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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1919)
9 35 S1E PLACED I Open Evenings Till Christmas E me a Idaho Commissioners' Re port Causes Sensation. Winter Shoes for BOYS PROBATE JUDGES BLAMED TOE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 21, 1910. ASYLUM. IS CHAKG mealBillllllr Vniiulural 1-ami lies Declared to Have "Railroaded" Relatives Into State Hospital. BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 20. (Special.) The charge made by John Kirby "White, commissioner of public wel fare and a member of oGvernor Davis' cabinet, that a considerable number of the inmates of the state asylum at Blackfoot are not insane at all, but were placed in that Institution larcely by unnatural families and rel atives, has created a mild sensation in many parts of the slate. Mr. White asserts that fully 10 per cent of the inmates of the asylum ought to be home with relatives or at legist in feeble-minded institutions. This state Institution has been un der fire several times in the past two years. The last legislature sent a committee to Blackfoot- to investigate it and returned with a report severely criticising the medical superintend ent. Thirl y-rive Held t Insane. Authorities seem to agree that there !s something radically wrong with the present system of handling the insane, and Commissioner White, who by virtue of his office, which gives him jurisdiction over the asylums, proposed to take vigorous steps to remedy it. After an investigation by the directing board of the Blackfoot asylum, by Medical Superintendent Hoover and by Commissioner White himself, the latter announces there are 35 of the 320 inmates who are not insane; counties have persisted in palming off as state charges feeble minded persons who properly belong in county institutions, instead of an asylum; unnatural families have rail roaded undesirable relatives to the asylum: proper segregation of the in itiates has been rendered impossible by the flood of patients, and there is not even a proper place to die at the asylum. Commissioner White also has juris diction over the state sanitarium es tablished at Niimpa for the purpose of taking care of the feeble-minded. He finds on investigation that many feeble-minded are mixed among the in sane at Blackfoot and he proposes to see they are transferred to the sani tarium. In discusisng the matter he took occasion to score severely the probate judges of the state, who in some instances have been guilty of neglect of duty in failing to examine carefully Into the financial condition of prospective Inmates. The law pro vides that where persons committed have funds for their support their keep must be paid at the asylum. This re lieves the state of that obligation. Co-eds Attract Attention. The action taken by the University of Idaho co-eds in adopting resolu tions indorsing a special session of the legislature to ratify the suffrage amendment has attracted the interest of party leaders here. The college girls hold that Idaho's vote may be a critical one before the campaign is over to get the legislatures of the various states to ratify. They are listing the support of women's clubs in various parts of the state. It is not likely that the special ses sion of the Idaho legislature will be called, however, unless the college girls and other women of the state are able to convince Governor Davis that it is necessary and win him to their side. The governor is not in clined at this time to summon the solons. Of course, in the event it became imperative to have Idaho's vote to assure safety of the amend ment, he would order the special ses sion. The amendment does not seem to be in any particular danger. The necessary two-thirds vote will be se cured without trouble, the governor and others believe. Black Calf Lace Shoes, broad mannish last, with "TEL-TIL-TIPS." 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Creamery Makes Good Record. CHEHALIS, Wash.. Dec. 20. (Spe cial.) For November the co-opera tive creamery at Winlock made an approximate of 20,000 pounds of but ter, which was an increase over the October output of 2000 pounds. Many local dairymen in southern Lewis county who formerly Bhipped cream to sound cities are now patronizing the plant nearer home. NEW THEORY QUESTIONED CHICAGO SCIENTIST DOUBTS EIXSTELN" HYPOTHESIS. Belie! Regarding Relativity, How t ever, Is Decalred to Be One to Be Reckoned With. CHICAGO, Dec. 20. Dr. A. A. Mich elson of the University of Chicago says that anyone holding the new Kinstein theory of "relativity" must also accept the following conclusions: "A yardstick is shorter when it is pointing east and west than it is pointing north and south. "A clock will run slower -when it Is being moved than when it is stand ing. "A mass of matter is greater when It is in motion than when It Is at rest." Dr. Michelson was winner of the $40,000 Nobel prize for physics in 1917. His investigations in the action of light brought on the discussion lead lng up to the Einstein tests and hy potheses which have aroused so much comment in the scientific world. Dr. Mtchelson stated that the con sequences of the Einstein theory are radical, and then he told the effect It would have on the yardstick, clock and solid body. But he added that we need not get excited about it, even if Einstein is right. "The movement of the earth is small when compared to the velocity of light, and for all practical purposes might be disregarded," he said. "The subject of relatiyity belongs to the realm of higher physics, but never theless, is an important matter and the Einstein theory is to be seriously reckoned witn. Professor Michelson, however, does not as yet accept the theory as it is taught- by the great Swiss mathe maticlan, because it does away with the idea of light traveling by means of the vibrations in ether, which, is supposed to fill all space. "Einstein thinks there la no such Conserve Your Patience and Your Battery Have a .Splitdorf Primer put on your car today. Posi tively guaranteed to start your car in Ten Seconds. Makes Hot Vapor of the low grade gasoline. Can be in stalled on any make of car. Your dealer will gladly show you. BUYER OF LIPMAX, WOLFE Si CO. GOES TO KASTEKAr COXCER-X. : ' AO-' ! r J - i! ' :' ; v if ji i GENTILES TO HID JEWS PROMINENT MEN TO CAMPAIGN FOR $10,000,000. Isaac Vprlstht. After passing 16 years in Portland in the mercantile busi ness, Isaac Upright, one of the head buyers of Llpman, Wolfe & Co., is to leave this city to accept an executive position with the Famous-Barr company of St. Louis, Mo. He will de part immediately after Chriet mas, going first to San Fran cisco to spend several days with his father, and then east. The concern with which Mr. Upright will take up his new duties " is owned by tha May company, which operates four, large stores located in St. Louis, Denver, Cleveland and Akron. It does an annual business of $50,000,000. Big Fund Is Sought to Improve 34 Jewish Institutions Made Poor by War Work. NEW YORK, Dec. 20. Announce ment was made here tonight of the organization of a special committee of nationally prominent Gentiles to aid the united building funds cam paign for a fund of $10,000,000 with which to extend the activities and improve the buildings of 34 Jewish institutions. The work of this special committee is to be directed from the Hotel Pennsylvania by Colonel Arthur Woods, formerly assistant to the secretary of war and ex-police com missioner of New York, and W. Mard Smith, who conducted the success ful actors' fund drive. The committee Includes George Gor don Battle, President Nicholas Mur ray Butler of Columbia university, President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union, R. Fulton Cutting, John Hays Hammond, Hamilton Holt, Charles Evans Hughes, Arthur Cur- tiss James, George Foster Peabody, Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roose velt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gov ernor Smith of New York, and Major General Wood. , In announcing the new organiza tion, the special committee made this statement: "Leading jews of the country have made vigorous efforts to raise a $10. 000,000 fund with which to improve some 34 of their public institutions, many of them non-sectarian. Includ ing hospitals, orphanages, day nur series, neighborhood centers and set tlement houses. "Because their funds were deyoted in war to war purposes, these in stitutions are now in financial distress." .-wrac ....e. !' . I'' '!'. ,. j . , r i - i i M ' ill ',, ,.': .a." i,: i. . ;: '! r :i ill "i 'i ii:n i: r :;! . 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