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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1923)
L OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted IPeople, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Joseph W. Folk, ex-governor of Mis souri and once a leading figure in democratic party politics, died Mon day in New York. Mrs. Marian Stewart Honeyman, of River Head, N. Y., only living child of the late John K. Stewart, Irish im migrant boy who built up a $7,000,000 fortune by his invention of a speedo meter, Tuesday won the last step in , her long fight to oust as her guardians Leander La Chance and Martin Tay lor. Cuba is one of the countries with which negotiations for a new commer cial treaty are under consideration at the state department, it was learned Tuesday, although there have been no negotiations between Ambassador Crowder and the Cuban government. Twenty persons were wounded, some of them seriously, when rival fac tions Tuesday night stormed the Ros arlo city hall in Argentina, where an agitated session was expected on ac count of a conflict between the mayor and the councilors over municipal reg ulations,' An attack by Bonl Urrlagol tribes men on the position held by the Span ish forces at Tizziaza, Morocco, has been repulsed with heavy losses to the rebels, according to an official statement, The Spanish casualties were three officers and four men .. wounded. American girls last year used 180, 143,136 nets made out of Chinese pig tails to hold in their hair. The net makers, practically all of them locat ed In Chefoo, China, collected ?3, 319,322 for supplying the product. In 1914 the total value of hair nets ex ported from Chefoo was only $719. The L. E. Myers company of Chi cago, understood to be connected with one of the largest electric and public utility corporations in the country, purchased the holdings of the Bend Water, Light & Tower company at llend, Or., in a deal said to involve nearly $1,000,000. Twenty-four veterans of the war be tween the states refused to march in a joint Memorial day parade in Louis ville, Ky., Wednesday, when the chair man of the committee on arrange mohts, a federal veteran, refused per mission to them to carry the stars and bars of the confederacy at the head of their column. King George and Queen Mary Wed nesday night held the first court of the seaslon. It was a brilliant function, but there still was a lacking in the pre-war luxury in the gowns of the women. For the first time dobutantes were permitted to wear colored frocks. The hues most favored were rose pink and forget-me-not blue. The remains of a settlement esti mated to be at least 7000 years old has been unearthed at Holmegards mos, Denmark. Numerous flint imple ments, bone harpoons, arrowheads, grindstones, chisels and tooth spears were found. No human bones have been found but the excavators uncov ered skeletons of several animals. The neatest bit of ultra-scientific detective work ever brought to bear upon phenomena which were supposed to have their origin in the spiritual world was disclosed Tuesday when in vestigators for the Scientific Ameri can revealed the methods by which a "medium" had been exposed at seances held in their offices. Deli cate electrical devicos were used to record infallibly the movements of the medium and to show that the "psy chic phenomena" which he brought about were evident only when he was moving about the room. Paresis, the brain disease which is responsible for a large percentage of Insane hospital inmates, has been per manently cured through the use of a newly, discovered drug called trypar samid, according to an announcement made Monday at Madison, Wis. Through graniB made by the public health Institute of Chicago, Dr. A. S. Loevenhart, head of the department of pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin, and Dr. W. F. Lorenz, chief of the Wisconsin psychiatric hospital, have conducted experiments tor sev oral years leading to the discovery of the cure. 1 D HAPPENINGS CURRENT WEEK LANGUAGE TEACHING UPHELD State Laws Prohibiting German Held Void by Supreme Court. Washington, D. C State statutes which would prohibit the tonehing or use of foreign languages In all schools below the eighth grade were declar ed void by the supreme court Monday as an unlawful encroachment upon the rights conferred by the 14th amendment, which, provides that "no state . . . shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without duo process of law." Justice Holmes de livered a dissenting opinion, in'which Justice Sutherland Joined. The question was presented to the court in cases coming from Iowa, Nebraska and Ohio. Eighteen other Btates, with similar statutes, partici pated. Justice McReynolds, who delivered the majority opinion, asserted that the 14th amendment without doubt "denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint, but also the right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the conimon occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, establish a home and to bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of ills own conscience, and generally to enjoy those privileges long recognized by common law as es sential to the orderly pursuit of hap piness by free men." This