THE SUXDAT OREGONIAX. POItTXAXD, 2IAY 27, 1917,
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MY Y; HI. G. A. HAS
FIRST "HUT'IN USE
Major - General J. Franklin
Bell Conducts Dedication at
, Plattsburg, N. Y.
BARREL OF INK A DAY USED
Vast Quantities of Supplies Needed
for Carrying On Association
Work In 2 00 Military
Camps in America.
'he first Army T. M. C. A. building,
typical of those that are to be erected
with the $60,000 to be raised In Idaho
and Oregon, has been dedicated at the
reserve officers" training: camp at
Plattsburg, N. Y., according: to infor-
FIRST ARMY Y. M. C. A. BUILDING, TYPICAL OF 200 TO
TROOPS GO.
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mation that has just been received by
I. B. Rhodes, state secretary.
Major-Geneial J. Franklin Bell, for
merly commander of the Department of
the West but recently transferred to
the Department of the East, conducted
ine dedication ceremonies and addressed
the embryo officers on the work of the
association. General Bell until recent
ly was stationed at San Francisco and
commanded the district which includes
Oregon.
The Plattsburg building will be one'
of 200 that will be erected wherever
the American troops are called. It is
of frame construction. Is 40 by 120
feet, is well lighted and ventilated and
contains tables and seats for reading
and writing, piano, phonograph, motion
picture machine, checkers, chess,- domi
noes, billiards and other games, com
plete athletic equipment, a branch of
the circulating library, current maga
rines ana daily papers from the home
towns.
. 500. Men. Use Building at Time.
Each association building will be de
signed to meet the needs of a brigade.
It is capable of accommodating BOO men
at a time and will be used by 5000 men
every 24 hours.
"To carry on this work," says Mr.
Rhodes, "the Army and Navy Associa
tion will have to provide 1100 secre-'
taries, and raise a fund of $3,000,000.
About $2,000,000 of this has been
pledged, and It is expected to reach
the full amount by June 1. Oregon and
Idaho are expected to contribute $60,000
toward the work.
"The supplies for these buildings give
an idea of the size of the task that the
association has undertaken to provide
lor the troops in the field.
Barrel of Ink a Day Used.
"To equip all these buildings the
T. M. C. A. will require 200 pianos and
piano players, 268,000 feet of films a
day. 3,000,000 sheets of writing paper
a day, 10,000 pens and a barrel of Ink
a day, 95 automobiles and trucks, 1100
experienced association secretaries, 200
motion picture machines, 200 phono
graphs and 10,000 records, 40,000 pounds
of ice a day, a Bible for every man and
magazines by the hundreds of tons.
"Five men will be in charge of each
building. It is expected that 100 Y. M.
C. A. buildings will bo completed and
fully equipped in the next few weeks
and established in the mobilisation
camps. The rest will be provided as
rapidly as they are needed.
"There will be an association build
ing at the training camp at the Pre
sidio and one is contemplated for Van
couver Barracks. Several others may be
established In the Northwest shortly."
WATER USERS WILL ELECT
Candidates for Directors of Klamath
Project Are Named.
KLAMATH FALXS, Or.. May' 2
(SpeolaD Ten nominees are on m
h.nnt frti th election of a board of
directors of the Klamath Water Users'
Association at its annual meeting nere
June 1. Three different polling places
on the Klamath project are designated
for those who cannot attend me meet
ing. Following are the nominees:
First District, Klamath Falls, three-year
term J. A. Koonts and James Eiell.
Second District, Lost River and Po Val
ley, one-year terra A. L. Marshall sod J.
11. Van Meter.
Third District, Merrill and California, one
year term George W. Of field.
Fourth District, Klamath project at larg-e.
two-year term C. A. Bunting, R. E. Brad
burg and Clyde Bradley.
HUBBARD TO LAY MAINS
Water System and Street Paving
"Work Is Being Done.
HUBBARD, Or., May S. (Special.)
The City of Hubbard is constructing
a. water system and will pave the main
streets. The-contract for dr ng the
well has been let. and about 00 feet
completed. Digging of trenches was
begun Monday for water mains and it
Is expected that city water will be In
use before long.
