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HASTY MARRIAGES
I ON INCREASE
53 Per Cent of Divorces
. Started in Five Years.
MONEY CAUSES TROUBLE
Women Assert Promised Homes
Do Not Materialize and That
Abuse Often Follows.
Statistics show that hasty mar
riages trial marriages some term
them are increasing Instead of de
creasing in number in Multnomah
county."" Divorce court records tell
the story.
The divorce docket tells the story
also of the neck-and-neck race be
tween Portland and Vancouver In
turning out hasty and ill-advised
marriages. It discloses no evidence
that Vancouver's unenviable reputa
tion as the Gretna Green of this
community is likely to diminish.
The figures seem to indicate that
the city across the Columbia is bet
tering its record in tying in marital
bonds giddy incompatibles who no
sooner encounter the everyday con
tacts of married life than they rush
to the divorce court for relief. No
week passes during which divorce
suits are not filed at the courthouse
by persons who lived as husband
and wife only a few weeks, or six
or seven months, at most.
Brief Marriages Numerous.
In the first 22 business days of
December there were filed in cir
cuit court, where divorce suits are
handled, seven complaints seeking
separation of persons married this
year. Approximately every ninth
divorce suit Instituted Is that of a
spouse who has tried married life
less than 12 months.
One out of every five persons fil
ing divorce complaints in Multno
mah county was married only in
1921 or 1922. Many of these have
lived with husband or wife only a
part of the time since their - mar
riage. ,
Of the persons married only this
year who now seek separation, four
were wedded in Vancouver and three
In Portland. These figures are all
for the first 22, days of December,
when the total of divorce filings
was 66.
That the figures are not specially
selected and must be representative
is easily shown. On the last two
clays of November three newlyweds
of the 1922 class filed divorce suits.
One had been married In Portland,
one in Vancouver and the third In
Hillsboro. In short, had the' check
been extended to include this 24-day
period it would have shown an ag
gregate of 10 divorce suits filed by
parties married since January 1,
1922. '
Half In Five-Year Class.
Expressed in percentages the fig
ures for the period give food for
study. Eleven per cent of the di
vorce filings involved 1922 mar
riages and 15 per cent 1921 nuptial
events. Marriages of these two
years led to 26 per cent of the fil
ings. Marriages of the past five
years, 1918-1922, inclusive, account
ed for 53 per cent of all divorce fil
ings. Portland and Vancouver mar
riages were involved in 80 per cent
of the 36 divorce s,uits growing out
of weddings of the past five years.
For this period Vancouver leads
Portland with 42 per cent as com
pared with Portland's 38 per cent.
The score, in suits, stood: Vancouver
15; Portland 13.
In the total of suits growing out
of all marriages, in this check run
ning back as far as 1887, Vancouver
and Portland are tied, with a record
of 19 apiece. It so happens that
thi3 Is also the number of suits
growing out of marriages performed
In other states. .Marriages per
formed in Oregon, outside of Port
land, would seem to be unusually
felicitous and successful. But six
persons married in outside towns
have commenced divorce action here
this month. Hillsboro looms here as
a secondary Gretna Green, as three
of those six nuptial knots were tied
in, that county seat. But two per
sons married in a foreign country
filed divorce action In the 22. days.
66 Actions Are Filed.
Distribution of divorce actions
covered by the check, with reference
to the year of marriage, was as fol
lows: 1922, 7; 1921, 10; 1920, 6; 1919,
6; 1918, 7; 1917, 8; 1887-1916, 22.
Total 66.
A variety of complaints are set
forth in the actions of plaintiffs
newly wed. Probably 50 per cent of
the hasty journeys from hymeneal
altar to divorce court are occasioned
by trouble over money. Numerous
wives receive their first rude awak
ening when the husband fails to
provide a home for her. In nearly
every case of this kind it is alleged
that the man promised to establish
wifey in a suitable home of their
own. It is very frequently the case
that after marriage the husband be
gins urging the wife to take up
some sort of work or declines to let
her stop working if she has been
employed.
xnese lunaamentai troubles as
disclosed by the complaints, quickly
ieaa to rows ana swearing and the
use of "vile names" instead of the
endearing terms that marked the
courtsnip. Probably 50 per cent of
the filings by young wives charge
that their husbands inflicted cruelty
by means of vile epithets. There is
no hint in a single one that the wife
responded in kind, or with anything
but kind and loving words.
Operation Annoys One.
