The Sunday Oregonian., October 21, 1917, Section One, Page 20, Image 20

THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 21, 1917.
HUMAN H.Y CRAWLS
UP FAILING FACADE
"HUMAN FLY" WHO THRILLED CROWD YESTERDAY BY
SCALING WALL OF FAILING BUILDING.
PARADE IS FREE TO
ALL ORGANIZATIONS
Victrolas
$20 to $315
Easy Terms
Victrolas
$20 to $315
Easy Terms
Charles Willis Astounds Crowd
Announcement Made for Lib
erty Bond Demonstration
Set for Wednesday.
at Corner of Fifth and
Alder Streets.
LAD'S DEED MOST DARING
INTEREST IS VERY GREAT
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riii 1 JL fern
Youth Is Fatalist, Who Xoes Xot
Believe He Will Die Before His
"Time" Comes Ambition
"" Is to Be Aviator.
Charles Willis, 19 years old, known
as the "human fly," was watched by
thousands yesterday as he crawled up
the perpendicular wall of the 12-story
Failing building at Fifth and Alder
streets to attract a crowd in which sol
diers could sell tickets for the soldiers'
emergency fund entertainments at the
public Auditorium this week.
Young Willis walked onto a second
story window sill and then started up
the wall, catching hold of whatever
came within reach, which consisted for
the most part of niches about an inch
and a half deep. He went straight up
to the ninth floor, then crawled along
the building to the framework of an
electric sign, on which he performed
some antics, including balancing on one
foot in mid-air.
Lad IVot a Professional.
Although the general supposition
was that Willis is a professional at his
work, it developed that he is not. He
is an elevator operator at the New
Perkins Hotel and is starting out on a
career of daring. He has all sorts of
weird ambitions to thrill Portland citi
zens, some of which he will stage if he
can get permission.
The next stunt he wants to do is to
be allowed to jump from an eighth or
tenth story window into a life net, and
to follow this by jumping from the top
of a 12-story building. And then he
wants a wire stretched across a street
about 10 or 12 stories up so that he can
do some wire walking and trapese
Stunts.
Out judging from Mayor Baker's at
titude yesterday young Willis will have
trouble in getting permission. As he
climbed his way toward the top of the
Failing building yesterday. Mayor
Baker rushed Ferdinand Reed, who had
charge of the event for the emergency
fund campaign, to a second-story win
dow to order Willis to cut out his
antics and come down.
Ambition Im to Be Aviator.
Willis wants to get into the aviation
jservice, but has been turned down be
cause of two broken ribs suffered by
falling from a s-econd-story window in
Chicago. He saye he has tried many
times to get into the service but each
time has been rejected. His ambition
now is to make money enough to buy
0 i'ying machine and demonstrate his
ability, then try to get in again. "if
1 can only get a machine," he said yes
terday, "I'll agree to make some of the
professional flyers look like amateurs
as far as daring is concerned."
Willis says it isn't a matter of
bravery, but a matter of training that
makes stunts of this sort safe. He
bases everything on a quaint little
theory of his own.
AVHIiH Is KntnlUt.
"Everybody has a time set to die,"
he said. "This cannot be changed, and
the manner of death cannot be changed.
It is impossible to pass the time slated
for death. My time is set and it will
come no sooner, regardless of what I
may do."
Daring seems to be the middle name
of the Willis family. He eays he has
always had a desire to go Just a little
etronger than anybody else. His father
was killed in Chicago a few years ago
while driving an automobile SO miles
an hour.
COOS COUNTY WOODS AFIRE
Largest Blazes in Old Burns in
Southern Section.
MARSHFIELD, Or.. Oct. 20. (Spe
cial.) Forest fires, although not yet
doing any damage to green timber, are
creating concern among timber owners
in this county. There are blazes in sev
eral sections, the largest being in old
burns in the southern part of the coun
ty. The most severe lire is in the
country near the head of Myrtle Creek,
couth of the Evernden ranch, while an
other large one is sweeping the top
of Bone Mountain, near the mouth of
Hock Creek, on the middle fork of the
Coquille River. Smaller fires are re
ported in several localities, but they
are not dangerous. The Coos County
fire patrol has a force of men in Coos
fighting the largest fires, and private
owners are looking after the smaller
con f !a grat ion s.
