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The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-01-16
Report Of Legislative Committee

Your committee submits its report
for 1918 with an earnest prayer for
your sanest. soberest consideration of
the problems presented. There has
never been time when it was so diff
cult to secure attention to the every
day worries problems which we
thought vital two years ago are rele
gated to passing interest.
Keep the children in school is the
answer that is made hundreds of times
during the past year to those hysteri
cal demands that the children must
help to win this war. Your committeee
asks you TO remember that no matter
what hsppens overseas, the children of
today those OF Ia. Is and IT, are the
men and women who in the next 10
years must bear the buroen of recon
struction. They are the only material
America has from which she can fash
ion the worker Of tomorrow. And we
ask you to remember that every child
who is allowed 10 leave school before
he may have at least finished the gram.
mar grades. is one more added to the
load of inefficieney which this Nation
must carry for years to come.
Let us not blind ourselves to the
task which lies ahead we are all toe
fond of seeing only the glory side. It
is becoming habit to accept as the
excuse for poor work, for inefficien,
service at the hands Of public utilit,
corporations, private employers, anc
every other source from which service
~ expected. the excuse of "due to wal
conditions. It is becoming a habi,
not only to accept it. but also to give
it, and we are finding that the desire
to GIVE good service is also becoming
less and less noticeable. We are al
lowing our consciences to become fab
by, we are winNing at all sorts of law
violation, while our boys on the othe,
side a1e giving Up their lives for tn.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-01-16
Report of Extension Committee

The Federation Extension chairman
extends the seasons greetings to the
members of the State Federation and
wishes to call all Club presidents
attention to the wonderful opportunity
for service that awaits each Club at
the beginning of this new year.
Many of the patriotic organizations
are disbanding, and many of the
women in those organizations have
developed talent for cooperative
work, war work having appealed to
women who have never before been
impressed with the effectiveness of
organization.
But once convinced, it would seem
the auspicious moment to impress upon
them the value of Club life in the
making of an effective nation. The
greater part of the work the govern
ment has required of us during the
war has been along lines that the Fed
Grafton has already been following.
The National President, Mrs. Josiah
Evans Cowles. in writing Mrs. Cast.
ner. our State President, says:
''The General Federation of Woman's 8
Clubs is the one great permanent
organization, fully equipped, to carry
on all Of the special constructive poll.
cies that war has shown to be essen.
tial to woman's public service-a Uni.
ned America, nation Of industrial
fairness and efficiency. country that
gives every child its maximum of Oh.
portunity in health and education. a
people that knows its own resources
and brings them into into their great.
est service.
The Federated Club has unknowing
y been the training school for wears
for the successful war worker. Club
women have had experiences in most
of the things that will be required Of
US in the future constructive work.
Will each Club President add one
more New Years resolution to your
these newly awakened women thu,
have developed war efficiency and get
them interested in club work. invite
the war work clubs into the Fedora.
tion. You are the logical one to do
this local work effectively.
The war has taught us to think
nationally. not individually. Women
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-01-16
training by the State Of the adult