A wife, married only in September,
wants a divorce because her hus
band has become cross with her, in
timates that he is sorry he married
her and has repeatedly said that she
and her mother conspired to induce
him to wed her so he would have to
pay her bills. The bill particularly
mentioned is for an operation. She
explains that it was entirely unex
pected. He believes, according to
the complaint, that it was foreseen.
The amateur investigator' will be
interested in knowing just what, is
embraced in some of the more triv
ial actions for divorce. Here Is re
produced about the entire summary
of the trouble which has led a couple
marrying only last April in Portland
to the divorce court. This is the
main portion of the wife's formal
complaint:
"This defendant has been guilty
ol crwsl and inhuman treatment to
ward tnis plaintiff in the following
I;artJars: That immediately after
the marriage this defendant became
. dissatisfied with the marriage rela
tion and did begin a systematic
course of nagging, scolding and tor
menting the plaintiff. That said
defendant began to complain about
married life and did then and there
state that he was getting a dirty
deal out of married life; that he was
not accumulating anything and did
intimate to this plaintiff that he
was sorry that he was married and
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that he did not know why he ever
got married; that said assertions on
the part of the defendant were
habitual and continuous.
Expenses Canse Complaint.
That during the month of July,
1922, this defendant told this plain
tiff that they ought to separate and
that he could not support a wife.
and that the expenses of married life
were too high, and during the past
month this defendant has frequently
and continuously told this plaintiff
that he would never be satisfied un
til he got his freedom, and has told
the plaintiff to move " and get out
and that lie did not care for her any
longer.
That on December 22, 1922, this
defendant did, In the presence of a
mutual friend, tell this plaintiff that
he was tired of her, that he no
longer cared for her or loved her
that he was tired of married life
and wanLed his freedom."
In the usual formula, this action
and these statements by the hus
band has made the wife's life "bur
densome" and their married life has
become "unendurable."
To give the reader further insight
Into what goes onto the divorce
docket another classic complaint,
picked from the week s grist, may
be worth quoting. This pair was
married on June 1, 1920, so have
managed to live together almost 2
years. But it has been a gruelling
experience, if one is to give credenoe
to the wife's assertions.
Drunkenness Follows Wedding.
The complaint sets forth that the
woman has been a "good and duti
ful wife," which is always true of
the complaining wife or husband
according to the complaints.
"But the defendant has become
and Is," the document continues, "an
habitual, gross drunkard, which
habi of drunkenness has been con
tracted since marriage (It must be
thus in divorce actions). Further,
the defendant has inflicted personal
indignities upon the plaintiff and
has been guilty of cruel and in
human treatment to her, rendering
her life burdensome. The whole of
the married life of the plaintiff has
been one series of cruel acts and
inhumanities, rendering her life
burdensome; that the plaintiff does
not feel that an enumeration of the
acts of cruelty and of the vile, foul
language employed towards her by
the defendant is necessary, because
she does not care to spread upon
the records conduct and words which
are indecent in the home and which
are not necessary to set forth, be
cause plaintiff has already alleged
enough to get her a divorce."
That is the complaint, drawn by
a well-known attorney. He will
doubtless present before the court
facts sufficient to obtain the divorce.
There will be no question about it
in case the husband elects not to
oppose. The same will' probably be
true in the case of the couple mar
ried last April. In that case , the
knowing judge will discreetly seek
to learn whether or not an adjust
ment of the trifling incompatabili
ties may not be effected. If con
vinced that the pair cannot face the
inharmonles and little gallings of
married life together he will likely
grant that decree without delay.
Hastiness Is Blamed.
No one regrets to see the increase
in hasty marriages more than the
circuit judges. Several of them
have delivered addresses on the sub
ject, some of them repeatedly. They
follow the laws of the state in han
dling the cases. The investigator
would find few cases in the thou
sands of divorces handled each year
where the law was not faithfully
administered in the granting of de
crees.
The judges are a unit in pointing
out that the trouble is not so much
one of hasty divorces as hasty mar
riages. Circuit Judge Gatens, now
retiring after 14 years on the bench,
during which he unquestionably
granted more divorces than any col
league, takes this view:
'The judges do their very best to
make the best of a bad situation,"
he said. "The trouble is fundamen
tally that of hasty marriages. I
cannot give the name I apply to
such marriages, as it is unprintable.
