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I ' UNEMPLOYED HEAR PROHIBITION ARGUED Liquor Issues Fought Out Be fore Audience Heavily . Dotted With Idlers. INDUSTRY HELD IN DANGER Colonel K. Hofor Says Hop Fields Would Be Kuincd, While Dr. C. T. Wilson Thinks Land Should Be Planted to Other Crops. reraonal liberty versus community rights, industrial promotion versus moral uplift, were questions involved In the debate at Plaxa Square yester day afternoon between Dr. Clarence True Wilson, of Portland, secretary of the National Methodist Kplscopal Tem perance Society, who espoused the prohibition cause, and Colonel E. Hofer of Salem, editor of the Pacific Coast Manufacturer. who spoke for tne "wet." . . An anti-war speaker denouncing the Boy Scout movement as preparation of innocent lambs for slaughter made way with ill grace when it was an nounced that the debaters had a permit from the Mayor to speak at the Plaza at 3 o'clock, and the discussion, of nearlv two hours. Immediately was followed by speakers for the Industrial Workers of the World. The audience was a mingling of Socialists. L W. s and members of the unemployed army, with a few friends of the speakers sprinkled about the edges. Dr. Wil son was interrupted several times In the course of his remarks, but the crowd stilled unruly members with cries for 'order." Industry Held lu Danger. "If prohibition succeeds in the com ing election it will ruin one of the greatest industries in the State of Ore gon and Portland will be the biggest dry' city In the world and the wettest dry' city in the world." said Colonel Hofer. "If state-wide prohibition becomes a fact, every man here will be proud to feel that he is living In a better, clean er, greater state and more proud if it is in part due to the Influence he ex erted." maintained Dr. Wilson. In reply to the assertion of Colonel Hofer that the hopgrowlng Industry would be ruined. Dr. Wilson said: "It would not injure the present market, for but I per cent of the hops grown In the state are used In Ore gon. But It will mean that sooner or later the hops must be replaced by an other crop or used for other purposes than the making of beer, for other states are sure to go dry as well. But I want to say that If the only use that can be found for hops Is the making of beer, the quicker the growers plant other crops the better for humanity." More Police Thought Xeed.; "Church people can vote a community dry, but they cannot make a single man dry." according to Colonel Hofer, who said in the course of his remarks: "I want every human being to have the right I claim for myself. It Is a mock ery If the poor man cannot have what the 1;lghbrows" and "good" people can. The most un-American thing about prohibition Is the private right of the rich man in his club to have what others go without. "If Portland were dry. 100,000 police men could not make It less wet than It Is. Education and business is solving the problem of liquor consumption. Prohibition will never stop It. It would only drive from the moderate use of alcohol beverage to the use of poison ous drugs, infinitely worse. Why did 24 states try prohibition and then 16 repeal it? Deposits Said to Decrease. "Deposits In all banks In the dry cities of Albany. Eugene. Oregon City, Salem and Roseburg fell off $317,589 from October 21. 1913. to July 1, 1914. while in the same period the wet city of Bakr showed bank deposit Increases amounting to $207,558. 'Don't throw down Industry for theory and destroy the fourth largest Industry in the State of Oregon." The speaker further denied that the Hopgrowers' Association was financed in any way by the liquor Interests, and, ss a final point, quoted a magazine article to show that a committee of prominent men had failed to determine that prohibition was diminishing the sale of liquor In dry states. Sunday Dryness Cited. In refutation of Colonel Hofer's statement In regard to keeping Port land dry. Dr. Wilson pointed to the suc cess in making this city dry one day a week, Sunday, when intoxicated persons were almost unknown. He also showed that since Salem went dry (Salem is Colonel Hofer's home town) the police force had decreased from 16 to two, the present force being one man on during the day and one at night. "There are some vices society cannot entirely do away wtih." he said, but asserted that that was no excuse for society's being in partnership with them. The "backsliding" of 16 out of 24 prohibition states was explained by the dry speaker by the fact that the former dry wave was before the Civil AVar, and that during that conflict, while