THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, CREGÓN.
REVIEW OF WORK OF
OREGON LEGISLATURE
words "foreign eggs.”.
HISTORIC
IN MARKET
Every section of the state Is repre
sented in the special legislative cor: Shakespeare Hotel at Stratford-on-
mittee which will sift out the resp
Avon Recently Put Up at Auc
portionment legislation.
tion in London.
Two of the members are from east-
Fourth Week
Session Com ern Oregon, two from central Oregon, On Thanksgiving day there was of
two from Multnomah county, two from fered at auction in London the Shake
menees
Most
the coast section and one each from speare hotel at Stratford-on-Avon, a
beautiful specimen of Fourteenth cen
the
Willamette valley and southern
Bills
tury architecture, which for years has
Oregon.
been the main resort of Americans
The personnel of this committee, re- and other tourists to Stratford-on-
Dry Measures Withdrawn — House
garded as the most important and Avon.
Gets Bonus BUI—State Tax on In most powerful of the present session.
The history of Stratford-on-Avon
comes Up — To Regulate Sale of follows:
may be traced back for a period of
Senator Dennis of Union county. 1,000 years, and as the birthplace of
Eggs — Committee on Reapportion-
Senator
Staples of Multnomah, Senator the great poet It has become a classic
ment Named—Would Enforce Sup
Patterson of Polk, Senator Hall of center visited annually by some 50,000
port of Parents—Budget Bill Ap
The Guard house, where
Coos, Senator Robertson of Gilliam, people.
proved—Disloyal Teachers Barred. Representative Burdict of Deschutes, Shakespeare was born ; Shottery, where
he courted Anie Hathaway ; Charlotte
Representative Carter of Jackson, Rep-
Park, once the seat of Sir Thomas
Multnomah,
resentative
Gordon
of
Salem.—When the legislature assem
Lucy, whose displeasure Shakespeare
bled Monday for the fourth week of Representative Hurd of Clatsop and Incurred by* stealing his deer ; the
the session there was very little to its Re resentative Gallagher of Malheur. Shakespeare Memorial theater, on the
banks of the Avon, and Shakespeare's
Bill Aimed at Habitua Criminals.
credit In the way of measures passed
If a bill directed against habitual monument, are all places worthy of
and sent up to the governor. However,
with the exception of the appropria criminals, introduced by Representa visiting In the old market town of
Stratford-on-Avon.
tion bills, most of the big bills likely tive Woodson, Is passed, every person
The Shakespeare hotel, situated in
to appear at this session have been in convicted a second time for a felony
the center of the town and close to
must
be
confined
in
the
state
peniten
troduced and referred to committees,
the Shakespeare Memorial Theater,
and from now on the legislative wheels tiary for a maximum term of not less was erected in the Fourteenth century,
may be expected to industriously grind than double the time of the first con and has been In the hands of the late
away at the grist of bills dumped into viction, and if convicted the third Mr. Justins' family since 1870. A few
time of a felony must be confined in doors from the Shakespeare hotel Is
the legislative hopper.
the Harvard house, which was the
While the first three weeks of the the state penitentiary for life.
A bill prohibiting county courts or early home of the Harvard family,
session have been rather dull, particu
larly In the way of vocal fireworks, county commissioners from awarding founders of Harvard university.
there are a number of measures among contracts for material, equipment or
PAY
TO ART
those introduced which are likely to supplies without preparing specifica
tions in writing and advertising not
arouse spirited debates.
The number of bills introduced dur- less than six times in a daily news Not In Admiration, But In Current
Coin, Is ths Edict of the French
duced during the first three weeks of paper or two issues ot a weekly news
Authorities.
the present session surpassed the rec paper, was introduced by Representa
ord of the 1919 session. During the tives Kubli and North.
After all these years of luxurious
first three weeks of the present session
Must Care For Parents.
idleness the Venus de Milo must be-
there were introduced in the two
Every adult person who, having the come a wage earner. The authorities
houses 454 bills as against 451 bills ability so to do, fails and neglects to of France have so decreed. And not
during the same period of the 191» support an indigent parent, will be only Venus, but Mona Lisa and ail the
se sslon.
guilty of a misdemeanor and will be other celebrities gathered In the
Presumably because they feared de punishable by imprisonment In the Louvre, and In the Luxembourg and
other galleries as well. For the fiat
feat, owing to their drastic provisions, county jail for not more than one year
has gone forth recently that hereafter
the three prohibition measures father or a fine not exceeding $1000 or both
those who have been accustomed to
ed by Senators Farrell anl Eddy were fine and imprisonment if a bill in visit the museums of Paris day after
withdrawn by their authors. One of troduced in the house by Representa day, finding their treasures free as
the bills created the office of prohibi tive Hindman of Multnomah county air, must pay an admission fee. If
tion commissioner, another provided becomes a law.
you want to go to admire Venus in her
more stringent penalties for law viola
All fines or forfeitures Imposed by crimson velvet seclusion you must pay
tion and the third carried drastic the court and collected In such case for the privilege. To be sure, she Is
search and seizure provisions. It Is or under the provisions of any law worth any price, you must admit. And
said substitute bills will be introduced relating to Indigent parents may be when you go into the Salon Carre of
the Louvre and stop to meditate about
with less drastic provisions.
directed by the court to be paid In
what the enigmatical Mona Lisa Is
whole or in part to such indigent meditating, you must pay for that, too.
