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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1916)
16 TIIE MORNING OREGONIAT. MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1016, SOCIALISTS MAKE UP STATE TICKET Platform Plank Is Devoted to Farmers First Time in State of Oregon. 30 DEMANDS ARE MADE Convention to Finn Into Third Day. Today Will Be Given Over to . Resolutions -and Planning Petition Circulation. Here is the Socialist party state ticket for the general election next Kail, as selected yesterday by dele gates to the State Convention of the Socialist party in Oregon, meeting in Arion Hall, Portland: Secretary of State E. L. Cannon, of Salem. r Supreme Court Justices, two to elect f. E. Hosmer, of Silverton; C. J. An derson, of Portland. Dairy an I Food Commissioner D. AIcKinnon, of Eugene. Presidential Electors, five to elect 5Iax Burgholzer, of Eugene; If1. C. liamp, of Roseburg; William. Tipton, of Hillsboro; C. F. Johnson and August Kikula, of Astoria. Xo nominations were made for Rep resentative in Congress from each of the three Congressional districts of the state, nor for Public Service Com missioners from the Eastern Oregon and Western Oregon districts. Nomi nations for these offices, however, may be made today. Yesterday was the second day of the convention, which will meet again to day to finish its work. Though scheduled for only two days, there turned out to be too much work to liandle in that time. Farinen Are Recounted. Aside from the nominations, princi pal interest in yesterday's session cen tered about the platform, which was adopted at the night sitting. For the firsftime the Socialist party in Oregon included a farmer's programme in its platform. Thirty specific demands, classified as industrial, political and Socialist party demands, and an agricultural workers' programme, are made in this platform. Among the planks is one demanding that means of transportation and stor age, and industries where farm prod ucts and machinery are manufactured, shall be socially owned. It is also de clared that the holding of land not put to use, and the institution of tenantry, should not be permitted, and that ac tual use ajid occupancy of land should constitute the only title. Another plank, demands the reten tion by National, state or local govern ing bodies of all land owned by them, and the steady acquisition of more land by taxation or otherwise, and that all this socially owned land be organ ized as soon as possible into socially operative farms for the conduct of col lective agricultural enterprises. These farms, in turn, under the Socialist party programme, would be made experiment stations for production of better seeds, better farm products, improved breeds of animals and agricultural education generally. State Insurance Wanted. The platform also declares for state. Insurance against pestilence, diseases of animals and plants, and natural ca tastrophes, for farmers whose property is worth j?000 or less. "Preparedness, so-called, is but the arming of the oppressor against the oppressed," reads another plank con demning preparedness and its advo cates. The reasons for the prepared ness agitation are declared to lie prin cipally in the fact that capitalists of America have embarked into a period of world-wide commercial expansion, and wish a navy to give them commer cial supremacy and an army to enable them to exploit the laboring class. That the Federal Government had made little effort toward aiding the unemployed and has done nothing to aid the farmer and wage-earner is the gist of still another platform plank. The chief business of today's session will be adoption of resolutions and or ganization of a campaign for circulat ing petitions in the Second and Third Congressional districts to obtain the names of five per cent of the electors. Owing to the failure of the Socialist party to cast five per cent of the vote for Representative in Congress at the 1914 election, such a petition is neces sary under the law to enable the party to go on the ballot at the coming gen eral election. Anti-War Resolution Likely. In the First district, the required number of votes was cast, so no peti tions are necessary. An anti-war resolution undoubtedly will be adopted today. Another reso lution declaring the Socialist party to be against annexation of Mexico, and that the pursuit of ViUa should end with his capture and ttiat of his ban dits, will probably be brought in. A committee was appointed to or ganize Socialistic Sunday schools throughout the state to instruct boys nnd girls under 15 years of age in the doctrines of the organization. The full committees are: . Constitution W. S. Richards, Al bany; J. H. Ferguson, Roseburg; B. E. Morehouse, La Grande; William Reivo, Astoria; W. Saulit, Portland. Platform Victor