THE MORNING ORECOXIAX, TUESDAY, -SEPTEMBER It, 1920
MAYOR AGAINST CIVIL
SERVICE IN POLITICS
City Jobs Not to Be Boodle,
Says Baker to Employes.
GAUNTLET THROWN DOWN
Action Said to Be Aimed at Cora
ruision Control Draws
Heated Opposition.
Mayor Baker threw down the gaunt
let to civil service employes last
night, when, in an address to city
workers, he charged an effort on their
part to "put the civil service com
mission back into politics." The charge
came as a bombshell at the first fall
meeting of the Civil Service associa
tion, which had asked the mayor to
tell its members "how best to serve
the people."
There could be no mistaking his
language when he deplored a plan
offered b$city employes that they, as
an association, choose one member of
the civil service commission, another
to be .chosen by popular vote and the
third member be appointed by the
ma yor..
Mayor Opposes Kmployea Clique.
"You are seeking to place the civil
ncrvicc commission back Into politics;
to dictate to the commission what it
shall do: to control the commission
so its action would be guided by your
wishes. I am unalterably opposed to
the scheme, and as long as I am
mayor of Portland I will oppose it
with my whole power," he stated.
Continuing, the mayor said:
"I have nine months yet to serve as
mayor of this city and I am up for
re-election. I am not here to bid for
your votes. When I am finished I may
have fewer friends among your mem
bership than when I came here.
'"I want the employes of the city to
realize that they are the servants of
the people. It has come to my notice
that some of the employes feel they
are bigger than the people wh,om
they are serving. It is not necessary
for you to get down on your knees;
but.it Is necessary that you show a
marked courtesy.
I.ivinK Watt Approved.
"I believe in a living wage and you
will always find me working with
might and main to get such a wage
for city workers. The complaint of
taxpayers against high wages is a
mistake. We have no room for inef
ficient workers, for, as any efficient
corporation or private individual, we
pay a high wage for proper service.
"You may want control of the civil
service commission, but you aren't go
ing to get it. You may think you
have a certain backing in your plans,
but you'll find that backing will fail
you.
"I will never stand, among other
things, for the unionization of the po
lice department, even if, as a result of
that stand. I couldn't stay in office ten
minutes. The civil service commission
gives you all the protection you need
and all you can expect. The time has
not arrived when the civil service em
ploye can tell the people what to do.
"I am responsible, as mayor,, for
each individual empToye of the city,
and T don't want, in my position, to
be a figurehead and take orders from
one or all of those employes. If you
expect me to be a party in destroying
good government, I m not with you.
Old Order Opposed.
Tine civil service commission was
taken out of politics solely to destroy
the cheap political trick of enabling
one In power to bestow jobs in
return for political support. It would
be a crime to restore such a condition.
The era when cheap politics could be
played has passed. You can't pad the
payrolls with inefficient help for what
support they would give. The neoDle
won't stand for it. You may not like
the commission, you may disagree
with its decisions, but you must abide
by them. You can't select your own
commission and, above all, you can't
dictate its policy.
The mayor's arraignment of the as
sociation's plan came as a complete
and admitted surprise to the employes
They recently proposed that a charter
amendment be placed before the vot
ers providing that the commission be
selected as outlined, to supplant the
present prerogative of the mayor, who
appoints all three members.
The association passed a resolution
seeking adoption by the council of a
plan provming Denents during en
forced absence of an employe or dur
ing illness. The plan would be tem
porary, as the council has passed
measure calling for the appointment
of a committee to work out some such
plan as a permanent fixture. The
committee has not yet been named.
laughter is occasioned by the antics
of a diminutive comedian, Martin Lee,
who poses as a cab driver.
Wilbur Cushman, as a city rounder,
caches and exchanges repartee with
Leo, and an interesting girl, Carrie
Hawley, sings prettily. A wee baby
girl, unprogrammed, sings a jazz spe
cialty with real dance ginger in
every movement.
The scenic settings are handsome
and show the exterior and interior of
a unique cafe supposedly In Green
wich village.
The Ward brothers. Bob and Al, are
a clever pair who travesty the Eng
lish of the doncher-know type, mono
cles, and drawl n'every thing. They
exchange pointless jokes and one tries
to tell the other one about the Amer
ican game of baseball. They sing, too,
exceptionally well, and are amazingly
good dancers, lithe and agile and
rapid. As a finale .they yodel first in
regulation style and then they jazz
it up merrily and are applauded vig
orously. A pair of capital funmakers are
Morgan Davis and Lulu McCoy. They
argue and come to grief over a song
which Morgan insists is too high for
him and keep their audience in con
tinual mirth at their nonsensicalities.
All of the Davis-McCoy material is
new and keen and has the excellent
value of spontaneity.
