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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY., OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 21, 1922 MANY WOMAN'S PARTY HEADQUARTERS TO BE DEDICATED TOMORROW FRANCE IMPORTS NEW DANCE DEVISED DURING GENOA MEET Latest Fads Which Seems to Supplant Shimmy and Tango, Described as One-step Accompanied by Slight Rolling Motion. CAMPAIGN FOR ENDOWMENTS INAUGURATED BY UNIVERSITY Gifts to Eliminate Necessity of Asking Further Taxation Solicited Under New Plan of Administration. 10 PAHIS, May 20. (By the Associ ated Press.) France is awaiting with extraordinary interest the arrival of J. P. Morgan to attend the reparations loan conference. To the imaginative Frenchman Mr. Morgan is pictured as standing almost alone among the great financiers who will decide whether an international loan shall be issued to assist Germany in meeting her reparations payments. While Mr. Morgan has given no In dication, so far as it is known here, as to the attitude he and the other American financiers will take toward proposals before the reparations com mission. It Is assumed by French members of the commission that the Americans will want to know first of all what proposals Germany is pre pared to make regarding the terms of such a loan and what guarantees she can give to assure payment of the principal and Interest charges that will be suggested by the American group. France has imported a new dance from Italy. It is called the "Balan cello," and Is said to have been de vised during the idle hours of the Genoa conference. The frivolous minded even go so far as to say that It is the most tangible result of the economic meeting. The new dance, which seems to be supplanting the shimmy and the tango, is described as a one step accompanied by a slight rolling motion. Fa'.staff II, the outsider who won the Savie stakea at Enghien last Sun day and paid 177 for one in the mutual betting, was sold by his Amer ican owner, Marquise D'Oyley, to his trainer, DesGrandes, just one day be fore the race for 20,000 francs French women are making a studied attempt to Introduce Turkish Eight-Hour Day for Clerks at Capitol Considered. Longer Hours Believed to Enhance Economy and Efficiency. WASHINGTON. D. C, May 20. Es tablishment of an eight-hour day for employes in the executive branches of the government is being considered by the administration. The thousands of clerks, stenog raphers and other minor employes in the various departments In Wash ington, almost without exception, work seven hours a day. The consid eration being given to lengthening of the day is predicated on the be lief that It would enhance economy and efficiency. The old red building at First and A streets, northeast, facing the Capi tol, in which congress once met and in which President Monroe was inaug urated, will be dedicated tomorrow by members of the national woman's party as their home and as "the seat of power of the women of the na tion." , Unless the 1923 naval appropriation bll Is passed and signed by the presi dent before June 2. commencement day at the naval academy, all of the 641 members of the first class, if they so choose, will be commissioned in the navy despite efforts in congress to cut down the number of those to he made officers. The naval appropriation bill, which is before the senate naval committee, provides that not more than 200 mem bers of the first class shall be com missioned. As there is not much chance of the bill's enactment within much less than a month, house leaders said to day that apparently the navy depart ment would win its fight to commis sion the whole of this year's class. Postmaster-General Work, who at one time was president of the Ameri can Medical association, today dis closed plans to establish a free med ical service for the thousands of the nation's postal employes. Physicians designated by the post office department will be asked to render such service or advice as is needed, but in no instance will they be permitted to recommend any par ticular doctor or institution to any employe. Certain days each month will be set aside when employes wish ing medical consultation will be per mitted to undergo examination. Stage Door Johnnies Wait Impatiently in Autos. Old Type of Bran at London Thea ter No Longer Seen. LONDON, May 20. Stage door keepers of London theaters say the stage-door "beau" is extinct and has been replaced by a species of young man more aply described by the American term "stage - door Jolinny." The vanished "beau," according to the guardian of one London stage entrance, wore a large silk hat at an acute angle, an elegant cape over his evening clothes and waited, a bouquet in one hand, a be-ribboned box in the other, gold-knobbed swaggerstick