training by the State Of the adult
blind.
That each delegate be charged with
the duty of investigating the payroll
of the teachers in her district with the
direct purpose Of securing for the
women the same salary as the man
teacher. and to report at the next
session Of the Federation. Also bring
to the legislature an amendment
attaching penalty clause to the law
in case of violation, if there be a
practical method of correcting the
abuse of the law, or other amendments
which will have corrective effect on
the school board offenders.
Minnie r. Trunbull. Chairman.
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shall know what it costs to run the
school, and after they have been con-
vinced that certain needs are not pro-
vded for because we had stingy
ways and means committee at the last
session, the committee will be empow-
cred to go before the next inquisition
and demand such funds, with the
power of the Federation behind it.
We have habit of asking for legis-
lation and then we calmly 60 home
and play tennis or knit sweaters or
some other thing and expect the law
to run itself We are the mothers Of
our Girls Industrial School and we
have sadly neglected child on our
minds. go far as our mothering it is
concerned. We act more like step
mothers, and very poor ones at that.
The Boys School is our responsibility
as we'll We have An Advisory Com
mittee for the Girls School, but that
committee needs the backing of care
fully trained public opinion. Now
then, if there are six women in the
Federation who want to do that kind
of war work, there's the job. And
remember there are several kinds of
slackers. They are not all military,
either. We want more money for the
schools. We want more liberal edu.
cational policy. We want decent
community spirit back of those two
schools to support the Advisory Board
in the one and the Superir lendent in
list. Adopt and fulfill your part in
the slogan, Zone or More Clubs for
the Federation in l9l9," and resolve
your club will get in touch with all
the other. in the demands which they
make. What will you do?
Recommendation of this Committee
are as follows:
To support such recommendation in
the survey of the Child Welfare Com
mission as may be approved by the
Federation. Each club is requested to
study the report Of DR.. Slingerland
so as to be able to discuss the meas.
ures at the convention.
To endorse bill which will take the
~, ia youy,, oaptanoo 1f THO ,orolo
law. Recommended by the Parole
Board.
To support an amendment to the
present jury law so as to permit
women to serve on juries.
To amend the property rights laws
as to permit woman to have full con
troll and to be able to dispose Of, by
will or otherwise, any property she
may have at the time Of her marriage.
To 80 amend the marriage law as to
provide for a health certificate from
both parties showing freedom from
venereal disease
To so amend the present law which
provides that female shall be deemed
to have arrived at the age of majority
upon being married according to law,
so that under the age of IS, she shall
be considered minor as far az the
application of labor laws is concerned.
To provide in a bill for industrial
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but several Of the judges objected and
it was let in, no modern parole law
has it.
One point wish to bring to you for
your serious thought. Do you think
that we should waste any more money
or children in Juvenile Courts? Can
we not support the movement to abol.
ish the court for children which. un.
der the name of the Juvenile Court,
makes the child the chief offender,
tries the child, works out on the child
the theory of reform and after short
experiment in the way Of detention
home discipline. sends him back to the
same conditions which sent him to the
Juvenile Court in the first place. Let
US have Domestic Relations Court.
which is endorsed by our present Ju.
venile Court judge in Portland, under
law which will not bring in the child
except as last resort, but which will
accuse the parent, try the parent. put
him or her up in the county Jail until
he makes up his mind to be decent
parent. wonder if We shall ever see
time when society will say to man
or woman-until you realize the re-
sponsibilties Of parenthood you shall
L.. A.. -.
There should be law in this state
absolutely forbidding any institution,
society or person or group of persons
to place out children in homes unless
under state license. This license should
demand first trained worker for in.
vestigation of homes. So many people
are fond foster parents 80 that they
can secure cheap help in the person Of
an unfortunate child. Next. the IL
cense should limit the number Of chill
dren to each visitor. 1t is physically
impossible for one person to conscien-
tiously look after more than 40 chill
dren. This work should be done only
under state supervision and by socie-
ties organized for such work. 1t is
not function of a juvenile court, and
we recommend to the delegates from
any district having juvenile court,
that such practices be discouraged.
And now few words as to our to
industrial schools. And these few words
demand an interest which will extend
beyond the adoption of any resolutions.
We ask for the appointment of two
committees-on for the girls school
and one for the boys. These commit
tees shall be carefully selected women
three in number. There shall not be
hysterical ideallst in the bunch.
They shall pledge themselves to famil-
iarize themselves with methods in
vogue in other states They shall not
be carried away by prejudices. politics,
or desire for Office. They shall not
make a report on one visit of two
hours between trains-duration. 1t
shall be the duty of this committee to
know what it is doing what the school
is doing; what the qualifications of
each teacher in the institution are
where she came from, and what her
preparation for the work was. They
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hygiene that was ever held in this
state II was held behind closed doors
and all minors were excluded from the
room while we talked in whispers Of
venereal disease and its awful cost
recall quite distinctly criticism of
indelicacy urged against your chair
man because she had dared to call the
two scourges by their right names. To
the Q. +. W. c. belongs the credit of
blazing the trail. Later, do you recall
the Indignation Of delegate at the
Portland meeting when the law was
suggested for a clean bill of health
before man and woman could be
married? Do you not also recall the
ridicule and the remarks with which
the legislator regaled each other when
the bill finally reached the Legislature?
And is there man or woman today
who would take that law off the sta
tute books. weak and lame as it is,
both in its limitations and administra-
tion7 We are asking for your author
ity to amend the law so that it in.
cludes both parties to the marriage
contract.
We have another law on our statute
books which gives to a girl all the
rights Of an adult if she be married
according to law. We ask your author
| ty to have that law 80 amended that
she shall be considered minor as far
as the application of labor laws is con-
cerned until she is IS, marriage or no
marriage. The United States govern
ment recognizes no such foolishness.
Our jury law is still in state of
barbarsm and will be until the women
are allowed to serve on the juries. We
ask for your authority to have the law
amended, no arguments are needed.
it is only just. know many women
who would make better juries than
those Of men who have sat upon some
of my cases.
We next want your endorsement for
an amendment to the Parole Law
which will take out the minimum SEN
tence which now requires that man
shall serve certain time before he is
eligible for parole. An old timer is
the best of prisoners, he knows the
game. he slips into the routine Of
prison life easily, he knows the pen.
atty for infraction of rules and obeys
them. just and unjust rules alike. A
repeater should be judged by records,
while many first timer gets his heav
lest punishment in his first weeks of
prison life. Those are the lessons
remembered, and if released when the
experience is the sharpest, the effort
to make good outside is stronger II
he is kept in minimum term he soon
becomes adjusted, he forms his asso.
Citations. good, bad usually worse, and
we turn him out more deeply dyed
than he was when he went in and
faced the horrors of prison life. This
amendment has been suggested by the
Parole Board. When the parole law
was first dsafted in 1907, it as sug.
gested that the minimum be left out,
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-01-16
FINS, FURS AND FEATHERS

