The Sunday Oregonian., January 08, 1922, Section One, Page 4, Image 4

TJTE SUNDAY OHEGOXIAN, PORTLAND. JANUARY 8, 1922
RACE iSlfll
"Will Beveridge Run?" Is Up
permost Question.
ISSUES STILL IN DOUBT
fmuinbcnt's Vole gnliifcl Soldier
Itomis ii nd Tor Tax Bill May lie
Made Basis for Attack.
BY MARK SLL.L1VAVT
(CnpM-lirht. 1'i-M. .y ttie New York Kvenins
Post Inc. Huhlls-lK-il by Arrangement.) .
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 7. (Spe
cial.) In that crystallization of at
tention upon the cominft senatorial
and congressional primaries which is
now uppermost among tnose wno iw
low national politics closely there is
one ever-present question. It asks:
"Will Beverldgre really run?" The
Indiana ex-senator's movements are
followed with the most waicniui cio
and the BhadinKs of his lightest words
-,. ,imirirf minutely for light on
his intentions.
Thr. miontlon must soon be an
wered for the Indiana primaries
come on May 2. So far Beveridge docs
not commit himself, but his motions
appear Increasingly and to the old or
mnlzatlon republicans menacingly
like those of a man who will soon be
a candidate. He is traveling about
Tnrtiann. makinir addresses on John
Marshall to county bar associations
and on other subjects to schools mid
churches. Meantime, an energetic
nnrresnondence is going on among
his friends, looking to petitions and
the other features of an organized
campaign.
Mnrrr S. IVrw'ln l.lne.
The sitting senator who will seek
re-election is Harry S. New. If Bev-
rlriire doesn't run New will be re
nominated Without serloUS oppOSi
tion. Everybody takes it for granted
that, barring Bevermge, no one can
make any sort of fight against New.
But if Beveridge conies out, there will
be a fight that will not only stir
Indiana to the grass roots, but will
engage intense national attention.
New is an organization republican.
He is that not only within Indiana,
but within the party in the nation. In
a contest with Beveridge he would
have the support of nlne-tentbs ot
the Indiana organization.
How far the national organization
or the administration would go to
ward taking an open part in New's
behalf would probably be limited
only by dictates of prudence. But
that he would have the good' wishes
of the national organizat'on and the
administration admits of no doubt.
Everybody In Washington knows not
only that Harding wanted New in his
cabinet, but also that In an intimate
and personal way New is very close to
the White House. That this fact will
weigh much In his favor with depend
able party men among the republican
voters o Indiana goes without say
ing, lrt Indiana, as throughout the
country, Harding is strong, not only
with his own party, but with the
voters generally. That sort of popu
larity, as every politician knows, and
as has occasionally been demonstrat
ed in the cases of other presidents, is
as fickle as the favor of the gods,
but there is not now in sight any
probability of any change in senti
ment about Harding such as would
help Beveridge if he should be run
ning next May 2 in the role of op
position to an administration favorite.
Issues Aot Yet Known.
Just what issues will be raised if
Beveridge should run is not yet clear.
He could hardly hope for success un
less he should be able, to dramatize
tire fight in such a way as to make
himself the beneficiary of whatever
discontent may now exist or may
later arise with the present record of
the republican senate, and of New
personally as one of the responsible
leaders of it. So far as Beveridge in
his speeches has raised any definite
issues up to date, he has given voice
to criticism of the new tax bill, and
to advocacy of a soldiers' bonus.
It is true that in Indiana, as else
where, there is formidable dissatis
faction with the new tax bill. It is
also true that New, as a loyal party
man, and as one of the republican
senate leaders, voted for the bill and
must be held responsible for it. But
If Senator New is resourceful enough,
or fortunate enough, to be able to
make the more minute aspects of his
record convincing to the voters, he
can point out that he voted in favor
of the unsuccessful efforts made in
the senate to amend the tax bill in
just those particulars which com
pose the bulk of Beveridge's criti
cisms. New voted for the repeal of. the
high surtaxes, for dating back the
repeal of the excess profits tax in
1921 and for the sales tax. Unhap
pily for Senator New, however, as a
' matter of practical profits, the voter,
in the simple form to which the elec
torate usually reduces issues, is liker
ly to focus attention on the main vote
on the bill as a whole, and to ignore
the votes on unsuccessful amend
ments. Soldirm' Bonus Optioned.
