MEMORIAL
WILL BE
DEDICATED FEB. 11
Spanish War Veterans? Gov-
ernor, Mayor, rostmasier.
Commissioner Take Part.
'MERRICK THE MAN,' DANA
pedal XnvltBtloaa to th Dedication
Ceremoniea Are Extended to All Con
tributors to the rounteJn TnnA.
Hundreiia who knew and loved
Charles ii. Merrick during- his Ufe in
1-ortland will attend the ceremonies
incident to the dedication of the mon
ument erected to his memory at Sandy
boulevard and Kast Fifty-seventh
street. The dedication will occur next
Thursday. February 22, at 2 p. rn., on
the grounds of the Rose City Park
club.
rine Military Salute.
Scout. Young camp. Spanish War
Veterans, of which Mr. Merrick was a
member, will fire a military salute
jlctuhh the fountain and sound "taps"
...the conclusion of the program. Al--trt
G. Clark, chairman of the Mer
.Ick Memorial association, will pre
side. Governor James Withycombe
will represent the state. Mayor Albee
and Commissioner George L. Baker
will receive the fountain on behalf of
the city. Postmaster Frank 8. Myers
will give an appreciation of Mr, Mer
rick, who was postmaster of Portland
at the time of his death. As a close
personal friend, Marshall N. Dana will
speak on "Merrick the Man." Miss
Dae-mar Inez Kelly, well known Port
land soloist, and Charles McNeill will
sing.
Charles B. Merrick was one of the
most useful men in community affairs
who ever lived In Portland. He worked
his way through the Detroit College
of Law, after graduating from the
west branch high school of that city,
lie was connected with the firm of
Metzger Bros., which brought the first
automobile to the city that Is now the
world's center of automobile manufac
ture. X nils ted In aaohiffan.
When war with Spain was declared
he enlisted with the Thirty-third
.Michigan volunteers, and saw service
in Cuba, where he was in skirmishes
at Hun Juan hill and Santiago.' He
I'ontraced fever, and, after returning
. to the United States, was ill for many
- months in a Detroit hospital.
- Upon his recovery , he traveled
through the west for the United States
Graphite company, of Saginaw. Thus
he visited Portland, became enamored
of the city and determined to make his
home here. One of his first pieces of
work in Portland was the reorganiza
tion of the Portland Retail Grocers'
association and increasing of its mem
bership from a handful to 300. Large
ly through his personal efforts the
grocers' association secured such gen
erally beneficial enactments as the
Oregon peddlers' law, the pure food
lawMie garnishment law and the fake
- advertising law.
Be Educated Merchants.
He organized the Oregon Retail
Merchants' association, and arranged
forJt annual sessions in the principal
cttLeaicf the state. One of his aims
wak"tho education of the merchants to
greater business efficiency. To put
the credits of the grocers on a firmer
basis, he founded the Portland Retail
ers' Reporting comipany, which saved
hundreds of thousands of dollars lu
collections and practically put the pro
fessional dead beat out of business.
An institution in which he took great
pride was the Oregon Retail Mer
chants' magazine, which was the me
dium of trade communication. He
was forceful, but never arbitrary, in
his demands and policies in the organ
isation of the Greater Portland Plana
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association, and was elected its first
president. He was known as the
'Father of the Portland Ad Club." As
a member of the Rose City Park club,
he was instrumental in obtaining the
site and largely so in the building of
the clubhouse.
Was Postmaster of Portland.
On the recommendation of Jonathan
Bourne Jr.. when he was United States
senator, Mr. Merrick was made post
master of Portland. When death over
took him in 1912, at Klamath Falls, he
was on a trip in the Interests of tho
retail merchants of the state, and N.
A. Perry, president of the Merchants'
association, was with him.
In November, 1913, a number of his
friends organized the Charles B. Mer
rick Memorial association, electing A.
O. Clark president, Arnold Keller sec
retary, J. C. Mann, Marshall N. Dana
and John Malley directors. Others
who participated in the organization
were George Hockenyos and Dan Kel
laher, then officers of the. Retail Gro
cers' association.
Contributed to Memorial.
Among the contributors to the foun
tain fund listed are the Portland Ad
club. Rose City Park club, Oregon Re
tall Merchants' association. Greater
Portland Plans association, Oregon
Journal, Oregonian. Telegram, Jon
athan Bourne Jr., T. B. Wilcox, H. J.
Blaesing, A. W. Prescott, II. F. Ritt
mann, John Heusner, O'Shea Bros., N.
A. Perry, Mt. Hood tent, No. 71, Mac
cabees, Portland council, 678, Knights
of Columbus and Division No. 1, An
cient Order of 'Hibernians, and Wood
men of the World. To each of these
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THE; OREGON SUN
Merrick and memorial fountain to . be dedicated
(Photo by Oregon Commercial Studio.)
organisations and Individuals a special
invitation to attend the fountain dedi-
cation Thursday afternoon has been
sent by Mr. Clark, and also to the
Portland Chamber of Commerce. The
fountain is the work of H. J. Blae-Mng.
