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-WEDNESDAY AUGUST THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND, ... OREGON. -" t POLITICAL ANGLE OF RAIL DISPUTE ANNOYS CONGRESS By David Uwrim Copyright, 1923, by n Journal) 1 Washington, Aug. 9 Congress may Hot respond as readily to President naraingrs request for. legislation to prevent strikes and lockouts it the coal and i rail situations are cleared up as would b the case if tike crisis con " tinues indefinitely. Already railroad representatives whose business it is to see that con gress does nothing: that can be harm ful to their Interests arc on the job anxious to corral their supporters in both booses so that undesirable moves may be blocked if not defeated. Labor, too, which successfully fought the in clusion of an anti-strike provision in the present transportation act. is get ting ready to wage another battle in the legislative halls of the national capitoL COKGBESS BACKTRACKS , With the autumn elections staring , congress m we face the prospect of , any legislation unfavorable, to labor in terests of the country is far from like ly. Congress backtracked on the anti strike j provision once before because of a fear, of the voting power of rail road employes, for in legislating there would baUo specific cure; for the shop men which "would not apply equally to ' r engineers, trainmen, conductors and all j pother classes of workmen, on the rail , roads of the country- j ' fc Although the labor vote la a doubt ful quantity and politicians claim it . never supports any one party with suf ficient strength to change the result a closer approximation of j the truth is that labor never votes solidly unless a concrete issue affecting them is up for consideration. ' ' . STRENGTH 8HOWT " Even the Republican politicians who were unable to agree on the real cause of the Hughes defeat in 191 admitted that railroad men contributed no small number of votes in appreciation of the Wilson effort on the eight-hour law known as the A damson act. Only an acute emergency wfll get legislation through congress and in this alone lies the danger to 'both labor and railroad management. Mr. Harding has not jyet used his chief weapons publicity and an appeal to the. nation. He has . hot talked in alarming phrases publicly as he is known to have done in (private. The country would probably pe aroused if it read Mr. -Harding's pen 'picture of the grave conditions which lie ahead of the American people jif the indus- , trial crisis is not brought to an end now. I COAL IS 3TTJB The president Ws mostly concerned over the coal situation. He thinks the country will suffer grievously next winter. and he doesn't dare say what the damage will be to that already slow ly improved blusiness conditions which had . done so much to cure unemploy . ment and bring - the nation back to normalcy. He feels that at one fell swoop much' of what has been accom plished to overcome the business de- : pression which started two years ago, may be lost unless the nation is ade- quately supplied with fuel. : The nub of the situation is. f course, fuel - f or industries. Mr. ' s. Harding listens to the railroad executives as Vey point oat that train service is not interrupted and that conditions ap proaching normal are being every day brought nearer, but he answers all that by pointing to th lack of can to carry coal from the fields now being operated. : i SITTJATIOIT BAD It's bad enough, reasons Mr. Hard ing, not to be able to get coal from the union fields, but it's even worse to have cars lacking, to carry fuel from the non-union mines. ' That's the basis for drastic action when the time cones for Mr. .Harding to act. That's his conception of a national emergency in which be believes the executive has unlimited power, even if congress is slow to act. The president, therefore, in turning to congress for help, is not sure to get action soon enough to bring the dis putants in the present strikes under penalty of nefo laws, but what is mors likely is that both sides will grow more tractible as .they see the demand for legislation accelerated, by a presi dential message and a supporting pub lie opinion. Mr. Harding knows, of course, that talk of remedial legislation frequently brings a remedy without actually bringing a bill to a vote. No one 'can tell, on the other hand, what would be the mood of congress if the coal famine is unrelieved and the transpor tation is impaired. HABDtSG HAS JPLAW ; , ' All sorts of proposals and sugges tions will doubtless be made when congress reconvenes. Mr. Harding will follow the recommendations of his message to congress last December, when he sketched the necessity or a code of principles which would em phasize the legal liability of unions and their leaders on a' parity with cor porations and" their, managers. De cisions of the' federal courts" have since proclaimed the principle that labor unions -could' be