The Sunday Oregonian., May 13, 1917, SECTION TWO, Page 6, Image 28

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 13,
1917.
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America Expels To Escape
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BT EEXE BACHE.
UXGRTT Not yet, of course, but
you may feel that unpleasant sen
sation before the war Is over.
The recent announcement that the
Winter wheat crop is 50.000,000 bushels
short is In Itself painfully suggestive.
One likes to feel hungry when a good
meal is In prospect. It Is a rather
agreeable prompting- to digestion, un
der such circumstances. But the case
Is awfully different when there is
nothing satisfying In sight.
Starvation, in Its progress, has three
phases, recognizably distinct. The first
of them we are bound to undergo, at
least measurably. The second we shall
probably escape. The third Is, In our
richly productive country, almost un
imaginable, even for the poorest.
"When people begin to look hunger
In the face, the first thing they do
Is to inquire for cheaper substitutes
for things they can eat to take the
place of foods they like, and to which
they have been accustomed.
We have already reached this first
stage. Lamb is so dear that moat
people have dropped it out of their
bill of fare. Pork (formerly the poor
man's meat) has risen to such a price
that only the well-to-do can afford it.
Poultry Is rated an extravagance.
Kolks of ordinary means have fallen
back upon Inferior cuts of beef, with
no confidence that even these will be
available much longer at prices they
can pay.
Vegetables and other food materials
have gone up correspondingly. Of
things , to eat, a dollar will purchase
today not more than, two-thirds of
what tt could buy half a dozen years
ago.
The situation in this regard is not
going to be any better as the war
proceeds; it will become progressively
worse. What are we going to do
about it?-
The Government, some time ago,
started in to help. Its first efforts
were addressed to the bread problem.
What materials other than wheat and
cheaper that was the question could
be used for making bread without
diminishing Its percentage of actual
nutriment? "
Bread is the "staff of life" in a
sense much more literal than most of
us Imagine. It is the fundamental of
the human diet. Let anybody try to
get along without it for a few days
and see what such deprivation means.
We must have bread. Furthermore,
if we are not literally to starve, we
must have plenty of it. The average
family of five persons In the United
States requires about 1000 pounds of
bread per annum.
We are already suffering from a
shortage of wheat. There is going to
be a much greater shortage before
long, as the available supply diminishes
relatively to the demand. How, then,
shall we get enough bread to eat?
The Department of Agriculture of
fers, as a partial solution of the prob
lem, the idea of utilizing other mate
rials for bread-making. Wheat is not
the only breadstuff. Why not use
other and cheaper cereals, mixing them
with wheat flour for economy's sake?
It is interesting, in view of the pres
ent situation, to look back a century
and a half, to a time when, in 1746,
there was a great scarcity of cereals
In New England. Wheat was selling at
20 shillings (about $5) a bushel, and
a pound loaf of bread cost 12 cents.
Allowing for the relative purchasing
value of money in those days, this was
approximately equivalent to three
loaves for our present-time dollar.
There was in Boston at that time a
baker named Nathaniel Thwing. who
hit upon the idea of making a "famine
bread," composed of cornmeal, rye flour
. and molasses, with sour milk and soda.
Obtaining' from the selectmen of the
city permission to manufacture this
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bread, he sold it for 10 cents an eight
pound loaf, and later for 8 cents. Thus
did "Boston brown bread" make its
first appearance in the world.
But mark what has now happened.
This "famine food" of a century and a
half ago has become a latter-day
luxury. Try to buy it and you will
find that the price has gone up to 8
and 10 cents a pound loaf eight to
ten times what It cost in the days of
Nathaniel Thwing.
-The Department of Agriculture, as a
result of recent experiments in econom
ical bread-making, has found that pal
atable loaves can be obtained when
many cheaper cereals, and even ground
legumes, are mixed with wheat flour.
The proportion used In most of the
baking trials was one-fourth part of
substitute .to three-fourths of wheat;
but this does not mean that the ratio
might not have worked out satisfac
torily the opposite way. It is all a
question of how hungry you might
be, and not of mere sustenance.
No fewer than SO materials suitable
for bread-making are indorsed by the
Government experts. There is rice, for
instance. Oatmeal Is another. It is
only within the last few years that we
have come to recognise oats as availa
ble for human food Just as the British
are still disposed to look upon corn as
fit only for animal fodder.
