THE STJyPAY OREGOyiAN, PORTLAND. JUNE 21, 1914. 3 - ' ' r ' - - - . . - - - - 1 1 2 I i t k i i ..- . i n Altenheim Retreat for Aged Just Like Home. Writer Telia of Nature's BeauMea Seea Pram Bulldlns and Comforts Afforded lamatea of CJermaa Ia- atitotion. PORTLAND. June 18. (To the Ed Wr ltor.) To satisfy ttas curiosity of numerous Inauiries which reach our home ta regard to the conditions pre- vninir in this excellent institution ana for the benefit of those who . cannot read the German, I, being an inmate of this home for- a period of nearly there years, reel in auiy ouunu w b a, truthful account of how we are sit - uated, what we are doing and what awaits those who are admitted to it. The German Altenheim, or German Old People's iome, is situated . on plain In an . easterly direction from Mount Tabor and can be reached by a little walk from the eastern terminal of the Hawthorne line. The road is Iti4 wttK . , -i a a a crartlATlS Orchards. etc A good sidewalk brings you to our gate. The numDer 01 me nuuoo 2001 Division street. A magnificent brick building rises inside of a 20-acre tract, donated for that purpose by the widow of the late Henry Weinhard. to the General German Aid Society. In front of the house we have a well groomed lawn, cut by a road in the form of a horseshoe, flower beds and Tose bushes lining the edges. . The building is of a modern and solid construction. The basement contains a heating plant, laundry, drying-room, a capacious and elegant dining hall, holding six extension tables, and large kitchen, pantries, closets, etc An ele vator brings you to the first floor. When you enter the house from the varanda via the broad steps already mentioned you will find to the left an elegantly furnished reception-room and to the right the office. of the matron and next to it her living-room. On entering the main hall, right op posite to the lobby, you will find a large assembly hall, with piano and phonograph. In which we have con certs twice a week and for the spirit ual welfare for those who need it- we have church services by our chaplain, Rev. Schwichtenberg. The .community is non-sectarian. The rest of the first floor consists of living-rooms. The elevator brings us to the second floor. This floor contains, besides nine living-rooms, a reading room, stocked with choice books and periodicals, and is also used as a smoking-room and the indulgence In variouB games, such as chess, dominoes and checkers. The third or top floor contains about 10 living-rooms. All the rooms are elegantly furnished, and car peted. We have hot and cold water in each and are enjoying all comforts which a modern hotel can offer. Four of the rooms are furnished for two inmates, so that aged couples can be accommodated. The stairs and halls are carpeted so as to deaden all sounds. From the windows and the porches we see a magnificent pano rama. Looking south we can see Tre mont, Arleta, Lents and in the south east Kelly's Butte. On the west we see Mount Tabor and the hills west of the city of Portland. On the north Mon tavilla and in the background the snow-capped Mount St. Helens. On the east we look over a plain strewn with farm houses, villas, orchards and cul tivated fields. Back of Kelly's Butte we observe our ancient friend. Mount Hood. It is a veritable cyclorama of natural beauties. Every foot of the 20 acres donated by Mrs. Weinhard Is cultivated and it consists of an exten sive orchard of choice fruit trees and several large tracts of berries of every . kind. The treatment of the inmates is excellent. The members of the direc tory vie with each other to make life to us old fellows as pleasant and com fortable as possible and the fare can not be surpassed In . the best hotel of the city. Come and see for yourself. For those who are inclined to gain ad mittance, please write for particulars to the secretary of the General German Aid Society, H. C. Bohlemann, No. 64 North Ninth street. Portland, Oregon. ED AXJSKT. ISSUE IS NOT SECTARIAN Keply Made to Strictures on Cath olics In Textbook Issue. MTLWAUKIB, Or., June 