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THE 3IORMXU OREGOXTAX. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1923 rmm nirr pnrn nnn Til ItlJ I. If I MSI IS 5 I Hi 2 LI Ull I l3ZiiUUUU I IDIVD I V ' " ' Dry Law Enforcement Body Must Be Reduced. ; $9,000,000 SUM ALLOWED Commit sioner "Ilazzert"' About Activities of Tress Agents Who Arp in His Employ. (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire ) WASHINGTON, , D. C, Dec. 6. Notwithstanding the administra tion's concern over the widespread disregard of the prohibition law, the house appropriations committee today not only refused to increase the annual allowance for dry law enforcement, but actually reduced it from $9,250,000 to $9,000,000. "While this reduction will of ne cessity cause a smalL decrease in the personnel of the organization," said Representative Madden, repub lican, Illinois, chairman of the com mittee, in his report to the house, "the prohibition authorities do not Relieve it will handicap their work to any appreciable extent." Publication today of the hearings en the treasury appropriation bill revealed many interesting things concerning prohibition. It showed, for instance, that Prohibition Com missioner Haynes in the course of severe grilling before the com mittee, admitted that approximately 915U.U0U had been spent during the past year by his bureau to purchase bootleg liquor as evidence for pros ecutions. Another interesting disclosure was that Mr. Haynes denied that he ever said that 20,000,000 Americans had gone on the watt'.r-wagon. Under cross-examination by Representa tive Gallivan, democrat, Massa chussets, he would not even claim 6,000,000 water-wagon converts; he refused to make any estimate. Mr. Haynes was sharply "razzed" About the activities of the "dry" press agents in his employ, partic ularly Sherman Cuneo, author of a recent literary work entitled "From Printer to President," a biography of President Harding. Representative Gallivan produced ft telegram which he said Cuneo had sent to Haynes, at government ex pense. It read: "Please send me white pants. I want to make 'a front in front of the president." Haynes denied knowledge of the telegram. Gallivan said it was sent by Cuneo from Florida when the president was there on a short va cation last winter. CKITICAIi PERIOD REACHED Prohibition Commissioner Re ports on Progress. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 6. In asking $9,00,000 for the next fiscal year for his department, Pro hibition Commissioner Haynes today said that if a similar amount were allowed for prohibition enforcement continuously for five or six years a reduction then ought to be possible, but that the critical period for en forcement -was now at hand. Mr. Haynes said there were 3800 men employed in the work of pro hibition enforcement. He said he was "gratified" with the present functioning of his enforcement ma chinery and that the department was securing "fine co-operation from states and counties in the main. Courts were becoming "more sympathetic," he asserted, and jail sentences and fines were becoming Heavier. "There is a general disposition to tighten up," he added. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 1H22. he said, there were 20.4S3 con victions in federal courts for viola tions of the prohibition law. Acquit tals numbered 4625, cases dropped 32t7 and civil cases disposed off 504. At the end of the year, he said, 15.910 cases were pending in federal courts, bringing the total of cases handled to 44,779. These figures, he said, did not include cases in state courts'. Fines in federal courts, "which were deposited in the treas ury, he placed at $2,791,000. RAILWAY RIVALRY ASKED (Continued From First Pacp.) that the Kast Side Business Men's club has not had a regular meeting ?f its directors or its members au thorizing an intervention here?" The witness replied : "No, I don't know a thing about that, Mr. Day." Intimations earlier in the -testimony that the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's association had prac tically disintegrated was also at tacked by Mr. Day, who said, in the form of a question, '"That associa tion was active enousrh to inter vene here and employed counsel to represent it?" To which Mr. Don aldson replied. "Oh, yes, I don't want to be interpreted as minimiz ing the importance of the "Willam ette Valley Lumbermen's associa tion. The Southern Pacific