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THE TRUANT OFFICER.
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There is a movement under way
' tor the co-operation of the county
through the county court, the muni
cipality and the school district tor
the employment of a juvenile truant
officer who will Bee to the enforce
ment 'of all laws having to do with
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minora. The proposal la said to be
j.tor the payment. of such an officer
upon the basis of one half by the
county, and the balance equally by
city and school district The coun
cil has already approved the plan',
.and has appointed a committee from
its body to work out details, the com
mittee being composed of Messrs.
Demaray, Burkhalter and Burke.
Such a plan as that proposed would
undoubtedly work to a great advan
tage. There are adequate laws upon
the statute books for the control and
guidance of the youth, and for the
checking of their evil propensities,
but they are difficult of application.
The officers feel a hesitancy at taking
action against Juvenile offenders with
the machinery that is employed In
dealing with the hardened criminal,
and as a consequence the boy or girl
proceeds on an unchecked course till
they come to a point where they can
be no longer overlooked. This juven
ile officer would know whether the
boys and girls who ought to be in
school were there, and If they were
not attending could take such action
as might be necessary to enforce at
tendance. A boy out of school with
out cause becomes at once an advance
agent of mischief, and from the ranks
come the recruits for the courts.
Parents do not or can not always give
children just the home training they
ehould receive, and left to follow
their own inclinations, these children
become a public menace. The protec
tion of the public as well as the wel
fare of the children is served by pro
viding someone whose particular duty
it is to enforce certain provisions of
the law. Neglect makes a crooked
boy Just as it makes a crooked tree.
WILL ENFORCE AUTO LAWS.
Almost anyone who' drives an au
tomobile could be arrested under the
laws of the state of Oregon if the
officers should enforce all the sta-
tutes strictly to the tetter. There
are some of these laws that seem al
most unnecessary to the driver of the
auto, but in the interests of the public
safety they should be observed, and
the local police force announced that
they must be more carefully regarded
in the future. The regulations re
garding the use of lights upon autos
Is one especially intended to protect
he public, and it is said by the of
'Icers, who are the custodians of the
vubllc peace and safety, that drivers
:nust watch out in future or they
will land in court. The law requires
hat not only the head lights be burn
'ig after dark, but also that the tall
"ghta be burning when Old Sol is off
the job. It has been a common prac
"ce with a great many auto drivers
f have no rear light, and a number
t near accidents have resulted in
f msequenoe. So observe your auto
"ht if you want to escape the
t rath of outraged Justice.
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CONSISTORY WILL
BE HELD IN MARCH
Rome. Jan. 21. Vital importance
was attached today to the announce
ment that the pope will hold another
consistory in March.
This is understood to be another
step in the pontiff's peace program,
though ostensibly it is for the pur
pose of conferring the red hat upon
Monslgnors Scapinelll of Vienna and
Fruhwirth of Munich.
The pope, it Is believed, desires to
inform himself about the conditions
and possibilities for peace in Vienna
and Bavaria.. JUls action In having
representatives from these two points
continues his plan of conferring with
cardinals from the warring coun
tries In the hope that from these see
along may develop a tentative peace
program.
Diplomats of the allied . n at loss
view .with concern the creation of
these two new cardinals, because of
Increasing the Austro-German repre
sentation in the Vatican.
LONE WIT ROBS
LOS ANGELES BANK
Los Angeles. Jan. 21. A lone
masked bandit walked into the Culver
City Commercial and Savings bank
at noon today, thrust a gun under
the nose of Cashier E. G. McHughes,
compelled him to walk Into the vault,
locked him In, and made off with
$500.
The imprisoned man was not re
leased until half an hour later, when
W. M. Bowen, assistant cashier, came
into the building. A sheriff's posse,
armed with sawed-off shotguns, left
at once for the scene.
WHITMAN COLLEGE
PRESIDENT LOSES HOME
Walla Walla, Wash., Jan. 21.
President Penrose of Whitman col
lege is homeless today as the result
of a fire which completely destroyed
his residence yesterday. The fire
started from an oil stove which had
been placed In the bath room to pre
vent the pipes from freezing, ine
loss Is estimated at $8,000.
CUKW PERISHES Mil EN
DUTCH SCHOONER SINKS
London, Jan. 21. All aboard the
Dutch schooner Ranerman perished
when that vessel was sunk by a mine
off the coast of Denmark, according
to a Copenhagen report today.
The British steamer Sutherland
was submarined In the Mediterranean
Monday. The crew was taken to
Malta, but one sailor died from ex
posure In a lifeboat en route.
FRAU SCHWIMMER.
Hungarian Woman Put In
Chargt of Ford Peace Party.
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LETTERS FROM
(Note, Following is the fourth In
stallment of Wm. O. Shepherd's un
oensored story of the allied retreat
from Serbia. ICdltor.)
ny Wm. Q. Shepherd.
Salonlkl. Hoc. 11. A French sol
dier in a steel hat stopped and looked
at us curiously as wo walked along
the road.
