks from the chimney yes
. terday morning about 10 o'clock.
Mrs. Myers and her two daughters
were out in the yard at the time and
did not notice the fire until it had
gained much headway.
The fire was one of 12 reported by
the fire bureau yesterday, the ma
jority of them being chimney blazes.
Others were small roof fires with
negligible damage.
The residence owned and occupied
by H. C. Nave, 1001 Kast Main street,
was damaged about $400 and the con
tents $100 as the result of a fire start
ing from sparks from the chimney.
The sparks from this fire also set
fire ti the rovt of a building at 1199
Kast .Main street, next door. This,
however, was extinguished before
there wa. any great damage.
About $10 damage was caused to
the roof of a residence at 505 Everett
street yesterday when .sparks from
the flm- started a small fire.
K-sklciiees at 581 I'matilla avenue
ami "I5 Thirteenth street were also
damaged slightly.
The fire marshal's office Issued a
warniiiK to householders to use ex- i
Irene caution in the prevention of
fii-' S at times when a strong wind is
t. lowing.
PAVING TAX SUIT FILED
Reassessment Attempt Fought by
Property Owners.
An attempt to prevent the reassess
ment by the city of property owners
on East Twenty-nrst street, 10 yj
for paving laid between Division and
Powell streets by the Oregon Hassam
Paving company, was carried Into the
circuit court yesterday in a suit filed
by Ida Maud Teter and other tax
payers of that district against the
city.
The claim is made that original
paving laid was a failure, due to the
use of poor cement and slack work
manship and that efforts to remake
it have not been successful. The con
troversy began with the completion
of the first paving in 1910. The pla'n
tiffs maintain that the contract was
given in violation of the city charter,
saying that there was no competition.
It is held further that defects can
not be corrected by an attempted re
assessment, and the complaint asks
that the reassessment of 118.461 and
interest voted June 6. 1918, be set
aside and canceled.
SAFETY AT SCHOOL URGED
t
TKAFMC lll'RKAU HEAD ASKS
l'KIM IPAL TO CO-OPERATK
Children at Play in Street Are le
' eland to Bo in Danger Prom
Pasing Vehicles.
Frank Ervln. police lieutenant of
the traffic bureau, dispatched a com
munication to Klmer Brown, princi
pal of the Hose City Park school yes
terday, urging every co-operation
with the police in the prevention of
accidents among the students of tho
school.
The communication was the result
of a report made by J. J. Crofert, 651
Liberty street, in which students nar
rowly escaped being injured in an
accident at East Fifty-fourth street
and Sandy boulevard. The four chil
dren were coasting in a small wagen
when one of the wheels of the wagon
came off and they were scattered in
the street. Two automobiles which
were passing at the time narrowly es
caped running over .them. . one of
them being a machine driven by Mr.
Crofert.
The letter to the principal is a
phase of the campaign now being car
ried on for the prevention of acci
dents among tne children of school
age.
Lieutenant Ervin reports that he
has found a spirit of co-operation in
the campaign among students and
teachers and principals of the schools
in all parts of the city.
PRICE DECLIOPECTED
llltill COST OF CLOTHING DIE
TO SEVKKAL CAUSES.
David X. Mososolm Asserts Vnus
nal Circumstances Will Be Over
come and Prices Will Drop.
A gradual decline In the prices ot
clothing during the coming summer
and winter is probable, believes David
X. Mosessohn. formerly of this city
and now executive director and gen
eral counsel of the Association of
Dress Industries of America, with
headquarters in Xew York. Mr
Mosessohn arrived In Portland last
week with his wife on a tour of the
Pacific coast and middle west to
study the condition of the clothing. 67 to 10.
WINDOW-WASHER TO LIVE
Fall From Fourth Story Sill ot
Likely to Be Fatal.
Clifford E. Holmes, window washer,
who suffered a fracture of the right
wrist and cuts and bruises about the
head and body as a result of a fall
from a fourth-story window of the
store building of Henry Jenning &
Sons, Fifth and Washington streets.
Friday, was reported to bt resting
well at St. Vincent's hospital yester
day. The man's injuries are not con
sidered serious.
