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THE MORNING OREGOXIAIT. MONDAY, JULY 23, 1917. 5 8000 AT GLADSTONE CHEER BILLY SUNDAY Evangelist at Chautauqua De livers Stirring Appeal for Patriotism and Godliness. BIG AUDIENCE RECEPTIVE Observance of Sunday Is Urged by Impressive Speaker Absence of Party Lines in Americanism During War Emphasized. BILLT BUPTDAY SAYS. The devil can't laugh. Poor devil! God likes a. little fun. Witness the monkey, the parrot and some of us. When some men die all they leave is an epitaph. If that German waits till I holler "Hurrah for the Kaiser," he will see me in hell first. Take a bath once in a while and smallpox won't bother you. We're maklngr money by buck et loads but we're going to hell in carload lots. The man vho curses God can go to hell. There's many a husband that's so rotten the devil would duck up an alley to miss meeting- him. GLADSTONE PARK. Or., July 22. (Special.) Despite the fact that he is heralded as a physical wreck from the results of his strenuous Eastern cam paign, Billy Sunday today brought to the 8000 Chautauquans who crowded the new auditorium to the guards and stood on every available vantage point, a message as full of his rapid-fire epi grams and caustic remarks as usual Sunday based his remarks on the truths of the Ten Commandments, leading up to this subject by a con sideration of the feast of Belshazzar viewed in the modern light. "It was no common lager beer, pret zel, weinerwurst, sauerkraut blowout," he said. "It was the real thing. When the hand appeared on the wall Bel shazzar called in an old spiritualistic medium one of those four-flushers, and put it up to him. He couldn't read it and then Daniel was called. " 'We've been hitting it up pretty high lately and this writing's got my goat. I've got a bunch of four-flushers here that can't decipher it and if you can do it, I will put a. gold ring on your fin ger and a chain on you and let you ride up here in the chariot next to me.' And then " Each Commandment Discussed. ' 'Nothing doing," said Daniel. Many an old devil will make a promise with God and then. neverTceep it until he feels that death is near. He waits un til they call the undertaker and tell the gravedigger how long to make the hole." In opening his remarks on the Ten Commandments, which he said were enough to cover any life and guide it, Sunday. said: "I want to say here, that God Almighty wrote the Ten Com mandments on tablets of stone and gave them to Moses, and Moses didn't write them at all." Discussing each of the ten injunc tions to right living, emphasizing his remarks with frequent pacing of the stage and much banging of the table, Sunday gave a characteristic epigram to each of the commandments. Audience Is Receptive. "We're making money by the bucket loads, but we're going to hell in car load lots. It is a good thing to have money," he said. "But it's a good thing to sit down once in a while and take an inventory and see what you got to show for it." The audience was in a particularly receptive turn of mind and responded to the slightest wish on the part of Sunday. Particularly were his patri otic references greeted with demon strations. "I am glad to be here to day, partly because of the fact I am in a state that gave as many men per capita to the National defense as any other. In dedicating this new taber nacle I want to see it devoted to all that is good, regardless." Sunday Observance Urged. The observance of Sunday was urged by Sunday, who pointed out that God has blessed the nations and the indi viduals that have observed the Sab bath have flourished, and God has blessed them. "We have a class coming to this coun try, irresponsive and uneducated, crim inal and thoughtless. I am no trail scendentalist, but if you don't like this country and don't come over here with the intention of becoming an American I I Iffl REASONS I Hi I Pn or savnS money III ! ! Hi m are many and ap I I! H ( parent to the I! II Wk't great majority of j A I'll People. ' I li Mm There are more Ell iljiji W' ways than one of gj ii i' saving it, but the 8 1 I j I ill jk safest and surest 8 I ;i 1 1 1 lit is the savings ac- Ellj i ji count way. i! ilfe Start now j! II III' i ONE DOLLAR I l i i or more opens an W V'J account in this ijijlllpj I jv4 old established, j jjjj ! llipl strong state bank. U ' III I II T T- -M 1 m BANK A I IS i I citizen, take your dirty carcass out of here and beat it back again. "These come and are carbuncles on the neck of the body politic of the Na tion. They flaunt their red flag of lawlessness everywhere. Out of this dirty bunch come the Prussian liberty gang, the men like the