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THE 3IORXIXG OREGOMAX, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1918. W-C.T.U.FROWWS iT 3 l--isl Broadway', Established Tt'TTtQ 64 Years JT UilJ 13 9 5U s& trZ) DRESSING State Organization Promises to Push Reform. SOLDIERS' SUPPORT URGED Women Are Asked to Co-operate With Government In Slainte- nance of High Ideals. f i The State "W. C. T. IT., In convention at the First Methodist Church yester day, went on record as opposing im modest and careless dressing by women. "Women have lost their heads over the soldiers' uniform," they were told by Dr. McAfee, of the T. M. C. A. serv ice at Vancouver Barracks. "The time has come for a rebuke to women against immodest and careless dress. For the sake of the soldiers, if for no other reason, the W. C. T. U. must adminis ter this correction. "After the war the soldiers will come back to you with a hatred of anything that belittles- woman and with new ideals, if the women of America will co-operate with the Government in the work it is doinc for the men In the service." Dr. McAfee was promised the support of the W. C. T. U. women at the conclusion of his -address. American Soldiers Sober. "I did not see a single American sol dier in France, Scotland, Ireland or England under the influence of liquor," said Oswald West, former Governor, telling of his recent trip to Europe. "We of the Northwest have led in the production of ships because our work ers are not weakened by liquor. Peo ple who drink in wartime are playing the Kaiser's game." Other speakers at the afternoon ses sion, at which Mrs. M. L. T. Hidden pre sided, were: Mrs. Bessie Edgar. Mrs. Mable Burton, Mrs. Lucia F. Additon, Dr. Mae Cardwell and Judge W. H. Ga tens. Mrs. Dudley Clark sang. Officers elected were: Mrs. Mattie Sleeth, of Portland, president; Mrs. M. Frances Swope, of Portland, vice-president; Mrs. Madge Mears, of Portland, corresponding secretary: Mrs. Mary G. Tuthill. of Oakland, recording secre tary; Mrs. Ada Jolley, of Portland, sec retary of the young people's work. Sessions Well Attended. Attendance yesterday increased from the 200 of the first day to more than 500, among whom were the 150 official delegates. More than 50 of the women attending have been members of the "W. C. T. U. since 1894. Speakers at thiS morning's session will be Mrs. Mary Palmer, Mrs. M. E. Fullilove, Mrs. Elizabeth Dalgleish and Mrs. Millie R. Trumbull. The afternoon session, which will close the conven tion, has on its programme Mrs. Charles Hoy, Mrs. Neal B. Inman, Mrs. C. C. Taylor, Mrs. J. O. Richmond, Mrs. Ora H. A. Bear. Mrs. Louise Rounds, Mrs, Hattie Wilson and Mrs. Ethel Mack. . ijSL ff- -( K'ffJr U r -. - Smart and Modish 'Are These Truly Remarkable Suits at $35 to $49 Amazing- values for Suits of such distinction and qual ity! A host of charming- styles in gabardine, serge and broadcloth, all well tailored and marked only 35. And a wide array of handsome models in velours, trico tine and broadcloth some with large fur collars, priced at $49. You are cordially invited to come and "shop" at Liebes. Oh, the Joy of a Beautiful, Colorful, Silk Coat Lining! And You'll Find Them in These Wonderful New Coats at $55 Handsome collars, too, of Hudson Seal, Nutria and other smart furs. Tailored excellently, and of the best materials, " in a variety of becoming designs. 100 ORDERED INDUCTED I1VE SCORE "FIGHTING ME CHANICS" REQUISITIONED. Call Made for Men to Be Trained at Benson Polytechnic Army Training Detachment. Immediate and direct induction of 100 "fighting mechanics" into the Benson Polytechnic Army Training Detachment is ordered in a message from the War Department to Major Robert A. Roos, detachment commander. Men seeking induction under this call are to .present themselves in person at the Benson School next Monday morn ing at 10:30 o'clock. No applications will be considered at any other time. A call is already out through selective service channels for 200 Oregon men ta enter the Benson detachment next Tuesday. The school is in position to handle an additional 100 potential me chanics but no explanation for the splitting of the call