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10, THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND FEBRUARY ID, 1032 1 L LIIMTIS TO HIT LAND PLANTS Fleets Afloat Will Be Kept Up to Treaty Maximum. YARDS TO BE CURTAILED Members of Congress Interested in Plan Learn Most Stations Will Be Abandoned. WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 18. (By the Associated Press.) Members of congress have gained an .Impression at the navy department, It was learned today, that under Secretary Denby's announced policy ol concen- trating efforts on maintenance of the- navy afloat, the shore establishment, particularly along the Atlantic coast, would be first' to feel the effect of reduction of naval appropriations for next year to 250,(KH),000 or less, as has been suggested in the house naval committee hearing. Mr. Denby asked for 350,000,000 to keep the fleet at the 6-5- ratio strength provided for under the naval limitation treaty. The secretary's purpose to make the fleet his first consideration caifght the attention of members of both senate and house from navy-yard states and districts. They have inquired at the department just what yards might be abandoned should the indicated slash in funds be made. They were told no definite plans had been laid. t Two Atlantic Yards Needed It was said to be obvious from a military view, however, that only two Atlantic yards New York and Nor folk would be regarded as vitally essential to the present Atlantic fleet, and that even at these reductions of a radical nature would be made, if necessary, for the sake of keeping the maximum force afloat. The congressional callers are un derstood to feel that Mr. Denby would recommend the closing f all other ' Atlantic yards and ti.e lease, or pos sibly even the sale, of the shore plants rather than sacrifice any im portant fleet unit, although no such plan has actually been formulated. The question of personnel figures In the problem because, roughly, two men can be maintained afloat for every man held ashore. In other words, it takes one-third of the enlisted force to keep up the purely military tasks ashore upon which the success of the fleet de pends. The civilian employee, the yard mechanics and others are in addition to this enlisted force as.icrt 60,000 SI en Afloat Required. beoretary .Denby s suggestion that once barred "wrist watch lawyers" and was drastic in his action against the, courtroom loafers or "courtroom lizards,", as he called them. Judge Landis said he had mailed his resig nation, today, addressing it to Presi dent Harding personally. Judge Landis accepted the chair manship of professional baseball after it had been tendered him by an unanimous vote of the IS major league clubs on November 12. 1329, following the 1919 world series scan dal and the trial of several members of the Chicago American league club on charges of taking part in it. His acceptance of the post was sought on the plea -hat it was neces sary to restore public confidence in the game. ' ; ACTION. CAUSES ' COMMENT Many Interesting, ETCnts In Judge's Judicial Life Recalled. CHICAGO, Feb. 18. Judge Landis resignation was therphief topic at scores of downtown, gatherings today and many interesting incidents in the judge's judicial life were recalled. I During bankruptcy proceedings be fore him once the judge discovered that one bit of property in litigation was a saloon. ' "Call up that saloon," he ordered his bailiff,, "and have it closed at once, I'll be darned if I'm going to tend bar while sitting on the federal bench." ... -'-V- "Never write a letter to your mother-in-law when you are sore," the judge told a man who had fought with his wife's mother. "Remember to treat her with respect. She is your children's grandmother and a grand mother in a family is a blessing to the children." . . Judge Landis was holding court whea the baseball magnates' came to offer him the $50,000-a-year job as baseball commissioner. '"Tell .them I'm too busy to talk about such things now," the judge tpld hfe bailiff.- "If they want to, they can wait. ' The baseball men waited two hours to offer Judge Landis $50,000 a year -, Some : time ago a reporter asked Judge Landis1 about one of the numer ous rumors that, he had resigned. 'Doesn't it -beat the devil," replied tfce judge.!. 