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Marshfield To
Entertain the
Elks of State
' The annual meeting of the state as
sociation of Elks will be held In
Marshfield, Oregon, August 18-20,
1921, inclusive, and the preparations
being made are elaborate, taking in
all the natural advantages that Coos
county has to entertain visitors. There
is no doubt but that this convention
will be the biggest thing Coos county
has ever attempted. More than 5000
are expected to attend.
Warships, hydroplanes, , water
sports, ocean trips, baseball, shoot
ing matches and many other events
will enliven the three days.
The Elks of Marshfield have a beau
tiful home that was built at a cost
of about one hundred thousand dol
lars, and it is the center of the ac
tivities of preparation for the con
vention. One of the special features will be
a sea food dinner at the ocean when it
is expected that the entire delegation
of visitors will be fed on the delica
cies of the bay and sea. This din
ner, alone, it is estimated will cost
about three thousand dollars. The
Coquille valley Elks will give another
dinner of dairy foods and there will
be an abundance of all the good things
that are necessary to make the meet
ing the most successful ever held in
Oregon.
Good Meeting at
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Redland School
Food for Thought
There is ample food for reflection in the digest of
taxation in Oregon and the relation that taxes in Clacka
mas county and in towns of this county bear to the rest
of the state. The Oregon Voter has compiled informa
tion of interest o every taxpayer. Last year the total
tax on the Clackamas county roll was $1,197,403, and
this year the amount is $ 1 ,5 1 2, 1 59, an increase of 26 per
cent. Columbia county has an increase of 1 4 per cent,
the lowest in the state ,and Crook county ranks highest
with a 50 per cent increase.
In this county we have an increase for county and
local taxes of 1 4 per cent, the amount being $1,1 87,494,
as against $1,045,003 for last year. The per capital
of taxation for county and local purposes is $31.50,
based upon a total tax of $1,187,494, and a population
of 37,698. The. average per capita among the counties
of Oregon is $40.42, Benton being the lowest with
$25.75, and Morrow the highest, with $78.31.
Oregon City has a tax of 1 8 mills for city purposes.
Bend has a levy of more than 40 mills, Klamath Falls
27.5 mills, Grants Pass 22 mills, Corvallis 18.4 mills,
Medford 15.9 mills and Marshfield 14.4 mills. Our
per capita tax for city purposes is $1 1.47, while that of.
Klamath Falls is $22.83, Portland $15.98, Corvallis
$8.20, Forest Grove $4.21 and La Grande $8.54.
The increase in taxation for city purposes in Ore
gon City in one year is 46 per cent, with a total tax of
$65,223.17. We lead the state for cities of our class
in the percentage of increase. Canby has an increase
of 54 per cent over last year, Estacada 1 00 per cent, Mol
alla 35 per cent, Oswego 57 per cent, while Barlow
shows a decrease of 2 per cent, Sandy and West Linn 6
per cent. Gladstone has an increase of 1 per cent,
while the tax of Milwaukie remains stationery.
Taxation in Oregon should have reached its peak.
The average percentage of increase in all of the counties
is 26, and the taxes have jumped in one year from $32,
635, 63 1 to $41 , 1 74,049. The per cent of taxation to
the assessed valuation of Clackamas is 4.2 mills, while
the average for the state is 4 mills flat.
Figures are dry reading, but those exhibited here
with are illuminating to the taxpayers of this city and
county.
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WOMAN'S SPHERE
One of the most enthusiastic far.n
bureau meetings ever held in Clacka
mas county was at Redland Friday ev
ening in the Four Coruers' school
house. This was largely attended oy
residents from various parts of the
county and in that vicinity, who are
interested in the work of the organ
ization. The meeting was presided over by
Frank Sallfeld, with Mrs. A. I. Hugh
es secretary pro-tern.
The first project brought up for dis
cussion was "Dairy Improvement,"
with M. O. Rose, of this city, hand-
liner tho subject. Mr. Hose i3 well (
posted on this, having engaged in
dairying and specializing on thorough
bred Guermseys. This matter is c-i
great interest to the people of that
section Of the county an! vas the
cause of much discussion. Mr. Roso
succeeded in getting 100 per cent sign
ers for tubercular tests.
