WORLD’S DOINGS
OF CURRtNT WEEK
BIG TAX PROPOSfD ON IXPATR1ATIS;
IMMIGRATION Bill IIMITS lAPANISf
PORTLAND RECTOR
CALLS FOR DEFENSE
PRESIDENT WILSON 10 CAMPAIGN
FOR HIS PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM
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NAVYAPPROVER
Washington, D. C .-President Wil
Washington, D. C.—A measure pro
son is planning to assume personal
posing a high graduated tax on the in
leadership in the fight for a stronger
comes of American expatriates, de
army and navy.
So many reports
rived from their American properties,
have reached him of confusion over the
issue before congress and of the uncer
will [be] introduced in the senate by
tainty of the outcome, that he has de
Senator Kenyon of Iowa.
termined not only to go before the
The Kenyon bill would place an an
country in public address, but to con
nual tax of practically 30 per cent on
fer further on the subject with leaders
the incomes of the wealthier expatri
of the senate and house.
ates. Also it would make dowers giv
Representative Hay and Represent
en to American girls who marry titled
ative Padgett, chairmen of the house
foreigners a source of considerable rev
military and naval committees, re
enue to the United States government.
spectively, have informed Mr. Wilson
With the steady augmentation of
that it will be from two weeks to a
American fortunes aboard as a result
the expatriation of thousands of Mother Who Would Keep Her Sons month before the committees will be Advocates Organization of Re
Live News Items of AU Nations and of
ready to report any army and navy
rich Americans, chiefly heiresses, the
Corps of Officers and 500,000
appropriation bills. While this work
From
Enlisting
Declared
to
Be
movement
in
favor
of
imposing
heavy
Pacific Northwest Condensed
is going on he proposes to do his ut
taxes on incomes thus derived from
Additional Trained Men.
“ Disgrace to Nation."
most to solidify sentiment among the
for Our Busy Readers.
the United ] States has gained much
people and members of congress in
strength in congress.
favor of the plans drawn up by the
Washington, D. C.—Unqualified
Drastic restrictions would be thrown
The finger of shame was pointed war and navy departments.
Oregon Hopgrowers association re about the immigration of Janpanese in
Friends
of
the
President
represent
port
was given Secretary Garrison1
from the pupit of the Portland Trinity
port selling 3000 bales of hops.
to the United States and both Hindus Episcopal church Sunday morning at
army plan before the senate milit;
A new Oregon Republican club is and Chinese virtually would be barred the mother whose love for her son
WILLIAM AL.DEN SMITH
committee by Major General Scott ■
organized in Portland with 500 mem from the country by a provision that rises above that for her nation
Major General Bliss, respectively!
has
been
written
into
the
immigration
bers.
Ths mothers and “ peace at any
bill to be reported to the house this price” advocates were denounced as a
and
assistant chief of staff of
A total of eleven lives were lost week by the immigration committee.
“ disgrace to the nation,” and an ap
army.
Both amplified staten
during recent severe storms in South
As agreed on tentatively by the com peal, based on the teachings of Christ,
ern California.
made
on
the
subject last week bef-
mittee, the exclusion section of the for proper national armaments, was
the house committee.
Berlin announces that superior Rus bill includes a paragraph barring sent forth by Dr. A. A. Morrison, rec
sian forces were repulsed in hand-to- “ Hindus and all persons of the Mon tor of that church, in what was con
General Scott decarled the
hand fighting in the Bessarabian fron golian or yellow race and the Malay or sidered perhaps the strongest sermon
would save at least five months’ ti~
tier trenches.
brown race."
in defense of preparedness ever deliv
in building up an army of defense in
Promises that the English conscrip
Representative Wilson, of Illinois, ered from any pulpit in Portland.
war emergency.
He advocated c
After the sermon members of the
tion measure will be enforced without has introduced a bill requiring the
mediate
organization
of a rese
severity, brings loud applause in the Oregon & Cailfornia Railroad com congregation rushed forward to c<
house of commons.
gratulate
the
pastor.
corps
of
officers
actually
commission
pany, on demand of settlers, to sell the
“
I
cannot
understand
these
individ
and
assigned
to
the
posts
they w~
unsold
portion
of
its
grant
in
quarter-
War issues cause hot debate in the
take in time of war.
