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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1921)
r. , . ..V. Roardman Mirror Boardman, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Mm. Claire P. Harter, Local Kditor MARK A. CLEVELAND, Iubllhor J2 .00 PEH YBAR IN ADVANCE Entted as second-class matter Feb 11, 1921, at the post office at Board- man. Ore., under act of Mar. 3, 1879 FKEE FROM MOTE No eleanrmlnded person In Oregon can help bavins a sense of satisfac tion over tbe cleanliness with which the telegraphic reports of the Ar buckle trial were handled. Never a suggestive phrase or word was trans mitted by the Associated Press nor so far as we have observed in any special news. The Telegram congra tulates i he people of Oregon over the entire absence of smut In connection with the case In court. Of course, portions of the testi mony were unreportable, therefore they were wholly ignored without so much as the slightest allusion to them. Only the persons who were present in the court room know all that the principal witnesses testified to. A great deal of the Important testimony was left to the imagina tion of the reader, and the purient mloded found nothing on which to dwell. Three months have elapsed since the Infamous "party" was held in Arbuckle's lodgings. First reports were so sensational that any news paper was warranted in giving them conspicuous publicity. The country was shocked, not by the death of one person, but by the disclosure of the immorality which had been attached to the making of moving picture. Many people have protested against newspapers publishing accounts of criUM and of divorce suits involv ing gross immorality. The protest is not without merit when it is ia;ul. against the few papers which make merchandise out of smut. There is always a decent way, free from smot, for presenting any news, and to the lasting credit of the American press, most of our publications are decent. Relatively Jittle interest In Jthe testimony waB shown. The press led a reaction against the whole corrupt business, and at once the public fol lowed. True, there was interest in the verdict, but also general revolt against listening to the evidence of Arbuckle's friendly and unfriendly associates. One probable result of the fatality and the trial will be the reform of the few newspapers which specialized In this kind of filth. Portland Telegram. We wish to also add our praise to the cleanliness of the telegraphic reports of the Arbuckle trial. We have just one exception, the pictorial report relating to the principles in the case. In the Oregonlan of Dee. 6 Is a picture of Arbuckle and Miss Happe, Arbuckle clothed. Miss Rappe nude, nude as the day she was born. A pose for the artist, Rubens, or the dome of an art gallery. A "set up" for some yellow sheet or the walls of Bacchanalians. Entirely out of place In the sedate Oregonlan. The Oregonlan will say the writer Is a prude that the human form as Cod poured it Is the most beautiful mold of all of llnd'x works Not so when It Is used to depict libertine licentiousness. Our conception of a proper portrait would be of the ' dead girl laid out on her clothed in the shrouds of death, pennies on her lids and the dying word of a prayer on her lips. Not the nude girl and the thick lipped pleasure - seeking libertine. The power of suggestion is greater than the written word. Tin mental lapse of the Oregonlan is beyond understanding. WHEN THE TIME tXlMKS The Pendleton East Oregonlan. which has permitted Itself to be feverishly agitated because a pro posal has been made by Portland for construction of the I'matilla Wallula rut-off highway, demands "fair play" from Portland. It is a sentiment to which The Oregonlan most heartily and unqualifiedly subscribes Pen dleton, Umatilla and all Eastern Oregon are entitled to fair play from Portland and from every other city, county and state It is only proper to suggest to the East Oregonian that a condition contingent upon a demon stration of fair play by Portland should be a grant of fair play to Portland To that end it may be well to understand precisely what Oregon on the cut-off until Walla Walla county (Wash.) agrees to build a connecting road, until the Oregon trail through Pendleton, La Grande and Baker to the Idaho state line is graded and macadamized, and until the La Grande-Joseph highway is completed. Unless it be agreed that the cut-off under no circum stances should be. built, on the ground that it is, in some respects, a compe titive or parallel highway with the road from Walla Walla through Pen dleton to Umatilla many miles long er than the suggested cut-off the Portland Chamber would appear to have made a rather reasonable pro position. In any event, it is quite clear that there Is no Immediate pros pect of Us construct ion. The Umatilla cut-off Will of course be built some day. Economic pres sure, Industrial necessity will do it. It will cost somewhere from $400, 000 to $1,000,000. If it can be desig nated how as a state highway, there is an excellent prospect that the fed eral government, out of ita road funds, will be willing to commit It self to an agreement to contribute one-half or more of the cost. There is little doubt, by the way, that the United States road bureau regards