The Oregon daily journal., April 13, 1915, Page 3, Image 3

THE . OREGON DAILY, JOURNAL, PORTLAND TUESDAY - EVENING, APRIL ' 13, 1915.
ROADMASTER YEON TRAVELED HARD
: CLIMBING FROM DRIVER OF OX
OWNER OF LARGEST PORTLAND
Biographical Sketch of Pop
ular Citizen Illustrates ;
Character.
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Xs John B. Teon the Xasne?
In the road bond campaign,
John B. Yeon, county road
maeter, has been made an issue
by enemies of the bonds. A!-,
.
though it believes the matter
of bonding the county and of
constructing hard surface road
should be exclusively the is
sue. The Journal desires to
present below the brief sketch
of Mr. Yeon, his life and his
attitude on features connected
with the bonding campaign to
help Portland people know bet
ter the man.
Ky Marshall N. Dana.
In 1885 John B. Yeon. Multnomah
county's roadmaster, came from Ohio
to Oregon. He had $2.50 when he ar
rived hee. lie secured a job in a log
ging camp at $0 a month and his
board. He worked il to 12 hours a
day, the hardest kind of labor.
-After a time he was made engineer
of an ox team and his wage was raised
to $90 a month. Then he got to be
. camp boss, for he was a hard and will
ing worker. He spent a lot of his own
time learning the business, and he had
that kind of good, quick judgment
which i usually called horse sense.
Five or six years after John Yeon
- had come to Oregon almost penniless
he went into the logging business for
himself. His capital was not borrowed
money, but the Bavings from his wages.
He conducted his business with en
ergy, foresight and success. His log
ging camps were famous as places
where men had the best fare, care and
wages. He never had any trouble with
--labor. His men, consequently, were
the best to be found and got the best
; results.
Fays $25,000 Taxes Here.
All that Yeon made in this district,
he reinvested here. The money he
pays in taxes totals $25,000 a year. His
biggest investment is the Yeon build
ing at l'ifth and Alder streets, the
largest and most expensive office
building in Portland.
Something over a year ago the ques
tion of road construction in Multno
mah county presented almost the
characteristics of an emergency. Mr.
Yeon yielded to the pleas of citizens
Who. wanted results, close business ad
ministration and economy of expendi-
ture. He accepted the onerous posi
tion of county roadmaster, entirely
without salary, and in addition there
to paying his own expenses.
- Under his administration all county
roads have had close personal alten-
tion and vigorous work. He keeps tue
fcabits of his own days of labor, rises
.in the early hours and is frequently to
be found on some job of repair or con
struction miles from the city at 61
A'clock in the morning. Records have
been, kept that show at a glance all
costs unci results. The Columbia river
highway has been engineered, con
structed and graded under his immedi
ate direction, and is now nearly ready
for hard surfacing. The work has
been done for $25,000 lefs than it could
have been dose under contract, and in
much less time. The Columbia river
highway penetrates 30,000 acres of ex
cellent agricultural land now largely
Vindevcloped, and it is the most woa
derful scpnic road in , America.
Gives His Best Services.
In other words, he has ben giv
ing to the county of Multnomah and
its people, without charge, the same
kind of ability that brought him from
the logging camp laborer to the man
of independent fortune that he is
today.
v -As roadmaster he has seen that ma
cadam highways in 'Multnomah coun
ty are not meeting traffic demands,
and that the annual task of main
tenance makes it necessary to pour
out the money, of the taxpayers on
the roads of the county.
With the same high quality of pub
lic spirit and conviction of duty that
led him' to accept appointment as
roadmaster he has been leading the
campaign for the good , roads bonds
for hardsurfacing , important trunk
highways which the people will vote
"Wednesday. His" official duties and
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TEAM TO
County Roadmaster John B. 'Yeon
as he appears when out on
county road work.
his addresses (make each of his work
ing days now about 16 hours.
Attacked by Critics.
Critics have arisen, of course. The
way to escape criticism is to "do noth
ing. Bay nothing, be nothing."
