THE , OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 23, 1317. HOil, TELEPHONE: CO; INFORMATION ROOM EL Miss McMunn Sees,' Hears andFeels Some of the In tricacies and. Puzzles, ' WIRES, BUTTONS, BUZZERS Most Wonderful Thing X the Win Boom Where Million Things , Waits, Shiver end Buzs. , By Ella McMunn. It you know what to do 'til the doc tor cornea, how to make a cake, what time tli a boat leaves, who killed Cock Robin, and Just everything .i between, "and are so genuinely gentle that .you can say "I'm sorry, lady. when really It wasn't your fault at all. why, in time you might set a poult ton In the information department of the Home Telephone rornpaiiy. That la, if you' had firm had year and yeara of fMrl,nm with lr a.nd buttons and buxaer and your front name waa "Efficiency." 'Temperamental Over tit Stone. It man a knowlns how to handle 12, 008 subscribers who allow themselves to be "temperampntal" over the phone because everybody has hia or her ro- perafnental atreaks, which la Just a hlrh ju)nnrtin mm fnr ttntruma ' and It 1 ever ao much better to eay cross, ugly things to girls who can't talk back, or rather who don't, than It la to get yourself disliked by your Im mediate circle of acquaintances. But before I go on with this scien tific treatise on electricity ana explain to you just how to run a telephone office, I'll tell you who the "Automa-tie-8ecret Service" girls are. Mlra Nona Fouet is chief operator, and the other seven girls are the Mlases Lulu Stearns, Lydia Heffner, Margaret Epellnmn, Bess Blows, Ixulse Kamp, Mable Robinson and Mrs. Mary Wall. They work in shifts of four, and look so much like ' other girls that you wouldn't know them apart out on the street where people don't need brains specially, but at work they awe you big by all the things they know. : Oivea newspaperman Increase About a flat topped desk six and a half feet square the- four on duty take their positions, and everything they do not know offhand is to be found in a revolving cabinet thereon, or learned from the library or the newspaper of fices or somewhere else, but alwaya they get it for you, even though it re quires a vast amount of reaearch an their part.. And, incidentally, they have lengthened the lives of many newspaper men, who were previously called upon to tell the scores of games, the time of day, and the latest styie in pajamas. Now the information de partment of the phone scompany won derfully relieves the pressure, although there -are-sUH people who can't set a hrn without asking the' opinion of tn editor as to how many eggs to put "unOer." Growl Out Thanks. The telethon company snnouncss ths request for information of any kiiij are welcomed, and In addition to hat not contained in the -latest direc tory and the numerical and street ad dress flies they advertise to give cur rent attractions Rt theatres, arrival and departure of trains, baseball scores and results of other sportl.ig events, time of day, dally weather report, and morning calls, end on hand there are kept the official railway guide, official Parcel Post Map, and Guide, Standard Llctionsryvof Facts, World's Almanac and Encyclopedia. They tell you about hotels, rooming houses, apartment houses, U. S. officials, county officials. foreign , consuls, garages, historical happenings, cookery recipes, authors of poems, stage fare, and where to spend ydufc vacation. An average of 200 persons In winter and 100 in summer ask to be awakened by the telephone operator, and as people Just aroused from sleep are far less angelic than at any other period of the day, they growl what passes for thanks into the phone. Tails Sown Sometimes. Everybody apparently falls down once In a while on the sources of in formation from which be supplies his mind and keeps Up, his egotism, and even the public) school pupils who know a staggering lot of things rely upon the information department for facts with which to expand their craniums, and yet sometimes when things get to popping pretty lively down there, and the buttons, and buz- Semarkable Home Cure CUvea by One woo Ma n a. want a Every Sufferer to Benefit. Scd He Mony Juit Teaa Addzesa. Tears ef awfal aufferlne and