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; By David Lawrence
; (Cbprricht. l2t. by The Journal)
t Washington, May 10. America'
decision to enter the allied councils
.and to uae her moral support to
compel a satisfactory adjustment of
the German reparations controversy
Is as much based upon economic
reasons a desire to bring? about a
revival of business In the United
States as upon anything- political.
I The ripples of complaint which have
emanated from those on capita! hill who
are inclined to see European affairs from
the political angle, particularly as some
thing consistent or inconsistent with
campaign speeches, have failed to swerve
the executive branch of the government
from its determination to bring about
an era of busineas prosperity, irrespec
tive of how the formula affects the
purely political side of things here.
BUSINESS BETIVAIi MAIX ISSUE
? The commonly reported statement that
: Secretaries Charles Evans Hughes and
Herbert Hoover are influencing the pol
icy of President Harding is only par
; UaJly correct. There are others in the
.cabinet who feel that the big thing he
ifers the Harding administration today is
, the. revival of businessthe return to
normalcy. Therefore, when the question
fcane up in the cabinet as to whether the
invitation of the allies to Join In their
councils should be accepted, the point
was how acceptance or rejection would
'affect the future of American bnsinesa .
Officials recognise that until the al
lies have a satisfactory adjustment of
the reparations owed them by Germany,
the allies will be unable to make satis
factory payments on the money they owe
the United States. Our government re
fuses formally to recognize the relation
ship and will not consider any transfer
ence of the foreign debt from the allies
to the backs of Germans, but, neverthe
less, the Washington government Is not
ignoring the relationship of Germany's
payments, to the capacity of the allies to
pay America. - .: v . : ' :: 'i;
V. 8. POSITION EMBAEKASSnrO
: The Harding administration considered
seriously the embarrassing position in
which America would be placed If she
declined to use her moral force along
side the allies when Germany made her
proposal to mediate. If the United States
had taken a position which the allies be
lieved was encouraging the Germans to
evade their obligations. It might have
resulted In a sentiment among the allied
governments to the effect that America
bad correspondingly prevented the allies
from meeting their obligations to collect
from the allies; In other words, it was
necessary for America to help the allies
get their money from Germany. , . j ; -
Such, in brief. Is the Harding policy
and whether or not It pleases the "ir
reconcilable" element is something that,
by force, of circumstances, has been
made a secondary consideration. Presi
dent Harding naturally . wanted the com
plete support of his party, but in eases
of division he must rely upon ; public
opinion. The feeling in executive quar
ters is that the country Is back of Mr.
Harding in his efforts to bring about a
return of normal business conditions. He
is still as insistent as ever that the
course of . our government will be so
carefully steered that Involvement in
European political - tangle will be
avoided.. ' i - 5 i
FROM AX ECONOMIC BASIS j
But against those who claim that the
participation in allies councils Is a step
toward the entry of the United States
into the League of Nations, the answer
is made that for the present the Hard
ing administration is looking at things,
surely from an economic basis. To re
duce $axes, for Instances, there must be
more revenue available f from more
sources. To make the American people
better able to pay their taxes they must
be in a position to make money. " To
make money, they must have, , besides
their domestic markets, a place to sell
their goods abroad. To sell profitably
they must put their products within the
easy reach of the foreign purchaser.
Until international exchange is stabil
ized, would-be European purchasers can
not buy. : - J -TO
STABILIZE EXCHANGE I
That s the cycle of present day eco
nomics and the Harding' administration
is trying by every means possible to
bring about a stabilization of interna
tional exchange, which it is expected
would be followed by a revival of export
trade , and the reopening of American
factories that now are shut down.
- The Harding . administration believes
that the policy of makings the Germans
pay their debt is good business policy
for America, that the assistance given
the allies by sitting In their councils
prevents any excuse that America her
self is preventing the allies from pay
ing the 110,000,000,000 they owe the
United States. '
SOUKS BUSINESS POLICY J
Sound business policy not campaign
policies is back: of the Harding policy
and that's why Mr. Hughes, In the de
partment of state, and Mr. Hoover, in
the department of commerce, who are
most concerned with foreign trade, are
considered the chief influences in 'the
situation, but behind them is the prac
tically unanimous sentiment of the cabi
netthe secretary of the treasury, who
feels that business will be revived when
European questions are settled ; the vice
president, who. In a public speech, said
the prosperity of America was depend
ent to a large extent on the settlement
of International questions; the secretary
of , agriculture, who wants to see for
eign markets for the farmers' produce,
and so on all along the line. It's busi
ness and not party politics.
