TIIE SUXDAY OREGONIAX. PORTLAND, M'ARCIT 2, 1919.
CHAMBER PLEASED BY
STATE LEGISLATION
GERMAN LEADERS BLAMED
AMERICAN SOPRANO FAMOUS
BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD
Miss May Peterson Appears in Recital at Heilig Wednesday Voice Is of'
Surprising Volume and Delicious Lightness.
PEOPLE DECLARED TO BE KIND
BUT MISDIRECTED, -
B. F. Rlcbter of Portland, In Armj
Constructive Laws Enacted,
Says Mr.- Dodson.
SETTLEMENT ACT LAUDED
Satisfaction Expressed Over Fact
"Triat Measures of In j uVious Ef
fect Were Defeated.
By fax the greater part of -worthy
legislation introduced at the recent ses
sion was enacted, according to W. D.
B. Dodson. executive secretary of the
Portland Chamber of Commerce, while
freak measures, or measures of menace,
were defeated or sidetracked. Sir. Dod
son spent some time at Salem, watch
ing the progress of the legislative
grist.
"All of the larger constructive meas
ures that we as a Chamber of Com
merce urged upon the legislature were
given serious consideration, and mostly
enacted in the form of a law," said
Mr. Dodson last night. "Most of the
bills introduced which were a serious
threat at business and which were op
posed by the business interests of the
community were either defeated or ren
dered unimportant in their influence.
"In respect to the Port, house bill No.
371 gives to the Port Commission the
power, in the event it should ever de
cide to undertake the ownership and
operation of steamships or steamboats,
to issue up to a maximum of 5 per
cent of the assessed valuation of the
port district. This, of course, cannot
be done without a vote of the people.
Port Bill Deemed Important.
"House Dill No. 372 makes effective
the constitutional amendment adopted
by the people two years ago, which
gives to port commissions the power ot
contracting with private parties in con
Junction with ships and traffic devel
opment, and also to grant a bonus, a
subsidy or an aid, to guarantee against
excessive charges in the port, equalize
fuel costs and all other port costs. We
regard this as a very important bill,
and is what we think wiir prove the
last link in the chain of legislation
adopted, giving to the port authorities
all the .power needed for the commun
ity to g forth, stimulate and command
the traffic which the port is entitled
to handle.
"Senate bill No. 243 givee the ma
chinery for special elections which the
Port Commission might decide to call,
which machinery seemed not to exist
under previous statutes.
"Senate bill No. 290, which changed
the tenure of office of the port com
missioners to four years, and also
changed the personnel of the commis
sion, was presented at the legislature
during the last days. A large number
of business men of the community in
sisted that they had not been given
opportunity to discuss the proposed
changes and protested against the
changes first suggested. Later, after
several vigorous conferences, the per
sonnel of the commission as finally
presented by the delegation was ap
proved by the business men working
on the problem and practically a new
commission came into existence. On
this commission are several leading
men of the community who, no doubt,
will become powerful factors in shap
ing the destinies of the port.
Settlement Law Praised,
"The most constructive piece of leg
islation accomplished at Salem through
the co-operation of the chamber was in
connection with land reclamation and
eettlement.
The land settlement commission
plan, which was urged by the Oregon
development bureau of the chamber,
and has been submitted to a large num
ber of national authorities on the sub
ject, was made a legal entity. The
governor was empowered to appoint
five commissioners, who will take up
a scientific and thorough study of land
settlement. A portion of this plan in
volves the provirg of what land can
do on a sound, practical basis in any
district of the state. Another portion
of the measure gives the machinery for
extending aid to the bona fide settler.
Instead of this aid being extended
through some great colonization
scheme, euch as California has under
taken and which has a higher prototype
in Australia, the system will permit
of aid being extended to a man seeking
land in any part of the state. Many
other aspects of the land settlement
commission bill have been approved by
experts in the work and the chamber
Is confident that it will work out with
great benefit and advantage to the
state of Oregon.
Land Development In Prospect.
"The second important reconstruction
issue presented was that of reclaiming
Oregon lands. The measure submitted
will provide the means whereby the
state of Oregon can manage, on what
ever basis is deemed necessary, any
proposal of the federal government for
land development work in the state of
Oregon, the government sharing a por
tion of the expense. This effort seems
to have tremendous possibilities in
view of the desire of the federal gov
ernment to aid heavily in land recla
mation work.
