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TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 12, 1920 DECREE IN GASOLINE MAYOR ISSUES CALL CITY JAIL INMATES SHINE UP 100 BLOCKS WHERE WEEDS TURN LOTS INTO JUNGLES 1000 Places in Portland Need Overhauling by Chief Jenkins' Crew of Trusties and at Present Pace This Area Will Be Spotless Before Rainy Season Is Ushe red In. ' . IE L usmess Commissioners to Pay for Oil Not Used in Work. Portland Talent' to Present 'The Mandarin." 15. Institution COUPONS TO BE RETURNED ELKS WILL HAVE CHARGE 18 C GIVEN COUNTY FOR LOCA GES Slnltnomah County Board Members Have Power to Make Proper Division. The contract' with themselves by which two Multnomah county com missioners agreed that gasoline and tires for their private automobiles should be paid for by the county, to recompense th,em for the use of those machines in county business, was held against public policy and void, in a decision handed down in the notori ous "gasoline case" by Judge Percy Ti. Kelly of Albany and filed in the ilnltnomah circuit court yesterday. By the terms of this decision. Com missioners Rufus C Holman and Italph W. Hoyt are ordered to reim burse the Standard and Associated , Oil companies for gasoline coupons used on private business and Mult- r. nomah county to pay for the gasoline 'oupons used by these commission- rs-on public business. The county Is ordered to pay for all the gasoline coupons used, by Commissioner Alwln A. Muck, who does not own a per sonal automobile, and is said to have used the gasoline in a county car on county business. The suit was brought by John W. Kaste, a local attorney and taxpayer, to restrain County Clerk Beveridge from issuing warrants at the order of ' the county commissioners in payment for gasoline coupon books purchased sby Commissioners Hoyt, Holman and 'Muck to the total value of $331.50, and to enjoin County Treasurer Lewis from honoring any such warrants which might be issued. Injunction Is Granted. The permanent injunction asked for Was granted. Under terms of the decree the com . missioners and county must reimburse the gasoline companies by paying "the reasonable value" of the gasoline fur nished on the coupon books. It does not state by whom the reasonable value will be determined. At the time the books were purchased gasoline was 22 cer)ts a gallon. It is now 30 cents. The decision also permits the com missioners to determine that portion of the gasoline which was used for county business and the percentage used in private business. No check was ever kept on this, as Commis sioners Hoyt and Holman considered the use of county gasoline on all business as-falr exchange for the use of their private cars on county af fairs. . Should they wish to do so, under the decision they might assert that "to the best of their knowledge and belief" only one gallon was used on personal business and the remainder on county affairs, and the county would be compelleld to foot all but 22 or 30 cents of the bills. It is expect ed, however, that a 0-50 division will be made. Book Ordered Retained. Commissioners Hoyt and Muck have Used up all their coupons, but Com missioner Holman has on hand a book of coupons calling for 100 gallons of gasoline, of the present value of (30, which he is ordered by Judge Kelly to return to the company from which It was obtained. The salient provision of the de cree of Judge Kelly decides that the agreement providing that, as reim bursement to Commissioner Hoyt and Commissioner Holman, for the wear and tear on their private automobiles Incident to and resulting from their use in public business, the county should furnish free gasoline and other supplies to the commissioners, is void because against public policy. The agreement was by action of the commissioners, themselves, at a board meeting. . As the suit was held to be prose cuted in the interest of and for the protection of Multnomah county. Judge Kelly decreed that the county should stand the costs and disburse ments of the action. UPPER- m: 1300 TEACHERS GATHER CITY SCHOOL S'TJPERIXTEXD- - EXT ADDRESSES SESSION. Educational Head 'Crges Ixyalt j - and Close Application Among t- : . Instructors. - INlors than IS 00 teachers, principles and superintendents assembled yes terday morning at the Lincoln high er-hool for the annual meeting at the Close of the first week of school ."The continued success of publio education depends upon the interest. good will, fidelity, energy and con e;ince of the workers," said D. A Orout, city school superintendent, in addressing the gathering. "Children are lot in school for mental discipline, but for life disci pline; not to fill their heads with facts, but with ideas; not to learn rules of conduct, but to gain ability ti conduct themselves properly and to carry into their adult life those rare qualities of