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M. J BROWN,
The speakership fight is now
boiled down to the issue of whether
or not Portland is going to be the
whole legislature.
The Gresham Outlook says it is a
good guess and a safe bet that the
legislature will not reduce a salary,
notwithstanding all the pledges made
before election.
No more beautiful opening ever
presented itself for a legislator to
make himself a "big fellow" than the
opportunity for a halfway honest sys
tem of taxation in Oregon.
Marion county court flatly refused
to allow the bill of the experters on
the ground that the price was exces
sive for the services rendered. The
bill was for $1,523.11, and the court
offered the accountants $350.
In Tillamook county the recall
election against County Attorney
Gersoni was carried by a vote of 946
in favor against 448 in opposition.
Governor West made the appoint
ment, and later urged the recall.
When the bill came up in congress
to regulate the steel of the railroads
in mail carrying contracts our "No-interests-to-serve-but-the-peopb"
con
gressman (Hawley) refused to vote.
And two years from now the voters
of this district will send him back
again.
A great man of war is no strong
er than the hole in its bottom. A
little submarine can sneak in and in
ten minutes sink a five million war
machine. The big fighters have so
far been more than useless in the
European war, more than useless
from the fact that they are not only
hidden away from fighting, but must
be protected in their hiding places.
The day of the dreadnought has gone
by and the day of the submarine and
the aeroplane has come.
If the millions of men who are
fighting and dying in Europe would
lay down their arms and quit the
slaughter, the war would end tomor
row. If these men would go on a
strike, declare they would not kill
another man or destroy another piece
of property, and make it stronger by
declaring they would not pay a dol
lar of war debts how very' quick the
' war would end. But the poor devils
in the trenches must not only fight,
but they must afterwards pay for the
war.
Charles P. Church of Portland has
prepared a bill for a state farm loan
bureau, which will be introduced at
the coming session of the legislature.
It provides for loans to farmers, run
ning from five to forty years at five
per cent interest, bonds, are issued
and Bold by the state to make the loan
and the state guarantees to the pur
chasers of these bonds the payment
of principal and interest, we are
not familiar with the details of the
proposed bill, but on the face of it
it looks like a Btep in the right ai
rection. Senator-elect. Alex. Lafollette,
does not believe in so much appro
priation, especially for largo salaries
for state offices and so much money
fnr thn state came and fish com
mission, which he rightly claims does
not orive adoauate return for the ex
pediture. It looks like a big graft.
May successes attend Senator La
fnllatte's effort to lower the legisla
tive appropriations. Let us hope
that this economy talk beforehand
will not turn out to be merely wind
Woodburn Independent.
War destroys everything. It
creates nothing but destruction.
I venture to predict that tho
time will come when people will
be afraid to agitate or bring on
war for fear they will be caught
and lynched.
No, this is not the ranting of an
I. W. W.
Eugene V. Debbs did not make
the prediction.
It was not clipped from the Ap
peal to Reason, the Rip Saw or any
other of like publications.
The words were spoken by Prof.
David Starr Jordon of Lclund Stan
ford University, in Francis Willnrd
Hall, Chicago, Dec. 29.
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EDITOR
A hard one to stay buried that
Fifth street deal.
And on top of it all comes a state
legislature next week.
Don't lose faith in the courts it
only required 11 years to decide that
union labor boycott case.
Some of the officials who talked
too much and too quickly about the
Sierk confession, now are trying to
square themselves.
If the government locks canal
should ever get under way here, Ore
gon City would be "some live one"
for two or three years.
We would suggest that an effort
be made to get a decision from the
state railroad commission on the case
of discrimination in phone rates in
this city by the Pacific Co., before
the statute of limitations gets to it.
There is nothing astonishing in the
discovery that land in Multnomah
county has been sold for public pur
poses for 48 times its assessed value.
There is plenty more in all parts of
Oregon in the same list and it is
always idle speculative land.
One of these days one of
the combatants will make the
mistake of seizing a Standard
Oil Company vessel. Gresham
Outlook.
And then John Dee will at once
declare war.
