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THE MORXIXG OltEGONIAN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER G, 1920
L
ABOR TODAY TO
STOKE FOR TEMPLE
Customary Parade Foregone
for Ceremony.
10 O'CLOCK IS TIME SET
Plans to March Given Vp So Every
one Will Be Able to Attend
Dedication Programme.
Labor, dispensing: with the custom
ary parade, today will have its "in
ning" with a programme that will be
of historical Interest in labor circles.
The cornerstone of the new Labor
temple will be laid this afternoon at
1 o'clock, and, to allow all members
of labor unions an opportunity to wit
ness this affair, the committee aban
doned the usual parade.
Labor's programme for the day,
however, will open, this morning at
10:30 o'clock in the municipal audi
torium when Dr. W. T. McElveen, pas
tor of the First Congregational
church, will deliver the oration of the
day. W. H. Fitzgerald, who will act
as chairman of the meeting, will in
troduce the speaker.
Mayor Baker Also to Speak.
Mr. .Fitzgerald is deputy state labor
commissioner in charge of the Port
land district. Mayor Baker, city and
county officers and labor leaders also
will be called upon for brief talks.
At the completion of the programme
at the auditorium the audience will
go to the site of the Labor temple,
Fourth and Jefferson streets, where
the cornerstone exercises will be
held. Mr. Fitzgerald and Frank
Hannan, a director of the Labor Tem
ple association, will speak here. Jack
Lillia, secretary of Bricklayers' local
No. J. will perform the task of plac
lng the cornerstone.
At the conclusion of the exercises
the crowd will go to Council Crest
park, where picnics will be held
Games, races and other sporting
events also will take place. Dr. Es
ther Fohl Lovejoy will deliver an ad
dress.
Oeneral nuHlnms to Clone.
Labor day generally throughout the
City is observed as a holiday, with
closing of the main postoffice, de
partment stores and banks. Central
library will be open for reading from
2 until 9:30 P. M., with branch li
braries closed throughout the day.
A picnic programme and children's
circus will be enjoyed by children of
the Mount Scott district at the play
grounds near Seventy-second street
and Fifty-fifth avenue southeast. The
programme will be started at 10:30
A. M.
The combined parishes of Our Lord
of Sorrows at Woodstock and St.
John at Milwaukie will picnic at
Crystal Lake park.
Walla Walla Has o Parade,
WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Sept. 5.
(Special.) The Central Trades and
Labor council will hold no parade on
Labor day this year. An all-day pic
nic and barbecue on Mill creek, near
the golf links, has been arranged in
tead. A programme of sports will be
given In the afternoon and a dance
will be given at night.
HIBERNIAN GOAL NEARED
Sleuibership Campaign Progressing
Satisfactorily, Is Report
Satisfactory progress is being ex
perienced in the campaign being con
ducted by the Ancient Order of Hiber
nians for 1000 members, according to
the report of the committee in charge
and the next meeting in connection
with the campaign has been set for
this evening, when there will be bal
loting on candidates and reading of
applications. Already a large num
ber of applications has been pre
sented and indications are that the
goal will be reached.
j On Friday evening. September 10,
members will participate in an Irish
rally, when Rev. P. J. O'Rourke, pas
tor of The Dalles, Or., who has just re
turned from Ireland, will deliver an
address on "Present'Day Conditions
In Ireland." On Sunday afternoon.
September 19. at 2:30 o'clock', thj
third degree will be conferred on
class of candidates, the following of
ficers exemplifying the degrees: Ard
Righ, John B. Coffey; Brehon, L. P.
Morrow; bard, John It. Murphy; Ol
amh, George P. Haller; chief of es
cort, Thomas Touhey.
RAIL OFFICIALS VISIT
Tour Being Made to Inspect Lines
ol Southern Pacific in-Oregon. .
Chairman Kruttschnitt, President
Sproule and other high officials of
the Southern Pacific. Co., who arrived
in Portland Saturday night for an in
spection of the Southern Pacific lines
in Oregon, spent yesterday visiting
the Tillamook branch, returning last
night as far as Hillsboro, where their
train was parked for the night.
Today the party will go over the
lines in the vicinity of Corvallis and
Albany, returning to this city late this
afternoons Chairman Kruttschnitt,
' President Sproule and the other offi
cials are being accompanied onthelr
inspection tours by A. T. Mercier, gen
eral superintendent for the Southern
Pacific lines north of Ashland and
other Portland officials f the com
pany. They" expect to be in Oregon
several days visiting all portions of
the Southern Pacific system in this
state and also probably spending
tome time inspecting 'the Portland
terminal.
DEBS MESSAGE DELIVERED
Man Who Says He Is Descendant
of Patrick Henry Lectures.
William H. Henry, who claims to be
a descendant of Patrick Henry,
"bringing a message from Eugene
Debs." spoke to a group of socialists
'last night in the auditorium of the
Lincoln High school. He urged the
socialists to organize for the coming
election, to support the socialist plat
form and work unceasingly for so
cialist principles.
