The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, September 21, 1913, SECTION TWO, Image 34

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Newspaper Page Text18 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, TOKTLAXD, SEPTEMBER 21, 1913. STRAHORN ADVISES DIVISION OF LAND Intense Cultivation and Diver sified Methods Urged by Railroad Man. SCENES AT "RAILROAD DAY" CELEBRATION AT MOLALLA, WHEN WEDDING OF AGRICULTURE AND TRANSPORTATION RELIEVED DISTRICT FROM ISOLATION MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF TOWN. CARS RUNNING TO MOLALLA Agriculture and Transportation Are Wedded Celebration Attends En trance of Willamette Valley Service Into Town. Agriculture and transportation, the two greatest industries of modern times, were happily wedded, at Mo lalla Friday when Robert E. Stra horn. president of the Portland, Eua-eae Eastern Railroad, spoke the words that formed the union. Mr. Strahorn was the central figure in the celebration attending the for- mai entrance of the Portland, i-ujetc Eastern, "the Willamette Valley Une," into Molaila. He appealed first for more diversi fied farming and toe division of the big farms Into small tracts so fiat they can le cultivated Intensively and pro vide homes for more people. Ke point ed out then, how the railroads have boen and are prim factors In the de velopment and the prosperity of the country and urged the people, to con tinue to gWe the railroads their sip port. President Strahorn said: . hen a few weeks ago we were asked by the Molaila Commercial Club whether it would be possible to cele brate the completion of our Molaila line on the openl::;i day of Its first agricultural fair, which had been set for the Jflh day of September. I gladly answered yes. Thus it transpires that the world- two greatest Interests, ag riculture and transportation, are hap pily Joined In the anthem of rejoicing which thrills everv nook of the Molaila country today. It Is timely and fitting that these Imperial partners In the re demption of forest, valley and desert here exchange confidences and good will, take note of their respective obli gations and pledge themselves to go forward with fair and firm intent to closely co-operate on the good old lines of the golden rule. Faith Held la nistrtet. "Supreme Indeed is our privilege of joining hands In developing a land so blessed as this. I have staged It. horse backed It and footed it. in my Western pioneering, equivalent to several times across the continent and back, but no where else have I found nature so prod igal as In the hill region flanking the Willamette Valley. No count rv Is better diversified, more favored In topography and climate or capable of a wider range or higher grade of products than the region about 30 by 40 miles In extent roughly bounded on the west by the Southern Pacific lines, on the east and north by the Clackamas River and on the south by Butte Creek, known only vaguely as the Molaila Valley. It has laid here practically undeveloped for countless centuries until todayj lacking the one magic touch to qulrken.lt into the bounding life of Its sldter valleys so near on the west. "We have only now started on the agreeable task of endlne- vnur solitude. We will not be. content until we fur ther awaken it down through the mag nificent foothill territory, through .Mtr luam and near Scotts Mills to beautiful Sllverton, with ultimate necessary ex tensions to tap the great back country and possibly bring your favorite Wll holt Springs resort within 20 minutes of Molaila. With your cordial co operation the Portland. Eugene East, ern hopes to be the hitherto missing factor in so developing this highly fa vored -region that it will sustain thou sands In far greater comfort and pros perity than It now sustains hundreds. I need not tell you that the railroad is a great economic force as well as an Im. mense social and moral Influence. Your lonely farm or remote village will soon be In neighborly contact and enjoying not only the benefits of rapid transit but many other modern conveniences. Original Projector Pralaed. "In our rejoicing I would not fall to applaud the enterprise of M. J. Lee, the projector of this line, nor to omit praise of the tine public spirit of the citizens of Molaila in arranging this fcreat demonstration and, of the en thusiasm of the thousands who have come trora a distance to Insure Its suc cess. I. doubt whether you can meas ure the gratification of Mrs. Strahorn siw myself which arises through the coincidence of your fixing this date on our 36th wedding anniversary, so that after all these strenuous years of our pioneering and development work we can be here together on an occasion of such vast Import celebrating that hap py event also. -.