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THE MOKXiyG OREGOyiAX, MO XX) AT, NOVEMBER 8. 1915. it 26.22 MILLS LIKELY SCENES AT WOODLAND, WASH. TO BE LEVY IN CITY AS DAIRY CENTER O.VLY PORTT - FOTJR MORE WEEKS, WOODLAND IS RICH 30 S' l VAC ATI OX.' . "IT N EVE Rjli CRAB S - ! Estimate From Tentative Fig ures Indicates Increase of $3.12 on Each $1000. FEW CHANGES EXPECTED rfo Reductions Liable, but Addition to City Budget Possible; School Tax Higher In Preparation for New Bingham Law. If estimates in all' departments stay as they now are, the total 1915 tax levy in Portland would be 26.22 mills. This would be 3.12 mills higher than for 1914. Every Portland property owner would have to pay $28.22 in taxes on each $1000 of assessed valuation under such a levy. In other terms, ?3.12 on each $1000 more than for 1914. The estimates are still tentative, but there will be only slight changes. Here and there a tenth of a mill or so may be lopped off. If all these decreases total half a mill there will be surprise. On the other hand, the city tax levy, now standing at 8.92 mills, will be in creased if changed at all. Some spe cial appropriations that th Commis sioners had cut out may be restored by advice of the. budget advisory commit tee, which is understood to favor sev " era! items. This committee will report today. The state levy will be virtually the same as last year, 3.5 mills. A small decrease is possible because of the sav ing in appropriations made by the last Legislature. As this tax has been equalized for some years ahead by the State Tax Commission, any decrease -would be slight. State School Tax Fixed. The state school tax probably will be 1.45 mills, as it was last year.- This tax is practically of fixed size. Although the School Board of District No. 1 has tentatively cut its budget down to 6.5 mills, which is l.S mills higher than last year, an increase to 6.6 mills is probable. The school levy will be higher than it would be but for the passage by the last Legislature of the Bingham law. This law, effect ive next year, prohibits school districts from increasing any year's school tax ' by more than 6 per cent over that of the preceding year. The Portland School Board, held automatically to not more than a 6 per cent increase after the 1915 levy, no matter what the emergency, is,' therefore, putting the levy a little higher than absolutely necessary to Suard against being crippled hereafter. The Port of Portland Commission will not fix its tentative levy until next Thursday. John P. Ioyle, clerk of the commission, said the tentative esti mate would be about 1 mill, and not higher in any event. A 1-miil levy by the Port is a decrease of one-tenth of a mill from last year. Klectlon Precludes Redaetto.n Facing a general election next Fall, .with a primary earlier in the year, the County Commissioners expect their tax levy to total at least 2.5 mills, the fig ure for last year. The county library tax will remain fct-.45 milk County Headmaster Yeon has presented road improvement es timates calling for a road levy of 1.8 mills. Recognizing' the importance of continuing its policy of permanent road improvement, this levy, which is an increase of .2 mill, may go through as it is. If cut, it is not likely to be cut much. No accurate estimate of the sum a 26.22 mills tax levy would raise can be made at this time, as the assessed valuation is not complete. Assessments Hot Complete. v County Assessor Reed has assessed the valuation of Multnomah County, but his figures do not include the val uatlons of public utility companies. COMPARISON OF 1914 TAX LEVY WITH TENTATIVE 1915 TAX LEVY IN PORTLAND CITY LIMITS. 1915. , .i914 Tentative Amount of Estimate. - Tax in in Mills. Mills. Cash. llschooL ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: iu iU 1-i3i-2Ii . county, general. :: 25 it llllo County, road I!." 1.8 1 6 537 18? County, library 45 45 isi'oss Pfrt of Portland 1- 11 Ulits City of Portland.. 