'JSoon as. a man gets some where, they "want his to resign. Then, if he .resigns, they raise the dickens and want to know the real reason for it. I "guess when I do- resign they'll figureHp 10,000 reasons for it and. none. or tnem win re rignt. BALL CHIEFTAIN IS PLEASED . .. '!;.) - """"" " President 'Heydier of Nationals Ex--y; presses Gratification. , NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-i-John A Heydier, president of the National league) expressed, gratification today when informed by the Associated Press that Judge"'Landis had resigned ftom the bench to devote his entire time to the technical control of pro fessional baseball. "The major and minor leagues and the baseball public at large are to be congratulated," he, said. "Judge Lan i's' decision means everything for the aport. j 'I have always felt that when Judge TAFT SAYS COURTS IE 01IELID Ineffectiveness .is Declared Faced as Result. RELIEF LAWS DISCUSSED Chief Justice Comments on Bills Introduced in Congress. More, Judges Needed. by putting 100 destroyers"'out of com- i Landis fully realized the mass of de mission and reducing complements on many of the active ships to a point which officers declare will work against their efficiency in both up keep and handling, it would be pos sible to keep the navy going with 90,000 men, a reduction of 10,000, means a floating navy of about 60,000 men. This is declared at the depart ment to be the minimum necessary to keep even a semblance of the 6-5-8 ratio strength afloat. Reduction of the total enlisted force to 80,000, a figure tentatively suggested, would mean, it is stated, reducing the active capital ship trength under the treaty to six bat tleships and the placing of 12 battle ships in reserve, with only crews suf ficient to keep them mechanically fit for operation. It would mean also adding another 500 destroyers to the 100 already Blated to be laid up, with only caretakers aboard, cutting the active submarine force to the bone and laying up unmanned submersi bles. At least three important At lantic yards, including the Boston yard, would be closed down com pletely under such a programme. Situation Frankly Presented. The situation thus pictured and which Is understood to have prompted the administration to abandon any thought of getting down to the 80,000 enlisted strength figure in present worm conditions is believed to have been laid frankly before members of congress by department officials. In this connection the navy men have encountered what they describe as a deep-rooted apprehension of the real effect of the naval limitation treaty. They have endeavored to show that the reductions made under the treaty are almost wholly in fu- ture ship strength and not In exist ing forces, the very keynote of the agreement being maintenance of the existing naval status quo afloat and its gradual correction to conform to the future 5-5-3 ratio. tail and the varying technical and contractural matters which must come to htm for final decision, he would have to decide to give up either the position of baseball commissioner or the federal bench. The work in cidental to both positions is absolutely beyond the powers of any one man. Of course, I need not say that I am extremely gratified that Judge Landis saw his way clear to devote his en tire attention to baseball. "Under the terms of his contract, signed in 1920, Judge Landis will continue to receive the same remu neration as in the past. His contract, running for a period of seven years, called for an annual salary of 50,000, with a deduction equivalent to his salary as a judge." Successors Are Mentioned, f- CHICAGO, Feb. 18. Among those mentioned tonight as possible suc cessors to Federal Judge Landis, who today announced his resignation, ef fective March 1, were James H. Wil kerson, ex-district attorney, and Elmer Schlessing, attorney. FULL CHEST NOW OBJECT ,' (Continued From First Page.) 1ANDIS QUITS MARCH 1 (Continued From First Page, ) was severely condemned as having made statements which were declared to have influenced Dalton. Judge 58 Yean Old. Although' 58 years old. Judge Landis has always been known as a boy at heart and a lover of all forms of sport. The baseball magnates urged him to reorganize baseball "forhe rake of the American boy," and It was this plea which finally won over the jurist. The resignation of Judge Landis takes from the federal bench one of he most feared and at the same time the most respected judges in the coun try. His unusual conduct In court, where he frequently took cases out of attorneys' bands and examined wit nesses himself, caused him to be feared by all law-breakers. At the same time his reputation for administering jus tice, regardless of technicalities which sometimes obscured pertinent facts, orougnt mm universal respect. War Attitude Vigorous. He was vigorous in bis attituds against anti -Americans' during the war. His son, Reed Landis, was serv ing with the British air service and the judge several times tried to ob tain war work which would send him across, but failed.