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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1915)
THE HOUSTSQ OREGOXTAy. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1, 1915. VISITING CHIEFS LAY TRACTION ILLS BABE Threatened Sinister Results in Other Commercial Activi : ties Are Pointed Out. OPTIMISTIC VIEW IS TAKEN Talk Less and Io More, Advises Man Bel ittling Water-Power Conven tion Party Leaves' on "Way to Annual Convention. AH the ills with which the electric railways of the Xation are afflicted were d tag-nosed, diagrammed and di lated on before a representative group of Portland business men at the Cham ber of Commerce yesterday. And these ills, it was shown, are nu merous, varied and perplexing-. As pointed out by prominent mem bers of the American Electric Railway Association, who were guests of the city for the day, they consist princi pally of the following: Harassing leg islation that discourages capital in vestments; jitney competition; un reasonable regulation by municipal and state governments; lack of co-operation from men engaged In other lines of business and sometimes excessive demands for services. Threatened Result Are Sinister. Speaker after speaker explained that this complication of industrial disease is certain to spread contagion among the other commercial activities of the people. Some of the sinister results they say threaten to be: Not a single foot of electric railway ex tension or improvement will be made in the country except that required under exist ins contracts and franchises. Wages of employes cannot be increased In the proportions that they deserve. Service and equipment are certain to de teriorate. Earnings of investors are sure to shrink, and new capital cannot be attracted. Business units depending upon urban and suburban transportation cannot progress as it should, and community development wilt be retarded. PcsMlmiMtic View Not Taken. The traction magnates did not speak of these direful possibilities in a pessi mistic tone at all, but referred to them in a casual, matter-of-fact way, indi cating that they were convinced of their ground. Principal among the speakers were C. Loomis Allen, of Syracuse. N. Y., president of the association ; W. F. Ham, of Washington, T. C, vice-president, and C. C. Pierce, of Boston, vice I president of the General Electric Com pany. These men, being away from home, didn't have any favors to seek and didn't seem to care what prejudices they shattered. Mr. Pierce particularly was out spoken. He was announced to speak on "Sanity," of wnich he said substan tially he would like to find more here in the Northwest. "You folks indulge in too much hypercriticism," he told his Portland hearers. Talk l.rnK, Do More, Is Advice. "They tell me you have a dinner and a meeting and a gabfest here about every 1.1 minutes. "What you need is fewer talkers and more doers." Air. Pierce wears a wrist watch, but to see him you wouldn't know it, and to hear him you wouldn't even sus pect it. He is about six feet two, weighs fully 250 pounds and has a regular Jim Jeffries head, and jaw and neck. When he talks he thrusts forward his ample chin and pounds his fist vio lently upon the able. That is what he did particularly when he spoke of the efforts of the Kederal authorities to control the water-power developments here in the Northwest, and of the necessity of the Western states calling a convention to voice sentiments against it. Water Convention Belittled. "For the love of Mike." ho shouted, , did you ever hear of anything so foolish? The idea of you Western people having to stand up on your hind legs and howling for state rights. Why, the suggestion makes me tired." He was characteristically caustic in his treatment of the demagogue who tries to "bribe" the public by baiting the corporations. "A man who will steal for you will steal from you," is the way he de scribed this stripe of propagandist. In presenting what he considers the just requirements of any public serv ice corporation he summed them up about as follows: Good service, good wages and good dividends. He grew optimistic toward the close and predicted saner legislation in spired by a saner public sentiment that will permit future development on a par with that of the past. Franklin