Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, April 21, 1920, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY. AI1IL 21, 1020 53 TO INVADE CLOTHING DISTRICT Persons in Ord or Patched Garments Welcome. OVERALL PRICES VARY Officials of Great War Veterans' Association of Canada Appear in Khaki Denim. NEW YORK, April 20. Head-quarters for the organization of a mam moth overall parade which will in vade the clothing manufacturers dis trict Saturday were opened today by the Cheese club, local leader of the back-to-overalls movement. It was announced that persons who preferred to wear old, patched cloth ing instead of committing the "ex travagance" of Duying new overalls, would be welcome in the line of march. Fancy, as well as plain overalls will appear. One firm inserted advertise ments in newspapers today offering denims, ' "custom tailored in stylish spring and summer models," at 10 and denim tuxedos for evening wear at 112.50. It also offered "modish evening, wedding and afternoon gow ns" of calico and gingham at 15. NEWARK, N. J.. April 20. Overalls at $43.00 a pair is the latest quota tion in the nation's war on high-) priced clothing. Tne lollowing news paper advertisement, inserted by a local merchant, appeared today: . "Substantial overalls in fashionable cne-piece models, made of strong, serviceable material, suitable alike for dress, for office work, for brick laying, for banking, boiler-making, bookkeeping, fishing, school, garden ing, banquets, church and the tlffe ater. They are pleasingly priced as follows: "Plain overalls. $2.23 to $3.50; over alls with belts and solid gold, sterling silver and . Krench enamel buckles, from $10.75 to $40; overalls with rhinestone buckles, $42.50 to $43.50." OTTAWA, Ont.. April 20. C. G. Macneill and Davil Loughnan, offi cials of the Great War Veterans' as sociation, appeared in the house of commons today garbed in khaki denim. They stated all members of the association's executives have donned overalls to reduce the cost of living. Members of the house today eaid they intended to wear either overalls or old clothes, preferably the latter, to prevent, an advance in the Vrice of denim wear. MITCHELL, S. D., April. 20. Dr. W. D. Schmerhorn. president of Da kota Wesleyan university, was attired In- bib overalls this morning, when several faculty members headed the first public parade of the campus overall club, made up of more than 100 members of the student body. DETROIT, April 20. One thousand tenographcrs. bookkeepers and other office workers have rebelled against high prices and pledged themselves not to exceed these maximum prices: Hats and shoes, $10; suits and coats, jr0; dresses, $35; hosiery, $2.50, and gloves, $2. SIOUX FALLS. S. D.. April 20. About 250 adults here have pledged themselves to wear overalls at all times except when "in bed and at tending church." A fine of $5 has been fixed for any member of the club violating the pledge. WILLITS, Cal., . April 20. Three hundred "charter members" signed the roll of Willits first "overalls club" today. STIDEXTS BO. JJLIE DENIM Higli School Girls Fight Shy of Joining Overalls Brigade. THE DALLES, Or.. April 20. (Spe cial.) The blue denim movement was given further impetus in this city to day, when 100 students of the high scnooi appeared in class rooms at tired in overalls. New overalls are by no means in the majority. Old patched overalls are most popular. The students announce that they are not warring on white collars nor on good suits, but they are protesting the high prices asked for fashionable togs, as these prices affect them. The girls have not yet joined the over alls brigade, but are planning to pop ularize old clothes for school wear. STATU HOUSE MEX PLEDGED Old uud Cheap Clothes or Denim -Must Be Worn by All. SALEM. Or., April 20. (Special.) State house officials and employes, in compliance with a pledge signed at a meeting here tonight and which will become eff2ctive Monday, will wear during working hours until No vember 1 trousers of denim, corduroy, or khaki materials. Ex-service men . . ti) cU th-e MAJESTIC 1 5-g-,.iajMg Look Out! SCARLET DAYS Coming OE will be allowed to appear in mill-' tary uniform. "White collars ire taboo, and the only concession is that which allows wearers of the cheaper trousers to don old coats even though they may be materiai other than denim, cor duroy or khaki. A committee composed of C. H. Gram, labor commissioner, and R. B. Goodin. . purchasing agent Tor the state, was named to buy clothing of the materials outlined in the by-laws of the btate house club at a, price slight ly below that charged at the stores. Governor Olcott and most of the other state officials were present at the meeting and were among those pledged to assist In b'eating the high cost of living. Orchardists Prefer Khaki. HOOD RIVER, Or., April 20. (Spe cial.) Although no organized action has been taken by local folks, over alls are making their appearance at the high school, and clerks of the O.