WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Most Important
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Events of Noted People. Governments
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
Fifty persons were killed and 20
wounded by an explosion at Anklng.
Anhwei province, China, incidental to
the removal of ammunition from a
powder magasine.
President Harding has purchased
his birthplace—a farm in North
Bloomfield township. Morrow county,
Ohio—where, as a barefooted boy, he
passed his childhood days.
A serious peasant rebellion against
the soviet government has broken out
in south Russia, according to advices
received by the Ukraine representa­
tives in Berne, Switzerland.
William Frizzell, 82, and Emma Bar­
rett, 65, widower and widow, both of
Cascade Locks, were married in Hood
River, Or., Rev. Gabriel Sykes, pastor
of Asbury Methodist church, officiat­
ing.
Judge William E. Dever, running on
the democratic ticket, was elected
mayor of Chicago over Arthur C.
Leuder, republican, by a plurality of
103,748, according to complete unof­
ficial returns.
According to reports in Hutchison,
Kan., a tornado struck Partridge, this
county, at 5:30 o'clock Monday even­
ing. Half of the village is reported
to have been blown away and several
persons hurt.
Robert G. Goldie, British vice-consul
at Naples, died Saturday of injuries
inflicted by a man who attacked the
official while he was visiting a grotto
near the city in company with his
wife, according to a dispatch from
Naples.
Two aged sisters lost their lives in
a fire which destroyed the interior of
their home in St. Louis Wednesday
and two other sisters were burned
severely. The dead are: Miss Eliza­
beth Nicholson, 91 years of age, and
Mrs. Lucy Lindsay, 95.
Secretary Hughes has informed the
British, French, Italian and Greek gov­
ernments, in identical notes handed
their representatives in Washington,
that the American Red Cross will ter­
minate its emergency relief work in
Greece on June 30 next.
The Earl of Carnarvon died peace­
fully at 2 o’clock Thursday morning.
He was conscious almost to the end.
His death was due to blood poisoning
through the bite of an insect with the
later development of pneumonia. Death
occurred at the Continental hotel in
Cairo.
James V. Martin of the Martin aero­
plane factory, Long Island, alleging
conspiracy to destroy his business,
filed -suit under the Clayton act in
Washington, D. C., Wednesday to re­
cover $51,510,000 from the Manufactur­
ers’ Aircraft association, Inc., 27 other
corporations and 38 individuals.
Max Bachman, 60, former wealthy
director of the Boston symphony or­
chestra and leader of his own orches­
tra at the Panama-Pacific exposition
at San Francisco, died in the county
hospital in Fresno, Cal., Tuesday, prac­
tically friendless and in poverty, hug­
ging his favorite violin to his heart.
MINIMUN WAGE LAW ILLEGAL
District of Columbia Law la Upset by
U. S. Supreme Court.
Washington, D. C.—Wages cannot bo
fixed by law, under the constitution as
it now stands, the supreme court,
dividing 5 to 3. held Monday in a case
brought to test the constitutionality
of an act of congress fixing minimum
wages for women and minor girls in
the District of Columbia.
The decision was delivered by Jus­
tice Sutherland. Justices McKenna,
Van Devanter, McReynolds and Butler
joining with him. Chief Justice Taft
delivered a dissenting opinion for him­
self and Justice Sanford, while Justice
Holmes read a dissenting opinion
which followed in its main features
that of Chief Justice Taft- Justice
Brandeis did not participate in the
decision.
The majority based its position
broadly upon the right of contract,
insisting that while laws could be
enforced to regulate working condi­
tions, the employer and the employe
must be free of legal restraint in de­
termining between themselves what
wages are acceptable.
The minority contended that there
was no greater police power in con­
gress and the state legislature to regu­
late working conditions than to regu­
late wages, and that as there had
been wide uniformity in holding that
working conditions could be prescrib­
ed by law-making bodies, it followed,
in their judgment, that wages were
also a proper subject for legislation.
