THE MORNING OREGONIAN, , TUESDAY, DECE3IBER 2S, 1920
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II STATES ELECT
:" WOMEN TO OFFICES
Missouri Shows Greatest
Liking for Fair Sex.
NINE CHOSEN TREASURERS
Ten Will Hold Ofriee in Michigan
During Year, Two of Whom
Succeed Husbands as Sheriffs.
CHICAGO. Dec 27. Oklahoma with
a coiiRresswoman in the 67th con
gress. Kansas and Texas with women
as state superintendents of public in
struction, Missouri with nine county
treasurers out of 13 women elected
to county offices and Michigan pos
sessing two women sheriffs, take the
leading places of distinction on the
suffrage question in the central west
as the result of the recent nation
wide election.
Women have entered nearly ever
field of public service, from juror and
school trustee to member of the house
of representatives and following last
month s election Miss Alice Robertson
of Muskogee. Okla., "past 60." a sue
cessful restaurant proprietor, and, in
cidentally, an opponent of woman
suffrage, will take her seat as the
second woman ever sent to the na
tional congress.
Mtaffourl Electa Women Treasurers.
Missouri showed the greatest liking
for women officeholders, although
they are not eligible for state offices.
Vine counties elected women treas
urers, three selected women as pub
lic administrators and one a recorder
of deeds.
Ten women were elected to office in
Michigan, including one state senator,
but perhaps the most unique selec
tions were those of Mrs. Kstella K.
Gates and Mrs. Jane Johnson, both of
whom succeed their husbands as sher
iff. Mrs. Gates takes an active part
in church and club work of Honor,
county seat of Benzie county, and has
three children and six grandchildren.
Mrs. Johnson, who is 65 years old,
says she is confident she can arrest
any "bad man" who violates the law
in Roscommon county. She will ap
point her husband a deputy and. aside
from caring for the prisoners of the
county jail, will also look after her
three children.
Clerk Defeat Her Employer.
Miss Alice Sampson, for ten years
clerk in the county drain commission
er's office at Hillsdale, Mich., bareiy
defeated her employer for the posi
tion at the November election.
Mrs. Eva M. Hamilton, the first
woman to sit in the Michigan stale
senate, is 40 years old and a former
school teacher. She is from Grand
Rapids, where she is known as "The
Mother of City Markets," having con
ceived and persuaded the city council
to adopt a plan by which farmers sell
their produce direct to consumers.
Tfiree county treasurers,' one regis
ter of deeds, one county clerk, elected
in Michigan in November, are also
women.
Widow Elected to State Senate.
Oklahoma gave three women dis
tinctly prominent positions while she
was about it. Aside from sending
Miss Robertson to congress, a state
senator. Mrs. Lamar Looser, and a
state representative, Mrs. Bessie S.
McCoIgin, were selected by the Okla
homa voters, Mrs. Looney, a widow
and mother of five children, held tne
county clerkship of Greer county for
four years and in addition managed a
160-acre farm, educated her children
and succeeded in defeating her male
opponent in the senatorial race by
more than a two-to-one majority.
Greer county also decided to have
women as county clerk, county asses
sor, court clerk and county treasurer.
Mrs. McCoIgin, who comes from
Roger Mills county, has gained a rep
utation as a capable business woman
as a result of association with her
husband in telephone line operation.
Miss Annie Webb Blanton was re
elected state superintendent of public
instruction in Texas.
Kansas Haa Four Women Legislators.
Kansas also re-elected a woman as
state superintendent of public in
struction, Miss Lorraine Elizabeth
Wooster of Salina. She has several
degrees and was admitted to the
Kansas bar. Miss Wooster is the au
thor of a number of text books and
attracted considerable attention by
her anti-totbacco campaign, in whicn
she advocated dismissal of any men
instructors who used tobacco in any
form. J
Four women legislators, all elected
to the lower house, will sit in the
Kansas legislature. Mrs. Minnie
unnsieaa oi eewara county was re
elected; the others are serving their
first terms. They are:
Miss .Nellie Cline of Lamed, elect
ed from Pawnee county on the demo
cratic ticket, although the county
went repuoncan by over 1000 piura
ity. bhe is a law partner of her
father, having been admitted to the
Dar in 1912.
