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TIIE 3IORXIXG OlfEGOXIAJT, TUTSDAT. XOYEMBER 14, 1D16.
KEEN FIGHT BREWS
FOR SENATE GAVEL
Gus C. Moser, Multnomah, and
B. L. Eddy, Douglas, Are
Announced Candidates.
SEVERAL OTHERS WILLING
Mr. Moser Says Thompson's Defeat
Assures His Election,' as Many
Have Pledged Second Choice.
Two Out for Speaker.
Now that election Is over and the
personnel ot the next Legislature a
fixed quantity, a lively contest is de
veloping for the Presidency of the Sen
ate and the Speakership of the House.
At this particular writing chief in
terest centers about the Presidency of
the Senate. This is not because it is
regarded as a more important office,
for it is not. but because from present
Indications it will be the object of a
more or less general scramble, due to
the upsetting of the "dope" in the de
feat for re-election, of Senator W. Lair
Thompson.
Mr. Thompson was President of the
1915 Senate and was considered an
active candidate for re-election. Ud
to the election and Thompson's defeat,
his principal opponent for the Presi
dency was Senator Gus C. Moser, of
Multnomah, chairman for the last two
sessions of the important Senate judi
ciary committee.
Gas Moser Is Candidate.
With the elimination of Thompson.
Moser is in the race more vigorously
than ever and in a formal announce
ment last night of his candidacy for
President of the Senate claims to have
made much headway.
At the same time, however, there has
been a craning of rival necks all along
the line and covetous glances toward
the Senatae gavel from various of "the
boys" who probably would have .stifled
their ambitions had It been a straight
fight between Thompson and Moser.
There, for instance, is Dr. V. D.
Wood, of Washington County, the vet
eran of the Senate, who will begin his
third successive term at the cominy
leprislative session. Dr. Wood is un
derstood to be a receptive candidate.
Another who may run, now that
Thompson cannot make the race, is
Senator C. L. Hawley, of Polk County.
He is a hold-over Senator and his
friends declare he has quite a little
promised support if he decides definite
ly to enter the contest.
First Termer Also Rutin.
B. L. Eddy, of Douglas County, one
of the new Senators, announced his
candidacy for President yesterday. Con
rad P. Olson, of Multnomah, who also
will be a first-termer in the Senate,
though he is no stranger in the Leg
islature, having completed two terms
In the House, also is mentioned, but
maintains a judicious silence. If either
of these should win it would break the
Senatorial precedent, that no first-term
Senator, in recent years at least, has
been elected President.
Yamhill County has a favorite son
possibility in Senator -W. T. Vinton.
noiaover senator. -
In making fonthal announcement last
night of his candidacy for President,
Senator Moser, of Multnomah, declared
that the elimination of Senator Thomp
son makes his-,own victory certain.
Almost Majority Obtained.
"Immediately following my nomina
tion at the primaries last May." said
Senator Moser, "I communicated with
all the holdover" Senators and have the
pledges of a majority of them to vote
for me. Several who were for Thomp
son promised that I would be their sec
ond choice.
"I also communicated with all the
new Senatorial candidates, and, while
I made no effort to pledge any of them,
I have the assurances of many that
they "will support my candidacy.
"While 1 am frank to say that I
have not yet enough votes pledged to
give me a clear majority of the Sen
ate, I will also say that I am so close
to it that I expect to have a majority
pledged to me in another week." .
Two Out for Speaker.
Only two members of trie House so
Xar have announced themselves as can
didates for Speaker. They are Robert
M. Stanfield, of Umatilla, who will be
serving his third term in the next Leg
islature, and L. E. Bean, of Lane Coun
ty, ex-State Senator.
ArLHur C. Callan. of Multnomah, has
been mentioned as a possible candidate
for Speaker and there is some talk to
the effect that John Mann, also of
Multnomah, is looking about receptive
Jy. However, none of these rumors has
as yet blossomed into a definite an
nouncement and up to the present Stan
field and Bean have the inside track.
DETROIT MINISTER CALLED LAST NIGHT BY WESTMINSTER
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
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MRS. ALEXANDER IS
UNDER BIGGER FIRE
Charges of Graduation With
out Completion of Courses
Increased at Trial.
DEFENSE MAKES ITS REPLY
REV. EDWARD H. I'KVCE. D. D.
At a meeting of th congregation of Westminster Presbyterian Church last
night, a call was extended to the Rev. Edward H. Pence. D. D.. pastor of the
Fort-street Presbyterian Church, of Detroit. Mich. A. J. Montgomery pre
sided as moderator and J. C. Strong, clerk of the sessions, read the call.
