POSTAL DEFICIT $37.149.000'
WDRLO HAPPENINGS
OF WENT HL. .
I Year’a Figure» Regarded a» Step Back-
ward
Brief Resume Most Important
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Exenta ot Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
Tilings Worth Knowing.
Five lives were lost when an auto
mobile plunged through a fence on a
bridge Saturday and fell 40 feet to the
tracks of the Boston & Maine railroad
at Lowell, Mass.
A new university will be establish
ed at Kansas City. Mo., by the Meth
odist Episcopal church south and the
Methodist Episcopal churcn. with the
co-operation of the city chamber of
commerce.
Unofficial tabulation of the recount
to date in the Iowa senatorial elec
tion contest showed Saturday a net
gain ot 291 votes for Daniel F. Steck,
democratic contestant, over the vote
recorded for him by the state auditor.
Postai Pa) Bill Aida.
A cash deficit of
.$37,149,000 for the fiscal year of 1925,
I w hhh closed last June 30, was an
noun ceti Monday by the postoffice de
partment after a preliminary com pl I«
tion of receipts and expenditures made
at the request of Postmaster-General
FARM EXPANSION
URGEO IN TAGOMA
. 'Washington Chamber for Aid
in Marketing
The department ordinarily returns
a deficit, but officials have been try
ing tor several years to effect econ
omies which would make postal serv
ice self supporting. They regard this
year's figures as a step backward,
since last year's deficit was only $24.-
000,000.
Preliminary figures for the year,
which are subject to some readjust
ments, place estimated receipts at
$600.600.000 and obligations and ex
penditures at $649.371.000. leaving an
operating deficit of $48,771,000, from
which is deducted $11.622.000 for out
standing liabilities and for civil serv
ice retirement transfer.
"The amount of the deficit for the
fiscal year of 1925.” a statement by
the department said, "is attributed,
not entirely, but to a great extent,
to the postal pay bill, which, enact
ed this spring, was made retroactive
to January 1 so that the department
has been paying increased salaries to
its army of some 350.000 employes for
the last six months of the fiscal year.
On the other hand, the increase in
postage rates established to meet the
raises in salaries did not become ef
fective until April 15 and was in oper
ation only 21s months of the fiscal
year.”
STATE NEWS
(N BRIEF.
¿I
SCHOOL DAIJS
Salem. Motor vehicle receipts for
July aggregated $241.816.15, as against
$316.315 12 fur the same month last
year. This was set out In a state
ment prepared by the secretary ot
state here. Thus Yar thia year $5,-
086.126.36 has been collected.
Salem. A young woman who
brought to the police station late Sat
urday night apparently suffering from
excessive Indulgence In liquor or
drugs, was Identified by the police as
Frances Alcorn of Seattle. Friends
General Development of State
of the girl in Seattle were notified
dorsed Unanimously at Closing
of her condition.
Annual Session.
Eugene. - Kathryn DeNeffe, 20.
daughter of Mr and Mr». C. K De
Neffe of ths city, died at a local lios
pital
Sunday as the result of Injuries (
Tacoma. Wash. Expansion of agri
an automobile collision
culture and the development of other
Ion the Pacific highway nt Judkins
industries in the state of Washington i point on the outskirts of Eugene early
should be a simultaneous, persistent Sunday morning.
and balanced movement, the \\ ashing-
Salem.—Returns from wheat seed
ton state chamber of commerce de- , loans are being received from eastern
dared in a resolution unanimously Oregon farinera at the rate of approxl-
adopted at its closing session here mutely $5000.» day. according to a re
Saturday.
port prepared Saturday by the state
This was in indirect response to the |loar,j of control. Approximately $60.-
suggestion made on Thursday by A ’poo of the total of $400,000 loaned had
S. Goss, master of the state grange. t,een received up until midnight,
that general industrial development
.
,,
should come first, in order to provide' Pendleton Quite u little wheat sod
a market for increased agricultural here Saturday with the soft wheats
production, but was more directly the'bringing about $1.40 a bushel on nn
result ot an address made by E. I»-!"«»
basis. More interest haa at-
French ot Vancouver, ex director of,‘«‘ bed to the tnarkrt signee U strengU^^^
the state department of agriculture.1 erM and reached $140. and offering. (
and last year a candidate for the re-[hive been more freely made than at
publican nomination for governor.
|any time since the 1925 harvest .tart-
WANT JUST ADVANCE
Two men were killed and five in
jured, two seriously, early Saturday
VIALS OF HATE
night, when a train of the H. W. Nel
All of the land in the state that is ed.
son Construction company at Fulton.
