THE SUNDAY OREGOXTAX, PORTLAXD, 31 ARCH 23, 1917, PLUMBERS PLAN TO ' PASS LICENSE LAW WAR LETTER GOMES NOTED PIANIST AND VIOLINIST TO GIVE COMBINATION RECITAL Rudolph Ganz and Albert Spalding Are to Appear at Heilig Theater Next Thursday Night Under Steers & Coman. Captain James Nevins Hears From F. J. C. Ball. Stringent Ordinance Govern ing Business to Be Pro posed by Daly. TRENCH ACTIVITY IS THEME 14 WORK'S SUPERVISION AIM Contemplated Measure Would Re quire All Plumbers to Pass an Examination and Prescribe Character of Work. Registration and licensing: of all per sons engaged in the plumbing: business as employing plumbers and registration of all Journeymen Is proposed in an ordinance to be submitted to the City Council Wednesday by City Commis sioner Daly. The measure is said to ba backed by the Master Plumbers' As sociation and the labor organizations. 'Hereafter it shall be unlawful," the ordinance says, "for any person to work at the trade or calling of plumbing in the city of Portland as a journeyman plumber without first passing an ex- in Ino Urtx KfifnMi 4-Via vamininp hAnrH of plumbers provided for by this ordl- nance, receiving a certificate of com petency as a Journeyman plumber from, and registering his name with, such examining beard. Teat Is Proposed. "Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the trade, calling or business of plumbing in the city of Portland as a master or employ ing plumber without first passing an examination before the examining board of plumbers provided for by this ordinance, 'receiving a certificate of competency as a master or employing plumber from and registering his name and the address of his place of busi ness with such examination board and paying the annual license provided for in this ordinance." The amount of the license fee has not been fixed as yet In the proposed ordinance. "Hereafter it shall be unlawful," con tinues the measure," for any person, firm or corporation not duly licensed as a master or employing plumber to obtain permits for or engage In any plumbing work or business in the city of Portland under the permit, or in the name of any person, firm or corpora tion which has been duly licensed to engage In such trade, calling or busi ness." "It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation licensed to engage in the trade, calling or business of plumbing in the city, of Portland, as master or employing plumber, to permit another person, firm or corporation not so licensed to engage in or carry on or obtain permits for any plumbing work in the city of Portland, under the permit or In the name of such licensed person, firm or corporation." Ernmlnew to Be Named. The ordinance creates an examining board, members of which shall be apS pointed by the Mayor. The board will comprise the Chief Inspector of Plumb ing and Drainage, two master plumbers ejid one Journeyman plumber. The measure provides that the term "plumb ing" shall Include "plumbing, drainage and sanitary work and systems, but Mh8.11 nnt lnclnria nrii lnrv renatra t n water pipes within the curb lines of the streets, faucets, hot-water tanks .and water backs or to removal of ob structions in fixtures or piping which are generally known and considered as maintenance work, or to replacement of fixtures where no new fixture is cut into the system." The purpose of the measure is said to be to eliminate Incompetent plumbers and plumbing firms from the business. The city formerly had such a system, but lost out with it in lawsuits. HUMANE SOCIETY TO MEET Annual Business Session Will Be Held on Tuesday. The annual meeting of the stock holders and the board of trustees of the Oregon Humane Society will - be held at the Unitarian Chapel, corner Broadway and Yamhill street, Port land, on Tuesday at 7:30 P. M. An in teresting programme has been arranged and .important matters will be taken up for consideration. - . - , The following names are proposed by the nominating committee to take the place of the retiring members on the board: Miss Viola Ortschild, Fred Olson. $ Clayton Taylor, Miss Vivian Cooley .and Claud L. Simpson. The following officers are renomi nated: Alfred Cowperthwait, presi dent; Mrs. P. W. Berry, vice-president; Dr. B. J. Welty, recording secretary; Mrs. Frank W. Swanton, corresponding secretary; . Raymond G. Jubitz, treas urer. M'ARTHUR HITTING HARD Representative In Congress Works on Alaska Discrimination. Representative McArthur is making a strong fight in Washington in behalf of the Dant & Russell contract to pre vent the discrimination against the Port of Poctland, which is exemplified in ine