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ft ft I 5250 CIRCULATION I : . (25,000 READERS DAILY) . Only Circulation in Salem Guar- nnteed by the Audit Bureaa of 0 - Circulations. t FULL LEASED WIRE t . DISPATCHES - SPECIAL WILLAMETTB 1 VALLEY NEWS 8EBY1CE . tnnntj i. J Oregon: Tonight and Sunday probably rain; gentle westerly winds. - - tt U FORTY- SECOND YEAR NO. 211. FOURTEEN PAGES. SALEM, OREQON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1919. PRICE TWO CENTS ONNTBUKB J" J r BTASfXS IX J f Mi SRi -n nfM: a a VIS -ii 1 mm mmxmmm TREATY Declares Enefifes Actuated by "Private PohlicaPMrpose" WUlBebbted .Convention Hall, Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 6.Treaty opponents who view the document with "jaundice eyes", who are against it because they have some "private po litical purpose" will at last be gibbeted and they will re gret that the gibbet is so high, President Wilson told a big crowd here today. He reiterated that it was a case of ."put up or shut up," that the oppo sition would have to produce something better than the league of nations, or step aside. Mere negation without offering any thing constructive to replace the treaty is bolshevism, he asserted. He said he respected the men who honestly, although ignornntly, opposed the treaty, denouncod those who are against it" for political reason. The Philippine Islands, he "said, would get their independence under the league. The league, ho declared, would simplify that problem. There was great applause when the president proclaimed that through the treaty "the American spirit had made conquest of the world." ' ' "The war was won by the American spirit," ho cried. ' : Thero was a wild shout from tho crowd. , If the treaty is beaten, those respon sible will have a "lifclontfTeckoning with the fighting forces of" the United States." '. , The cause he is fighting ' for "Ms . greater than the senate or the govern " ment'J and lie intends "in office and out tofighf it as long as I livc.' 'Here is the covenant of tho. league of nations," he cried, "I am n;cove nanter." Entering leal "enemy territory" the home of Senator Beod, one of the most 'bitter opponents of the league of na tions, Wilson received a tremendous ovation when he stepped on' the plat form here to make his appeal for rati fication. . ; The uproar rivalled that at St. Louis last night Ibut did not- contimie long er than two minutes. Wilson took his scat immediately and paid hardly any attention to the applause, merely faint ly smiling at one particularly loud outburst.- - T Practically every one of the thou sands in the crowded hall carried a small flag. Those, flourished with ev ery otitbreakof cheering, made a vivid spectacle. . ( . . .. ' , "Hurrah for President Wilson," yell ed a man in tho gallery as the applause subsided. There was also a yell of ".lim Reed" as the crowd shouted. Handclapping uud an occasional clamor of cheering brought Wilson t ' his feet bowing and waving his hat. Wilson went into a detailed expla nation of the league uf nations powers to prevent war dwelling on the "boy " eott feature," by which offending na tions, might Ibo isolated. He was heard for the most part in deep, intense silence with occasional brief periods' of handclapping. lUne of the purposes of the treaty, he said, waa to destroy autocratic authori ty everywhere in the World. The war, he .said, included the Ger - nian people as well as other peoples. father of Boy Killed When Hit By Motor Bus and Trolley Gar Brings Two Suits for Damages Silas E. Howard, father of Theodore Howard, who"was killed in an accident on State street last June, has brought suit for damages against the Marion hotel company and against the South ern Pacific company. The suit is in the . form of two complaints, one asking damages of $o(ilM as father of Hi boy killed, and another claiming $7500 for the estate of 3oung Howard. In the complaint it is alleged that at the time of the accident the Marion hotel company carelessly and negli gently operated its hotel bus, alleging that it was placed in charge of an in experienced and unlicensed driver who did not know how to operate or drive the bus. Also, that in lieu of the regular bus of the hotel, another car was used and that at the tune of the accidcnt.it was traveling