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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
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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.
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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.
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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 :
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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.
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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.
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-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.
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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.
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