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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, "WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1919. SENATORS SOMEWHAT CAUSTIC I HMMEffl NOW STAR REMOVAL OF BAN ON WINE AND BEER AND REVISION OF WAR TAXES INDORSED BY PRESIDENT IN MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Definite Announcement la Made That Railroad Systems and Telegraph and Telephone Lines Will Be Returned to Private Ownership General - Programme Respecting Labor Outlined in Message Cabled From Paris. Playing Theater President's Message to Con gress Evokes Criticism. NOTHING NEW, SAYS SMOOT "IT That's All He Has to Recom mend, Better Stav In Paris," Says Sherman of Illinois. TvA SHIKGTOX, May 20. President Wilson's announcement that he intends to return the railroads to private oper ation at the end of this year and his recommendation for legislation allow ing: use of wines and beer until the prohibition amendment becomes effec tive were the features of his message to congress today about which the in terest of members apparently centered. Itegarding the prohibition recommend ation predictions were general that the repeal legislation requested would not be enacted. "I am not for that." said Senator Sheppard of Texas, democrat, author of the war-time prohibition act, re garding the prohibition repeal recom mendation. "I do not. believe congress will repeal it" "We passed the prohibition legisla tion without much help from the pres ident and we do not intend to repeal if said Senator Jones of. Washington, a republican prohibition leader. Republican leaders declared that in recommending- improved excess profits and income taxes the president fol lowed plans announced long ago by the republicans. Nothing New, Says Smoot "The proposal for retaliatory tar iffs," said Senator Smoot of Utah, re publican, of the finance committee, "is nothing more than the anti-dumping legislation which we have planned to enact. Regarding the recommendation for a dyestuff protective tariff the president apparently is ignorant of the fact that we already have laws pro tecting that industry for five years long after the next election." Senator Cummins of Iowa, prospect ive chairman of the interstate com merce committee, said that undoubtedly railroad legislation would be enacted before the end of the year. "And if not," Senator Cummins add ed, "I predict the president will not turn back the roads, not until it is enacted." Republicans joined the democrats in approving the president's general state ments for co-operation between capital and labor. President Wilson's recommendations for return of the wires was character ized by Senator Sherman of Illinois, republican, as "Burleson bunk trans mitted through the voice of the presi dent." Sherman Still Vitriolic. He also said he opposed repeal of the prohibition act. "If that's all he has to recommend, he had better stay in Paris, where he can get it without suffering," said Senator Sherman. Republican Leader Mondell of Wyo- ming of the house said: "A number of suggestions of the president's axe. embodied in the pro gramme of legislation agreed on a.t the republican -conference last Satur day." "The president has been staying too long In Paris." said Representative Randall of California, the only prohibi tion member. "War prohibition will not be repealed by this congress. Democratic leaders uniformly praised the message. Senators Thomas of Colorado. Pitt man of ' Nevada and other democrat! senators refused to discuss the mes sage. Mr. Polndexter Pleased. "In many of its expressions the mes sage i3 quite pleasing," Senator Poin dexter of Washington, republican, said, adding that it was unfortunate that the president did not take occasion to point out the menace to labor itself of the "doctrine of communism or bolshevism.1 Senator Poindexter said that he agreed with the president's recommen dation for an enlarged reclamation policy. T"T WASHINGTON, May 20. Presi yy dent Wilson. In his message to. " Congress today, recommended repeal of the war time prohibition law so far as it applies to wine and beer only; announced definitely that the railroad systems and telegraph and telephone lines would be returned to private ownership; urged a revision of war taxes particularly to abolish the manufacturers and retail sales ex cises; and outlined generally a pro gramme respecting labor. These were the "high spots" of the president's message cabled from Paris. The president's message follows: Gentlemen of the congress I deeply regret my inability to be present at the opening of the extraordinary ses sion of congress. It still seems to be my duty to take part in the counsels of the peace conference and contribute what I can- to the solution of the in numerable questions to whose settle ment it has had to address -itself. Fol they are questions which affect the peace of the whole world and from them, therefore, the United States can not stand apart. I deemed it my duty to call the congress together at this time because it was -not wise to post pone longer the provisions which must be made for the support of the govern ment. Many of the appropriations which are absolutely necessary for the maintenance of the government and the fulfillment of its varied obllga tions for the fiscal years 1919-1920 have not yet been made; the end of the present fiscal year is at hand; and action upon these appropriations can o longer be prudently delayed. Prompt Attention Urged. It is necessary, therefore, that I should Immediately call your atten- lon to this critical need. It is hardly ecessary for me to urge that it may receive your prompt attention. I ehall take the liberty of addressing you on my return on the subjects which have most, engrossed our attention and the attention of the world during these last anxious months, since the armistice of last November was Bigned, the Interna tional settlements which must form th subject matter of the present treaties of peace-and of our national action in the immediate future. It would be pre mature to discuss them or to express a judgment about them before they are broughfto their complete formulation by the agreements which are now being sought at the table of the con ference. I shall hope to lay them be fore you in their many aspects as soon as arrangements have been reached. I hesitate to venture any opinion or press any recommendation with regard to domestic legislation while aDsent from the United States and out of daily touch with intimate sources of information and counsel. 