Morning Oregonian., June 23, 1917, Page 7, Image 7

THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, 23, 1917.
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GREAT GLASS JABS
TO GATHER FUNDS
Gates of Generosity to Open
"Mercy Monday" in Final
( of Red Cross Drive.
DIAL STATIONARY 2 DAYS
Honor Guard Girls, Boy Scouts and
lied Cross Xurses to Join With
Speakers in Appeals Music
and Fireworks to End Drive.
RED CROSS SCHEDULE OF
EVENTS.
Saturday "Payroll" day. Cap
tains and workers clean up all
unfinished lists of names and
districts assigned.
Saturday, 8 to 10:30 P. M.
Final rally of speaking campaign
In the shadow of the Big Red
Cross.
Sunday, all day "House-to-house"
campaigners continue
"follow-up" calls throughout en
tire city.
Sunday, all day Huge glass
Jars, under guard of honor, will
be located at four -corners flank
ing Big Red Cross at Sixth and
Alder.
Monday "Mercy Monday." Big
"something - from - everyone"
squad will be on duty all day at
the Big Red Cross.
Monday, 7:30 to 9:30 P. M.
Brilliant patriotic concert and
musical entertainment as climax
of the campaign, at the foot of
the Big Red Cross. Splendid tal
ent, fine programme, bands, solo
ists, quartet, fireworks, bombs
and rockets. Hand on the big
clock will be moved for the last
time, showing grand total of
Portland's bit.
The gates of generosity In a good
cause will open their widest on Mercy
Monday, aptly named and final day of
the Red Cross campaign.
On Mercy Monday the prediction of
L. L. Pierce, campaign manager of the
Western division, comprising all terri
tory this side of old Mississippi, is to
come to pass.
In a telegram received yesterday at
Portland Red Cross campaign head
quarters, Mr. Pierce congratulated Port
land on her triumphant progress, and
predicted that the Western division
would raise its quota of 12,000,000 to
$15,000,000, or more.
Clock to Keep Secret.
In preparing for Mercy Monday's all
eclipsing record, field workers of the
Portland campaign will, hold no jubi
lant luncheon today, nor will they as
semble to report. Both committees,
under Chairman Ayer and Chairman
Reed, will labor without pause. Mean
time the great clock at Sixth and
Alder will hold Itself in quiet mystery.
Several important factors are to con
tribute to its final leap, chief among
which will be the employes organiza
tion on which Chairman Ayer's com
mittee worked yesterday. It is intend
ed that no employe of the city's whole
sale house, big stores and other estab
lishments employing many, shall be
slighted. All shall have the chance to
give to the Red Cross. Moreover the
general house-to-house canvass Is not
yet completed, while the financial rally
of Mercy Monday itself must be taken
largely into account.
Lots Sold for Red Cross.
Novel among tho gifts of yesterday
were those of R. B. In man and W. B.
Ayer, who bought two Rose City Park
lots, .offered by a friend of the good
cause, paying $550 for each, and giving
the proceeds to the cause. The lots
are to be sold again for the Red Cross.
Tonight the stage will be partially
set for Mercy Monday. Sight huge
glass carboys will be placed at the cor
ners of Sixth and Alder streets, and at
the foot of the Red Cross clock. From
8 to 10 o'clock speakers will plead for
the cause, the Boy Scout buglers will
call to the croVds.
Into those carboys the throngs will
cast their change. It is so ordained,
and the jars are amply large. And so,
soldiers, and Honor Guard girls, and
Boy Scouts, and the speaking battery
will hold the square for the mission
of mercy.
So will It be on Sunday, and all pas
ersby, whether they tread the pave
ment or roll along in flivvers and touring-cars,
are exhorted to remember the
carboys and the cause: for a war is
not to be won without wounds, and
wounds may not be staunched without
dressings and right there is where the
Ked Cross comes in.
ClocK Movm Monday Xootu
On Mercy Monday the carboys and
their guard will be on duty with the
lilting larks. At noon, with Joyful
ceremony, the clock will wave its' hand
at the onlookers and register progress.
