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TIIE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1907
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Disposition to Abandon Drain
and Monmouth to Their
Fate Is Manifest.
SITUATION IS UNSETTLED
Apparently State Cnlyerslty, Agricul
tural College, Ashland and Wes
ton Feel Safe In Cutting Ijoose
From Their Weaker Sisters.
SALEM. Or.. Feb. 6. (Special.)
Normal schools are very much unset
tled in the Legislature and nobody has
a clear foresight as to what will be
done. In the Senate a combine has
been formed to abolish only the Drain
school, and this move has the support
of President Haines. In the House to
day the Normal forces received a jolt
in the refusal of the House to postpone
indefinitely Representative Holt's bill
to abolish both the Drain and Mon
mouth institutions. Up to this time It
looked as if the arrangement In the
Senate for cutting out only the Drain
school would prevail, but now the Nor
mal foes are reaching out further, de
siring to abolish also Monmouth. The
latter is making a stiff fight.
The House's action today came as a
surprise, and seems to be Inconsistent
with the action of the same body last
week In voting down a resolution to
Instruct the ways and means committee
to report appropriations for only two
Normals. At that time, however, num
bers of those voting against the reso
lution said they did so because they
did not believe the ways and means
committee the proper body to make the
selection.
The combine of last week between
the Normals, the State University and
the Agricultural College seems to have
been broken up to considerable degree
by threats of reducing the money for
all of them. The Weston school is se
cure and the Ashland school seems that
way also; likewise the University and
the Agricultural College. There is dis
position of each to cut loose from old
conditions and to abandon Monmouth
and Drain, and these two are putting
forth strenuous efforts to prevent this.
Coshow Much Perturbed.
Senator Coshow is very much aroused
by the situation in the Senate, for it
looks to him as though the Normal School
reformers have gone back on their prin
ciples and have entered into a combina
tion to abolish the only school that ever
stood for reform. Two years ago the
Douglas County delegation stood for the
creation of one board to control all the
normals, thua eradicating many abuses,
but the members from the other Normal
School counties fought It. Drain has al
ways refused, and now refuses, to go Into
any combination, he says, but is willing
to take it chances with the others in any
fair trial upon merits before an unpreju
diced body of men.
He says that Ashland has now the larg
, est number of students. Drain comes sec
ond, Monmouth third and Weston fourth.
In view of this and the fact that the
frienfl of the Drain noilial have always
stood for reform In Normal School man
agement, he thinks It poor business for
the Senators who hold themselves out as
reformers to enter into a combination to
close up this one school.
All normal bills in the Senate have been
made a special order for 2 P. M. Thurs
day. What the House Did. ,
The House today by a vote of 32 to 25
refused to postpone Indefinitely Holt's
bill. House bill 175, continuing as State
Normal schaals the Ashland and Weston
Institutions, and killing the Monmouth
and Drain Normals. The bill has been
made a special order for next Wednes
day at 8 P. M.
The committee on education reported
adversely on Holt's bill and Chairman
Edwards moved the adoption of the re
port. The motion carried by vote of 27
to 2B, 7 absent. Mr. Edwards then moved
that the further consideration of the
bill be Indefinitely postponed and the
fight opened.
N'orthup explained that InUhe campaign
that preceded the election In Multnomah
County last Spring, many of the candi
dates for the Legislature agreed to a
plank that called for abolishing all but
two of the State Normal Schools. He
said he favored two such schools, one
to be located In Eastern Oregon and the
other In Southern Oregon.
"Those residing In the vicinity of the
Drain and Monmouth schools," he said,
"are conveniently located to the State
I'nlverslty and the State Agricultural
College and can attend either of there
institutions."
"The gentleman appears to think that
the! State University and the Agricultural
College are maintained for the education
and preparation of teachers," said Jack
son, who followed, "and he should know
better and does." Mr. Jackson argued at
length in support of all of the normal
schools of the state and declared that it
would be a narrow policy for the Legis
lature to adopt In denying to any section
of the state the advantages of an educa
tion that are offered by these schools.