men were at the front, liquor forces swept back 16 states. Saloon Called Public Affair. In regard to personal liberty. Dr. Wilson had to say: "The saloon Is not a private affair, but is a public institution, and the pub lic has a right to say what institution promotes welfare and what, debauches the state." In conclusion he quoted statistics showing where California had 42.000 arrests for drunkenness, the City of Portland 8000. and all of Kansas, with a population three times that of Ore gon, but 766 in one year: 8 per cent of the prisoners in Kansas were jailed for drug or drink habits, while the same causes led to SO per cent of the arrests In Oregon. These were the reasons srlven why prohibition would lessen taxes and not prove a loss to the state. PERS0NALMENTI0N. V. H. Elliott. Coast representative of a glove company. Is at the 3enson from San Francisco. F. J. Franklin, uf Pasadena, is at the Benson. Mr and Mrs. N". Meisrler, of Chicago, who are touring the West, are at the Benson. H. H. White, of Chehalls. is at the Benson. Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Bowman and son. of Los Angeles, are at the Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. H H. Hill, of Pendleton, are at the Oregon. T. L. Hasting, of Centralla. Is at the Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Clodfelter. of Falem. are at the Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Fostrom. of Union, are at the Imperial. J. E. Robertson, of Hood River, Is at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Chambers, Miss Chambers. Miss Kerns and Mr. Kerns comprise a motor party from Eugene that is staying at the Imperial. A Hattren. of Chicago, who has hop Interests in Oregon, is at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. C. 8. McGeorge. of Marshfield. are at the Cornelius. A. B. Spinner, of South Bend, Wash.. Is at the Cornelius. C. E. McLean, of Hoqulam. is a the Cornelius. Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Rogers, of Bend, are at the Cornelius. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Woods, of Corval 11s, are at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. H. Welk, of Tillamook, are at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. II. T. Matthew, of San Francisco, are at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. John Fulton, of Wasco, are at the Seward. F J Richards, hotel manager of Lin coln, Neb., is at the Perkins. Benjamin C. Sheldon, of Medford. is at the Perkins. M. F. Ellis, of The Dalles, is at the Perkins. j;r. and Mrs. Charles N". Melden. of New Orleans, are at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. M. Robertson, of Marshfield, are at the Multnomah. Mr. and Mrs. A. Warren Gould and E. E. Ziegler motored to Portland from Seattle yesterday and are at the Mult nomah. Mr. Gould is a prominent archi tect of Seattle. A. H. Powers, of Marshfield. is at the .Multnomah. Mrs. M. M. Stephens, of Seaside. Is at the Multnomah. Mr. and Mrs. B. Birdsell, of Chicago, are at the Carlton. Mr. and Mrs. M. E Weed, of San Francisco, are at the Carlton. B. S. Dunn, of Seattle, is at the Carl ton. F. E. Gross, of San Francisco, who made a record run to Portland In his Buick. is at the Carlton. P. J. Harvey, of Eugene, is at the Washington. Charles E. Seller, of San Francisco, is at the Washington. Mrs. Thomas Reese, of Wichita Falls. Tex., with Miss Agnes Reid, are at the Washington. N. E. Buckingham, of Kelso, is at the Washington. Mrs. I. E. Roark, of Salem, Is at the Eaton. W. C. Depew. of Lebanon, Or., Is at the Eaton. E. N. Anderson, of Estacada. Or., is at the Eaton. Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Spear, of Superi or, Wis., are at the Eaton. MOVIE IS PULPIT THEME Pastor Says "The Jungle" Is Mon strosity to Christians. A popular industrial novel and a "movie" were cited from the pulpit last night as forces pointing out the need of a quickened conscience toward In dividual Christianity, when Rev. John Nisewonder. at the First United Breth ren Church, at East Morrison and East Fifteenth streets, preached on labor conditions, using Upton Sinclair's "The Junsjle" and the "movie" produced from the book. Mr. Nisewonder declared "The Junsrl!?" portrayed a growing con dition that would be changed, not oy conventions and mass meetings, but by individual effort. "Honest and Industrious men have come to feel," said Mr. Nisewonder, "that somehow in spite of themselves their affairs are going wrong, and the honest toiler, ignorant as he may be. is fast approaching a knowledge of the situation. There is only one answer that will stand