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tr 12 THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL; PORTLAND. SUNDAY , MORNING, APRIL 29, 1917. COUNTRY LIFE BOARD ; ;:"V .i :. ;"-'::'.. . . , ., . ': ' . j . . nr wiiii in i iirniiru :Ur TAlVmiLL HUffltN By Modern Devices and Use c of Ideas of Farm Manage ment, Aim Is Achieved, .GOSPEL CARRIED TO HOME Captain Shrock aad Assistants la Two Dy Tour Cover Bleb Sec- Uon of Oregon. By Marshall N. Dana. Just before the "auto train" pulled out of McMinnvIlle last Thursday morning, a drummer edged up to County Agriculturist M. S. Shrock. ' ' 'Farm home demonstration tour,' ' he read from the banner on the coun ty agriculturist's machine. "What's the Idea? Got some land selling scheme?" "No." he was answered, "we haven't any land to sell." "What then, some new fancied clothes wringer or washing machine you want to put over on them?" . "No." "Well, haven't you anything to sell at all, nothing to pay you for your gasoline and tires?" "Nothing but ideas," said Mr, Shrock and with that the drummer turned away, asking, "Did you ever hear of the like!" Tour Is Pioneer In West. The tour was ho newer to the knight of the grip than to those who took It. It was the first to be organ ized in Oregon, the first on the Pa cific coast the ' first, for that mat ter, west of the Mississippi river, and the second or thlid In the United States. . Hut back of Its newness was a very definite and vital idea. It was moth er's revolt against letting the farm and the farm barn get so far ahead of the farm home in comforts, con veniences and labor saving devices. .It Was an organized campaign to bring to mother the helps that modern sci ence has provided to defer the .coarsening of her hands and to retain the softness of her touch, to post pone the, silverihg of her hair for a few years longer and keep the color to her cheeks. It was the second Important enter prise of the Yamhill Country Life council, composed almost entirely of women. The first big enterprise was to arrange for rural launcliy service. Country Agriculturist Shrock, who is an nonorary, ana' consiaeraoiy lion- i orod. member of the Country Life council, was the captain of the home study . tour. Ills chief assistants were an expert In home economics and an other in landscape gardening Miss -Anna M. Turloy and Professor J. L. Peck from Oregon Agricultural col lege. Paul V. Maris, state lrtader Of county agriculturists, was in the party the first day. Yamhill county has 2218 farm homes and 900 rrilles of roads. The leader started out as though he had to reach all the homes ai.d cover all the roads in the two-day period. Flr.less Cooker Appreciated. . Miss Turley took along a fireless cooker. Lunch was being prepared as we drove. When a stop was reached a poster appeared in company with a nicely browned fowl, "Use the fireless looker and save time, energy, food and fuel." I Another thing she urged upon the ! attention of all local groups of farm wives was the home canner, a little plant equipped with its own burner and pressure equipment, capable of beating and sterilizing the contents of )14 quart Jars, tins or glanses in less . ithan an hour, where the old open ket Hle on the radiant stove in a super heated kitchen on a hot summer day ould do about a third as much work In three hours with vastly more work and fatigue. The first home on the route was that of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Luneer & , mile or so from LaFayette. The i women were interested in thebroad front room with its deep fireplace and the supplementary furnace In the basement: The sleeping porch ap pealed, as did the work and rest room with .a couch convenient to a telephone. There was a clothes chute, a pass cupboard opening both on kitchen and dlningroom, an enclosed heater, a high tool in the. kitchen. The men were ehown by Mr. Lunger how, by building a mile of line, to connect with the power line from Portland and at 'an 'expense of a couple of dollars a month, had not only his home light ing plant, but an automatic electric pump that kept the. water . supply up to uniform pressure without atten tion and furnished Incidentally power to sharpen tools and do other work. Rome Full of Conyenlenoee. ' Among the many conveniences at the home of A. H. Lauplin was an acety lene lighting plant, that at the touch .of the proper button.would flood house, .yard or barn with light. There was a Dutch kitchen, a gas plate, a cooling closet, a pressure water system, a wash, sink on the back porch, a dust chute from the upper and first floors to the basement and, from a splendid lawii, a view out from under splendid old oak trees, each two pillar-like trunks framing a picture. No more practical contribution waa made to the success of the trip than that by Professor Peck. He was In stant In hie appreciation of excellent points in outside decoration and equally prompt In his constructive crltcism of defects.