Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1916)
THE - OREGON SUNDAY - JOURNAL, . PORTLAND, SUNDAY .MORNING, , MAY Jt, 1916. SOCIA QUESTIONS TO : nr ninni innrn t nrrn UL I II V I I IV V 1.1 1 n I IJLLII ULUIOUUOOLlni lLLU .... f . : COLLEGE THIS WEEK Northwest and State Confer ence to Be Held Friday, . Saturday and Sunday. LEADERS WILL SPEAK ftevlslon at Or iron's Criminal Code to 8 On of Chief Topic Which Will Be Considered. Social questions of vital Importance to citizen of Oregon are to be dis cussed by authorities for the lc-ading Social, governmental. Intellectual, In dustrial and religious Institutions of the northwest at the Oreffon Stat Conference of Social Agencies which Will be held In Portland at Reed col lege Friday, Saturday and Sunday. ' The first eectlon of the conference. Which win meet on Friday afternoon, Will concern Itself with the problem of the segregation of the' socially In efficient. B. W. DeBusk, professor of education at the University of Oregon, will act as chairman. The speakers will deal with all sides of the problem of Inefficiency. They will consider the relations of society to it inefficient members. the relation of. industry to Inefficiency, the duty of the schools In dealing with them and what Is to be done with the higher grade of d fectives and those who are unable to earn a minimum wage. To Discuss Code. The revision of Oregon's criminal code will be the subject of discussion for the second meeting of the social workers the evening of May 12. Judge William N. Oatens will preside at this session. The history of Oregon s criminal code, its present defects, aug Testlonn for changes from its present form, the Inadequacy of some forms of criminal legislation and the work of a psychopatlc institute will be the sub jects considered. Proposed social legislation for Ore gon will be the main topic for the third l . I .. - ...III . ,1 - rvmiuii whivii win iiieei un mo alici noon of May 13 and be presided over tjj Judge John H. Stevenson. Various subjects of Interest will hold the at tention of the workers at this meet ing. The status of th Illegitimate (ThUd pfimmitmpnt Imwh fnr thi fulilA minded, state public markets and tne problem of consolidating of labor com missions into a .state labor depart ment are among the subjects which the speakers will deal with. Governor Lister of Washington will also tell the conference of the experiences of his State with social legislation. The fourth section of the conference Will meet on the evening of May IS and occupy Itself with the question of health Insurance. William O. Eliot Jr., f the Church of Our Father, will act as chairman. The -speakers nt this pension will deal with such subjects as CONFERENCE OF SOCIAL AGENCIES IS APPROVED ' If T3 w 3E J ffiI 'M j V.::V? W i.-.-.'i.-J.f. ft-, ? 3 ' tr .' rm & $,a '"-I t ft) ! . tr; VP hfft 1 i tt; C'-Al - ig) ill (c i (H) "i CRIMINALS WILL BE IV AS 0N SICK MEN AT CONFERENC E National Charities and Cor rection Meeting Will Begin -in Chicago Next Week. WORK TO BE ' REVIEWED Valua of social Surrey will Be Ex plained; Employer Are Declared a Factor for Moral Uplift. Speakers at the Oregon State Conference of Social Agencies at Reed college, May 12-14: 1 Dr. Edward O. Sisson, commissioner of edu cation, Idaho. 2 C. M. Kynerson, editor Portland Labor Press. 3 Rev. YV. G. Eliot 4 O. M. Coldwell, general superinten dent of the Portland Railway, Light & Power company. 5 V. T. Foster, president of Reed college. 6 Judge C. U. Gantenbein. 7 Attorney James B. Kerr. 8 Miss Eleanor Rowland, professor of psychology, Reed college. William P. Ogburn, professor of economics and sociology. Reed college. ,1- W. F. Woodward. I lr George Thacher, president Prisoners' Aid society. 12 Rev. John II. Boyd. 13. Z. J. Bushnell, president Pacific university. 