Thn neonle of California have fur
ther improved their county charter
provisions of the constitution so that
thn neonle of anv county can do pret
ty much as they please in eliminating
useless offices. In Oregon we sun
lumber along with a top-heavy load
of county papsuckers and no meanB
of getting rid of them.
Taft savs the Philippine people
are not fit for freedom. George Three
Eyes, of England, now deceased, said
the same thing about tne wild ano
wooly Americano once. If Japan
was to capture this country and rule
over us there is no doubt that some
flagrant instances of utter inability
to rule ourselves would be abusedby
some rotund statesmen of that Asiat
ic archipeligo.
The. neonle of California have ex
empted all shipping from taxation un
til 1935. There is no more reason
for exempting ships than chicken
coons: but the people realize that ex
empting ships is a good thing and
will encourage ship building and the
locating of ship owners and bring
ing of business to California. By and
by, the indications are that they will
exempt the chicken coop, too.
The other day Representative
Gardner got off this one at Washing
ton:
"Shortage of' ammunition is
another serious deficiency. Eight
of our ' field guns can shoot
away ammunition as fast as
Uncle Snm can make it.'
But, Bro. Gardner, don't you real
ize that Europe is also short on
shootine stuff, and that our ammu
nition, like our charity, should first
go abroad!
A counterfeit dollar may chase
around for a dozen years and do all
kinds of buying and business, and so
lone as no one cots suspicious of its
genuineness it is to all purposes a per
fectly good dollar. But let an ex
pert Dut a suspicious test mark on
it and the business in that dollar is
a croner. Pretty much so with a
country s prosperity. With confi
dence business booms, but let a scare
start and everything looks like
counterfeit coin.
Reallstlo Scenary.
"That tree was so nntnrni that the
audience thundered Its iippuiuse.
"1 sii)Hse the tree n xnnlfd with a
bough."-I.outsvlle Courier Journal.
Politeness
rl wtnr-No money Hciitli I'm tired
of wnltliiR. Debtor 'to Ms nmldl
irivu rhla miitlcnuit) a chair.
Philadelphia ahi't
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Keeping A Record
When you open a checking ac
count you receive from the bank a
check book. Each check has a stub
on which you should keep a record
of the amount of the check corres
ponding to it and what purpose it
was drawn for.
There is also a blank space on each
stub for the amorint of any deposits you
make and for the balance standing to your
credit after deducting the check drawn.
By keeping the stubs on your checkbook
written up you will have at your hand at
any time a thoroughly accurate record of
all your disbursements and receipts.
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THE BANK OF OREGON CITY
Bank in Clackamas County
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TAKING CARE OF FINZER
We cannot credit the rumor
that Gov.-elect Withycombe will
ignore the statute making W. E.
Finzer adjutant-general for life
and will appoint a man named
White to succeed him .It is wise
to keep such a competent man
as general Finzer in this office,
especially during the European
disturbance, -and it is not politic
al wisdom to even dream of
making an appointment that
would split the National Guard
wide open. Woodburn Inde-i
pendent.
Rut what kind of legislation is
it
that gives a man an office for life
What kind of political wisdom is
tn nine t.hrouch a statute building
fence around a job and putting a man
inciHo fnr I f (. 7 In Europe sucn a
deal might go, but it never should
go in this country. '
LET IT ALONE
Next week the politicians, obeying
their masters, will etart a program
at Salem to rebuild the initiative,
referendum and recall, and in every
WAV t.hfiv dare amend the system to
fa Ira awnv from the neonle a part of
the power they now have by making
it harder to initiate, rcterena or re
call.
Who are asking for these changes i
Are you workingmen, you farm
ers?
No, it is the "Non-Partisan Leag
- .. . , . i i v g :i
no" nf Knit. and. rnai Duncii ui m"'
lionaires the Courier has repeatedly
shown up, that is running the wrecK
er. Thn Drptron Rvstem doesnt need
any tinkering. It is in good running
order now, and its friends snouio
never let it get into the hands of that
Portland gang of big business.
The 5 to 1 vote against the meas
nro tn return to the assembly sys
tern should show any legislator how
the people stand.
WHICH IS BETTER?
Here's the kind of talk that breeds
war Poncressman Mann was the
fool.
