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MAY 2 3 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, MAX 22, 1917. 17 ATHLETICS BIG AID TO MEN AT FRONT British Soldiers, Trained in Outdoor Sports, Have Ad . vantage Over Germans. KEENER WITS DEVELOPED Teutons Excel in Gymnastics, in WliicU Discipline Is Factor. Americans Will Profit From Proficiency In Sports. ers' Association, held Its annual con- j vention here today. The business ses sion was held at the First National Bank wita the following- programme: Openirg address, chairman J. W. Mc Coy, cashier First National Bank, Ash land; reports of officers; reports of com mittees; "The Relationship Between the Farmer and the Banker," a paper by Frank C. Bramwell. cashier Grants Pass Banking Company; "The Other Fellow, by W. H. Gore, president of Medford National Bank; "A b Others See Us," by R. B. Miller, vice-president. California & Oregon Coast Railway. In the evening local banks were hosts at a banquet served by the Jose phine Hotel. Samuel M. Baker, cash ier, Josephine National Bank, acted as toastmaster and called for the follow ing toasts: "Our Town," by V. H Vas ter, cashier Jackson County Bank, Med ford; "The Ideal Banker," by V. O.. N. Smith, cashier Citizens Bank, Ashland; "Our Flag," by William Q. Talt, presi dent First National Bank, Medford. The following officers were elected for the year: Frank C. Branafcell, Grants Pass, president; Vernon H. Vawter, Medford, vice-president, and Samuel H. Baker, Grants Pass, secre tary and treasurer. OUTPUT VALUE GAINS GHOST DEFENSE TOPIC If powder and bullets were taken way from the contending armies in Europe the British soldiers would be at the Rhine within a very few weeks," Writes a war observer from Europe. This statement was made to show that the English and their colonials ere vastly better at hand-to-hand fighting than their German foes, aou the reason is given for this condition In. the Briton's traditional love of Same. For hundreds of years England has been a nation of sports. Work as hard as he may, the Briton will find cricket, football or what-not. and thisat library HalL The lecture was given FIRST OF WAR LECTURES GIVEN AT LIBRARY HALL. - Major Phisterer, 17. S. A., Deylores I -melt mt- Target Practice and Dearth of Interest. First in a series of public lectures on military subjects was the address of Major Phisterer, U. S. A last night condition has developed a race of men capable of taking care of themselves in personal contact. When the troops of the United States pet in France they also will excel at hand-to-hand action, for, like Eng land, America is a Nation fond of ath letics of all kinds. The German, on the other hand.fol lows in his sports the same bent that he shows in military work. Gymnas tics are the leading sport in Germany. While these class exercises develop fine muscles, they do not train the mind along with the body, as do sports in which the participant is called upon to make decisions for himself, and that In the flash of a fraction of a second. Class gymnastics are suitable to the German mind, in which disci pline Is foremost. As long as Germany sticks to class work In athletics she will never be the contender that she should be in the various forms of ath letic effort. Classes of German gymnasts, nam-' bering hundreds, can go through evo lutions in absolutely faultless style, but In events in which individual ef fort and decision counts the German is generally beaten. Germany had but two men who were serious contenders in the track and field events at Stock holm in 1912 Braun, in the middle dis tances, and Lische, in the running high Jump. Both were beaten by Americans. The Germans had equal ability, but did not measure up to the task of competing with Yankee brain power. Braun was beaten by the American half-milers after he had the race almost won, and Lische was outgamed by Alma Rich ards in the high jump. The sports that are helping the British soldiers and which will help the American boys are football, base ball, boxing and running. These are being featured in every training camp in Great Britlan. Football is, of course, closest to the Briton's heart. Baseball, he disliked at first, but he's playing It now. for the good that it does his "wing" for bombing in the trenches. Boxing is being taught to the British troops on the theory that the art of jabbing and defending makes him a better man with the