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PROVISIONS OF NEW
SCHOOL LAW REQUIRE
EXTENSIVE FIGURING
Superintendent Vedder" Has
Supply of Forms for
Estimates.
Forms for use in the preparation
of school budgats and pamphlets de
scribing the proceedure of voting taxe9
under the law passed by the last sea
sion of the Oregon legislature, have
been received by the county school
superintendent, Benton Vedder. Thes.j
will be forwarded to the clerks of the
142 Clackamas county districts for
use in making out their reports for the
coming year.
One of the most signal changes
under the new law Is in the methoil
of making out the budget report. A
special "estimate and accounting"
sheet is provided in the budget su
plies for this purpose. It requires
a list of the departmental expendi
tures of the district for three preced
ings years, with an itemized account
of expenditures for the year just paot,
and for six months of the past school
year.
ExTra Work Entailed.
The requirement of these figures on
the budget estimate, will, according
to Superintendent Vedder, reauire a
considerable amount of extra labor.
The figures are all kept by the dis
trict clerks, but the getting of them
in shape for entry on the forms will
iequire no little work. As the esti
mate for the budget is based upon the
past year, taken with the probable
increase in enrollment, Superintenden1
Vedder can figure "out no reason for
the inclusion in the form of a de
tailed account for six months of the
school year. ATI supplies, labor, sal
?rie3, etc., are figured by the districts
on a year basis, and the inclusion of a
six month's expense account and esti
mate will not only require clerical
work but will be of no tangible value,
he says.
The computation of a six-months"
expense and estimate is made more
difficult, according to Mr. Vedder, be
cause of the fact that material pur
chased is distributed in use over the
entire year, and also that vacations
entering into the school year, make i.
impossible to figure the six months cn
rn exact two-third of the year basis. !
The new school law provides revised
forms for advertising a special tax
election, as well as providing notice
forms and ballots.
Fiscal Year Establ-shed.
Under the new law qualified voters
of the district equal to the number
of members of the school board shall
constitute the budget committee.
Items in the budget shall be esti
mated for amounts needed during the
fiscal year, begining with the thira
Monday in June and ending with the
third Monday in June of the following
year.
Notice of the school meeting shall
be givjen by posting of noticasi in
l i r-ni-i nlaoc in f ho rt1-slrirt Tor ft
period of 21 days In districts of
the first class and in union high
school districts the board of direc
tors shall, at the time and place set
forth in the notice, hold a meeting
for an open discussion of the budget.
After hearing arguments for or
against the DaxJ levy, if any, the
board of directors in districts of the
first class and in union high school
districts shall, when it is not Pro'
posed to exceed the 6 per cent limi7
tation, proceed to determine and de
clare the amount of taxes to be
levied but they shall levy no tax in
excess of the published estimates and
10 per cent thereof.
Mother of Former
Local Woman Dies
Mr. Jennie C. "Wood, widow of the
late Dr. J. C. Wcod, died at the family
home Tuesday, July 18, at 11 S: Haw
thorne avenue, Portland, as a result
of Injuries sustained n a fall at her
home last Wednesday.
Mrs. Wocd is the mother of Mrs.
Edna M. Swift, a former resident of
this city. -
Dec-eased was born in Indiana in
1847. and was 74 years of age at the
tim eof her death, but appeared many
years younger ,and had u charming
disposition that won her many friends
among acquaintances with whom shi
cam.- In contact.
Mrs. Wood was a stockholder of tlu
Wilamette Valley Southern Railway
company .operating between Portlard
and Mount Angel, and had watchers
ith interest the development of j
Clackamas county alon gthe company's j
Sine Her husband, Dr. J. C- Wood, j
who was also one of the atcekhold
ers of the company, died three weeks
ago at the family home.
Surviving Mrs. Wood are her daugh
ter, Mrs. Edna wood Swift, widow of
the late Fred M- Swift .first president
of the Willamette Valley Southern
Raiway company, of 1182 Hawthorne
avenue, Portland; a son, Dr Frank W
Wood, also of Portland. She also
leaves a grandson, Richard Swift, son
of Mrs. Edna M. Swift ,of Portland.
PULP WOOD FROM BIG
NATIONAL FOREST SOLD
Granddaughter of
Local Woman Dies
Word has reached here from Mrs. k.
