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II.'.IOJ DISTRICT Effort MadeBy Taxpayers Quash Proceed frigs To rm r ing Woodburn School . Charging that union high school district No. 2, Woodburn, was illegally organized since the districts included compromised 12 "third class districts of Marlon county . and lour from Clackamas county and two second class dis ircis irom ivianon county, quo warrento proceedings were tiled In- the Marion ' county, circuit court ' yesterday demanding that the pretended acts of the defend ants be declared nail and void. -Tfte plaintiffs re taxpayer of the istricts . involved and are W A. Healer. It. F, Zollner, M. O White and B. J. White. The de iendants named are B. Paulson, C. WV Conyne, Keith Powell, A L. Weaver, L. C. Yerger and El mer Ji Standard, school directors; - . in iwwciuK, county judge; J, fc.. Smith- and J. T. Hunt, county comnygsioners; Mrs. Mary Ful kerson, all members of the district boundary board, and Oscar Steel- nammer, county assessor. 1 : The -suit is In the form of quo warrento proceedings demandine ' that defendants show by what au thority they hare done the things .thcyjhara done in this .pretended bchooi district, .i . . The. suit here is 'based on the decision recently made by the sa-l-reme court f in a - similar case trom Umatilla county. A" law rassed by the last reeislature nir. mlts third and second-class dis tricts, to unite 'but the Woodburn district was organised before the law went Into effect,, though, after u.was passed by the legislature , Sin.. . ft " r jj . . .viva lua aw mui UlStriCt W8S formed f since the Jaw. went Into , eiiect n cannot be attacked on The districts which were joined in ine union district Inelmi n Marion, couity districts and four in i iacitamat county. i . An early . hearing will be sought, ccorawg to John Carson, dis trict' attorney, who . will defend the case for the county officers. -Ds Rid of Asthma lorence Formula Offers Relief and Real Benefit. cnt. Now X3n Free TriaL Asthma,. Hay Fever -and Catarrh are responsible for much .misery mu ncaun. -. n you. are a. ,. f m , '. . '. . '"ir irwai, . wneeztng, sneezing, difficult breathing, hawking, rais ing phlegm;etc,. to pfove that you can atop these troubles quickly ana easily with the pleasant, scien tific Florence ronnula, I will send yon a $1 bottle 'postpaid and free of .charge or obligation. . if it satisfies, tell your friends nd pay me only One Dollar, otherwise the loss is mine. Merely send your name today for this liberal free introductory offer good only for 10 days. F. SHEARER, 70 Coca Cola Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. ASSAILED Way . . ' . 11 K A I J fl TH F fl TDF 2, DaysBeginning Monday UUMNU J-nCHlIlt Twice DaUy Thereafter at SfriSdr ....-jl-T"'" wvwupc. auy in aqvance ana avoid windqvif.; THE SUPREME SUCCESS OF And the niost superb orchestra ever heard Ji.ime A Paramount Production Adapted from JE the Oregon Trail 10VE ROr.IAf!CE-THMLS ADVENTURE The Glorious Drama pf West Reproduced on a Gigantic Scale Matinees: Orchestra i . Palcony ; , .?1.00 . .50 THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON Should !' petitioners -receive farorable decision not only would the tax rolls be in a great state of confusion but the! problem of what to do with thochlldren In the dis trict would face the community. The levy for the district la question is $50,000 with nolevy for the 19 districts supposed to be Included in the union district. Should the union, district be de flared illegally existing the 'tax rolls would be interfered with more than a little and th wnrk- jOfj the assessor's office upset, per haps interfering with the turning over of the tax roll3 to the sheriff for collection. After County Commissioners lujcne. Feb. 6. "Emmett Sharp and L. N. Roney, county commissioners, are severely criti cised by the Joint committee from the Lane County Farmers union and the Lane Connty Pomona grange, in its report released yes- icraay. alter an Investigation of affairs at the court house cover ing a period of over two months. The joint committee made a thor ough probe of the methods of the two commissioners in handling road and bridge work and funds covering such work, also the meth od of entering Into a contract for a county timber cruise, and other questions of vital interest to the taxpayers. The committee's report states that the law was violated in let ting road contracts without adver tising for bids, that the cost-plus system used in the repair of the Springfield and North Fork bridges is vicious, and that large sums of. money paid for bridge construction supervision was un-i necessary, as .one of the commis sioners was elected on a promise to do this work himself; that the market road law is not being fol lowed, and that lack of proper maintenance of roads Is costing the county dearly. AT GRAND fim.ikij .