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THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 0, 1922 t' MARRIAGE AGE L LEADS GIRLS TO FIB Nebraska Maids Quickly Be ' come Three Years Older. LIMIT ADVANCED TO 21 AVould-Be Brides Turned Into Gaiuxy of Liars to Edge In Under Matrimonial AVI re. OMAHA, Neb.. Dee. 31. (Special.) The marriageable age of Nebraska 'women has been postponed three years and Nebraska girls are being turned into a galaxy of liars. So say the marriage Hcense clerks. A new law Is responsible for the new con dition. Formerly a Nebraska girl became lier own "boss" at the age of 18, so far as marriage is concerned. At that time, on and after her 18th birthday, she could snap her fingers at father nd says, "I will." But she can't do It now. Under the new law she has to be 21 or ask the consent of her mama when she wants to get married. And when mama says "no," the young thing becomes three years older in a single night. "When a girl's in love she will Jump three years as agilely as a grass hopper," declares Rev. Charles W. Savidge, who has married more than 000 couples and Is considered an au thority on what girls will and won't do to get married. Detection la Difficult. Under the old regime comparatively few lies were told In order to get under the matrimonial wire. Mar riage license clerks could fairly well detect a 15-year-old girl who tried to pass herself as 18, but the differ ence between 18 or 19 and 21 Is not Co eaBy to see. "Time was when we could tell some thing of the age by the length of the skirt," says License Clerk Stubben ' dorff of Omaha, "but you can't do that any more. Now, you don t know whether It's little Susie or grandma If you try that means of telling ages. The age of a cow may be computed hy the rings on Its horns; that of a horse by Its teeth; the age of a tree by the number of rings disclosed by a cross section; the age of the earth Itself by the geological layers, but there Is no way under the sun to tell the age of a woman, say the public officials who have been studying out the answer to the question, "How old U she?" The new Nebraska law, which went Into effect some months ago, provided that those girls who had passed 18 but h-.d not reached 21 when the law became effrctlve, were to be consid ered as having reached the legal age. But the new "crop" of girls would not be legally of age until they reached 21. The girl who" was 18 years and one day old when the law became operative was legally of age, while the girl who was but two days younger had to wait three years be fore she could marry without the con sent of her parents. Law Doeaint Stop Bfnrringea, Only she didn't do arythlng of the kind If she wanted to marry. She either "advanced" her aga by a single year and came under the wire, or she became three years older In a night and ' thus became of legal age to marry. "Did you ever see a girl who would not tell a fib about her age to get married?" asks Judge Willis G. Sears of the Omaha district court. Equivocations, prevarications, fibs, lesser falsehoods and white lies have been more or less conceded to be the legitimate weapons of women, but they didn't have to make oath to the truth of those means of love war fare. Now, under the Nebraska law, they not only have to make use of those weapons, but they have to wear to them as being the truth. But here's a point those girls who grow three years In a single night are overlooking. Their parents may have their marriages dissolved or an nulled by the court upon a showing that they have not reached the real legal age of 21. Under the Nebraska law a marriage before the bride or bridegroom, either, becomes 21 Is Il legal unless the consent of the par ents Is secured. And a parent can have the marriage annulled by mak ing the proper showing. Whether the new law Is going to cause an Increase In elopements to Iowa, bring about more annulments. Or curtail the number of divorces by doing away with a large number of these very early marriages, are ques tions which social workers in Omaha are watching closely. They all agree, however, that the new law Is adding to the number of liars very rapidly. Furthermore, they all pretty well agree that legislation like this new law. Insofar as it affects marriages, Is about as effective as putting a "No trespassing" sign in front of a Ne braska cyclone. Baker. Completion of the work would mean the reclamation of approxi mately 60,000 acres of arid land, of which nearly 40,000 acres are govern ment owned or undeeded. It Is understood that the upper dam site would have a storage capacity of 118.000 acre-feet, while the lower site would hold 140,000 feet. Track grad Ings-ln the vicinity prevent, it Is un derstood, a greater capacity for the upper dam proposed. Th's is generally considered as the reason why the lower dam location is favored. At Denver the designs and est! mated costs of the two locations will be worked out and if a government appropriation is made for the project It is thought that tests will be made for a foundation for the lower dam. DESTROYERS HUE WARNED WAR ORDERED OS RECKLESS CALIFORNIA DRIVERS. 164 STUDENTS ON TRIAL Agricultural College Puts Group on Scholastic Frobatlon. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, Jan. 6. (Special.) One hundred and sixty-four students have been placed, on probation until their work proves their ability to keep up the regular college course and take part In student and social activities at the same time. Unless these students have completed the specified requirements by mid-term their registration will be canceled au tomatically. One hundred and forty-seven men were on probation list with 17 co eds. Seventy-four freshmen were in cluded. The sophomore class had 27 on the list, the Juniors 17, ami the seniors 3. Those listed are notified at once of their delinquencies and are given as sistance and plenty of opportunity to make up the Work. A grade averaue below 70 per cent automatically places a student on probation. TWO DAM MAPS FINISHED Prospectus of Powder River Proj ect Sent to Denver Office. BAKER. Or., Jan. 5 (Special.) Compilation of details gathered by engineers and surveyors of the recla mation service was concluded today and two maps showing the prospectus for either of two dams to be used in the development of the Powder river Irrigation project In this county have been sent to the Denver office of the government service for Inspec tion. The two projects are known as the upper and lower dam sites, of which the lower is known to be fa vored by engineers working on its details. The irrigation project calls for a dam in what is known as Thief val ley, about 20 miles northeast of Motorist Who Kills or Maims Vic tim and Then Speeds Away lis Declared Criminal. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. B. (Special.) The automobilist who maims or kills and then speeds away Is a crim inal and- should be treated as .such Is the stand taken by the California State Automobile association. Assur ance waa given yesterday that this powerful organization would De wnoie heartedly behind Chief of Police O'Brien and District Attorney Brady who have promised a drastic cam paign against lawless drivers. This ultimatum comes' as a result of the killing of three persons by automobiles New Year's eve. In two cases the drivers kept on going. The records of the coroner's office tell a grim story of the cost of reck less driving. During the past six months there have been 48 deaths In the city as a result of automobile ac cidents, including eight children. Most of the accidents were preventable But the blackest page In the record Is that showing that In four cases the driver of the automobile first ran down and killed the victim and then without compuncton sped away at tot speed. In one of these four cases of speed ing away from the crime the driver was apprehended the next day. In the remaining three cases the guilty ones are still at large. Eight per cem of the deaths during the last six months were caused by automobilists who did not stop to render aid. But the records of the coroner's office d not tell the whole story, for they treat only of fatalities and do not cover the number of pedestrians In jured more or less seriously by auto-lsts. WOMEN RUN LAND OFFICE Men in San Francisco Division Have Only Subordinate Jobs. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 5. (Special.) The government land of fice here, for the first time in its his tory, was Wednesday in full charge of women, so far as head officials go, with Mrs. James B. Hume of Berkeley and Mrs. Harriet Jewell Anderson of Oakland holding down the first two desks. Mrs. Hume holds the post of regis ter and Mrs. Anderson that of re ceiver, having succeeded J. B. San born and Mrs. Grace Caulkins of the democratic regime. The office of chief clerk and other subordinate positions are still held, as In former times, by men. Hoquiam Buildings Cost $261,595. HOQl'IAM, Wash., Jan. 5. (Spe cial.) Hoqulam's 1921 building rec ord pushed closely the banner year of 1920, according to figures compiled by Miss Wera Nelck. city clerk. Esti mated total expenditures for last year on the 255 permits issued were 1261, 595. This Included the Masonic tem ple, to cost $150,000; repairs on the Grayport hotel property, to cost 110, 000, and 35 houses ranging In cost from 81000 to $5000. Dairy Meeting Planned. MONTESANO, Wash., Jan. 6. (Spe cial.) Dairymen and others Interest ed In obtaining pure-bred livestock for Grays Harbor county will meet Thursday night at the county agent's office in Montesano to hear about the "Pettis plan," a co-operative system originated in Pettis county, Missouri. Don G. Magruder, state college dairy specialist, and Stanley V. Butchart, secretary of the Washington Holstein Breeders' association, will be speakers. POLICE Ml CHICAGO E SOG AL DEBUT Dress-Suit Detectives Look for Petting Parties. EVIDENCE IS COLLECTED Big Scandal Expected When Doings of Idle Rich Are Dragged Into Municipal Court. CHICAGO, Dec. 26. (Special.) And now for the society "cop," the swallow-tailed "bull," tne sleuth In the soup-and-fish. Watch for him. Also watch out. He has made his debut In Chicago, and as everybody knows when any thing new happens in Chicago whether It he fresn-kllled beef or free verse or society-brand cops It Is bound, sooner or later, to crash into other cities. The society-brand "cop" is the- In vention of Chief of Police Fltzmor rls. The chief has been much dis turbed of late by reports of goings on In Chicago's haute monde. Drink ing and smoking and various forms of elinor-glynlng are reported to be rampant' in the best circles. It Is even said that