"Excuso mo," ho said In broken
English, "but it's so long sluce I've
stwn a man In clothes like yours
that I couldn't help staring."
The big British gun was booming
at two-minute Intervals. French
guns, set on nearby hillsides, were
sending occasional shots to tho Bui
gar lines. It was a battlefield In
every sense of the word, a battle
field which within 24 hours was to
be the scene of an ally retreat. In
cidentally, I wonder what became of
the little Frenchman.
"Civilian clothes seem extraordin
ary," he said. "Have some choco
late?" He pulled an envelope from
his pocket, with a postage stamp and
an address on it "This is something
I got In the mall from Paris today."
I took a small piece of hla precious
chocolate.
"Hava you heard that we're going
to move from here?" he asked. "The
rumor is , going around our camp.
They say we are going to fait back
to the Greek border. Haven't you
heard anything about It back In
Saloniki?"
I had not His question was the
first sign of the coming retreat On
this .spot, the very next day, dead
British and French soldiers were to
He among the holly shrubs and Bui
gars were to charge with bayonets,
shouting their cry of "Ne pret, ne
nosh."
"It's cold here," exclaimed the
soldier, "but I've been healthier than
I've ever been before in my life.
"Why when the war began I couldn't
stand any hardship. If I wasn't in
bed by 10 o'clock every night, I suf
fered all day for it I had Indiges
tion terribly. Now I have not slept
in a bed for five months, and I eat
anything and enjoy It. War beats
pills, I tell you.
"This artillery firing makes me
laugh today. That big English gun
Is not hitting anything, and there are
three Bulgarian batteries over there
that haven't hit anywhere near any
body. They ought to send word to
each other about how far they're
missing. If they don't help each
other out they'll waste an awful lot
of ammunition."
He had to be going at last. Would
I walk along the road with him?
"Right around the turn here some
of the Bulgarian shells are well aim
ed," he said. "They're paying a good
deal of attention to this turn this
afternoon."
It was llko getting ready to Jump
into a cold bath to start off with him.
I knew that after I got my feet to
working they would. carry me along,
but the hard part was not to make
an excuse and return to the ravine.
My right foot started, however, and
then my left, and fifty feet farther on
we passed tho turn and faced a mile
stretch of road cut from the hills.
Ilelow us was the' valley of Cos-
'torlno; across it four miles away
1 .u.. 1.111.. ..l.nHn . V. n Tn1rriflancf
were. A few soldiers wero on the
road, walking singly.
"Along hure you may get a shell
anytime," said tho French soldier.
I have to walk along here a dozen
times a day to get to my dug-out
from tho kitchen back there In the
ravino , Want to '.e my dug-out?"
I did, and a quarter-mllo wallc
along the road brought us to a llttlo
ravine on the Bide of which wbh a
! soldier's home, partly a nolo and
partly tent. Tho other soldiers in
the dug-out were packing up their
belongings.
"J tint to bo ready If wo go," they
explained.
On a fire outside the dug-out was
a tin pall with steaming contents.
It was not coffee; it was not rum.
It was hnlf-ati d-t)ulf. I must havo
had two drinks of It. It had an aw
ful buzz In It.
"Wo get two dippers full of wlno
and a half a dipper of wblHkfjy dally,"
explained a soldier. "And wo need
It In the cold, too,"
I figured It out as amounting to a
quart of wlno and three fifteen cent
drinks of whiskey.
"Aro you a tourist?" asked ono of
tho Frenchmen,
"Mon Dleti, you silly! " exclaimed
his friend. "What would a tourist
bo doing here? Ho'g a. newspaper
man."
I explained that six of u had iheen
brought out to tho battlefield and
FRONT 1 SMI
that 1 bad lost the main party, but
that we were to get together again
t tho watting automobile at five
o'clock.
"Well It's time to go then," said my
friend, looking at his wrlat watch.
"Good luck to you." they all said
as I went away.
I wished them good luck, too, for
they needed It more than I.
What happened to these French
Zouaves 24 hours later when the Bul
garian rush began t don't know, Was
all tho new health of the little French
soldier the new health of which he
was so proud ended by a Bulgarian
bullet or a Bulgar bayonet thrust?
On the hillside as I returned, pre
haps a hundred yards from the
French battery which topped the hill,
another Bulgarian shell burst.
"They nover shoot a shell at a
single man, it's too expensive," my
French friend bad told me, and It was
a comforting thought. To the Bul
garians across the valley the little
dot of human beings that passed
singly along this road were not worth
potting at with shells that cost about
125 each. It was good to feel like
a dot; to know that though a New
York Insurance company thinks your
life worth some thousands of dollars,
the Bulgars counted It less than 25.
Back at the autos the party was
gathering for the departure from the
battle ground. Every one of us had
heard from some soldier that the
French and British were going to fall
back. We all put two and two to
gether on the way back, remembered
all the signs we had seen during the
day the fugitives, the trains (bound
for Greece and finally agreed on
this:
"The allies are getting ready to
retreat."
