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..',;;;! uo;.,RETts I LOT TITLE .'.TiGE FOR ilEHDHT I'cisure Proposed for Submission ta Vota Ready for Signatures; Penalties Included in ".Bill Salem " Dec. SO. :Ttt8 proposed minimum wago amendment, initiated by J. E. Medley of Oregon City, is ready for signature, the ballot title having beetf . completed by Attorney Central Brown toy. , , t, . 'This amendment would make' it crim inal tat any person, 'firm or corporation Mrlngr another, to pay a ware lew than 4 per day for eight Hours for any male employe, or a ware .of less than $2&per week of 4t 'boars for , any female em ploye and excepting: from . the provis ion -of .the amendment, farm labor; or females-employed . domestics.- It pro vide a penalty for violation of pot leu than 123 nor more than $500 or by Im prisonment of not more than six months, or both fine and imprisonment, and con fers Jurisdiction upon certain courts. The amendment would, be self excuting. y- ThJ .proposed amendment, whicb pre scribes a misdemeanor, Is regarded by attorneys here as' a most tmusual one, Inasmuch, as the constitution Is regarded as composed only of fundamental -law. - The ballot title for the proposed con stitutional amendment - initiated by George Ik Baker of Portland for the res toration of capital punishment was also complied by . Attorney General' Brown today-and Is , ready for circulation for signatures. The purpose of the amend ment, 'according to , the ballot title, is "to restore capital punishment by pro viding by constitutional amendment that the penalty for murder in 'the first de - gree shall ' be death, except when the trial .Jury shall-,, by their verdict, rec ommend life imprisonment, which re peals all provisions of the constitution In 'conflict with the same." This' s4me ballot title will be appro priate' for use if the measure should be referred , to the people by he special session of the legislature. - , - .. - . .' Application for .an Increase in rates - was filed with the public service com mission by the Sherwood Telephone company Friday. j The ballot title to the proposed constitutional- Amendment Initiated by James S. Stewart of Corvallla, for the purpose of Increasing- the limit to which tne state may be bonded for road con struction purposes, has been prepared by . Attorney General Brown. The 'amendment would "permit the creation of debts and 'liabilities. Including- pre vious debts and liabilities, for the pur pose of building and maintaining per. xnanent roads to the amount; of 4 per cent of the assessed- valuation' of all the property, la the state of Oregon, Instead of 2 per cent, as now provided by. law." Bids for furnishing Marion county ' -lth 10 motor trucks for road construe tlon i purposes . were opened Friday. Thirty-one bids were submitted, ranging from 439.600 to $37,000 for the 10 trucks. ' Six employes, ; four of them ? loggers, were killed in accidents In Oregon in- SCHOOL CHILDREN ASK FINLEY'S RETENTION it r f - ' L "1 Group of boys and girls and their "ie whew from l Llewellyn v and Hawthorne schools, who .stormed The Journal wth, petitions askings ald In securing State Biologist -rinley'g reinstatement. ' ' ; . . .s'.SL r " - ' 1 -' ' '' --'.V.. .IV, dustrles during the week ending Decem ber 18, according to the weekly report of the state -industrial accident commission.- A total of 342 accidents were re ported' to the commission during the week, of which 803 wer subject to : the provisions of, the -workmen's compepsa tlon,aet, 11 were from public utility cor porations hot subject to the-, provisions of the act and 28 were from firms and corporations that have rejected the pro visions of the actf s t - There are fully 60 per cent more coy otes in Oregon at this time than there were a year ago, -according to reports reaching Dr. W. H. Lytle, sUte veter inarian. , Dr. Ly tie attributes this in crease to the fact that so many home steaders, who formerly trapped for a living, have deserted the prairies of Cen tral and Eastern Oregon for the larger industrial . centers, .due v to the - high wages, leaving the coyotes unmolested. Birds Eat From His Hand During Storm ' . .. When Feed Is Short "Here, pldge, pidge, . . pldge," cooed James Reed as he sat on a bench In the' Plaza block opposite the court house last week and tossed handsful of seed to the .pigeons hopping about, cold and hungry. As he went on. throwing out bits of ground ' peanuts which his bag ' contained and winning the con fidence of the pigeons, Reed showed how he could" persuade them to light upon his knees and shoulders and eat from his hand. - ! v. Reed has been feeding the birds every day during the cold snap, k The pigeons about: Lownsdale park ; were indebted to The Journal as well as to Reed, for it was In response to the invitation published In The Journal that bird food would be given to anyone wishing to help ' look after the ; feathered folk of Portland that Reed had secured a large sack of grain, contributed by the Lilly Seed ' company, ' and .was treating his friends to . a warming . and appreciated breakfast. " . POULTRY NDUSTRY .OF OREGON EXPECTED TO BE GiVEN BOOST Alfred G. Lunn Appointed Assist ant Professor in Poultry Hus-V bandry ".at 0. -X C. Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallts, Dec. 20. The Poultry Industry of Ore gon is expected to be given a boost through the efforts of Alfred G. Lunn, a graduate of the college and formerly instructor In the department of poultry husbandry. ; appointed associate pro fessor In the department. He has been away four years and has made a signal success of his work at the Massachusetts Agricultural college and the University of British Columbia.; ., Professor Lunn will have charge of instructional work and special extension work for the department of poultry hus- oanary. Frank L. Knowlton ' of Laurel, Md has been employed as a research as sistant in the -department of - poultry husbandry. He will tabulate and analyse breeding and incubation records, and the informa,tion gained will be published. After being discharged from the army as a lieutenant, he was graduated from Cornell. . H.' Burns, a-graduate ln the' course of design at Syracuse university, who'wfll take the place, of Miss Edna I. Flaritla, who has resigned. Mr. Burns received special . training at Columbia university and Nw..-York.nnIverslty.'.a...-A?;. Berger; Reelected. ;i To Congress, May:Go : To Jail Cell; First SCi.UUL liiiiLb.itii GEITIiiG IIP BIG PETITION Young People. WilhBe, Satisfied , With Nothing But Reinstate ment in Office Pictures Liked. s-t ' was 4inean dirty tricky. t ."Won't; we-, ever see . hia pictures any -more?, - - 4 -j r Xet'a go up tp" Salem and tell Governor Oloott ' what this old fish and game' commission did." :- r ' "Doot they want uato know about the birds and animals in Oregon?" , Denunciations v and questions -fairly stumbled over each other when school children stormed The Journal office Fri day afternoon, with protest and petition against the dismissal of William L. Fln Jey as state biologist. , 'Such a cascade of words from a hun dred, childish tongues there was that It an sounded like , one. of the Waterfalls where the . naturalist' has - studied the habits of the eccentric- water ouzle, - . .Finally it all came out The children were carrying formal petitions. : With quite a - surprising recognition . of . the "power of the press,": the documents were addressed to the editor, asking the nenjr r'a a:i ia ...; I. s re instatement. Less than reinstatement the youns Bters would not be satisfied with. They nailed on the spot the plan to rescind the dismissal of the fish and game com mission in- order that Finley might re sign without humiliation after him long public service. - - - " , "That would 'take him away from us Just the same as firing; blm did," de clared one of the boys. -- --i.We want him - to go on telling . us about birds and animals and showing us his movies. Til give the pennies I saved up for Christmas to help pay his salary," tim idly offered a, tiny girl.. - Although the little folks, accompanied by their - teachers and by W. 8. Baker of , the Audubon society, thronged the Journal : building - lobby and , the long aisle of the business office, it appeared that already they had formed organisa tion with the following official : dele gates : " Mary ' E. Raker, Franklin high school i Madge Porter, Olencoe : George EL Mooney, Kellogg; Janet L Crawford, Llewellyn ; - Donald Bates. - Hawthorne, and Anne Canter, Washington high schooL i,; i' . - - -.. "Every one "of the 30,000 students In Portland's schools will mgn the petition to keep Mr: Finley . working so we will know about animals and birds and fish and be kind to them when we grow up, if we have to," was one of the parting announcements aa the little folks turned homeward, i. & .-;!. . iUuu ilt TliUlliiij SOLDIERS WILL GET EMPLOYMENT ;V .. Crude Oil Price. Advanced . ' - v' Okmulgee, 'Okla., Dm. iO.iI.-Kf 8.) The Prairie Pipe Line company . ad vanced the price : of crude oil In the Midcontinent field from S2.&0 to I2.TS a barrel today, j - They're wonderful those Dixie Spe cial mince pies. - Better give vour gro cer your Christmas . order today.-, Adv. M anuf acturers Promise to -Take :- . 