XII K WEATHER
Tha filitusmin TATalvoa h leaned
Fair; heavy frost in the morn
ing; moderate westerly winds.
wire report of the Associated
Press, the greatest and most re
liable press association In the
wbrfd.
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VENTY-FIUST YEAR SALEM, OREGON. FRIDAY MORNINfi APPTT. a iqoi i n TW1T,.
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EfUD WILL
TALK PIPING
Uoyd George Brings Renew
ed Prospects in Industrial
. Crisis by Last Minute In
tervention. BELIEVED MINERS
WILL ACCEPT COURSE
toformal Conferences Held
H In Attempt to Win
i ' Miners Over
LONDON. April 7. Another
day ot tense alternations of hope
and .fear ended with one of the
premier's eleventh hour Interven
tions, bringing renewed prospects
that the grave industrial crisis
wuT be averted. He announced
IS LUD UVUSS Ul tuiuiuuiu lUUl(ill
wUliagness of the government to
participate in a conference to dis
cuss pumping before other mat
ters were considered.
; Informal nn f oronoax .nnllnnsri
this evening, moderates like Mr.
Asqaith. Lord Robert Ceeil, At.
thsc Henderson and John Robert
ers to relent only pumping, and
; It w,as supposed that the whole
question was turning on this
lender hope..
' Premier Uoyd George, after an
absence,, returned to the house
unexpectedly at 11 o'clock and
Informed the members that the
rnnrnmsnt liaii armsd in i
course, which It Is believed prap-
tlcally certain the miners will ac
cept, the calling of a conference
of owners and miners to discuss
the difficulty' relative to pumping
the mines before touching on
wager and other matters.
; Cause for Change Secret.
What steps bad led-up to this
change -ot front were .not re
vealed, Arthur Henderson, who
rose to reply to the premier,' -was
nonplURsd.' He- -had,-. he said,
to express regret- that - the pre
mier had not given notice of such
an important statement
V. As he bad earlier explained, the
miners federation would have
preferred to open the conference
without conditions, but he had
not had an opportunity to consult
(Continued on page 5.)
- : z
'. ' It is. now apparent that
will grant a rehearing of the
WITH WORKERS
Ill WILLIAMS FIRS
RECONSIDERATION OFPHQNE
CASE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
phone & Telegraph company in fact a rehearing is virtually
certain. .
Fred A. Williams, chairman of the commission, in a
statement, issued last nieht expresses the opinion that the
petition for a rehearing coming from city officials of Port
land embodies plomonta that iustifv a reconsideration. Dis
patches irom Washington. D.
' G. Bucntel of the Oregon commission, who is now in the east
has gathered first hand data from the of f ices of the Ameri
can Telephone & Telegraph company which will be used in a
reneanng in Oregon.
- Chairman Williams has re
vived an advance; copy of the
inland petition for rehearing
nlch will not befiled officially
for a week or more. The petltl n
based on the recent increase In
telephone rates allowed by the
commission which has caused a
protest to go up all over the stato
a caused the formation of an
Ojianliatlon having as its pur
J the recall of the commis
sioners. Statement lKfmed X
.Mr... Williams' statement maio
. night follows:
'Through the orfieo ot the city
torney of Portland I have Just
received a draft of the petition for
renearlBg in the Pacific Telephone
Telegraph company case about
J? filed with this commission.
Jix'r the date for a hearing on
Kn- ,Wom 1 member of a tri
clothed with Judicial dutlea
: uiled in commenting upon
tter pending, before final or
oer. out personally I feel in thi3
iTr-k that there are rolsap
tlfi 6en48ion" as. to the law and
u Involved that impose upon
- oo oDHgatlon of an obligation.
... 1 believe without reservation
t the commission should en
,Part the greatest lattltnde in
." Pfnution of this pbsj.
JiiZr VB verr Industry or clars
liS4.10 Participate. Thcra
nouii, be no undue restriction
there should be every endea
SLh revent an Inequalities or
Sm n"on. I also would ad
vocat that sucb measure at tho
MR. HANDLEY
FINDS NEAT
MONEY ROLL
Corporation Official Has $280
Surplus Fund; Confers With
Attorney General
T. B. Handley, stale conjura
tion commissioner, has in his de
partment the sum of $280 that he
doesn't know what to do with. The
money represents partial filing
fees that have been sent in by
corporations over a period of tho
last 10 years and that have nit
completed their flings. The ar
ticles of incorporation were held
up in most cases pending remis
sion of the remainder of the rees.
and when so notified the com
panies hare not been heard from
again.
