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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1926)
'Till? "OREGON OTATESf AXffEftON . irJiL ' ? r fjreg on Statesman - Jaawc4 baity Eit Vaa4ar r' " tTATESMJU rtrBXJSHXHO COMTJJTT 31 S Santa Cotaatereial JM Salaas Onfu - k. 4. R 4rirka ' -- xiibutir I) W. H Ha4raa - - Ctrealatlaa Maaafar frad J. Taasa - - . VlUtlirM'W ' ( , Ralph H. KlcUiag A4arlUiiv Uaaacar laa M. Uarrimaa . - - City tUitar I , Praak Jaakoikt - - Wnrr Job lp. Urii J, Km Ha . i. TcWmpk Miter I R. A. lUataa - - - - - Litk K4itr AaaaBak ',r Bbciat Krfita W. C. Caoaar ... - Patiltry tiitar r,'-'rrf;;,-;ioaoxt- tw iisoeutio;ruU' Tka AaaaHatai Ffaaa U al(alr atittaa' la tfca a far akllatto af alt Hawa fll-aaa r4itaV U a at aiaarafaa era4U4 in Uia, fapr aa4 Ua taa laeal . aw pblika4 fcaraia. v ,")".- , f - - - ; - ' ' ' - BrsyeKss, offictesj .- " - - 1 fJWl Brer. S3 WyUr 'Part ian4. Or. "faaaaaa T. dark Co, Saw Yarfc. l8ia W. Sliat Bt-t Cftteaff. VaOTtf BMr: Dty a Parma. &Ut BM Sa FraaHacw. Calif.t Hiia Bide Ut Aaeelaa. Calif. waataaaa Of flea J J a SSS TM.BPJHOXES: Ctrealatioa Ofdca5M Haws Dapsrtawat .SS-10S ZIOS Jak Oafiartaaat 53 Satan atJtlw Paat Offie.a ia Balaaa, Orogaa, aa aoa4-laa aiatter. h - - ,i ll' "- fi-i aiuiaryj 9, 1026 ' --: r ; ' A HIGH IDBALr "I ant the Almighty God: walk before me and be 'Uww perfect.? Gen. 11:1. : i AND IT CAN BE DONE tk ig Congressman Davey of Ohio has introduced a bill which, , if enacted into law andj strictly carried out, he believes will fiave our government at least T $500,000,000 a year ; The bill proposing to make the President an autocrat for two yearat in reorganizlnsr all the departments and cutting out all the dead wood '- - , . , - Taking from the payrolls 100,000 to loJuselesa "employees. , j ; h . -. I.'".' 'S'''r":'l-V.r In private life, Congressman Pavey is a tree surgeon, and i he ought to know something about dead wood. He is on bis :, third term jn Congress, and ;he thinks he does know " In a speech supporting,.bU biU "be iteid on December 14: -. !No privater'buslriess, feoweiver.L'weU 'fpitili2edtt,fiould "t survive SO day s junHer. !the same cumbersome, slipshod, inef -Ia ficient, and hopelessly extrayagant condition as that of the United States government: ; It would be easily possible to : dispense: with" at least 100,000 unnecessary government em """ployees.' and save nol only, their annual salaries but also the overhead expense to hjuse them and furnish them with tbe equipment and supph'es; with jwrhich to work, or, rather, to put "For a considerable period of years much has been said :and written about the urgent necessity of reorganizing the government of the United States on a business; basis. . The great need of such reorganization is obvious to all students 6f government.! . Recent Presidents of the United "States and many of their spokesmen have urged and pleaded the neces sity of reorganization with the result that a reorganization bill is now pending whch is the product of the labors of the special joint committee on reorganization created under the joint resolution adopted December 17, 1920, and amended by another joint resolution approved May 5,-1921, : lt Is ny judgment, however, that the pending reorgan- Jbatio Biliadmitting the ful sincerity, and fidelity of the . joint, committee on reorganization, does nothing more than - scratch the surf ace ofthe problem and can hot possibly go to Tits root ' "What 4s needed is the creation of one-man power for a limited period, vested in the President, which should be suf fi ciently broad and unrestricted to enable him to do a real 'job of reorganization. I want to give to the President of the United States the. same degree1 of power that 1 would give to the president of a great corporation heavily loaded down with unnecessary personnel and expenses if I were a stockholder or director Jn that corporation. "Let me . refer to a statimnt made by former Senator AJoichf the -ery able chairman of the Senate Finance Com mittee which was made in an address to the Senate' February 21, 1910, as follows: ., ., . - ' If I. were a business man &tA rnnM hA Twrmif fvl in Ha , it. I would undertake tc run this government for $300,000,000 y a year less .than it is now run for.; , " '"rhisstatement was made more than 15 years ago, when the dollar" would buy nearly twice as much as it will buy today, and when there ; were approximately 140,000 less civil ian employees of the government than at present. Jf Senator Aldrich was right in hjs statement in 1910, it should be pos- sible "to save three times as much today.! .