liberty, the court added, can not be Interfered with under the guise of protecting the public interest by legislative action which is arbitrary or without reasonable relation to some purpose within the competency of the state affected. ' Final determination of what con stitutes proper exercise of police pow er is within the courts, Justice Mc Reynolds asserted, and does not rest wtlh the legislatures of the Btates. While the American people, the court pointed out, have always regard ed education and acquisition of knowl edge as matters of supreme import ance which should be diligently pro moted, and while it is the right and natural duty of the- parent to give his children education suitable to their station in life, many states have at tempted to enforce the obligation by compulsory laws. "That the state," Justice McRey nolds declared, "may do much, go very far, indeed, in order to improve the quality of its citizens, physically, men tally and morally, is clear, but the individual has certain fundamental rights which must lie respected." "The protection of the constitution extends to all," the opinion said, "to those who speak other languages as well as to those born with English on the tongue. Perhaps it would be high ly advantageous if all had ready under standing of ordinary speech, but this cannot be coerced by methods which conflict with the constitution a de sirable end cannot be promoted by prohibited means. "The desire of the legislature to foster a homogeneous people with American ideals prepared readily to understand current discussions of civic matters is easy to appreciate. Un fortunate experiences during the late war and aversion toward every char acteristic of truculent adversaries were certainly enough to quicken that aspiration. But the means adopted, we think, exceed the limitations upon the power of the state and conflict with the rights assured to plaintiffs. The interference is plain enough and no adequate reason therefore in time of peace and domestic tranquility has been shown." As the statutes before the court undertake, Justice McReynolds con cluded, "to interfere only with teach ings which Involve a modern language, leaving complete freedom as to other matters, there seems no ' adequate foundation for the suggestion that the purpose was to protect the child's health by limiting his mental activi ties. It is well known that proficiency in a foreign language seldom comes to one not instructed at an early age and experience shows that this is not injurious to the health, morals or un derstanding of the ordinary child." Charity Bout Misnomer. Chicago. Charity received $25 from tlve $55,000 receipts of the recent Leonard-Mitchell boxing contest which end ed in a riot and Uncle Sam received nothing in the way of an amusement tax, Mrs. George W. Reinecke, internal revenue collector, let it be known, as well as her determination to investi gate such entertainments billed as "benefits." . Girl, Lost, Found, Die. Montrose, Colo. Helen Gray, 13 years of age, daughter of Warren Gray, living near here, was found Sun day by a posse after a search that last ed since she disappeared Saturday, May 25, when she went to drive some cattle home. The child died of hunger a few moments after she was found and before a physician could be sum moned. Authorities believe that the cattle went into the cedars and that in following them Helen was lost. i LIQUOR LID TOjECLlPED New Rules Tossed , on Inter national Doorstep. BAN EFFECTIVE 10TH Treasury Issues Regulations Barring Iieveragcs From U. S. Ter ritorial Waters. Washington, D. C. The treasury tossed on the international doorstop Sunday night its new regulations carrying out the supreme court de cision barring all beverage liquors from territorial waters of the United States after 11:01 A. M. June 10. No loopholes have been left, according to a treasury spokesman, and the court's recent construction of the dry law will be rigidly applied. Having failed to find any way by which conflict with foreign laws could be avoided, the treasury based its new ship liquor ruleB on a literal read ing of the court's opinion and prepared to let come what may. Its only hope of alleviating a situation, which most officials agree will be embarrassing to international commerce, was said to lie in remedial legislation from the next congress. ' Except for the exemption granted medicinal liquor, the usual immuni ty accorded diplomats and the priv ileges allowed foreign vessels of war, the regulations permit of no inbound passage of alcoholic beverages. Consideration- is given, however, to ships forced by the extremity of distress to put into an American harbor. But even such vessels, if they have liquor aboard, must show that the necessity was grave and "the proof must be con vincing," after which they will be re quired to give bond for. faithful ob servance of the American dry law. Concerning the hope among for eign maritime powers of relief from what is regarded as one of the most drastic interpretations ever given by the supreme court, some treasury of ficials feel that congress might find a way of circumventing the import deadline. Others were convicted that the barred zone was due to remain un til a change was made in the' 18th amendment. In this connection it