7 EDWARD KIDDLE IS INTELLECTUAL POSEURS NOW CAN VOICE REAL OPINIONS THE MOKNTXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, XOYEMBEIl 27, 1919. OF Need of Law Carrying Death , Penalty Is Seen. LIFE TERMS DISCOURAGED Judges Mi-Bride, John-, Bennett, Harris, Burnett and Benson Take Decided Stand. SALEM, Or., Nov. 26. (Special.) That the time has arrived when the people or Oregon snould think seri ously, cast aside maudlin sentiment and restore to the criminal statutes the extreme penalty of capital punish ment, is the opinion openly expressed by the seven members of the supreme court of this state, Attorney-General Brown and other officials. "The several brutal and cold blooded murders committed in Ore gon within the past few weeks shod furnish conclusi ve proof of the need of drastic and uncompromising laws in handling the more desperate class of criminals," said Thomas A. Mc Bride, chief justice of the supreme court. "Men who commit niurd.r have no place in society and the quicker they arc tried, convicted and sent to the gallows, the better it will be for all concerned. When the man who loiters about the highways and tnkes human life is safely covered with six feet of earth he will have been robbed of all opportunity to com mit further depredations. In sending him to the penitentiary, he fattens off the taxpayer, eventually is paroled or pardonefl by some kind-hearted ex ecutive and is turned out again to prey on society. "During my 17 years incumbency as circuit judge of Clackamas county, J sentenced nine men to life terms in the penitentiary, but in each instance the prisoner was parolled. Not one of them served out 10 years of his sen tence. 1 voted against the abolish ment of capital punishment when it was referred to the people of Oregon in the year 1914, and 1 expect to con tribute my mite toward restoration of the penalty at the next election." Prior to being elected circuit judge of Clackamas county, Mr. McKride j-erved for a time as district attorney. He has been a member of the supreme court for more than 10 years. Murders Arouxe State. "There is but one punishment be fitting the murderer, and that is hang ing," declared C. A. Jchns, a mem ber of the supreme court. "The crim inal events of the past few weeks have a roused the people o. th is state, and It is my opinion that the death penalty will be restored when referred to the voters at the next election. Men of prominence ana good standing in the community have been shot down and killed in cold blood, and yet there are some sentimental-stricken individuals who would spare the murderers from the gallov.s. "While 1 do not believe that capital punishment will eliminate all mur ders, t am convinced from my obser vations that such a penalty will have a telling influence in reducing crime in this state. "1 ara glad to say that I voted against abolishing capital punishment when it was referred to the voters in Urepo:. in 191i, and 1 fully intend td work for and cast my "ballot in' favor of its restoration at the earliest pos sible opportunity." Prior to taking up his d uties as supreme court jus tice on June 14, 191s, Mr. Johns prac ticed law in Portland for a number of years and had considerable experience with criminals. . H. previously resided at Baker, where he held e office of mayor and other equally re3onsib-3 positions 'I am a strong advocate of capital punishment, said Lawrence Harris, member of the supreme court, "and I want to ray now that 1 voted against its abolishment in the year 1914, and stand ready to assist in its res to. a. tion at .he next election. Law and order are ign to the criminal and the recent murders in Oregon indicate the tre.id of events unless t neople ot trie sti-te awaken and provide pen allies bentting the crimes committed. The murderer has little dread for the penitentiary, but the thought of hang inj has deterred many a man fro:. committing the capital offense. The maudlin sentiment which ove: ;had- I owed the good judgment of the vot-! ers of the state in 1914 should be cast aside, ana me death penalty should ue resioreu at me earnest possible moment Before entering upon his duties as a member of the supreme court on January, 1915. Judge Harris served as circuit judge for ten years, and prior to that time acted assistant district attorney. Jury Decision Favored. "I am heartily in favor of restoring the death penalty," said Justice A. S. Bennett, "but in order to protect against any possible miscarriage of justice I would Eve the jury trying a person charged with murder the discretion of fixing a sentence of life in the penitentiary or hanging. The recent murder of Mrs.