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FORTY- SECOND YEAR NO. 211. FOURTEEN PAGES.
SALEM, OREQON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1919.
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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.-
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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-
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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.-
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. 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
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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. .
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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, . ,
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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