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mm VOL. l.X. No. l:tO. V - (HUNTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AJ'IUL 2, WHOLE NUMBER- 2031. .;V, JAPS BELIEVE IN CARING FOR 01 INTEREST JKAUUH OF AMICIIM'A'H HTHIIHX, THKY WANT TO HVrAIN Al FORTIFY t'F.HTAIN IH,..NIrt IS llourtcr, Out Jiipiiiiei KUitcxnmn I''Hlit llonuivtl by Participation III 1C4IUIK' of XntJou Toklu. Apr. 2. Public opinion In Japan In. not entirely unatilmou on the question whether Jupan hould retain iKHwemlon of the Marshall nd Caroline Islands which she took from Uoruiuny and now hold. The Osaka MalnMil art forth the mil tudo of many Japanese thinker In an article In which Unit newspaper innlwlff that the IhIuiiiIm shall lie re tnlned. The Malninhl doduru that. If America was allowed to seUe and fortify Hawaii and thus to greatly threaten Japan; if aha was permit ted to occilpy (lunm and the Philip plnn, making them not only a on roe of wealth to herself but bIho a great menaie to Japan, China and tho British and Dutch immtetwlona; If Australia and' New Zealand have similar control over New Gulona and Samoa; It la certain that Japan shall possess the iMarahall and Caroline Island, exercising the mi mo ' right and ruin over them. I "And in so doing," the paper as sorts, "Japan will be only acting the part of a small watch dog faithfully protecting It own house, In a very different manner and spirit from the American -wolf whoso wolflnh ambi tion 1 Indeed to be feu rod. If Jap an I not to 4)6 allowed to fortify the Inlands she took from Germany and which of right belong to tier, then the defense of Gibraltar, the Sue Canal and other point should 'be raxed. 'HrxHol deqi-rtinlnaiiory treatment In these respects too, should he abolished and these Inland not be left to white man' domination." The oppoHlto view was expressed by Yuklo Ozakl, a former minister of Justice, In nn address delivered In Toklo a few days ago In which he said: "It la, Indeed, a great honor for Japan to occupy tho position of a stockholder In that great Interna ' tlonal corporation, the league of na tions. The honor la far greater than Japnn will obtain by the pos session of tho 'Marshall ahd Caroline 'islands." . ' riI)T HAWKER WILL TRY . ('ROBBING OCEAN THIS WEEK St. Johns, N. P., Apr. 2. Pilot Hawker of the Sopwlth Airplane with which an aUemplt 'will be made to fly from Newfoundland to Ireland, declared today he expected to start not later than April 10. NO R.R. BUILDING BY GOV'T. AT PRESENT Portland, A.pr. 2, It Is not the lntontlon of the railroad admtnla tratlon to make an extension of line for tho present, according to a tolegram recolved hore toy the Cham ber of Commerce from 8enator Mc Nary a Washington. The sonator advised that he had Icon Informed by the director gon eral of railroads that $110,000,000 liad beon borrowed ' for operation (purposes, and other socurltle al lowed to foe used for a 'basis of cred it. Only such tie and rail material will be purchased as may foe nocee ary for the safe operation or the line. Railroads will foe permitted to make extension and ibetterments subject to the approval of the dlrec tor general If sale la found for bond to finance such operations. If IMS ll fiiM to Stay Willi Prices Agreed I'Imiii for Htti'l mid I'ual -I wins-tt-lnt llonrtl May Dissolve Washington, Apr. 2. Member of Die cabluot and bead of government linn IiuhIiik agencies were culled by Secretary (ilan today to consider whether the plan of readjustment of price 'through the Industrial board will bo adhered to iby the govern ment. Ttio meeting In tlie outKrowth of a dlHpute arising from the alleged rofimul of Die railroad adminlbtru tUiu to accept price agreed upon for steel and roul.' The Induatriul board may go out of existence unless an im-rni'imuit U readied. PACIFIC COAST WILL GET HALF OK U. S. FLEET Seattle, Apr. 2 Half of America's Atlantic warship fle4 I to bo as signed to wriuan-iit station on the Tanlflc, member of the house of rep resentatives declared horo today. "It will be a DO-50 propoHitlon, the fleet being equally divided," Ropre sentutlve William J. Browning. New Jersey, replied when nuked the num ber of vessels to bo sent to tho Pu clfle. Represontnllve Hrownlng said he did not know when tho change would be made, but supposed plans for the change will 'be started soon. COSSACKS LOSEJANY Paris, Monday, Alar. 31. M. Duo- avltcli, former