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THE MORNIXG OREGONIAN, MOXDAY. DECEMBER 2, 191Z-, 12 FIEST JTJET Or WOMEN SUMMONED IN OREGON TO APPEAR IN MUNICIPAL COURT WEDNESDAY, miller says few Are You A SUFFRAGE!! HEW LIS NEEDED F." Senator From Linn Asserts Bills in Legislature Should Be Limited. ERRORS CAUSED BY HASTE At 1911 Selori, Lebanon Democrat Says That More Than 700 Iif ferent Measures 'Were Up for Consideration. "At thai rnmlnr session of the Ore sron Legislature, I doubt If ths real Deeds of the state require the Intro duction and consideration of to ex ceed 60 bills." said Milton A. Miller, Etate Senator from Linn County, at the Perkins yesterday. "Oregon is not suffering; from a lack of legislation. A . matt f fnAt Vl tat Vl B tOO many laws now and each succeeding session persists in aaaiug m iuki uuui ber. Some limitation should be placed troduced at any one session." The trouble with the average Legls lature. In the opinion of Mr. Miller, I . V. . It .!!.. n lr it n in mlinh fl the way of enacting; laws. The result Is that In pursuing mat course, tne legislators lan to give in umereui measures the careful and considerate attention tnat is required. Rash Causes Mistakes. "For instance," pointed out Mr. Mil ler. "at the 1911 session cf the Ore gon Legislature more than 700 bills were introduced. In the last few days the rush Incident to the efforts of the Individual members to get their bills enacted proved a farce. In this rush. bills were adopted without debate or proper consideration. Mistakes were made and bills were enacted wmcn tne people did not want and which even the members themselves would not have supported If they had been given the time to give the measures the careful consideration they deserved. It is the contention of Mr. Miller that subjects of legislation requiring consideration at the 1913 session do not exceed six in number. In addition to the necessary appropriation bills. The fcinn County Senator would have the Legislature confine Its efforts to the enactment of legislation on these subjects: Good roads, appropriation for an Oregon exhibit at the mama Pacific Exposition, amendment of the laws regulating the management of state institutions-, providing for the ed ucational institutions of the state, com pensation act and simplifying court procedure. . He would also have the lawmakers repeal a great many of the needless and dead-letter laws now on the statute books and declares that so far as the appropriation bills are con cerned the people throughout the state are demanding that the apporaching" session make a record for economy. Road Laws Believed Needed. "Additional legislation is needed to provide some practical and systematic plan for road building In this state, said Mr. Miller, In disousslng what he regards the legitimate work of the next session. "We are now expending annually about 11,000,000 in road con struction in Oregon, but this money is not being expended systematically or economically. The demand all over the state is for a systematic plan of road building on a permanent basis. The problem of good roads is not so much a question of expense as the adoption of a permanent system of road con struotlon. "Good roads mean more to a state than any other one thing. They are badly needed In Oregon to encourage further settlement. Permanently con . structed roads do much to make coun try life attractive. With the Increased settlement of the sparsely settled sec tions of the state, the production of hogs and cattle will be increased and the importation of stock from outside states will not be necessary. Fair Building; Vra-d. "With the completion of the Panama Canal and the holding of the Panama Paclfio Exposition at San -Francisco, a big rush of new people to the Pacific Coast and particularly to Oregon will take place. The Legislature should make a sufficiently large appropria tion to enable the state to erect a building and show a creditable exhibit of its resources at the 1915 exposi tion." In point of service. Mr. Miller will be the oldest member of the 1913 ses sion. He has served ilnn County for 14 consecutive years In the Legislative halls of the state, always as a minor ity member, being a Democrat. From his personal observations, he has be come convinced that the state is over burdened with legislation; that frivo lous measures are allowed to take up the time of the Legislature to the ex clusion of meritorious legislation. OREGON CAMPAIGN BEGINS Christian Endeavor Officials Flan to Enlarge Society's Work. H. H. Rottman. international field Secretary for the United Society of Christian Endeavor, who arrived in Portland Saturday, began the campaign to build up the Christian Endeavor Society throughout Oregon, at a meet ing of representatives of the 48 organ isations of