THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING,
JUNE 3, 1021.
SOCIAL WORKERS
ASK BETTER CARE
FOR STATE WARDS
Resolutions Condemn Conditions
at School for Blind Clinic in
Multnomah Co. Recommended.
ResoTutlons'covering some of the
.vital needs in the social welfare and
institutional life of Oregon were
passed at the final meeting of the
Social Workers' Association of Ore
gon Wednesday afternoon at Central
library. James K. Brockway was
chairman of the resolutions commit
tee and other members were Dr.
Philip A. .Parsons, Rev. George
Thompson, Miss Martha Randall,
Mrs. Kate Maguire and Mrs. Alexan
der Thompson.
The state school for the blind was al
luded to as "the poorest equipped of any
.of our state Institutions." It was re
cited that it Is lacking in the simplest
conveniences for caring for handicapped
childhood and on account of inadequate
. sanitation and fire escapes is an actual
menace to the wards of the state which
it houses. . -APFBOPKIATIOJfS
ASKED
- The social workers are asking that the
state make such appropriations as will
provide a new building, or proper re
pairs for the old one, and the f urnlsh
ing of such equipment and appliances
as will make the institution comfort
able, convenient, healthy and safe for
the blind children of the state commit
ted to Its care.
The association declared that state
training schools for boys and girls
should be of a corrective, helpful na
ture instead of penalizing institutions
and urged that the governor and the
state board of control consult with so
cial workers in an effort to better carry
on the work of the boys and girls com
mitted to the Oregon schools.
COOPEBATIOIf IS TlRGED
Recommendation was made by the as
sociation that there be, established In
Multnomah county an observation clinic
with a capacity to care for Juvenile
commitments through the state, coop
erating with the county in the care and
observation of their wards, that a physi
cian, a psychologist and psychlatist be
in attendance.
' Publication of a social code and its
distribution throughout the state as aid
in bringing about cooperation between
- social agencies1 and the heads of public
Institutions, was urged. -
The association extended its apprecia
tion to the" president, Dr. Samuel C
Kohs, and the secretary, Mrs. Harriet
lieller. for their services In develonlnor
the scope of the organization during the
past year.
Teachers of .Music '
Seeking Credit for
Pupils Instructed
New regulations for music teachers
who - desire their .pupils to receive out
side credits in the high schools of the
.state have been issued by J. A. Church
ill, superintendent of public; instruction.
; after consultation with the committee
charged with the work of passing upon
. such teachers qualifications.
Teachers who desire to recommend
students for music credits must hold a
state certificate. Applications for such
certificates must be made upon the form
provided for the purpose, obtainable at
-the office "of tbe state superintendent of
' public instruction, Salem, Or. The form
must be carefully filled out and sworn
to before a notary public and returned
to Churchill's office, as stated below. .
" Teachers who desire to take pupils for
credit in September must file their appll
. cations each year before July 1. This
yearonly time is extended to July 15,
The result of the application will be
made known to the teachers applying
immediately after August 1. Applica-
tions for February semester must not
be filled out laer than December 1 in
each year. Results will be made known
immediately after January 1.' Reasons
for rejection will be sent tef unsuccessful
aoDlicanta. Applicantlons received at
the state superintendent's office after
the above dates will be held over until
next date for considering them.
Reptilian Mascots
Come Into Fashion
Ixmdon. June 25v (I. N. S-) Reptilian
mrm tVi latent fad of fashion.
The familiar lap dog will soon have to
look to his laurels, lor snaaes, cnamei
.iha. UvarA irA helnr carried
by women when they walk or drive.
Pythons, boas ana alligators, wnicn are
ru.v h intnv of the Urnr London
- nn Anattnv tha rfnmaatiA cat
from the hearthrug, and there is no
doubt mat tne Keeping- oi nraue v-
tues IS Decommg a lasmonapw uvvvj,
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What Is
By Robert Hallo well
Publisher and one ( of the founders of the Ne
' ' Kepubnc
A few weeks ago a New York
newspaper of national influence
printed an editorial about some col
lege students who were organizing
at Harvard what they called an In
tercollegiate Liberal leagrue. The
paragraph decried the organization.
It said: ' " : T' " .. .
