The Oregon daily journal., May 31, 1916, Page 3, Image 3

THE ' OREGON - DAILY ' JOURNAL PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, MAY SI, 191ft
OREGON LOSES
EARLY CHANCE
IliLOWER HOUSE
Secretary Daniels' Recom
mendations of Million Dol
lars fnr Npw Snhmflrine
; Bases Not in Naval Bill.
chasing the naval bane, which Is re
solving Into a will-o-the-wiap, the op
portunity to secure early approval of
a submarine base may also have been
lost.
It Is likely that officials, both in
the navy department and in congress,
would be Interested in hearing in this
connection of a movement for co
operation by local interests in provid
ing a site for new bases that may be
selected. This would te in line wICi
the policy Oregon has pursued in river
and harbor appropriations, and a mani
festation of public spirit that pro
duces universal commendation. Jt
would not only make a saving to the
government, but would disarm much
tf the hostile criticism that follow
every effort of local Interests, unjust
though this criticism often is.
Washington. Mav 31 (WASHING
TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL)
The Columbia river naval base cam
paign, in which F. C. Harley of As
toria has been prominent, promises
soon to settle down to the hauls of un
effort to secure a submarine base.. In
this form it has a chance for success.
' However, one point In the fight has
obviously been lost bv the failure of
the naval affairs committee of the
house to Include in the naval bill an
Item of $1,000,000 recommended by
Secretary Daniels for new submarine
bases.
Not through laches on the part of
the Oregon senators, whom Harley has
been attacking, but on the house side,
where Harley has neglected to criti
cise, has the first skirmish for some
thing attainable been passed by de
fault. No appearance was made by
members of the Oregon delegation In
the house to have the submarine base
ltehi put Into the bill.
Hawliy'i Bill In Abeyance.
Representative Flawley, in which
district such a base would be estab
lished, Introduced the bill for a first
class naval bane for the Columbia, a
duplicate of which was presented by
Lane in the senate. He has been com
pelled to wait for the naval appropria-
.lon '-bill to get out of the way before
a hearing would be given upon the
naval base bill. Meanwhile the naval
appropriation bill was made up with
out the provision for submarine ha sea
recommended by the navy department.
Now the hope Is held out that after
l. A ..I . .. V.A..A . . I Kir Ka ti miu.
, iiraiiiigB iiatv uccu ri ' 11 " J lira iiwuoc
committee on the Columbia naval base
bill, the committee can he persuaded
to report a substitute providing for a
submarine and torpedo boat base
That is possible, nut members of the
house, already restive under the largs
appropriations provided for the navy
will look with critical eyes on naval
bills that come trailing after. They
are likely to ask why such projects
were not put Into the general bill, so
they could have had the whole subject
before them at once.
Fifteen Bases Contemplated.
Then, too. other places In the
Vnlted States will want to know why
a bill should be passed for one bane at
a specified place, when the secretary
of the navy recommended a general
program. A detailed statement by Ad
mlral Benson showed that the estab
lishment of 15 submarine bases was
contemplated, two on Hie Pacific coast.
One was recommended for the Colum
bia river and one for I'uget sound.
Secretary Daniels has recently stated
that If two bases are authorized for
the Pacific, he favors the Columbia
river for one. There tan be little
doubt that southern California will
put in a strong claim on the ground of
seeming neglect of that part of thu
roast, and It will be able to quote somj
direct statements by naval experts In
its favor.
Opportunity Is Lost.
All In ill, the prospects are none
too rosy for action at the present ses
sion. In the breakaway on the naval
appropriation bill, the submarine base
ire left In the lurch. An attempt may
be made to amend the bill on the floor,
but the naval affairs committee, un
convinced up to tills Ume. would evi
dently have to be persuaded. While
LEASING OF SURPLUS
POWER OF RECLAMATION
SERVICE PROJECTS
AMERICA COMES FIRST
SAYS PRESIDENT IN
MEMORIAL DAY SPEECH
And there la at present upon us a
crista which seems to threaten to be
a new crisis of division. We know
that the war which Is to ensue will
be a war of spirits and not of arms.
We know that the spirit of America
is invincible, and that no man can
abate its power, but we know that j
that spirit must, upon occasion, be
asserted, ar.d that this is one of the
occasions. America Is made up out
of all the nations of the world.
