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VOJL. XVIII. NO. ,15 PORTLAND, OREGON,:, WEDNESDAY' EVENING, .MARCH 26, : 1919. TWENTY PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS UNO NfW( STANDS FIVK CENTS problems 01 PACT HE H Over 100 Oregon NxVVAL COMMITTEE HERE TO STUDY lUyEIi MOUTH I ,''-' . " f ' - - - f . . - ' ' PORTLAND and Oregon welcome congressional investigators who are reconnoitering coastline to discover naval defense re quirements.' Above, from leftRepresentatives Carl Vinson, -Georgia; C.'N. McArthur, Oregon; Fred A. Britten, Illinois; " William J. Browning; New Jersey; Lemuel Padgett, chairman, Tennessee;, Daniel J- Riordan, New York; Frederick: H. Hicks, New .York; William B. Oliver, Alabama. Women who a re .visiting Oregon with members of house naval affairs committee. From the leftMrsJ William J, Browningr-Mrs. Daniel J. Riordan, Mrs. George Thayer, Miss Jeanette Duncan, Miss Browning. ;Party wUl remain in Oregon until Saturday night studying conditions. ' ; Men Arrive in New' York, in Day ran TOOK IPPOBil Change in Program Made at Paris After Conference of the Big Four on Hungarian, Situation. Turkey and Bulgaria Will Be Compelled to Accept League of - Nations in Their Treaty. By John Edwin Nevin . TVriIS. ' March 26. (I. N, S.) impossible to carry on the fight , . for .'confirmatdn ' of separate treatjea with Germany and Austria-Hungary, President Wilson" is now understood to be working for the completion of a general : document to secure peace between the allied and all of the central powers.. Already substantial prog-, ress has been made in this' di rection. . " .. Many questions Involve all of the na tlona of the German alliance making It possible to draw up a treaty which could be subscribed to by the central powers. This would enable the allied armies to be demobilised at the same time and obvl ate discrimination against .which the Italians have been complaining. . The chance of program followed the meeting of President Wilson. . Premier I.loyd George, Premier Clemenceau and Premier Orlando, at which confidential report on the Hungarianeltuatlon were submitted. It Is officially declared In .both American and British circles that there la no reason to assume that the change of program will entail any great delays, i . - ..- - - Examination, of reports made by the eommttteea n reparation and -war re- Concluded on Pmgt rtfteea. Caiaraa .Three) TO STATE LAND BOARD City Commissioner Pushes Case - Against Alleged Sand and Gravel Combine. Commissioner A. L.. Barbur. director, of public works, haa asked Governor Olcott to make investigation ' and - in form him whether the Mate land board has power and, authority to assist the city In securing a reasonable price for sand arid gravel dredged from the bed of the . WUlariette river for public use. ' ;;J. r.:r':.' -A" Mr. Barbur sent a letter to the governor yesterday afternoon In which he called attention to the fact that the city was being; asked to pay exor bitant prices for i xnd and gravel, and charging that a combine existed be tween the sand and gravel companies operating In i the river. Ho pointed out that the bids submitted to the city for these materials were identical In amount, item, for Item.. The price of. stand, Mr. Barbur showed, has beenv Increased from 50 cents to $1.50 per cubic yard while the price of gravel baS risen frcm 85 cents to 11.50 per yard- He says that Mr. Hegardt. -engineer for ithe public dock commis sion, estimates that the cost of dredging sand from the bed of the river amounts ft approximately 7 cents per yard, ex clusive of barging -and;- bunkerage charges. . ;.; .j . .. "-V;- '" , Mr. Barbur! calls the governor's at tention to the legal doctrine that the beds of navigjable streams belong to the state, and asks if there ts not a way by which the state land board, which has jurisdiction over .the state lands, can come to the assistance of the city and the general public In forcing the price of sand and gravel down to a normal and reasonable basis. I The