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PRESDENT
HIS PEACE
IN SENATE ADDRESS
Chief Executive Wants Peace Founded On Equality of Rights
Will Give All Nations Full Opportunity For Develop
ment of Resources and Freedom of the Seas Would
Limit Naval and Military Armament Thinks Plan Would
Prevent Future Aggression and Protect Weak Nations
By Robert J. Bender,
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, Jan. 22. Speaking, he said "for liberals
and friends of humanity in every nation and of every pro
gram of liberty", President Wilson today outlined to the
United States senate a program of peace for the world,
which he believed, would keep all the world safe from
future aggression.
He declared that the only peace which can last is a
peace based upon "equality and a common participation
in a common benefit," Guarantees exchanged, he said,
"must neither recognize or imply a difference between big
nations and small."
H then laid down the following basis for a lasting
peace:
Add the authority and power of the United States to
the authority and force of other nations to guarantee
peace and justice throughout the world.
A peace founded on the equality of rights.
A united, independent and autnomous plan.
So far as practicable freedom to all nations for full
development of resources and direct outlet to the great
highways of the seas.
Freedom of the seas.
Limitation of naval and military armament.
The president explained his course by declaring that
it was "inconceivable," that this government should play
no part in the "great enterprise" of peace. Owing, he
said, to the fact that this government did not wish to
withhold its services he felt the people of the United
States were called upon "to state the conditions under
which they will feel free to render it."
In closing his address, the president
said:
"I am proposing, as it were, that the
nations should with one accord adopt
the doctrine of President Monroe as the
doctrine of the world; that no nation
should seek to extend its policy over
any other nation or people, but that ev
ery people should be deft free to deter
mine its own policy, its own way of
development, unhindered, unthreatened,
unafraid, the little along with the
great and powerful-
"I am proposing that all nations
henceforth avoid entangling alliances
which would drive them into competi
tions of power, catch them in a net of
intrigue and selfish rivalry, and dis
turb their own affairs with influences
intruded from without."
Of some form of a league to enforce
peace, the president sail:
"There is no entangling alliance in a
concert of power. When all unite to
act in the same sense and with the same
purposes, nil act in the common interest
aud arc free to live their own lives un
der a common protection."
The president declared these to bo the
American principles and policy.
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PROGRAM
.
"We could stnud for no others," be
declared.
Text of the Address.
Washington, Jan. 22. For the second
time in history, the prosideut of the
United States today addressed a session
of the senate.
President Wilson's speech follows:
"Gentlemen of the senate: On the
eighteenth of December, last, I address
ed an identic note to the governments
of the nations now at war requesting
them to state, more definitely than they
had yet been stated by either group of
belligerents the terms upon which they
would deem it possible to make peace.
"I spoke on behalf of humanity and
of the rights of all neutral nations like
our own, many of whose most vital in
terests the war puts in constant jeop
ardy. The central powers, united in a
reply which stated merely that they
were ready to meet their antagonists in
conference to discuss terms of peace.
The entente powers have replied more
definitely and have stated in general
terms indeed, but with sufficient defin
iteuess to imply to details, the arrange
ments, guarantees and acts of repara
tion which they deem to be the indis
pensible conditions of a sratisfactory set
tlement. "We are that much nearer a definite
discussion of the peace which shall end
the present wnr. We are that much
nearer the discussion of international
concert which must thereafter hold the
world at peace.
"In every discussion of the peace
that must end this way it is taken for
granted that that peace must be fol
lowed by some definite concert of power
which will make ot virtually impossible
that any such catastrophe should ever
overwhelm us again. Every lover of
mankind, every sane and thoughtful
man must take that for granted.
"I have sought this opportunity to
address you because I thought that I
owed it to you as the council associat
ed with me in the final determination of
our international obligations, to disclose
to you without reserve the thought and
purpose that have been taking from in
my mind in regard to the duty of our
government in the days to come when
it will be necessary to lay afresh and
upon a new plan the foundations of
peace among the nations.
