.THE SUNDAY OBEGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 23, 1917.
SOLDIERS' FATHERS
ORGANIZE FOR SONS
OREGON'S VERDURE - CLAD CANYONS AND HILLS
YIELD WEALTH OF CHRISTMAS GREENERY
Holly, Mistletoe, Grape and Cedar Frond Grown in This State Reach a Perfection Seldom Known Elsewhere Hun
dreds of Persons Annually Find Occupation in Gathering Materials for Decoration at the Tuletide Season.
MEN!
For many years I have been
a real Santa Claus to thou
sands of satisfied customers.
Buy your Christmas SUIT or
OVERCOAT upstairs from me
save your Christmas dollars.
Statewide Association Pro
posed to Look After Inter
ests of Boys in Service.
COMMITTEE FILES REPORT
SUITS
$1 s
and OVERCOATS
Good Enough for Any Man at
Preliminary Jleetlng Held and Offi
cers Will Be Elected January 4.
special Duties and Responsi
bilities Will Be Pooled.
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Fathers of Oregon boys who hava
en.ll.sted in the Army or Navy will meet
at the l'ubliu Library Friday night,
January 4, and effect a permanent or
ganization of "the Fathers of the Ore
gon Soldiers and Sailors." The- essen
tial purpose of the organization, which
will be state-wide in operation, is to
look after the material neds of the
soldiers and sailors enlisting from this
state both while they are in the train
ing camps and after they have gone
abroad.
At a preliminary meeting last Friday
night the report of the committee on
permanent organization was adopted.
The members of the committe sub
mitting the report were Frederick H.
Whitfield. IX H. Watson. William J.
Standley, L. J. Murphy, E. Williams and
. B. Huston.
Alms Are Set .Forth.
The aims and purposes of the or
ganization were embodied in. -the com
mittee s report, which, follows:
"That there is an important . work
which can be performed by the fathers
and foster fathers of the soldiers and
sailors in the service of the' United
States from the state of Oregon In
whatever department of the service
they may be serving, which can better
be performed by the fathers than by
any other person or organizations;
that the particular objects and serv
ices which can be covered by the
lathers are as follows:
"l. To organize -the parents of all
boys from Oregon in the service and
for mutual comfort, aid and assistance
during the continuance of the war, and
to adopt a suitable name for the or
ganization. "2. To create harmony and goodfel
lowship among the parents and friends
of the soldiers.
"3. To send frequent letters and en
couragement from home.
"4. To bring any needed influence
or pressure to bear in the interest of
the soldiers, to correct any abuses
which for any reason are overlooked
by the depa-tments of Government.
Track of Men to He Kept.
"5. 'To furnish a means of communi
cation between soldiers and parents
who have not been, in communication
or whose whereabouts have been lost
sight of and thus re-establish closer
relationship.
"6. To create a historical bureau to
preserve data of the individual sol
diers and of the activities and inci
dents of the several branches of serv
ice participated in by the Oregon boys.
"7. To excite and increase the inter
est of other citizens not parents in the
reed for loyalty to the Government,
conservatfon of resources and united
action on the part of all citizens.
"S. To co-operate with other organ
izations doing like service.
"9. Other things incidental to the
above matters which will arise from
time to time."
The following offices and commit
tees are provided for the organiza
tion: President, vice-president, secre
tary, treasurer, historian, sergeant-at-arms,
membership committee, finance
committee, publicity committee and ex
ecutive committee.
IRVINGTON SANTA BUSY
COMMLXITY'S CLUBHOUSE TO BE
SCE.VK OF WEEK'S GAIETY.
Party for Little Tots Planned for
TknrHdar, Formal Dance tor Adults
Friday; Yoans Folk to See 1018 In.
The Irvington Club's Christmas week
plans loom large, beginning with the
party arranged by the December social
committee for the little tots of the club.
It will be held in the clubhouse on
Thursday evening, from 7:30 to 10
o'clock. There will be a Christmas tree
all nicely decorated and with Old
Chris in attendance. There will be
dancing and games, and other things,
too. The members are asked to take
their children and help make the party
a success.
