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4-r-y, iT" " """""" j : r ill SCHOOLS I K'BEACTIDN DF WAR" TTTE 3IOHXTXG OH"EC!OXTAN', SATUHDAY, AXXJAKT 31, 1920 Religious Editor Says This Is . Reason, for Falling Off. GOOD TEACHERS NEEDED Ir. ir. A. Johnston Scores Methods in Use, at Multnomah County Association Convention. Difference in opinion as to the fall ing off in the national Sundayschool membership was expressed ,by peak c.rs at the annual convention of the Mulliiomah County Sunday School as sociation held, yesterday in the.ifirst -Haptist church. .' Ir. Howard Agnew Johnstorltem- porary pastor of th First Presby terian church, scored Sunday school methods as th& cause of the fall in national membership recently re ported. Harold Humbert, editor of t'rej?on Sunday School Outlook, de clared the lops in numbers was the rational reaction due to the feverish enercy with which war duties di verted the attention of prominent Sunday school workers into other lines. "We must plead guilty to failure in teaching the Bible truths." said Dr. Johnston. "We have taught the mes- aase in our Sunday schools in such a manner as to allow our boys and girls at the critical ages to slip away, with the result that we are told our mem bership today is less than that of a year ago. Individual recruiting- for Christianity is needed. . This means we must have greater stress laid, on the individual Christian." Good Teachers IVeedcd. .The necessity for teachers who have a more comprehensive vision and knowledge of the Bible was empha sized by. Mr. Humbert, who asserted that many of the persons working ac tively did not themselves know the book they would teach to their pupils. "Teaching is causing another to know, to do and to be, and the great est of these , three is being," para phrased Mr. Humbert. "Our Sunday Fchool teachers must have a more thorough-going knowledge of the J-:ible. Our Sunday school workers are the most philanthropic persons in the community. During the war they were the first to answer the -call for help and to give time rnd money to others. The present slump in Sun day school membership is the natural reaction which has come to them." TT Officers Elected. New officers elected were: Fresi dftnt, lirnest Peterson; vice-president, Harley Hallgren; secretary, Charles A. Staver; treasurer, Forest King; di visional superintendents, children, Mrs. S. Karl Du Bois; boys, Willard Rouse; education, Dr. T. W. Milliken, and administration. Dr. N. Morrison. The. budget accepted for the new year is for J2600, more than double that of last year. Its largest items are ?1800 towards the state Sunday school association and J330 for dally vacation schools. The vacation schools are for teaching children ftories of the Bible. The school is free, lasts several weeks and its teach ers this year will be paid small Bal-1 aries. I Five subscriptions to the Oregon Sunday School Outlook, official state organ, were awarded to the Forbes Presbyterian church, which had pres ent at the convention six members who have been active in Sunday school work for 3a years. About DO men and women having had 35 years' experi ence in Sunclay school work entered tni contest. The convention advocated a policy of stressing district conventions to be held quarterly or semi-annually with in the connty. FAKE SOLDIER GIVES UP Youth Who Escaped From Agent Here Surrenders at Seattle. " After making his escape from Dep uty United States Marshal Willis when arrested in a room of the Im perial hotel hore last Wednesday, Virling K. Skelton, a young man who is said to have been impersonating an overseas veteran by wearing the uni-form-of the army, surrendered yester day to the federal officers in Seattle and will return to Portland unaccom panied by a guard. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Skelton by Assistant United States Attorney Flrgel and was assigned to Deputy Wiliis to be served. When he placed his man under arrest, Skel ton dashed through the door and out into the street. It was charged that he and others had been selling books about this city while wearing the army uniform and that they have been making largo sales by saying the proceeds were going to soldiers' aid work. Charge Purchases Go on February Statements Rendered March 1 CAR ORDER ANNOUNCED Portland Company to Build Parfof 4 000 Carrier Contract. T h -i t a nnrl !nn n f 4000 refrigerator cars, to be added to the equipment of tne iaciric J? run r.xpress company immediately, will be awarded to the Pacific Car & Foundry company, and will be built in Portland, was offi cially announced here yesterday by William Sproule, president of the Southern Pacific company. Just what number will be allocated here he did not say. The Pacific Fruit Express is oper ated jointly by the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific lines. There has been a heavy demand for more re frigerator cars for this service. The Pacific Car & Foundry company has plants in Portland and Seattle. CANADIAN LAW IS QUOTED Prospective Immigrants Notified 'fhey Must Have Cash. Acting Consul John Trant has called attention of prospective immigrants into Canada to the Canadian laws af fecting entrance into that country. The following passage from the law is quoted for the benefit of those intending to go to Canada in search of employment this spring: "So immigrant of . the -mechanic, artisan or laborer classes, whether skilled or unskilled, shall be allowed to land in Canada unless he possesses in his own right money to the amount of $250 and in addition transportation to his destination in Canada." Collars Use Mile of Leather. ALBANY, Or.. Jan. 30. (Special.) County Clerk Russell has estimated that more than a mile of leather one inch thick has been utilized already in collars for Linn county dogs pursuant to the new law requiring a license on all canines. A total of 267 dog licenses have been issued in Linn I county thus far. WALKER WHITESIDE STIRRED BY CHRONIC BUSY-BODIES Movement to Banish Mince Pie Considered by Actor "I Do Not Like It," He Says "I Never Eat It; Therefore It Is Not Good for Anyone." BY LEONE CASS BAER. WALKER WHITESIDE has no patience with the chronic busy body who feels he has a call to ride hard on the morals and habits of other people. "Ten years ago we sat around and fiaid that national prohibition never would prevail and while we sat and confabbed about it, or just sat, the non-hibbers put it across. Today we are saying that prohibition of smok ing will never be achieved, and while we sit and smoke . the chronic busy bodies are at work. They insist upon heir self-appointed rights to regu late the habits of others. I read the other day that the South Carolina leg islator who introduced the bill in the Keneral assembly of that state for I'idding smoking in restaurants and hotel dining rooms-, is a man of no ex perience in real hotel life, lives on a farm and boards in a private family vhen he comes up to the city. That is usually the way these things are done. He isn't content with the fact that, there are restaurants and hotel dining rooms where a non-smoker can resort If he pleases, but he would elect to make all the rest of the eating places devoid of either smoke or smokers. "If tobacco is to follow beer and light wines into the discard, I shall Join the moral legislators in a cru sade. Possibly I will try to banish mince pie. I do not like it. I never eat it. Therefore, it is not good for anyone else. I shall make it my busi ness to wipe the chewing gum habit off the earth because I do not chew Rum." Saying which. Mr. Whiteside Teached for his cigarette case and extracted a monogrammed smoke, and proceeded to enjoy it. "I suppose ten years from now we will read that John Jones' cellar was (searched" by police who found four packages of makings and a box of cheroots. Oh, these agitators!" Another thing Mr. Whiteside hasn't any time for, and that's psychic en deavors and investigators. "Bosh" he calls it all, "bosh and rubbish The In vestigators of the condition after death are quite like our other investi gators, the groups appointed to look Into the high cost of sugar and shoes, r profiteering in rents, or political grafts they investigate and investi gate and when they're done we know no more than we did when they be gan. There are no proofs, no tangible evidence. I appreciate and deeply eympathize with the grief-stricken soul who is reaching out for comfort in the thought that some loved one re turns and speaks on a ouija board or through planchette. It is their sorrow I respect, but personally I am an unbeliever. To me life is a hoigh adventure and every day is my day. There are no yesterdays on my calendar, and no tomorrows. When I go away from life I have no belief that I shall return. I shall go on and on into other worlds, perhaps. to 'a higher development but not a