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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL; PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 23. 1821. Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, Would Make Department Worth Whfle E BUSILY ENGAGED Former Food Administrator Ex pected to Reorganize Depart ment Into Something Resultful Srf. t (Tht im tha third article of a aeriea deacrfbinc the mrthoda of Uw mtmbtn of President Hard ing' cabinet in (dminiaterin the affairs, of their rmprcMia department. It reveals the system of Secretary of ' CommPira ,Hooer in haadhns the " cotniJri problems with which he is duly called on to deal.) j By Iuis Seibold (Copyritht. 1021. by the Prase Publishing Co.. the New Tort World.) t Washington, May 29. The round. chubby face of Herbert Clark Hoov er, seventh, secretary of commerce. la beginning to wear the set expres sion of grim and heavy determina- rtlon that used to chase the good na- i ture from it when he crossed swords with the kaiser's government' over I the feeding of starving Belgium. I came away from him the other day with the impression that. If it were not for the same dogged stubborn ness with which he asserted the right of the United States to care for the helpless victims of the kaiser's - barbarism, Mr. Herbert Clark Hoov . er would pack up his kit and permit the department of -commerce to con tinue its uninterrupted record for amiable and passive inaction. Being the good business man that he is. It didn't take Herbert Hoover very J . long to rind out therein undertaking the direction of the department of commerce he had Inherited something in the nature of a-white elephant or wandered up into an official blind alley without terminal facilities of any sort. Of course, if Herbert Hoover were-not a good busi ness man and ambitious to make record of service, he'd 'have the softest kind of a job. He could attend no end of luncheons and dinners before Rotary - and business clubs, toast the energy and enterprise of the American business man, ' assert the supremacy of American trade methods 'and give eloquent assurance of the desire of the United States govern . mentJto promote the ambitions of pro ducers, manufacturers, exporters and tradesmen. That's what most of his predecessors use to do. AS ISCE8SAST WOEKEE But belngj-ather of ;a. different mold, the man ho provided the machinery to carry succor to the helpless' and depend ent victims of the- war; the man who cut or unsnarled the red tape of con- vention. treaties and military dictation. Insists on taking his Jub seriously. At the end of six weeks he seems to have gained a pretty clear idea of what he is up against, and by working 15 hours a day is spotting: the faint rays or light that point to daylight. He is really hot nearly so pessimistic s mot other men would be if con fronted by the same problems. ' At the name time, I think the Job is getting i m his nerves because of bis determlna moii to" make the department of com merce, one of actual service instead of i sort of trade welfare Institution, as it actually was when he assumed con trol of'lt, , ; - ; With a fairly comprehensive idea of the tremendous energies with which Hoover tackled the feeding of the help less and subsequently the regulation and distribution of foodstuffs to the domestic population, I'll bet he has never worked - no hard as lie is doing today. His office on the seventh floor of the Commerce building at Nineteenth street and Penn xylvania avenue, three blocks from the early morning till four ; or five hours after the quitting: bell is sounded at 4 :30. WA5TS WORTri "WHILE . DEPARTMENT He keeps three or tour secretaries and stenographers on the jump every minute of his working; hours. Aside from a brief conference with, the newspaper reporters a couple Qf times a week, he Is inaccess . "ibfe to callers who have not arranged their appointments In advance. Tou are very fortunate indeed to be granted an - audience between 6 and 8, as I was, and to obtain the rather illuminating bird's eye view of conditions as Hoover ' de- . scribed them while he was blowing out - smoke and off -emotional steam. The commerce-' secretary made no secret or tne race mat nis jod is a nam cne. He had no complaint, to make . against anyone or anything for the creation- of these conditions, and he is devoting the full power of the mental 'machine back of the bulging brow that juts, over his- mild blue eyes In an ambitious effort to make the department something more than a name. His plans Tor doing so have not matured sufficient ly to permit of public discussion. That will comef later, probably in the form of a request on congress to remodel the : law creating the commerce department so as to permit a thorough reorganiza tion that will make it an institution of practical efficiency. - " .FACTIONS STOT PEFIXED The chief trouble with the branch of the government which Hoover is trying to convert into a plant that will produce something of more substantial value .than pleasant reports is that