East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-10-06

any money 90 their account or tha
the company held any OF the convey
= ances as security or that Il. 4. Bootl
guaranteed the repayment to n,
lumber company OF the moneys
which it had SO advanced. Another
: important fact is that at the time
when the second deeds were obtained
from stephen Ia Raut and his wife
according to the decided weight OF
the testimony their claims were each
worth at the lowest estimate $4,000
and probably $4,000"
The above extract from the decision
OF the court in the case wherein Mr..
Booth was shown to be a looter OF the
public domain will be sufficient to
convince any fair minded man or wo-
man that the accusations against Mr..
Booth do not come from political op-
ponents and that the charges against
him are not based on SANDER.
What OF a newspaper that will 60
openly before the people as the Port
land oregonian does with arguments
that such a man should be made
United States senator from Oregon?
Out of the war in Europe should
come an excellent opportunity for the
women OF this nation
FASHIONS and to break loose from
The War. the bondage of Paris
fashions, a bondage
that-according to the masculine idea
must have given them many hours
Of mental anguish.
Women have complained for years
that they were driven by tyrannical
fashion when they hung odd looking
garments upon themselves. They have
justified the action by saying that the
inexorable decree Of Paris designers
compelled them to accept freakish
styles that their souls abhorred. This
explanation has had to be accepted,
for lack Of a better one, as the rea-
son why our streets and other public
places were turned into something re-
sembling a flock OF fancy dress balls.
No doubt sounds Of JOY will now
rise because Of the news that soon
Americans will be in position to
design the apparel worn by Ameri- |.
can women. 1t is assumed, Of course,
that common sense and good taste
will be manifest now that the shack |
les of Partisan style makers are about
to be thrown off. 1t is impossible
to think that American designers
would inflict upon women of their own /
race and nation outlandish garb /,
similar to that which has been COM !
ing from Paris in recent years.
But perhaps before bursting into
dithyrambs in our JOY over this de-
liverance 1t would be the part Of wis
dom for us to wait and see what re-
ally comes of it.-Chicago News.
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The way to keep down taxes is to
keep down all needless expenses. 1t |
is particularly desirable /
No Wonder. to hold continuous ex-
penses, such as salaries
of officials to the proper figure. But
the legislature never makes any effort
toward this end. on the contrary il
is the custom for any county official
with a political pull to get his legis-
lative delegation to introduce a bill
giving him a larger salary. The bills
are usually passed without question
by the legislature. No effort is made
tn go into the merits of the proposal
At the last legislative session Gov
ernor West suggested a plan whereby
the state could get rid Of this abuse
He suggested a schedule under which
all county salaries could be adjusted .
automatically in accordance with the
in the various counties.
The plan had merit in that it would .
fix salaries in accordance with the
work the officials did and not on a
basis Of how much pull they had. The
plan if adopted would have done
away with the biennial salary rails
ing bills which fill big portion Of
each legislative calendar.
But the legislature would not adopt /
the governors pyoposal The legis-
lature did not want a schedule Of
county salaries under which salaries
could be adjusted according to the
amount Of work a man does. It
wished to continue the policy Of rails
ing salaries on a basis Of pull.
Yet some people wonder why taxes
are high and some people argue we
should have a governor who will ,
stand in" with the legislature.
SsS~SS~~~
Portugal is not a large country /
and its entrance into the war might