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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1914)
THE MORXTXG OREGO!flA!T, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1914. FAITHFUL WILLIAM In'snailing life's by-ways and mile-a-minuting life's high-ways; in violeting life's hillsides and buttercupping life's dales ; in tenting beneath God's blue and drifting His rivers ripples, always I have had my dog along. Why I because a dog is faithful. Of. all the virtues, faithfulness is the star one. If a man is sure of faith fulness he can overlook the lack of other virtues. If I had the re-making of our grand republic, I would have faithfulness the foundation requirement of all law makers and law administrators, and the republic would be a grand and everlasting one. Faithful men can do little wrong, a faithful public servant no wrong. I have been asked time and time again. Why have you taken up Mr. Hanley's fight? And I answer: In William Hanley I long ago discovered the dog's faithfulness combined with those higher human attributes which go to make the ideal public servant; physical, mental, moral courage, tempered with red-red blood heart throb and soul quiver. I profess to know dogs and men. My experience with both has been vast. I rarely make a mistake. My dog pals of yesterday are my pals of today, and tomorrow. And the public men whom I have white-crossed are the ones I still count my beads with. In choosing a dog pal, or a public servant, one has only to study their every-day round-aboutings, if they ear-true and eye-straight for faithfulness, my experience has shown me it is well to cast the die. I have said that I did not know Mr. Booth or Senator Chamberlain only as their public records and their present Senatorial campaign movied them. God knows it was not my desire, or my intention, to say ought in my Villiam Hanley effort, that would throw a sliver of shadow aslant their public or private characters. My only desire, my whole intent, was to say to the people of the great state which has awakened my whole being to an intense admiration: "I know a great man, whom I know would make a great public servant for you, your slate, and our country." My only desire, my whole intention, was to show them how much they, their state, and our country needed a great public servant, in this, their present crisis. v My only, desire, my whole intention, was to guide their vision to the awful calamity which will surely come to them, their state, and our country if they close eyes and ears to their God-sent opportunity to impress into their service an exceptionally good public man. This was all and if I have, in my fervor of heart, my anxiety of soul, or my defectiveness of mentality, said ought in word or spirit, to bruise or pain either of William Hanley's opponents, I now and here offer my sincere apologies. I feel it but fair, to Senator Chamberlain and Mr. Booth; to Mr. Hanley and myself, to say this in my closing bit of this brief pen campaign. Also to say with all the earnestness that there is in me: I trust the voters of Oregon will elect William Hanley to serve them in the United States Senate, in the coming national crisis.' I say it because I believe he is, regard less of what either of his opponents may be, the man for the place. But whether he is elected or not, I do most earnestly trust, that he will at least receive the vote of every man or woman of that class, for whose welfare I have given the best part, and the best in that part, of my life the toiler, the oppressed, the suffering. From all such I ask a thirty seconds let-me-think consideration of my simple off-the-reel character study of my subject. have been asked if I l(nev, really knew Mr. Hanley. How well I fcnon him can be judged tvhen I say : A while back at least three years was asked by the leading Ameri can newspaper. The New York World, to select, for its Sunday issue, a list of the great-to-be Americans, and I put down, well toward the head of a very select thirty odd. the name of William Hanley of Oregon. At that time Mr. Hanley was running for no office. He did not even non Was making such a list, and iiere was no screeching reason for my putting him into it, except that I, belter than his neighbors, knew that he was the making of a great man that I believed his on-the-way career would, later on, justify my judgment. I says this now merely to show that what I have said in this campaign of Mr. Hanley was not said to fill in the political emergencies' chinks; that what I say now I would have said long ago, when there was no political call for its saying; that I sincere ly believe all that I have said of Mr. Han ley. For my readers should bear in mind that such great publications as the one I mentioned would not honor one with the making up of such a list job if one had been in the habit of picking at random, or picking slipshoddedly. PLUCK. 