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PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1031 CapitaUlJournal Salem, vngon Established March 1, 1888 An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 13S 8. Commercial Street. Telephone tU Neva 83 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher SUBSCHIPTION BATES By carrier 10 cents a week; 45 cents a month; 13.00 a year In advance. By mail In Marlon. Polk, Linn and Yamhill counties, one month W cents: 2 months S1.3S: a months $2.25; 1 year $4.00. Elsewhere 50 cents a month; 6 months $2.75; $500 a year In advance. FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use tor publication ot all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper ana aiso local news published herein. "With or without offense to friends or foes Byron Necessity Knows No Law When that alleged perfect piece of legal craftsmanship, the governor's hydro-electric commission bill, was presented to the legislature many who had given study to the subject of "conflict of laws" pointed out that, in the main, it would prove a nullity, because of a direct conflict with the federal power commission act. Those who drafted the measure must have been con vinced that such was a fact but they were unwilling to ac knowledge it at least before the committee. When, how ever, they returned with a number of amendments which, it was claimed, would strengthen the measure, and all were adopted, there was found among them the following: "In Issuing licenses for projects In excess of 100 horsepower for which the applicants shall be required to secure permits and for licenses from the Dinted States as a condition precedent to the construction of such projects, the commission may. in its discretion, waive and-or modify such of the terms, conditions and requirements of this act, except the period for which a license may be Issued, and the annual charge as de termined by the commission under subsection (d) of this section, as the commission, by order, after a full Investigation and public hearing, shall find to make Impracticable the construction of such projects." In other words the gubernatorial draftsmen, fearing that, due to a" direct conflict with the federal law, the pro posed state law would prove invalid where federal permits were required, but not willing to admit it, proposed to save their faces, and the day, by tacking on an amendment which, in effect, nulifies practically the entire act. Under this amendment the commission will stand free to ignore and waive practically all of the boasted safeguards, which the governor and the Oregon Journal claim are essential to a constructive and protective hydro power policy. First they boast, then they fear and then they run to cover. We must admit, however, that we can sco much good in this amendment. It is about the only part of the gover nor's proposed hydro power program that can be performed "without cost to the taxpayers." A Neglected Duty In his biennial report submitted to the board of control and legislature Superintendent Henry Meyers of the state penitentiary incorporated the following: "It is my earnest request that recommendations be made to the legislature that a Joint committee from both houses in this session bo secured to make a thorough Investigation of our prison problem; that they can be empowered to report their findings to make recommendations and suggestions," etc. This request lias been lying before the eyes of the legis lators throughout the session. Yet, as near as can be learn ed not a committee, not a legislator, not an agent of a legis lator has visited the prison since the session started to look into conditions there, though criticis'n has been profuse. The legislators entrusted by the people of the state to look after their peace, health and the public safety have ignored the picas of the man in charge of one of the most important of all state institutions. This is especially true with conditions existing in the prison which should not be tolerated. Every available inch of room in the prison is crowded with convicts, men sleeping two and three in a cell; with cell block accomodations crowd ed to the utmost, and the inmates housed in a fire trap built 70 years ago to house 250 men instead of 1,000. The legislature has seen fit to listen to much criticism of the prison, the flax plant, the flax plant head. It has heard rumors, reports, innuendoes. But it has failed in its primary duty to investigate for itself. A Remarkable