"At most colleges , there is some sort
of a liberal club. There the eager young
Socialists and radicals, overturners and
overth rowers, bleat the revolutionary no
tions they have borrowed from liberal
weeklies and speak pieces about tree
speech, etc. i "
When a Journalist uses liberal and
radical as if they were interchangeable
teems. X think he reflects upon Ameri
can i education. I both his own and his
paper's. The radical is only driven to
laugh, but the liberal sees a danger to
democracy in such confused thinking.
Tne radical sees it. too, for that matter.
but as his belief is In something else
than democracy, the thought of its being
in danger is no grief to him.
Radical and conservative alike regard
the liberal with indignation. "If - it
weren't for you we could go straight
ahead to Eden." says the one. "If it
weren't for you We could go straight
back to Eden," says the other. To which
the liberal replies : "Sorry, gentlemen,
but there Isn't any Eden. Shall we walk
together a little way and discuss our dif
ferences as a first step toward under
standing them?'..
POI5TI3G THE WAT . '
When I read1 that editorial I had In
my pocket manuscript copy of the open
ing address to this same group of young
Americans. It; was by Walter . Lipp
mann, my classmate i of 10 years ago.
and it contained a happy definition of
the liberal attitude. He says. "It Is as
If a man were setting out on a long
journey. The conservative hands him an
excellent map of his home town. The
radical offers htm a singrle route and
the picture of ia destination. We. the
liberals, propose to have him know the
art of path-finding, to have him learn
to live while on his way, and to possess
standards by which he can determine
the next state of his Journey as he goes.
For we believe that there is no one
destination, butt that man is always a
wayfarer, always an explorer, and that
that is his dignity and his glory."
If this sounds; a little more like poetry
thanjoliucs It! at least reveals the lib
eral as a fallible man in his own esti
mation, with no panaceas or cure-alls,
or sense of congenital superiority. But
It won't necessarily make a liberal rec
ognize himself even if he is one. Which
is what I am driving at. In short. Just
exactly what do you -mean : by these
words? ' It seems to me a real loss to
the public understanding when words
are seized upon as these have been for
the last half dozen years and used jls
careless tags without being required to
mean the same thing twice.
THAT TEEM BADICAt"
Take that terrible term radical. Schol
ars will tell: you that radical used to
be a most respectable word in American
history. A program or speech could be
justly criticised if it was not radical
enough. As for liberal, a word, partly
borrowed . from our heritance '; ef , the
Anglo-Saxon tongue and system of gov
ernment the liberal faith founded Amer
ica itself. .Understanding of that faith
shows it to be an attitude of mind
rather than an; allegiance to any fixed
political program. And this implies., by
the way, that a liberal may be Inside a
political party or outside ; but he will
be among the independent, unbound, pro
gressive, future-facing element of . any
party h is in. j
ThsJt sounds reasonable and even from
the most conservative would meet with
slight opposition in the abstract. But
apply it. Wait until some business en
terprise or invasion of property rights
Aa'A
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a Liberal?
arouses self-interest and see what hap
pens. One thing happens promptly. The
liberal has the unpopular " minority side.
Three ; or five or 10 months; or years
from now it will not be a minority side.
but that Is hard to see unless you are
a fair student of history. ; - ; L
Meanwhile, ' says the average i man,
what does the liberal want?' The rail
roads nationalized and the packing in
dustry and the grain markets? America
to be ruled by Lenin? Or does he only
want to be forever criticizing and find
ing fault?
THE BAB OF PEEJtTDICE
- As to concrete questions of political
policy, I only wish more of these were
asked of liberals and the ankers forced
to listen to . the answers. I have said
that if a liberal believes one thing more
than another, it is that he knows less
than he might about everything. What
he asks, is that roe of opposing minds
go to equal pains to remove a similar
disability. ; And of course. prejudice
against change will have to be the first
thought-barrier to feo. j-
. For Instance, take the railroads. 1 It
may be wise to make them part of the
nation s resources now, or 10 years from
now, or never. But you can't prevent
the railroad situation from changing.
from having already changed The road
president and the gateman at the cross
ing equally know that. If public utili
ties and private property have new ad
lustmenta . to make, the liberal is for
finding out what they are, not for pro
claiming that they ought not to be.
