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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1919)
WESTON' JLEAUKK WESTON, OREGON. FHIDAY. SEIT. 19. 1919 NUMBER 18 VOLUME 42 COAST TO COAST U. S. FOR lEAGUE MILLION! ACCLAIM WILION AS HI MltOI ACAOM THK LAND. FEW ASK FOR CHANGES Msjarlty PmI That Prastdsnf Quit net Ihsuld la Hld H Rsoarda Pact At Sur t Csne ken. (By ML Clemens Nawa Bureau) Abuard rreeldul Wllaoa'a Special Train from tba Capital at Washing ton to tba far Tarine eoaat the Prl dnt of tba United BtaUa baa Jour nryed on tba most unusual eipadltloa aver undertaken by a chief executive of tba nation. To dlaeuaa national questions, many . presidents have toured tba land; but Mr. wiiaon la laying before America a quwsuoa wnica enacts in wnoi world the qssstlon of whether or not we arc to join la the League of Na tional whether wa ara to forget our former laolatlon and ehare with the ether people of the earth the respon sibilities of maintaining civilisation and preventing, aa ba aays wa can do. walaaaA an at s s ' future warfare, Between the capital and the eoaat the preaident made Bfteea epeecbee and half a doses brief talks. All of 1MMA IUm 4 A ltl,M SeTeral mlllloaa bad the chance to aea ' l(,B o"""6' blm. and apparently everyone wanted river blgbwsy. , M sea htm. from tboae who thronged Mayor Uaker proclalmrd Monday the atreeta of the eltlea and towns morning a civic hnlf holiday, snd such where he stopped, to tboae who ceme Intense Interest wss manifested In the to the raltalde or etood at little flag visit of the prt-sldvnt that many bust atatlona In remote places, knowing B(M hou'ewere closed during tba thplr only. reward could be a fleeting corning. ' glimpse and a wave of the hand. Portland schools wore clossl through He baa met and talked to all types out h diy ,U(1 ,bt children were of eltlsena-to men big In the bu.l- h- itrM , 9lxtum ,h, Beaa. flnanclal and professional worlda, , ,n wnlcn IVp,ldwtlt wiiaon to farmers and mechanical workers, p' " , to Indians and cowboys and foreign- tn "" tlr.'.l born herder, and ranges to soldl.r. thronged with I . Porlnd and to motbers who lost soldier-son. astte admirers of Mr. W llson. Port nd la the late war. haa not turned out in aucb numbers Wbst do they all tell him? unanl- for any visitor, or sujr event, for years, raouily they say tbey want peaea Greater thronga were on the down- definitely aetlled. they want no more (own atreeta than on the day of tba ware, they want the League of Na- armistice. tiona, and moat of tba American peo- The president was greeted with pie, It may ba fairly aald, tell the Uiuuderous spplsuse as the parade Preaident they want the League just ,,,) ju ty through the streets of aa It la; without the reservations or ,n cHy, Th8 pPiua was genuine amendment, which certain .senator. 1(J wnol(, hearted. Everybody cheered, bay. InalsUd upon. The majority of pwtdnt bowed and smiled. Jn.r lie. ' " The president bad two opportunities than on thl. tour. during the day to discuss the league of Wood row Wllaon guided us rightly natlons. . During the noon luncheon, at before and during the war with Oar- wncn c, g, jackson waa host to" some many. Wa entered tbat war. every m cU,wnt Mr, Wn0n dwelt in a ona agreea, w ena an wara. no aajs tba league can do that "We want to do that, so let us keep on trusting him and get tha league into operation aa soon aa possible. Forget politics." ' Most Americana encountered on tba tour bava forgotten politics. Repub. llcan Governors and Mayor have In troduced tha Preaident to his audi ence; tha Major part of tha local com mittees which have met blm have been Republlcana. Tbey bava all said: ,"W. ara nothing but Americana, Mr. President." Mr. Wilson's argument tor tha league, briefly summarised, ara those: ', Thara can be o peace, either now or la tha future, without It. There can only be a regrouping of nations and a new "Balance of Power," which I. certain to lead to war. There can ba no war In tbe future, with tha league In axlstenco, because no single ; igton to get former soldiers, sail nation would defy tho united rest pt 9n ,nd nmrut,g ,,to the ranks of the mankind, and if It did, it could ba , , j,,,,. brought to term by an aconomio boycott, and without tho una of arms. There can b no reduction In tba L L"ln5 ?.8 irn'JLt so lauuvuvu. .vi ; ..--.v..