question of the state's ownership 1 and control of these .xnateriala is not a (Concluded en Pas Two, Column Three) Tyrants Fear Each Other, But They Fear the People Even More! Tomorrow Th Journal will beein the publication of secret leavers of GountlCzernin, lone the foreign was forced to resjgn by Germany a year ago because he had urged Emperor Charles to hurry and make peace with the United States and the entente allies. This unscrupulous but. discerning statesman for years before the. great war. was an intimate adviser heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, .Archduke Francis Fer dinand, whose assassination five .years 4 go. at Sarajevo ' precipitated the terrible conflict from which, the world is now em erring.,: 1 " Count Czernin tells in his private diary, .which has come into the hands of A. R. Decker, staff correspondent t The Daily News ," in Frague, how the German kaiser and the . hefr to the ramshackle ihron of the dual 'monarchy anxiously debated with him how to terrorize into continued submission the Bohemians ; and other op pressed peoples. 1 ' . - A translation of these extraordinary revelations is coming to The Journal by cable from Prague and will be published in its col- umns from day to day, beginning tomorrow. : t - ;'?,V -y-V-y'":y - .t y 1' X-v i' ..5-- yy:iX'i s- ! J '.iL!. i.' ', t'r Representative Padgett Points Out Need of Naval j Base Between Bremerton and San Francisco. Oregon will get' every fair-and open minded consideration., .that can -be, ac- corded to the demands of her citizens (or the. establishment at the tnouUv oCtha Columbia river of a naval base. ' The United States navy will be divided and the Pacific coast will get approxi mately CO per cent of - the . standing strength of the greatest maritime force the nation .,' ever , lOwned. Which vmeuu that, new naval bases on the Pacific coast must.be provided. - Such statements made by members of the congressional naval affairs commit tee to Portland business men assembled at a joint luncheon, of the Chamber of Commerce and the Portland Ad club at noon today at the Chamber of Com merce pave the way for the official In spection by the committee of the naval base site proposed by the Helms commis sion in 1S1T. : ' In an address before the enthusiastic meeting ' today. Representative Lemuel P. Padgett, member of congress from Tenessee, declared that the division of the navy force of the nation between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will bring to the Pacific . great naval ; operations and an entirely different navy policy. "Congress believes the Pacific coast should have a larger part of the navy. Ours Is not an Atlantic or a Pacific coast " navy, .but - an ..American fleet charged, with the duty and fitted to dis charge every responsibility that, may, be placed upon It so that we may-, maintain the noble KUtory that it has never low cred its flag. ' V - . ... .. . "This means that the Pacific , coast must be developed to care -for. Its share of the navy, i A .naval base of some kind Is necessary between Bremerton and San Francisco." 'i-y,' ' Representative C K. McArthur of Ore gon ; acted as toaatmaster . at" the' lunch eon and called upon each member; of the visiting naval affairs committee to speak. . '". Eleven Killed in . : Clash at Witten Amsterdam. "March 26. I. ?. S.) Ktvn wrsonS ' were killed - and 33 wounded In fighting at 'Witten Can in dustrial town ; in .Westphalia); said dispatch '"from I that place jteda'y. The outbreak-otfightingjfollowed a riot ln which three policemen were wounded by a. grenadenhcown by a .person who .was taking part In a demonstration. ' ' 5 . minister of Austria-Hungary, who - , of the Germon emperor arid the ; " V HALF OF NATION'S l ' 1 : NAVY FOR PACIFIC V.f t , ... ,. - T ; . mm jmb-. jy y.-.-.-y. a v . i . . I AlHiiiiBSsiMSIiiS RECEIVFWFlCOMEiLOOK OVEp. SITE 165 Oregon and Washington Men Due to Reach Portland , Thursday Evening. Owingto the recent delay, for opera tive purposes, the 148 men of , the old Forty-eighth regiment of coast artillery and the 17 casuals who Jeft . Newport News, .Friday, . bound for Camp Xiewis via Portland, wilt-arrive" at- the - union station Thursday.