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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1916)
WONDERS IN MANY LANDS MADE Holland Fears Shortage of Food Aggravated by German Immigration Baby Alligators Worn as a a V '5cvs tiered XjZezyaZuz-e r 'V ( F-ionerr in Quarantine. Germany. j. RETORTS from Holland Indicate that a serious food shortage is feared as a result of the large number of German children being sent to that country from Germany, pre sumably because of the lack of milk and food in the German Empire. The problem of the Holland officials f excluding- these youngsters Is made difficult by the strong: intimations of German officials that such an act would be considered unneutral. A lurid story just published about the Germans is hardly borne out by the facts. According to the story the Germans were herding: well and 111 prisoners together so as to Inoculate the well men with tuberculosis, etc. New prisoners are held in the deten tion camp. They are kept in quaran tine and are not to be permitted to associate with other prisoners until they have been examined medically and certified to be in good health. Miss Amparito Farrar,. cousin of Geraldine Farrar, who is ambitious to follow in the footsteps of her illustrious cousin, has as pets two little baby alli gators. Miss Farrar is cn the most Intimate terms with her little pets on a very short acquaintance. Miss Farrar is not the only one wearing them. Five other fair maidens have also taken to the new fad, which bids fair to become popular. If the alligators were not so scarce. The alligators are of the horn tail variety, striped in black and gold, 28 days old and 9 inches in length. If carefully trained and handled, they will not become vicious and their adopted mother has promised to treat them so that they will not misbehave. In Flor ida tiny alligators are often worn as ornaments by women, who fasten them to their gowns by gold chains. Flylngr the Iceland flag," a stury lit tle steamer poked her nose through the waters, of New Tork harbor recent ly and docked at Pier 8. This inaugurated the opening of a eteamshlp service between Iceland and the United States, the first ocean com munication between the two countries since Leif the Lucky, son of Erik the Hed. landed on the shore of Cape Cod about the year 1030. On board the boat, which is named the Gullfosa, were a crew of pure Icelanders. TVnen Miss Carol McComas. Belasco star, was a young schoolgirl, her chief pleasure and delight was chasing: the many colored "idlers of nature" that abounded in the woods near her home. Butterfly catching and cultivating the gentle art of whistling took up so COURTS CLASS SUNDAY PAPER AS A NECESSITY Advertiser Who Contests Payment of Bill on Ground That Publication Was Illegal Finds Opinion Very Much Against Him. BY RETNELLE G. E. CORNISH. THE courf breaks a lance for the Sunday newspaper in tha recent case of Pulitzer Publishing .Com pany vs. McNichols 181 So. 1. The plaintiff, a newspaper corporation, sued the defendant under a contract for printing certain merchandise adver tisements. The defendant admitted his liability for the printing due for week day publication but denied his liability for the Sunday advertising on the ground that the work was done in vio lation of a statute which prohibited any work other than the "household works of publio necessity, or other works of necessity or charity." The opinion in which the court handed down its decision Is in part: "By reading this statute it will be seen that household work of necessity or charity are expressly excepted from its operation. That being true, then the only question presented for deter mination i whether or not the publi 7vom sn s4erop7an s. 5 K T V 'r t much, of toer time that she neglected her studies, and she shortly after went on the stage. Now that she. has at tained the height of dramatic fame she seeks recreation in her childhood pas time, the collecting and mounting of butterflies. It Is thought the Hornsby tractor, an English machine, is the basis for the new formidable tank cars that make their way across the shell-torn cation .of the great dally papers of the country on Sunday is a work of neces sity. In order to decide this question correctly we should take a brief view of the service the great daily papers of the cities, which constitute a large part of what we call the press of the country, is doing for humanity, Sunday Paper Euloartaed. "The press disseminates practically all of the public news of the world and a large part of that which Is per sonal; it imparts intelligence regarding the public health, public morals and public safety and materially aids in the preservation of the two former and In the defense of the latter; it is the mouthpiece of the statesman and law maker, and proclaims to the world how governmental affairs are administered: it points to the capable and honest of ficial, usuily with just commendation. and singles out the inefficient and those derelict in duty: and as a rule is at the head of those collecting and dls burslng public charity. "Moreover, the press Is a great edu TITE. SUNDAY racrLor: v 1 fc 'J' m. battle fields and Invade the trenches of the enemy. The Hornsby can negoti ate rough ground readily and over comes many obstacles. Lucy Bums, the suffragist, took a unique way of aiding the causa In Se attle. She went up in the air with a filer in an aeroplane. The flight was entirely successful and It is likely much attention was attracted to the movement of votes for women. cator in literature, art and science, and