What is the matter with pea-flour,
mixed with wheat for bread-making?
Not a thing. If the experts are to be
believed. Why not use beans, dried and
ground No reason whatever. Both
peas and beans are more nutritious
than wheat or than any other cereal
grain; for that matter.
How about cottonseed mealT An ex
cellent breadstuff, say the experts.
More nutritious, pound for pound, than
lean beefsteak. The same, indeed, may
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be said for soy beans, which are grown
on a vast scale in the Southern stateB.
Mixed in suitable proportion with a
cereal, they make an excellent bread.
The principal American cereal is corn.
It is an admirable "fuel food," for run
ning the body machine, but it lacks the
elements required for making blood and
muscle. The experts say that. If it be
combined with ground peas or beans,
or with cottonseed flour, it makes a
bread wholly satisfactory as a military
or civil ration.
But how about potatoes as an in
gredient of our "war bread"? They are
all right. The Department of Agricul
ture has worked out a recipe for potato
bread that is highly satisfactory. Four
parts of mashed potatoes and three
parts of wheat flour make the dough.
In Germany potato "war bread" is a
fairly old story by now. It usually eon
tains about SO per cent of potato flour.
But potato flour, in this country, is too
expensive for the housewife's use; and
she cannot make It herself because its
manufacture demands costly machinery.
Mashed potato, however, serves the pur
pose first-rate, as an ingredient, so
why not that?
It has long been a common practice
of the American housewife to put a llt-n
tie mashed potato in her bread dough.
A "light" loaf is thereby produced, be
cause the yeast-germs feed on the po
tato starch (a first-class "culture me
dium" in the cooked and mashed condi
tion), and. multiply therein with great
rapidity. For her. therefore, there will
be nothing startling in the idea of po
tato bread.
Such bread (with ingredients propor
tioned as above stated) is not so white
as ordinary wheat bread, and is some
what coarser In texture. It Is, however,
equally palatable, and holding mois
ture better, will stay fresh a week.
Made in the usual way, by th "straight
dough" method, it eho.uld not be al
lowed to rise in the pans to more than
double size, before being placed In the
oVen, because over-risen loaves (lack-
US. Deportment of Agriculture I Bread end ether Cereal foods. FVepj-ed by
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ing gluten) are liable to "fall" in
baking.
When lack of a sufficiency of cereals
becomes manifest, the Government may
require the millers to grind wheat and
other grains entire, instead of depriv
ing them of their hulls and sending
merely the kernels to market. The hulls
of the wheat seeds, called "bran," con
tain nothing of nutriment, to be sure,
but in them are certain elements known
as "vitamins." which in some mysteri
ous way contribute to the health of the
human body.
In the second stage of starvation
thlnars are eaten which under normal
conditions would not be deemed fit for
food. Take horsemeat, for example.
We, in this country, may be glad to buy
horsesteak before this war is over. The
Germans learned to eat horsemeat dur
ing the Franco-Prussian war: and at
the present time they are not disdain
ful of dogmeat. which is regularly sold,
though in no great quantity, in their
markets.
When Paris was besieged, in 1871. the
Inhabitants ate cats. And, when all
the pussies were used up, they fell back
on rats, as a last resort for meat. We
should not like to eat rats, and there Is
no reastm. to suppose that we shall be
driven to any such extremity; but it
must be acknowledged that our reluc
tance to eat them is mainly a matter
of prejudice.
In ancient Rome rats were highly es
teemed as food. They were, indeed,
considered a luxury; and in the days
of Nero the wealthy patrician took
pride in his "glirarlum." or rattery. in
which the much-prized rodents were
fattened for his table. Such a rattery
was ordinarily a structure of brick,
divided into some thousands of little
cells, in each one of which a rat was
kept. When the animals were so fat
tnat they could with difficulty be
dragged out through the doors of their
cages, they were killed, dressed, baked
with a stuffing of crushed figs, and
served in a sauce of olive oil at banquets.
Delicious? Well, rather. Doesn't the
Idea make your mouth water? When
ore realises that each female rat pro
duces three or four litters of young per
annum, with six to eight offspring to a
litter, it is easily seen that here Is a
possible source of meat supply almost
unlimited. Fed on refuse, rats cost next
to nothing to breed and rear. All that
is necessary is to cultivate an appetite
for them.