"1 have never seen a state that had too
much education." continued the speaker,
"neither have I ever seen any body of
men in public life that was too highly
educated. Decrease the supply of the
public school teachers and you decrease
the efficiency of the public schools," he
concluded.
Injustice Pone Monmouth.
Dr. McCallon maintained that It would
be an injustice seriousl yto think of abol
ishing the normal school at Monmouth,
which is located within a radius of 100
miles of three-fifths of the entire popu
lation of the state.
"The Ashland, Normal School," he said,
"is 4S0 miles from Astoria and 300 miles
from Portland and is of as much benefit
to California as it Is to the state by which
it Is supported. A blow at the Monmouth
school Is a blow at the public schools of
the state," he said in conclusion.
McCue. an alumnus of Monmouth, who
has proved the btst speaker on the floor
of the House In general discussions, came
to the support of his alma mater with
an effective speech in favor of indefinite
postponement.
"I do not believe In gag rule." he re
marked by way of introduction. "Let
these Institutions all have a hearing be
fore this Legislature and rest on their
respective merits. The Monmouth Nor
mal School has furnished two of the pres
idents of the other normal schools In the
states and besides has also furnished the
president of the State University, while
Its graduates are numbered among the
most prominent men 1 nthe state. This
institution is doing good work in the In
terest of the state educationally and Is
entitled to and should receive further sup
port on its merits."
"There Is no particular normal school
for which I stand," announced Chair
man Edwards, of the education commlt
, eo which, unfavorably reported, Holt's
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bill. " "I have never made an effort be- I
fore the Legislature for any normal ;
school, but I believe that every one of the
state's normal schools should be main
tained and supported by the state." Mr.
Edwards then argued as to the impor
tance of normal schools In preparing effi
cient teachers for the public schools of
the state.
"Why." he said, "you might as well
buy a $400 team of horses and turn fhem
over to a man who did not know how
to put on the harness, as to conduct the
public schools of the Btate without effi
cient Instructors. The people of the
state, as the election last June, expressed
themselves on the normal school situa
tion, and their position should be recog
nized and given due consideration at
this time."
Several of the members of the House
being absent from the House, Coffey
moved a call of the House.but. it appear
ing that Wilson, who afterwards entered
the hall, was the only absentee following
the preliminary roll call, further pro
ceedings under this order were dispensed
with.
The vote on indefinite postponement
follows:
Aye5 Barrett of Umatilla, Belknap,
Bones, Brix, Campbell. Connell, Dobbin,,
Dye. Katon. Edwards. Farrell, Gray, Hen
drlck. Huntley, Jackson. Jones of Lincoln
and Polk. McC'allon, McCue, Pike, Rodgers,
Kothchild, Steen, Vawter, Washburne", Mr.
Speaker 23.
Noes Adams, Barrett of Washington,
Beals. Beutsen, Beverldge, Brown, Burns.
Carter, Chapin, Chase. Coffey. Crawford,
Drlscoll, Freeman, Holt, Jewell, Jones ot
Clackamas. Kin. Knowles, Kubli, Merry
man, Moore, Newell, Northup, Perkins, Pur
dy, Rackleff, Reynolds, Settlemler, Sim
mons, Upmeyer, Wilson 32.
Absent Bayer, Donnelly, Slusher a,
MOKE MOXEY FOB V. OF W.
Ways and Means Committee Allows
Institution $125,000 a Year.
SALEM. Or., Feb. 6. (Special.) The
ways and means comlmttee of both
Houses this afternoon voted to appro
priate $125,000 annually for the next
two years for the support of the State
University. This Is the total amount
of the aprpoprlation that was asked by
this Institution and represents an In
crease of about $45,000 over the total
amount of the appropriation for the
University two years ago. The vote
of the committee on the aprpoprlation
was unanimous.