( mwjruvt i iT, mm -myml v, 4 WiS i i ' ' J, f't- - L-...14-j-n , , , i . . , .,,.,. .... A.V..... I Lionel , Barrymore :;hd Louis Wolheim a CosmopoDtans. Producbon'cl P-U N S E E I N G"i; E Y E S i DtttrttuttJ ly Go7twytCsm4o?ttmt Awauabte la both mat Presenli PRICES: . All Scats Plus Tax (UOVERED WAGON" II in Letter of Resignation and Governor's Reply are Made Public The letter of resignation sub mitted to Governor Pierce by his private secretary, Ward A. Irvine, and the governor's reply to the letter were made public from the executive office yesterday. They are dater January 10 and Febru ary 9, respectively. Mr. Irvine will retire from the office next Friday and will again Join the editorial staff of the Portland Journal. Governor Pierce said yesterday that he will not apponit Irvine's successor at once, but for a time will get along with the two stenog raphers in the office. Miss Celia Boll man and Miss Agnes Bayne It is expected that Irvine's succes sor may be appointed about March 1. The latter part of this month Governor Pierce is to be in eastern Oregon for some time, and Irvine offered, if necessary, to return to Salem and assist during that period. The governor has re ceived many applications for the appointment as private secretary. several new ones coming in yester day. Irvine's letter of resignation fol lows: "My Dear Governor Pierce: Yes terday I completed a year in your service as your private secretary. It has been a year of very pleas ant association. "It is my belief, however, that rewards for a young man are far greater in private than In public TODAY rP0jMArf9ff9': it iv X. aa4 art fonm. I Evening, February 18th 2:30 p. m. and 8:30 p m or money order and line rush at hnv ff,v SUCCESSES in any theatre J r Nights: ' Kntire i Orchestra i ..;-$ i.50' .1st 4' Rdw Balcony .0 1.50 Balance Balcony . 1.00 Gallery ; . , . . . . . .. .5 0 ' Ill HITS 1 v-' ' .. .... ," r " ... The Law of Attraction By ARYAN K ELTON The poor boy often marries in to a wealthy family, and the girl often catches the millionaire. They become a success or a failure through the outcome of their first personal attraction. Love .is a thing which attracts, whether money, sweetheart or lame. We have nothing in this world with out love. ixve if a greater thing than desire. Desire comes and goes. Love is the zenith reached from having desired; desire is love in embryo. When we realize that a thing is either physical, mental, of spirit- 1 ARYAN' KELTOX tial, we have the answer for every problematical conception or mis- understanding. The ifudleils of a great career, success, health and happiness, is largely accomplish- ed from this very conception. Na- ture has given man an accuracy In adjusting, arbitrating, solving all of the questions and problems right within himself. We learn from others that I3 true, but each individual experiences things and conditions in life that no one else ever experiences. What are you going to do in that crisis, calam ity or situation? The individual must know how to handle the question or situation himself and usually those things arise When they must be mastered quickly. life. After a year, therefore, in the public service, I now osk to be relieved from duty on Febru ary loth, or as soon thereafter as is convenient-to you. "Hoping that you will realize for the people of this state the lofty ideals I know vou entertain. I am. verv sinprlv vnnrs.. .. "WARD A. IRVIXE, "Secretary to the Governor." The governor's reply follows: "My Dear Secretary: I found your letter of resignation on my desk several days ago under date of January 10, 1924. "I am not unmindful of the fact that several times during the last year you have called my attention to the sacrifice you were making in remaining in this office, and that it was your desire to retire at the earliest date compatible with the interests of the administra tion. I feel that in Justice to your self and all others concerned 1 should at this time accept your resignation as private secretary to the governor, effective as you sug gest on February 15. "In your retirement from pub lic service, I wish to assure you of the high appreciation that I have for your service and your strict fidelity and unswerving loy ally to the administration. You