J. T. Fulam spoke on "Eradication
of Canadian Thistles;' "Rodents
was the subject of H. H. Coop; Mrs.
Kelly had for her subject, "Poultry;"
H. J. Koch gave an interesting talk on
"Certified Seed Potatos." Mrs. W.
H. Brown, a leader was unable to be
present to talk on the subjest assign
ed her.
J. T. Fullam, who is well posted on
the wool question gave an instructive
talk on that subject.
Mrs. A. I. Highes, ui e of the enthu
siastic members of the club, had for
ht iubject. "Coope ative Marketing,"
and proved to be well posted on the
j-.ib ci
Othe s addressing the assembly
Were S. A. Stone and Frank Salfeld,
a standing committee on Education.
Plans were made for the next meet
ing, which will be held Friday even
ing, May 27th. Instead of the regu
lar literary program a debate will be
the feature. The subject to be de
bated upon will be "Socialism." K.
J. Koch will handle the affirmative
and the negative will be taken by
Frank Salfeld. A lively discussion j
Is being looked forward to by tne res
idents of Redland on that evening.
After the regular routine of bus
iness had been transacted, the follow
ing program was given: Violin solo,
W. H. Brown; recitation, Margaret
Staats;'; reading, Wilford Coop; re
citation, William Phillips; playlet.
"Fat and Lean;" recitation, Ralph La-
Lone; organ selection, Alonzo Hen
derson; reading, Wibur Wilcox; reci
tation, Beulah, Phillips; zither solo,
Mrs. Koch. The program was closed
by singing "Star Spangled Bannerf,"
and "America."
PERSHING WILL BE
THE NEW ARMY CHIEF
WASHINGTON, May 13. General
John J. Pershing will become the ac
live head of all the armies of the
United States on July 1.
Sec retary of War Weeks Friday an
nounced that the A. E. F. chief will be
come chief of staff on that date, hold
ing this office along with that of com
mander of a general headquarters,
whose function will be to keep all ele
ments of the army prepared for war.
The assignment of Pershing to this
double task reveals a radical army re
organization. The chief of staff has
heretofore been an administrative of
ficial who did not take tho command
of the army in case of war. Pershing
will be the active commandant of the
armies in the field.
As Pershing's assistant Weeks nam
ed General Harboard, who will exer
cise the administrative functions per
formed by the present chief of staff,
General Peyton C. March.
Pershing will be the active
commander of the army in peace
times, as well as in war.
"West Linn Council
Hold Meeting
At a meeting of the West Linn
council held at West Linn Wednes
day evening, it was decided to have
May 23 as Clean-up day, whereby gar
bage that cannot be burned will be
placed in boxes or sacks and hauled
away by the city.
All rubbish that can be burned or
will decay, must be taken care of by
residents of West Linn.
The ordinance pertaining to smok
ing on the cars between West Linn
and Willamette, recently introduced
at the council meeting ,and also smok
ing in the West Linn depot was pass
ed. The city voted to have estimates
made of the cost of improving a por
tion of Buck street at West Linn.
SOMETHING IS WRONG
WITH RETAIL PRICES
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 11.
Something is radically wTong with re
tail prices, Attorney General Daugh
erty said Wednesday.
"There is some trouble somewhere,
he said, "when a lamb sells for 75
cents on the plains and a lamb chop
sells for 90 cents on the table."
The attorney general added that he
would be glad to discuss prices with
the retailers. ' '
DEFECTIVE FLUE
CAUSE OF FIRE AT
ALLDREDGE HfflViE
The home of Mrs. A. O. Alldredge on
Sixteenth street near Division caught
fire this morning at 5:30 o'clock, and
by assistance of the neighbors, who
used a garden hose, the building was
saved. The fire was caused by a
flue in the kitchen. That room was
damaged by fire and water.
Upon the the arrival of tke fire en
gine, two minutes after the alarm was
given, the flames were under control.
Mrs. Aiwreuge, owner of the house,
was at the home or ner daughter, Mrs.
