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THE STTN-PAY OREGOKIAN; PORTLAND, NOTE3ir,ER S, 1913. 19 V AID FOR UNIVERSITY IS BOURNE'S PLEA Former Senator Cites Nu Cites Numerous Reasons for Supporting Bill. UNION HELD UNDESIRABLE Merger of Two State Institutions of Higher Education Declared Im practicable as Each Has Quite Distinctive Field. ' BT JONATHAN BOURNE. Having: given some thought and study to the referendum on the university appropriation bills, I have concluded that It Is my duty as a citizen of the state of Oregon to vote "yes" on Nos. 300 and 802 on the ballot for the ratifi cation of the Legislative enactment making appropriations of $100,000 and 5.000 for the university. I am Informed that the stata has ex pended or Invested thus far In the State University $858,000 and In the Agricultural College SI. 378.000. Can these two Institutions be merged, or Is the merger desirable? In my opinion, they cannot be merged, because of their separate location, resulting In necessitated separate operation and de velopment or the elimination of one In stitution or the other, which is also highly undesirable. They have separate and distinct functions, and each along sound and distinct lines. Each produces In business returns several times the amount of the expenditure. Each has a distinct, desirable and necessary field for limitless benefit to the state and Nation. Each Haa Dlatlnct Field. While It Is Impossible to submit a mathematical demonstration as to the exact amount of money any state should Invest In university property, equipment and development, yet the experiences and action .of other states are interesting, illuminating and valu able In studying the subject. Possibly some states have made excessive and some states Inadequate appropriations, but the general average of all must be indicative of the Importance and value generally attributed by the people of the country to fostering, encourage ment, development and maintenance of the institutions. To assist me in the study of the question, I had this table prepared, showing In con venient form for comparison Informa tion regarding the relative expendi tures for university property and main tenance in all the states having state universities: Information Is Submitted. Believing that such information may be of interest or value to other citi zens who are studying the subject. I respectfully submit the same herewith ior sucn publicity as you care to give it 5 S." SS Rg Sg S-a og og g- aE. sE. ga 12 S S CO S.S g.'S ! . n : 3. n . ' . " $4.09 $0.04 $Tf3$oT7 8.20 .43 292 .81 1.68 .06 8U .21 8.07 .47 234 .43 8.02 .39 181 .56 11 131 .... 4.16 .11 298 .48 2.40 .OB 181 .17 8.20 .82 188 .25 1.77 .84 898 .87 .82 .09 184 .14 .30 .80 821 .10 .77 .80 238 .18 1.32 .09 lUf .25 2.13 .07 172 .23 2.05 .16 ISO .25 1.79 .28 158 c .41 B.44 1.11 473 1.70 8.80 .12 184 .56 2.08 .18 280 .38 4.06 .28 617 .31 6.05 .54 199 1.40 10.50 1.73 884 1.50 1.84 .12 28S .61 1.48 .05 104 .04 1.72 .06 172 .21 6.15 .38 ' 321 .74 .21 .04 195 .03 .90 .19 139 .14 8.40 .04 150 .24 1.7H .22 806 .87 2.78 .03 77 .13 1.41 .07 12S .11 4.00 1.22 470 .81 11.20 .07 46 .18 6.09 .04 127 .10 .7.54 .30 179 .40 .90 .12 222 .13 2.48 .07 874 .53 3.76 .53 827 .46 $3.19;$0.29;$227 $0.40 STATE. "a Alabama... $1-074.230 Arizona .... 2.25 1,620 Arkansas .. . .45 072 California .. B.30 3,000 Colorado ... 2.43 &02 Delaware . . 2.48 2.984 Florida 90 2.820 Georgia 63 2.510 Idaho 4.13 2,300 Illinois 89 8M) Indiana 68 825 Iowa 53 1,850 Kansas .... 1.24 907 Kentucky .. .49 1.025 Louisiana .. .70 1,595 Maine 1,25 1,289 Michigan ... 1.22 092 Minnesota .. S.BO 1,520 Mississippi. .73 8,070 Missouri ... 1.18 1,583 Montana . . . 8.88 j,800 Nebraska . . 2.84 8..H Nevada 12.23 2,723 New Mexico .36 850 New York .. 1.79 3.550 N. Carolina .50 1.380 N. Dakota . 8.20 2,544 Ohio 33 1,350 Oregon 1.27 . 953 K. Carolina.. .64 2.200 8. Dakota .. 1.05 1.475 Tennessee .. .84 l.c.SO Toxaa 91 1,700 ftah 1.81 803 Vermont ... 8.40 4,000 Virginia .... 1.70 4.8O0 Washington 6.80 8.300 W. Virginia . .84 1.570 Wisconsin .. 8.10 .1,716 Wyoming .. 