bayonet. Running is now compulsory in every British training camp, and perhaps this is why King George's soldiers are displaying such dash when they "go over" these days. A British officer is quoted as saying that soccer football is the soldier's Ideal sport. This game can be well played without the terrific hardening process necessary for the American game, and, furthermore, it can be played oftener. It is considered supe rior to baseball, in that the players get more leg and lung exercise than they do in playing America's National game. There is every Indication that, in spite of the war. the University of Pennsylvania will have a football eleven next Fall. Every preparation is being made for a season of extensive gridiron work. It may be necessary ior the Penn management to revise its schedule here and there, because of other colleges cutting out all forms of sport. In that event it is likely that one or two places on the Quaker schedule will be fcaken by Middle West ern colleges. The Pennsylvania management is ticking to the position that it took .m.the fJrstr vlz" tnat aU forms of athletics should be encouraged durintr wartime. With the minimum draft age set at 21 years. ' but cm nil centage of the college students will be called to the colors for some time, at least. , vl -111 ff'Bj under the auspices of the Oregon Pa triotic Service League. General Beebe presided. Other lectures will follow in the same hall each Tuesday night. They will be discussions of military topics. Major Phisterer spoke of coast de fense and told In detail of the life of the Coast artilleryman. He deplored the fact that Incessant drilling on the part of the artilleryman, hours of it every day, is rewarded only with about five minutes target practice, involving real firing of the big guns, each year. Money Is lacking for the Army to af ford sufficient target practice, al though, he said, the Navy seems to en joy target practice whenever it feels like It. Even at target practice, said Major Phisterer, the artilleryman does not see the target, so there is little or none of the old excitement of seeing you enemy and noting the effect of your fire. Only the gun pointer has a sight at the enemy, real or fancied, and for the members of the gun crew the action is about as interesting as the experience of a stoker down in the hold of a steamer who cannot see thing that is going on outside. He detailed the daily round of the Coast artilleryman's duties, and said there is nothing spectacular In it. He compared It to the life of a mechanic, as regards thrills. However, ha said he is surprised at the apparent indif ference that prevails In cities on the seacoast as to their coast defenses. They should Insist upon it, he said, as a matter of Insurance. MINING FEES REMITTED STATEMENTS FILED BEFORE J 11,1' 1 BRING EXEMPTIONS. Legislative Act for Relief of Delli quent Corporations Cited by 1 Commissioner. SALEM, Or., May 22. (Special.) Th following statement was Issued by Corporation Commissioner Schulderman today to mining corporations: "For the purpose of relieving, cer tain mining corporations from paying lee in some instances claimed burden some, the recent Legislative Assembi enacted a law for theii relief. This law has given to each delinquent min ing corporation the privilege. If take advantage of on or before July 1, 1917, of tiling a delinquent statement an payment of a flu tee for each year o its delinquencies instead of the grad uated license lees required by the gen eral statutes of the state. The law requires every such cor poration to furnish all the facts, data and information set forth in section 6713 of Lord's Oregon laws in the form of an affidavit, and this affidavit should be accompanied by a fee of $10 for each year that the license, fee for the corporation filing the affidavit remains unpaid. 'Above all else, delinquent mining corporations should keep in mind that this concession is granted merely until the first day of July of this year, and after such date the general statutes of Oregon will be operative." MINER FUNERAL TODAY Mason la Survived by Son, Bank Clerk, and Two Daughters. The funeral of Dr. George H. Miner, who died of heart disease and general decline Sunday night, will be held to morrow at & o'clock from the Ericson chapel. Twelfth and Mnr.i.n. Ir. A. I. Hutchinson, of the Piedmont x-re&Dyierian jnurcn, will officiate. Dr. Miner died at the home of "his son, Harold Miner, 1197 Garfield ave nue. -Dr. Minpr hnH nrafttlnaj . 