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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1919. ILL CITY TO HONOR. ROOSEVELT TONIGHT VIEW OF UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CAMPUS IS TAKEN FROM AEROPLANE. MEMORIAL LEADERS T 5 . 1 M ? 1 t L 7 . Programme at Auditorium to Mark End of Drive. Portland and Oregon Over Top Tonight, Is Slogan. u .1 JUDGE McGINN TO SPEAK FULL SPEED IS ORDERED t i 4- t Kl 3 $ 5 Address and Songs to Commemor ate Birthday Anniversary of Late ex-President. Multnomah and City Lack SIS, '000; Outer-State Counties Are Assured of Goal. T T" - . . v ' , . all OASH TODAY ili . " t - id 7, -)i t . -.A a ' $ v ,...-,-- . -w,- - , ' ..v , ... ; it jrr: . ....... -,iz.K - f , -1 - - F is; :r - - - - -: - i. J u II Theodore Roosevelt's burthday an niversary will be fittingly observed today with a memorial meeting sched uled (or tonight at the municipal aud itorium. The programme will zerve a two-fold purpose, that of observing the birthday of one of America's great presidents, and that of bringing to a successful termination the Roose velt memorial drive which has been waged in Oregon and throughout the country to raise funds for a memorial iu Washington, D. C, to the late ex president. The meeting tonight will commence at 8 o'clock and the doors of the audi torium will be opened at 7:30. A large crowd Is expected to honor the mem ory of Theodore Roosevelt. The pro gramme will be of patriotic nature, with musical numbers and addresses. Judxc McGinn to Speak. Judge Henry E. McGinn, who wat a personal friend of the ex-jresident, will make the principal address of the evening, and Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, state chairman and also a friend of Colonel Roosevelt, will preside. Music will be furnished by the vic tory chorus of 150 Portland young women under the leadership of Mrs. Jane Burns Albert, and Walter Jen kins will lead the audience in singing a number of Colonel Roosevelt's fav orite songs. Misses Harriet and Flo rence Leach will render vocal duet numbers, singing songs which the fang for Mr. Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill. The invocation will be pro nounced by Rev. William T. McKlveen, new pastor of the First Congrega tional church, who knew Mr. Roose velt intimately in New York when the latter was police commissioner. The benediction will be pronounced by Rev. Edward H. Pence. War Veterans to Attend. Members of the G. A. R. and Spanish-American war veterans will oc cupy reserved seats, and the Boy Scouts will participate in a flag cere mony. The five winners In the Roosevelt memorial essay contest conducted by the city schools will be announced at the meeting tonight. The essays sub mitted by the pupils were found of -unusual excellence, and selection of winners was quite difficult. Judges reported. Under the plan the papils of each classroom wrote essays on the subject, "What the Life of Theo dore Roosevelt Means to Me." Each classroom teacher picked the essay submitted by her pupils, and each school principal picked the winning essay from the classroom winners. A committee of judges of the Roosevelt memorial committee then chose the five winners. Dr. Coe, state chairman, yesterday received the following telegram from William Boyce Thompson, president of the Roosevelt Memorial association: "Monday, October 27, should be made a memorable day in our history, on which there should be a rededica tion to the high ideals of American citizenship which Theodore Roosevelt embodied." JUDGE COMES TO TEARS Deserted Wife Forced to Give Baby to Sister.' A mother who was too poor to take care of her baby and had to give him away brought tears to the eyes of Judge Sheridan E. Fry in the court of domestic relations. She sobbed over the infant and prayed that God would be good to him. "I can't keep him," she 6aid. "I make only $10 a week and it costs so terribly to live nowadays. 1 love him and God knows I want him, my little Robert, but I want him to have enough to eat and wear and be com fortable this winter. "I've decided sne hesitated, "I must, I am going to" it seemed as if the words would never come "I will give him away she finished and buried her face in her hands. Judge Fry told her he was sure her sister, who wanted to adopt the baby, would be good to him. The mother was Mrs. Barbara Thompson. 