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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON MONDAY, JANUARY 21. 1021. GRAM BACKS PLAN OF WELFARE ACTIVITY Salem, Or., Jan. 24. "th state activities covering th regulation of th employment of women and chil dren should be centralized In one department according to C, H. irami state labor commissioner. AH the activities in enforcement affect ' ing these departments, should either be placed with the commissioner of labor, the industrial welfare commis sion or the child labor bureau, Gram -declares. . ' Such a consolidation. Gram Insists, would not only result in a material waving to the state estimated 'at ap proximately 10,000 a year but would male for greater efficiency in the ad ministration of the activities, coming under the Jurisdiction of these depart ments through elimination of duplica tion of effort" and overlapping of au thority. i Opposition to house bills Nos. 22. and ?23, providing the consolidation of the 'two commissions with the state lahtr ,btiru, on the ground thst such a .con trol Idatien would remove the offices of the child labor and industrial welfare fwork from Portland tos Salem, is with- out substantial foundation. Gram de clares. The characterof the work carrledon by these two departments, he explained, is such that the best results could be accomplished by retaining them in Port land. , The bureau of labor, he points 'out, maintains a branch office in Port land to which the activities of the two 'commissions would be removed In the Went of consolidation. At the present Jtlme, .Gram states, the bureau of labor is doing' nearly all the work of law en forcement for these two commissions ioutpide the city of Portland. Answering the argument that In the Jevent of the consolidation the two .com missions would lose their identity. Gram points out that his predeceanor in the Jofflce of state tabor : commissioner Hervd as secretary of the industrial welfare commission and that he himself 4 had also been tendered that position by the chairman of the commission. jHart Consolidation : Code on Schedule; j Fight Impending f Olympla. Wash.. Jan. 24. (IT. P.) The senate is scheduled to begin the Jweek's work with the consideration late this afternoon of the governor's admin istrative code for: the consolidation of publta- offices. The measure has been made a," special order of -business and Jan attempt will be made to jam if through, without delay. The code was passed by the house laht week by a vote of 89 to C5. I William Short, president of 'the state federation of labor, and ilobert Harlin, head of, the mine workers of the state, are expected to make ia determined fight foil. th bill at the publia hearing to be kheld this evening, . The United States, government will be , asked to adopt' a uniform -divorce law, according to the terms of a joint house J resolution to be introduoed Ifere thjs afternoon. "''"' : Gordon Bill May Not B e Constitutional, Says City Attorney The Gordon tax conservation commis sion bill, in so far as it empowers th etate to regulate ther taxes of Portland. would be declared unconstitutional by the supreme court, as it would deprive he city of honfe rule as established by th -constitution, in the opinion of City Attorney Frank S.f Graflt. Grant said, however, that his opinion was off hand, as he had not briefed the case to its final analysts; , Were the bill amended to apply to counties, but not municipali ties, the city attorney believes the law would be well within the state's consti tutional rights. City Attorney Grant will accompany members of the city council to Saem,' in an advisory : capacity, tomorrow. Members of. the county commissioners, the dock commission; Port of Portland representatives, educators and others will ; join City Commissioners Bigelow, Bacbur and Pier in protesting the Gor don bill before the tsx committee at Salem tomorrow,, it Was announced to day. Walter P. La. Roche, former city attorney, will attend the Salem meeting as attorney for the dock commission. HOUSE BILLS . . House Bills Introduced . H. B. 122, by Johnston Repealing sections 45-1,- 4S-2, 45-3 and 45-4, Oregon laws, relating, to change, of venue, in circuit cotirts. ' H. B. 123. by Clatsop county delega tion Relating to salaries of certain of ficers of Clatsop county. H, B. 124. by Clatsop county delega tion -Amending section 3586, Oregon laws, relating, to salary of constable, Seaside precinct. ' H..B. 125. by Clatsop county delega tionAmending section 3165, Oregon laws, relating to" the salary of district attorney- of Clatsop county ..t H. B. 126, by Davey Repealing sec tion 8727. Oregon laws, relating to oleo margarine. ' ,. ' i H.