- Eunice Free man in Portland, the outrages com mitted upon our soldiers at Centra lia. Wash., and the killing of J. N". liurgess and George 1'eringer should furnish convincing proof that the criminals have lutle or no fear of the existing penalties. Until we re store capital punishment, men bent ' on killing and plundering will run at large, and the people of the state can expect little improvement in con ditions. I voted and worked against the abolishment of capital punishment five years ago. and I will be found casting my ballot for its restoration ut the next election." "There was never a time when 1 was opposed to capital punishment," said Justice Burnett, "and 1 was one of the minority w ho voted against its abolishment in . the year lyi4. The many murders committed In Oregon during the past few months should be sufficient to arouse the people to action, and there should be a decisive stand against the criminal. The peni tentiary, rather than being a resort of punisnmeut for the man who commits murder, is a fattening cradle, and in carceration within its walls for a few years has no terrors. Hanging, while looked upon by some sentimentalists as brutal, is just and Is the only pen alty bentting the murderer. Nothing ol me restoration or the death i"rl"ulJ 111 present conditions and put the fear of God in nffenrl.r. l'rior to being elected a member of the supreme court Justice Burnett was a number of years circuit judge, and in that capacity sentenced aiumber of men to life terms in the penitentiary. In almost every instance they were released within a few years and again allowed to menace society. Hanglnir 1 Orfended. "The scaffold furnishes the only penalty which will fully avenge so ciety for murder," said Henry L, Ben son, who has served as a member of the Oregon supreme court since Jan uary 1, 1115. "The man who kills his fellow human should be readily ex terminated, not in the mere role of Madame Marie Horgan of Alcazar "Mikado Company Tells of Insin cerity of Americans Who Profess to Admire Distasteful Music BY LEONE CASS BAER. mHERE are any number of so- I called intellectual poseurs who' - pretend to admire what in their secret hearts they either dislike intensely or know nothing at all about. I refer to Wagnerian zea.ots." Madame Marie Horgan was skill fully adjusting the fizzy grey wig, punctured through with dozens of tiny fans, above Katisha's counte nance. It had been Madame Horgan'a countenance, full' of character and womanly charm, when I first entered her dressing room at the Alcazar, but ranid manioulation of her busy fin gers and application of make-up on her smooth cheeks, tufts of wool on each brow, and semblance of wrinkles had made a metamorphosis. It need ed only the adjustment of the rat's nest wig with its bobbing flowers at her ears, and Madame Horgan was ready to blacken out her teeth, a proctss which leaves Katisha without a single beauty prop to lean upon. "Well may Katisha prate of her shoulder blade. which men como miles, and boast of her circulation the largest in the world," sighed Madame Horgan. "Do you suppose z.ny woman ever so homely really lived?" I asked. "She might have existed before the days of beauty specialists." opined this famous delineator of the ugly heroine in Oilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado," "but her type is extinct now. A mod ern Katisha would have turkish baths and roll every morning on her apartment floor till she was so thin she wouldn't have to wear outsizes. She would have her face skinned, her eyebrows shaved into perfect arches, and if she had a kink in her hair she'd have it removed. If she didn't have a kink she'd have one put in. In that respect Katisha would be like all her sisters. She would be manicured, pedicured and certainly, oh certainly, she would see dentist, smiled Madame Horgan in nice friendly, inky black smile in which one lone un blacked tooth shone out. Then she said, apropos of music: "It will be a splendid thing for reaJ art in America when the laymen ot refinement and education develop sufficient courage and honesty enough to say 1 do not like, or '1 do like' this piece of art or that piece, and be able to give a reason for his preference or dislike. There will be j neither progress nor understanding j of music just as long as the poseurs pretend an enjoyment that is not felt. "1 have never been abroad, but I have met any number af tourists who drop into poses of ecstacy and gibber in