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7 THE SUNDAY. OKEGOXIAX, POKTLAXD, MARCH C, 1921 AMERICA 10 EGYPT COMPARED BK HARDEN German Publicist Takes In auguration for Text. BE AT 111 E HOUSE IS RICA L FAITH PLACED IN WOMEN Harding Likened to Pharaoh, 'Wil son to Moses; History Pre dicted to Repeat. BY 11AXMILIAN HARDEN. Gerinanys Foremost Publicist. (Copyright, 19-1, by The Oreeonian.) (Taking the JnaUKUratlon of President HarJjnft as a text, Maximilian Harden a-kH to show the position of the United States a" comparable to that of Egypt aficr the seven years' famine.) BERLIN, March 5. (Special by Wireless.) There came a new Pha raoh, who knew not Joseph. He knew, however, that his prede cessor had many dreams, in one of which he had seen seven lone. Ill favored kine eat up seven well favored fat ones. The new Pharaoh, casting a look over the pasture, saw nothing but lean cattle, which, al though they had succeeded In attain ing flabby pot-bellies and a few rolls of fat, were neither useful for giving niilk nor for slaughtering. Their condition created general astonishment and fear which kept mankind spell-bound. The dreamer had announced that the time of mis ery would last only seven years. The seventh year had already arrived and yet the flood of trouble was still ris ing and no eye could perceive the end of misery. Matching Won't Fatten. So he who yesterday became the ruler lifted up his voice and spoke. "By simply watching these cattle we will not cause them to fatten. Did you imagine some friendly conjurer would tauten the hides and fill the udders of the animals? And as in good children's fairy tales, give us longed-for happiness? The cow which is to give good milk and bear healthy calves has to be assured nourishing fodder. Such assurance is possible only through good management. "Only he who feels his responsi bility manages well permanently. Re sponsible to whom? Well, to his con science, to God. people, country in short, to any lasting power in whose majestic wisdom he sincerely believes. Was this knowledge of responsibility In you. in fact in all those who in the wide world are now groaning over the length of this time of misery? Answer for yourselves, each in the quiet of your own home. Women Believed Turning. "Almost all of us, since this block headed war for pasture ended, have been seeking our own special advan tage. We have wished to live com fortably until the end of life, our women as dainty ornaments, more handsomely bedecked than their neighbors, our children after us pos sessing rich inheritances. It was ever thus all the world over, and it will never be otherwise. Do you believe it will never be otherwise? You are woefully mistaken. Even now your women tire of all the flippery show ered upon them and instead of being glittering dolls, wish to play their part in the upbuilding of homes and the betterment of their nation. "And today we see the state sweep away the fattest bit of children s in heritance before their very noses, pre venting them from becoming Idle pleasure-seekers. let, withal, state extravagance is not to be recom mended. Each one must manage as If a little part of the earth had been entrusted to him for a limited time, so that the value of this part may be increased for the benefit of mankind. ationa Most Change. "This is meant for individuals as well as nations. Nations,' too, from now on, must feel an international responsibility and must throw off the superstition that national egotism can foster treasuries. The most impor tant of all my duties will be to make nations conscious of this. I see and hear them all at their reckonings. "The east owes the west large sums The central part of the world, which Is still enveloped in clouds "of blood, owes even larger sums. Of the west ern countries two are deeply indebted to a third. And all three are glancing nervously at us. their creditors. "Let us call these groups of debtors A. B, C and D and listen to their whis perings. Because A refuses payment. B can pay only in small installment and C cannot pay his debt to D. Be cause neither C nor D can get their money they knock at our door, now eoftly, now loudly, desiring that their debt, on which we had proposed inter est payments, be obliterated. Sacrifice Is ITnmaflked. "If we set an example of such mag nanimity they say that they as credit ors would also show generosity and that such sacrifice is not really diffi cult for us. being the wealthiest. But are not also our fattest cows de voured? Do we not also stand facing Doundless