- B. 127, by Davey Providing for protection of ducks and other wild water fowl by making it unlawful to bait such birds with wheat or other artificial food Tor - the purpose of shooting same. H. B. 128, by Fletcher Amending section 7266, Oregon laws, relating to 'unpaid warrants drawing interest. H. B. 139, toy-committee on roada and highways -Providing for transfer of road funds. H. B. 130 by committee n roads and highwaysRepealing section 4443, Ore gon laws, - relating to levy pf tax for state highways and declaring an emeri gency.- " H. B. 131. by committee on insurance Authorising life insurance companies to act as trustees. . H. B. 132, by committee -on Insurance Requiring jthat property owned by non-residents-shall be insured only in companies licensed in this state. H. 13. '13," by committe on insurance Providing for the licensing of agents au thorized to place insurance in unadmit .ted companies. - . H. B. 134, by committee on insurance . Amending , section 6344. Oresron laws, pertaining to the requirements, capital and authority of insurance companies. H. B. 135. by Stone Repealing section 2825. : Oregon laws. H. B. 136, by Gallagher Amending section S616, Oregon laws, pertaining to salaries ' of county officials in Malheur county. "I Australians are experimenting SHth a mammoth oil driven harvester which strips grain fields at a rs of about ew acres a oay. CONSOLIDATING Legislators to Be -Sponsors for "Baby of House" - State House. Salem, Jan. 2. The thirty-first legislature Is to have the honor of standing sponsor, collec tively, for George "Washington Childs. fth "Baby of the House," who ar rived Sunday evening. A six-pound son was born i to Representative Charles - Childs and Mrs. Childs at their temporary; home; 66 Twenty flrstr street North. Childs represents Linn county in : the house and hts home is in Brownsfille. Baby Childs is his first son. i He has one daugh ter. Congratulations from house and senate members were showered upon the father this, morning. SALARY ADVANCES FOR MALHEUR AND CLATSOP SOUGHT State House, Salem, Or., Jan. 24.- Advances in salaries of county of ficers in Clatsop county are provided for In ahill introduced In the house today: by. the Clatsop county dele gation. , ;, . . 5 ; The proposed schedule reads: County judge. $1600; county commissioners, $5 per day for actual, time used in county service and necessary travel expenses 5 copnty treasurer, 12100 ; county clerk, $2300. and three deputy county clerks at-$125 each per month; sheriff. $2800, and two ; deputy sheriffs, one at $175 and one at $150 per month! assessor, $2100, and two deputies at $150 per month each; county superintendent of schools. $2100. ! Another bill by! the sarrTe delegation provides for an increase of the salary of diatrict attorney of Clatsop county from $1800 to $2100 a year, and another bill provides for a salary of $300 a year for the constable, of Seaside precinct of Clat sop county. s A bill introduced by P. J. Gallagher of Harney and Malheur counties provides this schedule for Malheur county offi cials. ' - ' County judge. Increase from $1800 to $2400; county commissioners. $5 per day for time of actual service and 10 cents per mile travel expenses; county treas urer, increase from $1000 to $1200 ; county clerk, $2200 ; sheriff $2500 and travel expenses; assessor, $1800; county superintendent of schools. $1500. MOSER PORT BILL TRENCH HOT TARGET (Continued From fze One.) men from all the state, that he did not control, and he, said that even though he w as attorney lor the Port of Portland he was acting on the floor as a senator from -Multnomah county elected by the people Of that district to carry into ef I fecvhJ things they wanted done. 10.TIONy IS SUFPQBTEB, iiady also supported the Josefih-no-tttnv and Dennis poke against It-: He referred . tor the- impugning remarks 'di rected against Moser. - He said that' he was not'ln harmony with Moser's posi tion on the bills and that Joseph might find some solace in his position when it waa finally taken. - but he thought it was not fair to take the measures away from-the" committee. Senator i Upton , followed Dennis in much the! same line. - He said that he was directly and vitally interested in the development of the Port of Portland ; that .80 : per cent of all the livestock which passed through the Portland stock yards came from 4 his! district and that he wa not rn harmony with, Moser in regard to h bills now before the senate. TJpton contended 5 that, the judiciary committee, of which he is a member, had several upstate members on It; that It wag controlled by Moser or by the Mult nomah delegation, and he-charged that the-Joseph, motion; would throw the con