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8 HISS UBS' PLACE GOES TO G. ABRAMS Appointee for Industrial Acci dent Commissioner Editor and Guard Officer. MR. WEST'S HAND IS SEEN Ileslgnatlon of Democrat Kegarded as Flan to Embarrass Adniinis tratlon, bnt Subsequent Law - Gives Power of Dismissal. HIGH SPOTS IT Pt'BMC CA KEER OK FERN HOBBS. January 1. 1911 Engaged by Governor West as stenographer in executive's office. June 1. 1913 Appointed private secretary to the Governor. October. 1913 Sent to Wash ington. D. G. by Governor West in interest of irrigation and land matters. December 31. 1913 Sent to en force martial law in Copperfieid, closing saloons and gambling houses. December A, 1914 Appointed Industrial Accident Commissioner by Governor West. February 21, 1915 Offered to resign as Industrial Accident Commissioner if Senate would pus Schuebel bill amending -workmen's compensation act. February 24, 1915 Tendered resignation to Governor Withy combe. February 27, 1915 Resignation accepted and Carle Abrams ap pointed successor. 6ALEM. Or.. Feb. 27. (Special.) Governor Withycombe announced today that he had accepted the resignation of Miss Fern Hobbs as Industrial Accident Commissioner and would appoint Major Carle Abrams, of this city, in her stead. He will assume the duties of the office when Miss Hobbs' resignation becomes effective May 21. Major Abrams was born January 26, 1879, on a farm in Polk County, and was graduated from the Oregon Agri cultural College in 1900. He served in Company K, Second Oregon Volunteers, during the Bpanish-Amerlcan War, and Is now major of the Third Battalion, 'National Guard, having been a commis sioned officer in the guard for 12 years. Major Abrams is part owner of the Statesman Publishing Company, and manager of the Pacific Homestead. He served as reporter and city editor of the Statesman for several years. While a member of the lower House of the Legislature in 1911 he was in strumental in having legislation en acted of benefit to the farming and dairying interests. He was author of a bill empowering the Corporation De partment to tax foreign corporations, which has increased the state's reve nue thousands of dollars annually. Letter Cause Sensation. During the recent deadlock between the Senate and the House over the , Schuebel workmen's compensation bill Miss Hobbs wrote a letter to the Sen ate, offering to resign her position if it would pass the House bill. Senator Garland read the letter, and insisted that it be made a part of the record. Subsequently, however, at the request of other Senators he asked that it be expunged, which was done. Several Senators openly declared that the let ter was inspired by ex-Governor West, who desired to make it appear the Sen ate was directing its political warfare upon a woman. When it'was found the House would not recede from its posi tion the Senate passed the bill, but not until the House had passed one giving the power of recall of appointive of ficers to the appointive heads. Miss Hobbs tendered her resignation to Governor Withycombe after the legislature adjourned, the act being regarded as another attempt of ex Governor West to embarrass the new administration. It was predicted by her friends that she would be dismissed from the service, but the executive sim ply accepted her resignation, which re tains her in office until May 21. Miss Hobbs' Career Spectacular. The career of Miss Hobbs in public service was scarcely less spectacular than that of her chief. She achieved a ffational reputation when she de clared Copperfieid under martial law under instructions of Governor West She also obtained evidence for the ex ecutive for use in prosecutions of al leged law violations in various towns. She came here from Portland to be come stenographer in the Governor's office and when Ralph Watson, his private secretary, was made corporation commissioner Miss Hobbs became the private secretary, the salary having been increased to $3000 a year. She was appointed Industrial Accident Com missioner to succeed C. D. Babcock early this year. The salary is J3600 a year. Miss Hobbs said she had not deter mined what she would do when her resignation became effective May 21, but thought she would locate in Port land. "I have two or three things in mind." she added, "but really do not know what my work will be. In fact I may have to put a want ad in the news papers to find something. When ap pointed I expected to remain an In dustrial Accident Commissioner four years, the law at that time providing that a Commissioner could be removed only for cause. I suppose I shall de cide on something definite to do before my resignation takes effect, but that is a matter for the future." WASHINGTON WANTS CHAN (rr-ntinud From First Page.) amending the bill that the employ ment of name solicitors would be op tional with the candidate. Under the law, as finally passed, he may adopt that method of getting on the primary ballot or may pay a fee and dispense