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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1919)
WORLD HAP OF HT 1K Brief Resume Most important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing:. The state arsenal at Spandau, Ger many, employing 60,000 laborers, has been closed because of the coal short age. A blizzard which began Sunday in South Dakota and western Nebraska, reached Norfolk, Neb., Monday and is working eastward rapidly. Frederick William Hohenzollern, eldest son of the former German em peror, according to a Berlin dispatch to the Munich Zeitung, has instituted proceedings for a divorce. Disturbed conditions are reported in Turkestan, where BolBhevis.t activity is prevalent and where some 40,000 German and Austrian ex-prisoners re main. Conditions of living in Moscow are described as frightful by French ref ugees who have arrived at Stockholm. A cup of milk there costs 15 rubles and a pound of bread 25 rubles. Managers of the senate woman suf frage resolution have decided to call up the measure next Monday and, if possible, obtain a final vote. The re sult, they stated, would be very close. Famine and typhus are sweeping Tabriz, Persia, according to advices to the State department. Gordon Pad dock, the American consul at Tabriz, has been made chairman of a relief committee, Brest, France, has been added to the mail ports for 'the American ex peditionary forces. : The War depart ment announces that this was expect ed to increase the speed of the west bound mail service. A senate bill authorizing the addi tion of 90,000 acres to the Wyoming national forest by proclamation of the president was passed Monday by the house and sent to conference. The land is in central Wyoming. Two thousand troops, including 553 sick and wounded, were landed at Newport News, Va., Monday from the transport Susquehanna, which sailed from St. Nazaire January 17. Casual companies aboard included one from Idaho. The American Red Cross announces an appropriation of $30,828 for the erection and maintenance of a monu ment on the Island of May, Scotland, where are buried 179 American sol diers who lost their lives in the sink ing of the transports Tuscauia and Otranto. A bill requiring the adjutant general of the army and the secretary of the navy to furnish the adjutant general of each state with the names and rec ords of men from that state who served in the army and navy, during the war, was introduced in the house Monday by Representative Hawley of Oregon and referred to the military affairs committee. Chicago victims of the high cost of living found further satisfaction last Friday in the trend of produce prices. Butter at wholesale dropped 3 to 4 cents and potatoes declined 6 to 10c a bushel. New York became the 44th state to ratify the federal prohibition amend nient when the senate Friday, by a vote of 27 to 24, concurred in the McNab ratifying resolution adopted by the assembly last week. . - Prospect of industrial unemployment in this country was discussed briefly last week in the senate. Senators Kenyon, of Iowa, and Sraoot, of Utah, republicans, were Joined by Senator Thomas, of Colorado, in expressing ap prehension, while Senator Lewis, of Illinois, democrat, deprecated their statements and those of Secretary Morrison, of the American Federation ot Labor, and others regarding prob- , able depression. dUpatch from Lalbach says that King Peter, ot Serbia, who has been 111 for some time, has suffered second stroke of apoplexy. Recognition ot the provisional gov ernment of Poland has been accorded by the American government, officials ot the State department said Thurs day In making public a message which Secretary Lansing, at Paris, has sent by direction of President Wilson to Ignace Jan Paderewskl, the new Po lish premier. OREGON LEGISLATURE BRITAIN State Capitol. The most gigantic scheme of industrial development ever attempted in Oregon is wrapped up in a joint resoluticn introduced in the house of the legislature Saturday by Representatives Gordon, Coffey, Bean, Jones ot Lincoln and Polk and Sldler. Under the amendment the constitu tional limitation for indebtedness of 2 per cent is lifted and unincorporated sections ot the state or incorporated cities and towns may issue bonds in an amount not exceeding' 5 per cent of the assessed valuation for the purpose of developing hydro-electric energy in turn to develop the vast latent re sources of the state. Recitals are made in the resolutions of the practically unlimited possibili ties offered in Oregon for manufac ture of highest grade woolen fabrics; the manufacture of iron and steel, the wonderful future for milling and the production of its by-products; the ir rigation of great areas of fertile lands through the installation