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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1920)
EADER VOLUME 42 WESTON, OK1JGON, FU1DAY. JAN. 10, WJO NUMBER 33 ESTON UK A. CALLS BIG CONVENTION 2,000 Women Expected to Gath er in Cleveland the Week of April 13-20, 1920, for Na tional Convention. MEETING P0STP0NE0 TWO YEARS BY WAR Delegate Will DIkum New Member, hip Baals fer Student and Question f Future luppert for Werk. Many- Other Thing. .The Toting Women'a Christian A elation o( (he United H)ata of America will meet In national convention In Cleveland, O . the week of April 13 to SO, baring postponed I lie convention from the spring of 1019 In order lo comply with government request that expense and travel be reduce! to .minimum during the war. The department en convention and cea fereac! of the National X. W. C. A ef which Mra. Harry Emerson Koe dlrk l chairman, eailmatea an attend' a era of 2,000 women, representing all departments of T. W. C. A. work hoard w ember, sorretarlea, students, club girls, Olrt Reserve, glrta from In duatrlal Service Centere, women from the International Imtltatea for foreign bora women, ntvmvere from city, town and cetjBlrr Association, Each Aaeoclatlon In the United lltatea will be entitled to one voting delegate for every one hundred voting member In the Association. Tw of the mot Important question which will com np before the conven tion will be the membership Null and the question of aupport. Of old bul neaa to be considered the mnet Impor tant queetlon will be the membership baala for Undent asem-letton. the granting of charter membership privi lege to the Chicago Young Women' Christian Aaaoctatlon and a recomroen datlen providing an Increase In mem bership of I ho National Hoard of tha Association will lo ho prraented. Iter. Charles W. tlllkey. pastor of Myda Park IUptlt Cliurch, Chlego, will give aerie of morning addressee during tha convention week. Ir. Hob. ert K. Bpeer, aecretary to the foreign UlMlom Board of the Presbyterian Church, North, will alo give an ad dree. Mra, fipeer la chairman of the National Hoard of the V. W. 0. A. Tha convention will bo In elon morning and evening, tha afternoon being given over lo aectlnnal meeting held In varlou churche. Attendance I thee meeting will ha determined by group memherthlp and alao by ac tlvltlc. Mra. W. P. Harford of Omaha, Neb., will preside at tha opening esalon. having been elected a president at III laat convention of the Voting Women'! Cbrlallan Association, held In Lo An gale In 1013. The committee on business to come before tha convention hss for It chair woman Mra, John French and Includes among It member Mra. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Mis Ell llutler, (la ter of Nicholas Murray Butler, presi dent of Columbia University; Mis Martha McCook, Miss Mabel Cratty, general aecretary for the National Hoard of tha Y. W. a A., and Mr. Wil liam Adam Drown, all of New Tork clty. If you have been overlooked by tho census enumerator, It would be a good idea to vou are counted. make euro thnt N.,i ..nlv the irnv. trnment but this district Itself wants II the peoplo within its precincts en rolled. Assistance should also bo given tho enumerator by citisens gen erally who may know of thoso who have been overlooked. Hays Given Noisy Weleom. Ban Francleeo. Greeted by tha blowing of the great ferry alren and the welcome of a group of republicans of coast-wide prominence, Will H. Hay, chairman of the republican na tional committee, arrived hore with kla party Monday for a. series of con ferences with party leaders. Amerlea Hsfuses German Indemnity, Washington. The United Statea government ha refused to accept any part of Indemnity to be paid by Ger many for the destruction of the Ger man fleet In Bcapa Flow, because It objects In principle to the settlement made by the supreme council, It was said at the state department. i 1 " v "Flu" Hit Naval Camp. Chicago. A partial quarantine of Great Lake Naval Training atatlon waa ordared by Commandant Bassett, due to influenia. Between 150 and 175 esses, said to be mild, developed. PEACE TREATY IS NOW IN EFFECT United States Only Nation Not Now on a Peace Basis With Germany. Pari. The treaty of Versailles, making peace between Uormauy ami the