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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1918)
Utt. Subscription, $1.50 a Year LEHERS FROM HOME ARE MUSI WELCOME ìieralb Lent«, Multnomah County, Oregon, May 9. 1918 PICTURES ARE WANTED SALIENT ftA ILRfS OF UNION REVIVAL PROVING SUCGESS FOR LANTERN SLIDES 2ND RtD CROSS DRIVI To Entertain Soldiers in Y. M. C. A. Red Cross to Conduct the Campaign importance la the Home Building. Newapaper. Through Own Organization. Feature Next Week Will He Open Air Meeting on Liberty Board In order to bring home the spirit Overseas, where American soldiers Port'and, May 8.—Next comes the Corner at 7 :S0. of home just a little closer to the sol Second War Fund of the American are facing the enemy, a letter from homo la most welcome. It Is the Dr. Reid and Prof. Troy made their diers in the big cantonments on the Red Cross for >100,000,000, Oregon strongest home-tie. It helps to keep initial appearance before the Lenta Pacific Coast, the national war coun plans for which were announced in the morale of the American soldier public Thursday of last week. From cil of the Y. M. C. A. in the western Portland this morning by Henry L. at the topmost point. Next in point the first they have held and delighted department, is asking for a photo Corbett, state chairman, campaign be of Importance Is the old home news their large audiences. The crowd was graph of the most familiar spot in ginning May 20 and ending May 27. paper. From this he learns what is good sised Thursday and has grown this community. From the picture a Oregon is to aim at >600,000, as happening among his friends. It is every I1IK4IV night PllltVi since. The 1 »sur s revival w v a » meet- lantern slide will be made and thrown was the case in the first Red Cross moat Important that the homo news ing, like a snowball on Mt. Hood in I “P™ .«»• screen in the Y. M. C. A. war drive, when over >1,000,000 was paper should follow him across the July, is increasing in volume ami! buildings. subscribed. Portland’s quote has been velocity. Dr. Reid is witty, sympa- An effort is being made to secure 'set, as before, at >250,000, while the seas. Persons who wish to get this work thevic and logical. He does not resort I photographs from every town and aim for the stete-aVlarge is >350,000. of cheer to the boys from this com to any cutch metho.Is nor does he Ihan,let ln »he West The pictures must For the first time the Rad Cross munity may do so by subscribing to take any unfair advantages of his j be clear so that the reproduction will will conduct a campaign through its These photographs should own organization, the campaign com this newapaper and having it ad- audience. 1 Prof. Troy has delighted!»* <lrve»e<i to the American Y. M. C. A., with his chorus and solos. He has »* **nl To F. F. Runyon, Associate mittees in each district being selected It Rue d'Agueaseau, Paris. France. won the regard of the singers who Secretary, National War Work Coun by the chapters of the Red Cross, The national war work council of the are glad to sing with him and for cil, Y. M. C. A., 51» First National v. hich in turn will work through their Y. M.C. A. will see that the paper is him. The choir is growing, both in Bank Building, San Francisco, Cal. branches and auxiliaries. A short description, giving the title forwarded to the soldier at the front. size and effectiveness, lx-nts has sel Mr. Corbett has appointed H. E. It will be sent to a camp where boys dom had such unselfish and conse of the picture, an<J the town which it Witham as state manager, and Mr. from this state are stationed. crated evangelists to work for its represents should be written on the Witham, in turn, appointed a series reverse side. Every city and com- of assistant state managers, who be War work secretaries in Y. M.C. A. uplift. huts overseas state that the hardest The services will continue through- munity has its object of interest It ( gan this morning a tour of the state, thing they have to combat is home- out the w«k, and next week, every may be a busy corner, old building. which will take them to the chapter aickneM. _______ .... The lads are yearning for night except Monday night One of fountain, adobe, cosy park, natural headquarters ■ of each district, to as news from their loved ones. The let- , lhe fealurea wil| be an open air meet- phenomena. Whatever it is, it will be sist ( in perfecting organization. Each ter is first in Importance; the old Ing beginning on Thursday evening a welcome sight to the boy away from ( assistant manager is one who has home newspaper fills the void in the at 7:30, on Liberty Board corner. home. It will be a reminder, an in- , made a record