"A third feature of the reconstruction
programme, and one which concerns
more fully the subject of immediate
employment of men, is the large build
ing programme provided in the measure
that will be cubmitted to the voters
of the state. In conjunction with the
state's building programme, provision
has been made for a new penitentiary,
heavy building operations at both the
University of Oregon and Oregon Agri
cultural college, the medical school at
Portland, armories in various parts of
the state, etc This Is calculated to
give a large amount of employment
and to meet some very urgent needs
of the state of Oregon. It will have
the effect of relieving the two great
institutions of learning from serious
difficulties that have confronted them
for some time and advance their work
probably five years.
Chamber's Satisfaction Voiced,
"The chamber, in conjunction with
the State Chamber of Commerce, will
organize immediately to present to the
voters of the state, this reconstruction
programme, so that it may bo favor
ably received.
"A considerable number of bills were
Introduced in the early days of the
session, which business men regarded
as dangerous and harmful in their pos
sibilities. After conferences' with the
business men in the respective lines
of trade affected, effort was made to
present to the legislative body a full,
fair statement of the facts. As a re
sult of a large number of presentations
of this character, many of these bills
were killed outright and a limited num
ber of others were so modified that
they were conceded fair to business
rather than harmful and destructive.
"Taken as a whole, the chamber is
very well satisfied with the result of
the session and is confident that much
good will come from many of the
measures adopted and that a great deal
of injury was averted by defeating
many others that were Introduced.
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MAY PETERSON, WHO IS TO SIXO AT HEILIG XEXT WEDNESDAY.
ONE of the treats of the present sea
son will be the recital Wednesday
evening by Miss May Peterson,
who appears at the Heilig under the di
rection of Steers & Coman.
This gifted American soprano, whose
reputation was firmly established in
the great opera house of Europe before
she appeared before her own people,
made her debut at the Metropolitan
opera, November 29 and repeated her
triumph on December 10. Her successes
in New York were only duplicates of
her Parisian triumphs and in the con
cert field she has even outstripped her
marvelous operatic records. To Miss
Peterson is attributed a voice of un
common beauty and a fine personal
charm. Her coloratura is said to be
not merely vocal agility nor vocal me
chanics, but her tones are like jewels,
lustrous, glowing, realizing in their
sheer beauty the true purpose of colora
tura singing.
Her voice is of surprising volume, de
licious lightness and a big, even range
with limpid well-rounded tones, as even
as they are pure. With a fine style, de
lightful stage presence, native beauty,
and a splendid enthusiam for her art,
Miss Peterson may well be estimated as
one of the most important of the rising
group of American singers.
RED CROSS ROOMS OPEN
WORK TO CONTINUE UNTIL
LAST DEMAND IS 3IET.
Director of Lipman-Wblfe Shops
Ask9 Portland Women o
Keep ITp Knitting.
Reports that the workroom on the
eighth floor of the Lipman-Wolfe
building had been closed by the Amer
ican Red Cross were denied yesterday
by F-. V. Holder, assistant general
manager.
"Not only is the workroom not closed,
but there is no intention of closing it,"
said Mr. Holder. "In. fact, it is very
unlikely that either the workroom or
the supply department will closo for
many months."
The rumors became prevalent when
the executive board of the Red Cross
decided to discontinue the operation, of
the sewing room, following the closing
of the ee.wing room of the war. relief
auxiliary In the Spalding building.
Lipman, Wolfer & Co. donated their
entire floor to the' Red Cross for the
duration of the war. As many as 400
women a day have been accommodated
there in the days when surgical dress
ings were of hourly' moment. The at
tempt to handle sewing there was more
or less of a failure, Portland women
not responding to the appeal for work
era. "It i3 difficult to understand this,"
said R. F. Prael, director of the work
room, "for a wonderfully renewed in
terest is now being shown by our
auxiliaries. These auxiliaries obtain all
their supplies from the workroom,
where also much preliminary wcrk is
done.
"We trust the avxiliaries will 'carry
on'- to the end. We shall never ask
them for work when the need is not
great."
Women who formerly gathered at the
Lip man-Wolf 3 workroom or at the
Spalding building rooms were asked
by Mr. Prael to report to the nearest
Red Cross auxiliary in their neighbor
hood, or to organize Red Cross aux
iliaries of their own.