"It is inconceivable that the people
of the t,'nited States should play no part
in that great enterprise. To take part
in such a service will be the opportunity
for which they have sought to prepare
themselves by the very principles and
purposes of their policy and the approv
ed practices of their government ever
-ii.ee the days when they set up a new
nation in the high and honorable hope
(Continued on page six.)
Chicago Color Artist
Ends Troubles by Suicide
Chicago, Jan. 22. Mm. Belle Switzer.
color artist for the Y mii:i ij i . j 1 com
jinny, was found cleail in her loom when
Mrs. Sarah Oonohue, with whom she has
lived for the last two years, went to
summon her to breakfast.
Two towels, trapped about the head,
covered a small muslin cloth, which,
the police believe, had been saturated
with chloroform. No chloroform bottle!
was in the room, but the police discover
ed a small cork uear the bed. They'
think Mrs. Switxer threw the bottle
out of the window.
Mrs. Switzer, age 30, was divorced
from her husband in !, Moines, Iowa,
four years ago, but re married, only to
become estranged recently. Letters
found in her room indicate her husband
has sought aiil in freeing himself of an
entanglement in which u 17 year oM
girl had been wronged. One letter,
written December 19, says in part:
"Dear Ilella: I am writing- to- yorr
for help. Dear, I hac got in bad. Yen
know how, Bella it's the truth this
time. Bella, tell me what to do. She
gave me two weeks to think it over.
Bella, if she wan eighteen it would be
better, but she is onlv seventeen."
Full List of State Troops Re
lieved From Duty Is Of
ficially Announced
San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 22. Gener
al Punston has designated more than
25,000 national guardsmen to leave the
border for their home stations at once,
in accordance with the order of Sat
urday. The troops that will move
homeward as soon as transportation fa
cilities can be provided are as follows:
Ke n t u c k y Sec on d infantry.
Maryland Fifth infantry.
Massachusetts Ambulance, company
No. 2, field hospital No. 2.
Minnesota First infantry, first field
artillery.
Oklahoma -First infantry, troops A
and B, cavalry; field hospital company,
company j, engineers.
Pennsylvania Second- field artillery,
company (!. engineers; Sixth infantry,
Eighth infantry, and third brigade
headquarters. I . j
T ond sonadron cavalry.
Tcnnesseo Ambulaneo companyl,
field hospital I.
nis.... second infantry.
Wisconsin Second infantry.
South Carolina Troop A cavalry;
troop C, engineers, and field hospital.
South Dakota Fourth infantry.
Missouri Fourth infantry.
Montana Troop A cavalry.
Nebraska Field hospital No. 1, com
pany A signal corps and Fifth infantry.
New Hampshire First infantry.
New York Seventy Fourth infantry,
field bakery company, supply train,
ambulance company No. 4.
North Carolina First infantry.
Ohio Fourth infantry, Fifth' iirfanty,
Third brigade headquarters, First
squadron cavalry.
Iowa First squadron cavalry, field
hospital, No. 1 ambulance corps, bri
gade headquarters and Third infantry.
Indiana Second infantry, ambulance
compauv No. 2, brigade headquarters.
District of Columbin Battery B,
field artillery.
Illinois Brigade headquarters and
Third infantry.
Delaware Two battalions of infan
try. Aransais (First infantry. .
Louisiana First battalion, field ar
tillery, field hospital No. 1.
MIDDLE IS! STORM
Trains Are Delayed and Street
Car Traffic Paralyzed
In Cities
St. Paul. Minn Jan. 28. A hlizanl.
breaking records for forty years, holdsl
the northwest in its grip. Minneapolis
and St. Paul reported the heaviest fall
of snow, with 17 inches.
Trains and street car traffic was
paralyzed Sunday. The majority of
trains scheduled out of St. Paul were
annulled.
A milk shortage was predicted to
day by creamery men of the Twin Cit
ies. They claimed the farmers through
out the surrounding country on whom
they depend for their milk supply have
notified them that it will be impossible
to ship for several days.
Red Wing, Minn., seems to have been
the hardest hit of the northwest cities
by the storm. It reports a fall of 15
inches of snow. The city is completely
cut off from rail communication, wit
only a limited supply of coal on hand
and severe cold weather predicted.
