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THE SUNDAY OREGOSIAy. PORTLAyD. JUXE 1, 1919. 15 WORSTED YARN MILL FIRMLY ESTABLISHED Plant at Sellwood Has $25,000 Monthly Business. BOY T. BISHOP MANAGER Industry, "Which Turns From Wat to Peace-Time Production, Sees Bright Future. The Oregon "Worsted company, one of Portland's infant industries, is on Its feet. It is already doing a business of $25,000 a month. Orders for worsted yarn are coming In so rapidly that in a short time it will double its capacity. The company is capitalized at $300. 000. The officers are B. B. MacNaugh ton, president; Charles H- Carey, secre tary; J. A. Zehntbauer, treasurer, and these, with H. L. Corbett, J. L. Bow man, R. N. Stanfleld and Roy T. Bishop, are the directors. Roy T. Bishop is gen eral manager. ' In Sellwood, on the crystal clear waters of Johnson creek, set down among the giant trees, is the com pany's group of factory buildings that hum with the whirr of motors and song of spindles. Here is being successfully operated the first worsted yarn mill west of Cleveland In the United States, and it is already a beehive of activity, Bending its product to factories throughout the country for manufac ture into garments. Enterprise Quickly Besjnn. A few months ago the proposition was financed by a group of progressive Oregon men who have faith in the fu ture of the woolen industry and the advantageous location of Portland for becoming the wool center of the coun try. Now, as the material result, Port land possesses a manufacturing enter prise that Is already employing a goodly company of operatives that promises to grow rapidly into battalions. When it came to a selection of a manager, the board of directors real ized that upon the character of the management depended the success of the enterprise. It pinned its faith In Roy T. Bishop, formerly of the Pendle ton Woolen mills, and is backing his ability with the stockholders' dollars. Mr. Bishop's descendants were pio neers in woolen mill development. In spired by their example Mr. Bishop is already leading the whole western country in one particular branch of the industry from choice. It Is said that in Scotland, where the woolen stand ards of the world are set, generations of people have been identified with the same branches of the work through several hundred years. Particular mills have excelled and for generations have held the monopoly of producing the -plaids that distinguish certain clans. It is also said by men in the woolen in dustry that the reason Scotch worsteds are the finest In the world Is because the climatic condition of that country Is Ideal and almost Identical with that of Western Oregon. Clip Valuable In 1803. It was a wool scouring plant that originally brought consignments of fleece wool from western Oregon to Sellwood long ago when it was a town apart from Portland. Oregon has been among (the foremost of the union in wool production. In 1893, when Grover Cleveland relegated the sheep-growing industry to the limbo of the past the annual wool clip of Oregon was valu able. President Cleveland said then that the woolen industry was practical ly extinct, with only small flocks of sheep in farm pastures of the land! But sheepgrowers were scattered all over the states west of the Mississippi. Cleveland had not heard of them. In Oregon. Washington and Idaho the woolgrowers have had a great part in creation of the wealth that was the basis of later development. Where there were a few big owners with large flocks there are today in the range legions of small sheep men with their own flocks that they tend and care for with the devotion of the true shepherd. As a result there is a steady increase In the number of sheep held and of rthe annual wool clip. Thomas Kay, founder of the woolen mill industry of Oregon, recognized long years ago the folly of transport ing the wool of the northwest to the east, where it was scoured, manufac tured and the product shipped back to the Pacific coast states as consumers. Ha was a master of the manufacturing branch of the industry, just as he was closely in touch with the growing of sheep. Improvement of the breeds and cultivation of the best in production and manufacture. In the next genera tion of the family the "dyed-in-the-wool" genuineness of understanding and appreciation was inherited and "even unto the third generation" comes the blessing of inspiration to home in dustry, for Roy T. Bishop is a grandson of Thomas Kay; his mother a sister of Thomas B. Kay. Business Learned From Boyhood. Roy T. Bishop learned'the woolen mill business from boyhood. Spindles and spools were familiar in play days, and under the tutelage of his grand father he gained an understanding of all aspects of the business. Then he went east and took a course in the Philadelphia Textile school, and upon completing his course accepted employ ment in the east, where for eight years he acquired a thorough knowledge of methods