Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, June 13, 1918, Image 20

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Newspaper Page Text20 TIIE MORNING- OREGONIAN, THURSDAT, TUNE 13, 1918, LOGANBERRY JUICE INDUSTRY EtIAGED Increased Freight Rates Held Prohibitive by Owner of Salem Plant. ABSORBING POWER LIMITED II. S. Gile Compares Rail Charges Before the War With Those Pre vailing at Present Time. Operating Cort Grcws. There is one distinctively Oregon in dustry that has developed within a few years that Is now threatened with dire results as an outcome of the in creased railroad freight rates to go into effect June 25. H. S. Gile, presi dent of the Pheasant Northwest Prod ucts Company, of Salem, the company that has been. Instrumental in estab lishing the loganberry juice industry. declares that it is one industry that cannot survive the 2 5 per cent increase in freight. Owing to the fact that glass bottles used for this product have to move westward from the factories to Oregon, and then again Eastwith the finished product, the double increase in the cost of the bottles becomes a prohibi tive charge on the business. When the company began shipping bottles from Oklahoma the established rate was 65 cents per hundred, which was soon increased to 75 cents. Concerning the developments that followed in the wake of the growth of the Industry, Mr. Giles said: Increase la Prohibitive. "About the time glass began to travel west-bound by the hundreds of carloads, it dawned upon the trans portation companies that a 75 cent ter minal rate was not profitable, though for years they had carried fruit Jars from Oklahoma points to Pacific Coast terminal points at 65 cents. The rate, therefore, was advanced to 85 cents. One firm alone in Salem, which is the center of the loganberry juice business has received between 60 and 75 carloads from Eastern points since last January and has been forced to pay $1.05 as compared with 85 cents, which was the rate at the time these bottle3 were purchased, and there re mains between 40 and 50 cars yet to move to the train under these last year contracts. "At the time the basic figures were made covering the cost of manufac turing loganberry juice, 62 1-2 per hun dred for carloads of 60,000 pounds to all Eastern points was the rate said by the railroads to be a satisfactory and profitable rate. But this rate was shortly advanced to 71 1-2 cents, al- most 15 per cent increase, and with the war tax added more than 15 per cent. JThis threatened increase on bottles 'westbound and also on the finished product Eastbound, is a double handi cap. Industry la Menaced. "In establishing this industry it was the plan of the company to find the most popular-sized packages to reach the individual consumer as popular sellers, to figure a reasonable profit for the retailer, a reasonable profit for the jobber, and to provide for all trans portation, storage, etc., at 62 1-2 cents In carload lots. "It is fair to say that with the in creased cost of transportation both westbound on glass and eastbound on our product, with the increased storage charges and. the tremendously in creased cost of maintaining a large force of salesmen, that the loganberry industry has been sufficiently hard hit already, and while perhaps for the next year the growers who are producing the loganberries will not feel any ill effete because of their term contracts. The industry itself can not stand a 25 per cent increase in freight on glass westbound and on the finished product eastbound. It cannot stand any in crease and remain in business with any expectation of developing by advertis ing and promoting the knowledge of loganberry products as has been done in the past three years. Larger Production Urged. If there had been no advances in freights on both raw and finished products up to this time. It would be different, but we already have ab sorbed advances until our absorbing power has reached the limit ana one of Oregon's most promising infant indus tries is threatened with extinction. "It is a well-known fact among pro ducers that the loganberry industry cannot long continue to live if the Juice business is eliminated. It is also a well-recognized fact that in no place in all the wide world can loganberries be grown so successfully as right in this Northwest country. There is a belt of country between the British Columbia line and the Southern Ore gon boundary which should produce a large part of the requirements of small fruits in their various manufactured forms for the entire United States. "Properly encouraged and developed cultivation of these fruits will sustain more people per acre than any other Industry that can be brought to our country." SUMMER CARNIVAL SET Oregonlan Jiight Hustlers' Club Given Permission by Council. Permission to conduct a Summer car nival for two weeks, using the Worth am Traveling Shows as the principal attraction, was granted to the Ore gonlan Night Hustlers' Club yesterday by the city council. During the first week, from July 8 to 13, the carnival will be held at Twenty-fifth and Raleigh streets, on