THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND. 5IARC1T .14. 1020
BABY HOMES REFUSE
Clothes that express your personal
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TD DIVULGE SECRETS
Break With Child Welfare
Commission Threatened.
DEMAND HELD IMPROPER
Uirodor Says Information Would
Cause Drokcn Homes and Ruined
Lives if Given Out.
Trouble brewing between the child
welfare commission and children's
homes in Portland threatens to reach
an open break as the result of de
mands for data made upon these Insti
tutions for which, it 'is maintained
there is no warrant in law. In al
least four cases some of the informa
tion asked has been refused point
blank in the face of threats to with
hold licenses.
Chief objection is that such infor
mation would be accessible to the
public and might cause broken homes
and ruined lives, though informal de
nial was made yesterday that public
perusal of confidential records would
be permitted by the welfare commis
sion.
Demand Held Too Great.
Next Monday afternoon Franklin
Thomas, chairman of the child wel
fare commission, has agreed to appear
before the board of trustees of the
Boys' and Girls Aid society and ex
plain the matter.
"The law of 1919." declared F.
Teuscher, superintendent of the aid
society, "provides that institutions
may be called on to disclose locations
and relations of children placed out.
Now the commission asks for 27 addi
tional items, calling for such facts as
the cause of dependency, illegitimacy
and the like. We are perfectly will
ing to give all that the law requires,
because the commission must keep the
two matters mentioned confidential.
If we furnished more than the law
requires we would have no protection
and relatives and parents would im
mediately get in touch with those
children taken from them by the
courts. We are all objecting on the
same grounds simply that the com
mission is asking much more than the
law requires."
AVaverley Director Explains.
"The ruining of several lives and
the breaking up of families through
the exposition ot the acts or some
members would be possible if the con
fidential records of the Waverly Baby
home were made accessible to the
public," said Mrs. T. C. Allison, presi
dent of the directors, yesterday, in ex
plaining why the requested informa
tion thus far had been refused.
"The child welfare commission
threatens to withhold our license,
without which we will be forced to
close our doors, unless we comply
wih the demands made. We believe
that we have good reason for holding
back the records of the babes, for
the strictest confidence always has
been observed by us in such matters."
Information Refused.
Rev. W. G. MacLareh, speaking for
the Louise home and the Albertina
Kerr nursery, said he had no objec
tion to turning most of his records
over to the commission, but that he
refused positively to tell the physical
condition of any of the wards in his
care.
"Some things asked for are entirely
improper," he said last night. "The
letter came from the commission
about a week ago and things are not
settled yet, but I expect they will
be soon. There is no disagreement,
but we desire to meet with the com
mission regarding some of their de
mands before compliance.
"I cannot be required to make
known the misfortune of some unfor
tunate girl. Of course, our objection
chiefly concerns the girls at the
Louise home and not so much the
babies. The board has instructed me
that if it is necessary to fill out the
cards before the matter is taken up
further to leave blank the lines pro
vided for statement of physical condi
tion. We have no objection to giving
the rest of the information requested
for the records."
Publicity la Denied.
No statement could be secured yes
terday from the child welfare com
mission as to Its syle of the case, as
it was impossible to get in touch
with Mr. Thomas. Mrs. Millie Trum
bull admitted that numerous institu
tions have not yet complied with the
request and said that unless this is
done before the commission's next
meeting on March 24 the matter will
be given attention at that time.
She denied that information given
the commission in confidence could
be made public property and declared
that all such records always have
been regarded as secret.
The --iSflfS
Springtime'' f f
of Life-. - 99 .
the carefree, glorious days of youth the
joy-laden hours of adventure Romance
they come but once! Once only, and the
woman who is wise makes the most of each
moment keeps the precious hours with her
just as long as she can.
"Washing clothes has robbed more women of
beauty and youth than any other feature of
housekeeping. The woman who relies upon
the old back-breaking washboard or hand power
washing machine must be prepared to lose- the
freshness of youth long before she should.