He declared that both leading po
litical parties were "clouding the
.real issue of the day, emancipation
of the worker."
' Huge Prune Dryer Under Way.
-SALEM. Or., Sept. 5. (Special.)
Bruce Cunningham, known as- the
loganberry king and prune grower
-of . the Liberty district, has under
construction in West Salem what Is
believed by many to be the largest
prune dryer in Oregon. The capacity
of. the plant will be more than 2000
bushels of prunes a day. Electrical
power will be used in the rnechanlcal
-part or the piunt, while steam will
be used in the flying processes.
NEW BILLS AT THE THEATERS -
Orpheum.
BT LEOXE CASS BAER.
JOHN SCLLY. who used to come
with his clever mother and father
and younger trother and very pretty
sister each season in a comedy epi
sode at a railway station in which
everybody worked at cross purposes
with amazingly humorous results.
Is at the Orpheum this week.
He is the bright and morning star
a musical revue. It ie, not amiss
here to recall the excellence of the
act which the Sully family brought
each season, or the natural comedy
talents of them all. The five had
constantly appeared together while
the children were growing up, until
a year or so ago when a motor ac
cident took its toll in the death of
both Sully senior and the younger
son. a red-haired likable youth, who
always played the part of the ticket
seller In the depot scene. The Sully
who ia at the Orpheum is the lach
rymose, spectacled one in ministerial
atmosphere who got confused if any
one looked at him. He is still like
that, owl-like and an adept at keep-
ng his features expressionless while
he gets in his deadliest lines. His
funereal manner, plus his detached
air, keep him the cynosure of the
audience.
Sully is the moving spirit in the
girl revue called "Under the Apple
Tree," the plot of which is frankly
made up as it goes along. Natalie
Dugan sings sweet melodies, and
Willard Hall helps her in the har
mony. A dainty dancer is Muriel
Thomas, who does her most effective
work with Mr. Sully. A group of
girls, of the slender, supple, sinuous
sort, appear and disappear, and on
one occasion come out from the
heart of the old apple tree as a
miniature fashion show.
Sidney Phillips is a clever chap
who sings and chats. He puts a
punch in his stories, literally and
figuratively, since they are accom
panied by interpretative gestures.
which illumine and emphasize. '
One of his songs Is a gem in nov
elty, the effort of a versatile waiter
to order food for his patrons and
sing in between orders. In Phillip's
treatment it proved a riot. He does
an Al Jolson imitation which is good.
nd impersonates an opium hound.
A hovel sketch is "Follow On" with
alternating arguments for the chorus
girl and against her. Harriet Mar
lotto of Rose Stahl comedy quality
as a burlesque queen who has cast
her regal fortunes in a stranded com
pany finds her cynicism caught up
by a little maid in the company called
the "parson" because of her philoso
phies afnd goodness. 'The sketch is
melodramatic in spots, but it is also
of good, sound logical sense in 'others,
and so the combination, coupled with
the good acting, make it worth while.
Miss Marlotte has been here before
and her dry, droll comedy work in her
character studies is admired.
A pair who stopped the show at
yesterday's matinee were Cahill and
Romaine, one done up as an ebon
street-sweeper who, following his
calling, runs afoul of a "wop" who
has political ambitions. The latter
has absorbed just enough ideas from
speeches he has heard to tangle them
together, and out of the whole evolves
a-fearful and wonderful speech. The
utter indifference and ignorance of
the ebon one as contrasted with the
importance and know-it-all manner
of the little "wop" make for genuine
fun, and their every remark is laugh
ter provocative. They finish their ar
gument by acicably singing together,
and the harmony is fine so good, in
fact, that the - audience called them
back a half-dozen times.
A pair of cockatoos, Jackie and
Billy, have brains that function, and
after Billy has done tricks, counted
and carried on, Jackie rattes off
a conversation with his charming
trainer that sounds like a chapter
from one of Robert Chambers novels
all dialogue. He can apparently
understand perfectly every command
and his chatter is a delight to hear.
Miss Ioleen is a petite lass who
starts out to be a' nice little song
stress and then changes her mind and
ours and turns into a graceful bird
like wire stepper.
Reno . is an eccentric pantomimic
comedian who gets his sad old. gar
ments all tangled up with a de
crepit bicycle which he endeavors to
ride. Reno's maneuvers, mistakes and
adventures make a thrilling act, full
of happy- laughter.
This bill will be kept over Wednes
day night.
Hippodrome.
THE headline act of the new show
which opened yesterday after
noon at the Hippodrome theater
demonstrates the deadly art of Jiu-
ajjitsu. Three husky sons of Nippon,
Nakae & Co., provide plenty of thrills
by calmly tossing each other around
the stage while demonstrating how
easy it is to reduce a murderous thug
to a whining wreck by twisting his
arms and legs in various scientific
ways. These skillful Japanese work
with lightning speed and one of the
trio is continually landing in a heap
nn the floor.