G. J. Howell at the time of the fire.
but her son Clarence Alldredge, and
family were home, the former having
started the fire in the kitchen stove
a few minutes before the flames appeared.
CITY OF PORTLAND MAY
MAKE SMALL CHARGE
FOR AUTO CAMP SITE
PORTLAND, May 12. An effort by
City Commissioner Pier to transform
the "free" automobile park site into a
pay station has aroused discussion
among the other members of the city
council.
City Commisioner Pier, in charge of
the park bureau, has suggested that
the city of Portland charge every au
tomobile owner entering the Penin
sula automobile park site 50 cents for
the privileges of using thi3 park. He
contends that the practice of charging
the automobiles is general tLroughout
the country and will bring the cit7
a fund of .more than $5000 a year.
Other members of the city council
think perhaps such a charge would
brand Portland as a mercenary city
and before approving the plan want
evidence that other cities are making
a similar charge.
When appropriations were made for
the municipal automobile camp site,
it was with the understanding that
free accommodations would be fur
nished as an attraction to tourists
stopping in Portland.
Just what is "woman's sphere" in
our changing, world is a question
which is worrying people. Who
was it said, "Woman's place is in the
home," and by what authority?
It isi the policital economists who
presume to answer. They take us up
into a high, hill and give us a far look
backward at ourselves
They show us primitive man with
but one want food. This fish, nuts
and berries he ate, like the lower
animals, where he chanced to find it
Presently he began to cook it, mak
ing; his first step upward.
His second want is shelter, and he
made clothing and his wigwam of
skins, bamboo, and foliage.
At first he was able to provide for
only one himself. The first recorded
incidence of one individual looking
out lor other than "number one" was
when Eve offered the apple to Adam,
and no good came of that
Soon man was able to cultivate
food and to lay it up, thus becoming
able to support more than himself,
and this gave him the ability to pro
vide for his third want a mate. Wo
man is not "second fiddle," but third.
The support of an adult female was
uot undertaken by man from kind
ness, nor because"-of legal arrange
ment, nor with any reference to tne
continuance of the tribe,- but because
it is the third instinctive want of
man
The first tw needs satisfied, the
third asserts itself. This was so from
the beginning and will continue until
the "crack of doom" when there will
still be "marrying and giving in mar
riage." It is so among the peltrobed
cave man and the silken garbed lord
of the castle.
Willingly has man assumed the
support of his female, and as natur
ally has woman added to that sup
port what she makes and saves. She
has spun and woven blankets, nets
and garments; has prepared the fish,
flesh and vegetables, making them
more palatable, nutritious and less
perishable; has brought water from
the spring; and kept the hut in a
sort of decency.
But woman has never produced as
much as she consumes; a margain is
left to be provided by the male. Man's
motive in taking her was never mer
cenary. Away back, he knew that
"two could not live as cheap as one."
A third draft upon his resouces is
likely soon to occur the arrival of a
child or two or more. This also he ac
cepts with the same cheerful philoso
phy. It not only brings him more in
dividuals to support, but it lessens
for a time .frequently for a long
time, the contributions wfliich the wife
s able to make to the family support.
As children increase in number.
the family instinctively shares with
these the sum of resources, often giv
ing even better to the latest arrival.
When the time arrives that the num
ber to be provided for is greater than
the means of support, it lowers the
family standards. If this condition
prevails in the tribe it is a destruc
tive influence. In each group of per
sons there a,re many unmarried or
childless or with but few children.
How much responsibility these have
toward the overburdened is still an
unsettled question. Governments are
attempting to solve it, and France.
especially, is making generous pro
vision for large families.
In the animal world individuals vie
with one another for the capture of
sustenance, the mother even killing
her own offspring in the contest for
food . The sick, old, weak, and deform
ed are trampled upon and killed out
in a time of food scarcity, while the
fittest consume all available food,
grow stronger and bigger, breed only
among themselves, and grow into a
larger and stronger species from gen
eration to generation.