- .v.. a -i.h iimi nroductlon uru tit tbey know tbst pesco Js deflnltely assured and that production or war material I. no longer necessary. Thara can ba wonderful prosperity, with ' lesgua In existence, tor rel- ationa of labor and capital all over tha world will ba made cloaer and mora friendly, and tha worker will r- cetva a fairer sham ot wbst ha pro- due. .. . Thesa declaration of tho president, logically and eloquently put, bava left bis bearer, thinking and thinking deeply. And then Mr., Wilson has pointed out, the people themselves, as differentiated from aenator. and polltl- clan, .earn to want Just what tha president want, which I America tor Quit a unusual aa tha purpose ot tha cross country tour I tho manner la which It I blng carried out and the completeness ot th arrange ment on th ulna car train which la bearing th party. At tba rear la tha private car May flower, occupied by tha Preaident and Mr. Wilson. Nsst la a compartment nr for I ha secrstery Tumuli?, Ad miral Cnyon, Mr. Wllaon'a Physl rlan, four stenngrt )'hra, tba chief rsscutlv clerk and ivn ferret aar. vlr man. Ilyond are, three l-ompart-went eara which homt twenty-one correspondents, Ave movie men. and a telegraphic and railroad evpert Than tbara la a dlnnar, a club par, and two bsggag eara, one of thara eon. .verted Into a business Offlca, Tba train wta xetly on time at every atop batweea Washington and tba CoaiL Idaho Es-Oevernor In fsnat Race. tol, Maho.Frank it. Gooding, governor and republican, baa served formal notice lhat ba will ho in tba rara tT United Htnles scnstor to take the seel now held by Sonator John F. Nugent, democrat WELCOKE TO WILSON AT -CROWN POINT Portland Declares Half -Holiday and Streets Thronged With President's Admirers. Portland. Or. Crown Point, on tba r-uhiniMa rlvi-r blahway. waa arlccted h Uct (or puon and wel- a come of Prrld-nl Wilson nnu nis party to Portland Monday. The president ami bis psrty were UkMt through the downtown atreeta, -.-hnu. Inik ou .h. .avanlsgea of tha league. At the auditorium in, tbe evening ha presented bla main argument to an audience of 7.000 citl sens of Oregon. ' In bis evening address, without tbe vestige of hesitancy. President Wil son ehargod that tho Inference of pol itics In liia advocacy of the league, tho hint lhat he may be iooklng tor ward to 1920, is utterly unwarranted and unworthy. If any In the audience, ho declared, imputed auch a motive, be desired to separata himself from tbat man. OREGON NEWS NOTES An intensive cauipairjn was opened In Portland by members of the Amcrl- Tho housing situation in The Dalle ba. become acuto. Many ot tho busi ness enterprises have bad to curtail their work, being un.blo to got help . .. Into the city. A large number of sheep have been orougni imo wuo snd the .Dumber now In tho county I. climbing back to what It wss four or fIve years Bg0, utsuteimnt Ed1" Everett Wilson, J8( ylce pro8l,ient 0f tho First National Rnk of Llnnt0Ui wag kmed at Car- ,n .vl.tlou feid near Fort Worth, Texas, while flying. Hearing of the application of tha Portland Railway, Light & Pewer com pany fur an increase of rates on It traction Hoes ha. been .ot for Mon- day. September 23. Miss Florence Engstrom. who has ,erVed as.atonographer In the office of Adjutant-General etarrin lor somo Ume, has resigned. She will euter the University of Oregon. . George E. 8aunders, indicted In tho Josephine county courts on a charge of atnbeiiteinent of $2281 from th Rogue river public aervlce corporation, waa acquitted at Cranta Pass. - UNCLE SAM WILL COBBLE IT GOVERNOR REFUSES TO REINSTATE POLICE Boston. Determination "to defend tbe aoverclgnty of Maasacbusetts" wsa expressed by Governor Coolldge In a telrgrsm sent to Ssmuel Qompors, president of the Amerlcsn Federation of Ubor. Tbe teligrsm was In repljr to one received from tbe labor leader in whkh Mr. Gompers asked the gov ernor to take "a broad view of the situation brought shout by tbe police men's strike." i Tbe governor told Mr. Gompers that tho sugiseetton of Preaident Wilson that ordure forbidding the pnllcerm-n of the city of Washington to affiliate with .the American Federation of I bor be held In abeyance pending the labor conference to be held at the White house on October ( did not spply to Bostou. as the Washington police bsd remained on duty. lUrltlng tho fsct hat 19 members of tbe Boston policemen's union bad been tried forylolation of the order sjtalnst arrillatlon and had been re moved, and that the places of the other strikers bad been declared vacant, he added: "I can suggest no authority outside the courts to (ske further ac tion." , The city has been restored to virtu ally normal conditions under the pres ence of the stale's military forces. OIL FIRE DISASTROUS SO Flam.8wept Acre. Reaemble War Devaated Districts. New York. More than ISO persons were injured and damage estimat ed st from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 re sulted from explosions of oil tanks at the fire which practically wiped out the Stone & Fleming Oil company's plant In Long Island city. The 20 acres of fire-swept territory looked like a scene in war devaststod France or Belgium. Tarfka were crump led up; huge ateei girders lay In a tangled mass, few walls were left standing, and buriilnsroll continued to flow along the surfuce of , Newton creek. . r - Soo Tha Leader for Butter Wraps. Jiggers, " i 'jn."i w TYTZs I " fr ; Ml . :;- "J AUTO SMASH KILLS . 