18. (To the Editor.) During the discussion which preceded Monday's voting on the free textbook law grave injustice has been done to the Catholic' residents of Port land, particularly by the published ser mons of certain Protestant clergymen, and I beg room In which to protest against the unfairness of these rev erend gentlemen and to make some explanations. It is putting it very mildly to say that the spirit which evidently actuates these clergymen in their attacks against the Catholic Church is not the spirit -which one would expect to see exhibited in public by men professing to preach the gospel of Him who said: "By this shall men know that you are my disciples, that you love one an other." Moreover. It Is a spirit dis tinctly out of harmony with and sub versive of the true American spirit which guarantees liberty and equal rights to every citizen of the Republic For instance, in at least two promi nent pulpits last Sunday there were delivered sermons whose preachers took advantage of the current discus sion of the free textbook law to de nounce Catholics as guilty of thrusting a sectarian issue into the educational domain, of forming dishonest designs upon the public school funds, of inter fering in the affairs of the etate to the Injury of the public school system, of not being in sympathy with the sys tem of public education. Now I beg leave to submit that if the discussion of the free textbook law has occasioned a sectarian issue, that issue has been raised by the Protestant preachers themselves and not by the Catholic. Catholics regarded the dis cussion as a purely civil one, to be set tled temperately at the polls, and it would have remained such If preachers patently hostile to the Catholic Church did not wilfully twist and distort it Into a sectarian issue. In the instances which I have cited both clergymen plaintively deplore the issue and dep recate a quarrel, but their protestations are quite too gauzy to hide their real intent and their eagerness for battle; or, if the two sermons quoted are not specimens of incendiary challenge to controversial combat, then I have no understanding of the art of rhetoric By some incomprehensible process of reasoning these preachers, in common, alas, with too many of their cloth, make the great mistake of assuming that Catholic citizens and taxpayers have not the same right as other citi xens and taxpayers to debate and agi tate and vote on questions of public polity. They seem to forget that Cath olics are a very large constitutive part of the body politic itself (to be precise, they number more than 16.000,000 within the United States proper, ex clusive of our insular possessions), and that, like every, other citizen, they have a natural right to seek from the Gov ernment an equivalent return for the taxes which they pay to it. In the premises, then, it is difficult to see how Catholics justly could be charged with "interfering in the affairs of the Btate" (they being so big a con stitutive part of it), even if by con certed agitation they were to seek from the Government for the children of their schools free textbooks according to the measure by which they now are apportioned to the children In the pub lic schools. And even if Catholics were to succeed in such an agitation, the HEILIG llth and Morrison Main , A-1122 7 DAYS MATS 2:30 NIGHTS 8:30 WMwMM' I TONIGHT I l h SHOWN I Y' ONLY IN I Vf ; SAN II ffMr I FRANCISCO V 11 ' I ' -LOS II il N ANGELES Mill 1 vl now X P Mh PORTLAND "THE NV If 3g? fWNs. FAVORED PERFEcKV 1 il y. woMAim fiK x-- or too. p turn Y. neptune's ' y4 fl H DAUGHTER W . The FBia Mattaralaea . 