Somewhere around $300,000, to a cer
tainty. And through the day, as re
ports come in, the clock will leap for
ward, while spielers will spiel before
the carboys. Honor Guard girls as Red
Cross nurses, will smile down all re
fusal. Boy Scouts will bugle, and "the
best of good times will be had by all."
All arrangements for the spielers and
speakers' squad of Mercy Monday have
been relinquished, -by Chairman John C.
English, of the speakers' bureau, to
Frank L. McGuire, president of the
Portland Realty Board, who has ap
pointed Herman Von Borstel chairman
of the leather-lunged . and silver
tongued committee.
From 7 o'clock in the morning of
Mercy Monday until 9:30 at night, the
spielers and speakers, in batteries of
four, with frequent relays, will draw
the glittering dollar from the deepest
trouser pocket and hale forth the
shrinking dime and corpulent, coy
nickle. All bars will be down and the
giving will be informal.
The final meeting of the Red Cross
workers will be held at the Hotel Port
land at 8 in the evening, when the last
reports will be heard and an adjourn
ment taken to join the hubbub down
the street.
Concert Closes "Drive.''
The patriotic concert before the Red
Cross clock at Sixth and Alder streets
will include the Police band, with ad
ditional members; Mrs. Herman Politz,
dramatic soprano; Dr. Stuart McGuire,
baritone; Monte Austin, the "boy with
the big voice," and the Portland Ad
Club" quartet- Special music will be
heard all day through the cheerful
services of the fife and drum corps of
the Sons of the United Spanish-American
War Veterans.
And at 9:30 they will give the Red
Cross clock its final impetus. Where
will that triumphant hand tarry?
No matter. At the figure it desig
nates, and at the instant it reaches
that figure, "most everyone in Port
land, and vicinity will have audible
testimony that the Red Cross drive was
successful in more than the meaning
fit the word. With bombs and rockets
and patriotic singing the drive will
disband.
HOOD RIVER REACHES GOAIi
Regret Expressed Wrong Impression
Given by Billy Sunday Request.
HOOD RIVER, Or., June 22. (Spe
cial.) C. N. Ravlin, in charge of the
week's drive to raise $4000 for the Red
Cross, says the members of the ten
collecting teams reached their goal to
night. The teams, however, will not
cease their activities, but will redouble
their efforts to morrow to end the
drive, with the Apple Valley contribu
tions far in excess of the sum set.
"The wrong impression has gone out,"
says Mr. Ravlin, "relative to Hood
River's request of Billy Sunday. We
would never have asked Mr. Sunday
for a cent if he had fully understood
the terms of his contribution in New
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Robert J. Cosgriff.
Robert J. Cosgriff, a Portland
boy, has been commissioned a
Second Lieutenant in the Officers'
Reserve Corps at the Presidio,
San Francisco. He went into
training with the rest of the
Portland contingent early in May
and is one of the first to be com
missioned. Lieutenant Cosgriff is a son of
Mrs. Elizabeth Cosgriff, an offi
cial of the home-finding bureau
of the Juvenile Court. He was
graduated from Lincoln High
School with the class of 1916 and
was president of his class that
year. After leaving school he
went to Eastern Oregon, where
he worked in the mines for sev
eral months. The family home in
Portland Is at 184 East Fifty
fifth street.
York. Since we have been Informed of
his magnanimous gift, we feel fortu
nate, indeed, that he has been so con
siderate as to appropriate an extra $50
for our local fund."
COOS COUNTY EXPECTS $30,000
Liberal Subscriptions at Start Make
Red Cross Task Easy.
MARSHFIELD, Or., June 22. (Spe
cial.) Coos County has already over
subscribed her Red Cross allotment and
has over $26,000 in hand and pledged.
The campaign has been a fast one
here and, with good leaders and liberal
people to start off the subscriptions,
the task was easily handled. L. J.
Simpson increased his donation from
$500 to $1000 and his brother, Edgar
Simpson, of Sacramento, sent another
$1000.
