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THE MORNING OREGONIATT 3I0NDAY, APRIL 19, 1915. GREY URGES SANE HURTING i PHOTOGRAPH OF FIRE IN EARLY STAGE AT BLAKE - M'FALL BUILDING LAJ5T NIGHT. ILOF ITSELF, SAYS BARON Secretary Would Mold Bar rooms to Purpose of Re- form of Liquor Evil. German Ambassador to Tur key Declares Spirit of Neu trality Is Not Observed. PROHIBITION NOT PROBABLE POLICY CHANGE PREDICTED TODAY AND TUESDAY AMERICA GQNTRQ DRINK . m TABIC WEST PARK. NKtK WASHINGTON U L aiBBSSMaaaJsasl Open KsllT. N"on to 1 1 I. M. laaaaaaaaaaaaasaM bandar lttiSO to It P. M. i IMPORTANT h The National, as usual, presents for the bgtnnlng of the week J 1 s. bill of unusual excellence. A drama of love and adventure l to I J be seen in "The White Mask"; an original and vital drama is "The J Great Experiment": while a IJeorna Ads fable supplies latiRhs I 1 without number- Joe Roberts, banjoist. you know of coume and I J the Amateur Night tonight will be splendid. ' I I rzrz, ' 1 ,:,.::.:::" Temperament of British Yorkman Is Against Abolition by Legis lation Constructive Plan M Advocated Instead. ji.. , BY CAROLYN "WILSON. CopyrlKhu l!ir. by the Chl.-aeo Trlbuns. Published by arrangement.) LONDON. March 2a. There is prob ably no man In England who 13 more sincerely Interested in abolishing the drink evil than Earl Grey, and no one who has put more money Into it and who lives more on its proceeds. That Bounds contradictory and may be libelous, since I didn't have it di rectly from him. I must explain his scheme in order that he be understood. "If I think it is possible for England to have absolute prohibition?" he re peated after me, "possible, yes; prob able, no. Legislatively It is permissible, although changes would have to be made in certain acts. But it is the tem perament of the British working man which would be against it. Constructive System Advocated. "If the government wishes to take a hand in controlling the drink question, which Is really serious, the only per manent way to do it is by following along the lines of the disinterested pub lic houses and making of the public houses instruments of national and so cial advancement instead of national degradation. "Do you know anything about the Scandinavian system? There, of course, there is legislative assistance, but here our work has been only.voluntary with out help from the state. "That Is why I said that this system 1 the one plausible step for the govern ment at this time. Reformers are al ways talking about prohibition as If it could occur over night. "To be lasting it must be constructive and not merely restrictive. And the people must consider It to some extent voluntary, otherwise the effect will merely be to drive the drink into other and less desirable channe'. Disreputable Licenses Bought L'p. "We first went to work on the plan that both capital and labor should have Its rewards. There were a certain num ber of men who were glad to invest their money at a guaranteed maximum per cent of interest there always are. With this money disreputable licenses were bought up and we proceeded to make the public house a pleasant and liveable place. "For the main part drink. In place of being a convenient adjunct to an eating house, has become the only important thing, and the food question has neces sarily been shoved out of sight since legislation has taxed not the amount of drink but the size of the house. Hence it Is to the advantage of the' tenant to get the smallest possible place merely a bar. "With us, however, the managers re ceive commissions on all trade other than alcoholics and thus have a direct incentive to push the food side of the business. During the 10 years that we have had the houses the nonalcoholic receipts have risen from less than 10 per cent to more than 48 per cent of the whole. Germany Taken mm Model. I "Our first aim is to have the public house large, airy, attractive, with noth ing hidden or secret about it. We want to make it as much like the German beer garden as possible. Here the en tire family may come if they wish to. "Every house contains ample pro vision for the sale of nonalcoholics and each contains an entrance separate from the bars. In many the bars have been cleared out entirely and refresh ment rooms substituted. "There are no advertisements of any kind of whisky or beer on the walls. There are no indecent or gross pictures. We have flowers about the place: there are facilities for games and reading. At the present we have about 40J of these houses. "We could open many more, but capi tal is scarce just now. You have thor oughly understood, haven't you, that the companies don't make a penny over their stipulated maximum per cent of interest on the capital and all that is left over goes to objects of public util ity? We devote the money that we make