previously in Liberty absence of the letter. You can help to One regret has been that Miss Ter- spiration, an old friend and will make Ixian, Red Cross, V. M. C. A. or sim maintain the morale of the American rell, pastor of the Friends’ church, him happy. ilar drive, and in some cases, in all I troops in France by sending him this owing to illness, has not been able opponents by quoting scripture— < of them. A. E. Doyle, assistant manager for paper. Think it over. to be present, to deepen the effect of ,>the ^jy candidate from Multnomah" Columbia, Washington, Til (the meetings with her sympathy and I —,n wb,ch he is very proficient, at Clatsop, 1 lamook, Clackamas and Multnomah earnestness, but it is hoped that she i times. 1 is a well-known architect. ' will soon be able to attend them. Dr. Anderson is making hay while counties, ' He has been a power of strength in Every one in I^nts should avail gun Bhines, and believes in dry ■ first, second and third Liberty himself of these meetings. «pells in or out of seasons. The doc- the 1 Mr. Tamplin and Miss Spearow are ^or gayg he will get all of those votes Loan campaigns, in the Y. M. C. A. the pianist and organist that make —dry oneg and a few near-dry < drive, as well as in previous Red campaigns, while he made a Ite,. Oswald W. Taylor Preaches Fit the chorus attractive. The piano is oneg We doubt not. But, lest we Cross ' record in the War Li donated by the kindness of Mrs. Bar- , forKet( our neighbor from Astoria is conspicuous ' ting Sermon and Prays for fund. Mr. Doyle left Portland Soldier Boys. ker of the Friends' church. The lum- ■ wetting his lips to wage unceasing brary 1 morning to visit this territory. ber for the open-air meeting platform war against the monster “wave of this 1 The headquarters of both the city Sunday afternoon, April 2»th. the was donated by the Rice,Kinder Lum- 1 drought in deserts parched with hid- little Episcopal Church at Woodmens ber Co. nous thirsts,” and if the bookings of ' of Portland and the state campaigns the advanced press sheets are correct, 1 will be at Liberty Temple, Portland. was filled to overflowing, tee occa The Red Cross W’ar Fund dollar is sion being the dedication of the ser OUR WEEKLY POLITICAL NEWS there will flow at regular intervals really >1.02 for of every dollar sub , a deluge of — no whiskey, no pure 1 vice flag for the boys who have gone LETTER. to the Red Cross in the drive I quill—but the vintage of Bacchus and scribed i from the church. year, >1.02 has been available, Vinero. Blessed are those who want last 1 The church was decorated with By F. J. Kupfer. two cents representing interest nothing stronger than six years old. the I white flowers. A large American flag, The funds subscribed will be de Now that Mr. Huston has been dis- _________________ The contest for the position of cir- the gift of Mrs. James Robb, whose son Alexander is in his country’s ser posed of in the senatorial race, and cujt judge in the Fourth and Sixth posited 75 per cent to the, credit of vice. hung at the left of the altar. ex-Governor West been given a re- Departments is beginning to get. in the American National Red Cross for The honor roll of members of the minder to "shinny on his own side.” teresting. For Department No. 4, war work abroad and 25 per cent for service, the hour of our discontent will soon jujge Stapleton is being touted for the war work of the local chapter. church in the t- government _ Not a eent will be expended from presented by Rev. Taylor, *’■• <»••- be upon us. The adjectives that are the winner, but Arthur I. Moulton is the war fund for the expenses of the being trarsfuaed in the circuinnam- coming up strong and Mr. Orton is played on the right of the alter. Back of the baptismal font hung the ser bient (This is a “Kupferism,” ask also getting considerable attention campaign in any way. Eleven hun vice flag, which was made by Mrs. J. him.—Ed.) atmosphere among the from different organizations of which dred dollars was allowed to Oregon Glover, the Sunday School superin senatorial aspirants is getting some he is a member. The rest Of them by National headquarters from mem bership dues, and this has been ex tendent. . what on our nerves. They are not won’t cut much of a figure, For De- pended in the printing of receipt satisfied at hurling innocent verbiage partment No. 6, John E. Owen is mak- The rector preached a most excel books, pledge cards, etc. lent sermon. and in the prayers men at each other, but arc compelled to ¡ng considerable progress in his cam- The expenses of the state campaign none« ______ seek assistance from the outside. Mr. paign. Judge McCredie is also quite tion«! each boy represent«! on the will