sideration of the - bills back into the hands of the; Multnomah delegation in effect,, and that ha was tired of the camouflage" and of the continual prac tice of "the Multnomah crowd coming tonhe legislature i year after' year and "putting things over." He insisted that the bills would get a iairer hearing and that the whole state would get more Im partial consideration before the judiciary committee than if they were put back under the jurisdiction of Multnomah county's members. . Senator Ryan went to bat for the committees insisting that the bill had not been i taken up for consideration, that the charge made by Thomas and others that amendments hostile to the Moser program could not be presented, and that Moser controlled the commit tee. " He said he was a free agent and that he would present any amendment offered to him, and that, finally, if he did not like the position taken by the committee when it made its final re port back to the senate, he would put in a minority report and bring it out on the floor of the . senate. Eberhard put an end to the morn ing's entertainment : by interposing his motion to fecess until 2 o'clock for lunch. i. :!-.;";'..:: ... Joint Resolution Afck's Presidential Term of 8 Years State . House, Salem, Jan. 24. A house joint resolution introduced this morning by Representative J. U. Lee of Mult nomah county memorializes congress to submit to the people of the United States a proposal to extend the term of the presidency ot the United .States from four to eight years. - The resolution cites the disturbance to business -conditions of each presiden tial campaign and declares that four years is not a sufficient length of time within which a president may establish and carry oat definite lines of policies so as to determine their rge.1 value to the country at large. , Carson Will Decline Ulster Premiership London, Jan. 24. (I. N. S.) Sir Ed ward Carson, leader of the Ulster Union ists, will formally decline the premier ship of Ulster when he receives a depu tation of Unionists from Ulster tomor row, according to the Dally Mail today. The newspaper Bays Sir Edward will intimate his complete withdrawal from J Irish politics; t : " RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE'S HEAD i . . 3 : 4- : ; p L - M '-S v, r v 4 r-. ' k 5- ' " sj---- - ; I - - , s "141 . , - - Senator TV'. W. Banks of-Maltnomah, chairman of the senate resolutions committee, and one of tho organ isation standbya in tho upper hotlise. : j' SKIDS PROPOSED FOR TENURE BILL State House Salem, Or., Jan. 24. Senator Hume of' Multnomah, at tempts to put the teachers tenure bill of Senator Staples, also cf Mult nomah, on the skids so far as this session of the legislature is con cerned, through, the Introduction of a joint resolution introduced in the senate this morning. The Hume resolution, if adopted, will carry with it the indefinite postpone ment of the Sts.ples "bill. ISQUIJIT IS ASKED It provides that two members of the senate and three members of the house be appointed to make a full investiga tion into the subject of teachers' tenure' legislation and report back to the next biennial session of the legislature. The resolution : points out, mat the in troduction of the tenure squabble in- the session at this time has stirred up a big conflict between the directors of the Portland schools on one hand and he teachers on the other and that In this conflict Various contending interests and Influences 'are'alignlng' themselves " for and against the Staples bill. f SAtlOST Al Bill FORMISO ; - Hume sets- Out in his resolution that the -National J Education association is now at work on the preparation of a uniform, measure covering fhe. subject of teachers' tenure for adoption in all of the states of the Union. He con tends that the 1 tenure law should be one that would safeguard the interests of the pupils. I the governing authority of the schools and pf the teachers in equal -and equitable manner and in such a way that harmony would prevail in the government and conduct of the pub lic schools. HUME MEASl'BE BEXT This he ; Insists will not follow either the enactment or the defeat of the Staples bill. " I Should the Ijume resolution be adopted both in the senate and house, it , will automatically put an end to the tenure fight looming before tne legislature. Its introduction, and consequent considera tion, w.ill doubtless shift the burden of the battl away from the Staples bUl and upon the.j Hume resolution until It has been disposed of by the legislature, HI JOHNSON TO BE 1 ; 'STEAM-ROLLERED' (Continued From Fu One.) ; he hopes may supplanw the present League of Nations. In other words, the ground has been looked over, and