- He could tell th'home jowner Just what to do In few,- clear sentences and others, lis tening,, could adapt the suggestions to ' their own homes. Xoektojr Chair in Kitchen. . At the . proeperoue. home of James Kdsm, Maa Turley found a thing that h.e declared should "be in every farm home kitchen a rocking chair. There ..'waa a dumb waiter connecting with the'asement. . dust, clothes and wood ...chutes, a sheltered": carriage entrance. a. milk- room In the basement, station ary tubs, two fireplace, a big, com- petent furnace, a gas engine that would ' operate a motor while sawing wood - or doing other work: the motor con-2! nected with a storage battery so that -when the farm work was done cower and light for all home purposes had been developed. The gas engine could be ' disconnected from Its belts and 1-Auled on Its own wheels to any part or. me iirra. uui m in Darn was a sight that startled the city attendant ef.rUje tout? piles of potatoes and , fresh eggs without a watchman" m sight. - ' In the" course of the tour we "came ... to the village of Cfcrltoiu where uatrt- etlstn was expresses In a flAg raising. . : a drill by Httle girls In white dresses, . songs "by the cle club and an address ON FARM HOM E by the leading business man a whole some and inspiring sight. All were interested in the way Mell Morgan had succeded in remodeling i nis house at a cost of $630, greatly increasing its size, while an electric light system, water tank house, engine nd water piped to the barn brought the aggregate only to $1200. Out on the back porch was an electric wash er, wringer and iron. Early Says Recalled. It was here that Warren Merchant, a pioneer of 1848, told of the days when coyotes snatched away the lambs end suckling pigs, of the split log seats at school, and the arduous clear ing and grubbing of land. The first stop of the second day was at the home of C. G. Robertson near Dundee on the main Portland road and this home had music, flowers outside, city water, an ash chute from ihe fireplace, a couple of wood lifts, a cement floored front porch and a soreened-in back porch, and other con veniences. At a cost of $1700. J. H. Wilson had built a house of seven rooms and bath containing a Dutch kitchen, a cooler in the wall, a screened porch, a fruit cellar under the porch and so on through a long list that both the men and women of the party inspected eagerly. Inspection of the homes of Walter H. Wilson. Mr. Doer and is. L. Wiley followed. At noon we were invited to stop at the Newberg school and here hospitality was ready in the form of hot coffee and long tables spreai for lunch with Mrs. Gri.-e Moms, president; Mrs. Verona H. Nelson, secretary, and Mrs. M. K. Evans, Mrs. Maggie Littlefield and Leila Kldredge of the Women s Civic improvement dub, serving as hostesses. Principal A. C. Stansbrough and II. R. Morris of the Commercial club made the ad dresses of welcome. Blossoms Perfume ths Air. The tour .led along winding high ways through a region as potentially fruitful ami as charming as can be found in all of Oregron. Everywhere the farmers were' working overtime, turning the long deferred furrows in the waiting fields, answering the president's appeal for increased pro duction. The air was sweet with the perfume of cherry blossoms and cheer ful with sunlight. Fortune Plays Odd -Prank in Windy City Chicago, April 1. James Watson has been swept Into the fortune of the wife he deserted and has called quls with justice by marrying the woman who came between him and Mrs. Watson. In 1906 Watson and Miss Anna Had dock fled from Wlgan, England, leav ing Mrs. Watson and a young son be hind. Watson came to Chicago, en gaged in the real estate business and became wealthy. Mrs. Watson, be queathed $600,000 by an admirer, took up the trail of the elopers and found them here. Several weeks ago she found them and caused their arrest. Then she made a will leaving her for tune to her son. She did not sign it. and the next day. died in an automo bile accident. Watson, as her husband. became administrator