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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1916)
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAJJ", PORTXATTD, DECEMBER 3, 1316. FARMER GETS MUCH FROM HIGH PRIGE3 RED GROSS SALE OH WOMEN ARE LIFE OF THEATERS, SAYS PRETTY, PETITE ACTRESS Miss Allene Durano, Appearing in "It Pays to Advertise," Declares That Feminine Patrons Take Greater Interest in Productions. League Trying to Raise $5000 for War on "White Plague." C. M. Dilley Shows Producer Is Profiting More Than Deal er From Conditions. . Godowsky WEEK'S WORK IS PLANNED and School Children to Assist In Cam paign and Various Organizations Will Save Charge of Down town Booths Dally. Jpbe Innate COST DIMINISHES SALES 16 - - " thy f - 'J? - r "Eastern Market to Be Developed Be fore West Can Get Much From Influx of .Gold Due to War Demand, He Says. ftidleatlons that Oregon farmers are profiting heavily from the sa'e of food stuffs were furnished yesterday by C M. Dilley, manager of Page & Son, com mission merchants. "The high cost of living is a matter which rests between the farmer and the consumer," said Mr. Dilley. "Peo ple interested in the problems of mar keting would be surprised to see what farmers are getting for some of their produce thlp year. "A recent harvest for the farmer has Just come from the sale of his Thanks giving turkeys. People who paid around 30 cents a pound might be pleased to learn that almost the whole amount went to the man who raised the tur keys." Mr. Dilley produced a pile of statements which had been compiled Just after the Thanksgiving sales. Prlcea Mae as Day Approaches. "Here are evidences that the farm ers have been well paid for their pro duce." Going through the Items of the statements he showed that prices rang ing from 25 to 29 cents a pound were paid for No. 1 turkeys. The two low est prices were on late shipments, re ceived here November 29. One allott ment from Cambridge, Idaho, and an other from Echo, Or., were paid for at this rate. Another shipment received on the same day from Blalock obtained 26 cents. The market being stronger dur- iner the early part of the week, a series of shipments received Sunday and Monday obtained 29 cents. This price was obtained by shippers forwarding turkeys from Prineville, Junction City, La Grande, Riverview and Gooding. An intermediate price of 27 cents was paid to farmers living at Philomath, Lebanon and Brownsville, who shipped shortly after the decline began. Ship ments from Monroe and Echo obtained 28 cents. Fewer Sales Cut Profits. The effects of the price changes on the commission business were consid ered harmful by Mr. Dilley. "The commission men have no rea son to be thankful for the high prices," he said, "for, if all the facts must be known, the real profits in the busi ness are made when the volume of Bales is exceedingly high. "The ascent of the price schedule has made no real difference to commission men. except that the sale of business has been cut down, thereby causing a decline in profits. We would welcome ! a readjustment of economic conditions, for at the present time we are at a considerable disadvantage." The influx of gold into the eountrv was recognized by Mr. Dilley as a cause of anomalous market conditions. "Prices are holding up all over the country." he said, "but in many of the Eastern states there have been wage and salary readjustments that make the period of high prices more easily tolerable. Wealth on Coast Increased Little. "The great balance of trade In our favor makes the United States richer In gold than it ever has been before, but not much of this new wealth has reached the Coast. Further sales of Western products in the East will have to be carried on before we can benefit by the new conditions. "The Easterner is busy producing the munitions of war, and obtaining good prices for them, but he cannot expect to pay the farmer the same prices for foodstuffs. The tools. Implements and fertilizer that the farmer has bought are more expensive, along with all other things. However, the farmer has been assisted materially by the demand for foodstuffs abroad, and his demands have been bolstered up as much as the demands of the munition workers. "The increase of money has been ac companied by a decrease In the supply of all natural commodities In the coun try. If the ratio between the total amount of money and the total amount of commodities is increased, the ratio between purchase money and one sin gle commodity must Increase likewise. ' Therefore we must pay $1.25 for what $1 would buy a