Tonight the Joint committee on ways
and means allowed the Agricultural
Colelge an increase from $25,000 to
$50,000 per annum for maintenance be
glnnlg In 1908. The request for an ad
ditional aprpoprlation of ?12,000 that
was made at the beginning of the ses
sion, but was later increased to $150,
000 for new buildings, was not acted
on, but the committee did not appear
to aprpove this $25,000 Increase and the
amount of this aprpoprlation may be
reduced to the original $125,000 that
was first asked.
That part of Representative Barrett's
bill appropriating $10,000 for the main
tenance of the portage railway at Ce
lilo was approved, but action on a re
quest for the further sum of $60,000 for
making extensions, and which will
probably be granted by committee, was
deferred until another meeting.
State Labor Commissioner Hoff ap
peared before the committee In the In
terest of an advance in his salary from
$1800 to $2500 per annum. Under the
present law this officer eceives an al
lowance of $800 per annum for travel
ing expenses. After some consideration
of Mr. Hoff's application, the committee
intimated that it might stand for an
increase in his salary to $2000 per an
num, the allowance for traveling ex
penses to remain at $800 per annum.
No consideration of the Normal
school question was given tonight and
at the request of Senate members of
the Joint committee, appropriations for
these wil lhe considered at 4 o'clock
Thursday afternoon.
NEED OF NORMAL SCHOOLS
SCHOOLS OF THE STATE RE
QUIRE TRAINED TEACHERS.
Their Work Is Very Satisfactory,
and They Should Not Be Re
duced in Number Says a Writer.
MONMOUTH. Or... Feb. 6. (To the Edi
tor. ) Is training necessary to fit teachers
for their work? Practically every civil
ized country haa been obliged to establish
an adequate system of training schools In
order to secure a permanent source of supply
of teachers for Us public schools. The
Vnited States Government, when going Into
the lslnnds, at once began its work of edu
cation by establishing training schools for
teachers.
About the first step of the German edu
cational reformers was to establish train
ing schools. Horace Mann, the creator of
the modern American public achrld, began
his work, in Massachusetts, with the es
tablishment of training schools for his
teachers. Every educator knows that the
only hope for the public school lies In a
sufficient supply of well trained, enthusi
astic teachers.
Have other states lessened the number of
normal schools 7
Several states have gone through the ex
perience of reducing the number of their
normal schools, but alp-ays with the result
that the absolute necessities of the case
called for a restoration to at least the orig
inal numher. Many of the states have in
creased tho number of their normal schools
within the last decade. As an example of
a state that cut out two of its normals
and subsequently restored them, the State
of Washington may be cited. It now main,
tains three normals, with about the same
population as Oregon, and still is constant
ly calling upon its neighbors for trained
teachers. The districts which have once
had the services of a capable, well trained
teacher are never willing to return to the
old condition of Incompetency and ineffi
ciency. Has Oregon too many normal schools?
All the graduates from all the schools
are at once taken up, and many more are
called for who cannot be supplied. "We,
at Monmouth, for Instance, cannot supply
half the demand that Is made upon us,
and I suppose the same Is true of the
other schools.
Can two schools supply the demand?
There, Is a need of between 600 and 700
new teachers In Oregon every year, which
need Is growing with our population. Four
normal schools were able to supply a little
more than 100 the past year. A natural
limitation on the number of annual gradu
ates from a normal school is found In the
necessity for actual training In the grades
of the training department. Since feach
future teacher should have training In the
actual work of teaching for at least half
of each day for half of a year, the eight
grades of the training school can furnish
opportunity for only 16 .teachers for each
half year, or 32 for the year. If the grades
can be divided Into two sections, the num
ber can be raised to 64. We might say,
then, that 70 teachers is the upper limits
of possibility for each school. It Is al
ways difficult to get a large number of chil
dren for a training department. Few cities
are willing to turn over even one ward
school to a normal school, and then, only
on condition that parents may be free to
send their children to other ward schools.
If they so desire. A private training de
partment does not usually secure any large
number of children, nor does It give satis-
factory, actual public school conditions. The
most satisfactory training department is
found In a small town, where the public
school authorities are willing to place their
town school under the care of the normal
school. They make the usual payments to
the teachers, and the normal school faculty
supervises the work.
