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-J if J 8 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, . TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1919. Reports Regarding Conditions in Petrogr ad Conflict; Correspondent Says City Is Grim, Calm OF FALL OF PETROGRAD ARE Correspondent Says City Is Quiet. i Revo! utionary Spirit Und fauned j and Rule of Soviet Unshaken. Idea of surrender absent Red Capital in State of Siege, hi but Not Chaos, and Population j Determined to Fight Till Last. II' . By Isaac Dob I. vine Special Wirisa to The Journal and The Chicago " tilf New. JCopyriht. 1919, by Cliicafcl Baity Xrws Co.) Terijokl, on the Russian-Finnish Bor der. June 1. (Via London June 13.) . fallen will the myth of Petrograd's evac ifaUon and fall be exploded, or will it thrive forever upon the credulity of ihe bewildered public? I . have just grossed from Petrograd and am the hly one on this side of the border pos sessing the real facts about the situa tion. ; Petrograd Is grim but calm and the ' people attend to their daily tasks una ware of . the thousand and one fairy tales toeing circulated in western Ku- Jrope about them. If FetroRrad is be ing: .evacuated nobody there knows any . thing about it. If there is a panic in Fetrograd Its inhabitants are ignorant ttf it. Petrograd n in a state of siege, brut not of chaos. Street cars and trains flin as usual. Unexclted s roups of peo ; ile follow. the newspaper bulletin boards. JJhe' railway stations are not over crowded and incoming trains are run ning at full capacity. JjITT IX FORMAL STATE According to the Helsingfors and Stockholm papers, there were fires and rioting- in Petrograd on May 22. On that day J arrived at the former capital 'from .Moscow. The train pulled in on , time at the Nikolayev station at 9:30 in -the morning. I walked the Petrograd streets for hours but saw no barricades, -- no wild Chinese, ne Letts and no red Rinns rushing about the thoroughfares and heard no shooting. Petrograd wore its now ordinary holiday appearance minus the holiday crowds. . H, There ts no smiling face in Petrograd, for It is always hungry- But there is il spirit about the Petrograd working ittten. which is dauntless. I saw . thou : sands of glowing faces in the Tauride falace at Petroprad's soviet session. The Istoric duma hall was filled to over flow, with soldiers, sailors and working omen's delegates. Where formerly M. ' Rodsiackl presided over the imperial parliament stood a young man of me dium eight with a leonine head hold ing spellbound 4000 pairs of flaming yes staring from the seats, galleries, Window sills and every nook and cor oner of the house. .. j ARDQR ifOT COOLID j lii The speaker. was M. Zinoviev, presi dent of the Petrograd commune. Judg 1 ing by the cheers punctuating his ap peal, to the representatives of 80,000 Petrograd working women "to replace . in the city's industrial life the men sent U the front, two years 'of struggle and hunger," have not cooled the ardor of the Petrograd proletariat for social rev olution. On the following day Zinoviev received me in the Smalmy institute, the cradle.' of bolshevist rule. , i "Win they take Petrograd?" I asked '; him., , Turning his massive head toward me and smiling confidently, he answered, 'Let them try it. ' M, Zinoviev's confidence is shared bv the laboring population of. Petrograd, which ts determined to fight to the last man rather than surrender the city. The general mobilization yielded 100,600 men, making together with the Red army units, a force defending Petrograd of -probably 150,000. When I asked Zino . -vlev If Petrograd would not succumb to Starvation, he replied that there was wore food stored in Petrograd today than at any other time in the last two years, including even the days preced ing the first revolution. Bad as the ; food conditions are they are greatly im- proved over last year. . SOVIET WOT 8HAKE5 . "The latest news reaching me says ' the enemy suffered defeat near Yam V burg, some 60 miles away," declared M. Zinoviev. "However, Scandinavian, re ports claim that Petrograd has been Captured and that the soviet govern . -ment is tottering or overthrown. You saw at the meeting of soldiers and working women's delegates yesterday - how shaken the . soviet authority is. Could one desire a amore enthusiastic assemblyf I then asked how many thousands were now imprisoned In