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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1917)
: .vr. .-.- -- -A- TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAK, POItlXAND, MARCH. 4, 1917. LUMBER CURTAILED BY CAR SHORTAGE Chamber of Commerce as the conserva tive element, makes Mr. Chapman's achievement the more remarkable. " "The Legislature Just closed was more mediocre in the matter of the in dividual ability of Its members, than any other I have attended and more honest," said Mr. Chapman. "The tenure of office law for teach ers was really not much of an issue at the beginning of the session," he said. "Mr. Orton emerged as the first real popular idol that the session had de veloped, under the spell of the applause from the teachers' lobby, and the bill he had fathered Tvent through with a whoop. It passed chiefly through the enthusiasm and efforts of the lobby of pretty teachers. I think It may be safe to predict that we will have pain ful experiences under the new bill, as under the old. before we get a thor oughly satisfactory tenure of office law." The consolidation slogans with which the legislators went to the session he characterized as "bunk." Join the Craze Everybody's Doing It! The popularity of Hawaiian music and instruments is marvelous. As always, we are first in every thing that's latest and best in music and musical instruments. LEIES (flower wreath) West Coast Unshipped Bal ance Totals 17,372 Cars, .11,000 Above Normal. FREE with each - 4 Hawaiian instru ment. RELIEF APRIL 1 FORECAST tf.-i ' '' -: t": : 'y '- : ' Hawaiian . 8 .T: - ' i - 1 A vrJrwkv'''''; rnleomin - 4 - v' ' , ' , -r Q"-' - f Hawaiian W :.J s::'" L -r i . 'Cr:i .....r.&& I- windows : v. 4 - v r ... . J . V - ,-'3 .1 i 4 lore Intense Situation During This Month Is Expected by Railway Traffic Managers War May Be Big Factor. Lack of cars continues to be the dom inating factor m curtailing the lum ber production of the Northwest. The output last week, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Associa tion records, was 67.688,373 feet, which Is 24.44 per cent below normal. Many mills have withdrawn from the market entirely pending an Improve ment In the car situation. Some of the larger plants have called In their sales men, while others have gone out at advanced quotations, apparently In the hope of regulating business automati cally until the congestion can be re lieved. Meanwhile the unshipped balance of transcontinenal and local rail orders held by association mills has gone to 17,372 carloads, or virtually 11,000 cars more thai would normally be on the books of tneee mills at this particular chipping season. ' Relief April 1 Forecast. Railroad traffic managers have ad vised the lumber manufacturers, how ever, that the car situation will be ma terially relieved about April 1. They look for the shortage to grow more In tense during the present month, with a better volume of equipment available toward the end of the month, provided preparations for a possible war do not place a further demand upon the rail roads. All orders, rail, cargo and local, for the week totaled 67,448,778 feet at the association mills, which was 14.421,174 feet greater than all shipments. Of the total volume of orders 48,925,000 feet of new business came from the East for future delivery by rail. The domestic coastwise cargo orders totaled 6.390.138 feet. California busi ness, which Is the largest coastwise market, has been buying sparingly, ow ing to the heavy rains and restricted building operations. These rains, how ever, are taken as a guarantee of good crop conditions In California, for the coming year, and it is expected that coastwise orders later In the season Will be very heavy. 6,S90,000 Feet Exported. Export orders amounted to 6,890,000 feet, local orders that is, business delivered by team and auto from the mill amounts to 6.243.640 feet. Shipments totaled 03,027,604 feet, of which 35,125,000 feet represents load ings for Eastern destinations. Domes tic coastwise cargo clearances totaled 9.254,596 feet; export clearances, 2,476, 881 feet, and local deliveries, 6,171,127 feet. The balance of unshipped orders In the rail trade amounts to 434,300,000 feet; In the coastwise cargo domestic trade, 67,882,398 feet, and In the export trade, 57,609,020 feet, making a total of unshipped business at association mills amounting to 669,791,418 feet. BELGIAN FUND IS $1570 WASTE PAPEll SOLD BY SCHOOL CUILDRE SWELLS TOTAL. Committee In Charge of Campalsrn Is . Anxious to Send Another Draft to Headquarters. Churches and Sunday schools throughout the city will be rallied to day to the assistance of the campaign for the relief of the Belgian childran who are starving in the territory oc cupied Dy the German government. The committee of the Progressive Business Wen's Club, which is conducting the campaign, has arranged with the min isters of the principal churches of the city to call attention to the urgent need in their sermons, and Sunday schools will be asked also to contribute to the fund. The sale of waste naner nv tri -nunf!. In the publio schools is bringing sub stantial sums to .the fund. Couch School opened this activity with a con tribution of about $20 and yesterday the Montavllla schools turned over $10.18 raised in the same manner. The eum reported to date ls.