childhood, frankness. kindliness and sincerity." -Tilr. Grout urged the teachers to be loyal, saying that it was particu lnrly necessary at this time, when trre are many false philosophies. r Reports were made by those who attended the National Educational as relation convention at Salt Lake City and E. H. Whitney, assistant EMi-fterintendent, gave a talk on "A txjd Basis for Work." .Kel?M Man Weds in. Boston. -KJELSO, Wash., Sept. 11. (Special. cfeorge Oyster Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. George Oyster of this city, and Wlus Florence Vaughn, of Boston, Mass., were united in marriage at the hone of the bride's brother in Boston, Saturday, September 4. They became acquainted when Mr. Oyster was sta turned at Boston .with his naval unit before going overseas. They are en route home. Mr. Oyster is manage the Mitchell Tractor company branch house in Spokane, -Prowler Frightens Woman. . While burlars ransacked the horn of -M. Welkell. 1346 East Sixth street r.orth, early yesterday morning, Mrs. Nora Dobbs, Welkell's sister-in-law, watched them at their work but was too frightened to call for help until the prowlers had departed, according to. the story told the police yesterday. A - gold watch is the only article known to have been taken. lit r;lA , Hvrf V. eit V4! J L'J i i Kr V . & 3l - I 53. Jv, ef $ Si 1 ; f "V iM tt" "."iX' 1 4. -"TRtSTIES" FROM THE CITY JAIl, fl.EARIXG THE S1DEWAL K OS STAJSTOX STREET. LOOKING NORTH OS EIGHTEENTH ST BEET. - LOWER ANT moons ago, when Portland had not yet attained the present place held in the front rank of coast cities, there were vast areas of vacant city blocks where weeds, brush and other vegetation sprang up and flourished to such an extent that the sidewalks were almost submerged and passage was difficult for the long-suf fering pedestrian. At that time enterprising city, of ficials undertook to correct the evil. but the consequences were disastrous to the city s budget. The city engi neering department cleaned up several miles of city blocks, assessed the .prop erty for the expense incurred and waited expectantly for remuneration. The department is waiting yet. Out- of-town property owners banded to gether to fight the assessments, the case was taken to the courts and the city lost. Weeds Become Nuisance. In 1917 the city passed ordinance number 32929, which defines the growing of weeds on vacant lots and vegetation which obstructs the pave ment as a nuisance, and fixes a pen alty for the non-removal of these ob structions after a suitable interval has elapsed after notification from the city. This, too, failed of its object, as many of the owners of city lots in Portland are residents of other states and in seme caes it requires the serv ices of a skilled abstract lawyer to find the legal owner, and city officials were loath to penalize local residents while ".outsiders were exempt. Today there are still many vacant lots in the residential districts and with the coming of school time when thousands of Portland children are forced to pass weed-submerged side walks dally the mayor's office and the police department have been be sieged with protests from citizens calling for relief from the objection able areas.' From all parts of the city complaints have come in and are still coming in daily. Jnfl Inmates Clean Up. Two weeks ago Mayor Baker de cided to take the situation in hand and do all that was possible to be done with the limited facilities at the disposal or tne city. Accordingly Chief of Police Jenkins, under orders from the mayor's of flee, ordered out the police patrol wagon with, inmates of the city jail armed with brush hooks, scythes and other tools for their battle against the weeds and brush and under the supervision of Captain Inskeep a winning fight on the objectionable vacant lots has been in progress. The men from the city jail work under the general supervision of Su perintendent 01 isuuaings snarrer, who supplies them with tools from his deDartment. and under the ner sonal supervision of Captain Inskeep, Every day while the weather permits the crew sallies forth to attack the worst areas where the encroachment of the weeds has rendered the side walks objectionable to pedestrians. 