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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. FORTLAyP, - JULY 2, 1911. 6000 CHURCH WORKERS TO MEET FT WtLL r. POWELL NEARLT 00 Christian workers will gather la Portland next Tuesday to attend tbe National Convention of the Dtaclplee of Christ, which will oe held In the Whit. Tem ple. Grace M. E, and Flret Presbyterian churches, from July 4 to lL Delegates will be present from all parts of tha world. Especially In Paclfle Coast cities, where business activity Is so great that folk hava a propensity to forget about spiritual things, a convention of thta character may achieve results gratify ing to the delegates. The people of Portland long ago established an en viable reputation for hospitality and the vfsltors are not likely to miss any of the interesting scenlo features. Among the trips recommended to them Is the car ride to Council Crest, where a panoramic view of the city and moun tains may be- obtained, and the boat rides down li Columbia to the ocean, or up the river to The Palles. The following programme has been arranged for the convention won. Tuesday July 4. Annual board me-nf ,T"7anomIn's Hoar of Mission. . First e.r.vt.rl.n hureh. 10 A. M.; "J-"S Ch Pr rhurch. 2 P. W.; annual n.tln of board f manager, of Am.rlcan Ihrlatlan Mil senary ocl-ty. Flr.t 7''!'t" Jr. th" City of Portland. Rev. W. B Hln.on. i To: . W. by Mr M.ad Springy-VT.tk ns: lrM of welcome on behalf of th ,.?Ore,on and th. Northwea br Governor r....d We.t. :: re.ponae. by D. T. IJ a '.am. : convention ra". or M- -bott. :13: adjournment. B 4J. ,. Wednrxlay. Jtliy '"I" i------ Alt a Mary J. Judson; addreea "our Own Chinese; a Problem and an Opportunity. . P. Hentlry. of .Northern California: aunrv.-, The Japanese On ur (t. Mr-.' V Pm.ther. or Southern California: address, .--rv,. .-.11 ih. Mountains." Miss Henri etta StoY. of Tenne.ee.; addrea "A Pc ,urSOur N-cr., Work." C. C. Smith of rhtd devotions. Mra. r . - Jr. - Pla.; statement dent of toons peoples Maltle Poun.le: adlrr. of auperinten department. Miss "Our tireaie. Need - Mra. .'atherln V. I.Ind.av. Ill 1 arl-a-e... Mis. Elma '. Irelan. Mexico: ddre.a. Mumoert. ' " -. r.r" - - mlttee; address, "ur tiro -- 51. Haggard, la. Evening, devotions: address. J ro-..Jr K. I. J-ett. Tex.; story of the Juhlee. V.sa Klorenca Miller. K.n.: hour of rra-r; conf-renr. auxiliary " workers. Thursday nvrnln. S. Mra. r. M. lorrt.. Iowa: at oftcera. Friday "''; h Vtaa l.nra V. Thompson. II!.; Junior missionary orsanlsatloo, Saturday muro- " Wednesday. July B Afternoon, n. A loos presiuine: sons service, i-o by V. K M Harkelman. Ind . l '": rrayer W. C. Hull. J preVdent e aitrrss. K. A. l.on, Mo.. Kfrtlent M.naa-ment In Rellelous Work." I:."": en eral s- reiarv a ad.lr.M. P. C. MscKar.snd. .x. "Today's Work TMsr. - 1": onward, christian Holdler.." 5 :1.'.; adtresa. r W. Hurnh.m. III.. 2 4": assistant secre tary, a:.:res and aiatlstlral report. h.- E. El .t I Vo.. S 1: Held secretary s address. J ' K. eih-i:rnr.-rer. O . "The Preachers l arl " H .'). aldress, John K- Toun-ls. O.. "The Wort of t.1e Christian Woman's Toar-I of Mission." address. Judae J. Ila-malier. Ka-. -Th Halation of Method to proaresa.'- 4o': addre-a. K. It. Dowllnc. Cat. -Th. Tall Man a Ta.k." US: Broth erhood bano,u-t. oWodmen a Hall, fc.eventn and Aider. ..". . Thursday. Ju!r Momlns: prayer and xralse l ll- appointment of commttteea. V 4i- ad.lresa. "The P..-lety in1 Ita Work. K W. Allen, in. a tdresa. "Kvperlencea In T het " Ir. A. I- fihelton. 10 ; service or lrtereesslon. II: addreaa. Report of a World Missionary Tour.- F. M. Balna. ll:i:: an rouncement. IS: IS. Afternoon, d-votlnnal w r Ice. 2 .; business. - 4..; address. "Tha Win of i hrlst tor tha World.'- J. P. ' Xnlitat. 3 31; ad.lresa. "Th. Plara of Mis . .p.. In Kvanr-lism." C. K. fscoyllle. 3..rf; a t.lress. Work In Japan." Mrs. W. H. Erkine. 