'Way back In the early days of the West, when the cattle drive from Burns to the nearest market place, Cheyenne, re quired a long six months, one of the driving- crews had with it a young recruit. When the drive camped at Its first week end, the cook was amused at the request of the loan of his bean pot. The lad's mother had said, on his leaving home to earn his living in the great big world, 'Billie, be sure to keep yourself clean." Toward midnight the young laundryman drew from his unique tub his only shirt to find it had shrunk to a quarter its size. Did the lad sit down and weep over his first loss? To him, in those days of few garment luxuries and less money to. re place them, it was a serious loss. Weep! No. he laughed and made glad the cook's heart by presenting him with a shirt for his baby. In this simple act, at the be ginning of his career, we have Bill Hanley of all his active after life. His quick wit, his generous good nature turned his loss into an opportunity to do a good turn for another. BRAINS. A quarter of a century later, in a lux urious sleeper speeding East, the laughing boy of the boiled-shirt episode, now grown, to sturdy manhood and cattle kingship, said to one of his pen-pushing Eastern friends, as he pointed to a long side- tracked freight: "A part of my 50,000 rattle taking a 2000-mile Jaunt to Chicago, and just beyond in that one where the engine heads west, are some of them, dead, making the 2000-mile return trip to Portland. Is not the Beef Trust kind to the people of Oregon, and are not the people of Oregon kind to the Beef Trust?" and he lay back and laughed at his 4000- .rnile freight loss as though it had been profit. In between laughs he told of the - years of wasted effort of the Western, rancher to balk the mean trust robbers. How the trust In Chicago would bulletin day after day Into the wilds of 2000-mlles-away Harney County rise upon rise upon the price of cattle, until the toiling ranch er would get together his cows and steers and ship to the far-away market. And how, upon their arrival in Chicago, with trainloads on trainloads from other to-be-pillaged Western Harney counties, the price would be dropped and dropped until the deceived and distracted rancher to save himself from being eaten up by yard, feed and other charges, would sell for whatever was offered, and return sadder, but no wiser, for the following year would see him again stripping himself for a fresh skinning. William Hanley's tales were interest ing; ho intended them to be. Brains of the William Hanley caliber work in their own way their wonders to perform. His Eastern pen-pushing friend carried the interesting beef trust tales back with him into the lairs of the Beef Trust thieves' allies. Wall street, money and other trusts, until well, the cattle of the Harney counties of Oregon are no longer given the 4000-mile jaunt before being fed to the Oregon high-cost-living victims, for out of the interesting tales of Bill Hanley grew the great slaughtering establishment in Portland which has at least annihilated the 4000 - mile freight charge trust tribute. ( cannot help saying here, while pointing to this example of Mr. Hanley's unique and effective ways of solving the people's problems. Cod help the Trusts when Oregon grants Dill Hanley the privilege telling his interesting tales in the law-making and law-administering halls of the Nation.) SOUL. One beautiful Summer day, when every thing in Central Oregon was at its love liest, when the twittering of the birds in the tall grain, the droning of the hoppers in the waving alfalfa, the ripple, ripple of . the rivers, the swish-swash of the ditch flume, the blue, blue of the sky. and the mellowness of the breezes all sang God's great kindness to the dwellers of the Garden of the West, this devil scene was being enacted to prove that Bobbie Burns lived in no different age from ours, when his immortal quill sobbed, "Man's inhu manity to man makes countless thousands mourn , ' A prosperous ranch, a. motley crowd in front of the "home" which father, with the aid of mother and the kiddies, had built with their own hands', a red flag and a loud-voiced auctioneer, the weeping woman, a sullen ready-for-the-anarchist's-teachlng man. and a hud dled group of terrorized children, and a harsh "Going, going, gone" that sounded the death knell to all hopes of a God fearing, country-loving American family. Then a big, twinkling-eyed, round-faced, Boft-voiced