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1 I THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, WF.nyESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1915. ' ' LADY LEGISLATOR HAS NO PET BILLS Marion Towne Interested in Legislation' Along Moral and Educational Lines. OREGON'S FIRST WOMAN MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE. SHE HAS AMBITIONS, TOO Lawmaker U Bear Little Girl With HI. Tnarrald, Dnsky Ejes and Dimple She Says She Didn't Kiss Babies of Voters. BT LEONE CASS BAER. "And lid yon kiss all the babies of possible voters?" I asked the only woman elected legislator in Oregon "I did not." she calmly said. "Babies can't vote." "Well, you surely praised the cooKing of their mothers?" 1 insisted, loth to set tumbling all my Illusions of the vote-getter. "I did not." The only woman legis lator rimpled aye, she has a rimple) and smiled widely. "I did not praise their food, for I wasn't asked to stay lor dinner. Instead, the housewife usually latched the screen door and I told her through Its meshes that I was reeking office. The only promise 1 made in my entire campaign is a door bell for every home where 1 callouseo my knuckles rapping on the door. Other than this 1 made no promises, but balanced myself so nicely on the fence that 1 became afraid I'd never be able to express an opinion agaip. ' Bath Delays Interview. She had been late for the Interview. ad this pocket edition of law and or der. Over the telephone a cool, unper turbed voice with a delicious note of vou-can-rtin-away-lf-you-waht-to-I-lon't-care had told me that even if The Oresonian didn't go to press Ma rlon F. Towne wis having a splash in Jicr tub and the affr.lrs of state could gt hang until she was finished. So 1 ' tooled my heels in the Benson Hotel lobby and waited for the great, bis. husk v. masculine, short-haired, hobnail-booted, khaki-clad brute to come on down. And out of the elevator, in Just ex actly the five minutes Bhe had said she'd be. there floated tho dearest sort of a little girl, ono oi me cuany m who refuse to be cuddled, with smart clicking heels that tried to add an inch to her exact five feet height, and a frock that would make the wives of some of those legislators turn around twice to view. Whatever she may have Inside her head I had yet to find out. but the outside of It pleased ma mightily. Irish eyes, an heritage, has Marion Towne. big. dusky green una fraid eyes, with thick up-cnrled lashes that look like smudges. And loads of hair, worn simply in thick colls about her well-poised little head, and making a soft frame for her phiuant face. From her Southern mother she has a soft, caressing voice and a fascinating smile to help it out. Kven at the minute I saw her. before she shook hands like a man with all her 103-pound strength back of It. 1 saw all of her bills being passed with all the other 59 legislators loins the Alphonso-CSastoii. !ke Haa Vrt BIIIm. the has no pet projects or bills of her wn. she says, but she Is intensely in terested lit all or the legislation along moral and educational lines. "There are certain things among them." she says, "which will never be don unless women do them. Our edu cational system is so poor in Oregon. AVe rank Just above tho Southern states, and there the percentage ot Illiteracy is very great. It seems vtranse that our lawmakers will re fuse to see that a splendid school sys tem will ha one of the greatest at tractions to bring people to Oregon to locate permanently. "One of the funniest phases that haa developed in this campaign is that after all these years of roan'a legisla tion, they think that one woman will revolutionize the entire lawmaking machinery. No one woman can do what Is expected of her. but she can be an opening wedge. I want to be a wedse." Miss Towne made a house-to-house campaign, visiting three-fourths of the homes in tho Itoue ilivcr Valley. l worked with women, and they helped me most. Naturally, if I met a man. I recogntxed that ho also had a role. I've associated with men a great deal all my life, and in spite of it 1 still have a quite profound respect for them." I don't want people to get the Idea that 1 think 1 have a political future," went on the only lady legislator, "but. well I liko to look forward. The de sire to have a hand in making the laws c:uno to me Just as It does to men offtre-seekers. .1 had always been self supporting, and In the years I worked In the Courthouse I saw a great many defects In the law and We lawmaking avstem. "After I had completed my law course at the University of Michigan 1 heard the call stronger than ever. And now I shall not rest until I realixe one of my two big. definite ambitions, to he either a prosecuting attorney or a juvenile court Judge." Miss Towne says that during her campaign she talked mostly about un necessary. laws ana ireaa jegisiauou. I tni.i the neoole 1 would come up here and prevent all I could of It. And a few laws will rind me on the fight ing line. For instance, the compulsory education law is not sufficiently strict ly enforced. 