at the. rate of 30 miles an hour and that it wrongfully atempted to claim the right' of wav over young J L : - . !i .1119 rignt ana ran into lueouwrejwas nnj09"iie , iu w--i tuctucr ms Howard, throwing him on the street (d,?ath was due to.'the force of the col ear track in front of an approaching " street tar. (Continued on page three) OPPONENTS VIEW PACT Wilson cited Russia as an example of miuority rule and denounced the 'group of men, more cruet than the czar him self," who control that country. ' - , President's Address. Convention . Hall, Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 6. The text of President Wilson's address follows: ' - Mr. Chairman, my fellow countrymen: "It is very inspiring to me to Stand in the presence of so great a company of my fellow citizens and have the privilege of performing the duty that I have come to perform. That duty is to report to my fellow citizens concern ing the work of the peace conference, and every day it seems to me to become more necessary to report, because so many people, who are talking about it, don't understand what it was. "I caine back from Paris, bringing one of the greatest documents of human history (applause). One of the things that made it great was that it was penetrated throughout with tho princi ples to which America has devoted her life. Let me hasten to say that one off the most delightful (iircumslaiicos of the work on the other side of the water was that I discovered that what we called American principles had penetrated to the heart and to the understanding, not only of the groat peoples of Europe, but to tho hearts aud understandings pf the great men who were representing tho peoples of Europe. "When these principles were written into this treaty they were written there by common consent and common con viction but it remains true nevertheless my fellow citinens, that principles arc writteifcinto that treaty which wero nev er written into any great international understanding before and thai they have their natural' birth and origin in this dear country to which we have de voted our life and service. (Applause.) And if you will bear with me I will tcinind you of some of the things that we have long desired and which are at last accomplished in this treaty, I think that' can say that ono of the things that America has had most at heart throughout her existence has been that there should bo Substituted for the brutal processes of war the friendly pro cesses of consultation and arbitration, (applause) nnd that is done in the cove nant of the league of nations. I ain very anxious that my fellow citizens should realize that there is the chief topic of the covenant of the league of nations. "The greater part of its sessions, the whole intent and purpose of tho docu ment are expressed in provisions ty which all the member states agree tn".t Continued on Page Eight.; It is aUo alleged tho street car was being operated at an illegal speed at the time of the accident and that it was not equipped as the law provides with fenders and brakes that would work automatically and that neither were in eondition to operate. It is al leged that the fender did not project as required by law and that it was not low enough to prevent the body of Howard from going under the ear. Another complaint against the rail road company owning the street car system is that at the time of tho acci dent, the inotorman was talking to a passenger and that he was not using ordinary precaution and that he failed to drop the fender. As a result the body of Howard was dragged by the street car 70 feet with the heavy weisat of Dart of the machinery on jhiin. The complaint alleges that on ac- t ? . ei.i.i a11 1 . I 1.: ! TIED UP BY STRIKE Walk-Out Comes When Pub lishers Refuse Demand For Higher Wages. Tucoiiia, Wash., Sept. C A strike of Tacomn printers, members of Typogra phical Union No. 170, held up publica tion of all Taeoma newspapers today. The -printers are demanding a new wage scale of $9.25 and $10 for a work ing day of six and one-half hours, They have been receiving $7 aud $7.C0 for seven hours, which the publishers claim is the highest in the United States and 60 per cent higher than the average oi all cities of Tacoma 's class in the coun try. - - The strike was called Iste