$toNG the many poisonous thing.
Dallas.—Judge Ratqsey In circuit I
available for cultivation must be cul
Ky„ including 57 cars, plunged
which we humans ure prone to
tivated and made productive as quick [court has sustained County Judge |
through a trestle and crashed into a
ly as possible, Senator French told .Hawkins, who upheld the validity of i carry about us. nnd uncork with more
ravine.
the chamber.
the will of the last Jeremiah Snyder, or Ie»« frequency, «re the diminutive
The capture of the Moroccan strong
"Certainly no encouragement should an aged recluse of Falls City. The vial» of hate.
hold of Ameryou, about 25 miles south
Hidden In the heart, these bane«
be given any movement to prevent or will left about $1100 and a house and j
lire brought forth when the heart
east of Fex, by the French Saturday
Paris. — Finance Minister Caillaux delay the development of more farm lot in Falls City to Roberta Hall, a beats a little faster than 1« It« wont
night at the point of the bayonet has
told American correspondents Mon lands of high quality and great pro- j 12year-o|d girl who hail befriended under the prewure of tuiine linnglnury
created a stir among various native
day that he desired very much to go duct Ive possibilities," he said. "The
wrong, tn be .cattered broadcast^
tribes said to be weakening in their
to Washington to present what he argument for limitation of production i
quite regnrdle«« of where they may
allegiance to Abd-El-Krim.
Ln^view. - I pon arising In the ( fall or whom they, may Injure.
called a "gentleman’s offer” for the is based on the unfounded assump-
tion that American farmers today pro-. ™rning Ernest Bussey, a rancho^
If we could inen.ure the truth nc-
The vote of Lee county, Iowa, where settlement of France's war debt to
.
„
, ,
. ,,
«..I-' near Summer lake, discovered a rattle enrntely. we would hud that most of
duce all products needed for domestic
........
Daniel F. Steck, democrat, had a ma the United States.
•» «“’ ^oe when he attempt d the sorrow« nnd upheavals which
"I certainly would go if it were consumption, whereas the fact is that
jority of about 4000 in last year's sen
during
the
past
year
we
have
Import-
!
“
>
■ «n«" his foot. Bussey did ( gnaw away our pence nnd happlne««.
atorial election, was protested Satur a question of merely crossing the
nd from other countries more than one
snake before attempting are directly traceable to thl« common
day before the senate committee re channel, but the Atlantic is a differ
to put the shoe on. but he felt some scourge.
billion
dollars'
worth
of
non-tropical
counting the ballots by supervisors for ent proposition and I do not know
In all grade« of »»' 'etv. among nil
thing which prevented him from 'get
whether I could leave the ministry of farm products, all of which might have
Senator Brookhart, republican.
peoples, bate Is ever • eking new vic
ting his foot into it.
come
from
American
farms.
Lead
finance long enough to make the trip
tim«.
A slight earth shock at 2:15 o'clock to America." he said.
ing items of import were dairy pro
It lifts up Its fl "ened heml like n
Dallas. Sult has been filed In cir
Saturday morning was reported to the
The finance minister explained his ducts. grain. *eggs, sugar, nuts, wool, cuit court here by C. A. McClaughlln, deadly nnuke and how« Its frightful
Santa Fe train dispatcher* office in gentleman's offer as follows:
cotton, nursery stock and vegetable a prominent hop grower of Independ fangs nt every >■ portnnlty, »pitting
Los Angeles by the dispatcher at San
“I am going to tell both the Brit seeds."
ence. to restrain District Attorney J. venom nnd strll 'ng from unexpected
Bernardino. Telephone operators and ish and the Americans just what
Conditions complained of by farm N. Helgerson from enforcing the laW' plncen With the .’»Iftne«« of n rattler.
Character quulls before It» terrible
police headquarters at San Bernardino France can pay and that France will ers generally, in the opinion of J. A.
enacted by the last session of the hiss.
reported they had not felt the shock. pay it. but that it is impossible to un Scollard of Chehalis are not so much
legislature requiring the hop ptckersa
Home« nre darkened nnd «orrowed
With early negotiations looking to dertake payments likely to turn out due to overproduction as they are to be paid by weight instead of by mean by the plague II curries through the
obstacles
in
the
way
of
marketing!
ure. The claim Is set up that the law hack <|onr, t<> And It» way to the draw
the funding of the bulk of the remain beyond the capacity of the country.”