Don't do it. Don't sacrifice your . health and
happiness on the altar of clothes washing. Let
us show you how easy, how pleasant it is to wash
with, a
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$10
Electric Washing Machine
" 'Most too good to be true" that's what thou
sands of housewives are saying about the THOR.
A small payment down will put it in your hom.
Puts the Thor in Your Home
Balance Easy Payments
"Buy Electric Goods From People Who Know"
SHfTH-MCOr ELECTRIC CO.
104?5I3 ST- T. VAgH-. & STAKK
J571 'VASHJKQTOfL , BET. 17 Sr 18 IS STS.
CPHQKEJAIM SOIL
SHINGLE MILL MAY START
EXPERIENCED MAX NEGOTI
ATING FOR PROPERTY.
Hundred Million Feet of Fine Sec
ond Growth Timber Awaiting
Saw Xcar Brownsville.
DAILY CITY STATISTICS
Marriage license.
REYNOLDS-FOWLER George Darwin
Tteynolds. 30, Arthur hotel, and Lilly
Jenima Fowler, 30, 4828 Sixty-fourth ave
nue Southeast.
GESCH -MARCH AT, Edward Gesch, SO.
Sandy. Or., and Marcelle MarchaL 19, fci6
Rural avenue.
BERRY-COX Euirene F. Berry, 46, Spo
kane, Wash., and Myrtle Cox, 28, Port
land. 1
BAKKE-TOTH Elmer K. Bakke. 25.
Coeur d'Alene. Idaho, and Elizabeth Marie
Toth, 24, 58 Buchte! avenue.
ISRABL-BSKENAZI Sam Israel. 24,
268 !i Second street, and Sarah Eskenazl,
18. same address.
WALDELE-HASKELL Victor Waldele,
19. 689 Spokane avenue, and Laur Has
kell. IS; 232 West Tyler street.
HEMPH1LL-MEWSTEAD Samuel Grant
Hemphill, legal. 625 Pettygrove street, and
Charlotte V., J"ewtad, legal, same ad
dress. RIGGS-SOKALI Lester F. Rlgra, 25
4.15 Alder street, and Dora Sokall, 22. 31
L"n4on avenue.
CAMPBELL-McWEILER L. Campbell.
'49, Third and East Taylor streets, and
Lots McWeiler. 40, 1240 East Salmon street.
NEWMAN-MclNTTRK William New
man, 30, Tacoma, Wash., and Iva Mcln
tyre, 19. New Houston hotel.
SSHERQCIST-GARY Thor. Sherqutst, 36 I
642 Mountain boulevard, and Almira Jane I
liary. zo, iwm bcoii avenue.
CORDOVA-BOEHI Victor Cordova. 24,
963 East Thirtieth street North, and Ruth
Boehl. 21. 409 Sixth street.
WALLACE-VAUGHAN Ray Wallace,
37, 769 East Broadway, and Blanche
Vaughan. 2$, 551 East Yamhill street.
HAYDEN-RUCH William Harvey Hay
den. 23. 1146 East Thirty-third afreet
North, and Helen Ester Ruch, 22, same
address.
STEVENS-BURGGRAF Paul Casey Ste
vens. 28, Washington hotel, and Maude
Burggraf. 2H. 319 East Thirty-sixth street
BO WLAXD-CH AMBERS J. B Bow
land. 31. Oregon City, Or., and Anne Elis
abeth Chambers. 24, 846 East Ash street.
TUCKER - WILLIAMS John Edward
Tucker. 24, 659 Hoyt street, and Charlotte
Edwine Williams, 23, 1140 East Thirtieth
street North.
CHASE-SUTHERLAND Chester Arthur
Chase. 35. 915 Thurman street, and Zelma
Sutherland. 34, same address.
BROWNSVILLE. Or., March 13.
(Special.) A deal is pending between
the recently organized Brownsville
chamber of commerce and George Loeb
whereby this experienced sawmill
man will put a large shingle mill' in
Brownsville. Mr. Loeb has obtained
possession of a large quantity of
standing cedar near the Calapooia
river. He proposes that the chamber
of commerce purchase the old woolen
mill building at Brownsville for $3000
and he will pay interest on the money
invested at 7 per cent until such time
as he can buy the mill outright.