General S;
r%
senate, Hoke Smith leading in a severe section tracts at $2.50 an acre, giving uals who cry even from the pulpits
also urged th at a quartermaster’s i
arraignm ent of England's attitude preference right of purchase to first ‘peace at any price,’ ” he told them.
appplicants and to applicants who “ I wonder what they would do, if
serve corps of enlisted men be for
toward neutral shipping.
have been erroneously located and who some one in the night should by force
to
include mechanics of all kinds,
A British submarine has gone ashore heretofore have sought to buy not steal away their wife and daughter,
egraphers, radio operators, motor r.
off Holland, according to an announce more than 160 acres.
Would they run after them with their
hide drivers and experts, teamstei
ment made by the official press bureau
The bill as introduced was prepared theory of love? Of course not.”
railway
men and the like. A rep
There was no loss of life.
The teaching of Christ, he declared
by the National Information Bureau
sentative of the American Legion,
in
answer
to
those
peace
advocates
Roosevelt wants immediate action and is intended to protect the interests
said, had told him recently that 15,C
in construction of half a dozen “ for of thousands of applicants who have who base their theories on the Bible,
men of this sort had been listed by f
is
not
against
preparedness.
And
he
midable fighting ships," adeqate army tendered the purchase price to the rail
organization who were willing to
road company, but have been unable to cited Christ’s scourging of the money
and universal military service.
list in such a corps.
changers in the temple, his chastise
Both of the generals expressed
A wealthy Spokane re a lty d ealer acquire title because of the railroad’s ment of the Scribes and Pharisees and
opinion that universal military ser
was found guilty of Belling in to x ican ts refusal to sell.
his advice to sacrifice one’s life for a
was the only “ ideal democratic” :
in violation of the liquor law and was
friend.
od of building an army, but thougkj
fined |260 and ten days in ja il.
“ A misapprehension exists,” he de
the country would not tolerate the ]
clared, “ over the phrase called
The Greek king is bitter toward the
posal now. General Bliss said it \
‘Christian teaching.’ There are those
entente powers for attempting to force
only talked of by army officers as
advocating peace under any and all
his country into the war. He declares
William Alden Smith, United States academic question on this account
Portland, Ore.—“ For You a Rose in circumstances who assert that Jesus
the neutrality of his country was vio
Discussing the details of the vari;
Portland Grows” is the slogan that taught a doctrine of non-resistance; a senator from Michigan, has opened In
lated like that of Belgium.
will advertise the 1916 Rose festival. doctrine which would utterly abrogate earnest his campaign for the Republi bills under consideraion, General Bl\
The house committee favorably re
author is Bertha Slater Smith, the use of force in education or as a can presidential nomination. Petitions said that the measure proposed by *
ports tho Spanish-American war pea The
whose
father, James H. Slater came to defense against evil-doers. Many per have been sent out to have his name War department was the only
«ion bill which grants, if passed, $12
Oregon
in 1853, and was at one time sons believe Christ advocated this, but placed on the ballot for the Michigan which appeared satisfactory or wh
per month to every widow of a soldier
seemed to contemplate a definite
Dresidential primary In Aorll.
the
state’s
representative in the Uni I say he did no such thing.”
either a volunteer or a regular.
icy. The War college division of!
Seattle millionaires whose resi
him as being undeterred by the open General Staff, he said, has fixed 500
dences were raided by the sheriff for
oppositin of former Secretary Bryan 000 men, more or less trained, as!
--“ te i* W TO .
violations of the Prohibition law, will
and other pacificists, and by differ irreducible minimum necessary fori
turn against him by attacking his
ences among advocates of national de country’s safety in the first shock
war.
legal status as regards searching pri
Seattle — Two cars of westbound fense over the plans adopted. He is
vate residences.
The proposal to increase the reg
said
to
be
firmly
of
the
opinion
that
Great Northern Cascade Limited train
army
to 250,000 as suggested in
^
W
i
'.
s
o
N
the
program
prepared
by
Secretaries
General Luis Herrera, in supreme
were swept from the track by an aval
*V. .