4. Id. Evenlns. at White Temple; tr.lM service. : address. "Experience In jip.ii." w. II. Ersklne. a I.'.: address. "Tha J.aiesl Word from the Fields," F. M Rains. 4S. At tlraoe It. E. Church; Jiralsa ser vice addrs, "An Ideal Missionary hurch." W. E. Crahtree. -1.1; address. The Conservation of the Mlaalonnry In ve:ment." H. H. Our. 45: ad)ournmeit. 1 li. At First Praapyterlao CliurcS: prajsa service. : addr-ea. "aoraa Thinsa Learned rn My Trip." Mra. F. M. rtalns. .20; ad lre.a. "The Fplrltuai Tower vt the World Appeal." W. H. Allen. 8:4: address. "The lir.etan Field." Dr. A. L- sbelton. S.SV Friday. July 7. mornlns. at th White Temple 0:3i. prayer and pralsa aarvtee; to 4.V appointment of commute: 10. "Th Veara Work." I. N. McOaah; 10:.TO. report of church extension board. O. W. Murkley; 1 president address. Harry D. 8mtth: 11 :.1o. busmesa aeaaioo. Afternoon, at White Temple i -. rrayar and praise aervice: 2 4.. etsht-mlnut speeches on American nnsslon fields. L J. Cahlll. Ohio; J. N. Jea aup. Arkansas: J. H. Wood. Oeorsta; H. J. l.ukea California; J. 8. Kaum. Montana; M. l Rvan. Canada: S 4i. address. John L. Krandu Miaaoarl; "The Supremacy and In fuenc of th Anglo-Saxon Race on th Clvilixatlon of th World": 4:03. bnslnesa sessioa. Evenlnal. at th Whit Tempi. . j-rer and prale. servlc; 8:1V address oo church Extension." C. ft. Hudson. Ken tucky: 0. addrrv. William Cral. Near Tork. Heroism on th Horn Field." At First preebvterlan Church 8. prayer and prals a-rvlee- S:1S. addr-aa. "Heroism on th Horn Field." William Baynard Crals. Nf Tork: . addreaa on "Church Extension." C It. Hudson. Kentucky. Saturday. July a. Morning Department al blbiea school conferences Iplacea to b announced t. l: elementary and advanced. Myron C. Settle. Kana: adult. W. C. Pearr; teacher tralnlns. Professor F. E. HllUns tn. Or.: missions. Robert M. Hopkins. At White Temple Prayer and praise servlc. IO- buatneas ses-lon of th National Be nevolent Association. 4.".; report read by (secretary J. H. Mohorter. 9 4.'.; unflntahed builneaa of tb. American Christian Mlsa'.on .ary Society. XS:4: report of th Ministerial Relief Board. A. L. orcutt. II: addresa. "A biuar laral for th Preacher." John E pounds. x Afternoon, blhle school seeslon Pevotional. Joeph Armlateail. Wash.. 2: A Review and a preview." Robert M. Ilop Vins. 2 front rank recosnttlon servlc. ;- "Th Bible School and th Home." C . Nlchola. 3; Hllther Educational Ideals." Iean H. H. Guy. t'at,. 3:-0; "The Wlnnlnc f the West." E. W. Emerson. Cal.. 3 4o: 'Immlcratlon and th eluntlay School." Crayton - Brooks. Ohio. 4. At Frat Chris tian Church, adult Bible class banquet A UO; speakers. W. C pearc. "Hlatorical Bavle-w:" W. H. Ixnc. "Loyal Bona:" K. A. Lbc. "Brotherhood:" peter Alnall. Splrttua.1 Life." Evenlns. at Whit Tem ple, prayer and prals servlc. 8; addraaa. National Bcnavolent Association." 8:15; ad-e!r-as. for th Sunday school, w. C. pearc. 8 .10. At Frist Presbyterian Church, prayar and praise- service. : addreaa for th Sun clsv scnool. W. C Pearc. 8 13: addreaa. "National Benevolent Aeeoctallon." :5k. Sundav. July S Morning Convention TtTKl school aeaslon. Charles A. Phlpps. sen eral secretary treon nunday School Asso ciation, supertntendlns. 0: worshtpins and preachlns. 10: sermon St Whit Tempi by b m p.m. Evening. f.vot.onal service, led by L- rfc ""I-Si Fpokane. ITuh.. : r.myk. br the ehalr- -i ...... nf . rom on toenail or service. Mrs. Erf! Cunningham, ot in'" ana- President' mea. Sir Anna K. " water: corresponding secretary's ','r"'n- 1.. tr.iinrrr statements. REBUFFS AND HEARTACHES DIM HOPE OF MANY STAGE-STRUCK WORSHIPERS Patho. Markj Try-ntJ of Aspirant Wlio Besiege PUy Promoter With Sketches, Quest for Talent Demands Close Scrutiny of Deluge of Ridiculous Skits Range of Applicants Heterogeneous. TIE RE Is a line of demarcation be tween the stage and auditorium, the entertainers and performers and the audience and