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iSofSitf Five Vacancies to Be Filled on Board of Governors Ten!;. -V Candidates-Mamed.,': Tonight' -the Portland Commerclai 5 club will hold Its annual eleHOn to fill five vacancies on the board of gover-- nor. In accordance with the laws 10 candidates have been placed In the field by the nominating committer. -. The canr didates are John S. BeaU, 8. Blumauer, . J. H. -Burgard, W. H. Fear, F. -A. Free -man, a & Jackson, George W.'Klelser, r. a Riley, A. M. Smith and EJwood , No insurgent ticket wee nominated, . but considerable electioneering la being done today ror lavorues uraras u v hosen by the committee; The poll will night. By 11 the names or tne suotbc f ful candidate wjll probably be ready for announcement. The board of gov. ernors on-next Tuesday will elect of .fleer of the dub for the ensuing year, They will be chosen from the member. 7 BMlfl Ul ins pwra,, A TWUwtth md Secretary W. J. Hofmann retire, they will be out of tit race. . Ednr B. Pioer la vice president." A matter of deep Importance to the club to be voted on tonight Is that of securing new" Quarters for the club. letters explanatory of this movement ' were sent out during the week by Pres. . Ident Beckwlth and responses received yesterday and today Indicate, it is saw, that the membership Is stronly In fav or of leasing the upper stories of -the Central Market block now about to be 7 erected at Sixth and Ankeny streets, for a term of 15 years, and disposing , of the building at Fifth and Oak streets In which the club holds equity. , , ' r? A buffet luncheon will be served this evening In the big banquet hall of the club., It Is expected that a very neavy vote will be cast. The club's active - members number about 1J0O. - A I lUnNtTd LIVtlM , WILDE TRIAL BY ' PERSONAL TILTS ' (Continued from Page One.) less to prove the conspiracy alleged to have existed with Wilde in the embes '. slement of $90,000 from the bank. A session of court is In progress this afternoon la order to hurry the trial of the case, contrary to the ordinary cua torn of the court In observing a half . holiday on Saturdays. The attorneys for ini eiaie mre uurnii la union me case during the present term of court, so no question? majr arise as to the legality of a trial running beyond the term. ' Bays letter Vot Oonnlne. A feature'; of the ' testimony this morning was the exhibition of a letter signed by Fv F. Graves to Wilde. Octo. ber 4, JS11. in,. which Graves strongly indorses, the course of Wilde and says nothing was due himself or Stow out of the proceeds of the deal with the Ore. gon Trust bank. , Graves was president of the Union :' Telephone construction company, which gave Wild the cob. tract for sale of bonds and undertook to build , the home telephone plant at Omaha.. ;-,'--- ;. ..' ? .'': - Stow said he doubted the signature to this letter and said he did not be lieve uraves wrote such a letter. Graves, who Is now 4 or CS years old. lives In Cleveland, Ohio, and the sig nature of: the letter to Wilde indicates an infirm hand. Another letter from Grave,": about four years ' earlier in date, bears a signature resembling that in the letter to Wilde except that It is firmly written. V: ' Because Btow failed to Identify this letter and cast doubt upon its Authen ticity, it has not yet. been admitted In evidence, bu It was marked for Identi fication by , request of the defense. It is understood the defense will later un dertake to show that It is genuine, . o Entitled to Anything. After referring to the "unjust attack" on Wild and the "unjust demands" of .Stow, the letter say ; .. .. . v "The difference between 80 cents on a dollar and the amount the bonds were .sold for cannot concern Mr. Stow or anyone else, as I see it, except your self, as I never considered that either Btow or myself was entitled to any nart "of It," ' . . . Another bit of mystery was added In the teilmony of Stow that when he Went to Fan Dleso In 1910 to demand from. Wilde a division of profits on the bond deal, he was shown a subscription .book by Wilde containing the subscrip tion of. tha Oregon Trust & Saving bank syndicate for the $500,000 bond Issue, and that this book contained no other subscriptions. . . ,. The defense has produced a sub scription book in which the 1500,000 subscription' appears, surrounded by numerous entries -of other subscription of earlier and later date. The inference from Stow's Utimony is that Wilde had a "take" subscription book in his desk ready to exhibit to Stow' when the latter appeared. . , Btow testified this mornine- that on May -22, 1911, he made a written de mand on Wilde for 16.66, or one third of what he supposed was the 150,000 gained by Wilde from the tranaaotiort with the Oregon Trust. He told Wtldo to waste no time making threats by wire or letter, a he wa ready to take t,he neceuaary steps to collect. . ,. Wilde Bends Telegram. Later, said tha witness, be learned lie wa mistaken in the amount, o on .July 17 he sent another letter, amend ing his demand to $15,000, and eug Kestlng that Wilde hould be "movei by hi pathetic appeal" to come to Port land. : Thlawa at the time Wilde