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THE OREGON SUNDAY , JOURNAL, PORTLAND, bUnJJa - luUiUUaoU, ituv a.idiiii 1, laid." coin PUBLIC BRANDED AN EVIL III GREAT BRITAIN Business Men Demanding That Government Interference With Enterprise Shall Cease. MEAT SUPPLY IS CORNERED England Is to Purchase Cold Storage Products for Sale to Italy, France and Belgium. GERMAN CHAOS IS DUE TO EXPLODED SOCIALIST IDEALS Effort to Keep Hold on People a,nd to Retain Power of Marxian Cliques Has Resulted in Building Up of Present Mili tary Dictatorship That Exists in Country. By Edward Price Bell Frwcial Cable to Th Journal and Tha ChicMO Iiaily New. (rnpyrtcht, 191!). by Clilca" Patty Nnri Co.) London. Sept. 20. Many business men in England are demanding that governmental interference with pri vate enterprine shall cease. They rail it an unmitigated evil. Instance after instance is cited of the alleged incompetency, carelessness and ap palling waste resulting from the sub Ktitution of public for private con trol. Yet the government shows small In clination to quit the ecohomic sphere. Indeed, food experts tell us that Brit ain. France, Italy and Belgium have combined to control absolutely the pur rhase. sale and distribution of froren and cured meats for all these countries. BRITAIN TO BUY FOR ALL One representative I believe a Briton will buy for the four governments. and those supplying meat must trade through him or abandon these markets. It Is reported that Britain has already pent a commission to the United 8tates to buy the country's supply of bacon, hams and lard, meanwhile requisition ing all the stocks of these atrlcles now bere. After the end of the present month no private trader may deal In frozen or cured meats for consumption In the United Kingdom, France and Italy have established embargoes against the Importation of such meats. "WEAPON TO FIGHT PACKERS O. A. McCurdy. parliamentary secre tary of the ministry of food, according to an interview in the Empire Mail, Mated that Great Britain had one very effective weapon with which to fight the American packers, namely, control of the overseas transport. "We can say to the trust." remarked Mr. McCurdy. "that your products can come only in our ships on our own terms." According to the Times, the ministry of food made an estimated gross profit last year of 13.500.000 pounds sterling ($67,500,000). or a net profit of nearly 7.500,000 pounds ($37,500,000) on a turn nver of 550,000.000 pounds sterling ($2. 7r0.000.000). Traders point out that the customer paid this profit. They point out also that the ministry of food got this profit merely for supervising the business since the actual handling of the goods was done by those who do It ordinarily, and that these men necessar ily Rot the profit. "Thoroughly un economic, I call it." said a private trader to me. JIOXTHl-Y LOSS LARGE Some time ago the ministry of food Informed the board of agriculture that prior to May 5. the average monthly loss of the ministry In Its purchase and sale of home killed beef was 423,000 pounds ($2,115,000), whereas the average month ly profit to the ministry for the same ptriod in the purchase and sale of Im porteil meat was 476.000 pounds ($2. 281.0011). Accordingly, on this b;-sis. in stead of selling imported meats at what they cost and giving the consumer the benefit, the ministry of food sold im ported meats in the course of 12 months at more than 5.000,000 pounds ($25,- 000.000) more than they cost and paid this to home producers over and above what the home producers' meats sold for. COST OF BACON Figures given by the ministry of food . I ow that it cost 9 pence (18 cents) 1 fund to handle ISacon from the time It v as delivered on board ship at an At lantii- seaport until it was sold from the retailer's counter. From figures taken rrom a government committee re port in 1916 on food prices, it cost I pence (10 cents) a pound at that time to perform the sajne service. Thus the cost of handling under government con frol was 4 pence (8 cents) more I pound than was the cost under private management. Apparently, therefore, the entire purpose of the ministry is not to give the consumer meat as cheaply as possible. One hears the charge that these arranger ents result in a pre mium to the shipowners as well as a bonus to the United Kingdom farmers. Br Bea Heekt (Special Correspondence ( The Journal and the Chicago Daily New.) AMSTERDAM; Out of the confusion which has engulfed Germany since the armistice four vital and concrete po litical tendencies are emerging. The most successful of these tendencies to date has been reaction powerful and dangerous reaction. By crying "Bolshe vism," by using the menace of radical Ism as a subterfuge to strengthen armies, military budgets and make seemingly neceaaary a military 'dictatorship, reac tion has been able to establish itself firmly for the time In Germany. This reaction Is not the product of a group of dark minded capitalists. It was not foisted upon Germany by a clique of Junkers. It was brought to Qermany by Socialists. In its effort to retain power, to remain the spokesman of the German masses while forced by economic circum stances to divorce itself from the blurred though Insistent ambitions of these masses, the government of Ebert, Scheid- emann, Sauer