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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTL AND, SUNDAY MORNING., JULY 25, 1820. 5 Band Music Is Attraction at ' Portland Parks 1VITH the Rosartan band giving six . V concert a week And Campbell's American band at the Oaks, Portland Is having; more band music this summer than it has had for some time. The municipal band concerts began the latter part of June and are sched uled to run to the end of the third' week In August, when some 45 concerts will have been given and- about $10,000 ex pended. . The remaining concerts are scheduled as follows: -- 3VVT under . . . . Monday . . , TKlr . . Wednewlay Thitrvlay . Friday ,25 W'aslilnetnn Park .2 Columbia Park. . S.-00 p. m. ,8:00 p. ra 8:00 p. m. ;S :(IQ p. m. .8:00 p. m. .8:00 p. m. 8:00 p. m. 8 :00 p. m. . 8 :00 p. ra. ,8:00 p. ra. ,8 .0ft p. m. .8:00 p. m. .27 .2 .29 .30 Laarelhtirstt Park Jolmfn ("reek . . TsrwMieer Park, St. Joltna ...... ArorsT 1 - Wasltinston Park 2 South rark. . ,', S MU Tabor Park. 4 Peninsula Park. . 5 Holladay Park . . Bellwood Park . . 8ondy '. ... Monday . . , Twwr'ay . . Wednmda? Thursday . Friday ... Sunday ..... Waahinirtoh Park 8:00 p. m. Monday .... 9 Columbia Park . ,., 8 :00 p. in. Tuesday ....10 Iarelhartt Park 8:00 p. in. Wednesday 1 1 Kenilworth Park . .8 -.00 p. m. Thnraday ...12 Bon City 8:00 p. ra. Friday . .... IS Lenta ........ .8 :00 p. m. Btmdsy .1 "Waahinatoe Park 8 :00 p. a. Monday ...IS- 800th Park . . . . . 8 :00 p. m. Tuendsy ....11. Mt. Tabor Pirk..8:00 p. ra. Wednesday . . 1 Peninsula Petit. . . 8 :00 p. m. Thursday ...18 Itolladay Park . ... 8 :00 p. m. Friday .....20 . Dnniway ITayi'da 8.00 p. re- Mayor Baker, Commissioner Pier and Superintendent of Parks Keyser are im pressed with the value of furnishing; music In the municipal parks, and it is expected that even 'more extensive pro grams will be mapped out for next sea son. ...c : - - , - Superintendent Keyser hope to see the day when each park will have a bandstand of the 'shell' type, This would rive the music much greater car rying: power. . The Rosarlan band, now filling-' the park engagement, is at present composed of 38 performers. Joel B. EUinger, the conductor, in also a business man. being manager of the American Wood Work ing Machinery company. His ambition is to build up a band of exceptional merit. ' ; 4 . - ' Boston wUl have opera next winter, even though the Metropolitan and Chi cago companies turn the cold shoulder, according to plana maturing under the direction of Gaston Borch, composer and conductor, who was associated with' the opera company, which gave a very suc cessful season ' of English opera last year, writes the Boston correspondent of Musical America. - r The operas will be given in English, but on a better scale than those of last season : the prices, however, will remain "popular," from 60 cents to $3. The gen eral director of the, company is Mr. Borch, but he' will have the assistance of two other conductors. The orchestra Is to number 40, and the chorus 60 mem bers. Famous and , high price stars, which some persons mistakenly regard as the whole opera, will not be obtain able on a popular price budget, but Mr. Borch promises that the leading "roles will be taken by capable singers. His aim is a good ensemble through which the hearer will get a correct and enjoyable idea of the opera. . - -. . It is stated that permanent members of the organization will be given an op portunity to acquire stock In the com pany, and some will be presented to members of the chorus who have been with the company one year. , Purchase of. stock, however, does not procure ad mission to either, cast or orchestra for an applicant who is unqualified on ar tistic grounds. - - - Two operas a week will be presented, with four performances, including a matinee, of each one. In addition to the usual standard works, it is planned to revive two German operas, "Lohengrin"' and "Hansel and Gretel" (sung In Hngltsh) and also a number of lighter operas, like "The Mikado" and "The Chimes of Normandy.". The bill for each week will be arranged with the Idea of' contrasting a serious and a light work. The first week, for example, will bring "Carmen and "The Mikado. Other proposed combinations are : "Trov atore" and "The Chimes of Normandy" ; "Tales of Hoffman' and the familiar double bill, "Cavalleria" and "Pagllac cl"; "Lohengrin" and "Faust" ; Faust" and "The Mikado"; "Trovatore" and The Beggar Student" ; "Hansel and Gretel". and "Tales of Horfman." Mrs. Marx E. Oberndorfer of Chicago, who" has been . appointed the -national musio chairman of the- General Federa tion of Women's clubs, will plan and di rect the musical activities in over 10,000 clubs . in America. Mrs. Oberndorfer (Anne Shaw Faulkner) is the author of "What We Hear In Music"; "Music inJ the Home" and' " Americanization Songs;" and is co-editor with Frederick A. Stock in the "Music in the Home Series" of