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BELGIUM
IN FEW MONTHS
jPItEKKNT GOVERNMENT OXK OK
TRANSITION, HI T A REAL GOV.
KIINMKNT TO BR KRAMED
CATHOLICS CONTROL 40 W
I'nlvenml Ijuffriiun Hyutem Will ltf
tcnte Iriwts and l4tiiiliwnrni to
Status of Wnrklngmeri
Brussels, Doc. 20. (Corresjion
dunro of the Associated Press.)
Belgium la facing a crisis In lu"po
lltlral history. The present govern
ment comprising ot tlx Catholics,
three liberal and throe socialists Is
acknowledged everywhere to be only
provisional one, a government of
transition. A real government which
will direct reconstruction of Dot
glum Is In the making.
It In not exported that elections
can bo hold In Im than alx month.
Meanwhile the political fUht will
be waged upon a buala of universal
suffrage one man, one vote. lie
fore the war the priests had four
votoa, land ownera and nobles as
many voles aa thoy had eatatea In
different province and socialists and
llborala only one vote each. The so
cialists wore mostly working men
and the liberala mostly professional
men. Thla enabled the Catholic
party to be In power for more than
.4,40 years. Under the universal suf
frage aysteln which would relegate
' priests and landowners to the same
category as working men, doctors
V and lawyers. It la asserted the Cath
olic party may bo placed In the min
ority. Nevertheless, Cardinal Mor
der'a great personality and the en
ergy he displayed In behalf of Bel
Clans during the war Is said to have
greatly helped the cause of the Cath
Ilo party.
Ouo cause ot bitterness and ani
mosity, .In Dolgluui i the Flemish,
movement which now Is practically
dead owing to the efforts ot the late
German Governor von. Biasing to
inuke use of It to divide Belgium In
to two parts. It la expected that the
Flemish movement will revive when
life routines normal conditions but
It Is held In abeyance now through
foar that It might bo construed as
German propugaudu. King Albert
In his spooch to the parliament after
returning .to Brussels announced
that the government will propose a
bill to create tbo basis ot a Flemish
university at Ghent reserving the
dotulls to the now parliament to be
elected lntor.
Pro-Gorman and "activists" who
supported the German scheme to
drive the wedge between the Flomlshj
and Walloons in Belgium are now
ostracized socially. Many arrests
have boon made In Brussels, Ghent
and Bruges. The people ot Ghont
dlvldo tholr hatred and bitterness
evenly between tbo Gurmuns and the
'activists." Bruges Is filled with a
deep-rooted hatred of everything
German while Brussels ridicules both
pro-Germans and "activists"
In Bruges IDS women who dealt
,1 with Geririans were beaten and their
hair was shorn. In Ghent pro-Germans
and "activists," both men and
womon were physically punished. I
ST.
New York, Jan., 15. The United
States cruiser St. Louis, bringing the
S4th ' field artillery, comprising
1,300. men, has arrived from Brest.
The regiment constats of 99 ter cent
conscripted men,, tralnod at Camp
Lewis. They saw service In Belgium
with the 91st division.
GOVERNOR LISTER
SOUNDS WARNING
WfeililiiKion'N Hilef Etrcutlvo Hny
Hut MuHt Provide WtM-k Wnrns
Again! I. W. W. Practices
OlymplB. Wash., Jan. IS, Wash
ington's 1919 legislature Is faced by
greater problems than have been
faced by any previous legislature,
Governor Ernest Lister declared In
his biennial message read here today
to the senate and house ot represent
tutlves. , .
New work should be taken up by
public and private corporations, the
governor asserted, to provide work
for returned soldiers and men from
the closed war Industries. "I nolleve
It Is our duty and responsibility to
adjust conditions that there will be
employment available In the stale
for every able bodied person willing
to accept It," be said.
"The state can provide employ
ment for many men by speeding up
highway construction, new state
buildings can be started and repairs
to old buildings can be made," he
added. Proposed Irrigation projects
should be put through at this time,
he said. Wages should be kept up as
long as the cost of living remains
up, ho' added.
The governor's message reviewed
Washington's war time accomplish
ments, particularly the state's con
tribution ot men. "No less than 50,
000 Washington men put on the unl
form of their country during the' em
ergency," he said.
"Men of the I. W. W. type should
not be permitted to continue their
unlawful and dangerous, practices,"
he assorted, "A! any ot the men are
aliens and the nation would be vast
ly benefitted by their deportation to
tholr native land," he declared.