Leonora Diehl and her talented kid
dies were a big hit. The lion's share
of the applause goes to a tiny golden
haired tot who sings well and does
some clever dancing, using her toes
find Hhnu lders with equal facility.
Charles Allman and Mildred Woods
darken the stage, but light up the au
dience. The pair work in blackface in
a screaming skit called "A Family
Affair." Their dialogue is keen and
Allman puts over a couple of good
fhRracier aonSTS.
A musical novelty, ) "Cinthia's
Dream." is the offering of Leah War
wick & Co. They present a mixture
of old-fashioned melodies and the
latest iazz numbers. Harry Lee
walks down the aisle and up on the
stage loudly informing everyone that
he is the manager ol the ineater.
But he proves to be a sparkling
monologist with a turn that speeds
aloncr like a racing motorooat,
The opening act of the show is
taken care of by Fred and Albert,
capable gymnasts, featuring a daring
stunt, called the derrick trick.
"Slam Bang Jim," with William
Russell as the star, is the photoplay
attraction on the bill. It deals with
the adventures of a tenderfoot in the
cattle town of Lone Star, Ariz., which
is terrorized by a desperate bandit.
The tenderfoot and the bandit are as
alike in looks as two Lincoln pennies
and this provides many exciting
episodes and some fine dramatic
action.
SULPHUR AIDS ALFALFA
Good Rresults on Juniper Flats
Seen by County Agent.
THE DALLES. Or., Sept. 5. (Spe
cial.) Sulphur on alfalfa is giving
good results on Juniper flats, accord
ing to E. R. Jackman. county agent.
who has returned from a trip to the
southern portion of the county. In
1918 the farmers, on advice of the
county agent, used sulphur on their
crops and as a result haVe more than
doubled the ajze of the yield. The
farmers use the sulphur before the
planting and this gives much better
results than putting the sulphur on
the crop after it has started to come
up.
The Wasco county agent is going
to take a pool of orders from farm
ers to order a car load of sulphur for
use in the county.
Baker.
BT LEONE CASS BAER.
UNDER the happiest auspices, with
flowers and color and lights and
inspirational music and Mayor Baker
to reminisce pleasantly of 20 years
ago when the Baker theater was
young so opened the new season of
that organization at its new home
last "night. The theater itself has
taken on that homelike, cheerful
quality that praise agents occasion
ally call -zy. All the enlarged
photographs of players, past and
present, and the photographed scenes
of famous plays which decorated the
old theater are now adorning the
new Baker, and a good-looking, rich,
dark curtain is disclosed when the
asbestos curtain rolls up.
Just as one swallow does not make
a summer, neither does an opening
performance of a stock company
make a season. But unless all signs
fail, an excellent company has been
gathered together. The play chosen
for the opening week is always a
matter of especial planning on the
part of director. Walter Gilbert, be
cause the play must be several things
at once, entertaining and new, but
most of all, an introducing medium
in which each new player may 'make
his or her bow under felicitous cir
cumstances. For all of which sev
eral purposes "A Prince There Was"
serves most admirably.
George M. Cohan adapted this hap
py little play from a story by Dar
ragh Aldrich and Jimmy Gleason was
the prince when we saw the play.
The Baker players give a perform
ance quite as good and far better in
spots than the road show and Scl
mer Jackson's prince is quite as
moody and charming and likable as
Jimmy Gleason's. Jimmy had a sum
mer in which to study the role and
played only that role. Mr. Jackson
had a week and while he is playing
it this week he is already studying
a role for next week. Which is al
ways another reason for .being
amazed at the creditable perform
ances stock players give.
The play introduces the players
in typically Cohanesque characters
of the sure-fire comedy type and con
stant roars of laughter testify to its
success. Martin, a millionaire, has
taken to drink, needless to say this
was in the B. P. (before prohibition)
days, and is trying to forget the
death of -his young wife and child.
Despite the entreaties of his friend,
Carruthers, a magazine publisher
(played admirably by Leo Lindhard),
he insists on drinking himself into
oblivion.
Enter a child, the slavey of a
middle class boarding house. Her
name is Comfort, and she is a pic
turesque cousin to Pollyanna and
disciple of the philosophy of being
glad. She is a sunshiny person, and
is played exactly like that, sunny
and sweet and lovable, by youthful
Ann Wade. Comfort's sunny dispo
sition leads Martin to pose as a Mr.
Prince, and enter In heartily with
a fairy tale she is enacting in which
he rescues a princess. The princess,
so it happens, is a struggling young
author who lives in Comfort's board
ing house, and the prince does rescue
her. It is the rescue that makes the
rest of the story. Leona Powers is
the poor princess whose stories will
not sell, until the prince buys them.
Miss Powers' art dawns upon one
only by degrees. Her poise is so cer
tain that the simulation of the
actress fades away, her effects being
cumulative rather than dynamic. She
is delightfully feminine and amaz
ingly pleasing to look upon.