2 IN WILSON PARTY Portland, Or. Two men were killed snd two others seriously Injured when an automobile In the middle of tbe president's procession on tbe return from Crown Point was wrecked. The two men killed wore Ben F. Allen, sged 39. Wsshlngton correspond ent for the Cleveland Plsln Dealer, snd a member of the newspaper party attached to the preaident'. special train, and James R. Pstterson, sged 66, a retired real eststa dealer of Portland. - Stanley M. Reynolds, correspondent for tbe Baltimore Sun, eufforcd a broken arm, a dislocated shoulder and cuts and bruise about the head aud body. k Robert Small, correspondent for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, was slight ly injured. Tha accideut occurred when Patter son swerved Into a ditch to avoid a collision with a car driven by C. 11. Barnett, auto dealer, from Wasco, Or. HOOVER NOT CANDIDATE Food Administrator Insists He is Not Willing to Run for President - New York. Herbert Hoover, upon bis return from Europe, declared In a statement that he was not In politica and had no Intention of seeking politi cal office. When told that his naine had been frequently mentioned as a possible candidate for president, Mr. Hoover said: "I am positively not a candidate and would decline to become one under any circumstances. I am not In poli tics." ' In regard to the league of nations Mr. Hoover declared that he stood by it "In Its present form or as near to It as can b obtained." He asserted that there was no hope of a return to normal conditions in Europe until tbe preaont uncertainty In respect to the treaty waa ended. Quebec Five masked men robbed the mail car of tho Ocean Limited Ex press of $75,000. ' D the Cop! I Jail aentence Given Tewnley Jackaon, Minn. A. C. Townley, preaident of the national non partlaaa league, and Joacph Gilbert, former or ganization manager, ware aentenced to three montba In Ibe Jackaon county jail here by Judge E. C. Dean, without aitcrnatire of fine. Townley and Oil bert were convicted here July II on a charge of conaplracy to teach die-loyalty. erehlng Raachee 6th Irthday. Washington) Saturday waa General Pershlog' ltb birthday. He waa born September 1J. U0. Almoet flgbUng bla way through bundreda of admirers ... . , , atberad at the war department, Geo- eral Penning ofMclally reported to Secretary Baker Saturday bis return from France. PRESIDENT ADVISED BIG STRIKE IS HEAR Labor Federation of Washing ton Makes Prediction and Presents Troubles. Seattle, Wash. Representatives of the Washington State Federation of Labor here Sunday laid before Presl- HI UV niWVH MWVI uvi.w v. Pacific northwest and pictured to him .tlulnr Uhnr unrMft. whleh thev U d would make difficult, if not impos sible, the prevention of a nation-wide strike on October I In sympathy for Thomas 3. Slooney, sentenced to life Imprisonment for San Francisco bomb outrage in 131. Specifically, the delegation asked.for an appointment to see the president to an appointment to see me preaioeni w present the esses of "political prison- ers." notably those of Mulct M. Wen Sam Sadler and Morria and Joe Pass. the latter brothere. all serving terma of two yeara for seditions conspiracy. For more then an hour the president discussed with the delegation the labor situation and suggested to them that organised labor should bury Its dif ferences with capital and do it utmost to prevent strikes until after the labor conference which be baa called to meet In Washington, October C. During President Wilson's visit to Seattle, local radicals walked the streets wearing badges reading "Re lease political prisoners." OREGON NEWS NOTES ,,, t Cottage Grove soon will have one of the most modern and best equipped garages In thst section of the state. More than 300 studeuta are now en rolled In the Pendleton high school, the largest enrollment It has ever bad. It was with considerable difficulty that rooms were found to house teach srs employed In the Roseburg schools. Aurora wants more water and has leclded to put down experimental wells on both sides of the Pudding fiver. All contracts for the Elks' four itory temple at Pendleton have been ilgned and work is well under way on ihe excavation. ' . Excavauon tortne p.ac ng o. m foundation for the women' building Excavation for the placing of the it the state university in Eugene baa en completed. William G-- McAdoo, former secre- ry ot the treasury, will be, one of h several notable to visit tho Ten Melon Round-up. The Linn couuty road bond Issue las been approved and plans are being :ompleted for tho sale ot the first Slock ot $100,000. McMtnnvlUo will hold a monster 'welcome-home" celebration for the e turned soldiers and sailors