THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1917.
COLONEL DEHTLER
WILL RETURN HERE
Army Man Appointed Inspector-Instructor
of the Six
teenth Militia Division.
NINE REGIMENTS INCLUDED
Announcement of Portland's Selec
tion as Headquarters Made Si
multaneously With That of
Col. Dentler's Appointment.
Colonel Clarence E. Dentler, Thirty-
fourth Infantry. U. S. A- formerly of
this city, will return to Portland with
in a few days, having left El Paso,
Tex., Thursday. He comes here to as
sume his new post as senior inspector'
instructor of the Sixteenth Milltii
Division, with headquarters in Port
land, to which he was appointed a few
days ago.
The Sixteenth Militia Division Is a
division created under the new Army
bill and in it are contained nine regi
ments. These nine regiments will prob
ably include Oregon, Washington. Call
fornia. Idaho, Montana, and Utah, and
the selection of Portland as headquar
ters for the inspector-instructor Is
gratifying to Portland guard officers:
Colonel Dentler Known Here.
Colonel Dentler has had several Ore
cron commands, having been command
ant of cad-ets at Oregon Agricultural
College, 1S94-98, and more recently
serving as inspector-Instructor- of the
Oregon National Guard in 1811.
Colonel Dentler will Join his wife
end three children. John, Jeannette and
Robert, who are living here. He h
been In command of the Thirty-fourth
. Infantry at El Paso; Tex., which he
organized there when promoted to the
rank of Colonel July 3, 1916.
He was graduated from West Point
In 1884. from the Army School of Line,
Kort Leavenworth, Kan., in' 1908, being
the first field officer to graduate from
the latter school
en, be in prison uniform, and that prls- i
oners be required to salute officials.
In suppression and handling of vice
it is recommended a one-man . cell
system be established and that steri
lization of the feeble-minded an67 cas
tration of the incorrigible be instituted.
Segregation la F.Tor.
Touching upon segregation of first
offenders the commission declares that
It does not believe in the segregation
of first offenders as such. It declares
the proper basis of segregation is to
ascertain the high per cent of factors
contributing to the delinquency of
-large groups of criminals and segre
gate In accordance with the persistent
or frequently recurring factors.
The commission favors that a segre
gation be made by ascertaining the
hopeless mental defect cases and these
be permanently removed from their so
cial environment by life detention in a
state institution, but that this system
be fully safeguarded.
Tailor Shop Should Be Larger.
Other minor recommendations are
made to the effect that provision be
made by law for the Attorney-General
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DEALERS SEEK BAN
OH TRADING STAMP
State Hardware Association
Discusses Several Meas
ures Before Assembly.
ANNUAL SESSION CLOSES
Colonel Clarence E. Dentler, Who
Will Return to Portland aa
Senior Inspector-Instructor of
the Sixteenth Militia Division.
to safeguard prisoners' property: that
the printing plant be better equipped;
that the tailor shop be enlarged to pro
vide more work and that an effort be
and from the War! made to avoid tailor shop duplication;
College at Washington, D. C. in 1909
One of his first experiences of actual
service was in the White Mountain In
dian campaign against Apache Kid. In
1894 he was appointed commandant at
Oregon Agricultural College, and while
there was admitted to the State Bar
Association of Oregon.
Mrs. Dentler an O. A. C. Graduate,
It was during his service at Oregon
Agricultural College that he became
eniraged to a college belle. Miss Delia
Gellatly, who graduated from O. A. C.
in 1894 and was married to Colonel
Dentler in September ot the same year.
during the Spanish-American War
Colonel Dentler served in Porto Rico,
and in the Samar and Leyte campaigns,
and later in the Philippine insurrec
tion. In 1904 he was made Inspector
'Oeneral of the Department of Califor
nia. and while in San Francisco had
charge of the recoinage of Philippine
money into American coin and of the
counting, packing and shipping of the
money. He went to Cuba in 1906 with
the second army of pacification and re-
turned to take charge of the camp of
instruction of the National Guard in
1910.
