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OREGON WOOLEN MILLS SUITS if ODD 0 0 0 000 000 non m Up to June First, we offer you your unrestricted pick and choice of any "Oregon Woolen Mills" Suit in the ¿Tore which we had made to sell for $ I 5.00, $ 16.50 and $ 1 8.00, for am i 1 v-4fk ni SI.25 I’UIP line hr«,« I natural «oli.r», d i.J \y tr umili-. I at $3.50 A r e IS c ttc r ■♦-X-XX X THE OREGON WOOLEN MILLS STORE > ■nl These Suits are made from cloth of purchase, replace same with woven by the mills at Salem and a n ew suit or refund your m oney. Eugene. T h e wool tor the cloth C T h e range of patterns and sizes being sheared from the backs of are com plete. All the season's Oregon Sheep. They are guar latest colorings of Grays, Browns, anteed by us to give long wear and hard service. Tans and fancy mixtures, sizes 3 3 to 46, in regular and Should any suit, purchased of us, fail to give entire stout models. It will pay you to com e in and look satisfactory wear, w e will within one year of date them over w hile the assortment is com plete. D o it n ow Furnishers COTTAGE GROVE, ORE. Song HiaM C l o t h i e r s T ❖ ,ioiw of 10c Musie. Columbia hincs m erits and Supplì | E »filer, a Sfl C HOUSE] E G o N EAVER B O A R D ! ! Popular Talks on Law make your old room as goixl as new and is the 1 for new w alls and ceilings. I >et us prove it to you i i x | T H E U N IT E D S T A T E S , C A L I F O R N I A A N D J A P A N . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By WALTER K. TOWERS, A.B., J.D., of the Michigan Bar ■xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-*xxxxxx*-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx--xxxxxx-*xxx:- ! er«l law. When the state says “ aliens ineligible for citizenship’ not own land it taxes advantage of the | distinction in the federal law and it | mean» that members of all but the white and black races are barrad. Other states than California already have such measures. The alien land law of Washington provides that “ any alien, except such as by the laws of the United States are incapable of be coming citizens of the United States may acquire and hold land,” etc. The state of Arizona in 1912 enacted that “ no person not eligible to become a citizen of the United States shall ac quire title to any land or real prop erty,” etc. Other states restrict all aliens, generally. The federal consti tution contains a provision which pre vents a state from barring the citizens of other states within the United States, for that document requires that there be no discrimination against citi zens of other states within the United States. The Webb Act, which California sub stituted for the measure earlier pro posed, drops the phrase “ ineligible to citizenship’’ yet preserves the same distinction and arrives at the same end in very much the same way, still rely ing upon the discriminations made by the federal law of citizenship. Under it all aliens eligible to citiznahip may acquire and hold land in the same man ner as citizens of the United States. All ether aliens may acquire and hold land “ in the manner and to the extent and for the purposes prescribed by any treaty now existing between the government of the United Stales and the nation or country of which such alien is a citizen or subject.” Fortunately for California’s purpose of barring Orientals from ownership of land, the existing treaty with Japan does not extend to Japanese the right to own agricultural land. Under the terms of the treaty Japanese subjects are permitted to own “ houses and land for residential purposes, factories, manufactories and shops.’’ Another clause permits them to “ lease lands for residential and commercial pur poses.” But the treaty does not ex tend to them the right of acquiring farming land within the United States and so the state of California ia not re quired, by law. to give them any greater powers. This is how California may pass a law that affects the relations of the entire country with a foreign nation, without the consent of the whole. (Copyright, 1913, by Walter K, Towers.) AN ARCTIC ADVENTURE. Nansen’s Daring and Perilous Swim For His Drifting Boats. Among the |*erilous ¡idventures of the Nansen Hrvtic expedition was the narrow escape of Nansen and Johan sen on their return trip to the Fram after their unsuccessful dash for the pole. After many months of hardship a narrow chauuel o|>ened in the Ice, ami they launched the two light kalaks that they had carried on their sledges for more than a year. A few days aft erward disaster nearly put an end to the ex|>edltion. The incideut is related in "The Si«*ge and Conquest of the North Pole." by Mr. Ceorge Bryce. lu the eveuiug their legs felt stiff with sitting in the kulaks all day. and they landed on the edge of the Ice so that they might stretch them a little. After the kalaks. which were lashed together, had l>een moored by means of one of the braces they ascended a hummock close by and had been stand ing there only a moment when Johan sen raised the cry that the kalaks were adrift. They ran to the edge of the ice, but the boats were already a little way off and were drifting quickly. The posi tion was a terrible one. for all they possessed was on board. Nansen at once threw off some of bis clothing, banded bis watch to Johansen and sprang Into the Icy water. He knew that If the boats were lost It meant death to him and his companion. At first It seemed more than doubtful whether be could manage to regain them. When he got tired he turned over and swam on his back. At length be gained a little and redoubled his exertions. By this time Nansen felt his limbs stiffening and losing all feeling. His strokes became more and more feeble, but the distance from the kalaks be came shorter, and at last he was able to grasp a snowshoe that lay across the sterns. He now tried to poll him self up, but hla body was so stiff with cold that he could not do so. After a little he managed to awing one leg up to the edge of the sledge that was lashed to the deck and then raised the rest of hla body. They were saved! With some difficulty he paddled the kalaks back to Johansen, who admitted that these were the worst moments he had ever lived through. Johansen now pulled off