7 I 11 rtteWorU. "Jf I I 1 ' Special jr D0yj Orchestra at M V All Seat. -HL Reserved V I ; I i 25c and 50c . h fl 7 beg? MONDAY, JUNE 29 WM. HOD GE prpiness public school system would suffer no inlurv and it still by long odds would have the better end of the bargain. Catholics, With their own private money, build and equip meir owu schools and support their own teachers, and thus they save to the state each year the vast expense to which It would be put if Catholics insisted on their civic right to have their children edu cated in the public schools. , Catholic schools give to their pupils a secular education measuring up fully to all the requirements of the stana- ards which the state has set: and. too, they develop their pupils into loyal and patriotic citizens, to which the Nation's every battlefield haa given eloquent and mournful testimony. Therefore, as Catholics every year are paying their full quota of taxation to support, the public school system, from which they cut sf, little In return. I contend that the state still would have the better end of the bargain even if it were to issue free textbooks to the Catholic schools. To say that Catholics are not in sym- pathy with the public school system is to state what is not true, as lar as the public school eystem goes we are in fullest sympathy with it nay. more, we are proud of It. But we regard it aa-rKRfint!a.llv inadequate and defective, inasmuch as it does not teach religion. We hold that the principal function of education is to inculcate morality, ana that no stable morality can Be bunt up which Is not founded on the dictates of religion. And this is why-Catholics persist in maintaining, at such great cost to themselves, their separate schools not that they love the state less, but that they love God more. Another mistake which preachers make is to assume that our present nubile school system Is. the only pos sible alternative that might be chosen. There are others. In England and in Canada, for example, they have in oper ation the far more equitable "results HVBtem." under which the .separate schools receive their pro rata share of the funds raised by taxation for pub lic education, and this system works to the satisfaction of both Catholios and Protestants. , and . patriotism Is flourishing. True to his Inconsistency, one of .the nreacher-critics whom I- have men tioned ceases from his declamation of " 'hands ofr In church and : sectarian influence upon the schools." and from his denunciation of "sectarian ; issues . . thrust into the educational do main, only to. launcn out into an -ar dent plea that the Bible (of course not the Catholic Bible, nor yet the Jewish Bible) be thrust into the puDiic schools. JOHN P. DOLPHIN, Pastor St. John the - Baptst Church, Mtlwaiikie. Or. - OAKS GLOBE THEATER Twelfth and Washington. ' -. ' TODAY. MONDAY AND TUESDAY, SPECIAL" VITAIjAUGH IX TWO PARTS, "FATHER'S FLIRTATION" V " Made Expressly for Fun ' by Bunny, Finch, Price and Beaudet. .. PATHE'S WEEKLY Always Interesting. . TWO-PART DRAMA, . "The Song in the Dark' Starting Wednesday - WE PRESENT KAW A EHIASGER'S FRODrCTIOjr, . "L ORD CH1LEY E. H. Sothern's Great Play. Portland's Great Amusement Park if , Performances FREE every afternoon and night at 2:30 and 8, rain or shine, in the new OPEN-AIR AMPHITHEATER II I ROSE FESTIVAL IN FILMS 4 REELS Special Added Ex clusive Attraction II BE "MOVED" 'At the Oaks . TODAY Our camera man will take 1000 feet , of film. McEIroy's Band Hawaiians . ' Complete Change of Programme II All Performances Free Admission to Park 10c Cars at First and Alder Launches at Morrison Bridge Mil Franck G. Eichenlaub AND Beatrice Hidden-Eichenlaub PRESENT A NUMBER OF THEIR PUPILS 1ST AT EVENING OF VIOLIN AND PIANO, Assisted by the ensemble: club of s violinists. i.ivrai.v men school. THURSDAY EVENING, JVKE 25, 8 130. 1 300,000. BAESER THEATER Paoaeat Mala 3, A 33S Broadway aa Morrlaaa CEO. L BAKER. Mr. SEE THE S200.0O9 SENSATION IN FILMS "DIRECT FROM CARNEGIE HALL, 1VKV JORK AND A Hl.V OF ONE YEAR IN CHICAGO SEE BALCONY lO c E N T S LOWER FLOOR 20 C E ' N T S BEVERLY H. DOBBS A TOP OF THE WORLD IN MOTION WONDERFUL SCENES FROM THE LASD OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN Coaqnertns- Aalmala la Tkelr NatlTC Hauata. . Fearleaa .Eskimos la Faraalt of Bla- Game. Daring Hunter Trillins the Polar Bear aad Walrua. Haraooalnn Arctic Moaatera. Aanual All-Alaska 1HB Tram Race. Brcaklaa- Heladccr to Haraeaa. ley Moantalna aad Goriceona Glacier la All Their Gaoatly t; rand cur Aad