-?1570.72 ana mere are many contributions avail Vl 1 H.kt.1. 1 , ttuo wiwi-n imvc not Deen turned in as yet. It was hoped that the 12000 mark would have been passed last week and that another draft for J1000 might u Bent to tne committee In New York. -fvil naste will De mart. riowAvn. n bring the fund up to $2000 as early as j.uosiuia in tne present week. Contri butions should be sent to S.-L. Eddy "uu at iinons rjanK. J. E. Wer. ,em ' cnairman or the general com-: xnittee in charge of the compaign. The contributions reported yesterday follow: Wade Pipes, $5; L. R. Bailey. 52; Florence Berkeley, Pendleton $1 Roger3 barber shop, $1; W. H. Markell! $o; Paul Aubert, Mount Hood. 2; R. P .nu non, j; i. -A.cker.man, New Tork -.il. o; j. .ts. iioore, Detroit, Mich., 1 Doi winiams, Jeilogg, Or., $5; Carl Iseal, $2.50; John Latta, 12; George W Stapleton, $5; Montavllla School, $10.18; '" . oeavey, $5; Mrs. A. Frank i. i . Fans. $2; Elsie Ohle, LEGISLATURE JUST CLOSED MEDI OCRE, BUT BOXEST, HE SAYS. .tDoy or i-retty Teachers Credited With Securing Faiute of Orton Tenure of Office Bill. Coming fn expectation of being1 In terpellated and heckled with questions on tne worn or tne recent Legislature, C. C. Chapman, editor of the Oregon Voter, who addressed the Civic League at its luncheon at the Multnomah Hotel yesterday noon, got through an epi grammatic address without an Inter ruption and when he finished, nary a heckler arose. All In all. the Legislature got away from the Civic League with its plumage far less ruffled than on Monday, when the members' council of the Chamber of Commerce pounced upon the returned solons and worried them "most dis tressfully"; which. In view of the fact that the Civlo League Is regarded as the radical element in Portland and the G. C. CHAPMAN SPEAKS NEW FRAT AT 0. A. C. LAMBDA CHI ALPHA TAKES OVER tMATILLA CLL-B. Installation Ceremonies Are Held Corvallis and Students Who Make High Records Are Enrolled. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallis, March 3. (Special.) Another National fraternity made its appear ance upon the campus of the Oregon Agricultural College today, when Lambda Chi Alpha was formally in stalled. The charter goes to the Umatilla Club, an organization which was found ed In 1913, and which has since that time occupied a position of prominence, both in scholarship and student ac tivities. During the first semester of this year the Umatilla Club obtained second in averaged scholastic standing of its men among all the fraternities and clubs of the campus, with a weighted average of 86.8 per cent, which was 6 per cent higher than the general aver age of all male students in college. The new chapter will be known as Alpha Lambda chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha. Installation ceremonies were conducted by M. C. Lane, of Massachu setts Agricultural College, assisted by three representatives from the chapter of Washington State College Lv C. Callow, Carl J. H. Bornholdt and C. H. Worthen. Those who were Initiated Into the fraternity at the chapter's installation were: Clayton B. Strain, Pendleton; Vernon L Basler. Grants Pass; Clifford G. Tanner, San Luis Obispo, Cal.; Arthur Ferguson, Helix; Leo H. Haw, Pendleton; L. L. Branthover, Payette, Idaho; Ralph Atwood, Corvallis; Clar ence S. Nesbit, Payette, Idaho; Orson Straughn, Pendleton; D. S. North, Cor vallis; T. P. Cramer, Grants Pass; Le- land A. Mentzer, Pendleton; C D, Ament, Grants Pass; J. C. Larson, Sou- ver; George Mitchell. Upland, Cal.; William Teutsch, Nyssa; M. R. Powell, Fruitland, Idaho; Warren Dalgh, On tario. Cal.; A. T. Brach, Astoria; H. 1L White, Kerby; Ira A. Forrey, Kima, Idaho; Walter L. Stone. Denton. Mont.; B. A Knoll, Nebraska; L. P. Sabln, Grants Pass; Everett Smith, Pasadena, Cal.; Martin L. Conniss, Spokane; Cyril Par sons, Bonanza; C. T. Myers, Pendleton; Otto L. Fox, Ashland; Arthur Jordan, Pendleton; M. AT. Miller, Silverton, and Alfred Straughn, Pendleton. PAMPHLET