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THE INDEPENDENCE N-DERRKISE, INOEftBNPEMCE, OREOON.
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WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
COMPILED FOR BUSY READERS
Events of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
Portugal has issued an official white
book explaining its entrance into the
war.
A North Dakota farmer is frozen to
death in the blizzard that swept that
etate Sunday.
Germany claims to have taken 200,
000 Roumanian prisoners during the
campaign in that country.
Mrs. Alice Bennett of New York,
106 years of age, died recenly after
the first illness in her life.
The U. S. Supreme court has upheld
the so-called blue-sky laws of Ohio,
Michigan and South Dakota.
The Bethlehem Steel corporation has
declared a stock dividend amounting to
200 per cent, aggregating $30,000,000.
A large cougar visits the outskirts
of Hood River, causing a young lady
to faint when the two met. The ani
mal escaped.
The mayoress of Umatilla, Oregon,
has issued invitations for a grand in
augural ball to be held in that city
February first.
One thousand dollars damage is
asked of a Surety company and a po
liceman of Astoria, Oregon, for the
death of a Russian spaniel dog.
President Wilson plans to visit the
capitol three times a week to urge
completion of his legislative program
before adjournment of congress.
Another big shipbuilding contract
has been awarded a Portland concern.
Two vessels are to be built said -to be
the largest of their kind in the United
States.
A report from Buenos Aires states
that the German raider, - which sank
several vessels in the South Atlantic,
has been sent to the bottom. No de
tails are given.
The New York daylight-saving com
mittee's plan to advance the clock one
hour during the five months beginning
May 1 has been approved by the Amer
ican Federation of Labor.
Japan is facing an internal crisis.
Opposition to Count Terauchi has
opened a vigorous campaign on the
ground that the cabinet was formed in
violation to the spirit of the constitu
tion. Franz Bopp, the German consul at
San Francisco, convicted of violating
the neutrality of this country, has
been sentenced to two years at Mc
Neil's Island federal prison and fined
$10,000.
President Wilson addresses the sen
ate on the question of permanent
peace. This is the first time in a hun
dred years a president of the United
States discussed foreign relations be
fore that body.
The Budden overflow of the Three
Forks river at Butte, Mont., and the
descent of mercury caused the overflow
to freeze over a square mile of terri
tory, including the railroad tracks of
the Northern Pacific. All trains have
been halted until the ice can be re
moved. Potatoes ' are selling at $50 a ton in
Tacoma.
The Bull Moose party and Prohibi
tionists are reported about ready to
merge.
Baker, Oregon, is having a coal
famine, with the thermometer crowd
ing zero.
Sherman L. Whipple, of Boston, a
Democrat and a noted trial lawyer, is
invited by the house rules committee
to act as counsel in the peace note leak
investigation, which, it now appears,
will extend deeply into Wall street
stock manipulations.
The Canadian contingent on French
soil make a successful raid on the Ger
man trenches and sweep 1000 yards
of line, taking 300 prisoners.
Change of name of the Danish West
Idies to the "Dewey Islands, " in honor
of Admiral Dewey, was proposed in a
joint resolution introduced by Repre
sentative Allen, of Ohio. Mr. Allen
announced that he was submitting let
ters to President Wilson and to the
foreign affairs committees of congress
urging the change.
LONDON ROCKED BY BLAST
Huge Munitions Plant Wiped Out by
Explosion, Killing Many.
London A portion of the area of
London was shaken teverely Saturday
night when a chemical plant in which
munitions were manufactured was the
center of a series of explosions, scat
tering death and destruction over a
considerable section of the district in
which the works were located.
There is no evidence that the explo
sion was other than the result of a
fire, such as that to which any factory
is sbuject. Between 60 and 60 bodies
have been recovered.
In 10 hospitals on Sunday 21 persons
died, and there were 112 patients re
ceiving treatment, Lloyd's Weekly
says. In addition, 2G5 persons sutfer
ing from injuries were treated.