- In every war case brought before him where the defend ant was found guilty the judge im posed heavy sentences. ' His strong jancor against un-American ism was particularly demon strate in the trials of L W. W, so cialists and pacifisms brought before him. In one speech during the war he advocated that the Gefman kaiser and his six sons be executed by the allied firing squads "out of justice to humanity." Judge Lands was made one of the SO persons to whom bombs were mailed on Mayday, 1919, and during the 1911 blackhand trials .here he received many death threats. Against the wishes of his friends he insisted on sitting through the trials-i - Judge Landis first became a na tional figure when he fined the Standard Oil company .of Indiana $29,240,000, which decision later was reversed by a higher court - In the courtroom the judge always was a picturesque figure, not only because of his flowing white haV. tout because or his keen wit. H their offices when solicitors for the chest called, and they wanted to know whether they should send In their pledges or hold them until the doctors' committee makes its rounds. Dr. Smith and his associates will get into personal touch with every phy sician In town. Meanwhile details are being worked out for the othei1 occupational groups of Portland to be combed for chest subscriptions. This recanvass will be under '. way vigorously during the presentweek. The preparations are going ahead with such thoroughness that it is hoped none will be over looked in the recanvass. The total amount subscribed to the chesty when compiled last night, showed $510,807. . This week should see a lively re sumption of chest campaign activity, with no special display of spectacular features but With consistent gains in the subscription total. Directors of the community chest met and adopted the policy of con tinuing the campaign until sufficient money is raised to car for the va rious agencies depending upon the chest for support . This week .entirely new headquar ters for those actively at work on the drive will be opened in the Lumber mens Trust company's bank at Broad way and, Oak streets. Quarters at the Multnomah hotel will be aban doned for the bank building, where General Smith will be personally in charge of the remainder of the cam paign. NEW YORK, Feb. 18. Chief Justice Taft, speaking tonight on law reforms at a dinner at the New York County Lawyers' association, said that the federal court system was "threatened with most discouraging ineffective ness because the dockets are crowded with arrears of business of which, under the present system, it does not seem possible to get rid." He referred to the bill to relieve the situation by an increase of 20 or 25 judges which has passed the house ana is now pending in the senate. "We may hope that if it passes." he added, "it will be the first important step to meet the present exigency." . CkaAKea A 1b Dioeasaed. Commenting on a second bill, in troduced yesterday in both the house and senate, making changes in the appellate jurisdiction of the supreme court and the circuit court of appeals, the chief justice said: "The bill has been prepared with a great deal of care. It has long been evident that the court needed some relief in order to enable it. to keep up with Its docket. When the court adjourned in June last, the cases re maining undisposed of were 343. Those cases have increased to 764, at noon yesterday. Of those 764, 248 hove been disposed of and there are now on the docket 516 cases undis posed of. At this time last year there were 447 Cases undisposed of. Arrears to Be Reduced. "The bill introduced yesterday, of which I haye-spoken, has two great purposes. One, and of course the chief one, is to reduce the arrears and enable our court to carry no cases over the long vacation. 'The other is to put Into a simple and condensed form, in one statute, thA ln imt'flrnino- tha ...... r. 1 T ... diction of the supreme court and the circuit court of appeals. We hope that if the bill of which I have s-poken passes both of these objects will be achieved. "The plan of the bill." the chief Justice said, "was to reduce the ob ligatory Jurisdiction of the supreme court, to narrow the field in which there shall be an appeal as of right to that court and to enlarge the power of the court to make a pre liminary exchange examination of i case and determine whether the question is of sufficient importance: whether the law is doubtful, or whether there is such a lack of uni formity in the decisions of the in termediate appellate courts that the case ought to be reheard in the su preme court." . Supreme Court Discussed. "The function of the supreme court of the United