EVEN CROSS, SICK
CHILDREN LOVE
SYRUPJF FIGS
Look at Tongue! If Feverish,
Bilious, Constipated, Take
r No Chances.
"California Syrup of Figs" Can't
Harm Tender Stomach.
f Uver, Bowels.
Don't scold your fretful, peevish child.
Ee. If tongue Is coated; this la a tur,
eiga If little otoma.cn. liver and bow
els are clogged with sour waste.
When listless, pale. Xeverisii. full of
cold, breath bad. throat sore, doesn't
eat. sleep or act naturally, has stom
ach ache, indigestion, diarrhoea, give
a teaspoonful of "California byrup of
'igs," and in a few hours nil the foul
vraete, the sour bil. and fermenting food
passes out of the bowels and you have
a well and playful child again. Chil
dren love this r.arraiess "iruit laxa
tive," and mothers can rest easy after
giving It, because it never fails to
m&ku their litue "insldea" clean and
sweet.
Keep it handy. Mother! A little g.'vag
today saves a sick. chil. tomorrow, but
get the genuine. Ask your druggist
for a bottle of "California Syrup of
i'lgs." which has di.ecuons fur baoiea.
children of all ages and for grown-ups
plainly on the bottle. Remember there
are counterfeits sold here, so surely
look and see that yours is made ty tee
'California fig Syrup Company." Hand
back with contempt any other fig
eyrup, .dv.
CHARLES WILLS, "SNAPPED- M
DISPUTE IS RESUMED
ARCHITECT SCORES STATE OFFI
CIALS IX STATEMENT.
E. 31. Laxartm Sara Board Will Be
Taught to Regard Contract as
More Than "Scrap of Paper
Edgar M. Lazarus, architect, has Is
sued a lengthy statement giving his
side of a dispute between him and Sec
retary of State Olcott and State Treas
urer Kay regarding- a claim for archi
tects fees on the construction of a
wins of the State Hospital.
Mr. Lazarus presents a series of let
ters which have been written from
time to time during the progress of
work on the three units of the building
to show his good faith in the handliug
of all matters.
"As to Mr. Olcott's statement quoted
in The Oregon ian October 16 to the
effect that the State Board's connec
tion with me has been a continual
nightmare, I can eay this probably Is
due to the fact that 'a guilty conscience
makes cowards of us all " says the
statement. "One minute the Board
states it has no desire or intention to
take away any rights, responsibilities
or prestige that should come to me as
author of the plane, specifications and
contracts, and the next minute de
prives me of these very same rights in
contradiction of the plighted word and
ia violation of every principle of equity
and justice. Why should I have been
made 'the goat when the Board was
in honor bound to respect my existing
contract?
"Having been presented with all the
facts, these gentlemen, unless they re
cede from their position, must be un
derstood by the public ats approving a
direct and gross violation of a contract
which they themselves have made. It
is well for these high officials, who
hold the good name of the state in
their keeping, to bear in mind that
Oregon ia sending the flower of it
manhood overseas to make a certain
Kaiser understood that a signed docu
ment is a sacred obligation and Us to
be respected as such, and not merely a
'scrap of paper Mr. Olcott and Mr.
Kay, as well as other public officials,
will be taught the same thing, not by
force of arms, but by the more deadly
medium of public opinion."
COMPANY ON LAST VISIT
SALEM'S SOLDIER BOYS GREETED
BV THRONG 0 RETl'RX.
Men Escorted to Armory by Semi
Military Organizations, Ban
queted, to Leave Today.
SALEM, Or.. Oct. 20. (Special.) Sa
lem turned out en masse today when
her own boys of Company M, Third Ore
gon, came home for a two days' visit.
They will leave for Clackamas Station
late tomorrow night, according to pres
ent plans, and this is to be their last
visit home before they leave for the
East and the trenches.