After all, I feel that those churches
which used to require the publish
ing of banns were doing the right
thing. We should have something
likethat or else an examination of
persons mtending to get married.
with reference to their attitudes and
knowledge of the responsibilities of
married life. Anything of this sort
which would slow down the parties
headed for the marriage altar and
make them think more seriously of
the step they were about to take
would forestall a large percentage
of these ill-advised marriages and
correspondingly cut down the num
ber of divorce suits."
New Officials to Be Guests.
Governor-elect Pierce and Representative-elect
Watkins will be
guestg. of honor at a dinner and re
ception to be given by the Jackson
ciub of Oregon at the Portland
Chamber of Commerce Monday, Jan
uary 8, at 6 P. M. The affair will
he informal. A programme of music
will precede the dinner. Harvey G.
Starkweather, president of the Jack
son club, has announced a list of
prominent democrats as members of
the reception committee.
DISTRICT AS PREPARED BY
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POLICE TACKLE PROBLEM
DRIVE TO EDUCATE MOTOR
ISTS OPENS TUESDAY. .
Forty-one Traffio Officers Are
Assigned to Duty Downtown
to Enforce Regulations.
Tuesday will see 41 traffic of
ficers operating in the downtown
districts prepared to teach Portland
autolsts parking rules and regula
tions. The police bureau is launch
ing a campaign to solve the city
wide problem of congestion and for
30 days will go the limit with tags
and arrests in -the hope that the
snd of the period will see drivers
on their guard in the matter of
parking and other traffic rules.
At a meeting Friday the city
council authorized Chief Jenkins
to employ 20 additional men to fill
vacancies made in the force by the
transfer of the 20 additional men
to reinforce the 21 officers now on
traffio duty. .
Motorcycle officers will be pulled
into the downtown district on occa
sions during the month to nab of
fenders who cut corners and break
other rules of operation. .
If at the end of a .rrfonth there
is no improvement the bureau will
continue Its campaign, the chief
Indicated yesterday.
Maps of the traffic district with
parking regulations have been
printed to the number of 40,000 and
are being sent out to car owners.
TREES OBSTRUCT ROADS
Reed Students, on Coast Hike, See
Havoc Wrought by Gale.
Travel over the highways linking
the Oregon beaches has been im
paired by fallen trees and other ob
structions blown across the road by
the 70-mlle gale which lashed the
coast during the past week, accord
ing to James G. Stone, Donald P.
Abbott and Roger W. Reynolds,
Reed college students, who returned
yesterday from a three-day hike
from Seaside to Tillamook.
Between Seaside and . Cannon
Beach, the boys reported, motorists
were delayed as often as three times
a mile while logs which blocked
their passage were sawed and re
moved. Trails also have been filled
by torn and blown branches, they
said.
The hikers arrived in Seaside to
begin their journey Wednesday
noon, just as the tall of the storm
was lifting. They made Cannon
Beach by nightfall, having encoun
tered at one point water knee deep
which surged across the road for
one-half mile. Below Cannon Beach
the youths deviated from the road
and took the trail to Neah-kah-nie,
thence to Tillamook, where they
arrived Friday. They completed
the 45-mile hike in two days and a
fcalf, returning to Portland early
Saturday.
EX-OFFICERS GET LIMIT
Former Policemen Fined $500
Each for Bootlegging.
Two former policemen who quit
the law-enforcing business to go in
for bootlegging on the big scale
appeared before Federal Judge Bean
yesterday and were promptly fined
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR WILL HOLD COMMANDERS'
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Oregon commandey No. 1, Knights Templar, have' issued invitations for a commander's hall to be held
at the Multnomah hotel tomorrow. This is to be an annual event and will give all the sir knights an oppor
tunity of meeting their new officers.' The drill corps will participate in full uniform. The officers for
Oregon' comrnandery for the ensuing year are: Commander, 'A. H. Trego;' generalissimo, L. R. Elder; captain
general. R. E. Fulton; senior warden, L. L. Scott; junior warden, C- E. Minsinger; prelate, E. C. Bronaugh:
treasurer, A. M. Brown; recorder, C. F. Wiegand; standard bearer, J. T. Hotchkiss; sword bearer, W. L. Cornell;
warder, I A. Jacobsen; captain of guard, A. G. FIndiay; first guard, J. Oswald; second guard, J. C. Jones;
sentinel, P. P. Klibouxne.
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the maximum allowed by law, $500
each.
