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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1917)
. WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. . COMPILED FOR BUSY READERS Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. August A. Brown, who served in the famous Light Brigade of the British army at Bulaklava, died at Elkton, Md. King Constantino, of Greece, has applied for and received the regular bread card which is issued to all heads of families. Rev. Dr. David H. Fouse, a prom inent Denver minister, addressing the Ben Franklin club, made a plea for birth control on moral and racial im provement grounds. Senator Shafroth made a set speech in the senate advocating passage of a constitutional amendment to limit a President to one six-year term and have him elected by direct vote. Six days after the fund available for paying off gopher bounties in Marion county, Or.,' became available, $2500 of the fund had been expended. This represented 25,000 gopher scalps. A correspondent on the Belgian front writing to the Amsterdam Telegrail says he learns Belgians deported from the neighborhood of Charleroi have been sent to occupied parts of Poland to perform compulsory labor. . Canadian casualties from the open ing of the war until December 31, a period of 29 months, total 68,290. This is made up of killed, 10,854; died of wounds, 4010; died of illness, 484; presumed dead, 1108; wounded, 48, 464; missing, 1970. Conductor Clyde Gibson, of Port An geles, Wash., and two laborers were killed and Engineer Harry Legeer, Fireman Bert Ferguson and 20 labor ers injured when a work train on the Seattle, Port Angeles & Western rail road was wrecked west of Majestic. Baron Devonport, the English food controller, has fixed the following prices which home growers may charge for their 1917 crops: Wheat, 60 shil lings per 504 pounds; oats, 38 shil lings 6 pence per 33G pounds; potatoes, a varying price of 115 to 130 shillings. Jaunary 10 has been tentatively agreed upon by the Federal Farm Loan Board as the day for opening stock subscription books to the 12 farm loan banks. The books will be opened in each city where there is a farm loan bank. According to the Handelsblad, of Amsterdam, more than 1,000,000 marks' worth of German cut diamonds will be shipped at an early date to America by a German submarine. A combination of German underwriters has agreed to insure the shipment at 8 per cent, "free of capture," or 11 per cent against capture. There is a woman's suffrage move ment in China but it does not amount to much now, Dr. J. W. Bashford, ' bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, resident in China, said on his arrival in San FranciBco recently. Suffrage in a constitution now making probably would bo based upon educa tional and pro port y qualifications, the bishop said. Postal clerks and carriers, both ur ban and rural, would receive increases of from 5 to 10 per cent in their sal aries by a bill agreed on by the house postal committee Friday. The in crease would affect about 200,000 car riers and cost $10,000,000 a year. The assassination of M. Jollos, an influential member of the Russian Duma, is reported by the Overseas News agency. According to this re port, M. Jollos disappeared mysteri ously a short time ago, and it is be lieved he was the victim of a political murder . All clocks In New South Wales were set ahead one hour January 1 to save daylight, according to a cablegram re ceived by the Australian Trade com mission in San Francisco, A daylight Baving act has sIbo been passed in the state of Victoria. An estimate that 60,000 persons in Massachusetts are addicted to the drug habit was included in a report of a commission appointed by Governor Mc Call to investigate the drug evil. The habit, it was said, is not confined to any particular class of people. Many Belgians who were deported to Germany for manual labor purposes, ant returning to their native country in pitiful conditions. One young lady was killed and her sister seriously injured when a Port land Interurban train struck their au tomobile at a crossing on the Estacada line Thursday. E. L. McClure, of Portland, one of the promoters of the "Forty-five Effi clency Club," became frantic at the organization meeting at the Library, and threatened violence with a pocket knife. PROCEEDINGS OE OREGON LEGISLATURE r SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY OREGON GOVERNOR 4 TO LEGISLATURE. Hope expressed that session will be businesslike and economical and establish record for excellence, sunity and brevity. 4 Tendency toward decentralization of state government deprecated. 