States under our pres ent system is not always clearly un derstood," he continued. "Congress has provided intermediate courts of review in nearly all cases. "The proper view is that so far as the litigants themselves are con cerned, one trial and a review before another court of the fairness of that trial should be all that any Individ ual is entitled to, as of right. It is too much to ask the state to give him three chances. Then one court could attend to all appellate business. As was the case early in the his tory of our court, there was no in termediate appellate court, and one supreme court could dispose of all of the cases which the litigants wanted to bring to it. There was no objection, therefore, to making the appeal a matter of right When, however, the business has accumu lated so that one court cannot take care of all the appellate business, intermediate courts are introduced, and the office of the supreme court has ceased to be that of a tribunal to afford everybody a review of his case. Real Work Is for Public. STATE SUES FOR LAND (Continued From First Page.) missions had no authority to issue the deeds.. Fraud Is Alleged. Also ' tnat tne certificates of re clamation, which the law said should be presented to tne land commission ers befcre the purchasers were tn titled to deeds, were tradulent. The attorney-general contends that the land involved should revert to the state. ,; Action--'- to recover these swamp lands was begun in 1919, when the attorney-general asked for an appro priation to conduct an investigation of the transfers and other details of the - sales. The legislature appro priated ?za,uuu tor tnis purpose. ' Sometime ago the state filed an other. Suit to recover swamp lands against A. C. Marsters, a Roseburg banker. ' A total of 6200 acres of land in Klamath county are involved in this action. The state alleged that Mr. Marsters obtained these lands through the use of dummy entrymen. The prestige of Oregonian Want- Ads has been attained not merely by The Oregonian's large circulation, but by the fact that all its readers are interested in Oregonian want-Ads. cussloa with relation to. raising, the budget for the coming year. It was reported at tonight's session of the Endeavorers that $2500 had been pledged and that this amount prob ably would be increased to $4000. Thia amount, it was said, will meet the- ex penses of the union during the year 1933. This afternoon the . delegates visited the state house and state in stitutions. Thia wu followed by ban quets served in five local churches-. Tomorrow will be given over to at tending church services and election of officers. The place for holding next year's convention also will be taken up tomorrow. Ihe delegate weni oa record favoring a move to obtain the' national convention of the- Ctoristrair Endeavor association for Portland iu 1925. - ASTORIA BEATS DENTISTS i Columbia Club Team Wins Second Victory Over Toothpullcrs. The Columbia club of Astoria de feated the North. Pacific Dental col lege last night on the Christian Broth ers floor by the score of 3 to 20. This is the second victory the As torians have over the local team. The Astoria boys have the best independ ent team that has been seen on a local court this season and are strong con tenders for the state title. Numerous fouls were, called os both teams with the Astoria boys the worst offenders. A total of 30 fouls were called, with McLoughlin of North Pa c'fic converting six out of 15. A. Langhart of Astoria converted six out of nine attempts. McLoughlin was the only member of the tooth-pullers that seemed to be able to locate the bas ket, taking a total of 12 points. Ave Langhart, the Astoria center, was the big star for Astoria with 16 points. This afternoon the Columbia club will clash with the Arleta Athletic club on the Franklin high echool court. The Astoria team handed the Arleta team a walloping last year at Astoria that the Arleta boys have not forgotten and they are out to even things up regardless of the Astorians' record. The summary of last night's game: N. P. Dental Col. Columbia Club. McLoughlin (12) ...V.. (6) Olson Peppin(2) f.,.F (2) W. Langhart Pentland (2) C (16) A. Langnart Butler (2) G 2) Mooers Michelson (2) G (4) Johnson Rogoway Spare.... .-Burns Rassur Spre. Lutz Spare. Ericbson Spare. Johnson ..Spare. 0 T. H. Gawley, referee. RAILUNIONS CONFERRING Chiefs to Meet in New York for Talk on New Flans. CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 18. Warren S. Stone, grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and W. S. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, left tonight for New York to attend a conference with ex ecutives of eastern railroads. The purpose of the conference, it was an nounced, will be to come to an agree ment whereby differences between the members of the brotherhoods and the railroads can be adjusted without re course to the railroad labor board. At the conclusion of the New York meeting the union leaders will go to Washington, where they will be joined by representatives of the conductors and trainmen for a conference with heads of the southeastern railroads February 22. A third regional con ference will be held in Chicago at a date to be named later. At a meeting' in Chicago to begin Monday representatives of various labor organizations will come to gether for a conference affecting the interests of their members. CEMETERY LOSES SUIT San Carlo Company Ends Opera Season Here. Performances of "Madame Butter fly and "II' Trovatore" Given. w 1th performances of "Madame Butterfly" yesterday afternoon and '11 Trovatore" last night, the San Carlo opera company has finished its present engagement of grand opera Offerings at the public auditorium and is oa. tts way to Seattle to begin opera, there. "We are satisfied with the support given by the public to the San Carlo opera company this trip," said Man ager William T. Pang-la, when the stag Hands began to pack away the scenery, "and the eale of tickets dur ing the engagement of the company in this city is reported to be better than in any of the -other cities pre viously visited en route. Portland people held back, of course, to buy tickets for the performances of the Chicago opera company next month. The San Carlo engagement has been an artistic success, and from th financial end we are satisfied." The largest audiences of the entire engagement were present yesterday at the. two performances, which were entirely successful, artistically. Three, of the artists have been han dicapped by attacks of cold- Sophie Charlebois, soprano, and twp tenors. Tommasini and Boscacoi, Miss Charlebois and Signor Tommasini did not appear once all week, but at. the last day of the engagement Boscacoi. who bad been sick two days, arose out of bed yesterday and sang with good effeet and artistic success as Pinkertdn in "Madame Butterfly" and also as Manrico in "II Trovatore." The" cast in "Butterfly" was the same as February 13, except that Boscacci was the Pinkerton instead of Agostini. The entire performance was splendid. In "Trovatore" the cast was: Leonora ... , ......... ,,Bianca Saroya Inez Anita Kllnova Manrico Romeo Boscacci Count DiLuaa. Joseph Royer Azuceaa, Nina Praacanl Ruiz , Joseph Tudis Ferrando Natale Cervl The performance was cordially ap- "plauded and there were several cur tain recalls. PRODUCTS TO BE SHOWN Women to Take Educational Ex hibits All Over Washington. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 18. Wom en's educational exhibits of Washing ton products will be' held in every city and large town in the state, ao cording to art announcement made to day by Mrs. Clarke Ketchum Tripp, director of the educational depart ment of the state chamber of com merce. The traveling exhibit of Washington manufactured products shown during January in Aberdeen, Hoqulam and Chehalis is under aus pices of women's organizations of those cities and will form the nuoleus of the exhibits to be displayed during the coming months. The schedule for the exhibits in part is as follows: Belllngham, March 8-11; Mount Ver non, March. 15-18; Yakima, March 22-26; Toppeniah; Marclf J9-April J; Runnyslde, April 5-8; Prosser, April 12-15; Walla Walla. April 19-2; KUenebUrg, Aprit 28 2S ; Wenatchee. May S-6. Exhibits are also planned for Ev erett, Taooma, Olympia, Centralis. Baymona and Vancouver, Wash.- FIRE DESTROYS CHURCH First Christian Edifice, Hepjmer, Burned Following Funeral. . HEPPNBR. Or.. Feb. 18. (Special.) Fire destroyed the First Christian church here this afternoon, the cause being ascribed to a defective flue Funeral services for the late Silas A. Wright, pioneer of Heppner, had been concluded a short time before the fire was discovered. The loss is es timated at $6000. with $3000 insurance. The fire department kept the flames from spreading -to near-by dVellings before the building had entirely col lapsed. Rev. W. O. Livingston, pastor of the church, has arranged to bold services in the Episcopal church ' at the usual hour tomorrow. RAIN THIS JVEEK SLATED Normal Temperature Forecast for . Pacific Coast States. WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. IS Weather predictions of the week be ginning Monday are: Rocky mountain and plateau re gionsConsiderable cloudiness and occasional snows and rains. Normal temperature. Pacific states Considerable cloud iness, rains. Normal temperature. SHINES DROP TO 5 CENTS Topeka, Kan., Experiences Reduc tion in Prices. TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 18 Shines went down to 6 cents here today. American-Russia Iiine Reported. BERLIN, Feb. 18. Reports were circulated In Berlin today that the Oerman-Ru8Sian transportation or ganization founded a year ago had en tered Jnto a working agreement with the Harriman steamship interests for steamship connections between Amer ica and Russia. 