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13 GRATITUDE TD YJUDff IS DOMINANT NOTE PARK BUREAU ARCHITECT LAYS OUT PLANS TO BEAUTIFY CITY'S GROUNDS ON COLUMBIA RIVER HIGGHWAY. )SsJl Arrival of Americans Is Appre ciated Overseas. These four models are in harmony with the most fashionable ideas for fall and winter GENEROUS IDEALS SHOWN I i Harold G. Merrlam, Member of Fac ulty of. Reed College, Depicts In teresting Personal Experience. THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, TORTLAND, OCTOBER 13, 1918. i The following letter, an unusually in teresting series of impressions gath ered in France and England, has been received at Reed College from Harold CI. Merriara, formerly a member of the faculty of that institution: "When one's ship is lost from its convoy in a fog in the Irish Sea, one feels closely in touch with the war; but when one lands in England and in France and begins to realize the short age of - food and begins to understand the losses of our allies and their won derful courage, the sea experiences eeem like phantom worries. And indeed most of them are, for two reasons, namely, that there is no such breeding place on earth for rumor as on the sea, and, secondly, for a submarine to at tack a convoyed fleet is nothing less than suicide. 'Our chief rumor was that, while lost from our convoy, a submarine passed our bows and later caught a merchant JBhip; to which all one can sky is that when our captain found we were lost he certainly did put oji steam, in spite of the fog. One night a soldier caused a. near-panic, being frightened by the tajl of a life raft onto the deck, by calling out, "Al. men on deck," when hundreds of doughboys packed the hatchways of their quarters so that no movement either way was possible. The submarine ..had seemed to me from the very beginning so 'remote as never to enter my consciousness, but running through the minds of the soldiers every one was a sub-thought of fear; so that when met by our sub-chasers and dirigibles there was, as it were, a great sigh of relief sweeping the ship from bow to stern. One was made con scious of any hidden fear in himself ly the life preserver that he wore every minute of the journey. Work Made Difficult. "My work as a transport secretary was made so difficult by the conditions of the converted freighter we were on and by the strict regulations of the military commander that they were more picturesque than actual. A library of 700 books circulated like wildfire, and 20 bundles of magazines seemed to have been literally, consumed within three days through much handling. Double the number of both could have been used. - The soldiers want maps and atlases and geographies and his tories and better fiction. I make this last statement in spite of the fact that George Barr McCutcheon was in great est demand. These books are used by the soldiers aboard ship, are sent from the point of disembarkation to France, and are there used in the camps until worn out. People at home should empty their libraries of their good books not costly books, but good reading. "One's first impression on landing In either England or France is, I think, that of the gratitude of the people for the arrival of the Americans. The Brit isher finds it difficult to express grat itude to strangers,' and yet by his ex treme courtesy to Americans, hitherto not marked, and their willingness to credit us with being in the war.with generous ideals, he does manage to convey his real inward feeling. The children of England and the grown-ups of the lower classes have a supersti tion that it is good luck to touch an American sailor; and so when a jack tar walks up a street he is tagged and patted to the point of vexation. Gratitude Poured Out. "In France the people find it easy to pour out gratitude, so that there is danger of the American losing his head and thinking that he has himself been fighting this war the past four long years and is about to win it. A Signal Corps man and I were standing before Notre Dame last Sunday when four French boys of from 5 to 8 years ran up, calling out, 'The Americans, the Americans, our friends and they grasped our hands and held on tightly. "We walked around the cathedral, each of us with a boy at each hand, the oldest explaining in perfect French and without the" slightest embarrass ment how the Boche airmen had dropped a bomb in the garden 20 yards behind the cathedral and how the men on his street filled up the hole, so that, unfortunately, he could not show it to us. We walked and talked for 20 min utes, and when I told the boys that we must leave them they lined up in a row, each one with great dignity, shook hands with us and said, 'Bon soir, mes sieurs.' "England seems to be hard pressed for food, their diet consisting of ham and bacon, of which they have Quanti ties; bread, egg" and potatoes, not to mention the inevitable steamed pud dings. Fruit cannot be eaten a single peach sold for 37 cents, and grapes for fl & pound. No sugar is to be had, except moist brown sugar. Vegetables fire surprisingly scarce and expensive. In France there seems to be plenty of everything except sugar, and one can. half the time, obtain even that. All kinds of meats are plentiful, as well as Glass of Hot Water Before