wae re sltlnr extradition from California, claiming that the effort to return him here, wa part of a acheme to bring him to Oregon for the purpose of ob taining service In civil suits." Wilde's characteristic answer to this letter by telegram, when read, provoked a gen eral laugh la the court room. It said: Mr. F. H. Stow, 504 Belling Building, .Portland, Or. -Religiously inclined not Ho disappoint so faithful and virtuous a. friend, husband and father as thou, your pathetic appeal tempts me to come to Portland to aocept ervlce. After conference with many of your beloved Omaha and Denver subject whose in terest yo so aacradly guarded whito on duty, I have the honor, moat holy n ,io write you tma iay, '' '' . - :, rx.. .. J. ' WIL.DK." The effort of the defense will be to show;: that Btow Is on of the great "motive" behind the prosecution, and that Btow's activity, wa caused by his desire to get ? money- from, Wilde. It will be urged that afUr his demands on Wilde for money had been unavailing, and Btow had become almost 'broke," Jie interested himself In obtaining the liiuivtiimfil v ,v,tu. ,.j ..-I.. .(. , ";i 4.:. ,r. A letter was shown to 8 tow, written fey 'Wilde to Btow, In which reference was' mad to "your secret trip with Overture tot 110,000 ; and . your, rank statement connected with ; It" Stow aid h did not know what Wild re THE 1 ferred to, a there had been no mention of 110,000 between them. ' . v-sfv. i" Wida't you ; tell Wilde v you 'would square up with him for IIO.OOOT asked Malarkey. - "Absolutely not,", said the witness, mad ha overtures, and. I think he would have accepted tb proposition If I bad.' i; , Asked " boaa , of,. f30,0oa j . A llttla later Stow admitted that be for h left 8an Diego, after falling to get , anything from Wilde, after a stormy interview and after accepting Wilde's hospitality over night, though he left before breakfast, be had asueu Wild to loan him. 130.000. v. 1 On redirect examination' of : Stow, RDeclal Prosecutor- Clark brought 'out that the Omaha bonds wer sold In about equal part In aouthern California. Oma. ha and Portland, and that if the outn ern; California member of the v eon- structlon company had taken alt the Konda upon which they held option, at 00. the nUr iu would have been oversubscribed. , '' s 'v; i,i -w v This was Intended to show that mem ber of the company were not enthusi astic over the value of the bond when they had opportunity. to purchase at 00, from which It will be argued that Mor ris was not making a good bargain for tb bank in buying 1500.000 worth at 100. Stow was still on the wltne stand when court took a recess until S o'olock. ' SCalarkey Offr Xttara, Frank H. Stow wa on the etand all yesterday afternoon under cross-exam Inatlon by Dan J. Malarkey, Wilde' chief counsel, and Malarkey had not tmisbed with hits when the oari ton cloaed. Much of tha time, was oo eupied In argument over the admlal. blllty of testimony offered by the de fensa . ' ' Malarkey offered letter written .by W. Cooper Morris, four in number, which ho ald would tend to explain tha tenor of intimacy in tha letter of Wild to Morria, which had been admitted In evi dence earlier In the day. Judge Kava- naugh ruled that whll tha Utter will be admislbl aa part of the - case for the defense, they could not be intro duced on cross-examination of Btow. Malarkey also sought to have the wit. ess testify to tha effect of tha failure of the Oregon Trust A Saving bank upon the fortunes of the Union Tele phone Construction company, which had depended on th prooeea or aie in monthly Installment of th bond to th Oregon Trust to carry on th construe. tlon of tha Horn telephone plant in Omaha. - -. Objection Sustained. Deputy District Attorney Fltigerald Objected that this wa not proper cross examination and related to a matter taking plac long after the data of tha crime charged agalnt Wild. Judge Kavanaugh sustained an on. Jection as not proper cross-examination, and th argument over th question was chiefly interesting aa showing th op posite theories of th prosecution and defense regarding tha element of th cas on trial. , - , Malarkey contended: that if tha omana bonds wer worth par, and tha bank was making a good investment in th light of circumstance aa they then ap peared, no embexslement eould be com mltted. Thi is on th theory that when the bank paid for- the bond with $100,. 000 In demand certificate and 1400,000 in time certificate, and the bonds ara aoown to represent value received, the bank wa through with tha transaction, and what became of tha money paid to Wilde in ourauanc of hi oontraot witn tha telephone construction company was hi "own busine. ' V Consplraoy X Claimed. Th opposite theory advanced by Flt- raraid was that the embeszleraent charge 1 not affected by th value of v . ....tit mm thm mir hur In KUW - dependency on th question of intent In the sal of tha eouritle. The state's theory la that th entire deal was nart of a consplraoy between Wild and Morria, by which the bank was to buy tha bonds and they wer to divide 190, 000 of th bank' money between them through th instrumentality of Morris, the cashier. ! Stow' testimony ' served