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:How Act Authorizing Widows'
Pensions Is Administered
In Portland. ,
' By Vell Winner.
To help this la the spirit, as well
as the text of the act which provides
widows' pensions In Oregon and the law
Is being administered both in spirit and
In letter.
Under the dispensation of Judge
: ' Catena and the committee of women,
1 whom be appointed to assist In the work
. of Investigation, the mere admlnleter
; lng1 Of the dollars and cents is of minor
Importance when compared with the so-
cial service work which Is dally being
attained.
Basing the prophecy on the accom
plishments of the few months the law
has been in effect, the widows' pension
kinnm. nrA 1 lh 0MSImI f ,nr
In the great scheme of social service
which Is Just now commanding the at
tention of thinking men and women
i throughout the world.
Realising the Impossibility of giv
ing to each application the personal In
vestigation necessary. Judge Oatens, at
the very outset of the effectiveness of
- the law, appointed a committee of wom
en sincere, capable, sympathetic wom
enwhom he asked to assist . and co
; operate with him In the just adminls
( tratlon of the law. These women, who
give of their time and strength without
any compensation, with the exception of
1 the one official investigator. Mrs. Prin
1 gle, have entered Into the spirit of their
, duties with an earnestness of purpose
and a clarity of vision, that have al
, ready accomplished wonders in cement
, lng the various social agencies in their
effort to do a real and systematic work
' among the poor, the sick and the un-
fortunate.
Each application received by the court
is turned over to some one or two mem-
COOPERATIVE PLAN OF
IS
WE
I
How Joint Effort of Farmers
Is Enlisted in Enterprise for
- the Common Good,
By Wallls Naah.
Nashville, Or., Sept. 20. Much 1s
written about the cow, generally with
her breed, shape, and size, with her ped
. igree, cost, keep and produce. Thin
paper Is concerned with the cow owned
' and in use with the problems solved of
acquiring a satisfactory cow with the
palls filled, and creameries competing
tor the butter fat.
Shall the happy owner be content to
let the creamery supply the cans, and
.mall him the monthly check that turns
ths farm' Into a ready money factory,
not troubling his head with any more
than his Individual benefits, being well
; satisfied to "run it alone?''
, Tet other farmers and dairymen In
lands too numerous to name are well
... convinced that the road of cooperation In
'' the dairy business Is that which gives
.'! more profits into the pocket of the cow
:. owner, and benefits the community
more.
Experiments without number hsve
DAIRYING
WORKING
NA1
DISTRIC
seen tnaoe. MtstaKes ana miscalcula
tions have abounded. But, mainly,
thanks to the careful and many times
'. repeated experiments of the egrlcult
' ural bureau and of the agricultural col
leges and experiment stations, facts
. Jttava leen proved The road of cooper
ation Is now cleared and plain. From the
. ' economic or material side, the creamv"
man ts a middle man between the Tar
' mer producer and ' the city people, con
i timers.
His capital bears but a small propor
tion to that invested by the farmer In
.acquiring, keeping, milking, and hand
! ling- the hundreds of cows that are trib
t, vtary ta one creamery,"' Ills .profits are
large and constant ' He runs no risk
' worth mentioning. The business ts not
. rV V ' . ' '
a nr rvrnmorn
bers of the committee, who make them
selves responsible for all needed Infor
mation' regarding the applicant Where
the applicant resides, whether or not
she owns her home, when the husband
died. If he Is dead, how many children
there are, what their ages are, what
the condition of the health of the mem
bers of the family Is, what the family
Income is these are some of the things
which the committee must ascertain.
This Information and the recommenda
tion of the committee Is then turned
over to the court who renders a final
decision on the eligibility of the appli
cant The committee as a whole spends
one afternoon each week in general con
ference and many hours each week are
also given to individual visitation. The
buccqss with which the law has been
administered Is due In a great measure
to the cooperation and sympathy which
exists between the Judge and the com
mittee members.