brute who shot President McKinley and the radical propagandists causing the present dis turbances. "You put a red flag on a railroad track and the engineer will flatten every wheel on the train in an effort to avoid passing that flag. Well, God is putting out the semaphore and calls upon you to watch. When you defy the Sunday, you defy every law of God." Gain In Cusalnir Lamented. Cussing is gaining In this country, said Billy, with the addition of a few as samples. "You'd think from the prevalence of cussing that it is part of the public school curriculum. , A man would have to be pretty mean that would cuss his motherT or his father. Well, how much worse must the man be that cusses God. The man who cusses God bin go to hell." .Declaring That he had as much re spect for the man that held him up on the highway as the food baron, Sunday flayed those who hold up the prices of commodities in this hour. "Here's what I believe." said Sunday. "There are no Democrats. Republicans of any other party, we 'are all Ameri cans. I am every bit an American. , Sunday closed his lecture with a dra-l matic appeal in the recounting of the manner in which he was converted, 31 years ago. There were few dry eyes in the vast audience as Billy recalled the death of Mike Kelly, the famous base ball player, and other former comrades. Thousands Shake Bands. Following the evangelist's lecture the thousands poured past the rostrum In single file and clutched at his hands for three-quarters of an hour until jars. Sunday was forced to call a halt and he was whisked back to Portland by auto. The musical concert under the direc tion of Hartridge Gardiner Whipp, of Portland, attracted a large crowd at 4 o'clock and was well received. The Drosrramme was particularly well chosen and was skilfully handled. James Goddard. baritone, was aDiy supported by Ruth Loy, violinist, and Robert Yale, pianist, at the night con There were more than 6000 paid ad mission tickets and in the neighborhood of 500 automobiles admitted to the grounds during the early part of the afternoon. SUNDAY CAN'T COME SOON 'Friendship Imncheon" to Bo Held at Noon Today. Billy Sunday, sometimes known as Rev. William A. Sunday, and "Ma," at intervals called Mrs. Sunday, evangelist extraordinary and general manager. respectively, are quartered at the Hotel Benson. With them are their two sons. "Billy" Sunday has been invited to hold one of his celebrated soul-winning campaigns or drives in Portland and a good many people here are of the be lief that he will come in response to that call, but they are mistaken if they think he will be found Jamming the devil around the ring here within the next 12 months. His Satanic Majesty may rest easy here awhile yet. so far as his great an tagonist is concerned, for Billy ana "Ma" made it plain last night that they have work cut out for them that will keen them busy for the year ending July 1, 1918, when they will "knock off" for the Summer season and hit the trail for their Hood River ranch "or for the Maine Woods." quotations being from "Ma," who added: "Hood River is getting pretty close to Portland for va cation rest." However, the general committee, com posed of ministers and laymen, repre senting all of the churches affiliated with the General Ministerial Associa tion here, is hard at work to pursuade the evangelist that the field is ripe until the harvest, ana that he should come here at the earliest possible date to garner the sheaves. To that end, a "friendship luncheon will be tendered him at the Benson this noon, at which he will meet with leading business men. the ministers and others interested In the proposed campaign to drive the devil out of this city. Much will depend upon this confer ence, as far as the proposal for Sun day to come here is concerned, for they will have to "show" him that he is wanted in real earnest or he will not come. Dozens of other cities, big and little, are bidding for his services, and five of them have contracted with him for campaigns that will take all of his time for a full year. From his Hood River ranch he will go to Los Angeles, where on September 1 he will plunge into the conflict in his characteristic fashion; thence to At lanta. Ga.. to Washigton, D. C: Chicago and Duluth. Chicago will be the center of attack for a campaign of nearly three months. In many respects it will be like unto the big drive on New York, only recently completed with results such as were never heard of before. Other cities which have tentative : dates with him are Providence, R. I., Minneapolis, Dallas (Tex.), Birmingham (Ala.), Rochester (N. Y.), and Newark (N. J.) Some of these at least