man of a group of "Please-O-please-God-bless-him-for - he-has blessed us" Oregon toilers. "Now, don't talk any more about It. I bid It in for you all. and it's all yours back again, even better than it was before, for. Instead of 9 per cent interest on the mort gage, you will only have to pay me 6 per cent. There, there, if you go on this way I will be sorry I did It." Just a word here with you Oregon Voters. Would you dare to go on record with your ballots, that the prayers of such victims of the Oregon end of the bank trust don't count in Senatorial elections as well as in other walks of life? Do you dare answer wilh your ballot that a man who goes through life followed by such prayers stands no better chance with his neighbors and his countrymen than HEART. Scene. Broadway, New York City. Time, shop-letting-out evening. Many of the dwellers of Oregon don't know the scene, so I will hurriedly thumbnail sketch it: A great wide avenue with both sidewalks cram-jammed with surging mobs. Pale faced, shrunken - formed, pathetic - eyed, drawn-lipped sweat-shop slaves. Put all the people that one sees on all the streets in Portland's shopping center into each Broadway block, and that is what it looks like, only they are different-looking peo ple, God help them, from the people of Portland. The center of this wide avenue, packed with a solid procession of crazy going vehicles, automobiles, society liveried victorias and broughams, dashing mail wagons, lumbering vans and, wedged into every crack and cranny, countless -taxicabs; two gigantic policemen at each crossing, who every minute break the procession that the mob may make a wild dash for the "other curb." Do you get me? Yes! I know you think so, but you don't Any one who has ever seen the Broadway rush at store-letting-out even ing time, can not possibly vision it as it Is. Hell let loose and repeat, and then some. Is the only parallel. One who might easily preserve one's wit and nerve in the center of an Oregon cattle stampede, can as easily go daffy from their first experience with the Broadway mob at shop-letting-out evening time. One evening two years ago, during the trip of a lot "of prominent Westerners, of whom the most interesting and most dis tinguished is Colonel Hill Hanley. of Ore gon" (I am copying from the New York papers), there stood on the curb of one of the Broadway crossings a working woman mother, in her arms a babe, hang ing to her skirts a four-year-old. Also standing there watching the human round-up, was the big twinkling-eyed, round-faced man I have described before. The mother and the tot vainly essayed to make the curb during the procession's split, buf the tooting automobiles, plung ing horses and heller-skeltering of humans terrified them, and, stupefied, they halted in the center of the avenue as the policeman's whistle gave the signal for the mad rush of vehicles. The dashing horses of a society vic toria were upon the horrified helpless ones, when the man on the curb landed at their heads and in a twinkle threw them to their haunches: lifted the woman and the babe with one arm and the tot with the other, just as the giant police man with uplifted club came to their assistance, but he was not needed, for the vehicle driver had felt that thrill which comes to the crowd with the presence of a real leader. They recognized In the broad-brimmed, black-hatted, twinkling eyed cattle king the man, the real man, the man who needs no help, and a cheer went up as the soft voice of Bill Hanley rose above the din: "Officer, take the ktddie, while I drive the wife and babe across the trail, and be sure don't let the stampede get to them." (Don'l think I overdraw my picture. I got the episode first hand from the news paper editor who got it from his reporter.) Some of Mr. Hanley's detractors like to tell of the sorry figure he would cut in the effete East once he was away from his bunch grass and sagebrush haunts. The reporter who passed In the above told his editor that the only clear headed, good-form person present on that Broadway block that evening was "Colonel Bill from Oregon," and when two days later he reported the following he added this to his copy: "What a Presi dent of the United States Colonel Bill Hanley, of Oregon, would make." NERVE. On the busiest corner of Wall street is the real center of The System and all Its allied ftioney and other Trusts: The bank ing house of Morgan. There are detectives at the one big entrance. No man or woman gets by them into the Morgan building who by any possible slant of vrsion can be construed Into the "suspi cious" class. Bill Hanley's merry eyes twinkled at these dollar royalty guardians