of pumping stations, and the opportunities which would be opened up for the use of electric current in the operation of machinery on farms and in the homes, so that isolated and less attractive sec tions of the state would be made the mecca for wonderful future rural de velopment. Proposed consolidation of the city of Portland and county of Multnomah made its appearance in the senate Monday when a proposed amendment to the constitution was brought to Salem by Frank S. Grant and intro duced by the Multnomah delegation by request," with Senator Banks in troducing the measure. In its provisions the proposed con solidation is most sweeping. It con solidates most everything In the city and county governments and gives the consolidated body control of the Wil lamette and Columbia rivers. Under the directions contained in the draft ed bill, the school board is wiped out in Portland and all the school boards in the various districts of the county are displaced. The same holds of road districts.' The municipalities of Gresham, Troutdale and Fairview are merged into one general corporation with Portland and in the combine is absorbed the port of Portland. The dock commission is not reached by the bill, but if the people adopt the constitutional amendment calling for the merger, the dock commission being a municipal entity, can be taken in later. The calling of a special election in June to vote bonds for the construc tion of public buildings as a means of helping to solve the employment prob lem of the returned soldiers and sail ors, is being considered by the house and senate joint committee on recon struction. Sentiment favoring this bond issue was pronounced at a meeting of the committee Monday afternoon, at which the reconstruction committee of the Washington legislature met with the Oregon lawmakers for a frank dis cussion of Industrial conditions. As supplemental to his land settle ment bill, introduced earlier in the session, Representative Richardson in troduced another measure providing for the same land settlement commis sion plan, but adding a provision call ing for a bond issue of $5,000,000 to be Issued during the next five years. The bonds are to be self-retiring by repayment of loans, similar to the rural credits plan. Senator Dimlck's bill prohibiting the teaching of German in all public and state-aid schools ot Oregon passed the senate on third reading Friday, after its opponents had attacked it in a series of debates extending through out the morning session and part of the afternoon. Opposition, however, was but slight ly stronger than Saturday, 11 votes being' recorded against the measure. Senators who opposed the bill were Senators Gill, Howell, Huston, Jones, Lafollette, Moser, Nlckersen, Norblad, Porter, Smith of Josephine and Stray er. The bill now will go to the house, where the opposition is expected to gather its forces in an effort to kill it Representative Home has proposed a measure in the house providing for a supertax of 25 per cent on idle and uncultivated lands which are tillable, exempting timber lands. This bill has the support ot the Federation of Labor. Four bills which gear in together and form the road programme legisla tion are practically ready for Introduc tion and will be offered during this week. These are the $10,000,000 bond bill, gasoline tax, license tax, and rules of the road. With a few minor changes, the measures are now complete and ready for consideration. That they eventually will be adopted ia the gen eral opinion, tor the obstructionists to the road programme have received a letbaok. Ill THROES T Leaders of Factions Seeking General' Remedy. HOARDING CHARGED Sir Eric Geddes Proposes Trade Union Management of Factory to Test Co-operative Plan. London. The industrial unrest has superseded the peace conference as the chief topio of interest in Great Britain. Many of the leaders in the camps of capital and labor are bringing out spe cifics for a general remedy. The proposal of John R. Clynes, the former food controller, for an indus trial congress representing all inter ests seems to be the most popular to day. It has a rival in a new society called the "National Alliance of Em ployers and Employed," with repre sentative men on both sides promoting. One point on which everyone is agreed is that some general principles, particularly applying to wages and hours, must be recognized. Sir Eric Geddes has made a novel proposal that some trade union take over a large national factory and run it as an experiment to show what can be done by such co-operative manage ment. Naturally, politics is becoming in volved in the agitation. Some work ers and free traders assert that the government is keeping back stocks of food, which might be released now, in order to