Verdict Fred W. German, county commissioner of Multnomah County, who drove his auto at high speed, newspaper ac counts state 45 miles an hour or more, against the red sig nal lights, Sandy Boulevard and East 52nd St., Portland, the night of February 1C, and killed Louis Lamport, a pedestrian, has been cleared by a coroner's jury of blame. The jury found the death due to "an unavoidable accident" and did not mention Mr. German. Instead it found the guilty party was the traffic signal light, presumably, for not flashing green instead of red, and not having longer stop periods. In its news story the Oivgonian says: During the Inquest ten witnesses, including Mr. German, described how the accdlent happened. All asreed that Mr. German, though ner vous aitrr the accident, Rave no Indication o! being drunk. Those who saw the Occident agreed that Mr. German drove through the intersection against red traffic signals. Estimates of his f-peed ranged from 25 to 45 miles an hour with the legal limit proscribed by city ordinance 15 miles. Other drivers had stopped awaiting the grcrn signal and were watching Mr. Lamport walking across the street, when Mr. German, speeding through from the west, hit him and carried him 75 feet beyond tile pedestrian lane. This is quite the most remarkable verdict on record. The accident was plainly "unavoidable" only because Mr. German ignored the red signals which halted other drivers and exceeded the speed limit. EVERYBODY'S FOOTBALL! Covrrttbt Prw PobltiblDt Com puny Tort Worl 1M1 Amos and Andy Visit the Session By W. A. DELZELL An Evil Precedent If Governor Meier complies with the legislative request to call a special session to complete the work of the legisla ture, hrill set an evil precedent that will encourage future legislatures to dawdle and fritter away time in trivialities n this session has. If the legislature has not completed its work, it is its own fault, for It has attempted to tinker with everything under the sun instead of doing the work it was called upon to accomplish. It is paying the penalty for its own delinquencies. There has been no organization or system in legislative work this session, no attempt to speed up the program or limit legislation. The legislators have run hog wild. A total of 766 measures have been introduced. Time has been wasted In intcrniinible public hearings. The oratory has been as pro fuse as that of the United States senate blowing off steam without a time limit. Committees have held up bills interm nibly before reported, and no effort at limitation of consid eration made. If a special session Is summoned, there will have to be one called for every future session for the same tactics will be followed to insure it. And the longer the session, the more the racketeering and the more costly to the taxpayers. Andy (sitting at the desk figur Ingi: "Two-bits, foh-bits, foh thou sand. Dats a problem in multl- tudin. Ah nevah kin 'member dem tables. Where Is my slidin' rule? " Amos: "Hello, heah, hut's goin' on Andy? Whut Is you figgerln all ovah dat paper foh." Andy: "I'sc bornin a big Idee. Dis one Is high financin. Ah done got exposed up to de session of de legislature, Dey aont do nuinn else up dere cept breed big ldees in financin. Amos: "Is you goin to run foh de legislature, Andy?" Andy: "Ah is plannln on dat next time but right now Ah is workin on dis Idee. It's big and it's got money in it." Amos: "Whut Is It Andy, tell me bout It." Andy: 'How much Is foh thous and times two-bits? Ought is ought and Aggers a f igger " Amos: "Ah don't know nuflin 'bout book flggers but Ah knows dere Is foh two-bit pieces in a dol- lali an clfen you had four thousand two-bit pieces on stack 'em up in piles of four dere would be a thou sand piles ain't dat it? Andy: "Amos, you dont know nuftln 'bout complications of fig gers. Why It 'ud be inore'n a lnil-lion." Andy: "Well, Ah dunno nuflin bout It 'ceptin dat Ah knows dere is foh two-bits in a dollah. Whut is it all 'bout Andy? Is you plum crazy in oe naidv ' Andy: "Hcah is my idee. Most all dem legislators is busted a git tin only three dollars a day and a stayln heah foh forty days. Dey needs money bad. Now dere is moot two hunerd stenographers up dere at de session. All of 'em thinks dey Is good lookers and most of em is been. Dat's hucconie dey gits de places. Dem legislators Is so dog gor.e homely dey needs background and so dat's whut de gyrls b foh mostly, to sorter set de picture off handsome. "Now whut Ah Is flggcrin out Is dat we