The third and last stage of starvation
to which, that we shall arrive, may
the gods forfend! is marked by a re
sort to the eating of things which fur
nish no nutriment, but merely distend
the stomach. The Serbians, after their
country was devastated by the Invad
ing Germans, are said to have been
driven to eating grass. Sawdust, under
such circumstances, has been used for
making bread.
Happily, we can scarce be driven to
any such extremities. But the progress
of starvation which. In its earliest
stages. Is signalised by a great rise in
the cost of everything one wants to
see on the table is marked by a stead
ily diminishing fastidiousness in mat
ters of diet. We may at all events,
irost of us be glad before the war is
over to get provender of kind and qual
ity which hitherto we have regarded as
hardly fit to eat.
EACH MUST USE HOE TO GET
TO SUPPLY HIS OWN FOOD
Anne Shannon Monroe Declares That West Is Facing Problem Such as It
Never Faced Be'fore, With Farms Depleted of Trained Workers.
BY ANNE SHANNON MONROE.
IF the fine art of visualization Isn't
brought into Immediate use there
are going to be some mighty hun
gry or mighty beggary people in
Portland next Winter. It is too un
kind to say it will serve them right,
but what can one say to make the
Bleeping wake up? Once when I was
teaching school I had some terribly
dirty little youngBters who were not
quite of the class that one can take
too great washing liberties with; and
others that shone in spic and span
aprons, fresh from tne tub. dally. Well,
I got desperately earnest one morning
and I gave those children a desperately
earnest talk about the horrors of dirt,
its disease-breeding qualities, etc; that
afternoon all my little clean children
were late they'd been so impressed
that they Insisted on extra baths at
noon from distressed but finally yield
ing mothers, while the dirty ones came
back, more dirty.
And so it seems to be with the great
food drive question; the more we say,
the more we lecture, the more we
harangue, the more those already
thriftily gardening go home and gar
den, while the lax, the letGeorge-do-it,
the I'm-tired-of-all-that-dope crowd,
they go right on, sans garden, sans
realisation, sans interest and woe to
them next Winter when It will be sans
food!
If only these "slackers" could get it
right down under their skin that pota
toes don't grow in the corner grocery,
that taking down the telephone re
ceiver will not continue producing on
the kitchen shelf. If only they can
quit snoring and wake up and listen,
and hear and heed, and believe and
know that there "won't be no corner
tcrocery" In one sense; that unless they
themselves raise what they eat, or hire
men to raise what they eat. or get their
wives and daughters to raise what they
eat. tney won t eat.
Need of Crops Is Urged.
If only they can get this, now listen,
get it. Imagine you have just arrived
in a virgin Oregon, as your forefathers
did. with an ox team and provisions
enough to last till you get a crop in
that all around sweeps a wilderness
and that unless you raise food you
won t have food; get down to the posi
tively primitive, positively elemental,
positively fii-st state of the pioneer, and
look about you and see waste places,
and starvation unless you hoe and plant
and dig. How many hours would you
stand gazing In a store window or go
ing to a movie, or doing anything; else
under the sun that had no food result,
until your next Winter's food was pro
vided? Did the passengers off the May
flower spend much time gazing at
scenery? They went pretty steadily to
putting in crops; they knew no one was
going to forage for them; their food
was up to them. ,
We are in a parallel position right I
this mlute: Mr. Man, lighting your
cigar with such nonchalance, you'll
jump for a potato next Winter, and
you'll take it off of some one else's
plate, too, and feel mighty sneakin'
about it, if you're truly a man, unless
you meet that spud question right now;
this is worse than salvation, you don't
merely have to .have It, you have to see
that others have it. It's self-preservation
and race-preservation.
The human animal is a natural born
storer; he's like the squirrel by nature.
he hoards and puts by for the Winter
days; but for so long we've let the poor
old farmer stagger on under the burden
of feeding us, that we have lost the
elemental Instinct of feeding ourselves
and unless we root around mighty hard
and dig it out and patch' it up and put
it to use ago well, you know the old
fable of the easy grasshopper and the
thrifty ant was it an ant? When the
Wintry days came the lazy grasshopper
couldn't get a loan from the. thrifty ant
and so he died.
Being; HungryIs So Joke.
