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fhe M00J& tliM VOL. XXX III Ilool) RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, L921 No. 29 VICTROL A Christmas Cheer for All Let Your Own Judgment Decide When practically without exception the artists who draw the largest audiences in opera or in concert, whose names in every land are synonymous with artistic achievement, make records for one particular talking machine, there is only one reasonable conclusion, namely that that instru ment is, in the opinion of these artists, the one best medium through which their art may be perpetuated. When, in addition, the public, final judge of all human enterprise, confirms the artists' choice, there is little room for argument. Any instrument listed will afford proportionately more musical satisfaction than is obtainable from any other source. Come and see our display of new machines. KRESSE DRUG CO. Store Come and hear the December Victor Records. Gifts from a man's store for a man See the special window exhibits. mi J. G. VOGT Nationally Known Merchandise. XX A Record and a Pledge As 1921 draws to a close and we look back over the institution's record for the year, we feel that in meeting the banking needs of our patrons and our friends, we have "measured up." But records are made to break. So for 1922 we pledge a greater service based on a wider experience, broader knowledge and expanding usefulness. Business men's accounts are especially in vited. Use ALL of our Service BE :'alBw? Were You Ready For The Big Snow? Or were you one of dozens who phoned anxiously for fuel the day after the storm, when deliveries were almost impossible ? Right now is the time to prepare for the next storm by laying in a supply of wood or coal. Call us for four foot or 16 -inch slab wood or body fir, nut or lump Coal. Special rates on KING COAL direct from the car. ( IQL. ) Emry Lumber & Fuel Co. Succeeding Hood River Fuel Co. Phone 2181 Fourth and Cascade iiinmiiiinnimniHnin.ininn. I n mimi:ir n:rmTTnmi;:m: f ilimiiTiraTTp The Home of more than Thirty-Four Hundred Bank Accounts. MAKE IT YOURS BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Member Federal Reserve System The best advertisers on earth cannot build up a grow ing business unless they "deliver the goods." I have advertised moderately and have built up a good business and it's still growing. My business now and for the past month is much larger than during the summer months when the auto re pair business is at its height. Satisfactory Service, in other words "producing the goods." has done this for me. Let me suggest you have any little thing you know is wrong about your car attended to during bad weather, so that you may enjoy your car when good weather convs. Shay's SERVICE Shop AT THK FASHION STABLES Shop 1MI Res. 2772 Fairbanks-Morse Engines - Haves Spray Machines Domestic Electric Systems - Water Systems Machine Shop work by skilled mechanics. Automobile Repair Work. SLUTZ BROS. First and State Sts. Tel. 3173 MANY VISIT CITY SCHOOLS ALL GRADES ATTRACT LAST FRIDAY National Educational Week Observed Fire Drills Featured at All Schools toe Primary Wins Last Friday many Hood River par ents discovered the schools of the city for the first time. Stimulated by an appeal on the part of City Superin tendent Cannon and citizens in gener al, a stream of patrons called through out tne day at the various schools teachers conducted their work as us ual, and no time was spent in discuss ing phases of the work with the par ents, who were invited merely to in spect with their eyes and to listen. The work was conducted in as nearly normal manner as possible. Still, the school officials declare, the list of vis itors was far short of what it should have been. The visiting day was pro mulgated as a feature of national edu cation week. At each school youngsters were se lected to act as reception committees. At the high school alert boys and girls piloted patrons to the rooms they d sired to see. At the high school, not only did the visitors listen to recita t.ions but laboratory was visited and they saw the students busily engaged in their manual training and domestic science departments. An interesting event of the day wan the fire drill conducted at each school. Honors for clearing their building went to the youngsters of the Coe primary school, where tiny tots of the tirst and second grades were out of the building within 35 seconds after the gong had founded. At Park Strteet the 400 grade and junior high students left th structure in the remarkable time of 40 seconds. It required 60 seconds ti clear the large high school structure of its 300 students. The fire drill was conducted by Fire Chief Volstorff and Fire Marshal Morgan. They were ac companied to the various schools by Farl Weber, James Heaton and City Superintendent Cannon. BUDGET BOARD SETS TENTATIVE FIGURES ! CAMPAIGN FOR CHARITY BEGUN Over Half of Total of $7,500, Goal C to be Utilized in Bringing Rc- w