4 Belief expressed that governor should control penitentiary administra- 4 tlon. Pruning of $401,000 from amounts asked for by state departments and institutions advised, together with legislation to .increase revenue by fr $260,000. Some of reductions suggested are: Limit of appropriations to $100,000 each for State University 4 and Oregon Agricultural College. 4 Reduction of wild animal bounty about 25 per cent. 4 Absorption of Child Labor and Industrial Welfare commissions by 4 Industrial Accident Commission. Absorption of work of Wocial Hygiene Society by State Board of 4 Health. Reduced appropriation for State t)airy and Food Commissioner and 4 transfer of food inspection duties to liuard of Health. Reduced amounts for Livestock Sanitary Board, Forestry Depart- merit, Department of Mines and Geology, State Engineer's office and 4 "Water Board and Public Service Commission. It is suggested that Forestry Department's expenses be met to greater extent by timber owners. 4 Only one salaried Tax Commissioner. Making Department of Weights and Measures Belf-sustaining. Penitentiary will require less because of reduced population, due to enactment of prohibition law. 4 Decrease in commitments to State Hospital also expected. fr Abolition of office of State Labor Commissioner at expiration of present term and transfer of duties to Industrial Accident Commission. Lastly, decrease in expenditures of present Legislature suggested. i Two suggested feasible sources of new revenue are: Readjustment of inheritance tax. f Increase of insurance tux from 2 per cent on net premiums, 4 Increase of Insurance tax from 2 per cent on net premiums to 2 per cent on gross premiums. Importance of road work reiterated, with moderate Increase in auto- mobile taxation, total revenue to be devoted to road work. Legislators told that people expect legislation making absolutely effective the provisions of the "bone-dry" liquor amendment, 4 Hotter housing and equipment for State Penitentiary recommended. 4 Flax experiment reviewed. Soundness of movement asserted. Outstanding 4 features are work for business and blazing of trail for new Oregon industry. 4 Investigation of feasibility of convict-operated lime auarrv suetfested. 4 State Supreme Court is overburdened. Limitation of appeals recom mended. Military training In State University and high schools recommended not compulsory, out wun credits given on scnool work. f Absentee voters' law for soldiers recommended. ' g Rural credits amendment requires legislation to make It operative. Provision for arbitration of industrial disputes. Passage of sane sterilisation act to check increase of the mentally unfit. 4 Establishment of child welfare department at State University. fr Creation of office of fire marshal recommended as good economics. fr Increase of anglers' license fee from $1 to $1.50 advised, additional funds 4 to go to propagation of trout for restocking streams, New fish ladder at 4 Oregon City advised. 4 State Fair needs coliseum. 4 Workable irrigation law needed. f Fruitful field for public economies lies In local administration. Waste in 4 printing of state reports should be eliminated. 4 Recognition of services of Oregon pioneers recommended at as early date 4 as state's finances will permit. 4 LEGISLATURE IS IN SESSION Organization Perfected and Business Commenced on First Day. State Capitol, Salem, Jan. 8. The Oregon legislature got off to a flying start today. In both senate and house the pre- siding officers were elected, desk clerks chosen and all details of organ ization completed when adjournment was taken this afternoon. More auspicious for a successful session even than this business-like expedition was the fact that there wasn't so much as a ripple of lnhar- mony. In the senate Gus C. Moser, of Mult nomah, was elected pres'dent by unan imous vote. All five of the Democratic senators voted for him, and two of them, Garland and Baldwin, seconded his nomination. In the house Robert N. Stanfield, of Umatilla, was elected speaker with out a dissenting voice after he had been nominated by Louis E. Bean, of Lane, his opponent for the position up to last night. Although the house did not get quite so far as the senate on its first day, there remains only for Speaker Stanfield to' announce his committees to put the two bodies on virtually the Bame footing. Mr. Stanfield will give out his committee list early tomorrow. In the senate five bills were intro duced before final adjournment for the day. The house adjourned at 4:05 o'clock. Before they adjourned, however, the issue of prohibition had been put up to both houses, and they had faced the Issue squarely. "Dry" Memorial Pastes.. It