mouglit hold a beauty show de last week of de session an charge foh-bits admission. We could split It fifty-fifty Kid de legislators and dey could all git enough out of it to buy a railroad ticket home on de dollar day ra'.es." Amos: "How you goln' to git all dem purty gals to consent?" Andy: "Dat Li a big question dat has tmfrontcd mankind since de time of Soloman. De Iltble say even Solomon konfess he don't know de way ot a maii wid a maid." Amoe: "Does you think you knows mor'n Solomon?" Andy: "A freenologis done feel o' my ha id onct and when he put his hand on dat big bump on de back of my haid he say 'Boy, you la Down to be a sexologtster. All de wimmen folks awineter take a power o interest In you.' Dat's huc come I'm been so successful In all my courtin affairs." Amoe: "But how you goln to get dem gals to take a part In yuah beauty show Dey all has to wear bathin suits dont dey" Andy: "Fust place. Ah goln to git de senators to repeal de law ot gravitation. Den de gals kalnt help deyselves. Dey Is suah to fall foh it. All wimmen is alike when kunu to beauty shows and fallin In love. I done heered a speaker say onct Julia O'Urady and d captain's lady Is sisters under de skin "Every woman knows her beauty points and she lak to show 'em off. Kffen It's her hands she's always got 'em up whan you kin see 'em. Kffen It's her hair she know how to let the breeses blow It agin yuan cheek to tickle you. Dey all knows how to show off dere eves and some of "em dere lalgs. Now effen we puts on dis beauty show Ah flggers rters Is foh thousand menfolks In Hnlcm whut would want to kum effen dere wives would let 'em. De members ot de House could coorpu late wld de Senate and mebbe have two shows a loin to onct Like as not da udder state officers would like to enter some beauties frum dere own offices. Dey all has 'em." Amos: "Dat wouldn't work Andy. Alt noticed when we wss up dere at de capitol most all dem legislators was old baldheaded men. Dey don't keer nuffin 'bout pretty gals now. Dere minds Is all tooken up wld taxations and prohibitions. Yuah show mought go wid de Legion boys, but not wid dem old coons." Andy: "Dere you goes wid your wet blanket agin, Jes as I gits de cold ashes a blazln you thows on de water. Yuah ignorance of tcm permentals Is most amazin. Dem Legion boys Is young. Dis love of beauty Is only in dere blood. When old men done got It It's in dere halds. When It's only In de heart de young man got 'his hald left, but de old man ain't got nuffin left. It's lak a young man gittln drunk. He goin to get sober nex day. But wld de old man it's lak lumbager he liable to git laid up wld it any time." GUEST OF SISTEB Zena Mrs. Clarence Merrick has had as her guest for the post week, Mrs. A. W. Mauser and daughter, LaVelle Marie, of Portland. Mrs. Merrick and Mn. Mauser are sisters. FRENCH TO HOLD RAIL CENTENARY Paris, (IP) Hie French Gtatc Railways are planning the centenary of the first Paris railroad which united the French capital with Saint Germaine en Laye in 1837. This railroad was Inaugurated with elaborate ceremonies, and members of the royal family were present, but honors were also ac corded to the engineers, financiers, and even the humble workers who had made the railroad possible. The same attitude will be observed at the centenary celebration in 1937. A veritable railroad museum Is to be assembled In Saint Germain in connection with the centenary It will Include certain relics of that first line, all revealing the progress made within the past hundred years. The Paris-Saint Germain railroad was orglnated financed and con structed by Saint Slmmonlans, that bizarre reiigious sect with brilliant disciples which had railroad con struction as one of Its principal dogmas. RABBI ASSERTS SCIENCE HURTS CIVILIZATION Buffalo. N. Y.. (IP) Modern sci ence Is producing an economic em ergency detrimental to tne progress of civilization, according to Rabbi Abraham Nowak, of Cleveland, na tional chanlain of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States. Rabbi Nowak was here recently to address the Buffalo Post and made that assertion at the Installa tion of officers. The Rabbi commenced the work of scientists, but said civilisation and culture were not keeping step and as a result, an unsafe and un stable economic status was evolved. "We have new means of com munication snd transportation," the rabbi asserted. "The age of air planes Is Just around the corner. Scientists are busy finding new so urces of supply to replace exhausted