Justice Sutherland pointed out in
the majority opinion that the mini­
mum wage law was "attacked upon
the ground that it authorizes an an-
constitutional interference with the
freedom of contract included within
the guaranties of the due process
clause of the fifth amendment.’’ The
right to contract “about one’s affairs,”
he stated, “is part of the liberty of the
individual protected by this clause.”
The fact, he asserted, was "settled by
the decisions of this court and is no
longer open to question.”
“Within this liberty are contracts
of employment of labor,” the opinion
continued. “In making such contracts,
generally speaking, the parties have
an equal right to obtain from each
other the best terms they can as the
result of private bargaining.”
Legislative authority to abridge the
right of contract can be justified. Jus­
tice Sutherland stated, only by the ex­
istence of exceptional circumstances.
Among the exceptions to the broad
rule which bad been sustained by the
courts, he said, were statutes fixing
rates to be exacted by business im­
pressed with a public interest, those
relating to contracts for the perform­
ance of public work, those prescribing
the character, methods and time of
payment of wages and those fixing the
hours of labor.
Justice Sutherland declared the law
under attack was not one “dealing
with any business charged with a pub­
lic interest or with public work or to
meet and tide over a temporary em­
ergency.”
Three Months’ Building
Costs $1,250.000.000
New York. — One billion and a
quarter dollars’ worth of building per­
mits, the greatest amount for a similar
period in the nation's history, were
taken out throughout the country dur­
ing January, February and March, S.
W. Strauss & Co. announced Tuesday.
All records for March alone were
broken, $420,851,343 worth of work be­
ing authorized in 205 cities, a gain of
$161,357,012, or 62 per cent over March
of last year.
These figures, the company esti­
mated, indicated a total of $600,000,-
000 throughout the nation for March.
The gaip in the eastern states was 41
per cent, central 75 per cent, southern
64 per cent and Pacific western 171
per cent.
Fourteen persons are known to have
been killed in a tornado which early
Wednesday struck Pineville, La., and
vicinity, across the Red river from
Alexandria. At 10 o’clock a train ar­
Two Slain in Memel Fray.
rived bringing the bodies of eight per­
Berlin.—Two Germans have been
sons killed at Pineville and a sawmill
killed during disturbances in which
settlement a mile east of that town.
the German and Lithuanian factions
Dr. W. Edgar, president of the Cen­ in Memel were involved, according to
tral sanitarium, and Bruno Suderman, special dispatches to the Berlin news­
who says he is the discoverer of a papers Tuesday.
treatment for tuberculosis and dia­
Machine guns are alleged to have
betes, reported to the New York police been brought into play by the Lith­
Tuesday that they, with Mrs. Edgar, uanians in dispersing a German meet­
were held up in their automobile by ing held in protest against the in­
outlaws. The robbers took the only corporation of the Memel region into
copy of Suderman’s formula and jew­ Lithuania.
elry, they said.
Cara for West Sought.
The federal farm loan board called
Washington, D. C.—Steps to build
for redemption May 1 of all outstand­
ing bonds of the 12 farm banks issued up transportation facilities for the
May 1, 1918. The total of the issue next harvest in the west will be taken
by the 12 banks is $55,032,000. The at a meeting here Tuesday of rail­
action of the farm loan board in call­ road officials with the car service divi­
ing all of the 1918 issue of land bank sion of the American Railway asso­
bonds for retirement was accepted as ciation. Efforts will be made, the asso­
foreshadowing an early issue of new ciation announced today, to formulate
bonds at a lower rate of interest than definite plans for assuring whatever
the 5 per cent rate carried by the rolling stock is needed to meet agri­
cultural and industrial requirements.
obligations which are to be retired.
SAWMILLS SPEED |
ON 24-HOUR BASIS
Three 8-Hour Shifts Run to Fill
Increasing Demands.
OUTPUT AT HIGH PEAK
Building Activity in
California and
Reopening of Northwest Mines
Big Boon to Market.
Portland.—For the first time in the
history of the lumber industry In Ore­
gon mills located in the Columbia
river district have found it necessary
to operate 24 hours a day in order to
keep up with the demands for timber
products. For the past week the In­
man Poulson Lumber company here
has been operating three dally eight­
hour shifts. The Westport Lumber
company on the Columbia has been
doing likewise.