came about through the Introduc tion in the senate by Eddy, of Doug las, of a joint memorial petitioning congress to pass a bill pending to make the District of Columbia dry. This memorial was brought to imme diate vote on suspension of the rules after Senator Eddy had explained that he desired its passage today because the dry bill in question is to be con sidered in the United States senate tomorrow. With this explanation of the reason for rushing It through, not a senator voted against it. There were two absentees, Senators Bingham and Olson, and 28 voted aye. It had to wait in the house until the organization was completed. The rules were suspended and the question came up promptly on its merits. D. C. Lewis attempted to delay the proceed ings on the technical ground that the house was not ready for business. Dr. J. E. Anderson, leader of tho "dry" forces, insisted on an immediate roll call and was supported by Speaker Stanfield. Mr. Lewis Insisted that he was not opposed to the morits of the measure ami, to demonstrate his good faith, moved its adoption. But his position on the issue was brought into question again when he voted against it on roll call. The seven negative votes were: Desks Filled by Veteran. Salem. Tho Benate has an all-veteran desk organization. With one ex ception, all tho desk clerks and other officials of the Benato elected today served in the same capacity at the last session. They fairly bristle with ex perience. John W. Cochran, re-elected chief clerk, has been chief clerk for two sessions preceding this one. Mr. Cochran, though, is a mere Infant in point of service as compared to John R Hunt, of Woodburn, the capable assistant chief clerk in 1907, and he has not missed a session since. Few Changes In Rules. Salem. The house committee on rules met and decided to recommend the adoption of the rules used at tho 1915 session with the exception of a few minor changes. The committee on military affairs Is to be Increased from three to five members. The committee on insurance will be allowed a clerk on account of the heavy work due to consideration of the new insurance code. Callan, Corbett, Kubli, Lewis, Mackay, Schlmpff and Stott It is believed that this is the maxi mum "wet" strength in the house, and it is probable that most of this group of seven will vote favorably when the "bone-dry" bill comes up. The text of the joint memorial was telegraphed to Washington, D. C, tonight. Two more joint memorials, one ask ing congress for a national prohibition law, the other asking congress to bar liquor advertising from the mails, will be presented later by Senator Eddy. Dry Bill Too Drastic. Salem. Representative Lewis intro duced his prohibition bill in the house Tuesday, but it is due to die a natural death in committee. The Lewis bill is dryer even than the "bone-dry" bill. It Imposes Btrin gent regulations on clergymen using wine for Bacramental purposes, among other provisions requiring that each clergyman make affidavit to the pre cise number of communicants who ac tually drink wine in the performance of the reltgious rites. But dry forces in the house do not take the Lewis bill Beriously. The real dry bill intended to make operative the recently enacted "bone-dry" amendment will be introduced within a few days by Dr. Anderson, chairman of the alcoholic traffic committee. Express Agents Alarmed. Salem. Express agents in many parts of the Btate are becoming exer cised as to the possibilities of an emergency clause being attached to legislation making the "bone-dry" amendment effective, according to let ters being received by Attorney Gen eral Brown. Express agents would find themselves in an embarrassing condition if a law suddenly went into effect repealing the present act and leaving them with quantities of ship ments on their hands, which ship ments would have been perfectly legal the day before. Opposition to Be Withdrawn. Salem, Or. Senator Dlmlck will abandon his attacks on the Oregon naval militia at this session and from surface indications that organization will have a peaceful journey through the session. During the last six years, for three sessions, Senator Dimick has assailed the naval militia appropria tion, standing sponsor for bills to abolish the organization, and one year piloted his bill through the senate to victory, but it failed to pass both houses. This year the naval militia is asking for 115,900, ?900 in excess of the ap proptiation given two years ago. Platinum Deposits Valuable. Roseburg. Finding encouraging signs daily of the wealth in platinum deposits believed to lie in the hidden ledge of rock recently discovered on the place of W. F. Kernan, near