The Sunday Oregonian., October 25, 1914, SECTION FIVE, Image 61

SECTION FIVE
Pages 1 to 12
Woman's Section .
Special Features
VOL,. XXXIII.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25. 1914.
NO. 43.
kis Massive Oak Davenport
f
Covered in Spanish Chase Leather Just as Illustrated Regular
Value 35, Special
$(D)85
Terms
$1.00 Down
$1.00 a Week
The Greatest Davenport Value Ever Offered by This Store
We're Proud to Offer This
Davenport at $19.85
Our principal object In offering this davenport at
319.86 is not the immediate profit it will bring far
from it. In offering this davenport at $19.85 we waive
our profit entirely. Not through any philanthropic
motive, but because we want as many people as pos
sible to become acquainted with this store its 'meth
ods ;its liberal credit policy lowness of price, etc.
The Low Credit Terms
Is Another Inducement
Many firms believe that they are going far enough
when they offer merchandise at a low price. We -differ
with them. We believe not only in offering
merchandise at a low price, but we want the families
of moderate circumstances to profit by our special
offers the same as the family with the large bank
account, and, consequently, we offer to deliver this
davenport to your home at the rate of $1.00 at the
time of purchase, balance payable at the weekly rate
of $1.00, which we believe everyone will concede is
a very reasonable offer.
The Low Price
Eliminates Every Reason for
Your Not Owning a
Davenport
Surely the price at which this davenport
is being sold .is ridiculously low. If you
have ever felt that a davenport was too ex
pensive for you to own, that feeling must be
destroyed now after looking at the daven
port as it is pictured above an'i noting the
price for which it will sell this week.
The Construction Is Unusually
Substantial.
The manufacturers who produce these
davenports realize that they must be con
structed more solidly than the average piece
of furniture, and put the very best material
and workmanship into the construction, and
we can safely guarantee to give absolute
satisfaction over a long period of time.
We Urge
YouNot to Put Off
"Sealy" Mattress
Guaranteed for 20 Years
$25
So phenomenally low Is the price for
which these davenports will sell that our
entire stock will soon be exhausted, al
though we bought an exceptionally large
number to bring down the price. We urge
you to come down tomorrow and select your
davenport so that you will not find the sup
ply exhausted when you come in. Now plan
on coming1 in tomorrow, for it will bp a long
time before this davenport offer is duplicated.
Now Comes a Sale of Over 150 Sample
The partial list given below will give you a good idea of how you can save on fumed
Furniture at Powers this week. Over one hundred and fifty sample numbers will be
disposed of at a marked reduction in, price.
$50 Leather-Seat- $43.50 Bookcase, . . $42.00 Leather-
and - Back Settee, tfJOl? Qt double door, tfOQ QC Seat - and - Back tfcO'T Oft
60 inches wide. . . w4J3J width 50 Inches. . OiJ.OU Settee, 50-inch..'.. WAI 6U
$15.50 Leather- d Q Q C $38.50 Hall Table tfOO AC 23 Lady's Desk, -1 Q QC
Seat Armchair for J O.J7J and Glass slat end J lO.OO
Err'!!J15 l!X5c?o&.n.1. $29.95 bie36:1."-..8-.".6 $11.95
$34.75 Loose-cush-dJ 1 Q A fi
ion Settee. 50 in... J 1 StlO $11.50 Leather- f Aft 50 Loose - Cush-tfjo 1 CC
$55.00 Bookcase. Seat Arm Rocker.. J U.HrO ion Morris Chair.. OO 1 (D3
three sections, fcO A QC $8.25 Box - Frame 4 Q Q C $6.50 Leather-Seat QIC
Inches wide OOtiOj Sewing Rocker... 3 O.OO Arm Rocker. J O.JLO
$15.75 Leather- tf Q - r? $25 48-in. Library 1 o OC $24.00 Cellarette, -1 -t Q rf
Seat Arm Rocker O J.LJ Table 91093 48 inches high. . . O 1 1 .OO
Stamps
Just Fifty-Six Samples of Dainty Pieces for the
Chamber and Dining -Room in
White Enamel
at Vz Less
These pieces have all been used as samples, yet are in as perfect
condition as any on show. Come in and make your selection and
your price will be just 33 1-3 less than regular. Dainty pieces for
the bedroom and a number of attractive patterns for the breakfast
room. -
Why Live in Uncomfortable Furnished Rooms When
You Can Come to Powers and Buy a Fine
3-Room $
Outfit...