Or, -take the situation in, Europe. The
liberal rejects the notion that any group
of men In Washington or Paris caa de
termine what the world shall remain.
or any group in Moscow determine what
it shall become. He knows that democ
racy prevents dictatorship, by Russian
proletariats or international capitalists
or German imperialists or French im
perialists. Democracy means opportuni
ty for men of 'many minds to work t
gether cooperatively. I know of no lib
eral whose faith' is not in democracy. I
know of none who believes that we yet
achieved democracy in America. -
v The liberal certainly does ; believe in
criticising and in being criticised. : He
thinks criticism founded this government
and criticism will keep It ' alive. Of
course, that is using the word in the
constructive sense, the sense it has been
used in by the country's leaders, who
never had an js fear of being called critics
in any era. . - f ; .- jv - -,
Those who drafted the American con
stitution were critics.' So were those
who signed the Declaration of Independ
ence. In New Tork state last November
thousands of good Democrats and Re
publicans protested against disfranchis
ing the members of a minor; party, not
because they were Socialists, but be
cause they believed In the American sys
tem of representative government. They
were Just as critical of their lawmakers
as those halrbralned radicals in 1778
who proclaimed that "Taxation without
representation is tyranny,"
A CBEATIVE AGEXT ; J 'i
In other words. Jt la your' critical
liberal who is to be found defending the
ancient liberties of our democratic gov
ernment, while the parlor patriots, the
self-styled defenders of it, are its great
est present danger. i ..; , :
But defending ancient liberties is not
the liberal's first job. His first Job is
to do for liberty In this modern world
what men of earlier times did in their
own and to do it as they did jit in terms
of the future, not of the past.! Thus the
liberal Is the really creative agent. You
do not. if you are of liberal mind, sim
ply venerate what the fathers did and
call it American. Ton keep Alive their
spirit, but you do it by performing mew
works adapted to a new time. Thus
the liberal claims, and historically it
seems, to me the argument ia entirely in
his favor, that the liberal point of, view
is tile traditional American point of view
and that .true liberalism and true Ameri
canism are . one and the same thing.'
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Benefits to Be Slightly Less, but
Fluctuation Provision Is In
cluded; Limits . Are Removed.
Salem, Or., June 25. Under the
new schedule, of benefits "enacted by
the last legislators and. effective July
1, compensation of workmen injured
in accidents In ! industries coming
under, the provisions of the work
men's compensation act, will be
somewhat less than that In effect
since December 1, 1919, at which
time a 30 per cent increase In com
pensation rates became effective.
, The new schedule, however, provides
for fluctuation of compensation with the
rise and fall of wages to a much greater
aegree man heretofore.
Hereafter a single man suffering an
injury resulting in temporary time loss
will receive compensation equal to 40
per cent of his wages but not to exceed
$55 a month. A married maa will re
ceive 48 per cent of his wages but not
more than S65 a month. !
TIME UMIT REMOVED '
In the case of a married man with
one child under IS years of age, com pen
Ration will be paid at the rate of 63 per
cent of his wages but not to exceed $73
a month ; a married man with two chil
dren under 18 years, 58 per cent of his
wages but not to exceed $81 a month; a
married man with three children under
16 years, 63 per cent of wages but not to
exceed $89 a month and a married man
with four children two thirds of his
waxes but not to exceed f 97 a month.
In no 'event shall the rate of compen
sation for temporary time loss be less
than $30 a month for unmarried work
men and , $40 a month for a workman
having a wife, unless his actual wages
at the time of injury are less than these
amounts, when compensation will be
paid according to these wages. ;
Under the old law the rate of com
pensation was reduced by 50 per cent
at the end of six months of temporary
time loss. The new schedule, however,
provides for payment or compensation
at the same rate throughout the entire
period of temporary disability,.
MAXIMUM IS ELIMINATED
Heretofore in fatal cases a Widow has
been paid $30 a month ior herself and $S
a month for each child under the age of
15 years with a maximum of $50 per
month. This maximum is now removed
and widows with children under the age
of 16 years will receive $8 for each child,
regardless of the number of children
under the age specified. ' This Is also
true in the case ' of compensation for
permanent total disability.' where there
are several children . under the age of
16 years.
The payment of awards for permanent
partial disability will remain the" same
as under the old law, $25 per mdnth, ex
cept in v the ease of minor ? disability
where tbe award . amounts to $600 or
less. In which event the commission has
the option of paying the entire amount
in a lump sum. x ,
. 20,000 Have Tuberculosis
Boston, June 25.- I. ,N. S.) If tuber
culosis sufferers went to bed and stayed
there six or eight weeks the death rate
would drop appreciably, , in the opinion
of Dr. Joseph W. Pratt, voiced before a
conference here. He declared that ap
proximately 20,000 persons in this state
are afflicted.
