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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1913)
CITY 10 BE WORLD CENTER ONE WEEK 20,CC0, From All Nations, to Attend Christian Citizen ship Conference. ORGANIZATION UNDER WAY One Hundred Citizens to Be Xamed to Arrange for Reception and Entertainment of Mammoth Crowd of Visitors. For one week. June 2 to July . Port land will be a world center, when the second World' ChrUtian Citizenship conference convene In this city, bring ing; together representatives from the principal countries of the world and an assemblage of JO.000 delegates. It may be said of Portland that it was her men and not her money that "pulled" the conference to this city when every other city on the Coast was bidding; for the event. San Francisco offered 150,000 as an entertainment fund. Portland won with an offer of $16,000 and her men. Wort has gone out to the world that this great Citizen ship Conference was to be held in Port land because of the high class of this city's citizens. Not to fall below this reputation, leading men are rallying with enthusiasm to the preliminary work necessary to the entertainment of the big gathering. Under the auspices of the promotion department of the Commercial Club a committee of 100 Is being organized to make preparations, with the aid of an additional executive committee of erven. President William T. Foster, of Reed College, heads the general committee, and E. L. Thompson, president of the Hartman-Thompson Bank, is chairman of the executive committee. The work of the general committee has been dis tributed among various subcommittees, covering publicity, co-operation. Fourth of July decoration, pulpit supply, enter tainment, finance, place of meeting, re ception, music, ushers and history. No committee appointments have as yet been announced, except the committee on place of meeting, which includes F. W. Hild. E. L. Thompson and R. W. Raymond. Railroad Gives Publicity. The publicity committee will cover the states of Oregon and Washington, arranging for meetings at churches and will have announcements made of the coming event by all local organizations and by business men on their station ery, as well aa through the dally and religious press. Aiding In the publicity work the Oregon-Washington Railroad & , Navigation Company has sent through the East 10,000 Illustrated books on Portland, carrying the pro gramme and list of speakers of the conference on the Inside cover. Various organizations of Portland and of cities and towns In the vicinity of Portland, will be enlisted in the Fourth of July celebration, and the co operation of organizations throughout the states of Oregon. Washington and California will be sought by the co operation committee in executing plana for the conference. It is the aim of the committee on the Fourtb of July celebration to make that event the greatest civic celebration ever held on the Coast. The celebration will be wholly patriotic and a gorgeous pageant will emphasize the significance of the Jy in the nation'a history. It is expected that the decoration of the city will surpass that of any pre vious event In variety and significance. The general scheme will be the flags of all nations, symbolizing the. brother hood of humanity In the blending of colors and the harmony of nations in the ensemble of flags, with the Stars snd Stripes over all. Indicating that the V nlted States is the home of all peo ples. Pulpits to Be Filled. The committee on pulpit supply will, arrange for the presentation of the purpose and scope of the eonference by ministers of the local churches and will also provide prominent speakers for the various churches of the oity the Sunday of the conference. The entertainment committee win 'make plans for trolley rides, excur sions and otlier entertainment for the visiting guests, and will also prov de suitable places for the lodging of dig nitaries and notables to whom special conrtesle will be extended. Where to mtrl big assembly is the problem of the committee on place. When the conference was secured for Portland It was expected that the new auditorium would be completed. The only buildings In the city big enougn to hold the thousands expected are the Armory and tlie Gipsy Smith Taber nacle but these are not considered large' enough. From Investigations so far made, the committee believe that the stadium of the Multnomah field can be made to serve as a most attractive auditorium and Incidentally advertise Portland's climate. The "glad hand" will be extended to delegates and speakers by the recep tion committee, who wtll escort strang ers to their hotels and other places of entertainment. A chorus of 1S00 or SC00 voices will be organized under the direction of the music committee. Bands, orchestra and aolo work will also be arranged. It is considered an opportunity for local tal ent to come nnder prominent notice at this world gathering. Ilnndreda to Art faber. Several hundred men will serve as ushers throughout the eight-day session and mass meetings and all sectional conferences will be provided with com petent ushers- The historical committee is to be made up of men who will compile the events of the conference and prepare records to be presented