The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, December 23, 1917, Section One, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextTILE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 23, 1917. RED GROSS RAGE RAPID IN OREGON Mrs. M. Cassidy and Mrs, Grace Tucker. PICTORIAL ITEMS IN PORTLAND'S HOLIDAY DRIVE FOR RED CROSS MEMBERSHD7S. ILLNESS FATAL TO andrla, W. Va., where he served as pastor of the First Methodist protJ estant Church, and then moved to) Newark, N. J., to accept the pastorate; of the First Church there. Gaven, the son, was born there. Dr. Dyott organ ized three other Methodist Protestant churches while there, and because of his activities with and interest for young people's work, was elected presto dent of the Essex County Christian Endeavor Union, considered a signal honor. In 1901 he went to Brooklyn, N. Tv where he accomplished the most diffi cult task of uniting two churches of The proceeds have been 1265 In three dajSi Bandou Sends Good Report. Louis J. Simpson, of Coos County, has been Just as efficient In the Red Cross work as he is at his mill. "We started in," he reports, "to make every factory and mill in Bandon 10 per cent Red Cross. It is early to make returns, but the Bay Park Lumber Company called me up to say they were 100 per cent Red Cross, stock holders and employes both " Polk County made its first report last 'night, with 2290 members, or 51 per cent. Dallas alone will enroll 800 members, asserted Dr. A. B. Starbuck. By special request Lincoln County and. one other county has been granted an extension of time for the campaign because of Impassable roads. Inciden tally, eight counties report that for DR. LUTHER R. DMT Portland Is Weak Spot in En tire State, With Every Coun ty Hard at Work. Pastor of First Congregationa Church of Portland Suc cumbs at Age of 54. the Congregational denomination, mean- wniie naving changed his official con nection to that denomination. He took an active part in the clvlo and reli gious affairs of the city and, through sheer force of character and his genu BAD ROADS CAUSE DELAYS ine ability, became president of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Ministerial tour days automobile traffic has been CAREER MOST BRILLIANT impossible and it has been, rendered Association. A noteworthy accomplish ment was the organization of the necessary to make the Journey into 19 I Umatilla, Morrow and Sherman Stand at Head of List and Vio In Erfort to Hold Supremacy Already Attained. RED CROSS MAY WIN 10,000,000 MEMBERS THROUGH DRIVE. WASHINGTON'. Dec 22. Re ports to the Red Cross headquar ters today Indicated that two more days of campaign would bring the goal of 10.000,000 new members Into sight. Bad weather and its effect on transportation and communication have retarded reports and made It Impossible . to get returns from the outlying districts. Every county In Oregon Is now racing for the 100 per cent mark, which Indicates that one-third of the popula tion is a member of the Red Cross. Three counties have already passed the coveted mark, Umatilla, Morrow and Sherman. Multnomah County outside Of Port land is making a fine showing. The only weak spot in the entire state lies in the Portland figures, which Is shown by the following returns: Portland. 38.538; state outside, 98,849; Oregon total. 135,387. Every effort to strengthen the cam paign in Portland will be made today. tomorrow and Tuesday when the cam palgn closes, for Jt has been decided to continue the campaign even until Christmas night. Portland Stands Disgraced. "Portland stands disgraced before the state," declares an official state ment issued by the members of the state committee. Umatilla County, which has easily proved the banner county, has jumped Its percentage to 122, and Roy Bishop, campaign manager, says in his wire: "Let Sherman County shoot at that." Morrow County, where the roads are so bad now that travel Is almost Im possible, has made It 108 per cent, and &am E. Van V actor says the county will go 600 ahead of the quota. All the excitement of a last night before a highly contested election was forced into th-e campaign In the late hours of yesterday. Street booths manmed by pretty Red Cross workers were on every corner and the passer-by was beseeched or ordered, as the circumstances might Justify, into joining the Red Cross. Campaigners Tour the Streets. Campaigners toured the streets in touring cars and on two great trucks. Hot, stirring- appeals were made in. the theaters, yet, nevertheless, the total grew slowly. Campaigners are urged to retrace their steps today, tomorrow and Christ mas day and induce to Join the Red Cross every possible person. Up to date, Charles Richton's work ers, in District No. 6, south, of Wash ington street, have made the only con spicuous record of