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changes made in
Compensation of
injured workmen
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NORRIS DECLARES
PUBLIC
BUSINESS
BE REGULATED
In Fight Over Packer Legislation
Nebraska Senator States Posi
tion With Emphasis. A
Washington, June 25. (WASH
INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.)-
Did the Republican party
last November receive a commission
to do away, with government regu
lation of big business, to abolish the
federal trade commission, and to kill
off legislation that would regulate
the packers? That question has been
raised in the senate, wish no agree
ment, at least, between Senator Fer
nald of Maine and Senator Kenyon
of Iow both good Republicans.
According to Fern aid, federal . regula
tion is a failure in about every depart
ment,, and the time has come to repeal.
According to bis version, the interstate
commerce commission has all but ruined
the railroads, and. the federal trade com
mission, poking around with investiga
tions, has j made business almost too
burdensome to be continued.
XESTOSr TAKES ISSUE
To these views Senator Kenyon re
sponded : . '
"The senator from Maine became so
enthused in behalf of repealing statutes
designed to regulate business that he
wanted to repeal the interstate commerce
act and let the railroads charge what
ever they please. What is tne program?
Are there men- like the senator from
Maine and other distinguished leaders
who think i the election . last November
gave that kind of a mandate to tbe
American congress V
The fight on she packer bill in the sen
ate was at times dramatic, and brought
the leaders of the reactionary wing into
sharp relief. At one time Senator Smoot
began reading what he said was a state
ment of the history of the bill, which
bad been prepared for hlrn He did not
say who had prepared it until closely
pressed .by. Senator Noma,, who then
learned that it was a statement by W. R.
Lightfoot, attorney for Wilson St Co.,
one of the big packers.
SMOOTS ATJTHOBITT DISCLOSED
The senate Was operating under a five-
minute, rule, but by parliamentary twist,
Smoot secured 10 minutes to read tbe
Lightfoot statement. That watf not
quite long enough, and he was given con
sent to print the rest of it is the Con
gressional Record.
Senator Norrts, who followed, referred
sarcastically to the "speech of Mr. Light
foot," and congratulated the packers
upon .their-ability to secure ten minutes
to address ; the senate while he, Norrls,
must be content with five minutes.
"What is this doctrine of letting all
business alone?" asked Senator Kenyon.
' Shall we repeal the meat inspection
laws? Shall we repeal the pure food
laws? Shall we repeal the laws govern
ing railroad rates? I do not know. I am
troubled about it. I do not want to see
this government- go into the regulat
ing of all business, but there is a dis
tinct line j of i demarcation, ana it was
laid down by old Lord Hale nearly 100
years ago,i and the supreme court of tbe
United States has sustained it. What
business? ); The , business which the .su
preme court has said la charged with a
public use. , j .
COXPITIOirS MS VIEWED
The Iowa senator said he would wish
that some of; his colleagues would look
ahead to discontent among the people,
robbed by syndicates who are controlling
the anthracite coal and plundered 4 by
men who control the market places of
the American farmer, and eventually
controlling the cost to the consumer. He
said he did not believe that in the end
the people of the United States are going
to consent that five men shall control
the food supply of the United States.
MNARY QUITS LIBERALS
i ON PACKER LEGISLATION
Washington, June 25. (WASHING
TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL
Senator McNary broke with his col
leagues of the liberal Republican group
and the "agricultural bloc" in the vote
on the Morris bill to rerulate the pack
ing Industry. He was the ony recognized
"progressive" who failed to support the
N orris measure, and for once was lined
up with ; the Lodge-Smoot-Brandegee
leadership; while Norrts, Kenyon, John
son. Lenroot. Jones of Washington. La
Follette, Borah, Capper and the others
with whom be usually acts, went tbe
other road.
