FIBERS fSPOl E LABORER 5 Letter Sent To Selected List In Salem District Brings Ready Response As mentioned In The Statesman some time ago, the Salem IT free employment office planned to send letters to the farmers of this tion.'asklng them to find employ ment for idle men and women here' daring the dull season. Thin Is very proper and feasible, be cause the office has the franking privilege, being operated under the labor ' department of I he Hailed States government. Dot some one had to write the letters, and the forces at the main office of the Saiera Y. M. C. A. were very busy HoyeverT1 the letters " were ' fur nished to Sim Phillips, in charge of the tree employment office in the V. C. T. U. building, next to the Statesman office, on the 14th. and he has been sending them out through the mails since that time. I . Copy of the letter Following is a copy of the let ter that was sent out. to a selected list of farmers in this territory: "Dear Sir: There are large num bersof men coming to this offlc ttry day looking tor work--vi have 50 men for every job- many of these men have large families to support, many are without money, and are willing to do any. kind of work- . "This ofrice is very anxious to help; In this situation. I am writing jrou to ask If yon do not have some worfc.no do that could be done now. Such as repairing fences, cut ting' brush, chopping wood, prun ing trees, etc. " c:.K:r Tthe situation Is more acute than many people realize." Every one sgrees. however, that the best way to help a man Is to help him to help himself and that is what a job will do for many people Jusi nowiV . .j " " "Call me up, telephone J: 4 5; and let me know if you can coop erate.V- Sincere!, Secretary, Y M. tf.'iA. l. 8, employment se'r vice..;.' .'' Immediate- Keponae -- Tbe letter was sent on the sta tionery of the Department of La bor; U. S. Employment Service and "4he" response has been lmme diatd. ' - One man came in and said he . would ' take two- men for s farm workjfito pay them $30 a month each and board, beginning to morrow. , . Mayor T. A. JLlvesley respond-, ad with an offer of work on bit rarnia.. " Others have indicated that they will f make : provision for some of ; idle men. And this Is only a -rt-rigbt off the bat. 'as the -jyiijg- goes. ; IfjaU the farmers of the Salem district who need extra work done on theft1 places at this time' could be induced to have it done, there would, be no idle men left on the Sist applying at the free employ men office. ...... need, the industrial need and the spiritual phase. .. Rev. Rozella . Donglaa of Falls City is president of the Polk coun ty unit, and ; Rev. L.H. Willard. pastor of the Evangelical church of Monmouth, secretary, : BEH CITIZENS DIKE governor! axu mayor of HAUh.M SPEAKS AT BANQUET Two dozen ' people officially transferred their allegiance to the United States last night and be came citizens of Salem and Mar lon county.,; . . ' . It marked the . culmination of weeks of study ou the part of the recent foreigners, and the passing of examinations which , would, without preparation, be stum bling block to almost anyone. The auspicious event took place t the Y. M.! C. A. banquet rooms when U. O. Boyer, clerk of Mar lon county, banded out certificates of naturalisation, following ad dresses on citizenship .by Gover nor I. U Patterson, Mayor T. A. Liresley. and Secretary C. A. Kelfe. of the Y. M. C. A. Mrs. Patterson, wife of tbe Gov ernor, spoke briefly on the sig nificance of it he colors, and the work of the a A. R. after which she presented each candidate with - flag and printed matter pertain- ng to its origin. Governor Patterson then traced the history of the country from its beginning, and nrged the new citizens to exert every effort to maintain a high' standard of pa rlotism. : "Salem needs builders." said Mayor IJvesley. In the second ad dress of the evening. "Loyalty, perserverance, and a firm respect for- law., and order, are essential qualities of good citizenship which will enable Salem -to grow and prosper. ' The class was presented by W. E. Hansen, class Instructor.; I Musical numbers were given tn the course . of the evening by Thelma Davis,; Lois Plnmmer, and Lillian V. Scott, Exam "Cribbing" Futile, ' College Experiment Shows last night that efforts would be made to set subscriptions total ing $ 5.000 to retire part of -the church debt and to assist In pay ment for the new org which coat $9,400. : w Read the Classified Ads . Examination "cribbers seldom make the grade, ; Dean Prank M. Erickson demonstrated to Willam ette university students recently Dean Erickson told of an In stance in a certain prominent girls college where a series of three examinations were conduct ed to test student honesty, i