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THE jOREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. MAY IS. 1921. EARLY GRADUATES OF OLD PORTLAND HIGH TO GATHER Alumni , of Pioneer 'Institution, After 20 -.Years'.' Inactivity, to Assemble at Lincoln May 27. After two decades of inactivity the alumni of old Portland High, school -. will meet for a reunion and reorgan ization. Instigated by the student body of Lincoln high, the modern Btjesaor of the older institution, the graduates will meet in the school auditorium Friday night. May 27. Many of the prominent business and profesional rpen of the city are graduates of the old school and in many cases fathers and even grand fathers will meet on common ground ' with their children. Under the direction of Irwin Fulop a show will be given by the students before! the reorganization session is called to order by Honorary Chairman Ralph - W. Iloyt, county commissioner and alumnus of '88. The pogram Villi consist of a vaudeville bill prepared by the -students and staged in the audi torium. One of the features will be a motion picture play, starring Gladys Walton, a former student of the school. Other numbers on the bill will be Miss . Tfannnh T.nlrilaur In st Kfri nf .ria.nfpfl ; Hyman Braslau, the boy Caruso, in sev eral song: . selections ; a mystery play, 'Midnight' featuring Ruth Taylor and Irwin Fulop; Ted Baum in "Nonsense;" "Girls." with a star cast of brunettes, Louise Hatfield, Jeanette Catron, Rath er ine. Brown and Janet Mongrave and ?WaIlie Reid" Wood. - " jOI.D DATS TO B$ REVIVED - Upon the completion of the bill the alumni will adjourn to the gymnasium for their meeting. Olden days will be revived, days when Portland High was the school of the town. Among those on the roll will be found many who have made names for themselves in the affairs of the world. -Jules Kckert Goodman, nationally school. Goodman. the author of "Mother," and dramatist of John Fleming Wilson's "The Man Who Came Back, . and Stevenson's "Treasure Island," is one of the foremost playwrights in America. He now lives in 1'eelusk.ill-on-the-Hud- son. Wilson was also a Portland boy. Another of the students of the old school whose name is familiar through- out the United States is James Montague, 'Associated with the Hearst papers, he was an editor of the New York Ameri can. Later he Wrote on his own. Bpecial "isslnsr in political reviews and doggerel. He Is known as one of the best writers in both fields in American journalism. During the time Montague and Good . man attended the school F. O. Young, now dean of economics of the University of Oregon, and secretary of the Oregon Historical society was principal. Young - personally taught the higher classes in Latin and history both men were in. He was principal from 1890 to 1894. MANY GRADUATES PltOMINEST Others of the school whose names are known among the people of the state v..ili,n.. am Xlro Tnwnh V. Tpftl. UU iui luncoi . . - - ' for many years president of the old alumni association. Rurus noiman, county commissioner; Judge E. C. Bro- naugh, Dan J. Malarkey. Lou la yuacxen bush, Abe Meier C. D. Sewall of the Hl bemia bank. Dr. W. I. Northup, Robert J. O'Neil, Tom Marquam, federal attorney-in Alaska, and hundreds of others of prominence. From its inception in the old North school building, the location of the pres ent Atkinson school, to the present build ing at Mill and Broadway, the history of the school is one of growth and prog ress. From the meagre curriculum of two courses, general and classical, the number of courses has grown until there are six for the student to choose from. The first graduating class in 1875 was made' up of five Btudents. Julia Adams, C. E. Beebe, Dora Kindt. Mattie Lin gow and Horace Thielsen. while the class to graduate this June will be about 140. Authorized by School Directors Wil liam Wadhams, H. H. Shattuck and A. M. Lovejoy, April 14, 1869, the school first convened in the North school build ing, with J. W. Johnson as principal. Three years later it was necessary to move to the : Central school, where six rooms were available. This was on the site now occupied by the Portland hotel. The school. "then in its infancy, had a hard fight for its existence, as a certain clique were determined that "higher education was a danger to the welfare of the nation." This battle won, the school was again moved In 1879 to 4he Park school, where the Ladd school now stands. s 3TAME CHANGED TO LIKCOLH " The opening of the Portland High school at Fourteenth . and Morrison streets in 1885 