be raised by voluntary subscrip flag Ihc choir furnished appn^riate McNary’s friends have their redoubts a favorite, winning votes on account music and the solo by Mrs. Blakeslee and re - enforcements escradrilled i of his previous experience on the tion in Portland and by chapters throughout the state, the local cam added greatly to the service. ' somewhere within the citadel of the bench, while Judge Gantenbein is re- paigns, both in Portland and through Many of those present declared that Capitol, which is in command of a lying solely on his record for the out the state being handled in the fh. v had never listened to a better warrior, who is known as a great past ten years as circuit judge. Judge in< y _ “ -j. “ ____ ■ ______________ >_________ u-„ the faculty /„.„UvU __ a . __ •__ i_ has ,___ made ______ i_ a - fair »_!_ ___ i im- i_ same manner. finer service than __ on the "drawing card.” i»» He u- has j Gantenbein and sermon or I So far as is known, the Red Cross of this dedication of the ser- of not only drawing the teeth from partial judge, and his decisipns have occasion < war drive is the only fund in which Credit for the success of! some obscure sore spot, but he is also been upheld in most cases by the vice flag i—„. this procedure is rigidly carried out. . is -------- i_ * With Supreme Qnnromn C Court, ’rvurt willing to rlrnu' draw th»» the wholp whole in with the affair due to Mrs. Clnvnr Glover, and and «arillin«* In Portland ’it is announced the the Guild for their untiring efforts him. While on the other side, we, For county commissioner there are entire campaign will-be over in two begin to. see the wool fly, and when Several who are going to run away to make the occasion a memorable "Bob” Stanfield begins to pull wool, ahead of the ticket, but we won’t say days. one. With the exception of >11,000,000, look out for bald spots. Bob is a yet who they are. Philo Holbrook which will be expended or contracted fighter, and it’s ducks for him to get has had one term and has made good. EXCHANGES. for before June 1, the >100,000,000 into a scrap with a dentist. As to Ralph Hoyt is one of our best-known the outcome of this momentous ques citizens and deserves a large vote. originally subscribed to the Red Cross Harrisburg Bulletin—Oregon farm tion as to who is right or wrong, the Mr. Thomas is well known among the has been expended. wages are shown to be higher than public will naturally step in and do fraternal lodges, and will also receive RED TRIANGLE INVITATION. normal, many districts agreeing on a the umpiring themselves, which will marked attention. Mr. Daly is ex scale of >60 a month and board. Har be on May the 17th, and we invite pected to get considerable votes, hav Every boy leaving this community vest wages will be slightly higher, the public to attend en masse without ing had a seat in the city council as depending on the nature of employ fail, rain or Bhine, this great public commissioner. Mr. Bailey is also a to enter the army or the navy is in ment. event which will go down in history factor in the race. As to Mr. Hol vited to make the Y. M. C. A. his Sunnyside Gazette—It’s a pretty as one of the biggest and best exhi man, we are at sea as to his strength social and recreational center. It is his club. His uniform is his member bold man who will run for governor bitions ever given on earth. —he doesn’t advertise. ship card. He will find writing paper on a "wet” platform. Oregon has one We are of the opinion that Mr. Chas. As Johns, candidate for jus such. Ralph E. Williams, the Republican tice of the Supreme Court, is one of and envelopes, magazines, books, com Sellwood Bee—E. H. Frankhouser, candidate for National committeeman, the best-known attorneys in the city. panionship, amusement and recrea day watchman of the mohair mills, will receive the largest majority of Mr. Johns is a man of wide experi tion. He will find pleasant, clean, has put in considerable labor in clean any candidate on the ticket. He is ence in legal lore. He has been prac uplifting surroundings and Y. M. C. ing up the buildings and yards, and considered one of the best inform«! ticing law for nigh onto forty years. A. war work secretaries to serve him. Upon his arrival in camp he will be has everything ship-shape around the men in the country on political party He has lived in this state since 1858, big plant, which has been idle so long. matters, and through his knowledge when he came over the plains with greeted by a Y. M. C. A. secretary. Gresham Outlook—Gresham Liberty and experience it is the proper thing his parents in his mother’s arms. We He will be made to feel at home. The Ixian district has more than doubled for all