It's a bore; It's a joke; it's something
for the other fellow to attend to; it's
something the farmers , will attend to;;
wee'll hold a convention and vote that
the farmers do It; we'll hold a meeting
and vote that the schoolboys be given
their credits and allowed to go do it;
we'll do every mortal thing but do it
ourselves.
Now just listen; this is no joke; and
being hungry is worse than a bore;
you're a slacker of the first degree if
you think you can sit back in your ease
and use your money to buy food; you
can't eat dollars; you can't chew gold
ana silver, you can t run your body en
gine on paper bills; it's a question of
getting food. Food do you get me?
ood. And if you are worth a million
or a dollar, you've still got to be re
sponsible for your own food.
The world is already short on wheat:
Europe is already hungry; you know
this; you read it every day and indif
ferently you turn the page to see whose
name is in the last list gone to the
Presideo, or who's playing In the
movies or whose picture decorates the
society page, or about Mike Gibbon's
ring career, or how the Cubs defeated
the Reds. You cut the tiresome stuff
and turn to real news; but some morn
ing you'll wake up to the awful news
that your breakfast is short of wheat
cakes. j
Nation Mnst Feed Itself.
Now. listen; get this under your skin;
the whole Nation has got to feed itself,
and feed the armies of the allies, which
now Include our own boys. This food
can't ba bought it has to be got out
of the soil by means of sun and air
and seed and your labor. This Fall
there will be no canned vegetables in
the grocery store for you to buy; they
will all go to the Army; there will be
no canned fruits; they will all go to the
Army; there will be no canned meats
hams, bacon it will all go to the
Army; you won't be able to buy it for
love nor money: there won't be any
for you to buy; if you are to have these
things you ve got to raise them your
self this very Summer; and start
mighty quick; you'll feel nice trying
to pinch it off the soldiers' rations.
Like stealing candy from the baby!
The world has fallen back on the
farmer to save it, and lo, the world
finds that the farmer has slipped from
under; he was a funny old cuss, with
his long whiskers, chewing his straw
and saying "I ewan"l That's about the
picture most of ua had when we gave
him a thought, which wasn't often.
We knew there was a low cry coming
from the soil: "Give us roads for our
horses to travel over, give us a profit
for our produce, give us a chance to
pay interest before we lose our farms";
it was a low, monotonous, unending
sort of wave that never got up to a
crest, never got up to a breaking point;
we yawned; we weren't interested; we
went on taking his big interest, fore
closing his mortgage, driving his sons
and daughters to towns, for variety,
tne food speculators taking his profits,
the world' taking their living, the
farmer taking it as his sorry lot only
that low, unending wave of monotonous
complaint. Then suddenly came the cata
clysm the world is starving! we turn
frantically to our old neglected, frus
trated, hopeless friend, and we are sur
prised to find that he's stepped from
under, that his boys have thrown down
their rakes and spades and gone off
to enlist glad to get away from the
farm anxious to follow the country's
call; we find great waste lands, we
find neglected projects, we find inertia
and listlessness. We are astonished
that the farmer isn't right there, like
another Atlas, holding the world on
his shoulders, gladly carrying us.
Pleas An Soom Forgotten.
We forget how he cried to us, how
his walls ascendod to heaven! Robbed
by the middlemen, left to stagger
through hub-deep mud, money at ruin
ous interest, mortgages foreclosed all
his wrongs through all the years have
made a wave that beat against a stone
wall of city Indifference; and now the
city turns, in alarm, and cries, "Where
Is our friend, the farmer? For the
farmer is not on the Job; not enough
of him; not vitally enoueh.
Why should he be? What has the
world given him to make him hold
fast to the task of feeding it?
Nine-tenths of the melodramas are
TVsed on the old farm lost through
mortgage: the only thing the audience
seemed to get out of it was a good
OFFICERS OF PORTLAND EPWORTH LEAGUE WHO WILL TAKE
PART IN DISTRICT CONVENTION MAY 18-20.
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An event anticipated by the Epworth Leserue members of Portland dis
trict is the annual convention to be held in Centenary Church, May 18-20.
A feature will be an address by Bishop Hughes. Following are the officers:
District Superintendent, Rev. William Wallace Youngson, D. D. ; president,
Joel R. Benton; department of spiritual work, Fred J. Schnell; department
of world evangelism. Will H. Warren; department of social service, Ida
Matson; department of recreation and culture. Leva Jackson; superintend
ent Junior League. Minnie Ij. Maoey: secretary. Willis Vinson: correspond-
' ins secretary, C. D. Chilson; treasurer, Oliver J. Gill. '
cry when the old folks must leave. Now
they are getting another answer.