1 1; i uicuiuiuo In Hutchinson, Kan., for a number of ears, coming to Portland a few years ego to retire from active life. He was 65 years old and a native nf nnfA.j O. Besides his son, Harold, of the i lion isank, two daughters. j'l.oo c'iuiis oilier, or mis city, and Mrs. Walter Grundy, of Hntchimnn survive. Dr. Miner was a member of me masonic oraer. DRAMA LEAGUE TO ELECT Meeting Will Be Held at Little Thea ter on May 2 9. The annual meeting of the Portland Drama League will be held Tuesday night. May 29, at the Little Theater. Officers will be elected and reports of the year's activities read and future plans discussed and settled. The busi ness meeting will open at 8:15 o'clock. Following the business session Mrs. Eleanor Sanford Large, director of the Little Theater, will read "Pater Nos ter," by Francois Coppee, an incident of the French Revolution, translated by Will Hutchins. All members are urged to attend the meeting. BANKERS HOLD SESSION Group Four of Oregon Association Electsx Officers. NDUSTRIAL FUTURE OF OREGON BRIGHT Manufactures Census Just Is sued Shows Big Growth in 1 909-1 9H Period. umber of Wage-Earners Makes S ubstantlal Increase Money Represented in All Classifica tions Totals $324,900,000. Markiner what bit he trrmH i close of one Industrial period and the upemng or, a new epoch in which in dustries of Oregon seem destined to gain vastly tn importance is the cen sus of manufactures Just issued by the r eaerai Bureau of Commerce, and ore- pared under the suDervision of W M. Steuart, chief statistician of manufac tures. While the Increases In Inriimtrv In .no auiig oeiween iu ana 1914. as hown by the report, indicate a healthv growth In that time, it is believed by the commercial Interests and organi sations that the period indicated as closed by this census Is to be followed by one in which the ratio of growth will be much greater and the material Increase In every industry steadily larger. Corporations Hake Gain. There was a slight increase between and 1914 In the total of all classes engaged in industry, in the number of "proprietors and officials" and firm members. The largest percentage of increase for any class was 66.1 per cent shown for salaried officers of cor porations. The total number of per sons engaged in industry in 1909 was 34.7ZZ. and in 1914 It was 35.449, an In crease of a little more than 700. Of those employed, 28.829. or about 80 per cent, were wage-earners, 330 were proprietors and officials and 2990 were clerks or salaried subordinate of ficials. While the increase in the num bers of persons employed in manufac turing has been but slight in those times, the increase in the value of the products has been more encouraging. In lumber and timber products, while the number of establishments decreased by 187, the number of wage-earners increased by 1178 and the value of the products increased by $720,550. Flour Mill Products Increase. Flour and grist mill products, which are second In importance In the state exclusive of custom mills grinding ex clusively for toll or local consumption decreased in the number of estab lishments, on account of the tendency toward centralisation of plants, but the products Increased 25.9 per cent, rep resenting $2,301,572. There was a 14.2 per cent increase in the number of wage-earners In the industry. TH third great Industry in the state meat packing and slaughtering not Including operation of retail shops. added 20.8 per cent In Its increase in wage-earners, and 27.3 per cent, or $1,- 607,305 in value of products, with a value added by manufacture of $419,- 969. A marked increase In butter, cheese and condensed milk, which rate fourth in the manufacturing industries of the state, was shown in the five-year period Indicated. The number of es tablishments Increased 24.2 per cent. and the value of the products $1,647,487, or 33.5 per cent. Publishing; Is in Fourth Plaee. Printing and publishing in all Its lines held fourth place in the indus tries of the state in 1909, but dropped to fifth in 1914, although It showed a marked increase in all items: Value of products, 19.2 per cent; value added by manufacture, lper cent, and num ber of establishments, 16.5 per cent increase. The drop to fifth place was due . not to a stoppage In the growth of this line of manufacture so much as to tne taster growtn maae in me oairy products