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Secretary Weeks has sold li is house
in Washington, D, C and liis friends
bald he would live in an apartment
when ho returns to Washington.
Mrs. Irene Henry, 22, of Ontario
Cal., died Sunday of injuries suffer
ed when the sudden side jerk of a
roller coaster ear in which she was
riding tossed her out over the trestle
framework to the pier 40 feet below
The prince of Wales, who is spend
ing a few days hunting game, Satur
day killed a blue wildebeest, describ
ed as the largest of its kind ever shot
in Southern Khodosia. It brought the
prince unstinted congratulations from
hunters.
Christian Zauner, 70, first and only
keeper of the Westport lighthouse,
will soon end a 40-year vigil on the
north Pacific coast. The veteran
lighthouse tender will be retired on
pension July 31 after 40 years of con
t InuoUl service.
Fire, which originated in the shoot
Ing gallery of White City, an amuse
ment park on the south side of Chi
cage, Sunday created a brief panic
among the crowds of patrons and
swept one side of the place for a loss
that may total $50,000.
Luscious ripo plums lured David
Cassolope. ft, over a fence into the
back yard of Frederick George Pabst
in Los Angeles, where a plum tree
stood. Tbo boy died here last night
from gunshot wounds and Pabst is
belli In custody for the shooting.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mayo of Ya
kima, Wash., were Friday night driven
Indoors by a swarm of 1000 or more
insects that attacked them and hum
med about as though they were boes,
about an Inch or a half-inch in length
Mayo reported today to the county
horticulturist.
Art critics have fallen out over
plans for renovating und refitting the
White House. With a small initial ap
propriation available, officials in
charge are starting to give the Inter
ior the air of a colonial mauslon. The
program was mapped out by Robert
W. Deforest, head of the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art.
Search of the ruins of the Hotel
Dreyfus, Boston, that collapsed curly
Saturday while a holiday party attend
ed by 111 persons was in progress
continued, with the known dead at 12.
Many persons escaped, hut searchers
believed other bodies will he found.
The five s! ory building was occupied
lii' the Pickwick club.
Com ment Ing on tho debt situation
the MoHsaggoro asks at what rate of
exchange should Italy be called on to
repay her debts. It argues that It
would be absured to demand (he rate
prevailing when the loan was made
because Italy received neither the
American nor the British loan In dol
lars or sterling, but in raw material.
The French government has decid
ed to send a iniHsliin to the I'nlted
States with the object of reaching an
agreement with the American debt
Funding commission relative to pay
ment of France's debt. The plan wus
approved by the council of ministers
Friday, und It is taken for granted
assent will be given by the cabinet.
The Dulled States Is being violent
ly attacked by the Brussels news
papers in a series of editorials for
"cornering llelgium" us tho paper al
lege, "Into recognizing the war debt
In order to flout a $100,000,000 loan"
and also for "trying to collect a debt
which the Belgians expected t.i le
c harged to Germany under the Vcrsntl
les treaty."
Dr. W. D. Muson. veterinary sur
geon, and Uiwrenee Bowman, of Chat
tuuoogu, Tenn , who have been the ob
ject of a search by n large posse since
their mysterious disappearance on Sig
mil mountain June 23. were found
hand cuffed und chained to a tree at
10:. "10 o'clock Sunday morulng by Jlui
Thomas, a mountaineer. Both men
were in a serious condition due to
their long exposure and Insufficient
nourishment Mason and Bowman said
they were set upon by five hooded
men. carried off and chained to a
tree. Each night they were blind
folded and removed to another place,
they stated. This, It is believed, pre
vented their discovery.
Washington, D. C. Indications were
given Monday that the treasury anti
cipates little difficulty in arriivng at
a finding settlement on the Belgian
debt. Acting Secretary Winston of the
treasury, as secretary of the Amer-
ican debt commission, has reserved
from August 5 to August 16 in which
to talk with the Belgian commission
and has notified the French ambassa
dor here that the commission could
meet with the French representatives
in a funding conversation either be
fore or after the period set aside for
the Belgians.
