TIIE 3IOKXIXG OREGOXIAX, THTOSDAT. DECE3IBER 19. 1918. NEW DIRECTORS OF Only Five Days for You to Select Your Christmas CHAMBER ARE CHOStnl LIEBES FURS Best of All Christmas Gifts The Liebes Label on your Furs is a guar antee of Supreme Quality. Liebes Fur Garments are fashioned from Prime Pelts Shipped Direct from our own Trading Posts in the Far North Henry L Corbett Shows How Business Has Expanded. 1 l o WAR INDUSTRIES LARGE Trcsidcnt of Chamber of Commerce . Sets Forth Accomplishments of Various Bis Activities. IT1 Directors of trie Portland Chamber of Commerce elected by the members, an nounced upon completion of the count at the annual meeting last night, were as follows: Three-year term H. L. Corbett, A. J. Bale. "William McMaster, Max S. Hirsch and Ira F. Powers. Two-year term Peter Kerr, David Honeyman, Isaac D. Hunt, A. G. Labbe and K. B. MacNaughton. One-year term C. K. Dant. T. H. Edwards, Faul C. Murphy, Emery Olm stead and H. B. Van Duzer. These were the 15 names placed In nomination for the directorate by the nominating committee. There were a few scattering votes for various mem bers of the body for the directorate. A light Vote was cast. There was a lie vote for Ira F. Powers and Peter Kerr which was decided by lot, the former gaining the long-term place. Charles F. Berg was elected chairman of the members' forum, his opponent being C. W. Hudson, both having been nominated at the first meeting of the members" forum, following adoption of the new by-laws. Eight votes that were cast through the error of an em ploye, not in confoVmity with the by laws and having no effect on the re sult, were thrown out by unanimous vote of the members present. Board to Elect. With the conclusion of the first election held under the new by-laws the Portland Chamber of Commerce terminates the bureau system of opera tion and returns to control centralized in the board of directors. The board will elect its officers, and It is under stood that every man whose name was placed on the ticket by the nominating committee. all of whom are now elected, will give his best thought and attention to the effort to make the body effective in industrial and civic advancement. Following the submission of the an nual report of President Corbett, Sec retary Dodson submitted a report re viewing the activities of the past year 'in management of internal affairs. It dealt to some extent with -the volum inous amount of detail that is centered upon the commercial organization of a city, and wide diversity of matters call ing for attention. Mr. Corbett Glvea Address. The growth and pace of the city during the past year, its enviable record in war work and war industries and the forecast or its activities for the future, if it is to maintain and enhance it3 present lead, were ex haustively discussed by H. L. Corbett, president of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, in his addres3 before the annual assembly. "The past year has been the most eventful In the history of the city," said Mr. Corbett in opening. "It witnessed our fullest possible co-operation in the efforts" of the United States for the winning of the war in Europe, marked the culmination of that struggle in victory for the allied cause and leaves us, at the close of the year, facing the multitudinous prob lems of reconstruction and adjustment of business on a peace basis."' Speaking of the city"s prompt re sponse to every call, as a loyi-1 patriotic community and declaring the year to have been "the most important the city and state have ever witnessed," -Mr. Corbett turned first to considera tion of the shipbuilding industry, which he held to stand above every other local industrial element. Many Ships Built. "It was only recently that Portland and Oregon began ehi.)building in earnest," said Mr. Corbett. "In a period of slightly more than two years we have launched 45 steel ships, nearly all of them of large size, having 347,200 deadweight tons capacity. At the same time we have constructei 150 wood ships of 619,300 deadweight tons capac ity. "In the past 12 months this territory has launched 37 steel ships of 286,000 deadweight tons capacity and 115 wood thips of 4S3,000 deadweight tons ca pacity. This has been exceptionally rapid work and represents a produc tion of i something like 158,000 tons above the conservative estimate made at the beginning of the year to Chair man Hurley of the Shipping Board as to what Oregon would do in the great cause of meeting the allied, demand for ships. "We have in the state, including Van couver just across the Columbia, four steel shipbuilding plants of large size where there are 19 building ways. In same territory we have 17 wood shipbuilding yards with 75 ways. These yards were almost fully manned by labor when the Government announced the crisis had passed and there would be a reduction in shipbuilding opera tions. Had the war continued unti next year, as was expected, and had the Government permitted our ship builders to go ahead at full capacity in their various plants, seeing that if- received all possible raw ma terials, it would have been very easy for this district to have produced ma terially above 1,000,000 tons deadweight of shipping. Campaign Is Advocated. "In view of the fact that the wood shipbuilders of the district were re quested to build a type of ship de signed in the East to meet an emer gency on the 'Atlantic, and were given no choice in shaping this design so as to meet the trade conditions of the Pacific, it was to be expected that the emergency ship would not be sought eagerly by the trade that must mar ket our commodities throughout the world. It is regrettable that the Fed eral Government aid not permit our wood yards to build types of ship that tne traae