to explain away in soma degree the effect of pre vious testimony a to the lntimat term used between Wilde and Morrl. wherein Wild elgned bimMlf "Father," in writ ing to Morrl, and called Morria "Henry." . ' Slow said "Henry" w a nick nam for Morrl, applied to him generally In a ' ocial way, and th nickname of "Father" aroe from an Incident in a store, when a clerk Jumped to th con clusion that Morris was the son of Wilde, and asked him why h did not choose the same material for his wife's dress that hi "father" had chosen. Jnial by Stew. Stow was examined at length a to conversation had with John L. Day, president of the depositors' association of the Oregon Trust, and with George Kate, who one had charge of the bond 4 sarin rimtvnt ' in thd bank. Dav was called on to stand up for Identification and Stow, said hs could not positively recognize him, but presumed he wa tha man he had sent for to make some in quiry as to the price at wnicn tne Omaha bond wer purchased by the bank. He was then trying to find out what Wilde actually received, he said. Stow, with some show of Indignation, riAitiii havina- told Day or Elite that be intended to have Wilde crougnt Dao from California, or that h told them he intended to make WUde "oough up" 10,000, or words to that ctrect. It Is understood the defense will later call Day and Eatea to contradict the testimony ol stow in mis regaru. .no witness was questioned at length as to his relations with A. E. Clark, the spe cial prosecutor for tho state. He denied having consulted with Clark a to hi claim agalnet Wilde for a division of tha profits on the bond deal, but ad mitted having told Clark of some of the results of his investigations before th Indictment of Wilde. MODERN WOODMEN WILL RAISE INSURANCE RATE (Cutt-d Pre teased Wire." , Chicago. Jan. -T.-r-A resolution rais ing the life insurance rates of th Mod ern Woodmen of America, from 60 to 110 per cent over the present assessment, was adopted today at th national con vention of tha organization here. The new rate will, go Into effect January 1. 1913. ' J. O. Davl of California, chairman of the rat committee, made a statement In which he said the Increase In asses, ment have the indorsement of Insur ance commissioners or numerous states. At present the insurance for llfo of a person 18 years old is 80 cents a month. Hereafter It will be T5, and persons of 45 who have been paying tl a month will hereafter pay $2. Final adjournment of tho convention cam thts afternoon. . OFFICERS CHOSEN FOR MALHEUR COUNTY FAIR 1 " (Special to The loornsLl ' Ontario, Or., Jan. 87. -The Malheur County Fair association has elected the following officer: - James A. Lackey, president; F, B. Ball, vice president; h, JV Chapman, secretary! C. H. Kenyon, treasurer. -All of the officers have act ed since the association was organized two years ago, except 7. B. Ball, who wa elected director at the annual stockholder meeting last fall. ; . Tb data set for th next-annual fair la September 14 to 88, inclusive . .- OREGON DAILY JOURNAL; SeSoo Jones Building,' Three " Story ' ". Brick, With Contents, Is ' . (Spedtl to" lb Jonrosl.). Walla Walls. : Wah Jan. !7. Th Jones building was completely destroyed by fire yesterday, ; which caused tne death of , Assistant Chief .Robert J. Wolfe.' He was lost early in th after- noon, the body toeing, recovered at o'clock last night. The property lose I 1120.000. Th fir started in th basement, and could not be controlled until after six hour of fighting. ' Tim and again the flames broke out, Only tha walls of the build, lng -stand and must be torn down, It waa the biggest fir Walla Walla ha known In recent years. It Is believed part of the record of the Dean-McLean Abstract company in tha vault are damaged by fir, and th loss may mean much litigation, The heaviest loer are th Jonea- Soott company, owners of th building, 176,000; A. M. Jenaen pry Goods com pany, 175,000; John Kelly, saloon, 110,. 000 Gose 4k Ooee. attorney, law li brary, 110,000. Tb other tenants who lost are: Caswell Cigar company, Tom Mogrove, Dean-McLean Abstract com pany and Moos lodge. - Th building wa built In 1880 by. the Knapp-Burrell company.' It waa ona of the oldest brick business block In Walla Walla. . BODY OF SEID BING With th polio In vry city In the northwest where Chinese, congregate, th Immigration officials and th strong. est of th Chinese secret organisation searching for Ol Sen, th young Chinee woman charged with the murder of Seld Blng, whose mutilated body was found last Wednesday in sn unclaimed trunk at a railway station in Seattle, Captain Baty of th local polio detec- tlva department, 1 momentarily expect, lng new of th woman' arrest. 