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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1923)
MINIMUN WAGE LAW ILLEGAL ( A I ! District o f Columbia Law Is 1'paet by OF CURRENT WEEK U. S. Supreme Court. Washington, D. C.— Wages cannot be fixed by law, under the constitution as I it onei n e b u iiie m um now stands, the supreme court, i i i i j w i i o i u dividing 5 to 3, held Monday in a case brought to test the constitutionality Daily News Items. of an act o f congress fixing minimum Three 8-Hour Shifts Run to Fill Increasing Demands. wages for women and minor girls in the District of Columbia. COMPILED FOR YOU I 2 I SCHOOL PAljS OUTPUT « AT HIGH PFAK I m u n rCHfV The decision was delivered by Jus U U I T U tice Sutherland, Justices McKenna, Reedsport.— Pile driving began Fri day on the site where will be built the Umpqua Mills and Timber company, a lumber mill incorporated by Wash ington men with Washington capital. Eugene.— Notwithstanding irregular ities in levying special road taxes throughout Lang county, the taxes will ' bc io ll,'ft ,'d an<1 Hie money expended Ha« to U m county court. Van Devauter, McReynoIds and Butler Reedsport. — The steamer Bertie Events o f Noted People, Governments joining with him. Chief Justice Taft Building Activity in California and Hanlon arrived at the Winchester Bay Reopening o f Northwest Mines and Pacific Northwest, and Other dock Friday afternoon. She will be | delivered a dissenting opinion for him loaded with 400.000 feet of lumber Big Boon to Market. self and Justice Sanford, while Justice Things Worth Knowing. for California points and left here last Holmes read a dissenting opinion night. which followed in its main features Fifty persons were killed and 20 wounded by an explosion at Anking, Anhwei province, China, incidental to the removal of ammunition from a powder magazine. President Harding has purchased his birthplace— a farm in North Bloomfield township, Morrow county, Ohio— where, as a barefooted boy, he passed his childhood days. A serious peasant rebellion against tho soviet government has broken out in south Russia, according to advice« received by the Ukraine representa tives in Berne, Switzerland. William Frizzell, 82, and Emma Bar rett, 65. widower and widow, both of Cascade Locks, were married in Hood River, Or., Rev. Gabriel Sykes, pastor of Asbury Methodist church, officiat ing. Judge William E. Dever, running on tho democratic ticket, was elected mayor of Chicago over Arthur C. Leuder, republican, by a plurality of 103,748, according to complete unof ficial returns. According to reports in Hutchison, Kan., a tornado struck Partridge, this county, at 5:30 o'clock Monday even ing. Half of the village is reported to have been blown away and several persons hurt. Robert Q. Ooldle, British vice-consul at Naples, died Saturday of injuries inflicted by a man who attacked the official while he was visiting a grotto near the city in "company with his wife, according to a dispatch from Naples. Two aged sisters lost their lives in a fire which destroyed the interior of their home in St. Louis Wednesday and two other sisters were burned severely. The dead are: Miss Eliza beth Nicholson. 91 years of age, and Mrs. Lucy Lindsay, 95. Secretary Hughes has Informed the British, French, Italian and Greek gov ernments, In identical notes handed their representatives in Washington, that the American Red Cross w ill ter minate its emergency relief work in Greece on June 30 next. * The Earl of Carnarvon died peace fully at 2 o’clock Thursday morning. He was conscious almost to the end. His death was due to blood poisoning through the bite of an Insect with the later development of pneumonia. Death occurred at the Continental hotel in Cairo. James V. Martin of the Martin aero plane factory. Long Island, alleging conspiracy to destroy his business, filed suit under the Clayton act in Washington, D. C., Wednesday to re cover $51.510,000 from the Manufactur ers' Aircraft association, Inc., 27 other corporations and 38 individuals. Max Bachman, 60. former wealthy director of the Boeton symphony or chestra and leader of his ow n orches tra at the Panama Pacific exposition at San Francisco, died In the county hospital In Fresno, Cal., Tuesday, prac tlcally friendless and in poverty, hug ging his favorite violin to his heart. Fourteen persons are known to have been killed in a tornado which early Wednesday struck PlnevlUe, La., and vicinity, across the Red river from Alexandria. At 10 o'clock