line. Checking back on the year 1904 there is shown nearly a doubling in the number of establishments in the state. The money represented in the in dustry of the state for 1914, including capital, wages, cost of materials, value of products, rents and taxes, etc., reaches a total of nearly $415,000,000; while the total In the same items for 1909 is approximately $324,900,000, giv ing an increase in the period of al most $100,000,000. The total capital in Industry In 1899 was $28,359,089; in 1904. $44,023,548; in 1909, $89,081,873, and in 1914 it was $139,500,379. RIGGIN LOCATES REVOLVER Man Who Says He Shot Booth Show Where He Hid Weapon. TILLAMOOK, Or.. May 22. (Special William Riggin today went to th Trask house, 15 miles from this city, and revealed the hiding place of the revolver with which he declares he shot Booth at Willamina last year. The revolver, badly rusted from its long exposure, is in the possession of Warden Murphy, of the penitentiary, who accompanied Riggin today. It is of .38-caliber. Riggin located it with out difficulty. Ex-Sheriff Crenshaw and L. L. Stillwell, who sought the re volver previously, were unable to lo cate it at that time. FRANCIS motor CAR EXCHANGE PORTLAND, OREGON Gentlemen: Weare'ple.8a tcT acknowledge receipt of your Inquiry with reference to our experience with Zerolene and to say that It is an en tirely satisfactory lubri cant for Ford cars. 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Less wear and more power because Zerolene keeps its lubricating" body at cylinder heat. Less carbon because, be ing made from asphalt base crude, it burns clean and goes out on exhaust. Izerolene is the oil for your car whatever the make the oil for jail types of automobile engines. For correct grade get our lubrica- ttion chart covering your car. At dealers everywhere and Standard Service Stations STANDARD OIL COMPANY' (CALIFORNIA) r-'rr-.iijv- "wj MISSION' DRIVE DUE be offered, A member of the faculty of Reed College will have charge of the discussion. Spiritual Awakening in Oregon Diocese Is Forecast. CONVENTION OPENS TODAY Bishop AV. T. Sumner Declares That It Is Time for West to Awaken to Greater Responsibility in p Support of Church. OLD SHELLS CONDEMNED Bureau Decides Six-Inch Projectiles Prior to 1900 Aren't Safe. WASHINGTON. May 23. A report of Rear-Admiral Karle, chief of the Bu reau of Ordnance, on premature explo stons of shells on the armed American liners St. Louis. St. Paul and Mongolia, ade public tonight by Secretary Dan lels, shows that the bureau has reached the conclusion that six-Inch shells made prior to 1900 are not to be trusted and that all such ordnance has been with drawn from both naval and merchant ships. The report does not take up the ac cident on the Mongolia, which resulted in the death of two Red Cross nurses en rupte to Europe, the investistlng board In that case not bavins com pleted its work. DOCK NEEDS DISCUSSED E. W. SMITH SAYS INLAND EMPIRE IS LOOKINC TO PORTLAND, CHINESE LABOR SUGGESTED Railroad Head Fears Shortage When Army Goes to Prance. CHICAGO. May 22. Railroad heads of systems operating out of Chicago are devising plans for meeting a scar city of unskilled labor which they be lieve will follow the placing in service of the American Army of 1,000,000 men or more. W. J. Back, passenger traffic man ager of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, said today that a short age of track laborers Is probable. He added that one solution of the prob lem would be temporarily to remove restrictions against the admission of Chinese through Pacific ports. Anti-Liquor BUI Introduced. "WASHINGTON, May 22. Secretary Daniels' bill to prohibit sale to or pos session of liquor by sailors or marines in uniform, and to bar places of vice near naval posts, was introduced today by Chairman Padgett, of the House naval committee. It will conform with the Army liquor legislation. ft A WTO DACQ U. 4q f C I TH. n Tk. ft...,. ciul.) Group Four, Oregon State Bank- nlan. Main 7070, A 6035. Construction of Balk Grain Elevator and Shipping; Terminal Regarded as Important. "Inland Brapire residents are looking to Portland to make use of the nat ural advantages it has In the way of shipping," said Edgar W. Smith, a Port land business man. yesterday. Mr. Smith Is an extensive wheatgrower. operating two large farms in Umatilla County, and also owns a flour mill at Astoria. "After a great expense on