Mr. Handley conferred yester
day with Attorney General Van
Winkle relative to the disposition
to make of the money, which is
in checks. The attorney general's
adTice is to cash the checks, and
hold the money while an e'fort is
made to locate the persons who
sent in the money. If they can
not be found disposal of the mon
ey may be a matter of legislation.
Thirty-five companies are rep
resented by the 280.
PROTECTION ASKED
BY ilffl
Ejectment of Brotherhood
Officials Leads to
Action
JOPLIN. Mo.. April 7. An ap
peal has been made for federal
protection growing out of the
ejectment from Harrison. - Ark
yesterday of five railway unio
brotherhood officials who went
there in connection with a strike
on the Missouri and North Arkan
sas railroad, it was announced to
night by M. C. Carey, Port Huron,
Mich., representing- the Brother
hood of Railway Conductors.
Carey and L. M. Eddy of San
Francisco, representing the Order
of RaUway Telegraphers and an
other of the executives forced to
leave Harrison, arrived tonight.
They announced they would ke?p
in touch with the strike from here
temporarily.
The three other brotherhood
men who were forced to leave are
on their way home, according to
Carey.
The appeal for federal protec
tion was sent to railroad broth
erhood executives, Carey said.
the public service commission
rate case of the Pacific Tele
C. yesterday stated that Fred
time or rehearlng as fleveiopmen!.
. t a v. tiiA
warrant snoutu do auopieu uy
commission as will properly and
effectually preserve and safeguard
the interests of all parties. Kvery
i - tko asA shmild be dis-
HlliV V l . ' - v -
cussed in detail in order that ther
may be the fullest understanding
of all the questions involved.
It there were '
resulting in this order then at the
rehearing all the facts should be
fully presented. This is the fair
est and most exoedient way for
the case to be settled.
CarWuI Study Ma(ie
"On its face this petition shows
that a careful study has been
made of the several Issues in
volved and apparently every ele
ment has been thoroughly Inves
tigated with a fixed idea of pre
senting all questions which mar
have a bearing upon the stuatorr.
It not only states specifically the
grounds upon which the applica
tion is based, but also clearly and
analytically the reasons for a re
consideration. The petition Hkc-
' tantm and ciTCUm-
(stances arising subsequent to th-i
"li.l ..i.ht have much
weight. We shall by the time n
have nearly two monhts ot actual
performance under the new rates
for our guides.
Correction If Necewary
"If the order s wrong then I
am only too glad to have facts or
law presented which will justify
Its correction.
"In my judgment from such an
examination as I have been able
. .v. r th netition it wou.d
justify a reconsideration of the
case at the earliest possible date."
H
EPS VOTE
Report of Committee On
Combination Grain Mar
keting Organization Has
Been Accepted.
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
UNANIMOUSLY DEFEATED
Non-Profit Stock Corpora
tion Will Be Formed To
Handle Product
CHICAGO. April 7. Represen
tatives of the farmers in cqsaveu
tion today voted unanimously to
accept the report of the committee
of 17 which provided for forma
tion of a co-operative agency to
market the nation's grain.
The report was adopted after a
two-day fight in which delegates
sought to have it amended so that
pooling of grain by the farmers
would be compulsory instead of
optional as provided in the report.
An amendment to that ettect Was
defeated tonight. 61 to 38. An
other amendment ottered by Carl
Williams of Oklahoma that the
pooling be made compulsory in
states where wheat is the predomi
nant grain also was defeated and
the convention then unanimously
adopted the committee report.
Under the plan a non-profit
stock corporation will be formed
through which the grain will be
handled from the time it is raised
until it reaches the manufacturer
or consumer. Local agencies will
be formed throughout the country
and elevators, terminal warehouse
corporations, port corporations,
service departments and other
subsidary departments will be a
part of the plan.
Directors Will Govern.
Each member of the corporation
will pay a fee of ten dollars which
will be used for expenses'. Surplus
over expenses will be returned to
the members.
