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TTTE MORNING ORTSGONTA.N. " THURSDAY, APRIE 22, 1913. IMPARTIAL NEWS SERVICE IS PRAISED Ex-Solicitor-General Lehman Speaks on Co-operation of Associated Press. NO LIBEL EVER SHOWN Kijrlit to Determine Own Member ship Defended Alleged 'Monopo ly' Has Not ilad Vsual Effect of Restricting Production. NEW YORK. April 21. After the ad Joxirnment today of the annual meet ing of the Associated Press, the board of directors met and organized with these officers: Frank B. Noyes, of the "Washington Star, president, re-elected; Janiel 15. Moore, of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, first vice-president: Henjamln It. Anthony. New Bedford (Mass.). Standard, second vice-president; Melville E. Stone, secretary and general manager, re-elected; Frederick Hoy Martin, assistant secretary and as sistant general manager, re-elected, and J. It. Youatt, treasurer, re-elected. The executive committee was re elected as follows: Charles "W. Knapp, St. Ijoiiis Republic; . Charles Hopkins "Uark, Hartford Courant: Charlefl A. Rook, Pittsburgh Dispatch; Frank B. oyea, Washington Star; Adolph S. runs. New York Times; W. L. McLean, Philadelphia Bulletin, and Victor F. Lawson, Chicago Daily News. Attitude Toward Frram Change. Frederich W. Lehman, ex-Sollcitor-General of the United States, addressed the members of tho Associated Press yesterday -on tho development of the press of Hie United States and the changing attitude of public opinion toward newspapers. He said, in part: "The original attitude of the law toward the press was one of repression. It was a Governor of Virginia who thanked God that they had no printing press in the colony and would not have for a hundred years. It was the Gen eral Court of Massachusetts which sup pressed, on its first appearance, the first newspaper attempted to be pub lished in what is now the United States. "The ISth century brought with it nn Increasing sense of individual worth and dignity which insisted upon finding expression for its thought. Of course that freedom was accompanied with responsibility for its due exercise. AVe have laws which punish the pub lication of matter offensive to public decency; we require that that which is paid for shall appear as paid material, ami in these days when John Company has taken the place of John Smith and we don't know who John Company signifies, we must have some manifes tation of that also. Record for impartiality a Clear. "There are two possible systems of news-gathering; one to deal with it as a purely commercial enterprise for profit, and the other by a co-operative institution like the Associated Press, in which any element of immediate profit to the association itself is left out of the account. "In a co-operative institution like the Associated Press you have not only the better restraints of men,- but even the baser forces work in counterpoise against each other. With a member ship like yours, distributed through all the states of the Union, representing every shade of religious and political belief and every variety of commercial and industrial interest, there is but one tenure of office to those who manage its affairs, and that is good conduct approved by substantially all of the members of the association. "News cannot be reported without every day something being said dis paraging of some individual and libel ous if untrue, n the 15 years' history of the present Associated Press it has not been mulcted in damages for a sin gle dollar, and yet it is subject to vrosecution for libel for every word libelous that its report may have con tained, because ;ts transmission of its news reports to its members is just as much a publication as the printing of the same nows by the newspaper after ward. Today there stands against it hut a single suit for libel, and that predicated upon a report made by it of what one public man said of another public man and. not upon the ground of misreporting what was said. Itlarht to -t I'nrrstrlctrd. "It is objected that the Associated Press is a monopoly. If so, it has not succeeded, as monopolies usually do, in restricting output. We publish more newspapers in the United States than in all the rest of the world beside. "It is said that the members monopo lize thoir news for their own columns and do not open them to those who are not members. What is news? Rough ly speaking, news is the first report of an event of public and current interest. News signifies nothing in the world ex cept personal service. A man has as much right to say what