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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1915)
TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTE3IBER 2G. 1913. 15 PETITIONS SOOfl OUT Steps to Be Taken to Extend ' Stark-Street Project. PLAN'S BEING PREPARED Purpose Is to Connect Linn ton Bou levard to Cornell Koad by At tractive and Direct Route. Bridge Approach Offered. Connecting- of the new LInnton Boulevard with an attractive and di rect road from Cornell road, by way of Willamette Heights will be urged by property-owners of that section of the city. A petition will be circulated soon asking Council to include this exten sion in the proceedings for the exten sion of Stark street from its present end to Cornell road. Flans for the Stark street extension are now being prepared by the Municipal Department of Public "Works. The LInnton Boulevard extension Is contended by property owners of that section to be an improvement which must follow naturally the extension of Stark street and the completion, of the LInnton Boulevard. It will furnish an entrance to the boulevard through a beautiful district and without any fcteep grades. Stark Street Extension Main One. According to tentative plans as worked out and submitted to Commis sioner Dleck the main extension will be that of Stark street. This will furnish a direct artery for the northwestern part of the city. There are no large buildings in the way for the making of a straight extension through that end of the city much similar to Sandy road on the Kast Side. Beginning at the end of the straight section of Cornell road from Lovejoy street, the extension to LInnton Boule vard will avoid the two sharp turns where the Cornell road meets the en trance to Westover terraces by cutting diagonally across the unoccupied lots at the head of Twenty-ninth street and joining the winding Cornell road about 16U0 feet farther on. At this point, the road will cross Macleay Park ravine on a bridge. This will be made attractive and will not Involve excessive cost. The bridge will make Macleay Park accessible at points where it is now secluded. Hrldge Approach Land Promised. From the bridge the new road will strike across unoccupied land or lots to Aspen street in Willamette Heights, and follow along this to the Boulevard. Ground for the bridges' approaches al ready has been promised and plans are under way for the paving of the part of Aspen street not now paved. It .is said by the projectors of the project that it involves only little ex pense outside the cost of the bridge over the Macleay Park ravine. The whole work they say will really be a. continuation of the Hillside Boulevard to the Cornell road instead of an ex tension of the latter to it. It is contended that the extension along with the Stark street project will become a valuable asset from a. busi ness and scenic standpoint by shorten ing the distance to the center of the city and thereby increasing values and increasing the desirability of that sec tion for residences. The Stark street extension, it is pointed out, will be the trunk or business end of the project, while the Boulevard connection will supply thf scenic end. ROOSEVELT VIEWS ISSUES night to Sell to Allies Analyzed and Hyphenated Americans Castigated. Kx-Presidcnt Roosevelt pays his re spects to hyphenated Americans in the October Metropolitan Magazine an3 declares: "Every man or woman who in the name of peace now advocates the refusal on the part of the United Stales to furnish arms and munitions of war to those nations who have had the manliness to fight for the redress ing of Belgium's wrongs, is serving the devil Instead of the Lord." Excerpts from his article follow: The beef baron or the representative of the cotton Interests who wishes to ignore tho butchery of our women and children, and the sinking of oiir ships, by German submarines, and to tarte sides against the Allies so that he may make money by the sale of cotton and beef, is faithless to every considera tion of honor and decency. It is en tirely fitting that the sheer material ist should in such an issue stand shoulder to shoulder with the profes sional pacifist, the peace-at-any-prlce man. and with his sinister brother, the hyphenated American. It is hard to decide which is the most abject qual ity: the greed of the mere materialists or the fhort-sighlcd cowardice of the professional pacifist. As for the hyphenated American, he endeavors to serve his foreign fatherland without exposing his own wretched carcass to the daager which would come to him if he served in the trenches beside his fellow-countrymen who have stayed at borne and who at least pretend to no divided allegiance. . If no duty had been expressly im posed upon the