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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 19, 1920 11 mm IT RECLA DRIVE 15 SCHEDULED Northwestern League Maps Campaign of Education. ALL INTERESTS UNITED .Need of Legislation to Prepare W estern Lands for Settlement to Be Laid Before Solons. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE WOMEN'S DORMITORY UNIT NOW WELL UNDER WAY When Ready, Structure Will House in Modern and Convenient Manner 150 Students Northwest Quadrangle Is Occupied. -Western Border of jTii ii 13 if it it II III If MA 1 1 j i .-. - r- : n M n M M i: U H it In H it if - jf - WEST WING. NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION, FACES HOME ECONOMICS BUILDING, TO THE SOUTH. to serve the The newly organized Xorthvjestern HeclHrnation league, which is the per manent bodyto represent the five Mates of the region in the move ment that has been started in other portions of the west for solidarity of action In striving for an enlarged national reclamation programme that grewjul of the Seattle irrigation con gress, has mapped an active cam paign. The executive committee is composed of three members from each of the states, and is the supreme au thority of the organization. The mem bers composing the committee were elected by their respective state dele gations at Seattle, and are as follow: Oregon Whitney L. Boise, Portland; Frert x. Wallace. Tumalo; P. J. Gallagher, Ontario. Washington E. F. Blaine, Seattle; N. W. Durham, Spokane; IS. F. Reid, Ellena burg. Idaho S. E. Brarty, Pocatello; Dan Jiurphy, Dubois; J. H. Lowdell, Caldwell. Wyoming Robert D. Carey, governor of "Wyoming, Careyhurst; A. H. Ayrei. River ton; Krank C. Emerson, Cheyenne. Montana James A. Johnson, Shelby: Jeronif t. Locke, Livingston: James Her bert Poison. Montana Man President. Tn the organization of the league James A. Johnson, of Montana was elected president, and James A. Ford, managing secretary of the Spokane chamber of commerce. wi named secretary. K. F. Blaine" was chosen executive committeeman at the in stance of the committee on organiza tion which embodied that request in the report. Mr. Johnson Is a banker farmer of Shelby, Mont., and is presi dent of the Toole coirnty irrigation district, which has a project embrac ing nearly 300,000 acres of land under construction. He has long been ac tively identified with Irrigation affairs. "Unity is the watchword of the Pacific nortfiwest in the programme of the Northwestern Reclamation league, which was formed at Seattle." said Whitney L. Boise, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce committee on irrigation who headed the delega tion from Portland at the Seattle con vention. Mr. Boise was one of the leaders in the preparations for the congress, which met for its business sessions Thursday and Friday in Meuney hall, on the campus of the University of Washington. He is one of the Oregon members of the execu tive committee of the nw league and was a leader in bringing about its organization to promote educational work and legislation.' Unselfish Spirit Shown. "It was a good convention," said Mr. Boise, "and Is remarkable for' the harmony that prevailed throughout, and the unselfish spirit manifested by the representatives from all sections The few persem who were Inclined to be riubiou of the good Intention of others at the first meeting were most candid In admitting that they were entertaining, mistaken notions, and all were In complete agreement as to the firoad policies, to be adopted and purstted in efforts to secure from congress adequate provision for rec lamation work. It is only by united effort of the people interested in irri gation and reclamation . development In all of the western states, that the wall of opposition from eastern sena tors and nvpresentatives can be sur mounted. It will require a campaign of education extending to the entire country, that the members of con gress may be brought to realize that roolamation of arid lands, or drainage of swamp lands Is not a development for the benefit of the few who may settle on the lands, but that such reclamation provides practically the only opportunity for new settlement In this country today. Exhibit Is Feature. "Seattle entertained the visiting delegates splendidly, serving lunch eons in one of the buildings on the nnlveroity campus to conserve the time of the convention. The exhibit at the Forestry building was a line display of fruits, vegetables, cereals, forage of irrigated lands, shown in its natural state,- with only slight effort . to make it other than a plain show ing of the foodstuffs grown as they came from the hands of the producer. It was arranged in pleasing and artis tic manner, and the delegates evinced their appreciation by the time spent In viewing the products." Value of Yakima Project Cited. Oeorge Quayle, secretary of the Mate chamber of commerce, pro nounced it one of the best conventions that he has ever attended in the har mony of Its deliberations. "1 expected to learn by hearing what delegates Irom tne various states might say. and from the talks of the leaders of thought on the program, and I was not disappointed. The campaign of education needs to be broad enough to reao the people at home as well as those from other sections of the country. I imagine there are a lot of people in the northwest cities who do not know that money invested in irri gation projects is returned many fold in production and that the investment in building projects Is -every cent re raid by the landowners. The fact that the Yakima project was built for about $8,000,000 and is now producing J42.000.000 annually is an illustration that was heard ecveral times at the congress." Rrsalts