I
AT
Peace Conference Accepts Pact
Without Change.
MOVE IS UNANIMOUS
Japanese and French Amendment! Are
Withdrawn After Brief Talks
Are Made-Wilson Felicitated.
Paris. The covenant of the league
of nations In revised form, moved by
President Wilson, was adopted Mon
day by the peace conference in plen
ary session without a dissenting vote.
The president's motion also named
Sir James Eric Drummond as secretary-general
of the league and pro
vided for a commlttoe to inaugurate
the league.
Thus one of the notable works of
the conference has passed its final
stage and is Incorporated In the peace
treaty.
The French and Japanese amend
ments after a brief discussion, were
not pressed and the way thus cleared
for unanimous acceptance of the
league,
Italy was not represented at the
session, but the name of Italy appears
as one of the members of the league
in the covenant as finally adopted.
Nine labor principles were adopted
for insertion In the treaty.
The session adjourned without con
sidering the report on responsibilities
providing for the trial of the German
'ex-emperor by five Judges from the
great powers. The report was handed
in by the council of four and embodies
in the peace treaty a provision for the
ex-emperor's prosecution. This, how
ever, has not as yet been adopted by
the plenary conference.
The session opened at 3 o'clock
Monday afternoon in the French for
eign office under circumstances of un
usual interest because it was to be
one of the last sessions before the
meeting with the Gorman delegates at
Versailles; that final action was to be
taken on some of the main features of
the peace treaty, notably the league
of nations, responsibility for the war
and" the trial of the German ex
emperor and others, and because im
portant labor clauses were to be in
serted in the treaty.
President Wilson was recognized at
the outset for a detailed explanation
of the new covenant of the league.
His speech was without oratorical ef
fect and confirmed the explanation of
the textual changes, and named Bel
glum, Brazil, Greece and Spain on the
league council and also on the com
mittee to prepare plans for the first
meeting of the league.
Baron Maklno, head of the Japanese
delegation, In a brief speech, called
renewed attention to the Japanese
amendment on racial equality. He said
that the race question was a standing
grievance which might become a dan
gerous issue at any time and an-'
nounced that an effort would be made
to have the principle of racial equality
adopted as part of the document.
WIRES TO GO BACK
TO OLD COMMAND
Washington, D. C The government
is preparing to relinquish control next
month of American cable lines and to
restore the telegraph and telephone
systems to private ownership imme
diately after enactment by congress
of laws necessary to safeguard prop
erty Postmaster-General Burleson, as di
recting head of the wire communica
tion service taken over as -a, war meas
ure, announced Monday he had recom
mended to President Wilson that the
cables be turned back forthwith, prob
ably not later than May 10. An hour
later the postmaster-general gave out
a statement saying he would recom
mend that the telegraph and telephone
Bervice be returned to private owners,
contingent, however, upon financial
protection 10 De ontainea from con
gress.
It was explained by Mr. Burleson
that no legislation is necessary In the
case of the cable company properties,
Extra Session Expected.
New York. Senator Lodge, of Mas
sachusetts, who passed through here
Tuesday on his way to Washington,
said he was convinced Preslder.t Wil
son would be compelled to call an
extra session of congress before July
due to the failure of congress to pass
necessary financial bills at Us last
session. Senator Lodge refused to ex
press an opinion on the revised text
of the league of nations covenant until
he had time to study it in detail.
LEAH
COVENAN
ADOPTED
III
LEAGUE HAS 32 MEMBERS
Kuvliii.'d Covenant Presented to Confer
ence With Muny Changes,
Washington, D. C The revised
covenant of the league of nations, as
It wan presented at Paris Monday to
the peace conference in plenary ses
sion was mado public Sunday night by
the stuto department. Its essential
features already had beon disclosed
through an official summary Issued
two weeks ago.
Attached to the text, however, is
the hitherto unpublished "annex" re
ferred to in the covenant, in which are
named the 32 stateB, including the
self-governing British dominions,
which are to be the original members
of the league of nations, and 13 states
to be invited to accede to the cove
nant. The original members are all the
nations which declared war on Ger
many, and in addition the now states
of Czecho-Slovakla and Poland.
Those invited to- become members
by acceding to the covenant are the
three Scandinavian countries, The
Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain and
Persia and the American republics of
Argentina, Chllo, Colombia, Paraguay,
Salvador and Venezuela. Mexico does
not appear in the list. Provision is
made in the covenant, however, for
the admission to the league of any
fully self-governing country which will
give required guarantees, upon a two
thirds vote of the assembly.
