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Hfitort, loilit, St. Johns is Calling You l second in number of lndutrie. U seventh In population. Car to Portland every 16 mln. Has navigable water on 3 sides. Has finest gat and electricity. Has two strong bonks. Has five large school houses, l ias abundance of purest water. Has hard surface streets. Has extensive sewerage system, lias fine, modern brick city hall. Has payroll of 95,000 monthly. Ships monthly 2,000 cars freight. All railroads have access to it. Is gateway to Portland harbor. Climato Ideal and healthful. St. Johns is Calling You Has seven church w. Has a most promising future. Distinctively a manufacturing city Adjoins the city of Portland. Has nearly 6,000 population. Has a public library. Taxable property, f4.500.GOO. Has large dry docks, saw mills Woolen mills, iron works, Stove works, asbestos factory, Ship building plant, Veneer and excelsior plant, Flour mill, planing mill, Box factory, and others. More industries coming. St. Johns is the place for YOU. ST. JOHNS REVIEW Devoted to the Interest! of the Peninsula, (he Manufacturing Center of the Northwest VOL. to ST. JOHNS, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 24. 1914. NO. 22 COUNCIL MEETS Matters of Importance Receive Attention All members wore present at the regular meeting of the city council Tuesday evening, with Mayor Vincent presiding. A petition for the improve ment of Willamette boulevard from Burlington street to Rich mond street, providing for co mont sidewalks and concrete paving thirty feet wide, was re ceived, and the engineer was di rected to prepare the necessary plans and specifications for such improvement. A petition for an arc light at the corner of North Hayes street and Weyerhaeuser avenue was referred to the water and light committee. A communication signed by Drs. Jayne, Gambce. Graves and McChesney, announced that nei ther would servo as city physic-Inn nr n gitliirv Inwur than SfiOO per annum, or $100 salary and $2 1 per vimt and $1 for eacii omco call attended to in cases of epi demic. The communication was order'ed filed. The present sal ary for city physician is $100 per yoai without other emoluments. P. H. Edlofscn. mannger of the .st. Jihns Water Company, asked that council define the word "plumber." He also call ed attention to a violation of tho water ordinance by a so-called plumber who placed a bath tub in n local residence and for which hu received no permit nor notified the company of the fact, as the ordinance provides shall bo done. Tho matter of a prac tical plumbing ordinnnco was discussed. Councilman Gradcn advocated an ordinance that would apply particularly to con ditions, in St. Johns, irrespective of the provisions of any ordi nance Portland might have pass ed, and declared that tho rights of tho individual should bo tak en care of as well as tho plumb er. G.L. Perrinc remarked that a plumbing' ordinance would prove of little benefit unless an inspector was also provided. It was decided that tho water and light committee should deal with tho matter and report later. A representative of tho Crown Pulp Paper Co. gave notice that 4t would exorcise its option of lease of the city dock for anoth er year, and desired an option for nn additional year, since it was apparent that no movo was imminent to construct sidetracks to the dock. Matter was refer red to the streets and docks com mittee and city attorney. The matter of fire apparatus was taken up and discussed. Representatives of two dealers in apparatus were present and m stated they were ready to take the matter up at any time with the council. Whitney Rose also submitted a proposition to build any kind of apparatus desired in the Lessing garage on Richmond street, the proprietors of which are said to bo artists in con struction work of that kind. He was asked to submit prices in writing, and tho committee ask ed for and was granted more time in which to make a definite report. Karl Mageske. L. L. Cooper, Perry Belieu and Messrs. Duck ies and King made application for the position of night police, but the council declined to make any change in the position at present, as Oflicer Jones is fill ing tho same in a most capable and satisfactory manner. Bills amounting to $1008,15 were allowed. Councilman Graden stated that he believed the manner of as sessment of cost on the improve ment of Mohawk street should be changed to be more just and equitable. The matter was held over for one