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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX,. POETLAND. . SEPTEMBER 1G, 1017. " WAR SCENES PREDOMINATE ITS1 WEEK'S WORK OF CAMERA MEN American Soldiers in England and France Objects of Much Interest British King Reviews Contingent Marching Past Buckingham Palace. - ytmericcin TrpopVarcfi Tirouh LondoTS" (, AtSr K "-&f StS Lxra American ooo fwV Ikf iH'.pn " r .fetid , littaD i A7;il llv M& jap il I : .A.r 'fPJ J-4:...iVi'lJl ibliS- -v--'l H, I i ?' - it itTk.j .. I - - r-:-.-w-4, ,;t WA t ' ' tear . ?--lf 11 jjr . . m 1 1 k3j J - yd I - " yyz'c?- cPvJbz ,4 fiscal Wo7-lrTiJrzric&.- oVir. K --T2 -CAV , -'- revuwed the chief, of th. South Am- I A SZ?J 1 72 .e&cA JeiK; ; can Labor Corps in France. These : , l ft,A juT VW . I y - , - dusky native, of Southern Africa have I s "o - L been sent to France to work as la- I : . fji"""! . ry'-' .TiiinBWirtiMw. . . iti '-A:-!S B ...... it borers behind the ftehtiny lines. They 1 i . r : V : ft jA ,. " f ' 3, -k 1 1 - are replacing the great numbers of I i., :. . : . V fj W iiJf&U&ir' fcf :V v i . )M I men who have been drawn away from H; V j,'- v , , - -II all kinds of work to fill places in the I . f JBS' , , 1 I trenches. Women are filling some of I W -iST rII ' Vi ' men's places, but their efforts are not I f. J i Vt?tXVfVJ . Wt 1 I sufficient, so these stalwart African II " ft'R l! ! II natives have been called upon. , i i . KVI " TH.-7tr J a . '.f ' " f 91 1 I H 7 ONE of : the most noteworthy scenes in the march ihrough Lon don of a contingent of our sol diers on their way to the front was when the troops reached Buckingham Palace, and the King was waiting for them and watched them march pas- He aluted the Stars and Stripes born by our soldiers. . -r It is not often an airplane Is found resting on the tip of one wing in the water and far leas often is it towid to port that way. This befell a British warplane recently, however, and it was brought in by a French torpedo-boat. ... , Voting at a polling place at Santa STonica was considerably enlivened during a recent election by the appear ance of a fair voter in her bathing uit. Santa Monica is a water-side suburb of Los Angeles, and at the election to decide the question of an nexing it to that town many of the women bathers at Santa Monica didn't primp up a bit to go to the polls and vote. They came from the beach in their bathing suits, pausing only to slip on a bathrobe. Evidently the con tinued exercise of their right to vote has taken much of the novelty away from if and they are com ng to regard it from the usual mannish viewpoint of a necessary obligation rather than a privilege to fight for. as the suffrage pickets are doing in Washington. ... The formality of knocking before entering didn't bother an aeroplane that ecently paid a visit tc the bed room of a householder living on Leb anon road, in Twinkenham. England. But then it must be remembered that the visit was as xnuclt of a surprise to the aeroplane as to the householder. Something went wrong and the ma chine, getting out of the control of the pilot, crashed into the roof of this house. The Impact was so great that the plane smashed through to the bed room below, leaving the tail and body protruding over the roof. Fortunately neither the pilot nor the sleeper into whose room he crashed was injured. - l King Georgs V, e England, recently Secretary of War Newton D. Baker distributed the diplomas to the 1S2 men of the class of 1918 who were grad uated from West Point recently. The war and the consequent need of as many Army officers as can be secured impelled the officials of the Military Acadamy to hasten the graduation of these men by a course of intensive instruction and training. This was suc cessful and the men were graduated a year ahead of time. After a short furlough they will be assigned to duty with the Army as Second Lieutenants. "The leaping tuna have come back to Catallna," is the message that has gone around the world to wherever en thusiasts for this great sea sport re side. Now sportsmen in droves are on their way to the California island. Fish ing for this fish is said to be the finest water sport in existence. On the first day of the fishing one fisherman. George Farnsworth. caught 13 tuna, their aggregate weight being more than 900 pounds. He is the originator of the kite method of fish ing for the leaping tuna, in which the flying fish bait is attached to a line dragging from a kite. Some of the big shells being fired at the Germans by the allies carry messages more or less facetious. A. re cent one was painted with the words. "Berlin Bound." and was a half-ton greeting from Uncle Sam to the Kaiser. "Somewhere in France men of the American contingents for Pershing's expeditionary Army are detraining. Their departure from these shores was unheralded and their arrival in France was also unheralded, foe there Is no crowd to i their way relcome them. They are on i necessary to conceal their movements, to the trenches, and it is I that the Germans may not receive any tinkling of their whereabouts or their I destination. ' LEGAL SIDELIGHTS FOR , LAWYERS AND LAYMEN By Reynelle . E. Coralsh, of Portland Bar. PRACTICAL JOKERS The cheerful idiot whose idea of humor is to hurt some one else, we have always with us. Not infrequently his humor lands him in court, which is quite as it should be: and occasionally he succeeds in dragging a more or less Innocent party In with him which is to be regretted. However, perhaps the