and practice in the big mills of the larger manufacturing centers of the eastern states. With vision of the Oregon pioneer stock he saw the opportunity of the Pacific coast and Rocky mountain states territory for a worsted mill. The need of a worsted yarn plant as a link in the chain'of the woolen industry was manifest and it fits into a place never occupied before. It was March 1 that the mill started operations on produc tion of worsted yarn, but it is now working ou orders accumulated three months ahead of output. There are more than 0 factories in the west producing knitted goods that require this product, besides all of the vast consumption of yarn by Individual users throughout the great territory. The factories alone use about 1,000,000 pounds of yarn annually, which means the consumption of 2,000.000 pounds of fleece wool, for its manufacture, at least, but in fact it requires consid erably more, for only the longest staple is used In these yarns. There Is a sin gle knitting mill within the territory that consumes 200,000 pounds of wor sted yarn annually. Government Work Done. Last year, when the Oregon Worsted company completed its organization and started to convert the plant into worsted yarn mill, the government wool administration had control of all the wool in the United States. There was no wool available, except for pla.nts having contracts for manufacture of poods for the government. Uncle Sam was the sole purveyor of wool and the sole buyer of woolens, for the product of all the mills was commandeered for the needs of the nation. It was antici pated the war would continue for two years, possibly longer, so the man agement closed a contract to produce cloth for the government. A contract for 20,000 yards was received, the ma chinery, of the plant; changed, to pro- . To cAutomobile and 3VLotor "Truck distributors and Investors ONE of the oldest, largest and highest rated manufacturers of Motor Trucks in this country desires representation in this City. Because of unusual conditions, this manu facturer is in a position to offer to individ uals or concerns capable of financing and handling a big motor truck proposition, or to established passenger or commercial vehicle distributors who can meet require ments, one of the best contracts, if not the best distributor's contract that has ever been offered. The undersigned representative of the man ufacturer would be glad to meet applicants personally and discuss with them the details of this proposition. All communications will be considered in the most confidential manner. G. M. SNOW Hotel Benson duce that kind of goods and 20 looms started in operation. The contract was finished after the signing of the ar mistice, the early termination of hostil ities having: completely upset the plans and expectations. Then the machinery of the worsted yam mill was Installed and actual progress In the manufac turing line, originally intended, was begun. Process Is Interesting;. Fleece wool Is brought to the pTant by the railroad, the location being on the Southern Pacific line. The plant is reached also by the Estacada line of the Portland Railway, Light & Power company. The wool Is run through the scouring plant, sorting rooms and thence through the processes of card ing, combing, drawing and spinning ma chines, under the supervision of trained specialists in each department and skill ful watchfulness of girls and women. It is an Interesting process and would interest every woman who uses wors ted yarns, as it would educate men and women in what to look for in woolen goods, to see the various stages of man ufacture. Because of the high price of wool, as well as the cost of chemicals and dif ficulty in obtaining certain coloring substances, the dye room is one of the Important technical departments of the Industry. Even standard shades are de Dendent upon the skill and decision of the chemist In charge of this work. Pre war conditions have not been restored in the production and manufacture of dyestuffs. Ingredients in one barrel may vary In texture, strength and shade. Therefore, every mixture has to be scrutinized, tests made and ex treme care exercised. Customers some times order yarn of a shade between two colors, of which samples are sent. What color would you produce if some one asked you to create a shade be tween a Nile green and a rose pink? That Is one of the easy problems the dye genius has to solve. The more dif ficult one Is to produce an exact du plicate of some mongrel hue that meets favor with- the customers of a manu facturer. Kmployes Kcmber Sixty. It Is a problem why all the wool pro duced In the western states should not be scoured before shipment to other parts of the world. In some Instances as high as 80 per cent of wool is dirt and grease, while the average is 60 per cent. The machinery of the Sellwood plant Is modern In every particular, and the looms have been replaced by the worsted yarn machines. At the present