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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 11, 1932 ROSES TO BEDECK CITY FOR FESTIVAL CORONATION QUEEN ROSE FESTIVAL TO BE BEAUTIFUL AFFAIR. DISTRIGTSTD SHOW SUNNYSIDE CHAPTER, ORDER OF DE MOLAY, TO PRESENT ' . FARCE COMEDY. PUBLIC EDUCATION THEIR BEST R05ES Downtown District to Be Decorated This Week. Two Silver Trophies Are Offered to Winners. Funds to Rehabilitate City Schools Only Salvation. EVENTS WILL BE GALA COMMITTEES ARE NAMED SITUATION FACES CHAOS Queen Harriet and Princesses to Arrive on Barge on Morn ing of Opening Day. Certificates of Merit Are to Be Given to All Who Score More Than 70 Points. ; .. Unless Voters Give Aid Wbolo System Promises Collapse for Lack of Money. la With the opening day of the 15th annual Rose Festival now only a little more than one week distant. President Hauser and all members of the festival board of governors. , together with the many scores of public-spirited men and women as aisting in preliminary activities, are all working at high pressure. Festival decorations, which will make a gala pathway of pennants, streamers, festoons of greens and blooms and hanging baskets of ferns and roses for a distance of 90 blocks, are rapidly going up. The down town section will take on a festive appearance by the end of this week. Tentative Programme Issued. A forecast of the main events on the programme is given in a tenta tive schedule issued by the festival officials yesterday. Tuesday morning, June 20, Queen Harriet and the royal princesses of her retinue, escorted -by a grand water pageant of decorated river craft, will arrive from her mythical domain "somewhere up the Willam ette" on her royal barge. The royal party will disembark at the foot of Belmont street on the east side, where the Supple-Ballin and Jones docks will be elaborately decorated by the East Side Business Men's club. The royal party will be wel comed to the commonwealth, the tate and the city by Prime Minister Dundore of the Hoyal Rosarins, Governor Olcott and Mayor Baker, respectively, after which, under es oort of the Royal Kosarians Queen elect Harriet and party will proceed to luncheon In the gold room of the Multnomah hoteL Crowning to Be at 3i3(. At 2:30 P. M. Princess Harriet will be crowned Queen Harriet with elaborate ceremonies at Laurelhurst park. ThiB event will be followed by allegorical dancing by groups of children, and other features. At 4 P. M. Queen Harriet will officially open the rose show at the armory and at B P. M. will open the festival center, in the south park blocks. A leading event of Wednesday ' will be the festival regatta, which will be Btaged between the Burnside and Hawthorne bridges on the Wil lamette. The programme includes motorboat, rowing and canoe races, swimming, diving and surf-board riding, canoe tilting and other aquatic sports. Fast motorboats from all over the Pacific coast will compete. A series of thrilling shell races will be staged by F. R. Newjil of the Portland Rowing club. Jack Cody of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic association will supervise a high-class swimming, diving and surfboard-riding exhibition. Roy T. Bishop of Pendleton will be admir.l of the regatta. Formal Ball to Be Given. Following the festival regatta' a formal ball, known as the admiral's ball, will be given at the Hotel Mult nomah. Visiting naval officers will be among the guests of honor. Another event of Wednesday aft ernoon will be the mass meeting of Oregon women to be held at the auditorium at 3 P. M. in honor of Alice Robertson of Oklahoma, only woman member of congress, who will attend the festival as the per sonal representative of President Harding. Thursday afternoon Clay S. Morse, festival director in charge of athletics, will offer a lengthy pro grams of track and field events, vaudeville and circus acts, drill team contests and various other fea tures, including a Hunt club drill and probably some thrilling airplane specialties. The event of Thursday evening will be the spectacular fireworks programme in charge of Fred W. German, festival director. In addi tion to a lengthy schedule of day light fireworks and brilliant spec