Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1920)
THE MORNING- OREGONIAN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1920 GET NEW CABINET PLACE Temperament Held Handicap to Real Team Work. ABILITY NOT QUESTIONED Post or Department of Public W orks, if Created, Regarded as Ideal for California!!, f BY MARK STTLLrVAN. (Copyright by the New York Evening Pot, Inc. Published by Arrangement.) WASHINGTON'. Dec. 12. (Special.) Herbert Hoover Is mentioned for the cabinet more often than any otner man, and Is mentioned for more posts than any one else. Occasionally he is mentioned for secretary of state. That augrgrestion is rather far fetched. Of course, it is not indis pensable that the secretary of state should be a lawyer. John Hay was not. But that qualification is pretty essential, especially in an adminis tration during; which, it the pro gramme of the republican leaders goes through, international law Is for the first time to be reduced to a formal code, as an incident of the international association for preserv ing;' peace. Hoover is mentioned also for sec retary of the interior, for secretary of commerce, and for secretary of labor. Hoover Is a very able man. It Isn't quite the Same kind of ability the public attributes to him, and he has been at a disadvantage In the public expecting him to be the thing that ' be really is not. Legendary Hoover Is Different. Occasionally when Hoover comes into direct personal contact with the public there is a sense of disappoint ment. The reason is that Hoover as a legend Is one thing, and the real Hoover Is another. The real Hoover is just as impressive as the legendary Hoover, but sometimes disappvint ingly different. Because of the associations with which Hoover first came into public eye as the almoner of starving Belgium, and that sort of things peo ple think of him as a person of great personal benevolence; as a kind of cross between Santa Claus and a medieval mendicant saint. Hoover is rot that at all. He is a practical engineer with a mind coldly intent on results a mind that is one of thi most incisive in America, with pro digous capacity for work and with that intangible quality that makes things go, the quality that makes success. In addition to that," Hoover has all the fundamental qualities of a super-journalist. He has the curi osity about facts and the pleasure ir. digging them out; he has the capacity for accurate generalization from facts; he has the reformer's Itch to make things better, the zeal for pub lic service, and he has a unique sense of publicity and timeliness. Hoover Never Con "Stale." T'very speech that Hoover makes and he is In more demand for speeches than almost any other man contains fresh material. Each speech Is a definite contribution to public thought and is received by the newspapers and the public with the inttrest and weight it deserves. Hoover is in demand for the fresh r.ess and thoroughness of his. thought, no for any platitudinous after-dinner ornateness, nor because he is funny, nor for any other kind of entertain ment. He is in demand for what he has to say. No living American excels Hoover in the value of his contribu tions to contemporary thought. In considering -Hoover as a cabinet possibility, not only is it to be re membered that he is a remarkably able man; it is to be remembered that he has a public following. He ranks with Wilson, Bryan, General Wood, an-d a few others as a man whose guidance and counsel about public affairs large numbers of persons will accept on faith. No Man la Inevitable. These things commend Hoover for the cabinet. They do not make him inevitable. For no man is inevitable in the cabinet. Harding has the clearest possible right to name his own cabinet, and to choose it on a basis of getting men who will work smoothly with him, with the" senate and congress, and with the leaders of republican party. It is Harding's privilege to apply tests of 'personal Judgment and per sonal comfort in selecting the mem bers of the cabinet. It is true he will be judged to an extent by the men he pjts in his cabinet, but he can choose between being judged at the be ginning of his term and being judged at the end of it. He can select men who already have big names and whose selection will give him a favor able momentum at the start, or he can select men who he is certain will make a good team and then ask to be judged by their performance as a team at the end of four years. Team Work Is Essential. In considering Hoover for the cabi net, the doubt that may be raised will rest on whether or not he is a good man for team work. Those who raise this doubt say that Hoover made his career and his fame within his profession in situations which were one-man