HAFGOOD
CORRECTS
PASTOR'S VERSION
OF RUSSIAN STORY
By Norman Hapgood
United Serrtea Editorial Comcxnadent.
; Washington. May 10. An extraor
dinary incident occurred Sunday
in this extraordinary town. 1 Please
remember the following w6rds, for
they contain the whole plot of this
article: "As now in Russia.'
There has come to the city recent
ly at man of God,, a spiritual leader
of men by the name of Freeman a
most suitable name for a dispenser
of the highest truth. Dr. Freeman
has become the vogue, j
' His church, the Epiphany, Is crowded
every time he preaches. The best peo
pel, as I believe they are called, are al
ways present in large numbers.
USES SYMPATHETIC TEXT
r We have been celebrating Mothers'
week down here, a holy thing to do. Dr.
Freeman preached on the subject. He
found his text in the Gospel According
to St, Luke. This was a canny move,
considering what he was going to lead
up to, for Luke Is obviously the Social
ist among the apostles, so Dr. Freeman
made his plans to destroy the Bolshe
viks on the solid ground of testimony
from- a sympathetic source.
The text is in the second chapter, fifty
first verse. It reads;
"His mother kept all these sayings in
her heart." -' '
1 Dr. Freeman's central thought was
that American civilization ! is being de-
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Muilt Jbr Sleep
etroyed by; our trend toward the conU
nental 'Sunday.
We hot only walk about in the parks
en Sunday, which was strictly forbidden
Jtheuritans. hat we even play bas
han. rPop- Anson was here the other
days with bis two daughters and they
gave their vaudevilled turn every day.
including Sunday. .
HOEAL COMLPSE IS SEEK
Ferhaps that1 was what worried Dr;
Freeman. "Pop" was a little indiscreet.
During his comparison of old time dia
mond stars with Cobb and Ruth he In
dicated that In his team there was some
alcohol- consumed and added "Billy Sun
day did bis share." It seems to me all
the more interesting. If that is true, that
the famous evangelist should have got
ten after the demon rum In later years
with such victorious eclat.
Dr. Freeman thinka that all these ten
dencies lead straight to moral collapse.
He was as sure and as fervent about it
as Justice McKenna was three weeks
ago, when he said that the- decision of
the majority of the supreme court to
protect tenants, at some cost to land
lord, was going to throw up rapidly into
the hands of Dzerzhinsks. i T
Justice McKenna was evidently right.
Ton cannot trifle with the moral law.
Some five days after the fatal first step
toward Bolshvism of the United States
court the state of New York, misled by
the example of the highest court, enacted
a law that the owners of apartment
houses shall not be allowed to discrim
inate against children. Facile descensus
averni. Which means that the road to
perdition is greased.
Dr. Freeman's climax was that our
Sunday tendencies would bring about
the nationalization of women,' "as now in
Russia" That is why I called the inci
dent remarkable, even for a center of
thought in which . respectability and
bourbonism are interwoven as they were
in the capital of the nation.
Think what It means for a leader of
TXJDSDAY, I.IAY 10, Mil.
men, a spokesman of Cod, speaking to
educated men and women on May S, the
year of our Lord 1121, in the center of
our political life, to declare that women
are nationalized In Russia. It means
that a large element among our most
influential population believes that the
only way to settle our problems is to
throw scares of the most Gargantuan
untruthfulnass -
When I was last in Europe during
most of the year 1919, this nationaliza
tion story was orthodox. Every secret
servant agent of .every legation sent in
confirmation of It. in almost Identical
language. But since then the form in
which it is agreed that Russian propa
ganda shall be spread nave changed.