tacular displays , comprising many novel effects, there will be an at tack by 500 Indiana in war Bonnets, paint and beaded costumes, upon an early immigrant train of covered wagons. The Redmen will also stage an Indian war dance. A sham bat tle, depicting an active sector in France, with a detachment of Unit ed States soldiers participating, and an aerial battle between two war planes will be other features. The fireworks display will be held at the Portland baseball park. Twenty fourth and Vaughn streets. Thursday evening the annual Royal Rosarian ball will be held at Cotillion hall. Queen Harriet and her court will be guests of honor. Parade to Be Big Event. - The grand floral parade, premier vent of the festival, will take place Friday. It is being assembled in 16 comprehensive divisions by Percy G. Allen, festival director, with the as sistance of scores of energetic men and women workers. Admiral Henry T. Mayo, formerly commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, will be grand marshal of the floral pageant and wlllbe assisted by his staff of ficers and 40 aides, ' A notable feature will be the record-breaking number of entries from outside cities, floats being sent from Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Fran cisco, Vancouver and Victoria; B. C. and many other distant points. A total of $S000 in cash prizes and scores of teautiful cups and trophies will be awarded. Ball to End Festival. The concluding events of the fes- . tival will be the grand carnival ball to be held at the armory Friday night in charge of Directors Cul bertson, German and Slatky. and the Whitney Boys' chorus of 2000 voices at Multnomah field, in charge of W. C. Culbertson, festival director. A feature of the Whitney Boys' chorus will be the singing of Bobbie Mur ray, 12-year-old boy soprano. The rose show in the central hall Of the armory and the sportsmen's tourist show, which will occupy the wine and other portions of the ar mory, will be open throughout the four-day festival period. Clothing Denied, Charges Wife. Since their marriage in Vancouver In 1919 Richard D. Gross gave neither his wife, Ina May Gross, nor child. Ina, aged 2, any clothing', as serts Mrs. Gross in a suit for di vorce filed in th'e circuit court yes terday. She declares that he spent hie money on lottery tickets against her wishes, "always thinking he was going to win something by playing these lotteries." Other divorce suits filed yesterday were Marie against Frederick J. Newman, Evelyn E. against Ben C Lauterbach. V HOUCHT AL1JIG AHD DOUCJU kXC H I T lfiT J, ' - - .Mi-- ' . ' J DESIGN FOR jCOROJf ATIOJT STAND PREPARED BY HOTJGHTALLNG A DOUGA3T. A beautiful stand for the coronation of Queen Harriett during the Rose Festival Is to be prepared by a committee of Laurelhurst Hvomen from a design worked out by Houghtaling & Dougan, Portland architects. The stand will be festooned with greenery and roses and will have a sort of canopy effect worked out over head. The stand will be placed on a site selected in Laurelhurst park and it is the intention to make the coronation one of the big events of the festival. Queen Harriett and her eight princesses in waiting will participate. There will also be allegorical dancing following the actual coronation. WILD AND WOODY KOUND-CP FEATURE ORGANIZED. Big Annual Show at Pendleton Will Be Under Direction of Efficient Staff. PENDLETON, Or., Jpne 10. (Spe cial.) Reorganization of the per sonnel that will stage Happy Can yon, the big night show of the Pendleton round-up, was achieved when the officers indorsed by the board of managers of the Pendle ton Commercial association, the real director cf the corporation, met and laid preliminary plans. Happy Canyon is held during round-up week, which is set t'nis year for September 21, 22- and 23. It is a reproduction of a will west town in all its wooliness and the show proper is divided into two parts. The first part is a programme in the arena before the big grand stands, where the cominu "of the white man to the land of thf- Indian is. pictured in a colorful pageant. Following this is the building up of the frontier town and after a two-hour programme of wild west happenings in Happy