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ft. THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 2, 1922 YOUNGER LEADERS EUATEDE ID Dri Promises Results. CHANGE HELD NECESSARY Proposal for Reform In Upper Chamber Certain to Be Pushed, Says Mark Sullivan. BY MARK SULLIVAN. (Copyright, li)22, by New York Evening Pot, Inc. Pu Wished by arrangement.) WASHINGTON, D. G. July 1. (Special.) The writer felt some surprise that the two innovations in our mechanism of government dur ing the past week have not engaged greater public attention. The public and the newspapers have probably come to look upon such proposals as not always meaning any early or complete fulfillment of proposals, for changes in trje government or for changes in government proced ure appear frenquently and about as frequently disappear. Frequent rep etition of this process may have led some commentators to a point where they do not readily distin guish between serious proposals and those that amount to little, nor recognize readily suggestions which are likely to go through. The two suggestions made the past week are in a class by them selves. They have an amount of vitality and are backed by a suffi cient urge of interest and necessity to make it certain that they will be pushed. Whether they will finally come Into being can only be known later. . - The suggestions for abolition of the seniority rule in the selection of chairmen and members of sen ate committees comes from within the senate itself. The proponent is Senator McCormick of Illinois, and he Is a man of rather extraordinary energy. Probably there is no sen ator with so small a number of years of service who has brought to fruit so large a number of impor tant innovations. One example is enough. The adoption of the budget system was largely due to Senator McCormick's initiative and persist ence. Self-interest Possible. Senator McCormick's present pro posal might be supposed to have in it a considerable degree of self-interest. He is one of that large num ber of younger senators who are deprived of the opportunity to give their energy full swing because the important committee chairmanships and memberships are, under the seniority rulee, monopolized by the older senators. But while Senator McCormick is one of this group of younger senators, he is also an ex ception to it. His energy is such, and certain lines of his ability are so clearly recognizable that he has been able, in spite of the fact that he is only in his fourth year of sen atorial service, to achieve a degree of power and to entrench himself in Important places in the senate to a degree hardly approached by any other senator of equal youth. The seniority rule which Senator McCormick now proposes shall be abolished is subject to criticism for more than one reason. In the first place it brings into the citadels of power such as the chairmanship of the finance committee, the foreign affairs committee, the committee on commerce, the judiciary committee and the like, senators who, under the working of the seniority rule, come into those positions automatic ally, merely by virtue of the longer experience in the senate. -Some Incumbents ftualifled. Now, it is not by any means to be asserted that the senators who ma ntn those nnsitions by virtue of length of service are in all cases not the men best fitted for the posi tions. Quit the contrary is true. In . many cases it is conceded that the - old men who now hold these posi- tions are the best fitted for them. If Senator Lodge of Massachusetts were not the chairman of the com- mittee on foreign relations by virtue of seniority of service he would be given that position by virtue of his i.j .1..., field. There are persons, especially, for example, among those who favor the league of nations, who would ". like to see Senator Lodge deprived .... 1- TD.f font id t Vl H t an unprejudiced person, looking over the senate for the best man for this particular position, would undoubt edly select Senator Lodge.. If the seniority rule is abolished, Senator Z Lodge, under any rule that is sub ' etituted for seniority, will undoubt- edly be given the same position. ; The same is ' true of the commit- tee on commerce. This committee ; has charge of shipping and of all - the matters which, like the pro 1 posed subsidy, affect the United : States shipping board. The present - chairman of that committee, Wes- ; ley L. Jones of Washington, has ; come to the position through the t working of the seniority rule. But everyone can see mat oenator Jones - has a unique degree of knowledge " and experience in this field, and that his energy and vitality are adequate - to the immense amount of work it t entails. But the finance committee, on the other hand, illustrates the dissatis- faction with the seniority rule. The " present chairman, MeCumber, came to the position automatically, through Hie WUIAiug Ul lut) ficuiuiuj' oysLGiI. - Senator "MeCumber is a fairly able man, and, as it happens, his