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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. FRIDAY, JUET 2G, 1918. Wl MACRAE HOME FROM BATTLE ZONE Oregonian Writer Delivers in Person Messages From . V Boys in France. OREGON TROOPS ARE HAPPY Veteran. Travels 5800 Miles Through Interior France In Less Than Six MonthsReturn Voy age Is Delightful. "Will G. MacRae, with a healthy tan and in vigorous physical condition, re sembling a seasoned veteran, arrived in Portland last nigrht after an absence of six months in France, where he served as special correspondent for The Ore Ionian. The plans of Mr. MacRae for the immediate future are Indefinite, al though he is planning to return to the battlefront, which he expects to reach within another six months. Mr. MacRae sailed from Flanders on a. United States transport June 12 and arrived at an Atlantic seaport 11 days later. Since arriving in the United States he visited Washington, D. C, Cleveland. Chicago, Kansas City, Den ver and Laramie, Wyo., for the espe cial purpose of making first-hand ob servation of what the people of the Vnited States are doing in the way of economizing and sacrificing as their important part in backing up the allies. Western Spirit Praised. "I found a more profound war spirit and ovitward evidence of the fact on the Pacific Coast than in any other sec tion of the United States," declared Mr. MacRae last night. "This is particu larly true among the women of this section of the country, who are showing more of the spirit of the women of France than those of any other section I visited. Out here I find women In overalls working in the car shops and Industrial plants, operating elevators and employed in other activities, tak ing the places of the jnen at the front. You do not see this in the East. Other than to find women driving taxicabs, you do not find them responding to the demands for labor created by the recruiting of men for military serv ice." Not including side trips by automo biles and other conveyances, Mr. Mac Rae traveled more than 5800 miles through interior France In the less than six months he was in the war zone. He reports having left the Ore gon troops in the best of condition, with every physical comfort provided. Oreeon Troops Are Happy. "After I had 'landed' in . the United States, " confessed Mft MacRae, "I Just had to come home, if only for a short visit. I have always called Portland my home and it felt good to place my feet on the streets of the old town even if I did arrive at night. My plans for the next few weeks have not been determined. But one thing is sure, and that is that I am arranging my busi ness affairs with the firm intention of returning to France. Hope to be again with thev allied forces in the war zone not later than the first of the year. That, anyway, is the only place to be now." En' route to Portland, Mr. McRae passed several days at Spokane and Seattle, where he delivered in person to the mothers and other relatives of enlisted men messages intrusted to him by these loved ones for delivery. Tues day night Mr. MacRae addressed a meeting of more than 3000 mothers at Seattle, many not being able to gain admission to the hall. Even after he had delivered countless messages to the mothers, he was detained until mid night answering' questions touching on the war activities and the part the boys of the Pacific Northwest had in the gigantic conflict. Return Voyage Enjoyed. Speaking of his trip across the Atlan tic on a Government transport, Mr. MacRae added: "I can say for Uncle Sam's transport service that It is doing what the boys in France are doing they are on their toes and delivering the goods. I found among the sailors of the crew on this vessel, even now that the war zone extends across the ocean, the same un daunted spirit of cheerfulness and fearlessness that is shown by the sol diers in France. "On the transport I enjoyed sitting in the officers' mess hall and nightly saw moving picture shows. Can you imag ine any Government showing greater consideration for the comfort and en tertainmeiit of its fighters?" LABOR WOULD AID FIREMEN Central Council Indorses Move for Better Conditions. Efforts of Portland's firemen to "bet ter their- condition" were indorsed by J the Centr.al Labor Council last night in! a resolution it adopted. The resolution will be pnesented to the city by a committee- frcim the Labor Council com posed of Anthony Doonen, W. C. Klford and J.', A. Ooldrainer. Appointment