Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, December 18, 1916, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextlO THE MORNING OREGONIAN, 3IONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1916. BELATED SHOPPERS FACE GRAND RUSH Christmas Only Week Away, and Mast Stores Must Close at Usual Hour. POSTAL PLANS ARE MADE ONE OF THE REED COLLEGE CO-EDS WHO ARE SELLING HOLLY FROM THE WOMEN'S DORMITORY FUND. CAMPUS TO SWELL 'Extra Windows Will Be Kept Opeu and 2 00 More Men Employed. One Mail Delivery Will Be Made on Holiday. One 'week until Christmas! There are perhaps thousands of peo ple in this city who realize that pro crastination is truly a thief, both of time and energy. Shoppers who have deferred the purchase of presents will find it increasingly difficult to be waited on in any of the downtown stores because of the rush anticipated. The fact that stores, for the most part. Inasmuch as they have to adhere to the rule of the Industrial Welfare Commission as to the employment of feminine help, will close all week at regulation houre, makes the shopper's dilemma more difficult. Other stores that are not forced to close will, of course, remain open to take advantage cf the holiday trade. The Portland postofflce bids fair to tie one of the busiest places in the city 1 1 u in now uum wen uiicr uiq iub wi ' December. . Postofflce Anticipate Rush. ruBima&Lcr r I aim . i J r. i o tiiii.ivijai.c. the usual Christmas rush, and he esti mates that he will have to employ in all departments 200 extra men. to take care of the holiday crowds. In the receiving of parcel post pack ages the postoffice will afford three times the accommodations that obtain tinder ordinary patronage.. There will Yir ele-ht windows onen durine the , busiest hours for the receipt of pack . ages and the selling of stamps. Only the usual hours will be observed in all departments, the only difference being the increase In service. There will be one delivery on Chrlst- mas. but those clerks and carriers who work on Christmas are, according to the new postoffice law, to be given compensatory time within the 30 days eueceeding the holiday upon which they are forced to work. Imnrane. Dpcruici Re-alatrr. Packages sent by parcels post may tie ineured up to any reasonable amount lor but a few cents. The ability of consignors to insure parcel post pack . figes has materially decreased the need of registering Christmas gifts. How ever, the registry windows will afford twice the service ordinarily demanded. Portland will be a quiet place on Christmas day. It will be a Sunday to most employers. Almost all f thoso employers who are closed on Sunday will remain closed on Christmas. Banks, schools, business houses, will all recog nize ine nouaay. As Christmas falls on Monday this year the usual Christmas eve rush at the stores will be the Saturday night crowd. ' J Alcazar Company Presents Problem Drama. WOMAN WITH PAST THEME Ruth. Gates Carries Heroine's Part With Perfection of Detail Liora Rogers and Ruth Ivechler Win Favor. ORIENTAL TRADE - TOPIC I. MILLER, EX-C05SCI, SHANGHAI, TO SPEAK. AT University of Oregon Extension Class Meeting at Chamber of Com merce Open to Public. "Chinese and Japanese in Commerce ma. Commercial Study of the Two Na tions Past and Present," will be the sub ject of an address by H. B. Miller, ev Consul-General at Shanghai, and now director of the University of Oregon School of Commerce, at the foreign trade class at the Chamber of Com- jnerce tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The meeting will be open to the pub lic and will be held In the Oregon ex hibit room. The work of the University's exten elon course in foreign trade is attract ing wide attention through the practi " cal manner in which the subject is be ing studied. While text books are be lng used, the work is vastly augmented Ty the compilation on the part of the University, the Portland Chamber of Commerce and the class itself, of a srreat amount of statistical data relat ing to the industries and raw-product resources of Oregon. The practice has also been 'estab' Jlshed of having local business and pro fessional men give short talks at al most every meeting of the class. iocal business men interested in lines touching upon foreign trade, are man! resting the greatest interest in the work of this class, which is expected to be but the forerunner of a vastly wider movement. BOMB SUSPECTS AIDED SOCIALISTS AND LABOR UNIONISTS TAKE UP COLLECTION. Men Charged With Causing: Explosion During? San Francisco Parade Are Declared