could be switched to let Portland in ahead, if it is decided to be best, but in any event it means that no campaign can be handled here for a long time. Asked whether or not he will come to Portland, Sunday replied that he will decide this point after meeting the busi nexs men and ministers of the city this noon, but he could not say how long it will require for him to make the de cision. "There is a city of Just about Port land's poplation to which I have been invited," said he, "where the petition calling me there is signed not only by the preachers, but by the Commercial Club, the Elks. Oddfellows, Rotarians, the' Labor Council and practically every organization of any consequence." Asked the significance of the state ment, he replied, "That is an indication that when I go to that city I will get results quickly. It is what I like to see in other places where I am asked to come." "Billy" was receiving visitors in his room at the Benson last night, lying in bed, resting after a hard afternoon's work in dedicating the big new audi torium at the Gladstone Chautauqua. Being rather out of trim since leaving the sawdust trail in New York, the sermon tired him. Between visits he was reading a mag azine, which he laid aside to tell about his New York drive, of which he is i proud. It was a humdinger, for fair, judging by his remarks, and the results entirely Justified the large outlay of time and money. It was the biggest machine ever built for pummeling the devil, and, like the British tanks, it did its work thor oughly and effectively, he declared. All New York sat up and took notice from the opening to the closing day, and among the many great forces which helped to make it a glorious success were the newspapers, all of which, he explained, gave generously of their space day after day during the long 10 weeks' campaign. "There never was anything like it under the sun," he said proudly. "All classes of men and women attended the general meetings in the big taber nacle, and as for the parlor meetings held throughout the city, even the Astor3, the Vanderbilts and others like them were there every day; we had them all interested and actively work ing." t None of the Sunday campaigns are for a period of less than six weeks; Portland would get about six or eight weeks. x BUCKET BRIGADES HALT FOREST FIRE Hood River Population Fights Flames, Fanned by High Wind, and Saves Homes. BLAZE CHECKED AT DOORS Section of Lumber Company Flume Is Destroyed, However, Tut No Other Damage Is Done In cendiarism Suspected. HOOD RIVER, Or., July 22. (Spe cial.) A large portion of the male population of the city and Frankton Orchard district spent this morning fighting a forest fire that swept up the Columbia Gorge at Rutbton Hill. Fanned by a strong wind, the fire spread rapidly, burning several hun dred feet of the Stanley Smith Lumber Company's flume and menacing a num ber of ranch homes. Members of the volunteer fire department were sum moned from their Sunday - morning naps by the sounding of the fire bell. and rushed to the Bcene in automobiles. But for the efforts of neighbors and local firemen, Clifton, the home of M. R. Noble, overlooking the Columbia Just west of Ruthton Hill, would have been lost. Flashing through tlnder- Iike underbrush and the dried moss that covers the rocky cliffsides, the flames at the very doorsteps were fought off by bucket brigades of men and women. Kettles, water palls and every cook ing utensil that would hold water was assembled from all parts of the neigh borhood. To these were added a lot of rubber blankets furnished by the city fire department. Wet blankets, a pro tection against wind-swept brands, covered the roof of the Clifton and other homes of the district. The fire, first discovered late yes terday, started in two places near the flume simultaneously, and many be lieve it to have been of incendiar) origin. A number of young men assist, ed last night in fighting the flames, and they were thought to have been extinguished. After the fighters aban doned tneir work the strong wind evi dently fanned into flame a smoulder ing brand. A section of the huge lumber flume crossing the Columbia River Highway was destroyed. The burning debris blocked all highway traffic until after 10 o'clock, and scores of automobiles were detained on both sides of the fires. SUNRISE SEEN ON LARGH PROGRESSIVE BUSINESS MES'S OCT IJVG GREAT SUCCESS. Big Bonfire Kept Roaring All Night, While Hen Sang, Danced and Frolicked About Till Day. Beginning with a crowd of B0, and increasing to nearly 150 before the ex cursion was over, the Progressive Busi ness Men's Club party, which made its annual