100 City Blocks Cleaned Up. Much good work has been accom pllehed, according to reports at police headquarters. A total of more than 100 city blocks have been worked over by the "trusiies" during the two weeks that they have been em ployed. Long grass that has over grown the whole sidewalk and brush that hangs down from banks and be comes extremely disagreeable during wet .and rainy weather, have been removed and piled on the vacant lots. It is believed that - most of the objec tionable areas will have been cleaned up entirely before the rainy season arrives. Owing to the fact that during the last month there has never been more than six to eight permanent "guests in the city jail, the working . force has been small. From four to six men has been the usual size of th crew. Their numbers are made u of men who have more than five-day sentences to serve, as it has been found inexpedient to use the "tran stents" in this work. The system has been found to work out well from the point of view of the inmates of the jail, as well as in work accomplished. The "trusties" who do good work are given two days for one in their sentence. In other words, an inmate who is serving a 20 day sentence is allowed to work 10, and if his work has been satisfactory and he has conducted himself in. an orderly manner, the remaining 10 days are commuted and he is allowed his freedom. Ordinarily the men are glad to avail themselves of thio priv ilege, according, to Chief of Police Jenkins, as the days served in idle- XORTH PACIFIC COLLEGE OPEX SEPTEMBER 30. ness in the city jail become extreme ly irksome to an able-bodied man. It is estimated there are more than 1000 city blocks that need to be cleaned. At the present rate of prog ress this work will be completed be fore the arrival of the rainy season. The work has been done mostly near the large schools for the benefit of the school children. The Irvlngton, Alameda, Rose City park, Sellwood and Piedmont districts have ben cov ered, up to the present. Plans for Performance to Provide Money for Christmas Tree for JTeedy Are Announced. Portland's musical and theatrical talent is to be used in staging a mammoth production of De Koven's operatic masterpiece, "The Mandarin," at the Auditorium November 5 and 6, to raise funds for a great municipal Christmas tree for needy children of the city. Announcement of plans for the undertaking was made yesterday by Mayor Baker. Portland Elks, by reason of their past activities in Christmas and big brother work, have been asked to handle the details. The production of "The Mandarin" as a means of raising the necessary funds for the municipal Christmas tree was decided upon a week ago and the machinery set in motion. The Initial rehearsal and registration or cnorua and principals will be held in Elks' temple, Broadway and Stark street, tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. All persons willing to take part are asked to attend. Many Singers Required. As 100 young women and 50 men will be required In the chorus and more than a score of principals needed. Mayor Baker urges all per sons with vocal ability to report to Director Carey W. Houseman at the lodge hall at the time indicated and by actively participating In the opera do their part in behalf of the under taking.' . The mayor, who is also chairman of the-committee having the affair in charge, says in his announcement: "The remarkable success achieved by the Portland lodge of Elks last year in financing and staging the great Christmas tree for the needy children of Portland has prompted me as head of the municipality again to call upon the "antlered herd" to ren der similar service this year. Mayor Calls for Support. "Deeming it inequitable and unfa'r that the Elks should bear the entire financial burden attendant upon bring ing sunshine and cheer to the needy kiddles of the city through the me dium of a Christmas tree, the com mittee has decided upon a spectacular production of Reg'nald De Koven's wonderful opera, "The Mandarin," at the Auditorium on Friday and Satur day nights. November 5 and 6, as a means of raising the necessary finds, . "As mayor of the city, I want to oall upon the citizens to support, in every way possible, this meritorious undertaking." DISEASE SURVEY NEAR END ENROLLMENT IS HEAVY TO Federal Dental Unit for XT. S. Army iteserve Corps to Be Formed During October. North Pacific college will open this fall with the largest enrollment in I its history, according to President 1 Miller, and so great a demand is be ing experienced for the work in the beginning classes in the department of dentistry that it has been neces sary to make a limit of 226 beginning students In this work. The total registration is expected to run between 500 arid 800, or' con siderably in excess of any previous record. The date for opening of the fall term is September 30. Four additions to. the faculty have already been announced by President Miller, and three more additions are to be made shortly, making a fac ulty at the college this fall of 34. The new members of the teaching force are Dr. Charles P. Shwey and Dr. Thomas H. Walton, who will be assistant professors of clinical opera tive dentistry; Dr. C. B. Woodward, assistant professor of chemistry, and Dr. C. H. Walrath, instructor in or thodontia. North Pacific college was recently designated by the federal government as one of . ten institutions in the United States for the location of den tal units of the United