have a broad experience for one so young in years. Natural tal ents y6u possess which can, and 1 am sure will, make, you one of the pronounced factors Jn this com monwealth. Ever keep in mind the fact that right ultimately wins. The half century of active life that you probably have before you will give you a great opportunity to assist humanity in securing a more equitable distribution of the bur dens of society and government as wen as a more Humanitarian division of the rewards of human toil. "Very sincerely yours, "WALTER M. PIERCE; "Governor." I ' ! i I L1 1L J AT THE OREGON TODAY vGIerm Hunter and Ernest' Wnce in a scene from the Poramouiit.BctUrc: West .of .the-ter.Tbwer-f you haven't time,' to run nd ask ur friend -nine times out of ten he'wonldn't know what to tell you If you did, so in these cases whet" do you really call into action? You imagination? Intuition? Rea soning? Logic?' Judgment tr what? The average man says "rea soning" of course, anyone should know that, that's all we have to think -with and judge by. The man who has studied a little logic will say "use logic, the science of ac curate reasoning, Xow if there is a science Of accurate reasoning. It must be based tfn something in fallible. It has been proved that logic is an accurate science, but when you have come into psychol ogy you have come Into a higher, broader and greater system of rea soning and science. .Reasoning is the highest faculty of the active mind. An animal has only reason ing or 'instinct, so has man, but when he comes Into psychology he begins to study his subconscious mind, Ue realizes he has something higher than Instinct or reasoning; it is called intuition. Some declare intuition a direct gift from God. So it is, but like talent in any other particular. It must be devel oped". Often you hear people Isay1 "that young lady was born a natu ral musician or -singer." Thafmay be true, but she had to develop her talent just the same. No wri ter, artist, mu8icin or singer ever become a great star or genius un less he had his talent "from study, practice and concentration well developed. - None have become an$hlijg without the use of in tuition! Intuition manifested in concen- t ration ia that TU"iih ronllv liolna K. rrMto tho r -.ttnnrt and the law of attraction is one of the lntallible laws pf the universe wJ,0th0r , , aa , a,if. hllB,nA hMlt1l nr9mo nn. can scarcelv climb very high in th eocia, vorh, or in the world of rt ,,nToaa th ' Dv pr anrf moP finhtlp vollP irt Q ,., law,, the higher you are going to climb, and no one can reach the realm, secret, esoterism of this law unless he use his Intuitive power, which -is a higher power than will power. Imagination is: a thing most people do not understand, but, if you just stop to think a moment, ou will bo able to realize that everything must be in imagination before it can become a reality. The man who starts to make any thing must have it in his imaging faculty first, then he starts to work out that which is in his im agination. The . designer must have in her imagination the new yCTeation for a gown before she can create a new fashion unless she follows after a pattern,' and the "individual who always must follow after a pattern will never do anything original. The old saying "there is nothing new und er the sun, may; be true butane might ask which sun, as there are several millions of them. "Logic is psychology In embryo imagination is intuition in em bryo. - We;. know that imagination is not always accurate, but intuition is. ' ' , When you reach a plane of con sciousness where you use your subconscious mind and intuition, very few things shall bother you in your imagination. When people ' understand ' the law of attraction they quickly learn to attract the things in life they want and the greatest thiiiKs wanted are love, health, success and happiness. BrownsvUlc levies Taxes BROWNSVILLE, Or., Feb. 7. The Brownsville ity council pur poses to raise needed funds by the collection of semi-annual licenses from merchants and others selling cigarettes or the, "makin's" of them; from movie tshow proprie tors, peddlers, wood saw opera tors, owners or keepers of bowl ing alleys or shooting galleries, managers of dances where admit tance is charged,; and those who move any building or buildings within the corporate limits. An ordinance to thte effect has been passed by the Council and pub lished in the local paper. . SUNDAY MORNING, siiiemir Landscape Gardner From College to Be Employed By City Officials SILVERTON, Ore.. Feb. 9. (Special Xo The