It is now up to the city man to meet
this problem, hand in hand with the
practical farmer; to say to htm of the
soil, whose brain has not been devel
oped for the purpose of sharp trading:
"We are partners with you; we vlll
make your way possible."
"Wo will see that you get easy money,
tools, cleared land, and equipment; and
we will see that you are not robbed
when you bring your products to mar
ket." Then the country man will have to
bend his energies as he has never bent
them before, and work as a farmer,
yes but as a patriot, too. He will
have to get the viewpoint of the savior
of his country, putting- bread into the
mouths, of his country's soldiers. He
will 'have to go at this patriotically as
well as practically, and do what he
would not do for himself alone, and the
farmer, assured of the honest city
man's co-operation, will do this.
Each Asked Raise Owsi Fm4.
In a nutshell, the one big cry of the
whole Nation from Atlantio to PacMc
is for every mouth that eats to be ac
commodated by a pair of hands that
will actually raise its own food. In
cases where the Individual can't do
this literally, he must place. the equip
ment in the hands of a substitute: he
must get a tract of land and equip
someone else to do his work for him
so that hi can get his own actual veg
etables for Winter canning. Every
human his own provider that is lit
erally the problem of America today.
There are men and women who haven't
the money to buy equipment and seeds
those others who can't toll with their
hands must find these people and ef
fect an arrangement that will be satis
factory; you must literally feed your
self. Then the larger thing to be done for
our men of capital is to put the waste
areas of the Valley and Eastern and
Central Oregon into crops that will ma
ture on this new raw land. Barley and
beans will do well here. The Summer
fallow land will grow these things,
and much of it corn. ' About Ontario
in Eastern Oregon and in the Wil
lamette Valley can ba grown the finest
corn ever raised in America. Everyone
with a little ground can keep a dozen
hens. They will rustle for themselves
in the Summer, and table scraps will
help keep them. A couple of pigs
wouldn't be a bit of a bad idea to
butcher next Fall; that Is. if you want
any pig meat next Winter. You can't
steal it 'Off the soldier boy's rations.
Ducks do well where there is a river or
pond: turkeys for outlying districts.
If possible keep a cow and sell milk to
your neighbor.
Dairy Situation Alnralna.
Already the dairy situation for the
Summer is alarming. Dairymen are
selling their milk cows because they
can't possibly pay th high cost of cow
feed and come out even after paying
the deliveryman's profit: keep a cow,
deliver milk to your neighbors; or, if
you can't do this, take an interest in
I establishing; a municipal milk bureau
where the dairyman's product will be
handled at a rate that will make his
business possible. If you don't do this,
if you don't take action, your Labies
will be crying for milk before the Sum
mer is over. You will wake up too late.
Dig out all the old fruit Jars and
break the necks off all the bottles on
the place, and be ready to can veg
etables; all the cans will go to the
canneries for the soldiers there won't
be any cans for you to buy later on.
Utilize every receptacle you've got
fill everything with food and more
food, and get ready now. Don't prepare
to can any fruit whatever. Dry the
fruit. Save your cans for your veg
etables. Cabbage make into sauer
kraut: treat beans In the same way.
The big farmers of our West have
never raised vegetables. They. too. like
you apartment people, live out of cans.
Well, that day will be gone soon. You
can't do it any more. Th farmers must
make their own gardens this year, and
can. can, can, and dry, dry, dry.
Own Wants Mast Be Prevlded.
The Government has placed a 12.000.
000 order with Portland canneries
within the past few days, an order for
the soldiers, and the Government will
see to It that the canneries get the
cans. Your demands will have to fo
begging; your wants you must see to
yourself; your own canned goods you
must provide; the public utilities that
have formerly supplied you will all be
busy supplying our boys over there
or our allies" boys. We home people
won't get a look in. And we oughtn't
to.
Now every food-slacker who feels
Inclined to pass this problem up, just
consider these figures: Twenty-five per
cent of the area of the United States
lies west of the Rocky Mountains, and
only 6 per cent of the population. We
need terribly and alarmingly men
and money. Out of our poor little 6
per cent have come the heaviest en
listments. Our stalwarts from the
farms have gone over to the fighting
men.
