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THE MOBXIXG OREGOXIAN, - MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1916.'' 11 PANAMA'S PRESIDENT. SAID TO HAVE AIDED IN GAINING LAND CONCESSION FOR JAPAN. CO-OPERATIVE IDEA Secretary Houston Says Prin ciple Is Newly Applied to States and Nation. To insure Victor quality, always look for the famous trademark, "His Master's Voice." It Is on every Victrola and every Victor Record. It ia the only way to identify genuine Victrolaa and Victor Records, WmSk RESULTS ARE IMPORTANT 2 ROAD LAVVEMBODIES People Must Get Worth of Money If System Is to Be Continued. Employment of Real Ex perts First Consideration. WASHINGTON', Aug. 27. At the re cent meeting of the state highway officials In Washington, to diecuss tentative rules and regulations for carrying out the Federal-aid road act. Secretary Houston made a statement in which he said: "The Federal-aid road act and an other law the co-operative agricul tural extension act that the Depart ment is charged with the duty of en forcing, establish a new principle In American Government, the principle of co-operation between Federal and state officers. They are the only laws I recall which recognize and insist upon this principle. Thftj are there fore deeply significant. "This law appeals to me as of es pecial importance, not so much be cause it carries with it out of the Federal Treasury an appropriation of $85,000,000. not because it will be met by an appropriation of $75,000,000 or more out of state funds. If all the states accept the act. but because as great as Is the aggregate, it Is rel atively insignificant in comparison with amounts the states are now an nually expending and will spend dur ing the period covered . by the act. The majority of people do not realize that the nation is expending approx imately $250,000,000 a year for roads. Getting Result Important. "The main question that I am im mediately concerned with, that the people of the nation are immediately concerned with, is whether we shall get a dollar's result for every dollar we expend for reads. I am quite sure that if we do so and we can con vince the people that we have done so, they will be willing to put much more money into good roads where they are needed. Therefore, the matter of ad ministering this law, seems to me to lie at the root of this business. "I assume, as a matter of necessity, that this law will require the employ ment in every state of real experts. This word Is much misused and abused, as the word "theorist" is. I frequently hear a contrast drawn between . the theorists and the practical men. There is no basis for it. The classification ought to be into good theorists and bad theorists, of practical men and im practical . men. A really good theorist is highly practical; and so is a real expert. The public is somewhat sus picious of experts, because, I think, so many people pose as experts who are not. Good Faith of States Involved. "The law Involves another thing, the pledge of the faith of the state to meet in full the Federal appropria tion for the entire period covered by the act. The state Legislature may not be able to appropriate money one year for the whole period covered by the act, but It can pledge the faith of the state to meet the financial pro visions of the act for the period cov ered by it. This is as it should be. It would be wasteful not to make plans at the outset for the full period cov ered by the act; it would mean piece meal road building and much dissi pation of effort and misdirection of funds. These requirements hold whether the state as such, under the existing law, may engage in road building Or not. The provision that where the state may not engage in highway improvement the money may be secured if counties raise an amount sufficient to meet the apportionment of the state involves the necessity on the part of such counties of raising an amount sufficient to meet the full apportionment for the state, the ex istence of a highway commission, and compliance with all the other terms of the act." SLAIN CAPTAIN HONORED MILITARY ESCORT ACCOMPANIES VICTIM OF WOMAST. Georgia Slayer Becomes Hysterical and Declares She Will Prove Her Act Was Justified. MACON. Ga., Aug. 27. Accompanied by a military escoTt, the body of Cap tain Edgar J. Spratling, F Company, Fifth Regiment, National Guard of Georgia, who was shot and killed at the state mobilization camp here Fri day by Mrs. H. C. Adams, of Atlanta, was taken Saturday to the Spratling home in Atlanta. Mrs. Adams, formerly a patient of Captain Spratling, in civil life a physi