J. McCone. state secretary, Portland: Albert Streif, Portland; O. Leech, Portland: August Wesley, Portland; August Nikuia, As toria. Resolutions Max Burgholzer, Eu gene: F. J. Felcher, Myrtle Point: Aug ust Nikuia, Astoria; J. E. Blazer, Sil verton. Ways and means IT. J. Bishop, Port land: William Tipton, Hillsboro: Thomas Drift, Astoria; Mrs. Farney, Portland, and A. F. Medo, Portland. Campaign To consist of state exec utive committee consisting of J. K. Boyd of Dilly. August Nikuia of Asto ria, F. C. Ramp of Roseburg. Kenneth Thompson of Klamath Falls and Dr. Pauline Sears of Vale. Sunday School and Young People's Socialist League committee Victor J. McCone of Portland. L. G. Boyd of Portland, Mrs. F. M. Ogden of Portland W. C. Aylsworth of Portland and Dr. Pauline Sears of Vale. TRACKMAN LOSES 2 TOES Jolin Estcp Brought to Good Samar itan Hospital From Scappoose. With his left foot crushed, John Estep. a Southern Pacific trackman, was taken to the Good Samaritan Hos pital yesterday morning, where the am putation of two toes was performed. Entep received his injury at 7 A. M., while working at the couplings of flat cars, near Scappoose. He is unable to describe the exact manner in which the accident occurred. The injured man la 30 years old, and married. PORTLAND WOMAN WHOSE PICTURE AS BABY HAS REVEALED HER AS THE FIRST-BORN OF PASADENA. , - Ww8 I .,''V.-",-A m&a i ' r-4 Me Mrs. Ernent Ringer and Picture of Her an 'Katherine Pasadena Wntworlb, Which Was Due lTP by Pasadena City Beautiful Committee. "FIRST BAB! Pasadena's Hunt Native Ends in for Pioneer Portland. MRS.E.M. RINGER PRINCIPAL Family of George Wentworth Re called by ex-Postmaster as Karly Settlers and City's Records Are Revised. A fe"w weeks ago a picture of a baby was published in one of the Los An geles newspapers and under it were the words: "First baby born tn Pasadena. Where is she at this time? City Beautiful As sociation would like to know." The truth is she is right here in Portland and her name is Mrs. Ernest M. Ringer, wife of the chief dispatcher of the O. W. R. & In. Company, 506 East Thirty-ninth street North. When the picture was taken, more than a quarter of a century ago, she was Katherine Pasadena Wentworth. The revelation, which came in a round-about way through friends of the Wentworth family, disclosed in teresting history unknown until just recently by Mrs. Ringer. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Went worth, who moved to Pasadena be tween 1870 and 1875. The event of her arrival was so important that the entire neighborhood made it the oc casion for a celebration, and' the out come was a handsome baby buggy which was presented to her. Events in the development of Pasa dena then crowded in on one another so fast that the first-born episode was soon forgotten, but not until a photo graph had been filed among the arch ives. Recently the City Beautiful commit tee became inquisitive and tried tc find the first child of the community. " FOUND EASTER'S SIGNIFICANCE HELD UP TO SKEPTICS Dr. Thomas L. Eliot Answers Question, "Why Do We Celebrate Resurrec tion?" Most Widely Celebrated of Any Event of Past 2000 Years. BY BEX HUR LAMPMAN. THE Unitarian Church of Our Father is a worshiping place that the city overtook. It is a quaint edifice of the earlier days, familiar to churchgoers for more than a quarter century. But the city has not overtaken the ideals of the little church if. indeed, it has even kept pace with them. Yesterday forenoon, when ail Port land was sunny and satisfied, those who entered its doors remained to hear a sermon particularly adapted to the trend of modern thought. "Can a Man of Modern Mind Con sistently Celebrate Easter?" was the question to which Dr. Thomas L. Eliot gave reply. "The Lord Is in his holy temple, let all the earth keep silence before him," began the opening service. It closed with a reading from the Psalms. "We have not heeded, we have forgotten, or we have wilfully disobeyed Show us how simple a thing it is to come back to our father's home," pe titioned the minister. Choir and organ answered with a lingering "Amen." Enntfr Moat Widely Observed. There was dream in the eyes of Dr. Eliot as he stood before the congre gation and read the lesson for the day from Paul's epistle to the Church at Corinth. Therein it is set down that Christ's rising in proof of the resur rection of the dead, and the ancient devotees of the new faith were reas sured in their belief. . "In these modern times," said the minister, "people ask the question: 'Why do we celebrate Easter?' Our ser mon today will afford the reply. We celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal: we celebrate historic events: we recognize the value of getting together and felicitating upon achievements. For nearly 2000 years there has been no day