Among the new players is Shirley
Mayberry, whose characterization of
the obstreperous and slangy daughter
of the boarding-house keeper is re
freshing and natural. Murry F. Bar
nard, another newcomer, contributes
greatly to the enjoyment of the piece
by a portrayal he gives of a motion
picture supe. That sterling character
actress, Lora Rogers, gave a notable
characterization of the boarding
house landlady a performance along
original lines and clearly the work
of an actress who thinks for herse-lf.
Her highly developed study embraced
even a weird and wonderful costume
of the Benjamin Harrison dynasty.
Mayo Methot, the youthful ingenue.
had very little to do in a small role,
but her welcome was tremendous,
and she made the role sparkle and
radiate.
Another of the old guard, George P.
Webster, received an ovation, and he
gave an excellent accounting of a
likable part, that of a broken-down
lawyer who comes back when the
world was in need of men of legal
mind to untangle some of the tangles.
bmith Davies is interesting and real
as Martin's valet, William Lee steps
in to make his bow as a messenger,
Irving Kennedy is a 'natural-looking
clerk in an office and Muriel Kinney
is effective as a maid.
The play will continue all week.
with matinees on Wednesday and Sat
urday.
The cast:
Charles Martin i .Selmer Jackson
Bland Smith i .. (
Jack Carruthers Leo Llndhard
Comfort : An U.'nH.
Miss Vincent Mayo Methot
Oladys Prouty Shirley Mayberry
Mrs. Prouty Lora Rogers
Short Murry F. Barnard
Aaiuenns tvoous. Ti. ts. j...teona Powers
Mr. Cricket Geonre P. Webster
Bella. Muriel Kinney
Messenger William Lee
Eddie Irvine Kennedy
Lyric.
ported by a clever cast and chorus.
opened the season of the Lyric the
ater yesterday afternoon in new quar
ters, being installed in what was for
merly the home of the Baker players
instead of the familiar home of musi
cal comedy at Fourth and Stark. A
packed house greeted "-In Societv."
typical Lyric offering, only "bigger
and better than ever," as the circus
press agents say.
The plot of the play is not very
deep, but it provides an excuse for
Dillon and Frank, in their well
known character of Mike and Ike, to
capture the audience with their keen
funmaking and both stars received an
ovation on their first entrance yes
terday.
With a larger stage than usual to
work with, the ensemble dancing num
bers go very smoothly and the light
ing and staging effects are excellent.
The popular Rosebud chorus has been
increased to 24 girls and they all do
their work in first-class style.
The scenes of the play are laid in
a Paris restaurant and the big fea
ture comes in the entertainment given
by the management, in honor of
Mademoiselle Genee, a French opera
singer, played by Dorothy Raymond,
who scores in the song "Whispering."
Gay Duvalle, . a newcomer here, is
charming in her song number. A, B,
C." But with all respects for the
ladies, highest song honors go to Ben
Broderick, .who made a tremendous
hit with an Irish ballad of the Mc
Cormick" type called "That Old Irish
Mother of Mine."
Will Rader has one of the French
parts he does so well and puts over a
song, "Mack Sennett Girls." The new
leading man is Frank O'Rourke, who
has a fine singing voice and con
tributes some whirlwind, triple-time
dancing. The beauty prize goes to
Joan Maidment, who is now Mrs. Ben
Dillon.
The present show will continue
throughout the week, supplemented
by the country store feature on Tues
day night and the chorus girls" con
test Friday night. v
What in to happen mo weeks from
today f See page 7. Adv.
ERRORS CAPITAL
LABOR CITED
Brawn, Brain, Personality
All Declared Needed.
SPECIAL SERMON GIVEN
Not Uniformity, But Diversity, Is
Order of Life, Explains
Dr. Joshua Stansfield.
Review of the labor situation dur
ing the last year was given in the
Labor day sermon delivered last night
by Dr. Joshua Stansfield of the First
Methodist church. Law of displace
ment, based, on Christian principles,
is the solution for present unrest and
industrial troubles, said Dr. Stans
field. "The fiercest struggles of social
and industrial welfare are among the
most advanced and free peoples of
the world, which all shows that there
are some fundamentally false and
wrong ideas on the part of both labor
and capital." said Dr. Stansfield In
part. "We hear much of the 'rights'
of labor and the 'rights' of capital,
but, correctly speaking, there can be
no valid 'rights' except upon the
ground and principle of right. Deeper
than "all the clamor for rights is the
question, what is right?
"We should ask first of all what are
the essential and necessary elements
or industrial subsistence and life.
There are at least three the earth
and labor and capital. There is also
a very variably power of productivity
onthe part of individuals. So that the
human elements in industrial and so
cial life are brawn, brain and per
sonality. These all are necessary to
successful Industrialism.