orchestral compositions. With her husband, the famous pianist, Mrs. Oberndorfer has won a national repu tation as a lecturer on music and for the Oberndorfer opera muslcales. Mrs. Oberndorfer believes that the greatest development . In musio which the world has ever known is about to take place in America, and she Is con fident that the women's clubs are the most important influence to bring about this musical renaissance. Mrs. Obern dorfer plans through the' medium of the music memory contest in the schools, the community sings in the churches, de partment stores, industries, jails and public Institutions, and by the establish ment of community music centers, to make music a vital part of the daily life in America. Mrs. Oberndorfer declares that America has the greatest musical inheritance in the world and that we shall not always be a nation of "Jaza" and 'Yagtlme." but are on the thresh- ' old of the establishment of a great American scnooi or music. . . . Mrs. E. R. Eisert presented her pupils, from the Odd Fellows Children's home, in recital Thursday afternoon before a large audience in the auditorium of the home. Five of the children received certifi cates of promotion to grade one. Three more -will receive their promotion cards at the end of the month. The following children from the home took part; Mary and Ada Cluckey, Bertha Sexton. Viola Callahan and Xdeline Boardman, receiv ing certificates of promotion ; Florence and Marie Price. John and Philip Daus ner, Clara-Williams. Edna Jones, Emery Hoffman, Willis Sexton. Other children assisting were Imla and N'ovla Mitchell. Lois and Kthel French, Pauline and' Ella Kenworttoy, 4 Charles Piper. .. - v Mrs. Jessie Jarvis, past president of the Rebekah assembly, spoke ; on, the value of a musical education. Several other of the guests expressed themselves in terms of praise for the excellency of the work done. A large orchestra has been engaged to participate in the production of "The Forest Children" operetta next Tuesday afternoon In the Wortman gardens. . I ii III I ! JOEL B. ETTINGER, conductor of i the Royal Rosarian band, which is playing the municipal band concerts in the various parks this season. The band is composed of 36 performers, s ' . (( Ti : ' - v -" j. I -1 Vw ";f'- Vatican Choir Plans Another American Tour JVpV YORK. July 24. (I. N. S.) Xrk Word has been, received from James Slevln, the impresario, - now In. Rome, that by special permission of Pope Bene dict XV the' famous Vatican choir will be permitted again to tour the United States. Last year ; the pope, for the first time in the history of the Vatican, permitted the choirs .to leave Rome. They had a limited but triumphant tour of the United States and Cardinal Gibbons and other eminent ; churchmen and stu dents of higher sacred music urged. Mr, Slevin to retain the choirs in the United States for additional concerts. This was Impossible, as the 'choira, were required In Rome for Important functions, includ ing the beatification of Saint Joan of Arc. It is not known at present who will direct the choir here, Monsignor Casi mlro Caslmlri . directed them last year. -3..i. . .? .; -,- . . ;,v . . Mr. and Mrs. Aj L. Clifford are at Welche's camp, , Mount Hood, 'for the summer and occupying their new cot tage on Robertson avenue . . - Be Patient, Says Lady! Astor . WOMAN suffrage can't be judged by the few elections that have been held within the last year, declares Lady Astor. It will take a generation, at least, before women's cooperation in public af fairs can : be calculated. Until then women must educate themselves and work steadfastly and patiently toward their goal, which includes not only equal political rights but a better social body. Ref orms come slowly. Only" women can really reconstruct the world. All women should develop the best within them, study fearlessly the various issues at stake and act sincerely for the good of mankind. ' z ' "I have always felt It was natural for women to take part in public life. My political career doe not seem extraor dinary to me. When my husband was in the house of commons I worked, for the same things that he represented." "Both of us wanted our district to be one of the best administered fh England When he left the commons .for the house of lords, I became a candidate in order to keep up his work. My presence as the 4 only woman member may seem strange to the other members, perhaps, but not ,to me, for I have ideas that I wish to see carried Into life, and it is perfectly natural for me to stand up for them: V .. - ; "Women must net try t force the issue. In political life they must work for whatever is best for the state.' By their wisdom In dealing With vital prob lems they conquer ground f or their own advancement. The two go hand in hand. The more educated woman Is. the better will her Influence be. ; And as her influence becomes stronger and better, her rights will increase." ? ' MRS. MARX OBERNDORFER- of