One of the backsliders was Walter
("Bed") Watts, who, when he was a
speed officer in various lower Co
lumbia river towns, was the terror
of offending motorists. Tho other
was M. N. Johnson.
Watts and Johnson, according to
evidence laid before Judge Bean by
Assistant United States Attorney
Baldwin, had bargained with prohi
bition agents to deliver five sacks
of bonded whisky. When the of
ficers called at the .headquarters of
the two men, in a garage at East
Fifteenth and Irving streets, there
was some haggling over the price
and -the sale was not consummated.
However, the two were arrested for
the possession of liquor. Mr. Bald
win, in presenting the case to the
court, dwelt on' the fact that a sale
had been negotiated and that the
two men -were nothing but profes
sional bootleggers.
Before the heavy fine was Im
posed Judge Bean commented on the
laxity of the law and openly voiced
his regret that he was unable to
send the pair to jail. - Watts and
Johnson, after being fined, had no
difficulty in obtaining the $1000.
CUT- REFDRIBS FAVORED
PENDLETON. MAYOR URGES
NEW GOVERNMENT.
Smaller Council and Municipal
Manager" Are Advocated After
Two Years in Office.
PENDLETON, Or., Dec. 30. (Spe
ciai.; Kecommenaation of a new
form of municipal government for
Pendleton was made at the closing
meeting of the present city admin
istration by retiring Mayor Hart
man, who declared that after two
years' study of city problems he
believed theJ city affairs should be
handled by a smaller board or coun
cil elected at large, which should be
legislative only, and that the ad
ministrative work of the city should
be in the hands of a city manager,
appointed by and responsible to the
elective council. A review of his
administration was made by the
mayor.
iie recommended the plan for a
new garbage dump-ground farther
from the city, more park improve
ment with children's playgrounds, i
simple system of street naming and
numbering, a new east entrance to
eliminate three dangerous grade
crossings, the opening of the south
hill of the city by a safe passage
across the railroad tracks in the
west end of the city; the foreclosure
of delinquent property owing money
to the city, the heating of the city
natatonum, the construction of a
public auditorium and a slightly
higher miliage tax on the city to
care for essential Improvements.
Mayor Hartman, in closing his re
port, said thatx Pendleton was sec
ond lowest In tax rate in cities of
Oregon having a population of 2000
or more, and that the tax rate here.
was only 11 mills.
College Saves Farmers Money.
PULLMAN, Wash., Dec. 30. More
than $2,500,000 was saved to farm
ers in the state of Washington dur
ing the past year by the extension
department of Washington State
college, according to the annual re
port of that department. The sav
ings were made possible by using
better methods in the activities on
the farm and in the farm home.
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Alva B. Milam Tells of Her
Inquiry in Orient.
PEOPLE SHOW INTEREST
Methodist Movement to Elevate
Standards of laving Proves
Absorbing ia Development.
An interesting paper outlining
her work in preparing a report to
be submitted to the Ten Ching col
lege, a branch of Pekin university,
in Pekin, China, was received from
Miss Ava B. Milam, dean of home
economics at the Oregon agricul
tural college, who is completing her
investigation of Chinese home life,
by the members of the home eco
nomics association here and read
at the session of the home eco
nomics department of the Oregon
State Teachers' association Friday
afternoon. Miss Milam is making
a report upon the best methods of
providing a course of home -economics
in the Pekin institution,
which will be based upon her in
vestigations of the homes in China.
She is spending two years in the
orient. '
Yen Ching college is one of the
institutions for which support is
provided by the oriental college
fund subscribed to by American
women's organizations, although
the work ot. Miss Milam, who is
assisted by Miss Camilla Mills, an
Oregon Agricultural college gradu
ate, whose home is in Forest Grove,
Is being carried on under the di
rection of the Methodist missionary
board.
Chinese Are Interested.
Yesterday I spoke to a group of
420 Tioys who seemed quite as in
terested as the girls In the subject
of better home life," she wrote. "I
am finding the response most stim
ulating and encouraging. The stu
dents and the faculty all seem
eager to develop this work, and
recognize the need ror it in tne
schools. So I predict that Pekin
college and the other colleges of
China, as soon as they introduce
the home economics work, will have
a very big field for training of !
teachers of this subject, for the
schools will introduce the work just I
as quickly as teachers are avail
able. !
"It seems to me that there is
even greater need for home eco
nomics work in China than in such
countries as America. One reason
I have for making this statement is
that most of the girls who are in
school even the little children in
the primary departments rare
boarding students, so their life is
largely institutional from 6 or 7
years of age to the time they finish
their schooling.
