THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, . PORTLAND, MARCH 15, 1914.
VIEWS ON GREAT VARIETY OF TOPICS ARE GIVEN BY MASSES
Voices From Far and Near Heard in Discussion of Problems, Fads, and Fancies, Caused or Inspired by Current or Coming Events.
Commercializing: One Phase
of Vice Disliked.
Truth Seeker" Declares Film of
White Slave Traffic Exaggerated
and Intrne.
ORTLAND, March 14 (To the Edi-
r tor.) Let us all rejoice to think
that Portland has been edlfled and in
structed by the production of the films
showing the "Inside of the White Slave
Traffic." This "exposure" had the
sanction of Judge Gatena, Judge Ste
venson and Superintendent Alderman.
So it must be "moral," even though
the municipal censors, who are pre
sumed also to be specialists in moral
ity, wished to prohibit the pictures.
But perhaps the "morality" of the
films is a secondary issue compared
with the question whether they repre
sent fairly a real condition in our so
ciety. Are there any considerable num
ber of women or girls held in a life of
prostitution against their wills? Are
girls or women abducted forcibly and
confined in houses of ill-fame, where
their relatives and friends never hear
of them more? Are books like Eliza
beth Robin's "My Little Sister" based
on facts numerous and notorious
enough to justify claiming such fic
tional works as true pictures of life?
To all these qpestions impartial in
vestigators of the sooial evil answer
"no." The white slave traffic is 9
per cent myth. The other 1 per cent
that Is real is not much different in
its nature than other kinds of traffic
that is, it springs quite inevitably
from the inequalities of natural ca
pacity in human beings and from the
maladjustments of social environment.
As a result, such white slave traffic
ag actually existB may be said to be
based upon the kind and quantity of
"freedom of contract" that obtains in
other spheres of our political, indus
trial and social life. In short, the real!
white slavery is as purely voluntary as
any other set of activities of our com
plex life can be.
One charge may brought successfully
against such exaggerated films as
those produced here and against such
books as "My Little Sister." - Being
based essentially upon misinformation
and a distorted view of the facts, they
cause a widespread form of transitory
insanity in the minds of thousands.
Persons who read these books and see
these films and accept them without
further investigation come to suffer
from certain delusions and obsessions,
quite harmless perhaps, but none the
less real.
I know two women, for Instance, who
have the fixed idea that agents of
"white slavers" are lying in wait daily
in downtown Portland, systematically
getting recruits for the underworld.
They say they know from experience,
because they themselves have been ap
proached time and again and tempted
to enter a life of shame.
One might put some faith In these
claims were it not for two facts. The
first is that both women are on the
verge of middle age and are quite un
prepossessing in appearance. In fact,
one of them the very one who is the
more positive in her statements has
a distinct mustache. Of course, what
the underworld demands is youth and
as much attractiveness as possible. No
white slave trader in the world would
waste his time procuring women who
are neitner young nor good looking.
The other fact which makes their
statements absurd is the evident exist
ence of an oversupply of girls and
women who are more than half willing
to become recruits for the underworld,
and consequently the utter folly of
supposing that any vice agent would
be reduced to the necessity of casually
accosting females of whose character
and condition In life he knows nothing
whatever. As Havelock Ellis in the
February Metropolitan has pointed out,
white slavers "have no need to run
serious risks."
Society needs to know all the facts
obtainable regarding the social evil in
all its phases. Such facts are quite
necessary to understand why it has per
sisted for ages in the face of moraliz
ing, ' preaching, denunciation and
prosecution. Unless we are willing to
consider all the facts indeed its elim
ination will be quite impossible, and
we shall only make ourselves ridlcu
lous by inaugurating reforms that are
bound to be abortive, as so many "vice
crusades" up to the present have
proved.
But what I believe every well-balanced
person properly may object to
in this process of informing society is
the commercializing of reform by seiz
Ing- upon some one phase of the evil
and grossly exaggerating and sensa
tionalizing it for the sake of profits.
In this manner we quite obscure the
real nature of the problem and Induce
a, hysteria which Is a positive bar to
sane treatment of the evil.
TRUTH-SEEKER.
Motive of East Burnside As
sociation Questioned.
Rose City Park Resident Not
Pleased With Proposed Rerouting;
of Cars.
