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WORLD HAPPENINGS CURRENT I Brief Resume Most Important DailylNewsJItems. COMPILED FOR YOU Event! of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing-. Samuel Grossman, president of the defunct Rlley-Shubert-GroBsman com pany, a Chicago mail-order concern, was found guilty of using the mulls to defraud by a Jury Tuesday. Secretary Colby, on behalf of the American government, has tendered a verbal apology to the British am bassador for the burning of a British flag here last week by Irish women. A landslide has burled part of the village of Achupayas, In the province of Chlmborazo, Ecuador. Several houses were buried. Fourteen bodies have been unearthed. Many persons were Injured. Trustees of the general education board of the Rockefeller foundation announced Monday appropriations to taling $20,251,900 for various purposes of general education and for the de velopment of medical schools. Municipal Counsellor Margala, In the course of a council meeting Friday night In Valencia, Spain, threatened to invoke the existing law prohibiting bull fights, unless the city provides sufficient opportunities of educating the children. Herbert C. Hoover, candidate for the republican nomination for presi dent, made the commencement ad dress at Swarthmore (Pa.) college Tuesday and received an honorary de gree of doctor of laws. He did not touch on politics. Fourteen persons were killed, 100 others were Injured and many build ings were destroyed by the explosion of 80 carloads of explosives near Turin, Sunday, according to a Rome dispatch to the London Exchange Tel egraph compuny. . The Dominion government will in troduce legislation this week compel ling Canadian makers of the news print to supply 15 per cent of their total output to Canadian publishers, according to the Citizen. The bill will not fix the price. The Mexican embassy In Washing ton has been formally delivered to Alvaro Torre Diaz, representative of the de facto government In Mexico by Salvador Diego Fernandez, minis ter and charge d'affaires appointed by the late Presldeut Carranza. Mayor Charles Davis of EI Paso, Tex., Issued an order Monday that "every loafer In El Paso must go to work," because of the acute labor Bltuntlon which he declared was Im periling El Paso Industries and the agricultural district about El Paso. Another appeal for the return of her baby, who was stolen from its crib last Wednesday, was Issued Monday night by Mrs. George H. Coughlln of Norristown, Pa. More letters claim ing to be from the kidnapers, and de manding ransoms ranging from $6000 to $20,000, were received at the Cough llu home. The share of the United States in the first 2,0,000,000,000 marks gold of reparation bonds which Germany Is required to issue under the Versailles treaty will be about $500,000,000, it was Btated In Paris Monday. This sum will be for the first 20 months' occupation of the Rhlneland by Amer ican troops. Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, operated on at Rochester, Minn., Monday, was declared "out of danger" In a statement issued by Dr. W. J. Mayo, attending surgeon. The operation, which was for the removal of the gall sac, was successful al though more serious than anticipated, the surgeon announced. , The first real test of the league of nations as a practical working body will be made when the council meets In London on June 14 to deal with the case of Persia versus the bolshe vikl. The greatest Importance is at tached to this case by the supporters of the league, partly because the case has unusual complications. Three thousand Czecho-Slovak troops who fought under Admiral Kol chak In western Siberia arrived at Vancouver, B. C, from Vladivostok Sunday on tho steamship Ixlon and were immediately disembarked, marched to the Canadian National rail way station and started for Montreal, whence they will sail for Trieste. A. a 4i4AtAAi4 444 A A A A A A A 1 STATE NEWS I IN BRIEF. ! w The Dalles. The new Wasco County bank opened its doors for business Tuesday morning. In honor of the oc casion 20 Portland business men at tended the opening as guests of the city. Medford. The Medford postofflce Is now using the cancellation die, "Crater Lake National Park," with the sanction of the postmaster general. The use of this die was advocated by the chamber of commerce, which assumed the expense of Its manufacture. Salem. The state irrigation securi ties commission, at a meeting Wed nesday, certified to $6000 of bonds Is sued by Multnomah county drainage district No. 1. The money derived from the sale of these bonds will be ex pended In development of the project. The Dalles. The resources of The Dalles were appraised by a delegation of 20 Portland business men who came to this city on a tour of Inspection In