week. Mr. Graden also called the attention of the police department to the fact that livestock was perambulat ing rather freely in the southern part of the city lately. The subject of replacing ma cadam with concrete on Willam ette boulevard at Philadelphia street was again discussed by Mr. Anderson and City Attorney Parker. Mr. .Anderson has filed an injunction against the city removing the macadam, which is still pending. The matter will be decided in a day or two. In answer to an inquiry as to what the new water rates really mean, the city attorney stated that it was not clear in all par ticulars to him, and that he in tended to interview the Railroad The Fly Nuisance Reports of successes achieved in other states in anti-fly cam paigns continue to come to Dr. Clifton F. Lodge, professor of Social Biology at the State Uni- vers tv. A letter Saturday from Elizabeth Cook, food inspector of Salt Lake City, says: "Nearly 100,000 Hies were caught and brought in here last Saturday. Our picturo shows arc running slides, newspapers are helping, even the big pack ing houses are giving bounties for Hies caught in their vicinity. I nrenared the propaganda for tho campaign and presented it to the Commercial club in March. Tho club took hold with great enthusiasm and prepared 150,000 booklets. It has furnished tho traps, which the children buy for 15 cents and sell for 25 cents. The stable window trap is made by boys in the manual training departments, and the net fiy catchers in the domestic science departments of the schools." In tho Salt Lake Bulletin a fly is said now to be a curiosity in Worcester, Mass. Tho children of Worcester trapped 10.217,088 flics from June 20 to July 17, 1011, filling 40 bushels. Cam paigns have been held each year since. Cleveland had n campaign in 1012. All the flies were not ex terminated that year, but enough wore killed to reduce greatly the typhoid fever percentage. A greater effort was made in 1913 nnd most of tho flies were exter minated. By the end of 19M Cleveland hopes to be almost llyless. Salt Lake nnd the 20 cities of Oregon that aro organizing cam paigns are only a few of tho many in tho civilized world that have set as their goal freedom1 from what Hodge calls tho worst assailant of public health that exists. Commission relative thereto. He also said that ha had been told that tho water company had not yet received an order dircct- oing them to apply tho new rats, and that tho company had 20 days from receipt of such or der before being required to adopt tho now rates. Ordinances providing tho time and manner of improving Burr street from Dawson to Banks street were passed. A resolution providing for tho sidewalking of Kellogg street on the east side botween St. Johns avenue ana uruco street was adopted. A resolution providing for tho sidownlking of Willamette boul evard the full length from Rich mond street to the south city limits on one said, and from Richmond to Buchanan streets on tho other, was defeated by a four to three vote. Attorney Perry C. Stroud made an earnest plea against tho resolution, con tending that unless the side walks were carried on through on both sides, tho likelihood of over getting a sidewalk on the westerly side to the railroad bridge was most remote, and that a partly finished job would bo neither a credit to tho city or tho property owners. Mr. Thur mond, one of the property own ers interested, feared that carry ing tho walk through to the cut might jeopardize any improve ment, and opposed the defeat of the resolution on that ground. Upon motion of Councilman Waldref the city attornoy was directed to draft a 'resolution di rceting the engineer to prepare the necessary plans and specifi cations for sidownlking the boul evard on both sides from Rich mond street to the railroad cut. Alderman Munson stated that complaint had been made con cerning a stable which was lo cated on an alley at Kellogg street, rtnd the matter was re ferred to the engineer and chief of police for removal. Alderman Garlick also called attention to an unsanitary con dition existing on what would be South Gresham street were it opened up, and the nuisance was referred to the health officer for ways and means of abatement. The seating capacity of the council chamber was again reach ed. The public seems to take an unusual interest in the doings of the new council. SIX PER CENT LOANS. 