demi-tasses are a common occurrence. The only question, according to the police, was how to verify these re ports how to get the goode. Patrolmen Arc Rebuffed. The conventional police methods were tried and failed. When Chief Fitzmorris sent a regular patrolman around to see whether the best people were behaving themselves the butler or footman at the door was likely to become uppish and tell the "cop" to go to well, he might call around at the kitchen door if he wanted a hand cut The chief at length got tired of this sort of thing.' He didn't like the way o many of his best men were being snubbed, cold-shouldered, socially boy cotted and otherwise deleted by the elite. So he resorted to finesse. He established a dress-suit squad, the members of which, after a rigorous training in the social arts and graces. are said to be able to get by the most fastidious footmen In Chicago. The society-brand cop is more than a mere bluecoat masquerading in a hired clawhammer. That sort of stuff wouldn't get by, according to the po lice. The society-brand cop not only owns his own dress suit but knows how to wear it as if he owned it and the boiled shirt and the patent-leather pumps and the all-silk hose that go with it. Except for the fact that he is obliged under the regulations to carry his nightstick concealed in one coat- tail and his six-shooter In the other, his evening wear must differ In no respect from that approved by Beau Nash and accepted as proper in the best Chicago circles. Debut la Success. The recent coming-out of the first batch of graduates of the dress-suit squad was what the quid-nuncs call quite an event. At least five Chicago society reporters are said to have re ferred to it as "an unqualified suc- sess." W hile mere were no arresis, a vast amount of evidence was collected not counting spots on the shirt front raid to have been due to the awkward- Cowlltz Camps to Start. KELSO, Wash., Jan. 6. (Special.) The Silver Lake Railway & Lumber company and Ostrander Railway & Timber company logging camps will start logging earl l.ext week if the we .ther permits. Tho Ostrander camp o'perated until Christmas but the Silver Lake camp has been shut down for a long time. Best grade of coal. Prompt delivery. Diamond Coal Co.. Bdwy.. 3037. Adv. -nr- 1 - fZZ-- jj Wallace Jici, zQloriaSwansorii Slliott Dexter H Don't Tell Everything! S , ml , ' VlJ8i .' t: SNOW TODAY: NOW HERE! Lafsl Roars! . Screams! With the Colossus of Comedy HAROLD LLOYD In His First Big Super-Dreadnought of Joy A Sailor-Made Man and TOM SANTSCHI In His Latest Northern Thriller "THE HEART OFDOREON" ' The Greatest Show ; in Town. ness of a waiter while passing the aiter-ainner coiiee. As to the nature of the rest of th evidence a-athered. no information ha as vet been mndn nublic When it comes out. however, something Ilk a sensation In exDected. According to the police, everything that Dam Rumor. Mrs. Rrundv and the quid nuncs have buen buzzing about is true and then some. Revelations Involving some of the hautest of th haute mondn in Date de foie gras. dulce far nlnente, grand and petite fours, first-degree petting and simi lar scandals are promised. Meanwhile the work of the "soup and-fish Bleuths" is trolnir on. No musical morning; no linen-show luncheon! no th riansante: no deb tante ball; no Monday night at the opera is complete without them They are everywhere and anywhere hobnobbing In drawing rooms munching cinnamon toast In tea' rooms, lolling at the club, leaning wearily against the potted palms, r the conservatory everywhere. Somt have even been seen shaking a well- tailored and perfectly creased leg in the ballroom. Chicago society must be on Its e-ood behavior. The "Todd Cop'l" get you If you don't watch out. Road Right-of-Way Acquired. MONTESANO, Wash., Jan. S. (Spe cial.) An order for a writ of neces slty has been awarded the county in its right-of-way condemnation pro ceedings against tne A. O. Damon In' vestment company. Following the court's ruling, tne county commis sioners reached an agreement with officers of the company whereby a waiver for the right of way will be furnished for 1100. The land involved is on the survey of the new Grass t reek-Chenois Creek road. ttiminimmtimiitiimiimimmtmimmiitmimtntiimnminiini iUlUIIUUIIIIUIIHIIUIUIIIIUIIIIIIIIUIUIIIIUlMIIUItlllllllUllMUIIIi TOMORROW! F1T1 A AN STEWART In her masterpiece "Her Mad Bargain 99 the screen's most surprising story. It's the tale of a beautiful woman who sold her life for $50,000. to M?) q P LAST TIMES TODAY CHARLES RAY IN R. S. V. P. Don't miss it; it's a peach of a com edy and as good as anything he ever did. IT'S A BIGGER DRAMA THAN EVER BEFORE PRODUCED! When you're just longin to be a man and folk say you're "jes' torable" When youVe seen your Dad and big brother killed in a feud When you grab your gun to go gettem And your mountain mother, who still thinks you're her baby and wants to keep you for her self, throws herself at your feet -then don't a feller need a friend ? THATS RICHARD BAR THELMESS. HE SWEEPS TO STARDOM IN A DRAMA OF BOY -LOVE AND MOTHER-LOVE STARTS TODAY I J The Star of "Way Down East" CH A D iiJi Aii J, 1L--JL-3 JL y 11 iJL-1 In a heart-interest drama of the Virginia mountains from the Saturday Evening Post story by Joseph Hergesheimer. DONT FORGET KEATES' CONCERT SUNDAY AT 12:30 V I fcT 103.2