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About Falls City news. (Falls City, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1915)
r FALLS CITY NEWS C O U N C IL M E E T IN G City Dads Hold Monthly S o u io n . Extension ot Water System and Other Important Matters Considered H The city council met in regular the city was in no way account session Tuesday night with Mayor able, that they were willing to Griffin, Auditor McPherren. Coun- pay for what they got but no ,cilmen Hopkins, Titus, Bradley more. He said he was glad the and Singleton present. Brown, electric light man was present as he could talk more freely than if Wonderly and (¡ottfreid absent. The usua1 routine o f business he was absent. The bill w as cut was transacted. The survey and from $85.00 to $65.00. blue print of the proposed exten A petition was presented for the sion o f the water system made by consideration o f the council signed Engineer Sammons was received. by about 170 voters asking that It was decided to investigate an the services o f the city attorney other water supply before taking be dispensed with. The petition further action. set forth as reasons that the There was some discussion over lieople were already overburden puyment o f electric light bill. The ed with taxes and that this would service has been very poor and I k * a considerable saving. The complaints verv loud. A motion council viewed the matter in'the was made that the bill be cut $5, light that as there W as a consider received no second. Mayor G rif able amount o f delinquent street fin said that he was not satisfied assessments to be collected that it with a $f> cut that it did not begin would be unwise at this time to represent the difference. It w as accede to the request o f the peti true the company was up against tioners. It was accordingly laid but that was their misfortune and on the table indefinitely. » are what the Ad Club wants. The young authors may designate the tune to which their songs are Ad Club Will Give S I 25 for Best adapted. SONG P R IZES F IX E D Loganberry Versa. IS FREE JUSTICE A DREAM? STUDENTS TO TAKE PART Step In Campaign to Advortiaa and Create New Markets for Oregon Industry la Taken Contest Ends October 31. a No. 6 FALLS CITY OKKGON, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1915 VOL. XII Here is a chance for bright stu dents in the public schools of the state and the universities, too, to make some money. The Portland Ad Club has decid ed to start a big campaign to ad vertise the loganberry and create new markets for this important Oregon industry. As the first step in the campaign, it has put up $250 in prizes for the students who submit the best songs on the subject of loganberry juice. The contest starts right away, and will continue until the night of October 31. That gives eontes tants a full month in which to whet their wits, look through the rhyming dictionaries, and send in their songs. First Prize Will Bo $125. The best song sent to the Port land Ad Club, Multnomah Hotel, Portland, Or., care o f the song committee, by the night o f October ;V/, will win the first prize of $125. The next best song will take a prize of $75. And the third best will win $50. That should be worth the time o f any boy or girl, young man or woman to try for. The Ad Club intends to have the best song adopted as an official song for the public schools o f the state. The prize-winning compos ition will be published for distribu tion in the schools, with the pic tures of the song authors printed on them. O f course it won’t be necessary for contestants to compose the music for their songs. The words and verses and swinging chorus In a remarkable editorial, even for that papei*. the Kansas City Star, suggests "fr e e ju stice." The Kansas City paper takes up the theme o f judicial reform, and it stands on the flat statement that any suggested reform o f the rules o f proceedure which still leaves the judicial game open to be won by the attorney who is paid the highest price, or who ultimately will command it as he becomes an expert player, is only a half-way reform; and that half way reforms either in the judi cial system or elsewhere do not count. The paper is explicit in its definition o f "fr e e ju stice" as follows: " ‘ Free justice’ means that there shall be no privately paid trial advocates. One, then, will not have to pay a lawyer before he can get the public courts to attend to the public business o f administering justice. He can pay a legal counsellor if he wants to, to tell him how to obey the law or how to beat the law— exctly as he might consult with a non-legal partner or agent on a matter o f business. But when a case o f right and wrong gets in to the courts when justice is free it will be in the hands o f publicly paid servants, including men learned in the law to act as proc tors or investigators to help the judge and jury get at the facts and apply the correct legal prin ciples to those fa cts." Just what the Kansas City Star so radically contends for was the original purpose in the creation o f courts o f justice. It was the primal thought that in all essen tials justice, like salvation, should be free; but from the primal thought to the actual practice is a far cry as we realize when we try to conceive o f a court in which trials are conducted with all par ticipating attorneys seeking Bole- ly to help judge and jury to an understanding o f tbe facts and the law pertaining thereto. The clever lawyer will say o f the attainment o f such a court that it is a "d re a m ;" and the most o f us are ready to concede that the clever lawyer has all the best o f the argument. But there have been dreams quite as marvelous as this that have come true, and this may be o f that self-same family. There are some small beginnings in that direc tion, as instanced in puoiic de fenders the |"pcor man’s court." attribution tribunals fop the set tlement o f business disputes and the like.