6 Obtainable to buy, build or im prove farm, ranch and city prop erty or remove incumbrance therefrom. Special privileges and reasonable terms. For prop osition, address: Finance Dept., 1527 Busch Bid?,, Dallas. Texas. adv, How Burbank Works In this, the early spring days, whon the men and women whose diversion involves work in tho garden and in the orchard, it might be well to take a lesson from the resultful methods of the greatest of all horticultur ists, Luther Burbank. While the world knows much of his achievements in tho creation of new forms of plant life, only a very smnll number of thoso fn milinr with his work really know how he gets the phenome nal results that have made him the genius that he is. Luther Burbank has several fundamental methods of proced ureperhaps the most Import ant being the hybridizing of more or less closely related spe cies and varieties of plants. Early in his career he discover ed that ho could produce new varieties, and in some cases now species by cross fertilizing diff erent species of plants. As tes timonials to his success in his field, we have his well known plumcot, a cross between the plum and the apricot, crosses between the apple nnd the pear, apple and quince, quince and pear, peach and nectarine, poach and lemon, orange and lemon. By crossing different varieties within the species, he has pro duced hundreds of new varieties of plums, prunes, jieachcs, ap ples, pears, cherries and quince. His stonelcss nlum nnd prune and his gigantic cherries are notable instances of his crea tions by crossing different varie ties of tho snmo species. As n supplement to the process of hybridization comes his keen judgment in tho selection of va rying individuals of tiie samo species or variety. By taking n cherry that boro fruit early in the season, he dovcloped his present early appearing cherry. By selection ho evolved tho Bur- bnnk sugar prune with n 2u por cont sugar content. Burbank's method precludes guess work. He always knows exactly what he is striving for, and only uses such examples as contain in the embyro the ulti mate dualities desired. If he desires to make the cherry larg er, wider, redder and juicier he reduces tho sizo of the plant and shortens tho stem to mnko tho tree a hardy and prolific bearer. lie blends tho tho right heredi ties and after securing plants that show a given combination in a superlative degree, he then proceeds to produce a great quantity of seedlings. Here, perhaps, lies the secret of his success forby this ho ac complishes, within a compara tively short time, what would otherwise take y-iars to do. Af ter his attention is attracted to a plant. Burbank saves all of the seeds and sows thorn in soil placed in greenhouse boxes nbout eighteen inches square and four and one-half inches deep. Tho soil itself is prepar ed by mixing fifty parts of puro sand, forty parts of loam con taining leaf mold, eight parts powdered moss or peat and two parts bone fertilizer. Tho soil is moistened by dropping the boxes into a tub of water. The seeds are sown on the surface and covered lightly with a thin layer of sou and powdered moss. The seedlings aro transplant ed into a field and then subject ed to a rigid inspection out of many thousand seedlings Bur bank may select less than a doz en for further experiment. In his selection, he lays particular stress on tho sturdiness of the stock, the branches, round fat buds, large thick leaves, rich color, vigor and tendency to up right growth. In order to bridge time and to. breathe into the complex hybred, and various trees of the differ ent species, he gets a seedling from its own root and grafts it as a scion on the branch of a ma ture tree. He grafts his seed ling, as a rule, on a twig near est the end of a branch. Tho scions thus placed usually bear fruit in the second year, where as, if they had been left to grow on their own roota, five or six years of growth would be neces sary to secure a bearing. Be causo of this method, experi ments are carried on through five or six generations in the time that would originally be re quired for two generations. At the Burbank proving grounds at Sebastopol, will be found many treee with a score or more of graftings on each and every one of them. All of Burbank's work has a permanent quality in it, and the methods, that he employs might Fights for Free Tolls Being a member of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Congressman Lafferty, from this district, was in a position to make a minority report against the President's repeal measure. Mr. Lafferty made good use of