there is no doubt in the minds of those about Harding that a greater degree of party harmony may be assured by "steam rollering" Johnson than by compromis ing with him. L - -: HARDING HOLiDS RECEPTION ON YACHT FOR HOTEIj GCESTS v Hotel Ormond, Orraond Beach, FIa Jan. 24. Clad in white flannel and wear ing a Panama hat pulled down at a rak ish angle. President-elect Harding jumped nimbly ashore from, the house boat Victoria Sunday after a 60-mile trip down the, palm fringed Indian river from St. Augustine. . The widely advertised Florida climate put forth its best and the Harding smile was as genial and as warm as the sun overhead. - Accompanied tf tils' host. Senator Joseph Frellngbuysen of New Jersey, Senator -Albert vB. Fall of , New Mexico, Henry P. Fletcher, former ambassador to Mexico, and George-Christian, his private : secretary, , the. president-elect came ashore "here and motored down the surf ringed .beach to Daytona. a few miles distant Harry M. Daugherty was indisposed and remained on the house boat. . At Daytona the party picked up Senator - Albert B. Cummins of ' Iowa, who- is convalescing; from-a. recent ill ness, and -brought him back to Ormond. Senator Cummins will be a member of the houseboat party for several days. ALL-lTATEB TBIP t Ouests at the bis; hotels here showed keen Interest in the next president and numbers followed him - down t6 the houseboat where, mounting on the deck, he staged an Impromptu reception. A little Eriri presented the president-elect with a bouquet of violets and another stuck out a chubby fist to shake hands. She had an all-day suckercn her right hand which she refused to give up, so Senator "Harding laughingly obliged by shaking the left hand. The party remained ashore only a short time and left at 3 o'clock for Rock led ce, where they are due to arrive about noon today. At the rate the Victoria is going down the coast It is probable that the Harding party will.be able to strike the tip of Florida and re turn to St. Augustine entirely by water, and this plan will be followed if time permits. ! During the trip down from St, Augus tine, Senator Fall and Mr. Fletcher, are understood to have outlined in detail their views .regarding the future policy toward. Mexico. AH3HT AT DAITOHA Senator Fall is a recognized authority in .the senate on Mexican affairs and as ambassador to Mexico Fletcher was al ways an opponent .of the watchful methods of dealing with -t&at country employed by the present administration. In this respect Senator Fall and Fletcher are understood to be in perfect accord, although the former ambassador said today he believed the Obregon govern ment was doing Its best and might bring order out ;of .the chaos that has swept the southern republic for a decade. - There is little doubt, however, that; the president-elect has received a good deal of expert advice from these Jt wo close students Of Mexican affairs and that he was counseled to use strong methods,lf necessary, should trouble Involving Mex ican interests break out again. . ' A, few hours after leaving Ormond the houseboat Victoria had rudder trouble and ran her nose into a shifting sandbar, but pulled off under her own power and proceeded south. The Harding party WmI tie up for the night just south of Day tona. . ! Proposed Measure Would! Clog Courts Says City Attorney City Attorney Frank S. Grant has called the attention of -the city council to senate bill No. 128. introduced by Sen ator Banks of Portland, which i would allow every individual or corporation put out of business by the city council, or any municipal official to appeal to the circuit court and have the case tried by Jury, regardless of the evidence in troduced at the hearing-resulting in the cancellation of the firm or individual's license. Such a law would swamp the circuit courts of the state. Grant points out, and he further stresses the fact that the bill neither stipulates the maximum amount to I be involved nor the amount of bond required from the appellant, jbvl dently leaving: that to the discretion- of the court or possibly to the pleasure of the appellant's counsel. Idaho Bill Seeking To Restore Direct . Primary Provision BOise, Idaho, Jan. 24. (I. N. S.) A bill was Introduced in the legislature this morning providing for the restoration of the primary law. There was quite an agitation following the state Republi can convention last fall for the restora tion of the direct primary. Senator Bo rah being one of those who - advocated abolishment of the convention system. , 11 - ' ' Evangelist Bounced For Flaying Morals Of School Children Sand Point, Idaho, Jan. 24.