the cut-off as a highly desirable and important connecting link between the highway systems of Eastern Washington and of Oregon. Is It suspected by the East Oregonian that federal officials have some mercen ary or discriminating purpose in sup port of a policy which would connect state road systems at strategic points? It does not seem possible. Nor does, it appear reasonable for the Pendleton paper, or for any one to demand that such a road shall not be built because it will benefit Port land. Yet that is what it is in ef feet saying. It will doubtless be interesting to the East Oregonian and to others to know just how much Multotnai county has contributed for highway construction In other counties, mean while building its own roads from money raised in Multnomah county. Here are the net figures: Quarter mill tax, 1917- 18-19-20 $ 236,583.69 Market road state tax, 1919-20 $ 520,373,76 Motor" vehicle license fees, 1917-18-19-20 & to Sept. 19, 1921 ....$1,524,034.60 Gasoline and distillate tax to Nov. 1, 1920 $ 591,694.44) m TSE ft PtrfcTHLER Hfi8.Qi.VED, by ant caaaituMn. In order U get that a copy of these resolutions be his name on the official ticket pre sent to the Governor, and a copy to pared) by the election authorities it is the President of the Senate and the required that a candidate be proper Speaker of the House of Represent- ly nominated by a petition or an as atlves, to be read before these bodies, sembly of electors. But this is only PorUand Fed. of Women's Clubs, permissive. It is not mandatory in Mrs. Alexander Thompson, Pres. irrigation district elections, i The vot Mrs. G. L. Buland, Chairman of er has a right to vote for whom he j Legislative Committee, chooses for any office. Passed at Portland, Oregon Dec. 19. Moreover, the sole duty of a can- vasslng board is to count the; ballots PHELPS UPHELD IN J.i D. j and issue a certificate reciting what ELECTION CONTEST CASE tnose ballots disclose. Such a board , i has no jurisdiction to raise Issues In Now is the time to Subscribe for the Boardman Mirror IMMMMMMIMMIMiH lHIHttIttttH Total. $2,872,686.45 Let us say that Multnomah hu done no more than its duty, and has been inspired by no motive of altru ism, but of enlightened self-interest, in thus supporting by Its funds the policy of state highway construction. Whatever the motive, the result is highly beneficial to the state. Cer tainly it establishes thie right of Multnomah to a voice in the state highway policy. Withal, it is a question for the state highway commission, where It can be and doubtless will be settled on its'Tnerits. When the time comes to build the Umatilla cut-off without Injustice to other interests, or with out Interference with the proper de velopment of the state highway pro gramme, it should and will be built. The contribution of the slate will be $200,000 to $500.000. Oregonian. RESOLUTION ENDORSING THE 1925 EXPOSITION WHEREAS our chief executive, Governor Ben. W. Olcott, has de clared that an emergency exists, and has railed a special session of the Oregon Legislature for December 19, 1921, to consider two questions, 1. e., the passage of the state-wide tax measure to finance the 1925 Exposi tion, to be referred to the people, and the consideration of much need ed legislation to regulate the opera tion of trucks over our public high ways, and, WHEREAS the 1925 fair tax was trned in I lie City ol Portland by a oU Of more than four to one, and, WHERAS we women recognize the broad educational and cultural ad vantages to be derived from holding a world's fair within the borders of the state, to say nothing of the add ed general prosperity that will accrue to us. therefore, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Port land Federation of Woman's Or ganizations, comprising 88 affiliated bodies, and representing a'proximate ly 7,000 voting women, does hereby commend the Governor for calling the special session, and believing that the whole stats will be benefited, we endorse the measure of a state wide tax for the 1925 fair, and we earnestly implore the members of (Heppner Herald. Notice has been received that he decision of Jud.;e Phelos d-c.ar-ing C..A. Minor and A. W. Wheel house legally elected directors of the John Day, has been aA-metd by the Oregon Supreme -loui-t a3 rectors of the John Day Irrigation Disli'ct The cause is entitled A. L. Hen ricksen, plaintiff, vs. Clay C. Clark, Edward Reitman and M. D. Clark, defendants." The notice of contest was directed to the defendants in their proper names without the addi tion of the official title of "directors of the John Day Irrigation District," although in the body of the notice it is particularly alleged that they are the directors of the district. That document sets out with great parti cularity that at the election held to 'Wose successors to the defendants Reitman and Clay j C. Clark, the voters wrote in the names of Arthur VVheelhouse for the three-year term and C. A. Minor for the one-year term, on the blank lines left on the ballot in sufficient numbers' to give Minor and Wheelhouse a majority of all the votes cast for the respective directorships. The defendants filed a demurrer against the notice of contest, assert ing, "that there is a defect of parties defendant In the following