few years ago. But if we obtain $1.25 in the same way that we formerly obtained $1 there is no ap preciable change." MISS ALLE XE DCR-VSO. I" THE opinion of Miss Allene Durano, the pretty and petite little ingenue In Cohan & Harris' suc cess, "It Pays to Advertise." which comes to the Heilig next Thursday, Friday, Saturday, women are the main support of the theater, in other words, if femininity withdre-v all interest in playgoing, play productions would cease to be a profitable business. It Is the women." says Miss Durano, 'who keep tab on the theatrical doings. on who's who, and what's what. Most men do not. Why are women so inter ested In the theater? Because of the romance of play-land. To most women life Is p rosalc the Incidents that bor der on the unusual are few and far be tween. 'Humdrum existence offers no op portunity for the spirit of adventure, inherent In all of us, a romance to assert Itself. Now, Isn't It a fair as sumption that every woman that goes to a play, thinks, with some truth, too, that only the situations are lacking in her life, or she would behave very much as does, the actress whose per formance she is witnessing. I, fourther more, believe that most women attend the theater with the subconscious con viction that they are going to view sit uations in which it would be interest ing to find themselves placed. "Did you ever stop to consider that the leading characters are applauded because they have traits In common with their audiences? Women are emo tional they crave romance, excitement, love. And they get It. all of It, vicari ously at the theater, where, anchored to their seats, they imagine themselves the characters on the stage amid ex traordinary circumstances. "In the olden days it was possible to satiate the cravings for romance and adventure, but modern Individuals, most of them, obey the dictates of civ ilizatlon and satisfy the wild blood In their veins by changing their person alities in an orchestra seat. And after all, how gratifying It must be to the would-be heroines or heroes so easily and so comfortably to riot at will In the illusive land of make-believe." RAILROAD SEEKS REFUND OREGOX fc CALIFORNIA COMPANY SUES FOR S12.233. Eiclw Tax Paid In 1910 Under Pro test Declared Wrongfully De manded by Government. An action was started yesterday in the Federal Court by attorneys for the Oregon & California Railroad Company for the return to it of $12,233.75 paid in Federal excise taxes under protest for the year 1909. The suit is directed against Milton A. Miller, Collector of Internal Revenue at Portland. The taxes now complained of were paid to David M. Dunne, collector here in 1910. It is alleged In the suit Just filed that the taxes against the O. & C. Com pany were illegally assessed and that the payment made under protest was an income tax. whereas, as a matter of fact, the company had no net income, all Its revenue going to meet interest on its bonds, taxes and other expenses. It Is charged in the suit that during the year 1909 the O.- & C. Company was not engaged in any corporate activity. but that the property was leased to the Southern Pacific Company. It Is set forth that since the year 1S93 the rail road lines of the plaintiff concern have been operated by the Southern Pacific Company. The only property not so leased and operated, it is declared. Is that embraced in the land grants now involved In litigation. knocked down by the automobile of William G. Lloyd, driven by Mrs. Elizabeth Lloyd, at the corner of Park and Taylor streets, last June. Ida M. Kadderly asks damages of $20,000 in a suit filed In the Circuit Court yester day. Tuberculosis week begins today and In hundreds of pulpits in the state ser mons will be preached to spur laymen on to the fight against the "white plague." Tomorrow the Red Cross Christmas eals formally g'o on sale in Portland. The proceeds will go to the fund used by the Oregon Association for the Pre vention of Tuberculosis. The sale will continue throughout December and a Red Cross seal or two attached to your letter or your parcel as It goes mrougn tne mail is a constant reminder that there is much work to be done and that you are helping to do It. The eais win be placed in all of the chools tomorrow and Tuesday and from downtown booths will be sold to the public by women and girls who are lending their time and talents to dis posing of them. To continue the work ahead of the Oregon association $5000 must be cleared from the seal sales this month. An automobile, lent by A. L. Mills. will distribute the seals to the schools tomorrow and