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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, ' PORTLAND, MAYN 22, 1921 POLES ARE BLAMED LE5II ROW Filibusters Supplied With Arms and Ammunition. ALLIED DUTY HELD CLEAR Xew War Held Danger as Result of Insurgency Russia Feared us Aggressor. by gf:oi:oe x. barxks, Kj-Member War Cabinet. (Copyright, licit, by The Oregonian.) fAftr ten wepka spent !n travel. Mr. BitrnfH has returned to L.ondon and today resumed hia cable dispatches to The Ore C'tnian. Replacing Mr. Arthur Henderson. h substituted fir bini. Mr. Barnes com rr.ents interestinicty this week upon the SLUtian controversy, the German repara tions tangle. America's entry into the al lied councils, and the British mining strikes. ) LOXDON", May 21. (By Wireless.) While the United States may take a detached view of the Polish Sileeian situation, her participation in the de liberations of the supreme council places her in a position to help very effectively. The news from bilesia is ominous. The Polish filibusters have again broken loose. Worse still, they are being supplied from somewhere with arms and ammunition, and that, too, at a time when Germany has been compelled to disarm and is denied the opportunity of fighting effectively for the retention of territory she has ' held for 200 years. The Poles well know they have agreed that the adjustment of the border line is a matter for the allied and associated powers to determine after a poll of the people. Yet while knowing this they have been disloyal to the treaty and those who won for "them their freedom. This latest act of base ingratitude ie on a par. with the escapades of Ziligowski in Vilna. A Mies' Doty Clear. . The duty of the allied and associ ated powers is clear. The Poles must be brought to heel. Further shilly shallying can only have disastrous remits. There can be neither the peace nor security which the world needs so long as irresponsible rniDus ters are allowed to play such pranks as those of Kiume, of Vilna, and now in upper Silesia. There is, in fact, a danger of the Polish insurgency bringing on more. war. Russia is watchful. She may ieek the restoration of her one-time territory and might plead self-defense in justification of renewed hostilities by her perfidious neighbor. If, therefore, Poland is to be main tained as an independent state she must hold sternly to her bond. There is no doubt in my mind that the world has escaped an ugly situa tion by Germany's acceptance of the allied terms on the reparations ques tion, for it Is not likely now that the French ever will occupy the Ruhr valley. (ermaiy. to iNMsje Bond.' Many persons would have made the terms to Germany harsher, but, after all. permanent peace would have been impossible tinder conditions of Ger man serfdom. The Germans are' at ltiast bound to issue bonds In the near future at the face value of $13. 000.000.nfln and pledge bonds for the other J2ft,0O0.0OO,000 to be isued. if and when the reparations commis sion may think fit. The latter pro visions probably are designed to sat isfy French feeling and arenot likely to mature. The Germans w'ill be well advised now to make a real effort to comply with the immediate require ments of the accepted terms so as to put themselves right with the world. In all the turmoil about our cars the hope of the future is the resump tion by America of her place In the allied councils. The interests of the modern world are too closely inter laced to admit of so great a country as the United States standing aside in isolation. .lllning Strike Drasa. Lack of agreement there may be In the supreme council in regard to Japan and many matters, but agree ment is much more likely to be reached by close personal co'ntact than by diplomatic sparring at long range. The British mining dispute still drags its weary length along, although there are at the moment renewed efforts to bring the parties together in conference. The govern ment offer of a $50,000,000 subsidy to ease wagps down to an economic level failed to effect a settlement, and. in fact, but helped the revolu tionary elements and -their dupes to distort the dispute into one as be tween the government and the min ers. This was unfortunate for the min- ers. of course. The promises of sup port for the miners, held out by frothy sections of the community, amounted to little in actual perform ance. This last lesson in the futility of fury may not be lost in the future. Itadlraln Without Influence. We have in this country the same noisy elements as those who waited on Mr. Thomas in New York the other day. But they -are without influence except when labor Is excited or con fused. If the titular leaders of labor would but act in the future in the light of that knowledge it would be a great gain The latter must stand