As in the original document, the
covenant provides that the league
shall act through an assembly, in
which each state shall have one vote
and not more than three delegates,
and a council, comprising for the pres
ent one representative of each of the
five great powers and each of four
other powers to bo selected from time
to time by the assembly. Members of
each class represented on the council
may be increased by unanimous con
sent of the council and a majority of
the assembly.
The text provides that nothing in
the covenant shall be deemed "to af
fect the validity of international en
gagements such as treaties of arbi
tration or regional understandings
like the Monroe doctrine for securing
the maintenance of peace." This was
the amendment for . which President
Wilson made a successful fight at the
same time the Japanese delegation to
the peace conference sought vainly to
have a race equality provision inserted
in the covenant.
Changes suggested in criticisms in
the United States senate add pro
visions for the withdrawal of a mem
ber after two years' notice and fulfill
ment of league obligations; exempt
domestic questions from the league's
jurisdiction; provide that mandatories
over German colonies or former Otto
man dominions shall be given only to
nations willing to accept them; leave
it to member states to decide what
armed force, if any, they will con
tribute to the force required by the
league to enforce its mandates,' and
make it clear that member states in
dividually will pass upon proposed
limitations upon their armaments.
With modifications, the new draft
includes all the provisions for the sub
mission to the council of international
disputes, for inviting no member na
Hons to accept the obligations of mem
bers for the purpose of adjusting dis
putes and for breaking economic re
lations or the use of armed force In
dealing with a state which has broken
the covenant.
Except in certain specified instan
ces, unanimous agreement is required
tor all decisions.
$3000 in Prizes Posted.
New York. Prizes totaling $3000
have been offered by the New York
Herald for competition In connection
with the second pan-American aeron
autic convention at Atlantic City next
month. One purse of $1000 is offered
to the aviator making the longest
cross-country flight Eight prizes of
$250 each are offered for the best rec
ord made during the meeting from
100-horsepower to 1000-horsepower
engines.
Camouflage May Be Kept.
Washington, D.C. Ship camouflage,
an art developed during the great war,
may be retained permanently as a
means of reducing the dangers of col
lisions between vessels. In war the
uamoufleur sought a design that
would puzzle German submarine com
manders, but now they must seek the
opposite extreme, a uniform design
which will emphasize and accentuate
the true course of the ship.
Faris. An appeal has been made by
the French academy that the official
text of the peace treaties to be nego
tiated and the covenants to be signed
shall be drafted in the French lan
guage. Paris. A project for an alliance be
tween France and America actually is
under way, the Echo de Paris says.
President Wilson, the newspaper adds,
Is withholding action until he can
place the matter before the American
senate.
STATE NEWS !
IN BRIEF.
Articles of Incorporation of the
Bank of Commerce, Astoria' proposed
new financial institution, have been
filed In the county clerk's office.
A wedding ceremony by long dis
tance telephone was a unique occur
rence in Ashland Sunday, when MIbb
Rose Thomas, a popular teacher of the
jtshland schools, became the wife of
Robert Throno, who Is located at Den
ver, Colo. . .
Judge Eakln of the St. Helens judi
cial district has handed down a deci
sion awarding the office of county
Judge of Columbia county to Martin
White, who contested the election of
VV. J. Fullerton, his opponent at the
November election.
When the state highway commission
meets in Portland on May 6 It will
open bids for $1,750,000 of the addi
tional road work In nine counties of
the state.
The city council, acting upon sug
gestions from the various councllmen
and voters of Sheridan, has announced
it will take up immediately the pro
posal to pave the unpaved streets in
Sheridan 'and gravel those that can
not be paved. Work probably will
start soon.
Commencement plans for the Ore
gon normal school at Monmouth are
rapidly being perfected. Dr. W. W.
Wlllard of Chicago, who is supplying
the pulpit of the First Congregational
church of Portland, has been secured
as baccalaureate speaker.
The numerous inquiries received by
Hood River sales agencies indicate 6ne
of the most active strawberry markets
In years. The Apple Growers' asso
elation has received offers of pur
chases from Ontario, Canada, and Chi
cago offers to take a part of the crop.
His chest crushed by a log which fell
from the top of a pile at Shevlln-Hlx-
on camp No. 10, Jacob Nyback, 32, an
employe of the company, died Thurs
day atternoon before tne train on
which he was being carried reached
Bend. Ho is survived by a wife and
two children.
reparation or a ballot title for a
constitutional amendment providing
for the single tax is sought in a peti
tion filed with the secretary of state
by the Oregon Single Tax league. The
petition was signed by Harry A. Rice,
president, and Mrs. Christina H. Mock,
secretary of the organization.