jobs such jobs as managing a mine in Asia' with coolie labor, and the board of directors 6000 miles away in London. But it ought also to be said and remembered that the biggf-st job of Hoover's career, the Belgian relief, involved the most difficult and embarrassing kind of give-and-take in personal relations. It involved diplomacy with the l3er man government and with other gov ernments at a time when the German government was arrogant and ihe other governments were suspicious, I uspect, though, there Is tome truth in the notion that Hoover is bet adaoted to a one-man Job. He sets a pace that others find it hard to follow, and. plunging ahead like a spirited horse, is impatient of any ties t.iat harness him to others. Hoover Frequently Temperament?!. . Also, he has a temperament that is sometimes inclined to varying moods. His methods of getting results are individual to himself and frequently temperamental. George Creel, who worked with hoover a good deal dur ing the war. says after Hoover has gone carefully through all the minute preparations tor an enterprise, oe then goes lnio the iinal putting )t over in the same way that George's mother crosses a street stands tim orously on the curb until the traffi is thickest, and then shuts her eyes end plunges across. That sort of thirg. though brilliantly successful in individual enterprises, easily might make aemanus ior tolerance on a group composed of more eveuly- tiuea men Also. Hoover invthe cabinet would fret under the necessity of political expediencies-r-even legitimate politi cal expediences. Every administra tiun and every cabinet must take MAY account of the public moods and of the party's fortunes. Hoover Would -iot know how to do this, and might take an attitude of scorning to do it if he knew how. Some of these traits might well make Hoover uncomfort able in a normal cabinet job. Public Works Ideal Department. There is; however, " one possible cabinet job in which Hoover ought to be perfectly comfortable, and in which Harding could get the assets of Hoover's ability and his public fal lowing without any handicaps. If there should be a reorganisation of the cabinet, such as has been sug gested in Senator Medill McCormick'a bill, and in various other projects, there will be a new cabinet office to be known as the department of public works. That is a department which will include all the construction and engi neering functions of the government. fnhich now are distributed among half a dozen other departments the bureau of public roads and the forest service, from the department of agri culture; the board of engineers for rivers and harbors, from the depart ment of war; the bureau of mines, from the department of the interior; the construction of postoffices -and other publio buildings, the manage ment of national, parks, Vnd nearly a score of other engineering and con struction activities. New Post Real Solution. , If the government were thus reor ganized and everybody admits it ought to be if the. office of depart ment of public works were created as a new cabinet position, then Hoover would be an ideal man foe that Joo. It would largely be a thing apart from the rest of the cabinet. The nature of the office would, more- or less, insulate it from politics. Hoover would know, and everybody,, else would know, that little or nothing was expected from him in the' way of the necessary compromises of. collec tive cabinet or party policy. If Harding wants Hoover in his cabinet, the way to bring it about would be to effect this reorganization of the departments and put ilover in charge of the new post. McARTHUR GAINS IN RANK Oregon Representative .Leading Member of Xaval Committee. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, Dec. 12. Because of the death of Representative Browning of New Jersey and the transfer of Ren resentative Kelley of Michigan to the committee on appropriations, Repre- senative McArthur now ranks in sixth place on the committee on naval af fairs of the house. 'He is outranked only by Chairman Butler of Pennsyl vania and Representatives Britten of Illinois, Mudd of Maryland, Hicks of New York, and Peters of Maine. Two years ago Mr. McArthur wu at the foot of the committee, but by reason of the change from the demo cratic to the republican regime and the death, defeat and transfer of sev eral older republican members, he is one of the ranking members of the committee and is chairman of the sub committee on supplies and account. The committee on naval affairs con sists of 21-members and is recognizea as one of the most important congres sional committees. F. W. RICHTER, 54, DIES Portland Symphony Orchestra Mu sician Well Known in City. .. Frederick W. Richter, aged 54. 