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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER C, 1918. ARRIVES FROM EAST Robert L. Stevens Ready to Invective Against Prosecutors of Dr. Equi Bitter. Assume Duties at Salem. SQUARE DEAL IS ASSURED MEETING HELD IN PROTEST w Warden Will Insist Upon Disci pline Consistent With Humani tarian Treatment of Men. Federal Halls of Justice, Speaker Declares, Wasteful of Time and Wasteful of Money. 14 PENITENTARr kl i iiiiMirtftlftl'MllliSiillllll "COURTS INIMICALTO CHI I - I Tiobert L. Stevens, newly-appointed warden of the Oregon State Penlten iary arrived In Portland from the East last night. He will leave for Salem to day to report to Uovernor Wlthycombe and Is In readiness to take charge of the penitentiary at once It that is the Governor's wish. Mr. Stevens was in New Tork visit In his sister and brother at the time of his appointment and was thereby af forded an opportunity to inspect th Sing; Sing prison before returning to Oregon to assume charge of the pen! tenttary. "I found at Sing Sing." said Mr. Stevens, "that morale of the prisoners bad much to do with the successful op eration of that institution and that hu manitarian and square-dealing meth ods were the most effective. While will invist upon discipline, I will see to it that the men are given a square deal. not only by myself, but by my sub ordinates. Eaatera PtImsi Inspected. "I intend to put into effect the best system that came under my observa tlon. at Sing Sing and other prisons. but. of course, I cannot outline my plans for the Oregon Penitentiary's ad ministration until I have made a thor ouch investigation of conditions there. "Morale among prisoners 19 as im porta nt as morale among soldiery, and it will be my aim to bring the Oregon penitentiary up to the standard of the best regulated prisons In the Lnltea States. I have studied the systems fol lowed by the best prisons, and as many of them have been satisfactory not only to the states but to the prisoners. will apply them in the administration of the Oregon penitentiary if condition there warrant their adoption. Sooare Deal la Aasared. "My first object will be to place the prisoners In m proper mental and physr cal state so that they will be fitted for the battle of life upon being released. "Cleanliness of surroundings is im portant for the happiness of all con cerned in the administration of public Institution, and at the Oregon pen! tentiary I will clean up if the place is in need of that attention. During Mr. Stevens' three terms as Sheriff of Multnomah County, every grand jury had laudatory comment to make about the cleanliness of the County Jail and Kelly Butte under his charge. METHODISTS IN SESSION Walla Walla District Conference Meets at Pasco. PASCO. Wash.. Dec S. (Special.) The Walla Walla district conference of the Methodist Church opened yes terday afternoon with a large number of ministerial and lay delegates pres ent, the district superintendent presid ing. Robert H. Allen, the local pastor, was elected secretary and treasurer. Mr. Allen made an address on the sur vey of the district, which showed the district as contributing I."9 a member for the benevolences. Dr. H. J. Talbot, president of Kim ball School of Theology, spoke on "The Minister as a Student." Chaplain Luts spoke to a capacity house in the eve ning on his experiences in France. The convention will continue until Thurs day noon. CHILD BURNED TO DEATH IMayins With Fire During Brief Absence of Jfotlicr Fatal. ABERDEEN', Wash.. Dec. S. (Spe cial.) The 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Christian, living near Matlock, was so badly burned Monday after noon that she died Tuesday morning. The mother left the three children, two boys ( and 4 years, and the little girl in the house while she took her cream' out to the road. In her absence they played with fire in the stove, when the little girl's clothing became ignited. The boys tried to extinguish the flames, and failing to do this start ed to get their mother, but before she could get back the child was fatally burned. - " - TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Columbia Wallace Reid, "The Man From Funeral Range." Majestic Constance Talmadgre, "Goodnight, Paul." Sunset "Trfo Fall of Barbary Coast." Peoples Blllie Burke, "The Make-Believe Wife." Star Vivian Martin. "Smiles." Liberty Frank Keenan, "More Trouble." Globe "The Girl of the Golden West." Circle Cecil Da Mille's "W Can't Have Everything." 1 Liberty to Get Chaplin Comedy. rHE much-talked-of Charlie Chap lin comedy, "Shoulder Arms." comes to the Liberty. Theater Sun day. It is said to be the best comedy that Chaplin ever has produced and was the feature for several weeks at one of the largest moving picture houses in New York, where a continued run of a picture has heretofore been unheard of. 