Organization will be governed
by a board of directors elected by
the grain growers.
The committee of 17 has been
at work for six months on the
plan. It has held hearings in all
the grain states, called scores of
persons to discuss the plan and
sifted dozens of proposals.
Organization of the corporation
will be begun immediately and it
is hoped to have it working in
time to handle part of the 1921
crop.
The formers' conference voted
late tonight to have the committee
ot 17 divide the grain growing
sections of the country into 21 dis.
tricts. apportioned according to
the value of the grain marketed
in the past ten years. Market cen
ters, rather than state lines would
govern the limits of the districts,
it was stated.
The committee was expected to
complete the drafting of the dis
tricts by 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning, so that the farmers' rep
resentatives meeting then could
caucus and delegates from each
district choose a director for that
territory.
These 21 districts would form
the controlin body of the co-operative
marketing organisation.
y
BEIT THE
Backyard Fires, Raes and
Shovels Show Clean-up
Is Started
.Many residents of Salem are
bt-ating tbe gun in the clean-up
drive. Although the campaign
does not lep;in officially until
next Monday, scores of backyard
bonfires are Keen in the residence
districts daily, while knee-high
grass is being mowed and all man
ner of rubbish raked together for
the scavenger wasons. It looks
as if the residence districts will
have a running start when the
brush-up campaign starts Mon
day. It is announced that every Hoy
Scout troop In the city wilt as
sist in the clean-up
program.
1
T
POOLING
PUH
Ml
CITIZENS
BUN
Each member will be furnished j paperhansers' union with the Kal
wlth a chart on which he will amazoo trades and labor council
made a detailed report covering
two city blocks to which he will j
be detailed for duty. Each Scout
will be accountable to a patrol
leader; each patrol leader to his
Scoutmaster, and the Scoutmaster
to the special Scout committee.
The latter is composed of Paul
Wallace. Mrs. A. F. Marcus. Mrs.
F. L. Purvlne, Dr. Ft. K. Pome
roy. Carl Pope and Harold Cook.
During the remainder of the
present week a survey of the city
will be tinder way so that tbe
work will be easier when actual
j operations arc In progress next
week,
DOUGLAS IS
DAMAGED BY
COLD SPELL
Hood River Peaches Killed,
Clark County Hard Hit,
Marion and Polk Safe
PORTLAND. Or . April 7
"runes and pars were damag'!
by frost in Douglas county last
right and pearlies- were killed
Monday night, according to re
ports ree?ived here from the or
chard districts.
Growers in Maricn and Polk
counties, near Salem, thought the
i!nniiiRt; by frost had not ban
havy.
Hood River peaches were killed
but all other tru'la wem unhurt.
In Clarl e crunty. Wash ,
around Vancouver, peaches, pears
and apricots were badly darnagec.
Local Riowers expressed the
opinion yesterday that irost has
not yet done damage of any ap
preciable extent n the vicinity ol
Salem. It is said the recent cool
weather has kept th trees back
so buds are not far enough de
veloped to suffer damage. Trees
ti-m k. Uilln X,n trn nil iiAt K 1 rr
: ,
nnir hnni, ,n i.inom it !-!
Plained, and m far have escaped
serious iniurv
In the Stay ton nnd Turner se'--I
tions some fear is expressed thot j
therj has been ("amaee from frost. I
j
ELECT COMMITTEE
Demand is Made to . Include
Western Members Under
Reorganization
WASHINGTON. April 7 Rep
resentatives John I. Nolan. Cali
fornia: Sidney Anderson. Minne
sota, and Frank L. Greene, Ver
mont, today were eHcted mem
bers of the Republican steering
committee of the house Jy the
committee on committees.
REPUBLICANS
. , y xV.7Zt.iJTtbr of errors runs well above
tative Winslow. MaFsachUAetts.1 ,A K , . ... .
Mr. Nolan, it Is understood, was
put on in order to give represen
tation to labor, and Mr. Ander
son as the representative of the
agricultural interests.
There also was a demand to
include western members under
the plan of reorganization of the
committee, which provided an in
crease from five to seven mem
bers. This committee directs the
legislative program and It is un
5t
derstood there were more tha
a score of applicants for places.