its func tions are not clearly defined, nor does . It possess power to enforce its decrees. Projected as an instrument for co ordinating the commercial resources of the country ana developing to the max imum its trade with foreign nations, the newest of all cabinet offices is merely an interlocking bureau between the state department, . the interstate commerce commission,' the federal trade commis sion, and the department of justice. In - creating it congress failed to provide definite distinctions as between -it nd , other departments of the government anrl to- supply It with the necessary authority - to act independently of the others. " : There are dally brought to the at-, tention of Hoover in his efforts to straighten out the snarls resulting from overlapping conditions problems that would make an ordinary man pull out ' some of his own hair or that of other officials of the government. Instead of t doing any hair-pulling, however. Hoover has settled down to an academic survey of original 'conditions, a study of which . :ill afford him an opportunity to trace the evils responsible for the Ineptitude of his department. ASSEMBLING "FACTS 1 . ,lay after day tor more than three weeks he has been conferring with the leaders of trade ventures, the represen tatives of various groups of manufac turers, exporters and importers, and to CABINET M MBER ATHSHWORI II J I Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce a lesser extent producers of commodities which are piling up In warehouses or rotting on farmk end for which there is np frofitable market Slowly and by the exercise iof great patience he is getting an insight into the causes of these most undesirable conditions. One of the great difficulties that have always confronted the department of commerce is the lack of first-hand In formation as to the undertakings of the commercial rivals of the United States In South American and other fields. Hoover realizes that both Germany and Great Britain" have inaugurated drives against the United States in the Latin- American countries. lie further knows rthat the German and British trade com petitors of the United States enjoy a decided advantage through the prac is no profitable market Slowly and by those nations which, in the end, amounts to subsidies incompatible with the ex isting trade t policies of the United States. - , i : To what extent this process of nation alization has actually been developed by Great Britain and Germany is a matter of conjecture; because Hoover does not possess the facilities for first-hand in vestigation by; which such information can only be obtained. : It is true that the department of commerce has agents in South American countries who send information of more : or less value for the guidance of American manufacturers and merchants, f TO UEGE TRADE TEAM WORK The commerce department however, is without the power to establish agen cies that would assist American trades men to enjoy an even break with those of other nations. ': Although he did not say so, I gathered that it is the am bition of Hoover to arouse American business men to the necessity for emu lating the team work that characterizes the ventures of their German and British competitors, and to back it up with the fullest measure of 'support from their own government He probably will tell the public, how he plans to do this, later on. Bnt the perplexities that compel - the secretary of commerce to work overtime and leave to Julius Barnes the administration of the fund for, feeding the starving chil dren of Europe are not confined to the foreign field. Almost every day there come into his private office from the anteroom, which is always overcrowded with manufacturers, merchants, import ers and exporters, men with complaints resulting from complications in the do mestic trade machine. TAKOtES APLEKTf A good many of these are the conse quences of the obsolete war policies 'of the government-; others result from "the 1 development of neutral trade conditions along new lines. The railways, labor, conflicting rulings by other departments, lack of definite authority to straighten out the resulting tangle, all contribute to the existing confusion which some- fmes defies analysis or solution. To enumerate incidents of this kind would necessitate an exhaustive de scription of the troubles besetting every line of a commercial character, foreign and. domestic, r Hoover told me of one instance that furnished an illuminating example of the manifold troubles that confront American commerce. Because of the prohibitive railroad rates, the cotton-oil cake Industry Is in a complete state of demoralization. ' Producers of it cannot afford- to pro vide the amount demanded for the feed ing of cattle at home, but because of the more favorable transatlantic rates American cotton cake is being fed to Danish cattle, though the cattle raisers of Kansas and Iowa cannot afford to pay the freight rates which the railways are authorized to charge. Cotton cake is shipped from Galveston. Texas, to Denmark