The Sunday Oregonian., November 04, 1917, Section One, Page 18, Image 18

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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX,' PORTLAND,' NOVEMBER 4; 1D1T.
SAVE CABARET' IS
CRY OF GHIGAGQAN
OREGON PIONEER, 91, DIGS TWENTY BUSHELS
OF POTATOES IN TWO DAYS AT NEWBERG
J. C. Nelson, Who Came to Chehalem Valley in 1844 From Missouri, With Wife Enjoys Family Reunion Recently.
Mr. Nelson One of Earliest Farmers of Oregon.
Hotel Men Also Tell Council
They Will Put Ban on Pro
fessional Hostess.
I a qai it m mm mttamami re I il!
HEARING BRINGS CLASHES
Cafe Owner Makes Spirited Heply to
Iteformers and Declares Matter -
( Can Be Regulated Retention'
, of Jazz . Band Urged.
CHICAGO. Oct. 20. Loop hotels are
prepared to make heavy sacrifices In
order to save the cabaret from the ex
tinction which is threatened by city
ordinance. Through Attorney Harry
J. Ganey they volunteered to the City
Council license committee to give up
afternoon tea dances, where profes
sional hostesses make guests acquaint
ed with each other, but pleaded to re
tain the singing-dancing-Jazz band en
tertainment that has become a feature
of city life.
The tea dances have been 'the object
of vigorous attack by reformers. It was
their overpowering attarction that led
to Dorothy Crosby's fall and attempt
at suicide. Her description of them In
the Morals Court led Judge Uhlir to or
der several hotelkeepers called in. The
latter believe that by eliminating these
entertainments and strictly regulating
cabaret performances they can meet
the objections of the reform element
and still hold their customers.
"We will submit to any regulations
your committee sees fit to make," Mr.
Ganey said. "We will pay a license fee
of $500. although that would drive the
smaller places out of business. We will
guarantee that there will be no hos
tesses and no mixing of customers."
Discussion Bringi Clash.
John Haskell, an official of the Re
tail Liquor Dealers' Association, re
plied to Mr. Ganey and for more than
an hour the different elements in the
liquor business attacked each other
until the host of reformers In the back
ground fairly beamed at the ammuni
tion that was being supplied them.
Women took a hand In the argument
before the hearing was over, showing
that sentiment was divided as to
whether the . loop cabarets should be
abolished.
"It Is the gilt-edged place that causes
the downfall of young girls," said Mr.
Slaskell. "They are attractive and the
man who wants to lure a girl takes her
to a place where the surroundings are
attractive, not to back rooms of sa
loons. We are not killjoys, we simply
ask that these providers of entertain
ment be permitted to keep on with
their business, except that they keep
liquor away from their patrons."
"Do you think that if we abolish cab
arets the saloons would get back the
business they have lost and would you
be willing to have all partitions torn
out?" Alderman Home asked.
"All we ask is that public entertain
ment be separated from the liqaor busi
ness," replied Mr. Maskell.
Al Tearney, a cabaret and cafe owner,
made a spirited reply to Mr. Haskell.
"It must be amusing to the reform
ers to listen to our quarrels," he said.
"I believe that the cafes can be regu
lated. I will say, though, that in my
opinion the barroom is the place of all
places on earth that needs cleaning and
regulating. It is the barroom where
thugs congregate, where fights begin.
"There may be evils connected with
cabarets, but they are evils that can
be regulated. Your committee should
pass new laws that will keep women
without escorts away from cafes and
make it a felony for minors to buy
drinks as well as for the saloonkeepers
to sell to minors."
Women's Side Is Heard.
Mrs. Mary D. Fisher, president of the
Illinois Women's Press Association and
of other organizations, made a vigor
ous defense of the large cafes and gar
dens, though she demanded that if pos
sible they be better regulated. Mrs.
Fisher said she did not represent any
organization, only a committee of five
women who have spent several weeks
investigating cabaret conditions and
who will soon have a report ready for
the Council.
"We are all either mothers or have
brothers and sisters," said Mrs. Fisher.
"We believe our children are entitled
to decent amusement, to an opportunity
for dancing; and in our tours taking In
such places as the Bismarck Garden
and the Terrace Garden, we found no
such objectionable conditions as have
been described.