oraer to cancel the bids on this contract. In a telegram yesterday sent to the Chamber of Commerce he announced: "I have filed additional-, data, together with clipping from Portland paper of March 16, with Alaska Engineering Commission and urged bid of Dant & Russell be allowed to stand for as much lumber as can be purchased with the funds of the commission at the present time." PUT ON FEW DROPS AND LinjUT CORN Try This Yourself, Then Pass It Along to utners it Works! Good things should be passed alone. It is now said that a few drops of a drug called freezone applied directly Upon a tender, aching corn relieves the soreness ana Boon the entire corn, root and all, can e lifted out without pain. For little cost a quarter of an ounce of freezone can be obtained from any drug Btore, wnicn is claimed to be suffi dent to remove every,hard or soft corn or caiius xrom one s zeet. Thie Is a 'drug recently announced from Cincinnati. It is gummy but dries the moment it is applied, and simply shrivels up the corn without inflaming or even irritating tl- healthy tissue or i" t lute, v i i. aim i ':' V - '- " v tmilnWlfttifniM-n i lift rimflfi nrrr WHlTf Vnifn ffrf lt OTlniKV lnrYt fT r'imrf'ihlTi.vimni irnTi rfi. RUDOLPH CAKZ, WHO WILL. BE! WITH ALBERT RUDOLPH GANZ, the noted pianist, and Albert Spalding, the Pger of any of the violin virtuosi, in a combina tion recital comprise a rare attraction that is to be offered at the Heilig Theater. Certainly the- two artists In one programme ought to be more than doubly attractive, and especially as each is to be heard in solo groups be sides their ensemble numbers. As usual Andre Benoist will be the accompanist for Mr. Spalding, and there is no su perior artist in his line. The recital will be given Thursday night. March 29, direction Steers and Coman, and the programme will .include the following beautiful works: The "Kreutzer Sonata" for violin and piano, by Beethoven, the work that lnspored Count Tolstoi in the writing of his greatest novel and a composition that gives both players ample scope to demonstrate their musicianship as well as technical abilities. Mr. Ganz and Mr. Spalding gave this sonata in San Francisco last Sunday and Redferd Mason, of the Examiner, says: "Since Tolstoy damned the Kreutxer with erotic madness it has been much misunderstood. Because Tolstoy had the gift of' literary creation he mis took himself for an authority on music He told Tschalkowsky to Imitate Mo eart and not Beethoven. More than that he recorded a number of Russian folk-tunes and did them so badly that the work was worse than useless. "But the 'Kreutzer sonata remains a OYSTERS ABE MENACE HEALTH OFFICER REPORTS TY PHOID INFECTION IN BIVALVES. Care Urged in Seeing; That Beds From Which Supplies Come Are Not Near Sewers. If you intend to eat raw oysters, the eaf plan is to get vaccinated -agalnnt typhoid fever first. Such is the advice of City Health Officer Marcellus in 'a report Issued yesterday in which he cites instances of typhoid fever devel oping from eating raw oysters, "In several parts of the country. In cluding the Pacific Coast," says the report, "there have been outbreaks of acute gastro-enteritis, followed in many Instances by typhoid fever, due to the Ingestion of polluted raw oysters. The cases in which typhoid fever has de veloped the patients have partaken of oysters which were obtained at certain' small beds located near sewer efflu- CARLTON GIRL BEST STUDENT AT M'MINKVILLE COLLEGE. r- Hiss Singne Jernstedt. . M"MINNVTLLE, Or., March 24. (Special.) Singne Jernstedt, of Carlton, Or., by earning a general average of 95.76 per cent for the entire four years of classroom work at McMlnnville College, has won the valedictory honors of her class, which graduates in June. Miss Jernstedt has also entered whole-heartedly into college ac tivities. She has proved her abil ity as president of the T. W. C. A., president of the Kappa Alpha Phi sorority, president of the Inter-Fraternity Conference, man ager of girls' athletics and chan cellor of the Calendar Club, the scholarship honor society of the college. - Miss Margaret Mann has been chosen second honor student. The graduating class has chosen Arn old Shotwell, of Hermlston,, as commencement orator. There are IS In the class. HEARD IN JOINT RECITAL SPALDING. glorious composition, in spite of Tol stoy's commentary, and the two artists gave a reading of it which was tra ditional yet personal." Of Mr. Ganz' ballade in Q minor he says: "Ganz is an artist, not merely to the fingers' tips, but with brain and fancy as well. He played the great Grieg ballade in place of