Dr. Pence is a personal friend of Dr. John H. Boyd, of this city. Dr. Boyd
was pastor of the Woodward-Avenue Church, Detroit, for a number of years
before coming to take charge of the First Church here. V
For 16 years Dr. Pence has occupied the pulpit of the Fort-Street Church.
He is rated as one of the leading pastors, orators and executives of the de
nomination. He is about 45 years of age. marked and has a family.
Dr. Pence visited Portland a few weeks ago and looked over the field. He
was entertained at luncheon by the officials of the church and was taken for
an auto trip about the city. He expressed great interest in Portland and ad
miration for the church and the splendid manner in which it is managed.
VOCATION PUT FIRST
L.
R. Alderman Urges Proper
Training of Children.
MANY NEEDS DISCUSSED
Vernon
Hears
Fa rent-Teacher Gathering
Opinions of Educators,
Business Men and Parents
In Short Addresses.
Clarke falls in $0100 in Bonds.
VANCOUVER. Wash., Nov. 13. (Spe
cial.) Treasurer L. G. Conant, of
Clarke County, today sent to the
Equitable Trust Company, of New
York, a draft for $61,000 to retire that
amount of funding bonds issued by
Clarke County on , December 1, 1896.
The bonds drew 6 per cent interest. The
only bonded debt of Clarke County out
standing, other than the $500,000 Inter
state bridge bonds, is $40,000 refunding
bonds due in lyi.
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.esmoi
first aid for
skin troubles
"Will Resinol Ointment really
stop this dreadful itching and clear
my eczema away ? "
"Madam, if you only knew as
much about Resinol as doctors do
how safe it is to use, how promptly
it acts you would not doubt, you
would use it at once. Usually it
stops itching immediately and soon
removes every bit of eruption.
Resinol Ointment is so nearly flesh-colored
that it can be used on exposed suriaces with-
out attracting nndua- attention. Sold by all
druggists. For sample iree. write to Dept.
J7-R, Resinol, Baltimore. Md.
charging cargo at the Oregon and Cali
fornia dock, foot of Oregon street, last
night at 7 o'clock and was drowned.
The body was recovered an hour later
by City Grappler Brady, where it had
sunk In 20 feet of water. It was taken
to the harbor patrol station by En
gineer Gill, of the harbor patrol launch,
and turned over to Deputy Coroner
Smith.
Enochs was assisting in trucking
freight from the boat at the time of
the accident. According to his fellow
deckhands he stepped back to get out
of one of the trucker's way and acci
dentally stepped oft the boat. He sank
immediately and failed to come to the
surface.
Enochs made his home on the boat.
The Oregona is one of the steamers of
the Oregon City Transportation Com
pany and operates on the Willamette
River.
WHEAT MARKET CLIMBS
Let us make the brightest and the
best dreams of the little ones come
true and let us do for the children
what the most kind father would do
for his own," saia Superintendent I
R. Alderman In his speech last night at
the Vernon Parent-Teacher banquet at
the school.
There were many other speakers.
The addresses were short and to the
point and 200 attended the affair. O.
M. Plummer, a member of the School
Board, was toastmaster. Delightful
musical numbers enlivened the gather-in.
There were present educators of the
community, business men, pioneers of
Vernon and mothers and fathers and
interested people from all over the
city. '
Training; Importance EmphnRlsed.
"Now that there are no more public
lands to be had. should we not realize
how much depends on the training of
the boys and girls of today?" said Mr.
Alderman. "Since they cannot go out
to some great plot of public land and
make it their own, they must be trained
to earn their bread and butter some
other way. Every boy and girl has
dreams of greatness i and ambition, so
let us get behind them and make the
best the real and worthy dreams of
the child and the parent come true.
I have often wondered when some
of our high school graduates come and
ask us for positions and we cannot
give them to them, whether we have
not fallen short in not teaching those
children the things "that will fit them
to take their proper place In the
world."
Commissioner George L. Baker gave
an interesting address in which he
spoke of the necessity of co-operation
between the School Board and the City
Commisisoners in the use of the play
grounds, and of how much value the
playground was to the child and the
community.
. "Toaiit to Fathers)" la Topic.
"A Toast to the Fathers" was the
talk by Mrs. George W. McMath, presl
dent of the Oregon Congress of Moth
ers and Parent-Teachers, who said:
"For years we mothers have accepted
all the praise and glory for bringing
up good children, but let me tell you
that the fathers have a great deal to
do with it. The man who takes his din
ner pail at sunrise and works until
sunset to earn the Almighty dollar
that supports the home has much to
his credit.
