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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1916)
18 TIIE UronXItfG OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 31, 1916. BIRTH CONTROL IS PRIEST CRIME SAYS TWO OF THE "BELLES OF LONG AGO" AT VETERANS PARTY SATURDAY NIGHT. Nation Practicing It Doomed to Extinction, Declares Rev. Father Black. MEN VOTARIES EXECRATED Charge Made That Advocates Place Themselves Above God and Con tent Preordained Laws to Their Own Knin and Damnation. Rev. Father Black, pastor of St. Francis Catholic Church, declared in sermon before his congregation y ester day birth control to be "a hellish prac tioe, contrary to the natural laws gov erning humanity, contrary to 'the posi tive divine law. whose advocates are either dreadfully wicked or mere simps; a crime that cries out to heaven for vengeance louder than did the blood of Abel against his brother Cain. His explanation for preaching such a sermon was that it was demanded by the widespread practice of birth con tro! and the fact that even people o his faith had followed it in individual instances. "TtiB family is the unit upon which the state depends for its life." asserted Father Black, "and the commission of any act that tends to disintegrate the family unit is punishable oy extinction. Therefore It is certain that me prac tice of birth control will bring the Na tion that practices it to extinction and damnation. Family Organization Defined. "The father is the visible representa tive of God. He is the head of the family toward whom the eyes of his own are- directed, whose wm iney obey. He is the supporter of the family, like God. giving tnem 'meat in due sea son." His place is aivinely ordered ana decreed. "The mother is the representative of divine Providence in her family circle. liar -are extends to all things. Her work is performed within the sanctuary of the home without noise, one per forms every Christian duty. Such is the position of the truly Christian woman; not the one whose maneuvers are recorded on the daily society pages of the press, nor whose picture appears in the Sunday papers. 'Such is the exalted position of men and woman in the bonds of holy matri mony. And such it should be always. So important is this divinely consti tuted unit that the well-being of all nations depends on the sacred rever . ence of the family ties. "But. in the face of these divinely revealed facts, what are wo to think of actual conditions today? Not loni! ago I spoke of the horrible subject now so rampant birth control. Men Snare In Kxecratlon. "I have been quoted as putting all the blame for this practice on the woman. 1 want to disabuse your minds of that. You all know what I have said of the women who promote birth control, but now I want to emphasize those words and multiply their inten sity if it be possible, in application, to such monsters passing as husbands and under the form of men who practice birth control. "It is simply unspeakable when we consider how far this birth control blight of perdition is infecting and de stroying. And the advocates of this hellish monster have the effrontery to flaunt their infamy in the face of the public as though it were a virtue. "Quality, and not quantity, seems to be the slogan. How can a tree that is rotten to the core produce fruit of quality? "It is a fact that any force that acts contrary to any natural law must be lost. It Is therefore plain and a scien tiflc fact that any nation that opposes the natural laws that are supposed to govern It must suffer extinction. Since the nation is founded upon the family the family must remain a clean and solid unit. "What has become of men when they seem to fight God and nature by putting themselves above God and con testing his preordained laws? Why do men of intelligence and reason Invite suicide by a sanctioning of such an In famous practice?" ' ;W lillllllllll ir f ! III I : r il ! Ktlw mil v "sp J II I III I mi - : k& III ill iiWiT - M V'. llll lllfi vwc - All J j . f 11 III r-x I if , - , - , a Hra. HOWARD SUIT FENDS Rumor of Dismissal Denied by Mrs. Witherspoon. ONE OF HIS FIBS, SHE SAYS ELLES 0Fr61 DANCE H. H. J'lerce, on Left, in a (.own Made From a Piece of Silk "Which Has Sent IIer From Richmond Dur ing the 'GO. Mrs. W. C. Macangbt, RlKht. Wearing a Gown In Which she Appeared on the Stage in 1SS5. s SHOW SEEN Gorgeous Clothes Paraded at Orpheum Theater. SIN AND SHIN" EXPOSED at REFUGE IS TO BENEFIT FLOREXCK CRITTEVTOX HOW THKATEK PARTY IS TO.MOHT. nwrlpts From "It Pay to Advertise" Will Ge to Augment Treasury of Institution for Women. Florence Crittenton Refuge Home will be the beneficiary of the big-theater party at the Heilig tonight, when "It Pays to Advertise" will bo pre sented. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union founded a little school and ex change about 25 years ago. on a small scale at Second and Columbia streets. Later the Institution enlarged its scope and became an Industrial home. Prop erty was obtained later at East Thirty- first and Glisan streets, and the refuge home was started. It was known as the Portland Refuge Home for Women. It was incorporated in 1S97. Charles E. Crittenton, an Eastern philanthropist, visited Portland soon afterward and volunteered to make it one of a chain of institutions that he had financed wholly or in part. There are 65 of these homes in the United states, all founded in honor of the memory of Mr. Crittenton's little daughter, who died at the age of 4 years. A small amount of state aid is received, and the benefit tonight was planned to augment the treasury. The home Is run at small cost, there eing only two paid employes, a super intendent and a nurse. The girls do all the housework. It costs buff 9 or $10 per capita to feed the 40 inmates. Value of Eemluiiie Frills and Fur belows on Stage Estimated $100,000, From Modest to Extravagant Garb. Chamber of Commerce building, was awarded the verdict in the competition just concluded for the best design for the new Baker $100,000 high school building. Mr. Lawrence, who is the dean of the school of architecture at the University of Oregon, will leave at once for Baker. The announcement of the jury that decided the merits of the competitive drawings was made known yesterday. Drawings were sent anonymously by various architects and many designs were submitted. This is the first com petition under the rules of the Ameri can Institute of Architecture ever held in this state. Grand Army Veterans Enter tained by Relief Corps. SEARCH MADE FOR BODIES C. W. FULTON WILL SPEAK Rotary Club Luncheon Will Be Held at Noon Tomorrow. Ex-Senator Charles W. Fulton will be speaker at the Rotary Club luncheon at the Benson Hotel tomorrow at noon, and C. E. Cochran, vice-president of the club, will be chairman of the day. The programme will be in celebra tion of Washington's birthday. . Advertising talks will be given by Dwight Edwards, J. C. Moore, G. S. Cos tello and W. J. Mitchell. The new roster for the Rotary Club Is being prepared and Assisting Secre tary Whiting is collecting the photos and other material from the members for completing the copy for the print ers. The roster will be out in a little more than a month. 1 BT LEONE CASS BAER. Someone once said "we would be un happy if we knew everything that is going on or coming off." Possibly the reference was not to clothes. But the application holds good. At least it held good yesterday at the May Tully Clothes Revue at the Orpheum. If all the women in the au dience had known all that was going on these models, and all that was coming off, there would have been wailing and gnashing of teeth. But, we didn t know until it was all over, and then all we could do was go home and do mental gymnastics to see if our last year's blue charmeuse could possibly be made over into a Lucile gown of pink brocade with one shoulder strap and futurisne skirt. Truly the clothing and unclothing of this big fashion show act will worry tire lives out of a lot of placid wives with disappearing chins and faith in their husbands. Sins and Shins Shown. The fashion show, like charity, un covers a multitude of sins also shins and backs. Sixteen maids, one right after the other, step out of a huge frame and into our emotions. Apparently there's dresses and things that go with 'em for every minute of the day. "Mi-lady" is decked for motoring, boating, ski ing, dancing, dining, sleeping, driving. canoeing, aviating, skating, mountain climbing and every function but a shower-bath. Even Mother. Eve, look ing remarkably youthful is shown in figleaf model. One girl, Mabel Hamilton, and Ben Bard as a Beau Brummel, aid