shall be done with a "scoop' as Caruso has to the use, of his voice. To receive everybody who publishes a paper to membership would bo to destroy the association itself, be cause, while there is much that may go into a newspaper that may be mere routine, as market reports, still every man wishes to make his paper a dis tinctive publication, and if there is nothing distinctive in its general news report, a newspaper will become in different and undertake to gain a dis tinc.tive quality of something altogether aside from the budget of news fur nished by the Associated Press. "It seems to me that an essential con dition of maintaining a co-operative ncws-gathcrlng association is that that association shall have the right to de termine Its own membership. Ctrwt of I mt-t illness Open. "While the Associated Press has al , ways had a large proportion of the leading newspapers of the country, it lias never had them all. If it had them all, or substantially all, then the ob jection that it is a monopoly, in the very nature of the case, passes out of view. The central plan of tho or ganization ha": been npproved by the Aitorny-ueneral. allowing the associ i.ticn to discriminate and to determine Its own memberl'ir.. But the Attorney-General found that in one respect, namely, in the power given to the board of directors to requlro n:em-bers to desist from pur chasing news from any other agency, you had perhaps trenched upon the law The efTec-. of that opinion and your action here this - morning in amending your bylaws to conform to that opinion has been to bring your professions up to tho standard of your practices. Now profession and practice are in harmony with the law and you have beforo you, 1 hope, a long and unbroken career of usefulness to the public, and prosperity for yourselves.' AUTO'S SPEED QUESTION AV. L. Thompson's Son Testifies Father DroTe Carefully. PENDLETON. Or.. April 21. t.Spe- cial.) Big holes were torn in the case of the prosecution today, when lid ward Thompson, son of "W. L. Thompson, who is being; sued for $30,000 damages lor running down the 9-year-old son of Ij. K. Twitchell with his automobile, testi fied that he was riding: on the running board of his father's car at the time the defendant drove the machine into a standing wagon to avoid striking the boy on the bicycle, and the car was traveling so slow that the impact did not jar him from his position. Wit nesses for the plaintiff had testified that the car was running as fast as 30 miles an hour. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. McComas and Edward Thompson, occupants of the car at the time, all testified this afternoon that the auto mobile was not going faster than ten miles an hour. Miss Leone Grigsby, daughter of Rev. S. L. Grigsby, former pastor of the Pendleton Presbyterian Church, and her mother, both of whom witnessed the FOUR GENERATIONS OK COR VALL1S FAMILY BEAR SAJIH NAME. A. R. Younff, ". Warren Yonns, Harvey L. Young and Warren 1). Young. CORVALLIS, Or., April 20. (Special.) There are four gen erations of the family of A. Bryant Young, of this city, and each of the generations can re tain the name Young. A. B. Young is 80 years of age. C. War ren Young is 46, Harvey L. Young is 21 and Warren Dalaba Young is 3 months. The eldest came to Oregon in 1S74 and located at Corvallis. He etill lives in' this city and, al though a great-grandfather, he is still able to do a hard day's work. C. W. Young has lived in this city since he was 5 years of age, and the other two were ' born here. accident, were called here from their present home in National City, Cal., to testify. Miss Grigsby swore that the bicycle was traveling about twice as fast as the automobile and was spe cific in saying that the bicycle struck the automobile and not the automobile the bicycle. She told how the bank president was guiding his automobile into the wagon when the bicycle struck it and rebounded some distance. Her testimony could not be shaken in cross examination. The case is not expected to reach the jury before tomorrow afternoon, i POLICE BEAR SHOTGUNS DOGS SHOT ON SIGHT IX BAKER BE CAUSE OF RABIES. Federal Officers Employ Hunter and Trappern to Scour Ml nam Na tional Forest for Coyotes. BAKER, Or., April 21. (Special.) So serious has become the rabies epi demic both in the city and in the coun try that every effort is being made to stamp out the animals that might be affected. Chief of Polico Jackson has armed all policemen with shotguns and revolvers and has given orders that all dogs bo shot on sight unless muzzled. "We