Service Covers Wide Range.
- In 1911 he became inspector-instruct
or of the Oregon National Guard, with
headauarters at Portland, and In 1912
was sent to Tientsin, China, for 15
months, then to Manila, where he was
in command, of the instruction and
training of the Philippine troops de
partment. He returned to the United
States in 1915 and took posts at Texas
City, Jacksonville, Fla., and in March
at El Paso, where he organized the
Thirty-fourth Infantry.
Although he had not heard Of the as
eignment of Colonel Dentler to the Six
teenth Division, with headquarters in
Portland. Lieutenant-Colonel John L
May. regimental commander of .the
Third Oregon, saidi last night that he
was, very much pleased with the pros
pect of having Colonel Dentler in
Portland.
that the water tower be moved to
place less exposed to fire hazard and
that the race and flume inside the
prison walls be covered.
It is urged that a medical depart
ment be established in connection with
the prison with psychological and soci
ological branches and that properly
equipped laboratories be provided to
make blood tests of inmates.
Parole System Faulty.
Referring to the parole system the
report declares that its operation is the
principal source of irritation among
the prisoners; that considerable mis
understanding exists among the pris
oners as to the difference between the
mandatory and discretionary provi
sions of the law, and largely upon that
ground the recommendations in regard
to the parole system are offered.
It is declared that the fundamental
error of the present parole system is
that it is not true that repetition of
criminal acts is conclusive evidence of
habitual criminality. '
'Bull Ring" Not Abolished.
Removal of the warden and the
parole officer from membership of the
parole board is advocated. Removal of
the warden is suggested, as it says he is
apt to attach too great Importance to
compliance w4th prison discipline;
while, the report says, "the proper con
trol of subordinate executive functions
of a parole officer are destroyed if he
is permitted to participate in the dis
cretionary powers that of necessity
must be employed to direct his subor
dinate duties.
Walking in the "bull ring.- the re
port states, probably has been abused
in the past, but no objection is found
to its use by the committee if the as
signment be for a reasonable period and
careful attention be paid to Its effect
upon the feet.
Great waste was found in disposition
of some of the articles of food served
to the prisoners.
PRISON CHANGE ADVISED
(Continued From First Pape.)
ELKS HAVE FINE BALL
Banqnet Given Delegates by Job
bers and Wholesalers Selec
tion of Xext Meeting Place
Is Put Up to Committee.
Resolutions opposing the passage of
a bill now pending in the State Legls
lature which provides for the operation
of trading stamp concerns through the
payment of a license fee were adopted
at the closing session of the 11th an
nual convention of the Oregon Retail
Hardware and Implement Dealers As
sociation at the Imperial Hotel yester
day afternoon. The organization took
action opposing-, or indorsing several
other bills now before the state law
making body.
The gathering closed with a Banquet
at the Multnomah Hotel to the retailers
by the wholesalers and Jobbers. '
Trading Stamp Declared Evil.
In taking action on the trading stamp
bill it was the expressed opinion of
the gathering that the use of trading
stamps was an evil, from the standpoint
of the retail men and small dealers.
The action of the association on that
bill, and on other bills also, will be
forwarded to the members of the Leg
is lature.
The organization indorsed a bill pro
viding for the carrying of firearms by
those taking out a license to do so,
which is to be introduced in the Legis
lature. It was said that this bill, if
passed, would mean the adoption of the
system at present in use in New York.
A bill further enlarging and defining
the functions of the small claims court
was indorsed. The body went on record
as opposed to bills providing for fur
ther regulation of hunting and fishing,
It was the expressed opinion of the
body that there are sufficient game
laws now to provide for the proper
protection of the fish and game of the
state.
Thanks Tendered Press.
Resolutions were adopted thanking
the news and trade papers for thei
courtesy fn handling reports and ,ad
vance matter on the convention. timi
lar resolutions, thanking the Jobbers
for their hospitality, were also adopted.
It was decided to leave . the ques
tion of the place for the next annual
meetin to the decision of the execu
tive committee. Portland probably will
be selected.