Rose burg, the owner said Wednesday that he already was preparing to develop the property. Mr. Kernan said he em ployed several experts to examine the property and they gave various esti mates on the platinum value ranging from $50 to $100 to the yard. Wants Public Kindergartens. Salem. Senator Conrad P, Olson favors kindergartens for the young Bters of Multnomah county. He intro duced a bill providing for kindergar tens in counties of 20,000 or more, on petition of parents or guardians of 25 or more children between four and six years, living within one mile of an elementary school building. Not less than three nor more than five kinder gartens could be established the first year under this bill. Seek Early Appropriations. Salem. The senate resolutions com mlttee has decided to report favorably on a resolution by Dimick providing that the ways and means committee have on the desks of the members by the 30th day of the session all the gen eral appropriation bills ready for con sideration. Senator Wood, of the ways and means committee, appeared before the resolutions committee and declared himself favorable to the plan. J OF T1HE ETHEL ILLUSTRATED BY W.C .TANNE (Copyright, by the MR. STARR,' a widower Methodist minister, has been assigned to the con gregation at Mount Mark, Iowa. He and his daughter, Pru dence she is nineteen, and the eldest of five girls have come on ahead to get the new parson age ready for the younger mem bers of the family. Of course the whole town, especially . the Methodists, is throbbing with curiosity about the newcomers. Mrs. Adams, a member of the Ladles' Aid society, hurried over to call on Prudence, and nosing around found the girl on her knees praying in the barn. So she began at once to "pump" the girl for all she was worth It would be great stuff to tell the neighbors and is still at it. CHAPTER I Continued. 2 But to return to the Ladles the par sonage girls always capitalized the La dles of their father's church "One of us should go and help the dear child," said Mrs. Scott, the president of the Aids, when they assembled for their business meeting, "help her, and wel come her, and advise her." "I was thinking of going over," said one, and another, and several others. "Oh, that will not do at all," said the president. "I think In a case like this the president herself should represent , the society. Therefore, I will under take this duty for you." But this called forth a storm of pro test and it became so clamorous that it was unofficially decided to draw cuts ! Which was done, and In consequence of that drawing of cuts, Mrs. Adams now sat on the front porch of the old gray parsonage, cheered by the knowl edge that every other Lady of the Aid was envying her ! "Now, just be real sociable and tell mo all about yourself, and the others, too," urged Mrs. Adams. "I want to knqw all about every one of you. Tell me everything," "There Isn't much to tell," said Pru dence, smiling. "There are five of us ; I am the oldest I am nineteen. Then comes Fairy, then the twins, and then the baby." "Are the twins boys, or a boy and a girl?" "Neither," said Prudenoe, "they are both girls." "More girls I" gasped Mrs. Adams. "And the baby?" "She Is a girl, too." And Prudence laughed. "In short, we are all girls except father. He couldn't be, of course or I suppose he would, for our family does seem to run to girls." "Prudence is a very nice nnme for a minister's daughter," said Mrs. Ad ams suggestively. "Yes for some ministers' daugh ters," assented Prudence. "But Is sad ly unsuitable for me." Mrs. Adams looked critically at this young daughter of the parsonage. Then her eyes wandered down to her clothes, and lingered, in silent ques tioning, on- Prudence's dress. It was a very peculiar color. In fact, It was no color at all no named color. Pru dence's eyes had followed Mrs. Ad ams' glance, and she spoke frankly. "I suppose you're wondering if this dress 1 any color! Well, I think It really Is, but it isn't any of the regu lar shades. It is my own invention, but I've never named It. Fairy grew up nad out and around, and one day when I was so nearly out of clothes I hardly felt I could attend church any more, she suggested that I cut an old one of hers down for me! At first I lnughed, and then I was Insulted. Fairy is three years younger than I, and before then she had got my handed downs. But now the tables were turned. From that time on Fairy's clothes were cut down for me. I still feel bitter about It. Fairy is dark, and dark blues are becoming to her. She handed down this dress it was dark blue then. But I was not wanting a dark blue, and I thought it would be less recognizable If