at a much cheaper rate than the railroads, are compelled to charge for - transporting It from Texas to Topeka, Kan. This, as said, is only one instance of the complications that make for the discouragement of Amer ican commerce, both at home and abroad, but ; the fundamental principle is the same that extends to almost every other line of freight in the country. Just where a solution that will generally relieve these; conditions lies is a matter that is calling- upon the best capabilities of the new commerce secretary. HOPES FOR COOPERATION I asked him the otne night, after we had discussed these things, if he thought he would succeed in his effort to make the department ; of - commerce worth, while. j -Yes," he! replied. "If I am able to obtain the cooperation of congress and the other departments of the govern ment I am going to try, anyhow. Up to the present time congress has never taken a very serious view of the commerce department There isn't very much patronage in it and congressmen generally are not greatly interested in specific undertakings of a foreign char acter. Of an the departments of the government - It has probably been the moiS neglected. The repeated recom mendations made by the predecessors of Hoover have been pleasantly received and pigeonholed. Hoover knows all about this agreeable policy of congress in deal ing with his department in the past but ItfWill probably not alter his determina tion to make a fight to convert the machinery of the department from a "fifth wheel" to a plant that will func tion efficiently and productively. The policy groups have left Hoover alone up to date. The leaders, who are more interested In patronage than in the promotion of public service, do not ap prove of the secretary of commerce. They regard him as a "boob" in the A game, and justify their characterization of him by .- pointing out the- "blunder he made last year when he permitted Will Hays to brand him as a Republican in advance of the nominating convention of that party. - 'i.--:-.-X r, Tou will find a lot of ' hard-boiled Republican , leaders around Washington looking for jobs for themselves or re tainers who will tell you that if Hoover had "played the independent game" either the Republicans or the Democrats would have had to nominate him, prob ably the Republicans. The arguments advanced to support this declaration are (1) . that the , Republicans would . have been afraid to ignore him and (2) that the Democrats would have accepted the alternative and nominated him because of his great hold on the popular esteem and his value as a vote-getter. KEEP VS TOUCH WITH RELIEF Just what Hoover thinks about this professional view of. himself I don't know, but he doesn't appear to care a rap what the politicians now think about him. That he has not lost anything in popular esteem was pretty clearly dem onstrated at a dinner of the Gridiron club.. I noticed that the professionals did not participate in the most pro nounced demonstration of the evening which- followed the invitation of Presi dent Jack Messenger to Mr, Hoover to stand up and be identified. The attitude of the professionals therefore furnished a . rather convincing index of the pro fessional thought regarding -Mr Hoover. Politicians who have invaded his lair at the commerce department have no complaint to make on the score of the reception accorded them by the secre tary. He is amiable without being ef fusive, but he has impressed such callers with the fact that he is less concerned with politics than with the official busi ness in hand. He is always ready to tell about the work of his department point out the difficulties of making it function efficiently and to discuss the humanitarian ventures of which he 'is exercising supervision between bites into the acrid cherry of commerce. He em ploys one secretary who attends to nothing else except correspondence re lating to the general direction of the funds for the relief of starving children in European countries and the pathetic condition of . the victims of the Chinese famine. f J POLITICIANS GRUMBLE Hoover devotes an hour every night to f the discussion and cowideration of these enterprises, leaving to Barnes the actual administrative functions incidental to the assembling and distribution of relief measures. - Under the old system secre taries of commerce spent most of their time going to banquets in various parts of tho country and scattering verbal pearls ' of encouragement ' among the members of trade organizations. Up to date Hoover has been to but two public dinners and has sent his regrets in response to others, with the explanation that he , has his hands full- trying to make head or tail out of the department of commerce. He seems to think that he has already grabbed it by the tail. Some of the - professional politicians predict he will not hold onto it very long, but that failing to "have his way" he will ptck up his marbles and hoop and run off home." The inspiration for this opinion is that the Doliticiana them selves' did not select