'All the avenues of escape ar o well covered that I do not believe th Chines woman can keep out of eight much longer," said Captain Baty. "She probably hiding in some Chinese Joint, - but with the Chinese o stirred up over the crime soma of them win find her at tha first move ah makes." Today has brought no new develop. ment a in th case, . Many possible clue ara being run , down and special atten tion la being mad by local officer to get a line on th , accomplice of th Chinese woman.' - ; ' Th inquest held in Seattle yester day was . not completed in time for Detective Jo Day, who went to get the trunk and it contents, to 'leave lor Portland ' yesterday afternoon, but be 1 expected to arrlv at I O'clock to day. . . CLERK FIELDS TURNS $4344 IN JO TREASURER County Clark Field today turned In to the county treasurer the balane du from the December receipts. Thts amount 1 14344, which 1 th sum tied up in the suspended American Bank ft Trust company. Th law require that th clerk shall turn ever each month to tho treasurer th receipt of th clerk's office, but owing to the fail- re of the bank, th money could not be withdrawn. Th money turned In today wa made up by the clerk from bis pewnal account. m, 34 MONROE MUTINEERS GO TO WALLA WALLA (Dotted Prwx Leased Wtr. ' a ' Seattle. Wash.. Jan. 87. Thlrty.four prisoner who had been inmates of the Monroe reformatory wero brought to the county jail her yesUrday on their way to Walla Walla. The pris oner have been ordered transferred to the penitentiary for having Incited a mutiny at Monroe. Only first offender under 30 years of age are permitted td be sent to Monroe under the rules. A-U old offenders have been ordered re- moved on that account, following th break of discipline. NEW YORK SOLON TO QUIT CONGRESS CongreBBman Martin W. 'Littleton of : the Firat New York district, and one of the toembera of the Stanley Bteel investigating commlttoe, who : , made, the. announcement that he ' will" quit congreaa and resume the practice of ,'JawJ after h!. Regent term expirea. ' , v r , ' , ODAY , fi J,"""! '' HK '..f'V' ' PORTLAND, SATURDAY , IN THE REALM FEMININE (niU WXIJ-AtJS SMAaTKIST..;'; 'i felted 'by yraseM Xfarlos Hawk. : :" t Peenls'S Institute, Hiss TaUatfce Prlobard, Dlrtcrtor.Fourth and Buruside street. -;. Vortlsao. . ?1iom Haia U71. : Osr Vaiaery aal Flower atMoa, Verth ninth stmt, foctlaod. Frraidmt, Mrs. W. feshaelmsr. ghea A-tbiU,.,. trsielTkerfceod ' Reus. oen4 ' and ' Weed , TrMts, rrtlad Krs, . If. Bluaaue. ::ridat, VaM Mala 6881,."; ;, -v, i , v Gossamers oretaryi , m rwnder street. s ' , , , i - , ' ' Jatenfls ' Court, ' -mrthmM-WHlUm H. Oatene, Judrst probatioa off leer, 8. V. . WhlUi itmd ef rtrls' department, Mise . (mmt Butler. . ?hone Weodlaw &, , 09urtbus pboae, A-7. , Chn ' tabor OommUsIim. Krs. ltnil rnmbull, U9 Xsird stmt, rbes A-: Big Bretet.J.Ol Clark, T. M. O. A. , In Big ' Slstwhoo. Mrs. J. Allea Oil. bart, , sseretary, rkoae A-18SJ, Mala ..; urn. : - i on Ooagren ef Mothers. Mrs. Bobert XStS. .. A BOOT lll ' 'V-'.-. r. ; Judge WUilB Brown la coming. Judge Brown ha a massage for Portland, h will deliver that meaiag next Tuesday night, at o'clock, at tb Whlta Tempi. It I an important message to city or- flolala. to duoator. to aocial worker. to, business man, to -women' clubs, to playground and recreation worker, to father and mother and teacher. , L.et u get th seoret of this wonderful sue cess with boy and sav th time, money and heartache" caused .through , Ignor- anoe of th child nature. la It any moment to you . whether your boy 1 right and can be kept right or whether he 1 right now but may be wrong any time and you not nave tne knowledge to put him right; if it is. bear th judge. You ar reaponsiote for that bor. Then get th secret of guiding him Into safe and healthy hab it. Let tha word go rortn mat rort Urnl 1 not Indifferent to "conservation of its human resources." ' Th boy or th Tree, which ghall It be ; Th B. - T. P. of th Whit Tempi ar happy. Why? Becaus they ar OIVINO. The best of It all Is that they ar giving themselves. They are giving Joy and pleasure to other young peopi, Thay ar furnishing a fin entertain ment to th residents of tb Boys' and Girls' Aid. I should Ilk to know th boy or girl who first thought of doing this. Th thought l the great thing, Of eourse th thought is of little value unless it be carried into action. But even th thought lof value, for it goea forth and may lodge, and th on who receive It may be able to carry the thought.' Into notion. I remember, a' little story which hs stayed with me all through life and meant much to me. I wae quite young, but I can the pic ture yei Bohool was out Th ground and trees covered with snow. The pond was frosen. The boys and girls were skating. . Joy and laughter everywhere with the single exception. A boy with hands in hi pocket wa standing on th bank of the pond. Presently on of th skaters approached him and In quired why he did not get hi kat and "come on." "I hav no akatea," wa th reply. Tou haven't?" In some surprise from hi comrade. By thi time other boy bad skated near to find out what wa going on. On learning th facta some of the boys wheeled about exclaiming: "Oh, he ain't got no skates, that' all." Another boy thoughtlesaly ahouted: "Why don't yon buy you lomi skate T" And o It went on with comments from the var ious boys. The boy who had approached first was thinking. "Say, Will, If you will take the trouble to go up to my house and get my old skates you may have them. They are about as good aa ever, but ratner gave ma . mese ior Christmas. Tou ten motner I . Bent you." It is needless to add that Will soon