14. District Attorney Walter H. Evans. Reed college Is receiving dally testi monials a the value of Its confer ences on social agencies, the fourth of which la to .be held next Friday, Saturday and Sunday. These come from people who have attended pre vious conference and are Interested In the welfare of the people. Mis Caroline J. Oleason, secretary of the Industrial Welfare commission, said: "I consider that the conference 1 a valuable movement. .It calls the at tention of persons wno believe that Oregon is too young and sparsely pop ulated to have social problems to the fact that many Inimical conditions have begun to flourish here." Dr. Calvin S. "White says. "This con ference offers the greatest opportu-1 nlty for the young to study citizen ship and for the business man an op portunity to study the best means for the reduction of his taxes." Rev. W. O. Eliot Jr., chairman of the local executive committee of the Religious Education association, says: "The educational Ideals In social serv ice work and social service Ideals la educational work come Jnto vital and helpful contact in the Jb annual con ferences." Mrs. Robert H. Tate, chairman of the Oregon Child Welfare co. amission, says: "The conference la perhaps the best means to stimulate our citizens to deeper thought and larger activity In social service on the basis of hu man brotherhood." the social cost of sickness, health Insurance from the standpoint of the employer and the employe, the wis dom of state insurance, plans for health Insurance and the experiences of other countries with the problem. Comxnttees to Report. The final meeting on Sunday, May 14, will be concerned chiefly with re ports of committees the California State conference and a recital by Dr. Max Pearson Cushlng on the Olds' memorial organ. The conference is especially interest ed In the subject of health insurance. According to Professor William F. Og burn, chairman of the program com mittee arranging for the conference, this -will probably be the next big movement of social legislation In the United States. The speakers and the subjects of their addresses at the various sessions will be as follows: Friday Afternoon, From 3:30 to 6:30. "Society and the Inefficient," by C J. Bushnell, president of Paclflo university. "The Social Problem of Inefficiency in Industry," by . B. Coldwell. gen eral superintendent of the Portland Railway, Light & Power company. C'The Hlgh-Orade Defective," by George A. Thacher. "What to Do With Those Who Can not Earn the Minimum Wage," by Edward W. Olson, commissioner of la bor, state of Washington. "The Social Function of the Schools in Relation to the Inefficient," by Ed ward O. Sisson, commissioner of edu cation, state of Idaho. "What Institutions Are Needed to Handle the Problem." by G. P. Putnam, secretary to Governor Withyconjbe. Friday Evening at 8 o'clock. "Development of the Oregon' Crim inal Code," by Calvin U. Gantenbein, dean of the School of Law, University of Oregon. "The Work of a Psychopathic Instir tute," by Eleanor Rowland, professor of psychology. Keed college. "The Inadequacy of Criminal Legis lation," by Henry F. Cope of Chicago, secretary of the Religious Education association. "Defects of the Present Criminal Code." by Walter H. Evans, district attorney of Multnomah county. t a 1 f jlrl I ; -D : 1 v II ; f tie Older mm are just as Keen for ni ir Clothes as ttieuneer Mete-Blocb's Main Floor c Morrison at wmro 11. Ill 9' "Suggested .Changes in the Oregon ( In.. 1 " 1 .J f 1 ft - T 1 1 attorney general of Oregon. Saturday Afternoon, From 3:30 to 5s30. "The Illegitimate Child," by Mrs. Robert H. Tate, chairman of Uis Ore gon Child Welfare commission. ' "A Commitment Law for Feeble Minded," by J. N. Smith, superintend ent of the state institution for the feeble minded. "State Public Markets," by Charles H. Chapman, of The Oregon Journal. "Consolidations of Labor Commis sions Into the State Labor Depart ment," by C. M. Rynerson, editor of the Portland Labor Press. "Experience of the State of Wash ington in Recent Social Legislation,' by Ernst Lister, governor of Wash ington. Saturday SYsnlnjr at 8 o'clock. "The Social Cost of Sickness," by Walter G. Beach, professor of social science. University of Washington. 