TITE .SUNDAY OITEGOXIAN. rORTXANB.
TEXT 11, 1915.
BUYERS' WEEK IS
SET FOR AUGUST
COMMITTEE OF PORTLAND WHOLESALERS AND MANUFACTURERS WHO WILL nAVE CHARGE OF
THIRD ANNUAL BUYERS' WEEK IN AUGUST.
Visitors to Be Entertained by
Merchants and by Cham-
ber of Commerce.
REDUCED RATES TO APPLY
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More Than 100 WlJOlesalers Join in
Plan to Conduct Week of Trade
Extension " Activity Pur
chasers Get Refund.
Portland's third annual buyers' week
will be held In the week of August 9 to
14 and retail merchants from all parts
of the Northwest will be here as guests
)t the Portland wholesalers.
The entertainment and other Retails
will te in charge of a committee rep
resenting the trade and commerce bu
reau of the Chamber of Commerce, of
which Nathan Strauss is general chair
man. More than 100 Portland wholesalers
and manufacturers have Joined in the
plan to conduct this" week of trade ex
tension activity.
"Buyers' week." says the current
bulletin issued by the committee, "is
not only a convention of Pacific North
west retail merchants, but it allows
jobbers and manufacturers to come
Into close contact with their trade.
Buyers' Week Success.
"It is only by actually visiting this
city and inspecting the enormous
etocks and getting in close touch with
the wholesalers that the retail mer
chant can fully realize the advantage
of trading in this city. In many lines
by far the largest and most comprete
. stocks on the Pacific Coast are carried
in Portland. The largest volume of
business done on the Pacific Coast in
many jobbing lines is done In Portland.
You will be amazed at what will be
shown you during buyers' week.
"Previous buyers' weeks were tre
mendously successful. Our guests were
enthusiastic with their compliments. It
is aimed to make this event better yet.
Portland jobbing firms, through their
official organization, the Portland
Chamber of Commerce, will be your
hosts and will endeavor to show you
that your presence is appreciated."
Railroad fares will be refunded to
all merchants visiting Portland during
buyers' week who place orders aggre
gating not less than J500 with the job
bers and manufacturers participating
in the enterprise.
"Buy the ticket to Portland either
on Thursday, Friday or Saturday of
the week preceding buyers' week or on
Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of
buyers' week," says the bulletin. "Tick
ets bought before or after these dates
cannot he honored on this arrange
ment. Return tickets will be honored
until August 17, or three days after
buyers' week is over. This refund priv
ilege also applies to tickets purchased
via steamship lines. Buy steamboat
tickets, round trip, taking receipt."
Reduced Rate Available.
A validating headquarters will be
open at the headquarters of the Port
land Chamber of Commerce. Commer
cial Club building. Each visiting
buyer must immediately register at the
headquarters at the Portland Chamber
of Commerce, Fifth and Oak streets,
and present his receipt upon arrival
at Portland. Here he will be given
detailed information as to the many
courtesies that await him.
Members of family and business as
sociates of buyers will have the ben
efit of the reduced rates to Portland
and return during this same period.'
The Portland Chamber of Commerce
will be the headquarters and enter
tainment center for the entire week.
A reception, a smoker and banquet will
occupy several of the evenings. Other
evenings and noon times will be spent
in different social jollifications, includ
ing a big luncheon at the Portland Ad
Club. Many other courtesies and at
tentions and special events will char
acterize the event. The week will be
crowded full of pleasure and business.
Open House to Be Rule.
During buyers' week there will be
sessions of the Pacific Northwest Mer
chants' Convention, at which various
matters of great Interest to its mem
bers will be discusssed. The expenses
of this league are defrayed entirely
by the jobbers and manufacturers-of
Portland through the Portland Cham
ber of Commerce. No membership
fee or dues are charged and no inciden
tal expense will be connected with
membership in the league. Member
ship cards will be furnishe'd all visit
ing merchants and buyers immediately
upon registering at headquarters.
"Portland occupies a commanding
position in the variety of lines jobbed
and manufactured." continues the bul
letin. "It will be to the interest of
the merchants of the Northwest to pay
this personal visit to our factories and
business institutions, gaining an in
sight into the size. and output. The op
portunity to personally inspect large
stocks is also valuable to you.
"Portland business institutions will
hold open doors to visiting merchants
during the entire week."
The buyers' week executive commit
tee is as follows: F. A. Spencer, chair
man; A. H. Devers, George Lawrence,
Jr.. O. W. Mielke. L Lowentrart. O. h!