was a civic event. It narked the point where the school sys tem of the city took Its place among the cities of America. Being the only high school in town its students came from all parts of the west side, and in 1891, after consolidation, from East Port land, Albina, Sellwood and St Johns as well. This building' was used as the! Portland liigh school until 1912, when the tWat unit of Lincoln high was built At that time the school board adopted the system of naming the high schools after famous presidents and men of the nation. To confprm with this rule and to prevent confusion the name of Port land high school was changed to Lin coln. :" - ' For the last 24 years T. T. Davis has been principal of the" school. Through his efforts it has grown until it takes its - Place with the best preparatory schools of the country. Giving the stu dent the option of six courses, college preparatory, scientific, languages, do mestic science, English and pedagogy. A staff of-46 teachers is needed to ac commodate the pupils now registered. 1 W. Hoyt' is Mrs. J. N. Teal, Clarence Young and Rufus Holman. The com mittee from the student body is made up of, Irwin Fulop, Paul Krausse. Sophia Sheik, E. G. Harlan, Clarence Smith, Elizabeth Boshky, Ted Baum. Joseph Lipschuts, Arnold Marks, William Hart, Marshall Wood and Exa Clarke. Sees Through It All "Any girl appearing at the confirma tion service in this - church in what I consider immodest attire will be sent home." With this ultimatum Rev. Thomas O'Neil of St. Monica's church. South Boston, wound up a vigorous sermon against ; "daring" modern fashions at a mass, largely attended by young women. "The time has come to call a halt," he Baid. "The styles are not designed either for modesty or comfort, but to attract attention. Parents are to blame for the short skirts and sketchy trans-yu-ent waists that are so popular." I OLD PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL HAS TURNED OUT MANY MEN OF PROMINENCE I gM3iuii!WiiJi."t.iH;,i. j fflfwimuiuiwUiUUtinMIW kmm'm wife R rj?ff -di-EL. M Li. - -fi v. . ,jt - " X-v C&". m rf t L-J J frr . vy t):t ( L-v ' bi-i TT--TT TP ' I J" : at ' -wy' i' A" k A 111 , , - y t ) o n n if" ; ljMr A f N 1 1.. f .x - - 1 j"f , " j.i5 if it-- si-.i'i Einstein Is Hard to Confirm H at t t it K t n n. t Theory Eludes Exolanation , - - . X By GarreU P. Scrvlss Funonj Astrnxmer and Writer oe Subjects . , o ScuariUno Interest. " It la admitted that .the Einstein thebrfife are of counsel of perfection, and that Newtonian laws will con tinue, just as in the past, to answer all practical and most 'theoreti cal human needs and questions. There are things which to compre hend is not given to man, such as infinity, eternity and perfection. Man's conviction that they exist is Inborn and unshakable, yet he feels that he cannot grasp, them. .1 If there be any comprehension of them it is inherent in some higher state of being than that which Adam was per mitted to take with htm out of Eden. Even the great name of mathematics is invoked in vain to convince most of us that space is married to matter in such manner there is no space, or that time is dependent upon motion so essentially that to one traveling with the speed of light there would be no timet vxyr COITFIRMATIOJCS That Einstein and his followers feel the full force of the f common sense" objections to these deductions is proved by their eager grasping after material support and confirmation from physical science. And it is extremely few such "confirmations" that they have been able to find only two in strict fact, a third being as yet merely claimed in anticipation that is likely to be disap pointedwhile even these few are strongly disputed. Astronomers, like Professor JPoor, and others, do not admit that the unques tionable Irregularity of the motion of the planet Mercury, or the apparent de viation of star rays passing close by the sun, cannot be satisfactorily ac counted for otherwise than by the Eeln stein theory, and spectroscopints find no evidence of the existence of the shifting of the lines of the spectrum toward the red end which that theory calls for, and which would constitute the third of the socalled confirmations above referred to. VERIFICATION IMPOSSIBLE Beyond this the entire structure of the theory is purely, hypothetical. In fact, it is metaphysical mathematics. In the sense that, while following methods of analysis that have grown up out of physical mathematics, it has pursued its course beyond the limits of physical verification. It is important that the layman should understand that these extraordinary con clusions are not to be regarded as dem onstrated in the sense in which scien tific demonstration is usually, and prop erly, understood. They are the results of pure mathematical processes based on assumptions that have no. footing upon the ground of actual experience. -This, to return to a point noted a few sentences back. Is the reason for the anxiety which the proponent of the theory do not conceal to obtain material support from ascertained facts. MATHEMATICS LIKE MILL They are aware that "mathematics is a mill the character -of whone print depends upon the nature of what is put in to be ground."