Innocent. A collection to help fight the cas cf E. D. Noland and Thomas Mooney who are being prosecuted for the bom outrage in San Francisco during th preparedness parade last August, was talten up last night at the mass meet ing at Arion Hall, at which Socialis and labor leaders of prominence were bpeakers. Albert Streiff, National committee man for the socialist party, gave an address in which he urged the men to die if necessary to help the men who are being prosecuted. He argued that both Mooney and Noland were Social ists, and that socialism disapproved the shedding of blood, and that, there fore, they were not guilty. He alleged that Billings had been Judged guilty because the authorities thoughx tha by "getting him" they could get him to tell on others. "It is not by killing that good will be effected, but by erasing the whol pystem. Mooney and Noland both knew this," he said. Discussion on the Chamber of Com merce and the shipbuilding affairs wa held, and laborers were urged to stand as one. V. J. McCone secretary of th Socialist party of Oregon, closed the meeting with a short address on cur rent Issues. H. O. Hartwig, presiden of the Oregon Federation of Labor, presided at the meeting. A patent has been granted to a New Tork inventor for a guard to preven , the fingers of a person using a, sewl.i " machine being' pushed under the needle, At T&a V J1 J t MISS ERMA BENNETT AND A HOLLY WREATH. 'THE PRICE" PLAYED GIRL DRIVEN NEAR TRAGIC END BY PRAYER AND PRIVATION Miracle Like Chapter From Scriptures Follows in Home Where Religion Submerged All Else. "THE PRICE." CAST: Ethan BristoJ. M. D., Arbert McGovern Standard Dole Will Uoyd Profeesor Damaroff, George R. Taylor Ambrose Lorlmer. . .Charles Compton Ethel Toscanl Ruth Gates Mrs. Dole..... Lora Rogers Florenco Bcomley, Florence Darling1 Susan........ ....Ruth Lechler BY LEONE CASS BAER. That inevitable person, the woman with a past, who "wonders if she should ell all to her husband before she an nexes him, or. wait cheerily about until some lodge brother spills the informa tion about the said past. Is becoming quite the thing again in plays. In fact. he Is Indispensable in one form or another. Which is all leading up to the remark hat the new play "The Price," at the Baker, which the Alcazar Players are putting on this week, has for its hero ine a girl with a smudge on her fair scutcheon and for its hero one of these Ladies Home Journal types, who "can forgive but cannot forget, it is better we should part forevers." George Hobart wrote the play. It's the regulation story of a girl who mar ries and deliberately keeps her hua band in ignorance of an episode in her otherwise quite guileless existence. But there's an avenging Nemesis in the widow of the other man, an artist, who conveniently dies before the marriage. Ihe artist s widow is a housekeeper- ish sort of wife, who doesn t know Corot from a chromo, but whose Jell always Jells and whose buttons stayted on. She evolves a diabolical plan of paying back her shall we say competi tor? for her husband's affections. And when said husband dies, and girl weds his best friend, the widow comes, quite la Madam Vine in East Lynne and camps on the poor heroine s eyebrow until she and the hero and everyone else are seeing things. Then Nemesis turns the trick and it is a clever trick, too by reading supposedly from diary left by the artist. She reads only what phe supposes to have hap pened but by a coincidence, hits the nail smack on the head. The cast Is small but effective work Is given by each of the participants. The part of the woman is one that fairly tests the capacity of an actress of. versatile moods, but Ruth, Gates shows a perfection of detail and I wealth of emotional and dramatic re source in it. Albert McGovern has the role of the man he weds, and Will F. Lloyd is the artist, who has helped smash her ideals. Mr. McGovern plays with undeniable power, playing with subtlety and quiet force. Will Lloyd gives a clean-cut perform ance, and George R. Taylor Is excel lent in the role of an old friend of the girl's father. To Lora Rogers goes especial honors this week for the strength and sincerity back of her role the awakened Nemesis, the artist s widow. A pretty note of interest is lent by the work of Charles Compton and Florence Darling in a heart affair Ruth Lechler makes a delightful maid. Her work stands out in fine high lights for one reason, because it's the only comedy relief in the whole story. The bill will run all week with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. 