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12 THE OREGON ; SUNDAY JOURNAL, ri PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20 -1921. .AMERICANIZATION ' AFFflRFIMffi ' GAINS HEADWAY J Sessions of Non-English Speak ing Mothers Increasing in In ' terest; Questionnaires Sent. EDUCATION OF ALIEN MOTHERS HER OBJECT r The afternoon class of non-English peaking; mothers recently organized at. the Neighborhood House tn South Port land as a result of the questionnaire sent out by the Amerlcanlsatlon commit tee of the Council of Jewish Women is growing constantly In both else and In terest, tl?e enrollment now having passed the 10 mark and all of the orig- . Inal pupils bring In constant attendance. Two hundred copies of the question naire were sent to non-English speak ing homes by the children who attend falling school and of these 177 have been returned. The questionnaire asked whether or not the father is naturalised and whether or not the father and tnothsr read, write and speak English and If the mother does not whether she will attend an afternoon class. Only 20 of the fathers have not taken but their first paper; 55 have their t first papers and 75 are voting citlsens. Thirty -revert mothers Indicated their de sire to attend afternoon classes to learn English. These clause have already been organised and are meeting on Tues days and Wednesdays from 1 :10 to 3 :30 p. m. In the Neighborhood House, cor- . Second and Woods streets. The pub lic school furnishes the teacher. Tne enrollment was 23 for the opening ses- 1 slon and 30 for the second class. Ar rangements have been made for the care of small children whtle the mothers are In classes. A number of volunteer visitors Enr- iltan. will follow up j- r - V J ' " BBS B.-rW I ztm 00K OFFING BETTER OUTL SEEN IN FOR AGRICULTURE Annual Report From' Washington Representative of Grange De clares Clouds Begin to Fade. Miss Bees Segal Yiddish and Ital the questionnaires, going Into homes from which the questionnaires sre not returned and explaining at greater length the purpose of the plan. To supplement this work a series of lectures hat been arranged to be given t the Neighborhood House during Thanksgiving week on American Ideas and Ideal. The lectures will be given In different' foreign languages. Rabbi Krueger giving the first In Yiddish. Miss Bess Hegal Is chairman of the Amerlranlsatlon committee of the roun- rli and otner members are Mrs. Ludwlg . Hlrsrh. Mrs. Mose Hichel. Mrs. John Mratke snil Miss Amle Brunn. Stone to Mark Spot ! Of Historic School K . . - i nulls. Or.. Nov. ISA stone Is to be erected on the site of the schoolhouae wnere me first white woman teacher isugnt in tne Northwest, outside of missions, more than 70 years ago. If the act spot can be located. Ueorge U furry Jr.. son of former Governor bf Oregon, recently visited this 'county ana enaeavoreo to ascertain the site of .f he log schoolhouse, where his mother taught before rer marriage. "ft la w thought to have been on the old Nesmlth farm near Rlckreall. Curry will return and continue, the search. Story of Serbian Student's Life Is One of Sacrifice Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, Nov. 19. A story of sacrifice afld loy alty is that of the life of Nikolas Rad-' ovich, a Serbian student, sophomore in agriculture at O. A. C. ' ' Radovich first came to: America In 1907, but when he learned that his father, 69 years old, and his brother. 14, were In the trenches; against the Turks In the Balkan war, he went back and served until the end ; of the wax. He saw nine months' service in the front line trenches. He returned to the United States in October, 1913. and secured a Job cutting wood In Wisconsin, after: looking for two and a half months for work. sHla main ambition was to earn 380 to bring his brother to America. ; He received word In August, 1914, that his brother had been killed at the.frcmt by bomb ing planes. Radovich then decided to seek an education. - He worked in the shipyards in the. daytime and attended night school, earning enough credits to enter Lincoln high school of Portland. He' com pie ted a four year course in high school and Is now working his way through O. A. C. Radovich is planning to teach agri culture in Serbia. Pacific U 'Rooks' Are Out of Debate TRY GIVE" -RECESS . Maker. Nov. 19. Jurors aubpenad for the circuit court have been granted a recess of two weeks as cases were not ready for trial. Klve cases were settled out of court snd three were thrown out On demuYrers. Pacific University, Forest Grove, Nov. 18. The final interclass debate for the Phi Alpha Tau cup will be held Mon day. Owing to a change in Phi Alpha rules, the freshman team Is eliminated and the Unal contest will: be between the sophomores and Juniors. The de baters are : Sophomore. I affirmative. Mary Raker. Portland, and; Frank Brod ersen. Forest Grove ; Junior negatives, Lee Marsh, Portland, and Ernestine Bron, Forest Grove; Junior affirma tive, Charles Tracksel. Beiaverlon, and Annette Payne. St. Helena ; sophomore negative. William Harrison. Forest Grove and Mana LeCerf, Portland. The sophomore class holds the cup. Belief that agriculture is soon to be favored with better economic conditions is expressed in the annual report of T. C. Atkeson, Washington - representative of the National grange. The report was submitted last week before the fifty-fifth annual session of the grange and reads as follows: "In making this third report as your Washington representative, I