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13 STATE MAKES THRIFT RECORD ON THE GDAST ELK CITY MARSHAL IS PIONEER, TRUE AND WITTY Unbounded Pleasure of Outdoor Life Is Described by Frontiersman Who Came to Oregon in 1845 and Served in Indian War. - Newly Arrived Georgette Neckwear At 50c White Georgette Collars, also Collar and Cuffs, round or sailor styles with Filet edges. Coverall Aprons $1.25 Open front style, of checked or striped Scout Per cale, light and dark patterns, trimmed with rick rack braid, belt and pockets. War Savings Stamp Campaign Shows Least Expense. HENKY 4. D1TTEN. Mgr. COST IS MOTH PER CENT Georgette Blouses Special at $4.95 Oregon Also Leads in Percentage of Sales Made During First Six Months of Year 1919. THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 20. 1919. That Oregon has conducted its war savings stamp campaign at less expense- and to better advantage than any other state in the district is in dicated in a message juet received from Robert K. Smith, director of war loan organizations for the twelfth fed eral reserve district, who is in San Francisco, where he has been going into the records of war loan activities. Writing to the local offices of the war savings stamp organization, Mr. Smith eays: 4'I am pleased to hand you herewith copy of a memorandum which I am sending to Governor Calkins of the twelfth federal reserve district, show in? relation between sales in the sev eral states in the district. Tou will note that the highest cost is that of Arizona, running 4 per cent. Next comes Nevada, with 2 per cent, fol lowed by southern California at la4 per cent. Orcxon Head the List. "Oregon heads the list, your cost be ing only one-tenth of 1 per cent. "I am also pleased to inform you that, upon analysis of sales, I find Oregon has sold 34.6 per cent of the quota assigned to the state for the first six months of the year. Only one state, Hawaii, has made a better showing, with 43.4 per cent. Alaska has 33.5 per cent, and Washington 30.3 per cent. Nevada is next, with 2? 8 per cent. Idaho has sold 20.3 per cent, Utah 15.2 per cent, Arizona and south ern California each 14.2 per cent, north ern California closing the list with 10. S per cent. "The figures I have given are up to June 30." Figures compiled by Mrs. A. R. Innes, associate state director for Oregon, show, too, that for the month of May this year Oregon and Nebraska tied for fifth place in per ' capita of war savings stamp sales, each with a per capita of 10 cents. Oreson Fourth in Per Capita. In per capita sales for the year up to May 31 Oregon is in fourth place in the list of states, with a per capita of 1.28. The war savings stamp campaign this year is being conducted by the treasury department largely along educational lines, the expressed pur pose of the campaign being to keep alive in th lives of Americans, young and old, the habits of thrift and saving through investment in government fee- cu rities, established during the war. Activ propaganda to this end is be ing conducted by the Oregon war sav ings stamp organization. HEALTH INSURANCE PAYS O. A. C. STCDEXTS BEXEFIT BY CO-OPERATIVE 'SYSTEM. I ft 'L'ar"'- -TV :V ' '-WJ ' -V ytvi Mi BT J. B. HORNER. Professor of History Oreo:. Agricultural college. ARSHALL SIMPSON of Elk City one of the best trout fisher men in Oregon. He is also a pio neer of the true kind original in the extreme. In the 60s, before there were roads in that locality, he and Iiis friend, James Dixon, crawled through the brush to what is now Elk City. Here they brought up their families and passed their time close to nature, en joying many an hour angling in the waters of the Yaquina. Being frontiersmen they understood and thoroughly enjoyed outdoor life and did not depend wholly on books for their education. Joaquin Miller tells us that "books are only for those who cannot think." Hence these lovers of nature imbibed many of - the lessons that never got into books and their education came to be more compre hensive than their libraries. This sounds as if their lives were easy; but pioneers are usually busy peo ple. When these men established Elk City they were their own producers and consumers. They had much to do In forming the local government, and in accord with the prevailing custom of th.ose days they monopolised nearly every position in their embryo town. They exchanged labor. When one- was "squire" the other was constable, and so on. This gave variety to their du ties, which were many so many that to give some idea of their multiplicity the following is related of Mr. Simpson: Duties Increased by Jurist. When requested by Judge Matthew Deady in court to state his occupa tion, this original character replied: I am the proprietor of Elfc City. 1 own a large tract of land adjoining the College Physician Makes Many Calls and Examinations at Mini mum of Expense. OREGON" AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, July 19. (Special.) The plan of giving students of the col lege health insurance at a nominal cost is adjudged an unqualified success. Out of an incidental student fee for the echool year of $10, which entitles a student to the student body paper, the O. A. C. Barometer, free admission to athletic