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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1917)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, KAY 13, 1917. IT DALY-BAKER RACE CENTERS INTEREST Apathy in City Campaign Van ishing With Election Only Three Weeks Away. 2 MORE FOR COMMISSIONER W. L. Brewster and Dr. I. M. Davis Announce Candidacies Mr. Daly Plans to Have Small but Solid Backing "Singleshoot" Name. The city campaign may now be said to be in full swing. The apathy that characterized the race up to the past week, principally because of the great er interest in war developments, has vanished. The three weeks between now and the election, June 4, will be full of activity. Keenest interest, of course, centers shout the cpntest for Mayor. There are six in the race, but the real flgrht i3 conceded to lie between George 1 Baker and Will H. Daly. Others' in the field are B. S. Josselyn, E. N. Wheeler. Will H. Warren and A. O. Rushlight. Mr. Rushlight was Mayor of Portland in the last two years of councilmanic government. Daly's Foil on In a- Solid. fThe campaign issue is Mr. Daly, ad vocate of municipal light plants, uni versal meters, unregulated jitneys and other radical and high-priced, experi ments In city government. Mr. Daly is a minority candidate, but he has a solid following. His main hope of winning the election lies in ob taining a majority on first choice votes. The word has gpne out informally among his followers to "single shoot" his name on the ballot that is, to vote for Mr. Daly on first choice, and not to vote second or third choice at all. On the other hand, there is a dispo sition among the great number of citi zens who feel that the election of Mr. Daly, because of his peculiar and rad ical views, would be a municipal calam ity, to urge that regardless of who Is voted for on first choice, voters should exercise their second choice to insure that, whoever wins, it shall not bo Mr. Daly. Friends of George L. Baker will take steps early this week, in response to a general demand all over the city for such an organization, to form the George L. Baker Booster Club to work for Mr. Baker's election as Mayor. The organization will include men and women from every walk of life. Among its members will be many busi ness men, but there will be also Just as large a proportion of small home own ers and working men. Although Mr. Daly is looking for a great part of his support to come from the -ranks of labor, Mr. Baker is going to draw heav ily from him among the working peo ple. He enjoys their confidence because he has always played fair with them. And the small home owners favor him be cause he has protected their Interests n every occasion. 15 Out for Commlsslonershlpa. There are 15 candidates out already for the two vacancies to be filled for City Commissioner. How many more will come out before next Tuesday night, the last date for filing declara tions of candidacy, can only be guessed. Those in the race so far are W. L. Brewster. ex-City Commissioner, and Dr. L. M. Davis, a dentist, both of whom announced themselves yester day; Dan Kellaher, John McQuinn, K. K. Kubli. C. P. Church, George Gar rett, Norman S. Richards. Archie Ma son, Robert G. Dieck, John M. Mann, -O. Laurgaard, A. L. Barbur, George- W. Caldwell and F. W. Jobelman. Mr. Dieck is the only one of the 15 who is now a member of the City Coun cil. He is Commissioner of the De partment of Public Works. Mr. Brewster's entrance into the race yesterday was made at the insistence of friends who have been urging him to become a candidate. After long consideration, he decided to do o. His petitions were being circulated yester day, and will be filed Monday. At that time Mr. Brewster will make a formal statement of his candidacy. HAY TO LECTURE AUTHOR OF THE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND TO BE HEARD. Noted Highlander Captain to Describe Ufe in Trenches Visit Is for Benefit of Red Cross. "r'". fn 25ay Be,th- author of The First Hundred Thousand," viewed oy many as the most human and inter esting document that has come out of the trenches, will give an illustrated lecture in Portland on the night of May "."the Heilig Theater for the ben efit of the Portland Chapter, American Med Cross. The Junior League Girls or Portland are making arrangements to receive Captain Beith, who is best known in the literary world as lan Hay, author of a number of delight ful Scotch novels, and especially his two war stories, of which "The First Hundred Thousand" is one. Captain Belth is of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, and under the pseudonym of "The Junior Sub" wrote his graphic story, "The First Hundred Thousand." which also will be the sub ject of his Illustrated lecture in Port land. Captain Beith is one of Kitch ener's first army raised and trained for the European trenches. He de scribes the daily life of the soldier with its accompanying Joya and sor rows in a quaintly humorous way that has won him a vast audience. He car ries with him several reels of pictures of timely interest, and shows trench warfare at first hand. He also de scribes the earnestness with which the German takes his warfare. The Junior League Girls have taken hold of Captain Beith's visit with the hope of getting a large crowd out to hear him, and Indirectly doing "their bit" to swell the Red Cross fund in Portland. The box seat sale is already under way and exchange tickets are being put out. Miss Isabella Gauld is pres dent; Miss Cornelia Cook and Mrs. A. D. Norris, vice-presidents; Helen Ladd, treasurer; Irene Daly, chairman of the ticket sale, and Mrs. Henry Ladd Cor bett, chairman of the general commit tee arranging Captain Beith's visit. Exchange ticket booths will be sat up &i bipman, wone ec jo.. Olds, W ort Gills. and Youthful Gardeners Aided. SALEM, Or.. May 12. (Special.) The Sumpter Power & Water Company has notified the Public Service Commission that it will furnish free water to school children for use on vegetable gardens j i "" . ,. ... ' v ;.. h )' .