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EM-TEES
KI.KKl.
' Oh, what a glorious occupation!
Sleep was a rulo made up by the
great architect for working people
and city offlclulH long before the
goat-tenders union, man's first labor
organization, was founded,
iSlecp Is as necessary to man us a
lemon Is to lemonade. It wouldn't
nuike a good comparison If we'd said,
as an oystor is to restaurant oyster
Blew, would It?
AVell, Hpeaklng of Judges, and city
hall officials, Bleep used to be the
time a fella would put in at night
doing nothing and accomplishing less
except In it physical way.
My, how limes do change! People
these days make, a biiccdss of it both
ways,.awako and asleep.
Society people, f'rinstanee. We
Wo don't belloyn In superstition, hut
tho number i: only holds good being
unlucky in ono way, and that's sleep
. lng 1?, hours.
Wo were filling application blanks
for a new position for six weeks on
account of 111 hours sleep, lint then,
a good sleeper could (inallfy for a Job
111 the police department, especially
In Philadelphia, as was proven a few
days ago.
Sleep has got to be a curse these
daj'H Instead of a blessing. There's
so much at it going on nt tho wrong
time by us bumaiiB. It makes con
ductors, motormun and liallle. cops
Ill-tempered at t lines.
. "Opportunity knocks hut once.
These days sho'd get better results It
alio lined a good loud alarm clock
I
KrtlKKA, C'nl., Jim. 111. Admiral
William H. t'lmertmi. fomimimlc i- of
tlie Pacific flee I, arrived off hero to
day on the flagship Sun Diego to in
vcstigiitu Hie Klriiiuliiig' of Hie cruiser
Milwaukee on lite lieaeli north of here
liist Kutnriluv while uttcmiiliitg- to
salvage Hie submarine U-:t. Navy of
i'ieei'M said there was no chance I
hnve the cruiser.
i The 11-11 has been stuck in tlie sand
Heverul hundred vards mirth of (he
Milwaukee since llcci'inher 'J 1. Th
Milwaukee, couiuiundc, by Lieutenant
W. F. Hamilton, begun with oilier na
vnl vessels the Work of salving he
lifter all $18,0(10 hid of a private Mil
nflcr an if 18,0(10 bid of n private sal
vaging firm hail been refused. 'I'll
Milwaukee cns( . 1,(1(1(1,000.
EXPECTED SHORTLY
WASlllXdTON', Jan. ll!. A 1 1. 1
today's cabinet luectim.', at wliich
Secretary l.ane niude his liual rcpiui
on the work of lite M. xicnn-Amcrican
iitint i-ittnlll it it lit rvilne I.I1DUI11
that the witialrawal of .Major (ieueral
1 t-rti.nu s Ironits trnm .MeMcti anil!
riMit i nun AM'Mt'o uiu i
:;:.5-:;:::;hP0M TUBES WIN;
r I n t tlie. No Inriiinl an-1
the wending
to tile .Mcxii au
ed in the near
nounceiuent is cxpcelcd, hut lite de
oisioil of tilt iidiniiiil nil ion prohahlv
will he Hindi known tlirouli aelum.
ACCEPT SITE STATE
MEDICAL COLLEGE
Kt'flKN'K, Hi-.. Jan. 1i5.---li,-n.-iit-of
the t unc r-ily o! (ic;.m tudav ;
Oeptetl i'lOlll lilc tlu;;"ll-W;- hiiiut'm
ItaillD.'liI & Ximj.iln
deeds for twcni -one a
on the hills oVerhn,hili; Ihe" eltv ot"
Portland, lu be used a - a she l"i- die
new medical ilepailiM'til of l'ie uni
versity. Citizens of l'ortlaiiil haw
contributed .-r-''',IMUI toward the lu-si
building and the slate ha ulic.u'y ap
propriated $00,(lUU.
PUNISHING MOTHERS
WHILE the lcislatiii'c is in .session, an aiiit'iidiuoiit to
the mothers' pension .should be enacted to permit
deserted mothers to participate in the henefits of the
mothers' pension laws.
The first mothers' pension laws, enacted in Illinois in
1911, provided for pensioning deserted mothers with de
pendent children, as well as all other dependent children.
This law was amended in 191: at the instance of organized
"charity," with the result that hundreds of deserted moth
ers were cut off the mothers' pension roll and thrown
onto "charity," the children taken away and sent to insti
tutions, where they cost the taxpayers just as much or
more than they did under the mothers' pension law.