It is believed the Coos County sub
scription will be more than $30,000 and
may reach double the amount asked.
WORK AT LEBAXOX IS LIVELY
In Sweet Home Precinct, Seven Men
Donate $4 00.
LEBANON, Or., June 22. (Special.)
The Red Cross work in Lebanon has
been meeting splendid success. The
drive commenced Tuesday and by
Thursday night the returns showed
more than $2200 for the city. Sweet
Home Is the banner precinct in the
county for liberal subscription. The
town has about 200 people and the
precinct 500; by Wednesday night their
subscription had reached $600, with
considerable of the precinct not can
vassed. Seven men of that precinct gave $400,
one giving $100 and the other six $50
each. These were: S. V. Barr, $100, J.
N. Galbreath, Victor Rose, Robert Rals
ton, Will Scholl, W. B. Peairs and J. P.
Harrang each $50.
ONTARIO OPENS REAL DRIVE
Whirlwind Campaign Started to
Pass Allotment Far.
ONTARIO, Or., June 22. (Special.)
Ontario passed its allotment in the Red
Cross drive today. More than $5000
has been obtained in the city and the
surrounding territory.
Nyssa, Kingman colony. Big Bend
and Owyhee, all of which were grouped
with Ontario in an effort to raise the
$5000, have inaugurated a whirlwind
campaign which will bring the grand
total of the district to about $7000.
which, with the Vale and Brogan funds,
will make Malheur's total more than
$10,000, or 25 per cent above the allot
ment. 10 IGNORE PLEA ; LOSE JOBS
Chehalis Manufacturer Ousts Men
AVho Wouldn't Contribute.
CHEHALIS. Wash, June 22. (Spe
cial.) Many subscriptions were turned
in from manufacturing plants in this
city today. The Palmer Lumber .&
Manufacturing Company pooled the
subscriptions, but they were made up
at the plant by individual subscrip
tions. When O. K. Palmer was informed
that 10 of his men refused to con
tribute a cent to the Red Cross work,
he promptly ordered their discharge.
Forest Grove Sets Limit at $8000.
FOREST GROVE, Or., June 22.
(Special.) The second day in the big
Red Cross drive saw Forest Grove
and vicinity exceed the sum of $5000
assigned by the committee, and at the
close of the third day the sum totaled
$6500 and the committee has set $8000
as the final figures. The patriotic
response has been splendid. The drive
will continue unabated until Monday
night.
Grants Pass Doubles Quota.
GRANTS PASS, Or., June 22. (Spe
cial.) The total Red Cross subscrip
tion for this city at the close of the
campaign tonight amounted to $8200.
This is more than 'doable the original
quota.
Idaho Sets New Goal.
BOISE. Idaho. June 22. Idaho has
completed its 2SO.00O allotment for the
Red. Cross and exceeded it by $15,000,
according to announcement tonight.
Pledges still are pouring in and a
new goal of $300,000 has been. set.
DRYS PLAN DRIVE III
FOOD BILL DEBATE
Absolute Prohibition Against
Use of Grain for Liquor
Is Advocated.
HOUSE ACTION DUE TODAY
Plans for Compromise of Differ
ences in Senate Are Promising
and Measure May Go to Con
ference by July 1.
WASHINGTON, June 22. All other
phases of the rather perfunctory de
bate in the House over the food con
trol bill were overshadowed tonight by
interest in preparation by prohibition
advocates for a determined effort to
insert a stronger "dry" provision be
fore the final vote tomorrow.
The section which would authorize
the President to limit, regulate, pro
hibit or reduce the supply of food ma
terials or feeds used in making alco
holic liquors falls short of the demands
of most of the anti-liquor elements.
A majority hopes for absolute prohi
bition of the use of grain for beverage
purposes during the war. They are
not agreed on any one proposed amend
ment, however, and their divisions may
result in leaving the present provision
unchanged.
Outlook in Senate Good.