trip to Larch Mountain Satur day, returned to Portland yesterday at 5:30 P. M. . The first train left early and the group of 60 on board reached the sum mit at 3 o'clock P. M. Every other train out of Portland carried others, and new contingents were arriving at the summit steadily. "We had little sleep Saturday night," said one of the pilgrims, "because new parties kept coming in all night, and we were always being waked up to welcome them." A big bonfire was kept roaring, and those who could not sleep sang and frolicked about. Augmented by the new contingents, a crowd of nearly 150 greeted the sun rise yesterday morning from the sum mit. The majority returned over the trail to Multnomah Falle. A s:aller party returned via Wahkeena Fads. J. R. Tomlinson headed the party with Harold Wol( as his right-hand man, and the following committee: J. R. St. John, John Stritzel, I. L. Riggs. C. W. Hayhurst, Frank Barrlnger and A. M. Grilley. ROBBERY IS ADMITTED II. ARTHUR. RY CROFT BLAMES AR REST TO 13 HOODOO. 4 "BUSINESS BETTER THAN USUAL" Not "PRICES HIGHER THAN USUAL" We cannot control wholesale'clothing prices, although we use a considerable amount each year. We do however, give dependable suits at prices that should and is making business better than usual. LOOK AT THE CLOTHES All fancy Spring and Summer weight worsteds, cheviots, cassimeres, tweeds and homespuns, pinch-back, English, conservative and box models, will be sold at the following reduced prices: $18.00 Suits now $13.75 $20.00 Suits now $15.75 $22.50 Suits now $17.75 $25.00 Suits now $19.75 $27.50 Suits now $21.75 $30.00 Suits now $23.75 Staple Worsteds, Serges and Black Suits, 10 per cent off. Our Season is prac tically over yours is only well under, way. Let us show you today. Phegley S? Cavender Corner Fourth and Alder Sts. COLLEGE AT STAKE Oregon Synod to Decide Fate of Albany Institution. CONSOLIDATION PLAN DEAD made and there will be many prizes given to the ladies who attend the dinner. Salesman's Trail It of M. Seller & Co. Robbed In Pendleton Hotel and Some of Loot Recovered. Arrested on Friday, July IS, in room 13 of a local lodging-house, H. Arthur Rycroft, a veteran of the Boer war, ac knowledged the hodoo yesterday and confessed to the robbery of silver" and gold plate from a sample trunk at Pendleton, according to City Detectives Snow and Leonard. On the night of June 27, in a Pendle ton Hotel sample-room, a alesman's trunk, the property of M. Seller & Co., of Portland, was broken Into and sev eral hundred dollars' worth of silver ware and fancy toilet articles stolen. Detectives Snow and Leonard arrest ed Rycroft in this city on July 13, on a vagrancy charge. Their investigation revealed the eale of a combination cigarette case and watch, gold-plated, by Rycroft. Although M. Seller & Co. were unable positively to, Identify the property for lack of a serial number record, it was considered certain that it was a part of the loot from their sample trunk. Yesterday, under promise of immun ity from prosecution by the company. Rycroft told the detectives where he had hidden the plunder. Part of it was recovered at The Dalles and brought back by Detective Leonard. Pacific University as Opposed to Union as Albany Unless Com bined Organization Were Lo cated at Forest Grove. EUGENE, Or., July 22. (Special.) The principal business to come before the Oregon Synod of the Presbyterian Church, which will convene in this city and continue in session until Friday night, will be to determine the future character of work at and the status of Albany College. ft is expected this problem, which has been the big issue at the meetings of the synod for sev eral years, will be finally settled. For the purpose of taking part in the dis cussion of the affairs of the college Calvin H. French, secretary of the col lege board of the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church, of New York, will attend the meeting or the synod. The consolidation of Albany College with the Pacific University, the Con gregational college at Forest Grove, proposed several years ago, is now re garded as a dead issue. The people at Albany would not consent to the re moval of their school, and Forest Grove opposed the consolidation if the college was to be located in tne Linn jounty seat. Local influences defeated the consolidation plan, although it had been favored by both Presbyterian and Con gregational leaders of prominence. Status of College to Be Settled. The synod this year will go into the whole status of the Albany College and decide upon the policy which is to de termine its future, it is announced. The first meeting of the synod will