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- V THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, ' APRILS 29, 1917. AUXll SCOUT m of young Meets for its third celebration Growth of Local Organization Has Been Steady and En ' ti rely -Satisfactory, DEPARTMENT IS FORMED national Body Kas Bn la Existexee to the ast 14 Years; Wow ' OffiOrS Members of Scout Young auxiliary, United Spanish War Veterans, hare Just celebrated the thlrd anniversary or the organization. The local aux iliary had a charter list of 61 names and the growth haa been steady and satisfactory. Mrs. William M. CoplanJ -the first president, was unanimously chosen for a second term. Mrs. James McCarren was second president, her term expiring: the flrart of this year since which time Mrs. G. H. Carr has occupied the chair. As soon as the auxiliary was . chartered it took Its place among the leading- women's clubs of the dty and has been foremost In patriotic and charitable work and so cial affairs. The national organization has been In existence 14 years. It was organ lied by patrjrrtio women members of Spanish-American War Veterans fara ilies in order, that they might be bet ter able to "extend aid and sympathy to all soldiers, sailors and marines of the Spanish war and their dependents; to cooperate with the Spanish war vet crmns in all their work and social functions; to promote patriotism, hu inanity and a proper reverence for the flag; to teach all love of country; to promote Interest In tho national lixtt tutlons; to encourage observance of all patriotic days, and to Inculcate everywhere and at all times lessons . in, good citizenship. Department Zs ronned. The department of Oregon is branch of the national auxiliary. Dur- - log - the encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans last year at Kugene a provisional department was formed. , This Included Albany. Port land. Salem and Eugene. Later, the ladles of Hillsboro organized and the department charter was given by the president-general, Mary B. Hamilton, on the occasion of her visit to Port land while en route to the national convention at .Chicago. Mrs. C. R. Thompson Is the department president and represented the state of Oregon at the national convention. She now has work outlined for the auxiliaries ' throughout the state to provide ep ' oial comforts for all Spanish war vet erans who are In the service of the ' country In the present crisis, f Other Officers Warned. Other department officers are: Vice presidents. Noll Asseln of Salem and . Cora V. White of Eugene; secretary Mrs. G. F. A. Walker of Portland treasurer. Mrs. Minnie Wolf, Portland : chaplain. Susie Reed Nicholson, Port land; thief of staff, Mrs. James Me Carreri of Portland; judge advocate, Ella . L Frazer of Eugene; Inspector, Gertrude Wilson, Salem; historian. Es tella Weed, Portland; patriotic Instruc tor, frs. A. C, Baker of Arbany; con- ' ductjqrp, Mrs. 1. Harms and Mrs. ' Oeorga H, Carr of .Portland; guards, Mela XJ. Brown and Eunice Bloomfield of Eugene; department council, Fanny O. Millard and Bertha Kurorow of Sa lem, Mattlo Gross, Lottie Bransteitter, Emily Towner, Myrtle E. Mitchell. Florence H. -Harris, Elizabeth EH macher, all of Eugene. Outside Districts Included. The president of the Salem auxiliary . Is Mrs. Catherine Hewlet; Eugene, Mrs. ttotts Branstetter. Mrs. Leon ' Wlllott Hyde, wife of Dr. Hyde. Is the president at Hillsboro and Mrs. A,. C. Baker whose husband la first Ueuten - ant of. the coast artillery company of Albany Is president of the Dewey aux iliary of that place. Other camps in the state have organization work well under way and it Is expected charters - will soon be granted to Astoria, Mc Mlnnville, Pendleton, La Grande and Newport. The department convention will be held in June at the same place as the encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans. The national conven tion , wlrl be the last of August at Cleveland, O. CHAPTER AID TO SPANISH WAR VETERANS EXPERIMENTAL STAGE NOW FAST PASSING IN CENTRAL OREGON Left to right Sirs. William Coplan, president; Sirs, James McCarr en, second president; Mrs. C. B. Thompson, department president. RESOURCE COMMITTEE A T BE INFORMED MER CANS ANN STARVED Diversified Production by the Farmers of Country Is De clared to Be Essential, City Auditor Puts Prudence Behind Wears Straw Hat An electric pen that carbonizes pa per over 7hlch it passes is the Inven tion of a native of India. Berkeley. Cal.. April 2. It Is lm nnaslbl to starve the American peo ple. Where tho pinch will come, bow- ir. ia in meat and fats. Such are the facts reported to the committee on resources and food sup ply of the California state council of defense, of which President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of tho University of Cal ifornia la chairman and the other members Charles H. Bentleyl and J A. OC0nnell of San Francisco, Miss Ethel Moore of Oakland and B. B. Meek of Oroville, after a preliminary discussion of the food problem made at the request of the