was pointed out by the latter that the decision of the supreme court was based funda mentally on the sweeping provisions of the amendment rather than on the enforcement act, and that the court held, regardless of whether liquor for beverage uses was being imported, its being carried for any such purpose within the three-mile limit constituted transportation, which is specifically forbidden by the amendment. The leg islation to relieve the situation from the foreign viewpoint, it was contend ed, could scarcely be other than in contravention of the constitution and thereby invalid. Moro Fanatics and Chief Slain. Manila. Fifty-three fanatical Moros, Including Akbara, the self-styled bullet-proof prophet, have been killed in a fight with the constabulary on the island of Fata near Jolo (Sulu). . No details of the uprising have been re ceived. A total of 806 Moros sur rendered to the constabulary after the battle. It is estimated there were 200 more of the fanatics still at large, includ ing three petty chieftains. The authorities believed the fight had broken the back of the fanatics' movement, but further constabulary detachments were being sent to the district to gather in all the adherents of the prophet Akbara. Cape May, J. Captain Francis Holmes of Norbury's landing and a party of two fishermen broke all rec ords on the southern Delaware bay shore for one day's channel bass fish ing, when just at sundown Sunday they reached the landing with 21 chan nel bass. The combined weight of the fish tipped the scales at 1590 pounds. More than 600 fishermen arrived here this morning on the Reading fisher men's speciul to try their luck at the fish. Picador Play Is Fatal. Mexican, Lower Cal. Ramon Eari quez, 14 years old, was killed Sunday while playing at bull fighting with a number of other hoys a few miles south of Mexicall. While taking the part of a picador, a bucking pony threw him. He land ed on the horns of a bull, which toss ed him- under the pony's feet. The bull's horns passed through his body and the horse's kicks fractured his skull. MISS LULU BETT By ZONA GALE Copy right bj p. Applotoo t Company "D N SHAMEI" SYNOPSISH-General factotum In the house ot her ulster Ina, wife of Herbert Deacon, In the small town of Warbleton, Lulu Bett leads & dull, cramped existence, with whk'h she Ib constantly at enmity, though apparently satisiled with her lot. To Mr. Deacon comes Bobby Lar kln, recently graduated high-school youth, secretly enamored of Dea con's elder daughter, Diana, an ap plicant for a "Job" around the Deacon house. He Is engaged. The family Is excited over the news of an approaching visit from Dea con's brother Nlnlan, whom he had not seen for many years. Deacon Jokes with Lulu, with subtle mean ing, concerning the coming meet ing. Lulu Is Interested and specu lative, meanwhile watching with something like envy the boy-and-glrl love-making of Hobby and Di ana. Unexpectedly, Nlnlan arrives. Thus he becomes acquainted with Lulu first and In a measure under stands her position in the house. To Lulu, Nlnlan Is a much-traveled man of the world, and even the slight Interest which he takes In her Is appreciated, because it is something new In her life. And Nlnlan appears to like Lulu. The family takes an outing, with im portant results. Ill Continued. "Those who disregard the comfort of other people," he enunciated, "cannot expect consideration for themselves In the future." He did not say on what ethical tenet this dictum was based, but he deliv ered it with extreme authority. Ina caught her lower lip with her teeth, dipped her head and looked at Di. And Monona laughed like a little demon. As soon as Lulu had all In readiness, and cold corned beef and salad had be gun their orderly progression, Dwlght became the Immemorial dweller in green fastnesses. He began: "This is Ideal. I tell you, people don't half know life if they don't get out and eat in the open. It's better than any tonic at a dollar the bottle. Nature's tonic eh? Free as the air. Look at that sky. See that water. Could anything be more pleasant?" He smiled at his wife. This man's face was glowing with simple pleasure. He loved the out-of-doors with a love which could not explain Itself. But he now lost a definite climax when his wife's comment was heard' to be: "Monona! Now It's all over both ruffles. And mamma does try so hard. ..." After supper some boys arrived with a boat which they beached, and Dwight, with enthusiasm, gave the boys ten cents for a half hour's use of that boat and invited to the waters his wife, his brother and his younger daughter. Ina was timid not be cause she was afraid, but because she was congenitully timid with her this was not a belief or an emotion, it was a disease. "Dwlght, darling, are you sure there's no danger?" "Why, none. None In the world. Whoever heard of drowning in a river?" "But you're not so very used " , Oh, wasn't he? Who was It that bad lived in a boat throughout youth, if not he? Ninian refused out-of-hand, lighted a cigar, and sat on a log In a perma nent fashion. Ina's plump figure was fitted in the stern, the child Monona affixed, and the boat put off, bow well out of water. On this pleasure ride the face of the wife was as the face of the damned. It was true that she revered her