W. Fordyee, daughter of Mrs. A NcT-i-on
of this city, telling of the death of
little Dorothy Warne, four and a half
years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank V. aner of Los Antreles. Calif.,
but 'orme i residents of Portland.
The child, with other children, was
playing on a load of sand a id lumping
to the pavement, she foil directly in
from an automobilfe. The faimly
physician was called and the child
removed to a hospital where she died
a few hours later The ;tccdent oc
curred Tuesday, July 12.
Mrs. Fordyce, a neighbor of the
Warner family, says the accident was
unavoidable, it being apparen' that
the driver of the car. I, 3. Hodges,
did not see the child until toe late
lie was traveling slowly.
One million cords of pvlpwood on
;he Tongass National Forest, Alaska,
has just been sold by the Forest Serv
ice o fthe United States Department of
Agriculture to the Alaskan-American
Payer Corporation. The timber is lo
cated along the east shore of the Behm
Canal, Revillagigedo Island, about 32
miles from Ketchikan, the largest city
in the Territory. The contract price
of the timber was 60 cents per 100
cubic feet for spruce and cedar, ami
HO cents per 100 cubic feet for all other
species. The sale area covers 45,00)
acres? and extends for 55 mites alont;
the coast. Twenty per rent of th-i
forest is spruce, 66 per cent hemlock.
and 14 per cent Alaska and western
red cedar.
A conditional award has been mad3
by the Forest Service to the company,
pending approval by the Federal Power
Commission ' o their application for
a hydro-electric power licensa Tin
timber sale contract covers an initial
neriod of 32 years, or unti. 1953. The
price of the stumpage will be redete.--minti
and fixed by. the Federal Gov
ernment in 192S, and every rive year3
thereafter. -Cutting must begin by
October 1, 1323, thns allowing twi
years for organization and construc
tion of improvements. The contract
also requires" the establishment of a
i'lilp mill or not less than 25 tons ca
pacilv by October 1, 19?6. A yearly
cut from 2,500,000 to 3,000,000 cubic
feet is contemplated.
The award of this sale is in line with
the yeneral policy of the Forest Serv
ice for making available the timber
resources of Alaska as a means of in
creasing the supply of pulpwood for
the XInited States. The National For
ests of the Territory probably contain
100,000,000 cords of timber suitable for
the manufacture of newsprint and
other grades of paper. Under scien
tific management, experts say that
these forests can be made to produce
2,000,000 cords of pulpwood annually
or all time, or enough to manuacture
one-third of the pulp products now
consumed in this country.
The Alr.ska forests also ontain the
second chief essential of the pulp and
paper manufacturing industry, namely.
water power. No accurate purvey of
the power resources has yet been
made, but known projects have a pos
f.'ble development of over li'-0,C'00 h. p ,
and ;t is believed lh;t a complete ex
ploration of the National Forests in
south Alaska will show not less than
250.00 potential horse power than can
ne developed from water
Forest Service 'cruisers -ire new
working in Alaska collect ins data for
further use and developn.cnt of the
fore.sts. One block of timber contain
ing 335,000,0.10 cubic foet enough to
keep' a 100-ton pulp mill running, has
been advertised -and is new ready for
S'Jf:.
The Power Of Monopoly
Samuel Utermyer, who is conducting the inves
tigation at New York into building trade practices, is
to ask Congres to compel the imposition of prison sen
tences on members of convicted building material com
binations. Mr. Utermyer claims that all articles enter
ing 'into building construction 'iare affected y such
combinations, also the products of half of the other in
dustries of the country- . .
It is almost impossible to frame a law that will hit
the people who are oppressing the public and yet ex
clude others whose acts would be considered legitimate
If doctors of a city get together and decide that the
price of their calls should be increased, no one would
say that they ought to be jailed. Yet laws against com
binations that some people would enact might hit such
a case as theirs.
However there is no doubt that the people are
suffering greviously from.the operation of combines
in many industries ,and some means of controlling them
must be found.
It is not easy to get juries to convict in such cases
where it means sending people to jail. Many jurors are
sympathetic and the eloquence of lawyers will convince
them that their clients have been punished enough and
will be good in the future. Then these people may go off
and do the same thing again .