Boolal Service Agencies Cooperate.
In gathering data concerning the
many applicants for pensions, the com
mittee almost never fails to ' find the
assistance and cooperation of some oth
er social agency or organization, much
needed. Each of the following organiza
tions has given valuable assistance In
such cases: Associated Charities, Vis
iting Nurse association, Child Labor bu
reau. Portland Woman's club. Council
of Jewish Women, Catholic Women's
league and several others. People In
distress from whatever cause, are di
rected to the right agency for help. Aid
societies of foreign countries have been
put in touch with the sick and poor of
their own nationality; tubercular pa
tients have been sent to sanatarlums;
defective children have been placed In
proper institutions; work has been se
cured for the older children and fors
the mother. Families In need, although
not coming under the widows' pension
law, are put In touch with the Associ
ated Charities. The Visiting Nurse as
sociation is directed to the homes of
expectant mothers. More desirable
places of abode are found for some who
are living in places where the health
Intricate nor does it need many hands
to run a creamery well.
Advantages of Cooperation.
From the side of the community the
advantages of cooperation are many.
Public spirit is set free, a common in
terest is created, neighbors meet oftener,
local pride raises its head, the spirit of
friendly competition in the contribution
of each to the common product Is
evoked, the standard of general average
production is raised; In short each one
no longer looks only on his own things,
but life on the farm Is the brighter and
the more interesting.
All this Is exemplified In the experi
ence of our little community on the
western slope of the Coast range.
The dairy business Is solidly rooted
here. Nearly every farm can show Its
herd of cows. Its separator, and the
cream cans marked with the name of
the happy owners of the milky mothers
of the herd are ranged at every depot of
our much neglected but very necessary
railroad.
Thanks, I believe, to the community
spirit caled out by our Literary Society
and Social club at Its regular and well
attended meetings, a good deal has been
heard and said about cooperation for
many months past Recent meetings at
the school house, of nearly or quite a
hundred persons of all aKts, have been
given up, first to the general question,
and then to the possibilities of a coop
erative creamery to be started and run
by the farmers who now send In their
butterfat contributions to creameries at
Corvallls. Independence, op even farther
afield. Some said, you can't find cows
In the country to keep a creamery going,
let alone make It profitable Others
sold there are more cows In the country
round than you fellows think.
Naturally a committee was of the first
necessity. Equally of necessity that
committee betook Itself for reliable In
struction to the O. A. C. What would
be the lowest number of contributing
cows on which a small cooperative
creamery could live and prosper?
How much would It cost to build and
equip an effective but moderately
planned creamery?
Flan Zs Unfolded.
The answer soon arrived rarefullly
stated, and plainly worded. Under the
circumstances of your community even
250 cows would suffice, to enable your
enterprlfe to 'make a profit But your
plant should provide for extension to
snc ut little additional outlay. Outside
of the building and water supply, which
would have to be adapted to the special
circumstances of the esse, the outfit and
equipment of the creamery would cost
n i k i roTir atado I M DDAVI HI
DI I IN V CO I IVjJrA I
and morals of the children are endan
gered. The free clinics and dispensaries
have been made use of for both chll
dren and adults through the efforts of
the committee, people being encountered
who did not know that such institutions
exist. liven husbands have been found
for some of the widows. One of the
first widows who applied for a pension
Is soon to be married to a Washington
county bachelor, who applied to an of
ficer of the court for the name and ad
dress of a widow. Several other sim
ilar communications have been received
from bachelors and widowers who desire
to become acquainted with widows with
children with a view to matrimony.