FOUR
PORTLAND BOYS
ASCEND MOUNT
REPORT HEAVY
HOOD
NOW
Citizens of Foreign Birth
Must Learn the Spirit of the t r; rty
United btates.
ewer to these questions, because I
suppose there la no place in the world
where the compulsion at public opin
ion is mor, imperative than It is in
the United States. You know your
self how wc behave when you think
nobody Is watching! And now all the
people of the United States are
watching each other.
America Za Aroused
"There never was such a blazing
spotlight upon the conduct and prin
ciples of every American as each one
of us now walks and blinks in. And
as this spotlight sweeps its relentless
uomuouuQCQ ui nvriu rivwn. , , . ,i '
at -the rosters of the Civil , mm T nPHl.ilfifl HI b CK ",ru" every square mue or the
j - lorninrr e
Washington, May 31. Provision for
leasing surplus powei' developed on
government reclamation projects for
the benefit of adjoining irrigat'on dis
tricts is made in a bill introdii'id by
Congressman Smith of Idaho. He pro
poses that such leases may be made uy
the secretary of the interior for a term
of 50 years, the proceeds to be covered
Into the reclamation fund for the bene
fit of the nroiect where the power is
produced.
The bill Is general In Its pro lsons,
but Mr. Smith in drafting the bill had
particularly In mind the power expect
ed to be developed at the Arrowrock
dam In Idaho. Adjoining this Is the
Gem irrigation district, in which lie
10,000 acres of land owned ly the
state of Idaho.
Preference is to be given iy the
proposed law to irrigation d'.Mrict.-s
organized as mutux concern, Ij avoid
objection, so far as possible, that might
arise from government competition
with commercial power companies The
bill was prepared after consultation
with Secretary Iane and Is therefore
to have the advantage of departmental
support.
'Look
war. You will see names mere arawn
Kuropean stock, j
from the first, j
America has drawn her blood and her j
impulse from all the sources of energy j
' that spring at the fountains of every ;
'race, and because she Is thus coni- -
LESSON OF THE CIVIL WAR Lih?. DESCENT, TOO, DIFFICULT
After Exceedingly Strenu
ous Climb.
territory or the United Spates, I know
many men, even when they do not
rant to. are going to stand up and
say 'Here!'
"Because America is roused, roused
to a self-consciousness and a national
self-conaciousness such as sle has
not had In .. generation. And this
spirit is going out conquering and to
conquer, until, it may be, in the pro
vidence of God, a new llg'.i. is lifted
up in America, which shall throw the
rays of liberty and Justice far abroad
upon every sea, and even upon the
lands which now wallow in darkness
and refuse to see the light."
Injured on Motorcycle.
Vallejo. Cal.. May 31. (U. P.)
Serious injuries were sustained by J.
W. BeaJI. electrician attached to the
supply ship Olacler. when a motor
cycle on which he was riding with J.
F. Muggins, crashed Into an automo
bile driven by Merrltt Wlnchcll of
Vallejo. near Cordelia. Beall was
taken to the Mare Island hospital to
day, where he was found to have
both legs broken below the knee.
Destroyer Goes AmrfAind.
Boston, May 31. (I. N. S. The .tor
pedoboat-destroyer Warrington ' weni
aground last night while engaged in
target practice off Rockport, danjaglnr
her hull. Tthe battleships New , York
and Delaware went to the Warrington'
assistance, but the destroyer got of 1,
and managed to proceed under ber own
steam to the Charlestown navy rare
where she went into drydock.
Lights Illlnded Driver.- '".''
Santa Monica, Cal.. May SI. (P. jJJ
s i vim Alice Combs of Los Angeiew
Is dead and Clay E. Selby Is snffer-4
lnir erious injuries as the result" 1
nn automobile accident near here, in
klh Unlkv'a mchlp """.
Bteep embankment. Selby was blinds
ty the llKhte of another luumius u
drove over the cliff. '
Preparedness Can Only Be Accom
plished When Ken of Suitable Age
Volunteer to Get Xeady.
