The Sunday Oregonian., November 13, 1921, Section One, Page 7, Image 7

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RUSSIAfi PROBLEMS
ARE PUT FOREMOST
The motor laws of each of these
states require mechanical signal de
vices, approved by the several depart
ments, to be used on any motor ve
hicles where hand and arm signals
cannot be seen from the rear, and per
mit the use of such signal devices as
are approved by the departments on
other motor vehicles, instead of the
hand and arm signals.
The purpose of the conference is to
obtain, if possible, the approval of all
four states of uniform signal device
This will give the motorist who pur
chases a device valid in his home
state legal protection when he takes
his car to other states.
R. Franklin Hart, superintendent of
the motor vehicle department of the
state of Washington, called the meet
ing. AUTO RACER IS KILLED
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Must Find Economic Solution.
City Is Pittsburg of South,
Says Spillane.
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Europe Declared to Blame for Con
ditions Tiiat America Now Is
Trying to Abolish.
Slackness Noted In Some Quarters,
but Business Generally Is of
Good Proportions.
WIFE OF OMAR TOFT SEES
FATAL WRECK OX TRACK.
K
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BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN.
Germany's Foremost Publicist.
(Copyright. 1921, by The Oregonlan.)
BERLIN, Nov. 12. (Special Cable.)
What has Europe to hope from the
Pacific conference In Washington
which was rendered necessary by the
dsns of omission and commission
upon the part of the European gov.
rnments? Three continental powers,
Russia, Germany and France, showed
hostility toward Japan at their first
opportunity and robbed her of the
profits of victory over China which
she believed has been Insured by the
treaty of Tlmonosekl. The same Rus
sian admiral, Kakaroff, whoBe threats
destroyed that treaty, was blown up
on his flagship before Port Arthur, a
victim of Japanese revenge.
Because Nippon's wounded warrior
pride wa' not healed and because
greedy Russian speculators, despite
the warnings of the wise Li Hung
Cbang, reached for Llaotung, Yalu
and Corea Great Britain easily gained
Japan as an ally against Czarism,
which was then threatening India,
and thus a European island empire
cansed Russia's military power to be
destroyed by Asiatics.
Japan Encourages Others
Only the United States, which wise
ly never sought territorial gain,
seemed to realize the consequences of
a, great victory by a yellow nation
over a white. But Japan became a
great power and has risen Immensely
in self-esteem. Japan's example, fur
thermore, has encouraged other Asi
atics, the Turks, the Persians and the
Tartar Slavs of Moscow to attempt
to recover their ruined power by
modernizing their state organization.
Meantime, Russian imperialism, de
feated in Asia, turned again westward
to Europe, proclaiming more loudly
than ever its Balkan rights, bought
with streams of blood, and prepared
to acquire an outlet to warm seas
via Constantinople.
Thus the scenery for the European
drama now was ready and even a
superstitious belief in the durability
of the Hnpsburg and Turkish empires
could not prevent it. In the east,
Russia had disappeared, China was
sundered by Internal strife, while
England could see that the destruc
tion of the German fleet would en
able her to transfer her own ships
from the North Sea to the Pacific
ocean and thus Asia's fate would de
pend upon the will of the two allied
island empires England and Japan.
Japan, on her part recognized that
without force Chinese antipathy to
everything Japanese could not be con
quered. Nor could the United States
be Induced to accept a flood of yellow
immigrants. So Japan has clung to
her naval alliance with Great Brit
ain. Many Japanese have Insisted
that the more the United States should
cling to the Monroe doctrine, the more
Japan would Insist upon a parallel
policy in Aei.
Kurope lllamed for Trouble.
But Japan's self-reliance is a blind
policy for several reasons. First,
China's markets are essential to
American industry. Second, the Pan
ama canal, permitting maneuvering
between the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, protects the United States
from having to allow her white race
to become intermixed with yellow.
Third, the consciousness of the dan
ger of race mixture is so strong In
Canada, Australia and New Zealand
th.it no one of these dominions will
bind themselves to an alliance which
might increase the danger.
But Europe, which allowed the
Japanese to rise to the rank of a tri
umphant power, also allowed China
to be weakened by concessions, al
lowed Russia to be pushed aside in
east Asia, then turn and defeat Poland
and Galicla, then turn bolshevik and
be torn asunder at Brest-Litovsk. Eu
rope has precipitated the Pacific con
flict. rrnre Held Poaxlble.
