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THE SUNDAY ' OHEGOKIAX, 'PORTLAND, JUJiE 18, 1923 7 6 AWAY BABIES vogue hi iww One Infant a Day Changes Hands in Big City. - PRACTICE CAUSES ALARM Charities Aid Association Urges Iiaw to End Indiscriminate Exchange of Youngsters. haa eent Supervisor McDanlel into the middle of Curry county to plan a highway extending from the Sixes river road for some distance toward the headwaters of the stream. There is a working- mine the, Inmann on Sixes river and it has no outlet except by trail, over which all Its supplies must be packed. The new road would obviate this disadvan tage and provide the mine with proper highway .connection to the main Roosevelt highway and accom modate a number of ranchers who likewise are short of traveling ac commodations. The $2000 available from the forestry department will be increased by county funds to a similar amount. WED BY FliERCH POLICY Poincafe's Visit to London Coldly Received. OLD - TIME VOLCANO BE LIEVED COHABITED. NEW YORK. June 7 (Special. a kskv sl dav Is elven away in New York city through advertisements Inserted in the dally newspapers, ac cording to the State Charities Aid association, wttlcn recently " result of a six months' investigation into the practice. The nnpintlnn declares that out of fairness to the babiea and to per- sons honestly seeking to adopt chil dren, legislation should be enacted to end this indiscriminate exchange of infants. Significant Facts K merge. -Several specially significant facts emerge as a result of this in vestigation," says a statement from the association. "First, it is clear that large numbers of unmarried mothers are surrendering their ba bies to strangers about whose mor als, personality, financial standing and standards of living they know nothing; second, that married cou ples are surrendering legitimate children without adequate reason and in the same haphazard method; , third, that children of unknown his tory and family traits who are pos sibly feeble-minded, psychopathic or tainted with inherited diseases are being foisted upon ignorant but in many cases well-meaning foster parents; fourth, that such indis criminate giving away of children not only works great hardship upon individual children and individual foster parents, but also has the ef fect of discrediting conscientious and intelligent home finding done by competent child-placing agen cies." The association first became inter ested in this matter of advertising for homes for children as though they were kittens or puppies through an appeal made to it by a desperate young mother. The girl she was only that told how she had adver tised several times for someone to take her .child. Each time she thought she" had got rid of the baby, but it was returned, usually because "it cried." Baby Advertisements Clipped. The association put one of its workers on the case. He clipped baby advertisements and followed them up with astonishing results. It appears that the parents in many cases care little for the moral and financial character of the man or woman willing to play foster mother or father. "On the other hand, per sons adopting such children, ac cording to the association, show as tonishingly small consideration for such important information as the child's heredity and previous en vironment. The story is told of an eccentric bachelor who called on the State Charitable Aid association and asked for a little girl to adopt. Since he had no settled establish ment and no assurance of ever hav ing one, and because of his peculiar personality and the fact that he was unmarried, his request was re fused. A year later he called In tri umph, looking more untidy and ec centric than ever, and displayed the picture of a little girl he had adopt ed through an advertisement. Two years later the papers announced that the child had been taken from this man on the ground of, Improper guaraiansnip. ' Mothers Need Protection. "The mother of a baby 'who is not wanted," " says the association's statement, "needs help not' help to get rid of her baby quickly and eas ily, but help in working out a plan which will preserve or re-establish so far as possible the self-resDect of everyone concerned. The mother needs to be protected against her- I self. She may think that by giving ! away her baby she can put him out of her life, that she can forget that she had ever been a mother, but this Is not true. "Presumably what has been going on in New York has been going fan all over America, and the children who are placed through newspaper advertisements are only a small part of those who, without any legal procedure, are passed along from one individual to another, perhaps - to be passed along by that individ ual to still another, and so on and on without any attempt to protect the interests of the child and of the foster family, or to keep any record of the child's Identity Some Evils Disclosed. "The brief study made by the State Charities Aid association has disclosed some of the many evils involved in the careless giving away of children through newspaper ad vertisements, but the fact that such practice is not legal is only another indication of the inadequacy and confusion of the New York state laws relating to children. "The association, realizing this, engaged an expert some time ago to compile all of the provisions of the law relative to children, now scattered through many statutes and codes a thing which has never been done before and after bring ing together and comparing all legal provisions In relation to each phase of child welfare, to draft leg islation necessary to clarify and supplement these laws. Some im portant legislation so drafted was enacted at the session just closed and other bills await consideration next