be the missions committee Monday night, when it will be announced that all members of the church erection committee of the Willamette Presby tery will soon remove from the dis trict. These are Rev. F. H. Geselbracht, Albany; Rev. C. N. Klass, Lebanon, and Rev. R. H. Diven, Albany. Rev. Gesel brach, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Albany, has accepted the Bible chair at Westminster House, Uni versity of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. Rev. Mr. Klass goes to Seattle. Rev. Mr. Diven, pastor of Grace Church, Albany, will return to Alaska. The first regular sesssions of the synod will be Tuesday. Johnson Hall at the university is the meeting place mornings and afternoons, and the Cen tral Presbyterian Church for nightly sessions. Each day devotional exer cises will be held from 8 to 9 A. M. Delegates will be free to attend lec tures by Dr. Henry Churchill King, president of Oberlln College, at the University of Oregon Summer School, during the remaining morning hours. Dr. King is a former president of the Religious Education Association and author of many works of interest to re ligious workers. He haa received de grees from Oberlln, Harvard, Western Reserve and Yale. For several years he was a etudent in Berlin. Prominent Men to Speaic The afternoon session of the synod at 1:30 o'clock will be devoted to busi ness matters. Addresses will be de livered each night at 8 o'clock as follows: Tuesday Dr. Foreman, of Lahore College, India. Wednesday Rev. J. II. Boyd, D. D., pastor or First .Presbyterian Church, Portland. Thursday Rev. E. H. Pence, pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Portland. Friday Calvin H. French, secretary of the college board of the Presbyterian General Assembly of New York. Dr. Warren H. Langdon, president of the San Francisco Theological Semin ary at San Anselmo, Cal., is expected to attend the sessions of the synod and lead the celebration of communion on Friday morning at 8 o'clock. PORTLAND CARRIER DIES Adam Jnstin Fike Succumbs to Tu berculosis at Eugene. EUGENE, Or., July 22. (Special.) Adam Justin Fike, United States mail carrier in Portland, died here today. He came to Eugene with his mother, Mrs. Mary E. Fike, for treatment for tuberculosis Tuesday. The body will be taken to Portland tomorrow for burial. Mr. Fike was forced to resign several months ago and go to Arizona for his health, according to John M. Jones, superintendent of carriers at the Port land postoffice. Mr. Fike had a route out of the Sellwood branch office for a long time. He was well liked by his associates and made a brave struggle to keep up his work, but finally gave it up. Lincoln Alumni Take Hike. Members of the Alumni Association of Lincoln High School enjoyed a hike up Columbia boulevard yesterday, about 50 boys and girls participating. The picnickers left the Vancouver car at Columbia boulevard, and hiked up to the Columbia Slough boathouse. Athletic stunts and boating formed the features of the occasion. SITES ARE CHANGED Officers' Training Camps in New Location. WEST IS NOT AFFECTED Timber sale business on the Na tional forests of Oregon, Washington and Alaska amounted to $450,000 in the fiscal year 1917. Lack of Facilities at Three Points Causes Use of Four Forts In Eastern Fart of United States. WASHINGTON. July 22. A complete revision in the plans for relocations of the second officers" training camps to open August 27 has been decided upon by the War Department as a result of a reinspection of the sites previously chosen. Under the new arrangement there will be nine camps Instead of eight. Fort McPherson, Ga.; Fort Lo gan H. Roots, Ark., and Fort Riley, Kan., being dropped from the list and Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y. ; Fort Ni agara. N. Y. : Fort Snelling, Minn., and Fort Sheridan, 111., being added. The Forts Myer, Va.; Oglethorpe, Ga.; Benjamin Harrison, Ind. ; Presidio, San Francisco, and Leon Springs, Tex., des lgiations remain unchanged, but a re assignment of state personnel among the various camps has been o ered. "Some of the locations originally or dered are objectionable for various rea sons," said a report on the subject. iittuamiiiea ig secretary Baker by Adjutant-General McCain. Some camps are said to be overcrowded and to lack facilities for training camp work. The assignment of Western state 'quotas under the new plan follows: At Fort Sheridan Michigan, Wiscon sin and Illinois. At Leon Springs Mississippi, Arkan sas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexco and Arizona. At Fort Snelling -Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. At the