8.92 , 75 2 3nx K4? Scbool District No. 1 1 1 . . I !' .X " I "I I 6.1 5 lilsoitsl Total levy in Portland city limits 26.22 23.1 7,357,840 ..f8 amount to be raised by 1915 levy cannot be accurately esti mJ cau.s? valuation is not complete. County valuation, exclusive SLfVL'i'i o1.. assessments, which come under the jurisdiction of ;f.i? Tax Commission, has been made by Assessor Reed.but public utility assessments will not be in until about December 1 which by law are fixed by the State Tax Commission and apportioned among the counties possessing the utilities. The commission will not report before late in November. Assessor Reed's figures show a de cided drop in valuations. He assesses the county at $286,888,255, as against $297,935,555 for 1S14. In 1914. public utilities of the county were assessed on a valuation of $38,722,910. Within the city limits of Portland, Including St. Johns and Linnton, just annexed, the assessed valuation exclu sive of public service utilities accord ing to. Mr. Heed, is $271,671,025. These towns were not part of Portland in 1914. but their assessed valuation and that of Portland for that year was $261,670,495, exclusive of public service utilities, showing a falling off of $10 -000,000. T ' HOME AT GRESHAM BURNS AVilliam Dnffina Burely Has Time to Escape Flames. GRESHAM. Or.. Nov. 7. (Special.) Fire of unknown origin destroyed the residence of Jean Hamlin, of this city early today. William Dufflna. who slept In the house, barely had time to get out. Going around to the front of the house he aroused Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin, who were sleeping on the front porch, and then went up town and turned in the alarm. Practically nothing was saved. The bouse, which was worth about $500 was uninsured. Klamath Seeks New Industries. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Nov 7 --(Special.) The Klamath Commercial Club has Launched a campaign for a naif - million - monthly payroll for Klamath. The campaign for a time at least will consist of correspondence between the Club and large manu facturers of such raw products as are Available here with a view to having other businesses or branch houses es tablished at this point where, it is pointed out, abundant water power is to be found. The club is also enlarg ing its membership. I If T tr Sl-u 4 - Am n 11 MSMil 1 TOI; .J?w ov mai-v street, middle, ideal farm sear wood. LA1SD. BELOW, STREET PAVING SCENE. GENIUS IS GENIAL Visiting Film Magnate Rose From Bartender. OVATION IS TENDERED HIM World's Foremost Kxhlbitor Says Motion-Picture Industry fs Only In Infancy; Spoken and Silent Drama Not Conflicting. "When a man comes tip from the very bottom to the top of the ladder of suc cess he usually acquires an air of im portance and self-satisfaction. Not so with S. L. Rothapfel, who seven years ago was a bartender and today stands alone as the world's greatest motion picture exhibitor. Mr. Rothapfel, by sheer force of in tellect and the sweat of his brow, at tained success, and now he is as un spoiled and genial as if he were still at the foot of the climb. He arrived In Fortland yesterday morning and passed the whole day in Portland, and at night was tendered an ovation in a banquet at the Multnomah Hotel. Mr. Rothapfel made the famous Strand Theater, New York City, what it is today, and he is now building the Rialto, at Broadway and Forty-second streets. New York, which will be the world's most magnificent motion pio ture house and will cost $1,250,000. Portland was selected as one of the '.Nr : J if : I; S. L. Pothapfcl. the Fdciint Exhibitor of Motion Pictures In , Hv 1. ..... ius I r . Country iB Behalf of the Art. 4 i-t' 4 fig SSW!f3l r& ..torn- Sg&i"?:,-, V . f , l f- - - " - - fl 5. ? 1-1 1 i ? t5re&? 27 cities that the noted exhibitor was to visit on his tour of America. The tour was arranged largely through the anuria 01 t-resiaent ruler, of the Mu tual Film Corporation. He does not believe that the spoken urnma ana ine silent ever should con flict. "The film industry is in its in fancy and will reach untold perfection,' ne said. "There are few dramatic stars that have not entered the motion picture field, but of course the movies never will kill the spoken drama. It is an art and cannot Hie" The tale of his first show, after he naa urea 01 an aimless youth, during which he had accumulated lnnrin nr v perience but no worldly, goods, is that he got married. His wlf in.nir v,im to succeed, and after some months of worn, as a Dartender. he cleared out an 01a uancenall In the back of the saloon, and with an incomplete outfit of second-hand material, irave his first r.i. ture show. The chairs were borrowed. screen was a sheet, and the ma- as a-joite. nut he succeeded. Visitor Hailed as Missionary. While in Los Angeles the great film studios stopped work while Mr. Roth apfel talked to the directors and play ers. Everywhere he has been hailed as the first missionary for the ad vancement of a new art At last night's banquet he said In wi.. nc oniy part of the film in Sit- al nas not Progressed is the exhibitor, and unless he wakes up the producing companies will take to ex hibiting. "For thn nftRr vaq.. T V. . pouter. 