THE MORNIXG OEEGONIAX, . FKIDAT, DECEMBER 15. 1916.
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REPEAL OF WIDOWS'
PENSION ACT URGED
County Commissioners Would
Substitute Old Method of
Relief Through Boards.
MANY PROPOSALS MADE
Resolutions Adopted Favoring In
corporating County Farms in One
State Farm and Abolition of
Delinquent Tax Publication.
In the closing: of its three-day ses
sion yesterday the Association of County
Judges and Commissioners adopted the
report of the resolutions committee,
recommending to the next legislative
assembly the repeal of the widows
pension act and the substitution of the
old method of administering- relief
through the County Boards.
The resolution was Incorporated In
a lengthy list of resolutions considered
by the association, and was discussed
at length before final action was taken
It was the sense of the association
that there were too many inconsis
tencies in the present law and that It
should either be repealed or effectively
amended. The vote to repeal the law
was unanimous. Following Is the text
of the resolution:
"Whereas, The experience of the
members of this association with the
administration of the widows" pension
law has demonstrated that it has failed
to alleviate the conditions It was pro
posed to remedy, but has been expen
sive and burdensome, and Its ends
could be more effectively accomplished
under the former system of courlty re
lief which is maintained in various
counties of the state, therefore be It
"Reeolved, That Chapter 42, Laws of
1913, as amended by chapter 90, Laws
of 1915, commonly known as the wid
ows' pension act, be repealed."
All Officers Re-elected.
At the conclusion of the considera
tion of all resolutions before the as
sociation the election of officers for
the ensuing year waa held. Rufus C.
Holman. president; Judge F. S. Gun
ning, of The Dalles, vice-president, and
rhilo Kolbrook, secretary-treasurer,
were all re-elected.
The resolutions passed upon by the
association touched upon all matters In
which county officers are Interested.
It voted to propose legislation In
corporating all county farms under
one state farm, thereby eliminating
unnecessary expense and duplication of
administration.
It voted to propose to the next Leg
islative assembly the abolition of the
Kuch a piece of legislation, it was said,
would save thousands of dollars to
the counties each year. Notices of de
linquency are now sent out to delin
quents at the beginning of each period
and it was said that the advertisement
of those delinquent lists was totally
unnecessary. The publication of tax
lists In even some of the smaller
counties has run Into thousands of
dollars each year.
The association voted that non-support
should be made a misdemeanor
Instead of a crime and approved a
resolution making desertion of a wife
by the husband or abandonment of
children by parents a crime.
.State AdminlMrat ion Discussed.
A number of resolutions bearing on
state administration matters were read,
and although the members of the asso
ciation seemed In accord with the prin
ciples involved, voted down the resolu
tions on the ground that state admin
istrative work was not their concern.
Such resolutions favored the creation
of a paid state highway commission;
the equipment of state Industrial
schools with specific kind of equip-'
ment, and the making of the State Su
perintendent of Public Instruction and
ex-officio member of the State Board
of Control.
Other resolutions approved by the
association were subjecting any prop
erty of parents of dependent or de
linquent children, owned or afterwards
acquired, to be a lien to secure the
payment of all costs expended by the
county or state in the care of the chil
dren; the upbuilding of institutions
that care for dependents and delin
quents; the payment of county em
ployes oftener than once a month; the
provision in the recodification of the
road laws of the state a simple and
effective method of vacating a county
road, and that the county be granted
the full power to condemn private
property for public purposes.
Judge Springer, of Marion County,
was named the chairman of the reso
lutions committee. Judge Bown was
chairman of the special committee that
brought in the report on the widows'
pension act.
At the opening of the afternoon ses
sion Thomas B. Kay, State Treasurer,
explained some of the difficulties tha
Y,ext Legislative Assembly will be up
aaralnst in making appropriations suf
ficient to meet proposed expenditures.
Tax Difficulties Explained.
"Under the tax limitation amend
ment," said Mr. Kay, "the state has
been penalized J383.000. The Legisla
ture will have to limit itself to an
appropriation approximating $2,700,000
and the expenditures will come close to
S3.000.000. excluding all money to be
appropriated lor betterments.