and Noske likewise was forced to create new support. This it did by reorganizing German militarism. MILITARY DICTATORSHIP NOW The present German government Is a military dictatorship. The political strug gle in Germany has not been a struggle between capital and labor between radi calism and conservatism but a viciously farcical machine gun row between radi cals themselves. Party dogma precipi tated the, miserable street revolts in Berlin. Differences of opinion over the interpretation of the Marzlan tenets were responsible for the brutal wholesale exe cutions of workingmen by accredited leaders of these workingmen in Prussia. The military dictatorship in Germany to day, which may be called the reaction. Is not in theory a return of the old Ger man government. It ts the direct result of the explosion of the Socialist idealism in the nation. When the majority Social ist leaders elected to the government in February found that the theories for which they stood as Socialists were im practical, that the Marxian textbooks were dubious material for national con stitutions, they did not so inform their constituency. On the contrary, they is sued propaganda full of roseate if am biguous references to socialization of in dustry, sovietization of factories and the like. BUILD CP JIEW ARMY Simultaneously these government lead ers, desirous of keeping in power despite the. inevitable revolt of the socialistical- ly educated masses whom they represent ed, worked feverishly upon the reorgani zation of an army. They were able to delude the working class into a mild support of their military program by howling of the menace of Bolshevism. It was not for several months that the working class awoke to the fact that the Bolshevism of which its leaders were howling was none other than the Social istic dogmas which had placed these leaders. In office. Thus the various revo lutions which had enlivened Germany for the last six months have been revolu tions staged by Socialist workingmen against a Socialist government, a variety of internecine vlclousness. The Socialist government In power In Germany today represents the depths of reaction possi ble to German politics. The restoration of the kaiser and his retinue of junkers would be a violent step toward liberal ism. DEMOCRATS HELP REACTION Working hand In glove with this reac tion although disdaining it thoroughly is the democratic tendency in Germany. ALL BIRTHS IN PARIS SUBURBS ARE NOT LEGAL Equally Illegal to Get Married or to Die in Outlying Dis tricts of the French Metropolis This .tendency finds its spokesman in figures like Erzburger, Wolff, Bernhard, Bonn and Naumann. Although democ racy in Germany Is at present support ing the vicious tactics of the Socialist government in Its abortive effort to keep itself In power against its dogmatic rival, its ex-constituency, the democratic leaders are oh the whole men of kindlier possibilities. Democracy as represented by the Democratic and centrum parties has grown in the last six months. It has drawn to its standards from the trade unions under Leglen, from the majority Socialists under Scheldemann and from the urvlvlng Junkerists under Count Pasadowsky. HAASE IS SHREWD LEADER The third element In German politics Is the socialist tendency. This tendency has for its leader the shrewdest and most engaging personality in Germany Hugo Haase. Under a man less brilliant than Haase, Socialism it is almost cer tain jvould have collapsed months ago in Germany. Workingmen trained in pre war years to look forward to the millen nium of Socialism, found themselves under a Socialist government confront ing, a variety of machine gun wrang lings, graft, stupidities and hysterias comparable to the theological discussions of the middle ages. Two things alone were possible to such workingmen, a deepened and blinder faith in their ideals or a revulsion against these alleged ideals. Both things have happened. A part of the German working masses has become more intensely and spiritually socialistic than it was before. A part has disintegrated. It Is Haase who leads the first part, fighting against the vilest reaction, and, more dangerous to him, the growing democratic tendency to keep alive the Marxian political dognja in central Europe. FEW GERMAN WORKERS The fourth tendency in German politics is known as Spartacism. In Its heyday Sparticlsm or communism or Bolshevism numbered as adherents an almost im perceptible number of the German workers. In Munich at the height of the soviet revolution there were only 8000 communists by actual count in the workers army of nearly 300,000 members. In January in Berlin there were under Liebknecht not more than 2000 members of the Spartlcist party. And since Janu ary and March the Spartacist party has been losing ground rapidly. Its chief function has been to provide a subter fuge for the reaction. Noske'a army of 1,200,000 men has been reared ostensibly to protect Germany from the Spartacists. As a matter of fact, it has been reared because the military party in Germany is still a virile, intelligently alive Institu tion and because only by allying them seves with the most autocratic support in Germany could the majority Socialists remain in power and keep up the hoax that parliamentary Socialism was a vital and