miner, bava tansht this man. Mark II Jarkrnn. of Srra. euaa, N- i .. bow terrlhle an ioemy te hamaa aappisvaa raeumatism la. and have given bin) ymiMtby wltk all unfortunates who are withts Its fraap. He wanta every rheumatic viatlm te knew how he was eui ed. Read what ha aaya: ,. "X Had taarv Paiaa tika ' lirhtnlng Flashes v :;- wws una.. y .youit. :' "Is QieaprlBg ITOt I wasattaeked by Uaaenlar and larUmaatory Rbanmatlaa. I acftared as only tbuae who save It ka. fc over tbree yeara. I tried remedy after reme. dy, aad doctor after doctor tuit aoeh relief aa I received waa wniy rmponuy. PtaaUy. I toand a remedy tbat eared me nnnlii,!. and It ka sever re turned. I bare itt, nnbtr vto were - terribly afflicted nt.m. Joeanaaea wiw unaiiiu, aaa it eilactee S eare la everr ease. . .. I "1 wast every enfferer freui any tons of rneumatte mraoie w try mis - saarreleoa beal ting power. Don't aend a cent; aimpiy mail i.Tcor name aad. address and I will send It free . to try. Aftar saa bave need It and If haa rroTea ftatlf to be-, that loag-looked-for me ana f eurlng J oat Rhenmall'm. you rnty send tbe price ef it. one dollar, bat, snderstaad. I do mot want your money unleea xoa ere perfectly atisfied'to aend it. Isn't " tbat fair? ,Wby offer any longer wbea peeithre relief is-tbus rrerea 7a Tree? "iim t oeisy, write today. ttaEK Hj. JTACKSON, No. Oursey Bldgl, MYSTERY AND MARV Rheumatism : "I N FORMATION" TELLS YOU. EVERYTHING" 'L o u '-v.-:. ) y . . - -7 .,- I" , J- - if Young women who operato remarkable intelligence and accommodation ' Telephone company.' sere and knobs and wires all need at tention at once, and somebody waits for a fraction of a minute, the sub scriber, puts in the time asking the operator if eh is reading, which some times happens if the person Just oe fore has asked how how to get a safety pin out of a baby's windpipe. Crot Back to ZarUv. But when Miss Koust realised ray thirst for knowledge and evident need of it, she unstrapped a rubber horn from her chest, removed from ber ear a thing resembling a petrified mudpie, attached to a string, and tacked away from a-cribbage board on which was a bewildering lot of pegs and glass eyes with lights winking under them anJ took me up atairs. On the way there were ever so many people who seemed to know what they were doing, which was more than I did, and to get tbs conversation down to where I had a "look In" once in a while, I asked her if they ever had any banquets, and if they did, how many would be there. She said that they had .always been given an annual "feed" by the president. Sam Hill, until ths war troubles, when the em ployee numbering nearly 400, bad given up the festivity in order that the money could go toward helping the Belgians, Pegs, Buttons and Wires. By that time we hsd passed boik keepers, and stenographers, and mu with gasoline on their hands and ho.-.is on their heads and were up stairs where the wire chief showed me a book With a million figures in it and a boi With a lot of name in it, and a thing that looked like a thermometer, but wasen't, and more pegs and but tons and wires wrapped in paper, and of course I understood perfectly all about it at the time, but J don't seem to remember anytmng except 'mat ne bad three pieces of lead in his hand which had bullet holes in them and had been shot off of something by somebody somewhere, and that it was a shame for pople to be so careless and make the phone company such a lot of trouble. Wir Boom a IXervel. But of all the marvels down at ths big building at Park and Burnsids streets the most wonderful, except the girls themselves, is the wire room. where there are a million things look ing like'eurrycombs with roots twisted into wire mattresses, and a million others (figures are not exact I thing there are more), about the else of a coffee pot but not resembling it In any way, which are attached to ths other 'end of your telephone, and when you call your number it gets up, au tomatically and waitses around until It locates it. Then it shivers a little, and makes a noise like a mouse gnaw lnar a nutmeg, busses a little Hk a fly caught behind a window blind, and it is all over. Lane Will