returning. Death, you see, may be made a great adventure, too." - Mr. Whiteside is on his way to New York with this play. "The Master of Ballantrae," which has not yet been sriven a metropolitan hearing. "We were all ready to go into New York following a short engagement in Canada- and by one of the pieces of U luck that happen to all of us, the theater we thought we had secured w as tied up and we have had to wait ' i SA ! Walker Whiteside, who is at the Hcilig this week in "The Master of Ballantrae.'' six weeks for it. So during the six weeks we are making. this tour, jump ing from New York to California with only one stop and now we are headed again for New York with only four or five stops en route. I like this role. I. am playing. The . English in Stevenson's stories is e x c e 1 1 e n t. Richard Mansfield always wanted to have a play made out of Stevenson's book 'The Master of Ballantrae,' but the playwrights and adapters he spoke to seemed to think it an im possible task to localize and condense so much material into one interest ing play. Our adapter, Carl Mason, I think has preserved the heart of the story beautifully." TWO MINORS TAKES WIVES U. E. Cuthbert, H. L. Xeylon, Both of Portland, Are Wedded. VANCOUVER, Wash., ' Jan. ' 30. (Special.) Two minors, both boys, were married here yesterday. The licenses were issued to Richard E. Cuthbert, 20, of Portland, who mar ried Miss Agnes M. Wicklander, 18, a native of Sweden; and Harvey Lee Neylon, 19, of Portland, and Miss Hazel Maud Richardson, 19, of Port land. The former couple was married by Cedrio Miller, justice of the peace. 8 I ! I i Last Day of This Special Offer 3 Days' FREE Trial of the Hoover Suction Sweeper No red tape. Just let us know that you wish to take ad vantage of this special MEIER & FRANK offer 3 days', trial of the Hoover in your home FREE and we will dis patch the Hoover forthwith instructing the factory repre sentative to call at your 'home and give a demonstration. Meier & Frank's: Seventh Floor and Basement Balcony. Trie QjJALITT'' STO RE- Of1 PORTLAND rU AixOvl-fcirriMiyAMH- SAa. N. It. G. Laundry Tablets Free "We will distribute today 1000 sample packages of 2 tablets each enough for a single ordinary washing one package to each customer. - Meier & Frank's: Drug Shop, Main Floor. Last Announcement of the Great Annual Sale of Hurt Goods Hurt pieces representing the accumulations of shopworn, slightly marred and otherwise imperfect articles from every section of our great Household Utilities Section can be had in this annual sale at fractional prices. Last call! No phone orders; no deliveries less than $2 purchases. Meier & Frank's: Basement. Fifth Street. Saturday's Opportunities Many-Sided in Appeal Party Frocks for Girls and Misses y3 Less Were $22J50 to $125 NOW $15 to $8333 Lovely dance frocks for today at a full third below yesterday's prices. They are thrillingly pretty! Brocade and pink satin, demure taffeta and flirtatious net, youthful chiffons and Georgette crepe. Trim med with gay little frills, laces, pompons of ostrich and flowers. One only of each kind. Sizes 8 to 18 years. $10.00 and $15.00 Serge Dresses $6.95 Because there are a few of this and one or two of that style we have grouped a num ber and repriced them to hurry away. Regu lation sailor and other styles, including com binations of plain and plaid serge. Some have separate white washable guimpes. Many have the popular pleated skirts. Sizes 6 to 12 years in the lot. Veteran Bringing Bride. ALBANY. Or., Jan. 30. (Special.) Elijah Willsie, a Linn county young man who has been in the army over seas, will bring home a war bride from England. His mother, who re sides between Brownsville and Shedd in the Ash Swale neighborhood, has received word that her son and bride have arrived In New York. Willsie has gone to Camp Merritt to receive his discharge and the bride will come to Linn county to await the arrival of her husband. Plaid Serge Skirts Special 6.95 Sizes range' from 8 to 14 years. These very attractive skirts are complete with white cotton un derwaists. Children's Sweaters Special $2.47 Sizes 1 to 4 years in cunning sweaters of blue, red, yellow, brown, rose and green. High or low necks. Nice for gifts. Suitable to wear all spring and summer. Children's and Girls' Coats Specially Priced Good looking ones of better materials than one is accus tomed to seeing at considerably lowered prices. Smocks and Middies