Canyon the gates of the town are thrown open and the spectators are allowed to enter the town and participate in Roy T. RlHhop, admiral of regatta for Rose Festival. dances, gambling and drink at the Happy Canyon bars. Old-time gamblers are on deck for the operation of roulette wheels; faro dealers and poker sharks are I ready to gamble with the visitors j who are supplied by the Happy I canyon panic wnn iu notes, tne dancehall is ' conducted as an. old- time cowtown affair and every year since the inception of the show the entire pavilion has been packed from the opening minute until the last stroke of the clock. Both Pen dleton folk and visitors don the col ored silk ties, the cowpuncher's garb and the cowgirl's rigout, and the air Is usually filled with powder smoke from the boys shooting up the town. James Johns Jr. of Pendleton this year will head the personnel of the show, James Estes will be vice-president and Claud I. Barr, secretary of the commercial association, will be a - v M fl "if jf I fv Y" i J 1 secretary-treasurer. As arena dlrec-1 tor Philo Rounds.will have charge of the first part of the programme. Music for this will be in the hands of Bert Jerard, while H. J. Warner will have charge of the pageants. Glen Storie will have charge of the Indians, who are a big feature of the show, and Harold Brock will arrange the scenery and handle the electrical effects. J. B. Welch will be chief of police in Happy Canyon. In the dancehall for the second part of the big night show Lester Cronin wil be master of cere monies, with Dr. H. M. Hanavan as the gambling boss and John Murray as chief bartender. Rudy Mollner and Jim Bowler will be the official bankers for the wild west town. SUMMER TERM TO OPEN Y. M. C. A. ACTIVITY TO BE GIN NEXT THURSDAY. College Preparatory Classes to Be Taught at Institute Last i ing Ten Weeks. The summer day classes of the college preparatory school of the T. M. C. A. will start next Thursday. The faculty for the summer has been completed. The work will last ten weeks, closing August 23, it was announced yesterday. The complete staff follows: L. G. Nichols, director; Hugh Miller, reg istrar; R. P. Burkhead, dean of academic schools; D. B. Worthing- ton, principal; C. E. Lewis, mathe matics; K. McMillan, English; G. W. Brace, chemistry; C. L. Gates, short hand and typewriting; M. A. Albin, business; C. E. Lenon, history; F. C Robinson, mathematics; F. W. Park, English. New class-room equipment has been installed. The laboratories for chemistry and physics have new lighting and research equipment, which will be available for-scie'nce students. The night school, which will run until August 23, has arranged its programme to give students who have, only one or two credits to make up an opportunity to work during the day and attend the night school. The college- preparatory school, said the announcement, is fully ac credited by the University of Oregon, the Oregon Agricultural college, the state superintendent of instruction and by all Colleges of higher learn ing in the state. . A certificate of diploma from the preparatory school will receive the same recognition as high school diplomas. Physical privileges, including use of the gymnasium, swimming pool, handball courts, indoor track and club facilities, will be opened to the summer students. . - The boys' summer school of the T. M. C. A. will open Monday. June 19. and close July 28. Registration will open tomorrow. The school is operated for five types of boys. The boy -who has been conditioned in one or more subjects; the boy who is weak in same subjects; the youth who has lost time in school because of sickness; the youngster who has failed to pass his grade, and the boy who wishes to attain unusual ad vancement for his age. The faculty will consist of H. M. Barr, principal of Irvington school; A. J. Prideaux. principal of Wood stock school; W. A. Pettys, principal of Peninsula school: H. W. Ager. principal of Beach school, and Elmer Brown, principal of Rose City Park school. CLUBHOUSE IN PROSPECT IRVINGTON CLUB TO DISCUSS PROJECT TUESDAY NIGHT. Members Argue That New Build ing Would Be Great Asset to Community Served. Plans for the erection of a new clubhouse for