THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 31, 1922 7
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PORTLAND HEAD OF VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION PRAISED
Address Given Before National Meeting at Seattle Is Reviewed in December Issue of The Survey of New York Methods in Health Administration Are Declared to Be in Forefront Only Desire Is to Help Others
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BY LOUISE F. SHIELDS.
THE Survey of New York, the
official organ of the philan
thropic agencies of America, in
Its issue of December 15 reviews an
address by Mrs. Robert G. Dieck,
president of the Visiting: Nurse as
sociation of Portland, before the na
tional organization of public Health
nursing in its annual convention at
Seattle.
The Survey states that Mrs. Dieck
and her associates on the Portland
directorate of the Visiting Nurse as
sociation are In the forefront of
approved methods in health admin
istration. Mrs. Dieck said in part: "Doubt
less every one of us holds a memory
of the kindly old lady carrying a
basket of food or clothing to a poor
family. She was impelled solely by
the wish to help others, and the
purity of her motives is an inherit
ance that must have inspired many
later workers. As time passed the
function of the lay workers came to
be almost altogether to finance the
work. She was . harassed by
thoughts of ways to earn money
and worn with teas, tag days, en
tertainments and begging forays.
She lost by degrees her pleasing
contact with the patients and her
ears missed their grateful thanks.
She had not the joy of the profes
sion to strengthen her nor the keen
satisfaction of earning her living by
her efforts. Those were difficult
days that required all the strength
and determination of 25 women to
sustain a staff of one nurse.
"The aim of the Visiting Nurse as
sociation progressed beyond actual
bedside nursing, and prevention of
disease through education came to
be emphasized. Slowly the control
shifted to the superintendent of
nurses, who became the expert ad
viser of the vicarious philanthro
pists. "Citizens who had watched the
demonstration in normal years,
through epidemics and hard times
were now generous in their sup
port. In some localities community
chests were established, and thus
private organizations in these places
became public.
"It has become evident that the
conservation of public health should
be a concern of the government and
that the time has arrived in the
progress of the movement for the
retirement of lay boards. The boards
have not failed. They have. accom
plished their purpose, and that force
of benevolence and public spirit
which animated them from the be
ginning will have even greater value
when directed into the channels of
their government. In giving over
their charge they ask only that the
real nature of the nursing woFk be
not confused by mercenary consid
erations. "The professional workers will
need the assistance of lay workers
In fixing the idea in the public mind
and in discouraging the entrance of
politics into the administration and
further expansion of the public
health movement. Shall that; great
altruistic force be wasted or shall
these groups of women, informed on
questions of health constitute an ad
visory body of citizens, steadying
the occasional official whose actions
and opinions might be warped by
political expediency ?, The govern
ment is our government and there
fore its politics ours, reluctant as
we may often be to claim it."
Mrs. Dieck says that she and the
ether members of her board are the
agents of the city government and
the organized philanthropic forces of
the entire city for of their $27,000
budget $5000 comes from the city
for work in treating and preventing
tuberculosis, $8000 from the Com
munity Chest and $3800 from the
ABANDONED GARRETS MADE TO SERVE
MANY USES BY INGENIOUS HOUSEWIVES
Extensive Possibilities Exist in Attics Which Can Be Transformed Into Bedrooms, Living Rooms, Studios
and Places for Amusing the Young People.
BY ANITA DE CAMPI.
UNDER the eaves of many a
house there is stored away a
treasure! Its value is great,
though some do not deem it so, ig
noring its extensive possibilities and
leaving it utterly abandoned. This
treasure is none other than the attic
Into what a truly delightful and
live-in-able rooms that erstwhile
storage space may be converted!
The slanting walls, into which dor
mer windows may be cut, are un
usually suggestive of quaint and
original arrangements.
An extra room was badly needed
In a country house which I have
recently visited. The hostess want
ed to utilize her attic for this pur
pose, but having no cellar beneath
her home, she found it necessary to
use the attic for storage. There
was a great deal more space than
was essential, however, so she con
trived to have the room partitioned,
one part for the storage and the
other for her long desired guest
room, which is, Indeed, a pleasure -to
behold.
The walls are covered with pearl
gray wallboard, paneled with flat
Btrips of wood painted sage green.
A dressing table, with bench, is
placed before the double window at
the front of the room. The twin
beds have their heads against the
side wail, beneath the sloping part
of the ceiling. On the opposite side
of the room are a chest of drawers
and a quaint little desk and chair.