As to the other issue Beveridge has
o far raised, it is true that New
voted against the soldiers' bonus bill,
but in doing so protected himself in
such degree as ho could by making
a speech in which he said he would
favor the bonus whenever )e treas
ury could stand it. Also New may be
helped by the now apparent fact that
tile republicans are going to pass a
bonus bill this year, although they
will need to hurry it if it is to be in
time to help New on May 2.
Incidentally, these same issues are
the ones which will figure generally
In the considerable number of states
in which, during the next few months,
organization republican senators,
running for rcnomination, will be op
posed by new men.
In Beveridge's case he will be able
to rely, in addition to whatever dis
content there is with the record of
the present republicant senate, on
much wider and deeper factors. Bev
eridge. in any way you view him, is a
most distinguished public man. How
ever strongly factions and individuals
may feel antagonistic to him, he is
undeniably the stuff of which sen
ators are made who enlist state pride.
In his previous senate experience he
was always one of that body's most
forceful and trenchant figures. -He
strode that green carpet with the un
forgettlng consciousness that he was
a senator of the United States, with
all that it implies of power and dig
nity. His imagination always visual
ized himself as having a responsible
part in great events, and he had the
Intellectual strength to live up tc h's
own exalted conception of the part he
was called on to play.
Beveridge Ontxtnndlng Figure.
Beveridge, when he was in the sen
ate, was an outstanding figure. In a
new senatorship he would, without
any doubt, be far more so". In his
early senatorship he. had to stand
comparison with such men as Dolli
ver. Hanna, Hoar, Aldrich, Hale, Frye,
Daniels end a score of others. The
senate today contains no such aggre-
Ration of leadership. Beveridge. at
j the age of 60 In new senatorship
would stand out IncontcstaDiy in a
way to appeal to the pride of a state
like Indiana. That Beveridge would
restore ' to the senate some of the
more compeljrfng Interest it had in
the public mind 10 or 15 years back
goes without savin. The senate
would become a vital body by much
more than the addition of a single
personality.
Beveridge in action would re-cnarge
the most drcnlng elder statesman
with some of the surplus of his own
dynamic abundance.
Since his retirement he has made
probably the most fruitful use of his
time than any American statesman in
retirement ever made. His life of
John Marshall, even if he had no
other public service to his credit, is
a work of such outstanding quality in
the world of literature and constitu
tional history as will undoubtedly
commend him to a state that pays
rather unusual deference to that kind
of achievement.
ComparlMoB Found Difficult.
At the same time no portrayal of
this Indiana situation can be complete
or fa'r that fails to do justice to Sen
ator New's less striking but no less
valuable and dependable qualities.
The men are so different, it is diffi
cult to compare them Justly. It Is
always baffling to try to compare a
man whose especial and greatly use
ful virtue Is keeping the ship afloat
ARMS PARLEY RIGHT
STEP, SAYS WELLS
i
Concrete Results of Session
Doubted, However. !
GENOA CALL WELCOMED
Economic Meeting Held Impos
sible If It Hud Not Been for
Washington Conference.
(Copyright bv the New Tork World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 7. (Special.)
H. G. Wetls, sailing today on the
Adriatic, passed judgment on the
arms conference and in a way on
have to view it as one of a chain of
events, and. viewed in that way. I
think a step of enormous importance
has been made. The world is strug
gling toward a systematic organi
zation of peace, and we are only be
ginning to realize what a complex
and large scale undertaking that is,
and what an enormous task has to be
done upon the human mind in set
ting rational limitations to the ex
travagance of nationalism and devel
oping the spirit of universal brother
hood. Viewed from thisangle, the
Washington conference has been the
greatest and most successful effort
conceivable.
Genoa" Meeting; Dlacuvaed.
"If you don't think of what it has
done, but of what it has made pos
sible, I think you must count it his
torically successful."