the campaign, 8000 members, or one-fifth of the entire Portland figure, being their achieve ment. There are 22 districts. Urging everyone in Portland to make a last desperate effort today, Monday and Tuesday to bolster up Portland's poor showing, C. C. Chapman, state chairman; Henry E. Reed, state man ager, and Rufus C. Holman. city man ager, issued the following statement: Seattle Abes. 2 t 1. At this moment Portland stands dls graced before the balance of Oregon. In spite of -ie heroic work of an army of devoted can vassers who have braved the weather and trudged from door to door, the total at this hour is less than one membership to lo of our population. For every member secured at this time we should have two more by Christmas day. It is necessary for churches, business bouses, organizations and all other patriotic forces to bend every effort to get more members. If your house has been missed mail a SI membership to headquarters, 250 Morgan building. If employes have not been canvassed see that they are canvassed at once. Monday Is the only working day left and It must be used for the Red Cross. Seattle has beaten us so far more than 2 to 1. Oregon counties having less than one-tenth of our population have secured one-fourth, as many members as has the great city. Portlanders. this must not be. Everyone respond. Make this a Red Cross Christmas In a way that . reflects credit upon our be loved city In addition to sending dollars on their mission of mercy. 0.-W. TL. Jt 71. Sign Up 14M. The O.-W. R. & N. Company haa signed up 1400 members for the Red Cross. This is a 100 per cent showing, for all save shops employing large numbers of workers or laborers. In addition to more than making its 100 per cent quota, Umatilla County re ports that the following communities .have gone beyond their quota, and that Pendleton expects to do the same: Helix, Hermiston, Umatilla, Stan fie Id, Echo, Athena, Weston, Umapine and Fruitvale. Among those who have assisted in the campaign is T. M. Hurlburt, Sheriff of Multnomah County, who not only saw that he had a 100 per cent office force, took out memberships for him self and his entire family, but donated the services of one ml his office force. Earl W. Smith. 13, made several talks yesterday afternoon from the truck on which the big membermeter is mounted. "Jams" Track Draws Crowd. Charles RIchton, colonel of the downtown district, arranged a "Jazz" gathering for Saturday night. In ad dition to a quartet, he had a clog dancer and other specialties with which to attract the attention of the crowd. The truck on which his people were mounted followed the membermeter, stopping at downtown booths, collect ing a crowd and leaving It to the workers to sign them up. Eugene went Into the campaign with Tim yesterday. Twenty speakers held forth during the day, while a parade of all Red Cross workers, numbering 600 In all, was the feature of the after noon. Booths were placed in the cen ter of the streets and all traffic topped. Fourteen Dollars Are Lost. Fourteen dollars of Red Cross money were dropped, in a black leather bag, by Mrs. E. W. Will. 1125 Williams ave nue, whl'e in pursuit of members for the Red Cross. Inside the purse was a pair of gold spectacles and a glove, in addition to $5 in gold, $6 in cur rency and $3 in silver. Red Cross cam paign headquarters appealed that his purse be returned today to 250 Morgan building. Excellent results are reported from the Courthouse booth, which has been in operation three days and which has been maintained by Mrs. T, J. Baldwin. country districts on foot or on horse back. Hillsboro Nearly 10O Per Cent. Hillsboro reports that nearly all ot the business houses in the city are 100 per cent Red Cross. Pacific Coast Con densed Milk Company Is far over 100 per cent and the Or. H P. Lumber Com pany has presented a membership tr every employe. Every business man and every block in Roseburg is 100 per cent. Roseburg proper Is 2200 out of a population as serted to be between 4600 and 5000. Sutherlin. Riddle and Canyonville are 100 per cent and over, every man. wom an and child in these three communi ties being . signed. One man walked nine miles over the mountains yester day to get in his subscription. Two KoseSurg women walked six miles to get 45 subscriptions- They are going alter membersnip soliciting on horse back, afoot and all through the moun tains of Douglas County, reports W ' C. Harding, campaign manager, who made his first report last night of 6500 mem bers for Douglas County, more than naif bis quota. Shattuck School Raises 817. Shattuck school. In Mrs. F. L. Bene diet s district, gave an entertainment Friday for the benefit of the Christmas drive, and raised 817. The teachers, under the leadership of Miss Marv Don- ahue, co-operated in making the enter tainment a success. Mrs. Jue Sue, the only Chinese work er, hast met remarkable success.