STASTFIELD ABSEJTT
Senator Stanfield waa not present for
the vote, but had made a speech against
the Norria bill and against any restric
tive legislation upon the packers. There
was a difference between the. attitude of
the two Orgon senators, in that Stan
field wants no legislation, while McNary
was ready to support the house, or Hau
en bill, which provides for only a mild
dose of regulation, but was denounced
by La Follette aa the big packers mea
sure. - '
MeSABT FOB HOUSE BILL
Senator McNary took the position that
the N orris bill went too far In dealing
with incidentals or by-products of the
business of the packers. , It was con
tended by opponents of the Norrts bill
that it extended the regulating arm over
making hides Into leather, bones Into fer
tilizer or buttons, and other business in
which the packers have a controlling
subsidiary Interest.
The leading "wool senators." aside
from Stanfield, were for the bllL Good
ing of Idaho and Kendrick of Wyoming
were its earnest supporters. It failed by
84 to $7,' so two votes would have
changed the result.
Oregon Association
Of Music Teachers
To Dance on River
The Portland district of the Oregon
Music Teachers association will hold an
excursion on the. Bluebird next Thurs
day evening. June 30, leaving the east
end of the Morrison street bridge' at
8:30 promptly and returning about
11:80. ' ' - '
"This will be a good opportunity for tbe
various musiciana and music teachers
ef the city to meet each other socially
before separating for the summer vaca
tion." says Otto Wedemeyer of the en
tertainment committee. ."They can have
a good time, enjoy a pleasant sail, dance
to their hearts' content' and play cards
and appreciate some carefully prepared
stunts."
The excursion is open not only to the
musicians but to their friends and any
whom they care to, invite. The follow
ing committee is in charge of the event:
Mrs. Paul Petri, chairman J Mrs. Clif
ford Moore and the Misses Helen Gal
breath, Martha Reynolds, r - Frances
Sheehy and Otto Wedemeyer and Fred
erick W. Goodrich, president O. M. T. A.
The National Capitol
McArthur Looks After Portland Fair Interests in House-
, .. OregQn Senators Not Ready to Distribute Patronage
, Status of Enemy Aliens Contradicted.
Two Exposition "Plans
Before Congress
WASHINGTON, June 85. (WASH
INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOUR-
NAE) Representative McArthur, who
is looking after the McNary resolution
to invite foreign nations to participate
in the Portland exposition of 1925 since
it passed the senate ""and reached the
house side, believes that Western mem
bers should aid the Pennsylvanians, who
are preparing to celebrate the 150th
anniversary of the signing of the dec
laration of independence with a world's
fair at Philadelphia In 1928.
"Their plans shoulrP help us, and not
hurt us," says McArthur.. "There is no
reason ,why they should not aid Port
land, and Portland aid Philadelphia. The
one danger lies in the fact that Phila
delphia is asking for a big approt.ria4.ion,
which r do not believe Uiey wm get.
The McNary resolution asks no money
for Portland, and in that we have an
advantage.".
Representative Darrow, a Philadelphia
member, has Introduced a bill which calls
for 8300,000 for a government building
and exhibit, and $50,000 additional to
assist the shipment of foreign exhibits.
It provides for a world's fair commission.
with two members for each state ana
territory, and eight commissioners at
large, one commissioner from each state
to be appointed by the vice-president,
another by the speaker of the house, and
the eight at large by the president. The
commissioners would be paid $10 a. day
while on exposition business.. - In , tne
Philadelphia papers there have 'appeared
articles chidjng the Pennsylvania, dele
gation for letting, Portland ""get ahead
of them," and the Darrow bill is evi
dently brought forward . to force con
sideration of the Philadelphia fair along
with the Portland exposition.
The McNary resolution was referred
in the bouse to the committee on foreign
affairs, of which Representative Porter
of Pennsylvania is chairman. This may
be an aid or an obstacle, as circum
stances may develop. McArthur thinks
he may encounter opposition, oecause
of the argument that an ultimate appro
priation by the government will be, in
volved. The Philadelphia plan, with its
big appropriation at the jump-off, serves
to direct attention to this at a time when
congress is striving for an economy
record. . . -".
Oregon Senators
Stay Pie Knife
WASHINGTON. June 25. (WASH
INGTON BUREAU OF-THE JOUR
NAL) No one is authorized to say Just
how long the Oregon senators will with
hold an announcement of the cuttirig of
the pie known as political patronage,
for which the -senators some- time ago
announced the labels have all been pre
pared.
There is lust a little qualification u
this, for it was said that the agreement
of the senators was "practically com-1
plete," and according to authoritative
statement, that meant that only one of
the major places was in any degree in
doubt. That small doubt. It is reported,
has since been removed.