By way of giving the public a llttl"
Idea of the widely varying types of
applicants, their claims for deserving
aid, the decisions of the committee and
the Judge, together with what has be;n
and is being accomplished, a few points
on some of the cases are appended:
A mother, ill with tuberculosis, and
four children were found totally de
pendent upon the earnings of a 17-year-old
boy, who was employed at the Ken
ton stock yards and to reach the yards
In the morning he was obliged to risi
at 5 o'clock. The mother was walking
three miles every day to receive oste
opathic treatment. The long walk far
overbalanced any good the treatments
might have done. The committee founJ
work Hearer home for the boy, arranged
for a physician to treat the mother at
her home and granted her a pension. So
grateful Is this widowed mother that
she can scarcely express her apprecia
tion to the-committee members, om
of whom try to call on her once a week
to cheer her up and take her some deli
cacy from their own pantry.
A tiny Hungarian woman with three
little ones applied for a pension soon
after the law went Into effect. Thi
committee visited her home, finding 'It
dirty and neglected, the little ones
sometimes staying with an aunt and
sometimes by themselves, although they
are mere babies, while the mother went
out to work. The pension was granted,
laundry work that could be done in her
home was secured for the little mother
and now the home and children are kept
clean and by supplementing the pension
you $1270, details being given extending
to every Item.
With this tale In hand the committee
started on their canvass of our district
The minimum of 250 cows was soon
reached. The enumeration did not stop
there. And the most striking fact was
that various dairy owners stated their
Intention of promptly adding to their
herds as soon as the cooperative cream
ery became an established fact There
appears little difficulty in having the
necessary building provided, and the
whole prospect Is bright.
Further questioning of the college
perfple told us that the outfit of a cheese
factory of corresponding size would cost
$425. Our ambition now run to having
both creamery and cheese factory pro
vided. How the necessary funds shall
be found. Is not yet finally agreed on.
The plan generally favored Is the Issue
of either bonds or certificates, bearing
a moderate Interest, to be paid off from
the profits thereafter the undertaking
would become actually and absolutely
cooperative.
MANY TAKE OUT FINAL
NATURALIZATION PAPERS
Twenty citizens were turned out
through the circuit court this morning
by Circuit Judge Cleeton, two were de
nied citizenship and three were con
tinued for further study of the goveri
ment processes. One of the men de
nied citizenship produced a witness who
had been disqualified and the other
had a witness who could not prove hli
citizenship. Naturalization Examiner
Hazard, who has been named to tak?
chargo of the newly created local na
turalization department, conducted the
examination of applicants and witnesses.
PIONEER DEAD AFTER
AN EXTENDED ILLNESS
A. C. Mowrey. a pioneer resident of
this city, died Friday at bis residence,
316 Kast Sixteenth street after a long
illness.
Mr. Mowrey, who was 60 years of aga,
was president of the East Side Mill '&
Lumber company. He was also a di
rector of the Oregon Door company and
a director of 'the Merchants National
bank and was connected with the Bank
of Sellwood. ( v'
. For many years he was engaged In
the lumber and logging business at Eu
faula. Wash.
Ur0 I IN FRUVIUIIMVa I'inj Umi- mu
Several groupa of Portland beneficiaries under act providing pensions
for dependent mothers and their homes.
Top, left to right Squalid corner In home of .dependent widow In South
Portland; this mother does washing to supplement the pension
fund allowed her; her three small children appear In the picture;
widow with 11 children in the dooryard of the place they call
home.
Bottom, left to right This widow was assisted in the purchase of the
little home 6hown la the picture; blind Chinese mother who Is re
ceiving material aid; Interior of home occupied by dependent
widow with 11 children.
with her home earnings, the four are
enabled to live comfortably.
A blind Chinese woman with one
daughter is one of the worthy pen
sioners. Speaking in quaint plgln
English this little oriental tells that
she has lived n Portland '24 years and
10 years ago she became blind and that
her husband deserted her and got an
other wife.
A widow with several children was
trying to keep a few chickens to help
eke out an existence, but on a small
city lot she encountei'ed so many diffi
culties that she was almost ready to
give up, when she fell Into the hands
of the committee. She has been moved
to a bigger place In the suburbs, her
stock of chickens has been, augmented
and she has a cow for which she Is
paying now. When she gets the cow
paid for she expects to get on comfort
ably without the pension.
