SECTION FOUR
Pages 1 to 8
Dramatic, Photoplays, Music
and Women's Clubs
VOL. xxxix.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1920
NO. 21
adsbys Sale of Beds and Bedding
The reason for this sale is to give you the opportunity to furnish at least one bed for
our many guests soon to arrive Shriners' Convention, T. P. A. Convention, Kiwanis Con
vention. Buy Your Outfit at Gadsbys' Sale and Save Money. YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD.
See Our
Exhibit of
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Simmons Beds,
Steel, Brass and
Wood Beds
On Sale
$ 9.75
$12.00
$15.75
$17.7.5
$20.75
$25.25
$31.75
$45.00
$54.75
$33.75
$39.50
$53.75
$39.00
now
$53.00
now
$25.00
now
$48.00
$57.00
Steel Bed now....
Steel Bed how....
Steel Bed now....
Steel Bed now....
Steel Bed now
Steel Bed now....
Steel Bed now....
Brass Bed now..
Brass Bed now .
Brass Bed now....
Brass Bed now....
Brass Bed now....
Wood Bed, Ivory finish.
Wood Bed, ivory finish
Wood Bed, ivory finish
Walnut Finish Bed. now.
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Cots on Sale
Bed Springs on Sale
Spring Cleaning Time
Is Here Pick Out
Your New Rug Now!
Sale of Mattresses
Special. . . .7.75
Special. . . JS'J.OO
$8.75 Mattress
$11.00 Mattress
S14.00 Felt Mattress Spe
cial 812.00
$16.75 Cotton Felt Mat
tress 13.95
$20.25 Cotton Felt Mat
tress 81S.OO
$24.50 Cotton Felt Mat
tress 21. OO
$23.50 Floss Mattress 21. SO
$35.00 Floss Mattress 31. 50
Pillows on Sale
.SS.IO I $.50 Pillow Special
$5.50 Pillow Special S4.9o I
$3.50 Pillow Special.
7.95
$10.25 Pillow Special SS.50
Comforters and Blankets Also Reduced
Go-Carts & Sulkies
Spring-time is outdoor time and
baby should have all the benefit
of these wonderful days. Let
Oadsby sell you a cart or sulkey
this week at a big reduction.
$17.50 Go-Cart at 813.75
$12.75 Go-Cart at SIO.25
$17.25 Sulkey at 813. 50
$14.00 Sulkey at 811.25
$ 9.75 Sulkey at S 7.75
EXPRESS ANL COASTER
WAGONS
are In season now for the largest
kiddies. We have a nice assort
ment at prices from 83. OO to
813.25.
TAPESTRY OVERSTUFFED
ROCKER ON SALE $38.50
The Rocker v c have on sale this "week
is excellent value, has very higrh back
to rest your head, broad comfortable
arms and sprint? seat and back, uphol
stered 1n a good rade of tapestry over
guaranteed spring construction. Spe
cial, while we have a lew, atCOQ Cfl
only OOQiOU
Gome and See How Inexpensive
Summer Comfort Really Is
Just a piece or two of Wicker Furniture will make your Sun-Parlor or Porch a. Dloa
place to while away sunny hours. We have a sale this week of. Reed, Grass and Wi
v urnnure, in uia ivory, irosiea Drown or iumea oaK unisnes.
$15.80 Chair at
$23.10 Rocker at
$27.15 Kocker at
130.40 Rocker at
$23.45 Chair or Rocker
812.85
.817.95
.823.35
.825. 90
818.95
$16.60 Chair or Kocker.
$22.65 Chair
$35.00 Easy Chair ....
$32.50 Ivory Table
$25.90 Ivory Table
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For Two or
Three Cents
Tou can do all your
washing and wringing
with the beautiful
" CJetz " cylinder elec
tric Put your foot down
today you have
washed the old way
long enough you have
rubbed your fingers
sore and your back
lame long enough.
This Beautiful
Machine
washes all your
clothes, your laces,
your embroideries, silk
shirt waists, sheets,
blankets, etc.. a snowy
whit e, quickly and
quietly in your own
home.
You Simply Turn the Switch
the ";tz" does the restdoes the hard work of washing and
wringing; your clothes. No longer is it necessary for you to
do your washing the old- way or to have it done.
