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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1917)
THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 23, 1917.' IDA TARBELL HIGHLY INTERESTED GUEST PROMINENT WOMAN PUBLICIST IS GUEST OF PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY AND CIVIC LEAGUE, LMimnmMinMnimiMIIIIUMIMIIMMMMIMniHHMIMMUMITMMMMMIHMMnMMIMinim :JtminimiiniiiJimiiiiiiuiiiiiiimuii!iiiMiii!iiiiim 11 T h e Tw o Favorites H Famous Writer Keenly Alert to All Things and Her Hosts Are Charmed. ivrmz 14 o1 SEVERAL FRIENDS ARE MET Trip Up Highway Is Prevented by Storm, but Finley Sloving Pic tures Bring Scenery to Visi torFeast Is Jolly. Br EDITH KNIGHT HOLMES. J Intensely Interesting, because Intense ly human In heart and mind. Is Ida M. Tarbell, writer, editor, lecturer and woman of unusually fine attainments, who was Portland's guest yesterday. Poise, good nature and a sweet dig nity are attributes possessed by Miss Tarbell. The adoration of the public and all her many euccesses have not In the least turned her head. She Im presses one as a hard worker, keen, on the alert and with her heart In all she does. In the early morning Dr. and Mrs. William Wallace Youngson met Miss Tarbell at the depot and escorted her to the Multnomah, where every com fort had been planned for her. A break- . f aet In her honor with a few educators and local writers as additional guests was given by Dr. and Mrs. Youngson. It was one of the jolliest affairs im aginable. One of the guests was Mrs. T. C. Kurtz, a friend of Miss TarbeU when they were students at Allegheny College. It was "Louise and "Ida" and "do you remember this and that In Titusvllle and Reedvllle7 Wit and Wisdom PreTaU. Then Dr. David Starr Jordan would chip In and recall the time when Miss Tarbell visited Stanford, and Miss Florence Read told the honor guest about Reed College, and Jacob Kanzler waxed eloquent about Portland and the highway and our scenery. Wit and wis dom flew around the board, but we all watched the snow storm out of the comers of our eyes. About the time that everyone had decided, but none had admitted aloud, that the trip out the highway could not be made there came the message from J. B. Yeon confirming the unspoken verdict that Miss Tar bell could not go to the high way. Dr. Youngson and H. L. Pit tock. loyal Portlanders but former Pennsylvanlans, had planned the trip for her, but the untimely, unruly snow flakes had upset everything. William Finley came to the rescue. He offered to bring the highway to Miss Tarbell. And so he did. After she graciously had given several in terviews and had posed for the camera men. Miss Tarbell was escorted by her hosts and friends to the Mutual Film Company's office, where a private viewing of the highway, salmon hatch ery and Mount Hood and Yellowstone scenery was held. Miss Tarbell was thrilled. She who Is always in command of the best in form of expression declared she could not find words to tell of her admiration of the pictures and she is now determined to come back to Oregon and see it all In the Summer time. Tariff Commission Too Confining. In the course of the chat with various friends Miss Tarbell touched on many subjects and all so diversified. Of her refusal to serve on the Tariff Commis sion she said: "I felt that I would not do It because the work is very confining. It would not be fair to the President or to my self to accept. If I went into it I would j j iiean ana soui in ine worK, as is the only decent way to do. I cannot now give the time to do it right. And, although I am vastly interested, that Is not my profession. Journalism Is my regular work." When asked if she had ever been "just a common reporter," MiesTarbell said: "That's what I hope I am Just a common reporter, for they are the people who see what is going on and know a story and are able to tell It." I wished some of the imitation folks and the would-be celebrities could see how unostentatious, how womanly, how broad and how sincere is this woman who is truly great. She even likes re porters. Miss Tarbell is profoundly Interested n the timber and the lumber industries of the Northwest. It is her first visit here, and the big trees and big lumber mills have captured her heart and her imagination. Chester Hogue dropped in for a few minutes and she asked him a score of questions about timber. Apple Orchard Is Owned. Miss