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13 JITNEYS MAY FORGE CUT IN GAR SERVICE Trunks, Suit Cases and Traveling Bags, 4th Floor Hammocks, Lawn Swings, Camp Kits, Tennis an d Golf Goods, Kodaks, on the 4th Floor Tea Room on 4th Floor Furniture, Carpets, Rugs and Draperies 3d Floor Rest Rooms, Public Telephones', Writing Rooms,2 d Floor Soda Fountain in the Basement Underpriced Store. June Patterns Now Ready in the Pattern Department, Main Floor. Summer Style Book and Good Dressing Fashion Booklets are also ready for distribution now. PORTLAND AGENTS FOR GOSSARD CORSETS. A MODEL FOR EVERY FIGURE. 2D FLOOR. PORTLAND AGENTS FOR THE OHIO STANDARD ELECTRIC SUCTION CLEANERS. PRICE $30. Subscribe to U. S. Liberty Loan under this store's guarantee to take your bond in exchange for mer chandise or to Bpply on your ac count. SUBSCRIBE NOW! The Standard Store of the Northwest Olds, Wortman & Kind; Company Said to Be Waiting for Vote June 4 on Regu latory Ordinances. Reliable Merchandise Reliable Methods Double Stamps With Charge or Cash Purchases in All Depts. REVENUES ARE IN DANGER THE MORNING- OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, MAT 24, 1017. Curtailment of Service, Now Heavier Than Required by Franchise, Ivlkely In Outlying Districts If Jitneys Are .Not Regulated. TThllo officials of tho Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company have re- xueea to maxa any statement on the subject. It la reported that the Jitney -.re.-xree.ts measure to be voted on at the city election, June 4, Is being joouea. on as the last straw on the camel's back. If the measure is en acted and the jitneys are turned loose without regulation as provided in the measure, the company will be forced. It Is reported, to meet the situation by a general curtailment of streetcar service in the outlying sections. Two and a half years of Jitney com petition In the close-in districts has coet the street railway company $1,260, 000, acoordlng to estimates. This loss, together with general business depres sion during part of that time and the inoreased costs of materials and the Increased wages of men, has been a serious setback for the company, neces sitating the elimination of many con , tetnplated Improvements, including a cross-town line on the East Elds. Franchise Permits Reduction. Although the franchise of the com pany would permit the cutting of pres ent schedules of service In two, the service has not been curtailed, being kept up In the outlying districts as well as In the Jitney zones. The heavy losses have been shoul dered In hope that the people In time would realize the seriousness of cut throat tactics employed by the Jitneys and would move for their regulation In some manner that would place the streetcar and Jitney on an equal basis. This confidence has ben 'based on the fact that the people In 1915 voted over whelmingly for Jitney regulation. Dra.tle Chans; Impends. Should the confidence In the future be shattered by the ellmintaion of even the minimum regulation now Im posed on the Jitneys, It Is said the company would be foroed. In order to avoid receivership, to adopt drastic re duction of service in parts of the city. If not everywhere. The company's franchises call for 16 mlnute service on all of the lines. The company, however, gives much more frequent service on all the lines. Rather than take the receivership course. It is reported the company contemplates a curtailment of the service, this being the only way open to meet the reverses that would follow adoption of the free streets measure. Many Lines Affected. "While no definite schedule of serv loe has been made public, it Is un derstood that this rearrangement would affect to a greater or lesser extent such lines as Mount Bcott, Lents, Monta villa, Rosa City Park, St. Johns. KeHwood, Brooklyn, Willamette Heights, Fulton and possibly some of the others. Through the activities of the Jitney interests and their hackers. Jitney reg ulation has gone from bad to worse during the last two and a half years. It started off with a moderate regula tir.Tv nrt bv various means has gradu ally simmered down to no regulation other than the payment by Jitneys of a license fee of 2 a month. This has been In spite of the fact that the voters in 1915 declared by overwhelming vote in favor of regulation. HOME PRODUCTS BOOSTED City and State Working Together to Increase Sales. " Request of City Auditor Barbur