But a peaceful solution is not im
possible. More than sweet and per
ishable words and fragile compro
mises can be expected at Washington,
and for this the world need not thank
Europeans. Since Russia and Ger
many no longer are chief factors In
British reckoning. British policy is
no longer made solely In London, but
by the great dominions, and they were
unmistakably upon the side of the
United States and against Japan at
the recent imperial conference In Lon
don, for th-y could profitably ex
change concessions forced on China
for honest United States friendship.
Thus, while Europe cannot right
fully claim the fruits of the confer
ences, she will probably reap some
' of the choicest benefits. The gigan
tic problems of Russia, so long treat
ed like a mere epidomic with quaran
tine and disinfection, must at last be
seriously tackled because it is one of
the chief problems of the world eco
nomic situations. This discussion
will be fruitful and productive only
when Asiatic markets are ensured to
American lnbor nnd the problem of
how to utilize the treasures of thinly
populated Australia are amicably
solved without the mixing of races.
A new order in the far east Is the
price of American co-operation in
htallns Kurope's suffering.
All llnte 1'rohlema.
Today Ihe American dollar buys
300 marks, as against four marks
before the war yet In dollar land
there are millions of unemployed,
while in mark land labor is so scarce
that volunteers are called for at high
pay. since it is legally impossible to
abolish the e'ght-hour day. Neutrals
Bro in much the same position dying
like Midas amid floods of gold.
In all this is there no spark of eco
nomic reason? Will this continent of
briliiant bankrupts, of vanity and of
mlrery, refuse to disarm and save
the expense of armies and dread
notiEhts? If America and England
agree to defend France against Ger
man aggression by boycott and war.
wtll France limit her army and aban
don her contemplated long occupation
of German territory? Such fruits
from the conference, would be hailed
by all Europe as a pledee of peace.
VEHICLE SESSION IS SET
l-'ou r Sta t 's I'la n V n i form Signal
Devices for Machines.
SALEM. Or., Nov. 12. (SpecUI.)
Representatives of the motor vehicle
departments of Oregon, Idaho. Utah
and Washington will meet in Portland
m?xt Friday to dMtcusi uniform regu
lations for the testing and approval
of mechanical and signal devices.
Car Plunges Straight Over Bank
While Wheels Did Not Skid,
According to De Palma.
PHOENIX. Arts., Nov. 12. Omar
Toft died from injuries received in
the 60-mile automobile race at the
state fair grounds here this after
noon, when his machine went over
an embankment at a curve in the
track.
Toft's machine caught fire after the
accident. Ralph - de Palma. who
passed the spot where Toft's machine
went over the embankment. Immedi
ately after the accident, reported to
the referee that Toft was walking
around his machine, apparently un
hurt. The ambulance that was at the
track, however, immediately went to
the wreck and the physician found
Toft fatally Injured. Toft's home was
in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Toft, who had accompanied her
husband here from Los Angeles, was
In the grandstand when the accident
happened. After Da Palma's report
that Toft was apparently unhurt Mrs.
Toft was taken from the stand by
friends.
Da Palma said that Toft's tracks
were clear up to the point where the
machine went over the embankment,
indicating that his machine had not
skidded. Tha cause of the accident Is
not known. The dust at the curve
where the wreck occurred was so
thick that spectators in the grand
stand could not see the machine leave
the track.
The accident happened while Toft
was In the 24th mile of the 50-mile
race in which De Palma, Toft, Jimmy
Murphy and Tommy Milton had
started. De Palma, who led through
out the race, had just completed his
24th mile when the accident occurred
and he and Toft were the only con
testant remaining in the race. The
referee awarded the race to De Palma.
Murphy failed to complete the first
mile, and Milton, who had been sec
ond up to the end of the 14th mile
and who dropped back to third in the
15th mile, dropped out entirely In
the 16th.
In addition to the race in which
Toft was killed, there was a five-mile
automobile race and a race against
time by De Palma. In the five-mile
event. Milton finished first. Toft sec
ond and Murphy third. Milton's time
was 4 minutes, 16 seconds. De Palma
was not entered in this event but he
did try to lower the track record for
one mile which he established on
Wednesday when he did a mile in
45 1-5 seconds. Today, however, lie
required 46 2-5 seconds.