The central point of the volcano-like
upheaval was in the heart of the work
ing district of a suburban town. At
6:45 p. m. a series of explosions sud-
Russia's "Sacred Devil,"
Who Was Assassinated
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CRgQORV ' RASPUTtff
The National Guardsmen on the
Mexican border are soon to be returned
to their respective homes, according to
report.
The American aviators lost in Mex
ico for over a week are reported killed
by bandits. Indians report seeing
their dead bodies 20 miles norhtwest
of the head of the Gulf of California.
The increasing number of automo
bile exhaust asphyxiations has prompt
ed the bureau of mines to issue a
warning against operating automobile
engines in small garages with doors ;
Gregory Rasputin, called the "Sa
cred Devil of Russia," whose influence
over the royal family, particularly the
czarina, became obnoxious, was quietly
assassinated by several relatives of the
czar and high officials, lie was one
of those strange mystical characters
who have floated through all Russian
history. Rasputin had gained Buch
power over the royal family that it
was feared he would interfere serious
ly with the conduct of the war. At
any rate hejnterfered with officials of
such importance that the Russian po
lice fear to prosecute the men who
killed him.
denly transformed the works into a
fiery furnace and great masses of
burning liquid and timbers and red-hot
iron were hurled high in the air.
Mingled with the deafening crash of
beams and girders were cries from the
working people. An adjoining flour
mill, in which a number of women and
girls were employed, was engulfed.
The explosions were only the centers
of a succession of widespread series of
fires, as the masses of firebrands from
the affected quarter settled down on
surrounding areas. Added to the ter
ror of this upheaval was the sudden
darkness in which the entire quarter
was plunged.
Blizzard in East is Worst in
Years; All Traffic is Hindered
St. Paul The worst blizzard since
1908 raged over Southern Minnesota,
Western Wisconsin, North and South
Dakota and Northern Iowa Sunday,
with slight signs of abatement. No
loss of life has been reported.
Fifteen inches of enow fell here dur
ing the day. All railroads running in
to St. Paul report trains many hours
late, and on trains from the South Da
kota district indefinite reports are giv
en, ruerre, bouth Dakota, reports all
trains have been cancelled until the
storm abates.
Information received here indicate
the storm was the heaviest in the
South Dakota territory, where tele
phone and telegraphic communications
have been seriously hampered.
British Propose to Lease
Merchant Ships of Greece j
Athens The cabinet Monday dis-
cussed at length a British proposal to
lease the Greek merchant marine. It
was decided to take measures to assure
the retention of the number of ships
necessary to provide the foodstuffs
which Greece requires.
According to a high official, two
considerations already have put Greek
shipowners in the hands of the entente,
namely, coal and insurance.
The latter, it was pointed out, might
be secured in the United States, but
the former, according to this authority,
was sufficient to induce owners to ac
cede to the proposals of Great Britain.
PRESIDENT ADDRESSES
SENATE ON PEACE
Wilson Desires End of War in Europe Without Victory to
Either Side-Would Extend Monroe Doctrine to All
Nations -Freedom of Seas Advocated.
Reaches Port Riddled by Shells.
New York A battle between the
British freighter Lindenhalt and a Teu
tonic submarine in the Mediterranean,
with nearly 300 shots exchanged be
tween the two craft, was described by
officers of the Lindenhalt upon her ar
rival here Monday from Naples. The
freighter came in so severely shelled
that she looked as though she had been
in an explosion. Twenty-six shots
from the U-boat hit her, and one
of the shells still protrudes from
the woodwork above the steward's
WASHINGTON, Jitn. Whether th
United State shall enter a world pes
league ami, as many contend, thereby
Abandon Its traditional pollcy of Isola
tion and no entangling alliances, win
put squurely before. Congress and the
country today by President Wilson In
a personal address to the Senate.