year." Footprints on Island of Maul Said to Indicate Human Life There Centnries Ago. HONOLULU, T. H, June 5. (Spe cial.) Stories told by the native Hawailans of footprints in the lava flows on the elopes of the now dead volcano of Haleakala on the island of Maiil, which would. Indicate that the island was inhabited centuries ago when the volcano was still ac tive, have been verified by K. P. Emory and T. K. Maunupau of the Bishop museum. They recently re turned from the locality. The footprints were found on a patch about 200 yards In on the flow. Thirty footprints were found In an area of 35 feet. The foot prints are grouped on the smoothest patches In pairs and singly and point in all -directions. The prints are very even, a quarter of an inch deep and always. show the entire foot, Emory eays. . The theory that the persons who made the impressions in the hot lava were running to get away from the flow was first advanced, but it was seen that the prints cound not have been made by running persons as the toes were not more deeply impressed, than the heels. The pos sibility that the people were stand-, ing on a small island In the center of the flow was also considered, but this theory also comes to difficulty as the prints are so close together that two persons could not have stood within the area in which four prints were found. It is now Emory's belief that the natives sat on the hardened flow, perhaps 100 years ago, and chipped the prints into the rock, as natives have, chipped footprints into the coral at Moomoml, Molokai, during the last 10-O years. But unlike Mol okai footprints the ones on the lava floor are exactly proportionate to the feet of native children. The smallest is four inches long, two inches wide, at the toe and one inch wide at the heel. The sizes repre sent three or four different pairs of feet. The largest is 10 inches long, four inches wide at the sole and three inches wide at the heel. The toes are clear on some and in those cases they are natural to size and the curve of the foot. Two of the footprints are artificially outlined, but it is believed that visiting na tives did that to make them show up better. The natives contend that the prints were not made, by ordinary persons but by menehunes, little fairy people who are said to have swarmed the mountain, region, work ing at night. They say that . the menehunes were carrying heavy stones to the helau (temple) at Loa Iba, 13 miles away, and that the stones were so heavy it made the feet of the menehunes sink into the rock, long after the lava flow had cooled. - ' BRITISH TRADE MENACED Public Sees No Hope of Prosper ity While Military Dictator ship of Europe Lasts. campment of United Spanish war! veterans, with Mrs. Margaret E. 1 Becker of Portland senior vice-1 president, Mrs. Luclle .McFarland junior vice - president, and Mrs. Blanche Lund berg of Portland chap lain. The secretary and treasurer are appointive offices and- will be filled -today when the officers are installed. Mrs. Mayme Aove, retir ing president, paid a high tribute to the hospitality of Pendleton. The last session of the auxiliary was held this morning. This after noon the organization was the guest of the local post of the American Legion in a tour of the county, and tonight an informal social session closed the programme for the an nual encampment. ROBBER, RATTLED, FOILED BANK OF KNAPPA SCENE OF FUTILE HOLD-UP. GEI1Y IS LIKELY TO GET ME TIE Moratorium Extension Prob able, Says Bird. POINCARE NOW IN LONDON BY A. G. GARDINER, Britain's Greatest Liberal Editor. (Copyright, 1022, by The Ofegonlan.) LONDON, June 16. (Special Cable.) Premier Poincare's visit to London this week-end arouses very little public enthusiasm. The French Bismarck has never touched the English imagination and public opinion IS changing slowly but pro foundly under the influence of the French policy, of which he is the chief inspiration. The change would have come before but for the pro French attitude of a portion of the influential English press, the North cliffe newspapers being mere echoes of the wildest extravagances of the Boulevard press. The glamor of the war helped to obscure the violent conflict of the interests of the two countries. That now is passing and the naked realities are becoming .visible. ' Encllsh Trade Threatened. . England, living by external com merce, finds her trade perishing under the ruin organized by France. Twenty per cent of the working population of England is unem ployed, living doles costing the na tion $500,000,000 annually. The de moralizing effect of this "vast out door relief is alarming. Taxation is crushing us, there is no sign of recovery. It is being realized that there Is 4 no prospect of recovery while the French military dictatorship of Europe strangles all activities. The Washington conference was. the first real awakening. The publlo here was shocked by the revelation of the astounding French submarine alms. Genoa increased this disquiet by the silence as to the meaning and the facts of the French policy of the last three years. The enor mous military dominance of France no longer is ignored. It is realized that there is no parallel that can be drawn since Napoleon trampled over Europe. Her armies are un diminished. Her aerial force is nearly 20 times in excess of that of England. . Her devastated regions Btill are unrestored, German labor having been refused, but the con struction of her strategic railways in northern France is colossal. Black Troops on Rhine. Her black troops are settled on the Rhine and the employment of the enormous military reserve of Africa to 'make good the declining French population now is frankly accepted as a French military policy. FATHER WANTS CHILDREN Paternal Custody Asked Because . Mother Is