for appointment of a committee to investi gate and formulate a plan for boost ing home products was referred by the City Council yesterday to Auditor Bar bur and City Commissioner Bigelow to formulate a definite plan. II. B. Miller, director of the School of Commerce of the University of Ore gon, appeared before the Council and explained the work being done along this line by his organization and asked that If a committee be appointed it shall be for the purpose of concentrat lng into one organization all the vari ous committees and organizations now handling separate and Individual cam paigns In behalf of home products. SCHOOLS ASK FOR GARDEN Forty Acres of Old County Farm Wanted for Children. Dr. Alan Welch Smith, of the School Board, yesterday asked the County Commissioners for the use of 40 acres of land at the old County Poor Farm to be used for school gardens. Dr. Smith appeared before the Board in person and assured the members that every acre of land the Board would offer for this purpose would be put under cultivation at the earliest possible moment. He likewise called at tention to available land at' the old City Pound and the Board will inves tlgate and see if that also may be cul tivated For the Up-standing Man at the front, in the trenches, on the firing line in any business, the best food to sustain energy and strength is Shredded Wheat Biscuit, the food that sup plies in a digestible form the greatest amount of body building nutriment at lowest cost A better-balanced ration than meat; or eggs, or potatoes. Two or three of these Biscuits with milk make a satisfying, nourish' ing breakfast that puts you in top-notch condition for the day's work. Delicious ly wholesome and nourish ing for any meal with berries, or other fresh fruits. Made at Oakland California- Extra Special for Thursday Women's Suits $19.95 Shown in Plain Colors, Stripes and Checks Second Floor The Suit Store announces for Thursday a very special offering of Women's and Misses' high-class Suits at a price which affords a noteworthy saving. The assortment is made up of garments from our regular stock beautiful models in the smart loose-fitting effects for sport and street wear, also many novelty styles. Materials are fine quality wool serges, gabardines, Poiret twills, poplins, velours and burella cloth. All have the newest large collars. This season's most approved fashions. Practically all sizes J" Q OK to begin with. Thursday you may take your choice at only O-LaeatJ L Women's Coats $19.95 to Smart Styles for. All Occasions Second Floor Fashionable new Spring and Summer Coats taken from our regular 6tock and greatly reduced for quick clearaway. New loose effects with large collars and deep cuffs, smart belted styles, semi-fitting and high waist line models many are finished with silk stitching, buttons, tassels, etc Sport effects in short lengths, also three-quarter lengths. Made up in Q QK a splendid range of materials and colors. Thursday special at only Diel7eJ Coffee Day Model Grocery Fourth Floor Experienced telephone clerks at your service 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. OWK Imperial Roast OQp Coffee, Thursday, pound t OWK Tea English Breakfast, Ceylon or Uncolored Japan. OQ Thursday special a pound OUt OWK Cocoa priced spe- Ol f cial for Thursday, pound "TXw I -..-. -V -. .-.... T..W New Bird images ery- AU 6izes in the lot Bird lovers will be inter ested in know ing that our new 1917 stock of the famous Hendryx bird cages have ar rived. In the showing there are enameled cages at $1.25 to $2. Enam eled with gilt trimmings at $1.25 to $3.25 brass cages $2.00 to $9.90. (Cage as il lustrated priced at $8.40.) We also show a full line of breeding cages and mocking bird cages. 3d Floor. Women's Petticoats at 89c Center Circle, Main Floor 300 Women's Petticoats in a phenomenal one-day sale at a very special price. Made up in excellent quality sateen in medium weight. Shown in floral effects, also plain tops with plaid flounces. Some trimmed QQ with plaited ruffles. Thursday, your choice OtL Dainty Waists at Only 89c e"t " f n w y w g .? rp?