It might be a good idea, where the existanc of an
opprssive combination was established, after trial before
a United States court to put such concern temporarily
in the hands of a federal receiver so that they would
be forced to cease its prastices. Juries would be more apt
to cooperate with such a plan than with one that
would send prominent citizens to jail. If they knew that
they would lose control of their own busines for a while,
concerns guilty of entering profiteering combinations
would be likely to quit their unfair policies.
greatness of this New Empire and the
marvelous unparalleled beauty of iU
scenery, tho these things no play an
.mportant part. But if the Spirit of
Transportation, with her electric torch
held high, has enabled us by her light
to measure the advancement of our
past, to what great heights of undream
ed of achievements- will she lead our
future? to these heights, to this ac
complishment the "Atlantic-Pacific
Highways and Electrical Exposition'
of 1U25 will point.
Where before the trend of civiliza
tion was over westward, today we have
reached the last West, and the tfde
of advancement from this mighty em
pire sow building out beyond teh Cas
cades, will sweep back eastward over
our country, till every section cf the
United States will feel the influx of
new life and energy from the progress
of manufacture and commerce.
This magic torch is llg.-.ting the
world to the richest resources and
j-reitest opportunities known to man
The progress of the Wwt means the
progress of tho whole country, and the
progress of one country insures the
progress and safety of the world.
While transportation, with her flam
ing toron.
Doth wing her pathway toward
the setting sun,
Her light streams backward, ever to
the East
Till all our Nation's interests blenJ
la one.
Oregon to Sense Spirit of .
Transportation at 1925 Fair.
(By F. R. G.)
7TH STREET PAVING
The contract for the laying of the
cement on Seventh street between
Monroe and Division streets was
awarded by the city council in spec
ial session last evening to the W. D.
Andrews Contracting' company of
HOW AND WHY OF LAW
EXPLAINED BY DEAN
. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu
gene, July 16.
Why do women study law?
What are the- opportunities for law
yers in Oregon?
How much- money do lawyers make?
What, can a trained lawer do- be
side? practice law?
What should a prospective lawyer
study besides law?
What is the law school of th Uni
versity of Oregon doing for the legal
:-.roft ssion in Oregon?
. These questions were put straight
to Professor W. G. Hale .dean of the
University law school this morning.
"As to why women study law," lie
saM. "there are many government po
sitions, federal, state and municipal,
that pall for law training. Such- serv
ice workers of all kinds can utilize a
knowledge of law. There is a demand
for law-trained women in these fields.
In juvenile courts, women with law
training are playing an increasingly
iarge and important part."
"As to the opportunities of practice
in Oregon, there are approximately
100i lawyers in the state. Not all of
thesf. are in actual practice. -This
means about one lawyer to every 750
people. As compared with conditions
in other sections of the United States,
this does not indicate special conges
tion.
How much money to lawyers
make?" The law dean smiled at thi
question, but djd not attempt to evade
it. "While pecuniary rewards in the
legal profesrfdn are usually small for
TELEPHONE HEARING
STARTS, HIGH RATES
HELDJNJUSTIFIED
Testimony of Fanners Taken
In First Day at
State Capitol.
public
to tho
was
The re-hearing- before the
service commission, relative
recent rise in telepohne rates,
started at Salem today.
Representatives from Oreeon Citv
tho local -commercial club, the farm
ers organizations and Willamette Val-
ley Telephone association attended the
first day session.
The first move on the part of the
company was the contesting of the
right of the commission to grant a
rehearing, which was overruled, and
the taking! of the testimony of the
farmers begun. This is being done In
order to give those wbo have a busy
season on hand, a chance to testify
and get back to their farms without
delay.
The rates contested in this hearing
were established by the commission
in an order issued on February 28 and
dated on March 1. The application
for the increased rates was filed by
the telephone company on November
13, 1920, and the first hearing was
c-ondiicted in Portland on December
21, 1920. This hearing was adjourned
until February 1.-
"Validity of Rates Attacked.