entranced ejaculations of the pic tures from 'old masters,' when they pass by splendid examples of painting done right here in America. These art excursionists rush right on to praise with no understanding where, of tener than not, they should weep, for it is a well-known fact that many of the old masters painted atro- punishment, but in order that society may forever be rid of his presence. The fiendish murder of Mrs. Eunice Freeman, followed by the brutal slay- ing Of Oeorge i'eringer anu J. in. uici uuimg Liie civil war ane taugin Burgess emphasizes beyond a doubt school in Illinois and supported her that the people of Oregon made a self and her two children, serious mistake when in 1914 they j Mrs. Miller is survived by her son, abolished the death penalty. Incar- ! E. E. Miller and a daughter, Mrs. Min ceration in the peniteniary is merely ! nie Meade of Tillamook, a vacation for many criminals, as j Funeral services will be held to they well know that within a few , morrow at Finley's chapel at 11 years their crime will be forgotten 1 o'clock. Burial will be in the Lone and they will be paroled or pardoned by some sentimental governor, Ore gon needs the gallows and the sooner it is returned the sooner the criminals will take to other fields. I voted ( against abolishing capital punishment in 1914, and 1 am now one of the strongest advocates for its restora tion." Justice Benson, before being elected supreme court justice served as cir cuit judge and district attorney. Justice Bean, although out of the city today, previously expressed in the presence of other members of the su preme court the opinion that capital punishment should be restored at the earliest opportunity. Attorney-General George M. Brown, who served as district attorney in southern Oregon for 21 years and who has had almost unlimited experience in handling criminals, says there is no doubt but that capital punishment has deterred many criminals from committing murder. Catie la Cited. "Only a few years ago," said the attorney-general, "I prosecuted a case involving two young men accused of highway robbery. One of these youths told me that had it not have been for the fear of the death penalty he would have killed one of his victims.' This Is only one of many cases, ac cording to the attorney-general, where the death penalty proved its worth in preventing crime. In order, however, that men coiv victed of murder might have every protection against miscarriage of jus tice, Mr. Brown would have the testi mony of the lower court reviewed by the supreme court or some other body before carrying out the orer of exe cution. At the election held in 1914 there were 100,552 votes cast in favor of abolishing capital punishment in Ore gon, while the minority polled 100.395 votes. The majority against continu ance of the death penalty was less than 200 votes. SARAH . MILLER DIES AtiLD WOMAN KESIDEXT OUEGOX SI.XCK 1871. OF Charter Member of 'Westminster Presbyterian Church Keaclied Age of 9 0 Years 5 Montlis. Mrs. Sarah Esther Miller, who was the first president of the department of Oreeon for the woman's, relief " 1 corns and a charter member of the Westminster Presbyterian church, died Tnp.lnv t the noma nf her son. K. K. Miner. 321 Eugene street. Her death was tne result ui a. Ian in wmn out sustained a fracture of the hip about 5 weeks previous. Sie was 90 years and 5 months old. Mrs. Miller came to Oregon in com pany with her husband. DeWitt C. Miller, who died 13 years ago, and her two small children in 1S71, mak ing the trip by way of the Union Pa cific line to an rancisco anl rrom there by the steamer Constantine to Portland. The Miller family first settled on a farm near Wheatland and afterwards on the old Ben Cornelius place near Forest Grove. About 30 years ago they came to Portland. Mrs. Miller was accomplished i needlework and at the Lewis an Clark exposition was awarded a priz. for a design tin art needlework, a; that time being well along in years. Mrs. Miller, whose maiden name was Wells, was born in Elmira, New York. She was an adventuresome girl and In 1?52 made the trip around the horn j to San FranciBCO, later returning by Marie Horgan, who 1 filling? special en easement at the Alcazar. ciously. and were vastly inferior to our modern draughtsmen and wretch ed colorists besides. Still your Minnie Fish tours iCurope-s art galleries in two days and conies back home to gasp and fall into rapture every time someone mentions the old masters. It's the same way with music. Public opinion has been forced to put its cards