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8 THE SUNDAY OREGON" IAN, PORTLAND, MAY 7, 1922 LIFE INTO GOTHAM 3000 Concerts Held Through out City. THIRSTY SOULS GATHER j auction today at the old Stauffer ! farm north of here Friday morning, j The opening of the sale was hailed by i several hundred people. Furniture, hand-made from home grown timber, family heirlooms, old chests, stools, butter, to home-made ladder, were hammered away at give away prices or away over cost, with little concern of maker or history. An old colony spinning wheel was picked up by a party from a nearby town who knew something of its his tory. Some article of strange appear ance, long since gone from common usage, caused comment by many and many more wondered, but said little and asked less. Stout, well-built chairs with rawhide bottoms that could be bought years ago for $6 to ?7 per dozen, sold at $1 each. Some 300 chickens, several cows and just an ordinary stock of implements along with the household goods sold for ?1150, sale ending at 5 o'clock. mm FLAPPER , NIMBLE AS FELINE Speeding Busses Negotiated With Amazing Agility- Madison Park Is Scene of Demon stration Against Prohibition, Attended by 10,000. BY JESSE HENDERSON. (Oypyrlfrht. 1922. by The Oreironian.) NEW YORK, May 6. (Special.) From the Bronx to the Battery this town has been as full of trills as thrush You couldn't poke youf nose Into any hall without getting a Span lsh senerade or a Russian gavotte full In the face, and a walk in the park was Just one band concert after an other. It's been music week. Being one of those persons who never got further with piano lessons than "The Maiden's Prayer," music week went completely over our head. A touch of "Dixie" when the soldiers march past in the movies is well s enougn and "Too Hoo" is nice if you can dance while you listen. But as for muic as such, we can take it or leave it alone. There were neverthe less more than 3000 musical events here during the week and the only one we were not able to avoid was the concert where little Robert Murray sang. They told us he had a range of neaily six octaves, which sems a lot when you come to think of it; and could bhoot from somewhere down around the middle of the scale to two and a half octaves above high C, which is the world's altitude record. No doubt his high note was the high point n music week, but the note we lfked best about him was when he re markei off stage to another 12-year-old: "Roller skating on the avenue and a man in a big car knocked me for a goal. Say! For a minute I thought my leg was busted, and no more baseball this season. Say, I was scared ? 10,000 Thirsty Soul Rally. Perhaps because of the affinity be tween all beautiful things they se lected next week to start the first snowball that is intended to turn into the avalanche beneath which it is predicted prohibition will be everlast ingly buried. Ten thousand enthus iastic and thirsty souls gathered in Madison Square at the new behest as sociation against prohibition and cheered while Hudson Maxim and Sam Gompers and James Speyer told jwith Impassioned eloquence all about Deer and light wines. Stuyvesant Fish, Kermit Roosevelt, Seth L?w and Irvin Cobb lent weight of one kind or another, to the com mittee In charge. George Washington was on the committee also and P. Tecumseh Sherman, the latter won dering what Jiis illustrious relative would have said about the war that caused prohibition. Among the bits of information slipped to the town in the past few days was the fact, made known by Hudson Maxim, that a katydid agitates 6,000,000 tons of air every time it scrapes' its legs on its wings. If that is tho case, most of infinity must have been shaken by the kicks di rected against the public by the health department in an attempt to make this "clean-up week." Bulletin after bulle tin has been issued describing how nice it would be if everyone swept the rubbish from the steps. Some fol lowed this advice by sweeping it on the sidewalk. The only people who have really taken an active interest in clean-u! work are the bandits. Two Big Job "Pulled." They cleaned up two jobs of J100, 000 each in one day, which was not so bad. One clean-up was just an old swindle game, but the other had all the romantic elements of emeralds, rubies and diamonds. A taupe Boston bag with $100,000 tn gems simply dis appeared from a Pullman car as the train CHinfl into the terminal. Right in the midst of everything the Liberator had its annual costume ball. Being a liberal sheet, the Liberator had liberal people at its little party in Bryant hall. A horrified police man turned out the lights and pro claimed the festivities finished. A Chinese elbowed his way up to a large police sergeant and said he would like to see any large police sergeant try to get personal with him. The large sergeant got personal enough to arrest the young gentleman and, In spite of the froth and fury, this was the only arrest made. A lot of the liberals were said to have been deeply disappointed. It develops, too. that one can be arrested in New York because one is chased down Broadway by the little wife. Yes, indeed. If the little wife falls upon one as one emerges from a theater with a lady at one's side ono can and is arrested for