sued just as corpor ations can be, and it's along the line of establishing culpability for con certed action that the executive will Undoubtedly work. ' Mr. Harding, when a member of the senate, voted for the anti-strike pro vision which was passed by the sen ate, but eliminated from the Each Cummins act when it was in final conference before the house and sen ate. , CONGRESS TJXEAST Threats of political reprisals caused the elimination. It was just before the congressional elections. The same political threats are being made today, but there is a crisis pending which will not make it so easy for congress to dodge its responsibilities. The pres-' ident has shouldered them alone for the last month, and now will ask congress to aid. If the president's political- for tunes are to be affected, so will be those of members of congress. The truth is congress would be de lighted if. the strikers and employers would only make peace, and save members of the house and senate from one more of the many embarrass ments which the reconstruction period in American history has contributed to American politics. MOTOKCTCiaST IS HURT Eugene, Aug. 9. Arthur F. Richards, gunsmith, 'suffered a broken leg8 when his motorcycle hit an automobile Mon day night His mother, with him in the sidecar, was bruised and scratched. PBEHIFM IS 8ECT7RED Eugene, Aug. 9. The Lumbermens Trust company, Portland, successfully, bid in a J29.953.C0 city bond issue Mon day at $100.06. THFSO ,F RED OF HARDING MO MHO N OHIO PRIMARY Columbus, Ohio, Aug. .-Kl!N. S.) Colonel Carmi A. Thompson of Cleve land, close friend of President Hard ing, has won out over a field of nine for the Republican nomination for governor in the face of early returns from all sections of the state here this morning. His plurality - over Charles 1m. 'Knight. Progressive, and C Homer Durand, "wet" candidate, may reach 70,000. Senator Atlee Fomereno, Democrat, and Congressman Simon D. Fesa. Rer publiean. were nominated for senator in the Democratic and Republican ' pri maries, respectively. s . .. A. -V.. Donahy of New Philadelphia, candidate for governor in 1920, will oppose Thompson in November, de spite the : opposition of Newton D. Baker, former secretary "of war, and the party' organizations in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Senator Atlee Pomerene, fighting the Anti-Saloon .league and a considerable element of union labor, defeated his primary opponent; John J. Lents, more than two to one, while A. V. Donahy of New Philadelphia, who made the race for governor in 1920, easily out distanced Judge James C. - Johnson, favored by former Secretary of War Newton D. .Baker, and Thomas J. Duffy, a former leader of union labor, for the Democratic nomination for gov ernor. In the congressional races, John C. Cooper, of the Youngs town district, was reported to be having a hard race. but all other members of the present delegation, with the exception of Knight and Fees, who did not seek renomination, were easy winners. Congressman Theodore Burton, one of the leaders of - the house, easily de feated Henry J- Emerson, former con gressman, who sought his old seat. ' Sen. Lodge Breaks Record for Names Signed to Petition - Bj United Nw Boston. Mass.. Aug. r 9. Senator Henry Cabot ; Lodge established an other political record Tuesday when he became the first candidate- for pub lic office in Massachusetts ..for whom the legaK number of certified signa tures on nomination papers have been filed to auallfy him in every county of the state. Senator Lodge qualified in every one of the 14 counties. There were 68,057 signatures filed with the nominatidn naDers. This figure exceeds by many thousands the largest number previ ously filed by any candidate for pub lic office in this state. Under the- law a candidate for the nomination for United States senator must file 250 certified signatures from four counties. Editqr in Highway : Wrdck' Surrenders Operator's License - Salem, -Aug.' J. Assuming the blame for an - automobile accident on the Columbia'- highway, near iTne. Dalles, July 31, R. T. Blalockt of Beaver, editor of the "Western Baptist, has volun tarily surrendered his motor vehiple operator's license to Secretary of Stats Koxer, the first case of its kind on rec ord In Oregon. - The accident, in which tht car driven by Blalock crashed into a car .driven by N. Morast ox The Dalles, resulted in slight injuries to the occupants of the two ears and serious damage to both machines Blalock explained that the crash was due to the fact that he was driving his car in the center of the highway in rounding a curve and did not see the other car until too late to avoid the collision. , "I may never need an operator's li cense again." Blalock writes, "but if I do I assure you it always has been my utmost desire and , always shall be to keep the traffic laws of our state and give more than my share ol the road to save life and property. ' - Blalock