-' i : There is no 'doubt but Jaiich .a, saving could beniade in the way provided by the. bill : ' ' Which proposes to give the President the power and to impose upon him the duty of suspending every civil service or other rulei for the time: being, and stripping the ship of state ? of every barnacle . j ' j V , And-it: -ought, tcjbetdene Congressman Davey, is a Democrat, but he proises! to. give a Republican President this power and to I charge'hihi' with this duty And he is right. I , ... . Jt-, - s-. ' A "There is no dtfeFrfway to do the job. The several hun dred thousand faithful and efficient employees of the govern- r ; ment wpuld be benefitted, for it is provided that a" tenth Of -"the; saving may be used to reward underpaid employees and - thus bring trp the spirit of the whole gQvernfnht! service.- , x v s TTie bill ought-to pass.; 'it' is' In keeping .with the spirit of efficiency"vhich should characterize thiswhole,countiyi.: i'-i -'.i' ' - l'z 'I ' 1 J '- ? ' f - - , . .-.i : i ; r : - . .' i , - r - - segregation" oC institutions. . And impossibility of reforming or developing good citizenship r IJa )ojfa who are Committed, for delinquency j when retained in. the association of the more" criminally inclined. The old saying about the ''spoiled apple" applies nowhere else more forcefully , nor more generally jthan where boys of jthese delinquent types are kept in close contact with each other. 'The first element for success in citizenship. develop mcjnt among youth is moral companionship actively and regu larly employed at worthwhile work, study and recreatiori. This condition was impossible before the construction of the new buildings, i , : " -1. Adverse criticism of the location of the new unit will stand relative to increased expense of administration so far from the old unit until such time as actual records of relative costs of the two units may prove the wisdom of $he selection. Tci condemn, -however, the new unit as linxiecessary ushows either lack of knowledgeof what such institution snouia oe and accomplfeh'jDr simple .prejudice. -i - i The last leirislatureiaDDroved a measure" which' mis5 lone beien needed as a link in the chain of refoTOatiQnal training for youth sentenced. to the penitentiary.- Before the establishment-of the second training school unit there was no place other than the penitentiary for youth between 18 and 21 years of age sentenced for delinquencies and crimes. j The ridiculousness of this procedure, the wrong tha perpetrated upon these, youth through confining them with hardened criminals, was outstanding. -As metltod fof pro cedure with youth it was a disgrace to the state.! . And this syistem has been supplanted by the present plan which offers the only reasonable; effective method of moral improvement of the various grades of delinquents. The law provides:" delinquents ;imder :conlro)o f every - thoughtful person recognizes thp n V 4V0ri5 U iwHIS TUiJT. Section 2, Chapter,230 Oregon Laws. 1925-f-AU ; persons heretofore for hereafter conTjctd of felonies s and sentenced to the penitentiary, hoj are between ' the ages of eighteen jearkind twenty-She years may be transferred byHhe oTeriQ? on his own motion or upon ., the recommeiiSaffon oi'the parole board, whenever tho warden of the penitentiary shall certify that he believes- ' It would Be tohe beiAfinteretit of such minor to be ' transferred to the state training school; provided, that ? rnntured all sorts of prophelies Sfncn the floods began, concern-!