Portland, held yesterday af. ternoon in the Sunnyslde Congrega tional Church. This campaign will last six months and extend into every cor ner of the state. Q. Evet Baker, state president, presided, and In. his Intro ductory remarks said that the Christian Endeavor Society had not ceased to be a useful factor, and that an effort is being made to enlarge its work. After a short musical programme, Mr. Rottman delivered n extended ad dress, reviewing the work and prog ress of the Christian Endeavor Society, since It was started 33 years ago, by Reverend Francis Clark, with 57 mem bers, to the present time, when it num bers nearly 3,600,000 active members, and bas extended to almost every civ ilised nation. He told of the workings of the organization in Canada, in many of the states of the Union, and outlined the programme for Oregon. It was announced that there will be another conference tonight. In the First Christian Church. Mr. Rottman will deliver an address, and all members are invited to be present. Tuesday the field secretary and State President Ba ker will start on the state campaign, by attending a banquet at Forest Grove, when they will meet with the Endeavorers there. From there they go to Salem on Wednesday and will reach Eugene Thursday. They then go to Hood River Friday and the fol lowing day will be at The Dalles. Mr. Rottman will be in Crook County for several days and attend the county convention at Prinevllle. State Presi dent Baker will be with the field sec retary part of the time. It is planned to cover every town of importance in the state, to organise new societies and revive othera h .'-'-f? V ft i ' iSSsftx i .i)r"v. if ) , :mm lammim m wmmmmii M y-y yyyy .:.:...t..,.... :-v..-.,v. . v-. .-o-a-SSl SSSaiSSSSS"e1'"(w1a, I : g&BW.Wmw$iiBtMimwy8$3 ' . f. . 1 "- tjsr-sr, -S ' li I nmsiiii m ii ii M ' ,Tiii ii r ii mi ii .ji 8 WILLING TO SERVE Two Women Chosen for Jury Object to Appearing. NEW PRIVILEGE ATTRACTS Majority of Those Selected to Be on Municipal Court Case Say They Consider It Honor to Act . in Role of Jurors. The novelty of serving as a Juror as well as the distinction of serving on the first Jury of women to be sum moned in Oregon, will cause eight of the 10 women summoned to try Mar- cello Bortell, notorious woman of the underworld, to report at the Municipal Court Wednesday. To all the women, the service will be absolutely new and Interesting. Two of the women selected for the case declared yesterday that they will refuse to serve unless required to do so. They are Mrs. O. K. Jeffery, of 694 Overton street, and Mrs. H. L. Chapln, of 6i3 Wasco street. The others are Mrs. W. T. Pangle, Oregon Hotel; Mrs. L. W. Therkelsen, 329 Eleventh street; Miss Leone Cass Baer, Bowers Hotel; Mrs. A. C. Newlll, 774 Hoyt street: Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe, 841 Lovejoy street; Mrs. Paul C. Bates, 493 Hassalo street: Mrs. O. C Bortxmeyer, 704 East Ankeny. and Mrs. A. E. Clark, 819 Johnson street. Mrs. Jeffery declared yesterday that it was through a joke on tne part oi a friend that she was quoted by the representative of the Municipal Court as being willing- to serve on the Jury. She says she was not at home wnen the call for her came by telephone, and that a friend of Iter's answered the telephone. Upon learning what was wanted, the friend impersonated Mrs. Jeffery and agreed to serve as a Juror. In consequence. Mrs. Jeffery says her name was added to the list of Jurors without her knowledge or desire. For that reason she has refused to serve. Mrs. Chapln says she has decided not to serve for reasons which she did not explain. This leaves eight on the list who are willing to serve. From these six Jurors will be selected. The majority of the women selected said they considered their selection an honor and they will be in the dingy little court-room on scheduled time. and will be ready and willing to serve on the Jury. PEOPLE'S BILL ATTRACTIVE The Forest Rose" Is Thrilling Tale of Indian "Warfare. . "The Forest Rose," a tale of pioneer days and Indian warfare, headllner at the People's beginning yesterday, does not show the players' talents to best advantage. However, It is good. While the hero is absent, Indians massacre all other members of the family ex cept his foster sister, "The Forest Rose." He vows vengeance and a res cue of the girl. This he does In a series of thrilling adventures. The Belle of the Season is a mar ried woman who shines among the. swains at the seashore. Their rivalries and final discomfiture when introduced to "hubby" give opportunity for some excellent humor. Another comedy. Standing Room Only, is a laugh- getter. Babe Lenhardt, child imper sonator, was as chic and cunning as ever, and the "Three Kings of Har mony" scored a hit in a "stunt" In which the plump member of the