4.70 2.813 Averages . $2.11 $2,057 Study of the table shows that Ore gon is neither the highest nor the lowest In expenditures under any phase of the comparisons made, yet it Is far below the average In each particular, to wit: Oregon's Investment per capita is only 60 per cent of the average. Oregon's Investment per student la only 43 per cent of the average. Oregon's investment per $1000 of as sessed valuation is only 30 per cent of the average. Oregon's annual appropriation per capita is only 65 per cent of the aver nge. Oregon's annual appropriation per student is only 61 per cent of the average. Oregon's annual appropriation per $1000 of assessed valuation is only 85 per cent of the average. Higher Standard Advised. Considering the fact that Ore gon has the greatest undeveloped resources of any state in the Union, that it is inviting the best people of other states and nations to come here to make homes for them selves and their families, and that we desire to provide for our own people as well as for them the best advantages modern civilization can afford. It seems to me that Oregon can wisely establish the policy of being above, rather than below, the average in relative expen ditures for university education. At a time when we are. assuring all the world that here is the best place on earth for them to make their homes, it would be folly to cripple or hamper an institution concerning whose stand ing and efficiency the mose desirable homeseekers will make inquiry before deciding their choice. Northwest Leadership Forecast. The more I study all conditions ex isting In this section of the country the invigorating climate, the almost unlimited natural resources, the char acter of our citizenship, and particu larly the spirit of original thought and independent action the more firmly I am convinced of the correctness of an opinion I have long entertained that out of the Pacific Northwest will come the men and women who will take leadership in the affairs of government. Industry and social progress In the United States. To the end that this desirable result may be hastened, we should strengthen, rather than weaken, our State University. Those citizens who concur in the logic and wisdom of my conclusions should vote "Yes" opposite the num bers 300 and 802 on the ballot at the election November 5. WOMEN'S AUXILIARY HAS ELECTION OF OFFICERS North Portland Commercial Club 'a Feminine Aides Decide to Work for Kenton Park. Lf -. t;" : M V V ' (li l . I FS&sif K J VjJ as v - WV'to' xv"V$vCV--V If'-- . fk0 --wiV) L ii .Zs MltS. Ui:(JI,l5 MWHEilCB, PRESIDENT. 3 MRS. W. J. COOK, SF.CRE- TARY. S MRS. H. 10. U'GUIRE, VICE-PRESIDENT. 4-HRS, P. M. SHAD. DUCK, TREASURER, THE Women's Auxiliary of North Portland Commercial - Club has completed Its first year, and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Mrs. George Lawrence, presi dent; Mrs. Harriet E. McGuIre, vice- president; Mrs. J. W. Cook, secretary; Mrs. P. M. Bhadduck, treasurer; ad visory board J. H. Nolta, Dr. I. M. Pal mer and H. A. Ruble. Mrs. C. F. Nichols, who was presi dent the first year, declined re-election, although urged to accept for another WHAT DO THE PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS LAW? Difficult Subject of Sterilization Discussed by an Expert for Benefit of the Public, Wch Is to Vote on the Question Tuesday. BY GEORGE A. THACHEB. In reading the denunciations of the sterilization law to be voted upon Tues day I am Impressed by the probable underlying motive, of which the Pro testants are, of course, unconscious. I have not heard any calm objections to the measure, though I have heard such heated ones as that the measure would be productive of criminality: that it is all rot; that it is an infamous measure, and chat men and women will be rail roaded to Jail and the asylums by ene mies to deprive them of the capacity of leaving descendants. I don't think very much can be said for the way In which the law is drawn, but certainly no one can say truthfully that the courts will construe it as an instrument of private revenge, even In directly, for that would make superin tendents of asylums and Jails aa well as the Health Board, mere passive instru ments. Public officers have a little care for their reputations, and even disrepu table physicians do not take grave re sponsibilities and act arbitrarily with out strong . motives usually merce nary. The purpose of the law Is 6lmply to bar propagation of abnormal. Insane