- Ing t ho probable rise and fall of the rirers, now say that the dry and somewhat colder weather which set In today will hasten the limit of the height of the water, and 'that the Seine, after rising another 10 or 12 inches, w 111 be gin to. recede tomorrow. i,. . . , .The Marne, -Meuse and ! Oise iraneya , ar the ' worst stricken areas - outside S Paris . -Wrecked feridgea! undermined railways and roadbeds; houses and factories, destroyed or rendered, uninhabit able and rained, fields of winter wheat make up the list of damage caused by the incessant rains and melting snow. , a , 'v In the -capital,, only a few hun dred persons hare been forced -to abandon their, homes but in the son t hern and eastern sections of France, homes hare been wrecked or flooded by the BCQre. f The water of the Seine tonight reached 6.16 meters (21.10 feet at ' the A us ter lit z bridge, which still is 7 feet lower than the high water mark of 1$12. , .A group of wine cellars have been; flooded. , Two' crew were set '-to work toda'y at the great wine house at Bercy, Inside the walls of Paris, salvaging kegs of wine which were floating down the stream. The high water near the In-ta- Iides station, the Quay d'Orsay and the Austerlitz bridge . has routed thousands of rats. They hare scampered away toward dry land, invading parts of the Latin Quarter. There some of the ven turesome students are to be seen chasing the rats with sticks and weapons. " r- ?: - -a- Jr .St- -r - - k . ia agOi 1 The codicil was receirea ny Smith's counsel rhero ; after f hf original Vill was . made public. ' i ThW codleit provides that$10.i 000 be set aside from1 the estate, valued, at 130,000. for. two schol arships for mepfbers of thei- foot ball squad of the unf versity j to be known as the "Andrew Latham Smith" scholarships. The! Elks clob: at Berkeley is left $2,000. The remainder of the estate is to be dirided - joiatly between the Skull and Keys, inter-fraternity organization at the university and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fratern ity to which Smith belonged. i The original will had be queathed $20.00 to the Univer sity of California. The codicil cancels this bequest. WOMAX SUICIDES rORTLASD. Jan. l5 :AP. Louise -Net'.e!.' aturotn. by.pollc on a morais j---. - ionSit from ' th-tf ects of drink ing' poison. Sno was found un consclons in ber home by her hus band. . ' ' - KILLED BY STRCnT cut t - . . '' ' SEATTLE, -Jan. Arjj--Prank Calestine, 38. was fatauy Injured by a street' ear here; to night He died on his way to the city hospital. " '. shoe, bTrsines3 there for.many year. -Justice Brown siJed inTtos--bnrgi prior to lo cating1, in Salm and had kuona II r, Stophcns for nianrj'ars. in the erent that any minor transferred from the pen itentiary to the state training school should prove in corrigible, then the governor, upon the recommenda tion of the superintendent of th state training school, shall be authorized to transfer aach minor-from the f t ? state training school to the penitentiary, U ,h 1 Approved by the governor February 216, 1925' V s Under this law, then, the governor may transfer those bys who show desire for reformation while serving sentence in the penitentiary to the old unit where there are practically the same grade of delinquents but where the plan of segre'; gation is in vogue. Meanwhile the boys who would be there . for lesser wrongs,and who are in most instances the salvage. from broken homes and who show promise of developing intcr gpod citizens are in training .vocational, mental and moral at the Woodbun unit, i ; ; j W; ' ! In this new arrangement is real progress in the effort. to salvage the state'3 youthful citizens who are drifting on toward moral degradation and ruin. Both the institution and those m charge should be encouraged in order that the best results may be obtained. ; . . - ' -r. AN INCOME TAX BILL, f BOYS; TRAINING SCHOOL 1 - '-Much comment of a hit antf miss character Is directed toward the Boys' State Training school with the result that it is receiving public condemnation to which it is not entitled, r Since the administration bit the portion known as the" "Old" : school is accepted at ipar-by the committee rhlch; recently investigated it this phase of jthe institution is'iLcceptecliFltli- ?