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PROBATE JUDGES BLAMED
TOE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 21, 1910.
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Vniiulural 1-ami lies Declared to
Have "Railroaded" Relatives
Into State Hospital.
BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 20. (Special.)
The charge made by John Kirby
"White, commissioner of public wel
fare and a member of oGvernor Davis'
cabinet, that a considerable number
of the inmates of the state asylum
at Blackfoot are not insane at all,
but were placed in that Institution
larcely by unnatural families and rel
atives, has created a mild sensation in
many parts of the slate. Mr. White
asserts that fully 10 per cent of the
inmates of the asylum ought to be
home with relatives or at legist in
feeble-minded institutions.
This state Institution has been un
der fire several times in the past two
years. The last legislature sent a
committee to Blackfoot- to investigate
it and returned with a report severely
criticising the medical superintend
ent. Thirl y-rive Held t Insane.
Authorities seem to agree that there
!s something radically wrong with
the present system of handling the
insane, and Commissioner White, who
by virtue of his office, which gives
him jurisdiction over the asylums,
proposed to take vigorous steps to
remedy it. After an investigation by
the directing board of the Blackfoot
asylum, by Medical Superintendent
Hoover and by Commissioner White
himself, the latter announces there
are 35 of the 320 inmates who are not
insane; counties have persisted in
palming off as state charges feeble
minded persons who properly belong
in county institutions, instead of an
asylum; unnatural families have rail
roaded undesirable relatives to the
asylum: proper segregation of the in
itiates has been rendered impossible
by the flood of patients, and there is
not even a proper place to die at the
asylum.
Commissioner White also has juris
diction over the state sanitarium es
tablished at Niimpa for the purpose of
taking care of the feeble-minded. He
finds on investigation that many feeble-minded
are mixed among the in
sane at Blackfoot and he proposes to
see they are transferred to the sani
tarium. In discusisng the matter
he took occasion to score severely
the probate judges of the state, who
in some instances have been guilty of
neglect of duty in failing to examine
carefully Into the financial condition
of prospective Inmates. The law pro
vides that where persons committed
have funds for their support their keep
must be paid at the asylum. This re
lieves the state of that obligation.
Co-eds Attract Attention.
The action taken by the University
of Idaho co-eds in adopting resolu
tions indorsing a special session of
the legislature to ratify the suffrage
amendment has attracted the interest
of party leaders here. The college
girls hold that Idaho's vote may be a
critical one before the campaign is
over to get the legislatures of the
various states to ratify. They are
listing the support of women's clubs
in various parts of the state.
It is not likely that the special ses
sion of the Idaho legislature will be
called, however, unless the college
girls and other women of the state
are able to convince Governor Davis
that it is necessary and win him to
their side. The governor is not in
clined at this time to summon the
solons. Of course, in the event it
became imperative to have Idaho's
vote to assure safety of the amend
ment, he would order the special ses
sion. The amendment does not seem
to be in any particular danger. The
necessary two-thirds vote will be se
cured without trouble, the governor
and others believe.
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thing as ether," declared the Chicago
professor. " "He does not attempt to
account for the transmission of light,
but he holds that ether should be
thrown overboard. Ether gives us
some reference point for motion, but
according to the Einstein theory, all
motion is relative. However, I be
lieve it is possible, with certain mod
ifications of this hypothesis, to square
it with the ether theory and the ne
cessity of some medium for the trans
mission of light. Then my main ob
jection would be removed."
Creamery Makes Good Record.
CHEHALIS, Wash.. Dec. 20. (Spe
cial.) For November the co-opera
tive creamery at Winlock made an
approximate of 20,000 pounds of but
ter, which was an increase over the
October output of 2000 pounds. Many
local dairymen in southern Lewis
county who formerly Bhipped cream
to sound cities are now patronizing
the plant nearer home.
NEW THEORY QUESTIONED
CHICAGO SCIENTIST DOUBTS
EIXSTELN" HYPOTHESIS.
Belie! Regarding Relativity, How
t ever, Is Decalred to Be One
to Be Reckoned With.
CHICAGO, Dec. 20. Dr. A. A. Mich
elson of the University of Chicago
says that anyone holding the new
Kinstein theory of "relativity" must
also accept the following conclusions:
"A yardstick is shorter when it is
pointing east and west than it is
pointing north and south.
"A clock will run slower -when it
Is being moved than when it is stand
ing.
"A mass of matter is greater when
It is in motion than when It Is at
rest."
Dr. Michelson was winner of the
$40,000 Nobel prize for physics in 1917.
His investigations in the action of
light brought on the discussion lead
lng up to the Einstein tests and hy
potheses which have aroused so much
comment in the scientific world.