ones. The age of tomorrow will "be an age of synthetic food. Tne mir acles of today are greater than the miracles of the Bible. "But are we better, happier, wiser than our fathers? What Is it all worth?" Tne Jewish chaplain polntsd out what were, he said, some defects in the present system. He said millions of people were underpaid, despite great progress in the application oi science to Industry; and that be cause of this application thousands of Independent store owners "were being crushed to the wall by large chain stores, "The disparity between the rich and the poor Is becoming greater. Of what good is education if it but shows us how to get more wealth and be greedy? "If demagogy continues, our de mocracy will fail It is even be ing said that communism holds the answer to our industrial problems. "I sometimes wonder if we shoul dn't call a holiday In science and wait awhile." MANY JAPS ARE SUICIDES Tokyo, Japan, (LP J Over 150 Jap- enese committed suicide during January 1931, according to police figures. Despondency because of hard times was blamed for a major ity of the tragedies. Suicides in 1930 numbered 1,700. Lincoln Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Nel ger had as their guests recently Mr. and Mrs. Antone Senn of Portland, who motored up for the day. Mrs. Bern Is a sister of Neisrer. Mutual Savings & Loan Association A Salem Institution Organized in 1910 Place Your Savings with Us Let us finance your home on weekly or monthly payments 142 SOUTH LIBERTY STREET POST OFFICER ItOW IN ULSTER Claims that practically all good post office appointments are go ing to Belfast men has caused heat ed feeling In Ulster. At a recent meeting of the Northern Ireland District Council of the Union of Post Office workers, held in Derry, it was pointed out that since the establishment of the Northern Government only one Class 3 pro vincial overseer had received pro motion to head postmaster The head postmastershlps of Armagh, Ballymena, Coloraine, Cookstown, Derry, Oniagh, Portrush. Bangor, Holywood, Newcastle and Strabane are all held by men from Belfast. r AMtirm nthar Reifast men were promoted to be assistant postmas ters. Delegates to mo niccwig that all claims of local men were Ignored. Resolutions of protest were sent to the Executive Coun cil of Northern Ireland. MUSSOLINI HAS PLAN FOR GIANT MILITARY SHOW Rome (IP) Benito Mussolini Is preparing to reveal to the world In Rome next year tne greatest Dis play of military power ever wit nessed in the 26 centuries of history of the Eternal City. Tills visual demonstration of Italy's military strength Is planned for the tenth anniversary oi me Fascist "March on Rome" In Oc tober, 1932. Under Mussolini's rule Italy Is rapidly becoming one of the most powerful military nations on the Continent. Nowhere in the world Is so much consideration given to semi-military training of youth. Since the war Webb Miller, Unit ed Press correspondent has visited 30 countries but in none were seen so man? outward evidences of military preparedness as In the cl ties of Italy near the French Iron ties, he said. Besides the regular army of 240,- 000 officers and men, the Fascist militia of 398,000 officers and men (of which onlv about 15,000 are in active service) nearly 400,000 youths of between 14 and 18 years In the Avanguardisti organization are giv en regular military training. Near ly 1.000.000 boys under 14 In the Malllla organization undergo a mild form of semi-military discipline, drilline and physical training. By a new law effective recently "pre-mllitary training" on Sundays is obligatory upon all boys, with certain exemptions, between the a;es of 18 and 20 before they reach the age of conscription. It Is esti mated the new law will affect about 350,000 boys, in the present year and an average of 200.000 an nually afterward. Tills measure does not exempt from conscript service which begins at 20, but per mits a reduction of the usual 18 months of conscription. One authority estimated me that three out of four boys In fu ture will receive some kind of mili tary training spread over about 14 years. The 1930-31 budget as revised fol lowing reduction of salaries of army and navy officers reveals that 27 per cent of the government Income Is spent on regular armed forces. Of a total tf 19 1-3 billions lire more than BU billions Is devoted to the army, navy and air forces as follows: Army 2,965,515,554; Navy 1,537,622,800; Air 752,890,000. 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