TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 9, 1920
CHANGE IN -MARKET
SYSTEM PROPOSED
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Taxpayers' League Favors
Appointive Director.
BILL TO GO TO VOTERS
Outlines of Measure, Calculated
for Closer Co-operation, Are
Prepared at Meeting;
Initial steps toward closer co-operation'
between the farmer, labor and
business Interests of the state were
taken yesterday at a meeting at the
Chamber of Commerce under auspices
o the State Taxpayers' league. At
the conclusion of an all-day session
a unanimous vote was recorded in
favor of submitting a market com
mission bill to the voters of Oregon
at the coming election.
Outlines of a measure were agreed
upon which follow to a great extent
the provision of a similar enactment
fn force in California. Several changes
from the California law -were con
sidered and adopted and a few radi
cal departures voted down.
It was agreed after an extended
discussion that the office of market
director should be appointive and not
elective.
Spence Plan Is Opposed.
Arguments in favor of having the
director elected here instead of ap
pointed by the governor presented by
C. E. Spence, master of the state
grange, were opposed by practically
everyone else at the meeting. It was
also determined to fix the salary of
the market director at J4500 a year.
Other provisions of the bill as
adopted give the market commission
power to investigate and tabulate
market facilities for the producers of
the state, authority to encourage and
aid in the establishing of co-operative
associations between the pro
ducers. In the main, the market com
mission furnishes leadership for the
farmers and producers in finding a
market for their products.
One of the essential points brought
cut at the meeting was the vital im
portance of obtaining a capable di
rector." Determination of the final draft of
a bill were left to a committee com
posed of Alma D. Katz, president of
tie Oregon Dairymen's league; J. D.
HSckle, state food and dairy com
missioner; Otto Hartwig, president
of the State Federation of Labor;
Hector McPherson, professor of econ
omics at O. A. C, and Al Ilampson,
Portland attorney.
Keport Due Thin Week.
Report of the committee will be
made to the executive committee of
the State Taxpayers' league which
will meet early this week to plan
the campaign for obtaining the neces
sary petitions filled to place the meas
ure on the ballot.
Robert 13. Smith, secretary of the
elate taxpayers' league, presided at
yesterday's conference. Colonel Har
ris Weinstock. who recently resigned
from the office of market director of
California, was present and told the
history of the commission in his state.
He declared that the market com
mission would do away with com
mission "sharks," averring that these
intermediaries were chiefly respon
sible for the large price range be
tween what the producer got and
what tlie consirmer paid.
Strength of l.n w Doubted.
Professor McPherson, who warmly
ndvocated a market commission for
Oregon, expressed doubt as to tho
strength of a measure similar to the
one In force in California.
Others who spoke in favor of the
measure and who took an active part
In the discussion during tiie entire
day were A. R. Shumway, president
of Farmers' union; C. E. Spence. mas
ter of tho State Grange; Franklin T.
Griffith, president of the Portland
Itailway, Light & Power company;
C. F. Adams, vice-president of the
First National bank of Portland; E.
J. Stack, secretary of the State Fed
eration of Labor; W. F. Woodward,
J. M. Burtner, Senator S. B. Huston
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WASHIXCTOS OUTRANKS BOTH
CtXCIXXATI AXD XEWARK,
time when there is a multiplicity of
music events. Nevertheless the So
nora people's operas have been much
enjoyed and their fresh, young voices
hal much to do with the artistic music
success won.
"11 Trovatore" never has lost its
charm as a family opera where fath
ers, mothers and children iove to at
tend. Its story is romantic, clean and
sparkling in music. It represents its
composer, Verdi, working at top
speed. Its score is one long dream of
loveliness. It is1 all the more curious
to note as an encouragement to young
composers, that when Verdi was 18
years old, admission to the celebrated
Milan conservatory was denied him
on the ground that he "lacked musical
talent. He lived to be Italy's great
est composer of romantic opera.
In "11 Trovatore" the story relates
principally to two sons of the old
Count di Luna. The latter's younKer
son Yiad been abducted in infancy by
a gipsy for revenge because the count
had caused her mother to be burned
as a witch. When the action of the
opera opens, the lost baby has grown
up to man's estate and he is Man
rico, the troubadour. His brother, the
count, loves Leonora, but she and
Manrico love each other. Graziana
was the Manrico last night and made
a fine impression with his impas
sioned, actionand singing. Beatrice
Pizzorn was the Leonora and sang
superbly. Sepria Castel was the Azu
cena and sang like the star that she
is. She made the hit of the show. -
At the matinee yesterday, the at
traction was "La Traviata," by Verdi.
It is in opera what "Camille is in
legitimate drama and follows closely
along the romantic lines of the origi
nal French story. Consuelo Medina
was the Violetta, "the maiden with
the cough," a part so artisticaly sung
by Adelina Patti. Signorina Medina
made it a living, romantic stage pic
ture of lasting value. Alfredo Crazi
ani was the Alfredo and he made
good. The Georgio was by Eduard
Lejarazu, baritone, and he sang splendidly.