-W. It. & N. company appeared to day in denims. The overall fad has taken no great hold among orchard ists, who say that they have been economizing on clothes for years by wearing khaki. Many local business men also wear khaki clothes regu larly in the summer months. Prosecution Is Threatened. TACOMA. Wash.. April 20. (Spe cial.) Basis for criminal action would result if Tacoma dealers ad vance the prica of overalls to com bat those who would boycott high priced clothing. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney James Selden said today. Mr. Selden was garbed in denim, being one of the county officials who donned overalls to beat the high cost of dressing. - Astoria Boys Don Overalls. ASTORIA. Or., April 20. (Special.) The high-school boys were the first in Astoria to Join in the national movement to reduce the price of clothing. About 50 of them reported for school this morning attired in overalls. High School Girls Wear Overalls. CHEYENNE. Wye, April 20. Eight high school girls appeared on the principal streets today attired in overalls. All employes of the divi sion offices of the Union Pacific rail way and city and county officials wore overalls. RENT REGULATON URGED Chairman of Public Service Com mission Suggests Legislation. SALEM, Or., April 20. (Special.) Fred G. BuchteL chairman of the Oregon public service commission, stated today that he intended to make a careful study of the laws regulat ing his office to determine whether or not the commission has any legal right to participate in the campaign against apartment house profiteers. If the present laws are inadequate. he thinks, a bill should be introduced at the next session of the legislature regulating the rental on the basis of actual investment and placing rent re-ulation in the hands of some pub lic body, preferably the Oregon public service commission. Salem landlords, in common with those in other parts of the state, have boosted their rents frequently during the past few months. PERJURY CASE DISMISSED Mrs. Lark Evans Is Still Held on Auto Larceny Charge. MEDFORD, Or.. April 20. (Spe cial.) The perjury charge against Mrs. Lark Evans was dismissed in Justice of the Peace Taylor's court here this afternoon. The charges arose in connection with her testi mony last week at her preliminary hearing on the -charge of having stolen the auto of W. G. White of Grants Pass, for the robbery o". whom her husband was recently con victed and sentenced to 15 years. The dismissal came on a technical legal point that she had testified un der a voluntary oath not authorized by law to be made by a defendant in a preliminary examination. The dismissal has no bearing on the auto larceny charge on which she was held to the grand jury last week. Corvallis Registration Record. CORVALLIS, Or., April 20. (Spe cial.) At noon today Corvallis' show ed a registration of 280S. which is declared the highest ever recorded here, being an estimated 97 per cent of the entire registration possible. Read The Oregonian classified ads. NOW - "IEn SHOWING -Kf..' It A "THE AMATEUR WIFE" With America's Loveliest Dancer-Star and Leader of Fashion IRENE CASTLE PEOPLES SYMPHONIQUE ORCHESTRA PHILIP PELZ Conducting "SCARLET DAYS" SATURDAY PORTLAND OVERALLS FAD GETS KNOCKOUT Champion of Lower Prices Is Badly Battered. FEW APPEAR IN DENIM Wool Growers Join in Attack, De claring Move to Be Blow at Vital Industry. Punch after Diincb was registered on the denim fid yesterday, with evening finding the badly battered craze clinging wanly to the ropes and ready to take the count. As a cham pion of lower clothing costs the ov eralls crusade was all but through with the rough course of reform. Not only had the city, as a town of bipeds wearing garments, declined to be denimized except here and there, I as it were but there had arisen critics who smote the denimeers lustl ly Just