a train ar rived bringing th« bodle« of eight per sons killed at Pineviile anil a sawmill settlement a mile east of that town. Dr. W. Edgar, president of th « Cen tral sanitarium, and Bruno Suderman. who says he is the discoverer of a treatment for tuberculosis and dia betes, reported to the New York police Tuesday that they, with Mrs. Edgar, were held up in t « outlaws The robfe«rs«took the copy of Suderman's formula and Jew elry. they said. that of Chief Justice Taft. Justice Brandeis did not participate in the decision. The majority based its position broadly upon the right of contract, insisting that while laws could be enforced to regulate working condi tions, the employer and the employe must be free of legal restraint in de termining between themselves what wages are acceptable. The minority contended that there was no greater police power In con gress and the state legislature to regu late working conditions than to regu late wages, and that as there had been wide uniformity in holding that working conditions could be prescrib ed by law-making bodies, it followed, In their judgment, that wages were also a proper subject for legislation. Justice Sutherland pointed out in the majority opinion that the mini mum wage law was “ attacked upon the ground that it authorizes an un constitutional interference with the freedom of contract included within the guaranties of the due process clause of the fifth amendment.” The right to contract "about one's affairs,” he stated, “ is part of the liberty of the individual protected by this clause.” The fact, he asserted, was "settled by the decisions of this court and is no longer open to question." “ Within this liberty are contracts of employment of labor,” the opinion continued. <“ 111 making such contracts, generally speaking, the parties have an equal right to obtain from each other the best terms they cun as the result of private bargaining." Legislative authority to ubridge the right of contract can be justified, Jus tice Sutherland stated, only by the ex Istence o f exceptional circumstances. Among the exceptions to the broad rule which had been sustained by the courts, he said, were statutes fixing rates to be exacted by business Im pressed with a public interest, those relating to contracts for the perform ance o f public work, those prescribing tho character, methods and time of payment of wages apd those fixing the hours of labor. Justice Sutherland declared the law under attack was not one "dealing with any business charged with a pub lic Interest or with public work or to meet and tide over a temporary em ergency." Three Months' Building Costs $1.250.000.000 Grants Pass.— A corporation to be Portland.— For the first time In the history of the lumber industry in Ore known as the "Oregon Caves Resort” has been organized by ten local busi gon mills located in the Columbia ness men and these will take charge river district have found It necessary of providing accommodations at the to operate 24 hours a day in order to caves this year. I keep up with the demands for timber Philomath.— A t the monthly session products. For the past week the In of the Philomath college executive man Poulson Lumber company here board, the Guy Frink residence was has been operating three daily eight- purchased for the use of the college hour shifts. The Westport Lumber president, H. Dixon Boughter. The company on the Columbia has been home is one of the finest in the city. doing likewise. Corvallis— The city council Friday Both of these mills sell the majority night voted to issue bonds up to $50,- of their products to the export trade. 009 for the extension of the Fillmore- street sewer westward to the city Orders from the orient, Australia. limits. This w ill bring building lots South America and other points have into service covering an area of 12 JOHN BLAKE been so large and have continued to . blocks. increase to such an extent that It has Albany.— Due to the success of the been impossible to fill them with few broccoli growers In this section. TIIE NEXT HURDLE out employing an extra shift of men. (many more acres will he planted to Other mills in the northwest are run this vegetable next year, and with RIDE In past achievement gives the bottom lands that are available you confidence. But you can eas ning extra shifts. near Albany quite a broccoli center is ily have too much of it. Yard stocks are exceedingly low L ife is a good deal like a hurdle in prospect. everywhere and lumber moves out to race. The next hurdle doesn't look Salem.