-THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 8, 1923 11 SETTLEMENT CENTER PERFORMS UNUSUAL AND VALUABLE SERVICE IN WELFARE WORK Twenty-one Nationalities, Representing 13 Religious Creeds, Attend Bible School, While Organization Covers Many Broad Channels for Betterment of Humanity and Higher Standard of Living. ; ' - .. .. . . , WHILE the mind of-the world is filled with. wars, and while - much of national leadership is concerned with emphasizing the spirit of national suspicion, distrust and hatred, a striking: example of a countervailing, impulse toward in ternational unification and religious cohesiveness io shown in the enroll ment of 21 nationalities, represent ing 13 religious faiths. In the daily vacation Bible school conducted dur ing the summer months by the Port land settlement center, the home missionary work of the Methodist Episcopal church of Portland. "Those 13 faiths included Jews and Gentiles. Catholics and Protestants, and when our enrollment reached 847 and such splendid interest was evidenced I felt the settlement cen ter had justified its existence if it never did anything elss," said Misa Olla Grace Davis, superintendent. . For the last 13 years the settle ment, of which Mrs. A. B. Manley is president, has conducted a compre hensive social work along welfare, recreational, medical, educational and religious lines, 'touching the live of thousands of persons, both children and adults. The kindergarten class meets very school morning at 9:30, with Mrs. Z. H. Lane in charge, and last year the total attendance was 4047. The girls' sewing class, which meets every .Wednesday with Miss Jennie Hoyt In charge, had a total attend ance last year of 7S5. The attend ance at the boys' gymnasium classes last year totaled 928 and the girls' attendance was 1150. There was a total attendance of 400 at the Girl Reserves meetings and of 364 at the Boy Scout meetings. F. A. Hiebler Is In charge of boys' work and Miss Martha Buck is the girls' worker. There were 1138 attending the wel fare days. The mothers' meetings bring together mothers of all ages, types and nationalities. The meet ings are held both at the center and at the homes of the women on invi-' 11 1 PROPAGANDA HELD VEIL . TO REAL NEAR-EAST FACTS Charles V. Furlong Peclares Turks Have Been Misjudged and Condemned Without Having Chance to Voice Defense. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 29. To the Editor.)- In The Oregonian on or about September 18. in your leading: editorial entitled "The Unchangeable Turk," you 'headed that article by reference to me. as follows: 'Those, like Colonel Fur long:, who say that the Turk is a much maligned individual and who palliate his monstrous crime of massacre at Smyrna by saying:: "The Greeks did it first,' do not give enough weight to the fundamental facts; among which the unchanged and unchangeable character of the Turks is the chief. They accept at par the pretense that the Turks as Mohammedans are fighting for the rights and ideals of their faith, when. In fact, their religious seal and that of Mohammedans in other lands is' being exploited 'by the Pashas to maintain political power." In view of the fact that my posi tion in the matter is not only mis judged in this editorial, but is mis stated, I trust you will kindly allow me to correct this statement in the columns of your esteemed paper. You refer, I suppose, to my inter view gives to your paper on the Turkish situation, and published In your issue of September 15, or pos sibly the 16ln. which you headed, "Author Defends Turk Operations." Tour reporter, in what was a very well and accurately reported inter H,VjV ki 1v ' 1 Ut f .& - a 4 uLi r-- 4, At p -Girls scvrlne class at Met- tlemcat center. Center Board of directors, which meets monthly to sew and plan the work t the settlement, First row, left t riRht Mrs. A. B. Mnnley, presi dent; Mrs. W. O. Shepmrd, confer ence president- of the Woman's Home Missionary society; Mrs. L. Jasper, secretary Mrs E. K Nib lin, treawnrer. Second row Mrs. fr L. White, Mrs. K. P. Staples, Mrs. M. K. Stevens, Mrs. Liiiy Perry. Third row Mrs. Julia Rohlfinpr, Mrs. I. T. Kna-llsh, Mrs. T. W. Collier, Mrs. H. Peterson. Fourth row Mrs. C C. Smith, Mrs. N. E. Pettbody, Mrs, K. J. Onslow, Mrs. H. M. Boles. At bottom Miss Olla Grace Davis, superintendent of the center. tation. The total attendance last year was 488. Th clinic m one of the Important view, stated that in my opinion the Turk was, a maligned Individual. That statement is correct; I do. When a nation and a people are subjected to a definite political propaganda, reeking with false and concocted charges; when their en tire character is so assailed as to leave not one palliating virtue; when so-called atrocity propaganda films are admitted by their enemies to have been manufactured in this country; and when Turkey is cen sured by those in control in Con stantinople from presenting- its side of the case to the world, and par ticularly the United States of Amer ica, I hold that the Turks are a maligned people. If you wish spe cific details, with names and cir cumstances, to