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SEPTESFRER 6, 1914. . I O i X 1 - i-.i-m. - - , mmmmm i i CHARITABLE BODY PLANS CAMPAIGN Visiting Nurse Association Is Desirous of Increasing Mem bership to 1000 or More. SOCIETY LEADERS ASSIST HEAD OF CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION THAT IS SEEKING GREATER BUffUKT. c Aims of Organization Are to Care for Needy Sick, Promote Clean linens and Raise Standard of Health in Community. To increase the membership of the Visiting Nurse Association from 425 to more than 1000, and to insure the fu ture of that charitable organization by raising at least $5000 through subscrip tions, will be the purpose of a whirl wind campaign, to occupy one day. Monday, September 14. Society leaders will head corps of youirg women who will officer 20 booths in the business section of Portland on that day. At a meeting to be held at 10 o'clock Tues day morning in the parlors of the Hotel Portland, final plans for the canvass will be completed. Tentotfve arrangements are in the hands of a general committee composed of Mrs. Robert G. Dieck, president of the association; Mrs. Thomas D. Honey man, first vice-presklent, and Mrs. S. S, Montague, second vice-president. This committee is determined to make a brilliant campaign, for the future of the organization, which provides trained nurses for the needy sick, depends upon its success. Income S2500 Short. The expense of maintaining the Visiting Nurse Association is about $500 a month or $6000 a year, and its present income is far from sufficient, running about $2500 a year behind. The remedy is a large list of patrons, and it is to obtain this that the cam paign has been ordered. The commit tee members, backed by big business men of the city, are sparing no effort to make their appeal for aid heard by the citizens of Portland. It is the aim of the committee to ob tain a representative audience of Port land citizens. There will be no sub scriptions asked for at Tuesday's meet ing, as it has been called purely for the purpose of discussion, and the de sire is that all subscriptions will be raised the day of the campaign, a week from Monday. All civic organizations of Portland will be represented at this meeting. This includes the Commercial Club, Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Ad Club, Business Men's Club, East Side Business Men's Club, the Realty Board and the Rosarians, Three Mem bent hips Offered. Booths will be located in downtown hotels, department stores and business blocks. Each will be in charge of a woman prominent locally, who will be assisted by auxiliary committees of young women. Memberships to the Vis iting Nurse Association will be given at this time- They will be offered at $10, $5 and $3 a year. A special tuber culosis pledge may also be signed, if desired, offering a stated amount for a term of years to be devoted to the work of specializing with tubercular patients. Eight visiting nurses are maintained by the association, the purpose of which is 'to benefit and assist those unable otherwise to obtain skilled attendance in time of illness, to promote cleanli ness, to teauh proper care of the sick and to Initiate and support such activ ities as may raise the standard of the health of this community." The suc cess of the institution in the past is but a prophecy of what its success may become in the future. The officers and directors of the Vis iting Nurse Association of Portland are: Mrs. Robert G. Dieck, president; Mrs. Thomas D. Honeyman, first vice president; Mrs. S. S. Montague, second vice-president; Mrs. S. Frank, treas urer; Mrs. H. Thanhauser, assistant treasurer; Mrs. James D. Honeyman, secretary; Mrs. R. J. Marsh, correspond ing secretary; Mrs. H. U Corbett, Miss Valentine Frichard, Mrs. James K.err, Mrs. C. U. Gantenbein, Mrs. J. C. E. King, Mrs. A. F. Biles, Mrs. A. A. Mor rison. Miss Virginia Wilson, Mrs. P. J. Cronin, Miss Katherine Gile. Mrs. Kate Mather and Mrs. R. L. Sabin, directors. Mrs. Stephen S. Wise, of New York City, is honorary president. x Tuberculosis Fandi Pledged. The following are principal donors to the tuberculosis fund: C. F. Adams, flve-year pledge $r00 Philip Buehner, flve-year pledge 500 Charles A. Carey, one-year pledge 100 Mary F. Failing, flve-year pledge 500 Henrietta Failing, flve-year pledge 500 George F. Heusner. one-year pledge 100 Thomas D. Honeyman, flve-year pledge. . 