The full tost follows:
Gestlmrn of the 8nnie; On the 1Mb
of December Inst I aiUtreeeeti an Identic
note to the ovramenti of the nations now
t war requesting them to atnte more defi
nitely thsn hud yet been stated by either
group of belligerents the terms upon which
they would deem It poMlhle to make peat.
I spoke on behalf of humanity and of the
lights of nil neutral nntlos like our own.
many of vinos most vltst Interests the war
puts In constant Jeopardy.
The central powers united In a repty
which stated merely that they were ready
to meet their antagonists la conference to
discuss terms of p?ace.
The entente powers have replied murh
more definitely and have stated la generel
terms. Indeed, but with sufficient definite
netts to Imply details, the arrangements,
gunaniees end acts of reparation which
they deem to be Indlapensnble conditions
of a satisfactory settlement
We are tnat much nearer a definite dis
cussion of the pence which ehall end the
present war. We are much nearer the die
cuMiim of the international concert which
must thereafter hold the world at peace. In
every dlscuBston of the peace that must
end this war It le taken for granted that
that peace must be given by eorae definite
concert of power which will make tt virtu
ally Impossible that any aucb catastrophe
should ever overwhelm us again. Kvery
lover of mankind, every sane and thought
ful man, must take that for granted.
I have sought this opportunity to addreea
you because 1 thought that 1 owed It to
you, na the council associated with me In
the final determination of our International
obligations, to disclose to you. without re
serve, the thounht and purpose that have
been taking form In my mind In regard
to the duty of our Government In these
days to come, when It will be necesanry
to lay arresh and upon a new plan the
foundations of peace amontr the nations.
It Is Inconceivable that tho people of the
United States should play ti part In that
gre.t enterprise. To take part In such a
servlco will be the opportunity for which
they have sought to prepare themselves by
the very principles and purposes of their
polity and the approved practices of thulr
government ever since tho days when they
set up a new Nation In the high and hon
orable hope that It mlht In all that tt
was end did show mankind the way to lib
erty. They cannot, In honor, withhold the
service to which they aro now about to
be rhillenged. They do not wish to with
hold It. But they owe It to themselves
ani to the other nations of the world to
state the conditions under which they feel
fraa to render It.
That service Is nothing less than this
to add their authority and their power te
the authority end force of other nations to
guarantee peace and Justice throughout th
world. Such a settlement cannot now be
lon postponed. It Is right that before I
cones this Government should frankly
formulate the conditions upon which It
would feel Justified In asking our people to
approve Its formal and solemn adhereace to
a league for peace. I am here to attempt
10 stare tnose conamona
The present war must first be ended: bu
wo owe It to candor and to a lust resard
for the opinion of mankind to say that so
tar as our participation in guarantees
future peace Is concerned It makes a great
ueai or umerence in vtnat way ana upon
wnat terms It Is ended. The treaties and
agreements which bring It to an end mm
embody terms which will create a peace'
inai is worm guaranteeing and preserving.
a ieace tnat win win the approval of ma
kind; not merely a peace that will serve
the reveral Interests and Immediate alms
or rne nations engaged.
We shall have no voice In determining
wnai mose terms enau oe, nut we shall, I
feel sure, have a voice In determining
wnerner iney anaii ne made lusting or not
by tho girantees of a universal covenant
ana our judgment upon what la funds,
mental and essential as a condition nn
dent to permanency should be spoken now,
uor. anerwaras, wnen it may be too late.
DiO covenant of co-operative peace that
uoes not include the people of the new
world can suffice to keep the future safe
against war, and yet there is only one sort
01 peace tnat the peoples of America could
join in guaranteeing.
The elements of that peace must be the
elements that engage the confidence and
satisfy the principles of the American Gov
ernment, elements consistent "with their
political faith and the practical convictions
which the peoples of America have once
tor au emDracea and undertaken to defend.
