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THE 3IORNIXG OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, . APRIE 20. 1917.
GROWERS ARE FEW
Only Today
and
Tomorrow !
More Vacant Lots Are Listed
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Than Applicants for Land.
FOOD IS BADLY NEEDED
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Appeal Is Made for Every Owner
of Home to Use Back Yard to
Increase Production and
Help Feed Armies.
'.flow about that back-yard garden?
This means you, Mr. and Mrs. Read
er. It doesn't mean the man and wom
en next door.
It means every residence district of
Portland not merely the suburbs or
the vacant lots or the backyards of the
people in the less pretentious parts of
town.
No backyard Is too elegant to be
transformed into an onion bed or a cab
bage patch. They bloom nicely along
with the sweet peas and the roses.
And the beauty of it all Is that the
people of Portland are taking hold of
the backyard garden idea like a bull
dog to the coattails of the proverbial
tramp.
The Oregon Conservation League,
which is an adjunct to the Oregon Pa
triotic Service League, with headquar
ters in the Northwestern Bank build
ing, Is making splendid progress with
Its garden plans.
Hundreds of Lots Listed.
It has listed hundreds of available
tracts in all parts of the city which the
owners will permit to be used free by
anyone who wants to grow vegetables
or any other rood products that can
bo raised on them.
This part of the campaign Is meeting
with good results already. But the
league now is concerning itself most
with home owners in every part of
town who fear it will mar the beauty
of their property if they turn the sod
into vegetable tracts.
If the patriotic appeal already put
forth doesn't arouse these people to a
realization of their duty it is probable
tnat eirorts win be made to sea them
personally.
On account of the extremely lata
Spring it is necessary to get busy right
away.
The Multnomah County granges have
faught the proper spirit. In a current
report a committee composed of S. B.
Hall, county agriculturist; J. J. John-
eon and R. "W. Gill, makes a stirring
appeal to every farmer in the coanty to
turn his best attention this year to an
Increased production of every kind of
iooa product.
Gas Employes to Plant.
Farmers are urged, too. to grow "Po
tatoes, beans and other vegetables for
eed purposes.
Employes of the Portland Gas Sc. Coke
Company have formed a potato club
Every member is pledged to raise po
tatoes on his own premises. If possible.
tout Joint efforts of all members will
be directed toward the cultivation of a
four-acre tract on Capitol Hill, which
has been offered to their free use by
the owners. The company has joined
In the spirit of the thing by reducing
the working hours of the men half an
liour every day during the Summer.
provided they put their extra time In
on the potato patch.
The municipality of Portland has
come to the rescue, too. The City Au
ditor's office has provided applicants
with a complete list of 2750 vacant
lots that are available for gardening.
Any one who wants to engage in farm
ing this year should apply there.
Food Is Needed Badly.
Thus far the area of land offered Is
far in excess of the area applied for.
Federal experts declare that there is
no danger of a surplus of food this
year, regardless of the apparent excess
f seal among amateur gardeners. The
world's supply for the last few years
has been short. Increasing demands
have been made by the armies in Eu
rope, and this year, with the United
States at war, this country will need
Immense volumes of food to feed its
soldiers and sailors.
There will be abundant use of all
food grown.
It is considered a patriotic duty of
every able man and woman to do some
f the growing.
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CANDIDATES TO FILE JUNE 4
Iineup Expected to Try and Get
First Place on Ballot.
The open season for candidates for
the city election June 4 has been for
mally declared for 8 A. M. Wednesday.
At that hour candidates may file their
nominating petitions with City Au
ditor Barbur. The names of candidates
will appear on the ballot in the order
In which they are filed.
As in the past a lineup of candidates
Is expected on the opening morning In
a fight to get the first place on the
ballot which in the political realm is
considered a place of advantage. The
usual custom has been to let the candi
dates appearing for the first filing
draw lots to see which name will be
taken by the Auditor first. After the
first place is gone, a fight will be on
for the last place. The final date for
filing Is May IB.
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Keystone and Burton Holmes Travelogue at the'
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OUO" FAIRBANKS, the emlle
doctor of screenland, with a
suitcase of new laughs, de
parted from New York last week, en
route to Loo Angeles, where he will in
troduce a series of new thrills In his
second Artcraft production "A Regular
Guy."
"I'll be glad to get back to Cali
fornia." said "Doug," before boarding
the train, "where I can have my buck
ing broncho and breathe some real
fresh air. I'm a fanatic on the open-
air idea a regular gypsy proposition.
We recently finished Tn Again Out i
Again' and started a new picture A
Regular Guy,' before leaving New York
which we hope to complete in Los An
geles. Gosh, I'm all sore rode a horse
on llfth avenue and I hadn't been in
the saddle for over a year. This
picture Is somewhat of a novelty, if
we don't ruin It In production.