-MU. P.) "Fifty per cent of Sand Point'J high school students are immoral and a large number of them are diseased. the Rev,, G. H. Redden. Seattle evangelist, told the W. C, T. U. here, - "Git 1" said the school board, after the evangelist had been given and had failed to take advantage of an oppor tunity to prove, his assertions. i Further Protection Of Wild Game Urg ed State House, Salem, Jan. 24. Protec tion of ducks and other wild water fowl by making It unlawful to bait such birds with wheat or other artificial food for . the purpose of shooting same, and providing a penalty therefor, is the pur pose of a bill introduced in the house this morning by Representative Frank Davey of Marion county. Davey also introduced a bill today repealing section 8727, Ore gon laws, which requires the retailer to keep a record of the name and address of each' purchaser of oleomargarine. '! " 1 1 .11 i ...... j-i--- Court to Open February 8 j Vancouver, "Wash.. Jan. 24. The -wini ter jury term of superior court has been set for February 8 by Judge George B. Simpson. The jury was drawn 'Janu ary 8. The term of court will be short. FARE RISE SOUGHT . IN VALLEY TOWNS Salem, Or., Jan. ' 24. -Petitions asking for increases in street rail way fares on Its Salem, Eugene and West Linn systems to: yield a net re turn of 7 per cent on the original investment, were filed "with the pub lic service 'commission here this morning by the Southern Pacific company. .' ' The petitions set out figures to show deficits incurfed in the operations of the street railway's lines of the company for the year endinz June' 20. 1920. amounting to $15,647 at Salem, 12699 af west Linn and $36,000 on the Eugene and Springfield lines. Since that date, the petitions Assert, J costs of material, labor and supplies have greatly increased, with no material increases in revenues.' - Present rates, it Is contended, are un reasonable and ' unjust and a new tariff must be granted, permitting a reason able return on the original investment in order . to continue operation on an adequate, scale, , The Salem system represents an orig inal" cost' of $486,110,: according to the petition. Revenues for the year ending June 20 are given as $103,481,. with ex penses totaling $119,128. i The original cost of the Eugene Springfield system is given as $519,856. Revenues for the yearwere $$7,116, with expenses of $103416. : i v Only $5713.40 is charged up for pas senger service on: the "West Linn system, which yielded a revenue of $14,465 foe the year, with expenses of $17,154. . The company asks for prompt action. Censorship for 'Movies' Provided For in Measiire State House, Salem, lOr., Jam : 24. State censorship of moving picture films and houses is previded for in a bill now in course of preparation by Representa tives ChHds' and Fletcher of Linn; and which will be introduced In the house Tuesday or Wednesday. The bill provide for a board of cen sors of three members, to be appointed by -the governor. The headquarters of the board will be at Portland, and the members will be entitled to their actual expenses while engaged in administering the law. , i At the present time, it Is pointed out by the authors of the proposed bill, there is no censorship over films; or movie houses- outside of Portland, ; and It is contended that the. same care ought to be exercised over the character of the provisions shown to the people outside of Portland as is shown within that-city. 'Movies' of Oregon Scenes to Feature Library Meeting Moton pictures will , feature the pro gram which has . been arranged for Wednesday evening at the public library in connection with the foreign trade exhibit. Three reels of pictures, depict ing a trip through Japan and activities of the Toyo Ivalsen Kaisha steamships and one reel depicting a trip to Tilla mook. Rock and the Oregon coast will be shown at the meeting. : Dean E. C. Robbins of the school of commerce, . University of Oregon, will speak on Special Training for Foreign Trade Work." Marshall N. Dana will be crte.irm.an of the meeting. Thursday evening the Library as sociation will hold "open house" for business men of the city. Working Hours Cut To Keep Men Busy Spokane, Wash., Jan. 24.