1 am con scious that I need, after so long an absence from Washington, to seek the advice of those who have remained in constant contact with domestic prob lems and who have known them close at hand from day to day, and I trust that it will very soon be possible for me to do so. Labor Question Paramount. But there are several questions press ing for consideration to which I feel that I may and, indeed, must, even now irect your attention, if in only gen ral terms. In speaking of them I shall. MUSIC TEACHER RETURNS Howard Annett, of University, Back From France. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene, May 20. (Special.) Among the univer sity men who have just returned from service in Frarce is Howard Annett, in structor in piano in the university school of music. Mr. Annett. who has been away since -the summer of 1917 was a member of the 361st ambulance company, with which organization he went through the fighting in the Ar gonne and in Belgium. When the former musical instructor was not helping carry off the wounded he used to give musical entertain ments, which arpused comment among the correspondents at the front. The writers give him credit for helping keep up the morale of men carrying on un der most trying conditions. Mr. Annett plans to return to his po sition in the school of -music at the opening of the fall term. The value of the 191C-i7 Egyptian cotton crop was estimated at $195,000 000. chiefly long etaple. I LEMON JUICE FOR FRECKLES Girls! Make beauty lotion for a few cents Try It! Squeeze the juice of two lemons Into a bottle - containing three ounces of orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle and tan lotion, and complexion beautlfler, a very, very small cost. Your grocer has the lemons and any drug etore or toilet counter will suppl three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly fragran lotion into the face. neck, arms and hands each day and see how freckles and blemishes disappear and how clear, soft and rosy-white the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless and never irritates. Adv. Cuticura Soap is Easy Shaving for Sensitive Skins Tha New Up-to-date Cuttcara Method fy xr J9 in developing the means of preserving forth te the income tax. the excess and safeguarding life and health in I profits tax and the estate tax. All these dangerous industries. It can now "help in the difficult task of giving a new form and spirit to industrial organiza tion by co-ordinating the several agen cies of conciliation and adjustment, which have been brought Into existence by the difficulties and mistaken poli cies of the present management of in dustry, and by setting up and develop ing new federal agencies of advice and information which may serve as a clearing house for the best experiments and the best thought on this great mat ter, upon which every thinking man must be aware that the future develop ment of society directly depends. Help Returned Soldiers Is Plesu Agencies of international counsel and suggestion are presently to be created In connection with the 1-ague of na tions in this very field, but it is na tional action and the enlightened policy of individuals, corpor-tions and. so cieties within each nation that must bring about the actual reforms. The members of the committees on labor in the two houses will hardly need sug gestions from me as to what means they shall seek to make the federal government the agent of the whole na tion in pointing out and. If need be, guiding the process of re-organization and reform.- I am sure it is not necessary for me to remind you that there is one imme diate and very practical question of labor that we should meet in the most liberal spirit. We must see to it that our returning soldiers are assisted in every practicable way to find the places for which they are fitted in the daily work of the country. This can be done by developing and maintaining upon an adequate scale the admirable organization created by the department of labor for placing men seeking work; and it can also be done in at least one very great field by creating new op portunities tor individual enterprise. The secretary of the Interior has pointed out the way by which return can so be adjusted as to yield con stant and adequate returns and yet not constitute a too grievous burden on the taxpayers. A revlsiou of the income tax has already been provided for by the act of 191S. but I think you will find that further changes can be made to advantage, both in tlie rates of taxes and the method of collection. The ex cess proftts tax need not long bo main tained at the rates which were neces sary while the enormous expenses of the war had to be borne: Bat it enouia be made -the basis of a permanent sys tem which will reach undue profits without -discouraging the enterprise and activity of our business men. The tax on