"We are not interested in the smaller
cabarets, as we do not go there. We
want to take exception to statements
made to you by Miss Margaret Dobyn
that the women want these places
closed. She does not represent the
women's organizations of Chicago."
The brewers who are backing the
cabaret ordinance discovered that they
had stirred up a hornets' nest before
the hearing was over. Both Ganey and
Tearney charged that the brewers were
largely responsible for any saloon
evils.
Conditions at Camp Funston, Fort
Riley, Kan., are being investigated by
the Y. W. C. A.
For a Corn-Peeling
Picnic, Use "Gets-It"
Pain Eases at Once, Corn Just Dies!
Do your corn-ridding easily, with a
smile the banana-peel way. That's
the "Gets-It" way the only way your
corn or callous comes off complete as
though It were glad to get off.
Don't Travel
Aronml tht
World In Corn Agony,
In "Geta-It."
"Gets-It" has cured more corns than
all other remedies combined. It's as
sure as the sunrise, and as safe as
water. Used by millions. Don't take
a chance with your feet; you can't af
ford to experiment with unknown mix
tures when you know "Gets-It" never
fails.
"Gets-It" will remove any corn or
callous. Wear those new, stylish shoes
or pumps if you want to go ahead and
dance. Demand "Gets-It" throw sub
stitutes back on the counter! 25c is all
you need pay at any drugstore, or It
will be sent direct by E. Lawrence &
Co., Chicago, 111.
Sold in Portland and recommended
as the world's best corn remedy by The
Owl Drug Co.
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Front Row, Left o Right Mrs. Hendricks, Mr, Hendricks, of McMlnnvillr j 3. c. "Uncle Ct") - Nelson. John
Wortman, Mrs. J. C. lon. Middle' Row A. I". Fletcher, of Lafayette r Mrs. W. V. Nelson. T. H. Bryan.
Mrs. A. P. Fletcher, W. W. Nelson, Mrs. T. H. Bryan, Mrs. Maggie Llttlefleld . and Mr. Ralph Davidson. Back;
Row Horace Klrlli?e, Margaret Davidson, Wayne Nelson, Mrs. Ralph Davidson, Mrs. Horace Nelson. Mrs. Eva
Courtney, Mrs. Leila Elrldjre and William Courtney.
NBWBERG, Or., Nov. 3. (Special.)
"Well, it's so hard to get help
and I felt nrettv sorv. . o T
thought I'd dig 'em myself," said "Uncle
Cy" Nelson, 91 years old. He Is New
berg's pioneer settler, and despite his
age he dug 20 bushels of potatoes in
two days.
J. C. Nelson, "Uncle Cy," came to
Oregon from Missouri in 1844, at the
age of 17, and located in Chehalem Val
ley, just west of Newberg. There were
only two white families In the valley
at that time, the Ohlingers, who left
two years later, and the Hess family,
whose descendants are now scattered
all over the state. "Uncle Cy" contends
that no other person in this vicinity is
as old a resident as himself.
He took up a donation land claim,
RESULTS NOT GOOD
Health Insurance Decried by
C. D. Bab cock.
SOME STATISTICS CITED
City Club Told Innovation Is De
sirable, Not Feasible, for United
States Plan Is Held to Be
Pauperism in New Form.
That health Insurance, wherever
tried, has proved a failure, not benefi
cial in reality to those supposed to
benefit thereby, and that It costs vast
sums to administer and has created a
new crop of parasite lawyers, who live
by working up cases under Its provi
sions, were statements made by C. D.
Babcock, secretary of the Insurance
Federation of Oregon, at the meeting
of the City Club last Friday noon. Mr.
Babcock cited authorities and statistics
to show that such a plan would be
neither feasible nor desirable in the
United States.
Mr. Babcock referred to the charges
made by Dr. Ferdinand Frledensburg.
for 20 years president of the senate of
the imperial insurance office, to the
effect that state insurance, which had
been designed to replace pauperism
and charity. Is Itself merely pauperism
under another form; that it has fos
tered the German evil of bureaucratic
formalism, and that it has become a
hotbed of fraud and a spreader of de
moralizing practices and ways of
thought.