E. E. Lucas, of Spokane, was elected
secretary by the executive committee.
He succeeds H. J. Altnow. or Portland.
The banquet at the Hotel Multnomah
last night was tendered to members of
the association by 50 wholesale hard
ware and implement Arms of this city.
Besides the elaborate dinner, which
was served in tne notei Daiiroom to
nearly 250 hardware men, an unusual
programme of entertainment was pro
vided The conventional after-dinner
speeches were dispensed with, and
cabaret numbers were given under the
direction of Harold H. Grady.
Appearing on the programme with
Mr. and Mrs. Grady, who diverted the
diners with a number of unique and
graceful dances, was a list of enter
tainers including the following: Mrs.
Jane Burns Albert,' Master Louis Kauff
man, Mrs. Lulu Dahl Miller, who ren
dered musical numbers; and Larry
Mann, the Jerome Stone Trio, Karkeek,
Miss Caroline Rotay. Miss Marguerite
Egbert, the Four Werren Sisters, MTss
Burnett, Miss Violet Densinger and
Master Hal Lamed, and the Multnomah
Marimba Band, contributing various
novelties. ,
In charge of the arrangements were
the following members of the banquet
committee: W. K. Slater, Honeyman
Hardware, chairman; E. C. Ward. Marshall-Wells
Hardware Company-; F.
Creasey. the Gauld Company; W. F.
Norman, Fairbanks, Morse Company;
E. E. Tressler, Simonds Manufacturing
Company; S. C. Rasmussen, Rasmussen
board be composed of the secretary to
the Governor as an ex-officio member,
and two citizens, to be appointed by
the Governor for a term of four years
each, to be the other members, instead
of a membership of five as now con
stituted.
It is urged that the Mutual Welfare
League, as applied in Sing Sing prison,
be experimentally tried, and that a
balanced diet toe given the inmates
under the direction of a skilled steward,
who, the report says, could save more
than his salary.
More Produce Advised.
Touching upon the penal farm, the
report saya that it should be operated
to supply the general demands of the
penitentiary for farm produce; that it
be drained where needed; that all of
its products of a perishable nature must
be canned or prepared for use or mar
keting.
"To do this, the report declares, "it
la necessary to repeal the law prohibit
ing the sale of prison-made goods in
competition with the products of free
labor," and the report so recommends
that the law be repealed.
It is urged that the extension de
partment of the Oregon Agricultural
College be required to co-operate with
the penitentiary farm management,
and that, as soon as practicable, seek
to apportion the farm operations of
each state institution now maintaining
a farm, so that the penitentiary may
develop the entire dairy business in
sufficient volume to satisfy state in
stitutlonal demands under the state
use plan.
Quarries Are Suggested
It is suggested that prisoners, if
compensated, be required to pay for all
or pari oi tne cost of their apprehen
eion ana trial.
Any industry for the employment of
prisoners should be one that requires
tne smallest Initial plant investment
per unit, the report asserts, and the
smallest number of units; one that em
ploys profitably the largest amount of
unskilled labor and the least amount
of machinery, and one that does not
have to depend for a market on inter
state trade. The commission believes
mat the quarrying and grinding of
ONE THOUSAND TRIP LIGHT "FAN
TASTIC MERRILY.
& Co.
Royal Purple and Multl-Colored Lights
Used to Good Effect In
the Decorations.
Portland Elks were hosts last night
at a dancing party held at Cotillion
Hall to more than 1000 people, old and
young. The floor was Jammed and
dancing continued from early in the
evening until 1 o'clock this morning.
The hall was tastily decorated In the
Elks' royal purple and multi-colored
lights were used effectively during the
dances.
Promptly at 11 P. M. the dancers
were hushed by a call from the cornet,
the purple lights flashed and Wallace
Erwin sang the toast to ' the absent
brothers.
Exhibition dancing was given by Mr.
and Mrs. M. M. Ringler, purple cos
tumes being used with effect.
W. R. McDonald was chairman of
the committee that arranged the an
nual ball.
