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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1918)
iML ^rnft Heralb Lents, Multnomah County, Oregon, May 2. Subscription, |1.50a Year FOUR SONS IN THEIR Oregon Pioneer Reunion. COUNTRY'S SERVICE. The Oregon Pioneer association will REVIVAL SERVICES START TO-NIGHT Service Will Continue Until May 26th I hold its 4Mb annual reunion June 20 In Three In trance and fourth Will Ilia Municipal Auditorium at Portland, Tha annual address will tie delivered by follow. Judge Fr«il W. Wilson, ot The Dalles, a son of Joseph G. and Mrs. Elisabeth A »ervlce flag containing four «tar», Millar Wilson, pioneers of 1852 and la dieplayeil in the window at the horns 1M1. of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ubatnlierlain 0419. sflth Mt., R. E. The four eons who have gone to fight In tha aorvim of Uncle Ham are Charles and Edwin Chamtwrlaln and Kaipli and Cyril Ben Emperor William to his troops de ner, all well known In the Mt. Hcott parting for China at the time of the district The Orel three are in Cotn- Boxer trouble: pany C, lffifod Infantry now doing err- "You will take no prisoners, you vice in France Charles who la the old- will show no mercy, you will give no eat was with the same company when II quarter, you will make yourselves as served on the Mexican border, during terrilig as the Huns under Attills’’ the summer of 191«. Edwin and Ralpli General John J. Pershing to the joined after the company returned. American soldier in France: (Tyril enlisted recently aa a "Young Soldier« of America: You motor-truck driver in the Aviation are here in France to help expel an in Corpe and was sent to Texas (or train vading enemy; but you are alert here to ing aa an air-plane mechanic and ex lift a shield above the poor and weak ; pects to tie sent to Franco sometime in you will safeguard all property; you July. will lift a shield above tbe aged and the Jack, a younger brother, and only oppressed; you will be most curteous to about sixteen years old, is longing to do women, gentle and kind to the little something for hie Uncle Ham so be io children, guard against temptation of applying for a position in the Navy and every kind, fear God, fight bravely, de toon may be a reel Jack Tar. fend liberty, honor your native land. God have you in his keeping."—Cali WEED-BRUSH EAR 5 fornia Voice. MONDAYS EXCEPTED Note The Difference. Wednesday evening. April 24th. at the home of the bridegroom’s sister Mrs. Earl Young 10210 fiOtb Av. 8 occurre<t the marriage of Matilda Breeh- eare and John C. Heed The hoove was decorated in pink aod white with an archway of Oregon Graps from which was sus;»«nded a large white wedding bell. While Miss Blanche Yost played the wedding march from Lohengrin Die bride and groom at tended by Mr. and Mrs. Bgtl Young, look their places under the archway and Rev. E D. Hornechuch of the First English Evangelical Church read the marriage service. Preceding the cere mony Mira Lillie Anderson sans "The Fleeting Hout” and afterwards "A Perfect Dey". Tliere were present about seventy rel atives and friends of the bride and groom who remained to offer best wish es and partake -if the delicious lunch which was served to the wedding party. The couple received many useful and beautiful gilts They will make their future home at tH27 With St. S. E. Sunday Weather. Dinna gang to kirk When it rain», Ye miebt catch Rheumatic pains! Bide t'liame When it's cauld, Lest ye dee When ye’re auld! The kirk’s nae place When It’s hot. The folks miebt think Ye cared a lol 1 When it’s fine. • . . leave the lx>rd. Gang a-ridin* In yer Ford ! Ye like kirke tine. Believe lu God, But canna gae, The weather's odd Ye’re not to blame, It's in ither hands, Ye bet the Ixird Understands' TRUCK COLLIDES WITH CAR. DRIVER INJURED. Resident of Gray’s Crossing. George Friday la lying in Good |Ha- niaritan Hospital with a fractured skull as a result of Injuries received Monday night when hie automoble truck col lided with a Vancouver car at Second and Washington streets He was first taken to the emergency hospital.