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THE SUNDAY OTIEGOXIAN, TORTLA, DECEMBER 18, 1921
ITALY FACING
CRISIS
III iTIOlL LIFE
Pact Between Fascisti and
Socialists Formally Torn Up.
COUNTRY IS LIKE MEXICp
CIvH (iovrrnnicnt Follows Civil
Government and Kach Falls
to Win Country Back.
HT NORMAN MATSON.
fonyrlicht. Ifl-'l. by The c)rKonlan.)
ROME, Dec. 17. (Special Cable.)
"The Balkanization of Italy" is a
phrase heard often In Italy In these
days of extraordinary social confu
iilon. Conservative leaders warn It
is inevitable unless there is a return
to respect for .aw and life. But
"Mexicanlxation" would be more ac
curate. Italy today in many ways is
like the Mexico of some years ago.
Civil government follows civil gov
ernment and each admits Its failure
to win the country back to that ideal
state wherein a central authority is
rewpecied by the whole country.
Each week has its crisis in Italy;
but the one being faced at present
overshadows those of the last year
and threatens to assume the propor
tions of the 1&1!0 factory insurrection.
Peace I'nct Torn I'p.
Last summer's1 peace pact between
the nationalist fascisti and the so
cialists has been formally torn up.
It was never effective, strong fac
tions of both red and nationalists re
fusing to recognize it, but its delib
erate destruction Is tantamount to
repeating a declaration of war for
the sake of emphasis.
The five-day general strike in
Home and the nation-wide printers'
a'.rike that kept the entire nation
without news for two days are ap
parently the first of a series of great
trlkes. Italy has had unaccountable
strikes since the armistice, but they
were generally regional. The new
strike is nation-wide and Is political
as well as economical. Coincident
to and Intimately related with the
economic and social crisis Is the po
litical crisis suddenly developed after
the "occupation of "Home" by the
fascisti in November. The left in the
chamber combined liberal democrats
and social democrats become thus
the strongest single group In parlia
ment and counting among their lead
ers three ex-premiers, Nltti, Orlando
and Glolitti. If this group takes over
control it will be upon the riled se of
disciplining the fascist!. Premier
Is In fact, If not avowedlv.
MILITARISM YET PREVAILS
' IN CHRISTMAS TOY WINDOWS
Holiday Displays Contain Specimens of Soldier From Time of Caesar
to World War Guns Attract Youngsters.
SPIRIT OF TREATY
N FRIGE
BY DON SKENE.
CHRISTMAS Is a holiday domi
nated by the spirit of childhood
In all the shades of Joy and sor
row that the day brings each year.
The heigHt of happiness to all Is the
sight of a group of laughing youngs
ters around a twinkling tree with
Its burden of gifts. The depths are
touched when a ragged waif has
faith crushed by an empty stocking.
The spirit of Christmas will always
be young, for there will always be
children to celebrate it with Joyous
sincerity. It Is right that this should
be. The central figure of the first
Christmas day was a babe lying in a
manger. And when the babe became
a man he said, "Suffer little children
to come unto me," and "As you do It
unto the least of these, you do It
unto me."
Christmas is coming to. Portland,
and with It little stories that bring
a smile or a tear. .
Vincent Kakln, in a childish hand
writing, but one which, shows char
acter, wrote the following letter to
Santa Claus: "Well Dear Santa, as i
am a Little Boy 9 years old the last
day of thiss month, and 1 am not
going to get anything, i will leave
that to you and I am yours truly,
Vincent Eakin to Santa, i have not
got any Papa."
Vincent's "Papa."- according to the
uthorities, deserted his wife and
kiddie. The? mother is tolling, when
she can get work, to support herself
and her boy. She addressed th
child's letter to the public employ
ment bureau. The case was investi
gated, and Santa, through his Port
land lientenants, will answer the let
ter with substantial relief.
There is, or should be. a heaven
ors, rough riders and modern dough
boys in full trench regalia. There are
battle fleets, with cruisers and sub
marines ready to dispute the right
of any bathtub armada that floats.
Eager youngsters rowd about
these displays. In their ranks there
may be an embryo Pershing, Grant
or Lee.