of her estate. " The day after Mrs. Watson was buried he married Miss Haddock In order to give their children a name. Then he filed suit against the rail road company whose train struck Mrs. Watson's auto, ' demanding damages for her jdeath. Patched Shoes to Become Fashionable Philadelphia. April 28. The patched shoe Is the latest wrinkle among; suf fragists here. The women adopted resolutions to go without the new $10 footgear this season and Instead they will turn the money over to a fund for national preparedness. . Of course, they won't wear 'em down at the.heel or out at the toe. In an excess of patriotism. The suffragists win nave em patched. The sacrificial shoe squad comprises women as smartly dressed as can be rouna in rnuadelphla. , DEMONSTRATION TOUR OF YAM HILL COUNTY PROHIBITION AS WAR kJmmBffS MEASURE URGED BY STATE WOMEN CLUBS Oregon Federation Unani mously Adopts Resolution, Sends Telegram to Wilson, The Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs, at Its luncheon Saturday at Hotel Multnomah, went on record as ready to take up the work outlined by the general federation in council as sembled at New Orleans when it adopted unanimously a resolution that a telegram be sent to President Wil son, urging national prohibition during war times as a moral and conservation measure. Mrs. Charles H. Castner. president of the federation, presided, and the program opened with a roll call of out of town guests, who responded as fol lows: Dr. Mary F. Farnum, Forest Grove: Mrs. Oscar Hayter. Dallas; Mrs. George, Werester, The Dalles; Mrs. Charles Hall, Marshfield; Mrs. Harding, Mrs. C. W. Kvans. Mrs. J. W. Norris, Mrs. A. K. Olds, Oregon City; Mrs. Neipert, Huber; Mrs. Wadsworth, Beaverton; Mrs. Dodd, Salem; Miss E. IC Matthews, Oak Grove; Mrs. J. W. Sadler. Aurora; Mrs. W. L,. Clark, Mrs. R. D. Gould, Hood River; Miss Parrott, Monmouth. There were also two men guests, W. W. Lunger, Lafayette, and G. R. Castner. of Hood River. The pleasure of the luncheon was heightened by the singing of "Song of the Flap." by Mr. Montgomery, with Mrs. Warren E. Thomas at the piano. Mrs. Frederick Eggert offered the resolution in regard to national prohibition. The Psychology club luncheon on May day was announced by Mrs. E. J. Steele. Other brief an nouncements were made by Mrs. Gilbert H. Horton and Miss Viola Ortschild. Mrs. Evans Makes Beport. The report of the proceedings of the council of the general federation was given by the Oregon director, Mrs. Sarah A. Evans. -She said-she heard on every hand words of praise of the good time enjoyed by the council In Portland. She told of the various so cial, affairs, but said all were tempered as fitted the occasion, war having ben declared three days before the council went irrto session and the spirit of loyalty and patriotism permeated the entire session. The entire pro gram was changed and the time was given over largely to formulating plans for the various departments to do ac tive patriotic service. When the general federation ten dered its Services to President Wilson, he suggested that It work: in conjunc tion with th Red Cross. Objection was raised to this, the federation feel ing Itself too large In numbers and strength to affiliate with any organ ization. However, the pan finally adopted Includes the listing for serv ice of all club women after the man ner of the Red Cross and the keeping of . that organization informed as to progress. Women will be asked to offer their services In executive, clerical, welfare, supplies, commissary and transporta tion duties!! The federation went on record has having1 two great objects, first to be of utmost service In the time of need; second and quite as Im portant, to keep alive In every com munity the sense of law and order, of the security of the permanent elements. Chairman Makes Suggsstioas. Following are ths suggestions made by the chairmen, of the general fed eration and these will be followed as far as possible by the Oregon state committees: . ... Art. 1. For purpose of teaching patri otism to children, portraits of Lincoln and Washington should be placed n every school. 2. Postcards of American paintings published by - the general federation may oe ptacea in sji hospitals. - 3. Form scrap books of pictures for Above, left to right Yamhill county women receive suggestions for homes arm lawns; Mrs. Fred Witney, president Yamhill County Life Council, and Miss Anna M. Turley, home economics expert, confer. Below, left to right The noon picnic lunch where the fireless cooker proved its worth ; M. S. Shrock, county agriculturist (at wheel) and Paul V. Maris, state leader of county agriculturists. use of invalids and convalescents in hospitals. Civics. 