2 Women, 3 Men Taken In Raid. Two women and three men were ar rested last night in a raid at 326 Couch street by Patrolmen Burkhart, Richards and Eubanks. Those arrest ed were: Blanch Rollo, charged with conducting a disorderly house; Lena Rossi, charged with vagrancy, and John McGinnis, John Thomas and Phil lip Williams, charged with disorderly conduct. Laborer Held After Burglaries. David Millwood, a laborer, 22 years old, was arrested last night by Detec tives Hellyer, Tackaberry, Craddock and Smith, who have been Investigat ing the series of burglaries on the East Side. BT ADDISON BENNETT. ALKING up Stark street from Sixth and turning north on Broad way I found myself immediately behind a middle-aged woman and a girl of perhaps 17. evidently mother and daughter. I was close enough to them to overhear their conversation rd to note the sobs of the girl and the tears of her mother. The first sentence of the girl, spoken in tones of agony, that I heard were these: "I will never go home again, never, never, never." 'Where, then, will you go" queriea the mother. T don't know," replied the girl, "but there is always the river." These words seemed to be the out pourings of a broken heart, the wail of a lost soul, the frenzy of one without hope. I saw Just across the street a Salvation Army lassie and I hurried over to her, for this was surely a case that a man could not dea.' with. And I have great faith in thee lassies and their superiors. So I quickly crossed the street and in a few words explained to the lassie that there seemed to be- a case where her assist ance was needed. Lavsle Share Burden. "Always the river!" Those were the words that seemed to spur the lassie to Immediate action, and sae hurried across and wltnin two blocks! ana baa her hand on the mother's shoulder. That was more than two weeks ago and I never heard a word more about the matter until a couple of days ago. Then I got the story in pieces, first from the lassie, then from her com manding officer, and lastly from the pastor of a church near the unfortu nate girl s home. I will piece these fragments together into a united story as briefly as possible. The girl's father is a mechanic who has made from $3 to i a day for many years. Having no sickness, owning his own little home, with but the daugh ter and mother to care for, and being stingy, close to the verge of miserli ness, he had saved up and had J2u,000 in the banks drawing Interest at 4 per cent. He was a Christian (or thought he was), of the fanatical type, in fact, a Pharisee. He and the family lived on almost nothing, dressed very. very shabbily, took none of the pleasures and few of the comforts of life. Church Duties Avoided. But Godly and saintly! Given to a long, long prayer every morning and a longer one every evening: went twice to church every Sunday, but never to the same one oftener than once in three or four months and always two pennies were left behind in the contri bution box. By changing churches thus he had no congregational duties to pay for, no socials and donations to eat out his substance. He knew every threat in the Bible, every single one; but en tirely overlooked the promises. He knew all about the wrath of God, but knew naught of the love of the Saviour. The daughter was brought up with none of the comforts of life, none of the pleasures. She could not visit owing to her shabby clothes. Even in school she was a starveling because her clothing shut her off from the other pupils. She never had a penny of her own to spend, never saw even a magic lantern or movie performance. She was fed on long and wearisome prayers until she hated and detested deep down In her heart the very name of religion. When she was 16 and through high school she was promptly put to work, but had to bring home every penny of her wages and was always the shab biest dressed girl in the store where she worked. A week before I heard her weeping she had passed her 18th birthday and had opened her pay envelope contain ing her weekly stipend of $S and bought a pair of shoes for the amaz ing sum of Jt. Parental Wrath Defied. That was the blow that almost crushed her father and mother and she was ordered to return the shoes the following day. When she started to work she took them with her in a package and going into a secluded place she took the old ones off and threw them in the river and put the new ones on and "brazenly" went home with them on, defying the pa ternal wrath and the paternal punish ment. She was locked In her room without supper while the father prayed and prayed and prayed for her delivery and planned ways of punishment. While this was going on she climbed out the window and went no one knows where. But the next afternoon her mother found her and then the two came into my vision. Thi Mooting Want Yon to Come to My Store and See Me About That Suit or Overcoat ps.v"t- . j X-; - w- j?