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THE OREGON v SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, ? NOVEMBER ' 20, 1S2L 4 - we The American Conferees Anonymous Impressions j The tour I'selousneas" and thus put herself in a po- sition to qualify for the status of m great power 7 The solution of that 1 problem solves the greater part of the ' difficulties which confront the powers who have Interests on the Pacific: There c9 be bo question bat that republican ism In China, ' as at present practiced, has failed and that in the years since !5.n.,tt7i ,i I mm caint England than Mr. Lodge. I republicanism has failed In these men la sought aa never before. who represent America f Mr. Lodge Inherited a violent ta bit-lta U of the Manchu dynasty, China t , the armament conference are under I dislike of England. Probably no manI bas Cone from bad to worse with re the tnlcroeoope of publle poaervaUon as not even the moetextreme Irish agitator I spect to both Internal administration and " w un w7 an -is more, responsible for the fUiw x. fniM inw.nMa Th. ww is that the PhlnMM are fnndamentallv unable, to in- ImiTli2SJJif?IiMU no rrt tJL,ent- but he is not without ernor of a province being responsible lunt wrdWuT ?f ee? SUEZ, flT bl,tty: ,n hi he was an solely, to a superior while governing his liant word pictures of these notables. I industrious niirw .nn a I v !. vi. !.i-,w Here, la epitome, era .deserlntlona of . r . r , ... u - eecriury Hughei Benator lidge and .D" fc"?J Senator Root, -by the anonymous best selling" author: -Thatwhlsk- i ered secretary of lUU," (the phrase Is at t r 1 b u ted .to Senator Bren degee) . . prevails not merely by his bora BErUBXICAHISX FAILS The understanding and practice of patriotism, as westerners know it. is necessary to the effective administra tion Of a republican form of government as I understood In the West.' but the be is well educated in the narrow sense of the schoolmaster, but he has no philo sophic background; his Is the parasitic mind that sucks eustenance- from the brellrr""bf "others and gives nothing In return. He is without the slightest Imagination and is devoid of all sense of humor. Ha has almost entua rr I Chinese people have for centuries gov- misunderstanding public sentiment. I erned themselves without requiring this particular lorm oi patriotism, ana us So much was enacted fmm Mr tw. I unsulUbllity of the Introduction of re- virtue, but by I and much he might have. done, that Publieanlsm has been proved by the ex- hls 1 n t e 1 1 1-1 uwappoinuneni ne nas aooom- .-, genes: bis Is PHbed so little. Us has been U years I furthermore, iU continuance is doomed, th beat mind in congress, and his career can bo always having regard to the quite Jn Washing-1 summed up In three achievements the I unique conditions which are uneradl ton: to this rtwo b,U. the attempt to wreck Eng- cable. a v el rvo n el land by driving her to silver coinage. I Mr. Futem Chen, the chief writer for ana uw pan ne too in defeating the the Canton Information bureau, has as treaty of peaee with Germany. serted that the present disordered state of China is due to the natural evolu- BOOT tion of reform which is common to all That man Root." said Mr. Harding reform movements the unavoidable tra in Marlon during his campaign, "has vail of transition :' but the cause of the It Is a satisfaction, even thouah It la I done more harm to the Republican party nroaant boneless chaos must be looked not a delight, to come in contact with a than any other man in It I He is always for more de-ply. China today is lack Snlad like Mr. Hughes: it Is so definite. Pursuing some end of bis own or of 1 ing not only a central point of control. nmt9 ma lum uu miiwiw. in . . v i bui ner people are wiuiom wnumw feel sure that It rests somewhere on the Many reasons have been given why I consciousness of authority : they cannot eternal verities. It is never agnostic, the president passed over the obvious I visualise the central idea of republican It has none of the malaise of the twen- man for secretary of state The real 1 am. i foreign to their nature and obstacle to their history. Authority, when widely screes. . e e The president speaking to an intimate friend said he had "two strong advisers, Hughes and Hoover." The N ational Capital November Election Returns in Analysis Tax Bill Is Patchwork at Best Immigration Problems Again Arise Com--mercial Use of Oregon Country Clays Pointed Out. What November v Elections Show WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. (WASH INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL) Politically, the country is returning to "normalcy. This Is the interpretation that is placed : upon the Democratic victories in Maryland and Kentucky, the unprecedented vote for Mayor Hylan in New York city, the big gain for the Democrats in New Jersey, and their unusual majority in Virginia. In every state where a statewide elec tion was held, the same result was re corded, the swing of Democratic states back to Democracy, and recession every where from then Harding vote of 120. In some cases the issues were distinctly local, particularly in city contests, but where the trend is so general the sig nificance cannot be escaped. - The West had little share in the No vember voting this year, but the New Mexico returns of a few weeks ago, when Senator Bursum, Republican, was returned to the senate, exhibited the same tendency, although there was at that time a disposition in some quarters to magnify the election of Bursum as an indication that the Republican vote ef ino.was holding up. ffie early re turns, prominently displayed, gave that Impression. The final returns, which few papers printed, showed that Bur sum actually received a plurality of only U05 against 10.J66 for Harding in 1920, SSB8BS3BSBreB9BBaSJS9a9SSSBBB3SSaSS9SEa whHe Bursum's majority ever all was reduced to 1349. The Republicans had hoped for sub stantial gains In the South, and were claiming they would cut the Democratic majority in Virginia to 10.000 or to nothing. . They had a candidate for gov ernor who was - personally highly re garded, who ran on a "lily white" plat form. He went so far as to - protest against the selection of two or three negro election officers in Charlottes ville, holding that the election machinery should be maintained in the hands' of the whites. His course incensed many of the negro voters, who had a black ticket in the field, which received about v,000 votes. The . Democratic canlidate won by the largest vote ever given a candidate in Virginia. The results in the 'South are believed by some to signify the answer of the South to President Harding's "political equality" speech at Birmingham, which many ef the Republican leaders believed was a mistake, coming at a time when they entertained hopes of winning some of the southern states. Harding had made a good start in that direction by carrying Tennessee, but the Blrming ham speech brought a pause. wLich the election returns from Virginia, Ken tucky and scattered places in other southern states seem to emphasise. The Democratic view is that the South need cause no concern, and that Hard ing's "seven million' may melt away in large chunks when the people are ap proached once more on normal lines. Harding's 45,009 In Maryland was con verted Into 17.000 for the Democratic state ticket this year, and hi 431,000 tat New York city Is turned Into 417.000 for Mayor Hylan. This gives) encourage ment to the Democrats as to hat may be accomplished next year. Administration's' Tax Bill Is Patchwork WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. (WASH INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAtt) Progressive members of the senate nave Men mending some or the holes in the tax bin through which wealthy tax uodgers might easily nave ear sped - The numerous holes they have found have for the roost part been stopped up. but In such a sieve ' the thought persists that there may be still other openings undiscovered. Senator Lenroot the other day offered an amendment which illustrates what is meant The tax bill provided for a IS per cent levy on corporation Income, but provided that in ease of capital gain, only 40 per cent of this gala should be subject to the corporation tax. Income of Individuals and partnerships is sub ject to the higher provisions of the sur tax; for corporations there is no surtax. It seemingly was the theory of the com mittee v that these corporation galne would come under the surtax when dis tribution was mads to stockholders, by requiring that dividends should not re main undisturbed for Over three years. Learoot pointed out that this would be ineffective if stock' dividends were Issued, as the recipient ef the stock dlvi dead would sell hts original stock Instead of the new stock, and thus escape all taxation on the corporation fain beyond the 40 per cent. He predicted that cor porations would universally Issue stock dividends unless this were cured. - Itenroot's amendment