Which Is better a large normal school
or a comparatively small one, as far as
the quality of the training Is concerned?
About 5O0 students are as many as should
be gathered In one normal school. A
larger number separates the Individual stu
dent too far from the members of the fac
ulty. In the training of teachers the ele
ment of personal friendship and personal
influence in absolutely Indispensable. A
teacher is obliged to go Into hia profes-
JL aloo. largely, thxoujch an Absolute love Xor
It. The quality of his -work will be deter
mined by his enthusiasm in his calling.
The faculty of a normal school must
not only instruct, but personally inspire.
The small group is infinitely the better
one for this purpose, in the training of
teachers.
Who would suffer most If the supply of
trained teachers were cut off, or made
smaller?
The country districts would be the first
to suffer from any decrease in the supply
of trained teachers. The cities and large
towns would draw away the best teachers
from the country at once to meet their own
growing needs, and the country districts
would have .to depend, very largely, on
the young people Just out of the eighth
grade, or possibly, the high school, begin
ning their work without any previous train
ing. Teaching is a fine art, with fairly
definite processes to be learned and expert
ly applied. Even a college graduate Is
perfectly certain to blunder outrageously
In his first few years of work in teach
ing children. The pupils In the schools
on which he practices suffer Irreparable
loss. Not only do they fall to learn, but
they may have their interest In Bchool
killed forever. The country districts, in
which more than nine-tenths of the teach
ers of the state are era ployed, will suffer
first, and. most seriously from decreasing
the supply of trained teachers. That the
towns and cities also would suffer Is shown
by the fact that about one-fifth of the
teachers annually sent out by the normal
Bchools are at once employed in the town
and city schools.
Is the expense Incurred for training too
large a part .of the tax fox public school
education ?
Four good normals can be maintained
at a cost of about $25,000. a year, each per
year, or a total cost for maintenance of
$100,000 per year. We pay about $1,500,000
per year In salaries to teachers in our pub
lic schools in Oregon. Without adequate
training, the teachers are not effective,
and most of the money paid in salaries Is
wasted, to say nothing of the lnjuriy to the
"raw material." our own children. Certain
ly $100,000 a year is not too much to pay
to Insure the effective expenditure of $ 1,600,
OOO.
The total tax for the maintenance of four
normal schools need not be more than a
quarter of a mill. An additional quarter
of a mill for two years would- comfortably
house and satisfactorily equip the schools.
Has the work of the Oregon normals been
satisfactory ?
Although the Oregon normals have done
remarkably well on the appropriations
which have been made for them, they ac
knowledge by their request for increased
appropriations that they have never been
able to accomplish all that might be rea
sonably demanded of thoroughly well
equipped and well housed schools. It In
not fair to judge them harshly In the face
of the meager appropriations which have
been made; when they are given adequate
support they may well then be held to the
strictest accountability as to results.
And yet the record of the oldest of the
normal schools the one at Monmouth
may possibly bo taken as typical of what
they all can do. even with meager sup
port. The Mon mouth school has supplied
the state with 820 teachers, of whom 533
are still in the harness; she has furnished
eight of the present County School Super
intendents: 10 employed as instructors In
normal schools and colleges; 19 principals
and superintendents in schools of eight or
more teachers; 26 principals of smaller
schools; hundreds of teachers in graded and
ungraded schools In every county. And she
Is still turning out from 35 to 50 new
teachers every year, men and women who
have been prepared by the state to do
tho state's work, differing in this particu
lar from the graduates of any other class
of schools or universities.
Why should Oregon not have a complete
educational system ?
Oregon Is now in the limolight on account
of the radical steps she has taken In popu
lar government. A complete system if edu
cation, effective to the last degree, Is more
imperatively demanded now than ever be
fore. The term of the public school should
be raised to the minimum of seven months;
a good system of union high schools for the
country districts should be inaugurated; the
Mipply of well trained teachers should
be made adequate and certain ; the Agri
cult urai College and the University both
should be raised to the highest degree of
efficiency.