PORTLAND, Or., March 13. (To the
Editor.) We note in The Orego
nian that the' East Burnside District
Improvement Association is "suggest
ing" improvements for existing condi
tions by the rerouting of certain car
lines. As one citizen vitally Interested in
efficiency in the streetcar service for
the Rose City Park district, through
our Streetcar Efficiency Club we would
like to inquire whatsis meant by "ex
isting conditions." Is it the condition
of the people who live out Montavilla
way or out Woodlawn or Alberta way
or our Rose City Park way that this
benevolent association is interested in
and striving to assist? Is it poor serv
ice they are trying to better? Do they
wish to co-operate with us help us
out and in? Or is there some other
modus Vivendi back of this benevolent
organization? How many people are
there in the association and how many
of them ride any of these lines daily?
We strongly suspect that this Is an
other of those improvement club move
ments Inaugurated by a little handful
of interested people for their own ben
efit and that the comfort, convenience
and well being of these several districts
is their last thought. Good people, of
course, but purely selfish, and that the
object of this movement iB to improve
"existing" trade "conditions" on East
Burnside street by an organization of
merchants and property owners who
by reason of their situation are losing
some trade by the natural development
of traffic conditions In our growing
city. Of course we may be wrong in
this conclusion, but of this one thing
we are sure from careful study we
have had to make in order to improve
our servicer so as to show on the train
men's reports and that is that the
first thing a streetcar company abso
lutely must consider Is the people who
ride the cars. Everything else Is sec
ondary to this one thing to get the
people who pay fares from the place
where they choose to live to the point
where they toll in the shortest time and
best way. And the patrons who ride
every day are the ones to be first con
sidered in any and every rerouting
plan. No club or organization should
be allowed to speak for them where
there is a possible. way to get the vote
of the traveling public.
The streetcar company is here to
carry the people. We must not lose
sight of that one fact. Booster clubs
should remember this and the company
itself should keep this point in mind in
all its plans. Secondary to this comes
business considerations the merchants
along the streets traversed trade at
junction and transfer points. Property
values and the uniform and natural
trade growth of the city and lastly the
company should consider its own in
terests. But if the first two points
are kept well la mind the last will care
for itself.
Now that Is the way the problem
shapes up, looked at in an impersonal
way, and any ether manner of ap
proaching a streetcar problem will not
get the best nor permanent results. So
then, applying these principles to East
JUurnside street, we And that if on
referendum vote no club resolution
no wish of a few people but a general
vote of the patrons of that section
that the people wish to cross Burnside
bridge from Voodlawn, Alberta, Mon-
tavma, etc., they should be so routed
regardless of the convenience of even
Rose City Park or any other section
or any other consideration, business or
otherwise.
We submit if this is. not fair. We
submit If any other consideration Is
fair. Are we outlanders to be exploit
ed? Are we to be juggled around to
suit East Morrison street. Grand ave
nue. East Burnside or any other street?
We are not blind to our own interests.
We know what we want and all we
ask is a fair chance to express our
preference and this general expression
should settle any and every routing
problem.
With all due respect to the East
Burnside District Improvement Asso
ciation, we venture there has never
been more than 50 people present at
any one meeting where legislating has
been done for the great outlying dis
tricts of Montavilla, Woodlawn, Alber
ta and Rose City Park.
O. G. HUGHSON,
Rose City Park.
Good Faith of Employment
Agents Is Questioned.
Laborer, "Who Has Had Experience
With Job Brokers, Believes They
Should Quit.
PORTLA1
tor.)
ORTLAND, March rt. (To the Edl-
readers of The Oregonian to give an
honest, legitimate reason why employ
ment agencies should not be encour
aged. He starts out with the assump
employment agencies as there are hon- '
tion mat mere are as many honest
est merchants, brokers and so forth.
Well, actual experiences with, employ
ment agencies has led me to a differ
ent opinion.
Employment agents too often are in
business to make the best of it. I
could cite Instances where employment
agents were instrumental in reducing
wages, furnishing strike-breakers to
take the places of men engaged in a
struggle for decent wages.
Not infrequently they enter into con
tracts with foremen, the agencies fur
nish all the men, the foreman fires
them as quickly as he can, then both
divide the spoils. The result is that
one gang of men is at work, one com
ing Into town, while another gang is
going out again.
An employment agent finds it com
paratively easy to relieve the horny-
handed sons of toil- of their hard
earned cash, and I dare say that there
aie mighty few of the crooked kind
who would hesitate as to the ways and
means.
If an employment agent wishes to
succeed he has to use means which
would not always bear the light of
investigation, or his competitor would
get his business. Clodfelter claims
that the employment agent Is a benefit
to the employers as well as to the
employed. I agree as far. as ths- em
ployer is concerned it helps him to
rigbt the labor unions. He states that
the men prefer to pay the fee, and that
they save in fares and so forth, and
that the employers are enabled to get
nelp on short notice, without loss in
time and worry.