News that selections have been made,
it appears, ' have not appeased the de
sire back borne to know the names of
the winners. Like the delegates at poli
tical conventions who terminate tire
some nominating speeches by, shouting
"Name him 1" and "Who's your man?"
the Oregon brigade, of office eeekers
and their friends la disposed to be anx
ious and . unruly.
It has even been suspected that some
of the Oregon politicians are trying to
smoke out the senators before they are
quite ready to talk.- There are indica
tions that the time is approaching when
the .senators must lift tbe lid. Tbe
senators have already been , Invited to
submit a name for appointment, of surveyor-general,
to succeed Edward G.
Worth, whose term will expire July 18.
and collector of Internal revenue, to suc
ceed Milton As Miller, whose term will
expire August . IS. . -
The senators have . heretofore . an
nounced that they did not care to dis
turb Mr. Miller until his time is up. and
they expect to follow the same rule as
to other officials, who have still longer
to serve. United States Marshal George
F. Alexander's term will ' not be up
until September 14. and Collector of
Customes Will H, Moore has until Octet
ber 21 If he serves out four years.
This makes one difficulty in the way
of announcements. Should ' all four be
announced at once, -or should they be
passed out piecemeal? This question is
said to have, caused some hard thinking
on the part Of the senators, and it is
not ' yet clear whether more grief . will
result from one method or the other.
Another source of difficulty, it is re
ported, is the process of "swinging"
some of the candidates Into positions
for which they were not applicants, which
is otherwise known as giving them ne
next best thing." Some of the prominent
candidates may be mollified in this way.
and the ground has to be fallowed in
advance.
Not - until the surveyor-general's time
Is up ta July will there be an actual
opening, and the senators apparently
regard this as sufficient answer to those
who clamor for the names. There are,
however, six expired terms in the land
offices of the state, and each one has
$3000 a year attached. For some time
it tuts been said that appointments for
these Jobs were "almost ready." They
are still in that clasa The delay is
thought to be occasioned by one or two
offices where candidate for something
a little better are to be "swung Into
the land offices, .-
Time was up on Registrar Charles S.
Dunn at the La Grande land office last
September, and Nolan Skiff, receiver at
the same office, finished four years on
May 13, . this year. Receiver Sam
Mothershead rounded out four years at
Burns on May 13.
. Registrar H. Frank Woodcock and Re
ceiver Loren S. Booth each measured bis
four-year -quota in The Dalles office on
May 13. Receiver Richard R. Turner
of the Roseburg office has resigned, and
Registrar James J. Burgess will finish
four years at Lakevlew on June 26.
Status of Enemy
Aliens Disputed
WASHINGTON. June 25. WASH
INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOUR
NAL) Action by the legal department
of the naturalization division of the de
partment of labor directing inspectors
not to enter objection to the granting of
citizenship to -enemy . aliens who had
declared intention to become citizens be
fore the -war but pleaded snemy status
as a bar to military service, bears points
of similarity to the action of Attorney
General Daugherty in confessing error
in the Albers case.'
In each instance there were conflicting
opinions in court decisions, and in each
instance the department has stepped in.
in advance of any decision by the su
preme court. Enemy declarants are the
beneficiaries In the one case, Henry Al
bers In the 'other. ;.-r' .S-- -r:v,.:-
In the naturalization cases there ap
pears to be an unbroken line of decisions
against the admission of the enemy dec
larant when he has claimed exemption,
down to the decision of Judge Tuttle of
the Eastern district of Michigan last
month. Officials of the department of
labor promptly adopted the Tuttle ver-
sion, and issued instructions against op
posing German applicants who thus es
caped military , duty..
Judge Tuttle very frankly said In his
opinion that all other decisions of dis
trict Judges that he could find were
against his view, but he believed they
were wrong. Department officials say
they agree with the Michigan Jurist, and
have held that view all along, on the
ground that the German declarant occu
pied a special status as an alien enemy,
waa entitled by law to claim exemption.
anJ disloyalty cannot be Imputed 40 him
because he took advantage of what the
law allowed., f, "''- - - '.