the Irvington club and the beautifying of th'e club grounds will probably take defi nite form at a meeting of the new board of directors, to be held TueS' day night. For some time the subject of a new clubhouse has been under dls cussion, and the members of the club feel that, with the reorganization of the club effected and the in debtedness against the property disposed of, the time is propitious for the construction of a new build ing. They argue that a new club house would be a great asset to the community, and assert that the present one is inadequate, lacking the' facilities necessary for the full enjoyment of the members. A number of additional activities might be added to the club, they maintain, with a new home. Pre liminary plans provide for a billiard room, bowling alleys, a card room, reading room, swimming pool and convertible dance and reception hall with a stage at one end in the pro posed structure. The club would be open seyen days a week and would form a center for community enter prises. While the plans have not yet crys talized, it is suggested that the club property be bonded to raise funds to erect the clubhouse; that it be erected on the north epd of the property; that the old clubhouse be torn down and the tennis courts ex tended over the present site, and that the olub property be landscaped and beautified with trees, shrubs and flowers. . There is a strong sentiment among club members that, in view of the city having acquired the old Irving ton race track property on one side of the club and the Versteeg brick yard grounds on the other for s plaryground, there is no longer neces sity for continuing the club play grounds. . ' - The present officers and trustees of the club are F. C. Fetter.' L. S. Martin, A. L. Andrus, A. R. Munder, Walter A. Goss, O. L. Price, W. Lair Thompson, w. H. Cullers, S. C Ras mussen, E. A. Johnson. Dr. E. P. Steinmetz and E. M. Welch. . MANY COMING TO MEET Large Attendance Is Expected at Home Economics Convention. OREGON AGRICULTURAL. COL LEGE, Corvallis, June 10 (Special.) Letters pouring in to the office of Miss. Ava B. Milan, dean of the school of home economics, indi cate an attendance of more than 500 delegates from all parts of the United States at the national home economics convention . on the cam pus, August 1 to 5. The states at the farthest ex tremes of the country Rhode Island, Florida and Arizona, will send some of the largest groups of visitors to Oregon. Illinois and Iowa will be well represented in numbers, and Miss Margaret Fedde, head of home economics at the university of Neb raska,' says that her delegates are looking forward to the visit to the Oregon Agricultural college and to the state or Oregon. . . ' A mew feature of the 1922 Portland Rose Show at the armory will be the district rose exhibits. Through the co-operation of tho central library and the 15 branch libraries of -the city committees have been appointed which will- be representative of the rose growers of Portland as a whole. The exhibit for each district will consist of one basket containing dt least 25 roses, which can be either one variety or mixed as to variety or color; two small vases each con taining six rosee, and- a box exhibit containing 18 rosee, each of a sepa rate named variety. , y To the district obtaining the high est number of points in the three days a - Handsome silver: trophy, which has been donated for the pur pose by. The Oregonian, will - be awarded. This trophy will become the permanent property of the dis trict making the highest score and will be turned over to the branch library in that district for a per manent exhibit, evidencing the abil Uy of the residents in that "com munity to grow perfect ; roses. Certificates to Be Given. The second prize will be a hand some silver trophy awarded by the Portland Rose sooiety. To other dis tricts scoring more than 70 points will be awarded a suitably framed certificate of merit, which will be displayed in their branch library in recognition of their effoTts. H. H. Haynes of the Portland Rose society- is chairman of the district rose exhibits; Miss Nellie Fox of the central library is serving as asso ciate chairman, and Josephine H. Forney of the publicity department of the Chamber of Commeree is act ing as secretary of the committee. The personnel of the entire dis trict rose committee follows: Arleta Mary Henthorne: Mrs. Mary Ii. Fishburn, 4620 Seventy-first street South east: Mrs. P. S. Morton, 4308 Sixty-third street Southeast; Miss Edith Steele, 6715 Forty-forth avenue Southeast. Brooklyn Mrs. Ethel Hoffman; Mrs. Minnie Moore. 