United States in this matter (the German invasion of Bel gium), we ought nevertheless to have acted in accordance with the generous instincts of humanity. But as a mat ter of fact such a duty was expressly imposed upon us by the Hague con ventions. The convention, signed at The Hague October 18, 1907. begins by saying that "His Majesty the German Kmperor. King of Prussia," and the other signatory powers. including France, Belgium. Russia and the Unit ed States, have resolved to conclude a convention laying down clearly the rights and duties of neutral powers in rase of war on land. Article 1 runs: "The territory of neutral powers is inviolable." Article 5 states that a neutral power "must not allow bellig erents to move troops across its terri tory." Article 10 states that "the fact of a neutral power resisting even by force attempts to violate its neutrality cannot be regarded as a hostile act." . . . This Convention was ratified by Belgium on August 8, 1010; by France on October 7, 1910; by Germany, the United States and Russia on November 27. 1309. It has been alleged by individ uals anxious to excuse us for failure to act in accordance with our duty un der this convention that article 20 re cites: "The provisions of the present convention do not apply except between contracting powers and then only if all the belligerents are parties to the convention." In. the first place this objection would be merely technical. Of course the convention must be construed with common sense. But even it it is construed in the most technical manner, it applies to the ac tion taken by Germany in Belgium. . . . Belgium was a signatory. Ger United States was a signatory. Ger many wan not at war at that time with Servia or Montenegro or Eng land; nor was Austria at war with WILLAMETTE-PACIFIC BRIDGE ACROSS COOS BAY NEARING COMPLETION. . i ' ' r ' - ' - , , f-r - -v- . "S E j!'.-jffi ' Jit A A , - -- WWl'Wy J f - - 'Kr'-TXi i r ' ; s i V v t i f - J oC. ZZ wmimm ' o. S BIG CHOSSWAY CELEBRATION PLAXKED FOR THREE DATS NEXT BIO NTH. MARSHFIELD, Or., Sept. 25. The Willamette-Pacific bridge across Coos Bay Is nearing -completion and will be finished some time in October. The City of North Bend has arranged to celebrate the event for three days. In cluding October 7, 8 and 9. The illustrations show the northern portion of the structure one a side view, the other looking through the steel work toward the north. When the bridge Is ready to turn over to the operating department, it is expected trains will bo run between Marshfleld and Lake side, a distance of 16 miles. Belgium. When Germany violated the Hague convention to which we were one of the signatory powers all of the belligerents in the case were sisrners of the Hague convention. The case is technically no less than morally com plete. ... A representative of a great Ameri can arms manufactory informed me recently that they had been about to abandon their work prior to the begin ning of this war, because the Germans systematically endeavored to undersell them In every country. It has been the settled policy of Germany to drive all other countries out of the business of manufacturing arms and supplies because, of course, if this were once substantially accomplished, the rest of the world would be completely help less before' Germany; and Germany has made it evident that she knows no such things as international morality and looks upon all other nations, including the united States, merely as possible prey. ... In short. Germany has thriven enormously on the sale of arms to belligerents when tshe was a neu tral: she insisted that such sale be sanctioned by tho Hague conventions; she. so far as possible, desires to pre vent other nations from manufactur ing arms; and if she is successful in this effort she wiU have taken another stride to world dominion. The profes sional pacifist, hyphenated Americans, and beef and cotton-Americans; In short, all the representatives of Amer ican mollycoddleism, American greed, and downright treachery to America, in seeking to prevent shipments of mu nitions to the Allies, are playing the game of a brutal militarism against Belgium and againBt their own coun try. The foolish professional pacifists who advocate refusing to sell muni tions of war to the Allies are propos ing a course of action as wicked as it Is base: and those making such a pro posal or approving and advocating ac tion in accordance therewith, should be listed on a roll of national dishonor. It has even been proposed that th United States should spend a billion I .