plausible factor in the life of the nation. In eumming up It is perhaps well to make clear than Ebert, Scheldemann and Noske have not so much betrayed the German workers as they have them selves been betrayed by the theories which they, in common with these workers, once shared. The political fu ture of Germany lies between a slowly strengthening democracy and an Inten sified quixotic Socialist faith. It is more than likely that democracy will win this conflict, that government intent upon practical reforms, upon normal welfare work, will succeed in bringing a decent sort of "order into the life of the nation an order different from the silent, fever ish streets patrolled by Noske's con cienceless machine gunners. PECULIAR STATE EXISTING All Municipal Employes in Sub urbs on Strike, and No Rec ords Being Kept of Events. By William E. Nash Special Cable to The Journal and The Chicago Daily Newn. (Copyright. 1910. by Chicazc .Daily Xewi Co.) Paris, Sept. 20. It is illegal to be born in the Paris suburbs, and. it is equally illegal to be married or to die there. This strange situation is a feature of the strfke of municipal employes in the suburbs, including clerks, 'Inspectors, firemen, cemetery hands and garbage collectors. Since there are no clerks to record births, marriages or deaths, they cannot be recorded and hence are illegal. Seventy-eight communes of the de partment of the Seine have been deprived of administration labor. Sec retary Verrier of the workers' syndicate declares that the demands for a mini mum wage of 14 francs 50 centimes MJ2.80) a day have been ignored by the prefect of the Seine since January last. To the original demands have been added claims for a pension system, half pay on retirement and accident insur ance. Thus one strike follows another in Paris. The taxi drivers are next on the list. One observer said : "These things' react badly on the economic condition of the country. If they are caused by the cost of living, they as certainly contribute to the fac tors forcing prices up. Some way should be found to prevent so many interrup tions of production, otherwise the strikes may develop Into a political revolt." O) I I- i i I National Militia of Turkey Grows Daily; Guerrilla Warfare By Louis Edgar Browne Special Cable to Tbe Journal and Tbe Chicago Daily News. (Copyright, 1919. by Chicago Daily News Co.) Angora, Turkey, Sept. 17. (Via Con stantinople, Sept. 20.) The forces of the council of national defense which are called national militia and which are fighting a guerrilla war against the Greeks in the region of Smyrna now number about M,0')0 men, comprising mostly discharged soldiers inhabiting the territory occupied by the Greeks. Kvery day sees a string of recruits passing through Konia, Angora and other cities to join the militia. Inasmuch as the national militia still hopes to achieve an understanding with the government in Constantinople, of ficers and enlisted men actually in serv ice are not going to what is known as the Smyrna front. Many officers are joining the militia, but they first resign from the Turkish military service, there by avoiding implicating the milita. J. AUSTRIANS TOO INTELLIGENT TO BE BOLSHEVISTS Lusilania Cup London. Sept. 20 (U. P.) The "Lusi tanla cup." presented to a Barnet Rolf club for annual competition by F. Bat lorsby, a Lus'.tania survivor, was won this year by Frank Partridge, another l.usitanla survivor. Finally Gol Hin. London. Sept. 20. (U. P.) Demobil ised after four and one half years' serv ice, Hugh Garvicaij returned to his Not tingham heme to be served with a 5-ytar-old summons for playing football In the streets when he was 16. FREE TO ASTHMA SUFFERERS A New Home Method That .Anyone Can Use Without Discomfort or Loss of Time. We have a new method that controls Asthma, and we want you to try it at our expense. No matter whether your case is of long standing or recent de velopment, whether it is present as Hay Fever or chronic Asthma, you should send for a free trial of our method. No matter in what climate you live, no mat ter what your age or occupation. If you are troubled with asthma, our method should relieve you promptly. We especially want to send it to those apparently hopeless cases, where all forms of Inhalers, douches, opium prep arations, fumes, "patent smokes," etc., have failed. 7e want to show every one at our expense, that this new method 1s designed to end all difficult breathing. aU wheezing, and all those terrible paroxysms at once. This free offer is too important to neglect a single day. Write now and begin the method at once. Send no monev. Simply mall coupon below. Do it Today. Adv. Viennese Peasants. Who Form M ost Important Element, in Favor of Democracy, Autocracy Unpopular, Socialism Not Fancied and, Communism Has Not Made Progress Among the People. New York Line to Reach West Coast By R. W. Thompson Special Cable to The Journal and The Chicaio Daily News. (Copyright. 1919. by Chicago Daily Nws Co.) Kingston, Sept. 20. The Pacific Steam Navigation company will soon start a service from New York to Valparaiso by way of the Panama canal. Boats coming dovi wilt call here and on their way up to New York will call for pas sengers and cargo. I! I ! i Peeved at Club London, Sept. 20. (U. P.) Resenting her husband's late hours a Shoreditch woman s-nashed the windows at his club and threw a liniment bottle at peo ple dressing her cut hands. The club sued for and obtained $37. 