capacity for sustained industry is unique. . Nevertheless, it is undoubtedly a fact that if the senate as a whole X man of this tariff -making and tax ; making committee, some other sen- ator would get choice before Me Z Cumber. Very probably the choice ; would be Smoot of Utah. Several Chairmen Aged Men. The senators who are chairmen of the following important committees " are all above 70 years of age; name- ly: Warren of Wyoming, chairman of the appropriations committee; ; Lodge, of Massachusetts, chairman v of the foreign relations committee; Cummins, of Iowa, chairman of the interstate commerce committee; Nel . son, of Minnesota, chairman of the J judiciary committee; Page, of Ver--. mont. chairman of the naval affairs ; committee; Dillingham of Vermont, chairman of the committee on priv Z ileges and elections. ; Let no one suppose that all, or even any, of these men do not make t good chairmen of their respective ommittees, as it happens In the i cases or nearly all or the nommit " tees named the chairman has a unique equipment of experience and ability for the particular committee. j But the respect in which age may De, ana occasionally is, a handicap lies in the degree of hard work fre- quently required from the chairman . of an important committee. It happens again and again that .. the chairman of one of these com- mittees must hold hearings on a pro posed measure. These hearings fre quently run into weeks or months. Often the chairman of the committee must preside for six or eight hours a day over hearings in which the witnesses are argumentative and contumacious. The drain on the vi tality of the presiding officer Is most serious. At the same time, while he Is holding these hearings he must not neglect the regular sessions of the senate, which go on simultan eously. Youth Held In Check. The final vice of the seniority rule Is that new senators who have relative youth and the energy that goes with youth are deprived of giv ing to the senate and to", the coun try the full value of their energy and ability. They are put at the bot- 'o. o! the lists of committee mem berships and must wait for tiresome years until they reach places of power. The other of the two innovations to .which I have been alluding is that which proposes to permit cabi net members to sit In the senate arid house and take part in the de bates. This proposal in its present shape arose, within congress in the shape of a bill proposed by a mem ber. In the course of building up sentiment for his proposal, he ad dressed letters to all the cabinet members asking their views. There upon the matter was brought up at a cabinet meeting, was discussed thoroughly, and the end was that the cabinet, including President Harding, gave the proposal their ap proval. From the point bf view of Harding and the cabinet, the merit of the suggestion probably lies in the fact that it Is likely to provide a mechanism for the president to give to congress that leadership which everybody recognizes as a need. E GERMAN WORKERS GREATEST EATERS OP "LUXURY." Wartime "Iron Ration" of Armies Becomes Increasingly Popular With Laboring Classes. BERLIN, July 1. C h o c o 1 a t e candy, the war-time "iron ration" of armies, has become increasingly popular since the war among the laboring people of Germany despite the hand-to-mouth existence in which they are forced to live be cause of low wages and high prices. The workers here are said to have now usurped the prewar position oc cupied by the middle classes as the greatest consumers of this "luxury." Simultaneously with comment in the press on this anomaly in the workingman's budget, figures are announced which show that the German laborer today is reeciving wages barely sufficient to keep him and his family in the necessities ot life. Clara Bohm-Schuch, socialist mem ber of reichstag, reporting in Vor waerts the results of an inquiry into workers' living conditions, declares higher wages are necessary and that the present state of affairs is due to the practice of userers in agricul ture, industry and trade. Interviewing an industrialist, she writes, she was told that diligent workers in his establishment re ceived "good" wages at about 1150 marks a week, equal to about $4 in American money. She sought out a mechanic and found that was the exact amount of his stipend, and that he supported a wife and child on It. She cites also the case of a bar ber's family of five, including three children between 10 and 15 years of age, which lived on the man's sal ary of 1000 marks a week. In a third family of four, the budget was based on earnings of 3800 marks a month. CAMP TP ABOLISH GLASS DUKE OF YORK WILL REPEAT EXPERIMENT WITH BOYS. Youths From English Schools and Industrial Areas to Mingle on Equal Social Footing. LONDON, June 12. The duke of York, second son of the king, will repeat this year the experiment he made last year for what has been called "the discouragement of anobocracy and the encouragement of