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TTTK 3IORNING OIEGO!TA. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1021
BAN PUT ON ILL BUT
L EMERGENCY BILLS
Three Are Approved by Joint
Steering Committee.
ONE APPLIES TO BONUS
Blonoy I'altl Veterans Would IJc
lO.M'iiipt of Attachment for
i
l Debts l'reviously lncun-ed.
STATIC HOt.'SE. Salem. Or., Dee. 19.
(Special.) Only such legislation as
Is considered of un emergency or
curative nature will be approved by
the steering committees of the sen
ate and house here tonight in Joint
session.
Kepresentative Kay said the peo
ple of the state were desirous of
uliort session of the legislature, and
that any attempt to throw down the,
barn to general legislation would be
relented.
Senator Upton declared that while
he did not approve of general legis
lation being considered he thought
the steering committee should be rea
sonable In classifying the several
bills presented.
I'pon motion of Iiepresentative
Gordon, the committee decided to
Jiear arguments In favor of several
proposed laws and amendments and
to vote on them by secret ballot in
executive session.
Three mils Conxiilrred.
Three bills submitted to the legis
lature during the day were passed
upon favorably by the steering com
mittee and were declared worthy of
consideration by the lawmakers.
One of these bills was introduced
by Senator Upton and provided that
money paid to ex-service men under
the so-called cash bonus and loan act
shall not be subject to attachment for
debts contracted prior to the date
the bonus law was enacted.
In connection with this bill a com
mittee composed of Senators Nor
blad and Upton and Representative
Gordon was appointed to Investigate
the advisability of framing a law pro
tecting the state against mechanics'
liens.
The committee also passed favor
ably on a bill introduced by Repre
sentative Hurd providing for an ap
propriation of approximately $65,000
with which to repair state plants
damaged by recent storms.
One Bill Is on Offices.
The third bill provides that a per
son appointed to public rffice shall
serve during the full unexpired term
of his predecessor. This bill was
submitted by Representative Htnd
man and is applicable to the situation
involving Stanley Meyers, district at
torney of Multnomah county. Unles
this legislation is passed, Mr. Myers
will be compelled to make a campaign
at the primary election next May for(
the office he now holds. I
A bill which it had been Intended
to introduce tomorrow providing fori
the strict regulation of so-called In
telligence agencies .was considered
new legislation by the committee and
rejected.
Another bill, which was killed, had
been Introduced by Senator Vinton
and provided that all counties should
advertise for bids when purchasing
materials or supplies aggregating
$-50 or more.
Krrors to lie Corrected.
All measures passed at previous
sessions of the legislature in. which
errors were made sufficiently serious
to interfere with their operation will
be passed on favorably by the com
mittee. Two bills dealing with the woman's
Jury bill enacted at the 1920 session
of the legislature were presented to
the committee. One provides fhat
women be compelled to serve on juries
the same as men, while the other elim
inates women from Jury service en
tirely. After considering criticisms of the
1921 budget law, as it relates to road
districts, the committee mimed Sena
tors Kberhart, Eddy and Strayer and
Representative Hyatt to submit
amendments to that act. One of these
amendments would exempt road dis
tricts from the budget law and would
validate taxes voted in the various
districts last November. The other
amendment to this law would deal
with the publication of the budget and
the levying of school taxes.
The committee Instructed its secre
tary to prepare an amendment to the
present law, providing for the pay
ment to the circuit judges of their
traveling expenses while transacting
official business.
Two bills, held over until tomorrow
for consideration, provide for the cre
ation of road districts in September
Instead of January and for the pay
ment of state compensation to widows
of men killed or Injured in maritime
accidcn'.b while und'-r the protection
of the workman's compensation act.
Tomorrow night the committee will
pass cn the exposition bills..
have been asked as to the profit
farmer makes from corn-growing or
ordinary agriculture, and it was to
teach them the truth that I made this
effer.
"My employes on my farms, which
have grown in the last two years
from a modest SO acres to some 2000
acres, have not accepted my offer,
knowirg that they will make more
money in wages than they could make
out of the farm.
