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If the law put through the 1917 legislature by Senator
Walter M. Pierce proves to be the means of avoiding the
necessity of calling a special session of the legislature the.g war wjn be over,
taxpayers will feel like congratulating themselves that a
man with business foresight was on hand to prepare for
just such an emergency as may now confront the state.
Under the six-per cent tax limitation amendment to
the state constitution, the state cannot levy a tax greater
than a six per cent increase over the levy of the preceding
year. Fear is being expressed that because of this limita
tion the next legislature will not have enough funds avail
able to adequately provide for maintenance of the state
government and for war emergencies.
In some quarters this fear has become more acute
ince the failure of. the state council of defense to com
plete the initiation of a bill providing for a one mill tax
levy for war purposes.
Governor Withycombe was considering the question of
vailing a special session of the legislature to pass a bill
submitting a special tax levy for war purposes to tne peo
ple for their approval at the regular election in November,
when his attention was called to the law put through the
last legislature by Senator Pierce.
The Pierce law was enacted to meet just such a situa
tion as the governor says now confronts the state. This
law provides that when the state tax commission cannot,
under the tax limitation, make a levy high enough to meet
the needs of the state it may ascertain the additional
amount required and certify the amount to the secretary
of state who will have it placed on the ballot for the peo
ple's approval or rejection. .
By this simple means, Senator Pierce provided a
method which will save the state the expense of a special
session of the legislature as was contemplated by the
governor. '
Whether it will be necessary even for the tax commis
sion to submit to the people an additional tax levy is a
question yet to be determined by that body.
The Italians still press the Austrians back, ancl appar
ently are in full control of the situation. The Austrian
offensive has ceased entirely and even the defense they
are putting up lacks vigor and punch. All that is needed
now is for Hindenburg to try his hand on the west front,
and find that he is done so far as breaking through to
Paris or to the coast is concerned. The recent dispatches
from Pershing are to the effect that Hindenburg is con
centrating his forces in front of the American lines pre
paratory to a drive at that point He no doubt believes
the Americans, being many of them new at the war game
will offer the best chance for his tried troops. He will
find however that his "tried troops" will have had another
try that met with as stubborn fighting as any they have
encountered. Our boys are not machines, but are full of
initiative, and know just what they are in France for.
They know they have the job of assisting in beating the
kaiser to a frazzle, and the quicker it is done the sooner
Their work is cut out for them and
they will do it. They are not obsessed with an idea that
something may happen that will give them the victory.
Ihey know they have to earn it, and they know that re
sistance to the last and an unyielding front are the things
necessary to the early settlement of the war. "With Hin
denburg beaten on the west, there will be but little fight
left in the Austrians and then there will be back tracking
cn both ironts with the Hun seeking safety nearer home
;
t The Woman Who Changed t
By JANE PHELPS
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THE BIT TEE WITH THE SWEET
Mcdonald writes
(Continued from page one)
OF DOUBTFUL AUTHORITY
The International Typographical Union has issued a
statement which puts that organization in a class by itself
At " TA 1 Tl 1 i t i i 1 1 A
among me unionized iraaes. it snows mat tnere nas oeen
but one strike of printers since the war began and that
every effort has been made to adjust wages harmoniously
between printers and publishers on a basis that will sim
ply take care of the increased cost of living due to war
prices. In all cases but one this matter has been adjusted
to the mutual satisfaction of employes'and employer, a
reasonable bonus being agreed upon in many instances
to' continue during the war only, without making any
permanent raise in the scale of wages. The pressmen's
union also has adopted a similar policy, realizing the
predicament in which the . war has placed newspaper
publishers and the necessity for pulling together in a
time of national peril.
There is considerable discussion of the action of the
emergency board in creating a deficiency of $250,000 for
the organization and maintenance of the state police.
While at first glance it looks as though the emergency,1
uucuu anu eAixeueu us juriixuicnuii aim nuu usuiyeu lug
power of the legislature, an examination of the militia act
under which the "unorganized milita" was created into
a police force shows an especially broad bill conferring all
kinds of powers on the governor in the matter of calling
out this force. It is probable the courts would sustain
the action of the governor, but there are many who look
upon the act as unauthorized and a usurpation of legisla
tive authority. It is quite probable though the matter
will cause more or less discussion when the legislature
meets. One of the most pertinent questions asked about
he state police is "why are its membeis paid more than
the boys who go to the front?"
