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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.
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ing to Belfast men has caused heat
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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
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r AMtirm nthar Reifast men were
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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.
In a speech In the Senate In De.
comber Mussolini said: "It Is true
military expenditures have Increas
ed from the pre-war figure of
650.000,000 to 5.000,000,000 but oth
ers arm extensively while babbling
of peace and we must look to our
elementary defanse and not run
mortal risk." Mussolini added that
military expenditure had Increased
2 billions since 1922 the commence
ment of the Fascist regime.
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