so widely celebrated as Easter Sunday. In recent years people find themselves holding convictions that make it impossible for them to cele brate consistently that day. An in creasing number of people will reply that they cannot conceive the resur rection, as believed in by Christiana, ever happened. Modern ideas deny the myths and miracles of former be liefs." To the structural and simple beliefs The item in the newspaper attracted the attention of A. E. Turner, of South Pasadena, who ransacked his brain and remembered having met a George Wentworth in Tacorna. This informa tion was communicated to J. W. -Wood, ex-Postmaster of Pasadena, and the City Beautiful hunt began, ending few days ago in Portland. The original picture of the first Pasa dena baby is kept among the records and the fact that she is now Mrs. Ringer, of Portland, has been entered, so that the information is brought down to date. COUNCILMEN ARE ASSAILED Tailors Resent Failure to Wear For mal Dress at Meeting. And now the City Commissioners of Portland are to be assailed for their personal appearance in Council meet ings. Condemnation along this line is coming from the National Association of Merchant Tailors which, at a St. Louis convention February 10, passed resolutions saying that lawmakers all over the country are insulting the dignity of their position by such un pardonable carelessness as reporting for duty without frock coats, and the other embellishments of dignity and formality. Copies of the resolutions were or dered sent to the municipal assemblies of the principal cities of the United States. SHIPBUILDING TO BE TOPIC Officer of Steamship Company to Address Rotarians. 'Why we should promote the ship building industry for the Columbia River." will be the topic at the lunch eon of the Rotary Club at the Benson Hotel tomorrow. W. D. Wells, of the San Francisco & Portland Steamship Company, will be chairman of the day and the speak ers will be State Senator McBride, a member of the committee to draft ar guments on the exemption of seagoing vessels from taxation, and J. H. Price, marine architect of the St. Helens Shipbuilding Company. Advertising talka will be given by A. W. Graham. G. L. Cherry, F. B. Layman and E. H. Kuhlman. of former eras, the roots of the pres ent still cling, asserted Dr. Eliot. He pointed out the danger of modernity in attempting completely to sever this association. "The greatest iuty of the next cen tury will consist of the searching into those realities that lie back of the biggest blunders of history," was the declaration of deep meaning. The celebration of Easter, of Christ's resurrection, is endowed with a sig nificance that foregoes the material facts as exposed by modern logic, he continued. It is a simple matter to deny myths and miracles. "When people ask you why you find it possible to celebrate Easter, reply to them in all good nature. Ask them what earthly or heavenly difference it makes to you what happened to someone who was himself a miracle from the beginning. The spiritual promise and signifi cance of the day, the happiness of faith engendered thereby, are sufficient for the permission of all sincere people to join in the Easter gladness, said Dr. Eliot. Many Hold Mistaken Idea. "Too many of us have mistaken easy going and fatness for the realities," he concluded. "In the proposition that we truly humanize Jesus, realize the deeper meaning of the myths and miracles, may we celebrate Easter with consis tency and significance. Let us cele brate with the happiness and simplicity of children we shall find realities that are worth while and that are not cut in two by the scissors of death." The sermon was a profound plea for the transcendency of the spirit over the grossness of material life not for a simple and unquestioning faith in the conflicting records of the olden church, but for an understanding and Joyous appreciation of the lessons that lie in the parables of creed. In this wise, it was taught, may even the ultra-modern thinker con sistently join in the observance of the day of white lilies and great love. The closing hymn, writtun by Jjahn Greenleaf Whittier, was in keeping with the lesson of the hour: "Through the harsh voices of our day. A low, sweet prelude finds Its way; Through clouds of doubt and creeds of fear, A light is breaking calm and clear." ORPHEUM HAS STAR Generous Praise Given to Hen ri De Vries. SEVEN PARTS ARE TAKEN Principal .Xot Only Assumes All Roles In Cast, but Is Producer and Manager, Too, and Act Is Declared Excellent. BY LEONE CASS BAER. When the history of the current Orpheum vaudeville season has been told, and credit has been distributed among those who have been artistically active In its affairs, it is certain that Henri De Vries will emerge as one artist in. the assemblage who has of