collecting a crowd. John Campbell, a laborer, discovered this quaint twist in the law. The wife said she would not enter a complaint provided CAnpbell promised to be in the house nights by Ht o'clock. Campbell, panting from his sprint through the theater throngs, gasped that he wouldn't promise to be home at all. Case Is Pnsxllng. Civil law, however, is not the only kind with kinks In It. The immigra tion law is accordion-pleated. Take for example. Mrs. Ghana Novak, who became so broken up by war-time sufferings in Poland that the author ities refused to let her enter the country. The bureau ordered depor tation. Mrs. Novak is the wife of a Brooklyn rabbi; her 2-months-old daughter is an American citizen and cannot be deported. What can you do in a case like that.? LEGION ROW MINIMIZED STATK DEPARTMENT OFFICERS CONSIDER MEDFORD BREAK to Executive Committee Expects Settle Controversy Without Detriment to Post. A local post squabble and not serious ruction in the ranks of the American Legion wa. the character izatlon of a misunderstanding among members of Medford post of the legion, which resulted last weeTc in the resignation of four legionnaires, given by George A. Codding of Med ford, vice-commander of the state de partment, at a meeting of the de partment executive committee in Portland yesterday. Mr. Codding re ported that he fully expected all dif ficulties would be ironed out satisfac torily within a few days. The break arose over a resolution eff ered for passage in the post con demning mob violence and ostensibly aimed at the Ku Klux Klan. Executive committee members from other sections of the state reported that local posts were not affected and that in their opinion the entire matter was a "tempest in a teapot." On the motion of George K. Wilbur of Hood River, executive committee man, a resolution was adopted declar ing that "our preliminary reports are that the situation is much ex aggerated and does not at all reflect the true situation existing in the Med ford post." Lane Goodell, state commander, and Vice-Commander Codding expect to meet with the Medford legion naires some time this week, and go into the details of the affair. Those present at the meeting held at department headquarters, Fourth and Washington streets, were: Com mander Goodell, Portland; Vice-Com mander Codding, Medford; Harry N. Nelson, ajutant, Portland; Prescott W. Cookingham, finance officer, Portland, and Fred E. Kiddle, La Grande; George R. Wilbur, Hood River, and Benjamin F. Pound, Salem executive committeemen. ATHLETICS BECOME RAGE company the county court took Into consideration the fact that Mr. hiew port was not in the courtroom in per son, and that the United company had on previous occasions done work for the county which was satisfactory. Strenuous Life of Women Brings Warning From Medical Men That Sex Is Menaced. WOMAN HURLS WET DEFY DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL BODY MEMBER SEEKS DEBATE. Lady Astor, Commander Booth and William J. Bryan 'Challenged to Discuss Prohibition. NEW YORK, May 6. Miss Eliza beth Marbury, democratic national committee woman for New York state, "wants to debate somebody either sex who will defend the Vol stead prohibition enforcement law against her onsalughts. She hurled a challenge through the association against the prohibition amendment today, naming in order these four persons she would prefer to debate: Lady Astor, Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army, William Jennings Bryan, Rev. John Reach Stratton, pastor of Cal vary Baptist church of this city. "I will take them singly or alT at ence, that's how sure I am that the Volstea'd act is indefensible," said Miss Marbury. As for the remark attributed to Lady Astor that prohibition was an excellent law for the poor man," she had this to say: "I hardly think Lady Astor suffi ciently familiar with the needs of the man in the street in America. She is speaking from an English view point. "I am too good a democrat to want any law in this country which spells privilege for the man with the fat purse." VOTE DOWN AMENDMENTS SEASIDE REJECTS PROPOSED CHARTER CHANGES. Vte at Special Election Almost Two to One Against Reform Measures Suggested. HEADQUARTERS TO STAY Camp Lewis to Be Retained as Cen ter of Third Army Oivision. THE OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington. D. C, May 6. Camp Lewis is to be retained as headquar ters of the Third division of the army with appromiately 2000 troops. Sen ator Poindexter was advised today by the secretary of war. Camp Lewis also will be the headquarters of the Third field artillery brigade, the Tenth regiment of r:eld artillery, the Sixth engineers an.1 of medical' ami uouiy troop for tba Third division. The Seventh infantry will be di vided between Vancouver barracks and Alaska and the Fourth infantry will be distributed between For; George, Fort Missoula and Fort Law-ton. SEASIDE, Or., May 6. (Special.) Four charter amendments submitted by the council to the voters of Sea side in a special election Fridaywere rejected by a vote of approximately 2 to 1. The first amendment proposed to divert approximately $30,000 from the fund voted to buid a pier, thereby eliminating the building of the pier for the purchase of land for