0n Ex-Service Men; Mayor and Governor Are Highly Pleased. The unemployment emergency of ex-service men in Oregon may have found ita solution. ; . t r , ' Manufacturers of the state have come to the front with a proposition fso uniquely public spirited that both Mayor Baker of 'Portland and Gov-; ernor ' Olcott have pot' themselves officially back of the plan. Ea oflBie 275 manufactories, mem bers of "Associated Industries of Oregon, has given pledge to take its quota of un employed returned soldiers, i - " TO AID OYER 10N . t i It is . expected that ' thus more than 10 00 men will be given work - - ; To do this, we will engage deliberate ly la over-production,' said H. C Hunt ington, president of the association. . "Such a course would be financially ruinous to us except for one thing. We expect the people of Oregon to increase their support of home industry sufflcent ly to absorb the surplus produced through r e woik cf ex-sen ice men. If thefam i:.3 and relatives of ex-service men alum ; i would buy more goods of 'Oregon Quel- Ity' the surplus would, be taken care of. , - "But we asssme that , as the unetn- -ployment emergency Is 'a concern of all " y the people, so all the people will make. ' -s it their business to see us through.".. PPOESED BT MATOB "fv' t i ' Mayor' Bailer indorsed the project Sat- ' , : ttrday in a statement which reads ; v r ':' i fortland faces -an acute employment '' I Srobiem, which must be solved unrae- . l lately to avoid a crisis. '1 Fifteen hundred ex-service men, who . r dropped . everything - to respond to the - nation's call to arms, are today without work, without an opportunity to earn ar" living.- ,:.,.- For the next 00 days, or until the mills i . v and camps open in the spring, there will be a scarcity of jobs. Portland must put -i " these men to work without delay. " As mayor of the . city of Portland, t ' f have called on the manufacturers for as- : - sistance, and they have come forward",' v i promptly with a' guarantee of employ- ? ment of their 'full quota of these men.-, during the critical, period ; but this In-, volves an Increase in the output of the -products -of these factories unless the 1 people of this city and state sense the seriousness of this condition and- do : I everything In their power ,to support the 11 manufacturers. j , , COOPEBATIOIT IS ASKED I therefore most urgently request that for the next 00 days every man, woman, and child in Portland shall back up the . v manufacturers in their effort, to meet the situation. - ' .. - ? - Buy the products of our local factories, and absorb the increased output of these --' ex-service men. -This meets oW' Impend- ing crisis on a business basis without the -taint of charity. These ex-service men ; V do not want charity. They want work, and you can give them plenty to do. For five years Portland has been an -, "Over the Top" city. This Is a new call on the cltisens and the response should -be universal. ' :.;. , --j .' - fit v When wanting: any plumbing, phone Main 7256Adv. .(.:. , ; : , ; ' : Chicago. Dec 20. (L ' N. ;R Victor L. Berger, reelected . to. congress from the fifth congressional district - of Wisconshi yesterday, may go to ' Jail before he goes to congress. If the plans of United States District Attorney Clyne do not miscarry. ' ' . Clyne is Investigating- charges that Berger violated federal Judge. Alschu ler's stipulations under- which he was admitted to ball pending an appeal from hi conviction' for violations of the es pionage law, by "repeating anti-government statements and criticising the courts."' ' ' - -.V : Berger -was admitted to bail upon the condition that he refrain from state ments similar to those which resulted In his arrest - , -''- .1 Violinist to Assist - At Organ Eecital This Afternoon Harry Palmer Cady, who was gradu ated from O. A. C. in 1911 and who served in the army in the United States and for- 27 months in the air service in Europe, has been made instructor In electrical engineering. .He was with the General I lectrlc company of Schenectady,-N. ? for four years In testing engineering work and was power sales- i P man of the Eastern & Power company prior ennsylvanla Light to the war. A new instructor in art is Frederick A brilliant program Is announced for this afternoon's concert' at The Audi torium, beginning at Z o'clock. Fred erick W. Goodrich will be the- organist and Robert Louis Barron will play vio lin solos.'. . " ' ' The program follows: ' " ' Orertnre. "MUroon'. . ... . . . ... . Tbom "KkrcMmi" ...... v .... . .' NeTin Selection, "Fut" . . .... ....Goanod Violin eW'CiMonn". . . . , . .ViUH , U ''Msreh of the Hsci King",, ; .Dubois "(b) 'Chritms in SicUy" ...Ton "The Little On? Home in the Wsl . .Lohr Requett. - , i ' . , . ' Viohn ok, "Honuneo".".., , . . . WienUwski V eddinc march . . , . ..llendalwha mm Three Pays eft 1. AMERICAN WRIST Watches Are Getting Scarce Make your , selection of HOWARD, HAMILTON, WALTHAM or ELGIN ; V Watches NOW. Do not wait another minute! Sw' 'I ' - J V SSBBBBBBBBBSBBBSBBSSBSBBBBBaBSSBWaS I ' - J ,i - DIAMONDS Hundreds of beautiful rings, mounted and , , ready for you to wear. . PEARLS La Tousca and Rich lieu. A very large selection in ; all qualities and lengths. T BELTS, UMBRELLAS, SILVERWARE, THERMOS BOTTLES, CLOCKS, FOUNTAIN , PENS-in fact, eveiithingthat.could , y v: . - fQuncj jn any grst cjagS jeij-y stbre ' - . f3 ? . WISHING YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR ?66Morrisoh Between; Third and Fourth ' - v OPEN; EVENINGS UNTIL XM AS ? 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