The validity of the rates establishes
the first three or four years, yet one-jin the order of the commission was,
who succeeds will later on even the
scale. This does not mean that the
legal profession is a moneymaking pro
Portland. The contract price is $4561. fession. It is distinctly not. But one
Tho contract involves .merely the who is sufficiently well prepared to
laying. of the concrete. The scarify-measure :up to the lawyer possibilities
ing has been completed' by the city, will earn enough and to spare."
with the use of the county's equip- "A trained lawyer can find many
ment. The cement is also furnished uses for his law even if he never
by the city. The price made bv the practicies. Judicial positions and many
company for the laying of the pave- government positions are available to
ment is S1.40 dot vard. for the 32fi0 men trained in the law. Politics also,
yards of paveir.ent -
Ordinances for the improvement of
Tt is sometimes well, in the midst of : speed at the rate of 25 miles per hour Twelfth street from Center to Main
the hurry and turmoil of modern striv-1 over a road as smooth a-.' a ri:y street. 1 and the alley between Seventh and
ing to pause for a moment tp take a ' By 1925 the distance of 3,000 miles Eighth streets from the railroad"to
comprehensive outlook at the progress betweeu the Atlantic coast, and the Main street were also passed. Both
of our race and catch a glimpse of Pacific slope will seem no greater to are to be improved by the construc-
the autoist than 30 miles seemed to tion of a concrete pavement, the full
the old pioneer of fifty years ago with I width of the streets.
his slow moving ox-team. . The matter of the improvement of
The Pioneer! Haw much do we of Sixth and Eighth streets was lairt
today owe to his vision! Out in the Far over, action to be taken at the next
AVest only a small handful of pioneers regular meeting of the council.
GOVERNOR VISITS HERE.
The declining price of gasoline doe-
not create the interest it would if gas
oline were something to drink.
A party composed of Governor Pen
Olcoit, Mrs. Olcott and their son.
Chester, Slate Highway Engineer Her
.bert Nunn, Mrs. Nunn, Mr. and Mrs. R
K. Steiner and Mr: and Mrs. Milton
Meyers, passed through the city Sat
urday afternoon on their way to Rho
dodondron inn where they will spend
the week end.
99
says the Good Jude
That gives a manrmore
genuine chewing satis-"
faction than he ever got
out or tne ordinary kind;
Smaller chew, lasts longer
so it costs less to chew
this class of tobacco.
And the good, rich to
bacco taste gives a world
of satisfaction.
Any man who uses the
Real Tobacco Chew
will tell you that.
Put ut in two styles
W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco -
RIGHT GUT is a short-cut tobacco
whinor we are tending.
"Without vision the people perish'
said Isaiah, tho Hebrew prophet; and
to have a true vision of the future one
must have also the realization of the
past.
There are so many channels of hu
man activity xy which progress may
be measured. Foi the uiost part, that
side of human life generally cited as
evidence of advancement in civiliza
tion, is either ethics, art or science. To
attempt therefore to measure human
advancement by anything so prosaic
as the development of transportation
might seem at first .glance too com
mercial, yet it is safe to say that in
no other one thing can the progress of
mankind be so clearly seen and appre
ciated. -
Progress Comemmoraed.
In view of the fact that the great
Atlantic-Pacific Highways and Ele
trical Expositon to be h'ld n Oregon
n 1925 s to commemorate among other
vhngs the completion of the great
ocean la. ocean paved highways, artd
that by another year the United States
will have spent over four billion dol
lars on paving the highways of out
country, it is most timely that a mo
ment's attention be given to ascertain
just what relation this has to the pro
gress in civilization and what It is to
mean to our further development.
To begin with, the races that have
remained at a stand still ever since
tney have inhabited the globe have
added nothing to the method ot tran
portation, but today as in ages past
they still carry their burdens upon the
heads or backs of their women.
Carrrers Mark Progress.
On the other hand the greatest prey.
gress .indeed the only great progress
has obviously bei that of the whita
rfice, whose evolution can be traced in
lhe methods of transportation which
have grown from the days of beasts of
burden by land, and galley-slave boats
and barges by sea, on thru the ago ot
stea-nships and staam cars before na
ture's obstacles began slowly to dimin
ish, up to the present day of electri-
h11 run railways, telephones, tele-
grapns, automobiles ana iiying ma
chines.
During the days of the 'prairie
schoner" or ox-cart, wending its tedi
ous way. across the pathless miles' ol
uninhabited wilderness, the progress
of civilization was correspondingly
slow: but with the opening oi the rail-
:oadj the development of every
branch of human activity was hasten
ed while during the past twenty years
the country has seen an advance sur
passing any other previous hundred
years of the world s development.