Reviewing the different phases of farm products. The federal govern is unconstitutional.
ing room nnd the bedchnmher.
ing $12,000,000,000 of foreign debts
Some one hnn uncorked a vial of
now a definite prospect, the American his financial program. Mr. Caillaux ment's ordinarily slow work with
St. Helens.—Due to dry weather in ; hate when blaring bugle» call to wnr
debt commission is ready to consider explained that the measures already reclamation projects, Mr. Scollard said
June the grain yield In various sections and nation» are turned from their
first the conditions of the payment of adopted and those in view constitut in a brief address, encouraged him to
of the -ounty is not up to average, D. peaceful pursuit» to face the killing
ed
the
first
step,
but
a
very
prudent
believe
that
marketing
obstacles
Belgium's share, amounting roundly to
step, toward the eventual return of should be cleared away before acreage E. Freeman of the Scappoose section ' guns; gome one has uncorked n vlnl
$450,000,000.
is greatly increased. Mr. Scollard dis threshed 3336 ^bushels of barley and । of hnte and ruined the chaste name of
France to the gold basis.
tr lovely mnlden.
The building boom which has been
"It is necessary to move prudently cussed the successful co-operative oats from 98 acres, an average of 34 ,
AH along the pathway of life, bate
bushels
to
the
acre.
This
seems
to!
methods
of
the
associated
dairymen
striving for three years to overcome in this matter,” he said. "Countries
loaves nothing hut noh» nnd tears,
be
about
the
gefieral
average
in
that
(
the housing shortage which the war that were plunged by the war into and poultrymen, and urged extension
creped doorway», curtained window»,
left throughout the country has not a tangled financial situation cannot of those methods to all lines ot agri section, though in the Warren and । crazed minds and bleeding hearts.
only succeeded in doing this, the de safely undertake to return abruptly to culture and orchard production. "This Yankton sections there is a slight in
After nil the human emotion» have
been mURtered to the front, carefully
partment of labor believes, but has perfect financial equilibrium.”
chamber should work as hard for the crease.
now verged to the point of overpro
farmers now in the the state as it
Lebanon. — The heaviest fire loss ’ weighed and lnspf«-ted, It will be
Lee Home to be Saved.
seems ready to work for those to come suffered by Lebanon In recent years found that hnte Is the most treach
duction and depression.
erous. the most persistent, dangerous
hit the city early Sunday morning1, and destructive.
Washington. D. C —Restoration of in the future,” he said.
Mrs. Mary Frances Kern of Boston,
Another important contribution to
If we suspect that we have a vial of
who arrived in Seattle, YY ash., Sunday the Lee mansion on the highest spot the closing session was the address when a fire destroyed the storage gar-.
in
Arlington
cemetery
will
be
under
age and second hand store of G. E. hate hidden In the pocket» of our
night from Manila on the steamer
on timber growing as a business pro
President Grant, announced that she taken under supervision of the war position, delivered by Frank II. Lamb Warner and partially destroyed the hearts, or beneath our tongue«, let us
Cottage hotel owned by his sister. Mrs.1 proceed without nnother moment'» de
department
at
a
cost
of
$225,000.
would attempt to raise $5,000,000 in
Union troops seized the mansion of Hoquiam. With adequate fire pro Anna Gorman, a few feet from the gar-^ lay to find It an<l lllng It away, so that
the United States to fight leprosy in
tection, Mr. Lamb said, the lumber in age. Ten automobiles and two trucks we may preserve our good name, the
the Philippines. She said she had and estate surrounding it when Gen. dustry of the northwest, can be main-
Robert
E.
Lee
joined
the
confederate
in storage in the garage were totally ( tranquility of our home and our coun
the support of Governor-General Leon
try nnd perhnps the »nivation of our
pro-
tained
to
the
end
of
time
through
destroyed with only one carrying In-
ard Wood and the insular government. cause and ft was purchased by the
souls.
government for $150,000 in 1884. The cesses of natural reseeding. In this surance.