Washington, May 31. Dual allegi
ance by American citizens was de
nounced, young men were called upon
to voluntPrily take up military train
ing ami an alliance or nations to pre- reckoning, and they remember th.j
serve peace was advocated by Presi- : nations from which they were sprung
dent Wilson In delivering the Memorial and know that they are in this life-
Day address before a large audience, i and-death grapple. It is not singular.
world, her problem is largely a prob
lem of union all the time, a prob
lem of compounding out of many ele
ments a single triumphant force.
"The war in Kurope has done a very
natural thing in America. It has
stirred the memories of men drawn
from many of the belligerent stocks.
It has renewed in them a national
feeling which had grown faint under
the soothing influences of peace, but
now flares up when it looks es if
nation had challenged nation to a final
Morton Christensen, Chester Treicnel,
Herbert Foster and Kelson English -Make
Perilous Trip With Guide.
IT
Cession of Klamath Lake I.anls.
Washington. May 31. Secretary
Lane has made a report from Pie in
terior department on Representative
Hawley's bill for cession by the ;'nitcl
States to the state of Oregon of all
lands below a specified elevation in
the vicinity of Upper Klamath 1 ike, so
that such lands may be reclaimed by
private enterprise by diking.
Secretary Lane approves the bill.
When the construction of the Klimath
reclamation project was starte.l. Ore
gon ceded tc the national government
all lands uncovered by the lowering
of the water level in order to facili
tate the work. The government does
not care to retain tliece landii. bein
Interested only in the right to control
the lake level.
The bill therefore recedes the land
to the state, reserving to the govern
ment the right to raise and lower the
water level below the elevation of
4143.3 above sea level, this beln nor
mal high water mark.
comp'iseil mostly of Clvu war veter
ans, at Arlington cemetery yesterday.
While upholding their love of mother
country, the president declared that
citizens of foreign birth must learn to
place America first in their affections
and sense of duty. America, he said,
is willing to fight for its right when
Gas Lighted Buoys for Coast.
Washington, May 31. Senator
Chamberlain has secured the inclusion
in a bill reported by the senate commit
tee on commerce of a section author
izing the expenditure of $35,000 for
seven gas lighted buoys and l I un
watched gas lights for the lighthouse
service. -It Is the intention of the de
partments if appropriation is made, to
install some of these at Coos Bay, Or,
and at Gray's Harbor, Willapa Har
bor, Georgia strait and Puget sound.
Wait Until Bridge Is Built.
Washington, May :1. Lack of a
bridge over the Umatilla river at Pilot
Rock Junction, Or., is given by ttie
pontoffice department as a conclusive
reason why a rural rjute cannot at
present be granted out of Pendleton,
as petitioned for by Frank Haray and
others. As a bridge at that point is
soon to be constructed, the department
has Informed Senator Lane tha' after
there is a bridge over the river the
request may be resubmitted, and will
then receive attention.
gressor from selfish motives.
I nited States, he proclaimed, is ready
to he. ome a partner in a league of na
tions "which would guarantee pubi-c
right asainst selfish aggression."
History Recalled.
The text of his speech follows:
"Whenever I seek to Interpret the
spirit of an occasion like this, I am
ied to reflect upon the uses of mem
ory. We are here today to recall a
period of our history which in one
sense Is so remote that we no longer
seem to keep the vital threads of It
in our consciousness, and yet is so
near that men wlio plaved heroic
parts in it are still living, are still
about us. are still here to receive
homage of our respect arid our hon
or. They belong to an ge which is
past, to a period the vital questions
of which no longer vex the nation, to
a period of which it may be said that
certain tilings which had been ques
tionable in the affairs of the United
States were once for all settled, dis
posed of. put behind us and in the
course of time have almost been for"
gotten.
Settlement Bnles Spirit.
"It was a sinsrularly complete work
that was performed by the processes
of iron anil blood at the time of the
! Civil war. ;ind it in singular how the
settlement has ruled our spirits since
it was made. I see in this very audi
ence men who fought in the Confed
erate ranks I see them taking part
In these exercises in the same spirit
of sincere patriotism that moves thoso
who fought on this side of the Union,
and I reflect how singular and how
handsome a thing It Is that wounds i
such as then were opened should be
so completely healed, and that the
spirit of America should so prevail
over the spirit of division.
Speaks of Civil War.