Mrs. Minnie Minnich of Welling
ton. wire or a locomotive engineer,
says she 'got into politics to help
defeat proposed compulsory military
training." She lost a brother in the
world war. . ,
dent 'Wilson any longer as their party
leader and believe the people will
applaud If they assert themselves a
little more, voting according to their
personal convictions and as they
think their constituents would have
them vote.
The real reason for seeking to pass
the budget bill now, however. Is not
to antagonize Mr. Wilson. President
elect Harding has asked congress to
dispose of this measure-in this con
gress in order that the machinery of
government may be brought up to
date before he takes office and to
clear the deck for a vast programme
of reconstruction legislation. Many
democrats show a desire to help the
republicans meet the Harding request.
Penrose la for Budget.
Senator Penrose, who makes no
claim to being a progressive, does
happen to possess very advanced
views on budget legislation. He be
lieves that congress should provide
this government with a budget sys
tem without further delay.
The New York Times takes good
natured exception, editorially, today
to Senator Polndexters siateuiein.
given out at Marion, O., last week
that it is comparatively easy m
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a satisfactory governor
hard to get the right Kind oi secre
tary of the interior.
Senator Poindexter was comment
ing at the time on the proposal to
have Governor-elect Dixon of Mon
tana, named for the interior port- ,
folio. The Times praises Mr. Dixon
by saying that he "is a romimtiu
citizen." but says tnat "presumauij
the citizens of Montana elected him
in the expectation that he . would
serve."
Times Purpose Clear.
The purpose of the New York
newspaper in its comment is to point
out that the governor's office calls
for just as much ability as that of
a cabinet member or senator. The
editorial calls attention to the fact
that Jefferson, Monroe, Tyler, Polk,
Johnson, Hayes, Cleveland, .ucivin
ley. Roosevelt, Wilson and William
Henry Harrison were all governors
in their time.
FEDERAL MARKETS
ARE ADVOCATED
Trade Commission Would
Regulate Perishable Food.
Rue de
la Paix
Chocolates
J "Merchandise of c Merit Only
Mail
Orders
Filled
BETTER" FACILITIES NEED
Recording of Available Supplies,
Dating of Cold Storage Periods
and Auctions Held Desirable..
RELIEF WORKERS KEPOIIT.!)
XOT ORDERED OUT.
Recent Dispatches From Constan
tinople Contradicted in Two
Cable Messages.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27. Recent re
ports from Constantinople mat Amer
ican workers for the Near i.ast re
lief have been ordered out of Armenia
by the soviet authorities were con
tradicted in two cable messages re
ceived today by the Near i.ast re
lief.
J. J. Handsaker, state director
Near East relief, has just received a
cablegram announcing that Mr. and
Mrs. w. It. Rambo of Baker. Or., were
to have left Batoum, Georgia. Decem
ber 15 en route for New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Rambo went into
Batoum at the request of the Greek
government to help care for the 8000
Greek refugees from Turkish Na-
tionalist massacres who had congre
gated in that section. They found
those refugees starving, clothed in
thin rags some even compelled to
stay in bed because they were stark
naked. Malaria, smallpox, typhus
and finally bubonic plague broke out.
The American doctors worked day
and night and, as Mr. Rambo said in
a brief letter to Near Kast relief, the
workers had little time to leave their
work to write an account of it.
Several hundred pounds of cloth
ing have been received by Near Kast
relief since the large shipment in
November. A special shipment will
be made December 31. Any bundles
that have not yet been collecteo
should be sent in not later than
Thursday. Phone Main 2178 and
Near East relief will call for them.
IDAHO HAY BEING SOLD
Reduction of Treight Rates Finan
cial Boon to Farmers.
BOISE. Idaho, Dec. 27. (Special.)
It is estimated that a million tons
of hay will be moved out of Idahf
in the next few months as the result
of the order of the interstate com
merce commission reducing freight
rates. The reduction was made in
response to appeals from Governor
Davis and commercial and farm
organizations. Under the old rates
growers in Idaho could not get their
hay to market at a margin of proit.
The fact that the hay is now mov
ing means that farmers will be able
to take care of much of their indebt
edness and find themselves in a
much improved situation financially.
Ohio Woman Chosen Jadgre.