Continue Fight on Compact Senator Would Give Opponents or Treses &aws Opportunity to Pils Befexeadum. Washington, Feb. 24. WASHING TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAE.) Senator Lane will continue, his op position to ratification of the Oregon Washington fisheries compact to give opportunity for opponents to the pres ent laws to file a referendum on the new law of the Oregon legislature. Reports have reached him. be says, that the opposition was flim-flammed at Salem, and no harm can corns from delaying action for eo days, if a ref erendum is. not filed, he will not further"", oppose . ratification, "Last year X fully intended not to fight ratification at this session, -if no initiative 411 was proposed," he said, "but I airf- told initiative circu lators were bought off and the peti tions ditched. I know that an active lobby has been here from the start a lobby well provided with money. If- fraud defeated, initiation of the bill, they should have another chance," In the face of Lane's opposition, the oompact can only be taken up by a majority vote. This is unlikely under the state ot business now existing in the senate) Pliotoiplay House Is ffot a Newspaper Huntington,' Ind, Feb. 44. (I. N. S.). According to a decision handed down in the circuit court here, a moving picture show and a newspaper are dif ferent Institution. s 1 Jf T. Guy Perfect aad Elmer ' Fous were each fined for operating a mov ing picture theatre on Sunday. .Per fect contended he displayed films of news . events like . the Sunday news papers, : and - that therefore , he . was immune .from the operation of the Sunday closing law. After delibera tion - the Jury decided that 1 a moving picture theatre is a theatre and., not a newspaper. . GETS MORE FOOD AS CZAR'S CAPTIVE THAN IN AUSTRIAN ARMY So Writes a Bohemian Who Is Held Prisoner in Russian Camp in Siberia. The aaeomnajiTlns paragraphs relate rba expertencee of a Bohemian, formerly a aoidter In tbe Austrian army, who new la m a nam aian prima ramp la kieaenkl, Vladimir Qu beaim. Siberia. There are hundreds of Austrian pris oners here, all kinds of nationalities German, Maygar, Italian, Roumanian, Croatian, Polish and others. We havs plenty to eat. lots more than ws had in the Austrian army, and are treated well. We can go to work and get paid for it, but the German and Maygar prisoners do not want to work. ' Ths Red Cross people visit us often and distribute money, clothing, tobacco, food and other", things- but only among ths German and Maygar prison er We Bohemians and other prisoners don't get anything. The distributors are German women and they say that we get all we. need from the csar. Many thousands of Bohemian prison ers left here to Join the Bohemian army, where they will fight alongside of Russians for the independence of our beloved country, Bohemia. I will leave shortly for Kiev to Join the Bo hemian army. Some prisoners are working in fac tories, some on farms and in stores. I am working in an office and am getting 60 rubles per month. 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Soon. - PICTURED,' TALKS BEST BTtareotrpsd Ads Im Papers, and Booktota Xars Zo Uc f TulllxnT wr. Bj L N. D. Oregon has appropriated I2J.60O a year for two years as fwrt of a Paci fic northwest (una to b used inx na tional advertising for tourists. Before the moner can become avail able, Washington must appropriate to ( the same purpose $25,000 a year for two years and British Columbia HT.- tOO a year for two yeara V ...w i nttuh !fw h!!. k .ivfSt Columbia parliament by the first of Marcn. 1 Tho fund will b ont In a "nation- I wid publicity campaign." according U the law enacted by the Oregon legisla- ture. under the direction of . a finance t commute, of six members, two from each state. The governor is to name 7IT .i.rT..V: JT 7w two who will represent Oregon. i J. w H?" The Northwest Tourist association. ' Tli r Jtl JM tb which induced the Oregon legislature . "2 "JLt ,hweet aceaery to make the appropriation, already & nl Kh'.-1 Wl0ut laid out a tentative plan. jt" D?f and emon- Saleriea ot Included. 