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MIRROR
VOLUME II
BOARDM A.N, OREGON, IfclDAY, APRIL 14, 1922
NUMBER 10
NATIONS MEET AT
GENOA CONFERENCE
Gathering Opens With Clash
Between the Russian and
French Delegations.
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Genoa. The Genoa economic con
ference was formally opened Monday
In the historic palace of St. George
by Premier Pacta of Italy.
Every nation that participated in
the World war was represented with
the exception of the United States
and Turkey.
A clash over a disarmament pro
posal by George Chitclierin, the Rus
sian soviet foreign minister, which oc
curred between Chitcherin and M.
Barthou, Prance, threatened to disrupt
the international conference shortly
after it opened.
Russia, the status of which is one
of the questions of supreme import
ance to be decided by the conference,
came to the forefront soon after the
opening of the great assembly
Speeches had been made by the pre
siding officer, Premier Facta of Italy;
M. Barthou, representing Prance;
Premier Lloyd George of Great Brit
ain; Dr. Wirth of Germany and spokes
men of Japan and Belgium, all of a
conciliatory nature and voicing adher
ence to the Cannes resolutions, upon
which the present gathering is based
George Chitcherin, the Russian so
viet foreign minister, in speaking for
his delegation, announced their adher
ence to the resolutions and then de
clared that Russia was ready to sup
port any proposals that would avoid
war or lighten the burden of arma
ment.
Mr. Barthou immediately protested
and declared with some heat that
France would absolutely refuse to dis
cuss the question of disarmament at
this conference.
Mr. Lloyd George hastened to inter
vene, and in his contention that dls
armament could not he taken up, cer
tainly not before a peace basis had
been reached at Genoa, he was sup
ported by Signor Facta.
Eventually the discussion on this
point ceased and Mr. Chitcherin said
the Russian government would bow to
the collective will of the conference.
Admission of the Russian and Ger;
nan representatives to the principal
committee of the economic conference
was strongly opposed by both French
and Belgian representatives. Premier
Lloyd George, together with Premier
Pacta and Foreign Minister Schanz?r
of Italy, intervened, however, and their
conciliatory attitude finally resulted
In the admittance of both the Rus
sians and the Germans.
LOCAL
NOTES I
OREGON NEWS NOTES OF PRINCIPAL
EVENTS HAPPENING DURING WEEK
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528 BANKS CLOSED
DURINGJPAST YEAR
Washington, D. C. During the cal
endar year 1921 a total of 528 state
and private hanks in the country were
closed, according to a statement issued
by Comptroller of the Currency Cris
singer, summarizing bank failures for
the year. However, he added, 163 of
these banks were able to reopen or
otherwise liquidate their liabilities.
The southern geographical division,
Mr. Crtssinger declared, was the most
seriously affected In respect to the
number of bank failures, there being
131. Failures to the number of 43,
with liabilities exceeding $13,600,000,
occurred in the Pacific states.
Failures in states in which the de
positors' guaranty system is in opera
tion were: Mississippi, six; Texas, 3S;
North Dakota, 34; Nebraska, 22; Kan
sas, 11; Oklahoma. 2?
Little Marv Chaffee, ago 5 yours.
While pl: ni in the jard Wednesday
; rell and twiitt t her ana. Sir- r.as
i taken to Pern iston to Ji. Ill:-ley.
land the ex wi? Bhowwt a it . .wo nf
' I he elbow.
Chet Atterbury and Roy Gilbieth
passed the medical examination for
; membership in the lodge of M. W. A.
I. vie Blayden, returning from the
1 ball game at Umaiilla last Sunday
i drove in!o a concrete culvert while
i oaesing a truck and blew out a rear
j iirc. No other damage was done.
Tourist travel has at last started,
: inch to the ioy of local garage men.
Messrs. Jenkins, Weston, Dillon,
Packard and Crawford have purchas
I i P. and O. two way plow. Tues
! day Mr. Dillon gave it a trial and re
j parted it a jim-dandy.
Harry Crawford and Miss Naomi
Runner motored to Utiia' iUa Friday
evening, where they acted as judges
.a a declamation contest.
Road work on the project is pract
ically finished.
Mr. Dillon and Mr. Weston were
at Willow Creek on Saturday buying
dairy cattle.
Miss Pearl Carpenter left for Siw.