-now wnn tnis giaa acclaim let us all resolve to have the big. - lonesome farm cut up and the logged-ohT land cleared up, have the hopyards, berry patches, orchards, poultry yards and dairies sweep from your eastern sum mits to the Willamette, so that we may be justified in quickly adding that most subtle and superb of all motive forces, electricity. Thus wf 11 we bring city and country together, putting you with in an hour of Salem and Portland, re lieving congested sections, of the city and moving their occupants back to the ::oil around such attractive suburbs as Molaila. where they will enjoy a healthier, more Independent and more wholesome life. "We are henceforth to pull along In the same harness and the foregoing will be realized In measure, and time Just In accordance with the way we do our team work. We will earnestly strive to match up with you to thei limit. In strenuous endeavor, liberality and fair dealingr My conclusions, ar rived at by hard knocks received In working out my own fortune, are that you and I are confronted with few more important duties to our neighbors and ourselves than to promote a bet ter understanding and closer relation ship between the public, and the rail ways. The railways are now working aosoiutely in the light. Their books, conduct and policies are as open as the day. They are subject to public su pervision and regulation In every Im portant detail ard often almost to strangulation. May they not now fair ly ask the people who Tnsplre public authority not to exact conditions which can only defeat what they are Intend ed to accomplish and work real hard ship upon the communities and Inter ests the railway honestly tries to pro mote and develop? Railroad Share la Told. - "It is not infrequently claimed that transportation charges absorb - the lion's share of the proceeds of ' our crops. It lshowever. a fact that of the annual crop of tl.3.000.000.000 the farmers of the United States receive 4S per cent and the railroads less than 4 per cent, the balance going -to deal ers and waste. In return for this the 16,000,000 of employes, .builders and owners of our railroads and their al lied interests furnish about 11 per cent of our total home market for all our - ... ' f fj . t. . ' -V . 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Ja It of paramount importance ' that -everv person, be his Influence large or small, should use every atom of It In sup port of fair play and fair. dealing with uch a. partner.' to the end that ; his hands may not be tied when It comt" to raising -more-money- for 'more .rail way extensions, more - equipment and better, transportation: -facilities gener ally? Tarn not confining these ob servations . to ' the "farmer, but as .the oil arm Its workers are the real basis of all wealth and prosperity, ' it be hooves those of- us in other lines to taka ..our. most serious note of - what affects them.. "It Is. roughly 'estimated that some where -from 190,000,000 to 1100,000.000 have been "spent in the region tribu tary to Portland in the Jast four years for railway, extensions, terminals -and equipment. . This Is about, equivalent to the value of the wheat crop of Oregon, for the ; same period. " But there isv this . great ; difference- that practically-every dollar, of It -was out side money- that came -on., a- golden platter - without anybody -sweating . a hair excepting, those few of us whose business it Is to endeavor to get our principals to Induce distant Investors to furnish, the money. - While none-of the railroads has . as yet received . any dividends on this particular money you all know, how It has helped to tide over close times or. low. prices and what a tremendous Impetus It has given the development of the Oregon country.