up against those who shout in terms f class warfare and must think for themselves in tt'rms of citizenship. Until they do there will be senseless conflict with attendant misery to be borne mainly by the workers of the world. Meantime my sympathies are with the miners. The mine owners pre cipitated the dispute by the arbitrary and provocative termination of con tracts. But the consequent initial ad vantage to the miners has been lost bv undue emphasis being laid on- an issue but faintly understood and by the rancorous ravings of revolution aries, whose association with the miners' cause has ereated a prejudice against it in the public mind. be so highly technical as to prevent I the presentation of testimony or evi- ' dence material or competent and. bearing on the Issues involved. There fore, the rehearing will be granted to give all interests a further opportu nity of offering new facts. "In accordance with the request of counsel for the city of Portland, without objection from other repre sentatives, the date of hearin&T was tentatively agreed upon in the latter part of June, which date is acceptable to the commission." Thorough Probe Desired. Petitions for. rehearing were filed and presented to the commission by the cities of Portland, The Dalles, Woodburn. Oregon City and the State Hotel -association April 18, and an other petition was filed and presented on the part of certain farmers in Lane. Linn, Lincoln and Benton coun ties May 16.- In the Portland petition 18 grounds were set out as bearing on the request for a rehearing. Altho.igh not saying as much in the order, the three members of the public service commission have re peatedly asserted since the proceed ings for a rehearing originated, that in case their order was favorable they hoped the evidence to be intro duced would touch on every phase of the telephone situation. In ftie past interest in rate hearings has been lacking,- and in many cases patrons of various utilities failed to be repre sented because of their own negli gence. Engineers Gather Data. Engineers employe by the city of Portland spent more than two weeks here recently gathering data upon which the March order was based. These data, according to the engi neers, Included many exhibits Intro duced by the telephone company, to gether with records in possession of j the public service commission. They .will be used at the hearing June 27. The commission's order of 4ast March resulted in considerable criti cism, and recall proceedings, against the three members of the commission were threatened. Petitions asking for the recall of Fred A. Williams, chairman of the commission, were placed In circulation, but these have not yet been filed with the secre tary of state. As a result, Mr. Will iams' recall cannot be submitted to the voters in connection with the spe cial election to be held June 7. The time for filing these petitions expired last Saturday. Information reaching Salem indi cates that the rehearing will b thorough and that practically every municipality in the state will join with Portland in an effort to have the present rates modified or set aside in favor of the charges In ef feet before the March order was issued. , Ei IIS TAX PROBE GROUP Committee to Study (Ways to Equalize Burdens. F Gifts for the Bride r g j; A wealth of Bplendid offerings to be laid ll ! MAIL ORDERS CAREFULLY AND PROMPTLY FILLED SUBPENA POWER GIVEN Real Estate Said to Bear 85 Per Cent of State's Load and Relief to Large Taxpayers Sought.. . We are Agents for the Butterick Patterns and the Delineator. AH New Styles Are Now Showing. The Store That Undersells Because It Sells for Cash PARCELS POST PACKAGES PREPAID ON $3 PURCHASES The "Dehor" Feature of the Butterick Patterns is Proving of Great Assist ance to Home Sewers. LIVELY -FIGHT IS PROMISED City Attorney Will Try to Have March Order Set Aside. "We tried to present all the facts before the public service commission ers," said Frank S. Grant, city attor ney, on being informed that the date for the phone rate rehearing had been set, "and from their statement it appears that they do not want to give a rehearing but have to. "We shall put up a good fight to have the March order set aside and the old rate restored and made retro active so that telephone users will receive a refund of the difference be tween the old rate and the new." DAMAGES ARE AWARDED Man Who Bought Horse Gets $2000 for False Arrest. Two thousand dollars was awarded to J. Marsnall by a verdict of a jury in the circuit court yesterday, his suit against O. J. Brown, al leging false arrest. Marshall was thrown into jail in Sherman county, transferred to the Multnomah county jail, and freed on a hearing before District Judge Jones, on a complaint sworn to by Brown accusing him of theft of a horse. The animal