tourist camp ground purposes. The second amendment provided for the sale of bonds not to exceed JSO.0O0 to pay and retire the outstanding warrant in debtedness of the city, being in the nature of a refunding bond issue. The third and fourth amendments proposed to abolish the board of water commissioners and transfer its duties and authority to the common council, making the city treasurer custodian of the water fund and requiring the city marshal to collect all city licenses and tax fees. K0EHN LEAGUE FORMED Organiiation Nominee Backs Republican for Legislature. PIONEER FURNITURE SOLD Countryside Auction Brings ttack Memories of Other tays. HUBBARD, Or., May 6 Folks frdm far and near flocked to the country j Citizens forming the Koehn-for-representative league have just com pleted their organization by the se lection cf officers and committees ML E- Dickey of the Sunnyside district was chosen president. J. W. Ganten bein of the Richmond district secre tary. . These two officers, with C. Bowles of Woodstock, will have charge of Mr. Koehn's campaign in Multnomah county. Lewis Jones and Ted Miller will have charge of the campaign in Clackamas county. The club has issued its reasons for favoring George L- Koehn for repub lican nominee to the state legislature BY NORMAN MATSGX. (Copyright, 1022, by The Oregonian.) LONDON. May 6. (Special Cable.) Englishwomen do not get off street cars and buses bacKwards. This i3 a striking fact, but it has been largely overiooiced. One never sees the nervous woman with many bundles, who, after careful consideration, puts the wrong foot foremost from the car step and falls into a pathetic but silly heap. Moreover, Englishwomen. more often than not. get on and off before the vehicle stops, a breath-taking spectacle for the foreigner. Tou see the tall young flapper in the usual tweeds, woolen socks and flat heels, suddenly shove her hat down on her head, get 'set," start running like a streak, and swing onto a speeding bus. Nobody pays the slightest atten tion; no more than when the flapper or her older sister leaps from a bus driving through the crowded street, ducks under a horse's startled head and reaches the sidewalk to drop into her usual air of imperturbable dignity. Women Are Athletic. London buses ply all the main traffic streets in almost continual procession and they seldom stop, so that women have had to choose be tween long waiting and an exercise of masculine agility. The point is they learned early because they learned how to walk in the first place. They belong to a strenuously athletic generation, which is taking a prominent part in sports heretofore considered strictly masculine foot ball, foot-racing, lacrosse and they ask no favors, apparently, although the Honorable Mrs. Arthur Hamilton, who will try to swin the channel this summer, made what her sister athletes thought a shamelessly fem- nist confession when she said that swimming the stormy waters between France and England at night was ther difficult. "The screeches of the sirens of passing steamers and the swish ot the propellers," she said, "together with the snorting and plunging of porpoises, are very distracting." Sex Extinction Threatened. The English girl is not, however, to have it entirely her own way about sports, even if there are a million of her barred from matrimony by the lack of enough men to go round. The press has set up a cry of alarm and there has been formed a special investigating committee, representing the British Medical association, the Royal college of surgeons and physi cians, the British Medical Women's association and the most eminent representatives of the teaching pro fession in all its ramifications. That the emergency is viewed with no little apprehension is indicated by the statements of officials of this new committee. One of them, George Chalmers, won a headline the other day when he declared: "English women as a race je heading straight for sex extinction, unless there are speedy and funda mental changes in the prevailing system of physical education for the modern girl." Sports Impair Motherhood. Queries are being made into the effect upon adolescent girls of drill and games. Statistics are being gathered from physicians and hospi tals as to the sterility of the "sport- types of women." It is said that the medical profession has long had m isgivinffs and distinguished practi tioners are quoted as stating that strenuous games impair the functions of motherhood in playing them women "spend all tneir capita witn the consequence that they are pro ducing an "emasculated race of men." This is not all. The tendency of the present system of training is to develop the "masculine element," latent in every woman, so that "we shall soon have a species of human being who is neither man nor woman. The alarm is not so big as the headlines; but there is to be an earnest study of the whole question which should add somewhat to the world's supply of statistical wisdom. But if it Is thought the findings war rant barring young women from the strenuous (and more interesting) sports the next task will e to con vince them that they are barred. Once you've seen an English girl jump off a fast bus in Regent street, without dropping a hairpin, you know that won't be the easiest