the part of the Government and the Port of Portland, channel conditions at the mouth of the Columbia and In the river between Portland and the sea have been brought to a high stage of Improve ment, with the result that today all serious obstacles to navigation have been removed. In the future, shipown ers can have no exense against this port on that score, but in order to at tract ship lines now it Is necessary to provide adequate and modern shipping facilities here. "One of the first Important steps will be the construction of a bulk grain elevator and shipping terminal, such as is proposed by the Dock Commission. Authority to proceed with this project will be asked of the voters on June 4. The $3. 000.000 bond measure for that purpose ought to be adopted, for it will place Portland in a position to hold the bulk of the export grain trade of the Northwest, and also to regain a great part of the shipping that has been lost to other ports. This project Is most vital to Portland's shipping and future growth as a port. " Both Charge Other Love Affairs. GRAND RAPIDS. Mich.. May 19. Ar. e-uments In the divorce suit of John W. Goodspeed against his wife, Maude I. Goodsoeed. continued the other day. In the case Mr. Goodspeed has offered testimony concerning numerous ad mirers of his wife, among them a Chi cago clergyman. Mrs. Ooodspeed In reply charged that her husband wants a divorce in order to marry a sister of his first wife. "There is going' to be a spiritual awakening In the Diocese of Oregon. This coming year Is going to be a drive on missions." These statements, made by Bishop Walter T. Sumner last night in St. Stephen's Pro-Cathedral, sounded the keynote of the mass meeting held as the preliminary to the state conven tion of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon that will open today and continue tomorrow. T'-t bishop's talk summed up the messages given in the addresses of the Venerable Archdeacon John tmery, or California: the Rev. E. H. McCollister, dean of St. Stephen's; Dean Horsfall. of the Southern convocation. Coos County, and by the Rev. W. B. Hamil ton. of Medford, who were the other speakers. Harder Work la West Ankrd. Bishop Sumner declared that as the East had done so. much for the West In supplying funds In the past, it is now time for the West to work harder, give better and become spirit ually alive to its responsibility. Archdeacon Emery, who came to the Pacific Coast in 1865 "to escape beinjr a clergyman." as he Bald. and had labored diligently in mission and church work ever since and knew all the field of the eighth province, told the history of the early days, the hard ships, the faith and the triumphs that had come in the growth or the church He referred to his first visit to Bishop Scott in Portland In 1872, when he had met some of the "founders of pros perity In this city. Ladd. Tilton, Cap tain Ainsworth and others," and when stumps had stood In many of the thor oughfares. K very-Member Caavaaa Vrsred. Dean McCollister urged the every member canvass and the adoption cf the duplex envelope system. The need .for efficiency In the church as well as In business was emphasized tn an inspiring address by Rev. Mr. Hamlin, of Medford. t Dean Horsfall's address was an argument for missions, showing the vision of the early day churchfolk and the results they had wrought. He told of the hardships encountered by the missionaries In the Coos Bay coun try in years gone by when poor means of travel, bad roads and the lack of finances and equipment had made the task arduous. His talk was a review of the diocese of Oregon since 1872. The convention will open this morn ing. Business and addresses will be features. Lunch will be served by the women of St. Stephen's parish. Charter Amendments Topic. A meeting for the discussion of the amendments to the city charter will be held Wednesday night at 8 o'clock at I the Kenilworth fresDyierian unurrn. corner of Thirty-fourth street and , Ulauatoue avenue. Special music will CARDS BARREDJN ASTORIA Sloral Wave Set in Motion by Order of City Council. ASTORIA. Or.. May 22. (Special.) Astoria is being visited by another moral wave, and acting under instruc tions from the Council, the police de partment has issued orders that all card playing in cigar stores, soft drink joints and other public places must stop.. The department was also in structed to close all bawdy houses at once. CO. F