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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. : OREGON FRIDAY. JANUARY 7. 1522. HARD GTOUl E government i TO U. S. SHIPPING , - By DarM Lawrar (CcppUat, 1921. fcy Taa Journal) Waahlna-ton. Jan. 17.Prealdent Hard Inir will to eoncraaa In a fortnight and read a apactal noof advoeatlnc t coTtrnmMK am u an American chant marina. After a vara) montha of st,udr a plan hat bn com pleted which takes Into account many of the traditional prejudices against hip subaldla and attempts , at the same time to save the American kov mment from ira inense loss in the future on the ships Involuntarily placed . in Its possession during the war. Limitation of the profits that can be made by private operators la one feature and a system of Indirect aa well irect aids la another. ' The president has riven his approval to the Laaker plan, which contemplates put tine the American merchant marine en a paying; basis In a abort time by meana of a temporary subsidy. It ' means that Instead of a permanent aub- ' aidy, "the plan whe worked out -will within 10 years make It possible for American ships to operate without direct m The plan looks toward the stlmula ttoa of the American merchant marine rather than to permanent bounties. GREAT PROJECT APPROVED The president already has approved the deep waterways project. V hereby the Ureal Lakes wilt be oioser to the ocean folnf trade and Ret the direct benefit af an Increased merchant marine. This la dona so aa to Insure the support of the arrieultural middle wast, which has hitherto been lukewarm to subsidy pro- Krama, The subject will be a non-partlnan. one SS lead In a Democrats like Hanator Ranudell of Louisiana and other mem bers of congress from Southern states with ocean ports will be vitally Inter- - ested In the success of the program. Briefly, the system of Indirect aid eontamplatea an amendment to ealst trig law whereby traffic to and from the Philllpplaes shall b eonaiacrM "coast-wise trade." Only American ships ran ply in coasl-wlsa trade, an4 the in clusion of the r'-iitppiaes in coast trade will materiaUy help American can congress against ship subsidy and the chance ere the aamtniatrauon wiu not hesitate to fight foreign Influence openly and vigorously. Th new plan does not guarantee American shipping concents a prone They must make it Already tha pas senger vessels or tna smpenne; mn id the North AUaatic era snaking money, and so are maay of Its cargo vessels. Careful examination of : the testimony Just given by the chairman of the ship ping Aboard to the no use appropriations committee show that it is coating; about four millions a month to keep tip tha shins and cover the board's expenses. At least two and a rial I millions wiu have to be spent for the next two years In liquidating claims wheuter any subsidy plan is adopted or any ships are operated. 80 it's beggars choice.' The government la jum bow ssoraung 400 shlas on routes of trade hitherto untouched by American "hips. Ttit gov ernment is not losing any mora than are private ship concents ta thte era of low freights, but in the spring, wnen me upturn m freight rates is expected, the government loss will be cut down ma teriaUy. possibly to a million or a muiion and a half dollars, and the experts fig ure that there is a good chance of making a profit In the next year. Vile government mast sell the ships it has. sink them or operate them. Xne benefits of government aid for a few years, are held by the administration to be these : First The preservation of an. Ameri can merchants marine for use In case of war. , Second A reduced coat to tha Ameri can people en the carrying of their gooda to foreign ports. Third A stimulus to American in dustry by enabling the American pro ducer and manufacturer to sell as low In other parts of the world as do the Europeans and tha Japanese shippers. IXPEKIES I5CBEASE "President Harding seems to make the matter of a subsidy a majort part of his administration. He has been- grati fied lately to learn that the new shipping board has at last gotten the loss under control. For months the expenses of keeping the ships were growing like a fire. The house appropriations commit tee now is satisfied that within this year the loss will be reduced to a minimum. Broadly speaking. It is estimated that the temporary subsidy may east the gov ernment about 125,000,000 for a period of 10 years, and that this sum will be constantly diminished by the fact that tha private ship concerns will gradually make money out of the indirect aids Which cost the government nothing ex cept the scratch of a presidential pen on an act or congress giving American ships preference in American trade over foreign bottoms. The experts say that If the government spends $25,000,000 an nually tha American people will save, at least that aum and ma oh snore in lower frieights and will make more money through increased foreign trade. CARDINALS GATHER TORECTHPOE inn By Henry tread Rome, Jan. 27. (TJ. P.) The secret eonelave which will aleet a successor to Pope Benedict XV wiu bo Italian, by a small majority, according to indications today. Twenty-six foreign cardinals and I 28 Italians are expected to be ready for the election February 2. Cardinals Dubois, Maurln, Lucon and V'idal arrived yesterday and Cardinal Mercier of Belgium, who stopped off at ijilan, wast expected today. The S4 cardinals expected to be