I am an unskilled worker, and, as far
as I am concerned, I have yet to meet
the man who thinks the employment
agency is a benefit to the laboring
class. On the other hand, most of the
Jobs are advertised on the boards for
days before the order is filled, just
because the workers will not or can
not pay the fee. If it had not been for
the fee the employer would have got
his man and the laborer his Job.
I think It would be more progres
sive, more up to date if there wen
some sort of a labor exchange or
bourse run by the city. A small fee,
say, for instance, 10 or 15 cents, could
be charged to pay the expenses. It
would save lots of trouble, time arid
money end be of lasting benefit to the
workers. An Institution of this kind
could not flourish if the private em
ployment shark were allowed to ply
his trade. Tho employer favors the
private agents, not for the sake of ef
ficiency, but for the sake of fighting
the labor unions and to reduce wages.
There are free employment agencies
run by various cities. It would be
interesting to knew why the employers
do not patronize them, and also what
kind of inducement the private agen
cies offer the employers. The employ
ment agencies are parasites. They
live at the expense of workingmen.
It is entirely out of place that a man
in a free country should be forced to
pay tribute to an employment agent
for the right to work.
FRANK P. BROWN,
Globe Hotel, City.
Corn Meal of Yesteryear Is
Gone, Says Writer.
Modern Milling Methods Ascribed
as Reason the Cora Bread Can No
Longer Be Made.
PORTLAND, March . (To the Edi
tor.) A short time ago I saw In
The Oregonian this question: Can any
one make good corn bread?
For answer, I say no (with the corn-
meal we are obliged to use, comfng
from the grocers in packages or other
wise).
I remember more than 60 years back
how anxiously all waited for the corn
to ripen to have the new meal. And
almost as soon as there was a turning
it was gathered, partly stripped and
hung in loft or granary to dry for shell
ing. The corn bread and the flavor of the
mush was a delight. We had to use the
older corn later, but it was ground
often, not kept for months.
vv e then had the old burr mills. The
flour of the corn was saved with the
coarser meal.' Since the roller mills
came Into use I have never had the
same good meal, or flour, either, for
that matter. Flavor is lacking in both.
The meal Is as dry and clean of the flour
part as the sands of the beach and
almost as tasteless. And another thing.
for corn bread, was the creamy butter
milk flecked with specks of butter
dipped from the old-fashioned churn
after the morning's churning. Very
few these days know what that means.
as the present-day buttermilk from the
creameries makes one shiver to think
of drinking it old-fashioned people, I
mean. MRS. MARY POTTER.
More Light Given on Prob
lem of Unemployed.
Experienced Employer of Many La
borers Kinds Few of Idle Able to
Do Hard Work.
WANCOUVER, Wash., March 13.
V (To the Editor) Recently various
articles have appeared in your paper
regarding labor conditions now exist
Ing. The question of unemployment
is exciting more than usual interest
throughout the country. Many of the
contributions and editorials from a
clerical or literary viewpoint are mas
terpieces. I note with regret that all
of these articles which have come un
der my view are written by persons
who have not even the least concep
tion of the laboring class as a tout en
semble. The writer, having for more
than 30 years been engaged as super
intendent and general manager of one
of the largest lumber firms in the
Middle States, feels that through per
sonal experience and close observation
he, to some slight extent, is qualified
to speak on the subject in hand.
Let me use one of your correspon
dent's classifications. (1) "Want
Work." (2) "Wont Work."(3) "Can't
Work." This writer goes on to state
that the "Can't Works" are but an in
considerable factor in the equation.
Had he had some years' experience di
recting the operations of a logging
crew, a crew of river drivers, a sawmill
crew or a crew on railroad construc
tion, he would not speak thus. I have
spent some time and been at consid
erable expense investigating the tex
ture of the mass of floating humanity.
I now will make the assertion that 80
per cent of them are "Can't Works."
Let me prove this. The only work
which can be procured at this season
of the year Is work of the most la
borious character lumber camps, river
drives, stumping land, sawmill or rail
road construction.
At thi3 class of work, which requires
considerable skill and a very great de
gree of physical strength, what part
could the majority of your unemployed
take? Were I operating in any of the
above lines and find one of my fore
men giving employment to a crew of
such men I would fire the foreman ln
stanter. Such men would be a burden
at any wage. It ta barely possible that
15 per cent of these, men might be
available for such employment as it is
possible to secure on the Coast at this
season. When garden work opens up,
fruit gathering and hoppicklng sea
son arrives it is possible most of them
might do such work as women can do.
1 am not questioning, their willing
ness or desire to work, but no sane
man would have a crew of such "crow
baits" about him. He would go broke.
They are "Can't Works."