On Friday evening the regular formal
dance will take on the nature of a
Christmas party. There will be a tree
and Old Chris will distribute gifts. The
members are asked to take an inex
pensive gift say not over 15 cents -and
let it be something to create a
laugh or a noise. Write the name on
the gift, because Old Chris will want to
give the packages brought by the
women to 'the gentlemen and the ones
brought by the gentlemen to the
women.
Old Chri3 leads the grand march at
8:45 sharp. The December committee
asks that 'all come at 8:30 o'clock in
order to participate in the grand
march.
The committee: Mrs. W. H. M. Dres
cher, chairman: Mrs. Sidney C. Ras
mussen, Mrs. Wallace Shearer, Mrs.
Nagel Sealy, Mrs. Ernest Allman, Mrs.
C. P. Scott.
The voung people's organization of
the club will see the year 1918 ushered
In. on December 31 at a special dance in
the evening. They are arranging spe
cialties and are charging 50 centR for
each person. A committee will assist
the young folks- in this affair, consist
ing of Mrs. Frank Collinson, Mrs. C. W.
Jones and Mrs. J. R. Burke.
GRAND JURY SESSION ENDS
One Indictment and One Not True
Bill Returned at Klamath Falls.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Dec. 22.
(Special.) The new Klamath County
grand jury drawn for the December
term of the Circuit Court has just fin
ished its first session.
It rendered findings In two matters.
A not true bill was returned against
Mrs. J. S. Pospisil, of the Malin neigh
borhood, who recently undertook to
interfere with engineers of the United
states Reclamation Service who were
about to run a drainage canal through
the Pospisil ranch.
An indictment was returned against
Joseph Zinc, of this city, who is
charged with the theft of meats from
the Klamath Packing Company.
The grand jury members are R. S.
Moore foreman; W. E. Folsom, C. V.
Nelson. Ike Straw. James Bolton. Gui
Hilliard and George Boyd.
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HE cabin perched on a knobby
clearing, -by a most Impetuous
iver a brook in bonny .June, a
frothy, fretting torrent now. In mid
December. From the city it lay as far
as a swift car may travel in half a
day's fair weather or a saddle horse
may plod in more than a day of mud
and drizzle., Within the cabin a man
was making Christmas.
Whence comes the mystic mistletoe,
Quakerish and laden with pale fruit,
or the great wreaths of cedar, that vie
with the green and scarlet beauty of
English holly in Portland homes and
shops at Christmas time?
The man in the cabin could have
told you, for he was drenched to the
hide from his ..quest, for. Yuletide
greenery in the Oregon forest. And
the table of rough boards, above which
he stooped, was heaped high with clus
ters of mistletoe and graceful fronds
of cedar.
The mistletoe Was ready for market
Just as he had wrenched it from its
host, the oak. But from the cedar he
was fashioning, deftly as any crafts
man of another art, long plaits of the
deep green fronds, working in the fra
grant breath of the bruised balsom.
From those linear plaits of cedar the
florist would in turn fashion wreaths
for Christmas cheer.
Timber Makes Ita Holiday Gift.
In such fashion the mountaineer, way
off there among the ranges, was mak
ing Christmas. Tomorrow he would
take the bounty of the forest to mar
ket, translating it to such mundane
materials as bacon and beans, a new
store of cartridges for the old "smoke
wagon" or a princely pair of hob
nailed high-tops. The timber had
made its holiday gift to him.
And on the days before Christmas.
POPULAR lOUJiG PORTLAND.
ER JOINS AVIATION CORPS.
Errol C. Brlggs.
Errol C. Briggs, a member of
the faculty of Hill Military Acad
emy, football coach and assistant
instructor of military science, has
enlisted in the Aviation Signal
Corps as an electrician. He Is the
sixth member of his family to
take up public service. His eld
est brother, William Briggs, is
magistrate and Mayor of Revel
stoke, B. C. ; Harry Briggs is in
the Home Guards of Victoria, B.