"I now suggest that one of the
farms should be run on a co-operative
scheme in charge of the workers
and their unions. There would have
to be an agreement that accepted
methods of good husbandry be ob
served. It would be possible, of
course, to enjoy several years1 of pros
perity by taking everything possible
out of the land and putting nothing
back. The farm must be kept in good
order, fences kept up. ditches drained,
land fertilized and buildings main
tained. "What I am deeply concerned with
is that the whole of the land of this
country should be farmed at a profit,
so that many more families may be
employed on the land. Tens of thou
sands can be employed on pig-breed
ing, at present by far the most re
munerative side of agriculture. We
have immense areas of unproductive
land. Why should we not connect
unproductive land with unemployed
people, and make the land produce
pigs?"
GIRLS PRACTICE ON BABY
NEBRASKA UNIVERSITY HAS
REAL HOME COVRSE.
301 KIDNAPED WHILE
BAIER IS IN JAIL
Wife Desertion Charge Is Be
lieved to Be Trick.
FIGHT FOR BOY PLANNED
Prisoner bays He Is Willing to Re
turn to Baltimore at Once
Without Extradition.
TOVRIST FVNO IXDKIl EIRE
Attempt May lie Made to Repeal
Law Appropriating $50,000.
STATE HOUSE. Salem, Or., Dec 1.
(Special.) Statements of Senators
Upton and Bell, during the joint
meeting of the steering committees
of the senate and house here tonight,
Indicated that an attempt may be
made during the present session to
repeal the law appropriating $50,000
annually to the .Northwest Tourist
Association.
Ham A. Kozer, secretary of state.
'as called before the committee and
was asked to explain whether the
state of Washington had complied
with the conditions under which the
Oregon law was enacted. Mr. Kozer
said the legislature of Washington
had refused to appropriate any
money for the tourist association, but
that the funds had been raised by
popular subscription.
Other questions asked by Senators
Upton and Bell indicated that they
were dissatisfied with the Oregon
law and might seek to have It repealed.
FARM OFFERED TO LABOR
tiflenliflo Earmer of England Says
Income Will Xot Pay Wages.
I.OXDOV. S. F. Kdge. a scientific
farmer, offered some few weeks ago,
to hand over farm land valued at
20.000 to a committee of his em
rlort" without cost, but subject to
the proviso that they should pay
their own wages out of the proceeds
It is announced that they have de
clined the offer, and Mr. Edge has
extended it to any reputable labor
body, such as the agricultural work
ers' union.
"The purpose of this offer." said
Mr. Edge, when interviewed at his
frussex farm, "is to prove to the trade
unions that farming, l!kT'very other
industry, will only pay wages that
are earned, unless they are drawn
f. oin capital. .Agricultural laborers
College Co-eds Assnnie Role of
Student Mothers to Kathryn
Marie, 5 Months Old.
LINCOLN". Neb. Assuming the role
of that messenger of the air which
the kiddie knows only as "stork"
when a new brother or sifter arrives
at his home. Juvenile Judge W. M.
Morning has made possible the com
pletion of the family that inhabits
the practice hous of 'lie home eco
nomics department of the University
of Nebraska by placing such a bundle
of fat, curves and dimpls Co their
care.
Kathryn Marie Ib the rnme of this
parcel of five months . Infancy, al
though he will remain incognito so
far as her last name is concerned.
Knough It Is to the matron of the
house and those Junior and senior
girls who will In turn assume the
role of "student mother," that Kath
ryn Marie is of a good but destitute
Lincoln family.
. Kathryn Marie's adoption as a part
of the household of the practice
house was for the purpose of afford
ing college gir's an opportunity to
learn first hand lie fundamentals of
Intelligent care oPthe baby. Six sets
of "mothers" will have been trained
by the end of the school year, as lx
Junior and senior girls in this de
partment have a rotation six weeks
course with Kathryn Marie.
Each one of the six co-eds during
the practice houJe course must func
tion In one of six positions each
week, rotating so that each girl has
experience in all six of the positions
of the course. One girl Is to be "baby
manager," and will be- responsible for
Knthryn Marie'B care that week. She
will prepare the baby's food, see that
she Is fed according to schedule,
bathed each day. clothes laundered
and generally taken care of. Miss
Marie Fuller, Instructor of home
economies and director of the house,
will personally hover over Kathryn
Marie to see that the "student moth
ers" do not go awry of the schedule.
Once or twice a week Kathryn
Marie will be taken to a clinic at the
c f flee of two Lincoln infant special
ists and the girls will have an op
portunity of talking with the doctors
and getting an idea of where the
baby's care could have been im
proved and by what methods. The
doctors will direct the girls to the
outward eigns of Improvement and
how to regulate diet as Kathryn
Marie grows older.
