THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX,. POETLAND. . SEPTEMBER 1G, 1017. "
WAR SCENES PREDOMINATE ITS1 WEEK'S WORK OF CAMERA MEN
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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
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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.
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-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.
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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.
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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,