south of the suspender cross ing, with such effect that their laud ably patriotic efforts were made to I appear not only futile, but the height of economic folly. Plan Bitterly toidfmnflL The Greater Portland association, lacing on four-ounce gloves, ap proached the dazed fad without a trace of hesitancy and poked it sev eral hot ones, scarcely pausing to consider the effect Officials of the association then drafted resolutions condemning the urge for denim and decrying the plan to adopt overalls as correct morning, business and eve ning wear. The soundest drubbing administered to the overalls adherents was laid on by members of the Oregon State Wool growers' association, in local session assembled, who would not adjourn until they had taken their turn at thumping the fading fad. The sheep men also enacted resolutions attack ing the denimeers from another an gle the charge of being catspaws for the cotton growers of the south. "The denim crusade is propaganda, or the fruits thereof, advanced by the cotton growers of the south," de clared Dr. S. W. McClure of Pendle ton, to whom was delegated the duty of demolishing thedenim defenses. Officials Are Criticises. "I am astonished." continued the doctor, "that the governor, the offi cials and the public generally would voluntarily substitute a southern product for one grown here at home would elect to boost the price of cot ton, which brings no revenue to this state. "When Oregon people follow the denim fad they are doing a direct in jury to one of the greatest industries in their state, an industry of fac tories and payrolls, and they are aid ing the schemes of the southern cot ton grower, who never paid a cent of taxes in Oregon and whose only interest is in the additional profits that will accrue from a clever pub licity . campaign." , There were no more denims donned yesterday at the courthouse, citadel of the local denimeers, though at least 20 attaches of the county clerk's office continued to wear the revo lutionary garments. An equal num ber of young women, employed in the registration department, came to work in gingham dresses bright. fresh colors that their fellow work ers of the sterner sex found easy and agreeable to gaze upon. Bellboys D Overalls. At the Palace hotel, reported L. W. Himes, landlord, the elevator boys and the "bellhops" voluntarily gave up the glitter of brass buttons and the swagger of braid to adopt uni forms of overalls. Denim made its appearance on the Reed college campus, but it was a suit that had seen much service, and was worn by a Janitor. The students have not joined the overall army because corduroy and olive drab are already on the campus. ' DEXIM PRICE RISE FORECAST Charles Berg Criticises Move to Woman's Ad Club Meeting. Overall faddists will merely raise the price of denim, according to UNTIL FRIDAY MIDNIGHT U. XV. Crlffltfca' ' "Scarlet Days" Saturday You Men Who Are Rightfully Seeking Economy Will Find It in Hickey-Freeman Clothes The price of a thing doesn't necessarily determine whether it is an economical thing to buy. By no means! SERVICE Is the Test of Economy! I affirm that Hickey-Freeman Clothes are economical clothes for you to buy and wear. Measured by their duration of consistently maintained service without depreciation in appearance, they are clothes of intensive economy! Besides, you want comfort not discomfort; you want dignified appearance and forward-looking personality. Hickey-Freeman Clothes .will give you all of these. Exclusively in Portland at this store. Leading Clothier Morrison at Fourth Charles Berg, speaker yesterday noon before the Woman's Ad club luncheon at the Benson hotel. Mr. Berg spoke on the merchants' side of the high cost of living problem. "There has been no profiteering from retail sales of wearing apparel In the city of Portland," declared Mr. Berg. "Competition has been one fac tor in keeping merchants from over charging. There is a constant battle between department stores and be tween specialty shops and in each instance unnecessarily high prices would give competitors prestige and increased patronage." Postal' Clerks Wear Overalls. EUGENE, Or., April 20. (Special.) Overalls will be worn by the em ployes of the Eugene postoffice on IN IfcSrVTUrr 1'?, I Bantone I tti 'IS ' HS I ill I . - .nil - I y - V'v;v. i i n 1 1 ;-MW I- - 1 lill . ft I to keep yournerves 1 I i - I . I tingling for hours. ; ;'hr-- '. v. i ... J!" j "'MWm b