Republicans to give him their believe Mr. Johns, if elected, would privileges of the building are his ab be fearless and impartial in dealing solutely. This work has been made its quota. support at the coming election. possible because of contributions made Crook County Journal—Prineville The candidates for governor are all out justice. He has the faculty of delegation landed next year’s stock- here in the city, with the exception reasoning to a large degree, and is by the people of this country. On the transport crossing the ocean men’s convention for Bend. of Governor Withycombe, who is at broad-minded, human and strictly he will have the Y. M. C. A. admin Bend Press—District Forester Geo. tending to his duties at Salem, and honest. istering to him. On his arrival he H. Cecil of Portland announces that leaving the management to his At the coming primary election the total numbers of cattle, horses, friends. L. J. Simpson will begin to there will be a measure to be voted will find the welcoming Red Triangle. sheep and goats authorized to graz^ have his Coos Bay boosters here, and on , to regulate the jitneys. The mea- At the concentration camps in Eng on the National Forests of Oregon give the natives a taste of what they , sure, or rather it’s called an ordi- land and France, it will be with him and Washington during the season of can do in the way of making a noise , nance, is the first one on the ballot. and when he goes to the frent he will 1918 are 202,950 head of cattle and that will be heard even in Washing It is to regulate and operate the jit find intrepid Y. M. C. A. war work horses, and 1,206,800 head of sheep ton. Gus Moser, the man who in- , neys over fixed routes and during secretaries in dugouts and huts under tends to put the “paving trusts” on certain , hours, providing transfers, for shell fire to sene him. and goats. The Red Triangle of the Y. M. C. A. of chauffeurs and motor the blink, is also going to have some examination , is for the boy from this community, of his staunch supporters in the en- | busses and for giving bonds. We Using Elbow Grease. and this paper has been authorized to have just received the magazine closure give a surpriso to the citi- | One shipment of 120,000 tubes of , Motor-West, published in Los extend an invitation to him to make ’’’HR made by the Y. M. sens of this city and county within called free use of it, wherever he finds it. (Ogntinned on Dow« the Line peg*) C. A. for American soldiers in France. the neat week. Gus likes to tantalize Neat in Vol. 16. No. 19 FORMER LENTS PASIOR VISITS HOME CHURCH Caeat of Old-Time Friend« Encouraging Progress Made By Lents Mrs. Nettie Riley, formerly pastor Boy Who Enlisted Only Three of the Lents Friends Church, now sta Years Ago. tioned with her husband, Rev. John Lieut. Arthur C. Walker is a Lents Riley, at Entiat, Wash., paid a short young man, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. visit to Lents the fore part of the R. Walker, 6415 95th St. S. E. He week. She was the guest of Mrs. Geo. graduated from the Lents school and I— Carr of 6028 91st street on Sunday later went to San Francisco, where afternoon, where her old friends he obtained work. It was in that city dropped in to see her. Mrs. Tamplin, that he joined the Coast Artillery 5322 82d street, entertained her for three years ago last December. From the night and accompanied her to the there he was transferred to Honolulu train Monday evening. $he is on her and after our entrance into the war way to Fresno, Calif., to visit her he was sent as a member of the mother, Mrs. Smalley, and her sister, Third Artillery Training Company to who is very poorly. Fort Monroe, Va. He has gradually worked up to a lieutenancy and, in a EAT POTATOES AND HELP WIN THE WAR letter to us under date of April 31st, To save food by eating food sounds says: "I am at present with the 18th Co., Columbia, Fort Stevens, Or. I like a conservation paradox. But at some seasons of the year there is an abundance of some one food or in some certain locality there is an enor mous crop of some one thing. In such cases it is the national duty to eat as much as possible of this particu lar food and release its equivalent in other foods. Such is the case right now with the potato, and the duty of honoring the potato in the consumption thereof is especially urgent because of the vital necessity of saving wheat to meet the overseas demands. Eat potatoes and save wheat. BANDAGE UNIT WILL GIVE BAZAAR I5TH EPISCOPAL CHURCH DEDICATES A ELA6 wish to thank you again for your kindness in sending me the paper, and assure you that it is appre ciated by all of the men in the ser vice who are receiving the same thoughtful