-evening at.. 7 o'clock instead of the morning, as was original ly planned. The, train was held over at. Oreen River, .Wyo. ' No other stops are expected which- ill- further delay . the arrival ef the train. Captain Lewis J. Catheron. is. In command 1 of the train "and 80 Oregon and 76 Washington men and f three Washington "officers are on board, '" ' -; " r v . The Portland reception committee will be prepared : to meet the boys; with a parade to The Auditorium, followed by a dinner and a dance, te last 'until the boys have to go to the train. It; is ex pected that, they will leave some time late Thursday night. . -; '? "(The men will be" met at the"" station by -their relatives and will, be given a short time to work off a Jlttltf of .their enthusiasm at the station. The Red Cross Canteen' band, -formerly the Mult nomah guard 'band, will be on hand with welcoming, music and to escort the boys to The Auditorium.. The line of. march. will be as usual, south on Sixth street to -Morrison, east on Morrison te lThhd and south on Third to The Audi torium.. "i -: - '.-. y- The dinner will be served on the stage ef .The - Auditorium and while the boys are there addresses of welcome will be delivered, i The boys will- spend the eve ning1 dancing at The Auditorium They will be asked to bring their girl friends. and girls will be on hand for those who have no girl friends to bring, tickets will also be. dispensed. - neatreJ . Portland mothers are asked to bring cakes for the dinner and dance." Cakes should be turned in to the Liberty Tem ple,' from -where ,they will "be taken to The Auditorium.: " Home made : cakes prove -.especially- popular with the boys. All returned soldiers, .sailors and ma rines are Invited . tx be present, and to bring their partners. 4X':2:-r: f'f's z i :i Commercial Wheat I jr. St6cks; Are Large Washington, March 26.-I..N.-.S.)--Commercial stocks of wheat reported in a survey - made by the department ; of agriculture for March 1, 1919 amounted to 197.277,68$ bushels. It was announced this afternoon. These holdings, reported by 11,499 - firms elevators, warehouses, grain mills and wholesale dealers were more than three times as large as ' the stocks held by the same firms a year earlier, j ; The figures . refer t v stocks actually , reported and do not represent the. total commercial stocks of the country,- nor'do they include stocks on (arms. Members of -House mittee Being Entertained Today in Portland With Columbia HighwayTrip PORTLAND is entertaining today one; of the most inquisitive bodies of men that ever visited the Northwest. "; '. , ;j ' - It is the' congressional naval affairs committee which is on a tour of inspection-of proposed sites for naval base development. I . . . What it wants to know of Oregon is: Why is the mouth of the, Colum bia river a proper "place! for the establishment of a'submarine base'and avia tion station? Portland and Oregon have undertaken to submit a positive and "convincing; answer. ; In 191T the Helms commission recom mended the creation of such a-base at Tongue ; point, the cost estimated at Sl.200,000. But because of the strategic Importance of the mouth of the Columbia,-every effort will be made to -eonr vines the congressmen that the sub marine and airplane base is insufficient for protective needs and will attempt to show Why a major naval base should be situated at the mouth of the river, i Data as. 5!aps Ready , The great Northwest is, unprotected from invasion. A- naval base and navy yard are .needed, civic interests ; will .argue. - The mouth of the Columbia of fers the only-unprotected entrance-to the United , States on the Pacific coast. Once past the heads, an invading enemy woufd have clear sailing . into the .'very heart ef a territory from which it could 'extend Its invasion to . all parts, of the nation . without serious interference, ' it