in a way which must have read, "I'll bull dog you if you don't watch out,'" for they passed him up and were glad they did when the trailing reporter whispered. "Colonel Bill Hanley, of Oregon." Colonel Bill has a reputation even In Wall street, and it is one that does not argue well for those who attempt to stay his lawful travels. When a visitor finds himself in the big Morgan banking office he need waste no time getting to his errand, for there are numerous mysterious individuals whose duty it is- to see he does no wandering, particularly toward the door of the late John Plerpont Morgan's private office. But if by chance one does get that far into The System's inner jungle he gets no further without the little potent "By appointment" card. "Colonel Bill" act ually got to the door, before Its big, always - on - the - watch - for - cranks and bomb tossers guard Interposed his huge bulk. "Have you an appointment, sir?" "No." said the soft voice which is so fa miliar to Oregonians, particularly for those looking 'for the way out of their troubles. "But you just say to Mr. Mor gan that Bill Hanley, of Oregon, would have a word with him." "I cannot do it. sir, my orders are imperative. I cannot disturb Mr. Morgan except for those who have appointments." "All right, son. I have no imperative orders, so I will do it myself." There might have been varieties of trouble, both for the Morgan guard ana Mr. Hanley. if the door had not at just that moment swung In as tbe big volee of the late head of all financialdom sounded In its moHt Morganized tone. "Well!" Wall street in its back offices on dull, rainy afternoons amuses itself to figure out the number of people who have dropped dead or been sent to the hospital for unexpectedly getting in range of that Morgan "Well." Before the door guard could speak up Mr. Hanley's soft "Excuse me. Mr. Mor gan, but I am Bill Hanley, of Oregon, and I thought I would drop in on you while in town." If there is one thing that the great Morgan could do better than another it was to size up men. It is a Wall street tradition that he never made a mistake in his first-sight sizings, provided the sized one had any striking characteristics. No greater compliment was ever paid Mr. Hanley than the one given him that day by the late great money master. Without an instant's hesitation he answered: "Walk in, Mr. Hanley. What can I do for you?" "I am sorry to say, Mr. Mor gan, you cannot do anything for me. While I was down in New York I thought I would come in and see how you make all this money I read about." The great banker laughed long and Morganly. "Just wander about, anywhere you choose. Go through the business offices, the private offices, into the vaults, anywhere. You are welcome." The reporter, who waited with bulging eyes for the parting of the Oregon Cattle King and the world's Money Monarch, afterward said that Mr. Hanley told him that he never had spent a more Interesting half hour. PERSONAL. would embrace this, my last opportunity, to thank the many Oregonians who have by mail, telegraph and telephone, so gen erously signified to me their ap preciation of my effort in behalf of Mr. Hanley and crying-for- . help progressive statesmanship. Had I time, space and data tools I might have made my ef fort worthy of my opportunity, but the always fickle jade caught me hammocked in my outing togs, far from my forge and anvil, and I had to do with my crude materials or not at all. When I decided to butt in, the campaign was nearly finished. I was at the ranch, a day's travel from Portland, the center of in formation and statistics. I have not seen Mr. Hanley or any of his lieutenants since the campaign opened and have necessarily had to depend on memory antl a rusty pen for my material, and it's pitch-forky. Had it not been for my splen did inspiration generating sub ject, I would indeed have made a sorry mess of what I ached to mould into a vote teaser. How ever, if my attempt produces one tenth of the prayed for effort, I will be amply repaid, and the good people of Oregon will have a representative in the United States Senate of whom they will be proud. If my efforts have no effect on the Senatorial vote, I will still be repaid, for I will have again demonstrated as in the past the utter futilities of stacking facts against bunkum, when the people are bunkum hungry. THOMAS W. LAWSON PrinevUle. Oregon. Oct 29. (Paid Advertisement by Thomas W. I.awson, Prlnevllle, Oregon.) REGISTRATION OF STATE IS 293,272 Four Counties Yet to Report May Increase Figures by 20,000 at Least. PRIMARY MARK SURPASSED Before May Election Total Keg ist ra tion in State Was 2 2 6,924 Coos. Polk, Malheur and Wlieeler Counties to Keport. The registration of the state, not including- the figures of five counties which have not- been reported, is 289. 