democracy." So thorough an understanding was then established between boys from Westminster school and boys from a Welsh steel works follow ing a football match that a sum mer camp was set up by the duke to encourage good feeling between boys Of different social status. Two hundred public school boys with an equal number from congested and industrial areas were invited to share the camp. The selection of the boys and the arrangements for the camp this year are in the hands of the Industrial Welfare society,- of which the duke of York is president, but beyond that the society will have nothing to do with the project. In order that the boys meet on terms of perfect equality cricket football and kindred games will not be played because it is felt that public school boys, having more op portunities for practice, would hold an advantage over -the other boys at such games. They will be divided into sections of 20, 10 being public school boys and 10 industrial lads: They will share the same huts, eat the same food and engage in the same sports and recreation. OUSTER OF JUNKERS AIM Bavarian Independents Would Expel Trouble Slakers.' MUNICH, July 1. .Independent members of the landtag have intro duced a motion demanding legisla tion to expel from Germany all male members of the reigning and prince ly families. The measure provides specifically I for the immediate expulsion from Bavaria of all male members of the Wittelsbach family and makes them liable to Imprisonment from three months to five years if found in the country after passage of the law. BERGD0LL CASE OUSTED Draft Evader's Mother Falls to Recover Property, I WASHINGTON, D. G, July The suit of Mrs. Emma G. Bergfloll of Philadelphia against the alien property custodian for return of about $200,000 worth of property , seized as Deionging to her son, I Grover C. Bergdoll, the draft evader, was dismissed yesterday. ) This action was taken without prejudice, by Justice' Bailey in the District of Columbia supreme court. FARM BLOC ILL! sue Ex-Governor Davis Friend of Rural Clique. SENATE BATTLE IS HOT Opponent of Swanson In Primary for Democrats Shows Unex pected Strength.. BY ROBERT GLASS. (Copyright, 1922. by The OregTntan.J LYNCHBURG, Va.. July 1. (Spe cial.) The farm "bloc" in the Unit ed States senate, just strengthened by the result of the republican pri mary in North Dakota, will receive further encouragement if ex-Gover-nor Westmoreland Davis succeeds in his ambition to replace Claud A. Swanson, senior United States sena tor from Virginia. Mr. Davis is contesting for the democratic nomination, which is equivalent to election. In the pri mary of August 1. He is the only opponent of Senator Swanson, who has held his seat since he succeeded the late Major John W. Daniel in 1910. In 1911 Senator Swanson won the democratic nomination over Car ter Glass; then representative, now his colleague tn the senate. Mr. Davis is making an appeal to the farmers of Virginia for their support, having been known when he ran for governor five years ago as "a friend of the farmer" and be ing affiliated for several years with the Farmers' Co-operative Educa tion association. Candidate Runs Farm. ' He owns a farm in Fauquier coun ty. In announcinx his candidacy. Mr. Davis declared that "land Is still the fundamental source of wealth the foundation ot the nation's pros perity," and in answer to a question said he would affiliate with the so called farm bloc in the senate on agricultural questions, if elected. He announced also in favor of ex tending the time of farm and cattle paper, and declared that the lnaus trial depression through which the country has been passing was "largely due to the limited purchas ing power of the farmer, who should have the same opportunities for ob taining credit as have other groups of endeavor." He favors placing a representative of the farmers upon the federal reserve board. But the hope of the Virginia farm-, er does not hang upon the election of Mr. Davis, H appears, for Sena tor Swanson's friends declared that he also is the "farmers' friend." Farm Bloc Aided. The senator does not avow affili ation with the farm bloc, but does hold that he has helped the farmers in the senate on more than one oc casion. He points to his work for federal appropriations for roads, his work In behalf of parcel post, his vote for the federal farm loan act, for the Kenyon-Kendrick bill to regulate the packers, and his speech for the bill providing for co-operative marketing for farmers. A feature of the campaign which supporters of both men are taking note of is the large registration in the cities of women. Payment of capitation taxes six months prior to election is a prerequisite to voting in Virginia, and in the cities of the state men and women taxpayers are approximately equally divided. In Richmond, Lynchburg and several other cities the women who have paid their taxes in time to register and vote in the November election, and therefore in the primary, out number