- r v9 if Tftf nirtrw a. -r v mrw w m r mm w J w M. ww m w M. S J A i . j jy Scores of pretty models with new large collars. b ancy voiles, madras, lawn, striped sateen and soisette. lfiectively trimmed with laces and embroid- on Thursday, special Ual mm " "Wf-" 1T' lVJ ... Basement Special Heavy Bleached Muslin Thursday 11c Yard Basement Underprice Store On account of the very low price quoted above not more than 20 yards will be allowed each customer and no telephone orders will be accepted. These restrictions are necessary In order that all may have an equal opportunity to share in the offer ing. Splendid heavy quality full bleached muslin of firm, even weave and soft finish free from all filling or dressing. Excellent for un derwear, sheets, pillow cases, etc. Shop early in the day. 36- - " inch Bleached Muslin. On sale in Basement at special, yard J-AC DOUBLE STAMPS GIVEN WITH ALL PURCHASES. New White Hats Special. $10 See Special Display in Morrison-St. Window A $10 sale of beautiful new white Mil linery that will interest you and every woman. Such charming Hats as would ordinarily sell at from one-third to one half more if bought in the regular way, fortunately our buyer secured the lot (210 hats) at a price which enables us to say $10 for any hat in the assortment. Very newest models in White Milans, French Hemp, Leg horns, Silk and Leghorn, Milan and black vel vet combinations, also French Hemp faced with black velvet. Smart new Sailors, Turbans and Novelty Shapes of all kinds. Many plain band Bailors are included, as well as others trimmed with wings, stickups, pert ribbon bows and J$-. novelties of various kinds. Don't miss this V splendid opportunity to choose a beautiful V- new Hat at a big saving. See window display. On sale Thursday in Millinery Salons, Qlh J1U on the Second Floor. Your choice at Mercerized Pattern Cloths Only 98c Main Floor Mercerized damask Pattern Cloths in size 64x64 inches. Shown in attractive patterns. These are very desirable for breakfast cloths and for the beach cottage. Launder easily and wear well. Buy a couple at this low QQp price, epecial for today at Ol Men's Hats Entire Stock REDUCED! Main Floor All Men's Straw and Felt Hats will be sold until fur ther notice at the following spe cial prices. This includes our celebrated "Napoleon" and "Well ington" makes. Step in and make your selection at once and tell your friends of this caving sale. All Men's $1.75 to $2.50 Hats special at All Men's $3.00 Felts and Straws on sale at All Men's $4.00 Straw Hats now at All Men's $5.00 Pan amas and Leghorns at $6.00 Panamas and Bankoks now selling $7.50 Panamas and Bankoks on sale only S1.50 S2.25 S2.75 S3.75 S4.25 S5.50 NEW TINTED NAINSOOK FOR LINGERIE, $2.25-$3 BOX Drapery Remnants Yi Price At the Bargain Circle Main Floor Several hundred Remnants and Short Lengths of drapery goods marked half for Thursday's selling. Cretonnes, Swisses, Madras, Voile, Filet Net and Marquisettes in good lengths 1 to 5 yards. First choice is the best. Shop in the morning. Cretonne Pillows in assorted col ors, filled with silk floss. FJOn Thursday special at only 0 1 36-inch Fancy colored madras special the vard aO lr Lace Curtain Corners in various styles each for 29c Rag Rugs Underpriced 18x36 OO. Rag Kugs, size 36x72 Cff A O OOls inches. Special now at wltlO Rag Rugs, size inches priced 45 and Rag Rugs, size 27x54 C- OP inches, special now at wl.Aitl Rag Rugs, size SSx'i inches. Special now at -Axminster Rugs, size J0 A Q 27x54 inches on sale at Women's New Novelty Boots Lace or Button Styles Special T f CI Main Floor This stock cannot be duplicated at the fac- j f f w. 0 1 Jr tory today for any such price. Strictly high-grade foot- I lrV wear from America's best makers. Very latest novelty styles, I 1 I one of which Is illustrated herewith. All-white kid, all-gray h nubuck, all-brown vici, black kid and numerous two-tone styles. Shaped heels of different heights and all the popular styles in toes. Buttoned or laced effects as you prefer. Women's Pumps, Pair $3.48 Main Floor Great variety of styles , and materials. Patent, dull kid or calf. Dressy half-Louis heels or low heels. Strap effects and popular Peggy Pumps with bow or ornament. Quality Shoes. Priced spe- OO 40 cial for this sale, the pair DOxO All sizes and widths. Special $6.98 a pair. Canvas Boots $3.98 Women's White Canvas Laced Boots, 8 inches high, with covered concave heel and narrow plain toe. Special QQ QQ for this sale at only, the pair 30e0 0, . h : cTraining The Child , by William Byron Forbush. PhD. I and all A aeemec F YOU had all the time you want all the money you need " I d to hear the great audi ence smack Its Hps "how would you spend your timer The audience slumped In Its chairs. It was the