Bonus Bill Introduced.
A step toward providing a bonus for parent or their guardian, according to Not a separate admission for each de
partment. No, they are ail banded to
veterans of the world war was taken the provision of Hindman’s bill.
gether In one big union, as it were,
Senate Passes Budget Bill.
with the Introduction In the house of
The state board of control is consti. all those priceless treasures of each
a measure providing for a cash bonus
tuted the budget commission of Ore- museum, and hereafter they will earn
or a long time loan.
their keep.
Summarized, the bill provides tat gon under a bill prepared by Senator
Patterson,
which
was
passed
by
the
nil Oregon citizens who served more
Rafts May Cross Pacific.
than two months In any branch of the senate.
Swedish lumbermen are on this coast
Under
the
provisions
of
the
act
the
military forces of the United States
investigating the possibility of rafting
between April 6, 1917, and Nov. 11, commission is authorized to employ a lumber from British Columbia to
statistician,
whose
duty
shall
be
to
1918, shall be entitled to receive a
Europe. Lumber rafts of large size,
bonus of $25 for each month’s service, examine ths demands of the various called rafanutes, have been success
institutions and departments of the fully towed from Sweden to Great
with a maximum of »500.
Under the loan provision, a sum not state and prepare budgets for présen Britain, says the Scientific American.
The Ocean Rafanute Syndicate pf
to exceed $8,000 may be borrowed tation t the legislature.
The senate Is In favor of a legisla London, England, has sent William
from the state, to be secured by a
Olsson of Stockholm, an experienced
mortgage on real property. The loans tive session of sixty days Instead of
rafanute builder, here to Investigate
may be repaid to the state at the op forty and an increase in pay of the
the possibility of adapting that method
members
from
$8
to
$5
a
day,
having
tion of the borrower in annual, semi
to British. Columbia timber exports.
annual or quarterly Installments, passed the Smith-Eberhard-Hare joint
The rafanutes are made of square
reeolutlon
to
refer
the
propoeed
change
which in each year’s period must ag
timbers. Mr. Olsson, though express
gregate 6 per cent of the total bor to the people.
ing nothing definite, believes that the
Bill Bane Allen Teachers.
rowed.
tremendous timbers of the British Co
Aliens or disloyal Individuals will lombia forests will make possible the
The bill prohibits participation in
both federal and state bonus plans, not be permitted to teach in any com construction and successful operation
also from receiving bonuses from other mon school, high school, university, of rafanutes far larger than the rafts
agricultural collage, normal school or now shipped out of the Baltic. Swedish
states.
structures carry 4,000.000 or 5.000,000
Relatives of deceased Oregon veter any other state school in Oregon if s
feet each. It Is proposed that the
ans, or those entitled to receive gov bill Introduced in the house by Repre British Columbia rafts will contain
ernment Insurance, would be entitled sentative Belknap of Benton county 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 feet
to receive the bonus due to the veter passes.
The bill provides that aliens shall
an, had he lived until the act became
Rothschild’s Best Tip.
not be permitted to teach in any of the
In 1871 a friend approached Baron
effective, the bill provides.
schools enumerated unless they have Rothschild, the great financier, who
State Income Tax Proposed.
declared their intention to become was a firm believer In the maxim "Buy
A measure providing for a state in
citisene of the United States. The bill when everybody else Is selling and
come tax was introduced In the bouse
provides for hearings on charges of sell when others are buying," and
by Representative Gordon of Multno
asked what the hanker considered a
disloyalty in teachers and thsir dis-
first-class investment.
mah. The proposed law follows the
charge, if found guilty, and the can
“Buy French rentes,” said Roths-
federal income tax law in general
cellation of their certificates to teach child; “you can get them cheaply
form, and provides" for an exemption
by the superintendent of public la now." French bonds were then selling
of $1000 for single persons and $2000
struction.
at 63.
for married persons. The rate varies
“But the streets of Paris are run-
Legislativo Brevities.
from 1 per cent on the first 11000 of
An effort to change the date of final ning with blood," objected his friend.
taxable income up to 6 per cent on
“That’s the reason you can buy
payment of taxes in Orsgon from Oc
Incomes of »10,000 or over.
tober 5 to December 5 failed in the them cheaply," replied the money
Every person residing In ths state,
baron.
house.
regardless of whether his taxable In
A quarter of a century later In 1896
Exemption of Oregon road bonds
these bonds were selling at 105 and
come is derived from property or busi-
from taxation as property is provided were considered as perhaps the most
neSS located within or without the
in a bill introduced in the house by conservative Investment In the world?
state would be subject to the assess-
Representative Sheldon.
—Wall Street Journal.
ment under the act.