Chicago, national chairman of General Federation of Women's Clubs. W- 'v'',"ww?ww'!f,::'-" I! I mi. r--v r -m : " - S-5 :;-;s;ix.;yvi ;;.v Kit" Boy and Banjo On Front Stoop Is Much Missed TTTHAT has become of the old-fash-,VV ioned boy beg . pardon, we mean college man who used to- play the banjo on the front porch of a summer evening? asks the Ohio State Journal. Plenty of stringed instruments are still to be heard, but we miss the particu lar thwang-thwang that means the good on$ banjo, and a horrible fear pos sesses us lest the Hawaiian ukulele, ao long in vegue, has altogether driven out Its older American sister. But we hard ly have the right to call the banjo American, : since :. its ancestry , goes farther back ' than we. You remember Kipling has the banjo lay, "The grand dam of my grandma was the lyre." and In the same stanza : X ths ior of Uf ctwmal. I tha Crook. " t thf ercrla-tinit troml-r sons of youth. Possibly, to be perfectly fair, the banjo is no more closely : related to the lyre than is the ukulele; but, certainly, to some of us it does seem to voice the "wonder song of . youth" : with more Vigor than the .- sensuous : ukulele. Its honest plunklngs reflect young Amer ica better than the lascivious slarrings of the South seas. We hear the banjo occasionally In a 'vaudeville or min strel act, . but that Isn't like having it played : on the front porch by a boy with white-trousered legs tossed high in the air ' and mouth agrin like a satyr. Good old days of moonlight and honeysuckle I" . ; Dancing Grows In Popularity TANCINO will increase In popular- U ity this year. There is not the slightest indication that it is on the wane either here or in ' Paris, is the opinion of Major Cecil H. Taylor, presi dent of the Imperial. Society of Dancing Teachers in England. He told the United Press that the dance v "which seemed to - attract the Parisian favor was "the tcheta" a new tango which is performed to strains of mysUc Hindu music. .; .. i "But the tcheta will never; win ny votes over bere," he declared. . "It is too stationary. . Half of it consists of arm movements. ' The 'partners ' face each other and slowly bring their arms, up over their heads, and then, like a couple of ballet dancers take six little tripping steps to . the right. I catt't . imagine a self-conscious Englishman or American doing anything so fanciful in . public Besides, dancing should be progressive. "It is impossible for a ballroom full of dancers to reach the same stage of a dance at the same time. With the result that one couple will be standing facing each other while two others,' coming up at the back with the pas marche will collide with them, and so you will find in various parts of ths ballroom nothing but a Jumble." - - f '- - Taylor: mentioned this to the assem bled French, Spanish, American and Italian professors and they agreed unan imously - that the new dances should have no stationary or retrogressive steps. "While I was in Paris." said he, "1 visited all the big dancing salons and there I saw French, American and' Eng lish dancing together - and I was sur prised at the facility with- which they mingled. Never was dancing so grace ful as it Is today, and all nations seem to dance the same steps.. All this talk about 'indecent dances is ridiculous. I went about looking for something objec tionableand only saw it once, and that was in the Washington palace in Paris, where one of the couples was dancing a sort of "shimmy" step. And to my mind that was so indecent, had I been run ning the dancing hall I should - have asked them to leave the floor, ' "However, now that dancing has be come such a general pastime for the multitude. I think' it is very much in its fi'vor that such instances of objection able dance' are so rare." . ;.: J ; . If heredity counts for anything, when Taylor talks .about dancing he knows what he is talking about, for his fathers and forefathers for five generations have, presided over the ballroom dancing in England each in succession having become president ' of the ? Imperial So ciety of Dancing Teachers, his great-great-great-great-grandfather having been nominated to the post In 175. ;f The dance which is prophesied ' will become the rage next season is a some what slow. : gliding measure in waits time, "having no dips, no kicks, no halt and no - retrogressions. It Is calle? "L'ltallenne. , A dumb waiter running on a frame work of steel tubing ' has been Invented to be erected outside old buildings to save the labor of cutting their floors. She WillrTell All of Ball That Shocks the Pope WrLL the Princess Michael Murat (one of the lucky Macdonald Stallo sisters, you know ths both t married princes) tell the true story of the Mural ball,, which is said to have shocked the pope, when . she returns ' from Rome? asks Count de Bussy, in an article writ ten for the Universal Service. The story went ; the rounds to the paddock. : and ' before - long - the grand