1 atraUng the pulling power of the plo- Th. none ofWexecuti v.. Zt which it will be necessary to employ JEIr Jb will be paid from the fund, but must liport that eTbeit aeM be raised from outside source MarX,?""yPrdthf "2? Woodruff, a director in the association, fi," who man&gM th Oregon eunpalrn for the fund, believes that commercial or - sanitations and other interests coa- cerned in tourist travel should take out $10 memberships, each to tbe ex. tent of its ability The general office, according to ths association's plana, will first be lo cated in Seattle, but will be moved to other northwest cities in turn for a year at a time. An office will be opened in Chicago to be used as pro-1 motion center for outside work, a sub-' sldiary office la New Tork and other a u :- ' ' .: .,-gr. rz--&:. - V r - . r I 7fll s 4: in T New - Orleans - and ' Kansaa ' City If enough money can be secured. sarsie, rotate te Be Exploited. . Publicity wlU be gtTen cpeeially te tbe points of scenic interest found on circuits of varying lengths to cult ths eonTewtewce ef toorista, but embrac ing generally Spokane, eastern Wash ington. Paget Sound, Vancouver and Victoria, - the Olympics. Georgian" cir cuit. UL , Rainier. Portland, the- Co lumbia, river . highway, the eeacoast. Crater Lake, , caves of. Josephine, Klamth Fall, central Oregon, Wal lowa country and so forth. . There will, of coarse, be many ap pli cants . for- tbe-two' finance com mittee appointments from Oregon, and th governor admit that a large num ber have ambnlted their name for bis consideration. .Regardless of po litical argument . no one questions that ibe appointees shouM be men. ot the largest ability, thoroughly con versant with tbe strbjectar of tourist travel and ear acenie reeoureca. and '. absolutely,- bat broadly devoted te Oregon Interests. . ; SCaay Xooktag for Jobs, ' A large field of candidates for ths waJaried secretarial positions U al- reaay clamoring tor preferment. Some, of the clamorers are of the old style "hot air type and some know some-; thing about organisation. . . . A third consideration's the medium ! or preeenUtioh, What will be the fao- J tors most capable of bringing convlei tion to the . minds of ' tourists with money to spendt aracrarsa anarsssee Are sest. i A part of the preliminary discussion I centers about tbe conventional book- I Ys-t m TVi . Kawa w . . . . A - whH their value for some par-- Purposes cannot be disputed, Th various types and forms are well ciaMift ant ia riin iki. -...- . . V"ww m eaorTreaUvene. The lof Lr. . f f "ewf: fmoo a heavv tZEZTL. Y. m" L collection ASae.fe.e.. .V.la . " . - asesg evwM- JX - TTT" "ou'a 1J Z&L.f??$? J2 J,' ,7 WlU about 1U F?" . well - as come to see for themselves and who will carry away a lasting memory of its attractions. " aUeasij Bet Oalr Vainer. Nor would It be wise to leave ths Impression that we have onlr eeenerv. There could be graphic Illustrations of our electrio power and Its availability for Industry and lighting, a charm linger about the homes the well - r niiLnfLTntim Br.... - wururiunu JJU vci 3 Writ n ana the eaUxe oom. biaaUon win be seat te yoa. ? T " thorougTi trial. Invite your xrisad to near liitaaa, J yen are net satisfied with Jvexy way, sad it . oaes: at our expease. Any WUil mvash. while will be cheer. vux rezuase a tera mail. Zf you Jhea pay aa . beet ! Year oa a 1 noe, even if aly 5 month . ;,' . ,P. M- 4 It m: u a a ii ' i 1 1 a 111 li i i i i i i i i lit i i Ill li J M'biWM M r'M 1 ttl 11 IXH III II 111 A I Mlft ' ' " .(rr:.;i, " : . coupon - y V VILL HOLD BAZAAR TO RAISE FUNDS TO HELP THE POLISH . PEOPLE Portland IPolfsH belief" Com : mittee ; Will Endeavor " to Get Help for Sufferers. . v -; . - - . '.-,.' :- To raise funds for the relief ef ths war-s trick en people -of Portland a basaar Is t-be held'in lDllsh library nail, Maryland avenue-and raillrg street, under the direction of tbe Port land Polish Relief committee. The .ate wi n be announced soon. . - . Relief work throughout the country is oeinr carriea on by the Polish Na- ltional Alliance through local subcom mltteea An appeal addressed to ths people of the United Btatee ealls on sll Americans to help the sufferiEg Poles. la view, of the great eervice rlven to tbe world and to America In particular m tfc jwat "America i indgbted te Poland f6.