same response that I heard at another time to the similar question: "After you have been In heaven a hundred years, what are you going to do next?" Have you any suitable answer? After you have rested until you are tired, after you have played until there are no more new games, after you have spent until there is nothing more to spend what next? When we have hurried a lifetime to get, what to do with what we have got? Art Is More Than "Kanoy Work." Ross Crane asked the question. He asked it of a lot of people crowded Into an Indiana "AcademjP f Music." His own answer was: "Art." Crane la extension director of the Art Insti tute of Chicago. Most of yo uthlnk art is Taney work Tou think it Is the fad of feeble people who are unable to "get ahead. Or you think It Is an indulgence that belongs to the wealthy. But art Is life." Then Crane turned to the easel be hind him and drew a picture. He daubed In a gray-green background. He scrawled some black lines across it. He talked as he did so. He told about taking a Winter ride through North Dakota, where he had once frozen his feat. The audience smiled, when he said "he didn't like North Dakota." This time he was on a train with a lot of immigrants. A I.esaoB From a Winter Sanset. He didn't like the immigrants. He did not like their guttural voices. He dis liked their numerous children. He did not like what they ate, or the way It smelled. As the day ended the clouds grew thin. And Crane began to dash in some scarlet and pink into the sky until black farm buildings stood out In sil houetted gracefulness against a heav enly sky. He told how all the immi crants crowded over to the west side of the car, and how a grimy little girl crept up into the seat beside 'him and asked him: "Is it not beau-u-tlf ul. Mis ter?" This sunset was not "fancy work." He spoke to the soul of men. It found them and helped them to self-expression. Crane said that wherever men express themselves they are artists. He knew of a miller who had a poem to show him, and when he went to hear It read he onnd It was not in a book it was just his mill. Introducing Indiana to Pictures. The next day Crane led a great pro cession of these folks past a line of paintings from the Art Institute. "Titty thousand dollars' worth of them." the advance agent had said. But Crane was not there to name their prices, but to show their value. 'Would you believe that the third day people had to be turned away? Did you suppose that even In Indiana folks would care for pictures like that? , Crane had to be plain with them. The fourth day he pulled out "Pharaoh's Horses" and the Bougereau Madonna and other popular home "decorations," and then pointed to a charming statu ette by a young Chicago student. "That," he cried. "Is the stuff you have been buying! And this for the same price is what you might have had." High School and the Art Impulse. One morning Crane took a couple of the paintings under his arm loaned by our leading artists for this special pur pose and carried them In a cab up to the high school. There he told the boys and girls what these canvasas had meant In the lives of the men who painted them. A month later there was an exhibit of local art. Embrolderlen, coverlets, kindergarten trinkets, wash drawings, from the schools, masterpieces by the self-taught were all there. A kind, but firm art critic had rejected the worth less. Here was the Indiana soul in elf -expression. In another month there was an ex hibit of Industrial art, a proof that in business and commerce workmanllke ness and handicraft pay. Crane told these people bow hideous were their public buildings, how home ly their dwellings. They asked to know what they might do. He suggested the decent veil of vine-planting for what was old. He got the Chicago Institute of Architects to furnish, without cost, elevations of lovely, inexpensive homes, and they are on their way to Indiana today. The -Vlghtmarea of "Architecture." It is, of course, simply the Chautau qua way of giving the people a new outlook. Probably if Ross Crane had not been a Chautauqua cartoonist for 20 years he would not be able to do It. An eminent lecturer In the history of art made a mess of it when he tried. "I talked to the old people," said Crane to me. "but it was the young people I had in mind. Homebody has got to know what la hideous. They are the only ones who can change things. Our towns are the most ugly in the world, but they