stand was buzzing with the choicest bit of rumor Bols-du-Boulogne racegoers have dissected for a long time. The racing just happened casually, the rumof being much more interesting. Well, anyhow, the Princess Murat is In Rome. . And she is nobly holding up her Paris-made reputation there as a real princess of hostesses, and quite all the best : families in Rome were thor oughly converted to American royalty when it happened. "It" was the ball. ' Staid, comfortable, severely conventional - Roman society sat up that night and 'took notice, ac cording to the gossip at Longchamps, where the Princess Murat has the repu tation of - the best sports-woman In France. : And the next morning again giving the v responsibility, to Rumor several things happened. .. First, a very excited and noble per sonage not ..very . many doorsteps re moved from the Vatican called and told the beautiful American princess that she must never, never, never do it again. "When in Rome do as the Romans not ths Parisiennes do, he told her. Second, two young princes, one of them of the House of Savola. which is the reigning house of Italy, were called up on the royal carpet. What happened at the interview nobody , knows, but the next day the two young princes left simultaneously in opposite directions for extended voyages. The royal prince went to China. Thafs all the story until th prin cess returns to Paris and gives ths de tails. One wnders what they are really do ing at Newport and Bar Harbor to fill the villages and garden parties these days, i As Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont re marked just before she stepped on board the Mauretanla homeward bound, "I never know how many friends I've got until I drop in for tea at the Bits in Paris." - All America seems either to be - here or just about to arrive, judging from the hotel registers and the prevailing language one hears on the Rue de la Palx. The latest "habitual? to arrive is General Cornelius Vanderbilt. who is living at the Crillon, In the room Presi dent Wilson used to have aa an office, and who is making a noble effort to have his friends ""believe he is over here strictly on business. I noticed him at Claridge's club the other night, how ever, looking very well and every inch a general, with Mrs. Vanderbilt her old gracious self, in one of those new black-and-white-embroidery gowns they are wearing so much in the evening nowa days. Claridge's club which Isn't reallv Claridge's club at all, but the "Club Artistique de Bienfaisance dea Champs Elysees" is "the" place in town nowa days. It was started by Andre de Fou quieres, official Paris sartorial arbiter, whose mission In life seems to be get ting up delightful entertainments where other people never Andre fall - in , love and become engaged. He started his club, which - is held in the ballroom at Claridge's, owing to the police restrictions on late dancing. The committee of membership is com posed entirely of ladies, with Andre as a sort of umpire with a "Tout Paris' in one hand and a social i register In the other. To be ! a member one has to be introduced by two lady members and put up at three successive elections, whereat one's antecedents are dissected painstakingly and thoroughly that's how exclusive it Is. The - committee is ; composed of the Duchess d'Aven, the Countess de Monte belle, Countess de Dreux, Princess la Tour d'Auvergna,. Mrs. Lecke. Mrs. Ern est Mallet and a few others of equal prominence, and up to date only a few Americans have managed to squeeze by. Captain - Johnny Wlnslow, attache at the U. S, . embassy, is there, of course, and so is A. N. Pry an, another of Mr. Wallace's young men. Mr.; and Mrs. Berry; Wail are there every night, usu ally ..with a party of guests, while the other night I noticed, Ralph Lambton getting awfully chummy with the Ma harajah of Kapurthala, who has been voted a jolly good sport by the Ameri cans because he is the only Oxford trained man ever known to admit that baseball ' is "almost . as Interesting as cricket, you know." , Then . there's Mrs. Douglas Stuart, and the Princess de Fauci gny, and Baron and Baroness R.. de Rothschild, who, by the way, are talking about an American tour this summer ; Frank Otis, who is creating quite a reputation for the number of new trot steps he has invented; Mortimer Singer and a. dozen or" so more. : Harry -Pilcer Is back In Paris, run ning The Oasis, Paul Poiret's garden dinner dance where Poiret's manniklns exhibit the very latest fashions every Right, - --- ' It isn't the Harry of old, however, and I wondered as I watched him last night whether he hadn't really done what he told a friend of mine left his heart down In a cemetery by the Mediterran ean, where the pathetic smile of Gaby Deslys Is shown now by a fresh bouquet placed dally on a' grave. Wales5 Wife May Be Commoner x ' TMrE prince Is not officially en JL gaged," the denial unwittingly given by Princess Mary to the frequent