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l.fllllfotfltfj A ' THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORT LAND NESDAY,- FEBRUARY 11, D1SR FOR WILSON'S ADVICE NOT HELD BREAK i' Democratic Chiefs Assert Caucus Did Not Involve Any Question of Leadership of President. By David Lawrence J - Cojjrriht. 1920 Washington. Feb. 11. Team work '.la an essential In party government and President Wilson's defeat at the .ands of the caucus of Democrats Vho refused to take his advice about Universal military training ils an ex cellent example of the loose connec tion or defective line of communica tion between the White House and Capitol HIU. a circumstance that has fon more than one occasion threat ened to be troublesome but has jjever come to the surface so clearly s In the vote of 107 to 38 against a White House request. .The president has been secluded , so much that he isn't aware of what is folng on inside his own party. ACTION WAS CERTAIN There was no real necessity for a caucus of Democrat to fJeclare against . milltorv tralnlntr. Thft Re- i MinVBIBM mi... . J . publican leadership of Representative iMondell had aireaay expresaeu unai- terable opposition to the scheme on tho ground of expenses. There was, moreover, no necessity for a letter from the White House to the Democrats advising them on the mat ter, for once the caucus was called and ' the plan to hold It had been under way 'for a week, the president might have discovered on consulting any well ln- formed member of the Democratic party In th house that the preponderant sent iment was against universal military service or training that has any com pulsory feature In It HAKES DIVERGENCE CLEAR But Mr. 'Wilson, without finding out the situation In the house, sent a let ter not merely advising that the Demo crats bide their Unie and wait for the Ban Prancslco convention to determine what shall be the Issues of the Demo orotic narfv In thn mmiuilen. hut liv ing at the same time an indorsement of the universal military training plan. Had he failed to commit himself and merely urged postponement, the blow that came in the vote 107 to 38 would hsye been merely a difference of opin ion' as to the proper time to make a declaration on the subject and not a distinct objection to the principle of military training approved by the presl- dent and Secretary Baker and the gen- - eral staff of the army. Jt is about time that the executive branch of the government discovered that, unmerited as the opposition may e, fho general staff Is hardly popular on Capitol Hill. l'EAR NEGRO PROBLEM Memories of brusque treatment re ceived by the members of house and , senate during the war when they used to sit cooling their heels outside the offices of lieutenants, captains, coloneta and generals are -only too fresh in the minds of our legislators, who never for get such things, anyway. But fundamental! the Democratic members of the house, who are opposed to military training, hall from the West and South. As for the latter section, members say their constituents are op posed to military training largely be cause of a fear that to arm the negro youth of the country three months of the year might make it difficult to handle said youth the other nine months. Southern members are always sensi tive about any piece of legislation to arouse the race question, and tney are having too many post-war troubles in the question anyway to experiment with universal military training in time of peace. TAKES FARM LABOR As for the West, the objection seems to be that farm labor Is scarce enough as it is and that the dislocation to ag riculture caused by the wartime con scription is too recent to permit any peace time scheme that Is even remote ly analogous to the selective draft. There are Western members, of course, who argue in favor of military training on the ground that it helps the health of the nation's youth and gives us a preparedness for war which we didn't have when the European war came. - , But the trend seems to be to return to the same state of suspicion about a large military establishment now as the West had when President Wilson campaigned for Hecretary Garrison's continental army and reserve system. Members from the West say their con stituents are not exercised over the pos sibility of another big .war for the next 10 years at least because the world Is In a state of economic and financial exhaustion. The question is by no means disposed of. The Republican party Is in control of both branches of the government and must soon declare Itself. The revolt of the Republican leaders of the house against the president on this Issue Is due to the same line of reasoning which Western Democrats have advanced. Kven with the support of the American Legion it Is doubtful whether the plan would go through, as Republicans and Democrats fear the womenT voters are opposed to the scheme, hat farmers don't want it and that organized labor is far from enthusiastic about