"I am greatly impressed with the
earnestness of the Chinese students.
Most of them make a very great
struggle to get an education and as
a result they make more of it than
many of our American students. I
often wonder how many of our
American students would make the
effort to get their education that
is made by the student in China?
I wonder if any of you have read the
article in the September numbed of
Good Housekeeping entitled, "Stu
dents of the world"? It is well
worth-reading.
Poverty Is Overwhelming.
"I am also impressed with the
overwhelming poverty existing in
China, If you have just seen the
slums of our American cities you
have simply, as one man expressed
it, had the first lesson in poverty.
Most of the students are very poor
and most of them feel very keenly
their responsibility in serving their
country after ,they have had the
opportunities which are afforded
them in the schools of China. I am
.thoroughly convinced that in each
place where there is an American
teacher of home economics, a
Chinese trained woman is needed to
help in making the adaptation. I
believe that the training of teach
ers for the elementary and high
schools can be done in our colleges
in China, but the training of teach
ers for college for a while should
be done by taking college gradu
ates of China who are suited to the
work and giving them a year or
two in America.
"Sometimes I am led to believe
that the Chinese woman who spends
too long a time in America is some
what unfitted for her work when
she returns. I do think, however,
that it is a mistake for the Chinese
girls to be taken to America be
fore they have completed their col
lege work in China.
"I am greatly impressed with the
high standards of work in Pekin
university, Ginling college at Nank
ing and Hau Nang fit Foochow.
There is a big problem, however, of
getting funds for giving these few
girls training in America, for most
of them have taken their college
course here and are receiving very
small salaries, and are helping their
families. But surely some way will
be opened up and we shall be able
to carry out the programme-which
seems to be right.
"You may be interested to know
BALL TOMORROW.
1923
JANUARY CLASS OF FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL TO PRESENT
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FRANKLIN IS TO PRESENT
"THE SCHOOLMISTRESS."
Entertainment to Be Given in
Auditorium of Lincoln High
- on Next Friday Night. :
The January, 1923, class of the
the Franklin high school will pre
sent the old Englisji play, ."The
Schoolmistress," by Arthur W.
Pinero at the Lincoln high school
auditorium Friday night. The pres
entation will be under the direction
of William G. Harrington.
The play, which is a three-aot
comedy, was first given at the Old
Court theater, London, March 27,
1886, and it proved immediately suc
cessful. The scene is laid in Volum
nia college, a girls' boarding school
in London. Complications arise
when Miss Dyott, the principal,
played by Sadie Read, in order to
increase her income to pay off her
husband's debts, becomes Queen
Honerine in Otto Bernstein's suc
cessful comic opera. Miss Dyott
marries the Hon. Vere Queckett,
played by Thomas McKenzie, for a
title and he marries her for her
money. Further complications set
in through the efforts of the gov
erness Peggy, played by Gertrude
O'deen, to restore Dinah 'Rankling,
who had been locked up in the
school because of her runaway mar
that I have been from the north to
the south of China already and have
visited the following places: After
leaving Pekin I visited Wuchang,
Hangyang and Hankow in Central
China; the following cities along
the Yangtze riven Kiukiang, An
king, Nanking and then Soochow,
Shanghai, Hangchow, and am now
in south China at Foochow. -
"Next week I go to Canton, with
a day's stop at Amoy and a day at
Swatow. Some of you will remem
ber that Swatow was the place
where it is estimated 30,000 people
were killed by the typhoon this
summer; I am told that very splen
did relief work is being done there.
After about ten days at Canton I
plan to go to Manila for about two
weeks, leaving there December 24
for Shanghai. So, so far as I can
now see, my Christmas will be spent
on the boat, for it is about six days
from Manila to Shanghai. I am
scheduled for some more work in
Shanghai the first of January and
from there plan to go to Taianfu,
the birthplace of Confucius, Tsinan
and Yientsin, reaching Pekin about
January 16.
Home Life Data Gathered.