Lax Moral Training
Fills State Prisons
Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 17. (P. N. S.)
That the growth of population at
California's two state .prisons is dm
to increasing laxity In mental and
moral training and discipline in the
home is one of the statements in the
biennial report of the state board of
prison directors Just filed with the
governor.
The report points out there is a dis
position among parents to place pleas
ure above duty and to put much of the
responsibility of parenthood on the
state. It declares that if moral train
ing of children is lacking In the home
it naturally follows that these children
will not give proper attention to the
rules of organized society when they
grow up.
A New Detention Scheme.
Washington, Feb. 17. (U. P.) On
the theory that a prisoner with no gal
luses , cannot run rapidly, Germans
have put Into effect a system of cut
ting all the buttons from prisoners
clothes, according to confidential war
department reports.
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new spring
clothes are com-
ing in now !
America's fore
most clothes mak
ers have contrib
uted their best
product to this ex
hibit. The best weaves
the most artistic
combinations of
tint and color are
shown here in these
ready-for-service clothes.
Modestly priced, and
my personal guar
anty of lasting satisfac
tion with every garment.
You are invited to
come and see; every
model for every age is
on display.
$20 to $35
New Manhattan Shirts
$2 to $5.
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SOLDIERS TO RECEIVE
FARMS TO CULTIVATE
One Thousand 160-Acre
Tracts With Building to Be
Presented to as Many Vets
THE PLAN IS INDICATIVE
Scheme Xa ZsdlcatlTe of What Can Be
Son Bjr Way of Placing Them
Zn Useful Occupation.
Montreal. Feb. 17. What is to In
come of the soldiers after the Euro
pean war? From Canada comes
the first word of a permanent
constructive plan. Lord Shaughnessy,
president oT the Canadian Pacific
Railway company, bids the ex-soldler
go "back to the land." Ho offers a
practical scheme for putting them on
farms. He offers to take care of 1000
veteranc and in so doing indicates a
policy that could well suit the govern
ment.
Farms for Soldiers.
Lord Shaughnessy is giving 1000
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ready made farms to returning sold-
iers. Bach farm comprises 160 acres. J
and each is to be part of a smart I
colony known as a Returned Veteran
Colony. The number of farms form
ing a colony uid the locations of the
various colonies will depend upon tne
agricultural possibilities of the land
in various designated sections. Sev
eral colonies will be located in Alberta.
As a result of the completion of the
Bassano irrigation system, the largest
of its kind in the western hemisphere,
3,000,000 acres of farm lands have
been made available for settlers. So
that his vast area offers unlimited
possibilities. Many of tly ready
made farms" will be in shape for occu
pation next spring as work upon them
has started and is well under way.
Tracts Will Be Equipped.
Under the plan a soldier settler will
be given a comfortable house of four
or five rooms, a well all dug with a
pump installed, wire fences stretched
and in place and land ready for cul
tivation. The veteran settler will
probably find some of his land sown
to wheat, oats and barley when he :
arrives. In short, the settler will find
the pioneering work all done. He steps
into a farm that is ready to bring in
a living. All that is required of the
settler is hard work. It is up to him
to keep his farm going.
This plan represents the expendi
ture of $3,500,000 for preparations
alone. It means the building of 1000
houses and 1000 barns, 1300 miles of
fences, digging 1000 wells and getting
some 50,000 acres of land under cul
tivation. It is estimated that 20,000,
000 feet of lumber will be required for
the buildings.
One thousand farms, of course, can
not go far among the many thou
sands of returning soldiers. They are
not expected to go far. The great
value of the project lies in the fact
that it is a 'constructive program. It
points a way. It forcibly brings home
to the government a sense of respon
sibility. The example is so practicable
and of such manifest sincerity that it
is sure to be followed upon a vaster
scale by other parts of the British
empire.
Public Interest Is
Declared Paramount
Chamber of Comxneros of ths TTnltea
States Places This Factor Abore
All Others in Ballroad Controversies.
Washington, February 17. The an
nual report of the board of directors
of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States submitted et the fifth
annual meeting here recently showed
that the individual membership of the
organization has now been brought up
to the limit of 6000 and there is a
waiting list for this membership of
300. The chamber now speaks for more
than 300,000 firms, corporations and
business men, and at present has af
filiated with it upwards of 800 na
tional. International, and local com
mercial organizations.
The result of the national chamber's
railroad referendum Just closed showed
that the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States not only recognized the
interest of the public as paramount In
railroad differences, but urges that it
should be paramount by making the !
representatives of the public the ma
jority on any board of conciliation or
arbitration. This proposition was over
whelmingly indorsed and also that the
national chamber believes the opera
tion of railways should not be Inter
rupted by railroads or employes until
after investigation.
Two western men, J. E. Chilberg of
""'v aim a. l. r3uri g 01 an .Fran
cisco, are the Pacific coast representa
tives on the board of directors.