Christmas, 1921. is fa different to
200 ex-service men than the holiday
Bonomi
pro-fascistl.
FancUtl ('oh of Trouble.
It has become apparent that the
fascisti must be disarmed. The other
alternative Is the unlikely one of sub
mission to fascisti dictatorship by
Catholics, republicans and socialists.
AH three groups have paid a heavy
toll in dead and wounded to fascisti
bombs and pistols. The general strike
that forced an end to fascisti "occu-
r iVT 1 ome, the newspaper
ii , threatened Kencral
....uau uiriKe were and are directed
i Dotn tne fascisti and the goVern-
Thirty provinces have for a year
beer, overrun by a bloody persistent
h.VJ' "nTWu-" In 1S1S 'he fascisti
had but 100 members. Now they
have 1-220 local councils (fascfos) and
a declared total membership of 320.
000. They organized to fight the
revolutionary socialists and won their
first real strength after the occupa
tion of the factories last fall. Their
statistics show a preponderance of
land -owning peasants, merchants,
students, employers and they had at
rirst the undivided support of middle
and upper classes. But as their
ranks grew new elements entered in
and it became increasingly difficult
to control the various branches which
raided socialist towns without con
sulting headquarters, killed for other
than political reasons and even shot
each other.
Home fonitrn, Called.
When their leaders signed the
peace pact with the socialists the
rank and file disregarded it.' Then
the Rome congress was called for the
purpose of organizing a political
party. Twenty thousand armed men
went into Rome. A railroad worker
was killed and the general strike
came as a reprisal. In the next three
days five workmen were killed and
ten -injured in street clashes. The
fascisti lost one dead and five injured
Shortly afterward Trieste fascisti
killed an official of the printers'
union. The newspaper strike fol
lowed. If the government persists
in Its Intention of penalizing those
railroad workers who Joined the
Rome strike there will be a general
railroad strike. Electricians and
workers have made similar promises.
It is a rare day that there is not
in noine part of Italy street rioting
with casualties. As .in Ireland before
the truce, disorder has become the
usual thing. Life in consequence is
cheap.
Youths Go Armed.
Young Italians go armed quite as
naturally as dfci our own mining
camp braves. And ho shoots as
quickly. The peasant, normally
peaceful, has become demoralized
and there are ugly stories af am
bushes on lonely roads at night and
of massacres. The writer declined
the gift of a neat little weapon made
of a short length of tough wire and
egg-shaped bit of lead and braided
leather. It .was offered by a most
respectable citizen of a Tuscan town
an official, In fact. He said It was
safer; his son always carried one,
besides his pistoL
Of all the nations west of Europe's
hunger frontier, Italy is probably in
the greatest difficulty. She is hand
icapped by over-population (the
tightening of United States immigra
tion bars is not the least of her wor
ries) and an almost complete lack of
raw materials; but her greatest dan
ger is social revolution.
This would now seem remoto with
the definite cutting away of the so
cialist party, the strongest politlcal-1
group in Italy, from the third (Mos
cow) Internationale.
Junction City Post Elects.
EUGENE, Or.. Pec. 17 (Sped;.)
Junction City post. American Legion,
has elected the following officers:
Commander, Glen Strome; vice-commanders,
James H. Hughes, Henry
Hansen and George H Bailey; ad
jutant, Edward Bailey; finance offi
cer, A. J. Flint; eergeant-at-arms.
William Jensen: historian, L. E.
Thornton; service officer. Max B.
Nielsen; athletic officer, Chester Har
pole: publicity officer. R.E. Carroll:
employment officer A. tv". Kaping;
Americanization officer William Har
per. The auxiliary at Junction City
has elected officers as follows: Pres
ident Mrs. Glen Strome: vice-president,
Irene Bailey; secretary. Eleanor
Bailey; treasurer, Mrs. C. B. Wash
burne; chaplain, Mrs. Frank Will
iams. '
for the people who make Christmas
a happy occasion for the Vincents of
the city.
About this time of the year a
strange sound rings out in the land,
coming from the toy wonderlands of
the big department stores.
It is the peculiar wail, or battle
chant, of the youngsters, inspired by
the windows and counters full of
toys. Plaintive, excited, appealing
and happy, echoes the cry:
"Mamma, look, will yuh buy me
that?"