the so-called circus grounds. During the second week, from July 15 to 20, the shows will be held on the block in the Albina district, bounded by Wil liams and Vancouver avenues and Mor ris and Stanton streets. The club, under the provisions of the grant, will be required to pay the city a nominal license fee and conduct the show according to existing city ordi nances. i I I YOU ARE INVITED TO FLAG DAY EXERCISES AT MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM!, 8 P. 1VL TOMORROW, AUSPICES PORTLAND ELK? WOMEN'S MEETING CALLED Registration of German Enemy - Aliens to Be Fully Explained. German alien enemy women have been called by United States Marshal George h. Alexander to meet tomor row evening to learn details regarding the methods of registration ordered June 17-26. It is urgent, says Mr. Alexander, that every woman affected by the registration order attend the meet ing, which will be held in the United States District Court room, second floor. Post Office building. Sixth and Morrison streets. Complete instructions relative to registration will be given and all .questions will bo answered Thrift and War Savings Stamps - on sale at our Accommodation Bureau, Basement. A filled Thrift Card of six teen 25c Stamps with 17c added is imr mediately exchangeable for a War Sav ings Stamp worth ?5 January 1, 1923. The National League For Woman's Service will open today at Grand Avenue and Hawthorne Uncle Sam's Kitchen for canning fruits and vegetables. You are invited to join in this pa triotic work. Information Sixth Floor. .The- Quaj-it V Sto or Portland Warm Weather Requirements Of Every Good Kind Ready Now at Meier & Frank's Everything; for the person and the home to make the Summer more enjoyable. Cool clothing; for men, women and children. Refrigera tors, porch shades, furniture, hammocks, all Summer goods. All of highest quality at lowest prices. B e Are Ever Solicitous for Our Patrons' Comfort esides Providing Unequalled Stocks and Service The store is filled with the best merchandise to be had. There are ample new assortments. It is a pleasure to shop in this big, wide-aisled daylight store. Best and quickest service. The New Summer Skirts Are Here and They Are Good to Look Upon Everything in wash and light-weight skirts of every good kind for Summer wear ready today at MEIER & FRANK'S. Cool wash skirts in gabardine, pique, cords, repps and in linen. Skirts that will hang right, look and wear well and wash perfectly. Silk skirts in Crepe de Chine, moonglo silk, satin baronette, taffeta, etc. White and dainty colors. All beautifully tailored of finest materials. - f Models include pleated and gathered ef fects,' many with fancy buttons, patch and novelty pockets of various kinds, cun ningly arranged girdles. The assortment is broad enough to sat isfy every taste and the range of prices sufficiently wide to permit of every woman's having a 'new Summer skirt at precisely the price she wishes to pay $2.50 to $25 . Apparel Shop, Fourth Floor. FLAGS For Flag Day We have most complete assort ments of flags of every good kind wool, silk, cotton and muslin flags. Every home should, fly a flag tomorrow Flag Day and afterwards. As an extra induce ment to purchase your flags at MEIER & FRANK'S we offer these wonderful Specials Today Cotton Bunting Flags on sticks with gilt spears, 17 inches, " fl special JLvO Cotton Bunting Flags with canvas headings and brass grommets, ready to put up, 3x5 feet, Q special OJl Cotton Bunting Flags with jointed poles, cords and iron brackets, ideal for the home, ready to J" A Q put up, 2x4 feet, at 5i.fi Cotton Bunting Flags with jointed poles, 3x5 feet, priced rTQ special D-L I i7 Service Flags in stock and to order any size Fifth Floor. Sale Summer Underwear Good Savings on Finest Qualities at MEIER & FRANK'S Four particularly good values in athletic style undergarments for hot weather wear (some men like them all the year round). At 98c Fine checked nainsook union suits with elastic ribbed waist band. Made with closed crotch. All sizes. At $1.15 Fancy white striped madras union suits with closed crotch. All sizes in this sale, very special at suit $1.15. At $1.29 Fancy madras union suits in figured designs. Fine quality. Splendid make. Closed crotch. All sizes. At $1.69 Soisette and marquisette union suits, ideal Summer garments. Well made, with taped armholes. All sizes. Great Silk Shirt Sale $5.65 Men'a Furnishings Shop. Main Floor. The ne plus ultra in silk shirt values that means the best ever. Peau de Crepe, Broadcloth, Bengaline and Jap Silks the finest and heaviest qualities renowned for beauty and service. All kinds of stripes. i Now Is the Time and Here Is the Place to Store Your Furs Now, because a delay will be dangerous inasmuch as moths are beginning to fly. Here, because in our cold dry air safety vaults your furs will be perfectly secure against moths, dust, theft, fire, loss or damage. Remodeling and repairing done now at spe cial Summer rates. Phone and our auto will call. Eyes Are Money Yes, they are more valuable than money they are priceless. It pays a thousand-fold to have