Except for' the prohibition drive,
nothing was In sight tonight, to pre
vent passage of the measure in the
House tomorrow, and the outlook in
the Senate for quick action also was
considered good.
Promising plans for compromises on
disputed points in the Senate caused
Chairman Gore, of the agricultural
committee, and Senator Chamberlain,
in charge of the bill, to express the
belief that it -would be ready for con
ference by July l.the date by which
PresldentWilson urges that the legis
lation should be enacted.
Formality of debate proceeded in the
Senate with Senator Reed, of Missouri,
occupying most of the afternoon in op
position to the measure, while other
leaders continued informal conferences
looking to compromises.
Borah Otters Amendment.
A plan for adjournment tonifc-ht
until Monday to allow further confer
ences vaa abandoned because of the
universal desire to conclude the lengthy
speech is several Senators are planning
In order to proceed to amendments by
the middle or latter part of next week,
after the House bill has been received.
Among amendments presented was
one by Senator Borah proposing that
retail and wholesale prices of bread,
flour and other foods be proclaimed
by the President and that the prices
of steel, coal, oil, farm implements,
fertilizers, meats and clothing usually
worn by wage-earners be fixed by the
Federal Trade Commission.
In the House, Representative Towner
failued by an overwhelming majority
to substitute a complete bill for the
Administration measure which would
have eliminated all of the control fea
tures. Representative Lenroot waged a vig
orous fight against the licensing provi
sion, holding it was unconstitutional
and Illogical, but was defeated. 123
to 66.
Blanket Control Eliminated.
Important amendments accepted by
the House were: One by Representa
tive Lenroot, to eliminate the "blanket"
control power of the President over
necessaries and limit to the articles
mentioned in the bill; one by Represen
tee Moore, of Pennsylvania, to extend
penal sections to persons of agencies
who volunteer their aid to the Presi
dent in control work; one by Repre
sentative Anderson, of Minnesota, strik
ing irom the bill the power of the
President to prevent "uneconomical
manufacture and Inequitable distribu
tion of necessaries" and a conspiracy
section added by the committee.
Chairman Lever accepted the amend
ments expressing himself as well
pleased with the bill in its amended
form.
The new conspiracy section provides:
"That any person who conspires,
agrees or arranges with any other per
son to limit the facilities for trans
porting, producing, manufacturing, sup
plying, storing or dealing in any neces
saries, to vestrict the supply of any
necessaries, to restrict the distribution
of any necessaries, to prevent, limit, or
lessen the manufacture of production
of any necessaries, or to enhance the
price of any necessaries, shall, upon
conviction thereof, be fined not exceed
ing $10,000. or be imprisoned for not
more than two years, or both."
BORAH OFFERS PRICE PLAN
President Would Be Given Authority
to Proclaim Maximum Prices.
. OREGON! AN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, June 22. Senator Borah today
introduced, in modified form, his
amendment to the food bill proposing
to regulate the price of commodities
which are common necessities, and par
ticularly necessities to the farmer.
The new amendment empowers the
Federal Trade Commission during the
war with Germany, whenever instruct
ed by the President, to fix fair and
reasonable prices, wholesale and retail,
on steel, coal, oil, farm implements,
fertilizer, meats, bread, flour and other
foods designated by the President, and
clothing of a class usually worn by
wage earners and laborers generally.
' Whenever a price shall be so fixed,
the President shall cause the price to
be proclaimed and after the proclama
tion it will be unlawful to charge or
receive a price greater than that fixed.
Senator Borah will later speak in be
half of his amendment, and will con
tend that it proposes a direct means of
regulating prices of necessities, and one
which can, by the President himself,
be so exercised as to protect the pub
lic against exorbitant prices on necessities.
MISS HURLEY MAKES DEBUT
Mrs. John McCracken, of Portland,
Attends Tacoma Social Event.
TACOMA. Wash., June 22. (Special.)
Mrs. John McCracken, of Portland,
was in Tacoma yesterday to attend the
coming-out party of her granddaugh
ter. Miss Katherine Hurley, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Hurley.