1 nave advertised al- v.ue,y mrough the news papers. The greatest factors of ad vertisement are brevity, snan nn ,. expressed through the newsman... aV proauce tne goods and then go get them," said the speaker. In speaking of the censor board, he said: "The time has come when two or three people paid a salary by the taxpayers cannot, pass judgment on what has required thousands of dol lars to create, and Judge what evervone must see. Also, the time of the feature film is passing. We will come back to the three-reeler " r"f,nt " t banquet were: . ' u wln - James, J. B. .. ..v,v., v;. .Harrington, A. C. Malarkey, Lewis B. Christ. E. Sb.ln. wald. faol Baum, G. T. Holtzclau, Oscar . Bergner, H. L. Thompson. E. J Mv rich. C. F. Regan, O. F. Woody W A. Graeper, Abraham Nelson Eric Hall fr1S1SWtn J-Smith and J. v. vuuj, HOTEL DAMAGED BY FIRE Destruction of Building in Albany Threatened for Time. ALBANY. Or., Nov.. 7. (Special.) j-nB inotei Albany caught fire at 3 o'clock this morning and while the actual damage was slight the ipjtmn. tion of the six-story hostelry was for .'id iuicitieaea. The fire caught in some woodwork under the hearth of a fireplace in the apartments of B. R Wrsthmnv , ager of the hotel, on the second floor "l u""uing. it was discovered be fore much headway had been made, out as it ran along under the floor it was a hard fire to combat. Several holes were chopped in the floor before the flames were entlrpiw o ; -1. .7 In order to prevent damage from water . .. "uu oniy with the chem- ttius oi tne department JAIL IS USED BUT LITTLE Crnsade Against Bootleggers Klamath Bears Frnlt. at KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Nov. 7 ( 5eaV According to Sheriff Lo - ""- ..uvin, 01 me city police, business around the iail i'nm.nH. allly quiet. There are but one or two occupants now, and they will not like- . j wo uciamoa ror long. Owing to recent arrests and prose cutions, bootlegging and disposing of liquor to the Indians has been stopped here, and since Hooper, the notorious outlaw, passed through Klamath no criminals are known to have come this way. A few habitual inebriates get into the city lockup occasionally over night, but they are seldom charged with anything serious. It is thought that even this sort of thing will be come unknown after January 1, Little City on Lewis Enjoys Fine Train and Water Service to Portland. BANK DEPOSITS $111,600 Good Weekly Newspaper and Two Good Hotels Help Wonderfully in Making Vicinity One of Most Progressive In County. WOODLAWN, Wash.. Nov. 6. (Spe cial Correspondence. Woodland Is the biggest town of its size in Cowlitz County. Which means, in plain United States language, that it is a 'hum dinger" of a little place. And not so very little, considering that before tne people got busy with civic pride a cou ple of years ago and paved and side walked the place there were only about 400 people here, when there are now fully -double- that number, and more coming right along. why should it not be a good town? There is not a reason in the world, but all manner of reasons why it should go on growing and prospering. In the first place It lass In the center of a lit tle valley of as fine land as one can find in the West, said valley containing about 24 square miles, or 15,360 acres. Rut that is only a. tithe of the num ber of acres in othr contiguous val leys of practically Just as good land. And so far as Woodland is concerned. these valleys are nailed to it com mercially, that town being the only natural trade outlet. i Woodland is situated on the Lewis River, at the head of navigation. By the way, I remember writing a few days ago about the Cowlitz River and the smelt annually taken from that stream. Tbe Cowlitz flows into the Columbia about 18 .miles below here. The smelt come up the Columbia late In the fall and turn Tip the Cowlitz. This they do for six consecutive years. On the seventh year they nose around the mouth of the Cowlitz and then come on up to the Lewis and up that stream to the vicinity of Woodland. Last Fall was one of these seventh-year periods and the people hereabouts grabbed about 1000 boxes of those little