500 Mrs. C. H. Lewis, contributed until her death, flve-year pledge 500 William M. Ladd, one-year pledge 100 Gay Lombard, one-year pledge 100 W. Llpman, flve-year pledge 500 A. L. Mills, flve-year pledge 5U0 Dr. K.A.J. MacKenzie, flve-year pledge. 500 W. R. Mackenzie, flve-year pledge 500 F. G. Owen, flve-year pledge 500 F. H. Ransom oue-year pledge 100 G. F. Sanborn, flve-year pledge 500 Earn Simon, flve-year pledge 500 Joseph Simon, flve-year pledge 500 E. C. Shevlin, flve-year pledge 500 T. B. Wilcox, flve-year pledge 500 Mrs. W. B. Ayer, one-year pledge 100 MAYOR VETOES PARK OFFER Albany Executive Believes City Should Improve Present Property. ALBANY. Or., Sept. 6. (Special.) Mayor Curl has vetoed the Bryant Park ordinance, which accepted the offer of Mr. and Mrs H. Bryant to give to the city of Albany a tract of several acres Just west of the city for a public park. The veto was Bled with City Recorder Van Tassel, and will be read to the City Council at its next meeting:. In a formal statement accompanying: the veto Mayor Curl said he was op posed to the acceptance of the park for the reason that the premises offered are not suitable for park purposes; that the city has purchased a block in the center of the city, and he believed it should be improved with what funds are avail able lor park purposes, and that the expense of maintaining- the bridge and roads required by the terms of the gift would be greater than the benefits. The land offered for the park lies on a peninsula between the Willamette and Calapooia rivers. SUSPECT PROVES ALIBI Sheriff Qulne Releases Coy Ellston, Who Pays Gambling Fine. ROSEBURO, Or.. Sept 6. (Special.) On furnishing an alibi that he was not within 15 miles of Gardiner when the safe of the Gardiner Mill Company was dynamited Sunday night. Sheriff Qutne today released Coy Ellston, ar rested at Florence on suspicion of be ing implicated in the crime. Kilston admitted he was a gambler, however, and paid a fine in the Justice Court. He had been working the rail road camps near Gardiner, and left there on the day prior to the robbery. :u. 'D "V , - , " MRS. ROBERT G. DIECK, PRESIDENT VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION. GRAND JURY CENSURES COMMIS SIONERS FOR BICKERING. "Strife Unseemly and Unfortunate," Saj Report District Attorney, Poor Farm and Jail Praised. Strained relations among the County Commissioners and resultant disorgani zatlbn of their work was referred to in the final report of the June grand jury made, to Judge McGinn yesterday at noon. "There is an unfortunate and un seemly strife among the County Com missioners." says the report, "each one working independently and opposed to the others, as confessed by one of the Commissioners. The salary of the Commissioners should be made suffi cient to attract men of good business ability and experience so that the af fairs of the county may have the same attention as those of a large corpora tion, such as the County of Multno mah should demand. "The grand jury has invited the Com missioners before it in order to dis cuss various conditions which came to our attention in the course of our duties. However, only one of the Commissioners appeared after the sec ond or third invitation by telephone, the other two being out of the city. The absence of the other Commission ers was unfortunate for the reason that it is necessary to secure the names of two Commissioners to each war rant." The grand jury reports the condition of the County Poor Farm and the County Jail as excellent. The District Attorney's office is com mended highly, and the Baby Home is grand jury has reported 64 true bills, 65 not true bills and has examined about 550 witnesses. "BRIDGE OF GODS" GIVEN Spectacular Pageant Drama Pre sented at Oklahoma City. OKLAHOMA CITY", Okla., Sept. 5. (Special.) "The Bridge of the Gods," the spectacular drama by Miss Mabel Ferris, formerly of Los Angeles, now of New York City, was presented here Thursday in a specially built open-air amohitheater bv a local cast of 300 prominent persons, under the direction of