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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1916)
ruft Hrralù Phone us your news Items—they are al ways welcome Subscription, $1.00 a Year [Vf NING STAR HAS GOOD PROGRAM WHO’LL BE THE RIDER WHEN THEY’RE SADDLED? Evening Star Grange met at the usual "Emerged From Dark Agee." "Once this was the law," he contln ned. "but we have emerge.) from the dark ages during which married worn en had the status of slaves and chat tela The only basis for the father's alleged superior right today Is hia ob ligation to support bls children. This basis dlaap|>eara when one considers what the mother gives to her children In suffering, self sacrifice and devo tion. On any admeasurement of rights determined by service rendered, the right of a mother to the custody of her children Is at least equal to that of the father. The real test should be the welfare of the child." Mr. Lee. In refusing to live up to the terms of the agreement with bls wife, argued that the covenant was not valid and not binding on him, basing his contention on the case of the Peo ple ex tel. Barry against Mercein. wherein it was held that the father could not by agreement alienate to bls wife the custody of their children. "That was sound law when the Mer cein case was decided in 1842." said Justice Hbearn. "In determining wbeth er tile Mercein case has any binding force today we must have regard for the changed status of a wife In the eyes of the law today M compared wjth 1842.” Quotes Old Decision. Vol. 14. No. 10. .............................................. RfPUBIICAN CLUB OPENING RALLY The opening meeting of the Repub lican Clnb will be bold at the Public Library Thursday night at 8 o’clock. Past Senator Chas. E. Fulton will make the leading addrewi. All Republicans I are invited to attend, particularly mem- | bera of tl»e Club. Ruling Shewa Progress That Woman hour on Haturiiay, March 4. Ths at Ha* Recently Made—No Longer a tendance was g<s<d and al) seemed to be Slave or Chattel, but a Partner ol glad to get back after the storms. Four Her Hueband—Awarda Child te Wife candidates were given the first ami and Sate Aelde Precedent. "But I be world baa moved otnc* 1842.” said Juatlre darsocs J. Hbearn of th* United Ntalea supreme court tbe other day. lie held that a woman may marry aud still remuln on a parity with her husband. fur. aa the court says, she is no longer a Slave or a chattel. The iter. Burton I>ee. formerly chap lain al Ming Hing prison, refused to surrender the custody of his four and a half year old son to hia wife after they separated, although there was an agreement that be should have their eight year-old eon and Mrs. 1-ee the younger boy. Mrs. I**e swore out a wnt of habeas corpus, and Justice Hbearn upheld the claim of the wife to the custody of the child, dismissing the heretofore accepted theory that the father has a paramount claim to the children of a marriage. "It l* claimed that a father has the paramount right to the custody of a child." said the court Thia was the theory ou which Mr. Iwe refused to carry out the terms of the agreement with hia wife. This is a good time to re new your subscription to the Herald. Lents, Multnomah County, Oregon, March 9, 1916 ............... ' COURT ENDORSES EQUALITY OF WIFE _ second degrees, Tlie afternoon urogram, in charge of POOR BURDENED BY OUR TAX SYSTEM L*ad*rs of Both Parties Seeking Moano of Making the Fabulously Rich Pay In Proportion to the Mon Who Have Only Moderate Incom**—Some Intor- eating Figures. Who pays the expenses of the na tional government? This is the question on which con gress will need considerable light in enacting legislation to provide revenue for tbe normal cost of tbe federal gov ernment and for tbe Increased outlay upon tbe army and navy called for by tbe program of strengthening tbe na tional defense. That tbe poor man pays more in pro portion to hb< income than does the rich man toward tbe support of the government is admitted by nearly aU authorities on economics in and out of congress. That the administration should propose and congress enact leg filiation that will shift this burden of taxation from tbe poor to the rich also is admitted. President Wilson and Secretary of tbe Treasury McAdoo pro;>ose to retain the tariff on sugar. the lavttirer, A. L. Keenan, opened by To ihe Good People of Lents the singing of America by the audience. It’s time for spring planting soon and • the boys at Pisgah Heights are busy : with their work. While the Colony is situated in a place of great natural beauty and the surrounding scenery is grand, we feel that a few rooe bushes or lilacs planted along tlie walks would add much to tbe bominess of the build ings. The boys have felt and seen so much of the hard, seamy side of life that we want this to be the bright, clean spot to which they can turn in time of need, and whose memory will be as sweet as home in times of plenty. We would also be very thankful for donations of berry bushes of any kind. Perhaps your patch needs thinning out. Phone Tabor 6719, and a man will come to dig and haul away the surplus. We thank the peonie ot Lente and vicinity Exempting Great Fortune*. for tbeir many acts of kindness to us in They propose an extension of tbe in tbe past.