A comfortable arm chair completes
the furnishings. Casement curtains
of striped sunfast, in peony pink,
green, and a tiny line of black, give
, a note of color. The dressing table
bench is upholstered in peony rep,
finished with gray and green up
holsterer's fringe. Matching this
are the covers on the beds.
Entirely Buitable and fascinating
for an attic bedroom is the colonial
style. An interesting room with
colonial furniture has pale ash green
walls with French gray woodwork.
The tallboy, dressing table, dask.
and four poster are of mahogany.
Bright splashes of color show in the
hooked rugs, which are supplemen
tary to the deep dull green carpet
ing. Hand-blocked linen, in old blue,
green, black and yellow, with occa
sional touches of magenta, uphol
sters a wing chair and the seats of
two little side chairs. Corn-colored
eilk gauze curtains the many light
ed windows, and a pieced quilt is
used for the bed covering.
Colonial Wardrobes Used.
Singular colonial wardrobes supply
closet space for garret bedrooms.
A perfectly charming one, with an
old-fashioned floral design painted
. in the panels of its doors, is placed
between two small windows in the
guest room of a New England home,
pictured here. As the room is rather
small, the only other'articles of fur
niture used in it are a three-quarter
width four poster, a wing chair, a
ladder back, a dressing table and
stool, and a rare old commode. On
the latter piece are kept an antique
Canton wash bowl, pitcher and soap
dish. The walls are painted oyster
green, the woodwork black. Rose
and mauve striped casement silk is
tised for curtaining the windows.
jTh flounced day. core; o& the four
a T tested jz:
Lucia Wiley and Pauline Gienger of Tillamook, Or, are here shown. They are the Oregon champions at the
national canning club contest, recently held In Chicago.
Infant Welfare society. The Metro
politan Life Insurance company
makes the association its agent in
caring for its industrial policy
holders. -
The records show 21,883 visits to
4502 patients, as against 4668 visits
to 3106 patients last year. Particu
larly has the tuberculosis work in
creased, showing a total of 6688
visits to 912 patients as against 3364
visits to 730 patients in 1921. This
does not indicate a larger number of
tubercular cases but the response of
a larger number to the offer of
help. Mrs. Dieck urges that families
in comfortable circumstances who do
not need the service of a full-time
nurie use the services of the visit
ing nurse to assist in the care of
chronic invalids, particularly in
case of infectious disease, and pay a
small fee for the sake of, their in
dependent spirit.
Here is an unusual demonstration
of a private organization delegated
by public officials to do a special
piece of work for which it is pe
culiarly equipped. It is also a dem
onstration of health work carried on
by city officials, but kept out of
politics by a special, board of phil
anthropic citizens. With the excep
tion of Providence, R. I., Portland is
the only city of the United States
which has followed this ideal plan.
The Portland association has
maintained two well-baby clinics
and has done the field work for the
University of Oregon health course
a3 a part of its preventive work.
Miss Marion Crowe, superintendent
of the association, saya: "While we
meet every 'demand made upon us
each new contact seems to offer a
way that means prevention of suf
fering rather than going through
the old process of curing, particu
larly our well-baby clinics, our pre
natal work; child welfare and par
ticipation in the work of the school
of social work. We have two large
fields as yet untouched, and I hope
we may enter them before another
poster is of rose colored silk. Lemon
yellow candles are used in the brass
candlesticks on the dressing table.
Painted furniture, so colorful and
gay that it would brighten any
room,- is used In another top o' the
world bedroom. It is deep lemon
yellow, edged with peacock blue and
trimmed with motifs of invented
flowers, done in turquois, rust color,
and olive green enamel paint. Nat
ural colored sand plaster finishes
the walls and the woodwork is
painted rust color. The little win
dow curtains are of brilliantly col
ored figured silk. On the bed is a
cover of peasant embroidery in a
combination of olive and rust colors
splashed with scarlet.
Paint Is Important.
Another striking room in which
paint plays a prominent part, is one
in which the furniture is black,
edged with brilliant emerald green.
The walls are white, the bed cover
large alternating black and white
squares. Silk suaze of vivid emer
ald green is used at the windows.
Hilarious notes of accentuating color
are added by means of the radiant
flame-colored candles. Olive green
carpeting covers the floor.