'Shoulder Arms" picturizes Charlie's experience aa a doughboy from the time he enters the rookie squad until, as a finished product of military training, he invades Hunland and captures the Imperial German staff with a method typically Yankee for novelty and surprise. His feet get him Into countless trou bles under the unsympathetic eye of his drill sergeant, and even after his ad vent into the front line trenches he finds new complexities in the manage ment of a bayonet and rifle. Following numerous experiences in his dugout, he volunteers for a special spying mis sion. ' Camouflaged as a tree, he .in vades enemy territory, after which his troubles become "still more complex. . Liberty. A snappy comedy starring Frank Keenan in "More Trouble" comes to the Liberty Theater today. It is a farce comedy, with an un expected ending in the climax, and a finished bit of work by Frank Keenan. which make it an ideal pic ture. The story tells of how Lemuel Deering (Frank Keenan). a wealthy iron manufacturer, has unbounded sue cess with his business until his son Harvey gets his A. B. degree from college. Then dad's trouble commences. His father discovers, much to his amaze ment, that his son neither drinks, smokes nor swears, and is a "model" young man. Father decides to make him a partner in his business. There is where the real complications enter. Sunset. Interesting sidelights on the great fight which drove vice from San Fran Cisco and closed that city's Barbary Coast are disclosed in "The Fall of Barbary Coast," opening at the Sunset Theater today. , The story is revealed as in an inter view with Rev. Paul Smith, the man who started the fight single-handed and who, by the very vigor of the war he waged, enlisted the aid of the press, the pulpit and the civic bodies of Lthe Nation. "The fight started," Rev. Mr. Smith explains, .n a very minor way. My object was to purge the district in which my church was lo cated of the evil influence of pro tected vice." It is a most interesting story, wits a moral tendency. LATIMER STORY DENIED MAX REPORTED MISSING IS SANITARIUM, SAYS ATTORNEY. Roscbnrg Men Seek Shorthorns. ROSEBURG. Or.. Dec. 5. (Special.) A party of Douglas County stockmen, including C. O. (.Jarrett, of .Glendale; Jake Jonas and C. W. Rose, of this city, and F. P. Miller, of Wilbur, ac companied by County Farm Agent C. J. Hurd. have gone to the Willamette Valley for the purpose of buying a car load of pure-bred cattle. All of the gentlemen are Interested In Shorthorns and the sale of 24 head of heifers and bulls here last week appears to have awakened In the breeders of the county a determination to materially increase and Improve their herds. Influenza in Yakima' Jail. TAKIMA. Wash.. Dec. 5. (Special.) Despite the fact that Sheriff W. P. Murphy has maintained a semi-quarantine at the Yakima County Jail since the outbreak of the influenza epidemic the disease has obtained a foothold there. Three prisoners, all under sen tence to the penitentiary, are so seri ously ill that they have been removed to the hospital. " Several others are af fected. The Sheriff expects to employ a nurse and establish a hospital ward. Phone your want ads to The Orego- Tiian. Main 7070. A 505. LESLIE SALT flavors cl! I ibs food evenly ifs a. wonderful aid to cooks Former Wife Causes Notoriety When Refused . Increase in Her Allowance. Assertions of Mrs. W. D. Latimer that she is unable to locate her husband re strongly denied by F. L. Nagel, Portland attorney -for Mr. Latimer, who declared yesterday that efforts of Mrs Latimer to have tne police aid her in ocating her spouse are groundless. Mrs. Latimer, through John rearson. communicated to the police on Wednes day, that her husband had arranged to meet her ir Portland but had failed to how up.. , said she believed he was now In New York and she asked for po lice assistance in locating him. The facts are that Mr. Latimer was Portland on Monday and Tuesday of last week." said Mr. Nagel. "His pres- nce in the city where he was re gistered at the Portland Hotel was chronicled in the newspapers. Mr. and Mrs Latimer have lived apart for the past two years, although Mr. Latimer as been giving nis wne an ampio al lowance for her maintenance. She re ceives this allowance monthly through Mr. Latimer's New York office. He re fused to see his wife while he was in Portland, and he is now In a sanitarium in the East because of ill health. "Mrs. Latimer recently demanded an additional allowance from him in order that she might spend the winter in California, and when he refused to give it. she caused this newspaper notoriety concerning his alleged . disappearance.' Mr. Latimer formerly lived in Port land. He is now president of the Fill pino Vegetable and Oil Company of Ma nila, and is said to be wealthy. unjustly, and If he criticises me I will have it coming. Under those condi tions I will resign at once without re quest from any one." LAND MAY BE TAKEN UP 4780 Acres Eliminated From De schutes National Forest. OREGONIAN-NEWS BUREAU, Wash Ington, Dec. 5. From the Deschutes National Forest was eliminated today 4780 acres in West Central Oregon, all surveyed and a small portion reported to be agricultural, subject to entry only under the homestead laws requir ing residence, at and after 9 o'clock A. M. January 15, and to settlement and other disposition on and after January 22, 1919, at the United States Land Offices, Lakevtew and The Dalles: The land is in scattered, small tracts. Roseburg Boasts Milking Machine. ROSEBURG, Or., Dec. 5. (Special) Probably the first milking machine to be installed in this county was today purchased by Busenbark Bros., dairy men living a few miles west of this city. The machine will milk three cows at once and Is expected- to do the work of three or four men. Excoriation of the Federal Court, with bitter invective against the prose cutors, were pivots of the address last night at Arion Hall, when Dr. C. H. Chapman, editorial writer of the Even ing Journal, and other speakers ad dressed a meeting held in protest against the recent conviction of Dr. Marie Equi on an espionage charge. Fully 1500 men and women cheered when Dr. Chapman, with sneering in tonation, declared that he perceived that his was a "proletarian audience," as there were no "evening coats" in evidence, and that the faces before him were those of friends he semed to have