to libraries and the historical arrhlves of the slate and country. The second World's Christian Citizenship Conference has been char acterized as "epoch-making" in the moral history of the world, and is de clared to be the greatest religious gath ering of modern times in the scope of Its significance and purpose. The committee of 100 will meet next Wednesday noon at luncheon at the ITonimerclal Club to hear the report of the committee on organization and to get work under way. REED STANDARD IS LAUDED Admission of Students to College .With Conditions Declared Wrong. The progressive methods of Reed Col received further recognition last week In a bulletin Issued by the United States Bureau of Education on entrance requirements of college and universi ties in tha United States. The bulle tin names the three institutions that maintain their professed standard of admission by refusing to admit stu dents on condition. These institutions are the University of Chicago. Reed College and the University of Minne sota in the College of Liberal Arts and Engineering. The bulletin besides giving Quota tions on the subject from Reed College publications says: "Many colleges make a practice of admitting students who have not com pleted the "required" number of unlts. The presence in freshmen classes of any considerable number of students thus prematurely admitted leads to modification of the Instruction, result ing In lower standards for the whole Institution, and works serious Injustice to their classmates who completed the high school course. The injury is not lessened by the fact that the students poorly prepared are conditioned. On the contrary, it Is increased, because these, the weaker students, must take time from their regular work to devote to removing entrance conditions. Conse quently, either the conditioned student Is seriously overworked or the lastruc tion Is modified and the rest of the freshman class Is underworked. If. as often happens, the removal of entrance conditions is made absurdly easy, the college virtually abandons the standard It professes. In view of these facts, the true measure of the standard of the college ought to be the number of units that must be completed before enter ing college rather than the number that entitles the entrant to admission without condition.' It is worthy of note that some of the stronger colleges MANY-GIVE'- TITLES' Proposed Names for Valley Line Are Listed. GREAT INTEREST AROUSED Persons In All Portion of United States Send in Suggestions! to Portland,, Eugene & East ern Management. Considered to be one of the most unique methods ever adopted for se curing a popular nickname for a rail road, the contest being conducted by the publicity department of the Port land, Eugene & Eastern Railway Com pany has aroused Interest and produced entries from Pmget Sound to Arizona, while dosens of names have been ten dered by residents of Utah and Idaho. The work of tabulating the names of- P0RTLAND MEN WHO ARE PROMINENT IN ARRANGEMENTS FOR WORLD'S CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP CONGRESS. f 'l Ttnfm f - .fit-- xcr3- ofjOO. it s v V - kij Cammztiem.. are discontinuing the practice of ad mitting students who present less than 11 or la units.'- MISSOURI KEEPS HUH GOVERXOR MAJOR REFUSES EX- TRADITIOX PAPERS. Detective Joe Day Telegraphed, to Rearrest 3Ian When Fugitive Warrant Is Issued. Refusal of Governor Major, of Missouri to honor extradition papers for Lee Hunt, wanted here for embezzle ment, and his being promptly Indicted by the Multnomah grand Jury on a sec ond charge, were rapid developments yesterday as an Incident to which tele graph wires between here and Jefferson City were kept hot carrying and send ing messages for the Police Depart ment and the Plnkerton agency. White-hot charges that the Governor took snap Judgment and refused to honor the papers without giving the au thorities a hearing were telegraphed by Detective Joe Day, who Is In Jefferson City to bring back the prisoner. Day says that the executive gave a private hearing to friend of the prisoner and then announced that the case was closed: that he would hear no more, and that Hunt should not leave the state. He finally consented to allow a hearing, provided new charges were filed. Hunt was Indicted here on a charge of making away with a considerable sum belonging to Ballou & Wright, by whom he was employed. Other charges, held In abeyance, were that he issued a number of worthless checks and cashed them In retail stores through the city. He was arrested in St. Louis, where. It Is said, a relative holds an Important position In a big bank. Immediately upon receiving word that extradition had been refused. Captain Baty gathered up the witnesses in one of the bad check transactions and hur ried them before the grand Jury, where a second Indictment was returned and a bench warrant was Issued. With this in hand, the police telegraphed suffi cient Information on which to base a fugitive warrant, and Day was instruct ed to re-arrest his man. who has bail up in the sum of tlOOO. Corvallls Gets Electric Trains. a t r i v-v ni- vnrrh ?2. The Oreaon Electric Railway will begin operating passenger trains on the CorvalHs branch of its road on Tuesday