keep up prices in the interest of the dealers, and also that the board of trade has an understanding with the manufacturers to maintain an em bargo against imports, in the interest of English goods. The protectionists justify Buch a pol icy by the argument that it guaran tees employment for British workers while the free traders argue that the whole community would benefit more by cheaper prices. While the debate rages the strike movement threatens to spread beyond the ranks of the manual workers. The Association of Railway Clerks is dis cussing action because the government will not recognize the station masters and agents as a body. The postal em ployes are arranging a meeting to put forward a scheme for a seven-hour day with a half holiday Saturday. Return Dutch Ships. Washington, D. C Dutch ships re quisitioned by the American govern ment during the war and now operated by the Shipping board will be uncon ditionally returned to Holland as rapid ly as they reach American ports at the conclusion of their present voyage, This announcement was made by the War Trade board, which has reached an agreement on the subject with the Shipping board. The Dutch ships were seized in American ports last March 20 by order of President Wilson, acting in the war emergency. There were 87 of the ves sels with an aggregate of 539,000 dead weight tons, but several were destroy ed by enemy action or storms while in the service of the United States. Under the agreement with the Dutch ship owners, vessels destroyed were to be replaced by money or ships at the option ot the Dutch owners and liberal rates for their use were al lowed. Year's Fair Dates Fixed. Seattle. Dates for this year's fairs were adopted and the following of ficers elected at the meeting here Sat urday of the North Pacific Fair cir cuit; George Walker, Chehalis, Wash. president; W. C. Brown, Vancouver, H. C, vice-president; II. C. Brown, Port land, secretary-treasurer. The fair schedule adopted follows: Southwest Washington, Centralla and Chehalis, August 18-23; Gray Harbor county, Elma, August 25 30; Interstate, Spokane, September 1-6; Vancouver, B. C, exhibition, September 8-13; Walla Walla, September 8-13; Washington state, Yakima, September 15-20; Mult nomah county, Gresham, Or., Septem ber 15-20; Oregon state, Salem, Sep tember 22-29; Provincial exhibition. New Westminister, B. C, September 20 October 4. Belgium Geta Big Credit Paris. Ten billion franca have been advanced to Belgium by Great Britain, France and the United States, the amount to be deducted from the first installment of the war indemnity to be paid by Germany, according to a Havas dispatch from Brussels. , The dispatch adds that the amount will be raised either by an Interallied bond issue or by a government loan having priority over all other loan. LABOR IE Carolyn i. ill CAROLYN MAY LEARNS SOME DISQUIETING NEWS FROM CHET G0RMLEY. Synopsla Her father and mother reported lost at sea when the JJunraven, on which they had sailed for Europe, was sunk, Carolyn May Cameron Hanna's Car'lyn Is sent from New Ybrk to her bach elor uncle, Joseph Stagg, at the Corners. The reception given her by her uncle is not very enthusiastic. Carolyn Is also chilled by the stern demeanor of Aunty Rose, Uncle Joe's housekeeper. Stngg is dismayed when he learns from a lawyer friend of his brother-in-law that Carolyn has been left practically penniless and consigned to his cure as guardian. Carolyn learns of the estrangement between her uncle and his one-time sweetheart, Amanda Parlow, and the cause of the bitterness between the two families. Prince, the mongrel dog that Carolyn brought with her, and. the boon companion of the lonesome girl, is in disfavor with Uncle Joe, who threatens to dispose of him, but Prince becomes a hero and wins the approval of the Corners by routing a tramp in the net of robbing the schooltencher. The following Sunday, while Carolyn and her uncle, accompanied by Prince, are taking a walk In the woods they encounter Amanda Parlow.' Prince kills a snake about to strike Amanda, and Stagg and Amanda speak to each other for the first time in years. . . , CHAPTER VIII. ' 9 Chet Gormley Telia Some News. It was when she came In sight of the Parlow place on Monday after noon, ehe and Prince, that Carolyn May bethought her of the very best person in the world with whom to ad vise upon the momentous question which so troubled her. Who could be more interested in the happiness of Miss Amanda than Mr. Parlow himself? The little girl had been going to call on Miss Amanda. Aunty Rose had said she might and Miss Amanda had invited her "specially." But the thought of taking the old carpenter Into her confidence and ad vising with him delayed that visit. Mr. Parlow was busy on some piece of