Troops Use Eskimo
Methods Keep Warm
Watertown, Mass. (U.R) The
ancient Chinese principle of pil
ing on layers of clothing to keep
warm is being utilized by Amer
ican armed forces personnel sta
tioned in the Arctic.
Soldiers, sailors and airmen In
the 50 below zero wear one
pair of light cotton and wool
socks, two pairs of heavy wool
socks and a pair of felt bootees
inside rubber and canvas "muk
luks" made here by the Hood
Rubber company division of B.
F. Goodrich.
Harry W. Martin, manager of
footwear and former consultant
on rubber footwear to the quar
termaster corps, said the Amer
ican-made mukluk is patterned
after native Eskimo footwear
and compares favorably with it
in warmth tests. The idea of
wearing several layers of socks
Inside the mukluk is to permit
circulation of air to the feet, Mar
tin explained, and thereby to
prevent perspiring and possible
freezing.
DRAWBRIDGE SHUT
Boston (U.R) The turntable
draw of Prison Point bridge has
n't been opened in more than 20
years. Miller's river, up which
ships once sailed to Cambridge
and Somerville. has been divert
ed from its old course under the
span.
Brockton. Mass. (U.R) It was
easy for Mrs. Virginia Silves
trino to report a $40 holdup to
police. She said two young men
robbed her directlv across the
street from police headquarters. I
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DISCUSS WHEAT PROBLEMS Oregon's two senators, the house delegation, and Rep. Clif
ford Hope (R., Kans.), met with representatives of the proposed National Wheat Growers association
recently at a luncheon in Washington, D.C., to discuss problems facing the wheat industry. Left to
right, above, are Congressman Walter Norblad, Astoria; I. H. Peterson, secretary to Sen. Wayne
Morse; Congressman Harris Ellsworth, Roscburg: Sen. Guy Cordon, Roseburg; Congressman Lowell
Stockman, LaGrande: Llovd Case, secretary of the Colorado Grain Growers association; Congress
man Homer Angell, Portland; K.
Eugene; Ed Bell, administrator of
Kansas, and H. W. Clutier, Kansas
Lancaster, O. (U.R) A jury
came close to convicting a man
charged with a traffic offense
after voting to find him inno
cent. Jurors by error signed a
printed form of "verdict guilty"
instead of the other form and
the jury foreman read it in
court. When the jurors inter
rupted to protest, the mistake
was corrected, freeing Charles
Clark, 68.
ECONOMICAL DELICIOUS
HEALTHFUL NOURISHING
Iejr to proper
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a. Taylor, uregon wneai urowers league: sen. vayne morse,
the Oregon wheat commission; Congressman Clifford B. Hope,
wheat farmer.
Legislative Procedures In
Oregon Described; Voter
Tells Recommendations
(A recent edition of The
Oregon Voter, a Portland
magazine devoted to politi
cal, economic and govern
mental affairs, was requested
to publish an article concern
ing legislative procedure in
Oregon, some of the ins and
outs of how the laws were .
made, and suggestions and
recommendations for improve
ment. The request was made
by Mrs. Lester F. Adams.
Medford. chairman oi a
League of Women Voters com
mittee charged with compiling
a report on legislative pro
cedure and organization for
the state league's general re
port. (Because of the increasing
emphasis being placed upon
revision of legislative pro
cedures. The Mail Tribune
herewith publishes the Voter
article in full, and expresses
its appreciation to the maga
zine for the tremendous job
of preparing the report. Be
cause of its length, it will be
carried as a series of articles
on successive days of publica
tion. Editor's note).
Oregon League of Women Vot
ers is making a study of the
Oregon legislature this year, re
ports Mrs. Lester F. Adams,
chairman of Medford committee
of local league charged with
responsibility for compiling a re
port on legislative procedure
and organization for the infor
mation of the state league in
preparing its general report.
Mrs. Adams has asked us for
information concerning:
"Current legislative rules of
procedure: method of revising;
suggestions for changes (if any);
standing committees (a) effect
of power of appointment of com
mittee members, and (b) assign
ment of bills given presiding of
ficers of each house; number of
committees; (a) committee pro
cedure, (b) provision for records
of committee meetings; sugges
tions and recommendations (if
any)."
These pertinent questions
make it possible for us to at
tempt to compress within one
article a review of procedure in
the Oregon legislature and sug
gestions which from time to time
we have pressed for moderniza
tion of that procedure in the in
terest of expediting legislative
business, better public under
standing of what is going on,
and perhaps most important of
all, reducing by weeks the length
of legislative sessions, of recent
years so protracted as to impose
far too heavy a sacrifice of leg
islator time away from farm,
professional practice or business.
Manv nf nur most rnmnptont
legislators refuse to run for re-
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election after having suffered
the losses due to prolonged ab
sence from home.
We will attempt to reply to
these questions seriatim. We will
capitalize Senate and House
when referring to either qf these
houses .specifically and use the
small "h" in referring to a house
which may be either Senate or
House.