With the rapidly increasing wealth of
the state and the new sources of revenue
from' indirect taxation, all this can be ac
complished with no heavy burden on the
tax-payer. A levy of one mill on our pres
ent valuation will give us a return of
$417,000 per year much more than enough
to support the entire higher educational sys
tem. These are some reasons why the nor
rrtal schools should not be either abolished
or reduced in number.
A. F. CAMPBELL.
AGREE UPON RAILROAD BILL.
Immediate Appointment to Be Fol
lowed by Election.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 6, (Special.) The
appointment of three railroad commis
sioners by the Governor, two to serve
until 190S and one to serve until 1910.
and their successors to be elected by the
people, the substance of an amendment
which the joint committee on railroads
agreed upon today, and which will be in
serted in the Chapin bill before it is re?
ported back to the House. The commit
tee alo. decided to reduce the salaries
of commissioners from $5000 to $4000, and
to provide for the payment of traveling
expenses, instead of having the commis
sioners pay their o.wn expenses. The de
murrage clause of the Chapin bill was
approved without material change.
These changes complete the work of the
railroad committee on this measure, and
the bill will be reported favorably to
morrow morning in the House. This de
cision of the joint committee was reached
after a three-hour session this after
noon. mot of the discussion being devoted
to the method of choosing the commis
sioners. Those voting for popular elec
tion in 1908 and 1P10 were Senators Wright
and Miller and Representatives Edwards,
Holt, King and Jones, of Polk, while
those holding cut for appointment by the
Governor were Senators Bingham, Not
tingham and Bowerman and RAepresenta
tive Coffey.
Bills Passed by the Senate.
SALEM. Or.; Feb. 6. (Special.) Bills
were passed by the Senate today as fol
lows; S. B. 40. Bingham To give laborers prlqr
Hens on logs, lumber, etc.
S. B. 50. Mulit Raising to $7500 the
amount that may be recovered for acts caus
ing death.
S. B. 64, CopHow State land board to file
patents from the Government in the County
Recorders offices.
S. B. 87. Bowerman Permitting the peo
ple of Gilliam County to vote on location
county high school.
S. B. 159. Judiciary Committee For gar
nishment of wages of public officers and
employes.
S. B. 1 on, Coshow For clerical assist
ance for School Superintendent in Douglas
County.
S. B. Ifi9, Cole Fixing terms of court In
Sixth Judicial District.
AN ACID BLOOD POISON
Rheumatism is an acid blood poison, and the causes that produce it are
often silently accumulating; in the system for years. Poor digestion,
stomach troubles, weak kidneys, torpid liver, and a general inactive condi
tion of the system leaves the refuse and waste matter, which should.be
carried off, to sour and form ttric acid, which is absorbed into the blood.
When the blood is in this acid-charg-ed condition, it deposits the poisons
and irritating particles with which it is loaded in the muscles, nerves,
joints and bones. Then Rheumatism gets possession of the system, and
life is made miserable by its pains, aches and discomforts. The changing
of the weather, exposure to cold and dampness, etc., always increase the
trouble, and so severe does the pain become that quick relief must be
had. A good liniment or plaster is often helpful, but it should be re
membered that relief from such treatment is only temporary, because the
trouble is in the blood and cannot be re
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and permanently cures this painful disease. S. S. S. is the only safe treat
ment for Rheumatism, because it does not contain a particle of mineral in
any form to damage the system. : Book on Rheumatism and any medical
advice desired sent free. . THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, CAm
FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
Retail Grocers Unite on Short
Weight Law.
SUPPORT THE BURNS BILL
Wholesalers Oppose Its Passage on
Ground That It Cannot Be En
forced House Committee
Approves Measure..
SALEM, Or.. Keb. 6. (Special.) Grabs
from the people In the form of short
weight and short measure foods by pack
ers and manufacturers of food packages
are prohibited by a bin Introduced by
Representative Burns of Multnomah, and
favorably reported by the House commit
tee on food and dairy products. The bill
requires all packages to be branded as to
correct weight or measure.