wanted ana tor which there - would be a ready market. "It should become, for the next year, the duty of the Chamber of Commerce and the people of this community to conduct a campaign to have the Gov ernment build types of wood ships that are in demand, that are approved by the trade, that would have a positive earning capacity, and, above all other things, would be the medium for trans porting our lumber and other com niouities to the consumers -who are taking the water route. We have taken the position that so long as the Gov ernment is building ships for peace re quirements it is in duty bound to build wood ships as rapidly as steel ships if the trade requires those ships, and if the earnings of those ships when used by that trade could make a satisfac tory showing and particularly if the use of those ships would be the only likely avenue for the marketing of our raw materials and food products abroad." Mr. Corbett also reviewed the spruce production industry, paying tribute to the spontaneity with which the timber FOX SCARFS Specially Priced $22 0 to $95 WOLF SCARFS Specially Priced $25 to $65. HUDSON SEAL SCARFS Specially Priced $20 to $95 CONE Y SCA RFS Specially Priced $650 to $35. MOLESKIN SCARFS Specially Priced $20 to $135 SKUNK SCARFS Specially Priced $25 to $125 OPOSSUM SCARFS Specially Priced $950 to $35 MISSES' and CHILDREN'S FUR SETS Priced $950 to $25 t MUFFS TO MATCH ANY SELECTION f. A Deposit Will Reserve Any Selection Until Needed. You will find this a safe, sanitary, well-ventilated store in which to do your Christmas shopping. Send for Our Net Catalog of Unusual FUR CFTS Esrt&BshedW4 Lrrna Why Not Croc a LIEBES CI FT BOND? and logging interests rallied for the production of airplane stock. In con sidering the problem that arises through the termination of spruce pro duction, he. said: "When the spruce production work was suddenly suspended without warn ing and the army of men engaged in that occupation was compelled to seek other employment, i't threw upon the community a very heavy burden which has not been removed. This burden must be taken up by the new board of directors, the lumber manufacturers, shipbuilders and others, and most seri ous effort made to relieve the situation and get the territory into a normal lumber producing state which should thereafter rapidly develop into tne greatest lumber production that the world has ever witnessed in any like area." Appreciation was also voiced by Mr. Corbett for the- work of the fir lumbei committee, headed by H. B. Van Duzer. and of the grain corporation, conducted by Max H. Houser, as vice-president of that branch of the Federal Food Administration. He spoke in strong commendation of the public spirit and loyal service of W. B. Ayer, as Federal Food Adminis trator for Oregon, and i Judge C. H. Carey, as chairman of the local com mittee of the War Industries Board. Oriental Line Favored. "During the past year a very large number of people have been approached by the Chamber in an effort to estab lish ship-operating lines from here to various ports," said Mr. Corbett. "Dur ing the war conditions our efforts proved wholly futile. However, we do believe that the time is near when more than one line will be established between Portland anH the Orient. Every effort our board of directors could possibly make has been undertaken in one form or another and we believe that the extraordinary emergencies re Uting from the war demands on ton nage were the cause of our failure rather than a lack of proper presenta tion on behalf of Portland." Referring to the city's payroll dur ing the past year, Mr. Corbett charac terized it as the best that Portland has experienced, due to the shipbuilding operations and. allied industries, to spruce production and lumber manu facture. Reports of the "War Industries Board, summarized Mr. Corbett, showed that Portland had employed the largest number of industrial workers on war work, outside of shipbuilding plants, of any Northwestern district. These re ports reveal that Portland had an aver age of 18,822 persons so engaged; Seat I tie, 13,045; Spokane, 4441; Tacoma, 2842. w Industries Started. "Our records reveal that 53 new in dustries have been opened in the city in the past year," said Corbett. "Some of these are of considerable im portance, while others are starting on a small scale. This list does not in elude the new flour mill of the Globe Grain & Milling Company, which will be erected in the immediate future and for which tne' machinery is already de livered the new flour mill project by W. R, Bagot, nor the enlarged cereal mill of Kerr, Gifrord & Co. Neither does the list include a large number of additions and extensions to plants that have been made by factories for merly in operation. For the war period during most of which time the capital issues committee and the War Indus tries Board discouraged new develop ments, we think this 'is a record of which the city may well be proud" Relative to port aevelopment, Mr. Corbett predicted "a very heavy In crease in shipping business here for the future," as soon as XGovernmen policies as to the control of the mer chant marine are prepared." Similarly, he accented the necessity for carrying on the housing programme, to meet the requirements of "increased population that should, come with the restoration of peace and development of business in the post-war prosperity." In dwelling on state development, Mr. Corbett pledged the Portland Chambe to expend its fullest energies for state progress through the medium of the newly organized State Chamber Commerce, declaring that such co operation should accomplish much, par ticularly along the lines of union with the Federal Government in all land reclamation and settlement