1. Get community action on waste lot gardens. 2. Agitate starting emergency sav ings accounts by every man, woman and child. 3 Support required training for girls in lines fitting women for serv ice in national emergency. Civil Service. 1. Enforce honest administration of civil service laws. 2 Get Immediate and continued training for public service. 3 Compile lists of all public posi tions and the training required for them. . Conservation, 1 Add committee on food produc tion which should work with local or ganizations (printed suggestions may be secured from Charles Lathrop Pack, Lakewood, N. J.) , 2. Pay special attention to trans portation and the improving of every little road in the community. 3. Make use of all available ground for the production of nourishing and non-perishable foodstuffs. Education. 1. Help form clubs of school boys and girls to work either for the produc tion or preservation oi muu uiwi wa i. Work for extension of practical. training in oublic schools lor Home making and wage earning. 3. Set personal example and urge nign . scnooi gins m pieuse '"''; ' dressing, simpler social life, simpler .raduatlnr pYfrclBH 4. Work for school breakfasts and supervised physical training. 5. Put current questions and in structions in thrift, and patriotic ex ercises on your cchool programs. Horns Soonomics. Chairman Mrs. Joseph C. Gawler, 1401 West Chestnut street. North Yakima, Wash. . , 1. Study dietetics use of air house hold materials, study of right choice (including dress). (Outlines will soon be sent all state presidents and chairmen. Pamphlet on "Dress" now available.) Legislation. Chairman Miss Mary Wood, 250 Archay building. Albany, N. Y. 1. Uphold state and federal author ities In the enforcement of existing laws. 2. Encourage your local police by expressing confidence in them. 3. Avoid promiscuous discussion of war issues and discrimination In favor of American citizens. 4. Demand equal pay for equal work when women take the places formerly filled by men. Xittsratur sad Ubrsxy Extension. Chairman Mrs. True Worthy White. 122 Appleton St., Arlington Heights, Mass. . 1. Make scrap book- collections of stories, essays, poetry, and particu larly Jokes, for the use of military camps and convalescent hospitals. 2. Serve the emergency committee along- clerical lines. 8. Maks a sanctuary for yourself out of the noblest literature of war and peace. Industrial and Social Conditions. Chairman Mrs. John Webb, 48 Woodland avenue. Glen Ridge, . N. J. 1. Give special attention to care of mentally deficient and the criminal of low mentality; urge survey of cor rectional conditions In care- of feeble minded and their registration through clinics of physicians and psychiatrists. '2. Form farm colonies lor the above Cl JlT'cooperative with established agen cies In these lines. BCnsle. Chairman Mrs. William D. Steele, Sedalia. Mo. 1. Specialise on study of American National music. " . 2. Study patriotic but not warlike music of all peoples. Stress community and public school .singing of patriotic songs. ' Jjj 4. See that people stand during na tional anthem. 5. Study stories and literature of patriotic songs. Public Health. Chairman Mrs. Elmer Blair. 171 State street. Albany. N. T. 1. Work to conserve child life. 2. Work for moral and sanitary en. vironment for our boys and girls int camps. The aim of the 11 departments of the work of the General Federation of Women's Clubs is the development and conservation of human efficiency. This is fundamentally concerned with food conservation. The term conservation as used in connection with this work must in no way be limited to the de partment of conservation, which up to this time r.as dealt solely with the na tural resources of the country. Home economics is defined as that group of subjects which deals with the development and conservation of hu man efficiency. Public health preserves it. Civics uses it. Legislation protects it. Civil service provides the right ma chinery for this protection. Education presents the means by which we learn to do these things.. Industrial and social conditions seeks to provide the right environment or condition for the development and tho conBervaton of numan efficiency Literature provides the medium of communication, disseminates the re sult of