Hoover for a place in the Harding cabinet To support this declaration, some of the professionals assert that Mr. Harding did not want Mr. Hoover in. his cabinet and only offered him the Job as a sop to public opinion generally, which entertains a very flattering estimate of the former food administrator. , ; - r , The very circumstances under which Hoover was appointed are not calculated to make for his popularity in profes sional circles. He was regarded by the "practical leaders" as a trouble-maker. because any man is a - trouble-maker In their view that has a job thrust at him instead of having to go after it Hoover's Insistence that if he did accept: the place offered by Mr. Harding he would be permitted to completely re organize it Into a real department of : commerce was an affront to every' pro fessional politician in the country.. They i are even now wondering why Mr. Hard- ! Ing didn't r invite Hoover - to go" some i place except , into tne ; department of commerce. -,.--.-v.; Next Sunday f "- Albert B. FalL Seem. tary of the Interior. .-' - . INDUSTRY SHOULD BE ORGAN ZED FOR WAR SAYSBARUCH Skeletonized Establishment on I Lines of War Industry Board Urged to Keep U. S. Prepared. ' , ' : - By Harold D. Jacobs New York; May 28. (U. P.) American industry should be main tained in the same degree of pre paredness for war as the army and navy, according to Bernard , M. Baruch. .- , The modern application of George Washington's admonition "in time of peace prepare for war" is explained by Baruch in his book, "American In dustry In the War," which is in effect a report of the war Industries board of which he was chairman. Baruch makes these suggestions: - A peace time skeletonized organiza tion along the same lines as the war in dustries board should be established to provide congress with accurate and com plete information regarding all Indus tries, and to form the nucleus of a new board in case of another war.. SHOULD SEEK ESSENTIALS The government should encourage and assist in development of the production of certain essential materials, used both in war and peace, which have been vir tual monopolies in other countries in the past' Manufacturers should be prevailed upon to maintain under government sup ervision the skeleton organizations' in certain departments through which rapid manufacture of munitions and war ma terials could be developed. "There should be established a peace time skeleton organization following the lines of tho war industries board," Ba ruch says. "It should be headed by a chairman who should have associated with him the chiefs of the centralized purchasing bureaus of the army, of 'the navy.' and of any other government : department which might be called upon to make large purchases in case of war. To func tion under the several principal divisions there should be selected about 60 chiefs of commodity sections. Each chief of a commodity section would name a com mittee to represent the industry under his charge. r a -j COMMITTEES SHOULD MEET ' The committees of the different Indus tries could meet separately as occasion required. The main organization should meet In general conference at least once a year. ,. '- -. . "During the war the country was con stantly threatened with a shortage in available supply of nitrogen, manganese. chrome, tungsten, dyestuf fs, coal : tar derivatives, and several other essential materials. These materials had always been imported. - Bhe government should devise some system for protecting and stimulating their internal production. "Under the supervision of the proper departments of the government certain war industries should be - encouraged to maintain skeleton organizations through which they could develop the rapid manufacture ' of guns," munitions, air planes, and other direct military equip ment This might be done in some cases through government purchases- of fac tories, in others through the placing of sufficient orders to permit the owners to keep the plants in existence." WOULD AVOID BIO LOSS "These' measures are suggested as di rect methods of insuring against some of the heavy losses and unfortunate de lays which the country experienced In the process of converting its industries from a peace to a war basis. They In volve, very small current expenditures, but are capable of being Instruments for saving many millions of dollars In an emergency." ' Regarding the advantages and disad vantages of huge Industrial organiza tions, Baruch says: "The . country will quite properly de mand the : vigorous enforcement of all proper measures for the suppression of unfair competition and unreasonable re straint of trade. But this essentially negative policy of curbing vicious prac tices should, in the public Interest be supplemented by a positive program. and to this end the experience of the war industries board points to the de sirability of investing some government agency, perhaps the department of com merce or the federal trade commission, with constructive as well as inquisitorial powers. , t , . . - WOULD HELP INDUSTRY ' "Such a plan should provide a way of approaching industry, or rather of in viting Industry to approach the govern ment in a friendly spirit with a view to help and not to hinder. "It is recommended that such practices of cooperation and coordination in in dustry as have been found to be clearly of public benefit should : be stimulated and encouraged by a government agency, which at the same time would be clothed with the power and charged with the responsibility of- standing watch against and preventing abuses."