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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTE3IBER 18, 1921 i 1 ; ! i GERMANS GAMBLING MAD S HARDEN Eyes of Rich and Poor on Wheel of Fortune. LAW'S ARM IS WEAKENED Thousands Upon Thousands, Since I'pset of 1 1 1 8, Have Fallen Vie tlms to Forbidden Fruit. BY MAXMILIAN HARDEN'. Germa.ny Foremost Publicist. -riyrluht. 1021. by The Ortsonlan.) BKKLI.M, Sept. 17. (Special by Wlrelrss.) All Germany today la gambling- mad. Toe coot of the ne cessities or life Is so high and the taJt burden so painful that not ten rersons In a hundred thousand can live within their Incomes. Therefore, many who never dreamed of gambling, today stretch their hopeful hands toward fortune'! wheel. The new gambler are the "new poor." and what from a dis tance looks Ilka the Intoxication of enjoyment too often Is the fling of despair. In the cinema Germany'e plight to day would be called "the dazzlln bankruptcy" or "the great gamble." It all began with roulette wheels, carried through the streets on wheel barrows or placed In dark and care fully locked back rooms. It has grown to gilded palaces, gaudy with tinsel. It has extended to the bourse, where human beings are packed Ilka sardines dally, buying stocks they never heard of before and selling at the first show of profit, or being shoved out when their narrow mar gins are exhausted. Arm of Law Weakeaed. The law forbids gambling through out Germany. But after the great upset of the fall of 191$. when the power of the law seemed to be weak ened, thousands upon thousands fell victims to the charm of this forbidden fruit. The gorgeous salojns re opened. The little ball spinning about the slotted wheel was watched by whole families, lips dried with tuspense being moistened ever and ever again by the sipping of a sweet, fizxy drink still called champagne. The police often have raided these nests. Children stationed aa look outs have been arrested and forced to miss a number of days of school. Some of the places found It too troublesome to remain open, but their closing affected only the smaller bet tors. Kor the wealthier people, so called "bettor syndicates;" sprang up. Any barber, Jobless bookkeeper of clerk could start a syndicate by hir ing an office. Joining hands with some bar proprietor and promising huge winnings on the racea. Kor half a yrar the syndicates flourished, but after they had paid some tremendous winning dividends the Inevitable crash came. There was a panic among the investors and fie tide of syndicate prosperity quickly ebbed. But above and; beside all this the tide of the (ambling spirit per sisted. Record Baalaeas Done. Now It la the pari mutuelia bettlna; machines that are doing a record business. Stenographers, messengers, elevator boys, honmt laborers and msrket women all have taken to gambling. The cook today accepts a place with the stipulation that ah may go out for several hours every forenoon. What does she do with this time? She takes a tour of the batting rooms and with the Informa tion received there she bets on the horses racing In the- north or south of Europe (which horses and which places she never saw in all her life). Then she returns to the cook stove proud of the Internatlonality of her business connections. If this were a cinema production the next reel would show the Bourse. Wheelbarrow roulette, clandeatlne gambling and shady bookmaklng are only cheap substitutes. They are too trifling to have much said about them. Really Impressive speculation Is pos sible only on the Bourse. The number admitted Is not large but business rages. Little banks are smothered under a pile of orders. One day this week there were more transactions than during a whole quarter of a year formerly. Industrial and transportation .'hares, the real value of which the throng of speculators have not the slightest Idea, are eagerly traded In aa prices change and exchange rates fluctuate. Kzehanares Are Swaanped. The "sardines" packed In the ex change Jostle and fight each other until only a fair-alxed pugilist can reach the brokers' enclosures, while the Jack Dempsey's among the "sar dlnee' actually place their orders. The army of bank officials and brokers, busy until after midnight, cannot keep up with the work. The exchange has been forced to close for days to ratch up. while the bank directors publicly have sent out a word of pes simistic warning, saying that the sky sorsper edifice built up by the specu lators will collapse. The public haa failed to heed these warnings, like wild animals who have tasted blood. The republicans and the monar chists for once are united