Both of these mills sell the majority
of their products to the export trade.
Orders from the orient, Australia.
South America and other points have
been so large and have continued to
increase to such an extent that it has
been impossible to fill them with­
out employing an extra shift of men.
Other mills In the northwest are run­
ning extra shifts.
Yard stocks are exceedingly low
everywhere and lumber moves out to
purchasers almost as fast as it goes
through the plants. Other mills may
find it necessary to employ additional
shifts. Many are now operating 16
hours a day and at that have to re­
ject orders due to inability to fill
them.
Last week the production of lum­
ber by the mills of the northwest was
greatly in excess of normal and at the
same time there was a demand that
was greater, by far, than production.
Shipments were in excess of orders,
thus indicating that the problem of
transportation, either by rail or by
water, is no longer a worry of the
manufacturer. However, there is very
little excuse for freight cars of any
type to be on sidings and idle these
days—they can find domestic ship­
ments at the several hundred mills
that are operating to capacity in the
northwest.
A new demand for lumber has been
felt recently from the copper mining
districts. Due to an improvement in
the copper market many of the mines
that have been experiencing little pros­
perity for a long period of time are
now opening. They are calling for
heavy timbers for construction and are
using much rough lumber. The re­
cent report of the federal reserve
agent at San Francisco shows that 15
big copper mines of the Intermoun­
tain country are now operating, where­
as in 1920 at about the same time
only eight were open.
Woman Burns Herself.
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Reedsport.—Pile driving began FYI
day on (he site where will be built the
Umpqua Mills and Timber company,
a lumber mill incorporated by Wash­
ington men with Washington capital.
Eugene.—Notwithstanding irregular­
ities in levying special road taxes
throughout Lane county, the taxes will
be collected and th«> money expended
on the roads, according to the county
court.
Reedsport. — The steamer Bertie
Hanlon arrived at the Winchester Bay
dock Friday afternoon. She will b«*
loaded with 400,000 feet of lumber
for California points and left here last
night.
Grants Pass.—A corporation to be
known as the "Oregon Caves Resort”
has been organized by ten local busi­
ness men and these will take charge
of providing accommodations at the
caves this year.
Philomath.—At the monthly session
of the Philomath college executive
board, the Guy Frink residence was
purchased for the use of the college
president, H. Dixon Boughter. The
home is one of the finest In the city.
Corvallis.—The city council Friday
night voted to issue bonds up to $50,-
000 for the extension of the Fillmore-
street sewer westward to the«city
limits. This will bring building lots
into service covering an area of 12
blocks.
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JOHN BLAKE
Albany.—Due to the success of the
few broccoli growers In this section,
THE NEXT HURDLE
many more acres will be planted to
this vegetable next year, and with
RIDE in past achievement gives
the bottom lands that are available
you confidence. But you can eas­
near Albany quite a broccoli center is ily have too much of It.
Life is a good deal like a hurdle
in prospect.
nice. The next hurdle doesn't look
Salem.—Dentists from all sections of so high when you huve taken three or
the state have been called in Salem for four like It. But it ia the next hurdle,
the past few days holding their an­ not the last one, that you must think
nual convention and treating the in­ about.
However gracefully you cleared the
mates of the state penitentiary. A
last
one, your problem is getting over
banquet was one of the features of
the one Just ahead.
the convention.
Take advantage of all the confi­
Seaside.—Gannon Beach is exper­ dence you can get out of what you
But always remember
iencing its greatest building boom, ac­ have done.
cording to A. T. and A. M. Himes, that It Is What is »till to be done, that
merchants, who were here Saturday. Is going to count.
Napoleon Irritated his boasting gen­
More than 25 residences have been
erals by answering their stories of
or are being built this spring, in addi­ battles won with the query, “And
tion to several business blocks.
what did you do the next day?'
It Is hard to be able to bask In the
St. Helens.—Lumber shipments from light of past accomplishments. Pleas­
St. Helens for the week ending Sat­ ant It Is to wit back, after doing some­
urday night were light as compared thing difficult, and admire ourselves
with the previous week when close for doing It.
