Oregou H I h tor leal ¡ Public Auditorium G raphic NEWBERG, YAMHILL COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. JULY 8, 1920 VO LX X X I MILITARY FORCES PUTTING IT OVER Aping Germany More and HERE THE CANDIDATES. TAKE YOUR CHOICE Sixes Up More Socialism and N < *i-P «r- tisan League in Very Plain As thè Days and Months Go Today, for the first time in our history, a military court martial has the power to punish a civilian fpr ‘contempt of court.” . ; This llttl# Innovation— part of the slow bujt definite aggrandise­ ment of the General Staff— we owe to the Army Reorganization hill which, as you know, waa recently hustled through Congress by the "b ig army” combine of Republicans and Democrats. bustled through Congress, signed by the president end now the law of the land. hi the past great care has always been taken to make sure that any civiitan who, m times o f peace, ran afoul of the military authorities, was not tried by a military tribunal but was turned over to the civil au- thoritlea, specifically to. the United States District court, for trial. Charges might be preferred against him by army officers but he was guaranteed a trial by a Jury of hia peers, quite in the spirit of the old Muting Act of 1688 which sturdily declared that "noe Man my be fore­ judged of L ife or Limbs or subjected to any klnde of punishment by Mar- tlall Law or in any other manner than by the Judgment of his Pee res and according to the knowne and Established laws of t)xis Realme.” Article T h irty-tw o . of our old Articles of War, describing the pro­ cedure o f a court martial, said; “ A court martial may punish at discretion, subject to tb « limitations contained in Article Fourteen, any person v b o uses any menacing words, signs or gestures in its pres­ ence or who disturbs its proceedings i by any riot or disorder.” Article t Fourteen expressly limits the oper­ ation of court martial aantencas to those "subject to military law.” In other words, a civilian accused of being in “ contempt” of the m ilitary authorities would have to he turned over to. the civil authorities—so ' careful were our daddies in these little matters! x But— la the revision of the A rti­ cles of War recently completed by Congress and tacked, as a rider, upon the Army Re-organization bill, this saving phrase, “ subject to the limitations contained in Article quietly dropped. Fourteen “ Any person any person— example, whose conduct before a court martial smells of “ Bolshev Ytld-fashioned citizen deavors to “ stand on hli rights’ before a military tribunal He can be tried then and there for "contempt” and If found guilty can be Imprsoned for one month or fined 8100, or both. It is not a very serious punish­ ment as such matters go these days, but the General Staff is probably satisfied. The principle is estab- lished, and that is the main thing. Some day they may slip an amend­ ment through Congress* removing the restrictions as to punishments. It wont do to argue that the dan g w * erg" rather remote. 1912 the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia held that a mill tary commission, when engaged in Urn pious task of putting down an insurrection -it was a strike of coal miners! liked, no matter whether the oivil courts were sitting or not FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LI DOE every article embraced in it. That subcommittee felt convinced . that it was advisable to retain that sec tion and bp reported to the Military Affairs Committee.” Mr. Crsgo then arose and defend­ ed the change on The general grounds that it wouldn’t do to let citizens run amuck in a court mar­ tial. Congressman Bee persisted in his criticism, but the House was in­ different and the bill went through. An examination o f the printed heatings of Mr. Crago’s sub-commit­ tee shows that the legislative com- tee of the American Legion, headed by Col. Thomas W. Miller, of Dela­ ware, endorsed the bill: Mr. Hull—-“ As I understand it, you have reviewed the Article« o f War aa proposed here and you agree that they are all right?” Mr. Miller— “ W e agree that, rep­ resenting the American Legion, we are in thorough accord with this statement and merely want to come before you formally and tell you that we are in favor of this proposed legislation. • • • • We have no objections to General Crowder's changes. We realize that they are largely administrative.” Well, you might cell it "adminis­ trative” or you might call It “ fun­ damental,” depending upon y o d f sense of history and your point of view June 30. 1920 F ALLS FROM C H E R R Y T R EE A N D IS K IL L E D On last Sunday Christopher F. Yeager fell from a cherry tree at his home acrofes the Willamette river from Dundee, breaking several ribs and receiving other internal injuries from which hs died. The age of the deceased was 77 years and he had been a long tima resident of that section where for many years he operated what was known aa Yeager’s ferry 55 the river. C H A UT A U Q UA ANNOUNCEMENT Beginning on Monday of next week season tickets for the Chau­ tauqua, which opens July 21, will be on sale at the banks and the drug stores. Those who eigned up for tickets a year ago are requested to call as early as possible and in this w g ^ .rg lle v *th e committee of the trouble of hunting them up for the delivery of their tickets. On Friday evenitag of this week at 8 o’clock a meeting of those who signed up for the guarantee w ill be held at- the council room, far the purpose of organization and ap­ pointment of necessary committees. . - J. H. Hopper, advance man for Elison-Whlte, win be in attendance. W. W. Silver, ChaiFman. One of the largest crowds ever W ED DING A T D UN D EE B IR T H D A Y CELEBRATION On Wednesday of last week. Tune 30, at Dundee, Cecil Leonard Chap­ man and Miss Clara Melissa Kimber were married, Rev. J. H. Gillespie, officiating. The rooms were beautifully dec­ orated with ferns and flowers and following congratulations by the large number of relatives - and friends in attendance a delicious grove near the residence, Mrs. G. A Dearborn having charge of the ar- rangements. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Kimber and the groom is a returned soldier, he hav­ ing served in the signal corps. They are now at home in the Com­ mercial hotel and the groom antici­ pates attending school in Portland. PHILIPPINO ORCHESTRA COMING Sfac N ative M usicians F rom the P h ilippin e«, a Ft M i ic a T A ttractio n a t C h au tau qu a Hollingsworth Co. chapel on Wed nesday morning LEST W E FORGET v o ic in g w ^ th m d L o m tr share of fh* work, They are of especial interest .today and apply to present day conditions. D EPUTATIO N T E A M COMING On Sunday, July 18, a deputation team, consisting o f five members from La Verne College, La Verne, California, a denominational school under the management of the Church of ths Brethren, will have charge of the services, during both the Sunday school hour and the morning preaching service. The service will be in the form of a missionary and educational program and all Interested are cor­ dially invited to attend. the individual to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and it was because the individual was rewarded for the initiative and effort put forward that it made us grow and prosper. A mere fringe of settle­ ments on the Atlantic border a hun­ dred years ago. of perhaps eight o r ten million people, today more than a hundred and ten million of the best and most intelligent people that have ever lived on 'the face o f this earth and with the best govern­ ment that time has ever known, notwithstanding all its mistakes, and we have been made this as a people and a nation in a large measure because we have been In dividualtsts. believing that these are secondary only to persona* Socialism would reduce us to one* dead level, the workers to own the factories, the state to own the land and the state to own the cattle and sheep; In fact, the dreamers of the Utopia tell us that then there would be no property, all would be well fed, well clothed, there would be no rich and no poor, no profits, no money, no wap*--, no capital, every­ thing owned in common, everybody Next Sunday morning at the Friends church, Fred E. Carter, the pastor, wll «peak on the subject, decision, if folowed in other states “ The God W e Forget.” In the evening the subject will during the present era of “ Indus­ Is there a God? I f 8o. Who trial unrest,” may bring sundry la- hör leaders under this little 'con- An those not at landing chur l*m pt" provision In a atky JMUCT they will not relish. It was not elsewhere are cordially invited to attend these services and hear the put there for nothing. House of Representatives May 28, Congressman Bee. of Texas, protest­ ed against this clause, but he was smothered by Congressman Kahn and Congressman Crago. both of whom were pretty disingenuous about it: Mr. Kahn-—“ Mr. Speaker, the Ar­ ticles of War were considered by a subcommittee of the Committee on M ilitary Affairs of which the gen­ tleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Crago) waa chairman. That com­ mittee went into these questions very fully. They had voluminous hearings. A committee from the American Legion appeared before the suh-commlttee and went over In a recently published statement the senator from Union county says: I know many of our people are advocating state-owned packing plants, state-owned and operated centers for the distribution of freak and cured meat. Many 'cattlemen of Oregon have told me that they were ready to Join the Non-Partisan League of* North Dakota or u y other organization that would (tar­ nish or promise >to furnish re lie f from the iron grip of the packing; trust that %o thoroughly and com­ pletely dominates our markets. I know full well that the Non- Partisan League of North Dakota, when the^y enter this state, will o f­ fer to erect at once as soon as th ey gain control, a state-owned an4 controlled stock yard, and all mo<- ern facilities for packing and cur­ ing meat, with distributing center» in all the largest cities of Oregon, and they will offer and agree to pay to the producer the highest possible price, allowing only a small margin of profit and interest on the state bonds that they propose to issue to» pay for the erection and establish­ ment of such a system; they esti­ mate that we producers w ill get 8# per cent more for our products than we get n$>w. It is already openly advocated iia Portland that the state should put Th a state'regulatory store, one de­ partment of which will carry dry­ goods, another department shoes* another groceries, another drugs, that the state Bhall own such a alor«. manage and run it. and the prices on articles sold shall be fixed at a small margin of profit, and the people who are advocating this be­ lieve that Buch a store would regu­ late prices in the other stores. A. beautiful dream. • 1 wish to here warn my friend» against the rising tide o f socialism. For a hundred years and more there has been growing this doctrine o f socialism. The ultimate object o f this is to do away withv the righ t to real and personal property. We must never for a moment fo r­ get that the foundation rock upon which our fathers built this gov­ ernment was that o f rewarding every one for individual effort During the past winter the P