creation of a large federal force that might upon occasion be used for strike duty. President Wilson Is unquestionably disappointed that his party didn't fol low . him. Some of his friends have never believed he was especially keen for universal military training himself, though he has indorsed the Idea be fore with the proviso that It would be accompanied by vocational education. LEADERSHIP NOT AT ISSUE His perfunctory attitude heretofore had not a little to do with the calm way in which house Democrats ignored his communications on the subject In sofar as the Democrats are being taunt ed today with having rebuked their leader in the White House many of them say it was merely "a difference of opinion on one question," and does not Involve the entire subject of Wilson leadership, as they argue, will be dem onstrated whenever the occasion for such a showdown arises. But disinterested observers cannot but be Impressed with the fact that as it becomes apparent that Woodrow Wil son Isn't going to run for a third term, his leadership hangs in the balance. Each Democrat in the house is Inclined SENATOR P01NDEXTER S'MINUS A MANAGER FOR LOCAL CAMPAIGN Presidential Candidate From Washington State Opens Head quarters in Morgan BIdg. Senator Miles Poindexter of Washing ton state and Washington, D. C, seems to be having some little difficulty in finding a real honest-to-goodness boom tender to take charge of the task of driving the expected rafta of Oregon votes down the stream of Oregon pall tics and into the shelter of that har boring inclosure. He has a nice new office at room 614, Morgan building, where Walter Tooze Jr. of Dallas can look out over the landscape and size things up. Mrs. Helen C. Jeselsen. president of the Women's Ad club of Portland, is there to take care of the correspondence and see that the office runs right, but the main boom tender haa not yet showed up. Mr. Tooze, who represents Senator Poindexter on the ground which is no inference, of course, that the senator Is up in the air has been negotiating with O. C. Letter, who managed the Simpson campaign for governor at the last gen eral election, but has not landed him as yet However, the office la open, although It is as yet headless. It Is expected a manager will be Installed within a few days, after which the Poindexter of fensive will be shifted out of low Into Intermediate and possibly into high. Edison to Observe His 73d Birthday ith Hour Holiday Orange, N. J., Feb. 11. Thomas A. Edison will celebrate his seventy-third birthday today by taking an hour off at noon to attend a luncheon given in his honor at the Edison works by the Edison Pioneers, an organi?atton of the veterans who wore associated with him In his experiments at Menlo Park and in New York prior to 1885. "I am glad the eight hour day wasn't invented when I was a young man," said the inventor today. "This country wouldn't amount to as much as it does if the young men of 60 years ago had been afraid of earning more than they were paid. I'm not against thra eight hour day, but it makes me sad to see bright young Americans shackle their ability by blind conformity to rules that force the industries to keep step with the shirkers." to shift for himself this presidential year, or at least until a candidate Is nominated at San Francisco to lead the Democratic party anew. Many Business Lines In Organization for A Greater Portland More than 70 lines of business are represented among 425 members of the Greater Portland association, the an nual report of John N. Casey, retiring president, showed Tuesday night The annual meeting was held at the Port land hotel. Ben Selling, clothier, Is the new pres ident of the association. With him, di recting the organization In 1920, are Jared Wenger, secretary - manager; Edgar Stipe, chairman druggists' bu reau, first vice president; Leo Frlede, chairman property owners bureau, sec ond vice president; W. A. Montgomery, chairman books and stationery bureau, treasurer; L. L. Tifft Ocean Jolly, Kathryn Coffield, women's business bu reau ; C. H. Mathis, clothiers' bureau ; H. J. Ditter. dry goods bureau ; F. B. Kreg low, dyers' and cleaners' bureau; J. R. Tomlinson, electrical bureau ; J. C. Mann, grocers' bureau; Charles Jenntng, fur niture bureau; D. H. Chown, hardware bureau ; Frank Heitkemper, jeweler's bu reau; Mrs. J. R. Brodle, milliners' bu reau; Frank Lucas, musical instruments bureau ; M. M. Blnford, printers' bureau,; D. Perry Evans, photographers' bureau ; R. H. Stewart, shoe bureau.; K. S. Er vin. tailors' bureau ; John Plagemann, women's apparel bureau; E. D. Timras, general bureau ; H. W. Bonham, St Johns bureau ; J. C Brill. Sellwood bu reau ; N. L. Crout, Rose City bureau ; H. A. Fitzpatrlck, Grand avenue bureau; O. T. GodeL Sunnyside bureau; J. E. Jensen. Alberta bureau; L. V, Dickson, Montavilla bureau; E. H. BottemiUer, Thurman bureau. lowshlp Into the chill of business.' 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