task. As for the superfluous million, it would seem rather pointless to warn them of sterility. Haunted House Wanted. A house hunter has advertised that he "would be grateful for informa tion of any old manor house reason ably close to London where a genuine specter, complete with clanking chains or head in arm, may be clearly seen by the naked eye. bo far he has received no response. His way is perhaps a gross breach of etiquette governing ghost stalking. T never saw a ghost in an old English house but, like everybody else, I know someone who did. J. Hamilton Owens, formerly an officer of the Guaranty Trust com pany in London, ana now eaicor oi r Baltimore newspaper, rented an old house in Seven Oaks, a London sub urb, despite warnings that it was haunted. The ghost, he was assured, was an old woman who passed through certain rooms carrying a bottle of port. Late one night Mrs. Owens saw it clearly "with the naked eye" and Mr. Owens, so the story goes, ransacked the house from cellar to garret in search of it but he saw nothing. Shortly after he left for Baltimore. He was certain that he would see no bottle-carrying ghosts there. CO-ED PAPER BREEZY ONE Special Edition of Barometer Cre ates Furore at Corvallis. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, May 6. (Special.) The annual co-ed Barometer was flashed before the eye of students, faculty and townspeople this morn inff, and more than 2000 copies were sent out by mail before noon. Con gratulations are raining on Habel Bursell of Dallas, editor in chief, by everyone except candidates for stu dent body offices, who are calling down maledictions on her head and the heads of the willing staff who filled the paper with "razz-berries" at their expense. Some the wild flights of fancy put in print by the girls made C. F. Palmer, editor of the Barometer, gasp with dismay. Itis distinctly a wom an's edition, said Palmer, and Edgar Biersdorff, business manager of the regular sheet, viewed with chagrin the ease with which Jeannette Cramer of Grants Pass, co-ed amanager, and Polly Harris of Portland, advertising manager, filled the forms with adver tisements. WOMAN TO BE CANDIDATE Mrs. Alice McXaught to Run for Nomination as Legislator. Mrs. Alice McNaught, democratic candidate for representative in the legislature, was born in Missouri in 1886 of revolution ary stock. Edu cated in the com mon schaols, she learned the print ing trade and was engaged in news paper work for several years, her positions ranging from printer's devil to editorial staff. Mrs. McNaught helped promote the first co-operative labor union paper in Wisconsin and assisted Samuel Gompers in organiz ing trades and labor councils in that state. In 1908 she took up a home stead in South Dakota. In 1913 she came to Portland and has resided here since. Mrs. McNaught believes that she has h.d more than ordinary experi ence with humanity and conditions in general and is well fitted to represent the people. In her platform she favors a stare graduated income tax. and, such other legislation as will distrib ute the tax "--urden equitably. She proposes compulsory voting. Mrs. Mc Naught says she is a consistent dem ocrat, not Indorsed by or pledged to any individual, clique or organization, and if elected cannot be turned from her purpo'e of serving "the people. H0LLEY SWEPT BY FIRE Linn County Town Is Practically Wiped Out in Night Blaze. SWEET HOME. Or., May 6. (Spe cial.) Fire that originated in the store of Ernest Malone Thursday night about 10 o'clock practically wiped out the town of Holley, near here. All that remains of the com munity is two churches, the school house, a blacksmith shop and a few dwellings. The fire reduced the Malone store, including the telephone central and the postoffice, to ruins, and then' de stroyed three other buildings in the immediate vicinity. The flames had gained such headway before they were discovered that it was impos sible to cope with them, and' the crowd of persons attracted to the scene stood by helplessly and watched the Are run its course. The origin of the fire is not known and the losses have not been estimated. The Largest Retailer of Shoes West of Chicago 1017 A striking semi-sports oxford in patent colt with gray suede underlay, black leather sole and military heel. Also in gray suede with patent under- lay- $10.00 H1202 "Radio Sandal." The most popular shoe of the season with young ladies. Model shown is in a variety of shades and leathers, including patent leather, fawn elk and white elk $8S0 The initial presentation of these new patterns, expressing the latest style developments in terms that will appeal to every woman. And, best of all, the present Baker prices are the lowest shoe prices in many years. D1850 One of numerous stylet and patterns in our complete assortment of white footwear. This model is in fine white calf with white calf underlay. It has a white leather sole, welt and heel $10J00 362 Alder Street, Between Park and W. Park 308 Washington Street 270 Morrison Street LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO PORTLAND DETROIT RADIO PLEASES PARENTS Dutiful Son Sends Wireless Mes sage 250 0 Miles Over Sea. MARSHFIELD, Or., May 6. Wire less made it possible yesterday for u dutiful son to remember