in giving the display a sort of story. The list of exhibitions of dinner gowns, theater wraps and dancing frocks sounds like directory of Fifth avenue. Every color and its relations is shown, fur: that .must have left Alaska almost de nuded, hand-embroideries, lovely laces, the fruits of silkworm and man to the um of $100,000 are shown in such lux urious abandon that one no longer wonders that men swear about women's wear. Other Acts on BUI. Half a dozen other acts are on the bill. There's Chuck Riesner. a capable, clever comedian with an irrepressible fund of humor. He Is assisted by nifty little maid named Henrietta Gores. Gores is a good name to be on a fashion show bill. They're wearing 'em again. This little Gore sings and dances and feeds partner "Chuch who "wrote the act" and puts it over well. There s an interesting sketch too. It is melodramatic in -tone with Arthur Sullivan and Merce'des Clark in the principal roles, the man as a re formed crook who is going to try the old game, now that starvation faces wife and baby. But he goes "straight' that's the name of the sketch and it has a real thrill in its climax and is well acted. A cute girl, Irish and saucy, is Lillian Fitzgerald, who . sings and comedies with Henry I. Marshall at the piano. Henry wrote the songs In the act. The Herbert Germaine trio of gym nasts stage a sensational feature in a loop-the-loop event, and Master Frankie Murphy opens the bill in long-drawn-out songs. He is billed as the boy tenor from California which is per haps fortunate for California. Xnal Militiamen I) rax River for II. Ganimie and C. Kirkpatrick. Two boats' crews from the Oregon Naval Militia, comprising 16 men, in charge of Lieutenant Beckwith, made an unsuccessful search yesterday for the bodies of Harry Gammie and Charles Kirkpatrick, the two young men who were drowned in the Wiiiamette River near Rock Island February 13. The cutter attached to the United States cruiser Boston, the training ship of the Naval Militia, was manned by members of the militia recruited from the Washington High School, and a whaleboat contained other men from the Naval Militia. Paymaster Dow and R. I. Heller, pay clerk, were members of the party. GARB OF YOUTH IS WORN Girls 70 Years of Age, or There abouts, Exercise Leap Year Pre rogative in Choosing Timid Boys Who Defied Cannon. Attorneys Uncertain How to Pro ceed, as C. M. Idleman Does Not Know if He Is Retained in Breach-of-Promise Case. "One of Joe Howard's famous fibs!' This was how Mrs. Edah Wither spoon summed -up the rumor that her $50,000 breach of promise suit against the popular Orpheum headliner, son writer and musical comedy favorite had been dismissed. "Of course it hasn't been dismissed. I was not vindictive and so I let him have time in which to answer, but 1 certainly did not authorize anyone to say the case is dismissed," declared the pretty little widow, who claims that J.oe wooed her last Spring and then re fused to wed. W. A. Burke, Mrs. Witherspoon's at torney, echoed her statement that the announcement alleged to have been made by Mr. Howard "is a falsehood. "There is nothing to it," he declared. As yet no answer to the suit has been filed. Mr. Burke, said, but he thought that in all probability there would be one this week. C. M. Idleman. who was asked t.o act as attorney for Howard, says he doesn't feel sure that he Is his attorney. "Early last week I received a tele gram from Mr. Howard stating that he had forwarded court costs," explained Mr. Idleman, adding, "but, as I have never heard a word from him since, i don't know whether or not I am to be considered his attorney. It would ap pear he treats us and our courts rather lightly." Mr. Idleman also stated that the breach of promise case had not been dismissed. The plaintiff didn't do it and the oppositiom. hadn t put in an appearance, but to give Howard a chance Mr. Idleman had asked Mr. Burke for an extension of time, and this had been granted. Mrs. Witherspoon filed her suit against the Orpheum star February 4. He left immediately for San Francisco to fulfill his engagement on the cir cuit. Mrs. Witherspoon declared that Howard had been introduced to her by her father, in the Hotel Multnomah, and had subsequently made love to her and proposed marriage. Howard's statement was to the effect that he had said he