-; Beware of Sleek and Oily-Mannered Man, Say Surety Experts - ' (By United Ne) Atlantic City. N. J., May 28. Far bet ter be a crank, a hut a fat man or an explosive-tempered perso$ who blows up with a grouch and then forgets it than a sleek, oily mannered character. When the 'occasion arises to become a bonded and more or less trusted employe with access to other people's wealth, the characteristic "yes man." always agreeable to the opinions of others, finds himself a suspect of the surety com panies' representatives whose business it is to Interview ; the "subject" of , the bond. ' i '"--j- Telling the Kiwanis club" of Atlantic City how surety companies classify good risks and less desirable risks, Frederick N. Withey, representative of the Na tional Suretv company of New York, re vealed Thursday night that profane men, given to bursts of sulphuric language, are considered honest They rarely em bezzle. Neither do fat men, who are too well satisfied with the world in general to harm their fellow men. . Married men, however, of all classifi cations are the best risks, because, even though they may be .suave, they usually are restrained from embezzlement be cause of their regard for the happiness of those whom they love. . f , The. Chinese are the most honest of the racial classifications. This may be due to the fact that for ages theft was a capital crime In China. Anglo-Saxons rank next Withey said.: and Northern Europe races outrank those from South ern Europe for honesty. The Latin is addicted to petty theft , The Jews are honest or otherwise according to local conditions, the expert declared. Ring Defends the Non-Joiners e it.' at t it. it n at at Lodges Are No Longer Oases I . A ' 3oR&kU I ... - V... .- riyn If yon tell a Red Man that you, just beard the best fellows In the world waa in the Eagles, why be win say that whoever told yon that was not only an Eagle hat a Cuckoo, . V- By Ring W. Ijardner To the Editor: ; A wile ago I got & hold of a paper from the old home town and it says In it that they was .having a con- vention of the Knights of Pythias of South Western Michigan and the chamber of com merce kindly re quested the differ ent merchants to put the K. 'P. col ors in their win dow so as to make the visiting Knights feel at home, and I was reading the item out loud to a friend of mine and we got talking about lodges and he says he had just took- his . 2d-, degree in the Masons and he asked me what lodges did I belong to and I told him I didn't belong to none and he says I ought to join one and I asked him why and he give me a lot of arguments and I argued back and we didn't prove nothing and he prob ably went , home and told his Mrs. that I was a moron. ' ' : Well friends I know that the most of my readers belongs to some lodge another as the big majority of people in this country is Joiners, and I also know that the Joiners thinks they must be something wrong with the rest of us, either that we tried to horn in some order and got black bald or else we are Just plain nuts. Well friends, with your kind in dulgent I will try and say a few wds. in behalf of the non-Joiners like myself that hasn't never tried to' get in no lodge and yet flatter ourselfs that we can pass a lunacy test as good as the Grand; Worthy Lama of the Loyal Order of Carl bous, but I : want it understood to begin with that I haven't nothing vs. no, lodge or no quarrel with people that belongs to them. In fact some of my best friends is Odd Fellows. Well one of the Joiners' arguments is that the lodge helps a man in their business as it gives them a chance to meet wealthy brothers that they can do ; business with: them. Well that -is O. K. if your business is selling grape fruit or stogies or something but it get you nowheres if you are in ' some line of business like driving the sprinkling wagon or ensign at a grade crossing and personly I don't know ; of no case where a editor bought a story be cause him and the author was! both Owls or turned one down because he was a Moose and the writer a Royal Arcanum. 