support this, I stand ready to substantiate these state ments. Aarirrefisor Ik Blanaed. When so-called Christian nations concoct the Sevres treaty against a conquered and defenseless nation, who on its part is maintaining the terms of the armistice under which it laid down its arms, and send. a well-equipped army to take Turkish territory, eventually to partition an entire nation, the vast majority of which is a Turkish population In its own home land; when under the ostensible protection of the allied army in Constantinople there was fire after fire set to burn out re spectable, peace-abiding Turkish U2Zi Tiii. ft .v, V' .V Jf - .if V - phases of the settlement work. Mrs. Mary Connelly, a nurse, la in charge and specialists give their services for this activity, which is something of an innovation, having been start ed only a year ago last May. Dr. John Talbot and Or. C. E. Carleon are at the clinic for general medi cine and surgery Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Dr. C. C. Fethram, eye ear, nose and throat specialist, is there for special work Wednesday and Saturday and Friday the dental association supplies dentists'. The total attendance at the clinic last year was H04. Tonsil and adenoid operations are done in great num bers. Defective sight is remedied and glasses provided, and teeth put in order. All examinations are free of charge, glasses are obtained at wholesale rates, and for other serv ice a small payment is expected if the patient is able to make it, but service is never withheld on account of lack of funds. : A big welfare work is conducted by tho settlement, 1138 families hav ing been aided last year, 2180 visito being made. One hundred and four requests for relief were made at the settlement; employment was found for 25. Donations of 267 boxes and bundles of clothing Were received, including 3395 garments. There were also donated 1842 quarts of fruit and 263 books. Mrs. J. M. Mar tin & the friendly visitor for the settlement and makes the contact with the famillea A rummage sale is a weekly feature of the settle ment work, this being held every Friday at 10 A. M., -when discarded clothing is sold at a low price and fruit is sold at 10 cents a jar pro vided an empty jar is brought. A total of 9606 attended the religious- services last year; thi in cluded Sunday school, a Sunday eve ning service, junior league and Queen Esther circle. The churdh has been organised only a year and has a membership of 46, The pastor is Rev. E. T. Randall, families from the only homes they had; and, finally, when after six months of armistice and peace in Turkey, Smyrna, the second city in Turkey, suffered an absolutely un warranted invasion of Greek forces, resulting in massacre of Turks and a throwing of a large army into the very heart of Anatolia, with the consequent trail of devastation apd the driving out of the Turkish farm er population when, - I say, ; such circumstances occur, the fault lies with the aggressor and peace is dis turbed. It was the Greek invasion of Smyrna in May,' 1919, that pri marily resulted in the reorganiza tion of the Turkish army to save their country from further invasion. If you wish specific details, with names and circumstances, to support this, I stand ready to substantiate the statements. Tour statement that I "palliate his (the Turk's) monstrous crime of massacre at Smyrna," etc., is false. First, I have seen no evidence that there has been any monstrous crime committed by the Turk at Smyrna. It is true there have been many ab solutely unsubstantiated charges from Athens and other Greek sources of the cnt-and-dried order, but you published in your own col umns a Washington dispatch of Admiral Bristol's report, stating I that Captain Hepburn, chief of staff of the destroyer division in the near east, after personal investigation of the situation in Smyrna, reported to him (Bristol) that- the Turks were maintainingc "extraordinary order."- Is it not more germane to American thought that we accept the official report of Admiral Bris tol, our high commissioner to Tur key, through personal investigation, than propagandists of the same na tionality as the . defeated Greek army? Furthermore, is it reason able to suppose that as able and 1 intelligent leader, such as Mustapha Kemai Fasha, is going to burn down his own Turkish eity at the time of occupying it? Is it not logical to assume that whatever incendiarism has occurred in the beautiful city of Smyrna must be laid to the door of those from whom it has just been wrested ? nationality at Stake. As to your charge of palliation on the ground "Greeks did it first," If you will read carefully my inter view given to The Oregon ian, you must appreciate that I was discuss ing facts, the fact being that the Turks were retaking their own city unwarrantedly wrested from them three years ago. There is no dis puting this fact. As to the charge in the last para graph of the above quotation from your editorial, I am not aware that I ever stated that "the Turks as Mohammedans are fighting only for their rights and ideals of faith, but not to maintain political