States army reserve corps, and the local unit will be organized in October. Establishment of the unit at the lo cal college was considered a high compliment, in view of the fact that North Pacific is the only Independent college of dentistry so chosen, all the other ten being large state or private universities. The only other institu tion on the Pacific coast chosen for a dental unit wa the University of California. he was unable to produce the money he served 30 days extra and took the pauper's oath. Thirty-eight dollars was due him from the county, 'but this he declined to take and turn over to the government. Commissioner Drake refused to release him and Sheriff Hurlburt refused to keep him any longer, so Ivy was forced to change his mind and late in the af ternoon decided to accept the wages. H0GUE TRIAL POSTPONED Mrs. Hoime. Complainant. Is at - Beach With Defendant. Trial of Harry Hogue, former municipal judge who was arrested late Tuesday night, September 7, on complaint of Mrs. Hogue, following an alleged "booze party."- said to have been held at his offices In the Sherlock building, was set ovef until September IS by Municipal Judge George Rossman yesterday. Hogue was . released on his own recognizance Wednesday morning after spending the night in jail and he was scheduled to appear yester day to answer to a charge of having liquor in his possession. Mr. and Mrs. Hogue had gone to the beach in the interim, however, and the request of his attorney that the date of trial be postponed was granted yesterday. GARBAGE PLANT FAVORED Council Invites Reduction Company Head to Submit Proposal. Erection of a large reduction plant in Portland for the purpose of dis posing of all ga bags collected In this city by a private concern, with which the city will enter into a con tract. Is favored by members of the city council. At an Informal meeting of the council yesterday, H. E. Brown, sec retary of the Pacific Reduction com pany, was invited to submit a pro posal for the erection and operation of a reduction nlant in Portland. It is expected that at least six firms will bid for the privilege of entering into contract with the city for the disposal of garbage and it Is planned to submit the -best proposal to the voters, together with a plan for municipal collection of garbage at the November election. Attorneys to Assemble.. . Attorneys from over the entire state will gather in the grill of the Port land hotel Tuesday, September 21, honoring the 70th birthday of Judge Martin L. Pipes. Members of the su preme bench have been Invited and will select one of their number to be a speaker for this occasion. D. Solis Cohen will preside and Judge Henry McGinn will speak. FOUR EASTERN COUNTIES OREGON COVERED. OF WELL-FOUNDED principles, rigidly followed with the thought of profit far in the background, will eventually mold a mere business into an institution. A business can spring into existence over night but it takes years of endeavor and initiative and applied personality to build an institution with a souL One business can be patterned after another, but an institution has a distinct individuality which cannot be successfully imitated. Any business can command attention, but only an institution . can build up that great, priceless asset the cordial thinking of the public toward it. A business usually operates primarily to make money. An institution concerns itself not so much with the amount of money it accumulates, but with the method by which it is accumulated. One hopes for immediate profit; the other for ultimate Good Will. This 28-year-old institution measures its success by the increasing number of customers it serves rather than by the amount of money involved in the transactions. iis.u..rvT.osj W. W. Brown, Manager Broadway and Washington Streets. Marshall 2000 Mail Orders Given Special Attention 1S4 Living Cases of Tuberculosis Reported in District Twenty Six Are Children Under 16. The special eastern Oregon tuber culosis survey is being conducted by Kohert W. OsDorn, field worker for the Oregon Tuberculosis association, who arrived here today after having completed three-fourths of the survey Union, Baker and Wallowa counties with Umatilla still. to be investi gated. Statistics for these three counties show a total of 134 living cases, 72 of which are active or advanced, 4 8 Incipient and 14 other types of the disease. - Twenty-six of this number are children under 16. Of the living cases 78 are males, 56 females, 65 married and 69 single, while 27 are dependent on the county or charity. There were 7 5 deaths listed on official records since 1918 for the three coun ties. "Contact cases," those in the Imme diate family of the patient exposed to the disease, comprise a minimum number. of 231, with many other con tacts possible. Of this number the surprising total of 108 children under 16 have been directly exposed and a certain percentage will become in fected. The cases are divided among the three counties as follows: Union, 47 living cases, 20 deaths; Baker, 50 liv ing cases, 34 deaths, and Wallowa, 34 living cases and 21 deaths. The survey was started July 1 in order to interest the citizens of east ern Oregon in a special tuberculosis hospital, the need for which is becom ing more and more apparent as the in vestigation goes on. Mr. Osborn will leave for Pendle ton Saturday to start his survey of Umatilla county. 