Fighting this bill are Jobbers and pack
ers of Portland, who appeared before the
committee in an unsuccessful attempt to
defeat the bill, led by I A. Lewis, of
Allen & Lewis; J. N. Teal, attorney for
that company; Henry Hahn, of Wadhams
& Co.: Samuel C. Kerr, of Wadhams &
Kerr Bros.; Ed. Ehrman, of Mason, Ehr
man & Co. They argued that they could
not control the weight or measure of
packages imported Into this state, and
that the bill, if enacted, would either be
a dead letter or would drive put of the
market staple food1 'articles.
They Insisted that as the National pure
food law does not compel branding, and
ordains that when brands are attached
they shall be true, the Burns bill should
be amended to the same effect, thus omit
ting the necessity of branding all pack
ages. This bill, If enacted, will save con
sumers large sums of money, now filched
from them by cheating packers and man
ufacturers who give short weights and
short measure and sell at full prices to
wholesalers and retailers, and they in
turn to consumers. The dealers are in
nocent parties to the graft, but con
sumers attck them with complaints. Ac
cordingly the retailers are backing up the
bill.
The Retail Grocers' Association of
Portland and the Retail Grocers and Mer
chants of Oregon have indorsed the bill,
also the State Federation of Labor and
the State Federation of Women's Clubs.
Among the Important food packages
now sold In short weight or measure at
full prices are lard, coffee, crackers,
spices, oysters, syrup, olives, pickles,
macaroni, raisins, evaporated fruits and
cereals. Many others are short also, their
brands deceiving buyers as to their right
contents.
The clause of the bill objected to by
the packers and jobbers of Portland is
contained in section. 1, providing:
That for the purpose of this act, an ar
ticle shall be deemed to be misbranded
If the package, bottle or container
shall not bear the true net weight or net
measure, the true grade or class of the
product, the same to be expressed in clear,
distinct English words. The size of the
type shall be no smaller than eight point
(brevier) caps; provided, that In case the
size of the package will not permit the use
of eight-point cap type, the size of the type
may be reduced proportionately.
Owing to the large sale of food articles
in packages, nowadays, consumers have
lost the protection they used to have, be
cause the goods now are weighed or meas
ured, sot In the presence of the buyer,
but only in the presence of the packer or
manufacturer by himself.
Purchasers have a right to know what
they are receiving for their money. But
they do not know. The packages are mis
represented to them and the buyers are
cheated out of an ounce or a pound. In
the case of lard, for example, selling at
17 cents a pound, the buyer pays 85 cents
for a five-pound can containing but four
pounds. In the case of crackers the goods
are loaded up with heavy cardboard,
worth 4 cents a pound, whereas the crack
ers cost 8 cents a pound, with the result
that buyers are shaved several ounces
on each package..
All this would be prevented by the
Burns bill, wheh would require packages
to be branded as to their weight or meas
ure, and to contain that full weight or
measure.
Passe the Johnson Bill.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 6. (Special.) "The
best road law ever proposed in Oregon,"
was the description given of Senator
Johnson's bill by Senator Kay. when
that bill came up for final action in the
Senate. The bill passed by a vote of 16
to 8. It provides for state, county and
local co-operation in the permanent Im
provement of roads. When the people
within two miles of a road petition for
permanent improvement, the County
Court refers the matter to a state road
engineer, and If approved and the re
monstrances do not exceed the petition
the' raoad will be1 improved, one-third
of the cost being made a charge upon
the land within two miles on either
side, one-third to be paid by the county
and one-third by the state. The state
expenditure I nany one county is limit
ed to $20,00), until each county has
been awarded a similar sum.
Opposition to the bill came chiefly
from Eastern Oregon where, the Sena
tors from that section said, they cannot
hope to profit by the provisions of the
bill. A similar bill has been considered
by the House committee on roads, and
this bill will probablly receive a favor
able report In that body.