If Dr. Freeman were in better touch
with' our government propaganda, with
Mr. Oompers and with Mr. Bekmeteff,
he would know that this nationalization
story is no longer serviceable,- even, on
Sunday. New stories -spread much bet
ter. The crowd does not respond to the
same horror for more than - two years.
If Dr. Freeman really wants tos know
the marriage laws of the country he is
so concerned about, he can get them by
writing to Soviet Russia, 110 West
Fortieth street. New Tork" city, and en
closing 10 cents. Meanwhile I wish he
would preach to the residents of this
etty on the well known text from John,
"The Truth Shall Make Ton Free."
Gas Causes Death
Of State Legislator
Seattle. Wash., May 10. Accidentally
asphyxiated, Frank H. Rencih, for eight
years a member' of the state legislature,
was found dead in . his room Monday.
He had been divorced recently. Coroner
W. H. Corson said he had been dead sev
eral days. A gas jet was turned on ac
cidentally, according to police. -
Oregon City . Boys
jBeleased From Jail
On $500 Bail Each
After' sleeping on Jan cots for one
week. Joseph I Murphy and A. MeGln-
nis, Oregon City youths, gained .their
freedom from the Multnomah county jail
Monday on 1500 ball each. They 'were
arrested last Monday with Albert Car
vel. Roy Foshner and Clem Warren, and
charged with impersonating federal rev
enue agents. -4 - - lv
j The quintet was said to have seized a
quantity of liquor at the borne of : Dora
Scheff. after declaring themselves to
be federal agents.! Mothers a of! the
boys came to Portland Monday morn
ing to protest because they had not
been officially advised of the arrest of
their boys by the Oregon City officials.
They laid their complaint before Assist
ant United States Attorney FlegeL
) Flegel informed them that it is con
trary to theSSttal court procedure to
notify parents where the boys are above
18 years and apparently able to care
for themselves. e 1
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Mozorasky Fails to
Win Freedom; Judge
Bean Considers Case
Habeas corpus failed, in another at
tempt Monday to free Joseph Mozorosky
from the county Jail. After lengthy
arguments by counsel on both sides con
testing the man's right to be at liberty
until he pays a S1600 cqurt judgment
which arose out of a gambling game.
Federal Judge Bean announced that he
would take the case under advisement.
Mozorosky returned to the county Jail
in the custody of the deputy sheriff who
took him to the federal court to hear
the proceedings.
Mozorosky trifcd the same procedure
In the state court a few days ago and
lost, after filing a bankruptcy petition
in the federal court. He ten attempted
to take the pauper's oath, but this was
resisted on the grounds that Je la a
merchant and could not take the oath
without perjuring himself.
About two weeks ago "he attempted to
get the same relief in the federal court
he sought today, but the court would
not even hear his petition until he had
gone the limit in exercising his rights la
the state courts.
The controversy arose over a gam
bling game Mozorosky had with Sol
Swire, in which the latter claimed he
lost 1800. ; Under the state law the loser
Is entitled to recover twice the amount
lost, so a judgment was given for J1S00.
Perjury Is Charged "
1 In Lotisso's Trial
Ed Goneau. chauffeur of the taxicab
which carried Teasle Lotlsso an her
husband, Thomas, from a Chinese noodle
house the night of November 13. when
LotUso shot and killed his wife, pleaded
not guilty before Presiding Judge Kava
naugh Monday afternoon to a charge of
perjury. Goneau testified at the first
trial of Lotlsso that the girl broke
away and ran from Lotlsso and that
the slayer was overcome with rage, this
story bolstering up Lotisso's own state
ment regarding his mental condition
Other witnesses testified to such a wide
ly : different story that an indictment
was returned against Goneau. The
driver is out on J1000 bond.
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Broadway at Morrison
Frocks of gingham and organdy
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; One sees the direct influence
of a break in the cotton mar
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Gingham has come out of the
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$4-65
buys others, and
these in some cases
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Wool embroidery, . smocking and silk feather
stitching adorn them, fabrics being sturdy Japanese
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Colors are orchid, rose, gray, pink, brown and
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A group of - exquisite handmade blouses
Hand-drawn squares, rows of hemstitch-,
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