and feeble-minded parents, whom the state, under present conditions, has to confine in Institutions "after they have committed offenses on innocent per sons." It seems to me that some of this overwhelming tenderness for the supposed desire of the abnormal to leave progeny (which probably never exists) might be transferred with profit to their victims, or to the taxpayer who may have some desires of his own about children. The sexually abnormal and weak-minded seek simply personal gratification, for it takes a normal per son to be interested in posterity. Society must deal kindly with the present generation of perverts, but why get Into such a fury of sentiment about their increasing their kind? There have been half a dozen "Sadistic" murders In the Willamette Valley within some two years, and the perpetrators have never been caught, and there have doubtless been others where the victims' bodies have been destroyed by fire, for these perverts are the most cunning and clev er criminals that live. Why not a little sympathy for the prospective victims in the next generation, for the Sadistic murderer of today, if he begets chil dren, will beget his own kindT There is another matter in which so. ciety professes to be interested, whether hypocritically or not, and that is com mercial prostitution, which directly dis seminates diseases that tend to destroy posterity as well as the participating individuals. It is safe to say that about one-half of the women in this profession are weak-minded, and their children will be like their mothers, thus providing recruits for the contamina tion of the business from which vicious men and women make big money. If the supply of feeble-minded women could be cut off this problem of public health would be half solved by that cutting off of the material. It's true that the majority of good people can't see any difference between commercial prostitution and - Irregular relations, but the distinction is very sharp and deep, and some day will be recognized. Two weeks ago I had two requests to do something about a matron of a disorderly house whose family I know to be mentally degenerate and abnor mal. Two young women, one of them engaged to be married, had been in veigled into this woman's place by par tially false representations. This wo man and her relatives are a problem. A sexuallzatlon would not interfere with their sexual life at all and that Is the end of life for them but It would stop the breed with this generation. Language simply fails to describe what this family does In Portland in dis seminating disease and in teaching boys and girls vicious sex habits. The Social Hygiene Society is an academic affair, contrasted with these women, who day after day for years have per year. The new officers will assume charge at the next meeting. For the first year the auxiliary has been an Important factor. It conducted a successful rose show in the Penin sula Park and a eugenic contest In the Multnomah Hotel. It held a successful banquet at the Presbyterian Church of Kenton last Winter which was largely attended. It secured several important improvements in North Portland also. For the ensuing year It will work for a park for Kenton and will conduct an other rose show and eugenio contest. sonally and as a business taught de bauchery to the youth of the city. It is unnecessary to say that their de scendants are engaged in the same pro fession, though some of them are too weak mentally to be active. When I read a few days ago Colonel Wood's statement that this steriliza tion law was an "engine of tyranny and oppression" and that "it Is rot." it brought vividly to mind a scene that I witnessed within a few months in a miserable hovel, practically without furniture, where a feeble-minded mother with her brood of feeble minded children lived on the earnings of her prostitute daughter. This moth er, being feeble-minded, had naturally mated with a disreputable, but she admitted that her second child, who waa the son of herself and her brother. (Cases of this sort are fairly common with the feeble-minded as the police, the District Attorneys and social work ers know, though it is not regarded as proper and polite for the public gen erally to know.) The daughter and bread-winner In