I do not mean to say that any American
government would throw any obstacle In the
way or any terms or peace the governments
now at war might agree upon or seek to
upset intra wnen made, whatever thev
might be. I only take It for granted that
mere terms of peace between the belliger
ents will not satisfy even the belligerents
tnernsei es.
mere areemenis may not make peace
sure, it win ua ausoiutejy necessary that
a force be created as a guarantee of the
permanency of the settlement so much
greater man tne force of any nation no
engaged or ar.y alliance hitherto formed
or projected, that no nation, no probable
comomation or nations, cou d face or with
stand It. If the peace prs-sontly to be made
is to enuure u must n a peace made secure
oy tne organized major force of mankind.
The terms of the immediate peace agreed
upon win Determine whether there Is
peace 01 wnicn such guarantee can be
cured. Tho qucuLiun ujion which tho whole
tuture peace and policy of the world da.
pends is this:
js tne present war a struggle for a Just
and secure peace or only or a new balance
of power? If it be only a struggle for a
new uaiance or power, who will guarantee,
who can guarantee, the stable equilibrium
of the new arrangement? Only a tranquil
Europe can be a stable Europe, There
mum uk, iiul a uaiance of power, but a
community of power: not organized rlral
ries, but an organized common peace.
Fortunately, we have received very ex
plicit assurances on this point. The states
men of both of the groups of nations now
arrayed against one another have said In
terms that could not be misinterpreted that
it was no part of the purpose they had In
mind to crush their antagonists. But the
implications of these assurances may not
be equally clear to all may not be the
same on both sides of the water. I think
tt will be serviceable If I attempt to sot
forth what we understand them to be.
They Imply first of an that it must be a
peace without victory. It Is not pleasant
to say this. I beg that I may be permitted
to put my own Interpretation upon It and
that It may be understood that no other
interpretation was In my thought. I am
seeking only to face realities and to face
them without soft concealments. Victory
would mean peace forced upon the loser,
a victor's terms Imposed upon the van
quished. It would be made In humiliation,
under duress, at an Intolerable sacrlflcs
and would leave a sting, a resentment, a
bitter memory upon which terms of peace
would rest, not permanently, but only as
upon quicksand.
Only a peace between equals can last;
only a peace the very principle of which
Is equality and a common participation In
a common benefit. The right state of mind
the right feeling between nations, Is as
necessary for a lasting peace as Is the Just
of vexed questions of territorv
settlement
or of racial and national allegiance.
SCHOOL WORK SHOWS WELL
Oregon Pupils Rank First in U. S. in
Regularity of Attendance.
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Thiit tho public ivhoolH of Ort'Koii
httve inmlo much proKr" during tho
punt two yt'iir In Known by tho biin
niul rt-port which Imn junt btnw IsHticd
by SiiorinUmdtMit of l'ublic Instruc
tion, J. A. Churchill. Tho rc(,Hirt con
tain nearly ono hundred mitw
deals with mitny plume of kcIiooI
work. Superintendent Churchill ha
briefly noted thfi principal linen of
pronrcH, in the following word:
"A Humtnnry of the work of tho
public schools of Ore con during tho
pBt two yenrit shows UiHt KubBtnntlitl
progrew! in beintf mude. Kvery your
tho Httoiulitnco of tho pupil has bo
come more reRuUr until Orem now
rnnkii firBt in tho United State in reg
ularity of attendance in tho rurl
schools. There is growing Intereat
in tho imluHtrUI club work, nd tho
number of children who rnrry their
projects through to a KWceHsful ter
mination is incrcKHing each year. To
uho tho words of n county Kutwrlnteml
cut: 'Tho pupils aro not only learn
ing to do things tind acquire right
hHbits, but they aro learning to pro
duct) und nmko things at h profit.'