Wyoming, on Saturday, for an ex
tended visit with friends. Miss Car-
i-jv-HT -plans to re Main all summer.
and perhaps part of the coming win
ter. Misses Glatt and Price, and Chas.
Barnes were visitors at the T. E.
Broyles farm Saturday..
Chas. Goodwin has been very 111
with inflamalory rheumatism.
Mrs Edith Crawford was a Sunday
dinnerguest with the JR. Johnson
family. Jf
Meters. Tom Miller, Earl Cramer
and Leon Kutzner motored to Hard
man Saturday.
.Mrs. Eugene Commlns, who was
hurrtdly taken to the Umatilla hosp
pital last Friday night is rapidly re
'v ing and will soon be with us
again.
Mrs. Otto Mitcheb'n, and two chil
dren are visiting in Arlington.
T. V. Dempsy who has been farm
Wf (he Gotham place has leased the
Tom Hendricks farm, and moved L is
family on it Tuesday.
Am you eating Iloardman Cheese?
If not, why not?
SO SPECI AL MAY DAT
PROGRAM THIS YEAR
There will be no special effort to
' develope a May Day program in the
IChoOl this ear. So much lime has
: been lost in the lower grades from
illness of pupils and teachers and
owing to the freezing of the plumb
ing during the winter that it will
take all the time the schools can use
to complete the regular work. The
little folks, who would give the May
day program, have Just finished drill
ing for Tom Thumb's Wedding and
Paster exereiRe;, and it would re
quire constant drill from now to Mav
Day, and the tim; cannot be spared.
W1IV IDE SCHOOL DOESN'T
FURNISH LIGHT TO CUT
Plans for the consumption of a $100,
000 apartment house were announced
at Rnseburg by George Kohlhagen, a
local business man.
Surveys are being made for a new
power line from Albany to Dallas,
which will be constructed by the I
Mountain States Power company.
Governor Olcott in a letter urges
the people of Oregon to join in the
observance of the 100th anniversary of
the birth of eneral Ulysses Simpson
Grant.
The new rail automobiles which will
carry approximately 30 passengers
each, and a new locomotive have been
Ordered by the Mount Hood Railroad
ci mpany.
In spite of the fact that the broe
coll crop is coming on slowly, more
than 40 cars have been shipped out
of the Umpqua valley to date. Weather
conditions have caused the heads to
ripen slowly.
J. L. Wilson, formerly engaged in
the lumber brokerage business In Eu
gene, was arrested at Duluth. Minn.,
on a warrant charging him with forg
ing the indorsement to a check for
$417.88 and cashii g it.
Negotiations are under way for the
purchase by Frye & Co., Seattle pack
ers, of the packing interests of Swift
& Co., in Portland, it is said. Tin
Portland plant is valued at between
$3,000,000 and $3,500,000.
More snow is on the ground near
Crater Lake, in Crater Lake National
Park, at the present time than for a
numbor of winters past, according to
men who have been within a few
miles of the park boundary lately.
Improvements on the highway be
tween Independence and the connec
tion with the Salem-Dallas highway
are In progress. The road, which la
unnaved except for about two miles
out of Independence, is being leveled
Crews have begun removing old
h mses frdni a seven-acre tract pur
chase! by the Oregon Nature Lovers'
ohio on the Columbia river highway
near Hood River, and the Work of
building a clubhouse will be begun
next week.
Money due the state as the result
of loans from the common school, rural
credit, agricultural college and Uni
versity of Oregon funds aggregates
$7,570,676 87, according to a report
prepared by George G. Brown, clerk
of the state land board.
That the Oregon Electric Railway
company is surveying for an exten
sion of its line from Eugene to Spring
field, and lliut agents of the company i
are already negotiating for ri il-of- i
way, was an unconfirmed rumor afiuat
in Eugene and Springfield.
Many thousands of dollar.-' loss from
whrat smut may be paved to Oregon j
farmers by practicing the findings of
the state experiment Station ns re
po?ted In a new bulletin, "Win at Bunt
Problem in Oregon," just published
and now ready for distrli)utii;ii to grow
ers. Following the recent announcement
of Governor Olcott that he would not
m ike an active campaign to succeed I
himself at the republican primary elec
tion in May, but would remain at his j
desk and continue to conduct the
state's business, Salem friends of the
executive have Btn:te;l a sort of a
booster organization In his behalf.