The main business of the Red Cross
women workers, outside' of that done
by auxiliaries, is the resumption of
knitting, and knitters, both individual
ly and by auxiliaries, are urged to en
roll onco more with the Red Ctoss
until the yarn on hand is all knitted up.
Man Killed Between Cars.
VANCOUVER, 'Wash., March 1. (Spe
cial.) E. E. Goodwin, of 703 West
Eighteenth street, this city, was killed
about 2:30 A. M. today at Washougal,
when he was caught between two cars
while the train was switching. He is
survived by a wife and family.
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II alien.
It has been noticed that the ash tree
is very injurious to vegetation under
its shade, while scarcely any plant will
grow under a yew.
of Occupation, Writes, of
Impressions.
Private B. F. RIchter, Company E,
Fourth Engineers, one of the Portland
boya who has gone through the thick
of the battles, is now with the army of
occupation ' In Germany, and looking
hopefully to a happy home-coming.
Before entering the service he was
employed by the Standlfer Construc
tion Corporation and was for a time
engaged in engineering work in San
Francisco with one of the Giant pow
der companies. In a letter written
from Dungenhelm to Miss Madeline
Stone RIchter tells some Impressions
of the Germans and of their country,
as follows:
"The Rhine reminds me of the Co
lumbia in places, only it has a regular
channel and seems to stay where it
was put. The current is swift for no
large a stream. On both sides of the
river are double track railroads with
trains passing every few minutes
loaded with coal and rutabagas, and
one is never out of sight of a town or
city.
"The German people we have come
in contact with in this part of Ger
many think the kaiser a good man
who did all he could to avert the war.
They say he held out against the sub
marine warfare but was overruled by
his ministers. They also believe the
Russians. French and Belgians were
the aggressors who struck the first
blow. They regard our entry into the
war as the result of a blunder made
by the men who shaped Germany's
U-boat policy. In other words, they
claim that one blunder and hard luck
had most to do with their defeat. Many
of them have said that the Americans
never saw their best soldiers, they hav
ing been killed in the war before we
came, and that they doubt If any other
country, America included, could have
put up the fight they put up.
"It seems to me the German people
nave no ideals. Their minds are
warped by years of propaganda, not
the least of which was organized by
the church. They still are very proud
or the achievements of their army,
which leads one to think ther believed
It could do no wrong. I have seen
some of them very angry in arguing
and have so become myself when I
think of our boys lying out in France.
Last night I made one man so mad and
sad he actually cried at what he said
Germany had suffered at the hands of
the rest of the world. It is pathetic,
but it is serious. They have a ready
answer for every crime with which
they are charged an answer that has
been dished out to them by editors and
propagandists. When every semblance
of reason fails they Invoke the law of
necessity as their defense. They jus-
tiry Bismarck s policy and treatment
accorded France in 1871 as necessary
that Germany would not be at the
mercy of France.
"To us they are generous and kindly
and even solicitous of our health.
When we are sick I have seen them
get up in the night to make hot tea
or to give a cough syrup. All of
which goes to chow that they could
have been just as good as they have
been wicked, if they had only had the
right kind or leaders.
"They cannot understand our not
wanting anything in the peace settle
ments. Some have said they expected
we would demand Rhineland province
or at least many or Germany s ships
as our part, or tne spoils. To rhe vie
tor belong the spoils' is axiomatic
with them.
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Two Laundries Reduce Prices
In Wet Wash Department
The National Laundry Co. and Standard Wet Wash Laundry, begin
ning Monday, March 3rd, will do 15 lbs. for 65c and 4c per lb. over 15 lbs
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. 15 lbs. for 60c and 3c per lb. over
weight Thursday, Friday and Saturday. They also do Dry Wash at 5c per
lb. In this department each family wash is washed separately and dried in
the largest and most scientific vacuum dryer on the Pacific coast. No
ironing and no starch.
They also do Rough Dry at 7c per lb., all flat pieces nicely ironed and
wearing apparel starched ready to iron. This is the highest quality of
family Laundry work that is possible to get for this price.
They also do the highest quality of hand-finished work in this de
partment; you can safely send your silks and most delicate and expensive
pieces as they are done by hand at moderate prices.
They have just installed a new Collar Machine of the latest type,
which places them in a position to absolutely guarantee their Collar work.
This department should be tried by every man who is particular about
his collars.
National Laundry Co. Tel. East 494, B 2822
Standard Wet Wash Laundry Tel. East 8180, B 2832