under one arm, to greet a chorus girl and, with a graceful bow, to hand her into his private hansom-cab. Today, Jack doesn't do that. He sits In his automobile, puffing a cigarette, and when the other party appears he calls from the curb: "Come on, old girl, you've been a long time." The car starts with a jerk and the girl is hurled into a seat. "I suppose they are more sensible, but perpetual common sense makes stage doors like most other places these days they're awfully dull," says one doorkeeper. Art Is Hobby of Chicago Business Men. Several Members of Board of Trade Are Painters and Poets. CHICAGO, May 20. (By the Asso V- ciated Press.) Chicago, known chiefly as an industrial center, may yet rival Nuremberg as a romantic combination of art and business, Ed ward P. Butler, one of the city's lead ing merchants, said in a recent ad-, dress before a gathering of artists. Expecting to hear Mr. Butler tell how to build up business, the artists were surprised when he told them that art was a hobby of many of the biggest business men here. Mr. Butler, him self a painter, is said by critics to possess unusual merit. He explained that several members of the board of trade are painters or poets when not busy reading the ticker tape. Teaching poets how to fit trochees, dactyls, hexameters and spondees to- veils. Instead, however, of covering the forehead as is done with the Mos lem veil, they mask the mouth and chin with a cloth sufficiently heavy in texture to obscure the entire lower part" of the face and render the wear er's Identity somewhat difficult of discovery. Full page newspaper advertise ments, issued by the French Wine Producers' association and addressed to "Our Guests from America," in vites them to visit the wine growing districts of Anjou, Bordeaux and Bur gundy, to taste "the Imprisoned sun light." The advertisements proclaim In great black face type that "in all our cities throughout our entire wine growing region, you will not meet a drunken man." f The continued lack of fur supplies from Russia were reflected In the fur market quotations for the past week, which have shown considerable un certainty although the downward trend has not yet been entirely checked. The moulders of fashion are en couraging economy in the use of fur by suppressing muffs and capes In favor of stoles, which ar becoming more and more popular. . After a vogue of six weeks the vivid red hats which took the women of Paris by storm have entirely disap peared. In their wake has com a small bell-shaped violet straw crea tion with a thin band and trimmings to match. But it Is doomed, for It Is inexpensive. Already there are signs that the costly picture hat will be re vieved with the warm days. Silk continues to be displayed In the large stores in great . quantities and at prices ranging from $10 to (20 a yard, with a downward tendency. These showings display astonishing colors, but the predominant note is lavendar for evening wear. gether Into real verse by establish ing poetry schools is advocated by Miss Harriet Monroe, one of Chica go's leading exponents of art. Not the classic verse structure of poetry which was conceived to fit ancient languages, but human rhyth mic verse adapted to American speech, is the kind of poetry school that Miss Monroe believes and hopes will become a reality. "Present courses in our universities which pretend to teach poetry are all muddled up,' she said. "Usually such courses are taught by those who have merely the technical understanding of poetry and who are not at heart real poetry lovers. My idea of de veloping poets would begin with a social gathering place for artists. "Of. course, the way poetry would be taught would depend on the In structor. He ought to be able to write poetry himself, just as a music teacher must be a musician." "The Spirit of Autumn," an Im ported canvas about 30 by 45 Inches, by George Innes Sr., has been sold to a local art collector for $60,000. National Conference on Parks Opens Today. Series of Parka Extending: Acroaa Country to Be Urged. NEW YORK, May 20. The second national conference on parks, which opens at Bef.r mountain to morrow, will bring together most of the country's greatest experts on parks and public reservations. The one big idea of the conference is to urge a series of stat i parks extending across the country, so that travel may be stimulated and a proper enjoyment of the reservations provided. John Barton Paj of the American Red Cross is chamnan of the meet ing. Delegates from practically every state are expected. The hope !.f this 'week's meeting is that the delegates will be able to em phasize the" need of preserving the natural beauty and the historic spots to be found, in each state by making them into parks. A hospital which has had