T. Griffith, president of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany, presided at the luncheon which : also served as a farewell tribute to F. W. Hild, general manager of the! same company, who will leave early next week for Denver to become gen- j eral manager of the tramway system there. Mr. Ham. manager of the electric railway system at Washington, D. C, delved into the jitney situation. He criticised the people of Portland se verely for failing1 to deal with the j.tney. The visiting railway men arrived here yesterday morning on a special train over the Great Northern, and left last night over the Southern Pa cific for San Francisco, where they will hold their annual convention next week. TRAINING CLASS TO START Kindergarten Work at St. Melon's Hall I'nder Way Monday. A kindergarten training class or teachers will be opened at St. Helen's Hall, Monday under the direction of Miss Mary P. Ledyard. of Los An Beles. The course has been arranged to include two years' work and the diplomas will be accredited by the State Board of Education, making Kraduates eligible for positions in the Oregon public schools. Miss L.edyard comes to St. Helen's Hall highly recommended. She re ceived her training in the San Fran cisco school under Kate Dougias Wig gin. After that she engaged in four years of successful practical applica tion and "then went abroad to study the Kroebel system In the various Euro pean schools. After that she was with Elizabeth Harrison, of Chicago, and with Professor Hailmann then of La Iorte, Ind. Miss Ledyard also passed some time in China studying- the kindergarten work in Foo Chow. She organized the San Jose kindergarten school and the Sacramento branch of the work. Whn Ms emoloers forred a vacation on Marlin Vredenburfth of New York, who for twenty year, had refused that privilege he jumped overboard from a pleasure steamer. SOME PROMINENT ELECTRIC RAILWAY OFFICIALS SNAPPED WHILE THEY WERE HERE YESTERDAY BY OREGONIAN PHOTOGRAPHER. lit 4tuJ - 1 - -Uscf . Vf s v. U i 0k Double Stamps and 20 Extra With Coupon Friday Winding Up Our 50th Anniversary Sale This Week Big Savings in All Departments Don't Miss Them 1 Charles I,. Henry, of Indianapolis. One of the rioneera In the Electric Traction Field. S C. C. Pierce, of Boston, ""? """" tBC 3 John J. .Stanley, of Cleveland. Who Has Bad Experience. With Municipal On nerahlp Problems. 4 E. B. Bnrrltt. Secretary and Treasurer of the Association. 5 C. l.oomU Allen, of Syracuse, President of the Association. V. K. Ham, of Washington, I). C, Who Is Studying- the Jitney BRYAN IS MYSTEflY Future Course on Public Issues Not Revealed. VISIT TO FORD RECALLED Washington Assumes That cx-Sccre- tary Will Be Influenced In De cision by Question of Personal Finance. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 30. William J. Bryan, so far as his future is concerned, has elected to be a. man of mystery. He has not hesitated to make plain his views on certain issues, but he stead fastly refuses to outline what course of action he will take to press his views before the public and before Congress. "If you want to gret acquainted with the difficulties that lie in. the way of the military preparedness propaganda," said Mr. Bryan in Washington, "just suggest the method by which the in creased revenue necessary is to be raised. If you attempt to raise it by increasing the tariff, the tariff reform ers will object. If you try to raise it on beer and whisky, the breweries and distilleries will object. If you attempt to raise it on incomes, those who pay these taxes will object." Military Increase to Be Opposed. Mr. Bryan goes so far as to admit that he will lead the fight against an increase in the Army and Navy. Whether he intends to become a lobby ist in Washington or whether he will content himself with lecturing and Is suing occasional statements, he has not made clear. As a lobbyist in support of Admin istration legislation during his term as Secretary of State, Mr. Bryan was suc cessful. Whether, as a private citizen, he can lobby as successfully, and es pecially when he must lobby against Administration measures. Is a question that time alone can solve. That Mr. Bryan can influence many democratic DO YOU DREAD THE COLD? Some people enjoy cold weather, take pleasure in Winter sports and the keen air calls the pink to their cheeks and the red to their lips. Others shrink from cold and turn blue at the least exposure to frosty air. The difference is in the blood. The rich, red blood warms the body. Every long breath of pure cold air increases the oxygen it carries to every part of the system. Thin blood is unable to take up the life-sustaining oxygen. The body lacks nourishment and the sufTerer is always ctId, takes a chill easily and is miserable all Winter. Thin blood is largely the sufferer's own fault. It results from neglect, be cause the blood can be built up. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills supply the ele ments that the blood needs to make it rich and red and to enable it to carry more oxygen. Building up the red por tion of the blood is simple but because thin blood does not call attention to itself it is often neglected. Have you seriously considered taking a course of treatment with these blood-making pills? If you are in doubt write for In formation. Your own druggist sells Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills and the Dr. Williams Medicine Co.. Schenectady, X. Y.. will send you a booklet "Building Up the Blood" free on request. votes is not questioned. Especially is this true when, or the preparedness issue, he will have the co-operation of several of the leading Democrats in Congress who already have arrayed themselves against Army and Navy increases. Klaanees WUI Govern Course. It is to be presumed that the ques tion of finance will largely determine his course of action. If he takes the lecture platform to attack the National defense issue, he will kill two birds with one stone, for he will work for his cause and at the same time draw down J250 a lecture for doing it- On the other hand, if he abandons the lec ture platform and becomes lobbyist, it will be because he is being financed and finds it possible to make as much or more by lobbying than he could by lecturing. In this connection three incidents are recalled: One day Henry Ford an nounced that he had set aside $10, 000.000 to be devoted to the cause of peace: three days later Mr. Bryan, by his own arrangement, had hastened to Detroit and had a conference with Henry Ford; two days later Mr. Bryan appeared in Washington and an nounced that he would lead the fight against the National defense legisla tive programme. In response to ques tions, he denied that Mr. Ford had "turned over to him the $10,000,000 fund," but he did not deny that Mr. Ford had promised him a big slice of that fund. CRABBING BEGINS TODAY Eight-Month Season on Grays Har bor Will Kmploy About 1 00 Men. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Sept. 30. (Spe cial.) An eight-month crab fishing season, opening on Grays Harbor to morrow morning, will give employment to approximately 100 men. About SO will be engaged in operating some 40 fishing boats, while the others will be employed in selling, buying and pack ing the shell fish for distribution and In general office work connected with the business. The average day's crab catch on Grays Harbor is 150 dozen or 1800 shell fish. The fishermen will get about 80 centj a dozen for their catches. DRUG SPECIALS 10c Boric Acid now7n for lu 10c Cream T a r t a r7 for I u 25c Licorice fpo?.w.d?ri8c 10c B p s o m Salts now 7 n for. w S5c Hose JoVV.-riTc 25c Chalk and Orris for the teeth nowJFjQ 25c"Bay" Rum for.:.V.M8c -Malm Floor r I m USE THIS COUPON 20 EXTRA SO '.- Bring this coupon lijVJ ( and get 20 extra "S. & H." Trading Stamps on your first $1 cash pur chase and double stamps on balance of pur chase. Good first three floors. Friday, October 1st. PATENT MEDICINES $1.00 Peruna on 8 a 1 e C Qn now for. .0JI J1.00 Plant Jul now. . $1.00 C a 1 d well's Syrup fo?p.".in.69c $1.00 Sloan's Llnlmentc for. :67c !68c $1 DeWltt's K 1 d ney f7P Pills. DIC 50c Lavorls on saleQCn now for.. wOU 50cWampole's FormolldJJjQ $1.00""Crlyco- iA?0.:69c Mala Floor m HOTPOINT HEATERS FOR THESE COOL MORN INGS. We have several samples of a regular $5 line. Use no more current than the electric iron. bpectally priced while fQ QC ......... VUivw Basement TO REDUCE OUR STOCK OF MEDICINAL WINES AND LIQUORS WE CUT THE PRICE $1.40 Dewirt Spe-ei 17 cial Scotch for V 1 1 1 I $1.25 Brice's Pure Malt,7Cn full quart- for Oil $1.25 Muskigum Val- I nr ley. our best brandlsU3 $3.50 Old Tom Mar- f0 07 tin Blend, the gallon viti.1 Basement RUBBER DEPARTMENT $1.60 Three-Quart Red Rubber Fountain Syringe on sale QQ. now for , 30t $1.25 Three - Quart Kot- 07 rt Water Bottle for. 0C CELLO," the Metal Hoi Water Bottle, guaranteed for five years: one-pint. S1.7S: three - pint. $2.00. an d Q fin five-pint for. OOiUU SLVMBKR SOCKS, for cold frorn. .".'