It is almost impossible to determine
how great a factor in modern life the
opening up of the automobile roadways
is to be. Just as the transportation
of thought thru the telephone and tel
egraph have brought the whole world
:nte closer relatonship, and have seem
ingly wiped out one of the obstacles of
distance, so the paed highwavs ar3
bringing the cities and farms into
more intimate relationship More than
that : these roads, the natural result
oi" the inovation of the automobile
have vi tually lifted h.imanity out of
the mud
. Barriers Removed.
Thrse highways, upon whose smooth
pave! surfaces, not hundreds, but mil
lions of autos will in i-he next f-w
years traverse our country, are but thi
forerunners of that b'ended interest
and unity of purpose which is to con
nect all parts of our country, even as
the highways themselves are wiping
out the self interest of isolated localities.
For centuries the "impassible moun
tains" have stood as barriers to man's
progress. Over how mary mruntaix's
today, on a grade of no mora than frcm
5 to - JO pfr cent, automobiles may
are yet here to see their dreams ful
filled. But that any o fthese sturdy
frortier men still remain to see real
ized the vision which lured them to
plant an Empire out in the land of
the setting sun, 13 due to the fact that
modern transportation has made that
Empire a possibility.
It reads like a tale from the Arabian
Nights, this marvelous rise of modern
civilization out beyond the Cascade
Range. No wonder that it must be
seen to be believed.
Change ' Is Rapid.
Old Empires were centuries In build
ing. That little more than fifty years
have sufficed for isolated loghcuse-set
tlements, with all the crude barbarisn?
of frontier life, to be changed as by
the touch of Aladdins Lamp into won
derful modern cities, with all their
luxury, beauty and refined culture
seems indeed like a fairy tale. Nor has
any well beloved character of olden
fairy lore waved a wand more effica
cious than that of the magic torch held
aloft in the hand of the Spirit of Transportation
An ordinance, raising the license
fee charged hawkers from $" to $5
per day was passed upon its final
reading. Under the law, hawkers are
considered anyone who sells from a
stand or wagon on a street. The li
cense fee is charged according to the
number working on the wagon or
stand; $5 a day is charged each -per
son under the new law.
Seed Certification
Tallied at Meeting
Instruction in the prevention of po
tato diseases, and in the proper meth
od of raising crops for seed certifica
tion wag the purpose of a meeting
held Saturday at Wilsonville. The
meeting was attended by W. S. Car
penter of the O. A. C. board of certifi
cation and County Agent V. A. Holt.
Certified seed was recently distrib
uted by the "Wilsonville bank among
the farmers of that community and an
effort Is tn ha mariA tn ra iqf -nntatoes
Nor do we always stop to consider that will warrant registration. Three
inspections, two 'of which have been
held ,are given the crops every year
before being certified Oer ification'
is taken as evidence of freedom from
disease, and healthy parent stoclc.
John Lowe, a farmer of this dis
trict, has developed a new species
of potato, with which he is getting ex
cellent results. The potatoes, while
not of exceptional size, are uniform,
with even skin, especially adapted for
is he has a fancy tor it. .It is of par
ticular value to the business man
Many men who have gone to the top
in big business have been law-trained
men. .Finally and very importantly
the study of law is a preparation for
citizenship.
"A prospective lawyer should, study
many things besides law. H6 should
study English, argumentation and de
bate to acquire the power of lucid,
forceful statement. He -should study
tociology, economics and political
science in order to grasp the human
which i3 the function of the law to
serve. A knowledge of accountancy
and the general principles of business
are invaluable to the lawyer.
"As to your last question, "What
is the law school of the university do
ing for the legal profession? Through
its high standards of admission it is
helping to raise the standard of the
profession in the state. It now has
five full-time and two part-time pro
fessors, and is as well prepared as any
on this coast to fit the young men
and young women of the Pacific
Northwest for practice. The -law li-
I rary now contains 18,000 ' volumes.
Special emphasis is laid on Oregon
Jaw and procedure, but without ne
glecting the board -principles which
lie at the bottom of Anglo-American
jurisprudence. Four times a year it
publishes the Oregon Law Review,
which is devoted to problems of spec
ial interest to Oregon lawyers'."