spectators. From the auditorium thousands try to step over this line but few from the stage attempt to jump the chasm. The fascination of the stage la dual. It attracts auditors and apectatora and lures thousands behind the footlights. It Is a psychological study no one understands, no one tries to under stand, but It l ever apparent. Whether the stage In the ancient days of Greece and Home bad Ita lure Is not recorded In history nor' are the thousands of aspirants for the stage of modern times mentioned In tbe chronicle of current events. In the oblivion of heart aches, despair, disappointment, wretchedness, chagrin, bitterness, resentment and harpr-7-.-car for.etrumesa ar thou- National Convention of Disciples of Christ Begins July -:t- : . ! ...y v , i o. K J. wl -W- Crayton B. Brooks. Pennsylvania; st First Preebytrtan church br J. 11. Garrison. Mis souri, at Orac Methodist Church by F. . Burnham. Illinois. Afternoon Communion services. 3: at Whit Tempi, led by J. B. Brlney. Kentucky: at First Preebvsterlan Church, led by J. C. Mason. Texas: at Ore.- MethoOlst Church, letl by J. H. Mc Cuilousn. California. Evenlna At White Temple. Christian Kndcnvor convention. Austin Hunter, president of National Chris tian Endeavor l.oard. presldlns. Christian Endeavor prayer meeting: music led by sanda of ambitious Thespians today, lost In the same realm that must bave awaited those be Tore the invention of the book." Theatrical managers only can tell of the thousands beckoned by the glare of footlights, spangled adornments, shift ing scenery, urease paint, whiskers, gorgeous costumes, spot lights and orchestra- Every Wednesday and Sun day morning a group of such guided, or, usually misguided aspirants, may be seen at the entrance to tha Star Theater, where Melvln O. Winstock. manager for the People's Amusement Company, "tries them out." all anxious for admittance and an opportunity to exhibit their talent. All Claws Ilcprrsrntrd. The applicants represent all classes, and shades of society of both sexes. The thinly clad shop girl, servant, a factory-worker, who have saved a few aaSJBBJSJBJBJjSJBJJBJBBJSJSSSSJSIPSBS H i . .'. "i 1 ' aaaa-iiswas 't.aa-.'. "'.'Jl 7 VT. K. M. Hackleman: rowetlnr led by D. T. Short, president of Portland Chrrsuan Endeavor Vnlon. 0:80; dsvollonal servlc. conducted by A. U Chnpman. Boise. Idaho, T-30- report of National Board of cnrlatlaa Endeavor. Austin Hunter. Cblcaso. 8: ad dress. Dr. Koyal J. Bye. Bolense. Africa. "Christian Endeavor and tha Conauest ut the World." 8:15: address. Senator William E. Borah. Idaho. "The Christian Cltlxen and th Ropubllr." 8:45. At Orac M. E. Church. II. D. Smith, presiding Christian Enilotor ra'.ly and conaecrallon service. dollars of their scant earnings to take a "course" in some fake theatrical school, brush against the refined Miss and Mrs. who took "private lessons" and came to the "try out" in an auto mobile; and the dapper ribbon counter chappy, the unkempt wanderer from Hurnside street and the Immaculately attired youth of a staid old family rub elbows In thelr frantic efltort to show what they can do. Before the "try out" all is a flutter of excitement. Hearts beat fast with Joy. expectation and fear. They have all been told to report on tlma and show what they can do. Then, after tbe "try out" comes the tragedy, real tragedy, for the disappointment Is severe and heartbreaking to 93 rer cent or. more. Poor working girls, guaranteed a position on the stage by a "professor" who took their last penny, burst into tears, and their aris tocratic sisters stalk, grandly . out of 4 and Lasts for Eight Days, t 7 'r e ' " Yf!.,," ft -i - - f f 1.1 1 r5 i? --"' - conducted by R.