his mother and father with a note of reassurance. Such a message was delivered to Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Harris from their son Wayne, on the revenue craft Algon quin, 2500 miles away. Mr. and Mrs. Harris received a let ter 1 from Wayne last week stating that the Algonquin, on her way to Alaskan waters, was at Ketchikan un dergoing repairs, following her buf feting of several days in rough weather. The message, which was delivered to the parents through the local naval radio station, said the Algonquin was nearing Juneau, the weather was bet ter and all on board were well. HOSPITAL TO BE ENLARGED SFXIWOOD INSTITUTION FILES PETITION WITH COUNCIL. Addition and Other Improvements to Cost About $50,000 Are Plan of Management. by Four-Mile canal will dam and be begun the connecting as soon as the snow is off the ground. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII. MAIDS TO QUEEN NAMED Pageant to Feature Pacific Univer sity May Festival. PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, Forest Grove., Or., May 5. (Special.) Maids to attend Miss Lucile Robinson as Queen Lucile I of Pacific university May festival May 19 have been chosen. They are Ethel Tupper, Edith Weaver, Marjorie Wilson, Esther Turner, Celia Bernards and Mildred Maple. The coronation will take place early during- the festival, A nBP-oant. '"Ttif- AwaVATitntr nt Spring" will be given, and in the afternoon the Badgers baseball team will play Whitman college. The sophomore class will present the an nual play in the evening and the lettermen will hold their annual ball May 20. Night Editor of Emerald Named. Through a petition presented Dr. John J. Sellwood, president Sellwood hospital, and about 20 other residents of the district, a permit was asked of the city council yesterday to construct a brick addition to the hospital. The location is at Umatilla and Harney streets, between Thir teenth and Fifteenth streets. The petition is said to bear the names of all property owners having holdings within 200 feet of the proposed ex tension. The addition and alterations to be made, according to Dr. Sellwood, will j cost about ?50,000. The new structure! will be 53 by 36 feet 'and two stories high. On the first floor will be private rooms and on the second com plete new surgical and X-ray depart ments. There will be two complete surgeries, with necessary doctors rooms, dressing rooms and similar appointments. Capacity of the hospital will be increased from 63 to 114 beds through construction of the addition and ex tensive remodeling of the present building. A central heating plant will be installed, together with new electric elevator, electric light signal system and other improvements. Application for permission to equip and maintain a sanitarium in the frame building in Everett street, be tween Twenty-third street and Cor nell road, was filed with the city auditor by C. D. Booth. Rodent Drive Is Successful. GRANTS PASS, Or., May 6. (Spe cial.) The Josephine county rodent drive, just completed, was a success from the standpoint of the interest aroused and the acreage covered, said County Agent Howell. The farmers s co-operated in covering the non-resi- S (fe'nt and government lands, the poi- s son for this having been furnished S by the government and county court. A total of 10,291 acres of non-resi dent land and 17.020 acres of govern-I merit lands were covered. 4 5-Pound Salmon Is Taken. GRANTS PASS. Or.. May 6. (Spe cial.) The largest salmon taken this year in Rogue river was caught yes- terday by Claud Bardon. It weighed S 45 pounds and was taken on a short rod on a No. 6 spinner- It required S 3d minutes to land. I UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, May 6. (Special.) Donald Woodward of Portland was appointed night edi tor of the Daily Emerald yesterday. Woodward is a freshman in the school of journalism and has been a member of the staff all year. Four students have been made members of the staff. Those promoted are: Velma Farnham, Sheridan; Jessie Thompson Portland; Theodore Janes, Pendleton, and Mar garet Skavlan, Portland. Water Turned Into CanaJ. MEDFORD, Or., May 6. (Special.) Water was turned into the upper canal of the new Medford irrigation system Wednesday night. It reached Bradshaw drop Thursday night and ! water was turned into the district main canal Friday morning. Provid ing no serious leaks are found, it will be only a matter of a few days until water is ready on the east side of the valley. The work of building the LOSER OF JOB THREATENS Injunction Suit Indicated Because of Mill Creek Award. THE DALLES. Or., May 6. (dpe- I clal.) Threat of injunction proceed- j Ings against the county court to hold ; up work on the Mill creek market ; road, the contract for which was let ' yesterday to the United Contracting company, was made today by H. R. . Newport of the Newport Construction company of Hermiston. Newport's I bid was $72.74 less than that of the : successful bidder. The county court is standing firm. ! Read The Oregon! an classified adis. from the 30th district composed of' however, and announced this after- Multnomah and Clackamas counties. noon that no change In the award - . j would be made. 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