The nrohabilities are Mann hasn
any sons eligible for killing and if he
had, and war should come, ne wouia
them to South America.
In speaking of England's action in
meddhnc with our commerce tnis
senator said:
They have no moral right to
destroy American commerce
while they are destroying one
another's commerce. I hope the
American administration will
insist that we have the right to
ship neutral goods in neutral
vessels and preserve our rights
ahroad."
Sure ! "Insist" is the word, just
insist and see how soon we will be
plaving an active part in a world-kill
tne series.
I apree with this wise but indis
crete congressman that Great Brit
ain has "no moral riorht" to act as
it has, neither has an aviator a right
to drop a bomb onto helpless women
and children Russia to treat its pris
oners of war barbarously; Germany
to force a road through Belgium.
Theie is no right in war or war
times.
It's a ouestion of which would be
the better, for this country to stand
some of the vexations to commerce,
or to go into a wholesale killing
match in protection of "moral
rights."
THE DREADED NAME
The name has much to do with the
success or failure of an undertaking
that depends for support of the
masses.
For instance the word "consump
tion" is. a. fearful word. Sav a man
has the "con" and he will be shunned
almost like a leper.
Sav he has "tuberlar trouble" and
he is then rather pitied than shun
.
ned.
Once unon a time a writer called
a tax reform theory "single tax;"
someone tacked "confiscation" onto
it, and the people have shied at it ev
er since.
In realitv it is nothinir but a just
method of taxation, and some day
reason will try it out and prove it.
The idea is to take Mver & Franks'
denartment STORE off the taxation
list, but to make the GROUND the
store stands on pay the taxes of the
building, BECAUSE IT HAS THE
PRODUCING VALUE OF THAT
BUILDING.
The idea is to take a tract of dead
land, held bv a speculator, and tax it
at the Bame rate of the adjoining pro
ducing land, because it has the same
producing value BECAUSE IT HAS
THE PRODUCING VALUE OF
GOOD CROPS . HOUSES AND
BARNS.
It isn't that the producing farmer
is troinc to be so much benefited by
exemption of improvements, but
rr.ther that tho non-producing land
holder MUST PAY THE same taxes.
And when vou sret this kind of an
adjustment, hundreds of thousands of
taxation that now escapes will help
to lower the tax rate of Oregon so
that the country will settle up, pros
per and continue to lower its taxes.
Get the boirie scaro of "confistica-
tion" out of vour head. Under the
single tax system you wouldn't come
within a hundred miles as close to it
or vnn are now.
A Mock in this citv. under our beau
tiful taxation system, has been abso
lutely confiscated within the past
year, the owner letting tl.e city have
it rather than pay the excessive taxes
piled against it.
And the sheriff's sales. Almost
every issue of the Courier has one
or more cases of plain confisca
tion.
As men study and get the scare
hoodo off, they will look at "single
tax" in a way they never have seen
it.
The semi-weekly Journal and the
Courier both one year $1.75.
WATCH THEM
If the country will only stand
somewhere near nat the Portland
crowd can be shooed off the roost
next week at Salem.
Easton for sneaker, promises if
elected, tn reduce the expenses of
legislation' one-fourth, and to change
the organization rules so that (an
avalanche of bills cannot De snppea
through jokers and all.
So far as I can see Mr. oeinng
doesn't stand for anything but the
Portland political machine and the
Orecronian.
From purelv a political standpoint
the play for the counties is to piay
Eaton. .
Portland wouldn't crack the whip
over the country representatives if
they had their speaker, out ratner
would come up and eat out of their
hands.
With 12 reDresentatives and seven
senators, all coached to piay insiae
ball, that city pretty much runs
thincs at Salem, and with stand-pat
Ben Selling to hand out committee
places in the house Portland could
have a stone wall that nothing could
get by unless that bupch permitted.
It's the move for the counties to
unite solidly, break up this bunch
and show Portland they are not go-
mr tn he napped this session.
There is absolutely no reason why
the country representatives should
vote for Selline (unless for private
reasons) and every reason why the
boys should line up against tne city
combination.
It's an oDDortunity for the coun
try, and it will be interesting to see
how many will stand by the country,
and how many the Portland machine
has been able to null over.