was aooepted. for there was no denying that a big bole existed. His amendment ts to the effect that the sale of oorporaUoa stock will not be subject to the 4 per cent rale In capital gain. - - The framers olf the present tax bill freely admit that it ts a piece ef patch work, which win have to be replaced, probably by the next congress. Con gress is only tinkering now with the re vision of the revenue. "No one claims any legte or consist ency for this biU. said Senator Pen rose on the floor of the senate. "The committee baa looked to the Unpoattion of taxes where ihey will raise the rev enue needed for the government If a senator Is looking for logic, be wIQ not look for It la this biU." ... . Senator Wads worth said it was this "singling out of one article for a tax. while' another article of similar kind is untaxed, that causes discontent When one-man finds bis boat ne as taxed and the man aext door Is untaxed. It is difficult to explain.' be said. Representative Johnson Discusses Immigration. WASHINGTON, Nov. Is. WASH - INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL)-Representative Albert Johnson, chairman of the house co re mittee oa . tmnrlgratkm and naturalisa tion, made a abort speech on the floor In explanation of some of the latest phases of Immigration, and in defense of the S per cent , tmmigreUoa rule ap plied by. existing law. One of th great clfficaltles, ha said. is that nine tenths of the Immigrants arriving from continental Europe have by order la conned, pot on a require ment for for each 1 wlgrant with certain exceptions for families. 1 hope that very early ia the wla. r sisIbsw- said Mr. Joe. moo. we can act oa a bill by which the United Staiee m make its examlnatioas. mental physical and otherwise. In the Ports of ail foreign countries which win permit os u so so, and I thmk those cjeuatrtee wucn art desirous of sendlnj some emigrants to this country VUl permit that. If the countries stand eo their treaty rights and decline to permit it we wCl have to still Vet them come ts Ellis island, there to be evsmlned. where X. nope the examination wfll be mock more rigid than it now la." Oregon Country Clays Have Possibilities' WASHINGTON. Nov. 19 (WASH INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOUR- rA4 Tue rueuic Northwest caa nre duoe a high grade while were from the clays of that section, according to a report .of the United State- bureau of mines, and can become practically la dependent la the production ef ceramic materiala "On account ef possessing material that were tested la a preliminary ray." . says a bureau statement "as wen ai the dlatomaceous earth of Kittitas and Grant own ties. Washington, and Crook county. Oregon, the magnealte-deposits of Stevens county. Washington, the nu merous quart site deposits ef Pierce end 8tevens counties, Washington, end ths vein quarts of Spokane and Chelan counties, Washington, and the chromru -of Oregon, the Pacific Northwest cas become practically Independent tor cera mic materiala. Moreover. Alaskan gy less than Is each when they reach El lis Island although all are supposed to i sum ia being burned for calcined t-yn- be-able to show that they are likely I sum at Taooma. and three large Port to be self supporting. In-contrast he I land cement pleats are supplying thai mentioned the policy ef Canada which. material for the Pacific Northwest." tleth century. Mr. Justice Brandela, when Mr. Hughes waa governor of .New York and a reformer and progressive. Said of him. "Hie Is the most enlightened rind of the eighteenth century." I think the Justice put It a century or 4wo too late, for, by the elfhteenth cen tury, skepticism had begun to under mine those firm foundations of belief which Mr. II a ghee still possesses.. For 9lm a straight line Is the shortest .dis tance between two points Einstein to the contrary, notwithstanding. i Conclusions rest upon the sbeolute reck of principles, ss morality for his preacher father reeled upon the absolute rock of the Ten Commandments, There la no doubt no uncertainty, no nuance, on the one hand: on the other, no dis cursiveness, no yielding to the seduc tions of fancy, but a stern keeping of the faith of thasXUosism ; a thing is "SO or it is not so. Mr. Hughes never Mr. Root's ap- diffused, lacks all appeal. Mr. Harding's CITBAX TIGUBE HEEDED distrust nt There must be a head, a central figure, him. the in- a personality something real and sUnctive feel- tangible. The light of this central figure lne- of a aim-1 should be