Rules of Procedure
"Each house," says the Ore
gon constitution, shall . . . deter
mine its own rules of proceed
ing . . " Custom is for each
house, in organizing at the be
ginning of a session, to adopt
the rules of the preceding ses
sion as its temporary rules, and,
when its organization is per
fected, to adopt permanent rules
effective throughout the session
except as they may be revised
later under procedure prescribed
in the permanent rules, tsy con
current resolution, or joint res
olution, the two houses adopt
procedure as is necessary for
joint sessions and for the trans
action of business between the
two houses wlien in separe ses
sion. Under long-established prac
tice, the rules of each house have
developed along lines peculiar
to each. For instance, the
House permits no introduction
of bills by individual members
after the 25th day of the ses
sion, while the Senate leaves the
gate open until after the 35lh
day. The - House formerly re
quired action on a committee
report on each bill before it
came up for third reading, while
the Senate permitted any bill
to pass to the Third Reading cal
endar if the committee report
proposed no amendment there
to. The House now has adopted
the same practice as the Senate
in this respect. The Senate dur
ing several sessions made a five
cent charge for a printed copy
of a bill, while the House made
no such charge. The language
of similar rules has developed
along lines peculiar to each
house. The traditions and prec
edents of each house affect pro
cedure and behavior differently.
Rules relating to distribution
of postage stamps to members
have varied from time to time
in each house according to the
prevailing sentiment of the ma
jority towards members inclined
to demand large allotments of
stamps, occasionally to create
scandal by selling them at a dis
count to put cash in their own
pockets. Each houre establishes
its own wage scale for secre
taries and clerks, and fixes the
number which may be employed
by committees and by individual
members. In many sessions the
houses have differed In rules
affecting such employment, and
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Everywhere . . . People Are Saying . . .
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In the allocation of supplies. In
cluding costly sets of the Ore
gon Codes, which some mem
bers sell at $33 to $30 a set,
pocketing the money.
The reason some of these prac
tices art condoned is that it is
difficult for members to get
along with each other in their
legislative work if some mem
bers, perhaps those more effec
tive on the floor, are singled
out as guilty of petty thievery or
other scandal. While the great
majority of members do not steal
stamps, and a substantial min
ority refuse to regard State
Codes as private property they
are at liberty to sell for their
own personal gain, the preval
ence of these practices is over
looked in the interest of trying
to work together in committees
and to avoid personal enmities
and acrimony on the floor. .
Each house has a different
procedure for notice as to intent
to move to suspend the rules
for reconsideration of the vote
by which a bill passed or failed
to pass, the limit of days dur
ing which such motion may be
considered, and whether a bill
shall remain on the desk of the
House pending such considera
tion. In the Senate, it is up to
the presiding officer to announce
whether final sine die adjourn
ment is likely to become effec
tive that same day, and when
that announcement is made, an
nouncement by a member of
intent to make the reconsid
eration motion the following
day does not hold the bill in the
Senate.
There are other differences
between the houses in their pro
cedure that we will bring out
under other headings.
(Tomorrow Revision of Rules)
Gasoline Thieves Fail
To Stop Stork's Visit
Orlean. N. Y. (U.R) An am
bulance was taking a prospec
tive motner to tne nospitai wnen
it ran out of gasoline.
The triD was completed.
ahead of the stork, when the
woman s husband pushed the
ambulance with his automobile.
Investigation disclosed that
thieves had siphoned most of
the gasoline from the abmuiance.
Vitamin A deficlences are most
likely to occur in calves during
winter and spring months.
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that it wai featured In the
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Thursday. March I. 19S6
Writings Disclose
Aegean's Culture,
Scientist Claims
Sofia, Bulgaria (U.R) A Bul
garian scientist has deciphered
Europe's most ancient preserved
writings.
Prof. Vladimir Georgiev has
"unveiled the Minos (Cretan)
writtings," which are considered
the most ancient preserved writ
ten documents in Europe, it was
.Ivan Vclkov in bgrev, Bulgarian
periodical.
Mankind has learned about
Aegean culture from the excava
tions carried on in the past few
centuries. Aegean monuments
are scattered all over the Medi
terranean, but the biggest con
centration is in Crete and the
Peloponnesus, said Prof. Velkov.
Catastrophe On Island
Cretan culture dated back as
far as 3000 B.C. About 1800 B.
C. some unknown catastrophe
befell the island and much of its
civilization was wiped out.
The renaissance in Crete came
about 1700 B. C, when the mag
nificent palaces and other pub
liv buildings were constructed
Their ruins Indicate the once
mighty city of Knosos, ruler of
the ancient Mediterranean world.
That was the period connected
with the mythical King Monis,
his labyrinthine palace and his
fabled minotaur. From this time
date the most ancient preserved
writings in Europe the so-called
Cretan or Minos writings, in
scribed on clay tablets. Some
3 000 or 4.000 have been pre
served, about one - fourth of
which now are published.
CATER DINES WELL
Winter Park, Fla (U.R) Per
cy Harris went out to look for
his prize goldfish in a backyard
pool and found an itinerant
three-foot alligator instead. The
saurian, it seemed, had taken
free board as well as room.
When a woman buys a home,
it's "little things" that count, like
flower-boxes, book niches,
porches, closets, pleasing colors.
and test undertaken by II
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Charlotte, N. C (U.R) Fire
men had to restrain a janitor
from dashing back into a burn
ing -building. He wanted $74 in
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