C. ; Sergeant Thomas Briggs is
with the Canadian Engineers
"somewhere in France." Captain
Stanley Briggs is in command of
a Canadian contingent in France
and Dr. John Briggs is in active
service as a surgeon in France
near Verdun. All six brothers are
graduates of Hill Military Acad
emy and have many friends in
athletic social and educational
circles in Portland.
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with little thought ' that someone
scrambled higher than last year's bird
nest for the lovely loot, the shoppers
down in Portland would be raiding
their favorite florist's for a touch of
green to lend true holiday tone to the
home.
Though the picture of the cabin and
its keeper is an actual composite of
scores of such within the comparative
vicinity of the city, it is sadly true
that the mistletoe is all but vanished
wherever the city could conveniently
reach. It is in the last woodland cita
del, far from the Christmas crowds,
making a brave stand against extinc
tion. Not so long ago the mistletoe was
common in the Willamette Valley and
yielded yearly tribute to the JT ule.
Scapegrace and lovely hypocrite
though it is, making the oak its un
willing host, the small boy speedily
sought it out and placed it in the same
category with the dodo, of honorable
mention as a bird that used to be.
Southern Oregon Supply Source.
The mistletoe that is Portland's this
Christmas, as for several seasons past,
comes largely from Southern x Oregon,
with the centers of the odd industry at
Grants Pass and Roseburg. In the
wild little canyons and the lower hills
of the waterways there is a plentitude
of oaks and, with them, mistletoe.
Florists say that the Oregon mistletoe
is far the finest offered in any market.
The harvest of mistletoe in South
ern Oregon is gathered, for the most
part, by boys, of the sort who are not
afraid of skinned shins and a lofty
scramble. For the fellow who gathers
the emblem of the Druids must venture
for his prlae, frequently on some bare
bough that cracks warning as the
treasure is at hand.
Tumbles go with the game, as a
matter of course, but the reward is
commensurate. Local dealers pay 20
cents a pound for mistletoe clusters,
and a large cluster will weigh from
five to six pounds.
Holly is quite another matter. As
the Oregon mistletoe is superior, so is
the Portland holly. Nowhere, not even
in. rural England, does the happy holly
attain quite such perfection of scarlet
berries, such superlative sheerf of bril
liant green spiked leaves, as here in the
city by the Willamette. And Portland
not only supplies all of her own holly,
but ships quantities to the holiday
trade of New York. Boston and other
large 'Eastern cities.
Holly Largely City Product.
It is the singular fact that the bulk,
if so crass a term may be applied to a
commodity so beautiful, of local holly
is harvested from the ornamental trees,
more frequently single, that thrive on
the lawns of city residences. Here is
a tree of beauty that pays for its keep
and care. When the householder has
clipped his holly tree, a process bene
ficial both to the tree and his pocket,
the harvest will net him from $4 to J5
at any florist's.
Several florists have embarked in the
holly industry to the extent of grow
ing their own trees, but the larger por
tion of the Christmas wreaths that
hang in windows, that dangle from
chandeliers or are hawked, by boys in
the street, originated as sighly shrubs
upon some citizen's front lawn.
Oregon grape, not unlike holly in
the formation and clear green color of
its leaves, and spiked for further simi
larity, also is gathered from its na
tive haunts for the holiday decorative
ensemble. Dealers pay from 17 to
20 cents per bunch.
Of the four favorite Yuletide deco
rations, all save the holly are Oregon
born. The holly is the English variety,
deriving its very name from the tradi
tional English Christmas, when, from
its association with the season, it was
known as "holy-tree.
Held by Andenta to Be HaKloiL
Closely akin to its English cousin
is the mistletoe of Oregon, though in
the British Isles, contrary to popular
belief, the plant is rarely lodged on
oaks, but more frequently selects the
apple or the hawthorn as its host- It
was when the mistletoe flourished upon
an English oak that the Druids and
Celts held its properties to be magical.
The extent of the Christmas green
cry traffic in Oregon is difficult to de
termine. Dealers say that from De
cember 12 to Christmas day perhaps
800 to 500 persons, mostly children, are
intermittently engaged in the mistle
toe harvest.