— Portland Telegram. $250,000,000 IS ASKED FOR ARMY Secretary Garrison Wants That Sum From Congress. FOR OEFENSIVE PURPOSES. H a lf a M illio n T r a in a d M an In E iv a Y a a ra la H o p a — Oaelaraa P raaidan t W ils o n W ill T r y to C o n vin c a La a d ers B ig In c rsa sa la Im p a ra tiv s — Stock of A m m u n itio n R acom m andad. WEVE GOT GOOD GOODS i L WL NEVER PUT ANY BUT COOO GOODS INTO OUR STORE. THEY SAY "Q U A LITY IS RE MEMBERED LONG AFTER THE PRICE IS F6RGOT- TE N ." THIS IS NOT SO IN OUR STORE. WHEN YOU BUY FROM US ONCE OUR LOW PRICE WILL MAKE SUCH A OEEP IMPRESSION ON YOU TH A T YOU’LL NEVER THINK OF GOING TO ANY OTHER STORE TO BUY. THIS IS A STRONG THING FOR US TO SAY. BUT JUST COME IN AND YOU WILL FIND TH A T IT IS SO. TRY IT. W ashington—The elan» for the re organization o f tbe army are nearing completion and Boon will receive the prevldent'a approval. A series o f con ferences has been held at the White douse between tbe president Secretary o f War Garrison and the chairmen of tbe senate and house committees on military affairs. The basis o f these conferences w ill be the report which Secretary o f War As now worked out the plans provide Garrison Is preparing with the assist ance o f tbe most experienced men in for sn army built along tbe following » tbe army. The purpose o f the confer line»: An Immediate Increase o f between ences will be to obtain the viewpoint» o f the legislative leaders and to get 25.000 and 40.000 men and 1.000 offl cera. their approval o f tbe Garrison plan. The present enlistment terms to be Tbe first and most Important point In relation to the plans appears to be changed to the short enlistment, with that Secretary Garrison will ask con- a reserve provision which requires the soldiers to return to the colors upon call. Ry the operation o f this plan the army at the end of Ov# years would consist o f 600,000 trained men—125,000 In the service and 375.000 prepared to Join the colors at a moment's notice. The theory upon which this plan was worked out was that the American standing army should be for defensive purposes only. In other words. It was prepared upon tbe assumption that the navy will be Increased to such an ex tent that it can for a long enough time protect the two coasts against attack to give the army a chance to build up a tremendous force with the 500.000 men as a basis. The plan provides for the enlarge ment o f the most Important coast for- tlAcatlons and the use of the greatest guns at the principal points. A general Increase In sll branches of ordnance and the purchase of a stock of ammunition plentiful enough to car ry on an Initial campaign In addition to the plan for the regu lar army there will be a number of suggestions for tbe standardization of the militia. Because o f the failure of most of the state organizations to meet the standards set down by tbe war de partment It has been deemed Inadvisa ble to spend any great amount o f fed Photo by American Press Association. eral money on these branches. It Is BKCttBTARV GARRISON. declared that President Wilson will urge on the lenders that the proposed gress at the next session for approxi Increase Is Imperative. mately $250,000,000 for the use o f the army. W o m a n ’s H o t » M end T ir e . When Secretary Garrison appointed Elkhart. Ind.—Several pairs o f wom a committee o f ranking officers to go Into the questions they presented the en's hosiery were used In repairing a various needs o f the army from their tire of an automobile In which a party viewpoint and then advised the head o f o f tourist* passed through Elkhart the department that It would require “ W e had to do something to reach this Handkerchiefs weren't long $600,000,000 this year to provide these burg. enough and wo had no tape.'' said one needs. The secretary took the plans and an of the party, explaining why the worn alyzed them piece by piece until he has en could not dlamount until new stock ings had been purchased. Anally cut the cost by $350,000,000. N. S E L IG ’S FA LLS C ITY D E P A R T M E N T STO R E \ QUAKE ROCKS MICHIGAN Windows Broken and Wall Pictures Fall on Upper Peninsule. Houghton, Mich., Oct. 4.—An earth shock at 8 o’clock tonight in the upper peninsula o f Michigan broke windows, shook pictures from the walls, disarranged china on closet shelves and did other minor dam age. Similar disturbances have oc curred in the mining region in re cent years a .ad .are thought to be due to a slipping o f rock near the mines. CARS FOR LUMBER RUSHED Southern Pacific Reports 115 on Way to Willamette Valley Points. Salem. Or.. Oct. 4.—Speedy re lief for the lumber industry o f Oregon, which has been hampered because o f lack o f cars, was again promised by the Southern Pacific officials in San Francisco today, when notice was sent to the Pub lic Service Commission that 115 empty cars had passed Ashland, bound north to SVillamette Valley points. A few days ago in response to inquiry by the Commission, Pres ident Sproule, o f the Southern Pacific, telegraphed that 400 emp ty freight cars were on the way to Oregon to relieve lumber ship- peis. As these failed to appear with the spied deemed desirable, the Commission again took up the matter.