1 . Argument No. 2 is that you I meet the best fellows in the world and make friends with them. Well our answer to that Is that theys no way of finding out which lodge is harber ing the best fellows in the world as the witnesses ; all contradicts each other and if you ask a Eagle he will tell, you its the Eagles, but if you tell a Red Man that you just beard the best fellows in the world was in the Eagles, why he will say that whover told you that was not only a Eagle : but a Cuckoo, and So on and the only way to make sure Is to join all the lodges in alphabet order and by the time you haA paid your initiation in the Paughters of Rebekah you wouldn't have no money left to pay your back dues in the Alligators. Argument No. 3 Is that when you get " in trouble the lodge . will help you out, but I generally always have pretty good success with a niblick. Argument No. 4- If you belong to some lodge and you 'want to play around down town nights, you can tell the Mrs. you half to stay down and go to lodge. Well all the wif es I ever had was so tickled to have you .stay down on some acct that they' didn't care if it was a, lodge or the annual meeting of the League of American Rhubarb Fanciers. . Argument No. 5 NWhen a man gets a certain age they generally al ways worry aDOuc wnat land of - a funeral they will have. The Joiners don't worry as much as the non Joiners because if the former keeps their dues paid up they can feel pretty sure that a few brothers will company them to the bone yard and it won't look like they died friend less. . But a non-Joiner is libel to be the only reveller at his own funeral a specially if the genial undertaker picks out a day when the Mrs. bridge club meets. Well I can't speak for other non Joiners but personly , my reply . to this one is that I am sure of a crowd it nobody goes but my children and I would like to see anybody keep them home from ' a outing . of that kind, but even if it wasn't for them. I have' go a kind of a hunch that I won't care much if the rest of the parade consists of 20 automobiles or 1 wheel barrow as long as I can't see it. Joiners also say that when you die in good standing you don't have no troublea getting people to set up with you the next two nights, but theys no use these days of having people set up with you even when you're alive. . . .'". In the old days when the South was all that was dry and we use to go on training trips with the base ball boys, why they waa lots of times when a certain lodge come in handy because for inst. we would get in some town in Alabama and feel -like we needed sustenance of some kind before setting through one of them spring ball games, so we would get a hold' of one of the ball players that belonged to this here lodge and he would take us np to the temple and introduce us and then we was fixed as long as we had to stay in the town, and in some towns the temple was so pretty that we would stay there and write it up instead ol the ball game. '7 When . it was the Cubs we was with, Frank Schulte had to see tha. we was took care of and sometimes he would get kind of tired of it and ask why we didn't join the order' ourselfs and save him that trouble. Well,' the answer to that was that we had all the privileges without paying -no dues and as non-members we didn't " half to pay for nothing and besides that' we never stood in no danger of getting elected a dele gate to the annual convention at Atlantic City. And that reminds me that in them good old days they was one big league city that turned dark blue on Sunday and it seemed like we was there pretty near every other Sun day and even Frank's lodge didn't do no good and the situation was getting desperate till one of the boys discovered a oasis which was a local branch of a certain union that all you had to do was pay them $1 ini tiation fee and they give you a key and made you a life member. So when I die the papers won't come out and say he belonged to the Loyal Order of Moose, the Ma sons, the Odd Fellows, the Elks, and etc. But how much more of a thrill my friends and family will get if they print the truth and say: - "He : was a life member of the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Associa tion." RING W. LARDNER. Great Neck. May 27. OPEN SHOP FIGHT OF BOSSES FAILS, STATjSjpPERS Organized Labor to Speed Up Campaign for More Members, Declares President of A. F. of L (By United Kews) " Washington, May 28. The : con certed effort of employers to destroy trade unionism their ."open shop campaign" has failed, according to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. Gompers said confession of this was made at the annual convention- of the American Manufacturers association in New York last week. He quoted the committee on Industrial betterment as having protested the "defensive position Into which the members had been forced by labor." he assailed a suggestion of offensive measures by labor. At the same time Gompers announced the federation is to set under way a "great organizing campaign. "Organization work continues at all times," said Gompers, "but this work is to be intensified. The message of trade unionism will be carried to every corner of the land, to the limit of our powers. Its encouragement and protec tion will be offered to the workers every where. - "American labor nrinla Tt va.liu rt organization to be at the service of the country, ior me sane or tne protection of the workers end for the sake of the Value Of Organization in th stlmnlatlnn encouragement