Mrs. Winnifred Gray Oracle, or new York the ausp.ces of the Oklahoma Panama Commission and the patron ase of Governor Lee Cruce, for the ben efit of the Oklahoma state building at Lhe San Francisco Exposition. Seventy Indians, representing five Southwestern tribes, in the cast en camped in the park, many eminent chiefs of Indian wars participating. Historic pageantry, staged on the lake shore, and a realistic production of a volcano eruption and fall of a nat ural bridge, excelled anything of the kind ever witnessed here. It was won derfully realistic throughout. Immense crowds from over the state attended. Or. John Wesley Hill, of New York, president of the International Peace Forum, in congratulating the commls sion by wire, said: "It is the most in spirational and instructive presenta tion of the cause of peace ever offered the public. With the bloody tragedy of the European war shocking Chris tian sentiment of the world, 'The Bridge of the Gods' will appear as a bow of promise." A new feature was added in the form of the epilogue. "A Prayer for Peace," written by Miss Edith Johnson, soci etv editor of the Dally Oklahoman, and tendered by Miss Mildred Dalzell, an 425 AID NEEDY SICK Visiting Nurse Association De pends Upon Contributors. SOCIETY 12 YEARS OLD AN APPEAL FROM THE VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION FOR THE NEEDY SICK. To the Members of the Visiting Nurse Association and Citizens of Port land: The Visiting Nurse Association is facing a crisis in its affairs. Its work among the sick has doubled In the past year and its funds have decreased Financial relief must come at once or the work may have to be abandoned. The aid offered by the association is given entirely without charge, but many, appreciative of the care of the nurses, offer their mite. If, however, financial necessity make curtailment of the work imperative, the helpless sick must suffer. A meeting to interest our members and others interested, will be held in the parlors of the Portland Hotel at 10 A.M., Tuesday, Septem ber 8. to devise ways and means for a continuance of the helpful work of the association. Your presence is desired. The association needs your help. In these troublous times, which affect the whole life of our city, our own sick are the first concern. Very truly yours, MRS. ROBERT G. DIECK, President Visiting Nurse Association. MRS. THOMAS D. HONEYMAN, First Vice-President MRS. S. S. MONTAGUE. Second Vice-President. reported as under splendid manage ment. The jurors recommend that prisoners discharged from the County Jail or rockpile without money be given small sums to obtain necessities for a few days. Better arrangements for fire protec tion at the Detention Home are recom mended. Five secret indictments were re turned. During its 30-day term the Oklahoma City elocutionist, two white doves. Miss Ferris was present, ceived great applause. carrying and r' Albany Get New Director. ALBANY, Or., Sept. 5. (Special.) H. C. McDonald, of Boise, Idaho, has been chosen physical director of the Young Men's Christian Association in this city. He has taken charge of the work. Store Closed All Day Tomorrow (September Seventh) Labor Day Read Our Monday Evening and Tuesday Morning Advertise ment for Tuesday Shopping News lSfJ7 ISM TH QijalitY' Store of Portland FkflK. SIxtA, -Morrlaorv Alder Sta. Fund for Tuberculosis Patients Is Derived From Sale or Red Cross seals Work Doubles In Year and Help Is Sought. The Visiting Nurses' Association, which is now making an appeal for greater support, was organized in 1902 with but one nurse. Later it was in corporated under the laws of Oregon, with the object of providing trained nurses for the needy sick. At present its contributing membership is about 125. The business of the society is man aged through a board of 19 women. The board acts through the supply committee, finance committee, visiting nurses' committee, tuberculosis com mittee, membership committee and dis pensary committee. Monthly meetings are held at which are heard reports from the superintendent of nurses and the chairmen of the various standing committees, and questions of policy are decided. The association's money is carried in two funds the general fund and the tuberculosis