TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 1 1 . 1014.
CHAMPIONSHIP CAT SHOW MAY SET
RECORD FOR EXHIBIT IN PORTLAND
More Space Is Given for Affair This Year Than Ever Before and Number of Entries Exceeds Those of Pre-
vious Displays Idea Is Borrowed From England.
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BY UOUISE BRYANT.
THB fourth annual championship
oat show given by the Oregon
Cat Club at the Meier & Frank
Company's store, January 22, 23 and 24
promises to eclipse all previous ex
hibits of the kind ever held In Port
land. More space has been given in the
store and a bigger variety of cats will
make an appearance.
Upon reflection one is reminded that
nothing Is more up-to-date than the
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despised and reviled of our four-footed
friends, companions of satan and the
allies of witched, their principal pas
time being to' turn our dignified an
cestors Into evil spirits, spoiling their
beloved poise by putting them through
such unbecoming tricks as sailing back
and forth to the moon on broomsticks.
But this is not true of the cats of to
day. They have their clubs and their
annual shows, and all the paraphernalia
of a modern booster organization, and
accordingly cats have risen in Import
ance in the community.
We borrowed the idea of holding cat
shows from the English. The Crystal
Palace shows have been smart events
for nearly 40 years. As the King and
Queen and the Prince of Wales are
usually exhibitors, it naturally follows
that no true English subject who
possesses a cat ever allows It to re
main at home during this social affair.
The rivalry is so keen and the compe
tition so great that whoever Is fortu
nate enough to own the animal that
carries off first honors can easily sell
H for the price of a fairly good race
horse.
In Francs cats are much cherished
but do not come up in standard to the
English felines. Nowhere in Europe
does 'one see so many of these furry
creatures . sleeping In shop windows
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STUDY OF JOURNALISM SPREADS
AMONG AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
Instructors of Young Writers Throughout Country Exchange Views at Wisconsin Meeting Standard Curri
culum Not Considered Advisable Until Course Has More Thorough Tests-Oregon Class Shown to Rank High.
BY ERIC W. ALLEN.
Troftssor ; of Journalism, university of
... Oregon.
TO discuss seriously a subject that
was a common Jest no longer
than ten years ago, representa
tives of 18 American universities went
to Madison, Wis., last month to attend
the National Conference on the teach- J
Ing of Journalism. Thirty-three uni-1
versities had departments or schools of
Journalism or courses in journalism
last year. Statistics for the current
year are not yet available, but it was
estimated at the conference that this
number had largely Increased. The at
tendance at Madison was representa
tive, teachers being present from a
range of territory., stretching from
Minnesota to Louisiana and from New
York to Oregon. For the ensuing year
Dr. Taloott Williams, of Columbia
University, New York City, was elected
president, succeeding Dr. Willard G.
Bleyer, of the University of Wisconsin.
The newness of the. subject of Jour
nalism in the college curriculum and
the experimental character of the work
up to this time gave the conference
extreme importance in the minds of the
teachers present. A proposal was made
to appoint a committee to study the
courses taught in the different univer
sities and to formulate an advisory
standard curriculum' for college work
preparatory to a. newspaper- career. . A
lively discussion resulted .In a decision
that the time had not yet arrived for
any codification, and that such a move
ment ought to be postponed for several
years at least. 4
Dlveralty of Alma Desired.
It was maintained that, the diversity
of aims and methods actuating the
work in the - different ' schools .was
highly desirable, that no school bad
yet arrived at an absolutely fixed pol
icy, and that it was the best policy for
all that each-should continue for some
time to work out its own individual
theory of the proper way to teach
journalism. This diversity, between
the different schools was markeS, ow
ing to the fact that virtually all had
been started separately, with no con
tiultation or co-operation with the men
working- :in' any other, " and ' with no
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and on counters as one does in Paaisf
Most every- restaurant - possesses a
large and fat cat as an advertisement
of its good food. For some unknown
reason it is considered fashionable In
many provinces of France to cut cats'
tails quite short so that the visitor In
that country seldom sees puss wearing
an entire caudal appendage. The re
sult is more sinister than beautiful.
The cat shows of the Jardin d' Acclima
tion are a regular annual feature In
The first cat show of general Im
portance In this country was held In
body of tradition as to methods to fall
back upon. The different conditions
surrounding the various colleges and
college communities had considerable
influence.
The provision for the teaching of
Journalism at the University of Ore
gon, and the advantages offered by the
situation surrounding the university
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EUGENE COUPLE GUESTS AT SURPRISE REUNION ON GOL
DEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.
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MR. AND MRS. F. S. TISGLKV.