Frank J. Miller, chairman of the Oregon public service
commission, seems to be the "goat" of the petty politics
leing played by members of that commission. And when
it comes to playing petty politics that commission will
run the governor a close race for first place. The gover
nor's petty politics is largely of a bitter, narrow, partisan
type, while with the commission it takes the form of one
commissioner striving to gain personal credit or advan
tage over another. This cropped out in the Portland 6
cent street car fare case, in the eastern Oregon grain rate
cases, and in vunous other cases of less importance, and
f.ll of it contributed to the defeat of Chairman Miller for
re-election.
Just to let the Turks know they had not been forgotten
a small fleet of allied airships flew over Constantinople
Wednesday and dropped a few bombs. The Turkish ac
count of the affair says: "No damage was done."
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
ALL THE THIRD LIBERTY BONDS ARE NOW
HERE.
THOSE INTERESTED TLEASE CALL
' 4 AT THE BANK
Germany has notified Trotzsky and Lenine that the
kaiser has graciously consented not to seek revenge on
Russia for the murder of her ambassador, he feeling that
Russia is doing all she can to bring the murderers to
iustice. .This is quite a different view from that taken
by him when he compelled Austria to demand that the
the murderers of Austrian royalty be turned over
to Austria for trial and punishment There was no hint
then "that Germany was satisfied because Serbia was do
ing all she could to bring the assassins to punishment.
Then the kaiser needed an excuse for war. Now he is
hunting for grounds for peace and an alliance with Russia.
The Prussian House of Lords is booked for a special
secret session for the purpose of trying and dismissing
Prince Lichnowsky from that body because he told the
It is seldom a gang of the select of the earth
honors a member who criticises it by expelling him. The
highest honor that can be conferred on Prince Lichnowsky
is to be separated from that bunch, and the most bene
icial to him to have the fact advertised.
The dispatches yesterday mentioned lightning striking
a house at Olympia, Washington, belonging to a Mrs.
Parker. They also stated that "a man was climbing down
cut of a cherry tree at the time but he managed to duck
the flash." We do not doubt the story, but at the same
time call attention to the fact that the man climbing out
of the tree was "some ducker."
Rippling Rhymes
by Walt Mason
HOT WEATHER
It is a super-heated day on which I write
these verses; and people, as they go their
way, are breathing heartwrung curses. Ex
cessive heat like this destroys the temper
of the mildest; he loses all his saintly poise,
and uses words the wildest. Tired Father
is at other times of disposition sunny; his
laughter rings like Easter chimes, he's
prodigal with money. But he is sore and
surly now, since heat began to swat him;
the sweat is dripping from his brow, and
prickly heat has got him. When mother
says, "I need a broom," in accents mild and
iuiet, he turns upon her eves of gloom, and
starts a full-sized riot The children tip
toe everywhere, no hint of racket making, for Father's
1M, i i i i i i v ti -i
ime it gniy war w ause neaa is sore ana acmng. ne sus
beneath the sunset tree and fans himself like blazes, and
it is pitiful to see his line of smoking phrases. He rubs
his back against the shed, its itching chafes and bothers,
and says he wshes he were dead and planted with his
f athers. He wishes winter would arise and come, with all
its rigors; he reaches wildly for the flies, and burrows
for the chiggers. ' . . , ;
I 'W
CHAPTEB CXXVII.
When I saw George and then recog
nized J alia Collins, I felt absolutely
faint. But I recovered myself instant
ly and turned so quickly away I was
sura 1 bad "' been recognized. 1 hur
ried to the elevator, rushed to my room
and locked the door. I was breathless
from exeitemant.
I had been so happy, when George
had asked me to tak! this trip with
him so delighted that he had seemed
to care to have ine. He had been so
more than kind all through my illness,
too, and had appeared to really ears
more for me than he had since we were
first married. I had been so encouraged
about the future, so sure that he had
U?gun to realize how hard I had tried,
and how I longed to please him.
I should have to take the bitter with
(he 3eet always, as long as I lived with
Uoorge, 1 thought bitterly, as I hur
riedly undressed. I was positive I had
not been seen, and wanted to be in
bed when he eame up. I vanted time
to think whether I should let him know
I had seen him, and was a'woro that. h.e
had been with Mrs. Collins.