ratifying allied power. was put Into effwi Haturday afternoon l.y the exchange of ratifies! Inn. The peace treaty now goes Into f fert a between Germany nml l ! power that have flnully ratified It -Great llrllnlti, France, Italy. Jiipuii, Belgium. Ilollvla, Brazil, liiiii(emn!.i, Peru. Poland. "Slam, Cxecho Hlovakl t and Uruguay. The fulled Ktatr alone of the "big fire" haa not ratified tho treaty. An the Mat shows, formal rut I fl- !"" have been given by inoal of the small' r powers signatory to the treaty. The outstanding comment on tli' ceremony waa that It left the United State the only power which w we lively at war with Germany not now on a peace bal. That waa the note sounded by Baron i.urt von l.erncr, head of the ti.rin.iii peace delegation. In a statement ft r the ceremony. "I am naturally happy that Pr" haa finally become effective." Ii" raid. -My groat regret la that the United Htale la the only country with which Germany la mill In a slate of war. I hope, however, that thl situation will aoon be changed." PROCLAIM MARTIAL LAW IN GERMANY Parla. Martial law ha been de clared throughout (JiTinuiiy with tho exception of Ilavarla. Saxony. Wuert temberg and Itaden. according to llor lln advices. Dispatches from llerllu say that dur ing the demonstration before tho relchstag building In llerllu Tuesday, two policemen wero killed and two are missing. Ten others wero wound ed. Twenty member of the crowd which atliiuiptod to runh Into tho buildiug were killed and forty wound d. Ilerlln. The government proclaimed martial law in ail sections of nermauy following tho mob demonstration In which at least ten persons were klllod and many others wero woundod by marine gun rtre irom guanis m mmi of the reirhstng building. (lustav Nnsko, tho minister of de fense, has boon appointed commandcr In chief for tho greater Ilerlln district and Brandenburg province. Street parades, meetings and demonstrations of all kinds bav boon prohibited. Tho mob waa organised by extrem ist as a protest against tho Industrial council's bill now before (he relchs tag. SEDITION BILL IS PASSED Act Provide 8ever Penaltlea For Ad vocating Overthrow of Government. Washington. An anil sedition bill. prescribing aevero penalties mr cm or propaganda advocating overthrow of tha government by force or violence waa passed by tho senate without a record vote. The measure now goes to the house. Maximum penalties contained In tho bill are a tine of $5000 and five years' Imprisonment, applying to all acta or circulating of literature In furtherance of forcible overthrow of the govern tnent The bill alao bar from the mails any matter advocating force or sab otage. Wilson Issues Call For League Council Washington. President Wilson Mon- day issued the call for the first meet lng of the council of the league nations to be held at Paris Friday The call was Issued In accordance with tbe terms of the Versailles treaty by President Wilson, whom the treaty makers designated for that duty. ' Albany Creamery association direct- tnu Inland -Empire Boat & Truck Will 8rv Term of Wlthycombe. org ma,iP a prtce 0f 74 cents for De- Iln0i which has filed articles of incor Balem, Or.Ben W. Olcott, by an fen,ber butterfat. the hlgheBt returns poratlon with the corporation depart oplnlon of the supreme court in the ti,e producers havo ever received from ment. The company, which Is capital case of the state, ex rel. G. M. Roberts oielr product. lied at $400,000, will maintain head- ...inli evtnnit will rutsln the office of governor through the entire une ,ml silverton will meet In triangular on the Columbia river from Portland nad Den ''"sea ana tnat appeared plred term of the late Governor Withy- debate on January 30 for tho open- t0 Pasco Kenuewlck. Wash., and above the snovv. the vines in many Eu combe. Dissenting Justices were Har- lnK SPr0S n the Oregon High School on th9 Willamette river from Portland Bene gardens and In fields throughout rls, Benson and Burnett . D The LcvHatlon Act :', JS"- OREGON NEWS NOTES Marshfli-ld bus lui epidemic of the mumpi The tax U-y for fial m for 1S"0 umoimi to ." iiiiIIh. Smitllpox bn broken oirt at Mnplo ton, on the lower Bluslaw. The rm:itil!ii county clerk In J?t9 pnlU out 50 in lxiuiitl a on preda tory miiutals. I maUlla county