One tiny strategist was observed
yesterday in a toy department. He
paused with sparkling eyes before a
glistening air-gun, a proud weapon
with which countless herds of phan
tom buffalo, tribes of war-painted
Indians, or raging lions . might be
slain by a young adventurer.
"Will yuh buy that gun. Ma?" he
asked. "Ma" vetoed rhe suggestion
firmly. The strategist pondered a
moment, then his face brightened, and
he launched his master-stroke.
"Don't yuh think yuh oughta buy
the gun for a present to Cousin Eve
lyn?" he said innocently, but with
crafty plans all thought out for the
future.
Diplomacy that excels the wiliest
brand of grizzled European statesmen
is that of a mother who can whisk
a squirming inquisitive boy and girl
through a toy store, buy a drum for
one and a doll for the other, without
being observed by her charges and
spoiling the reality of Santa Claus in
their minds.
'
Disarmament has not reached the
toy shops. A movement for a ten
year holiday on warlike toys would
be smothered under the dissenting
votes of a host of little boys.
The array of military toys in the
downtown stores is In itself a minia
ture outline of war history. There
are tin soldiers of many types. In
cluding the midget representatives, of
Caesar's legions, Zulu warriors with
poised spears, Indians, American sail-
they dreamed of three years ago In
trench and cajnp. That luck has
broken badly for" many who wore the
uniform is shown in the lines of Job
less men who haunt the public em
ployment office each day.
"I don't care so much about myself,
but It's tough on the wife and kids," is
the thought of the family men In the
Job-hunting lines.
The bureau anno'unced that 225 chil
dren, representing the families of 175
to 200 ex-service men. are des
perately needy. These kiddies of the
boys who wear the Victory medal will
have a cheerless Christmas unless they
get outside aid, for the fathers have
been out of work for periods ranging
from three months to a year.
The Daddies' club. Elks, Goodfel-
lows and kindred charitable organiza
tions have volunteered to help, but
there's work enough for more big
hearted citizens.
When the little bells of the Salva
tion Army start tinkling beside swing
ing kettles, it's a sure sign of Christ
mas. Hour after hour, the men and
women who crusade against sin and
spread charity and service stand by
the printed slogan. "Keep the Pot
Boiling""
With pennies and dimes and quar
ters the pot is kept boiling by passers-
by. Not long ago the Salvation Army
workers were targets for the insults
and blows of unthinking men and
boys and rowdies. But that was be
fore this religious army conquered
the American forces overseas with a
barrage of Bervlce, smiles, sacrifice
and delicious doughnuts. '
If you want to be looked on as a
person mildly insane or at least a
wooden-headed nut, go out to the
Children's home and ask one of the
little inmates how long it Is before
Christmas.
December 25 is a glorious date to
Good Will Indicated Is Held
More Vital Than Text.
TROUBLE SEEN IN CHINA
the unfortunate youngsters there. It's
the day of a wonderful Christmas
tree, gifts and an overwhelming
abundance of special food. Everyone
at the home knows how many days
are left before the big holiday and
the more skilled in mathematics can
tell you how long it is In hours.
The "cops" are looking for little
boys and girls.
This isn't as terrifying as it sounds
Members or the police force are
searching for needy cases among the
city's children, for the purpose of
bringing real Christmas happiness
and cheer, with all the time-honored
trimmings, into the lives of the un
fortunate vounestersi who urn nnr
I reached by charitable Institutions.
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i:lkvi:.
I'OltTliAXD WOMEN
LIST.
Nearly All -W ho Completed Course
Obtain Positions and Will Begin
Work After Holidays.
OREGON NORMAL SCHOOL, Mon
mouth. Or., Dec. 17. (Special.)
Final examinations for the fall term
are over and the last few days have
been given over to various com
mencement activities. Thursday the
annual dinner to the faculty was
given at the dormitory by the dean of
women. In the evening a sacred con
cert by the women s glee club was
enjoyed by a' large audience.
The graduating exercises were held
at 10 o'clock Friday morning, when
25 students were awarded the stan
dard normal diploma. The address
to the graduates was given by Presi
dent J. S. Landers, who emphasized
the spiritual side of the student's life
and urged upon them the necessity
for continual growth when they leave
school.