haven't time to remonstrate per sonally with owners of dogs," he said to his men today. "There is too much danger from hydrophobia to take any chance and people who do not live up to the law will lose their pets." itunters and trappers will be em ployed to wage war on the coyotes in the Minam National Forest, according to Ephrlam Barnes, forest supervisor, who said today that he had been re quested by the United States Biological Survey to furnish the names of men in this section most experienced in work of the kind. These men are also to be employed to exterminate predatory animals, but Mr. Barnes said that most of their work in Eastern Oregon would bo directed toward the coyote. They will be paid from the $125,000 appropriation made by the last Congress. BANKER, 60, -GETS 2 YEARS W. Barringer Pleads Guilty Colville and Is Sentenced. at COLVILLE, Wash., April 21. (Spe cial.) C. W. Barringer, who organized the First State Bank of Marcus some 10 years ago and was president of the institution during its life, Monday en tered a plea of guilty to the utterance of a false report to the State Bank Examiner and was sentenced by Judge W. H. Jackson to two to 10 years in the State Penitentiary. The bank failed in October and. at the instance of the Bank Examiner, a receiver was appointed in December. Discrepancies were found which would have been a legitimate basis for other indictments, but Barringer is mora than 60 years old and has a wife and family. HOOD RIVER ROAD DAY SET Commercial Clnb Members to Labor on Columbia Highway. HOOD RIVER, Or., April 21. (Spe cial.) Thursday. April 29, has been set as Good Roads day by the Hood River Commercial Club, members of which will spend the day at hard labor on the Columbia Highway between Mitchell Point and Kuthton Hill. The volunteer amateur crews will be under the supervision of Warren Miller, road supervisor of the district. The city forces will bo augmented by scores of farmers residing west of town, who will furnish their teams for the event. Cahlamet Koad Bonds Sold. C AT H LAM ET, Wash., April 21 (Special.) The County Commissi on era yesterday accepted the bid of the De troit Trust Company for 175,000 worth of road bonds. The bonds were eold at par and, draw. 5Vi per cent interest. V.;:- tit 1 " "V NOTE IS ANSWERED Wilson Reasserts Position as to Neutrality in War. NO RIGHT IS SURRENDERED Reply Assumes Von Bernstorff Is Laboring Under "Certain False Impressions" President Pens Xote, Bryan Signs It. (Continued From First Vase.l gret to say, the language which Your Excelelncy employs in your memoran dum is susceptible of being construed as impunging the god faith of the United States In the performance of its duties as a neutral. I take it for granted that no such implication was intended, but it is so evident that Your Excellency is laboring under certain false impressions that I cannot be too explicit in setting forth the facts as they are, when fully reviewed and com prehended. 'In the first' place, this Government has at no time and in no manner yield ed any one of its rights as a neutral to any one of the present belligerents. It has acknowledged, as a matter of course, the right of visit and search and the right to. apply the rules of con traband of war to articles of commerce. It has, indeed, insisted upon the use of visit and. search as an absolutely necessary safeguard against mistaking neut-al vesselu for vessels owned by an enemy and against mistaking legal cargoes for illegal. It has admitted also the right of blockade, if actually exercised and effectively maintained. Nothing Else Is Conceded. "These ere mererly the well-known limitations which war places upon neu tral commerce on uie high seas. But nothing beyond these has it conceded. call your excellency's attention to this, notwithstanding it is already known to all "the world as a conse quence of the publication of our cor respondence in regard to these matters with several of the belligerent nations, because I cannot assume that you have official cognizance of it. In the second place, this Govern ment attempted to secure from the German and British governments mu tual concessions with regard to meas ures those governments respectively adopted for the interruption of trade on the high seas. This it did, not of right, but merely as exercising the privilege of a sincere friend of both parties and as indicating its impartial gooo. will." POSTAL RECEIPTS GAINING Offices of State Offset Decline in Portland During Quarter. Receipts of the postofllces through out Oregon outside of Portland, which