A similar bill Introduced by Perkins
in the House and referred to the com-'
mittee on roads and nighways, will be
recommended favorably by that body.
UMATIBM
moved by external applications. S. S. S.
cures Rheumatism by ridding the blood of
the cause. It goes down into the circula
tion and by invigorating and purifying the
blood of the acid-poison and sending a
stream of fresh., rich blood to all parts, re
lieves the pain, reduces the inflammation,
archways and windows can be effected with these hangings. The following
are a sample lot to close out at half price.
$6.00 Leather Rope Portieres for $11.00 Rope Portieres for double
double doors; special $3.00 doors; special $5.50
$7.00 Rope Portieres for double $12.00 Rope Portieres for double
doors; special $3.50 doors; special $6.00
$7.50 Leather Rope Portieres for $20.00 Leather Rope Portieres for
single doors; special ...... .$3.75 double doors; special $10.00
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TWD BILLS OBJECTIONABLE
TOKERS IX INTEREST OF ELEC
TRIC COMPANIES.
Representative Moore's Measure
Takes Away Right of Municipali
ties to Revoke Wire Privileges.
SALEM. Or.. Feb. 6.-(Speclal.)-In a
bill fathered by Representative Moore, of
Baker County, Is a. Joker for making
perpetual franchises. It takes from
counties and cities the right to revoke
electric wire privileges on roads and
streets, and vests perpetual franchises In
companies In electric liBht and power
business, telegraph and telephone.
This bill applied to Portland would per
petuate wire privileges of uncertain du
ration, capitalized at millions of dol
lars, though secured free of cost from
the public. Under the bill Portland never
could revoke those franchises to make
way for new ones, that would give the
people power to regulate price and qual
ity of service or to collect commensu
rate toll for use of the streets. Such
franchises are held by the telegraph
companies and the Portland General
Electric Company. In other counties
than Multnomah, the bill would have
similar effect.
THE NEW YORK DENTISTS
Wish to know if misrepresentation in advertising dentistry
is commonly known as Up-to-Date Methods in Dentistry?
The New York Dentists do not believe it. Who does?
CROWN and--
The New York Dentists do not call this
a photograph of a mouth.
We do not bungle a mouth in extracting- and cause
the whole world to dread us.
Do you know the Dentists that everyone says
don't go there to have your teeth out? What
dentists were in obscurity for 20 years, and now are
so famed? Di.l these same Dentists who secured a.
short term on the State Board, learn the methods thev
are advertising by the few calls that they made on
us, before their appointment on the board? Have they
had the experience with world-renowned specialists?
Or did they learn 1t all wnile in obscuritv in their
little office, hid awav on the top floor of the Dekum
building for 20 years, and then after learning that
they could not compete in work with the New York
Dentists? Do thev think that they can mislead the
public Into patronizing them bv misrepresentation and
photographs? The People want Dentists of experi-
ence. The way our office is dally crowded is proof
of their appreciation.
We have extracted more teeth in Portland in the
last seven years than all the other Dentists in the city,
"and can prove It."
The New York Dentists are known the world over
for their skill. We were never hid away, but are
always before the public with our Renowned Specialists.
New York Dental Parlors
Lady Assistant Always In Attendance. Hourai 8 A. M. to 6 P. M.
Leffert's Manufacturing and Repair Shops
OUR MOTTO: Superior Workmanship, Prompt Service and Lowest Prices
We do expert diamond setting, artistic letter and monogram engraving,
jewelry manufacturing and remodeling, gold and silver plating and the
finest watch repairing. Our workmen are the best money can command
and specialists in their lines. We solicit your patronage and feel confident
"ONCE A CUSTOMER ALWAYS A CUSTOMER
Old Gold and Silver taken on Account at Full Cost Value.