had the skates, and from the stooped, despondent figure on the bank. he waa erect, joyous ana active a any Of the boy. When It wa noted about the kindness or th act, some or tne boys disparaged it by saying. "Huh. that was nothing. He tnigm nave naa my old skates if I had thought of It" Ther I a tt. my ooy, you awn t tninn of It And o It is with old. as well a young, they do not think of the kind ness that mean so much to another and so little to them. 6o I say again I ehoulu like to know the boy or girl who "thought of it who thought or giving their time and talent to give pleasure to tho less, fortunate. ' . Qlrol jrwV " ghedde. In Linn county, has organ ised a Parent-Teacher association. Tbe slogan is "Better schools with cooper, tlon between teacher and parent" At the Initial meeting tnera wer za who signed the constitution and this bids fair to be one of the live factor In thi parent-teacher wtrk. The prin cipal of the school Professor Carson, is the president; Mrs. Gregory, first Vice president; Mrs. Springer, second Vice president; secretary, W. Haw. thorns; treasurer. Will MoConnell; II. brarlan, Marlon . Coon. A box of the Congress book are on the way to Shedds. Hereafter keep your eye on ghedd. It 1 a case of follow your leader. ' Several of the circle hav postponed their meetings on account of the small, pox scar. Remember the man who bled to death without having lost a drop of blood. He that hath a fear 1 liable to be ill. ' A Tragedy. Only a little bif of pink humanity; kicking, squirming,' pulsing humanity, a sight that brings a smile to the lips of" everyone who, views it. But at what a sacrlfloa is' it given to the world. Behind the curtain , lies i the mother stilled in death. " The little mother who had worked and struggled to feed and clothe her (fther three chll dren, and had encouraged -and cheered the father, who wa 111 and out of work, who had never failed her little fam. Ily in it numerous demands, and now, why so silent, . so inaotlve, so unre sponsive to the call, ef loved ones! Brave little Boul, her activities from henceforth must be on : some other plane, and other hands, less fond per. chance, must provide food and cloth lng. shelter and protection for her lit tie ones here. Truly, all the world's, a stg and men and women and ohlldren are the players, and her we hav trag edy. . . . ..- .. . . Mr. and Mr. Carroll aet out In lift with fair prospects and high Ideal. All went well until one day the father met with an accident from which he ha never recovered. Then It was the play changed from . drama - to tragedy, and .'thi week the ourtaln fell with the deatk of th mother. ' Th on i changes. A kindly, die posed woman has th wee bit of pink humanity In her home and keeping; the aunt Is caring for the other three and the father is In despair; and now the future is a blank. : Will It be possible for the father with hi uncertain health to keep his little family together? Will he be provided with work when he I able to do HT How I the little fam ily ' to be provided for nowt Here is a story."''.,. . 1 a i, .":"v;.' ; , Over on thi east aid a little band of women, six or eight in all, used to meet - EVENING, JANUARY 7, Victor Chrlstcnsen Is the son of Mr. and Mrs., M. Christensen and ap peared recently aa a violin aololat at the entertainment given by the ChfirjUfelfare league. , The lad 1 a bTk2S example of the pr. Borla Bldlgtheory. He la not a phe nomenon but haa. .had the opporv tunity of developing hla powera. every fortnight to sew. -embroider, dl cuss best books for-mothers, useful gift for Christmas, etc., etc. f One day one of the number told of an unfortun ate family and it waa suggested that it would be a great help to tha mother to assist in her sewing; this don It wa learned what the needs ; were ana from tho home of th different mem ber of thi little lend-a-hand group many things were found to Just supply that need, and so the work went , on and a few months ago they came In touch with th little mother who ha Just been laid to rest The faithful nasi and loving tendern with which the women hav "shared" with th little mother Is a living lesson for selfish ones to emulate. What a Joy It must hav been te that mother to watch and assist In th preparation of the lit tle layette that the faithful women were preparing, to see and realise from day to day . that need were supplied, like the. "measure of meal" when the last was gone more appeared in its place. , And so H waa. And so It Is. These women have been and will be faithful to -the end. They are not the kind that make a splash and then call It a finished task. . ' Many individuals are helping a brother or sister carry, their load which has unexpectedly become too heavy or it may be that they, through-some un foreseen causa, may have become weak-. ened, but her we hav a unit of In dividual, and th amount and kind of work done prove th efficacy of coop eration. If you wish to go and do like wise or assist in the good work confer with Mrs. A. W. Wsbster, Mr. Saw tell, Mr. J. 8. Greeny, Mrs. Loul Bte. Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Will Spinning, Mrs. Robert McBrid or fur faithful and ef ficient Mr. W. 8. Brando, of 108 .East Alder atreet and you will receive In. atructlon In the gentle art of lend-a-hand, wherein the result may be per manent This little group of women have the satisfaction of "a duty well don," which' In Itself bring Joy to the doer, but tb further promts of "Inas much aa ye did It unto tb least of these. ye have done It unto tne." So mot It be. ' , Playground Cread. ' Mrs. U H. Weir, field secretary of th Playground and Recreation Aocltlon of America, In a communication, say: Th basic reason for this" movement and an Indication of its Importance in relation to various sociological prob lem la found in th following eon tructlve "creed" of the Playground and Recreation AsBoalatlon of America: 1. Dependency 1 reduced by giving men more for which to live. i 2. Delinquency 1 reduced by provid ing wholom outlet for youthful en ergy. 8. Tuberculosis is reaueed by build ing up strong constitution through vigorous outdoor life. 4. Th general standard of health la raised by pleasurable activity, Industrial efficiency 1b Increased by giving individuals a play life which will develop greater resourcefulness and adaptability. ,. 6. The tendency of modern Industrial ism to crush Individuality 1 counter acted by increasing the opportunities for eeoh person to develop In leisure houra Individual Qualities not developed In houra of business. ' 1. Higher standards of morality ar developed by providing good aubstitute for undesirable form of recreation. : 8. Good cltlaenshlp is promoted by forming habits of cooperation in play. People who play -together find It easier to live together.. Individuals enjoying a wholesome happy life are more loyal a well aa more efficient citlssns. r, t. A broader, more complete and more vivid . life Is made possible . through play. :'' , - 10. Family unity 1 mor easily se cured when the member of the fam. Ily have formed-the habit of playing together in their leisure hour. It Community spirit 1 mor easily secured through play. In which all mem ber of the community share. Demo cracy reatg on the .most firm basla wnen : tne community pa lorroeo. tne habit of playing together.' 12. The highest forms of Bplritual life are possible when ; there has bean developed a strong play spirit. Social progress depends upon th extent to which a people possess th play spirit , Good Xoad for Child WUar. At a first glance, good roads seem rather far removed from child welfare, but upon second thought they are very closely allied. , Every mother, living In the country, who has children Of school' age, know to her dismay what bad road meaif to her and ber ohlldren. Wet feet heavy - colds, late supper, early breakfast, abaenoe from achool, atrugglea to "catch up" in achool work, nervous strain and ever so many other evlla can be traced baok to the unfa, vorable condltiona of the country roads. An organisation which 1 carrying on successfully an interesting and helpful work Is the Harris Mothers' club ef Good Roads for Child-Wei fare, ' of Wellaton Station, Missouri. ; A report of one of their meetings la sent In by th aecretary, Mra. A. J. Fox. ., , , The meeting, held with one of the club membera, wa opened by th pre. Ident with an addreas of welcome. It wa suggested that the club direot It efforts to Install cookery in th public achool, and a committee wae appointed to confer with th principal upon the subject and also to make arrangements for having the sohool opened for club meetings. Mra De Oarmo, of the Na tional Mothers' Congresa, was named a chairman of this committee. " -. '.,. The membership roll was i Increased by five, three mother and two teaeh rs. Th treasurer received several 1012. UlUUILLLlJi U.X !1 U-U. I donations of money to be added to the 1 road Improvement fund. Ell - M. Ftapp, . superintendent of schools, In Child-Welfare Magacine: ; Knowledge apart from the power to use It 1 worthless. Knowledge 1 not power, but the application of knowledge to productive and worthy end 1 power. I consider manual and vocational train ing tha best truant officer a school ays tern can employ. All corrective institu tion find that their most valuable agent to the boy's reform I some useful form of handicraft Th manual art are tbe best cur for truancy. Thy ar even petter in prevention than in reform. The truant officer, the factory ln spector, tb probation officer, the char ity worker, . th sociologist, the social settlement worker, the woman's club, the teacher, the principal, and th hu manitarianall these to make one boy stay in the third grada And yet he lip through th mesne of th educa tional system, and eseanee to hla true school the street ' . The ; average boy has more Ingenuity and more energy man tne scnool in its present organisa tion can use. an Ingenuity and enerav cestain to p destructive unless we can maxe mem constructive.