Safeotlve Children Cared Tor.
One widow was granted a pension on
the condition that she would allow the
defective children of her family to be
sent to an Institution. She already
realizes the Justice of this arrangement
to all parties concerned, herself, tho
defectives and the normal children.
ION LI
E
BE
Preliminary Meeting Today to
Be Followed by Public Ses
sion Next Month.
The Recreation League of Portland
was launched Friday afternoon at a
preliminary meeting; In the rooms of
the Playground and Recreation Associ
ation of America In The Journal build
ing. Permanent organization will be
effected at a geneTfal meeting to be
held in the temporary public auditorium
some time In October.
The purpose of the league t to pro
mote playgrounds for children and to
plan and arrange recreative features for
children and the public in general. Rob
ert Strong presided at the meeting and
appointed a committee composed of O.
M. Plummer, Wells Gilbert and Mrs.
Stella W. Durham to arrange for the
genera meeting and to nominate offic
ers for the league.
L. H. Weir, field secretary of the
RECREAT
FAGU
WL
ORGANIZED
TO NUTS! EAT Will FEAR
of; dyspepsia papfs diapepsin
Digests Food when Stomach
Can't No Sourness, Gas,
Indigestion.
You can eat anything your stomach
craves without fear of Indigestion or
Dyspepsia,, or that your food will fer
ment or sour on your stemach, if you
win take Pffpe's Diapepsin -occasionally.
Anything you eat will be digested;
nothing oan ferment or turn Into acid,
poison ' oj stomach gas, ' which causes
BelchlnarT Dizziness, a feeling of fullness
after -eating. Nausea, Indigestion (like a
lump of lead in stomach), Biliousness',
M ATr Dl A I AIHV
Pensions are granted if the husband
and father is confined In a state institu
tion or if he la too ill to work. In
either of these cases a physician's cer
tificate, is always secured before ths
pension is given. Two pensions have
recently been granted to women who
are expecting to become mothers soon;
their husbands are in the insane asylun..
Earlier In the year a pension was grant
ed a woman whose husband was in the
penitentiary. Later he was paroled and
the woman voluntarily reported to th'
committee that she was ho longer In
need of the pension.
One of the most pathetic cases which
has come to the notice of the committee
is that of a Scotch woman and her two
children. The boy was obliged to have
one leg amputated some time ago, It
being diseased. Although he had gotten
quite well, he was not accustomed to
handling himself after the loss of I'm
diseased member and a short time ago
he was knocked down and the other leg
was broken by a passing street car. Th
pension was nothing short of a Godsend
to this widow and her two little ones
A most pitiful case is that of a
widow with 11 children, the eldest a
boy of 18 and the last three being but
eight months apart The father passed
Playground and Recreation association,
stated this morning that in all probabil
ity a play festival will be held in the
auditorium In connection with the gen
eral meeting of the league. The- festival
would be on a very elaborate scale with
several hundred children participating
in the exercises.
COMMON USER PHONE '
POLE MEASURE PASSES
Commissioner Daly's ordinance to re
quire telephone companies and other
public service corporations maintaining
poles to use poles of other companies
and thus do away with a large number
of unsightly obstructions, passed the
city council and is now In effect. A
Joint pole committee of the Oregon So
ciety of Engineers has been appointed
and will confer with Commissioner
Daly to work out a system of elmlna
tion of poles.
The members of the committee are
R. 55. Toung. plant engineer of the Pa.
clfic Telephone company; B. C. Condlt,
chief engineer of the Northwestern
Electric company; H. A. Klrkland, sup
erintendent of construction of the
Home Telephone company, O. B. Cold
well, general superintendent Portland
Railway, Light & Power company, and
F. D. Weber, of the Underwriters'
Equitable Rating Bureau.
Heartburn, Water brash, Pain In atom
ach and Intestines. Headaches from
stomach are absolutely -unknown where
Pape'a Diapepsin Is used. - It really does
all thework of a healthy stomach. It
digests your meals when your stomach
can't. It leaves nothing: to ferment,
sour and upset the stomach.