—Pisgah Home Colony. come tax to married persons with $3.- 000 and unmarried persons with 32,000 income and suggest an increase of tbe Lincoln Memorial Church rate on all incomes. —8L Paul Pioneer Prese. It is possible to show from wbat Wednesday evening, March 1, at the Lincoln Memorial Church, 52d and sources every dollar of government I triflcation of the Southern Pacific’s Lincoln streets, tbe general superinten revenue is derived. Seventy-nine cents ■' west side line from Whiteson to Cor- dent of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of every dollar cf tax raised by tbe I vallis. The cost of this work will ex in the state of Sierra Leone, Africa. Dr. government tn tbe last fiscal year, for example, was contributed as follows: ceed $800,000. E. D. L. Thompson, lectured on "A Whisky, wins and other distilled llq- State Engineer Lewis has issued to Hundred and Twenty-five Years in West the Warren Construction company of Africa.” Special music was furnished Tobacco, cigars, cigarettes..........................M Beer and other fermented liquors............11 Portland a permit for the development by tbe Ampbion Male Chorus. Sugar and molasses.................................. .97 of 273 horsepower with the waters of Dr. Thompson is a negro, born and Corporation profits ................................. .• Mill creek at Turner. educated in Sierra Seone, and also a Cotton clothing and fabrics........................ 03 Documentary stamps................... 03 The population of all th* stat* in graduate of Oxford University. Dr. incomes between P.000 and 320.000........ .82 Bankers, brokers, etc ............................... 02 stitutions, save the soldiers' home at Thompson’s splendid command of Roseburg, has increased since the first English makes bis lecture a pleasure to Silks ..................................................................02 Thread and yarns ................................. 02 of the year, according to the reports lovers of good diction, to say nothing Woolen clothing and fabrics ................ 01 of the superintendents. of tbe fund of information which he Incomes over 1600.000 each........................... IH Medicines, drugs and chemicals................ • The executive oom mi t tee of the Un gives. China and earthenware.......................... 01 ion County Good Roads association On Wednesday evening, March 15, he Incomes between 1100.000 and 130.000... .01 between (260.000 and 1500.000.. 01 decided to start a petition for a $420. will continue his lecture at the Lincoln Incomes Incomes between (20.000 and 160.000........... 01 000 bond issue for the construction of Memorial Church, speaking on "The Tbe other 21 cents of tbe dollar came bard surface roads in Union county. Customs of the African People.” from a multitude of sources, each of One of the 191 accidents reported whlph contributed less than 1 cent to the state industrial accident com It will be observed that tbe consum Eqqlman-BristOH Wedding mission during the week ending March ers of liquor and tobacco pay nearly As predicted the butcher got married. half tbe income of tbe government. 2 was fatal. The fatal case was Fred It occurred at the home of the bride, Probably the poor man pays more in McCardle. who was killed in Portland. Mining operations all over the state Miss Erma Bri«tow, on south 92d street, proportion to bis income than does tbe are beginning to take on new life. Lenta, Sunday moro'ng at 9:30, Rev. rich man for liquor and tobacco and gets an inferior grade of tbe article Copper, gold, silver, tungsten, cinna Lienenkemper conducting the cere into the bargain. Nobody can arouse mony which united Mr. Arnold Eggi- bar and oil are being developed, both much indignation over this particular in eastern' Oregon and southern Ore rnan and Miss Bristow. After the wed state of affairs, however, for liquor and ding dinner the bride and groom left on gon. tobacco are not necessities of life, and Indictments will probably be re a short