of a standing educa tional committee was authorized at the eession, and it developed that the idea of having such a committee had been suggested to the executive council by li. R. Alderman. The purpose of the committee as stated is "to co-operate with the school superintendents, who ever they may be." Members appointed for this work were Oscar Home, E. H. Pickard and Mrs. Mary Searles. Officers elected were: Harry Ander son, president! W. E. Klmsey, vice president; E. J. Stack, secretary-treas urer; E. H. Pickard, reading clerk; George C. Hogan, W. H. Brown and H. wiaw, trustees; . s. iartwig, con ductor; A. 15. Warner, warden; Oscar Home, and R. A. Walker, legislative committee. LEMON JUICE TAKES OFF TAN Girls! Make bleaching lotion Jf skin is. sunburned, tanned or freckled Squeeze the juice of two lemons Into a bottle containing three ounces of Orchard White, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle. sunburn and tan lotion and complexion beautifier at very, very small cost. Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of Orchard White for a few cents. Massage this sweetly frag rant lotion into the face, neck, arras and hands each--day and see. how free kles, sunburn, windburn and tan disap pear and how dear, soft and white the skin becomes, les! it, is harmless. Adv. MiMiwIM ft ' ' V" k 'm - . TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Majestic Louise Glaum, "Shac kled." Liberty Charles Ray, "The Claws of the Hun." Sunset Douglas Fairbanks in "American Aristocracy"; Will iam S. Hart, "Hell's Hinges." Star Priscilla Dean, "The Two Soul Woman." Columbia JackPickford'Sandy." Peoples Rupert Hughes' "We. Can't Have Everything." Globe Pauline Frederick, "Sapho." Circle "God's Country and the Woman." Pauline Frederick, who will soon begin work In the (5oldwyn studios on her production to be released by that company, declares herself to be "perfectly happy. This production will bring her back at once to the most successful period of her career on the screen the time when she deserted the stage at the heighth of her popularity to play emotional roles in -modern drama for the cinema. From the beginning of the vogue of the screen there have been com paratively few women who have been exhibitor stars stars admired and exploited because the exhibitors them selves liked them. -Pauline Frederick is one of the few. The owners have handled ' her pictures with personal enthusiasm because they saw from the beginning that Miss Frederick would be popular. In picture after picture she justified exhibitors' hopes and be came one of their most consistent money makers. There is no star of the screen more thoroughly modern than Pauline Fred erick and it is but natural that at the moment of a big change in her pic ture career she should make the de cision to again do modern dramas in preference to- anything else. Costume plays will have no place in the future of her work. Willard Mack, who in addition to being Goldwyn's scenario editor, is also Miss Frederick's husband, has for months been selecting her new ma terial, and expresses the belief that thj biggest work of her life is that to be done during the Summer and Winter months in the productions that Goldwyn will release during the com ing season. Kcmlnlscent of Edeson. Monroe Salisbury's portrayal of In dian characters has never been ex celled on the screen. Salisbury re minds one of the Robert Edeson of "Strongheart" days. In fact, he re minds one of Robert Edeson in many ways in looks and In acting. He stands over six feet tall and is built in proportion. Very black hair, dark brown eyes, earnest and sincere in their directness, and a face strong in its Indian-like lines. The chin Is a square, determined one, the cheek bones rather high; but the eyes are the command ing feature. He is Intensely serious in his work, and believes, with all his soul. In the future of the motion pic ture art and the survival of its worth while stars. He is one of the few ac tors of the silent stage who does not complain of the dearth of good stories. Red Cross Rooms in Studios. Each of the 32 motion-picture studios in Los Angeles recently was supplied with a Red Cross workroom. Each workroom will be in charge of a rep resentative in the studio and the en tire number will act as a unit of the new Red Cross auxiliary formed by the women's work committee of the Motion Picture War Service Associa tion. Lois Weber, chairman of the women's work committee, last week completed the