at torney made a point of the fact that the Southern Pacific already had competition in the lower Willamette valley, where the witness said competition was seriously needed, pointing out the operation of the Oregon Klectric railroad from Port land to Kugene. Mr. "Donaldson admitted under cross-examination that in his cam paign against the Southern Pacific he had Jjeen in the pay of the Union Pacific railroad. Railways Vital to Industry. W. B. Biddla ot Medford, who served at one time as president of the Frisco line and as vice-president of the Rock Island, said there was dire necessity for railroad competi tion in southern Oregon and north ern California. "My own experience in the devel opment 01 a raiipouov no sa'd. is that it is almoet impossible to e - cure the location of Industries with out railroad coniotition. It is a vitv vital factor. The territory north of! Sacramento and south of Kim-en, in : ir inifciiuwi nuuu .n J'.'U (lilifS 13 susceptible of wonderful develop- .t.vi.i ,i.v ii -o.u v-uiiic (my irom competition of railroads. The physi- cai character of the country is such it is impossible for independent de- I vctopment of a railroad. The con struction of a new road is not justi fied, so development of the country must come from the use of facilities 5 it spreads just like butter was J Green Chile Cheese already constructed or partly con structed. The use of these proper ties must be under. competitive con ditions if the country is going- to be developed." Mr. Biddie said competition would prove a reat tactor in building up uthwestern Oregon, in some parts . .... of which he stated the only thing now produced is "cord wood and moonshine." Oregon with all its natural advan- nSny&t" ."rSa. and he attributed this condition to the lack of railroad competition. He urged that the Southern Pacific's (application, to continue in control of jthe Central Pacific be denied, so that I thirt development could be brought l CJX he has visited every year since X.os Angeles was a city of 11,000 popu lation. The growth of that section, he stated, started with the advent of the banta Ke, augmented later by Hie construction of other lines, both steam and electric. Joint usage of Central Pacific trackage in California and Oregon he believed would result in tiie censtruction of .various lines that would open up additional ter ritory and 'this he predicted would be of financial interest, to the South ern Pacific as weli as whatever other tine used these tracks. Finance Plan ot Favored. C. F. Swigert testified that he fa vored an independent Central Pa cific which, wken independent, he declared, would be able to make a common-user arrangement, with the Southern Pacific whereby the two systems would be operating trains over lines where only one system operates now. The Central Pacific, he said, would, es an independent road, complete the Natron cutoff and the Union Pacific would then be induced to complete its line from Crane to connect with the Central Pacific. Attorney Day wanted -to know how the Central pacific would finance the construction of the Natron cut off. To this the witness replied that he did not know. Mr. Swigert said that he signed an advertise ment which appeared in the Port- land papers opposing the Southern Pacific s application because he be Iieved in the dismemberment of the Southern Pacific. He said he had paid for the advertisement but ex pected the Union Pacific to reim burse him. Tonnage Declared Ample. There is plenty of tonnage in sight to sustain two competitive railroads such as the Southern Pa cific and the Central Pacific with the Natron cutoff completed, F. II. Bramwell testified. "The possibilities of development along the territory that would be taken care of by the Natron cutofi. can hardly be estimated," he said. "There are almost untold possi bilities there in .agriculture, live stock and this vast amount of tim ber to be taken up. In my judg ment the Natron cutoff would be furnished tonnage from the ir. cipiency of its operation to m,".ke it profitable and the natural growth and development of the country. A. Spencer, general counsel for the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation company, drew from the witnesses a statement that in wide circulation in southern Oregon on both sides of the Cascades he had found farmers and business men generally clamoring for an inde pendent Central Pacific. Here Mr. Spencer placed in the record a bundle of resolutions and petitions urging Southern Pacific-Central Pa cific separation. Common User Mentioned. F. C. Knapp, declaring that he was testifying for no one of the railroads involved in the- present controversy, said Oregon's present transportation problem could be solved by adopting the common user on some of its present lines. .