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In man thiS is not true. ' The family
unit makes all members stand to
gether and share alike in spite of
pain, hunger, or even death. Prefer
ence is generally given to the young
er and weaker. Father and mother
deny self to hush the cry of
the child. The contest is between fam
ilies, as units, to secure supplier.
The best and largest and finest in
dividuals sacrifice themselves for the
support of weaklings, and the "sur
vival of the fittest" is upset.
Only by co-operation may man ad
vance. By organized business and
government he must co-operate in
production, thrift, preservation, dis
tribution and the maintenance of
health standards. In this, from the
first, man and woman have co-operated.
Formerly women's industry and
part in regulating these was all in
the home where the raw materials
were brought. Civilization is more
and more taking these out of the home
What is more instinctive than thai
woman should follow them should
go where they are?
This she is doing, but the old re
lations remain exactly the same. We
still have man, prime factor in family
support; and woman, as ever, mak
ing her contribution according to her
ability. Only methods have changed
or ever will change. The primal in
stincts, the wholesome red blood still
sings in the veins of woman!
turned on it. How pure it will be de
pends in large part upon how large
a percent of the people take a hand
in it, how closely we watch its pro
cesses, how much we concern our
selves with it. If we pay no attention
to government, but let those in office
manage everything themselves, we
placo upon them in continual tempta
tion to manage it to their own pro
fit, forgetting the public good.
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To take a hand in government, to
be "practical politicians." we must
know governmental machinery how
to start the starter and make the
enginge go, how to keep it going, to
slow down, to speed up, and all about
it. For the woman citizen this means
study of civil government, and more.
It means the experience which comes
only by practice.
in tne city eieccions which occur
this year, we are to have our chance.
A share' in city government is now
opening to women.
Whenever a political meeting is an
nounced, women should attend. They
must accept offices and help sholder
the burdens of state if they are to
get the necessary experience to be
come "practical politicians."
And this women must become if they
are to justify their suffrage, to make
themselves equally sovereign with
men, to become a force and not merely
inert subjects of government, obeying
slavishly but having no influence in
phasing affairs.
FATHER AND SON
KILLfDINADUEL
$ .$
8
SMILES.
KALAMA, Wash., May 16.Mrs.
Harvey Riker and Mrs. Fred Riker
are widows today as the result of a
duel Saturday morning in which their
husbands, father and son, shot each
other dead, following a Saturday night
dance at which the elder Riker is said -to
have appeared in such an intoxi
cated condition that none of the wo
men would dance with him.
Both families had gone to the dance.
and returned to their homes about 5
o'clock Sunday morning,. The elder
Riker then went to the home of James
Powell, a neighbor, and threatened to
kill him. He was overpowered by
Powell and released only on promise
to return to his home.
Upon arrival at his home, Riker
found his wife gone and went to the
farm of his son in quest of her, ac
cording to officers who had investi
gated the affair.
"Where's your mother?" he asked
his son.
"What do you want of her?" coun
tered the son fearing trouble.
"I want her,' Riker senior is said
to have answered, "adn I'm going to
kill you." As he said this, he drew
a pistol from his pocket, paying no
heed to the son's attempt to quiet
him.
The younger man then stepped into
a bed room and seized his rifle. As
he returned to the room where his
father was, they met in the doorway
and two shots rang out. The elder
Riker was shot in the breast and died
instantly. Fred was shot through the
head and died two hours later.
Optimism.
The price of rent,
With swift ascent,
Soon has my pile of wherewith spent.
But sing for glee,
It occurs to me
The blessed sun and. air are free!
Silesian Situation
May Be Reviewed by
The Allied Council
OPEN DOORS
IN BUSINESS
YOUNGSTER IS
PROUD OF BIG
SALMON CATCH
AUTO ACCESSORY.
THIEVES CAUGHT'
WITH THE GOODS
Chief Hadley and Night Watchman
Wagenblast arrested three young men
of the city on a charge of stealing
auto accessories,, such as auto robes,
motometers, spot lights and tires, that
the chief brought up from Portland
with him Monday evening. These
articles all have been taken within
the past three weeks. Chief Hadley
and the Portland police arrested J.