Breakfast a Splendid Habit Open sluices of tha system each morning and wash away the poisonous, stagnant matter. Those of us who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when we arise; splitting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach, lame back, can, instead, both look and feel as fresh, as & dairy always by Vashins the poisons and toxins from the body with phosphated cot water each morning. W should drink, before breakfast, a (lass of real hot water with a tea fcpoonful of limestone phosphate in it to flush from the stomach, liver, kid neys and ten yards of bowels the pre vious day's indigestible waste, sour bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary tract before putting more food into the stomach. The action of limestone phosphate fend hot water on an empty stomach is wonderfully invigorating. It cleans out all the sour fermentations, gases, waste and acidity and gives one a splen did appetite for breakfast. A quarter pound of limestone phosphate will cost very little at the drug store, but is suf ficient to make anyone who is bothered with biliousness, constipation, stomach trouble or rheumatism a real en thusiast on the subject of internal san itation. A4v, . rt AW j - cis g- j Tj DETENTION ROME. Lookng forward to the immediate expanson of the city Detention Home, plans have been drawn up by the Park Bureau for the develop ment of the grounds and buildings in accordance wth the best ideas of architecture and landscape. Started less than a year ago to take care of those women affected by the Government and city dsease prevention fight, the home has grown nto a wtell-ordered place of three buildngs, lncludng two dormi tores. Situated on a tract of more than 30 acres on the Columbia Rver Highway about a mile from Troudale, ample room for development s given. About 60 women now are beng cared for at the home two months after the completion of the buldings. In the plans prepared by the Park Bureau archtect the buildings are grouped about a wde lawn with paths and shrubbery. A logga at one end stands next to a lily pond near that end of the lawn. Shrubbery about the buildngs witha thek hedge surrounding the plot also are pro vded. A driveway leads to the man buildng set about 200 feet back from the highway. Trees, shrubbery and grass are desgned to beautiful this part of the tract. The keeper's house is near the entrance at one side of the driveway. This is to be remodeled from an old stone bulding. our of the new cottages flanking the man building are to be added in the near future, it is expected. Others will be added as the demand warrants. Landscape development grass, shrubbery, trees, etc will be put under way early next Spring. fruits and vegetables. Grapes sell as low as 30 cents a pound, likewise peaches. Raisins, however, are a dollar a pound. I priced some sweet cookies, something like our vanilla wafers, and found them 11.40 a pound. Eggs are cheap, bread is little higher than be fore the war, and vegetables are very little more expensive. Mourners Sad Sight. The signs n . the streets and Jhe number of women in mourning sadden one. Shop after shop will hiive a card in Its window reading, 'Mourning provid ed in 24 hours,' or 'Mourning supplied at once.' Shop after shop is closed, many not to open until after the war, and many bearing a sign reading, "Re opening the middle of September,' or 'Closed provisionaly." The papers say that hundreds of shopkeepers have closed their shops and gone into the country to help with the harvest. The old men who 11 years ago when I was here sat in front of stores and wine shops are now at work pushing carts or driving autos or waiting on trade. There seems to be nothing women have not undertaken. The terribly wounded on the street are numeroups. "Last evening a discharged soldier asked us for a cigarette, offering to pay for if: (Tobacco, I should state, is hard to get and very expensive as well as very bad. A pfeilu I was talking with pulled out his government allow ance, extrated the sticks that were un smokable, and pathetically said to me, not without a fine display of the French native dramatic ability. 'Viola, mon sieur, what is there left?') This wound ed soldier rolled up his trouscr leg richt on the street and showed us how his artificial leg worked. It had been amputated at the thigh. 'Viola, there is the Boche.' He had lost one eye. 'For me,' he said, 'the war is ended; I am no good.' He had a cane that he had cut out of a stick taken from the place on the field where he had been wounded. Here, see," he said, pointing to the head of the cane, and there was a remarkable likeness of 'Papa Joffre' carved on the end. 