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TITE - MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY. APRIL 2G, 1915. PORTLAND ACTIVE CLEAN-UP PAGE ETAOIN SHRDLU SHRDLU ETAOINN ELABORATE PLANS FOR GLEAN-UP LAID CHAIRMAN OF, GENERAL CLEAN-UP PROPAGANDA COMMIT TEES WHO IS DIRECTING PORTLAND'S "PURGING." IN GLEAN-UP MOVE t your bread nipoe the waters "Chamber of Commerce AI , ready Planning for 'Thorough Work. Civic and Trade Bodies of State to Be Asked to En list 'in Campaign. toWOMEN ASKED TO ASSIST CHURCHES TO BE REACHED Every City in Oregon Ttequested to Join in Campaign .That Tourists Visiting Coast May Kind Beautiful State This Year. Extension Programme Is Outlined for " Co-operation tom Schools, ' Clobs and Press to "Increase Attractiveness . of Cities. 10 Cas I' - it i - V . -: f . ' ? ! i If V - CHAMRER OK COMMERCE WILL. LKAD CLKAN-IP A.D PAIST-l'P CAMPAIGN. Under the Civic Bureau of the new Chamber of Commerce, the following committee lias been appointed to lead the city and . state-wide movement for the ob servance of "Clean-up and Paint up "Week," May 4-11: George D. Lee, is chairman of the committee, his office In the Northwestern Bank building, phone Main 6636. Other mem bers of the committee from whom anyone may obtain information on the campaign are: J. . H. Dundore. .Dr. E. A. Pierce, J. H. Joyce, R, I. Carpenter, L. R. Alderman, Edgar W. Smith, H. R. Hayek and A. O. Jones. Governor Withycomba issued his Proclamation last week Betting1 the week of May 4-11 as "clean-up and paint-up week'1 in Oregon, and within a short time after the proclamation was issued the new Portland Chamber of Commerce had begun to organize for a campaign that is noped to cover the entire state as well as the local work in and about Portland. The civic bureau of the Chamber of Commerce will not be officially or ganized until this week, but the clean up movement was regarded by the con solidation committee as one of immedi ate and urgent importance, and so a special committee was appointed Fri day lo prepare for the work. This movement conies under the head of the work, of the civic bureau of the Cham ber, however, and will be the first movement for civic improvement with which the new body has identified it elf. Governor Wants Women to Aid. This special committee, under the rhairmansh ip of George D. Lee. held its first meeting Saturday and mapped out the general plan of campaign. A message was transmitted to Governor Withyiombe asking him for sugges tions and instructions -as to the han dling of the campaign, and his reply was received at the Saturday meeting as follows: "I am delighted that Portland's busi ness men are taking such an active in terest in the state-wide clean-up week. My only suggestion is that you offi cially ask every commercial body in the state to appoint similar active committees . to co-opera-te locally. I also believe that women's organiza tions deserve fullest recognition, , as they undoubtedly will be leaders in this .work. They represent our best house cleaners and state cleaners." Sub-committees are being appointed for the work in Portland, and commer cial bodies In other sections of the state affiliated with the Oregon De velopment League have been sent mes sages from the Portland Chamber of Commerce urging them to . join the movement and make it state wlde Movement to Be Oenernl. . N Each city will work out the details of its own plan of work, the aim being to bring about the greatest possible .thoroughness in the results of the work. In Portland every organization, busi ness. educational, religious, civic or "municipal is to be pressed into service if possible. Oregon is the only state on the Pa cific Coast that has not jet laid definite plans for a clean-up and palnt-up week, or already carried such a work to a suc cessful conclusion. California was llrst, perhaps in the work, inaugurating a Btate-wide plan to "dress up" for the re ception of the thousands of visitors j.hat were expected to visit the state as guests at the San Francisco .and San Diego expositions this Summer. San Francisco and Los Angeles led these campaigns, and newspapers, women's clubs, commercial bodies and municipal authorities joined heartily in the ef forts which made the movement a com plete success. Washington, to the north of us, has followed California's lead. Seattle, Spo kane, Taconia and several other cities have already