Delightful living rooms, too, may
be furnished in the attic space. A
dark attic, atop a home on the sea
shore,, has been most cleverly trans
formed into a fascinating living
room. Dormer windows have be'en
cut, affording a magnificent far-
reaching view of the ever changing
year goes by
work and
-a division for mental
on for industrial
nursing." ,
Miss Crowe says that by a mental
hygiene clinic many a patient could
be eaved from the experience in hos
pitals for the insane and many a
mother and child saved the grief of
failure in school or in Industrial oc
cupation if the child's condition
could be diagnosed in time. A large
number of the cases would never go
as far as the court of domestic re
lations if there were a clinic where
the child's defective rttind could be
recognized before he became a, vic
tim of his limitations. Physical
handicaps might be removed which
retard mental development of come.
"Many large industries," says Miss
Crowe, "have their own nurses. But
there are many smaller factories
where the visiting nurse might
check a tendency to illness before it
became severe and prevent the days
away from work, the loss of wages
and distress to families and the loss
to the industry of , a ? valuable
worker."
Merry Time Had by All at
Jack Frost Revel.
Unusual Games Followed by Re
freshments for Children.
FOR the Jack Frost revel, the Gin
E'er family decorated their house
in cotton batting, sprinkled with
star dust (pulverized mica). .
Mary had arranged for the girls
to wear white summer dresses and
the boys to attire themselves in
white suits, borrowed from the- pro
prietor of a neighboring flour mill,
from surgeons and any other good
friends who possessed white coats
and trousers.
Immediately upon arrival each
was ushered to a snowdrift made of
balls of cotton, which Billy. Red
sea, from above the surrounding
treetops. At one end of the room,
where there is a chimney, an invit
ing fireplace has been built. Filling
the remainder of the wall space, at
either side of this, bookshelves are
built in. The davenport, fireside
and wing chair have slip covers of
glazed chintz in powder blue, old
gold, Du Barry rose, and sage green
on a sand-colored ground. ' The
cushions for the remainder of the
chairs, which are wicker, are of rep,
striped in a combination of the
chintz colors. Casement cloth cur
tains may be drawn together or left
hanging straight, at the side of the
windows. The walls are sand-colored
and the floor is covered with a
large, niggerhead brown carpet.
Studios or libraries in the attic
are almost sure to be satisfactory.
Quiet Is usually assured in the se
cluded room, where reading or
studying may be peacefully enjoyed
without numerous interruptions
from the outside world. An attic
studio, which is the undying joy of
its occupant, is most attractively
furnished. Set into a recess, which
is formed by the double dormer win
dows, is a good-sized writing table
with its accompanyng chair. ' - The
remainder of the wall space on that
side of the room, up to the height at
which it is met by the sloping ceil
ing, is filled with open bookshelves.
Wicker chairs, placed informally
about the room, have cushions cov
ered with hand-blocked linen. The
background of this is black; the
figures, olive green, Pompeiian red,
and their pal. Harry Jones, had
carefully rolled during the week
with tissue paper pasted loose ends
to keep them from "shedding." Each
guest in turn guessed the number
of balls piled in the drift and Slim
Jim kept a record of the guesses.
Father Ginger strolled through the
living "room with Neighbor Burns in
the midst of the discussion, and re
minded the young people that they
could apply their geometry in esti
mating the number of equal sized
balls under the top of the triangular
shaped drift. ,
Judith Royce and Martin Lewis
chose sides for a relay race with the
same "snowballs." v The player on
each side left his group at the end
of the long, living room, dashed to
the snow drift, grasped a ball and
hurried back, placed his ball in the
basket assigned to his side, touched
the hand of another of his group,
who in turn dashed off for a ball.
After the award of prizes for the
race and for the guessing contest,
each guest found that one ball bore
his name. Upon tearing open the
ootton each disclosed, a sleighbell
attached to a red ribbon and imme
diately placed it around his neck
and pranced to jingle it
Mary led the 30 young people into
a circle and asked them to sing to
the tune of "Here We Go 'Bound
the Mulberry Bush,", as the entire
circle glided to the right:
Here goes old- year twenty-two, ,
Twenty-two, .
Twenty-two, " '
' Here goes old year twenty-two,
On the night of Jack, Frost's revel.
. Then the players skipped to the
left as they sang:
What shall we do to warm our hands.
Warm our hands,
Warm our hands?
We'll Jingle our bells and clap our hands
On the mght of Jack .Frost s revel.