Tuesday and the follow ing organizations will take care of the downtown sales for the week: Monday Council of Jewish Women; Tuesday, Self-Culture Club: Wednesday, Over look Improvement Club; Thursday, isase i,ine Improvement Club and Uni versity of Oregon Alumnae I Friday, Shakespeare Club, and Saturday the Tuesday Afternoon Club. Booths on Monday will be esta-b Ilshed at the following places: Meier & Frank. Olds. Wortman & King, Llpman, Wolfe '& Co. postoffice. Cafn Fiddle, Owl Drug Store. Portland. Ben son, Multnomah and Imperial hotels. The seal selling for Monday wlll be charge of Mrs. Sanford Lowengart assisted by Mra. I. N. Llpman, Miss Amy Rothchild, Miss Elva Friendly, Dorothy Loewenson, Miss Irene Gold smith, Elsie Feldman, Marie Louise Feldenheimer, Miss May Hir-h, Emily Ehrman, Florence Bloch, Marion Citron, Mrs. Julius L. Meier, Mrs. H. Politz, Mrs. Rockey Hodgkln, Mrs. Albert Ack- erman, Mrs. David S. Cohen. Mrs. Charles F. Berg, Mrs. James Rosen- feld, Mrs. J. Savan, Mrs. S. Kapstein. The headllners from the Orpheum, Lola Girlie and her dancing girls, will assist at the Multnomah between 11 A. M. and 1 P. M. Anna Chandler, an Orpheum star, will assist at the Im perial during the same hours. Miss Madeline Harrison, the Liglitner sis ters and Hazel Harrington, all from the Orpheum. will help at the MeUr & Frank. Olds. Wortman & King and Lipman Wolfe & Co. stores, respective ly. Miss Ruth Gates, leaning woman oi the Baker Stock Company, will as sist at the Portland Hotel during the afternoon. 'JIT DUNCE' ARRANGED BRITISH RED CROSS COMMITTEE COMPLETES PREPARATION. EULOGIZE LATE L. H. WELLS Xorth Portland Commercial Club Adopts Laudatory Resolutions. Resolutions of regret over the recent death of Leander H. Wells, for 30 years East Side reporter for The Oregonian, were adopted at the first meeting of this season of the North Portland Com mercial Club Wednesday night. At the meeting a number of addresses euloglz ing Mr. Wells were given by speakers. Resolutions adopted praise Mr. Wells for his many years of unselfish serv ice, his ready assistance, his enthusiasm and his modesty when a task was ac complished." He Is credited with many accomplishments for North Portland. L IS Accident Victim Sues. For injuries received when she was H. H. CLOUTIER TAKES HOLD Former Twin City Resident Acquires Interest In Multnomah Hotel. H. H. Cloutier, formerly of Minneap oils and St. Paul, has acquired an in terest in the Multnomah Hotel and be gan yesterday to exercise his new re sponsibilities. Mr. Cloutier will hold an executive position in the hotel and will relieve E. V. Hauser, president, of some of his duties. Mr. Cloutier Is well impressed with Portland and Its possibilities and is pleased says. to establish himself here, h STUDENT BODY EXPECTED TO BE UP TO 100O FOR TEAR. WILLAMINA PASTOR'S ROMANCE IS CROWNED BY WEDDING Extraordinary Demands Are Made on Faculty and Equipment to Meet Emergency. OREGON NORMAL SCHOOL, Mon mouth. Or.. Dec. 2. (Special.) Failure of the proposal to establish an Eastern Oregon normal school at Pendleton to train teachers for that section of the state is one of the factors that will call into fullest use the entire services of the Oregon Normal School staff and the entire equipment before the present school year ends. In preparation for next year Presi dent Ackerman is attempting to see that accommodations in Monmouth are adequate, both as to class recitation ppace and living-rooms, and that there fchall be enough training school pupils to give the seniors the required amount of practice work. The president points , out that the 1917 Summer school de mands that immediate steps be taken to prepare-for the requirements that will be made on the school by teachers . all over the state for teacher training. The attendance this Winter is 426 a 20 per cent gain over last year, de spite the ruling which eliminated the freshman class. Last Summer the session had an en rollment of 827, which congested the classrooms, made organization in the daily assembly 'of students impossible, and which forced students to live in crowded quarters. The dormitory was filled and 100 girls took rooms in the training school building, not used for training school purposes in the Sum mer. This year a student body of at least 1000 is expected. Rev. Charles B. Harrison and Miss Mary Reynolds, of Portland, Married Thursday Bridegroom Graduate of Willamette University. Pnblie Merrymaking on Large Scale Planned for Tomorrow Night at Cotillion Hall. The completion of preparations for the coming "jitney" dance to be given