Statesman). Tbe city park of Silverton is finally to take on the air of a real city park. It is to have a landscape gardener and everything. Silverton has , one of the finest natural parks to be found in the county. For some tinte it has been spoken of by Silvertonlans that something should be dbne to improve the park so that visitors could fully appreciate its natural beauty. Last summer a great at traction was added in the way of a swimming pool which was built in Silver creek which runs through the park. More improve, ments are to be added during the coming season. C. J. Cooley, who is chairman of the park commit tee and also a member of the city ; council, hasot in touch with the! landscape department at Oregon Agricultural college and has se cured the promise of a man from the college to lay out the park in approved style. Last summer the Silverton park proved a great pleasure resort for Marion county people and for many from out the county. Every day saw crowds of picnicers en Joying the advantaged offered by the park. Even a larger number of visitors is being looked for this season. The city park com mission is doing all within . its power to Improve the park so that it can be enjoyed to even a greater extent this summer than it was last. Canby and Scotts Mills Dis tricts Granted Permit By v Association Growers representing acreage in the Canby and Scotts Mills dis tricts have petitioned he Oregon Growers association to Be permit ted to handle their own fresh fruits during the coming year. This request has been granted by the association. The petition was handed in by 31 growers in the Canby section and 12 growers near Scotts Mills, representing 92 out of liO acres controlled by the association. The growers in the Newberg district were given this permission cently. re- ' Both the Dallas district and the Josephine Farmers Cooperative association have . requested nr. mission to take over plants in the iwo places. Ttxe Dallas district contemplates buying while Grants t-ass wants to rent its plant. Both requests have been referred to len respective committees power to act. with- STATE JfARKET AGJEXT DEPARTMENT C. E. Spence, Market Agent, 723 Court House, Portland Henry Ford said in a speech some months ago that the Ameri can farmer was starting at the wrong end. of the co-operative movement, that he had hitched the horse ahead of the wagon; that the big objective of organization was cooperative selling, while it should start with production In stead. Mr. Ford Illustrated that there was a field of corn here, a field of wheat there; a team of horses and a half dozen cows: a few pigs here and a few sheen there endlesly repeated all over GROWERS HUfflLE MFD FIT Blanks that Ate Legal saving as compared to made to order forms. looking ,for at a big Some of the forms, Contract of Sale, Road Notice' Will t 1 ' ment of Mortgage, Mortgage Forms Quit Oahr Wnns, Assign BUM Sale, BuilSng CqnSfct, jSrSfisSS? Note? fAf rm. eral Lease, Power of Attorney, Prune Books and PaSf Gcn Thcso forms are carefully prepared for the Courts and l5vL? ecejPtc. to fe toiecentsapieti, and on OT! PRINTED AND FOR SALE BY" the Statesman Publishihfi At FEBRUARY 10, 1024 3J 'OfiTT . ... . ties which fl cult ore to - - -v. ' -. -j- e-jxpertencing had their on (In and cause la, .: the . Just Dem o cratic mdmintttra- tion. It was iri response to the ursent re quest f that ji dm in! stra ti pn . tiftt fanning and , livestock .interests made t tremeindous . Jnyes.tnje.rits, extended tfelr operations and. in curre'd heavy obtigatiopi in order to produce the jnaxirnum. . 0 Without .rolnji, the Demo eratlc adrninUtration suddenly re stricted agTlcuItoral . jrredits-in the Buaimer and fail of 1930. This occurred at the Mime time a tre mendous Industrial depression overtook the country, also due to Democrat Ic policies. The result was a lack of mar kets for Tie products of the farm, combined with a demand upon agricultural, interests for pay ment .of their debts. This com bination brought agricultural sec'tifrrix of, the country to ,thQ verge of bankruptcy in the spring and summer of IH21 It has been the constant con the nation. Mr. Ford says this 4s not farming, that is an unorgan ized condition of needless waste and work, had for the farmer and the country. . The leaders of co-operative movements In this country- the real men with vision realize tbat there Is much truth in these state ments and that cooperation. must get closer and tighter to the pro duction points; that all the cows, the grains, the meat and products must be