Asked If he saw direct connection
between the arms conference and the
coming financtal and economic con
ference of all Kurope, allied, ex
enemy and bolshevik governments
included, Mr. Wells replied:
"I believe the Genoa meeting- arises
out of the Washington conference,
and I believe the Genoa meeting
couldn't have been possible without
the preparatory work of the Wash
ington conference."
"I only wish it could have been
held in an American atmosphere, but
perhaps the next best place Is the
birthplace of Christopher Columbus."
On his principal reaction to purely
WHERE SENATORS ARE TO BE ELECTED.
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K VAST W LDERNESS
Seven Wizards in x Uniform
Are Lost in East Side.
BEATS NEARLY ENDLESS
Curtailment of Force to Kffect
Kconomy Kffected by Budget
leaves City Unprotected.
SHADKD AREA SHOWS STATUS IN WHICH THESK KLKCTIOXS WILL BK HELD OF THESE STATES 17 ARE
1VOW REPUBLICAN AN"D 15 DEMOCRATIC.
and pointed in the right direction
with one whose qualities are more
striking and picturesque.
New is a republican party man, and
the republican party s policies are his
policies. If the country Is to be man
aged by the republican party along
lines laid down by the party leader
ship in the White House or elsewhere.
New in the senate will give luu per
cent of team work, and of strength
in a multitude of ways. He does not
depend on great initiative, or on
striking qualities of leadership, to
commend him; but rather on sure
footed common sense, loyalty and the
qualities that other men come to rec
ognize as dependable wisdom. New
has qualities which in his personal
contacts inspire deep affection and
loyalty. There is not a senator of
either party, and hardly a man in
Washington, who would not feel poign
ant regret at seeing New retired from
the senate, however they might feel
about the issues involved.
Old Rivalry Not to Be Duplicated.
New, of course, belongs to the old
.stand-pat element in Indiana politics,
and in that state the element that is
described by contrast as progressive
very strong. When, in the presi
dential primary of two years ago.
President Harding and Hiram John
son contended, among others, for the
Indiana delegates. Johnson beat Har
ding conspicuously. If the coming
senatorial primaries were to divide
along lines comparable to those be
tween Harding and Johnson, it would
be extremely promising for Beveridge.
But I am told that the coming cleav
age, if there should be one, will not
by any means duplicate that of Har
ding and Hiram Johnson. A good deal
of Johnson's strength was wholly
personal and came from the populous
districts around Gary, in the north
ern end of the 'state, where he had
roused the people personally by his
speeches.
If Beveridge is to make headway,
assuming that he enters the fight, he
will need to get his strength in much
the same way that Johnson got his;
that is, by force of personality. He
will have very little of the party
organization. New will have the great
bulk of that. Beveridge will need to
make the sort of fight which over
whelms party organizations in a land
slide of unorganized popular support.
Beveridge will need to stir up that
feeling, which is always potential in
any state and rather more so in Indi
ana than most states, of instinctive
insurgency against the organization.
He will need to capitalize his person
ality, his past public service, and the
distinction that attended it. together
with his new incarnation of distinc
tion as the auhor of an incontesta
bly great work. "The Life of John
Marshall."
Indiana Doubtful State.
When Bevej-idge and New. as well
as the candidates for congress In the
13 Indiana districts, look forward
from the primaries In May to the
election in November, they may well
be troubled. Indiana Is a doubtful
state always. It is true that Harding
carried it by close to 200.000. But
everybody knows that is not normal.
Much nearer normal was the scant
6000 by which Hughes carried it over
Wilson In 1916 There isn't a repub
lican politician in- Indiana who
wouldn't admit that the republ'can
strength there today is not what it
was at Harding's election. In fact,
there were some elections in Indiana
two months ago the results of which
were not calculated to give comfort
to the republicans. '
America. His verdict on the concrete
results achieved by the conference
was that they, in themselves, are of
doubtful consequence.
He. counted the meeting a great
success, however, inasmuch as he
viewed it as one of a chain of events
in the construction of a systematic
organization of world peace.
Viewed in this light, he said, it was
not only necessary that it should be
held, but, having been held, it has
been an enormous step in the desired
direction.
