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TnE SUNDAY OREGONTAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER Zt 1917, WAR STAMPS TO GO BIG POULTRY SHOW MOUNT ANGEL CORN SHOW EVIDENCES PROSPERITY Joseph J. and Alois Weber, Bankers, Largely Responsfbe for Quick De velopment and Flourishing Condition of One of Oregon's Corn Sections. POLtOPHOMR OPENS TOMORROW Plaver Piano idlMkin- Machine ComtinedmOne Case H. D. Marshall, of National Committee, in Portland to' See Start of Campaign. Portland Exhibit Likely to Be Most Important in Country This Year, m ma STATE SHARE $17,000,000 COMPETITION TO BE KEEN 4 ON SALETDMQRRQW Or $19,000,000,000 to Be Raised by Congress, This Method Is Ex pected to Provide $2,000,000, 000 Children Will Assist. IT. T. Marshall, reresentlng the Na tional war savings committee, arrived In Portland over the Union Pacific line yesterday and Is devoting his energies to furtherance of the campaign for the sale of war savings certificates and thrift stamps, which opens throughout the Nation tomorrow. Mr. Marshall comes from Washington and is associated with Frank A. Van derllp, chairman of the new Govern ment savings committee. Explaining the recently devised plan of raising war funds ana teaching thrift at the eame time, Mr. Marshall said: ."Congress arranged to raise $19,000, 000,000 within a year, $2,000,000,000 of which was to be obtained by the sale of war savings certificates and thrift stamps. There are six Federal districts. E. C. Bradley Is in charge of seven Western states. Each state has a. state director, the director for Oregon being C. S. Jackson. The state director will appoint a chairman for each county, as well as the rest of the staff. Big Men Give Time, "One of the Inspiring things about this work Is that all over the country the highest-priced men obtainable are volunteering their services for this work without pay. Oregon is to raise $17,000,000, and I am perfectly confi dent that you will be able to raise your quota. Every incorporated bank In the United States is agent for these savings stamps. In addition to this, 65,000 postoffices will have the stamps on sale: every letter carrier and every rural carrier in the United States will also be a salesman. I believe that Ore gon will be able to place these stamps on sale at practically every store in the state. "Primarily, of course, the object Is to raise $2,000,000,000, but, in my mind, an equally important thing is to let every man, woman and child In the United States buy these certificates and thus become a stockholder in the United States. What we need to do here in Oregon is to conduct a campaign of education, and there will be no trouble about Interesting the people. I have been in Oregon before and I know how loyal is your citizenship, as proved by your past performance. One thing I want to impress upon the public, par ticularly upon the merchants, and that is that saving will not hurt business. School Children to Help. "The greaetst factor In the success of this campaign for interesting the pub lic in the purchase of war savings cer tificates will be the public school chil dren. Saving is not a sporadic action; it is a matter of Blow growth and of hard work. It requires a campaign of education to teach the public thrift and to show them the folly of waste fulness. Any man or woman in these days who will waste food or anything else willfully is a slacker and a public enemy and Is indirectly helping the Kaiser. Frank A. Vanderlip, the chair man of this committee, says that if we can put this campaign across it will change our National life and will re sult in the building up of a body of 30,000,000 'savers.'" Mr. Marshall will be at the Hotel Portland for the next three days. He Is planning to address the bankers in the city Monday morning at 10 o'clock and to speak at the members' council at . the Chamber of Commerce Monday at soon. Sale Begin Tomorrow. The sale of war savings certificate stamps and thrift stamps will open to morrow at all postoffices and banks of the city. Two methods of acquiring the certificate stamps are open to the intending purchaser, depending on the amount he has to invest. If he has $4.12 or multiples of this sum he may "purchase the certificate stamps direct ly, getting each one at this price any time prior to December 31. On his in vestment he will receive 4 per cent interest, compounded quarterly, on January 1, 1923, obtaining $5 for each stamp held until that time. Children and smaller investors will acquire the savings certificates by pur chasing thrift stamps at 25 cents apiece. With the first thrift stamp the investor will get free a thrift card, to which the sticker is to be affixed. The card bears 16 spaces to be covered with that number of 25-cent stamps. The filled card thus has a value of $4. Upon the payment of an additional 12 cents and presentation of the card the investor will get the savings certificate stamp any time during the remainder of this year. After the first of the year the cash payment will be 13 cents and this will increase by a penny at intervals throughout the sale. It is provided that no