Is 6a id Much data and many maps are ready to present to the committee in a final of ,,ans tor a major naval base. - Each member manifesting an unusu ally keen Interest in these features of their four day program in Oregon, the Willamette, the highway and the. mouth of the Columbia- vied with one another for first consideration - from the seven members f ' congress who arrived in Portland :t "730 this morning.. V The congressional, committee , investi gation of the Astoria naval base- site brought Representative Lemuel D. Padg ett chairman, . of Tennessee, and sbc members of the lower house, Pert land, in addition to the Beveral women' in the party. . The congressmen are Chairman Padgett, Carl Vinson, Fred :A Britten,; Frederick H. Hicks, , William J. Browning;- Daniel J.'Riorden and .Wil liam? B- Oliver. -. The committee was Joined at 'the station this- morning" by Representative C. N McArthur of. Ore goo, who had preceded the committee to Portland.. - v " - Vt"?-"".- ' Breakfast at" Portland A trlef reception at the- station was tendered by :,; representative business men, beautiful floral tributes were presented- to the women - of the - party - and all : were taken to the Hotel Portland for breakfast in .automobiles' driven by. members of ; . the - National League ; for Naval Affairs .Com Women's Serviie and other women ' of the city. . ': , ' - - Accompanying the congressmen are: Mrs. Daniel J. Riordan, Mrs. William J. Browntng, Mrs. ' George vThayer, Miss Jeanette Duncan and . Miss Browning. The women .will be specially entertained in. Portland .during, the, four days the party, will be in Oregon. ; - Captain Jacob Speler, harbormaster, returned from California with the party. He was sent as a special envoy of the eity, .and presented Portland's invita tion forthe present visit. He declares every member of the party has expressed keen delight in the prospect of visiting Oregon.. . ' . , ' '. That Captain Speier's mission inspired tOoneluded on Pife Fifteen. Column Foar Gapt. Morris of -. 317th' ErigmeieriB Visiting m City ' .Captain J. W; Morris, 317th engineers, formerly city engineer f Portland, re turned Tuesday night f roni overseas ser vice via Camp Dixon and Camp Lewis. Although- Captain . Morris Is a Portland man, , ithe members of the '317th came almost entirely from the Atlantic sea board. He with ten others taking the training at Camp Lewis' were assigned to overseas . duties, before -concluding their" ! preparatoryLvWork arriving In France Inr time to take the 'field abour AugUBt' 15. After a short while in !A1 sac'his regiment was sent into the Ar- gonne; finishing the war -near Sedan.'' Captain, Morris is in t Portland on 15-day. leave, -of absence, .h1 t-t 72 Children Die . . . -'- Ih; Theatreire " ' t f . . 'Amsterdam, Marclr iH.CC- Tf.:- S.) seventy-two . uerman children , were burned to death at Gledwitz Ji Prusslaa Silesia,, whenj, a theatre was -destroyed by fire,, according to advices from -that place today. ,: - ' . ..' , FOR MIES lOBOllE Must Show Theor Teeth to Ger man and Bolshevist Alike, View of Americans in Paris. Spineless Dijly-Dallying With Central European Situation Has Brought' Foes' Contempt. Special Cable to The Journal and Tb Chicago uauy nm (Copyright. 1019, if Chicago DaUy Newa Ca) By Paul Scott Mowrer ; PARIS, March 26.-The Bolshe vist situation is dangerous. Upon this point all are agreed. ' The Russian Bolsheviki declared war on the allies in July, 1917. and ' they have been- fighting us . ever since- -The Hungarians, by proclaiming an offensive and de fensive alliance with th Russians and refusing to recognize our ad- t justment of temporary frontiers, ' are practically - declaring war. If the Hungarian troops obey the . orders of the roviet government the state of war .cannot be doubted,; : I - Our Roumanian allies lack food . and munitions. Our Polish and Czech allies have no considerable military strength. At the same time Germany turns to us with a double menace sarin?, "either let us become your allies against Bolshe