time there are about 60 employes, the number having been increasing stead ily as the hands were trained. The lack of skilled help for & worsted yarn mill made It necessary to instruct be ginners and through education gradu ally assemble the fores. Occupying eight acres of grround, with tts own water power, the plant capacity of the present buildings will meet present requirements, but has room. for expansion as conditions may justify. hum iirnnir innnin uinirn GOBDOX TAYLOR OF MOLALLA TELS OF "LEAVE CENTERS." A Peoria Inventor has secured a patent on a drill that actually will bore a perfectly square hole, or, in fact, a hole of any desired shape. It Is done by having a bit boring a round hole and working in a perpendicular shaft, then having other bits operating hori zontally to the main bit. "Gets-It" Peels My Corns Off! Any Corn or Callous Comes Off Peace fully, Painlessly Never Fails. It's almost a picnic to get rid of a corn or callous the "Gets-It" way. You spend 2 or 3 seconds putting on 2 or 3 drops of "Gets-It." about as simple as Use Gets-It." Peel Off Corn This Way. putting on your hat. "Gets-It" does away forever with "contraptions," "wrappy"" plasters, greasy ointments that rub off, blood-letting knives, and scissors that snip into the "quick." -Get6-It" eases pain. Tour "jumpy" corn shrinks, dies, loosens from the toe. You peel the corn painlessly from your toe in one complete piece. That's where the picnic comes in you peel it off as you would a banana peel. Nothing else but "Gets-It" can do It. Get peaceful, common-sense "Gets-It." "Gets-It," the guaranteed, money back corn-remover, the only sure way, costs but a trifle at any drug store. M't'd by K. Lawrence & Co, Chi cago, I1L Sold in Portland by Owl Drug Co. 21 stores on the. Pacific Coast, Adv. Doughboys In Germany Provided With Guides for Trips Along Historic Rhine Valley. Educational work, athletic and en tertainment programmes and broad religious services comprise the most Important features of the Y. M. C A. overseas work with the army of oc cupation in Germany, according to a letter from Gordon J. Taylor, editor of the Molalla Pioneer, now serving as a "T" secretary In Germany. Over 250 secretaries, including two women, are now with the army of occupation. "Among the fins activities conducted by the 'Y,' " writes Mr. Taylor, "are the leave centers. These have been established at favorable locations, where the men are sent to spend the day. They are fed and furnished choice forms of entertainment. These leave centers are of especial value to the soldiers now in Germany. "In a place so rich In historical tradition as the Rhine valley, there are many places of Interest to visit. Men are furnished with competent guides, who enable tha soldier to get the most out of his sightseeing trips. It was a rare treat to follow the doughboys in their excursions to the' ruined castles, through the former palaces of the kaiser, along the picturesque Rhine and into the old Roman amphitheaters and ruined bath houses." Agents for McCall Patterns "JTtE'JS tore 77m tSa ves &u Money's' 77RD SchfaSffNGTONSrS. Prompt Attention Given to Mail Orders Henry J. Dltter. Mgr. THE JUNE WHITE SALE In Every Item of Today's Advertisement There Is News of Important Savings of New Summer Merchandise at Prices Interestingly Low June Sale White Goods The June Sale of White Materials is of inestimable value to women who prefer to employ a seamstress or do their own sewing. Materials most desirable for undermuslins and children's wear can be secured. Alfalfa Prices High. MILTON, Or., May 31. (Special.) Although the first cutting of alfalfa hay is Just commencing in this district and the yield promises to be large, a few sales are reported to have been made at Jig per ton in the stack for the new crop. Growers generally look forward to as good if not better a BOLT LONGCLOTH Fine grade, extra quality and weight. Ten yards to the bolt, yard wide! Specially (IjO Pfi priced O&.DVJ JUNE SALE OF PILLOW CASES 2x36; OP special, each aSiJC PILLOW CASES 12x36; OQ special, each PILLOW CASES, Hemstitched, 42 and 45x36 size; special, PJq MO HAWK SHEETS- " ; I C( 72x90: special, each v-' White Silks for Summer Use Participating prominently in the special feature of the June Sale are Silks of fashionable moment, in qualities to give the satisfaction of much wear. SILK POPLINS High, lustrous finish. Excellent wearing eilk; 86 inches wide. Specially Q "7 priced; jard WHITE SILK TAFFETAS Extra fine quality and finish; 36 inches wide. June S a 1 e J " QC price; yard Pl.SJO WHITE MESSALINE Closely woven, high luster; J- QC 36 inches wide; yard P BENGALINE SILK Heavy cord ed Silk much in demand this sea son. Specially priced, 75 Moire Silks White Moire Silk, an excelltnt weight and quality, beautiful finish. SPECIAL VALUE, YARD $1.95 NAINSOOK $3.75 BOLT Fine French finished nainsook, fine quality for lingerie and infants wear 36 inches wide. Full 10 yards to the bolt. BED