deposit their funds with the Portland postomce. show a good gain over the first quarter of last year and the fig ures more than offset the decline in receipts at the Portland office for the same period. Deposits at the Portland postomce to the credit of the postal service during the quarter ended March 31 amounted to $232,852, as against $199,342 for the same period of last year. This shows a net gain of $33,240. Postal funds collected by all onlces in the state are deposited with the Port land office, and, after taking care or disbursements incident to the railway mail service, the rural route expenses throughout the state- and the payroll of the Portland office, the balance is de posited to the credit of the PostoSlce Department. CIRCUS TO HAVE 40 ACTS V. M. C. A. Performances Arc To morrow and Saturday Xights. Forty separate acts on a two-hour programme with 200 boy actors are to be offered by the Ja.rum & Bingum cir cus in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium Fri day and Saturday nights. Twelve gor geously dressed clowns are to play the comedy part of the circus and numbers of funny acts by the others In the great circus company are to help the clowns to keep the laughs going the rounds for the entire time that the spectacle is on. Under the crackling whips of J. E. Werlein and E. J. Jaeger, 12 ponies, dancing elephants, a trained ostrich and other animals are to exhibit the careful training that the ringmasters have given and to give a display of their al most human, intelligence. STUDENTS STAGE CIRCUS Vancouver Iligli Advertises Event for Tomorrow Xifrlit. VANCOUVER, Wash., April 21. (Spe cial.) A "great indoor circus" will be presented by the students of the Van couver High School in the gymnasium Thursday night- The students are ad vertising a big free exhibition, clowns, the white hope, the defcatd black, wondrland, world's greatest scientific works, cannibal from Millplain, cham pion wrestler of the world, famous im personator from Proebstol, wild animals from all parts of the world, the only two-legged horse in the world and many other features. There will be candy, peanuts, ice cream, pink lemonade, soda water and popcorn. After the circus there will be a basket sale. The public is invited. CONFIRMATION TO BE HELD Bisliop Suimier to Officiate at Mil vraukie CliurcH Tonight. The Right Rev. Walter T. Sumner, Bishop of Oregon, will make his first official visitation to St. John's Episco pal Church, Milwaukie, tonight. He will preach and administer the sacra ment of confirmation. The service will begin at 8 o'clock. - St. John's Church abounds in his torical associations, being one of the first Episcopal churches in Oregon, having been established in 1854. A few of the present members have known all bishops of this diocese. The bishop announced yesterday that he hoped to fill all his other engage ments as scheduled. Albany College Head Goes Kast. ALBANY, Or., April 21. (Special.) To attend the meeting of the associa tion of presidents of Presbyterian col leges and also the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church, both -of-whicli meet in Rochester. N. Y., H. M. Crooks, president of Albany College, left Albany yesterday. He will spend six weeks in the East and will devote his efforts to ward securing additional funds for erecting buildings on the now campus of Albany College, located just eouth west of this city. Young Men's Suits Glen Urquharts, shepherd checks, stripes, tartans, mixtures just the patterns a young man wants. PERFECT MODELS AT MODEST PRICES. $15, $18, $20, $22.50 and $25 Second Floor BEN SELLING Morrison at Fourth PENDLETON GIRL NAMED MISS THCLSA THOMPSON TO REP RESENT UMATILLA RIVER. PredietiOD on Opening: of River Made by Grandfather In Early Daya Leads to Selection. ' PENDLETON. Or.. April 21. (Spe cial.) Miss Thelma Thompson, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam R. Thompson, has been chosen as Pendleton's rep resentative among the bridesmaids in the allegorical ceremony of the wed ding of the waters at the celebration of the opening of The Dalles-Celilo Canal at Big Eddy May 5. It was because of a historical inci dent in the life of her grandfather, William M. Blakely, that Miss Thomp son was selected outright by the local committee instead of opening the choice to popular vote, as is being done in other communities of the Columbia Basin. Mr. Blakely came up the Columbia in the early '60s to take up a stock ranch near this city. While en route he remarked to his companions, "Boys, some day this great river will . be opened to inland navigation for hun dreds of miles. I - do not expect to live to see the day, but certainly our children will see it.'' Mr. Blakely, though well along in years, is strong and well today and has announced his intention of at tending the open-river ceremonies and seeing his granddaughter break a bottle of Umatilla River water on the bow of tho first boat to pass through the canal. Miss Thompson is a Pendleton High School girl. 15 years old. TALK ON WATERWAYS GIVEN J. X. Teal Addresses Meeting of Daughters of Kevolution. "Waterways of the United States" was the subject upon which J. N. Teal epoke to the Daughters of the Ameri can Kevolution at a. meeting at the home of-Mrs. W. J. Gilbert, 490 Twenty first street, yesterday afternoon. Mr. Teal declared that women should muni- "IIZ" FIXED SORE, TIRED FEET Jsa "TTZ!" Don't Have Puffed Up, Burning, Aching Feet or Corns. Ah! what relief. 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It has been decided to change the by-laws so that the meet ings will convene at two o'clock instead of three, and so that the board meeting will be at 1:30 instead of 2:30 as before. It also was decided to print part of the National constitution. Mr. Gilbert was assisted in her du ties as hostess by Mrs. A. F. Bernard, Mrs. J. A. Malarkey. Mrs. J. F. Batch elder and Mrs. Carrie Dunning. Hatcliery Ice Plant Decided On, KLAMATH FALLS, Or., April 21. (Special.) State Fish and Game Com missloner Stone returned yesterday from a meeting of the commission at Salem. He reports that an appropria tion was made by the commission for the purchase of an automobile for use at the Spencer Creek natchery tn Klamath County in transporting sup plies to the hatchery and distributing the fingerling trout to the various streams in the county. 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Valuo of reel estate owned (market value) $ 4.S&1.'Jk.4:; Value of fctooka and bonds owned (market value 6.053,7.OO Loans on mortgages ald col lateral, etfi. H0.lOO.nn Carth In banks and on hand... 1.104,4.10 Premiums in courwe of collec tion written, since September .iO. V.H4 1,418,140.0 Interest and rents due and accrued SM.93Mf Total assets 413,'J9I,i37-lS T.jtal assets admitted in Oregon $13.101,6-7. 18 I.latrilttte. Gross claims for looses unpaid. 8 773, 3-8. 5H Amount of uiwarnHj prmnlums on all outstanding rlks 8, 108, 002. 0 Iue for commission and broker f na.r.rw .it Alt other liabilities r.! 4s.'l,r- Total Itabll it lei. cjc-Iuaiv of oeponlt caplt si of 8.-.t;0.M.K 9. 53J ,07 4.T Total premiums in force le- cpmbpr ol, 1911 $16. 344. 212 if IlaAinejhH in Ores; on for the Year. Total rinks written during the year $ 6,070. G900 Grs premiums received dur ing the year 343,443. S8 Premiums returned durins the vr .V, l"4.irt Io-i pai'l dtirine the year... .M ?4 5..M InwKca incurred during- th ewr Total amount of rtsku outman'l in in Orcton Iecember 31, 1911 7.tf3G.5O.04 Tiy RTM,A V. WATT. Manager for pacific Uepartment, San Francisco, Cal. Statutory resident general a rent and attor ney for servicer H. U. BL'RKE, rortUnd. Or. Resident agents for Portland: GKRIVCT-JP.-UICHAUnS ro., Northwestern Bank Building. and HARVEY O' BR TAN". McKay Puildin;. TAKE SALTS TO FLUSH KIDNEYS Eat Less Meat If You Feel Back achy or Have Bladder Trouble. Meat forms uric acid vrhlca) Axcttc-n ni overworks the kidneys ' ft their efforts to Alter It from the system. Regular eaters of meat roust lush tho kidneys occasionally. Vou must re Hers them like you relieve your bowels; removing all tfce aida. waste and poison, else you feel a dull misery in the kidney region, sharp pains in the back or sick headache, dizziness, your stomach sours, tonsrue la coated, ond when the weather in bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment; the channels often get irritated, obliging" you to set up two or three times during the night. To neutralize these irritating acids and flush off the body's urinous waste pet about four ounces of Jad Malts from any pharmacy; take a table spoonful in a class of water beforo breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine and bladder disorders disappear. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon Juice, combined with lltbia. and has been used for generations to clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys and nop bladder Irritation. Jad traits is Inexpensive; harmless and makes a de lightful effervescent lithia-water drink whii'h millions of men and women take now and then, thus avoiding; serious kidney and bladder .diseases. -Adv.