TIIE SUNDAY OIlEGOyiAX, POKTLAXD,. DECE3IDEII 21, 1919. That Man of Yours 99 The Early Bird Gets the Best Seat!" ' fC. i Wants a Silk Shirt and Some New Neckwear for a Christmas Gift TOMORROW! Special Assortments of Smart New $10, $12, $13.50 The very latest fabrics, including jacquards, Empire broadcloths, Eagle crepe de chines, jerseys and pussy willows. Every pattern new! Every pattern in good taste ! Choose here tomorrow for "him." THE LATEST ILL HART RELEASE TOMORROW! Special Assortments Four-in-Hands , Regular $2.50 and $3 Qualit1 QC Three for $5.00 P-L.OO Regular $1.50 Quality QET Four for $3.50 High colors ! Smart patterns ! Approved qualities ! All shown on the Main Floor . XX HI Make it a Universal Christmas Buy Red Cross Stamps. - T f Tr vX M IGLOOS ARE NOT DOOMED ARCTIC EXPLORER SAYS 'A TIVES HAPPV AXD COXTEX1. Slovcmcnt to Modernize Eskimo bj Providing Concrete Huts Char acterized as Silly. NEW YORK, Dec. 20. The move-1 Tnent to modernize the Eskimo by providing him with concrete huts in place of his picturesque snow "igloos," as suggested by an official of the United States bureau of fisheries, would be the death of the denizen of the icy north. In the opinion of Vilh jalmur Stefansson, the Arctic ex plorer. Not only is the Eskimo de voted to his age-Ions habitation, as the South Sea islanders are to their traditional garb of flower garlands and fresh smiles, but he i3 far health ier, warmer, and more comfortable in his domed mansion of snow blocks than he could be in any modern house of concrete. The statement that the natives of the Pribyloff islands were about to discard their snow huts for modern concrete huts, finding the gales of the Bering sea too strong for the for mer, upon which the story of the in tended change of Eskimo habits was based, Mr. Steffansson characterized as too silly for discussion. The ex plorer, talking at'his headquarters at the National Geographical society building here, said that the Prybiloff islanders had never lived in snow, but in wooden huts, and that further north, where the natives do live in snow houses, it would be next to im possible to convert them to any other dwelling. "Their igloo serves-as a home for two or three weeks. Then they build a new one. Because it is new it is clean and sanitary. It is as warm and comfortable as your library. A can dle gives as much illumination as three electric lights, because of the Intense whiteness of the snow. The snow house will stand under any con ditions. In all the igloo is as com fortable a home as a man could wish. "The concrete hut, like the wooden hut, must be uncomfortable and un sanitary. Wherever the natives have changed from the snow to the wooden home there has followed pneumonia and typhoid and a tremendous in crease in the death rate. "The Eskimos are a migratory race. Contact with civilization has affected them and they are dying off. They must soon be extinct and the concrete hut hastens that extinction. The Es kimos are like the gypsies, keep a sypsy in a house of and see what happens. "Still the Eskimos might verted to the concrete hut," Mr. Stefansson, smiling, "If it becomes the fashion. Should concrete homes become fashionable. all Eskimos would soon be living in them. Human nature is the same the world over. Let someone Introduce the wearing of furs, as a fashion, in the Zulu islands, and the natives there would wear furs. Women wear furs in Cali fornia and Florida,-where the climate is just as hot as on the Zulu islands. So, you see. you never can tell.' the American expeditionary force. Grannan said he will be able to throw considerable light on I. W. W. ac tivities culminating in the Armistice day shooting at Centralis, Wash., and will be able to assist the government in running down some of the worst radicals in the country. On the night of June 16. 1911, the Shanta Limited was held up by two masked men near Yoncalla, Or., the mail car was entered and two regis tered mail pouches said to contain several thousand dollars looted. The robbers left the train at Yoncalla and made their escape, eluding pursuing posses. MINES CONTINUE MENACE GERMAN" TASK OF SWEEPING NORTH SEA UNFINISHED. MOTHER KILLS FAMILY Bodies of Three Infants Thrown Into Cistern on Farm. COEUR D'ALESE, Idaho, Dec. 20. Mrs. Lucy M..Mullenax, aged 34, wife of a farmer, was in the custody of Sheriff Quarles tonight facing the charge of having murdered her three infant children and of having mur derously attacked her mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary M. Mullenax, at Mica Bay, 11 miles west of Coeur d'Alene. The younger woman, the . officers say, stated sne couia not leave tne children with her mother-in-law. She told the officers, according to their statement, to inform her husband that they did not suffer in death as she had given them poison and later had thrown the bodies into a cistern 250 feet from the house, shortly after she had attacked her mother-in-law with a wooden mallet in the latter's room, beating the aged woman badly and causing a fracture of the skulL Try to concrete be con went on TRAIN ROBBERY CLEARED Prisoner In Arizona Tells of Yon calla Holdup in 1911. DOUGLAS, Ariz., Dec. 20. Leon Grannan, said to have admitted number of mail and train robberies on the Pacific coast and one jewelry store robbery, was held tonight pend lug investigation. Grannan, In an interview today, told of how Joe Martinez had held up the Oregon Express at Yoncalla, Or., in 1911 and had given him (Grannan) part of the money. He said Martinez was killed the following yar after holding up a train in the Sacramento ' river canyon. Grannan. in effect, gave himself up claiming to have reformed in 1916 He ha.s papers to show service in the Philippine islands and in Siberia with SI 0,0 00 Loss Reported to Police. Gus Miller of 651 Second street, last night reported to the police the loss of a suitcase which he alleged contained the equivalent of 10,000 in French currency. According to