movements. "The most important achievement in the state work of the past year," said Mr. Corbett, ''other than the effecting of the state-wide organizations, wa the naming of the Voluntary Land Set tlement Commission of the Governmen at the instance of our body. This com mission has prepared a home unit plan which seems to promise much more effective and profitable farming and a much more systematic manner of get ting the idle or partly used lands of the state into more intensive cultiva tion. Bank Clearings Large. "I desire to direct the attention of the members to the statement of bank clearings in Portland for the past 11 months, as compared with the same months of 1917. This record proves an enormous increase in the volume of business transacted here. For instance, in November our clearings were 1132, 000,000 as against $83,000,000 for the corresponding month of 1917. In Oc tober this year the clearings amounted to $166,000,000 as against 1108,000,000 for October last year. There has been a uniform gain for each month of the current year, in ome Instances this increase being something under 100 per cent. For those who take a pessimistic view of what was accomplished I commend a study of bank clearing records. . Our postal receipts have made very appreciable gains. For the first nine months of this year the total is $1,461,- 35 as against $1,166,766 for the same nine months of the past year. In what ever measure postal receipts reflect the business prosperity, this also is submitted for study, as the increase for the year already aggregates $344,- 67." Mr. Corbett closed, with a general review of Chamber finances and af fairs. Membership at present is 234 8, with 168 non-resident members. The gross income for the fiscal year, end ing in March, 1918. was $1&3,125, ol which $40,116 was from house charges and $112,878 membership dues. After deducting maintenance expense ap proximately $65,000 remained available for general work. 'Considering the volume of work transacted in this community," said Mr. Corbett, "and the fact that we were expected to cover practically as broad a field as our neighboring ctiies, we have no apologies to offer for the achievements recorded, considering the amount of money available for the work." T MAY GO TO OPPORTUNITY SEEX FOR WORK IX RURAL FIELDS. County Work Conference Brings Three Days' Session to Close and Members Return. That the T. M. C. A. must occupy the rural fields of America as rapidly as local conditions will jermit was the message brought to the county work conference of Y. M. C. A- secretaries yesterday by H. W. Stone, general sec retary of the Portland association, and W. E. Wright, acting interstate secre tary for Oregon and Idaho, who have just returned from a National T. M. C. A. conference at Atlantic City. N. J. u. u. 'inornton, or Vancouver. B. c, a member of the Canadian National T. M C. A. council and in charge of the county work programme in the western provinces, outlined the progress of the work in the rural fields in Canada. Great work is being done in minimizing juvenile delinquency in the rural dis tricts of Canada through the operation or the county work programme, accord ing to Mr. Thornton. Reports from field secretaries who have been feeling out the sentiment in Oregon and Idaho relative to the Intro duction of the 1. M. C. A. programme were most encouraging. Organization work will be conducted as rapidly as competent men can be secured to take charge of the organized units, according to John H. Rudd, inter state secretary for county work. A $50 liberty bond presented to the county work organization by IL p, Allen, a Hood River rancher, through Leslie Butler. Hood River banker and member of the county work committee. will form the nucleus for an endow ment fund for the county work pro gramme in Oregon and Idaho. The conference closed its three days session yesterday afternoon. , 7 Influenza BaoilH Haenifled. over 6.000 times. v Before or After Influenza BY LEE HERBERT SMITH. M. D. These minute germs, enter the body thru nose, throat and lungs. and the first symptoms develoo in from two to four days. It is important to practise personal cleanliness a clean skin, mouth and nose, clean bowels. Avoid the person who coughs and sneezes. bleep well, eat well, play well. Drink plenty of water, hot or cold lemonade. Then keep the bowels active. Every other day take castor oil. or a Trarfi-atave made of Mav. apple, leaves of aloe, jalap, and and rolled into a tiny, sugar coated pill, sold by druggist as Ut. .fierce s Pleasant Pellets. In the " attack of Influenza nature's effort to remove the poisons from the body often results in inflammation of the kidneys, and so it is well to' help nature's effort by inducing perspiration, with hot lemonade and hot mustard foot-baths, and hot water bottles. Obtain of your druggist a kidney and backache remedy, known s "Anuric' (anti-uric) tablets. Thes help flush the bladder, kidneys, and the intestines, and act as an antiseptic, and if taken either before, or during the attack lessen the pain and the danger to the kidneys. When the attack is over and it leaves you in a weakened, pale, anemic condition, it would be well to obtain an iron tonic at the drug store. A good one is " Irontic ' Tablets, or if you prefer an herbal tonic, a good one is Dr. Pierce's Golden, Medical Discovery, made from wild roots and barks of forest trees, and without alcohol. For those pest middle life, for those easily recognized symptoms of inflammation, as backache, scalding " water," or if uric acid in the blood has caused rhumatism, "rusty" joints, stiffness, get Anuric at the drug store, or send Dr. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. 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