Old members who will remain,
in addition to Representative
Monde!!, Wyoming
Kepupjican
leader, as chairman, are Dunn
New York; narrow. Pennsyl
vania: Longworth, Ohio, and Mad
den. Illinois.
Representative Harold Knut
son. Minnesota, was . re-elcted
whip. The new steering com
mittee and standing committee
assignments will be presented to
the Republican caucus Saturday.
Theft of Mail Pouches Leads
To Conclusions By
Invstigators
CHICAGO, April 7. Special in
vestigators sent from Washington
in connection with the theft yes
terday at the Dearborn .station o'
mail itouches containing rash and
securities believed to total moro
than $."iO.Oto tonight were1 pro
ceeding on the theory that the
robbery had be?n carried out by a
national gang of mail thieves who
had obtained information of mon
ey shipments fro:n postal em
ployes The fact that the roblers select
ed only mail sacks containing val
uables, strengthened this belief.
Similar procedure was carried
out today in a robbery at Sullivan,
Ind.. the robbers choosing sacks
containing money. J
A score of persons were arrest
ed today but mo. t of them were
released.
t tM N IL AM I NION ltltKAK.
" KALAMAZOO. Mich.. April 7.
; Aifiliatins of th; painters and
(has been broken off, it was an
nounced today as a result ot Sam
uel Gornpcrs' recent attack npon
th council, in which he declared
a faction that sought recognition
.r V- KnsKian sovi"t govern
ment was composed of "unpatrio
tic American." The central body
bad asked tbe American federa
tion of labor to officially favor
resumption of Irade wllh Kussia.
TKLKKY MIXISTUV ItKSIGXS
DC DA PEST. April 7. The
ministry of Count Paul Teleky has
resigned. 4
1TI
1G
MANY ERRORS
ARE FOUND IN
SESSION LAWS
Some Acts of Recent Legis
lature May be Void and
Emergency Board Must
Meet to Correct Others.
INSURANCE MEASURE
IS BADLY GARBLED
No Money Appropriated by
Bounty Bill; Legislative
Grammar Poor
A interesting rtuGy In errors
8 the volume of Oregon session
1 aWb for 192 i. enacted by the
t,a,e 'eKislature. and soon to be
"ady for distribution in bound
orJ"'
The errors doubtless were of
the head and not of the heart.
me luiemions ot tue lawmaKers
were all right, but through a
combination of carelessness on
the part of persons who intro
duced some of the bills, and of
he engrossing and enrolling com
mittees, the printed laws show
that phrases intended to be in
some of the laws were left out
of the enrolled bills; that entire
paragraphs stricken out by am
endment are included in the
measures as passed, and that
some appropriation bills failed to
appropriate, while few of the
laws are without .dramatical er
rors. Some Found by Olcott.
In the printec laws most of
the errors can be detected by
bracketed words, and in one or
two serious instances by foot
notes written in by whoever read
the eopy that passed to the state
printer. A cursory glance through
the book shows that the total
2Mi-beside8 many that doubt
tess escape the eye of the search
ers These range all the way
from grammatical or clerical er
rors to legislative "boners" that
will necessitate the summoning
of the state emergency board to
provide money for departments
for which the laws fail to appro
priate, though they were intended
to do so.
' uovernor uicott, as he went
over the bills prior to passing
on them after the close of the
house bill 2S7. appropriating
$150,000 for delinquent and de-
i ncnftDIlt .HillvAn o ml A t f
' fJle care of wayward clrls. and
also house bill 3S9, appropriat
ing $.10,7 r0 for the state labor
department, fail to appropriate
for the second year of th? pres
ent biennium. The governor re
fused to sign the measures for
that reason, but filed them with
the secretary of state to becom
laws automatically, dependins
upon the state emergency board
to- meet some time next, year and
j provide funds to finish out the
biennium.
Worse One Overlooked.
The eovernor. however, did
not detect the worse error in
house bill SHI, which is supposed
!o appropriate SIl.".."oo io pay
bounties on wild animals, but
which fails to appropriate even
for this yj;:r. This act makes
the appropriation commence the
first day ot January. 1919. and
end on the 3 1st day of December.