the men. Appeal Made to Women. As a consequence, factions of the m I ''''; "'"'7' w V . """"?"' attle; Charles Lee Hlnman, Seattle; Ru and the formerly unusual sight. forselI H Fluent, Seattle; Alexander Vler- virgima, or women around neaa-. quarters in large numbers, is now common. Another unusual feature of the campaign is a wife actively canvassing for husband. Mrs. West moreland Davis is making the rounds building up an organization of women for her husband. In her travels she is accompanied by wo men leaders, who were so effective in their efforts to elect E. Lee Trancle governor. When the ex-governor first an nounced his candidacy it was not taken very seriously by the poli ticians of the state, but as the day of election approaches, they confess that a warm battle will be fought before "the result is ascertained. NEWj BILLS INTRODUCED Measures Expected to Add Effi ciency to Forest Service. WASHINGTON, D. C, July ' 1. More efficient administration of the federal forest reserves was said to day to be the object of a half dozen bills introduced by Chairman Norris of the senate agricultural commit tee after consultation with Secre tary Wallace of the department of agriculture and officials of the for est service. Power would be given to the eec retary of agriculture under the leg islation to receive cash, deposits from stockmen, lumbermen and others operating in the forest re serves and to buy land and build stations for the forest rangers. The secretary, under one of the bills, also would be given authority to make arrests. WORKMEN HELD COERCED Packing: Concern Accused of Vio- ( lating California Law. SACRAMENTO, Cal., July L Complaints have been issued through the office of District Attorney Brad ford of Sacramento against Libby, McNeil & Libby of Chicago, operat ors of a large canning plant here, charging the. company with viola tion of the corporate securities act, It was announced today at the office of State Corporation Commissioner Daugherty. The company " sold stock to its employes on virtually a "buy this stock or lose your .job plan." the corporation department stated. MURDER RULING ASKED Court In , Denton Case Asked to Determine Nature of Accident. LPS ANGELES, July 1. Whether a murder is an accident is a ques tion the Los Angeles courts will I be called upon to determine in con nection with settling the estate of Jacob Charles Denton, mining op erator, for whose murder Mrs. Louise L. Peete is. serving a . life sentence at San Quentin peniten tiary. The administrator of the es tate has filed suit against the Em- ployes' Liability Assurance company of London, Ltd., in which Denton was insured for $15,000, to recover that sum. The insurance company has re fused to pay on the ground that its policy set forth the money would be payable if the insured died by accident; that the body found in Denton's residence in September, 1920, more than three months after he had disappeared, was not satis factorily identified as Denton's, and that notice of death was not filed until 90 days after it had occurred. A suit has been filed against the administrator by the heirs of Dolly Winters Denton, the mining opera tor's second wife, in an effort to obtain the estate which is valued at $30,000,. The administrator con tends the property . should go to Denton's daughter by, his first wife, who divorced him. v , SECRETARY DENBY AND PAR TY TO BE WELCOMED. Transport Henderson to Reach Yokohama Today Programme for Visitors Arranged. TOKIO. July 1. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The United States naval transport Henderson, bearing Secretary of the Navy Denby and members of the .Annapolis class of 1881 to their class ""reunion in Tokio, will receive a typical naval welcome on its arrival at Yokohama tomor row. , The Henderson, which is expected at noon, will be met at the mouth of the bay by Japanese seaplanes and destroyers and escorted to her dock while the shore batteries boom their salutes. At the landing stage Rear-Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Premier Kato's naval adviser, and Admiral Baron Sotokichi Uryu, member of the Annapolis class of 1881, at whose invitation the visitors came to Japan, will greet Secretary Den by and his party in the name of the Japanese navy. With the reception party ashore will be Admiral Joseph Strauss, commander-in-chief of the American fleet in Asiatic waters, who has ar rived here on the destroyer Alden to accompany Secretary Denby on his far eastern tour. More formal greetings will be presented to the visitors at Tokio, where members of the Japanese cab inet, American Ambassador Warren and other distinguished personages will receive the party on its arrival from Yokohama. ' The first two days' stay in Tokio will be quiet owing to the funeral of Prince Higashi Fushimi, who died recently. On the Fourth of July, however, the visitors' programme will be a full one, including a re ception by American residents at the Tokio club, the usual holiday func tion at the American embassy, a luncheon given by Premier Kato, dinner for members of the Annapo lis class of 1881 and a dinner and theater party for the visiting wo men with Baroness Uryu as hostess. In. the capital it is considered a happy coincidence that the head of the United States navy has arrived just as Japan has officially approved the treaties signed at the Washing ton conference providing for reduc tion of offensive armament on the sea and the promotion of better feeling among the powers. 