2 6 60 in Aberdeen Schools. ABERDEEN, Wash.. Sept. 11. (Special.) Records for enrollment in the public schools of Aberdeen were broken, 2660 having been enrolled in the first four days of the school year. Night schools for foreigners, which last year were conducted with signal success, will be started sometime in October, according to present plans. uuu are zne i LADIES! DARKEN . Y0URGRAY HAIR Use Grandma's Sage Tea and Sulphur Recipe and No body Will Know. Rockpile Prisoner Refuses "Wages. Refusal to accept money due him from- the county for work on the rockpile by James Ivy caused con fusion In United States Commissioner Drake's courtroom yesterday. Ivy had been sentenced to six months in the county Jail and fined 500 for vio lating the prohibition law. Because The use of sage and sulphur for restoring faded, gray hair to its nat ural color dates back to grandmoth er's time. She used it to keep her hair beautifully dark, glossy and at tractive. Whenever her hair took on that dull, faded or streaked appear ance, this simple mixture was applied with wonderful effect But brewing at home Is musey and out-of-date- Nowadays, by asking at any drug store for a bottle of "Wyeth's Sags and Sulphur Com pound" you will get this famous old preparation. Improved by the addition of other Ingredients, which can be depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair. A well-known downtown druggist says It darkens the hair so naturally and evenly . that nobody can tell it has been applied. You simply damp en a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, tak ing one strand at a time.. By morn ing the gray hair disappears, and after another application or two, it becomes beautifully dark and glossy. Adv. 1 "With a Cecilian in your home, all music is yours to play. For the Cecilian is "the piano that any one can play." Seated at its keyboard, you become a pianist capable of producing any musical effect. The player fumiskes the notes end, thrcra&h, its remarkably responsive controls, you furnish the expression. Your own ideas, yotrr own interpretations, govern every note, so that the music is truly your own. t You can't know how &oo3 a player-piano can he until you have seen and heard the Cecilian. Will you come in and let us show you? e c i i i a. Player-Pianos Made W BUSH 8 LANE Bush & Lane Piano Co., Portland, Oregon: ' Without obligation on my part kindly send me Catalogue of Cecilian Player-Pianos. f - . ' ' V Name Address Pimm 00. POR1XAJTD STORE Bash A Lane Baildlng, Broadway at Alder. Wholesale Manufacturers Retail Timely Treatment Saves Many Teeth If Dentists spent more time on examinations fewer people would be wearing plates. DR. E. G. ASPH D, BIRR. My Prartie Is Limited to Higfc Clau Deatiatry Only, at Prices brcrrae Afford. ' "Decayed teeth, if diseased, should be extracted to the last one," says the new era dentist. "Perhaps half our bodily ills (and most certainly a large per centage of cases of rheumatism, corysa and so-called kidney trou ble) are caused by diseased teeth, and these should be extracted as soon as diseased condition is discovered," urges the medical man. This policy, if carried out literally, would soon result in a race of toothless people, a thing; as deplorable as it is unnecessary. The remedy is simple : Careful diagnosis, timely and proper treatment, with extraction as a last necessary resort. . Healthy mouths seldom have unhealthy teeth. Healthy teeth do not decay, and, as it is decay that starts all the trouble, it is up to the dentist to keep the mouths and teeth of the public healthy. The place to start dental reform is IN THE EXAMI NATION ROOM. Dentists not qualified to make examinations (not fa miliar with the various diseases which affect the teeth and mouth, and the approved treatment for each) should Bend their patients to one who is competent for examina tion and diagnosis before attempting to advise their patients. Ruthless extractions and replacements by plates is little more scientific than amputating rheumatic legs and substituting wooden ones. Examination, estimate and frank advice gratis. GET MY 15-YEAR GUARANTEE OUR MOTTO: 'Every Patient Must Be Absolutely Satisfied" Open I Nights Electro Painless Dentists IX THE TWO-STORY BUILDING Corner Sixth and Washington Sta, Portland, Oregon