Jose Termini plays a violin while
his partner, Charles Klass, wields an
accordion with splendid musical re
sults. Their act is snappy and spar
kles with melody and good taste.
Klass plays the piano, too, in fine
style and the act went big yesterday.
Kremka brothers have a capital
opening act. They are novelty eccen
tric gymnasts whose balances and
leaps through the air astonish and
thrill.
Barney Williams, with four accom
plices, put over an act called "Hunt
ing," in which the best feature is
tht singing. -
5 HURT, 30 CRASHES
DUETOWETSTREETS
MOODY ENJOINS STATE
HIGHWAY COMMISSION ATTOR
NEY TO KIGTIT CASE.
:"all Bridge Owner Says Lesal
111 glit to Condemn Property
Does Not Apply.
THE DALLES, Or.. Sept. 13. (Spe
cial.) M. A. Moody has filed an in
unction suit against Simon Benson.
chairman of the state highway com
mission, to prevent that body from
condemning a strip of land to be used
for highway purposes from the Moody
oil bridge to the new Deschutes
iver bridge. He alleges that the
ighwai- commission has no lptra J
right to lay out a temporary detour
route, and that as the county court
as refused to -condemn this land.
he highway commission cannot do so.
Judge Fred. Wilson of the circuit
court has issued a temporary re
training order against the commis
ion until tomorrow, when the case
will be presented for a hearing.
SALEM. Or., Sept. 13. (Special.) j
M. Devers, attorney for the state!
ghway commission, left here tonight
or The Dalles, where he will appear
for the state in the proceedings filed
n Wasco county recently by Malcolm
Moody to restrain the state highway
commission from proceeding with the
construction of a road ' across his
property. This road, if constructed,
will connect up the present Columbia
river highway with the new state
bridge over the Deschutes river.
The state highway commission two
weeks ago offered , Mr. Moody $250
for the land necessary for these rights
f way, but the proposal was refused.
The state then filed suit in Wasco
county looking toward the condemna-
ion of the land. Saturday Mr. Moody
nstituted an action, in which he asked
that the state be enjoined from pro-
eeding with construction of the
highway, with the result that the
court granted a temporary restrain-
ng order. Hearing of the application
or a permanent injunction was orig-
nally set for September 16, but Mr.
Devers succeeded in having it set
ahead on the docket for tomorrow.
At the Theaters.
Panlasos.
THE MAIN attraction on Pantages'
new bill is the motion picture
closeups of several hundred Portland
citizens, men prominent in every walk
of business life. They are shown in
croups, in duos, trios and singly. A
each is recogniz'ed applause rings out
Among the many are- animated view
of Manager John Johnson of Pan
tages theater, and another or his son
Kay Johnson, assistant. The series i
.called "Who's Who in Portland," and
everyone of importance has bee
snapped.
Of the show proper a girly-girly ag
gregation, the first musical revue in
weeks, offers plenty of excitemen
It is called "A Little Cafe," and is
billed as "a 20-minute display of love
laughs and lingerie. The lingerl
ii shown on a plump chorus and th
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No matter how pretty your
features are, you cannct be truly
attract"ve with a red, rough,
pimply complexion. But Resi
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Soap, will usually make poor
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Resiral Soap and Resinol Ointment ara
old by all drnrs-wts.-' Why not try them ?
Autos Skid When Stopping or
Avoiding Other Cars.
OFFICER BLAMES SPEED
Investigation Says Drivers Don't
Make Allowances for Slippery
Pavements and Go Limit.
but the slippery pavement cauBed the
machines to skid together.
AIR PATROL IS TO QUIT
Rains Make Unnecessary Further
Use of Aeroplanes.
The forest service air patrol will be
discontinued for the rest of this sea
son, beginning today, if weather con
ditions remain, the same as yesterday,
states C. W. Boyce, who has ben in
charge of the patrol base at Eugene
and who was in Portland yesterday.
One division of the patrol will go
to Camp Lewis to direct artillery fire
and the rest of the airplanes will be
sent to San Francisco. Early rains
have made possible the discontinuing
of the patrol at this date.
The patrol has sighted 525 fires in
the western part of th state during
the two months the planes have been
engaged in this work. Of this number
125 were first discoveries. Seventy
five per cent of the fires were re
ported to the bases by wireless.
ISLAND FORESTER HERE
XEW SOUTH WALES HAS BIG
PROBLEM, SAYS A. HELMS.
Various Species of Trees and Seeds
Suitable for Planting- to
Be Obtained.
New South Wales has its problems
of reforestation as welj as the United
States, says A. Helms, who has come
to Oregon as a representative of the
New South Wales forestry commis
sion to obtain various species of trees
and seeds suitable for planting in his
country.