conducted clean-up and paint-up weeks, in which there has been wonderful co-operation of all of the vairous elements in the communi ties. Many ToarlMtH ICxpected. s The opinion expressed in Washington tate was that, if California needs to ,"dress up" for the reception of her guests, Washington, which expects to entertain all of those guests at some time or other in the coming Summer, as they go to or return from the Panama-Pacific Exposition, should dress up for the occasion as well. A similar feeling prevails in Oregon, and this is the reason for launching the present movement, it must be carried out thoroughly and within the near fu ture, in the -opinion of the committee, for the tourists to the exposition will be in the state in increasing numbers from this time on. it is especially de sirable to have the work of the Rose Festival committee and the city beauti ful committee supported by such a movement, so that the visitors who come in June to attend the Festival may feel that they have reached the cleanest and most beautiful city on the I'uce of the earth. SANDY FIRST IN CLEANUP Everyone Helps Rake Yards and Rubbish Is Carted Away. The citizens of Sandy have forestalled the general clean-up and paint-up i ' movement by more than two weeks, for ; the campaign in that city was held last ween. x ue movement inus oegun is 10 ; be carried on in Sandy right through the year. I The work was performed as a result J of the joint action of the Council of Sandy and the Women's Club, and in the height of the campaign lust week j the city received a thorough "going ' over." Two days were consumed in the work 'and nearly all citizens took part. They : gathered rubbish in boxes and barrels and were ready for the wagons to haul it away. The Women's Club especially 'worked hard to make the day a.fluc- cess, with the result that Sandy is short ; several tons of tin cans and rubbish. It is planned that a wagon will call around ' at the homes once a month in order to '.make Sandy a clean town all the time, end do away with the need of a clean up day. Citizens favor this plan. GEORGE ORK PLANS ABE UP First of Nine Bureaus to Or ganize Tonight. MANY LIVE ISSUES ARE UP Waterway Facilities and Increased Use of Kiver Service as AVell as Alaska Marts and Other Extensions Are Discussed. Organization of the nine bureaus of the new Portland Chamber of Com merce will begin tonight with the meet ings of the traffic and transportation section and the trade and commerce section to form their bureaus and seV lect nominees for the board of di rectors. The traffic and transportation bureau will meet in the green room antl the trade and commerce bureau in the dining-room at the Commercial Club to perfect their organization. The meetings will be at 8 P. M. The ci v io bureau will organize in a T THE "CLEAN UP AND meeting tomorrow night in the dining room, and at the same time the retail merchants' bureau will meet in the green room and organize. Other bu reaus will, organize at meetings Wednesday and Thursday and the board of directors will be chosen at a general meeting Friday night. Waterway Vse Problem. Portland's plans for using the 'Colum bia and Snake Rivers upon completion of the Celilo Can,al is the first and most important commercial problem to be discussed. The chamber is requested to take up the work of perfecting a broad plan to make river traffic possi ble, to have proper carriers on ' the river, to have terminal facilities con structed, to get paved highways con structed between the river and prin cipal' producing points, .and to have operating on these the most effective land transportation facilities that may be commanded. This work, which is admitted to be a duty of greatest mag nitude and utmost immediate need be fore Portland, will go to the Trade and Commerce Bureau and from it to the community. Alaaka Trade DinruMcd. Establishment of a permanent transportation system to Alaska has also been put before the reorganiza tion committee of the' chamber, and will immediately go before the perma nent board after it is organized. In connection with the Alaska serv ice, it is reported that numerous requisitions are now corning before local dealers and manufacturers from the new Alaska Engineering Commis sion, which will build the railway for the Federal Government. The chamber has been asked to look Into the possibility of towing sailing craft through the Panama