them in good condition, efficient, able to perform well the work demanded of them in reason. For those who are troubled with their eyes who do not get from them that service they expect we have a reliable Graduate Optometrist who will carefully examine the eyes and prescribe glasses (if needed). A consultation is worth while it costs you nothing. Mezzanine. Sixth Street. BABY WEEK now being celebrated in our Infants Shop is the cue for prudent mothers present and prospective to look well to the providing of infants' clothes, accessories, baby baskets, etc. In addition to many excellent values 3 Extra Special Values Waterproof sheeting 27, 30 and 36x36-inch at 75c instead of $1.00, the 36x72 and 45x45-inch at $1.20 instead of $1.95. Infants' padded wrappers at $1.39 instead of $1.50 to $2.00. Regular $2.00 clothes racks for 98c. Infants' Shop. Second Floor. NEW! Photo Holders 50c We have just received a shipment of these popular photo holders. Miniature photo holders with easel back as illustrated, or in the popu lar brooch effect. Gold filled frames. The latest novelties. Rings 25c Another big demonstration and special showing of sterling 6ilver and gold shell rings at 25c. An immense assortment of stone set tings from which to choose. Jewelry Shop. Main Floor. Golfers! Attention! Next Sunday, June 16, will see the opening of Portland's splendid Municipal Links in Eastmoreland. 3051 yards course nine holes 25c green fee. Today and balance of week we offer $18.00 Golf Sets for $13.50 A complete set of golf clubs driver, midiron, mashie, niblick, putter. Golf balls, equipment, books, etc., at lowest prices. Sporting Goods, Sixth Floor. Curtain Nets 35c Good quality Filet curtain nets in pleasing figured center effects. Curtains of these nets will be in keeping with the style tendencies in draperies. Excellent values at yard 35c. "Vudor" Porch Shades Vudor ventilating porch shades are thebest made. They keep out the sun, let in the air, assure you of privacy and comfort. Strongly fashioned of care fully selected materials. These shades will har monize with the colors in any home. Moderately priced according to size from $3 to $11. Seventh Floor, Sixth Street. a Two New Models in The Ever Popular "Welworth" Blouses $2 Two new models in the popular Welworth blouses just received and just unpacked on sale today for the first time. We believe theee new arrivals to be the equal of, if not superior to, any Wel worth blouses so far shown $2. Here Only Welworth blouses are sold in Portland exclusively at MEIER & FRANK'S. Limited number. Blouse Shop, Fourth Floor. Sale New House Dresses Special Values for Thursday. Two new offerings that will in terest women. A New Model is shown in a house dress that ef fectively combines solid blue or pink gingham waist with skirt in blue and white or pink and white stripes. Trimmed with white, pique. This model is priced at $4.95. A New House Dress Apron is made of plain chambray trimmed with fancy percale; some in figured percale. Open front, closed skirt, fancy pockets. At $2.98. Third Floor, Sixth Street. Choose Your New Victrola Here Are you a Victrola-phile? Does the Victrola appeal to you as the instru ment calculated to bring the greatest degree of musical enjoyment into your home? Have you a preference for a certain model? Are you decided tc spend a certain amount? In any case you should know that MEIER fc FRANK'S is Victrola Headquarters. The model illustrated at the top right is in golden oak finish. It is particularly desirable for outings and for beach use. Priced at $32.50. The model illustrated at the left is shown in mahogany, golden or fumed oak finishes. It is one of our most popu lar styles. Priced at $90. Victrolas are also made in the various period styles and art finishes. Moderately priced. MAKE YOUR OWN TERMS IN REASON On Victor Victrolas as well as on Columbia Grafonolas and Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs you can, if desired, make your own terms in reason. Phonograph Shop, Sixth Floor. ON CENTER AISLE BARGAIN SQUARE, MAIN FLOOR Great 1-Day Sale of Women'. Waists Four great lots of women's fine quality waists marked at sharp reductions for Thursday only. Waists of voile, madras, or gandy and other desirable ma terials. High and low neck styles with lace and hemstitched trim mings, also many of the popular Peter Pan models. In white, a few in colors. On sale Center Aisle Bargain Square, Main Floor. LOT 1 AT 98c LOT 2 AT $1.29 LOT 3 AT $1.49 LOT 1 AT $1.98 i MILEAGE BOOK PASSES CASH SYSTEM SOW EFFECTIVE ON ALL RAILROAD LINES. Latest Transportation Booka Are Sold for 950, Plus Elgnt Per Cent ' War Tax 2O0O Mile.. v It isn't the mileage book from which the ticket clerk or conductor tears the strip that entitles the commercial trav eler to ride on railroad trains these days. It is a cash book. All mileage books that had been issued previously expired June 10, and automatically the old system passed out. The books that were sold for $50, plus the 8 per cent war tax, making them cost $54, and represented 2000 miles of travel at the mileage rate of 2 cents per