"Taking 17 people West with ns this
trip. A majority of the party have
never been west of Broadway. They
expect to see highly painted Indians and
daredevil cowboys roaming the streets
of Los Angeles. They've got a surprise
coming to them. I know on my first
visit West, my Illusion was Quickly
shattered.
"Expect to remain In California for
about three months then we hope to
go to Honolulu, if the war doesn't pre
vent the trip," concluded the man of
the hour In movieland.
Travelogue will also be presented.
"Jim Grimsby's Boy" Is a mountain
eer mining tale of a man who hated
women and raised his girl to be a boy
He called her "Bill." dressed her in
men's clothes and tried to make her
forget that she was a woman. Then
came an overwhelming longing for
things feminine and a love affair with
the Sheriff. The father takes a startling
way of showing up the Sheriff, but
falls? and the story ends with a prom
ise that the girl Is no longer to bo
robbed of her heritage.
Columbia.
LAD ASKS CASH FOR ARM
Suit to Collect $15,127 Damages Is
Filed Against 1. R., Ii. & P. Co.
Russell G. Lawrence seeks to collect
damages of $15,127 from the Portland
Railway, Light & Power Company in a
suit filed in the Circuit Court by his
father and guardian, George K. Law.
rence, yesterday. The young man lost
his right arm beneath the wheels of a
streetcar when he boarded the car at
Killingaworth and Delaware streets
while it was in motion, January 6.
Though it is admitted in the com
plaint that the car was going at the
rate of four or five miles an hour when
the young man swung aboard, it is as
serted that the motorman was talking
to passengers, In violation of a city
ordinance, and started the car into a
greater speed with a jerk, which threw
the young man to the ground.
Colian's Love for Flag Real.
Gcoren M. Cohan's love for
the
American flag, as set forth In numer-
ous songs and plays. Is not professional.
Even today he possesses all the patrlt-
lsm of a email boy and is intensely
American in his sentiments. In addi
tion to his many other achievements.
George M. is often referred to as the
best press agent xor me jmencsu
flag" the country has ever known. Xsot
satisfied with being the most popular
actor-author-producer connected wltn
the stage, he has invaded the field of
motion pictures with the great suc
cess evidenced at the Peoples Theater
this week.
When Mr. Cohan announced several
years ago "Broadway jones, a.
minus his singing and dancing, yes.
even without an American flag, various
doubtful ones wondered if it would go
over with the public Some of tne more
bolder acquaintances approached him
on the matter, but George M. had de
cided to put his best efforts into some
thing different. The result is a mat
ter of theatrical history and "Broad
way Jones" was conceded by every
New York critic the biggest hit of the
i-uon. And so. with this same ae
trmlnnttnn &nd enersrv. he has finally
entered the motion picture fold, and
that h ban alreadv added thousands
nf new admirers to his Immense fol
lowing can easily be understood.
"Double Cross" Author In War.
Gllson Willets, famous author who
wrote the original story rrom wnicn
Bertram Mlllhauser created the ecenar
ios for Pathe's serial, "Mystery of the
Double Cross," has devoted much of his
time recently to writing photoplays,
"In submitting photoplays I always
write my synopsis at length, believing
that the editor and the producer should
have a complete understanding of the
detail story without being obliged to
wade through all the working script,'
said Mr. Willets recently.
"For a. nhotoplay of five reels I very
frequently write a synopsis of several
thousand words. I put everything of
vital Interest Into this synopsis."
Mr. Willets Is regarded as one of the
most versatile and successful writers of
moving-picture stories In the field to
day and his work Is considered a
standard. It amounts to a practical
guarantee of excellence for the result
ing photoplay.
Mr. Willets experiences have been as
varied as the subjects of his photoplays.
He has visited almost every known
country, having traveled over 260.000
miles. He was correspondent ror col
lier's Weekly during the spanisn-
American war, has written novels, text-
hooka and magazine stories. Ills His
tory of the White House" Is regarded
as a classic.
In "Mystery of the Double Cross" he
has laid the story foundation of the best
mystery serial ever made, according to
the sincere belief of the Paths Com
pany.
Jewel Likes Canaries.
Jewel Carmen, as dainty a. girl as
appeared In photoplays and playing op
posite to William Farnum In "A Tale
of Two Cities," the William Fox Super
Da Luxe production, has one great hob
by, that of canaries. Seven of the little
songsters are gathered in her sun par
lor at Los Angeles and there is hardly
a moment In the day when any one of
the little birds Is silent. And because
there are seven of these birds, she has
named each of them after a day In the
week, as a surname, with some famous
singer's name to top it off. Here Is
how the ro Ileal 1 sounds: "Sunday Sera
brlch, Monday McCormack, Tuesday
Tetrazzlnl. Wednesday Wltzengrau,
Thursday Caruso. Friday Frltzl Scheff.
and Saturday Scottl." They all imi
tate their namesakes.
Pullman, Wash.. April 19 (Special.)