in a joint worship of King Dollar. As the throne of the (foliar mounta higher the crowd surmises something must be doing In th way of Increased ex porta, an Industrial peak, etc., and continues to buy, buy, buy. The dollar may be worth 10J marks. PIANO SALE Jaat One of the Bargalsa Ilartman $315 Oa Terns Mahogany plain case. See this. Kvtry piano in stock reduced. HKint'.RI.IMi-I.ITtl Ml SIC ! IMW 13.1 4th Ml rmr Waaklngtoa St. AT YOUR SERVICE YELLOW TAXI Main 59 Also Seven-Passenger Touring Cars for SIGHTSEEING LOWEST RATES IN THE CITY Call Main Nothing else Is Interesting. The mon archists moves In Bavaria, the hymn of the last gold billion to the entente (one-third of which was borrowed on hard terms) whether we can possibly fulfill the Weistiaden agreement, de livering yearly 130.000.000. 000 marks worth of goods to France, whether dumping will arouse the productive world against us all pale beside the great passion to get rich. GUARD MOUNT REVIVED Ceremony Hereafter Will Bo Held at Vancouver Barracks. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Sept. 17. (Special.) Formal guard mount will be held at Vancouver barracks next Monday morning at 11:15 o'clock for the first time In years. During the war. and since - the armistice was signed. th.ls formality has been left out of the military routine at the post, but the arrival of the 69th In fantry makes It possible to resume the ceremony. The 48-piece band of the regiment will assist at each guard mount, wheh Is to be held dally ex cept Sunday. A new schedule, for calls was or dered today to take effect tomorrow. The schedule puts reveille a half hour later, and other calls are also set back a half hour. BOND PURPOSE CLARIFIED Damages May Be Asked Without . Joining State as Plaintiff. SALEM. Or., Sept. 17. (Special.) The public service commission today was advised by I. H. Van Winkle, attorney-general, that the bond re quired to be executed to the state of Oregon by the operator of a public warehouse Is executed In favor of the state for convenience only, and that, under the laws of Oregon, an action may be brought on the bond by one entitled to damages under its provisions without Joining the state as plaintiff. The opinion further stated .that the commission does not have authority to waive the furnishing of such a bond by a warehouseman since a bond is required by the United States under the provisions of the United States warehouse act. MEDF0RD HONORS SOLDIER Colonel II. II. Sargent to Bo Bur led at Jacksonville Today. MEDFORD. Or.. Sept. 17. (Special.) The flag on Medford's city hall was at half-mast today In tribute to the memory of Colonel H. H. Sargent, nationally-known soldier, military au thor, resident of Jackson county and former member of the Medford city council, who died suddenly at his home at Jacksonville yesterday. ' Funeral services will be held to morrow afternoon from the family heme at Jacksonville and burial will be In the Jacksonville cemetery, with military honors. The Medford post of the American Legion will have charge of the burial. Historic Gavel Presented. A' unique gavel was presented to Owen Summers camp No. 4, Sons of Veterans, at Its meeting this week by. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. McKay. The head of the gavel was made from a piece of wood which Mr. McKay took out of the Andersonvtlle prison stock ade when he was Imprisoned there. The handle Is a drumstick used throughout the civil war. The gavel will be used by the chairman of the camp hereafter at meetings. Seven Concerts Twelve artists. 7. F.lwyn Artists Series. Phone Main 6!il.Adv. HOOVER'S LON W E IH RELIEF DEFENDED Other Powers Want Voice, but Have No Money. AMERICA GIVES ALL AID Criticism of "Too Exclusive Or ganization" Is Answered; Pov erty Kills Co-operation. BY WILLIAM BIRD. PAKld. Sept. 17. (Sncial Cable.) A plain, unvarnished word about Mr. Hoover's Russian relief. There has been much criticism, though cautiously advanced, of Mr. Hoover In certain European quarters where It was felt he was "too exclu sive" In his relief organization. It is pointed out that he turned a cold shoulder toward Lr. Nansen and the league of nations' effort and also re fused to pool with the supreme coun cil committee. "Why does Hoover hMd aloof? Why does he refuse to co-operate with others? Wby does he want to play a lone hand?" complain the critics, who seem to feel it la Just a matter of personal pride. The fact, straight from a plain speaking American who is in a po sition to know, is this: Hoover Haa All Money. Hoover Is the only one of all the. relief people who has any money. He has some 114.000,000 