S?An»
ator Chamberlain’s tentative bill,'
Daniels
and
Garrison
is
the
best
which
command of the Carranza forces at
anche near Corea station Saturday
added, was wholly inadequate by:
Chihuahua City, Mexico, late Friday
morning, and were hurled 80 feet can be offered at this time.
self. Moreover, he added, it was i
Plans
for
the
speaking
trips
will
be
night flatly denied the truth of the re
down the mountain side, causing death
possible to recruit a larger force ’
,
,
prepared
as
quickly
as
possible.
If
port of the capture of General Villa at
to four passengers, and four
140,000 men, as proposed by
*
"
I
necessary
the
President
may
change
the San Geronimo ranch.
Fifteen passengers were injured, none
¡tern
the White House social program map tary Garrison for the regular
seriously
except
Earl
Smith,
of
Spo
An attack by the British with the
without increasing pay or other
ped out before Christmas.
kane, a small boy.
use of smoke bombs on the German
giving added inducement. He reac
The train was standing on the track
positions north of Prelinghein, in
report from the adjutant general
near
Corea,
on
the
west
slope
of
the
Northern France, is announced in an
daring that it would be impossible;
Cascade mountains, when the aval
official statement by the German army
recuit even 200,000 men in
anche struck it near the middle, a day
headquarters. It is declared the a t
times and that the arevage maxi;
coach
and
the
diner
going
over
the
tack was beaten off with heavy loss to
force that could be maintained
bank, while a sleeper behind them was
the British.
only 122,000.
Washington,
D.
C.—Every
Socialist
toppled over on its side, where it hung
The Mothers’ Council, of Dallas,
in the United States would defend this
in
its
perilous
position
over
the
bank,
Tex., voted to submit bids for the bar ted States senate. Judge Woodson T. but was not taken down.
country if attacked by a foreign foe.
privileges of the State Fair of Texas. Slater, formerly on the Supreme bench
The dining car stopped when about Representative London, the only So
Half a million persons visit the fair in Oregon, is her brother.
Mrs. Smith is the mother of four half way down the slope and caught cialist in congress, told the house
annually and the saloon man who gets
children—two
girls four years of age fire, being destroyed there.
the liquor selling right pays from
The scene of the accident is but a Wednesday in an address against pre-
Mrs. Smith
Sylvester, Ga.—The death of I
$3000 to $6000. The Mothers’ Council and fine looking twins.
few
miles east of the scene of a sim- pared ness.
negroes, whose bullet-riddled
will raise a fund to buy the saloon did not send her slogan to the festival lar disaster of February 28, 1910,
The house shouted down attem pts to
right and publicly burn the contract, headquarters until Saturday morning, when two Great Northern trains were limit London’s time and spurred him were found early Saturday mo
January 15, the last day of the con
hanging from a tree near Starkvi
if their plans succeed.
His declaration Ga., was held in a coroner’s verditt
test. She is a native daughter and struck by snowslides and nearly all the on with question.
persons on the trains perished.
that the Socialists would fight was have been due to “ strangulation
Ford peace board is reported near was born in La Grande.
greeted with thunderous applaues. gunshot wounds at the hands of
complete disruption.
Mrs. Smith received a check for $25
Representative
O’Shaughnessy, of known parties.” There was no is
from
the
festival
br-^rd.
It
was
pre
A 50 per cent dividend is declared !
Rhode
Island,
demanded
of London tion that any further investig
by the Standard Oil company of Cali sented by O. C. Rortzmeyer, secretary
what would be the attitude of the So would be conducted.
and S. C. Bratton, chairman of the
fornia.
cialists in case the American flacr was
publicity committee. Mrs. Smith was
The negroes, accused of implic
attacked.
Ia>rd Derby of England declares photographed as she mailed a letter to
in the killing of Sheriff Moreland
El Paso, Tex.—Tedeore Prieto, who
“ I desire to say that if the people of Starkville, were taken from the
the British army is sufficient to win President Wilson, in the huge mail box says he is a major in the Villa army,
the war.
in Portland, a feature of letter writing appeared Monday and declared that he the United States were attacked every here late Friday by a small
Flood* in Southern California are week, inviting the nation’s chief exe had been sent in disguise to the border Socialist would fight,” London said.
men who gained access to the
"What is the distinction between through a well-planned ruse
continuing to do considerable damage cutive to visit Portland June 7, 8 and by Gen. Villa to say that Villa had
9, and participate in the fiesta, the nohting to do with the massacre of 18 the flag and the people?” a dozen Rep whisked the five prisoners away
to property.
national dedication of the great Co foreigners at Santa Ysabel Januarv resentatives immediately asked, in as automobiles.