It now apears that the debt com
mission officials have private advices
warranting the belief that the Paris
commission will come to Washington
ahead of the time which has been
indicated in press reports.
The earliest date on which the
French has been expected was in Sep
tember, but the announcement that the
embassy here had been informed of
the program of meetings with Secre
tary Mellon, the chairman, Mr. Win
ston and other members of the com
mission now here and, the time they
will be available gave rise to the be
ef that other information was in the
hands of the treasury. Questions on
this phase of the debt situation were
neither affirmed nor denied.
Officials concerned with the debt
problem are much more optimistic
now about the probable results of
their efforts to get the foreign powers
to act on the debts. While none of
them believe that all the debts can
be worked out. in funding settlements
immediately, it was evident that they
believed the Belgian move was sin
cere and that they expected to reach
an agreement with that nation in a
short series of conversations.
i'lie officials here, however, denied
having any information as to the char
acter of the terms to be proposed by
the Belgium), but were convinced that
a few talks with them would clarify
iny differences that may bo found to
exist.
Heat Kills 6 in Chicago.
Chicago, Six deaths and several
prostrations were attributed to the
leat in Chicago Monday when the tem
lerature mounted to 9G at 4 o'clock,
(he hottest July fi in Chicago since
1N74. It was not the hotteBt day this
year, however, as the mercury went
to !IS last Saturday. A violent thunder
storm Struck the city about 9 o'clock
and reduced tho temperature.
Chicago. The most disastrous July
I week end In recent history resulted
In a total of 170 deaths throughout the
ountry, 29 of that number being in
Chicago and vicinity.
Child Killed by Sister.
Marsh field, Or. Delpha May Dout-
hitt, daughter of Mrs. Charles Donni-
son. who was shot Sunday by her six-
yearold sister with a .22-caliber rifle,
was buried Monday. The parents had
left a baby In care of the children with
two rifles in the house. Mudellne, 6,
was offended when Delpha slapped
the babv.
The shut went through the five-
yearold child's heart, killing her instantly.
CONFLICT FUTILE,
SAYS PRESIDENT
Peace Covenants Held Hope
of Europe.
PLEDGE U.S. SUPPORT
Mr. Coolidge, mi Historic Cambridge,
Commons, Urges Nations to
Get Togother.
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Ignorance Costs Rights
San Francisco.- In connection with
the nat uralization examinations here
Monday. Federal Judge Putridge ask-
d Nicola Samar.ich, a Serbian,
What happened on July 4, 1776"
"I don't know," replied Suniurzich.
I wasn't there."
Citizenship was denied him, at least
until he learns what significance the
Fourth of July has.
Truck Pins Man Four Days.
Kingman. Ariz. After lying for four
lays pinned beneath an overturned
truck on un unltvqiicntcd road f0
miles from here. John Hull, 60, was
brought to a hospital here and phy
sicians said that he probably would
recover.
Hall lay for four days without food
or water and suffering from a broken
ullar bone. A neighbor found him.
Mr. Coolidge Sits Up.
Plymouth. Vt. --Colonel John C. Cool
idge. the president's father, who a
w. ek ago underwent an operation, sat
m his front porch for un hour and a
half Sunday and enjoy-d himself by
watching tourists.
He got out of bed for his lunch
ami then walked to the porch.
Six in Auto Drowned.
Bock Springs. Wyo. Six persons
were drowned nt Hay Junction. 12
mill's north of here, lute Friday nfter
noou when the automobile in which
hey were riding wus . aught in u flood
resulting from a cloudburst.
Wind Storm Kills One.
Kl Puso. Texus Due man wus kill
ed, two buildings were blown down
uud considerable damage was done to
fnrm outhouses when a wind storm
sine k Carnitine. Texas late Monday.
Cambridge, Mass. Near the spot
Where George Washington took com
mand of the continental army, Presi
dent Coolidge called on the nations
of Europe Friday to enter into mutual
covenants for their mutual security,
pledging the moral support of the
American government if they do so.
"While our own country should re
frain from making political commit
ments where it does not have political
interests," he declared, "such cove
nants would always have the moral
support of our government and could
not fail to have the commendation of
the public opinion of the world.