THOMAS GETS AFTER
Salem, Ore., Jan. 15. Charging
that the $6,000,000 hard surfacing
act was railroaded' through the last
legislature by a paving lobby, and
doctarlng that hard surface bills
were being drafted In, Portland, Sen
ator Thomas, of Jackson . county,
presented a resolution today de
manding that the highway commis
sion appear before the legislature on
Monday to present plass so the leg
islature could draft Its own highway
legislation.
XLORAI0 AND IOWA
KALI, IXTO MXK
Denver, Colo., Jan. 15. Colo
rado ratified the prohibition meas
ure today. The senate voted 29 to
one. The house adopted the measure
last week.
Des Moines, Iowa, Jan, 15. The
Iowa legislature adopted the prohi
bition measure today.
PORTUGAL ALSO HAS
TROUBLESOME TIMES
Tendon, 'Jan. 15. Revolutionists
at Santarem,, northeast of Lisbon,
having refused to. surronder, the
Portuguese government troops have
surrounded the ' town and com
menced a bombardment.
4 EL PASO STIRRED - 4
4 . WITIIU0L8HKVISM..4
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4 El Paso, Texas, Jan. 'It. 4
4 Handbills printed In Spanish 4
4 and signed . "Spanish ., Bolahe- 4
4 vista," were distributed , here,. 4
4 urging the deapi of President 4
4 Carransa, Villa, .Felix Dlas, Es- 4
4 taban Cahtu, governor of Low- 4
4 er California and all other po- 4
4 lltlcalleaders and, rich men in 4
4 Mexico. , ; .'" wv': .": 4
tilMffTg PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JAMAHY 15. 11.
WILSON FIRM
IN ATTITUDE
TOWARD ITALY
HOIjIM THAT FICMK IS THE N.V
Tl ltAIi Ol'TLET FOR AIM.
' TIUAN SLAVS
ARMAMENTS TO BE LIMITED
Delegate Divided on Manner to Ob
tain league of Nations Sonie'
for Combined Power
Ixjodun, Jan. 15. Commenting
upon the. conference between Pre'-
dent Wilson and Premlor Orlando
last Friday, persons In touch with
the premier said he was surprised
at President Wilson's attitude. The
president la - firm In his refusal -to
recognize Italian claims beyond Tri
este and Trent. He Is unwilling to
give way to Italian claims for either
the Dalmatian coast or Flume, ac
cording to the correspondent. The
president holds that Flume is the na
tural sea outlet to the Austrian
Slav.
Paris, Jan. 15. Lord Robert Ce
cil, who discussed with American
Journalists his views as to the work
of the league of nations, had little to
say regarding the limitation of arma
ments, but expressed his opinion,
however, that the league "certainly
would provide 'for limitation and a
decrease ot present armaments."
Paris, Jan. 15. With the resump
tion of the preliminary peace meet
ings today, It became evident that
the movement for s league of na
tions is being carried on by two
forces having the same object in
view, but differing In their means to
make the same effective. One con
tends that the decisions ot the league
must be backed up by combined phy
sical forces; the other believes that
findings can be enforced without the
aid of the world police force.' '
OOU HOV.SK IMPROVING
Paris, Jan. 15. Col. E. M. House
Is Improving in health and expects
to be able to be up in a few days.
OUR
DAYS NUMBERED
"BUT WE'LL FilAKE WORLD SHUDDER"
Archangel, via London, Dec. 20.
(Correspondence of the Associated
Press.) Tales of horrors within the
territory controlled by the Botshe-
Ik government are brought here al
most daily by some . adventurous
Russian, often a; young officer who
has made his way through the Bol
shevik lines. JThese stories are pub
lished in the Archangel newspapers
under the headline,' "The Russian
nightmare."
Two ot the members of the Arch-
angol City Duma who Tecently re
turned from Moscow where they had
been taken under, . arrest, quoted
Nikolai Lenlne, the Bolshevikl pre
mier aa saying: "Our days are num
bered. ' We know that, but. In leav
ing the power, we will shut the doors
in a way to make Europe Bhudder."
One of the Archangel papers sayB
that the record of the "Central All
Russlan Investigation commission In
one it tortures and horrors. Arrest
ed people," It adds, "disappear by
groups. Agents of the German gen
eral" staff nre working in the com
mission. ' People are ' shot in ' the
building of the commission Itself and
In groups of 20 to 80 at a time.