EUGENE, Or., Jan. 10. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Tingley were
the guests of honor at a surprise at their home here on .the 50th anni
versary of their wedding. The surprise began when their children ar
rived unannounced from distant cities. Then, followed the "wedding"
and the wedding dinner. The .ring ceremony was- used.' H. S. Cham
pie, of Olympia, Wash., officiated. A feature of the ceremony was a
time limitation, the minister gravely pledging them' to .another 59
years of devotion and love. i' ; . .
The couple have seven daughters and a son, all married. There are
15 grandchildren and five . great-grandchildren.
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Madison Square Garden, New York, in
May, 1895. The next year the American
Cat Association was formed, under
-whose auspices the local Portland show
Is given. The largest and most suc
cessful cat club In the United States
Is the' Beresford Club, of Chicago.
Mrs. Elbert Besse Is the president of
that club and also the secretary of the
American Cat Association. Mrs. Besse
will Judge the show . given here this
month. She judges five other shows
on her Western trip, the others being
held in Seattle, Victoria, Sapramento
and Oakland. '
- One pf the new features of the show
will' be a contest for the most popular
cat, to be voted on by the visitors.
Fifty silver cups will be given and
about. 40 other premioums are offered.
There will be no admission fee.
seemed to compare favorably with
those of almost any other school. Only
Columbia University and : the Univer
sity , of Missouri' seemed to have a
definite numerical advantage in in
structional force, and the laboratory
advantages 'off ered "by. the courtesy of
the' Eugene Register and Daily Guard
were conceded to be of a highly prao-
tical and effective kind, scarcely to be
equalled among the other universities
for adaptability to the purposes of in
struction, having neither the amateur
ishness of the purely campus paper,
nor the unavailability of the metro
politan journal,
Oreos Attendance Good.
This comparison is made in the ab
sence of definite statistics and is based
on various statements made at the con
ference, on the train that carried sev
eral of the teachers to Chicago, and
on visits to different universities. In
point of number of students studying
Journalism, a fair estimate on present
Information would place the University
of Oregon about fourth or fifth among
the universities and colleges of the
United States, while if the large class
at the Oregon Agricultural College,
which has taken up the study. of writ
ing under the direction of the depart
ment should be added to the univer
sity figures, Oregon's ranking in num
ber of students would probably be
first. This would not be a fair com
parison, however, as the figures wouU
Include a disproportionately large
number of students who do not Intend
to take up writing or publication as a
profession, but wish only to acquire the
ability to express themselves . clearly
end in an Interesting and readable
way, expecting to write something for
publication only at rare Intervals.
Colombia Commands Talent.
The School of Journalism at Colum
bia University is in New Tork City.
Joseph Pulitzer's bequest of $1,000,000,
with another J1,000,000 to be added
next year, made it possible for the
university to offer salaries sufficient
to call to the new "chairs" .newspaper
men of highest character and equip
ment and proved success In the active
field of journalism.
The learned and honored editor of
the Philadelphia Press, Dr. Talcott
Williams, a man of broad culture, vast
information, and great executive effi
ciency. was called to the deanship. He
surrounded himself with a faculty
which evidently holds the confidence
and respect of the newspapermen of
New Tork. They are all men of met
ropolitan experience and training. They
look upon their problem as that of
training men for the metropolitan field,
and this, to a large extent, involves
placing the gre.at, if not the exclusive
emphasis, on the work of the reporter
or of the hired editorial writer.
Kansas Trains Manasera.
If Columbia trains reporters, Kansas
goes to the other extreme and alms to
train newspaper owners. Mr. Thorpe's
work in Kansas has been largely in
the direction of formulation of better
business methods for the small shop
and office. The student paper at Law.
rence is said to be a model of up-to-date
cost accounting. The editors know
every day as the paper goes to press
Just what is the profit or loss for that
clay to the fraction of a cent, they know
the exact point at which an advertise
ment begins to cost more than it is
worth, they figure out with great exact
ness just what a subscription costs, and
what is its value as an asset, and the
work of the school is to inculcate the
principles of clean, effective, profitable
business, without neglecting the other
phases of journalism.
One of the oldest and most successful
schools of journalism is that at the Uni
versity of Missouri. The instructors
here seem to have their eyes set on
neither the cog in the great metropoli
tan machine nor on the owner-pub-
lisher-editor of the smallest type of
paper, but on the editorial executive.
the man who rises from the "street"
and takes a "desk" and becomes re
sponsible in a greater or less decree for
the conduct of a moderate-sized paper
without necessarily either becoming
owner-publisner or remaining essen
tially a writer.