lief Locally 5 The pruning shears were applied last Thursday wherever possible by the Hool Kiver County budget board, com posed of members of the county court, Judge Hasbrouck and Commissioners Klackman and Sheppard, and K. O. Hlanchar, C. H. Castner and J. H. Ferguson. Judge Hasbrouck was elected chairman of the board and C. H. Vaughan, secretary. Since last summer the city and coun ty have maintained a joint traffic safe ly department, employing two motor cycle officers at a salary of $160 per month each, the city paying a third and the county the remainder. It was decided by the budget board that but one man could be retained throughout the year, an extra officer being em ployed from May 1 to November I. Kxpenses of several offices have ex ceeded budget allowances of lajt year. In the office of the county clerk, it was shown, the voting of the 1880,000 high way bond issue, furnishing the county with funds to pay a half of the expense of grading and rock surfacing the val ley trunk of the Mount flood Loop road, the added expenses entailed in carrying out numerous rorriiaittic ran the expenses to tar more ttian normal. The office, however, will probably drop back to former figures the coming year. The unusual gist of criminal prosecution and the necessity of hand gSttie proceedings of the bond issue and suits for condemning rights of way on the Loop Highway, the total of which cases will reach about a dozen, it is said, have left the office of Dis trict Attorney Haker in a sad plight. Mr. Maker's salary, paid from the state fund, is !nnly $100 per month. Records of criminal cases in the past, the salary being based on such data, have been light. At the present, how ever, Mr. naker is lorced to utilize practically all of his lime on ciunty business. The budget board provided for an allowance in the tentative bud get of 11,000. to care for part of the expense ol oince rent, stenographer and general miscellany. lax Assessor Wick ham. when dis cussing with the budget board expenses connected with his office, took occasion to score a legislative enactment that alls for his olfice gathering various horticultural and agricultural statistics from ranchers and orchardisH. Thi extra work materially increases the cost of operating his office, Mr. Wick ham stated. He declared, however, that he was unable to see any practical benefits derived bv the county. He characterized the law ;i- oi scored for the benefit of canning interests or fruit buying corporations. The recommendation of County Fruit Inspector Armstrong, who has been pail at the rate of $2,500 per annum the past year, for an extra $l!oo for mailing bulletins to growers, advising them of proper dates for the applies' tion of sprays, was considered not an emergency by the board, and was dis allowed. Mr. Armstrong also asked that the county pay his expenses for tires, gasoline and oil in the operation of his automobile. He showed that he bad traveled 'J.dOO miles in nine months of work the past year and that mile age, wntre hiio. i, was ngurej at eight cents er mile. The office of County Engineer Cruik hank lacked more than $300 of using the Sl.&kj allowed in last year's bud get. The figure for the com ir.g year was cut to $1.2110. A request of the count v library for ItS. 000 was out to 12.7.V). An interest . 4 I. ., A IL' O. thank, representative of the board, jw, 81 i. budget board. One member of the commission went so far as to state that he thought the county board should be furnished with free transportation to I l'arkriale, in order to learn the er n- omy characterizing the efforts of 1 1 , -branch body. Heavy pruning was necessitated in 1 the recommendations of County Road COMMUNITY CHEST DRIVE STARTED Master Nichols, who included among hi items 18,000 for two new true! r. Mr. Nichols recommended the scrap ping of two trucks received from the state, through the War Department, following the armistice. He declared the old trucks as a serious liability be cause of their heavy upkeep. Recommendations for the county general bridge fund too, were sub jected to the pruning shears. The items included $8,500 for construction of a permanent concrete "toed-in"' viaduct on the road to the Columbia river boat landing. Annually freshets of Hood river cause the highway to cave in. Jt was decided by the board to eliminate tins expense for the com ing year. With a wooden bridge con structed in 1912 over the east fork of Hood river near Winans City declare:1 the by State Highway Commission un safe and incapable of repairs that would render It efficient, the county court faced the alternative of replac ing the bridge or building a new county road. While the estimated cost of the proposed road was $15, -100, the bridge, which, it is said, will cost $6,400 hut will serve the general public to bettt l advantage, was favored. The bridge, it was cited, makes available the Devil's I'unch Howl, a scenic attrac tion on the west fork of Hood river. Itcameoutat the budget