"Such a course would be sure to
endow the participating nations with
an abundant material and spiritual
reward. On what other basis can there
be any encouragement for a disposi
tion to attempt to finance a revival of
Europe."
The president's address, delivered
on historic Cambridge commons, was
the feature of the celebration of the
150th anniversary of the day Wash
ington assumed command of the con
tinental troops.
After tracing Washington's achieve
ments and praising his character and
Services, Mr. Coolidge asserted that
the nation's first president had
"demonstrated by his argument and
our country has demonstrated by ex
perience that more progress can be
made by competition than conflict.
'To agree quickly with our adver
sary always pays," he added, continu
ing:
"I want to see America assume a
leadership among the nations in the
reliance upon the good faith of man
kind. I do not see how civilization
can expect permanent progress on any
oilier theory.
"If the people of the old world are
mutually distrustful of each other, let
them enter Into mutual covenants for
their mutual security, and when such
covenants have been made let them
be solemnly observed, no matter what
the sacrifice.
"They have settled the far more
difficult problems of reparations;
they are in process of funding their
debts to us; why can't they agree
on permanent terms of peace and re
establish international faith and
credit?
"If there be differences which
cannot bo adjusted at the moment.
If there bo conditions which cannot bo
forseen, let them be resolved into tho
future by methods of arbitrotlon and
by methods of arbitration and by the
forms of Judicial determination.
"The world has tried war with
force and has utterly failed. The only
hope of success lies in peace and Jus
tice. No other principle conforms to
the teachings of Washington; no other
standard is worthy of the spirit of
America; no other course makes so
much promise for the regeneration of
the world."
The president, in n touring car with
the top down, headed a lengthy parade
through cheering lanes of people.
In the reviewing stand Mr. and Mrs.
Coolidge were Joined by Governor Ful
ler of Massachusetts, Mayor Qulun of
Cambridge and Mayor Curley of Bos
ton. One of the f0 bands participating
played "Lord Geoffrey Amherst," the
school song of the president's nlma
mater. This brought a smile from
the president.
The president went from the re
viewing stand through a tremendous
press. of people who swarmed to get
a glimpse of him. to the nearby speak
ers' stund. He was introduced by
Mayor Quinn after n short pageant
commemorative of the event being
celebrated.
Immediately after his address the
president returned to Swampscott.
I STATE NEWS
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La Grande. According to figures
just compiled by E. A. Sayre, county
school superintendent, six Union coun
ty high schools showed an enrollment
of 922 pupils for the year of 1924-25.
La Grande. At Imbler, Or., a blue
fox of the Perry fox farm there had
such a large family that she was forc
ed to neelect some of them, so iwo of
the little fellows were given to a caf
to care for.
Eugene. The big hall recently com
pleted by the Mount Vernon local of
the Farmers' union, two miles east of
S"pringfield, was destroyed by fire at
an early hour Saturday. Te origin of
the fire was not determined.
Neskowln. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mc
Cormick and two children of Oregon
City narrowly escaped death early
Friday when a tree caught and held
their automobile after it had fallen
nearly 300 feet from the road off
Fletcher's point. ,
Salem. The state board of control
has rejected bids for the construction
of a new heating plant at the state
tuberculosis hospital and ordered the
work done by day labor under the
supervision of Tom Davis, engineer at
the hospital. The estimated cost is
$8000. ,
Salem. Frank Meredith of Salem
has been appointed by the state board
of control as accountant for the board
to supervise the new system author
ized by the 1925 legislature to make
uniform the systems of all the state
institutions and bring them into one
office.
Eugene. The University of Oregon
now has a total of 4947 alumni, ac
cording to the directory soon to be is
sued by the alumni association. A
complete survey of all alumni and ex
students, with their present addresses
and occupations, is included in the
book, which contains 160 pages.
Sweet Home. Arthur Jorgeson, who
lives near the river, has won the race
this year in oat stalks, as far as , is
known. He has on display oat stalks
measuring 1 inches in diameter and
five feet high, which are far from
maturity yet, while his mother dis
plays a lily with 19 blossoms on one
stalk.