- Her results include not only Chinese but persons of all grades and classes and airs, hue can speak but broken English at that, Milton Markewitz reports the follow ing membership subscriptions from the printing houses: F. W. Baltes Co., 815: J. R. Rodgers Co., 85; A ready Press. 814.50; Sweeney Varney A Straub, 9; Davis A Holman, 815; Lincoln Allen. 814; Metropolitan Print ing Company. 85; Klelst A Co.. 812; James Kerns A Abbott. 2tt; Kilham Stationery Company. 821; Ivy Press. 84; Glass A Prud homme. 818; Chausse-Prudhomme, 810; Buahong A Co., SU2. New lOO Per Cent Firms Reported. Following are new 100 per cent Red Cross firms reported yesterday: Jones Mercantile Company, Northwestern Electric Company, office force: State Bank o Portland. Portland Van A Storage Com pany, Buahong A Co.. Fairbanks-Morse A Co., County Sheriffs office, all departments of the O.-W. K. 4 N. except those having large payrolls of shop workers and labor ers. Miss Lena Harkenrider reports the following departments of the Columbia River Shipbuilding Corporation: Nurses, general manager's office, president's office, general office, timekeepers, drafting room, mold loft, electric BhOP. Store honM. r,r,fufn. office, superlntendt of machinery's ifflr- Union Meat Company, office forcer Rant- era Western Lumber Comcanv. Golden Rod Milling Company, Balfour, Guthrie A Co., Columbia Milling Company. Selft A Co.. the Oregon News Company, Henry Wein hard Plant. John Clark Saddlery Company, Portland Oxygen and Hydrogen Company, Associated Oil Company. P. E. Ebenshade, Mitchell, Lewis A Staver Co., Oliver Chilled Plow Works. International Har vester Company. Parlln A Orendorff, John Deere Plow Company, Wallace-Corcoran A Co., Roger Implement Company, R. M. Wade Co;. J. A. Freeman A Co.. Phoenix Iron Works, McCarger. Bates A Lively. BrOCkman Printlnr A- Xtntlnn,,. r?nmnnv Pacific Coast Biscuit Company. East Side Planing Mill. Willamette Planing Mill. Clark A Wilson Lumber Company, United Cigar Stores (five Portland stores). Port land Cordage Company, Simmons Manufac turing Company, Golden Rod Milling Com pany. Balfour. Guthrie A Co.. Good-man Boot A Shoe Company. Failing. McCalman Company, Eastern Western Lumber Corn- any, Howard Automobile Company. Colum la Basin Wool Warehouse, the Hazelwood stores. Title Trust Company, Union Ab stract Company, Fred A. Jacobs Co., F. E. Taylor. Frank L. McGulre Co., Coff man Confectionery Comoanv. Mover Cloth ing Company, Morrison and Second streets. Following are complete returns on counties up to last night: County Quota. Members. Percent. Baker ............. 7,000 5.000 3.200 71 Benton ............ 4.500 71 50 33 73 . 2 88 70 80 K6 88 .- 65 8S 44 44 51 71 84 69 50 46 82 28 106 75 51 120 Clackamas ....... .12,000 6.000 4.000 4.000 95 6.620 900 800 2,158 6.500 782 1.300 1.332 1.100 3.931 i.'oVlj 2.500 1.500 6.750 1,000 3.216 K. 1,500 W. 7.10 4.000 1.610 1.657 2,290 1.320 Clackamas ......... 12.O00 Clatsop 5,500 Columbia 4, OOO Coos 7,500 Crook 1,300 Curry 1.000 Deschutes 2,500 Douglas ........... tj.000 Gilliam 1.20O Grant 2,000 Harney 1,500 Hood River ........ 2.500 Jackson . 9,000 Jefferson .......... 1,050 Josephine 3,000 Klamata 3,500 Lake 1.800 Lane 9.00ft Lincoln 2,000 Linn 7.000 Malheur ........... 2,700 Marion 14.0OO Morrow ........... 1.5O0 Multnomah 2.200 Polk 4.500 Sherman 1.100 rwn The assembly-room of the Y. M. their own entertainment, consisting cake, and partaken of to the music solid, watch, and M other prize war - r -r -v - " U I if I - J j J ft t w ;SVv-i . Ix. , v 1 i 1 hVa-l sSx- r vol fill I Mfl III i;w 1 The "Membermeter." AVIitch Records Progress of the Iocal Campaln. The Device YV as I'laaDril by A. C. Black. Advertising Manager of the t'nion Meat Compiir, Built by the Ramsey SI sew Company, and Cos t ri bated by the Stewart Service C ompnny. ' Tl'entworth ft Irwin volun teered the Truck. i Membership Booth at Northwestern National Bank. With Captains of Girls' Honor Guard In Charge. Left to Right, Rachel Mead, Lottie Hatfield, Anna Walsh. 3 Red Cress Advertising Standard on Postofflce Square. Tillamook.... 2,500 800 Umatilla 7.500 ' 9.200 Union 5.000 4.30O Wallowa 8.000 2.450 Washington . W. 8.000 2.000 B. 5.00O 939 Wasco 5,000 8,000 Wheeler 1.000 550 Yamhill 7,000 4.269 S3 122 86 81 . 