trio brought down the house by appearing as a "great big beautiful doll." Memory s Tragic ieap, a two-reel feature at the Star, would be a head- liner except for such a feature as "The Odyssey," but that somewhat over- hadows it. it tens oi now Stevens, injured in an accident, lost his identity for IS years, and was finally restored to wife and family by the operation known as trephining. "The Odyssey," that Greek epic, is presented with a gorgeousness of set ting and costuming, while the acting is in keeping. The two features, mak ing 5000 feet of nims, compose a more than usually attractive bill. Arthur ElwelL baritone, and Van Slcklen and Francis, duetists, are the added at tractions. There's a glove nght scene In "The Brother of the 'Bat' " which heads the Arcade bill. The story carries a moral. and is unusually interesting. "The Jenkins-Perkins War" and "Hidden Treas ure" are good comedies. "Her Own Country" la fn atory of an American k :: . , t . Above (Left to' Right), Mrs. W. T. Pangle. Mrs. L. W. Tberkelsen and Mrs. O. C Bortameyer Center, Mrs. A. E. Clark, Mrs. H. W. Coe and Mrs. ' A. C. Newlll Below, Miss Leone Cass Baer. girl adopted by Mexicans, but whose attachment for her native land finally takes her back there. The story of how she accomplisbed the trip unfolds a tale of thrilling adventure. Miss Ada Sims, who has a pleasing soprano voice; Zal Frieda, violinist, and the Rose City Trio, complete the bill. BEND STOCK IS BOUGHT EXTEXSIOX OP WATER POWER COMPANY PLANNED. Kempster P. Miller and S. G. Mo- Meen Take Holdings of A. O. and D. E. Hunter and Associates. Transfer Saturday of the majority stock In the Bend Water, Light & Pow er Company to Kempster P. Miller and S. G. McMeen, of Chicago, and their associates, means immediate extensive water power development in Central Oregon and Improved public utility service in the growing city of Bend. The property of this concern includes both the lighting and the water works franchises in the city of Bend. The purchasers are experienced engineers, having engaged in similar enterprises in other parts of the country. Mr. Mc Meen is widely known in Portland, hav ing come here about a year ago to arrange for the transfer of the prop erty of the Mount Hood Railway & Power Company to the Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company. He left Portland last Spring soon after the transaction was closed. Mr. Miller has been in Oregon for the last few days. He left yesterday, in company with A. O. Hunter, head of the Bend company, former owners of the light and power company stock, for Bend, where final arrangements for improvement of the property will be made. The new owners already have made plans for the extension of the distribu tive water and electric systems in Bend. They will increase the power and light service and may arrange to serve lumber mills and small towns in the vicinity of Bend with electric en ergy. Electricity Is generated in the plant at Bend by a hydro-electric plant, water power being obtained from the Deschutes River.. It is understood that J. P. Keyes, who has had charge of the plant at Bend for some time past, will continue in that capacity. The immediate attention of the new owners will be directed toward improv ing and enlarging the plant to meet the present and near future demands of Bend. With the completion of the rail roads to that point a year ago the town began growing and still continues to increase. The present facilities are Inadequate to meet this situation. Be fore be returns te Chicago Mr. Miller will prepare plans to enlarge both the electric and the water plants so that they will be able to accommodate a city of the proportions that Bend soon will become. . In addition to the stock in the com pany Mr. Miller and Mr. McMeen also have purchased some real estate on the Deschutes River, near Bend. This will be utilized in their future devel opment projects. The sale of the pub lic service plants, however, does not carry with it any real , estate transfer, as this transaction consisted merely in a transfer of stock formerly held by A. O: and D. jb. ttunter, together with their associates in the Bend company. STUDY OF LAWS JUM University Of Washington to Have New Department. EDUCATOR TELLS OF PLANS Dr. Hermann Braner Is Directer of New legislative and Mnnlclpal Reference School Soon to 1 Be In Operation. The University of Washington has Just made a new move by instituting a department of legislative and munic ipal reference. Dr. Hermann Brauer has been appointed Its director, and yesterday, durinir a few hours passed in Portland, while on his way to take up his duties, he discussed several In teresting topics. "The object of the department," he said, "will be to serve as a strictly non partisan source of information on the subjects of