final arrangements for the entry of this committee as aa authorized auxiliary. It is one of the steps in the Motion Picture War Service Association's plan to centralize the ef forts of motion picture people. In the future all Red Cross workers connected with the studios will do their work in these studio - branches, and the total work done will be cred ited to the motion picture industry and. wherever possible, to the indi vidual. The officers of the women's work committee of the Motion Picture War Service Association are: Chairman, Lois Weber; secretary, Ethel Weber treasurer-, Mrs. Theodore Roberts. Bryant Washburn Signs Contract. Jesse L. Lasky, vice-president of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, announced recently that Bryant Wash burn had signed a three-year contract to appear in Paramount pictures. The contract with Mr. Washburn adds another notable name to the long list of Paramount and Artcrart stars, recently further lengthened by the addition of Fred Stone, John Barrymore. Ethel Clayton, Shirley Mason, Dorothy Gish and Lila Lee. Under the tennis of the compact Mr. Washburn will make eight Paramount picTures during the coming year. "Mr. Washburn's engagement," said Mr. Lasky, "is one of the most satis factry, not only to the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, but to exhib itors and the public. of all the recent additions to oo forces. There is a scarcity of light comedy stars on the screen artists of the type represented by Douglas Fairbanks and h. George M. Cohan combining thelr characteristics to. a certain degree and as such Mr. Washburn is prominent among the limited few who may ba said to come under that division. Screen Gossip. Wyndham Standing, who arrived on the Coast but a few weeks ago and made a ntcture for Harrv I. Garson, left for New York the day he finished work, having been signed up by Sam Goldfish for a picture opposite Mae Marsh. Standing is coming right back, however, as soon as he completes his Goldwyn picture. m Allan Dwan's contract expires after the completion of the next two Fair banks pictures and he will In all prob ability become an Independent pro ducer, with his name painted on the studio fence and everything. J. Stuart Blackton has engaged Jack Martin to assist him in the production of "The Common Cause," the big propa ganda picture which the Commodore is to screen under the auspices of the British-Canadian Recruiting Mission. George Beban, president of the Forty Club, announces that the organization is not dead, but has merely been sleep ing. The club will shortly be fully re vived and will give u series of dances. This formerly very prominent social factor in the West Coast film colony is patterned in many ways after the Sixty Club in New York. Henry B. Walthall, who has just com pleted a picture directed by D. W. Grif fith, has signed to do one picture for Thomas H. Ince. It will be an adapta tion of the Louis Joseph Vance story, "False Faces." The contract was ar ranged for by Mr. Walthall's manager, N. William Aronson. Twinkle, twinkle, little star! A new child actress, for whom Thomas H. Ince predicts a wonderful future, will be seen In support of Dorothy Dalton when a famous war story by H. H. Van Loan, now being filmed at the Ince studios, is released by Paramount. She is 7-year-old Clarice Duncan, re cently arrived from Australia, who possesses beauty and rare acting ability. The story in which she will appear was plcturized by C. Gardner Sullivan, the well-known screen author, who has given little Miss Duncan a prominent part. DIVORCE IS GIVEN BRIDE FOUR MONTHS WEDDED. WOMAN ALLEGES CRl'ELTY. Husband Teok Her Money and Wouldn't Let Her Boy W. S. 8., She Tells Judge. 'Your honor, he wouldn't let me buy any liberty bonds or war savings stamps, and wouldn't let me subscribe to the Red Cross." These and many other charges were made by Clara Mitchell, a bride of last March. In asking Presiding Judge Tucker yesterday for a divorce from J. R. Mitchell, whom she married at Salem on March 23. "I have been working as a telephone operator in a railroad office and he is a switchman in the Albina yards. He took my pay check the few months I lived with him and wouldn't give me a cent. One time when I was talking to him he told me to 'close my yap." " The young plaintiff was ready to con tinue her bitter story of unhappy mar ried life when the Judge waved her aside, and told her she was entitled to a divorce. "Are you asking for any alimony?" inquired