Mrs. Ida M. Walker of .Norton was
formerly president of the Kansas
Federatton of Women's Clubs and has
been a leader in state and local civic
movements.
Miss Florence E. Allen, with nine
men candidates opposing her, was
elected common pleas judge of Cuya
hoga county, Ohio. She is 36 years
old and has been a newspaper woman
law student and assistant county
prosecutor since 1906. Miss Allen was
admitted to the Ohio bar in 1914 and
has practiced in Cleveland since then.
Mrs. A. N. Norton, 35, was elected
probate judge of Lake county, Ohio,
after serving as deputy clerk for 17
years. Mrs. Norton defeated Homer
Harper, prosecutirfg attorney for Lake
county, by 2500 pluarlity for the of
fice. Mrs. Mary K. Davey was elect
ed prosecuting attorney of Hockiug
county, Ohio. ,. '
The first woman to sit in the
Indiana house of representatives will
be Mrs. Julia D. Nelson of Muncie.
She was the only woman elected to
a state office last November. Mrs.
Nelson is the wife of a Muncie news
paperman.
BUDGET BILL MAY PASS
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spring, but hesitated then to run coun.
ter to the president's will.
Since then a national election has
been held and large numbers of dem
ocrats are convinced that the country
is not behind Mr. Wilson. They at
tribute the overwhelming defeat to
such acts as the veto df the budget
bill in which Mr. Wilson displayed so
much jealousy of executive power.
In view of all that has happened,
these democrats do not regard Fresi-
Santa's Whiskers Burned.
BAR VIEW, Or., Dec. 27. (Special.)
The coast guard station was the
scene of much gaiety Christmas af
ternoon. A large Christmas tree dec
orated . with all the time-honored
trimmings and laden with presents,
was prepared for the children. Sam
uel Nelson, playing Santa Claus, while
distributing the presents, received
several severe burns about the face
when his false whiskers caught fire.
WASHINGTON,. Dec. 27. Estab
lishment of central markets for per
ishable food products in all large
cities and the setting up of a federal
licensing system applicable to all
dealers in, such foods .at those mar
kets is proposed by the federal trade
commission in its annual report to
congress.
The commission's conclusions are
based on an investigation covering
many months and .it declares that
federal action is Jiecessary to obtain
effective regulation and to avoid un
fair and wasteful practices, with the
consequent effect on prices. In the
present system the commission sees
as a- hindrance to the proper passage
of perishables from the producer to
the consumer certain intertrade deal1
ings which it believes should be elim
inated and it suggests that the han
dling of these products be surround
ed by numerous regulations and re
strictions such as the recording of
available supplies, the dating of .cold
storage periods and provisions for
auction marketing.
Better Facilities Needed.
Facilities should be made adequate,
the commission says, to enable the
producer to ship freely into the cen
tral markets and "with proper protec
tion of his interests." The marketing
system should- be so governed that
objectionable hoarding would be
eliminated and proper co-ordination
of transportation facilities should be
accomplished to make deliveries cer
tain when required.
The commission says that "the
needed reforms can hardly be expect
ed to be accomplished by the initia
tive of the dealers" and asserts that
state and municipal authorities lack
adequate power to effectively regu
late the handling of the food sup
plies. Although co-operation of state
and local authorities and railroads
might accomplish the ends sought,
the. commission believes this plan
does not hold out- much hope for a
satisfactory solution of the problem.
Profits Nearly Quadrupled.
Turning to wheat products, the
commission says it has found that
concentration of the milling Industry
has progressed far enough so that
"probably ten of the largest milling
concerns could supply the demand of
the country for flour." The commis
sion mentions incidentally that its
figures from 37 milling corporations
showed that their sales had increased
from 160,000,000 to $354. 000. 000 be
tween 1914 and 1918, while their an
nual profits had grown from $5,500.
000 to $20,000,000 in the same period.
Reporting on the operation of the
Webb-Pomerene. act permitting for
mations of associations for export
trade, the eommission informs con
gress that this act has served as "a
decided factor" in promoting the
progress of American manufacturers
jn foreign markets. The commission
says that during the year 43 associa
tions, comprising approximately 732
concerns, whose offices and plants are
distributed over 43 states of the
Union, reported to it as operating
under the export act.
Foreign, Relations Improved.