Are Gratifying, E. F. Blaine of Seattle, who was chairman of the convention by virtue of his position as chairman of the general committee on arrangements and leadership in reclamation work in the state of Washington, was grat ified with the results attained. He said at the close of the session that the attendance and outcome had far exceeded expectations, eo much so that it came to be realized that the number to participate necessitated postponement of the' meeting of the Washington irrigation institute, which it was first Intended should be held- jointly with the congress The meeting of the institute was postponed until December 16-17, when it will be held at Kllensburg. Joint Action Foretells Success. "The fact that the delegates have joined witn sucn unanimity in form lng the league of the northwestern states as a medium for promoting irrigation development is the best evidence of the success of the con gress. The papers were all earnest contributions to the discussions of the big reclamation questions before the country today, but it was laying the groundwork for the things that are to be done by continued hard work. I feel confident that the men com posing; the executive committee are OREGON AGRICULTURAL. COL LEGE. Corvallis. Sept. 18. (Special.) The first unit of the women's dor mitory, now under construction, is the fourth major building to be put under way within the calendar year. When ready for occupancy it will house in modern and convenient man ner 150 students, thus providing com fortable living quarters for all women not cared for at Waldo, Cauthorn or special halls. The western wing was selected as the first unit. It occupies the west ern border of the northwest quad rangle, stretching full length from street to street. It is approximately 235 feet long by 72 feet wide, and three full stories hisrh above the base ment. It will contain 74 student rooms 15 by 17 feet. Each room will have two outside windows, two closets, running water, two built-in chiffoniers, medicine cabinet and mir ror, as well as the regular movable" furniture, such as tables, chairs, dressers and bed. The first floor will contain 12 student rooms, besides the kitchen and dining room, shampoo and hair-drying room and pressing rooms pleasing innovations for the women The second and third floor will con sist of 31 student rooms each. The kitchen will be eo placed aa to serve the second unit dining room as well as the first. The third unit kitchen will be placed third and fourth units. A complete cold-storage plant will be installed in the basement. A well equipped laundry for student use also will be maintained in the basement. A trunk elevator will be installed and trunk rooms will be provided on each floor. The preceptress room, two recep tion parlors, back hall and guest room will occupy the south end of the first unit. Bathrooms, with showers, fin ished in tile and marble, will be in stalled on each floor. An Infirmary will be placed on the third floor. Fireproof stairways are to be pro vided throughout the building. Each stairway will have a fireproof brick casing and metal doors, which will permit of safe passage from the top floor to the bottom in case of fire. No dormer windows are entering Into the structure. The third floor will be built up straight to the full story height, eliminating any sloping ceilings and providing a roof more secure, durable and rainproof. Attractive flower-decked balconies are to feature the entrance and the second-story rooms above the dining room which look out on the court. The entire dormitory will fill three sides of the quadrangle west, north and east. It will consist of four units 'formed into three sides of a rectangle, and three inside walls of which will THEATERS ATTACKED . BY USING SEAPLANE Posters Declaring Houses Un fair Are Distributed. CULPRIT MAKES ESCAPE open upon-a beautiful open court of lawn and flowers. The main front will be to the south, facing the home economics building. The structure will be of brick, the style of architecture harmonizing with the regular campus type. Miss S. Hadwen, Waldo preceptress, who has Just returned from a dormi tory inspection tour in the east and middle west, says that the proposed plan provides for one of the best dor mitories of the country, and it will combine attractiveness and conven ience more satisfactorily than any that she saw. The new engineering laboratory building Is practically completed. The second unit of the home economics building, and second wing of the men's gymnasium, with its swimming pool, are other campus structures under way. A third story has been added to Apperson hall, better known as Me chanical hall, and some minor struc tures are going up on -various parts of the campus. The huge concrete conduit, five by three feet, for carrying the steam pipes to heat the new buildings Is well along. For hundreds of feet It runs through the campus at a depth sometimes as great as 17 feet. The usual clean-up and repair work was conducted in the summer by utiliza tion of student labor. Police Rush to Landing Field but Machine Alights In River ear St. Johns Side; 1 A seaplane, owned by the Oregon. Washington & Idaho Airplane com pany, was used about noon yester day for the purpose of scattering hundreds of handbills over the city, proclaiming that the Jensen & Vo Herberg chain of moving picture theaters were unfair 'to union labor. Under the personal supervision of Chief of Police Jenkins a squad of patrolmen were ruehed to the land ing field in an attempt to intercept the violators of the city ordinances, but the landing was made tn the river near the St- Johns side and the culprit made his escape before the police arrived on the scene. One of