the court. "No; I just want to be rid of the man; that s all 1 ask, she responded. "Take your decree." and the court closed the brief marital experience. Judge Tucker also granted May Mid dleswart a divorce from Joseph Middle swart when her charges of extreme cruelty went unchallenged. PRINTERS TO HAVE PICNIC Xone 'Will Lose Wages as Result of Outing Tomorrow. Employing printers and allied In dustries of Portland will give a picnic for their employes at Crystal Lake Park tomorrow, with everything fur nished, from tickets to pink lemonade. Not only that, but the employers will allow a full day's wage for the hours spent in having a good time. Indications are that the attendance will be large. .Already more than 2000 tickets have been distributed, and it is believed that t least 30O0 persons will attend. -Twenty cars have been chartered for the excursion in a spe cial train" leaving East Water and Morrison streets at 9 A. M. to the dot. Children over 6 years of age must have tickets. ' There will be no scarcity of enter tainment at the park,-or the pro gramme includes sports and races galore and exciting. while soft drinks, 'hot dogs", and other Indispen sables of picnic day will be furnished gratis to the revelers. RESPITE IS GIVEN ALBANY COLLEGE Presbyterian Synod of Oregon Gives Institution Year to Meet Requirements. PLEA FOR HELP IS MADE Challenge for Union of Church Forces Is Issued at Eugene. War Demands Take Men From Pulpits. EUGENE. Or.. July 25 (Special.) Albany College today received from the Presbyterian Synod of Oregon an extension of one year from July 1 in which to meet the conditions specified by the synod last year under which further financial aid will be given the Institution. Resolutions were passed by the synod guaranteeing all possible sup port to the college during the coming year; requesting the churches of the synod to co-operate with the college to the fullest extent In meeting Its dif ficulties: asking that a suitable com mittee of the synod be appointed to work for the plan of co-operation with the United Presbyterian Church, and requesting the general college board to aid Albany College during the com ing year in the sum of $2500. The synod went on record In resolu tions requesting the college board to refrain at present from any attempt to recover collateral used as security for funds loaned to the college. Plea I Mill for College. Rev. Danief Russell, representing the general education board of the Pres byterian Church In the United States, declared in an address supporting the claims of the college that if the day should come- when there are no col leges such as Albany In this country. there will be no ministers, no mission aries and no churches. The committee which drafted the res olutions comprised Rev. H. A. Carna nan. of Ashland; Rev. W. F. Shields, of Burns; Rev. J. E. Blair, of Coos Bay; holder J. F. Ewing. of Portland, and Elder C. D. Armstrong, of McMinnville. Trustees for the college were elected for next year as follows: Rev. William Westwood, of Baker; Fletcher Linn, of Portland; Rev. Dr. H. A. Carnahan. of Ashland; C. E. Sox, S. E. Younr and Rev. Dr. W. P. White, of Albany. B. L. Eddy was elected to succeed W. H. Gore, of Med ford. Demands Made Last Year. The demands made upon the college last year by the synod provided that the finances of the Institution should be placed In better condition and that certain endowment securities, alleged to have been used as collateral for loans In violation of specific conditions upon which $80,000 endowment funds are held, be recovered, or that the trustees of the institution should take steps to close the college. The war Is taking the ministers from the churches of Oregon at such a rapid rate that co-operation of various de nominations Is essential to the mainte nance of the strength of the church in the opinion of the Bynod. which has issued a challenge fon a union of forces WHY CAN WATER t , Sixty-page book FREE to every reader of The Oregonian. DRIED FOOD retains all of the flavor asd nourishment of the original product. Learn "how to dry" by the simple methods dem onstrated in this book, which has been Issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. Most vegetables are more easily dried than canned, and , when DRIED take less space and no containers. Only the simplest utensils are necessary, although new evaporating devices are also fully explained. Preservation of food Is a pa triotic duty that Is profitable to