legislation and administra tion, both in other states of the Union and in foreign countries. This informa tion is to be placed at the service of all legislators In the State of Washing' ton. The object is to enable them to profit by the experience of other states and to do this with the least possible waste of individual time and labor. Department Will Aid. "When ' a new bill Is proposed to remedy some defect in existing lnstltu tlons, or to meet some new condition that has arisen in the development of the country, it is right that each mem' ber of the Legislature should know in what other places a similar problem has presented Itself, what solutions have been attempted, and what has been their success. Members in search of this information will In future be able to turn to the department of legis lative and municipal reference, which will endeavor to serve all individuals and parties equally, to Inform them quickly and accurately, but to favor or side with none." Graduating in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin and then, after study in Europe, Joining the faculty of the same institution, Dr. Brauer later went for some years, into commercial life. For the last eight years he bas been a resident in New Zealand and Australia, returning only recently to this country. While abroad he studied politic, as well as money-making. Dr. Brauer Is no stranger to the Pacific Coast, and his present Impressions aarree with those he formed years ago. "I have been looking at California asram." he said. "It 1b a great-country, but I am more convinced than ever that the future lies with the North west. People Joke about the rainy climate here, but it is by the rain that the nrosperity of the country is as sured. What Is the use of cheap land If you cannot depend on having a water supply? California and Australia Alike. "California and Australia are alike in that over large areas of each the rainfall Is uncertain. Under such con ditions the farmer with small capital cannot hope to succeed. "I was astonished on my arrival In Australia to find how different that country is from what we here suppose it to be. Just now, there is a strong movement in- several of the Australian states for an extension of the fran chise. The most radical laws have been enacted, but this has been done on a comparatively undemocratic suf frage basis universal adult suffrage does not exist in either New Zealand or Australia, except for the Federal Parliament and the lower houses of the state .parliaments in the latter country. "In some states the upper house is not elective at all. but its members are appointed by the Governor, who also has the powers of suspensory and ab solute veto over any bill submitted. But it must be remembered that the Governors are non-partisan, being usu ally sent from England and always nominees of the Crown. Where the up per house Is elective the franchise is a limited one, calling for an educa tional or property qualification. Immigrants Are Wanted. - "The chief social problem In Austra lia is how rapidly to fill up the coun try, especially in the north. Much money is now being spent to Induce the immigration of desirable Euro Deans. At present the population is small, but homogenous, more than 90 ner cent being of British origin. There is still room and opportunity for many millions of people down there. "Australian manufacturers are at a great disadvantage. They find it very hard to compete with imported goods. SUPPOSE you are. Suppose you are a woman, and you believe in woman's rights, and you think you ought to have a vote and a share in running the government as well as a share in paying the expenses. And sup pose some brute of a man says to you that you don't know enough about government to talk politics, much less to vote. And, still sup posing, wouldn't you just dearly love to rise up and tell that male brute all about the government and how it works and what it does ? Now wouldn't you ? ' There is just one way that you can prepare yourself to do just that without spending a great deal of both time and money and that is to get a copy of "The American Government" by Frederic J. Has kin. It will appeal to your womanly taste by its beauty as a book, it will satisfy your suffragette longings by tell ing you just what you have wanted to know about the government. ' ' (Note to the Brutes: There is only one way to prepare for the suffragette that knows all about it. Buy the book yourself.) - ' If you are neither a suffra gette nor a male brute, you will want the .book anyhow. See coupon elsewhere in this issue. The manufacturers of several countries where there is a large and established domestic market, well protected by tariffs, sell goods in Australia at a price actually lower than they charge at home. This is tending to produce