322 Failing Btreet, died suddenly at his home- at 1:15 yesterday following a hemorrage. Although In poor health for some time Mr. Richter kept on with his work. The night before his death he filled his engagement in the Columbia theater orchestra. Mr. Richter is well known in Port land musical circles. He came here 22 years ago from Minneapolis, Minn. He has been engaged both as a player In various1 orchestras and as a music teacher. At the time of his death he was a irmber of the Portland Sym phony orchestra. Mr. Richter Is survived by his widow, one son, Francis Richter, a well-known blind pianist, and a sis ter, Mrs. Johanna Spiel. Germany. The funeral services will be held at Byrnes' parlors, 901 Williams avenue, at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Rev. T. M. Minard will conduct the ser vices. Burial will be in Riverview cemetery. QUOTA IS FAR EXCEEDED W. C. T. IT. Fund Oversubscribed by People of Linn County." ALBANY. Or., Dec. 12. (Special.) Albany, alone has subscribed more than the entire quota of Linn County for the Oregon W. .C. T. U. children's farm home, and D. H. Bodine of this city, chairman of the campaign, esti mated that the county would exceed its. 'quota by more than $2000. The county quota was $2650, and Albany already has subscribed J2684.S3. more than twice the city's quota of $1250. More than $1100 has been -subscribed thus far outside the city, and not all communities have reported. Oakville, Or., which had a quota of $50, subscribed $233, and other cities' or communities which have exceeded their allotments were Harrisburg, Or., and Tangent and Dever. Other places are making good progress, Chairman Bodine said.- The Elks lodge of . Albany sub scribed $50 to the fund and .the Al bany public schools collected $40.18 among the students. HUSBAND SLAYER SUSPECT (Continued From First Page.) two weeks. They had been living. at 344 Second street for two months. Hnahand ex-Switckman. Tevis is 39 years old and formerly was employed by the Spokane, Port land & Seatle railroad as a switch man. He went out on staike with the switchmen last year, and has not worked at that occupation since. The cause of the quarrel which re sulted in the death of Mrs. Tevis could not be learned by the police, as other roomers at the bouse said they heard nothing more than the woman's screams. Kennedy said that Mrs. Tevis had been worrying consid erably because of her husband's ex cessive drinking during the past week or two, but later he said Mrs. Tevis also had been drinking with her bus band. BODY LURES SLAYER ON (Continued From First Pai?e.) taken to the county jail. The confes sion, the officers declared, was made without duress in any form and came following a first confession which was false In so many details that un der cross-examination Howard be came so tangled that he. finally broke down and told a straight story. The officers were convinced from all the evidence In their 'possession that the rumor whicn started here that Sweeney was not yet dead when his body was placed in the trunk was false. Howard confirmed this in later statements. iis attitude, while show Ing signs or remorse, was more ot one resigned to his fate. S. A H. green stamps ror cash. Holmao Fuel Co. Main 353. 569-2L AST, LOSS OF ELECTION IS BLAMED Oil COX V Boifrbons Declare Candidate . Angered Independents. SLUSH FUND BOOMERANG Defeated Officials Tell Stories In Washington Regarding No vember Landslide. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, Dec. 12. With the re turn of congress, Washington is for the first time getting the first details of the terrlfie avalanche which swept over the country on Nevember 2. The folk of this, the capital city of the nation, have been, dazed and curi ous ever since that now celebrated battle. It had been expected that Harding would .be elected president, but in an examination of the casualty lists the names of several supposed political immortals were found. Four senators ChambA-lain of Or egon, Nugent of Idaho, Pheian of Cal ifornia and Henderson of' Nevada along with a few others had been put down in the unbeatable class. The final returns showed that all of them lost and Washington has been asking the reason why. It is much the same story that ccmes from everywhere. Those who come from the west, brought here by the return of congress, say that the one big reason was the democratic -nr.minee for president. Governor James M. Cox. The trouble began, it was explained, when Governor Cox went into those-states of the west peopled largely by liberal-minded re publicans who were not averse to vot ing for a good democrat now and then. It was out there that he opened up the bitterest of his slush fund and other charges against