1 shall put In my wee oar there during my 40 days In the apotllght." The Honorable Marion Towne has a .,.. It is her rare "illuminat ing" sense of humor. She reads sci entific books until sne nas coni.riiu.i ed. till she's craiy. she says, and then goes on a fiction spree, with worse than t ... ia.,n Uhbv'i worst. Her young est ambition was to be a bareback circus rider, and even now Blackstone goes careening cut of her Portia-like head when the fanfare of the circus bugles sound. She Is her own stenog rapher, but says she can never hope to be really famous because nowhere Kr hlAtrranhv can She Write, "At the age of so-and-so she taught- the village school. She can dance, but thinks the Leg islature can worry alon without see lng her do it. and she can make won ji.rfui mavonnaise dressing. Her cul tnary accomplishments begin and end with the niavonnaise. Neither can she snin. Her sole piece de resistance with tv, noddle Is a pair of pillow slips. "Housekeeping and homemaklng rightly performed is one of the greai ffif for women." opines the lady legislator, "but no woman can be a Jark-of-all-proiessions. Miss Towne has made her own way h h financed her own ventures. "Oh., the advlca that came In after my election, she laugnea, as sne re called it. " 'Do this.' says someone, "be else does lt" "I won't. say 1. 'The person who goes forward Is the one who does the things some one else hasn't done.' I will need a lot of advice along the line of pro cedure, but when It comes to how I'll vote or my attitude on different bills, I'll get alonj by myself, and nicely, thank you-" .. x r& K ! 3 v f ' ' . ' i i 1 - I -aw . ' :- . - I 10-YEAR SUITOR WINS ALl'S WKEV BBlAST rtwud PACT "WITH J. W. CALLOW. Promise Made Whea Sweetheart as la Boiloi'i Crew Recalled After a Decade of Valtlas;. SEATTLU. Wash, Jan. 5 (Special.) Alva McKev Bryant, the aviatrlce. earlv vesterday became the bride of Jesse W. Callow, chief engineer of the steamship Delhi, a survivor of the wreck of the steamship Cottage City, which went aground during a blinding storm on Cape Mudge. January 26, 1911. The ceremony was penormeu oy Justice Otis W. Brinker at his resi dence, S601 Forty-first avenue South west, and was witnessed by C. it. W. Raymond. 2211 North Broadway, and Leo W. Brooks. Back of the unconventional hour of the wedding is a pretty Btory of con stant affection. Callow, from 1902 to 1905, was In the United States Navy. The Boston, his ship, was stationed' for a time at San Pedro, and on his many trips to Los Angeles he always man aged to see Alys McKey. a girl he had met In 1903 and already learned to love. On the night of January 3, 1905, they attended a dance in Los Angeles and while returning to her home Callow asked Miss McKey to become his wife. Tho young woman had other Ideas, however, and told him to come back in ten years and if he still was mat- rimonially inclined and she was single she would marry him. Callow watched and waited, while she took up aviation, married Aviator Johnny Brvant In 1913 and became a widow 4n Victoria in September of the same year and then, after her grief was spent alone, he appeared, reminded her of the pact and won. BANK'S FIRSTDAY GOOD Orriolals of New State Concern, at Centralla Are Placed. CENTRALIA. "Wash.. Jan. 5 (Spe cial 1 Officials of the new Centralla bank, which opened in Centralia yester day, report a gratifying business ror the opening day. The bank was crowded all day. Fred Roberts was the first depositor and E. H. a Mulder was second at the cashier's window. Pat Welsh, a Spokane capitalist, and -rcrmiam r?lvert. Jr.. of Seattle, are among the new bank's stockholders. Save Warship Independence Is Plea. SK4TTLK Wash, Jan. E. Rainier Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, today sent letters to other chapters of the order, asking them to infin.neA to save the century- old warship Independence, which has been condemned at Mare imanu .navy Yard, from destruction. " FERRIS BILL LIKELY TO PROVOKE FIGHT Irrigation Congress Here May See Battle Over Proposed Indorsement of Plan. CROOK COUNTY- - DIVIDED Delegations to Press Claims of Par ticular ' Sections Asking for Federal and State Aid to Develop Projects. A bitter fight is due at the Irrigation Congress in Portland this week over the plan to Indorse the Ferris bill, now pending before the National Senate. There la a general disposition on the part of Oregon -ir.