That a little holly goes a long way
in the market, despite the fact that
quantities are exported, is evidenced by
the estimate that the entire holly indus
try, if such it may be called, does not
net the growers more than $2500.
In any event, these four we have
with us, the holly, the mistletoe, the
Oregon grape and the cedar frond, as
material evidence .that the spirit of
Christmas is green in all. hearts a
quartet that sprang, from Oregon soil,
grew lustily after the Oregon fashion
and achieved perfection such as less
favored climes are prone to envy.
VACATION FOLLOWS WEEK
MANY ACTIVITIES.
Reed Co-Eds Put In Time Between
Dances Knitting; Taeful Articles for
Soldiers of Uncle Sam.
Following a week crowded with hol
iday festivities and student activities,
the Christmas vacation of eight days
commenced at Reed College yesterday.
Studies will be resumed December 31.
Because the college year did not open
until a month later this year, the usual
two weeks of vacation could not be al
lowed. Crowding events, filled with the
spirit of the season, have made the
pre-Christmas week one' of unusual
activity. Following the lecture-organ
recital given in the chapel Tuesday
by Lucien E. Becker, the women of the
dormitory entertained with their an
nual Christmas frolic, the Interest of
the occasion being- heightened by a
large Christmas tree which sent the
participants searching for hidden gifts.
The pre-vacation dinner and dance
was an event of Friday, when the
college community was seated at long
tables in the dining-room arranged to
form the letter R, and bright with
Christmas candles and holly. The din
ner is an annual occasion and was
planned by Miss . Elizabeth Reed, di
rector of the College Commons. Dan
cing followed the dinner. Between
dances the time was spent In knitting
for the soldiers.
No vesper services will be held at
Reed College during the holiday and
there will be no services in the chapel
this afternoon. The next vesper talk
will be given at the chapel on. Janu
ary 6.
TSILC00S LAKE IS CLOSED
Fishermen Accnsed of TTsing Tribu
taries Unlawfully.
MARSHFIELD, Or., Dec. 22. (Spe
cial.) State Game Warden Shoemaker,
during his visit to Coos Bay consulted
with Deputy Game Warden Thomas
and issued an order to close commer
cial fishing on Tsilcoos Lake, on the
Southern Pacific Railway, between the
Umpqua and Siuslaw rivers.
Six weeks ago Deputy Thomas con
fiscated two tons of fish and several
nets, under the supposition the fisher
men had no licenses, but on getting the
flsh and paraphernalia ready for ship
ment was confronted with licenses.
However, the fishermen are alleged by
the state warden to be fishing unlaw
fully and are taking salmon from the
tributaries of the lake, instead of from
Tenmlle Creek, the outlet.
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CORN DISPLAY IS URGED
R. A. BL AN CHARD HOME FROM LANE
COUNTY SHOW.
Increased Production Indicated by Pur
chase of Seed by Asrlcnltural
Afrents Elsewhere.
R. A. Blanchard. agriculturist of the
Livestock State Bank, of Portland, re
turned recently from the Lane County
Corn Show, enthusiastic over the pros
pect for corn production in Oregon.
"Five years ago," he said, "a corn show
in the Willamette Valley would have
struck, the average resident as humor
ous indeed. The .Willamette Valley,
first cleared of timber, was used for
stock grazing by the early pioneers
and then was followed by wheat farm
ing for a long time. Grain was the
principal crop for decades, until the
yield became so low something had to
be done. Then came the new era of
diversification. The more enterprising
discovered that fruit, that magical lure
of the Eastern tourist, could be grown.
Trees and bushes were planted by the
thousands and the Willamette Valley
became famous. But no country can
long endure without its livestock, and
with that comes the necessity for a
cheap feed. The farmers shook their
heads about corn: "It can't be grown.'
they said. But the persistent effort of
a few enterprising leaders, encouraged
by the agricultural college, continued
the corn campaign.
"That corn is to be figured among
the most important crops is now as
sured. The silo has made its appear
ance and will become more familiar
to the landscape.
"The Lane County Corn Show, held at
Eugene December 13, was an insplra
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4PRIGINAL
tion even to its sponsors. Not only
were the exhibits large and of quality,
but unprecedented interest was shown.