'I did it myself.' I Scotch and Canadians Preferred. "On the train coming from Havre was a French sergeant, who had seen three and a half years of service, a poilu who was ending his first year, an auxiliary soldier (one totally unfit for line service but fit for clerical work) and a Frenchman who was in the'head- quarters division. They discovered that I could speak a little French and there fore all the remarks were politely ad dressed to me, and I was kept busy saying 'our in pretense that 1 under stood everything. The various soldiers of the different nationalities were dis cussed as reliable fighters. The prefer ence, Americans being left out of con sideration, fell to the Scotch or Cana dians. "The poilu sang 'Tipperaryi. the Eng lish of which he had learned in the trenches last Winter. He drew out of his knapsack two '75' shells that he had obtained through Systeme D (the Frenchman's term for foraging for sup plying oneself with what one needs-and wants) and had hammered into really beautiful vases with running floral de signs. "You, I will make you one this Winter,' he said, but I am not really expecting one, cherishing the impulse more than the thing itself. Numerous battles were dramatically explained. We all rose and sang the 'Marseillaise' in French, then 'America' in English. About q'clock T remarked that I was hungry, riot having eaten since 11; the poilu opened his knapsack again, took out of a loaf of war bread, cut it into two pieces and insisted on my taking one. It was good, made better by the sincere generosity. Hu Camp Hit by Bomb. "As we came through Rouen, a city of 100,000, full of beautiful buildings and possessed of three exquisitely beautiful cathedrals, one of the Frenchmen told of the air raids that had come four nights in succession. One night a house had been hVt, blown to pieces and its four occupants killed: another, a for saken factory, had been' heavily bom barded, the Germans mistaking it for a gunpowder factory; a third, a large tank of petrol had been hit. sending up flames 20 meters high, and the fourth a German internment camp had been struck, three Frenchmen and ten Ger mans being wounded. "Some weeks ago in Paris a bomb fell just beyond the steps of the splen did Church of the Madeleine; It dug a hole in the pavement and scattered Its pieces, one of which flew directly for a statue of St. Luke and severed his head as neatly as an ax could have done it, leaving the rest of the body unmu tilated. "It seems to me that wherever I turn I run into a Y. M. C. A. man from Ore gon. I already have track of some 18 or 20. Oregon is more than holding her own. And several of her sons are in very responsible positions." CAR MECHANICS CALLED ENLISTMENT IN MOTOR TRANS PORT CORPS STILL OPEN. Nearly 2 00 Men Have Been Accepted for Immediate Service, bat Great Demand Still Continues. Nearly 200 men have been accepted for the Motor Transport Corps by Charles I. Jamieson, of the trade pro curement and classification branch of this service, but many more are re quired. Mr. Jamieson emphasizes, however, that the need is more for men skilled in mechanical lines than for those, whose sole qualifications are ability to drive passenger cars or trucks. Plenty of the latter will be required, but a much larger proportion of them has been accepted so far than of skilled mechan ics who are absolutely essential. Men whose applications are accepted will be voluntarily inducted into the Motor Transport Corps as soon as re quisitions for them are approved at Washington and forwarded to their lo cal boards with Instructions to release them. The chances for active service in France, and that very soon, are ex tremely good, says Mr. Jamieson, for the motor transport needs of the new American Armies are very great. Mr. jamieson says men who regis- tered September 12. who have not yet Mother's Tender Flowers" Watch the toneue of your young! Children droop and wither if you permit constipation poison to be absorbed into their delicate systems. Hurry! Give Cascarets to clean the little dogged-up liver and bowels. Children love harmless Cascarets because Cascarets taste like candy only 10 cents a boxl Grand! When a child's' tongue turns white,' breath feverish, stomach sour,' mothers can always depend upon safe old "Cascarets" to gently, yet thor oughly clean the little liver and bowels. Cascarets are just dandy for children. They taste like candy and no child need be coaxed to take their even when cross, bilious and sick. Each 10 cent box contain direc tions and dose for cbildren.aged oneycai old and upwards,' K658 Soft black kid light or dark gray cloth top, also fawn LXV heel. 12S1 Soft black kid dress pump, turned sole, covered LXV heel. 10S1 In soft patent leather $5.00. (Buckles Extra, 75c to $7.50 a pair.) Los Angeles I. 380 270 been called, are eligible for this serv ice. No commissions are given in this corps from civilian life. promotions being made from the ranks, and the training period is only three months. Applicants should see Mr. Jamieson in the pregon exhibit room of the Ore gon building. Fifth and Oak streets, be tween the .hours of 8:30 and 6:30 during the day, or from 7:30 to 9 at night. PIANO FIRM TAKES LEASE Bash & Lane Company Obtain For mer Eilcrs Building. Final arrangements have been com pleted whereby the Bush & Lane Piano Manufacturing Company will take over the Maegley & Tichenor building, at Broadway and Alder streets, formerly known as the Liters building, under lease for a term of years. The building is to be known hereafter as the Bush A Lane building. Work is now in progress for remodeling the premises into piano display rooms. The new quarters of the Bush & Lane Piano Manufacturing Company give them a downtown central location. PRINCE IS KING'S COUSIN Axel of Denmark Is Vice-Admiral In Danish Navy. Prince Axel, of Denmark, who will be a Portland visitor next Tuesday, la TV $g00 Shop in the tnorningS-the salesperson's attention is then all yours. vamp, choice of cloth top, bronze cloth top, leather Our Portland Stores Open 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. Weekdays S A. M. to 8 P. Af. Saturdays Sola Agent for the Nettleton Shoe. Sole Agent for Dr. A. Reed Cushion Shoe for Men. San Francisco s U TJc TVfv Washington St Morrison St. Largest Retailer of Shoes West of Chicago cousin of Christian X, King of Den mark, woo succeeded to the throne on the death of his father. King Frederick VIII, May 15. 