tomorrow night at Cotillion Hall by the British Red Cross Society was an nounced yesterday by Mrs. William MacMaster. head of the general com mittee. The outcome of the prepara tlons. concerning which much inter ested comment has been heard in every Quarter, is now guaranteed by the com mittee. which includes a membership of numerous enthusiastic workers. Besides personal solicitation, the com mitteo has resorted to broadcast ad vertising, with the intention of making the dance a manifestation of civic in terest. Although attendance at the affai will afford an opportunity for making a small contribution to the work of deserving institution, the members of the committee, in providing accommo dations for a large crowd, have fore seen an unusual opportunity for public merrymaking and assure all dancers and spectators that the "jitney" danc will set a new fashion in large-scale entertaining. The persons Interested in the success of the dance have outnumbered every estimate, according to Mrs. MacMaster, for, besides those who have donated the hall and promised professional services gratis, numerous friends of the Red LEOPOLD GODOWSKY is proclaimed by his confreres "Supreme Master of die Piano.' Josef Hofmann said: "I doubt if there are any pianists today that have not learned from Godowsky. that I did. and I am thankful for it." I know De Pachmann said: , . "I have known, adored and idolized Liszt and Godowsky. Which shall I say is the greater, where both have surpassed all others?" GODOWSKY generously gives the KNABE PIANO credit for a large part of his great success. Godowsky writes: ' In the midst of my extensive and strenuous American tour I ' must express to you my hearty appreciation of the noble qual ities of your instruments. The requirements of modern piano playing are so great and manifold, demanding of the instrument orchestral volume and variety of color as much as utmost delicacy, clearness and that pearly quality peculiar to the piano passages, that it is a most perplexing problem to the piano manufacurer to satisfy all the demands of the XXth century pianist. You meet every conceivable wish of the most exacting artist, and to me your instrument is a most desirable companion on my tour. Cordially yours, LEOPOLD GODOWSKY. i WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOUR INSPECTION OF THIS TRULY WONDERFUL PIANO. IN ITS VARIOUS STYLES. ' Piano Store, Seventh Floor cJ Merck-ncli of J Merit Only" Cross have volunteered to assist with decorations, refreshments and various other details. SALES ILLICIT IS CHARGE Four Men Jailed on Bootlegging Cliarge at Baker. BAKER. Or.. Dec. 2. (Special.) Ed and Ray Newton, Frank Speelman and Elmer Luney were arrested this after noon by Sheriff R. P. Anderson on com plaint of District Attorney C. T. God harecH with violation of the stat ute ' forbidding the sale of alcoholic i.,... T-ha four were lodged in the r-(v .Tail awaiting developments. Mr Godwin declares that in the last two months, aside from shipments legitimately made by Individuals, in the neighborhood of 600 gallons of spiritu Knunra hivt been brought Into the oitv and sold here. Most of it. he- said. eled in by automobile from wet states, principally from Ne vada. F0R-HIRE CAR IS WRECKED J. Jancin's Machine Thrown by Trol ley Against Another Machine. A fnr-hlre car. owned and driven by John Jancin. of 384 Fourth street, was wrecked yesterday in a collision with an Irvington streetcar, at the Intersec tion of Fifth and Davis streets. No one Ti.na inlllTAll. The automobile was struck fairly in the middle and carried before the utroatcar for a distance of 30 feet, when it was thrown against the curb, where it struck a car bearing license 216, which is registered to E. C. Dick, of 1225 East Thirty-first street North. The econd car sustained a broken fender. The for-hire car was badly wrecked. having a broken wheel, smashed fen der and stove-in side. VESPER SERVICE ARRANGED University of Portland to Open Win ter Term December 12. The usual vesper service at the Uni versity of Portland will be held at the music studio at Seventeenth and Love- oy streets at 4 o'clock today. The pro gramme will consist of musical num bers by the university orchestra under the leadership of Miss Brittomarte Griffin: readings by Mrs. Hodge, in structor in English and public speak ing, and a round-table conversation. Preparations are being made for the opening of the Winter term to open December 12. All friends are welcome at these services. A Bartholomew Snlt Set- Date of the trial of Edward Barthol omew for the slaying of John Lind