reflected from the highest pie direct na-1 point to the lowest It should be re- ture aralnst a called that China has never bad a writ- m 1 n d too ten constitution in all her wonderful quick, too history because her people have pos- adroit too in- sessed the natural instinct to subscribe visible in many to a titular head. Writing as recently or its opera-1 as May last Ku Hung-ming, a scholar tlona Those! and a gentleman of the old school, who who were close to him 1 said the president feared that Mr. Root would "put something over on him. . Such is Mr. Root Public questions always are likely to occur to him first is well known in the North, says that I the Chinese people never required a written or paper constitution ior two reasons, xne nrst waa Decause iae Chinese had a eense of honor which made them implicitly obey the man whom they had once recognised to be hesitates. He never says. "I must think as exercises in mental adroitness rather thX -mirror a moral standard which about that" He has thought about It than ea moral problems, His extremely ?PSKTS T v,. v . Or he turns Instantly to his principle agile mind finds its chief pleasure in Its -and has the answer. a 2 You speak of Mr. Hughes to 10 men In the eapltol, and nine of them will "amy to you, "Of course, it is easy to -understand ; his ia ths ons real mind In -Washington." it i LODGE t Henry Cabot Lodge always creates the Impression that It is a condescension en his part to Ood to have allowed him own agility. Then he Is always the ad- impelled him to try his best te deal fairly and Justly with his subjects. The second -was because the Chinese peopie vocate. always Instinctively devoting r , ,v. f a vine to rov hlmulf n Vnl.t.rlno ,,n .nntV., wwv "" si esssMuset wvietvt uibj waw ktiv see ss s cause for htm. ern. "He Is a first-class second," said Sen ator Penrose, objecting to him as a can didate tor president at the Republl convention of 1916, own man. . A I and the Lodges 1 1 I and their eon- f necttona 'J . Thla latter oninion may or may hot be held by the -majority of thinking Chi-- nese, but there can be no serious ais aaTeement with the teachings of Con- but he la not his fuelua who tausrht that the State was supreme, that there waeei ins nean or He is always someone else's mouth-1 all things a fixed order which must be. piece. He lacks originality-he lacks found out and followed and that the. true to create a nasalon there ia no nlace for Passion tirlnclnlea of statecraft were to be reuna wortd which is jn that clear mind he lacks force. He In the words of the wise men of old ss not exclusively elucidates other men's Ideas, works out treasured in the nine classics. The em- possesasa oy or puu Into effect their policies, pre- peror was the central figure wnicn gave senta tneir case, is, by temperament by to China her unity ior centuries, mere S without breaking. reason of gifts amounting almost to genius, of derects that go with those gifts always and everywhere, the lawyer. His public career has been controlled by Mr1. Lodge's this circumstance. ptinclplss. It I In spite of It all, some greatness re- has .been ob- mains, the impression of a powerful served,' are in-' though limited Intelligence. His career flexible and -was to give us a moral. It is. If you rest on solid have an adroit and energetic mind you foundation, but will find public affairs uninteresting: like good steel except in their occasional phases. If they can bend ryou nave such a mind and must enter ! politics, hide it: otherwise democracy will distrust you. Whatever you do, With hie grandfathers and hia fortune J be dulL iA Centralized Government jChina's Real Need . ; e Today i Is the smasipaarlas artiele Ifoateeae Ed, wke Is e feasant lnaanaee steal la the Orient, et ale views ef ChiM seeds, i- By Xestagae'Ede iTTONGKONO. The unification of and - the maintenance of peace in China -te vitally necessary to the peace of the -Padflo. This truism has become some 2 thing like a refrain among contempo rary publicists who have studied the problem and who are now seeking to clarify the task to be undertaken by .those who are meeting under the aegis -of President Harding. So vitally neces sary Is the unification of China to a : solution of the wider problem that it -has even been suggested In some quar 'tere that open foreign Intervention at testing the administrative side of China's national Ufa ehould be resorted to, until euch time as China shows herself In a rpoaiUoa to prodooe a body of enllght--ened statesmen. A