power.' Of course, they are fighting to maintain their political power, which means- their nationality. Is not this what every Christian nation does? Or course the Pashas are leading this movement, for Pasha is only another word for governor, general, leader and who leads any political movement in any country but the leaders? However. I do maintain that this political objective is greatly sustained by the rights and ideals, which, naturally, is crys talized in their faith. Why not? Are they any different from their Christian brothers? The interview I gave The Ore- gonian was given simply and solely to assist in giving Americans a clearer conception of the truth of the situation in the near east its causes and effects -as far as I know it. Is it not more germane to American thought and purpose to give opinions and facts of American observers who have been , on the ground and in the field, than re ports from propagandists of the old world,, whose purpose is to gain America's moral support, and thence material assistance in the form of loans, which can be used to carry on imperialistic military campaigns, while we in America are seeking to reduce our own military over bead expenses and related taxation, and some of our own extremists are unwarrantedly reducing the officer personnel and appropriations of our own army? - I prefer to take Ad miral Bristol's report, published in your own columns, that the Turk in Smyrna is maintaining "extraor dinary order. until we have a more reliable, report, which, personally, I do not believe it is possible to ob tain. Let me "ask, now many of your own staff or the public who read your splendid paper have ever read an article or a statement by a Turk in exposition or defense of his position? If not, why not? Let us be just and impersonal in these matters andyjook at the Tightness and prinoipjfi of issues, and thereby enhance the force of our own posi tion as a moral factor in the world and the greatest of mediating na tions. Tours very truly, CHARLES WELLINGTON FURLONG. Government Tears Down Hog Island Plant. Mammoth shipbuilding? Works Is Being? Dismantled. J-) HILADELPHIA, Oct. 7. Hog a island, where rose the ship building Industry during the war that gave the United States , re newed prestige in the maritime world, soon' will be the flat field it was before Uncle Sam invested $270, 000,000 there. But the 946 acres will be habitable, as sanitary engineers have made it so. Where once an army of 36,000 men were building high-class ves sels at record-breaking speed, there now is a detail of 50 men armed with ox-aeetylene torches and other instruments, with which the demoli tion of the gigantic ways and other equipment is being wrought. The work of dismantling the mammoth machinery of war is progressing at a rapid pace. The government's attempt to dis. pose of the plant by auction, having brought only low bids, it was de cided to sell it piece-meal. Ponder ous as is much of the equipment, the government's investment at Hog island represents nearly every thing that man requires. In the words of J. T. Kason, the govern ment's agent in charge of the sale, "everything except airplanes, pianos and oil paintings." Nearly every day auction sales are held to dis pose of things ranging from house hold furniture to steel in 100,000- ton lots. It is estimated that by the time the sale closes December 1. $25,000,000 will have been realized on steel and equipment alone. One of the recent large purchases made at the yard was by a New York steel brokerage house which bought 106.000 tons of steel. Twenty-five of the 60 huge ways. representing high engineering skill, are already down, and the general appearance of the yard today is that of a tornado-swept place. It is ex pected that some large manufac turing or storage plant will be erected on Hog island after the government has cleared it off. Remark Sounds Personal. Boston Transcript, Mrs. Gabbleish (at the shore) I often wonder what the wild -waves axe saylrte;. Hubaiml Nothing;, Maria. They are Mite some people we know; they make a great deal of noise, but don't stay anythfner. Try This New Way To Put On Weight Quick And Give New Beauty To Your Complexion and Graceful Curves To Your Figure Tour Weight Indicate Ycmr Strength Are You Losing sr Gamine? To can get MASTIN'S Vitamon at THE OWL SUNFLOWER GROUP HOLDS MANY AUTUMNAL BLOOMS Late Lingerers Which Adorn Fields After Brighter Blossoms of Summer Leave Are Described. 