— Dentists from all sections of so high when you have taken three or purchasers almost as fast as it goes the state have been called in Salem for four like it. But It is the next hurdle, through the plants. Other mills may the past few days holding their an not the last one, that you must think find it necessary to employ additional nual convention and treating the In about. shifts. Many are now operating 16 mates of the state penitentiary. A I However gracefully you cleared the hours a day and at that have to re banquet was one of the features of ! last one, your problem is getting over the one Just ahead. ject orders due to loabillty to fill the convention. Take advantage of all the confi them. Seaside.— Cannon Beach is exper dence you can get out of what you Last week the production of lum have done. But always remember ber by the mills of the northwest was iencing Its greatest building boom, ac j ttiat It is what Is still to be done, that cording to A. T. and A. M. Himes, greatly In excess of normal and at the is going to count. same time there was a demand that merchants, who were here Saturday. Napoleon Irritated his boasting gen More than 25 residences have been was greater, by far, than production. erals by answering tlielr stories of Shipments were in excess of orders, or are being built this spring, in addi battles won with the query, “ And what did you do the next day?” thus indicating that the problem of tion to several business blocks. Uncommon Sense P transportation, either by rail or by water. Is no longer a worry of the manufacturer. However, there is very little excuse for freight cars of any type to be on sidings and idle these days— they can find domestic ship ments at the several hundred mills that are operating to capacity in the northwest. A new demand for lumber has been felt recently from the copper mining districts. Due to an improvement in the copper market many of the mines that have been experiencing little pros perity for a long period of time are now opening. They are callin g for heavy timbers for construction and are using much rough lumber. The re cent report of the federal reserve agent at San Francisco shows that 15 big copper mines of the lntermoun- tain country are now operating, where as In 1920 at about the same time only eight were open. New York. — One billion and a quarter dollars’ worth of building per W o m a n B u r n s H e r s e lf. mits, the greatest amount for a similar Miami, Fla.— Crazed with pain of period In the nation's history, were long illness, which three operations taken out throughout the country dur | had failed to alleviate, Mrs. Helen ing January. February and March. 8. Slmins, 46, of Miami, drenched her W. Strauss & Co. announced Tuesday self with kerosene Sunday night, lit All records for March alone were a match to her clothing, screamed once broken, $420.851,343 worth of work be | and was dead. ing authorized in 205 cities, a gain of Police at first worked on the theory $161.357.012, or 62 per cent over March | that the woman had been murdered of last year. and because of her smallness of sta These figures, the company esti ture believed her to be but 16 year« mated, indicated a total of $ 600 . 000 ,- old. 000 throughout the nation for March. The gain In the eastern states was 41 C o a l S t r i k e 1« O v e r. per cent, central 75 per cent, southern Cardiff, Wales.— The striking miners 64 per cent and Pacific western 171 j in tho Rhondda coal fields held a per cent. .meeting late Sunday night and settled their differences. Work, therefor«, Two Slain in Memcl Fray. will be resumed tomorrow. The min«« Berlin.— Two Germans have been i employ about 46.009 men. killed during disturbances in which It was stated at the meeting that the German and Lithuanian factions practically all the non union miners In Memel were involved, according to now had joined the union. special dispatches to the Berlin news papers Tuesday. R e v e n u e s B e a t Costs. Machine guns are alleged to have • l i w -»dan been brought Into play by the Lith excess of $7 82 per capita of revenue uanians In dispersing a German meet Irecei; # governmental coats for ing held In protest against the In - census bureau anno«ac«4 corporation of the Memel region Into Saturday. The state's net indebtedness Lithuania was $18 37 per capita, compared with 1 56 cents In 1917. the increase having Cars for W e s t S o u g h t. The federal farm loan board called been due largely to issuance of high for redemption May 1 of all outstand Washington. D. C —Steps to bufld way construction bonds. v ing bonds of the 12 farm banks Issued kup transportation facilities for the May 1. 