Fithian. F. S. West. A. C. Black. S. G
Pier, XV. H. Beharrel. -
SUNKEN JcTTY DANGEROUS
Accident Cited to Show Danger of
Lack of Marks.
PRESCOTT. Or.. July 8. (To the Ed
itor.) Last Sunday afternoon a party
of well-known Ralner people, tlir&e
women and four men, while returning
from Rhinearson Slough in a lartjie gas
oline launch, ran afoul of the sub
mersed Government jetty. The launch
sank in a few moments, barely giving
tne occupants time to don life pre
servers. Had the owner of the launrn.
Mr. Dunham, been as careless about
providing ;ife preservers as are a isreat
many several of the party would cer
tainly have drowned. As it was the
party floated down the river for almost
an hour before being picked up by a
fisherman who heard their cries.
Several years ago a crowd of young
people ran on to this same Jetty while
returning to Mayger from a dance at
Rainier, and several of the party lost
their lives.
At intervals throughout the year the
Ignited States Customs Office sends an
officer down the river for the purpose
of arresting fishermen, loggers and lum
bermen who fail to display lights on
their bc-ats, rafts and docks, all of
which are above the surface of the
river, yet this jetty is allowed to re
main as it has been for several years.
"Deadhead" logs are also allowed to re
main in the river, just as long as they
are not in main ship channel.
Fishermen in the neighborhood of
Rhinearson can tell you numerous
stories of narrow escape on the sub
merged Jetty. Do you not think that
Bomethlng .should be done to mark it?
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YJ.C.A.
WAR AD FORUMG OF REPUBLIC
LAID TO ASSOCIATION.
Chl-cheh Mrh, Member Part? Which
Visited Portland, Says Oreanlsatlen
Is Leaven of Nation.
The force which plunged the Chinese
empire into a revolution which within
the past two years has overturned one
of the oldest dynasties In the world,
and has brought China with a start out
of her Oriental seclusion and started
her in the path of progress, accosdlng
to the Occidental ideals, found its source
In the Y. M. C. A.
This fact has not been generally an
nounced to the world, even by the mis
sionaries who have come back to China,
but it was vouched for as true by an
Indisputable authority a few weeks ago
in Portland.
The man who made the statement was
Hon. Chi-cheh Nieh, vice-chairman of
the Honorary Chinese Commerce Com
mission, which visited Portland after a
tour of the entire United States. Chl
cheh Nieh Is general director of the
Hong Foong Cotton Company, of Shang
hai, a multi-millionaire, and a director
of the Y. M. C. A. in China and an
earnest advocate of the movement of
modern progress in the new republic
"Christianity did not become a prac
tical force among the upper classes of
the Chinese until the Y. M. C. A. began
to gain a foothold in China," he said.
"Christianity itself made slow progress
under the missionaries of the various
denominations until the Y. M. C. A.
came to China.
"Here was an organization that
showed us the practical application of
the ideal of the Christian race, the
movement toward freedom, toward effi
cient organization, the spirit of sacri
fice of self to an ideal and to others.
For the first time the better classes of
the Chinese could see where the new
religion applied to them and to their
lives and to the life of China.
, "The old religions of China have been
breaking down in the past two genera
tions and something new must take their
place. This, it appears, has been and
will be Christianity.
"The revolution may have started, ao
far as some of the leaders were con
cerned, in the great universities of other
lands. It was the influence of the Y. M.
C. A., however, which 'gave to large
masses of the Chinese people the ideal,
the cohesiveness. the willingness to sac
rifice for an ideal., and. above all. the
practical ability to organize and execute
a great project, all of which really
made it possible to carry the revolution
through to success.
"A short time ago we held in China
the Olympic games of the Far East, in
which all of the Oriental nations were
competing. I was one of the members
of the board of directors "of those games.
won nrsi place, the Philippines
second and Japan third. The inspira
tion that produced these games, which
marked an epoch in the new history of
the Far East, and the organization and
training that carried them through,
must be traced again directly to the
Y. M. C. A.
"Whatever influences may have been
at work on single individuals who have
figured In the recent history of China,
the leaven that has been working in
the whole lump has been the Y. M. C. A.,
and it may be said with much truth
that modern civilization was taught to
China and the Far East chiefly thro'igh
that influence."
PERSONALMENTION.'