numbers of new tasks re lating both to the Individual and to the state and do not these demand the greatest amount of energy? "And do you, who live across the sea, think it Just that we should help you out of every dilemma caused by stupidity and thoughtlessness? You owe us money; we owe you the truth and we don't ask for a moratorium. Out of the repose of a comfortable life we Joined in your fight without selfish desire on our part in orderj that we might contribute towards the cTrrLkindTfl psnideva-t'i Iwilsons and Handings Have tion. "What have you been doing during two long years to pave the way for this Idea? Prove to us that ycu ardently desire a new world and are r.ot only striving to restore an old one. Be satisfied to have a joint man agement which considered untimely luxury a crime. Mntrnrm-ll Tactic Attacked. Nothing in Common. "Repair the everyday course of your actions and their motives In brain and soul instead of formulating With slate pencils your demand for reparations. Then, and not before, can we talk about wiping off or expunging mate rial debts. "And you. my dear countrymen? If your actions don't become reasonable and an illuminating example to strangers, no witch's adjuration will conjure your need out of the coun try." So 6poke the new Pharaoh, who knew not Joseph. But at this mo ment he was called to the telephone, where he heard of a new ladder with so many rungs of figures tnat it reached from a window in the room n St. James' palace, where the repara tions conference is being held, all the way to the sun. FAMILY TRAITS DIFFER Former President Lives Within Himself While Successor Ra diates Kindliness. USED PIANO SALE Every used piano has been reduced. See them and be convinced. Terms. VOSE&SON...$175 KIMBALL. 300 SINGER 275 DAVIS & SON.. 325 SCHIRMER. . . . 285 KINGSBURY... 285 HOFFMAN 325 SCHIRMER.... 150 AND OTHERS KRANICH & BACH GRAND $800 A real snap. SEIBERLING-LUCAS MUSIC CO. 125 Fourth Street NEAR WASHINGTON STREET WANTED Position with reliable Portland concern, buying, selling or gen-, eral clerical work. 7 years' ex perience hardware, plumbing supplies, building supplies, etc. Best local references. Confiden tial, i: 459. Oregonian. BULK BUYING PROPOSED Lossers Shown Way to Reduce High Cos.t of Living. HOQL'IAM. Wash.. March 5 (Spe cial.) Members of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen were ad vised by F. S. Murphy, field officer, to purchase goods in bulk and ship them on their employers' steamers to Gravs harbor in an effort to get goods cheaper, during the course of his talk to assembled employes and operators at a meeting in Eagles hall here Friday night. Mr. Murphy read statistics showing that prices of goods ranged 25 to 35 per cent from Everett to Marshfield, Or. He believed that eslablishment of community commissaries by the men for their own use would bring a level in prices. President Mahan advised the locals to appoint committees to interview their employers regarding the move. Walla Walla IfopitaI Assured. WALLA. WALLA. Wash., March 5. iSpecial.) President Allen of the Walia Walla Commercial club tele graphed Friday from Washington. D. C: "The president has just signed the hospital bill. Our hopes are real ized." The bill provides for remodel ing the buildings at Fort Walla Wal la for hospital purposes for use of ex-service men. About $500,000 will be spent. Anthracite and its equal. Edlefsen's. -A1v. WASHINGTON. D. C. March 5. (Special.) There is a new family at the corner of Executive and Pennsyl vania avenues. The name is Hard ing. There is a new family at No. 2340 S street Northwest, known in the neighborhood as the Wilsons. Butch ers are clamoring for their trade, grocers at their back door, newsboys are anxious to know what papers they will take much the same as any other family in a new community. One family almost literally stepped into the shoes of the other, and now that all have settled down, out of the range for 'the moment of "movie" camera, let us look at them and com pare their personalities. The country had a supreme oppor tunity to see the extraordinary con trast between the Wilsons and the Hardings on inauguration day. When the bugle sounded the call and the line moved from the White House down through that lane of faces to the capitol, there sat beside each other Mr. Harding and President Wil son, and in the next automobile a woman In dark blue, with white hair and alertness, a mistress of the White House, and another of quiet, reserved demeanor, now the head of the house on the hill back