Dr. Mtchelson stated that the con
sequences of the Einstein theory are
radical, and then he told the effect
It would have on the yardstick, clock
and solid body. But he added that we
need not get excited about it, even if
Einstein is right.
"The movement of the earth is small
when compared to the velocity of
light, and for all practical purposes
might be disregarded," he said. "The
subject of relatiyity belongs to the
realm of higher physics, but never
theless, is an important matter and
the Einstein theory is to be seriously
reckoned witn.
Professor Michelson, however, does
not as yet accept the theory as it is
taught- by the great Swiss mathe
maticlan, because it does away with
the idea of light traveling by means
of the vibrations in ether, which, is
supposed to fill all space.
"Einstein thinks there la no such
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PROMINENT MEN TO CAMPAIGN
FOR $10,000,000.
Isaac Vprlstht.
After passing 16 years in
Portland in the mercantile busi
ness, Isaac Upright, one of the
head buyers of Llpman, Wolfe
& Co., is to leave this city to
accept an executive position
with the Famous-Barr company
of St. Louis, Mo. He will de
part immediately after Chriet
mas, going first to San Fran
cisco to spend several days with
his father, and then east.
The concern with which Mr.
Upright will take up his new
duties " is owned by tha May
company, which operates four,
large stores located in St. Louis,
Denver, Cleveland and Akron.
It does an annual business of
$50,000,000.
Big Fund Is Sought to Improve 34
Jewish Institutions Made Poor
by War Work.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20. Announce
ment was made here tonight of the
organization of a special committee
of nationally prominent Gentiles to
aid the united building funds cam
paign for a fund of $10,000,000 with
which to extend the activities and
improve the buildings of 34 Jewish
institutions.
The work of this special committee
is to be directed from the Hotel
Pennsylvania by Colonel Arthur
Woods, formerly assistant to the
secretary of war and ex-police com
missioner of New York, and W. Mard
Smith, who conducted the success
ful actors' fund drive.
The committee Includes George Gor
don Battle, President Nicholas Mur
ray Butler of Columbia university,
President Newcomb Carlton of the
Western Union, R. Fulton Cutting,
John Hays Hammond, Hamilton Holt,
Charles Evans Hughes, Arthur Cur-
tiss James, George Foster Peabody,
Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roose
velt, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gov
ernor Smith of New York, and Major
General Wood. ,
In announcing the new organiza
tion, the special committee made this
statement:
"Leading jews of the country have
made vigorous efforts to raise a $10.
000,000 fund with which to improve
some 34 of their public institutions,
many of them non-sectarian. Includ
ing hospitals, orphanages, day nur
series, neighborhood centers and set
tlement houses.
"Because their funds were deyoted
in war to war purposes, these in
stitutions are now in financial distress."
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COUNTY AGENT MOVES
Oregon to Get H. G. Avery Who Is
Leaving Idaho County.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallis, Dec. 20. (Special.)
H. G. Avery, county agent for Je
rome county, Idaho, has been ap
pointed county agent for Deschutes
county, Oregon.
Mr. Avery has had three years' suc
cessful experience in Idaho, being rec
ognized as one of the most capable
agents in the state. He formerly
lived on a Kansas stock farm and at
tended the Kansas Agricultural col
lege. Mr. Avery will report in Red
mond December 20.
For toy electric railroads an in
ventor has patented a section that
sounds a whistle as a train passes
over it.
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You can bet that many a man will buy a
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it will be a FAHEY-BROCKMAN Suit or
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Don't "blow in" any more money for
clothes than you have to a fellow that
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Our prices and quality comparison may be
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Large Buying Power
Low Upstairs Rent
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ANNOUNCES
Annual Watch Party
and Supper Dance
Dec. 31, 9 P. M. to 1 A. M.
Grand Ball Room Assembly Hall and
Tea Gardens
Reservations Now Being Booked
Table d'Hote Supper, $3.00 Per Plate
Reservations are also being made now for
our Special Christinas Dinner.
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20,000 LOGGERS WANTED
To man Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen when
they resume operations after the first of the year.
Go today to the 4-L Free Employment Office, register, and
list your occupation.
Only Americans, or aliens willing to declare their intentions
to become such, and who believe in our
Government, are registered.
MILL. WORKERS ALSO WANTED TO REGISTER
4-L EMPLOYMENT OFFICE, 80 THIRD STREET
PORTLAND, OREGON
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IN PREPARING your generous Christmas -gift
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significance of what Ambassador Morgenthau
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"NOTHING ON EARTH EXCEPT A MIRACLE
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BY FREEZING AND STARVATION OF FROM
FIVE TO TEN MILLION PEOPLE IN EUROPE
AND THE NEAR EAST THIS WINTER."
J. J. HANDS AKER, Director
606 Stock Exchange, Portland, Oregon.
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