At considerable expense I got the
nationality, religion, age and calling
of more than 5000 of these men who
have called at the Sisters hospitals for
meals in Oregon and Washington dur
ing the pre ent year.
Their occupation was the particular
in which I was most interested. Look
at this list: Mechanics of all classes,
barbers, bakers, candy boilers, bar
tenders, photographers, paper hangers,
sign painters, tailors, bricklayers,
gilders, shoemakers; in fact a list too
long to note. About 15 per cent were
men who had some experience at hard
labor.
No corporation could afford to pay
these men any wage rate for heavy
labor. Possibly a state could stand it.
One more Idea comes from a letter
which I have read in The Oregonian.
Think of a sawmill owner running
his mill when he cannot find a market
for his lumber, or at seasons when it
is a disadvantage to run it in order to
give the unemployed work!
Is he going to He down capital worth
i per cent, pay insurance and taxes on
this product In order to give men
work? J. HAROLD.
Portland Urged to Attract
Tourists of Next Year.
Resident. Sojourning In San Fran
cisco, Suggests Plan and Forecasts
Great Good.
HAN FRANCISCO, March 11. (To the
tj Editor.) In a few months the
Panama Canal will have changed the
pathway of the world and a stream of
humanity will come to look upon the
wonders and glories of the Golden
West.
A mere fraction of those who come
will pass through that great estuary,
one of the most marvelous achieve
ments of modern times. The majority
will be transported by rail. Thousands
upon thousands of those who come will
contemplate a part of their trip by
boat to the expositions at San Fran'
Cisco and San Diego. Here is Port
land's golden opportunity.
While the Pacific Coast, the "Play'
ground of America," will be reveling
In fetes and festivals that will cost
more than 12.000,000 in 1915, the enter
tainment is not enough. Every such
celebration is great and good and
Brand, but it is too short-lived to en
tertain all those who visit the Pacific
Coast in 1915.
I wish to make a suggestion to Port
land and I hope that it will be received
in the same kindly spirit it is meant,
for Portland is my home, my property
interests are there, and I feel that it
Is the most beautiful and desirable city
In the world. I want to see It continue
to be what I. in an humble way, helped
to make it, an Idyl of Rosarla.
Already the Harriman boats are ply
ing between Portland. San Francisco
and San Diego. In a few 'months the
Hill lines will be operating a line of
fast new boats from the Columbia to
California. Both lines will have mod
ern and first-class ships, equipped with
all conveniences and luxuries. It
would be a rare treat and a new ex
perience to many who come by rail to
Portland and ship by the ocean for
the expositions of San Francisco and
San Diego, and to return that way if
they so desire.
This routing would make Portland
a terminal, and right here Is where
most effective work could be done for
Portland and Oregon. A strong or
ganization, composed of all the com
mercial bodies and clubs of the city,
should be formed to exploit the good
work. The transcontinental railroads
should be urged to route their tourists
vit Portland and the tourists should be
given to understand that welcoming
committees were waiting with glad
hands to receive them and show them
the most beautiful city in the whole
universe; to point out the matchless
scenery, the picturesque boulevards,
our exhibits of Oregon resources and
to give them all' the Information they
may desire about the golden opportun
ities of our state.
If this is followed out in a whole
hearted way it will do more to colonize
and enrich Oregon than can possibly
be done in any other way. It is a la
mentable facj that while splendid ef
fort has been expended in the past to
Induce excursionists to visit Oregon
too little effort has been put forth to
welcome the newcomers and to make
them feel at home.
By pursuing the new way, you can
Induce the visitors to coma and re-
main for many days, whereas, in the
past, too many were impatient to catch
the first train outgoing. If Portland
will act upon this with the vim and
spirit it deserves I am sure that you
would see your hotels filled to over
flowing and all your mercantile and
commercial interests thriving as they
have never prospered before.
Los Angeles boasts of an annual
tourist crop that aggregates 450,000,000.
Portland's climate is ideal and its roses
are a lure to all mankind. Portland
surpasses, not alone Southern Cali
fornia, but all the resort cities of this
continent. It is indeed the Summer
capital of America.
I hope that' Portland will not over
look this suggestion, for it certainly
means much to every citizen of both
city and state. Important business in
terests will make me a fixture in San
Francisco until the close of the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition,
but if I can assist in any way for the
good of the cause, I will most gladly
contribute my best efforts for the
"Rose City."
GEORGE L. HUT CHIN.
Writing for Movies Suggest
ed to Stenographers. -
Knovrledse of Talent Can Only Be
Learned by' Trying-, Declares Cor
respondent. GILBERT, Or., March 14. (To the
Editor.) Is it not possible that the
new field developed by the motion pic
ture industry may be the means of
furnishing employment to some of the
stenographers and others who are anx
ious for something to do?