LINENS FRIEND OF LOOM SHEETS 72x90 size; special J 75 AMERICAN BEAUTY SHEETS 81x90 size; special, 1 QQ each M .570 HEMSTITCHED SHEETS 81x90 size, priced special, QQ June Sale Muslin Wear An annual event of more than ordinary importance a money-saving opportunity for women who anticipate their summer needs. Clean, fresh garments in large and interesting variety. ENVELOPE CHEMISE, with yoke of lace and embroidery, fine ma terials some have ribbon straps over shoulders. Spe- J 1 OC V X .a-J cially priced , ENVELOPE CHEMISE of good muslin, lace and embroidery trimmed; ribbon drawn; PQ 36 to 44. Special OUC CORSET COVERS, neatly trimmed with lace and embroidery, ribbon drawn. Specially priced OC in June Sale OiJC SLIPOVER GOWNS of soft nain sook. Round, square or V-necks. Beautiful designs; embroidered in colors and fancy 6titching, lace trimmed or hemstitched edge and ribbon -bows. Special . . . MUSLIN SKIRTS with deep flounces of embroidery; insertion and lace trimmed all have un der ruffle. A variety of styles to select from, cially priced . . . $1.75 Sp"$1.25 June Sale of Lingerie Blouses of Unusual Attractiveness Dainty White Voile and Organdie Blouses Nothing; is more suggestive of spring and summer than these fresh, new blouses, trimmed with frills, tucks and embroidered. Some have flat collars with lace on edge, or plain rolling col lars ; others have frill collars and cuffs. Round, square and V-shaped neck 9 59c to $2.25 June Sale of White Hosiery Children's Hose, Spec'l 40c White silk lisle hose, double heel and toe. Sizes 5 to 8; 60c values. Infants' Hose 25c Fine ribbed white cotton hose. All sizes 4 to 6'i. WOMEN'S HOSE White lisle hose, fine, ribbed top, high spliced heel, double sole and toe. Special, pair, 60; outsizes, pair, 6o. Women's Silk Hosiery $2 Full fashioned of pure dye silk. Made with deep lisle garter top, high spliced heel, double sole and toe. Regular and Outsizes. Special, pair, $3.00. Women's Hosiery Pure 6ilk hose, with lisle garter top, high spliced heel, double sole and toe. Regular $2.00 value. Spe cial at pair, $1.50. Women's Athletic Union Suits Soft material trimmed with lace in white and pink; 36 to f nr 44. Special O 1 ea-SO MUSLIN DRAWERS Open or closed styles, trimmed with fine lace and embroidery; j" medallion inserts. Special O C WHITE BLOOMERS of flowered crepe and elastic waist and knee. Sizes 25, 27 and 29. Spe- TC cially priced OC Women's Union Suits Union Suits woven of a good grade of cotton yarn which will retain its softness after launder ing. Made sleeveless, tube top; cuff or lace knee. At the Special Price of 85 r Outsizes $1.00 Ladies' Vests Fine white cotton . vests, plain or fancy yoke. SPECIAL AT 35 price this season than last, owing to the fact that all of last season's yield has either been used or shipped out of the northwest. Presbyterians to Build Church. PENDLETON. Or, May 81. The. First Presbyterian Church Building committee has decided to take up the plans for building a. new church which were dropped at the beginning of the war. The estimated cost then was 132.000. but It is now 870.000. The ad ditional amount, it is believed, can be raised this summer. The church al ready owns the site. 1 T J K - I I V W 'JW sa( 1T -DO, 1 J -31 v0M Smart and Well-fitting are these late Spring models in pumps and Oxfords. Grace ful in line, with the high French heels for formal wear, or street shoes with the comfortable military heels, all alike are "just right" in every way. Milady Fastidious will find her wishes satisfied here. A Beautiful Colonial pumps shown in pat ent, brown or black calf, a pair $10. Of the finest white kid $11. B Exceedingly smart for street wear are these Oxfords with military heels. They come in white rein skin, a pair $6.50 ; in black kid, $7.50 a pair; in mahogany calf, $9. C Slender, graceful lines characterize these pumps with their stylish low French heels. Shown in patent or dull leather, at $7 to $9. D Charming pumps with long vamps and high heels. White reinskin, $6.50 ; black kid or patent, $7.50 to $9; white kid, $9.50. The ChHdren's Shop meets in every respect the needs and requirements of growing youngsters. We fit their feet correctly with the sort of shoes that are good-looking, and will wear. We invite mothers to visit this department. STAIGER'S 292 WASHINGTON STREET Between Fourth and Fifth J. & M. SHOES FOR MEN RICHES THAT CANNOT BE SHARED Personal Ownership a Reality BY DR. JAMES E. TALMAGE Of the Council of the Twelve, Church of Jesua Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Salt Lake City, Utah. Kates For free copies of tker articled of this aeries, eewd request to the anther. The present Is an art of personal and public charity, of benevolence and altruism. As a nation we have had in tensive training- in the practice of siv lns; and whilst many have doled oat trrudg-lng-ly, others have Imparted will ingly and In rich measure. The aver age is fair, though, as with the results of