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The cost is trifling, yet it supplies you with all the furnishings you
need to start housekeeping. The bedroom, dining-room and kitchen
all fnrnished with new, up-to-the-minute pieces that you are sure
to like. Yes, rugs go with it also and one of those fine A-B
Sanitary Gas Ranges.
1 100 Carpet Rugs 1 B "V fH
Size About 24x3 b (U-.tJJ rU jgggjjj
6(T J? ELj2-..J''fijl On Sale '
Polished dpIIMM SfOkQK
Regular $1 and $1.25 qualities. J ?rol Rn ViSgSSSSigQS 11 Jl J J 1
Made up from carpets of the $1.50 J Oteel OOOy Pw , , VT -
to $2.25 grade. The sizes aver- j .J? A A " tl
age about 24 by 36. Only one I fjT ; y&f II
hundred pieces in this lot. I (3 U " II
r Powers Golonial Heater Jj
- i""' '"' '"" Many Dollars Less Than Regular IJ
M II n - A Hlirh-Oiial tv Wood Heater which 1s rail oil to vnur M
I,' Iv-lil VV special attention this week. Not only has the price Mj
1 1' f n j, ll.,-iT' . been materially reduced, but it carries a guar- mW
fci?5?iJL' li ' 3 ! Bk. antee of satisfaction and economy. It has a JBr
-SP2icS' B.-7A'-vi heavy cast base, top and feed door. Body Jmr
2zfZS&p 'f'vMl is of heavy Wellsville polished steel Jw
B ,, i n h i ri i a. oeautiiuuy nickeled, witn swingr- ejr
iWT EMI "in?rdeaT9 4Crrn cTSTex Xr&r
yT w C5!!!5!! few heavy cast linings.
$1.50BrusseIsCarpet
on Your Floor
$1.19
Twenty bright new patterns of
Brussels Carpet, with or without
border, also stair carpet to match,
made and put down on your floor,
with a good lining, at this unus
ually low price.
95 f21
Your DiningTable
Costs Less at
Powers This Week
And satisfaction is sure to follow your pu
not only from a price point, but because t
offered are new designs of exceptional ir
irphajii here.
the numbers
gns of exceptional merit.
$15 Pedestal Ta-Q QC
ble. 42-inch topOU.JU
$19.75 45
Top Table.
$13.85
$26.75 Plank - tt "TC
Top Table.. iDIUiO
$36.60 48-in. no iRtt
Top Table... OOiOO
$34.50 Massive O OC
Base Table.. D1 17.17 O
$36.50 48-inch 1 Q CA
Top Table wl7JU
$53.00 54-inch 0I OC
Top Table OJU,OJ
$68.50 Plank- JO 7C
Top Table. .. "DIAi.
$26.75 Octagon C 1 ?C
Base Table. JIO.OJ
$49.00 10-foot (OQ OC
Table 07.O
VICTORY AWAITS KAISER AND FOES
AT WAR COLLEGE IN ALDER STREET
Armies Orally Annihilated One Moment and Sent to Victory on Louder Flow of Oratorical Strategy the Next,
While Causes and Effect Are Shown Beyond Donbt Enemies Slaughter Each Other With Smiles.
WITH great forbearance In every
thing but words and with amic
ableness and observance of neu
trality that would be an example to the
conflicting parties In Europe, the de
tails of the present war to Europe are
being daily threshed over in every
tongue, by men of every "race, color or
previous condition" in the impromptu
"board of military affairs" that or
ganizes itself in Alder street in front
of the bulletin boards.
If the "board of war experts"
ever sleeps it must do it in relays, for
there appears to be no hour of the day
or night that one cannot find from one
to a score of knots of men saw'ing the
air with their hands and arguing out
the details of the struggle from every
conceivable viewpoint.