and other college activities. ap proximately $2.80 goes to pay for the free health service. A doctor and nurse are employed and figures show that the idea has worked well. Working on the assumption that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," students have been given general directions in respect to correct living. The report of C. R. Matthis. college physician, who was employed by the board of control in January, shows that from that time until the close of the school year. 1645 conditions were treat ed, 2952 office calls were received, 272 visits were made by the physician, 1S6 medical examinations were made, 631 surgical dressings used and 5 minor operations undertaken. The list of cases handled covers several typewrit ten pages in the official report and shows great variety. Colds lead with 342 cases and poison oak comes next in popularity with 107 victims. Scores of sprains and lacerations were treated, Iio deaths were reported in this period. An emergency hospital was opened in Shephard hall January 11, when the second epidemic of influenza began, the students being asked to pay only part of the actual hospital expense. Miss Amy Cyrus is the registered nurse em ployed. BOLSHEVIKI R0UT FINNS Southern Array Reported Completely Defeated by Outlaws. STOCKHOLM. July 19. The south ern Finnish army has been completely routed by the bolsheviki, but the north ern army by a hasty retreat succeeded in savins the greater part of its forces. according to the Helsingfors corre spondent of the Social Oemokraten. Volunteers with artillery are leaving lieisingiors lor tne iront dally. An American steamer with ten tanks and much ammunition is at Helsingfors, unable to land on account of a dock btrike. DEATH LAID TO ACCIDENT liody of A. P. Murray "Will Be Sent to Springfield for Burial. WINNIPEG. July 19. (Special.) That A. P. Murray, well known in Portland and a resident of Springfield came to his death through an acciden was the findings ofthe coroner's jury nere r nuay. i ne aspnait tanK, me ex .Goion of which caused the death .Mr. Murray, was the property of the Eitulithic & Paving Co. and was found to be detective. The body will be sent to Springfield Dr., where the funeral services will b held. Scottish Kilts Cut Short. LONDON. July 19. Curtailment m the amount of cloth used in the kil worn by Scottish troops saved $115,00 to the government. The Scottish troops did not resent the innovation and to nil appearances their ftllrs are as full natural entomologist, who abuses his talents. "A tenderfoot is a fellow who seeks a good place to fish instead of a place to catch fish. "An excited fisherman is one who mistakes the big angleworms on the Yaquina for live macaroni. "He who thinks he knows more than others is usually a fool. "He who seeks to tell others how to run their business doesn't know how to run his own." ILLITERACY IS BAD MENACE Army Reports Throw Spotlight on Our Public School System. Robert W. Bruere In Harper's Magazine. In February of this year a repre sentative of the surgeon-g&feral's office appeared before a congressional com mittee In support of a. bill designed to gtve federal aid to the states in extend ing: the knowledge of English among native Illiterates and non-English-speaking immigrants. He laid before congress the data accumulated by the war department during Its examination of drafted men. These records ihow that 25 per cent of the men who entered the draft army were unable to read the newspapers or to write letters home. A large propor tion of this -5 per cent were as com pletely incapable of writing their names as the coolies of inland China. This shocking extent of Illiteracy among the adult men whom our sys tem of public education had certified to citizenship, not only interfered with the exigent training o. the new army, but seriously embarrassed field opera tions. Moreover, it placed grave ob stacles in the way of efficient Industrial mobilization. Accidents that hamper own. I hold two miles .of riverfront j production occur twice as frequently along a navigable stream, and I claim mountain tunnel with a good pros pect for coal. ' I raise cattle, sheep, horses and hogs, and my wife cares for the children and raises chickens, ducks and vegetables and does the milking. I am the community post master and school clerk and sometimes serve as constable when I am not jus tice of the peace. I run a hotel in one building, a blacksmith shop in another. tore in another, a livery stable In another and a warehouse in another. I hunt considerable, fish a great deal and smoke all the time." 'That is sufficient, interrupted the court. "To your duties I wifl add those of federal juryman": and the bailiff said: "Marshall Simpson is sure a busy man." Recently the writer met Mr. Simpson seated on the porch of his Elk City home and pursuing his chief vocation, and he requested of the host a further account of himself. This sage in farm er's attire, raising his eyebrows Just enough to peep over he smoke of his favorite pipe "Old Faithful gave the following autobiography, together with some bits of wisdom which he had evolved during his long career on the banks of the Yaquina: Orearoa Reached in 1845. 