He said that both the University of
Oregon ana the Oregon Agricultural
College, depending to a great extent
upon the mlllage tax for their support,
would be seriously hampered if some
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means were not devised by the Legisla
ture to. meet proposed expenditures they
could not make from assessment
money. He said that both these state
institutions had increased greatly since
the millage tax was passed, but that
the valuation of taxable property in the
state had decreased $56,000,000 in the
last year.
J. II. Albert, of Salem, explained that
there was a constitutional provision
that the 6 per cent bill did not contra
vene that made it peremptory for the
Legislature to make appropriations for
expenses, no matter what limitation
was placed upon tax-levying bodies.
He said that contingent expenses could
be held over and unpaid accounts paid
from money appropriated later.
Mr. Kay said that there was no dls
position on the part of the State Board
of Control to take advantage of the tax
limitation bill for their benefit and to
the detriment of the counties that
really make the levy.
Plea Made for Girls' School.
Mrs. Lola G.- Baldwin spoke for the
girls' industrial school, making a plea
for greater appropriations, so that the
girls could be properly cared for.
Judge H. a. Anderson, of Clackamas
County, gave figures to show what
the pavement laid by that county with
its own equipment had cost.
At the morning session the members
of the association defeated a resolution
to set aside for the use of the state
in road construction the county's part
of the tax money derived from taxation
of automobiles. The proposition-met
with stern disapproval by the members
of the association. They agreed that
some provision should be made for in
tensive road building, but they voiced
a sharp protest against waiving their
right to the tax money.
In the afternoon a resolution was
offered having as its purpose the tax
ing of motor vehicles according to ton
nage, horsepower and weight. It was
after heated discussion, agreed that the
tax on automobiles should be material
ly increased and that tonnage weight
and horsepower should be determining
factors In that tax.-
Speakers at yesterday morning's ses
sion included C. C. Overmire, president
of the Automobile Club; Senator w. T.
Vinton, of Yamhill County; C. H. Pur-
cell, a local engineer, and Herbert
Nunn.
The talk of Mr. Overmire Included
plea for county co-operation in the
erection of road signs.
West Side Highway Urged.
Senator Vinton said the building of
a West Side Pacific Highway was a
necessity and urged support of such
a project.
"Mr. Purcell and Mr. Nunn confined
their talks to road construction from
engineering standpoints.
Last night the County Judges -and
Commissioners, with a few Prosecuting
Attorneys dined at the Benson Hotel as
the guests of the Pacific Paper Com
pany, Fisher-Thorsen Company. Coaet
Culvert & Flume Company, Hodson-
Feenaughty Company, Blake McFall
Company, Howard Cooper Company,
Portland Iron Works, Warren Bros.
Company, Buffalo Steam Roller Com
pany. J. A. Be.ll & Co. and the United
States Steel Products Company.
This morning they will gather at the
Courthouse at 8:30 o'clock and start on
an inspection of county projects. They
will visit the Interstate bridge, county
roads, shipyards and other places of
interest. They will be guests at a
luncheon at the Multnomah County
Farm. The trip is under the supervi
sion of Philo Holbrook, Commissioner
from Multnomah County.
The next meeting of the association
will be held in this city the second
Tuesday of December, 1917. It will be
extended next year into a four-day ses
sion. COURT RAPS LIQUOR SQUAD
Arrest After Getting Drink for Po
liceman Provokes Rebuke.
SEATTLE, Wash..' " Deo. H. (Spe
cial.) "It eeems to me that members
of the Seattle dry squad are in the
wrong business when they have to go
out and beg people to become law vio
lators. It would be much better if
they confined themselves to detecting
those who voluntarily break the stat
utes." Such was the expression of Judge E.
H. Wright, of Pacific County, sitting
in the King County Superior Court to
day, after reducing the fine of F. W.
Fitch.
Fitch testified that an agent of the
police "dry" squad came to him and
asked for liquor, professing sickness.
Fitch purchased a 25-cent tube of
liquor and gave this to the dry-squad
agent.