unfounded reports of her brother's im pending marriage. During an automobile run through the New Forest with Lady Shaftesbury, the princess stopped at a countryside inn for tea. On the wall of the parlor was a full length portrait of the Prince of Wales, and the landlady.' unaware of her vis itors Identity, said while serving tea: i "It is high time that a young man got married. "There have been girls the prince would like to be engaged to." the prin cess replied, "but "he cannot marrry with out his parents' consent." : The reference was understood to be to certain girls Wales met while in Amer ica, and also to various debutantes in exclusive English society circles. It is an open secret at Buckingham palace that the king and queen are not prejudiced against girls not of royal blood and that as far -as they are concerned the con sort's throne might next be occupied by a commoner's daughter; but ducal and baronial family , heads strongly object to seeing their girls occupy the position of "leading lady of the land." partly be cause on all ceremonial occasions their queen-daughter would take precedence J over them. - Elder Arrived Stopped Fight ? Alfred D. Crtdge ,y In Southwestern Texas in 187? things were becoming civilized con siderably. - People wero enforcing law and order and travel was safe. Instead of hanging men for stealing horses, such offenses were mostly taken through the courts. " ' In tiat year I went to work for the Jerry Steuart outfit southwest of San Antonio in WHson county and perceived no romantic glamor in the i work of chasing cattle and calves out of heavy brush in the hills northwest of San An tonio on the headwaters of Joshua creek where the Steuarts had several hundred head of cattle running. "Runhlng" was the right word, for those creatures could run like deer and were wild and self willed. ' We found- steers nearly 2 years old unbranded and the Steuart "crown S" was slapped , on many over a year Old. .'..'.. I ' :....." ' .: Jerry Steuart claimed to be a direct descendant of King James of England and bad a rough saw-like line above the yS" which was supposed to represent a crown. : It was- hinted that its main value -lay, In the fact that it tould be Wobbled, around a little and obliterate any small and not well marked brand, but nobody dared say that to Jerry Steu art's face if he valued bis life above 50 per cent. SAW TROUBLE AHEAD In the early fall we came back to the Steuart ranch, which was a collection of log houses, the residence of the family being larger than the others, with a big Porch in front and floors of "joined lumber." : ''r-r, When we had been back to the main ranch several days and had cut out and driven to the San Antonio cattle yards the beef animals and others here and there for pasture and feed through the winter, Jerry One morning called or the seven men remaining to -go with him to harvest the corn in the far corner of the west field. Now, cowboys were not in the habit of doing such work. ' There were a score of big, healthy Afro-America- on the ranch who did such jobs.: Ther might have been some pro test, for the Texas cowboy was quick to resent imposition, especially with sev eral months' pay coming and San An tonio so pear. But Jerry grinned pleas antly and suggested that each man "tote his sixes along. West ; of the Steuart domains lay the McBee possessions. : The McBee outfit was fully as strong and the tribe as numerous as the Steuarts. A line feud had , existed since before the Mexican war and the more surveys that were made and the more "court doing," the worse and more tangled the whole con tention ! became -: ' A line had been run through the townships north and south with a t Jog in it of several rods from that of the old hit-and-miss line some pioneer I of 1838 bad run. I afterwards understood the principle on which sur veys make these J-ga, which is to keep the township lines six miles apart as nearly as possible, as otherwise they tend to come, together and the sections and townships to grow less, since if 25,000 of the section lines a mile apart on the equator were all run -straight north to the north pole they would all be together there and sections half way would have but 320 acres in them Instead of 640, .' THOUGHT THET WERE JOBBED But the Steuart and : McBee. tribes knew nothing of such ' Yankee scientific "foolishness" and the Steuarts held that the McBee people had got . the : Yankee surveyor last authorized by . the courts to run the new line so as to cut out of the Steuart corn 4ands several acres of fertile soil cleared and leveled at con siderable cost in labor in times gone by. f So we went down to the "fur west cor ner" to harvest the corn In the field where Steuart had planted and the Mc Bees claimed ' the land. When we got there the McBees had already harvested about half the corn upon the disputed property and had it piled up with sev eral men standing around it. X was sent forward on horseback