3 WOMEN MADE LAWYERS Twenty-Six Persons Are" Admitted to Washington State Bar. ' OLYMPIA, Wash., July 1. (Spe cial.) Three women were among the 26 applicants who passed the state bar examinations yesterday and were sworn in by Chief Justice Parker of the supreme court yester day afternoon. Sixteen of those tak ing the examination failed. The following persons were ad mitted to practice: , George Edgar Clark, Everett: Edgar Anderson. Seattle; Glen E. Wilson, Se- hus, Seattle; William Locke Bailey. Se attle; Alfred J. Schweppe. Seattle: Bertha E. Mattison, Taconia; Florence Schwelt ser, Seattle; Beatrice E. Starr, Seattle; Ervin F. Daliey, Seattle; Stewart Doue lag Barker, Seattle; Eugene D. Ivy, Se attle; Peter Summerset Jr.. Seattle; Henry Walker Mines, Seattle; Kenneth A. Roegner, Seattle; Thomas S. Grant. Se attle; Archibald D. Gillies, South Bend: John Carl Bell, Seattle; John J. O'Brien. Seattle; Tim Healy, Seattle; Edward G. Dorbin. Zlllah; Ethan Allen Peyser, Se attle; Charles Gilbert Moran, Seattle, and Clarence J. Coleman, Everett. T0NG PRESIDENT KILLED Seven Other Chinamen Wounded in Furious Gun Battle. SAN FRANCISCO, July 1 With Chung Gee Hing. president of the Suey Sing tong, killed, another Chi nese dangerously wounded and six others badly beaten in a pistol fight in which more than 40 shots were fired, the police today were on the lookout, fearing recurrence of a tong war. The death of Hing followed what police believe was a plot to extort coin from So You, who lives in a shack near the shrimp fishing grounds, according to the police. Detectives came to the conclusion that Hing and Jue Chew drove to the shack to demand money. So You resisted. A fight ensued. Then out of another room in the shack came five other Chinese whose pres ence had not been known to the newcomers. Pistols were drawn and fired with the result that Hing was killed and Chew wounded. Several arrests were made. AGED MEN'S HOPE DASHED Promise of All Whisky They Re quire Proves Hoax. SAN FRANCISCO, July 1. Men over 85 years of age exempted from the provisions of the Volstead act. obliged to let them have all the wnisKy iney neea. That is the story that some wag spread in San Francisco and sent scores of old and near-old men to Rutter's office in quest of whisky dispensation permits. Bald heads bobbing and white whiskers waving in the breeze, they hobbled along on their canes at a gait which made some seem re markably young for their supposed years. While Agent Cuneo spent the day explaining to the aged visitors that their jaunt down town had been in vain, many became hostile and left the office "cussin" " the government, satisfied they were being hood winked out of their liquor. $75,000 Theater Ordered. , ASTORIA, Or., July 1. (Special.) A contract was closed today by the Astoria Amusement company with E. W. Houghton of Seattle for the erection of a fireproof moving picture threater at the corner of Twelfth and Commercial streets, the cost of which will be $75,000. FRENCH TO EXPLAIN DELAY mm Minister Sent to America to Point Out Difficulty. ' TAXES DECLARED HIGHER Only In Million-Dollar Class Does American Ijevy Equal That of French, It Is Said. BY ANDRE TARDIEU. Former French High Commissioner to the United States. (Copyright. 1022, by The Oregonlan.) PARIS, July 1. (Special Cable.) M. Parmentier of the ministry of finance has left for the United States. He will confer there with the American committee on the in terallied debts. The attitude of the French government need not be re peated. We intend, as always, to pay what we owe. France, however, finds no difficulty in stating to her friends why she cannot pay imme diately. While France owes huge sums she also Is a creditor of incredible amounts. Suppose, for instance, that Russia and others to whom France has loaned should pay up. Then France would le in a good position to repay what she owes the United States and Great Britain. In other terms, France finds herself embar rassed In paying her debts because other allies don't pay what they owe her. Interest Eats Revenues. A second difficulty is Germany. France has collected practically nothing from Germany In two and one-half years for reparations. As her expenditures for pensions had tu be made she has had to borrow. Our debt interest absovbes nearly 55 per cent of our total revenues and as we win be obliged to con tinue borrowing so long as Germany fails to pay, it Is possible that in five years our debt interest will