"The American home will never be
Ideal until the mothers have taught
their children to respect the fathers as
the head of the house. We have allowed
the fathers to become crowded out of
many, of the children's lives. Some
have gone voluntarily. The man who
hides behind a newspaper when he
comes home at night misses much by
not mingling with his family."
' Dr. Alan Welch Smith Speaks.
Miss Viola Ortschild, president of the
Portland Grade Teachers' Association,
gave a "Toast to the Teachers." Other
speakers were: Dr. Alan Welch Smith
on "What the Public School Should
Do In Physical Education"; Miss Polly
French, "Co-operation Between the
Home and the Library": H. H. Bush-
nell: William Parker, on "Manual
Training and Domestic Science."
Mrs. H. M. Brown, soprano, charmed
with solos. Her accomnani.it was Mrs.
Minnie Wof. An enjoyable feature on
the programme was the violin numbers
by Phillip Graef. who was accompanied
Dy Miss JJorotny JSnglehart.
Mrs. E. H. Works, president of the
Vernon Parent-Teacher Association,
presided.
DECKHAND DROWNS IN FALL
Frank Enochs. Who Made) Home on
Steamer Oregona, Is Victim.
Frank Enochs. 28 years of age. deck
hand on the steamer Oregona. fell fron
the deck of the boat while It wag dis
FLOCR ADVANCE OF 20 CENTS IS
ANNOUNCED.
Only 5,000,(100 to 6,000,000 Ilaxhela of
00,000,000 Crop Estimated
Held by Farmers.
The wheat market Is climbing again
and this has caused another advance in
flour prices. Millers yesterday gave
notice of a 20-cent advance in the flour
market, which puts the wholesale
price of family patents at $8.40 a bar
rel. The best brands will sell at re
tail at $2.45 a sack. Before the war
the average retail price of flour was
about $1.45 a sack. ,
Wheat is moving up in all markets.
Bluestem was purchased at country
points yesterday at prices equal to al
most $1.75 a bushel, if delivered here.
Some of the grain men are predicting
a $2 market within a month.
Only a small part of the Northwest
ern crop remains in first hands. Out
of a total yield of close to 60,000.000
bushels in Oregon. Washington and
Idaho, dealers estimate that not more
than 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 bushels Is
still in the possession of farmers.
Read The Oregonian classified ads.
Work Graded on Quality and Xot on
Amount. Declares Teacher In
Sewing Department Study
. Course Jfot Shortened.
More instances of graduation without
completion of courses were charged
against Mrs. Alevia Alexander in last
night's session of her trial in the Board
rooms in the Courthouse.
Robert F. Maguire, attorney for L. R.
Alderman. Superintendent of Schools,
charged that Mrs. Alexander had al
lowed six students of Benson Polytech
nic School for Girls to be graduated on
the condition that they return and
finish uncompleted courses.
These six, the Misses Cora Harding.
Edith Hal sr. Laura Dumas, Juanita
Krogstad, Elizabeth Nelson and Edith
Lofstedt. were allowed to graduate in
February. 1916. They had not finished
tho required work in sewing, their
major subject, according to the testi
mony of Miss Mary McDonald, teacher
in sewing.
Course Not Finished, Charge.
Miss McDonald said that she had
told Mrs. Alexander the students had
not finished the required number of
pieces as called for by the course of
study for fourth-term sewing. She
said Mrs. Alexander had told her that
this particular course was rather ir
regular, being one for the home-makers'
class and that the girls should be
allowed to finish on condition that they
return in the Spring term and com
plete the work.
Miss McDonald then gave the girls
grades according to the work they had
already done and the girls were al
lowed to graduate. All of them, with
the exception of Miss Krogstad, re
turned and, completed their work.
Work Graded on Quality.
A. E. Clark, one of counsel for Mrs.
Alexander, asked why the girls had
received grades if they had not com
pleted their work. "I gave grades to
them according to the quality of their
work as far as they had gone," an
swered Miss McDonald.
"I asked Mrs. Alexander if I should
shorten the term's work, as I could
not possibly give all the work in one
term, because of the outside fitting the
girls had to do. Mrs. Alexander told
me to leave the course of study as it
was."
Mr. Clark asserted that veryllttle
harm couid have been done if grades
that, represented truly the work of the
six girls had been given those girls
before graduation.