would marry the widow, but he was only joking at the time. Mrs. Witherspoon lives at 7432 Fifty sixth avenue. Southeast, with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Reiman, and her 16-year-old son. She declares that to the best of her knowledge and be lief Howard was not married to Mabel McCane when he asked her to be his wifo and settle down to an Ideal home life. CHURCHES 0BSERVE DA Washington Is Inspiration for Pulpit Topics in City. Washington day w-as celebrated in number of the churches and Sunda schools of the city yesterday. In the First Congregational Church Dr. Luther R. Dyott preached an inspiring morning sermon on "The World s Greatest Prog ress." At night there was a community sing with patriotic songs predommat Ing in the programme. In the First Christian Church the stars and stripes adorned the audito rium and the Sunday school had an elaborate patriotic programme. About 330 were present, Spanish-American War veterans were guests of the church. Dr. J. H. Boyd, of the First Presby terian Church, preached an appropriate Washington day sermon. Vincent Grange Has Spelling Bee. VINCENT. Or., Feb. 20. (Special.) The Vincent Grange held a spelling match Friday evening in which much enthusiasm was shown. Mrs. R. Bean was the champion speller. The grange decided to hold more spelling matches n the future. PORTLAND ARCHITECTS WIN Lawrence & Holford Design for Ba ker High School Approved. A firm of Portland architects, Law rence & Holford, with, omcea. In the SOCIAL SERVICE KXHIBITIOJT WILL BE HELD. , tv. -t " $ G. B. St. John. A social service exhibition, in dorsed by the Portland Minis- t torinl Aecni9t1nn will nnan TTaH T ruary 28 in the White Temple. The exhibit, which was installed In the Panama-Pacific Exposi tion and attracted the attention of all educators and social serv ice workers,- is under the direc tion of G. B. St. John. Dr. Allen White, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, will direct a Palestine pageant. The costumes were obtained from the Orient by Dr. Moore, and the staging will be authentic. In connection with the pageant and the exhibition, there, will be motion pictures of world-wide interest, and Miss Mollie Best will tell stories and anecdotes gathered in .her travels. It was a scene in which gayety and joy prevailed and the hearts of the veterans and their wives beat once more to the. old tune when Sumner Relief Corps entertained the members of the Grand Army of the Republic at Belles of Long Ago" party at their headquarters in the Courthouse Satur day night. The women were garbed in the gowns of '61 or before and with the hair dressed in- the old-time style with the little curl behind the ear and the powder and "friz. It was just such costumes as thev used to don when they bewitched the I Edward W. Pastaw. of Russian and nearts or their boy iriends of long ago. Swiss parentage, an ex-employe of th il causea the pulses or the veterans O.-W. R. & N. Company at Astorl to quicken as they harked back in I who mysteriously disappeared several memory to me time wnen tney used to months ago. has been heard from swing on the front gate with their I news from Marseilles. France, sayin best" girl and pay court in the moat hn has done heroic work as a Lieuten approved style or the time. ant in the Russian army, The veterans acted speedily on the The word of Lieutenant Pastaw was OREGON RUSSIAN HERO EDWARD W. PASTAW, FORMERLY OF ASTORIA, IX CZAR'S ARMY Ex-Employe of O.-W. R. N. Company, Now Lieutenant, Wounded While Blowing Ip Foe's Bridge. Ttie ftuALfrV Stone or Portland I Z Asparagus Tips 20c Griffon s Finest 25c Quality Packed in No. 1 square cans. For salads and soups. Dozen, $2.25. Magic Flour, very highest grade of patent C"1 ACt flour, the sack. . ,P1" Eastern Bacon, thoroughly cured, 6 to 8-lb. 