a hectic career will go by th' board Tuesday. Fox Hills, the army hospital on Staten Island, which was first greeted as a wonderful achievement, then questioned as being inconvenient and not well handled, and finally ordered closed because the work done was not successful, will be sold at auction. The hospital was closed through the activity of the Veterans' bureau and condemned to destruction by army authorities shortly afterward. The Majestic, Wliite Star liner. largest ship in the world, has been having a week of reception at her qock. Beginning tne day after she came to port, when the officers gave a luncheon and o ficial reception crowds, have visiter the pier every day to look the big boat over. The American relitf administration which is feeding starving Russians has announced that a crusade will be made against diseaso as well as hun ger, in Samara. A message received last week declared 200,000 persons in Samara need education in fighting disease and that already plans had been laid to instruct them on a broad scale. War of Pump and Can Cuts Price of Gasoline. Americans nnd French Soon De clare Treaty of Peace. PARIS, May 20. The war of the pump and can, which has been sending the price of gasoline down sharply during the past three months, has ended in a treaty of peace be tween the rivals. The familiar red pump labelled "filtered gasoline" was introduced into the Paris region a few months ago by an American concern and spread rapidly, so rapidly that the big local refiners, who have large sums locked up in cans, grew alarmed and began cutting prices against the pump. The pump interests responded and between them the price of the gallon aroppea oy stages from $1.50 to 75 cents. The belligerents then found the war unprofitable, came to an ar rangement and raised the price by 15 cents a gallon, at which advance It remains fixed. Historic Accuracy Desired. Boston Transcript. An American sugar planter in Ha waii, entertaining a friend, took him to the edge of a historic volcano and said: "That crater, Joe, is just 70,004 years old." "But why the four?" asked his guest. "Oh, I've been here four years," was the reply. "It was 70,000 when I came. Photo Copyright by Underwood. WOMAN'S BUILDING AT WASHINGTON. After a year of unusual quiet, the national woman's party will emerge next Monday with purple, white and yellow banners, to dedicate their woman's party headquarters opposite- the capitol. The house selected as a woman's Capitol is a historic old mansion which was used as the capitol after the British had burned the capitol, and it has a long and varied history. President Harding will address the women and the speech will be broadcast by radio. , ' Russian New-Rich Indulge in Orgy of Spending. Moscow's Nlcht Life Gar as Ever in Pre-War Days. MOSCOW, May 20. Moscow's new capitalists are indulging in an orgy of spending that has enlivened the city's night life "until restaurant and cabaret scenes resemble the palm iest days before the war when Musco vite merchants spent money freely. The millions of rubles netted by a day's trade or speculation are squan dered at night, because tomorrow the money will buy less, as prices for everything are climbing daily. When the ruble was quoted recently at nearly 2,50.0,000 to the dollar, prices for foodstuffs and other commodities were four to five times as high as a month previous when the ruble was worth nearly twice as much. The ruble equivalent of a dollar has purchasing powers that are fan tastic when compared with American standards, but which accurately typ ify the real value of essentials as compared to knick-knacks and su perficial adornments. A dollar will buy only 20 pounds of black bread, two pounds of butter, four pounds of meat, even less in the line of new wearing apparel. But it will buy bit of antique jewelry, or NEW PHOTOGRAPH OF MUCH-PICTURED BRITISH WOMAN ti$l 1 lilv J? Photo Copyright by Underwood. LADY ASTOR. Lady Astor has been photographed possibly more than any foreign visitor to the United States in many months, but declares this to be her favorite photograph. The attractive, vivid Ladv Astor. a Virtrinia e-irl has taken the country by storm and has porcelain that would bring ten times as much in America. The necessary things have leaped so high in price that the people sacrifice the unessen tials cheaply to get them. The rising prices and decreasing value of currency have sharpened the contrast in the life of Moscow's inr habitants. Thousands are unable to buy even bread, while hundreds pay the ruble equivalent of S5 for a din ner at the brilliant night restaurants. Imported face powder, at the cost of ?5 a box, finds buyers, while a pound of potatoes, costing less than 2 cents American, may be beyond the pocketbook of the next person to pass the market which sells both of them. A month ago foreigners living in Moscow found life cheap when calcu lated in American or English cur rency. The soaring prices, however, have changed all this, and on a com parative scale the cost of living is higher now in Moscow than in Berlin and New York. It is not the for eigner, but the Russian speculator who buys the champagne. Diamond Almost Emerald In Color. JOHANNESBURG. A blackish dia mond of fun and one-half carats was recently found in the Bloemhof dis trict, which, or. cutting, proved to be almost .emerald in color. The st ir.e r.iw- wtifhs cne and one ha'f ca -its an1 is believed to ba most va -uable, owii'sj o the raritv of gretn c'".'