THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY. JULY 1, 121! France-Is Reported Rumbling With Grave - Lab or Troubles B.ecauof; High; Cost r r rau HAS FAILED Til SENSE HEEDS, SAY CRITICS Situation Throughout Europe - Is , Now' More Portentous of Great .Upheaval Than in AH History, NEW PROBLEMS' APPEAR People 'Cry for Bread Cheap : Enough So They May Eat, and i. Vm) Higher Wages Asked. . By 3Irin Brandon ' Parla, July 1. Europe la rum bling with tho gravest labor crisis in the world' history.: From the Clyde to the Adriatic the dominant note ia I the wait of the masses overthe coat 'of llvlnc.t which, la much higher in Europe than In America now, be cause ot depreciated ourrency valued Groaning- beneath war prices, the worker of Europe are making stag gering1 demanda for wave increases. At the same time they ace oufjo get shorter hours of labor. , - Not the terms of peace, not the blood stained record of Bolshevism, not the tremendous strides of science and -mechanics, but Just simply the problem of the morrow's bread is what engrosses the minds of Europe's millions. . - That Is precisely how-1 find conditions in France. The Intellectuals and the 5 leaders of big 'business are preoccupied witn world problems that have come In evitably as the' war's, aftermath. But the masses are interested only In retting a better deal from capital and govern ment. THIXX 02O.T OF BBXAV ' . While the nationalist press is fulmin ating at the failure of the big four at the peace conference to crush Germany. - economically and politically, and while -the walls of Paris are plastered with , innumerable denunciations of the peace -treaty because It does not exact enough from Germany, the people as a whole . are concerned only about, the unending soaring prices. Athe uncertain employ ment outlook and their inability to meet the rising cost of living. The conse quence la an enervating atmosphere of nervousness and. Irritation. Premier Clemenceau is being attacked dally. : The nationalist press accuses him of weakness In the councils of the big four and of exercising a more vig orous censorship now than during the war. The labor and socialist 'press, on' the ether hand, denounce him for not deal . ing -with one of the worst'strike epidem ics Francs has known. ; SUPPORTED DURIXCK AVAE Typical of the spirit of the angry na tionalist Is an article In the Matin, which says: ' ....... "At this time last -year no newspaper was so unreserved in its praise of M. Clemenceau as was the Matin. We served him -, because he served France. Ills tenacity, .his stubborn- combative. -. ness. his self confidence., his : ability to' tane risks, his determination to. stake all on the defeat of the. Germans, hia Jest of misfortune, even his lack of feel tng. were -ail "".factors in making for victory. None can deny him the glory" or sustaining tne spirit or the country in grave times. "The triumph that followed was not soIely his. for the heroism of our men. the worth of the high command and the sacrifice of 1,700,000 fives-counted for a lot. But he had a large share in the -1. - 1 . - Fourth Near - MorrUaa- - Yotitig1 w , iih.i. Identify x Thousands of young men and women hare pasted tnrough.ihi great business college to ' ;-.;froved successes.. Many of them, , now occupying important, ; big paying positions, i' ,asce th.eUr X( the thorough, practical; .LASTING business training they received la thi$"$pIeneULcoHefe.-. ,;, . .. - - - . , n - ; :" .-. ',.--- --. . : ,- , - '.. s -.. - - ' - i .. . . - , l nar as ione ror i nem van oe 'The hiKh' standard of ;;Behnke-Walker is universally recognized by big business concerns. . Business leaders, indeeL are so anxious to employ Behnke-Walker students that we can fill less than Me-balf th poaitioas we are asked to filL J , ;.-. , , ures up to your ability. , . " - , . .... .. .' . " " ?-. v.-- . X"jr-"-'-'"''- '"'"r : '-.5t;-v..tf--ti ONE OF THE i , . V.S 1' .- - ' . V . t ' ' ' v ' il ' it- - , ' fV i 1'" H ... .. . The- German dreadnaught Von,Der'Tann, 'one ot the Interned war vessels scuttled by il German' crew while at Scapa Flow, off the coast of Scotland, under British nuard On ao order by Admiral von Reuter, com- : imander of the surrendered fleet, the seacocks the Interned armada were ' opened and the - ships settled ' r slowly. f Four hundred thousand tons, valued at approximately $350,000,000, disappeared. The vessels sunk formed a f If e't more powerful than the entire French nary and almos equal to Japan's. . triumph and the principal honor' went lo nun. 