connection with the opening of the Wasco County bank, a new financial Institution which is backed by former Portland bank men. Baker. Alex Sewell, a Baker con tractor, is accused by Harry Qulnn of the National Mines company of the theft of a fur coat and an electric sweeper. Sewell declares the articles were given him by John ThomaB, who will be a witness at a hearing June 10. Sewell Is under bond of $300 to answer. Albany. Shorthorn breeders of Linn county, accompanied by several from other counties and visitors from dif ferent places, made a successful tour of the western part of the county re cently on an inspection of leading Shorthorn herds. This tour of Inspec tion of Shorthorn herds probably will be made an annual event. Fossil. The date for the annual en campment of the Wheeler County Pio neer association has been set for July 15-18 at the Julia Henderson grounds, 12 miles south of Fossil. The pro gram on Sunday, July 18, will Include religious services, with a picnic dinner at 2 P. M., followed by a patriotic address and election of officers. Eugene. The Corvallls and Dallas water supply problem this summer may be a serious one, said R. S. Shel ley, supervisor of the Siuslaw national forest. Both cities obtain water from streams in the national forest. This summer promises to be dryer than usual, said Mr. Shelley, and he pre dicts a veritable water famine for the two towns. Salem. P. C. Harris, adjutant-gen eral of the United States army, has advised Governor Olcott that Francis J. Clark of Portland has passed the examinations and will be admitted to the West Point Military academy from Oregon. Mr. Clark was one of the mombers of the Oregon national guard appointed by the executive to take the examination. Union About twice ,! the usual crowd turned out for the opening day of the 12th annual Union livestock show here Tuesday. The weather was ideal, with the warm sunshine a wel come change after the cold, backward spring. The Bhow was one of the largest and best ever held In Union, the entries in the cattle and heavy horse classes being unusually num erous. Salem. Taxes estimated at $5,878,- 587.38, based on the prospective prop erty valuation of the state for the year 1920, will be due and payable in the year 1921, as the result of the passage of the higher educational measure, elementary school bill, blind institu tion act and soldiers', sailors' and marines' educational aid law, at the recent special election In Oregon, ac cording to figures compiled here. The Dalles. With a view of exterm inating coyotes between the John Day and Deschutes rivers by formation of a trapping district, Professor O. N. Nelson, in charge of the sheep depart ment at Oregon Agricultural college, will visit Antelope June 10. He will speak at Friend and Waplnltla on June 12 and will point the way to small sheep raisers to pool their wool and thus get a better price for it. Hood River. C. H. Castner, man ager, has announced the closing of pools and final returns on the 1919 Spltzenbergs and Newtowns handled by the Hood River Fruit company. His prices follow: Extra fancy Spltzen bergs, average $2.04; fancy, $1.57; C grade, $1.17, and general average $1.86. Extra fancy Newtowns, averaged $1.83; fancy, $1.57; C grade, J1.40. and genoral average, $1.73. The (shipping agency charged 15 cents a box for all fruit that sold for more than $1.50 a box and 10 cents for all sales at less than $1.50. SCARCITY OF PAPER CAUSED MAKER Senate Committee Suggests Legal Prosecution. CHARGE PRICE-FIXING Report Says Unsafe for Publisher to Criticise or Protest in Any Way to Manufacturer, Washington, D. C The newsprint paper which has handicapped Ameri can newspapers Is "more the result of artificial obstruction than of natural laws," according to the report of the senate committee which Investigated the paper situation, The committee Saturday recommended that the de partment of Justice Institute proceed ings under the Sherman and Clayton acts against print-paper manufactur ers. Manufacturers were charged by the committee "with unjust, illegal and discriminatory" practices. Present prices for newsprint paper were held by the committee to be "excessive and unwarranted." Other recommendations made by the committee include: Establishment of a federal news print board to supervise the manufac ture and distribution of print paper, should government efforts to maintain a reasonable price fail. Amendment of the Lever food-control act to penalize profiteering in newsprint paper. Imposition of an excise tax of 10 cents on Sunday newspapers weigh ing more than 1.28 pounds a copy, so as to limit such editions to 80 pages until an adequate paper supply can be secured. Appropriation of $100,000 for the purpose of experimenting with substi tutes for wood pulp. Establishment of a