Bouncing in a white baby carriage,
propelled by a blushing co-ed. Kath
ryn Marie already is a favorite on the
university campus, around which fhe
Is pushed for her daily airing.
CIRCUS BUNKO OLD-TIMER
Miort-Clinnjre Artists Victimize
California Teamster.
ONTARIO, Cal. How Charles W.
Duncan, a teamster, raiding at 127
Malcolm street, was defraudel out of
525 by two clever attaches of a circus
he attended in a near-by town was
recited by the victim here.
As Duncan entered the main tent
he was accosted by two uniformed
men In charge or the sale or re
served seats, who, hailing him as
"my friend," informed him that if
he had any large money that he
would exchange for small they would
give him his seat free.
The teamster promptly whipped out
four $10 bills, whereupon one of the
circus men laid out seven $5 bills and
five 1 bills. As Duncan was about
to pocket it. one of the men took
it up, and remarking, that he wanted
to be sure it was right, went through
the motions of counting it into the
hand of the Ontario man, who put
it in his pocketbook and proceeded
to enjoy himself in his "free" seat.
When acouple whom he sat by
ventured to suggest that he had
been duped, Duncan became highly
indignant, but an examination of his
pocketbook later In the privacy of
his own home disclosed but 15 re
maining of the original $40.
While Ethefiiert L. Faier of Balti
more, Md., was'dungeoned In the city
Jail on a charge of non-support and
wife desertion In Portland, .Mrs. Tes
sle V. Baler, his'wlfe. sped from Bal
timore to Vancouver. B. C, where,
according to telegraphic advices re
ceived by Portland detectives Monday
(night, 6,he kidnaped her son. 5-year-old
Raymond Woodrow, from the
Chesterfield school for boys at North
Lonsdale, a suburb of Vancouver. The
boy had been placed in the school by
his father.
Developments In the case Monday
Indicated that the charges lodged
against Baier here were, technical fet
ters to hold him while Mrs. Baier
makes a fight for possession of the
boy. Baier assured reporters lastJ
night that when he left Mrs. Baier
she was well supplied with funds and
the rent was paid several months in
advance. He declared that he had of
fered her an income of $25 a week,
which she had refused.
Fight to Be Mode for. Hoy.
Baler Monday informed Joseph V.
Quirk, detective, who arrived Sunday
from Baltimore, that he would go to
Baltimore without papers, providing
the boy were removed from the school
by Quirk and brought to Portland to
accompany them. It was his desire to
fight for possession of the boy and
have the courts make the final de
cision. Quirk professed to know nothing
of the kidnaping of Raymond. He
telegraphed Vancouver Monday ask
ing details of the affair, but at a late
hour had received no reply. It was
thought that Mrs. Baier represented
to' the school superintendent that it
was at Mr. Baler's request that she
wished the child. Under Canadian law
the father, unless he has been con
victed of crime, is custodian of chil
dren In case of separation, according
to Baler, who said that was the reason
he had put his son in a Canadian in
stitution. .Next Move Not Derided.
The next move here has not been
decided upon. It is considered proba
ble that Mrs Baier, having actual
possession of Raymond, will drop
charges preferred against her hus
band. He admitted last night that she
had played a trump card, but asserted
vehemently that he would go to the
ends of the earth before he would
give up the boy.
If. Mrs. Baier goes to Baltimore he
will return with Quirk without delay,
he said, but Monday he was of the
opinion that his wife would not go
to Baltimore, but would go straight
across Canada and then to Dublin.
There she has wealthy relatives, he
said, who were putting up money for
her expenses. Her mother, an Eng
lishwoman, lives In Dublin, and sev
eral brothers hold executive positions
with the Great Western railroad of
Ireland.
Hnler Arrested December 8.
Baier was arrested here December
8 on a telegraphic warrant from Bal
timore. He was employed as an ad
justment agent, but said he is a Jour
nalist.- He is ol years old. When
news of his arrest and detention was
published. light was unwittingly
thrown upon earlier domestic troubles.
when two sons by the former union
read the news and Investigated to see
if he were their father.
Fourteen years ago, by his own ad
mission, he and his first wife, Mrs.
.Marie IS. Baier, who now lives at 195
East Twenty-first street North, agreed
to separate. He left her with the
children and had not seen them until
the two sons, L. Stanley and Leo E.