582 East Ninth street; Mrs. O. C. Buchanan, 584 East Ninth street; Mrs. B. Kennedy, 584 Bast iNintn street. East Portland Helen McRaith: Mrs. Benjamin Vltow, 1197 East Salmon street; Mrs. A. L. DuPuy, 1121 East Burnside; Mrs. B. E. Bondurant, 339 East Thirty-fourth street. Gresham Norma Peck, Mrs. . Fred Hcney,. Miss Mabel Inelis, Mrs. Max Schneider. Lents Mrs. Ruth Pierce;" Mrs. Fred Gelsler, Sola Fifty-eighth avenue South east; Mrs. R. Alles, 9112 Fifty-sixth avenue; Mrs. Inez Richardson, 5817 Eighty-eighth street Southeast. Montavilla Miss- Etnelwyn Badger Mrs. Victor M. Taft, 17 East Eighty- fourth street; Mrs. J. H. Klser, 1819 East Morrison: Mrs. E. E. Burdick, 17 East Eighty-first street. North Portland Ruth Crocker; Mrs. R. L. Trestrall, 1163 Moore street; Mrs. H. H. Emmons, 1201 Missouri avenue; Mrs. Clyde White,- 249 View street; Dr. L N. Palmer, 142V4 Killingsworth. Peninsula Anne McClelland; Mrs. H. E. Kelso, 1527 Oatman street; Mrs. H. W. Gerke, 1571 VI Hard street; lira Laura Taylor, 1548 Boston street. Sellwood Hazel White: Mrs. Theodore Noll, 1667 East Thirteenth street: Mrs. Prank Lowe, 585 Tacoma street; Oiiye seller,- eau snerrett. street. South Portland Miss Zerlina Ixiewen- berg; Mrs. Ida H. Beyer, 230 Wood street; Mrs. P. E. Stowsll, 834 Corbett street;. Mrs. R. B. Poucher, 146 Gibbs street. St. Johns Miss Maud Covington: Mrs. J. A. Manning, H14 South Edison street; Mrs. J. W. Bottom, 928 South Jersey street; Mrs. Hazel Engzeli, 724 South Jersey street. Vernon Miss Ruth Montague: Mrs. R M. Togue, 1068 Northeast Twenty sixth street ; Mrs. D. L. Greene, 1005 Northeast Thirty-third street: Mrs. J. B. Clarke, 994 Northeast Seventeenth street. Woodstock Miss Carrie Muessdorffer: jvirs. .Myrtle underwood.' 6306 Fifty-sec ond street Southeast; Miss Maggie Irwhi, 1187 Ninth avenue Southeast: Mrs. Lee. 991 East Thirty-seventh street South east. Alblna Evelyn T. Ross, branch libra rian; Mrs. Charles King, Mrs. S. I. Koeh- ler; Miss villa Irving. Committees named by Jesse A. Currey to represent Portland and Willamette Kelgnts: Portland Heights Mrs. Homer D. An- gell, 749 Upper Drive; Mrs. Lawrence Wheeler, 501 Montgomery Drive; Mrs. r. r. K.enaall, 634 Myrtle street. Willamette Heights Mrs. Dwight Ed wards, 730 Weidler street; Mrs. Hicks Mrs. Burnett Goodwin. 358 North Thirtv- secona street. FUG ILLflElie ELKS TO HOLD AJTNTJAL CERE MONY NEXT WEDNESDAY. Boy Scouts to Co-operate in Pay ing Homage to National Em 1 Mem of United States. Flag day will be observed by Portland lodge of Eilts at Multno mah field on. the night of Wednes day, June 14, in a patriotic and Impressive manner. The laws of the grand lodge of Elks call -for this annual ceremony and lodges all over the United States will celebrate the event. Judge Walter H. Evans, chairman or the iod-g-e s welfare commi.tte which has charge of the arrange ments. has announced that an ex cellent programme has been worked jout and the Boy Scouts of Portland will take part ...In -the exercises. It is expected that over 1000 members of the various Scouts' organizations wtll be present Scout Leader Brock man has expressed great interest in the affair and has promised hearty co-operation. Elks and Boy Scouts will assemble at Elks' temple at 8:31) P.M. Wednes day and will .march, to Multnomah field headed by the Elks' band There the following programme will be given: - -.- "Star-Spangled Banner," -B. - P. O. E. band; address of welcome. Exalted Ruler Dr. Earl V. Morrow; prayer. Chaplain Harry Hippie; history of the flag;-altar service, eBquire and officers; music, na tional folk song; oath of allegiance. Boy Scouts: patriotic - address,- Judge P. C&vanaugh; Elks' American creed "America." r The Multnomah club, has donated the use of the field, but the Elks will erect a suitable pla-tform and have the entire field well lighted. Offender of Girl Sentenced. William B. Baugh, convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a 5 -year-old girl, was sentenced to six months in the county jail yes terday by Judge Kanzler of the court of domestic relations. : vV YY-'" -; Y - ? Y 1 - J Jfcrjsv" Js?