.mpnds. , been deluged with requests for speeches in all parts of the United States, Controversy Is Started by Crew of Workingmen. Rowers Seek Admission in 1922 Henley Regatta,- World's Oldest Blue Ribbon Aquatic Event. LONDON, May 20. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The admission of a crew composed of workingmen in the 1922 Henley regatta, the world's oldest blue, ribbon aquatic event, is a question awaiting the decision of the regatta officials which promises much . controversy. The Melbourne champion eight-oared crew cabled recently asking if its amateur status would be . recognized. It includes a locomotive engineer, a fireman, a fit ter, a steamship captain, a carpenter and a clerk. The rules of the am ateur rowing association, framed in 18S2, bar mechanics, artisans and la borers, or "any persons engaged in any menial duty." The rowing clubs last year voted to retain the rules. The Henley com mittee, not necessarily bound by these rules, having rules of its own, promises to give the Melbourne in quiry full consideration. They insist that the barring of laborers is not founded on snobbish prejudice, but it was felt that competition between ordinary amateurs ami men earning PARLIAMENT MEMBER. their living by their muscles was an unfair handicap to the former. What press comment has appeared here regarding the proposed meeting of Dempsey and Garpentier within a year frowns on a second meeting as fantastic and ridiculous. In the terms of one writer, it would "be prostrat ing good sport at the feet of money grabbers." The Northcliffe patters vehemently denounced the projected fight imme diately the arrangement was known. They are not alone. The Observer remarks: "The Carpentier-Dempsey kite has been flown. If the public is gulled into accepting it as a genuine cham pionship fight in which Carpentler holds a chance of victory, they will get what they deserve a reptition of Jersey City, although the spectacle will probably be of longer duration. A few more such matches and the game will receive a fatal setback London managers have changed the old-time theatrical catch phrase "When in doubt play East Lynn" to "When in doubt put on a revival." No less than a dozen favorites of other years have been disinterred and are now showing or preparing for Weed End stages in the hope of re deeming a season which has been strewn with failures. Barrie's "Quality Street," which has reached its 350th performance, In itiated the vogue of other revivals, and cycles of Shaw, Pinero, Gals worthy and Ibsen followed closely. American actors are particularly prominent on the London stage. Nevadan Claims to Have Longest Whiskers. Beard Once 14 Feet, but Shrinks When Washed and Combed. SACRAMENTO, Cal.,May 26. Claims jot J. J. Tanner, Brighton, Mich., to the world's long-whiskered cham plonship are disputed by Jack Wilcox of Carson, Nev., who has been grow ing a beard since December. 31, 1881 when he threw away his razor be cause it was dull and swore he never would shave again. His heard is 11 feet 3 inches long, but before it was combed and washed recently it was 14 feet long. Tanner's beard has been reported as nine feet long. The county surveyor at Carson re cently measured the Wilcox beard when the latter was entered in the long -whiskered contest Ding con ducted by the days of '49 celebration here May 23-28. Unless someone comes along with a longer beard, Wilcox will receive a gold medal, $50 a day and expenses while in Sacramento attending the celebration. Wilcox is a stone mason and when at work he rolls up his beard and carries It in a sack under his shirt. Sensational Murder Trial Ends -Woman Freed. Carlos Felix Dlas Said to Have Scorned Woman Who Aided Him to Rise. M' most sensational criminal trials m the history of Mexico's courts has ended with the acquittal of Magda lena.Jurado, charged with the murder of Carlos Felix Diaz, formerly in the Mexican diplomatic service. Diaz was taken in as a kitchen helper by Senorita Jurado when she was conducting a Mexico City board ing house and, through her energy