.".".ISC tO 65C WIS MEXD RVBBKR OOODS. M.ln Floor J. B. L. CASCADES SOLD OX SMALL PAYMKJSTS drugs! WW Kr BRISTLE GOODS $2.50 Hair Brush, ebonv. solid back (genuine bristle), 0 I QQ now for 0 I 0 3 &0c Rubber Comb on sale QQp now for uuu $4.00 Ivory Hair Brush fi) QQ now for OiOw 35c Tooth Brush on sale I Qi now for....... I uli Mala Floor thry last.. PERFUME DEPARTMENT 25c Euthymol ToothM. Paste lrto 25c Mura7g $1.00 ounce Pink L, a d y Perfume. C fin the ounce! Ul A Powder Wltb Each Dier KJss Fa Skat 7c 50c CamHine ?onr.8.?.l.e.34c 10c for., fiOc S e m p r e r:.in.e.34c Puff Free 50c Box of ice Powder. Main Floor FLASHLIGHTS "DOJfT GROPE IN THE DARK ! " Ever-Ready Week, October 1 to 9. Take your pick from our complete line. 7C-n n pocket sizes I Jb IU Z . llmmr- mm v TOILET PAPER A SPLENDID VALrF. Large Roll of Crepe Papr on sale now at. thin. dozen 31 u Btieant " ENAMELOID " A Durable, HaMlly Appltetl Kianrl for Kitrhrna, Bat A- roorai, Ptrlei. Etc. vvhlte or ivory; $1.00 quarts special for.. Basement $12.00 only. . $14.00 now. . 7.00 now.. HANDBAGS REDUCED now reduced to $11.00 now. . $10.00 now.. 79c $21.00 now.. .$5.85 .S2.48 VANITY CASES S5.25 S4.B5 S4.95 S7.79 $10.00 now. $1.90 LEATHER BARGAINS IB STATIONERY 50c Whiting Correspond- OA, Cards now for.. iJu 50c Crushed Linear Paper on. and Envelopes for tOli 25c Bicycle Playing Cards I Qp now for I3u 50c Congress PlayingQQp Cards now for uOU $1.00 Wood-Lark Foun-QQn tain Pens for 0 01 WATERHAVS, CON KLIN'S AND WOOD - LARK. FOl .M'AI PEXS. Mala Floor "MASON'S HYGROMETER" will give the temperature any amount of moisture re quired to insure health in the house and off ice. O M Cfl Priced at. O'tiOU (Books Free) Basement - I. I K I. Y " W ARDROBR T R L' N K, steamer style. 4f- lnch; was $37.50, now I for THREB-PLY VUL C AXIZF.D FIBER TRUNK. 36- I inch. $30.00, cut to.. S24.50 : AMZF.D $19.50 ' blli UANuT SPECIAL 50c-pound mixture of Best Chocolates, Bon Bona. Nougats. Chips. Clua- OQ. ters. rolls, etc.. only... tu Basement CUTLERY DEPARTMENT $1.75 Desk Clocks on sale QQn now for 00b $2.00 Razor Strop on sale OQp now for 0 UU $2.50 Razor on sale for 0 1 I Q only 0 1 1 1 3 Silver Mirrors nowl at 2 All Shaving Mirrors ' now at. Mala Floor Off 25 off We Deliver MAZDA LAMPS and Charge fto More. See Oar Basement Electrical Department. A BOOK OF S. H. GREEN STAMPS SAVED IS SEV ERAL DOLLARS EAUAEDi AU3EE STETETAT WEST PftEK FREE 10 STAMPS with all ice cream or soda pur chases In our Tea Room or at the Soda Fountain from 2 P. M. until we close at 9. PHEASANT AGTIN EFFECT MR. FILEY THINKS LAW PERMITS EXTERMINATION OP BIRDS. AppcalM Made to Hunters Not to Take Advantage of Act. but Kill Only Male Bird TbL$t Season. "If the sportsmen stick to the strict letter of the same laws this year re garding: Chinese pheasants, and kill the female birds, I warrant that inside of three years there will have to be a closed scascn for these same birds to prevent their entire extermination." This was the statement of State Biologist V. L. Finley as he commented upon the same laws that take effect today. By the law passed at the last session of the Legislature an open season was declared on the female birds for the first time since 1908. Mr. Finley explained that the female birds have many natural enemies, and that it is difficult enough for the birds to survive the assaults of the cat, hawk and the owl, without man being permitted to destroy them. One of the theories advanced by the sportsmen for the open season or. fe males was that if the it. ales alone were shot the female birds would become too numerous and that the esgrs would lack fertility, the supposition being that the tnale pheasant is a monoga mist. But Mr. Finley declared that the male pheasant is not monogamous but polygamous, and that no harm could result even though there