Of course it does not follow that all
who try will succeed in producing sale
able scenarios. Neither can one know,
without trying. If the necessary talent
is possessed.
No doubt some would be glad of In
formation tending to put them on the
right track. There is literature, a"nd
there are advertisements more or less
to the purpose. W. B. E. "
BETTER AND CHEAPER LIVING RESTS
WITH WOMEN, SAYS CLUB LEADER
Failure of Wives, Mothers and Girls to Take Greater Interest in Home
Evans, State Federation President News and Gossip of
BT MRS. SARAH A. EVANS. '
President Oregon State Federation of
women a ijiuds.
AM utterly discouraged," said one
of Oregon's most faithful club
women, and one of the best-
"I
housekeepers in the state, a few days
ago. "I have tried for eight years to
get the women of the state interested
in home economics and I don't feel that
I am a bit further along than I was
when I began."
This was but the far echo of a cry
sent out by the late Mrs. Decker, when,
as president of the General Federation.
She said in her annual address at Bos
ton in 1908:
"I recommend the discontinuance of
the household economics committee. I
feel that this will occasion much dis
may upon the part of the convention,
and I take time to explain my reason
for what may seem a most unwise sug
gestion. I believe every state and
every club should .have a committee
upon household economics or home
making. But it has been my observa
tion that it is almost an impossibility
to make a National committee effec
tive."
In opposing Mrs. Decker s recom
mendation, Mrs. Burton Smith, of At'
lanta, Ga., said:
"As I look on this great gathering
of American women, I am profoundly
Impressed with the truth that back of
all the varied Interests and aspirations
that bring us together, there is one in
terest common to us all one Interest
that binds us together in an inevita
ble bond of social responsibility and
that one common, universal and in
evitable interest is the home. Whether
or not we are alive to this interest or
conscious of this responsibility, it is
there back of our work in civics, in
child labor, in education, in literature
back of all the good and beautiful
things we are trying to do, as a nec
esary basis of all our effort and all
our aspiration, there is the home.
. . . And so we must have our fed
eration home economics committee, so
we women, in the clubs all over Amer
ica, must put our heads together and
our shoulders together and push this
problem to solution. We must find a
way to so locate and plan and furnish
and fit a home, to so organize domestic
industries; to so supply food to the
family'; to so order the family, life
that the home may do its part in fur
nishing to society strong-bodied well
belanccd. high-hearted men and wom
en. And we must hand on this pre
cious knowledge, we must spread it
abroad in our land."
Much more Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Elmer
Blair, of New York, and others said
along this line, and it is these inspired
sayings that have kept the fires burn
ing even through worse discourage
ments than the work has been sub
ject to in Oregon.
While the state board does not share
the pessimistic views regarding the
work in Oregon expressed by an Ore
gon woman It does feel that the state
Is facing serious conditions affecting
the home which must be met and
solved if we are to give to Oregon a
citizenship of strong, forceful men and
women.
We 'hear much of eugenics, but as
Kipling would say. "that is another
story'1; we have hot lunches for the
school children, which is a long step
forward; we have domestic science
training in our schools, which we
should have had long .ago, but how
many mothers are interested enough
in the kind of food that Is sold for
these purposes to lay aside her art or
music -or literary class to go to the
City Hall to hear the discussion of a
meat, milk or market ordinance? How
many will sacrifice themselves enough
to go to the markets personally and
make their daily purchases instead of
telephoning them in. How many read
the labels on their package goods?
How many actually study home eco
nomics?
But "those dishes must be washed
three times a day," said a tired little
housewife; and there's the rub the
drudgery that women associate with
the subject.
Has it ever occurred to you, tired
housewife, that a study of these sub
jects, the putting of intelligence in
stead or brawn into tne worK, would
relieve the drudgers? If you know how
to buy you relieve much of the vexa
tion of soul when the bills come In at
the end of the month. If you give
your family pure clean food you will
almost certainly omit the doctor's bill,
and the clean, wholesome, well body is
not often coupled with the moral de
generate. And so almost every social, moral
and economic condition has its be
ginning in the home. During the com
ing Winter the Interest of the Ore
gon women in home economics and
better food conditions will be put to
the test as never before. Already bet
ter laws for- the care of food products
Christ Scientists Deny New
Thought Relation.
Substantial Divergence, Set Forth by
Rev. Mr. Green, Are Admitted.
Criticism Held Feeble.