Inheritances ought, no doubt, to be reconsidered in its relation to the fiscal systems of the several states, but It certainty ought to remain a perma nent part-of the fiscal system of the federal government also. ' Inequalities of Rxclaes Shown. Many of the minor taxes provided for in the revenue legislation of 1917 and 1918, though no doubt made necessary by the pressing necessities of war time, could harday find sufficient Justifica tion under the easier circumstances of peace and can now happily be got rid of. Among these, I hope you will agree, are the excises upon various manufac turers and the taxes upon retail sales. They are unequal in the Incidence on different industries and on different in dividuals. Their collection is difficult and expensive. Those which are levied upon articles sold at retail are largely evaded by the adjustment . of retail prices. On the" other hand. I should assume that it is expedient to maintain a considerable range of indirect taxes; and the fact that alcoholic liquors will presently no longer afford a source of revenue by taxation makes It the more necessary that the field should be care fully restudled in order that equivalent sources of revenue may be found which it will be legitimate and not burden- dare say, be doing little more than peak your own thoughts. I hope that I shall speak your own Judgment also. The question which stands at the front f all others in every country amidst the present great awakening Is the uestlon of labor, and perhaps i can speak of it -with as great advantage while engrossed in the consideration of nterests which affect all countries alike as I could at home and amidst the Interests which naturally most ar feet my thought, because they are the interests of our own people, ay tne question of labor I do not mean the Question of efficient industrial proauc tlon; the question or now laDor is to be obtained and made effective in the erreat process of sustaining popuia tions and winning success amiast com mercial and industrial rivalries. I mean that much greater and more vital question, how are the men and women who do the daily labor of the world to obtain progressive improvement in the conditions of their labor to be made happier, and to be served better by the communities and the industries which their labor sustains and advances; how are thev to be given their right ad vantage as citizens and human beings? General Co-operation Invited We cannot go any further in our nresent direction. We have already gone too far. We cannot live our right life as a nation or achieve our proper success as an industrial community. If capital and labor are to continue to be antagonistic instead of being partners; if they are to continue to aistrust one another and contrive how they can get the better of one another." Or, what oerhaps amounts to the same thing calculate by what form and degree of coercion they can manage to extort, on the one hand, work enough to make enterDrise profitable; on the other, justice and fair treatment enough to make Hie toieraDie. j-nat oaa roau naa turned out a blind alley. It is no thor oughfare to real prosperity. We must find another, leading in another airec tion and to a very different destination. It must lead not merely to accommoda tion but also to a genuine co-operation and Tjartnershio based upon a real com munlty of interest ana participation in control. There is now in fact a real commu nity of interest between capital and la bor, but it has never been made evi dent in action. It can be made opera tlve and manifest only in a new organ ization of industry. The genius ot our business men and the sound practical sense of our workers can certainly work such a partnership out when once they realize exactly what it is that they seek and sincerely adopt a com mon purpose with regard to it. Legislation Is Recommended Labor legislation lies, of course chiefly with the states: but the new spirit and method of organization which n.ust be effected are not to be brought about by legislation so much as by the common counsel and voiun tary co-operation of capitalist, man ager and workman. Legislation can go only a very little way in commanaing what shall be done. The organization of indv.stry is a matter of corporat and individual initiative and of prac tical business arrangement. Those who really desire a new relationship be tween capital and labor can readily find a way to bring it about and per haps federal legislation can help more than state legislation could The object of all reform in this es sential matter must be the genuin democratization of industry. base upon a full recognition of the right of those who work, in whatever rank to participate in some organic way i every decision which directly affect their welfare or the part they are to play in industry. Some positive legis lation is practicable. The congress has already shown the way to one reform which should be world-wide, by es tablishing the eight hour day as th standard day in every field ot,labo over which it can exercise control. has sought to find the way to preven child labor, and will, I hope and be lievc. presently find it. It has served the whole country by leading the wa lng soldiers may he helped to find and take up land in the hitherto unde veloped regions of the country which the federal government has prepared or can readily prepare for cultivation and for many of the cut-over or neg lected areas which lie within the lim its of the older states, and I once more take the liberty of recommending very urgently that his plans shall receive the immediate and substantial support f the congress. PRESIDENT WILSON'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS SUMMARIZED