1912. Prinve Axel is a son of Prince Valdemar, a brother of me late itlng Frederick VIII. and his mother was Princess Marie of Orleans, daughter of the Duke fcf Chartres. Prince Valdemar was offered the crown of Bulgaria in 1866. a year after his marriage, but declined. Prince Axel is a vice admiral of tha Danish nayy, having entered the same oranch of ervti-e in which his father A NEW WITNESS By Dr. JAMES Of the Council of the Twelve. Church Salt Lake The angel Moroni.' who made known to Joseph Smith the existence and re pository of the inscribed plates from which the Book of Mormon has been translated. informed the modern prophet that the metallic pages con tained the fulness of the everlasting Gospel as delivered by the Savior to the former Inhabitants of the Western Continent: The book is more than a series of annals and chronicles. Invaluable as the ancient record may have proved in giving to man the his tory of a once mighty but now extinct nation, in demonstrating the origin and significance of traditions cherished by the degenerate Indiana as evidence of a more enlightened past. In explain ing ethnological data otherwise unre lated and largely inexplicable In these respects the Book of Mormon could have been nothing more than an impor tant contribution to the common fund of human knowledge, possibly of great academic interest but certainly of small vital value.. No apolog'y could be consistently de manded for surprise, wonder, or even incredulity over the announcement of a messenger sent from the presence of God. to restore to the possession of mortals a mere history of dynasties and kingdoms, of migrations and battles, of cities builded and destroyed, and of the rise and fall of commonwealths. The miraculous interposition of Divine pow er in such a matter is without recorded precedent and apparently lacking in the essential element of necessity. The priceless character of the Book of Mormon lies in Its sacredness as a compilation of Holy Scripture, telling primarily of the dealings of God with the ancient peoples of the West, of the Divine purpose In their isolation on a previously unknown continent, the teaching and practice of the Gospel with all Its essential laws and ordi nances enjoined through revelation en tirely apart from the Biblical Scrip tures, and particularly of the solemn testimony of a great nation relating to the atoning death and literal resur rection of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer and Savior of the'' race. The avowed purpose of Jehovah. In leading Lehl and his colony from Jeru salem and conducting them across the great waters to the Apierlran shores, was to separate unto Himself a body of Israelites who would be cleansed from false tradition and the defiling precepts of men respecting the appointed mis sion of Christ in the flesh. As Moses was led into the desert and later Into the mountain top. as Elijah waa im pelled to seek the cavern's solitude, that each might the better hear the Divine voice so a nation was seques tered in the New World that they might learn the word of revealed truth in Its simplicity and plainness. In the mind of God it had been de creed that the life, death, and resur rection of His Only Begotten Son be attested by other witnesses than Gali lee, Samaria and Judea. While Lehl and his people were journeying through the A671 Dark gray kid, cloth top to match also dark brown kid or calf with cloth top to match leather mili tary heel strictly new model. 'A1206 Rich dark brown kid, hand turned, dressy pump, covered LXV heel the long, narrow toe effect with - the high arch i particularly pleas ing model $$50' 308 Washington St. 270 Washington St. has held rank of distinction for many years. He is closely related to various eminent members of the reigning houses of Europe. Alexandra, mother of the king of England, and the dowager empress of Russia being aunts and King Haakon of Norway, his uncle. The king of Greece is his cousin. The earliest known manifest of a vessel clearing from the port of New Tork bears the date 1S26. The Arms of Amsterdam carried away In that year 72t6 beaver skins, together with other ftkins and a quantity of timber. OF THE CHRIST E. TALMAGE Jeans Christ of Latter-Day Saints, City, It ah. deserts of Arabia, the Lord revealed by vision and the visitation of angels unto the prophet and again unto Nephl that, six hundred years later, the Son of the Eternal Father would be born of the Virgin of Karazeth. that He was to be the Redeemer of the world, that a prophet would go before Him crying re pentance unto the people and baptiz ing them In Jordan, and that twelve Apostles would attend the Savior and