Petrograd. M. y Zinoviev sharply replied. "Thousands. We do not have 1000 political prisoners In all the Petrograd jails." ;! "Petrograd a City of horrors," reads a screaming headline in the latest issue - of a. Russian propaganda sheet pub lished in Helsingfors and serving as a news fountain for Stockholm, Paris and Xiondon news agencies. But if -I had to i ' choose between! spending a night on the streets of Petrograd or In Central Park, 25ew York city, I would unhesitatingly 1 select the former. ' For tourists a complete electric wster heater has been designed that is small enough to be carried in a traveling bag. T Alkali, in Shampoos Had FbrJrVashing Hair "Most aoaps. and prepared shampoos riontain. too much alkali, which is very Injurious, as it dries the scalp and -makes the' hair brittle. ; TheJbest thing-lo use is Mulsified co , coanut oil shampoo, for this Is pure and entirely rreaselcss. It's very cheap and beats anything else all to pieces., Tou ran get this at any drug store, and a few ounces will last the whole family . for months. -Y ' Simply jnolst en the hair' with water and rub It In, about a teaspoonful is all that Is required. It makes an abun dance of rich, creamy lather, cleanses thoroughly; and rinses out easily. The hair dries quickly, and. eyenly. and is Boft. fresh looking:, bright, fluffy, wavy and easy to handle. Besides, it loosens and takes- out every particle of dust, .dirt and, dandruff.. Adv. - - . STORIES DECLARED m ANOTHER PEACE MISSION ARRIVES IN FRANCE rrrr. r:r---". , ; rr'M 1 :' . . iLH-wrr.-wrrzx: rrrr. . -.. :.;r-r- ; ."."r'T.,."u"".gl ill i 4 ' ' , ' - ',H ' , I i 'J, r; : I 1 & rtfs ' - ' ; ; I V ! t, -i i1 -I 'I J ' ; ,,-; Y ' I I s-- -::f "i --; I-? , ft - I i -J t - Members or the Abjssinlan peace deleoation (French African colony) arriving in Paris to attend the peace conference. This mission H considered the most picturesque one at the conference. Shops in Shanghai Closed as Protest Against Japanese By James X. Bntt5 t'Pfci.1 Cable to Thr Jotirnal and The Chicago Daily News. (Copyright, 1919. by Chieaco Daily News Co.) Shanghai. China. June 17. Every shop in this city was closed Thursday ts a protest against the government's attitude on the Japanese boycott, the arrest of student agitators against pro Japanese officials and the Shantung award at the peace "conference. The foreign -olunteer corps was called out to handle the crowds and several clash es occurred with injuries on both sides. Some of the Japanese were mobbed. The strike continues, 20,000 students are out and the movement is spreading. A general tieup of business is threat ened. Japanese trade is at a standstill. Dinner Is Given Ashland, June ' 17. Dr. Charles T. Wheeler of Chicago and Ben F. Wilson, campaign ananager of the Salvation Army' drive, were given a dinner t members 'of the, local lodge of Elks., Shall We Vote These Out? X i : I i i " ; ' . . f ,: ':i;:;x.;-:i'5: ::j: - ' :. t.- .;.':::.-:::? i - r-" m i " ' - ' VV ( ' - " i I s t t:$ ;;::;::;; :.;:;:::; v :-:v::;v-:-ro:-x-:-:-:-.'W':':vtv; t ' - - ? I, J , (. :::..-:(.:-::.l ' ,. , f W wjpM i t 1 1 Hfiwk wii.r-!y'---.- L It, - vs ! tit --v y 4 " - it irrzrr: " .... I his is a post mortem of the interior of a "Portable." It shows the heating plant H guarantees sneeze. to every student. It is just a big, wood -b urnin g stove, i It gets too hot, and -then too cold. There is no ventilation in these "Portables." ' Epid eraics of disease are sure to follow the continuance .. their-use. - VOTE SHANTUNG E i VITAL TO CHINA Celestial Statesman Says Barter of Powers With Japan Means Plunder of Republic. Peking, June 17. The Shantung ques tion is not one of pure vanity for China.. It "is a matter of life and death," said Liang Chao, former minister of finance and justice, today. "To allow Japan to remain in that province means for China to give up her political and eco nomic independence. Can anyone blame her if she is showing herself desperate In the agony of her soul? ( "China is very weak practically de fenseless but not without a soul. Her people are unafraid either of death or invasion. If she must submit to the foreign yoke, it wHl. not be without a struggle. "If .driven to desperation, China at ssu iealtfey Reboot looms lake Amount of Bond Issue $2,500,000 Bonds X YES tempts something hopeless, those who have helped decide her fate will share her responsibility. "It la