When the paving is completed some
thing like three miles will be covered
with a concrete base. A sewer system
wss installed last Summer.
VANCOUVER LODGES ELECT
W. W. Sparks -Installed as Comman
der of Knights Templar.
VANCOUVER, Wa7h.. May 26. (Spe
cial.) Vancouver Commandery, No. 10,
Knights Templar, at their annual elec
tion installed the following officers
W. W.- Sparks, commander; J. A. D.
Fraeier, generalissimo; W. C. Bates,
captaln-general; George Bchuele, senior
warden: F. M. Young. Junior warden;
W. P. Crawford, treasurer; Bert Yates,
recorder, and W. E. Yates, prelate. The
officers of Vancouver Chapter, No. 9,
Royal Arch Masons, will be: V. E. Car
ter, high priest; Bert Yates, king; W.
C. Brown, scribe; A. G. Potter, treasur
er (23d term) ; W. R. Laughlin, secre
tary; F. M. Young, captain of the hosts;
W. C. Bates. Royal Arch captain; A- P.
Ryan, master of the third veil, and
James Scott, principal sojourner.
Dennis Nichols and TV". E. Yates were
Installing officers in the commandery,
and William M. Hodgkin in the chapter.
EX-CONVICT WILL LECTURE
Need of New Penitentiary Will Be
Discusesd at Oregon City.
OREGON CITT. Or., May 26. (Spe
cial.) Li. G. McDonald, for four years
an inmate of the Oregon. State Peni
tentiary and only recently paroled from
that institution, will deliver an lllus
trated lecture in the high school audi
torium next Tuesday night on "The
Need of a New Penitentiary in Oregon.
Since- his release from the peniten
tiary McDonald has been spending all
of his time talking to the people of
Oregon in various sections of the state
to familiarize them with the actual
conditions in the penitentiary.
No charge will be made for the lec
ture. Mr. McDonald has many pictures
of penal Institutions which h will
show in his campaign for the measure
that will be voted on by the people
STRCCTURE DEDICATED AT PLATTSBURG, IT. Y TRAl?TI7fG CAMP.
at the special election June 4. autho
rizing an appropriation of $400,000, at
the rate of $100,000 per year for four
years, for the erection of a new prison
with the aid of the labor of the In
mates. RIDGEFIELD BOYS ENLIST
University of Washington Students
Answer Call to Colors.
- RIDGEFIELD, TVasb... May 26. (Spe
cial.) Four Rldgefleld boys, all grad
uates of the high school here and
formerly students at the University of
Washington, have enlisted. Claude Pot
ter, son of II. J. Potter, lumber manu
facturer, of this place, will enter the
Engineers' Corps.
Warren Snook, son of II. Snook, a
signal man employed by the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company here, en
listed in the Ambulance Corps, and
George Zahn In the Coast Artillery. Al
bert McKeen, a grandson of the first
Mayor of Ridgefleld, James Andrew
Smith, now deceased, enlisted in the
Aviation Corps and has passed success
fully the examination.
Two Farms Near Lebanon Sold.
LEBANON. Or., May 26. (Special.)
Two Important land deals were closed
in this vicinity this week. Dennis
Cornier, of this city, conveyed to A. H.
Vinson, of Klamath Falls, his farm
of 320 acres near Foster. Mr. Vinson
will bring his herd of cattle from
Klamath County to stock his new pur
chase. In the other' deal Albert H.
McGee, now of Mills City, but formerly
of Morrow County, takes over the 228-
acre farm of H. A. Edmunds near
Sweet Home. This is also a stock
farm, and in the deal Mr. Edmunds
takes a tract of wheat land in Morrow
County. There have been several other
smaller land deals hers within the last
few weeks.
High Cost Halts Paving Bid.
MONMOUTH. Or.. May 26. (Special.)
Not a bid has been received by the
City Council for the paving of Mon
mouth avenue, in the residence dis
trict and along the Normal School
grounds, in the work of continuing the
citys paving programme. High cost
of labor and materials are assigned to
be the reasons. The Council waited
when it was informed by a number of
paving firms the bids woald be con
sidered, but after a reconsideration no
figures, but a statement of conditions,
was received.