this family is pretty and physically vigorous and while not yet 20 years old is a bigamist as well as a professional prostitute. There Is a man In McNeil's Island on her account and two others have served terms In the penitentiary at Salem for exploit ing her as a source of income. To see this feeble-minded mother with her .three feeble-minded children standing at the door of their hovel to see how much the daughter brought home from her "adventure," as I wit nessed It. was a rather striking pic ture, which I shall not be able to for get. For some reason, talk about pride of posterity In families of that sort does not take hold of me. They can make their mark on society un doubtedly, as this family la doing, but it Is a mark of disease, degeneracy and death, aa well as expense to the com munity. This daughter -was examined by an alienist and is reported o be lacking in judgment and without will power. She is also very suggestible and as the physician said, la bound to be the prey of the first person who attempts to use her. By the Binet test she is be tween 9 and 10 years old mentally and of course must go through life aa a child, though physically mature. Here Is the question: It is "rot," as our eloquent fellow-townsman Bays, to prevent, by an operation that Is not serious and not disabling In any de gree for personal enjoyment, such mothers and daughters and sons from propagating the race? Or shall we by high-flown appeals against tyranny and unusual punishment permit these poor creatures, who undoubtedly de serve our care and sympathy, if not our love, to be fruitful and multiply? That Is the question which the voters of Oregon are to decide at the polls on Tuesday. Of course, no law is per fect, and no officers of the law have perfect knowledge and Judgment, but the making of law and Its enforcement are none the less necessary. I fancy that this law will be defeated as It ought to be. if there is not a public sentiment behind It, but really the public ought to know something about the situation even If it Is pain ful and shocking. If the people refuse to accept the verdict of the Legisla ture about as important a matter as this, then the people must dig in the slums and learn the facts about degen eracy and sexual perversion and what they cost society In life and health, and what they cost In taxes for insane asylums, jails, homes for the feeble minded and reformatories. Of course, if It is seriously believed that genius and madness and degeneracy are bound together, then it becomes a question of values and Mrs. Little and Colonel Wood and Dr. White and Judges Mun ly and Bloomfleld are perhaps the best persons to say what the voters should do at the pollu. DAIRY TESTS MADE Reports Issued Based on Bac teria Existing. GRESHAM PLANT HIGHEST Two Concerns Come Within Require ments for Rating of 'Excellent, Which Calls for Marking or at Least 90 Per Cent. Following bateriological tests of milk and inspections of sanitary condi tions under which milk Is produced and handled by various dajjles supply Ing milk to Portland, the City Milk Inspection department yesterday Issued a statement rating the dairies on the basis of 100 points; Concerns receiving a general rating of more than 90 per cent are classed as excellent; between 79.60 and 90 per cent, very good; be tween 70 and 79.50 per cent, good; be tween 60 and 70 per cent, fair, and under 60 per cent, passable. Following are the dairies listed tn the order of their ratings: Certified dallies IP. M. KIger, Ores nam, 84.4 per cent, excellent: Clover Hill. Port land Pure Milk and Cream Co., 93.78 per cent, excellent. Dairies Fulton Park, Hills dale, 89.45 per cent, very good: Willis, E. H., 926 Easy street. 86 per cent, very good: Brook- wild. 85 per cent, very good; Sleigerwald, J. R., Forty-second and Going streets, 83.8 per cent, very good; Rose City. Cleone. 83.8 per cent, very rood ; White Clover, 83.8 per cent. very good; Edelwtss, Hillsdale, 81.85 per cent, very good; Bruns, C H., 675 Fremont street. 81.3 per cent, very good; scnaiK, 700 Ealsll street. 80.8 per cent, very good; Oak Grove. 79.95 per cent, very good; Zwald, S., Milwaukie. 