He quoted Bonar Law, who succeed
ed Lloyd. George as Chancellor of the
Exchequer, to the effect that national
health insurance has not done away
with pauperism In the United Kingdom,-
but that "actually a large num
ber of the poor, or those who have the
greatest need of our assistance, do not
receive the benefits, although they are
obliged to pay the contributions."
Mr. Babcock referred to the enor
mous growth of the administrative ma
chinery required to 'administer health
Insurance in Germany, quoting author
ities to show that the cost of adminis
tration has increased more than 50 per
cent, while the work of Inspection' and
regulation undertaken by the govern
ment has steadily deteriorated.
According to Mr. Babcock. new
classes of "parasitic lawyers" have
sprung Into activity, inventing and
pressing claims, and neighborhood doc
tors, whose scruples will not permit
them to sustain such claims, are boy
cotted and threatened with ruin. As a
general thing, however, the laws are
stretched to remarkable lengths to fa
vor claimants and usually there is no
difficulty in finding a physician who
will make the sort of report the claim
ant desires.
James W. Gerard was quoted to the
effect that German workingmen work
longer and get less out of life than
any others In the world. According to
Mr. Gerard, the laws so much admired
and made ostensibly for their protec
tion, such as insurance against unem
ployment, sickness, injury, old age and
so on, are in reality skillful measures
which bind them to the soil as -effectively
as the serfs of the Middle Ages
were bound to their masters' estates."
Damage Suit Appealed.
Notice of appeal to the Supreme Court
was filed by the City of Portland yes
terday In the personal injury suit tried
last Summer, in which Mrs. Victoria
Colby won a verdict for $1778.50. . This
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which he still owns, just west of New
berg, in 1845, and under the old land
claim laws, if adjoining land could be
obtained a man's wife could take that
up also. At the time of his marriage
his wife obtained adjoining land, so
that they owned 501 acres.
He was married in 1850. His wife
died In 1856. Two children were born,
both of whom are still living, Mrs.
Belcher, of Portland, and W. W. Nelson,
of Newberg. He remarried In 1860 and
Mrs. Nelson still graces his home. Five
children resulted from this marriage,
the first a daughter, dying in Infancy,
the others being Mrs. Fletcher, of La
fayette; Mrs. Bryan. and Mrs. Maggie
Liittlefield, of Newberg, and Hugh Nel
son, of Albany.
Mr. Nelson claims almost a continu
ous residence in this state since he
came here. In 1849 he spent the Winter
is the second time the suit has gone to
the Supreme Court, Mrs. Colby having
won a larger verdict a year ago. She
is alleged to have sustained permanent
injuries through falling on a defective
sidewalk. . .
COMMISSIONER MUCK SUED
Assistant Campaign Manager Says
His Services Are Worth $485.
An echo of A. A. Muck's strenuous
campaign for County Commissioner
during the campaign of 1916 is recalled
In a civil action filed against him in
the Circuit Court yesterday by William
C. Lynch,- his assistant campaign man
ager, who seeks to be reimbursed for
the time and money - he expended in
getting Mr. Muck elected to' office.
The complaint sets forth that he was
appointed assistant campaign manager
by Mr. Muck with the promise that he
would be rewarded suitably. In addi
tion to .spending 95 days in the Interest
of Mr. Muck, he alleges he also spent
$10 of his own money. He believes J5 a
day to be a reasonable valuation for
his services, inasmuch' as Mr. . Muck
was elected, and for that reason de
mands Judgment for $485.
COERCION TESTIMONY ENDS
Judge Decides $5 0 00 Was Owed to
Frank. Gebbie.
Testimony in the case of Edward G.
Andrews against Frank Gebbie and the
Ladd & Tilton Bank, in which the plain
tiff seeks to recover $5000 In Southern
Pacific bonds, which he alleged were
obtained from him by Gebbie through
intimidation, was concluded yesterday
before Circuit Judge Llttlefteld.
Andrews testified that he had never
owed Gbbie the $5000 which the latter
asserted was owing to him, but Judge
Littlefield, in deciding that feature of
the case, held that Andrews did owe
Gebbie the $3000. Whether the latter
used coercion in obtaining its return is
a question which the court has not yet
decided.
WIFE CHARGES CRUELTY
W. P. Harvey Is Made Defendant in
Divorce Suit. .