these studies and this work giv- ne inspiration 1 7,?. Art and music also lend Inspiration seeking to beautifv the common deeds. The conservation department has 10 do with: The preservation and intelligent use of raw materials; The natural resources of the land. Food conservation necessarily em braces the problem of food production transportation, distribution, sale ana use. It is not alone that more food must be produced, but the supply must De conserved Dy .roper nanaung ana the elimination of waste. Production is not merely an agricul tural question, it is a conservation problem. It involves the question of soil, water supply, preservation of for ests and of irrigation and of drainage Its transportation and distribution has to do with roads, not only the main highways of the country but the by ways in every little rural community as well. Reaching the point of distribution. It becomes a civic concern and here legislation enters. Here there is neoi of safeguarding against new legisla tion that may be introduced, which seeks to control prices or to Increase profits at the expense of the consumer. Pantages Theatre Ushers on a Strike A strike for higher wages has been declared by the ushers of Pantages theatre. Headed by Owen Othus, sev eral youths approached J. A. Johnson, resident manager of the Pantages theatre, according to their statement, and asked for an increase of from 10 cents to 15 cents per hour. The boys walked out at 7:30 o'clock Saturday night, and ushers from among the audience were drawn upon to fill up their places. According to Mr. Johnson, the strik ers numbered only four. - Britain Controls Flour Mills. London, April 28. Baron Devonport. the food controller, has issued an order for the taking over of all flour mills in the United Kingdom April 30 by his department. : It is presumed that the mills will continue to be operated by their present owners under supervision of the food controller. . -j - H BILLION WAR -ID TO SPENT Estimates for Proposed 1 , 123,000 Men Were Pre pared With-Greatest Care, 40,000 TRITCK S NEEDED Appropriation Held to Be Proof of Administration's Intentions; Mil. lions Set Apart for Aviation. Washington, April 28. (P. N. S.) For the maintenance of an army or 1.128,000 men the United States government intends to spend $2,932, 537,933 within the next year. This is exclusive of the millions appro priated In the annual army appro priation bill for the regular armv establishment. If added to the army's war chest it carries the total con siderably above $3,000,000,000. This not only seems like a stag gering sum, but' it Is. It is more money than has ; ever been provided at one time In the history of the world for an army. Don't think, however, that the of ficers of the general staff of the army in preparing t'jelr estimates cast Judgmrnt to the four winds. They did not. To the contrary, the estimates were carefully and scien tifically prepared. Three billions of dollars for the maintenance of the army during the next year1 is proof positive that it Is the administra tion's plan to fully and adequately prepare for war and have plenty ot the "sinews of war" on hand after the war Is in actual progress. The estimate requesting that $2. 932.537,933 be given the secretary of war to be expended at his discretion and under such regulations as the president may prescribe has gone to congress and the funds have been provided. Biff Task Xs Ahead. This sum Is for the equipment and maintenance of the $1,123,000 mer. who will be organized into 32 Infan try and four cavalry divisions with army corps troops for such number of army corps as can be organized from this force. These troops are divided as fol lows: Regular army, 293,000; nation al guard organizations. 329,954, and 500.000 so-called "volunteers" who will be chosen In accordance with the selective conscription plan. In addi- tion, there will be nearly 50,000 of- fleers. To pay this gigantic army the war department has been given $582,752,- LUXO -The Happij Hoppq Help toward Happiness. The dinner drink. The lunch drink. The thirst quencher at all hours APPO -Perfectly pure apple juice.Take a glass of Appo for breakfast instead of fruit and uou will find ijour day made bright mj perfect digestion.. . Its all Apple. TOKO -Rich red product of qrapes and berries The fruit drinK for afternoons at home. A readg made fainch. for parties . A delight all he time SdldJbu Grocers &nd Confectioners MADE IN THE BIG SANITARY" KnSNRV WEINHAMB PLANT - JfSHS SINCE