can make them differ ent. Our homes are inherited night mares, but they can tear them down and build beautiful ones." cats, dogs and chickens, and visitations of all sorts of Insect pests. If your ground Is rich and wind and sun ex posure Just right your plantings will come up and mature much quicker than if their environment is not so good. In these days of the high cost of everything It is not necessary for you to buy a new account book to keep your garden records In make a little record book for yourself the size you want It from light brown wrapping paper, insldes of used envelopes, etc., and keep this garden record with the plat of your garden. Three of the most essential things to be entered in your record book are the time of all your plantings, the time they came up and when you first used their product, so you should have four columns at least on each page showing the name of the vegetable and these three other items; other matters may also be Jotted down, as the weather, moon's phases. Insect raids, fertilizer used. You will find that exact data as to all these things will help you so much from season to season as to much more than pay for the extra time and labor consumed In making such a record, and an exact garden plat will help you in the rota tion of your crops, for it Is seldom well to plant the same crop successively in the same place unless you use a great deal of fertilizer; as a general rule root and top crops should be alternated, except in th o.a of a fw varitle. Oregon "Food ( Campaign ( OFFICIAL) (Oregon Agricultural Collar Extension Service and Unitd Statas Department of Agriculture Co-operating.) A CAREFUL, comparison of the prices of eggs and poultry foods in May, 1(16, and 1917, demonstrates the fact that pullets from a good egg laying strain may produce a profit un der present conditions. This statement Is based on results obtained from a flock of 20 Barred Plymouth Rock pul lets kept at the Oregon Experiment Station during the- II months ending November 30, ltlC. This pen of fowls had no range and all their food was weighed and charged against them. The food consumed per hen during the 12 months was worth S1.S0, and the same food purchased at the prices pre vailing in April and May. 1917. would have cost $3.06, an Increase of 71 per cent, or S1.2S per hen. This feed was purchased at wholesale by the ton and. if purchased in small quantities at the retail store the cost would have been greater. However, it should be stated that If the fowls had been on free range under farm conditions, the cost would be considerably less on account of waste foods picked up on the farm. A total of 3617 eggs were produced by this pen of fowls in 12 months, an average of 181 eggs per hen, worth $85.42 at highest wholesale prices in Portland. In other words, each hen produced an average of tt '-7 worth of eggs at prices which prevailed during the year ending November 30, 1916. The hens were extra good layers and,1 according to the last census figures, they produced about 100 more eggs per hen than the average farm hen of the United States. If the hens had laid 2000 eggs or an average of 100 eggs per hen, the value of the eggs would have been $47.21 or $2.36 per hen. In point of fact, the value would have been less because a hen that lays only 100 eggs a year will lay a smaller percentage of them in the months of high prices, and it is prob able that there would have been a loss Instead of a gain. However, should the farmer have a fairly good laying strain, he should be able to obtain, if they are pullets, an average of 150 eggs the value of which would be $3.55, leaving a profit of $1.75 on the feed at last year's prices of eggs and feed. These results are based on the whole sale egg prices in Portland as quoted by the dally newspapers. -Some obtain better prices. On the other hand, a man with a small flock usually sells his eggs at a local store for much less. After all points are considered it may Whatu Can Make At Home By Mrs. Portland. IF YOU are going to make the garden wisdom that you acquire this year In the management of your vegetables serve you to the betterment of your work for other seasons. It will be quite necessary for you to keep records of plantings, first appearance of vege tables, seed and fruit gatherings, etc. No two pieces of land are exactly alike and the production of your garden will be Influenced by the nature of the soli, slope and