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Best 'Brooms, "Little Beau ty," five rows sew- A(f ing, only cxJ, Naptha Soap, Victor OCtf brand, 6 bars for iJL Telephone orders taken by experienced sales people after 8 A. M. Marshall 4600, A 6101. Ninth Floor, Fifth Street. IS CONTRACTOR SAYS BIDS FOR AUDI TORIUM WERK IV GOOD FAITH. H. M. Iloyajohn Ignorant of Mr. I'e deraon'M Plans, Though Apparent lOrror In Bid la Muted. inspiration. To the tune of lively music they whirled the women in the mazes of the old-time quadrille and cotillion. However, Leap Year rules also pre vailed and when a veteran was found who, though willing to face the cannon was nevertheless unnerved by the powder on the women's hair, he was soon brougnt into the whirling, swirl Ing happy group by some belle of '70 or thereabouts. The party was enlivened by old-time songs, sung by some of the members of the corps. About 300 members of the corps and Grand Army men were present at the gathering and a large majority took part in the dancing and jollification. Sumner Post held its regular meeting baturday night and following the ses sion marched in a body to the party, sent to The Oregoman by a forme visitor to this city. A. Cumberbatch now serving in the Twenty-fourth Russian Army Corps. Mr. Cumberbatch tells of finding Lieutenant Pastaw quite by chance one of the field hospitals on the Rou manian border and thus relates the heroism of Pastaw: 'Lieutenant Pastaw was in the Engi neer Corps and was sent one day to mine a certain bridge. Before he was able to complete the task he was sur prised by a detachment of the enemy soldiers. He blew up the bridge, se verely injuring himself, but stoppin the advance of the enemy, 'He has been in the field hospital for more than thiee months and will be there many weeks longer, but he has made himself a hero. SI DAY ENJOYED WRITERS TO BE GUESTS ALL PORTLAND TURNS OUT TO BASK IN MELLOW SUNSHINE. Parks Crowded With Humanity and Every motor Oirner Takes Spin. Repetition Promised Today. Portland enjoyed a balmy. Summer like Sunday yesterday. And what's more, today is going to be equally salubrious, if the reading of th weather observer is correct. He said early last night in his forecast that the day would be fair with a fluctuat- ng barometer to give a threat of pos sible precipitation. The maximum temperature yester day was 50, the minimum 40, making the mean 45. This latter is just one degree warmer than it was the same day last year. Yesterday had the ad vantage of a rich, glowing, radiant sun to mellow and make appealing the otherwise crisp atmosphere. -That the Portlander appreciated the day's gift was made evident by the throngs that walked along or rode through the streets during the day. It seemed like Summer and the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company made it seem more realistic because, anticipating the heavy traf fic, it put on its Summer schedule of extra service, particularly on the Portland Heights and Rose City lines. The cars on these lines were crowded uring the afternoon especially. Traf fic generally over all other lines was heavy. All of the boulevards in and about Portland, including the Columbia hway, had their quotas. Thou sands had their "first real outing of the season, and many had their cars out for the first time this year. More over, all of the "rubber-neck" cars that ply in and ajiout Portland did their share of business, to say nothing f the ' garages with rental cars, Ijaurelhurst Club to Entertain News papermen Tomorrow Evening. News writers and editors of all the daily papers of Portland will be the guests of the Laurelhurst Club at an informal dance in the Laurelhurst clubhouse, Kast Ankeny and Thirty ninth streets, tomorrow evening. Ac cording to present indications, the in vitation will be generally accepted. Inasmuch as the entertainment comes on Washington's birthday, the activities will take on a patriotic hue, The Laurelhurst people are making extensive preparations. Lancing and various other forms of entertainment are on the programme, ana retresn ments will be provided. Orenco Hears High School Lecture ORENCO, Or., Feb. 20. (Special.) Wallace H. Lee, president of Albany College, gave a lecture on The Social Message of the High School" before the pupils and parents of the Orenco school Friday evening. The benefits of the high school in forming higher ideals of hygiene, morals, use of library and civics were set forth. WHAT IS AUTO INTOXICATION? The best and clearest definition is "Self- Intoxication, or poisoning by compounds pro duced internally by oneself. ' Physicians agree that 95 of all illness is due to this cause, brou&rht on bv accumu- lated waste in the Lower Intestine. The one sure, natural and safe way to keep the Intestine clean and free from this waste is by an occasional Internal Bath with simple warm water given by the "J.B.L. Cascade." You will be astonished at your feelings the mornintr after tal inz an Internal Bath by means of the 'J.B.L. Cascade."