One of its most immediate benefi
cial effects, as Mr. Wells saw It, was
the calling of the all-European finan
cial and economic conference at
Genoa, which, he said, could not have
been called or held but for the Wash
ington meeting. In this connection,
he deplored only the fact that the
new parley will not be held in an
American atmosphere.
Mr. Wells la Aroused.
American affairs as he was able to
get close to them in his off hours as
a reporter at the arms conference,
Mr. Wells said :
"I have been struck more than any
thing else. I think, by the struggle
that's going on over here for free
speech and free discussion. The
American people are no longer a peo
ple in the phase of childhood. They
have grown up. They have to think
now-as boldly and as freely as adults
should. The attempt to shout down
and suppress unpopular opinions and
to create panics of hositillty against
minority views is unworthy of the
general greatness of American life. I
speak of what 1 have observed and
heard and read of the treatment ac
corded the spokesmen of political
radicalism and of the circumstances
surrounding the birth control con
troversy." Deba Not Met by Mr. Wrlla.
Mr. Wells was asked if he had met
The one great consideration forced I Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader, re
upon Mr. Wells by his acquaintance 'eased from prison by President
with the United States, aside from Harding at Christmas. He replied he
the arms conference, was the strus- nad not- and added:
die here for freedom of speech and; 6rn'1 know but 1 d0"'1 thlnk
freedom of discussion. He was roused , J d Ilke Debs- f course, I'm glad
by the evidences he observed in this h 8 ,out- but. 1 mean Personally I got
country of tendencies to suppress ex- I tne Impression somehow he was al
pressions of political radicalism and ! tog-ether too sanctified for me to get
discussion of birth control more Uian I alornfJw'ih, vtryL well'l.
any other circumstance he encoun- lfTo1 that Debs ?Lhen . ne a,' a
tered j situation, can rend the air with lan
guage Btfiuwm neara in a arawing
I room, Mr. Wells seemed to brighten
. a bit
Once the news spread over the
Adriatic that H. G. Wells was aboard,
no doubt remained in the minds of
those who saw the vessel off that Mr.
Wells was to be the star attraction
of 'the great liner on the voyage
across. As he chatted with friends
and newspaper men on deck and on
the great staircase landings, inside
the folks made circles of space about
him to gaze at ths man who resem
bled a Wall-street broker more than
one of the world's great intellectuals.
Liquor Declared Plentiful.
Chatting with a group of young
foreigners returning attaches of a
delegation to the arms conference i
"Well," said Mr. Wells, "if he can
swear, there's hope for him."
LEGION POOL POPULAR
Largre Crowd of Children Splashes
In Tank to Heart's Content.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. Jan. 7. (Spe
cial.) When the doors of the Amer
ican Legion community building were
opened this morning a big crowd of
hoys and girls was waiting to enter
Mr. Weils asked themhow they en-j the swimming tank, the use of which
joyed the visit to Washington. One
replied:
"We never saw so much liquor in
all our lives and never drank so
much."
A reporter asked Mr. Wells how
prohibition struck him. He said it
didn't.
A photographer asked him to smile.
He said:
"All right, I'll put on my prohibition
smile." He smiled very broadly, in
deed. ,
"Please frown now," said the pho
tographer. Mr. Wells demurred, but
then said:
"All right, I'll put on my nationalist
frown," he frowned deeply.
Seeking the seclusion that a cabin
grants for a talk the reporters want
ed, Mr. Wells found several packages
of books, as well as much luggage.
An English steward with a blonde
Lord Dundreary mustache stuck his
head inside the cabin door and said:
Mr. Wells Hna Accent, Too.
"These books kime. Mr. Wiles, and
I lide thum 'ere till you kime in, sir."
Mr. Wells, with a bit of an accent
himself, said he expected a great
many more books before the boat
shoved off, and gave the impression
he Intends to do a lot of reading on
his trip.
On the arms conference Mr. Wells
said:
"I don't think we should judge the
conference by its concrete results,
for, up to date, the conprete results
have been very doubtful. T think vou
they are allowed every Saturday
morning.
The swimmers, all under 12 years
of age, many accompanied by their
parents, carried swimming- suits. In
less time than it takes to tell it,
there were 100 or more children
splashing in the tank and shouting
at the top of their voices.