"It Is the all-prevailing and tri
umphant spirit of America where, by
our common action and consent, gov
ernments are set up and pulled down, j
wh-re a-fairs are ruled by common
counsel, and where, by the healing '
processes of peace, all men are united
in a common enterprise of liberty and
of peace.
"And yet, the very object for which
we arc met together is t renew in 1
our hearts the spirit that made these
things possible. The Union was saved
by the processes of the Civil war. i
That was a crisis which could be han- 1
die it seems, in no other way, but i
I need not tell you that the peculiar
ity of this singular and beloved coun- 1
try is that its task. Its human task,
is apparently never finished; that it :
Is always making and to be made.
I Making their way in a snow storm,
1 four Portland boys and a guide reached
' the summit of Mount Hood Monday,
. the first party to make the ascent this
season.
i Led by Hans Fuhrer, Morton Christ
ensen. Chester Treichel, Herbert Foster
and Nelson English began the climb at
2:3P o'clock Monday morning and
reached Crater rock at 9. After a rest
they cut their way to the top by hew
ing out steps, reaching the summit at 1
o'clock.
A blinding blizzard raged around the
crown of Hood, and they were forced
to seek shelter in Llge Coalman's forest
fire observation cabin.
The descent was equally as difficult
nn the nscent th snow r nv.rlnp tihA
The j back through long, laborious genera- ' steps and making it necessary to cut
lions which have taken part in the ' new ones.
building up of the strength and spirit Due to the snow, it was impossible
of other nations. No man quarrels t to slide down part of the way, as Is
w-ith that. From such springs of sen- I generally customary in coming down
tlmen: we all draw some of the hand- Hood. Fuhrer made the trip up Hood
some inspirations of our lives. But all alone April 30, but Monday's party was
; mat we do criticise is thai in some in- j the first group of the season,
stances they are not very numerous i It has been snowing almost contlnu
ibut in some Instances men have al- ously on Hood during the past month,
lowed this old ardor of another na- i due to the coldness of the weather.
tionailty to overcrowd their ardor for ; and the mountain is reported as being
my rellow citizens, that this should
have occurred and up to a certain point !
it is not Just t.iat we should criticize
it.
Must Work Out New Union.
"We have no criticism for men who
love the places of their birth and the
sources of their origin. We do not
thes.; ure coincident with those of ma-i- j witi men to forKet their mothers and 1
kind, hut is not willing to become an , tllp)r fatnerR their forebears running' !.
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tne nationality to which they have
given their new f lid voluntary allegi
ance. And so the United States has
again to work out by spiritual process
a new union, when men shall not think
of wnat divides them, but shall recall
what unites them, when men shall not
allow old loves to take the place of
present allegiances; when men must,
on tne contrary, translate that very
ardor of love of country of their birth
into t ne ardor of love for the country
of their adoption and the principles
which it represents.
ZTo SarsIineeB for Extremists.
"I have no harshness in my heart
even for the extremists in this thing
which I have been trying in moderate
words to describe, but I summon
them, and I summon them very sol
emnly, not to set their purpose against
tne purpose of America. America
must come first in every purpose we
entertain, and every man must count
upon being cast out of our confidence,
cast out even of oyr tolerance, who
does not submit to that great ruling
principle.
"But what are the purposes of
America? Do you not see that there :s
another significance In the fact that
wo are made up of all the people of
the world? The significance of that
fact Is that is that we are not
going to devote our nationality to
the same mistaken aggressive pur
poses that some other nationalities
have been devoted to; that be
cause we are made up, and con
sciously made up, out of all the great
family' of mankind, we are champions
of the rights of mankind. We
dteper in snow for this season of the
year than for some time past. The
The Hogback, known to all Hood climb
ers, is 200 feet higher than last year.
The trip was without incident, save
that Christensen's toes were frost-bitten.
LAltCH
MOUNTAIN SCALED
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Engineers of the Packard
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not only ready to cooperate, but we
are ready to fight against any ag
gression, whether from without or
from within. But we must guard our
selves against the sort of aggression
which would be unworthy of America.
Right of Humanity.
''We are ready to fight for our rights
when those rights are coincident with
the rjRhts of mankind and of human
ity. It was to set these rights up, to
vindicate them, to offer a home to
every man who believed in them, that
America was created and her govern-
Party of Portland People Enjoy
Exhilarating Trip.