yesterday after a revised scale calling lor $8.25 and $8.75 had been presented by the un ion scale committee, with tlia statement that unless this scale was accepted at once a walkout would be called imme diately and the origi:val demands en forced. The proposed wage scale was refused. ' ' The publishers . declare they stand ready to submit their caso to arbitra tion and agree to have the award retro active to September 1. SALEM KIODUCT TO BEi WIDELY ADVERTISED Extensive.Publicity WiO Make Dehydration Process Well Known. Within six months or even less, every cross roads grocery in the country, as well as those in the big cities, wiil carry on their shelves a blue carton on which will be printed the name of Salein, Ore gon. In this cai.ton will x somo product cf the Salem, Oregon, dehydration plant which is regarded by many business men of the city a the beginning of one of tho greatest food producing industries in tho entire country. This estimate as to the universal sell ing of the dehydrated product was made by a conservative merchant who had tested the food put up by tjio King's Products company of Snlein. And it was also based on inforniatiou as to the national advertising campaign to begin in the October 5 issuo of the Saturday Evening Post, -a beautifully colored double page ad and those to be placed in the Ladies Homo Journal, Delinea tor, Designer and Woman's Magazine, all of December 1 issue. The single and double page advertise ments to be placed in these five big nmgazi-i.es. it is estimated will roach a grand total of 24,428,000 readers, who, of course, have never before henrd of the latest in the way of food products, nor ever heard of dehydration. The estimate as furnished by the largest advertising firm in the country, Lord & Thomas, is that the Delineator, Designer and Woman's Magazine will reach 6,428,000 Teaders. Tho Ladies Home Journal is given an estimate of 8,000,000 readers and the . Saturday Evening Post 10,000,000. The Saturday Evening Post will car ry, the highly colored double page ad with the products of Oregon shown in their natural colors. And over all will be in large type "Fresh from the Hills and Dales of Oregon." Salem, Oregon, anpe&rs in the lower part of the adver tisement as the home of the King's Products company. Every one of the niil'gons of readers will not only hear about Oregon but also of Salem. In the Butterick magazines, there will be full page ads all in full color showing Oregon's products with the cap tion "Oregon's Fresh Fruits and Vege tables With the Water Removed." Ii the Ladies Home Journal the colored page will give the information "King's ProductM fiooi Oregon's Orchards and Gardens." The big advertising campaieu of the King's Products comoany beginning in October and in the December mugazlres will be continuous for six montua. Sev eral of the ads will include a coupon (foutiaued on Page Eight. Yankees Won Wary Perhaps; Hearts; Sure! Paris, Sept. 6. Just who won tho war is still a Jive question of debate, but there is no argument as to which na tion's warriors come off best in niatri moniar contests; in France. The Yanks won. . '.. A typical oxamplo of how completely the American doughboys in France n clnssed their British, Belgian and other rivals is furnishfd by the marriage bu reau of La Rochelle, a small seaport down on the cast between Bordeaux and St.-Nazaire. -' t.' The Americans sfurted with a severe handicap. The othor allies had had throe years and more to entice away the girja of La" Roetiello before the doughboys had ven learned to say "boa jour.", . . But the figures tell best the story of ultimate triumph. A total of sixty-three girls of the seaport town married for eign soldiers during the course of the war. , . Twenty-three of them wero won by Americans. Belgiurn came in second best, carrying off nineteen brides, , Other armies were represented in the following proportions: Italians, five; English, throe; Swiss, three! Russians throo; Spanish, two; Danes, ond; Poland Greece, Cuba and Turkey each scored one. ' '- :.. ;s. Throughout France the story of La Rochelle was repeated. COUNTY'S PmMHJCT 1 0 N OF WHEAT TOTALS BIG Crops Of More Than 100,000 Bushels To Bring Big Sam At Revised fees.