unneceseay to emphasize the justice of China's claims. No one, not even the Japanese, can seriously ques tion it Everybody admits that Kiao chov.' Is in every sense purely Chinese territory. Germany's occupation of it was a pure act of violation of Chinese sovereignty. "Japan Is strong and China is weak. The powers consider it easier to sacrifice the latter than to offend the former. "Britain and Prance are bound by a secret treaty to support Japan. Presi dent Wilson could not sacrifice his League of Nations, which would have been endangered by Japan's .withdrawal from the conference. Therefore the statesmen at Paris assented to the plun der of China." Ex-Service Man to Take Astoria Pulpit Berkeley. Cal., June 17. (U. P.) Rev. Jesse K. Griffiths; who enlisted in the army and became a sergeant major at Camp Kearny, left today for Astoria. Or., to become pastor of the Alderbrook Presbyterian church. Parents and NEXT SATURDAY The unprecedented growth, of Portland, caused by industrial activities, has swamped the public school facilities. It is known to every citizen that thousands of families have come, to Portland in the last two years. This great and advantageous growth has forced the School Board to abandon its policy for expanding school facilities. Prior to the war the re quirements of expansion could be met from taxation. But with a largely increased school population to care for, the revenues from taxation, under the tax limitation act, are found to be absolutely inade quate. The schools are now overcrowded,-rooms being so jammed with stu dents as to endanger their health and make the spreading of .disease hard to overcome. Even more grave is the failure to give the attention to the intellectual development of the child when rooms are overcrowded. Portland teachers are now compelled to have from 40 to 50 students in a room, when a teacher should not be asked for efficiency in educating more than 30 students in a class. Overcrowding means neglect, waste of money and of the time of the student. ft At this day there are 9700 more students in the public schools of Portland than. the capacity of the buildings. J The bond plan calls for the erection of two new High Schools, nine new elementary schools and seven additions. They will just about meet present necessities. 3 It is, therefore, obvious that an emergency exists. Without the bonds it cannot be met. Shall Your Child Have Its Chance? .;,!- ... , " " " -',J " " - - -- ' t " . ' ' .J'"". - J Board of Directors School District No. 1 of REPORTERS AVER ; HUNS JUSTIFIED IN ONE PROTEST Danzig Strictly Germanic City V and jGivirig of It to Poles Is Certain to Breed Trouble. FREE PORT IS SUGGESTED Newspapermen Make Tour Over Parts of Prussia Which the Peacemakers Would Slice Uo. Special Cable to The Journal and The Chicago Daily News. (Copyright, 1919. by Chicago Daily News Co.) Danzig. Prussia, June 1. elayed) Lord Salisbury once advised politicians to look upon large scale maps, but I venture to suggest that whatever their scale maps alone cannot suffice where the fate of living peoples is at stake. It is easy to draw a line on a map and decide in Paris that this territory should remain German, that become Polish and that ' again be denounced in favor of the allied and associated 'pow ers. It is, however, forgotten that these lines 'are being -drawn not only through the map but througlvthe bodies of liv ing peoples. It was hoped and con fidently expected that every new lino drawn at the peace conference would lib erate Subjugated peoples. That was the professed aim of the war and the belief of those who sacrificed their lives and it peace. should have been the aim of BISTBICT IS VISITED However, many of the new lines drawn in Paris represent not the libera tion of subjugated peoples, but a new subjugation of free and independent ones. Many of the lines proposed by the peace conference look very ugly even on the map, but in order to un derstand the whole significance of some of the new proposed boundaries one needs to go and see for himself the situation as it is now and will be if the Versailles peace is realized with out any changes. To get a first hand impression. I went with a group of re sponsible English journalists on a trip over that portion of West Prussia which the peace conference proposed to give to Poland as a so-called corridor to the sea. First we went to Danzig. Passing