30 damages. FREE TRIAL COUPON FRONTIER ASTHMA CO.. Room 505X. Niagara and Hudson Streets. Buffalo. N. Y. Send free trial of your method to : By William . ah Spfcial Correspondence of The Journal and The Chicaco Daily News. TARIS. German Austria is different -l in many ways from Germany. It lias no large percentage of workingmen. Its population is made up largely of peasants, and of Viennese bourgeoisee who used to live on the proceeds of Jabor in other parts of the dual monarchy. Also there are a tremendous number of officials who used to run the Haps burg political machine. These people do not make enthusiastic socialists. Re cent events in Hungary have proved that farmers also object to the socializa tion of their lands. A bloodless revolution toward the end of November. 1918, put the socialists in control. Their boasts that they repre sented the real sentlmenets of the country were not borne out by the electiotrs for the national assembly which took place in March. 1919. Of the two main parties the social democrats gained a narrow plurality of three votes. The second or Christian socialist party is socialist in nothing but name, and that is a popular new disguise for conserva tive interests. It is significant to note that these sham socialists were particu larly strong in Vienna: ."SOCIALISTS GET SOWHERI The new government, however, was predominantly socialist because that was the strongest party in the govern ment. The premier, minister of foreign a (fairs, and first president of the assem bly were social democrats. The country has no executive head similar to our president. These officials were en trusted with the future policy of the rept'Diic vnat nave Deen the main sirii gs of this policy? First, a desire to bring about annexation with Ger many, and second, an ambiguous atti tude toward communism. Both of these aroused Intense distrust in the west and reacted to the disfavor of German Aus tria. True, they were due principally to the strong man of the government, Bauer, who lately has been forced to tesign, but their failure reacted badly on the credit of the Socialist party. People began to ask themselves what the social democrats really had accom plished. The answer was nothing." In spite of glowing promises few real re forms had been made. . Corruption was still widespread. Distrust on the part of the bourgolse and the radical 'Social ists had grown worse than ever. What are the chances for a change of government? They are not strong. A feeling of political listlessuess which is impossible to understand for one who has not been on the ground seems to have teized the people. They are al ways ready to talk politics, but never prepared to offer a constructive solution. I-erhaps after the lessons of the last five years they consider politics too dangerous a game to play. Likewise the present management of the country s an unenviable task as German Aus tria is bankrupt and surrounded on every side by irreconcilable enemies. BOISHEVISM IS IMPROBABLE The chief dangers are a Bolshevist ex periment or a monarchic reaction. So far as one can judge from outward sisns. the first is improbable. All through the period of Hungarian Bolshe vism Vienna turned a deaf ear to the blandishments of Bela Kun. Two at tempts at communist uprising failed, not so much on account of government ac tion as on account of popular antipathy. The people are too intelligent and easy going for a mad dash into the realms cf the unknown. And now the chances of Bolshevism are less than they were a month ago. The other tlternative. a return to monarchical rule, is less easy to Judge. Certainly a larger part of the !eople favor it than communism. But what would be gained thereby? Monarchy is on the wane everywhere. A restoration in Vienna would not in crease the popularity of Austria abroad, and yet htat Is exactly what must hap pen if this countty wants to live. Most Important of all. perhaps, is the atti tutde of the peasants. They want a democracy, not an autocracy, and arc reascnably well satisfied with the pres ent government so long as it does not lay too much emphasis on socialism. In short the social democrats stand in the same position In Austria that the Third republic did in France in 1871. 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Fourth Floor , ILabor-B&ndslhmf Devices Are First Principles in Domestic Economy Autumn, the season of new homes and of homes already established finds its needs in the way of proper kitchen and laundry equipment, furnishings and decorations completely anticipated here. In the Household Efficiency Section BABY GRAND MAYTAG ELECTRIC WASHERS ANNOUNC ING THE ' ARRIVAL OF A CARLOAD OF THESE MACHINES SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WAIT ING FOR. Sold on Terms to -Suit Let us send one out for you to demonstrate one week in your own home at our expense. The Maytag Electric Washer is the safe, satisfactory and economical solution of the family wash problem. PERFECTION OIL HEATERS Smokeless Odorless THEY HEAT TEN HOURS ON A GALLON OF COAL OIL. THEY WARM CHILL ROOMS AND DISPEL GLOOM. 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