& A! I 1 t QrjJ'TpS 1 : tv-raSgr, X ! , I HJ-ls MO dollars in paying Germany to give Bel gium back to her own people. The profound immorality of this proposi tion surpasses even its fatuity. The hyphenated American has been shown in actual practise to be loyal only to that part of his title which precedes the hyphen. He la thorough ly disloyal to the "American" part of his hyphenated cognomen, and he must be ttAis disloyal, because of the neces sities of the case. The professional German-Americans of this kind ought by rights immediately to be deprived of their United . States citizenship. Their place is not here. . . . And in saying this I wish to emphasize my belief that the professional German Americans are not a bit worse than all other professional hyphenated Ameri cans, fheso professional German Americans sin most bitterly against the real Americans of German blood. We have no better citizens than the Americans of German birth or descent who in good faith are fulfilling the MAP SHOWING PLAN FOR EX TENSION OF STARK STREET AND NEW ROAD TO CONNECT WITH LINNTON BOULEVARD. duties of America are Americans and nothttig else. Demented Woman's Life Endangered CENTRALIA, Wash., Sept. 25. (Spe cial.) All hope practically has been abandoned of finding Mrs. Annie Nord strum, who escaped from the insane asylum two weeks ago and who ap peared at her husband's home near Bucoda a few days ago. Bands of Bu coda citizens have beaten the woods in the vicinity of the town, but their ef forts were fruitless. It is believed the woman will perish from exposure and lack of food unless she Is located in a short time. Her husband has been in the woods two days searching and nothing has been heard from him. citizenship and wno i n . OAC.7 .yC'v-?-7, .r5"SS'Cr?rC &f&SZr h i I SIMON AT IT Stronger Than Ever! Monday morning', at 9 o'clock, Simon offers a big stock of choice staple groceries at prices lower than ever be fore quoted by any retail firm in Port land ; r ead the prices SALVAGE STORE J.Simoo 191 199 E: i Pi ASSEMBLY ROOMS SAFE SEVERAL SCHOOLS ARE APPROVED FOR PUBLIC GATHERINGS. Bureau of Fire Protection Takes Caae of Each Building Some Safeguards Needed. IP Assembly rooms on the ground floor of wooden school buildings throughout the city have been declared sufficiently safe by the Bureau of Fire Protection so that public assemblies may be held in them. Assembly rooms of schools of fireproof construction that are on th-. second floor were also given the official asprovaL Further negotiations are under way as to requirements in in the way of exits and other safe guards, to bring official approval for public gatherings in ' semi-fireproof schools with assembly halls on the upper floors. R. H. Thomas, School Clelk, took up this subject with the Bureau of Fire Protection on Friday. The' conclusions reached were concurred in by Fire Chief Dowell, Chairman Coffin, of the Public Safety Commission, and Building Inspector Plummer, as well as other members of the bureau. Each school in the city was separate ly considered, and it was decided pub lic assemblies might safely be held in the following school buildings: Ains worth, Capitol ,111, Chapman, Clinton Kelly, Couch. Eastmoreland, Fernwood, Fulton Park, Gregory Heights, Jeffer son High, Jonesmore. Josiah Failing, Kennedy, Kenton, Larid, Lincoln High, Multnomal., Portsmouth, Irichmond, Rose City Park, Shattuck. South Mt. Tabor, Stephens, Wr hington High and Washington Gymnasium. Of this list, four are portable schools. All portable schoolhouses. being en tirely on the ground floor, were de clared safe. Exception was made by the Bureau In the case of the Mt. Ta bor school. This structure la partly wood, the stairway to the second floor being in a wing of wooden construction. It was determined to widen the exits and place other safeguards in this school when it. undoubtedly, will be given a. clean bill of health with the others. "Many other school buildings remain to be considered, and Clerk Thomas ex pects to take this FUbject up further with the Bureau. In crnic buildings where assembly rooms are on the upper floor, further exits are needed, and ad ditional funds are required to meet these expenditures. Mr. Thomas ex pects to bring this to the attention of the School Board ao that provision can be made in the budget for the work. "To my mind, the widest possible use of school buildings b;- the public, consistent with safety, is desirable." said Mr. Thomas. "We are now pre paring plans for automatic sprinkler systems for the basements of schools which liave furnaces in the basements. Bear Slays Cow ASHLAND, Or, Sept. 25. (Special.) Jack Bailey, a local hunter, shot a bis cinnamon bear last Friday in the Red Mountain section, south of Ashland. He and in other ways we hope to have the t V? V schools bo well provided for, in the way J ' ' "A I of fire protection, that there will be - A' Q no occasion for the least objection on