here when the walling; up : ceremony takes place and will be closed within the apartments on the first three floors of the Vatican eaprly next Thursday. A vote will be taken that same day, but the cardinals will not be able to leave tha Vatican until a decision is reached. A two thirds majority ia required to elect a new pope. Predictions as to Benedict's . successor narrowed today to Cardinals Gasparri, Ratti, Merry Del Val, Mercier and La f on tain. Each cardinal will take with him into the Vatican before the walla and doors are sealed one priest and one servant In addition, there will be walled up a number of masters of ceremonies, whose duty it is to summon the cardinals to the various masses and sessions for vot ing, also two physicians, one pharmacist, who must be a member of the religious order of San Criovajit . de Rio. barbers, oooks, a' few servants and a few workmen. Mrs. Lyda Southard; Healtny in Prison Twin rails. Idaho. Jan. tT.Mrs. Lydia Southard, eoavtcted of the murder ot ber fourth, husband. Edward Meyer. Is In excellent health, .according , to - word brought from the- state, penitentiary at Boise by Sheriff Sherman of Twin "Falls. Ur attorney are working ao. an appeal. .1 WAST PIPER TO SPEAK rampa, Idaho, Jan. 27. Efforts are being made to get Edgar B. Piper of Portland aa speaker at Idaho's Lincoln day banquet in Boise Coast Marine Pool ! . Meeting Arranged WaahlBgton.' Jan. 17. CU. P.) Repre sentatives ' from'; all the Pacific coast Dorts will meet with shipping board rep- re tativea- hara jTabruary: & to d vacua the plan tor the .gigantic merger of Pacific coast snipping interests. Chair man LasKer announced Thursday. - Celestial Peddler ; Of Dope Fined $100 Ha Sine. Chlasas, was Taarada ts4 tlW aad sentenaed te 1 days ia jail a a chars t MQlas WQOttca; ! Hal V arrested at Second and Ash, streets by police. In company with John . Wallery and Francia Spick, who vera charged with, vagrancy rTTaOery war sentence! to three weeka tn Jail aad Spick w discharged. ' - c rr STARTS FOR ONE WEEK ONLY i : wiiof Salesman Accused Of Grand Larceny W. J. Robinson. Seattle salesman, was arrested by Inspectors. Hallyer and Mal lett Thursday afternoon at the automo bile ahow. in The Auditorium, on a tele graphic warrant from the. sheriffs of fice of King county. Wash., charging grand larceny. His bail has been placed at $1500. Robinson haa been In Portland several week, engaged aa a bond sales man for a local automobile concern. He said he was Ignorant of the charges placed against him. At A gas-fired, hot-"vater, house heating system within reach of the aver age man. The gas-fired Areola. Installed through any plumber you designate. . - The occupant of a cottage can now enjoy the same modern method of heating as the owner of a mansion. 1 The Gas-Fired Areola system fills the wants for SMALL homes. See it exhibited in Gas Co.'s Show Window on Alder near Fifth, No basement needed. ".X. Body of Baby in unnysaok Fou On Lot by Youth from Paclflo porta t tha Philippine. (rTinnVSaOK FOllTKl Similarly It Is Intended giva American ' U UUUJ (UA, X U UUU ship tha business aiuteTto aoae ty .tna army transport seruice. . Also it -wiU be provided by law that at least SO per rent Of tha Immigrants coming to the United States shall travel In American ships. PLA5I ABC TF.MfORABT Thesa three systems of Indirect aid will In many rases bring In enough rve ttu to anabls private American ship eompanlaa to operate at a . profit without any further- government aid. The hope Is that eventually all shipping concerns will be able to get along with Indirect aid. , : Tha government's plan contemplates a system of automatic diminution of direct aid aa soon aa revenue from the Indirect aid approximates a fixed per centage of profit. In other words when shipping companies mske a profit by one form of -government help they will not be entitled to any direct financial sup port. Under no circumstances can the private concerns make exorbitant profits. Tha ingenious mind of Chairman Laakee has been at work for montha on ut this problem, with the result that a hoU-preof schema baa been evolved. Those. who have seen tha plan differ In their estimates of its worth, depend ing open their own Interests. Strangely nought certain American shipping peo ple, whd, t might be expected, would be enraptured over the prospect of a sub sidy, at last are not so eager for It now baoausa of the privileges and fa vors being granted them by certain . foreign companies. Foreign governments hare already shown their hostility to the plan, for they see In it an America-first Idea which msy take from Great Britain at. any rata much of her advantage on tha seas In peace time, 1SHCB PRO-AMERICAN The lasua will probably be made a pro-American one by President Harding, At one time Oerman shipping interests war discovered lobbying In the Amerl- CHTTRCHIIX JOISS FRATERNITY University of Oregon, Eugene, Jan. 27. Phi Delta Kappa, national educational fraternity, initiated J. A- Churchill, hear! of tha state educational system. Into its membership Wednesday. While on tht campus the superintendent spoke on "Some Needs of the EducaUonal " Sys tem la Oregon." Builders! vour houses. Don't fail to investigate this new system- It will help sell ' 1 5 ,T Caatiamaeas W 11 THE PRODUCTIOM THAT WILL STAXTIX XKD THRILL ALL PORTLAND f!G . v ve L3 Wrapped in a gunnysack. the body of a baby girl, born less than 48 hours before, waa