PORTLAND, Maxell 14. (To the Edi
tor.) Christian Scientists agree
with Rev. Mr. Green, who is quoted in
The Oregonian Monday as stating that
between New Thought and Christian
Science there is a "substantial diver
gence." He might have correctly said
that the difference Is fundamental. The
two systems can no more be related
than can the human be conjoined, with
the divine.
The critic's feeble objection to the
leadership of Mary Baker Eddy dwin
dles into nothingness before the mag
nitude of her lifework, which is bless
ing the whole human family with a
Christianity that is applicable to every
human nee8. Multitudes numbering
hundreds of thousands acknowledge
with loving gratitude the healing
power of God made understandable
through her teachings, j and already
forecast the time when mankind
will recognize her, not as a per
sonal leader, but "as the revelator to
this age of the immortal truths testi
fied to by Jesus and the prophets."
(The First Church of Christ, Scientist
and Miscellany, p. VII.) As leader of
the greatest religious movement of re
cent times, Mrs. Eddy has repeatedly
counselled her followers to turn from
all sense of personal adoration and to
follow her only so far as she followed
the divine principle of the teaching of
Christ Jesus.'
While she taught the absolute truths
of divine science, Mrs. Eddy recognized
that for rrtany generations these truths
would not be fully demonstrated. With
the growth of the movement which she
founded a form of church government
became necessary. The "Manual" and
are in course of preparation; attempts
will be made to solve the problems of
the increased cost of living; regula
tion of foreign food stuffs brought
into our markets will be attempted, to
say nothing of the hundred and one
things that will be put forth osten
sibly for the benefit of the dear public,
and to protect the humble citizen and
small home (we all recognize the
catch words).
The way to study home economics,
Just at present, in this state is to be
come familiar with our state laws re
garding our food supply; find the weak
places, strengthen what is good, and
learn the attitude of every aspirant
for office on these subjects before put
ting him where he can do good or ill
as his own sweet will.
The club women of Oregon have it
In their power to demand cleaner, pur
er foods, a reduction in the cost of liv
ing and better health regulations. Are
they interested enough in their homes
to do this or will they make good what
has been said, that "Jri eight years the
interest in nome economics in Oregon
has not advanced"
'
Saturday, March 21, the monthly lun
cheon of the State Conference of Clubs
will be held in the tea room of Meier
& Frank. Guests will be seated prompt
ly at 12;30 P. M. Promptness is spe
cially desired as Saturday is a .busy
day ana many have to leave if the
meeting is prolonged to an unusual
hour.
Several important committees will
report, among them will be a supple
mentary, report on the city efficiency
code.
Mrs. A. H. Breyman will give the re
sult of further Investigation into the
matter of the proposed road through
the .Bull Run reserve.
Mrs. M. Lt T. Hidden, who introduced
the subject of good roads at the last
meeting, and who was appointed to In
vestigate the matter, will have a defin
ite plan to present, through which the
club women of the state can give ac
tual service to tho work.
Mrs. Alice Wttster will introduce the
subject of a woman's building for Port
land and explain the plans which have
been maturing for some time.
Mrs. H. F. Davidson, of Hood River.
state recording secretary, who has Just
returned from a visit of several months
in New York, will give a little resume
of her experiences and observations
among the clubs of the metropolis. Mrs.
Davidson had tho opportunity of at
tending the New York City Federation
while in the city, and will, no doubt,
be able to give the Oregon women some
illuminating information.
As on all former occasions, there will
no doubt be other new subjects intro
duced which will lying out interest
ing discussion.
These meetings are primarily for the
purpose of preparing the ground for
the real work of the convention and
to promote the activities of the indi
vidual clubs. .
The state officers have felt that they
must guard these meetings against be
ing turned into large social affairs,
hence they were at first confined to
the officers and committee members of
federation and clubs, but many of
the lay members have expressed a de
sire to be present, and have given
such valuable suggestions when they
were that the Invitation is extended to
any one who is really interested, or has
'any club matter they would like to
have taken up through the united
clubs.
The state officers specially rnvite
out-of-town club women to attend
these meetings.
Those desiring reservations must no
tify Mrs. J. W. Tifft, 361 West Park
street, telephone Marshall 4215 before
FRUIT LAXATIVE IF CONSTIPATED, .
- TAKE "CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FIGS"
Delicious "regulator" for stomach
liver and bowels, for mamma,
daddy and children.
If you're headachy, constipated, bil
ious or stomach is disordered and you
want to enjoy the nicest liver and
bowel cleansing you ever experienced,
take a tablespoonful of "California
Syrup of Figs" tonight and in the
morning all the constipation poison,
bile and clogged-up waste will gently
move out of the system without grip
ing and you will feel splendid.