Salem. Humors that O. L Mclntire,
superintendent of the state school for
the deaf, and bis wife, who is matron
at the institution, are to resign were
denied at the school Friday. Reports
have been current that the two were
to leave the Oregon school for a posi
tion Of greater remuneration else
where. Harrisburg. Construction of the
bridge across the Willamette here
again is going on unimpeded after sev
eral days' delay due to trouble encoun
tered in keeping water out of the steel
cofferdam around pier No. 3. Before
the water could be pumped from this
pier it was necessary to drive a wood
en cofferdam about the steel one.
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Japanese Have Air Bomb Test.
Tokio. -A three-day air-bombing ex
ercise recently'was held over Tsujido,
a suburb of Kanguwu. Two planes
were employed, each carrying 3S
bombs weighing 300 to 400 pounds.
The object of the exercise was to
study various relations between the
reaching point of bombs thrown from
airplanes, and the speed as well as
direction of the winds, also to Improve
bomb throwing devices aboard flying
machines.
Albany. -Fall grain is now being
threshed in Linn county. Dan Nof
ziger of Tallman, started his thresh
ing outfit on fall grain Friday. Al
though the bulk of the fall crop is not
yet ripe enough to thresh there are
many crops waiting for the binders
and by the end of this week the har
vest is expected to be well under way
Boseburg. A suit against Roy D'
Autremont. who is being sought as a
fugitive charged with murder in Con
ner! ion with the mail holdup at Siski
you two years ago, was filed in the
circuit court here Friday by the Mu
tual Life Insurance company of New
York, the complaint being signed by
Alma 1). Katz, the Portland manager.
Salem. - The recent action of the
state board of control In raising the
salaries of Dr. R. E. Lee Stelner and
Dr. W. D. McNary. superintendents of
the two state hospitals for the insone.
from $3000 to $4000 annually has now-
given the board the delicate problem
of meeting similar demands from the
superintendents of other state insti
tution.
Salem. In Hie administration of the
farmers' relief fund created by the
1925 legislature requisitions for
harvesting, sacking and threshing of
grain will be given preferred claim,
it was announced Friday by the state
board of control In letters to ware
housemen, attorneys and citizens com
mittees charged with the detailed ad
ministration of the fund.
Salem. Registration of foreign ve
hicles in. Oregon during June totaled
12.659. lacking' 2274 of equaling the
total registration for the five preced
ing months of this year. From Janu
ary 1 to May 31. inclusive. 14.933 ve
hicles were registered in the state.
Portland reported the third largest
registration of any city in the- state
with 1165 for the month of June and
3445 for the first six months of 1925.
The National Education association
in Indianapolis voted Friday to hold
its 1926 convention in Philadelphia.
TF A MAN strolling on the sidewalk
) espies the shell of a nut, the
chance inny be that he will turn aside
to step upon it that he may hear It
crunch beneath Ids weight.
A vague pleasure conies to him as
the shell cracks and gives way to the
pressure of his foot; un odd conscious
ness of power which for the moment
tickles his pride and possibly causes
him to expluim to himself as did little
Jack Horner In the nursery rhymes,
"Oh what a big man am 1 1"
From the time of Herod, this type
of man has bad much to do with the
unhapplnes8 of the world, Its sobs
and tears, Its divorces. Its industrial
strifes and wars. It is tills sort of
man that likes to oppress, to wield ills
lists and ply the whips.
He delights to humiliate men by
compelling them to submit to his rro
gance and presumptuous mastery.
He has no sympathy for the men
and women whose backs art bent un
der burdens, who uncomplainingly are
doing the world's work, building
homes, rearing families, planting trees,
tilling the soil, guiding the looms and
forging steel.
Being the embodiment of selfish
ness, dictatorial in all his communica
tions and dealings with his fellow kin,
he has no hesitancy In crushing be
neath his bard, cruel beeli everything
and everybody that comes In his way.
He does not stop to consider that
he, too, in ail probability may meet a
similar fate. That as be measures It,
will In the day of final reckoning be
measured unto him, even to the last
mite.