the republican party. He was applying the eastern method of campaigning to a country where party lines are not as sharply drawn as they are In Ohio. Indiana and New York. That was where he made his mistake, western democrats say. The normal tendency of the west being republican, the large number oi republicans who intended voting for Senators Chamberlain. Nugent, Pheian I or .Henderson, began to wonder if such votes would not be an Indorse ment of Mr. Cox's brand of partisan ship. The result, these democrats say, was a decision on the part of many republicans in that country, for the first time in years, to vote the ticket straight. v "I knew we were In trouble the day after Cox left," one prominent demo crat said. "Some of my republican friends, men who had alwavs suo- ported certain democrats, tojd me that iney wouia nave to pursue another course this time. The whole Cox plan of campaign in the west was Indis creet, to say the least, because it of fended all of the Independent re publicans, and when he fell down on his slush fund charges the bottom was out of democratic hopes." Two of the best loners who have come to the city are Senators Cham berlain of Oregon and Nugent of Idaho. Both look happy and seem ac tually relieved. They conducted good campaigs ad were satisfied with the showing they made. The Oregon sen ator was proud of running 47,000 ahead of Cox and Senator Nugent was gratified at his showing of something more than 30,000 votes over the rest of his ticket. The Idaho senator confessed that his defeat was no surprise. He said nothing about what did it except to attribute it to a landslide, but inti mated that the drop In the prices of wool, wheat and other farm products may have had something, or much, to do with it. And by way of illustrating the sudden distress that hit some of the folk in the agricultural sections of Idaho, he tells a good story of how one leading republican worker, a man who loomed large in the agricultural industry, was forced into such straits that he ate the party propaganda. This republican worker, it appeared, became very active in the last days of the campaign. Taking his big auto mobile, he started out to drive from one ranch to another displaying to the ranchers a can of Argentine beef which the explained was being un loaded in this country in overwhelm ing quantities at the expense of the Idaho stockmen. A democratic tariff law was blamed for permitting this South American importation to come in and depress the prices paid to Idaho beef raisers. This man's campaign was taking well with the farmers until one day the automobile broke drwn out in the mcutais. The campaiger was far from a house or garage. The weather was comfortable enough, but he could not avoid becoming hungry, and. after time his gnawing appetite drove him into eating his propaganda, the precious can of Argentine beef, this ending one important phase of an ef fective campaign. His dilemma was the more serious. some of the Idaho democrats say, be-.! cause mere wasj not another can of Argentnie Deer then available in the state with which to continue the work. -v Washington Is going to be amazed when Miss Alice Robertson of Okla homa, only woman member of the next congress, arrives here, according to Eugene Lorton, publisher of the Tulsa World. Mr. Lorton Is well known In the northwest, having once been prominent in politics in Wash ington state, besides having published newspapers at Vancouver. Wash: and Walla Walla. Wash. . j "There is no way to describe Ml Robertson," said Mr. "Lorton, "except to say that she is an amazing person. She is of the pioneer type with all of that strength of character which grows out of pioneer experience: an experience that fits her admirably to represent an Oklahoma district in the congress of the United States. "When I heard of her appointment as postmaster of Muskogee I won dered ' why Roosevelt should have made such an appointment to so im portant an office. When I became acquainted with Miss Robertson I ap preciated once again that remarkable Rooseveltian power of discernment. She is a natural executive as well as being a thinker and a teacher. Any one might well Df proud of her ca reer, and It is regrettable that those who do not know her sometimes speak slightingly of her as the pro prietor of a cafeteria. "She came to Oklahoma in a prairie schooner with her parents when she was but 5 years old. Her parents were missionaries among the Indians. When she was older she began teach ing the Indians herself. She was ( loved aa worsnipea Dy ail or the tribes among whom she labored. Later, as postmaster, she made good, and another fact not well known Is that she was at one time employed in the interior department in