drainage, exposure to sun light and wind, depredations of stray 911 jl5Ml4 Thc Bo Who fcoeco Shocs W.L.Douglas Pegging Shoes at Seven Years of Age. Sixty-Five years ago W. L. Douglas started acquiring the know ledge of how to make good shoes. EL WiL.TUQLA "THS SMOS THA.T HOLDS ITS SIIA.FE" $3.50 $4 $4.50 You can Save Money by Wearing VV. L. Douglas Shoes. The best Known Shoes in the World. W. L. Douglas name and the retail price is stamped on the bottom of all shoes at. the factory. The value is guaranteed and the wearer protected against high prices for inferior shoes. The retail prices are the same everywhere. They cost no more in San Francisco than they do in New York. They are always worth the price paid for them. The quality of W.L, Douglas product is guaranteed by more than 40 years experience in making fine shoes. The smart styles are the leaders in the fash ion centres of America. They are made in a well equipped factory at Brockton, Mass., by the highest paid, skilled shoemakers, under the direction and supervision or experienced men, all working with an honest determination to make the best shoes for the price that money can buy. . Ask our dealer (see address below) for W. Hi. Don si a 3 Skoefl. If ho cannot supply you -with the kind you want, take no other make. Write for in terestinjj booklet explaining bow to jret shoes of the . jt m hi jr best standard of fAT V ,' s quality for the price oJZ.T"Sif $5 Sc 36 o.; .-.- W: i . I'-ulj!!?.' KSito if "; J UiiS i-M ;v--i-s-:-.--v;::-:. 31 "'TTi'-i SUBSTITUTES 7 K V V lit 1 VJLS tr rftf 11 m mail m- t IT-Wdent - - !. Ionrl age free. a Shoe Co. 1S5 Spark St., -Brockton, Maaa. BOYS SHOES Bam iatbt World S.0O 2 50 $2.00 Look for W. L. DOUGLAS Name and the Retail Price Stamped on the BOTTOM. Sold.by BARON'S SHOE STORE. 230-232 Morrison Street. Portland. On. be fairly concluded that a poultry raia er will make a profit if he can obtain a. production of 150 e-fs per hen, at the feed prices that prevailed in the Willamette Valley last year. Also, with good management and (rood mar keting he will make a profit at 115 epgrs per hen. at last year's feed price?, allowing n fair rum for labor cost. James Dryden, Poultry Specialist at O. A. C. Phone your want ads to The OreKO nlan. Main 7070. A 605. What to do ivhen Backache comes on "X round immediate relief In the xua f Tolr -Kicla.r Hill, l&av. rwoo mended them, and do sot know et i-c-g-le instance when tbey railed, to give reiisX." C. TJ. Landrum. a traveling salesman, writes from San Aneelo. Texas: ".Driving- over rough roads and in all kinds of weather gave me acute pains in the back and I suffered preatlv. I found relief in th use of Foley Kidnev Pills, and before the first bottle was used, the pain in my back had entirely disap- peared and 1 have had no recurrence of those pains which frequently amounted to almost neuralgia proportions." When backache comes on. and It seems as if you can't Ftand the pain and pressure In your back, you will find quick and grateful relief comes with the use of Foley Kidney Pills. They etop the cause of the pain, ease the stiff achlnir Joints and muscles, and clear the poisons out of your evstem by helping your kidneys and bladder to normal healthy action. For Shin Irritation There is one safe, dependable treat ment that relieves itching torture and skin irritation almost instantly and that cleanses and soothes the skin. ) Ask any druggist for a 25c or $1 bottle f temo and apply it as directed. Soon you will find that irritations, pimples, black heads, eczema, blotches, ringworm and similar skin troubles will disappear. A little lerno. the penetrating, satis fying liquid, is all that is needed, for it banishes alt skin eruptions and make, the skin soft, smooth and healthy. I The E. W. Rose Co.. Cleveland. O. See Superfluous Hair Roots Come Right Out (Entirely New PMwrnn ) New, different, better than all depila tory and electrical treatments, is the marvelous phelactine process. It's the one thing that artually removes the roots as well as the hair on the surface. It does this Instantaneously, leavlna the skin perfectly smooth and hairless. Get a stick of phelactine from your drua-gist today, follow the easy Instruc tions, and with your own eyes watch the hair-roots come out! Tou'll he astonished and delighted. Phelactine Is entirely odorless, non-Irritating, and so harmless you could eat it. Always sold under a money-back guarantee Adv.