Laier, 16 and 18 years old. recognized
him in the corridors of the city Jail.
Since their first meeting the boys
have been daily visitors to the Jail.
and Lenore, H-year-old daughter,
joined them. Apparently the children
have formed a real attachment for
their stranger father. The first Mrs.
Baier has pot visited the station, however.
times to look upon the uphappy Indi
vidual who has been misled !n; en
tering their establishments as some
thing that can be carved and sweated
at mercy, from whom the utmost
must be squeezed without smashing
the screws."
There was a great outcry last year
agaTnst the exigencies of hotelkeep
ers and owners of villas offered for
rent but money was then more easy
than now and the season passed farly
well. This year many villas have
failed to be taken and the season
would have been disastrous but for
the English who came to take advan
tage of the exchange.
In certain resorts in the Pyrenees,
where the natives seek to live the
whole year on the profits gained in
six or eignt weeks, all sign posts and
similar indications were removed, so
that a guide became necessary for
almost every excursion. M, Rondet
Saint adds:
"Except for one or two special re
sorts, touring has markedly fallen off
this year and unless some under
standing is reached to stabilize prices
at a fair figure, traveling for pleas
ure will be abandoned and one of the
elements which contained the great
est promise for general prosperity
will be killed by the incapacity of
some and the rapacity of others."
BUS L IES APPROVE
STATE REGULATION
Control by Public Service
Commission, Indorsed.
PRINCIPLE IS ACCEPTED
GEX1XE SEX IX JAPAX W AXTS
XO MORE WAR.
Madame Kajl Yajlina, who Pre
sented Message to President,
Passes Through Portland.
Japanese women, inspired by the
results of the world war and the
Washington conference for limitation
of armament, are doing all they can
to make war unpopular and to pre
vent it in the future, according to
Madame Kaji Vajlma,' who is called
the "first woman of the empire" in
her country, and who passed through
Portland this week on her way home
after delivering a petition to Presi
dent Harding.
"The women are having many pop
ular meetings," Madame Yajima said
through her interpreter, "in which
they discuss the dreadfulness of war
how destructive it Is and how it Is
the enemy of homes. Women want
everyone to realize this. There are
many books discussing the menace of
war. There is a woman's peace asso
ciation in Tokio representing women
of all classes, having noblewomen In
it as well as intelligent women of the
middle class. A representative of
this association is coming to Wash
ington very soon to tell how eager
women are and how hard they are
trying to make war unpopular.
"The general conception of the
samurai held In this country and Eu
rope Is wrong. Samurai is believed
to mean warrior, whereas the truer
meaning is knighthood or chivalry.
Samurai does' not mean invasion and
militarism. Accordingly, people of
Japan pay respect to the fundamental
spirit of thesamurai. namely knight
hood. But after all. the samurai class
even in feudal days, did not represent
the people of Japan, although it was
very influential, and if anything was
done in the name of the samurai, the
other people of Japan were not re
sponsible. "The European war made a great
change in the economic aspect of
Japan. There are a few millionaires,
the product of the war, but at the
same time thousands of Japanese suf
fer from heavy taxes and high prices.
Tourists and people In general suffer
because of this, but I regret deepest
of all the moral damage done.
"There is general opposition to war
among Japanese men. but most par
ticularly among women. Mothers are
anxious to use money that is being
paid for armament for the education
of their children, as there is a great
demand for more schools."
DELINQUENTS MUST PAY;
Washington Starts Drive to Collect
Industrial Insurance.
OLYMPiA, Wash. The department
of labor and industries has started a
drive throughout the state to collect
all delinquent accounts from firms
coming under the Industrial insurance
law. according to Director Ed Clif
ford. Many of the accounts have been
pending since 1911. when the law be
came effective, and total between
$150,000. and $200,000. A recent re-
RENT PAID IN HORSESHOES
I .ease Granted by King in 13th
Century Still Stands.
LONDON. One of the odd customs
for which England is famous was
seen the other day when two bundles
of faggots, a hatchet, a billhook six
horseshoes and "elxty and one" horse
shoe nails were given to an agent of
King George V as "rent In kind ' for a
small plot of land in the Strand where
a forge originally stood and another
piece of land in Shropshire. The
king's remembrancer received the
rent on behalf of the crown.
In the year 1235. a tournament was
being held in a field where the Law
Courts now stand and during the
tournament a knight's armor gave
way. A smith repaired it so well that
the king gave him the right to erect
a forge on the field, stipulating that
the annual ren; ehould be six horse
shoes and sixty and one nails.