visit with relatives in Silverton, consumers who jiav tbe tax thereon turned by the grand jury at Portland Oregon. They will be at home in Mr. are generally deemed not entitled to against the various mail-order liquor Eggiman’s bouse on 58th avenue alter much sympathy. While incomes between 33,000 and Lenta acquaintances con houses which are flooding Oregon -ith this week. $20.000 contribute twice as much aa gratulate them and wish them lots of price lists, in violation of the prohibi do incomes over $500.000. those be prosperity. tion law. tween $250.000 and $500.000 render Lawrence L. Darlington of Baker, only one-half cent of the dollar, those committed to the state prison October between $75.000 and $100.000 one-fifth Rob Car, Go to Pen of a cent and those between $20.000 13, 1911, to serve a term of from three Charles Burchett, one of three who to 20 years and paroled May 6, 1913, robbed the conductor of a Mt. Scott car snd $50.000 three-tenths of a cent. Tbe treasury department has done was given a full pardon by Governor at Lents Junction in January was sen Its best to concesl tbe exact amount Withycombe. tenced to 3 to 15 years in Judge of tax that the incomes of various pro The Hetlner C. A C. company of Kavanaugh’s court Saturday. Bur portions pay toward tbe upkeep of tbe Baker has announced contracting for chett plead guilty. About $41.000.000 was Ed Simmons, one government. over half a million pounds of wool at of the trio, has been released. The derived in tbe last fiscal year from all 20 to 21 cents. The lambing season is other one, Arthur Hall, is still under in incomes. Tbe department publishes only the total amounts derived from well along, and shearing is expected dictment. the normal tax of 1 per cent and from to start soon. The men caught the conductor in the The building of the railroad to the telephone booth at the Junction and each grade of supertax Some Income Tax Figuroo. Illinois valley, the beginning of the having robbed him escaped before any construction of a $600,000 beet sugar one knew it. But it is disclosed that the income tax revenue last year was contributed factory and the sales of several of the approximately as follows: larger copper mines in the district, averaging (1.116.750 have caused real estate in the vicinity Kansas Society Will Meet the 31 st 174 paM incomes .................................................... > 9.966,«» of Grants Pass to show much activity. The next regular meeting of the Port M income* averaging (316,(90 paid 3.821.324 1.828 Incomes averaging (138.826 More than 30 distinct brandhea of land Kansas Society will be held at 129 paid .................................................... 5.960.1« 1.501 Incomes averaging P2.5S8 Fourth street on Friday evening of the work wore followed during the past paid .................................................... 1.781.«7 year by the 12 county agriculturists 31st of this month. Matters of interest 3,660 Incomes averaging (57.860 will be discussed, besides an entertain 2.258.2» paid of Oregon, according to a report com ing program will be given. More than 23.348 piled by Paul V. Marls. 5.580.173 paid Malheur county is ready to cooper the usual interest is being shown and all (26,658 Income* averaging 17.500 paid li.O2.3n ate with Grant county in establishing Kansans are invitt d. That the men of large Incomes would a highway that will connect Malheur not be unjustly burdened if compelled county with the Columbia river high Lents Grange Meets to pay twice as much to tbe govern way. the road passing through the The regular mon tidy meeting of Lents ment as they do now is the contention John Day valley. Grange will be held Saturday. There of many analysts of tbe Income tax February was au exceptionally wet will be some business, initiation, and statistics. month in Astoria According to the the usual lecture program. Tbe reader may Judge the soundness records the precipitation was 20.2 The Masters and Lecturers, also Over of this argument for himself when In inches, or 10.34 inches in excess of the seers Association will meet with Lents formed that the millionaire with an ln- average of the corresponding month Grange on Saturday, March 11, at 1 Vome of $1,116,730 paid to tbe govern ment last year $57.215; tbe man whose of previous years. o’cloc k p. m. A good attendance of all Income was $316.680 paid $11,044; tbe Because the Indians of the Umatilla present and past officers is desired. man with an Income of $138.625 paid reservation seek to block a move to $3.255; tbe man with an income of $82,566 paid $1.187; the man with an place the Mlsslon-McKay road under Mr. and Mrs. Aspaas