Met at the station by the state offi
cials, G. A. R. and Spanish-American
War Veterans, Boy Scouts, Honor Guard
Girls, and a great concourse of people,
they were escorted to the armory. From
there they went to the courthouse and
after an hour's drill were guests of the
city at a banquet at the armory. At
the banquet President Doney, of Wil
lamette University, acted as toast
master and addresses were delivered bv
Governor Withycombe. Judge George H.
Burnett and Captain J. It. Neer, of the
company. Tom Ordman and Mrs. Hallie
larrish Durdall furnished solos.
Company M has subscribed to more
than $14,000 worth of liberty bonds and
its final total probably will reach $15,
000, an officer of the company an
nounced today. Word has been received
by officers of the company that the
Third Oregon Regiment as a whole has
subscribed on an average of $fc0 per
man.
HOSPITAL INMATE ELOPES
Kamcl Pressor Admitted to Institu
tion From Portland.
SALEM. Or.. Oct. 10. CSpecial.)
Kamel Presser, German citizen, and in
mate of the State Hospital, escaped to
day from the kitchen at the main in
stitution. Aside from threatening to harm F. H.
Kramer. 400 East Fourth street. Port
land, hospital authorities say he has
no delusions as far. as they know
which would make him dangerous.
While a German reservist he refused
to return to that country to serve in
the army. He has been at the hos
pital for about a year, being corn
mated from Multnomah County.
WASCO FOOD DRIVE ON
County Divided Into 60 Local Units;
Everyone to Be Reached.
THE DALLES. Or., Oct. 20. (Spe
cial.) The food conservation oam-
IDWAV IP O.V HIS DIZZY CLIMB.
paign in Wasco County is progressing
favorably. The county has been
divided into 60 local units. Local com
mittees have been appointed for each
of these local units.
As far as possible pledge cards will
be signed up through the children. Any
family which cannot be reached in
this way, will be visited by special
canvassers. Every district chairman
has been furnished with a census of
the head of the families in his local
unit. Every family must be accounted
for.
A. R. Chase, county agent, and L. P.
Harrington, industrial field worker in
the state superintendent's office, are
conducting a campaign which will
reach two-thirds of the rural schools.
The other one-third will be visited
by other workers.
RUIN OF RAGE DREADED
DR. IRVING FISHER TALKS OX
WAR-TIME HEALTH.
If Nations Are Wakened to Need of
Life Conservation War Will Be
V'Meful, Club It Told.
"I can stand the tragedy and heart
break of war, but I can't stand the
thought of destroying the marrow, the
brain, and the fiber of the human race!'
declared Dr. Irving Kisher, of Yale,
speaking on "The Health of the Nation
in War Time," before the Civic Club at
luncheon yesterday noon in the Mult
nomah. He declared that the price of war is
appalling, but that if it affords a stimu
lus to waken drowsy America and other
nations to the necessity of organized
conservation of the sons and daughters
of the race. It will not have been paid
in vain.
"If the stimulus of this war is great
enough to make us apply the lessons
we learn, this war will have been a
blessing in disguise," he declared. "You
know that sometimes a catastrophe
causes a stimulus to prevent its repe
tition. It may be that 100 years from
now the world will be better because
of this war."
Grave danger exists of the sacrifice
of the morals of the world as a price
for the gigantic struggle, declared Ir.
Fisher, and the womanhood of the na
tions involved confronts the hazard of
being reduced in the social and eco
nomic scale, just as the new era was at
dawn.
"Are women to be put on a higher or
lower plane as a consequence of this
war?" he asked. "If our American boys
who go to France return as they left,
with their American chivalry and honor
unstained, womanhood will remain on a
higher plane. While war gives an op
portunity for degradation and demoral
ization, it gives an equal opportunity
for reforms."
FEDERAL SHIPMENTS FIRST
Car Shortage Investigated by Public
Service Commission.
SALEM. Or.. Oct. 20. (Special.) In
a telegram to the Public Service Com
mission today Frank F. Miller, chair
man of the Commission, who is now
in Washingrton. said he had interviewed
the car service bureau of the Inter
state Commerce Commission relative to
the Southern Pacific car shortage, and
learned that all needs for freight cars
must stand aside for fuel, food and
Government shipments.