Canal, laden - - II r "' - . - - - -l oeTwfciei.. . " ' . ' ( 7 fJ OU TneUP"fwiMS "1 2 I MAyrti"uiT of" -rnat wiu. - I mKf awuowN a. tiff I S. T J . i-HOME TOWN J . JO"' "HB i F- I 1 I j IK I.Ei:, with lumber. A local company had been organized to undertake 'this work and its plans have been put before the chamber for immediate consideration. The entire range of port facilities and handling has also been put before the reorganization committee, and. will be passed to the Bureau of Trade and Commerce. ' Proper handling of an excursion of Oriental bankers in July, presenting to the visitors the trade and industrial strength of the community, and profit ing fully by the opportunity opened for closer relationship with the Orient, will be a heavy work taken up imme diately by the Trade and Commerce Bureau upon its permanent organi zation. A company that is mining domestic coal at Riverton, Coos County, has made a proposal to establish a direct steamship service between Portland and " that point, if fair offering of Bouthbound cargo is to be had. Port Orford has also invited closer trade connections, doing away with the transfer system now prevailing. This prospect is also being analyzed carefully, and will be worked out soon. TOURISTS ARE-TOJlK SOUGHT Chamber or Commerce to Issue Half Million Koldcrs to Give Away. The new Chamber of Commerce of Portland has. completed and will prob ably begin to out into effect this week i a comprehensive plan to attract t Portland during the coming season a large share of the tourist travel and to lay the foundations for an .increas ing tourVst travel by way of' Oregon each year. As a first step Jn the plan, a folder PAINT UP" TWINS. is being prepared for circulation among intending travelers from the East, in which is listed all the points of in terest in and about Portland, with con cise directions for reaching them. PORTLAND HAS THE REPUTA TION OF BEING ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITIES IN THE COUNTRY, AND TO KEEP THIS REPUTATION WE MUST BE UP AND HUSTLING DURING CLEAN - UP WEEK. DO SO.MEH THING. NO MATTER WHAT. TO MAKE A MORE BEAUTIFUL. CITY. HONK Y MAN HARDWARE COMPANY, Fourth at Alder The details of the plan of campaign worked out by the special committee from the Chamber of Commerce, for the "clean-up and paint-up week," will bring about co-operation ' of practi cally every element in the life of the city, if carried out. Sub-committees will represent the general committee in organizing the various districts of the city and spe cial additional committees will be ap pointed by the civic, commercial- and other clubs of Portland to co-operate. Each of the other Important cities of Oregon probably will organize its local campaign along much the same lines.' The publicity feature that will pre cede the "clean-up week" and which is expected to be one of the major fac tors in bringing about complete suc cess, will center around publicity nq tioes issued from the Portland Cham ber of Commerce and sentj out to the press of the state. University Asked -to Help. The department of journalism in the University of Oregon will be asked to co-operate in creating interest by sending out special bulletins to the country, weeklies and dailies on its regular news service lists. These bul letins will contain a complete expo sition of the reason for inaugurating the campaign and the methods by which it is hoped to carry it through. Through this service it is expected that a circulation of approximately 75, 000 outside of Portland, and in addition the sphere covered by the press of Portland, -will be reached. - Co-operation of the clergymen will also be sought. Throughout the state the ministers will be asked to assist in arousing enthusiasm in the move ment by addressing their congregations on the plans and purposes of tne week. "Churches throughout the state," says the committee, "have established a reputation for standing for better towns from every standpoint, and their enthusiastic support should be relied upon, if the matter is brought to the attention of the congregations." Inserts to Go to Consumers. The committee also contemplates ob taining and circulating small, inexpen sive envelope stuffers, or inserts, which may be sent out by houses which are mailing matter to consumers in various parts of the state. The committee pro poses to prepare from 30,000 to 50,000 of these inserts and to supply them