Lose Child Income of $57.850 paid $617, and tbe the Jurisdiction of the Umatilla oounty The infant daughter, Evelyn, of Mr. man with an Income of $27,900 paid court the matter will be taken up with and Mrs. Samuel Aspaas of 9923, tiftth Soon the bureau of Indian affairs avenue, did March 5th, aged eight Tillamook cheese factories are pros Mrs. E. E. Slater, widow of J. H. months, three days. The funeral was pering. The total output for 1915 Slater, former United States senator held Tuesday at two o’clock at Ken amounted to $620,503.23. from Oregon, and mother of W. T. worthy’s. Rev. Nelson officiating. The Slater, ex-judge of the state supremo A Portland man claims to have dii»- burial was at Mt. Scott. court, a pioneer of 1353, died at the covered the secret of hardening copper. age of 31 years at La Grande. Cheese making will be started again The Rainier mill will re-open with g by th* Monmouth creamery. full crew. Helen Hmith then gave a song and re* s|>onded to an encore. Mr. A. L. Bur lier. city auditor, gave a very interesting talk on “Why Our Taxes are High.” The modern ways ot living and thinking demand many more things now thau formerly, and these all cost money, and tills money is mostly raised by taxation He also advised a pay-as-you-go method of doing business, as bonds, interest, etc., all cost more than cash, and the tax |>ayer lias the Mils to foot. Mr. H. A. Lewi* of Kuaaelville gave a practical demonat ration as to now tres should tie pruned. He had a num tier of trees with him—apple, cherry, peach, also rose bushes and grape vines. He told how and why to trim them to pro duce best results. Mrs. O. K. Good, accompanied by Miss Polling, rendered two line solos. O. O. Windle, fruit insfs-ctor, ad vise, i people to spray now and to spray thoroughly to get rid of fruit pests. fRANKlUN HIGH STARTS LOAN FUND A movement has lawn started at tiw Franklin High school to provide a fund from which assistance may be given de serving poor students who desire to take up college or university work. The plan has been adopted by the Franklin High debool Parent-Teacher Associa tion. Lents School Notes last Friday Miss Full’s room had a series of talks by the little folks on various subjects. Linwood McCord talked fonr minutes on "Inlaying of Wood.” Dorothy Farley gave a five minute talk on "Light.'* Linwood McCord brought several samples of wood inlay, among them were a tray and violin of bis father's construction. Master Linwood made a fine little speech. Visitors present were. Meg* dHines Thayer, Farley, Hess, Hatha-' way, Allen, Full, and Mias Full's sister. The Justice quoted from the Mercein Little Goethals Brady brought the case decision: "The very J^lng and legal existence of the wumau la sue skin of a banana eater to school Wednes pended during the marriage, or at least day. This bird is quite large, measur- ' la separated and consolidated Into that ing about two feet from beak to tail. of the husband Tbelr relative power The feathers are mostly black with over the persou of the child follows yellow on throat, and red feathers at tn consequence. A man cannot grant The lieak some anything to hia wife or enter Into a the base of the tail. covenant with her, for the grant would what resembles a parrot’s and is altout The bird is quite be to suppose her separate existence, four inches long. and to covenant with her would be destructive to other things other than only to covenant with himself." bananas. Goethals said four of them Continuing his 1010 opinion on the carried off a cake his mother had txketi court decision of 1842. Justice Shearti and put outside tn cool. said: "But the world lias moved since Miss Train’s room gave a Luther Bur- 1842. It is not to lie believed that to day any enlightened court would sub lot nk program on Tuesday afternoon acrilie to the statement that 'the very Following is the program: "Burbank's being or legal existence of the woman Message to Oregon Children," by Prof. is suspended during the marriage, or Hershner; Reading, Hazel Wills; Song, at least la asperated and consolidated "Farmer Boy” by boys; Poem, Helen [ into that of the husband ' By the per Colgen— Memories of L. Burbank, I mission of the legislature the wife can Poverty. Orrie Smith ; The Cactus. Ed- j at least contract with her husband the same aa if unmarried, except that they inund Butler; Ik* Prune Orchard, Mar cannot alter or dissolve the marriage vin Peck; The Shasti Daisy, Lewis Rice and she cannot release him from hia and Elfrieda Miller; Amaryllis, Joy obligation to support her.” Emery; Incident, Orrie Smith; Song; Justice Hhearn sustained the claim The Children’s