husband's opinions above those of all other men. In politics, in science, in religion, in dentistry, she looked up to his dicta as to revelation. And was he not a magistrate? But let him take oars In hand, or shake lines or a whip above the back of any horse, and this woman would trust any other woman's husband by preference. It was a phenomenon. ' Lulu was making the work last, so that she should be out of everybody's way. When the boat put off without Ninian, she felt a kind of terror and wished that he had gone. He had sat down near her, and she pretended not to see. At last Lulu understood that Ninian was deliberately choosing to remain with her. The languor of his bulk after the evening meal made no explanation for Lulu. She asked for no explanation. He bad stayed. And they were alone. For Dl, on a pretext of examining the flocks and herds, was leading Bobby away to the pastures, a little at a time. The sun, now fallen, had left an even, waxen sky. Leaves and ferns appeared drenched with the light just withdrawn. The bush, the warmth, the color, were charged with some In fluence. The nlr of the time communi cated itself to Lulu as intense and quiet happiness. 1 She had not yet felt quiet with Ninian. For the first time her blind excitement In his presence ceased, and she felt curiously accus tomed to him. To blm the air of the time Imparted itself in a deepening of his facile sympathy. "Do yon know something?" he be gan. "I think you have it pretty hard around here." "I?" Lulu was genuinely aston ished. "Yes, sir. Do you have to work like this all the time? I guess you won't mine my asking." "Well, I ought to work. I have a home with them. Mother, too." "Yes, but glory 1 You ought to have some kind of a life of your own. You want it, too. You told me you did that first day." She was silent. Again he was In vesting her with a longing which she had never really had, until he had planted that longing. She hud wanted she knew not whut. Now she accept ed the dim, the romantic Interest of this role. "I guess you don't see how it seems," he said, "to me, coming along a stranger so. I don't like It." He frowned, regarded the river, flicked away ashes, his diamond obedi ently shlnlntr. Lulu's look, her bend 'drooping, had the liquid ulr of the look of a young girl. For the first time in her life she was feeling her helplessness. It Intoxicated her. "They're very good to me," she said. He turned, "Do you know why you think that? Becuuse you've never hud anybody really good to you. That's why." "But they treat me good." "They make n slave of you, Regu lar slave." He puffed, frowning. "D d shnme, I call It," he said. Her loyalty stirred Lulu. "We have our whole living" "And you earn it. I been watching you since I been here. Don't you ever go nnywheres?" She said: "This is the first place in in years." "Lord! Don't you want to? Of course you do!" "Not so much places like this" "I see. What you want Is to get away like you'd ought to." He re garded her. "You've been a blamed fine-looking woman," he said. She did not flush, but the faint, un suspected Lulu spoke for her: "You must have been a good-looking man once yourself." His laugh went ringing across the water. "You're pretty good," he snld. He regarded her approvingly. "I don't see how you do it," be mused, "blamed if I do." "How I do what?" "Why come back, quick like that, with what you say." Lulu's heart was beating' painfully. The effort to hold her- own in talk like this was terrifying. She had never talked in this fashion to anyone. It was as If some matter of life or death hung on her ability to speak an alien tongue. And yet, when she was most at loss, that other Lulu, whom she had never known anything about, seemed suddenly to speak for her. As now : "It's my grand education," she said. She sat humped on the log, her beautlfdl hair shining in the light of the warm sky. She had thrown off her hat and the linen duster, and was in her blue gingham gown against the sky and leaves. But she sat stiffly, "Wouldn't It Be Fun to Elope and Surprise the Whole School?" Said Dl, Sparkling. her feet carefully covered, her hands ill at ease, her eyes rather piteous In their hope somehow to hold her vague own. Yet from her came these sufficient, Insouciant replies. "Education," he said laughing heart ily. "That's mine, too." He spoke a creed. "I ain't never had it and 1 ain't never missed It." "Most folks are happy without an education," said Lulu. "You're not very happy, though." "Oh, no," she said. "Well, sir," said Nlnlan, "I'll tell you what we'll do. While I'm here I'm going to take you and Ina and Dwight up to the city." "To the city?" "To a show. Dinner and a I'll give you one good time." "Oh!" Lulu leaned forward, and Dwight go sometimes. I show. "Ina never been." "Well, just you come with me. I'll look up what's good. You tell me Just what you like to eat, and we'll get it" "I haven't had anything to eat in years that I haven't cooked myself." He planned for that time to come, and Lulu listened ns one Intensely ex periencing every word that he uttered. Yet It was not In that future merry making that she found her joy, but In the consciousness that he someone anyone was planning like this for her. Meanwhile Dl and Bobby had round ed the corner