Hammer Floors Car Inspector.
PEXDLETO.V, Or.. Dec. 14. (Spe
cial.) Albert Buchie is in a Pendleton
hospital suffering a probable fracture
of the skull as a reeult of a blow
struck by H. B. Meyers, a fellow-railroad
car inspector, early this mornina.
The men were working at Rietn and
were quarreling about the work done.
Meyers hit Buchie on the head with
his hammer. Meyers disappeared. .
Pendleton Tax May Increase.
PENDLETOX, Or.. Dec. 14. SDe-
cial.) The Umatilla County tax levy
for state and county purposes next
year in all probability will be IVs mills,
the same as last year. If it is 7 mills
the total tax on Pendleton property
will be 26 mills. The total levy last
year was 26 mills.
Funeral of Pasco Woman Held.
PASCO. Wash., Dec. 14. (Special.)
The funeral of Mrs. A. O. Hatch, who
fatally shot herself through the head
Monday, was held yesterday from the
Lee-Perry chapel. Burial was in Pasco
cemetery. Mrs. Hatch is survived by
her husband and two small sons.
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS WHO WILL
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Klrnt Row. Left to Right Bernlee Ifalne. Helen Houghton. Helen Dunlin, Marram Blake. Belle Contry
man. Frances Fleekensteln. Dorothy NelH and Hildaeaard Dnrand. Srrond Row, Left to Illicht Winnl
fred Chantbrean, Cladya Holling;avrorh, jen Ameobury, Margaret Kelly, A I Ire Gllatrap and Katherlne
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BANK OF SYMPATHY
STOCK SELLS WELL
Secretary of Public Welfare
Bureau Lauds Work Done
- by Boy Scouts.
15,000 BLANKS GIVEN OUT
Coin Cards Being Returned With
Inclosures of 10 Cents to $1.50,
but Big Selling; Campaign
Is Set for Tomorrow.
LEADING PACTS ABOtJT THE
BANK OF SYMPATHY.
The "Bank of Sympathy" is the
name of the relief fund which Is
being raised by the Public Wel
fare Bureau (formerly the Asso
ciated Charities).
The amount sought is $25,000.
which will cover all the relief
work for 1917.
Stock in the Bank of Sympathy
Is selling for 10 cents a share.
A big stock-selling campaign,
in which between 500 and 600 of
the women of Portland will par
ticipate, will be held on ."Sym
pathy Saturday," which is to
morrow. Those who desire to contribute
to the capital of the Bank of
Sympathy and have not yet en
countered a "stockbroker." should
telephone the Public Welfare Bu
reau, Main 7051 or A 1517.
"You can tell anyone that may ask
that the Boy Scout's organization is a
wonder," said Secretary Gephart. of
the Public Welfare Bureau, yesterday,
as he opened envelope after envelope
of remittances for stock in the Bank of
Sympathy, which came in the coin
cards that had been distributed by the
Boy fccouts.
The boys started out to distribute
15,000 of the coin cards and were back
yesterday calling for more, while the
cards already distributed by them were
coming In with every mail, bearing
contributions ranging from a dime to
$1.50.
Tomorrow is the climax of the etock
selllng campaign for the Bank of Sym
pathy. "Brokers" will establish offices
In all of the business buildings down
town, and some of the members of the
Muts have arranged, unofficially, to
conduct a "curb market" that will be
one of the features of the day.
Sympathy stock will be on every
hand and everybody will have the op
portunity to express his sympathy for
the poor in substantial form that can
be of service to the needy at any time
in the coming year.
The leaders of the committees of
high school girls, who are to partici
pate in the stock sales tomorrow, met
Mrs. J. D. Farrell, president of the
bank, at the Multnomah yesterday aft
ernoon and received lnsructions and
supplies.
A final meeting of committee leaders.
chaperones and other women who are
to be active in the direction of Sym
pathy Saturday's campaign will be held
at the Multnomah at 11 o'clock this
morning to lay final plans.
Thus far the stock sales have gone
with increasing success. The returns
yesterday amounted to about $500, and
the total fund is already past the $6000
mark. Following is the list of con
tributors announced yesterday:
Previously reported
Meier & Frank Co. ....