G. J. Ekre. of Seattle, is at the Nor
tonia. H. E. Smith, of Salem. Is at the Im
perial. XV. E. Hall, of Denver, is at the Mult
nomah. 1L B. Olds, of Seattle, Is at the Cor
nelius. Mr. and lira. J. W Martin andRoy
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Johnston, of Yreka, CaL, are at the
Perkins.
John De Bruya. of Seattle, is at the
Oregon. ......
W. G. Freres, of Stayton, is at the
Seward.
V. XV. Hur'lburt. of Condon. ls at the
Perkins.
T. J. Newbill, of. Pullman. Is atthe
ImperiaL
A. C. Seely. of Roseburg. is at the
Imperial.
R. B. H in ton. of Shanlko, is at the
Portland.
F. F. Minaban, of Seattle, is at the
Portland.
F. II. Cromwell, of Salem, is at the
Nortonia.
G. E. Prusser, of Spokane, Is at the
Nortonia.
W. F. Copeland. of Cincinnati, is at
the Oregon.
. H. G. Ballon, or St. Louis, is at the
Multnomah.
J. W. Parker, of Hood River. Is at
the Seward.
Dr. II. A. Rue. of Stella. Wash.. Is at
the Perkins.
Dr. E. B. Plckel. of Medford. Is at
the Portland.
Mrs. L. G. Austin, of Cascade Locks, is
at the Oregon.
E. J. Burkett, of Lincoln, Neb., is
at the Seward.
J. If. Frank, of Scranton. Pa., is at
the Multnomah.
G. C. Wiseman, of Tiffin. O.. Is at
the Multnomah.
I. V. Keesling. of San Francisco, is
at the Portland.
Mrs. Francis Ivanhoe. of La Grande,
is at the Cornelius.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Johnson, of
Dufur, are at the Cornelius.
John Redmond, of Kvanston, Wyo..
is registered at the Perkins.
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Wilson, of Salem,
are registered at the Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Rulifron. of Car
roll. Wash., are at the Cornelius.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Belknap, of Soanp
ter. are registered at the Imperial.
Dr. C. A. Schulze. of Columbus, and
a party of four are at the Reward.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hampton, of Chi
cago, are registered at the Nortonia.
MiHses Nettle and Josephine Thomp
son lert for rsewport yesterday morn
ing to mend a month's vacation.
Mrs. Felix Bloch and children hare
taken the I. K. I-ey cottage at Sea
side and will be there for the remain
der of the Summer.
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MAM MUKTIX; FOIt M JOHN! (D
I'KMMItU TO II K TIKSUAV.
klnss Central Orsanlsatloa to Worn,
for erdrd InprarrnriK of
Uiatrtrt Proposed.
A mass meeting of the St. Johns and
Peninsula districts has been railed at
the old City Hall in St. Johns for Tues
day nllchl to consider the future of
that portion recently brought Into
Portland, and take up the question of a
strong-central orKanlzatlon. Ex-Councilman
Per rl ne suggested at the last
meeting of the old Johns Council
that steps be taken to effect a perma
nent organization for the entire Penin
sula so that improvements and other
KIRK MKSHI. RKCOHF. SEC
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Jay Stevens.
Jay Stevens, battalion chief of
the fire bureau and - municipal
fire marshal, is now second as
sistant fire chief. He was pro
moted to the position yesterday
by Mayor Albee, following the
enUMtshmenl of the position by
the City Council. The promotion
involves an increase of $-0 a
month ir. alary.
The advancement of Mr. Stevens
Ih a reward for exceptional serv
ile as fire marshal and battalion
chief, and also to put him In
position so he can enforce orders
whirr, he may give in his ca
pacity as fire marshal.
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The Tires That. Fell
Looked Like Goodyears at the Start
Don't Trust Looks
In a great tire, most of the virtues are
Hidden. In a poor tire, the slumping is
unseen. The difference is enormous, but
it doesn't show.
The Goodyear extras on our output this
year will cost us $1,635,000. That's (or
five great features used by no one else, and
for other features not commonly employed.
Yet Goodyear Fortified tires with plain
treads look about like others.
Thick Anti-Skids
The Goodyear All-Weather is an extra
tread vulcanized dn to the regular. This
means a double-thick tread. It means deep,
enduring grips. This
double thickness will
cost us $1,000,000
this year on. our output
of this type. Yet dozens
of regular treads, with
shallow designs, pass
for anti-skids.
Goodyear Service Stations Tires in Stock
Belmont Garage. 754 E. Morrison St.
R. K. Ulodgett. 29 N. 14th St.
Benjamin fc Boone & Co- 514 Alder.