meeting, however, that the Oregon Lumber Co. ia contemplating the construction of a large dam just below the I'unch Howl for the purpose of developing electric power. In such case, it was declared, the scenic attraction would be ruined by the backing up of the stream. The request for an appropriation of $25 for the maintenance of the office of water master, as created bv recent legislative enactment, met with dis approval by various members of the budget board. It was thought by sev eral that this expense can largely be eliminated by placing the duties of water master as an adjunct of the i. thee of county engineer and paying bin by the day for such duties as he is called on to perform. When the budget commission meets December 27 it will be necessary to prune $3,258.80' from the total figure of $2(l',448.24, the aggregate of appropri ation! called tor in the tentative budg et. Under the six per cent limitation law the county's total for 1922 cannot exceed $268, 1X9.38. The tentative fig ure of the road fund for the coming year is $50,000. Unless some other items of the budget can be eliminated or decreased, the deduction will prob ably be made in the road fund. HOOD RIVER WILL APPEAR IN MOVIES W. A. Wallace, a motion picture man, has been here the past weel film ing various ac ivities of Hood River business and industry. The pictures will be presented at tne Rialto Decem ber 21 and 22. A feature of the home movies will be a guessing contest. Kach purchaser of a ticket to the show will be given a coupon. He nr she may cast a vote for any man, woman, boy or girl of the valley, and the for tunate person securing the greatest number of votes will be rewarded by the J. C. Penney o. with a present of material value. Re the popular one a boy or man, he will get a suit of clothes. A school girl will receive a woolen dress anil if the vote of popu larity falls to an adult woman, she will get a silk dreHS. Mr. Wallace his filmed all the stores of the city. I'ublic institutions have received attention, and scenes of orch ards will be shown in his pictures. hildren of the schools, in their vari ous activities, will appear in uic movies. I he children of all city schools will be a large feature of the movies. COMMUNITY TREE PLANS MADE KNOWN At a meeting or a committee Mon day night at the Commercial club def inite plans for a community Christmas nee at the Colombia Corge hotel for children of the town and vicinity were outlined. Manager Thiele will equip a mammoth tree in the big dining room and will be host to all the youngsters The local committee will provide a gift of Christmas goodiea for each child and will furnish automobile transpor tation for all whose families do not have cars. Mr. Thi !e will serve hot chocolate and sar.dw iches to his young guests. Monday night s i inmittee was com post d Of the following: John Maker, II. Vaughan. A. Hell, A M. Cannon, and Mrs. Mendora Hlakelv. HiiKh G. Hall and Joe D. Thomison, were delegated to give the community nlar.s full local publicity. the chief task of the committee will ba that of aeeortng automobiles to trariSMrt the children to and from the hostelry. All ei ti 'is who wish to aid in providing a red letter hour for the city's youngsters hould telephone at Maea to Mr. Maker, who will register them. The cars will assemble at 4 3d o'clock Friday aftt moon before Christ mas at the eoui ' library, where all youngsters wishing transportation are a-ked Ii Parents of little fellows in faii..- laving no cars are asked to accompany them. The invita- ndcf to all children of the ears of age anc g of the Christ- WHO aiatea mat tne met with difficulty in reasonable limits for fuel. He laid the heavy coal expense up to a propen aity of toe women to wear too garments. "They wear, during winter months, " aid Mr. Onthank. "clothes that are only suitable for the summer, and yet the demand that the window s c f the I library be kept open. All of this runs ! up the fuel bills. The apparent economy of citizens of I'arkdale. who were grafted full al- ( low anc for their branch library, won a an a apt ion of gratification from the tion is extended city and valley under. The fir maa tree treat will require but a nom inal sum, and i i iributions, it has been decide), will be limited to $1. All wishing to help with the Yuletide ng ami the reaultant joy it are asked to leave their con- institution had trihuhon with Mr. Vaughan at the keeping within Hutler Bank. STORES TO CLOSE MONDAY, DEC. 26 With a goal of $7,500, the eommi ty chest campaign has been laune in all districts of Hood River coun A considerable nucleus, according members of the committee, has ready been raised.. The commit makes the following explanation of division of funds : "More than half of the money rak .o in the community chest budget is to be expended for public purposes in Hood River county. A brief suggestive out line of the work 6? the participating agencies is as follows: "The $750 membership dues which go to the