on the table since the war, and now a great many folk who -used to pretend to admire the ghastly dull ness of Wagner's music, because of a fear of being thought provincial or a Philistine, can now be honest about it and say truthfully that they hated Wagner's operas. I have never been a Wagnerite, and it didn't take a po litical upheaval for me to say so yeara ago when I began my career. "My mother was a singer before me," continued Madame Horgan, "and so was my dear sister, whose passing away a year igo nas Deen me oig grief in my otherwise happy life. We were all musical, and when I was 13 I made my debut with the Aborn opera company in Boston. The role 1 sang was Little Buttercup. I weighed 163 pounds, and my dream was some day to sing Katisha. Well. 1 grew fatter every year, and I've sung Katisha over and over. It is my favorite role. Its dramatic appeal balances its decided comedy valuers and I am perfectly happy when I'm Katisha." It might be added that so, too, is everyone happy who hears Madame Horgan when she is Katisha. Her engagement is for this week only at the Alcazar. 1 way of the isthmus. She went with her family to Illinois. After her mar- ; riage she and Mrs. Miller went to Mis souri. While her husband was a sol ir cemetery. jjt. n,. n. fence will E offic.'ate at the services which will be in charge of the Women's Relief corps. Members of the G. A. R. will act as pall bearers. TRIAL OF 16,000 STARTED Budapest Communists Furnish Big Job for Court. BUDAPEST. Nov. 24. The trial of communists charged with crimes dur ing the Beia Kun dictatorship began today. Ooerny, commander of the "Lenine Boys," being the first of 16. 000 to be arraigned. Oserny pleaded that he had only performed his duty. He denied many charges of execu tions and recited several instances in which he claimed Bela Kun gave direct and explicit orders for murders. Eugene Soldier Returns. EUGENE, Or.. Nov. 26. (Special.) After having spent 16 months over- eas. 5 months of this time in Ber lin, Milton C. Burton, son of Mrs. E. P. Burton of this city, returned home this week. In February previous to the entrance of the United States in the war he joined the regular army and was later sent to France with the 11th field artillery of the S9th divi sion. For many months after the ar mistice was signed he was in Berlin and" other German cities working with the Red Cross in feeding Russian prisoners. SECRET IS Where she got that clear -trans-1 parent skin with the suggestion xf rose petals just tinting her cheeks her bright eyes and the vivaciousness and attractiveness of youth regained, The secret of good health and beauty is keeping1 clean inside as well 'as outside. Sluggishness of the intestinal tract is responsible for nine-tenths of the ! , i l l i TM ' diseases notaoiy neaaacne. lue s'a 11 o w complexion, . the . coated j tongue, dark circles under eyes Indigestion depression fear are ill' signs of danger and of the poisoning caused by "constipation. Everyone should guard against putrefaction, the Btoppagei of the bowels '-or the colon. Everyone should occasionally take castor oil, or, what is better, a pleasant pellet jnade up of May-apple, leaves of aloe, root of jalap, rolled into tiny, tsugar-eoatcd pellets and long sold as Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. After influenza or cold3 the kjdneys and bladder are - -often affected called nephritis, . . or inflammation of the kidneys. Governor Names Successor to Late J'. N. Burgess PUBLIC ACTIVITIES MANY Appointee Prominent in War Drives and Roa d Bon d Ca m paigns; Seat Held in Senate. SALEM. Or., Nov. 26. (Special.) Edward Kiddle of Island City, Union county, was today appointed by Gov ernor Olcott to succeed the late J. N. Burgess as a member of the state highway commission. His term will expire on March 31, 1922. Mr. Kiddle has spent ths greater part of his life in Union ccunty, be ing prominently identified with mill ing aand stock industries. While he has always been actively identified with matters pertaining to the pub lic interest of his county and state, he had held but one state office, when he was a member of the senate in 1913 and 1915 from Union and Wal lowa counties. During the recent war Mr. Kiddle was prominent in Red Cross and other patriotic activities and took a lead ing part in the drive for putting over the $1,500,000 road bond issue In Union county. He has always been more or less interested in good roads activities. He was manager of the Pioneer Milling company, with con trol over practically all of the flour mi 1 