The Swinging Wringer
adds to the convenience. You wrinp: the clothes from the
cylinder into the rinse tubs, baskets, etc., all without moving
the tubs. Any child can operate. Built very strong and
durable, made from the best material. Runs verv smooth and
noisel.-ss. Fills every need JUST THK MACHINE TOU
WANT. Sold on Uadsb;s' Easy Credit Term.
This Combination Range Burns
Wood, Coal or Gas
A Gas RanK Wltb Coal or Wood Klrebox. Which Take the
Place ot a Separate Kitchen Heater.
ALL THE FIRE YOU NEED
and at a small cost compared to a big fire in a furnace or
range. Takes the nir out of the morning temperature and
gives you a dry, healthy atmosphere.
oo may bake and broil
on thr Wedgewood aa
Rnnce with one flame tome
time.
The same set of burners
heat the bake oven (above)
and the broiler just be
neath it.
The Wedgewood Gas
Range is easy to clean; its
smooth surface, white and
black, can be cleaned with
soap and water like you
would wash your dishes.
XOT1CK We will take
your old cook stove or range
in exchange on one of these
new Wedgewood Ranges and
allow you all it is worth-
MODEL YACHT RACING FASCINATES ON
COUNTRY'S MANY MINIATURE LAKES
Men as Well as Boys Become Devotees of Sport That Demonstrates Skill of Amateur Designers and
Craftsmen of Real Championship Types.
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PRETTY LIBRARY SET ON SALE I BEDROOM SUITE IN OLD IVORY
This style LIBRARY SET is of solid oak. fumed or waxed finish:
chairs have seats covered in brown Spanish leatherette. It Cfl
is unusually pood value at VrSiJU
TKRMS S.I.OO CASH AND 1.00 PER WEEK..
A dainty, artistic Adams design. Tou will find this a very charming
suite, consisting of five pieces Dresser, Bed, Dressing Table and
Chair and Rocker to match. Chiffonier may be substituted i
for Dressing Table if desired. Price complete at Gadsbys",
$99.50
Regular Cash Stores Rarely, If Ever, Undersell Us; and Here
You get the same advantages offered by the best of them, with an even greater range of styles and prices! YouH find our stock more
up-to-date, too, because our very large volume of sales keeps new patterns continually in stock.
This is the main difference If you want to pay for your purchase in small convenient sums, weekly or monthly, you may do so.
There's No Interest Charged Here and every article in our entire building is guaranteed as to quality. We buy only the best that's
the first rule of this long-established house. .
Corner Second and
Morrison Streets
Wm. Gadsby & Sons
THE model-yacht racing season of
1920 has recently been officially
opened. Although lots of boys
derive great pleasure from indulging
in it by no means is it confined to
them as some may think. In fact.
it is yearly becoming in this country
more and more popular with men
folks of all ages.
Some of the most enthusiastic own
ers of model yachts today have passed
the half-century mark of life and
declare that model yachting is the
greatest pastime in the world. Among
them is also a short, stocky, bushy
haired young man to whom more than
any one else is perhaps due the in
creased popularity of model yachting
in the United States. "William Rich
ards is his name and six days of every
week he may be found busily en
gaged planning and constructing
model yachts. Every month more
than 100 are sent out from his work
shop. Among model-yachting followers he
is "Shavings" personified. Instead of
carving tiny windmills, he fashions
miniature boats. L.ike the original
"Shavings"- he does his work in a
quaint little work shop in the rear of
his nome in the crowded Bronx sec
tion of New York city. A few yards
off a street crowded with peddlers,
baby carriages and screeching urch
ins he may be found the central fig
ure of a setting that at first glance
seems to have been lifted bodily from
thp printed pages of a' fairy story.
Those persons who are privileged to
witness model yacht races in which
the skippers, although they do not
leave the shore, are as much wrought
up and quite as desirous of vtctory
as will be the skippers of the Vanitie
and the Shamrock IV, doubtless often
wonder where all of the beautiful
little white-winged craft which dot
the lake come from.
Who has the honor of bringing out
their graceful lines and perfect fin
ish? Kvidently they are not the work
of amateur boat builders, being quite
beyond such skill. The answer is
William Richards. He designs and
builds most of these yachts, and his
oecupation is probably unique.