committee by the agricultural faculty of the university, Here Is the advice as to how the patriotic farmers of the Pacific coast can best serve their country in the present war-time emergency, con tained In a statement made to the committee on resources and food sup ply by Dean Thomas F. Hunt of the college of agriculture of the Univer sity of California: ' The farmer should produce as much meat, eggs and butter and milk as be can. Forage Crops JTeoessary. What the public does not under stand and what most farmers do not realise Is that the special emergency need now - is to grow much greater quantities of forage crops as food for domestic animals. Such crops as mllo. feterlta, Egyptian corn, brown durra, sorghum and sudan grass should be planted extensively, for they give a maximum of result for a minimum of effort. Most of the current talk about the food problem has been about growing potatoes fn the back yard or eating rice instead of potatoes As a matter of fact, the opportunity for saving here Is almost nothing. Potatoes and rice together do not cost more than 6 per cent of the annual expenditure of an average family for food, while two thirds of all the average Pacific coast family spends for food goes for animal foods meat, eggs, milk, butter and fat. Hence the'lmmena Importance of producing the greatest possible quantity of fodder for animals. The disease known as "fear of star vation" need never affect the United States. Indian cotton and corn make the country impregnable. EUfh Prices Cause Abundance. High prices to the producer are the most successful means of securing an abundant supply of food and an abun dant supply of food is more import ant than a cheap supply. Where sav ing to the public can be made, how ever, is in distribution. Never will Discovered walking up and down Washington street today. The man to wear the first straw hat in Portland this year, and to notify those on tho 3fr rlalto that spring Is really here. A. L. Barbur, city auditor. Is the man. The hat Is bis last 4 year'a bonnet, but he should worry about that. Ht Barbur had the hat recently t cleaned and put It on when he left his office this morning. He made a trip through the busi- ness section without being ar- rested and now he says he'll m continue to wear it throughout 4f the spring and summer season. CHARLES P. CHURCH BECOMES CANDIDATE FOR COMMISSIONER Main Slogan Is 'To Free Peo ple From Curse of Monop oly in Light, Other Utilities.' it be necessary, Dean Hunt believes. to limit by legal or military action, the amount of food to be consumed by the American people, but military ne cessity may make it desirable to re duce greatly the service now rendered by the retailer. Moreover, it may be desirable for the Individual states to empower their governments to take over and store food products and to Issue certificates of sale bearing 4 per cent interest against these products, tho certificates to be redeemable at the option of the state. Dean Hunt believes that It will be undesirable to attempt to control the production of food stuffs by legal or military means, but it may be well for towns of over 2000 inhabitants to legislate on food distribution. Warning Xa Qlvem. Dean Hunt warns against securing a poorly balanced ration as has been don in Germany and says that the ordinary family of five ought to be able to get along comfortably on an expenditure per annum of from $435 to $650 for foods spending about 54 per cent on protein foods, about 12 per cent on fats, 12 per cent on starchy foods, IS per cent on fruits and vege tables ad the rest on sugar, tea and coffee. These figures do not Include dainties or extras. Interplanting of bean and grain sor ghums in young irrigated orchards is strongly recommended for this emer gency Every endeavor should be made to get all unoccupied land into condi tion to grow crops next year and the years after. It la suggested that pos sibly the state should ' assist In fi nancing farmers who must wait two. or more years for a return on such undertakings. Newcomer in Any of Several Localities 'Has Experience of Others for His Guidance, DEVELOPMENT RENEWED Strahorn XaUroad Project and Zstab- lished Agricultural Conditions Point to a Ww Zra Agriculturally. Ttf a Homesteader of 1909. In the early spring of 110$ began the homesteading of that great inland em pire comprising southern Crook (now Deschutes), Lake and Harney counties. The 150 to 200-mile trip by hots stage from Shaniko, the then nearest railroad point, to the Homesteading localities required four days by dayjtage. or two days and two nights of night and day travel. On arriving at the -chosen destination the prospective home steader was greeted by surroundings undisturbed with the exception of an occasional tent, or possibly a nw cabin in the distance. FUNERAL OF A LOCAL RESIDENT ANNOUNCED Tfa n w-rfYi . f mm m rill Vl I M f H M knowledge of farming, and very little ersed the sagebrush plain. money, out oia nave a great aesire to make for himself and family a home of his own, away