to report on how much corn they had gathered.,: I after wards learned that this was a ticklish and dangerous mission, but at the time saw nothing to it- A quiet and middle aged stranger of the McBee outfit lev eled a double-barreled shotgun at me and advised me not to go any farther. I had seen and heard in' the last few months In -Texas a . great deal of brag adocio and bluffing. The whole thing looked to me like a big farce and A Why Truth t 5 V K Service That -' !:-. -i m--: - J,. Kollia C. Aywn. adrartferftjr manascr of the Tallsrbaeh Paper Co. of San Francisco and part pteitident of tlx Advertisinc Clubs oC the World, made a eoiapaUjrc trporftioa of the "Tratb hi AdTerUirinc" movement of tlie association before the Portland Ad Club Wednesday. The aa eompsnrins article, contain mf the eMentiaJ fea tures of hia address, was written for The Journal t Mr. Ajen. , Advertising Is an accredited service for the establishment of good will. If advertising be untruthful, fraudulent or misleading, it violates this principle. It is very evident then- that tor advertising to be continuously profitable and to build up good will for the ' advertiser it must faithfully describe the servioe. , The owners of business institutions know this generally but not all' of them practice it. - Aa someone has said, "Any article represented as something which it is not. in quality, character or value, is just as much a counterfeit as Illicitly printed currency. , It is a. recognized fact that dishonest advertising, fake and fraudulent advertising only can live by preying upon the credulity of the pub lic, which is created by the honest ad vertisers. - ' Remember, If they were no honest ad vertisers there could be no dishonest advertisers, because nobody would re spond to advertising. The untruthful sort of advertising, no matter how lim ited in amount, attacks and weakens the whole structure.' A merchant buys fire insurance to protect his merchandise ; he takes out plate glats insurance to reim burse hinvfot possible loss, he bonds his employes - and places other; safe guards around his business. . Now, what PHYLLIS.-. WOLFE I PRIMA DOITXA SOFRAKO - .-. Pupil of the celebrated master. Luigi Vannucclnl, Florence, Italy. Special Summer Course in voice-placing and repertoire. Residence Washington Hotel Stndlo 0S-Stt Tllferd BaDdlng DUNNING SCHOOL LATJRA . T aw a RAWLINSON STUDIO M EVERETT "ST- COR. I7TXC in NickofTime and Got Corn laughingly inquired of the man If he had a wife and family. He affirmed both, and X next inquired of he wanted his family brought up by a step-father in case he happened to miss me a little. HE SELDOM' MISSED X was not aware that this man was a McBee and that he hadn't missed many times. However, one of his numerous cousins reached for his gun and told him not to start, anything before the boss started it; that I wasn't a Steuart. any row. only that "damned California Fred vthat just hired out to the Steu arts" and had nothing to do with the fuss. -;:,":....." Thanking him for his. kindly remarks, with a sweep of my hat X turned to ride back to my group, when I suddenly wheeled and blandly inquired if that shotgun was loaded. The McBee bunch roared in laughter and . advised me not to tfy to find out- The two outfits came-closer together and 'Steuart rode out and claimed that corn pile and ordered - the McBee men out of the field. Then ensued the ever lasting talk and stream . of profanity, eachWde defying the other. It looked every minute as , if somebody would start some'thlng, and I pulled my Win chester from the saddle, as did several ef the others. At last I grew tired of the fuss and. getting off my horse, eat on an upturned bucket while Steuart and the eldest McBee engaged in reciting a history of Southwestern Texas, . . THINGS GSOW H58E ' Things were getting quits tense and it looked as if a battle was to be fought around that pile of unshucked corn, worth about 3. We had all drawn close to It during the controversy, and the "defi" from the McBees was re peatedly ' made to advance another: foot Some of the McBees were vale In the face. The nephew of Jerry Steuart was standing by his uncle with a pistol in his hand, but held toward the ground.:" I was figuring out a plan to drop be hind my horse and to shoot him in his tracks to serve as a breastwork -If fir ing began when, ambling down the dusty road In a swaying old buggy drawn by a yellow mustang mare, a big brown colt trailing along behind, came Elder House,' -..-.,..:.' '"'."