the dodgers released by the seaplane route was of deceptive pur port. It announced in large type that the Columbia theater had clOBed, while unobtrusive small type alleged that the orchestra had "closed" its en gagement with the theater Because of alleged "unfairness." The distribu tion of handbills in the city is con trary to city ordinances, according to Chief of Police Jenkins. Plane Disgorges Posters. Chief Jenkins was standing at a street corner using a police telephone when he sighted the plane disgorging fluttering posters en route above the business section of the city. A hurry call was sent to the station and Patrolmen Klingsmith, Evans and Ballard started for the landing field at the Lewis and Clark exposition grounds, picking: up Chief Jenkins on the way. . Officials of the airplane company knew nothing about, the passenger taken up in the machine, according to their report. A man had driven up In an automobile and had bought regular sight-seeing ticket from the girl In the office. Pilot Archie M. Roth, the driver of the plane, also declared that he kn-.v nothing about the identity of the passenger, and was not aware that he-was vloting the city ordinance, he said. v Arrival Is Too I. Me. The police waited on the scene, and when It became apparent that the plane was going to make a landiing in the river, near the St. Johns side. Patrolman Tuliy was dispatched in haste on a motorcycle to intercept the passengers when the landing was effected. He arrived on the scene just four minutes after the landiing bad been made and in the interim the mysterious passenger had made his escape. According to Pilot Roth, the same machine in which the man had come to the landlnlg field was wait ing at the bank and the man had climbed in and departed in haste. It is believed that many hunareds of the dodgers had been scattered broadcast over the city during the aeroplane's flight. Chief of rolh-e Jenkins announced last ninrht that in spectors were endeavoring to locate the alleged violator of the city bill posting ordinance and that a good description of the maji had been ob tained from the pilot. ' CSB PLANE PUT TO SCORED Scattering Posters Held Cheap Way of Furthering Strikes. PORTLAND. Or.. Sept. IS. (To the Editor.) I write this in reference to the airplane flight over the city at 1 o'clock today. I stood on the corner of Fifth and - Washington streets, where an abundance of these pam phlets fell, and listened to the gen eral comment on it. In all cases the expression was about the same as I state below. I hope on behalf of some of us that are interested in aviation and giving our time, efforts and that you will publish this, that you wll publish this. It seems high time that some action chould be taken to prevent a repeti tion, of the cheap methods used yes terday in the distribution of litera ture, furthering strike, picketing and unfair interests in this city and litter ing up our main streets with pam phlets which could not be distributed otherwise than by the airplane. Some of us who are interested in aviation feel that we are entitled to an expression when some weak man agement is preyed upon to use the airplane to perform duties which are within the law only because aviation is new and our city has not revised itt ordinances. To us it seems a mis existence depends upon public ap proval and support Is used for such a cause to earn a few paltry dollarffrtir a company. , It is quite true that other mfcttvr has been dropped frcm the air isvyor the city and that I have also doA&'.it, but in each case it has been some clean direct advertisement to the beyfit of some legitimate business insirti tion of the city and not sometVlvi? Rimed to hurt or destroy one of'tlie li.rtrest businesses of the community. General pubiic sentiment on this matter proves that people are not v. iKlnir to have their yards, roofs.jd streets flooded with such paper. We believe in the airplane, its fii- ture and its invaluable service," ancTv desire the public's support in 1X9 de velopment in every possible manner; but it is unreasonable to believe that we can Rain that support when it is uted for such purposes as this. olivet: k. jeffruVs. . Cox Club Wants to Iobate. The Cox-Roosevelt club of St. Johns an.i Portsmouth will meet TuesflSs, September 21. at 7:30 o'clock, in Bick ner hall, St. Johns. Colonel Robert A. Milier. presidential elector, will be the principal speaker. A musical programme will be provided by Mad ame I.ucy Bourey and Miss Mary F. Neeley. At the meeting of the club last Tuesday night a motion 'was adopted to challenge the republican club to debate the league of nations. take that a new industry whose very of Tt. K. Walker. tlliert Rode Made Councilman. COTTAGE GROVE. Or.. Sept. 1 S. (Special.) Elbert Bede has been e!M etl by the city council to fill until January 1 the vacancy on the coiinVil caused by the reslcnatlon of Dr. A. AY. Kiine, who was elected mayor to fill the vncanpy caused dv tne resigna,:.i?ii going to take up their task seriously and that this will prove a factor In furthering reclamation by securing the united action of the people be hind their congressional delegation to urge the enactment of the legis lative programme that will be neces sary to make effective the principles laid down in the resolutions. We believe that the best results can be obtaiaed by providing the means to enable the United States reclamation service to complete the meritorious projects on which it is engaged, and to undertake others of merit to fur nish reclaimed lands for settlement by the men of the American legion and others seeking the opportunity. "Farmer" Smith Lauds Delegates. ""Seattle has been pleased to have the men of the north-west states