t 7i''VVV?fe44f' this point against their use for public J " ; iAlfyriVfc v? 1 gatherings." . ' OTO ; Hunter Shoots. t ''' 7 0 t STILL iYonr Money Doesik JW Double Work Here! Ilk Mm Cans U?r Large 11 II I "oes $5.25 " 111 I 50c ' 2 50c I llP" Mdse Order I f 11 4 SmaU ,0c Bottle .155 Mi White Naw -ucuoitie Mixed Mllllum mm P Cookies I Ii 5C 5c White 4Lbs. MM S 1 Laundry Soap WM mJ 3c Bar 25c was in pursuit of deer at the time. Bruin weighed 500 pounds and had killed a cow. the carcass of which was lying near by, with a young living calf mourning the loss of its dam. Bailey Is a. well-known hunter and mining prospector of these parts. FORMER EASTERNERS MEET New England Society Has Enjoyable Social Session. The New England Society of Oregon held Its first social meeting of the season at Cotillon Hall, Thursday eve ning, September 23. The meeting was well attended and there was much gen uine social enthusiasm in evidence as each person met every other person present. Officers were nominated as follows: Gordon W. Stanley for president: A. G. Thompson for vice-president: E. Leslie Fish for secretary; J. E. Tanche for treasurer; Mrs. G. W. Stanley and W. T. Good, auditors. The officers of the society, and the chairmen of the standing committees, constitute the board of directors, which transacts all the business of the soci ety. The meetings held on the fourth Thursday of each month are given over entirely to social entertainment. 'BEST' AUTO ROUTE LAUDED John H. Burgard Declares Central Oregon Way South Is Favored. After a month's stay in California Mr. and Mrs. John H. 'Burgard and their two sons returned on the steamer Northern Pacific. They left Portland by automobile early in August, taking the Central Orcron route to California by way of Lakeview and Reno. "It's the best route, by far. I be lieve,' snid Mr. Burgard yesterday. "The roads are excellent. We visited Lake Tahoe before going on to San Francisco. We did Intend to motor to San Diego, but it was too warm for such a trip, even by the coast route. "The business outlook in California Is most encouraging." concluded Mr. Burcrard. who made &ome cbnervat'ons in this direction during his stay -n San Francisco. f HIBERNIANS INITIATE Jia liquet ami Planned Social Session Are for October 10. According to M. J. Murnane and Frank Mallon. members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, more than a hun dred "neophytes" will take the solemn oath at the Initiation that will mark the opening of the Hibernian Hall on Russell street Sunday. October 10. The drill team. Captain James Doyle com manding, will be the guard during the ceremony. The initiation will last from 2 until 6 P. M. " At the conclusion of the ceremonies the ladles of the auxiliary and the members of the order will banquet to gether. A programme has been pre pared to be given after the banquet. Visiting members of the order from Heppner and Lakeview are expected. I . I . 4 SGtfOOL ED1TQRSTQ JOIN CLAUDE FHOHN PROPOSES PRESS CUB FOR ALL STAFFS. Nevr Executive ef the Lena Also Busy on Plan for Credits for Con tributors to Paprr. Claude Frohn, of Washington High School, who has just been elected edi tor of the Lens, the Washington High School student publication, has plans for organizing an interscholastio press club. The club will be put tinder way within a few weeks and will enroll as members the staffs of the several high school publications in Portland. "The , purpose is three-fold." ex- Claude Krohi, nv I'ditor ef the I.rnn. AVasIiington Hlsh School. plained Mr. Frohn, who has been dix cussing the proposition with Principal H. H. Herdman. of Washington High. "First. It will bring the four high schools Into closer relationship; second. It will offer an opportunity for au ex change of ideas and promote the jour nalistic dignity of the school staffs. an third, it is designed to advance the methods of clever advertising." The organization has been discussed informally by the students interested in the school publications and hearty co-operation is expected. A system of school credits for certain contributions to tho school publication is being worked out. Ensrlish students who contribute poetry or stories will receive proportionate class study credit. In this way originality and good thought will be invited, benefiting the student and adding to the attractive ness of the publication. Mr. Frohn ia working to make this feature of the Lens prominent this year. Gerald Stevens, the business manager of the Lens, is shaping a novelty adver tising campaign. Mr. Stevens is emi nently qualified as business manager, having been closely identified with the Lens last term under Ernest Fatland, business manager. Car Huns Six Miles on Ties. CENTRA LIA. Wash.. Sept. 