total 70 or 75 per cent of our total resources. Parmentier will give the American committee all the details of this sit uation. He also will dispel an illu sion that exists In certain quarters concerning our fiscal policy. He will demonstrate that a careful examina tion will show that the French tax payer is more burdened than the American. Taxes Are Compared. My calculations show that con sumption taxes take 15 per cent of every Frenchman s income on the average, while in America, it totals 3.2 per cent. As for the income tax the following example is signifi cant: On an income of 8000 francs the French taxpayer pays according to the city where he lives from 60 to 120 francs, while on a salary of $600, practically the equivalent, the American pays nothing. On 25,000 francs the Frenchman pays 2716 and the American nothing on an equiva lent' Income. On 50,000 francs the Frenchman pays, according to how he gets his money, from 21 to SI per .cent. The American pays 1.8 to 12 "per cent at the most. For bigger Incomes, like 2,000,000 francs, we tax from 73 to 83 per cent when the revenue is from stocks, while in the United States the tax is only 55 or at the most 65 per cent. We may conclude that the mass of the French taxpayers pay more than American taxpayers. Your fig ures do not compare with ours until you get above $1,000,000 incomes. and in France there are not more than 100 men with that sort of in come. My own conclusion is that the Frenchman payB about three times on an average what an Amer ican pays. You may reply that doesn't alter the fact that France owes the American treasury $3,000, 000,000. You are right. But the preceding figures may shed Bome light on the problem which the com mittee faces. VEIL DANCE CAUSES RAID 800 Men Guests at Chicago Club and Four Women Arrested. CHICAGO, July 1. Eight hundred men guests at the Emil Sola club, where the entertainment included a veil dance by four young women clad only in scant pieces of gauze,, were arrested by police raiding par ties early today. Patrol wagons from five stations, working in re lays, were used to transfer the pris oners to several stations where they were booked for disorderly conduct. Harry Cohen, host at the enter tainment, was charged with violat ing a state statute against Indecent public performances. The women, after discarding their veils for more substantial attire, were booked on similar charges and ordered to ap pear in the morals court with Cohen. The raid established a record for the number of arrests In one day. FARM HANDJS KILLED Truck Dashes Over Grade, Crush ing Ralph McCrary. THE DALLES, Or.. July 1. (Spe cial.) Ralph. McCrary, a farm hand on the ranch of G. R. Walton, who lives five miles south of The Dalles on the Benson road, was killed this afternoon when a light truck which he was driving to The Dalles be came uncontrollable and dashed over t:.e grade. The Benson road is little traveled, and McCrary had been dead some time before the wrecked car was discovered. The truck had turned completely over, striking on its side and crush ing McCrary beneath It. First Degree Murder Charged. YAKIMA, Wash., July 1. As fu neral services were being held for Arthur Wright, who died as a re sult of a pistol fight on June 20 an Information charging Claude Labee with murder In the first de gree for his ' alleged shooting of Wrieht was filed in court. Labee i3 in the county jail. Automobile Blue Book 1922 Volume 4 Covers the entire western half of the United States, also main trunk lines to the Atlantic coast. Price $4.00 The. A. W. Schmale Book Shop 290 Morrison St., Portland, Or. $25 $30 $35 ress Up for the Fourth Come up one flight and buy your new suit the Upstairs way. The money you save on the purchase will add considerably to your spending money on the Fourth. s and REG1PRDCITY IS DEMAND FRANCE WANTS CREDITORS TO REDUCE CLAIMS. French Ask England and America to Scale Debt if Republic Is Lenient AVitli Germany. BY FRANCIS W. HIRST. (Copyright. 1022, by Public Ledgar Com pany. Published by Arrangement.) LONDON, July 1. Special.) It is contended in France that if France is called upon to allow its legal claim in Germany to be cut, the lega-1 claims of Great Britain and the United States upon France should be reduced. Public sen timent here ia more ready, it seems, than public sentiment in America to make this sacrifice, because wk have already real ized that the claims are hardly worth the paper they are written on and that a general scaling down of economic possi bilities would greatly benefit trade and credit, besides removing some potent cause of future friction. The most eaultable and rational meth od of procedure would be for the United States and Great Britain to agree to scale down the debts by applying an in dex number measurement of munition and food pricea. When that has been done, it will be for the government and congress or tne unltea states to consider vhAthpr t.hev will Dermit interest on these war debts to come Into the