Shell and John Brady at Portland
Monday and Night Officer Wagenblast
arrested Neal James in this city. This
trio had been conducting an auto
washing station on the Busch dock
for sometime .
John Brady was released on bail.
Richard Schoen mora, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Schoenborn, of Eldor
ado, Clackamas county, which is a
few miles from Oregon City, has made
the record of being the youngest child
in Oregon, and probably in the Unit
ed States, to catch a 30-pound salmon
which he got in the Willamette river
at this place.
The youngster, who was four years
old in December, 1920, accompanied
his father to this city Thursday morn
ing, the little felow insisting on bring
ing his own hook and line. After
throwing the line out he kept a steady
hand, even when he felt a big fish
grab hold. Calling to his father in
excited tones, the youngster was as
sisted in getting out the big Chinook,
when his father gave a helping hand
The salmon was one of the finest that
has been caught this season.
The little fellow is the grandson of
Mrs. Augusta Schoenborn, of this city.
DEE MILL
OPENS; CLOSED
SIX MONTHS
MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED
George W- T. Doty, of West Linn,
and Catherine Leona Robe-son, af Ore
gon City obtained their marriag li
censes Saturday.
. Samuel N. Boone and Bessie May
White, boh of Oregon City, took out
licenses to wed Saturday.
HOOD RIVER, Or., May 15. Tbe
mill of the Oregon Lumber company
at Dee, 16 miles south of here, resum
ed operationns today with a force of
about 200 men. The mill has a daily
capacity of 150,000 feet and has been
closed since October.
Slightly improved conditions in the
market for Douglas fir lumber war
rants the reopening of the mill, ac
cording to officials of the company.
The Oregon Lumber company con
trols three other mills in Oregon, all
of them being closed down .because ot
the poor demand for lumber for trans
continental shipment, f
CANBY PRINCIPAL RETAINED
Howard H. Eccles, principal of the
Canby grade schools, who was recent
ly elected principal of the Sunset
school in West Linn, has concluded
to remain in Canby in his present po
sition. The Canby school board, as
an evidence of their deslr to retain
his services increased hi3 salary by
a substantial amount.
THE JEWELRY CRAFT.
There is a large class of women
earning their livihood by the com
mercial arts, stenciling patterns on
boxes, designing wall paper, stage
scenery, patterns for fabrics, and
jewelry.
This work appeals to the beauty
loving girl, but it is not well paid
work. It requires through specializ
ed training, a three years course at an
art school or three years or more
with a capable practical jeweler. The
school costs about the same as any
other school. While working as an
apprentice the student will receive
about four or five dollars a week, lat
ter $10 to $15, but only exceptional
girls receive much more than this.
To enter the business for oneself is
expensive as the rent and advertising.
such as will appeal to people of
wealth, will be high and equipment
is costly.
One difficulty in this business i3
that most neoDle are satisfied with
conventional jewelry and do not care
to have it designed and made to or
der.
The work is close and confining and
therefore hard on the eyes and ner
vous system, but deiigntrui to one
whose taste fits her for it.
In the large industrial establish
ments making jewelry in quantities
it dees not require much intelligence
on the part of the worker and the
hours are long, the work hard on the
eyes, and the pay small.
WHEN THE BABY HAS THE COLIC
8
RECIPES.
Dandelion Salads.
1. Chopped dandelion greens, sliced
radishes, chopped canned sweet pep
pers, salt, pepper, salad dressing,
the whole served on fresh lettuce or
dandelion leaves.
2. Add minced dandelion leaves to
cottage cheese balls. Servo on lettuce
leaves with boiled dressing.
3. Add chopped pickle, sliced cu
cumbers, slices hard-boiled eggs, tail
chopped apples, cut celery, or tomato,
to dandelion (greens cooked or to th?
raw leaves and serve as above.
4. Add gelatin to the cooked greens
flavored in any style you wish or in
any of the above combinations. The
soaked gelatin must be added to the
dandelions hot and the rest addeu
when cool before it hardens. Serve
the resulting jelly on lettuce with
boiled dresing. Dandelion greens and
cooked tomatoes make an attractive
gelatin salad.