t;irtnl the ycr 1 y20 out of d lit nnd with n bnlauce la the treasury of t;;s.294 AO. II J. Newton bits resigned bis posi tion n futility clerk of lleiiton county to (in-HKe In private business. Arram;i lueiits have lx-c u completed entirely for die tiaimfer of the l.inn comity fair from Kilo to Albany. A special sihool election Is to le held at .Monmouth January 14 to de ride on a hluli school gymnasium. A chapter of the American Ansoila-. tlon M Kiiglneer was orKanlicd at Aslo(ta Willi 25 rhnrtiT members. A Young Men's t'lirlstlan Association was orK'snlied at Pendleton. John l-a.n-birth loatls the board of director. JIukc cakes of ice, many of them tho slip of a boxcar, are floattiig past The Dalles, a serious menace to navigation. The Dctchulea county court has en tiihllelnd a rinty library and will levy a one half mill lax for Its support. The opening of the Columbia river highway from Portland to the Des chutes river Is now a prospect for neM fall. With the opening lnt week of the Athena Stale bank, t'luatilla county now has 14 banking institutions in op eration. A shipment of 32 Instruments from the government for the use of the cadet baud was received at the t'nlvcrsl'y of Oregon. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. I.. A. Samuels were burnedto death In a fire which destroyed tho family home in Astoria. The state board of fair directors will ask the leglslnture for 110,000 to repair damages done lo buildings by the re cent heavy fall of snow. It. II. I'omeroy of the Oregon state fire marshal's office left for San Fran cIhco, lo attend tho national coufor enco of arson Investigators. Plans have been initiated by the Hood River county court for replacing flve wooden bridges with permanent concrete slnu'lurcs tills year. A $100,000 corporation bus been formed by lending cltlrena of Albany to do business under the name of the Merrill Lumber Shingle company. Woodhurn, with 5S.9 mills, and Mount Angel, with 22.7 mills, are the Marlon county towns having the high est atid lowest lax levies for the year 1920. Tho total enrollment nt Oregon Agri cultural college for tho year was brought up to 3230 Wednesday night with the registration of 311 new stu dents. A total of $162,000 is included for tho Indian training school at Clieuiawa In tho Indian appropriation bill, which .)MBfA tll0 hoU80 uf representatives Friday. Thirty-four counties of Oregon and 20 states are represented In the stu- dent body of the University of Oregon, according to the records of the regis- trar's offtce. q-t... 1,1. .1. ...linlo nr Alhnnv Snlem Debating league. v Q iii i i 'iri' Tho annual report of tne my rccora rr of North llend shows that 68 ar rest were made In that city In 1919. Of thla number 38 were for violation of the prohibition law. D. K. Richard, assistant professor r.f .nlm.l hn.hsn.lrv at the Oreeon Agricultural college, has accepted an appointment aa county agricultural sgect fur Lake county. The city council of Gold Hill has pasted an ordinance repealing and amending several license ordlnanc", which will lax nearly every business nd occupation In the city A peniian.nt organization to hnndlo matters affecting the cx service laen ef t'mstilla county Is planned by the American Legion posts at Milton. Wes ton, Pendleton nnd Ilermlstou. Itaker led all the counties of Oregon In the value of minerals produced In 1H19. It was followed by Grant. Inia- t Ilia, Une. Malheur, Wallowa, Curry and Wheeler In the order named. 0. 11. Gram, state labor commission rr. Is Investigating the contents of a Utter received from Senator S. A. Ilugliis. In which it was alleged that complaint bad been made that certain contractor on Oregon highways had violated the laws by making their em ploye work more than ciiiht hours. Bportsmen ol tho upper Hood river vslley have petitioned the Hood Hiver Game Protective association to spon sor a movement to have the upper reaches of Hood river closed to fish- ing until June 1. The two extra months of closed season are sought In order that the fish may not be disturbed while spawning. ' Professor C. A. Reed, chief of the bureau of nut Investigation of the de partment of agriculture, has promised Senator McNary that one of tho de partment experts will go to Oregon early In February to