rate of 1 cent a pound on sheet print paper to any part of the country when sent by parcels post, without increasing the present limit of 70 pounds provided under the postal regulations. The committee also recommended that consideration be given by the government to the establishment of a newsprint paper mill to supply the government's needs, with any surplus paper to be sold to small consumers. The report, which was submitted to the senate Just before adjournment, was based on extensive hearings by the committee at which testimony was heard from newspaper and periodical publishers and paper manufacturers, dealers and jobbers. Publishers of small newspapers were declared by the report to be ii the hands of "unscrupulous profiteers and exploiters," while even the large newspaper publishers are at the mercy of the manufacturers. The report add ed that It "was not and still is not safe for a publisher in any way to criticise or protest to a manufacturer," while the "big publishers not having mills of their own are in a hold-up market," while the small publishers are being driven from the business by threatened bankruptcy. Navy Cost Cut Denied. Washington, D. C Secretary Dan iels, criticising the new naval appro priation bill as falling to meet some of the navy's most vital needs, de clared Saturday that congress had not reduced naval expenditures, but "merely postponed them until after the elections" at the cost of naval "progress and efficiency." The secretary said congress had failed to provide for the ' "adequate development" of the naval establish ment on the Pacific coast, to make "even half-way provision for the naval aviation," to authorize the construc tion of a "single new ship'and to ap propriate sufficient money for essen tial ship repairs. Paper Shortage Serious. Washington, D. C Senator Smoot, republican, Utah, chairman of the Joint commission on printing, announc ed in the senate Saturday that because of the shortage of print paper only enough copies of the Congressional Record would be printed to supply members of the senate and house. He announced it also had been decided to limit the number of copies of speeches that might be printed for any one senator. Albanians and Italians Clash. London. Albanian insurgents have annihilated an Italian battalion near Ale9slo and Italian warships have shelled that city, according to a Vien na dispatch to the Exchange Tele graph company. - IWWWWWWWWWWWWW5 3 I HfiPfl f ffl ' I Robert J. C. Stead O Mowwkr m 3 IRWIN MYERS 7i 1 Copyright by HirpT A Brotbtrt ! 7i CHAPTER X discontinued. 20 "I guess I'm all right," he managed o answer, "but I got a job on an lra lortaut Job on. I must get It done. There Is not time" But her woman's intuition had gone nr below his Idle words. "There is lomething wrong, Dave," she said. 'You never looked like this before, roll me what It is. Tell me, Dave, erhaps I can help." Dave was silent for a moment, vatchlng her. Suddenly It occurred o him that Edith Duncan was bcautl ul. If she had not quite the fine features if Irene she had a certain softness of jxpresslon, a certain mellowness, even :enderness, of Hp and eye; a certain vomanly delicacy "Edith," he Bald, "you're white. Why s it that the woman a man loves will tall htm, and the woman be only Ikes stays true?" "Oh!" she cried, and be could not tuess the depths from which her cry "Yt," He Answered, "1 Have to Kill a Man." was wrung. ... "I should not have asked you, Dave," she said. "I'm sorry." They stood a moment, neither wish ing to move away. "You said you had something that must be done at once," she reminded him at length. "Yes," he answered. "I have to kill a man. Then I'm going to join up with the army." Her hands were again upon him. "But you mustn't, Dave," she pleaded. "You can't fight for your country then. You will only increase its troubles in these troubled times. Don't think I'm pleading for him, Dave, but for you, for the sake of us for the sake of those who care." He took her hands In his and raised them to his shoulders and drew her face close to his. Then, speaking very slowly, and with each word by itself, "Do you really care?" he said. "Oh, Dave I" "Then come to my room and talk to me. Talk to me I Talk to me 1 For God's sake talk to me! I must talk to someone," She followed him. Inside the room he had himself under control again. He told her the story, nil he knew. When he had finished she arose and walked to one of the windows and stood looking with unseeing eyes upon the street. For the second time in his life Dave Elden had laid his heart bare to her, and again after all these years he still talked as friend to friend. That was it. She was under no delusion. Dave's eyes were as blind to her love as they had been that night when he had first told her of Irene Hardy. And she