: After the clapping and the jing
ling, all took partners and skipped
in a circle and) followed Mary and
Rob into the hall and out to the
pale ' primrose yellow, and pinkish!
tan. Matching the yellow, in the
linen are the window curtains.
In a far corner of the room the"re
is a lavatory, concealed behind a
decorative screen. At the other end
of the room there is a wide, open
fireplace, which almost entirely fills
that wall space. Placed vis-a-vls,
at either side of this, is a davenport,
upholstered in the same linen which
covers the chair cushions. A drop
leafed tea table, equipped with a
primrose yellow set, stands conven
ient to these two, and an antique
brass kettle is suspended above the
hearth, in order that a cup of tea
may readily be made for the wel
come guest.
Some young people, who love to do
a great deal of entertaining, were at
a loss, upon moving to their summer
home, for a room allowing space
enough for dancing. Ingeniously
they planned to transform their gar
ret, and ,now it is adjudged, by all
of their friends, who enjoy many
pleasant evenings there, a thor
oughly satisfactory dance room. 'The
floor, which is of rough, unfinished
lumber, is entirely covered with
good linoleum, in a pattern of al
ternating ecru and black squares.
A black piano stands at one end
of the room, and at the other there
is a long, black refectory table,
placed parallel to the wall, for the
accommodation of refreshments.
Along both side walls, plain
wooden benches have been built.
These are painted black and are fit
ted with bright henna-colored boxed
cushions. The window curtains are
old gold. Two mirrors, in plain
black frames, are hung on opposite
walls. These are flanked by
sconces, holding intense turquoise
blue candles. In one corner of the
room there is a vlctrola. A little
powdered wax is sprinkled on the
linoleumed floor prior to a party,
and after one or two dances every
one proclaims that the floor is "per
fectly slick."
dining room where Father Ginger,
dressed as Old Father Time, leaned
upon a scythe and held an hour
glass in his left hand.
Father Time, by the light of the
dozen candies placed around the
plate rail, scanned the eager young
faces and asked who wished to delve
into the future. There rolled
through the door at his side a
stream of red apples bearing the
names of the boys and girls and
rhymes about the interests of each,
tied to the stems. After the apples
were peeled and eaten. Father Time
offered to read the palm of any
who wished to -see more of the fu
ture's mysteries. Mother Burns
dressed as a Frost Fairy and carry
ing a star-tipped wand, came in and
read the palms of half the, group
and then ted them all to the 'den at
the end qf. the hall and served fruit
punch from a cake of ice surround
ed by cotton batting sprinkled with
star dust.
Mary and Judith at the piano led
In singing popular songs. Several
girls gave readinge and all joined
in "acting out" resolutions for the
New Year, and the crowd guessed
each in turn.
The refreshments were ice cream
balls and round cakes iced to look
like snowballs.
Canning Champions in Na
tional Contest.
Tillamook Girls Participate In
Club Competition.
LUCIA WILEY and Pauline Gienger
of-Tillamook were the Oregon
Canning club champions represent
ing the state at the National Can
ning club contest the first week in
December in connection with the
Chicago International Livestock ex
position. Their chaperone on the trip was
Miss Helen Cowgill, assistant state
club leader. Pauline's brother, John
Gienger, also accompanied them and
will remain in the middle west for
an extended visit with relatives.
The girls returned with Miss Cowgill
before Christmas.
Chicago provided royal . enter
tainment, including free eight-seeing
trips, banquets and theater par
ties, in addition to the contact
with representatives of the 600 boys'
and girls' club members throughout
the United States. One of the pur
poses of the contest is announced
by the national committee on boys'
and girls' work as "that our citi
zens may witness the value of boys'
and girls' 'work and . know of the
great good which will come to the
country as a whole when this work
is made available to all our farm
boys and girls."
H. C. Wallace, secretary of agri
culture, is the guest of honor, and
many other distinguished guests are
witnessing the contest. ;
The teams from Iowa and Colo
rado which won first and sec
ond places in' the Chicago contest
will go to France in June to demon
strate American methods of can
ning, under the direction- of the
American committee for devastated
France and the French ministry of
agriculture, and to conclude the
summer with a tour of Spain, Italy,
Switzerland, Germany, Holland and
Great Britain.
The expense for the voyage and
in France will be met by the Amerl
can committee for devastated
France, the extended tour by the
national committee on boys' and
girls' club work. The money for the
Oregon girls' trip to Chicago was
SERVICES IN
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street, 133 North Sixth street, and
148 Killingsworth avenue, where
the Bible and all authorized Chris
tian Science literature may be read
or purchased.