Tarbell has an apple orchard at North Yakima, which she says makes her belong to the West. She bought it Just as one might mining stock, but since her visit here she says "It is a link that binds her to this big, out-of-doors country." Her sister, Sarah, has a studio on a farm In Connecticut and the two pass many happy days together. This is another of Miss Tarbell's possessions. But in Titusvllle, Pa., there is the dear est person of all, a little mother, get ting pretty old now, but still Interested In all her daughter's activities. Mrs. Joseph Tannler came in from her ranch to see her friend, Ida Tarbell. Mrs. Tannler was one of the Chases, of Ti tusvllle. It was a happy reunion, with a chat about the old-time friends, every one called by his first name. Employment bureaus, seasonal oc cupations, labor conditions were dis cussed with N. F. Johnson, of the free employment bureau. What Miss Tar bell didn't ask about wasn't worth asking. She is interested in every phase of life and industry. And what Is she like? Miss Harbell Is tall and rather slender, graceful, at tractive in personality. Her hair is tinged with gray and her eyes dance with merriment or flash with keen in terest. SCENIC LECTURE PLEASES Fred H. Klser Shows Views Before .- Oregon Camera Club. 1 The illustrated lecture on Northwest scenery given by Fred H. Kiser at the housewarming entertainment of the Oregon Camera Club, Tuesday evening of last week, met with favor. Mr. Kiser gave a short talk on amateur photog raphy, and told how, several years ago, .he had learned the rudiments of pic ture-making in the Oregon Camera .Club as a member. . Lantern slides, all of which were hand-colored by Mr. Kiser, comprising scenes along the Columbia Highway, in Glacier National Park, Rainier Na tional Park, etc, as well as a large collection of flowers, delighted the spectators for an hour and three quarers. "Illladors" Xiecture Topic. "Illladors" will be the subject of a .lecture to be delivered by T. J. Lewis at Turn Hall. Fourth and Yamhill streets, tonight at 8 o'clock. Admis sion, la .free. 7 f - 2 m Tf 4 V i TROUBLE IS SEEN Seasonal Labor Declared to Be Source of Danger. DR. JORDAN ALSO SPEAKS Edmund Vance Cooke Reads One of His Poems Before Gathering of Many Clubs Hopeful Signs Noticed by Woman. Ida Tarbell. the famous woman publicist; Dr. David Starr Jordan. equally famous as an advocate of peace, and Edmund Vance Cook, au thor, lecturer and poet, were the galaxy of stars - that shone at the luncheon -of the Civic League at the Multnomah Hotel yesterday. In which numerous other organizations besides the league co-operated. The Pennsylvania Society, Profes sional Woman's League, Woman's Press Club and Woman's Club were among the most prominent organiza tions besides the league represented, the Pennsylvania Club acting Jointly with the league as the chief host to Miss Tarbell, in whose especial honor the luncheon was given. Miss Tarbell's address was the chief feature of the day, and in it she touched very definitely upon some of the industrial problems that exist in Oregon. "It seems incongruous." she said, "that Oregon should have any indus trial problem; a state so abundantly rich in oportunlties and potential wealth. But I have come to know of it even in my brief visit here. Danger Seen in Seasonal Labor. "Pennsylvania, my native state, was equally rich in promise and opportuni ty, and it has reaped a most terrible crop of industrial troubles. It seems to me that it is up to the Pennsylvanlans who have come to Oregon to live and I almost feel that Oregon is popu lated by Pennsylvanlans from the number I have met this morning to prevent the same things from happen ing here that happened to us in Penn sylvania. "It seems to me that seasonal labor is the danger here. I do not believe that it is possible to have a healthy industrial life in a state where there the large bodies of men or women em ployed only a part of the year. The logical result of seasonal employment is the I. W. W. When a man is for months out of employment, it is inevi table that he should brood, and should feel a lively sense of injustice, and ulti mately an active hatred for the society in which he is condemned to this. "Such men are not the type of men that you want in your social life. Stable Industries Are Need. "Chambers of Commerce and far- sighted leaders in communities are awakening to the fact that