1918. The total of the issue next harvest in the west will be taken S o v ie t F r o n t ie r F ix e d . by the 12 banks Is $55,032,909. The at a meeting here Tuesday o f rail Riga.— After two years spent by a action of the farm loan board In call road officials with the car service divi mixed commission o f Latvians and ing all of the 1918 issue of land bank sion of the American Railway asso Russians in demarcating the Russo- bonds for retirement was accepted as ciation. Efforts will he made, the a s s » I-atvian frontier, tbe final agreement foreshadowln< an early Issue of new ! elation announced today, to formulate was signed here Saturday. bonds at a lower rat« of interest than definite plans for assuring whatever This Is said to be the first definitely the 5 per cent rate carried by th e ! rolling stork is needed to meet agri- I fixed frontier agreement signed by obilgations which are to be retired. |cultural and industrial requirements soviet Russia. It Is hard to be able to bask in the St. Helens.— Lumber shipments from light o f past accomplishments. Pleas St. Helens for the' week ending Sat ant It Is to sit hack, after doing some urday night were light as compared thing difficult, and admire ourselves with the previous week when close for doing it. to 6.000,090 feet was loaded and dis- j But life is like n moving sidewalk. patched. However, the shipments I You have got to keep up with it or get off. And we are all born with an amounted to more than 3,000,000. instinct that prompts us powerfully Pendleton.— Little market road con- j not to get off. struction work will be done in Uma Keep your eye on the next hurdle. tilla country this year owing to the That Is the hurdle that Is of vital In overlapping of the 1922 program on terest to you. It Is the one on which this year's funds, and the average of you must concentrate all your cour 30 miles annually of new road con age and all your energies. For If you don't get over It, you are struction w ill not be met this sea out of the race, and all the hurdles son. you have taken before have gone for ? At You * Because — YOU L IK E TO IT hbl a. P B YSBR ARGUE? You may he a bore or you may not with this propensity. Yet If you control it well you nre a stimulating |>erson to have about. Nothing is better for a crowd of lazy-minded folk than to have such as you around. You can argue on whether the moon has flowers, or rocks have life, or babies have rights, or women have hearts, or anything hut politics and religion and still be popular and amusing. Argument and discussion can he the pep of a party if no one gets huffy. SO Y o u r g e t-a w a y here is: YOU KEEP THE CROW D A M U S E D A N D IN T E R ESTED (© by McClure Newepuper Syndicate ) -o - T h e man who holds down the ladder a t the bottom Is freq u en tly o f Just as much service as the man a t the top. T h e m other In the home who Is faith fu l to her duties Is as In valuable as the breadw inner outside. FO O D FO R T H E F A M IL Y A NICE which little company sandwich is different, and served with a cup of cocoa or coffee will he enough for light refreshments is C h ic k e n S a la d R o lls. Mix one cupful of cooked chicken, one cupful o f chopped celery and one- half cupful of chopped green olives with three tuhlespoonfuls of mayon nothing. I f you linve had a little success, naise dressing, seasoning highly with make It a big success. Put the hurdle suit and cayenne. Cut small rolls into up a little higher. I f you have done halves, remove th« soft centers, «proud one Job well, find a tougher Job, and with softened butter and fill with the salad; press the halves together or do that better. That is what makes progress, and serve open with the tops garnished to progress Is necessary to the prosper suit the taste. ity and happiness of every human be F o r the C o o k y J a r. ing Just as it Is necessary to the pros Take one cupful of shortening, two perity and happiness of the whole hu cupfuls of sugar, two eggs, one cupful man rnce. There will he plenty o f hurdles to o f milk, three and one-half cupfuls of take. But when you have taken one flour, a teaspoonful of flavoring, a little make ready for another. For success salt and one teaspoonful of baking is Just one hurdle after another, and powder. Mix, chili and roll as thin as the man who takes them as they come possible. Sprinkle the tops with sugar Just before going into the oven. For is the man who wins out. variety cut with a doughnut cutter, (C o p y r l* h t bv John B la k e .) sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and add three halves of almonds, points to the center at equal distances. These nre called sand tarts. Sheridan.