mile, are now sold for $60, plus the war tax of $4.80. When presented for passage the amount deducted is the number of lines that represent 3 cents per mile for the distance traveled. It is all calculated In cash on that basis, not merely as mileage, as under the old system. The new cash book will probably be in somewhat different form, but by this simple change and the attachment to the book of a different sort of receipt or certificate the old books in stock in the passenger departments of the railroads are utilized as a conserva tion measure. By this method, surrender of the old books' and starting with new ones upon inauguration of the new rates, the record keeping: of the railroads was made complete. There is another important chancre. The new books are interchangeable, whereas the old books were good only for the individual. More than one per son can use cash coupons from the same book on the same train for the same trip when desirable to do so. Railroad Wins Action. EUGENE, Or., June 12. (Special.) A Jury in the Lane County Circuit Court last night returned a verdict In favor of the Southern Pacific Com-pt-ry in a suit wherein the plaintiff, Charles C. Stanley, sought to recover damages in the sum of $1500 because the company's physicians did not ope rate on him for hernia, alleged to have resulted from his work for the rail road. Stanley alleged that the opera tion should have been performed under a contract as a result of which the railway employes were 'assessed 50 certs a month as hospital - fees. He stated that he was fitted with a truss instead. -spv pV18gl9 uviuo?JO Hi GIRLS BANISH FOIBLES JEFFERSO.V HIGH BARS COSTLY GRADUATION RAIMENT. Girla Voluntarily Deelde an Middy Blonaes and Skirts aa Official Commencement Costume. Jefferson High School boys and girls again have abolished expensive com mencement features this year and in voting for simple dress at the com mencement programme the girls of the school decided to wear middy blouses and skirts instead of the regular com mencement creations. According to a report of Hopkin Jen kins, principal of Jefferson High School, no patriotic appeal to the class 'has gone unrewarded. The proceeds of the class play were turned over to the Y. M. C. A. and they have been active in all the patriotic drives of the past year. Every boy has worked at some gain ful occupation during his high school course. The total earned by the boys In the four years of their high school career is $27,786, an average of $524.27 each. The largest single amounts, $2880 and $2250. were earned by Olenn Cronk and Fred Kruger. Seventy girls used their spar mo ments profitably, earning $7875. an average of $112.50 each. The girls have followed the following occupa tions: Housework, telephone operator, berry picking, ushering, art, office work, caring for children, library, mu sic. Interpreter and tutor. The boys have been farmers, paper carriers, clerks, Janitors, lumbermen, loggers, draftsmen, chauffeurs, shipbuilders, ushers, printers, factory ' workers and tutors. The following completed their course In three years: Helen Buckley, Mildred Nichols. Margaret Willis. Madeline Shaw, Raymond Whitcomb. The following completed their course In three and one-half years: Margaret Allen, Irene Bunnell. Bonnie DeVaul. Lena Vance, Gladys Everett. Mildred Fowler, Cleo Link, Vlda Lyle, Mary Swalls. Nina Boyea. Ariel Dunn, Louise Odell. Margaret Studer. Ruth Berglund, Leona Mourton, Canfleld Beattie. Don ald Campbell. Douglas Graham. Jack White, Albert O'Neel. Robert Ringler. Edward Salstrom. Kenneth Smith, Ray mond Smith, Stanley Wentx. The youngest boy In the class Is Donald Campbell, aged IS years. The youngest girl is Mildred Fowler, aged 16 years. School Meeting Is Called. HOOD RIVER, Or.. June 1J. (Spe cial.) The annual meeting of patrons of the city school district will be held next Monday. June 17. M. H. Nickelsen. wh,o has held the office for 20 term and whose candidacy is unopposed, will seek re-election as clerk. Mrs. Alma L. Howe, retiring member of the board, at the instance of friends, has consent ed to be a candidate for re-election. OSWEGO LAKE IS STOCKED Thousands of Little Salmon Liber ated by State Authority. Under the direction of the Fish and Game Commission, two carloads of young salmon were yesterday planted In Oswego Lake. These salmon, from and a half to three inches long ancj will attain a growth of from eight l 20 inches as "land-locked salmon." The two carloads of S-months-old fish con tained approximately 166,000 little sal mon. Dr. Earl McFarland, well-known angler of the Oak Grove club, super intended the stocking f the lake. The season at Oswego is closed at present, but it will open Saturday, June 15. when fish over six inches in length, may be taken out. Did you ever notice the resemblance between Lillian Gish and Sarah Bern h&rdt? Well, others hove. PLAYER PIANO FOR SALE I am leaving the city and desire to sell my S8-note player piano. This is an excellent piano, mahogany case and bench, several rolls of music and can be bought at a very reasonable price. Phone Broad way 40S0, Room 678.