it is folly to invite to their community industries that are unsubstantial or are based upon methods which work inconven ience in the long run upon the em ployes. "The tendency at present is to build In the community only Industries that are stable and tend to produce a steady and substantial industrial organization. "We cannot shirk the fact that our Industries at present, by and large, are not upon a democratic basis. Miss Tarbell, however, pointed out as a hopeful sign in the industrial field the growing tendency on the part of employers to take their workmen into their confidence and to make them par' ticlpants in the business. She expressed her belief that scien tific evolution and not revolution will effect the industrial salvation of the United States. "I have faith in the growing efforts toward scientific management of Indus tries to produce a democratic prganiza tlon of the Industries," she sa'id. Hope Given to Workers. "Scientific management goes on the theory that there is no such a thing as unskilled labor; that there is a best way in which every task, no matter how menial, may be done, and that Industry is helped by teaching the laborer this best way. It takes unskilled labor and lifts It Ho the dignity. of skilled labor. htm 9... and restores in the workman the proper pride in his work. "In so many of our Industries there are Innumerable lines of work that tend to become mechanical and monoto nous. They . become blind alleys in which the workers find themselves trapped with no hope of working out to higher or better lines of endeavor. "Scientific organization of industries aims to open these blind alleys and to i give some hope to the workers. "We cannot claim that we have any thing like an industrial democracy where workers have no share in the enterprise except the dally wage that is paid them. Profit-Sharing: Idea Spreado. "More and more are Industries adopt ing the plan of sharing the stock in the business with the employes, and more and more the employes are com ing to a feeling of part ownership in the businesses that tend to produce better co-operation and more hope for the future." Miss Tarbell described the definite workings of the plan in several fac tories that she had studied, where the workmen were permitted to acquire stock in addition to their wages. The owner of a factory may ac cumulate more money for a time by excluding his employes from any share in the proprietorship of the business, but the ideal should be and is coming to be, what was expressed to me by one of the officers of the factory I studied, who said the policy Is not to make a few millionaires, but to make thousands of happy and prosperous people. Closed Plants Grow Fewer. "In other days employers in times of stress, when orders fell off, took the easiest method and closed down their plants. Now they, are coming to recognize that the industrial employer has the same responsibility to keep the men at work in times of depression that the banker has to keep his bank open in times of financial panic. This is becoming the prevailing attitude of business men and is one ot the big hopeful signs of the future." In closing Miss Tarbell touched upon POPULAR ACTRESS IS TISIT 131 PORTLAND. n ji fc--..' i 2 1 4 Marguerite McNnlty. An interesting guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Hayes, of Overlook Addition. Is Miss Marguerite McNulty, one of the best-known younger actresses of the Pacific Coast. Miss McNulty appeared last season in "The Lollard" In support of Marriett Malrtte. and this season she has been appearing with distinction as ingenue with the "Wilkes stock in Seattle and Vancouver, B. C. Miss McNulty, who is not quite 18, is the only daughter of Mrs. K. T. Bourgeois, recently of 313 East Thirty-third street, but who, with Mr. Bourgeois, has now moved to New Orleans. Miss McNulty has posed for posters for Harrison Fisher, Christy and Charles Dana Gibson, and her smiling face has been reproduced often in magazines and newspa pers. She will remain in Port land for a fortnight as the guest of Mrs. Hayes, after which she goes to New Tork to join Miss Malotte in her new Orpheura sketch. Ancien McNulty, a brother of Miss McNulty, is ap pearing in stock in Salt Lake City. lJL - a ' .J her recent trip through several states and declared that In this trip she had for the first time received the true conception of the spirit of the