fund. The general fund is derived from annual membership dues, donations and the annual birthday tea. It is expended in the care of patients suffering from non-contagious dis eases, although, with authority of the board, exception is sometimes made in contagious diseases, when a special nursing service is employed. Seals Provide Fund. The tuberculosis fund hitherto has been raised by the sale of Ked Cross seals, it is sufficient to pay the sal aries of the two nurses engaged in that work, the expense of maintenance of the tuberculosis clinic, to pay for sanitorlum care and provide milk, eggs, bedding, clothing and other necessary supplies for those unable to supply themselves. The efficiency of the as sociation in its tuberculosis work was recognized by the city in an allow ance in the annual budget of the salary of one nurse. The great effort re quired to engineer the sale of Red Cross seals, say those in charge, should be directed toward the general work of the association, which is assuming such large proportions. There are eight graduate nurses on the force under the superintendent, Miss E. E. Grittinger. The headquar ters are at 601 Medical building, where someone is always present to receive calls and reports. There the nurses meet in the morning to make their plans for the day and at night to write their reports. Supplies Kept on Hand. The supply closets at the office are kept filled with baby clothes, under wear and bedding. During the year hundreds of garments are given or lent to the needy sick and are used for babies who arrive in homes where no preparation has been made. One nurse does nothing else but care for babies and mothers. The association has four sub-stations one at the free tuberculosis dispen sary, where a nurse is in attendance two afternoons every week; one at the Albina branch of the Peoples' Insti tute; one at the Neighborhood House, where a nurse is in attendance five mornings every week in the free dis pensary, and one at the Marshall-Street Presbyterian Church, in North Port land. The city is so districted that every nurse takes cases in certain sections. Unavoidably, part of the nurses' time is spent in getting from place to place. There has been a remarkable In crease in work in the past year, the work practically iouDimg mat oi me Our Out-of-Town Patrons Will Welcome This News! 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Order Your Copy Today m -m m'1 A Postal Card Request Will Bring to You One of These New Fall and Winter Catalogs Our Expert Shoppers Assure Complete Satisfaction tMEr QUALITY" STORE OP PORTLAND reus. aixu, Morpiv previous year, as evidenced by the fol lowing statement: , Year Patients. Visits. Nurses. 190-t 17S 3102 1 Ho? 127 1260 1 UM ...... ......... 04 2885 3 ifno 309 395S 4 iai" S1 48MS 5 1913 '. . . . . . 13 9052 8 Increase of work in the Winter is shown by the following: comparative records: Months Patients. Visits. December, 1912 JJO January. 1913 Hg JH February. 1913 "2 ?2S March 1913 1T ? December, 1913 220 9o2 January, 1914 2'; 1048 February, 1914 201 Unrh 1914 208 903 Average for 1913 185 B3 Average for 1914 256 957 This remarkable increase in work in such a short time demonstrates the need of an organization such as the Visiting- Nurse Association. Success In meeting- conditions with decreasing funds has been the great accomplish ment of the year. Autos May Be Ift Behind. Failing in getting an additional ferry for the Vancouver-Hayden Island run during the week of the Vancouver fair, the Portland Railway, Light A Power Company has made plans for the parking or automobiles at the Hayden isiano terminus oi mo This la believed to be the solution of the problem of handling the heAvy traffic expected. It la believed there will be no difficulty in handling the pedestrlani desiring to cross. Kansas Society to Give Picnic. The Kansas Society of Oregon will give a basket plcnlo on the grounda of H. V Darnall at Lents Station. Monday, September T, at 2:10 P. M To reach the picnic grounds, take Mt. Scott car at Second and Alder, get off at Lents Station, walk six blocks north. All former Kansans are welcome. I.ombroso has found that there era mare left-handed women man men. 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