He promises to expand the mill to
a box factory as well as a shingle
mill and to install planers and other
machinery. Three subscriptions of
J500 each have been practically as
sured for the purchase of the build
ing. Charles Childs, who owns timber
land in' thrs section, says that there
must be 100,000,000 feet of fine second-growth
timber within a radius of
six miles from Brownsville awaiting
the saw.
Mr. Childs and his mother own 1440
acres of fine timber land on the coun
ty road about three miles northwest
of Brownsville. The last sawmill that
existed In this territory was the Mc
Dowell mill of about 40 years ago.
At present there are only three
mills in the immediate vicinity of
Brownsville the Scott mill, the Loeb
mill and the Stanwood mill. There
are others, however, farther up the
Calapooia. -
foreign ministry has opened a credit
of about $44,000 for payment of Bra
zil s share of the league of nations
expenses.
PRICE CONSIDERED HIGH
Interest in Village Relinquished by
Xcw York Corporation.
CAMDEX. N. J., March 13. The
York Shipbuilding corporation has re
linquished Its Interest in Torkship
village in South Camden, where the
Emergency Fleet corporation con
structed about 1500 homes for work
ers at the shipyard, according to an
announcement made at the office of
the yard.
The government, -it is said, at
tempted to sell the village to the cor
poration, but the price asked was con
sidered too high. The stock held by
tne snipDuiiding firm has been trans
ferred to the Emergency Fleet cor
poration. Yorkship village was built by I
realty company in conjunction with
the Emergency Fleet corporation at
a cost of about $12,000,000. It contains
1386 houses, 1000 of which are now
occupied; a 38-room hotel, 56 apart
ment nouses, stores and a gymnasium
several churches are in process of
construction.
Brazil to Pay Her Share.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 16. The
IJT MEMORIAM.
In loving memory of Thomas Gal
lagher, who passed away March 13.
1918.
No more we see him in our midst.
No more his voice we hear.
For death has been and called away
The one we loved so dear.
Never forgotten by
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MO-M'ROSK RINGLER,
Director Mauasrer.
PORTLAND'S LGADLNU AND HOST
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Refunded
TWO SCHOOLS
BROADWAY HALL
Broidwsy at Main.
Prof. It- G. Walton of
laatle School and corps
of instructors. Private
lessons dally, 1 to 9 P. M.
Class Monday evening, S
to 11.
Phone 513 - 3
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COTILLION SCHOOL
Adv.
WIFE AND SONS.
14th at Wank.
Prof, and Mrs. D. Pat
terson Downey, Instruct
ors. Private lessons
daily, 11 to 8. Classes
Tues., Thurs., Frl.
Phone Bdwy. 3380.
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
BUSINESS MKN AND WOMEN.
Oar Com of Instructors Are Members of
the Dancing- Masters' Association.
FOR AN EVENING OF PLEASURE
Attend one of our wonderful balls best
In the west. Dancing informais every
week night. Public Invited. New Broad
way Hall, featuring Fleming's ten-piece
Orchestra De Luxe. Hear them play "Dar.
danella," with saxophone solo. Prize
waltz every Thursday evening. Cotillion
Hall, ball-bearing spring floor, with But
terfield's famous singing cornetlst and Co
tillion Orchestra. Prise waltz every Tues
day evening. Admission, Including tax,
cither hall except Saturday) Men, 65c;
ladies, 33c Ladies' checking tree.
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- Calling. John McCormack
10 A TJcchella (A Little
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1.00 I Hear You Calling Me
John McCormack
1.00 Kiss Me Again .".
Mabel Garrison
1.00 La Caplnera (The Wren)
Amelita Galli-Curcl
1.00 A Little Bit of Heaven
John McCormack
1.00 La Gi tana.. Fritz Krelsler '
- 1.00 Menuett (Violoncello)..
Hans Kindler
1.00 Bells of St Mary's....
Frances Alda
1.00 Dreaming Alone in the
Twilight.. K. Werrenrath
Freckles . . . ."Billy Murray
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