<© by McClure Newspaper flyndlrate )
free
respect
federal
and
state
lands,
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John F. Cordray, veteran theatrical estate of 6000 acres was originally
121.695
vehicles-
A
total
of
Salem.
man in the Pacific northwest, died purchased for six hogshead of tobacco from taxes, may easily be cared for.
in the state of
the private owner cannot under- passed given points
early Sunday morning at his home, and later passed into the hands of but
he young lady
take payment ot present tax rates '"
‘,Kon between the hours of 6 A. M.j
Oregon
747 East Burnside street, Portland. the Curtis and Lee families.
ACROSS
THE WAY
over the period of from 40 to 60 years a™’ 10 p
Jul* 1S- according to
Mr. Cordray had lapsed into uncon-
growth
ot
a
new
timber
a
re
P°
rt
Pr
“
P«r
p
<>
here
by
the
state
necessary to
ciousness from which he did not re
Aid Denied; Boy Drowns
Of the ve-
highway department.
stand.
cover, following an attack which seiz
12,
Seattle, Wash.—Harry Eyman,
hides
counted
863
were
horse-drawn,
Mr. Lamb recommended continued
ed him at the Oaks park, of which he drowned in Lake Washington Monday
<) f>72
I ¿ were
4:1 • motorcycles,
llltjlvl VJt I’, n, 75,479
4 v«w • » Oregon
» • ’ glassa
of
public
opinion
favor-
development
was manager, Saturday night.
when waves of a passing launch roll
passenger autos, 34,617 nonresident
ing fire protection, and immediate leg
Fire destroyed $1,000,000 of building ed a log on which he was standing. islation that will put private timber passenger autos, 6181 trucks of 1V4
materials Sunday night in the two He could not swim. Ben Evans, who growers on a parity with growers of tons capacity or under and 3883 trucks
blocks of yards owned by the Harris was in the vicinity and took charge other crops in the matter of taxa- of more than 1% tons capacity.
Bros, company, Chicago. An alarm of lescue operations, declared that the tion.
Mill City.—Berry pickers are begin
brought out the greater part of the boy might have been saved if three
ning
to make their way into the im
city’s apparatus and police reserves । men who were cruising nearby i had
Tuna Taken at Yaquina.
mense huckleberry patches southeast
to
helped.
The
men
were
begged
were necessary to hold back the 25,000
Newport, Or—A large silver tuna of the city, a number being camped
persons who gathered. Much of the come in with their boat but they ■ re-
fish, taken in a gill net Saturday night there now. The berries are not ail
fused.
loss was covered by insurance.
in Yaquina bay by B. F. Wilkins creat- ripe yet, hut small quantities are he
The bodies of 13 children between
ed considerable comment among fish-! ing picked dally. It is reported that
Murder, Arson Charged.
ermen and sportsmen, it being the there Is a fairly good crop this Reason
the ages of 9 and 14 who were drown
Los Angeles.—As the result of a fire
and no doubt large amounts will be
ed at noon Saturday at the bathing and explosion in a residence district first ever caught here.
Two
large
pearls
were
taken
from
brought out for private use and some
beach at Hardelot, a few miles south
„
.
__ . f store here Tuesday, George H. Ferlin,
of Boulogne France, when a great
the fish’s head and are being ex put on the market for sale. They
wave washed them out to sea **™lcounty ]a„ Mon(lay (harged with mur- hibited by Mr. Wilkins. Silver tuna usually bring $1 a gallon at Mill City.
The charge )fl baf)(;(1
is not a native of theae waters and
been recovered and carried to he,
Vernonia.—Eleven million feet of
of Wah( r ska,a fata)Jy does not resemble the California tuna.
little chapel near the beach. Five^
finished
lumber was shipped by the
hp attempted to eacape. It sold for 50 cents per pound.
other children who were on the shore i
Oregon American Lumber company's
still are missing.
Ferlin was arrested when sheriffs
mill at this place In the month of
.Aviators Break Record.
There is more radium available in learned he had bought several cans
July, mostly to middle western and
Chartres,
France.
—
The
French
Portland for the treatment of cancer of gasoline the day before the fire,
[eastern points. Bridge timbers, cross-
aviators
Drouhin
and
Landry
landed
than in any other city in the north
at the airdrome here at 2:42 o’clock'ties and other railroad material are
west. As a result of this fact and be-1
Oil Reservoir Blazing.
'Hie young Indy nnn - the way says
cause other adequate facilities are| Fresno, Cal.—Damage estimated at Sunday morning after having covered reported as having found ready sale
the
Income tax hu t bringing In ns
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,
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,
j
n
hours
11
mln-
to
western
roads.