- . .. ,. .... i," . . In 'spite of drouth, labor conditions and other handicaps, the Iflig wheat crop of Marion county is rolling up a tremendous total when counted in bush els and dollars. The assessor's office shows that the county harvested 35,2.')." acres of-vinter wheat and 12,435 acres of spring wheat. As a rule this acreage has fared better than wheat in other parts of the state and in the northwest, for there are threshing rec ords showing yields up to nearly 60 bushels to the acre. If the yield is fig ured at the lowest probable minimum, the crop would run up to about 100,000 bushels. How much of this is going through Salem can only be vaguely estimated. Hundreds of truck .loads are rolling through the streets. There is such a labyrinth of wheat stacks at the Cherry City mills that a man might lose himself in tho runways. An in quiry put to an employe on the run as to how much wheat was being hand led brought only the reply ''I dim no; I know there's a devil of a lot of it" and he was auite right.1 The samples show that the quality is aver aging very good. The mill is turning it into flour at the rate of 200 barrels a day. v I As to the value of the grain to Mar- i ion county, an idea may be gained from the schedule of prices just issued by the U. 8. Grain Corporation . the figures being based on bulk wheat at warehouses at Portland and Astoria, and based ulso on t'o. 1 wheat. Among other grades listed is Bed Durum at $2.13; Bed Spring, $2.15; White f!lub, $2.10; Soft White, $2.18; Hard White, $2.20; Amber Durum and Dark Hard Winter, $2.22. Fro mthe foregoing prices there i to be deducted 3 cents for J(o. 2 wheat; 6 cents for No. 3; 10 cents for is'o. 4; and 14 cents for No. 5, with an allow ance of four and one-half for wheat shipped in good sacks. The figures issued (by the Grata Corporation as to the yield in the country generally show a decided in crease over that of a year ago. The re ceipts from the beginning of the har vest to the time of the report showed a total of 29,048,00O bushels as against 243,781,000 bushels for the same period a year ago.- The total output of flour for the period was lfi,3"4,000 bar rtds, while the total stock of wheat in mills and elevators amounted to 18ft, 3."3 OiiO bushels os ngainst 14,436,000 a year. ago. PAKI3 EE3ISTS STKIEE Paris, Sept. 6.- (I'nited Press.) Fol lowing a general strike of organized en tertainers and theatre employes, a gen eral lockout in Paris music halls began today. SEMITE CMS HOSES TO FIIID FULL STRENGTH AEignniest Of Members On Question Of Reservations Being Made. OPPOSITION SENATORS TO FOLLOW PRESIDENT -- ' - Johnson, MeCorckk, Bo' To Trail Wilson Through lS3e West. By Ii. O. Martin Washington, Sept. 6.-With senatorial opponents of the treaty and league of nations planning a tour over the ground now being covered bj( tho president, leaders of the .various' senate factions todap were "counting noses" m an ef fort to determine their voti!ig8trongth. A leading democrat senator today flo- clarcd that twenty democrats will vote for reservations to the treaty while 27 will vote for unqualified ratification. This prediction, it waa made plnin, is based on the assumption that there will be no more changes for position. Meanwhile, the "mild reservations' 8nd the Lodge .group wore tryiug to compromise their differences over the wording of the reservation in articlo 10 of tho league covenant, which is now the real issuo among those favoring res ervations. . Senator Lodge 's proposal, adopted by the foreign relatione committee, is fo a reservation which assumes that thv United Statea wHI stay out of foreign war-pve territorial, invasions and the like, exeeiiv on the tbosV extreme. JvS' : cations,- vv .. ..- . .. Senator McCnmber 's plan of present ing the viows of "mild raservationlsts" assumes that tho United States' will be willing to get into such wars if a plain caso of unlawful aggression can be made OUt. Both proposals leavo the United States frco to decide through congress when it will go in and to what extent. On the othor reservations withuraw- al, domestic questions and the Monroe doctrine. there was today no essential disagreement between tho Lodge nnd mild" groups. Senators McNnry, Mc- Cuntbcr, Colt and others said they find these three acceptable Jtt the main. . The ::battalion of death" us tho trea ty irrccouciliblcs are knpwn, plans