Hour, Ragna Jackson; of Mrs. Lee R>r the custody of her Pippa Passes, Bessie Hanson; Original child under the agreement with her Fairy Story, Genevieve Johnson; Story huabmid. which also provided that Mr. of the Roses, Marjory Weddell; Reci Lee is to have the boy with him for week ends, which right is given Mrs. tation, Agnes t'ampliell; Song, "Mary is a Baking”; The Alaska Robin, ! Lee in regard to the older son, who is Lillian Cuningham; Recitation, Irene In the custody of the clergyman. Mrs Les accepted $12 a week alimony. Meyer; Bird Story. Rose Pusey ; Reci tation, Grant Hadley; Song, Mildred I MONKEY ROUTS TWO MEN. Turner; Memory Gem, lister Cox; The Wind, Raymond Kemery ; Flower Song. Saloon Pet Q roots Owners With a Girls of 6 A class carrying beautiful little Shower of Whisky Bottles. This was an es William Egener ot Brasil, Ind., went baskets of flowers. During the sing fo the saloon of which he Is part own pecially nice feature. er to feed a monkey. The monkey ing of old familiar songs the register war had become Irritated by a crowing passed to the visitors with the request to rooster, which was also used as an sign. Among those present were, Mee- attraction In the place. dantes Wood, Emery, Johnson, Winter, When Egener entered the saloon the Hadley, Bell, Smith, Seely, Neel. monkey jumped several feet and Hllgbl Retherford, H. V. Smith, l’usey, But cd on Egener'» arms, biting him sev ler, Mills. Thia program was given in eral times before he could shake him Connection with their every day work, off The monkey cut off Egener'» re treat through the only accessible door thus making it especially interesting to the children, aa not much extra work is Egener reached the telephone aud call ed up hia partner. Francis Hawkins required outside of the general routine who rushed to the naloon. He was and yet there is just enough of a variety met by a volley of wineglnaaea, bottles to please the pupils. and other articles. Hawkins t>eat a Mrs. Darnall has been confined to her hasty retreat, with the monkey after him George Brooks, former owner of home all nt this week, suffering from ill Mrs. D. Stretch the animal, was called, and ho »up effects of the grippe. fills her place in Room 2. daed U. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Important Occurrences of Past Week Briefly Compiled for Gur Readers. Albany will hold a spring style show en March 23, 24 and 25. The Polk County Fruitgrowers’ as sociation held its annual meeting at Dallas Frank J. Humphrey was appointed farmer at the state penitentiary to suc ceed T. E. Cornelius. Work on a proposed new $5000 Cath olic church building will be started in Roseburg next week. Fire damaged the electric plant of the Oregon Power company at North Bend to the extent of about $5000. A proposition to bond Wallowa coun ty for highway improvement is meet ing with favor throughout the county. Carlton K. Logan, an Albany young man. has been appointed cadet at the United States Naval academy at An napolis. Three men arrested and 64 quarts of liquor confiscated was the result of raids on two soft drink parlors at Whitney. Road and school districts of Linn county will cooperate this year in "Good Roads day" events for volunteer road work. Residents of Wedderburn were ter rorised when the hillside on which the town is located began sliding into Rogue river. At a special election at Bend the proposed issue of $30,000 in bonds to aid the Strahorn Central Oregon rail road carried. Approximately $75,000 will be ex pended by Multnomah county this year tn the construction of concrete bridges and.viaducts. Of the 28 members of the graduating class of Klamath high school this year, only one has decided not to attend college after graduation. Portland has been awarded the Pa cific coast handicap shoot. The tour nament will be held this spring, the exact date to be fixed later. The steam rigged schooner Flfield from San Francisco was wrecked on the south Jetty of the Bandon bar at the mouth of the Coquille river. The Idea of the farmers of a neigh borhood banding together for organiz ed rodent extermination work has proved popular in Klamath county. A pruning school was held at Day ton March 3, and at Turner March 4. under the direction of the extension department of the Oregon agricultural college. During the month of February. 27 vessels carrying 21,175,323 feet of lum ber and 67 tons of box shook» loaded at the mills in the lower Columbia riv er district. A "Pass-it-On" convention, which in many ways is similar to the Lagznen's missionary convention held in Port land three weeks ago, was held at Rosebsrg. Work.» saw karinnias on the slse-