analysis and that Is a higher citizenship, the quickening of conscience, and this cannot come irom any other source than by proclaiming the power of the Gospel as marked out by the Man of Galilee in the sermon on the mount. A better condition will be brought about, not by conventions or mass meetings, but by the quickening of the conscience, by individual Chris tianity, by returning to those elevat ing principles of Bible morality and virtuous simplicity of our Christian fathers, from which we have in part drifted. Then such books aa "The Jun gle" will be monstrosities and deliver ance will come as the day comes when the night is done and the crimson streak on the ocean's cheer grows into a mighty sun." MIRACLE SHADOW EXPOSED Charles T. Sprading Duplicates Cross Picture With Luminous Paint. The secret nf a so-called miracle pic ture, "Th Shadow of the Cross," at one time exhibited in Portland, was exposed by Charles T. Spradlnsr, of Los Angeles, at Scandinavian Hall last niaht. He said the marvelous elements attributed to the original painting were easily explainable by chemical science. The trick as reproduced by air. Sprading consisted of turning out all the electric lights In the hall, when the figure of JeBUS and a cross gradually appeared on a large canvas as if bathed in a beautiful moonlight glow. The ex periment was repeated at will and tne figures were made to appear and disap pear as often as desired. The so-called miracle which has been ascribed to the original painting and which I have exactly reproduced, is due." said Mr. Sprading, "to the use of luminous paint having a phosphor escent quality, manufactured In a chemical laboratory In New York City. Anyone can obtain the paint from the makers by paying the price. Without the use of the luminous paint, no effect in the dark Is visible. To say that in the original painting the shadow of the cross was produced by other than nat ural means is altogether disproved by my experiment. Those who exhibited the original in many American cities and charged an admission to see an al leged miracle were guilty of deliberate deception." Mr. Spradlng's main theme at the meeting last night was "Liberty," which he declared to be something never yet attained, but toward which mankind was constantly striving. The speaker elaborated on the principle as laid down by Herbert Spencer, "That every man may claim the fullest liberty to exer cise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberty by every other man." The lecture was under the auspices of the National Rationalist Association, which is holding a series of meetings here. WOMEN THWART OFFICER Dog-Catcher Loses Quarry When 2 Hold Him as Animal Flees. RUTHERFORD, Aug. 25. Their love for dogs resulted in the arrest of the Misses V., and B. Dustille, Summer boarders at Lynhurst. N. J. Alfred Slsco, dog-catcher, was about his duty in Rutherford. A forlorn black dog was prowling about, and Slsco got his net and approached the animal. Then Misses Dustille, attired and mak ing a pretty appearance, gazed in hor ror. Just as the officer was about to snare the dog he felt his arms firmly grasped, and he was held tightly by the young women until the dog was quite safe. In court the young women were found guilty of Interfering with an officer, but when they tearfully ex plained they thought he was going to "hurt the poor doggie." sentence was suspended. There is a p.an BUKiu.iu ... a asalnst the lonieat poasible dry season by hu'ldlng high up on the Montalban water shed a i,0O0,00O.000-gallon reservoir. THE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, PASTOR FOR .ARMS Rev. Walter Duff Advocates War for Final Peace. FORCE CALLED PREVENTIVE Minister in Keeping First Anniver sary at Calvary Baptist Church Preaches 'Army and Navy' Ser mon AIarmist Derided. GIST OF PASTOR'S PLEA FOR ARMED PEACE." A great peace army to back up a great peace tribunal. The world never was in such a plight as it is today. This is the last great war, I am convinced, but I do not know if the world Is In Its midday, after noon or night, but I do know we are commanded to watch and be faithful. "Armed Peace" at the price of a great army and navy of International forces, to back up an equally great peace tri bunal is the war-inspired plea of the Rev. Walter Duff, pastor of the Cal vary Baptist Church at East Eighth and East Grant streets. Ir. Duff celebrated his first anni sary as pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church with his "war sermon" last night and declared that while he was for peace he was for It at any price. "A great army and a great navy strong enough in men and equipment to compel the nations to remain at peace should result at the conclusion of the European struggle now on," said the preacher "Hudson Taylor, of the Chinese mis sion, said some years ago that of ne cessity there must be a great European war as a crisis to armaments, then would follow a great revival and per haps after a large in-gathering, our Lord might come. Date of End Hidden. "I do not know if the world is In Its midday, afternoon or evening, but I do know we are commanded to watch and be faithful. Our brethern with their dates (for the end of the world) had better eat them. 