The churches are located as fol
lows: First Nineteenth and Everett Btreets.
Second Bast Sixth street and Holla
day avenue.
Third East Twelfth and Salmon
streets.
Fourth Vancouver avenue and Emer
son street.
Fifth Sixty-second street and Forty
second avenue Southeast.
Sixth Pythian temple, 388 Yamhill.
Sevenths 403 Smith avenue, St. Johns.
The public is cordially invited to
the reading rooms.
Dr. Parker to Preach at
First Methodist Church.
"Longer Cords and Stronger
Stakes" Is Morning Subject.
DR. B. EARLB PARKER will
preach morning and night at
the First Methodist Episcopal church.
Twelfth and Taylor streets, today.
The subject of the morning sermon
at 11 o'clock will ioe "Longer Cords
and Stronger. Stakes." The subject
tonight at 7:30 will be "Dominion
Over Moment" Music of especially
high grade will feature 'both of the
services.
The- Epworth leagues have both
planned especially interesting meet
ings for this occasion. The subject
in both leagues will be "Watch
Night." The leader of the Oxford
Epworth league will be Edwin T.
Randall. All high school folks or
young people of that age who can
qualify for membership are invited
to visit the services of the Oxford
Epworth league. These are held at
J:15 each Sunday evening in the
Oxford parlors of the church, en
trance on Twelfth street. The or
ganization is "owned and operated"
by the young people themselves, and
their social and devotional meetings
and social service work are fine ex
pressions of the enthusiasm of
youth, t
After the night church service the
two leagues will jointly provide a
social hour with fun and food in
adequate quantities for the occasion.
To this gathering not only the mem
bers of the leagues but their friends,
members of the Sunday school, mem
bers of the church, all their friends
and those who find themselves
strangers in town are cordially in
vited. The social hour will be followed
at 11 by the watch night service.
This will be addressed by Bishop
William O. Shepard.
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
the Woman's Foreign Missionary
society will hold a New Year's re
ception In the Sunday school tem
ple to the new members of the
society, to which all the wdmen of
the church are invited. -
Wednesday night the J. O. C.
young ladies' Sunday school class
will hold its regular banquet and
business meeting in the Oxford par
lors, beginning at 6:30.
The morning service at, 11 o'clock
at Centenary - Wilbur Methodist
church will he devoted to the sacra
ment of the Lord's Supper, and) the
music, will i4 ivea, by h.e choir, and
provided by Tillamook citizens, the
Portland Chamber of Commerce and
interested individuals among Port
land business men. -
O. M. Plummer of Portland was
among a group of men representing
Mrs. Robert G. Dieck, whose ad
dress on vbiltinx nurse frork
brought her distinction.
many states who were present at
the Chicago exposition last year
and who worked out the plan for the
canning contest at the suggestion
of E. T. Meredith of Iowa, ex-secretary
of agriculture and now chair
man of the national committee on
boys' and girls' club work.
Following is the national creed
of boys' and girls' clubs:
I believe in the boys' and girls' club
work for the opportunity it will give to
become a useful citizen.
I believe in the training of my head for
the power it will give me to think, to
plan and to reason.
I believe in the training of my heart
for the nobleness it will give me to be
come kind, sympathetic and true.
1 believe in the training of my hands
for the dignity it will give me to be help
ful, useful and skillful.
I believe in the training of my health
for the strength it will give me to enjoy
life, resist disease and make for effi
ciency. I believe In the great trinity of olub
work the home, the school and the
achievement -
1 believe in my country, my state and
my responsibility for their development.
In all these things that I believe I am
willing to dedicate my services for their
fulfillment.
Volunteer Workers in As
toria Are Praised.
Generous Tribute Paid by Director
for American Red Cross.
"t OLUNTEER workers of Astoria
V who relieved the sufferers in the
fire disaster are receiving the high
est praise from the American Red
Cross administration.
"By the end of the fourth day
they were working like veterans,
without a trace of excitement," said
Earl Kllpatrick, director for . the
American Red Cross in the Astoria
disaster, and P. A. Parsons, who
were placed at the service of the re
lief committee by the University of
Oregon. Mr. Kilpatrick is director
of extension division and Dr. Par
sons is director of the school of so
cial work of the university.
'Contrary to a widespread impres
PORTLAND
quartet. Numbers given last Sun-1
day in "The Messiah" will be re
peated by special request.