"Although model yacht racing in
America has been carried on for per
haps 30 years." he said recently as
he deftly continued his work of hol
lowing a hull of a tiny boat from a
solid block of wood, "it has only been
active for the past three years. In
deed real interest in the sport is just
about beginning. We have In the
Central Park (New York) Model
Yacht club 33 active members and
quite a few associate members, while
our main purpose is to develop na
tural ingenuity and create an inter
est among boys in the sport of model
yachting. It is a fact that the old
fellows in the club take as much
interest in the sport as the youngest
mpmher.
"At one of our monthly meetings
not long since, a visitor from one of
the model yatching clubs in Scotland
declared that in his opinion the pas
time of model yachting is one that is
of vital importance to the welfare
of a nation. He attributed the power
of Great Britain on the high seas to
the zeal with which her sons take to
this pastime. He summed up the sit
uation when he said "One of the sig
nificant thines that I have noticed in
J the United States is the gradual but
increased interest being taken in
model yachting and in model yacht
building as a general pastime. It is
significant when it is to he remem
bered that England owed 50 per cent
of her success on the seas during the
period of the war to the fact that
practically all of the younger men
of that nation had been trained thor
oughly in the building and handling
of model yachts.'
"The distance of our races in this
country depends, of course upon the
size of the lake or pond on -which
they are sailed. Usually- they
are about one-half mile, or two
or three times across the lake. We
generally have ten or 15 starters
which leave the starting line at 10
Becond intervals. There are three
heats to each race and at the end of
the season the yachts which have
scored the most points win the cup or
some other suitaDie prize in ineir
particular class. There are four dif
ferent classes. Some of the classes
are closed to members of the yacht
club holding the races, but others
are open to whoever is desirous of
entering a model yacht either of his
own design or of the design or some
one else. Thus any boy who can
build a boat or buy one can enter.
"The first-class is that of boats
with lino of 36 inches, not more than
14 inches draught, nor more than 950
square inches of sailory. Then we
have a 42-inch ward line class; an
alnha class, with not more than 27
j inches on the ward line, and also a
I Dower boat division of which the
i boats are approximately one meter
ft - In length, weight of no more than 16
that state may tax the cities in which
the railway operates for a sum suf
ficient to make up-the difference. It
is further provided that a board of
five persons, as trustees, appointed
by the governor, shall have control of
the property for ten years. A board
of directors is provided for. but it has
very limited powers.
Trustees Klx Rates.
It Is provided in suction 11 of the
act that these five trustees.
"Shall fix such rates and fares as
In their judgment Vill produce suffi
cient income to meet the cost of
service, which shall include proper
maintenance and all other operating
expences, taxes, rentals, interest on
bonds, serial bonds and other interest
payments and stated dividends on pre
ferred stock at 6 per cent on the com
mon capital stock of the new com
pany; make allowance for deprecia
tion of property, rehabilitation and for
loss in respect to property sold, de
stroyed or abandoned as they may
deem adequate, or as may be re
quired by the public service commis
sion, and all other expenditures and
charges, which, under the laws of the
commonwealth now or hereafter in
effect, may properly be chargeable
against income or surplus."
In section 15 it provides for four
different grad-es of fare two above
and two below that in effect. It is
further provided that any city may
prevent an increase in fare by making
an agreement with the company and
paying up the difference. After the
expiration of ten years the property
should be returned to its owner.
Boston 'ot Complaining.
These acts establish a very favor
able situation for the company. The
rate of fare in Boston is now 10 cents.
This fare is being paid at present
without complaint. After the first
few months the falling off in pas
sengers due to the high rate ceased
and full traffic now is reported In
that city. This plan permits a city
to keep down the rate, if it desires
to do so, by making it up to the com
pany from city taxes.
These service at cost franchises
seem to give satisfaction both to the
public and to the owners of the street
railway property. It is a fair way
to establish a rate both for the public
and for the company. If the company
can get a certain percentage on the
value of its property it will be en
abled to raise money for Its future
wants, while the public will get the
service at the lowest rate possible.