‘where the nature of his injuries was discover ed. According to the eyewitnesses, the street car was traveling rapidly and the truck hit the car, the impact throwing the truck across the sidewalk into a building. Mr. Friday was burled to the pavement. He lives with his family at fl<>24 Eighty-second street southeast, and was driving for the Mt. Scott A l.ents Transfer company. and TROY Evangelist and Singer REID Lents Churches unite tn Se*ylces to be^Held in Tbe Evangelical Church Troy a splendid director and eobist. Beginning Thnrsday evening, May 2d in the »angelical Church the peo ple of Lents will have tbe rare privilege of hearing two of the meat gifted as well as consecrated men now engaged in the revival work. Dr. Samuel Joseph Bred is from Belfast, Ireland. He pose- I'ss r s the Irish wit and tenderness, as well as a genius for bible exposition which is peculiar to the Gaelic mind. This cultured, conaecrated man belongs to the Spurgeon school of preachers who have enriched tlie world with tlie simplicity and tendernee« ot their bible umessaKt-e. He oomes recommended by host of prominent pre. teller« of the East. He comes also endorsed Gy Pm. Pennington of Pacific College, Newberg; Ray. Carter, Friends Church, Newberg; Dr. W. B Hinson of the East Side Bap tist Church. Portland; Dr. Duncan Mc Phail, Bellingham, Wash, ami a host of -Jthers on the (toast Dr. Reed i< assisted by Prof. J. \V. He ia a Serbian by birth yet speaks Eng lish without a t race of foreign accent. For a time he lead tbe music at the Moody Mission in Chicago under Dr. | Paul Rader who has heroine one of the most powerful evangelisu in Atherica Hr. Troy basa beautiful «ymtutthy and control which make his choruses de lightful and it will he a rare treat for tbe local Bingers to have the privilege of singing with him. These men do not mAke a lot of re quirements of tlie local churches nor lay a financial burden upon them to deaden the effect at tbe very beginning. They come and hold the meetings ■ ami leave the revolts to the people. No matter what denomination yon belong to their me«.iag»- is for you and yon are'cordially invited to come on'. and hear them. Re- ir.t*mls*r tha date., tsiginniug Thursday May 2d and ending Sunday. May 26th.* Monday nights excepted. Religion As 1 aught By War. i W. C. T. U. NOTES Tuesday of this wi ck witnessed an Executive session of the Local W. C. T. U. at the home of Mrs. Shinn. 5803 Ml Ave. Plans were made for aggressive work dnring the month of May, in which every member is asked to partic ipate. Work in the department for soldiers ami sailors is brffig pushed with all vigor. FRANKLIN HIGH War gardens sre all the rage. < Every I Major 0. W. Gordon, better known to the world as the author of "The Sky Pilot,” "Black Rock” and other books, lias temporarily returned from the bat tle lines to his home country, Canada, and the United States to tell of condit ions on the front and inspire those of us at horns to do our utmost. He was a famous Canadian preacher of one of the orthordox churches, but he «aye that tlie expierences of war have wiped from his religious creed everything except two fundamentals: God and duty. "As a man leaves behind him all sti- perflous baggage when be goes over the top an<l across no man's land, just so does the man whenTie gi»-a into the vic issitudes of battle leave liehind him all the superilous baggage of religion and take with him just God and a profound sense ot duty." I heard the Major say a« he thrilled the audience in a crowded Congregational church in Spokane. Then he told a story. A young man, little known even in bin own commun ity, was in tlie trendies. A shell land ed among his comrades, likely at any moment to burst and scatter death along tlie trench. The young fellow grasped tlie situation instantly, leaped upon tlie shell and hugged it as it ex ploded. He saved his comrades but gave his own life. With a sweep of his hand toward heaven, Major Goidon brought cheers from hie audience when he said: "I care not what that young man's past may have been ; I am willing to take my chances with the like of him before Almighty God."—Oregon Farmer- boy wants to do patriotic jervice and one kind is helping In the war garden. School was dismissed a few minutes early Thursday so that the students might have a special chance to inspect the tractor while at work at the Frank lin war garden. • • Tuesday and Wednesday evenings after s< bool lectures were given for boys and girls on social hygiene Mr. Parks of the commercial dep’t is to leave the school as a result of the draft call. The students and teachers The Yamhill County Pioneer Associa sre contributing to a turn! to liny a tion will hold it’s annual reunion In r1“» w-sfrh for his use while he is in | McMinnville on June 5. I » i iiI«-» ii* ' **•*. No. 18 flag Dedicated. CAMPAIGN 10 CRACK THE MELTING POT. though inadequate service A large flag for former O. A. C men now ia mil- itery service, was presented by tbe eto- New Publication of the Committee d--ut assembly to the College at