found near tha Intersection ot Hamilton avenue an 4 Tarwllllgar boulevard, shortly after 5 o'clock Thurs day evening, by Anthony Slovlck, 10- year-old milk boy, who stumbed onto the little body on bis rounds, as be took a abort cut through a vacant lot, Tbe body was tied ia the sack, but when young Slovlck stumbel onto it, with a boy's curiosity, he opened the bundle and rolled its grim contents out or. tbe ground. Covering pp the .find with sn old piece of discarded carpet which he picked up near the place, he hastened to give an alarm. The emergency hospital doctor who answered the call said that the child had been dead several hours. A preliminary examination was not sufficient to de termine whether tha child waa murdered or had bean born dead, although Lee Goetsch. deputy coroner, ia Inclined to believe tha former la the case. An au topsy will be held today In an effort to determine circumstances of the child's death. Delegates Certified By Idaho Secretary 66 Ok Haitef H glli Kampa, Idaho, Jan. 87. The secretary ef state certified the number of dele gates from each county which each po litical party la entitled to send to its state convenUon. The state central com-' mlttees of the parties are allowed to se lect places of meeting. Tha Democrats have 110 delegates and the Repub licans 202, I you liked 'The Three Musketeers you surely can r, muj on this H. H. Van Loan has borrowed the theme of Dumas' "Three Musketeers" and staged it in the cow country with a bunch of BghtuV Yankees of the Texas Border Police - Professing to work for the peace of the World, America invited the nations to the Washington conference, where she has "tricked them one and all." This scathing reproach of the Tokvo Yoro duz gives, the intensive form of a feeling of disillusion about the Washington conference that is re vealed in some sections of the Japanese press. "Hateful and haughty," indeed, is America, the Tokyo Yoroduz says, picturing Uncle Sam as "an international boor" toward whom "we enter tain a grudge" and "have no reason to show good will." Going further, this newspaper adds, "lim itation of, armaments may be a step toward -peace," but "a peace thus' brought about is a peace with out liberty, a slavish peace. Do the Japanese people wish for such slavish peace, after Japan has been kicked and trampled down by America? We are firmly resolved to reject such a slavish peace." At a mass meeting, reported in the Tokyo Japan Advertiser, a speaker is quoted as saying "that the negroes in America would rise against the Americans should a war break out between a 'certain country' and another 'certain country.' Japan, he assured them, need not be afraid, even if Amer- ica should build a large number of war vessels or build other means of offensive warfare." - At this same meeting, Dr. Soyejima said that the Japanese-American war was already begun in the Wash ington conference, and that America has won a first battle without even appealing to arms ; But not all Japan is so disgruntled with the Washington Conference, as we may judge from the 'widely circulated and influential Tokyo Jiji, which says: "We should congratulate ourselves on the ?UcCes of the. Washington Conference. It will not be too much to call this success a gTeat undertaking to eav the world. We therefore express our undivided sense of congratulation and at the same time thank the government authori ties at home and abroad for their efforts to bring about the success." For more news of Japanese opinions regarding the Washington Conference, read the article, "Oh, Hateful, Haughty America," in THE-LITERARY DIGEST this week. Other vivid, accurate, timely reflections in text and picture of what the world is thinking and doing, as mirrored by the press of all countries, and given in THE LITERARY DIGEST this week, January 2$tb, arc :- France's New Leader Germany's Implacable Foe Under the Leadership of Raymond Poincare, Who Has Always Insisted That Germany Must Pay to the Last Penny, "France Is Going to be Heard and. Listened to Instead of Being Told What She Must Do," Declares a Paris Paper WILLIAM FOX PRESENTS ANOTHER ONE OF HIS BIG 5UPER-SPECIALS IN "SHAME." A GRIPPING DRAMA OF VOLCANIC FORCE, ASTOUNDING IN THEME AND PICTURESQUE IN ATMOSPHERE IT WILL TAKE YOU FROM CHINA TO ALASKA WITH A GASP AND A THRILL EVERY FOOT OT THE WAY French Chagrin at Washington Henry Ford's Bid for Muscle Shoals What Hays Can Do for the Movies Senator Newberry's Innocence The Missing Link Still Missing China and the Pacific Pact Our War With the Insects Throwing a Scare into France The Slaughters in Asia Minor . The Difficulties Along the Congo Art and the New Silver Dollar V Reviews of New Books : Topics of the Day -Investments and Finance BLUE MQUSE CONCERT ORCHESTRA LEO SRYANT. CONDUCTOR NOTE! " ' Many Interesting illustrations and Humorous Cartoons January 28th Number on Sale Today 10 Cents At All News-dealers in w uu A PLAIN STATEMENT OF FACTS ABOUT "SHAME"; .'After viewing it, I must agree vrith East, erncritics, for it is surely a great picture. It.Js the biggest, most thrilling, best acted, best directed and finest .photographed super-production I hare yet shown in my theatre, and I question whether a bigger r picture has been seerr in. Portland in the' . .... - past year.' John Hamrick. nn LAST U 1 TIMES ; v. . , ; TONIGHT HoWomanKno' rUNX & WAGKALLS CXJMPAI CPctahmciCaa Fssaoca NEW fesadard RcgocgyL K3T7 Try YS -r 3D