The summit of Larch mountain was
the goal of two parties, consisting of
lui members, that left Portland Mon
day night at 11:20 o'clock over the
O-W. R. & N. in two special cars for
Multnomah Falls. There the cars were
sidetracked.
One party of 64 from the Y. W. C. A,
was led by Miss Ruth Blackwell, phys
ical director, and the second party of
40 members of the Climber club of the
White Temple was led by Miss Alma
Bayley.
I No accidents or misfortunes marred
; the trip, and all of the party of hikers
made their way to the top of the moun
tain, where they had lunch and coffee
prepared at the Trailers' clubhouse on
the summit. Within 2V4 miles of the
' summit snow was encountered, and
around the summit it was from 8 to
; 10 feet deep. The hikers left the train
at 11:40 and immediately began to
climb.
The first to reach the summit arrived
Sat 4:30 Tuesday morning. All kinds of
- sports were enjoyed until about 40 J
o clock, when the return began, varl
are ous routes were taken, some going' by
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way of Multnomah Falls and others by
way of Wahkeena Falls. The parties
returned to the city at 4 o'clock yester
day afternoon.
included that, because that is the es
sence of the matter.
Are Business Men Heady 7
"It is all very well to say that
somebody else must prepare, but are
the business men of this country
ready themselves to lenl a hand and
s: criflce an interest in order that we
ment set up. We have kept our doors I may gei reaay.' we snau nava an an-
open because we did not think We in I wer 10 i..ai quesuon in me next
conscience could close them against ' few months. The bill is lying upon
men who wanted to loin their force ",v ": "o 'UJ -o "e signea,
: my table now ready to
1 which bristles all over with that in-
terrogation point, and I want all the
business men of the country to see
i that interrogation point staring them
I In the face. I have heard a great
the world, but she does wish J! P-30, talk about universal
nation in the world to under- . ... iu .la.ry train-
lllg, wild nil my n ceil l. il you WISH
it, but America does not wish any
thing but the compulsion of the spirit
of America. I, for my part, do not
entertain any serious doubt of the an-
with ours In vindicating the claim of
mankind to liberty and justice.
"America does not want any addi
tional territory. She does not want any
selfish advantage over any other na
tion In
everv
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stand what she stands for and to re
spect wtiat she stands for; and I can
not conceive of any man of any blood
or origin failing to feel any enthusiasm
for tne things that America stands for
or wanting to see that they are in
finitely elevated above any purpose of
aggression or selfish advantage.
Against Entangling Alliances.
"I said the other evening in another
piace that one of the principles which
America held dear was that pmall and
weak states had as much right to
tneir sovereignty and independence as
large and strong states. She believes
tiiat because strength and weakness
have nothing to do with her principles.
Her principles are for the rights and
liberties of mankind and that is the
haven which we have offered to those
who believe that sublime and sacred
creed of humanity. And I also said
that I believed that the people of the
United States were ready to become
partners in any alliance of the nations
that would guarantee public right
above selfish aggression.
"Some of the public prints have re
minded me, as If I needed to be re-
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varnea us against, we warned us
against entangling alliances. I shall
never myself consent to an entangling
alliance, but I would gladly assent to
a disentangling alliance, an alliance
which would disentangle the peoples
of the world from those combinations
in which they seek their own separate
and private interests, and unite the
people of the world to preserve the
peace of the world upon a basis of
common right and justice. There is
liberty there, not limitation. There is
freedom, not entanglement. There is
the achievement of the highest things
for which the United States has de
clared its principle.
Volunteers Desired.
"We have been engaged recently, my
fellow citizens, in discussing the pro
cesses of preparations. I have been
trying to explain to you what we are
getting prepared for, and I want to j
point cut to you the only process of ;
preparation which is possible for the
United States. It is possible for the
Unite.l States to get ready only if the :
men of suitable age and strength will '
volunteer to get ready. j
"I heard the president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce report
the other evening on a referendum of
750 of the chambers of commerce of
the United States upon the question
of preparedness and he reported that
99 per cent of them had voted in favor
of preparedness. Very well, now, we
are going to apply the acid test to
those gentlemen, and the acid test is
this: Will they give the young men in
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After she had selected a lovely Suit
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