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
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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
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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.
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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-
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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