Under the influence of t! good
weither of the last few days farming
operations throughout the central
Willamette volley have been speeded
to the :n . Spring plowing, do-
tared several weeks because of un
favorable weather conditions in Feb
ruary and March, is now under way
r alrnest all coli.munities.
The Dalles' new $125,000 municipal
amdltorium was formally dedicated
Friday.
The Columbia river is beginning to
rise from the melting snow near the
headwaters.
Federal fram loans totaling $67,900
hav - been made in the Boardmau Ir
rigation district.
T he annual county fair of the Canby
high school took place in the high
school gymnasium Friday night.
The Eugene hospital, with a capital
stock of $50,000 and headquarters in
EClfgene, has been incorporated.
L. H. Compton, warden of the state
pel itentiary announces that the popu
lat on of the institution now totals
474.
Extensive logging operations are un
dt v way now on a big tract of timber
in the Santlam national forest near
Detioit.
H. H. McSherry, 41, logger of Glad
stone, was burned to death in his
room in th Northwest apartments In
Portland.
The public service commission will
hold a hearing in Klamath Palls Thurs
day on the proposed increase in insur
ance ratm.
a iortanate discovery prevented
Srl-it might have been a disastrous
accident on the Lewis & Clark rail
roud, near Astoria. Fishplates had
b'"ii placed on top of one of the
rsils and fastened with I chain, ap
p 'ently with the intent of wrecking
a train.
There was one fatality in Oregon
ill ! to industrial accidents during ths
' ek ending April 6, according to a
friort prepared by the state indus
t' al i.celdent commission. The victim
w is Howard (Lvyne, mechanic of Port
land. A total of 326 accidents were
reported.
The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company's rate of return In Oregon
!'( r the- year 1921. as shown by the
Tport of the corporation filed at
5 1cm, was 2.21 per cent. The same
figures interpreted by the commission
indicated that the rate of return was
' S3 ptr cent.
Because of the adverse vote on the
! onds referred to the voters of the
iii'trict at a special school election
8 turrt&y, the Ri seburg school boa d
h 3 been fotced to discontinue the de
partments of music, manual training,
domestic art and teacher trftining in
ti e city schools.
General reduction of taxes in Ore
gon through the In ilia! ion of several
Bl asures to be submitted to the vot
er! at the general election In Novem
bi r was the program outlined at a
meeting at Salem of the so-culled ma
m'ttee of seven of the tax reduction
clubs of the state.
The proposal of the Oregon Trunk
it 'U road company to abat don approxi
mately 29 miles of Its track between
M'tollUB and North Junction prob
ably will noct with considerable op
I ositlon, according to Information re
ceived at the offices of the Oregon
public service commission.
H. O. Brown, for seven years man
ager of the Eugene branch of Allen
6 Lewis, Portland wholesale grocers,
wag Indicted by the Lane county
$rod jury on a charge of smbesile
rnSBt, pleaded gulltv Imjiodiati ly
afterward anil sra sentenced to serve
five years in tin- penitentiary.
Discovery of an unusually large lode
of pottery clay in the mountains of
tha Oregon Coast range, said to assay
mostly aluminum and silica and to
contain small portion! of oth.-r min
erals, has been reported by Peter
Tltnm of Portland, who made the
di covery while on a hunting ftp.
A subscriber asked us las' ' 'I,
. ly the school didn't furnish froe
water and light to the city. Here's
an answer from one who knows more
about the situation than your editor.
There was a query in a recent is
sue as to why the school should fur
nish free light and beat for all sorts
of community meetings and yet could
not furnish water for the town. The
Question might be answered in one
way, as follows:
From the lime the Little Old Ri
School House was the meeting pla
of the Danlal Webster Litorary an
Debating Society, the idea has bee
steadily growing that the schoo
should be a community center, niear
ing that ull meetings of edurational
ClvlC and entertaining features con
Lributlng to the general culture anil
enjoyment of the community shottli
be held in the school house. This
idea has come to be an established
tenel of our educational system es
peclally in communities like Hoard
man where there is no other suitable
place to hold such gatherings. Nat
urally at such times the building
must be lighted and heated. No one
will deny that fact, but why free?