The proceeds derived from last
night's dance, approximately $1000, will
be used lor costuming the Elks band,
an unusually good amateur organiza
tion. It is the intention of the Elks
to allow the public to get the benefit
of their band free during the coming
Summer.
ITALY FEELS REASSURED
Wilson's Peace Ideas Found to Be
Precisely Those of Allies.
PARIS. Jan. 26. The Rome corre
spondent of the Temps, in a dispatch
dated January 23 and delayed in trans
mission, describes the effect there of
President Wilson's address to the Sen
ate as follows:
"President Wilson's message has pro
duced an enormous sensation in Rome
among the people in society and in po
litical circles. No one has spoken of
anything else since the address be
came known. At first it produced an
impression of disquietude, as the pub
lic thought that his proposals were
entirely in favor of the central powers.
A rereading of his words, however,
disclosed to the public that his prin
ciples for a basis for a durable peace
were nearly the same aa those con
tained in the reply of the entente pow
ers to President Wilson's recent peace
note."
SHORT WEIGHT -GETS FINE
$1 a Pound Given Sealer Who
Not Giving Full Measure.
Is
"One hundred pounds of potatoes
must weigh 100 pounds, no less," ruled
Municipal Judge Langguth yesterday
as he fined John Salta, a Yamhill public
market merchant.
The arrest was made by E. T. Jones,
City Sealer of Weights and Measures,
on complaint of the purchaser, Mrs.
II. Shipiro. The sack,' supposed to con
tain 100 pounds of potatoes, was Just
15 pounds short. Judge Langguth fined
Salta $1 a pound for the shortage.
SPY SUSPECT TO LECTURE
Dr. Jolxn M. Dean Who Was Pris
oner In Paris, to Speak.
Dr. John M. -Dean, pastor of the
Second Baptist Church, of Chicago, and
who. as a Y. M. C. A. secretary has
spent a large part of his time in service
with the Army, will speak at tne
Y. M. C. A. tomorrow at 3:30 on "As
sorted Gods." ,
Dr. Dean was arrested in Paris at the
outbreak of the European war as a spy,
and in the Philippine campaign was
captured by the natives.
Music will be furnished by an or
chestra and by J. W. Palmer and M. A.
Howard.
Dr. Dean will give brief Bible lec
tures every noon next week in the
Y. M. C. A. lobby.
W t liAVA Vind ft numhfki nf similar
limestone by prison labor is worthy of I complaints recently," said Mr. Jones.
and intend to wipe out this species of
abuse without delay."
consideration.
School Work Needed.
Continuation of the present chaplain
eysiem is recommended, but. it is eald.
religious teachings should have a more
prominent place In the work of ref
ormation of prisoners.
Re-establishment of common school
work at once is suggested. It is
urged thxt such work be placed under
a competent paid teacher, to be super
vised by the state or Marion County
tocnool Superintendent.
It is urged that vocational tralnlnK
he established, that militarv drill and
calisthenics obtain, that an American I The smoking of dried "colfa foot'
flag fly within the prison grounds and I leaves antedated the introduction of to-
u inaiuo cruo.iam. except the ward.- Ibacco In .England.
Military Instructors Assigned.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Jan. 28. Quartermaster-Sergeant
Cyrus K. Dugger, retired, and
Regimental Sergeant - Major Dennis
Hayes, retired, under orders Issued to
day, will report to the president of
the Oregon Agricultural College for
duty as assistant to the military in
structor of cadets.
THAW STILL BEWILDERED
Recovery From loss of Blood, Says
Police Surgeon, Is Slow.
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 26. Harry K.
"Thaw, who is slowly recovering from
self-inflicted wounds, is suffering from
a condition of mental bewilderment as
a result of hemorrhage and lowered vi
tality. according to tne report of a
police surgeon, filed with the detective
bureau today.
Thaw was examined to determine
whether his condition would permit his
removal from the hospital for a hearing
In connection with the charges brought
against him in New York that he had
beaten Frederick Gump, Jr., a Kansas
City boy.
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