Tho Mtiimlardizittion of tho country
schools is doing much to Impnwo tho
work of that institution, ami whilst
there are still many rural hcIukjIh that
have not yet met all of tho require
ments for standardization, tho iiumlier
that have done so is increasing from
year to year. The work of tho high
school has been greatly strengthened
through meeting the requirements of
tho State Hoard of Kducution relative
t liltruri.ttj unit .itln.r awl II i lilni.n r
grout highways of tho si-its. Where this , , '
cannot be done by tfce rraslon of territory, I IH etqH'Clally true of the fllllUUT hlgll
It can no doubt be (lore by the aeutrallsa- i i imhiiv i,t uhirh bain lirtiv
tlo.i of direct rights o w ly under the grn- I St nools, many of W TIH tt flKVU lltf. Itv
loro mm almost no equipment, or ap
paratus with which to do their work.
Tho high school tuition fund law,
which was passetl in lttlS, is making
it (HMible fur thousand of pupils to
attend high school who would other
wise be denied the opportunity. That
tho increase in -attendance due directly
to this law has been phenomenal, is
shown by tho fact that in Homo high
hcIiooIh the number of students has
doubled. The county superintendent
of ono of tho large counties of West
ern Oregon report that tho high
school attendance in his county has in
creased 128 per cent since tho passage
of tho high school tuition fund law.
Among tho other features of progreHB
should bo mentioned tho gradual in
cruu&e in tho requirements fi- certifi
cation, which mean more thorough
preparation on tho part of teachers
and better teaching; tho stimulated
interest in supervised recreational ac
tivities, which has led to tho improve
ment of playgrounds and tho installa
tion of play apparatus: an improve-
The equality of nations upon Which pears
must be founded. If It Is to last, must t
an equality of rlnlits, Hit guarantees e
changed must neither rciogniae nor Imply
a difference betoen big nations and small,
between those that are powsrful and those
that are weak. Uight must be based upon
th common strength, not upon the Indi
vidual strength of th nations upon wlioss
concert peace will depend. Equality of
territorv or of resources there, of course,
cannot he. nor any olhor sort of equality
not gained In th ordinary peaceful and
lriiillin.no development of th peoples
themselves. Hut no on asks or especis
anything mors than an equality of rights
Mankind Is iooklii now for freedom of
life, or for equipoise of powsr.
And there Is a deeper thing Involved
than sven equality of rights among organ
lied nationa. No peace can last, or ought
to last, which does not rscngnls and ac
cept th principle) that governments da
nvs all their Just power fiom the consent
of the governed, and that no right any
where enats to hand peoples about from
sovsrelgnty to sovereignty as If they were
property.
1 take tt for grantsd. for Instance, If I
may venture upon a slsgl aampl. that
statesmen everywhere are agreed that there
ahonld be a united. Independent and auto,
omoua Poland, and that henceforth In
violable security of llfs, of worship and of
Industrial and aonlal development should
be guaranteed to all peoples who havs lived
hitherto under the power of governments
devoted to Xalth aud purpos hoatlla to thlr
own.
1 speak of thl not because of any desire
to emit an sbstraot political principle which
has always been hld very dear by thoes
who have sought to build up liberty In
Amirlra. bu. foi th unit ron that 1
have apoken of the other condition of peace
which eem to me clearly llidlepensahle b
caaee I wiett frankly to uncover realltie.
Aay peace which does not recognis and
accept thl principle will Inevitably t up
set. It will not rest upon n affection or
the conviction of mankind. The ferment
of aplrlt of whole populations will fight
subtly and constantly sgalnat it. and nil
the world will sympathise. Th world can
be at peace only If Its life la stable, and
there can be no stability where ih will
Is in rebellion, where ther Is not tran
quility of spirit and a sense of Justice and
fte-dotn and right.
So fnr a? practicable, moreover, every
great people now struggling towards a full
development of Its resources snd of Its pow
ers should be assured a direct outlet to tho
era! guarantee which will aacur the peacs
Itrelf With a right comity of arrangement
no nation need be shut sway from fiee ac
ecus to the open paths of the world's com
merce. And the psths of ths sea must alike In
law and In fact te free The freedom of
the seas la ths sine qua non of pence,
equality and co-oprratlnn. No doubt
somewhat radical reconsideration of many
of the rules of International practice hith
erto sought to bs established may be nec
essary In order to ninke the eas Indeed
free and common In practically all clrcum
stnnces for ths use of mankind, but the
motive for eruch changes Is convincing and
comiielllng. There can be no trust or In
timacy between the peoples of the world
without them.