&2Z JF&zcTzjr&r JVTxfj' jyzZsrr-y Jgzce- m YY4 - j W-Yy I pw n I M ' y- -,;v I Y-, p I M ; Y - VffYY IE MOLO GIVE PLAY PROCEEDS TO HE USED TO PURCHASE UNIFORMS. , Show Tomorrow Is to Be Followed by Ceremonial Wednesday at Auditorium. v 'Charley'9 Aunt," a farcical com edy in three aots, will be presented under the auspices of the Sunny- side chapter, Order of De Molay for boys, at the auditorium tomorrow night at 8:1'5. This will be- followed Wednesday night at the auditorium, by special ceremonials exemplifying the De Molay degrees before the grand lodge of Oregon, A. F. and A M." At that time a class of 6a boyB will be initiated into the Sunnyside De Molay chapter, and it is expected that other candidates will be fur nished by other Oregoncnd Wash ington lodges. "'-.. The proceeds will be used to pur chase uniforms for the patrol and band of the Sunnyside De Molay chapter. The organization is plan ning on having one of -the best pa trols and bands on the coast and it is the intention to have the mem- oers properly decked: out in uni forms. The comedy is full of humorous situations and the players have been public is assured of a good ama teur production. The boys taking part in the produot'on are all mem bers of the De Molay organization.. The girls are all selected from Portland high schools and all have had experience in giving plays. The cast of characters includes the following: Colonel Sir Francis Chesney Bart, late I Indian service, Frank E. De Spain ; Stephen Snettigue. solicitor. Oxford. Hy- man Solko; Jack Chesney, Charles Wyke- bam, ixra e ancourt Babberley, under graduates St. Olde's college. Oxford, Walter Malcolm, Fred C. West, Joe A Fraser; Brassett, a college scout, Paul Krausse; Donna Lucia D'AIvardorez, from Brazil, Miss Mary Rice; Kitty- Verdon, Spettigue's ward, Miss Myrtle Anslow: Amy Spettigue, Spettigue's niece, - M.iss Irene Fournler; Ella Delahay, an orphan. Miss Floretta Lowlt. , Synopsis. - Act X Jack Chesney's room in college. "When pious frauds are dispensations." Hudibraus. Act II Garden outside Jack Chesney's rooms. "While there's tea there's hope." PInero. Act III Drawing room, Spettigue's house. "Dinner lubricates business." Boswell. . Time The present. . Commemoration week, Oxford. Besides the initiation of candi dates features of the ceremonial Wednesday night will include the receiving of Frank S. Baillie, most worshipful grand master, represent ing the Masons of Oregon, and Will iam J. Kerr, district deputy of graftid council Order of De Molay for boys. LODGE MAN IS HONORED Oddfellows and Rebekahs Tender Ij. E. Carter Reception. Members of the Oddfellows and Rebekah lodges of Portland and other cities of the state were pres ent Friday night at the Oddfellows' hall to attend a reception in honor of L E. -, Carter, who was elected grand warden- of the grand lodge of Oregon at the re cent state conven tion at Eugene: f. 4!fe, 1 .The affair was I ST I Panned by Sa maritan loage iNo. of which Mr. Carter has f o r many years been a member. Mr. Carter was presented with a gold watch bearing the fra ternal emblem as a token of the es teem In which he is held. : , ' Building Code Up Wednesday. The new building code as revised under direction of a special com mittee from the Chamber of Com merce will come before: the city council Wednesday for discussion and probable adoption. Inasmuch as it was once before up to the council and was referred back that minor revisions might be incorpor ated, it is thought the code will now b accepted with few if any changes at the council session.