JOB AWARDED Iruin-nodson Company to Do Print ing at $5.55 a Thousand. SALEM, Or., March S. (Special.) lrwin-iioason company, or Portland, get the contract for printing, binding, and mailing the pamphlets to be sent out before the special election to be held June 4. The cost, based upon a pamph let estimated at 48 pages, is to be $6.55 thousand for the printing, binding and mailing, this not to include paper or postage, which will be furnished by tne state. The total cost of the contract will an proximate $1915, and the cost of the paper $1880, It being estimated that 32,000 pounds of paper will be required. The cost of postage will be $3250, and In addition will Do addressing costs. It is expected that approximately 325. 000 pamphlets will be printed. Esti mates were received on 46, 48, 50 and sz-page pamphlets. Y. M. C. A. WORKERS MEET Oregon-Idaho Conference In Session at Salem to Face Problems. SALEM, Or.. March 8. fSDedaLV About 30 workers of the Y. M. C A. of Oregon and Idaho were in session here today for a conference to promote the work of the association in the two states. J. D. Foster, of Eugene, was elected president or the gathering. At the bus! ness session this afternoon the mem bers of tho state committee were unani mously re-elected and a budget of $13,- ooo ror tne year was decided upon. Among leading men in Y. M. C. A work in attendance were Harry W. Stone, Portland; Am S. Allen, Seattle John H. Rudd, state boys secretary, and I. B. Rhodes, secretary of the state committee. Much of the programme today re volved around problems confronting the work or city and college associations. CONVENTION IS PLANNED Aberdeen to Begin Early In Pre paring for Realty Men. ABERDEEN. Wash., March 3. -'(Special.) Preparations for the Tri-State Realty Dealers' Association convention, to be held here August 9, 10 and 11, will be begun within two weeks by th Grajrt Harbor Realty Association. The realty dealers themselves have pledged $00 for the entertainment of the visitors and will collect $1400 more from busi ness houses. Circular letters, addressed to every realty dealer In the North west will be sent out prior to the con vention. Each of these letters will tell of different features of the convention and urge the attendance . of the re cipient. In October Aberdeen Is to entertain the Grocers' and Merchants' Association of the state. ROAD LEVY IS ATTACKED Lumber interests In Clackamas Are Fighting Tax In Court. OREGON CITY, Or., March 8. (Spe cial.) Suit to annul the 1918 road1 levy in Road District 49, of - Clackamas County, was brought by Attorney J. E. Hedges In the court today for P. E. Linn, the Union Lumber Company, Hammond Lumber Company and the East Side Mill & Lumber Company large holders t timber land) in the district. According to the complaint, a levy cf 10 mills was assessed against the dis trict as the result of a taxpayers' meet ing and not as the result of proper ao tion of the County Court. The combined holding of the lumber Interests fighting the road levy Is ap proximately izqo acres. r 4 cannot I ' & Ah 'f Y: . dlfi 'n'Ml Ai i))fAm MvzZZ, ..." . t. 1 -....... THR ONT.Y in i Portland. OTdy ,,-, Leies WlmXk left.. J : r, " - Lv American and Genuine Hawaiian UKULELES $3.50 up I FREE LESSONS. WstfMn AsksSBsli BOYS DEMAND HEADING KOUIt AUTO THIEVES SMILE AT AC CUSER'S TESTIMONY. Attempt Is Blade While WaJtlns fer Cue to Come Up to Kscape, but Bailiff Hears Effort to Break Door. "We want a preliminary hearing Just to get a squint at the g-uy whose car we stole," explained Winter Willis, spokesman for George Hickle, Harry Frlcker and Ernest McLoughlln. charged with the larceny of an automobile, in Municipal Court yesterday. None of the defendants tooK the stand, but contented themselves with listening to the testimony of Detec tives Craddock and Smith, and to- smil ing amusedly at the narration of Al bert E. De Franco., of 811 Kerby street, whose large touring car they stole on Wednesday night. The four were touring the city In a small car owned by Winter Willis when one of the front tires burst. At once the search began for some car which might be rifled to supply the needed tire. Various disappointments were met with before De Francq's garage was broken Into, his car unlocked and driven away. It was a larger car and did not adapt Itself to their tire needs, but the four toured In It until they found, at 120 Willamette boulevard, a car owned by I' B. Menefee. They towed the second car away and stripped It of the front, wheels. While awaiting hearing yesterday morning In the prisoners' box, an ante room to the courtroom. Willis and Hickle attempted to escape by lifting