A watch-night service will be con
ducted tonight, beginning with the
preaching service at 7:30. Dr.
Charles MacCaughey will deliver the
sermon on "What I3 Your Pro
gramme?" This service will be
evangelistic in its trend. The serv
ices of the Epworth leagues' will be
conducted at 9. Dr. H. T. Greene
wll address the meeting. Special
numbers will be offered toy the
young people. A social hour will be
engaged in at 10, giving opportunity
for "getting acquainted." Refresh
ments will be served. A sing will
be conducted at 11, and at 11:30 a
consecration service will toe held.
Thus the departing hours of the old
yesr will be spent. All people are
iivited to attend.
The outstanding meeting of the
week will be the annual meeting of
the Sunday school board for the
election of officers. This will be
held on Friday evening. Supper will
be served toy the young ladies' class,
taught by 9Irs. Fiinn. Reports from
all departments will be made at
this time. The school has had a
successful year and plans are -to be
made for an enlarged programme.
At Sunnyside Methodist Episcopal
church Dr. Thomas H. Gallagher
will speak at the morning hour on
"The Church With the Broken
Heart." Special invitations have
gone to every official member of
the church to attend this morning
hour of worship.
The popular Sunday night service
will have an added attraction. There
will be a "double wedding" service
at the close of the address. The
entire evening service will toe varied.
First there will be a stirring song
service, In which the congregation
will take part. Following this will
be an "old-fashioned experience
meeting." Dr. Gallagher will deliver
a timely sermon, and the audience
will witness the happy scene of a
double wedding. All Sundayside
members and friends are urged to
attend this closing service of the
old year. More than 1000 seats are
free. Doors will toe open at 7 o'plock.
At Clinton Kelly Memorial Meth
odist Episcopal church the morning
message will describe "The Fatal
Luck In a LoVable Life." At 6:30
P. M. the Epworth league will dis
cuss the question, "What's Ahead?"
Tonight's sermon, entitled "Hence
forth, will toe a New Year message,
followed toy a watch night service.
Services at the Lincoln Methodist
Episcopal church, corner East Fifty
second and Lincoln streets, will be
held today as follows: 11 A. M.,
"The Stone Which the Builders Re
jected"; 8 P. M., "Watching for
Christ. The services will be con
tinued until one minute past mid
night. Various organizations of the
church will participate in the watch-
night service. Ample intermissions
and refreshments will toe among the
arrangements to make the evening
attractive. Both services will toe in
charge of Rev. W. N. Byars, the
pastor. .
A series of evangelistic services
will begin in the Woodlawn Meth
odist Episcopal church, Tenth and
Highland streets. ' with a watch
night service. The pastor will toe
assisted during the services by Dr.
Powell And an vftagellsUc commit-i
sion," said Dr. Parsons, "the home
less families did not all leave on the
first train out. We have been help
ing 381 families, 208 of them having
children.
"The pressure of office interviews
and home visiting in the scattered
quarters of the refugees made it
necessary to have several trained
workers to direct the efforts of the
volunteers. Miss Elnora Thomson,
director of public health nursing in
our school of social work, is work
ing with Miss Aleta Brownlee from
San Francisco of the Pacific coast
headquarters of the Red Cross and
has our supervisor of field work,
one of our graduates and three of
our advanced students helping now
in family rehabilitation, establish
ing them in work, providing tools
and furniture for the houses aban
doned on the outskirts of the city
and in need of renovation."
The dollar membership, fee for the
American Red Cross will come
easier from Oregon citizens who
realize the part played by that great
organization in administering the
generous gifts of money and sup
plies which streamed from Portland
and other cities. The national or
ganization is the only one which
functions in national and interna
tional disasters. The Portland
chapter of the Red Cross had noth
ing to do with Astoria relief and the
Astoria chapter turned over the tax
ing administration to disaster relief
specialists after the first few hours
of courageous emergency work.
Oregon is fortunate in having a
man who handled the Red Cross re
lief for the Pueblo flood two years
ago in Earl Kilpatrick. He arrived
on the scene of the Astoria disaster
within a day after its occurrence
and quickly summoned to his aid
tried and efficient members of his
staff in the Portland school of so
cial work.
Social Workers Hear of
Biology Classes.
Oregon System Declared Attract
ing World-Wide Attention.