- II the money spent on restraint, constraint rerorma tion, were turned over Into the school fund and expended on prevention, chll- aren ana eommunltle would b Immea. urablr the better therefor. If the money which ha been anent In the country school for grammatical. matnematicai. anatomical and other dia bolical - charts had been snent for kit of tools, work bench, etc, the country oore lot today might be envied by hi more '-. fortunate city eousln. - Diatrtot school should be required te maintain experimental garden, and to instruct In . the lmpl sclenoe of gardening, farming, hortlcultur. breeding ef eed and plants, etc A aohool garden , 1 practical. ... -. .. -., Good heme are the true foundations Of a nation' greatness. , Schools should stand aid by id with th homes, not supplant them. United they should work for th welfare of the nation. Thi yielding. up of functions by the home not only weakens the home, but under, mines . the nation's strength. Th na tlon must stand. : v , i Otty BeantlfnX Vtw speak of the "City Beautlf uL" Has It not become something of a cant phraser No magnificent 'Improve ment". can mak m city beautiful, a long as there are squalid homes else. where In the city. Ostentation and magnificence, splendor and squalor go nana ana nana in many large cities. It i fervently to b hoped that in this growing metro poll of th . west our city may be "beautiful" by the absenoe of destitution and misery, and that an air of cheerful oomfort may prevail, worth many timee the spectacular ef feet of boulevards and plain and or nat buildings..,. .:j av:.--..v Th werk of the Child Waif are league Is te educate ohlldren as to the real value of thing not to foster their d ir for, extravagant display. . ... The conservation of our natural re sources refers to our land , and their contents, ourv streams and our forests, and w ara thankful for th careful and earneat effort mad in thi direction, but how Infinitely more important it i to oonaerv the life and the moral ef the ohlldren wbe are to inherit this earth. . . '-'.- Would that the earn amount" of car and wisdom that Is being xerc!sd In natural conservation" was uaed for th eonaervation ef human live. It 1 Imperative that thi should b th case, ror tne rutur or tbi country depends upon Just such efforts. - MAGAZINE WRITER TO LECTURE AT- CHURCH One ef the prlnolpal editorial writers on the staff of Collier's Weekly and a widely known : magaslne - contributor, Chrlatopher Connolly, will speak at the Central Christian church. East Twentl. eth and Salmon streets, tomorrow night His subject wil be "Tragedies and Com. edle of Our Court," which Is on of his strongest lecture. ; 3 Mr. Connolly firat came into promt nence through a aeries of articles which ran In McClure's Magaslne relating the histotry of the Daly-Clark political feud in Montana. 8.' 8. MoClure, th pub lisher, declared that this was one of the strongest and most dramatlo series that ever appeared in tbe columns of 'hi magaslne. - Mr. Connolly is an Interesting speaker and his style of speaking 1 character ised by the same sploe that marks bis writings. ; . MEN AT COUNTY FARM : Tp WORK BUT 8 HOURS Efforts of O. P. Hoff, staU labor eommlaslener, to enforc th eight hour day in regard to the engineers at tb county farm brought out an order' from th county court thi morning that th men must work only eight hours at a time, superintendent Jackson reoom mended- that a third engineer be ap pointed, but this was taken under ad. viseroent two men are now employed a engineers at the farm. The state labor commissioner state on engineer work 10 hours . and : th other works nine houra. The superintendent replies that thi I not true, except in emer. genoy cases, where an engineer le fre quently required to work over the al loted time for a day's work. It is also reported te th county court that union organiser hav been bothering tbe en gineer and are causing the trouble. DITCHBURN IS AGAIN " CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE . ' - t .' i. 'i i t John Ditchburn, who two years ago was one ef the Republlean nominees for the circuit bench In Multnomah county, but was , disastrously defeated by Judge wN. Gatens. Democrat is again an aspirant for Judicial honors. He has announced his eandldaey for the republican nomination for circuit Judge, department No. 4. and In his platform deolares that no . Judge should have f ewer to declare void a law passed by he peopl or th legilature; that th recall should extend! to Judges; that Bex ajono should not disfranchise; and that he favora t rollette for presi dent Th defeat suffered by Ritch. burn two year ago was one of the most crushing In the hltory of Repub lican candidate In Multnomah county. . ; WlU of Dr. Carll rUed. . ' . ' (Rneelal to The Jonrnal.l ' " Oregon City, Jan. 7The will of the late Dr. W. B. Carll, who died November 19. wa filed for probate yesterday aft ernoon by Clarence I Eaton of Port, land. Th executors ere Frank J. Lon ergan and James P. Lovett Dr. Carll's estate consisted chiefly .' of a fine li brary and life Insurance, .'Ki'ilt,' k Palis Down Elevator (Shaft ji'j; George Pavls. an employe of the Co lumbia Wire and Hardware company, whll working on an elevator shaft In a new apartment hous at Sixth and Main Street fell down th shaft and suetalned serious Injuries this after noon. The Red Cross ambulance wa called and the man was rushed to Sell wood hospital. - ,v.v, Bill! IDEA II In New' Utopia Everyone Will 1 Own Property Jointly-and , , Work Together- Philadelphia! 