Unbeknown to the students ex amined, student proctors were placed in the room to spy after the professor left. The professor checked the answers after the ex amination before consulting the proctorsr J , . Later It was found that of all the students who received the grade of A not one of them cheat ed: sixty seven per cent of those who got B did not cheat; twenty per cent of those who got the grade of C did not cheat. All of those who failed cheated. . Financial Problem Faced By Baptist Church Today "Raising money' wilt be an im portant Item on the First Baptist church service program this morning. Rev. R. payne announced Are Sure to Please if Purchased at The Atlas Bookstore 465 State St. Salem, Oregon Not only Books but Fountain Pens, Leather Goods, Fine Stationery, Picture Mottoes, Book Ends, Bridge Sets, Games. Make Our Store Your Christmas Headquarters WE HAVE GIFTS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY 'Uli"ll"iilniiii'Hiiniliii HMiiiiwiMiiiB-gnBiWn.i,mm. ifWWlfWIHIB'M"Mil!ll)"V""w"l',llwwl" HMI!l'til!1"!""'W'l V HCIJTIi MEETS 1ILSS!0NAR FUNDS RAISED FOR WORK IX CHINA t. ' - ' ' ' -OEGON NORMAL SCHOOL, Monmouth. Dec. 17. (Special) Representatives from Dallas. Falls City.; Independence and Monmouthl met at the Evangelical church at Monmouth on December. 14 to at tend an all-day session sponsored by the Polk County Holiness asso ciation. . ;. f ;;. According to a report given by Rev. L, ll. Willard, secretary ot' Polk county unit, the addresses given by Rev. C. P. Hogle ot New York City and Miss Leona Aggola, aiissiwnary on furlough from China, two national workers, were cf great interest, and within a few .a In u tea more than $100 were i aUed for the missionary work in China. . : ' X J The national headquarters ot the Holiness association Is. in Chi cago wJTh Rev. Hogle, general sec retary. This is an interdenomina tional organization made up of people who are active members' of -jany different faiths. It is pure ly an association, and does not (unction as a church, being one of the very genuinely interdenomina t ional organizations. It requires uembership in some Protestant tourch, and functions with the ob ;eci of emphasizing and promot iag rlhteoua living luch as the liible cets !- forth . through . Jesus Christ.. .- , -::. ., ,;:. IXevj Hogle. general secretary, t poke on the methods, the teach ;ags 'and the general missionary -ork of the National Holiness as tociatlon, which was organized 69 cars ago," - In addition to its work in Amer ica, it has acceptti a charge in China consisting of a strip of ter ritory SO miles square about 300 miles south ot Peking. This foreign work has been go ing on for l? years and there are at present ZZ missionaries helping o conduct the 14 schools; dispens aries ad tbe hppritaL The singu la r abou t "Ihese properties i il.w. m all'" the 'civil war In ri .j t!t recent years, not a dol- v rth has been lost. ; Miss Aggola told of her personal txperlences during the five years she spent In China ind sammar ized what eha termed One need with four r I bises." ."This Included if e- J uca t aal phase. especially . . A P ire Holiday Xmas T7Ti Special Prices for This .Week's Selling .98 500 Pairs in this Lot, many Styles grouped for quick sell ing, many sold at $8.85. Ev ery Pair a real Bargain. All sizes. $.95 All sizes in this lot Women's dressy Pumps, quality and style. See these Wonderful Bargains. Hi - CV" are high grade in every respect Our Special Christmas Sale on Cedar Chest enables you to save from 20 to 25 In other words you can get a much better Chest now for about what you pay for an ordinary one. Tliey comeJLn, Walnut with Cedar linings or all red Tennessee cedar. Have One Put Aside Today iSi A few more of those Card Tables : left at Others at $3.50 and $4.50 Mil I 1 Do not forget to visit our Toy Department Madam Hendron' Dolls A Good Unbreakable doll at 48c . A Buster Brown Sale means Genuine Reductions, this group represents Splendid Styles and many pleasing mod els to select from. H wi IIS f Week's Special Events 'Bust er Brown at X "1 Mi ti i : T-YV- ' Christmas is the : time to give Friend Husband a new Leather Bag or Suit Case. He : would be especially pleased with one of our leather Gladstone Cases. A Regular $ 1 2.50 value for : nother Special Offer 25 Discount on All Oxford Traveling Bags : sold up to Christmas. A fine lot of ladie.s fitted casesfrom $9.00 and up One fine Seal Grain Physician's Instrument case 510.00, Eng lish kit bags 012.00 up, Wardrobean Dress Trunks $8.00 Up. t: a i 1 4 el y'si tl ' hi aj m ec " cc n ca T Is be ' w! re co ch is th wi tn ye th It Ell . PO W( tw ns su 13 el fa( 4 n u : aiif rr !??-!. Credit Extended CJQ, 77 b-rr oT7- - L ,,., - ' ; ii: .. ct : .a 1 01 -a 3 c v