He Is too busy and finds too much
satisfaction and profit in crunching
the shells on the sidewalk and, inci
dentally, in crushing hearts and wreck
ing lives.
The little fellows must seek cover
when he conies strutting down the
street, else he may turn suddenly
aside when he meets them to step
upon them, simply to hear the delight
ful crunch !
Like a hawk, he is ever watchlm;
for prey, ever ready to tear and de
stroy, that he may be better fed, be
come more powerful and more gen
erally feared.
If a boy or girl should show signs
of developing these strange human
traits, see to It that he or she Is
shown the error and led away from It
with utmost baste.
I by Mri'lur HmHUH Syndicate i
THE YOUNG .LADY
ACROSS THE WAY
j oAmong the
IpTABLES
STRANGE HUMAN TRAITS
GENERAL PERSHING
GENERAL JOHN JOSEPH PERSH
ING, military hero of .both the
United States and Europe, wus born
September 13, 18C0, in Linn county,
Missouri. He was rutlier poor, as a
boy, with an intense ambition to "do
something." This led liitn to take the
competitive examinations for West
Point, from which he graduated when
he was twenty-six.
Few men have had careers where so
much tragic misfortune bus gone hand
In hand With such brilliant success.
When lie wus embarking for work in
the Philippine und Moro campaigns,
he received word of the death of his
mother. He was no sooner started on
his honeymoon than lie bad a cable to
join Kuroki's army In Manchuria. And,
as he was starting out after Villa, In
Mexico, he heiird of the tragic death of
his wife and three of his four little
children In the fire at the Presidio, In
California.
General Pershing first served In
various Indian campaigns then In
the Santiago campaign, then In the
Philippines and against the Moros,
(whose language, Incidentally, he
learned). He was sent in pursuit of
Villa, and when it became necessary
to choose a leader of our expedition
ary forces, he was the man sent. He
has a face that seems stern in re
pose, like the fuces of most military
leaders, but with a quick, warm smile
that wipes out botli the stern expres
sion and the hint of sadness around
the eyes. He has a genius for taking
desired military positions with little
or no loss of men.
( by deorge Matthew Adinn.)
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The young lady across the wuv says
lyachiug uever will be blotted out un
til niob law Is strictly enforced.
( by McClnr. N.w.p.p.r 8ynJlct )
1PHO SAID
"Force is all-conquering,
bdt its vic
tories are shortlived."
TT WAS the realization of the idea
A here expressed that Impelled Abra
ham Lincoln to decide upon a plan of
reconstruction which had for its pur
pose the conciliation of the southern
states, following the Civil war. His
Plan which, had it been followed,
would have saved the nation those
terrible days which came ufter the
war of secession was neglected, how
ever, and partisan politicians substi
tuted their own plan when the as
sassins bullet had laid the great Pres
ident low.
Lincoln realized thut force war ,
had brought victory to the North, but
he realized also thut the victory would
he shortlived if it were not followed
up with a policy of generosltv and
fairness which would clinch the suc
cess achieved on the battlefield. But
his policy was not followed and the
I'nlted States experienced dark days
following the great strife.
Abraham Lincoln, as every lad
knows, was a poor boy and the son of
poor, almost Illiterate parents. The
story of how this lad. in rhe face of
apparently Insurmountable difficulties,
achieved sut-cess and secured a knowl
edge of English which mude It possi
ble for him to write one of the great
est bits of literature ever known to the
world the Gettysburg address reads
'ike u fairy story.
Lincoln was born February 12. 1909,
und died In Ford's theater, Washing
ton, by the hand of un assassin John
Wilkes Booth, the actor April 14,
His early life was spent on the
farm and his wonderful phvslque.
which enabled him to stand the strain
of four years of war. was developed
through the hard work of his early
ife. He was elected to the presidency
in 1800 and ngaln in 1804.
Throughout his administration Lin
coln adhered to a policy of abolition,
but made It second to his determina
tion to preserve the union. Wayne
D. Mc Murray.
( by 'J.ort. Htthw Advu)