Water cress may be substituted for
dandelion in any of the above recipes
WHAT to do! What to DO! is the
frantic appeal of both father and
mother when bay has the colic Ha
generally elects to have it at the big
hours of night or the wee hours of
mornfng and to walk the floor with
him then, well, it is out of the ques
tion, unless, of course, he INSISTS.
Colic is indigestion, very painful
and very disagreeable, but babies fre
quently grow fat on it. And yet, it
is a serious condition in the case of
the frail baby. An upset condition of
stomach and bowels, acquired in in
fancy, may follow the victim all the
way through life, and the ordinary
case of indigestion takes much longer
to recover from than is realized! Af
ter an attack of indigestion, one
should be a long time coming back to
normal diet. The stomach needs a
giood rest before it will again be per
fectly sound and healthy.
Colic, indigestion, is caused by eat
ing too much or too rich food. It
may sometimes be prevented by al
lowing the Baby to nurse a shorter
time. By doing this he gets not only
less food, but also does not get the
rich "strippings" which come last
For the bottle baby, use more cleanli.
ness in preparing the food and bottles
and nipples; dilute food with water.
When Baby actually has colic, re.
lieve him. Undigested food in his sto
mach and bowels causes gas. Feed
him warm water to wash out his stom-
mach and warm it up. Give him an
enema of warm water. Unless there
is something more the trouble with
him than ordinary colic these process
es will relieve and he will go to sleep
If he is not relieved by such treat
ment his case is more serious and the
doctor should be consulted.
All Right!
'Bah," quoth the pessimist,
With a face characteristically long,
'This is a pretty bum old world!
And things are wrong all wrong!"
Still another "Bah" quoth he,
With a face characteristically wry,
"I could make a better world myself
With only half a try!"
"Sure, smiled the optimist,
Characteristicaly aglow,
'That's what we're here fcr; now let
try-Heave-ho,
my friend, heave-ho!"
HAPPY THOUGHT.
or Is it.
Oh dey's times fu' bein pleasant an
fu' goin smilin' roun.
'Cause I don't believe in people al
ius totin' roun a frown,
But it's easy 'nough to titter w'en de
stew is smokin hot,
But hit's mighty ha'd to giggle
w en dey's nuffin in do pot.
Paul Laurence Dunbar.
MORTORCYCLE RACE FATAL
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May
9. Raymond -A- Phebus, 35, verteran
motorcycla rider died at noon today
as a result of injuries received Sunday
afternoon in the Cripple Creek endur
ance run when bis motorcycle captap-
ulated him and his partner, F. W
Longstaff int a fence near Crystola,
in Ute Pass.
Longstaff suffered a broken right
arm and left leg, but his condition is
not serious.
Furniture Wood Is
Cut Near Lebanon
THE WOMAN CITIZEN
e-'s'8j.s'ssss
"Practical Politicians."
A practical politician" is one who
is able to get things done in politics
merely that. The term carries no
stigma of reproach.
tie, or she, is to the government
what the mechanician is to the auto
mobile; he knows how to make it go.
The bungler, who works at it but
cannot make it mtove, is not the me
chanic nor the practical politician. He
is the novice or theorist. To make
machinery run two things are need
ful; first, a thorough knowledge of
its mechanism; second, experience in
managing it. Government is no excep-
lon to this rule.
Women can never be more than a
sentimental value to their govern
ment until, as a class, they become
practical politicians."
This involves no trickery, nor un-
chupulous dealings. Unfortunately
some think of politics as "dirty work"
and of epoliticians as rascals. Too of-
en this has been correct but politics
is growing cleaner all the time, as the j
light of publicity is more , and more shirts.
LEBANON, Or., May 11. Between
25 and 30 men are employed at the R
J. Gilmore farm at Brewster station,
northeast of town, cutting wood. Most
or them are employed by Walter
Wood, who is cutting maple and ash
for making furniture and is shipping a
carload a day to Portland. Several
hundred cords are being cut for fuel.
