MINIMUN WAGE LAW ILLEGAL
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! 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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YOU
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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
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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
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Undoubtedly it's true.
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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 ;
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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.
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