person may purchase the certificate stamps in an amount greater than $100 at any one time and that $1000 is the maximum an individual may hold. City and rural mail carriers and all other postal employes are authorized to assist in the sale of the new stamps and are primed to give any information desired. WIFE SUES HER HUSBAND Pair . on. Good Terms, hut Estelle Clarke Wants $500. All is peace and tranquility about the family fireside of Jason and Estelle Clarke, husband and wife, according to counsel for Mrs. Clarke, but the wife was compelled to make her husband joint defendant with her brother-in- law, William Clarke, in a suit filed yes terday in the Circuit Court in which ehe seeks $500 alleged to be due her for farm labor, including "chores cooking for ranch hands and milking cows. The Clarke brothers conduct a dairy and ranch in partnership. Mrs. Clarke maintains she had worked for them since April, 1913. but has received no compensation. The husband, it is said is more than willing to pay his wife the wages she alleges to be due, but the brother's vigorous protest resulted in the matter being brought into court Xor adjudication. Apartment-House Is Damaged. Stephenson Court, an apartment house at 515 Mill street, was damaged by fire and water early yesterday morning to the extent of $500. E. D. Timms, manager of the house, said the fire started from a defective flue. The property is owned by Mrs. M. Timms, of 378 Cast Thirty-sixth etreet North. , "' j y T" 'J Orrcz- txfiSO c?for BY ADDISON BENNETT. THE managers of the Mount Angel Bank, Joseph J. and Alois. Keber, came from Southern Minnesota, and they can remember when there was no corn grown in that section. "This is not a corn country," they have often heard their neighbors say. But now that whole section is given over to corn, and it is the chief product of the Minnesota farms. When the Messrs. Keber came to Marion County about nine years ago they were told the same thing as was told in Minnesota less than a generation ago. But the Kebers are of the "show me" brand of citizens, and they began to preach the doctrine of corn, hogs and silos. And they are pretty good preachers. First they started the campaign at St. Paul, Marion County, where they were interested in banking. Later they went to Mount Angel, where they took charge of the Bank of Mount Angel. That was some nine years ago. The bank then had deposits of $40,000; on the 11th of September, the date of the last call, the deposits amounted to $401,209.52. That growth in deposits about shows the growth or advance ment of the country tributary to Mount Angel. This section Is very small, for with Woodburn on one side, Salem on another, and Silverton very close on the other, the Mount Angel people have to put up some good argument to get and maintain business. Generally speaking there is no bet ter farming land in Oregon than that lying adjacent to Mount Angel. Speak- ng in the same terms there is no sec tion in Oregon improving more rapidly than that. .While, this advancement has not all been due to the preachments of the Messrs. Keber, still they and the bank they manage lias done its full share in the uplift. First they began on the dairy business. They knew the silo to be the greatest of all assets for the man keeping cows, and they found but a few scattering silos in that vicinity. So they made an offer to loan any farmer money to build a silo at b per cent interest, and they began to preach the doctrine of more cows, more hogs and more silos and all the time more corn. As a result there are now 50 silos within four and one-half miles of Mount Angel, 30 of which were erected since last Spring, but only three of them on money borrowed from the bank. During the last half of 1907 and the first half of 1908 the Mount Angel bank cashed cream checks to the amount of $12,000; during the last 12 months they have cashed them to the amount of $156,000. Those figures ehow that the dairy business is advancing wonderfully fast. Last Saturday the Mount Angel bank gave a corn show. They distributed a lot of seed corn last year and this year, and the Kebers wished to see haw the farmers were progressing. So they offered a number of prizes for the best single ears, best ten ears, and best 100 ears. There were 72 separate exhibits. The Judge was Professor J. E. Larson, of Oregon Agricultural Col lege, and he not only Judged the corn and made the awards but told the farmers the various hows, whys and wherefores of the game. Professor Larson surely understands the corn game and knows how to explain It from seed selection down to husking. The prize winners were as follows: Ten-ear lots, first. E. CJ. Wiesner; sec ond, Joseph Walker; third. Ole Dahl; fourth, John Froemel: fifth. Ole Satern. Single ears. E. O. Wiesner, first; Ole Dahl, second; A. Obersinner. third. One hundred-ear lots, E. G. Wiesner, first; Mrs. Alta Nicholson, second. It was a fine lot of corn. Consider ing that there was but a trifling amount of seed to be had suited to that section last Spring, the showing was wonderful. Every grain entered at the show will be grabbed up for seed next Spring, and