Other Marveloua Sconce la the Frlg-ld Zoae "The Far North" The Load Made Famous la Story by Jack Loa don aad Rex Brack BALCONY lO c E N T S LOWER FLOOR 20 C E N T ' S 7 DAYS NIGHTS CONTINUOUS, 12 Noon to It srdS?. JUNE 21 Extra Added Feature EZRA MEEKE Pioneer of the Old Oregon Trail With 100O Feet ! Iateresttntj Vlcwa of the Faatona Hlahway Over Which the Earlleat EmlKraate Croosed the Continent. Lecture ay Mr. Meeker at liSO, atSO, 6i00, TUMI, SiOO r. M. Every Day. R o o PEOPLES XHEATER lOc il lOc Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Jesse L. Laskey Presents THOMAS W. ROSS The popular Broadway star in his original role in "THE ONLY SON" - By Winchell Smith Author of "Brewster's Millions" A Motion Picture Story That Knocks at the Door of Your Heart Pieturized From the Successful Play, Made Doubly Fascinating by the Addition of 200 Scenes and a Select Cast o o o o o o SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Tenth Great Two-Fart Installment of "LUCILLE LOVE" SEE THE ABDUCTION ,TO MEXICO and LUCILLE'S ESCAPE FROM THE BANDITS THERE. "LURE OF THE PIT" Two parts. A melodramatic story of the wheat pit and its terrible gambling operations. "THE PERSISTENT MR. PRINCE" A Vitagraph scream with Lillian Walker and Wallic Van. Coming Wednesday, June 24, four days. KLAW & ERLANGER Present their greatest success. STRONGHEART 10 ALWAYS. ; A grand treat. ALWAYS 10 Portland's Model Photo-Play House. , Attractions Sunday Until Wednesday: "THE REBELLION OF KITTY BELLE" Her husband finally learned how to make love. Two-part Majestic, ieaturxng: Lauian uisn ana nuucii mnuu. "OUR MUTUAL GIRL." Detective . finds Margaret This is great "THE KNOCKOUT." Two reels of knockout comedy by Keystone Players. ' Coming Wednesday. , "THE MILLION-DOLLAR MYSTERY." $10,000 Reward for Its Solution. Ten Cents A D M I S S 1 0 N-Ten Cents. j-Mwti.i n-r the number of cows In Hungary at 3,620.000, of which I"ore.th" 2.000,000 are pure-blooded animals or me best milk-producing- breeds. . . - i m f a tetlr liat nrorlliced known mineral wealth to tne valu of .is,- Mrs. J. TV. Blow, of St. Louli. hh in nemetultv to a MW minster Presbyteriarf Church. iv 1851 by her father. Applewood Is favorite mi ordinarv saw handles, and soma so-called briar pi pea Mo., owns in West- en her in terial for cues Into Fhonet Main 6 and A 1020 Matinee Daily ill V BROADWAY ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE M.IIbm, aar rat Mgbt th- and i AT TAYLOR STREET Week Beginning Sunday Matinee. June 21t WILLIAM A. BRADY'S Beauty Is Only Skin Deep BY ELIZABETH JORDAN YVETTE Tae Wktrlvlii VIollaLt." la a Fart -Ha Dave KRAMER & MORTON George Tirt Blark oa CHARLES YULE, FRED MUNIER & CO. la "Taa itTaa-.r" AMBLER BROTHERS " Maatrra af RUIr aaa Kaulllarlaai RELL0W Tar Meataaaaar !( WILL & KEMP la Arrabaltr Mllle. SUMMER PRICES rss.wM-.. IIATINEE DAILY 2.30 Unequmlcd VaudfcvllU Brodwy nd Alder St. Week Commencing Monday Matinee, June 22 EVERY ACT A FEATURE The Merry Masqueraders Bothwell Browne'f Bis: Musical Kvuc FRANK DAVIS Beauty Chonu NATE COLE MISS DAISY HARCOURT KnglHnd's Favorite Comedienne SALT BUSH BILL The Australian Whip Cracker " "THAT GIRL" Presented by Miwi May Erwood and Company DAVIS? The Twentieth-Century Ideal PANTAGESC0PE N M E A W T I S N U E M E M E E R V E S R u y o 0 D E A S Y S E 2 S 3 0 Kkavra Haltr. Ti. itV 4 faawa kaadaj. IiM, ttUIO. Ti4A. 'tB iaiEEl BROADWAY AT YAMHILL Week Commencing Sunday Matinee, June 21 FRANK M OR RE ILL PHENOMENAL TENOR MARIE STODDARD. COMEDIENNE JOHN T. DOYLE & COMPANY WtUj MARION WILLAHD In Tfce Pollea laaaeetar'a "Brarlaa-1 TORELLrS COMEDY CIRCUS Poalra. Haca. Moake aa4 Mala SHECK, D'ARVILLE DUTTON lffTS o n no I THEATER Special Programme Today, Monday, Tuesday Klaw & Erlanffer rrcspnt . ' "THE BILLIONAIRE" In Three 1'srts An Exceptional Kapid-Fire Drama, FuU of Comic itwHtir-u MME. OTHICK Soloint f "CLAIM NUMBER 3" A Melodramatic Story of the Vfet MISS ESTHER SUNDQUIST Popular Violinirt "ONLY A SISTER VitHgraph Drama 10c ADMISSION 10c Ml.. 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