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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1916)
14 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND,' SEPTEMBER 17, 1U1D. ARGUMENT IS IDE FOR BREWERS' BILL DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS PREPARE FOR HARD CAMPAIGN IN OREGON. BATTLE OPENS SOON Presidential Campaign Will Be On in Earnest. 3 Campaign Contributions Also Requested by Equal Rights to Industry Committee. .;n . BOTH PARTIES ARE READY IMS'T ' OBJECT DECLARED MORAL Assertion Is Made That Providing Light Beer for Home Consump tion Would Reduce Vse of High Alcoholic Beverages- Arguments in favor of the so-called beer amendment" to the Oregon con stitution were presented yesterday in a formal campaign statement by the equal rights to Oregon industry com mittee. The statement declares that "vicious and untruthful" attacks have been made upon the measure and pre sents reasons why, in the judgment of the committee, it should be enacted. It is urged in the statement that voters study the amendment carefully. For the benefit of those who have not studied it the committee presents favpr able opinions from prominent citizens. The contention is made that the amendment would give Oregon brewers the Bame privileges in regard to Ore Ifon business now enjoyed by brewers outside this state. The benefits of beer, as compared with beverages stronger in alcohol, are also emphasized. In con clusion the committee solicits subscrip tions to finance its campaign. Full Statement Given. The committee's campaign statement Jn full follows: Two constitutional measures are to be voted upon by the people at the election in November, One making the state abso lutely dry, upon which its promoters have announced their Intention of raising $uO,ihk for campaign purposes. The other amend ment is the one advocated by the "equal rights for home industry" committee, which promotes the manufacture and regulated nale of a light beer. The committee having charge of this latter measure states that owing to vicioua and untruthful attacks made upon the measure, and insinuations that their measure would mean the reopen ing of the saloon, earnestly and urgently appeal to all those who have the prosperity of the state and the real betterment of mankind at heart to assist by a contribu tion In order that their measure may be properly presented to the people. This amendment permits the manufacture and sale under strict regulations of a light beer, and is believed by its promoters to be in the line of true apd successful temperance reform. It is characteristic of the fanatical mind which sees the black as white, and makes no distinction between 4 per cent al cohol and 40 per cent, maliciously and un truthfully to state that this amendment is an attempt to bring back the saloon. That is to say, A. I. Mills. T. B. Wilcox, XV. D. Wheelwright, W. Hanley, W. S. U'Ren, Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, S. Benson. John M. Gearin, John C. Ainsworth, Eugene Smith, Dr. A. E. Hockey, John Yeon and the hundred or more members of the com mittee, are the tools of the liquor dealers and brewers. Committee Explains Stand. To show the intention of the committee In drafting this amendment, the following statement was issued, by the more available members thereof: "We undertake to speak for the 'entire committee in saying that this law was care fully framed as its title says to give the home producer equal rights with the out sider, and no more. In our opinion it is absurd to claim that there is any chance in it for a return of the saloon. Such an attempt will never be made, but if made will be opposed by us as contrary to our purpose and the plain words and true intent of the law. (Signed) "A. L. MILLS. "E. R. CORETT. "J. 1. P LAG EM ANN, "THEO. B. WILCOX. "W. D. WHEELWRIGHT, "J. C. AINSWORTH. "J. B. YEON, "EUGENE SMITH. "W. MACKENZIE." Every voter, man or woman, should exer cise his right to vote Intelligently and should study carefully any measure to be voted on, and for the benefit of those who have not had time to study the amendment, the committee has requested opinions of some of the ablest lawyers in the state, men who are unbiased, and give their conscientious legal opinion, which is as follows: "In our opinion the title and language of the above proposed amendment to the con stitution, called the 'Beer Amendment.' clearly ..express the intention to give to the home brewer the same rights as the outside brewer and no more. He must himself manu facture and sell and deliver to the properly Qualified person beer in the original pack ages only in the , same quantity and under the same regulations as now prescribed for the outside manufacturer, or as those regu lations may be added to or amended by the Legislature. But the Legislature can only act as to the quantity allowed each person and the forms and regulations con trolling delivery. It cannot act upon the substance of the proposed law that the manufacturer must be the one to sell and deliver to tlft authorized person in original packages. Any attempt to open a beer sa loon under this law under pretense that the saloon was the agent of the manufacturers, or otherwise, would In our opinion be futile as against the clear intent of the law as ex pressed in its title and In the plain mean ing of the words of the law Itself. "MARTIN L. PIPES. "RICHARD W. MONTAGUE. "ALEXANDER BERNSTEIN. "D. SOLIS COHEN. "W. C. BRISTOL. "C. W. FULTON. "JOHN M. GEARIN. 