'i was boin July 13, 1838, and when the women called they all kissed me and told my mother that I was the prettiest baby ever born in Laurence county Arkansaw. That is the proudest event of my life. My father left with his family for Oregon In the spring of 1844 and one of the ox teams 'broke sagebrush' on Meek's cutoff in 1845. We arrived in Oregon that fall and took up a claim on the south side of the Luckiamute near what is now called Airlie. I was the first white child in an Oregon house south of the Luckia-raute. "I grew to manhood there and served in the Rogue river Indian war in 1856. Upon returning home I won the repu tation of killing more ducks and grouse than anyone else in our neighborhood This gave me social standing which enabled me to marry Miss Joieey A. Bevins. living near Buena Vista. "I had read an account of a man ho lived on fish and potatoes 156 years, u pon learning that potatoes and fishing would be easy at Elk City we moved there 1866. I decided to try it at that for a hundred years and if m - .th wasn't good at the end of th te I would leave. I have lived ther ore than 50 years and can outrun any person of my age in Oregon1. While I came to Elk City for a life of leisure, I soon found myself run ninsr a feed stable and ranch. I man aged a store and hotel for 20 years and did a lot of extra work to IU1 in. After serving as postmaster lor Z5 years I received a check from uncle Sam for 10 cents to cover my only error of that quarter century, which I regard as glowing tribute to an unlettered man like myself. But I forgot to add that while I was postmaster I killed more deer and caught more trout than any one else in this locality. Schooling; Received in Hotel. "About the only schooling I ever received was in my Elk City hotel, where we had a good opportunity to hear everybody talk at his best. After listening to what the guests had to say in that time I summed up the philos' ophy of life on the Taquina in aph orism, s ten of which are these: "Anyone who eats too much ia a an cide and a thief. "He who drinks too much is a boob. "One who sleeps too much is a brute One who talks too much is apt to be a liar. "He who dresses beyond his purse a dude, and he who is ruled by his wife is subdued. "The town sportsman that's always among the illiterate as among those who can read and write. No doubt the rale of illiteracy among the drafted men was somewhat higher than among the population as a whole, with Its large increment of children of compul sory school age. But the draft army was, -fter all. a selected body of men. and the fact that one-fourth of them were Illiterate throws a disillusioning light on the elementary efficiency of our public school system. Marshfleld In Need of Teachers. MARSHF1ELD, Or., July 19. (Spe cial.) But 19 teachers in a necessary force of So, have been secured lor the Marshfleld city schools. Most of those who have signed contracts for the en suing school year are teachers em ployed here in the past year. Salary raises of $10 per month failed to hold a number who sought employment else where. The faculty now under con tract, includes Superintendent F. A. Embracing higher priced blouses' in nearly a score of distinctly different styles with square necks and new col lars or collarless. Fine Georgette Blouses in colors of flesh, gray, blue, maize, sunset, also in white. Beaded, embroidered, braided or lace trimmed. New Silk Dresses $14.95 Here are taffeta, crepe de chine, georg ette, combinations of taffeta and georgette sleeves combinations of plain and figured georgette crepe. Round collarless styles and square neck lines, with vestee effect, neatly trimmed with tucks, buttons and white embroidered georgette collars. Models with blouse effects and girdles of self material. ML- W t Tiedgen: Kthel Heece. principal high school; F. A. Golden, science; Charles L. Weaver, physical director: Olga, iSod erstrom. Jessie Purdy, Ada May Newell. Lily Miller. Muriel McHenry. Edith M. Stalley, principal of grades; Ellen 41 Larson, principal grades; Hester Bemis, BHva Flsnagan. Clara Rutherford. "MORE-GOOD THAN ALL OF THE REST" This Is What Farmer Says of Tanlac Gains 15 Pounds. Had Suffered 25 Years. "Tou may know that Tanlac Is doing me a lot of good or I wouldn't have come nearly twenty miles to get these three bottles I am buying: now," said Samuel Bacon, a well-known and pros perous farmer who lives at Boring, Oregon, while In the Owl Drug Store in .Portland the other day. I have been trying for twenty-five years to find a medicine or treatment that would overcome my troubles." he continued, "and Tanlac is the only thing that has ever done me any good t all. uurlng all these years I suf fered terribly from rheumatism in my back, and there were times when I was in such bad condition that I couldn't turn over in bed, and after sitting down for a little while I could hardly get up nin. My kidneys bothered me a great deal, too. and I would often have to get up four or five times during the night, and the pains in my back were so severe that I rarely ever got any sleep. My appetite wars very poor, and what little I did force myself to eat would give me indigestion in the worst way. I lost a lot In weight and finally got so weak and run-down that I could