convoca tion last week. The flag bears 1056 on Public InformdtkM to Meet stars—1050 blue for tbe men living and This Danger. six gold stars for tbe dead. President _________ Kerr announced that already a new flag is under way for tbe additional men "American and Allied Ideals*’ ie tbe who will join tbe colors prior to com- tit)« of tbe latest publication issued by mencernent. Already about 200 new the Committee on Public Information, star« are needed. which may be obtained free upon appli cation to 10 Jacksoo Place, Washington O. C. It« author is Stuart P. Sherman, professor of literature in tbe University of Illinois, and its basic principle is that "the American who has not been thor Mr. Louie Parker, the emminent En oughly indoctrinated with American* glish dramatist, recently penned a stir ideals is a menace to tbe republic." ring message to the front ou behalf of “Till the outbreak of tbe prceent tbe British people. The last two lines war," says Professor Sherman. we have read : flattered ourselves that tbe melting pot “In God’s name, what are eggs and tea was working fairly well*’; and be points Compared with victory?" to "tbe records of the amazing process "The American people," says a Food which transforms tbe Scandinavian, tbe Administration bulletin, "must ask Russian, tbe Pole, tbe Roumanian into themselves this question in regard to ioyai sons and daughters of toe repub wheat. What does it matter whether we lic.” In ninety-nine c as es cut of a eat barley, corn meal or oat meal bread, hundred, this transformation has ibeen aa compared with tbe winning of thia tbe work of our general educational war? syitem, in tbe echoed», the colleges, the "We bave soddeuly come to realize universities. that it is not an easy battle to win ; that Since tbe beginning of tbe war there there is even a possibility of a war to be has been in this country "an aggressive lost. Every American should face this campaign to crack tbe pot, to smash possibility. tbe mold of national lite." The pro "America most give and give of all gram of tbe men engaged in this work she has. Franca baa suffered and bled is summed up aa follows: "Attack for nearly four years. All this time she England ; praieeCGermnny; attack every baa been fighting our enemy, tbe enemy thing in America that is due to English of all civilisation. And now our own influence; praise everything in America sacrifices have begun. that is due to German influence. Ac "We must make this sacrifice coant cordingly, they sneer at tbe ideals and for victory. We must give up our wheat professions of democratic government; to the Allies. As a military weapon, they sneer at the Pilgrim Fathers an<l «beat ia as valuable aa gunpowder; it at the Funtaui t.Lo since tbe *e«»n- is as necessary ae sbrapnel. Tbe neces teenth century have constituted tbe sity for limiting ourselves now to one and one-half pounds of flour per person moral backbone of ths nation; they set per week, and even of going without it themselves agaitiet every movement of moral reform; they sneer at all tbe entirely, must not find M decking. We bave corn, onia, barley and potatoes in humanitarian movements aasoeiatod What Really Matters. A "Vicious” Mistake Owing to a change in our composing roein force an error crept into tlie W. C. T. U. notes last week Tbe sentence rea-i ‘Tbe reernt ehange in officers hav ing left the Union without a president, Mrs Hhinn was elected to tbe office". Ths vacant office was that of Vice-Pres ident, Sorry- Altho tbe error was closely connected with vice, we do not believe it wes vicious: We understand one department of tbe W. C. T. U. is for tbe suppression of vice anywsy. Probably evil doers had tetter give- Mrs. Shinn a wide berth. ' • ■ ■'■'•**•** T Vol. 16. 1918 plenty. Ie going «beat too great a price to pay for freedom? There can be no question. Wl.at really mat ters ia to see that tbe Armies are fed. It ia up to America, and America must meet the crisis." with Christianity; they user at tboes works of American Literature which we recognixe as classical. In short, they keep up a continnons csntxmedh against eve»? revered American tradi tion, against every established political ideal against every accepted article of our public and private morality, against EXCHANGES everything admirable in our social aspi The Optimist—From now on a table rations. against -everything character "that fbir'y groans with the weight of istic of tbe cosnmou Sense of ¡the Amer good tilings" will get its owner into ican people. Qn the other band, they eerioas trouble. - , celebrate the biological-political.