the one by Chopin down on the programme, and played it with rare art." Mr. Spalding's violin solos will In clude "The Devil's Thrill." Walter An thony, of the Chronicle, eays: "In the performance that Spalding gave of Tartinl's 'The pevll's" Thrill,' there was almost as much emotion as an Elman would pull. there was a Krelsler touch of tenderness. "I am not trying to make out a case for Spalding. I am merely trying to persuade you to hear him. He has the gift of song. His sense of intonation is so splendid that it never deserts him in the most complicated passage, wherein the plays on two strings at once, and makes the piano which fol lows him seem pale and colorless with its tempered scale. "He has a passion for truthfulness In pitch, but he doesn't play the violin like a piano tuner. He plays like one gifted of the gods and in a fourth-right man ner in which there is no shaking of locks nor any mannerisms.- He pro claims the American who is willing to permit his muslo to stand on its own merits, without bringing to Its presen tation the eccentricities of the genius of a De Pachmann." ents. Examination of these oysters and their liquor, as well as shellfish taken from the same location, showed evi dences of sewage pollution. "The oysters were Invariably of small size and were used especially for the preparation of oyster cocktails. These cocktails seemed to have been the chief cause of illness. "Several of these patients who con tracted typhoid succumbed. The means of prevention of typhoid fever from this source may be summed up as fol lows: "First All citizens should become vaccinated aaginst typhoid fever in or der to acquire artificial immunity. Second Raw oysters should not be eaten at any time unless known to be of guaranteed purity and free from sewage pollution. The latter informa tion may be obtained from Federal, state or municipal authorities. Third All oyster beds situated In localities where raw sewage is emptied into the river should be discontinued, no matter in what part of the state they may be located." F0RTY-FIVERS PATRIOTIC Service at Front Preferred In Event of War. New assurances that the efficiency of men over 45 years is being recognized by employers .were produced at the meeting held Friday night at the Public Library by members of the Forty-five tiinciency ciuo. The efficiency commit tee of the organization reported that many employers had been approached and a number of positions found avail able. A number of activities lying open to men of this age were suggested at the meeting, one member asserting: that the work of guarding the Interstate bridges ana omer property snouia De left in their hands. ' This claim was repudiated by other members, who signified their readiness to go to the front in case of a call, rather than stand guard in the rear. QUARTERLY SESSION HELD Mount Tabor Sunday School Teach ers Discuss Current Topics. The Sunday school teachers of the Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church met at the home of D. C Bevan at 41 East Sixty-second street Friday mem ior meir quarterly Besslon. Two- minute nnncm nn vital . ( i i acters of the day were read by the icmuurj. j. ae cnurcn is at last Stark and East Sixty-first streets, and Rev. E. O. Rid rid Err. la tha nctn. Refreshments were served at the ciobo or tne meeting. On the com mittee in charge of the entertainment features were Mrs. W. C Wheeler, Mrs. C. C Miller, Mrs. I a Normandtn and .is. v. J3evan. Eugene Radiators Iy Plans. EUGENE, Or.. March 24. fKnor-loT Plans are being projected to send the Eugene Radiators' boys' drum corps of 60 members to the Pendleton Round-up, according to Carl G. Wash burn, one of the organizers of the corps. Plans already have been made to send the boys to the strawberry carnival at Roseburg and it is prob able that a special train will be run from Eugene to the celebration in that city. Great thoughts know no remorse and 4 great art paa never tq repeat. Signal Sergeant In Canadian Con tingent Contrasts Conditions of Modern Warfare and Those Existing During Civil War. Interesting sidelights on warfare as it is being waged in the trenches of Europe are contained in a letter writ ten to Captain James Nevins by Fred J. C. Ball, a signal sergeant with the Seventy-second Canadian Battalion "somewhere In France." Bom extracts of his letter follow: "I guess times have changed con siderably since you manned the guns about Gettysburg time and a modern war is surely something more than Sherman called It. How would you like to take part in a show where everyone lives under ground except the airmen? "Just raise your head