from the grind and discouragements that h had encoun tered in his attempts at making the great variation in crop production poasibla in these different valleys and settlements. It has been found that certain definite factors such as mois ture or lack of It, severity of frosts.; extent of grazing lands, etc., make for or against success at fanning, and these same factors determine what character of farming- a given locality is best adapted to. In a comparatively short time the experience of these people developed the fact that some localities wer es pecially favored with sufficient mois ture to produce fairly good crops on every-year cropping basis, others re quire the use of summer fallow, and others dry farming methods: that certain localities are - especially well adapted for dairying and stock raising Fort Rock and Silver Lake localities were available for dairying. There are two creameries at rremont and a cheese factory at Fort Rock. Daily j motor i rue a service mrougn me 4engm of thla locality on to th Silver Lake country gives th dairyman ample mar ket facilities for their milk and cream and affords very good transportation facilities to get the butter and cheese to the Inland towns and to the rail road for shipment to Portland. ' The Fremont and Fort Rock locality is a well settled valley surrounded on three sides by timber, and given over practically exclusively to dairying and stock raising combined. This community Is progressive and enterprising. It has established 13 very creditable eight-month schools in a locality about 18 miles square : it furnishes free transportation for all school children living more than two miles from school and contemplates adding a high school at Fremont dur insr tha comlne vear: It haa umn at th edge of the valley, rood rod " Funeral services for Joseph N. Ora. mall delivery, rural telephones, etc.ivell well-known Portland corsetier. And all this In a region where, -a few wno d'ed Wednesday nlghjt, will be yeara ago, only one wagon trail trav- held at the church or the Madeleine, I - , ' -i, , - ts,," ,, i . Joseph N. Gravelle. Znters the Salrymau. was for ecast Twenty-third street North, and Siskiyou, at 9 o'clock Monday morn ing, the funeral leaving the Gravelle residence, 584 Bast Twenty-second The Silver Lake locality merlv a stockman's country. The town street North, at 8:30 o clock. H i 0 Oil... T .rmm C. eka mm A mwAm. m far- Xff t CI r-a val 1 a W fli m eva A nf t V a fttm , 1 Z cltT clc. of n?one3rl' I tile and productive marsh area about of J. N. Gravelle & Son, operating !ck ' XD7n arming, without B,x or elcht mlles This marsh a corset shop in the Morgan building. ?r JrL f."1 e conauion. h, QUtte rapidly changing from the win- He had resided in Portland for the r'-.7" -T i 1 quarters of the stckmao to the past three years, coming to this city Newspaper Ranks Depleted. Peterborough, England, April 28. Local Journalism will devolve upon one deaf reporter, a septuagenarian cashier and an office boy if the army wins its fight to call up exempted newspaper men. Girls Do Their "Bit." Oxford. O., AprU 28. Girls of -Western college ar studying chauffeuring under an expert automobile enginser and volunteering for garden work on the 400 acre college farm. Charles P. Church, a well known Portland contractor, and a resident of this city since 1861, has announced his candidacy for city commissioner. In his announcement he-says: That my main desire is to carry out the plans , which I have persistently urged for freeing the people of the city from the curse of monopoly in light, power, telephone, transportation and other utilities, the present rates of which are three times what they ought to be for telephones and elec trical uses. As an earnest of my intentions in this respect, four years ago I made the city a free gift of my water right filings that will develop 17,000 horse power, which can be supplied to Port land factories at $2 per horsepower per month and make this city pre eminently attractive to Investors, and revive our fallen estate. Would Bemove San&ioape. Electric power for factories costs only $21 per horsepower per annum in Tacoma as against $100 per horse power in Portland. Electric lights cost three cents per kilowatt hour in Med ford and eight cents in Portland to the average householder. All such mo nopoly handicaps I would persistently endeavor to remove. T I will not be satisfied until monthly telephone rates are reduced to $1.50 per month for residences and $2 for business phones; and these prices would be still farther reduced If the city is forced to put in a telephone system, which can be easily aone. The most ample and free use of the publio streets be allowed, to the end that Dromot and popular transporta tion may be obtained. To have the Stat Public Service Commission Insist that the street car company give outlying districts ample and satisfactory service or get off the city map. To have the present city tax rate of 9.8 mills reduced to what It was years ago. In the matter of street