Removal of the ban upon the manufacture and sale of wines and beers is recommended. The action is safe, declares the chief executive, because of the demobilization of the military forces to a sufficient po;nt. Announcement is made that the railroads will be handed over to their owners at the end of the calendar year, and that telegraph and telephone lines will be returned to their owners as soon as the re transfer can be effected without administration confusion. Elimination of many minor taxes, necessitated by war times, is recommended. Included are the excises upon various manufacturers and the taxes upon retail sales. Study of the field for taxation is suggested. Revision of import duties is found not necessary, as "no 6erious danger of foreign competition now threatens American industries." Special consideration asked for industries manufacturing dyesluffs and related chemicals, and suggestion made precautions be taken to protect industries from foreign competition. Congress urged to co-ordinate agencies of conciliation and adjust ment to promote better co-operation between capital and labor. Object of reform is declared to be the democratization of industry. Support of congress urgently requested for Secretary Lane's pro gramme to give returned soldiers opportunity to take up land in hith erto undeveloped regions of country. Adoption of woman suffrage resolution recommended. some to draw upon. But you have at hand in the treasury department many experts who can advise you upon the matter much better than I can. I can only suggest the lines of a permanent and workable system, and the placing of the taxes where they will least ham per the lifo of the people. New Industrial Field rietnred. Peculiar and very stimulating con ditions await our commerce and indus trial enterprise in the immediate fu ture. v Unusual opportunities will pres ently present themselves to our mer chants and producers in foreign mar kets and large fields for profitable in vestment will be opened to our free capital. But it Is not only of that that I am thinking; it is not. chiefly of that that I am thinking. Many great in dustries prostrated by the war wait to be rehabilitated in many parts of tne world where what will be lacking Is not brains or willing hands or organ izing capacity or experienced skill, but machinery and raw materials and capi tal. I believe that our business men, our merchants, our manufacturers and our capitalists will have the vision to see that prosperity in one part of the world ministers to prosperity every where. That there is in a very true sense a sollda.-ity of interest through out the world of enterprise and that our dealings with the countries that have need of our products and our money will teach them to deem us more than ever friends whose necessities ,we seek In the right way to serve. Our new merchant ships which nave in some quarters been feared as de structive rivals may prove helpful rivals, rather, and common servants, very much needed and very welcome. Our great shipyards, new and old, will be so opened to the use of tne worm that they will prove immensely service able to every maritime people in re storing, much more rapidly than would otherwise have been possible, the ton nage wantonly destroyed in the war, have only to suggest that there are many points at which we can facill tate American enterprise in ioreign trade by opportune legislation and make it easy - far American merchants to go where they will be welcomed as friends rather than as dreaded antag onists: America has a great and honor able service to perform in bringing the ccmmercial and industrial undertakings of the world back to their old scope and swing again, and putting a solid structure of credit under them. All our legislation should be friendly to such plans and purposes. Tax Revision Favored. And credit and enterprise alike will be quickened by timely and helpful legislation with regard to taxation. . hope that the congress will find it pos Bible to undertake an early reconsldera tion of federal taxes in order to make our system of taxation more simple and easy of administration and the taxes themselves as little burdensome as they can be made and yet suffice to support the government and meet all Its obli gations. The figures to ' which those obligations have erisen are very great indeed,, but they are not so great as to make it difficult for the nation to meet them, and meet them, perhaps, in a single generation, by taxes which will neither crush nor discourage. These are not so great as they seem, not so great as the Immense sums we have had to borrow. Added to the immense sums we have had to raise by taxation, would seem to indicate, for a very large pro portion of thoso sums were rr.ised In order that they might be loaned to the Governments with which we were asso ciated In the war and thoso loans will of course, constitute asseta, not liabili ties, and will not have to be taken care of bv our taxpayers. The main thing we shall have to care for is that our taxation Ehall rest as lightly as possible on the productive resources of the country, that Its rates shrll be stable, sr.d that it shall be constant In its revenue-yielding power. We have found the main source3 from which it must be drawn. I take It for granted that its mainstays will hence- Import Duty System Liked, There is. fortunately, no occasion for undertaking, in the immediate future any general revision of our system Of Import duties. - No serious danger of foreign competition now threatens American industries. Our country has emerged from the war less disturbed and less weakened man -any of the European countries which are our com petitors In manufacture. Their indus