79.05 per cent, good; W. C. Milk Co.. Gresham, 7S.65 per cent, good; Portnomah Farms, 114 East Third street, 78.65 per cent, good; Covert, D. C. Portland, 78.55 per cent, good; Multnomah, Hillsdale, 78.2 per cent, good; Younger A Kehrll, Cle one. 78.1 per cent, good; Cliff Inn. 260 North Seventeenth street, 77.4 per cent, good; Fowler, Lents, 77.35 per cent, good; Maple Grove, Hillsdale, 77.2 per cent, good; Tarter, S., 1385 Montana avenue. 77.05 rer cent, good; - Marquam Hill, Beaverton, 76.0 per cent, good; Columbia. 575 Vancouver avenue, 76.9 per cent, good; Rock Home, Milwaukie, R. F. D., 76.T per cent, good; Overlook, 1417 Vancouver avenue, 76.7 per cent, good; Mc Kay, J. P., 602 East Thirty-third street North, 78.55 per cent, good; Guthrie. "W. A., 775 Tenlno avenue, 76.35 per cent, good; Metlor, William, Milwaukie, 76.15 per eent, good; Summit, Portland, 75.8 per cent, good; Mayflower, Hillsdale, 75.55 per cent, good; Mt. Scott. Lents, 75.8 per cent, good; Rose Park, Cleone, 78.45 per cent, good; Hol eate, 1075 Schiller st., 75.2 per cent, good; Oleson, W., West Humboldt street, T5 per cent, good; Willsburg, 925 Tacoma, 75 per cent, good; Acme, Portland, 74.7 per cent, good; Elmhurst. 232 Fifty-fifth street North, 74.65 per cent, good; Sweetbrlar, Lenta, 74.4 per .cent, good; Johnson, Mrs. C. 8906 Seventy-sixth street southeast, 74.4 per cent, good; Chase, W. E., 11 East Sixtieth street, 73.53 per cent, good; Deery, A. E., Milwau kie. 78.08 per cent, good; Cloverleaf, Hills dale, 73.1 per cent, good; Selvett. H. M., Milwaukie, 72.05 per cent, good; Jersey Lily, Lents, 72.65 per cent, good; City View, Hillsdale, 72.2 per cent, good; MeClay Park, Linnton, 71.95 per cent, good; Carlson, A., Forty-second and Ainsworth streets, 71.5 per oent. good; Odonl & Mc carty, Forty-second and Webster streets. 71.8 per cent, good; Laurelhurst, Cleone, 70.75 per cent, good; Peterson & Stephens, Lents, 71 per cent, good; Cado nau, F., Hillsdale. 70.27 per cent, good; Meagle Junction, 69.55 per cent, fair; Taut fest, M., 194 East Eighteenth street North, 69.5 per cent, fair; Bchattuch, Hillsdale, 69.2 Der cent, fair: Wlnniger. J. Oswego. 68.78 per cent, fair; Fries, L., 1161 Holgate,' 88.15 per cent, rair; fieasant view farm, Hillsdale, 68.08 per cent, fair; Brayslde, Linnton, 67.9 per cent fair; Spring Farm, Cleone, 67.8 per cent, fair; Spring Hill, Lents, 62.2 per cent, fair; Williams, G. T Gresham, 66.9 per cent, fair; Kehrll Bros., Hillsdale, 65.8 per cent, fair; Daisy Farm, 60.25 per cent, fair; Smith, W., Hillsdale, 64.65 per cent, fair; Standard, 64.25 per cent, fair; Wisenfluh. A.. Hillsdale, 68.4 per cent, fair; Pacific 927 Columbia boulevard. 69.8 Der cent, passable; Capitol Hill, Hillsdale. 58.5 per cent, passable; Kurllo, S., 841 East Four teenth street North, 57.75 per cent, passable; Mt. View, Beaverton, 68.25 per cent, passa ble; Picnic Park, Portland, 65.85 per cent, passable; Goldstein, M.. 699 East Twenty- first street North. 65.28 per cent, passable; w. Portland rarx, tuisaaie, os per cent, passable; U. S. Dairy, Lents, 80.6 per cent, passable; Mountain, Hillsdale, 48.65 per cent, passable. - YOUTH PERPLEXES JUDGE Lad Attempts to Steal Automobile From Stark Street. Juvenile Court officials are at a loss to know what to do -with Irwin Oliver. convicted yesterday of attempting to steal an automobile from Stark street, in front of the Chamber of Commerce building. The law passed at the last session of the Legislature prohibits the court from sending boys over 16 years of age to the Oregon State Training School at Salem, and the court has no Jurisdiction to commit to the peniten tiary or the rockpile. As a result Judge Gatens committed young Oliver to Fraser Home, where he will be detained until his father finds employment for him. in which event he will probably be paroled and given another chance to make good. He has been before the court three times, each time charged with offenses having to do with automobiles. Lawrence Black, aged 11. and Henry Maul, aged 12, were adjudged lncor rigibles yesterday by Judge Gatens and will be sent to the reform school. SIX MINISTERS TAKE PART Funeral Participated, in Tby Pastors From Many Churches. Six ministers took part In the funeral services over the remains of Peter Den ning at the family home, 1099 Kerby street, Wednesday. The services were conducted by Rev. I. N. Monroe, for merly pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, of which Mr. and Mrs. Denning were members. The assistant ministers were Rev. Walter Duff, pastor of the Calvary Bap tist tjnurcn; ev. Tyler j. Coburn, pas tor of the Piedmont Friends Church; Rev. Milton H. St. John, pastor of the East Side Seventh Day Adventist Church; Rev. W. T. Kerr, retired Meth odist pastor, and Karl Rowell, evan gelist. The Interment was in Mount Scott Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Denning came to Port land from Bloomlngton. 