69 19 60 55 61 Total 9.84A Portland 38.538 88 Oregon total 137.387 SIIERXDAX EXCEEDS ITS QUOTA Women Dressed In Red Cross Cos tume Solicit Rural Shoppers. SHERIDAN, Or., Dec 22. (Special.) Sheridan passed Its quota In the Christmas Red Cross membership drive this afternoon. Its quota was 600. Tonight more than S00 had been reg istered. Women dressed In Red Cross costume. Navy boys home on furlough and others today made a vigorous cam paign among the Christmas crowds from the rural districts. Astoria Has 4300 Signed. ASTORIaT Or., Dec. 22. (Special.) Chairman C. R. Higglns, of the Red HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINE ANSWER "HERE" AT ANNUAL FROLIC . : MHt JUL P-m ,ar..uul. i Liiuvtucu WHEN C A. building was filled to capacity last Friday night, when the 239 city carriers got together for their annual Christmas frolic The carriers provided of comedy sketches, songs. Impersonations and feature dances. The evening began with a big dinner, embellished with a good supply of ice cream and of a Jazzo orchestra. Then City Circulation Manager Barton ' officiated In a drawing for prizes, in watch Bertrum Stevens won the capital prize, a distributed, qnral dfonlaUoo Manager 2ojwooa fueMBted, each, of th carriers jraexit wit-b a 1 book oi. Xbsrilt Atv&pa ea bbl tut Thy Oreganlan. Cross campaign committee, reported this evening that the membership drive had netted 4000 members thus far. Un official reports place the number at about 4300. NEARLY 8,000,000 ENROLLED Red Cross Membership Swelled in Christmas : Drive. . WASHINGTON. Dec 22. Nearly 8. 000,000 new members have been added to the rolla of, the Red Cross since the Christmas membership drive started Monday, according to a compilation of returns , received tonight at National headquarters. The Atlantic division. New York, New Jersey and, Connecticut, report 1,510.000 m embers. The Pennsylvania division, including Delaware, 1,000.000; the Southern, Florida, Georgia, North Car olina, South Carolina and Tennessee, 438,000: the Gulf. Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, 214,748; the Lake, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, 1.796,000; the Southwestern. Arkansas, Kansas, Mis souri, Oklahoma and Texas, 1,725,000; the mountain, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico. 130,000; the Northr- CARRIERS PRESENT OWN PROGRAMME AT FRIDAY ENTERTAINMENT. western, . Oregonv Washington, Idaho and Alaska, 420,000, and the Pacific, comprising Colifornla, Arizona and Ne vada, 433,220. NO MEAT ON CHRISTMAS Hotels and Restaurants1 to Feature Fowl on Holiday. Christmas, will be meatless insofar as the serving of pork, mutton or beef is concerned, according to W. B. Ayer, Federal food administrator for Oregon. He said yesterday that, in his judg ment, the people of this state will so observe , the day, especially since they may have plenty-of fowl of various kinds. "Some of the hotel and restaurant men telephoned me concerning the sub ject," said Mr. Ayer, "and all agreed to observe to the letter the same rules Christmas as govern " on all Tuesdays now. I think this a fine piece of. pa triotism." Wife Has Greek: Arrested. Chris Gust, one of the proprietors of a Greek restaurant at 492 Washing ton street, was placed under arrest yes terday by Deputy Constable Rennick on a warrant issued by his wife charg ing him with assault and battery. Gust told the officers the trouble resulted from the combined efforts of the wife and her mother to break up his home and take from him their three-months-old baby. Gust is charged with having driven the wife from their home yes terday and placing the baby in the care of friends. OF OREGONIAN CARRIERS ATY.M.CA. Minister, During Ten Years of Resi dence Here, Became Noted for Devoted Service and Aid to All Civic Upbuilding. After a long and remarkably bril liant career as a minister of the bos pel. ten of which he spent as pastor of the First'Congregatlonal Church, of Portland, Dr. Luther R. Dyott died yesterday at his home, 445 Hassalo street. Members of his family were present at the bedside. . He had been 111 but a short time, and his death was a distinct shock to his friends. Less than two weeks ago a leave of absence was given him until March 31, 1918 The funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow in the church of which he served so long and faithfully as pastor. The family requests that flowers be omitted. The body, which is now at the residence, will be taken to Harpers Ferry, W. Va., for burial. It was there, in his early ministry, that he met and married Miss Margaret Yantis. and near that place that his sisters still live. There will be no services at the First Congregational Church today. . Overwork Hastens End. Dr. Dyott, during the ten years of his service in Portland, devoted him self to his work with a singleness of purpose that won for him the love and admiration , of people in general, far beyond the pale of his own denomlna tlonal activities, for he gave himself unstintedly, not only to the upbuilding of his own congregation, but to every forward movement of the city and state and could always be depended upon for backing any righteous action where his services were needed. His death was due to an affection of the kidneys, made acute