Wash ington, where she received what was then as high a salary as the govern- ment had paid to any woman em ploye of an executive department. "She Is in no sense a crank, and Is not coming to Washington with any of the namby-pamby sentiments so often attributed, sometimes mistaken ly, to women. She opposed woman suffrage, and . then after It came turned around and proved that even women appreciate courage of convic tion in their own sex by securing her own election as representative in con gress - from a state in which th women vote' ' SPRUCE CHANGES HANDS James Manary of Portland In on 13,000-Acre Deal. MARSHFIKLD, Or., Dec. 12. (Spe cial.) A large timber deal negotiated through Adelsperger and Conrad of this city. In which Mr. McGregor and R. ' K. Booth of Astoria, and James Manary sjt ' Portland, acquired 13,000 acres . of spruce . lying between the Umpo.ua and Sisulaw rivers, had to be revised and half of it belonging to the Sparrow-heirs was released, owing to the inability of the administrator to dispose of it before all heirs became of age. Under the' .Circumstances, the ad ministrator and the buyers arranged a division of the property which was jointly owned by the parrows and Mr. Kroll. and the purchasers obtain an area of $500 acres In solid block, contiguous to the Southern Pacific railroad, and Lakes -Tsiltcoos and Tahkenitch. Because of delay oc casioned, the buyers have not been able toopen the tract for logging; but it is expected cutting will start in the spring. FUND DRIVE ' GOES OVER Willamette Students' Obtain More Than Quota for Missionaries. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY, Sa-. lem. Or., Dec. 12. (Special.) With returns at hand from 227 students, the $600 missionary ' campaign con ducted by the campus Christian as sociations has gone over the top by $25. Nearly 200 students are yet to be beard from. The money received from the student body will be divided among central Europe 'students' re lief work, the general , Y. M. C. A. missions fund and Miss Aetna Emmel, '17, who is doing missionary work in Inula. A unique feature was Inaugurated n Willamette social life tonight when various campus organizations withheld refreshments from their so cial gatherings to turn over the money to the students' relief fund fcr central Europe. YAKIMA TENANTS PROTEST $7.5 0 to $15 a Month Increase in Rent Calls for Action. YAKIMA, Wash.. Dec. 12. (Spe cial.) Thirty-five tenants in the Margadella apartments at the corner of Yakima avenue and Fourth street have met and protested against i proposed increase in their rent Jarni ary 1. Notices of the raise were re ceived a few days ago. The increases range from $7.50 to $15 a month and bring the new schedule to $52 to $75 a month. The maximum rental now paid is $73 a month. The tenants, who represented 2S of the 32 apartments in the building. first adopted a resolution to resist the raise through court action, if necessary, but reconsidered this vote and appointed a committee to call on H. J. Cahalan, owner of the build ing, and present a protest to him. MASON, AGED 114, IS DEAD Abraham Kittle, Said to Be Oldest Member, Dies at Detroit. DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 12. Abra ham Kittle. 114, said to be the old est member of the Masonic order in-4he United States, died at his home here today. ' He joined the order in 1827 at Waterford, N. Y. CONSTANTINE TO START (Continued From First Page.) action on behalf of Greece, but It predicted that the Greek laboring masses "soon will free themselves from the unsolicited tutorship of im perialistic powers." M. Tchitcherin, .the bolshevik for eign minister, in a note. as quoted by the neraids saia: "The soviet has no sympathy with monarchies or kings, but it has a good deal with a people, which, like its own, has resolved, though In an inadequate manner, against the policy of war for conquest imposed upon it by an Imperialistic regime, with the aid of foreign bayonets." "The Russian government, there fore, while utterly repudiating the tradition of the late czardom In using Russia's position as one of the three protecting powers in Greece and cor respondingly denouncing similar prac tices by Great Britain and France, nevertheless in the name and prin ciple of the right of every nation to determine its own political adminis tration and select its rulers, protests in the strongest manner possible against the brutal. act of Interference with the internal affairs of the Hel lenic people now committed by the allied governments. "The soviet government is con vinced that the day is not far dis tant when the laboring masses of Greece will, of their own free will, find a means to free themselves." Jewry Investigation Requested. PARIS, Dee. 