cabinet work, but he nodded briskly to the little girl when she came to the door of the shop and looked In. "Are you very busy, Mr. Parlow?" she asked him after a watchful min ute or two. "My hands be, Car'lyn May," said the carpenter In his dry voice. "Ohl" "But I kin listen to ye and I kin talk." "Oh, that's nice! Did you hear about what happened yesterday?" "Eh?" he queried, eying her quizzi cally. "Does anything ever happen on Sunday?" "Something did on this Sunday," cried the little girl. "Didn't you hear about the snake?" "What d'ye mean snake?" And then little Carolyn May . ex plained. She told the story with such earnestness that he stopped working to listen. "Humph 1" was his grunted com ment at the end. "Well I" "Don't yon think that was real ex citing?" asked Carolyn May. "And just see how it almost brought my Uncle Joe and your Miss Amanda to gether. Don't you see?" Mr. Parlow actually jumped. "What's that you say, child?" he rasped out grimly. "Bring Mnndy and Joe Stngg together? Well, I guess not I" "Oh, Mr. Parlow, don't yon think that would be Just be-a-you-ti-ful?" cried the little girl with a -lingering emphasis npon the most Important word. "Don't you see how happy they would be?" "I don't know as anybody's per tic'lar anxious to see that daughter of mine and Joe Stagg friendly again. No good would come of It." Carolyn May looked at him sorrow fully. Mr. Parlow had quite disap pointed her. It was plain to be seen that he was not the right one to ad vise with about the matter. The little girl sighed. "I really did s'pose you'd want to see Miss Amanda happy, Mr. Parlow," she whispered. "Happy? Bahl" snarled the old man, setting vigorously to work again. He acted as If be wished to eay no more and let the little girl depart without another word. Carolyn May really could not under stand it at least she could not Im mediately. That Mr, Parlow might have a self ish reason for desiring to keep his daughter and Joseph Stagg apart did not enter the little girl's mind. After that Sunday walk, however, Carolyn May was never so much afraid of her uncle as before. Why, he had even called Prince "good dog I" Truly Mr. Joseph Stagg was being transformed If slowly. He could not deny to himself that, to a certain extent, he was enjoying the presence of bis little niece at The Corners. If be only could decide just what to do with the personal property of his sister Hannah and her husband down In the New Tork apartment Never In his life had be been so long deciding a question. He had really loved Hannah. He knew It now, did Joseph Stagg, every time he. looked at the lovely little child who had come to live with him at The Corners. Why! just so had Hannah looked when she was a little thing. The same deep, violet eyes and of the Corners BY RUTH BELMORE ENDICOTT Mr. Stagg sometimes actually found a reflection of the cheerful figure of "Hannah's Car'lyn" coming between him and the big ledger over which he spent so many of his waking hours. - Once he looked up from the ledger It was on a Saturday morning and really did see the bright figure of the little girl standing before him. It was no dream or fancy, for old Jimmy, the cat, suddenly shot to the topmost shelf, squalling with wild abandon. Prince was nosing nlong at Carolyn May's side. "Bless me!" croaked Mr. Stagg. "That dog of yours, Car'lyn May, will give Jimmy a conniption fit yet. What d'you want down here?" Carolyn May told him. A man had come to the house to buy a cow and Aunty Rose had sent the little girl down to tell Mr. Stagg to come home and "drive his own bargain." "Well, well," said Mr. Stngg, lock ing the ledger In the safe, "I'll hustle right out and tend to it. Don't see why the man couldn't have waited till noontime. Hey, you, Chetl Look out for the store. Don't have any fooling. And" "Oh, uncle I may I stay, too? Me and Prince?" cried Carolyn May. "We'll be good." "Pshaw! Yes, If you want to," re sponded Mr. Stagg, hurrying nway. "My! your uncle's changln' more and more, ain't he?" remarked Chet, the optimistic. "He does sometimes Think You Are Miss Amanda." almost laugh, Car'lyn. I never see the bent of It!" "Oh, Is he?" cried the little child. Ts he looking op more? Do you think be is, Chetl" '1 positively do," Chet assured her. "And he hasn't always got his nose in that old ledger?' Well I wouldn't say that he nee- lectea ousiness, nt, ma am," said the boy honestly. "Yon see, we men have got to think of business mostly. But he sure Is thlnkln' of some other things wo ya-as, inueedyr "What things, ChetT" Carolyn Mav asked anxiously, hoping that Uncle Joe had shown some recovered Inter est In Miss Amanda and that Chet had noticed It "Why well Now, you see, there's that house you used to live In. You know about that?" "What