by mental strain and overwork. Four weeks ago he was forced to give up and go to a sanitarium near Portland, where he re mained in quietude for a time, and later was removed to a hospital within the city limits. Here he remained until three days ago, when he was taken to his home. At an early hour yesterday he became very ill and despite all that could be done, death resulted at 10:30 o'clock. His widow; Gaven, his son, and the daughter. Miss Adele, survive him. Dr. Dyott was a man possessing the rare combination of tender love for all mankind and a forceful, aggressive and determined character, both as to speech and action, which, made him a powerful factor in campaigns of note, such as state-wide prohibition and others in which, he played a highly Important part. Service Aim ef Islfe. Capacity for work was another not able characteristic and all through his career he was up and doing, even be yond the bounds of his own 'constitu tion, which was none too rugged. He knew no hours, but was at the call of the needy, rich or poor, regardless of time of day or night, and often told those who cautioned him against over work that he wished to answer the final call with a clear record, having never refused to heed a request for his services. Dr. Dyott found time aside from his church duties to take an active part in civic affairs, and he was a member of the Progressive Business Mens dun. participating in Its meetings and work and also was president of the Congre gational Ministers' Association of the citv and directed Its activities to large extent. He was also a member of the Royal Arcanum. In his younger years In the minis try, Dr. Dyot occupied pulpits of the Methodist Protestant Church, in which he was ordained, but he affiliated with the Congregational Church later. Pastor Native of Maryland. Dr. Dyott was born March 28, 1863, on a plantation near Easton, Md., and as was the custom, was educated By a private tutor, until he entered an acad emy at Easton; later he went to the Westminster Theological Academy at Westminster, Md., from which he was K-raduated in 1886. Shortly afterward he went to Har per's Ferry as pastor of te Methodttst Protestant Church, and It was while serving in that capacity that he met and married Miss Margaret Yantis. From that pastorate they went to Alex 71 X. x. Dr. L,nther R. Dyott. for Tern Tesrs Pastor of First Congregatlonali Church, Wko Died Yesterday. Brooklyn Home for Old People, whloh.1 has since become an Institution of wide' helpfulness. Dr. House Succeeded. Meanwhile Dr. Elwin Lincoln House. who had been pastor of the First Con gregational Church here for a number of years, resigned and the call to this pulpit was extended to Dr. Dyott. When this became known in Brooklyn there was much effort to persuade him to remain there, but he accepted and became pastor of Oregon s largest and most influential Congregational church. Ten years of active, constant pas toral work followed, into which Dr. Dyott put the best part of his life and the record is that he was faithful, even unto death. TO BE TRACED LETTERS WILI, FOLLOW MOUNT ANGEL STUDENTS IN SERVICE. Plans Being Formulated for Week By Letters to Keep Classmates In Touch Despite Dlstsses, Mount Angel College is formulating plans for establishing a "weekly let ter" correspondence system between students and alumni at home and alum ni in service in this country and abroad. In taking this step the college will del velop Its alumni organization to the extent that classmates, though they may be separated by half the circum ference of the globe, may yet exchange greetings through the medium of the postal service of the nations of the, world. Colleges throughout the country have various systems by which comrades of college days may trace each other when their paths lead in opposite directions. Mount Angel College has always been prominent' in its efforts to Institute a closely knit brotherhood of all Mount Angel men. The latest movement be gun by the Willamette Valley Institu tion is. so far as is known, in practice in no other school in the country. Rev. Father Thomas Meier, president of the college. Is a prime mover in the weekly letter system. Father Meier will head the organization which will direct the sending of mall to the Mount Angel boys who are over there or on the way. CARD OF THANKS. Mrs. M. E. Moulap and Mrs. L. M. Hoffman wish to express gratitude for kindness shown during Airs. Mary Cal vin's funeral. Adv. VICTROLA DAY MONDAY What will bring to your home any thing like as much Joy, good cheer and inspira tion as a Victrola? Make your eeleo tion Monday. Terms $5.00 cash, and $5.00 per A month and up. U STORE OPEN . EVENING Terms to Please You. CFJohnsonPianoCo; 147-149 Sixth. Near Alder. Portland. PACKARD MERLIN BOND PIANOS WE KENT PIAKOS Shi. 1 fl s