and influence, eventually was given a minor government position and was later attached to the diplomatic corps In various South and Central Amer ican republics. With his elevation in the social world, Diaz is said to have scorned Senorita Jurado, who in a fit of rage upbraided him. In the quarrel Diaz was killed and Senorita Jurado was in prison for almost two years await ing trial. Her memoirs have been published in a local newspaper. Soviet to Control Electric Power. t MOSCOW. A new department of the soviet government will be created to regulate the electrical power and fuel industry, it is announced from the Kremlin. The new bureau will correspond in many respects to the public utility commissions maintained in the United States, NIVERSITT OF OREGON, Eu gene, May 20. (Special.) Ex cept for the notable Fenton and Warner collections, Vlllard and Deady halls, the furnishings of alumnae hall of the women's building and part of the construction of this structure, gifts to the university have not been very numerous or very great In the past. Some generous persons have given in money and in articles but It is on the state that the institution has had to depend for support. And slate moneys have to be raised by some form of taxation. It is because the people already have been as generous as their re sources will allow with the university and are heavily burdened with taxes that a campaign for endowments has just been inaugurated by the admin istration. Working through quiet appeals to the alumni of the institu tion to bear the need for endowments in mind and through serious minded presentations of the subject to groups of citizens gathered at the university for various purposes the campaign has since its active organi zation some time ago been steadily gathering headway and promises to become an important element in the future of the university. New Library Declared Need. The additional funds provided by the millage tax passed by the people May 1, 1920, were quickly dovoted to essential construction and to bring ing the maintenance up to standard. There is some money available for yearly construction work and to work toward a more ideal amount of new equipment, but there are not ade quate funds for the construction of a new library, for instance, to house the volumes which now crowd the old structure to capacity and which are under a constant fire hazard. The barren old assembly hall in Vlllard, historic as it may be, cannot provide seats for more than half of the stu dents today. Then there is great need for a building for the first three years of medicine and another for the sciences. Journalism is housed in a labyrinth of deviously connected annexes, wooden frame buildings which are standing invitations to disastrous fire. Architecture is tucked away in an old brick edifice by the Southern Pacific .railroad tracks. Under the present income of the university it would be years before these needs could be met adequately But if a successful endowment can be waged it is possible that within the next five years the most urgent of these needs can be met. An example' of how greatly a single 101-Year-Old French Jour nalist Still at Work. M. Maille Saint-Prix Contributes Column Article Each Week. PARIS, May 26. M. Maille Saint Prix, the oldest working journal ist in France and probably in the world, 101 years old, contributes an article of a column to a column and a half every week to the Abeille de Seine-et-Oise, a French provincial newspaper. M. Maille Saint-Prix told a corre spondent who called on him at his chateau, about an hour's journey from Faris, that his great regret Is that he can no longer go shooting, which he had to abandon at the young age of 90. Historic Shop Is Shown to American Tourists. Sign Marks Place Where Tea Was Shipped to Boston in 1773. LONDON. May 20. In Greenchurch Lane, an obscure byway i just outside one of London's busiest com mercial centers, American tourists may see over a grocer's store the "Sign of the Crown and Three Gilt Sugar Loaves" that marks the loca tion of the shop whence the tea was shipped in 1773 that ultimately went overboard in Boston harbor during the world's famous tea party. Only the sign, which was but re cently restored and which bears in big gold numerals "1650," the year the firm was established, is sugges tive of remote times. The grocer's shop, conducted by descendants of the firm's founders, over which the sign hangs, is now housed in a modern brick building. Inside nothing dis tinguishes the place from thousands of similar places of business. Death of First Chief Justice 93 Years Ago. Treaty Negotiated in 1794 Pre vented War With England. TEDFORD, N. Y., May 20. Wedi.es J) day was the 93d anniversary of the death here of John Jay, native of New York