in this way has been given. This method, however, will be advantageous to many appli cants who appeared before their boards after Quotas had been filled. Applicants must be white, grammar school graduates and must carry state ment of competent physician that the bearer is physically fitted for general military service. Only men who are of the ages 19 to 36, inclusive, and who registered September 12 are eligible. They will be trained as auto mechanics. carpenters, pipe-fitters, general me chanics, blacksmiths, electricians and machinists. The training will be started about October 17. OLD CROW IS UNDER PROOF Tive Hundred Bottles, 99 Per Cenl Water. Found in Woods. Five hundred bottles of Old Crow "aged in the wood" 99 per cent water and 1 per cent coloring matter were found in the woods near the intersec tion of the Barr and Craig roads at the city limits Wednesday by Lieuten ant Thatcher and Officers Abbott and Phillips, of the war emergency squad. The substitute liquor was in a cache near a partly torn down shack, which Is believed by the officers to have been the plant of the Baker brothers previous to their arrest a short time ago. Lieutenant Thatcher says the Red Cross may have the empty bottles, as they will make a truck load. Suits for Scliool or College Girls will be delighted with the freshness and originality of these clever styles for Misses and small women Priced at $35 and up Coats for Girls and Misses Coats that emphasize the youth of their wearers, yet are built for wear and warmth -Priced $35 and up YOU CAN SAVE MONEY by using CRESCENT BAKING POWDER It has 20 more leavening power and makes the most successful war breads. One Pound 23 Cents at Grocers Ask us for free Baking Guide makes substitute baking easy. CRESCENT MFG. CO. SEATTLE MRS. WILLIAM CASTLEMAN was honorce for the charming infor mal tea given by her mother. Mrs. John Francis Shea yesterday. Dur ing the tea hour about 35 young mat rons and maids called to bid adieux to this popular and much-entertained vis itor, who has been spending the last few months with her parents. The rooms were prettily adorned with gar den flowers, and the tea table, dainty and exquisite in appointment, was pre sided over by Mrs. Oscar Overbeck and Mrs. Otto PraeL Mrs. Castleman also will be the hon oree for a luncheon for which Miss Edith McGinn will be hostess today. and tomorrow she will leave for her home in Louisville. Ky, accompanied by her two children. Rose City Park Community Club will held their opening for the 1918-19 sea son this evening. All residents of this fast-growing district are invited to at tend. A special effort will be made to acquaint the newcomers. . The commit tee in charge will be Mrs. J. H. Lothop, Mrs. F. C. Wheeler, Mrs. D. B. Howell. Mr. Dale J. Campbell and Mr. J. H. Dunlap, chairman. The Intermediates will hold their first party tomorrow night, when a large attendance of young folks is expected. Dancing will start at 8:30 o'clock. The committee in charge follows: Misses Maxine .Stout, Ruth Archibald, Doris Veach, Nora Evans, Dorothy Lyon, Ruby Bucholtz and Messrs. Henry Heerdt, Wrilliam Hart, Harry Archibald, William Angel, and Francis Gabler. Patronesses are Mrs. Norman C. Taylor, Mrs. H. W. Lyon, Mrs. W. H. St. Claire, and Mrs. Arthur Laidlaw. The Portland Wellesley Club will meet with Miss Amy Rothschild, 1119 Westover Road, tomorrow afternoon. All Wellesley women in the city are urged to attend. Messages of sympathy are finding their way to Mrs. Albert A. Sercomb (Margaret Walter Bradley) upon the death of her husband. Captain Sercomb, formerly of Chicago. Captain Sercomb was killed in action Sunday in France. He was attached to the 124th Field Ar tillery. Mrs. Carl Godfrey Davies has re turned from a visit in Chicago, where she was the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mersereau are spending a few days in San Francisco, at the St. Francis Hotel. Mr., and Mrs. John C. Jenners, of La fayette, Ind., have moved to this city to make their home. They arrived Wednesday, and are domiciled at the Washington Hotel, later planning to take up their residence on the East Side. The women of Laurelhurst Club