Braley Auto Co, 31 X. 19lh SU
Columbia Tire Repair & Supply Co, 430 Aid
Edwards' Tire Shop. 331 Ankenjr St.
Francis Motorcar Exchange, 561 Hawthorne.
General Autos Co, 523 Alder St.
Floyd Halliday. 429 Belmont.
C. F. Heick. 993 Belmont St.
matitrs may be handled In a united
maiuirr.
St. John Commercial Club has about
loo active mvraber nd la one of the
oldest orisaulx.itlnn on the i'enlnsula.
Tin? mailer ft making- the club the
i enter of a fr-dcrated oricanlxatlon will
he roiikldrred at this meeltnir. There
were active clubs at 2'ortftmouth and
l'nivertty I'ark. but they have not
been active for aevcral years. Invita
tions have been Issued to these dis
tricts to send represervtatl ves to this
mm ntectlnic next Tuesday nttcht.
One of the blc questions thut will
come up will he the sewer problem that
has agitated the Peninsula tor several
years. The annexation uf i?t. Johns
lias probably simplified that question
to some extent In that It rives Tort
land full control of the Peninsula dis
trict, which It did i tot have before.
Work has been srolns; forward on pre
liminary sewer plans for the Peninsula
for several years. Part of St. Johns
has been provided with sewers, but
art has not been provided.
The annexation of St- Johns will per
mit the enlargement of the district to
he assessed for the bulldlnr of the new
Peninsula HlBhwsy from K lllln;sworth
avenue throush lwr Albina. which
will save about two miles of distance
between St. Johns and Broadway
bridge.
MRS. H. L. BRUMAGIN DEAD
Kuneral of Vaiiooturr Kexldcnt to
Itc llclil Tomorrow at 2.
VANCOUVER. Wash, July 10. Spe
claJ.) Mrs. Helen L,uclnda Brumagln.
wife of D. 13. Brumsgin. night engineer
of the Vancouver ferryboat for the pat
: years, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. J. 1. Robinson, on East
Sixth street, today after sufferlnjr for
the past two years with tuberculosis.
Mrs. Brumagln wss 11 years of age,
and. had she lived ten days longer,
would have celebrated her 40th wed
ding annl versiiry. The funeral will be
held from the Knspp chapel Monday
at 2 o'clock, services being conducted
by the first tThurch of Christ. Scien
tist, of this city, of which she had been
a faithful member for the past four
years.
Besides the husband and daughter,
she leaves her mother. Mrs. L.ucinda
Foster, and a brother. Clarence Chese
bro. of this city. Mrs. Brumsgin was
a native of New York and was mar
ried July 20, 1S7C. In Sherman. N. Y..
coming soon after to the West and
settling In Portland, and then coming
to Vancouver, where she had resided
since.
Cliurt-li Class to Hear C. K. Cochran.
Charles K. Cochran, assistant general
attorney for the O.-W. R. A N. Com
pany. w-IK speak today at noon at the
current evt-nt class of Westminster
Presbyterian Church. Kst Seventeenth
snd Schuyler streets. His subject will
be "The Proposed Systems of Water
powT Conservation and Ie velopment."
This Is the big :bJct.to come before
the Conference of Western Governors,
to be 'held soon.
Snap Judgment
Don't buy a tire on somebody's snap judg
ment He may have had rare luck. One
tire meets mishap or misuse and other tires
escape them. But the best-built tire will
serve best on the average.
Better trust the seasoned judgment of
motorists in general. Goodyear' tires out
sell any other after 16 years. They have
held top place for long. And this year their
good repute is adding thousands to our users.
Quantity Values
In Goodyears you get quantity values.
Despite our extras, our mammoth output
brings our prices down. In two years our
price reductions have totaled 45 per cent.
This year's reduction saves our users about
five million dollars.
Makers with small
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OODYEAR
AKRON. OHIO
Fortified Tires
F. P. Keenan. 190
Ris-Cnts-br nr No-Rltn-Cat feature.
R U-..t. b T oar "On-Air" ni
Inn Ti br tnsov reHtr lln Is.
! criF by 136 brmktad piano wire,.
P,i i mmi Sb.Jrl by oardoobto
tctcJc AU-WMtbor traod.
Multnomah Garage & Auto Co, 254 6th St.
Motorcycle & Supply Co, 209 4th St.
Oregon Sales. 43 1 Alder.
er. Oregon ulc Co,
I'aquet Garage. E. 18th and Hawthorne.
Redman Auto Co, 1130 Albina Ave.