Twentv-seven other states followed the example of
Illinois. New York City paid over :,50(),()00 for the care
of 22,000 children in institutions in 19Hi, in addition to over
$:!,")00,000 raised by "charity" for the same purpose a
total of over $:'00 per year per child.
Last year about 100,000 children in twentv-seven
states were kept with their own mothers and out of insti
tutions by the mothers' pension system, tit it cost to the tax
payers of oulv .f 10,000,000,
while it cost f.iOO a year per
deserted niolliers in the institution.
This outrageous system of
descried mothers is costing
except .Michigan, millions
ruining II icse children by the
insl itut ion kind of care.
Most of t he desert iug lathers are diseased or drunkards
and are unfit for family life,
desert ing. .Many mot hers continue to live with unfit fath
ers and breed defective children because of fear of having
all their children sent to institutions, if their husband
leaves. Some o" these deserting diseased fathers are
brought back home under threat of imprisonment and they
live home for it few years more find breed more defective
children.
The result of the system is shown by the increase in
births of defective and subnormal children over .i()0 per
cent in the last ten years. .
The army of people who
wliose business is to collect
which find their way to the object, for which they are col
lected, constitutes the active opposition to mothers' pen
sion laws, while every year the legislature of every state is
importuned by salaried otlicials to appropriate more mil
lions of taxpayers' money to build and maintain institu
tions to keep children taken awav from deserted mothers
The svsteni of compelling
husbands for fear of losing their children, if they refuse to
breed more children and lock the door against rascal fath
ers, has filled to overflowing all the state institutions now
built and will bankrupt every
many years longer.
PEACE
THE answer of tho ten allied nations to Germany's
peace offer and their statement of what they are
fighting for, made in reply to the president's inquiry,
shows that peace will not come until the belligerents are
forced to sue for it at Hie price of national humiliation.
In other words, had conditions must become worse
before (lermany will have to admit defeat by consenting
to restitution of conquered territory and payment of huge
indemnities, or before the allies will consider a made-in-(lermany
peace conference. 1 f the supreme efforts of the
coming summer end in failure, peace will be in sight.
(lermany will not give the pledges and guarantees de
manded unless tlit central powers and their allies are so
near the breaking point that they realize the hopelessness
of their position. And this is apparently still afar off,
and the war will be waged with greater vigor and barbar
ity and less regard of neutral rights than before,
Real conditions in Germany, Austria, 1'ulgaria and
Turkey are unknown to the outside world, but there are
"leaks" enough to show that the people of these countries
are suffering terribly from lack of food and becoming
more restless and more insistent for relief. It is also prob
able that the ammunition situation is not favorable. Cot
ton is the base of all explosives and the supply, in spite
of German foresight and ingenuity, is becoming scarcer,
with a bale of cot ton for every shell'l'ired.
At any rate, food and cotton supplies are fast diminish
ing. The allies' war of attrition is having its effect in les
sening the number of available men. and the great, effort
lermany has made for peace, colors the interpretation that
the situation is desperate.
I'nlcss Germany can crush her-enemies on land or
break Ib'iiain's command of the sea, or exhaust her en
emies' resources in men and material, none of which seems
proiiaiile, she must, sue lor
being crtl
bed.
E LOSES
WASIIIXdTOV. .I.,,,, .ic..
ul.ir appropriations fur the
JMieainal ie tube postal serviei
1111 11 -
present
- in New
1 ork. Hi "o!.l n. I'ihlinlclphia. Huston,
Chicago a::d St. ,iuis w'ie .e-ani
ustiiii,id in tl'.e bouse today uli: n ihe
p.,-toflo-t :''ropriation bill i-anie up
lor final lo-lion hv a voto of III;! to
lol.
Atter leieetin:- ameliMUleiits hv
naip.inv t'epie H a I i e Kandall id' t alifoi n.,i uii(,lit lollow. Itrown resenteil thi
ol land, lo piuhibii liu- use of the mails fr I warning and tin- senators evehanscd
licpior advertisements in imv loim,
I !n- oil! was passed in the smae forai
i.i 'tin ti ti .- ..pleteil last Snlnr -
!ay, uiliioul the iiroposeil inereasc in
tnol-ela-s iiiad rates, pennv post -
cL'e or inerense in pay to postal em-
pocs.