the opportuni ty, filing a strong report against repeal, which furnished the foundation for the speeches of several members who opposed repeal on tho floor of the House. A part of Mr. Lafferty's minori ty report follows: "Prof. Emory Johnson, of tho University of Pennsylvania, has just stated that if the United States exempts coasting vessels from tho payment of lolls the Government will lose thereby in canal revenues the sum of $20, 000,000 in ten years. From an economic point of view con not tho peoplo well uiTord to lose $20,000,000 in revenue from ca nal tolls in ten years if. by so doing, they snve in tho some period $100,000,000 or more in freight rates? "Tho peoplo have already put into the cnnnl $400,000,000. equal to $4 per head of our popu lation, and no one proposes to get that back. It is only propos ed to charge tolls to maintain tho running expenses of the ca nal. The $20,000,000 that we would lose in canal revenues in ten years by exempting coasting vessels would bo only 20 cents per head of our population. By that policy no citizen would lose in canal revenues over sixty cents in thirty years a genera tion. "Now, while each generation would lose in canal revenues sixty cents per head by exempt ing coasting vessels, how much would they gain thereby? Say tho tolls will be $1.50 por ton. At that rato lumber shipped from tho Pacific Coast to Now Orleans or New York would pay $2.25 per thousand feeLfor pass ing through tho canal, as a thou sand feet of lumber weighs prac tically a ton and a half. That would mako Pacific Coast lumber cost in tho Mississippi Valloy or on thQ Atlantic seaboard $2.25 more per thousand feet than it woultl cost if we exempt our coastwise trado from tho pay ment of tolls. On this one item of lumber alone each citizen east of Kansas City who builds a house during his lifetimo would profit by free canal tolls from $25 to $100, while ho would savo by charging tolls only GO cents. Savings in food products nnd other heavy freight from const to coast would be in like propor tion. "The secret of this great eco nomic advantage is that canal rates will affect transcontinental rail rates, and thereby tho sav ing to tho American peoplo from free tolls in forcing reductions in rail rates will be millions. while tho saving in rovenues byj ri'iuaing 10 uxcmpi uwr cvubuiik vessels from the payment of these tolls will bo negligible." Adv. bo used by any ono who has more than a more cursory inter est in plant development. Pinched Them Ail The teacher wanted some plums In nrlpr tn mva nn obi Get lesson during school hours, and, calling ono of the small ooys, sno gave him ten cents and dispatched him to the .fruit stand down on the corner. "Before you buy tho plums, Willie," she cautioned, "you had hotter ninch one or two to make sure they are ripe." Little Willie Hitted away, boon ho came back and smilingly put the bag on the teacher's desk, "Oh. thank you, Willie." said the teacher, taking up tho bag. "Did you pinch one or two, as I told you to do?'" "Did I?" was the gleeful re sponse. "I pinched the whole bagful and here's your ten cents," Exchange. How is Your Title? Have your abstracts made, con tinued or, examined at the Peninsu la Title, Abstract and Realty Co Accurate work. Reasonable fees. H, Henderson, manager, 311 Nqrth Jersey street Adv. "Watches" made oyer into "Timepiecea" at reasonable rates at Rogers', 309 N. Jersey utreet. THE LIBRARY Interesting Notes for the Library Patrons Library hours: Afternoon 12 to 5:30. Evening- 7 to 9. Sunday-2:30 to 5:30 for read ing only. New Books: Bellamy- Looking Backward. The long popular book of Uto pian Socialism. Hall Handbook of Hospitality for Town and Country. A book for the hostess. Con siders among other things pic nics and country frolics, house parties, luncheons, how to give an agreeable dinner, dances and costume dances, curd par ties, bachelor entertainments, club festivities. Hoist Modern American Homes. It lias been the aim to show as largo a variety of types and styles of homes as possible, not only as to plans, hut also as to materinls used. By far tho larg est part of tho publication shows houses of moderate cost. Floor plans are given in most cases. Whenever possible tho cost of building has been added. Holt Fancy Dresses Describ ed, or What to Wear at Fancy Balls. Illustrations in colors and black and white. Jacket - Planning a trip abroad. OsbornoTho Family Hu,use. Tliis book is addressed to fam ilies of strictly limited