'No man knoweth, and the war is no sign save that of the shallowness of our boasted Chris tian civilization. The German people should have tried their social demo cratic party last term: the French should have been slow to fight and the British would have saved many lives if they had Influenced the French to hold out for peace for another month. Even for themselves, It would have let the Russians forward and shortened the war. I am for peace at nearly any price at any time. Peace Prayers Urged. "I call on Christians to pray for the world. It never was in such a plight, because we have neglected praying. I advocate a great peace army with every nation apportioned men, money and ships to back up a great peace tribunal to settle by arbitration all international disputes. This is the last great war. I am convinced. Peace on earth is the mission of the United States. Yet with peace and great economic conditions men are sure to be self-satisfied, but without Christ and the new birth men are paupers for eternity. "I find myself something of a nov elty today, because I hold tenaciously to the old gospel as the sufficient, only radical religion. Children in the morning service will not likely 'brain' their fathers. Young persons in the evening services would not require a divorce. American life-mixture is go ing to the devil. We must advance and get tne real splrit-fllled life of our fathers." CROSS TO HEAL WOUNDS Rev. W. W. Yonngson Says, After War, World Will Turn to Christ. In spite of the seeming chaos of con ditions in Europe today the advance of Christianity and Christian teachings ultimately will override all other forces, said the Rev. W. W. Youngson, pastor of the Rose City Park Method ist Church, in his sermon yesterday on "The Spiritual Armageddon." "The world powers are to be ulti mately mastered by the cross," ho de clared. "In that dramatic scene from 'Faust' there is the ringing clash of steel, then Faust staggers back with a- broken blade. His foe presses to complete his conquest, when Faust grasps the blade and holds it with the hilt uplifted. It lias become a cross, and Mephistoph eles. the cultured devil, reels backward in defeat. This scene is the epitome of history. The cross is most effective because it most deeply touches the heart. "Thls is the paradox of history. The beast is to be subdued by the lamb! The world powers are to be mastered by the cross! The symbolism of the Seer of Patmos correctly interprets facts. All wars, all tears, all dragons, all angels, all devils, all, storms, all riders on horses, all potentates must answer to the government of Calvary. It Is not Jesus, the pattern man, who Is antagonized, but Jesus, the lamb of God. "The cross Is the center of attack. The person of Jesus Is the enigma of our faith. "The missionaries' campaign Is the one campaign that has never been de feated. Great armies are being routed in the European Armageddon today. Superb navies will be plunged into the sea. States will spring up in the place of royalty, only to be ultimately de stroyed, but the cause of the mission ary will inevitably advance. At a time when tho founc'itlDns of Christian civ ilization are being shaken it is well to bear in mind the fact that Almighty God is still upon the throne and that he Is able to overrule the present- con ditions of adversity for the extension of his kingdom in the world." WAR TERMED BIBLE EPOCH New Thought Preacher aays Conflict Precedes World Peace. The present war in Europe is the fulfillment of prophecy and precedes the beginning of a sabbatical thousand years which shall bo the mlllenium of peace predicted in the Book of Revela tions. That is the opinion of the New Thought sect, as expressed by the Rev. P J. Green in his lecture last night at the New Thought Temple in the Filers building. "This great war is the birth struggle of our planet In which shall be born the child. World Peace," he said. "This shall come about thrqugh the Jiorrible ness of modern war, which will so