Every member of the -family should
use this fruit laxative as occasion de
mands It is Just as effective for
grandpa as it is for baby. It simply
"By-Laws" which followed are, as
stated in "Miscellaneous Writings," not
"arbitrary opinions or dictatorial com
mands. They sprang from necessity
and the logic of events, from the im
mediate demand for them as a help
that must be supplied to maintain the
dignity and defense of our cause."
Though" the minister may not now un
derstand some of their provisions, time
and the rapid progress of Christian Sci
ence are proving them to be the prod
ucts of the highest wisdom.
The devil, which the critic assumes
that Christian Scientists fear, i3 a fig
ment of his own imagination. Chris
tian Science teaches that evil Is not
to be feared, but overcome and de
stroyed, through a correct understand
ing of God. But to Ignore evil as a
baneful phenomena of mortal sense and
to fall to combat its claims is to bury
one's head in the sands of stoicism and
invite destruction by indifference. "De
liver us from evil" was the manner
after which Jesus advised his disciples
to pray. The time is not yet when his
advice can be abandoned.
The reverend gentleman's belief In
matter as God-created is his own affair.
Suffice it to say that Christian Science
disagrees, and accepts the teachings of
Jesus, "it is the spirit that quickeneth;
the flesh profiteth nothinpr," and the
correlated statement of the apostle,
"flesh and blood cannot enter into the
kingdom of God." That Mr. Green
thinks of Christian Science in its re
lation to his beliefs as John the Bap
tist was to Christ Jesus, seems to evi
dence faith in his own system and a
kindly feeling toward Christian Sci
ence, however much he may err in. his
comparison. Christian Science disclaims
the honor he would bestow upon it
Its place In the world will be fixed,
not by human opinion, but by the good
which it accomplishes for mankind.
For the principle of divine truth which
teaches and demonstrates "there is no
dynasty, no ecclesiastical monoply. Its
only crowned head Is immortal sov'
erelgnty. Its only priest is the spirit
ualized man." (Science and Health, p.
141.) "Ye shall know them by their
friuts" was the standard of righteous
Judgment established by Jesus. Chris
tian Science asks to be judged by no
other. PAUL STARK SEELEY.
Economics Decried by Mrs.
Women's Organizations.
Sarah A.
noon Friday, March 20, as the plates
will be limited to 50..
If there are any questions club
women would like to ask who are un
able to be present they can send them
to the state president, 823 Oorbeti
street, and they will be presented to
the conference, and the result or an
swer returned by mail.
On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Ella
Pennell, of the University of Oregon,
gave a lecture on the "Masterpieces of
Architecture" before the Thursday Aft
ernoon Club, of'Albany. Mrs. Pennell
has traveled much in Europe and has
some pronounced ideas on architecture.
She conducted her audience through
the cathedrals and cities of Europe in
an inspiring and instructive manner..
St. Peter's, at Rome, she described so
vividly it almost took form to her audi
ence; she defended Angelo from the
accusation of faulty perspective by say
ing "it was the fault of his successors
who changed the plan from a Greek to
a Roman cross."
San Marco of Venice she gave at
length, and said that "here she had
heard a most wonderful singer, whose
music, she Imagined, was like that from
heaven."
Westminster Abbey was next visited,
and much of interest to students of lit
erature was told.
Taj Mahal was described in a most
beautiful and eloquent manner, and in
words that thrilled the listeners.
Many photographs were used to illus
trate the lecture. At the close of Mrs.
Pennell's lecture the club felt it had
enjoyed a rare treat, and many were
the requests that she return and con
tinue the subject in the near future.
It was one of the most pleasant meet
ings of the club year; the successful
management being due to Miss Kather
ine Barrett, the president of the club,
and Mrs. Earl Brandelberry, hostess.
The club is studying 19th century lit
erature arid art in a course prepared
by Miss Viola Price Franklin, city
librarian of Albany.
This club has not yet affiliated with
the state federation, but the state
board expresses the hope that they will
not long remain without the fold.
DEAL LIFE IS PLANNED
HARMONISTS MAKE EFFORT TO HE-
TIRX TO GREEK fl STOJIS.
Little Band, Clad In Tunlra, Mnkes
Home On of - What Once Was
Forest of Montfermell.
PARIS, March 14. (Special.) On the
slopes of what was once the forest of
Montfermell, now scored in every di
rectlon by the ruthless hand of the
suburban architect, a little band of en
thusiasts, Harmonists, they call them
selves, is making a touching attempt
to return to the ideal life as the Greeks
understood It-
Through the glades of their sacred
groves they move in sandals, tunic or
linen mantle in the early morning, to
wards a bold summit whence they may
descry the plain of the great city.