The free, constant, unthreatened Inter
course of nations Is an essential part of the
process of pcacs mil of development. It
need not be difficult to define or to secure
the freedom of the sens If the governments
of the world sincerely desire to com to an
agreement concerning It.
It Is a problem closely conscted with the
limitation of naval armaments and the co
operation of the navies of ,he world In
keeping the seas at once free and sate. And
the question of limiting naval armaments
opens the wider and perhaps more difficult
question of tho limitation of armies and of
all programmes of military preparation.
Difficult and delicate as those quostlons ars
they must be faced with the utmost candor
and decided In a spirit of real accommoda
tion If peace is to come with healing In
Its wings nnd come to stay.
Peaes cannot be had without concession
...ririn. Th.,. .i,H ... .. r, ..... ,t
safety and equality among the nations If I ment in the stylo of school Itrchitec
areat preponderating armaments are hence- j furt, embodvino- Imth ntilitw nn,l
forth to continue here nnd there to be built I '. l'",hynK ooi.fl Utility anu
oeuuty; and, nnaiiy, a bolter commun-
BERLIN PLANS S!E(i
OF BRITAIN BY f
Formal Notice to Be GivO
Neutrals; Feb, 1 is Daf
THIRIYNEW SUBMARINES Ml
All Ship to He Hailed, and KiM
Contraband la Found on Hoar
To Sink All Armed Vraaela.'
Now York Germany will de
deep sea barrier around the Itr
Isles, beginning February 1.
news Is brought to New York b
passenger arrlvinjj from liritn"
Baltic port on tho I'hlladolpll'i
the American, and tho Ilaltlc, ifl
White Star linn. Monday,
samo versions of tho nw plana r.
German admiralty. r
Tho deep sea barrier will P'
trolled by 30 submarines of theM
type, all of which have been la m
in tho past two months and an,
ablo of a f.OOO-milo cruising radii.,
cording to three Americans, tra'
from Germany. &l
A noto will bo aent by the r
(Hiwers to all neutral nations, s-,
them of Germnay' decision, iuiw
tho noto went on February 18,
which received Mr. Wilson' f
reply in return demanding trf'
eouiitahility, from Germany f(.
American life placet! in jcopardy.Ol
This newest "danger xmie" -North
Channel, which sejmrateiW
land anil Scotland; St. George' h
nel, lietween England and Ir
and the entrance to tho Knglish
nel.
, All allied vessels, whether cal"1
contraband or not, will bo t
their crew ordered to take
ship's Uials and tho veanel inime1
ly sunk. '
Tho submarine which will
this newent r.ono have a upee..0
knots on tho surface and 12 knoty
merged, it was said by the Ameiui
who asserted that they had tho h1
German authority on Misstate1
Each submarine will ojK'rato In
mile radius, and will 1ms held rel,
hlit fur anu ultii4,1 merchant
"J
which slip past into an allied
Kuch submarine i to bo txj ,
with six torpedo tube, two ra
gun mounted foro and aft, bor9
ing chamber and a largo sui'
bombs, mines and grenades. Thr'
fuepo ill I ft! ,-1 . t i u I nt.a t,. IbV-
m j n vi iii. mi. i'i i inioim iu m
weeks without revictualing.
In tho case of neutral vessel'
1
da
ing through the war noiio their c
fit
will be examined a previously sv
1
up nrrd maintained. Vhs statcsmea of the
world munt plan foi pence and nations must
adjust and accommodate their policy to It
as they have planned for war and mad
ready for pitiless contest snd rivalry. The
question of armaments, whether on Innd or
sea, Is the moat Immediately and latnnsely
practical question connected with the future
fortunes of nations and of mankind.