Judge Dyer of the Eastern district of
Missouri, in the matter nl Tomarchio,
reported In 269th Federal 400, takes -'a"
strikingly different view.. In that case
he said: v- ' '
"Candidates who during the war plead
ed their alien status In bar to the per
formance of military duty will now be
found most vehement In their protesta
tions of loyalty and their yearning to
take up arms In defense of the country
of their adoption. Fighting ceased some
two years ago ana tnere . is now no
longer any danger attached - to their
tardy 7 offers of military'- assistance
When soldiers were needed, however,
these falrweather friends were to be
found tying th hands of the local draft
boards through pleading their - enemy
status." ,. - . A"5X-
Judge Tuttle placed emphasis -. upon
the draft regulations, which he said,
"posiUvely enjoined upon the draft offi
cials, as a strict duty, the necessity of
seeing that no alien enemy should be
accepted Into the army, . regardless of
The Dyer decision puts all alien declar
ants on the same footing if they claimed
exemption by reason of alien status.
By . specific act, declarants of neutral
countries who did this are forever de
barred from dtixenshlp. The Tuttle de
cision makes a preferred class of the
enemy alien. So far as known here, no
appeal . has been taken to bring the
question to the supreme court, and no
circuit court has passed on the matter.
Meanwhile the naturalisation service
accepts the Tuttle decision as the -basis
for action, and enemy alien applications
will be handled in accordance' with it
until such time .as, if ever, the question
is carried up to the supreme court and
reversed. :
Hoover Grain Plan
Makes Headway . j
WA8HTNGTON, June 25. CWASII
INOTON BUREAU OF THE JOUR
NAL) The Hover-Wallace plan for as
sisting the grain farmer by arranging
unlimited storage and issue of ware
house certificates that will pass as an
oraer xor gram is making headway, ac
cording to Announcement by Secretary
Hoover, and representatives of the farm
ers, warehouses, insurance interests and
elevators will take the matter up in
detail with home agencies after a con
ference here with Mr. Hoover and with
secretary waiiace of the department of
agriculture. - 1
It is proposed that country elevators
shall arrange to receive all offerings of
wheat, give . a certificate 1 of quantity.
quality and grade, and ship, on to the
terminal,, making final settlement with
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Fall Approves Increase
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WASHINGTON June 25. (WASH
INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOUR
NAL) Secretary j Fall of the linterlor
department has sent a report to Chair
man Slnnott of the house public lands
committee approving, a bill to add 445
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Long-worth Zone Postal '"
Bill Is in House , ' . t
WASHINGTON. June 25. (WASH
INGTON BUREAU OF TUB JOUR
NAL) Representative Longworth. Ohio,
has stirred up new Interest in second
class postage rates by a resolution pro
posing to postpone the Increase which
will otherwise go Into effect on July 1,
and constitute a committee- to once more
investigate the entire situation. ;
He propoaea a committee of three mem
bers of the senate and three of the
house to Investigate the cost .of serv
ice and determine the principles upon
which charges may be equitably assessed.
He would authorize tills committee to
sit during the recess of congress and
require-lt to report" not later than Janu
ary. 1922.
tie also provides that in the interim
no action shall be taken respecting the
free-in-country privilege or rate for
educational, scientific and charitable pub
lications.
Woman Bureau Head
To Aid Search for
'Vanishing Seamen1
(Br Cnited Hew) " 1 '
New Tork. June 26. If any of them
still live who sailed aboard the myste
riously missing ships for which the
United States government is "now
searching, Mrs. Lillian Thomas . of the
seamen's commerce institute. New Tork,
will confidently go about finding them.
She finds hundreds of sailors in the four
corners Of the world and puts them back
in , communication with their families,
some times after years of separation.
Che now has a list of about 400 miss
ing, including quite a few of the sail
ors who were last heard of on board
the missing shipping board freighter
William O'Brien, and the same list la
posted In the seamen's homes and in the
Beaporis 01 21 counu-iea.
. Mra Thomas, who runs the missing
seamen bureau of the seamen's church
Institute has "found" S53 missing men
since January L
Mm Gets Black Eye .
On His Wedding Day
Chicago. June 25. (L N. S.) Anthony
claims to be Chicago's only "black -eyed"
bridegroom.
Jorgeeen was wedded to Mlsa Laura
Hanson of Evanston while carrying two
beautifully decorated eyes. One waa
black and purple, the other purple and
(-black. .
Jorgeeen tried to crank his fliwr"
flivver balked and biffed him between
tne eves.
"He looks good enougn to
me even
with "black eyes'," said Mrs. Jorgensen
as the knot was tied.
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