WOMAN PLANS 2S.OOO-MILE
TRIP
OH HOTOHCYCLE.
MIhs Rnth MeCord.
A motorcycle trip of 25,000 miles.
during which she:will visit all corners
of the United States, is an excursion
on which Miss Ruth McCord, the "Ince
Triangle Girl." recently started. She
left Culver City, Cal., on May , riding
her 1917 Indian Power-Plus, on which
the entire tour will be made.
Her itinerary takes her through San
Diego, Bakersfield, Fresno. San Fran
cisco, Portland, Or., Seattle,- Butte, Salt
Lake City, Denver, Kansas City,
umaha, &t. Paul, Minneapolis, Milwsu.
kee and Chicago. From Chicago she
will go Northeast to Buffalo and Ver
tnont, then to New Tork. south to Key
.west ana thn west to home.
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J. C. PLATT AT FRONT
Portland Man Writes of Work
for France.
GERMAN LINES ARE NEAR
Dinner of Country Sausage Front
Normandy Eaten In Telephone
Dugout Few Kilometers
From Fields of Action.
"When win the war come to an end?
When will the United States send over
troops? How strong is the German In
fluence in the United States?"
These and other similar questions are
being asked in the trenches in France,
according to a letter received by Mrs.
Charles B. Harris from her son, John
C. Piatt, who Is with the American
Ambulance Corps "somewhere la
France."
The young Portland man gives a
graphic description of everyday life
BE ERECTED WHEREVER AMERICAN
at the front. He Is stationed In a
little village two miles from the Ger
man line and day after day he hears
and sees the German shell fire. No at
tempt has yet been made to storm the
village, however.
i
German Shells Short.
"This !s a very picturesque little vil
lage which has been almost deserted
by the civilians," says the young man
In his letter home. But, of course,
it Is full of soldiers. It is situated on
a little hill and is in full view of the
Germans, a couple of miles away. They
haven't fired on it since March, though;
they are too hard up for ammunition.
They fire at anything they see on the
road leading up to it, though, so it
is all screened off with sticks and
brush.
"I was the only one stationed at that
position and It would have been pretty
lonely if It hadn t been for the fact
that one of the telephone operators
spoke English very well. The telephone
station is situated In a dugout in the
ground. It is a central station and is
connected with everything from the
front-line trenches to the general's
headquarters.
All three of the operators live right
by the switchboards and even do their
cooking down there. In fact, they in
vited me to eat with tliemandwe really
had a fine meal. We had some de
licious country sausage that had been
sent to the men from Normandy. It
certainly seemed odd to be sitting in
a dugout eating country sausage while
messages were coming in from the
trenches, a few kilometers away."
Work Foil of Pleasure.
In another part of the letter the
writer gives an intimate description of
life on the battle front and refers to
the bed bugs which Infest the build
Ing where he is at present living. He
states, however, that he likes the work
as the days are tilled with interesting
and exciting events.
I slept in an old French farmhouse
and had a back room all to myself,"
he states in the letter. "It had a line
old French bed In It and I sank into
the thing with great pleasure, but when
I awoke in the morning I found myself
all bitten with bedbugs and had to
douse myself with eau de cologne every
nv minutes.
"During the afternoon two German
aeroplanes were being shelled by the
French artillery right over my head.
It Is a pretty thankless Job, though,
as about one shell In 8UU0 is a hit.
"We have fine quarters here at 'C
and are living In the college. We have
fixed up the old schoolrooms very com
fortably and have been cleaning up
industriously this morning, as the Gen
eral is coming this afternoon for In
spection." ITALIAN SAVES HIS WE
JUDGE DISMISSES CHARGE OF VIO
LATING LAW,
Family Supply, Moved at Night to Es
cape Requests of Friends, Draws
Police Attention.
It was a difficult problem, which con.
fronted James Tenaglea, whose home
was somewhere In "Little Italy." when
he decided to change his place of resi
dence. There was a reason, too, for he
had eight bottles of wine and he did
not know just how to convey the bot
tles safely to his new domicile.