Simply because it is a part of the
general Community business, pay
ment for which is contributed bj a
sessmenl on every taxable dollar 111
the district. Every man who pays
a tax contributes to the upkeep and
support Of the schools, which, it
used only for school day purposes
five days in one week, four filth:
of tin' population of the district
would get no use of the buildings
they have built and kept up, and not
counting Sunday, one sixth of the
days the buildings would be entire!
idle. The use of the school build
Ings freely to every man, woman,
and child for educational, civic and
cultural uplift is the modern ideal
The law makes two exceptions, how
ever. Religious organizations and
secret societies given the regular
use ot the buildings must pay the up
keep. To all other meetings, it Is
free, under lbs discretion and reg
ulation of the board as il should be,
Hot will not free water? Simply
because the case is in no way parallel.
A water sysetni is a public Utillt)
like electrics, gas companies, street
railways. No school has ever enlor
Dd i bo public utility field, It being
unwise, and contrary to the functions
tor whi h the school it established,
li would furthermore be a case of
discrimination, favoring a few who
happened to liv- near in school, at
moat, BOl over one fifth of the total
population of the district. The pro
position is not changed, even If the
water should be paid for and the
duty of the school simply I lie pump
ing. It is still invading the field or
public aunty. According to all
practice, there are two ways of hand
ling a public utility- through priv
ate or municipal ownership never
through the public school system. It
has troubles enough of its own.
GOETHALS INDORSES
IRRIGATION PROJECT
Gravity System From Pend
Oreille River Advised in
Official Report.
ALL TEACHERS ELECTED
'I ho school board met in regular
session Saturday afternoon and lil
led the one remaining vacancy in the
school faculty by the election of
.1 Blanche Powell of Irrigon to a
position in the grades.
Olympla, Wash. General George W.
Goethals finds the Columbia basin Ir
rigation project in this state feasible
from an economic and engineering
standpoint by using a gravity supply
from the Pend Oreille river and that
it can be constructed In six years for
a total cost of $264,170,361, or $146.66
an acre.
This Is the conclusion reached by
the noted engineer in his report, made
public bere by D. A. Scott, state di
rector of conservation and develop
ment, after he had made an extended
personal Investigation and study of
the project to determine the feasibility
of the Columbia river pumping project
and the Pend Oreille river gravity
Bysteiu.
Nearly 2,000,000 acres will be re
claimed through use of the Pend
Oreille river diversion, it was esti
mated. "The Columbia basin project is as
much a national one as were the
Panama canal and the Alaska railway,
nud will, if completed, add much more
to the natloaal wealth than either of
the others mentioned. The work
should be provided for and carried out
as were these other two national pro
jects by direct appropriations," de
clared General Ooethals.
Because of its larger area, greater
asaurauce and reliability of operation
und Its smaller acre cost, Oeneral
(.oethals advised adoption of Uie grav
ity system. It will, he says, irrigate
1,763,000 acres by direct flow, with an
additional 91,000 acres that may be
reached by a pumping lift of less than
150 feet, and 137,000 acres that may
be utilised by pumping at slightly
higher lifts.
Mrs. Guy Lee was visiting with
friends in the West end Monday.
She called at the Crawford and Mor
gan homes.
L. H. Compton, warden of the Ore
con State penitentiary since February,
11)20, has amioiimird that be had sub
mitted his resignation, to Governor Ol
cott to become effective May 1. Gov
ernor Olcott announced that he had
decided to appoint J. W. Lewis, pres
ent deputy warden, to succeed Mr.
Compton.
The first carload of lumber aver
milled In transit la Laae eoewty was
manufactured by the Walters-Parks
Lumber company of Eugeua. The
lumber was shipped by the Nebraska
lirldge Lumber company of Cora
stock to an easUrn railway company,
stopping In transit at the Eugene plant
to be milled.
f ifty thousand dollars additional for
forest fire prevention In the Pacific
northwest will be available thla year,
according to a telegram to the Eu
gene chamber of commerce from
United States Senator McNary. The
wltbdruwal of the army aero service
from this duty has necessitated the
additional money.
More than 1000 acres of land will
he devoted to flax growing is the
Willamette valley thla yar, according
to reports Issued by the Willamette
Valley Flax & Hemp company The
$:",(, 000 necessary for organization has
been subscribed and work on the sev
eral plants of the organization will
start at an early date.
Deschutes county Frlduy experienc
ed an "old fashioned spring cleaning"
as far as matters Vohrteadlan were
eoneerued Fines In Justice court met
ed out to offenders, who without e
caption pleaded guilty to charges of
manufai luring or possessing moon
shin, netted $1400 and jail sentences
amounted to 23 months.
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