He was saved from possibly fatal
injury only by the fact that Kenneth
D. Houser and Ray Clark of the Mult
nomah hotel threw a couple of bed
springs beneath him while he hung
for a moment suspended in the glass
awning on his way down.
His fall was caused by the breaking
of the taclcl with which he attached
himself to the side of the building.
BRIDE IS WON BY MAIL
Watervillc Logger 'Gets Arkansas
Woman to Come Here for Him.
EUGENE. Or. Feb. 28. (Special.)
Mrs. Agnes Morurik of Melvern, Ark.,
traveled five days and nights by train
to get an Oregon husband. The man
was Leonard E. Meyer, a logger of
Wateiville. The couple had been
corresponding for some time but had
never seen each other until intro
duced yesterday by the proprietor of
a local holel at which the bride-to-be
was staying. Jesse G. Wells, justice
of the peace, performed the marriage.
ceremony early yesterday morning.
The bride is 28 years old and a cook
by occupation. This is her second
marriage. The bridegroom is 41 and
has been married three times.
CHICAGO, Feb. 28 Development of
agriculture to keep pace with the de
velopment of Industry is one of the
greatest reconstruction problems fac
ing the country. HerDert Hoover de
clared tonight in an address before
the Western Society of Engineers."
"Industries are drawing workers
from the farms," he declared." "and if
we should develop our exports of in
dustries during the next five years as
rapidly as we have during the last
five years, we shall by that time be
laced with the necessity of importing
foodstuffs."
"The problem is more than an eco
nomic one," he asserted, because
from dependence on overseas supplies
for food we will be concerned about
their safety and find ourselves dis
cussing the domination of the seas.
Our international relations will be
come more difficult, he said, and un
less the league of nations serves its
ideal, we will need to burden our
selves with more taxation, maintain
great military and naval forces and
imperil the development of our na
tional life, which "rests in the spirit
of our farms and surrounds our vil
lages."
Constructive Thought Needed.
"Greater is the need for construc
tive thought and action in regard to
the weakness of our industrial relations,"-
he said, "and the need for
similar thought and similar activity
is still greater with regard to agri
culture." The agricultural industry,
he explained, must be made econom
ically attractive. This can be ac
complished, he declared, by remedying
the defects in our transportation and
distribution systems.
Measures which he advocated to
bring this about include the develop
ment of the waterways from the
great lakes to the Atlantic replace
ment of "special control" refrigerator
cars, stockyards and elevators by
"constructive public service.-" govern
ment regulation of the "overswollen
units" of the produce business to pro
vide free competition; co-operative
marketing; reduction In inflation,
which he believes will lessen the ex
cessive number of persons engaged in
food distribution; standardization of
products; exhaustive investigation
"into our great national boards of
trade, with a view to extending their
legitimate functions or preventing
their abuse," and development of me
chanical agricultural equipment.
Waterways One Remedy.
Mr. Hoover expressed the belief that
the development of the Great Lakes
waterways would remove a consider
able portion of the peak load on the
trunk line railways during the crop
movement season when the shortage
of cars causes increased prices and
finds employment for the great mer
cantile fleet which we will have cre
ated if the department plan was car
ried out. He-estimated that the sav
ing in the transportation of grain
would be 5 or 6 cents a bushel.
When concerns engaged in the man
ufacture and sale of produce reach
such dimensions that they "can influ
ence prices or dominate public af
fairs, whether with deliberation or
innocence," he said, "they should be
placed under regulation and re
straint." Mr. Hoover declared that
he was opposed to government owner
ship and expressed the belief that the
test to be applied to determine wheth
er regulation was necessary should be
"not the size of the Institution or the
volume of capital that it employs, but
the proportion of the commodity that
it controls in its operations."
Inflation and Profits Alike.
Calling attention to credit Infla
tion, he declared that "if we have a
wise uiu steady reduction in infla
tion it will be a skillful dealer who
escapes a reducton In the scale of
profits."
The Washington award was pre
sented tonight to Mr. Hoover for con
spicuous success as food director and
director of European relief on behalf
of several engineering societies. Mr.
