THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 23, 1917.'
IDA TARBELL HIGHLY
INTERESTED GUEST
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SEVERAL FRIENDS ARE MET
Trip Up Highway Is Prevented by
Storm, but Finley Sloving Pic
tures Bring Scenery to Visi
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. Greetings
were rad from absent members, in
cluding "Professors W. J. GUmore and
E. T. Reed, of Oregon Agricultural
College.
WOMEN LEAD IN RELIEF
Reed Men Far Behind in Pledges
for Prison Camp Work.
W. M. Tinker, a representative of the
International Y. M. C. A., spoke before
the students of Reed College last week
on "The Prison Camps of Europe," and
made a plea for support of h work
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