hardly walk or stand on ray feet. "Then I heard about Tanlac through my daughter, who had been greatly ben efited by taking It. In fact, she was so pleased with Tanlac that she bought me a bottle of It and told me that she thought It was the very thing I needed. Well, air, I began to feel stronger and better In every way before I had fin ished that first bottle. I have taken three bottles so far, and I eat so much that I actually get ashamed of myself sometimes. What I eat agrees with me, too, and I never have a sign of indi gestion now. I have gained fifteen pounds in weight, and feel like a dif ferent man altogether. The pains have left my back, and my kidneys seem to be in first-class condition, and I never have to get up during the night any more. I am also free from rheumatism, and. In fact, I feel better In every way than I have for many years I tell you, this Tanlac is a good medicine and has done me more good than all the rest of the medicines put together I have taken during the last twenty-five years, and I think that Is saying a good deal." Tanlac is sold in Portland by the Owl Drug Co. Adv. Natural Pongee Reduced lo 97 Yard An exceptional quality of natural color Shantung pongee. This pongee is most de sirable for summer apparel and extremely desirable at this low price. r Fancy Bath Towels SPECIALLY PRICED 50 EACH. Bleached Turkish Bath Towels of extra heavy weight and serviceable, durable thread towels and hand-hemmed ends. HUCK TOWELS $2.00 DOZEN Closely woven, finished with hemmed ends, plain white and red striped borders; soft, absorbent huck towels for home or hotel use. BLEACHED MUSLIN, 5 YDS. $1.00 Pure white bleached muslin, 36 inches in width, in a nice soft finish. UNBLEACHED MUSLIN 18 YARD Unbleached muslin, one yard wide, good medium weight; extra value. TOWELING 10 YARD Linen-finished toweling, colored border. Regular 20c value. 81x99 Seamless Sheets At $1.85 Note the quality of these seamless sheets full bleached and then note the price and the siye. All are indications that one should purchase a supply. SHEETS Reduced to $1.75 Each 72x90 sheets of fine quality sheeting, soft finish, pure white, bleached, free from dressing. PEPPERELL SHEETS Unbleached $1.65 72x90 seamless sheets a well known brand. SHEETS Unbleached $1.59 81x90 unbleached seamless sheets of good quality muslin. PILLOW CASES Special Priced 25 Each Made of good quality muslin, strong and durable ; size 42x36. Fiber Silk Sweaters $5.00 Everyone knows that the always appropriate wrap of summer is the Sweater. Women's fiber silk sweaters belted styles, with sailor collars and pockets, in rose, yellow, purple, Copen, Pekin and royal blue. Great ly underpriced for Monday's J C sale at V- 7 40-INCH CHIFFON VOILES 49 AND 69'YARD Medium, light and dark colors in new georgette and challie patterns.. These will make sheer, cool and charming summer dresses. Carolyn Woodn. Roberta E. Ballard. Louise M. Wilbur. Kmma Kramer, lna Llmlund. Widows Pensions Watclieil. MARSH FIELD. Or.. July IS. (fpe ciHl. Tho Poos county mnrl h adopted a new method of controllins the widow's pensions. Ia several In stances It was learned women who had moved from the county were atill draw In pensions from Coos. Hereafter, all who are paid widow pensions must re port to the court on the first of every month and thin schem- will determine whether the recipients ara entitled to aid. Brazil's" textile Indun'.ry is reported to be passing through a serious crista some manufactories having already bear closed. i 7 Beautify Your Home With A SMALL GRAND PIANO Distinction and a decided air of culture come into the home with the Grand Piano. It is evidence of musical knowledge and refine ment, and adds beauty and dignity to its set ting. Once price made the Grand Piano attainable to those of wealth only. Modern scientific manufacturing methods have changed all that. v;- THE MILTON TINY GRAND PIANO More than any instrument that we know meets that happy medium of size, price and quality. In beau tiful cases of English Brown and Satin Mahogany, it is adding to the attractiveness of hundreds of homes, and delighting all hearers. . Easy Terms PiANOS i PLAYERS MUSIC -MASON AND HAMLIN PIAN0S- MORRISON STREET AT BROADWAY. Stores Alaa at San Kraaclae. Oadtlaiad. iMterauaeato. aaa Jose. Los Aaarele When it seems just about too hot to do much of anything, the thins; yon nerd ia a trip to Columbia Beach, to that place of real joy and no regrets. Today U toxng to be a "haia-dinger" at , Coluimlbla r i i 11 The Largest Amusement Park in the West Today at the Beach Bathing The great sand beach is now several hundred yards wide, of clean white sand. Hydro Merrie The brand new riding: device. YouH never know a real thrill until you have tried it. Dancing To the strains of that Broad way Novelty Orchestra. It sim ply lifts you off the seats. Get Into the Movies At least you can watch the Cloveria Film Co. make th first Oregon Produced Comedy Films. Miller Goes Up Miller jroes-ballooning: at S:S0 of the P. M. He never fails to add a new wrinkle to his stunts. Band Concert Wednesday Night Portland Fire Dept. Military Band Vancouver Cars Every Minute or Twt, and as picturesque as ever. looking for tlie lu country, food la