Always
Something
New
SALE
OF
ROPE PORTIERES
Drapery Department, Sixth Floor. Commenc
ing today. Rope and leather Portieres in several
color combinations and various decorative ef
fects. Light and heavy designs. Artistic and
pleasing treatment of single and double doors,
The bill amounts to re-enactment of the
law passed In 1903, with minor changes,
conferring on electric wire companies
power of eminent domain for condemna
tion of right of way. The changes widen
the right of way from 25 to 60 feet and
allow condemnation also of trees nearby,
that might fall over the wires. The
act of 1903 should not have been passed,
but is defective because the subject of
the act Is omitted from the title. The
same omission Is in the Moore bill, but
would be corrected before passage.
The 1903 law. If valid, vests perpetual
privileges for wires placed prior to pass
age, and the Moore bill would vest such
privilege for wires placed subsequent to
that time and would take the place of the
other If the other were Invalid.
The clause of the Moore bill In ques
tion Is the following, which is the same
In the law of 1903:
Nothing herein contained Bhall be con
strued to Impair the rights heretofore ac
quired by any such company In any public
road, street. alley or public grounds,
whether within the corporate limits of any
Incorporated town or otherwise, or to au
thorize a county, city or town to Interfere
with or to remove any poles or wires al
ready located therein, unless the same be
come public nuisances and Interfere with
public travel; and any agreement or grant
heretofore made by a County Court or by
any municipal corporation of the right to
build or maintain any lines of poles and
wires for the purposes aforesaid in any
county or In any Incorporated city or town
within which such line of poles and wires Is
already located Is hereby confirmed, and
ruch line or poles and wires may be main
tained and operated so long as they are
kept in repair and do not Interfere with
CROWN and-.
Gold
Gold
Nn rh:irere. for
LEFFERT'S
MANUFACTURING JEWELERS
ESTIMATES
FURNISHED
On Repairing
and Uphol
stering of Furniture
the convenient use of the highway for
travel. I
Under section 4748 of the existing code
County Courts "shall have power and
authority to designate the location (of
wires) upon such roads and highways,
outside of cities and towns . . . and may
order the location of any such fixture or
fixtures to be changed when such court
deems it expedient." This control Is
taken away by the defective law of
1903 and by the Moore bill from County
Courts, also the power of cities to ter
minate street permits for wires granted
for fixed periods of time, thereby making
them perpetual.
The Moore bill Is In the committee on
railroads of the House, and has not yet
received consideration by that body, be
cause of press of work in other directions.
Perpetual franchises are sought by
many different interests, in one way or
another. In the City of Portland such
street privileges, granted when Portland
was small, have grown to value of mil
lions of dollars. The Moore bill would
put beyond the revoking power of the
City of Portland power to end those priv
ileges. A bill of Representative Jackson, of
Douglas, contains a similar Joker, House
bill 32, authorizing any wire company to
cross public highways without let or hin
drance, taking from County Courts their
present power to control such wires.
Between 2 5 and 35 Below.
WINONA, Minn., Feb. 6. The cold snap
which has prevailed since Friday re
mained unbroken today, street thermom
eters registering 23 to 35 below zero.
tAKE TOUR l
)WH TERMS it
AFTER?
We simply call it a cut of some of our
work executed by our specialists.
Our patients are all sending their friends to- us to
have their teeth out.
By our late motnod ABSOLUTELY 0 PAIX in felt
in any operation. We use no sleep-producing; agents
or cocaine. These ore the only Dontal Parlors in
Portland that have patented artpllances and ingredi
ents to extract your teeth so that you will have no
Bore gums or bad after-effects.
Bv our process you may have your teeth extracted
in the morning and go homo with the new ones tho
same day.
Our charges are moderate. We do not try to com
pete with cheap dental work, but do all first-class
work at one-hnlf that charged by others.
Fillings . . . $1.00
Crowns . . . $5.00
"Painless Extraction when teeth are
ruered. All woric done ny uraauate Demists ol 1J
to 20 years experience, we tell yon In advance ex
actly what your work will cost by a free examination.
Give us a call and you will find we do exactly aa
we advertise.
FOURTH AND MORRISON STS.
PORTLAND, OR.
Sunday and Holiday,., 8i30 to 2.
272
YVash'gton
Street
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