- H. Wasrgener. Cincinnati. O.. 6:30: devotional. W. A. Moore Tacoma. Wash.. 7:30; addrcas. "Christlnn Endeavor nd Christian Vnlon." j a m eg i-miu. the theater to their automobile and whirl home to have their cry in seclu sion. Chappy goes back to the ribbon counter with his heart In his throat, tho scion of the old family doesn t think much of the manager's judgment and the wanderer goes back to Burn side street muttering Imprecations, with a chest full of indignation. Recruits Are Plentiful. Only a few out of each group try to "come back." The disappointment either squelches their ambition to go on tha stage or they accept defeat philosophically after the first blow and resign, themselves to their " old occu pations. But the crop of recruits never diminishes. On the contrary It becomes bigger each week. Less than a year ago Manager Winstock had one "try out" a week. Now It is necessary to have two to accommodate all, and If theatrical possibilities develop during the next year as fast as they did the last year, he will have "try outa d""' .... Occaslonallysome cases are so pathe tic that even a cold-blooded theatrical manager has not the heart to bluntly dismiss them with "You can't sing" or "You cant act" and refers them to some other manager, with a word of encouragement. And. it is not Infrequent that an applicant for a place on the stage goes the rund of all the theatera la Portland. Manager Winstock "C - - f.i-r,. - v ... M mm 1 r mTL'r ' w stl isak 111 IT IN PORTLAND HIWEEK With Delegates 'Attending ... 1 ..Vvr X I e 5 -V - v ' sas City, 7:45: address. "The Power ot Christian Endeavor." Charles C. Chapman. v,.nrton.. Cal.. 9:15: report of National Boar rd of Christian cnaeaoi. ... sends them over to Manager Coffin berry, of the Orpheum; Manager Coffin berry sends them to Manager Baker, of the Baker and Bungalow: Manager Baker sends them to Manager Helllg, of tbe Heilig; Manager Heiltg sends tliem to Keating & Flood, of the Lyric: Keating & Flood send them to Manager Johnson, of Pantages, and Johnson sends them back to Winstock. Then, if there is ambition left, they go the same old round again. But Manager Winstock, having the only try-out,' and being the only agent In the city for peopling the stage with stars, gets them all. Persistent Cntil Rebuff. How they all find his office Is a con undrum. Every day aspirants, rang ing In age from 14 to 60,all colors, creeds and sUes. with every act from high soprano to snake charming, knock on his door. If he is busy It makes no difference, they have lots of time and patiently wait in the outer office. "I consider It my duty," said Man ager Winstock. "to try out everybody, in the hope of discovering talent. I thought about every form of applicant, with every possible act Portland af fords, had come to me until recently, when I was approached by a woman who wanted to act for motion pictures. She started the ball rolling along a new line and since then there has been a regular deluge of humanity, all want From All parts of the World. r. J IIS s-V jL, vassw.ai4 V- -i V-etTSser t V ? . - ... uesx im ia -Ji' .1' - -, T T7 jy Hackelman. Indianapolis. S:43. Evening, at First Presbyterian Church. Christian union conference. A. C. Smither Jr'sl'f"rPia-, P1:6: siding. Music provided by the choir or tne ing to act for motion pictures. "But of all who come are the singers. They are worse than the man who walks on broken glass and eats nails. Perhaps half of the applicants are 'singers.' They think they can war ble a lullaby that would put a savage to sleep. There is the girl who 'sang back East' and the girl who has drawn enormous salaries, but Just for love of singing in public again is willing to take a Job at 11 a week. The other day a wear's? years old, with a waist lino like a jVirk barrel, came in and said she could sing coon songs and play a banjo. She wanted to go on the stage so badly that I sent her over to Coffinberry, telling her I understood the Orpheum wanted a good coon shouter. It was dishonest and I lied, but I had to get rid of her. "There are other applicants, the sketch writer and the poor, deluded being who has paid 40 