I felt stunned. Ncwr had I felt less
like crying. I wondered at myself. 1
was still a little weak from my long
illness, and what 'I had seen would
have made me weep bitterly, only a
snort time furore. My mind worked
clearly and I quietly thought over the
future my attitude toward it.
A Long Wait.
It was nearly three o'clock when
George came In. I now knew his habits
so well that I was positive they had
gone to som0 gay restaurant after leav-
iug the hotel :a habit to which I never
had become accustomed. Why people
who had had a dinner, cared to eat and
drink so soon again, had always baen
puzzling.
Of couiso, I realized it was more or
less an excuse to remain in each other's
company longer. Yet, that this should
apply to married peoplo who could' be
together anyway, as wall as to those
who separated when they reached home,
hnd always seemed rather foolish to
me.
I made no pretense of being asleep,
when George came in, but quietly asked
him the time. Then I asked fo a drink
or water. ie nancteu me a glass, then
looked at his watch.
It is nearly three. Later than I
thought," he said, so nonchalantly it
made me wince. Howflttlo he cared that
I had spent the long, weary hours alone!
Have you been asleep?"
"No. I didn't feel sleepy." '
"That wgn't do. You'll bo ill, again.
Don 't tfy to get up to breakfast in the
morning. 1 shall have to got out rather
itarly, and will get my breakfast in the
gnu so that 1 won't disturb you."
Very well I think I should liko to
sleep late," was all I said. I tried to
say it on a careless tone, and must have
succeeded, for George turnod and looked
at me, although h made no further remarks.
I did not near liim when ho lose In
tho morning, it was nine o'clock when 1
wakened.
Helen Taila to Keep Her Appointment,
I bathed, slipped on a loose gown and
enU"l for a waiter. 1 ordered, and com
polled myself to eat, a good breakfast
Then I took my time to dress. I would
make niysolt as attractive as possible,
I thought of how charming Mrs, Collins
looked, the night before. Even .in the
quick glimpse 1 had of her, I had seen
sho wn3 exquisitely dressed and looked
lovely, as did the other women in the
party from which I had been left.out,
I must look my best while on this trip.
When 1 was finally satisfied with
my efforts, I went out to do a little
shopping. I left word at tho desk, in case
George came in, that I would return in
time for luncheon.
I was delighted with tho shops and
the time slipped away so quickly that
it was luncheon time before I realized
it. 1 wasn't ax all hungry, I had had
my breakfast So late, so 1 still lingor
ed. Why should I bo so careful. not
to keep him waiting! Surely, It would
not hurt him to be the one to waifc oc
casionally. It was after two when I finally reach
ed th.3 hotel. I stopped at the dining
room and glanced in. ics. tnere was my
husband eating lunch. Man-like, he had
not waited.
,"I'm rather late," I said pleasantly
as I took the seat opposite him.
"I should say you werel I have near
ly finished my luncheon. "
' "I was sure you would have been en
tirely finished; and gone agniu, before
I returned; but the shops were bo fas
cinating, and I ate so lati , and so hear
ty a breakfast, that 1 didn't huny."
"I supposed from your message that
you would be back to lunch with me,"
he said as ho lose from the table. I
made no reply, and" he left saying he
would come back early.
He had no sooner left me, than I saw
Julia Collins come in the room. She saw
me and immediately crossed over and,
with a laugh, seated herself in the place
just vacated by George.
(Tomorrow An Awkward Encounter)
POSSE AFTER MANIAC.
: twitter wo become acquainted with the
English soldier, the tetter they seem
to like us.
"Our costumes and manners are a
little strange to these people and as
a London paer says, 'Any bad man
ners on the pait of the Americans is
liuuj- mane up y incir sincerity oi
heart.'
"The greatest thing of personal in
terest to me is niy tripa to London for
tho week end. On our first trip we were
mot at the station by a machine from
the 'Y' and whisked across Waterloo
bridge anil up the Strand to the Eagle
Hut which is tho American 'V. It is
a splendid i)bta wi n a good bed for
IS cients and aplendrdly cooked meals
for 30 cetsts, Wa embarked on the ' V
rubber neck wagon o Bee London. We
visited London tower, built in Itlie vear
lObe by Wilfram. the Conqueror. From
there we went to St. Paul Is cathedral.