fered one of the positively brilliant acts of a decade, and who has successfully assumed the triple responsibilities of producer, seven players and manager. The "seven players" is cqllective. Mr. De Vries is all of them. He achieves top-notch recognition at the Orpheum this week with his excellent act. "A Case of Arson." in which he portrays seven separate characters. Acting: Is Flnlnhetl. Henri De Vries does not clown. He is a splendid character actor, and unto each role he brings not only an out ward complete change of personage, but an inner, mental, spiritual even. It would seem, transformation occurs. He appears first before the Dutch Police Magistrate in a little Holland court room, as Ansing Arent, a weak, harm less derelict who has been accused by his brother, John, of setting fire to the latter's small cigar factory. John's baby giTl has baen cremated in the fire and all the sad little story comes out as each witness is called. Every element of good drama enters into the enact ment suspense, comedy and tragedy flit before us as the witnesses appear and stand their grilling by the magis trate. In turn Mr. De Vries appears as the brother John, as the old paralytic father-in-law babbling his story, aa Putton, a red-faced, jovial publican; as the huge phlegmatic policeman, and as the inquisitive humble grocer; as big Bik. a non-committal house painter. In leaps of dramatic values the story unfolds itself and the various char acters in its enactment exit and enter, treading almost on each others' heels. Mr. De Vries' art charms and compels admiration constantly. Vlnie Daly Good Sincer. Another interesting personality ia Vinie Daly, who sings in a big operatic soprano and dances saucy, cabarettish steps. Andy Rice is funnier than any other Hebrew dialectician ever dared to be. A messy, mussy, hilarity-producing act is offered by Wiflard Simnes. Hildegard Mason, trilling soprano with a sense of comedy, and George Murray, delightful baritone, with also a sense of humor, offer a gay little act. Two little tomboys open the bill. They offer a novelty bumsti-bumstl act full of fun. "The Girl in the Moon," a pretty maid who sits in a huge crescent that swings out over "the audience and sings while she showers roses on smiling gent3 be neath her. closes the bill. 500 BOY SCOUTS TURN OUT Woodcraft and Sanitation Arc Sub jects of Lectures Heard. What is believed to be the largest meeting of Boy Scouts ever held in the Pacific Northwest, was that at the Central Library Saturday night, when 500 youths gathered to receive instruc tion in tne craft of that organization Your "Eyesight and Your With. Thompson's Ophthalmoscope Exact Condition The close connection between the eyes and health is too often given but slight consideration. The relation ship is, however, a very intimate one. J Very frequently the eyes give little warning of the drain they are making upon the total nerve force, but the fact has become so well recognized that today the up-to-date stomach or nerve specialist will not treat stomach trouble or nervous diseases until a careful ex amination is made of a patient's eyesight and the cor rect glasses ordered worn. Many of the leading physicians of Portland now send us their patients when' a scientific diagnosis of the eye is required. J Eyeglass progress is a watchword here. We employ every scientific and practical advance known to sci ence. . Thompson Optical Institute 209-10-11 Corbett Bldg., Fifth and Morrison. We design and manufacture the Genuine Kryptok Lenses in our own factory on premises. and to hear talks on the purposes of the Scout movement. James E. Brockway, Scout Commis sioner, presided. The Scouts present were members of the Portland division. George Estes, of Portland, a recognized authority on the subjects that engage the interest of the naturalist, spoke on "Woodcraft," giving much useful knowledge to the Boy Scouts. He told or the wireless of the forest by means of which the animals of the wilderness are warned of the approach of predatory beasts and he also told how the boys could learn to swim. Major Ross, of Vancouver Barracks, spoke on sanitation as practiced suc cessfully in the Panama Canal zone and elsewhere. His talk was the open ing gun of the sanitary campaign that will be waged in Portland this Sum mer under the direction of the health, authorities, in which the Boy Scouts will co-operate by the distribution of circulars, the disinfection of rubbish and garbage and the general destruc tion of flies. HEILIG FILMS DRAMATIC "THE MELTING POT" AXD "THE GAMBLERS" GREAT FEATURES. Story of Jewish Massacre in Russia, With Happy Finale in America for Survivor, Is Depicted. A picturization of Israel Zangwill's creation. "The Melting Pot." is being featured in film at the Heilig Theater this week, with the six-reel