'520. The intention was. of
course, to luivej the appropriation
begin the first day of January,
l!21. and end December 31. 1922
In th- two previously mentioned
appropriation measures the ap
propriations are made to bezin
January 1. .1920, and erfd De
cember 31. 1921.
Tbsp errors involvo a total of
n62.1S2. The money, of co'irse.
is available, but the emergency
loard must necessarily meet to
put It into the hands of the de
partments affected. Were it not
for the existence of the emerg
ency board"it would he necessary
to rail a special session of the
lepislat ure. To supply the money
under tbe bounty act it doubtless
will be q-rp!Sary to. call the em
ercency board thisi, year. The
bills intended to appropriate
money for deHnnuents. for 'the
labor department and for boun
ties are written in tho session
laws, as chapters P.S!l and
3S1. respectively.
Amendment Disregarded.
Another highly serious error is
in the marine insuranre act in
which three entire paragraphs
that were amended but of the bill
were enrolled nevertheless and
aire part of the enacted law. This
measure contains other errors.
It will oe necessary for the insur
ance commissioner to refer it to
tft. attorney general for an opin
ion as to whether it is of any
value fin the statute book.
Section 1 b of chapter 17.
whVh was senate bill 2"0, was
engrossed to read as follows:
"No trust company shall be ap
proved by the superintendent of
banks as a reserve agent unless
ft shall have an unimpaired, paid
Continued go, page 1
INAUGURATION
WHEN 100,000 HEAR SPEECH
WITNESSED BY SALEM WOMAN
Spectator at Seven Presidential Inductions Remarks at Dem
ocralic Spirit of Recent Event, and Says at Last One
May Speak His Mind at Seat of American Government
My ELLA ROYAL WILLIAMS
March 4 was a typical Oregon
May day. The i;un rose early
and fairly beamed its approval oil
'he ceremonies of the inaugura
tion of Warren G. Harding as
president of tha United States.
There is a sort of superstition
that the state of weather on an
inauguration day portends the
romHtions that will hold sway
aver the affairs of the incoming
president for the term of fits of
fice. If the sun thines, it is an
omen for good; if the weather is
inclement it is a forecast for un
propitious conditions for the rule
of the president. In Washington
st least, the evil portent of a
stormy inaugural day holds as
strongly to the "sure sign as
does the annual visit of Mr.
Ground Hog in his February
coming out party on a bright sun
ny day when his shadow stands
forth to greet him.
Multitude Hears Harding
Let us hope that the sign holds
true for the term of office so propitiously-
beeun on this occasion.
There was an immense crowd as
sembled in front ot the capitol
s
T
Outline For Ending Industrial
Disputes Submitted to
President
CHICAGO, April -7. Five rail
road labor unions with 500,000
members, touight submitted 'to
President Harding's labor plan
tor ending industrial disputes be
tween roads and their workers,
proposing that the president call
a conference of representatives of
both sides at which new rules gov
erning working -conditions would
be made to take the place of the
national agreements, now in dis
pute before the railroad labor
board.
The proposal was contained in
a statement by representatives of
the live mechanical unions and
was sent to the president by P.. j
M. Jewell, president of the railway
employes department of the Am
erican Federation of Labor.
It proposed that all wage dis
putes be held in abeyance pending
the conferences. ;
The telegram was sent in re
sponse to a request from Presi
dent Harding at the conference
with Mr. Jewell thaMabor submit
its plan for ending trie railway In
dustrial troubles. It included 12
points which were termed "labor's
self-evident and inalienable
rights" which, it said, would have
to be settled at the proposed con
ference and specified that the na
tional agreements should not be
discounted in any way pending
the outcome of the proposed con
ference. It was suggested that the con
ference be held under the jurisdic
tion of the railroad labor board.
Included in the 12 points were
tbe basic eight-hour day. the
right of collective bargaining, the
right of each cratt to decide what
orRanization should represent 11
in any conferences with employ
ers and adjustment of "propei
pay' lor overtime;.
Sun Yat Sen New
President of China
HONOU'Ll'. April 7 The
Chinese parliament sitting at Can
ton has unanimously elected Dr.
Sun Yat Sen. first provisional
president of China' at the time a
republican form ot government
was substituted for the empire,
as president of he Chinese re
public." bays a dispatch received
from Canton. Chiua. today by the
Liberty News, a Chinese newspa
per here. .