- You will feel bright, brisk, confident and as though everything is "working right" and Nor was the day pleasurable only to (' 11 H. sr. Boyajohn, general manager of the Boyajohn-Arnold Construction Company, to which concern would fall the contract for constructing the Port land Auditorium, in all likelihood, if Hans Pederson, lowest bidder, should withdraw, resents inference drawn from the situation at the City Hall that the Boyajohn-Arnold -Company and Pederson are in any agreement of any kind. "The report at the City Hall as to an understanding ot some Kina De- tween Hans Pederson and the Boyajohn-Arnold Company is not based on Tact, and is entirely untrue." said Mr. Boyajohn. "We were absolutely sin cere in our bid as made, and we be lieve Hans Pederson's representative was. AVe knew nothing of Pederson's bid, and were as surprised as anyone when we learned he was so far below the other bids. Tile inference that Pederson and our company miht have had an understanding, owing to hav ing done other work together, is based on the Columbia River Highway con tract. In that we openly announced the agreement. There is an opinion general among the contractors that Pederson will withdraw, but Mr. Boyajohn says he has no knowledge of any such inten tion. The Pederson bid contained a "mistake," in the opinion of contract ors' interested, and it was the revela tion of this error as the bids were read that caused Mr. Pederson's repre sentative here, E. B. Newcomb, to faint three times when he heard tliu n-sult. It was supposed ho fainted with Joy at having been the lowest bidder. MUSICAL PLEA TO BE MADE Dr. Alma Wcbstrr Powell to Speak at lle'tl t'ollcuv. Iir. Alma Webster Powell, prima donna, scholar, lecturer and president of the New York Welfure League, will deliver a public lecture-musirHle In the Reed College chapel at S o'clock I" night. Dr. Powell has temporarily nl;tn doned her career as a great prim-i donna in order that she. may do vol her time to the work of urging tlm people to ask the Government fur pub licly supported schools f; musical in struction. She is touring the country at her own expense, and delivering her pleas especially at colleges and universities. JANITOR DIVES INTO GLASS Ludtlcr Slips, Fine Itrokeii and AA'. A. Show AYindow Jonra Hurt. The ladder slipped. Inasmuch as it slipped during tho process of washing a large plate glass, V. A. Jones, janitor for Krebs-Logus, 110 Tenth street, at whose plme tlm accident occurred Saturday niKht, was "laid out" for a couple of hours, and a plate glass window 15 by 1!0 feet was shattered. The window Is one of 11. o larKest plate glass windows In the Pit tuck block, and few In town aro laruer. Jones was precipitated hend tirnt through the glass when his ladder 's lipped. Better Optical S ervice - 1 , - - The Wonderful Ophthalmoscope. AVIth Thin Instrument We Can Read Your Kyei Like a Book. CJ It is in the doing of things that we learn how to do them. the grown-ups. Children ranging from the babe in carriage to tender youth, including "Young America, were in evidence, particularly at the parks, the plaza and, in fact, wherever there was unshme and life and interest. The zoo at the City Park got an unusually large throng of the old as well as litUe foik. Half a million Americans are now using this method with resulting better health and greater vigor. This method will be explained to you by the Woodard Clark Co-'s Drug Stores in Portland, who will also give you a most interesting book, free, on the subject by an eminent specialist. Ask or send for this booklet, called "Why Man of To-day Is Only 50 Efficient," while it is on your mlno. J Genius consists in doing things better than others do . them. C Competent advice must rest on adequate experience. J We won't experiment on you, and you won't be ex perimenting when you buy your first glasses here. J The little details others overlook receive our most considerate attention a reason why our glasses are above the average in quality at the same prices others ask for inferior glasses. THOMPSON OPTICAL INSTITUTE 209-10-11 Corbett Bldg., Fifth and Morrison Manufacturers of the Genuine Kryptok Lenses (