Tenaglea had numerous friends, and
if they should, discover him transport
ing the eight bottles down the street
in broad daylight they would insist on
a "party" on the spot. At least, that is
how Tenaglea had it figured out.
The young Italian then had an inspi
ration. He would niove the liquor at
night. The result was that he set out
Friday night down the street with the
eight bottles in a. basket, trying all
the time to keep in the shadows as
much as possible.
The eagle eyes ef Police Sergeant
Sherwood and Patrolman ' Williams
"spotted" him zlg-zagging about .in a
guilty manner, and they "ran him in"
for violating the phohibitlon law.
After Tenaglea told his story in Mu
nicipal Court yesterday he was dis
missed by Municipal Judge Stevenson
on motion of Deputy District Attorney
Ryan, And Tenaglea left the: Police
Station with his precious wine and a
smile reflecting the sunshine of Italy
upon his face.
Albany Elks to Subeeribo $1000.
ALBANY, Or., 'May 28. (Special.)
The Albany Lodge of Elks will make
a substantial subscription to the lib
erty loan. Tha lodge has instructed
its trustees to Invest (1000 or more In
the bonds of this loan.
T
DEAD WILL BE HONORED
MEMORIAL, DAY OBSERVANCE AT
VANCOUVER ARRANGED.
Grand Army. Relief Corps and Other
FatrloHe Orgaaiaatleiis Will Par
ticipate la Parade.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. May 26. (Spe
cial.) The following is the programme
of the Memorial day observance as ar
ranged by the joint committee of
Ellsworth Post, Grand Army of the
Republic, and John Barlow Camp,
United Spanish "Va,r Veterans.
The members of the Grand Army
Post, the Woman's Relief Corps, the
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Re
public, the Daughters of Veterans,
United Spanish War Veterans and Its
auxiliary society will assemble at their
meeting places and march at I o'clock
to the corner of Main and Tenth
streets, where the parade will form at
1:30.
Children of the schools and clvlo or
other societies are Invited to take part.
The services . on Eighth and Main
streets will be held at 2 o'clock.
Should the weather prove inclement
the services will be held in the Pres
byterian Church.
At the close of the exercises the or
ganisations will proceed to the river
bank, where the members of the Wom
an's Relief Corps will conduct the cere
mony of scattering flowers upon the
water In memory of the sailor dead.
Closing Out Sale of
Storage Pianos
Lighte, rosewood SI 8
Dunham, rosewood S25
Story & Clark, ebonized.S30
Antisell S35
Decker Bros 45
Hardman, mahogany.. . .65
Cable& Sons .$60
Haines & Co., mahogany,
wax finish $50
Kimball mahogany,
carved panels S78
Chickering, rosewood. .S100
Arion, burl walnut S125
Mathushek, very elab
orate case S135
Pease, wax finish,, dull
mahogany ..$150
Aeolian player piano,
plays 88-note rolls.. SI 75
Autopiano $200
Worth more than this to play
by hand.
These and many others to
be closed out at once at Stor
age & Forwarding Dept., 151
Fourth St., City.
-s.
Good 1R.
WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE AGAINST THE SO-CALLED
TWO -PLATOON SYSTEM
1 The fire hazard will be increased, not decreased, by the
double-platoon system. (See report on measure by committee
on fire prevention National Board of Fire Underwriters.
2 All authorities and impartial investigating committees report
that if the two-platoon amendment carries, some of the out
lying companies must be discontinued. Is yours one of them?
(See report Portland Ministers' Association and Firemen's
Two-Platoon Committees' own report.)
.3 Taxes will be increased $171,000 a year over the $601,025 now
required to maintain the - Fire Department. (See special
report National Board of Fire Underwriters.)
4 Fire Prevention Bureau work, which has reduced the fire
losses from $1,800,000 to $275,000 and number of alarms from
1960 to 734 per twelve months, will have to be stopped. Chief
Jay W. Stevens appeals to you not to allow this to be done.