fishes, and passed them on to market. Now the Woodland people must go smeltless for six long years, for dur ing the interval not a smelt will run into the waters of Lewis River. Buk President BIk Aid. One always finds some clever gentle man in a live place who is a sort of gold mine of information. Here the man-who-knows-all is L. N. Plamon don, the president of the Woodland State Bank. He not only gave me liberally of Jiis time in the way of in formation, but took me in his fine auto mobile for several miles in every direc tion about the town. And I can tell you the signs of prosperity are writ ten large on every hand. It is a dairy country which means the best of all agricultural sections. The farms show that their owners are abreast of the times in every way. I think we passed a hundred farms. If we did we passed a hundred large patches of kale. As to silos, I did count them, but was told that within a couple of years every dairyman in the vicinity would have one or more. Hogs are not as plentiful as I expected to find them, but there are ten here now where there was on five years ago. It is a wonder there are not more, for most of the dairymen sell their cream, cither to the cream ery here or ship it out by train. There is also a branch creamery-' here of the Damascus Company, of Portland. They buy whole milk and on telephonic ad vices each day make it into butter, into cheese or ship it to Portland, this be ing a sort oi' evener station for that company. One of the things Mr. Plamondon showed me with pride was the water works belonging to the city. The water is pumped from the river into a reser voir on an adjacent hill. "It is better than your celebrated Bull Run water," said Mr, Plamondon. "I will compro mise by saying it is as good as any city needs." Bank's Deposits 9111,662.41. Mr. Plamondon's bank is one of the finest institutions of this part of Wash ington. It has a capital of $25,000, surplus and profits of $1794.63 and de posits of $111,662.41. Mr. George E. Cochrane is the cashier. i There is a good weekly newspaper, the Cowlitz County Chronicle. E. H. Tarter is the owner and editor, but I think Mrs. Tarter has a lot to do with seeing that things are done just right about the establishment. The Chron icle has a good advertising patronage, enjoys a large circulation and does a big job business. One does not often see so prosperous a sheet in a city of this size. Of their school the Wood land people have high praise. There Is only one building, but that is a fine one. All grades are taught up to tn full high school branches with all the frills, such as domestic science, busi ness courses and other latter-day adjuncts. Professor Frederick Stuck ert is in charge as principal and he has an excellent corps of teachers. There are three churches here, the Presbyterian. Catholic and Christion. Regular services are held, but only one has a resident minister, the Pres byterian, which is in charge of Rev. J. T. Stewart. The Catholic and Chris tian are supplied from nearby churches. Town Has Two Hotels. The traveling public is looked after by two hotels. The Hotel Martin, run by Mrs. Minnie Martin, and the Swart Hotel, kept by J. W. Hicks. There Is a mighty good eating place run by Mrs. Jessie Lee. It is a sort of boarding house, but takes transient trade. Mrs. Lee sets a good table, as I can testify truthfully. Woodland is in close touch with .Port land through a daily steamer between the two places, which makes a round trip ever day except Sundays. As to train service, the town is on the dou ble track joint line between Portland and Seattle, over iwhich trains are run by the O.-W. R. & N., the Northern Pa cific and the Great Northern. There are 18 passenger trains each day. The Pacific Highway passes through the town, crossing the Lewis River just to the north over a splendid bridge, which was recently built at a cost of $75,000. The town has an active Commercial Club, C. J. He ft man being president and L. W. Field, secretary. When it comes to commercial houses of all sorts, with large and well-selected - stocks, it is doubtful if any place of the size in Washington is equal to Woodland. And they all seem to be doing a large and lucrative business. The merchants en joy good credit, which is only to be expected in a dairy section, where the money rolls in regularly and the land owners are making good in every way. RATE PLEASES FALLS CITY Business Men's League Adopts Reso