Nansen's wet clothes, put on the few dry ones they had In reserve, spread the sleeping bag upon the Ice and covered Nansen with the sail and everything he could find to keep out the cold. The next day Nansen was all right again, and in the evening they pressed forward once more on the march that finally brought them out of the arctic. The wide publicity given to the pro- state prescribing who may own real possl of the commonwealth of Cali property within its borders. Every S h in g le s , R o o f in g , B u ild in g P a p e r fornia to bsr the Japanese from owner state by its laws prescribes who may ship of real estate in that state, the | hold land. L a th , L im e , C e m e n t a n d F la tte r ir S entin el. ineffectual protests of the executive One restraint that is placed upon the “ Made in C ottage G rove” Doors, Windows head, of the United States and Japan, state is by the provision of the consti brings before us the complex form of tution that the treaties of the federal and Screens our government. We all know that government stand upon the same plane theie is a national government and a as the laws of congress—they are the state government. We have been told supreme law of the land, and if any that the United States is supreme - provision in a state constitution or law very sa le that we make matter that is not altogether clear to is inconsistent with a federal enactment ur a n obligation loth* ^>^«>*>^*«XX"XXXXXXXXX**XXXXX"XXXXXXXXXXX- most of us. How is it that the state the measure of the state must give of California may pass a lsw denying way. The state in making its laws ler. W r feel reiponu- to Japanese the right to own land with 1 must have regard for the treaties K in g w e sell, and do in the state when the national govern which the United States negotiated a s a le completed un* ment may have (though we have no with foreign countries. California was Strength, E quipm ent and Disposition to Serve Its Patrons evidence that congress has) entirely free to enact any measure she saw fit ntire satisfaction with M ak es this B ank A ttractive concerning the ownership of land so different wishes about the matter? *•1 r .SC The field of government is divide«! long as no provision of a treaty was between the United States and the contravened. r of our store i» P*1' Wal • $25,000 California’s avowed purpose was to state. The United States has the ib le to the patron»« I discriminate against the Japanese, who power given umier the constitution Plus • $25.000 apartment. W e gua,‘ which we have read and re-read as it > had begun to settle in that state in | Undivided P ro fits it fitting, m ost atyli» apiieurs in the back of school h stories. ; large numbers, acquiring the owner The (lowers and capabilities given the ship of farm lands. With the Cali $ 10.000 le corsets. Unite«) States umier that wonderful fornians it is a vital question, a ques r w e sell Header** M y First document are the only powers it tion of the kind of a man who is to be possesses. It has no others. It has your neighbor, and the kind of children s h a v e found that wt Service N ext no natural, inherent p«>wcrs. Congress who are to go to school with your chil Î1&ÜL figu re, large, avert«« Courtesy A lw ays mHy legislate only concerning the mat dren. California did not wish to bar 1 th e s e p o p u l a r priced ters of which the constitution gives the all aliens from owning land, for that national government control. The would drive out foreign capitalists who o b lig a tio n i* federal courts have jurisdiction only are assisting in the material develop U. S. Postal Savings Depository le n e v e r a Header** of questions involving the United ment of the state’s vast natural re , for w e know that the States constitution, its luws, or sources. The discrimination in the bill treaties. The constitution gives to the originally proposed was found in the h er corset the long« United States the entire treaty-making phrase “ aliens ineligible to citizen power and bars the individaul states ship’’ which aroused such strong pro ^Hat do you w ant, anyw ay? A Sentinel want a<l? " ’d T.* * re w ea r these corset* I.V'Mt. from the realm of international rela- test from President Wilson and the esig n e d and heel»*'*, tlons. . . . . « state department as being offensive to As to all matters which the fe*leral a friendly nation. This distinction is n fort a n d ease. 1 1 government docs not exclusively con the one which the United Ststes has se o f th e extra trol under the constitution, the state itself enacte«! into its laws governing iff. has complete and sovereign powers. who may become citizens by naturali The state i* possessed of all the powers zation is limited to “ aliens, being free tv le s is here for y°uf 0f government not denie«i it by the white persons, and tu aliens of African fetleral constitution. Thus we have nativity, and to persona of African June 23 two governments, each supreme with descent.” rindow Tbua, generally speaking, only mem in its sphere. When the two authori ties come into conflict the state bers of the European races may become authority must yield, for the federal citizens of the United States. The lwenty-iiv(» Instructors Fifty ( ourses | power is supreme insofar as it rea«:hes courts do not view the Jap as a white H„t in matters of which the fetleral man. The son of a German father and ldfi^Ìn,t?lllshp<* Pastern edurator* added t<> regular family. 1 ' , government is given no control under a Japanese mother was recently denied open, hoard and room at *t.M> ,»er week. | Reduced rs.lroa.l the constitution, the state s power is the right of citizenship. Chinese, ! *'°r complete illustrated catalog, address complete. Generally the state ha. Filipinos and members of other of the complete power to regulate it. internal yellow or brown races have repeatedly “House for Sale” signs a t The Sen Everything you can mention is in urate'y "’J ? ® * 8® REGISTRAR :: U n iversity of Oregon. Eugene. Ore. àffairs. And so it is that we find the been denied citizenahip under the fed- tinel office. The Sentinel. is g a llo n i f»y the nun firs murr than a qtur*.9| nation iottage Grove Manfg. Co. irst N ational Bank j diversity of Oregon f f ? ummer ochool w* | \CE 0 illing *« * *