concerned was 'Minnie H" who was sold to Mar shall by Brown and resold by Brown. A dispute between the men resulted in the charges by Brown that Mar shall never had title to the horse and the issuance of the warrant. Lore's Illusion Dispelled. THE DALLES, Or. May 21. (Spe cial.) Two years of married life with Tom Mukaida, Japanese, were enough to dispel any illusion of love held by his white wife, Tilly Mukaida. She alleges in a complaint filed in the circuit court asking for a divorce. The white girl and the son of Nippon were married in Vancouver, Wash, in 1919. Mukaida is working as -a cook in a Portland restaurant, she al leges. She ask for her maiden name Tilly Smith. Punrhboards Held Lotteries. SALEM. Or., May 21. (Special.) Punchboards are lotteries under the meaning of the statutes, according to a legal opinion given here today by I. H. Van Winkle, attorney general. The opinion' was asked by Robert D. Lytle. district attorney of Malheur county. PHONE REHEARING IS SET (Continued From First Page.) part of the presentation, and it is rather hazarding a guess as to what new and additional evidence Is in pos session of the petitioners which will be offered. "Far be it from this commission to Now in Our New Location 129 Tenth St. .' Between Washington and Alder Spring Furnishings for Your Home Names of the men he will ask to serve -as members of the committee on tax investigation, created by an act of the last legislature, were. an nounced by Governor Olcott today. The new law becomes effective next Wednesday. ' The personnel of the committee, subject to acceptance on the part of the members selected by the gov ernor, include: Henry E. Reed, Portland, tax ex- I pert and for several years county assessor for Multnomah county and at present connected with the Hart- man & Thompson bank, in Portland. I. N. Day, Portland, representing general business interests. Mr. Day Is a student on taxation matters and was a member of the special com- i mittee appointed by the governor be fore the legislature met to investigate a similar question in regard to taxa tion. C. S. Chapman, Portland, forester for the western Jorestsy and con servation association and secretary manager of the Oregon Forest Fire association. . Coe A. McKenna. Portland, presi dent of the Portland Realty Board and vice-president for Oregon of Interstate Realty association. Walter M. Pierce, La Grande, farmer and livestock breeder. E. H. Smith, Lakeview, oouaty judge of Lake county and president of the State Association of County Judges and Commissioners. Charfes A. Brand of Douglas county, agriculturist and horticulturist and a former member of the legislature from that county. Committee to Organise. The law provides that this com mittee shall, within ten days'after lis appointment, meet at the capitol in Salem and organize by electing one member thereof to the position of chairman, one member to the position of vice-chairman and by electing some competent person toxthe posi tion of executive secretary. The committee has extensive pow ers to investigate tax questions and is authorized to require the attend ance of any persons in Oregon as wit nesses and the production of any book, paper, "document or other evi dence, and may issue subpenas re quiring the attendance of such wit nesses. The committ3e is required, on or before November 1, 1922. to file with Governor Olcott a report containing such data, information and recom mendations as it shall believe to be of public benefit or touching on such suggestions as shall be required by the governor. The committee is to present to the governor, with a report. properly prepared bill on the sub jects covered by the act,, this bill to be submitted to the next biennial ses sion of the legislature. The committee '.8 authorized under the act to procure from the commis sioners pf internal revenue or from any other federal authority any data or information which the committee shall believe of assistance and it also may make application to congress or. any other authority for any data A wealth of Bplendid offerings to b at the .shrine of the bride and bride-to-be, is to be found here in all their exquisite charm. Lustrously beautiful silver pieces in flat ware and hollow ware new and correct de signs the kind that lasts for generations ; exquisitely carved engagement and wedding rings, as well as many other dainty articles, are ready for your choosing. GRADUATION GIFTS IN LARGE VARIETY Careful study of your type and the con tour of your face is made by our oticalf department wheri your glasses are fit ted here complete specialized service. A & C. Feldenheimer JEWELERS, SILVERSMITHS. OPTICIANS ESTABLISHED 1868. WASHINGTON STREET AT PARK liiiiMiiiiiiimmmiiwi!l If your rugs are growing shabby or strike discordant notes with your" other . fur