729. The counties yet to hear from are Coos, Polk, Malheur and Wheeler. These probably -will increase the total regis tration by 20,000. Out of 34 counties figures showing the sex registration only of 10 coun ties are available. The registration of H. McNeil and C. W. Smith were the committee in charge. Grand Master Galloway delivered the main address of the evening and Grand Secretary Sharon spoke briefly, both expressing appreciation of the entertainment and the enthusiasm shown by the members. A programme was rendered: Piano solo. Miss Maud Alvord; reading, Gerald Lawler; reading. Miss Edna Hartley; selection, Beaver Male Quartet of Lents Methodist Church ; drill. Eureka Rebekah Lodge No. 178; bari tone solo, C. H. Grabel and Miss Hazel Johnson. SENATOR IS LOSING Chamberlain's Failure to Help Coos and Curry Hurts. EX-HEAD URGES BIG NAVY Battleships Cheaper Than Battles, Says Goerge Von.Ii. Meyer. BOSTON, Oct. 2S'The United States needs a larger navy. Battleships are cheaper than battles," declared George von L. Meyer, ex-Secretary of the Navy, In an address before the City Club to night. '"It's a fool's paradise to talk about preventing war when, by lack of defense, we invite invasion." Outlining a plan for increasing the size of the Navy, he continued: "Build four battleships a year until we have 48 and their auxiliaries. We have now only 10 first-class bat tleships IS counting those under con struction. Increase our fleet of byro aeroplanes. Secure more ammunition, supplies and transports." Tesreau to Visit Centralia Kin. CENTRAL! A, Wash., Oct. 29. (Spe- BOOTH VOTE TO BE LARGE Portland Mail to Lower Carry Conn. ty After Nov. 1 AVill Be Received Five Days After Mailing, In stead of Two as Formerly. MAESHFIELD. Or.. Oct. 29. (Spe cial.) Just before tne battle of ballots, forecasts are being made that George Chamberlain will be overwhelmed in this section of the coast, and claims are made that It- A. Bootn will receive at least a vote 100 per cent larger than the incumbent. These prophecies are based on the widespread dissatisfac tion with Chamberlain's failure to look after this section in several important matters, notably In connection with the REGISTRATION OF OREGON VOTERS BY COUNTIES. the men and women voters In these counties Is as follows: County Men. Women. Total. Benton 4,060 1,800 5.S60 Curry 965 554 1,319 Hood Kiver 1.77S I.IS5 2.99 '. Juckson T.IUU 4.144 11. -W Josephine -.itl -l.:i2 ::..i4:t Lane 10.066 , 5.455 15.521 Lincoln 1.5oO l.Ol'S Multnomah 5S.408 33.0:13- 96.436 Sheiman 9S1 500 1.4S1 Masco 3.567 l.sOi 6,471 14U.43 lH.e:l3 55. May primaries the total the state was 226,924, .. 134.697 . .. 59.3S4 ... 6.255 11.17 7 6. 273 Totals Before the registration classified as follows: Republicans Democrats ... Progressives . Prohibitionists Socialists Miscellaneous 8.536 Since the primary election the regis tration has shown a marked Increase. The unofficial figures of 29 counties show the following party classifica tion: Reoubllcans ...17C.0412 lemocrats To.4S4 Progressives tf.Ullu Prohibitionists 15.O05 Miscellaneous 12.74ti The accompanying is an incomplete table of the registration by counties: Counties Baker Benton Clackamas -. Clutfiop . . . . . Columbia ... Coos Crook Curry Douglas Gilliam Grant Harnev Hood River . Jackson Josephine . . . Klamath .... Lake Lane Lincoln Rep. 2.922 2.940 8.999 3.637 2,822 "2.875 604 5.051 1,120 1.524 880 1,850 3,t"2S 1.S44 2,260 887 8.481 1.57 Linn .241 Malheur ..... ........ Marion 10.125 Odd Tel lows Dine Lodge Officials. Grand Master William Galloway and Grand Secretary E. E. Sharon were guests of honor at the banquet given by the Mount Scott Lodge , of Odd fellows and the Eureka Lodge of Re bekahs of Lents Tuesday night in the Lents Oddfellows' Hall. R. Stanz. W. Morrow . . . . Multnomah Polk Sherman ... Tillamook .. I'matilla ... Union ...... Wallowa . . . Washington Wheeler Yamhill ... 1.356 60,088 "860 2.032 5.091 3.085 1.719 5.632 4.383 Totals 171.334 Dem. 2,935 1.515 3,685 963 880 "l'.sOO 492 2.598 449 612 734 616 2.!45 I4.-.7 1.218 587 3.960 526 3.474 "V.iis 391 22.612 """430 57 3.169 2.164 1.110 2,031 "Y.ioo Prog. Front Soc Misc. Total. 63 75 208 1,820 8.021 110 765 105 425 5,860 2S3 775 487 603 14.832 03 135 204 434 6.426 72 185 212 353 4.524 "129 "- "229 "iii " 237 6.614 15 10 84 14 1,319 134 353 134 435 9.021 5 27 19 15 1.C36 34 13 69 33 2.283 20 20 108 148 1.900 122 172 7 203 2,998 Ml -1.7 44ti 4.110 11.266 2fit 171 07 211 3.S43 76 55 115 275 2.999 47 11 88 64 1.684 324 . 