income, who, though feeling tho increas ing pressure of rising prices for all commodities, have still tho desire to obtain better things for their households. Person Industrial Education. A system of training for men entering upon trade and com merce. Rollins What Can a Young Man Do? Presents the advantages and drawbacks of ovor fifty occupa tions nnd professions. Rowland - Significance of Art. Tho author is tho dean of wo men and profossor of physiology at Reed College, Portland. Sargent- -Plants and their uses, nn introduction to Botany. "There aro a numbor of plants that every ono ought to know because of their intimate con nection with human welfare. Help tho beginner, therefore, to learn nt tho outset as much about these economic plants as he is ready for; then help him to classify them scientifically, and he will bo prepared to appre ciate that wider view of plants which inspires botany today." Wendell Franco of Today. Whymper- Chamonix and the Range of Mont Blanc. A guide book. Registration books close April 30th. Only 6 days from date of this issue in which to register for County and State Elec tions. Books open from 8, a, m. to 8 p. m., daily, at office of J. E. WILLIAMS, Justice of the Peace, Holbrook Building. LIBERAL COMMISSION AND SALARY to look after our busi ness in your community. Inter esting.dignified, healthful work. International Magazine Compa ny. 119 W. 41st St., New York City. adv. A line of typewriter ribbons, both narrow and wide, has just been received at the Review office; 50c each. Also carbon paper at two sheets for five cents. An electric massage, only ono in town. Gilmore's barber shop. udv, REGISTER Ba" a !!iSuccess The Commercial Club dance given in the rink Monday even ing was a most enjoyable affair. And it was a splendid success in every sense of the term. The attendance was large, tho music was superb, tho floor could not have been in better condition, the punch served was delicious, and tho floor committee saw to it that all who cared to dance wore supplied with partners. Every element essential for enjoyable (lancing was in evidence, and if one did not have a good time, it was altogether one's fault. The management wns somewhat dis appointed in the size of the or chestra. Arrangements had been made with Rudd's Orches tra to furnish seven pieces, but two of the members ( somehow missed connections in reach ing here, and a five piece orches tra furnished the music. But it was nil that could have been de sired, and the absence of the two pieces was scarcely missed. The nil'air was a success finan cially as well as every other way. About thirty dollars were netted, which go to the benefit of the club. Tho success of tho event is due principally to the energet ic and untiring efforts of the dnnce committee, which was composed of Donne II. Knowles, chairman: C. A. Fry, O. J. Gatz myer, J. N. Edlefsen and W. M. Tower. Tho attendants were so well pleased with the function that many requests were made for n repetition of the Club dance, and it is probable that another dance will be announced in the near future. A Lucid Explanation The Portland Journal, in an swering a communication, gives the following lucid explanation of the difference in tho cost of lumber shipment by American and foreign vessels: Canadian ships are operated more cheaply because of extra help, extra regulations and many other extra charges required on American ships by American navigation laws. A Canadian or other foreign ship can be op erated $WKM) to $13,000 a year more cheaply than can American ships. In British Columbia the wage for skilled men Is about 75 per cent of the wages paid in Ore gon mills. For common labor, it is 50 per cunt. Much of the British Columbia common labor is done by Hindus and Japanese, whose average wage is about $1.05 pi'r day. All this gives Ca nadian lumbermen a heavy ad vantage over Oregon lumber in Atlantic and Gulf ports, if tolls are to be charged on our home ships through our home cnnnl in our home trade. It necossarily gives alarm to Orogon loggers and Oregon saw mill employes, to say nothing of the sawmill owners. It fills thorn with concorn over a prospect of seeing British Columbia lumber get all tho trade of tho custom United States, and the Journal confesses, that it has very deep sympathy with them in what seems a gloomy outlook if the Unitud States senato completes what the house has begun as to free tolls. As a remedy for unemployment the wheels of Oregon sawmills ought to be