at cost to such houses as will be selected and will agree to assist in this method of bringing the movement before the people. . All firms in the city will also be Asked to feature clean-up and paint-up week in their local advertising. To bring the plan home to the va rious civic clubs that hold weekly luncheon meetings, such as the Ad, Rotary, Progressive ' Business Men's clubs or Civic League, speakers will be sent to address each of these or ganizations at its luncheon thi3 week and to urge the , co-operation of its membership. ' The street railways and the adver tising . companies handling billboard services are to be requested to assist in giving the campaign publicity as well, and it is under consideration to request retail stores of the city to dis play clean-up and paint-up posters in their windows this week. The general territory of the city is to be divided into districts, according to the location of the public schools, and the principal of each school will be placed in charge of a district. Through the medium of the grade teachers, school children will hear short talks daily until the conclusion of the cam paign and will be epcouraged In every way to aid in the campaign by doing whatever offers itself to be done in the way of cleaning up the city. Principals will be asked to set aside a portion of the first day of the cam paign and ask all of the pupils to assist in a general policing! of the school grounds and a general brightening up Of the school building, their desks, etc. Grade Teachers to Report. Each grade teacher will be supplied with a postal card, to be filled out and returned to the central committee. These cards will contain the number of pupils and their average age, and the number of pupils who have pledged themselves to participate in the cam paign. A special prize contest has been de vised, to bring home more strongly to the pupils the Importance of the occa sion. All grade teachers will be asked to give the- pupils a half hour on Fri day, May 7, for letter writing and each pupil entering the contest will write a letter to the committee, telling what he or she has done or is doing in behalf of the crfean-up and paint-up move ment. The committee will select the best letter from each grade, to the eighth from the first, inclusive. Store and Artist Offer Prises. The J. K. Gill book store will give a book to the writers of these best eight letters, and Edward O'Neill, the artist, will present a hand-illumined diploma on vellum to the writer of the best of the eight winning letters. One of the chief rules of the contest a. 'A-fT REMEMBER THE DATE -MAY 4th TO MAY A BEAUTIFUL LAWN IS A JOI FOREVER. YOU CAN HAVE A FINE LAWN IF YOU MOW IT WITH A GREAT AMERICAN LAWN MOWER. ITS FINE CUT TING QUALITIES GIVE THE LAWN THAT SMOOTH. VELVETY APPEARANCE THAT PLEASES THE EYE OF THE VISITOR TO OUR CITY AND INCIDENTALLY, . ONE'S SELF. will be that the letters must describe work actually done or in course oi Be ing done. rin.it.. tha onmmittee will appeal to the women's organizations of the city. asking them to appoint special m- i.. .1 1 .... H tViA sunnort and IIIHLWO mi" w ....... " ' enthusiasm of their organizations to the movement. It is the opinion of the committee that each cluD snouia nave the liberty to work; out its own plan of action in the sphere in which it elects to co-operate in the general clean-up campaign. STATE EXHIBIT PRAISED OREGON' BlILDIN'G DKt LAllED MOST STRIKING EDIFICK AT FAIR. Portland Vlitltors Returning Express Satisfaction and Views of Oth ers Alno Are Cited. John F.. Logan, of the Oregon Com mission to the Panama-Pacific Exposi tion, who will go to San Francisco Wednesday to f evislt , the Exposition. hn horn receiving, as a member of the commission manv letters from visi tors to the Fair. . congratulating the Oregon body upon the success of the exhibit there. "The- Oregon building is admittedly the most striking edifice in this, the greatest fair of all times." writes Dr. Henrv Waldo Coe, who stopped over in San Francisco on his way north from San Diego. "I feel that every Ore gonlan should feel proud of what we have here." "I have heard a number of Eastern visitors voluntarily saying that nexl to the Canadian exhibit, the Oregon building and exhibits were the most Interesting on the grounds," says F. E. Beach. "The favorable comment that I hear cannot he!p but result In' very advantageous advertising for the state." O. M. Clark, chairman of the com mission, who is in San Francisco at this time, writes that commissioners from different states have passed many compliments on the Oregon building and declare that aside from the Canadian and Japanese exhibits, the Oregon building leads all. Mr. Clark quoies RALPH P. LAWRENCE THE MOOKR HAIJiTEIl PAINTING, PAPER HANGING, TINTING, Etc 4H04 OOth N. Fl. K4 Eleventh St. Ve MAIN 2 662 W. N. 