- Confessedly, mathe matics can make Its methods work per fectly well upon purely imaginary mate rial. A celebrated mathematician and astronomer, George D. Airy, made an interesting confession In the preface to a geometrical work on gravitation.. "I am not unwilling to avow." he wrote, "that the simple considerations which have been forced upon me In the com position of this treatise have, in several Instances, contributed much to clear up my view of points which before were obscure and almost doubtful." FACT BEFORE THEOItT He meant that, until he had presented to his mind concrete geometrical repre sentations of the results to which alge braic and analytic processes led. he had no rational conviction that those results were in correspondence with physical reality. It may (lie added that if he had found any of the analytio results inconsistent with facts verifiable by ex perimental knowledge he would have stuck to the facts and rejected the math ematics and so should we do whenever such a case arises. The success of mathematical analysis In dealing with the interpretation of electro-magnetlo facts has been, per haps, slightly exhilarating, and it may have led to over-confidence, in some directions, concerning the "ability of mathematics to explain the universe without paying much attention to the concrete results of mere human observa tion. But most wise minds will always prefer to follow Alry's judicious method of basing conviction only on Indisputable, if vulgar, facts. HOTHIJfO BUT VISIONS A man, putting on the blinds of vector analysis and setting his feet on an inter minable ladder of differential equations, might at length find himself mounted high Into outer darkness where nothing was tangible but the ladder rungs be neath his feet and nothing ev6n seem ingly visible except visions of - the "Alice- In Wonderland" sort. Jt is at least suggestive that one of the foremost proponents of the Einstein doctrines and their bizarre deductions, in' a book written as a serious exposition of the relative theory, actually refers, as if they were scientific documents, to the fancies of "Gulliver's Travels. of "Through the Looking Glass" and of IL O. Wells' fantastlo tales. As to the outcome of this great specu lation, wait and see, and in the mean while don't worry If you can't under stand it perhaps nobody really, under stands it. Einstein himself is said to have expressed a desire to have it "proved untrue if it isn't true," the the 1 liincow mgn scnooi, "jiu i-oruana xiign's" magTiiricent honK-, z James J. Blontagnc graduate of '93, one of America's most famous newspaper men. 3 Lincoln high Btn dents who represent the school in arranging for reception and reunion to be given to graduates on May 27. Back row, left to right Arnold Marks, colonel; William Hart, colonel; Elizabeth Boschke, adjutant general; Joe IJpschntz, i colonel ; Paul Krausse, staff of Mcer; N. G. Harlan, advisor. IVont row FTancis McCarthy Jr., colonel; Sophia Schilk, staff officer; Irwin Fulop, chief executive; Eva Clark, colonel; Clarence Smith, general; Mickey Wood, colonel. 4 Jules Eckertj Goodman, graduate '94, nationally noted playwright. 5 T. T. Davis, for past quarter of century" principal of school. 6 Frederick G. Yomur. dean of economics in the TTniversifr of Oremm and nne nf th fnnmi Dan J. Malarkey, prominent Portland attorney. : 8 Ralph W. Hoyt, county 10 Orln B. Coldwell, general sn-j educators in Oregon, who was principal during the studentship of Goodman and Montague. commissioner. - 9 Old Central school, situated where the Portland hotel now stands, which for a number of' years housed the high school. penntenaent of trie Portland Hallway, Light & Power , company. 11 Rufus C. Holman, county commissioner. 12 X. D Simon, prominent lruand attorney. 