British, French, German, Servian,
Russian, Austrian, Japanese every
conflicting nation is represented In the
crowd. Men who would be marching in
opposing armies, were it not for the
trifling fact that they cannot get trans
portation to the seat of war, and who
in the old country would be looking
for chances to drill one another with
nice, clean, antiseptic, steel-jacketed
bullets or to poke a foot and a half of
cool bayonet into each other's ribs.
group themselves on Sixth, and Alder
streets. Portland, Or., 'and swap opin
ions on the conflict without ever com
ing to serious conflict beyond the ex.
change of hot words occasionally.
Grace Used In Calling Names.
Since the Street Board of War Ex
perts was established with- the begin
nings of hostilities, there has scarcely
been a single case of even the start of
a fist fight between the representa
tives of different nationalities. They
even call one another names with com
paratively good grace.
Babel in its palmiest days. Just after
the angel got on the job with the
speech-confounding jinx, must have
been a mild and gentle place, compared
to the Street War Office, when the bul
letins are coming in- strong. Mainly
the talk is about war, but in the midst
of it all thep ropagandist of socialism,
anarchy, or any of the other social or
economic isms, finds ample chance to
develop an audience and get each the
particular burden of truth that may be
sticking in his bosom, loosed to the
public.
Nobody holds his crowd long, among
the monologists or debaters of the
Board of War Experts, for there is al
ways some new Individual wiggling
into the bunch to erect a bally-ho of
his own and to hold forth for a space
on his own ideas of the situation.
Earlier in the war there was more
tendency toward bitterness of feeling
In the discussions than there is at the
present time. The divergent faction
of late seem more inclined to "kid'
one another and to heckle any speaker
of any nationality, who seems inclined
to expound his doctrines of military
-strategy -abit too dogmatically.
"The Kaiser knows what he's doing,
insists a gigantic bush-bearded Ger
man, with assurance. "Why, he's had
this figured out all beforehand just
how to go at it in case of war and .
see how he s gone at it
"And see what he got In Belgium,
interpses another, "didn't they stop him
there? What? Didn't he expect to go
right through and didn't they stop
him?"
"Oh, that? Pooh!" retorts the speak
er. "Didn't the army get through after
all, and ain t it in France now?"
"Yes and pretty soon they will be
in Paris and London;" adds an adherent.
"Uh-huh as prisoners of war," snorts
a dark-browed chap with a bit of tri
color in his button-hole.
"Well, didn't we get to Paris in
1870 "
"But look how we got Paris forti
fled there now "
"But look what a army we got now
compared to what we had then
"But look
"But look "
And soon the discussion has drifted
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$2.!
Buys the Best Breakfast Table at Powers
Compare" It with those that others offer. You
will find it better made, better finished, and
fitted wtih full lower shelf; selected stock
throughout. Finished golden.
back Into a dissertation on the Tiistory
of the Franco-Prussian War.
"I had an uncle in the Austrian army
and he get two fingers bit of f 4n the
war in the Balkans one time." a young1
fellow is declaiming In another group
close by.
In fact scarcely a man In the Board
of War Experts does not boast a mili
tary record somewhere In his near or
remote ancestry.
The Austrian recounts the incident
of the Bulgarian biting off his uncle's
two fingers, and a Servian in the crowd
tells of an uncle of his who can go him
one better in the matter of lost fingers.
It Is quite foreign to the present con
flict, but a young Greek reservist, just
back from service in the Bulgarian
war. interposes with a few choice bits
of narrative of how the Bulgarians and
Greeks made life mutually Insecure in
the Balkans a short time back, and
eventually the conversation veers
around into a discussion of the ulti
mate solution of the problems of the
Balkan territory, and perhaps a duet
by a couple of Servian men on the
progress of the Pan-Slavic movement.
Six feet away the knot of men is
crumpled together closely where a lit
tle terrier of an Irishman is merrily
whanging away with verbal shrapnel
at a stolid German citizen over the
"the terrible atrocities of the war."
"I seen by the papers that you can't
see us German soldiers, so what you
goin' to do if we meet on the battle
field?" declared the Teuton.
"Well, if that's the way you feel
about it, why don't ye go over and
try it?"
"There don't be no way for me to
get over, that's why.'
Meanwhile all around them boil and
bubble the noises of a score of similar
school system and how to better It:
international conflicts, most of which
end eventually with a laugh on both
sides, or if one party loses his temper
a general laugh from the crowd about
him, which usually brings him back to
smiles himself.