human effort in general, it ought to be better. Thorough training- in giving; la an essential part of the divinely planned curriculum in the university of life. Some of us shirk the lessona and try to eliminate benevolence from our list of studies. Others take the reading course but shun the laboratory train ing, which requires doing as distin guished from learning- what and how to do. He who has not learned to give has but questionable title to the funda mental rights of possession. Such comments as the foregoing have specific application to material benevo lence, to the relieving- of distress, to feeding- the hungry, to providing em ployment whereby the beneficiary may be enabled to further help himself, to activity In community betterment and civic co-operation. But there are some possessions and they of the greatest worth that no man can bestow upon his neighbor nor bequeath to posterity. Can artist or mechanic impart his skill through bill of sale or transfer deed? Can the man of education by will and testament devise his high attainments to an idle illiterate? The most that any such possessors of real wealth can do is to provide facilities whereby others may gain for themselves ' knowledge and skill, and to encourage suifh by earnest counsel, admonition and persuasion as well as by their own inspiring example. So with even stricter literalness is it with respect to spiritual treasures. One who through humility and obedience has pained a testimony of the truth of the Gospel of Jesua Christ is rich there in beyond all the wealth of earth; but that priceless possession is his own. He can' never give it to another nor share it, however strong his yearning that his friend should be so endowed; but he can assist that friend to gain a similar testimony in his own right. In the day of separation and judgment each of the two. and every one of us. shall stand alone, to our individual honor or shame, wise in the things of God unto salvation or degraded through Wilful ignorance unto condemnation. It is not given unto man, devoid of Divine co-operation, to convert his brother: though it is the blessed priv ilege of the converted one to help his fellows toward conversion. The ability to repent ia a gift from God, not from one man to another, nor a spontaneous growth; bat the Divine bestowal Is assured if the soul be contrite and re ceptive, . When Peter was charged- with a breach of the Jewish law. in that he had associated with gentiles, he told of the Divine manifestation whereby he had been commanded to do as he had done; and bla hearers believed and exclaimed: "Tkn hath God also to th Centura srranted repentance onto life." (Acts 11:18). You may remember that In the para ble of the ten virgins the Lord depicts the foolish five as pleading for a share of the oil with which their wiser sis ters were provided. But the latter re fused; instead of oil they could give advice only that the deficient ones hasten to procure a supply for them selves; but alas, while the unwise sought in eagerness and despair what they had neglected to secure while time and opportunity had been theirs in plenty, the Bridegroom passed, and they were shut out from the marriage feast. Judge not the refusal of the wise and provident maidens as uncharitable. The circumstance is typical of the fact that in the judgment to come every sould shall be individually answerable. Had the parable turned otherwise, had the wise virgins been pictured as Imparting of their precious possessions to the slothful and unworthy, we would fain find in the story some shadow of propriety for the utterly repellent and unscriptural heresy of supererogation, which sprang up as a noisome weed during the dark centuries of the apos tasy. This sacrilegious vagary pre tends that the excess merits of the righteous may be drawn upon as a bank account and apportioned to the payment of the sinner's debts in short, that the sins of one man may be re mitted through the more than average godliness of another man. If conclusions as to doctrine may be drawn from our Lord's parables. tte story of the ten virgins refutes the Satanic suggestion that my sins may be neutralized, and I be saved, by no effort of mine but wholly through my brother's surplus of worthiness. In Uo first place, no one of us has any such excess of surplus; and secondly, indi vidual claims to salvation are strictly nontransferable. We have ao aapereroaratloa hat that made available by the Atoaemeirt of JfM ChriKt, thronich w h o a e Baertca salvatloa la offered to all mess on rectal terms. For every soul shall stand before God to be Judged according to his deeds. See Revelation 0. and Book of Mormon, Alma S. For the Book, of Mormon. ec apply to Northweatera Statea Mlaaoa, bio Daat Madlaoa at., Portland, Or. For hook at 3ttO pp., containing; Nn. plete series of Ihrac arlirlra airalw lac 104. ratified -The Vitality f lor-' naonlam, apply to publlaarras The Oar hajn. 1'ress, Boston, Mans. Adv.