of Yatn itll couuty Friday. A government chemist representing the division ot hydration, United States department of agriculture, la jo be located In Salem. The Hood River apple crop, from present Indications, will approach ;lose to the government's mid-summer jsttmate ot 2,000,000 boxes. Forty accused bootleggers will b jtveu the special attention ot the Unlt d States grand Jury, which opened lesslons in Portland Monday. Miss Fthel B. Gibson, graduato ot he Northwestern college. Nap-jrvllle, ;il, has l-eea secured as librarian for he Grants Pass public library. Shinnients of cattle from Pilot Rock )f late have been so heavy as to ra- autre all the stock cars that can pos- iiblv be sent to tha branch line. The home of the late Supreme Jus tice Frank A. Moor at Salem Is to b Kld to a club of 4 Willamette unlver ilty men. The property will sell for A. F. L BACKS LIE SAVINGS WORK American Federation of Labor Will Retfh 3,000,000 Wage Lamm . Washington. D. C Raaolatlona be- Ing distributed by the American Fed- eratloa of Labor to more than K.J00 ' anlona and Ib-cgb them to " 1 , ' . , iZZ- w lb the organlsaMoa, eantaJa hearty . th oo---..- approval ef the Ooveraaient'a 11 thrift campaign. Believing thit W-jr 'avings Stamps offer a safs, sound snd guaranteed method for lavea'meut of aavtngs. tba annual convention of tbe Federatloa. assembled at Atlantic City, declared that It was as essentlsl to sttmulste thrift and saving It time of peace as In time of war. Tba adopt loo of the resolution by the certral body "f organised trade nniontam followed similar actloa by several State Federations of Labor. Tbe test ef the reeolntton, knewa aa Na 171. is as foliewa: "Whereas. Tbe war so happily ended bss required, ow people to de velop thrift and saving whkh to some degree ass stlmnlated freed era of actloa and Indepeadesee on . tba part of some wage earners: and "Whereas. It is essentlsl to stim- . . r . olste thrift and saving In time ef ,l m ... - P" " -irh.n.1 Th inaasnratioa at the national ayatem of War Savings and Thrift Stamps ha afforded to soma or small earnings a safe, sound and gusrsateed' method of Government In vestment -of thslr hard earned sav ings: therefore, be it "Resolved, That this convention do approve of tbe continuation and exten- --- on of the War Savings and Thrift Ns.ion. S'ng. institution akin Jb Md rt, hepful 0 ntegmti o,, ,ngt of th, tonig masses of our ,-UntrT." Thomas E. Burke, general secretary treasurer of the Units Stater Associ ation of Plumber and Steam Fitter or the United State and Canada, has promised his assistance in the, work of forming War Savings Societies, and has Iffvoked aid from other union officials. Mr. Burke In assuring the Govern ment of his cooperation, said In part: Tha labor Mrnnlsattons and fra ternal societies are a very fine medium thrnmh which to educate t'ae neo- nla of the necessity and usefulness of nnDortinz our aovernment and at UL same Urns helping themselves. ,v tb "Diqt. (Mt,r. ex plained to me wss that It Is tha In tsntioa of our govern meet to make War 8avlngs Stamps asd Thrift Stamps a permanent institution. Such action would be a very progressive one, and I believe would ba heartily acclaimed by all our cltlsaaa, especially the workers, because it would be In keeping with the great cooperative and democratic spirit thst now prevails throughout our great country. "From a psychological standpoint, it would be considered by tha masa of the people, especially tba wag earn ers, a great opportunity to partici pate in such a great function ot government It would bring the peo- nle and the Government closer to- -- 'ttvi times." y WS 1 . j-jnancial physician are warning a gainst the new disease which Is ap pearing In many parts of tbe country. They have named It "I'mthruensa." persons attacked by this disease uni formly utter th cabalistic words, 'The war ia over." and decline to take any further Interest In the nation'a affairs. No serum haa been discovered which can prevent the ailment but Investing regularly In War Savings Stamps and Registered Treasury Saving Certifi cate I a preventative a. wall aa a cure. - : I W 3 S- - 0JU5G0H MEWS ROTES A new Jail for the Umatilla county court bouse waa recommended by the grand Jury. i, The lumber industry ot the Cooe bay country i suffering as a result ot a car shortage. Earl L. Fisher, county assessor ot Linn county for the past seven yeara. has resigned. ' j Two babies were born m Portland during the month of August for every death that occurred. Truckers, flour packer and wheat handler employed in flouring mill of Portland went out on strike. The bond issue for tho construction ot a storm sewer srstem In Delias wss carried t a special election. The mint growers of the Willamette vslley pooled their mint oil for 30 dsy snd are holding out for $8 a pound.