Rose City Pak Garage. 52d and Sandy Blvd.
John A. Walters Co, 335 Ankeny St.
Western Hrdw. & Auto Sup. Co, 56 Broadway.
Co, 23d and Washington Sta.
Winton M. C
PATRIOTIC AIM IS TOLD
0s OK AMKRICA KKVOLITIOX
KWSTKR. t. ! CITI7.KNMIII'.
Ureal Meeting nf Allen-Uera t ttl
sens Reevntly Aaa'rrssen ny Prest
aent Cited as Ksnssnle.
One of the chief patriotic lutlea
which the Sons of the American Revo
lution performs is directly In line with
that w hich was given National recogni
tion on July 4 by Americantxatlon day.
That this unique observance of Inde
pendence day was carried out with
such success throughout the country
was due In no small part to the efforts
of various stste organisations of this
PORT1. 'I BOY ADMITTKD
TO BR WITH HONORS.
Kaxrar K. Ussrakrlsirr.
Kugene K. Oppenhelmer. who
has Just been admitted to the
Oregon bar with honors. Is a
native of Portland and a grand
son of Mrs. N. Ioeb. one of the . f
pioneers of Portland. Mr. Op-
penhelmer. who Is 24 years old.
has practically worked his way
through school and law college
and In the recent examinations
he received high honors. Mr.
Oppenhelmer Is secretary of tha
Hunt Club and has a number of
medals won In feats of horse
manship during the time he w-as
connected with tha Hunt Club.
He Is slso a member of the
Multnomah Amateur Athletic
Tub. Mr. Oppenhelmer hss
been taken Into one of the
prominent law firms of the city.
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Goodyear valuea. You
must not expect it. You
cannot get Goodyear
features unless you get
Goodyear Tires.
Any dealer will sup
ply yOU. (2SJS)
4th St.
:-u Washington u
society, which will hold Its National
convention In the Far Writ for tha
ilmt time this year, meeting at Port
land July 11-21.
In every city of the country, where
there is a local unit of the Sons of
the American Revolution. these
chapters co-oeratel with the Ameri
cantxatlon lny committees. The Sons'
order Is made up of line.il descendants
of men who took p.trt In armed resist
ance to Ureal Britain in the period
from 17TC to 1783.
Work for the naturalli.it Ion of aliens
and their better education In thinns
American hss long been a task to
which the society has set itself. A.
Howard Clark, of Washington. O. C.
registrar-general of the Sons of the
American Revolution, and curator of
tha historical collection In the Na
tional Museum, discussing this work
for the aliens coming to American
atu-res said:
One of the most wholesome activi
ties of the National society Is In the
direction of helping the f jrelgn-born
residents of the country to a better
understanding of American cltlxenshlp
and American Institutions. Our com
mittee on education of aliens Is direct
ly In charge of this work. It assisted
in bringing about the meeting In Phila
delphia May 10. under the auspices of
the municipal government, where 4000
recently naturalised citixcna were ad
dressed by President Wilson, the Sec
retary of Labor. Mayor Rlsnkenburg
and others on the Importance of duties
assumed through naturalization.-
FIRST-AID TOUR SUCCESS
Permanent Ileil Cross l-leld Man to
Be Sought by Wafhlngton.
OI.YMPIA: Wash.. July 10. (Spe
cial.) So successful thus far has been
the "first aid" work done by LTs. W.
T. Davis and V. N. Lipscomb, of the
American Red Cross, who are touring
Washington logging ramps, giving In
struction and demonstrations, that the
Washington Industrial Insurance Com
mission will seek to arrange to have
one Red Cross field man assigned to
permanent service of this kind In this
state. This matter will be taken up
with Major Robert 1. Patterson.
IT. S. A., in charge of the bureau of
medical service, when he visits Wash
ington In September.
Most of the Western Washington
lumber camps of considerable stsc
already have been visited by the Red
Cross physicians In their safety flrst
tour. rr lvis will return Ksst next
week with the Red Cross car, but T'r.
Lipscomb will remain at the work in
this state until November at least.
Wallona Merotiant Ved.
WALLOWA. Or.. July 1 0 (Special.;
Stealing a march on bis Wallowa
friends. V. H. Brownlee. a merchant,
left town on pretense of attending the
Kagles' celebration at La, Orande, but.
to tha surprise of all. he returned yes
terday with a wife, havtnir married
Mra Bertha Alford in La Orande
Wednesday. Rev. Mr. Meyers, of the
Christian Church, performed the cere