Don't repudiate him, his work and his judgment. -
5 Our Fire Chiefs are unanimously opposed to the bill, because
they say it will demoralize the department by cutting down
the number of men on duty, especially at night, and closing
up some of the fire houses.
6 TheT)ill puts many details of management into the hands of
the men instead of the chiefs, thereby decreasing efficiency.
7 The bill will take from city authorities the right to fix salaries
of firemen. Every other city employe, including policemen,
is subject to it.
8 Instead of getting a decrease in insurance rates there will
be an increase because of an undermanned fire department.
9 This is no time to make these radical changes. Other cities
are taking extraordinary precautions against fire. Should
Portland weaken its fire department while the country is at
war and danger of conflagration is imminent everywhere?
Why, at this time, deprive the National service of a large
number of able-bodied men?
10 The National Board of Fire Underwriters in a special report
on this bill advise strongly against it.
FIRE PROTECTION COMMITTEE,'
James J. Sayer, Secretary,
715 Corbett Bldg.
(Paid Advertisement)
Say Physicians Quickly Puts Roses Into the Cheeks of Women and Most Astonishing
Youthful Vitality Into the Veins of Men It Often Increases the Strength
and Endurance of Delicate, Nervous, "Run-Down" Folks 100
Per Cent in Two Weeks' Time.
Opinions of Dr. Schuyler C. Jaques, Visiting Surgeon of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, New York City; Dr. Howard James,
Late of the Manhattan State Hospital of New York, and Formerly Assistant Physician Brooklyn State
Hospital, and Wra. R. Kerr, Former Health Commissioner, City of Chicago.
NEW "TORK, N. T. Since the re
markable discovery of organic iron,
Nuxated Iron or "Fer Nuxate," as the
French call it, has taken the country
by storm. It Is conservatively esti
mated that over three million people
annuallv are taking U in this country
alone. Most astonisning reuu
cheeked women and vigorous iron men.
Dr. Ferdinand King, a New lork Phy-
slciaii and Medical Author, when inter
viewed on this subject, said: There
can be no vigorous iron nien without
iron. Pallor means anaemia. Anaemia
means iron deficiency. The tskin of
anaemlo men and women is pale: the
flesh flabby. The muaciea ia.cn. wit,
the brain taps and the memory falls
and often they become weak, nervous.
Irritable, despondent and melRneholy.
When the Iron Roes from the blood of
women, the roses go from their cheeks.
"In the most common foods ot
America, the starches, sugars, table
syrups, candies, polished rice, white
bread, soda crackers. blscultB, macaroni,
spaghetti, tapioca, sago, farina, deter
minated cornmeal. no longer Is Iron to
be found. Refining processes have re
moved the iron of Mother liarth from
these Impoverished foods, and silly
methods of home cookery, by throwing
down the waste pipe the water in
which our vegetables are cooked, are
responsible for another grave iron loss.
"Therefore, if you wisli to preserve
your vouthful vim and vigor to a ripe
old age. you must supply the iron defi
ciency in your food by using some form
of organic iron, just as you would use
salt when your food has not enough
salt." , ,
Former Health Commissioner, w m.
R Kerr, of the City of Chicago, says:
"I have taken Nuxated Iron myself and
experienced Its health-giving, strength
building effect and. In the interest of
public welfare.' I feel It my duty to
make known the results of Its use. I
am well past three score years and
want to say that I believe my own
great physical activity- is largely due
today to my personal use of Nuxated
Iron. From my own experience with
Nuxated Iron. I feel It is such a valu
able remedy that it ought to be used In
everv hospital and prescribed by every
phys'ician in this country."
iyr e Sauer, a Boston physician who
has studied both in this country and
In great European medical Institutions,
said: "As I have said a hundred times
over, organic iron is tha greatest of all
strength builders.
'Not long ago a man came to me
who was nearly half a century old and
asked me to give him a preliminary
examination for life Insurance. I was
astonished to find him with the blood
Fressure of a boy of twenty and as
ull of vigor, vim and vitality as a
young man; In fact, a young man he
really was, notwithstanding his age.