-Igatlonlsts .to con demn the Ferris bill, which provides for Federal control of water power and water resources to the evident detri ment of the irrigation Interests. But it is understood that Secretary Lane, of the Federal Interior Depart ment, Is the real author of the bill, and those arid districts of Oregon that are in real need of irrigation do not want to go on record against it for fear that their hostile attitude would jeopardize their chances of obtaining Federal assistance on future irrigation work. Crook County Is Divided. This is true particularly of the Crook County delegates, who are split into two hostile camps not only on their attitude on the Ferris bill, but on the question of irrigation in Crook County itself. . ' The Bend people are on one side and the Redmond people on the other. Each district wants irrigation and each side will be represented in force. Many Crook County delegates - n vr are here. Another large party is due this morning. A preliminary confer ence will be .held here 'today in an ef fort to reach an understanding and to obtain a harmonious report for the whole Congress, which convenes to morrow morning.. The Redmond interests want - the congress to recommend completion of certain irrigation projects in that vi cinity. The Bend folks are eager to have the congress go oil record In favor of development of other projects in the immediate vicinity of that city. State Aid Believed Need. n.v.innmpnt of either project will require assistance from the state. It is growing more apparent ovuj day that If the Crook County people .i tnc-Athnr nnd acree UDon one or the other of their plans they are In a fair way of getting no action irora the irrigation meeting at all. The fight F.rria hill t Interwoven close ly with the Crook County contest. Since Secretary J-iane nas announceu that he will not oppose an appropria- . v., rv.o.,-aa In mntrh the S450.000 nun J n expended by the state on the Tumalo project, the Crook county aeiegaies have organized an effort to procure such an appropriation for that county. While not many people, in Crook County are particularly friendly to pro visions of the Ferris bill they deem it is Inexpedient from the standpoint ROSENBLATT'S $20 Hart Scliaffner & Marx Suits and Overcoats $15.00 January Clearance Sale of Hart Schaffner & Marx $25 Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits and Overcoats 75 Fall and Wnter Weight Suits and Overcoats at OFF! FURNISHINGS GOODS At Clearance Sale Price. $1.50 Arrow Shirts. .$1.15 $2.00 Arrow Shirts. .$1.35 Union Suits. Globe, White Cat and Su perior makes at Clearance prices. $1.50 Unions S1.30 $2.00 Unions Sl.TO $2.50 Unions '..$2.15 $3.00 Unions $2.55 $4.00 Unions $3.40 $4.50 Unions $3.80 $5.00 Unions $4.25 $6.00 Unions $5.10 $30 Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits and Overcoats $22.50 Sam,l Rosenblatt & Co. Northwest corner Third and Morrison. The Men's Shop for Quality tnd Service. $35 Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits and Overcoats 2Bssaf 5 of practical politics to take a stand against it- They can't see where they will gain any favors from Secretary Lane by opposing his pet bill. The Crook County people display no disposition to temper their ambitions with conservatism and are planning to go out for irrigation aid from all sources. Federal and state alike. They want not only the $450,000 that Secretary Lane has promised Congress may appropriate if it desires, but they also want the state to make another appropriation of $400,000 or 500,000 to be matched again by the Federal Government In like amount Ail these plans will be aired thor oughly here this "week, but some of them are likely to be punctured by delegations from other parts of the state, Astoria Cliicr of Police Is Named. ASTORIA-, Or7, Jan. 0. (Special.) E. M. Houghton has been appointed by Mayor Johnson as Chief of Police for the year. Houghton has been captain of police during the past three years. GOVERNOR STARTS TANGLE Union Couiily District Attorney 11c fuscs to Yield to Appointee. LA GRANDE, Or., Jan. 5. (Special.) Governor West's appointment of John S. Hodgln, of this city, to succeed F. S. Ivanhoe as District Attorney of this county on expiration of the latter's term has developed a legal tangle that will require a decision of tho Su preme Court to set at rights. Ivanhoe aenies the right of the Gov ernor to appoint a successor, insisting that the constitution provides that all public officials, except members of the Legislature, hold office until their suc cessors are elected and qualified. Mr. Hodgin has received' his commission a'nd taken the oath ot office, a'nd only awaiting notification that the oalh haa been received and filed before qualifying. ALLOPATHS ARE ACCUSED .Medical Monopoly It Intent, f) Works Ueforo henalc. WASHINGTON, Jsn. S Senator Works, in a speech on public, health In the Senate todsy. charged that the allopathic school of meillclne ws seek ing through public health legislation lo get a monopoly. Senator Works, touching Christian Science, indorsed Its practices of heal ing. Ho put Into the record a grt mass of testimonials of persons who said Christian Science had been of ben efit to them and llkem-d whit he termed attempts to suppress pmctlcn of Christian Science l;cnlliig to the per secution ot Christians and the stonln of Stephen. llH'hTiMfl Grand by to 01 gre th t artists is e Victrola. m Hear Caruso, Tetrazzin!, Melba, Schumann-Heink, and other famous artists at any Victor dealer's. There are Victors and Victrolas in great variety of styles from $10 to $200. Victor Talking Machine Co. Camden, N. 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