shock humanity that it will command that war shall cease." Mr. Green preached from the first 14 verses of the 25th chapter of Leviticus, in which the children of Israel are in structed to set aside every seventh year as a sabbatical year, in which no fields shall be tilled and earth and man shall be permitted to rest, the sixth year having provided bounties sufficient to care for the sabbatical year. Every 50th year was to be a jubilee year. "As there were appointed sabbatical years and jubilee years," said the min ister, "so I believe that there is also a sabbatical thousand years. We are now completing the 6000 years and are ready to enter into the seventh rail lenium, which will be a period of peace, rest and brotherly love. "Commercialism will be entirely set aside as a means of accumulating wealth. It is not unreasonable to ex pect to see money in that time to give way as a medium of exchange to brotherly love and mutual helpfulness among men. In the end of the thousand years It is possible that there will be a brief reversion to the conditions that exist today, but this will not last long and It will be followed by the complete redemption of this planet. In which men will allow the true spirit of Christ to rule them. "I doubt if a second coming of Christ in material appearance is to be looked for. If he were to come today he would get Into Police Court and we would be just as ready to kick him out of the churches and to crucify him as they were when he first came. The real meaning of the second coming, as I conceive It. is the time when the spirit of Christ shall pervade the hearts of all men. "Our chronology is incomplete and it is not possible to set with accuracy the year when the seventh millenlum or the sabbatical thousand years will be gin, but it probably will follow soon after the close of this war. It may be 25 years or it may be a shorter time. "When this planet is ultimately re deemed there will be no more sickneess or sorrow and no more death, and men shall live to enjoy the fruits of their labors and shall be governed in their lives by the spirit of Christ within them." MR. BOHMAKES REPLY ADDRESSES AT MILL OPENING AN SWER POLITICAL CRITICS. Reference Is Made Twice to Humble ) Beginning of Present Springneld In dustry and Pro-Laborer Plans. SPRINGFIELD, Or., Aug. 30. (Spe cial.) Reply to political critics was indicated here yesterday by R. A- Booth In his talks in connection with the for mal opening of the Booth-Kelly saw mill. Twice he referred to the humble, beginning of his business career and emphasized especially his belief that no man can be really successful in a business life unless he touches hands with his neighbor and all advance to gether. Just after the button had been pressed in Portland and the mill was set in operation Mr. Booth called to mind the time when he and John Kelly tramped first across the present site of the mill Here and determined to build in this supposedly unfavorable spot away from tidewater. "There are those," he declared, "who pretend to believe that we have pro gressed from fools to knaves as the business here has grown under the nat ural condition of suitable location, ac cessible to raw material and to prod uct. It has not been our efforts alone, but the cheerful friendship of the peo ple of Springfield has made possible the building up of an extensive busi ness." Mr. Booth expressed deep apprecia tion of the loyalty and sturdy service of the men, some of whom are still with the company after 15 years' or longer service. Again at the banquet in the evening he referred to thes mall beginning of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company. "It was In 1883 tliat I first began lumbering," he said. "The capital of the four boys who formed tho Booth Kelly Lumber Company was just the amount that we could borrow, and with the mill that we leased we took over contracts to cut railroad ties at $a a thousand and railroad bridge string ers at $6. The cost to produce lumber now is two and one-half times the selling price .then, but this increased .cost has meant that the men's lives are far safer In the operation of the mills their work is far easier and the remuneration better. The improve ment of the conditions under which men work and carry on their business is, I think, the chief concern of Gov ernment. "Everyone here except my wife knows I am a millionaire, and there are some who say what property I have gained I have received by ex ploiting the workmen. This cannot be so, for were not the lumber mill work men prosperous the farmer who sells his produce to the millman would not prosper, and it is only as the different units of the community work together, each assisting the other to a higher plane, that there can be real pros perity." THER rjF SHlALiiGED PORTLAND VOYAGER SAYS BRITISH STOLE STEAMSHIP. Merchant at Seattle, After Vain Effort to Reach Germany, Avers Liner Was Seized Before War. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 30. (Special.) Bringing a story typical of the ex periences of Americans in Europe at the beginning of the present war, Joseph Greenberg, a Portland merchant, Is in Seattle on His return from an un successful effort to reach Germany for a two years' visit. "The British government." Mr. Green berg said, "deliberately stole the Ham burg - American liner Kronprizesstn Cecilie, on which I ieft New York July 25. This vesesl is not the large liner Kronprlnzessin Cecile which ran safely into Bar Harbor, Me., eluding French cruisers, and having millions of dollars in specie, but Is a smaller vessel. "Our vessel was going to run fo Spain, but we went short of coal and dropped in at Falmouth. England, early in the morning of August 4, nearly a whole day before war was declared by England. Although England was not at war with Germany, our vessel was detained, forcibly. The master of the Kronprinzessin was ordered by the commander of a British battleship not to move until he gave permission. We remained in port that day, and that night war was declared. Twenty-four hours after our arrival the vessel was seized and the capialn and crew were made prisoners of war, while the pas sengers were detained for several days by the British authorities. "During the five days we were held on the boat we received no mall and were allowed no means of communica tion with our friends outside the country." Ashland Loses Two Pastors. ASHLAND, Or., Aug. 30. (Special.) Two city churches are again bereft of pastors. Rev. J. F. Hamaker. of Trinity Episcopal, has resigned and will go to Visalia, Cal. Rev. R. L. Whistler, of the Nazarene following, has accepted a call to Kast Palestine, O.. and has already left for his new field of labor. 1914. EVANGELIST ON FLY Billy Sunday Rushes to City, Preaches Twice, Departs. GREAT THRONG SWAYED Preacher Here on Jump i'roin Hood River Occupies White Temple and South Methodist Pulpits, Then Talks Baseball. "Billy" Sunday, famous evangelist, dashed down from his ranch at Hood River yesterday, preached two prohi bition sermons, one in the South Metho. dist Church and one in the White Tem ple, met friends and admirers, who came to see him at the church and at the. hotel after his sermons, and then boarded an evening train and was whisked away to Hood River as sud denly as he came. His visit to Portland was at the re quest of the Young Men's Christian As sociation and forms one of the most important of the recent features it has introduced into its local campaign in behalf of prohibition. Mr. Sunday will speak in no other city in Oregon this Fall. He will leave Oregon next Thurs day for Denver. Colo., to begin a seven week campaign for prohibition. The evangellEt intended to preach in the White Temple early enough yester day to catch a late afternoon train for Hood River, but he talked over his time and let the train go. In the be ginning the evangelist simply spilled statistics all over the auditorium. He stunned his audience with language, saying among other things that "the liquor interests have chased the church, the Legislature and Congress into a corner so that they daren't peep against it." When he came to the finish ha stepped onto a chair, produced the American flag from among his stage properties, draped it over his shoulder, and the whole audience of men filling the auditorium, the Sunday school room and the galleries, ruse with him and thunderously assented to the pledge he gave it to vote "Dry" in the com ing election. Mr. Sunday In his hotel half an hour later talked about baseball, Mrs. Sun day Interpolating his remarks with ex planations and annotations. Mr. Sun day hasn't any sympathy with the Fed eral League and prophesies Its early dissolution. "They pulled off the same sort of a stunt In 1890," he says, "and formed a sort of a brotherhood or league Inde pendent and it lasted about a year. The Federals will not last many sea sons, I think, and even if they should last and succeed In breaking the Na tional, they wouldn't be in any better condition, for you'd see the salaries that they're paying now come down with a rush. There really wasn't any reason for forming it in the first place, and as near as I could rind out when 1 was back in the Middle West and the