cian, . last night was held by a Coro ner's Jury for the killing. In the Bibb County Jail here she asserted she shot Captain Spratling because of atten tions paid her while she was in his office in Atlanta. After several hours in Jail Mrs. Adams became hysterical, but frequent ly declared that when she goes to trial her course will be shown to have been Justified. Her husband, a laundry wagon driver, Is expected here today. . Officers at the camp indicated a be lief that illness due to nervous disor ders caused Mrs. Adams to think Cap tain Spratling had acted improperly to her. - Eugene to Sell 4000 Cases of Beans. EUGENE, Or., Aug. 27. (Special.) More than 4000 cases of string beans will be shipped from the Eugene Fruit growers' Association this year, accord ing to a statement made today by Manager J. O. Holt. One hundred and twenty men and women are employed at the plant. DRJD"DUBAC!T- . EYESIGHT SPECIALIST E y e a Examined. , Glasses Mads 120 Broadway. Near Waanlnaton. '!kJn ELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25 c at all druggists. .(wp;y'.;wu,"'jww i"'". u.iji.i., u.j.j .h,,i,i..i. . -i ! f A 4 , I . ' ?" ; ' I J.- i., i x', J '- " V. ,, ; . S ' I "' ,-'.-. ' --- " y. .V ' ' J i " s J I " f - ' f ' - ' I v ' ;4$ t- . 1 f v : ' ' , A - h v ' " - 4 : . f ' j ' ' , ; ' J" 4 V - 2 X v - VAJ- : " ' - . ' ' ; r .... ?- : .. .. - : -. ... ? jf, ' Photo opyright by Clinedinst, Washington, D. C. RAMON YALDEZ." PANAMA-HEAD EYED Reported Japanese Land Con cession to Be Probed. RUMOR WORRIES LANSING State Uepartment Undertakes to In vestigate President Valdez'. Al leged Activities Sympathies Are Said to Bo Spanish. WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. (Special.) So seriously does the State Depart ment view the report recently received here that Ramon Valdez, President of Panama, has been instrumental in ob taining a large land concession for the Japanese government near the entrance to the Panama Canal, that Secretary of State Lansing has ordered an in vestigation. President Valdez was but recently elected to direct the affairs of the Panama republic, and the suspiclclon which the report has cast upon him Is already reflected in the embarrass ment which the Panama government finds itself facing. According to the Information reach ing here. President Valdez made a con cession of a large tract of land to a Spaniard named Fernandez. Fernandez is the Havana agent for Japanese silk firms. President Valdez is of Spanish descent, and from sources who claim certain "inside information," President Valdez is declared to harbor strong Spanish sympathies, which have never been over-strong for the United States since the Spanish-American war in 1898. The truth of this report, how ever, is not substantiated, though dip lomatic circles here are inclined to give it credence. The land which Fernandez is said to have gained through the help of Presi dent Valdez comprises approximately 60,000 acres located on the Atlantic seaboard, directly opposite the Bay of San Miguel. The concern which the State Depart ment is showing in the reported sale, it is pointed out, shows clearly that it has foundation worthy of belief. Should the Japanese government be back of Fernandez in the effort to obtain pos session of the land, officials here be lieve that the Intention is to hold it for possible use as a naval base. -Undoubtedly the United States Gov ernment will never permit any foreign government to acquire property or es tablish a naval base in the Panama Canal Zone. It is felt vitally necessary that the Canal's approaches be kept open, and this only can be assured by the United States having full control over all territory in the Zone. as the principal defects in the Ameri can Judicial system by Professor Ros coe Pound, dean of the Harvard Law College, in an address before a gath ering of San Francisco business men. Judges' hands, he paid, were tied with "all sorts of rules." "Our cumbersome and artificial pro cedure." he said, "is a survival of eighteenth century court organization in England, when courts served also as a sort of theater, on account of a dearth of other amusements. "Now, we endeavor to apply this archaic system to the modern com plicated life and experience trouble an.l delay. We trust Judges with the sub stance of the law, but we have been unwilling to trust them with making the rules for court procedure and thus save time and money. "Courts should be organized like other big businesses and the recor-ls made more simple and more direct." HAVVLEY MEN ORGANIZE COMMITTEES PREDICTS II K ELEC TION, BIT IS 'VIGILANT. ELECTION