FIVE BIRTHS RECORDED
The following births occurred atjie
Oregon City hospital: Tc M" and
Mrs. Wilbur Warner, a son, wtie has
been given the name of Raymond Wil
bur; Mr. and Mrs. Winnifred Arant,
July 4, a daughter, named Margaret
Verna; Mr. and Mrs. Keith ShUt, of
Redland, July 0, daughter, named
Hazel Avnea: Mr ani Mrs Ivan
Haines, of Oswego, July In. son,
named Wilbur Vernon; Mr. and Mrs
and Mrs. John Podds, Orfgorr City,
route six, July 12, daughter.
FROM CLARK FORK WHIRLPOOL
all that the word transportation means
The handling of cargo is often the
the limit of our imagination In con
nection with it; but when we realize
that it implies the carrying of mes
sages the transmission of light and
power aa well as of passengers and
freight some appreciation of its con
nection with, progress of the race may
be gained.
Just what the airship is to mean to
our future evolution we can but dimly fancy table use.
visualize. Yet for that vision we must
also be grateful, for if "without vision
rr:?: bs dee wright has narrow escape
It is due to a Tul! realization of this
that the people of Oregon are inviting
the world to an Exposition in 192.1.1
That broadness of outlook which takes Clawing fingers of a whirlpool be-
in a full comprehension of the past tween canyon walls on Clark fork,
and a- limitless view of the future is ripped a canoe expedition to ruin and
alone responsible for making Oregon almost ended the lives of five adven-
in 1925 the objective for the attention turers Saturday. The members of the
of the world. expedition, sans all equipment but a
For the Inland Empire is not only camera and tripod, arrived in Port-
an objective of the great transcontiu- land Monday.
t-ntal highways, but the development The party consisted of Dee Wright,
of its great waterway arteries and the son of Mrs. A. Nelson of this city;
opening of the Panama canal promises Robert Bruce, motioni picture man,
t-n advance in commerce unequalled who has "shot" scenery all over tho
in the annals of our history, which will Pacific northwest aricl Europe; Joe
be felt thru every pore of our country's Smith Marba, recently at the Heilig
activity and in every section of its J,s leading comedian in George M.
community. 1 Cohan's show, "Mary"; John LaMond,
The year 1925 will mark the one hun- also actor, and Hamish McLaurin,
dredth anniversary of the discovery of magazine writer.
the elctro-magnet by Wm Sturgeon. . White is a mountain guide in the
the English engineer. This discovery employ of the government. He visited
has made possible the use of our water here with his mother last Sunday,
power, the great hydro-electric force Three Boats In Party.
that has revolutionized manufacture Mr. Bruce and Mr. McLaurin occu
and commerce. pied one canoe, Mr. Marba and Mr.
attacked by Edward M. Cousin, ap
pearing as attorney for the Oregon
Telephone Federation, who also rep
resents the local branch of the Wil
lamette Valley Telephone company.
Mr. Cousin argued that the public
utility act required a ten-day lapse be
tween the timex the order and the
time in which the rates are placed
into effect. He produced the tariff
of the telephone company dated March
t, in which the new rates, effective
March 1, were ci ed to substantiate
his claims. '
IMPROVEMENT OF CITY
STREETS NOW AWAITS
SANCTfONOF COUNCIL
Engineering Work on Pro
posed Paving Practically
Completed.
Pinal action on the street improve
ment program, which has been, out
lined for Oregon City, is scheduled
for the regutarTneeting of the city
council.
Ordinances will be presented which
will establish the type of improve-"
ment on a number of streets, six
blocks of which are in the down-town
district.
A. R, Stafford, engineer in charge
of the work, has completed the surveys
cf the streets which are under consid
eration, and is awaiting final action
ugon the determining of the type of
improvement and the resolutions by
the council establishing the grades.
Green Point to Be Prved.
The improvement program includes
the paving of all of the streets in the
Green Point district. These will total
nine blocks. For this work, a 12-foot
concrete pavement has 'been recom
mended.
The downtown improvements In
clude six blocks of pavement, not in
cluding the alley which runs by the
ity hall. The streets to be improved
are Twelfth, Eighth and Sixth streets.
The type of improvement to be used
has not been decided but concrete is
recommehaed.
Division street south of the East-
Emery Hess, on July 12. a s.'.n; Mr. f ham school and Fifteenth from Harri
How fitting that its discoverv should
be commemorated in the locality in
which is to be found on third of tha
watr power of the United States.