- - X You know, I bought thousands of dollars' worth of goods at the old price and I am selling them at the same old price, as long as they last. TODAY I have a number of extra special values, which should be sold for $30 or S35, 1 will show you for Just to Start the Shop Going I will give your Suit or Overcoat my personal attention and you may be sure that you will be more than pleased. I also have a large number of big reductions on high-grade imported woolens that cannot be bought in the market today. Made to Your Order FULL DRESS AND TUXEDO SUITS A SPECIALTY, S35 AND Suits made in 2 days if necessary. UP that caused the scales to drop from the eyes of the parents. But drop they did. and dropped forever. .When the father saw the error of his ways, saw that he was driving the daughter to perdition as surely as he had driven her from father and mother, he saw a great light; he took account of stock; he cast a balance and found he was a Pharisaical hypocrite, a miserly, de spicable semblance of a man. a trav esty as a Christian, husband and par ent. And he was man enough to set about righting the great wrongs he had done and the mother, ihe poor, downtrodden mother, fell Instantly into his ways and plans. Home Is Refnrnlshed. The old house has been painted and newly furnished. The walls and ceil ings are neatly tinted, handsome cur tains flutter at the windows, the old dishes and pewter eating utensils were cast aside and new china, glass and silverware lo.'jk their place. Every room has good draperies and pictures, good carpets and rugs are on the floor, the bedding Is all new. a victrola with an abundance of discs graces the living room and in the parlor is a new piano and father, mother and daughter have many new clothes each. And Christmas Is coming! In the old days the father gave every year $5 to charity as a sort of entrance fee to heaven. This year he has given the same as he had given for the last 20 years a full $100. He has expended $1500 on the home and Its occupants: he has taken the daughter from the store and tells her she is to take music lessons and give parties and attend parties; tells her she is to go to the movies or theaters and take a friend or two with her if she desires; tells her to invite in her friends and dance a little if they wish: tells her that before Christmas every year she is to gather in a dozen waifs and give them a big Christmas dinner and give them enough to take home for a good meal the next day and look after them and others the year through. Father Admits Wrong. "Mother." said the father a day- or tw ago to his wife. "I used to think I was a Christian, but I was traveling the straight road to hell. If our daugh ter had gone to the river as she threat ened her blood would have been on my hands 1 would have been a murderer Just the same as though I had run a knife into her heart. I used to make long prayers, but I now know it was simply lip service now I pray from ' the very depths of my soul, for God is J so good, mother, so very, very, good. "We have the finest daughter In the 1 world and she Is going to make up for ' her lost girlhood. Hereafter every cent, of interest we receive must be given' to the needy; we will make our daugh- " ter a ministering angel; and when the1 good Lord, the blessed Saviour, finds ! that we are doing our duty in part he1 may forgive us. he may, mother, for he has promised to forgive those who truly repent. But for many, many years I was a vile and miserable sin ner." Not In this great city will there be a happier Christmas party than that at this home, not in this great city. For a father and mother have snatched their daughter back from her grave, the lassie and her helpers have snatched the father and mother back from the road-that lead3 to perdition they have all been born anew! And when they and their guests sit down to their Christmas dinner and the Lords Prayer has" been said: and when night folds her mantle over the great city that night and the xxill Psalm has been recited in unison, hand clasped with hand and heart reaching heart, another laurel will be hung upon a society that has done so much good and the lassie who was the Instrument will have her name wafted heavenward in an earnestness and fervor that the Lord will surely heed. 