Those' who come in order to inquire
about arrested relatives are them
selves arrested and disappear. Only
those who can afford to pay a large
sum of money are liberated, ; For
30,000 or 50,000 rubles one ran
save his life. Trotsky,1 formerly for
etgn minister,, has lost all sympathies
WEEK OF IT
AND
KILLING
COMES TO
ND
BERLIN SEES . ABATEMENT IX
BLOODY ST1UGGLE BETWEEN
"GOVT AND SPAHTACANS
Srone Shifts to retrograd. Where
Starving March Through Streets.
Given I'nground Oats "
Berlin, Jan, 16. A long week of
Bolshevism has ended. Only small
scattered bands of Dr. Liebknecht's
followers are now operating. The
property loss will amount to tens of
millions of marks. The Spartacans
looted systematically. At the Slleslan
station they had so much butter that
they used It to grease their guns and
boots with. " '
Stockholm, Jan. 15. Hunger
riots 'took place in Petrograd Satur
day and Sunday. It is reported that
thousands of. people paraded the
streets, shouting for bread, but were
tired upon by the Bolshevikl troops.
There was no bread In the city, and
the people were given unground
oats. ;
4 NEW HAMPSHIRE 84th
4 . TO ONE VP WITH DRV8 4
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Chicago, Jan. 15. New 4
4 Hampshire ratified the prohl- 4
4 bltlon. measure today, making 4
4 the 34 th state to do so. The 4
4 country will probably be voted 4
4 dry within 24 hours. Thirty- 4
4 six states are needed. ,' 4
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GENERAL WOOD TO TAKE
CHARGE OP SEATTLE
Washington, Jan. 15. Orders di
recting Major General Leonard
Wood, now commanding Camp Funs-
ton, Kansas, to proceed to Chicago
to take command ot the Central de
partment, have been issued by the
war department.
among the working men, but Lenlne
still has great, success in some
places."
: One iBolshevlk member of the Central-
Soviet, Comrade Zlnovleff, " is
quoted as saying in a speech: "If
you come to Petrograd you will see
the bourgeoise paving the court ot
Smolny Institute, unloading the ships
on the Neva and. cleaning the bar
racks. Winter clothes are being re
quisitioned in Petrosrad. The bour
geois fur coats will not exactly fit
the Red Guards hut they will par
ttently bear thla Inconvenience. On
the TTral front we have already dis
tributed among tile Tied Guards 600
suits and overcoats belonging to the
Romanoffs. The, - bourgeoise must
disappear In a socialistic state. If,
we go on steadily we will soon teach
the Russian bourgeoise what it ought
to be and after that the bourgeoise
of the world."
Another speaker at the Soviet gov-
ing mat uermany ana Austria no
longer were dangerous to Bolshe
vism but that the main danger now
lay with England and America. "We
must support the revolution In the
.central empires and we have de
cided to sacrifice our blood and our
bread to the German proletariat."
Other- refugees here report that
the Bolshevikl openly confess that
their hopes of maintaining power
are very -weak and that their only
hope Is a world-wide revolution,
SAY LE
WOULD HOT
FULFILL PLEDGE
Writer Hay EagllHh Forget Suffer
ings of ItumUas at the Hands of
the Bolshevikl
London, Jan. 15. Harold Wil
liams, writing In the Daily Chronicle
on the British proposal to Invite the
Russian Bolshevikl to the peace con
ference says: -
Lenlne could not have wished for
better luck to give him another
breathing space. To absolve him
from the necessity of further mili
tary effort Just when he is straining
every nerve to' bring about a world
revolution is almost to agree to the
Bolshevikl plan of campaign. The
armistice came a little too soon for
Lenlne. He desires a breathing
space. Just as he did a year ago.
and 'now the British government
propose he should be given one,
proposes, in fact, that he 'should be
allowed a clear field for his world
propaganda.
What new pacifism is this, that
ignores responsibilities for the cruel
suffering of the people that spent Its
strength In the allied canseT I dare
not. think of the effect of this pro
posal on these Russians who have
been loyal to us through the dark
est days. Then, supposing the "Bol-
shivtU did come to the conference,
we should simply see a repetition on
a large scale of the spectacle of the
Brest-Litovek, with President Wil
son, Lloyd George and Clemenceau
in the undignified position of Kuehl-
mann and Count Czeralrt, while
Trotsky and Radek displayed their
gifts of Tepartee and their, corrus-
cating theories to an astounded
world. There could be no more ef
fective stimulus to the world Bolshe
vism, than this. "
TWELVE STATES HAVE
OF
Washington, Jan. 15. Calling at
tention to an increase in unemploy
ment of common labor, a message
today from the National Council ot
Defense says the secretary ot labor
urges all state, county and commun
lty councils to bend every effort to
ward finding or creating' necessary
employment, saying It is possible the
danger point will be reached within
30 days.