off selling drinks to the destruc tion of drink. "With Improved housing and im proved habits of sobriety, the aspect of British life would be greatly changed. Take the mere habit of savings, for ex ample. We are spending more on drink each year than the national expendi ture. British Savlnsrs Least of All. "We save less than any other nation. The statistics for the first and last years of a decade showed an increase of only 22 per cent of money deposited in savings banks in Great Britain, where as Germany in that time increased 105 per cent. "There is no one who desires to see the end of the liquor business more keenly than I do but there is only one sane way to go about it. and I wish the government would follow in the same path." Acting on Lord Grey's suggestion, 1 did go out to Hampstead Garden sub urbs, and although it has no direct bearing on the war nor yet on the ques tion of prohibition. I will describe it briefly, for it is a splendid scheme, suc cessfully carried out. AVorking on the idea of copartner ship In housing a scheme which, like ' the disinterested public houses, brings in only its fair interest on capital there has been evolved at less than six miles from London a delightful little suburb where the workingman can live in his separate cottage, a flower and a vegetable garden at his back, four or live rooms, a bath and running hot and t old water, and all this from 6 shillings a week up. Don't ask me how it's done. 1 can't imagine. I merely know that it looks as if it had, stepped out of a picture book, this neat, clean, brightly-colored village with its quaint architecture. Its low roofs, its green grass and its hun dreds of toddling babies. It rightly claims the world's record for a small infant mortality 11 out of every 1000. There isn't a saloon on the place, but there are scores of tennis courts and boVling greens, golf links and recreation clubs. There are flats which let for $1.35 a week, three rooms and a bath; and there is also a large building for the aged, where men and women who are living on their old age pensions may have a large bedroom, a little kitchen etta and lavatory, all lor bit cents a week. It is marvelous- Nor Is it to be won dered at that the waiting list is so long that It overflows the pigeonholes of the office. It is only too bad that more capital ists aren t anxious to put their money out at 5 per cent money which is as sure of its return in specie as it is In human life and human happiness. ! i y o j 1 I i - ' - ffy f ' .A M i & . h" if B - ; ) X nil : :a ' 1 1 n " ft J J I- ' 1 Jiff J ' - f H , iTfi ; .fV, 1 & J' " fas IP-- ; v , rJ 1 'A,'? Mil SCENES SHOWISG BURST OF FLAME AND SMOKE WITHIN FEW TIRJIED IN, AND CLOSE PROXIMITY OF OTHER FIRE LOSS $300,000 Blake-McFall Six-Story Block Is Gutted. FIVE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Falling Estate, Owner of Building1, and Paper Company Heaviest Losers Insurance Covers Greater Part of Damage. (Continued From First Page.) of office furniture, and will be prob ably $40,000. Patrolmen Kllngensmlth and Young discovered the flames and turned in the alarm at 7 o'clock. A squad of police under Captain Inskeep dashed to the scene In the police touring car, and swept back the gathering crowds to give the firemen room. At this time smoke was rolling in dense clouds from the windows. on the northwest corner of the building. As the windows crackeyd with the heat, the flames and the air swept Into the building, the flames increased, and Boon the interior of the building was a raging furnace. Unable to enter the building, the firemen with hose climbed to the win dows on ladders, and scaled the fire- escapes of the building across Ankeny street. Four streams were thrown across Ankeny street into the upper floors of the building. Trapped Men Escape. One stream struck a group of fire men at a window in the second story. Just as a. sheet of flame burst out and drove them down their ladder. "Stop! stop!" shouted one of the fire men, ana a sign went up irom me watchers, who thought that the men were trapped. The men on the fire aana elevated their hose, and the menaced firemen climbed unconcernedly back to their work. The water thrown Into the upper stories formed an air current which rolled clouds of smoke out the first floor windows, between the walls of Ankeny street, which is only 20 feet wide at this point. Fifteen firemen, nearly all from Engine No. 2, were overcome by the smoke in the fight of the first two hours and a half. Five of them were taken to the hospital and the others recovered consciousness while lying in the lobby of the "Multnomah Hotel waiting for the ambulances to come. Assistant City Physician Henry Hard ing, who was on the ground, took charge of the men who were overcome by the smoke. Orcneatra Keeps Playing. The lobby of the Multnomah