Oet a large 60-cent- case of Pape's
Diapepsin from your druggist, then eat
anything you want without the slightest
discomfort or misery, besides, every
particle of Impurity and Gas that is in
your stomach and Intestines will vanish.
Should you .be suffering now from lo
digestion or any stomach disorder, you
can get relief In five minutes.! .
EYD ntTDtTM HITMT MriTUFPC
Ul ui-i i-nuunr nu iuiy
away In July, leaving the family desti
tute, the only Income being an occa
sional day's work In a local furniture
factory which the eldest boy has. get
ting $1.25 per day. The next oldest
child, a girl of IS, Is almost blind. Ac
cording to the law this family would
be entitled to $85 per month; however,
In view of the fact that this amount
might have a tendency to relieve tho
family of any sense of responsibility.
It was deemed wisest to give them bur
$50 per month. The expenditure of this
amount is superintended by a member
of the committee and the family is get
ting alonj on considerably less than the
$50, the mother laying as'de a litti
each month. The member of the com
mittee who has this particular case m
hand Is negotiating for the purchase of
a home out In the suhuros for this fain,
lly. The children have barely enough
clothing to cover their nakedness and
the present abode is almost entirely
without furniture. Anyone having dis
carded but wearable clothes, furniture,
bedding or dishes that they do not need,
or second hand school books, will con
fer a great favor upon this poor widow
and her children by taking the same to
the Juvenile court room, county court
house, or calling up the Juvenile court
and leaving an address where things
may be called for.
According to the law a widow may
own her own home and be eligible for a
pension, but if she has money not In
vested in a home she Is not eligible.
In order that Justice might be meted
out to all, one child's pension is do
ducted from the entire amount allowed.
In case the widow owns her heme. Those
who have small amounts of cash a.-
advised and helped to Invest It in a
little home, whereupon they are eligible
for the pension. One mother and five
children are already established in a
comfortable little home, the older c'.i'l
dren are supplementing with their earn
ings the pension allowed for tho
younger ones and the future seems
brighter for both mother and children
than it has in many months.
Aim Is JKoms Building.
A widow, who had placed her two
children In an Institution so that she
might go out to work, has been granted
a pension, has brought her children
home and Is implementing the pension
by taking several children to board.
One of the primary alms of the pension
law is the building up of the home
rather than filling up the state institu
tions, keeping the children under the
care and Influence of the mother. No
pensions are granted except with the
positive understanding, that the mother
stay In her own home. The committee
has helped a number to secure home
work, sewing, laundry work, boarders,
etc.
Pupils have been secured for one
widow, who teaches piano. So success
ful has she been that she recently re
ported to the committee that she ex
pected soon to be able m get along with
out the pension.
Not all, however, allow their con
science and good Judgment to enter into
the pension matter to this extent; for
Instance the court has had applications
from many whose husbands have de-1
BUS! LOTS OF BEAUTIFUL HI
NO BANDIT
Hair comirfg out? If dry, thir
faded, bring back its color
and lustre.
Within ten minutes after an applica
tion of Danderlne you cannot find a sin
gle trace of dandruff or falling hair, and
your scalp will not itch; but what will
please you most will be after a few
weeks' use, when you see new hair, fine
and downy at first yes but real Jy hew
hair growing all over the scalp.
A little Danderlne Immediately doubles
the beauty of your hair. No difference
SICK BEABACf, C0S1L BILIOUS,
IF Lie IS TORPID DIME A BOX
You men and ' women who can't get
feeling right who have headache, coat
ed tongue, foul taste and foul breath,
dizziness, can't sleep, are nervous and
upset, bothered with a sick, gassy stam
ach. ' Are you . keping your i bowels clean
with Cuscarets or merely dosing your
self every few days with salts, pills,
castor oil and other harsh Irritants?