Nation as a whole. W. W. Young-son, chairman of the day, introduced Dr. Jordan, who gave a short talk, -and then called upon Edmund Vance Cooke, who read one of his poems, and was greeted with a burst of applause that continued for many minutes. The poem he read was from his book, "The Uncommon Commoner, and Similar Songs of Democracy," copy righted, 1913, and published by the Eodge Company, of New York. Poem I Read by Author, The poem follows: EACH FOR ALL. I like the North. I like Its etres Which makes lor strength and sturdiness. I like Its seasons, marked and clear. Which hymn the prog reus of the year; Its childlike Spring, which gently wakes. Its Summer, watched by clear-eyed lakes. Its Autumn, with its crimson flood. Its Winter's challenge to the blood. I like its Winter-weathered oaks, I like Its Winter-weathered folks. To whom I send this greeting forth " "I like you as I tike the North' I like the East. I like Its stir. Of things which are with things which were. I like Its old historic sites, I like its ever-new delights, Itc older custom and its air Of comme II faut and savolr fairs. I like Its cities, where the tide Of human life runs deep and wide Here sits, as at a constant feast. The polished, poised and meraoried East, T like the South, whose pulses run To the warm measure o its sun. Yet, knowing life has much to give. It takes its ample time to live. I like Its gentleness of tone. Its pride in all it calls Its own, I like Its people, and their charm Of easy welcome, wide and warm, . Warm as love's klttses on the mouth. The South, the loyal, loving outh! I like the West, which seems to keep The all-out-doorness In Its sweep. It greets the gray of every dawn Then turns, and forges further on. Large is its thought, and large its view. It proves the old. It tries the new. It thrives on wheat or thrives on chaff. It takes Its failures with s lauch. Renews' its strength to try them later. Succeeds, and turns to something greater. O, staunch of heart, O, broad of breast. I like the West, the big, bold West! The North, the South, the West, the East, No one the most, and none the least, But each with Its own heart and mind. Each of its own distinctive kind. Yet each a part, and none the whole. But all together form one soul; That soul our country at Its best. iNo North, no Fouth, no East, no West, No yours, no mine, but only ours, Merged in one power our lesser powers. for no one s lavor. great or small But all for each and each for all I Five hundred persons participated in the luncheon and about 200 more came and took standing room to hear the address afterward. Miss Tarbell will speak at the ves per services at Reed College chapel at 4 o'clock today. FOUNDERS' DAY OBSERVED Phi Kappa Psl Fraternity Members Elect New Officers. The annual Founders' Day banquet of the Oregon alumni members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity was held Febru ary 19 at the University Club In this city. The annual election of officers took place at this meeting. Carlos C. Close was elected president; H. Gerard Efflnger, vice-president, and Thaddeus W. Veness, secretary and treasurer. Several social events of Interest to all Oregon Phi Psis was was determined upon, including one or more social dances at the Irvington Club, as well as an informal family picnic in the Summer. Among those present were: Carlos C. Close. H. Gerard Efflnger, Rev. D. D. Youngson, Douglas R. Tate, Stanley Myers, Thaddeus W. Veness, Robert C. Fiske. J. A. Rockwood, L. G. McGaw, Fuller Combs, Barge E. Leonard, A. B. Winfree and H. A. Askwlth. 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Gunther Krause was elected chair man of the committee which Is to solicit further contributions among the men and George Brown, secretary. Elenor Ewlng was elected chairman by the women and Frances Greenberg. secretary. Y. W. C. A. MEET SCHEDULED Western Willamette Valley School Members to Gather at Monmouth. OREGON NORMAL SCHOOL, Mon mouth. Or.. Teb. 2i. (Special.) The Y. W. C. A. conference of the Western Willamette Valley schools, will be held here from next Monday until Wednes day. The schools to be represented are: Reed College. Portland: Pacific University. Forest Grove; Pacific Col lege, Newberg; McMinnvllle College, McMinnville; Oregon Normal School, and many high schools that have Y. W. C A. organizations. 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