Sportsmen of this county are sup
porting proposed amendment to the
fish and game laws that will permit
the taking of 10 inch salmon trout
throughout the closed season. The
limit at present. from October to
April ! is IS inches. The 10 inch rule
applies in all countries west of the
Cascades.
The Hood River sportsmen will also
ask the legislature to change the open
season here on male China pheasants
from the first 10 days of October to
the first 10 days of November. 1t is
declared that the best hunting copses
are denied sportsmen in October, when
the fruit remains on trees, by orchard
lists who fear that apples will be ruined
by shot. One charge of bird shot, it is
stated, will ruin box of fine apples.
The Hood River County Game Pro-
tective Association has adopted reso.
luton asking that work, when the
proposed Loop Highway, which will
connect the Columbia River Highway
with the old Barlow trail, be begun in
the Upper Hood River Valley. The
resolution recites that the survey of
the road was made from Government
camp. But it is pointed out that
great economy will be effected in hav.
ing the construction camp in the
upper Hood River Valley, located only
live miles from the terminus of the
MT. Hood R. r. Co.. Parkdale. 1t
Will be necessary to transport great
deal of supplies and materials, and
they. can be hauled, it is stated. more
efhclently over the rail line.
AT the annual meeting last Wednes.
night the Hood River County Gar,e
Protective Association re elected off
GERS 1or the ensuing year as follows:
ID. Mcdonald, president; J. H. Fred
ricy.. vice president; Al. G. Cruik-
snank, treasurer; and Alva l.. Day,
secretary. The game organization has
oeen instrumental in distributing sew.
eral hundred thousand trout fry in
local streams. AS a result of apita-
tion OF lts members for roads to scenic
points IN the county, the county has
made an appropriation of $3.50 to
open highway to Lost Lake.
yet your Pictures Developed and
FINISHED BY us. Expert work, "a hour
serVice'--slocom. Garfield Co. mS.ti
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-01-16
Red Letter Day