MFnT'OTJP MATH TRTBTTNE,
FOR RASCAL FATHERS
about if 100 a year per child,
child to keep the children oi
taking children away from
the taxpayer of every state,
of dollars each year, besides
cruel coldness of the unloving
and this is the cause of their
live by" organized charity,
hinds, only a small portion ol
good mothers to keep bad
state eventually if continued
AFAR OFF
peace op lace the alternative of
OVER DOG MUZZLES
j OI.YMPIA, Wash., Jan. Id. In the
I senate today Drown of Whatcom
1 sought to introduce a do-nni7j-.lini-
hdl as a committee measure. Taylo
"' Kmc insisted that the hil! be iutio
' roilui'i-J as a iH-tsonal one. llnnvn
relcinsl sbhtmuiy to Taylor's opin
ion ot his own importance. Kollow
mi. the session Taylor went to
i Itrtiwu's desk and cautioned him nol
: niake s,ieh vemarks, else trouble
1'sht blows.
I" the house bills Were introduced
' I" e-tablish a fourth state normal
i school at Centratia and to submit a
j eonstiiiitional ameudiiit-iit pcrmittim:
anicii Miient of the constitution by
lilialiif.
iNrEDFOTTD, OTtECiOX. TUESDAY. .lAXFAL'T
CYCLONE KILLS 15 'CHILDREN
I!y eftiing for her 27 injured im
pils until help eaine, although she
had a broken jaw and arm, Miss 'cra
Curter, toucher nt die Viieton (Okln)
school, is heroine of :i cvelonc dis
aster which killed l." schoolchildren,
destroyed Miss Carter's schoolhousc
and another nt Stiller, Okln., nnd
did trerneniloiis dninage throuliout
that part of the country.
Miss ('alter oollnpe-de from loss
of blood and fatigue when help ar
rived. She is in 11 lue.pital recovering
from shock anil injuries. The picture
shows Aliss Curler and the wreckage
of the Stigler schoolhousc.
KINGS OF ILL
IN LEAK PROBE
(Continued From Page One).
UiWBon reBinned his narrative of
his meetlnti with Henry, relterntinK
that the clmirmaii told him the
"leak" wan too serious for an Investi
gation nt tills time, but that he fa
vored a general Inquiry later into the
utock market. Lawson said he in
dorsed that and revealed to Henry
that he had much to do with the
money trust Inquiry, though Henry,
a member of tho committee, was un
aware of It.
"1 told him," Lawson said, "that
I (His up much of the Information.
Untermcyer went to Europe while I
did It, 1 personally paid the hills of
the experts, upwards of $ 10,000 and
asked tor no Klory except to appear
as a witness. ) ,
" 'Here Is a chance,' I told Henry,
to duplicate that. It is the greatest
thing that can bo done for the Ameri
can people.' "
Advice to lleuvy.
'f!o to Willi street and set up
shop," was tho advice Lawson said
he gave Henry. There, he said, all
of the stock exchange members could
be summoned with their books and
clerks and be forced to reveal the in
side transactions.
ltofcriing unain to his conference
with Henry, mentioning Secretary
1-ansing and Deruard liarueli, l.uw-
sou declared Henry told him tho com
mittee had the substance of all of
one of Lansing's talks at the llilt-
niore hotel with the New York broker
and the substanco of part of another.
"1 said to Henry, 'ko through it
from A to '..' " l.awosn testified.
" "And before you are one-third
done the lid will be blown off. Con
gress will know and the world will
know who the hypocrites are that are
making million.' That was what we
talked about in tho three hours and
a quarter 1 was with him.
Interview With Henry.
"I said that there was time enough
yet to do something. Then Henry
said that since we hud parted in tho
morning he had thought it all over
and he had como to the conclusion
that Ihe matter was too serious to
have made public now. lie then ad
ded: 'What do you say If ivc get
it again in thirty days?'
"1 said, not at all. It would be
side-trucked by that time and wo will
never have Ibis opportunity again."
"I entered Ihe room and the chair
nuii said nice things to me. He
wheeled up a chair and said. 'Take
a comfortable one.' 1 acked him lo
have one of my cigars and he asked
me to have one of his cigarettes.
"Then he said: 'We've been
through these things, and let lis he
lair with each other.'
Wbal Henry Told Illin.
"I said to him that I thought this
committee would dispute bis right to
hold a star chaniher session of this
mutter and that I probably should
have to talk to the committee. He
said: 'No: it's my duty to do this.
There are hundreds of things that
come before this committee, many of
them worthless charges and ll is my
duty to sift them and to see whether
they should be given to the commit
tee. ' 'Very well,' I said, 'but it is un
derstood that we are to think out
loud.' We shook hands on ll and Hen
ry said. 'That's It exactly. What's
proper to Rive to the public or the
commltCi-o we'll give and what Isn't
It. we'll hold in confidence." I said
that w us agreed.