- In general the revised code is designed to ease upon on obsolete restrictions and to encourage a maximum of building. This was largely in view when the business Interests took hold- of the matter. - C7os x5r . kit-'-' c 1 tYIf " 1 V jY u Yf S TAKEN BY 1 SOS EPISCOPAL CHURCH CONVEN TION TO DRAW BIG CROWD Boca! Committees Busy Preparing for Visitors Who Will Be Here in September. More than 1500 reservations have already been made for the accommo dation of" delegates to the general convention of the Episcopal church to be held in this city September 6 to 23. Mrs. C. N. Huggins, chairman of the housing committee, reported yes terday that an average of 50 reser vations are being made a day, indi eating that in point , of attendance the gathering will be one of the big gest ever accommodated in Port land. Mrs. Huggins said that ample accommodations in hotels and pri vate homes were available. Under the leadership, of Dr. H. C. Fixott plans are being worked out for' club privileges for visitors who desire to play golf or to be accorded other club hosnitalitv. Trios bv automobile out the Columbia River highway and around the city will also be given all delegates. The halls committee has not only secured the use of the city audi torium for the housing of the con vention, but has also gained the promise of the Labor Temple with its nine halls and large rooms and the auditoriums of various churches about the city for the use of con vention gatherings. It is consid ered that ample provision has been made for the accommodation of all sessions, both general and special. From the moment the deputies ar rive at the station it Is the intention to have men and women welcome them and act as their guides and see that they are taken to their hotels by auto. The official auto mobiles, a fleet of which has been obtained for the handling of con vention visitors, will be marked with a purple cross, the official badge of the convention. At the auditorium, the Multnomah hotel, the depot and the convention offices there will at all times be quali0ed information dispensers. Carl Denton, one of the leading musical authorities in the west and the conductor of the symphony or chestra, is training a large choir to provide music at the opening serv ice..; The different musical societies and" glee clubs are co-operating in in enthusiastic manner in order to make the musical side of the con vention an unusual feature. STILL OWNER CONVICTED - - Clatsop Connty Resident Found Not to Have Sold Liquor. : Harry Sackett of Jewell,- Clatsop county, was found guilty of posses sion of a still and liquor, 'but not guilty of the charge of selling, by a jury -in the federal court yesterday He will receive sentence tomorrow, William Ober of Clatsop county, who was tried before Federal Judge Bean on the change of manufactur ing moonshine, was acquitted by a Jury in five minutes. Marshal Hotchkiss was advised that Manuel Rivers, Pete Roko aid E. J, Vanhorn had been arrested al Klamath on charges of violating the national prohibition act. Deputy .Marshal Davidson will go there to bring the three men to Portland. Unless the oters of the district approve the $3,000,000 bond Isaua and the U.OOO.OOO tax levy for the rehabilitation of Portland schools at next Saturday's" election, a chaotic condition must ensue. Such is the opinion of Assistant School Super intendent Rice, who declined to make a specific prophecy, but who admitted that failure of the two measures might mean the enforced shortening of the school year or half-day sessions In eome grades. "The cost of education has ad vanced during recent years," said Mr. Rice, ""keeping pace with costs in other lines. An important factor in thisi increased cost is the higher percentage of pupil who remain In school to finish the eighth grade and the high school. In 1900, with a population of 90,000. we had a school enrollment of 12.000, of which 860. or about 7 per cent, were in high school. At present, with a population of 275,000, we have an enrollment of 40.000, of which 9000, or 22 per cent, are in high school. That i. while the nonulation of the city has in creased three times, the high school attendance has increased more than ten times. This causes an added ex pense, since high school education Is -more expensive than that in the elementary schools. . l.atm is v. .... n . -An American educator recently went to England. In conversation with an English educator concern ing secondasy education, the latter said that his country did not oner training free to all in their second- ary