business in Union county. "Mr. Kiddle, I understand, has re cently retired from his active duties in-connection with his extensive mill ing business in Union county," said Governor Olcott today in announcing his appointment. "He is in a position to give great service to the state on the highway commission. "I know Mr. Kiddle personally, and have come" in contact with him fre quently. I have the highest regard for his business capacity, and am cer tain that he will make a valuable addition to the commission. "Mr. Kiddle has been highly sue cessful in a business capacity. He has a keen appreciation of the necessity for giving a thoroughly efficient business administration of the affaira of this commission, which are of such enormous importance to the people of the state of Oregon. I believe the state is fortunate In being able to secure such men as Mr. Kiddle to give their time and attention to business of such great trust as this. "1 can say without hesitation that the names of a number of especially well qualified men were advanced as possible candidates for this position. The selection was a difficult one to make because of the numerous names mentioned, any of which might make a high type of a commissioner. 1 might add to the credit of the many excellent gentlemen in eastern Oregon whose names were advanced as pos sible recipients of this appointment that not a solitary one of them was a personal applicant for the position." HOOD TO AID RED CROSS $1250 of Funds Raised to Be Used for Public Nurse. HOOD RIVER, Or, Nov. 26. (Spe cial.) featuring the plans of appro priating half of all the funds to be raised in the Hood River county Red Cross rollcall for 1920 for the local public health service, the local execu tive committee expects the campaign to be waged December 1 to 6, inclu sive, to result in a membership of 2o00. in excess of that of last year by 200. The executive committee met yes terday at the commercial club and appointed district teams for the drive. It is hoped that $1250 will be raised for a maintenance of a pubic nurse. The county court has been asked for an appropriation of 92500. ABERDEEN T0 GET MILL Bishop Lumber Plant at Montesano to Discontinue Operations. ABERDEEN", Wash.. Nov. 26. E. K. Bishop of Montesano, owner of Bishop lumber mill of that city, will discon tinue operations in Montesano and will immediately begin construction of a new mill on a 400-foot river front age tract adjoining the A. J. West mill property in Aberdeen, it was an nounced this morning. Construction of the new mill on the present site will be started at once, according to Mr. Bishop's present plans. The mill has a capacity of about 60,000 feet and will be thor oughly modern. This is the red-flag of danger better.be wise and cheok the fur ther inroads of kidney disease by obtaining at the drug store that wonderful new discovery of Dr. Pierce's. knovn as "Anuric" (aoti-urie-acidO. because Anuric expels the uric-acid poison from the body and cures those pains, such as backache, rheuma tism'iin muscles 'and joints. Naturally when the kidneys are deranged the blood is tilled with poisonous waste matter, which settles in the feet, ankles and wrists; or under the eyes in bag- like formations. - Doctor Pierce's Anuric is many times more potent than lithia and often eliminates uric acid as hot tea melts sugar.'. Send Dr. Pierce's SSiifacfat: Y" Don't Harness Shop Becomes Auto Accessory Store. Hood River Bofnen Goea Way of Blackamlt Shops. HOOD RIVER, Or., Nov. 26. (Spe cial.) Hood River rural .black smith shops the past year have been converted Into garages, and now comes W. G. Weber, local harness merchant, who announces that a por tion of his store hereafter will be de voted to a line of automobile acces sories and tires. "Too few people use horses for drawing pleasure vehicles," says Mr. Weber, "and as for that matter the horse, while still in evidence, has been superseded to a great degree by the motor truck In hauling freight. My business in harness has dwindled to a point necessitating the addition of pilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllM Living Room Comforts for Cold Winter Evenings j 2 and Suites We especially wish to show you EE our line of daven- H ports, ranging in ' price from $125 to If $275. Beautiful pieces covered in velour and tapes- try, also chairs to match. Very liberal terms without interest. For Comfort at Night Get Our.Roll-Me" Mattress and Double-deck Coil Springs with 20-year Guar antee. $66.75 ; $6.75 cash and $6 month. i ' EES rEz EE EE Use Our Exchange