FRAUD CHARGED Twenty, Including Governor's Aide, Indicted In West Virginia. CHARLESTON. W. Va., Aug. 27. Twenty men, including Edward O'Toole, representative of the United States Steel Company in West Virginia, were indicted yesterday by a Federal grand Jury at Webster Springs for alleged election frauds in McDowell County, this state. The indictments cover only one election district. An Investigation will be made in every county where frauds have been reported. O'Toole. who is a member of the Governor's staff, is charged with hav ing. brought 200 voters into the state, and it is alleged that they were 'used as repeaters to bring about the nomi nation of William F. Hlte, a candidate for United States Senator. . Immediate trials will be sought and probably held at Huntington. W. Va. COURT RULES CRITICISED Law College Dean Says Archaic Sys tem Should Be Modernized. SAX FRANCISCO. Aug. 27. "Arti ficial" and "archaic" rules for the con ducting of court business were named Co-operation With State Central Com mittee and With County Groups -Promised by Salem Body. SALEM, Or., Aug. 27. (Special.) The Republican Congressional commit tee, of the First District, has Affected an organization and outlined plans for an aggressive campaign this Fall in behalf of the re-election of Represen tative Willis C. Hawley. This com mittee also plans actively and effect ively to co-operate with the Republi can State Central Committee and the various county committees. Chairman W. J. Culver and Secretary Treasurer Ronald C. Glover were re elected to take charge of the office work of the committee, and will main tain offices in the Hubbard building. The committee later issued the follow ing statement: "The committee organized at this early date not because we feel that there was any special need for hard work in behalf of Representative Haw ley, to secure his re-election to Con gress, but because we believe that it is always best to be active and vigilant in any contest. As for Representative Hawley, he is more popular today than he has ever been, and two years ago he defeated his nearest opponent by con siderably more than 18,000 votes. He received the Republican and Progres sive nominations for Congress without opposition, and he is so well regarded in the opposition party even that he carried three counties over his oppon ent in the Democratic primaries last May. "The people have already decided to keep him in Congress, where he has worked up to the head of his commit tees and has become a power in legis lative affairs." Clerk Holcomb, of Oregon Hotel, Goes to Seattle. Terry Hotel Company Obtains Serv ices of Popular Portland Man. AE. HOLCOMBE. chief clerk at th Oregon Hotel for the past two yeans and a half, has announced his In tention of severing his connections with that hostelry on September 1. Mr. Holcombe will go to Seattle, where he will be associated with C. A. Ferriss in the operation of the Terry HoteL Mr. Holcombe Is a hotel man of wide experience and previous to his coming to Portland, about six years ago. was connected with hotels in Everett and Tacoma. He wa .two years with the old Bowers Hotel, In Portland, and for a year and -a half connected with the Marion.- in Salem. While in Portland he has made many friends who will miss his greeting when they call at the Oregon Hotel. Mr. Holcomb is a member of the lo cal Greeters' Association. The Terry Hotel, of which he will be one of the proprietors, is a 120-room residential hotel. It will be opened about September 15. The operating company, of which Mr. Holcombe is a member. 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"If Erigland buys Roumanian grain to let it rot rather than to allow us to have it," says the writer, "we could do the same thineT by manipulating th. grain markets where our enemies buy and which are also accessible to us. If the corners In tha Chicago and New York markets ar. possible in peace times, they are more so now when the demand for grain is so keen and crops in America and enemy coun tries are so poor. "Considerations of depreciation In our exchange should not deter us as long as we 'tiring victory nearer. Be sides, our food supplies and the con duct of the war do not depend on such exchange." The Vorwaerts, commenting on the dangers of what it called this "wild cat scheme," admits that it would make bread in England and France dearer, but af a wholly disproportion ate cost to Germany. o Eas LAND COMPANY TO AID R. A. Boo til Promises IT tip in Finan cing Strahora Road. EUGENE. Or.. Aug. 27. (Special.) 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