But life Is like a moving sidewalk.
to 6,000,000 feet was loaded and dis­
patched.
However, the shipments You h^re got to keep up with It or
get off. And we are all bom with an
amounted to more than 3,000,000.
Instinct that prompts us powerfully
Pendleton.—Little market road con­ not to get off.
struction work will be done in Uma­
Keep your eye on the next hurdle.
tilla country this year owing to the That Is the hurdle that Is of vital In­
overlapping of the 1922 program on terest to you. It Is the one on which
this year's funds, and the average of you must concentrate all your cour-
30 miles annually of new road con­ -age and all your energies.
For If you don’t get over It, you nre
struction will not be met this sea­ out of the race, nnd all the hurdles
son.
you have taken before have gone for
Sheridan.—Final drive of the city to nothing.
If you have had a little success,
clean up its street improvement in­
debtedness was begun this week with make It a big success. Put the hurdle
up a little higher. If you have done
the posting of notices to delinquent one Job well, find a tougher Job, and
property owners. If payments are not do that better.
forthcoming within the legal limit
That Is what makes progress, jnd
after the notices have been sent out progress Is necessary to the prosper­
the city will proceed to foreclose on ity and happiness of every human be­
ing Just as It Is necessary to the pros­
the property.
,
perity nnd happiness of the whole hu­
Albany.—On July 12, 13, 14 Albany man race.
.
will be the scene of the annual en­
There will be plenty of hurdles to
campment of the Spanish War veter­ take. But when yon have taken one
ans, department of Oregon. Prepara­ make ready for another. For success
tions already are under way to care Is Just one hurdle after another, and
for between 400 and 500 vets. A dele­ the man who takes them ns they come
who wins out.
gation numbering 250 from the largest Is the man
(Copyright .by John Blake )
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post in the United States. Scout Young
of Portland, is expected.
Miami, Fla.—Crazed with pain of
long illness, which three operations
had failed to alleviate, Mrs. Helen
Simms, 46, of Miami, drenched her­
self with kerosene Sunday night, lit
a match to her clothing, screamed once
and was dead.
Police at first worked on the theory
that the woman had been murdered
Roseburg.—William Horn, trapper,
and because of her smallness of sta­ hunter and prospector on Middle
ture believed her to be but 16 years creek, in the south end of Douglas
old.
county, was in Roseburg Saturday
after filing on a gold and silver strike
Coal Strike Is Over.
which he made near Silver peak the
Cardiff, Wales.—The striking miners first o^ the week. This is reported to
in the Rhondda coal fields held a be the richest gold strike In Doug­
meeting late Sunday night and settled las county Mr many years and much
their differences. Work, therefore, interest is shown in the find.
will be resumed tomorrow. The mines
Salem.—The frequent rains during
employ about 46,000 men.
It was stated at the meeting that the past two weeks has had a detri­
practically all the non-union miners mental effect on the fruit crop in Mar­
ion county, according to S. H. Van
now bad joined the union.
Trump, fruit inspector for this dis­
trict. He said considerable damage
Revenues Beat Costs.
Washington, D. C.—Wyoming had an had resulted to the fruit buds in the
excess of $7.82 per capita of revenue Shaw section and that the blossoms
receipts over governmental costs for brought out by the recent fair weather
1922, the census bureau announced have been blasted by the heavy rains
Saturday. The state's net indebtedness of the past week.
was $18.37 per capita, compared with
Salem.—Contracts for the construc­
56 cents in 1917, the increase having tion of state highways and bridges ag­
been due largely to issuance of high­ gregating a cost of $362,469.50 have
way construction bonds.
been awarded by the state highway
commission, and actual work on the
Soviet Frontier Fixed.
project will be started within the next
Riga.—After two years spent by a few weeks. Blds for this work were
mixed commission of Latvians and opened at a meeting of the commission
Russians in demarcating the Russo- in Portland on March 27, but award­
Latvian frontier, the final agreement ing of the contracts was deferred be­
was signed here Saturday.
cause of the agitation looking to the
This is said to be the first definitely referendum of the gasoline tax law
fixed frontier agreement signed by enacted at the last session of the leg­
soviet Russia.
islature.