Held Insane. OLYMPIA, Wash., June 17. (Spe ciaD Edward S. Gray today sought by means of habeas corpus proceed ings to- obtain the custody and care of his two minor children, who are being detained by their grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. David Barnhart, against Gray's wishes. Mrs. Gray, mother of the children, has been adjudged insane twice, but Is under parole to her parents, with whom the children are living. Gray alleges that the children are not receiving proper care because the grandparents are too old to care for them, and are in danger of in jury from the mother. Judge Wil son issued a' temporary write com manding the sheriff to take charge of the children and remove them from the-Barnhart place, setting the hearing on a permanent writ for Saturday afternoon. SHOTS RAIN AT SUSPECT Raider Sends Volley After Man Thought to Be Moonshiner. HOQTJIAM. Wash., June 17.- (Spe cial.) Shots were fired In a hot chase after moonshiners at Indian Creek, on the Westport road six miles below Aberdeen yesterday aft ernoon by two deputy sheriffs. One man was captured, one escaped and a still and 10 gallons of moonshine were confiscated. The man arrested, a farmer named Kilvo, lived at South Harbor and has been peddlirag milk in Aberdeen. Deputy Sheriffs Inman and Spaoe conducted the raid. .The officers, acting on informa tion, came suddenly upon the two men In, the open at work with their still. '.Both turned and fled for the heavy underbrush, the officer giv ing chase. Silvo was caught but the Other, whrwa iotitl... I- , . j. . j un known, escaped, followed by two euuiir xium xnman s pistol. Road to End Isolation. MAKSHFIELD, Or., June 17. (Special.) The forestry department Tenino Official Praised. CENTRALIA, Wash, June 17. (Special.) Tenino officials are praised for their economical ad ministration of the town's af fairs in a report just issued by the state bureau of account ancy, following the recent ex animation of the towns books. The report shows that the net assets of the town are $46,417.79, with an assessed valuation of $2S6, 263. Expenditures in 1921 were $2305.63 and there was a cash bal ance of $3273.64 at the time the audit was made. The recent action of the Tenino council la purchas ing the office of the Hercules Stone company for use as a town hall is commended by the state examiners. Pictures printed In dots on the Braille system are the latest In novation for assisting the blind. Seven Revolver Shots Fired In Mix-Up, hut Nobody Wounded. Outlaw Captured, in Jail. ASTORIA, OK. June 17. (Special.) An attempted bank robbery that proved a dismal failure was staged at Knappa, 14 miles east of here, about 8 o'clock this morning, and although a revolver duel in which seven shots were fired took place, no one was injured and the robber, who gave his name as Robert Drake, is In the county jail. David Stewart, president of the Bank of Knappa; W. C. Boatman and two other men were in the bank, which had just been opened. Stew art was leaning against the inside of the counter when the door opened and Drake walked In, . carrying a 88-caliber revolver, which he point ed at Stewart and directed him to throw up his hands. stftwart drormed t.n the floor be hind 'the counter and the robber' fired one ,shot at him but missed. The outlaw then walked behind tire counter and pointed his gun at Stewart, who kicked it aside. In the meantime Boatman had slipped Into an adjoining room, where he grabbed a 32-caliber re volver, and returning fired three shots at the robber, one of them hitting the latter's shoe but not penetrating the foot. The ' robber immediately turned his attention to Boatman, firing three shots at him, but all the bul lets went wild. The robber then jumped through an open window, landing ion the ground about 30 feet below and running down the railway track, hid in the brushy After telephoning the sheriff's office, Stewart, Boat man and two other men surrounded the robber, who was crippled as the result of injuring his foot in jump ing from the window. On being summoned to surrender Drake came out with his hands up ann was turned over to Sheriff Nelson and Deputy Bakotich, who arrived a few minutes later. Drake, who is 36 years old, said he came ( recently from Canada and had worked for the Big Creek Logging - company, of which Stewart is the manager. That was several years ago, but the officers of the county have no rec ord of him. " Drake talked freely of his act to the officers. He said he had been drinking heavily and was broke. He thought Mr. Stewart vs the only Political and economic disruption man In the bank and said he hoped seem to be the main motive of Poin- care. The Poincare policy seems to be the dismemberment of south and north Germany and French domina tion over the coal and iron resources of central Europe. The relation of all this to the paralysis of British trade now is apparent to the public. We desire to remain friends with France, but still there Is a general conviction that European peace alone will restore European pros perity and that France writes "no thoroughfare" over every path to peace. Tide of Opinion Turning. No one more than Lloyd George recognizes that he is gravely re sponsible for the power he gave to France to dictate the policy during and after the war. It suited his democratic political purposes to be popular in France. He paid an ex travagant price for this luxury. He now realizes that the tide of public opinion is turning and that nothing but a drastic reversal of French opinion and policy can prevent a serious rupture. He has become Instead of the hero of France the particular target for the animosities of the French newspapers. The at titude of the French press, like that of her music halls, long has been surprisingly hostile - to England, oftentimes brutal and insulting. In England the strength of the liberal movement against a military agree ment with France is powerful. Labor opinion is emphatically the same. The feeling on the subject has been strengthened not alone by a sense of the calamitous policy upon which France has embarked. but by a growing knowledge of the origin of the war and the share which the Poincare policy had In It. The mind of serious students is becoming profoundly disturbed by a deepening conviction that Germany was by no means the only culprit. Liberal sentiment is growing rapidly under the Influence of the post-war policy to repudiate French militarism the same as Prussian militarism, and this Is the feeling that overshadows the visit of Poin care today. MRS. MAH0NE ELECTED Spanish 'War Veterans' Auxiliary Closes Programme. PENDLETON, Or., June 17. (Spe cial.)- Mrs. Helen N. Mahone of Portland has been elected president of the auxiliary of the Oregon en- he could get $600 or $600 easily When he saw others in the bank he became rattled. Speaking of his surrender, Drake said he thought there were officers in the posse or would not have given up. BERRIES STILL MOVING Chief Object Is to Prepare for Conference at The Hague; Horse back Diplomacy Now Busy. BY WILLIAM BIRD. (Copyright, 1922, by The Oreronian.) PARIS, June 17. (Special Cable.) Horseback diplomacy had its in nlngs in London today, where Pre mier Poincare was entertained by Premier Lloyd George at a polo match. Those wfio recall that Lloyd George brought-about the downfall of M. Briand by taking him to the golf links at Cannes are wondering whether the equestrian sport may not . affect ' Poincare In a more or less disastrous manner. Not that the French premier actually mounted a- pony that would be too Napoleonic but the very atmosphere of the British sporting fields has a curiously de moralizing effect on distinguished foreigners. It Is easy to fall into the genial British sporting spirit of give and take, and the risk is that before he gets safely back to Calais Poincare may give much more than he takes, even counting the 6,000,000 francs London is present ing to her adopted daughter, Verdun, Anybody who supposes that Poin care is in London merely to make eloquent speeches about Anglo French solidarity is badly mistaken, The chief object is to prepare base for Tho Hague conference, which at present is constituted only of Some unhappy, lonesome experts, who 'vaguely wonder why nobody pays any attention to the fact that they are again saving the world. What cramped Lloyd George at Genoa more than anything else was the reparations question, which the Cannes programme forbade him dis cussing, and that's what he particu larly desires to talk to Poincare about now. It is significant that official hints have dropped In Paris during the week that while France will never consent to a reduction in Germany's debt unless granted a proportionate reduction in her own obligations she would listen atten tively to any proposal for the post ponement of payments. French critics say that this means that France does not particularly care about getting actual money from Germany, but only wants to have a perpetual credit against Germany recognized. These suggestions did not arouse much protest in France, even ariiong the most bitter anti-Germans, so an extension of the moratorium may be looked for, with probably compen sating concessions on Great .Brit ain's part in Asia Minor. - As for Russia, she will be less at the front at The Hague than at Genoa, since the collapse of Lenine has caused all hands to wait to see what policy will be adopted by the committee which now is direct lng Russia's affairs. Twenty Carloads Sent From Hood - River In Two Days. HOOD RIVER, Or., June 17. (Special.) The peak of the straw berry slipping season was reached last nlrht when- the Apple Growers association routed 10 carloads to Rocky mountain and Dakota points. Ten carloads were shipped again to night, bringing the season's total tnus iar to deliveries will ae- cllne- rapidly now and the berry har. vest will come to an end about JulyL The market up to the present time has been better than was ex pected, but heavy inroads now are being made by the big Puget sound producers and a severe break is ex pected the coming week. The asso ciation's average for strawberries last year was $2.85 a crate. This season's average probably will be tower. MILL REBUILDING RUSHED South Bend Plant Expected to Be Running In August. SOUTH BEND, Wash., June 17. (Special.) The Wlllapa Harbor Lumber & Shingle company has is sued a call for $25,000 which local citizens subscribed toward the re building of the old Kleeb mill here by the new company backed by J. W. Kleeb. A J. Cole and C. A Doty. The subscriptions will be taken out in preferred stock bearing 8 per cent interest, with large premiums If taken up In a few years. The pledges were made some months ago and the mill is now about half completed and work will be rushed with a view to cutting lumber in August. At the time the proposal was made to South Bend citizens, it was desired to get their UiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuimiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Welcome! Festival f Visitors! I 5 While you are in Portland be sure to come in and see our E E "complete display of plumbing fixtures for bath, kitchen and E E laundry. All high quality, guaranteed, and our special low E E prices will surprise you. Also see the wonderful E I ALAMO FARM LIGHTING PLANT I s: It's a real plant of large capacity, and new price is much less. Plumbing Heating FARM LIGHTING PLANTS 188 4th St. Between Yamhill and Taylor Sta. E Phones Main 707, E Auto. 540-78. 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