nishings, then this is the time to visit Atiyeh Bros, exhibi tion rooms. Here you will find . hundreds of beautiful Oriental and Chinese rugs, most reasonably priced, con sidering their lasting value. Atiyeh Bros. Oriental Rugs Tenth A Alder FINE Leather Goods FOR MEN Gentlemen's Toilet Cases, Purses, Currency Cases, So Handy Traveling Cases, Pock ctbooks. Pigskin Watch Guards, Card Cases, Glove and Handkerchief Sets, Cuff and. Collar Bags, Pocket Compan ions, First-Aid Outfits, Sani tary Drinking Cups, Jewel Cases, Manicure Sets, Cigar and Cigarette Cases, Pigskin, Calf and Russia Leather Belts, -Scarf Holders, Tobacco Pouches, Pigskin Key Cases. K.S.Ervin&Co; Ltd. Kstablixbed 1901. KEIVKRAL EI.ISH TAILORS. CLOTHlU READY FOR ISE. Second Floor, Selling- Bids;., Sixth and Alder Streets. COftONA.the fort able typewriter. JoO.OO, including handsome case. Otb makes for sale or rent t lowest prices. E. W. TKASK CO 110 Siitb Street Moonlight Excursion DANCE Boat Blue Bird Tonight and Sunday Night WITH JERRY REED'S ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA AXD ARTHUR OLSEX, FLOOR MANAGER See the river on a rampage a most wonderful sight. Boat leaves East Morrison St, dock, 8:30 P. M-, returns 11:30. - SAVE MONEY On all Coat i, Suits and Dreseti Monday, Tuesday .and Wedneertlay THE FAMOUS 333 Alder, Corner Park. , which it might believe to be of as sistance. , 910,000 Is Appropriated. An " appropriation of $10,000 was made by the legislature for' carrying out the provisions of this law. , "It is my belief that the intention of this act was not for the purpose of recommending legislation, which would show the legislature how to secure more money to expend," said Governor Olcott today in commenting on the appointment of the com mittee. "Rather I take it that the law in tended that the committee shouVd investigate the question of how to secuxe more equal distribution of tax uurdens. As I understand it the real property now bears about per cent of the tax burdens of the state. I believe any law that is enacted should be in such a form that the 6 per cent limitation amenj- ment will be abided, by and cured. The" bill should be framed so that the burden of raising revenues under the 6 per cent limitation amend ment will be more equally distributed. thus lightening the burdens of those 1 who are now compelled to shoulder I the larger portion of the taxtion. "This committee will have no power I to reduce the amount of money! raised by taxation. The appropria tion of money is a function lying solely with the legislature and the! people." Kugene Sorority Chartered. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu gene. May 21. (Special.! Alpha Chi Omega, national sorority, has char tered the Sigma Delta Phi local at the university. The news was re ceived here today, and the installation will take place in June. Sigma Delta Phi was formed Apr'l 16. 1S1. and at tnat present is a, very strong group and no erreater amount or revenue tie se- furtor in the life of the school. P Go Sight Within Your -ech j I Iffl J - iL, irk c ! ill II III If III t - Sfc.,L&.'..,. -w::'V-ffS-BC...v.i . I I 1 en (J Treating eyestrain by means of suitable glasses is not by any means so simple as it appears. The necessary skill can only be acquired by years of close study and ' experience. Q There are so many optometrists in the world and so many people selling glasses that you are in a position to demand some thing better than the average, and we are in a position to give it to you. Cf The necessary knowledge covers a wide field and includes eye physiology and anatomy, physical and visual optics in their advanced stages; also a practical knowledge of lens grinding. fj Our many years' experience in scientific eyesight testing is at your disposal. Com plete lens-grinding factory on the premises. SAVE YOUR EYES Thompson Optical Institute CHAS. A. Ill SCO, President and General Manager Eyesight Specialists . -Portland's Largest, M ost M odem. Best Equipped, Exclusive Optical Establishment 209-10-11 Corbett Bldg.', Fifth and Morrison IDI 31 INTRODUCTORY OFFER For the First 5000 Tons SOUTHPORT COAL Clean no clinkers long lasting, we name the following cash prices : Heater or Furnace, $11; Range $9.50; Steam. $8; Stoker (good for banking wood fires, too), $6 Southport is an old Oregon mine at tidewater, Coos Bay, capable of large production. 