His critics have said: "He has stock
in a pavin;? company, hence he wants
roads paved." His offer to pay $5000
cash to anyone who can show he has
interest, secretly or openly, in any
paving concern, has not been taken up.
They say he wants to employ alien
laborers. He says he wants Jobs to go
to citizens of the county, but his prac
tice speaks louder than words. Last
week I visited the construction camp
near the upper Sandy river bridge.
Twenty-on'e of the crew were local
farmers, five home owners in Portland,
seven unmarried men, and not an alien
in the lot. A visit to the Columbia
river highway crew showed similarly
that men who get the jobs are citizens,
exceedingly weM treated. Some old
world Italians, the only ones who know
how, were building ths dry masonry
walls. These were the only aliens.
County Makes Specifications.
The critics have said the contract is
'fixed," that a patented material,
"Warrenlte" will be required. The
specifications will not contain require
ments for any patented material. The
law requires that the county commis
sioners submit specifications, adver
tise for bids and make the award in
public" meeting. The roadmaster does
not dO-.it. Tlie law of 1913 also re
quires that specifications submitted by
any bidder must be considered. Every
one must have equal opportunity.
These things are-mentioned to show
from the facts that the roadmaster is
sincerely trying to perform a great
and uncompensated service for his fel
low citizens, that he is doing it on tha
square, and that he has no ulterior mo
tive. It the road bonds carry he will
be one of the largest contributors to
the cost of the bonds, because he is
one of the largest taxpayers in the
county. Is it reasonable to believe
that he would wish upon himself a
foolish investment?
This fragment of conversation was
overheard between two business men:
"One of the best arguments I can
think of for the good roads bonds is
that if we vote them now the roads
will be constructed under the adminis
tration of County Roadmaster John B.
Yeon."
Educational Body
to Meet at Spokane
ProgTam for April 15 asd 16 Will In
clude Papers on Hone Econom
ics. . '
The Inland Empire Educational as
sociation of Washington, Oregon, Mon- j
tana and Idaho, will meet at Spokane j
April 15-16. A program of Home' Eco-
nomics section has. been arranged as I
follows by Miss Hoover, professor of'!
Home Economics, University of Idaho:
Thursday morning "The Scope of
Home Economics Teaching in Elemen
tary Schools, "High .Schools and Col
leges,' Mrs. Henrietta Calvin, Home
Economics Expert Bureau of Educa
tion, Washington, D. C.
Thursday afternoon "Domestic Art
Teaching,"' Miss Crea, Lewlston Pub
lic schools. ;
Friday morning "Relation of Uni
versity Extension Work to the Public
School," Miss Rausch, University of
Washington.
Friday afternoon "Progress," Miss
Limbury, Cheney ' Normal School.
Round Table discussions led t y Miss
Hoover.
Tunnel in Bad. Shape.
Eugene, Or., April 13. As the work
of repairing tunnel No. S, on the Eu-gene-Oakridge
branch of- the Southern
Pacific company, in the Cascade moun
tains east of this city,' progresses, it
develops that it is in much worse con
dition than at first thought, and ft is
now believed by those who have charge ;
of the work that nearly the entire tun- i
nel will have to be retimbered. The -'
tunnel has been completed only about
four years. It is predicted that It will'
take three months' time to complete
the . repairs. The . work was made
necessary when the trunnel, : several
weeks ago, began to settle at one end.
' Hogan Bonnd Over.
Roseburg, i Or April 13. Russell
ITogan, who i was returned here from
Portland a few days ago to answer to
s charge of contributing to-the delin
quency of Anna Hart, waived prelimi
nary examination and was bound ovoy
to the grand jury under $500 bonds.
Hogan is about SO years old and the
girl s a minor. Both principals live at
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Children May Take
Part in Celebration
Cltmtlon at Champoeff Takss Flacs
-, on Saturday; Schools Alrsady Prom
ising' to' Send Delsgstlons.
As the Pounders day celebration at
Cham poes this year comes on Satur
day, May 1, an effort is being made to
Interest the school children In the his
torical event and get as many as pos
sible to participate in the celebration.
Assurances have been given George H.