- the service : of her Dluatrlou Kosciussko and PulaskL t Kosclussko i-.n mrtnT- p,,i..ki . n..,v... of Amaricn ". Min t,. Pnti.t. heroes fan fill fA lnAnM-nAmL mvA w -1 . . . . . - " The world little realise, the terrlb's sufferings of the Polish people because the war. says tbe appeal, thousand, of villas-es h&Tin bM in ., ground and hundreds of thousands' of people in consequence reduced to ex treme poverty. Where ths men of other land in fighting for their own country, the Pol no matter in what army he fights Austrian; Prussian or Russian is fighting for bis oppressor. It Is urged. Famine threaten the .country, and bread and clothing are needed for the thousands of widows and orphans. Officers of the Portland ubcoramlt ta are: ' J. a Ysserskt. president; Stanley Galaxka, secretary; and Fran ci Qixynski, district deputy. ordered farm, the productivity of tbs soil, the fruits and the flowers. There are cultivated valleys as well a wild mountains, commerce floating rivers and port a 11 a 'torrents, forested slopes as well as colorful crag and waterfall. . In the making of any plan, there must be corsrtant insistence upon -get ting me ocst ana most aennlte results With the money available. Oregon's I12.S0O a year for two Tear is but a drop in the bucket compared with the great advertising appropriations of some individual Industrie. The total Here Name. . Address . . a . . a sit i ii in, aiii. si in inn II f v in UWh I III. I 1 M :'. ry. MfaM - IMI II I W ... aa a m aw aw ass aw r mm - aian less risi 11 1 1 11 1 ai a 1 ni aar'i is OTU hi 'WMLC. 1 ILL' . 111 y. ytn . 11 . ?zrs A f J0J - --.XW m i&S Sum 'AW i 'Address . .... S.--!f you da not send deposit tiease'name twq references. amount .to be fuml!f.J by : Oi-vfwn, Washington and British Columbia- i. lOJ.no n year f or two" yeartnia' small contrasted with the publicity accounts of; say, southern California.: .Ths fund can, be made to bring large returns, ' but only by capitalising all the public spirit there Is and . in impressing to the utmost the fact that two Pacifio northwest states and a northwest Can adian district believe so much in tbe splendor of their own scenery, and the greatness of - their own resources that they have Joined officially - and organised to tell the facts to the world. This will Involve broad grasp of the subject, practical enthusiasm, whole hearted endeavor and the utilisation of executive ability of a high order. Undoubtedly the success attending the disbursement of ths Initial appropria tion will determine the continued sup port of the work. American Occupied A Chinese Palace Saa Francisco,, reo. Z4. tf. n. b.i An American recently occupied : the " vice regal palace of Szcheun, - capital . of the province of Wanshlen. one of tbe largeat in China, for two months.. He is Francis O. Preacott, -who has tuat arrived in San Franeiaco from that far-away country. While acting as king he directed the organization of troops, built breastworks, dug trenches and repelled bands of rebels ana raiaer unm ins regular ouiciats returned. Preecott, who was in charge of the Standard Oil interests at Szcheun,' took charge of things when the ma jor officials ran for their lives upon the arrival of revolutionists. A few minor officials who remained Insisted that he move into the palace, whlcu cost a sum equivalent to 1 1.000,000 in American money. When quiet had been restored tbe native 'officials re turned to their posts. 'TTrtsT An honest preparation 5a WHETZEL'S DANDRUFF and ECZEMA TREATMENT and HAIR TONIC It'a a Portlud prod a1 and ope that U -vrtUlna-lr remrnmeuded by leadtnjr irhn- and dmcgiMs. U.U YVIIKT. ZEL pru)lu.'ts brar lf sature of laaetatery Diaplay US OSAVO ATX. K Eilers Music House Portland. Oregon Pleu send the special phonorraph offer fof " J82.i5 is advertised in if Vyt ,vf i .m unaiy- journal, february 25. It Understood thit the Inttrnmtt raanrif and accessories will be sent me prepaid and if tt is hot entirely satisfactory after not more than five- days trial, 1 am to ship it back, to yon without cost to ne and deposit to b refunded immediately. , . . v , . ........,.,..