9.1 4fltriii ar kicking again " kt i Ardepj at least that I the way th standpat single taxer put It but th kickers say" they are ad hering to. the right of freebom citizen to resent tyranny and to snatch freedom from a triumvirate of domineering trua- ie wno want to no everything, r The single ' tax colony in Delaware county is again rent with rumors of war. Never since the day that George Brown, the shoemaker anarchist,;; first ahowed hi lavender sock In th pretty rural community, or since th time Upton Sin clair appeared with hi affinity-craving wife, has the community known a mo ment's peace. Now It is the Socialists who are at work creating turmoil and. threatening to take themselves and their idea put, of the reach, of the Arden bosses, who. they assert are trying out ma uiiioni noi in aemocracy, put in . a monarchal reform of government ' . George Brown,- who In the - summer had the leader of the colony put in few days breaking stone in the county Jail ; because Of their proclivities fop, Sunday tennis, Is one of the malcontents who 1 going to hike away from the community and start a real Socialist colony none of your make believe sin gle tax communities, but a baven for men and women who want the universe remade according to their pattern. 'A meeting of the eeoeders was held in Wilmington a few days ago with Wil liam Canbe Ferris, a wealthy Socialist,'' as chairman R. Barolay8plcer, Upton : Sinclair, Brown and a : few others at tended -and seconded the motion to es tablish a brand new colony, possibly at Silverslde, a- few miles -from Arden, where a 1 acre tract le available. The new community will be a cooperative Socialistic settlement, run on exactly opposite political principles from Arden. Everything that anybody owns will be long Ao everybody elae except the land, whloh will be sold for 126 an acre. The community will be run on a brotherhood basis, and there will be no bosses, everybody having a hand In everything. BOYS TO GET SPANKING : FOR STEALING BOAT . "Go. home and tell your mother to ' spank you." . " e ' That was the command issued from -police court to four young boys today. and a policeman was sent along, with them to see that the message waa given - to the mothers. The boys who received this injunc tion were Harry Fontana, Walter Nel- . sen. Clarence Gilbert and Frank Myers, the first three being It years old each' end the last named 17 years old.' They stole a rowboat owned by a Mr. Davis, from the foot of Alder street, and started on a Journey, down the placid Willamette. They got as far as : Ankeny atreet when their craft bumped Into a acow and capsised. The boys were fished out of the river by a tele phone lineman, who happened to be near. - : Harbor Patrolman Prissey brought them to th police station. ...... LEBANON PEOPLE TO tMDDnvc Dnno online imi his via i wwii I lunuu (Special to T- Journal.1 Cottage Grove, Or Jan. 27. A special committee was appointed by the Com mercial club at Its last meeting to make arrangements for the forming of a good roads association. The good roads propo sition was gone into very thoroughly. There Is a determination among mem bers to see that a number of bad roads are fixed up at once. A special com mittee wa also appointed ..to meet with the county commissioners on road busi ness., . Mid-Year Exams, at Pacific TJ. (Special to Tbe Journal.) -Pacific University, Forest Grove, Or.,, Jan. 27. Mid-year examination begin Tuesday morning at Pacific and last through the rest of the week. Th flret three days of next week will be holidays, classes being resumed again on Thurs day morning. Wednesday morning thi opening exercises will be held and on .. Friday the mid-term reception. In charge of the senior class, will be given in Marsh hall. FACTORY GIRL GIVES UP Too Sick to Work Doctor Advised Operation. Re stored : to Health by Lydia E, Pinkham's Compound. . ? Ponghkeepsie, N. .Y." I run a aew tng machine in a large factory and got ail run down. I had to give op work for I could not stand the pains In my beck. The doctor said I needed an operation for female trouble but Lydia E, Pinkham'i Vegetable fTVvmtnmnl a! n a A 1 tm . more than the doctors MftsB get the Compound, My Ealne, neryousnesg and . ackache are gone and I have gained five pounds. I owejny thanks to your medicine for it is tho working girls friend, and all women who suffer should write to you for special advice." Miss TtttlE Plenzm, 8 Jy St; Pwighkeepeie, N..Y. 'xM. When a remedy baa lived for over thirty years,' steadily growing In popu larity and influence, and thousands upon thousands of women declare they owe their very lives to it, la it not reasonable to believe that it is an article of great mcrltT ' " " ' Wa challenge gnyone to show v any ether one remedy for a special class ef disease which has attained such an enor mous demand and maintained it for so many years as has Lydia E. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound. ' . ; It yon want special advice write to Lydia E.Plnkhim Medicine Co. (confi dential) Lynn Mass, . lour letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held la strict confidence, TOHOIEDfl