The area in which he is particularly
interested at this time is a part of the
country called in Australia the south
ern table land, about 100 miles from
the coast toward the Victorian bor
der. It is the only tract on the main
land, he says, which is at all cold in
winter. Mr. Helms expects that Doug
las fir and other species will be suit
able.
"Australia is a country in which
nearly all the timber is eucalyptus
he said yesterday. "We depend for
our soft woods on the outside world.
With the future in view we are plan
ning for conifers.
In Australia the forestry service is
in an experimental stage. Each state
maintains Its own separate commls
sion to care for the (interests of the
forests. Forest fires are frequent
says Mr. Helms, and the damaged
trees are attacked by white ants, so
that in many oi the forests 80 per
cent of the trees are useless.
Mr. Helms has come to Oregon from
California. where he spent two
months in the Sierras. He will leae
in about two weeks for the south and
before returning to Australia will
visit central Europe and London.
BAR
Wet, slippery streets drew an ab
normally large toll of automobile ac
cidents yesterday, in the process of
which at least five persons were in
jured, many cars were damaged
and at least one 'was completely
wrecked. Up to 6 o'clock last night
30 accidents as a result of skidding
had been reported to the accident de
partment of the traffic bureau at the
police station.
In the majority of the reports the
causes of the accidents were assigned
to the fact that cars skidded while
attempting to round a corner, or
attempting to round a corner, at
tempting to stop, or while trying to
avoid another car. One man claimed
that he had the right of way over
a streetcar, andi that while attempt
ing to turn in frojjt of the car his
automobile skiddedtyresultingr in dam
age to both streetcar and- automobile.
"It'a Speed," Saya Investigator.
"The trouble is in these skidding ac
cidents while the streets are wet that
the drivers try to round the corners
at the same speed as if the pavement
were perfectly dry," said Traffic In
vestigator Freiberg yesterday. "They
never learn to make allowances for
slippery pavements. If they did there
would be far less work for the traffic
department. They try to go at the
limit of the speed prescribed by law,
not realizing that normal speed is not
right for abnormal conditions."
Traffic Investigators Freiberg and
Yost were kept busy yesterday in
vestigating the more serious accidents.
No fatalities for the day were re
ported, although a total of five per
sons were badly bruised as a result
of the slippery pavements.
H. P. Nunn of 662 Halsey street
and Max Fleming of 690 Weidler
street sustained severe bruises as a
result of a skidding accident which
occurred at the corner of Eleventh
and Halsey streets, when the car
driven by Nunn was struck by a
heavy car driven by K. D. Kinsey, 505
East Couch street, and knocked over
the curb and turned completely over.
Car Wrecked, Occupant Bruised.
According to Investigator Freiberg's
report, Nunn's car was proceeding
east on Halsey street, and had the
right of way over Kinsey's car, which
was going south on Eleventh street.
Neither driver was exceeding the
peed limit, but when Kinsey applied
the brakes the car skidded to the
intersection and the accident resulted.
Nunn's car was completely wrecked
and both occupants were badly
bruised. J ;;
A. Lang-ley of 666 East Irvine street.
was treated at the Emergency hospi
tal at the police station for a badly-
wrenched side yesterday morning as
a result or a collision with a seiiwood
street car at the corner of East
Seventh and Hawthorns streets.
Langley said that he was going west
on Hawthorne avenue at a speed of
8 miles per hour and turned south on
East Seventh street when the street
car struck the rear wheel of his ma
chine. The car traveled 30 feet after
the Impact, he said.
Track Bompa Street Car.
C. V. Bechman was driving a de
livery truck south on Milwaukie ave
nue yesterday morning at 7:10, ac
cording to his report, and was driv
ing on the car track in the middle
of the street, as the pavement on
each side was in a poor, condition.
Upon the approach of a Sellwood car.
which was going north on Milwaukie
avenue, he attempted to turn out, but
the wheels skidded along the car
track, he said. Both the street car
fender and the rear wheel of the
truck were damaged.
A motorcycle and an automobile
skidded to a crash on the corner of
Burnside and Eleventh street yes
terday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. John
Rankin, the driver of the motorcycle,
was brought to the emergency hos
pital, suffering from bruises and a
cut on the head, by the driver of the
automobile. Joseph A. Dawson of 543
East Forty-ninth street north. Both
tried to avoid a collision at the In
tersection, according to the report.
3 CHINESE DRUG SUSPECTS
Trio Held , to Grand Jury for Al
leged Violations.
Wong Ping, Wong Duck and Sid
Long, Chinese, were held for the
October grand jury by United States
Commissioner Drake yesterday,
charged with violating the Harrison
drug act. Ping was released under
bond of $1000 while the other de
fendents gained, their release under
bonds of $500 each.
Ping is alleged to have eold opium
to employes of the Kwongr Wong
Yuen cannery at Naknek, Alaska. He
Is said to have had an agreement with
the cannery owners whereby sales
were made and the cost deducted
from wages - of cannery employes.