- J. II. Lothrop told of the' senti ment among business men in Port land which he said he had found to be overwhelmingly in favor of dis memberment. He indicated that he had interviewed many business men on the question. .Mr. Lothrop in an swer to questions by Attorney Spencer named many prominent business men who had come out in favor of the separation of the roads. Mr. Lothrop said that during the time he was active in sounding pub lic opinion on the unmerger he was paid by the -Union Pacific Railroad company. C. F. Vandeven'er's testlmony dealt largely with his activities in circulating petitions in Oregon west of the Cascades in behalf of the sep aration of the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific. John K. Gill Speaks. John K. Gill of the J. K. Gill com pany spoke last night at the regular meeting of the Reed college Biology club upon "The Fish of Oregon and the Northwest." His talk was illus trated throughout with numerous of his own paintings. Mr, Gill is a nat uralist and gave an interesting dis cussion of Oregon water life. The meeting was held at the home of Dr. L. K. Griffin in Eastmoreland. Card Room, Bond Approved. The city council yesterdav approved an ordinance requiring the ppsting of a $iuou Dona tor each card room li cense issued after January 1, 1923. This ordinance will in all probabil ity close many of the card rooms now in operation and at the same time insure the proper conduct of licensed resorts. Pay for Mosquito Bite Asked. HARRISBURG, Pa. Compensation of $67 for a mosquito bite was asked of the state workmen's com pensation board by Anthony Mer covich of Philadelphia, an employe of the American Dredging company. who says that while working in a swamp near Philadelphia a mos quito bite infected his left arm and it cost him $67 before he was able to return to work. gs i!!2 3 ?1 li i Q j ft V? S I PS r I U D I a d. 12 I ' S Last Times Today and Friday 3 H 8 ! "TO HAVE AND P j TO HOLD" 1 saaBgaaMjjaau REAL MAN IS G0E Ml OF GIT iGeorge Auger of Circus Fame Faces Handicap Bravely. TROUBLES BEGIN AS BABY Annoyances of . Physical Handi cap Overcome by Strong Char-; acter, Lovable Personality. The Oregonian carried a few days ago a dispatoh about the death of George Auger, circus giant, and telling about the heroic measures that were employed in order to give him suitable burial and obsequies. i'eara ago Auger used to come to Portland in vaudeville sketches featuring him as a giant. He is re membered by theatergoers of the days of the old Grand theater on Washington street. The following story, written on the occasion of his death, shows him in a more human light than he had usually appeared iu before the curiosiiy-seeki&g public. BY JOSEPH VAN HA ALT E. NEW YORK. Dec. 1. (Special.) George Auger is dead. He is the giant you saw last year at the cir cus, stalking- across the tanbark, side by side with his iittie old pal, Jimmy Doll. Jimmy used to envy the giant. Little Jim had to crane up at life from the dizzy height of 33 inches, while George surveyed the passing show from the silk tiled altitude of 8 feet 4 inches. The giant's career was a shining- example of the manner in which a human being can overcome the cruel handicap of an abnormal physical make-up and mingling in the current i of everyday life, achieve a modicum ' of happiness and contentment, much ; lov.e, admiration and respect. The tragedy of it all was that in ! his heart the flame of ambition! burned as bright as ever it flared in any man's life. The last thing on earth he wanted to do was to tramp down the main street of the world at the head of a circus parade with the band blaring and the youngsters, pointing grimy fingers, caliing to their fellows to "Hurry up and see the giant!" Auger Was Real 31a n. It would have been a simple mat ter for George Auger, feeling as he did, to have sulked in some seques tered byway, out of the dust and the heat and the noise, dragging out his days in introspective, bitter com plaint concerning "the casual jest of a bored God." But that wasn't his style. We may say of