respect, to-wlfClay C. Clark, M. D. Clark and, Edward Reitman are not made parips defendant as directors of the John Day Irrigation district," and second, "that the complaint does not tate facts sufficient to constitute a ause of action or suit for the reason that it is not alleged in said com plaint that the said C. A. Minor and Arthur Wheel house were nominated, as required by law, for the offices of directors of the said John Day Irri gation District." The trial court overruled the de murrer and the defendants did not appeal further. From the consequent udgment declaring Wheelhouse to he elected director for the three-year term and Minor for the one-year term, the defendants have appealed. Burnett, C. J. The demurrer calls for a construction of the notice of contest wnich in this proceeding per forms the function of a complaint. In this connection we are governed by section 8 5, Or. L., readfng thus: 'In the construction of a pleading for the purpose of determining its effect, its allegations shall be liberal ly construed, with a view of substan tial justice between parties." Taking the paper together! H) is clear that there is no attempt to as sert a cause contest against the de fendants in any other capacity than as directors. To institute a contest against private' parties wholly dis connected with the district would be utterly futile and Ineffectual. But the nolle ediscloses that only the con duct of the defendants as directors is called in question. The complaint is sufficient as against the objection that there is a defect of parties. It Is not necessary that a candidate be nominated for any office under the election Bystem for any office under the election system of this state, in order to receive the votes of the electors at the elections prescribed the nature of quo warranto and deter mine, the eligibility of an election candidate to hold office to which he has been elected. These considerations dispose of all the Issues of law which were raised by the demurrer. They were correct ly decided; by the circute court. The judgement is affirmed. Bring your cleaning and pressing to Mrs. Alice Dingman. 39tf THE H. & H. SHOP 740 Main Street Pendleton, Ore. Art Needlework Supplies Every thing for the Baby. HEMSTITCHING AND STAMPING Careful Attention to Mall Orders. BULIJiTIN OF BOARDMAN COMMUNITY CHURCH SERVICE Every Sunday Sunday School 10:30 a. m. Church Service 11:30 a. m. Christian Eiideavor 7:30 p. m. Prayer Meeting, every Thurs day at 8 p. m All are welcome. Cleaning and pressing Mrs. Alice Dingman. 39tf Let us print those butter wrappers. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U. S. LAND OFFICE AT THE DAL LES, ORE., NOV. 19, 1921. NOTICE is hereby given that Paul Partlow, of Boardman, Oregon, who on October 21, 1916, made Home stead Entry, No. 016627, for W SWU NE4, W NW14 SE, (be ing unit "D" Umatilla Project), Section 24, Township 4-North, Range 24-East, Willamette Meridian, has filed notice of intention, ta make three-year Proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before C. G. Blayden, U. S. Commissioner, at Boardman, Oregon, on the 3rd day of January, 1922. Claimant names as witnesses: Alonzo C. Partlow William A. Price, Ben Attbery, W. W. Weston, all of Boardman, Oregon. J. W. DONNELLY, 4 2-46 Register. 1 X R. N. SUinfield, President Frank Sloan, 1st Vice-President f X Ralph A Holte. Cashier N. W. liing. n in-rnwumn Bank of Stanfield Capital Stock and Surplus $87,500.00 Four Per Cent Interest Paid on Time Certificates of Deposit. tMMIMHtMMMHMIHMIIIIMIIIMHMIMI Vtt ummmmmmmmmmmmKmmm NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U. S. LAND OFFICE AT THE DAL LES, OREGON, NOV. 8, 1921. Notice Is herby given that Dan Charles Doherty, of Lexington, Ore-' gon, who on November 20, 1916, made Additional Homestead Entry, Mo. 016640, for Lots 3 and 4, See- ion 18, Township 2-North. Range 25-East, Willamette Meridian, has tiled notice of intention to make ;hree-year Proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before J. A. Waters, U. S. Commissioner, at Heppner, Oregon, on the 23rd day of December, 1921. Claimant names as witnesses: Ed. McDaid, of Lexington, Oregon. Nell Doherty, of Lexington, Oregon Ed Doherty, of Lena, Oregon. Dan McDevitt, of lone, Oregon. J. W. DONNELLY, 11-4 5 Register. ':' '" ' -lUStMWK Portland proposes as to the Umatilla- both houses of the legislature to Wsllula cut-off. The Chamber of Commerce has adopted a resolution approving desig- ronftne themselves exclusively to the consideration of those questions nam ed In th. Governor's call, to the end nation of the Umatilla-Wsllula cut-jthst the session may not be prolong off as a primary state highway But "J to unreasonable length. Incurring the resolution carries the stipulation needless expense to th taxpayers, of that no money shall be spent by the state, and, Werk Soap WHY. BUY THIS SOAP FROM PORTLAND? this oap is guaranteed to do the work of 3 or 4 bars of white laundry soap in any kind of water. We send you a case under a money-back guarantee. I'se five bars and If not satisfied, return and we will refund all freight charges. Per Bar 10c Per Case, 00 bars $8.40 Despain and Lee Grocery Co. 209 East Court St. 'Phone 180. 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