I gave It a con trasting color. I chose lavender. I dyed It four times, and this was the re sult." ' "Do the twins dress alike?" inquired Mrs. Adams, when she could control her voice. "Yes unfortunately for Connie. They do it on purpose to escape the handed-downs ! They won't even have hair ribbons different. And the result Is that poor Connie never gets one" new thing except shoes. She says she cannot help thanking the Lord In her prayers that all of us outwear our shoes before we can outgrow them. Connie Is only nine. Fairy Is sixteen, and the twins are thirteen. They are a very clever lot of girls." "And what are you going to dor In quired Mrs. Adams, looking with real affection at the bright, sweet face. "You ought to go to school. You're Just a girl yourself." "I dont want to go to school," laughed Prudence. "Not any more. I like It, just taking car of father and PAON HUESTON BobbB - Merrlll Company.) the girls with Fairy to keep me bal anced! I read, but I do not like to study. No, you'll have to get along with me just the way I am, Mrs. Ad ams. It's all I can do to keep things going now, without spending half the time dreaming of big things to do in the future." "Don't you have dreams?" gasped Mrs. Adams. "Don't you have dreams of the future? Girl's In books nowa days dream " ' "Yes, I dream," interrupted Pru dence, "I dream lots but it's mostly of what Fairy and others will do when I get them properly raised. You'll like the girls, Mrs. Adams, I know you will. They really are a gifted little bunch except me. I'm just common little Pru dence of the Parsonage but the oth ers!" , And Prudence flung out her hands dramatically. CHAPTER II. The Rest of the Family. , It was Saturday morning when the four young parsonage girls arrived in Mount Mark. The elderly Misses Avery, next door, looked out of their windows, pending their appearance on Main street, with interest and concern. They were Episcopalians themselves, and in all their long lives they had never so much as heard of a widower-ffcetor with five daughters and no housekeep er. There was something blood-curdling in the bare Idea. The Misses Avery considered Pru dence herself rather a sweet, silly little thing. "You have some real nice people In the Methodist church," Miss Dora had told her. "I dare say you will find a few of them very likable." "Oh, I will like them all," sold Pru dence quickly and seriously. "Like them all," echoed Miss Dora. "Oh, Impossible I" "Not for us," said Prudence. "We are used to It, you know. When we dislike people at first sight, we visit them, and talk to them, and invite them to the parsonage, and entertain them with our best linen and silver ware, and keep on getting friendlier and friendlier, and first thing you know, we like them fine !" So the Misses Avery concluded that Prudence was not entirely responsible. And they wondered, with something akin to an agony of fear, if the younger girls "had It, tool" and when Miss Alice cried excitedly, "Quick ! Quick ! They are coming!" they trooped to Miss Alice's window with a speed that would have done credit to the parson age girls themselves. First came the minister, whom they knew very well by this time, and con sidered quite respectable. He was lively, as was to be expected of a Methodist minister, and told Jokes, and laughed at them I Now, a comical rector oh, a very different matter- it wasn't done, that's all ! At any rate, here came the Methodist minister, laughing, and on one side of him tripped a small, earnest-looking maid en, clasping his hand, and gazing alter nately up Into his face and down at the stylish cement sidewalk beneath her feet. On the other side was Fairy. The Misses Avery knew the girts by name already having talked much with Prudence. "Such a Fairy I" gasped Miss Mllll- cent, and the others echoed the gasp but wordlessly. For Fairy was very nearly as tall as her father, built upon generous lines, rather commanding in appear ance, a little splendid-looking. Even from their windows they could discern something distinctly Junolike in this sixteen-year-old girl, with the easy, elastic stride that matched her fa ther's, and the graceful head, well car ried. A young goddess named Fairy Behind them, laughing and chatter ing, like three children, as they were came the twins with Prudence, each with an arm arouud her waist. And Prudence was a very little taller than they. When they reached the fence that bordered the parsonage, the scene for a moment resembled a miniature riot. The smaller girls Jumped and exclaimed, and clasped their hands. Fairy leaned over the fence, and stared Intently at this, their parsonage home. Then the serious little