'Outlines of a Health Insurance Act," by Edwin V. O'Hara, chairman of Ore gon Industrial Welfare commission. "How Far I State Insurance Wise?' by James B. Kerr. "Health Insurance From the Point of View of the Employer," by William F. Woodward, of Woodard, Clarke & Co. "Health Insurance From the Point of "View of the Employe," by Eugene Smith, president of Portland Central Labor council. "The Experience of Other Countries in Health insurance, Dy rJdwin u. Kobb-ins, professor or economics, uni versity of Oregon. Bandar Afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Organ recital, by Max Pearson Gush ing, of Reed college: Prelude and Fugue in C Minor ..Bach Sonata IV (Three Movements) .... Guilmant Prise Song From "Die Meistersinger" Wagner Romance Debussy Concert Overture in E Flat ...Faulkes Report of the resolutions committee. Report of the California State con ference of Social Agencies, May 1-5, 1916, by William T. Foster. Chicago. May 6. (I. N. S.) The National Conference of Charities and Correction at its forty-third annual meeting in Indianapolis May 10-17 ex pects to meet the charge that work for. the submerged classes is simply palliative and waste of energy. At the conference the criminal will be de scribed as a sidk man mentally. The New York plan of a clearing house for mental defectives will be presented. Dr. R. E. Sothard of the Boston Psychopathic hospital will speak on .Potential Delinquents." A New York city official will describe the police as a social force and farm colonies for criminal will be spoken of a labora tories. In one division of the conference, under the chairmanship of Miss Julia C. La'throp of the federal' children's bureau, the Gary plan of public school organization will be shown to, repre sent ideas, that social workers have long advocated. Social work agencies will be represented as buttressing pub lics school organisation in respect to the health of children, recreation, school centers, steering the child into work, and Juvenile court. CToasea of Insanity. Insurance will be advocated as a preventive of dependency by Dr. Lee K. Frankel of New York. Dr. I. M. Rublnow, representing a special com mittee of the American Medical asso ciation, will apeak on health insur ance. The chief of the industrial hygiene department of the Ohio state board of health. Dr. E. R. Hayhurst. will describe the ways in which pub lic departments through sanitary and hygienic measures are improving the condition of labor. Two physicians. Dr. D. C. Peyton of the Jeffersonville, Ind., reformatory, and Dr, S. E. Smith of the Richmond. Ind hospital for the insane, will describe the bearing' of disease upon crime, insanity and pov erty. Dr. William F. Snow of the American Social Hygiene association. New York city, and Dr. C. 8. Woods of Indianapolis, will depict the ravagos of venereal diseases. Employer will be shown to be moral reformers in their attitude toward the use of alcohol by their employes, in a report to be made by Dr. Alexander Flelsher of New York. Other sections will describe ihe medical and teaching professions and some of the labor or ganizations as allies of the large ln i dustrtal concerns and the life Insur ance companies in the campai against the drink evil. - ' Talue of Social Surrey, it ". A striking new departure in this d fense of organised social work .will t the illustration which the India; spoil program furnishes of the ne science of social engineering. All T. Burns of the Cleveland foundatloi which is said to have accumulate within its first year of existence abou 130,000,000, will speak on the "Organ! ration of Community Resources." The science and value of social sur veys will be described by Shelby ft: Harrison of the Russell Sage founds tion, New York, city, and Robert c Blnkerd, secretary of the New Tor) city club. Coordination of clvia ef forts in small communities will be th toplo of a symposium arranged by Mrs Ada Eliot Sheffield of Boston. The plan of the Indianapolis Meet, lng Includes sessions of the Interna! tional Association of Policewomen, th conference of Jewish Charities -aoi the National Children's Home society I Other groups, such as playground worker, superintendents of lodglnt houses, members of state boards, teacher of sociology, and super in i tendents of publlo ' Institutions wll have separate sessions. . ;.?. 800 Workers Eeceive Ten Per Cent Raise Boston, Mass., May 6. The OlHettr company granted an Increase in the salary of their wag earners of 10 per cent, effective April to. Thta raise af fect about S00 operators and involves about $40,000 per year. DOUBLE IDENTITY PUZZLE SOLVED BY ATTORNEY J, B. Brown, . Former Port- lander, Was Robert Means. A double identity puss.ls? In which Portland, Or., and Wapakoneta, Ohio, are mutually interested has just been unraveled by Attorney Ben Rlesland of this city. To Portlanders the subject of Mr. Rlesland's investigations was known as J. B. Brown. He" lived in this city from 1909 to 1914 and was engaged in the real