bad feeling, and is making Australia adopt a more and more stringent pro tective policy. The Maoris of New Zealand re ceive treatment rather different from that (riven the Indians In this country. They have their own representatives In Parliament, generally men of their own blood. At the same time there are special laws and officers for the regu lation of Maori affairs. Land-tenure and ownership is a frequent source of dispute among these people, requiring appeal to tribal custom and tradition. "Time was when they practiced can nibalism, and if one man was eaten Dy another the lands of the former be came the property of the latter. There are no more cannibals, but even at the Dresent day it occasionally hap pens that the courts are called on to decide such a question as tnis: " Tour Krandfather was eaten by my grandfather; but my great-grandfather was eaten by your great-granaiatner. Does your grandfather's land now be long to me or to you? 'The answer Is likely to turn on who was first eaten by whom! BUILDING PLAN LAUDED BISHOP COOKE APPROVES PRO. 1 GRESSIVE METHODS. Prospective Growth of Portland . Is Held to Be Ample Reason for Erection of Fine Edifice. Bishop R. J. Cooke, of Oregon, who returned from the East recently, occu pied the pulpit of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Ladd s Adiation, yes terday morning, and he gave the plan of the pastor, Rev. Charles T. Hefner son. and the members to erect a mod ern church In that neighborhood strong Indorsement. The object of the address was to encourage tne membership or Trinity Church to branch out, and the subject of the sermon was, "Launcn Out Into the Deep." "I am deeply interested In the work this people and pastor have undertaken In this part of the growing City of Portland," said Bishop Cooke, as he be tran his sermon, "and I desire to place the seal of indorsement on the work they have projected. Without intimate knowledge of the situation, however, I cannot pass Judgment on the plan, but to build a church here in this growing section is In line with the progress of the city and the extension of the church of Christ. The City of Port land Is a great city, but in the forma tion period, and is not finished. It will have a great future, and the church must grow with the city. You should build a church that will be worthy of the neighborhood and the City of Port land. The church must keep ahead or it will be swamped." Bishop Cooke declared In his sermon that the supposition that the world is growing worse is wrong and contrary to the history of the times. The church is not going backward nor losing its power," he said, "al though It may change Its form, but It still stands as the great moral and up lifting force of the world. It may adopt new forms, but It still remains the bulwark of religious and moral power. This age Is vastly better than the centuries of the past. No bad man can rise to power in this country. There is no place for the drunkard or the im moral man In the railroads or In the great financial o'oncerns of this or other countries. The whole tone of social life is more elevated and more whole some than ever before, all because of the power of the church of Jesus Christ. The wickedness of the age is not its greatest crime. The slums are not the greatest danger in this age with which we must deal today. It is the poverty of thought and feebleness of action the failure to live up to the great op portunities of the gospel." Trinity unurcn nas seieciea a site ror modern church- to be built in Ladd's Addition, at Birch and Spruce streets. G. F. Johnson, T. S. McDanlel, C. W. De Graff and Samuel Morrow, with the pastor, Rev. Mr. McPherson, are the general committee. - , ALASKA BANKERS ON TRIAL Failure of Valdez Institution Fol lowed by Many Indictments. SEATTLE, Dee. 1. Trial of the men indicted for allesred violation of law in connection with the management of the Washinirton-Alaska Bank of Ne vada, of Fairbanks, Alaska, which closed Its doors January 4, 1911, owing $900,000 to depositors, half of which has been paid to them, will be begun in the Federal Court at Valdez, Alaska, tomorrow. Elbridge T. Barnette, former presi dent of the bank, is charged with em bezzlement, as also is Frank W. Hawk Ins, who was appointed receiver after the failure. Former Vice-President J. Albert Jackson is accused of aiding and abetting Hawkins and of making an alleged false entry in the bank's books. Lew Wing is charged with perjury in signing an alleged false statement of the condition of the Fair banks Banking Company, of which he was cashier and which was consoli dated with the Washington-Alaska Bank, of Washington, to form the Washington-Alaska Bank of Nevada. Falcon Joslln, W. H. Parsons, F. E. Barbour and E. L. 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