"Which is the largest factor in ''the
industrial world we may not always
be able to say. There are some very
thoughtless persons, or worse, who
demagogue the cry that the "laboring
classes" produce the world's wealth
and that "capital" is largely a rob
bery of their share. This is mani
festly untrue. The fact is that three
times as much wealth is produced now
by the 'same working population, the
same muscular power as in an earlier
generation. What has made the dif
ference? Not the laborer, but the
thinking brain behind him.
"Not uniformity, but diversity, is
the order of being an of life. There
fore the question really is with every
man in hs place, whether of brain or
brawn. 'That he do justly and love
mercy,' and 'Whatsoever he would
that others.' Those in the other
place or position or station 'should do
unto him, do ye even so to them.'
'The Golden Rule does not call for
communism or a political and me
chanical socialise., but for a Worthy
and humane conduct between individ
uals and classes of men, on the high
ground of justice and personal right
eousness. What would" be right to
thee under similar circumstances 'do
ye unto others.'"
REAL PREACHER OT CISTERN
Mind of Pastor Should Be Foun
tain, According to Dr. McElveen.
Home Coming day was celebrated
yesterday at the First Congregational
church with extra floral decorations,
extra music by the reorganized quar
tet and chorus and a sermon bv Dr.
W. T. McElveen. the pastor, who
preached on "Saving Society."
"What is it to preach Christ?"
asked Dr. McElveen. "To preach
Christ," he said, "is not to describe
Palestine geography; it is not to com
ment on ancient Hebrew conditions.
To preach Christ is not to scorn men
and women of 30 centuries ago for
their iniquities. Scolding Noah for
his drunkenness or David for his
adultery is both easier and safer
than rebuking present day sinners.
You can criticise Noah's or David's
misdemeanors without danger of a
libel suit, or without the fear of
offending any of the relatives and
friends. It is much more difficult
and dangerous to discuss any present
day live question in the pulpit. For
the frank discussion of every live
question affects adversely somebody
in the church s membership. More
people like sermons that tickle their
ears and warm their hearts than like
sermons that prick their consciences.
To preach Christ is not to felici-
tiously describe the beauties and
glories of a heaven that is going to
be bye and bye, or to vividly portray I
the terrors of a future hell. Preach-
ing's first task Is the redemption
of this world, not the population of
the next world. If life is ever to be
worth while, it ought to be worth
while here and now, and it is re
ligion's task to make it so. Salva
tion is not escape from the present
social order, it is the regeneration
of that order. A man will not go
to heaven when he dies unless he
tries to make earth heavenly while
he lives.,
"To preach Christ is not to tell
people that if they entertain an
orthodox opinion about Him they will
be saved. Many so-called Christians
are long on orthodoxy, but exceed
ingly short on good works. To
preach Chr'st is not to unctuously
eulogize the eo-called "old-fashion
gospel." The true preacher of Christ
is not a shouter of ancient shibbo
leths. The genuine preacher is not
a Victrola with a limited number
of records. His m'nd is not a cistern;
it is a fountain. His intellect and
heart are not static, but dynamic.
The preacher is a herald who de
clares old truths in an ever fuller
way and who, ever declares new
truths. The real preacher reads,
studies, thinks, meditates. And as
he thus studies the spirit of truth
guides him into ever more truth, and
new light breaks forth from the
word of God. The herald of the Gos
pel brings forth things both new and
old. He is not content to reiterate
stale ideas, he is a human catapult
who hurls new ideas, new reasons,
new ideals, new arguments at his
congregation.
"To preach Christ is to proclaim
the reality of the fatherly saving
grace of uoa tnat jesus revealed by
his life and death as well as by his
lips. It is to give a timely and
truthful interpretation of the mind
of Jesus."
CHURCH HELD WORLD'S HOPE
Rev. Elbert Flint Says Xations Seek
Relief in Christianity.
"The Programme of Jesus for a. New
Age" was the theme of Rev. Elbert
E. Flint at Atkinson Memorial Con
gregational church yesterday morn
ing. - "The world, in every time of
need in its extremity, has, without a
single exception or contradiction,
turned to divine source of relief," said
the minister. "We would think that
men had always been fools, or born
to disappointment, 'as the sparks are
to fly upward, or incurably religious.
Since Jesus was born the world has
A!
looked to him and his programme for
its relief, and never has this been
more true than today.
"The greatest financier of America,
and perhaps the world, has recently
repeatedly declared that the church
and the teachings of Jesus are the
hope of modern business and industry.
Perhaps without a single exception
every nation of the world, and this
statement, too, is on good authority,
has spoken openly or indicated that
their hope in reconstruction lies in
the principles found in the Christian
religion. It would be easy to men
tion -every one of these nations and
the statesmen or scholars declaring
this hope.
"And what all honest labor and in
dustry is asking for today are the
simple underlying principles and
truths of what Jesus lived and taught.
Three or four things should be men
tioned as belonging to that pro
gramme. First of all. the committal
of a people or nation or the entire
world to the opening words of Jesus'
message. His forst words were 'Good
news." 'Good news' founded in truth,
in an unfailing hope, in an unchang
ing and everlasting God. Say what'
you will, there is great power in the
thought that "God is in the heaven
and all is well.'