Map Chang-InK General Belief.
The old stock phrases and jokes that
were dug up and dusted off at the
beginning of the trouble continue to
do dally service and are shelled out
with undlmlnlshmg regularity. Sher
man's chaarcterization of war rings in
again and again with changes innum
erable. The assurance that "this war
will change the whole map of Europe"
is solemnly passed In some portion of
the crowd with undlrainishlng convic
tion every five minutes of the day and
night. , ' -
And military strategy! Why, the
Sixth-street Board of War Experts has
turned loose to the peaceful air of Ore
gon within the past few days enough
inside information on just how to go
about the invasion of England and how
to go about the repulse of Germany from
France to solve-the problems of a dozen
wars. The Czar of Russia, the Kaiser
of Germany and the otnor leaders in
Europe will never know perhaps what
a horde of trained generals they have
over here in Portland, wasting their
talents.
There are only two known forces that
have ever put to flight the indomitable
congress of military experts. One was
the crowds of baseball fans who re
cently watched the world series bulle
tins. Autos nose their way through the
crowd unnoticed and pedestrians have
to shoulder their way through as best
they can, for the knots of disputants are
too engrossed in their affairs to notice
them. Usually late In the evening, how
ever, when the crowd is big, waiting
for the first edition of The Oregonian,
the street-cleaner drives his flushing
wagon down the street with both noz
zles wide open and sends the represen
tatives of all Europe and Asia yelling
to the curbing.
Twin rivers rush down the sides of
the streets and after them come the
skirmish lines of brooms. Then the war
department patters out into the street
once more and coagulates Into new
groups and the whole discussion joes
clacking on again from where it left
off.
BOND SALES EXPLAINED
Conditions in IMsposal of City
Told by Auditor.
Bonding condition in Portland are
explained in a statement which has
been Issued by City Auditor Barbur
for the benefit of Kaatern bond buyers.
In the statement Auditor Barbur out
lines the success of this city la han
dling the bond situation since ths
slump In the market caused by the war.
The statement follows:
The City of Portland has had no diffi
culty in Helling the bonds Insofar as the
security of the city Is concerned. You are
well aware of the fact that many cities
have been unable to sell low.lnterest-beaxine
paper since war was declared.
The bonds that were sold lately vera
$300,000 Improvement bonds, which were
held in the sinking- fund for the redemption
of Improvement bonds and they were all
sold at a premium, regardless of- the fact
that they had already run over a year.
Loclc bonds which were advertised were
per cent bonds and the sale was with
drawn and after the lock Commission had
figured a little closer It found that It
would be able to get along with $100,000 and
expects to purchase these bonds out of the
sinking- fund at par.
The City of Portland's reneral bonds svra
being taken care of by a tax levy whloh Is
sufficient to redeem all outstanding bonds
at maturity. The Water Department Is also
creating a sinking fund which will be amp la
to take care or all water bonds and the city
win have sufficient funds on hand to re
deem all improvement bonds at their matur
ity date.
Portland will never be required to sell any
refunding bonds for the reason that It la
providing a sinking fund for redemption.
This Is more than even New York City caa
boast of, as I note from recent financial re
ports that it has been necessary for them to
borrow fram local banks and agree to pay it
back In a certain length of time. In other
words, they are practically serial bonds. '.
i ne metnod ioiiowea by the (Jity or port-
land will make Portland stronger financially
as she grows older, rather than weaker. It
Is, however, to be regretted that there Is
not a general law all over the United States
compelling all cities to sell aerial bonds. The
old-time long-term bonds are entirely out of
date under modern conditions.
The selling of a 25 or 60-year bond by a
set of officials relieves them from any fur
ther responsibility and the ordinary tax
payer and citizen never thinks of pay day.
but If these bonds were serial bonds It would
be necessary for officials to finance them
and the result would be that the Indebted
ness incurred by their administration would.
have to be taken care of during their life
time. I am. therefore, strongly in favor of serial
bonds and it is safe to say that If the City
of Portland proper should have occasion to
isxue long-term bonds in the future they
will certainly be serial bonds. The matter
was pressed strongly upon, the Iook Com
mission, but they seem to cling to the old
ideas of financing and, therefore, insisted
on the long-term bond,
I trust this communication will give you
data so that you - will have authority ta
re fute any Insinuation or reflection that
may be placed upon the financial condition
of the City of Portland, Or.