'CHARLES H. CAREY. "JOSEPH SIMON." Amendment Is Quoted. The amendment Itself reads as follows: "Section 3ti. From and after January 1, ItHtt. no intoxicating liquors shall be manu factured or sold within this state, except for medicinal purposes, upon prescription of a . licensed physician, or for scientific, sacra mental or mechanical purposes; provided, however, that it shall be lawful to manu facture within this state, fermented mait . liquors containing 4 per cent or less of alcohol, manufactured exclusively for ship ment outside of this state; and provided fur ther, that It shall be lawful to manufacture and sell and deliver in this state by the manufacturer to any person or individual, in original packages only, such fermented malt liquor, containing 4 per cent or less of alcohol, in such quantity or under such - regulations as may be prescribed by law. . Until otherwise prescribed by the Legisla ture this right of sale and delivery shall be limited to the same quantity as persons are now permitted to Import into the statu under existing laws, and such persons may not within any one period fixed by law both import and purchase locally. "This section is self-executing and all provisions of the constitution and the laws of this state and charters and ordinances of all cities, tow ns and other municipalities therein, In -conflict with the provisions of this section, are hereby repealed. It does not take a lawyer to show that the manufacturer must deliver, and in . original packages only, and to a qualified person only, and in all respects as pre scribed by law now and hereafter. Cannot too Prohibitionists trust the Legislature that put through the existing law for them at their request ? Why all at once this distrust? No one wants the saloon back, but some of us do want to direct the peo ple's habit to a mild harmless drink in stead of too secret alcohol drinking. Some . f us do want the sober, temperate thou sands to have a right to a healthy bev erage at their own table, and we see no reason why the home brewer, farmer and hopraiser should be fanatically discriminated against and money sent out of the state. We believe a light beer is a better road to temperance than prohibition, which never prohibits. War's Lesson Asserted. The war has admittedly put an almost superhuman strain on the efficiency of belligerents, and it is a well-known fact . that in practically every one of the armies dally rations of beer, wine and even rum are given to the soldiers. There is no drink problem in the various armies. The British Medical Journal gives the following liquor for the army: Two and a half ounces of rum per man twice a week hfh r: - Z IllrC v M:r A Z'&-H I : " t J'k 4 iPy :frr (1) Chairman's Room In Headquarters Samuel White, State Chairman (on Left), Conferring With Leoter W. Humphrey, State Secretary. 2 Repub lican Campaign Leader at a Conference in Chairman' Room at . Republican State Headquarters, Fifth Kloor Selling Building. Left to Right David M. Dunne, Treasurer Republican State Central Committee Judge Charles L McNary, State Chairman C. D. Babcock (Standing), Publicity Man T. II. euhauaen, Vice-Chalr-man; Ralph K. Williams, Republican Xatlonal Committeeman, and D Baldwin, Secretary. and the same amount dally In bad weather. ana tnree ounces to men in the trenches. The French soldier frets 60 grams of rum a day. or half a liter of wine, sometimes both, and the French government has for bidden the exportation of red wine. Italian aoldlers get a regular ration of wine, but the exact quantity I have not been able to ascertain. The German soldier is allowed 1.793 grams of beer and 20 grams of brandy a day. The Australian soldier gets half a liter of wine. The German gov eminent, though in much need of grain and money, encourages brewing beer for the army and exempts from tax all beer donated to the army and the government has requi sitioned from the breweries a first call on enough beer for the army. Dr. Max Stein, director of the association for distributing beer in Germany, says that every day the association alone sends one and a half millions of liters of beer to the soldiers. These governments are strain- inp every nerve for efficiency and are not carried away by bigoted fanaticism. Comparisons Are Drawn. I also quote from Arthur Blsbane's ad dress to the newspaper men on the "Drink Question" "The -population of Italy Is S5.238.fi97. the population of Maine is 742,878. There is more drunkenness besotted drunkenness in Maine than In Italy. In Italy there is no prohibition, the people drink light wine and do not get drunk. In Maine prohibition keeps beer and light wine from the people. They drink whisky and get drunk. "Is there any drink question in Germany, where practically every man in the army has been a beer drinker since childhood? No, there, is not. And there is no drink question In the army of France, where every soldier has used red wine from childhood. There Is more drunkenness in prohibition Kansas than there Is In France. . . Have you observed that France forbade the ex portation of red wine because she wanted to be sure to have enough for the soldiers? . . . Are you aware that a typhoid germ dropped into a mixture of water and red wine such as the French soldier drinks is dead in a few minutes, whereas In water it proceeds to breed?" Turkey is a total abstainer and is the low. est among nations. India Is a total ab stainer, ruled by beer and ale-drinking Englishmen. No one can truthfully say a moderate drinking of beer and light wine lowers a nation or leads to drunkenness. On the con trary. It leads to temperance. For those ay ho rest on other people's opinion here are a few from thousands: "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap." Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson begged for a license to run a brewery tor his friend. Captain Miller. "I wish to "see tnls beverage become common instead of whisky." perhaps Jefferson was a truer temperance man than . the prohi bitionist. He was a thoughtful man, alive to the welfare of the people. "I have seen prohibition at work in the United States. ... Compulsory prohibi tion is impossible and only leads to drinking; COMMITTEE OF REDMEN HEADS STATEWIDE MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN. ;:fl ! j 1 s&I VJ -1- Vft r-V n J-5 :: L- vil A i 4 i: 'A- A I "--I T4'ri :: v- ' fx - -1 f ' 1 i ! fH y v "1 f I ' LEFT TO RIGHT C. T. FREDERICK. EUGENE BROOKINGS, E. A. BLAKNEV, E. PARKHILL, SHIRLEY J of Democratic State Central Committee, In worst form' Right Honorable Joseph Chamberlain. Pages could be written on this Important subject, but space wilt not permit, and the Committee repeats an earnest and urgent appeal for contributions and assistance from all these interested and requests that checks or cash contributions to carry on this cam paign be sent to the secretary of the com mittee, C. T. Haas, 206 Stock Exchange building, who will issue a proper receipt therefore. The Committee believes that by helping in this matter the contributor will help to stamp out alcohol traffic, bootleg ging and other law-breaking by the sub stitution of a light, non-Intoxicating drink. Only in this way can true temperance aud the prosperity of the state be promoted. EQUAL RIGHTS TO OREGON INDUSTRY COMMITTEE. TAX PAYMENTS ARE LIGHT Approximately $3,000,000 Due Be fore October 5. Approximately 40,000 tax payments must be made before October 5. If there Is to be no delinquency on the taxrolL The money to be paid must aggregate nearly $3,000,000 and must begin to roll in soon or the tax department will be swamped. Receipts this last week averaged a little more than J2000 a day for Tax Collector Hurlburt, which is light. It is not expected that collections will show a heavy increase until the first week in October, culminating- in pay ment of close to $1. 000,000 on the last day of grace, October 6. First installments are already delin quent; on October 6 second Installments become so. On November 5 a 5 per cent penalty is added to the tax. PARKING TO BE MARKED Street Center Experiment Is to Be Tried Tomorrow. White lines will be marked down the center of Sixth street, between Mor rison and Washington streets, today marking the place where taxicabs and fpr-hire automobiles will be required to stand on Monday for a demonstra tion. If the demonstration is a suc cess it will be made a permanent fea ture. ' The taxicabs and for-hire cars now park along the curb, much to the an noyance of many merchants. The new plan is to have a place alloted in the center of the street where there are no carlines. D. PARKER AND L. CLARKE HAZLITT. 