trial establishments have been subject ed to greater strain than ours; their labor force to a more serious disorgan izatlon, and this is clearly not the time to seek an organized advantage. The work of mere reconstruction will, I am afraid, tax the capacity and the re sources of their people for years to come. So far from there being any danger or need of accentuated foreign competition. It is likely that the con ditions of the next few years will great ly facilitate the marketing of American manufactures abroad. Least of al should we depart from the policy adopted in -the tariff act of 1913 of per mltting the free entry into the United States of the raw materials used to supplement and enrioh our own abund ant supplies. Nevertheless there are parts of our tariff system which need prompt at tention. The experiences of the war made it plain that in some cases too great reliance on, foreign supply is dan gerous, and that in determining certain parts of our tariff policy domestic considerations must be borne In mind which are political as well as economic Among the industries to which special consideration should be given is tha of the manufacture-of dyestuff s and related chemicals. Our complete de pendence upon German supplies be fore the war made interruption of trade cause of exceptional economic dis turbance. The close relation between the manufacture of dyestuffs on the one hand and of explosives and poison ous gases on the other, moreover, h given the Industry an exceptional sig nificance and value. Although the Unit ed States will gladly and unhesitating ly Join In the programme of interna tional disarmament, it will, neverthe less, be a policy of obvious prudence to make certain of the successful mainte nance of many strong and well equipped chemical plants. The German chemical industry, with which we will be brought into competition, was and will be again a thoroughly knit mo nopoly capable of exercising a competi tion of a peculiarly insidious and dan gerous kind. The United States should, moreover. have the means of properly protecting itself whenever our trade is discrim inated against by foreign nations, in order that we may be assured of that equality of treatment which we hope to accord and to promote the world over. Our tariff laws as they now stand provide no weapon of retaliation in case other governments should enact legislation unequal in its bearing on our products as compared with the products of other nations. Though we are as far as possible from desiring to enter upon any courso of retaliation, we must frankly face the fact that hostile legislation by other nations is not be yond the range of possibility, and that it may have to be met by counter legis lation. This subject has fortunately been ex haustively investigated by the United States tariff commission. A recent re port of that commission has shown very clearly that we lack, and that we ought to have, the instruments necessary for the assurance of equal and equitable treatment. The attention of the con gress has been called to this matter on past occasions, and the measures which are now recommended by the tariff commission are substantially the same that have been suggested by pre vlous administrations. 1 recommend that this phase of the tariff question re ceive the early attention of the con gress. Suffrage Cause Promoted. Will you not permit me, turning from these matters, to speak once more and very earnestly, of the proposed amend ment to the constitution which would extend the suffrage to women and which passed the House of Representa tives at the last session of the congress. It seems to me that every consideration of justice and of public advantage calls for the immediate adoption of that amendment and its submission forth with to the legislatures of the several states. Throughout the world this long delsyed extension of the suffrage Is looked for; In the United States longer. I believe, than anywhere else. The ne cessity for it and the Immense advan tage of it to the national life has been urged and debated by women and men j policy of it when it required steadfast , courage to be so much beforehand with the common conviction: and I. for one. covet for our country the distinction of being among the first to act iga very great reform. The telegraph and telephone lines will, of course, be returned to their owners so soon as the re-transfer can be effected without administrative con fusion, so soon, that is, as the change can be made with least possible incon venience to the public and to the own ers themselves. The railroads will be handed over to their owners at the end of the calendar year; if I were in im mediate contact with the administra tive questions which must govern the re-transfer of the telegraph and tele phone lines I could name the exact date for their return also. Until 1 am in ui rect contact with the practical ques tions involved, I can only suggest that n the case of the telegraphs and tele phones, as in the case of the railways, it Is clearly desirable in the public in terest that some legislation should be considered which may tend to make of these indispensable instrumentalities of our modern life a uniform and co-ordinated system which will afford those who use them as complete ana certain means of communication with all parts of the country as has so long been af forded by the postal system of the gov ernment and at rates as uniform and Intelligible. Removal of Ban on Beer Asked. Expert advice is, of course, available .. . . 