Extreme cruelty is charged by Ann
Harvey in a suit for divorce filed yes
terday against W. P. Harvey, who, she
asserts, earns $225 a month. She de
mands $75 monthly In alimony. They
were married in Duluth, Minn., In 1901.
There are no children.
Andrew Hussett wants a divorce
from Jessie Hussett on grounds of
cruelty. They were married at Walla
Walla, Wash., In 1913. and have one
child. Etta Murdock, in a suit against
Edward Murdock, charges both deser
tion and non-support. They were mar
ried In Wisconsin 31 years ago.
FRENCH PEOPLE PRAISED
Alan Green, Back From Paris, Says
Splendid Spirit Is Shown.
Alan Green, wno arrive in Portland
yesterday from France, brings further
confirmation of ' the splendid . spirit
shown by 'the French people in their
hour of trial.
Mr. Green left Portland during the
Summer with one of the volunteer units
of the American Field Service and ar
rived in Paris in September. He was
in Paris until recently, when he start
ed back, after finding that physic
al defects would disqualify him r
active service.
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in California. In IS61 he went to Idaho
for a few months at the time of the
gold strike there, and in 1883 he made a
short visit in the Fast. The remainder
of the time he has spent in this valley
on his farm and In Newberg. He moved
to Newberg about 20 years ago.
In his early days here there was very
little timber in the valley, a few big
trees and some oak grubs, the Indians
burning over the country- every year
to keep the trees down and the grass
growing. As the Indians gradually
were replaced with whites, the trees
came up and the country was covered
with the second growth.
Recently his daughters planned a
family reunion as a surprise for "Uncle
Cy," at - which all the children were
present except two, and two grand
sons, who are in Army service.
STEEL TRADE VIEWED
PROFIT UNDER NEW Rl'LEi PITTS
BURG DRAWS CONCLUSION.
Some Producers Will Lose Because Big:
Majority of the Small Mills Follow
Practice of Keeping; Books Clear.
PITTSBURG, Oct. 22. Whatever Wall
Street may do with the "steel shares,"
Pittsburg has now arrived at two con
clusions of Its. own. First, nobody In
the steel Industry ventures to assert
that the new schedule of prices for
iron and steel will not bring out the
maximum production possible under
the limitations of physical conditions
these limitations being chiefly matters
of transportation and labor. Seconl,
given the prices now being fixed for
steel products, a continuance of pres
ent output, and no change in costs from
the present level, the steel Industry as
a whole will make larger profits in the
future than it has made in the past
six months. The. average prices at
which deliveries have been invoiced in
the past six months are lower than the
prices lately fixed or about to be fixed
To look one's best and feel one's best
Is to enjoy an Inside bath each morn
ing 'to flush from the system the pre
vious day's waste sour fermentations
and poisonous toxins before it is ab
sorbed into the blood. Just as coal,
when It burns, leaves behind a certain
amount of incombustible material in
the form of ashes, so the food and
drink taken each day leave in the ali
mentary organs a certain amount of
indigestible material, which, if not
eliminated, form toxins and poisons
which are then sucked into the blood
through the very ducts which are in
tended to suck in only nourishment to
sustain the body.
If you' want to see the glow of
healthy bloom In your cheeks, to see
your skin get clearer and clearer, you
are told to drink every morning upon
arising, a glass of hot water with a
teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in
It, which Is a harmless means of wash
ing the waste material and toxins from
the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels,
thus cleansing, sweetening and purify
ing the entire alimentary tract before
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UNPARALLELED IN THE HISTORY OF PORTLAND
An ANNUAL EVENT with us and
an opportunity for you to secure a
' high-grade car for a little money!
Every Used Car in the House Reduced
Fords, Maxwells, Chevrolets,
Velies, Hupmobiles, Studebakers,
Cadillacs and Many Others
In fact, no matter what your choice in motor cars may be, we have it, and you
can bay it for less during this sale.
No need to pay all cash We will arrange easy terms
to suit Don't wait See these cars
OUT-OF-TOWN BUYERS SHOULD SEND AT ONCE FOR LIST OF
CARS INCLUDED IN THIS SALE
Remember, each car sold bears the indorsement of
Portland's Foremost Dealers in Motor Cars
Oregon Motor Car Co.