the Messrs. Keber have purchased some of the best lots grown near there but not at the show. This will be given away in amounts suf ficient to plant an acre or more, so the show next Fall will be several times larger than the one this year. The bankers will also continue to talk cows, hogs and silos, and will finance any desirable citizens of that section wishing to embark in the dairy business. They have seen their section grow wonderfully during the last few years. But they are not satisfied, never will be satisfied until every brush lot Is cleared, every acre of land fenced and ditched and until every settler In their territory has a few cows, a brood sow or two and at least one suo. LECTURES START SOON ISTERSATIOXAL ORGANIZATION IS TOPIC FOR REED PROFESSOR. Two Extension Courses of Portland College . Will Be Conducted - at Central Library. Of timely Interest will be the lec tures on international organization, a part of the Reed College extension courses, which will begin this week at Library Hall. Central Library. The lectures will be held Wednesday at 8 o'clock. The first one will be given on December 5 by Professor Paul H. Douglas, instructor in sociology, and Professor Robert D. Leigh, instructor in government, will assist. This series will be followed by a course of four lectures by Professor Douglas on "How to Pay for the War." Another new Reed College extension course, that will begin this week, is the series of eight lectures on "In vesting and Financing New Indus tries," which will be given by Hudson B. Hastings, professor of applied eco nomics Tuesday at 8 o'clock In the Story Hour room of the Central Li brary. The subject of the lectures are as follows: December 4, "New Industries for the Northwest": December 11, "Location of Plant"; December 18, "Analysis of Products"; January 2, "Analysis of Market"; January. 8, "Sales Policies"; January 15, "Marketing Methods"; Jan uary 22, "Physical Site, Environment and Design of Building"; January 29, "Financing of Industry." ed president of the Associated Chari ties of Albany and other officers were re-elected as follows: Dr. George H. Young, vice-president; W. A. Eastburn, secretary, and Dan Johnston, treasur er. All of these officers were chosen when the Associated Charities was formed a year ago. In addition to these officers the fol lowing have been chosen to serve on the advisory committee: J. S. Van Win kle, John R. Hulbert. Mrs. R. D. Snell, Henry Lyons and Dr. A. P. Howells. ALBANY OFFICERS NAMED C. II. Burggraf Re-elected Head of Charities Organization. ALBANY. Or.. Dec. 1. (Special.) cnaries a. Burggraf has been re-elect- Teachers Institute Successful. ALBANY, Or.. Dec 1. (Special.) After a successful session of three days, the annual Joint teachers' institute of Linn and Benton couties. which opened in this city Monday morning, closed Wednesday night. The insti tute, characterized as one of the best ever held here, was In charge of Ida Maxwell Cummings. County School Su perintendent of Linn County, and R. C. Cannon, County School Superintenden of Benton County. FREE LECTURE TOSIGHT, 8 P. M. Reincarnation" Food Conservation Will Be Feature of Display and New Methods of Feeding: to Save Grain Will Be Demonstrated. Two thousand birds and animals. In cluding chickens, ducks, geese, tur keys, rabbits, cavles and pigeons some of the fanciest and best In the United States will make up this year's poul try and pet stock show, which opens tomorrow at the Public Auditorium un der the auspices of the Oregon Poul try and Pet Stock Association. The show will continue all week.. It is the crowning event of the Ore gon association, this year's exhibit in the spacious Auditorium having been ooaea torwara to lor several years past. All the elements have combined to aid the association in making it such. Seattle has given up its show, Oakland has reduced its show to a small affair, and therefore fanciers throughout the United. States have con centrated on Portland. Entries have been made by 400 poul try and pet stock raisers. They have shipped their choicest stock from all the important poultry centers to com pete for the X1500 in cash prizes of fered by the state and the special prizes of various kinds offered by spe cialty clubs, many of which, in addi tion to offering prizes and entering exhibits, have arranged for their an nual meetings In Portland during the week. Food conservation will bo the main features of the show aside from the animals themselves. War conditions have hit the poultry people hard be cause of the high prices of feed and the consequent necessity of selecting new. economical methods of feeding without sacrificing the egg-laying qualities. Exhibits at the show dem onstrate the latest thoughts along this line. Judging of the entries will be start ed soon after the opening of the show tomorrow morning. Prizes will De awarded according as the Judges can complete their work. Owing to the st field, entered this year, compe tition will be keen. The show this year will De tn largest in the West and perhaps the most ImDortant in the unltea states. The space at the Auditorium Is such that the exhibits can be made on a scale never before possible. Officials in rharii of the show have Deen ousy for a week past completing the details so the show can open promptly tomor row morning in completea iorm. Lewlston Farms Benefited. T.'RWTRTnK Idaho. Dec. 1. (Special.) A warm rain has been falling here for the past 36 hours, and the ranchers are looking forward: to a splendid, stand of Winter wheat on account oi u. There Is considerable plowing to be done In this section and for that reason th unseat weather is welcomed, ry practically every rancher. Copeo Dam Blamed for Floods. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Dec. 1. (Spe cial.) Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Summers, of this city, who have Just returned from an automobile trip to Ashland, report that the Klamath River has been backed up so much by- the big Copco dam that the road Is covered with water in many places. Kelso and Kalaraa Teachers Visit. CASTLE ROCK. Wash., Dec. 1. (Spe cial.) Tuesday and Wednesday were visiting days for the Kelso and K lama teachers, and Castle Rock schools The Apoltophone is the highest grade Apollo Electric Player-Piano with a first-class Phono graph built into the same case. It gives in one beautiful Instrument, all the enjoyments of piano, player piano and phonograph and of each at its best. For the Apollo is the leader among player-pianos and the phonograph is as good as there is. It plays all makes of records and the resonance and mellowness of the the piano's case and sounding board give great depth and power to its tone. 'A One HanSreS Per Cent Combination of Superiorities It is difficult to see how this com bination can be improved upon. There is a marked economy in buy ing the two machines in this com bined form. The convenience and compactness of the instrument will appeal to many, while its beauty of design is apparent at a glance. Sold on Very Easy Terms. Come in and see it. Player Pianos, Music Rolls, Victrolas and Records MORRISON STREET AT BROADWAY Other Stores Vancouver; San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego and Other Coast Cities f MASON X, ? I HAMLIN I am orrea II B pianos In I MUSIC JJ TfrAPOlLOlT II PLAYtB 1 ( PI ATs(OS I ill TALKING i CXJ MACHINES lff received its quota of visitors from these places. Tuesday all of the Kelso teach ers visited and Wednesday the follow ing from Kalama: Superintendent John son. Mr. Lewis, manual training teach er; Mr. Wolford. Miss Miller, science teacher, and Miss Helen Wheaton. THREE MAY BE CANDIDATES Weeks, Brown and La FoIIette Con sidered for Marion Posts. SALEM. Or.. Dec. 1. (Special.) Three fruit men. George Weeks, Sam H. Brown and Senator A. M. La FoI Iette. are considered as possible candi dates for the State Senate from this county. The terms of Senators Bishop and La Follette expire with the next Legislature. It is not known whether Senator Bishop will be a candidate for re-election, although it is considered possible. Senator La Follette, during his two sessions In the Upper House, has at tained considerable reputation as a watchdog of the treasury. Both George Weeks and Sam Brown have had legis lative experience, serving in the House of Representatives. Walter Evans Goes to Roscburjr. District Attorney Evans left last night for Roseburg, where this after noon he will deliver the address at the annual memorial services of the Rose-bur- Lodire of Klks. HFBH W , J I This Satisfying $1 Sunday Dinner MR. BUSINESS MAN, you find a good show, a ride intn V.n .nsv.m.OT 1 the office worries makes you better fit. So your help-mate, the wife needs to get away from home duties. Take her to the Portland for Sunday dinner or for a delightful week-day dinner, with the dancing and music. Famous Portland Dinner, $1 Special Music Sunday Dancing and Music, Week Days The Portland 2PM l!rtr V.CIC BY REX BARNETT Giving- a rational solution to the perplexing problems of life through repeated rebirth of the soul in human bodies. Theosophical Society 301 Central Bldg. Richard W. Childs, Manager. V')' Elbert . Kobe, Asst. Mgr. Save Repair Bills Take Care of Your Own Machine Join our special night course in automobile repairing, to begin December 18. This is for business men and women. A regular $65 course for $10. We must enroll 100 students. Hemphill's Trade Schools 707 Hawthorne Ave., East Twentieth CHRISTMAS SHOES WHY NOT buy him a pair of shoes for Christmas? Sure ly there could be no more service able gift, especially if it is a pair of Hanan Shoes from this store. IninK it over. Make only a small deposit and we will lay aside any pair of shoes you select. Sole Portland Agents Hanan Shoes Dr. A. Reed's Cushion Shoes Calf, $7.50; Kid, $8 Hanan Shoes for "Her" rpHE appreciated gift a pair of these dainty shoes. Women love to wear smart footwear; there's nothing smarter or better than Hanan's. Let us show you some new styles. 129 Tenth St., Between Washington and Alder WE GIVE S. & II. TRADING STAMPS By inducing the practice of "pay as you go," the famous ?&C Green Stamps are opponents of extrava gance and exponents of economy and thrift. The Sperry & Hutchinson Co. 4 4 4 4 4