I have spoken upon these great mattsra
without reserve and with the utmont ei
pllcltness because It has seemed to m to
be necessary If the world's yearning do-
alre for peace was anywhers to flsd free
vol? and utterance. Porhaos I am the
only person In high authority among all
the peoples of ths world who Is at liberty
to cpeak and hold nothing bnck. I am
speaking as an Individual and yet I am
speaking, also, of course, as the responsible
head of a great government aad I feel con
fident that I havo said what the people of
the United States would wisn me to say.
May I not add that I hops and believe
that I am In effect speaking for liberals
and friends of humanity In every nation
and of every programme of liberty? I
would fain believe that I am speaking foi
the silent mass of mankind everywhere who
have as yet had no place or opportunity
to speak their real hearts out concerning
th death and ruin they see to have come
already upon the persons and the homes
they hold most dear.
And In holding out the expectation that
the people and Government of th United
States n join ths other civilized nations
of the world In guaranteeing the perma
nence of peace upon such terms & I hav
named, I speak with the greater boldness
and confidence because it Is clear to every
man who can think that ther Is In this
promise no breach as a nation, but a ful
fillment rather of all that we have nro-
fesped or atrlven for.
I am proposing, as It wers. that the na.
tlona should with one accord adnnt thu
doctrine of Prealdent Monroe as the doc
trine of the world; that no nation ahonld
seek to extend Its policy over any other na
tion or people, but that every people should
be left free to determine Its own policy. Its
own way of development, unhindered, un
threatened. unafraid, the littls alone: with
tho great and powerful.
I am proposing that all nation han.
forth avoid entangling alliances which niii
draw them Into competitions of power, catch
mem in a not or intrigue and selfish rivalry
and disturb their own affaire with infin.
encee Intruded from without. There la no
entangling alliance In a concert f nnv.i.
When all unite to act n the same sens
and with the same purpose all act In th
common Interest and ars frs to live their
own lives under a common nrotectinn
I am proposing government hv h.'
sent of the governed; that freedom of the
nternatlonal conform. . ...
conference representatives of th United
States hav urged with ths eloquence of
those who are the convinced disciple of
liberty; and that moderation of armaments
which makes of armies and navies a power
" umieiy, nui an instrument of ag
greBBlon or of selfish violence.
ity spirit, duo to tho work of the
Parent-Teacher association and kindred
organizations."
they aro currying contraband, ?
too, will bo sunk, their crows.
having taken to tho lifeboats. ft
It in umlerntood that Germs?
r iri-tiu r i nir u nuui Hut . f u Its
inese are American Drlnclnlea irr,.ri...
policies. We can stand for no others And
they ars also the nrinclnle. .r,A -.u-i
of forward looking men and women every
where, of every modern nation, of every en
lightened community. They ere th prlu
clp es of mankind and must prevail
Pershing Sends Supplies Out.
Juarez, Mex. A Mexican courier
arrived here Monday night from Casas
Grandes with an official message Bay
ing 161 motor trucks of the American
expeditionary forces left Colonia Dub
Ian Sunday for Columbus, N. M.. load
ed to the top with camp equipment,
supplies, ordnance stores and excess
baggage. After ten months and seven
days in the field, General J. J. Per
shing's outpost troops were moving
toward field headquarters Monday, pre
paratory to withdrawal of the punitive
Miners' Case Appealed.
Washington,. C. Litigation in
volving claims of $1,283,000, treble
damages, under the Sherman law,
againBt the United Mine Workers of
America by the Coronado and other
Arkansas coal mining companies, was
appealed to the Supreme court Tues
day. President White and other union
officials asked review of Arkansas
court decrees permitting prosecution
of the union, and asked for a writ of
prohibition against further proceedings
Would Make Every Oregon
School House a Civic Center
In his biennial report to tho legisla
ture Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion J. A. Churchill highly commends
the law making every Oregon school
house a civic center. In discussing
this subject Mr. Churchill says:
"In 1915, the state legislature en
acted a law making every public
scnooihouse a civic center, under the
control of tho district school board,
where the citizens of tho district may
'engage in supervised recreational ac
tivities, and where they may discuss
any and all subjects which in their
judgment pertain to the educational,
economic, artistic and moral interests
of tho citizens.' Lighting, heating,
janitor service and the services of the
supervising officer when needed, may
be paid from the public school funds
of the district.