Value Giving lrV 7, v'v V
Is One Thing We Set
Our Minds to in
This Big Mew
Drapery
Department
Twenty Patterns Egyptian
Lace Curtains Reduced
New Egyptian Lace Curtains with
plain centers with borders, also bun
galow net designs in center with bor
ders 45 inches wide and 22 yds. long.
$1.75 Quality, per pair, now . . S1.38
$2.00 Quality, per pair SI. 59
$2.50 Quality, now $1.89
$4.00 Quality, per pair, now..jj3.9S
35c Marquisettes
and Scrims
Eight patterns plain and bor
dered marquisettes and ecrims,
40 inches wide. Ivory. Arabian,
Beige colorings, on O Tf
sale, per yard.
$1.35 FIGURED
MADRAS
Ten patterns Figured Madras
blue, brown, green and mixed
coloring's, small or large fig-"
ures, guaranteed fast AQ.
colors, per yard aQC
Good Warm Bedding for Baby
CRIB BLANKETS, Sx39 Blue ground with nursery designs, S Q Q
different patterns, special, while they last.... OJU
CRIB BLAXKBTS, 8 by 48 Pretty new blankets with blue
ground woven in nursery designs, choice of eight good num- tf -f in
bers, special D L L Z7
WOOL SAP CRIB BLANKETS, in size 35 by 48. white ground
with pink or blue borders; also blue ground with designs and tf - OQ
scolloped edges, special w liO J
SCHOOL PLANE IS HIGHER
Report of Marion Superintendent
Shows Standardization.
SALEM. Or.. Oct. 24. (Special.) W.
M. Smith, superintendent of the Mari
on County Schools, in a report to State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Churchill, says that marked success has
been made in the standarization of the
schools of the county.
He says that 300 teachers were em
ployed the past year and that there
were 8542 pupils. The average daily
attendance was 7632, the percentage of
attendance being 95.
An extract of the report follows:
"During the past hree years, much
has been accomplished through our
plan of standardizing the schools.
Briefly, the plan was to post the re-,
quirements for a standard school in
each room. At the time of the visit'
of the superintendent or supervisor, if
they found that the school had won a"
certain point, a star was placed oppo
site the point won. When the required
number of points on the stRininril pos
ter were gained, the County Superin
tendent issued a neac diploma to th
school Thirty schools were made stan
dard during the past year and ma.nf
more won practically all of the points.
Not a rural school in the county but
was benefited by the plan." -
ART LECTURE IS PLANNEP
Miss Helen Putnam to Speak; at Art'
Museum Tuesday. 1
The Portland Art Association, which ;
Is working to encourage an apprecla-'
tion of art in Portland, has arranged -for
a course of lectures for this sea-,
son.
The Ideas underlying the art history
course of the school of the Portland
Art Association, this year, are mainly
two: First, an appreciation of the
qualities of the art of the finest pe
riods which directly Influence the- art
of the present day. and second, an un-.
derstanding of the relations existing
between the so-called fine arts, or arts
of expression, and the ornamental or
decorative arts of the different periods.
The first of these lectures, on "Egyp-'
tian Ornament."was given Tuesday, by
Miss Helen Putnam, before a large au
dience. Next Tuesday afternoon at 3:30
the second lecture will be given by
Miss Putnam at the Art Museum. This
will be on Minoan art and will be of
especial interest because Miss Putnanr
bas studied the remains of this little
known ancient art in Mycenae. Tlryna
and Athens, and will have objects u
well as slides to illustrate her talk.
FALL SEEDING IS STARTED
Farmers in Central Idaho District'
Start Plowing.
LEW1STOX, Idaho, Oct. 24. (Spe
cial.) The . farmers throughout the
central Idaho country will be busy with
Fall plowing and seeding for the next
several weeks.
The season for Fall seeding in the
Lewiston and prairie sections generally
extends from about the middle of Sep
tember until the latter part of October,
so there really has been no delay this
Fall because of the long dry spell. The
harvest was concluded considerably
earlier than usual this year, and for
this reason it has seemed that Fall
work was being held back.
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