- fMa1.i. A S8..,4 tl .H-:lH at' fs.i: - i .-..-. : ' t -The maximum ot the old plant had reached 226 boys or about 100 more than! could be maintained there under con ditions conducive to preformation or development of "good "citizenship.; The need theri for new buildings and more land for, agriculture -was obvious. And it developed, iponthe state board of control! consisting of thegoverndr, secretary of state and state treasurer to plan to meet these heeds' and in this planning there entered many important factors among them location and typo fc fcufiJirsacTrrir. riant r.ni. segregation of tha boys. . iixn ct the M "ft 1 ' ' ' " 'I. a i. That there will be an income tax measure oh the ballot in Oregon at the next regular election appears certain.i 4 A committee composed of representatives I from . th Grange, Farmers' Union and State Teachers' association have been in conference over the provisions of the measure, all having endorsed it in principle and having gone on record Tor its initiation. I ; That there has been a decided change in favor of an income tax to relieve the property : tax burden is declared by many political and industrial leaders who have, given atten tion to state revenues since the repeal of the income tax law. ..With the Grange,. Farmers Union, the State Teachers' association in industrial organizations generally in favor one of the leading issues if not the main issue in thfe next cam paign will be a return to sonae form of income tax for govern ment purposes. .1 ANDY SMITH, FAMOUS FOOTBALL COACH DIES (Continued from pare 1.) out having affixed his signature. AN. FRANCISCO, Jan. 8.r (By Associated Press. ) Andy Smith, famed football coach, or dered before .his death that his body be shipped to the Elks elub tri Berkeley, to. be viewed by his fellow club men there and that his ashes be scattered over tbe mmorial stadium at the Univer sity of California, the great bowl that was the setting for a num ber of his stirring victories. ' In a codicil to his will, prepared in the Philadelphia hospital in which he died. Smith outlined the funeral arrangements and made certain changes in the will itself, which was drawn up five months CAR , vpPERATD.R BLAMED INVESTIGATION' 31ADR OF TA- COM.I SHEtEET CAR PLCXGK x i TACOMA Jan. 8. By ' Asso ciated Press.)i-Fallure of fFloyd Staley, operator of the municipal i street car which plunged through an open draw of a bridge here i on December 30 to exercise w rea- sonable precaution in the opera; i tion of the car is blamed for the j death of five passengers in the verdict returned this afternoon by a coroner's jury. ' The inquest was held over the ; bodies of Alice Gertrude Scott,, Louis Aim Scott, George Ai Far- i row, John E. Dahl and Toragisa Obayashi, and the taking of testi mony occupied nearly the entire day.; ,4 ! -J. . ; . i tProse'cnting,Attorney Selden to night was undecided as to wheth er criminal charge would be filed against Staley.' t i ; :; i Staley: testified- that he .'was traveling slowly; when he started out on the bridge approach.! found that his brakes would not hold and felt the car gain momentum until it was : going 13 miles an hour when it struck the guard gates. He then applied sand and finding every effort futile, Jumped for his life. His testimony as to the sand was born out by James Slover, a city carlfne inspector. Andy Gun derson, superintendent of the municipal railway, said several flat spots on vtbe wheels were found when the trucks; were raised, showing the brakes had been set and the wheels locked and slid. ; Others estimated the speed, of the car at from 15 to 20 miles an hour and testified there was a heavy coat of frost or ice on the rails. . . I - . Justice