of Connecticut ave nue. Families Are Contrasted. By no possible means could one im agine that the families were inter related. No line in the countenance of Harding and Wilson tallied, no ges ture or posture of Mrs. Harding and Mrs. Wilson bore any similarity. The figure of "the president-elect was ro bust and commanding. The man at his side, from the top of his silk hat to the rest of his elbow line, was a slight academician. Unless one were to analyre beyond the point of ordi nary interest It would be difficult to find a single attribute which they had in common. What was fish to one was flesh to the other. Before Mr. Wilson took his seat be side President-elect Harding to ride to the capitol, he practiced on two or three small steps built for the pur pose in the White House, so keen was his desire, in spite of physical dis ability, to carry out the traditional part of a retiring president. This gives one a flash of the Wilson personality. A few hours later Presi dent Harding walked out upon that front porch wherein he was made president of the United States and spoke his Inaugural and the flash im pression he made upon the ordinary person in the crowd of thousands who watched him intently was that of a man of delightful naturalness, frank ness and lack of restraint. Apparently it was his nature to devote himself to those in whom he was confident The speech for the moment seemed to be all that was on his mind. His de livery might be called wide-open: even his gestures, of which there were few that cut the atmosphere Incisively with the forefinger for emphasis, were expressive. . Then there was Mr. Wilson, but for a few moments only. Against the advice of his physician he had strug gled his way through the circuitous room of the capitol. As he made his painful way from the White House, he appeared to be thinking deep vol umes within himself. His manner was that of withholding, even to the companions by his side, his whole thought. As in the last four years, in his Journey to the capitol, he again seemed to be reserving Mr. Wilson for himself with a restraint common in Europeans, rare in Americans. He sat in his automobile as if he must hold himself firmly buttoned within his coat. President Harding. In his car. flowed over the sides with neigh borly spirit. He passed into the White House radiating the "folksiness" which belt riders have taught the country to expect from tne miaaie west, combined-with a kindliness and a humility. Standing there in front of the roses and Easter lilies on the steps of the capitol. he looked like a political gen eral who had been brought in from the sun and the hard work coming back tanned; a man not pressed by a desire to be esthetic, or one of the elect, but happy over good fortune. Ex-President Tense to I,att. Then Mr. Wilson, tense, solemn, the picture of an academician, realistic, fastidious, and sensitive, almosr vis- llilj carrying a mental and-a physical exclusion, passed by the White House into his home. His head rested rigidly upon his shoulders and seldom turned; he seemed to have little mobility. The personalities that have changed a'aces have made over the whole spirit of the legislative mansion so far as the public is concerned. Around the corner from what was the Harding residence is Mr. Wilson's new house. Both are on the hill back of Connecticut avenue, in a new sec tion where there are opn fields for an tarly morning walk oi golf prac tice. But the golf sticks have been moved to the White Houe and the newcomer must wait for fa'3r days befote he can again take up the game. HEART BALM CONTESTED Idaho Business Man Declares He Was "Flimflammed." SEATTLE, Wash.. March B. (Spe cial.) Having been sued, a few days ago, for $50,000 by Myrtle Schott, a seamstress, who charged that a prom ise to marry her had been broken, S. Knutson, a well-to-do business man of Lewiston, Idaho, filed his answer in superior court Friday. Knutson denied the woman's accu sations and setting up as an affirma tive defense that he had been "flim flammed out of $3000" by an "adven turess" and that he was entitled to recover that amount from her. ' RAIL RATES HIT SEATTLE PORTLAND AX1 GRAYS HAK BOR TARIFFS INCREASED, Jobbers and Manufacturers Say New Schedules Will Cut Out Valuable Trade. SEATTLE. Wash., March S. (Spe cial.) Increase in local freight rates, aggregating an advance of more than 5 per cent, in the present class rate tariff from Seattle to Portland and Grays Harbor points, will be Included in a new tariff to be filed this month by S. J. Henry, agent