kindness.” Earl H. Walker, a younger brother of Lieutenant Walker, is in. the avia tion service. He is a member of Co. B, 4th Balloon Squad, Morrison, Va., and expects t o be transferred to France at any time. Shall We Do Less The following message is from a citizen soldier, No. 258 of the —th District,United States National Army, which should be read by every man. woman and child in the land. What is your answer to this appeal? “They say, who come back from from ‘over there,’ that at night the troubled earth between the lines is < arpeted w’ith path. They say that Death rides whistling in every wind and that the very mists are charged with awful torment. They say that, of all things spent ana squandered, young human life is held least dear. It is not the pleasantest prospect for those of us who yet can feel upon our lips the pressure of our mother’s goodbye kiss. • • • But, please God, our love of life is not so prized as love of right. In this renaissance of our country’s valor, we who will edge the wedge of her assault make calm acceptance of its hazards. For us, the steel-swept trench, the stiffen ing cold—weariness, hardship, worse. For you, for whom we go, you mil- l.ons safe at home—what for you? • • • We shall need food. We shall need care. We shall need clothes for our bodies and weapons for our hands, We shall need, terribly and without failure, supplies and equip- ment in a stream that is constant and never-ending. From you, who are our resource and reliance, who are the heart and hope of that humanity for which we smite and strive, must come these things.’!. If the motive of thrift does not ap peal to you in the matter of purchas ing W’ar Savings Stamps, consider the appeal of your patriotism. Our country is engaged in a terrible war. Thousands of our brothers are endur ing the miseries of camp life and th? fearful strain and danger of the trenches. Thousands of them will offer their lives, other thousands will be maimed or crippled or injured in health. The country needs money to maintain them and to make their ser vice effective. The War Savings Stamps and Certificates are a means of raising this needed money. The country looks to you to furnish it. It ia^'Qur part in winning the war for detrtocraey. How small a part ft is! It may require some self-sacrifice as to luxuries and pleasures. It may, The Millard Avenue Bandage Unit an auxiliary of the Arieta W. C. T. D., will give a patriotic demonstration and bazaar at the Millard Avenue Theatet building, 72d St and 54th Ar., May 15. ’ It will open at 10 o'clock and last all day. There will be a display of knitting and fancy work. A special feature of the occasion will Lie the presence of a number of the political candidates, who are up for nomination at the pri maries. This will afford everyone an opportunity of getting a close-up view of the political aspirants, and perhaps a chance to discuss impor tant issues with them. Mrs. Alice Crofts is chairman of the committee on candidates: Mrs. Ed. Hanscom and Mrs, Anna Evans are in charge of the bazaar, and Mrs. Lillie Perry and Mrs. S. J. Merry will have charge of the refreshments. RETAIL DEALERS, ATTENTION! Several thousand copies of a Food Administration pamphlet, giving full rules for all retail merchants, have been received from Washington by Federal Food Administrator W. B. Ayer who has distributed them to the County Administrators throughout the state. Any dealer not having a copy and desiring same for his guid ance should apply to his County Ad ministrator for same. Under a new regulation just an nounced by Assistant Federal Food Administrator W. K. Newell, all deal ers in dried fruits are prohibited from entering into any contract of sale or any commitment of new crop fruits until after June 1. Dealers are also notified that they must not sell their products for more than a reasonable advance over the cost of same, and that a full report of all sales made in carload lots must be made to the Dried Fruits Division of the U. S. Food Administration at Washington, D. C. Any dealer in dried fruits de siring details of the new regulations are referred by Mr. Newell to the County Administrator for the county in which his business is being car ried on. Keeping Clean Overseas, ▲ million and a half cakes of soap went overseas in one Y. M. C. A. shipment for American soldiers. indeed, demand self-denial and absti nence from comforts—even a reduc tion in the amount of what are re garded as necessaries. But, even if it does, what are these discomforts, com pared with those suffered by the young men who are fighting your bat tles? Your part is, indeed, small in the great sacrifice. Will you not cheerfully, manfully "do your bit”?