The following received diplomas:
Florence May Davis, Vida Dunlao,
Florence Fessler. Veneta K. Fountain,
Grace von der Hellen, Bessie M. Han
seth, Mrs. A. F. Hanson, Katherine
James, Helen K. James, Antonia
Louise Patzelt, Eunice Mae Ttcknor,
Portland: Adda J. Hart, Edna Holder.
Salem; Mark Conklin, A. J. Canter
bury, Monmouth; Olive Harris, Cor
vallis; Kathleen Rapp, Roaeburg;
Krma Slarle McCalllster, Grants Pass;
Mildred J. Carr. Monroe; Joyce Hand-
ley, Orenco; Eva . Murphy, Wren;
Marie M. Mehring, Tangent; Elda Of
field, Lakeview; Leo Petre, Rickreall.
Nearly all fall term graduates have
obtained teaching positions beginning
immediately after the Christmas holi
days. Several have already begun
teaching.
The Christmas recess began at noon
Friday. Most of the students de
parted for their homes on a special
train on the Southern Pacific at 1:30
P. M.
Coos county and Grants Pass, by the
reconstruction of a six-mile line be
tween Powers and the forestry sta
tion on Johnson mountain. The for
estry department provided the No. 9
wire for the line and Chief Warden J.
M. Thomas of the Cods county fire
patrol association and his force of
men, erected It. The forests in Coos
county are well covered wh tele
phone l'nes and the trails through
the woods radiate in all directions.
$10,000 THEFT REPORTED
rollce Are Stirred Till They Find
It's German Mouey.
John Dwmr, Neppach hotel. Third
and Burnside streets, 'lost $10.000
more or less from his clothes at
the hotel yesterday, bu't when he
telephoned his report to the police
detective bureau he was the least
concerned of all.
"Here's a $10,000 robbery," the desk
sergeant reported as he received the
theft report by telephone. Instantly
the bureau was in a turmoil. Detec
tives were rushed into the room and
put in readiness to get to work.
"Just a minute," the desk officer
purred, as he smUed ever so lightly.
"This $10,000 consists of 10 bills of
German 1000 marks. The fellow says
they are, worth about $60."
Plione Iilne Keconstructed.
NORTH BEND. Or.. Dec. 17. (Spe
cial.) Forestry telephone connection
was established recently between
" IjCwIh poultry Keport Out.
CENTRALIA. Wash.. Dec. 17. (Spe
cial.) The growth of the poultry in
dustry in Lewis county ia shown in a
report just completed by A. G. Fow
ler, county agent, in which the total
farm production of the county this
year was estimated at $4,630,302. Of
this sum. poultry and poultry prod
ucts represented $1,286,000. Other
items in the report are listed as fol
lows: Dairy industry, $1,298,600;
other livestock, $90,802; - cereals,
$1,575,600; root crops. $206,000; fruits!
$159,300, and honey, $14,000.
Step Is Declared to Be One More
Toward International Sol Ida r-
lty Despite Senate Foes.
BY ANDRE TARDIEU.
Former French high commissioner of
America. Copyright, 11-1, by The Ore
ffonian.
PARIS, Dee. 17. (Special cable.)
Inclusion of France in the four-
power treaty agreement concerning
the Pacific islands is. of course, wet
come news here, but French opinion
does not attach to it the exceptional
importance that seems to be at
tributed to It in the United States
This difference, which is one 'of de
gree only, is quite natural, for a
Frenchman thinks of the great Im
portance of the French possessions in
Indo-China and holds that it would
have been inconceivable to arrive at
such an understanding among three
nations only the United States, Great
Britain and Japan without consult
lng France and obtaining her ad'
heslon. .
As to the agreement itself there
can be no objection to it In France
since it Is founded upon the main
tenance of existing rights. But there
is a tendency to consider It rather
timid; first, because it applies only
to the Islands, whereas China, which
is not covered by the treaty, is the
principal reservoir of future con
flicts.
Goodwill. Not Text, Valued.
And timidity again appears to char
acterize the reservations made on
Decmber 13, by the United States.
The view widely taken hre is that it
Is nor the words of the text, but the
goodwill and good faith of the sig
natory powers that constitute the
chief value of such agreements.