13 Portland high school building at Fourteenth and Morrison streets, now occupied by the Girls' "Polytechnic East Is Now WestinNew York Poker and Bridge High Lights By Ring Liardner To the editor: j Kipling once made the crack that east Is east and west Is west meaning that they's little in ; common be- t w e e n the 2 of them and he was think i ng a spe cially of ' athletic events 'like foot ball r and' etc. and the different in how. they play them in N. T. and vicinity and out in thte jfar west like O h i o, California and Missouri. For Inst, if Harvard beats Tale 40 to 0, why both teams wins as Its a technical victory for Harvard and a moral victory for Tale, wile out west, the nine , that pets the most scores is the only winner, except in a case like the 191 9 world serious when Cincinnati win technically, but the fiscal victory rooted under Chi cago's pillow. ' . 5 ' ? Or you take track athaletlca. They's a bojr" in ; California ; name Paddock that: run a 100 meters in nothing, but the record don't count down here on acct. of the differents In time and besides if you told a New Torker about it he would say if Paddock was in such a hurry why didn't he take a ta-ri :- - '' i ; And you also take bridge whist. I use to play a-game by that name out in Chi and I was a careful bid der and use to let somebody else play some of the hands and when I bid only catched on to date. ' ' . A NNOUN CEMENT was made at departmental headquarters that railroads bad agreed to grant members of the Grand Army of the Republic and their wives a rate of 2 cents a mile to the encampment at Pendleton. This rate applies only to the O. A. R. and all auxiliary bodies will have to pay fare and- one-half. The fare under the 2 cent ruling from Portland will be (9.29, while the other rate wUl be $13.60. A. C Sloan has been recommended to the commander-in-chief, W. A. Ketch um. for appointment as assistant Inspector general for the department of Oregon. Sload will fill the place vacated by the death of Cyrus Walker of McMlnnviile. Peter A. Porter circle will hold a card party Monday night at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Courters, 655 Savler street. -i Adjutant General C A. Williams will address the pupils of Kastham school, Oregon City, Monday afternoon.' The address is a part, of the program in, the schools for Memorial day. The com mittee for Portland schools is making arrangements for speakers in each of the schools Friday afternoon. May 27. The Ladies of the O. A. TL will hold a card party Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Baker hall, Alblna and Killlngsworth avenues, given the winners. Prises will be George Wright, Sumner and' Ben But ler posts will attend services at the Rose City Park Methodist Kpiscoial church. Memorial Sunday, May 29. Rev. C. W. Hewitt will deliver the ser mon. Ltlncoln-Garfleld post will attend the First United Brethren church. Mrs. Blanche Beverstock of Keene, N. IL, was a guest of Owen Summers camp. Sons of Veterans auxiliary, two weeks ago. Mrs. Beverstock is national president of the auxiliary and was mak ing her official tour Of inspection. Bhe was feted at a banquet and shown the wonders of the Columbia river highway. . The next meeting of Ben Butler Re lief corps will be held Tuesday after noon ats2 o'clock In room 625 courthouse. Short Skirt Penalty It has been ruled in England that a. woman can't get a compensation for a dog bite if she happens tobe wearing a short skirt at the time. A young woman complained to the magistrate In the Thames police court. In London, that a dog had bitten ber in the calf of the leg. The Magistrate "It is one of the dis advantages of wearing short skirts." few of them to my partner knowed I had something and when I, doubled-everybody got goose's fjleslv and jail and? all.i the boys and gals' all said I was a pretty fair bridge player a specially as when trumps had been led around a few times I, could generally always figure how many of them was still out yet, so the 1st. time I got In vited j to play with 3 N. T. players, why I says, "Tes," without batting a eye because I thought we was : all equals and bridge was bridge "no matter where you r rome. Well friends, I I hadn't no more than set down to the table when I seen that I and :N. T. bridge; was alien enemys and the game they play here is as much like our old game out in Chi as 2 liters of home made beer. 