Whereas there was unemployment
In seven states a week ago, the mes
sage says, this condition now' pre
vails in 12 California, Colorado,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Mis
souri, Montana, Nebraska, North Da
kota, Oregon and Utah-
London, Jan. 15. An unconfirm
ed wireless message from Kiev says
that the Ukrainian directorate has
fallen. The power in the city now Is
in the hands of the Bolshevikl.
6 MONTHS AND A FINE
St. Helens, Ore., Jan. 15. Ham
Kautzman, editor of the Houlton
Herald, was found guilty of printing
obscene and indecent articles in his
paper. The. penalty may be .six
months in Jail and S500 fine.
4 OREGON 33RD STATE 4
4 TO RATIFY AMENDMENT 4
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4 Salem,' Ore., Jan, lo, Ore- 4
4 gon la the 33rd state to ratify 4
4 the prohibition amendment. 4
4 The "senate voted unanimously 4
4 today, and the house' 53' to 3 4
4 late yesterday. The senate 4
4 adopted a Joint resolution for 4
4 prohibition Introduced by Sen- 4
4 ator Eddy of Douglas county., 4
4, The house adopted Elmore's 4
4 resolution, as did also the sen- 4
4 ate.'-:' J " ' ' 4
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RED
WHOLE -MMIlKIt 2.VI3.
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FOR A MOSES
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MEMBERS ARB KILL OF GOOD
INTENTIONS, BIT NO ONE HAS
' : PROPER PLAN ' ' ' '
SOLDIERS AND ROM IN VIEW
Irrigation to Receive ConsideraUou,
But Immediate Work for Return
ing ranks Come First
Bute Capitol, Salem, Jan. 15.
Schemes, tor the employment ot re
turned soldiers, Involving at least
$20,000,000 are now in sight In the
legislature. Various tentative Ideas
are being advanced,' but yet no one
has a real solution.
In the Oregon legislature there
are 90 members, each one sitting
back and waiting tor one of the oth
er 89 to appear as a 'Moses. The
member who produces a practical so
lution to the problem of finding em
ployment for the returned soldiers
and for the civilians who will be' re
placed by the ex-soldiers' will have.
no trouble in securing' enthusiastic
support It Is generally recognized
in senate and house that the one big
niece of lecrislatlon which mint hat
adopted is a program which will
provide employment for the .return
ing soldiers at good wages." '
Suggestions thus far fall under
mese neaas: Jt-r-noaa construction:
2 Public buildings: 3 Irrigation
development; 4 Clearing logged-off.
lands; 5 Consolidation of Portland'
Dock Commission and Port of Port
land. ' " '-
Possibly alt of these suggestions
will be adapted and Interwoven into
a reconstruction program. Now as
to the finances. There may be $9,-
000,000 for roads, financed by a
bond issue 'cared ' tor by motor ve
hicle license fees; $5,000,000 for Ir
rigation development; $5,000,000
for consolidation ot the Port and
Dock Commissions; $250,000, ap
proximately, for public buildings.
and no one can estimate what the
logged-off lands would require.
The five groups ' Indicated are
merely the high points which have ,
come to. the surface already. Each
one Is calculated to give, employment
to many people. There will ' very
probably be a dozen or a score of
other suggestions brought forward
within the next tour or five weeks. -
On two facts the lawmakers are
unanimously agreed. The first is
that they are prepared to go to al
most any length to create employ
ment for the returning soldiers. The
second fact on which there is unani
mity Is that no one has advanced' a
good, general policy. No legislature
was, ever more filled with good in
tentions. The members will dO the
right thing If some one will show
them how. Suggestions are now In
order, but they should be workable.
'I am at a loss to advance the
right idea," Bald Speaker , Jones.
There are a number ot represen
tatives who have thought deeply, but
tney are apparently as much at sea
as the' others."
Both houses have agreed on a
joint committee to worR out a pro
gram ot consolidation of ' the state '
offices and handle all consolidation
legislation. .
NO LIQUOR TO WET
Honolulu, H. T., Dec. 20. (By
Mall.) The territory ot Hawaii,
made bone dry by action of congress '
itun summer, cannot vote to rescind
or ratify prohibition until the gen
eral territorial election in November,
1920, according to a recent opinloa
by the attorney general's office. V
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