1018 Board of Trade Bofldlnsrt Judire RED MEN TO HELP POOR RELIEF AND MEMBERSHIP CAM PAIGNS TO GO ON TOGETHER. Farmer Are to Be Aaked to Save Dis carded Fruit and Vegetables, That Some May Vise. In connection with the campaign for 20,000 new members which has just been launched by the Improved Order of Red Men a Red Men relief committee is being organized which will devote its efforts to the relief of the poor, whether they be members of the organ ization or not. The central committee will be in Portland with sub-committees in each part of the state where a tribe of Red Men exists. The Red Men relief committee will co operate with, the established relief or ganizations. Farmers will be requested to save and turn over to the Red Men committees vegetables and fruit pro duce which they would not use other wise. The committee named in Portland consists of George L- Baker, C. A. Bige- low. Judge W. N. Gatens. J. E. Wer lein, J. D. Lee and Dr. Theodore Fessler. Committees ill other cities will be named as fast as possible. Eugene Brookings is in general charge of the membership campaign and is suported by the following gen eral committee; C. T. Frederick, of Minnehaha Tribe; Earl Blakney. of Lelu Tribe; George Parkhill. of Chinook Tribe; S. D. Parker, of Willamette Tribe. The campaign is to run for nine months and close with a big celebration in Portland. Ford Trial Set for Monday. Homer N. Ford and Elizabeth G. Frary will come for trial before Cir cuits Judge Davis Monday on the for gery charge for which they were ex tradited at heavy expense to the state last Spring from Winnipeg. The action is brought by Mrs. Caroline Ford, wife of Homer Ford, who alleges that her husband and Miss Frary signed away property in which she had a legal in terest. Miss Frary signing as "Eliza beth G. Ford." Headquarters for Hughes Alliance and Wilson League Are Estab lished In Portland Promi nent Speakers Sought. Another week or so and the Republi can and Democratic Presidential cam paigns in Oregon will be in full swing. Work on both sides so far has been largely of a preparatory sort, but from now on the battle will wage without quarter. The Democratic state central com mittee has opened headquarters in Suite 1018, Board of Trade building, where Judge Samuel White, state chairmanj is in personal charge. The Oregon Association of Woodrow Wilson leagues, an important adjunct to the campaign, has headquarters at 410 Merchants Trust building, where G. Y. Harry, state organizer for the league. directs its work. Republican state headquarters are in Suite S04, Selling building. Judge Charles L. McNary, of Salem, state Ir chairman. Is at headquarters much of the time, and Ralph E. Williams, Re publican National Committeeman, han dles his end of the campaign from there. Adjoining the state headquarters are the headquarters of the Oregon State Branch of the Hughes Alliance, in Suite 507. Thomas B. Neuhausen. state chairman of the Progressive party, and vice-chairman of the Hughes cam paign committee, is in charge of the organization of the Hughes Alliance and its work. Both Democratic and Republican state committees are making efforts to have their National committees send speakers of National reputation to Ore gon for the campaign. The Democrats have been promised Senator James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, at a dato in October, and have several, other prominent men in view. The Republi cans hope to bring Senator Borah, of Idaho, . Senator Miles Poindexter. of Washington, and other well known speakers. FARM DISPLAY PROPOSED t Counties Will Be Urged to Pool Is sue for UI Paso Kxhlbit. The Association of County Judges and Commissioners, which will meet in Salem at the State Fair September 2a, will endeavor particularly to make ar rangements for representation of Ore gon at the International Farm Congress in El Paso. Tex., October 17-26. Efforts will be made to get the com missioners of the 19 counties which are exhibiting most largely at the State Fair to pool their interests and agree to finance an exhibit at El Paso, since the state is not in a position at this time to handle the matter. The road laws of the state will be another important subject for discus sion. Rufus Holman, president of the state association, issued the call this week for the meeting in Salem. "PEST" NOW IS VALUABLE Sweet Home to Celebrate Second Ad vent of Evergreen Blackberry. SWEET HOME, Or.. Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) r-To celebrate the return to popu larity of the once-despised evergreen blackberry. Sweet Home will hold an evergreen blackberry fair on Septem ber 20. A great many evergreen blackberries grow in the South Santiam Valley be low Sweet Home, and this year there has been a market for all the people cared to pick. Because the vines which produce this berry spread so rapidly, many farmers years ago began to re gard them as a pest. Then, two or three years ago. the cannery of the Linn-Benton Growers' Association at Brownsville tried canning them. The experiment was a success. MAYOR DEMANDS DECISION Xew Hearing for Ousted Patrolman Is Declared Unnecessary. Mayor Albee objected in a letter sent to the Civil Service Board yesterday to the plan of the Board appointing a committee of business men to take tes timony in the case of C. F. Hunter, dis charged traffic policeman. The Mayor said the Board took testimony in the case and is obliged, therefore, to give a decision instead of leaving it to an other committee for another hearing. The Civil Service Board has been un able to decide the