81 788 1,037 15.521 2 103 184 108 2.527 111 956 345 829 10,754 "Wo '"l.435 "370 '""917 "iV.Hj 16 64 101 191 2.119 3,898 3,748 1.599 4.491 96.436 ..... "jg ""'i6 32 "i"4s 41 236 117 185 3.187 205 464 261' 595 9.785 188 426 242 427 6.532 11S 86 168 118 3.309 131 995 201 922 9.912 "7S . " 1.626 "l94 '" iii "8.807 claL) Jeff Tesreau, the New York Ne ttie west with a team of National League all-stars, is expected in Cen tralia tomorrow for a visit with his sisters. Mrs. Robert Davidson and Mrs. L. A. Ashlock, before sailing with his teammates for Honolulu. Aleck Tes reau, a brother, whose home is In Che halls, went to Seattle today to meet the twirler. During Tesreau's visit last year he went on & 10 days' bear hunt with a party of Centralia folk, tional League twirler, who is touring mail service in both Coos and Curry Counties. In Curry County, the old West Fork mail route is to be discontinued No vember 1. and mail will be routsd through Roseburg to Myrtle Point, and thence to Curry County. The people of lower Curry County then will receive their Portland mail five days after It is mailed, instead of on the second day over the West Fork. This difference and delay Is considered an aggravating situation by the residents of the neigh boring county, and will be resented at the polls. In Coos County the Coos Bay wagon road route contract expires on Novem ber 1 and the mail will come through Myrtle Point, making it, under the most favorable circumstances, six hours later than it arrives here at present. There is a possibility the Coos Bay, Roseburg & Eastern train schedules may be ar ranged so the mail will be sent from Myrtle Point in the morning, but this will not expedite the arrival more than three hours and instead of obtaining mail at 8 in the morning It will be ready at 11, or 2, according' to the de cision of the railroad. Chamberlain's lassitude in allowing mail routes to be changed is looked upon, coming from a Senator whose sympathies are with the Administra tion, as inexcusable, and electors claim the instance was one of simple neglect. The fact the Administration is trying to apply better service in other places at the expense of the Coast country is not an argument that will help Cham berlain and the people believe he could have had the old service maintained had he given it any attention. In the Congressional fight Congress man Hawley will have a difficult time in securing a majority in Coos and Cur ry, as Fred Hollister has made his cam paign on a strictly -'Coast candidate platform and has several Hollister clubs, composed in one or two instances of 90 per cent Republicans, working for him. Lack of harbor appropriations for Coos Bay and the Coquille River is largely responsible for the feeling for Hollister, and is a situation which is clearly going to affect Mr. Hawley'a vote. James Withycombe is easily in the lead for Governor and will obtain a fine plurality in this county. West methods are not popular here and Smith is looked upon as an heredity aspirant. and therefore will not get as large a vote as other Democratic Gubernatorial candidates have in past elections. The principal contest of local inter est is that for Sheriff. W. W. Gage, the Democratic incumbent, has been In office for several terms and has made a good official, but his opponent, Al fred Johnson, is a young man of zeal and energy and has made an excellent Bhowing. This " contest is -attracting quite as much notice as any Included In the election, and neither side ex presses any confidence. Measures are largely likely to meet with negative votes in Coos County, as electors are saying too many freak bills have gotten by in past years. The prohibition vote is expected to be close, with not over 100 majority on either side. The wets are unable to forecast what position the women will take on this question, but are ex pecting an unfavorable Issue. Coos County in 19u8 went wet by only 5 votes and In 1910 lost by 24 votes, but flaws were found In the petitions and Legal proceedings succeeded in main taining saloons. MUTS TO AID NEEDY 'Big Brothers" Named to Dis pense Holiday Cheer. 