November 18, 1915. was changed for the second time yesterday, and is now set for December 18. This was the original date fixed, but December 26 was later chosen. ROMANCE, which began a year ago, resulted Thursday night in the wedding of Miss Mary Rey nolds, 456 East Thirty-ninth street North, and Charles B. Harrison, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Wlllamlna. Following the ceremony at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dundee, 456 East Thirty- ninth street North, where Miss Rey nolds had made her home, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison left on a brief honeymoon. They will make their home at Wllla- mina. where a new parsonage has been erected. Six Act as Bridesmaids. Dr. R. E. Smith, pastor of the Sun- nyslde Methodist Episcopal Church, pronounced the wedding service. The bride wore a gown of white crepe meteor and carried a bouquet of bride roses. An aisle was formed of tulle ribbons by six bridesmaids. They were: Miss tJtnel Fogg, Salem; Miss Mildred Kingensmith. Miss Isabel Munn, Miss Clara Manney. Miss Jose phine Thompson and Miss Frances Harza. Miss Zola Bartholomew was maid of honor and James W. Crawford was best man. The bride was given away by her brother, Edison Reynolds. Little Roma Glllihan was flower glrL Miss Isabella Merrlman sang Oh, Promise' Me" and Mrs. Marie Fisher "I Love' Tou Truly." Miss Merrlman and Mrs. Fisher also sang a duet. Solos also were sung by Harry Whetzel, Miss Grace Jones and Miss Helen Johnson. Miss Clare Fraley accompanied. Willamette Hia Ainu Mater. Mrs. Harrison is a graduate of the Calumet High School at Chicago, and she later attended alpariso Lniver eity, Valparaiso, Ind. She has been a resident of Portland for several, years. PORTLAND BRIDE OK WILLA M1SA CLERGYMAN. t - , :: " J Mrs. Charles B. Harrison. J a......... A Rev. Mr. Harrison was. until a few months ago, pastor of the Westmore land Methodist Episcopal Church in Portland. He is a graduate of the Sa lem High School and of Willamette University. During his university ca reer he was president of the student body and third baseman on the base ball team. We Owe the Public an Apology TITaTiTi iiiiiiiiiiii.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiliiiiiniiiisiii i for not being able to handle the thousands that attended our sale Saturday as well as we would have liked to, owing to the lack of available salespeople. The crowd was over whelming. We will be better equipped Monday, with our counters and windows loaded with more big bargains for all next week. We gave the public exactly what we advertised and a great deal more. We wish to thank you for your liberal patronage. Store Open Monday at 9 A. M. And Open Evenings Until Xmas Keystone Jewelry Co. Corner Fourth and Washington result of the woman's confession to Deputy District Attorney Dempsey of an unbearable existence as Millers companion, waived preliminary hearing In the District Court yesterday and were bound over to the grand jury. Pair Bound Over to Grand Jury. Walter held on Miller and a statutory Margaret Nost. charge as the WOMAN AGENTJS VISITOR Miss Olive Lender, Spokane, Is Here on Railroad Business. Miss Olive I. Lender, city passenger agent for the O.-W. R. & N. Co. at Spokane, is in Portland for a few days on official business. She was in con sultation yesterday with William Mc Murray, general passenger agent, and A. C. Jackson, advertising agent. Miss Lender was one of the first women passenger agents in the United States. In company with Miss Avis Lobdell. city passenger agent in Port land, she recently attended the Na tional convention of traveling pas senger agents at Philadelphia and visited the big railroad terminals of the East. M is? h t.i Y-. h V k - .wit J iSsv:- ; ...--..J5Jis,?f gilt It B)elco-lLi Electricity for Every Farm , BETTERS living conditions and pays for itself in time and labor saved. Time is money And Delco-Light saves time by doing the chores by churning the butter and separating the cream by pumping the water and washing the clothes by adding hours to the working time of everybody about the farm. At the same time Delco-Light furnishes an abundance of clean, brilliant and safe light for house and barn. Delco-Light is a complete plant for generating electricity. It runs in gasoline, gas or kerosene, and is so simple a child can care for it. The Price Complete Is $310 F. O. B. Portland Visit our exhibit at the Stock Show, Union Stock Yards, Dec. 4-9, and let us tell you more about Delco-Light products. Domestic Light & Power Co. 533 ALDER ST., PORTLAND, OR. V M