to (Coutiuued oil page three) T TEN ENGAGEMENTS Poperar Officer Returns To Spend Furlough; Service Record Is Long. Cnjitain Robert C. Wygnnt, who !s home on d short furlough, has tne dis t'.i'Ctiou cf showing on his official card that he participated in ten cngacm. nts in Tri'iice and of also being asiijncl to the army of occupation. Ho also cur rio eilh him ,u a permanent record of his services scars on the left sluo vi iiis f.c nd an J a remembrance Oi two mouths in an army hospital. Cuj tain Wygjut was in the state engi neer's office throe or iOur yiars ago and was. sergeant in the old compui.y M when the call came suddenly to c.i'iuin for Uio Mexican border. , llcidr.g recommended for a- commission he b it halcm May 10, 1917, for tn.ir.ing ut 1 he Presidio, entering with a coin mission of second lieutenant and ufler t'.v. months c immissioued as first ou t .Miiint From liifc Presidio ho was tiiiim- f.iea to the department commander for icnairg in the Quartermaster s cor).-, ns instiuctor an'd waa stationed at Camp tnwis three months. Prom Camp Lewis he was transferred to Jacksonville, Florida, and on March 8, 1918,, was commissioned captain of cnginers and ordered to Waco, Texas, as construction engineer. He was then called to Washington, D, C, and re assigned to company I, as brigade adju tant of engineers regiment then being organized at Montgomery, Alabama. His next assignment was at tort Wen jaiuin Harrison, Indianapolis, and on May 10, 1918, left for overseas, assign ed to the 1st euglneers.lst division and shortly after lending at Brest, went into active duty as a bridge engineer. It was at St. Mihiel that ho received (Continued from page three) CREGO:? READY TO TAKE ILOTAaiCNAGAKST ED EFlmiC ;" Portland, 64 Sept. 6i (Unl- ted Press.) Dn. David N. Bo- berg, oxecutive iofficer of the $ . state board of health, believes there will be no recurrence of tho influenza epidemic whbh swept over the country lt year and took such a heavy toll of lives. 1 Should an epidemic: occur, $ however, there is little chance of it reaching tho serious propor- $ tions of last winter, Dr. Roberg declares, due to the fact the state board ; of health is sow clothed with sufficient authority to adopt stringent measures . throughout the 'state. The last legislature gave the state board ' of health authority to adopt any regulations it might deem ad- $ visable io suppress commuuicn- bio diseases. . y RYAN FLATLY DEIilES CHARGE 0 PROBERS Former Airplane Production Head Answers All Ac- .' cusatiens. ! Portland", Or., Sept. 6. "I .have not and never had, directly or indirectly, any interest in either, of the firms mentioned." . - ', : '.s. . That message, signed by John D. Ryan, was received here today by Gen eral Brice P. Disque and was admitted into tho record of ,the congressional suib-conimittee's investigation of the spruce production division. .- , i Tho telegram was in answer to tho charge which had been made during previous hearings of the congressional probers that Ryan's alleged interest in tho SiemsCarey company and th Siems-Carey-Kerbauigh corporation cam ed iRyna to give railroad consruction aud logging contracts, to the corpora tion iu Clallajiri eounty, Washington, f ....John 0. Ryan was formerly direct or of airplane production. Another telegram from Charles A. Stone, president of , the American In ternational corporation, likewise took its place in the record. It denied the charges that interlocking interests had not only won from tho government con tracts worth millions of dollars, but had rewarded Disque with tho $30,000 presidency of the O. Aminsck company, which is tho property of the American International corporation. Disque testified todov tthat the ".Blodgott tract" near Yaquina Bay, was purchased after the armistice was signed due to tho deisirnbility of a gov ernment reserve of high grade spruce timber, . ; : Disque had his innings in the spruce production investigation at the Friday afternoon sesiion of the congressional sub-committee. , Tho former head of the spruce di vision in " the states of Washington and Oregon by his testimony, was able to establish the following points: That practical lumbermen, and com petent engineers recommended tho con struction of the Olympic peninsula and Vfaquina Bay spruce roads. That