12. (Jewish Telegraph Agency.) An appeal was made to the league of nations to appoint a commission of inquiry to investigate the condition of the east European Jewry, In a memorandum sent to the league by Napum Sokolow, chairman of the Jewish delegations committee; Israel Zangwlll, president of the Jew ish terrltorlalist association, and Lu- clan Wolf, secretary of the Joint for eign committee on Jewry. Alleged Embezzler in Custody. CEDAR RAPIDS, la.', Dee. 12. H. C. Beeson, formerly stock sales agent for the Iowa Bankers Mortgage company,- has surrendered to Sheriff Tay lor. Three indictments were returned against him by the Linn county grand jury. One charges embezslement of $191,800 from the company and' the other two allege the utterance of forged instruments. Phone your want ads to The Ore go n i a n ,MaJn 7070;Automatic 560 The Above Coupon Good far 25c, Redeemable Here for SIDLEY GARTERS M. SICHEL Men's Furnish era and Hatters. Exclusive but Wot Expenslre. 331 Washington St Near Broadway LEAGUE OR DEFENSE : HELD ALTERNATIVES Join Nations or Build War ships, Says Mr. Daniels. NAVY REPORT SUBMITTED Three-Year Building Programme Recommended Unless XT. S. En ters World Organization. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. Approval of another three-year naval building programme, involving the construc tion of 88 vessels, if the United States does not enter the league of nations or a similar world organization, is given by Secretary Daniels in his nnual report today to President Wilson. 'If the United States is not to enter Into any agreement with the other powers of the earth, which are now bound together in the league of na tions," says the naval secretary, "I feel compelled to approve the recom mendation of the general board that congress authorize another three- year programme to be begun as soon as the capital ships now under, con struction are launched." The three-year programme . recom mended by the general board to be under way by 1924, includes the con struction of three battleships, one battle cruiser, 30 light cruisers, eight gunboats, 18 destroyer leaders, 12 mine-laying submarines, six cruiser submarines, four airplane carriers, three destroyer tenders and three submarine tenders. If the United States takes its stand with other countries in an organization to prevent war and promote peace," Mr. Daniels says. bur present navy, with the addition of some special types,, will be ade quate for our defense and the pre vention of aggression." Coast Needs Emphasized. No specific recommendations for appropriations for new construction during the next fiscal year are in eluded in the secretary's report, but his estimate of the cost of maintain ing the naval establishment for the coming year is $67.515,731 exclusive oi any sums congress may add for new building. This is S240, 000.000 more than was appropriated for the present fiscal year, but 'Mr. Daniels says the sum "is not really an in crease, but is "necessary to carry on Your "Money of SAOTWG Save With the Co-operation of Our Bank Let us get you started in the way most convenient to you. Later when your savings, plus the interest we pay. put you in a position to consider larger financial deals, you will find our co-operation equal to your needs as it was when you opened your account. $1.00 Opens a Savings Account in .This Banl; WA SHIN G TO N A T THIRD Of Extra Quality Only firs quality, well-made mater ials ever enter into Sidley Garters. Take the elastic for instance. That is the most important part of a good garter. The strong ' elastic used in Sidley Garters is what makes each pair wear longer. One of the twelve points of per fection. There's a Sidley Garter for women and for children too. THE SIDLEY COMPANY San Fnuicuco, U.S.A. "I 'GARTERS the construction of ships already' authorized and the completion of shore establishments already begun by direction of congress." The most pressing problem con fronting the nation with regard to the national defense, the naval secre tary continues, - is the immediate necessity for increasing naval shore establishment facilities on the Pacific coast. ' "The- day will never come, Mr. Daniels says, "when a powerful fleet will not be based in the Pacilic ana t Is essential that ample provision be made not only for the Pacific fleet. but for the whole American fleet in its stated periods of tactical exercises on the west coast." Among' the new Pacific coast pro jects now under consideration for which congress has been or will be asked to provide funds are a deep water docking anl repair base, a sub marine base and other developments at San Francisco; an aviation base at Sand Point. Wash.; submarine, de stroyer and aviation base at Port Angeles, Wash.; a submarine base at Los Angeles; a submarine and de stroyer base at Astoria, Or., and a very extensive development of harbor and repair facilities at Hawaii. In all, the report declared, projects that ultimately will reach a cost of about $160,000,000 are urgently needed for the Pacific coast proper. Hawaii Key to Pacific. 