and facilitation of pro- Gompers declared the failure of the Open ShOD camnalsm dsmonatnlMl ten things: "First, that the working people want trade union organization and will not be driven from its protection ; and, "Second, that trade unionism is funda mentally right and that it la a part of democracy and that the strength of Its position is proof against successful at tack. V 2 Women and Dog In Ship's Cabin Perplex Officers San Francisco, May 28. When la a dogr not a dog? This was the difficult question which confronted officers on the big Japanese liner Shlnyo Maru on her voyage across the Pacific and nearly terminated In the tossing into the sea of the pet around which the fracas was stagedV , It was all because two women and one fuzzy little dog named "Harmony" which proved decidedly contrary to his name were quartered In one small stateroom during the entire passage. The two women were Mrs. M. Martin, a striking blonde of Seattle,, and Mme. G. Beaudet a handsome brunette, who is en route to her home in France. Mrs. Martin, it was said, insisted that the pet remain in the women's stateroom. "It s it insanitary," declared Mme. Beaudet "and should be in the "'""' compartment" - "Harmony Is a perfect little gent" Mrs. Martin la reported as having stated, "and he shall keep me company right here in my stateroom, and he shall sleep in my berth." Thus the situation remained until the big vessel neared Honolulu. "I could stand it no longer," said Mme. Beaudet today. - appealed again to the officers and no relief was offered. I then took the dog by the' neck and threatened to throw him In the sea if it was not removed." The canine was sent to the lower decks. . - . ecoratton Map Tomorrow, Store The Quality Store - Of PORTLAND HARDING. HUGHES ARE TURNING TO - JAPANESE ISSUI Secretary of State Begins t Study Mandate Over Yap an' California Land Law Dispute By Robert J. Bender Tnited New SUff OrrwponiJent wasnwgion, Aiay 2 5. rne nex in order for foreign business for thj American state department is Japar President Harding and Secretary c States Hughes have set in motion Amer lean participation in European counci' to protect this country's rights la thr. field. They have sent 'George Summerli' to Mexico City with the formula which they seek to get friendly cooper a tion between Mexico and the Unite States . definitely underway after year of unstabllity. j While watching developments of th start made In these two directions, there fore, Secretary of State Hughes ma wel be expected to set about cleanln his desk of the extraneous matters clof glng progress toward a settlement t the trying questions before the Unite States and Japan. TAP COMES FIUST Tap comes first Considerable h been made of the Yap Issue, but It real! Is only a small phase of the America r Japanese situation. It Is, for the nv merit more of a talking point tha anything else. And there is reason t believe that informal discussions whlc have been carried on between Washlm ton and Toklo are proceeding in a mar ner entirely satisfactory to the Unite States. . . First: The California land and Jar anese Immigration question. Second : The question of when an under what conditions Japan is to retur Shantung to China. Third: The question of when an under what conditions Japan is to wltt draw her troops from Siberia. Fourth: Toe broad question of th open door in -the Far East STUDIES CALIFORNIA MATTEB. Hughes has begun a study of the db cussions beun .between former Unlte States Ambassador Morris and Japan- Ambassador Saldlhara relative to tl, California land and immigration quo? tions. 'These negotiations were not com pleted before the change "In adminlstra tion came, and it has not been decide whether or not they will proceed nov from the point they left off or whethe they .will be opened on a clean slate This administration has never indicate what would be its line.' of action on U Shantung agreement for which Fre&i dent , Wilson was denounced by Repub lican leaders. Japan's delay in with drawing her troops from Siberia ha been frankly looked upon with torn suspicion and as frankly denounced a a failure by- Japan to abide by th agreement under which American an Japanese troops Jointly effected th original expedition into Siberia. OPEN DOOR. IS ISSUE In the long run, however, the grea problem works around to the que&tioi of the open door in the Orient. Th feeling has been here that Japan, b: continuing her hold on Shantung an Siberia, 'has Bought merely to establish herself economically and politically then and would withdraw, if she could hav her way, only with understandings as suring her virtual domination of thoi fields.- Hence, persistent reports thai she plans to get out of -Shantung an, Siberia soon are received here quiU calmly. l Highway Work Pushed Canyonvllle. Or.. May 28. -Work on the Pacific highway from Canyonvllle tc Myrtle Creek Is going forward as rapidly as possible. The Pacific highway through the Canyon creek canyon is U fine condition. May 30 (Dosed a (Copyright 1921, by the Bell ST&dkate. Xa&