The Chicago Great Western railroad
discontinued its trains on the Rochester
Red Wing division at noon Sonday and
trains on other lines inure bewi annul!
etl.
The storm area covers South Dako
ta, East Minnesota, Western Wisconsin,
NO LATE NEWS
FROM OPERATIONS
OF SEA RAIDER
Belief Prevailed That Field
of Operations Has Been
Shifted
OFFICIAL NOTICE COMES
OF LOSSES TO NEUTRALS
Agents of Allied Steamship
Companies Consider
Convoys
By Charles P Stewart.
(United Press staff correspondent.)
Buenos Aires, Jan. 22 Absence of ac
counts of depredations by the German
raider or raiders occurring within the
past week and tne fact that a vast cor
don of allied war vessels and guard
ians of neutrality have failed as yet to
locate her, led to the belief today that
the terror or terrors had changed the
field of operations.
Since the raider despatched the Jap
anese steamer Hudson Muru to I'ernam
buco loaded with prisoners, no definite
word of the vessel's whereabouts has
been received. This was on January 12
10 days ago. The packet boat Bahia
reported her belief that the raider had
passed her far off and speeding north
ward, off the coast of Rio Grande Do
Norte.
The most careful questioning of sur
vivors landed at Pernamhuco has failed
to elicit anything like an agreement as
to the raider's appearance. The widest
variance was developed, giving addi
tional credence to the detailed story of
the captain of the captured British
steamer Radnorshire that the raider had
armed and equipped at least one of her
captures, presumably the British mer
chantman St. Theodoie.
The South Atlantic today was literal
ly swarming with searchers for the ship,
or ships, responsible for the blow at al
lied commerce.
Brazil added to her fleet of war ves
sels watching to prevent violations of
neutrality by detaching a number of
vessels from her i'leet. . They will patrol
Brazilian territorial waters. Neutral
merchantmen arriving at various South
American ports reported allied war ves
sels almost constantly in sight. Five
steamships variously reported as mer
chantmen and cruisers were said to be
lurking between Provoacao and Yacare.
Lack of any recent information locat
ing the Germans in adjacent South Am
erican waters has so impressed Chile
with the belief that the raider has
changed it8 field of operations and that
this new field may be the southern Pa
cific, that the Chilean navy has been
called on for vigorous patrol duty.
Dispatches from Rio I)e Janeiro today
carried vigorous denial of the Brazilian
authorities of reports that German ves
sels interned there including a German
gunboat had been permitted to outfi
and take on supplies. The rumors had
developed to widespread reports hore
that such vessels were preparing to
make a dash for the open sea to join
the raider. The steamer Tinto's escape
and reports of her subsequent meeting
with a Gorman vessel at sea were re
vived as evidencing extensive German
preparations for the raid.
OFFICIAL REPORT RECEIVED
By J. P. Yoder.
(United Press staff correspondent.)
Washington, Jan. 22. The state de
partment's first official word on the
German raider's capture of prisoners in
the South Atlantic, including 10,'i neu
trals, came from Ambassador Gerard to
day in a message, saying the total pris
oners numbered 400,
There was no mention of Americans
in the number, officials said.
The message referred to prisoners on
the Yarrowdale, which has arrived at a
German port.
The department announced that it.
had inquired of Germany whether Am-
were involved.
A- the Same time, it indicated that
t will demand their release, if Amer
icans were auoaru; win stand pat on its
position mat tne rarrowdale was a
peaceful merchantman, inasmuch as she
cleared as such from New York; will
hold that Germany had no right to take
any American members of her crew pris
oners. The department will maintain Ger
many has no right to convert ships on
the high seas into raiders
Its course will probably be:
To demand release of the prisoners
and, it is indicated Germany would not
balk at such a request.
(Continued n- age six.)
and extends to the Great Lakes.
North Dakota, Montana and Mani
toba report only a small fall of snow
but rapidly lowering temperatures. The
temperature in the Twin Cities at H
(o'clock this morning registered 15 be
low.