should occur a preponderance of the female birds. Mr. Finley said that although the law this year allowed the hunter to shoot one female out of one day's bag of five and two females from a bag of 10 during any consecutive seven days, it should be a mattetr of pride with each hunter to kill only the male pheasants to insure the state against complete compulsory protection for a term of years. "I hope you do him good," and from the way she said it he knew that he hadn't "got by." Sit 41ns; rp With a Friend. Detroit Free Press. "I ve got to sit up with a sick friend tonie-ht." he said. "Well." phe retorted. Greatest Dollar's Worth of Shoes in All America Never before have Portland people seen such a sale as this. It is the slaughtering of over 25,000 pairs of standard makes of Shoes. Absolute Sale of every pair of Shoes in this big store at the lowest prices ever known. Look over these prices: Shoes at One-Third to One-Half Regular Prices Hundreds of Pairs at Less Than the Cost of Raw Material All on Tables, So You Can Help Yourself. OPEN SATURDAY UNTIL 10 P. M. SALE OF MEN'S SHOES Over 3000 Prs. Men's Dress and Work Shoes pSivTj CI QQ yTpl $2.48 On aal. at ha fal lowing; prlceas Men's J5.00 and J6.0 Shoes at S2.9S Men's $4.00 and J4.6 Shoes at 2.48 Men's (3.00 and 3.S Shots at S1.98 Boys' Shoes Mail Orders Filled Boys" regular $1.50 Shoes, pair 9Se Boys' regular $2.50 Shoes, at 81.29 Boys' resular J3.00 Shoes at SI. 98 All sizes. ISM2-48 irr.:::-r: ib- 79c K if--. j$1.48 Children's Shoes IX STOCK Tomorrow peelal price a. follow.i Children's 85c Shoes and Pumps, B9e Children's Shoes and Pumps to 91.25 at T9 Children's Shoes and Pumps. 1.B0. 11.75. at 98t Misses' 2 and $3.50 Shoes and Pumps. fl.48 All sixes In blacks, tans. In whites and patents. cloth and kid tops. MAIL ORDERS VII.I.KIV. . 59cp 98 fit For Ladies' Finest $3.00--$3.50 Dress Shoes Thousands of jpatra of Ladles' Fine Dress Shoes on Sale. They come In patents, gun metals, dull ktd, tana and white buck, with cloth or kid tops: blacks and colors, all styles of heels, light, medium or welted soles. The best $3.00 to $3.50 values. In all sizes, A A to EE width. special, the pair at S1.9S MAIL ORDERS S-IILEJO. HIGH TOPS AO For boys' $3.50 and $3.00 Higl with buckles. O Q Q For men's $4.00 and $4.50 High Pwa7 O blacks and tans, all sizes, 12 to tops. gO QQ For men's $5.00 and $6.00 waterproof VU'wO High Tops; blacks and tans, all sizes, 12 x 14-inch tops. $2 50 men'8 '350 Rubt)er Boots. MAIL ORDERS FILLED. GREENFIELD'S (fORNER 4TH AND ALDER STS. Send Your Mail Orders Here. liiii h Tods. Ir-sls -sifMI Tops. IIV 4-inch. Costs less to use this better paint The expense of painting is about two-thirds labor and one-third paint. And it costs no more to use "High Standard" Liquid Paint than ordinary paint. In fact, the cost is less. High Standard LIQUID -PAINT works easier, spreads farther and lasts much longer than the cheaper paints. Figure the cost before you paint. You will get the best protec tion and greatest beauty if you use I -owe Brothers "High Standard. It is the paint that years of exposure tests hTo proved best, ' FOR sale: bt Rasmussen & Co. 3V. EX Cor. Second and Taylor 5 tar... Portland, Or. And Principal Paint and Hardware Dealers In Every City. YOU CAN EASILY DARKEN GRAY HA R By a Harmless Recipe No Dye or Sticky Mess. Tou can easily change your straggly gray, prematurely gray, streaked, faded or wispy hair to an even, beau tiful original dark shade by shampooing hair and scalp a few times with Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer. Nothing- else re quired. Q-Ban Is a ready-to-use -liquid, harmless to the most delicate hair or scalp. It is not a dye. but acts on the roots, making hair and scalp healthy, so all your gray hair and entire head of hair naturally changes to a beauti ful dark shade, so evenly that no one can tell you have applied Q-Ban. This treatment also stops Itching scalp, dandruff and falling hair, making scalp clean and feel fine. Q-Ban guaranteed to turn all your gray hair dark, mak ing entire head of hair evenly dark, soft, lustrous, fluffy, thick and hand some. Money-back guarantee. Big 7-oz. bottle only 50 cents. At Huntley's Drug Store. Fourth and Washington streets. Portland. Or. Out-of-town folks supplied fcy mail. ('