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THE SUXDAt" OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, DECEMBER 10, 1923 HE IN coon , IS PRAISED HIGHLY WINNERS IN BAKING CONTEST AT THE OREGONIAN SCHOOL OF MODERN COOKERY. Winners in The Oregonian Contest Happy Women. SUCCESS IS SURPRISING Several Declare They Enjoy Food making:, but Had Little Idea Their Work Was So Good. A splendid course in modern cookery! That is the verdict of the hun dreds of women who attended The Oregonian's cooking school, which closed Friday afternoon with award of prizes in the great baking con test, which drew more than 600 entries. Many women expressed their ap preciation of the course to Miss Bernice Lowen, the charming and capable instructor engaged by The Oregonian to conduct the school. Scores of others called The Orego nian with high praise for the school and Miss Lowen. Winners Are Happy Ones. There were few, if any, happier women in Portland than the winners of the three grand prizes in the baking contest. As announced in The Oregonian yesterday, they are Mrs. John N. Archbold, 346 East Thirty-seventh street, who won the Hughes Hotpoint super-automatic electric range as champion bread- maker; Mrs. A, E. Paulbach, 531 Montgomery drive, who led in the lie division and won the Torrington vac, and Mrs. W. E. Simonton, 500 Concord block, who baked the best cake and got the Thor 32 electric washing machine. "Nothing ever gave me as much pleasure as this," declared Mrs. Archbold. "I've always -enjoyed cooking and especially bread-making, but I had no idea that I was a 'champion. Also, that electric range is a prize well worth winning. But aside from the honor and valu able prize, I am very glad I at tended the cooking school, because Miss Lowen's lectures and demon strations were very interesting and instructive. I have saved every rec ipe she used." Credl t Given Moth er. Mrs. Paulbach, a bride of only 16 months, ia but 20 years old. She gives her mother credit for her vic tory. '"Mother taught me all I know about cooking," Mrs. Paulbach said. "Of course I enjoyed learning, but 1 never had any dreams about be coming a 'world beater.' The Torrington vac will be used for the first time in the new home of Mr. and Mrs. Paulbach, into which they will move next week. Mrs. Simonton is out of the city. Tteceipts for the prize-winning pie and loaf of bread were published in The Oregonian. The recipe used by Mrs. Simonton in making the prize winning cake follows: One cup of Olympic flour, sifted five times. One and one-half cups sugar, sifted five times. Whites of 11 eggs. One teaspoonful of cream of tartar. One-fourth teaspoonful of salt. One teaspoonful of vanilla ex tract. One-half teaspoonful of al mond extract. Six maraschino cher ries cut up and dropped in at the last. Bake 50 minutes 3n oven heated to 350 degrees. TWO At left Mrs. A. E. Paulbach, champion pie-maker. Right- Archbold, champion bread-maker. Mri. John Tf, RAILWAYS PREPARE' ADVERTISING DRIVE Advantages of Oregon to Be Told to World. CLIMATE IS BIG FACTOR Experts Surrey State and Com - mittees Are Appointed to Assemble Material. SEATTLE DEGLfiRED DRY MAYOR AGAIJT SAYS VICE IS NOT RAMPANT IN CITY. Committee From Churches Thinks Executive Must Be Only One Not to Know of Situation. PUGET SOUND BUREAU, Seattle, Wash., Dec 9. Edwin J. Brown, Se attle mayor, officially declares that the town is not only highly moral, but is practically dry, further con tradicting recent statements of cler gymen and others, to the effect that Seattle is vice-ridden and running wide open. "Neither I nor the chief of police, nor, I believe, any member of the police force, knows where any whisky or moonshine is to be found or brought in Seattle today," .said the mayor. A committee from the churches has learned many things about con dition's in Seattle, some of which tend to prove that the city's moral tone is not quite so low as some of the more enthusiastic reformers have declared it to be. But the first and most conspicuous fact that the committee has discovered and this with no effort at all is that whisky, real and moonshine, has never been so plentiful and so cheap since the state went dry. Committee members ' admit that the mayor and police are probably not subject to direct advertising and solicitation by bootlegerers. Nearly everybody else in town is. Any per- I son who is disposed to take a drink may supply his- wants on short no tice and at any time of the day or night. The price is down to a point that seems to have justified some of the larger consumers in laying in quite a supply for the holidays. Fairly dependable Scotch is available at J&5 to $70 the casof 12 short quarts or is passed out in single bottles at $7 and $7.50. Alleged American bourbon and rye, possibly clean enough, but certainly very new and raw, ranges to higher prices. Cham pagne and other wines, brandy and cordials, are included in the more or less furtive offerings. Mayor Brown may not know of all this. -According to the mayor's statement, Chief of Police Severyns is similarly unadvised. Members of "the reform committee concede that this may be true; but they express wonderment that these two officials should be so singularly secluded from knowledge that is literally poured upon so many other people; and they are by no means ready to share the mayor's expressed belief that the entire police force is unen lightened on the subject. Young Trees Cut for Christmas. OLYMPIA. 