- .''"'"a" -t: rf i " ' i - , . ..jv,-J - - -- - I , -T , - - T- ,-" i ' -' i ; . , . . - , - , The Encyclopaet Britannica Department " ' ' ''' me books wliile warn o if ti on 1 JLtl Mil Our Plan of YoiUl MS are pay leg iror special Encyclopaedia Britannica department We have sold over 200,000 sets of the "Handy Volume" Issue, almost 90 of which has been purchased on our "use them while you pay for them ' ' plan $1.00 with order and balance in conveniently small monthly payments for a limited number of months. made necessary this "''William Allen White, the noted journalist, in a recent letter about the Encyclopaedia Britannica said, "I like your plan because it makes the buyer use his books as he pays for them. For, when a man has a monthly payment, he has a constant reminder to get his money's worth and what is good also, it puts the Britannica within easy reach of alL" This method is so popular this demand for the Britannica is so great that we had to develop and organize the special Britannica department pictured above to take care of the thousands upon thousands of orders and the great work of taking care of each customer's account With all this interest in this most wonderful book of prac tical help in everyday affairs do you wonder that we should say, "We know we could sell many thousands more sets of this 'Handy Volume Britannica, printed on genuine India paper, if we could get them." We cannot get any more because no more India paper can be manufactured. The war has made it impossible to get any more flax from Belgium, Germany or Ireland and the hemp from Russia, two essential raw materials. A WONDERFUL NEW VOLUME THE publishers of ths Encyclopaedia Britannica announce that they have made arrangements for the issue, as soon after the and of the war as possible, of a new volume, containing a fall and authoritative history of the war. The new volume will be written by scholars and experts of the same high character as the Britannica itself, and by many of its own contributors. It will be absolutely impartial, excluding all partisan feel ins; and prejudice. It will contain 1. A judicial account of the real causes of the war, the progress of the struggle, and the results all over the world; with maps, as necessary, to show changes in boundaries. 2. The lives of the new leaders, whether civil, military or naval, in the belligerent countries. 3. The results of the war outside the sphere of fighting, the progress of surgery, the proven tion of contagious disease, the new scientific discoveries, etc The new volume will bridge the gap between the days of peace before the war and after. It will be printed and bound to match the Britannica and the publishers guarantee that no matter how diffi cult and costly the supplementary volume may be from the editosjal point of view, the price of it to all who purchase the Britannica during the present sale will not be more than that of a corresponding volume of the Britannica. THE PUBLISHERS of thm Encyclopaedia Britannica This means just one thing the sale of the "Handy Volume" Issue of the Britan nica, printed on India paper, cannot possi bly last longer than Saturday, May 26th. There are only thir teen days (possibly only nine or ten) left in which you can order with anv cer tainty of being in time to get one of the few remaining sets. As Saturday, May 26th, comes nearer, we are going to be stampeded with orders. Our descriptive matter is now in the hands of hundreds of thousands of people who are thinking of buying the Britannica. We have not enough sets now in stock to supply all who will order in the next two weeks. Now you know why we say that thousands of people are going to be disappointed when the last set is sold and be sorry they didn't decide to order before it was too late. At the close of Saturday, May 26th, thirteen days from today (possibly a day or two before that) there will not be an unsold set of the "Handy Volume" Issue of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, printed on genuine India paper, in the entire world. NOW or L?3EWER you must decide whether or not you need, as a practical every day help to you in your business and in your home, this most authoritative, most reliable, all-inclusive reference library of essential facts. MOW or LEWER you must go to the store named below and see the entire set, see if it will be useful to you and decide. MOW : OB8 WEVER you must order your set, for you will never have another chance to own the Britannica m this its most useful, usable form. Time is flying! Now means NOW! Never means NEVER! If you are unable to go to this store,but know that you need the Britannica that it will be useful and a help to you sign the coupon and mail it NOW. After Saturday, May 26th, money cannot possibly buy another set. J) SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO, Chicago, Illinois Please reserve me a set of the "Handy Volume Encyclopaedia Britannica, printed on genuine India paper. I enclose 11.00 as first payment. Send me an order form which I agree to sign and return immediately. The J. K. Gill Co. Set can be seen and orders left at: I s - Third and Alder Thorns toho cannot go to thim store may ox this ,?eseroe" Ordmr Form, which uriU be legally bind ing upon as to reserve one met for you, jast the eame em if you ordered it in person. Nsme Street snd Numbr City. State. P.O. Address, cn- SO