The Minneapolis school hoard an
nounced there will be no school in that
city today.
Paulhamus To Start
Cannery In Valley
Puyallup, Wash., Jan. 22. W. H.
Taulhamus, president of the Puyallup
and Sumner Fruit Growers' associa
tion, who has announced plans for the
establishment of canneries at North
Yakima, Spokane aud somewhere in
the Willan.'"tte valloy, said today that
he is planning on visiting Oregon to1
look over the situation about the
middle of February. He says he will 1
visit Salem, Albany, Corvallis, New-'
berg and Brownsville.
He receiveM a telegram from the Al-'
bany Commercial dub last Monday!
urging him to come there. He has i
written saying he will be glad to have j
the opportunity of looking over that
eettan of the valley.
If the Willamette valley is success-'
ful in getting a cannery, backed bv an I
association ns large as the P. & S., it
Will be an institution that will fur
nish employment to from 10,000 to 15,
000 people during a big portion of the
year. This is the case in the Puyallup
valley. The P. & S. association has a
membership of approximately, 1,500
growers. The berry season opens in
June and lasts until after October. To
harvest the berry crop of this valley
it' required between 8,000 and 10,000
berry picktrs last year, aid even then
there wasn't enough. These pickers
come from all over the state, but a
big percentage of them are local resi
dents men, women and children.
whole families, take advantage of the
great amount of work.
Each picker is
paid 30 cents a crate.
DIPLOMATIC SHAKE-UP
PLAN OF PRESIDENT
BEGINNING
By Robert J. Bender
(United Press staff correspondent)
Washington, Jan. 22. President Wil
son is planning a shakeup of the dip
lomatic service after March 4. Custom
decrees that "all American diplomats
submit their resignations at the close
of every presidential term and this is
expected to bffer the president his op
portunity to improve the diplomatic
service, "with less politics and more
regard for efficiency."
In this connection, there was nn un
confirmed report today that Secretary
of State Lansing mi.'jht succeed Am
bassodar Walter Ilines Page at ten
don. "Deserving democrats" in the dip
lomatic service are scheduled to go.
The president has indicated his desire
to secure for the future the services of
secretaries in diplomatic service who
have provd themselves especially
adapted for such work, by promoting
them to the rank of minister and am
bassador. In this way, the president
hopes to instill into the whole diplomat-.
ic service tne principle or promotion
by efficiency and not necessarily by
seniority."
The president will, of course, hold
himself free to choose ministers and
ambassadors from outside the diplomat
ic corps, should he find men "pecul
iarly qualified" for diplomatic work.
The diplomatic shakeup is only one.
of the number of plans which the pres
ident has in mind lor improving in the
administration and of the government. I
He desires not only to set a new stand
ard of efficiecy in diplomatic appoint
SALEM GIRL WRITES
OF VISIT IN LAND OF
THE SULTAN OF SULU
"Of all the beautiful little cities I
have ever visited, Zaniboanga stands
at the head of the list."
It is thus that Mis.; Kli.abeth Lord,
I who is traveling in the Philippine Is
lands with her mother, .Mrs. VVilluni P.'
! Lord, describes a city at the extreme
i west coast of the island of Mindanao,
I the land of the fierce Moros, and but
a few hours sail from tin1 home of that
: famous personage, "The Sultan ot Su-'
lu."
To the average Oregon (an, the Philip
I pine Islands and especially those in the
I southern part of the group, are about
the jumping off plate, Vet when the
steamer stopped at the island of Ne
.gros, about a thousand miles south of
i Manila, Miss Lord writes: "Our time
on shore wan limited, but luckily, I met
ian acquaintance who possessed an l)ver-
laud anil we all .pimped into tile ma-,
chine and hud an hour's spin over the1
most perfect roads in the world, with
eocouuiit pnlms and graceful bamboos;
lining the roadside. In Damaguete, the.
principal city of Negros, there is n j
! Presbyterian college with no enrollment
of 600 students. It is well known for,
its splendid training and high stand !
ard.'