of the North Pacific coast freight bureau, on be half of the Northern Pacific, Great Northern. Oregon-Washington and Milwaukee lines. J. D. Mansfield, traffic commissioner of the chamber of commerce, dis cussing this proposed rate boost be fore the transportation bureau, said it was viewed with great concern by local Jobbers and manufacturers be cause the abandonment of the rate policy which previously has been maintained would force them to give up valuable trade territory in Oregon and Washington to their competitors in California and the east. The new tariff, now being written, will be completed on March 10. It provides for a first-class rate of 75 cents from Seattle to Grays Harbor and Portland, as compared with the present class rate of approximately 48 cents. WOOD TEST SHOW EVENT Engineer Guessing Nearest Press ure Limit to Get Prizes. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, March 5. (Special.) How much weight can a wooden beam 8 by 10 inches and 12 feet long bear without breaking. The two visi tors at the engineering show, April 1 and 2, guessing nearest to the actual number of pounds pressure exerted by the Rhiels 150,000-pound testing machines required to break the beams will win prizes. The test will be applied each night of the show and the winner of the first night will receive a bronze can dlestick. The prize for the winner on the second night Is a bronze plate with Heldelburg castle in relief. These Rhiels machines are used in laboratory classes to determine the tensile, compression and bending strength of construction materials. Missing Man Is Sought. Police Inspector Craddock yester day received an inquiry from Sheriff Hillhouse of Reno, Nev., asking for information concerning the where abouts of William Stanley, who was last heard from in Portland three years ago. Relatives of the missing man are anxious to get in touch with him. Persons who may know of Stan ley's whereabouts are asked to com municate with the police detective bureau. Read The Oregonian classified ads ''i f -J A ;:t:L -51 1L...,,1 If w. Direction of Jensen and Von Herberg ..; ill mat : ICS 7L M T - IIBBn .s- " ' nannw Li ? I !'TWaHT.r-yMw.gr-7y"r a bT"N I' w-r- ' ' f- '' ' s - . . 1 - " ,W ; r V,"V - The greatest of all ; !j 2 4 Vj - f if " ' ' i t 4 - modern society dramas ' " ; : ;.. f ! ah ' ; X , ' i I - " u with the same cast i- ' - - j, - j'r - '.II.,-"'. that created the phe- 13 "i 4 - x H 4 r ' nomenal success of I: ' i 5 m i ' " : " I " ' " "When New York , J L 1 V j " ' Sleeps," and with a J " o i : rll - I -V ' H ; V similar theme. 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COMEDY pathe Weekly It's a hole in the ! fence that starts i the line of' chuckles when Buster Keaton ' begins his neighborhood ! flirtation. I I Have you a little bunch of neigh- bors in your home? See what . Buster Keaton does to his m a rollicking two-reeler of polished slapstick. i Park your grouch with Buster Kea- ' ton's "Neighbors" and then go home ! in high, gocd humor. j Twinkling Virginia Fox and gigan- j tic Joe Roberts furnish a combined ! attraction and humorous foil for Buster in his sad-faced uproarious life in "Neighbors." 1 j ' ' - - , , t- is WEEKDAY 3IATS. 28c EVENINGS 39c The People are With Me ' Have Stayed With Me for Years That is why one and all at my office today se cure as good dental work as the millionaire. "WHERE you start is not so important. It's the work you turn out and the way you treat people after you get started. Ambition will not tolerate limitations. It has a way of over stepping boundaries, ignoring precedent, upsetting rules, shocking "ethics" and looking THROUGH instead of AT people. Progress operates on a big scale. It demands the right of way and people with' big heads and pet corns had best yield to it. Show me a success and I will show you the reason for it. Many big businesses exist today because by shrewd manage ment they give the people MORE for their money than they could secure otherwise. Likewise success cannot last longer than the foundation upon which it was built. Here solid gold means SOLID GOLD; painless extraction means WITHOUT PAIN. The prices are fair and fixed they never vary there is a reasonable charge for every operation, which is governed only by the extent and value of the work and material entering into that operation. OFFICE OPEN EVENINGS For the convenience of people who work all day, this office will remain open every evening (except Sundays) until 8 o'clock. 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