6208 South Horner street. The child is 2 years old. The father deserted the family. The married sister who took the child home is Mrs. Emma L. Bar ber, 4S18 Lake Park avenue. PIG CHEWS BABY'S HAND Child Is Rescued; Limb May Be . Disfigured for Life. COLUMBIA. Mo. A nine-months-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Daily on Moss avenue was bitten by a pig while seated in the back yard of its rtome. and probably will have a dis figured hand for the remainder of its life as a result of the experience throufrh which it passed. The pig walked up to the baby, and. taking the little tot's band in its mouth, be pan to chew on it. The baby was un able to defend itself, but its cries at tracted the attention of . its mother. She rushed to the child and kicked the pig, which desisted. The baby's hand was badly lacer ated, and the child was rushed to a physician, who announced that he probably could save the member, but that it would be scarred and deformed. The child had been away from its mother but a few minutes when the attack occurred. It is said that in a minute more the pig would have bit ten the hand off. Aviator "Smuggles" Plane. SCRANTON. Lieutenant A. S. Cox of Philadelphia, who was in the avi ation service in France during the war and an instructor at Kelly field, Texas, following the armistice, was arrested by an agent of the internal revenue office at the Deleware water gap, accused of evading payment of customs duties on an airplane he bad purchased near Toronto, Canada Lieutenant Cox on his journey landed at Buffalo to obtain gas and was traced by Buffalo customs officers to the water gap. He was brought be fore Assistant Attorney M. Court here, plead ignorance of violating any customs laws and paid the duty of $300. He had an honorable dis charge from war service, and in view of this a favorable recommendation was made to the department of Jus tice in Washington. He returned to the water gap this afternoon and will fly from there to Philadelphia. Phone your want ads to The Ore yonian. ' Main 7070, A 609a. EUGENE. Or., Oct. 25. (Special.) by William B. Osborne of the forestry Mr. Osborne spent several days here and timber tracts. One day while flying low over the university campus he n one picture. In the foreground is shown the foundation of tne new women's building. In NEWS WRITERS GUESTS ROBERT E. . M.ITIl TENDERS WAR-LOAN BREAKFAST. Frank J. Carmodj, Pnblieity Man ager, Advocates Practice of Thrift to Allay Unrest. A score of newspapermen were guests at a breakfast given by Rob ert E. Smith, director of the war loan organization of the twelfth federal district, yesterday morning at the Hotel Portland, the occasion being an introduction to Frank J. Carmody of San Francisco, publicity manager for the district war loan organization. Mr. Carmody, himself a member of the fourth estate, discussed the com ing war savings stamp and thrift stamp drive from the standpoint of necessary publicity, and requested the co-operation of newspapermen gen erally in placing the campaign before the public. He expressed bis conviction that he problem of industrial unrest, now af flicting America, can best be coped with by the inculcation of continued thrift and savings, identical with that carried on from patriotic motives during the war, when the govern ment sought its fighting funds from its citizens. Mr. Carmody declared that he is enthused by the possibilities of the continuance of national thrift tlirough tne savings organizations, fostered by the federal government. "As for myself" he declared, "I am 'sold' to the firm belief that these campaigns are of incalculable and permanent benefit to the nation." Robert E. Smith, leader of Oregon liberty loan drives and director of the war savings organization for the 12th district sketched the tat.lt ahead and Joined with Mr. Carmody in bespeak ing the continued interest and sup port of news writers, asserting that, however tremendous were the efforts of private individuals to win laurels for Oregon in the liberty loan drives, it was the service of the newspapers of Portland and the state that carried the day and brought the state into the foremost rank. James D. Olson of the Oregonian staff, as secretary of the Oregon lodge ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL CAMPAIGN. r Name Addr Town The Boofevelt Memorial exaoclatton has been organised te raise a tS AOS Ooa fund to be utilized a follow: o.ow.we (1) To erect a monument to Theodore Roosevelt in Waahlnaton. D (21 to acquire and maintain a public park at Oy.ter Bar, N. T.. ulUmeteiv include Sagamore Hill, the Roosevelt home, to bo preserved ilka the Washlnr. 