lution Commending Railroad. FALLS CITY. Or., Nov. 7. ( Special.) -Falls City is grateful for the action vol. a. THE MONDAY CRAWFISH "It Never Crabs." Monday, Nov. 8, ISIS, somewhat, however, by saying that he could raise 'em just as gooU and he used to raise the best in the world in B. O. The Crawfish finds difficulty in associating Wallace struble with Clatsop County, he having been for so many yrs. a prom, cit. of Lewiston, Idaho, vallace tells us. however, that he is at home wherever he can find waterway to worry about. We would forsake the hard field of journalism and go back to the land and settle down, but W, E. Meachem, of Baker, and F. B. Currey and C. C. Gate, of La Grande, get our ear every time we go to the Land Show, and get us so badly mixed up over which place is the original site of the Garden of JEden that we laven't been able to decide where to go. Mra- Winnie Braden, who runs tho Polk County JBooth at the Ld. Show, told us the other day that we could watch the booth while she went o lunch, we be ing an old reel dent of Polk. She neglected to tell us, how ever, where the opener, to Cliff Push's loganberry Juice bottles was hidden, and we didn't find the Job nearly so exciting as we had expected it to be. DEAN COLLINS. Editor. EDITORIAL. " At this time, when things aem to have corda pretty near to a crisis In the Balkans, or maybe worse than a crisis. The. Crawfish feels that It is timely for it to come in with some well-timed advice to the sEllles and to the central powers. Not that The Crawfish has any advice that will be of es pecial military value to either side, but we have observed that all of the other most reputable publications in the United States are coming through with ad vice to the allies and the central powers at this time ; and The Crawfish Is nothing If not, right up to date in journalism. "We feel that something should be done, and we rest under the profound conviction' that unless we extend to the warring- powers our advice, something will b done. It will probably also be done, even if we withhold the priceless pearls of x our wisdom from both sides. That shows how critical the situation Is. In view of all this we feel that the best advice we can rive will be to advise Kins Con stan tine, of Greece, and Kins; Ferd., of Houmania. to do their Christmas shopping early and to be darned careful where they do It. for it's hard to tell Just what shop to patronize In these precarious times. Theatric Notes. Happy Jack Walker, -who used to play the Pantages circuit and who is now with Nick Pierong's . and AI Black's unparalleled ag gregation at the Ld. Show, says he is willing to try anything once, and so he sang "Onward Christian Soldiers' and marched at the head of the W. C T U parade Friday, an experience which he confesses is unique among the experiences of his long and varied career. Tom Conlon has asked us to publish a denial of the !tem we ran last wk. in which we told of putting a josh over on him about the chickens at the Ld. Show. We are always will ing to please, and take this oc casion to announce that it was Cliff Works that we intended to make the goat In that wheeze, which .still leaves it all in the Empress family. Our Monday 8ei-monette. The Rev. Corinthians I. Bett, In his sermon yesterday, said, in part, as follows: "In the beginning, God created , the heavens and the earth and later on, men created National . boundary lines to fight over." LOCAL AND PERSONAL football team Wednesdayed here for an hour, nnd wrA waii re ceived. Bob Stevens, the w. k. base ball expert and boulevardier, has returned from the Hast, we are glad to state, and his hat again Adds tone to the gatherings at Reed's. D. J. Burdick. the prom, and rising young atty. from Red mond, was in our midst the other day and announced that he expected to be detained here several days on business, P. L. Campbell, the w. k. pres. of the U. of O., which was our d. o. Alma Mater, was clown Friday night, carousing with the judges in the loganberry Juice song contest. Geo. Waggoner ar ranged to have loganberry juice furnished to the Judges, thereby assuming the responsibility for their actions. The Crawfish is pleased to an nounce that it is able to appear this morning solely through the first-aid work of Alice Durban, the popular sausage demon strator at the Manufacturers' and Land Products Show, who more than once saved us from actual starvation as we were wandering about