Less Smocks of colored voile are special at $1.98. Sizes 10 to 16 years. Red flannel middies are spe cial at $5.95. Sizes 10 to 16 years. -Meier & Frank's: Girls' Shop, Second Floor. Special! Collars and Vests $1.25 and $1.95 Odd $4.50 and $5.00 vests and other neckwear at $1.95. In the lot broadcloth, serge, gabardine and silk mandarin vests, as well as diminutive collars of hand-embroidered and lace-trimmed organdy, and larger collars of organdy and georgette crepe, some hand embroidered. . Special at $1.25 are roll collars of imitation filet and Venise also lacy gilets and collars of georgette crepe trimmed with lace together with effective neckwear of English eyelet embroidery in delicate ecru. Lace Pleating for Collars and Cuffs Laces arranged in tab points, of imitation Venise or filet, $1.50 to $2.75 yard. Especially suitable for round necks, but can be adapted for square, V or any other sort of collar. Meier Sc Frank's: Neckwear Shop, Main Floor. r Just In From New York Special Purchase of $85 Coats to Go at $45 Soft wool tweeds lined with suede cloth tan, brown, geen, rose and mahogany mixtures. Huge collars of Australian opos- sum and cuffs to match. The smartest sports coats im aginable for present wear and for motoring all spring and summer. Sizes up to 38. Limited number only. No more like them after these are chosen! Better come early. i Meier & Frank's: Apparel Shop, Fourth Floor. 15 THOR Electric Washers at This Price $135 The new nation-wide restricted price after this lot is sold will be $152.50. The Thor is a wonderful help in these days when house hold helpers are so few. It takes away all the hard work from washing and gives one instead the pride of obtaining snowy sweet-smelling clean clothes all by oneself and Thor with a minimum of time and labor. The housewife who has a Thor gathers the soiled clothes, puts a certain number at a time in the Thor, fills with hot water and soap to an indicated level, clasps down the lid. turns the electric switch and then goes about her other work or pleasures. Thor attends to the washing delicately, without injury to the frailest lace, and yet It can clean a rag rug. Thor washers are worth the $152.50 the maker requires all dealers to charge henceforth. But fifteen homes can save part of the price while we have these few at $133. Your own terms in reason.. Meier & Frank's: Electric Shop, Balcony Basement. 90c English Toffee Lb. 45c This week-end we offer another lot of the favorite crisp English toffee made in our Daylight Candy Kitchen. Pure sugar, butter, roasted almonds cooked to a turn, dipped in Hershey's vanilla chocolate, then thickly sprinkled with macaroon cocoanut! Ready packed in pound boxes for those in a hurry. None delivered. ' Meier & Frank's: Ninth Floor and Other Candy Sections. If You Want the Newest and Most Popular Dance Records you can come to our Sixth Floor Phonograph Shop with every expectation of having your requirements exactly supplied. If your mind is made up as to just what records you want' your needs will be promptly and pleasantly filled and if you have not particular numbers in mind but are desirous simply of securing the latest and best an expert assistance is courteously tendered. These are offered by way of suggestion : lseuo 18614 18618 ' lMtOl 2707 2784 ' "I Mipht Be Your Once in a While'.' Medley Fox Trot. "Patches" Fox Trot Smith's Orchestra 85 "I Want a Daddy Who Will Rock Me to Sleep" Medley Fox Trot. "All the Quakers Are Shoulder Shakers" Medley Fox Trot Ail-Star Trio 85c "Mr Baby's Arms" Medley Fox Trot. "And He'd Say Oo-La-La, Wee Wee" Medley One-Step Fietro Oh. What a Pal Was Mary" Medley Waltz. 'Nobody Knows" Medley One-Step .. .Smit h'8 Orchestra Mandy" Medley Fox Trot. Novelty" One-Step Selvin's Novelty Orchestra Yellow Dog Blues" Fox Trot. 'Tulip Time" Medley Fox Trot Smith's Orchestra 'Who Did It?" One-Step. Coo Coo" Fox Trot Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra 'The First Rose of Summer" Fox Trot. Somebody's Heart" Fox Trot ..Happy Six 85 85 85 85 85 85 Beautiful Ohio Blues" One-Step. "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" Waltz ".....Columbia Saxophone Sextet 85 "I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o' This Jelly Roll" Fox Trot. "Hello, Hello" Sweatman s Jazz Band Sac Headquarters for Brunswick, Columbia, Edison, Victor On any instrument or outfit purchased at this store you can, if desired, make your own terms in reason. Meier & Frank's: Phonograph Shop, Sixth Floor. Eppo Petticoats Are "Special" Heavy silk jersey of the sort which can be depended upon to wear well. Almost all the me dium and dark colors are to be had in this collection of good styles which we are hurrying out. New special prices are $9.95 and $10.95. Extra size Eppo petticoats with 60-inch hip measurement and 28 to 40-inch waists are specially priced $13.50. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. Corsets at 79c, $1.00, 81.95 Children's extra good corset waists in odd styles and sizes mostly for larger girls, 79c. Women's American Lady cor sets of pink batiste with elastic at top, mostly sizes 24 to 28, are wonderful at $1. Another group consists of small sizes in American Lady corsets with medium bust and long hips, sizes 19, 20, 21 and 25 only, $1.95. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. Drugs and Melba Gloria Talcum, 25c. Leigh's Unguent, special cream, $1.20 and 60c. Parinol, for keeping the hair' in . curl, $1.00. Liquid Dress Shield, 75c. La Creole Hair Dressing, $1.00. Mary Garden Combination Van ity Rouge and Powder, $1.00. Un Air Embaume Compact No. 2, $1.50. Charmet Acto Talcum, $1.00. Charmet Acto Toilet Water, $2. Violet's Creme Mealys, $1.35 and 70c. Violet's Ambre Royal Cream, $1.50. Violet's Ambre Royal Face Pow der, $2.50. Houbigant Ideal Coeur de Jeanette and Quelques Vio lets Talcum, $1.10. Kewpie Talcum, $1.00. Kewpie Soap, 10c Toiletries Ezonall Shaving Cream, tube 50c. Red Cross Shaving Cream, 33c. Tena Seville Castile Soap, made in Spain, long bar, $1.98. Espey Fragrant Cream, 23c. Nonspi, liquid deodorant, 50c. Odorono, liquid deodorant, $1, 55c and 27c. Mum, paste deodorant, 25c. Rit, all colors, cake 10c. Tintex, all colors, powder, 10c. Lydia Pinkham's Compound, $1.10. Squibbs Milk Sugar, lb. tin, 75c. Horlick's Malted Milk, hospital size, $3.00. Scott's Emulsion, $1.39 and 69c. Gray's Glycerine Tonic, $1.35. Waterbury Compound, 90c. Liquid Petrolatum (Squibb's), 6 bottles $5; pt., $1. 50c Miran Cough Syrup, spe cial 39c. 25c Bromo Laxine, for colds, special 19c. I ' m Tmwf Young Men's Day in the Great Suit Sale $34.85 By young men's day we mean that we have assembled for today's selling an especially fine selection of distinctively young men's suits to sell at a price which is anywhere from more than $5 to $15 below their normal selling price. When we say "young men's suits" we do not mean suits that are merely different in degree from other men's suits, but garments that are different in KIND designed by specialists in young men's styles and fashioned by artists in young men's clothes-craft. Qualities are the same dependable grades men expect of MEIER & FRANK clothes whether they pay full reg-ular prices or buy them in a special sale as now. Meier & Frank's: The Store for Men, Third Flcor. mi & m -Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. That No Man Can Be Excused if he does not provide himself with an adequate supply of shirts at less than present wholesale prices we are printing this advertisement that 81.65, 62.65, 83.65 will buy here today shirts that would sell regularly for more than a dollar up to several dollars more. In the $1.65 group are shirts of such materials as oxfords, mad rases both plain and corded and satin striped, Bedford cords, soi ' settes, etc. In the $2.65 group are shirts of genuine Anderson madras and silk striped poplin. In the $3.65 group are SILK shirts (or there should be if yoa come early enough), both first quality and sub-standards. A last word: Come early. Meier & Frank's: The Store for Men, Main Floor. Men's Munsoii Last Shoes 86.95 Made by Endicott Johnson. Good durable tan grain uppers with solid leather soles. Regulation Munson f army) .last shoes worn by men who want wear and comfort in a sightly shoe. Sizes 7 to 11. Meier & Frank's: Shoe Shop, Third Floor. m Meier & Frank's: The Store for Boyf Third Floor. Putting the Punch Into a Sale That's what we are doing in this sale of Sampeck, Dubbelbilt and other good makes of Boys' Suits $11.85 Some With 2 Pairs Pants It's a solid straight-from-the-shoulder effort to bring down prices on boys' cloth ing and in every household where there is a boys clothing problem there are at least three people who will applaud our efforts we leave you to guess whom. All frood fabrics. All good etyles. All at good savings. Sizes 7 to IS years. i X