5 f"1 at .i""1"1 Vernon and the liora of 6r. Lincoln at Sprlnrfield; (3) to endow the Roosevelt Memorial anoclallon u a national society to nor petuate Theodore Rooaevelt's Ideals of American eltlzenahio Every donor to the fund will receive a certificate of membership heart n a mall portrait of Theodore Roosevelt and will become a member of the Roosevelt Memorial association. The names of all contributors will be deposited la Lao national memorial at Washing-ton. r. C. wbsn erected. of Elks, spoke briefly on the pre liminary plans oft that organization for the war savings campaign. In Oregon the entire war savings drive will be conducted by the Elks. Com mittees are already being appointed and campaign funds perfected. Of Oregon's $7,000,000 quota, approxi mately $6,000,000 remains to be sub scribed. Announcement wan made that the war savings department of the treas ury, at present a misnomer, will be continued permanently. ,A 1920 issue of thrift stamps, war savings stamps and savings certificates was also an nounced. MILLIONS ARE STARVING Hindu Delegate) Declares India Ex . ports Food Needed at Home. NEW YORK. Thirty-two million persons in India have diea of starva tion in the last 16 months, according to Rhagwan Singh, delegate, to the Pacific Coast Hindustani association, who arrived in New York on his way to Washington to take up the depor tation of Hindus with the department of labor. Singh, who recently com pleted an 18-raonths sentence in the federal prison on McNeil Island, wasnmgton, tor conspiracy to over throw British rule in India, is under bond for deportation to India by BIRDS EYE VIEW OF BUILDINGS. A remarkable photograph of the campus of the University of Oregon wia taken from an airplane a few days ago department in Portland. making daily flights in one of the forest patrol planes stationed here, photographing forest fires, mountain peaks Great Britain. Deportation, he says. means death or life imprisonment. Singh, who is 35 years old, has been a priest of the Sikh religion in Hong kong, where he preached freedom for India, and later led an Italian revo lutionary movement in Canada.. .He is one of the seven Hindus being held in the United States while the gov ernment decides on their deportation. "America is acclaiming the cause of a free Ireland," he said, "and of free nationalities in Europe, but little is said of India, where 320.000,000 per sons are uneducated after 160 years of British rule. While 32.000.000 died for want of food 5,000,000 tons of bar ley and 1.500,000 tons of wheat were shipped out of India." "MADE IN GERMANY" GONE Goods No Longer Bear Trademark Always tsed Before War. LONDON. The once familiar "made in Germany" is not appearing on prod ucts of German manufacture since the armistice, which are finding their way into continental markets. An American salesman who has just re turned in London from Italy has sev eral samples of the goods German firms are distributing there. Each bears some symbol, but none of the three old words. A cutlery firm has its name in a semi-circle at the base of the blades and under it is stamped a lion. The salesman told the .Associated Press: "I saw many new German made articles in Italy priced far be low what American manufacturers can produce them for. I was sur prised to find that the Germans were offering from 12 to 18 months' credit." BRITAIN FACES PROBLEM Control of Llqnor or Absolute Pro bition Held Alternatives. LONDON. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Britain must choose between strict government control of the liquor traffic or abso lute prohibition. In the opinion of Lord d'Abernon, chairman of the li quor control board. "If the question is considered broadly there are only two policies, control and prohibition," said Lord d'Abernon. "Reversion to the old pre-war conditions would mean drunkenness, inefficiency. 