"In the second place, by the power
of a mighty example and by repeated
exhortation, he laid it upon the people
to pray. Whatever this age may
think of the meaning or the use of
prayer, we must remember that Jesus
himself had his strength and an un
dying assurance that God was a God
of prayer and he answered his people.
In the third place. Jesus preached the
greatest sermon that has ever been
preached, the main theme of which
was righteous living. Not a shigle
doctrinal controversy, or any theo
logical hair-splitting, but a etraight-from-the-shoulder
message to men,
whether employer or employe, rich or
poor, to live and work and produce
righteously. The hope of the world
then is an unequivocal, irrevocable
committal to this programme."
HERMIT LIFE THING OF PAST
Men Combine Against Exploita
tion, Says Rct. E. Constant.
Rev. Edward Constant yesterday
morning preached on "The Comrade- i
ship of Industry" at the Highland
Congregational church.
The dav of rank individualism.
declared Mr. Constant, "has gone,
never to return. The trend of today
emphasizes the solidarity of the race.
It has become almost impossible for
the individual to live a hermit life.
The interests of society are so inter
twined that we cannot get away from
the thought of the interdependence
of men.
"Unionism and collective bargain
ing are forms of comradeship as well
as protests against industrial unfair
ness. Men combine against the ex
ploitation of their fellows. The capi
talist who defies the laws of human
nature and squeezes his fellow men
is as much an anarchist as the la-
borer who throws the monkey vrench
into the machinery.
"The rights of property are not to
be placed above the rights of man.
Human life is the most sacred thtng
of all. When conscious of the inherent
worth of man we are not likely to
treat him as a beast of burden or a
piece of muscular machinery.
"We are far from the ideal in the
industrial world. A virile Christianity
must have a chance to play its part
in industry. The teachings of Jesus
are yet waiting to be put into effect.
There is need of that confidence in
one another which alone can come
from a sense of real comradeship.
True brotherliness among raei will
come when we learn to co-operate in
the spirit of the Christ.
"It was said of a successful jour
nalist and publisher who recently died
that his employes worked with him
rather than for him. They were fel
low workers. They were loyal to him
and he to them. There was genuine
reciprocity. The chief looked upon the
interests of his men as being identical
with his own. Is not that the spirit
to be desired in the industrial sphere?
Such a disposition will tend towards
harmony and a proper sharing of the
profits and pleasures of life."
BAPTISTS TO CONVENE
MEETING AT CORVALLIS
OPEN TOMORROW.
TO
Annual Session of Woman's State
'Missionary Societies Will
Be Held Wednesday.
The annual meeting of the Oregon
Baptists will be held this week at
Corvallis beginning with the minis
ters' conference tomorrow afternoon
and continuing until Friday night.
The annual meeting of the woman s
state missionary societies will be held
Wednesday afternoon.
Following the meeting of these so
cieties the Oregon Baptist state con
vention .will convene Wednesday at
1:30 and will close with the Oregon
Baptist young people's rally Friday
night. Well-known Baptist leaders
will speak.
The Corvallis church, which enter
tains the Baptist convention, has
made remarkable progress in the last
few years. They have erected one
of the best buildings in the state, re
cently pledged 20,000 for the Baptist
new world movement, and $20,000 for
additional equipment for their new
building.
Dr. George E. Varney has recently
resigned the pastorate to accept a
professorship in the Oregon Agricul
tural college, and the church has
called to its pastorate Dr. W. A.
Waldo, recently resigned from the
pastorate of the White temple at
Portland.
Dr. O. C. Wright, executive secre
tary of the Oregon Baptist state con
vention, stated that this meeting will
be one of the most Important In view
of the greatly enlarged programme of
Baptist work in the history of Oregon
Baptists.
Kelso Business Interest Sold.
KELSO, Wash.. Sept. 5. (Special.)
Dewey Letsinger and C. C Bashor,
cashier of the First National bank,
yesterday completed "arrangements
for the purchase of L. J. Short's inter
est in the Short & Letsinger hardware
and furniture store. Short & Let
singer purchased the A. R. Remick
store, Kelso's pioneer hardware store,
about a year ago. and Dewey Let
singer has been associated with the
business since last November. Mr.
bashor will not be actively associ
ated with the business. M. Letsinger,,
one of the original members of the
firm, retains his interest.
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Auto Theft Suspects Returned.
CHEHALIS, Wash., Sept, 5. (Spe
cial.) Marcel Marsetet and Arthur
Conforty, two Vancouver boys, ar
rested here on a charge of stealing
an automobile were returned there
yesterday by Deputy Laws of Clarke
county.
Sunflower Crop Good.
TOLEDO, Or.. Sept. 5. (Special.)
With a rain at si-week Intervals all
season the pastures, gardens and
cultivated crops In Lincoln county are
in splendid condition. Sunflowers for
silage, a new crop in Lincoln county,
are showing up splendidly.