The rent has been paid every year
down to the present one.
Jackson Club Banquet Date Set.
First arrangements for the annuai
Jackson day banquet by Portland dem
ocrats were formulated Monday night
when the executive committee of the
Jackson club met in the offices
of Harvey Starkweather, Broadway
building. It was decided to hold the
banquet on the evening of January 7.
as Jackson day will fall on Sunday.
Tho place where the banquet will be
held and the speakers were not de
cided upon last night.
Read The Oregonian classified ads.
Orpheum matinee today, 15-25-50-Ai
CRUISERS SOLD FOR JUNK
Minneapolis and Marblehead Being
Dismantled at Oakland.
OAKLAND, Cal. Two former proud
cruisers, the Minneapolis and the
Marblehead. which helped make
American naval history during the
Spanish war, were sold for junk here
recently and are being dismantled at
at Oakland shipyard.
Junk dealers purchased the two
veteran vessels from the navy depart
ment recently for approximately $20,
000. When the ships were built about
30 years ago they cost almost $6,000,
000. The junk dealers say they hope
to take from the vessjls material
worth $500,000.
First to go to the Junk yard was
the Minneapolis, a second-class pro
tected cruiser, built In 18S1 of 7350
tons displacement. Workmen with gas
torches Immediately started to cut
away at her bides, her mahogany fur
niture was removed, her decks cut
out and soon flat cars were carrying
away huge pieces of steel. Soon after
the workmen started a fire broke out
on the vessel and nearly destroyed it.
The Marblehead, a little third-clans
cruiser, built in 18S0, of 2072 tons dis
placement, follows the Minnesota to
the graveyard.
The name of the Marblehead was
wired around the world when, during
the Spanish war, in company with the
cruiser Nashville she entered the har
bor of Cienfuegoes, Cuba, and cut a
cable, while under fire. The Minns'
apolis was one of the ships of the
famous "flying squadron" under Com
modore Schley.
FRENCH SKIN TOURISTS
Well-Known Writer Attacks Gen
eral System of Profiteering.
PARIS. It Is -not only Americans
or other foreigners who find that the
tourist or visitor is charged excessive
prices In France. Maurice Rondet
Salnt, a well-known French writer,
has an article in the Renaissance in
which he points out how dangerous
"estampage" is to touring, and what
eventual loss It Involves.
The word "estampage" is a diction
ary word for punching holes in metal
and is as much slang in France for
over-charging and euch-like as "skin
ning" a client is in English.
"The hotel industry," he writes,
"has undoubtedly suffered from the
increased cost of living, still It must
bo admitted that a number of those
directing it, if not all. have taken
advantage of the dilficulUes of the
port of the department showed that
since 1911 the industrial insurance
division has handled $18,662,051.' The
delinquencies cover accident insur
ance and medical aid.
The department hopes to clean up
the majority of the accounts by the
first of the year.
PEST THREATENS COTTON
Porto Rico Fields Burned Over to
Combat Ball Worm.
SAN J CAN, P. R. As a preliminary
means of combating the pink ball
worm, which has been found here,
cotton fields are being burned over
and places where seed or cotton might
spread infection are being disinfected.
No steps have yet been taken, how
ever, which are considered drastic
enough in view of experience in the
United States and elsewhere.
One suggestion has been made that
all cotton planting be suspended for a
period of three years.
The cotton crop of Porto Rico is
worth approximately $400,000 a year,
and planters are opposed to having a
ban placed on growing.
REVOLT STIRS PORTUGAL
Hospitals Crowded With Wounded
and Dying Premier Attacked.
LONDON. Dec. 20. A revolution
has broken out in Portugal, accord
ing to a dispatch to the Daily Chron
icle from Paris. It began with can-
nading along the Tagus river and se
vere casualties have resulted to both
sides in the controversy.
The hospitals are crowded with
wounded and dying. The dispatch
adds that Cunha Leal, who formed a
temporary ministry last week, was
attacked in the Carlos barracks and
he and his followers were compelled
to retreat.
The fate of the premier Is not
known.
Three Measures for Protection of
Highways Are Considered by
Legislative Committee.