STUDEBAKER DISTRIBUTERS
Broadway 616 , . Park and Davis
by the Government. This Is the com
mon appraisal In the steel Industry,
and no serious question is raised as to
its accuracy.
The profits of some producers will be
reduced, because the great majority of
the small mills follow the practice of
keeping their order-books relatively
clear, and have thus been able to take
advantage of premiums offered for
early deliveries. The large steel inter
ests do not do this, and have not bene
fited to any appreciable extent by the
fancy prices ruling; In the past few
months, which obtained only on early
deliveries. But tho output thus In
volved Is but a small proportion of the
total, and the mills which are placed
at a disadvantage will be very far from
offsetting those which benefit.
Furthermore, and by no means least
important, the board has so adjusted
prices for the various materials raw,
Intermediate, and finished as to af
ford a profit for each stage of manu
facture. All this explains the state
ment of Chairman Gary, of the Steel
Corporation, that "the steel industry
generally will be benefited," although
"the profits of some of the manufac
turers will be somewhat reduced." He
referred to the small mills that go in
for "delivery premiums." It also ex
plains the Iron Age's statement that
the iron and steel price schedule Is cal
culated to bring out 100 per cent pro
duction. Morning
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putting more food into the stomach.
Girls and women with sallow skint,
liver spots, pimples or pallid complex
ions, also those who wake up with a
coated tongue, bad taste, nasty breath,
others who are bothered with head
aches, bilious spells, acid stomach or
constipation, should begin this phos
phated hot water drinking and are as
sured of very pronounced results in one
or two weeks.
A quarter pound of limestone phos
phate costs very little at the drug
store, but Is sufficient to demonstrate
that just as soap and hot water
cleanses, purifies and freshens the skin
on the outside, so hot water and lime
stone phosphate act on the inside or
gans. We must always consider that In
ternal sanitation is vastly .more Impor
tant Shan outside cleanliness, because
the skin pores do not absorb impurities
into the blood, while the bowel pores
do.
Women who desire to enhance the
beauty of their complexion should Just
try this for a week and notice results.
Adv.
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IAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE LOW PRICES
On our main sales floor we can show you a five-passenger Cadillac
at $150, and if you miss this one, we have another at $200, and for
a little more money we can give you a later model Cadillac, with
lights and starter. If you want a Ford, pick it out here, now
several to choose from. Maxwells We can show you two 1917
models at prices that will astonish you.
DR. E. G. AfSPLUXD, MGR.
Mr Practice Is Limited to
High-Class Dentistry Only
at Prices Everyone Can Afford.
If she finds you loafing in an easy chair when other
people are hard at work, your day-dreams will not be dis
turbed by her knock.
In every walk of life in every trade or profession
opportunity walks hand in hand with the thinker and
worker.
Oregon gave me the opportunity about 15 years ago
to show the people what I could do when pain was the rule
rather than the exception. A crown or bridge or plate
meant many painful visits to the dentist and days or weeks
of waiting.
Right here is where opportunity did me a good turn and,
incidentally, did YOU a good turn, by calling my attention
to the much-needed reforms.
The new schedule of prices I inaugurated met with in
stant approval the feeling of relief that followed the intro
duction of my new local anesthetic, which eliminated unnec
essary pain, and the fact that the standard of dental work
was raised immediately, are matters of history which can
be verified by old residents and by the files of the public
press.
Today, surrounded by a staff of Dental Specialists of
experience and skill I am enabled to give the public MORE
VALUE IN HIGH-CLASS DENTAL WORK than ever
before, and the cost is half or less than other high-class
dentists charge for work in any way comparable.
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Any Dentist Cap Cut Prices, But It Takes
EXPERIENCE to Turn Out GOOD WORK!
MY WORK IS GUARANTEED 15 YEARS
Electro Whalebone Plates. . .$15. OO
Flesh-Colored Plates $10.00
Porcelain Crowns $5.00
Gold Fillings, from $1.00
22-K Gold Crowns $o.OO
22-K Gold Bridge $3.50 to $5.00
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Electro-Painless Dentists
IN THE TWO-STORY BUILDING
Corner Sixth and Washington Streets, Portland, Or.
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Before Cold
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Will You
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Opportunity usually looks
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