continue to teach and administer after the Lord's death and resurrection. The doctrine of the coming Christ and the necessity of repentance and bap tism were preached by prophets throughout the six centuries of prepa ration. At the time of our Lord's birth at Bethlehem, the predicted signs of the glad event were witnessed in America, and prominent among these waa the ab sence of darkness between two days. The tragedy on Calvary was signal ized in the West, as the prophets had foretold, by great disturbances of the earth, and by the continuation of dark ness between two nights. The more righteous part of the people had been preserved from destruction; and to a multitude of these, assembled about the Temple, the crucified and res urrected Lord appeared, with the sol emn accompaniment of the Father's proclamation from the heavens: "Be held my beloved Sea la whona I aaa well pleased, la whose 1 have glorified m T anruei hear ye H lam. (i Nephl chap. 11). The people looked upward. "And he hold they saw a Mn descending out af heaveal nnd He was rlothed In m white robe, aad He eaaae dewa aad la the aaldat of them, aad the eyes of the whole mvltltade were farmed aaoa Him. and they durnt aot aaea their moatha. even aae to another, and wist net whnt It mennt. for they thnaaht It wnn na an gel that had appeared ants them. And It enme ta pass that He atrctehed forth Hla hand nnd apake antn the people, aaylnar. Behold. 1 am Jeaaa Chrfaf. whom the prophets teatlfled shall eome Intn the aerial and behold. I nm the light nnd the life of the world t and I have drank, ont af that bitter eap whteb the father hath given me. and have glori fied the Father la taklaa apoa me the alnn of the world. In whleh I have anf fered the will of the rather In all talna-e from the beatonlng." He permitted them to see snd feel the wounds of the cross in His hands. feet, and side; and they worshipped Him. The Book of Mormon is a new and Independent witness of the divinity of Jesus Christ and His Gospel, by wtich all mankind may be saved through obe dience, and without which no man can have place In the Kingdom of God. For the Book of Mormon apply to booksellers, or write direct to North western States Mission, tlO East Madi son St.. Portland, Ore., or Bureau of Information, Salt Lake City, Utah. Adv. Portland COULONT GO A DAY LONGER, HE SAYS Had to Force Himself to Work. Tanlac Restores Health. "I tell you what, the wonderful way Tanlao has built me up is the best proof that it is the right medicine for me," said James H. Graves, a concrete worker living at atSHi Front street. Portland, the other day. "About three years ago." he contin ued. "I lost my appetite almost en tirely and got so 1 would- often leave the table after taking just a few bites of food. Then my digestion got so bad that even the lightest diet would bloat me up with gas and my stomach would burn like it was on fire. I was badly constipated, my head ached constantly and 1 was so restless at night that I would get up In the morning feeling just as miserable as when 1 went to bed. To add to my other trouble--. I had rheumatism in my left shoulder, which soon extended lo my left hip. and both ached so much that I could hardly bear to touch or even move them. I lost thirty pounds in weight and could just feel myself getting weaker every day. My energy was all gone and. although I kept at work, I had to force myself to do it. and always felt like I Just couldn't go another day without giving out. "I tried everything I could har of. but nothing did me any good. Then I heard so much about Tanlac that I tried it and soon found it was just w hat I needed. My appetite has picked up till I can now enjoy my three good, square meals every day and could eat one or two more if they were set before me. Nothing hurts me at all, all that gas and bloating and misery are com pletely gone, that constipation has been corrected and 1 never have a headache. That awful rheumatism from which I suffered so much has entirely left me, I have gained nine pounds. I sleep like a log and get up in the morning feel ing rested and refreshed and ready for anything. In fact. Teniae haa made a new man of me. and I am boosting It to my friends every chance I get." Tanlac Is sold in Portland by the Owl Drug t'o. Adv. o "STOMACH UPSET? Get at the Real Cause Take Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets That's what thousands of stomach sufferers are doing, now. Instead of taking tonics, or trying to patch up a poor digestion, they are attacking tha real cause of tha ailment clogged liver and disordered bowels. Dr. Edwards OJive Tablets arouse tha liver in a soothing, healing way. When the liver and bowels are performing their natural functions, away goes indigestion and stomach troubles. If you have a bad taste In your mouth, toneue coated, aooetite Door. lazy, don't-care feeling, no ambition er energv, troubled wita undigested locos, you should take Olive Tablets, the sub stitute for calomel. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable comfJound muted with olive oiL You will know them by their olive color. They do the work without griping, cramps or pain. Take one or two at bedtime for quick relief, so you can eat what you like. At 10c and 25c per box. All druggist Adv.