R. V. Wright, director of the agri
cultural department of the Hood River
high school, has termed the members
of dairymen's herds formerly dubbed
"star boarders" as "I. W. W. cows."
"They eat their heads off and do not
give any milk," says Mr. Wright.
"They are as undesirable as bolshe
vlsts." Equippedwith"a letter of introduc
tion to Harney county Btockmen and
aided by a very slight knowledge of
the English language, Pierre Forgeron,
17-year-old veteran of the world war,
arrived in Bend last week on his way
to Burns, where he has decided to try
"cow punching" as a means of-earning
a livelihood.
With the awarding of a contract by
the Astoria council for the widening
and paving of Astor street, the port
commission decided to proceed imme
diately with the extension of the Belt
Line railroad along that street so far
east as Tenth street- The commission
also Is securing rights of way for ex
tension to the site of the proposed
naval station.
At the meeting of the outhern Ore
gon Presbytery in Modford last week,
Rev. Boudlnot Seely of Portland pre
sented an encouraging financial report
and the announcement was made by
the home commission's committee that
every minister is to be assured a sal
ary of $1200 a year with free manse,
this being in increase of $200 over the
previous figure.
W. J. Patterson, a Portland broker,
with offices at 209 Selling building,
was arrested in Eugene by Sheriff
Stickels Thursday afternoon on a war
rant charging him with arson. It 4s
alleged that he set fire to 50 tons of
hay which he owned and which was
stored in a large warehouse at Alva
dore. The hay was destroyed by fire
on the night of April 8.
The high cost and scarcity of sugar
last year set C. G. Rush and sons of
Brownsville thinking, and they remem
bered the good, old-fashioned 'lasses
which they used to make back east
Accordingly, the Brownsville farmer
and his two boys thought it worth
while to try an experiment and see if
sorghum cane would not grow in Ore
gon. The experiment was more than
successful, as from their little patch
of oane they manufactured 35 gallons
of molasses, which wai so tasty that
the neighbors bought all that the mak
ers would Bell and called for more.
The Son of
Tarzan
By EDGAR RICE
BURROUGHS
Copyright by Frank A. Muniey Co.
CHAPTER II Continued.
Then the son of Tarzan skipped
across the room, slipped through the
open window and slid to liberty by way
of the spout from an eaves trough.
Mr. Moore wriggled and struggled
about the bed. Ho wus sure that he,
should suffocate unless aid came
quickly. In his frenzy of terror he
managed to roll off tho bed.
The pain and shock of the fall Jolted
him back to something like sane con
sideration of his plight. Where before
he had been unuble to think intelli
gently because of the hysterical feur
that hud cluimed him, he now lay
quietly searching for some means of
escape from his dilemma.
The best that he could do was to at
tempt to attract attention from below ;
and so, after many failures, he man
aged to work himself Into a position in
which he could tap the top of his boot
against the floor. This he proceeded to
do at short Intervals until, after what
seemed a very long time, he was re
warded by hearing footsteps ascending
the stairs, and presently a knock upon
the door. -
Mr. Moore tapped vigorously with
his toe--he could, not reply in any other
way. The knock was repeated after a
moment's silence. Again Mr. Moore
tapped. Would they never open the
door? Laboriously he rolled In the di
rection of succor. If he could get his
back against the door he could then
tap upon its base, when surely he must
be heard.
The knocking was repeated a little
louder, and finally a voice called, "Mr.
Jack!"
It was one of the housemen. Mr.
Moore recognized the fellow's voice.
He ciine near to bursting a blood ves
sel In an endeavor to scream "Come
in I" through the stifling gag. After a
moment the man knocked again, quite
loudly, and called the boy's name. Re
ceiving no reply, he turned the knob,
and at the same Instant a sudden recol
lection filled tho tutor anew with ter
rorhe had himself locked the door
behind him when he. had entered the
room!
He heard the servant try the door
several times, nnd then depart. Upon
Which Mr. Moore swooned.
In the meantime Jack was enjoying
to the full the stolen pleasures of the
music hall. He bad reached that tem
ple of mirth just as Ajax's act was
commencing, and having purchased a
box seat was now leaning breathlessly
over the rail, watching every move of
the great ape, his eyes wide In wonder.