'The real work which the supreme court has to do is for the public at large, as distinguished from the par ticular litigants before it. Its main purpose is to lay down in particular case the important principles of law, especially in the Interpretation and application of the constitution of the United States and thus to help the people at large to a knowledge of tueir rights and duties and to make the law clearer. Many cases most important because involving large amounts of money may not present anything but an issue of fact, or re quire application of anything but well understood prinoiples of law. "Such a. case, however important to the litigants, is not one which the supreme court should be called upon to decide. One trial and one appeal are all that the litigants can right fully ask.y PEACE PUT UP TO ALLIES World Restoration Is Declared to Depend on Good Will. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 18. (By the Associated Press.) The restora tion of peace in this disturbed part of the world depends solely on allied good will, declared Yussuf Kemal Bey, the nationalist foreign minister, to the correspondent of the Associated Press today. Kemal Bey stated that he was going to the allied capitals to make it clear that Turkey desired peace along the lines of national aspirations, failing which she will continue her struggle. New Yorker Gejs $2500 for Tjoss of Wife's Body. NEW YORK, Feb. 18. Charles Se grist won a verdict for $2500 against the trustees of St. Raymonds ceme tery today for the loss of the body of his wife, who died in tne tntiuenza epidemic of 1918. - . Testimony 'showed that a strike of grave diggers caused an accumulation of nearly 100 bodies, all of which eventually were buried by health de partment order, in a trench scooped out with a steam shovel. The ceme tery officials were held to have been negligent in failing to keep their rec ords so they could identify Mrs. Be grist's body. More than a score of coffins were disinterred in a search for it. , FRANKH. CLEMENT DEAD Internationally' Known Engineer Succumbs at West Palm Beach. - WEST PALM BEACH. Fla., Feb. 18. Frank H. Clement, internation ally known engineer, who assisted in the location of the Northern Pacific, Mexican National railroads, the first railroad- in the Amazon river district in South America and who construct ed the Niagara Falls tunnel, died sud denly at his home here today. Mr. Clement was a member of a well-known Philadelphia family. The funeral will be held in Philadelphia. DAUGHTER CAUSES WORRY Continued From First Pfcge.) LEAP SAVED DAY'S CASH Wood Dealer Cheats Holdups by Jumping Through Window. An attempt by two armed men to hid up the office crew of the Stand ard Wood company, East Second and Market streets, failed early last night when C. V. Morris, owner of the yard. Jumped through an office window and saved the day's receipts. Morris, with a bookkeeper, was counting cash at a table when the intruders' presented their a revolvers and commanded them' to stand still. After Morris dashed into a private office and escaped the robbers fled. ENDEAVOR ELECTS TODAY This Morning Delegates Will Go to Salem Churches SALEM, Or.. Feb. 18. (Special.) Business sessions of the annual state' convention of the Christian Endeavor union closed tonight following a die- taken him by surprise. "It came all at once," he told the reporters. If Miss MeCormick wins the con sent of her father and paternal grandmother at the family conference tomorrow, family friends said her task will be only one-third accom plished. Her mother, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller MeCormick, recently di vorced from Mt, MeCormick, and her grandfather, John D. Rockfeller, Sr., are still to be seen. Miss Muriel MeCormick, aged 20, an elder sister, did not return from New York with her father Miss Muriel has characterized her sister's matrimonial ambitions as "ridiculous." Automatic Refrigeration FOR Residences, Confectioners; -Restaurants, Groceries, Heat Markets, Creameries, , Logging Camps, Etc. REFRIGERATION TROUBLES KLIHINATED. Every Machine Guaranteed. Investigate and Yon Profit. BELL ICE MACHINE & REFRIG ERATOR CO, 63 East Eighth St., Near Oak, Phone