I have never seen anything to compare
with the workmanshitp of tho interior
of the dome. The designs are worked
out with small pieces of glass none
of whiel are larger than ouo's finger
itair. xjuru j.cisou an-a me .Mime OI
Wellington are buried here. Lord Rob
erts i buried here and on the grave
only tno simple maika of a soldier. It
was Lord Rdborts who warned England
ox ithia aipproau'lnng war.
' ' We then vHsked Westminister Ab
bey. It is just aa interesting as all the
things we have read about it. It was
started in the year 604 and is the bur
ial placo at kings. You probably haj
read of tho ipoet Johnson who was al
loted two feet space in the Abbey b
tho king of his time. His body a'anii's
Upright in the wall occupying only the
space alowed him. I netted with a lit
tle prUle a bust of Longfellow.
"Just across the street' from the Ab
bey are the houses of parliament and
wonderfully "beautiful places they are.
We visited the Royal Booms, the House
of Lords, (the House of Commons and
many galleries aJbotrt tbe buildings.
Then we went to St. Jaimes Park and
Buckingham Palace, the London resi
dence of the king, concluding our-trip
with a drive through Pall Mall and
the Strand buck to Eagle Hut- No two
streets are parallel in London and
very few ,that are on a straight line
for any fistaace. The city centers
around Picadilly, Traiflalgiar Square, tho
Strand end it is not difficult to get
around.
"Tho thing uoticablo to an Ameri
can is the propondoraniee of wotoen on
'tho streets and in tho parks. They
seem to have no hesitation- in showing
itiheir admiration for the Americans, eo
ilt behooves us to be on our guard or
we will be carried eiway by the beguil
ing 'smiles audi glances' of tho fair maid
ens. .
"Lat evening we had a splendid
time. Three truck loads of us were in
vited for au evening entertainment to
the home of a wealthy man a few mile
from hero. 1 say wealthy as I am suro
he must 'be ito maintain the beautiful
home he has. We had a sumptuous feed
fo these war times and it really seem
ed good to pull a chair up to -a white
tablet-kith. Wo irmly enjoyed it and af
ter dinner wo had games of some kind
and fine singing and instrumental mu-
Sie. lit waa a unique affair for a sol
dier and wo were royaJly entertained
every minute. I say royally as there '
Sees His Kiddies
Beyond Hun Lines
By Frank J. Taylor,
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
With the American Arnry is France,
June 16. (By Mail.) At a efjrtaia
point in a sector taken over by the '
Americans, observation posts overlook
miles of territory behind the Germaa
lines.
When the Americans took over the
sector the French loaned a number of
their observers to train the aewly ar
rived Americans. One man the Frenck
said was especially good, because he
knew every inch of the German terri
tory under observation.
He had lived over the line before the
war, and his family was still there. This
man had escaped to France to join the
army when war broke out. From the
observation position he could see oa
real clear days his hom over the line,
and with the aid of glasses he watchei
his wife and two little "kiddies'' whea
they were outside their home.
In good weather he saw them three
or four days out of the week, but ia
bad weather he was fortunate if he"
saw them once a week. It was tan
talizing to see his' children grow up
when he could not reach them, yet he
was grateful for the chance to look at
them.
One (by shortly after the Americans'
came, thh man was broken hearted.
He had seen his wife and the childrea
boatd a train. For two days he was al
most without hope.
Then cne of the Americans he had
been training suddenly shouted one
day, 'There they are. They're back."
The Yankee was almost as excited as
the Frenchman,
This- man doesn't measure time by
"the ond of the war,' as most people
do. With him it is "until the Amer
icans drive the Germans beyond mr
home ovr there."' For him that will
be heaven. '
He says there will be no end of the
war on Germany for him. For the
hours it agony the Germans have glvem'
him will never allow him to be at peace
with a German. Furthermore, a ran
som is on him for an uprising he start
ed before he escaped to France. The
Americans will try to keep him at his
observation post until his home ant
family is won in an advance.
OREGON BISHOPS AT FKOKT.
Hood Kiver, Or., July 11. The Bight
Re....v. Robert L. Paddock, Episeopd
bishop of eastern Oregon, is the first
American chaplain on the Italian front.