him, now that he is gone, that he was a man, every inch of him, and therefore very much of a man. It's a tribute well deserved. What does any of us know of the history of another man's bread? The giant in the circus was the last man on earth you would have supposed was unhappy with his part in life. "I got thinking it over," he said to' me one time, "and it occurred to me perhaps the best thing I could do was to play the part as best I could and make as many people happy as possible." So that's what we'll say of him here; that he spent his days on the sidelines, making people happy making youngsters laugh, and in that fashion "unedged the scythe of Time, that the thieving years might not harvest wholly all memory of unpleasant hours." Trouble Begins as Baby. "Ever since I was six years old," he said, "I have spent my life stoop ing and crowding. Did you ever re alize that I am doomed to walk about all my days in a world to which I am out of all proportion? This is a life for the ordinary sized man. Drop below the average scale or shoot as far above it as I have and you're going to come into con tact with sharp corners you never : knew existed." You see, he was a bit of philoso pher. His troubles began when he was 3 years old. They told him one day he was too big a boy to sit on his mother's lap. She was only a slip of a lady, a little over 5 feet. . "I wanted to cuddle up and play baby," George told me, "but I couldn't." His difficulties augmented when he started to school. "I had a kindergarten mind," he said, "and the frame of a kindergar ten teacher. The children used to fight shy of me. They got off in corners and stared. You might say I began to be a misfit when I was about 6 years old and I've been a misfit ever since. "It got so uncomfortable for me at school I had to leave. The chil dren used to tease me. One time I struck a boy who was annoying me and, believe me, I was shocked when he whimpered: 'Why don't you hit a feller your own size?' "I was about 14 then, and I meas ured 6 feet 3. I've never been able to tind a fellow of my own size. That kid probably didn't realize the job he gave me." Everything: Too Small. Doors were too small for the giant. Desks were too low. Beds were not long enough. Nothing he wore could be bought ready made. He used a 17 boot and a size 20 collar. Somebody stole his overcoat one time in Delia Ma- loney's boarding house. He adver tised its loss, stating it was six feet long and would make a good tent. He used to recount, in facetious STARTING SATURDAY i 1 TiT AVIMP i I t "Freckles" is seen in one of the greatest and most Vr I vf lovable roles of his career, supported by a yfk t V stellar cast, which includes Niles Welch, .V h.s 'v Ruth Renick, Russell Simpson, yip f I V-ViVk Richard Tucker and yW g if f.A!3, V-Hsv Eulalie Jensen ' yiiW j,- 3Wrn.tVrfi, t-i mijfkt .firm au, liiafa. 'Jdlm, . j! 1 T'HFTc vvRSrt f?hWzU fashion, details of his courtship. 'The pirl used to get up on a laa- led to kiss me," he said. "And I never got any enjoyment in holding my wife on my lap because she was always afraid of falling off. She was only 5 feet 6." He left his home in Cardiff, South Wales, to join the queen's regiment and later became a traffic bobby in London. The Barnum & Bailey cir eus was passing Trafalgar square ne day when George, on duty there, held up the show for traffic. Dexter Fellows, the dean of adjec tive slingers, as circus press agents are called, caught a glimpse of ANOTHER SHOW FOR ALL OF THE FAMILY DE LUXE CONCERT . - v, : mil m IlKJ jF tut,, j ittaiiiy-M.iti, ffloH-il, -Scunirt-nw lii, -mmmmm . aiaMt?s. J 12:30 Noon Next Sunday Programme "Ballet Suite: Ia Source" Leo Delibcs . . (a) Pas Des Echarpea (Scarf Dance) (b) Scene D'Amour . (c) Variation (d) Danse Circassienne "Oriehtale" Cesar Cut "Ziegrfeld Follies. 1921".'. Victor Herbert, R. Friml, Dave Stamper PIANO SOLO "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12" (request).. Franz Liszt Played by Salvatore Santaella "Katellita," Valse Pathetique Victor Herbert "Overture to Kuy Klaa" V. Mendelssohn Op. 5 WKHKDAY CONCERT "Ziegfeld Follies. 1921" Victor Herbert, R. Friml, Dave Stamper George, who was shaking " hands with the circus giant, lookmo down at him and solicitiously inquiring when he expected to grow into a sure-enough Titan. When the circus returned to the states George was on the payroll. 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