-:' "Hold-on a minute, gentlemen." called out the elder. "I got somethln' I wanter read to ye," and the elder flopped out of his rig and climbed, over the fence as he made his way toward the crowd of men. .. '' .:. .. - -'-.:"'-" Now. 1 the elder- was the Campbellite preacher and highly respected by every body, for miles around. , He preached every month at the Rabbit Hill school house near the Steuart ranch and alter nately at the Post Oak schoolhouse near the McBee homestead eight miles south west, or thereabouts. His age was be ginning to tell on him. and his eyes were falling. His hair was yet streaked" with black and his once tall form was bent a little, but he could straighten up to a most commanding presence at times. When he reached the group, he looked at the men with kindly glances. He saw the revolvers and the guns. He knew the controversy without any words. The elder dropped to his knees in : the soft ground between the trampled corn stalks and said : "Let us pray." He prayed and we said "Amen." Some of the converted members' - of ; the church knelt in the dust with him and others stood with bowed heads. Ho then read from his pocket Bible a chapter or two. ELDER GOT CORJT ; "' "Gentlemen," said JSlder House In quiet tones, as he wrped his forehead with & rather dirty-looking blue hand kerchief and replaced his hat- -This corn isn't worth fussing overw Give it to me. . X will need it this winter to keep my mare and colt. The Lord has willed that I should corns along here and take It at this time. Blessed be the name of the Lord." ' . And the 'elder gathered the corn and no one said him nay. : ;; ' But that Is not the end of the mat ter. Two years afterwards ths same crowd with three exceptions met on that same ground and . started a fight - that ended in fbur men being killed in less than that many minutes. One was an outsider, like myself, and - one . was a younger Steuart Whom I had never met. I was not there, perhaps fortunately. I inquired of. the friend to whom I wrote where Elder House was. and he replied, "Elder House is in Heaven. If he had been there I doubt not with the power of God he could have stopped it as he did before." in Advertising t st st st Gets Results can he do to" protect the good will of his business? The answer Is honest, decent, truthful advertising. And, the good will is of far greater value than his Inven tory Once weakened It Is hard to get It back. It takes years of earnest effort along sound lines ;- of advertising and merchandising to regain prestige and standing in the public mind.' We ars carrying on a campaign to teach men of business that the greatest success lies along- the path of honest ad vertising. That no matter how tempting it may be to overstate and exaggerate and thereby take In money quickly, it does not build for the future Through moral suasion we are trying to build on the concrete . foundation of Integrity, rather, than on the quicksands of mis representation and fraud. We are bring- Bush & Lane Piano Go. ' .t 'Builders of Standard , Guaranteed Pianos TUTUICG AND REPAIRING BT EXPERT FACTORY MEW Broadway at Alder MAIS' 817 rM proved ir Train . iTrmv Ssmner Settles for Btglsseri TELEPHONE BROADWAY Mil lng home to the owners of business es stabllshments that while much misrepre sentation m: ir he whnlfv- nnl ntitntlnnal so far as they are concerned, it devolves "re inn l uie seii-imeresi or seal of their department managers does not prompt them to overstep the bounds of truthful description of mer chandise. . PUBLISHERS RESPONSIBILITY Our association has pointed out to the publishers that It was not fair to their readers to permit the use of their col umns by any swindling advertiser. The presence of the fake advertisement is the same as if the publisher had given a card of intt-odtuftinn in t. u. ,i . he may present it to the reader. We nave ajso snown the publisher that the placing of fraudulent advertising along side honest announcements was not fair to these legitimate firms which patron ise his paper. The publisher was shown that the reader nf hie man ,k Inveigled and swindled through the ad- CTUBins musi naturally mistrust all advertising , to some extent thereafter. That weakens the nuliine- paper and certainly does not encourage oum aaveruaers lo increase their space. . Now. the publishers In ths past looked upon the paper as a carrier only with no assumed responsibility for the protection of either reader- or honest advertiser. Times have changed. Publishers have realised their duty and responsibility. And they have responded nobly in the rejection, censoring or correction of un truthful or misleading advertising. Practically-all publishers have lent a helping hand in the crusade. But there is still much to be done, A constant vigil must be kept. The avenues of ad vertising must be regularly patrolled, I am pleased to learn that one Port land tltwsDaMr. Ths Orrn .liktrniil v, . closed Its columns to so-called medical advertising. That Is a step In the right direction. - - , .COMMUNITY PROFIT ' It has been clearly shown In this talk, I believe, that there Is a cash drawer value In the truth in advertising move ment, to. publisher, to retailer, to whole saler and to manufacturer. Now, how about its value te the community? Through cleaning Op advertising by min imising that which' is untruthful or fraudulent And by correcting - unfair practlees, the