This is to remind you that Red Let
ter Day is the last Wednesday of Janu-
ary.
Resolved. That the Oregon Fedora.
tion of Women's Clubs adopt the last
Wednesday of January as Scholarship
Loan Fund Day, when every club in
the state is asked to do something to
increase the fund which is being loaned
young women to assist in their educa-
tion. La Grande Convention.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-01-16
BULLETIN GIVES
IMPORTANT REPORT

The January Bulletin of the Oregon
Federation of Women's Clubs. just is
sued by Mrs. Chas. II. Castner. carries
the report of the Legislative commit
tee. This important report and call
to the observation Of Red Letter Day
follow.
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:, yet your Pictures Developed and
FINISHED by US. Expert work, "a hour
service.--slocom. Garfield Co. mS.ti
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1919-02-27

am not broke OF out OF money. |
have lots OF German money and also
French money and our Uncle pays us
every pay day and all he owes us. Well
Mother, am wearing gold six-montf
service stripe on my sleeve and also
have circular M. and w. for the mid
die west boys and also occupation let
ter. Here is little poetry, then, gooc
bye for this time.
I've been eaten up by coolies,
I've berthed in Flanders mud,
I've duclked old ferries minnies
And awaited many a dud.
And I've had my joys and sorrows
And pleasures, Tres bea coup;
But I'm waiting for the morrow
That will bring me back to you.
That day has long been coming,
And now will soon be here.
The thought has kept us humming
Songs OF love for parents dear.
Your son, Orrin Hart.
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Daily Thought
Religion bas nothing more to fear
than not being sufficiently understood
--Stanislaus, King Of Poland.
Executors Notice.

Notice is hereby given that letters
testamentary upon the estate OF Willard
st. John, deceased, have been granted
to the undersigned by the Probate Court
of Jasper Comfy, Mo-, bearing date the
14th day of February, 1919. All per-
sons having claims against said estate
are required to exhibit them to me for
allowance within six months from the
date of said letters, or they may be pre-
cluded from any benefit Of such estate;
and il said claims be not exhibited
within one year from the date OF the
granting of letters on said estate they
shall be forever barred.
VIM. II. Waters, it,, Executor
State of Missouri / ss
County of Jasper
1 hereby certify that VIM. ii. Wa
tiers, jr., was granted letters testament
tary upon the estate Of Willard st. John,
deceased, on the date above written.
In testimony whereof, have hereun.
to set my hand and affixed the seal Of
said Court, this 14th day OF February,
1919, ..
(SEAD ]. Frankeberger
Judge OF Probate, Court.
First published Feb. 20-5t.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1919-02-27
Administrators Notice.

Notice is hereby given that letters
of administration with the will an
nexeu upon the estate of Solomon
Shoopman, deceased, have been grant
ed to the undersigned, by the Probate
Court Of Jasper County, Missouri, bear
ing date the Both day of January, 1919.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to exhibit them
to me for allowance, within six months
from the date of said letters or they
may be precluded from any benefit Of
such estate; and if said claims be not
exhibited within one year from the
date OF the granting of letters on said
estate they shall be forever barred.
Dora Alice Shoopman, administrators.
County Of Jasper IS
/ hereby certify that Dora Alice
Shoopman was granted letters of adj
ministration upon the estate of Solo,
mon Shoopman, deceased, on the date
above written.
In testimony whereof, | have here
unto set my hand and affixed the seal
of said court, this 30th day of January,
1919.
'ShAhta Judge O. Of f ptobste GGurt.
First published Feb. 6-4t.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1919-02-27
Magic Guard Against Rattlesnakes.

Camping out in a rattlesnake-infest-
ed district with no other protection
for ones bed than an encircling horse
hair rope would not give the average
tenderfoot a feeling Of security. A
photograph in Popular Mechanics
Magazine showed two campers maxi
ing their bed on the Western plains,
surrounded by nothing more stable
than one of these ropes, as it is well
known in that region that rattlesnakes
have an unconquerable aversion for
crawling over a rope Of this kind.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1919-02-27
OidtIme Fire AIarms-

Fire alarms came into use in medic
val times. It was the custom in many
Of the towns to have Waterman sta
toned on high building whose duty
1t was to look for fires. AS soon as he
saw one he gave warning by blowing
a horn. firing gun or ringing bell.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1919-02-27
PROGRESS.