'What has happened since? This con queror has failed to understand victory. because all bis life be has lacked an inspiring French policy. The old man is just what his youth has made him a youth passed In the midst of disas ters and the downfall or the rails com mune, the humiliation of which drove him to skepticism." , . , The Confederation of lienor in a mani festo attacks the Clemenceau govern ment for the following reasons: 1 -The - long : delay in - concluding peace.- 2 The still Increasing cost of living. The threat of new food taxes. WAR LOSS IMMEKSE 4 Tha injury to 'the cause of self de tennlnatlon of peoples caused - by at tempts to strangle the Russian and Hun garian revolutions. J Demobilization delays and refusal to put through an amnesty law Immedi ately. The total French monetary war loss Is officially estimated at 63.200,OOO,00O, made up of $32,200,090,000 expended on the army, navy munitions and equipment ; 118,000,000,000 capital value of pensions to widows, - orphans and mutilated sol diers, and (13,000.000.000 for. the restore Uon of devastated territory, s It is not . expected by the most op tiraistio that ; Germany can meet more than a- small proportion of this burden, which means an annual charge oa the French, exchequer of $3,800,000,000. - It Is estimated that at best, every man, woman and child in Franee wilt have to bear a part of the public war indebted ness amounting to $850, in addition, of course, to indirect war losses. " - What aggravates the situation im mensely is the fact that the earning power of the country is greatly dimin ished owing- to the lack of machinery, raw materials and coal. The taxpayer's pre-war . dollar is now worth only 35 cents In. purchasing power, the cost of Uvlng .having risen 300 per cent " Fourth and Fifth : Divisions to Leake Coblenx. ; June 30. (U. P.As the first step toward their return home, the fourth and fifth divisions of the Ameri can army were ordered to the service of supply today. The fifth is scheduled to leave Tuesday and the fourth on July 6. ; Home of the Northwest's Largest, Finest Equipped Business 1 - I . I - . - - - - 1 -. Menr - Young ii , i i ibs ii. . . ;j ourselves With Proved Successes - - .f vv yvotuvu wu yv one. ....Writ for out free. catalogue or call in .f .-i jK-4 -f s.: " i,'--i-st.' v. tt,i:-rHit'"J-fJ;.v--f vvr"A V . ; SCUTTLED GERMAN WARSHIPS Stories of Russia Conflict ? etf at at n t f n 'si te Returned Hungarians Differ - By A. B. Berker Spedal Cable to Th), Journal and The Chiesee (OopydchClslP. 1!C1ucmo DaUr News Ce.) - Budapest, Hungary, June 19. via Paris. France, July 1. Here in Hungary, the western bastion of Bolshevism, one sees occasionally men just -oat of, Russia. Nearly all are returning lssmgarlan war prisoners who have succeeded in completing a long nd .difficult home ward Journey, These wornout and haggard - men - bring back the same stories with the difference that some are for and some against the Lenin regime. .- . -. Without exception those who are for It are men who; have benefited fin an daily, while those against It are men who have had something to loss.,' I talked With, five of them who had been all over Russia and part of Asia, work ing on farms and serving In the - Red army to get fopd. They had never fought but had guarded cities jand helped to requisition food Irora the peasants. , .. STORIES ARE OF CHAOS Some of their stories were' of eon fused street fighting. - counter revolu tions and constant search for something to eat . and wear. According to them most of the regions were quiet Just now and the reason they came-away was to get food. One soldier dug about a poand of horrible looldnsn black bread out of his bag for whichtie had paid 40 rubles ($20). Another who was for the com munistic idea because the - Budapest Bolshevists had -placed him in charge of Ms former employers houses gave me an unbiased picture of conditions In Russia. He worked as a Joiner in 'a car factory until the food conditions were so bad that he had to come away and retrn home by way f Konigsberg, Germany. He said the transportation system had completely brokendown. There seemed to be plenty of food and raw material in some Places and nqne in others. , One region would have plenty of meat and nothing else and an other plenty of vegetables and no meat. Ninety -per cert ot the heating was done by wood beciAse it was Impossible to College Portland , Oregon Women i" i ' ii 17 j" - i" !;.,",.:--'-- - fa-; uone ror i ou f . inn pays weu ana .meas- i . person-nowl , -.? " - r i" .