It is said that Oretron will be about
1,000 school teachers short next Ian.
Yet there is a plan on foot to stop
hitrh school eraduates from teaching
until thev have taken a normal
course. Is it an attempt to force an
other normal or two on the state, de
spite the verdict of the people in No-
vember? Gresham Outlook. '
THE LEGISLATURE
CAlfred D. Cridee")
The neskv leeislature is knocking
at the door, and its going to get a
motionon it soon. It's going to ar
gufy for days until its throat gets
sore and pass fool laws from mid
night until noon. It's going to cut
off heads and pile 'em in a basket
nit, for every time it tries it some
one will have a fit. When it comes
to cuttine down taxes all office hold
ers sit all close together holding down
the job on which they've lit, and no
legislature cares to interfere a littu
hit.
The pesky legislature is a-robbing
us once more, and every member
crazv as a loon: when it crets through
with the apple there won't be any
core, and the day that it adjourns
will be a boon. Thev say they'll cut
expenses and will kick the rascals out
but for every one projected there II
be two without a doubt slip in to
serve the people, and thve'll all grow
fat and stout and proceed to sneer
at workingmen and call each one a
lout, who doesn't like to work enough
to earn his saur kraut.
The neskv leeislature needs knock'
ing on the head, and the cussed bunch
is riding for a fall; we don't need
any legislature, but commissioners
instead, perhaps a dozen that we
could recall. But now its legislation
laws and' taxes on our backs; it could
not be much worse for us toh ave the
sinele tax. for now we have 'em
double and each legislature whacks
us harder for our labor and we get us
no relax.
THAT "CONFESSION"
There are almost as many opinions
as men as to the contession ot John
Sierks. an inmate of the state m
sane asylum, that he murdered Mrs.
Daisy Wehrman and her little son
near Scapoose in September, 1911.
John Arthur Pender was convicted
of the crime and sentenced to be
hanged. Governor West postponed
the execution until after election,
when the voters abolished capital
punishment, and Pender then went
down for a life term.
Sierks is an inmate of the insane
svlum. but is not of the violent class
but is considered as "a little off" by
the officials.
This man franklv oenfessed to the
horrible crime and related in detail
how he did the killing and how he
covered up his tracks by throwing
suspicion onto Pender. The confes
sion was most ingenious in many par
ticulars, and many credit it as a
truthful confession.
However on investigation the de
tails do not hold up, there being
many flat contradictions.
Some think the deal is a frame up
on the nart of Pender's friends to
free him, and that Sierks, knowing he
could not be hanged, and already be
ing imprisoned, agreed to confess to
the crime.
Detective Levings and former
District Attorney Tongue ridicule the
confession. Levings says he has no
doubt the same man could be induced
to confess to being the murderer of
the Hill family.
Wednesday Sierck made another
confession, confessed that his first
statement was a lie and a frame-up,
and thnt he was asked to make it to
free Pender.
It i snow generally thought' that
the whole story was a huge fake, for
upon investigation the story told by
the half-witted degenerate falls to
pieces, and the newspapers that gave
the matter first page prominence are
just a little ridiculous.
The confession has made a big stir
in the state and the investigations
will be watched with keen interest
WANTED, William C. Smith, nephew
of Samuel Smith, deceased. Ad
dress Wm. Goodman, Executor,
Kempton, Ford county, Illinois.
The new Clackamas County com
plete record report cards are now for
sale at the Courier office at 15c per.
dozen. Postage 5 eents.
DYNAMITE
Just now the United States is sit
ting on dynamite, and it only takes
a fool or two to jar it into an explo
sion. David Star Jorden says the time
will come when we will lynch men
for agitating war.
We should lynch them now. vve
should surpress newspapers that in
cite the people and egg on congress
to rash acts.'
Just now is the time for Americans
tn sit ticht and keen ouiet.
It is not a time for repraisals or
Duttine chips on shoulders, it is
not a time for Roosevelt chatter, lor
careless cartoons or for telling any
foreign country where to head in at.
Once touched off. this country will
be drawn into the killing and then
we will have a world war. J. he re
sults of such a war can not be con
templated. The whole world would
go back to .cave men days wnere
might would be right, when the man
with the biggest club would live the
longest.
