THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY. JULY 1, 121!
France-Is Reported Rumbling With Grave - Lab or Troubles B.ecauof; High; Cost
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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
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i' ,asce th.eUr X( the thorough, practical; .LASTING business training they received
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'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 ,
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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. ;
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Stories of Russia Conflict
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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. Ne
gotiations looking to extradition of the
former German emperor have not been
undertaken. - - . , ,
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ran which, is carrying Into ' effect the
Bolshevist social revolution, - la the au
preme council of state economy. Found
ed in December. 1817. to organize the
country's economic and financial re
sources. It was transformed in August,
11V into the department of economy of
the All-Russlan central executive com
mittee of the . Soviets, ; It possesses al
most unlimited rights as to nationalisa
tion, socialisation, confiscation and. fi
nancing of industrial and commercial en
terprise, oemgi nowever, responsible to
the Central executive committee and the
council of people's commissioners. '
The supreme council of state economy
Is formed of 83 representatives of various
ministries, trade unions, ot all kinds of
specialists, especially . invited, ' and has
as its executive body a"' presidium of
nine elected "from among the members
of the council. It has local ' branches
all over ; Russia, industry, commerce
finances, agriculture, provisions and the
problems of distribution connected with
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congress recognised that of all the forces
produced by soviet Russia, that of. Its
economic organisation proved especially
menacing to the bourgeoisie of Russia
as well as of the west. 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
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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
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perate self 'defense; the soviet govern
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branches of the nation's economy, and
in the last six months devoted Itself to
constructive work, at the end of .which
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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
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population, and .Its: richest part ara
devastated. An econdmiu crisis in tlicre
fore Imminent there. .Tliis. aiti t!i
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velopment, of a revolutionary movement
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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-
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