you. It protects you against high prices when food is scarce and gives you plenty to eat at the price of little more than your own time and work. Your copy of the FOOD DRY ING BOOK Is waiting for you. Send for It, and be sure to write your name and address plainly. Address only as follows: The Portland Oregonian Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, di rector, Washington, D. C Inclose a 2-ccnt stamp for return postage. upon the ground of the simple faith of Jesus Christ. This action was taken at a eession marked by patriotic enthusiasm, at which the ministers sang "The Star Spangled Banner" and "The Son of C5od Uoes Forth to War." A report of Dr. Andrew J. Montgomery, of Portland, for the home missions com mittee. stated ihat 25 per cent of the members of the synod am now actually engaged in war work and that some of them are in France. Finances Are Improved. The reports of the president of trus tees submitted at the present session show improvement In the financial con dition of the college and outline plans for substituting other securities for endowment securities used In obtain ing loans. The plan for co-operation with the United Presbyterian Church pro poses that the college be made an in stitution under the joint management of the two churches and receiving the financial support and drawing its atu dents from both. Prohibition as a war measure was the subject that occupied a large part of the discussion at the afternoon session. Resolutions were adopted directing the moderator to send messages to Presi dent Wilson and Oregon's representa tives in Congress, urging the passage of legislation now pending which would make the Nation dry. Flings Taken at McArthnr. A lively debate developed over whether the Synod should send a tele gram to Congressman C. N. McArthur. Edwin Rawden. superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of Oregon, stated that McArthur had advised him that HP T T X THEATER a J- 1. VJr Main 1. A 1122 TWICE DAILY 2ilS, 81IS. Following the Flag to France! Ansnlre of the IT. S. Govt. PERSHING'S CRUSADERS Rel railed h.r the Committee on I'ublio Infnrmtttioa. George Creel, Chairman Taken hr t'. 8. ! nal Corp and Navy Photoirraiiherw. Last 2 Times Sunday! Antmented OrrhrAtra Prices: i MATS. KVKS. 25ci50Cw.rT H - E - E - COMMENCING MONDAY EVENING, JULY 29, AND TWICE DAILY 2:15, 8 :15 THEREAFTER DE LUXE FEATURE FILM CO. PRESENTS J- SUPREME A immm OFTHE mm THE SWEETEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD, Staged inTrance'oK the Actual Locale oP 'theStory; Battle Scenesbn the Battle; .Fields of Europe) Jhroush'Courtesyand to-operation ofthe Dntishand: French Governments xnrx ACCOMPANIED BY A GRAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Matinee at 2:15 25c, 50c, 75c; Box Seats $1.00 Evening: at 8:15 25c, 50c, 75c, $1; Box Seats $1.50 SEATS NOW ON SALE AT HEILIG BOX OFFICE he would not vote for the war emer gency prohibition measure. Some of the ministers stated that a message to McArthur would be wasting money. Rev. Andrew J. Monta-omery, of Port land, referred to a letter which he had received from McArthur. defending- his stand, as "pusillanimous and little." Dr. John H. Boyd, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Portland, made a motion to send McArthur a telegram. The smaller the bullseye the better the marksmanship, and I move we take a shot at McArthur." he said. A synodical society of women was or ganized today. It will be known as the Oreiron Women's Society of Home and Foreign Missions, and will hold Its annual meetings in connection with the synod. Its purpose will be to unite the mission work in the various Pres byteries of the state. Women's organi zations in all churches will be entitled -Today and Tomorrow -Then Gone Forever. . They've been utnndtnsr In line all week o nee It then they went out nd told their friends. It's nlwnvs the way with a Charley Ray picture It always has the punch that makes 'em go forth and ny -See it." lLrll - G H U l 1 H ? 1 li U till III, to elect delegates. Mrs. B. J. Giffen. of McMinnville. was elected president. Mourn! UK Badge Approved. WASHINGTON. July 25. President Wilson has approved the suggestion of the women's committee of the Council of National Defense, that relatives of American soldiers and sailors lost in the service wear a black sleeve band with a gold star for each member of the family giving his life in the defense of the nation. 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