--.i-.f.- aSBBBSBSSSSSBl ftWii !! i v., . transport -coal. Bven,the . locomotives burn wood." " . .Trices.; my informant said, were get ttng higher but the money did not have its former .value. He earned 600 rubies ($250) a. month with food and clothes found. Out of this amount he could save 300 rubles (f 150) but with It he could not purchase anything. Money, he said. Is hardly .used at alL Owners of goods accept only goods In. exchange. Nearly , all the shops are closed because of the lack of goods. About the only work that is being, done is in the food and ammunition factories.- A few cloth mills are -at work as well as munition factories but the latter seem to have the largest output: To my "question TeKard lng the. popularity of the movement, he ssia: . -i , . - -t PEOFLB OPPOSE SrSTEJfj . ' "Doubtless : if tho duration ';. of the communistic system were put to a gen eral vote -the Russian people, would vote against it. All persons over as are against the system and so are the peas ants, .the clergy and the bourgeois. The Cossacks maintain constant resistance against the government. The- newspa pers are stilt strictly watched , and X have never read . &n article -criticising the government. Churches are still be ing used as churches though separated entirely r from the -state, but It Is for bidden to hold' meetings not sanctioned by the government. Many foreigners, mostly German Jews, are coming to Russia to organize industry. They re ceive vary , high salaries, foreign pris oners, are being urged to remain with Inducement of high wages to teach the Russian.' workmen." ; Corroborating my informant's state ments a wireless message came recently from the Russian government to a Hungarian engineer offering him 178.000 crow-as $35,200J a year to come. to Rus sia find manage the steel industry. IN. FRANCE, f REACHES IN HIS NATIVE TOWN Father Langlard of Seaside, Com- mhsloned as Interpreter, Now With A. E. F. Uni verity.' 4 Beaune X Cote d'Or), France, May 19. By- MaiL--Frenchmen call - Father H. Langlard. priest "of -,the ' Catholic Church at Seaside,' Or., -an ;Ameri. can. Americans at ther American B. F. universlfe' here call? Kim French. A chance assignment of general headquar ters sent Father Xangland, now a first 4ieutenant in the, interpreter's corps, to nis Dumpiace xor auty. . ' in the same town , Where 49 years ago Jie was born, and 'among the playmates of bis boy hood '.days. Father . Langlard now- acts as priest of the American . Caeholie church 'here and as Interpreter for the university.,- . . : -When France entered the war. Father Lamrlard offered himself to his motbar country, but he , was refused because of his . age, then ; 4 4. But when America entered the war his chance came.' and hewas commissioned, not a chaplain as he wished, but as an Interpreter. ' "Overseas the Oregon priest saw ser vice in Flanders, at St MrhieL' in the Argenne'and in Germany. - '-?.. ' "I asked,- to - come to ; France as a chaplain but was not permitted to be cause of.- my age, the goldier-prlest says. X was given the less arduous task, of ; Interpreter, but many times while at- the fronwtth my division I had', opportunity ; to perform . the duties of a chaplain in . attending our mound ed. It has", been a great pleasure for me. also,, as : Interpreter, : to assist in strengthening the ties ef friendship that bind the French - and' the Americans. When with the -Americans'-1 am a Frenchman, but; when with the French I am a full-blooded American. -- . - Father Langlard went to.; America 12 years ago, and was a , professor of IMN.PRRT BORN 'ihaMous French PiseovEwv I I j: replace- rterVe-vvasteae." i j lncrese,stiwsth.ncr5.t fithy J b EST THINrr KNCVM KC1 J - - r i French for six years in St. Tboraaa col lege. St. Paul, Minn. ' For the six years preceding America's entrance into the war he lived in Oregon, establishing two churches, one at Seaside and one at Fort Stevens. ; He intends to go back to his work in America. - .: ! " t s-'.'i -i j -i. i' i i n --;..jv.