Dept. Be and Cheapness is not always economy. Quality is always cheapest in the end. Royal Baking Powder costs so little more per can than common baking powder that the difference represents about one penny in the baking of a cake. But that penny insures the quality and wholesomeness of the cake, protects you against waste of dollars in materials, time and labor, to say nothing of the wholesomeness it guarantees. Moral: Don't risk) your cake for the sake of a penny when you can "Bake it and. Contains No Alum Leaves No Bitter Taste. some other line. Naturally, automobile accessories." Hood Ratio Not Changed. koOD RIVER, Or., Nov. 26. (Spe ciai.) Jasper W ickham, county as sessor, has been apprised that Hood Kiver county's tax ratio in the levy of the state assessment will remain at 64 per cent, the same as on last season. The state tax commission alarmed Mr. Wlckham last week by announcing a tentative ratio of 45 per cent. Mr. Wickham has figured out that the general average of county ratios will be 69 per cent. Hood River's state tax will be approximately the same as on last year. Eugene Elks Choose - Speaker. EUGENE, Or., Nov. 26. (Special. )- Dr. T. W. Harris of this city has been chosen by the Eugene lodge of Elks to deliver the memorial address at the annual lodg-e of sorrow to be This Tapestry-Covered EE Overstuffed Davenport I Specially Priced at $95.00 I $11.00 Cash and An exceptional value, 3 loose cushions, long springs, good tapestry, first-class workman ship, mahogany finish legs. 3 Piece Overstuffed ma: MOMEfruRNISHERS rw it t jk m atr 6G-TO-FIFTH 577 Penny Wise Dollar Foolish with ROYAL be Sure" held at the Elks temple on Sunday, December 7. Judge E. O. Potter will deliver the eulogy. Whltten Swafford, C. F. Hurlburt and N. I Fry are members of the committee in charge of arrangements for the services. Boys Held for Hotel Robbery. ABERDEEN, Wash., Nov. 26. (Spe cial.) R. Page and George Smith were arrested here yesterday by Dep uty Sheriff Williams of Oakville on a charge of having held up Tom Glover of the Glover hotel and taking 525 from him. The boys were each about 19. Legion to Spot Anarchy. TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 26. The American legion is this week organ izing precinct committees here for the purpose of canvassing the loyalty of all residents and marking persons of anarchistic tendencies. Read The Oregonian classified ads. $7.00 a Month Easy Terms Without Interest ,. V... A Thorough Examination of the eyes by my perfected sys tem will reveal the CAUSE of your eye troubles. Any refractive defect I can remedy with proper lenses. More than twenty years' ex perience and knowledge, used in conjunction with scientific instru ments, makes it possible for me to relieve your eye troubles with Perfect Fitting Glasses. DR. WHEAT Eyesight Specialist Second Floor Morgan Building Entrance on Washington IS THE 'FLU A NEW DISEASE? Reappearance of Epidemic Leads to Discussion on Sub j ect The reappearance of 'flu at many points bringo up the old question as to whether it is a new disease or a new form of some very common ailment. The genera' consensus of medical opinion is that it is a germ disease of a virulent tvpe which first attacks the membranes of the nose and throat and then spreads to come vital organ where it develops very quickly and does fearful work. The symptoms of 'flu are about the same as those of a cold in the head, and for that reason it is now posi tively unsafe to allow a cold to go without attention. Treatment should be started s eoon as the head starts closing up. the nose etarts running or the sufferer starts sneezing. L.et thee conditions run for 24 hours and acute trouble is liable to develop, possibly resulting in an attack of pleui -isy, pneumonia or kindred ailments. If Grip Fix i taken when the cold is starting, relief may be expected in a single night. Even if the cold hws reached the Grippe stage, 48 hours' treatment is usually effective. Grip Fix contains nothing but the drups vour phvsician would order, a full list 'r,r which is Kiven on every box. It comes in capsule form, and in a night will relieve the closed up condition of the head, overcome the fever, allay the muscular soreness and tone up the system. Be prepared. Have Grip Fix In the house. Be sure to get the original Iteid's Grip Fix. It's on sale at all druggists at 35c per box. Adv. After lengthy experimenting, New Zealand government chemists have succeeded in separating dirt from kauri gum and increasing its yield of oil. largely used in varnish making.