Mrs. Flora Jacobs .....
O. M. Clark . ,
C. P. Bradshaw
Wilson Clark .........
J. A. Wilson
C. G. Wilson
K. A. J. Mackenzie ....
Woodard-CIarke & Co.
Roberta Bros
Howard M. Covey .....
The MalJory
George V. Wilson
Joseph Simon
Multnomah Hotel .....
Porter Bros
C. L.. Samuel
George M. Trowbridge .
Mrs. J. A. Martin
Minnie K Khrman ....
Dr. R. J. Marsh ,
KUmond S. I.abbe ....
Dr. K. C Brown ......
E. Z. Ferguson ........
Mrs. B. Flynn
Mrs. Emanuel May ....
J. C. Veazie
Robert H. Strong
W. B. Warren
Mrs. Anna B. Prael ...
Charles B. Basey
William A. Carter .
K. Brandt
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. . 150.00
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5.00
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5.00
2.00
Total
.1S7.48
PERSONALMENTION.
Prank King, of Butte, la at the Ore
gon. "William-Kent, of Seattle, is staying
at the Ritz.
J. I. Bow, of Nampa, is registered
at the Seward.
A. T. Bailey, of Spokane, is registered
at the Portland.
W. W. Lunger, of Lafayette, is stay
ing at the Eaton.
Mrs. Willis "Van Horn, and daughter,
arrived in the city from Hood River
SELL STOCK IN THE "BANK
TOMORROW.
yesterday, and are registered at the
Portland.
D. E. Doyle, of Bremerton, is regis
tered at the Ritz.
W. F. Langlois, of Riddle. Is regis
tered at the Eaton.
Carlton Atwood. of Cincinnati, is an
arrival at the Ritz.
H. R. Smith, of Sherwood, Is regis
tered at the Eaton.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Brock, of Clem.
are at the Perkins.
O. A. Pearce. is registered at the Im
perial from Madras.
A. Buckley, of La Grande, is regis
tered at the Oregon.
H. C Crane, of Alderdale, la an ar
rival at the Carlton.
Ralph Elder, of Mitchell, is regis
tered at the Perkins.
E. O. Crupp, of Pomeroy, is regis
tered at the Seward.
W. R. Scott, of Puyallup. la regis
tered at the Imperial.
Abe Miller, of Vancouver, Is regis
tered at the Imperial.
J. W. Maloney, of Pendleton, la reg
istered at the Seward.
V. C. Mead, of Broadmead, la regis
tered at the Nortonia.
L. McConnell arrived at the Perkins
from Salem yesterday.
Charles A. Hardy, of Eugene, is reg
istered at the Portland.
Dr. W. J. Wyman. of Albany, is reg
istered at the Carlton.
V. B. Tichenor, of Sherwood, Is reg
istered at the Imperial.
Homer A. Royce, of Parkdale, la reg
istered at the Nortonia.
D. V. Dickson, of Hood River, Is reg
istered at the Cornelius.
Roland Ollverof Pendleton, arrived
at the Seward yesterday.
A. F. Jones, of Bremerton, la among
the arrivals at the Eaton.
Max Gussaroff. of Salt Lake, la reg
istered at the Multnomah.
A. E. Harvey is registered at the
Cornelius from Clatskanle.
Miss M. Wilson, of Canby, Or., Is reg
istered at the Washington.
L. C. and F. N. Allen, are registered
at the Ritz from Silverton.
L. W. Robbins. a Molalla merchant,
is registered at the Oregon. - .
W. T. Smith, of Grand Dalles, Wash.,
is registered at the Perkins.
O. C. Sether. a Glendale timberman,
is registered at the Oregon.
, J. B. Perry, of Pendleton, is among
the arrivals at the Cornelius.
Charles Eccles, of Ogden, is at the
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Mrs. E. C. Cross and Veda Mae Cross,
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Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Graham, of Hood
River, are at the Washington.
Cliff Husted, of Mansfield, Wash.,
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R. 8. Auguate is registered at the
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