could not tell him. Most of all she could not tell hlra now. . . . She had waited all these years, and still she must wait. Dave's eyes were upon her form, silhouetted against the window. It oc curred to him that In form Edith was very much like Irene. He recalled that In those dead past days when they used to ride together Edith had re minded him of Irene. When she stood silent so long he spoke again. "I'm afraid I haven't played a very heroic part," he said, somewhat shamefacedly. "I should have burled my secret In my heart; buried It even from you; perhaps most of all from you. But you can advise me, Edith. I will value whatever you say." She trembled until she thought he must see her, and she feared to trust her voice, but she could delay a reply no longer. "Dave," she said at length, "why fhould you take Conward's word In such a "matter as this?" "I didn't take Conward's word, That's why I didn't kill him at once. It wasn't his word, It was the Insult that cut Bpt she tried to save him. She threw herself upon me. She would have taken the bullet herself rather than let It find him. That was what that was what" "I know, Dave." She had to hold herself In check lest the tenderness that welled within her, and would shape words of endearing sympathy la her mind, should find utterance In speech. "I know, Dave," she said "The next thing, then, is to make sure In your own mind whether you ever really loved Irene Hurdy. Be cause If you loved Irene a wee'i ago you love her tonight" "Edith," be said, "there Is no way of explaining this. You can't under stand. I know you have given your self up to a life of service, and I honor you very much, and all that, but there are some things you won't be able to understand. You can't under stand Just how much I loved Irene. Have you never known of love being turned to hnte?" "No. Other Impulses may be, but not love. Love can no more turn to hnte than sunlight can turn to dark ness. Believe me, Dave, if you bate Irene now you never loved her. Lis ten: 'Love benreth all things, bellev eth all things, liopeth all things, en dureth all things' 1" "Not all things, Edith j not all things." "It says all things." Dave was silent for some time. When he spoke again she caught a dif ferent sound In his voice n tone as though bis soul in those few moments had gone through a lifetime of expe rience. "Edith," he said, "when you repeat ed those words I knew you had some thing that I have not. I knew it, not by words but by the way you said them. You made me know that In your own life, if you loved, you would be ready to endure all things. Tell me, Edith, how may this thing be done?" She trembled with delight at the new tone in his voice, for she knew that for him life would never again be the empty, flippant, selfish, irre sponsible thing which in the past he had called life. - "In your case," she said, "the course is simple. It is just a case of for giving." He gazed for a time Into the street, while thoughts of Bitterness and re venge fought for domination of his mind. "Edith," he said, at length, "must I forgive?" "I do not say you must," she an swered. "I merely say If you are wise you will. Nothing, It seems to me, Is so much misunderstood as forgiveness. The one who Is forgiven may merely escape punishment, but the one who forgives experiences a positive spir itual expansion." "Is that Christianity?" he ventured. "It Is one side of Christianity. The other side Is service. If you are will ing to forgive and ready to serve I don't think you need worry much over the details of your creed. Creeds, after all, are not expressed In words but In lives. When you know how a man lives you know what he believes always." "Suppose I forgive what then?" "Service. You are needed right now, Dave forgive my frankness your country needs you right now. You must dismiss this grievance from your mind, at least dismiss your resent. ment over it, and then place yourself at the disposal of your country." "That is what I had been thinking of," he said. "At least that part about serving my country, although I don't think my motives were as high as you would make them. But the war can't last It Is unbelievable." "I'm not so sure," she anirwered gravely. "Of course I know nothing about Germany. But I do- know some thing about our own people. I know how selfish and individualistic and sordid and money-grabbing we have been; how slothful and incompetent and self-satisfied we have been; and I fear it will take a long war and sac rlflces and tragedies altogether be yond our present imagination to make us unselfish and public-spirited and clean and generous. I am not wor rying about the defeat of Germany, If our civilization is better than that of Germany we shall win, ultimately, and if our civilization is worse than that of Germany