Traveling in that far off land, not
so very far north of the equator and
the home of the typhoon is rather ex
citing. Of the first night out on the ,
steamer Romulus, she writes: "It w
a lark sleeping on deck, each party had
their own corner, the balmy ocean
breezes, plus the hard cocoanut fiber
mattresses, assisting us in early slum-j
hers. At 2 o'clock in the morning we
experienced a most frightful storm and
ray first thought was a typhoon. These
tropical storms burst out unannounced ,
Governor Withycombe
Will Occupy Pulpit
Stayton, Ore., Jan. 22. Having good
humoredity promised Rev. E. B. Loc'c
hart, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church of this city, a year ago that he
would accept the letter's invitation and
"come over and preach" some Sunday
for him. Governor Withycombe today
told the minister that he could count
upon his coming to Stayton and deliver
ing an address soon after the legislature
closes, as the first of a series of 10
Sunday night discourses in that church
as a part of a forward movement plan
ned by the pastor in the interests of the
community life.
Other speakers in the Stavton pulpit.
well known in official life, and their
topics as arranged by Mr. Lockhart, are
Major Carle Abrams, of the State In
dustrial Accident commisison. on
"What I Learned From My Experiences
on the Border;" Assistant State Super
intendent of Public Instruction E. F.
Carleton, on "Education and Chara."
ter;" Representative Seymour Jones, on
"What the Legislature Did for the
Moral Life;" Judge P. H. D'Arcy, on
"The Flag;" and Will Hale, superin
tendent of the State Training Sshool
for Boys, on ' ' Why Boys Go Wrong. "
L. H. f'ompton, secretary of the Salem
Y. M. C. A., will speak on "The Twen
tieth Century Young Man;" Attorney
L. H. Mahone, of Fortland, a former
member of the legislature; ex-Mayor
Steeves. of Salem, and Attorney Elmo
White, of Snlem, will also be heard
The governor's speech, which will be
the keynote address of the series, will
be entitled, "Citizenship."
NEW TERM
ments, but to carry this same idea into
the selections of members of various
federal commissions and boards.
A new budget system for national ex
penditures is contemplated to obtain a
maximum of efficiency for minimum of
waste ns well as to permit of complote
checking up of where funds go.
In this plan for itemization of ex
penses will come also a systomntiza
tion of rivers and harbors Improvements
and flood control.
The president's general plan for in.
creasing administration efficiency also
contemplates granting of permission by
congress for cabinet members to appear
on the floor of the house and senate
and discuss features of administration
bills.
With the close of the present session
of congress, the president expects the
major portion of his legislative pro
gram that which he had in mind when
he first took office to have been en
acted into law.
There will bo other legislation but
with the president's ideas on federal
reserve banks, rural credits and other
legislation consummated, he hag told
friends his next efforts will be directed
more toward the administrative branch
of the government.
He is expected to set a standard for
federal boards in the selection of his
tariff commission. Incidentally, in
this connection, he has experienceil
such hardship in getting suitable men
at the' low salaries, allowed that he is
expected to make an appeal to congress
for more ample remuneration.
and simply inundate you with damp
ness. We were certainly wet creatures
and had to stay wet as there was no
place to go on this small steamer."
Saw the First Moro
"My firs' glimpse of a real Moro
was interesting. Never shall I forget
one specimen as he came swinging
down the rond, tall erect, and inde
pendence written on his face. No won
der the Spanish never conquered them"
And yet in what the average indi
vidual regards ns an uncivilized coun
try, Miss Lord saw on the island of
Mindanao, the home of the Moro, a lit
tle garden spot she describes:
"In the middle of the street was a
canal of water where water lillies were
with tropical trees, palms, dainty and
huge leaved plants, ferns, and on tho
reel were great varieties of orchids.
It was the prettiest garden effect I had
ever seen in the Orient4 aud we all
agreed it far surpassed the famous gar
dens of Japan."
The home of the Moro isn't so far
behind the high civilization of Oregon.
Re sardine the roads, Miss Lord writes:
' How you would love motoring here.