pimply?well.dontbe 1 tfZ?4liTi&j V VV; 1 People Notice It. Drive Them B I tekri V t-li'A B Off with Dr. Edwards I II r wVV4 H Olive Tablets H II ii BEN SELLING account of the high price of clothing, according to announcement at the postoffice yesterday. The postmaster has asked the department at Wash ington for permission to allow the carriers on the city routes to wear denims, too. Aside from this there has been no movement In Eugene toward a general wearing of overalls. Meat Packing Plant Projected. EUGENE. Or., April 20. (Special.) A meat packing plant will be erect ed in Springfield this spring by B. A. Washburne and C. E. Swartz. of that city, at a cost of $25,000, accord ing to announcement Just made by them. The plant will be located at the corner of Third and A streets. The firm will buy direct from the farmer. Thehig leap scene front In Old fCcntuc&y' ANITA STEWART in OLD KENTUCKY" A mammoth production and the most spectacular show of the season. The enthusiasm over the race scene sets a precedent at the Columbia They just get up and howl! It's lightning fast! COLUMBIA V. C. Knowles Afternoons O R C H E S T R A Director UNTIL FRIDAY MIDNIGHT lliMsasBlSsji' Tired Feet and blisters BAUME ANALGSIQUE BENGUE quickly gires ease and comfort. Geta tube of relief now The. MB Ca W. X. I Evenings Entering the last lap!! Race ends Friday Midnight !! tat ri r- V wu i 1 PROLOGUE SETTING FOR PICTURE San Francisco- Los Angeles Road Race with ALBERT A pimply face will not embarrass you much longer if you t?et a package of Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets. The skin should begin to clear after you have taken the tablets a few nights. Cleanse the blood, bowels and liver with Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets, the successful substitute for calomel; there's no sickness or pain after taking them. Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets do that which calomel does, and just as effec tively, but their action is gentle and safe instead of severe and irritating'. No one who takes Olive Tablets is ever cursed with a "dark brown taste," a bad breath, a dull, listless, "no good" feeling, constipation, torpid liver, bad disposition or pimply face Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil ; you will know them by their olive color Dr Edwards spent years amonsj pa tients afflicted with Lver and bowel complaints, and Olive Tablets are the immensely effective result. Take one or two nightly for a week. See how much better you feel and look. 10c and 25c How to Gain Flesh A simple but sure way to Increase the weight, it is asserted by several well-known physicians, is to take rer ularlv for several months, one or two j. grain hypo-nuclane tablets after each meal. These little tablets have the dittinculshed merit of increasing the red and white blood corpuscles, aiding digestion and promoting as similation and absorption of the ele ments in the food which sro to make blood and solid tissues. They are ob tainable in sealed puck aces from well stocked apothecary shops. Adv. I GILLETTE RINGGOLD, GEORGIA, MAN WRITES ,A thankful letter about the ben efits received from using Sulpherb Tablets. Its effects are like grand mother's remedy of sulphur, cream of tartar and molasses. But this consists of sulphur, cream of tar tar and herbs, in a sugar-coated tablet, easy and pleasant to use.' for bad blood, stomach, liver and bowel disorders. Sir. John M. 1'lemons. Ringgold. Cieorgia. writes: "I had an awful bad case of stomach trouble and constipation, and had the service of a specialist with only temporary relief. 1 saw an advertisement of Sulpherb Tablets and began using them, and In a fhort time noted very good results, and 1 further used them, and at this time am perfectly well as far as I can tell. I don't recommend anything unless I receive some good results. Some friends use thein and they also note good results, etc." Druggists sell Sulpherb Tablets everywhere. Don't take ordinary "sulphur" tab lets and be disappointed. Adv. Beautify te (Smplexlon IN TEN DATS Nadinola CREAM TU Uaeqaaled BaaatiStr 0r Guaranteed to remcw tan, freckles, pimples, liver-tpots, etc Ex treme cases 20 Jars. Rids pores and tissues of imparities.' Leaves the skin clear, soft, healthy. At leading toilet counters. If they haven't it, by mail, two sizes, 60c. and $1.29. NATIONAL TOILET CO.. Pari. Toxm. Sold by SMimor0 Urus C.. sad olMtr toilet counters.