Hlmes, assistant secretary of the His
torical society, that the Brooklyn
school will be well represented.' The
pupils from that school will be accom
panied by Miss Spooner, one of the
teachers.
The celebration is to be without a
st program. Judge P. H. D'Arcy of
Salem will be chairman of the day.
Governor Withycombe will be there
and will make a short speecTi. Others
will be called on for impromptu talks.
There will be music and a basket
lunch on the historical grounds.
EMPEROR IS
GIVEN 'BIG HAND' BY
PANTAGES AUDIENCE
Clever Impersonation Shown
- of Europe's Warring Rulers
Accordion Player Liked.
If the applause of the audiences at
Pantages yesterday may be taken as
index in Portland, the kaiser is the
most popular European sovereign.
Willie Zimmerman, who imperson
ates the heads of the warring nations
in one of the acts on this week's bill,
gives lifelike representations of all of
them from Peter of Servia down to
President Foincare and the German
emperor gets the "big hand.'
Zimmerman is equally versatile im
personating composers leading the or
chestra as Johannes Brahms, Richard
Strauss and Oscar Hammerstein but
apparently none in the audience ever
saw Brahms, for this one seems to fall
rather flat. He winds up with Pres
ident Wilson.
Herbert Lloyd, billed as the "Dia
mond King," and assisted by a handy
man and four dancing broilers, is the
headliner for the week but with the
fickleness that characterizes all au
diences the plaudits for tho show go
to one Amedio who plays on the ac
cordion. Amedio plays the ragtime and the
classic and the other forms of music
until he is ready to drop for sheer ex
haustion and still they howl for more.
Lloyd and his company have a bur
lesque on a vaudeville show, full of
broad humor of a slapstick variety but
withal mighty funny.
Max Wiley and Melissa Ten Eyck
give a number of statuesque poses and
then make the statues come to life and
do a gambol of the gods..
Tom and Stacia Moore sing and
dance in a skit called "The Dream
Girl," the theme giving the latter op
portunity to change her costume for
each verse of Mr. Moore's song about
his dream. '
An equilibristic act of really super-'
ior merit opens the program with the
"Great Arnesens" doing some remark
able balancing and finally sliding on
his head down a wire stretched from
the balcony to the stage. He wears a
specially designed leather helmet much
like an aviator's headguard.
There is the usual first run Key
stone comedy.
BIG CASE IS ON TRIAL
Circuit Jude Davis returned to
court yesterday after a 10 day vaca
tion spent at Gearhart. He af once
took up the trial of the suit of the Mc-
Cabe Construction' company against
the Pacific Railway & Navigation com
pany to set aside the award of the
company's engineer on work done fori
the railway company and for the re
covery of $40,463.30 alleged to be due.
A Smooth, Hairless
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With the aid of a plain delatone j
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skin of unsightly hairy growths. The
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after two or three minutes rubbed off
and the skin washed, when every trace
of hair will have vanished. When you
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GERMAN
'CUT OUT COMEDY' AT
MEDICOS' MEETINGS IS
ADVICE OF AN EDITOR
Levity All Right in Its Place
Perhaps, But Not at Medi
cal Society's Gatherings,
EMBARRASSES ESSAYISTS
One Physician Insinuates That Jocu
larity Referred to . Not Serious aa
Represented.
Ievity may be all right in its place
but its place, is not at the meetings
of the City and County Medical so
ciety of Portland, according to the
editor of the Medical Sentinel in a
current number. Laymen have been
let to believe that the medical profes
sion is made up of serious minded in
dividuals who loftily discuss the mys
teries of medical science when they
get together, but now it appears that
it, too, has its wags and wits who
burst forth much to the disgust of
the editor.
"The medical profession is made up
of the highest grade of scientific peo
ple of any of the learned professions,''
he says. "The sense of fairr.ess Is
greatest with the doctors, one for an
other. Yet many a reader of a paper
in a medical society, has the effect
of his entire paper destroyed though
the jocular efforts of a fellow member
who destroys its usefulness for the
evening, by some joke, simple Jiough
well intended, given in the discussiou
of the paper.