Hoover was the first recipient of the
award, which was founded in 1916 by
John W. Alvord, a member of the
Western Society of Engineers.
meeting by R. G. Scott, county agent,
won the gold medals at the Interna
tional livestock show held in Portland
in .December. These boys, who are
Norman Parrish, Gaylord and Ray
mond Montgomery, proudly wore their
medals on this occasion. The other
boys judging were the Kanne
brothers, whose home is at Happy
Valley, Clackamas county.
Among those addressing the assem
bly were R. G. Scott, B. C Altman, a
prominent breeder of Jerseys whose
farm is at Gresham; E. A. Rhoten, of
Salem, who is connected with the
Pacific homestead; N. H. Smith, of
Redland. who talked on "Feeding,"
and these talks were followed by a
general discussion. At noon a picnic
dinner was enjoyed.
The meeting, which commenced at
10:30 and continued until 4 o'clock,
was presided over by . N. H. Smith,
president of the Clackamas County
Jersey Cattle club. The next meeting
will be at the home ot D. F. Skene at
Twilight, next month.
MISS ROSS IS RELEASED
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DEMURRER FI1JED IX CHRIS
TIAX SCIENCE CASE SUSTAINED.
Judge Ross man Gives Opinion That
Case-Should Have Been Brought
in County Where Boy Died.
The demurrer filed by W. T.
Vaughn, attorney for Pathra Ross.
Christian Science practitioner, was
sustained by Municipal Judge Ross-
man yesterday' afternoon, when
charges against the practitioner of
failing to report a communicable dis
ease and failing to quarantine an In
fluenza patient came up for further
hearing.
Judge Rossman declared that, in his
opinion, the proceedings should have
been brought in Clackamas county
originally, since the case was one in
volving 15-year-old William Brooks
Childs Jr., who died of influenza at
Island station. In Clackamas county,
Friday, February 13, after he is said
to have been given absent treatment
by -the practitioner.
At the same time. Judge Rossman
declared in his opinion the boy would
not have died if he had received rea
sonable medical treatment, and he
scored the mother of the boy and Miss
Ross, the practitioner.
Officials of the state board of health
announced that an appeal from the
opinion of Judge Rossman would be
taken under consideration.
Mr. Vaughn, attorney for the prac
titioner, declared he intended to in
sist on a suit against Dr. O. A. Welsh,
health officer of Clackamas county,
who preferred the charges against
Miss Ross, for malicious prosecution.
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Oregon City Silica Tested for State
Highway Material.
OREGON CITY. Or., Feb. 28. (Spe
cial.) Charles Terrill, manager of
the Silica King Mines company, was
in Salem Friday, where he conferred
with the state highway engineer, Mr.
Nun n, and state chemist. Extensive
tests have been made of the products
of the silica mine in this city during
the winter with a view of using the
material in construction of the state
highways. x
The company is figuring on an out
put of 40 to 60 tons daily in highway
work the coming season..
Silica has been shipped to Portland,
Astoria, Grants Pass, Bend and Mon
roe, and is giving entire satisfaction
where it has been used. 1
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Peter Mcintosh, City Purchasing
Agent, Joins Auto Agency.
Peter Mcintosh, city purchasing
agent and assistant to the commis
sioner of finance, yesterday severed
his connection with the city of Port
land to enter the automobile truck
business. Mr. Mcintosh has accepted
a position as secretary and business
manager of the Gary Coast agency, 71
Broadway street.
Mr. Mcintosh has been connected
with the city of Portland for the past
three years, having served under
Commissioners Dan Kellaher, Dr. T.
L. Perkins, C. A. Bigelow and S. C.
Pier. Prior to his entrance into the
municipal service, he was chief pro
bation officer in the juvenile court.
$7500 Asked for Child's Death.
For the death of 3-ycar-old Theo
dore Gerlach. damages of $7f00 are
asked in the circuit court by Henry
Gerlach in a suit filtd yesterday
against Walter S. and J. K. Cutshall,
owners of the truck which crushed
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tember , 191a-' The accident oc
curred at East Thirteenth and Mason
Mrcets while tho child was riding in
a toy was:i "n tho street, being
drawn bv Jacob Vogel The complaint
asserts that t'm boy wa nut more
than three feet from the curbing.