111 health. Roosevelt Memorial Committee. Judge Jacob Kansler, Multnomah county chairman. Press Club. Elks' Building. Portland. Dollars I desire to give Cents which I enclose herewith to the fund to erect a memorial to the memory of the late Theodore Roosevelt and to become a member of the Rooeovelt Memorial association. City. disease and the misery which has no toriously resulted from drunken hab its in the past. "I believe ttrat control is possible. The experience of the war shows that temperance and efficiency can be obtained by regulation. I believe the liquor trade is susceptible to reform Recent declarations by leaders in the trade, appear to me to warrant the belief that the new school in the brewing trade is gaining a hearing, and that they have realized that the old methods of the anti-reform who'ie-hog indulgence advocates are no longer suitable to modern condi tions. . The same change is In evi dence among licensed victuallers. I get many letters from them urging that there be no return to the old hours, during which their work lasted 17 hours instead of six daily and when the conditions for public house servants were a scandal. "There can be no doubt that the do eition of licensees is enormously bet ter tnan berore tne war. They work shorter hours, they have not the same difficulty with drunkenness and they certainly ao not mane less money, Whaling , Records Broken. NOME, Alaska. Whalers working rrom a wnaiing station at Akutan, an Aleutian island port, this year broke previous records when they caught iss oi tne the first s huge sea mammals during !x weeks of the season, took a snap shot at it, being able to course of, construction. JIEW AMBASSADOR LANDS JAPANESE OFFICIAL VOICES AD3IIRATION FOR AMERICA. Kijnro Shidebara Announces De sire to Promote Co-operation Between Nations. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26. Ambas sador Kljuro Shidehara, who comes to represent Japan in the United States, arrived today on the Siberia Maru. He will leave here Tuesday for Washington, D. C. "I am delighted to find myself in America a country for which I have alwaye entertained profound sym pathy and admiration." said Ambas sador Shidehara. "I fully realize that Washington is a very important post for the Japanese diplomatic service, and I am all the more sensible of the great responsibilities. "At the same time I have a etrong belief in the practical common sense of the American people and above all their instinctive love of Justice, which have invariably proved in the end to have a controlling influence in all matters of international importance. With this conviction in mind. I do not anticipate- that my new task will be quite as difficult as it is impor tant. "It is indeed my most ' agreeable duty, and my proud ambition, to do whatever lies in my power to pro mote co-operation between the two nations for the greater good) of hu manity and in spirit of sincerity and good will. Happily, such co-operation has always existed in the past; and it must surely be our patriotic aim to see that nothing prevents It now or in the future, and that petty jealousies and miserable suspicions shall never be allowed to come into our quarter of" the globe." Born in 1S72, Ambassador Shide hara entered the diplomatic service in 1898. He was eent to Washington in 1912 as counsellor of the embaesay and was sent from there to London in the same capacity in December, 1913. He was appointed minister to The Hague a few days before the Euro pean war DroKe out In 1914 and re mained there for a year, when he was called back home and appointed vlce- mintflter of foreign affairs, holding that post until he received his pres ent mission. MONEY SERBIAN WORRY SCRAMBLED' PAPER CURREN CY IMPEDES FOOD TRAFFIC. Jugo-Slavia TJses Issues of Several Nations, Resulting in Lack of Stable Exchange . Rates, BELGRADE Not the least of the ills that beset Jugo-Slavia is the scrambled condition of its paper cur rency. The paper money of half a dozen countries is in circulation in various parts of the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. In Bel grade itself the "krone" of Austrian ancestry is still the unit in which all commodities are priced. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the ratio of exchange between the different moneys varies irom aay to day. Indirectly, the chaotic currency situ ation has aggravated the problem of provisioning the country by imped ing the movement of .surplus food stuffs from one section to another. Farmers who possess a surplus which they would willingly sell under stable money conditions, decline to barter them for paper whose value is one thing today and another thing to morrow. WRITER SPY DISCOVERED Japanese Newspaper Correspondent Tries to Get Scoop on Ex-Kaiser, AMtitUMiiBfl. A. Japanese news paper correspondent, who was re cently discovered hidden deep among the rushes bordering one of the