-. In lM2r'of every dollar that the railroads of the United States received.' over 9i cents-was paid out for Items, including taxes and interest, absolutely necessary for operating and marntainance. leaving about .4 .cents for betterments and less. than 5 cents .-for dividends..' Ho largely -every -dollar was pur in circu lation . at.-home, can- be judged . fromj the j fact that .60. cents -of It was. spent iur xauor.. atone..,.. - . .-v. . ... f-r-- ; Dividends'; L-xneeited . Smoa. ' "The: Portland,'. Eugene' &' Eastern operations here In the-Willamette Val ley are 'expected to soon earn dividends Instead of iplHng up' deficits, and .while It Is the desire .of. the -company to fur nlsh as good -service .as Is offered the public any where,, the expenditures :ln that"-direction ; muBf-be , governed by the amount of revenue -produced, r'l Imagine ' that' few are. so Interested ; In hair-splitting? In- the matter ;ot.. rates and regulations" of railroads? as .they are. in getting more railroad and good prompt passenger and freight service. Rates-.may. be -tno-'low- asi-weil' as'too hlgluand.you and I ought to have the fairness, to admit it when demonstrated and the; nen-ejand good Judgment- to stand, a 'raise wnen we. Know tnati.thls faith Jn; the ultimate fair solution of these . proglems or mv optimism con cerning the future. Throusrh heart to alone will enable the .owners -,to give j heart talks and neighborly contact like us the-new lines and the modern, serv-J this all Interests have, gotten together Ice we are. entitled to. -. -.. . I for the common srood in th nast and A dollar spent with a railroad pur- will do so In the future. The trans- chases more today, .than It ; ever ' did. portatlon comDaniea am rimwinu- mn. It Is the result of the' railroads con- stantly closer to the nennle and will stantly reducing passenger fares and continue to use their brains and capi frelght rates. The dollar spent by the tal along the lines I have Indicated, railroad purchases less today ; than It Soon we will have adued the vast anU ever did.' It Is the result of advancing immeasurably quickening Influence of prices of machlnerj". 'equipment.,, iron, the Panama Canal., with the hi a- shina or ail -nations coming ; direct- to our ports. . Meanwhile farmers will con stantly, improve in -their, methods, di versify and Intensify their production. and It "requires no prophetic mind to locate here in the matchless Willam ette Valley -that-land of fruit, milk and honey the pioneers have sought all the- way- from Judea- to the Columbia." steel, labor, lumber and all-of the prod ucts-of theeountry -which go Into the bulldlnor and opera tlng-of railroads as well as lar-gely Increased taxes and Interest on eapltal borrowed. "-The only way the' riallroad company can 'make Its earnings' keep pace with expenses la In - haulingt-rnere freight and' more passengers.- Toido-that the- country must become more- densely populated, more 'intensively cultivated and better V::-POMONA GRANGE. TO MEET ' "While it. Is also" costing the- farmer more to raise 'his crops than-.'lt did In former years; he Is receiving more for his produce than . he has since war times.- In this' we 'greatly rejoice We are co-operating by every possible means-to aid the visited Europe; address on Prohibition; "Continuous RoadB," County Commis sioner Holman. At the night sesBion the following will be the programme: Piano duet; reading, r. L. Thomas; trio; "play"; vocal solo. Elma Gilbert; reading, A. Gleblsh; quartet. Wood- lawn quartet. T. J. Kreuder will pre-s,de. FOOD INSPECTOR IS LOSER Woodlawn Polk to Be Hosts AVednes- day, Afternoon and Xlght. : Pomona Grange will meet at Wood- farmer In'. making lawn next Wednesday and will be en- more money. ' For example. In the line tertalned by" Woodluwn ' 'Jrange. Mrs. ?JrLr""wl.rBl"8,,JTm,.n8tJrBtlon & E.:Windle, lecturer, will have charge farms,' experiments , On "'nrlvute- farms. distribution of, free- literature relating to Improved methods of farming, em ployment' of agricultural experts to. co operate1 with farmers, and Induce set tlers; where .land-Is scarce and high, to migrate to newer regions and . en gage tn. farming. " Also