'i j;. : :3 r fiJ"- In i the 1st. place ,when you j set down to play the N. ;T. game, you are suppose to discard the genial smile generally were at other func tions ! amongst the demi-monde and look kind of sullen," like you wished you was elsewheres, rolling a hoop, and It dont make no differents if the other players Is Brother Moose, you got to treat them like you had been to Canada with them in a bal loon. If one of them trys to Indulge In light chit-chats, between deals, shut him up with what ever remark seems appropriate like: ; "How funny your Adam's apple flounders around when you talk." After the table manners and facial expression la mastered, the ; next thing la the conventions which I ; when the dealer starts off with, "One without." it is suppose to be an abbreviation of one without rea son and it. means the dealer has got nine high in 3 suits and jacks or bet ter in the other. A plain bid of one club or one diamond means strenth in the other S suits, but a bid of one club accompanied by frothing at the mouth indicates a high blood pries sure. If the dealer aids 2 of either of these suits it is a hint! to take him out as the room is too stuffy. A bid of one spade merelj calls attention to'a mole or' other eye" sore belong ing to one . of the o ?pts. A bid of : one - heart don't mean nothing serious unlest gangrene sets in. Two hearts wile use in g a ban kerchief indicates strenth in the ol factory organs. ; A double of - the two heart bid ' means you got 13 cards but that ain't I enough. A bid of two spades accompanied by plant ing the feet on the 'table sign if ys that dealer is going home after the next rubber.. .r. ! ' : - The initial lead should ought to be a suit that hasn't keen mentioned. but if they all been talked about, the one to lead is the one that was spoke of In a 'sneering" way. a two spot implys would j have a good was wild..: The lead spot means the leader nas got . a tenace which is something like a won. ; . ;V " - - TO-'-y i , . They's little to the play after the 1st. lead.' The man that done the bidding generally always flops all his cards down on the table and says Tittle slam" and if you question him you jget a big slam.: . Some times, however, when the bid has been doubled, ' they don't throw the cards down till 4 or 5 leads has been made and in cases like these the partners Is suppose to - , - . if--.-'.- The lead of that the leader hand If deuces of a five or six say anything they can to irritate each other, like for lnst. suppose they was a heart led and spades was trumps and your partner didn't have no heart and slapped a spade down and took the trick. Tou are suppose to say: j - "Haven't you no hearts,' like you thought he was either blear' eyed or a moron. ; If If he leads back the wrong you' say:- :.- "Is that all the better how to' play partner?' And they's still another tion that is libel to come times during the coarse ning and that is when your partner gets the bid and gets j set 3 or 4 tricks. A dirty look ain't enough to cover , this kind of a ; Incidence but should be followed by some such remark like: ,k -! "Your a fine cheese partner," or, partner?" card yon know conven- up several of the eve- 30 Added j to the Saving of $1 When You Buy the $525 New Piano for $395 On 3 Years' Time As Before the War Ye Include Our $45 Souvenir (Floor) Piano Lamp . However, During Time of Anniversary Sale Only . "Who learnt you to play bridge V This is a important convention and they was a Chicago manj here a few wks. ago that didn't know about it and! when his partner got set 4, why he smiled and says: j . "Too bad, partner, but It was my fault for raiselng your r bid," and his partner dropped dead and the Chi cago man was arrested j for murder which is punishable in this state ' by a 1 5 fine. ' -; j r RJNO W. LARDNER. Great Neck, May 13. j A. Coprricht.'ll21, to the BeU Syndicate. Ine.) DANCE! The Swan will sail - tip the river tonight. Givn by the Bungalow Orchestra. Wed. and 5at. and Sunday eve nings. Open, to the public. Boat leaves foot of Yamhill at 8:30 P. M. Main 4748. k II . ! I ! I .t II V I I $10 Monthly Buys! $525 Piano for $395 nrCXtTDTKO STOOL A5S PIANO LAX F Any One, ''At Before $15 Monthly Buys New $900 Player for $595 IXCI-TTDI5TO ! 1 Pl.ATEB BOM,H, BENCH AND riAXO LAMP the War' Can Again Save to Buy a Piano or Player Piano $6, $8, $10 Monthly Buys Used $75, $195, $295 to $395 Pianos $10, $12, $15 Monthly Buys Used $365, $495 to $595 Players You can afford to pay $i cash, t6, $$ or 10 monthly. Yo. can, therefore, affori to buy now during Anni versary Sale, "45 Years in the! Piano Business. Your old piano, organ or phonograph or city lot taken as first payment. Your boy or girl now working can save $10 monthly for musical education. Hl-m Testa St. at Washington aad Btarfc Sta. ScEnwaini PSsmno Co. Portland's Lftret I'iaoe UUtrlbotors