REGISTERED Ml
u,
S, Truck Held Up
Cincinnati Railroad
Station
At
CINCINNATI, O, April 7: -Four
men in an automobile to-?
nisht held up ?. I'nited States
postoff.ee mail trueit near the
west end station of tnw Baltimore
and Ohio railroad here. Several
po'ii he:; of registered mail were
taken.
The truck v. as followed from
tbi railroad station by ati utomo
blk tn reaching an alloy, two
bandits boarded th truck, band
cufld the two postoffic drivers
to the steering wheet and secured
the mail bags.
Pedestrians hearing the shouts
of the. drivers summonen the po
lice. It was imposible tonight to
aaccrulg thg amounj pi loot,
1
BAGS HUE TAKEN
OF HARDING
v.hert a very artistic little "ftand
had been built to accommodate
those who were o participate in
the ceremony and the one j wh'J:
held the centar of all attractions'
for this occasion.
Some place, on the stand' thus
erected, was built or installed it
telegraphaphone (maybe IjhaV
gotten mixed up in the exact title
of this instrument) which tran.i
mitted the sound of the suman
voice for a long distance, so; that
for the first tim in the history;
of inaugurals the voice o thi
newly-made president. In his ad
dress to his people after beinS
sworn into office, was hear!
clearly and distinctly by all' as
cembled there- and the number
was said to be at least 100.000 at;
this time some of whom were
seated or standing, fully 200!
yards distant.
Seven Inaugurals Witnessed
Large crowds do not ordinarily
mean much In Washington for
we are used to them, but! this
was the largest, probably, that
ever assembled on the plaza of tlm
capitoi and it was the same all
(Continued on page 2)
IS
II CITY JI
man Accused or rasjpng
Bad Checks in Several ,
Towns is Nabbed f 1
ft a
Andrew Mace, accused of pass
ing bad checks In Salem aggre
gating approximately $50, and;
other bad checks In different'
towns from Eugene to Hubbard,
is in the city Jail, having been
arrested late yesterday by Chief
of Police Mof fit after an. Inter
mittent chase of several days, -i
Most of the alleged bad checks
passed by Mace in Falem have
been of small amounts, according
to the chief, and among those
who have' been victimized! are
Weller "Tiros.. Rostein & Green
baum. the People's Cash store,
Hop Lee and George Sun.
Mace claims to have a farm
hear Hubbard. He has been un
der surveillance here for some
time and last Friday night ! was
arrested by Officer Elmer White.
He is said to have been In a! bel
ligerent mood and on the way to
the police station succeeded in
getting away. The officer fired
several shots from his revolver at
Mace, grazing his overcoat, ! but
the fugitive made his escape., Tha
overcoat was later found, appar
ently having been dropped be
cause it Impeded speed.
Chief Mof fit recsntly traced
him to Woodburn and Hubbard
and into the country near the lat
ter place, but Mace was about two
hours ahead of the officer.
Yesterday he was located at the
hngle residence at 494 iSouth
Winter street, but succeeded . In
dodging the chief temporarily.
Chief Moffit, however, intercept
ed hini as be appeared on South
Church btretrt and nabbed him.
It was necessary to handcuff
Mace to bring him to the station.
Mace is said to have passed
bad checks in Kucene, Corvallis,
Woodburn and Hubbard.
ARE INDIFFERENT
Apathy is Biggest Problem
Facing National
League
CLEVELAND, O.. April 7.
Rousing voters from tn apathy
and sloth of indifference is the
biggest problem facing the Na
tional league of women voters,
Mrs. Maud Wood Park of Boston,
chairman of the organization, de
clared today.
Members of the hoard of direc
tors anrl heads of departments of
the league are here to attencLcon
fe rences on unification of laws
pertaining to women, preliminary
to the second annual oonvestion
of the league Monday.
Giving the voto to women has
increased interest in protecting
the child in the home, made the
machine politician uncomfortable
a. i.l treated more general Interest
in government. Mrs. Park said.
.M.HIi POrrifKN RTOLK.V.
xn.UVAN. iml.. April 7.