about It, Chetr the little gin asked rather timidly. "Weil, Mr. Stagg ain't never dono nothin' about It He ain't sold It, nor soia ine rurmmre, nor nothin'. You know, Car'lyn May, your folks didn't leave you no money." "Ohl Didn't theyr cried Carolyn May, greatly startled. "No. Yon see, I heard all about It Mr. Vlckers, the lawyer, came In h one day and your ancle read a letter to him out lend. I couldn't help but hear. The letter was from another 1 " cfl Lovely. Copyright, 1918, tr Dodd, Stead Company, In your concerns. I heard it all," said the quite Innocent Chet. "And Mr. Vickers says: 'So the child hasn't anything of her own, Joe?'" Chet went on. "And your uncle says : 'Not a dollar, 'cept what I might sell that furniture for.' And he hasn't sold It yet I know. He Just can't make up his mind to sell them things that was your mother's, Car'lyn May," added the boy, with a deeper insight into Mr. Stagg's character than one might have given him credit for pos sessing. But Carolyn May had heard some news that made her suddejily quiet and she was glad a customer came into store just then to draw Chet Gorm ley's attention. The child had never thought before about how the good things of life came to her her food, clothes and lodging. But now Chet Gormley's chattering had given her a new ylew of the facts of the case. There had been no money left to spend for her needs. Uncle Joe was Just keeping her out of charity ! "And Prince, too," thought the little girl, with a lump In her throat. "He hasn't got any more home than a rab bit! And Uncle Joe don't really like dogs not even now. "Oh, dear me!" pursued Carolyn May. "It's awful hard to be an or phan. But to be a poor orphan just a charity one Is a whole lot worse, I guess. I wonder if I ought to stay with Uncle Joe and Aunty Rose and make them so much trouble?" The thought bit deep into the little girl's very impressionable mind. She wished to be alone and to think over this really tragic thing that faced her the ugly fact that she was a "charity child." "And you're a charity dog, Prince Cameron," she said aloud, looking down at the mongrel who walked se dately beside her along the country road. The little girl had loitered along the road until it was now dinner time. Indeed, Aunty Rose would have had the meal on the table twenty minutes earlier. Mr. Stagg had evidently re mained at The Corners to sell the cow nnd eat dinner too thus "killing two birds with one stone." And here Carolyn May and Prince were at Mr. Parlow's carpenter shop, just as the old man was taking off his apron preparatory to going in to his dinner. When Miss Amanda was away nursing, the carpenter ate at a neigh bor's table. Now Miss Amanda appeared on the side porch. "Where are you going, little girl?" she asked, smiling. "Home to Aunty Rose," said Carolyn May bravely. "But I guess I'm late for dinner." "Don't you want to come In and eat with us, Carolyn May? Your own din ner will be cold." Oh, mny I?" cried the little girl. Somehow she did not feel that she could face Uncle Joe Just now with this new thought that Chet Gormley's words had put into her heart. Then she hesitated, with her hand on the gate latch. "Will there be. some scraps for Prince?" she asked. "Or bones?" "I believe I can find something for Prince," Miss Amanda replied. "I owe him more than one good dinner, 1 guess, for killing that snake. Come In and we will see." Carolyn May thought that Miss Amanda, In her house dress and ruffled apron, with sleeves turned back above her dimpled, brown elbows, was pret tier than ever. Her cheerful observa tions quite enlivened Carolyn May again. I think you are lovely. Miss Aman da," she said as ehe helped wipe the dishes after the carpenter had gone back to the shop. "I shall always love you. I guess that anybody who evei did love you would keep right on doing so till they died! They Just couldn't belpltl" "Indeed?" said the woman, lauehtaa "And how about you, Chicken Llttlel Aren't you universally beloved too?" un, i don t expect so. Miss Aman da," said the child. "I wish I was." "Why aren't you?" "I I Well, I guess It's Just be cause I'm not" Carolyn May said des perately. "You see, after all, Misa Amanda, I'm only a charity child." "Oh, my child!" exclaimed MIsa Amandn. "Who told you that?" ' "I I Just heard about It" confessed the little visitor. "Not from Aunty Rose Kennedy T "Oh, no, ma'am." "Did that Did your uncle tell you such a thing?" "Oh, no I He's Just as good as h can be. But of course he doesn't Uk children. You know be doesn't And he Just "bomlnates dogs! Carolyn and Prince have art other adventure. In which they play the part of goo Samari tan. Watch for the next Installment sunn hair and laughing Hps- lawyer aaa twm all about jrou ana (TO BB CONTINUKHV