with the petition. Wash ington has had an exclusive fee system of nominating candidates ever since the direct primary law was enacted in 1907. Washington does not make a fetish of its direct primary. Probably this Is partly due to the fact that it is not a "people's law." It was enacted by the Legislature, not through the initia tive. Second Choice Provided. Even so. the Washington election laws have long contained principles that fall within the category of what Is popularly termed progressive legis lation. The primary election law con tains a second choice provision and Ju dicial elections are non-partisan. After five experiences with the sec ond choice provision a noticeable dis satisfaction has arisen concerning its operation, but as yet this dissatisfac tion is not strong enough to insure Its repeat Whether it ever will be is problematical. Governor Lister, in his message to this Legislature, recom mended Its elimination in the interest of simplifying election law. An ef fort was made to abolish it in the plat form convention bill, which has passed the Senate, but it was saved by a close vote. The chief argument in opposition to retaining the second choice provision was that it was not generally used to sincere purposes. The average voter, it was contended, did not vote his true second choice, but sought to throw his second choice to the candidate he be lieved least likely to be nominated. . Blanket Ballot Plan Lose. An attempt also was made to incor porate the blanket ballot feature in the same bill, but without success. As originally prepared this, amendment provided for printing all party tickets in the primary on one sheet, but did not permit the voter to make excur sions from one ticket to another. He was required to vote for candidates on only one ticket. The amendment there after was changed so that each ticket would be printed on a separate sheet, but the voter was to be served with all of them, take his choice and throw the others away. There is strong opposition in Wash ington to party registration or the in corporation of any factor that will re strict a voter to his party affiliations in the primary. This opposition to a thing accepted in Oregon as a matter of course helped defeat the blanket ballot provision. Furthermore, party registration was not included in tne universal registration law already passed. Whit we would term in Oregon the ' OUTGOING AND INCOMING Carle Abrams. assemoiy measuro naa hwl ij" 1 n - . . i ,, acted upon by either house. Under the worth ?aL"smlTt" ? Port-" . . Jit . Kin v, nnnvpnfinn tohvIous publicity," Phil S. Bates, ot Port terms of this bill the convention may produce several candidates for each of fice. The one favored by a majority of the delegates will go on the primary ballot in September under the designa tion "majority candidate." There also may be a "first minority candidate" and second minority candidate ir me convention is not unanimous. The bill does not bar other candidates from the ballot. They may secure place thereon as now. but theirs would bo known as Individual filings. Fraud Taken Sertonsly. The bills requiring that initiative, referendum and recall petitions shall be filled only by registered voters signing at registration offices were in spired by the petition frauds attending attempts to submit the bills in the last election known as the "seven sisters." Frauds that Oregon has long suffered, yet still views with more or less tol erance, appear to be taken seriously in Washington. The bills aa well as the "assembly" measure have the baoking of the Republican organization which controls both houses. The two bills were up on second reading in. the House this week. There was at least one talk which would have branded the speaker as a popular government heretic and a political out cast if it bad been delivered in Oregon. But here he was applauded. Representative Hartley, of Snoho mish County, boldly challenged the merit of the recall. He declared that if it were within his power to draft a bill and get a sufficient number of votes to pass it he would frame a law that would put the "pernicious" thing out of existence. He said that, when in the office of Mayor, he bad learned that genuine mistakes he honestly made went unquestioned, but that when he had stood firm for what he knew was right somebody invariably waived a recall petition under his nose. Recall Is Misused. The basis for opposition to the re call in Washington is not hard to find. It has been misused in several in stances, particularly in Seattle and Ta eoma. in the former city it became so much a plaything that the substantial business interests finally raised a pro test against its further use because of a real or fancied evil reputation It gave the city. . . In Oregon the recall is probably the least abused of all our popular powers. In trifling with the Initiative and ref erendum we have far exceeded, in quantity at least, the experience that is causing Washington to put more re strictions around an already restricted governmental principle. Some specu lation naturally may arise as to whether Washington's prospective reg ulations will not make the recall and direct legislation dead letter statutes, and Oregon,, it is apparent, will have opportunity to watch at close range an experiment it is loath to undertake. It will know in time whether the initiative, referendum and recall are workable when they may be launched only through exercise of that Indi vidual effort necessary on the part of a large number of persons, when peti tions may be signed only by visiting a designated place for that purpose. 