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METHODS STUDIED
National Farm Bureau Party
Visits Portland.
GRAIN BODY TO BE FORMED
Committee Concludes Two Weeks'
Investigation in California;
Leave for East Tonight.
For the purpose of investigating
farmers' co-operative marketing or
ganizations in Oregon, six members
of the grain marketing committee of
the National Farm Bureau federation
are in the city and will hold con
ferences with leaders of the co
operative movement here today.
It was recently determined by the
American Farm Bureau federation to
develop plans for a national wheat
growers' marketing organization, to
embrace wheat farmers in all sec
tions of the country, and in view- ot
this decision President Howard of
the federation appointed a committee
to investigate co-operative market
ing in centers where it is being em
ployed successfully.
laterners in Party.
The following members of this com
mittee are in the party: W. G. Eck
hardt of Chicago, chief of the grain
agricultural division of the Illinois
farm bureau federation; J. G. Brown
of Monon, Ind., president of the Indi
ana farm bureau federation; Harry U.
Bealc of Mt.' Sterling, O., treasurer of
the Ohio farm bureau federation; E.G.
Nourse of Ames, la., professor of ag
ricultural economics of Iowa Agricul
tural college; P. K. Bausinan of Mon-
ticcllo, Ind., county agent of Indiana,
and Herman Steen of Chicago, editor
of Prairie Farmer.
The men arrived Saturday night and
spent yesterday conferring with local
leaders in the co-operative marketing
movement and touring -the Columbia
highway. Further conferences will
be held today at the Benson hotel.
Those in this state to meet with the
visiting committee members include
N. C. Maris, director of extension of
Oregon Agricultural college; 11. il.
McPherson of the federal bureau of
of markeUs, Oregon Agricultural
college; Joseph Passonncau of the de
partment of markets of the Washing
ton state college; K. CPaulus. gen
eral manager of the Oregon Growers'
co-operative association; U. L. Upson,
Oregon Poultry Producers' associa
tion; Alma L. Katz, Dairymen's
league, and C. E. Spence, master of
the state grange.
Two Weeks Spent in South
The committee has just concluded
two woeks in California investigating
the co-operative system thre and
the stop here will be brief, the men
proceeding eastward tonight. The
work of this committee is prelimi
nary to the work of a committee of
17, being formed by the national as
sociation from among the diflerent
wheat farmers associations through
out the country, to draw up plans for
the organization of a national wheat
growers marketing association.
"The object of our visit to Califor
nia and Oregon has been to study the
co-operative marketing agencies in
successful operation in this section,"
said Mr. Eckhardt, "and to try to de
termine if the underlying principles
of the organizations here could be
used in a national way. The Ameri
can farm bureau federation is striv
ing to bring about a co-operative
marketing organization among wheat
farmers In all parts of the country
in order to do away, if possible, with
rapid fluctuation of prices and the
evils arising out of speculation."
CATTLE ON TOUR TO EAST
Cow and 3-Months-OId Bull Ride
in Truck to Missouri.
HOOD RIVER. Or., Sept. 5. (Spe
cial.) En route from Neskowin, Tilla
mook county, to Pomona, Mo., Charles
A. Parsons and son. Zanies B. Par
sons, passed through here today pilot
ing a truck carrying Dollie Lees Nes
kowin, a registered Jersey cow, and
Oregon St. Mawes, a blooded 3-months-old
bull.
Mr. Parsons and his son have
equipped the rear of a truck with
spring-padded sides and the Jerseys
were riding in apparent comtort. in
deed, while he stopped here the calt
laid down and contentedly chewed his
cud. They expect to camp each night.
The truck is so arranged that the
animals can be quickly unloaded and
allowed to stretch their legs. They
will travel 1800 miles.
GRAIN SPROUTS IN SACK
Recent Rains at Walla Walla,
Wash., Damage Wheat.
WALLA WALLA. Wash., Sept. 5.
(Special.) Estimates of the damage
done to wheat recently by the heavy
rains vary greatly. Sacked grain
left In the field has been damaged
to some extent. The sacks were wet
through, which will necessitate re
sacking in some instances. Some of
the wheat has sprouted in the sacks.
Normal moisture in wheat at this
time of the year is nine per cent and
tests show as high as 13 per cent. The
wheat with a heavy moisture content
will have to be replied at least once
a week until dried out, otherwise it
will spoil, according to wheat men.
OAKS' CROWDS PLEASED
Varied Programme at Resort to Be
Repeated Today.
Sunday crowds visited the Oaks yes
terday and were pleased with the
varied programme of entertainment,
which will be repeated today. Lew
Cullin's dog and pony show will give
its performance at 3 and 9 P. M. and
will close the last big day of the sea
son at the popular resort.
Fred DuPuy will give rides over the
river and. city in his hydroplane. Miss
Irene Alleman, soprano, will sing sev
eral solos.
DROP IN AT
WOOSTER'S
General Merchandise.
48S to 494 Washington St.