wish to convey a spirit of hope and cheerful ness. In spite of the gloomy outlook at the beginning of the year, and desperate as the situation has been for many peo ple on the farms and elsewhere, there is, I believe, a lifting of the economic clouds that have depressed us. The re adjustment which all thoughtful people know must come, has found many thoughtless people poorly prepared to meet its distressing consequences. The higher we fly in years of prosperity, the harder we fall in years of adversity, and there is no divine statute or eco nomic, law to protect people against their own folly or mistakes. "Agriculture has seen hard times be fore and come up smiling, just as it is going to do this time. With our magni ficent country, our splendid citizenship nd the beet government ever devised. however disfigured we may be, we must continue to lead the world in agricul ture, industry, commerce and construc tive s La teaman atftp. WORK IS REMEDY "The best remedy for much of the present day unrest and discontent would be a little more good oldfashioned hon est work. There is no necessity for any considerable Idleness In this country if every man in It were willing to go to work at any job he could find lor the price he can get for doing it. "Some weeks ago. President Harding called an unemployment conference. The last week of the conference, four repre sentatives of agriculture, including the Washington representative of the Na tional grange, were added to. the mem bership. The committee on agriculture made a carefully prepared report which was approved. The outstanding effort of the conference seemed to be to get it adjourned without doing or saying .anything that would seriously offend representatives of union labor. "The situation in Washington has somewnat cleared up during the year and there seems to be no further doubt In the minds of congressmen or anyone else as to who represents tha grange at Washington. It has been our fixed pol icy to treat all other farmer representa tives, as well as the representatives of other interests, with uniform courtesy and frankness and when we could not travel in the same direction, we kindly took our separate way. "I have sought to make the grange office a place of deliberate thought and conservative action, rather than-a pub licity or propaganda bureau. Instead of trying to formulate public opinion. It has been my hope to focalize public opin ion, at least ' so far as the National grange Is concerned, upon congress and the administrative departments of the government, and to compel respect and consideration for the grange by the soundness of its position upon public and economic questions. DISCOUNTS PATERNALISM "My observation has convinced me that we are developing at; unhealthy condition of expecting too much from legislation 'and the government. The hist government is that which -governs Vast ; or. to put it in another way, the soverameitt should end Its activities .-.hen It ias guaranteed equal opportu nity for all its citlsens. Progress must cotne from personal initiative, emulation and human aspirations for better things. Our' people should not depend upon the government to do for them what they should do for themselves. "'Every measure approved by the na tional grange has been presented to con gress, in some form, and extended 'argu ments in, support of many of them have been -made before the committees of the house- and senate, .While we make no extravagant claims for grange influence. I confidently express the belief that the grange policies and arguments are given more serious consideration than those emanating from any other source. The grange is generally recognize as a sound, thoughtful, conservative, con- rstructive organization and a sort of gov enw on uie agricultural ininmiig ma chine1 ry during this period of unrest. "Congress has been in almost continu ous session since the last meeting of the national grange and many measures of far-reaching importance have been considered which have given our wisest statesmen serious concern. LEGISLATION EXACTED . "Legislation enacted of special inter est to agriculture includes the following "Emergency tariff, packer control. grain "futures control, expert finance bill, domestic finance bill, fedefal farm loan interest rate bill, agricultural In quiry resolution and federal farm loan aid bill. 'Tn conclusion, I will say that along with many other members, of the na tional grange, I had some misgivings as to the expediency of establishing an of fice at Washington, but after three years of experience, I am convinced that con ditions made such a course absolutely necessary, and that the Washington of fice maybe considered as permamently established." ARMS SACRIFICE IS ' CATCHING, SAYS RING (Continued From F&ge One) JEW ISSUES ARE PRESENTED COURT 1 IB CASE Bankruptcy Problems Complicat ed by Opposite Claims of Cred itors; Briefs Are Submitted. brief of the reorganization committee also attacks Ktheridge and challenges the legality of the court confirming the ale. "We respectfully submit that this court should not sanction the appoint ment of John L. Etheridge as liquidation agent for the trustee in bankruptcy. says Hart in summing up the case. As the last brief was filed today, a decision is not expected from the court until a week from Monday. quotation. The delegates virtually an swer each other's statements that way through the press and a discussion is continued by Indirection which many ex perienced observers of international coo fere noes think might Just as well be car ried on .directly in open meeting. - It's too early to say whether the diplomacy of the new world will get the upper hand. Thus far America has the odx. but the secret machinations of old world diplom acy are thereatentng to break down tb results achieved in the first two open SECRET DIPLOMACY BEGINS TO VORK (Con timed Fraa. Pass On) vy ' i ' mil --.