The
mill
is
about
nt?Biriu
urnun.
kilometers
there
the purpose,
a movement
is more
than $1,500,000
was done
by a '4400
being for
promoted
by cancer
specialists
fire which
Monday was
destroying
' ' utes
|to change from five day to six-day much ns It waw mid she supposes the
utes 59
59 seconds.
seconds.
government won't have much tnotfl-y
to
to make
make Portland
Portland a
a center
center for
for a
a can-
can 700,000 barrels of high gravity oil | This sets a new worlds non-stop (week, operating two shifts, the aver- on hand until the next bond Issue 1»
cer study laboratory by the building stored in a huge Shell OU company (record both for duration and dis- age daily cut being approximately 600,- paid off and It gets the acttlul cash.
of a cancer hospital.
[reservoir nine miles east of Coalinga.(tance.
1000 feet.
<£ be McClurs Nsw.psp.r Syndicate.)
PARIS TO PRESENT
GENTLEMEN S OFFER
A
T
FRANCOIS CATREAU-
BRIAND
HANSOIS BENT CHATEAUBIl!
AND was politician, rhetorician
F
and author, a great figure In French
literature who marked the tranaltlon
from the old cln»»h nl »tyle of writing
to the modern romantic school.
He wna born September 4, 17<W. In
St. Malo, n region of France filled
with legends and quaint cuatoms
which hnprewsrft him considerably.
Ill» father wn. strangely moro»«<. hl»
mother extreiuely plou». hl» slider pas
»Icnntely devoted to him and all
these Influences tended to bring out
the romnntlc In him. to give him a
love of my»tcrlon| things and to build
up his egotism.
He escaped persecution during the
French Revolution (which occurred
w hen he w n» a young man I by nn at
tempt to dincover the Northwest pan
ange. during which journey to the
Western continent, lie found material
for hl» "Ataln," a sort of I’nnl and
Virginin »tory. The piety of hl» moth
er mu»t have Influenced him greatly,
for he labored years over a great work
on the Christian religion, which was
published Just as ^'apoleon re estab
lished the Catholic religion In France,
and which brought him great (»dltlcnl
favor.
Chateaubriand wna a great liter
ary figure of bls time, and his |wdltl
cnl pamphlet» were works of great
Importance, though, curiously, hl»
own opinions varied again and again.
by Oeerss Mdlb»» Adam» >
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ID HO SAID
"Orsat pleasure« are
much leee frequent than
great pains.”
,
'T'HE man who uttered this expres-
* slon wus n philosopher, wheat*
philosophy I» marked by the rather
serious view of life which Is to be
noted In the phrase quoted above.
Life to David Hume was a sober
thing—n thing to be taken with tori-
ousnes» and regarded as a stepping
stone to some future existence where
one's slatiiH would be determined by
bls conduct here. "Great pleasures”
were scarce In bls life mid not nearly
so frequent a» "great jMilns.” In fact.
It I» safe to say that great pleasures
were viewed nskance by men of the
»cliool of David Hume, who retained
the Idea of the Puritana -that pleasure
was an invention of the Devil mid must
be Indulged seldom.
Hume Is bent known as a historian
and philosopher.
Ill» best known
works are an "Inquiry Concerning the
Principle» of Morals," ami a "History
of England,” the first written In a
philosophic vein while the latter Is
purely historic. In the year 1754 Hume
published the first part of hl» "His
tory of England," hut It wn» not until
17H1 that he completed It. Ill» "Inquiry
Lnto the Principles of Moral»” was
written nnd published In the year 1752.
The publication of the "History of
Englund” brought considerable fume to
Its author nnd he wn» well rewarded
financially for bi» work. In addition
to the royalties lie received from the
publication of the book, he received n
pension from the government heeauae
of the reputation It made for him.
Hume was born April 2<I, 1711, reck
oning the years by the old style calen
dar then In vogue. In 1711 he became
secretary to General St. cinlr and trav
eled with him to the courts of Vienna
nnd Turin on behalf of the British gov
ernment. In this cnpnclty he procured
much valuable mnterlal which win
Inter used In writing his history. He
died In Edinburgh, Scotlnnd, the year
that the American Declaration of in
dependence was signed.—Wayne D.
McMurray.
uh by Osor«« Matthew ASam«)