CRATER LAKE PARK TO
OPEN ABOUT JULY 1ST
MEDFORD, Or., May 11. In the op
inion of Alex Sparrow, superintend
ent of the Crater Lake national park,
it will be July 1, the day set for tbe
official opening of the season, before
the first automobiles can reach the
Crater Lake rim.
This is because at the first of this
month there was 9& feet of snow
at the rim, which is about two feet
more than last year at the same time.
The snow depth at Anna Spring
camp, five miles lower down, was 8
feet May 1. Last year the first au
tomobiles were able to reach the lake
rim June 26, by the aid of extra ef
forts and much snow shoveling, pre
paratory to the visit of the National
Editorial association July 1-2.
. LONDON, May 16. There may be a
full meeting of the supreme allied
council for the purpose of discussing
the situation which has arisen in Si
lesia as a result of the Polish revolt
there;.
Dispatches from Paris indicate that
Premier Briand intends to lay the sit
uation before the French chamber ot
deputies when it meets Thursday.
There has been an exchange of views
between the British and French gov
ernments, but suggestions . that a
meeting be held have been met with
assertions in Paris- that it would be
impossible for the French premier to
discuss the Silesian affair with Mr.
Lloyd George until after Thursday.
Advices over the week-end appear
ed to indicate a cessation of fighting
in Upper Silesia, but there was noth
ing to show that the Poles were with
drawing from the regions they occu-
pied during the past two weeks.
Indignant comments of the French
press regarding Prime Minister. Lloyd
George's speech on Poland before the
house of commons Friday attracted
much attention from London newspa
pers Monday. For the most part they
were regretted and deprecated, al
though in quarters where Mr. Lloyd
George's attitude relative to Poland
is condemned, blame was placed upon
him.
DENVER JUDKE
PAYS FINE FOR
BOYS SECRET
DENVER, Colo., May 12. Juvenile
Judge Ben J. Lindsey Thursday paid .
a .fine of $500 and costs imposed for
contempt of court, thus ending a five
year legal fight from the criminal
court to the United States supreme '
court. The fine and costs amounted
to $531.
'I have no regrets," Judge Lindsey
said after paying the fine. " Although
the courts technically have held me s
in the wrong, I believe I've been ab
solutely right. f dou-t think I'll ev
er be asked again to betray the confi
dence of a child. I can say positive
ly 111 never do that."
The contempt charge grew out of
Judge Lindsey's refusal to tell what
Neal Wright, 16, had confided to him
Neal Wright's father, Frank Wright,
was killed in June, 1916, when he came
home dranx and started Treating his
wife. The woman said that she till
ed her husband. The boy told the
police he killed his father to pro
tect his mother. Judge Lindsey, in
confidential talk with the boy, found
ut who had killed Wright. But he
refused to tell at the trial what the
boy told him. The mother was ac
quitted and the boy made a charge
of the juvenile court.
Judge Lindsey was sentenced to pay
fine of $500 or serve a year in jail
for contempt. He fought the case
through to the United States supreme
court, which upheld the decision.
Albany Family
Suffers Several
Sad Accidents
CROWN WILLAMETTE
TO PLAY NEXT SUNDAY
One of the big baseball games
scheduled for the season that is at
tracting unusual interest is the game
to be played at the West Linn high
school diamond next Sunday after
noon. May 15, when the Crown Wila
mette team will meet the Kirkpatricks
of Portland.
The game is to be called at 2:30
o'clock.
The Crown Willamette team will
v.-ear un 'forms of white with black
trimmings with monograms on the
ALBANY, Or., May 13. With her
husband injured from a fall out of
his haymow, Mrs. A. J. Olmstead cf
North Albany, while lifting her help
less daughter, fell and broke her
ankle This helpless daughter pre
sents a bi.ffling case to physicians.
Her development was normal until
she was 14 years old, when she began
to slip backward into childhood. Now
she is 20 and so far has her reverse
'development progressed that her talk
is that of a baby.
One daughter is now Hft to care
for the family and a married daughter
lives in Portland, Olmstead is a mark
et gardener.
MUST NOT SPLASH PEDESTRIANS
Several Japanese cities require that
autmobiles be equipped with fenders
to prevent the wheels splashing pedes
trians in wet weather.