7mo ras sy vt t mats
pounds, driven by a saturated steam these models were made by him. Iater
TEXAS WOMEN HOLD REINS
Energetic Programme Mapped by
New City Administration.
JEWETT, Tex., June 12. Women
who now hold the reins of govern
ment in Jewett have mapped out an
energetic programme for their admin-
stration. They came into power at
the spring election.
Mrs. Hattie Adkisson is mayor and
she has five sister aldermen. The
only man remaining in office is the
town marshal. He used to be sup
ported by fees but the new regime
put him on a salary.
The women have already started a
clean-up campaign. They are consid
ering street improvements and the
collection of back taxes, or new taxes
if necessary, to pay for them. Revi
sion of the traffic law and enforce
ment of the stock law are also projected.
The women came into office by
slight majorities. 20 votes in several
instances being sufficient to overturn
tradition.
engine, not more than one cubic inch
in capacity."
Mr. Richards was slightly backward
regards to his own interesting
work. He seemed much more willing
to talk about model yacht races. He
admitted, however, that it was true
that most of the yachts used in the
races in the United states are eitner
his own models or modeled from his
designs. As a maker of ship models,
he served Uncle Sam like a patriotic
American and to good purpose during
the recent wrangle with Germany.
Soon after war was declared he
started at work on making half and
interlocking models used by the sub
marine defence association. All of
he was called to Washington as
expert model maker by the navy de
partment, bureau of construction and
repair. He was also engaged as an
expert ship modeler by the camou
flage division of the intelligence de
partment of the navy.
"The pastime of building and racing
model yachts, Mr. Richards con
tinued, "is an outgrowth of the prac
tice on the part of shipbuilders of
making miniature models of the ves
sels under construction. These were
usually copies of the original on a
small scale. These sailing models
were often pitted against each other
on small bodies of water hence the
modern pastime.'
SERVICE-AT-COST STREET
CAR FRANCHISES WORK WELL
Trials Made in Several Cities Seem to Give Satisfaction Both to Public
and to Owners of Railway Property and Provide for Future.
THE
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In this series of articles, of which this
is the fifth, Mr. Benbow deals with the
subject of corporations, their organiza
tion, purposes, etc. He -will discuss pri
vate, public and quasi-public corporations
nd will take up such aubjeci as public
ownership, rates of public utilities, service
at cost franchises, the flat rate, the cost
and zone system, and other plans that
have been tried in various American municipalities.
BY WILLIAM C. BENBOW.
HE Chicago franchise, surface
lies, provides for a division of
profit between the company and
the city, the city receiving 55 per
cent of the net return and the com
fKny 45 per cent. The original fran
chise was granted in 1907. This ap
plied to the surface lines in the city.
The valuation of tho company's prop
erty was set in the franchise at $50,-000.000.
The consolidated franchise, sur
face and elevated lines combined,
provides for a surplus reservo fund
of t ;,000.000. If this reserve should
be drawn down to $1,000,000, fares
must be increased. Fares may be
decreased if the accumulation in the
surplus reserve fund is "sufficient
to justify it."
The returns allowed the company In
Chicago are 5 per cent on prior obli
gations, with 8 per cent on the capi
tal remaining above such obligations.
A large sum, more than $20,000,000,
has already been accumulated In the
city treasury due to this division of
the profits provided for by the fran
chise. Elevated. Fare Raised.
The rate of fare over the elevated
line has been raised to 7 cents. The
franchise provides for nine trustees
for the administration of these rail
ways. These trustees are appointed
by the city council. This number is
too great for a successful and effec
tive administration. This difficulty
is partly overcome by the use of an
executive committee of three.
The Cincinnati grant contains a
combination of profit-sharing between
the city and the company, together
with a sliding scale of fares. The
sliding scale in this city is rather
peculiar. When the rate of fare Is
5 cents or less, the company's share
of the net receipts is 45 per cent;
when the fare is 5 cents the com
pany's share of the net receipts is
only 30 per cent: it tha tare bo 6
cents the company's share is 20 per
cent; if the fare goes above 6 cents
the company does not get any part
of the net -receipts, but the whole
thereof goes to the city.
Low Farts TCncouraged.