In daylight to peep over the top sandbag and you get a neat hole drilled through it. You should hear our artillery open up on Frltzie across the way! No one can have any idea of the fearful crash until he has heard it. Hundreds of guns throw shells, some of them weighing more than your whole gun used to. Strata Declared Terrible. "The air is full of screaming and ripping shells. It is certainly a worse hell than Dante ever dreamed of. The holes the shells make are unbelievable until one actually sees them. To be near one when it explodes and to live to tell about it is quite an experience. xne guns, of course, would Interest you the most, you being an artillery man, Dut we Know very little about them. We occasionally see them when we are out of the line for rest periods. Huge monsters they are, pointing sky ward and ever ready to spit out tbelr awful destruction. God alone knows how human frames stand the strain of this awful war. A pretty sight in a very ugly setting is the aeroplane at work. We have a splendid mastery of the air, and when Frltzie plucks up courage to make a flight our planes swoop down on him like a hawk. Airplanes Get Results. The British planes spend their flvlnsr hours over Frltzle's lines, directing the gun fire, watching movements of troops ana worK oeing aone. as soon as he finds out something worth while he dashes home like a tell-tale school kid, whispers the news to the guns and hurries back to watch the shells fall and to correct the aim by his wireless telegraph. Bet you a nickel that they didn't do it so scientifically at Gettys burg. "I am writing this with shells actual ly passing over my head, but I am al most as safe as you are unless I eo outside. Only a direct hit with a big shell could do us much damage. Of course you have to go outside on cer tain occasions, and then 'come casual ties. When we go across to visit Frltzie there is more noise than a mil lion Fourth of July celebrations and the sensations of a lifetime come to one in an hour or less." Beer Saved by Court Is Lost to Culprit. Steward oa Steamer Hartwood "Gets By" With Judge After Raid, but Thief Gets In Work When Trial Is Over. RAYMOND, Wash.. March 23. (Spe cial.) When the steamer Hart- wood arrived in port Tuesday word was passed to the Sheriff's office that the vessel had on board a considerable quantity of liquor and Deputy Sheriff Wright and a posse made a raid, find ing eight acks of beer in the steward's locker, one sack In a coll of rope and two sacKs of whisky buried in the coal. The last three sacks no one claimed. but the steward maintained that he had a right to the quantity found in his locker, as it was for sale to the sailors while on the high seas. He got clear by telling this story to the Jus tice of the Peace, but InBtead of getting ma eigni sacKs or oeer aboard that evening he left them In charge of the court. Judge Dorrien locked his office after the trial and went to play a game or solo. Returning In an hour he was surprised to find three sacks of the Deer missing. The bolt to the back door had been pulled back, presumably by someone, who was Dresent at tha trial, and the beer went out that way. CLACKAMAS PIONEER GONE Mrs. S. O. Kirk, Resident for 60 Years, Dies at Highland. Mrs. S. C. Kirk, a Clackamas Countv pioneer of 1852, wife of T. J. Kirk, died at the family home at Highland re cently at the age of 71. She lived in Clackamas County since she crossed the plains more than 60 years ago. Mrs. ivirK was born in Iowa January 27. 1846. and came to the Pacific Coast with her parents. She lived in the Highland district for 45 years. She is survived by her widower and nine chil dren: Mrs. Olive Fellows, of Highland; Mrs. Laura E. Frost, of Oregon City; Mrs. Ellen Baker, of Lents; Sylvester Kirk, of Rainier: Edwlt Kirk, of Grays River, Wash.; George Kirk, of Cali fornia; Charles Kirk, of Oregon City; Frank Kirk, of Estacada. and Eugene Kirk, of Highland. Two brothers, J. N. Harrington, of Sellwood, and Ed- 5 Humphreys' Seventy-sevea For Grip, Influenza First Feeling. At the first feeling of taking Cold; lassitude, weakness, shiver, chill, sneeze, or cold feet; if possible rub your feet with alcohol, and a rough towel, put on fresh stockings"' and take "Seventy-seven," to start the blood tingling through the veins and break np the Cold. If yod wait until your bones begin to ache, it will take longer. At Drosrlsts, 30 cents and II or milled. Humphreys' Homes. Medicine Co., 159 Wl"'-n sliest, Nw Jork. - a is ward Harrington, of Gladstone, and one sister, Mra Emma Hamilton, of Port land, also survive. The funeral services were held