Into the Columbia River basin flowi
the unharness white power of count
less snow fed streams; "from the Cas
cades' frozen gorges" they rush unchal
lenged to the sea, an inexhaustible, un
limited supply wh?ch is bringing to
this new land the realization ot-tho
prophesy "Westward the r-curse of
Empire takes its way."
Small wonder that this West will
emblazon in light its tribute to those
who have brought the use of electri
city within the rtach of man.
The Exposition of 1925 is nit alone
a commemoration of what transporta
tion has accomplished in the upbuild
ing of this Wonderland, it is not alone
an invitation to the world to view the
LaMond the second, while Mr. Wright
was the cook 'and the captain bold
and crew of a rowboat Leaving
Thompson falls, the flotilla started
down Clark fork, and after three
miles shot the rapids beautifully. Be
low the rapids was the first whirlpool.
Mr. Bruce studied it and saw that the
whirlpool was made for a few seconds
every few minutes, so he and McLaur
in calculated that they could cover the
danger spot in safety.
Unfortunately the whirlpool was
made underneath the first canoe, so
that for an instant the canoe was
perched on a peak of water, then it
was whirled around,- and tilted end
wise, with Bruce in the air and Mc
Laurin down below. Next they were
in the swirling waters, which washed
the eyeglasses off Mr. Mcl aurin. ' On
coming to the surface, McLaurin, a
provident Scot, had his purse in his
teeth. The men caught the canoe
and held on, just as Wright camo
shooting by in the rowboat. Bruce
and McLaurin used a free hand to
eize the gunwale of the rowboat, thus
holding both the canoe and boat.
Rock' Bars Way.
Ahead of them was a large rock pro
jectmg from the river and between
the rock and the rocky shore wall was
a chute of white water. Wright triel
to shoot the chute, but his boat hit
the rock and in a ninstant he had
jumped upon it.
lwo hours were required to get a
rope to the rock where Wright stood.
LaMond would tie a rock to tfie rope
and heave it toward Wright, and the
weight would', slip off. Eventually
Wright got the end of the rope and
lashed it under his arms and arouud
his body. On the rock where he was
marooned was a lagre plank, washed
there during some flood, so, when the
four men o nthe shore had braced
themselves as anchors, Wright slid
into the torrent the water drops 50
feet in a mile at that place holding
the plank for support The current
whipped the plank from nis fingers
as quickly and easily as a man would
take a match fro ma child. It re
quired the combined strength of the
four men to drag Wright through the
foaming 75 feet to safety.
Some I6O0 pounds of equipment for
camping and camera work was lost,
and aside from the lives of the men,
which were salvaged, all lhey recov
ered was the camera, the tripod and
the billbook of greenbacks, which
McLaurin bit into so tenaciously that !
thf imprints of his teeth were left on
the currency. j
son to Division and Harrison in front
of the school building are also includ
ed These streets were referred back
to the engineer. The work of setting
ihe grades and figuring the cross sec
tions and profiles has all been finished.
Adams Needs Repair.
J. Q. Adams street from Seventh
to Ninth and from Eleventh to Twelfth
is to be improved. At the time that
Main street was paved,, a bituminous
surface was layed on the 'street from
Seventh to Fourth streets. This,' even
under the comparatively light traffic
has depreciated badly and is in jeed
of repair, although work- on this por
tion of the street is not provided for
in the present Improvement program.
Thief's Guess Poor;
Steals Deputy's Car
It doesn't take a SJierlock Holmes
to know that the worst place in the
world to commit a theft is at the po
lice station.
A ouple of young fellows tried it .
at the sheriff's office The result was
a trip to Portland and two arrests.
While the deputies of the office were
in the basement locking up a prisoner,
two young men got into State Deputy
B. B- Sandifer's Hudson Super-six and
made away with it At first Sandifer
thought some of the boys were play
ing a joke on him. They discovered
that it was serious and got busy. .
The car was found in Portland
stripped o feverything. Later two men
against whom evidence enough to con
vict, is asid to have been found, were
arested and the missing accessories
recovered.
BLUE LAWS OPPOSED.
SACRAMENTO, July 15. Articles of
Incorporation of the Sanity League of
America, organized for the purpose of
bringing about "a condition of san-
ty" in the country in so far as "blue
laws" and prohibition are concerned.
were filed today at the office of Sec
retary of State Jordan.