RESERVES ELECTS A. P. GOSS FIRST LIEUTENANT AND DR. IJ. P. SHEPHERD SECOND. Robert Krskl la Captala f Orgaalsa- tla ! Irvlaartea Blnea aad Professional Men. At the election last night at the I r- vington Clubhouse, the members of Company F, Infantry, First Oregon Re serves, composed of business and pro fessional men who reside in Irving- ton, elected as First Lieutenant A. P. Goss. and as Second Lieutenant Dr. B. P. Shepherd. The election was held after the reg ular Tuesday night drill. The enlistment of Irvington men in a reserve company was proposed and carried out largely through the enter prise of E. J. Jaeger. Its rollcall now numbers 142 recruits. At the first election the company chose Robert Krohn as captain. Army officers are evincing great in terest in the progress of Company F, and its Tuesday night drills always are marked by one or more uniforms of the regular service, encasing ob servant and encouraging officers. The company has been congratulated on its proficiency in drill and appear ance by General Beebe and Colonel Dentler. both of whom have inspected it on drill nights. Its members vary In age from 35 to 50 years they are men of affairs, successful in business and the professions. But they are as deeply in earnest about their drilling and its purpose as any of the younger fellows who have donned the olive drab. MAYOR IS ACCUSED AGAIN Astoria Executive Faces 1i:u-kcs for Second Assault. ASTORIA. Or.. May 22. (Special.) A complaint was filed in the Justice Court this morning, charging Maj or F, C. Harley with assault and battery pn C. A. Lawton. The alleged assault is said to have taken place early on the morn'ing of May 8. and the charge is one of the outcomes of the street dis turbances which took place at that time. The hearing will take place to morrow morning. On next Saturday morning the case against the Mayor, charging him with assault and battery on A. Jaloff. will be tried. Children Aid Red Cross Regularly. SAN FRANCISCO. May 22. Twenty thousand San Francisco school children have pledged themselves to contribute 5 cents each a month to the American Red Cross. With the proceeds, $1000 a month, materials will be purchased out of which will be made, by the chil dren, necessary articles for the Lnited States troop?. " WEALTHY RANCHER KILLED R, W. VJckery and Family on Way to Portland to Visit Relatives. SEATTLE, Wash.. May 22. R. W. Vlckery, a wealthy pioneer rancher of Tolt. in this county, was instantly killed today when his automobile overturned on the Sunset Highway near Fall City and plunged into Raging River. Vickery. his wife and a -chauffeur were on their way to Portland, where the Vickerys intended to visit rela tives. Mrs. Vickery escaped serious injury. The driver was cut and bruised. FOUR REGISTER IN ADVANCE Men Working In Clackamas County Sign TJp at Oregon City. OREGON CITY. Or.. May 22. (Spe cial.) Four men signed in the office of Sheriff W. J. Wilson today in com pliance with the registration law. pre liminary to conscription. These men are either employed in precincts other than their own or will be out of this city on registration day, June 6. The men who signed today are George W. Thompson and his brother, Winfred A- Thompson, of Rose Lodge, Lincoln County; Victor Jugg and Ed mund Honlnger, of rural routes 1 and 2, Oregon City. McAdoo to Make Second Tour.' DENVER. Colo.. May 22. Secretary McAdoo, of the Treasury Department, announced here late today his intention to make a second trip on behalf of the liberty loan. This Journey will .carry him to New York, Boston. Detroit, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburg and Harris burg; Pa. He will leave Washington June 4 to make this tour. Special Excursions BOSTON and return $119.20 May 28-29 ST. PAUL and return 67.50 June- 1- 2 DES MOINES and return. 74.35 June 7-8 CHICAGO and return S0.00 June 12-13 via Great Northern Ry REGULAR SUMMER EXCURSIONS to ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS, DULUTH, SUPERIOR, SIOUX CITY, OMAHA, ST. JOE, KANSAS CITY, ST. LOUIS, CHICAGO, DETROIT, BUFFALO, CINCIN NATI. PITTSBURG, WASHINGTON, D. C, PHILA DELPHIA, NEW YORK, BOSTON and many other points, on sale daily June 20th to 30th, inclusive, and various dates thereafter throughout July, August and September. Write or call for additional information at CITY TICKET OFFICE, 348 Washington Street, Portland II. DICKSON, C.P.&T. A. Telephones : Marshall 3071 A 22S6