-The Great Northern shops ,; at Hitlyard will cut working hoursfrom eight to seyen hours a day, -according to : information ob tained from the ofOce of the superin tendent of shops.? This includes 75 men in - the roundhouse .'and approximately 1000 men employed In .the other shops. J George oes, cmei ciera, in yie superin tendent's office, stated that no informa tion could be given as to the reason for the cut in hours; except that it would save another reduction la the force. Supreme- Court ilecesscsi ; Washington, Jan. 24. (t. NV S.) The United 'States supreme court today an nounced a recess from Monday, January 31. to Monday, February 28. NEW BILL ADDS FUEL TO EIGHT OVER CHAPLAINCY State House, Salem, Or., Jan. 24. The latest move in the "scrap" over the -chaplaincy .at state institutions developed in this forenoon's session of the house, when Rpresentative William M. Stone of Clackamas coun ty introduced a bill repealing the section of the Oregon laws which provides for a Protestant and a Catholic chaplain at the state peni tentiary and the boys training school. This bill would. take off all limitations ai.u throw the state, in stitutions open for the voluntary religious work of any organized church or sect. The bill comes as an aftermath of the announced intention of the Ministerial Association of Salem to seek the Intro duction of a bill providing for employ ment by the state ofa full time Protes tant chaplain at a yearly salary of $3000, providing him with a car and its upkeep, and providing for half-time service of a Catholic chaplain at a salary of $1500 a year, each chaplain to serve 'all the state institutions at Salem where per sons are confined. When the Ministerial association, which was then In session at Kimball School of Theology, heard of the pro posed bill by Stone this morning, it at once sent a delegation to. the house of representatives to be prepared to make a stand for Its proposed legislation if the opportunity offered, but the Stone bill was sent to committee without any discussion. . Four Bills Aim t At Changes in Insurance Laws State House, Salem. Jan. 24. Four bills pertaining to changes in insurance laws were introduced in the house this morn ing by the house committee on insurance and were passed to their second read ing. -. ...... ; One of these authorizes life insurance companies to act as trustees of the proceeds of certain insurance policies without being required to qualify "under the provisions of the trust company law of Oregon. Another bill provides! that life insurance companies transacting their business on the mutual plan and possessing assets amounting to $1,000,000 or more may qualify to tranact accident and health Insurance In Oreg-on. '. . The third bill provides for licensing of agents authorized to place Insurance in unadmitted companies and provides for the collection of taxes on premiums received for such insurance, while the fourth is a bill intended to compel non resident owners of property in Oregon to place insurance on such property through licensed agents in the i state, in order that the state may riot be deprived of the revenue from tax on such premiums. - - . J ft Li SIX DAYS I ONLY C- "." " . ' " V. j .V--.. . j " : :" UNUSUAL High -Grade Footwear for Men, Women and Children '- Best styles, best valuesUnd best prices. Laird-Schobers High Shoes, 5 styles, values to (including tax) Laird-Schober's patent LXV heel, lace and button, QJO Off values to $18.50 (no tax) iDSUOJ) Bronze, Brown Suede! and Black Suede Shoes; values dQ OCT to $l8.50,i:l I .; $12.45 and J.09 Choice of Stacy Adams Co.'s Shoes $14.85 OFFERINGS FOR CHILDREN Growing Girls Dress and School Shoes, 7.50 to $12.00 values, all leathers, all sizes 2Jz to 8.;; $5.95 to $9.85 BOYS' DRESS AND SCHOOL SHOES $8.00 to $12.00 values L . . .V I $5.95 to $9.85 - value to $7.50 j., .ttD JLmUJ to tDOoUtJ Ballet Slippers, Gym Shoes and Dancing Pumps ICmssBAft'Slhoe Co, Super-Airplane Is j Invented in Prison j Cell by Frenchman j - I S (special Cbl Dupatto,) v Paris, Jan. 24.-The inspiration for! the helicopter, which the French government may adopt to replace airplanes, came tq Inventor Pateras Pescara while he was in j a icell in Sante prison in Paris! in 1916. He had been incarcerated act a dangerous suspect at the behest, of j the international police. ; Aiding the Inventor were two fellow prisoners, one of whom was a carpet maker and the other a dishwasher. I The facts came to light Saturday when it wss officially announced that i the French government is sending a dis tinguished commission to Spain to test the specimen helicopter built by Pescara at Barcelona, It is claimed this new helicopter rises or descends vertically, can mount to a great height in a few sedonds, is not affected by wind! or weather and is capable of standing Still In ithe air. . . ; . These features and its great speed either backward or forward render ithe machine the most formidable war weapon-sever devised. t Simultaneously with the French min ister of war's choice of Pescara's heli copter for government tests, Peter Copper Hewitt sailed for New York yes terday on the Aqultania, after announc ing that he has in his pocket plans for a perfected helicopter built on still better principles than