girl scrambled under the fence, followed closely by the Uthe-llmbed twins. A pause, a very short one and then Pru dence, too, was wriggling beneath the fence. "Hold the wire up for me, papa!" cried Fairy. "I'm too fat" And a sec ond later she was running gracefully across the lawn toward the parsonage. The Methodist minister laughed boy ishly, and placing his hands on the fence post, he vaulted lightly over, and reached the house with his daugh ters. Then the Misses Avery, school teachers and elderly, looked at one an other. "Did you ever?" gasped the oldest Miss Avery, and the others slowly shook their heads. Now, think I Did you ever see a rec tor Jumping a three-wire fence, and running full speed across his front yard In pursuit of a flying family? It may possibly have occurred we have never seen it. Neither had tne tnree Misses Avery. Nor did they ever ex pect to. And if they bad seen it. It is quite likely they would have joined the backsliders at that instant. But without wasting much time on this gruesome thought, they hurried to a window commanding the best view of the parsonage, and raised It. Then they clustered behind the curtains, and watched and' listened. There wus plenty to hear! From the parsonage windows came the sound of scamper ing feet and banging doors. Once there was the unmistakable clatter of a chair overturned. With it all there was a constant chorus of "Oh, look !" "Oh 1 Oh!" "Oh, how sweet!" "Oh, papa!" "Oh, Prudence!" "Look, Larkie, look at this!" Then the eldest Miss Avery closed the window overlooking the parsonage and confronted her sisters. "We must just make the best of It," she said quietly. But next door the gray old parson age was full to overflowing with satis faction and happiness and love. Every one has experienced the ecstatic, creepy sensation of sleeping in a brund-new home. The parsonage girls reveled In the memory of that first night for many days. "It may be haunted for all we know," cried Carol deliclously. "Just think, Connie, there may be seven ghosts camped on the head of your bed, waiting" "Carol!" When the family gathered for wor ship on that first Sabbath morning, Mr. Starr said, as he turned the leaves of his well-worn Bible, "I think it would be well for you to help with the morning worship now. When I finish reading the chapter, Connie, you will make the first prayer. Just pray for whatever you wish as you do at night for yourself. I will follow you." . Connie's eyes were wide with respon sibility during the reading of the chap- "Qulck! They Are Coming!" ter, but when she began to speak her voice did not falter. Connie had nine years of good Methodist experience back of her ! "Our Father, who art in heaven, we bow ourselves before thy footstool in humility and reverence. Thou art our God, our Creator, our Savior. Bless us this day, and cause thy face to shine upon us. Blot out our transgressions, pardon our trespasses. Wash us, that we may be whiter than snow. Hide not thy face from the eyes of thy children, turn not upon us in wrath. Pity us, Lord, as we kneel here pros trate before thy majesty and glory. Let the words of our mouths and the meditations of ' our hearts be accept able in thy sight, O Lord, our strength and our Redeemer. And finally save us, an unbroken family around thy throne In heaven, for Jesus' sake. Amen." This was followed by an electric si lence. Prudence was biting her lips painfully, and counting by tens ns fast as she could. ' Fairy was mentally go ing over the prayer, sentence by sen tence, and attributing each petition to the individual member in the old church at Exminster to whom it be longed. The twins were a little amazed, and quite proud. Connie was an honor to the parsonage but they were concerned lest they themselves should not do quite so well when their days came. But In less than a moment the minister-father began his prayer. When he said "Amen," Prudence was on her feet and half-way upstairs before the others were fairly risen. Fairy stood gazing Intently out of the window for a moment, and then went out to the barn to see if the horse was through eating. Mr. Starr walked gravely and soberly out the front door, and around the house. He ran into Fairy coming out the kitchen door, and they glanced quickly at each other. "Hurry, papa," she whispered; "you can't hold In much longer! Neither can I!" And together, choking with laugh ter, they hurried Into the barn and gave full vent tq their feelings. Doesn't It seem that the happy. ' go-lucky houseful of parsonags girls will win ths friendship of ths Avery spinsters and tear way ths barrier of snobbishness and rtssrve- which hedges them In? (TO BES CONTINUED, ..