conduct a survey and Investigation of walnut and filbert culture, and that $1000 will, be set asldo for experimental work In that stnte. , To prevent the Invasion of cougars which have been seen lately in tho Eight Mile and Fifteen Mile diBtrlcta, the Wasco County Livestock associa tion at a meeting at The Dalles, took measures to rid the section of the ani mals. Hunters and trappers will be hired to kill tho cougars. Formerly cougars have killed much stock In cer- tain parts of Wasco county. Tho water supply of tha city of Cor vallis is menaced by logging operations in tho coast mountains in the vicinity of tho source of supply. To prevent tho drying up of tha streams that furnish the water strong egorts are being made to transfer quite a large area of the timber lands tn the Oregon California railroad grant to the Siu slaw national forest so that the laud will never ba logged off. There were 33 fires in Oregon, ex clusive of Portland during the month of December, according to a report prepared by A. S. Barber, state in- Buranco commissioner. Klamath Falls mitfered heaviest of any town In the state, the aggregate fire losses there for December amounting to $40,000. Total losses from fires in December showed a marked decrease when compared wtn those of the previous month, n,,, operation of boat lines on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, with truck lines as feeders. Is proposed by iM intlnnH and nnerat.e bonis J1 to Eugene. f v-. :..'4v-v y r DEADLOCK IN SENATE mm itujt dhuuh Suggestions Made and Ac cepted Believed to Prom ise Eventual Agreement. Waahlngton. Efforta to break the senate peaco treaty deadlock and keep the treaty out of the political campaign were advanced a Up when republican ntor advocating ratification drs up a counter propoal to the act of ctimpromUe reservation submitted to tb-m by a eroup of democrat. Tho republican proposal, to which It sponsor said Senator ldg had Klven tentative assent, ma understood to deal only with some of the collateral ltuc In the reservation controversy, leaving to future negotiation tho troublesome questions of article 10, and equality of voting power In the liarue of nations. Some of the democratic su?re!ons were said lo have been accepted, lu- eluding a change In the republican rea- ervatlon program of last a-ssion. o that tho aenate qualification, would not have to be accepted affirmatively by the other power. Agreement on these changes, however, waa under atood to be conditional on certain con cessions by democrats In regard to other reservations. The speech of Mr. Bryan at th! Jackson day banquet, which. In adll tlon to opposing any effort to carry the treaty Into the campaign, advo- rated the speedy compromise, was put Into the senate record by Senator Mc Cormlck, republican, of Illinois, after the president letter accepting his atand had been presented by Senator Hitchcock. Senator McCormick re quested that th- two "be printed in Juxtaposition Tn view of reports that they arc agreed on uie ireaij. NEW LIBERTY LOAN MAY BE NECESSARY Washington. Another liberty loan will be necessary If congress embarks on "new fields of large expenditures or reduces the aggregate volume of taxes," Secretary Glass declared In a statement setting forth the govern ment's financier condition. If the pres ent tax level Is retained and new ex- pPndltures are kept down, the turn has come In the tide of government finan cing, the secretary asserted. Although further Issues of treasury certificate of Indebtedness may be ex pected they will be redeemed thronca the sale of new Issues of certificates for the first time since late In 1917. As Indicative of progress made by the treasury Mr. Glass pointed to re ductions between September 1 and Jan- uary i jn the nation's gross debt and In the two classes of certificates of Indebtedness outstanding. The gross debt which on September 1 was $26, 596,701,648, was S25.837.078.807 on Jan uary 1, Benjamin 'Jay, 32, a farmer of Blach ly, in the Lake creek valley, 35 miles west of Eugene, was accidentally shot and killed by his nephew, Roy Reed, aged 23, while they were out hunt ing ducks on Lake creek. Receipts of the state treasurer's of fice for the year 1919 totalled $20,876, 401.80, while the disbursements for the same