Hotel presented a scene of strange contrast when the unconscious fire fighters were carried in. The orchestra was in the main lobby, surrounded by the crowd that had gathered to hear the Sunday evening concert. The firemen were stretched out in the lobby with the physician and volunteers working over them. Throughout all the excitement the or chestra played on through Its concert, while the Interest and excitement kept the crowd surging hither and thither in the lobby about it. The rescue of the exhausted and un conscious men from the burning build ing was accomplished with difficulty, under the direction of Captain Hawkins, of engine No. 2. T. H. Cooper, Joe Mulholland, Fred Klose, Thomas Williams and W. L. Harkleroad, all from engine No. 2, were sent to the hospital without having re gained consciousness. 11. B. . Hatcher, of engine No. 2, and Fred Hoffman, of engine 13, were unconscious for a long time, but recovered before the ambu lances arrived. The other firemen who were overcome recovered within a short time after being carried out. Great Crowd Gathers. Ten thousand persons gathered on Ankeny and Fourth streets, held back by the lines of police. Ankeny street was literally carpeted with hose. Lad ders were thrust against the walls of the building at every second window Two heavy paper cutters weraj on the second story of the Blake-McFall com pany offices. Each weighed a ton. The smoke broke away from the wall under neath the paper cutters, and several firemen rushed In to attack the flames. "Get back, get back," shouted O. W. Mielke, manager of the Blake-McFall Company. The firemen waved him aside impatiently, but Chief Dowell called the men back when Mr. Mielke ex plained the cause of his agitation. The cause of the fire will never be known, probably. Mr. Mielke, asserted that the electric switch was thrown open every Satur day night to cut the current from the building. No one can enter the build, ing on Sundays, according to the rules of the company. New Offlcea Obtained. Before the fire had been extin guished. O. W. Mielke. manager for Blake-McFall Company, had rented office rooms and a warehouse at 11 North Fourth street and had begun to make preparations for continuing the business of the firm. Mr. Mielke said last night that the business of the company would be car ried forward today practically as though nothing had happened. In addi tion he said that the company has a large warehouse at East Twenty-fourth street and Holladay avenue, where a large amount of the stock of the con cern is located. Jitney Drivers Reap Harvest. Drivers of jitneys from the East Side harvested pocketfuls of nickels after the fire was well under way, bringing people to the scene from the Kast Side. Spectators who had come from tne East Side said that it ap peared that thousands of people in that part of the city were rushing out and boarding the passing jitneys to get to the fire. SERMON STIRS BRITONS CANON WHO URGES LOVE FOR ENEMY CALLED "JELLYFISH." Mlacuided People Ti-yinr to Start "Don't-llurt-Grrmanj" Campalsi Ridiculed by London Editor. LONDON, April 30, (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Canon Simp son, of St. Paul's Cathedral, has aroused the ire of the press by delivering what one of tlie papers calls a "jellyfish ser mon" on the text, "'Love Your Enemies," along the same lines as one recently preached by Dr. Lyttleton, headmaster of Eton. "It Is .not enough to .defend our shores," said fhe Canon, "to liberate Belgium, to succor France and to give peace to Europe. We must make an effort to love Germany as God loves us. Rarely in this imperfect world does punishment stop short of the pound of flesh, nor can one country crush an other, however righteous its cause, without inflicting what it is difficult to describe otherwise than as horrible wrongs." The Canon granted that Christian men in Great Britain might pray for victory, but they must pray for their enemies, also. In commenting on the sermon, the Daily Express speaks of the Canon as one of the "misguided but doubtless well-meaning people," who are trying to start a "don't-hurt-Germany" cam paign. There is a movement in England, however, to hold the diplomatists ac countable to the people In making the peace terms. This view is set forth by S. Roden Buxton as follows: "I do not think, honestly, that we can trust those In authority in Europe, in our own country or any other, to make a settlement. I do not believe that a small section of men, however good their intentions and many of their intentions are good can be trusted to make a settlement which will be Just, fair and permanent. We might have a settlement which would Impose terms bound to lead to another war. It is futile to have fought this war if at the end we so humiliate and crusla any nation that it resolves from that day