" Now," I said, don't ask. me to
AND WRECKS TWO SCHOOLHOUSES!
sar Jte
3 JSr,J
if r
give the names or men who have
told me things In coufdicnee,' and
we had a long talk about that and
finally he said: 'Allrlght, but some
time I am going to have those names
or there won't be any Investigation.
Henry Named itai-iuii.
"Then Henry said: 'To show you
where you stand I'll tell you some of
tho things we've got. We have It
that a Mr. llnrueh who made large
contributions to t lie democrulic cam
paign had four conversations with
Secretary Lansing.'
" 'That's going some,' I replied,
four of 'em?'
" 'Yes,' he answered, 'four of
them.' And then he added, ' forgot
to state this yesterday we have Hie
conversations of one of the inter
views and part of the conversations
of another. We also have It that
Count Von llernstorff, the Cermnn
ambassador, Is so mixed up In It that
he made over . $2,000,000. We've
got It up to $2,000,000 now."
' Then I said t Henry: '.Mr. Chalr-
nvm, it doesn t seem lo mo that you
need me In order to start an investi
gation.' "Then Henry asked me:
Iniplicjites Jjausing;.
" 'Do you think naruch could be
mixed up In this way, using his
friendships in such a way and involv
ing the Integrity of the democratic
party?' .
" '-Mr. Chairman.' I said, 'I think
he would be tlie last man to do such
a thing and I will stake my head that
Secretary Lansing would not take a
postage stamp of profit out of such
transactions even though these things
were floating all around him.'
"Then Henry asked me how these
things could happen and 1 told hi m
Hint there had been a big conspiracy
in Wall street for months and that
this leak alone was not responsible.
I told him how Mexican war informa
tion had been peddled, how situations
were made lo order and I said that
a man liko Hartich in tlie market,
keeping posted naturally, if he un
earthed any information through ru
mor or otherwise or was certain that
people were making enormous oper
ations would take advantage of the
market.
(.6sors.ation WlUi White.
Heprescntatlvo Garreett then re
quested Ijiwson to detail just what
bo said the chairman told him about
Secretary MeAdoo, a banker and a
senator.
Lawson insisted that the impres
sions that ho had coupled their names
with Chairman Henry's statements
was erroneous. That information, ho
said, came from another source,
which he did not name.
''Henry mentioned only Itaruch,
Lansing and Count Von Bernslorff,'
Lawson declared.
This led up to Mr. Lenroot asking
for a detailed account of Mr. Law
son's alleged conversation with Ar
chibald S. White about I'liny risk's
alleged relations with Secretary Me
Adoo. Lawson testified he met White at
a hotel in New York some time later
In December and spoke to him ubout
the rumors of "leaks."
"1 said to White." Law-son testi
fied. " 'they tell me your friend l'isk
is engineering, or superintending this
leak stock gambling affair: that liar-!
vey Fisk's sons are handling this in
connection with C. D. Harney and
company and that Pliny Flsk is doing
the steering. The story is that he
(Pliny Flsk i Is working i;n MeAdoo
Bell-am s
Absolutely Removes
Indigestion. One package
provesit 25catall druggists.
1D17
GIRL TEACHER IS HEROINE
4--
its
.W' WUi,
and that its n terrific affair. Do
you know anything?'
"White said: -You asked mo just
in time. I talked the other night
(down at the club, 1 think he said)
He got on this subject and he want
ed to show me how he controlled
MeAdoo and he almost Insisted that 1
go to the telephone with him while
he called MeAdoo on I of bed and may
bo ask him to come to New York.'
"1 asked lilm: 'Didn't you go?' and
ho said 'no.' "
Further questioning by Iteprcsen
tative Pou led Lawson to say he
understood risk had been out late
that night and was feeling "quite
Jolly."
-White did say," Lawson eon
tinned, 'of course I couldn't go to
the phone with a friend when he was
in his cups.' "
"As a matter of fact," suggested
Representative Pou, "l'isk was drunk
wasn't he?"
"No, 1 wouldn't say that. He prob
ably had been to his club late and
had eaten and smoked a good deal."
"And his tongue got to running '
suggested Pou.
"Yes, I guess that's It." said Law
son. "Many a man has had the same
experlen- e."
Mrs. Yiscnnti's Ietter.
Representative Foster questioned
Lawson closely about the letter he
produced yesterday from Mrs. Until
Thoniuson Visconti, who olfered to'
give him information about a "whlie
house official." in connection Aviih
the alleged leak.