1 . V. n this very practical matter, hu i- public Interest is manifest. P.eltner the telegraph nor the telephone service of the country can be said to be in any sense a national system. There are many confusions and Inconsistencies of rates. The scientific means by which communication by such instrumentali ties can be rendered more thorougn and satisfactory has not been made full use of. An exhaustive study of the whole question of electrical com munication and of the means by which the central authority of the nation can be used to unify and Improve It, if un dertaken by the appropriate committees of the congress, would certainly re sult, indirectly If not directly, in a very crreat nubile benefit. The demobilization of the military forces of the country has progressed to such a point that it seems to me entire ly safe now to remove the ban upon the manufacture and sale of wines and beers, but I am advised that without further legislation I have not the legal authority n remove the present re strictions. I therefore recommend thai the act approved November 21, 1918, en titled "An act to enable the secretary of agriculture to carry out. during the fiscal year ending June ju, iis. tne purpose of the act entitled-An act to provide further for the national securi ty and defense by stimulating agrleul Hire and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products," and for other purposes," to be amended or repealed Insofar as It applies to wines and beers. I sincerely; trust that 1 shall very soon be at my post in wasmngion again to report upon the measures which made my presence at the peace table apparently imperative and to put myself at the service of the congress In every matter of administration or counsel that may seem to demand ex ecutive action or advice. WOODROW WILSON. May 20, 1919. STATE GRANGE WILL MEET Forty-Sixth Annual Session Will Be Held. at Illllsboro. HILLS BORO, Or., May 20. (Special.) The' 46th annual session of the Ore gon state grange will open in Hlllsboro at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning and continue for four days. Two hundred delegate's are expected and others who will be present will swell the total number of visitors to 500. As officers were elected at the Asto ria session last year, selection of of ficers will not form a part of the bus iness of the coming meeting, which will be devoted strictly to business. Sessions of the grange are private, but outsiders will be admitted during the lecture hours. Despite the fact that Junketing has been frowned down, relaxation will be furnished by a motor trip to the Gro ner walnut orchards at Scholls Wednesl day afternoon, with a. return trip fol lowing a route which will show the famous agricultural district. In the evening the delegates will be ten dered a banquet by Hlllsboro business men. u . . n A EXPOSE 0? AM EVIL THAT KflS EATEH ITS WAY THE VITALS OF'SOCIEH KvSI - - - . . . KLAMATH TO GRADUATE 28 Colonel Baird or tlio State University to Deliver Address. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. May 17. It is probable that 2S pupils will be grad uated In the class of 1919 from the Kla-v math county high school at the com mencement' exercises which will be held at the Houston opera house next Friday evening, according to a state ment made by ITincipai u. rt. 50 w man today. Col. Baird of the military department of the state university will bo here to deliver the commencement address The music for the occasion will be fur nished by the high school glee club. Of the class of 28. only six are boys this year, a smaller percentage than usual. Miss Florence lowIlng. who has made the highest record during the four-year course, will be valedictorian, and Miss Christine Murdock. who has made the next highest record, is to be ealutatorian. probability averted 6erious results. John Gilmore of Sightly was Killed December IS last. His body was found riddled with bullets, one passing throuKh his head, entering behid the ear aud coming out above the eye: an other through the neck and three through tho breast- Martin swirt was tried for the crime, but a verdict of not guilty was returned. Part of Human Skull Found. CEN'TRALIA. Wash., May 20. (Spe cial.) Part of a human skull, found Sunday on tho north fork of the Newau- kuin river, near Forest, was yesterday turned over to Dr. A. B. MacLean of this city, Lewis county coroner. It is thought possible that the skull is that of Mrs. Carrie Macomber. who was MARTIN SWIFT MOVES ON 3Iurder Suspect, Though Acquitted, Xot Welcomo at Castle Rock. CASTLE ROCK, Wash., May 20 The appearance here . Sunday or Martin Swift, who was tried ana acqumea roi lowing the murder of John Gilmore, was the occasion ot quite a commotion An Indignation meeting was held, sev eral of the city officials and prominent citizens attending. Tho sentiment of the meeting was that Swift should leave town at once. City Marshal James Price was depu Used to notify Swift of the action of the meeting, which he did. Swift de murred and said that he had a per fect right to be here." Tho marshal Informed him that he would be power- loss to protect him should he remain. Swift decided to leave, which in all 19 wl rm drowned about a year ago in the Ne waukurn 'at a point near where the skull was found. A "joker" is a word or clause ot innocent appearance, inserted in a bill before the congress in such a way as to make the bill mean something which some who voted for it did not think it meant. Read Tho Oreeonian classified ads. 7 ".1 "-c V " s V. - - V.. R. PAKKKK Painless Parker). 4 SAYS: Statistics prove that 80 of the people do without needed dental work and neglect their teeth. The E. R. Tarker System was organized to enable those in need of reliable dental service to have their teeth treat ed at the least cost possible with good workmanship. .SYSTEM, Painless - Parker Dentist 326 Washington St Cor. Sixth