3 O-Tear .Resident of Alsea Passes. ALSEA. Or.. Feb. 27. (Special.) Mrs. Rhode Ann Goodman, wife of N. J. Goodman, died at her home, one mile from Alsea, Wednesday at 7:S0 A. M. Mrs. Goodman was 75 years old and came with her husband to Oregon 30 years ago. They settled on the Alsea River and have resided in the Alsea Valley ever since. She leaves a son, Sam Goodman, of Eastern Oregon; two daughters, Mrs. Gray, of Portland, and Mrs. Larsen, of Five Rivers, and 21 grandchildren, , . KEEP ADVERTISING IS ADVICE 10 GLASS Phil S. Bates Tells Students at Oregon Value of Use of Daily Papers. KIND. OF READER WEIGHED Issue and Subject Must Be Deter mined by Characteristics of Paper as Well as by Commodity Of fered, Says Portland Man. TJNIVERSITT OF OREGON. Eugene, MEMBERS OF STATE INDUSTRIAL the big daily paper, is not in land, told the class in advertising on Saturday. "There are few indispenslble classes of advertising and advertising in the great dailies is one of them," he con tinued. "The local advertiser must use the great daily, it is all he has worth using. Mr. Bates was introduced by Eric W. Allen, head of the department of Journalism. He discussed advertising in both morning and evening papers. "Both are good," he said, "and it has been stated, and I think truthfully, that the morning papers are read largely by the better classes of professional and business men. The concensus of opinion of all specialists In the adver tising business is, and I think, admitted by the average afternoon publisher, that the afternoon papers are read by the. laboring classes to the greatest ex tent. Bankers Prefer Morning I suae. "Which paper to use, and what to advertise in this particular medium, must be determined by the individual ity, personality, characteristic of the house advertising, and the quality, value and price of the commodity the particular individual is advertising. "It has been demonstrated to the satisfaction of banking and financial men that advertising of that character is more profitable In the morning paper, reaching the particular class of people who are interested." Mr. Bates dwelt on the advertising game with the city merchant and em phatically said: "It is a pity that the majority of city merchants do not do more adver tising. Many of the most extensive advertisers pay too much for their space instead of paying less or using more space. Trade in the great com mercial centers is practically limited and a liberal advertiser gets the most of it. City Men Need Newsy Ads. "The great city advertiser should change his advertisement as often as possible and should seldom allow the same advertisement to appear more than once. His advertisements must be, bright and newsy. "Generally the larger the advertise ment, the better it will pay proportion ally. The great dally advertisement covers the local field completely, and fully supplements the advertisement in periodicals. "Magazine advertisements should not be examples of rhetoric but they must be plain, distinct and clean cut Eng lish. A well printed magaaine does not necessarily have a large circulation, but all things being equal, the best made magazine is likely to have the largest circulation, providing it con tains matter adaptable to the people. Magazine advertisements are of long life because few magazines are thrown away. Class Advertising: Discussed. Here Mr. Bates shifted into a des cription of the different classes of publications for different classes of people. He termed It "an unconscious adoption of the group idea," The trade paper of the farmer, his agricultural publication, was given special empha sis. In the words of Mr. Bates, the agri cultural paper "is the trade paper of the farmer. It is a class paper only that it is read in farming communi ties, it is a family paper only that it Is read in the agricultural homes. "Trade Journals," Mr. Bates conclud ed "are a business necessity. Business may run without them but it never has run without them. The trade paper advertisements directly appeal to the retailer and alse to the whole- "Any advertising medium that can be made to reach one tnousana people mu probable buyers is worth more to the advertlssr than, a paper reaching ten Febr27V.-(gPecla-"Snasmodic adver-by '-t : : i 1 7Aj ; : - ; thousand people who are only possible buyers." WHITMAN TWICE WINNER Washington State and University Beaten in Debates. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 27. Whit man College won. the triangular de bate between Whitman, the Univer sity of Washington and Washington State College tonight. Upholding the affirmative of the question, "Resolved, that cities should control all public utilities operating within their limits," Whitman defeated Washington State College at Walla Walla while Whitman's negative team defeated the University of Washington at Seattle. The State College debaters came out second, defeating the Uni versity of Washington's negative team at Puilman. 1 NEW ROAD SURVEY MADE Cost of Grant-Douglas Route Now Fixed at $30,000. WENATCHEE, Wash., Feb. 27 (Spe cial.) John A. Gellatly early in the Tfii.ll offered to open up a direct road between Grant and Douglas Counties way of the Great Northern right of ACCIDENT COMMISSION. Miss Fern Hobbs. way tor 10.0?0. Providing the elide at XIOCK. XblttUU Uiu Kv. ....... Vl 13 1 t O TTli 1 A Douglas county omcian offered him double the amount to build the road, as former surveys naa nxen $80.00 as the cost. Last week another survey reduced the cost to $20,000 and the Rock Island slide was measured at 3500 feet. Mr. Gellatly, in a communi cation to the Douglas County officials, agrees to do the work for $13,000. At present traffic between Grant County and the Waterville district is by a roundabout road. The new road would shorten the distance greatly be tween Wenatchee, Ephrata and Spo kane to the east. Mr. Gellatly addressed the Commercial Club on this new road. BLACK SAND TESTS MADE Gugenheim Interests Send Men to Investigate Coos Bay Find. MARSHFIELD, Or., Feb. 27. (Spe cial.) Representatives of several large mining concerns are looking over the black - sand deposits otr South Inlet, discovered by John R. Smith a year ago, and one San Francisco firm is shipping out three or four tons of the Bold bearing sandrock for thorough tests. , , , . This firm tested the sandrock last week in San Francisco and found it averaged 23 a ton in gold and 32 cents in platinum. Three experts represent ing the Guggenheims and other mining companies will leave Friday or Satur day of this week for the placer dis covery Mr. Smith made in northern Curry and southern Coos County In December. Mr. Smith has received of fers for both properties, but Is holding off until the mining engineers examine the district and conditions. ASSAULT SHAKES REASON Victim at Hlllsboro Gives Name as George Garrett, of Seattle. iiiri snnpn nr.. Feb. 27. (Special.) Seorge Garrett, the victim of a brutal assault, wandered to me imun Sylvester, below Beaverton, yesterday. Garrett's mind is wandering, but in a lucid moment he gave the Sheriff 1.1. nomo nri his Seattle address. He said he left Seattle three days ago for Portland in company witn a man wud, name he cannot recall. He also said that at about 10 o'clock lout niirht ha must have been assaulted. He had been struck over the head seven times with a sharp instrument, vvnen ha ontna to Kis senses this morning his Elgin watch, a 17-Jeweled timepiece, and 95 in casn wcio sunv. " " companion has been discovered, 0. A. C. DEBATERS READY Teams to Clash With University of Oregon on March 4, OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallis, Feb. 27. (Special.) Oregon Agricultural College debaters will meet teams from the University of Oregon In two debates on March 4. O. A. C. will be represented by H. M. Currey, of Baker; G. R. Hoerner, of Seattle, Wash.: R. R. Reichart, of Corvallis, and Emanual Reichart. of Corvallis. The question is: "Resolved, That the Federal Government should own and operate all railroads In .the United States other than municipal streetcar lines." ' For two months the debaters have been hard at work under Pro fessor Peterson, of the public speaking department. 1 L. C. Smith Bros.. Typewriter Co., has moved to 207 Morgan bldg. Phone Mln .574.- Adv, . , , , . COPYRIGHT ISIS Vtre HOUSE OF KUPPSNMSIMSW PRESIDENT OF CLARK WILL LEC TURE AT EUGENE THIS SUM3IKH. Professors Cnbberly, of Stanford, aad Smith, of Wisconsin, Also an I.Ut of Instructors. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON", Eugene. Feb. 27. (Special.) Dr. Joseph Bhafer, head of the department of history, re cently received a telegram from G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark Uni versity, Worcester, Mass., saying he would be here to take his place in the coming Summer school session at the university. President Hall is a specialist in child psychology and, among other works, he has written a book on "Youth: Its Education, Regimen and Hygiene." He has also, at various intervals, held the editorship of the American Journal of Psychology, the Pedagogical Seminary, the American Journal of Religious Psy chology and Education and the Journal of Race Development.' Among other Important educators who will be lecturers at the Hummer school session are Elwood P. 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