— Final drive of the city to clean up its street Improvement in debtedness was begun this week with the posting of notices to delinquent property owners. If payments are not forthcoming within the legal limit after the notices have been sent out the city will proceed to foreclose on the property. , Albany.—On July 12. 13. 14 Albany will be the scene of the annual en campment of the Spanish »W ar veter ans, department of Oregon. Prepara tions already are under way to care for between 400 and 500 vets. A dele gation numbering 250 from the largest post in the United States. Scout Young of Portland, Is expected. Roseburg— William Horn, trapper, hunter and prospector on Middle creek, in the south end of Douglas county, was in Roseburg Saturday after filing on a gold and silver strike which he made near Silver peak the first o f the week. This is reported to be the richest gold strike In Doug- las county for many years and much interest is shown in the find. H as A nyone Laughed CLAY • By D O U G LA S M A LLO C H i K -. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAN, they say, is made of A Undoubtedly it's true. j ; I I I ■ .n clay; R a is in B u t t e r S a n d w ic h e s. Soften butter by working it with a spatula or wooden spoon until creamy. To one-half cupful o f butter add nne- half cupful of finely chopped raisins and two tablespoonfuls of finely- minced candied ginger. Mix, and when o f the right consistency spread on but tered bread. Serve with afternoon tea. But then one finds so many kinds | O f clay— now haven't yon? Along the creeks are yellow- streaks Salem.— The frequent rains during | Of clay that wouldn’t do. P o r c u p in e A p p le s. the past two weeks has had a detri- ! I know the mushy sort of slush Select apples of uniform size and mental effect on the fruit crop in Mar Would never make a man; which will cook tender without losing Ion county, according to 8. H. Van He'd fall apart before you start. their shape. To half a dozen apples Trump, fruit Inspector for this dis- i Would crumble in the pan. prepare a sirup In which to cook them. trlct. He said considerable damage That's not the ditch o f clay in which When tender decorate with quartered had resulted to the fruit buda in the ; Humanity began. blanched almonds, sticking them into the apple as thick as desired. Pour Shaw section and that the blossoms j And In the yard is clay so bard. tbe sirup around the apples and hake brought out by the recent fair weather j So shrivelled up and dry. ka v« been blasted by 4he heavy rains So rough and cold with musty mold until the nuts are lightly browned. Sen e as dessert with cream. The cen of tbe past week. And Dill o f alkali ters may he filled with bright colored No love nor wit could soften It— Jelly and they may be arranged on a Salem — Contracts for the construe i You wouldn’t even try. platter If desired, with a spoonful of tton of state highways and bridges ag- i cream whipped stiff on each. gregatlng a cost o f $362.469 50 haTe But there is clay beside the way been awarded by tbe state highway I That's *4id yet will bend. commission, and actual work on tbe I That gives and takes— the kind that makes project will be started within the next ' I t . 1*11. W mh »™ K'wijMtpvr Umlon J A fellow an<l a friend. few weeks. Bids for this work were ; --------o -------- That, once you choose, you never lose. opened at a meeting o f tbe commission . That holds until the end. Holland's Thrifty Peasants. It is said that the Dutch peasant Is In Portland on March 27, but award j well-to-do. That Is indicated hy the Ing of the contract« was deferred be-1 So don't begin with d a y too thin. fact that Holland has more than two cause of the agitation looking to the | No t start with clay too thick. and one-half million accounts la sav The plastic kind you’ll always find referendum of the gasoline lax law The best to do the trick. ings banka, which means that more enacted at the last session of tho leg Just add a hand of good, old sand— than one in every three o f the popu islature. And then you'll hare a brick! lation Is laying away money for a rainy day. i 4 U M rC la rs N o i m m i S r s a ic u t*.) ~H cu. vrtiL