Some who read this will laugh at
it as an improbable scare story.
Seven months ago you would have
derided the writer who would have
said ten nations would be engaged
in war across the pond.
Six months ago the uregoman ear
itorially stated that the conditions
which are now were too improbable
to be alarmed at.
Nothing- is too improbable just now
Just a touch of a match, just a hasty
action and we're in on the carnage.
Just consider for a minute how
dead easy it would be for us to get in
to the European mixup.
Contraband articles carried across;
hasty word or action on our part or
on the part of the allies; an uitima
tion sent or received; a few congress
men and the big newspapers "seeing
red" and we're off.
Sunoosine- we eot in wrong with
Great Britian, where would we be at.
Canada to the north of us, Mexico
to the south of us, Japan to the west
of us, and the Allies to the east ot
us
And next Christmas we would be
praying for some netural country (if
there was one) to send us some
toys for our children.
It grinds on an American to have
a foreign country get the least bit
e-av with us. We are Vie and have
been big so long that we just feel like
giving any country a kick in the
pants that looks at us cross-eyed.
But this isn't a time lor a noist
in the trousers. It's more a time to
stand the kicking and to tell the kick
er when the war ends and things quiet
down, we will take the matter up.
If there was ever a time when this
country needed level heads ?t is now.
If there was ever a time when the
jails needed hot heads it is now.
Euoroe would like to see this coun
try drawn into the war hell. She
does not like to see us profit by her
richer while she grows smaller and
poorer.
It will take some heroic for
bearehce and fine diplomacy to keep
out of a world war, and every true
American, evjry man who loves his
country and his home, will stand sol
idly behind those who are working
for this end.
Sit tight. Be careful. ,
EATING TOES TO STAVE
OFF STARVATION
What a Portland Writer Thinks of
Charity Wood Cutting
' A vicious circle of charity is being
conducted with the best of motives in
Portland and by that citv in mu
nicipal and private charity wood-
chopping schemes.
The men are given work chopping!
tles like popcorn in a tin pan!
The eame is as old as that old
fraud, Charity, herself!
It was pointed out by Henry
George a generation ago in New York
citv as beine a vicious fraud. It is
a fraud anywhere.
Here is the workings of it. A
hundred men are given work chop
ping wood for a living. There is
plenty of wood chopped all the time
to supply the demand without any
municipal or charity wood yards, and
those chopping it on their farms, or
by contract do not get any too much
for it. If the charity wood is put
on the market for immediate sale it
must knock out the other wood chop
pers by lower prices or better qual
ity. If it is held tor a luture sale
it will knock out the regular chopper
then, and keep the price of wood
down until it is disposed of. It there
fore will, sooner or later, dis-employ
as many men as it employs now. It
will create hungry women and chil
dren in Clackamas county, whose
bread-winners depend upon wood con
tracts for a winter's work either
this winter, or next winter. It gets
us nowhere in particular, but is like
a man who would eat his toes to keep
from starving to death.
They tell us this Portland charity
and semi-charity wood is to supply
the schools. Very well. What be
comes of the men in the hills and
forests who would otherwise supply
the big lire-traps they call public
schools in Portland? They "hit the
road," and swell the ranks of the un
employed as fast as the charity wood
camps deplete them.
The remedy? It is so simple
that people will simply not listen to
it. The remedy is to get out of the
way of labor and capitol appliyng
themselves to the bounties of Mother
Earth in Oregon, to stop punishing
men for working, building, trading,
buying, selling, producing, in Ore
gon; to stop rewarding men for get
ting between man and the bounties
of ALMIGHTY GOD Nature, if you
prefer the term. There is no other
way under Heaven whereby men can
be saved from Charity.
Alfred D. Cridge.
When you want to borrow money,
see us. We loan our own money, we
charee no commissions, liberal od-
I tions. Willamette Valley Mortgage
It a r
ixan company, Aurora, uregon.
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TWAT IT JS PRETTY" HARP
TO CfET OUR. PRlCe.