city, governor of New York, a leader of the revolting col onists and first chief justice of the United States supreme court. Jay was also President Washing ton's special envoy to Great Britain in 1794, and his name has been given to a treaty which he effected at that time, and which is credited with Hair and Skin Beauty PreservedByCuticura If you use Cuticura, Soap for every day toilet purposes, with touches of Cuticura Ointment as needed to soothe and heal the first pimples or scalp irritation, you will have as clear a complexion and as good hair as it I possible to have. Sample Each ra by Han. Addrsa: "Ovnesral ratorlM, Dajrt 0F, Maiden U Kiii." Soldewr whera. Soap 26c Ointment 26 and 600. TmlcnmSSe. aWCuticura Somp shaves without mug. u! gift can increase the efficiency and scope of a single school or depart ment is found in that of the Fenton law library to the law school. By this gift of some 12,000 law books the library of the university school was changed overnight from but an average good library to one of the best equipped west of the Mississippi. In it are volumes which scarcely can be obtained on the present market. and although $50,000 would cover the original purchase price, it could not be duplicated for twice that amount. Judge W. D. Fenton of Portland, a noted Oregon barrister, gave them to the University of Oregon in memory of his son, Kenneth Lucas Fenton, a former Oregon student, who died a few years ago on the threshold of a most promising career. Women's Building Example. The department of physical educa tion for women is another beneficiary of the generosity of the people of the state. A series of gifts ranging in sums from $1 to $5000 n an aggregate of $108,000 was given by citizens and organizations of the state to help pay for the Woman's building, which is the best home for a similar depart ment in the world. Practically the only real endow ment possessed by the university was given in the early years of the insti tution, when Henry Vlllard, pioneer railroad builder of the northwest, pre sented $55,000 to be used for endow ment. Because of this generous act Vlllard hall was named after him. In many ways the most historic of all the campus structures. Since that time the endowment fund has grown scarcely at all until last June the class of 1896, assembled for its 25th reunion at commencement time, raised $3000 to be placed in a loan fund for students. At the end of 150 years the compound sum, which it is estimated will be $403, 827.47, will be given to the university to do with as it sees lit. Collections are also among the things desired by the university. The most recent gift of this nature is that of Mrs. Murray Warner of Eu gene, who presented a collection of Chinese art objects gathered by her and her late husband during seven years of residence and travel in the orient'. A university is among the most permanent institutions of society, great educators have declared. Like wise, a gift to such an institution is among the most lasting of memorials, for the name of the donor Is chiseled into the ineffaceable memories of countless generations of students having prevented an impending war with England. It was ratified over extreme oppo sition: was termed by democrat republicans "complete surrender to England," and by Lord Sheffield of England on the other hand "that most impolitic treaty of 1794, when Lord Grenvllle was so perfectly duped by Jay." WOMEN BETTER STUDENTS University of Idaho Reports Ex cellence of Sorority Members. MOSCOW. Idaho, May 20. Women are better students than men at the University of Idaho and fraternity and sorority members excel their non- fraternity fellows in scholarship, ac cording to an announcement of com parative grades made during the last semester. On a basis of 6.000 as a perfect grade, the university average for the semester was 4.508, while the men av eraged 4.229 and the women 4.903. Sorority girls averaged 5.06 and dor mitory girls 4.696. Fraternity men made an average of 4.267 and men in the dormitories averaged 4.088. Class averages showed a steady in crease in scholarship from the fresh man class, with 4.302, to the seniors, who made 6.007. "Gets-It" Guaranteed Corn Remover Your Money Back if It Fails Nothing is so utterly needless as the suffering from aching, painful corns. It is as easy to peel off a corn as to skin a banana. Touch It with "Gets-It" and the trick is done. i"or hard corns, soft corns, old corns, new corns, any corn or callus. All pain stops instantly and the corn pro ceeds to loosen and soon can be lift ed right off, root and all, with the fingers. Your money cheerfully refunded if it falls. But it never falls. Costs but a trifle. E. Lawrence & Co., Mfr., Chi cago. 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