moats surrounding the castle wherein lives the former Emperor William, ex plained blandly to one of the Bentlnck family who discovered him that he was merely "writing his reflections. He waa asked to write them outside tne casus grounaa. OIL SUPPLY IS LIMITED Situation Demands Economical Use, Says Geologist. j WASHINGTON. Oil underground in the United States is equal to about include all the buildings on the campus 16 years' supply at the present rate of consumption, according to an esti mate of David White, oil geologist of the United States geological survey. The total amount not yet brought to the surface is estimated at 6.740, 000,000 barrels, of which 2.150.000,000, or one-third, is in California and 1.725,000,000 barrels or about one fourth in the mid-continent (ex cluding Texas). Oil in the ground in North Texas is placed at 400,000, 000 barrels, or about one year's sup ply. In regard to the present situation as regards crude petroleum. Mr. White makes the following comment: "To fill the sap between our actual domestic production and tKe require ments of domestic -consumption it has been necessary to reduce oil in stor age to the extent of 27.000.000 barrels and to supplement ' this with a net importanon of 31,000,000 barrels, chiefly from Mexico. The deficiency of our current production during 1918, therefore, has amounted to 58. 000,000 barrels, .nearly half of which has . been withdrawn from storage. The situation demands not only pre vention of waste, but the most eco nomical and efficient use of our oil.' BALKAN WORK TO GO ON AMERICAN RED CROSS WILL LEAVE REPRESENTATIVE. People Promised That They Will Not Be Left Entirely Alone When Mission Departs. BUCHAREST, Roumania. When the American Red Cross quits the Bal kans, when its work Is completed, the people are not to be left entirely alone. This was the promise made to the Balkan people by Colonel Robert E. Olds, commissioner for Europe of the American Red Cross, at the inaug uration here of the Red Cross' pro gramme of medical and reconstruct io work which is to follow the work- of emergency relief now drawing to a close. "The great work done in the Bal kans," said Colonel Olds, "in the main is over. The work of feeding and clothing the helpless peoples of the near east is drawing fast to a close, But we shall not leave these nations without substantial legacies and per- anent reminaers or tne work already aone nere. "Hundreds of Red Cross women and men have left the Balkans for their homes in the States, but small groups win remain to continue their work In Serbia. Bosnia, Herzegovina, Al bania, Montenegro. Greece and Rou mania children's hospitals, district nursing services. Infant welfare work nurses training schools, the recon struction of hospitals and the medica fight against tuberculosis, typhus. smallpox and other too prevalent dis eases will be carried on. "In all this work native women will be trained to take up the work when Red Cross workers leave six months or a year from now. The emergency rener work in tne Balkans is endei but the constructive work will still go on." Scarecrows Solve Coal Problem. GREENSBURG, Pa. A farmer named Miller, living along the Cone. maugh division of ,the Pennsylvania Railroad company, near Tunnelton, has solved the problem of coal, sup ply for his family. This farmer has a big corn field facing the railroad for a quarter of a mile. Aa a means to keep crows out of his cornfield. Farmer Miller constructed three mofern scarecrows Just inside his fence. He rigged up his scarecrows with hideous and most grotesque false faces. The scarecrows attracted the attention and the aim of the brake men on the coal trains and every knight of the brake wheels made it his business every time his coal train passed to shy a black diamond at each scarecrow. Noting the growing coal piles Miller constructed three additional scarecrows in his cornfield. His coal bin is rapidly filling. Irish Have Conciliation Board. DUBLIN. The Irish republican parliament has set up a central con ciliation board for the settlement of all disputes between employers and employes on questions Involving wages and hours and conditions of employment. Invitations have been issued to all organized trade bodies and employers' associations to take advantage of its services free of charge. Manganese Found on Island. PAPEETE, Tah'ti. Valuable de posits of manganese are reported to have been found on the Island of Rurutu. one