premier of tho Kuban republic, formed Immediately . after the revolution and consisting of sev en states In the dcaticaslaa region, Is In I'arls with a delegation and has presenlod a memorandum to the peace conference asking allied sup port to prevent thtf repuhllo "being doprlvcd of Independence by bolshe- vlsm." M. Ducavitch stated today that the losses of the Kuban Cos sacks in the fighting against the Bolshevik! had been four time as heavy es during throe year of war against Germany. lie said that one- third of the population of military age had been killed and not enough men were left to cultivate, the soil. CHICAGO STRONG FOR E Chicago, Apr. 2. Complole re turns of the election show that TV 11 Ham Hall Thompson, republican, has been re-elected mayor of this city by a plurality of 1 7,t00 over .nobcrt Swoltzor, democrat, after a most 'bit tor oamiaign. The city voted "wot" by a major ity of 247,228 Vote. - "lU RLKHONISM" TO (XST I'ICOPLK f 10,0OO,000 PKH YKAH New York, Apr. 2. Clarence H Mackny, president of the Postal Tolegraph Cablo company, In a state mont said that the 20 er cent in' crease in telegraph rate ordered by Postmastor General Burleson means a loss of $16,000,000 a year to tolegraph users. He declared his company would reitore (he old rate at once It Mr. Burleson would re: llnqulsh control of the Postal lines, London, Apr. 2. A ewspnper of A gram, Jugo-Slavla, announces that the dynasty of Karageergevltch has been deposed and a republic pro claimed with- Belgrade as - the capl tnl of Siberia, according to a Rome dispatch, . ' 1 2.000 ARRIVE AT NEW YORK ON LEVIATHAN IIOYH FROM 01 ST AM) OTHER lI VIKIONH FEEL A.MIOKICAX soil r.Mii:u feet illHili Miulilno Gun Battalion Kuffcr KM! CaHiijilMes Minister Hm elves French War Cross New York, Apr. 2. The Lovlath an arrived here ' today from Brest with over 11,000 troop. Tills In cluded small detachment of the flat division, mostly officers of the 3t7th and 348th field artillery. More of the 91st came on the Lib erator from St. Nazal re and the Orl zalia from St. Nazalre. These In cluded the "303rd infantry, mostly CullfornlaAs, several companies ' of tho 3i!4tb Infantry and headquarters, also member of the 34Stu machine gun battalion, medical and ordnance departments. Among the officer of the 348th machine gun battalion ret urn hi g on the Orizaha was Lieutenant W. L. H Osborne of Roeeburg. He said his battalion suffered nearly 300 casual ties, of whom 40 were killed. Captain John W. Beard, former Presbyterian pastor at Hoqulara Wash., returned with the French war cross for carrying the wounded o safety through heavy fire In Bel glum: Salem, Ore., Apr. 2. Colonel George Kelly ha declined the ap pointment to the soldiers' and sail ors' commission. Governor Oloott has named H. D. Kllham, of Tort- land, to replace Mr. Kelly. DEAN OF UNIVERSITY 1 1 Spokane, Wash., Apr. 2. "Edu-i cation and Democracy" was the title of an address made here today by J, E. Jewell, dean of the University of Arkansas, before the Inland Em pire Teachens association. He said in part: "The only democracy thinkable Is democracy of Intelligence. .Noth- ng else Is possible. "It 1 not true that all men are born tree and equal, It la not true that you may wake a man freo by flat. A glance backward Bhows us that man has enhanced hi political, social and economic status only as he -has worked out .his own salva tion by means of an accumulating Intellect. ' "It was, ibecause the more Intelli gent negroes discovered this law to be inherent that Booker T. .Washing ton founded his school at TuBkegee. No man has been more outspoken In reinforcing this psychological law than Dr. Washington, who spent a long life preaching to hla people, on every possible occasion, that only by acquiring a higher degree of intelli gence could they make themselves In any way functioning members of American democracy. "Every great movement this earth ha seen has been lost if leaders have failed to appear or to retain tljelr leadership. It Is no Occident that the epochs of the 'world's his tory are largely named after lndl: vlduals. It is hardly in a figurative sense that Washington is called the father of hla country, and Lincoln It savior. . Consider the events that have transpired in Russia within the last few months. A revolution came almost over night, but It was not for tuitous. It came only because