for this purpose. He can get more, much more; Nansen has no money. The league has none. The supreme council has none. When these other agencies come to Hoover with suggestions for eo-oper-atlon, he listens politely and then asks: "What can you do?" They assert that they can "er, ah, hum co-operate." What It means, says my informant, is that they are willing to- help Hoover spend . his money. Hoover will co-operate with anybody who has the goods, but sees no point In cutting one loaf of bread In too many small pieces. Meantime, one of the most graceful and practical things American charity has done In Europe ts the presenta tion by the-Amerlcan Red Cross to the Austrian government of all its sur plus stock of tobacco and cigarettes. Surplus Is Lets Problem. What to do with this surplus has long been a problem to ihe Red Cross authorities at the Paris headquarters. The army stocks of tobacco were sold, along with the rest of the war sur plus, to the French government, and retailed through the government- to bacco stores at a low price. The French smoker, however, did not take to American cigarettes, and while American residents eagerly bought their favorite brands by the carton, there were not enough Americans to make the stock move quickly. There fore when the Red Cross suggested that the French buy their stocks also, the French refused. It also refused the Red Cross per mission to frell them at all In France unless the full tax were paid. This made the price so h!gh that sale was impossible. Other European govern ments were appealed to, but In vain, for everywhere the tax on tobacco Is high. .At last a happy expedient was hit upon. The Red Cross commission decided to give the tobscco, wljlch cost the Red Cross $0,000. to the Austrian government, on condition that the latter sell It at a determined price, substantially equivalent to the retail price in America, and devote the proceeds to child flief, under Red Cross supervision. Meanwhile plans for apply'ng the Vienna's under-nourished babies are well under way. ine pian joimiy adopted by th$ government and the Red Cross provides for the purchase of cows, which will be brought into the territory Immediately surrounding Vienna. The milk from these cows will go directly to tha hospitals and to the various child health stations distributing relief to the babies of the poor. To expedite the work, the Austrian finance ministry has already agreed to advance part of the money ex pected to be realised from the sale of the American stocks. The total to be realised, according to Red Cross officials, will be not far from $150. 000. as the Inventory value oL the goods is considerably below the retail value. Some Idea of the dearth of milk In Vienna may be gathered from the fact that whereas the normal milk supply of the city is about 1.000.000 gallons dally. It has dropped until It Is now hardly 100.000 gallons. Part of the cause of this Is the fact that the gret-t dairy lands which for merly nourished the Austro-Hun-garian capital have been annexed to Crecho-Slovakia. Another reason, however. Is that the government has fixed the price of milk at a low figure, in order to be In reach of the poor, and the other is that the dairy farm ers claim. they cannot produce at a profit. A short time ago., in fact, the da'ly supply fell as low as 60,000 gal lons, but doubled when a slight In crease In price was allowed. Before the milk situation can Im prove much further there will have to be greater increases in price. In deed, one Red Cross representative declared that control must be re moved altogether and free compe tition restored If the farmers are to be expected to produce a maximum yield. At all events, the Viennese smoker may now Increase his daily cigarette consumption with a clear conscience, realising that If. as some doctors assert, it Is bad for his health, it is all the same good for the health of Vienna's children. GAMBLING HOUSES RAIDED 350 Los Angelans Arrested in Bus iness District. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Sept. 17. Ap proximately 350 persons were ar lested In a series of raids conducted l:y the police upon alleged gambling resorts in the down-town business section today Eight places were raided, in each cf which. Chief Jones declared, book making was going on. The majority of persons arrested were . released on bail. BUY DIAMONDS DIAMOND CLEARING HOUSE We Buy, Bell and Exchange. DIAMONDS Also loan money on your diamonds and Jewelry. GoTernment licensed and bonded brokers. 53 WASHIKTGTO ST Betweea Fartk and Fifth Sta. '.:: ..at v. . 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