states in -his letter that he has found it necessary on .three oc casions in his experience as an auto mobile driver to ditch his ear in order to avoid collisions with larger cars which were monopolizing the highway. WISE L.IKE RE-HOC TED Eugene, Aug. 9. The Pacific Tele shone & Telegraph Is re-routing its lines- from Cottage Grove to London Springs and has -purchased newright- of-way. Road construction forced the change. . ,-, t lit, sir FACILITIES 1 ' THE IMMEDIATE TRANSFER of large sutns of, money by telegraph and cable; accurate credit information; competent handling fof for eign transactions; world-wide exchange quota tions, sales and purchases; the co-services of a complete i Trust Company. These are a few modern banking facilities demanded by, big busi ness today. . EVERY DEPARTMENT OF' MODERN BANKING is immediately available in one building at the "NORTHWESTERN' Our connections reach from the Orient to Europe from Canada to South America, and, of course, into every section of this country. Equipped in every sense, the "NORTHWESTERN" is a National bank with international facilities. Dogs Believed Used To Slay Victim in Spirit of Revenge Sacramento, Cal., Aug. 9. (U. P.) Revenge for a refusal to furnish food waa believed today to have been tne motive back of the wierd murder -of A. Bise, - rancher, near here, whose ;. body was found, chewed to death by dogs yesterday. Louis Balardi and wife, neighbors of Bise, taken into custody immediately following discovery of Bise's body, will probably be formally charged today. officers said. Their two big. wooiy Shepard dogs. known over the countryside for "their ferocity, are alleged to be the modern "BaskervlUe hounds" which Rilled Bise in a manner as cruel as any Conan Doyle could picture. Constable Davis of Antelope, a little village near here, reported to officers that. he had heard Bise say on Mon day that-for a considerable time he had been furnishing food to , the Balardi family but that he would re fuse them. The day following . Bise was found killed. Search of the Balardi cabin revealed the only food its larder contained was a handf ull of salt and two pieces of un cooked chicken, according to deputy sheriffs. Urges Insanity Be Abolished as Basis For Legal Defense San Francisco, Aug. 9. Justice C. D, Wilbur of the California state supreme court, in an address before the Cali fornia Bar association, which was largely attended by national delegates, urged that insanity be abolished as a defense in criminal law. He said : "As a majority of present state laws read, the defense of Insanity is a trap for: the Insane, and ; a way of escape -for' the, sane." ' - ' He declared "The lunatic Is released from custody with a verdict declaring him irresponsible, yet he may kill or destroy for, like the king, he can do no wrong. Under the present law a lunatic cannot commit a crime in the legal sense of the word because he does not know right from wrong. But the damage is Just as great as if hs did." State Fair Again Puts Ban Against Games of Chance Soviet Taking-Over I Church Treasures .By Xarl H. Ton irfsgssd Berlin, Aug. t. Under rigorous or ders from the'sovist' government, the churches c Rupsi ax 'being stripped of their treasures and valuables, ac cording to a dispatch reaching here from Moscow. The churches, convents and monasteries of the city and ?prov-! inc of Petrograd have delivered lit 5 pounds of gold. 10S.76S pounds of silver, 25 large diamonds, 464 medium cised and 3677 email ..diamonds, says jthe dispatch. "- . l Moonshiners' Rogue Gallery Suggested - It is probable that an effort will be mads, in the near, future by the 'police morals squad ? to have all violators of the prohibition laws photographed and finger printed, according to "statements mads .Tuesday by' members iot, ths quad, r Th , suggestion ew out of recent shootings in various parts of the country during raldsTby federal, state or elt officers or bootlegging joints. - - 'ii'., ' - ws I 1 i i Salem, Aug. 9. Gambling and all games of chance, as well as shows of questionable nature will be taboo at the state fair again this year,' the fair board has decreed. The bars were put up against gambling games and ques tionable shows last year with marked success. The board also voted to put exhibi tors of Jersey cattle back on an equal basis with exhibitors of other breeds as to prise money. The Jersey awards were reduced last year when the Na tional Jersey Breeders' association withdrew Its support from the Oregon fair. Let us serve you PORTLAND. OREGON, China Typhoon Toll 20,000 Dead! Losses Put at $30,000,000 Shanghai. Aug. 9. I.,N. S.) Dam age estimated at $30,000,000 was caused and 20,000 persons killed by' a typhoon which ravaged the treaty port city of Swatow, according to "a dispatch re ceived by the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce today from , the Swatow Chamber of Commerce. An appeal has been received - from Hongkong for a Red Cross relief ex pedition. The typhoon raged for several days. It was accompanied by torrential rains. The Ursulian convent," conducted ' by meters irom Montreal, was, wrecked. The nuns saved themselves by cling ing to the beams when the flood waters rose around the building. Alkali in Soap Bad for the Hair Soap should be used very care fvlly. if you want to keep your hair looking its best. Most soaps and prepared shampoos contain too much alkali. This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and rums it. ' The best thing for steady um is Mulsified cocoanut oil hmnm which is pure and greaseless), i-f wiiw uin anyming else you can use.i -. 