9 Characterizing Hawaii as the crossroads and key . to the Pacific," Mr. Daniels recommends the creation there of a fleet-operating base cap able of accommodating the entire American navy with all auxiliaries. Facilities for a fleet of a thousand vessels could be developed at Hawaii, the report asserts, adding that "the strategic location of ilawail is real ized, its possibilities have been care fully studied and set forth by naval experts and its development on a broad scale as a fleet operating base cannot be too strongly recommended." Despite "sporadic criticism" in this country and abroad of the completion of capital ships authorized before the war, the battleship remains the "backbone" of the fleet. Secretary Daniels declares. The war proved that the time has not come for the abandonment of capital ships, he says, and in support of his declara tion he points out that recent British building programmes have included funds for dreadnoughts and battle cruisers and that Japan "has laid down five capital ships since the armistice and it is understood that eight others are projected for the near future." A strong ' plea that all marine activities of the government be con solldated In the navy in the interests of economy and efficiency is made by the naval secretary. He declares that "America should have but one navy" and that at present there are various "little navies" under various govern ment departments whose activities could be far more advantageously directed under a single control.. Every large city has one newspaper which, by universal consent, is the Want-Ad medium of the community. In Portland it s The Oregonian. Just a Word From One W1i(h Knows flf s r A Contented Woman Is the Home's Greatest Treasure Remove the drudgery, the worriment over the fam ily wash problem, add ease, comfort and cleanliness in the home, and you have a contented woman. Cleanliness, Economy and Leisure have been made possible by the NATIONAL Laundry And this great Institution has helped to emancipate women from the wash tub, from the cluttered, messy kitchen, from the long standing over the steaming boiler. Women no longer need go through the back-breaking labor of washing there are other home duties more important. LET THE NATIONAL Do Your Laundry Work Phone East 494 and one of our route men will call Make This a Safe ELECTRIC CHRISTMAS Use Only Standard Factory Advertised Goods Baby Ironing Boards $1.00 Each Christmas Sets of fl0 Ott Lights, Set (With extra lamp) Fancy Special Lamp at, Jfj Hotpoint, 6-lb. Irons, gg 2 Universal 6-lb. Irons, Q f?( each , Edison 6-lb. Irons, flQ Or each VO.Ad Mazda Bulbs, colored, Oa each ". MiTili Rnlhs. elpar. Of - each 6 Ft. Extension solid p- ff x- j 6 Ft. Extension (sep arable), each S1.25 Largest Stock of Universal Percolators in the City. AVestinghouse Turn-over Toasters. Mazda Most Completely Equipped Repair Department in Portland BARRETT' "An Easy place to trade.1 154 FOURTH ST. East Side of Street ' Just North of Morrison FOR SALE This Splendid Business Property Astoria, Oregon 1312 N Hi -: - ' "If' Foard Stoke. Building. story divided into five apartments. This building is on Commercial street V2 block from Penney and Woolworth -stores. Now occupied by good tenant paying $500.00 per month. Terms, cash on delivery of deed. Now that Astoria has been selected as a naval base, a great in crease in property values is expected. Bids to be ad dressed to Trustees in Astoria or care Marshall-Wells Co., Portland, Or. Eight reserved to reject all bids. -t 1 w 4 Different Kinds of Laundry 4 Different Prices Nailet Knob, priced per foot A-l B, C. House Wire, OJ per foot i Standard Cord, priced per K foot Oi' Standard Electric Tape, - rj per roll J-UC Snap Switches, priced, Bells (Standard), spe- 75c I cial, each IBuzzcrs l Buzzers priced now at, rT each J, Sockets, Key No. 2, at .Fjq Sockets, Key No. 1, at Q Lamps. Sealed bids will be received till the 16th day of Decem ber, at noon, 1920, for lot (3) three, block (135) one hun dred thirty-five, with build ing;, City of Astoria, Oregon, subject to mortgage on prop erty of $12,000.00 not due. Building is suitable for wholesale grocery, hardware, or retail furniture store. Size 50x125 feet fronting on two streets. First story 20 foot ceiling, second story full size stock room 50x125 feet, with 15-IOOt Ceiling. ItUTd 1 -7-.T.T7 i-,-rT.-..-- fr-',iTr lit iliil I