1 4 - V, f9 J 3eg?rs TtcAr. BY ALBERT R. SWEETSER. Department of "Botany, University Oregon. U' NIVERSITY OP OREGON, Eugene, Oct. T. (Special.) The processional of the flow ers hears Its end. From cold and dreary winter bypaths of hope and promise as spring opened its thou sand flower -eyes, through summer's f'elds of lusty growth, completing the cycle, we have reached the sea son when a auiet somnolence of satisfied peace seems settling over all nature. But still we have with, us a tew late lingerers who seem loath to leave their labors, and by their very pertinacity thrust themselves upon our attention until we come to love them for their own sakes. These for the most part are some shades of yellow and tinge the face of na ture as it were with an afterglow of summer. Here and there along the siver banks In various parts of the state. and especially abundant on Sauvie's island jn the Columbia, grows really attractive flower handicap ped by the unpoetic name of Sneeze wort, from its supposed effect upon the nasal membrane, ana damned: in the eyes of the farmer from Its prolificness. . . Helenlnm, Scientific Name. Much more in keeping with Us real beauty is its scientific . name of helenium, refering, tradition says, to its uee as si cosmetic by Queen Helen of Troy. Its rigid stem Is thickly covered with narrow leaves alternately arranged, and bears from one to very many sunflower- like blossoms. (Fig. 1.) It is In fact a member of the sunflower group and each apparent blossom really consists of an immense number of No matter wbst tonics or prepara tions yen may have tried In the past or hew hopeless yon ar of ever putting on firm flesh. 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The few flowers on the margin have their corollas irregularly developed Into wedge-like yellow petals with a few tfceth on their margins, and it is these that are often taken for the petals of the flower, when in truth each is a portion of a single flower. In the center, where one searches vainly for stamens and pistils, is a conical mass of tiny com plete flowers regular in form and lacking the petal-like enlargement of the ray flowers. (Fig. 2.) . This plant is a prophet without honor in Its own country, but transfer It to a garden, tend and cultivate it, and it would be much admired, especial ly as it comes at this season of the year. Stlek-tigkts Ar Describes. All of us at some time or other when crossing a weedy field have Had the delightful experience of en tangling with our- clothing hun dreds of tiny see like bodies which hold flo pertinaciously that mere brushing fails to dislodge them and one in compelled to extrset them Good Healtk- Tp-- I Good. .Results fMM 1 ! I Keep Efficient by Keeping Well X Thi. Letter WHl TtU You How Q II Cumberland, Md. "llj rtother gave mo Lydia. E. rinknam't Veprtablo Compound when I was between thirteen and fourteen years old am! was going to school, because I suffered with pains and could not rest. I did not have any more trouble after that until I was married, then I alwavs troubled in my back while carrying a child and could not do my work until I took the Vegetable Compound again. l am strong, do all my washing and ironing and work for seven children and feel fine. I always bare an easy time at childbirth and what it did for me it will do for other women. I am willing to answer any woman if she wishes to write asking what it did for me." Mrs. John IIeiee, 53 Dilley St., Cumberland, Md. This letter is bnt one of a great number received eTCryyear from women, young and old, and from almost every walk of life. These letters tentify to the merit of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs. Ileier has a large family, and works very hard for them. But any woman is willing to work hard and to work jon? hours if her health is good and she is able to get the results she is working for. As he says, what the Vegetable) Compound did for her it will do for other women, and every one should appreciate her offer to answer letters asking about the Vegetable Compound. The Vegetable Compound contains no narcotics or harmful drugs, and can be taken in safety by any woman. Your livelihood may depend on jour health. So try Lydia E. fedetable I one by one. Wh'le disconcerting to the individual this is a part of na ture's sure-thing game, her method of dispersing seede as widely an possible. To this group of stlck tlghts belongs a punt growing In much the same situation as the helenlum and closely resembling 't except that lt leaves ere opposite each other and the flowere soattered along the stem. This Is the beg gars tick, better deccrlbed br Its scientific name of uidens. meaning two teeth, from the fact that Us seed-like fruit have two or more awl-Uke teeth sometimes barbrd by which they cling to whatever comes their way. (Fig. I.) It. tyo. belongs to the sunflower group and wou.d be rather attractive were It not thai one does not wih to encourage or aid such a pernltent peet. Another familiar member of this group is the familiar burdock. Its broad leaves might easily be mis taken for undernourlnhed rhubarb, its spherical flower cluster has 'n consplcuous flowers surroundrd by rows of hooks which harden as they dry and catch on to any passing ob ject. The curious teanle (Fig. 4), Is al ways an object of interest and Is frequently gilded or colored and used for decorative purpones. As the Illustration shows, only a few of the flowers In clueter are in bloom at the same time. When past flowering the prongs and barb with which It la so thMkly betel become rigid, probably to help at tach it to some object. Our wild teasle has straight prongs, but there is a species, native of other coun tries, which has been widely cul tivated for ue In the woolen in dustry. This has hooked pronss