, France unreservedly approves the
spirit behind this treaty. Perhaps
because of her long sufferings, cer
tainly because of her complex his
tory, France believes in frank, mutual
understandings between nations. As
for formal texts the happenings of
the past two years have rendered her
skeptical fit them. France asks only
for assurance and Is therefore pleased
to see a center of Important routes
and ' International communications
made the subject of frank, open
agreements.
. Evidently thj conferees had to
avoid certain essential differences. It
is the law of these conferences tha
they, must succeed quickly or not
succeed at all. Yet the sincere de
termination to arrive at really im
portant decisions was an event. On
of them was the dissolution of the
Anglo-Japanese alliance. This was
a splendid victory for American
diplomacy, a victory that will become
definite as soon as the causes for the
present groupings of powers shall
disappear.
French Are Reserved.
Whether the American adversaries
of the Versailles treaty like It or not,
the new pact is a return toward the
International solidarity which the
senate so emphatically rejected lr
1919. Mr. Borah has not been slow
to make his complaint as a conse
quence. But this time Mr. Lodge Is a party
to the contract. It is true that the
new agreement contains no impera
tives and does -not commit the signers
to anything very tremendous and this
fact permits so notorious an adver
sary of Wilsonlan "entanglements"
as Mr. Lodge to sign It. But the ir
reconcilables, as it appears here, are
grouping against it, because, timid an
it is. It Is a step toward International
solidarity.
It is the policy of the French na
tion, in view of this internal conflict
in America to maintain a friendly, but
punctilious reserve.
Grraur Vet Considered Menace.
Even when France's vital Interests
have been at stake she has never
been so Indiscreet to Interfere with
or try to influence America's course.
The four powers have been pleased
to sign the Pacific islands accord and
France sees no reason to believe that
any of them will refuse to ratify it.
Meanwhile, instead of seeking hypo
thetical sources of discord among the
allied and associated nations, let us
unitedly turn our eyes toward the
side from which the common menac
comes. Daily the German press pub
lishes aggressive discourses attack
ing the territorial, military and finan
cial clauses of the treaty. Some of
our good friends call us nervous. Thety
are wrong. We are not nervous, bin
we are not blind or deaf, either.
France is as anxious as any power
to arrive at the government of the
world through peace treaties, but she
sees in Germany's present frame of
mind the principal obstacle to such a
course. This Is the view of the man
In the street in France. If anybody
tells you to the contrary, refuse to
believe it.
'Mother! Mother! Mother!
They Won't Have Any
Left for Christmas!"
NOBODY knows the cause of this young
lady's alarm, save that the store was
crowded with people and she concluded that
there wouldn't be enough watches to go
round!
And maybe she's nearer right than many
a Christmas veteran!
For, even as this is being written for this
newspaper,' every counter in the store is
lined with gift buyers. -
And we are going to be sold out of lots of
things long before Christmas eve.
r I HIS isn't being written in order to
-- stampede folks into buying in a hurry.
It is merely the record of a plain, but in
teresting fact.
For the cash register tells us that we are
actually selling three times as much as we
did'in the same period last year. And you
can't fool a National Cash Register!
ONE of the store's old friends said: "I'm
making my Christmas money go a
long way this year not that I want to be
'cheap' but I figure when I get a watch
and chain for the price of the watch alone
I'd be fourteen kinds of a jackass if I neg
lected to do it."
T3RACTICALLY everything in the store
is marked down from a fourth to a
half. A store full of gifts that last and
scarcely anything full price!
Even the finest diamonds and the most
wanted White Gold Bracelet Watches are
selling way below their former prices.
NEWSPAPER man called for another
advertisement. He was "loaded for
big game" and he said "you ought to use
whole "pages now time's getting mighty
short, you know."
"Why use whole pages?"
"Why?" he echoed. "Why, to get all you
can while the getting's good!"
"But what's the use getting more busi
ness than we can attend to? Yesterday
afternoon the, crowds were too big for the
store and it will be even worse next week."
"Here's the kind of an advertisement we
ought to run. We ought to tell the people of
Portland, as politely as we know how
something like this:
-Notice to Gift Buyers-
"If you cannot come in the tnornings
please don't come in the afternoons.