at the family home and interment was in the Highland Cemetery. - RETIRING PRINCIPAL FETED Teachers of Conch School Give Sur prise Party to A. M. Cannon. The teachers of Concn School hon ored the retiring principal, Arthur M. Cannon, last night with a surprise party at his residence in Rose City. Mr. Cannon will take the position of city manager for the Columbia Life & Trust Company. The evening at the Cannon home was most enjoyable, with short 'talks, music and games. Those present were Miss Keturah Likely, Miss Josephine Lisher, Miss Isa Batton, Miss Grace Bridges, Miss Angela Schroeder, Miss Emily Roberts, Miss Frances Harris, Miss Estelle J. Mclntyre, Mrs. Kate Lighter, Miss Dor othy Waugh. Miss Esther Hawkins, Fred Gronhong, Mrs. Dorothy Bingham, Woolens IMow What about them when we actually have war, it mean that all the worsted yarns that go to make GOOD CLOTH will be used for soldiers uniforms. I have on hand in my store a big stock of high-grade all-the-year-round Worsted Suitings in all shades that I will place on special sale MONDAY and TUESDAY . Suit or $ Overcoat Remember, in these Suits that I sell Monday and Tuesday, I will give you an extra special serge lining, a very high grade that I am overstocked on, it was bought for $40 Suits, but I am going to put them in the $22 Suits that I sell Monday and Tuesday. ' ' One. of these Suits will give you two or three years' good wear. You have my personal guarantee of satisfaction as to fit on every Suit that I turn out. Ray IB a.1 Iklfo ui f s t PORTLAND'S LEADING TAILOR Sixth and Stark Streets : THREE STAGES of ENGINE DEVELOPMENT IN MOTOR CARS IN the first stage, higher power was obtained by building larger cylinders. In the second stage, greater flexibility was secured by adding cylinders. Both these methods have their drawbacks in a recip rocating engine. In the third stage, upon which gas engine design is now entering, a higher range of inherent capability has been developed more per formance with less machinery. The White Sixteen-Valve Four accomplishes this result by going straight to the source of power and flexibility valve capacity sufficient to allow high piston speed and maintain1 full power over the entire range of driving speeds In any gasoline motor, power depends upon the' ratio of valve area to piston displacement. This can be established either by reducing the size of each cylinder to meet its valve area, thus increasing the number of cylinders, or by increasing valve capacity in each cylinder to meet its piston displacement. The latter is the new, much simpler, less cumber some method and combines utmost performance with the obvious advantages of a 4-cylinder engine. THE WHITE COMPANY CLEVELAND . ' PORTLAND ' PARK AND COUCH STREET J. L. Bryan. Miss Lolah Barker, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Knapp, Miss C A. Orth. Miss Viola Ortschild. Miss Zella Hazelton, Mrs. Vinson Gorman. Miss Isabel Chalmers, Mr. and Mrs. II. S. Peterson and Mr. and Mrs. Cannon. REMEMBER DATES IS PLEA Rose Festival Boards Wants "June 13, 14, 15" Put on letterheads. "Portland Rose Festival, June 1S-14-15, 1917." ' The Rose Festival Board wants to drive these dates hard Into the minds of the American people at once, and it is asking every citizen of Portland . to assist. Owing to the lateness of the season. It will require fast work If the Festival is to be given the Eastern publicity that is needed. It is particularly need ful that the dates selected be given the widest possible publicity. .Every business concern and individ ual corresponding with persons in other states is urged to run the line contain carce s ing the dates of the Festival In err letter and piece of mall that they send out. Roseburg Elks Send Invitations. ROSEBURG, Or March 24. (Spe cial.) Acting upon request of the ex ecutive committee of the Strawberry Festivalthe members of the Roseburg Lodge of Elks Thursday night adopted a resolution Inviting their brother lodge men from Eugene and other Lane Coun ty towns to attend the last day's car nival festivities in this city. Copies of the resolution were today sent to the secretary of the Eugene Lodge of Elks. Alumni Issue Mailed Out. MOUNT ANGEL COLLEGE. St. Bene dict. Or., March 24. (Special.) The an nual alumni Issue of the Pacific Star will be mailed out Monday. All the sto ries, essays and poems are written by the graduates. The editorials, college and athletio notes and other various de partments are handled by the faculty. One of the interesting features of the issue will be cuts of olden times. , Read The Oregotilan classified ads. will the) Made to Order