fhn Tiln from the hinges of a corridor door. Bailiff Ernest Johnson heard their cautious efforts and frustrated A fifth automobile theft suspect. James Beggs, 1 years old. was bound over to the grand Jury under J250 ball. Rail in the other cases was fixed at 500. r VISTA-HOUSE TOUR SET REALTY BOARD WILL LEAD DELE CATION TODAY. Excursion to Start at 1:30 O'clock for Crown Point, Where Brief Ad dresses 'Villi Be Made. Under the auspices of the Portland Realty Board, with C. Lewia Mead as chairman, a large number of Portland motorists will drive over the Columbia River Highway today as far as Crown Point, where the Vista House memorial project will be Inspected under the di rection of John B. Yeon, county road master. Mr. ' Mead reports that several of ficials of the Vista House Association, and a number of hotel men and auto mobile dealers have expressed their intention of making the trip with the realty men. The party of motorists will form In front of the Yeon building at 1:30 o'clock and proceed directly over the highway to the Vista House site, where several speeches will be delivered. The exercises . will not require more than half an hour. Plans for the Viet a House were drawn by Edgar M. Lazarus on the In structlon of Roadmaster Yeon, calling for a class "A" - reinforced concrete structure, hurricane-proof, with the necessary facilities of a modern public comfort station, equipped with the best of sanitary fixtures. G0LDSB0R0UGH IS NOT IN Tng 'Walts at Astoria to Bring Tor pedo Craft TJp River. The torpedo-boat Goldsboro, which was reported aa having left the Puget Bound Navy-yard at Bremerton isrJ- f'Tii A FINE STEEL GUI TAR OUTFIT including steel, 3 1 O picks, book and free lessons. U "It's so easy to learn." All the popular songs and solos made in rec ords for the Victrola, Grafonola and Edison diamond disc Come in and hear them. iipjrifiw.iAi .liru'.... day morning for Portland upon Its as signment to the Oregon Naval Militia as an auxiliary training ship, had not arrived at Astoria late last night. Every arrangement had been made to pilot the vessel to Astoria and up the river. A tug was in waiting all day, according to Lieutenant-Commander Blair, of the militia. The order that Government ships re frain from stating their positions by wireless is probably responsible for the lack of information as to the wherea bouts of the craft. No fear, however. Is felt for her safety. BISHOP SUMNER IS HOME I'rt-Iato Brings Elmer Adams, At torney, of Chicago, With Him. Elmer Adams, of Chicago, arrived In the city yesterday with Bishop W. T. Sumner, who Is Just returning from Moscow, Idaho. Mr. Adams is an at torney, and while visiting the Coast on a business matter will be the guest of Bishop Sumner for several days. Bishop Sumner made a series of ad dresses before the students of the University of Idaho while he was In Moscow. Another appearance was made before special classes and also before the entire student body of Washington State College at Pullman. The King of Denmark confines his commercial ventures to the Stock Ex change, and has made many consider able deals. E 'nwa Cold First yon feel a little chillythen you cant get warm. Followed by smarting eyes and sneezes. Then comes the cough. Then what? That depends upon your eystem's condition. If you are strong, a few days unpleasantness. If you are weak, it may go on longer, may result seriously. The weakness gains, and a host of disease germs find lodgment. The next you know, you ere really sick. Colds are dangerous when they cannot be thrown off ; the strong man throws them off easily. The Moral Is A neglected cold leaves an after effect of a congested membrane. It may be in the nose, the throat, or the lungs. Sometimes it is in the stomach and intestines. , Perhaps you nave grown used to it, and fail to notice anyj soreness. But it's there. A fresh cold aggravates it. Soon you have chronic catarrh. In time, max narDors a cola and forms a point of infection. It spreads until your whole body suffers from systemic catarrh. Then you are really in danger. Don't wait that. UKULELE BANJOS The Latest" A snappy up-to-date in strument that's very easy to learn to play. Free lessons. kttsJiW GANNERS ABE ACTIVE EQ.TJ ALIZ ATI O OP LABOR CONDI TIONS CREDITED WITH RESULTS. Packers Say Investments Are Safe Sow and They Do Kot Hesi tate to Lay Out Money. The action of the Legislature equal izing the labor conditions in canning Industries with the conditions prevail ing In Washington and California has had a stimulating effect already upon the canning Industry in Oregon, accord ing to communications that have come to the bureau of manufacture