REQUESTS for information) about
Oregon's plan for teaching
biology in the grammar grades come
from all parts of the United States,
according to Henry Grant, execu
tive secretary for the Oregon Social
Hygiene association, who spoke at
the social workers' luncheon last
Wednesday.
"Even foreign countries have writ
ten letters of inquiry regarding the
method and its results. From Eng
land and France across to Japan,
they all ask whether we find the
experiment worth while," said .Mr.
Grant, as he introduced the super
intendent of schools from three
Oregon cities where the plan is in
successful operation W. E. Wiley of
The Dalles, G. A. Briscoe of Ash
land and' A. C. Stanbrough of New
berg and asked them to outline
the way in which boys and girls
are learning the great facts of life
and its reproduction in plant and
animal species without any self
oonsciousness about its relation to
human sex-hygiene.
One marked effect, said the super
intendents, is the wholesome habit
of inquiry which the children ac
quire in their general observation.
Oid superstitiona and (housewives'
fables receive serious - discussion
from the teachers to whom the chil
dren quote them and bring on honest
investigation as to their truth, such
as the saying that angle worms
come down in the rain into rain
CHURCHES
tee from the Y. M. C. A. and three
women preachers. At the 11 o'clock
services the Rev. E. Sutton Mace
will speak on "Old and New Foes.".
At night the services will begin
with the young people's meeting at
6:30 and continue in various ways
until the midnight hour. The week
night services will begin at 7:30.
At the Vancouver-Avenue Norwe
gian - Danish Methodist Episcopal
church, corner Vancouver avenue
and Skid-more street, there will be
services this morning at 11 o'clock.
The pastor, Gustav A. Storaker, will
preach. The text will be "Ebenezer."
At night the service will start at S
o'clock and last until 12. A pro
gramme will be given and refresh
ments served after which watch
night service will follow.
New Year's day the Scandinavian
Christmas tree fest will toe held at
8 P. M. Rev. A. Knudson of Min
neapolis will give a short address,
after - which refreshments will be
served, and Christmas songs will
be sung around the tree.
Wednesday and Thursday nights
at 8 o'clock there will toe evangel
istic service at the church.
At the Rose City Park Methodist
Episcopal church Dr. C. W. Huett,
the pastor, will speak tooth morning
and night, taking as a subject in the
morning "The Christ That Is to Be"
and at night "God's Providences."
Roseburg Churches Are
Modern Buildings.
Most of Structures Erected
Within Past Few Years.
ROSEBURG, Or., Dec. 30. With
the completion of a new ?12,
000 edifice by the Church of Christ,
Scientist, Rceburg has a group of
modern church buildings, all of
which, with but one or two excep
tions, have been constructed within
the last few years. The building
movement was started only a few
years ago when both the Presby
terian and Methodist Episcopal
structures were erected. The Catho
lics followed a short time later with
an attractive building, and in the
last two years two new buildings
have been erected, one housing the
congregation of the Methodist
church. South, and the other, now
nearing completion, to be occupied
by the Christian Scientists.
During the last few years all of
the churches of the city have been
enjoying a substantial, and it is be
lieved a permanent, growth. This
is particularly true in the Bible
schools, all of which are operating
along standard, graded lines in a
most successful manner. Bible
school classes for high school stu
dents are conducted in three of the
churches and the high school stu
dents get credit for these studies.
At least one new church building
la expected In the next few years,
as the members of the Christian
church are now raising a fund for
that purpose. Although, the church
has only worked one year on a
five-year programme, it is believed
that the funds will be raised In suf
ficient time to permit the construc
tion of the edifice within the period
fixed, when the work was first at
tempted.
There, r five leading: Protestant
barrels. Such courses stem the tide
of intolerance which is now sweep
ing America through the cowardice
of the ignorant.
"The only drawback to the sys- i
tem thus far," said Mr. Grant, "is
the lack of funds to hold the highly
specialized type of teachers for
scientific instruction in the grades.
In each city where the plan is work
ing the school board pays the maxi
mum grade salary, and our Social
Hygiene association adds a small
bonus in order to hold them from
accepting the high school positions
for which they are qualified and tor
which the regular salary is higher.
"This type of teaching is beyond
the capacity of the average normal
school graduate, who has had only
a short course in biology and may
have no knowledge of general
physios. It taxes all the scholarship
and ingenuity of university gradu
ates from a four years' scientif io
course, whom Dr. H. B. Torrey is
preparing in co-operation with our
organization. But just as fast as
the university can provide them
and we can obtain money for them
I should like to see the present ex
periment in three cities extended
into a settled part of the grade
school work of the entire state."