Brown l" Justice George M.Brown of tbe state supreme cort left Friday for Roseburs where he will ire the eulogy at the funeral services for Robert 1.. Stephens.: .w ho dd there Thursday. Slrt" Stephens formerly served -as sheriff of Douglas county and: later was en- Be quick be sure " Colds are dangerous. Stop them at once. Correct their damage. Open the. bowels, check the fever, tone tbe sys tem. You can do that in 24 hours with HILL'S. This way , is efficient and complete. It is so well-proved that millions now employ hvjt U so w- Erior that we "paid $1,000,000 for O. yn't rely on minor treatments. Deal with a cold in the best way known and now., At y oar drug store. Se&Mlt's Ia& Frlre &SIWSi:A QUININE Cat Raj Bax Ow& Sk Perwall. Now is the Time to Reuin : Tire Economy McCLAREN CORD r " hi ml V- A Perfect W" NON SKID . "Sim?: :y-A i v -Biir SimLh ,Vatkins ' ' - r r i. - . " ;nioxc 44 f)Of7DDlD BECKE & HENDRICKS? Insurance of All Kinds. TeL 161 1 llcilig Theater Ixtbby, 183 North Ulffh; -. . I 'i f'l-: ' A couple of - old grouches at a ilub were one night speaking of an old friend who, upon his mar- f j ;-, ... j), . riage, took up his residence in an other city. One rot the grouches had - recently. ? visited the ; old friend, and, naturally, the other grouch wanted news of the bene- diet. - , " " : . ''la it true that! he 'is hen pecked?", asked '..- the j second grouch. j '" ' ; -vi wouldn't say' Just .that," grimly responded the first grouch, f'but 111 tell yon of a little inci dent In their household that came Within my observation. "The very first morning I spent with them, bur old friend , answered the let ter carrier's' whistfe As he re turned to us, ?in the breakfast room, be carried ' a letter in his hand. Turning to his wife, he said:' - ' f ':.'! "t' V ,'A letter for me, dear. .'.May 1 lopea It? .'.J : ;l . 'f4 l- Once upon a time, there was an Indian, named Big 'Smoke em ployed as a missionary to his fel low Smokes.. "-,': A white man encountering; Big Smoke, asked hint what he did for a living. . ' r t , "Umph!" said Big Smoke, "me preach." , . " , 5 :. . VThat bo?. What do you get for preacmng? - sj , . VMe get ten dollars a year .M'WeIl.- saii" the white . . matt VUmnlj'"lBaid Big Smoke, damn poor preacher." y 'me PERSONAL LIBERTY SAID SERIOUSLY JEOPARDIZED (Continued from lax I.) States. and not prohibited FEW people would care to risk their. lives in' unknown rminfrv xtnfhAiir a rA. . i vl ! " J . u gutuw United to the states. "Thus five of the principal im munities, . guaranteed by the bill of rights have been stricken down one i by one with the result that people: everywhere . are in revolt against the( Increasing extrava gances of federal regulation aijd subject to control by a bureau nt Washington! and constant invasion by' some federal investigator-br inspector," j he saidr ".''Th.'ere, are other Issues, but none affects tLe preservatlonof JUb,ert;sj much, ks tbe proper disUlbutlon.and exer cise of power letweeiv,th.etatJite'9 and Hhe, union', ; .'CertalnlvJt (ar transcends ay question of (8tate .rights historical ly or in the;abstract, or even such questions as the tariff, the world courts the income tax. t disarma ment, -the air service,' mascle Shoals and the like. ; .. . . i ' ; rhey must be particularly ap-' parent when, a ; republican presi dent discovers, that what is- need ed is a return to democratic-doctrine and with all the fervor, aad zeal of a new convert declares for the rights of the states,!! ; : i 'However, let us give the'pre's fdent credit for seeing the dang ers of too much centralization ahd of recognizing tbe cure. - V " . i am peopie 05- mis country have not last faith in democracy or im lis champion, the democaiic - :.,.' . 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PutTrri to work for you. i Buy ailvettised products and iyou are on familiar ground all the time. ,J - i' .r i 1 . t" tr?; Advertising removes all doubt from the buyer's path . i M i - 1 cYvryv demand "that's damn poor pay." party. a-r-1