paving, let us have real competition. Favors Salary Reduction. I will favor a law to reduce the payj or ciiy commissioner irom auuu o $3000 per year: abolish that annual secret fund of $5000; eliminate all pri vate secretaries, except the mayor's, and reduce all salaries to what they were under Mayor Simon, provided none are placed below $100 per month. Other proposals for the betterment of the city generally would receive my earnest support; and If my efforts for public relief in the matters here pro posed should meet with obstruction ists in the commission I would invoke the arbitrament of recall against them. Mr. Church was one of the organis ers of the Portland Flouring Mills Co. prior to I8S4, and under the firm name of Klernan, Kern & Church, and did extensive contracting work, including the delivery of thousands of tons of rock for tha Jetty at the mouth of the Columbia river. mestic purposes, over 150 miles from railroad, .with uncertain mall facili ties, and only an occasional trail through the sagebrush and timber s it to b wondered at that many lost courage and turned back before getting well started ? Sefinlt Results Attained. Aa a result of th eight years of activities and efforts of these early settlers who did -stay and of those who Joined them later, much definite knowledge of the different localities is now available. One feature that stands out with marked prominence is home of the dairyman. The milk pro ducts from the Silver Lake territory are now shipped to the creameries at Fremont. There is some grain raised in this part of central Oregon, but has hardly had a full try out owing to dis tance of 66 to 100 miles to railroad; however frost conditions are Quite a rerlous drawback to profitable grain farming. The west side of the Summer Lake locality is the garden spot, though mall, of the whole central Oregon country. Peaches, apples, apricots, melons, tender vegetables thrive sur- from Butte. Mr. Gravelle was a na tive of France and 63 years old. A widow, Mrs. Jennie Gravelle, and two sons, Norbert Gravelle of Des Moines and Wilfred Gravelle of the United States navy, survive. Interment will be In Mount Calvary cemetery. Wooed above "are raised, is a narrow strip about onewnUe wide and 10 miles long. :- '-: ' - - ' .' . Where Capital Xa ired. The eastern part of Lake county the western part of Harney and south ea' m nart of Jefferson and southern part of Crook comprise a very Urge rather arid region, best adapted to siocarais Ing. brt Is gradually, by seed selection, moisture conservation, and attentlr-n to season of planting, etc.. beginning to raise considerable grain in a small way . m many, localities. .With men of knowledge and experience In dry farm ing methods, with capital to properly equip their ranches. K i Quite prob able that this vast area will become quite a grain 'farming district. How ever, with the f ro5t eonditlons to con tend with, light rallfall. and In many localities great depth for well wttir, ; it has not proved a successful under taking for the homesteader. Eastern Harny county, especially the Harney valley, fs still a "" . ent- country. This Is the locality in which roams "Bill- Hanlsy and wherein you find the thriving towns of BurnV Alfalfa, grain and stock raising are all successfully carried on here and. m many ways resemble the valleys In wMtm Tjtk. county. r The central Oregon country Is very "spotted." Th variety ox conaiuous prevailing in different localities causes contradictory, reports to b put into, circulation regarding this territory. ! On person takes a hurried motor trip, ! . v. ini.rinr ifflde encounters, imu ... , veloped sections, returns and reports the country arid, frosty, with few roads, sparsely settled and mainly un productive. Another party skirts the hills and traverses the productive val leys near the timber belts, returns end reports central Oregon as a wonder In development and production. Hence the contradiction. Outlook Zs Promising. With the knowledge of producing possibilities as shown by the ""r1" ence of those now on the ground, the newcomer of today has much to ulde him in his selection of a locality. With the aid of th proposed Strahom rail road which, as planned, will link the several lines now skirting the central Oregon region, and the allurement of the new 640-acre. homesteao, ww beem that the central Oregon country, la about to enter an era of renewed de velopment. " ' prlsingly well here, as well aa grain and alfalfa. There is frost, but never theless wonderful crops ar grown in this locality at an elevation of 4109 feet. This area, on which crops as men- -Apollo (Club i SPRING CONCERT MONDAY, APRIL 30TH LIBERTY THEATRE. Prices $1.00. 80c, SSo HO mESRXTZS SWATS "The Spinologist"! i-lfcf ..:.. .f'V.-i'-.ti. . .