through the streets of tiis clean and picturesque city with its tremendous fourteenth century Gothic: cathedral, its magnificent half Gothic, half renais sance rathaus and an impressive line of typical Hanseatic warehouses on the river and picturesque bouses mostly of the fifteenth and sixteenth century Hol land renaissance, we knew that to dis cuss the question of the Germanic char acter of the city and . its population was perfectly superfluous.' Danzig is a Teutonic city from top to hot torn. There was even no heed for us toPruse all of Taxpayers Will Decide on Newspapers c tn Books, Too, By Aathoay Cxarneckl Special: Cable to The Journal and The Chicago Pail, Km. (Copyright. 191v by Chicago Daily New Co.) Budapest. Hungary, June 1, via Paris, June 13. Newspapers in the Bolshevist ruled land of . Hungary do not enjoy freedom, printing only that "which the communistic government in control per mits. The number of newspaper la limited by the government and all print-. ing establishments are in its hands. -Noi person is permitted to print or circulate a newspaper or periodical except under the rigid censorship of the government. Y This city before Bela Kan and his regime secured control had many news papers in the Hungarian, German and other languages and also various weekly and . monthly publications. CHUKCH SHOPS CLOSED There were large Roman Catholic and Protestant publications and printing' es tablishments for producing religious, doctrinal and liturgical books and pam phlets. Upon, the pretext that two news papers in Hungarian and two in Ger man published daily under government auspices are sufficient to meet the de mands of the . reading public, all the other daily newspapers were suspended. Establishments in which . books fof church schools for various denomina tions were sold were seised by the gov ernment and closed for a few, days. They are now reopened, but instead -of the books and literature previously in stock and which wereremoved in large auto trucks and probably destroyed pub lications of the most radical anti Christian, kind are offered for sale. A number of books which one may have in his home library, is limited. There is a censorship consisting of a group of men declared to be specialists and ex- 'perts who determine' whether a book c&n be sold and whether it shall be in i the public library In connection with the control xf the many historical and statistical data showing that the: non-Germanic popula tion of 'the city is only 2 per .cent of Danzig's population. This 2 per cent is made up of pure Poles or so-called Cassubians, a tribe of Elbe-Slavic or igin. SUGGEST FREE PORT It became -clear to every oneof us that Germany is ordered to renounce her sovereign rights over Danzig and its environs not because of its alleged non Germanic population, but simply be cause this city happens to lie in the way of the expansion of the new Polish state. We spoke to numerous repre sentative Germans and plain people and all agreed that Poland ought to have an unimpeded outlet to " the sea: and that Danzig should offer the free use of the port, rails and waterways, but they refused to see the justice of their being thrown out of Germany and sub jugated to foreign rule. Danzig, as it is Teutonic by history and population, -given over " to Polish sover eignty will be a strange monument for all time to a peace of justice and right and the principle of self-determination of nationalities. How- great will be the torture of the population and how great the permanent menace to peace . by cut ting Prussia into three parts we had tor Healthy ' Ar e Curtailed at t Are Censored printing now in. the bands of the gov ernment I have been told in interviews with soviet commissioners that there will be a rigid censorship to determine what books shall be published In the future. Sigmund Kunfi. chief commis sioner, of education' in the soviet gov ernment, in explaining what would be done under the communistic government in the matter of . publishing books, said to me? '., y - , "Writers whose books' receive no ap proval from the capitalistic publishers and who had difficulty In getting their books printed, will have our assistance. Under our government there is a com mittee of specialists who will say whether a book produced is good, well written and has- merit and whether it shall be published by the state regard less of who is the author. The