of the Austral group about 200 miles south of Tahiti. The holder of the mining concession, a British resident here, intends to de velop the property Immediately. I With some of the dash that char acterized tne Rough Riders, with a little of the energy tnat marked their famous leade- with one final flash of enthusiasm for a great cause Portland and Oregon should complete their $38,000 quota in the Roosevelt memorial fund campaign, to the last dollar, by sunset tonignt. Word from state neaaquarcora. sent to all county chairmen, and to captains of the many city divisiona a that today should be tne last aay of the drive, and that all campaign leaders and volunteer workers should report their tasks completed befort o'clock tonight. As tne returns now stand, eight counties oi urB have announced completed quotas. while Portland has $8750. or a littl inore than one-third of the Multno mah county quota of $21,000. "Speed r," la Order. 'SnanH ii n inAiv and complete your canvass' la the urgent messasro i Chairman Jacob Kanzler. of Multno mah eouutv. to captains and field worku-a. The same message 'is sent forth by Chairman Charles r Berg and Chairman John P. Plageman, ot the retail division of the city drive Tort a v should end the campaign. runs the message to roruniiu uu the entire state. "Captains and vol unteer workers must report to head auarters. second floor of the Elks' building, by o clock tonignt. tney should announce their districts as thoroughly canvassed and turn in their lists. There is no reason wny this campaign in tribute to Theodore Roosevelt. sterling. American ana leader toward higher citizenship and cleaner patriotism, should be permit ted to consume further time. ine task can be finished today. It must be finished today." Multnomah Lacks 12,000. On the present showing Multno mah county and Portland have two thirds of their combined quota yet to raise. The city and county lack S12.000 of the coal. State headquar ters expresses no doubts regaraing the outer-state counties. It is firmly believed that they will fill their quotas without difficulty, ana that they will make answer not later than tonight. The only stumbling block to the proposal that Oregon shall send her message of victory tonight, when the Roosevelt memorial meeting is held at the auditorium, is Multnomah county. But city leaders have deter mined that this obstacle to completion shall be set aside by decisive and lively campaigning. Final Dash Urged. Messages sent to all county chair men urge a final dasn to tne quota post. With comparatively small al lotments and with patriotic sentiment keyed to demand representation in the tribute to Roosevelt's memory the outer-state counties are counted upon to finish their drives today. The fact that rural districts have been difficult to canvass and slow to re port is all that has held back other sections of the state, it is believed Reports of city divisional leaders that have been promised for today, with quotas actually subscribed, are as follows: Aaron r ranK. cnairman department store canvass: $1500 A. L. Mills, chairman banks and bond ing house division, $1500; Nathai Strauss, chairman wholesalers' dlvl sion. $2500: Edward H. James, chair man printing firms' division. $200. Phil Metschan Jr. leading the can vasa in the hotel division, is first among local divisional leaders to com plete his district with an oversub scribed quota. To the credit of the hotel men In the local drive Is $550 for the memorial fund. Leaders Are Determined. The eight counties that have com pleted their quotas, according to rec or ds at headquarters, are as follows Wheeler. $100; Clackamas, $570 Crook, $170; Sherman. $170; Wasco, $600; Lane. $930; Washington. $575 Wallowa. $330. The retail division of the-Portland campaign, with a quota of $5000, headed by Chairmen Charles F. Berg and John P. Plageman. and represent ing 150 different trades, is Intrusted with one-fourth of the local quota. Though many of rhe captains have not yet reported, and though few had completed their tasks on Saturday Chairmen Berg and Plageman are res olute in their declaration that th retail division win complete its as slgnmcnt today. MED FORD COMPLETES QUOT Oversubscription Indicated In the Roosevelt Memorial Drive. MEDFORD. Or.. Oct. 26. (Special.) Medford has gone over the top in the Roosevelt memorial drive and It is believed the entire county will be over by Monday night. Roosevelt services were held