stap euch as. this would not only be one to be deprecated but could not be Justified morally. CHIIfA MUST SAVE SELF On China herself must fall the task of discovering ths shortest road to national unity, namely, the setting up of some form of government which most natur ally expresses the ldess of her people and to which they will most readily sub scribe. Quite apart from the incidence of the Pacific conference and the splen oma opportunity thus afforded. China must rather sooner than later settle her internal differences and assume the solidarity of a modern nation If she is to escape the Inevitable penalty which nas oezauen her neighbor, Russia. Dis integration is a concomitant of decay; unity la the natural expression of po litical health. The vital question to be studied there fore ts: "How can China most easily realise ner national ; entity and conn i STORE CLOSED All day MONDAY for inven tory and price re-marldng. ' WiVTCH the Monday Journal and Tuesday Oreffonian for announcement of a bona fide and sensational - lgixiiung-Tuesday Forenoon jl ji. y v lixtK SnlllVaQriilo V W, II a . rs for C.rkUAvmw. . I M w., . never was a written constitution oe- cause the people were possessed of an Instinct to revere the emperor and .be lieved in the right of kingship. WHT CHAOS PBETAILS All that has been taken away from them since 1911, and they have been left without any adequate substitute. The people of a country, especially such a country as China, do not unlearn in a short time the long lessons of past ages. The history of China for the last de cade is eloquent of the measure of her loss. A retrograde step was taken in the drawing up of a quasi constitution, for which in reality the people nad no neea. The outcome is that which ths world enly too plainly sees. To use again the words of Ku Hung- ming which are significant: "The out' come so far of this constltution-eecur Ing epoch is that now in China ws have one president of the republic of China in Canton with a piece of paper in his hand called the 'constitution and with no money in his pocket furiously gesticulat ing because the diplomatic corps refuse to hand him the customs surplus; and another president of China In Peking quietly sipping tea ana looking very happy, although the government is bankrupt and cannot even pay the pro fessors of the government university In China, because the University of Paris has conferred the degree upon him, while three fierce Tuchuns are doing the work of governing China quite independent of him. DEMOCBATIC M05ABCHT UEGED Republicanism for China as under stood in the West stands self -condemned firstly, because in spirit It is contrary to the conceptions of the people, and secondly, because a 10 years' trial has had disastrous results. China must get back to a modification of her old patriarchal form of government auto cratic in name only, but democratic in reality. China has nothing to borrow from the West except the organisation and reform of her civil and other serv ices. It is aboslutely vital to ber proper development that her officials should be paid a sufficient salary and no longer be required to divert public money to their own private use. The examples thus set should have a most salutary ef fect upon the people In general and the pernicious system at present in vogue should in course of time disappear. China needs a reformed democratic monarchy, something which will give the old inspiration to unity where the fam ily and not the Individual is the unit thus providing a form of administra tion in keeping with the views of the greatjnass of the people. $50,000,000 Heiress isks Court for Action To Finish Schooling , (By Cnited Kea New York. Nov. IS. Heiress to a for tune estimated at $50,000,000 and vet Without sufficient means for her educa tion and support Jaqueline Lebaudy has applied to Surrogate Howell in Nassau county for a -paltry $4.000 of her father's estate. I The lS-year-old daughter of Jacques Lebaudy. self-etjled "emperor of the Sa hara,"" who was slam in January, m$, by his wife In their home at Westbury. U L. is one of the richest girls in ths world. . But despite the vast fortune that rightly belongs to ber. Jacqueline has been unable to enjoy the comforts and luxuries to which a girl of "her-wealth would be entitled. -Litigation extending from the courts of Nassau county to France, Chile, Bolivia. England and South Africa has prevented the collec tion of any of the estate. ! 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