Missouri students have nad great suc
cess in the active field. The Kansas
City offices are filled with them, St.
Louis, at first slow to accept college
trained "Journalists" now has 25. they
are making good by the -dozens in the
smaller cities of the Middle West, and
the desk of Dean Walter Williams al
ways has upon it applications from city
editors who want him to recommend a
graduate, either unattached or who can
be hired away from some other paper
Dy tne oner or a higher salary.
The University of Missouri Is nrob
ably the only school that has taken
over the college paper and built up Its
instruction on tnis as a base. . The Unl.
verslty MissouTian covers not only uni
versity, but city news, and has a com
plete telegraph service. It is in active
competition with two other papers in
the college community of about 13,000.
Casts Talks at Madison.
A fourth variety of school of Journal
ism is found at the University of Wis
consin. It would be weii to repeat at
this point that none of the schools is
consciously neglecting any side of
journalism, but one is emphasising one
phaBe, one another. The specialty at
Wisconsin seems to be that class of
writing which varies from the "special
story" in the Sunday supplement to the
"article" in the standard magazine, in
cluding "write-ups" of all kinds. What
are they accomplishing? The answer
is clear.
The students are selling their prod
uct in great quantities from day to
day. W. G. Bleyer, the instructor,
quotes totals of the cash receipts of
his students for a year in figures so im
pressive that the writer will refrain
from giving them for fear his memory
has added an extra thousand or two to
the already large total. The University
of Wisconsin and the City of Madison,
the state capital, constitute a news cen
ter of considerable importance for po
litical and scientific news of a certain
kind and the students are taught to
coin this into cold cash as they go
along. Money talks.
The University of Pittsburg has a
department of journalism that is dis
tinct from the others in that its head
is at the same time managing editor
of a metropolitan paper, dividing his
time between the campus and the sane,
turn. T. R. Williams, of , the Pitts
burg Press, is a thorough believer in
the combination which he himself rep
resents. Students are assigned to work
with the reporters on the daily, and
in return the copy desk of the daily
has more than once filled in its spare
time by correcting papers turned in
by the university classes.
A feature of the conference was the
testimonial of respect for the value
of the college course -as preparation
for journalism, which came from the
instructors from all parts of the coun
try, most of them being practical news
papermen - rather than ' professional
teachers. It was agreed that a Junior
was more available material for jour
nalistic training than a freshman in a
degree out of all proportion to the dif.
ference in their ages, and that the
final two years of college makes a dif
ference no less notable.
ST. JOHNS DEBATERS WIN
Gresham High Scliool Loses on Size
of Navy Argument.
ST. JOHNS. Or., Jan. 10. (Special.)
The first debates in the Lower Colum
bia River district in the State High
School Debating League were held last
night. The St Johns affirmative team
won a unanimous decision against
Gresham. The St. Johns negative team
lost to Gresham at Gresham by a 2 to 1
decision. This returns St. Johns the
winner by 5 points to 8 for Gresham.
The question debated was: "Resolved,
That the United States should maintain
a large Navy." John N. Edlefsen was
chairman, and the judges were: Pro
fessor Polzln, Washington High- School
Professor Augur, Jefferson High School;
Professor Condit, Y. M. C. A. educa
tional department.
The Gresham team was composed of
Hazel Goger and May Dougherty. The
St. Johns teams are composed of Hazel
Hall, Maggie Dickie, Lulu Day ' and
Catherine Gensman.
Tillamook, the winner of the Astoria-
Coats, Suits, Dresses, Waists
are reducd. We find ourselves .with a larger stock than
tune of year, and it must be
that will soon be en route.
Every Coat, Every Suit, Every Dress
Petticoats, Waists, Furs and Skirts are included in this great Clearance Sale. A selec
tion of Women's Ready-to-Wear Garments not equaled anywhere for prices given.
SO SUITS
To Choose From
Your choice of $14.95,
$16.95 and $17.50
Suits now only ;
$10.00
Your choice of $29.50
$32.50- and ; $37.50
" Suits now only
$19;95
$45.00, $85.00, $90.00 and $100.00 Suits
V2 Price
Large Suits for
Corner Sixth and Alder
St. Helens debate, and St. Johns will
now meet to determine the district
championship.
1646 AT . FARM COLLEGE
5 65 Girls Registered at Corvallis.
Every State Represented.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,
Corvallis, Or.,- Jan. 10. (Special.) At
a meeting of the board of regents of
the Oregon Agricultural College the
following report on registration for the
first semester was presented by W. A.