Material progress is of value only
in so far as it assists toward the
realization of human possibilities. In
dustry and commerce and the social
conditions, which are in large de-
gree depending upon them, must be
regarded from the point of view of the
individual member of society, and If
they cramp the life Of the individually
no amount of economic argument will
suffice to justify them.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1919-02-27
Getting Into a "serape."

When boy or young man gets into
"scrape" he is supposed to have
gotten into some kind Of deviltry, but
the old meaning is somewhat different.
A ''scrape" is hole which deer dig
in the ground at certain seasons Of the
year, and the man who fell into one
Of these holes was usually lucky to get
out with broken bone.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1919-02-27
Extra Special
30c Ginghams Csc
French "ImmortaIs."

The French academy is the oldest
of five academies constituting the In
stitute of France, having been found
ed in 1885. 1t is composed of 40 men,
bers, elected for life and known as the
Forty Immortals." They rank as the
leading Frenchmen of their. time in
literature. Their judgment and deci-
sions in all disputed literary matters
are final.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1919-02-27

One special lot of $1.35 S
in black, white and brown, to
Friday and Saturday in O
S1.1Q nair
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1919-02-27
oRRIN HART IN GERMANY
Boards With Big Bertha Gunner and
Enjoys Life.


Germany, January 20.
Dear father and mother: Just few
lines to let you know that am alive
and feeling fine. Outside Of having
headaches I am hardly ever sick. We
are having fine weather here-warm
and no snow to speak Of. There are a
few rabbits, some deer and some wild
hogs here. My lieutenant, two buddies
and are going hunting tomorrow. l
would like to get wampus cat, but
wouldn't care to shoot deer.
We are staying at the home OF veal
thy German. We have it pretty nice
now, good meals and good beds-big,
fat feather beds to sleep on. The man
is one Of the men that operated the big
Bertha, the big gun that shot into Par
is. He lisa pretty wise old guy, guess,
II he tells the truth. That gun sure
was baby doll.
Say, Mother, got my Christmas
box; was very glad to get it. Every
thing was fine, especially the cake Of
soap. Mother, could buy palace
with that cake Of soap, so you see how
valuable soap is here. You asked me
where 1 was and what was doing. 1
am in little town they call Sweich
(Sour Kraut). When sent you the
label for my Christmas box we were on
our way to the Verdun front and didn't
have time to write letters We we're
over by Metz, and it is long ways from
there to the Verdun front, or Argonne
Forest. We had long truck ride, then
long hike and after we got there we
got right down to business. Old Com
pany G. got lost from the rest Of the
battalion and was surrounded for a
couple days. 1t was real interesting.
We were way ahead OF our own lines
and way back where the Bocbe lived,
and there were just coolies OF them.
You know the artillery was always
away behind and we were close enough
to the German artillery to hear them
handling their empty shells and hear
the officers giving commands.
We got there early in the morning
and my corporal and went sight-see-
ing. We found some empty houses
and dugouts and went in one house
and got all the cabbage we could carry
We didn't know at the time that the
Germans were living there. After we
got back with our load, two other boys
started back after some more. When
they got half way there they ran into
about 30 Germans and had a right hot
argument. They thought the two boys
were alone. They just got back and
the Germans came yelling and raising
b.. We were not wanting visitors
just then. We were sleepy, tired and
hungry, and that Is very bad time to
pick fight out of a Yank, so those
that got back at all went back faster
than they came. They decided not to
capture us even if we were just few.
Outside Of a few snipers we were not
bothered with their infantry, but their
artillery would make us duck. Then
the next day the ferries back OF us
started drive. They started their big
guns on us and their artillery isn't very
nice 30 the Yanks got to dropping J. 1.
cans at them. The German airplanes
were thicker than cooties-all over us.
We just had to grit our teeth and
imagine we liked it. Then one lone
American aviator came over and we
gave him the signal and the next morn
ing our division caught up with us.
Then we got rest for few days.