making low assembling rates on prodoets to can neries, storage'ln transit : rates, and otherwise : assisting in developing : in dustries wherever possible. -. . ' flower t aloa t'rrdlrted. - "Please do not Infer from any . of the foregoing that I am losing a bit of my of the programme for the afternoon and. evening. Several Important topics will come up, including a measure fa voring lending money from the postal savings to .farmers at low rate of in terest. The 'following -will be the pro gramme for the day: ' -: In' the afternoon Quartet; . reading. Mrs. T. E. Weed: trio; reading. Howard Stansbery; "Lending Money to Farm ers From Postal Savings," A. E. Car ter; quartet: "Interstate Bridge," L. M. Lepper; "Old- World Farm Ways," H. O. Starkweather, commissioner, who Judge Drops Case Against E. C. Walker When Evidence. Is Lacking.- Absence of the alleged unsavory fish and evidence that the dealer had used fish from the same catch for his own table threw out the case against E. C. Walker, of 264 Alder street, in Munici pal Court yesterday. Walker was charged with having sold an unwhole some fish to a patron, and H. M. John son, City Food Inspector, was prose cuting. Municipal Judge Stevenson had given Johnson two days to bring in the corpus delicti, the conductor, who' was said to have asked the buyer to leave the car on account of the odor of the fish, or j the policeman, who -was said to have! seen the fish when the buyer returned It to Walker. None of these things was Johnson able to do and the case was dismissed. STOPS TOBACCO HABIT.. Elders' Sanitarium, located at 993 Main St., St. . Joseph, Mo., has pub lished a book showing the deadly ef fect of the tobacco habit, and how it can be stopped in three to- five days. As they are distributing this book free, anyone wanting a copy should send their name and address at once. Adv. COLUMBIA HIGHWAY SPIRIT IS AROUSED Portland Enthusiasts Tomor row Will Show Hood River Men Possibilities. INTEREST IN PLAN GROWS Various Methods of Effective Road Building to Be Talked at 2Ieet ing at Chanticleer Inn Ben son's Plan Attracts Xotice. A committee of Portland's Good Roads Boosters will take, tomorrow afternoon, a delegation from Hood River to Chanticleer Inn on the pro posed Columbia Highwav. Here th prominent citizens from the up-Colum bia citv will be talxed to about the new highway. Hood River i. very much Interested in the long scenic highway and good roads in general and the meeting will be one of discussion on the merits of the vari-jus kinds of road building. A. S. Pensun has a new idea which will be discussed. From his residence to the Willamette boulevard, at St. Johns. Mr. Benson is having a con struction company lay a strip of hard surface, 800 feet long and eight feet wide. On each side of the eight-foot strin will be four feet of macadam Davement. The eight-foot strip win receive tne wear and tear and tne crusnea rocn on either side will be surticient to allow passing of vehicles going in op posite directions. Benson Confident of Plan. At best it is a hard task to keep roads in good condition in this country with the heavy Winter rains. Any thing but hard surface pavement will demand considerable repair and I think that my plan would be ideal for Oregon climate. says Mr. JBenson. The Hood River delegation will be met at the train Monday morning and then hurried to Chanticleer, where lunch will be served high above the Columbia at a spot where the scene is expected to bring the Hood River en in favor of building the road with the least possible delay. Some of the Portland men who win take care of the visitors are: S. Ben son, A. S. Benson, c ts. JacKson, u. Knapp. J. B. Yeon, Major H. L. Bowlby, Paul Websinger, Julius L. Meier, Sam uel Hill, County Commissioner Rufus Holman, W. B. Fechheimer, H. L. Keats, E. E. Coovert and Edgar B. Piper. Hood River Delegates Xamed. The following named men from Hood River will make the trip: Judge George R. Castner, George A. McCurdy and John R. Putnam, Hood River County's Board of Commissioners; E. O. Blanchar, cashier of the First National Bank; S. A. Mitchell, vice-president of Hood River Banking and Trust Com pany; Truman Butler, vice-president of the Butler Banking Company: Charles T. Early, managing director of the Ore gon Lumber Company; J. H. Heilbron ner. capitalist; W. E. King, C. W. Hook er, G. W. Uptegrove, J. C. Porter, Ed ward Lage, George Slieppard and George I. Sargent, orchardlsts; W. L Clark, president of the Commercla Club; C. N. Ravlin, secretary of the Commercial Club; A. E. Moe, publisher of the Hood River Glacier; R. E. Scott manager of the Hotel Oregon; R B, Bennett, manager of the Hood River News, and C. K. Marshall, roadmaster of Hood River County. Mr. Marshall was among the first lo. cal citizens to take an active interest in the Columbia River road, having ex pended private funds in viewing and making surveys of the route. Kryptok Lenses In a Shur-On Mounting Nothing Better KSYPTC pa s Without in the Lens No lines no cement no lodging places for dust and dirt. CJ We axe headquarters for genuine Kryptoks. We design and manufacture these lenses in our own factory on premises and carry the largest stock of Kryptok Lenses in Oregon. jf Many of our patients have had unpleasant experi ences in having broken lenses replaced elsewhere, especially Kryptoks. C Unscrupulous dealers have substituted " stock lenses for ones that should be specially ground, causing great discomfort and annoyance to the wearer. . When possible, broken lenses should be replaced only by the firm who originally made them, to in . sure absolute correctness. Cj: With our new automatic electric lens-grinding machinery, lately installed, we can replace any lens in quicker time and for $1.00 a pair less than any other optical house in Oregon. Cf We urge our patients to return glasses to us in case of accident, and you will be absolutely sure of getting FIRST QUALITY LENSES, ground according to the original prescription, and for $1.00 a pair less than formerly. THOMPSON OPTICAL INSTITUTE 209-10-11 Corbett Bldg., Fifth and Morrison. Portland's Oldest and Largest Exclusive Optical House Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany, was caught several blocks away GAR THIEVES ARRESTED ENGINE WORTH fHOO STOLEN FROM DISABLED MACHIMS. Participants Confess Taking Property, Which AVas Sold In Pieces to Second-Hand Dealers. In a thrilling pursuit of a big truck by a touring car, the officers being in the car and the accused man in the truck. Detectives Hellyer and Howell vesterday ended a two months' hunt for a man who stole an 800-pound en glne, worth J600, from a burned auto truck near Lents. They arrested John Bannon and Jack Orchard, charging them with larceny. The arrests came on the confession of Pearl Reed, a hop picker, whom the detectives, with Dep uty Sheriff Lumsuen, caugnt near in dependence Friday, and who told the whole story in his cell in the County Jail yesterday morning. According to tne coniessions or Jieea and Bannon, they took the engine out of the auto truck of R. R. Jones, after the machine had gone in the ditch and burned up near Lents. Jones had been obliged to leave his car in the original position until the insurance men had looked It over, ana wnen ne came 10 take it to town the engine was gone. Reed and Bannon said that they took Jack Orchard, a teamster living at Montavllla, to the place, had him haul the engine from the wreck into town and keep It in his barn. Later they sold parts for small prices to several second-hand dealers, and these may be drawn Into the prosecution as buyers of stolen goods. In SDlte of the "tip" given him by a bartender in a saloon at Grand avenue W. S. M'BRIDE IS EDITOR Former Portland Man With Kngllsh Pnper In Japan. Friends in Portland have learned from W. S. McBride, a former Port land newspaper man, that he has been appointed assistant editorial writer for the Japan Advertiser, of Toklo. Mr. McBride went to Japan a year- ago for a tour of the Island. He was so im pressed with the opportunities that he decided to locate there for a time. He was In the office of the General Elec tric Company, of Yokahama. and con tributed articles to the Yokohama and Toklo papers. When the representatives or tne Japan Chamber of Commerce toured the United States three years ago,-Mr. McBride was secretary to the party and In that manner established friend ships with many influential Japanese business men. Mr. McBride