'Wash., Dec. 9. (Spe cial.) Hundreds of carloads of young evergreens growing on logged-off lands are being shipped out of the state t serve as Christ mas trees, and ir. Seattle's holiday decorations of tba business district thousands of young trees have been used. Don A. Scott, director of the department of conservation and de velopment, points out that most of these trees come from lands unsuit ed for reforestation and therefore their losj is not serious. Preparations for one of the most extensive Oregon advertising proj ects ever planned were outlined yes terday by Harlan Smith and Carl McQuinn, representatives for the Burlington route, the Great North ern and the Northern Facinc ran ways, who had just returned from a preliminary survey of the coast regions, the Willamette valley and central Oregon. According to the plans formulated by the three railway systems the advertising campaign will be started In March and Oregon products and Oregon advantages will be told the world through the medium or iuii oaere advertisements in about i dozen of the leading national maga zines in an effort to show farmers that the state Is worth coming to. These advertisements will be backed up by literature to be mailed to per sons who inquire alter reauing ine advertisements, and by motion pic- ture films, which already have been made. Committee to Get Data. The survey made by the two rep resentatives was in such towns as Astoria, Seaside and other coastal cities, Salem, Eugene and other communities in tne Willamette val ley, and central Oregon towns, such as Bend and Redmond. In these places they conferred with groups of citizens from the chambers of commerce, Kiwanis ' and Rotary clubs. In every . instance committees were appointed to develop publicity material of the right sort for use in the advertising space. This ma terial, Mr. Smith said, will all be gathered carefully and must be of the right sort, because the railroads desire to bring no persons out here and disappoint them. The commit tees are to work along the lines that the truth about what the state has to offer is strong enough. Similar work is to be undertaken simultaneously by the eame railway systems in other states of the northwest, such as -Washington, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. The products and the advantages of the states are to be set forth in alluring advertisements. Such prod ucts of Oregon as really excel the same things in other states, such as pears, prunes and loganberries, and such advantages as climate, market- ng systems, shipping and banking facilities. 'The real way to induce farmers to come west just now," Mr. Smith said, "is to assure them of proper marketing conditions and of ease in marketing their products. Our trip around over Oregon has convinced me that the rarmers out here are in far better shape than those in the cast They do not have to contend vith such enormous surpluses and bankers say that in comparison with the easterners, the western agricul tural men have come off verv lightly. This factor in itself, if properly put before the people, should carry - great influence in tringlng farmers to- this country. 'mere is, of course, a treat deal to be done for the state and some serious problems will have t be worked out. These the various or ganizations have already tackled and beyond a doubt their efforts will prove successful. Climate to Be Advertised. "We Intend to advertise the cli mate as well as the products and commercial facilities. There is an Impression, not at all uncommon, that the Oregon climate Is a dis advantage rather than an asset. This we believe to be entirely wrong. The climate is distinctly advantageous to many kinds of im portant crops, as' well as to the dairy business and to the timber industry. Climate is always a serious consid eration to any farmer who contem plates a change, and if we sneak the truth about Oregon and the rest of the Pacific northwest it should have a real effect in encouraging settle ment. EIRLS TP PRESENT PLAYS FRANKLIN HIGH STUDENTS CAST FOR CHARACTERS. FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS WILL PRESENT TWO ONE ACT PLAYS WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The Oregonian publishes nracti cally all of the want ads printed in the other three Portland papers, in addition to thousands of exclusive auvenisemenis not printed in any oiner local paper. One-Act Productions to Feature Big Entertainment Arranged for Wednesday Night. Two one-act plays will be pre sented by the girls' league of Franklin high school, in Lincoln high school auditorium, at 8 o'clock next Wednesday evening. Girls ot the senior league will give '"Op o' Me Thumb," and the junior division will present "The Land of Heart's Desire." Mary Murray takes the leading role in 'Op o' Me Thumb." It was in this role that th famous Maude Adams made her debut. The plot deals with the exaggerated romance of a little English orphan 'laundry worker. Other members of the casl are: Madame, Emma Calouri; Rose, Helen Root; Clem, Edna May Root; Celeste, Beatrice Brummels, Irving Brown plays thejart of "Mr. "Orace Greensmith." "The Land of Heart's Desire" de picts the life of Irish peasant folk and their fancies and superstitions. The cast follows: Marie, Eleanor Whitford; Shawn, Sylvia Seymour; Maurteen, Eunice Daniels; Bridget, Alyce Houghton; Father