crusade helps to make the advertising in a city more believable and more believed ; and this tends toward building confidence irt a community as aJ trading center, lt me sound a note of warning. : If the men engaged in legitimate business do not band together in this campaign Of education and moral suasion, If they do not first put their house in order as re gards their advertising, if they do not use every means to eliminate the crooks and fakers who fleece the people, con gress may in the very near future en aet a law to protect the public "And that laW will be inquisitorial that we the very men who could have made its enactment unnecessary will have reason to regret that we failed to clean up the situation in time. , If no other reason can actuate men in furthering this great work, let It be re membered : that every dollar gained by the fraudulent advertiser is a dollar diverted from legitimate and worthy enterprise. ' '. ' y : ' .''.IX '" I '' , Alt: The Duo-Art Imperish- afoly Records the Art of Master Pianists. When the painter rests his brush, a glorious canvas remains. : The sculptor, dropping his chisel, leaves a statue. The author leaves a poem. The architect leaves a cathedral. But the pianist? Is his artistry gone gone forever as soon his fingers lift from the keys? No I He is imperishably recorded. The mar velous DUO-ART piano will continue to repro duce every note, every inflection, exactly as it was expressed by the master. As if ghostly lingers wereat the keys, this marvelous piano will : bring Paderewski him self, or Bauer," Gariz, Hofmann, Grainger, Gabrilowitsch, Leginska all the world's mas ter pianists right into your home. The DUO-ART plays any make of roll as well. You, too, can sit before it and cause it to play any player roll in the usual way. And it is also a piano of superb tone and action, either . 'grand or upright, for hand playing. Its ver satility, indeed, makes it the piano of today and of the future. v We cordially invite you to come in and hear . the marvelous DUO-ART. 6th and Morrfsots Sts., Portland (Opposite Postoffice) Seattlo Tacoma Spokane Wireless Makes Flying Perilous, Scientists Decide IT WAS electrical wireless waves that caused the fire which sent a dirigible flaming earthward in the heart of Chi cago's business section in the beginning of this year, according to new discov eries by French savants. These scientists say that the develop ment of wltelesa telegraphy has made the air a dangerous place to fly around in. Not only that, but explosions on earth which' have until now remained deep mysteries have, it is asserted, been due to the same cause millions of volts cf uncontrolled electricity, floating aimless ly through the ether. Among the disasters directly attributed to wireltMia, besides the Chicago acvldeu:, are the following: -Kxplosion sinking ships off Toulon. Mine explosion at Cardiff two years ago, costing hundreds of lives. Wireless waves sent out fey the great nations such as the Eiffel tower and the Marconi Installations on Long In land, at London, Hawaii. Rome and I klu. race through the air at a speed of 20,000 kilometers an hour, it Is asserted by scientists, Anything which is a conductor getting In the way of these waves automatically becames a menace, it is Bald. Thus metal pouching metal may set off sparks causing a conflagration. It is believed that the mystery of the i, .... m " "... mm v. j the fact that someone on board was wearing hobnailed shoes. At a moine it when the airship was panning through an electric zone these hobnails came Into contact with some part of the metal flawing or with an instrument, setting Off an electrical spark which, while it may have been practically invisible, was nevertheless sulXicljtnt to set tire to the gas bag. Similar explanations are offered for large fires of cotton stores op wharves and in warehouses. It has been proved, experts . say, . that sometimes- the iron hoopa encasing the bales became de tached and touch other hoops, thus m an atmosphere charged with electricity, pausing contact, which In turn wouli cause, a conflagration. Investigations on the subject made' by wireless, scientists here have been full of eurprises. It has been definitely estab lished that electrical waves have large influences on plant growth. When the electrical vibrations are of feeble Intensity, plant life Is accelerated, it is asserted ; but when Ihf y are strong the growth Is retarded. It is believed that this may be the reason for the ab normality of crop failures since wire less came Into wide use. "In wireless, man Is toying with a force the extent of which Is only just beginning to be understood," says an ex pert, writing In the Petit Parislen. "It is of the utmost Importance that the danger be studied and a means found to avert It, or the world fnay one day be confronted with a disaster 'of suoh pro portions that life itself may be extln gulshed." , . ' X ean - -, ;. ," ' Y 'VI. 0