-';.y.v.:-v,. BAIfCIfO ABBS TO.IA8K8 - - -Of iBMT WELFARE TflTOBKEBS Beaune (Cote d'Or). France, May 80. (Byl Mail.Red Cross nurses don't count their dcy at the American E. F. university' here as done .when 1 - o'clock rolls laround. Neither -do, T. U. ft A. and otner women welfare, workers when th.,, uhMi . the. last chocolate CUD afternoons. -The biggest part of the day begins at 7- . ' - - American soldiers must dance. And v.,. ymvm im,r4(An drla to dance with Every- Araertcan nurse, welfare worker and visitor is requismonea ior the nightly hop staged in one of ( the . Mileage competition ia rife among-the women dancers now. 41 . au siarveu when a Y. . M. C Av. girt J aald ahe'd figured that she danced little ever sevan- miles every week aftsr- hours. Latest entry is Miss Vara It Merrlan. Red Cross hut entertainer. - She an nounces she danced 14 miles last week. t --1 ; i Allies Want Dutch to: Hold' Former Kaiser London, July L Undersecretary Rarmsworth announced in the house of commons this afternoon thatrthe allies have sent representations to the Snitch government setting forth the necessity of taking steps to prevent the departure of the former kaiser, from Holland. 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While the capi talists in the west, finding no way out of the conditions created by the world war seek' their deliverance lii indemni ties and in the economic exploitation of the defeated countries, ' the ' Russian working classes are dally building up and organising their economy in a more stable way.-: The work completed during the last year, was hard, but of tre mendous importance.' v X . '. i, v "The congress also recognised that the experience accumulated and even v the mistakes -made , by soviet Russia would prove of great value to the proletariat of the west, v Surrounded on all sides by enemies, compelled to organise a, des perate self 'defense; the soviet govern ment found time and ways to create new forms of .life, proof of which the. con gress -: saw ' In the -supreme -economio council and its achievements. In a year it -took over the power from the capital istic - class, nationallxed almost all the branches of the nation's economy, and in the last six months devoted Itself to constructive work, at the end of .which period there were already 800 big state industrial; enterprises under its direo- "EUBOPB ?COLOITT mOP: AMBB1CA ; ; "As the state of things in the world to the west at the Conclusion of .the war, the' congress considered France.' Italy and ' Germany as too exhausted to be able to continue their capitalistic de velopment England and America, hav ing grown rich during the war, will at- rjimnfc tr tnaks Kiirnne hlr m An 1 Europe lost 10000.000 of its . .laboring ' " - France AJd. 61780 , 2Q i ! ,ttwlio! Cogorx ' 64812 '.10 Ciuaeppe De Luca' 74591 '12 i Miachav Elxna-a 74590 12 . 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An econdmiu crisis in tlicre fore Imminent there. .Tliis. aiti t!i strivlnrs of the worklnr Deonla ta cct hold of . political and economio rower,' are the factors responsible for t!-e de velopment, of a revolutionary movement abroad which, in the opinion of the con gress, will lead to the dlctatorkhip of the proletariate "The economic condition of Russia in the Inevitable economic world "catas trophe." aocording to the congressi "will doubtless be better than of other parts of ; Europe. Although there is a iBlmrp want of raw materials and llf has grown worse In many sections of Husnia. the general economio conditions are not a bad as they may seem." , . The. congress hoped to Improve condi tlbne ! through the amalgamation and concentration of industrial, enterprises. The fusion of small factories into tares establishments wss found unavoidable. This would make It possible not cwily to regulate but also to manage the pro ducing Ufa of the country, says the re port ,...' j .. ' COUNCIL'S SUCCESS IMPERATIVE ' Whether eooialism In Russia isi to be or, not to be, concludes the Tevlew, de pends on the extant of the succestiful- nes of the measures promulgated by the supreme economio council. Realizing the danger of becoming a bureaecratlo establishment ut. of touch with the sentiments of the messes, the council introduced representatives or the trad unions Into its membership, who partici pate directly in the management, pa- ouction and regulation of the country's economy. j If the -economio council falls is hus band the resources of Russia and create sound economic conditions it will mean nothing less than the breakdown .of the soviet government whose foremost aim la a successful social-economic fevolu- Ition. - . ' ."'- ' .J 1 S1.00 lXO' ,: J.S3 , 1.50 1.50 1.00 1.00 1.00 , - m ! " ' L ,85 .85 fiC 85 "". Mt ': 'J M I. L3STv e illustrated the Vietaf . ,,- - ' - - . 'A A Cent pas? zz.'?. J i