Course in News Writing Is
Planned by University.
Professor Turnbull WiU Give
Extension Series Here.
MANY social workers have ex
pressed their need for becom
ing expert In presenting publicity
about the cause which they serve,
and now have their opportunity for
study in the news-writing class
which the University of Oregon of
fers as a part of its Portland center
activities.
Professor Turnbull of the univer
sity school of journalism will teach
the class which begins its sessions
Friday night, January 12, and an
nounces that it will include "ele
mentary news writing, and news
gathering, including fundamentals
of general reporting, interviewing,
news analysis, note taking, together
with a study of news and lectures
upon the modern newspaper."
Registration was open to social
workers exclusively for several
weeks, but this general announce
ment makes it possible for any seri
ous student to enter the class. There
is room for only 40 and only those
may register who are ready to do
the practical work in news gather
ing and writing. It is important
that the social workers who are to
avail themselves of this opportunity
register immediately. The registra
tion fee of $5 for this course admits
one also to other extension courses
in which one may be Interested.
Students who develop a special
aptitude and who may wish to con
tinue a study of journalism after
this course will find that the depart
ment of journalism, established at
the university in 1912, has developed
into one of the few well-equipped
and staffed schools of Journalism in
the country, with a practical equip
ment for the training of newspaper
men and magazine, trade and class
journalists.
Already, ex-students of the school
are owners of dally and weekly
newspapers; are reporters, advertis
ing managers, trade journalists, cir
culation men, foreign correspond
ents, teachers of Journalism, govern
ment representatives abroad, copy
editors, managing editors and spe
cial writers, and one has obtained a
national reputation as a novelist.
congregations worshiping In Rose
burg, representing fully 2000 per
sons. These congregations are the
Presbyterian, Methodist-Episcopal,
Baptist, Christian and South Meth
odist. The Presbyterian church Is a
beautiful brick structure and was
started during the pastorate of Rev.
John Townsend. This building was
the first of the modern structures,
but was soon followed by the erec
tion of the building now occupied
by the Methodist-Episcopal congre
gation. This building was made necessary
when the old structure was de
stroyed by fire. It Is of wood con
struction but of a beautiful style
of architecture and is one of the
attractive church buildings of the
city. It is arranged in a convenient
ttianner for the work of the church
and is frequently used by organiza
tions of the city for public banquets,
a special room being prepared for
this purpose.
The congregation of the South
Methodist church has a very at
tractive place of worship, but as
ground was desired for the high
school building recently built here
the structure and site were sold to
make room for the school.
OLD CHURCHES STANDING
Brownsville AVell Fitted Out W illi
Houses of Worship.
BROWNSVILLE, Or., Dec 30.
(Special.) Perhaps no city of equal
size in the state has finer church
buildings than Brownsville. It is
also a curious fact that many of
the pioneer church edifices of the
town are still standing, contrasting
strangely in architecture with the
modern buildings and reminiscent
of the days of earliest setlement in
Linn county.
The old Cumberland Presbyterian
church building in South Browns
ville is now used for a barn, but it
remains in form and appearance the
same as when Luther White
preached there. Some Say that pre
vious to its use as a church it'
housed Brownsville's early-day col
lege, Principia academy. This was
the school taught by Rev. W. R.
Bishop. White was a pioneer of 1847,
bishop of 1856.
' An old Methodist church in South
Brownsville now. stands on the
Sayer place and Is used for a barn.
The building now used by the Meth
odists is in North Brownsville.
Old as these church buildings of
other days are, they were preceded
by others. The Presbyterians were
organized in a small church house
on the John Rebhan place In South
Brownsville, and there,' too, the
Methodist church was organized.
This building had been erected by
Rev. John McKinney, Methodist
minister and pioneer of 1847.
The Baptist church in North
Brownsville is built around the old
building in which pioneers began
to worship in 1858. The Baptists of
the community had organized as
early as 1853 at the Cochran school-
house, one mile north of town. The
organization then became known as
the Pleasant Butte Baptist church,
so named by the famous preacher,
Rev. Joab Powell, who was present
at the organization. Rev. William
Sperry was the first pastor, and a
building was erected one mile west
of the Cochran place. The site w.is
donated by Claiborne Hill, and he
also gave a plot for a burying
groimd. The building still stands
on the George Harrison farm and
is used as a, barn.