Jim Davis won the 10-mile motor
cycle race, his time being 8 minutes,
21 2-5 seconds. Ralph Hepburn was
second and Ray Weishaar was third.
In the five-mile motorcycle race,
Weishaar finished first, Hepburn sec
ond and Davis third. Weishaar's time
was 4 minutes, 2 3-5 seconds.
T BY
JUDGE DKICH RCLES ON ROW
BETWEEN OLD FRIENDS.
Compromise Regarding Loan Ad
vised on Ground That Contest
ants Were Comrades In Army.
Through correspondence, District
Judge Delch last week rendered a
long distance decision in a matter
troubling two men who had been
comrades In arms. The question pro
pounded to the Judge was as follows:
"A and B are two old soldiers and
friends.
"A is sick and needs 1100 and goes
to B and deeds six acres of land to
B for $100.
"B gives a contract to deed this
land back to A for $125 within six
months.
"Then verbally B tells A, 'I will
give you a square deal. I only want
this contract so that if something
should happen I am sure of my ex
penses.' "A paid this $100 back in four
months and asked B if he was to pay
the full $25. and B insists as long as
the contract calls for it he wants It
and his verbal agreement does not go.
"Now, A agrees that legally he has
no claim for a rebate, but thinks that
morally B should treat him square
and rebaet the $25 by giving him $10
back.
"So A and B would like to have
you state your opinion on the reverse
side, just what you think is fair in a
matter like this.
"B had $2.75 expense in this deal."
The answer of Judge Delch was:
"In my opinion as a square deal
proposition, $10 plus the $2-75 that
was paid ont by B should be con
sidered a fair compensation to B for
the use of his money for four months.
In other words. A should pay $12.75
fend forget the rest and still continue
to be friends.
"I might say in parsing, that legally
the $25 could be collected. From a
moral standpoint, being that A and B
are old friends and comrades. B
fhouid be satisfied with the reim
bursement of his $2.75 expenses and
return the balance of the $25, and I
believe A and B would be still better
friends. "RICHARD DEICH.
"Judge of the District Court."
THREE STUDENTS INJURED
One Perhnps Fatally Burned When
Auto Overtuns.
SKATTLE. Wash.. Nov. 12. (Spe
cial.) Bound with four comrades for
a week end of hunting near his home
at Blanchard, Wash., Maurice Lawson,
graduate studtnt at the University
of Washington, was seriously burned
when the automobile in which he
was riding upset three miles south
of Arlington yesterday.
Herbert Gauger, sophomore at the
University of Washington, living at
Kdwall, Wash., was badly burned
about the shoulder and otherwise
injured, and J. M. D. Haivsberry of
this city was cut about the head.
Lawson s recovery was said to be
doubtful.
A loo in the car. which skidded at a
railway crossing, overturning and
pinning Its occupants beineath it,
were John Lucker and J. L. Gratidy.
Neither was hurt.
BT RICHARD SPILLANE.
(Copyrlg-ht by the Public Ledser Company.
Published by Arrangement.)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 12. (Spe
cial.) If tne Pittsburg of the north
is In as good shape as this Pittsburg
of the south it is fortunate. George
Gordon Crawford, president of the
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad com
pany, says his company ha not been
below 50 per cent production, this
year and hopes the percentage will
be higher next year, and he believes
It will be. Incidentally, he says his
company offered to roll rails for a
railroad and take its pay next year.
The railroad declined the offer and
explained that In its forced economy
it had reduced its maintenance of way
gangs so much that It did not have
hands enough to take out the ohd
rails and put In the new.
A fine representative body of men
gathered at the Tutwiler hotel to
report to your correspondent as to
business conditions. The bankers in
the party stressed the fact that the
comparative activity and the conse
quent good payrolls in the 6teel in
dustry here had been of high sus
taining influence In all other branches
of business. With the Increase In the
price of cotton there were decided
marks of improvement. But Improve
ment had begun before that time and
owing to the advance In cotton debts
of many months' standing had been
liquidated.