writes of having climbed Fujiyama, the sacred mountain of Japan and of having seen the Cherry Blossom Festival at Islkko, Mr. McBride is a nephew of supreme Judge T. A. McBride, of Salem, and a cousin of Edmund C. Uiltner, secre tary of the Portland Chamber of Com merce. He formerly was a reporter on The Oregonlan. The Japan Adver tiser is an ISnglish paper. COOS BAR BACKS GRAVES ttorneva Kxpress Confidence In Lawyer Accused by I. W. W. In resolutions adopted last Monday at Coqullle, Or., tne uoos uouniy Dar Association went on record as stand ing unitedly behind Robert C. Graves, the Bandon attorney against whom dis imrmpnt charges have been pressed in the Supreme Court because he is alleged to have taken pari in me ueporiaiiun of Dr. Bailey K. ieacn, tne socialist editor who attacked business men of that community in tne recent j.. w. w. disturbances there. In the resolutions, a copy or wnicn i-cache.l Portland yesieraay, me oar association not only expresses Its com. plete confidence in Mr. Graves, hut ten ders any legal assistance he may de- ire. Smart Shop Suit Not Pressed. case yesterday, but neither Meashernor his attorney was present in court when the case was called. Campbell said tlie man is in Seattle and would not return to continue the trial because of illness in his family. Mica Is produced commercially by eifilit states. North Carolina leading In the industry. Tlnl V Meagher, who is seeking to nrnv. ownership to the Hagerty Smart and East Morrison street, where the Shop, will not return to press the suit detectives had inquired in their ef- was testified in Judge Clecton s court yesterday Dy r. vampu:ii, w.iuoo .c claims title to the shop. Judge Cleeton was to have rendered a decision In the forts to find Bannon s wnereaDouts, Bannon. who had fled on the truck with which he was working for the You Can Have It Repaired At a Very Moderate Price The Oregonian's Repair Directory giveB all principal places where an arti cle can be repaired and should be preserved in every home as a ready guide. No More Bald Heads! WIGS. TOI I'liES FOR LADIUS AND GENTLKMEN. $10 Switches for S6.50 Best Hair Dressing in the City. PARIS HAIR STORE, 147 Broadway. Main 546. Since 18S8. FANS, IRONS, MOTORS HKPAIHED AND RENTED. Moderate Prices. WESTERN ELECTRIC WORKS. 213 Sixth Street. Marshall HOu. A 258H, 849 Morrison St. SEWING MACHINES REPAIRED All Work Guaranteed. We Have on Hand a Number of Slightly -Used Machines. New Home Agency. Main 1845. A 181S. 7 The best equipped Pipe Repair Plant in the U. S, A place. Portland has long been waiting for.' CARL GARHOFER 308 Stark Street, Between Fifth and Sixth Children's Eyes Easily Strained There is nothing so injur ious to the children's ryes as trj'iiifr to study with in sufficient lighting. Parents should at once see that the Peerless Mazda tungsten lamps, shades and reading lamps are installed in their homes. See M. J. Walsh Co. They can pivo 3 011 t lie best in Lighting Fixtures, and Everything Electrical Installed. Salesrooms 311 Stark, Near Sixth. Both Phones. ALVEOLAR TEETH A NEW SYSTEM A new Syntem of replacing lost teeth without plates or bridge work or where bridge work Is Impossible. It .you have two or more teeth In either Jaw, we can sup ply you with others as natural as your own without rcsortliiK to such makeshifts as partial plates, etc. We wish to call special attention to our Simplex Removable Alveolars; this work is especially adujted to replacln lost teeth In the lower Jaw, where ordinarily you would have to resort to partial plates and the Ilka The pain Incident to this work la practi cally no.e. the expense is the same as tlis best br'due work, but In satisfaction thers Is no comparison between the tw. We have samples In our offices to show at all times hundreds or patients here In our home city to refer to. Examinations and booklets on Alveolar Dentistry are abso lutely free Remember thnt In addition to our spe cialty, Aveolar Dentistry, and eurln Pyor rhea (loose teeth), we are experts In every branch of dentistry, from the simple fill ing up ALVEOLAR HKNTAL CO., DENTISTS, Portland Arlington Bldg., 106Vi ltd St. brattle IlalRht llhla., 2d and I'ins. 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