divisional Red Cross is to keep up the general work of the or ganization. The Red Cross is relating itself particularly to the work of re lieving epidemics, suffering incident to Chwtruetiva tires, floods, etc. In any emergency this great organization would be available for local relief. "The home service item of $3,250 is expended in part for the maintenance of the public health nurse and social worker. The local chapter of the Red Citoai is now paying $75 per month of Mrs. Hlakely's salary and furnishing a car and its upkeep and operating ex pense. No other provision is made to maintain the public health nurse be sides the item in the county bjdget. The continuation of this work makes the raising of the budget imperative. "Also, the homo service department i-i giving soldier and civilian relief. A number of soldiers have borrowed money from the organization. Some have been able to provide sanitorium treatment for themselves in this man ner. In addition the Red Cross has provided nurses and hospital treatment for numerous persons when no funds were otherwise available. All this work has been done after a careful in vestigation by Mrs. lilakely. "An incident. The other day an ex service man came to ask help. He was discharged from the army 65 per cent disabled. He expects money as compensation from the government. He bought a truck ami has been work ing. He has paid $500 and owes $275. He has been ill and the note is due and non-renewable. If he can keep that truck in spite of disability he will be a produetiva citizen. ll came to the Red Cross. To whom else could he go? In this manner without any advertis ing, the lied Cross is spending more than $200 per month in Hood River county. Ihu I'ublic Welfare Committee is an open association of business, fraternal and church oganizations, which ia re lieving temporary distress. This or ganizHtiop, which functions through the office of Mrs. Hlakelv, finds work for the unemployed, it furnishes food and clothing to the needy and gives the assistance which is intended to help the recipients to independence as quickly as possible. This committee has relieved the county court of end less work anil saved the people it haa helped from the onus of county char ity. All the work ia volunteer. No ore is paid. The chairman is C. A. Hell. It is panned to make this com mittee county wide and the $1,000 raised may be drawn on by the various committees. "The Near Fast Relief asks $1,500. This work is well known. Oregon has helped to save several hundreds of thouianda of children for Armenia from the ruthless Turk. The war ia n t over in the near East. We must give the children of Armenia and Syria food and shelter. If we fail to be kind to the little ones of Christ's own land and yet profess to keep Christmas, Cod have mercy on us! "The Salvation Army is doing a state work, lot i their home for un married mothers, their men's industrial home and their relief missions people come from all over the state. Hood River county included. It is fair that we help in their work as every other county is doing. "The Young Men's Christian Associ ation is also a state institution. Its technical school where young men may receive technical training at nominal expense ho more students than all the privately endowed colleges of Oregon combined. The "Y" is doing a big piece of state work among the boys in its rural work, several counties have complete organizations, and in the great boys' conferences, three of which were held in Oregon this year. The employment deparment and the gener al services of the Y. M. C. A. are available to all men. It it not simply a forlland ir-titution. When one knows of the work it is doing tor for eigners, the shop meetings being held, the tens of thousands of boys and men to whom it gives willing service each year, one realizes that 'the damned Y' is a vital and permanent part of our life. "The community chest is the scien tific way of giving. This one drive ia the only drive of toe year. One man unsolicited has given a $50 hood. To gether, once for all, our. best!" THOMAS LACEY TO (LEAR HIGHWAY Thomas Lacey. who has iuat return ed to his horre here following comple tion of draining and repairing 15.17 milea of state highway between Nev -lerg and the Multnomah county line, has been instructed to take charge of clearing the Columbia River Highway, in Hood Kiver county, of snowbank and debris left in the wake of the re cent storm. Mr. Lacey says he will use four trucks on clearing the drifts. Or.e will operate west from Hood Riv er, one will work west from Wveth and two will work from Lindsay creek, where a supply camp will be estab lished. "I will not try to approximate the time it will take to clear the High- Mr. Lacey Mi at least two inoay, davs lotil in tual v Mr. Lacev All Ho buir,e- i tore and places o e Mondav followin) ell aa the Monda: r's, according I president of th' states p., lo that he rr hia rill gie to Mm reen r to- Busirtesi Mi - -sociation. r'ght.