We were crippled all the time we
needed men before the war, and now
we doubly, trebly need them. If you
don't raise your own food well, you'll
be raising Cain looking for It next
Winter, but where you'll find it. unless
you sneak it off a soldier's rations. I
don't know and no one else knows.
Take the situation not to heart but
to stomach.
Public Library Notea.
OREGON'S wild flowers especially the
early Spring enea may be known to
anyone who will vialt tho circulation
department of the Central Library.
Carolyn K. Sweetster. of Eusene, wife of
th well-known naturalist and botanist.
Profaasor Albert R. Sweetster, of tb Uni
versity of Oregon, has don lomi of the
familiar flowers In water color and lent
th collection to th Library for exhibition.
Th coloring- la very tru to life and beau
tifully done. Both the common and scien
tific names are i'vah. with tne rcaona for
Identified from a study of thea water-color
drawing.
Spring beauty on of our earliest Is
there. The Latin name Dentana tenella
from a word meaning tooth, refers to the
underground portion. 1 ho wake robin, or
trllllum. th three-leaved Ulv on a flower
stalk, changing from whit through roee to
purple, la a familiar flower friend. Thle
differs from th purple trllllum of Eastern
uregon principally in the long leaf stalks.
The mottled trllllum Is without th flower
stalk. It is whit, and th leaves are often
mot t led.
Purpl lambstongu of th southern part
of the state varies from th Coast lambs
tongue chiefly In color, th latter befog pink
rather than purple.
Th lambstongu. so called from th shape
of Its leaf. Is a pale yellow in color. It la
also called adderstongu. because of Ita
pointed anthers, and dog-tooth violet from
th toothllk shape of some of Its bulbs.
Th Interesting feature of th nam la that
it la not a violet at all, but a lily!
Th municipal reference library has con
siderable material on the two-platoon sys
tem. Including: National Board of Fire Un
derwriters Shame of Pittsburg: Report of
Sew York Bureau of Municipal Research
on Proposed Two-Platoon System In San
Francisco. J918: Report of Can Francisco
Real Estate Board on the Proposed Two
Platoon System In Ran Francisco Fir De
partment. 191S: National Board of Fir
Underwriters Statistics for Last Flv Tears
Which Olve Fir Losses of - All Cities of
Over 20.OO Population In the lTntea states:
Views of Fire Chiefs Pro and Con as Found
In Volumes of Fir and Water Engineering.
The periodical department of the Central
Library wishes a single copy In good condi
tion of Industrial Arts Magazine for Feb
ruary. 1914. Call Main 153 or A 6578.
"H. G. Wells. Bernard Shaw: Rational
istic Outlooks" will b th subject of Pro
fessor H. O. Merrlam's last lecture In th
course on "Th Outlook of Life of Contem
porary Men of Letters," to be given In room
H on Tuesday evening. May 1. at 8 o'clock.
Professor H. B. Torrey will deliver his last
lecture In the course on "Th Llf of th
Sea" In Library Hall on Thursday, May a.
at 8 P. M. The subject will be -Along th
Northwest Coaat, III." Th lecture will b
Illustrated.
Aire. Mabl Holmes Parsons, of th Uni
versity of Oregon, will meet her class In
the drama on Saturday. May s. at 7:45
P. M.. In room H of th Cantral Library.
LOCAL BLUE LAWS FOUGHT
Dan Kellaher Will Appear Before
Eugene Council Monday.
Dan Kellaher, candidate for City
Commissioner, whose campaign cards
bear the explanatory note, "The man
who killed the Sunday blue law, will
go to Eugene Monday to appear before
the City Council of that city and seek
to have the old "blue law" ordinance,
which has kept Eugene closed on
Sunday, repealed. Mr. Kellaher will
be accompanied by A. R. McKlnley.
manager of the Portland office of
Brunswick-Balke-Collcnder Compn ny.
Eugene still retains th "blue law"
ordinance, notwithstanding the state
blue law was repealed at the last elec
tion, and Mr. Kellnher, who made
strong fight throughout the state at
that time. Is looking to have th cities
whro the blue law ordinances ar et-
auch naming. Th origins! could easily b(ectivo coufoim to the stale regulation.