or $50 to some one for a 'play' guaranteed to be a hit. One man came to ma the other day with an optical delusion of Little Eva ascending to heaven which had for embellishment a descentlnto hades. He even went so far as to try the delusion. And then a fellow came along with a wild 'scheme for a motion picture that I thought would have been beyond the conception of a sane mind and perhaps It was. " It was at least beyond hu man comprehension and if possible to have . produced It, would have cost $1,000,000. s - -s f . ; J First Presbyterian Church: prayer and praise service: address. Peter Alnslle, presi dent of commission, on "Christian ynlon, Its Necessity and the Way Thereto; ad dress. -William Bayard Craig. New TorJC. "What Hinders Christian Union' Monday. July 10 Mornlns. at White Tem ple, prayer and praise service. 8:30; report of the temperance board. DT. Homer Hall, secretary. 9:45; address A. L. Crlrn, -The Church and the Liquor Traffic." :S5 address, ex-Governor James H. Bradley oe Idaho. "The State and the Liquor Traffic, 10:1a; programme of college department. Professor A. M. Haggard. Drake University, presiding. 10:4u: iO-mlnute address. Dr. D. R. Dugan, Drake University. "An Historical Sketch of the Colleges of the Disciples of Christ:" 20-mlnute address. Professor W. P. Aylesworfh. Cotner University, "The Dis tinctive Mission of the Christian Churcfh;' 20-mlnute address. President E. C. Sander son. Eugene Bible University. "The Chris tian Wealth and Christian EducaOon. Afternoon and evening to be devoted, to evangelism: programme to be provided by. Charles Reign Scoville. Tuesdav. July 11 General business . meet ing at White Temple. The TopeVa conven tion requested the general programme com mittee to provide ample time for consider ation of business matters. The committee on unification has requested that an entire session be set aside for a masa meeting of the various missionary and benevolent boards and all others interested, to recelv, discuss and act upon the report to be sub mitted at the Portland convention. The general programme committee has. there fore, set aside the last day ef the con vention. Tuesday. July 11, for tbes matters. Books Added to Library BOOKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES. Arabian night's entertainments Tukstan tls rak;a lr vlcna. DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL. Clarke, H. A. Hawthorne- country. 1910. Crow J. C. Sport and travel In the Far East. '1910. Grlmshaw, B. E. The new New Qulnea. 1911. Hamer, S. H. The Dolomitles. 1910. Landor. A. H. S. An explorer's adven tures in Tibet. 1910. Larden. Walter Recolleatlons of an old mountaineer. 1910. Lawson, Kate, ladj" Highways and homes of Jarian. 1010. Leeder, S. H. The desert gateway, Bis kra and thereabouts. 1910. Mltton, G. E. A bachelor girl In Burma. 1907. Neinhardt. J. G. The river and I. 1910. Woods. S. D. Lights and shadows of life on the Pacific Coast. 1910. FICTION. Farrish, Randall Love under Are. FINE ARTS. Bender, G. C. Business manual for musia teachers. 1910. Browne. H. B. Short plays from Dick ens for the use of amateur and school dra matic societies. 1910. Ely H. R. The practical flower garden. i911- ' .... Whltcomb, I. P. Young people s story of music 190S. HISTORY. Allen, A. M. A history of "Verona. 1910. Bryce, George The romantic settlement of Lord Selkirk's colonists. 1909. Kemp. E. W. An outline of history for the grades. 1 ix'8. ' LANGUAGE. Coppet, Hendrl de Frataro. 190S. LITERATURE. Chesterton Appreciations and criticisms ct the works of Charles Dickens. 1911. Genung. J. F. The working principles of rhetoric examined In their literary relations and illustrated with examples. 1901. Nolhac. Pierre de Petrarch and .the an cient world. ,4907. Schelllng. F. E. English litterature during the lifetime of Shakespeare. 1910. Shute, H. A. Farming It. 1909. ADDED TO REFERENCE DEPARTMENT. Hawkins, Nehemiah Hawkins" electrical dictionary. 