Not Fair to Rasaylat.
"We do not think that it should be
made the subject of light remarks or
of jest. This is not fair to the essay
ist. The writer has been asked to pre
pare his paper. He has probably put
a good deal of time on it. To him at
least it is a serious, sober affair. As
such it is entitled to serious and sober
consideration, even if it does not meet
the general approval of the' meeting,
or the special endorsement of mem
bers present."
Papers prepared by surgeons of in
ternational renown dealing with
highly scientific subjects, are even
made the object of jests by the wag
sters. "The paper represented original
thought and original work," says the
editor in illustrating." It wa3 illus
trated by a hundredoriginal drawings.
Its highly scientific character gave it
space in one of the most scientific
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periodicals on strgery in the land. Yet
this paper was , discussed In a fan
tastic " vein by one or two good mat
ured humorists and by the time the
first of these had gotten through hi
brief remarks, the society was a spirit
of laughter, the scientific work of the
evening, and the. impressions of a ser
ious character which the paper bad
created, were dispersed. An hour
reading was killed by a single good
natured sarcastic reference to the
paper."
Such a serious subject as "Ambard's
Constant" is unprotected when it gets
in the hands of the jocular ctedicos.
To quote from the editorial:
"Another author presented a paper
before the society on the subject of
'Ambard's Constant.' He was a young
man, it is true, with not much prac
tical experience as some of his hear
ers, yet the writer had studied medi
cine in the great centers of the art in
this country and abroad through a
long series of years. The paper cre
ated much favorable sentiment. Yet,
in a few moments, the writer was all
but squelched off the floor, through
the funny remarks of some of his
hearers, and the paper, so far as the
meeting was concerned, was already
in the waste barrel."
The sober and interesting subject
of clothing which has been the object
of criticism and comment since tht
word was coined, can not be discussed
with any degree of seriousness. Once
the humorists get a -.vhack at it, it's
goodbye to the paper. Here's what
the editorial says about it:
Slighting- Discussion Reduced Force.
"A writer at a late meeting had a
ptper presenting some original Ideas
in clothing. The paper was not very
well matured, it is true, and some of
the ideas advanced, might not be taken
as accepted truths, which the writer
himself, yet he was in dead earnest
and in any event, there was a decided
element of value in the paper. Yet
some slighting word in discussion re
duced to a minimum the force and
value of the geiftns of truth in the
paper." "
While the editor says that these
funny artists mean no harm he ad
mits that they do the society ., great
harm and an injury to the essayist.
His hope is that the highly scientific
medicos will soon "cut out the com
edy." Dr. K. A. J. Mackenzie, president of
the City and County society, takes ex
ceptions to the editorial.
' "There is nothing in it," he says.
"Of course the society is made up of
a large body of men and various ele
ments represented. Conditions at these
meetings are not as represented by the
editor, however. It is only what ha
thinks about it."
Appraisers Are Appointed.
Vancouver, Wash., April 13. Ap
praisers of the estate of the late Dan
iel K. Abrams have been appointed by
Judge R. H. Back of the superior court,
and the three who will serve in that
capacity are B. A. DeYarmon, J. W.
Blackburn and D. K. Webster. TJhe
appointments were made yesterday.
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The New Trimmed Leghorn Hats
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Leghorn Hats, now the latest
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Many with facings of plaited ma
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FINE SILK FIBER HOSE, 50c
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25d Selvyt Polish
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5c Silk Hair Nets,
Sale, 12 for. , . . .25c.
Fjne large-size silk hair nets
with tied ends all shades.
25c Tango Hair Pins,
Sale . . . . ..10c
The large loop style in shell,
amber and demi-blonde. ,
New Barrettes,
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Iri the new small sizes in
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25c! Dozen Trimming
Buttons. Sale, dozen. 14c
Little Ablony trimming but
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Fine Pearl But
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The fish eye kind in assorted
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5c Dress Snap Fas
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Best guaranteed, imported
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Sizes 0 and 1.
Scissors, Selling to
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Finest steel scissors, 2 Vt-in.
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5c Doz. Colonial Safe-
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