The trainer was not slow to note the
boy's handsome, eager face, and as one
of Ajax's biggest hits consisted in an
entry to one or more boxes during his
performance, ostensibly in search of a
long lost relative, as the trainer ex-
The Man Stopped as Though Turned to
Stone. "Akutl" He Cried.
plained, the man realized the effective
ness of sending him into the bos with
the handsome boy, who doubtless would
be terror stricken by proximity to the
shaggy, powerful beast.
When the time came therefore for the
ape to return from the wings in reply
to an encore, the trainer directed its
attention to the boy, who chanced to
be the sole occupant of the box in
which he sat
With a spring the huge anthropoid
leaped from the stage to the boy's side.
But if the trainer had looked for a
laughable scene of fright he was mis
taken. A broad smile lighted the boys'
features as he laid his hand upon the
shaggy arm of his visitor. The ape,
grasping the hoy by either shoulder,
peered long and earnestly into his face,
while the latter stroked his head and
talked to him in a low voice.
Never had Ajax devoted so long a
time to an examination of another as
he did In. this instance. He seemed
troubled and not a little excited, jab
bering and mumbling to the boy and
now caressing him as the trainer had
OVERCOMING PARENTAL OPPOSITION BY FORCE, JACK
CLAYTON GOES TO SEE THE PERFORMING APE
AND IMMEDIATELY MAKES FRIENDS
WITH THE ANIMAL
8ynoptl. A scientific expedition off the African coast rescues
Alexis Pnulvllch. He brings aboard un upe, Intelligent aud friendly.
Exhibited at a thctttvr in London a few weeks luter, the animal makes
a hit. Jack Clayton, son of Lord Greystoke, li forbidden to go and
see the upe, but thwurts his purents. -
never seen him caress a hiimun being
before. Presently he clambered over
Into the box with him nnd snuggled
down close to the boy's side.
The audience was delighted, but they
were still more delighted when the
trainer, the period of bis act having
elupsed, attempted to persuude AJux
to leuve the box. The upe would not
budge.
The manager, becoming excited at
the delay, urged the trainer to greater
huste, but when the luttcr entered the
box to drag away the reluctant AJux
he was met by bared fungs and men
acing growls.
The audience was delirious with Joy.
They cheered the upe. , They cheered
the boy, aud they booted aud Jeered at
the trainer and the manager, which
luckless individual had Inadvertently
shown himself and attempted to assist
the truluer. .
Finally, reduced to desperation and
realizing that this show of mutluy
upon the part of his vuluuble posses
sion might render the animal worthless
for exhibition purposes In the future If
not immediately subdued, the truiner
hastened to his dressing room aud pro
cured a heavy whip.
With this he now returned to the box,
but when he had threatened AJux with
it but once he found himself facing
two infuriated enemies instead of one,
fof the boy leaped to his feet and, seiz
ing a chair, stood ready at the ape's
side to defend his new-found friend.
There was no longer a smile upon his
handsome face. In his gray eyes was
an expression which gave the trainer
pause, and beside him stood the giant
anthropoid growling and ready.
What might have happened but for
a timely interruption muy only be sur-
mlsed, but that the trainer would have
received a severe mauling if nothing
more was clearly indicated by the atti
tudes of the two who faced him.
It was a pale-faced houseman who
rushed into the Greystoke library to
announce that he had found Jack's
door locked and had been able to ob
tain no response to his repeated knock
ing other than a strange tapping and
the sound of what might have been a
body moving Upon the floor.
Four steps at a time John Clayton
took the stairs that led to the floor
above. His wife and the servant hur
ried after him.
Once he called his son's name in a
loud voice ; but, receiving no reply, he
launched his great weight, backed by
all the undiminished power of his
giant muscles, against the heavy door,
With a snapping of iron hinges and a
splintering of wood the obstacle burst
inward.
At its foot lay the body of the un
conscious Mr. Moore, across whom it
fell with a resounding thud. Through
the opening leaped Tarzan, and a mo
ment later the room was flooded with
light from a half-dozen electric bulbs.
It was several minutes before the
tutor was discovered, so completely
had the door covered him, but finally he
was dragged forth, his gag and bonds
cut away and a liberal application of
cold water hastened his recovery.
"Where is Jack?" was John Clay
ton's first question, and then, "Who did
this?"
Slowly Mr. Moore staggered to his
feet. His gaze wandered about the
room. Gradually he collected his scat
tered wits. The details of his recent
harrowing experience returned to him.
"I tender my resignation, sir, to take
effect at once," were his first words.
"You do not need a tutor for your son
what he needs is a wild animal train
er."
"But where is he?" cried Lady Grey
stoke.
"He has gone to see Ajax."