forward to build up for a second war." , '.r MINUTES AFTER ALARM WAS BUILDINGS. People of East Galicia Well Treated by Invaders. TRADESMEN ARE THRIVING Soldier's Dinner Kettle Always at Disposal of Hungry Persons. Villages on Carpathian Slopes Show War's Ravages. LVOFF (Lemberg). Galicia, March 12 CCorrespondence of the Associated Press.) East Galicia has found Count George Bobrinsky a humane and Just Governor and, until the Austrlans re occupled Stanislaus for a brief period, a lenient one. There was scarcely any restriction of freedom of movement between East and West Galicia and be tween East Galicia and Russia. The Russian authorities then became con vinced that they had been too easy going and a score of traders were arrested under charges of purchasing provisions for the Austrian army, in the expectation of a reoccupation of this city, where the cannonading about Stanislaus was audible. In other respects the Russians play the role of friends and benefactors of the population of the occupied terrtiory. Not a single dollar has been taken from the people in the form of taxes, Imposts, loans, requisitions or general fines. The government Invites bids from contractors, large and small, will ing to supply provisions, and the of ficers and soldiers of the Russian armies pay cash at prices fixed by the shopkeepers ror everything tney re quire. The municipalities expend large sums to Bupport the needy and the Russian government itself contributes to this work. There are aid to be 10,000 families of former Austrian civil ser vants in this city and the majority are receiving public support through about SO public tea houses. The wealthier classes fled the country before the Russians. The tradesmen that re mained are doing a thriving business. The Russian armies are well pro visioned and the soldier's dinner kettle is always at the disposal of any hungry person. East Galicia shows fewer traces of military occupation than might have been expected. The principal entry is Brody. There one of the leading streets was visited by fire on the first appear ance of the Cossacks, on the ground, it is said, that a Cossack officer was killed by a woman, which scema to have been admitted. With this excep tion there is not a sign of destruction on the raifrway line to Lemberg, and this beautiful city was fortunately evacuated by the Austrians, who made their stand at Grodek, some distance westward. The .towns and villages of the Car pathian slopes have suffered, of course, as they have been fought over time and again. In West Galicia, that is, Galicia west of Przemysl, the devasta tion has been serious, though uninten tional, both Russians and Austrians rearding the country as their own. Some of the valleys have been trav ersed seven times by alternating Rus sian and Austrian armies. RUSSIA IS HUMANE Don't Say You "Can't Afford" Life Insurance for You Can't Afford to Be Without It. NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. In the Lead for Three Decades 1 HORACE "MECKLErVl. General Agent northwestern Bank Building. Furnishing Munitions to Allies, Warns Von Wagenheim, Can Only Protract War, but Result Will Not Be Changed. CONSTANTINOPLE. April 17, via The Hague and London, April 18. "You understand I am merely the rep resentative of my government and therefore am in no poeltion to answer many questions you put," said Baron Hans von Wagenheim, German Ambas sador to Turkey, in the course of an interview granted to the correspondent of the Associated Press on April 16. The questions teked the Ambassador dealt with assertions made by news papers favorable to the triple entente that Turkey was Induced to enter the war by Germany. "I am glad to see a neutral service of your standing display sufficient In terest in the behalf of truth to send a man here," continued the Baron. "Look around and eee what element of truth there Is contained in these assertions. A reply to them should more fittingly come from the Turkish government. Baron Declines Controversy. "1 am unwilling, morever, to say anything having any controversial character. In the end the truth will out. We can afford to keep on the road of veracity and directness arul it is unnecessary altogether to de scend into the gutter of allegations, falsehoods, rumors and intrigue." When the correspondent was ushered into the Ambassador's office the Baron was seated behind a large table strewn with documents, smoking a cigar leisurely. He greeted the correspond ent in English with an American ac cent. "I wish you would remember," said the Ambassador, "that I am receiving you in a private and not an official capacity and that whatever I may say is understood to have etrlctly that character and no other. You have been here sufficiently long now to know that there are no secrets regarding the political and military situation