commit tee will keep out all that it deems not good for publication. With our gov ernment controlling all the publishing houses, it will be impossible for a book not ' approved by these specialists to be published." Likewise with reference to plays, pub lic amusement and instruction a com mittee of censors has been provided to decide whether moving pictures, drama, comedy and opera shall be given. OKLT ARTISTIC PLATS Commissioner Kunft in his Interview declared that. only artistic plays will be given and that none with religious themes, unless - they . were especially recognised .; as - having great artistic merit,, would be permitted. No private theatricals , will , be allowed unless authorized by this committee. Those who are -wincing under the newi order of things are asking just what' gives these specialists the right to pass upon the literature, drama and poetry for all the " people and why the freedom or press and literature should be entrusted to their .care. a glimpse today "when we made a trip from Danzig- to ' the south for about 30 miles. MENACE IS SEEX ' We passed through country uniformly inhabited by Germans all the way. If peace is made on the proposed lines the present members of the population who now communicp.te with one another un hindered over this area . will be arti ficially cut off from one another, those inhabiting one part being forced to cross from , one state into another In order to perform their every day work. That Bhowed us what a menace to the peaceful development of this region, the propo ed peace settlement will be. Large Hedgehog Is Treed by Small Calf Ware. Mass.. June 17. I. N. S.) Joseph A. Boyer shot a 2 5-pound hedge-, hog near his home after the animal had been treed by a calf. It had invaded the pasture and the calf at once disputed its right there and'put It to flight, the former going up. the tree to aafetyv-v-.- CHnildree ms of Redeemable on or V years To run not more than .Iyy Interest not more 5 per cent ' Ten Shall We Vote ' - " - ' ' , - l!;.? . ... . j Well painted as it is, this "Portable" does not reveal the fjimsiness pf its construction It is sheeted with boards, lined With paper and has a tarred roof. When the windows are closed it is too hot; when they are opened the children are cold. They are fire traps. 1 They are an expedient the Board wants to, be rid of. " ' ..'' Yt .... v .... , j What do you think about it? 6 .. VOTE - :B6hds 'X TREATY COPIES FOR SALE BY STREET Americans "Amused Over Conster . nation of Peace Delegates at Publication in U. S. By Jnllss B. Wood Special Cable to The Journal and The Chiraso Daily New. (Copyricbt, 1919. by Chioafo Daft, Newa t'o.) Coblens. Germany,' June 11. (De layed.) The apparent consternation of the Paris peace commission at tho statement that a copy of the peace treaty printed in American newspapers was obtained surreptitiously is viewed with considerable amusement by Ameri cans stationed in occupied Germany. As stated in a cable message to tho Daily News a fortnight ago. there has been . no difficulty in obtaining copies of the treaty printed both in French, English and German by the govern ment printing office. There has been even less difficulty in obtaining copies in Franco where a certain Paris news paper printed a limited edition which it distributed free among its friended. The reason for objecting to the publi cation of- the full terms In any coun try except Germany Is also questioned since the official summary which was released for publication several weeks ago contained all .the ; essential facts of the treaty lacking only minor de tails. Copies of the complete . text of the German counter proposals also , sup pressed in Paris except in the form of a summary are now available at the German news stands at a price of 1V marks (about 10 cents) aoeordlnaf to the present value of the" 'mark. One of the many copies of the peace terms which I have seen here contained the following dedication written In English in-a flowing hand: "Remem ber, that -if a government is responsi ble for the welfare Of the country, feelings have to be cut out.- Remem ber that whatever comes up, there 'is a friend with the people condemned here who knows how to honor the Stars and Stripes." , After less than three yesrs'of work Madrid has completed the first of four subways for street railway lines. . 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