Buck and Long were charged with
having opium In their possession
when they arrived from Alaska.
SCHOOL HEAD1 APPOINTED
Clackamas Snperintendent to Su
pervises Boys Fair Camp.
OREGON CITY, Or., Sept. 13. (Spe
cial.) Brcnton Vedder, county schoof
superintendent, or this city, has been
appointed superintendent of the boys"
camp at the state Fair and is to serve
nis fourth year.
Mr. Vedder, who is working with
Miss Romney Snedeker, club.organizer
of Clackamas county, in the inter
est of the county and state fairs, feels
much encouraged over the prospect of
me exnioits in the juvenile depart
ment at the fairs this year, and 1
looking forward to having one of the
largest exnioits this year in that de
partment.
RELIGION HELD NO
SCHOOL HERD IMPROVES
Hillamina to Make Instruction
Practical This Year. .
WILLAMINA. Or, Sept. 23. (Spe
cial.) In order that the schools may
keep pace with the rapid growth and
development of the coast counties,
the development of the practical
phase of student life In the schools of
this vicinity will not be entirely
neglected.
The dairy herd will be improved
by the boys and girls, who receive
efficient training along that line in
the public Schools.
Mitchell Exhibition Success.
FOSSIL, Or., Sept. 13. (Special.)
Aitnougn tne weather was far from
iavoraoie for the "Fan-'em-all" held
at Mitchell September 9, 10 and 11,
there was a good attendance. The
entertainment, which was successful
in every way, was under the manage
ment of Billy Ray of Prineville, who
will give a similar exhibition later
In the month at Antelope. The events
included bucking horse contests, steer
bulldogging contests, bareback rid
ing and wild steer riding. There
was a dance each evening and picture
snows also.
- Eight Sue for Divorce.'
Divorce suits filed in the circuit
court yesterday inaluded: Myrtle
against nugn witzel, Jack F. against
Mona Johnson. Olive against Edward
H. Hanson, Ida M. against Jesse Lee
Morris, Marlon M. against Robert F
Tucker, Mira against William C
vjoons, Jydla against Henrv Osca
Parker, and Grace D. against Bert E
Aiariage. -
Millman Fatally Hurt.
J. E. Ball, 50 years of age, alaborer
employed at .the Connell Lumbe
company mill at Burlington, was
caught in a log carrier yesterday
afternoon and suffered a fracture of
the skull. He died about 5 P. M. and
the body was brought to the morgue
He is survived by his widow and nine
children.
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Department Rules on Admission of
One-Time Pacifist.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. No dis
crimination should be made on ac
count of religious belief against any
alien attempting to enter the United
States, the department of justice ha
ruled in passing on an appeal raised
by George H. Biddle from the attempt
of immigration authorities to bar him
from entrance. Biddle is secretary of
the "standfast" section of the Inter
national Bible Students' association,
which group came into conflict with
the government during the war be
cause of its insistence upon pacifism.
Biddle's case was brought up when
he desired to cross the Canadian bor
der to attend a convention of the
organization in the United States.
'Gompers Unable to Attend.
KANSAS CITY. Mo., Sept. 13. Word
was received from Samuel Gompers
that he will not be able to attend the
convention of the International
Brotherhood of Boilermakers and
Iron Shipbuilders, which opened to
day. Fifteen hundred delegate attended.
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UR SAKES ROOMS were
thronged yesterday in re
sponse to Sunday's an
nouncement of this great sale with
out profit.
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Men came as you sHould come
knowing they would have offered
them only garments of MathisV
standard, at prices which mean a
very real sacrifice to us.
This is NOT one of the so-called
sales for which a merchant pre
pares by buying inferior merchan
dise for retail at a "Price." We have
spent too many years laboriously building a reputation for worth
while clothing to allow garments of unsponsored origin to enter; ourj
doors.. '
Instead we are putting on sale, without reserve, every Suit and Over
coat of our fine stock garments of recognized worth. This includes
all our new fall suits and overcoats and even our imported Kenneth
Durward overcoats. We are doing this because we have decided to
take the loss that every retailer must inevitably take because clothing
prices have reached their peak and MUST decline. Some merchants
will take this loss piecemeal. We are taking ours NOW and ONCE and
For All.
Take advantage of our sensible merchandising judgment and buy
now at prices that will not be the rale for possibly two years
$40 Suits and Overcoats $3
$50 Suits and Overcoats $4j-
$60 Suits and Overcoats $4!
$70 Suits and Overcoats $
$80 Suits and Overcoats $
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No bluffers or job-hunters. This business has a heart and the man we
want must be honest, straight-forward, and a thorough believer in his
products. This is the opportune time for a new man to take hold, and
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