They referred seml-humorously to
the oddity of nobody wanting cotton
when it was 10 or 11 cents a pound
and the craze to buy It when it went
to 20 cents. But It is always that
way.
Savings banks deposits have re
mained high for the last 12 months.
They are not increasing, but have
not gone back and there has been an
increase in the number of depositors.
Coal Industry Improving;.
The coal Industry here has been
operating on about 60 per cent for
the last year and today shows signs
of Improvement. But the coal busi
ness has been erratic. Henry L. Bad
ham said January was the best month
the Bessemer Coal & Iron company
had up to that time. In February
the company lost money and It had
rough sledding up to July, when con
ditions Improved. Each month there
after was better and better until
October was the best on record. As
to the future he could not say, but
he did declare that the railroads owe
money to all the coal concerns here
about. Evidently there has been tremen
dous building here. R. C. Foster said
his company, which makes pipe fit
tings, had a light business In the
spring and thought in July It had
sufficient stock for all ordinary re
quirements, but orders came in
volume that month ana tney came in
a flood in August, and in September
they came like a cyclone. October,
too, was bigger than expected. Where
he was wrong in his Judgment, he
said, was as to the amount of small
house building. The demand from
this quarter was so urgent that
goods had to be shipped by express.
If necessary building is undertaken
next year he predicts a fine year in
his line of business.
R. S. Munger. who is known the
world over for his cotton gins, says
that up to 60 days ago he kept his
shops going at 100 per cent produc
tion. Despite the small cotton crop
this year his sales managers are opti
mistic. He has a world market for
his gins and looks for good business
next year and a larger cotton crop.
Hardware Business Gains.
The hardware business J. D. Moore
reported as having declined from
January to July. Then began an im
provement, which has continued, ine
belief that there is going to be a re
duction In freight rates has operated
to prevent dealers from stocking up.
In his opinion the change in the
mental attitude of the country in the
last 90 days has been as important
as the improvement Itself. The peo
ple had decided conditions were bet
ter and they would be better.
Legrand Wilson said the whole
sale dry goods business had suffered
from the worst attack of cancellitis
in the history of the business. Now
the patient was recovering. He noted
improvement last May, but the Im
provement was slow until the report
came as to the short cotton crop.
Then a big demand came over night
and the trade was not prepared to
meet it and Is not able to meet it
today. He cannot get deliveries of
some goods until January and Is sold
two or three months ahead.
in tthe wholesale grocery field. Mr.
Porter declared there had been de
cided improvement in the last 60 days,
but for the preceding 12 months it
had been awful. J. W. Sibley said
October was the best month In the
last 15 for clay products. The pre
vious months had been poor.
Power Company Prospers.
The Alabama Power company,
which supplies power throughout this
territory and may be considered as
a good barometer of conditions In
dustrially, is on a 95 per cent basis
compared with last year, so W. E.
Mitchell reported. He said bottom
was touched last January. After that
improvement set in.
He gave a vivid description of how
this district is aiding the country
In the Carolinas, where there has
been the worst drouth In 35 years
and the streams have been very low.
His company has been furnishing
20.000 horsepower to a connecting
company to the east. That company
has been giving a good part of its
power to a company further on and
the third company has been supplying
still another company until. In ef
fect, the Alabama company power
reached 600 miles away. This is il
lustrative of the value of the inter-
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connecting systems. But for the en
ergy supplied by the Alabama plant
many mills in the Carolinas would
have to shut down and there would
be wide unemployment.
The department store heads re
ported practically as department store
people did elsewhere. Some com
plained of high railroad rates and all
stressed the point that Birmingham
establishments sold better goods on
a lower margin of profit than per
haps any others in the country.
Stove Trade Set Back.
The stove people said they had no
market for their product until Oc
tober. Then a flood of orders came
in. Now they are feeling a flare
back. They expect a fair to average
business next year.
W. D. Nesblt said the Warrior river
barge service was a great boon to all
the territory south of Nashville and
west to within 100 miles of Memphis,
and if used as it should be, would
develop a large commerce and a big
distributive business. He estimated
the recent advance In cotton as add
ing J600.000.0OO to the purchasing
power of the south.
Birmingham is the greatest sugar
machinery building center of the
world. This year it produced 60 per
cent of all built In the United States.