111., In May, 1891, residing In this city most of the time since. TWENTY LECTURES GIVEN President Foster Returns From One Trip and "Will Depart on Another.. President William T. Foster, of Reed College, will return today from a speaking tour of Eastern Washington and Idaho. In all. Dr. Foster gave about 20 lectures, speaking at the University of Idaho, Washington State College at Pullman, the Cheny State Normal School, the meeting of the Washington Educational Association at Spokane, the Washington State Teacher's Convention and several other places. ,. v This week Dr. Foster will leave for a six weeks' trip East, the chief pur pose of which is to look up instruc tors for the Reed faculty. Just what experiencing the biggest kind of a building; boom, and these new-houses are not being built for speculation, they are real homes, and are being erected by the very finest class of people in the City. CAN YOU offer any good excuse to your family for not permitting them, too, to locate in this beautiful healthy scenic park? GET RLD OP THE RENT HABIT We"; have.' an extraordinary proposition we will make to a few business men who would not find it convenient to take very much money out of their busi ness just now with which to build a home. ."COME IN TODAY at 270 Stark street and let us explain it to you, or phone for our auto, Main 1503, A 1515, and let us show you our addition. MEAD additions aTe to be made to the faculty next year has not been announced, but it is probable that courses In at least two new departments will be given and new instructors -secured to help out in some of the departments already established. Dr. Foster will speak at a number of places while In the Bast, Including the University of Iowa," Harvard, Uni versity and Bowdoln College, where he was a professor for several years be fore coming to Reed College. MARY SCHWAB FINED $40 Both I. W. W. Agitators Now Are at Iiiberty in City Again. Forty dollars' fine, $20 on each of two counts, was levied on Mary R. Schwab, Industrial Worker of the World agitator, yesterday by Municipal Judge Stevenson. Mrs. Schwab was convicted Friday by a Jury of business men, on one charge of disorderly con duct. When the judge came to pass sentence, he remembered a previous conviction and levied a similar amount for that also. Her fine was paid and Mrs. Schwab was released. Both the Schwabs are now out of jail, Rudolph being recalled from exile at the rockpile by an order of the Dis trict Court, to which he had appealed from a Municipal Court conviction and sentence. 50 BEST MAKERS PIANOS See Graves Music Co. Removal Sale adv page 10, section 3. Adv. Workman Awarded $750. J. M. Worley, who was Injured when a pile of lumber fell on him while at work in the yards of the Multnomah jumber & Box Company, was awarded $750 damages yesterday by e. Jury in Judge Davis court. Edlefsens' sell Hiawatha hard coal. Adv. Portland Agency IdeaJ 354 Washington Street Morgan Building Near Park Street The only exclusive Foun tain Pen Store in the city carrying the largest line of Fountain Pens in the Northwest, from $1.00 tip.' "We make a specialty of repairing all makes of Fountain Pens. Liberal allowance made on your old pen. Full line of Inks and Pencils. Godfrey S. Sparks Proprietor HOTEL 8AII FRANCISCO Geary Street, above Union Square . curopun run i.su a aay up American flan jJiU a day up New steel and brick structure. Third ad dition of hundred rooms now buildina. Every modern conTenience. Moderate rates. Center of theatre and retail dis trict. On car lines transferrins' all over city. Electric sifeo mcmU trsiaa ao4 ttciawn. REMOVED TO EIGHTH FLOOR MliitGAX Bt'ILDM'O. STEWART Office lead a sedentary life. They grow fat, flabby and lazy. Being brain