301 Oak at Fifth Mine Distrlhotorsj of "That Oood Coal" in Oregon and Washington. Southport and Beaver Hill from Premier Bock Springs from Wyom- Oregon. I , ing. ' Standard, Rio Grande and Sanny- Keystone Smithing Coal irorn Penn. side from Utah. sylvania. Roslyn-Cascade from Washington. " ' " Thousands Upon Thousands of Yards of The Season's Most Beautiful Silks Await Your Critical Inspection, and Low Pricing ,Such as quoted for this Sale will prove an attraction that few women can" resist. Here are just the prettiest patterns in clever colorin and weaves and the new and staple plain Shades for street, sport and evening wear. All in quali ties that are reliable, and at prices unequaled elsewhere for lowneas. Your best Silk opportunity is here! NOW! Don't fail to inspect these offeringH. Fiber Tricolettes at $1.95 Yard A popular Summer Silk shown in all wanted plain colors comes in 36 and 38-inch widths and formerly sold for more than twice this price. Goetz Satins at $2JS0 Yard Also Taffetas fabrics of standard quality of unquestioned merit 3G-inch width. All colors included in this sale. Plain Messalines at $U5 Yard Also Taffetas our regular best quality 36 inch stock lines, including all colors. Also Figured Foulard Silks in a collection of dainty patterns. All in this sale at above special price. Jap Pongee Silks at 98c Yard A 33-Inch Imported Silk of good weight and quality and close, even weave. Natural col or only. Wash Satins at $1.49 Yard Yard-wide Wash Satins in white, flesh, and pink strictly a high-class quality. Canton Crepe at $2 JO Yard Yard-wide Canton Crepe in a complete line of the popular new and staple colors. Tempting Under priced Values in New Sports Suits At $30.00 and at $35.00 Jacket and Skirt in Jersey Combination. The Smartest for the New Season. Perfectly Styled for Sport Wear, and Such Excellent Types That They Will Serve for New Dimities at 75c Yard 38-Inch Dimities in pretty flower and figure styles in the new light "colorings. New Ginghams 75c Yard Fine Zephyr Ginghams in clever plaid and v check combi nations. . Silk-Mixed Tissue at 75c Yard 32-Inch Silk . Mixed Tissue Ginghams in checks, plaids and stripe styles all colors. Dress Wear on Many Occasions. Don't Fail to See These Special Undervalue Offerings The clever styling of these Jersey Sport Suit3 is anpar-, ent at a glance you have choice from several differ ent models in combinations of white and black navy and white brown and white green and white Copen hagen and white, etc. Coats 'in solid Ndark 'colors and Skirts in white or small checks. All sizes 16 to 44 at two special prices at $30.00 and Jersey Jackets--in Tuxedo and Coat Styles in Navy, rf? . Brown, Green and Red. Sizes 16 to 44. Special at J Three Great Underpriced Lots of Guaranteed Corsets Famous Makes as Henderson, La Princess, Grand Duchess, Treo, Rengo Belt, R.& G., Cqlma, Bon Ton. Merito, Empire, Le Regent, Lady Louise AT $1.05 PAIR Styles in front and back-lace, stouts, average, .. J nln f 4- vim-1a1 O in 4 1 rlr!oa O TA nVDrtl'O ! trVlt il"s1 it 1 1 2U 1 1 11701 7 up to 36. . " AT $2.50 An exact duplication of the first item only in selected goods some being cut to almost one.-half former selling price. All sizes- to 36. AT $3.70 PAIR We are showing probably the finest range of high-grade stouts heavy rubber elastics in reducing models fine French coutil front lace. The new heavy rubber top Sport Corset in sizes to 34. Selected silk Brocades in average and dancing or all elastic athletic models. ' Everything Desirable Is Here in SummerUnderwear For Women and Children at Our Moderately Low Prices You will find this sale to be the most pleasing of any similar occasion we have placed before you in many years for the readjustment of prices to present-day. values has per mitted us to offer these tempting values in Underwear of worthy qualities in well-known makes. Here's just a hint of the many special offerings: Women's Cotton Union Suits Regular sizes 34-36 and 38 at 75 suit. Outsizes 40-42 and 44 at 85( suit. Low neck and sleeveless, knee length in regular and bodice tops, tight, shell and lace knee. . Women's Cotton Union Suits Regular sizes 34-36 and 38 at $1.00 suit. Outsizes 40-42 and 44 at $1.25 suit. In regular and bodice tops in both lace and tight knee. , Women's Richelieu Union Suits Regular sizes 34-36 and 38 at $2.25 suit. Outsizes..... 40-42 and 44 at $2.50 suit. Women's Richelieu Mercerized Lisle Union Suits, regular and bodice tops, tight knee, in flesh and white. Women's Combed Cotton t i Union Suits : Regular sizes 34-36 and 38 at $1.25 suit. Outsizes 40-42 and 44 at $1.50 suit. Women's Combed Cotton Union Suits in reg ular and bodice tops and tight knee. - Women s Springfield Union Suits Regular sizes 34-36 and 33 at $1.50 suit. Outsizes...... 40-42 and 44 at $1.75 suit. Women's Springfield Union Suits in regular top and tight knee, in flesh and white. Women's Mercerized Lisle Union Suits Regular sizes 34-36 and 38 at $2.00 suit. Outsizes 40-42 and 44 at $2.25 suit. ' Women's fine Mercerized Lisle Union Suits in regular and bodice tops, tight knee in flesh and white. Our Store Now Opens at 9 A. M. fc.-i.C"- The Most in Value the Best in 'Quality Store Closes at 5:30 P. Af. Saturday ..ate P.M.