STATE HOUSE. Salem, Or.. Dec. in
(Special.) Approval In principle of
placing all passenger-carrying buses
and stages under the control of the
public service commission was given
before the committee on roads and
highways tonight by a representative
of the bureau of the association of
bus operators, although a number of
changes in the law, as drafted by the
special committee appointed by Gov
ernor Olcott, were urged.
Frank M. Warren explained the
three measures which have been
drafted by the committee for the pur
pose of giving more adequate protec
tion to the highways throughout the
state or Oregon. i ne regulation oi
public and private carriers is but one
of the three, but the discussion which
followed the analysis- of the bills was
in the main directed to this measure.
All Vehicles Included.
Mr. Warren explained that the com
mittee, after getting all the data pos
sible, felt that all carriers, be they
public or private, should be required
to make reports to the public service
commission, so that during the next
yepr data might be collected for
the benefit of the legislature when It
meets in regular session fn 1923.
Exception has been made In this
rule, he said, in tbe case of vehicles
operated to transport cultivated prod
ucts of the soil, dairy products, live
stock and poultry, and they would
not be required to report to tne com
mission. The bill offered by the governor's
cor.mfttee empowers the public serv
ice commission to issue permits, fix
rates and schedules for bus lines, su
pervise the operation of all lines, but
Mr. Warren explained that the com
mittee did not feel any vested rights
should be given to any individual line
or operating company, and for that
reason the bill, as drafted, requires
the commission to issue permits for
operation to any company that com
plies with the rules and regulations
of the commission. The right to re
voke permits after an adequate hear
in" also is given In the bill.
Honda Are Required.
Bonds are required in the act for
all busses, but the amount of the
bond is left to the judgment of the
commission. T' a license fee is like
wise left to the commission, with a
view of having a regulatory fee to
cover the incidental expenses of the
administration of the project.
John F. Logan, appearing in behalf
of the motorbus perators. Informed
the members of the committee that
thfc motorbus men agreed in principle
wi'.h the pu-pose of the law, and be
lieved that the passenger busses
should come under the control of the
public service commission.
He suggested, however, that an
amendment be made in the section
providing for the granting of per
mits, so that the public service com
mission might use its discretion In
Issuing permits, basing the issuance
on public convenience and necessity,
as is done in the state of Washing
ton. Infalr Competition Feared.
Unless the public service commis
sion Is empowered to declare on which
routes lines are to operate. Mr. Logan
Insisted, either irresponsible persons
would enter into competition with
men who were giving adequate serv
ice and neither of the operators would
make any- profits, or some "highly
responsible company financially." such
as the Southern Pacific company of
Kentucky, would enter the field and.
after driving the pioneer company out
of business, would also retire from
business.
Another amendment suggested by
Mr. Logan provided for either liabil
ity Insurance or surety bonds as pro
tection. The speed restrictions contained in
the main bill prepared by the special
committee, which recommends a speed
of 20 miles an hour as the maximum
allowed for vehicles with a tire width
of over 22 inches, would put all motor
btwes and stages out of. business
over night, according to A. Jaloff, one
of the passenger bus operators. He
held that it was necessary for the
busses to maintain schedules on the
basis of a 30-mile speed limit.
Regulation of speed and weight of
motor vehicles using public highways
is the crux of the whole situation
which has been the course of study by
the governor's committee, according
to Mr. Warren.
The new section which tbe comm't
tee suggested recommends the pres
ent 30-mile speed limit for all motor
vehicles equipped with pneumatic
tires and designed for carrying not
more than seven passengers.
Electric propelled vehicles now
paying $35 annual license fees are
placed under the weight schedules
with gasoline propelled cars. A slight
change is also made in the license
scheduled for motor trucks, which Is
estimated to bring in about I0O.AOU
additional revenue to the state each
year.
Dragging logs over highways Is
prohibited by the proposed bill, and
permits must be procured from the
state highway committee for moving
logs over state highways.
Metal Tlrea Restricted.
No vehicle equipped with metal
tires and having a combined weight
in excess of 7000 pounds bearing on
the surface of the road at con'act
with four wheels of such vehicle may
operate over any state highway or
county road without written permis
sion from the state rng.mo.,
slon, in the case of state hlghwjyc.
or the joint permission of the high
way commission and the county court
in the case of county roads.
An effort to bring about unity of
action in the control and supervision
of highways has been made by th
committee, which has inserted sec
tions in the bill giving the commis
sion exclusive control over state
highways and Joint control with the
county court in the case of county
roads.
Tower to Enforce Given.