Mr. Alderman was called to the stand
by Mr. Maguire at the opening of last
night's session to refute allegations
made by the defense that padding of
attendance rolls had been practiced by
Mr. Alderman in making annual reports
and allowing perfect attendance rec
ords to be made for pupils absent for
three days because of the storm last
Winter.
Mr. Alderman Explains Action.
Mr. Alderman said that in making up
the average daily attendance from
which the per capita cost of instruc
tion was estimated, the three days were
subtracted from the total for that term.
Me said that the average daily at
tendance could be figured that way, or
by including those three days both in
the total number of days in the term
and in the figure representing the en
tire attendance as recorded by the prin
cipals.
In either case, he said, the result
would be the same and no Irregularities
had been practiced. He contended that
Mrs. Alexander had allowed students
attending only one day a week to be
counted present five days a week.
fact that decreased per capita cost
and increased the average daily at
tendance. Incllncrlminnte Action Charged.
As to the graduation of pupils with
out the completion of required work
he said that such had been done, but
not indiscriminately and without the
consent of the Superintendent- of
Schools, a power delegated to hir,by
the board or directors. The grauua
tion of girls from Benson, he said, had
been allowed by Mrs. Alexander on her
own initiative.
B. L. EDDY SEEKS OFFICE
ROSEBl'RG MAN IN RACK FOR
STATE SENATE PRESIDENT.
Former Register of Land Office Walta
Word That W. I.alr Thompson la
Beaten Before Deciding;.
ROSE BURG, Or.. Nov. 13 (Special.)
Attorney B. L. Eddy, of Roseburg.
who was last Tuesday elected State
Senator from Douglas County, today
announced that he had decided to en
ter the contest for president of tho
Senate.
Senator-eleet Eddy resided in Port
land for a few years prior to 1S94,
when he moved to Tillamook County
and engaged in the practice of law.
He served in the lower house of the
Legislatures of 1901 and 1903. In the
lntter eslrn he wns a CHndfdate for
One-Minute Talks on Ho met-Owning
Number Two ,
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"Why should I own my own home?'
If you are a person who never takes into con
sideration the human side of home-owning, and at
the same time'eone who has access to investment
channels which can bring exceptionally high inter
est returns, you can doubtless , -take your pencil
and figure why, from a cold, money standpoint, it
is not worth your while to own a home.
But if, on the other hand, you are a home-Iov
ing person if you want to enjoy the comforts,
contentment and independence known only to the
home-owner if you recognize that a home will
make you a better man or woman take these facts
and give them monetary value in the transaction.
The love for one's home is an indescribable
something, the aspiration for which caused our
forefathers to travel across deserts, to labor for
decades and to make personal sacrifices which, in
this modern day, are not only unnecessary but
unheard of. .
It is most likely that home-buying will never
be more within the reach of the average family
than it is today with so many exceptional install
ment plans available.
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Speaker and was defeated by a small
margin. He was chairman of the com
mittee on Judiciary and held other im
portant committee assignments. He
wa the author of the first general
corporation tax law In Oregon, which
from the benlnnlnsr broucht $100,000 a
year into the state treasury.
In 1905 Mr. Eddy was appointed reg
ister of the Roseburg Land Office and
served a four-year term. Since that
time he haa been eno-as-ed In the nrlvale
j practice of law here.
Local Republicans who are urpins;
Mr. Eddy's election as president point
to his record as an advocate of good
grovesnment and his achievements
while a member of the Legislature.
Although approached regarding the
presidency of the Senate frequently
during the past few days. Mr. Eddy
withheld his decision to enter the con
test until he learned that V. Lair
Thompson, of lAkeview, had been de
feated for re-election as a member of
the Senate.
France Rewards Lifesaver.
PARIS. Xov. 13. The French gov
ernment has awarded the llfesaying
medal to Joseph Morse, an American
citizen. who, while engineer of the
steamer M ls.ourian. Jumped from a
great height into the harbor of Brest,
last August, and rescued a child from
drowning. r
To Make Your Hair
Look Naturally Curly
After shaking the hair down and
brushing it out. apply a little liquid
sllmerine with a clean tooth brush and
then roll the hair in curlers. This pro
duces as beautiful curls and waves as
you could wish for. perfectly natural
in appeHranre. and they will last a long
time. The full effect Is secured within
three hours, though some prefer to keep
the hair done up over night.
A few ounces of liquid allmerine
which can of course be had at any
drug store will last for weeks, so It is
quite economical to use. It also serves
as an excellent dressing, giving the
hair a delightful gloss. When the hair
is combed out It will he as fluffy aa
though it had Just been shampooed.
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