Cascarets Immediately cleans and
CANDY
10 CENT BOXES
" ALSO 29 SO
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serted them; from widows outside the
state, whose claim to the pension Uea In
the fact that their huabands died In
Oregon. Others apply who have several
thousand dollars life Insurance and per
baps have damage cases pending in vol v.
lng considerable sums. One woman ap
plied for aid who was found to be earn
ing $100 per month. A Portland school
teacher whose salary Is $106 per month
asked that she be granted a pension for
the three vacation months. Many with
drew their names as soon as they find
they are to be published. Many apply
who upon investigation are found to
want the pensions to pay off mortgages
or street assessments, although they
may not have any children, although the
law 'states clearly that the pensions are
for the children, $10 a month being al
lowed for the first child and $7.50 being
allowed for each of the other children
under 16 years of age.
One mother asked for $10 per month
to give her daughter music lessons. A
widow with nine children applied for a
pension for the 14-year-old son the
only one within the age limit. This was
denied, the court feeling that the eight
children over pension age ought to be
able to support the one under that age.
A blind widow with three children
made application. As she was receiving
aid from the county, she was advised
that she had best keep that, as it was
larger amount' than she would receiva
through the pension law and that,
should she be placed on the pension list, ,
her county help would be withdrawn.
The committee, however, made arrange
ments to have a woman clean up her .
house, and do some cooking once a week
and various members of the committee
are sharing their canned fruits and
Jellies with the unfortunate woman,
thus stocking her pantry far the winter.
A widow with three boys of pension
age was'found to be paying a too high
rent. She was moved into a place,
where the boys care for two horses and
a cow and in exchange foe their serv
ices rent Is secured free.
The committee Is cooperating with
the scholarship loan fund committee of
the Woman's club in an effort to train
a bright 15-year-old girl to become a
dictaphone operator. A position awaits
her as soon as she completes her train
ing. Free legal help has been secured
In many Instances, especially for for
eigners who are frequently preyed upon
by shyster, lawyers, quack doctors, etc.
The widows' pension law is now in ef
fect in 18 states, but in none of these
are the taxpayers being better protected
than in Oregon. Judge Oatens states
that the committee of women has and
will save the county many thousands of
dollars. Many of the committee women
were active in securing the passage of
the bill, hence they are especially de
sirous of proving the law a success.
Neither they nor the Judge ever lose
sight of the fact that they are dispens
ing county funds and with this Judi- '
clous expenditure they combine friendly
visitation, counsel and suggestion such
as only a woman can give.
The members of the committee are:
Mrs. R. D. Cannon, Mrs. Martin Wagner,
Mrs. Kate Bonham, Mrs. Millie R, Trum
bull, Mrs. Milton Kahn, Mrs. A. C.
Thorman, Mrs. W. T. Hayhuret, Mrs R. '
E. Bondurant. Mrs. A, E. Borthw'ick,
Mrs. Upton and Mrs. Prlngle.
25 CENT MINE
how dull, faded, brittle and scraggy. Just
moisten a cloth with Danderlne and care
fully draw it through your hair, taking
one small strand at a time. The effect
is amazing your hair will be light, fluf
fy and wavy, and have- an appearance of
abundance; an Incomparable lustre, soft
ness and luxuriance.
Get a 25 .cent bottle of Knowlton'a
Danderlne from any drug store or toilet
counter, and prove that your alr is as
pretty and soft as. any that it has been
neglected, or injured, by careless treat
mentthat's all you surely can hav
beautiful hair, and lots of It, If you will
Just try a little Danderlne,
sweeten the stomach, remove the sour
undigested and fermenting food and feul
gaues; take the excess bile from the
liver and carry off the constipated
wast matter and poison from the bowels.
A Caacaret tonight straightens you
out by morning a 10-cent box keeps iii
your' head clear, stomach sweet liver
and ttiwtlb regular and you feel bully
ror"nionths, Don't forget tn a children,-
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