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The manufacturer, the jobber, the retailer, the farmer can sell his product and buy yours, whether yours be goods or brains or muscles. The more you tighten up the more everyone else tightens up and the more we all suffer. Start today to do your share buy now don't wait for "the other fellow" to start first, for that's chiefly what's the matter with business today. Buy-It-No w Senator P.enson's interview in the Baltimore Sun: "The Maryland building which, as you know Is a replica of the old Car roll mansion at Homewood. is one of the show places of the Exposition. It makes us proud to know that. Some of the other states have costilier build ings, but none has one more beautiful nor distinctive. It seemed to me that only one other state building attracted so much attention, and that was a log building a very fine affair of the State of Oregon." WAR EFFECT TO BE TOPIC Louis Michel Will Address German Societies Wednesday Night. Louis Michel, who styles himself the "discoverer of naturalistic oratory," will deliver an address Wednesday night at the Swiss Hall on "The Euro pean War; Its Causes and Effect on America." The nielno- -m k . , . L - " ..... tjws unurr tne aus pices of the German societies and the proceeds will be turned over to the German Red Cross relief fund. More than iOOO nvu.t. ... . . sold before the meeting. Mr Michel, while an American cltl set, is an earnest believer in the Jew ish nationalist movement, and he pre dicts that the present war will be won by Germany and that through the suc Clean-Up Week IN THE GARDEN SPRAY YOUR ROSEBUSHES NOW Don't let the Green Aphis ruin the young rosebuds. Examine your bushes at once and also look for the Green Worm that .i , cats me leaves. We have reliable remedies for Aphis, Eating Insects and Mildew, put up in small or large packages, all ready to mix with water inexpensive and effective. Durable Sprayers, 30c to $1.50 Plant Summer Flowering Plants and Bulbs Now For Window and Porch Boxes, Flower Beds and Borders We claim to have the only large and complete assort 1 1th-AND GET BUSY EVERY HOME IS A BETTER HOME IF IT IS SUPPLIED WITH WINDOW SCREENS AND SCREEN DOORS. IF YOU LACK THESE AR TICLES, DECIDE TO PUT THEM UP CLEAN-UP WEEK. MEASURE THE SIZES OF YOUR WINDOWS AND DOOKS AND -COME IN AND MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS. IF YOU WANT FLY SCREEN IN CON NECTION WE CAN SUPPLY IT. This. Is h time of all time for the I . W. Am to make last strides. It's all get busy. cess of that nation the Jew's will be enabled to re-establish their national Identity In Palestine. HOLMES' POEMS SUBJECT Dr. William ti. i:iiot, Jr., tjuolc Vermis in Sermon. Oliver Wendell Holme whs the author discussed by Dr. William G. Kliot, Jr.. pastor of the First I'nitarian Church, last night, in his series of Sun day night sermons of American poets. Like l.oiicf ello w, Kryant and others. Holmes was a I'nitaria n, said the speaker. Jl; was a poet of persons sn.l occasions, he said, and his work was divided between his scientific and liter ary activities. Dr. Kliot read a number of selections from the poet's works that were trib utes in verse to his friends anil also his strong hope, sustained by his relig ious convictions, of life beyond the grave. Northwest Painting Co. Palatlnar, llrrantlnc and Paaer HanKlnK. All Work Guaranteed. Phone Main ll.-.HT. .-.S3 H WhlnKoa. - ment of choice and select, well-rooted, high quality Flowering Plants and Bulbs in the city. Come and see what we have to offer and leave your order now to secure the choice new varieties before stock is ex hausted. Prices very low this year. Routledge Seed & Floral Co. 169-171 Second Street Near Morrison ' - -I'?' :.. -JA - 1 vV-5 JAP-A -LAO. THE WELL-KNOWN PAINT AND VARNISH COM BINED. WORKS CINDERS WITH OLD FURNITURE, POKCIC CHAIRS, OLD FLOORS. PICTURE FRAMES. ETC. GARDEN TOOLS OF ALL KINDS. 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