East 8872. Portland, Oregon. Diamond Specialist 348 WASHINGTON STREET THE Mark uuivan service DURING 1922 will be or special and vital significance to readers of The. Oregonian because: . , - - t , . . The primaries will begin in some states as early as March and will continue through all the succeeding months until the general elections in November. Among the Senators whose seats will be contested, either in primaries or elec tions, or both, will be: Senator Henry Caot Eo'dge, Massacfiusetfs Senator Hiram Johnson, California Senator Harry S. New, Indiana Senator Atlee Pomerene, Ohio Senator Frank Kellogg, Minnesota Senator William M. Calder, New York ' Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Nebraska Senator Joseph Frelinghuysen, New Jersey Senator Frederick Hale, Maine Senaior Robert M. La Follette, Wisconsin Senator Porter J. McCumber, North Dakota Senator James A. Reed, Missouri 1 and several others. , In'addition, the entire membership of the lower house of congress will come up in these primaries and elections. For. over sixteen years Mark Sullivan has reported, analyzed and. in terpreted congress, He is among the few big outstanding political writers to whom' newspaper readers turn for concise authoritative information. The more important of the coming elections Mr. Sullivan will report from the spot for over sixty leading newspapers using his service regularly, in cluding the New York Evening Post, Boston Herald, Pittsburg Leader, Louisville Times, Philadelphia North American, Detroit Journal, San Francisco Bulletin, Dallas Journal and The Oregonian. ' Mr. Sullivan has written the following statement ' relative to the political importance of 1922: J THE present political year will be of importance because of the position of some of the persons whose personal political fortunes are involved, notably Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, Senator New and ex-Senator Beveridge of Indiana, Senator, Pomer ene of Ohio, Senator Reed of Missouri, Senator La Fol lette of Wisconsin, Senator Hiram Johnson of Califor nia, Senator Calder of New York, Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, Senator Kellogg of Minnesota, and the like. These are merly the more conspicuous ones. To a greater extent, the year will be important be cause it will determine whether President Harding is to have, for the last half of. his term, a house with a comfortable party majority, or a bare majority, or no majority at all. I sliould like to be able to point out just what issues these elections will be fought out on, but I cannot yet do so with confidence. At the moment of writing, there seems to be the beginning of a state of feeling which would call for a review of the political decision of 1920 on our foreign policy. There is a disposition on the part of the farmers to take the stand that their market' would be enlargedrand their prosperity best served in the broadest sense, by a policy which would help to re store the stability and purchasing power of the nations of Europe. In other, and sometimes surprising quar ters, there is a disposition to get away from the degree of isolation that we embarked upon in 1920. Some of the senatorial elections will-be affected by the debate, just ahead of us, on the ratification of the treaties aris ing out of the Washington conference. There are also hints of the possibility of issues very similar to those financial and economic issues which made the first Bryan campaign so, sensational. r"Cf course, the tariff will be a vital issue in the elec tions this year. But no one can go farther than that, nor predict how the various sections of the country, or the various parties and factions will line up, because we are in the dark and for that matter congress itself is in the dark as to just what the tariff will be. With the present senate and house, the political year will be of the greatest importance. Congress will pass upon President Harding's plan for the reorganiza tion of government department; upon his plan for government help for privately-owned shipping; upon the tariff; upon the new treaties, the immigration bill, the soldiers' bonus, the enlargement of the federal ju diciary, and many other matters of high importance. In the broadest sense, the present political year will determine what is to be the future course of our coun try in its domestic economy, as well as in its economic re lation to the rest of the world. With the war behind us, with our pre-war conditions forever impossible again, and with the chaos of the war in process of being cleaned up, we shall embark upon whatever is to be our future course. Read Mark Sullivan Regularly in The Oregonian. r