Jensen, secretary:
Number of students enrolled, exclu
sive of short-course students, 1646;
number of men, 1083; number of women,
563; total number enrolled first semes
ter last year, 1312; increase for pres
ent year, 334; per cent of increase, 20.5.
The report shows further that every
county in Oregon, 30 states outside of
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MR. AND SIRS. W. C. HAMMER.
SCOTT'S MILLS. Jan. 10. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Hammer
celebrated their golden wedding- anniversary at their fine home In
Scott's Mills December 29. About SO relative and friends were pres
ent, including their four children and elsrht grandchildren. The cou
ple received many valuable presents. -
Mr. Hammer married Sarah E. Moon In Westboro, Ohio, December
29, 1863. About 20 years ago they came to Oregon and have made
Scott's Mills their home ever since then. Mr. Hammer is an old-time
Bjwmill man and Is still enthusiastic over the lumber possibilities of
Oregon. '
sacrificed to make room for
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Your choice
$12.50, $12.95 and
$13.75 Coats now
$4.95
$39.50, $44.50,
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Large Women $15.00 and $20.00
Oregon and eight foreign nations are
represented in the student body.
Of the 30 states represented Cali
fornia furnished 96; Washington, 79;
Idaho, 26; New York. 12, and Illinois, 11.
AID SOCIETY HAS ELECTION
MJlIarfli-Avenue Church Auxiliary
Reports Successful Year.
At the regular annual business meet
ing of: the Aid Society of the Millard
Avenue Presbyterian Church. . held at
the heme of Mrs. J. F. Valentine on
Thursday, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year:
President, Mrs. Edna L. Shaw; vice
president, Mrs. S. W. H'ickling; secre
tary, Mrs. J. H. Jones; treasurer, Mrs.
Eleanor LaPrance.
The society has just closed the most
prosperous year In itshistory, many
and Petticoats
- any previous season at this
our immense Spring purchases
1200 COATS
To Choose From.
of all
Your choice of all
$29.50, $32.50 and
$34.50 Coats now
$18.85
$49.50, $55.00 to $100.00 Coats
2 Price
CLOAKS
AND SUITS
Opposite Oregonian Building
new members having been added and
the treasury being in good shape. The
society in addition to equipping the
new kitchen in the basement of the
church with a range, modern plumbing,
cooking utensils, and dishes, provided
the church auditorium with new pews
and have aided materially in defray
ing the current expenses of the church.
Other needed improvements have been
planned for the coming year.
Dr. Rockcy Lectures.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 10. (Spe
cial.) The Clarke County Medical So
ciety enjoyed a banquet at the St. Elmo
Wednesday night, and later held a
meeting in the Vancouver Commercial
Club rooms. Dr. A. E. Rockey, of Port
land, delivered an address on "Diag
nosis," followed by discussion. All of
the medical profession of the county
were invited to be present.
Potatoes Still In Ground.
BUENA VISTA, Or., Jan. 10. (Spe
cial.) Although farmers attempted to
harvest the entire potato crop before
the rains came, several fields havo
not been dug. Iast year a dry season
of about three weeks gave the grow
ers sufficient time to'dtg tlirir crops,
but the conditions are different.
Canada exported 20,941,000 pounds of
cheese in October.
Money Saved
by Making Your Cough
Syrup at Home
Takes Bnt a I-w iriomrnta,
aud Ktop a Hard Cougli
in m II urry -
Couch medicines, as a rule, contain a
laree quantity of plain syrup. Jf yon
take one pint of pranulated sujrar, add
pint of warm water and stir about
2 minutes, you have as good syrup aa
money could buv.
If you will then put 2Va ounces of
Pinex (fifty cents' worth) in a. pint
bottle, and' fill it up with the Sugar
Syrup, you will have as much couli
svrup as you could buy ready made for
$2.50. Take a teaspoonful every one,
two or three hours. It keeps perfectly.
: You will find it one of the best cough
syrups you ever used even in whooping
cough. You can feel it take hold
usually conquers an ordinary cough in
24 hours. It is just laxative enough,
has a good tonic effect, and the taste
is pleasant.
It is a splendid remedy, too, for
whooping cough, spasmodic croup,
hoarseness and bronchial asthma.
Pinex is a most vaulable concentra
ted compound of Norway white pine
extract, rich in guaiacol and other
healing pine elements. No other prepa
ration will work in this formula.
This plan for making cough remedy
with Pinex and Sugar Syrup is now
used in more homes than any other
cough remedy. The plan has often been
imitated but never successfully.
A guaranty of absolute satisfaction,
or money promptly refunded, goes with
this preparation. Your druggist has
Pinex, or will get it for you. If not,
send to The Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne, Jpd,
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