Bend to Aid Salvation Army.
BEND,' Or, Feb. 28. (Special.)
Organization of a Salvation Army ad
visory board was effected here today
to make a close study of local
economic and E.cial problems in ac
cordance with the army serials service
programme for 1920. The board was
formed under the direction of Elmer
S. Tucker, field representative, and
is headed by D. G. McPherson. with
H. J. Overturf as vice-president, and
Mrs. V. A. Forbes as secretary.
MERCHANT HELD FIREBUG
Jennings Lodge Man Arrested on
Charge of Arson.
ORFSON CITY, Or- Feb. 2S. (Spe
cial.) E. A. El well, proprietor o? the
Jennings iodi?i5 store, which was de
stroyed by fire last Dtcoinber, was
Mr-re buildinj and stock, the lntter -it
which was insure! for 1600 Elwell
rented the building and owned the
siock :inJ had been in business at
Jennings Lodue for the just two
years.
District Attorney Hcdgm arraicriTtd
Elweli before Justice titipp Elwell
waived preliminary hearu.g and win
leleased on $KU0 bail to appear for
hearing ttforo the grand jury.
Interstate Bridge Weakened.
VANCOUVER. Wash., Feb. 88.
(Special.) The Columbia river Inter-
arrested todav on a charge of ar?on. state bridge commission has let a con-
Tt is hIU eel thHt Elwell burned the tract for strengthening the naHe of
the piers in the folumblA river. .An -InveeliKutton
made several weeks hko
showed thut the roi-k arouUI the pii'ia
hud been washed away tn Hume ex
tent This is to lie rcplurcd. .
Mrs. Sophie JolniMin Dies.
Mrs. Sophie Mnry Jnhnnon die
Monday, February i'3. at the fAiirtlv
residence, Korty-elKhth avenue unit
One Hundred and Kluhth street smiiif
east. Mm. Johnson was born In
den In lKfij, moving to Sllverion, Or..,
In 1904. where she lived until luut
when she came to Portland and im
since maile her home here. Her him
band and two sons survive her. Her
f.'ither. J Knhere. Hvep In fbl clly '
BOYS JUDGE JEH5ET5
BREEDERS HEAR TALKS BY EX
PERTS AT BEACOX HEIGHTS.
CAMPING PARK IMPROVED
Hood River Preparing for Coming
of Automobile Tourists.
HOOD RIVER. Or., Feb. 28. (Spe
cial.) W. T. Price, city water super
intendent, who has been in charge
of improving the new municipal auto
mobile -camping park, says the place
will be fully equipped and ready for
the influx of motor tourists expected
here by mid-summer..
Mr. Price has had a crew of men
grading a p-irt of the three-acre tract.
Most of the plot is covered with a
grove of oak and pine trees. Five
ovens for cooking have been installed
and taps are supplied from the city
water system. tiectric lights will
be installed.
Reorganization Due Tomorrow.
Reorganization of the state fish and
gi me commissron, with the new mem
bers appointed by the last session ox
the leKislature. will take place to
morrow at t P. M. in the office in the
Oregon bu'lding. A number of peti
tions from sportsmen, asking that
certain Mreams be closed to hook and
line firhin are on hand and prob
ably will be acted upon favorably.
These cover from two years to an in
definite period.
Lincoln Forests to Be Viewed.
SALEM, Or.. Feb. 28. (Special.) F.
A. Elliott, state forester, left here
today for Lincoln county, where he
will pass several days inspecting the
forests of that part of the state.
Scappoose to Incorporate.
SCAPPOOSE. Or.. Feb. 2 (Spe
cial.) At a special election yester
day the town voted to Incorporate.
Lads Who Win Medals at Portland
Livestock Show Proudly Wear
Decorations Before Elders.
OREGON CITY. Or., Feb.' 28. (Spe
cial.) The Clackamas County Jersey
Cattle club held -an all -day meeting
at the Beacon Heights hall near
Beaver Creek Saturday.
One of the features of the day was
the boys Judging - of the Jerseys
owned- by E. O. Fisher. Three of the
boys from Twilight, taken to the
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