The surplus reserve fund for Cin
cinnati is $400,000. The franchise
provides that when this fund has
been increased by $250,000 then the
rate of fare shall be decreased half
a cent. Whenever this surplus reserve
fund has been decreased by $150,000
the rate of fare shall be increased
half a cent. A further reduction
the fund causes a further rise in the
rate of fare. The intention of this
provision was to encourage the com
pany to make as low rate of fare as
possible, because of its greater share
in the net receipts in case the fare
is low. This franchise has been in
effect only since 1318.-
Kansas City. Mo., and Dallas, Tex.,
have similiar franchises.
In Montreal a similar franchise was
granted in 1918. The capital value
fixed in this franchise was very
close to the face value of the stock
of the company. The trustees for
the public a re appointed by the domt
nion government and not by the city
council, as in- other cities. The sur
plus reserve fund in Montreal is $1,-
000,000. Rates of fare may be de
creased when this fund is $1,000,000
and they must be decreased when the
fund rises to $2,500,000. This fran
chise allows the company a return
of 6 per cent upon the capital value.
Boston. Plan Different.
The Boston plan is different from
most of the service at cost fran
chises. The legislature of the state
of Massachusetts passed certain acts
in regard to the Bay State Railway
company and the Boston Elevated
company. They are: Special acts 1918.
Chap. 188, Chap. 159. General laws
of Massachusetts, Chap. 280 and 283.
These laws provided in substance for
the organization of a "new company"
for taking over the property of the
"old company," and provided for a
dividend computed at 6 per cent upon
a definite valuation of the utility's
property, which was fixed as $40,
282,340. Certain provisions were made In
regard to indebtedness' and it is pro
vided that if the net return at the
rate put In effect does not amount to
6- ior -cent, upon the valuation stated
HOUSE TO BE MONUMENT
Moc On to Save TMacc Associated
With Scientist Galileo.
ROME. June 12. A movement has
been started to make the house at
Arcetri, called "Jewel." where Gali
leo lived from 1 63 1 to 1A42, a national
monument and to collect there all'
Galileo relics. While Galileo lived at
Arcetri he was called to Rome to an
swer a charge of heresy beforo tho
inquisition.
On his return he witnessed the
deatli of his daughter who was a nun.
In this particular house he dictated
"Dialogues of New Sciences" which
he considered was his masterpiece. It
was there also that he received the
poet Milton and was presented by
Holland with a golden chain in ac
knowledgement of his services to sci
ence.
WILD PIGEONS PLENTIFUL
Acorn Crop in Curry County Gives
Good Cliance for Feeding.
MARSH KIELD, Or., June 12. (Spe
cial.) Wild pigeons are reported in
great numbers from Curry county,
where they are feeding on acorns
of last year's crop that are still lying
on tho ground. The information
states that the wild and domestic
hogs in Curry made little inroads on
the acorns, as the crop was an un
usually large one.
Deer are said to be living off the
acorns and this promises hunters fat
kills this fall when the season opens.
The presence of so many wild pigeons
in Curry county is nof an ordinary
occurrence. It has been a number of
years since there were such large
flocks staying there to feed.
FISH BUYERS NOT THERE
Plenty of Halibut to Bo Procured
but o Market.
MARSHFIELD, Or., June 12 (Spe
cial.) There is a good opportunity
for fish buyers to secure supplies at
Port Orford, according to reports just
received from that Curry county port.
For some time a number of fishermen
had been ready to start the 1920 sea
son, but they could not procure gaso
line to operate their boats.
This drawback was overcome and
they then learned there was no buyer
on the ground who would take the
fish. Port Orford is near the great
halibut banks discovered two years
ago. The port is an open roadstead.
and great quantities of fish should be
coming in. If there were a market.
SHERWOOD TO CELEBRATE
Many Amusements Are Prepared
for July S.
SHERWOOD. Or., June 12. (Spe
cial.) A big celebration for July . S
is being planned here as the 4th is
on Sunday, it has been decided bo -wait
until Monday to celebrate. Amuse
ments of every description are being
prepared and one of the largest
crowds ever in Sherwood is expected.
The celebration will be held in the
ball park, which has been recently
purchased by the city. A baseball
game will be scheduled for that day
and the usual vim of the "Sherwood
Slugsers" will be displayed.