The affair was one of the largest
events on Tacoma's Summer social cal
endar. Mr. Hurley is senior member
of the Hurley-Mason Company, of Port
land and Tacoma.
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"Skooty" Dutty's Leg Broken.
LA GRANDE. Or.. June 22. (Spe
cial.) "Skooty" Dutty, well-known O.
A. C. football star, fell from a plow
while employed on a ranch near here
and sustained a broken leg.
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the world who stand for the rights of peoples and the self-government of nations," is the
subject of the leading article in this week's LITERARY DIGEST, dateel June 23d."
The article, using the President's note to the Russian people and his Flag'Day."
address as a basis, makes very clear just what America is fighting for and the.peace
that must come. It throws the light of public opinion in this country, as shown by the
newspaper press, upon the President's words, and shows that they are not only a warning
to the Russians to avoid the fatal error of deserting the Allies, but, in the opinion of the
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, they are "also a warning to Pro-German neutrals and to Pro
Germans in this country." The articlealso gives answer. to. those jwho favorthe' making
.of . aseparate peace by Russia.
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We Have Tasted liberty "and It Has Made Us Drunk"
Remarked Russian Minister of War, Kerensky, and, in the Opinion of the Foreign Correspondents "in
Russia, He Spoke the Truth. This Article Shows the Russian Muddle in All Its Angles.
Getting Greece Together
Driving the Germans Back in Belgium
What the Jews Are Doing With
Freedom In Russia
Doing More Work With Fewer Men
Personal Glimpses of Interesting People
How the Chinese Build
Reprisals Against Germany
The Y. M. C. A. Forehanded
The South Calling Negroes Back
To Make War-Profits Pay for War,
Our Bohemian Fighters
Finger-Prints in the Orient
Measuring Hunger Pangs
Reviving the Elizabethan Age in England
Investments and Finance
People "Chosen" of God
Edith CavelFs Last Letter
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FREAK OF SEA FATAL
Swell Tips Fisher and Lifts
Net, Drawing Him Under.
TWO GUARDS RISK LIVES
Charles Salo When Boat Is Swamped
Is Imprisoned In Meshes and
Beaten to Death In Spite of
Attempts to Release Him.
ILWACO, Wash., Juno 22. (Special.)
Charles Salo, 35, was drowned today
when a heavy sea. struck the boat in
which he and his partner, Heikkila,
were fishing off tho north Jetty. They
were proceeding around the Jetty in a
dangerous piece of water when & swell
swamped their boat and at the aame
time raised the nets in such a way as
to cover Salo, who, imprisoned in the
meshes, was beaten to death in spite of
every effort to release him.
The Fort Canby lifeboat crew re
sponded to the call for help. Two
members of the crew, Johnson and Un
derbill, nearly lost their lives while
attempting: to release the victim, John
son beingr compelled to swim a distance
of nearly 200 yards around the Jetty
before being: rescued. The boat con
taining the body of Salo was recovered
after some delay, but in spite of every
effort to resuscitate the man, he was
pronounced dead. lie leaves a wife and
four small children. .This is the second
fisherman drowned, in the neighborhood
of the Jetty within a week. ,
Richard Koski, a. single man, was
washed overboard by what the fisher
men call a blind swell, last Monday.
His partner was rescued by a neighbor,
ing fisherman named Metty. but Koski
was wearing heavy clothes and no life
preserver and disappeared before as
sistance could be rendered.
SLACKER CONFESSES FEAR
Italian Prefers Going to Jail to
Going to War.
TACOMA, "Wash, June 22. (Special.)
The first slacker picked up by the
Tacoma police today admitted his fright
at the thought of war and his subse
quent refusal to register. He is an
Italian who was arrested at the Union
Depot, where he was hiding.
When questioned by detectives. Passi,
as he is generally known, stated that
he- came here a short time ago from
Fort Bragg. CaL He also admitted he does not want to go to war and He will be held for the Federal author
that he refused to register because expressed a willingness to be atld. I ities.
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