"Records o f the commission seem
to demonstrate," the report continues,
"that the criticism so often charged
against United States exporters of
failing to cultivate and maintain per
manent trade relations abroad and
too often withdrawing from a particu
lar foreign market as soon as more
attractive opportunities present them
selves at home or elsewhere will not
apply to associations operating under
the export trade act.
"In reply to questionnaires sent out
by the commission requesting an ex
pression of opinion as to the actual
working out of the export trade act,
the replies received for the most part
expressed satisfaction over results
obtained under the law. It was re
ported that the system of collective
advertising and selling makes for the
elimination of much useless expense
and duplication of effort. Several as-
Men Are Coming in Droves to the
Greatest Sale of Men's Clothing Ever
Held!
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"It is better than you said it was!" That remark was made over and over yesterday. When we said
Every Garment in Our Entire Stock
at $36
merr who know the high quality
of our clothing thought it was a
misprint to them it was almost
unbelievable, just as we thought
it would be. BUT
The Sale
Is On!
Come today! Do not delay your
buying! Get in on the cream of
this event!
Some of the
High Lights: .
Every Business Suit, every Over
coat, Raincoat and Topcoat
at $36
Stein - Bloch, Langham - High,
Langham and other famed makes.
(Note All of our Dress Suits, Tux
edos and English Ulsters ivere sold by
noon yesterday.)
The Wholesale Costs, Which
WE PAID for These Suits
and Overcoats, Were as
High as $85.00 Think of it!
Fifth Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
OH
-1 THIS STORE USES NO COMPARATIVE PRICES THEY ARE MISLEADING AND OFTEN UNTRUE U-o
sociations reported that their system
of conducting business abroad is
meeting with the hearty approval of
the foreign customers."
The commission says also that the
law, instead of increasing the
strength of the already great Amer
ican industrial establishments, has
enabled the smaller concerns to band
together in a fashion to push fully
organized export trade in a keen com
petitive manner which they are not
able to do at home. To this extent,
the commission believes, the law has
worked to the great advantage of the
small firms.
Read The Oregonian classified ads,
Ufic iSupermeSmalCai
The Templar
Top-Valve motor
is as powerful and
flexible in action
as it is perfect
and simple
construction.
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WRAY MOTOR CAR CO.
11th and Couch Sts.
Phone Broadway 3247
THE TEMPLAR MOTORS COMPANY
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A Thrift Year Ahead
INTO each family some thrift
should enter; some saving
should be done,. and someone
should do it.
This is the week in which to'
plan your resolutions for the
New Year. Clean off the
financial slate and start the.
new one with a , Savings Ac
count at the United States Na
tional Bank.
It will draw interest,
and arouse interest. .
"One of the Northwest's
Great Banks"
UnftedStafes
National Bank
S$th and Stark
Telephone Rates and the
Decline in Prices
The Telephone Company has asked its patrons in Oregon to
pay more for their telephone service. It has placed the facts
and figures of the situation before the Public Service Commis
sion for their investigation and verification. The increases will
not amount to much .to individual subscribers, but the aggregate
will permit the Company to properly maintain and develop its
service.
We have shown the Commission that we are operating at a
loss. Our expenses are greater than our earnings. The owners
of the property are receiving nothing from their Oregon invest
ment and the interest due on debts which should properly be borne
by the Oregon properties are not being paid from Oregon
receipts.
At the hearing before the Public Service Commission not a
fact or figure presented by the Company was disputed or dis
proved. The only material contention made was that increases
were perhaps inopportune in view of the apparent decline in
general commodity prices.
The Company is asking for a reasonable return upon its exist
ing investment, without regard to the uncertainties of the future.
The Company files periodical reports of its operations with public
authorities and its future investments will be the subject oi con
stant consideration and future adjustments, if necessary.
Salaries and wages make up 72 of our current expenses. We
hope they will not be reduced and do not think they should be.
In the five years 1916-1920, inclusive, we. have increased the
wages of our plant people $307,000.00. Our traffic (operating)
employes $681,000.00; commercial employes, $98,000.00; a total of
$1,086,000.00 per annum.
Efficient and contented employes mean good service. It is
their due and our desire that their compensation be equal to that
paid in other lines of business activity.
Adequate service is dependent upon adequate rates.
PACIFIC TELEPHONE and TELEGRAPH CO.
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