They persuaded
many different ways, while London sheriff to open the jail doors by
Restoration of the Manchu dynasty, lumbia river highway.
10.
smiled and fenced the question.
which ruled China before the establish
More than 3(H) cities and towns in
“ Villa did not know of the tragedy
permission to place a negro
ment of the republic, has been pro W ashington and Oregon were repre- for days afterw ard.”
• T^.e peoP,e throb with life,” he brought with them in a cell for «0
claimed by the leaders of an upriaing sented in the slogan contest by resi
said, "while a flag is an emblem
l u n . t i c * f ^ L“ , “ " “ “ T °nl^ keeping.
in Eastern Mongolia.
A brigade of dents of Idaho, Montana. British Co He instructed me to s a y '^ a t h e'w ui !
execute
the
men
responsible,
even
if
The negro disappeared while
cecutethe
men
responsible,
even
If
attack
the ,lag and te m p le ‘on iL Z
tliincee troop« is marching on Huihua- lumbia, California and North Dakota,
sheriff was being overpowered
they prove to be his own men, if they it is a vastly different thing for
chen to attack the Mongolians.
from former Oregon residents.
an at- efforts to locate him or learn his
are caught.”
tack to be made on the people.”
ity have been fruitless.
Montenegro makes complete sur-
Grand Duchess to Wed.
reisier to Austria who will have full
Wages 27 Per Cent Higher.
Rescuers at Ice Prison.
Zurich, Via Paris — The Neue Zü
supervision of that country.
Blood Transfusion Urged.
New York—One thousand and three
richer
Zeitung’s
Luxemburg
corre
° r— After 8
days’
hundred representative manufacturers
A Pol a rider was -«fused his natural
Chicago—Confident that blood
isation papers when he declared he spondent announce* that the marriage in New York state, employing approx 2 three
L « to r eight
K\ T , feet
W and deep
ran*i"K
the rescue fusion will save the lives of many
would not take up arms in defense of of Grand Duchea* Marie of Luxemburg imately 600,000 persons, are paying an party which left here Monday . S
applied in cases of gas poisoning,
probably will take place shortly. Court average of 27 per cent more in wages
the United State*.
oner Hoffman sent a letter to
officials of Imxemburg favor an Aus than a year ago, according to a report
? ‘ bT ° f A‘ J’ MeCalltoUr hospital in Chicago giving instru
Katherine Kelly. aged 10. and trian archduke. The duchess, for po-
th« Coast mountains late M to the preservation of blood tt
Gladys Bdgerly, aged ». of Seattle, litical reason*, cannot marry a German made public here by the bureau of VV«lneeday. on Although
practically iso-
used in life-saving work. He r u i
were probably fatally injured when l rinc* or any of the Bourbon Princes statistics and information of the State lated on account °f the recent
storm. would provide blood container* for
Industrial
commission.
About
17
per
they were thrown from their aled after and the Princes of the smaller neutral
the McCallister family had
cent more workers are employed
hospital. Experiments indicat*_
coasting down a steep hill and crashed stations *ither are too young
or are now than last year, the statistics
into a concrete wall.
Protestants.
days. The rescue party was obliged to blood can be safely kept 30 day*,
have been 3423 deaths from «
make most of th* trip on snowshSes.
tion in Chicago in the l**t 11 y«*18
Brief Resume of General News
from All Around the Earth.
Dr. Morrison, Episcopalian, Has
No Use for Pacificist.
Ma;or-Generals Bliss and
Support Secretaiy Garrison.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL
CHRIST’S NON-RESISTANCE IS DENIED
UNIVERSAL MILITARY SBIVICE IS
Mother of Tour Children Wins
1916 Rose festival Slogan Contest
Avalanche of Snow and Earth
Hits Great Northern Train; 8 Dead
Socialist Representative Is Loyal
But Speaks Against Preparedness
Five Negroes Are Hanged from
Limbs of One Tree in Ge
Villa Sends Messenger to Deny
Implication in Killing of Americans
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