when all salvage is settled, the total cost of spruco production in the United States, involving an investment of $50,000,000, will be loss than $4, 000,000 as far as the United States government is concerned. That tho spruce didn 't accept the of fer of the Siems-Carcy -IJprbaugh com pany to build its own road in Clallam county, Washington, because the rail road administration was then consider ing a plan of the Milwaukee road to cxteml its lino into tho Clallam spruce region. ABE MARTIN ' Married or single, obscure or great, nobuddy wants t' hear yeur personal grievance but your mother. Th' peculiar thing about prohibition is that th' dis satisfaction is all amongst th' exsaloon ists, . , i 1 burn Bv4 -I - . f ' f y CLEARER 13ZA 0FTBH1TV IS f 0 S President Making Effort To Humanize Ana Tisuilse "Pact For Pecpk SEEKS CLOSE CONTACT WITH FECFLE CII TRI? Rcjgh Homing Of- Lecj VtVUbuU 111 hmlVwMl ' Greeted Yiih ApprcyaL By Hugh BaUlia (United Press Staff Correspondent) Aboard the President's Train Ap proaching Kansas Uity, Mo.J Constit uents of Senator Reed, one of the prin cipal opponents of the league of na tions, today were to hear President Wilson's arguments for ratification of th treaty of Versailles. ;i Kansas t-ity is Reed's home town, i ; Wilson apparently is making an ef fort' to humaniee and visualize tho treaty and to convince the people that the nation is facing one of the most momentous alternatives of its history. that if the verdict is against tfce treaty as it stands the effect Will be felt in the hemes and pocketbooha of Ameri can citizens. Rejection, he says, wilt make America a militaristic power fac ing disapponted unfrendly nations in an armed world wth consequent high er' living costs and eventual war. Thia was emphasized iu St. Ixjuis Speeches. The president say he wants, to gt acquainted with f the people to get the nation's viewpoint and he seetna to .seek.; opportunities to get elpso to folk.-.! V :i"?;"'"v:'.,. ." Before the trattf left W. T.fiuis he . sat for somo time on the rear platform railing swinging his leg. while hund reds ntassed ugainst the iron picket of the train shed fence, a few feet dWtnnt, stared, occasionally bnrst into brief spasms of aonlnusn. Many asked for a speech, but Wilson smilingly -answered, "Oh, no," and others tried to engage him in conversation, shouting "Ho Woody." He nodded, grinned and .n ,,1 hi. Kill .a?iih,1 in , . . ; Long after Wilsoa disappeared in side, a crowd remained staring after the train. :,r t ' . Mrs. Wilson Tocelvod bo many flow ers in St. Louis the private car May flower looked liko a conservatory. A big box of blossoms was sent from the train to the city hospital. The crowds appear to like Wilson use of phrases such as ''contemptiblo quitters" in his criticism of those who do not approve of the league. Shoots of "swat 'em" and similar cries fol lowed his employment of that hind of langimge. : , Ho far there has been pr'tctienlly n. heckling, but it whs exnect.id wiw questions might .be snotne,", at Wil son at Kansas City, Reed's stronghold. Wilson's reply to Gompeis, tele graphed from St. Louis, was the first bit of administrative bus:ness trans acted from the train. , There probably will be more. The president's special stopped for half an hour at Independence, Mo., near Kansas City, while Wilson breakfast ed. Word quickly spreod through the (Continued on page four) DANIELS AND STAFF ON WAYJ A8T0SIA Secretary Leaves San Fran cisco On Battleship Arkan sas This Morcbg. Baa Francisco, Cal., Sept: 6. Secre tnry Daniels and faintly, Read Admiral Parks, -brad of the bureau of yards an docks, and Rear Admiral Josioa fi. Me Kcnn, assistant chief of Operations to day left on the battleship Arkansas tat Astoria, Or., to insnect the proposed sub marine base site there, : ' Th remainder of the fleet is sched uled to remtiin over Monday." Dnniels declared San Francisco's re ception to the Pacific fleet was "without-parallel in our history" In a tele Gfnm to Senator Phelan iri Washington, it became known today. "Reception -to fleet has no pnrnlli'l in our history. One million persons wel comed it as it sailed through the Golden Gate. Your vision aud faith as mem bers of naval affairs committee ha been inipOrtnrj fnctor in the larger Amsrican navy,' 'wired DauicK