vlsm. in which case you must greatly soften your peace terms, or we shall also tarn Bolshevist."; : -'. In short, we must now face the pos sibility that not only Hungary but Ger many will not accept our " weace. con- ( Concluded on Fas ponrtwn. Oohinm Fiv) v ' ... - S ixtv-N i ne Brides Aboard the i Aquitania Homeward Bound With 5837:YankeesI ; Washington, March 26. (I.. N. S.) Another, honeymoon transport is home ward bound. The Aauitania, one of three more ves sels that have cleared from French porta with a total of 6837 home-coming Tanks, carried 89 brides, the war department announced this afternoon. The num ber of officers and men .board . the giant liner is , 4518, and she la due at New Tork March 29. The TJlua, -with 1067 officers and men, is due at New York April 4, and La Corralne, with 256, is due March 31. ' Chief among the units . aboard the Aauitania are the 347th and 348th field artillery regiments, complete, of the 91st division, to be sent to Camps Kearny Fu nst on, Lewis and Dodge. , Also aboard are the 85th division headquarters and headquarters troop, for Camp , Custer 166th field artillery brigade . headqtur ters. Camp Kearney ; 169th infantry, brl gade headquarters. Camp Custer ; de taohments 134th field artlHery, Camp Dix and Upton : . detachment 112th ammunt tioa train. Camp Dix ; detachment 135th field artillery. Camp Upton; detachment 112th engineers, Camp Dix Companies F, Q, H, 1, K, L and M, 145th infan try, for Camps Sherman, Upton. Fun ston, Dodge and Devens ; medical and camp detachments : 146th infantry, Cimps Upton, Devens, Taylor, Funston and Sherman ; , field . and staff, head quarters and - supply company of 337th infantry. Camps Custer and Kearny. Aboard : the Ulua are the field and staff, headquarters and supply company. ordnance and medical detachments and Batteries A, B, C and F of the 328th reg iment; field artillery, all for Camp Cus ter, and scattered casualty companies. La Lorraine carries ;only casuals. , . Tro . llore Transports . Arrive New tTork, ; March 26. U P.) The transports Francesca and Argentina- ar rived today with; 2148 off hers and, men. The ' organizations ;onA the 'Francesca were 20 casual companies ; for Ohio, South Dakota. Minnesota, 'California. Colorado, Kansas. Kentucky, Nebraska, New I one ana otner eastern states. On the Argentina were 32 casual com panies for Connecticut, Florida, ; Okla boma, Tennessee, M ichigah, Minnesota, New Tork and Montana and transporta tion corps companies 81 and 104. . - ; - Transport . Chlncha has sailed from Lapalllce Itochelle to. Baltimore v (no date whei due), with: nine .casuals. Transport El Oriente from Bordeaux Is due -at New :Y0rk April 3-with De tachment C, 'Casual Company 64,- New Yprk ; speciaf Casual Company- 0, dis charges land : four ' casual officers. - , Cruiser Frederlclr; from Brest, lid due at New Tork April 4, with the 337th In fantry, all litter companies and medical detachment, for Camps 'Custer.- Lewis and Sherman. - . : "' The ; transports ' Western Spirit and Dirigo sailed March 23 also, the latter bound for. New Yorlt'.wlth a smalt num ber f casuals. ty:-fi y-'fjij'y-:, -The .crulserFred eiick from Brest is due at New York AprU 4. with units of the 337th infantry, totaling 38 officers and ' 1533 men, who1" will - go to Campo Custer, Bowie, Dix; Lewis, Beauregard, Pike and Sherman, , t , Transports Susquehanna, George Washington and Venezia Bring Detachments of Westerners. .- By Walter t. Whittlesey ' New York, March 26. Oregon had a place in the festivities over the welcome of the Twenty-seventh division Tuesday In New York and, with the other states, through - the chairman . of the Orefcon welcome commission, O. C. Letter, a huge wreath with a ribbon bearing the name Oregon" was displayed, on the steps of the Astor library beneath the roll of honor o? Ihe nation's dead in the war. . The Susquehanna, ueorge Washington and Venezia. troopships of great ca pacity. ' arrived' Tuesday and had more than 100 Oregon troops aboard. - There were a few old 162d Infantrymen and the following Oregonlans in the- Sevenr teenth engineers, - who are' at Camp Merrltt. New Jersey: ' Anderson Marthlnus.