points out their beneficent Influence upon the home, morality and religion; It enables the poor who earn their bread by the sweat of their faces to procure employment, to familiarize themselves with the best and cheapest necessities of life and the most reliable places where thy can be procured; it Imparts to the business man price cur rents which largely control the com merce" of the world; it Informs the financier the rates of items and ex change around the world, which keep the finances of all nations within con servative bounds; and It makes known to employers of labor the conditions of the Industrial world, etc, and so on to the end of all good and useful voca tions of life. Sunday Paper Most Important. "The great service the press Is ren dering to humanity is performed upon Sunday as well as upon Monday, or upon any other day of tne week, and Its beneficence is more potent on the former than on the latter, foithe sim ple reason that the tolling masses have more time to read the papers on Sun day than upon any other day of the week, and therefore acquire greater knowledge and information from them regarding the matters stated on that day than upon any other day. "Upon this state of affairs, where is the court or Jury in Christendom which would convict the publishers of the Post-Dispatch If indicted for publish ing that paper on Sunday. This is the test, Ot course they do not exist, and OREGONIAN, P0IJ1XAXD, 5 - rr. - J. : . awl "rr 1 -i if 3 ' - tL "Jr: - it that is because the former would take ! judicial notice of .the- faot that such publications are matters of publio ne cessity, and the latter would not stul tify Itself by finding a verdict of guilty against the publishers in the face of overwhelming evidenoe which would be Introduced in such a case. "The fact that the paper contained the advertisement, and that a part of the labor which was used in making It up and printing and delivering it was Increased on that account, in no man ner altered the case, for the reason that the paper with Its advertisements .con stituted the necessity, and such a pa per without them would be practically worthless to thousands In every city. "In the progress of time and the up lift of man. things which used to be useless or luxurious have become prime necessities. For instance, the railroad, the streetcars, the telegraph and the telephone. All of these have been de clared public necessities. ... The press is a greater public necessity than all of them. In my opinion it ranks as one of the four great Institutions of the country, namely, the home, the church, the public school and the press." Is murder an accident? . Tha case of Schnoll vs. Welsbrod & Hesa Brew ing Company, 97, Atl. 72S, decides that it la not. In this case the deceased was a route foreman In charge of de liveries of beer. While making a de livery in a neighborhood of bad repute he was shot and Killed by an assailant whose motive and identity were botn unknown. The representatives of the deceased sued his employer for compensation, claiming that his death had been oc casioned by an accident arising out of his employment. The trial court sus tained their . contention on the theory that because the deceased was a col lector for a brewery and since the du ties of his employment required him to go into a neighborhood where lawless acts were frequently committed and lawless characters congregated, that therefore he was expmed by the risk of being attacked by lawless persons for the purpose of robbery, which was a risk directly, or at least, indirectly connected with his employment. The higher court reversed this deci sion w ihe ground that the character OCTOBER '- 8, 1016. FAMILIAR BY- PICTURES Ornaments First Ship From Iceland in 900 Years Reaches America. V :W7'"Cf --" --i; a- -i- - K1 Jv'rsZ slrric3? Tom IccctncZ 'n JOOO yeans- V V v sj . - .. of the neighborhood was of no par ticular significance since It did not ap pear that the employer had any notice or knowledge of the dangerous char acter of the. community. "If it had appeared from the testi mony that the attack that was made upon the- deceased bad for its object, robbery, then it would have been clear ly Immaterial whether such attack was made in a lawless or a law-abiding dis trict . . on the ground that the risk of being robbed and murdered is a risk Incidental to the employment of those who are known to carry consid erable sums In cash on regular days by the same route to the same place." In the present case, the testimony failed to show any motive for the at tack. "No robbery or attempt at rob bery was shown. The person who shot the deceased might have shot him out of revenge for some fancied wrong, or by mistake, or by accident. There was no proven fact or circumstance that connected the shooting either directly or Indirectly with the employment of the deceased, either as driver or col lector," and therefore the employer could not be held liable for compensa tion for his death. Too Much Knowledge. A little knowledge has long been regarded as a dangerous thing, but the court In Corpus Chrlstl Ft., etc.. Ry. Co. vu. Kyellberg, 185 S. 480 seems to be equal ly afraid of too much erudition. The Jury in this case had wished to arrive at the meaning of a word used in the Judge's charge, and the officer in charge had provided them with a standard dictionary, to enlighten their Ignorance. The court, however, on ap peal, refused to recognise the diction ary as a proper and Infallible method of obtaining Information, and held that the furnishing of this compendium of