Two means to give the highway
commission power to enforce the pro
vision of the act have been provide.!
in the bill, one being an amendment
to the present motor vehicle act and
the other an extension of the powers
of the highway commission. The com
mittee explained that it was optional
which method was employed.
Members of the governor's com
mittee who appeared before the com
mittee were John U. Yeon, highway
commissioner, chairman; Frank M.
Warren, Portland: E. D. Cusick, Al
bany; Sam A. Kozer. secretary of
state, and Fred A. Williams; chairman
of the public service commission,
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LOUVRE TO CLEAN HOUSE
Paintings by In known Struggling
Artists Will Bo Sold.
FAIUS. Cnnio r.r h
pieces of the Louvre made by un
known Or- n t r i m r. 1 i .. .;., j , .
.... . . , tiiiu nm5
stored in the basement of the museum,
re to be sold.
Most of the copies have been in
storage for more than 30 years, aban
doned and forgotten by those who
painted them. Some tell stories of
ambitions beginnings and diseour-
For
Christmas Giving
Only the
Best Will Do
It is most gratifying to know that here is
a store prepared to fit the most exacting
list of gifts -for men.
Shirts '$2.50 to $10.00
Neckwear 65c to $4.00
Hosiery 40c to $3.50
Pajamas $2.50 to $15.00
Gloves. $2.50 to $10.00
Belts 75c to $5.00
House Coats $8.00 to $17.50
Robes $6.50 to $65.00
Merchandise
Orders
for Any
Amount
MEN'S WEAR
Fifth and Morrison
(Corbett Btdg.)
Many copies are but
while others are but
aged endings,
naif finished.
dabs of paint.
Many American names appear In
the corners of these pictures of stu
dents who have long tlnco left Paris.
A mninrity of the names are impos
sible to read but a few have been
discovered of men and women recoR
nl.ed in the world of art today. Kor
obvious reasons the youthful efforts
of these are not to be exposed with
the name, apparent.
Music The center point of home Entertainment
EUPHONA
REPRODUCING
PIANO
A MUSICAL MARVEL
9
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$
Contentment and musical satisfaction is the portion of those who own the Luphona reproducing
piano, and they are many. It has opened, by its moderate cost and ils exquisite renditions, a new
field of musical enjoyment to that great army of music lovers, who, heretofore, have found cost
prohibitive. It plays the masters' works with delightful accuracy, and it plays the latest dance
and popular music with a zest and rhythm irresistible. Many, many homes are finding it a
boon far beyond their hope You should have one. Terms may be arranged that are well
within your reach.
OPEN EVENINGS ALL THIS WEEK
MASON AND HAMLIN PIANOS
, MORRISON ST. AT BROADWAY
OTHU TOUII. AM rWAMCIBCO. OAKLAND. PMCBNO. A OICSO
AN JO.C. IACAAMLMTO. AH.tLI.
Heady Wit Pleases Colonel.
Edinburgh Scotsman.
A non-commissioned officer enter
ing a barrack gate in Dublin was
mistaken by a raw sentry, who im
mediately saiuted him. The non
commissioned officer, unaware that
his colonel was just behind, returned
the salute a thing not permissible
n the circumstances. Arrived at his
Quarters, he was surprised-to find
an order for him to attend before the
colonei. On presenting himself he
was asked how he came to return the
salute, knowing full well he was not
entitled to it.
Not in the least embarrassed, he
promptly answered, "Sir, 1 always
return everything I am not entitled
to." The colonel, taken aback by his
ready wit. laughingly dismissed him.
Oiphtum matinee today, 15-25-50-Ad.
Good Things for
Christmas Dinner!
With Christmas just a few days away, remem
ber to buy Oregon gifts 1 Oregon commodities com
pete with the best in the market. Buy them on the
basis of equal merit.
And for Christmas dinner, why not an Oregon
Products menu? From piquant fruit cocktail to
demitasse, Oregon Quality can supply your every
need.
May we suggest as extra good, Oregon cheese of
national reputation, mince meats, jams, jellies,
relishes, salad dressings, appetizers, salted nuts,
fancy cakes, novelty confections, preserved fruits,
honey, spices, a loganberry punch and well, the
list is too long. We can't put them all in, but
remember to ask for the made-in-Orcgon kind.
Send name and addrese for fret
directory of Oregon Product!.
Associated Industries of Oregon
702 Oregon Building, Portland