- Ortn Burger, both of Portland, and William K. Irvin, Estacada.' Wounded or ill, but convales cing s and Improving and happy j with al , to .be s this far home- were Cap tain Earl " Harklns whose sister ' lives In Bend ; Benjamin F, veacie. su Hel ens;. Glenn Mack. Portland, and Lowell A. Netherlands, Medford. . Arriving aboard the George -Washing ton were the following men from Or egon, who are also In Brest convales cent detachments : Frank Miller, - Cor vallis ; Chester F. Link, Cable : conval escent detachment 116,- Stanley Mathews, Roseburg ; 135th machine gun battalion, Reynolds W. O'Brien. Salem; casual Cooclnded on Page rifteen. Column Fl) COMMISSION GIVES Only Seven Soldiers Take Advan tage of Employment Ex- 4- periment. . The experiment or doing . work on force account In order . to 1 provide em ployment for returning soldiers and sail ors as tried by the state highway com-! mission ha not been a success and the commission ' today; decided - t-'abandoa the grading funp established -last Feb ruary in- Morrow county on tha ColUm tola; river highway. , J ft-S2: s It was planned to furnish employment for men from 0 to 100. men who have been, mustered out $f service, - but the maximum number ' who accepted work was only seven. At present nine men are on the job and of these only three are discharged soldiers. ------ The commission ordered that the pro ject, which embraces eight miles, should be turned over - to t the Porter-Connelly company .which, has an adjoining con tract. . , . w-- y,y:!-.'v- This firm had filed a bid on the work but, the bid was not accepted for the reason that -the state wanted to do the work on its own account to provide em ployment, for soldiers and sailors. Today the commission rescinded Its former ac tion and awarded the contract to Por ter and ; Connelly ' who are to do the grading on a "cost plus ten per cent" basis and the macadamizing at $2.75 a cubic yard. This is 15 cents per cubic yard less than the original bid. In awarding the contract . the ' com mission was not at fault. Commissioner Booth approved In principle but he thought ' that the . work should be re advertised even though the Porter-Connelly company was the lowest of the or iginal bidders. . "' . . Transport Pastores j Is at Newport News Newport Newa. Va-, March 86. (U. P.i The transport Pastores, which' left Bordeaux March 14, unloaded 450 cas uals, seven officers, 11 nurses and 1218 sick and wounded today. : - Oregonian Statement On Delinquent Taxes Is Silly Falsehood The Oregontan says editorially this morning that the law abolishing publica tion of delinquent taxes,' adopted by the people last November, does not apply to Multnomah county. '- The statement la a Silly falsehood. There was no newspaper publication of delinquent taxes In Multnomah county this year and there will be none In fu ture years, so long as the law enacted by the people remains, on the statute books. The reform effected by that law la state-wide. , The burden of newspaper publication ..has been lifted -from the backs of delinquent taxpayers all over Cegron. . . -,,. " y ' The Journal 'advocated the "enactment of this law. The Oregonlan opposed - It. The affirmative vote was 66.653 and the negative vote was 4192. In ZS of the 36 counties of tho suce tlte meaure te ceived an affirmative majority. If the vote of : Multnomah county had . been wholly eliminated the measure would still have carried by a majority of 8727. The voters of tHe state demonstrated emphatlcf-lly their determination to do laway with, delinquent tax publication. V - Fart I Cestradlet Oregealaa r The Oregonlaaays that the law -wn "aimed at tho country press of Oregon." Familiar facts contradict the statement. For 20 years the voter of Oregon had striven to rid themselves of the burden of delinquent tax publication In 1 639. three years before The Journal was ' hi existence, the legislature. In