The Gray W. Club, official organiza
tion of campus athletes In the major
sports, will stage a dance April SS. all
FAT T
Alt I! U C Ki V
Prince of Comedia
in his great Paxaraou.-
"BUTCHER BOY"
SESSUE
HAYAKAWA
Dramatic star in elab
orate picturization of
Robert Louis Steven
son's adventurous tale,
THE BOTTLE IMP
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At the House of Biff
Events
Columbia
TOOAV OM5 WAY OLT
"AUVK.M'tHKS OK SHORTY
HAMILTON"
Fifth Complete Story, "Shorty Torn;
Wild .Man." Also Vltagraph corned:;
HIm 4'onMclouM t"oncleiice," an
World '1'ourn. showing Ml. JSt. Mich-"
and life in Morocco.
CIRCLE THEATER
The Iliir Home Movie. 1.
FOVRTH AT W ASHIXCIOX f-N
Continuous I'rrformmirp. '.
Wrekdaya A. M. to 1 1 P. 55 .
Snnrtnya 12lI5 to 11 I. M. -. '
PROGKAMMK CII.MUED li.p "
Every Night at 8 O'clock . .
(Except Saturday and Sund.' "
T. and T. Come and See. .
ADMISSION FIVE fEM'S.
proceeds to go to the Red Cross fu 4 J ,
being raised by students of the colle y-.
Pullman to
WASHTXGTOX
Raise Red Cross Fund.
STATE COLLEGE.
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Only Decayed Vegetables Will Get
Into City Incinerator.
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The food shortage has had Its effect
on waste food products sent to the city
Incinerator, according to a report made
by Superintendent Hilber of the plant.
He says that where ordinarily large
Quantities of partially decayed potatoes
and other vegetables are sent for
burning at this time of the year, there
Is none but thoroughly decayed stuff
being sent there now.
The practice in the past has been for
produce firms to condemn whole sacks
of potatoes lf there were a few rotted
ones In the sack, under present condi
tlons the potatoes are being carefully
orted before being discarded.
His Father's Son" is a light comedv
drama with surprise trimmings, a few
melodramatic thrills and more laughs
than any three previous vehicles in
which Metro has presented Lionel
Barrymore. It's the sort of plot mixture
that film audiences like.
First, as a wild college youth, his
irresponsible doings and fondness for
spending bountifully of his father's un
limited wealth furnish a happy begin
ning for the semi-serious part of the
plot. Later, when his father is utterly
disgusted with his bad record and prof
ligate extravagance, he catches the "old
man in an unguarded moment, and a
bet is made of J6000 that the young
chap cannot hold a fbO job for a month.
Taken up on this careless remark, the
way is provided for the young man
not only to earn the sixty, but gain a
wife, paternal respect and a slightly
more serious view of life, after all
although the latter is not brought out
according to the usual rule of reformed
youth.
The job that J. Dabney Barron gets
Is that of disguising as a detective
and guarding a priceless emerald. The
doughter of the emerald owner knows
that he Is not really a butler, and she
causes her father much worry by her
great familiarity with the polished
servant. Dabney catches "London
Larry" trying to steal the emerald, and
thus wins Betty Arden (Irene Howley),
daughter of his employer. Incidentally
the young fellow gets a half Interest
in the emerald for a wedding present.
Paramount Plctographs, Bray cartoon
comedy, news weekly and an educa
tional reel, showing crab fishing, con
clude the programme.
. Sunset.
"Jim Grimsby's Boy," the photoplay
in which Frank Keenan, well-known
star of stage and screen, makes his
final appearance before the film public.
will be screened at the Sunset Theater
today and tomorrow. Keenan is sup
ported by Enid Markey, who plays the
role of a girl Brought up as a boy.
His Auto Ruination," a Mack Swain
Keystone comedy, and Burton Holmes'
PRESENTS
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Glory of tfieNatton '
Beginning Sunday, , April 22
at Regular Price 15c
New York Morning Telegraph: "Fifteen hundred men and women
were aroused to enthusiasm last night at the premier of 'WOMANHOOD.
They threw convention aside and yelled, stamped and cheered during
some of the more stirring moments of the play. 'WOMANHOOD' is a
decided triumph, from a photo artistic point of view. The battle scenes
have even more power than those in "The Battle Cry of Peace. Directing:
and photography triumph in the scenes in which Zeppelins are sent
crashing into the sea."
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NEW YORK WORLD. V a. (" ':
CEVEN DEADLY SlNS...tfc
" nk kif star. hla
SEVE DEDDT SINS
and what they did to ONE LITTLE GIRL
A McClure series of seven thrill
ing five-act photoplays, showing
beautiful Eve Leslie tempted by
Seven Deadly Sins; a new play
each week. Each film complete
in itself, but connected by the
sweetest love story ever filmed.
Beautiful Shirley Mason appears
throughout the series.
4 Days, Starting Next Sunday:
ANN MURDOCH in "ENVY"
PEOPLES
ALDER AT WEST PARK
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