and when dry the cone-like heads are set In a frame a"d used-to raise the nap In weaving cloth. They are rapidly being superseded, how ever, by steel hooks which do not wear out so rapidly. Gasa Weed la ae (.reap. Another yellow flower of this sun flower group, especially common on the dried mud flats through! the state. Is the gum weed or grindel lia (Fig. 5). The intent of the common name is evident, for the heads exude a whits sticky gum. This is eometl.nes Incorrectly called tar weed, but the latter, al though abundant everywhere, has a very Inconspicuous flower cluster long past blooming It cannot be forgotten for it still loads the air with that pungent dark-green odor so peculiarly evident In the evening and at morning, and so distressing to the mucous membranes et sen sitive nostrils. The gum weed ha no such odor, and while our native species la of no value, it is closely related to one grox'ng In the middle west which Is used in pulmonary affections. Many of our gardens are bright ened by the late purple asters which we have cultivated with greet care, but nature for a long time ha been decorating the roadsides and cov ering ugly fences and rock piles with our native aster. Aster Fx. ug lasii. Having occupied Its niche for so long we have become accustomed to It merely as a part of the whole delightful scheme of nature' dec orations, but sensed by itself the nature lover believes it every bit as attractive as th- pampered darl ings of our gardena FohsIIs Save State Money. Scientific American. The Invertebrate fonull Is the clock by which the geologist teiis the time in history when the rock bed containing the fossil was formed. This clock has been put to practical uses. New York was spending thousands of dollars in search of anthracite coal beds until geologists demonstrated that the beds In this state could not possibly contain coal. FosfIIs proved that the rock beds belong to the devonian age. not the carboniferous, and the useless expenditure of money at once ceased. Pmkham's Como ound LYDIA E.PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. LYNN. MASS. Old Town of Mount Idaho Practically Abandoned. Um ratafftre seMlM Kv$ Sear et lie ray. LKWISTON. Idaho. Oct. T. As sociated Press dlapatrhes from Washington. P. C a few days ase tUd of the dieeentlnuaar ef the Jfoatofflce at Mount Idaho. Idake. . rraiua the government found Itself unaMe to Induce any person te qualify for ths pesltloa ef poat mas ter. The mail hereafter will be dis tributed through the OrangevUla. Idaho, postofflce. Mount ldabe has suffered the Irony of fata. It was at one time the county seat ef Idaho county, se honor now held by Oransevtlle and in thought d. atinrj for future icreatneaa. Today, however. the town Is but a memory ef the ! fortance ' It once occupied in ths history of Idaho. Mount Idaho was established a a station In 141. Moae Mner ! th real father ef the town, for he built Its first dwelltas. a !' renin. This log cabin, with aa addition er two, served the tows for many yeare as a hotel. Hecaiiae of It favorable location, the tittle hamlet became hn Important " aad popular rcating place for those traveling to and from the m:nee and for many year I's population was numerous and floating. The poatofflc at Mount ldabe was among the flrat etablthd tn the state. Its etabllahmat too place early la the htMory ef the t( wn. Ths first postmaster at Mount Idaho, a man named Hrown, was also ths villas blacksmith and the proprietor of a genral mer cnandis store. In 1(74. a a result of th addition ef the Kilt City regies and am pralrl to Idaho county. Mount' Idaho became the eouaty seat. At this time It bad a populatloa ef about letf. Mount Idaho occupies a prominent position In the history ef (he NX Teres Indian war. It s to this flare thai the terrified settler f.ocked on June 14, 1;7. asd re mained until t hief Joseph's bostlis warrior had 1'lt the state. It was at Mount Idaho also thai :h settler built the famous stone fort, wlth.n the walls ef which th.y rxperted to defend themselves le the last. At on tlm nearly the whole pepuiatlos of t'amaa prairie, about ISO persons, were assembled In and around this defense. It n the f'irm. of a circle, about lS feet In diamoter, with a wall about five feet high. ' While the population of Mount Idaho ha dwindled away In rectal rears, II history will slwse cause It to eccupv a prominent pesltloa among the old settlement of Jdabev- GARDNCR RANKS AS DRY Candl-hite for 'tigrc. HuwfTrr, Smyn Prohibition Not Iue. INDIANA POt, Iff, Ind.. OrC 7 With th nfti.n ef Krank (.rdnr for conirtu by ih dftnornii In th Id district, th rank of t h "dry" rnnRrpntiont) nomlnfi of th two major parti in Indun wrr Kweilntl to 21. irr,n"r. rlcttl lo ucc4l John W. Kwint. dcf0-4. ha declare, that prohibition Is fiat an imi In th rampalarn. It I aa!, however, that Mr, CiarOnvr hr?t for ha hn "dry." A rcnt aurvy hor that l nnmlni'fi r avow.. mwm Thty r Charted A. FIMaman. 5th riia-v trit. 1-morrat. and J I. Turk. 1 1t dlntrlct. d4m'H-rat. All 13 f th ra pt, hi Iran Mstptr nta, IS of whom r Hitting contfrvaamrn. ar rnnaitlar! Mry- 'St . A rv-i