the aisles waiting for din ner time. R. U Scree, of Prineville, Is to cur midst featuring Crook Coanty potatoes at ths Land rod. Show, which he says is a good show but not nearly so exciting as "The Days of Forty nine," which has recently played the Central Oregon Plateau. W. VT. Smead. of Heppner. who is putting Morrow County on the man at tho Mfgs. & Land Prod. Show, says the only thing he isn't used to In Portland is being introduced as the father of M. E. Smead, the debonaire asst. mgr. of the Cham, of Com. Asahel Smith disappointed us the other day by saying that he couldn't raise any better pota toes In Columbia County than he used to raise in British Colum bia. He relieved our worry THE of the Southern Pacific Railroad Com pany in granting- the small differential for the lumber mill3 of the Willamette Valley, At a meeting of the Falls City Busi ness Men's League, the following reso lution was adopted: - "We. the Falls City Business Men's League in called session assembled for the purpose of discussing differential lumber rates between Portland and California points, most emphatically commend the action of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in granting and giving this small differential in favor of the Willamette Valley lumber mills as only equitable and just, and pledge our moral and financial support to the maintenance of the same differ ential rate." FLAG USED IN CEREMONY Eugene Candidates for Citizenship Swear Before Banner. EUGENE. Or., Nov. 7. (Specials Five citizenship candidates swore al legiance to this country before a huge silk flag in an unusually striking cere mony held yesterday in the Circuit Court room. The silken Stars and Stripes had been presented by the Sons of the American Revolution for this purpose. Many witnessed the ceremony as the oath was administered by Judge G F Skipworth. The newly made Americans are Peter Wold, William Henry Evans, Adrian Johnson Kraal, Adam Sodorstrom Alouis Oberprantacker. The latter had his name changed to Brown. KLAMATH ELEVATOR BUSY Farmers Store Products and Wait s for Better Markets. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Nov. 7. (Spe cial.) One of th,e most recently estab lished enterprises of this city is the new Farmers' Warehouse Company ele vator, built this past Summer. It is situated on Sixth street, and is connected with the Southern Pacific by a spur. It has a capacity of about 50 -000 bushels of grain, and is a fireproof structure of three floors. It is equipped with a hydraulic elevator ueed in con veying the products from one floor to another. The purpose of the plant is to enable ranchers and farmers to store products they may wish to hold, for a better market. It is being largely patronized. CLUBS T0,A1D RED CROSS Eugene's Women's Organizations Unite to Sell Stamps. EUGENE, Or., Nov. 7. (Special.) Six Eugene women's club; have united to sell Red Cross stamps in Eugene this year in the hope of breaking all records for the total amount of money raised.. Until this year the sales have been conducted . by the Fortnightly Club alone. . The federated clubs are the Women's League, of the university; the Fort nightly Club, the Shakespeare Club the Monday Book Club, the Nurses' Asso ciation and the Euraathlan Club. The sales will begin at once. S?r,"i"u proPWy has Increased In val ue o.000.000 since the war on mosquitoes accord inB to D. Thomas J. Headlee, of the New Jersey experiment station. PORTLAND. PRES.. MULT. CO.. NOV. 8. 1915. Van's Cosmopolitanism Exposed. We are in receipt of a letter from a prom, railroad man, in which the whole secret of the past career of Tristan Van. Hee keren. the mathematical wizard of the Transportation Bureau of the Chamb. of Com., is divulged. Van is the most cosmopolitan cosmopolite in the city of Port., according to our informant. He- was born at sea. on a French ship whoaei captain was Belgian, off the Island of Tris tan d'Achuna, an English pos session, and his mother was a Boston Tankee and his father a Holland Dutchman. Half his life has been lived in Australia and the rest In the XI. S. A. And he plays cricket, and also baseball, although it don't sound possible. 