OPEN EVENINGS
Take the car home from
Wooster'a .
store
All Day
Habor
Trie 3.UAirrr Store
PRIZES TO TOTAL SI 000
5500 EACH TO BE GIVEN FOR
BUTTER AND CHEESE.
Awards to Be Made on Points Pro
Rata, With $3 Limit on One
and $2 on the Oilier.
Announcement that $500 will be
distributed in prizes towinners in the
butter-scoring contest at the State
Fair, and a like sum for winners in
the Cheddar cheese exhibit, has been
made by V. I). Pine of Oregon Agri
cultural College, who is superintend
ent of the dairy building.
Creamery butter will be scored on
commercial points only, but samples
testing as much as 16 per cent mois
ture will be disqualified. It must
have been made in the factory from
milk produced on at least two farms
owned by two different persons or
firms. Creameries owned by any
state institution will not be allowed
to compete.
Prizes will be awarded on points
pro rata, but no enti ot butter may
get more than $3 a point above mini
mum, or cheese more than $2.
Entrance blanks will be mailed
creameries in time to make shipment
of exhibits, and the departtment i3
urging very general competition to
make the creamery show the biggest
success of the fair.
"Outside entries will be received."
says Mr. Pine, "and Oregon will have
to go some to keep the prizes at
home."
PROTESTS TO BE HEEDED
Financiers Not to Back Dam Proj
ect While Legion Objcets.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Sept. 5.
(Special.) As long as there is opposi
tion to the building of the Link river
dam by the American Legion and other
local interests, the financiers back
ing the California-Oregon Power com
pany will not furnish money Tor the
project, says J. C. Thompson, division
ant-ger, who has Just returned from
San Francisco where a conference of
power company officials was held to
consider action following the latest
protests of the legion and the result
ant request of Secretary Payne that
work on the dam stop.
Bankers had arranged to make a
loan of $750,000 for building the dam
ana dikink Indian lands on the Upper
Klamath lake, said Mr. Thompson,
but canceled the loan when the legion
eppctition developed.
Yakima Canvassed for Houses.
YAKIMA. Wash.. Sept. 5. (Special.)
Twenty Y. W. C. A. workers have
begun a canvass of this city . for the
purpose of compiling a complete di
rectory of all rooms available for
lodging or housekeeping, for perma-
FOURTH ST
A Conservative
Custodian
FOURTH AND WASHINGTON STREETS
OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS 6 TO 8
Today
of Portland
nent or transient guests. T. W. C. A.
officials and their assistants, believ
ing that the housing problem is one
of the most serious with which the
people of the city have to deal, has
undertaken this work as a community
service.
GUN IN FALL KILLS BOY
Youthful Hunlcr Slips While Get
ting; Drink From Spring.
SPOKANE. Wash., Sept. 5. William
P. Bradley, aged 18, lost his life early
this morning from a gunshot wound
received when lie attempted to take a
drink of water from a spring while
on a hunting trip Saturday.
His foot slipped as he was about to
drink and in falling the gun was dis
charged, the bullet entering his body.
He was brought to the hospital, but
an operation failed to save his life.
Yale to Celebrate New Bridge.
KKLSO. Wash., Sept. 5. (Special.)
The community of Yale on the up
per Lewis river is planning for the
biggest celebration in its history for
tomorrow, when the newly finished
Yale-Yacolt bridge will be dedicated.
The bridge was built jointly by Cow
litis and Clarke counties and connects
a big area with the railway. A bar
becue and picnic lunch will be held.
Water Injunction Sought.
CHEHALIS. Wash.. Sept. 5. (Spe
cial.) A. B. Fogelsong, Lincoln creek
resident, has started proceedings in
the Lewis county superior court here
for an injunction to restrain a neigh
bor. J. H. West, from taking water
from a creek In their neighborhood.
The case has been before the courts
for several years in one way or an
other. Hunter Sent to Jail.
HOQUIAM, Wash., Sept. 5. (Spe
cial.) Frank Jones, out with a gun,
met Game Warden Winslow, but did
not know he was an officer of the
law. He told Mr. Winslow hunting
was -.good, but could not produce a
license. In justice court later he was
fined $5 and costs, but decided to
serve three days in jail rather than
pay it.
Limb Falls, Kills Logger.
ASTORIA, Or., Sept. E. (Special.) .
Nikolai Mikithyk, a timber faller, em
ployed at the Big Creek Logging com
pany's camp near Knappa, was in
stantly killed yesterday afternoon
when his skull was crushed by a
falling limb. The deceased was a na
tive of Russia and his only known rel
ative is a sister residing in Portland.
Two Girls Arrested.
CHEHALIS. Wash.. Sept. 5. (Spe
cial.) Peggie Palmer and Mamie An
geles were yesterday arrested by
Sheriff John Berry at Elma. They
are alleged to have defrauded a Cen
tralla horel out of a bill for room
rent. The girls were members of a
carnival company.
WASHINGTON T