held their first afternoon card party Tues day at the clubhouse, with Mrs. George Wentv7orth as hostess. The winner or honors in bridge was Mrs. E. T. Hall, and in five hundred Mrs. F. D. Weber. Last night the members of the club held their regular bi-weekly dancing party at Christenser. s Hall for club members only. Messages of sympathy are finding their way to Mrs. Albert A. Sercomb (Margaret Walter Braaley) upon tne death of her husband. Captain Sercomb. formerly of Chicago. Captain Sercomb was killed in action Sunday in France. He was attached to the 124th Field Artillery. Mr. and Mrs. Guy O. Newton, of Den ver, are visiting at tne xauxtnoman Hotel for several days. ... The Portland Heights Club dance to night is for the senior members and in vited guests. The social committee is Mrs. Arthur C. Spencer. Mrs. Franklin T. Griffith. Mrs. J. A. Givens and Mrs. F. C. Austin. by Mrs. Petronella Connolly Peets, con tralto. Oak Grove Parent Teacher Associa tion will meet this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the schoolhouse. After the business session, a tea will follow. All women in the community are requested to attend. 1 The Portland Railroad Woman's Club will hold a study class today at the home of Mrs. Jennie Michaels, 1052 Cleveland avenue. The Portland Federation of Women's Clubs will meet at the Portland Hotel Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Bills to come before the November election will be discussed In detail. The Ladies' Aid Society of Cathedral Parish will meet this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock In Cathedral Hall. The Parent-Teacher Circle of the Couch School will meet this afternoon at 2:30 to elect officers for the coming year. Miss Singleton and Miss Swal low, of the Reed College debating team, will debate on the bill for two new normal schools. A reception will be given this even ing at Woodlawn Methodist Church honoring new members of the church. An invitation has been extended to all friends in the community. Mrs. A. Westerburg will entertain the members of the Winslow Meade circle, Ladies of the G. A. II., at a Red Cross luncheon today at her home, 360 East Forty-eighth street. The Woodstock Study club will hold its first meeting this year at the Wood stock branch library this afternoon at 1:30. Officers will be elected for the year. FOOD SAVING IMPERATIVE!5 eked and hundreds of workers soon rill be ready for the crusade. CONSERVATION' XOW MORE VH- CEXT THAX EVER BEFORE. Nation's Reserves Ave Perilously Small; New Pledge Crusade Soon to Be Launched. To place plainly before the house wives of Oregon once more the what and why of present food conservation regulations, the state food administra tion is preparing to conduct a big pledge drive October 28 to Novem ber 2. It is lust a year since the first pledge-card crusade was made at the request of Herbert Hoover. National Food Administrator. In that effort 95 per cent of Oregon homes were enlisted in support of Mr. Hoover's programme. One of the chief aims of the conser vation drive is to place in every kit chen the home card of instructions, carrying plain statements of the need for saving, the things to be saved and suggestions for minimizing their use. "People are confuBed." said Arthur M. Churchill, state conservation chair man, "with regard to some of the pres ent regulations and question the need for others. Some have become careless, and perhaps the public as a whole ha slackened its conservation effort. Now, the fact is that we must save more food this year than ever. To deal light ly with this problem i to take chances with human lives. We are gambling the very existence of men on the scantiest conceivable food reserves." Forces for the food conservation drive are being organized. A. E. Doyle will be director of the campaign in Port- and. District managers are being PRIVATE PEAT HERE TODAY British Red Cross Plans Reception at Union: Station. Private Peat, one of the foremost lecturers who has come out of the in ferno of the western battle front to tell the American people of the valorous deeds of the allied soldiers, will arrive in Portland this afternoon at 5 