-- '"-J But joking to one side, they is bound to be some kind of a navy reduction along the lines laid out by Mr. Hughes and as soon as the 3 powers concerned reaches a agreement on what ships must be destroyed and wtiat ships can be built, why the next move will be to ap point watchmen to see that nobody gets double crossed and these watchmen wi half to be wide awake young men and not suckers, because ior Inst, suppose that Japan and England said that the U. S. would half to blow up the battle ship Michigan, why if we wanted to be nasty we would get a hold of some old scow and write Michigan on the side of it and blow it up and have people stand around and wipe their eyes and say there goes the poor old Michigan and if the watchman from Japan and England didn't know their business they would wire a telegram to their government. MIGHT FOOL THEM That the Michigan had been destroyed and in the mean while the real Michigan might be tied right up to the wharf in Yokohama with some name like Dig nity wrote on the Bide of it an? Tne Japs would think it was a private yaht from N. Y. City. Well, however the con ference comes out I can assure my American readers that our delegates can be depended on to not disgrace us and we don't half to take off our hats to no country in no respect and especially personal appearance as everyone of our t delegates has got their own frock coat and don't "half to pass same around like rt 1 , . i" i T -J rt fl T H-.'t tl-ITllr fhflV'j itnone of the smooth faced foreigners as handsome as Mr. Underwood, wile in the'matter of beards Messrs. Lodge and Hughes-more than offsets Mr. Schanzer though his may have more parkins space. Mr. Brand's moustache would tickle more than Mr. Root's but Elihu's will outweigh Mr. Balfour's and Admiral Kato's combined. COAT GOES, TOO Well, I must catch the old train and get back to the old town and find out what all I have missed and thij trip has a ready made me miss seeing Yale win a football game which is something I never seen as the first part of October .generally always finds me busy with the world's series. Well, any way, friends I am going home, me and my dinner coat both and 1 suppose when the last rijimed gets back in the old closet and my spring benny asks it where it lias been, it will probably say. 'oh 1 been down in Washington, hang ing around. STADIUM FUXD GROWS Chicago. Nov. 19. Subscriptions total ing over $125.00 have been secured by the Illinois stadium committee, which is striving to raise a half million" dollars among Cook county alumni ot the Lni versity of Illinois for the erection of a new stadium at Crbana. No bankruptcy case has ever been presented to a federal court "involving precisely the features" of the Morris Brothers case, according to memoranda filed with Federal Judge C E. Wolver- ton by opposing attorneys. The last brief was filed Saturday by attorneys for the reorganization committee. The committee was authorized to pur chase the assets of the bankrupt estate by Referee A. M. Cannon on November 7, but non-assenting creditors have ap pealed this decision to the court. The memorandum of John P. Winter, attor ney for the trustee, and Ernest W. Hardy, counsel for the purchasers, was filed to support the referee's order. The reorganization committee con tends that sale of the assets to it does not mean an inequality among creditors as the purchaser immediately surrenders all rights to dividends. The committee contends the purchaser has a right to have his debt applied on the purchase price, as the trustee is fully secured CLAIMS ARE HELD Hardy points to the lack of a denial by opposing attorneys that the estate will receive J100.000 to JHO.OOO more from the reorganization committee than through the only opposing bid. The reorganization committee holds claims amounting to about one million dollars. and is entitled to dividends totaling 417, 000. It offers to pay the balance of $678,000 in instalments of $100,000 within 30 days, $200,000 within 60 days and the balance within 80 days. Hardy contends that the creditors who have not assigned their claims are fully protected. The brief of Ridgway and Johnson, ap pearing for non-assenting creditors, states that the sale of the assets to un secured general creditors is invalid be cause it (1) "violates the principle of equality and thereby works a preference against other unsecured creditors of the same class" ; and (2) "because only secured creditors have the right legally to apply their claims on the purchase price of property covered by their liens.' "Sales of bankrupt assets on credi have never been sustained wherein the propriety of such payment has been squarely raised," the brief further re cites. "In a compromise sale of assets o? a bankrupt estate non-assenting credi tors are entitled to payment of their claims in cash. A single general credi tor, if wronged, is entitled to have the order of sale reviewed." Continuing, the attorneys argue that (1) "to permit a sale based on credit would result in working a preference in favor of one creditor over others of the same class ; and (2) the authori ties which 'Support the right of a pur chaser to have a claim against the bankrupt estate credited on the pur chase price relate to secured claims and the claims involved in the present case are those of unsecured creditors. ASSIGNMENTS BEFCSED Forty-seven per cent of the unsecured creditors of Morris Brothers have not assigned their claims to the reorganiza tion committee. In an effort to prove their potht that the contemplated sale to the reorganiza tion would not be fair to all creditors, the following argument is raised in the brief : "If the purchasers make a pay ment of $417,000 dividends, they must concede they have received this dividend, as otherwise it could not represent a payment. On the other hand what are the f remaining 47 per cent of creditors receiving: ir ine principle or equality prevails they should receive $370,052.62. They are only getting the promise of the reorganization committee to sell enough assets within 90 days to enable the trustee to pay them in cash." On $l,000,000worth of assets the reorganiza tion committee will make $12,500 interest in three months, at the expense of the non-assenting creditors. SMOKING OUT PROCESS In the 'smoking out' process attend ant upon the hearings in this matter, the true facts have- finally been disclosed. In its conception and its organization the plan of this reorganization corpora tion is the plan of John L. Etheridge. He is the real owper of the common stock of the corporation, masking be hind a battery of 'one share' directors and officers of the commonly termed 'dummy' variety. It is Etheridge who has built this house of straw a million dollar corporation without a dollar of original capital." The brief continues to attack Eth eridge at length, reciting also that he still faces criminal charges in the local courts. The reply of Charles A. Hart to the cessions, no compronrises on this, be cause the American delegates consider that Japan and Great Britain accepted the principle last week and any devia tion now would be an unfortunate re versal of view. When Secretary Hughes uses the word "principle" he nseana "principle and when he says the "details" of the program remain to be worked out he I means "details. That's the first -point ' which foreign delegates have failed to take into consideration. Some have im agined that an acceptance "in princi ple" could easily be made to satisfy world opinion at the outset, but that the real modification of fundamentals could be obtained when the ."details" were discussed. Secretary Hughes fully in tends to hold the conference to the lit eral meaning of details. He considers the principles settled. ACID TEST REACHED It is the Mid test of firmness which has been reached.. The American dele gation is a unit In its course and be hind it is the full support of President Harding. In the face ot the American attitude, the other nations are not ex pected to continue their opposition or to raise extraneous questions unless, of course, they wish to take full respon sibility for a breaking of the confer ence. The American delegates feel that the opinion of the world sanctioned the Hughes program and that no nation can afford now to back down on the pre tense of defensive "needs." Seven days of jockeying in secret conference have brought out the real de sires of the various powers. Some are trying, as at Paris, to shake American determination, but thus far are meeting a stone walL Having taken the initia tive, the American delegation declines to permit the momentum of the confer ence to be halted by a revision of fun damentals. The American delegates have many advantages in the diplo matic battle. They have themselves offered to scrap more tonnage than other nations. They have put forward a program based upon existing ratios and they know there will be no naval holiday if the relative strength of the three big naval powers is altered. OLD CLASHES WITH NEW Looking back over the first week of the conference, the most Interesting thing Is the clash between old world and new world procedure. The American government brought Its principles out in the open and compelled the Japanese and British to answer in the open that they accepted "in princi ple." This was the American style of diplomacy and it carried with it imme diate predictions of success and enthu siastic comments from the press of pTac tically the whole world. Next, however, came the committee meetings where the "big five" and the big nine reminiscent of the big four and big ten of Paris came into being. The proceedings were secret No stenographic record was kept of what was said. Immediately the Japanese and British variations upon the Ameri can naval proposals were brought for ward and the public knows only throutkrj some unofficial statements from the Jap anese and British sources to what ex tent the naval experts of each country are really trying to upset the original principles agreed upon. With the be ginning of these secret committee ses sions, there has coincldentally developed fears concerning an ultimate agreement and the whole atmosphere has been changed. To offset this to some extent a battle of propaganda and. publicity has begun. Each delegation calls in the corre spondents and explains Its point of view, but Insists that there must be no direct ' New December ) Columbia Records A fine new selection from which to add to your Record Library or to choose as Christ-, mas Gifts. 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