-'.fVSV: ,V JJ 3 '''. .. Mm The Same Telephones-: Main 8608 and A-1608. Removal Notice Dr. Geo. S. Breitling "The Spinologist" will be located' in the Broadway Building After Tuesday, May 1st. Ten years of actual practice in Port land, characterized by sincerity of purpose and thoroughness of meth ods, iustify my removal to larger offices and more convenient location. I tiave installed the most modern and efficient X-Ray microscopic laboratory in the Pacific Northwest and arranged for all possible com fort for Tny patients. Dr. Geo. S. Breitling On and after Tuesday, May 1st, at 1001-1005 Broadway Building, Corner of Broadway and Morri son Streets. The Home of Good Furniture Henry Jenning & Sons The Most Liberal Terms of Credit Portland's Greatest Furniture Store Washington at Fifth Members Greater Portland Association Our Great Spring Cleanup Sale Makes May Home Furnishing Easy Old Ivory Furniture Never Had Heard Of the Crucifixion Atlanta, April 28. Arthur W. Spald ing tins round a grown-up white wom an, uneducated but of more than aver age intelligence, in the north Georgia mountains who had never heard of the crucifixion of Christ. He tells a pathetic story of her comment. The circuit-riding master, visiting the little famfiy for th first time, told the etorjr of th Cross. Thev f ol. lowed it with rapt faces, and when he concluded the woman, leaning toward him. whispered hoarsely: 'Stranger, when did you say all this happened 7" A long Urn ago," he answered "nearly 2000 years." "And they nailed Mm to that ther tree when he" hadn't done nothing to nurt -em only jest loved emr "Tea. She leaned further and pMced her hand impressively on his knee. "Wall stranger," she eaid, the tears stand ing in her eyes, "let's hope it ain't so." Cleanup Sale of Beautiful Brass Beds These are massive beds of fine workmanship. Every one guaranteed perfect. Each one is finished in acid-proof lacquer. All have ball-bearing brass casters. See some of these beds displayed in Fifth-street window. Attractive reductions during cleanup sale. $19.00 Brass Bed for SI 2.75 -$34.00 Brass Bed for $22.70 $19.50 Brass Bed for $12.95 $35.00 Brass Bed for $2335 $26.00 Brass Bed foe $17.65 $36.50 Brass Bed for $24.35 $27.50 Brass Bed for $18.45 $40.00 Brass Bed for $26.65 Sold on Easy Terms when Desired r Drapery Department The new cretonnes and colored burlaps are now being shown on the second floor. We will be pleased to furnish estimates for new curtains and draperies for your home. We have skilled workmen for making up draperies and curtains for all uses. T Summer Floor Rugs New patterns are being shown in Deltox, Crex and Willow rugs Chi nese, Egyptian, and Oriental designs in grays, blues, greens and tans. These beautiful, inexpensive rugs are very appropriate for the living room, the bedroom, the dining-room or the porch. We are now showing this beautiful furniture In reed, willow and kaltex. The pat terns and deco rations are ab solutely new. We invite your leisurely inspec tion of the ex hibit, which is by far the larg est In Portland. Among the arti cles d i s p layed are the follow In g: Table Lamps, Stand Lamps, Jardi nieres. Bird Cages, Window Boxes, Rockers, Arm Chairs, Sewing Tables, Tea Tables, Telephone Stands, and many other articles. Cleanup Medium Price Rugs We have an immense stock of rugs, largely bought or contracted for at old prices, therefore, we are enabled to offer you new rugs at prices which admit of no competition. We offer thess for this week's choosing: $32.50 Seamless Velvet Rugs, 9x12, ()) mmmr -$27.50 Seamless Velvet Rugs, 9x12, $20.75 for $45.00 Body Brussels Rags, 9x12, in small floral and chintz effects; beautiful blues, pinks and tan, suitable for the 1droom, ' $33 50 $40.00 Body Brussels Rugs, 9x12, jgg 'Jg - - - Redrawing Europe's Railroad Map To Be Rome. April 28. Allied railroad commissions today are preparing to re draw Europe's railroad map. Thev are already planning the destruction of the allied dependence on th German lines in the "war after the war." For example, a proposed railroad connects Bordeaux with Odessa, avoid ing middle Europe and passing through Turin and the Italian-to-be Tries t. Other lines, perfecting the development of allied territory, are aleo in prospect. French and English railroad officials 1 are now in Italy, studying th situa tion with allied officials. The com mis- j sloners are making a careful tour cf I investigation throughout the allied countries, it is said, and work on the I contemplated lines win be rushed . t I The Duplex Alcazar Burns Coal Burns Wood Burns Gas Two Fuels May Be Used at the Same Time IN the Duplex Alcazar we have found the ultimate range. It is a complete, economical two-fuel range, which bakes and cooks to perfection. It is the perfect all-year-round range you can burn wood or coal in the Winter and keep the kitchen warm you can burn gas in the Summer and keep the kitchen cooL There is noth ing about the range to get out of order. It is the most practical, the simplest and by far the best range on the market. We will sell you one of these ranges on very easy terms, and take your old range or stove in part pay ment. See our display in the basement salesroom. Price $90 and Upwards i 1 J M t completion, as soon as the war ends. IlltUlttlli 1-