0 And his full name is Abraham John Tristaa d'Achuna Van Hee keren. And he makes bad puns and gets away with them because he is a good fellow. Variations Pleaae Ed. Hans Honke, one of Carl Rei ter's pop, entertainers at his Or pheuru Theater, was getting ready to play an encore to the Ad Club Wednesday, . and he asked If anyone had a selection. And Ed Werleln asked for "The Stars and Stripes Forever," and he asked for It so loudly that he didn't bear someone else ask for the second Hungarian rhapsody. Ed listened attentively, how ever, to the whole rhapsody, and when Hanke got through, he confided to Carl that he had never heard just that set of variations on The Stars and Stripes" before, but ths'c he liked them just the same. They Knew. Homer Jamieson, the prom", and w. k. pedagogue, was teach ing some of the Jefferson High School young ideas how to shoot th other day by asking them what animals were associated symbolically with various w. k. old Greek gods and goddesses. The students hooked- up the peacock with Juno all right, and the owl with Minerva, etc., and then Homer asked: "What animal is always asso ciated with Mars?" And on, of the young Ideas shot right back: "Tig Reynolds' tiger" (Un paid adv. for Tige). MIT DOG IS TO HAVE HIS DAY SATURDAY. ' "r TO THE ARMORV ruts Them On Their -Feet Many a man, handicapped for years by coffee and its habit-forming drug, caffeine, has been put on his feet by POSTUM America's pure food-drink. There's a Reason! Postum is a delightful beverage, ' free from drugs or harmful ingredients of any sort, but packed full of the rich goodness of whole wheat, roasted with a bit of whole some molasses. There's no coffee trouble in Postum no headache, no heart-flutter, no sleeplessness, no biliousness, no "fag" but there is a mighty boost toward health and the joy of living. " Any man, turning from coffee with its ills to this pure food-drink, quickly finds "There's a Reason" for POSTUM sold by Grocers eyery where. NO. 27. DECADENCE LAMENTED. Iop. Financier Forebodes Orer Iegeneracy of Football In America. Ned Devereaux forebodes deep ly over the future of this popu lar and w. k. land of the free and h. of the b., according to information received through Vic. Manning, the serene deity of the downtrodden in the hdqurts. of the Associated Char ities. It was after O. A. C had cleaned Michigan that the pop. financier's forebodings came to light, in the midst of a conver sation on the modern develop ments in football, which was be ing conducted by Vic. and Doc DlKehunt and other prora. sa vants at the University Club. "Times have changed since my d. o. college days." grieved Ned. "Why, in these degenerate days a guy has to be able to read and write to be allowed to play in intercollegiate football. Think of It!" Letters From the People. To the Kditor On Kill in c worth ave., in the realm of the w. k. North Portland Commer cial Club, I recently noticed two choice signs, which I think you might appreciate in your valued paper. The first read: "Dress making did at avenue." The other announced : "A blue antllusian rooster for sale.' Sincerely yours, N. P. P. We Could Suggest Some. WANTED Violin player t work in cawmtll: state ex perience. Lock box 98, Bri dal Veil, Or. From The Oregontan want r.ds. Correct! Yon Can't! C. T. Frederick uncorked a great truth the other night at tho debate of the Tlllicum Club on "Shall the United States Adopt a Policy of Prepared ness ?" In the course of his remarks he paid: "You can't send men cut to be shot down with clubs." Father's Left; Doe Glad. Dr. Barbour is again glad. His father left a few days ago to re turn with his mother. The par ents will make a visit of a few days duration before going on to The Dalles and Portland. Pilot Rock Record. Rlltht Sort of Indication.. There are strong Indications that a cheese factory will be built at Rlckreall in the near future. Polk County Itemizer. FIFTY WEEKS AGO TO DAY. Rain was needed again. Sam Hill, of Maryhill. Wash., was here, but we didn't learn what for. Geo. Palmer Putnam, of Bend, w-ag down, muttlng around with Bill Strandbourg. Col. c. C Hammond was down from Euirene and said he believed the present war would chance the map of Europe. Miles c. Moore, of Walla Walla, was in our midst and ' told thi boys at the Arlington Club so many etories of the Rood old days that they regret led that they had become civi lized. Jim Kyle, of Stanfleld, was In and denied the rnmor that a Plink promoter had persuaded . the prom. cits, of that city to subscribe stock to put In a jackrnbbit cannery. There was a. hlg weep In c willow in the main street of Mil wank ie, and Clark Williams said that was probably the rea son it was a weeping willow. ?g