come here to launch this campaign. The business men have awakened to the importance of irrigation. We know what it implies, for there are exam ples with which we are familiar. That is why we feel such deep interest Tn the Columbia basin project as one for future development that will- make homes for a great many people and those who are successful Irrigation farmers are the best kind of citizens." "Farmer" Smith ,the veteran agrl- 'culturlst of the Oregon-Washington Railroad company, one of the strong advocates of expansion of cultivated areas, adoption of modern methods in farming, stock raising and orchard development, declared that' the delegates-were the most progressive, in his opinion, that had ever attended such a meeting. - "In-the absence of any other help ful literature on the subject of irri gation. I took a supply of pamphlets on sunflower silage," said Mr. Smith. and tfie first day almost every per son who came along took ons of the booklets. In that oni day 800 copies were carried away. So I am con vinced that the delegates were actu ally interested personally in the prob lems of the irrigation farmer." Railroads to Aid Movement. "It was the most harmonious con vention I ever have attended," he con tinued, "and that is saying a great deal, for it has been my privilege to attend a good many Irrigation meet ings In the years since men of the west began getting together to fight over the question of who nas tne best project. At the first convention I attended tn Denver It lasted nearly a week and all that was done was to scrap, because every delegate wantea his own particular irrigation problem settled and the others put aside. Gradually the farmers and men Inter ested in irrigation are becoming edu cated themselves, and have found out that it must be a case of "one lor an and all for one' -In order to get results. With all the states united for the pur pose of securing favorable considera tion from congress, there is an excel lent chance of getting what is asked for within reason. The railroads are willing and anxious to give support to the land reclamation movement. Arid land is not a very good source of traffic for the railroad. When as big a bunch as were present at Seatlte can have an Irrigation congress without any scrap at all. the signs seem to me to be good for getting together to win over the fellow who needs edu cation to understand what the value of an acre of irrigated land is to the nation and to the states." CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to all our friends and relatives who rendered assistance and sympathy in our recent bereavement of our father and brother. W. P. Seely; also for the many floral offerings. MRS. IDA ROSIER. MRS. MYRTLE J. STATTON. 1 MRS. MAY K1NGERY. Adv. JAMES G. SEELY. FAIR OFFICIALS BUSY WESTERN WASHINGTON EVENT IS INDORSED. Farmers Begin to Understand Value of Exhibits and Results That Folow. PUYALEUP, Sept. 18. (Special.) With the western Washington fair at Puyallup less than a month away superintendents, officials and direc tors are busy on the details of the big exhibition. Indorsement of this fair as one of the great educational Institutions of the state has been received from E. Holland, president of the State Agricultural college of Pullman, Gov ernor Louis F. Hart and Henry Suz zallo, president of the state univer sity. In Seattle. In hUs letter to the management of the western Washington fair. Presi dent Holland says: "I hope that the farmers of western Washington will attend the western Washington fair I have attended the fair for the past four years and realize it should be of great value to farmers of the west side. "In the, leading agricultural states of the union, farmers have found tht attendance at local fairs has enabled them to learn a great deal about Im proved methods in the various phases of farming. "The very rapid increase in the at tendance at the western Washington fair indicates that the farmers of western Washington are coming to understand the tremendous economic value of your exhibits to them and to the state." PICKERS TOLD TO WAIT Hood River Will Need 1000 'After October 1 but None Now. HOOD RIVER. Or., Sept. 18. (Spe cial.) While the pear and early apple harvest is under way here, no outside help will be needed before October 1 for apple picking. Growers are able to take care of their early apple and pear crops with their own ranch help. More than 1000 transient pickers will be needed when the main harvest be gins. A number of Portland families have already arrived here for the harvest, but will be unable to procure work foF two weeks. Linoleums; AD Cork Tilings Splendid Patterns 'Reasonable Prices SOME REMNANTS , AT A BARGAIN CORK "FLOOR PRODUCTS CO. 202 BROADWAY, AT TAYLOR JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1I!- "Hello Thire -Better have a look at this fine display. It's great -the best I've seen yet." He told the truth. At our store you'll find an unusual display of Waterman, Moore, Conklin and Swan pens, in sizes and styles for every need. By the way, our stock of Ever sharp pencils is also a most com plete and varied one. Come in and see both it's worth a min ute of your time. Fountain Pens $2.50 up Eversharp Pencils $1.00 up The J. K. Gill Co. 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We recognize that prices have been too high, and while whole sale prices now are at their high-water mark, they must decline. This means re tailers must take losses and we have decided to take ours once and for all. These Heavy Reductions Prevail $40 Suits and $50 Suits and $60 Suits and $70 Suits and $80 Suits and Overcoats Overcoats Overcoats Overcoats" Overcoats MENS Corbett Bldg. WEAR Fifth and Morrison 107 5 v