25 MEN LEAD MOVEMENT Order to Distribute Food and Cloth ing to City's Poor at Thanks giving and Christmas Time. Fund to Be , Gleaned. Telephone Popular at Pendleton. PENDLETON, Or., Oct 29. (Special.) Pendleton -has one telephone for every six persons, according to the lat est report of the Paciffc Telephone & Telegraph Company. There are 1139 stations in the county, with SOI lines. The increase has been marked this year. . At a meeting at the Commercial Club yesterday afternoon the Ancient Order of Muts took the first steps to ward emphasizing the serious part of its activities, by launching its Big Brother" plan for extending relief to the poor and needy of the city at Thanksgiving and Christmas time. The plans embody a full carrying out of the Muts motto, "Men United to berve. and Involve supplying Thanksgiving day and Yuletide dinners, and other necessities on the most extensive scale ever undertaken by any organization in the city. The work will be done In co-opera- tion with the several eleemosynary in stitutions of the city and effort will be made to see that every person In need Is provided with a warm, wholesome dinner on the two holidays mentioned. nd. so far as possible, to provide neces sary wearing apparel for those who are insufficiently clothed. The efforts of the Muts in this line will be directed by a committee of 25 prominent men of the city who a members of the order and who will constitute the "Big Brother" committee. Personal acceptances to take an active part in the work have been received from all but two members of the com mittee and these two are out of the city. The following is the list of men who will direct the Big Brother pro gramme: John H. Burgard. chairman; H. R. Albee. Ben Selling. Dorr H. Keasey, Guy W. Talbot, W. E. Coman. Emery Olmstead. Edwin Boyce. Dr. P. W. Dammasch. Harvey Beckwith, John S. Beall. Judge J. H. Stevenson, William McMurray. George W. Hoyt. F. M. Case. Dr. E. A. Marshall. W. L. Morgan, Kurt H. Koehler, William Merriman. Eugene Brookings. John C. English, F. D. Hunt, V. R. Manning, Judge W. N. Gatens, George W. Kleiser. All to Go to Needy. The scope of the work will extend far beyond the membership of the Muts and opportunity to assist will be extended to every man, woman and child in the city who desires to help the worthy cause along. The "Big Brother" committee will ac cept money contributions in any amount from 1 cent to $1000 or more, and will guarantee that for every dol lar contributed to the work 100 cents will go to the direct alleviation of dis tress. There will, in other words, be no costly overhead expense so that the charitably disposed citizen will know that all he is giving goes to the imme- iate aid of some poor family in flls- ress. , Those who desire to contribute cloth ing, shoes, underwear, ' food, provisions of any kind also will be given an op portunity to do so through the Muts clearing-house. Correct lists of such families, the number of members, sex, age and in dividual needs will be kept, and so far as possible each of the needy families will be assigned to some one memoer of the Muts or other person who wants to loin this "Big Brother" movement to 6ee that wants of the poor are supplied. At the meeting yesterday talks were made by Guy W. Talbot, Dr. E. A. Mar shall, exalted ruler of the Elks; Wil liam Merriman, president of the Trans portation Club; Dr. C. W. Cornelius, Kmil Schacht, Martin J. ueary. x M. Case. George W. Caldwell, Phil S. Bates, Tom A. Rochester, K. ri. -Atkin son, C. L. Thompson and otners, ana without exception, they agreed that the opportunities for effective work in relieving distress were almost unlim ited and pledged their individual ef forts to make the movement a big success. NEW PLANT ENTERS FIELD Portland Company May Compete in Lighting Hubbard. HUBBARD. Or.. Oct. 29. Special.) It is expected that within a - few months the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, from their base at Salem, will install a competitive sys tem of electric lights in Hubbard. The present current is furnished by the Molalla Electric Light Company, of Canby. It is said that their service is poor and that the rates are exorbi tant. The Railway Commisison will hold a session next week in Hubbard to in vestigate the claims of losses sus tained by the creamery and several mills through lack of electric power. Tin French encineers have Invented frraDDlins- aDDaratus which In tests has suc cessfully raised sunken submarines. Dozens of delightful uses Not only has Log Cabin Syrup no equal for waffles, pancakes or French toast, but it's wonderful for candy, puddings and cakes. TOWLE'S CANE AND MAPLE SYRUP 'Sweat Home, indA Makma Home, is unrivaled for flavor, and of absolute purity. It's a wholesome sweet for the children. Sold in full measure cans. Order of your grocer today. Tte Towle Maple Products Company Sales headquarters: Peoples Cms Building, Chicago RafiMHC St. Paul. Minsu: St. Johasbonr. Vt. Log Cabin Fudge Two cups granulated sugar. cup of Log Cabin Syrup, cup of milk, two tablespoons but ter. Stir in enameled sauce pan over brisk fire until it makes a soft ball when drop ped into cold water. Then beat until it begins to granu late. Pour in buttered pan and when partly cool cut in squares. 4