2',. (Spe cial.) All traffic between Portland and Taeoma has been using tlte south bound trHCk between V:der and Win lock as the result of the trucks of a northbound frelghtcar jumping tho track. The accident occurred near Va- X - ; 7 1 1 1 . - j x I x- I Deliver Free Pur chases of $2 or Oven Sale Starts 9 A. M. der, the truck bumping along the ties for six miles to the Winlock depot. The train crew was unaware of the mishap. The track was badly damaged and that the entire train was not de railed with a loss of life and property is considered miraculous. LIBRARY CHANGES MADE George II. Roach Appointed to St. Johns Branch. All library books taken on vacation time are due October 1. after that date the usual fino will be charged. These books are not subject to renewal, but may be returned by parcel post. A new collection of books on modern poetry has just been put on exhibition in the display case in the circulation department of the Central Library. The reference department now has on file the publications of the Inter national Institute of Agriculture. These record the results of investiga tions and experiments carried on all over the world. One series is the monthly bulletin ef economic and so cial intelligence, which deals with plans for co-operation, rural credit and similar subjects. The other series is on plant diseases and pests and oh methods o.f cultivation. The BChool department is making a collection of children's books showing their historical development. Gifts of old-fashioned juvenile books will be welcome. The mural paintings by Frank Braugwyn attracted much at tention at the exposition. Copies in color are posted in the school depart ment. Beginning October 2, the children's room of the Central Library will be open on Saturday evenings until 8:30 o'clock. r George H. Roach Uns been appointed librarian of the St. Johns Branch Li brary, the appointment to take effect October 1. Mr. Roach is a graduate of Leland Stanford, Jr., University and of the Illinois Library School, with ex perience both in public and college li brary work. Miss Mabel Ruudall will have charge of the University Park brunch. , Arrangements have been made for Reed .College extension courses to bo held In Library Hall on Tuesday and Friday eveninss during the Winter, be ginning October 1. Subjects will be announced later. ODDFELLOWS TO REVEL Samaritan Ixlge Plans "Homecom ing" on Wednesday. The Ad Club quartet will be the fea ture of tho annual "homecoming" of the members of Samaritan Lodge. No. 2. Independent Order of Oddfellows, to be held Wednesday. September 20. The programme will begin at S:30. and will be given at the Oddfellows' Temple, First and Aider streets. The complete programme follows: Snns". "B'douln Love Sons" (Footed. Ad flxih Quartet: adtireg of welcome, K. O. Williams, Noble irand. Samaritan L.ods'; 3KnK. "In tho Hills of Old Kentucky." Ad Club Quartet: HrtdreK. oddfenownhip as Applied to Citizenship," w. A. Carter. I. O. M.. P. G. K. : n)t. "MacushlH" main. Ad Club Quartet; compliments of Smarltan IjOdite; song. "I'm on My Way to Dublin Bay." Ad Club Qii:irlcl. address. "The Good Samarita r.." Hamilton .loiinstonf: sontr. "De Coppah Moon" (Sheilv). A luh Quartet: aonK, 'h:tur-tpanRlfid Banner," led by Act Club Quartet, all unite. Membf-rs of the Ad Clun quartet are: N. A. Hoose, first tenor: rr. R. M. Kmerson. second tenor: H. G. Whipp. baritone; A. K. Davidson, bass. PORTABLE SCHOOLS TO RISE Buildings Ordered at Willbridge to Accommodute Pupils. In order to accommodate children lining beyond a convenient distance from present pchoolhouses of the city, two portable houses have been ordered set tip at Willbrldge by the School Board and the new school will be opened in about three weeks. The two teachers that will be required have not yet been assigned. School facilities for Willhridge was one of the responsibilities placed upon tho School Board when LInnton and in tervening territory was annexed to Portland. There are 66 children in the Willbridge section, midway between the former city limits and Linntor. Tho portable schoolhouses will caro for any number of children up to SO. Use of the site upon which they stand has been given by the Saltzman Investment Com pany. The same concern has deeded five acres near by for the building of a permanent schoolhouse. --. Railway TTpheld in Landslide Case. OLTMPIA. Wash.. Sept. 23. (Special.) The Wellington snowslide of tho Spring of 1910 was an ai't'Of God. for which the Great Northern cannot be held legally responsible, is the finding of the Washington Supreme Court in a three-line decision, the court, after granting a rehearing en banc to tho dependent of one of the Wellington victims, declining to depart from itt original decision.