we shall be defeated ultimately and we shall deserve to be defeated. "But I rather think that neither of the alternatives will be the result. I rather think that the test of war will show that there are elements In Ger man civilization which are better than ours,'and elements In our civilization which are better than theft's, and that the good elements will survive and form the basis of a new civilization better than either." "If that is so," Dave replied, "if this war is but the working of immu table lhw which proposes to put all the elements of civilization to the supreme test and retain only those which are Justifiable by that test, why should I or anyone else fight? And," he added, as an afterthought, "what about that principle of forgiveness?" "We must fight," she answered, "be cause It Is the law that we must fight ; because It is only by fighting that we can justify the principles for which we fight If we hold our principles as be- lng not worth fighting for the new civi lization will throw those principles In the discard. And that, too, covers the question of forgiveness. Forgiveness, In fact, does not enter into the con sideration at all. "We must fight not because we hate Germany but because we love certain principles which Germany Is endeav oring to overthrow. The Impulse must be love, npt hute." She hud turned and faced him while she spoke, and he felt himself strange ly carried away by the earnestness of her argument. What a wonderful woman she was I And as he looked at her he again thought of Irene, and suddenly he felt himself engulfed In a great tenderness, and he knew that even yet "What am I to do?" he said. "What am I to do?" In the darkness of her own shadow she set her teeth for that answer. It was to be the crowning act of self renunciation and It strained every fiber of her resolution. "You had better go overseas and enlist In England," she told him calm ly, although her nulls were biting her palms. "You will get quicker action that way. And when you come back you must see Irene, and you must learn from your own heart whether you really loved her or not. And if you find you did not, then then you will be free to to to think of some other woman." "I am afraid I shall never care to think of any other woman," he an swered, "except you. But some way you're different. I don't think of you as a woman, you know ; not really, in a wny. I can't explain It, Edith, but you're something more something better than all that." He had sprung to his feet. "Edith, I can never thank you enough for what you have said to me tonight. You have put some spirit back into my body. I am going to follow your advice. There's a train east in two hours and " I'm going on It Fortu nately my property, or most of It, has dissolved the way It came." She moved toward him with extend ed hand. "Goodby, Dave," she said. He held her hand fast In his. "Good by, Edith. I can never forget I can never repay all you have been. It may sound foolish to you after all I have said, but I sometimes wonder If If I had not met Irene If " He paused and went hot with embarrass ment. What would she think of him? An hour ago he had been ready to kill or be killed In grief over his frus trated love, and already he was prac tically making love to her. Had he brought her to his room for this? What a hypocrite he was I "Forgive me, Edith," he said, as he released her. "I am not quite my self. ... I hold you In very high respect as one of God's good women. Goodby 1" CHAPTER XIV. When Irene Hardy pursued Dave from the house the roar of his motor car was already drowned In the hum of the city streets. Hatless, she ran the length of a full block; then, real izing the futility of such a chase, re turned with almost equal haste to her home. "What is the meaning of this?" she demanded of Conward. "Why did he threaten to shoot and why did he leave as he did? You know. Tell me." "I am sure I wish I could tell you," said Conward with all his accustomed suavity. In truth Conward, having somewhat recovered from his fright, was in rather good spirits. Things had gone better than he had dared to hope. Elden was eliminated, for the present, at any rate, and now was the time to win Irene. She stood before him, flushed and vibrating and with flashing eyes. "You're lying, Conward," she said de- "You're Lying, Conward." liberately. "First you lied to him, and now you He to me. There can be no other explanation. Where is that gun? He said I would know what to do with it" "I have it," said Conward, partly carried off his feet by her violence. "I will keep It until you are a little more reasonable, and perhaps a little more respectful." (TO BE CONTINUED.) If folks were paid according to their executive ability, a good cook would draw more salary than a college pro fessor. Galveston News.