The secret, he said, was taking iron
Nuxated Iron had filled him with re
newed life. At 80 he was In bad
health; at 48 he was careworn' and
nearly all In. Now at B0. after taking
Nuxated Iron, a miracle of vitality and
his face beaming with the buoyancy of
youth. Iron is absolutely necessary to
enable your blood to change food into
living tissue. Without It, no matter
how much or whst yon e -1. your food
Phone Your Want
ported irom Its use vy uom vi'jf"'""
and laymen. So much so that doctors
predict that we shall soon have a new
rl mnrt beautllul. rosy-
easons
Iron to Wall Ww
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Iron
merely passes through you without do
ing you any good. You don't get the
strength out of it and. as a conse
quence, you become weak, pale and
sickly looking, just like a plant trying
to grow in a soil deficient in iron. It
you are not strong or well, you owe It
to yourself to make the following test:
See how long you can work or how far
you can walk without becoming tired.
Next take two five-grain tablets of or
dinary nuxated iron three times per
day after meals for two weeks. Then
test your strength again and see how
much you have gained. I have seen
dozens of nervous, run - down people
who were ailing all the while double
their strength and endurance and en
tirely rid themselves of all symptoms
of dyspepsia, liver and other troubles
In from ten to fourteen days" time sim
ply by taking iron In the proper form.
And this, after they had in some cases
been doctoring for months without ob
taining any benefit..
Dr. Schuyler C. Jaques. Visiting Sur
geon of St. Klizabeth's Hospital. New
York City, said: "I have never before
given out any medical Information or
advice for publication, as I ordinarily do
not believe In It. But in the case of
Nuxated Iron I feel I would be remiss
in my duty not to mention It. I have
taken it myself and given It to my pa
tients with most surprising and satis
factory results. And those who wish
to increase their strength, power and
endurance will find It a most remarkable
and wonderfully effective remedy."
Ir. Howard James, late of the Man
hattan State Hospital of New York,
and formerly Assistant Physician
Krooklyn State Hospital, said: "Nuxat
ed Iron is a most surprising remedy. A
patient of mine remsrked to me nfter
Ads to THE OREGON IAN,
Most
Kyi '4 t n$' A
having been on a 6ix weeks' course of
it) 'SAY DOCTOR. THAT THKRK
STUFF IS LIKE MAGIC Previous to
using Nuxated Iron I had been pre
scribing the various mineral salts of
Iron for years, only to meet complaints
of discolored teeth, disturbed digestion,
tled-up hardened secretions, etc., when
I came across Nuxated Iron, an elegant
Ingenious preparation containing or
ganic iron, which has no destructivn
action on the teeth no corrosive effect
on the stomach, and which is readily
assimilated into the blood and quickly
makes It presence felt in increased
vigor, snap 'and staying power. It en
riches the blood, brings roses to tha
cheeks of women and is an unfailing
source of renewed vitality, endurance
and power to men who burn up tow
rapidly their nervous energy in the
strenuous strain of the great business
competition of the day."
NOTE: Nuxated Iron, whfrh Is prwribd
and recommended abov l,y phyHiclans t:i
u-h u great variety of rasrs, Is not it patent
medicine nor secret remedy. lut ofte which Is
well known to drusciata and whoae Iron coj
stltuenta are widely prescribed by eminent
physician both In Kurope and America. x:n
like the older inoricunic iron product!, 1t is
easily aaslmllated. doea not in.iure the teth.
make them black, nor upaet the stomach: on
the contrary, it la a most potent remedy in
nearly all forma of indigestion a w-ell as for
nervous, run-down conditions. The manu
facturers have aueh rreat confidence in nirt.
Kted Iron that they offer to forfeit SlnO.OO to
any charitable inatttution if they cannot lafea
any man or woman under SO who lacks Iron,
and Increase' t heir atreng-tli Iihi per ceit or
over In four weeks time, provided they hava
no serious organic trouble. They also offer
to refund your money if It does not at least
double your strength and endurance In tn
days' time. It is dispensed in this city by
The Owl Tnig Pn. and by ail grtd lT-.lf- Kriw.
Main 7070, A 6093