^^els ' Sunnyside Gazette— Wood fuel price» of Prussian atateecraft, tbe biological have been fixed for Portland, now you immoralism of Nietzsche, and the litera can go ahead and get your next winter’s ture of Berlin and Vienna especially fuel, if you have tbe price. tbe nastiest part of it which they are Harriburg Bulletin—Oregon claims certain will offend what they scotfingiy the record for greatest speed in launch call tbe Puritanical sensibilities of ing ship« under government contract. Americans." Bend Press—The streets of Bend look To com bat this propaganda. Professor pretty fine in their new dress of cind Sherman pleads of an American propa ers. A road drag will keep them iook- ganda which will avoid the dangers of i ig that way "mendacity, hatred, and megalomania” Greehain Outlook—Onlj four more which beset tbe path of the foreign states are needed to ratify the amend propagandist. He urges that it is the ment requiring tailors to quit making duty of the educated men of tbe coun quart size pockets. try who have been "neither hot nor Morning Oregonian—Ttie Fourth Ore cold" to carry or a more aggressive gon is getting a start, for the state can campaign of Americanization, and adds that the ideals which they are invited to not be without a National Guard. Oregon Farmer—Oregon is cutting defend are tbe ideals of internationally most of the 10,000,000 feet of spruce a minded men, of scholars, and lovers of month which the Pacific Northwest pro peace. The ideals of America and tbe Al vides for airplanes, having the largest lies, he says.“bave been the ideals of just available supply of that class of timber, men in all ages; so that we may find amounting to nearly 6,000.000,000 feet. them, expressed in all the great litera ture of the world, ancient and modern, including the literature of the great Germans of the eighteenth century. Contemporary German thought is pre historic, |r< veieonary, paradoxical. It seeks to fly avaiiiBt the great winds of tune, to row avaunt the deep current of In Hospital as Result of Injuries. bumau purposes, to ignore the grand . agreements of civilized men, and to Miss Clara Huber, daughter of J. J. seek its sanction in the unconscious Huber near Gilbert Station, was hit by law at the jungle. The Allies are seek ing to co-operate with the power, not St John’s tiain No. 2, at the corner of William’s avenue and Eugene Street, ourselves, which has been struggling for richteonsness through the entire history at 8:45 o’clock Tuesday night and suf fered severe injuries. She was er esing of man ; and their cause will be borne the street and apparently heard no forward by the confluent moral ener gies of all times and peoples ” warning when the car hit her. Mrs. D. Following on the revelations of the B. Maxfield, who was an eye witness, ' avtivities of tbe German Alliance, re rushed Miss Huber to the Good Samari cently made by the Senate judiciary tan hospital in her automobile. Mies Huber »»• rendered unconscious, hav committee, this publication ie exciting much interest, and an extensive demand ing received serious cute about the eves, for it is expected by those about the of and internal injuries. Reports from tiie hospital Thursday afternoon say her fices of the Committee of Public Infor mation. condition is improving an.i there is hope of her recovery. Spring is here, summer ie knocking "Ever to thine own seif be true at the door and old man winter is And it must follow, speeding on bis way. Get ready to As the day the night, meet him by getting in your fuel early. Thou canst not then Uncle Sam says it ie the only way to Be false to any man.” prevent m re "heatless days” next There are many substitutes for flour, winter. GILBERT YOUNG WOMAN RUN DOWN BY TRAIN. i EVERYONE MUST HELP. Wars cannot be fought without money, and upon the Treasury centers every financial demand upon the Nation. The rich of this country cannot alone meet the needs of the Nation; the men of the country oannot do It alone; the women of the country cannot do It alone; but all of us, the people of the United 8tatee, disre garding partisanship, forgetting selfish Interests, thinking only of the supremacy of right and determining to vindicate the majesty of American Ideals and secure the safety of America and civilisation, can do the great and splendid work which God has called upon us to de. W. G. McADOO, Secretary of the Treasury. but no subatitutee for peace. Eat tha Don't let the potatoes go to waste. substitutes and save wheat for the fight ing forces. Send them to tbe waist line!