Its plants in this department are op
erating on 100 per cent of capacity
today, despite the depression in
sugar. The makers feel confident
that next year will be a good one for
them, as the industry is a stable one.
Resources Are Enormous.
Out of Its population of 178,000 Bir
mingham has about 70,000 negroes.
Its labor troubles are minor to those
In northern coal and steel centers.
There are few sections of the world
that have more natural resources of
great worth than the valley In which
this city rests. With practically in
exhaustible supplies of coal, iron ore,
clay, stone, lime, graphite and other
raw materials, it has great forests to
draw upon and a wonderful agricul
tural territory. In which everything
of the temperate and subtropical
zones can be produced.
To rail transportation it adds water
transportation by the Warrior river.
The products of its mills, its mines
and its factories go throughout the
world. It is'growing. Every decade
has shown an Increase of at least 100
per cent in its population. It Is
young only 50 years old but It de
serves Its title of the Pittsburg of
the south.
MAN IS - SHOT BY WIFE
Coos County Woman to Face Grand
Jury; Husband Twice Accused.
NORTH BEND. Or, Nov. 12. (Spe
cial.) William Hackwood was shot
at Powers by his wife last night. A
bullet.which passed through the upper
portion of Hackwood's body, did not
strike any internal organs to en
danger his life. Mrs. Hackwood was
standing in a pool hall when her
husband approached and ordered her
outside. She endeavored to shoot a
second time, but the bullet Jammed
in the gun.
She was released on bond of $1500,
on waiving preliminary hearing, and
was bound over to the next meeting
of the grand jury.
Charges of possessing liquor and
carrying a concealed weapon were
placed against Hackwood.
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SHOCKS DECLARED STRANGE
LY LIKE EARTHQUAKE.
Neither Residents of Neighborhood
Nor Weather Bureau Men Able
to Explain Disturbance.
A second disturbance bearing the
main characteristics of an earthquake
was reported last evening by alarmed
residents of tbe Irvlngton district.
From East Twenty-eighth and W'asco
and East Twenty-eighth and Clacka
mas streets home owners telephoned
to The Oregonian in real concern to
learn If possible the cause of the
earth's trembling.
"I felt three distinct shocks to
night," re'ported one Irvlngton resi
dent. "I thought It might be blasting
at Kelly Butte, although I had heard
no report, so I telephoned to a friend
who lives only half a mile from the
rockpile, and he said he hadn't heard
or felt a thing."
Tbe phenomenon is described as a
sudden shock, like that of an explo
sion, but without any noise. It
shakes the houses, rattles the win
dows and moves the pictures on the
walls.
An exploding moonshine still deep
in a basement, according to some
Irvingtonites, might account for one
such disturbance, but when the thing
happens on two almost successive
days, and three times in one evening,
that makes too many stills for a
neighborhood like Irvlngton.
The disturbance, whatever Its cause,
was confined last night and on the
previous occasion a few days ago,
to tbe Irvlngton neighborhood, ac
cording to the United States weather
bureau's office. Efforts of th
weather bureau to determine th
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Fifth at Alder Gasco Building
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availing, and no explanation could be
offered for the snocn
ane Fair Directors Picked.
EUGENE. Or., Nov. 12. (Special.)
Fifteen directors of the Lane
County Fair association were elected
at they annual meeting at the court
house today to serve during
Practically two tickets were in the
field. 32 men having been placed in
nomination. An opposition ticket
said to have been opposed to this
year's administration of the fair was
defeated by a decisive majority. The
directors chosen were: George w.
Taylor. W. A. Ayres. C. M. loung,
N E. Glass. C. S. Calef. E. A. McCor
m'lck. E. R. Spencer. C, P Barnard,
X R. Gray, George N. McWin, x
Wtieeler. J. A. Griffin. W. C. Xoran,
T Q Green. George H. Gilmore. The
directors will meet November 26 to
elect officers.
Farmers Blame Wives.
SALEM, Or., Nov. 12. (Special.)
Andrew Vachter, Nick Sabe and A.
Stravens, farmers residing in the
vicinity of Gervais, were fined $125
In the Justice court here today on
charges of having liquor in their
possession. In each instance the men
.. i , . that their wives were re
esponslhle for the law violation.
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