Hart, Louise Schlosser; fairy child, Ethelwynne Kelly. W. G. Harrington of the English department of Franklin high school, is coaching the casts of both plays. Additional entertainment features of the evening will be solos by Miss Anna Young and selections of the Franklin high school- orchestra, un der the direction of-Carl Denton. Limits Are Fixed for Loads. From left to rl6t Beatrice Brnmmela, Mary Murray and Helta Hoot, members of caat of " 'Op o' Me Tlnmb." the wet winter months, the county court today adopted. a schedule of weights for truck loads. The loads vary in the different sections ac cording to the condition of the roads there. The smallest maximum is fixed at 3000 pounds and increases on roads near Roseburg where the roads are capable of bearing heavier traffic. ROSEBURG, Or., Dec. 9. (Spe cial.) To prevent roads within the county from being damaged during the state's bounty of $1.50 on males Bounty Elimination Proposed. ROSEBURG, Or., Dec. 9. (Spe cial.) A proposal to cut Douglas county's bounty on coyotes will be made at the budget meeting De cember 20. Douglas county now pays a bounty of $12 in addition to and $2 on females. This additional bounty costs the county the sum of $3000 annually. Lumber Company Needs Cars. HILLSBORO, Or., Dec 9. (Spe cial.) One induustry here will be hampered if the present; car short age is not soon relieved. The G. H. P. Lumber company, owned and op erated by G. Gartbofnes and O. R. Hemsing, has more than 20 carloads of lumber ready to be loaded. The closing of the mill would be keenly felt by the business men, as a year ly payroll of $40,000 is distributed in Hillsboro. Read The Oresnnlan classified ads. ELECTRICITY BATES CUT SOUTHEASTERN WASHINGTON CONSUMERS TO PROFIT. Pacific Power & Light Company . Files Tariffs for Reductions , of 20 to 30 Per Cent. OLY.MPIA, Wash., Dec. 9. (Spe cial.) A system of schedules entire ly new in this state, but which on its lace promises to bring about a re duction in domestic lighting and cooking rates for electricity of from 20 to 30 per cent for about 95 per cent o the consumers, was filed with the department of public works today by the Pacific Power and Light company, with headquarters at Portland but serving practically all of the communities in southeastern Washington. The schedule is made up on a min imum charge basis combined with a calculation of the number of active rooms a house con-tains. Active rooms are those customarily used. such as living room, dining room, kitchun and bedrooms. Halls, bath rooms, lavatories, porches, garages, barns and other such rooms are not to be considered active rooms except that when a sleeping room is con v nected with a barn or garage the two combined are listed as one ac tive room. Four different sets of schedules are contained in the tariff, providing lowest rates for the larger cities and slightly higher rates as density of population decreases. All schedules are subject to 10 per cent discount. MARKET LAW SUCCESS Sixteen Co-operative Associations Formed in Washington. OLWMF1A, Wash., Dec 9 (Spe cial.) Sixteen co-operative market ing associations have been formed or have reorganized since the leg islature enacted the co-operative marketing law. Teach growers of the Yakima valley, who had consid erable success with an informal or ganization during the last crop year, 1 were the latest to form a new asso ciation. The Washington Co-operative Egg and Poultry association is re garded as the most successful. It now has more than 3500 members, did a business of more than $2,900, 000 last year, which will run close to $4,000,000 this year. The Seattle Milk Shippers' associ ation is doing a business that runs into millions of dollars. Kvery organization that does an annual business of $200,000 or more must have its books audited by the state supervisor of banking. Six as sociations come under this law. Bible University Asks Bids. X EUGENE, Or., Dec. 9. (Special.) -Bids for the erection of the new hospital at Twelfth avenue East and Hilyard street in this city by the Eugene Bible university are being asked. The building will be of re inforced concrete construction, four stories high and SO by 160 feet in dimensions. The bids will be re ceived up to January 2, it is an LIDA The finest assortment of electrical goods I have ever displayed. Open Every Evening Until 9 o'Clock Select Your Gifts From This Stock 3? TO THE Nor F th of the tn If western Mutua ire Association You will be wondering how much your company lost in the great $12,000,000 con flagration at Astoria, Oregon. Records show it had only twenty-one thou sand dollars insurance involved in the entire burned area. This is equal to about two days normal premium income and less than one-fourth the cash dividends and savings returned to policyholders during the single month of November. This company has been repeatedly solicited to accept business in the area visited by this fire, but has always declined because of the serious conflagration hazard. Whether a company be a stock or mutual company, the policyholders must pay all the losses of the company through their insur ance premiums. It is because this company has always refused to expose its policyhold ers to the payment of the most hazardous risks that it has been able to return them over $5,000,000 in cash dividends and insurance savings F. J. 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