next. fered. and preparing a list to be placed in the hands of the committee which will select the winner of the JoO. Is now going on, and announcement of the successful entry will be made soon after April 1. It is said by officials of the company that the contest was instituted for the purpose of stimulating friendly rela tions between the people and the Port land, Eugene & Eastern. Homeseekers in these days look for transportation facilities as well as productive sous, healthful climatic conditions and avail able educational facilities. It Is be lieved that all of these objects have been promoted by the nickname con test Wide Publicity la Given. Hundreds of columns of space have been devoted to the matter by. the newspapers, of Orgon and adjoining states, railroad publications throughout tha East have carried stories concern ing it, and at this time matter is be ing prepared for the use of a number of magazines and large newspapers of the East. These stories will all carry photographs of valley scenes and maps of Portland. Eugene & Eastern routes, which will make every portion of the Willamette Valley 30 minutes from desirable market. So great has been the Interest aroused by this contest that dozens and dozens of maps were requisitioned from the engineering department of the new road, the demand finally leading to the printing of a small card map, which carried Information as to how inter urban service is being given the Wil lamette Valley. Thousands of these were sent East by merchants and resi dents of the district to the south, bank ers and real estate men of Portland, and the demand still continues. The cards are still being supplied by the publicity department of tne roruana, Eugene & Eastern. Accompanying many of the suggeS' tlons for a nickname were drawings which illustrated the idea offered and which were intended to be utilized as a trademark. Wcbfoot Name Opposed. The contest now drawing to a close Is really the second conducted by the Portland, Eugene & Eastern Company. The first was limited to newspaper' men. and the committee which had charge of the decision, approved "The Webfoot Route" as being a nicxname that would instantly identify the road with Western Oregon. No sooner was the announcement made than the press of the state began protesting the use of Webfoot. On the other hand, the "old timers" of the state upheld Its selection. The protesters declared that It was a word of derision In connection with the climate of the western portion of Oregon, while the supporters of Web foot clamored for it as a badge of honor in its reference to the absence of crop failures, its referenoe to a rainy Winter season Instead of one or THREE BROTHERS MAKE FINAL PROOF ON HOMESTEADS ON SAME DAY. H i HEJAMI K. HANNAHS, HANSON HANNAHS, JAMES M. HANNAHS. VANCOUVER. Wash, March 21. (Special.) Three brothers, all past 63 years of age. who have homesteaded 160 acres each, made final proof Saturday at the United States Land office in this city. They were Benjamin F. Hannahs. 6S and veteran of the Civil War. a member of the Forty-third Missouri infantry; Hanson Hannahs, C4, and James M. Hannahs. S. .... . , ll came West from Ohio In 1906 and In the following year located on land near Ariel. Cowlitz County. The first has two children, the second five and the third two. They have' worked hard In their ef forts to hew their homes from the forest. They said it was the proud est moment of their lives when, after years of struggle and toil, they "proved up"' on their claims. S3 "l THE rACXABO WAT THS OLD JfXY . Conwenienceecurity, MaKimam Service Packard Left Drive (Motor Carriages The New "381 The New "48" LEFT DRIVE Packard leftdrive with . electric , self starter., andi centralized, control,? means this to you: You enter the car directly, from the curb." You avoid muddy payements and the dangers of passing traffic You start the motor by touching a button and pressing a foot pedal. You control all tire lights and the caibuietoi adjustments from the drivinpeakiox. When driving in traffic you haye an unobstructed view of the road ahead. When turning.off to the left in traffic, your protection is assured by a position convenient for "signalling with, the left arm. : When turning off to the right, you are naturally protected by the adjacent curb. ELECTRIC STARTER The electric jcranking device is an integral part of the motor. Electric starters are admittedly the best and this is proved to. be the best of electric starters. CENTRALIZED CONTROL Centralized control is a convenience available to Packard owners alone. Starting, lighting, ignitio'n and carburetor . controls are on the steering column within easy reach of the driver's hand and are operated without leaning forward or moving in any .way from a driving position.: Packard Steel HORBjAaftrt Hnit a itett an tttcified for mst in Packard cart. Tkt cost tf tttel alloyed with thru amdite'kalf per tent nickel is three hundred per tent peater than the tost f common stock carbon steel. It tests at least twenty five per cent more to forte and heat-treat this .alloy steel as compared with tommen stock steel. The coot of a Packard alloy steel tart, machined and finished, is three times the tost of the same part made tf common carbon