Presidio Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah and California. MOTH WARNING ISSUED Hood River Orchard Ists Asked to Use Decisive Methods. HOOD RIVER, Or., July 22. (Spe cial.) LeRoy Childs, acting superin tendent of the local branch of the Ore gon Experiment Station, declares that the second generation of codling moths, because of the extremely warm, dry weather, which Is conducive to their rapid development, may do serious damage to the orchards of O gon un less growers practice decisl- nethods for their control. Mr. Childs says that the coddling moth Is practically the only pest with which growers of Hood River have to contend this season. Osteopaths Study Spine. DALLAS, Or., July- 22. (Special.) A stuay or tne anatomy and mechanics of the spine, a programme and two clinics were held in this city Saturday by the Willamette Valley Osteopathic Association, current legislative prob lems were discussed by Dr. C. A. Pengra, of Portland. The association decided to hold its next meeting in Eugene in the month of September. Gideons Elect President. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.. July 22. Gideons of America in convention here today elected J. Harry Humphreys, of Huntington, W. Va.. National president to succeed A. B. T. Moore, of Iowa. Denver was selected as the 1918 con vention city. ROTARY CLUB WILL DINE Wives, Sweethearts and Daughters to Be Guests of Members. Ladles' day at the Rotary Club to morrow night will be a "home industry dinner" for the wives, sweethearts or daughters of the club members, and it will begin at 6:30 in the Crystal dining- room or tne jenson ioteL A. G. Clark, manager of the Home Industry League, will be the presiding genius at the dinner, and will speak on "Facts About Factories." H. C. Hunt ington, M. W. Hunt, W. J. Ball and A. J. Bale, heads of local manufacturing concerns, will give speeches on vari ous 'phases of the home industry move ment. Exhibits of home products will be Heavy black line shows distribution of one month's work where books are kept by old pen-and-ink method. Dotted black line shows distribution of one month's work where, books are kept by Elliott Fisher Bookkeeping Machine. Straightening the , Bookkeeping Curve At the first of every month comes a rush of work; the books must be closed; a trial balance taken; statements hustled into the mail; books reopened. During the last few days of each month comes another congestion, while statements are prepared and postings brought up to date. If your bookkeepers work steadily during the middle of the month, extra help must be required to carry the "peak of the load" there is twice as much to be done. Under the old-fashioned pen-and-ink method it isn't possible to avoid this "peak" load. An accumulation of work must always be left till the end of the month. The solution is to have each day's work done complete, with Elliott-Fisher Bookkeeping Machine. It is a busi ness necessity. Accounts are always in balance ; statements are written up at the same operation of posting the ledger; they are always complete and up to date. There is Nothing-To-Do-At-The-End-of-The Month-But-Mail-The-Statement The peak load is cut down, and the work evenly dis tributed. Elliott-Fisher has been applied to practically all kinds of businesses and met all varieties of bookkeep ing needs. Daily bills combined with monthly-statements are easily handled; distribution done where desired; either skeleton or detailed ledger kept Elliott-Fisher Bookkeeping Machines are always fitted to your work not the work fitted to the machine. One of our representatives will tell you how to get your statements out on time if you'll phone or write to the local Elliott-Fisher office, 305-307 Oregon Bldg., Fifth and Oak Sts. In the Kendall Refining Company, Bradford, Pa., two Elliott -Fisher Bookkeeping Machines have cut out the peak load and straightened the curve. Here, in their own words, are the results ob tained: "We are able to accomplish with this system at least three times the work, without in creasing our office force, and at the same time extend the Saturday half-holiday the en tire year round, besides short ening the other workdays one half hour per day. "Our books our always in balance and the trial balance at the end of the month takes only three to four hours, whereas it used to take us ten days. Frankly, I do not believe any firm employing more than one bookkeeper can afford to do without this machine." Not the flat writing surfsce on which forma are held in the natural flat writinff posi tion. This makes the proof sheet possible Bookkeeping Machine hcssfwilh the Proof Sheet and the Flat Writing Surface