case. Chairman Cald well favoring reinstatement of the po liceman, R. H. Thomas, favoring sus taining the Mayor's dismissal, and John F. Logan refusing to vote because of his having been attorney for Mr. Hunter. PERS0NAL MENTION. R. C. Clark, of Eugene, is at the Port land. D. S. R. Walker, of Eugene, is at the Perkins. . R. J. Erwin, of CorvalHs. is at the Imperial. N. R. Wyrick. of Pendleton, Is at the Oregon. S. Bernard, of Los Angeles, is at the Oregon. E. E. Wilson, of Corvallls, Is at the Seward. O. C. Pillsbury, of Seattle, is at the Nortonia. D. F. Everett, of Riddle, Or., is at the Perkins. R E. L. Brown, of Corvallis, is at the Cornelius. H. B. Auld. of Corvallis, is registered at tho Seward. H. N. Aldrich, of Cottage Grove, is at the Washington. It W. Joplin, of Tillamook, is regis tered at the Oregon. J. A. Graham, of San Francisco. Cal.. is at the Washington. R. W. Foote. of Oakland. Cal., is reg istered at the Nortonia. Governor James Wlthycombe, of Sa lem. is at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Martin, of Klamath Falls, are at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Wilson, of Wallace, Idaho, are at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Stoutemyer, of Boise, are at the Portland. W. A. Gellatly, Sheriff of Benton County, is at the Perkins. T. W. Lusk, tlmberman of Silverton, is registered at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Fletcher, of Cen tralis are at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hodson, of Cor vallis, are at the Cornelius. Mr. and Mrs. C. M Cram, of Fort Jl y mtgki tat FOR services of a strictly pri vate nature, as well as for children's services, a separate parlor has been included in the Finley establishment. The relatives are really offered more privacy here than in the home. Every appointment is offered for the comfort of those in bereavement. Canby, Wash., are registered at the Nortonia. William J. Brown is registered at the Oregon from Oregon City. Mrs. George M. Brown and daughter. of Salem, are at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Burke, of Salem, are registered at the Cornelius. Charles V. H. Jones and H. P. Fills, of Seattle, are at the Nortonia. K. C. Stewart is registered at the Washington from Pasadena, Cal. G. C. Flavel and Mrs. Flavel, of As toria, are registered at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Almond, of Se attle, are registered at the Washington. J. H. Ackerman, president of the Monmouth Normal School, is at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nixon, of Ray mond, Wash., arrived in Portland yes terday by automobile and are at the Cornelius. Max G. Politz. of Politz' Clothes Shop, leaves Wednesday on a trip to New York, Rochester and other Eastern points to purchase Spring clothing. Women Help to Convict. SPOKANE. Wash., Sept. 16. Robert Howland. alias Earl A. Jones, a negro. "Goodnight Coras! We Use' Gets-It 3 Drops in 2 Seconds. That's All. "GETS-IT" Does the Rest. Never Fails. "Really. I never could see how some few people tine the most difficult and painful way they can find to get rid of corns. They'll wrap their toes up with bandages into a package that fills their shoes full of feet and makes corns so painful they've got to walk sideways and wrinkle up their faces. Or they use salves that eat right into the toe and make It raw and sore, or they'll use plasters that make the corns bulge, or pick and gouge at their corns and make the toes bleed. Funny, isn't itV "GETS-IT" is the simple, modern won der for corns. Just put 3 drops on. It dries Instantly. No pain, fuss or trouble. Thei corn, callus or wart loosens and comes off. Millions use nothing else." "GETS-IT" is sold and recommended bv drutf&rists everywhere. 25c a bottle. or sent on receipt of price, by E. Law rence & Co.. Chicago, in. Sold in Portland at all stores of The Owl Drug Co. Saattlft's Famou Hotel Fine central location. Every modem appointment. Cute one of finest on the Coast. RATES 1 Mf day up with use of tmh. 1 12 per day and up a prime beta, SAN FRANCISCO Geary Street. !us off Union Squar European Plan $1.50 a da; up Breakfast 60c Lunch 60c Dinner SI. 00 Most Famous Meals iri the United States New steel and concrete structure. Center of theater, cafa and retail districts. On carlines transferrins all over city. Take Municipal car line direct to door. Motor Bas meets trains and steamers. '( HOTEL STiliU 1 i was convicted in the District Court here yesterday of first-degree murder by a jury, five of whom were women. The negro was charged with shooting Charles Jackson, another negro, during a quarrel, and later phooting Patrolman Michael Tynan when the officer was sent to arrest him. Pic-Nic Today at Beautiful Columbia BEACH The Coney Island Of the West Unsurpassed Bathing Beach Fine Dancing Floor Good Music Extra Attractions Bring: the Kiddies and Spend the . 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