Repeal of the gravity test law gov
Under the proposed law 80 per cent
erning gasoline disposed of In Oregon
Filer’s Good Work.
of the tax shall go to the state and 70
Is provided In a bill introduced by
For revealing details hidden from
per cent to the county In which it is
Representative Belknap.
horizontal observation, the value of
collected. The iattsr fund then would
The house sustained the veto of Gov the “bird’s-eye" view was demonstrated
again be divided between the county
ernor Olcott and defeated a senate oil! anew tn Iowa not long ago. The at
and Its various political subdivisions.
authorising county courts and com tention of a filer, circling about near
Must Brsnd Storage Eggs.
missioners to fix salaries of county D m Moines, was caught by various
ribbons of smoke arising from ap
Regulation of classification and sale surveyors.
parently deserted regions, and closer In
of cold storage eggs, foreign eggs, pre
The senate by Indefinite postpone spection revealed a number of autos
served eggs and incubated eggs Ie pro ment killed the bill Introduced by
hidden In the brush, says Popular Me
vided In a bill introduced in the senate Senators Bell and Vinton to increase chanics Magazine. When the airman
by Senator Porter of Linn county.
the pay of circuit court jurors from returned with a companion and made
Under the provisions of the bill cold $3 to $4 a day.
a landing, a large copper still
storago eggs shall include eggs which
A bill introduced by Senator Eber discovered, attended by four men and
have been In cold storage for more bard constitutes every county in Ore fed with corn from a wagon.
HOUSE
of
With
of Big
Introduced.
MUST
than 30 days and before being offered
for sale shall be branded or stamped
with the word “storage.” When eggs
are placed In refrigeration for the pur
pose of cold storage there shall be
stamped on each container the date
when entered In refrigeration.
Eggs imported from foreign coun
tries shall be sold as such, and the
containers in which the eggs are
shipped shall be stamped
with
the
gon a judicial district for circuit court
purposes.
Senator Hume's bill requiring pri
vate, denominational and parochial
schools to be under the supervision ol
the county school superintendents
passed the senate. It applies to the
schools In all the elementary grades
The bill provides the same course of
study as In the public schools and the
same qualifications for teachers.
TRIBUTE
L ucky
S trike
cigarette
HE bottom has dropped out of
business."
hear this on all sides; some
We
people seem to make a specialty of
canvassing it and soon become con-
As a matter of
firmed In the belief.
fact business is getting its ‘‘house In
order.”
As a result of wrong eco
nomic conditions It was inevitable.
Its toasted
A Daniel was not necessary to read
the hand writing on the wall.
But Grasp This—Business depres
sions are just as normal as booms.
Statistics show this.
perience proves it.
Our own ex
Why, then wail
over the existing condition of things?
Let us have faith in our country—
Our fellow men—
Save Pennies—
Waste Dollars
4 “ save
Some users of printing
pennies by get-
Our business—
NOBODY ever played the United
States short and won.
ting inferior work and lose
dollars through lack of ad
vertising value in the work
they get Printers as a rule
charge very reasonable
prices, for none of them
get rich although nearly
all of them work hard
Hermiston Auto Co
We have a few 50 Gal. Oil Drums for sale.
Moral: Cioè your printing to
a good printer and save money.
While they last $4.50
Aviation Students Hold Exhibition
Our Printing Is
Unexcelled
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HOTEL
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Sears
.
Two of the most homelike hotels
in Portland, located in the heart of
the shopping and theatre district.
All Oregon Electric trains stop at
. r
the Seward Hotel, the House of
Cheer. Excellent dining room in
connection. The Hotel Cornelius,
the House of Welcome, is only two
short blocks from the Seward. Our
brown busses meet all trains.Rates
and up.
W. C. CULBERTSON. Prop.
$1.50
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Saxsticecsssttsss
The Illinois Model Aero club, made up of boys who are interested in the
building of airplanes and in all branches of aviation, and which is fathered by
the Aero Club of America, held a model contest recently In Chicago, at which
models of almost every prominent plane were exhibited.
Your Telephone
What does your telephone service mean to you?
In the successful operation of your business is your telephone necessary?
Does the telephone in your residence prove more than a convenience and
preform
an
part in the management of your affairs?
In fact, don't you find good telephone service essential in both your office and home
The Telephone Company believes you do and want to supply that service to you.
Telephone properties are now operated at a loss in the State of Oregon.
Increased rates are necessary to continue present service and attract
plant needed.
capital
for
building
not pay?
Is not the Telephone Company entitled to rates which will enable them to
continue
to
furnish
good telephone service to people of Oregon, and without which they cannot carry out their plans for de
velopment?
These are questions of importance and should interest every telephone user.
The Matrimonial Kind.
clous floorwalker. “We are having a
special sale of collars today."
“The same. A preacher put it ce
. me."— Birmingham Age-Herald.
new
Can investors be expected to furnish funds for extensions when the present plant does
“The men's wear department Is
aisles to the left, sir,” said the offi-
"I don't want any collars," said the
meek-looking man who was watting
for his wife. “I've been wearing a
pretty stiff one for twenty years.”
“The same collar, sir?”
important
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co.