o'clock The lecture tour is being made under the auspices of the British Red Cross, whose directors desire as many citizens as can do so to join in a reception to the visiting Canadian veteran upon his arrival at the Union Station. Private Peat was scheduled to speak at the Municipal Auditorium Monday night. This will be one of the meetings affected by the closing order unless the order is rescinded before that time. He is accompanied on his visit to Port land by Mrs. Peat and they will be at the Hotel Portland during their stay here. I tfiSmtA TWINS r Jst3 This vnoUy ball of vrhich I knit A scarf for soldier bold. Like Lackawanna, it, narm rot And sure to keep of cold. LACKAWANNA TWINS TRADE. MARK Ft boys sad girls from 2 to 16 years Is good company for every child. What warmth for the sturdy and the not-so-sturdyl It lasts and lasts through active service. Every detail is perfect for producing wear but tons, buttonholes, seams, crotch. Lackawanna Twins Underwear Non-shrinkable, Sanitary. Sterilized tvith live steam A dependable dealer adviics Lackawanna UNION SUITS BOYS AND GIRLS KB est Value in America Vests, Pants and Drawer (Union Suits may also be obtained in high grade cotton) Olds, Wortman & King Wholesale Distributors Union Man Now Lrfcuienant. OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Oct 10. Ernest D. Umb. of Union, has been commissioned a First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps. Com missions as Second Lieutenant have been issued to Francis W. Bond, of Pendleton. In the chemical warfare service, and John Wallis Welch, of Portland, in the sanitary corps. Coast-lo-Coast Service Starts Soon. CHICAGO. Oct. 10. Captain B. B. Lipsner, in charge of airplane mail service here, today said that airplane service between New York and San I Francisco would he started poon. - Women's PatrioticService tfT'lRE and Retire the Kaiser" is the X slogan adopted by the committee of the Red Cross which will manage a rubber drive next week. Miss Henrietta Failing, chairman of the committee, has as her assistants Mrs. W. B. Ayer, Mrs. J. C. Louisson, Mrs. Milton Kahn, J. C. Ainsworth and Charles Berg. Old auto mobile tires and inner tubes, old hot water bottles and rubber in any other convenient form will be acceptable and will meet the rubber shortage now facing the Government. The drive will continue for a week and several inter esting features have been planned and will be given in connection with the drive. All donations will be received at the Red Cross salvage warehouse at Second and Oak streets. Members of the auxiliary to George Wright Relief Corps will meet today at the home of Mrs. Nellie Blodgett. 4314 Larabce street. Children in the Woodmere school dis trict between the ages of six months and six years will be weighed and measured, according to Government in structions at the school Saturday, from 10 a. M. until 4 P. M. WomensClubs THK Portland Woman's Club will meet at the Multnomah Hotel this afternoon at three o'clock. Mrs. Lucia Faxon Additon. chairman of the legislative department, has the programme in charge. The various bills to be brought before the legislature will be discussed by different speakers. . A programme of music will be given "I Know Why We Are So Blue WTe Need Some Cheerful New Clothes" "We just can't go on any longer with these shabby old clothes, Phil, even if the payments on the house are due and we have to keep up our end of the liberty bonds, etc. "So I've figured out a plan whereby you and I can get our Fall salts and overcoats without depleting the family treasury. Well go up to Cherry's, at 3S9-91 Washington St.. Pittock block, select what we need and. instead of paying all cash, will just make a small deposit to show our good faith and then, while we are getting the benefit of our clothes, pay off the balance in small weekly payments. Lots of peo ple we know have been buying their clothes there for years. In fact, it was Mrs. Dobbs who told me about Cherry's. She thinks it perfectly absurd to lay out a bunch of money all at one time I for clothes. No extra charges no in terest, either. 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