J862. . Portland, Oregon 290. This includes $51,507,514 to cover a 20 per cent Increase In par during the war under ths asms pro visions effective during ths Spanish war. The estimate for supplies, services and transportation Is $813, 245.164. To purchase animals and motor trucks the war department will have $100,083,050. This Is ex pected to buy 529,000 animals and 40,000 motor trucks. To Develop Aviation. That aviation will be developed to the fullest extent is indicated in an allotment of $54.25i..ooo :or this pur pose. For the signal service of the army $4,817.76S Is provided, making $59,067,766 appropriated for the sig nal corps. For the purchase of clothing, food stuffs and other articles supplied the army through the quartermaster gen eral. $1,561,626,063 was provided. For the ordnance department the estimates include: Current expenses. $2,500,000; ammunition for email arms and for hand use $40,298,000; ammunition, targets and other ac cessories for target practice. $19,000, 000; arms, ammunition and targets for rifle clubs, $1,600,000; manufac ture, etc., of arms at national ar mories, $25,616,000; manufacture and purchase of ordnance stores, $60, 050,000; purchase, manufacture and test of automatic machine rifles. $18. 200.000; armored motor cars, pur chase and manufacture, $4,500,000; automatic machine guns for the Na tional Guard, $31,200,000; anti-air craft guns, $1,000,000. and for am munition for anti-air craft guns, $1, 840,000. To Provide Field Onus. To supply' the National Guard with field artillery $99,800,000 is provide while for ammunition for field ar tillery the estimate was $92.000,0j0. . The army engineers will have no occasion to complain of insufficien funds as they are allowed $145,633, 274, of which $94,800,000 Is for op erations In the field and $37,050.00" for engineering equipment of troops. Past appropriations for the main tenance of the army sink into Insig nificance as compared with the near ly $3,000,000,000 fund recently pro vided by congress, but the monev was voted without question. Wild Game Proposed As War Time Asset Denver. Colo., April 28. W. B. Frazer. state fish and game warden, has presented to the state war coun cil plans whereby the number of fish and amount of game in the state will be Increased materially. The plans, which, it is believed, will be adopted at once, will Increase the stock In the state game preserves so that It will be no negligible factor if other food resources of the state are drawn on too heavily. Reduced Rates Abolished. Zurich, April 28. To raise more j revenues the Italian government re cently decided to Issue no more round trip and commutation railroad tickets at reduced rates. . H. OF OLD FIST on n ii HON IN CHALET Men "Fall In" at Command of Col, Gantenbein and Go Out Columbia Highway, BARBECUE IS ON TODAY Fhilo Holbrook Will Be Host at HIS Bancs., With K. X. Schmeer and 2. X. Stipe Assisting. Fall in! .lust like they used to 25 years ago in the old armory, company 11 of the old First regiment, Oregon National Guard, heard that call from Colonel C. r. Gant-nbejn and heeded it. t It Was the occasion of their annual reunion. It began Friday night and it won't be over until Sunday night. A drill of 15 minutes was scheduled. Ii ;asn't exactly the usual drill. Ths men who .used to be young and spright ly found themselves somewhat stiff and sluggish In their actions. So they , talked and chatted and shook hands and "reminisced" and planned for ths morrow. Saturday something else different happened. Instead of the carry-all which 25 year bko would have taken them away.y fler-t of automobiles as- semmea at noon ana carmen mem out over the Columhia highway to Crown Point and the chalet where a supper was served. And. Instead of the old quadrille and waltz they stenped to the tunes from a "Jazz'' orchestra and made merry till the morning was young. t Today the farm- squad will fall lit in front of the courthouse and march "in automobiles to the Philo Holbr.eok ranch for a barbecue. Millard II. Schmeer and Kdgar II. Stipe are in charge of the barbecue. Frank Uranch Kiley and Carl Mor row were the speakers at the banquet at the chalet last night. Tacoma Men Get . "Red Hand" Cards Tacoma, April 28. Local police are investigating the source of "red hand" postcards, carrying threats, received by about 50 Tacoma employers, a num ber of them lumber men. The police believe the cards all came from one man In Seattle. When writing to or mlltrnf on Tr4twT, plee mention The Journal. A1t. ...