'Rslj B arkhur Portland's Leading Tailor Corner Sixth and Stark Streets CO-EDS SELL HOLLY Reed Girls Raising Fund Women's Dormitory. for BIG CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED Stand in l'ubllc Market to Be Oc cnpled and Canvass Made Else where for Cuttings in Hulk and Made Into Wreaths. In order that they may some day have a dormitory of their own with a separate dining-room and various con veniences which will be more attract ive to the feminine nature than those of the present Reed College dormitory which was designed to be Inhabited ultimately only by men, the Reed Col lege women are going to market the r-rodtiots of th Tt-r College holly or- chards to swell the fund for the pro posed women's building. The holly on the campus Is excep tionally fine this year and is. being made into wreaths which the co-eds intend to vend at the public market on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of this week and at many other stations about the city. Besides the wreaths the holly will also be sold in bulk by' the pound. Frances Greenberg has been elected by the women as the chairman of a committee which is in charge of the sale of holly; Ruth Leonard will attend to marketing it at suburban stores and other sales stations. Gertrude Hyatt will attend to mail orders and deliv eries; Geraldlne Alderson will have charge of the stand at the public mar ket; Maria Bittleston will canvass a caL jist of names, and Ruth Hathaway hafi charge of the publicity department. Already the girls have filled several large orders and they hop.- to swell their sales this year to a total never reached before. The year before last they netted more than 1200. but last year the crop was small and their profits only amounted to a little more than J60. This, year there Is plenty of holly and those In charge say that they Intend to make up for last year's deficiency. Man Held l'p Down Town. C. L. Krickson. 48 North Ninth street, reported to the police last night that he had been held up and robbed of H3.S5 and a wjitch near First and WftKhlneton ptreet. Krickson. who 19 years old. said that the robber asked him for a match, and thrust a revolver into his face when he started to comply with the request. He de scribed the robber as about 30 years old. and said the man had a mustache and wore an overcoat. FATHER TO INSTALL SON ITenry K. Cowglll, Jr., Klected Wor shipful Muster by Masons. H. E. Cowglll. past master, will In stall his son. Harry E. Cowglll, Jr., ah wnrshfnful nuiKter In Pnrtland Lodge No. 15, Masons, at the big Joint ceremony to be held with Washing ton Lodge No. i6 at the Masonic Temple on December 27. These are the two largest blue lodges In the state. The results of the election at the regular meeting of Lodge No. 55 Fri day night were as follows: Harry E. Cowglll, Jr., worshipful master; sen ior warden. .Herbert C. Chlckerlng; Junior warden. Clarence B. Howard: treasurer. Arthur . Jones; secretary, Charles M. Steadman: trustee. Henry C. Weber: senior deacon, William . Roberta; Junior deacon. Charles W. Whltlessey; senior steward. Joseph H. Page; Junior steward. Kdirar II Scn senlch: marshal. Lonald H. Rowe; chap lain. William II. Bishop; tyler. Pcrlcy P. KUbourn. Head The Oreiron 1 r n clarified n. I do not know whether it was the lassie or the pastor or the commander Prowler Annoys Children. Residents of the neighborhood around East Sixteenth street and Tenino ave nue reported to the police last night' that a prowler had been annoying chil dren there. The children said that the man had threatened to kill them if they reported his actions. The safest, ureat uid DvrMt oolistt ran I fain hn v Kaana braw or lirrtr moii Phi mlinstrumfntalike M'J Bw. jjom tne work f and Mall. Bold In two vise cans br all Groeery, Hard war and Drag Btora. Utk Ur Photo Cwm New Year's Oregonian Annual Number, Jan. 1, 1917 .Will be the most interesting and complete edition ever published. You will want to send copies to your friends in the East. On sale Monday, January 1, 1917. Single copy 5c, postage 5c in United States and Pos sessions ; foreign 10c Fill out blank form and send to Oregonian office, Sixth and Alder Sts. Name Street Town j State t THE OREGONIAN, Portland, Oregon. Gentlemen : Enclosed find for which mail The Oregonian's Ne'v? Year's Annual to each of the above addresses. (Enclose 10c for each address in United States or Possessions, 15c for each foreijjn address.) (Duplicate blanks may be had by calling, telephoning or writing to The Ore gonian Circulation Department.)