employer in the case of in re Loper 118 N. E-, Rep. 324. retaliated by discharg ing his spoctive employe, and thus taught him an apparently much-needed lesson. But to proceed: The practical joker la this c&so was an. assistant superin tendent. While one of the men under him was engaged in operating a drill press the humorist proceeded, "as a practical Joke" to turn the air from the air compresser upon him. This, it seemed, was a stock joke and one which had been sprung upon the un suspecting employes of this concern before. The employe at the drill was at the time suffering from an abscess in the abdominal region and as he jerked away quickly to escape the cur rent of air, he ruptured the abscess and death - resulted. The employer was sued for damages under the Workman's Compensation Act of Indiana by the tertrm of which. the employer is held responsible for injuries to employes arising out of the employment. The Appellate Court held the employer liable saying in part as follows: "In denying compensation for an in jury so caused, the courts, as a rule, assign as a reason that the sportive act that results in the injury constitutes no part of the duties of the frolicsome workmen, and consequently no part of the enterprise conducted by the em ployer, and hence that the injury does not arise out of the employment." However, in this particular case: "The employer, with knowledge of the facts, permitted such practice to continue. It was within his power to have pro hibited it. By failing to do so, it be came an element of the conditions un der which the employe was required to work." The injury was regarded as one arising out of the employment, within the meaning of the Workmen's Compensation Act, and it was so held. - - Back to Nature Is wine a manufac tured or a natural product? A dry and uninteresting question, you think! Well, certainly a. "dry" one, but per sonally we are inclined to regard it as packed full of interest,- for its answer by the Supreme Court of Oregon, as set forth in State v. Marastoni reported in 165 Pac, Rep. 1177, apparently seals the fate of that good old blackberry cordial that mother used to make. By this case Section 36, Article 1, of the Oregon Constitution and Section 5 of Laws of Oregon, 1915, are construed by the court to apply to making wine for one's own uae. The couso in dis cussing the question spoke In part as follows: "The principal question in this case is whether the defendant 'manufac tured' the wine which he kept on the premises. "That 'he pressed the juice from the grapes, put it in a vat, and permitted it to ferment by the usual natural process, with the intent to use part of it in that state as a beverage for himself and family, is admitted. As to this, portion of the liquid we are of the opinion that he is guilty of a viola tion of the statute. Webster's Dic tionary defines the word 'manufacture' to mean. 'To make (wares, machinery, or other products) by hand, by ma chinery, or by other agency." . We are of the opinion that the word 'manufacture' as used in Section 5 of the act referred to, means to 'make' irrespective of the quantity produced, or the use to which it is to be put.' "This is made clear by Section 6. which provides that the provisions of the act shall not be construed to pre vent anyone from manufacturing for his own use unfermented wine or non intoxicating cider, . wine for sacra mental purposes, or to prevent the manufacture of vinegar or nonintoxi cating cider for sale. In this case the exception proves the rule as to those things not excepted. . . . It is claimed that because the defendant did no affirmative act to produce fermen tation, but simply put the grape Juice into a vat and -'let - nature take, its course," he did not manufacture tho wine: but this contention is unsound. . Under such a construction no wine ever has been or ever will be made by hu man agency. The stipulation admits, in substance, that defendant placed the juice in the vat, and there allowed it to ferment, and that his intent was to use the greater portion as a beverage for himself and family as food with their meals, and to allow the remainder to become vinegar. He but pursued the usual process of making wine. The well-known action of the air and the germs therefrom which produce fer mentation were utilized and intended to be utilized in the process of manu facture. Some of the most important compounds known to commerce and medicine are manufactured by bringing two or more substances in contact and allowing the chemical forces of nature to produce a new compound or sub stance. "The question is not as to the policy of the law, but as to the power to enact -it. and, this being found to exist, the judgment of conviction) will be affirmed." Rabbits to Be Canned- . LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Sept. 6. Los Angeles is going to can bunny. In fact, thousands of rabbits now roaming the foothills or penned in back yards . are to be canned here during the next year. - Only young rabbits are to be . selected. The older ones are too tough. Announcement of the plans to can rab- . bits was made today by William E. '. Russell, head of a new concern that has taken preliminary steps to open such a cannery in San Francisco Valley. Experiments conducted during the last three years by Gordon E. Phair, for the company, have devel oped a new process for canning here that has proved successful, it was an nounced.' The food value of canned rabbit was declared to be greater than that of either pork-or chicken,