estate business, removing to San Francisco two years ago. To the people of Wapakoneta, Ohio, he was known as Robert Means, the son of Ij. N. Means, a prominent mem ber of the Ohio G. A. R. Brown died in 1916 leaving prop erty in Portland to be looked after by Mr. Rle.sland as his attorney. His, widow expressed a belief that her husband had been living under an assumed name. Mr. Rlesland volun teered to investigate and began a search of Brown's papers and effects for a clue to work upon. There was a picture of Brown a a boy from which the name bad been erased. There was a group photo graph, depicting Brown's father. grandmother and three aunts, as he had once told his wife. There were no names. Mrs. Brown remembered that on one occasion he had mentioned his father as an Ohio Grand Army man. Other than that he had never spoken of his family. Acting on the assumption that Brown came originally from Ohio, Mr. Rlesland took the photograph of the father and another of the son and sent them to Ellas R. Monfort of Cin cinnati, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. The photographs were hung in Memorial hall, Cincinnati, for several weeks but were not identified. Then the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune was called upon to publish them, on April 25. The likeness of the son bore the caption, "John B. Brown." Over the father's picture was the query. "Who Is this man!" newspaper Picture Kecognlsed. The question was not long unan swered. A copy of the Commercial Tribune came into the hands of Mrs. L. N. Means of Wapakoneta, Ohio. She recognized Immediately the likeness of her husband, the late L. N. Means, and of her son, Robert Means. Robert Means and John B. Brown, were one and the same. Mrs. Means communicated with Mr. Rlesland and learned for the first time of her son's death, that he had left a widow and of the existence of a granddaughter. But why Means used a fictitious name is still a mystery. There Is no apparent reason for his assuming a name not his own. As far as is known he had no responsibilities to evade nor bad he ever wronged a single person. As a young man 25 years ago Means, or Brown to use the name be was known by here, left home to seek his fortune, following his admission to the bar. He practiced law in Helena, Mont., and is known to have lived in many parts of the west, and in Alaska. His was a roving disposition. Would Be Worth Bullion. Robert Means was handsome, proud and talented. When .he left Wapako neta he boasted he would never again set foot in his home town, until he was worth a million. He did return for a brief visit, however, 11 years ago. From that time to the publication of the pictures in the Cincinnati paper nothing further waa heard of .him. Letters addressed to him were re- 111 4 Above Robert Means, known in Portland as John B. Brown. Below L. V. Means, father of Robert Means, turned unopened, due, no doubt, to the fact that he was living under the name of Brown. The mystery as to who John 8. Brown was is now solved but as to why he forsook bis real name is still a puzzle. Thousands Permanently Disabled. London, May 6. L N. B.) Dr. Murray Leslie, figuring the British casualties in the present war up to February 1 at Just over 600,000, as against only 60,000 during the whole of the Transvaal war, calculates that for every 1000 deaths there are ZOO cases of permanent disablement. SAXJUBT k BATH, upright, walnut, fine tone $137 WEXBB piano, perfect, ma hogany case 8267 S300 HXW pxajffO S160 S350 TAX.KXBTO MACKTBTO TABU with 140 in rec ords, only S120 STEW FZaJTO for rent to respon sible party. SS.SO per month. S4S0 STSUDia FIAJTO. almost new; party compelled by re verses, to give up after paying $212. HAROLD S. GILBERT 384 TATffrTTT.il BT, one block south Olds Sc King store. Not a wildcat or fake piano store having been connected with piano business in Portland for 1 v f 2J 11A.M. to 11P.M. Today Until Wednesday Night --r-'i "fvfJ I 5? 1 ' ' Pla3ring to Crowded Houses Every Performance Of T ''iW Ml -y-.y-y. jmy-- . '-7,x. , -i sv ,.. m v..i i WHO'S BACK? WHY!!! T HEDA BACK at the Majestic Theatre In the Most Stirring Production of A 11 Her Screen Career THE ETERNAL - The Much-Discussed Photoplay A SENSATION Yod CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS V ALSO Majestic Novelty Trio Pathe News Comedy Tears. . r . 1