drama. "The Gamblers." underlined. The two films, running continuously afternoon and evening, are offered at the popu lar price of motion picture features. "The Melting Pot" is intensely dra matic throughout, and the action covers a span from the massacres of the "black Easter" in Kishnieff, across the ocean to America, where, in the great melting pot of the new Nation, en mities of the old world are wiped out. The daughter of the baron who di rected the massacres and a young Jew, who was one of the survivors of it, are the hero and heroine of the drama, and in the freedom of America they forget class and religious differences and a beautiful love story develops to a pretty conclusion. "The Gamblers" is a play of high fi nance and the rivalry of two strong men for the love of a woman. One, an attorney, marries her, and later on becomes the instrument that threatens to send the other, a banker. to the penitentiary. The love of his wife is killed by his neglect and brutality, and driven from' him and threatened with divorce, she turns to the rival, who in the stress of adversity proves himself to be a man of great strength and sweetness of character. "The Melting Pot" and "The Gam blers" together are a show that makes a very full and delightful afternoon or evening. They will run throughout the week, with continuous shows from 1 to 11 P. M., with the exception of tonight, when the theater is engaged for a recital. DR. FOSTER DENIES RUMOR Rood College Head Ilefuhes Offer of $8000 l'ost in Massachusetts. President Foster, of Reed College, de nies recent reports in Boston news papers that he had accepted the posi tion of Commissioner of Education for the State of Massachusetts which was offered to him recently at a salary of J 8000 a year. The commissioner is a trustee of thn state school fund of $5,000,000 and a trustee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts Agri cultural College and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He has charge of the ten state normal schools, the state-aided vocational schools, the state-aided high schools and union superintendencies. He also has charge of the state teach ers' employment bureau and the state department of university extension. "I wish you to find out who that homely woman is." "Nothing doing, my dear. She'd prove to be the sister or wife of the first person I asked." Detroit Free Press. H 1 We Can Ascertain Instantly the of x our Eyes. . ..'' u The QjjAi-rrr 500 Sacks Victor our Regularly $1.45. First Come, First Served. No Phone Nor C. O. D. Orders. Deliveries Made as Promptly as Possible A special inducement to se cure for this well-known brand of high-grade patent flour a still larger distribution. First 500 comers to our fine Gro cery Department Monday will profit by this sale. A phe nomenal discount considering the present price of flour. Every Package On This Table Worth 10c Your Choice Three fori '25c For people who desire to purchase small quantities of good things to eat. Splendid savings on all kinds of canned and package goods. Note the variety to choose from. Soups, pickles, olives, coffee, sugar, rice, sardines, cereals, syrups, etc. Arranged on table for easy selection. $26.50 "Acorn" Cabinet Gas Range $22.75 Installed Sixth Floor, Filth Street black enamel washable ed doors. Alumimzed oven, size 16x18, with broil er and improved star drilled burners. Regularly $26.50 for $22.75. Easy Terms of Payment if Desired "Acorn" HIGH EFFICIENCY Gas Water Heater $16 Installed Very compact, takes up little room in the kitchen. Three copper coils and double cast iron jacket. Fittings braized to coils, no leakage. Acorn Ranges and Heaters, Here Only Sixth Floor. Fifth Street. jniiniiiiui!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiuiiiiiiniiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiunn 1 PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL I U 1916 QUEEN CONTEST Good for One Vote Void Name Organization , E This coupon will count one vote when properly filled out and E sent to Portland Rose Festival Contest Department, 337 Northwestern National Bank Building. Coupons must be E E neatly trimmed and put in package with number of votes E written on top. Main 1430. E : M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 E 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 E 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 S 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ft msirm W 2 Storc o Portlaho 1 29 j -Ninth Floor. Fifth Street. The modern kitchen always con tains a Gas Range and for best results it should be an "Acorn." Cooking with gas removes the drudgery and dirt, dust and smoke of the "old-fashioned" way. "Acorn" Cabinet Gas Range No. 480 the special we're offering today has finish with porcelain panel After Saturday, April 8, 1916