"In all the schools, Young Wom
en's Christian associations and
women's organizations question
naires concerning home lite are
being filled out for me, so that
by the time I reach Pekin I hope
to have detailed information con
cerning home life in different sec
tions of China and in different
types of homes. This questionnaire
I have had translated into Chinese
and printed so that the answers
will have to be translated back into
English. After this Is done I hope
to devote my time to summarizing
and digesting this material, after
which we will want to use the data
in introducing home economics at
Pekin university. In each place I
am visiting in Chinese homes and
I wish I could tell you of the cus
toms and the types of homes into
which I have gone, for I know this
would be of real interest to you,
but I think I should not attempt it
now. Suffice to say that it is very,
very different, but very interesting,
and I can see that straight Ameri
can home economics could not func
tion in China, so it must be home
economics adapted and is going to
take the best thinking that Camilla
and I possibly can do to make the
right start.
"I also wish that I had time to.
tell you about the work of the
missions and Young Women's Chris
tian association, for it has been most
inspiring to me to see the wonder
ful service being rendered here. I
am also impressed with the splendid
Bervice which is possible through
the mission work. I wish also that
I could tell you about these old
cities which I have visited. For
example, this city of Foochow is
one of very great interest and the
country is very beautiful. It seems
very tropical to me. The latitude is
about the same as Key West. High
hedges of poinsettias are in bloom
now and hybiscus, and beautiful
roses that - would compare most
favorably with those in Oregon.
- Students Grow Bananas.
"In one school where I visited
this morning I saw bananas grow
ing. They are able to raise all the
bananas they use for their school.
Gardens are being planted now. It
seems to me that much of the heavy
work is done by the women. What
terrible loads they carry! Only a
few moments ago I saw a little
child 5 or 6 years old with a heavy
load.
"The peasant women of this sec
tion do not bind their feet because
of the heavy work they do, but most
of the older peasant women of the
north have bound feet. In fact it
seems almost universal. It was a
great surprise to me to find. that
the binding of the chests of the
girls is commonly practiced in
China. The binding of chests so
that the lungs are crowded is prov
ing deleterious to their health. It
is a custom which the schools are
combating effectively."
Rail Shop Striker Fined.
' ROSBBURG, Or., Dec. 30. (Spe
cial.) Arthur O'Neil, an ex-employe
!n the Southern Pacific shops here
and one of the recent etrikers, was
fined $10 in the city court for using
profane and abusive language to
ward A. K( Gibbs, one of the pres
ent employes of the company. He
entered a plea of guilty following
his arrest. .
riage. The entire play Is full of
surprises.
The cast of "The Schoolmistress"
includes the following:
The Hon. Vere Queckett, Thomas
McKenzie; Miss Dyott, principal of
Volumnia college, Saddie Read;
Rear Admiral Archibald Rankling,
Herbert Jasper; Mrs. Rankling,
Carrie Sorenson; Dinah, Lulu Wood
land; Reginald Paulover, Freeman
Fike; Peggy Hesslerigge, Gertrude
O'deen; Lieutenant John Mallory,
Lorenz Sahli; Mr. Saunders, Sylves
ter Grynes; Gwendoline Hawkins,
Frances Sefton; Ermyntrude John
son, Louise Cordy; Otto Sernstein,
Harry Leavitt; Tyler, Allen Seidel;
Jane, Helen Guerrettaz; Jaffray,
Richard Fay.
IE CASTS TO ADVANCE
HIGHER PRICES ABOUT JAN
UARY 2 LIKELY.
Rumor 3urrent on Automobile
Row, Though Not Confirmed,
Is Counted Dependable.
All leading tire manufacturers
represented in Portland, excepting
a small number which raised prices
a couple of weeks ago, will an
nounce increases in tire prices
ranging from 10 to 15 per cent on
or about January 2. Such was the
rumor current along automobile row
Friday, which, while lacking def
inite confirmation, emanated from
supposedly reliable sources.
Definite notice of an increase in
prices January 2 has been received
at the Portland branch of the Uni
ted States Rubber company, offi
cials of tha,t branch said yesterday,
although just what the new prices
will be was not yet known.
"Those who have watched the
markets and noted the advancing
prices of raw tire materials have
seen that an increase in prices was
inevitable' said an official of that
company. "W,e anticipate an in
crease of 10 to 15 per cent over
present prices."
Local officials of the Goodyear
Tire & Rubber company said they
expected an increase in tire prices
and had received intimations that
such an increase would be effective
January 2.
Similar reports were made at the
local branches of the B. F. Goodrich
Rubber company and the Firestone
Tire & Rubber company.
Intimation of a possible general
rise in tire costs was given two
weeks ago when a member of tire
companies. Including the Mason, the
Federal and the Kelly-Springfield,
advanced prices approximately 10
per cent.