response to insistent popular demand, passed a law abolishing publication, but the Oregontan Austrian Workers 1 Announce Readiness to Join Bolshevist Move; Dictatorships in Force. Former Head of ? Hungary Said to Have" Been . Assassinated; t Foreigners Are Being Interned. COPENHAGEN, March 20. (U. P.) The Czecho-Slovaks arc 'mobilizing an- army at Ostrau lo0 miles north of Budapest), to march against the. Hungarians, a Vienna dispatch' reported today. The army, will be commanded by , the Italian general Plcconl. London, March 20. (U. P.) A news agenoy dispatch - from Prague ; today said reports had been received there that Count Karolyi, former head of the Hun garian government, had been as sassinated. A dispatch to the Daily News from Vienna said Karolyi had been arrested by, the communists. Basle, March 26. -V. P.) Csech forces have occupied the important city of Raab, on the Danube, only 67 miles northwest of Budapest, according to a Vienna dispatch to the Frankfurter Zci- tung. - W.':- 'i.-; The Red army ,1s being , formed in Hungary to disarm the tourpeole, a Budapest dispatch reported. Alexander W'ekerle, , former Hungarian premier, is said to have been arrested. All f oreljm ers. including Austrian, are being in- terned. ; - , . . -'.-' The revolutionary government Is now firmly' established. The workers council is exercising proletariat dlctatoruhip (Conolunl ea Vw FW, Column On) Commerce Chamb er Had Gained 300 New Members Tip to Noon Workers in the membership drive of the .Portland Chamber of Commerce completed the first half of their cam paign at noon today when they gathered at the Chamber of . Commerce dinlnic. room to compare records and compile their membership totals. The bg -part of the drive remains before the com mittee, which has on account of the lack of workers,- decided to extend the drive until Friday. '-,. It was estimated at noon that over 300 members had been signed up by tho volunteer workers." The flying squHl ron went Into action this afternoon. THti squadron 1s the clean-up crew and in composed of experienced campaigners. Many workers did not report, today, being too busy In the outlying district. The members of team No, 2, Captain W. H.. Evans, - carried away the. prize by obtaining 12 per cent of its prospect. Friday when the smaller districts have been cleaned up the workers in tnre places will help round up prospects downtown.- Food for Germany : Reaches Amsterdam Amsterdam March 23. via Ixnrton, March 26. (I. N. 8.) -The first consign ment of American food for Germany- 7500 tone has just arrived here. Induced Governor Geer to veto It. In 1907 a law was enacted acconiplifchinic the reform an 1 for (our yean the tae payers were freed from nfiwa pa per ad vertising of delinquent tax lists. But in 19U a bill restoring the ;pub'icatlo;t system was smuggled througii the kg islature In the closing hours of thj ses sion and the taxpayers were :i'aii iarl dled with ti e burden which th;y thought had ben cast-off forever. The resorc to the initiative eight years !ater flnal'y enabled the voters of the state to have their will. . Big Kim Paid the Oregealaa ? Under the old system the Oregonlan reaped huge profits. Its rk-hetit harvest was in the late ' '80"s, when the whole state was suffering from financial dis tress. In 1899 the Oregonlan collected from Multnomah county $30,071.24 for advertising - delinquent taxpayers anil for, the four years from 1897 to 1'jft the county paid the Oregonlan a total of 150,758.94. '.Thounands of property own ers were-unable to pay their taxes and many were delinquent year after yar. Many a . little home was lost becaf re the owner was unable to, pay his tsxen and the extortionate costs of publica tion. - Frequently, when ! he tax w small, the combined rake-off of the Ore gonlan and the sheriff was eight or ten times the amount of the original tax. ' The recollection of these facts ai doubtless -one of the chief reasons iiy the voters of Oregon voted sj decisively for the abolition of delinquent tax a 1-vertlains-