Later In the evening we found out
that we were right
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(Continued from Page 1 )
ary at $S0 was opposed by the same
four councllmen, with Demaray,
Burkhalter, Herman and Bunch sup
porting It. Tho deadlock was broken
when Mayor Truax voted In favor of
the $80 salary.
The matter of leasing the bath
house, together with tho other pri
vileges at Klvcrsldo park for a period
of ten years, came up when tho or
dinance was rend the third time and
placed on final passage. An observer
would have caught from tho drift of
the discussion about the table that
tho ordinance putting tho privileges
of tho city park out of tho hands of
the people for tho next decade was
about to pass, but Councilman Hurke
cnnio forward with an objection, stat
ing that ho could soe no reason what
ever for turning tho park over to
private Interests, and ho registered
a vigorous opposition. Burkhalter
said that tho most valid reason ho
could seo for the action was tho fact
that tho city would be relloved of all
responsibility In tho matter. Ilurke
retorted that If tlilB was tho attitude
of tho co.iadl, then the swings had
better bo taken down, the trees cut,
and tho bars put upright, that the
city havo absolutely no responsibility
In case some child fell from swing
or tre. Soino of tho new council
men wanted to know more of tho pro.
posed lensing plan ibeforo voting, and
the final vote was postponed till the
next regular meeting of tho council,
when tho ordinance will bo either
passed or defeated,
j Action upon tho billboard ordln
lanco was llkewlso postponed through
j the reference to t ho city attorney of
itho ordinance that had been pre
pared by the people who built the
boards around tho city. Tho pur
pose of tho new ordlnnnce Is to have
tho license fee reduced from $200
per annum to $10 or $20 per annum.
C. H. Domaray, who was re-elected
a member of the council at tho last
election, was elected president of the
council.
Petrograd, Jan, 21. The Russians
have occupied Sultanabnd, GO nilU's
southeast of Hnmadan, Persia, ac
cording to Teheren dispatches today.
The Turks are heading southwest to
ward BuruJIrd.
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HAVY, SMALL ARMY
Philadelphia, Jan. 21. Trealdent
Wilson and ex-Preatdont Roosevelt
may differ In politics, ibut they agree
In their view of hyphenated Ameri
cana Speaking here before the Na
tional Conference on Amerlcanliatlon,
the colonol likened the "hyphenates"
to the "man who loves other women
as well as his own wife."
He expressed himself in favor of
the creation of an Intenam spirit of
Americanism, of national solidarity;
he favored, too, a large efficient navy
and a small efficient army.
In the matter of Interstate com
merce and on the subject of social
Justice, he declared the efforts of
Governor Johnson of California to
obtain right treatment for railroads
had boon nullified by the rulings of
neighboring state commissions.
Roosevelt deiiured for centralised
control of Interstate commerce at
Washington.
Ninety-Sixth Half Yearly Report of
The German Savings and
Loan Society
SWIM.
(THE GERMAN BANK)
.Wil (WMI'OKNI STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
iKi emtier it 1st, I Ul 5
ASSETS
I lilted Stales, Stale, Municipal and other IIihuIn
(market value 1 1 f , standing on books at .1,i7,7A7.ni
I,MiiiM on Ileal linle, secured by first mortgages K,(lUJ,;t7H.(ll
Nnwim on Itoiidf and Stocks (CilM.1l. 72
Hunk IliillrilituN mid IrfitA, Main and Branch O lilies
(value $1(00,000.00), standing on books at I. (HI
Other I ten I KMale (value $ I ON, 000. 00), standing on
books at 1.00
KniplovceN' Pension Fund ($211,238.03), standing
on hooks at I .on
ftisil n,oo,;l7l.lft
Total (ll,H 111.0(12.01
LIABILITIES
Due DepoHltol'N $.1N,M CO.OIMI.iW
Capital Htmk actually paid In I,(HH,00.00
Reserve will Contingent Fund 2,OOH,I02.0 1
Total 0l,MltMKW.Ol!
N. Ollli.MT, (1KO. TOI RW,
Preslilont. Managor.
Subscribed and sworn to before mo this 3tst day of December, 1015.
(SliAU) CIIAS. V. DUISUNUERG, Notary Public,
For the 0 months ending December 31st, 1915, a dividend to
depositors of 4 per annum was declared.
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Portland. Jan. ll.Knute Nelson.
a retired Baptist preacher, ld to be
worth nearly $1,000,000, was found
dead In his bed at the Portland Com
mon this morning. Bo humble was
he In appearance and habit that none
uspectcd his wealth until an examin
ation of his effects at the morgue at
noon today disclosed deeds to Van
couver, 11. ft, property, and great
quantities of mining stocks, some or
which ere valuable.
Nelson came to Portland recently
from Vancouver and had engaged In
work at tho Portland Commons.
Llttlo U known of him here. letters
among hi effects spoke of numerous
relatives In Minnesota and at Nor
man, Wash.
Keen Kutter tools and cutlery at
tho Rogue River Hardware 649
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