kept in motion, and the way to keep them moving is to keep tho great market on the east coast of the United States open as a sale place for Oregon lumber, A Good Suggestion In connection with the efforts of the grownups to improve tho condition of Orogon roads on Saturday, April 25. it has been suggested that all the school children of the state bo request ed to turn out and assist in the good work. As thej are about 190,000 school chidron in tho state, it has been estimated that each will be able to remove at least 100 loose rocks from the road nearest their home, it will be equal in value to tho efforts of a thousand men, and will re movo 1,900,000 obstructions from the roads of the state. Tho sug gestion is also made that tho good women of each district throughout the state servo road lunches or a hot dinner at the grange, school house or other lo cal mooting place to actual workers only. No workeo, no eatoe. Cleanup Day Observed Cleanup Day Monday was pret ty generally observed in St. Johns, and a cleaner, purer and more sanitary city is tho result. Little piles of rubbish nnd last winter's accumulations wore no ticed piled up neatly in front of, many of the residences, awaiting removal to the crematory at tho city's expense. Tho effort was well worth while. The St. Johns Hnrdwnrn C.n. wns rcsnnnsililn ' for a largo share of tho interest aroused in the cleanup move ment. At their own expense they provided a film which was ; shown at the Multnomah theatre Saturday evening and Sunday j depicting the results and advan tages to be derived from a cleau jup campaign. While it was more or loss of an advertisement of the famous Sherwin-Williams paints, yet it was full of gcnornl j interest, and its value in the cleanup movement fully npproci jated. This enterprising firm deserves considerable credit for I their effort in making the move ment a decided and effectual suc cess. A cleanup day four Union a year or oftener would not bo out of place, and would have a tendency to greatly roduco the labors of the "swat the fly" cru saders. Teachers' Association The Grade Teachers' Associa tion is now nfiilialed with tho National League of Teachers' Associations. The League holds Its next annual meeting nt St. Paul during the session of tho National Educational Associa tion in July, 19M. A delegate from the St. Johns Association will be in attendance to bring back a report in September. The St. Johns Grade Teachers' Association is also alliliated with tho Orogon Congress of , Mothers. ' ' '" Tho Portland Symphony Or chestra will give their last con cert for the season at the Heilig Theatre Sunday, April 20, at !l p. m. Tickets for the Sympho ny rehearsal Friday morning have, through the IciudnottH of Mrs. Tail, secretary-manager, been secured for the Corona Or chestra of St. Johns. Tho pro gram will bo as folows: Tschaikowsky- Sixth Sympho ny. Op. 7-1. Halm Lo Bid do Beatrice IV Este. 1. Entree pour Ludovju In More. 2. Romanesque. H. Iberiunnc. 4. Courante. 5. Salmi Final mi Due do Mil an. Hndloj Two Movements from Sym. No. -1. In D Minor. Sininglia Concort Etude. Dominic Waedonschwilei Ov erture. "Tho Call of the Wost." George 10, JefTcry, Conductor. The St. Johns Grade Toaeliori' Association held Its regular monthly mooting Thursday even ing at tho public library. Mat ters of importance wore discusa od and refreshments wore serv ed later by tho Mutual Bonefit Committee.- Roportor. A Sanitary Meat Market Fairchild's Sanitary Whito Market, corner Jersey and Balti more streets, St, Johns, wishoR to thank the public for thoir put ronagoon their oponingdny. Wo appreciate your trado and invito you to come nnd look us ovor in our now shop, which is now 1 white and sanitary. Wo think we have the host lacuitioa tor handling moats on tho Peninsula. Wo sell for cash, kill our own meat and our exponsos are as low as the lowest, and wo are willing to give you tho full ben efit of these conditions. Wo carry a full line of tho very host meats obtainable at the lowest pricos. Wo guarantee our cream ery butter as the highest grade, and our eggs are the freshest. Fish, clams and poultry in San son. Investigate and you will conclude our prices aro right, and that we handle moat about tho way you would want it done, RAY FAIRCIIILD, Proprietor. For Sale-100 Egg St. Helen Incubator, cheap. Also, a few settings from choice matings White Leghorns, tho greatest egg machines in tho world. Como and bo shown. W. Lore,n zen, G13 Myers street, St. Johns, adv,