It was with difliculty that Tarzan re
strained a smile, and after satisfying
himself that the tutor was more scared
than Injured, he ordered his closed car
around and departed in the direction
of a certain well-known music hall.
CHAPTER III.
Exit Paulvitch.
As the trainer, with raised lash, hes
itated an Instant at the entrance to
the box where the boy and the ape
confronted him, a tall, broad-shouldered
man pushed past him and en
tered. As his eyes fell upon the new
comer a slight flush mounted the boy's
cheeks.
"Father 1" he exclaimed.
The ape gave one look at the Eng
lish lord and then, leaped toward him,
calling out in excited jabbering. The
man, his eyes going wide with aston
ishment, stopped as though turned to
stone.
"Akut!" he cried.
The boy looked, bewildered, from the
ape to his father, and from his father
to the ape. The trainer's law droDDed
as he listened to what followed, for
from the lips of the Englishman flowed
the gutturals of an ape that were an
swered in kind by the huge anthropoid
that now clung to him.
And from the wings a hideously bent
and disfigured old man watched the
tableau In the box. his pockmarked
features working spasmodically In
varying expression that might have
marked every sensation in the gamut
from pleasure to terror.
"Long have I looked for you, Tar
zan," said Akut "Now that I have
found you I shall come to your Jungle
and llvo there always."
The man stroked the beast's bead.
Through his mind was running rapidly
a train of recollections that carried him
fur Into the depths of the primeval Af
rienn forest, where this huge, manlike
benst had fought shoulder to shoulder
with him in years before. He saw the
black Mugambi wielding the deadly
knob stick nnd beside them, with bared
fungs and bristling whiskers, Sheeta
the Terrible and, pressing close behind,
savage as the savage panther, the hid
eous apes of Akut.
The man sighed. Strong within him
surged the Jungle lust that he had
thought dead. All, If he could go back
even for a brief month of it; to feel
again the brush of leafy branches
against his nuked hide; to smell the
musty rot of dead vegetation frank
incense nnd myrrh to the Jungle-born
to sense the noiseless coming of the
great carnivore upon his trail ; to hunt
and to be hunted ; to kill I
The picture was alluring. And then
came another picture a. sweet-faced
woman, still young and beautiful;
friends ; a home ; a son. He shrugged
his giant shoulders. .
"It cannot be, Akut," he said. "But
if you would return I shall see that ic
is done. You could not be happy here;
I may not be happy there."
Then Briefly Tarzan of the Apes Told
His Son of His Early Life.
The trainer stepped forward. The
ape bared his fangs, growling.
"Go with him, Akut," said Tarzan
of the Apes. "I will come and see you
tomorrow."
The beast moved sullenly to the
trainer's side. The ; latter, at John
Clayton's request, told where they
might be found. Tarzan turned toward
his son.
"Come 1" he said, and the two left the
theater. Neither spoke for several min
utes after they had entered the limou
sine. It was the boy who broke the
silence.
"The ape knew you," he said, "and
you spoke together In the ape's tongue.
How did the ape know you, and how
did you learn his language?" '
And then, briefly and for the first
time, Tarzan of the Apes told his son
of his early life of his birth in the
jungle, of the death of his parents and
of how Eala, .the great she ape, had
suckled and raised him from Infancy
almost to manhood.
He told him, too, of the dangers and
the horrors of the Jungle of the great
beasts that stalked one by day and by
night ; of the periods of drought and of
the cataclysmic rains; of hunger, of
cold, of Intense heat, of nakedness and
fear and suffering.
He told him of all those things that
seem most horrible to the creature of
civilization in the hope that the knowl
edge of them might expunge from the
lad's mind any inherent desire for the
jungle. Yet they were the very things
that made ihe memory of the Jungle
what it was to Tarzan that made up
the composite jungle life he loved.
And in the telling he forgot one
thing the principal thing that the
boy at his side, listening so eagerly,
was the son of Tarzan of the Apes.
After the boy had been tucked away
to bed John Clayton told his wife of
the events of the evening and that he
had at last acquainted the boy with
the .facts of his Jungle life. The
mother,, who had long foreseen that "
her son must some time know of those
frightful years during which his father
had roamed the Jungle, a naked, sav
age beast of prey, shook her head, hop
ing against hope that the lure she
knew was still strong In the father's
breast had not been transmitted to his
son.
Tarzan maket an important
explanation to Jack, but the talk
doe not have the effect hoped
for by the father.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Hardening Wood.
Wood acquire a remarkable hard
ness and toughness when it is placed
in tank and covered with quicklime,
which is gradually slaked with water.
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