CARRIERS TO GET REST
No Mail to Be . Delivered, Today
and Tomorrow in City.
' -s
There will be no mail delivery
service whatever, either window or
carrier, today or tomorrow, accord
ing to announcement of J; M. Jones,
postmaster. The usual collections
from street letter boxes and dis
patches to outgoing trains will be
made as usual.
It is desired to give the employes
the benefit of the holiday to the
fullest possible extent. Postmaster
Jones explained, as many are worn
I out from the long and arduous
service rendered during tne heavy
Christmas period.
SPOKANE WEDDINGS LESS
Marriage Slumps During- Year,
but Divorce Decrees Climb.
SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 30. Di
vorce decrees granted this year ex
ceed those of last year, but mar
riage licenses continue to slump,
and this year is far behind last, ac
cording to official figures compiled
at the county courthouse here.
A total of 767 divorce complants
was filed last year, and 559 decrees
were granted. This year only 7-51
complaints were filed, but 570 de
crees have been granted. Last year
1771 marriage licenses were Issued
and but 1605 were issued this year.
Liquor Suspect Bound Over.
Despite a contention that he had
been trapped and coaxed into a vio
lation of the law by prohibition
agents, O. It. Fields, 724 East Fifty
ninth street, was held to await
grand' jury action by United States
Commissioner Frazer yesterday on
a fcharge of possessing and trans
porting liquor. Government agents,
it was shown, impersonating one of
Field's friends, succeeded in Induc
ing him to deliver two quarts of
moonshine to a north-end hotel.
Fields claimed that he did not deaL
in liquor and had obtained the
moonshine to accommodate the sup
posed friend.
COURT PeOCEDURE
TERMED WASTEFUL
Judge Gatens Asserts Tech
nicalities Silly Nonsense.
MUCH TIME IS CONSUMED
Jurist, Retiring After 14 Years
on Bench, Favors Abolition
of Present Trial System.
In a farewell interview yesterday
W. N. Gatens, retiring as circuit
judge after having been on the
bench 14 yeani, severely criticieed
present day court procedure as
wasteful of time and concerned en
tirely too much with technicalities
instead of actual merits of the cases.
The judge considers It nonsensical,
he said, that trials are half the time
no more than a battle of wits be
tween lawyers.
"After li years on the bench my
strongest impression is that the
present day system of pleading and
the trial of issues should be done
away with," eaid the judge. "There
is need for a simpler form that will
obviate the technical manner of
pleading such as distinguished be
tween actions' at law and f uits In
equity with a view only of doing
substantial justice. .
Battles Take Half of Time.
"My experience is that half the
time of the court is taken up with a
battle of wits between lawyers as
to whether he is following the right
procedure. I understand that in one
appellate court of this country 65
per cent of all cases before it were
reversed upon questions of pro
cedure. A litigant is not Interested
in procedure, he wants hia caso
tried upon its merits. Why should
he -be penalized because his lawyer
used 'and' instead of 'or' or left out
the word 'said.' Take a replevin,
action for instance. Unless you al
lege that the defendant 'wrong
fully withholds said property in
Multnomah county,' the complaint is
defective. It seems to me, where
the party withholds is immaterial so
long as he wrongfully withholds.
"Silly Nonsense," Says Judge.
"It is just such silly nonsense
that has brought our courts into
disrespect among many people.
When court procedure is simplified
so that ordinary laymen will under
stand it and are satisfied that their
cases are to be tried wholly upon
their merits, when they feel that
their lawyer's ability to prepare pa
pers is not to be seriously consid
ered, then and only then will people
have a higher regard for the courts.
"In leaving this office I want to
say that I shall miss the pleasant
association of my friends on thi
bench, who are conscientious, high
minded men. However, I hope to seif
them occasionally. I am sure that
my successor, who is a well bal
anced, serious-minded man, will
merit the esteem and confidence ol
the people who have honored him
with this position."
CLUB TO GIVE SMOKER
Hillsboro Organization Outlines
Activities for 1923.
HILLSBORO, Or., Dee. 30. (Spe
cial.) The trustees and executive
committee of the Hillsboro club met
Thursday night and reviewed the
condition of the club and outlined
a programme for 1923 activities.
A smoker will be given members
and friends next Thursday evening.
It is designed to create a closer
relationship and enthusiasm among
members and business men of the
city.
The club will give a dance in the
big auditorium January 20. profits
from which will go into the club
treasury.
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