Pundits t)day stole three register
ed mail pouches from the Chicago
ft Euktern Illinois railroad sta
tion here. Sullivan is the home
of Postmaster General Will H.
Hays. The amount of. the loot is
not known. The robbers' es
caped. . . . 'h
MICE
HELD
Ml
VOTERS
COMMISSION '
Him
TO PRESIDENT
(
Creation of Veterans' Ser
vice Administration Chief
In Recommendations For.
Ex-Soldiers.
NEW DEPARTMENT TO
HAVE DIRECTOR GENERAL!
Provision Provides Purchased
Of Needed Hospital I
Buildings
WASHINGTON, April 7. SeT
en recommendations, chief among.
them creation of the Veterans '
service administration, to take
charge of government relief work;
among ex-soldiers and to be head
ed by a director-general, respon
sible directly to the president, was
contained in the report submitted
today to President Harding by hla"
special commission investigating;
the care ot veterans.
Charles G. Dawes of Chicago, .
chairman, told the president he
believed that the recommenda
tions were sound. Early action
by President Harding is expected.
Recommendation No. 1 pro-
vldes for the new agency and gives -it
jurisdiction over the bureau of
war. risk Insurance, the rehabili
tation dlvison of the federal board
for vocational education and such
part of the public health srevice
necessary to care for dlsaMed vet
erans. It also asks that a director-
von ara 1 oaen m a ho vca arlrti fw 11
authority. ;
This provision would permit the
lease or purchase of necesary hos-
i i . i . .. . .
viuu.Duuuion.:
Care Is Suggested. - j
Care Is suggested In the fram-
lng of legislation creating the ad
ministration to avoid present In
consistencies." Request Is N made
that no statutory limitations be
placed on the director general as
to tne number and salaries of his
employes. , ' , isMfI
Number 3 says that pending en
actment of dew laws. Secretary of
uruers iu tue ueaaa or me duduc
u-i lil mua war nsa. oureaus, au
thorizing , the latter bureau to '
take charge of the public health
activities and personnel engaged
in providing medical care for vet
erans. The effect wonld be to con
wmauw b &4 VC7 v uiiicsiua UJAUCI VUf
head by executive order without
delay. . ' ;
The next recommendation pro
viae an immeuiaie extension ana
utilization of all government hos-
V.t,t III. I - - .1.1
lion of civilian medical services
as may prove practical.
Immediate Program. Asked 4
An immediate and continuous
hospital building program is asked
in the fifth recommendation which
suggests secretary Aieuon'a com
mittee on hospital sites be directed
to report concerning the type and
lut-auou wi mo ouiiaings. n aaas
that appropriations should' be
made available by the congress
which convenes Monday. .
Tue sixth called for exertion of
humanizing. Influences to impress
the sick and wounded . with the
fact that the nation la entirely
a v.a v vi i u v va- as a
habituation
! The last asks immediate use of
the $18,600,000 appropriated by
the last congress for new hospi
tals. Organization Is Imperfect
"It cannot be too strongly em
phasized." the report says, "that
the deplorable failure on the part
of the government to properly care
for the disabled veterans is dua
largely to an imperfect organiza
tion of governmental effort. There
is no one in control of the whole
situation. Independent agencies
by mutual agreement endeavor to
Co-ordinate their action, but In
such efforts the joint action is too
often modified by" minor consider
ations and there is always lacking
Complete co-operation.
" The summoning of this com
mission by you is an answer to
the country that you are convinced
:pt the vital nature ot this problem
and that you are determined to
secure a prompt and effective so
lution. The man to whom this im
portant mission is entrusted by
you will receive the wholehearted
and enthusiastic support and co-
Operation ot all veterans and all
other patriotic Americans. No
sabinet officer or assistant secre
tary burdened with other duties
should be the one to whom the
tnan charged with the welfare ot
the disabled saviors should report.
He should report directly to the
president. : r-. "-4gv
The report was submitted as the
snanimous agreement of the com
mission and Brigadier General
Sawyer, tbe president's personal
representative on the 'commission.
M.XI.TKS AUK rOSTPOXKI).
: PA HIS, April 7. In the sen
ate today Leon Bourgeois, as
president of the league of nations,
said the league had postponed ex
ecution of all mandates until It
etmld consider the question raised
m the subject by the - United