"The pansago of this law has done
much to open the doors of our count rv
schoolhouHos to the church, the Grange,
the Farmers' Union, and tho Parent
Teacher association. Because those
buildings were erected primarily for
the use of the schools, their uho has
frequently been refused for any other
purposes, in spite of the fact that a
building for public meetings is greatly
needed in every rural commnnitv on,i
the schoolhouses aro used for school
purposes only five days in tho week
and then for not more than from six
to nine months in the year. Thus
many thousands of dollars' worth of
public property has been standing idle
a large part of the year and many peo
pie have been denied the social and in
tellectual pleasures which aro so
greaiy enjoyed in the country districts
This economic waste will hQ
done away with through tho passage of
of
IT) I
tac
co,
nit
tne
tides, which will bo In effect a
as the new note is Rent to neutral
is believed that large quantit
foodstuffs, as well as other neceV
of life, will nppear tin this new
traband list.
Allied merchantmen similar t
British steamer Ahorleau, which C
Friday for Southampton via fl-'
with a steel gun turret, to have rill
inch gun mounted for offerniv
well as defensive, warfare, 'i
considered as an armed cruiw
will be sunk on sight, it is said. ut
Twenty-Fve Thousand Guards- JJJ
men on Border Ordered Pr
n
xy,
this law providing for the use
Bcnooinouses as civic centers.
Three Budgets Are Uncut.
Sulem Lands involved in the seven
Hyde-Benson cases, which have been
on trial in seven Circuit courts through
out tho state, are of immense value
according to a statement made by At'
torney Generul Brown before the joint
ways and means committee. One
small tract, he said, was worth $24 -not),
and tho total cruise on the timber
alone more than $400,000. To lose
tliese lands would mean on im .
estimable loss to the state, he said in
makl"g a P'ea to retain all his budget
Washington, I). C. More then
"' i iNaiionui guardsmen, now o ij
Mexican Uirder, havo been dcsiKj,,
by Major General Funston fur rg
home and muster out of the Fe
service. All these orgnnizationHjn(j
be started homeward ns booh ant j
pnrtation facilities can he provide,.
Their departure will leave be'egi
45,000 and f.0,000 men of the Uoi
still in the Federal service doirer
der patrol. a
War department officials contin y
withhold comment on reports thsg
movement of General Pershing's mb
lars out of Mexico soon will be i0ui
way and the statement announcinjboi
guardsmen designated for relief he
not connect theso orders witlind
withdrawal plans in any way. f
i
Palestine Doctors Dying. I
New York Cholera and typhungj
claimed so many victims amonfrjc
physicians who have been figv
these epidemics in Palestine that 0 n
of the villages have lost theif0r :
medical men and in the cities fews
sicians remain to cope with the feet
uon, according to a statement 'rial
public here by Hadassah.'the worare
Zionist organization in America, lefli
conditions in Palestine were deBfhat
in an appeal for $75,000 and a "nim
unit to be dispatched to the affin tl
country without delay.
Kiss Rewards Governor,'. 'jp,
Cheyenne, Wyo. A resoundin?!nar
implanted on the executive lips. i
view of a number of persons asfl?ovc
to witness the governor's actio'"1 1'
the reward Mrs. John B. Kefres
gave Governor Kendrick Saturfeiali
signing the bill submitting problem
to the people of Wyoming. lote
The bill provides for a votanil
be taken in 1918 on the adoptrm
prohibition amendments to the)"'