His sister, -Mrs.-1 G. Hutchinson, to
day roceived word he had been station
?d with a force of two thousand Amer
icans doing ambulance work in Italy.
was some of the royalty present and
r,hcy acquitted hejnelve very weu.AH
fomality waa dropped and rank and ti
tle was forgotten.
"The king has been down here for
'a few days and yesterday decorated
Isome 250 officers and imen for heroie
'work at the front."
The wrtterls add is as follows:
O- L. McDonald, 836 Aero Squadron,
clare TJ. S. Air Forces, 35 Eaton Place,
'London, 8. W. No. 1.
San Jose, Cal., July 11. Refore night
a sheriff's posse expected to have ia
custody a maniae yho yesterday shot
and kiUd C. F. Rrcrrat't and fired at
five automobilo parties on the San Cruj
road near Glcnwooa".
Sterrett, who was a travelling sales
man for a Kansas City firm, was found
dead in his automobile, two bullet
wound revealing the manner of hiij
death. He lived in H?rkelev.
YOUR HEALTH
By ANDREW F. CURRIER, M. D.
Locomotor Ataxia, No. 2.
This disease, then, Is called loco
motor ataxia because the wast ot
co-ordination lietween the will and
motion is chiefly in tbe muscles by
which, walking, or locomotion, Is
produced.
There Is, also, some absence of
feeling in some areas of the skin
and terrible pain in others, great
pain In some of the organs like the
stomach, and gradual wasting of
certain muscles and .nerves.
The disease begins Insidiously
and progresses very slowly. Per
haps the flrst sign will be numb
ness or tingling In the feet or sharp
pains in the legs and fatigue from
ordinary exercise.
The pupils of the eyes are con
tracted and unequal, there is 'dou
ble vision or squinting, and tha
optic nerve shrivels until blindness
occurs.
There often Is absence of control
ot the bladder and rectum and se
vere pain in the rectum.
Also, there Is more or less loss
of the sense of touch, the sense ot
heat and cold, and the ability to
estimato weight
There may be vomiting with in
tense pain in the stomach, difficulty
In breathing, palpitation, destruc
tive changes in the skin, hair, nails,
and teeth, the joints enlargo, the
bones break easily and. there Is a
feeling of constriction around the
waist, chest or throat
The gait is peculiar, the feet be
ing held widely apart and lifted
high In walking and there Is loss
of power in the legs.
If yon ask a patient to stand
erect and pnt his two fore-fingers
on his nose, he will sway from side
to side, perhaps fall and be unable
to reach his nose with both fingers
at the same Instant
' If, while seated, with crossed
legs, the tendons under the knee
cap are sharply tapped, the leg will
remain still instead of flying up, as
In health.
This is a Tery Important sign
and is called the "Ioes of tendon
reflex."
i After fire or ten years, the pain
!s less severe, the other symptoms
less prominent the patient may be
. fairly comfortable for a long tima
and think he is getting well. But
soon come wasting and paralysis
and then exhaustion and death, if
death does not result from pneu
monia, or from some other acuta
disease.
Or the symptoms may develop
quickly and the patient recover, or
- the chronic form may be the re
sult, with Bymptoms which hara
been mentioned.
The disease is supposed to he In
herited, but in the majority of
cases perhaps In all of them it
is due to constitutional Infection, to
exercise of various kinds, to worry,
and to cold" and wet.
It will probably develop In great
numbers of tho soldiers who sur
vive the present war.
It is a rare disease in childrea
and Is not common In women; It
occurs most frequently In men be
tween 25 and 45 and may last 29
or 30 years.
Medicines are of little ralue In
treating locomotor ataxia, except
to relieve pain.
Rest In bed Is Important, alse
freedom from worry, frequent
baths (especially hot baths), simple
diet massage, and suitable cathar
tics. Most people would be better
pleased to see their enemies with it
.than their frjends, or to have it
themselves.
Questions and Answers.
Patron. PUate' give me as sim
ple a definition at possible of am
blyopia. Answer Amblyopia simply
means dimness of vision without
discoverable injury In the struc
ture of the eye or the optic, nerve.
It may come from many causes
from using the eyes too much;'
from tobacco; from the use of
quinine and various other drugs;
and from other causes,
,
B. B. B. Answer X warm bath
at the time you mention Is desir
able. A cold bath, in my expert-
enco, is usually inadvisable.