ANY LOWER, BUT
WE ABE-ALWAYS
HAMMERING THEM
DOWN. A LU THE
TIME
VE WANT TO
keep Things moving
The response to our January Sale An
nouncement was surprisingly prompt.
The Public lias come to know that Our January Stock
Reducing Sale is an opportunity to buy high grade goods
at much less than regular prices.
Reductions depend largely upon the amount of sur
plus stock weh ave to dispose of in different lines, and
runs from 10 percent to 33 1-3 percent. Our lines we are
closing out, or when goods are slightly shopworn or show
signs of handling, discounts are often 50 percent. Such
goods must go and go quickly, regardless of loss to us.
There are goods here that you he glad to buy, even in ad
vance of your needs, at the money saving prices we offer
them.
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HUNTLEY BROS. COMPANY
The
Climate and Consumption.
In a treatise on the relationship ot
air to tuberculosis. Issued by the
Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Guy
Hinsdale snys tbere Is no speclfle cli-
mate for tuberculosis. The important
things are pure air and sunshine. A
climate in which the humidity varies
greatly is to be avoided. The best ,
combination is one of low humidity
and moderately cool temperature.
Might Hava Boosted Prices.
MI suppose It Is annoying when a
man goes out because you haven't
something cheaper."
"Yes," said the small merchant "But
what gives you heart disease Is when
a fellow goes out because you haven't
something more expensive." Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Nerves and Battle.
It Is claimed tllnt the nerves of city
dwellers stand the stress of battle bet
ter than men who have lived In the
country. The pxpln nation ts that the
city type of man has become hahltuat
ed to noise, and terrific noise Is ud ele
ment of battles.
Not Like the Plane.
Coal Dealer-Why don't yon wheel
the barrow along more MUioUly. Pt?
It's not a very hard Job There's an
Inclined plane to relieve you I'ut
Aye, master, the plane may he tnellned
but bang me If I am! - Pearson's
Weekly.
Favors.
Stella-What were the r.ivors at her
dinner? Bella Well nil the cuests
thought they did tiei favor by com
Ing. and she thuntrlit iliej d:d her h
favor by leaving New York Stm
The multitude th:ti ito's not reduce
Itself to unity Is ronfnsioii the unit
that does not depend ui'im the luiiitl
tnde Is tyranny Pu.--nnl
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is safe and will do the work. If you
do not understand using powder we
will give you expert advice on stump
blasting and save you money.
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phone, Farmers 217.
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"Tillie's Punctured Romance"
The, ultimate in comedy films has
been given to a laugh-seeking popu
lace by the Keystone Film Company,
whose mirth inspiring reels are
known wherever pictures are in evi
dence. In this instance the Keystone
people have even gone themselves
6ne better and have produced a com
edy in six reels a new achievement
for comedy and its success has been
instantaneous.
Marie Dressier, the famous star of
the legitimate stage, is the bright
main feature of "TILLIE'S PUNC
TURED ROMANCE" and local film
followers will have an opportunity to
see just how funny the portly star
can be on the screen when the pic
ture comes to the Grand on Jan. 26,
and 27th. Incidentally, two other
notable fun-makers will be fou
nd in "TILLIE'S PUNCTURED RO
MANCE," who are genuine Keystone
"favorites;" referring to Charles
Chaplin and Bable Normand.
Chaplin plays opposite Miss Dress
ier and has a part that fits him as
patly as the proverbial gauntlet. The
two make a rare team of laugh-in-citers.
Chaplin wears his familiar
inscrutable expression throughout the
comedy. His face never harbours
even the suggestion of a smile. He
wisely leaves laughter to the others.
The coquettish eyes of Mable Nor
mand are also a prominent feature
of "TILLIE'S PUNCTURED RO
MANCE." There are eyes and eyes,
but Miss Normand's orbs remain in
a class by themselves. This popular
actress has a role that is somewhat
quieter, as regards action than her
two associates, but it is a very tell
ing part, nevertheless, played in Miss
Normand's distinctive way. ''
Mack Sennett, who produced the
picture, has given considerable., at
tention to details, with the result that
the scenic end is notable, an unusual
condition in most comedy pictures
before the public.
This is the feature which made the
record run and broke the record bus
iness at the Clemmer Theatre in
Seattle.
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