United States In the shape or gooas tjrui&n and French textiles, hats, boots, machin ery, tools, steel rails, etc. Reports of the unltea states new tariff indicate that its passage, instead rtf facilitating an in-creased flow of goods from Europe will diminish it. MANILA STRIKE SETTLED Inter-Island Vessels Tied Vp 24 - Hours Resume Service. MANILA, July 1. (By the Asso ciated.) A 24-hour strike of the of ficers and crews of the inter-lslana vessels, which tied up approximately 30 vessels, virtually was settled to- dav when individual owners of the craft affected arranged new wage contracts, permitting the majority of the schedules to be resumed. The men walked out following a decision by the Marine Officers- and Marine Engineers' association to re fuse to accept a 20 per cent cut in wages effectLve today. Several ves sels due to sail yesterday from Ma nila in the inter-island trade were tied up. The strike did not affect ocean-going ships. SPOTTED FEVER DEADLY Health Research Assistant Dies Experimenting With Ticks. HAMILTON. Mont., July 1. -Will-lam Edwin Gittinger. 22, research assistant in the United States pub lic health laboratory here, died early today of spotted fever. He was ex perimenting with wood ticks, said to carry the virulence, when the infec tion was gained, it was said, but M rf Jflttltnomaf) j flf l When in Portland jfr$ ! if I make the Multnomah W M 7 1 f your headquarters. 41 I , There you are wel- 1 I come. m f Young Men's Suits SO, All Alterations Free UPSTAIRS - Broadway at Alder Cat the exact manner was not learned. He had been 111 less than a week. Toung Glttlnger had been a stu dent of medical science at the Iowa State college at Ames, la., and later at the Montana State college at Boxc-man. I MOVIES ARE RECOGNIZED Terre Haute Schools to Provide Lectures on Film Industry. LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 1. Lec tures on the motion-picture industry will constitute part of the course of instruction in the schools of Terre Haute, Ind., next winter, ac cording to a statement made here by Alvin Heyhouse, principal of one of the schools of that city. . Mr. Heyhouse headed a delegation of Terre Haute teachers and pupils who have been visiting motion picture plants here, taking notes. collecting bits of film, inspecting projection rooms and, in general. following a screen story through the various phases of its manufac- ture. CUPID KEPT IN FAMILY Four Pjatt Brothers Marry Three Harris Sisters. ST. LOUIS. July 1. Following the ma.riage here of Robert Pyatt, 26, and Mrs. Edna Pyatt, his brother Edward's widow, it was learned to day that four of the Pyatt boys had married three sisters. The three sisters' maiden name was Harris and they are second cousins to the Pyatt boys. All reside, in Cherryville. Mrs. Robert Pyatt" said she could not ex plain the intermarrying of the fam ilies, except it was "sort of a habit." ARTIST'S MOTHER DIES 1 Mrs. Charles Dewolf Gibson at Age or Fourscore Passes. BRISTOL. R. I., July 1. Mrs. Charles Dewolf Gibson, mother of Charles Dana Gibson, the artist, and Langdon Gibson, the Arctic explorer, died suddenly tonight after an at tack of acute Indigestion. She was born in Boston SO years ago and was a direct descendent of Governor William Bradford. HOME FOR JEWS OBJECT House Adopts Resolution Relative to Holy Land. WASHINGTON, D. C, July 1. The house today adopted and sent to the senate a Joint resolution de claring "that the United States of America favors the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." The resolution declares 4haf noth ing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious S35 - ty Corner rsw Pantages rights of Christians and other non Jewish communities in Palestine, and that the holy places and re ligious buildings and sites in Pales tine should be adequately protected. LAND SALE DATE FIXED State Holdings in 1 9 Washington Counties Included. OLYMPIA. Wash.. July 1. (Spe cial.) Lands or" timber in 19 coun ties in the state will be included in the special state land sale to be held August 1. State Land Commissioner Savidge announced today. State lands will be sold in Chelan. Clarke. Grant. Okanogan, Pend d'Oreille, Pierce, Snohomish, Spo kane, Stevens and Wahkiakum counties and timber in Clallam, Grays Harbor. Island. Jefferson, King, Mason, Pacific, Pend d'Oreille, Stevens, Thurston and Whatcom counties. Platted city properties will be sold in Spokane and Colville. Tldelands will be sold in Jefferson, King and Mason counties and har- J bor area leased at Port Angeles. . I'endleton to Pave Streets. PENDLETON. Or., July 1. (Spe cial.) Approval of first resolutions on 15 blocks of paving was voted last night by the city council. With ether resolutions already passed Pendleton is practically assured of nearly a mile and one-half of pave ment to be laid this summer. The streets named in the proposal are Tustin from Lilleth to Jane, Bluff from Main to Jane. 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