the leader of a 'blind people had paid the price through generations and had given their live to make easier MEN ARE NU Til F ATTEMPT TO TEAR DOWN IS NOT SUCCESS IU;iW KAIL TO WI.V OVKIt CrUU MAN-At HTItl.V AM) STIUKKS KAIL IX VIKXXA RHINE VALLEY A itevolullou Agulust Soviets Hreuks Out at PetroKDul Smui1 Itcvo. liitlonlstH to the Front Parts, Apr. 2. Reports to the French foreign office say the Bolshe vik movement in German-Austria has been unsuccessful. The railroad strike at Vienna has ended after a few hours disturbance, and the in surrection at Gratz has been put down. Paris, Apr. 2. The councn of four considered tho question of re parations and disposition of the Rhine valley. Probably three more days will be occupied on these sub jects. i , London, Apr. 2. Reports that the revolution against the soviet govern mont has broken out at Potrograd are supported by official Russian wireless dispatches saying that there is serious strike of sail way men in the Petrograd region. The strike was prompted iby Mensheriki and so da! revolutionists. CAPTAIX MEKTS 1KATH WHEN BARK GOES ASnORE San Francisco, Cal., Apr. 2. Cap tain I'lburg, of the hark Albert, met death today when his bark went ashore at Point Reyes. The crew of ten men Is believed to have landed safely. CLAIMS THAT ALL the course of freedom for the mas ses. "Democracy cannot be won by mere revolution that proves success' tul. The democracy thinkable is a democracy of Intelligence. We rea lize now very clearly that Russia Is lost for a generation unless it finds men whose supreme Intelligence shall make .them supremely power ful. "If then it ibe true, as I confident ly believe, that the only possible democracy is that of intelligence, what can we teachers do about it? Just this. We can assert in season and out of season, that we can not get and promote intelligence to any marked degree except in our schools "So far as our country Is concern ed, at the present time, we need two things, It eeems to me, in the way of 'bringing about' an intellectual de mocracy through the medium 'of our schools and our teachers. We need a universal training of our children In community civics, and we need universal training in thinking. In the first plaoe, we need a universal teaching of community civics so that we shall no longer require food- dic tators and coal dictators, and the like. It Is evident that our coal 'bar ons have not yet learned that over charging is treason The people at large lhave a hetter right to live than coal operators have to swollen for tunes. vAnd the ultimate consumer will have to learn: that for a man to cheat a railroad. Is Just as treas onable as for ta railroad to defraud a man. "We should learn that community civics begin at home. Each mem ber of each 'household has certain rlghts and each ha corresponding dutles. It our children learn these In their plastic age It will do much toward Insuring proper, standards in adult life." ' REE AND EQUAL FARM LANDSCLIffiB ill DMtrtnient of Agriculture' Bays Av erage. Plow Lund Advanced Frum 38 to 74 in Three Years Washington, Apr. 2. Farm lands In the United State are steadily in- reasing In value. The department of agriculture reports the average grade of plow land was worth about $74.31 per acre on March 1 this year, compared with $68.38 a year ago, $62.17 (two years ago, and $58. 39 three years ago. Value show the greatest percent age increase during the last year occurred in the South Atlantic states. In the Carolina and Georgia and extended to Alabama, Kentucky and Arkansas. Small or no increases were made in the New England States, the Pacific coast states, and Louisiana, Texas, Kansas and ilon tana. Material increases ' were re ported from Nebraska and South Da kota. Iowa's plowing lands stand first In value, her average being $169 per acre, followed by Illinois with $144, California with $121, and Indiana with $100. Alabama reports the lowest average value of plow lands, at $24 per acre, and Mississippi next at $25.50. The department places the aver age value of Oregon's farm lands for the year 1916 at $60 and for 1919 at $81. MAN! TRACTORS WILL BE BUILT DURING 1919 Washington, Apr. 3. A produc tion of 314.936 tractors In the Unit ed States in 1919 is estimated by manufacturers reporting to the office of farm equipment control, United States department of agriculture. The reports obtained in a