pooled and worked out on the production ground; that the hogs should be cured into bacon where the hogs are raised; that the flour should be milled where the wheat is grown;, that the but ter and cheese should be a part of cooperative production. Unless these are done by the Tarmer, and the great middle profits retained by him, then they' will be done by others who are waiting- for agri culture to completely collapse and the lands come into their posses sion. ; f 47",' ; -, Ina recent talk at' Cornell Uni versity, at Ithaca. N. Y.,' one of the professors stated that there was over production on every hand largely the result of under-con- sumption nd that farming in the old way of food production only must .give way in part to the raising of materials; needed in manufacturing industries. He sta ted that he believed that shortly oils and fuel alcohol would become field and garden products, and that a field of potatoes would be of great commercial value as a product to make fuel alcohol from, that weeds the farmer fights to exterminate today will be culti vated for their use in making rub ber, and that many other products of the soil may be grown o ad vantage tor otner than food pur poses. ,. The wheat growers of the na tion are vitally Interested In the hjirbefore congress for an export corporation to oandle the surplus production of the country. If the bill becomes a law it will bethe fcreatest step for control of .'farm products, as it is not confined to wneai entirety, but to all farm products. If it gives the expected rcuel to wheat producers. At can be also applied to livestock aud ether lines of agrieultuie. 1 .The' cattle men of .Oregon are facing the same , conditions as confront, the wheat growers, ap ple and fruit raisers, and one of tSosiness Office, Ground Iloor. t i V-- 0 p I AJLK - t. . jL 3 'IV- . u tratlpn iinfe.-it eme ,teto ,pir.r,i4 e to leTW,evry,aatanceo.irr in- inbT Uv&Q&.jxtett-' To (Barry out this poliey. .th? : .Repub lican party has In tJie :last 4hree yeinrs Bnaeted niRrftftindaTnental, coiUtrjictirer lerlslation jn Fht of farming, intersts-tban was en Acted in any previous decade of bB nation's history . ; rurther . readjustments to - n lke some phases' of tkricultur are heeessary. Tiwy s e- ini wofked but jly Pjim tbolidke and jh'isMmtoisttatiori. With the distance - iff ' Henubv Congress. preentaf tsent ricultural Action. tUl ,)pcinjr rtliel jkre .belni altedi into fon lere'nee" with Republican admin, titration officials Jorha. purpose v" f formulating - j practical pro gram. ...... , . .,w,w' ..'. ' Agricultural interests : xeaUze that in every crisis conditions have been straightened out by the sound, progress jsolicfes ot - the Republican fi.paityr rathee than ty the adoption of untrlel and uneconomic theories. . The . Republican party and the Repub lican , adminiftratibn tcan be de- pendd Jirpon t jthis ttaie to solve ' I the serious problerns whfchrltal- ! ly concern the farm in and live- i stock interests vt the country.. two results seem ertin, that there must be : a powerfully " co- -operative organization to force -, profit conditions 'Or cattle i; raising 1 in Orecon for meat must- end. or ; be greatly diminished. There, is ; much .-agitation. cfor ,a . strong co-?.. operative , produce js organizatioa'.;; for the Pacific northwest. -.. ' I I II II . ...... f COMING TO SALEM Dr.Melloniiiin SPEGIAUST in Internal Medicine for the , '" past tweTre years ;.. r" 1 " 1 - : i ::r f does not Operate . Will be at ".. JIAIUONpTpi, Office Hours 10 u m. to ' pjnui ONECAYiONLYE No Charge for Consultation Dr. Menenthla is ; : regulaf graduate in-medicine .Und "surrorj and. is licensed, by, tbe.staie pll, Oregon. He does not operate tot enronic appendicitis, . gall stones,; J, ulcers of stomach, tonsils -or' adeV-' noids. " : .-. ."' -t-.i ir: y He has" to hla credit wonderful results in diseases of the, stomach, liver, bowels, bipod, skin, nerves. ' heart, kidney., -bladder, bed ting, catarrh weak lungs rheuma . usm, sciatica, leg ulcers nd,rec- . ' tal allmenfe . r Below ite the names, of. "sL few 1 of his many satisfied patient in Oregon: ; n- - . J. A. Smith, OnUrio. Orer nw li cers of the. stomach,' i. ' iona Ford. Washournl n. i W adenoids. . . . ; : W. H. Kellendonlr Ore.,, high blood pressures :y -h Mrs. Eberhardt, Sclo; Ore:, gall stones. , : E. CJ Nichols. XebanftT, rir. ' appendicitis. . t . Remember abov dto it,. sultatlon on this trin.in 2 71?. " and that his treat" ent. . j; Married womin i panled ty their . o-.o, Mtiuornia, r- ".Hi s, s It 1 .1 I'