in manv churche today, and tomorrow, Roosevelt' birthday, will .be recognized by In formal services in the schools. The drive conducted by the wome of Jackson county for the women memorial for Roosevelt waa conduct ed at the same time, and Mrs. Delro Getcliell, chairman of the women drive, announced today the quota ra) $250 had been reached. The Medford quota for the men's memorial cam paign was $40Q and the county quot $750. Medford promises to exceed it quota and the county total is, there fore, practically assured. CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of Tor Regrularily TheFriendly Laxative Intins only-Three size's ATNYAL rmUCi STORES SUCCESS iiiHHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiininiiiiiii Success seldom comes to any business man or indi vidual without the aid of a bank. A good banking connection may mean the difference between success and failure. Get a good bank back of you; establish your credit; it will be a factor in YOUR . success. Come in and talk to us about it. niniiiiiiuiniHiiHiiiiuiiiiniinnTTT United States National Bank Sixth and Stark Capital and Surplus $2,500,000 5 it it 4 r - H ' 1 v i , V 4 i ? v S 1 ' , ' 5 1 I i ivu ;hliUwi fill ilk i & L ita-A Lai MLll T lsU.7...11Li-,la.. .Wk- .li SYMPHONY SEAT SALE ON CANVASS FOR ORCHESTRA TO BE MADE THIS WEEK. Block of 300 Season Tickets to Be Put at Disposal of Civic Bodies; Active Aid Is SouglU. Civic organisations of Portland. which have promised support to the Portland symphony orchestra this sea son, will be thoroughly canvassed during the coming week for the sale of season tickets to the series, open ing on November 1!. A block of 300 tickets will be at the disposal of the members of various organizations. Speaking in behalf of the orchestra, patrons will appear before the sev eral civic clubs at their meetings this week, the last before the initial con cert, and solicit their active support. If interest in the measure is as great as anticipated the financial success of the symphony concert season will be assured, and eleventh-hour pleas, such as were voiced last year, will be unnecessary. Mrs. Harry Beats Torrey will ad dress the Portland Woman's Research club today at Its noon luncheon in the Hotel Benson in behalf of the or chestral concert season. Mrs. Torrey appeared before the Oregon Civic league at its last session on a similar mission. "ln other cities where symphony concerts are conducted.' said Mrs. THEY gro hand-In-hand with indigestion, and the Doctor only a tep behind. :w , Why do mothers persist in serving hot breads? A child's digestion is as undeveloped as its body.' It should be given nutritious food, that is easily' digested. Hot biscuits are cot easily.digested. Ask your doctor. WEIGHT'S solves the problem. It is easily digested.-' It is a wholesome, dainty, appetizing: food. Builds bone and muscle. It will make a man of that boy, and he will love every crumb of it. LOG CABIN BAKING CO. PORTLAND, OREGON Kr. Donald Spencer, business manager of the orchestra, practically all the tickets are purchased in advance, and the financial status of the season is never for an instant in doubt. That is what we hope to accomplish in Portland with the aid and co-operation of the civic organisations." REDS MURDER IN itflNSK Woman Hospital Assistant Shot and Director Deported. WARSAW, The Polish govern ment is compiling the story of the bolshevik atrocities in the city of Minsk, now occupied by the Poles. The latest, brought by an American Red Cross worker, concerns the mur der of a woman hospital assistant who expressed the hope that condi tions wolud improve when the town fell to the Poles. The director ot the hospital, smart ing: under an ill-deserved rebuke ad ministered to him by a surly official of the red regrime, warned the latter that the arrival of the Poles would bring: a change for the better. For this he was deported to Smolensk. His woman assistant, who expressed a more radical opinion, was shot into a grave on the dawn before the taking of the city by the Tolish army. The hospitals and orphanages of the city were found by the Red Cross in such pressing need of food that many of them had been obliged to close. One home for war orphans had been without so much as a crust of bread for more than a week. Only outside aid can rescue these people from the chaos of terror and suiter' Ing In which the yare submerged. That's the Trouble; " Hot . Biscuits f Tfl J