and in dustrles'of the Chamber of Commerce. One of the immediate results of this bill will be the erection of a $750,000 reinforced concrete plant by the Oregon Packing Company on an eight-acre tract situated at the Derby-street ap proach of the new Interstate bridge. This tract has Just been purchased by the packing company from the Ken wood Land Company. At The Dalles, Llbby, McNeill & Libby have oiommenced the erection of an apartment-house for the accommodation of their women em ployes and will make numerous other installations which will amount to total expenditure of approximately 125,000. - The Gresham Fruitgrowers' Associa tion will begin work at once cn a new cannery. These expenditures, fie can- to Keen Yourself Well A OltJ But for the nation s Remedy, it is better to stay wejl. Have Peruna at hand, use it freely at the first symptoms, and you will keep your body so well iortihed that you will be free of colds, free of catarrhal symptoms, and enjoy your life to the full. - " That's the common sense way in which thousands of people preserve their health.. It's the kind of preparedness we all agree upon. It's true life insurance, that pays the benefits while you can enjoy them. Ask the thousands who use Peruna. It could not have gained the place it occupies in the American household if it did not have unusual merit. Forget your prejudices and let Peruna make good for you, as it has for so many. You may obtain Peruna in tablet form for convenience. Carry a box with you! s Thm Peruna Company, Colombo, Ohio. 5 1- " '4JL. -rL fw w "Visfr'"0''-' L- bbbIUmIKsb ners declare. Indicate their appreciation of the amendment of the laws and they now consider their investments are resting on a safe basis in this state. They predict that this will save thou sands of dollars to the fruit industry of the state. AD CLUB TO ENTERTAIN First of Series to Be Jitney Dance, March 2 3. As the first of a series of affairs to be held during the coming Spring and Summer the Portland Ad Club Is plan ning for a "Jitney" dance in Cotillion Hall Friday night, March 23. A com mittee of 60 members of the club, with Walter K. Louis as chairman, has been appointed to take charge of the prep arations for the event. Dancing will be the principal feature of the gathering, but there will also be a programme of musical and other numbers, in addition to a number of live features. The plans of the committee have not been definitely outlined yet. ENGINEERS MEET TUESDAY Electrical Ship Problem Will Discussed at Multnomah. Be The American Institute of Electrical Engineers will hold Its regular month ly meeting Tuesday night at 8 o'clock o membrane a v out your system. It will build upyour strength. It will counteract the poisons the congested membrane don't wait until you are sick. chronic colds and catarrh by Peruna are daily reported, and in the last forty years have been so numerous as to make Peruna native Hawaiian ukulele and steel guitar teacher in the city. Mr. Chas. Elamania, Dimond, the eminent ukulele and steel gui tar soloist, teaches our customers. Studio 3rd floor, Morrison St. Store Free demon stration. N o w consolidated with Graves Music Co., 151 4th St. at Morri son. 142 Broadway at Alder. In the assembly hall of the Multnomah HoteL L. T. Merwln will be the chair man. "Steam Turbines and the Reduction of Gears for Ship Propulsion" will be discussed by W. J. Davis, Jr., with es pecial attention to the application of the principle to. cargo ships. The use of the electric drive for battleships and cruisers also will be considered, as well as the electro-magnetic clutch. Illus trations by lantern slides and sketches will be provided. MISSION WORKERS MEET Alliance to Hold Conference Today and Missionaries Speak. The annual convention of the Port land branch of the Christian and Mis sionary Alliance will begin today and continue until March 11, inclusive. The meetings will be held In the Gospel Tabernacle, East Ninth and Clay streets. This morning Rev. D. M-Car-penter, of Hood River, will speak and In the afternoon he will address the Huber-Aloha Sunday school at 2:30. To night he will speak at the Tabernacle again,' at 7:30. Rev. Mr. Zimmerman, a minister of Toronto, Canada, and a field worker for the society, will be another speaker at the convention. A missionary from India, Rev. M. Moyser, will arrive to morrow and give the evening address. Meetings will be held daily at 2:30 and 7:30. Next Sunday three services, 11 o'clock, 2:30 and 7:30. will be held. . win sooine ana I the mucous matter where it Xm is affected. It will help clear is leaving in your blood. While wonderful cures of 1 - . X I. I f r . .'- 1