1910. Los Angeles. Cal playground commission Annual report. 190V6-7-. Marshall. W. I. The acquisition of Ore gon. 2v. 1911. Michel. F. E. Great masters of land scape painting. 1910. The Painter's mazarine One thousand more paint questinna answered; an entirely new book, a sequel to "739 paint questions answered." 1908. The Thompson blue book on advertising. 1909. U. S. Plant Industry. Bureau of Sugges-' tlons to settlers on the sandy soils of the Columbia River, by Byron Hunter and S. O. Jayne. 1B10. Vlgfusson. oudbrand & Powell, F. T. eds. Corpus Poetlcum boreale; th poetry of the old Northern tongue from the earliest times to the 13th century. 2v. 18S3. ADDED TO CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT. Cummins. N. S. The lamplighter. Harris, J. C. Uncle Remus and the little boy. Hasluck, P. X. Knotting and splicing ropes and cordage. Madeley, D. F. The heroic life and ex ploits of Siegfried, the dragon slayer. Munroe, Kirk Under orders. Shakespeare. William A midsummer night's dream; II. by Arthur Rack ham. Shaw, F. L. Phyllis Browne. Thurston, L. M. Jack and his Island: a boy's adventures along the Chesapeake in th war of 1S12. Weyman, S. J. A gentleman of France. THE CANADA OF TODAY Dominion Linked to United States by Many Similar Problems. Arthur Stringer, In "Hampton's. Canada Is self-governing, but It must not be. forgotten that she enjoys this privilege because the mother country has seen fit to make the tie an elastic one, having learned. In the past, that the most effective way of losing a col ony is to crown it with discontent. It may be claimed, too, that England's Canadian Investments have been of the long-distance variety; that she has shown a weakness for debentures and preference shares, while the American investor has gone to Canada in person and established factories and built plants and secured a first-hand control of trade Itself. But it is worth remem bering that Great Britain's investments in Canada, beginning with the year 1905 and ending with the first half of the year 1910, amounted, according to the statistics of the Monetary Times, to the somewhat comfortable figure of f 123.439,978. And quit above and beyond all these sordid matters of dollars and cents, tho Canadian may claim, it is still some thing to be part and parcel of an em pire so enriched with great memories and so dignified with well-administered possessions. He is not dissatisfied with his birthright. But his loyalty has be come self-conscious. He demands not only equity, but understanding. The Canadian of today is much more interested in the building of roads and schoolhouses, in the laying of steel and the making of bridges, in the plowing of land and the growing of wheat, than he can possibly be in the Jealou sies of princelings and the ever-swelling armaments of a war-scarred Eu rope. He has had troubles of his own, in his own small way. He has felt, in the past, the aloofness of his distant parent. In his younger day he met with repeated rebuff when he knocked on the gates of Washington. And now the new regime has come about. There Is no need to claim that those half million Americans who joined the "great trek" up Into the Ca nadian West and thrived and grew rich under a foreign flag have forgotten their own- country. Nor -need they pe called expatriates, for they have car ried their own country along with them, proving themselves merely itinerant apostles of that newer Monroe Doctrine which proclaims "A greater America for greater Americans." Between two artificially divided seg ments of an English-speaking conti nent they are restoring a community of interests, a similarity of outlook and ideal, a kinship of sentiment and des tiny. And Canada, in giving them harborage and homes, is doing some thing which is very apt to be over looked. She is proving the redemption of true democracy on the American continent.