We have more business than we can at
tend to and it only makes us feel bad'
"How's that for an advertisement?"
"That," the newspaper man conceded.
"That would make a hit."
Inasmuch as it's written, it may as well be
printed!
.y?sL&r.i.vM 7 Tift t. r-.r.y, r, :rtetff
Vd JBotr jFiftlx Sixths- w
Copyright, George Francis Kowe.
Still Operator Fined $250.
. Gus Johnson was arrested at Co
lumbia beach yesterday afternoon by
Constable Gloss, Deputy Constables
Watkins and Druhot and Deputy Dis
trict Attorney Driscoll, charged with
operating a large still. He was fined
$250 by District Judge Deich. -
Employment of Minor Charged. '
DALLAS, Or , Dec. 17. (Special.)
A warrant was served late Friday
upon the Willamette Valley lumber
company of this city, charging the
corporation with having employed a
boy under the age of 18 without first
having obtained a permit, as provided
by the Juvenile labor law. A plea of
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Small Arms to Be Inspected.
4
Major Hiram U. Welch, inspector-!
general's department, Oregon national :
guard will conduct an inspection of ;
small arms in the possession of all I
organizations of the guard stationed I
in Multnomah county for the current
quarter during the coming week, ac
cording to an announcement made
yesterday. ,
Read The Oregoniau classified ude.
Y. W. C. A.
Broadway and Yamhill.
Special
Wednesday Night
, Dinner
5:20 to 7 P. M.
Change of Menn Every Wednesday
$1 PKR PLATE.
CRAB COCKTAIL. :
CONSOMME JULIENNE.
ROAST SPRING TURKEY. DRESS
ING. " TKACH COMPOTE.
BAKED POTATO.
PINEAPPLE AND CHEESE ,
SALAD. ,
PUMPKIN PIE.
SHERBET AND CAKES.
COFFEE. TEA. MILK.
4 Imo Oar Reirular Dinners
at 60c and 75c.
not guilty was entered by the man
agement of the company and a trial
will be had In Justice court here next
week.
Legion Auxiliary Kleots.
COTTAGE GROVE, Or.. Dec.
17.-
(Special.) The American Legion aux
iliary has elected the following of
ficers: Mrs. W. J. White, president;
Mrs. H. W. Titus, vice-president;
Mrs. G. B. Pitcher, secretary-treasurer.
The name was changed at the
annual meeting from the women's
auxiliary to the one now used.
m
. Give
Exquisitely
Styled
Slippers
Our dlsti n c 1 1 v e
new models- for
street, afternoon
and evening wear
leave nothing to be
desired in supper
?tyles. And we have
the better makes of
hose to match.
For event ng or
afternoon wear we
suggest slippers in
cloth of gold, cloth
of silver, bronze
kid, black satin,
either plain or bead
ed, with French' or
d 1 m inutive French
heels. Prices range
$10 to $21.
Ornaments, rhine
stone, cut steel and
b e a d ed; Btraps of
all designs to
attach.
GORDON HOSIERY
KNIGHT
SHOE Co.
Morrison, Near
RroHdvay.
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Make Musical Gifts
Gifts of genuine enjoyment and utility; gifts, too,
that charm musically; gifts that give a lifetime of
pleasure, that educate and refine, and gifts that beau
tify the home these we show in variety would not
your home welcome
A Beautiful
VICTROLA or a BRUNSWICK
, ' A Lovely
GRAND PIANO or a PLAYER PIANO
A Modern
UPRIGHT PIANO or a GOOD USED PIANO
A Dozen
VICTOR RECORDS or PLAYER ROLLS
A New
PIANO BENCH, PIANO STOOL or LAMP
Or For a Friend
A MERCHANDISE ORDER for RECORDS
A VICTOR BOOK OF THE OPERA
All these and a wealth of beautiful and musical gifts that will add to
each day's enjoyment for years to come Make it a Musical'
Christmas and you enrich the entire household.
MASON AND HAMLIN PIANOS
MORRISON ST. AT BROADWAY
614
THKM iTOBfi, SAM nMNCIKO. OAKLAND. rHCBMO. SAM D
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