He said there is insufficient car
equipment to meet the demands
throughout the country, but in all car
movements no discrimination in distri
bution will be allowed and the South
ern Pacific service is having consid
eration of the Interstate Commission.
Brigadier-General Burton Dead.
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 20. Brigadier
General George H. Burton. V. s. A.,
retired, died here today after a long
illness. He retired in 1903 after 38
years of service. He was born in Mills
boro, Dela., and graduated from West
Point in 186a. He was 74 years old
Willi "Peruna Cured Me"
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General Charles F. Beebe, Chairman
of Committee In Charge, Sets Be
ginning of March at 2 P. M.
Many to Participate.
In response to the strong demand for
participation in the liberty bond patri
otic parade to be staged next Wednes
day, the committee, of which General
Charles F. Beebe is chairman, yester
day announced a welcome would be ex
tended to any organization that might
care to participate.
All that is now required is for bodies
of men and women to appear at the as
sembling places prepared to walk. Cars
will be permitted, however, for the con
venience of aged persons.
In changing the plans for the pa
rade General Beebe wacs careful to pre
serve the big feature, the appearance
of the wives, mothers, fathers, sisters,
daughters, brothers and other relatives
of the enlisted Oregon men who are at
the front. These will be given a sep
arate division in the place of honor.
"Women who are arranging for the
appearance of the various auxiliaries
are: Mrs. L. McKinsey, Mrs. Eva Pat
terson. Mrs. Helen M. Crysler. Mrs. W.
C. O'Brien. Mrs. E. B. Seabrook, Mrs.
Charles Kadderly, Mrs. Frank ft. Cook,
Mrs. G. P. Downey, Mrs. E. L. Doneke
and Mrs. G. M. Nolan.
Parade Start at 2 P. M.
The parade will be a short one, and
wil! move promptly at 2 o'clock.
W. B. Ayer will be asked to form a
division of women who have Joined the
conservator movement.
Another division will be made up of
sons and daughters of men now at the
front. It is believed that the appeal
which these marching youngsters will
make will be irresistible.
The "insiiirational division" will be
composed of those men and women who
du not hci't membership in any sol
diers' auxiliary, but who may be in
spired with a desire to Join the march
ing hosts.
The Multnomah Home Guards, the
Grand Army of the Republic and the
Womtn's .Relief Corps are actively nt
work arranging their appearance. The
various Relief Corps organizations will
be marshaled by Mrs. Harriet Hendee.
Children to Participate.
Superintendent Alderman yesterday
anr-ounced that a large number of
school children would participate in
th? parade. They will be directed by
Itohert Krchn.
Because of the limited time for ar
ranging all the details of the parade
none of the societies participating will
send out individual notices. Members
will be guided by the announcements
made in the newspapers as to assem
bling. All Knights of Pythias in the city
are asked to assemble at the hall of
Ivanhoe Lodge, Eleventh and Alder
streets.
The Boy Scout camps will assemble
their members on Park street near the
Arlington Club.
Mayor Baker will be asked Monday
morning to issue a proclamation in
conformity with that issued by Presi
dent Wilson making Wednesday aft
ernoon a half holiday. All the mer
chants in the city will be asked to
close their places of business and al
low their employes to march in the
parade.
"All organizations which have par
ticipated in the Preparedness Parade
last April have been and are invited to
take part in the Liberty Bond Patriotic
Parade next Wednesday afternoon at
2 o'clock," fiaid Charles F. Beebe, chair
man of the parade committee, yester
day.. Members of the organizations whose
officers' names are given in the follow
ing are urged to assemble at their
usual headquarters or meeting places
Wednesday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock
prepared to march in the parade:
Charles E. Cochran, for the Rotarians;
Samuel C. Bratton, for the Ad Club; L.
M. Lepper, for the East Side Business
Men's Club: James E. Brockway, for
the Boy Scouts; L. D. Mahone, for the
Knights and Ladies of Security; John
O. Wilson, for the Woodmen of the
World; Leslie M. Crouch and E. M.
Lance, for the Knights of Pythias, and
Paul Chamberlain, exalted ruler of the
Elks.
ARMY OFFICER SUICIDES
111 Health Thought to Be Respon
sible for Tragic Act.