Graziani was a hard-working tenor
the past two days and the busiest
member of the company. He sang last
Friday night in two operas. Yester
day afternoon Carlos Mejia, who was
to have sung as Alfredo in "Traviata,"
suffered from cold, and Graziani had
to sing Instead. Last night, tired as
lie was, Graziana sang as Manrico in
"Trovatore," and again distinguished
himself both as singer and actor.
Various Cities Show Increase of
From Less Than One to More
', Than 31 Per Cent.
WASHINGTON, May 8. Newark
largest city in New Jersey, with s
population of 415,609, has outstripped
Cincinnati, which ranked it in the
last census. Cincinnati's population.
recently announced, is 401, lo8.
Newark ranked as the fourteenth
city in 1910 with a population of
347.469, an increase of 101,399 over its
1900 population. Washington, six
teenth city ten years ago, now out
ranks both Cincinnati and Newark
with a. population of 437,414.
.Figures made public today follow:
Newark, N. J., 415,609, increase 68,
110 or 19.6 per cent.
Lynn. Mass., 99,148, increase 9812 or
11 per cent.
Conneaut, Ohio, 9343, increase 1024
or 12.3 per cent.
Benton Harbor, Mich., 12,227, in
crease 3042 or 31.1 per cent.
Mandan. N. D., 4S36, increase 463 or
12 per cent.
Ottawa, 111., 10,816, increase 1281 or
13.4 "per cent.
Newark. Ohio, 26,718, increase 1314
or 19.6 per cent.
Clinton, Iowa, 24,151, decrease 1426
or 5.6 per cent.
Muscatine. Iowa, 16,068, decrease
110 or .7 per cent.
Berlin. N. H., 16,104, increase' 4324
or 36.7 per cent.
Holland. Mich., 12.166, increase 1676
or 16 per cent.
JITNEYS TO BE CURTAILED
SEATTLE STREET RAILWAY TO
CURB COMPETITION.
Superintendent Will Have Free
Hand In Operation With View
to Programme of Economy.
SEATTLE, Wash., May 8. (Spe
cial.) Virtual elimination of jitney
bus competition against municipal
street railway operations was agreed
upon by city coincilmen and Mayor
Caldwell in a closed conference today.
The bill will be passed Monday and
signed bv Mayor Caldwell, according
to an agreement reached at a stormy
session called to consider the street
car situation.
Members of the city council also
agreed that D. W. Henderson, super
intendent of railways, should be
given a free hand in the operation of
the street car svsteni, both as to
routes and schedules so as to carry
out the administrative programme of
economy.
As redrafted by Corporation Coun
sel Walter F. Meier, the jitny ordi
nance give.T almost comnlet Kimi.
vision of the buses into the hands of
the city authorities. The council is
Johannesburg, with a population of
263.274. is the largest and most cos
mopolitan city in South Africa.
Sonora Opera Singers End
Engagement Here.
In Trovatore" In Final Perform
ance Receives Stirring and lira
mat ic Stage Setting.
WITH a stirring and dramatic
stage setting of the Verdi op
era "II Trovatore" last night in the
Heilig theater, the Sonora Grand Ital
ian Opera company terminated Its
short engagement of three nights,
with one afternoon performance.
So far as eagerness to work is con
cerned, coupled with the best artistic
results possible, the Sonora people's
engagement was successful, but the
attenance was not. It is not believed
that the venture proved financially
profitable, as the engagement came
late in the. music season and at a
The
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Who has not heard the
romantic history of this
marvelous stone? Orig
inally one of the treas
ures of the Temple of
Delhi, its tern p t isg
beauty involved its pos
sessors in many adven
tures, in which theft
andassassinationplayed
their tragic part. In
1850 it was presented
to Queen Victoria, at
which time it was cut
down from 186 karats
to 106.
Special
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Rings
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given power to lay out prescribed
routes, determine schedules between
fixed terminals and inspect all ma
chines. "The jitneys will no longer be per
mitted to skim the cream from the
business of the city's railways," Cald
well declared today
The ordinance does not declare Jit
neys illegal, ths city not having the
power to do so, but it handicaps them
to such an extent it is believed that
they will be put out of business.
AGED MAN KILLS HIMSELF
David E. Leach, 7 0, Commits Sui
cide at Heppner.
HEPPNER, Or., May 8. (Special.)
David M. Leach, 70 years old, pioneer
resident of the Lexington district,
committed suicide this morning at the
home of his brother-in-law,, T. H.
Nichols, by shooting himself through
the head with a .38-caIiber revolver.
Coroner Case investigated the case
and expressed the belief that the man
was slightly unbalanced by ill health
and financial and domestic trouble.
The- act was committed in an out
house in the yard of the Nichols "home
and the body was found soon after
by a young son of Mr. Nichols. Death
appears to have been instantaneous.
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