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YOU LIKE TO ARGUE?
You may be a bore or you
may not with this propensity.
Yet If you control It well you
nre a stimulating person to have
about. Nothing Is better for a
’ crowd of laxy-tnlnded folk than
to have such as you around.
You can argue on whether the
moon has flower», or rocks have
life, br babies have rights, or
women have hearts, or anything
but politics nnd religion and
still be popular amt amusing.
Argument nnd discussion can be
n the pep of a party If no one
gets huffy.
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Your get-away here Is:
YOU KEEP THE CROWD
AMUSED ANO INTER­
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Ths man who hold« down th» ladder
at the bottom Is frequently of just as
much service as the man Mt ths top.
The mother in th» home who In faithful
to her duties In as Invaluabla ax th»
breadwinner outside.
FOOD FOR THE FAMILY
A NICE
which
little company sandwich
is different, and served
with a cup of cocoa or coffee will be
enough for light refreshments Is
Chicken Salad Rolls.
Mix one cupful of cooked chicken,
one cupful of chopjted celery and one-
half cupful of chopped green olives
with three tablespoonfuls of mayon­
naise dressing, seasoning highly with
salt and cayenne. Cut small rolls into
halves, remove the soft centers, spread
with softened butter nnd fill with the
salad; press the halves together or
serve open with the tops garnished to
suit the taste.
For ths Cooky Jar.
Take one cupful of shortening, two
cupfuls of sugar, two eggs, one < upful
of milk, three and one-half cupfuls of
flour, a teaspoonful of flavoring, a little
suit and one teaspoonfbl of baking
powder. Mix, chill and roll us thin as
possible. Sprinkle the tops with sugar
Just before going into the oven. For
variety cut with a doughnut cutter,
sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and
add three halves of almonds,- points
to the center at equal distances. These
are called sand tarts.
Raisin Butter Sandwtchaw
' By DOUGLAS MALLOCH •
Soften butter by working It with a
a spatula or wooden spoon until creamy,
MAN, they say, Is made of clay;
Undoubtedly It's true.
But then one finds so many kinds
Of clay—now haven't you?
Along the creeks are yellow streaks
Of clay that wouldn’t do.
A
To one-half cupful of butter add one-
half cupful of finely chopped raisins
and two tablespoonful» of flnely-
minced candied ginger. Mix, and when
of the right consistency spread on but­
tered bread. Serve with afternoon tea.
Porcupine Apples.
Select apples of Uniform size and
which will cook tender without losing
their shape. To half a dozen apples
prepare a sirup In which to cook them.
When tender decorate with quartered
blanched almonds, sticking them into
the apple ns thick as desired. Pour
And In the yard Is clay so hard,
the sirup around the ajiples and bake
So shrivelled up and dry,
until the nuts are lightly browned.
So rough and cold with musty (hold Serve ns dessert with cream. The cen­
And full of alkali
ters may he filled with bright colored
No love nor wit could soften it—
Jelly and they may be arranged on a
You wouldn’t even try.
platter If desired, with a spoonful of
cream whipped stiff on each.
But there is clay beside the way
That’s solid yet will bend,
That gives and takes—the kind that
makes
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A fellow nnd a friend,
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That, once you choose, you never lose,
Holland's Thrifty Peasants.
That holds until the end.
It Is said flint the Dutch peasant Is
well-to-do. That Is Indicated by the
So don’t begin with clay too thin,
fact that Holland has more than two
Nor start with clay too thick.
nnd one-hali' million accounts in sav­
The plastic kind you'll always find
ings banks, which . means that more
The best to do the trick.
Just add a hand of good, old sand— than ono in every three of the popu­
lation Is laying awny money for a
And then you'll have a brick 1
rainy day.
(A by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
I know the mushy sort of slush
Would never make a man;
He'd fall apart before you «tart.
Would crumble in the pan.
That's not the ditch of clay In which
Humanity began.