here. American Action Disappointing. Baron von Wangenhelm admitted that the furnishing of arms and am munition to the triple entente powers Dy iirms in the United States was occupying the attention of the Turkish government. He continued: "I have no official comment to make on thie matter, however. It is one that concerns the government's suffering by the American action, not the agents of these governments. My private opinion, though, may interest my many warm friends In the United States. I may say that I am disap pointed to the utmost. In my private opinion the United 8tates is Injuring its good reputation before the entire world, which Is regrettable In view of the splendid past of that country In its international relations." Later the Ambassador expressed be lief that the Americans would soon realize that the price thus paid in na tional reputation was altogether too high. Spirit of Neutrality Enjoined. "I am confident," he said, "that the Americans will return to Washington's political testament of March 1798, warning against foreign entanglements, because they must realize that only the strictest neutrality In spirit and in letter can keep the United States outside the realm of situations that would necessitate the keeping of a larger fleet and stronger army. "Furnishing arms and ammunition to the entente powers can result only In the useless protraction of this war and further unnecessary bloodshed. The ultimate result cannot be Influenced by the United States' attitude, which may retard but cannot prevent a final vic tory for Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey." ODESSA IS GAY AS EVER FORTY THOUSAND MEN SENT WAR ARE HARDLY MISSED. TO Flowers and Fruits. Unobtainable I Petron-rad, Inexpensive! Jewels Are Exhibited In Profusion. ODESSA, Russia, April 18. (Cor respondence of the Associated Press.) There is little in Odessa to remind the casual visitor of the war. The hotels are rather more empty than usual, for Odessa is the Atlantic City of Russia, and people are mostly stay ing away from the fashionable watering places. But Odessa is still gay, with the same stream of automobiles and carriages, tho same- well-filled cafes and restaurants, the same smartly dressed women at -the afternoon tea hour, the same brilliant Jewelers' and florists' shops. Odessa has sent 40,000 men to the front, but there seem to be almost as many left as before. t-ouinern iiowers. fruits and vege tables are piled in inexpensive pro fusion in the Odessa shops. In Petro grad, 1200 miles away, they would be unobtainable. The Jewelers' shops, always one of the greatest attractions of Odessa, have not changed with the war. 'I hey still display a profusion of diamonds and sapphires such as could not be seen In the windows of any other city of Europe. At night. Odessa is dark, but behind their heavy curtains the hotels and dancehalls and theaters and even the opera-house still run on as usual. The street railway system, one of the best in Europe, closes at midnight. The harbor ia dark after sunset, and constant patrol is maintained to guard against any surprise attack from the sea. Sunburn, Tan and Freckles. . Presented TylDiel.v use of NantiMpttc. InBtantly rUeTa sunburn. Ooola. aootbea and heal skiu. BOc AH rirnggWtB. Tnki it un roll'- ontluga. 15 THE WHITE MASK Three-ar-t feature drsma. with Llllie Leslie and a coterie of star A blackmailer pays an unusual penalty, while distress is brought to his victims. THE GREAT EXPERIMENT Two-act drama. A theme of original but startling conception. Action rapid and intense. A GEORGE ADE FABLE The demand that must be supplied. JOE ROBERTS BAN JO 1ST The greatest specialty feature ever shown in Portland. Hearst-Selig Weekly Fashions and Events AMATEUR NIGHT . . . 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"In Champagne, to the northwest of Perthes, the Germans were compelled to evacuate an excavation which they had been occupying close to our lines. By the explosion of mines, followed by an attack, we captured 60 meters of the enemy's trenches. "In the Woevre there was only can nonading. "In Lorraine the Germans delivered In the environs of the forest of Parroy several minor attacks with weak ef fectiveness, particularly near BurH, RHEUMATISM FORGED MISS GILBERT TO GIVE UP HER MUSICAL CAREER Member Gilbert-Murray Stu dio Conquers Ailment by Use of Akoz Mineral. On account of a prolonged attack of rheumatism, Genevieve Gilbert, who gained fame as a professional singer. was forced to give up her stage career, much to the regret pf her many friends. Since her retirement she has been' the guiding spirit in the Gilbert Murray Singing and Dancing Studio, recognized as the leading studio in the Northwest. The school is located in the National Theater building. 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