'Representative (inrrett then asked
about tho amounts Mrs. Visconti told
him at his hotel here on January 10
which V. W. Price and Secretary Tu
multy were reported to have re
ceived. .Mrs. Visconti said Price had
received $.1,000 and Secretary Tu
multy a much higher sum.
Representative Patten nsked Law
son if at this conference with Con
gressman Henry tlie latter volun
teered to mention tlie name of Von
llernstorff.
"Yes, he volunteered it," said Mr.
Lawson. "I didn't ask him for it."
Representative Henry, referring to
Mr. Lawson's conference with Mr.
Cosgrave, Kidgeway and others to
whom he relatcr the substance of his
alleged interview with the chairman,
asked Lawson if he thought thut was
the way to keep a confidence.
Hooping a IVinfklence.
"You refused to give those names
and your information to this com
mittee and yet you already had told
it to several newspaper men and
others,-' said Henry.
"Yes, in confidence," Lawson re
plied. "Ilecau.se I wanted their ad
vice and yesterday I begged your
committee to take It in confidence
and then to judge whether it was
worth being mado public.'
"The chairman did not want any
thing given In secret," rejoined
REM
-or
Gall Stones, Cancer and tTicers of
the Stomach and Intestines, Auto-Intoxication,
Yellow Jaundice, Appen
dicitis and other fatal ailments re
sult from Stomach Trouble. Thous
ands of Stomach Sufferers owe their
complete recovery to Mayr's Wonder
ful Remedy. I'nlike any other for
!S;n"-cn Ailments. For sale by drug
gists everywhere.
JOHN A. PERL
UNDERTAKE
Lurly Asxlstanr
S 8. DARTLKTT
Phone M. 41a ntl 47-J-l
Automobile Hearts SsrTlc.
tmiuluiM Berrlc-t, Caroutr
hwg.'
Heni-v, "and the nouse mm iJicimn-u
papers to dlo you (or contempt he
cause you wouldn't give the names
you hud already given to several
men."
Yes," returnee; Lawson. i rean
lu the papers oi iii- ...-,
prepared for me and of schemes be
ing concocted lo force me to take it.
It was a deliberately thought out
conspiracy to discredit me and I de
termined as I declared nere, mai i
wasn't going to lie made the goat.
Kven then I pleaded Willi the com
mittee to take my Iiifoniiiillon in se
cret and see if It was serious, ami
hould be made public, the publica
tion of It throughout the world would
be up to you nnd not to me."
In Clowe yiinitcTs.
Lawson related nicctlm; Samuel
Pntermeyer und Senulors O Oorman
and Owen on a train Sunday, Janu
ary 7, and how 1'nteriueyor had said
to him: "You are In close quarters.
Lawson. and must handle yourself
carefully.''
Then I told riitoriuyor," Lawson
coutlnued, "I would like to get Ms
opinion and ns a result ol n talk wirti
him 1 told you here that I would go
to jail before I would repeat what
you, Mr. Chairman, had said to me In
our interview. 1 nen you sain i u.
free to tell It all and I said thut your
attitude was too square and too
sporty u proposition and that I did
not think I would tell anyway and
stuck to the last ditch."
Henry's declaration that ho still
believed his statement correct caused
Lawson to inquire if Henry thought
tho "leak" story was a "mirage," as
Henry had said in a statement to tho
newspapers. .
"Yes," responded Henry,
(ioil HePi tho 1'isiplc.
"Cod help the American peoplo
and the nation if they get ninny lnoru
of these mirages," exclaimed Lawson.
nepresontntivo Patten attacked
Lawson for bringing in the nnnie of
Price merely on the strength of a let
ter, from Mrs. Visconti, who cannot
now be found. Lawson defended
himself by saying tlie woman ap
peared honorable and made a state
ment before a man he supposed was
a reputable attorney. He also said
that he withheld Price's name as lonK
as he could.
"Do you imagine," Patten asked
'that this woman was actuated by
high motives?"
"'No," Lawson said. "1 think there
was some great wrong under this
thing."
At that point the hearing adjourn
ed for luncheon and later took a fur
ther recess until 3:30 p. m. Chair
man Henry said business in the house
required the presence of tho rules
committee.
C. F. Hoyt of Salt Lake City was In
Medford Monday on business.
In spite of
high prices
on all food
stuffs continues to sell for
12c to 15c
A Package
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est pie is a NONE
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theatrical and shopping dis
tricts, r.
Ladies traveling unattend
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