Miller s report he set the suitcase he was carrying down to step into the lobby of a hotel at Second and Madison streets to speak to a friend for a moment. When he turned around a moment later, the suitcase had disappeared. Miller told Inspector Cahill also that the grip contained some German money and a Luger pistol. He had recently re turned from overseas service. Phone your want ads to the Orego- nian. Main 7070, A 6095. American Barrage Completely Dis posed Of, Naval Official Reports; British Continue Work. LONDON. Dec. 20. Until, the Ger mans complete the sweeping of-mlne fields they laid in the North sea there will be considerable danger to ship ping in waters adjacent to the Brit ish isles, say British and American naval authorites. Even after that work has ended, which will not be earlier than next summer, there will be some danger which, they predict, will gradually diminish. "The American barrage is swept as completely as Is humanly possible," Admiral Harry S. Knapp of the Ameri can navy, said to the Associated Press correspondent. "After our area had been pronounced 100 per cent clear we re-swept 860 square miles of it (about 15 per cent) and found only four more mines. These were at a buoyed spot where the sweepers believed they had missed some." "The greatest menace now," said Lieutenant Commander Benson, of the international mine-destroying com mittee, "is the unswept German area. Until that field has been cleared there will be a good many drifting mines about. Afterward there will be some danger, but it will rapidly diminish as the elements destroy the effectiveness of the mines." He said the committee accounted for mines as follows: Five per cent ex plode when laid. 5 per cent are de fective. 10 per cent soon become use less through leakage and 50 per cent of the total number laid are - de stroyed by the different systems of sweeping employed by the British and Americans. Committee members believe that a great many of the other 30 per cent will be carried Dy tne natural north ward currents of the North sea Into Arctic ice packs and destroyed, others will go ashore on the Norwegian coast, as have many already, a great many will become harmless through long presence in the water, and a cer tain number will be destroyed by pa- trols which the British navy still is maintaining. Also the British navy has Just armed all merchantmen, except those caning at Irish norts. with high-ve locity rifles that they may destroy any .mine sighted. So many ships calling, at Irish -ports have been raided for arms that the admiralty believed It inadvisable to add to this danger. Two Irish fishing boats off Cork recently sighted a drifting mine. The captains mistook it for a cask of rum or wine and made a race for It. . The winner was the loser.- His boat was sunk. .... . r The admiralty has had several re ports of a drifting mine about S00 miles southeast f New . York . which officers hope some of the newly armed merchantmen will destroy if It has not already been rendered harm less. by the elements. TEACHER HON OPPOSED W. T. FOSTER ADDRESSES CALI FORNIA CONVENTION". Head of Reed College at. Portland Declares Instructors .Mast Deal Direct "With People. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 20. Em phasizing: the need of teachers for In creased compensation. Dr. William T. Foster of Reed college, Portland, Or., told delegates to the California state teachers' convention here today that It would be a mistake for teachers to organize unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. "Let us not be too hard on school principals, superintendents and col lege presidents who, with the wolf at the door, have not maintained the morale . oi their teaching staffs," he said. "Is there a department store man ager who could have kept any staff at an on the wage scale of five years ago? Is there a shipyard, or a street railway or a bank or a mine or a hos pital or a laundry or a theater that could have continued doing business at all without large Increases In wages? Not one! Yet there Is scarce, ly a school system In America that pays Its teachers. In purchasing pow- rams n II 1 2 in . '.Irfik'' B m . ... . . ife You've seen "Big Bill" Jo all sorts of rough-and-ready parts, but as the owner of a fashionable modiste shop well, just try that on your imagina tion, then blow in and col lect your laughs! THE COLUMBIA ORCHESTRA Afternoons and Evenings Director Knowles has another novelty for you a full string orchestra. His score contains a large variety of music, from jazz to classics and you'll enjoy it all. TODAY MONDAY AND TUESDAY ONLY ONLY three days more in which to shop ! Why not give "him" a Ben Selling Hat Order and let him choose his own style and color at his con venience? , A Gift He Will Appreciate! Dunlap Hats Stetson Hats Trimble Hats Cloth Hats and Caps in Goldtones er, three-fourths as much as it did fH'e years ago." Every teacher with tne professional spirit. Dr. Foster said, desires above all else unrestricted opportunities to serve. He Is loath, the speaker said. to surrender all this to a labor union. "Teachers should deal directly with those to whom they are responsible all the people," said the professor. Judges, members of congress and policemen would make the same mis take in affiliating with the American Federation of Labor or with any othe minority organization. Among serv ants of the people divided allegiance cannot be tolerated." JAPANESE DEMAND RISE Hawaii Plantation Laborers Want 7 5 Per Cent Increase. HONOLULU, T. H., Dec. 20. The Established 1M(, THE rarest, finest gift for the home: An Oriental Rug Many of our customers have chosen Oriental Rugs for their home gifts. We shall be most happy to have you, too, make a leis urely selection this week; We will deliver your pur chase on the ho ur you ' name. Our assortment of Gift Rugs is most complete. Prices range from $60 to $450. Cartozian Bros. 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