the Pescara machine. Hewitt will urge the United Statese gov ernment to adopt his machine in order that the United States may not be be hind France .in the race for perfected armament. Club Women Asked iFo Contribute to Dr. Shaw Memorial Oregon dub women" are giving their support to the movement for the estab lishment of a memorial to Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who led the suffrage forces to victory and died on the eve of hen triumph. The national memorial committee proposes to establish a foun dation in politics at Bryn Mawr and a foundation In preventive medicine to the Women's Medicaf college of Pennsyl vania, two institutions with which he late suffrage leader was intimately con nected with, Mrs. Ij. T. Hidden, chalr mah for Oregon,-is now calling upon Oregon club women and clubs for their quota of the memorial fund. j ; The national memorial committee was 'organized last winter to raise a fund of $508000. and includes William Howard Taft, Franklin K. Lane, Theodore Roose velt Jr., Governor Allen of Kansas, Clov er nor Sproul of Pennsylvania, Jane Adams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Helen Taft ana Anna a. uordon. Children Not Her's, says union woman Centralia, Wash.. Jan. 24. Parent hood of little Jack and Leona Ferguson, abandoned in Chehalls by their father, is denied by Louisa M. Mcintosh of Uniion, Or., in a letter received here. She) said that a girl, whom she did jnot knefw. is the mother That she sup ported and kept the babies at one time is stated. Ferguson's mother, she said, is Mrs. Lor a L. Carver of Seattle. i SI Mil CI Hi. UIIBH Hi SI ItlUIHI "SJ V ' ' dl 1 . m SF' OFFERINGS (Last Week of Sale) 22.50 EXTRA SPECIAL OFFERINGS FOR MEN Choice values to $12.50 $8o85 Morrison, Near Broadway G. 0. P. PROMISES OF ECONOMY ARE DECLARED EPTY Washington, Jan. 24. (WASH- INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.)- The country has - heard a great deal about wholesome saving to the government to bo made by reducing the number of employes. So many - extravagant statements have been made in this connection, ' particularly during the campaign, that the administration of President Harding may find it rather difficult to explain the difference between promises and results. . . One reason for this is that the Wilson , administration has already "beat" him to it." When it is remembered that the total number of employes In the 'civil day of the armistice In 1918 end to day tha number is approximately-635, 000. it is clear that 165,000 are mussing, and with every month the number grows less. , NEW FORCES "NEEDED The pre-war number was 514,000, so if there had been no legitimate growth In the number of employes since, then the surplus would be 121,000. But everyone knows there is a normal Increaso of several thousands each year, irraddItIon" to which the government, has started several things that require . additional forces, such as the war risk bureau, pro hibition enforcement and tax collection on a scale never before attempted, Proof of the normal increase may "be .illustrated by the fact that the Repub lican postoffi.ee committee of the house, which la doing the best it can to"hold down" under a policy of retrenchment, has provided for 2760 more clerks and 1400 more, carriers in the postof flee serv-. ice, an increase 'of 4100 for next year In this one department. Unless an unusu ally, good case was made out It is quite certain that these additional clerks would not have been -authorized, CBY is hollow So In the end it will 'be. found that tntiiK. if f ha 1 1 Lr a Krtu eau n m fill rv m through the discharge of useless clerks Is hollow. Some of the Republican lead--" frx talked about c-utllne- nft ' (M flfirt .clerks during the campaign. Now tliey- are talking about cutting off . 40,009, Which is nearer the mark. The 'change. of administration will make little differ-'" ence in that respect, for reductions have been made steadily since early In 1919; -j For purposes of comparison the num-s her of " United States civil service em ployes is given below at three different! periods: " ' - - ' July. 1. 1917: In the. District of Co lumbia, 87,908 (this figure Is for- month of April In that year); 476,388 ouUlde' th AiKtrlftt .; total lil 4.29ft - July 1. 1919: In the district. 300.110; outside the district, 657.744 total, 757,854. January 1, 1921: In the district, 85,645 ; elsewhere In the United States, approxi mately 650,000 ; total, 835,645. . Marriage License Issued V. ' Oregon City, Jan. 24. Mildred G. Pickle and Anton It. Savetel. both of- route 6, Oregon City, were issued "a mar riage license here Saturday. - . -..... (T "I O ' H A Choice, of any $16.50 S12.85 I 1