useful knowledge to a Jury was re versable error. The opinion of the court was In part as follows: "After the definition of the word 'produced' hsd been given as 'the proximate cause of,' and it seems that the Jury knew no mora what 'proximate' meant than what 'produced' meant, so the officer In charge was sent to the court to obtain a Webster's dictionary to be furnished the Jury, "TT-i wM 'v- . lit "V. - i - "W'"S and It waa furnished, and they used It In the privacy of the Jury room. "What the Jury obtained from that stupenduoua work, filled with incon ceivable words and maxims and aphor isms, no one knows. No book should be consulted by a Jury In arriving at a verdict, and especially one that de fines and treats on everything ex pressed by the English language. No maker of dictionaries should ever be allowed to define legal terms to a Jury, unless such definitions go through the medium of the trial Judge, the only one authorized by law to give defini tions and explanations to a jury." COFFEE HOUSE TO CLOSE Famous German Institution Hard Hit by War. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 5. Although it la not admitted in Germany, the famous old German coffee house, the popular resort of the masses, is about to go out of business until after the war. There's a reason. Germany Is about out of coffee. For the last two years the Germans have used reserve supplies of coffee stored In Hamburg and Bre men. Antwerp's supply augmented this when it fell to the Germans In 1814. There since has been a little from Holland and Scandinavia. Today, however, the British have so effectively stopped shipments to ports reshipping to Germany that none is available therefrom. Germany la brew Ing the last of her precious berries. Before the war Germany Imported about 4Sa.000.000 worth of coffee year, mostly from Brazil and Guate mala. Coo-F.d Is 85 Tears Old. COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 2. America's oldest co-ed. formerly a student at Ohio State University here, will enter the University of California this Fall, She announced. She Is Amy I. win ship. 5 years old. Mrs. Wlnshlp. be gan her education In a log school In lUlnoU la 1817. She attracted, much 1 p-i Ur -a . it;-"'"';.' attention at Ohio State by attending classes with students CO years her ju nior. Last year she attended Wiscon sin University. She specialises in bot any and physics. JOHN D. OFFERS DRINK Barber Xot Stunned Vntll lie Iarns It Is Water. NEW YORK. Oct. 1. There Is a barber In Tarrytown to whom tha story of the purity of J. D. Rockefel ler's water supply was no news. After he had gone to Jocantico Hills to shave Mr. Rockefeller one warm afternoon the oilman asked him to no for an au tomobile ride. They went to Mamro neck. It was a dusty ride. "Would you like a drink?" asked Mr. Rockefeller solicitously, as they passed a roadhoune. The barber was not too stunned to nod his head and his host beamed upon him. "You wait till we get home." said he. hospitably. "I've got a fine cold drink waiting for you." It was fine water, the barber had to admit, and he judged from the pleased expression on Mr. Rockefeller's faco that he took considerable pride in it- SAVANT AIDS DEFENSE Professor Mun.tcrber;r Figures in Murder Trial. BOSTON. Oct. 1. Professor Hugo Munsterberg. of Harvard, the' psy chologist, was the principal figure at the trial of Albert Roper, charged with killing his father, a Tewksbury florist. He was accompanied by his secretary, who took voluminous notes. Munsterberg was called in by Wil liam B. Wilson, counsel for the young man. It Is the first time a lawyer has called a psychologist to his assis tance in Massachusetts courts. Berries Ripen Despite Cold. COTTAGE GROVE, Or.. Oct. 9 (Spe cial.) Despite rather cool nights ber ries continue to ripen here and iruit trees are putting out new blooms. Mrs. Otto Dobberstein recently brought in some strawberries that were as rosy and as delicious aa those of the early season. She also brought In blooms from a cherry- tree and an apple tree. Prepare This for a Bad X Cough It's Fine Cheaply and Easily Made, bat Does the "Work. Quickly. The finest cough syrup that, money can buy, costing only about one-filth as much as ready-made -preparations,- can, easily be made up at home. The way it takes hold and conquers distressing coughs, throat and chest colds - will really make you enthusiastic about it Any dru?ist can supply yqu with ounces of Tinex (50 cents worth). Pour this into a pint bottle and 11 the bottle with plain granulated sugar syrup. Shake thoroughly and it is ready for use. The total cost is about 54 cents and gives you a full pint a family supply of a most effectual, T'lcaeant tasting remedy. It keeps per cctlv. It's truly astonishlnir how quickly it acts, penetratinir through, every air passage of the throat and lungs loosens and raises the plilesm, soothes and heals the inflamed or swollen throat mem branes, and frraduallv but surely the annovinir throat tickle and- dreaded couch will disappear entirely. Nothinz better for bronchitis, spasmodic croup, whoopinj couch or bronchial asthma. Pioex is a special and highly concen trated compound of genuine Norway pine retract, combined with guaiacol and Fa known the world over for its prompt hcalinc effect, on the throat membranes. Avoid disappointment by askinr your drujTJfist for "2'.i ounces of Piaex" with, full directions and don't accept, any thing else. A puarantee of absolute sat isfaction or money promptly refunded goes v'ith this preparatioa. " Jfc,e.?inexJ Co, Ft. .Wayne. JaL ; 5 A