known in a previous existence, "before the war." "It was predicted," said Dr. Chap man, dwelling with drawling emphasis upon the sentence,' "that we would come out of the war to a heaven on earth and that, of course, is where we are now. High officials have told us so, and they are necessarily infallible.' Courts Are Sneered At. Dr. Chapman paid general reference to the institutions of justice by de claring that: They do their duty after their kind and we are striving in our humble way to do our duty after our kind. Each beast has a place in the scheme of things. And so we may not know what they are for but the Almighty must have known or he wouldn't have made such people." . Dr. Chapman bade his hearers pre pare themselves for any contingency 'to pinch,, steal, or squeeze, to get money by any means, "because, wnen the prince of evil catches you as he caught Dr. Equi, you'll not have the money to pay a lawyer or court fees.' Court fees were beyond the reach of the average person, especially Federal court fees, asserted Dr. Chapman, re citing the instance of a conscientious objector whose brief trial cost the de fense an even S1000. "If I thought he was right, said Dr. Chapman, referring to the defendant n that case, I don t care to say so! Federal Courts Declared Aristocratic. Pursuing his attack on the courts. Dr. Chapman branded the Federal courts as institutions particularly in imical to the interests of the poor. The Federal courts, comrades, are not designed for the poor," declared Dr. Chapman. 'They are imposing. they are carried on with magnificence and expense. They are aristocratic. They are wasteful of time and they arc wasteful of money. They are leisure- class ins .itutlons: Among the speakers, was Kathleen O'Brennan, an Irish radicalist, who had many references to make to "the red flag," and who asserted that she had, during her stay in Portland, been con stantly under the secret surveillance of the Federal authorities. She paused dramatically to produce a transmitter, which she told the audience was torn by her from a dictaphone hidden in her room by secret service operatives. Fund for Dr. Eqnl Collected. James Robertson, the succeeding speaker, and W. H. Wicks, who made the concluding address, dealt more particularly with socialistic doctrine than they did with the aspects of the Equi case. At the conclusion of the meeting ushers passed through the audience and collected a fund for the defense of Dr. Equi, should her appeal for a new trial be granted. The sale of copies of a poem, dedicated by Dr. .Equi, also added to the fund. Dr. Equi herself was present, but did not take a place on the platform. Child-Labor Law Violation Charge. Jack- Crystal, candy concessionaire at local picture playhouses, is ' charged Low Meat Prices vs. High Cattle Prices If the former cannot get enough for his Eve stock, he raises less, and the packer gets less raw materiaL If the consumer has to pay too much for his meat, he eats less of it, and the packer finds his market decreased. . The packer wants the producer to get enough to make live-stock raising profitable, and he wants the price of meat so low that everyone will eat it But all he can do; and what he would have to do in any ' case to stay in business, is to keep down the cost of pro cessing the farmer's stock into meat so that the consumer pays for the meat and by-products only a little more than the farmer gets for his animals. For. example, last year Swift &' Company paid for its cattle about 90 per cent of what it got for meat and by-products (such as hides, tallow, oils, etc.) . If cattle from the farm were turned miraculously into meat in the hands of retailers (without gong through the expense of dressing, shipping and marketing), the farmer would get only about Vq cents per pound more for his cattle, or consumers would pay only about 2V4 cents per pound less for their beef 1 Out of this cent or two per pound. Swift & Company pays for the operation of extensive plants, pays freight on meats, operates refriger ator cars, maintains branch houses, and in most cases, delivers to retailers all over the United States. The profit amounts to only a fraction of a cent, and a peart of this profit goes to build more plants, to give better service, and to increase the company's usefulness to the country. Keep Your Pledge Mate Good for Oar Flgfittag Mea ' BUT WAX-SAVING STAMPS Swift & Company, U. S. A. Portland Local Branch, 13th and Glisan S. C. Ogsbury, Manager with violating the child-labor law n a District Court complaint filed yes terday by Mrs. Millie R. Trumbull, of the child welfare bureau. This is the second charge of this nature to be filed against Crystal. He is accused of employing a child under the age of is ypars. KELLER ISSUES PLEDGE Parole Officer to Quit Whenever New Warden Shall Criticise Him. SALEM, Or Dec 6. (Special.) "When Robert . L. . Stevens becomes warden of the penitentiary. I pledge that whenever he makes any criticism to the Governor of my work or of my actions in connection with the institu tion, my resignation as State Parole Officer will be immediately forthcom ing." . This was a statement made by Pa role Officer Keller today. "I know that Mr. Stevens will not accuse a man A Necessity Good baking powder is essen tial to all households, espe cially the brand that proved its unusual efficiency when so many experimental flours were in use. Crescent Powder Baking meets every demand. It is safe be cause it keeps long er and never fails to raise any dough per fectly. At all grocers 25 lb. Crescent Mfg. Co. 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