East this year, the general public isn't likely to give them any too much or too long continued support "If they wanted to form a league, why didn't they buy out the old one, in stead of jumping in and trying to smash things up? "New York Isn't showing the speed she promised at the beginning of the season or that they expected to de velop at this stage of the season, but Boston is going line. The pitchers of the New York bunch aren't doing what they were hoped to do, and some of the old veterans, seem to have slowed down a good deal this season. As to the man agers,' I look upon Connie Mack com pared to McGraw as ice compared to dynamite. This season it looks as though the ieo was the best bet." BONELESS FISH CAUGHT Species Landed Has Legs and Fills With Water to Swim. LOS ANGELES, CM., Aug. 27. Long Beach has added a new fish to Its list of curiosities, caught from the pier. It has these specifications: Six inches long, two inches wide, same width whole length of body. Body flat and transparent, like jellyfish. No bones except rib. Mouth of a toad Near-legs where tall ought to be. Fills with water when it swims. Long Beach piopeers "never saw the like." Censored War News Reveals One Fact In the meager reports from European war centers, this fact stands out that all Europe is arming and that food supplies are already becoming BCMC6. Prices here in America are rising to keep peace with European demand, but regardless ofdemand, the price will not advance on Grape-Nuts FOOD Enormous quantities of wheat and barley have been bought for making this delicious, nourishing food. And in spite of any advance in the price of grain, Grape-Nuts food will Cost Same As Always Every where For many years Grape-Nuts packages have been tightly sealed in waxed paper moisture and germproof the food always fresh and appetizing. Huge orders from Europe show that their home folks and Annies know and appreciate the sturdy value of Grape-Nuts food. ""There s a Reason" sold by Grocers everywhere Charge Purchases Today Portland Agents for the Olds, Wortman & King L Reliable Merchandise Sample Art Linens at Factory Prices CENTER CIRCLE, MAIN FLOOR -Manufaeturar sample line of Imported Renaissance Centerpieces ami Scarfs, consisting of hun dreds of beautiful pieces to be closed out at exactly factory DfisM. Don',, miss this opportunity to buy handsome gift pieces. Hound Centerpieces in sizes 18 inches, 124 inches, 30 inches, 3d inches, 46 inches and 72 inches. Scarfs in 18x54 and 27x84-inch sires. Drawn work Squares in 24 and 30-inch sizes. 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Hawkins Answers Questions Regarding Blame tor Hostilities, From Pulpit. "Is Christianity to blame for the wars now being fought in Europe?" "Who Is to blame for tho present European wars?" These were two of the 12 questions answered by Rev. S. K. Hawkins, pas tor of the Central Christian Church, last night. "There have been many attempts, he said, "to answer the question M to who is to blame for the prevailing wars in Europe. Most of tliem. perhaps, have thrown some light on the subject. The answer I shall give has not been offered thus far so far as 1 am aware. "I say the devil is to blame for these wars. I believe in a personal devil, as I do In a personal God. The devil has his imps :uul agents. He uses men as instrumentalities. He has used men in preparing the way for and in instigating these wars, chielly men in high places Kincs and Princes and their chief counselors. I do not say that all who have had part In causing these wars are blamable. Horrible as Is war. 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This blasphemy Is also tho work of the devil. It Is an old trick of the devil to work all the havoc In his power and then blame it on the lx'rd. "It is not Christianity, hut the ab sence of It and the abuse of It, that has made this frightful xlluutlon possible. WAR CLOSES COURTS Federal .lul(;' III, Abiil or In KuroH! Leave llem lu - Vacant. NEW YORK. Aug. The Unit States District Court bad lo mljourn the bankruptcy calendar recently I'T week as there was M Keder.il Jm4C here to hold court. Judges from other districts hav1! been filling In .ludgs Grubb, of Alabama, who has been hei e for several weeks, has returned horn Judge Mayer Is detutne In star Opt bv the war. Judnc Hough l sick In mm Hampshire and Jinlne Hand I M I vh cation. Meanwhile l'resldent Wilson has nl appointed a successor to Judgs Unit, who resigned in January. Judge Vredsr of Brooklyn will come ovor dally to sign such orders as are necessary. 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