The most constructive feature was the
auction of seed corn, which was pur
chased not only by farmers but by
county agriculturists In adjoining
counties, which insures the distribution
of more and better corn next year.
"The banks of Eugene, and especial
ly the Bank of Commerce, are to be
congratulated on their foresight and
assistance given. President Rowe, of
the Bank of Commerce, and the origi
nator of the contest idea last year, said
'with the growing of corn comes the
feeding of livestock, and we know then
the stability and future of our agri
cultural development is secured.' "
Columbia Forest Inspected.
GULER, Wash., Dec. 22. (Special.)
, Supervisor F H. Brundage, of the
Columbia National Forest, has been
spending - several days here on busi
ness connected with the forest. The
Columbia forest now has a fine head
DR. K. G. AUSPLUJiD, MGR.
Mr Practice la Limited to
Hlsa-Claaa Denrlatrr Only
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STAIRS
I have stood at the chair day after day, from 8 o'clock
in the morning until 8 o'clock at night, with a few minutes
taken for meals between times, and then sat in my labora
tory until midnight making plates, crowns and bridges, in
order that my patients should have their work on time
the next day.
It was this daily "grind" that made me realize that the
one-man system of dentistry was wrong; unfair to the
dentists and doubly unfair to the public.
I knew that two or three men, working under the same
conditions, would simply multiply the handicap by two or
three ; and I decided then and there that the modern, suc
cessful dental office must consist of a staff of dental
specialists, working under the direction of a MANAGING
DENTIST, in order that the work could be standardized,
expense minimized, and responsibility centralized. Just
as the successful baseball manager selects his "stars" for
their skill at CERTAIN POSITIONS, so must the man
ager of the modern dental office select dental specialists
of skill for the various branches of dentistry.
Upon my judgment of the caliber of men depends the
success or failure of my practice. That is why I have
specialists who do extraction, specialists who excel in
fillings and inlays, specialists who are masters in crown
and bridge work, specialists who show superiority in
making artistic, comfortable and durable plates and
then, in order that these specialists may devote their
entire time to their specialties, I maintain a private lab
oratory, where three mechanical dentists and expert gold
workers are kept busy turning out plates, crowns, bridges,
. etc., under the direction of the operating dentists, and the
supervision of the manager.
This efficient system enables me to give my patients
the same or better work for half what private dentists
charge. It enables me to KNOW that the best materials
are used, the. work is correctly and carefully done and
explains why my guarantee is so broad, so liberal and
honest, on every piece of dental work done in this office.
Electro Whalebone Plates
Flesh Colored Plates
Porcelain Crowns
Gold Fillings, from '. ,
22-K Gold Crowns
22-K Gold Bridge. -.
Life is Service the Dentist who progresses is the one who gives
his fellow beings BETTER WORK for Less Money and No Pain
Electro - Painless Dentists
IN THE TWO-STORY BUILDING
CORNER SIXTH AND WASHINGTON STS., PORTLAND. OR.
coming out in one of my
a Dollar
CLOTH
quarters building here and Ranger
Lickel is in. charge and is also caring
for some 20 head of Government mules
that are being fed here for the Winter.
COUPLE WEDDED 64 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Hiatt, of Al
bany, Celebrate Anniversary.
ALBANY, Or.. Dec. 22. (Special.)
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hiatt. of this city,
celebrated the 64th anniversary of their!
marriage at their home in this cltyi
Monday. Probably few people within,
the State of Oregon have celebrated It'
wedding anniversaries aftex their gold-'
en wedding.
Mr. Hiatt Is 84 years of age and Mrs.
Hiatt is 83. They have lived in Al
bany the last 20 years, having coma
here from Indiana. Mr. Hiatt is a vetJ
eran of the Civil War and member ot
McPherson Post, No. 5, Grand Army of
the Republic, of this city.
Dentistry
Represents a
Large Field
of Action!
Specialists are needed in
each department. Only a
few become good in all its
branches. I have practiced
for 18 long years and know .
whereof I speak.
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