special in quiry by the department show a production of 132,697 tractors in 1918. The manufacturers gave the number of tractors of different sizes manufactured last year, and est! mates or itne number of each size that will be made this year! The figures for 1919, of course, are mere ly estimates and represent the aggre gate of the estimates submitted toy the tractor manufacturers in Janu ary and February of this year. Seattle, Wash., Apr. 2. Tempor arily insane when she poisoned Mrs. Grace Storrs two weeks ago, but sane now. . This was the plea entered yester day afternoon lie Judge Tallman' court by Ruth Garrison, the 18-year old girl who confessed She had plac ed strychnine In the fruit salad eaten iby the wife of Dudley Storra, the men with 'whom, she was enamored. The Garrison girl answered "not guilty" when the question waa put to her by the Judge. - '.'Not guilty by reason of Insanity at the time of the commission of the crime," was the technical wording of the plea.' Accompanying the oral statement was also a written plea setting forth that since the date of the orl me, Ruth Garrison has been sane and would be "safe to be allow ed at large." v SCHOOL GIRL TRIES THE SUICIDE ROUTE Seattle, Wash., Apr. 2 'Miss iRuth Morgan, 16 year old school girl, un- I successfully attempted to poison her- self here today, the police announce. It 1 believed that -her act was sug gested by Ruth Garrison's can Ten sion PL VALUE NOT TOO PROUD TO FIGHT, BUT ASK JUSTICE IIAKOX M.1K1XO OF JAPANESE DELEGATION SPEAKS PLAINLY AT PEACE CONFERENCE THREATENS CHINESE GOV'T. Fears That Premature Disclosures of Secret Itocnments Will Cause Financial Loss to Japan Paris, Apr. 2. No Asiatic nation could be happy in the league of na tions In which a sharp racial discrim ination is maintained, Baron MakJno, head of the Japanese delegation, told the Associated Press today. "We are not too proud to fight, but too proud to accept a place of admitted infer tority in dealing with one or more associated nations. We want noth ing tut simple justice," said the baron. Peking, Mar. 27. The Japanese minister here has warned the Chi nese government that if the prema ture disclosure of secret document by China causes loss to Japanese financial and commercial interest. Japan will hold China responsible for snch loss. As a result, the Chi nese government has further post- poned the contemplated publication of secret agreements between China and Japan. ' . v American and British agreement with China which were not regarded as secret, were published officially this week. Since their arrival In Pans ' the Chinese delegates have 'been urging the publication of all the secret agreements between China and Jap an. The attitude of Japan has been one of opposition, although it was reported in a Reuter dispatch re ceived in London February 12 from Tokio that Baron Makino, head of the Japanese delegation in Paris, had been instructed to disclose all unpublished treaties. Official diplomatic Information reaching Washington early In Feb ruary indicated that Japan virtually had threatened war if China made public the secret treaties and tailed to carry out an arrangement to make Japan the successor of Ger many In rights, property and conces sions in China. On March 16 treaties between China and Japan respecting railroad concessions In Manchuria and north eastern China were published simul taneously In Peking and Toklo. Vancouver, Wash., Apr. 4 2. The price of coal oil, which for a long period' has been 15 cents a gallon, today rose to 18 cents. AND THESE MEN IRE KENTUCKIANS, TOO Louisville, Ky., Apr. 2. iProhibi- tlon by agreement became effective today In Christian county, Ky. Al ter an. election on the prohibition question had been proposed, the liquor dealers, in view of the ap proach of national prohibition, con sented to discontinue sale of llo.uor on April 1. The effect of the novel experiment, which authorities say was never at tempted before in America, will be watched with interest. Under tlm agreement, the liquor dealers pledged themselves to aid in enforcing prohibition, and to use their Influence against the Issuance of new licenses by county authori ties. If new applicant take action against county authorities to compel Issuance of licenses, the old liquor dealers agree to bear 50 per cent, ot the cost of lighting such suits. iva'wirtRtv XiZtttrtn:'lrfrfr-.w,l'W