"Washington Lump
KDLKFKK.V'S." Adv.
Coal, $9.75.-
Seven wizards in uniform patrolled
the east side on the second night re
lief of police yesterday, covering
beats of such extent that if each man
thoroughly walked his beat he'would
finish the stroll day after tomorrow.
There were 28 men, all told, on the
relief. Of these, nine were station
and emergency men, seven worked
the east side and the remainder pa
trolled the west side. There was no
driver for the emergency car. so Cap
tain Fred M. West answered such
calls in person.
At present, during the wee sma'
hours, one man walks east of Union
avenue and north of Sullivan'w gulch.
He is responsible for the peace in
Woodlawn, Alberta and Rose City
park. If he is sent on a call he is
ordered to get back by rolloall. If
possible.
Thin Brat Appear Small.
Another patrolman strolls through
the district between the river and
Union avenue and Fremont street to
Sullivan's gulch. However, his beat
is small compared with others, and he
has- plenty of time to hunt for bur
glars and to call In to the station
every hour.
A third officer has the beat from
Fremont to Killingsworth, from the
river to Union, and Killingsworth
north of Albion to Union. Another
beat Is from Sullivan's gulch to Division-
street and from the river to
Twentieth street.
The real monarch of the early morn
is the patrolman who covers East
Twentieth and the Oregon-Washington
railroad tracks to Division, and
who looks after taxpayers In Sunny
side. Montavilla and Mount Tabor.
A thousand men could be sent to that
beat and the night would swallow
them.
Other Territory ExpanxKr.
Brooklyn. Sellwood. Waverly and
Richmond boast of one policeman, as
do Mount Scott and Lents. If any
thing happened on one of thtse beats,
as one of the officers jokingly said,
the patrolman might find it out in
the morning by reading The Orego
nian. Los Angeles and San Francisco are
adding scores of policemen to their
regular force. Portland, say police,
is the only city to lay off men. They
say that word through underworld
channels has passed along the coast,
and even into the middle west and
east, to this effect, and that immi
grants In crime are unwittingly being
invited to Portland as a city of "easy
pickin's."
A feature of Portland crime this
winter has been that most of it has
been perpetrated by home talent.
Without considering their prior
rights, minions of the law declare
that strangers are being influenced
to come in and compete with the
home talent. Police point out that
Portland, because of its position,
with no other real cities closer than
Los Angeles or Chicago to which
crooks could flee for cover, has been
free from "foreign" crooks because
of the difficulty of a "get-away."
The river also assists police in cor
nering outlaws.
Hold-up Plot la Foiled.
There is no fooling- the stlck-up or
the burglar about police. He knows.
In proof is cited a recent plot that
was foiled. A gang planned to hold
up the teller at the Sellwood car
barns. The plot was frustrated by
Lieutenant TJiatcher, but it was
learned that the gang leader knew
that Patrolman Gruell of that district
visited the car barn at 1:20 and went
to a restaurant to eat his lunch. They
could figure on 20 or 30 minutes to
complete their job. The leader also
was aware of the location of a push
button, ten feet from the teller's
chair, which even company officials
were said to be unaware of. The
plot was to shoot the teller If he
moved toward the button, and to kill
Gruell outright should he return in
course of the hold-up.
Legion at Willapa Elects.
. SOUTH BEND. Wash., Jan. 7.
(Special.) Willapa Harbor post No.
29, American Legion, has elected the
following officers for this year:
Charles Rose, commander; J. R. Beck,
I vice-commander; Lincoln Shropshire,
' adjutant: Fred Hoff, chaplain; Dr.
Anderson, historian. The women'!
A New Zane Grey Book
"To the Last Man"
Price $2.00
A story of a feuda feud waged by two unforgiving factions, who
only realized its utter futility when It was too late. In the grip of
h relentless rode "'" to their pwn people, they fought the war
of the Tonto Basin, desperately doggedly, to the last man. and
through it all runs the golden thread of a clean man's love for a
pure woman.
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Alder Street at West Park
auxiliary also elected new officers as
follows: Mrs". T. W. Anderson, presi
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Well, I Should Say YES!
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