schools, giving as his reason that they could not afford It. He f urther added, addressing the Amer ican: Too cannot afford it, either, in your country, but you don't know it- We, in America, disagree witn this point of view. We believe that if our democracy is to endure we can afford it. In fact, we- cannot afford not to do It. "It takes many factors to make a successful school system. The chief factor is the child. Without him schools would not be maintained. Portland is not lacknig here, as we have 40,000 of the finest boys and girls to be found in any city In the nation. Another factor Is the teacher. Here again our city stands at the forefront, with 140O well trained, conscientious and hard working teachers. However, these factors alone will not make a school. We must have buildings and tools to work with, and that is the handi cap under which we are working now. Of 1272 school rooms at the present time, more than 200, or 16 per cent, are portables. . Most .; of these were built during the war in the interests of economy, in order that the entire resources of -the na tion might be used in winning the war. These buildings are unsuit able for school purposes in a modern school system in a progressive, up-to-date American city. They are hard to ventilate and to heat, cold in winter and hot in. summer. Re cently the temperature registered more than 90 degrees in many of them. Adult Education at Stake. "Adult education is one of the .activities which will be eliminated beginning next September unless additional funds for school purposes are provided. Our public schools are the builders of citizens. What our nation is to be a generation from now will be determined by the effi ciency of the schools of today. How ever, many have reached adult age without having received proper training. It is the function of the state to iniprove and make more efficient the citizenship of those who have already reached that state, as well as to train the young. Many come to our shores from for eign lands. The work that is being done to Americanize these should not be discontinued. "If we leave out of the account all the usual arguments .for good schools, there is one big considera tion that must not be loet sight of. and that is the effect upon the city's I future of maintaining a school sys tern. We spend a great deal of ef fort and money every year in ad vertising the advantages of our city and state in order that we may at tract people to come and make their homes here. The biggest attraction any community can offer is an effi cient, up-to-date school system. Failure to provide and maintain good) schools will nullify all the ef fort that our "booster" clubs can possibly make. "If additional funds are not forth coming the outcome cannot be fore cast It may mean the shortening of the school year, or half-day ses sions in some grades. A further elimination of activities may be nec essary. At any rate, the outcome will be a backward step of many years for the schools of our city." ROTARY CLUB BACKS- ISSUE School Board Asked to Employ Construction Engineer. The Rotary club of Portland has indorsed the $3,000,000 bond issue and the $1,000,000 special tax levy for school district No. 1 upon the condition that the school hoard, be fore election, act favorably upon the report of the committee appointed by the city club to investigate this matter. The gist of this report is to the effect that if the bond issue and tax levy carry, the school board Will conduct, the expenditures in a busi nesslike manner and will employ a competent man, who shall carry out the policy of the school board in construction matters, without hin drance, after once these policies have been established. ., The public affairs committee of the Rotary club, which investigated this matter, believes it is impossible to administer properly such funds for constructon purposes throueh a committee of the board appointed for this purpose. : , ' Pioneer Day Celebrated. WHITE SALMON, Wash., June 10. (Special.) Friday, June 9, was Pioneer day for the Trout Lake-Gilmer-Glenwood districts. The at tendance was large, owing to good roads, the early morning rain hav- , ing settled the dust, which was very bad. ... ,