'Two or three teaspoonfuls of Mul Billed in a, cup Or glass with a little warm, water is sufficient to cleanse fheJhaJr' and scalp thoroughly. Simply moisten the hair with water and rub it in. It makes an abund ance of rich creamy lather, which rinses out easily, removing every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and excess oil. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves the' scalp soft, and the hair fine and sriky. bright, lustrous, fluffy and easy to manage.; . .... . - Tou tarn get Mulsified cocoanut oil shampoo, at any pharmacy; ifa very cheap, and a few, ounces' will supply every, member of the family for months. Be sure your- druggist gives you Mulsified. ' . 9 ! i r i j WELCOME -TOTHE-VISITORSi IN PORTLAND'FOR-?BUYERSr. WEEK"' The August Sale of Blankets N Continue cSMMtJl WO! Entire Stock f of Furs at--i : Reduced r Prices .r-4i EXrerytHng Re A Collection That Was Very Specially Purchased A Thousand Grepe de . i ' !-;.. '. - - Chih 'Way, 'Way Below Regular Price They're blouses made of the best quality of georgette and crepe de chine, in white, flesh tint and bisque and that, they -are extreinely extra ordinaryr values is shown further by -the fact that They Are, Trimmed with , j Real Filet Laces and Baby Irish Laces - Boat Neck Style "V" Neck Style Square Neck Style , Long or Short Sleeves ' See the Models Here Pictured . See the Window Display The Sale on the Third Floor Llpmas, Wolfe ft Co. Clearance of Children's Coats, Capes and Dresses Tots Middie Dresses Less Than Actual Wholesale Cost--at $1.25 What an opportunity for mothers of tots two to five years of ge! And what toother would care to bother with sewing when such cunning little dresses can be bought for so little money $1.25. In jeans cloth and galatea. Entire Stock of Coats and Capes In Sizes 2 to 6 Years at Off Coats and capes in every wanted, fabric and in every desirable color and the styles just what the children 'will be wearing inthe Fall. Outer wraps are needed even now, and think what a saving this sale means. Children's Dresses Reduced Reduced to $1.35, $2.95 and $3.95 are children's dresses in sizes 2 to 6 years. "Dress up" dresses, play dresses bloomer dresses, etc., in the wanted fabrics and in a splendid selection of colors. .1 On the Foarth Floor Lipmas, Wolfe A C. Girls Dresses Reducfed Odd LrOts Broken Lines Tub Frocks in Clever Summer Styles Now Greatly Reduced .: Here's luck for the mothers of girls 14 abd 16 years of age- for it surely' is an opportunity not to be overlooked when such, charming summer dresses can be purchased at the savings now in effect here. Popular styles in new fabrics. Girls Silk Dresses Reduced Broken lots of taffeta and crepe dresses in sizes J 4 and 16. vMany unusual styles and a pleasing sslectioij of the ' fashionable, wanted colors. " - '"' ' - Girls Tweed Dresses Reduced' 1 . Also velour and jersey dresses' 'in this lot at prices, far below regular.. v. Sizes 1 4 and: 16 years. " . ". Girls Skirts Greatly Reduced 1 . A broken line of tweed, serge and velour skirts for girls .at attractively lowl. clearance, .prices.. , t t , Oa tae Fesrta Floor Lipfaas, Wolf t C - Even Visiting Mef in Lipman, Wolfe's August Linen Sale Is one, to conceive of any finer recognition of the incomparable nature of tlie linen' selling taking place here this week? These . merchants came to Portland to Durchase new' stocks. during "Buyers Week and then at Lipman, JVolfe's they. founds opportunities "such as no wholesale house could present. i 1 The 54-inch and 72-inch hand-embroidered Ma deira linen tabiecl&ths were all sold pn Monday but we had greater quantities of ' hand-embroidered Madeira linen napkins and luncheon sets, and it still is possible to secure these at the remarkable prices that in , some! instances are the lowest we ever have 'known. i - ' i ' --Irish table linens, also, are in the'sale,and notably the fol!owing: .1 - " c , i, , 70x72 in. "Meadow BIeachedM tablecloths; $6.95 24x24 in. "Meadow Bleached napkins now $8.95 piece Silver 'BIeached, luncheon ets, $8.25. i 1 8x54 1 in. Hemstitched table scarfs : now $ 1 .95 The Xlse Sale a tke Seeoaa Floor Lljmm, Wolie S Co. 5 5 1. i ! iV-4lf Store Uses No Comparative Prices They Are TJisleadingdnd OftehUnlrut&oo -1-