A resolution was passed placing the
chamber on record as expressing its
opposition to tne literacv test in the
immigration bill which has Just been
vetoed by President Wilson, express
ing the commendation of the chamber
for the president's action, and the
hope of the chamber that congress
will eliminate this feature of the im
migration bill. Captain Robert Dol
lar of San Francisco urged the cham
ber to give its support to the new
shipping board.
,Th chamber, voicing the sentiment
o. the business men of every state in
the Lnion, expressed to the president
o- the United States the profound ap
preciation of the gravity of the in
ternational difficulties which now con
front the nation and solemnly pledged
the business men to stand as one be-
"'" lne president "in patriotic pur-
tj -imirer me eventuality
a J-,E-JP"b(rg of Settle. Wash., and
A I. Esberg of San Francisco (re
elected). v
Sick Mother Seeks
News of Daughter
Mrs. Rose Skrehot. 607 Broad street,
Johnstown, Pa, is anxious to hear
from her, daughter, who was fa the vi
cinity of Portland over a year ago. on
her way north, and who was making
her way by selling newspapers in tba
various towns Sfee was traveling on
horseback and camping wherever night
overtook. her. Any information will be
greatly appwiated by her mother,
who is very sick.
Previous inquiries brought re
sponses from, parties in Washington
that the missing girl had been ob.
served on her way to Idaho.; She had
been "roughina: it for her health, tt
was understood. It is surmised that
she was proceeding on her way east. -
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Marion Kyle of Portland
Among Young Men Who
Have Volunteered,
Tbe crompanytac merage has rurhKl Tbe
Journal by mall from New York from Marlon
Ky, aoa of Ur. Oorge A. Kjle of M.1 East
Tlitrty-aeventh Hr-t. who. with a party of
otber Kf aaford rattenta, ia en routo to Krance
to enter tse servtc of tbe American An
balanre. By Marion. Kyle.
New York. Feb. 10. (By Mail.) If
being an ambulance driver Is as diffi
cult a task as getting to Europe, we will
have our hands full. Complications in
intei national affairs have delayed our
departure but. today we leam that we
are to sail tomorrow on The Espagne
for Bordeaux.
We have a fine crowd of fellows in
our company and the leaders of the
American ambulance have made it plain
to us all the seriousness of our under
taking. The Friends of France, the sc-i
ciety that is sending us. has selected
as a motto that, we are to wear on the
sleeves of our uniforms: "For Human
ity and the Humanities." Their plans
I will not terminate with the war as they
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Educational Scenic Taken in Northern California and Southern Oregon.
BROADWAY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Special Concert Afternoon and Evening.
expect to participate in the rehabilita
tion of, that country.
When we arrive at tne rroni we are
to be known as "The Stanford Lnlt
of the American Ambulance Section
Sanltalre," and each member will be
assigned a number. Each driver will
be entrusted with an automobile and
equipment worth approximately $1,000.
There are now about 200 American
students Engaged In this service in
France and by spring it Is expected
that there will be 300.
During our stay in New York we
were put up at the Harvard club and
we had the pleasure of meeting Her
bert Hoover, a former Stanford man
who spent his earlier days in Oregon,
who now is chairman of the commis
sion for Belgian relief. He told us that
If the subsequent turns In international
events completely checked the commis
sion's activities the actual work would
be entrusted' to Holland and the work
of raising . funds in America would
continue.
" A corps of students from the Uni
versity of Chicago accompany us. and
another Harvard detachment expects to
follow shortly. We are due at Bordeaux
February 20 and expect, to be sent to
the front a week later.
Fortune Comes From
Unexpected Source
Martinez. Cal.. Feb. 17. (U. P.)
After living with their aunt, Mrs. An
nie Southall, of Pittsburg. 83 years old,
for nearly 60 years, and believing all
that time she was only in moderate cir
cumstances. Mrs. Martha Wood, 69
years old. a-nd Mrs. Margaret Hamilton.
61 years old, of this city, have Just been
notified that she died and left them
1 43.000 in cash.
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Issues General Call ;
The call has been issued "by"'- J
the Federal Council sf th
Churches of Christ in 'America
to all the churches of Christ in-"i-m
America and to all Christian ;
people to observe Sunday, Feb-.:
ruary 18. as a national day of ;
prayer, to make united inter-;; .
cession to God that His spirit" .
may guide and sustain the pre-'
ldent of the United States and
direct the Meps of onr repre- J 1
sentatives In the congress 1 of
the United States, in all ths : T
momentous decisions of this sol-
emn hour In the life of the n .
tlon; praying for all the peoples -
engaged In war, and also that v
our own hearts may. b free
from all bitterness and wrath,-.
and that the nations may be
brouaht into the realization of
lasting peace. It is requested J
that the Christian people of ,
Portland and the state of Ore-
gon shall Join with the millions v "
of Christians throughout tba
United States In observance of
this day of prayer. . ' r
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