VANCOUVER. Wash., Oct. 20. (Spe
cial.) Despondent because of ill
health. Lieutenant M. C. McCoy, of
Company D, 14th Infantry, ended his
life in his tent at Vancouver Lake,
four miles from here, at 2:30 o'clock
this morning by shooting himself in
the head.
Lieutenant McCoy waa a son of Colo
nel Robert McCoy. Sixth Infantry, Wis
consin National Guard, and was com
missioned at the officers' training
camp at Fort Sheridan last August.
He arrived at Vancouver Barracks on
Auust 29. He also leaves an aunt,
Mrs. Mary Gibbon, at Sparta, Wis.
Gas Being Laid to Forest Grove.
FOREST GROVE. Or., Oct. 20. (Spe
cial.) The Portland Gas & Coke Com
pany has Just completed the work of
Mr. Robert Fowler, Okarche. Okla
homa writes: "To anr "offerer of
catarrh of the stomach. I am crlad to
tell my friends or sufferers of catarrh
that seventeen years ago I was past
work of any kind, due to stomach
troubles. I tried almost every known
remedy, without any results. Finally
I tried Peruna. and am happy to say
I was benefited by the first bottle,
and after using; m fall treatment X
wan entirely eared; I am now seventy
years old, and am in good health, due
to always having Peruna at my com
mand. I would not think of going
away from home for any length of
time without taking a bottle of Peruna
along for emergency. You are at
liberty to use my picture and testimony
If you think it will help any one who
has stomach trouble."
Those who object to liquid medlclaes
cau bow procure Fttua Tablets.
engaged in installation work. Under the
franchise granted by the city the gas
can only, be used for fuel purposes,
the city owning the power and light
plant.
FAREWELL T0 BE SAID
Second Washington to Hold Recep
tion at Camp Murray.
TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 20. (Special.)
People from all sections or Washing
ton State will assemble at Camp Mur
ray tomorrow to bid farewell to the
Second Washington Regiment. It is
expected that at least 3000 persons will
be here from many cities and towns.
It is planned by Colonel Inglis, com
mander of the regiment, and those
having the reception in charge to hold
a general farewell
Dallas Has "Last Chance" Day.
DALLAS. Tex.. Oct. 20. Today was
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Dr. Edwards, a practicing physician fot
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A Victrola will do more than anything else to provide them with the
right kind of pleasure at home.
Yet its pleasure for the children is no greater than for the parents.
The Victrola is one of the few things in this world which can be relied
'upon to please everybody. It has music for each, and music for all.
Just ask your family if they would like a Victrola.
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the last day on which 200 saloons and a
number -of wholesale liquor houses in
Dallas County were permitted to do
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My Practice Is Limited to
HiKh-Clnns Dentistry Only
at t'rices Kveryone Can Afford.
Ambition will not tolerate limitations. It has a way of overstepping
boundaries, ignoring precedent, upsetting rules, shocking "ethics" and
looking THROUGH instead of AT people.
Progress operates on a big scale. It demands the right of way and
people with big heads and pet corns had best yield to it.
Show me a success and I will show you the reason for it.
Many big businesses exist today because by shrewd management they
give the people MORE for their money than they could secure other
wise. Likewise success cannot last longer than the foundation upon
which it was built.
Radical changes of policy, sacrificing principle for profit adding the
prefix DIS" to the word "HONESTY" will change brilliant success to
dismal failure.
If each of us were allowed to decide our station in life we would all
be successes, and failures would be unheard of, but, as the world usually
does its own appraising, there is nothing left for us to do but to fight
it out. Had I listened to the raven's croak and the dismal predictions
of well-meaning but short-sighted friends. I would have stifled ambi
tion and woulu never have perfected my local anesthetic known aa
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Any Dentist Can Cut Prices, But It Takes
Experience to Turn Out GOOD WORK!
MY WORK IS GUARANTEED 15 YEARS
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Flesh Colored Plates $10.00
Porcelain Crowns $o.OO
Gold Fillings, from $1.00
22-K Gold Crowns $5.00
22-K Gold Bridge $3.50 to $5.00
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