workers, their minds should be clear and keen. But they aren't. They grow sluggish; so do their livers. They get that clogged-up feeling. What they want is not med icine, but fresh air and exercise the right kind of exercise the kind that makes all the digestive functions do the work Nature intended they should do. ' LIFE IN LAURELHURST completely fulfills the requirements for the indoor mail and the outdoor man. DON'T YOU ever get the longing to put on your old clothes, dig up your old pipe the one they won't let you smoke in the house and work around your own lawn or garden, explaining to your neighbors how much you don't know about itf Gee! How you'll sleep that night. DO YOU KNOW that LAURELHURST is now & MURPHY, Sales Agents for W0RKINGMEN VOTE After a hard struggle against the money of the Employers' Association, the people, in November, 1910, passed the Employ ers' Liability Law. This has been tried and has given entire satisfaction. It requires protection rather than compensation, and that ia what we want. Under the Compensation Act of Washington, in seven months, accidents increased from 25 1-3 per cent to 59 5-18 per ceut. (See Oregonian August 17.) The Washington Commission, however, tries to lay this at the door of Mr. John Barleycorn, -which is ridiculous. The lumber interests of this state, who have the "human butcher shops," opposed the Employers' Liability Law with large sums of money. In 1911 they raised another "slush" fund, and went to the Legislature by trainloada to pass a com pensation act. The labor unions of Portland succeeded in de feating the bill. Again, at the last Legislature, they raised a large sum of money, and went in trainloads to the Legislature, and succeeded in passing the present bill. These efforts were all made and this bill was passed to defeat the Employers' Liability Law. Under the present Compensation Act, a man with both arms or both legs or both eyos removed, which would be permanent disability, would receive $25 per morith. Multnomah County pays at the rate of $26.70 per month to keep paupers. Who would keep any man with both of his legs off for $25 per month ? Again, the Employers' Association Bucceeded in having Harvey Beekwith appointed a Commissioner. The only thing to recom mend him was the fact that he was forty years with big express companies. The Oregonian of October 25 has an article stating the Indus trial Insurance Commission of Washington won a victory be cause it defeated a widow from recovering when her husband was killed as a result of a rock flying from a blast, striking him while he was eating his meal at the company's boarding table. Mr. Beekwith will always have some excuse to keep from paying the pitiful amounts mentioned in his Compensation Act. The laboring people do not want this Act. F. L. GIFFORD. Business Manager, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. (Paid Advertisement.) . Lost Persons Found - Scattered Families Reunited ?4A lM?Mr RicWd Roewhojoinea "ilk. Ifl r?!$S "FtfrTMevIy of Ptbipi. :) ' 1":': ' Do You Want to Send a "Wireless" to the Port of Missing Men? Where's the dear one who strolled away so many years ago? Is a heart breaking? Is an estate unsettled? You can sail away to the Port of Missing Men on the wings of the aeroplane The Little Want Ad. It travels every day, reaches the "exchange tables' of hundreds of news papers, penetrates distant states and provinces and foreign lands. It is m fixed habit of the missing who still live to peruse the "personals" of papers and it is the practice of law to demand that reasonable efforts be made to locate lost heirs. Dissipate the cloud of doubt by using a little Want Ad that leads Bto strange by-paths and reunites scattered families and friends. Maybe a few repetitions will be needed but get started now to-day. Next (Saggewtion, for Yoa to Adopt) month may.be too late! Happiness "SSFiZTSZ ZAEZ1ttS5!' belongs tO those Who land. August a. 1S4. Father dmasMl; nratber old sad treble; calllnt; repeatedly for ber son. Ssad Information at ones. Ad. Use The Want Mem The Addition with Character 309 X--N0 areas: WANTED Knowledge or whereabouts eS John Blank, who left Canton. Indiana, ton tke Klondike ia 1996. Wife serlousty in la hospital. AdTise at once. Address: Ad Way"