by an old bop-house and kept on down the levee. Now that the presence of the others was with drawn, the two looked about them dif ferently and began themselves to give off an influence Instead of being pressed upon by overpowering person ailtles. Frogs were chorusing In the near swamp, and Hobby wanted one. He was off after It. Hut Dl eventu ally drew blm back, reluctant, frog less, He entered upon an exhaustive account of the use of frogs for bait, and as he talked he constantly flung stones. Dl grew restless. There was, she hud found, a certuln uniount of this to be gone through before Hobby would focus on the personal. At length she was obliged to say, "Like me today?" And then lie entered upon personnl talk with the same zest with which he hud discussed bult. "Bobby," said Dl, "sometimes I think we might be married, and not wait for any old money." They had now come that far. It was partly nn authentic attraction, grown from out the old repulsion, and partly It was that they both and es pecially Dl so much wanted the ex periences of attraction that they as sumed its ways. And then each cared enough to assume the pretty role re quired by the other, and by the occa sion, and by the air of the time. "Would you?" usked Bobby but in the subjunctive. "She said: "Yes, I will." "It would mean running nwny, wouldn't It?" suid Bobby, still sub junctive. "I suppose so. Mamma and papa are so unreasonable." . "Dl," said Bobby, "I don't believe you could ever be happy with me." "The Idea I I can, too. You're go ing to be n great man you know you ure." Bobby was silent. Of course he knew It but lie passed It over. "Wouldn't It be fun to elope and surprise the whole school?" said Dl, sparkling. Bobby grinned appreciatively. Ha was good to look at, with his big frame, his head of rough, dark hair, the sky warm upon Ills clear skin and full mouth. Dl suddenly announced that she would be willing to elope now. "I've planned eloping lots of times," she said ambiguously. It flashed across the mind of Bobby thut In these plans of hers he may not always have been the principal, and he could not be sure . . . But she talked in nothings, and he an swered her so. Soft cries sounded in the center of the stream. The boat, well out of the strong current, was seen to have its oars shipped; and there sat Dwight Herbert gently rocking the bout. Dwlght Herbert would. "Bertie, Bertie please !" you heard his Ina say. Monona began to cry, and her fa ther was Irrituted, felt that It would be Ignominious to desist, nnd did not know that he felt this. But he knew that he was annoyed, and he took refuge in this, and picked up the oars with : "Some folks never . can enjoy anything without spoiling It." "That's what I was thinking,". said Ina, with a flash of anger. They gilded toward the shore In a huff. Monona found that she enjoyed crying across the water and kept It up. It was almost as good as an echo. Ina, stepping safe to the sans, cried ungratefully that this was the last time that she would ever, ever go with her husband anywhere. Ever. Dwlght Herbert, recovering, gauged the moment to require of him humor, and observed that his wedded wife was as skittish as a colt. Ina kept silence, head poised so that her full little chin showed double. Monona, who had previously hidden a cooky in her frock, now remembered It and crunched sldewise, the eyes ruminant. Moving toward them, with Di, Bobby was suddenly overtaken by the sense of disliking them all. He never bad liked Dwlght Herbert, bis employer. Mrs. Deacon seemed to him so over whelmingly mature that he had no idea how to treat" her. And the child Monona he would like to roll in the river. Even Dl . . . He fell silent, was silent on the walk home, which was the signal for Di to tease him steadily. The little being was afraid of silence. It was too vast for her. She was like a butterfly in a dome. . But against that background of ru ined occasion, Lulu walked homeward beside Ninian. And all that night, be side her mother who groaned in her sleep, Lulu lay tense and awake. Ha had walked home with her. He bad told Ina and Herbert about going to the city. What did It mean? Sup pose . , , oh no;, oh no! "Either lay still or get up and set up," Mrs. Bett directed her at length. "Why n,ot say the wedding service?" asked Ninian. (TO lSK CONTINUED.) "Owls" Gave Gay Parties. "The Owls" were a group of bril liant young men who In the sixties, at tracted much attention in the West end of London by their lively eccen tricities. For instance, they gave din ners to which some of the most beau tiful young ladies of the day were in vited, Lady Wharncllffe acting ns chaperone. At one of them an Ivy serpent decorated the table, forming a coll opposite each lady's plate. In the coll was a box of chocolates, with the monogram of the lady on the lid, An other time a Bacchus in the center of the table held jewels, which were handed around, each lady being asked to take what she liked. Once all "The Owls" went to Paris and spent the day In woods near the city. They sang songs and crowned themselves with Ivy garlands, and finally dined up a huge old tree, into whose branches they were hauled by ropes, ladies and all, singing ballads the while. To make a tall man appear short strike him for a loan.