period aggregated $17,601, 603.74, according to the annual report of O. P. Hoff, state treasurer. The Roosevelt highway lobby will receive $500 from Coos county to de fray expenses of delegates who are to be sent to Washington to appear bo fore congressional committees and ask for adequate funds with which to con struct the road. To mako the pay for the work of census taking sufficient to insure a thorough enumeration of residents of the city, the Bend Commercial club di- reors aeclucu P ccm,8 "am,e """ lne alrea - fered by the government. Each' county school superintendent In Oregon was named county thrift di rector by J. A. Churchill, state supr Intendent of public Instruction. Mr. Churchill Is state thrift director and the naming of county directors will relievo him of considerable work. Notwithstanding alarming reports to the effect that the recent cold weather has killed the loganberry vines that Lane county are beginning to sprout y.W.C. A, PLANS vOHLD PROGRA Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, lrH Heads Association's 1920 World Service Program. S3,C00,000 NEEDED FOR WORK. Leader Calls Association a "Stabilising Influence" In Outlining Post-War Program for Women Federal Coun cil of Churche to Announce "Y. W. C. A. Sunday." Mrs. John l. Itockcfeller, Jr., chair man t the Nntion.il Educational Cam paign Commit ic e of the Ifrju World Service Program of (he Young Wom en'a Clirimlsn Association, haa made the following statement: "Since the war we are more than ever aware of the economic. Industrial, educational, social and relijlous dlffl- MRS. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, J 3. Chairman of the Educational Cam paign Committee of the Young Wo men's Christian Association. culties which beset the lives of girl " and women everywhere. In meeting the post-war needs of women tbe Young Women's Christian Association stands us an Instrument of service, -tested and proven by war, and organ ized to meet the manifold problems of peace. "Because of Its fifty odd years of ex perience in meeting fundamental prob lems affecting girls, the Young Wom en's Christian Association Is an organi zation particularly fitted to exert a stabilizing influence upon the troubled times through a consistent program of service for girls and women. "American women are asking bow they may share in the world's recon struction. They can do so by enlisting ihe support of their communities for this World Service Program, which will Insure to the world a healthier and bet ter womanhood. "Tills campaign of the Y. W. C. A. to tell the people of the United States about Its work and to raise $3,000,000 with which to carry on Y. W. C. A. work during lirJOSn the United Stntes, Europe, China, Japan, India, South America. Egypt, Siberia and Mexico will close the week of February 22 to JO, which will be known as T. W. C A. Week. "The Federal Council of Churches will probably set one Sunday as a time for ministers throughout the country to address their congregations on general conditions affecting women amWhe Young Women's Christian Association ns an instrument of service. "The immediate task Is to bring to the people of the United Stntes a knowledge of conditions affecting the lives of women in all parts of the world. We can no longer ignore the character, the manner of life and the ideals of other peoples, wljether we want to or not. A special call Is now coming to the Association from China, ' Japan, India and South America, where work was held back during tho vvnr because of the necessity for spe cial activity in France and the United Slates. "The World Service Progrnm cnlls for $1,500,000. Of this amount $1,500, 000 tins already been secured." The educational campaign commit tee Includes among Its members Mrs. Robert K. Speer, president of the Na tional Board of the Y. W. C. A.; Mrs. Henry P. Davison, Mrs, William Van V. Huy-es, Mrs. Robert L. Dickinson, Mrs. Wllllnm Adnnis Brown, Mrs. Van Sanford Meiie-Smith, Mi's. Lewis H. l.nphnm, Miss Ellen Ilale Stevenson, Mrs. Frederic B. Prntf and Mrs, Her bert Lee Pratt, The strength of Malheur county In a financial way was well demonstrated ' when the $100,000 issue of road bonds soldi at practically $104 for each $100 of five and a half per cent bonds. C ;W;.; h f