stock. They look alike but the ' strength of the Packard part is approximately double. T TNEXPECTED emergencies -demandthe' bridge builder's factor of safety. Endurance far exceeding the requirement, is the uncompromising standard o which every Packard is built The new "38" and the new "48" represent knowledge of emergency require ments, knowledge gained through fourteen years' experi ence in the factory and on the road. Our favorite demonstration is a, crosscountry: run. Ask the man who owns one Cornell Road,. TwentTiJlrd & . RIGGS Wssotngton Streets. PortlaiM Oreccn 52 AA mm cold, sleet, snow and blizzards. Even this feature of the matter received no tice in the East, one paper declaring that ere the matter of a nickname is settled "there may be civil war in Oregon." DR. F0ULKES VISITS HERE Ex-Pastor of Portland. Church En Route to Albany. Rev. Hiram TV. Foulkes. ex-pasto- of the First Presbyterian Church in Port land, was a visitor herer yesterday. Dr. Foulkes will act as the offlcitalng min ister at the dedication of the new Fir6t Presbyterian Church at Albany today. It is Just over two years since JJr. Foulkes was here. He left to accept a call to the pastorate of Hutgert's Pres byterian Church m new York, ana ne has not been In Portland since then until this visit. He would not have undertaken this trip, in all probability, had not he been urged to do so strongly by the pastor of the Albany church. Rev. F. H. Gesselbracht, who was a classmate of his at the McCormick The- oo; 1 seminary. At the regular meeting of the Feder- i,.m - .uisiers. to be held here to morrow. Dr. Foulkes will give an ad dress, and he will be the guest of hon or at a reception In the First Church. City Health Office Punled. To the other worries of the City Health Department was added yester day the perplexing problem of deciph ering a surveyors aesenpuon 01 tne location of a case of diphtheria. Be fore the puzzle is golved and a quaran tine flag raised on the house where the disease is reported it may be neces sary to secure the services of a survey ing party. The report of the case shows that the house is situated on uie norui east quarter of the northeast quarter of section 7, township X south, range 1 east. Willamette Meridian. City Fuml gator Beeman has burned considerable automobile oil in his attempt to fol low out the lines and locate tne nouse. nlet. sooloclcal collection tor Cleveland. PRISONER HIDES PAST THOMAS SMITH SHOWS TRACES OP FORMER PROSPERITY. Man Arrested for CIrcalatingr Bogus Petition Said to Be Victim of California Politics. Stubbornly concealing a past in which, it is said, he was a wealthy man, a power in California politics and, a victim of the last struggles of the railroad machine, Thomas Smith, well dressed, and with traces of the - - 1 1 r--3 f Tirosnerous uiaunci business man. accepted mutely a eren- - - - , . . r , ,.i rn.,.t tence ot u cays, in juuuiww yesterday, on a , charge of vagrancy. The nature of his offense was the circu lation of a subscription list for a mythi cal sick man and family. Coulter upon complaint of persons . . i II... I TJt. 1 .. , iuill.1. wnom ne naa sonuuou. . Hon was from Bert Hicks, a master machinist, who paid him 15 and took a receipt, which he intended to make the basis of a prosecution if the man a . .,,,., rin Smlth'a TMr- provea U UJ . . w a son was found a subscription list. Showing BUDBCnpilons lu uio w .... . of S27. It purported to be in favor of - . n -non vrlth t hrnlc.n leg. a sick wife and five small chil dren. Smith pleaded guilty to vagrancy, but begged for a chance to leave the city. He said ne naa laiiutuum n icims whom he could appeal, but preferred to keep bis identity and hi plight se cret. He had been drinking heavily, and to this fault is attributed his pres ent condition. To a real estate man by whom he was employed for a short time. Smith con fided, vaguely, that he was once a wealthy man in California, and that his downfall came through hi Joining the political fight against th railroad machine. While employed as a real estate salesman here he was commis sioned to take a party of prospective buyers to orchard lands in the Klicki tat valley, but drank so heavily on the way that he lost his party and all prospects. Since then, it is alleged, he has maintained himself by soliciting newspaper subscriptions, with or with out authority, and by passing around the fraudulent petition which was pro duced yesterday. A. D. CHARLTON GOES EAST Parents of Northern Pacific Official Are Seriously 111. A, D. Charlton, assistant general pas senger agent of the Northern Pacific, Is on his way to Chicago to visit hie aged parents, both of whom are seri ously ill. Mr. Charlton's father, James Charl ton, Is chairman of the Transcontinen tal Passenger Association end is more than 80 years of age. In spite of his years he Is active and alert and until a short while ago was on constant duty in his office at Chicago. His last visit to Portland was at the time of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, eight years ago. Another son, George Charlton, is passenger traffic manager of the Chi cago & Alton and associated railroads. House Invaded, Woman's Defense. 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