There, hand In hand, a living frieze,
they stand and gaze awhile. Presently
they begin their morning exercises.
arms raised towards heaven or grace
fully curved as thouKh to throw a ball.
discus or javelin. Then a draught of
sparkling water from an amphora, and
home to breakfast.
M. Bertrand, who Is a medical stu
dent, has explained the objects of the
Harmonists thus:
'We are not a colony or organized
can not injure. Even cross, sick, fever
ish children just love its pleasant taste
and mothers can rest easy after giving
it, because it never fails to effect a
good "Inside cleansing."
For thirty years "California Syrup of
Figs" has "en recommended by physi
cians aa the ideal stomach, liver and
bowel cleanser. Millions of families
who are well informed use nothing
else, but recently there has come .a
flood of spurious fig syrups, so we
warn the public to ak plainly at drug
stores for a 50-rent bottle of "Ca!ifor-
nla Syrup of Figs." and see that it
prepared by California tisr Hyvu-Art
Hand back any "counterfei t" with con
tempt." Adv.
Entrance to Library Not Con
venient for All.
Patron Finds Kced for Public Way
Into Building From West Side
of Structure.
P
ORTLAND, March 13. (To the
Editor.) This is not a criticism.
but an expression of astonishment at
the arrangement for getting into the
new City Library. On the west side
of the building, where the streetcars,
Sunnyside and Mount Tabor, run,
carrying the heaviest travel in the city
and where all West and Northwest
Portland, King's Heights, Portland
Heights and Council Crest way would
naturally enter the Library building.
Is nothing but a great, bare wall, look
ing for all the world like one of the
North End warehouses, save a little
private way for library employes to
go In and out.
Leaving the Mount Tabor car on
Eleventh street recently I walked down
the hill 200 feet, thence south 60 feet,
where I climbed an elaborate stairway,
preceded by an aged woman who
stopped twice to rest, reaching ulti
mately a level only a little above the
sidewalk at the west side of the build
ing, where I started.
In the center of the Structure, or
near the center, is an elevator willing
to carry you after traveling from the
west side 350 feet down hill and up to
get to the elevator.
Why should not our great Public Li
brary building, like the City Hall, have
an entrance on the west and upper side
where the main activities of the plant
could be conveniently and easily
reached?
It is not enough to say you have an
East Side branch library, for once peo
ple are on the cars they will not stop
till they reach the center of the city; a
fact which indicates that the contem
plated City Auditorium should be placed
In the center, of where the streetcar
lines converge. v
At no point on the East Side can the
auditorium be placed where It would
be convenient even for the East Side.
C. E. CLINE.
society. We have no chief or professor.
We live separately, but meet together
to continue the teaching and study of
Raymond Duncan. We practice gym
nastics, music, drawing, dramatic art.
dancing and various trades. All our
work is a means of natural education
for mind and body.
"In addition to this, we gain freedom
and independence, for by weaving our
clothing and making our sandals we
do without tailors and shoemakers. We
secure physical and moral health, our
bodies are beautified, our organism
learns to support cold and heat, and we
are perfectly happy."
PACIFIC COAST "FIRST"
GREAT RKCORD MAOK BY AMERI
CAN RHODES SCHOLAR.
i JnrlHprudenee Students From This
Side Gain Five First Out of
Seven Awarded.
C')rresponJonce of Associated Press.
OXFORD, March 14. The annual re
port of the Rhodes Trust shows that
the American scholars during 1913 had
a hotter scholarship record than in any
year since the system was started.
The whole number of Rhodes schol- -ars
in residence during the year was
175. Altogether the Rhodes system
now represents about an 18th part of
the whole student body.
Only three Rhodes scholars are work
iny: merely for a pass degree. Most of
them are out of honors, and on the
whole they seem to be standing the
test of Oxford standards well except
in classics. Only one "first" was ob
ta.ned in classics and this was by an
American from the Pacific Coast. In
the other departments the scholars held
their own. In jurisprudence they
gained five firsts out of seven awarded.
The question of what becomes of the
Rhodes scholars after their many years
of study, is answered in the report.
More than one-fourth of the 431
Rhodes men who have been graduated
from Oxford sirce the system was
Ftarted have kept on with education as
'heir life work. About 100 have turned
to law: nearly 50 have gone Into the
civil service of the British Empire, the
United States or Germany, 25 have be-,
come physicians, IS have gone into
business, 18 have turned to the church,
and a small group is divided among
journalism, agriculture and science.
Only 11 men are traced as having '
taken up work In England, which
seems to dispose of the criticism from
the colonies that the Motherland would
absorb a number "of the scholars.
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