It is amazing how wonderful the roads
are in this far away land. It is like
riding through a park. The roadside
is free from all unsightly obstacles,
while palms and trees are planted not
only for beauty's sake but for the shade
A road keeper is stationed every kilo
meter and as a prize is offered for the
best strip of road, each man takes an
interest in his work."
Zamboanga is a long way from Ore
pn and Salem, yet it Iirb the., prison tor
that island. Sho writes: "In this
(Continued on page twe.)
BILL TQ DIVIDE
! CLACKAMAS IS
j LOST J SENATE
i
I Debate Was Long and Some-
ITIHU LHV1 U1J VTC1 j
Measure
MEDICAL SOCIETY URGES
STERILIZATION MEASURE
House Passes Three Bibs and
Receives Several New
Measures
It was a day of oratory in the senate
so far as the morning session was con
cerned. Rev. Edwin Ingalls, of the
Jason Lee M. K. church, starting the.
day with prayer, and the governor with
a message brief and unimportant. A pe
tition from the medical societv askine-
the passing of the bill in relation fo
steri'ization of the feeble minded moral
peicerts and degenerations was received
innd referred.
I Senate resolution No. 30, by Steiwrr,
regarding a change of senate rules s to
printing was referred. Then Senator
Garland introduced S. R. No. 6, pointing
out that the house had refused to concur
in the senate resolution for the crea
tion of a joint committee to act in the.
matter of consolidating boards and com
missions, and again asking the home to
unite with the senate in solving this
question. This started the verbal fire
works. Garland spoke feelingly on the,
subject. So did Eddy who thought it
was no time for petty jealousies, it was
on important measure and he we not
going to allow his personal feelings in
terfere with the business the leirislaura
, had before it.
Barrett objectod, because the senate)
had offered to act jointly with fh
house, whi.-.h had refused and he did!
not feel it comported with the dignity
of the .senate to make a second request.
Vinton indorsed tho resolution strongly.
His pride wsb hot hiirl so badly it would
not recover, and he thought the senate
should mnko the e'ffort to get the bouse
to act with it.
Orton asked: "If the house again re
fuses to consur will the senator ash still
a third timet"
Orton replied most emphatically that
he "would if there was any chance of
having the offer accepted. " Then, just
when the debate was getting interesting,
Orton, who is on the senate committee
named for the consolidation work, ash
ed the matter be made the special order
for 2 o'clock this afternoon, and the
war of words ended.
Following this Dimick asked the
courtesies of the senate be extended the
Hon. Georgo W. Joseph, who he describ
ed ns a distinguished Irishman who at
the last session took great interest in,
the pawn brokers' bill. He is now broke,
said Dimick, and is dodging anything
that looks like a pawnbroker. Gill want
ed to know if Dimick 's remarks were
to be considered the "usual courtesies
of the senate!" and President Mosrr
said anything goes between Dimick and
Joseph.
Clackamas County Wins
Senate bill No. 20 was reported back
by the committcu on counties with the
recommendation that it do not page and
Orion submitted a minority report, that
it do pass, and moved the substitution
of the minority report for that of the
majority.
The bill was for taking some 13
square miles of territory from Clacka
mas county und annexing it to Mult
nomah. Senator Dimick got tho floor and
made the first real red-hot argument
of the session. He said Mr. Wilson who
is backing the bill and who claimed he
was overburdened with tuxes in Clacka
mas paid some $1M in that line, but he
might be one of those "who put their
property und their religion in their
wives' names." It was he and "other
suit case residents" who were signers
of tln petition asking the change. Be
hind it ull though was the Oregon Iron
nnd Steel company whkh had :i largo
number of town lots it wanted to sell,
and which hoped by getting into Mult
nomah county to have a boulevard built
from Portland" clear around their proper
ty. It was n real estate boom and noth
ing else. There were from 1,000 te 2,000
people in the district and from 600 to
(Continued from page one.)
THE WEATHER
sfc )c (c sc s(t s(i (c ?fc jc
r swore off'
hut THIS
DoMt coufsTj
Oregon: To
night and Toes
day partly
cloudy west, gen
erally fair fast
portion; warmer
east portion to
night; southerly
winds.