12 TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 23, 1918. " HOLDER OF ST. JOHNS AMBULANCE MEDAL, SENT FROM MILITARY GOLLEGE DECLARED nUarlTAL TO TRAIN RECONSTRUCTION AIDES AT REED COLLEGE.

TO BE DOING DUTY

President of Reed Board of Trustees Commends Work of Local Institution.

1 ' ' r "J IMMENSE TASKS LIE AHEAD ' 1 " ' u '- -' ' i

Executive and His Faculty Said to 1 x ' Have Caught Spirit Which Makes , for Preservation of Vital Principles.

Dr. Thomas Lamb Eliot, aa president of the Reed College board of trustees, has rendered his annual report and recommendation to the trustees, look-in- s ' to the past and to the future of SI the institution. Dr. Eliot found the general business conditions of Reed improved over last year and he holds the outlook bright for the field of cipher education with its added im- petus and reconstruction of ideals due to the war. He commends the presi- dent and his faculty for having- caught the spirit of action which makes for the preservation of the vital principles of education. In the response of Reed College stu- dents and faculty to the call of service and the war work undertaken by the institution. Dr. Eliot sees the college In the light of an inspiration to the higher forces of the community and one which oan help meet the fearful and sublime challenge of a world at war. Community Feeling Grows. Dr. Eliot's report follows: Referring to the general business of the Institute, it may be said that on the whole (ir conditions are better than a year ago, and ONE WEEK the outlook seems to be upon a. steadier basis. Wt are still a part of a world at OPENING TODAY war. In the midst of which, however, there 1 has come great growth of community feeli- ng-, which again has set alive all the higher V I 9 'V-- forces that make for a better humanity; and of these forces thus set alive none Is attracting more attention than that of . work in fractures and dislocations in It is my own conviction, after much read- the Lambeth Infirmary. ing, that the field of higher education is REED GETS EXPERTl She returned to Liverpool in 1910 and I being regarded as more and more a vital In December, 1910, started working in one, and along with the desire to throw the Southern Hospital with the Sir greater responsibility . upon higher educa- tion there Is coming about almost a recon- Robert Jones clinic. The following struction within the objects and the meth- year, in addition to her work at the ods of education itself. At our commence- Southern Hospital, she was In charge I ment we a paper from of a hospital heard the Miss Mary McMillan, of Eng children's and gymnasium . of Harvard College, which is one Illus- of which Sir Robert Jones was surgeo- M r tration of this fact. n-in-chief. A V She was J . connected with I i We are most fortunate in our own college land, to Be Instructor Here. I ii f it v in having wise and progressive leadership the Southern Hospital as "medical i on the part of the president, with his fac- gymnast and masseuse" from 1910 to 17 A ulty, and are given evidence every year of 1916. w their ability to keep In touch with the most Wounded Belgians Cared For, W vital forces in the world of thought, and their desire to bring into action the most In October, 1914, one of the first ship- vital principles of true education and a men- WAR EXPERIENCE OF VALUE loads of wounded Belgian soldiers was tal and spiritual discipline for the common taken to an improvised hospital In people, espectaly with a view to the leader- Liverpool. Sir James Barr was the ship which is becoming more and more Im- surgeon-in-chie- f. minently a necessity for the preservation Miss McMillan volunteered her serv- and uplift of society. Medical Gymnast and Masseuse Was ices for massage work in this hospital College Doing Full Doty. and continued to give them from Octo- At this annual meeting I think It Is in Charge of Liverpool Clinic ber, 1914, to February, 1916. She was worthy of record that our college is already hospital sending 105 of Its students and faculty Into Which Received First Belgian at the regularly three days a the active service of the country during the week and at other times when called. war, and that at this time a most Impor- Wounded in August, 1914. There were no patients but Belgians tant work is being undertaken by the presi- for two or three months. Later many dent and his assistants for the training of Irish and Scotch were reconstruction aides and for a Summer soldiers treated. school of physical education. The trustees Miss McMillan came to the United KAIETEl'R" The first of the great Ootlnsr-Ckest- er also understand that the United States States in 1916 and from 1916 to 1918 she Picture a hair-raisi- camera ad- Government has offered a method of co- Miss Mary McMillan, of Liverpool. was associated with the Children's MSCHOLLM venture through the river jungles of British operation with colleges by which the stu- England, holder of the St. Johns Am Hospital, in charge of Dr. E. C. Abbott, ON OUR NEW Guiana in South America, including a visit to body can be enlisted, uniformed and in Me. During a waterfall five times as high as Niagara dent ex- bulance medal, who has been sent by Portland. this time she Indian shooting on the drilled. In part, for future call in the also taught nurses' training classes in 'SYMPHONY-ORGA- N' Patamonan fish life igencies of war. the United States Government to Heed massage Mary's Coorlal Trails Over Mountain and Mail In conclusion, I take this occasion to College Summer school to assist In in St. Hospital at Water Courses. commend to you the work of this office, training reconstruction aides under the Lewiston and Webber Hospital. with its superintendent and assistants, and Surgeon-Genera- to express renewed confidence In the whole direction of the l, is February 26, 1918. ehe began work as V college administration. We are living in expected to arrive early this week. head aide in physical therapy in the an extraordinary age. presenting to us Miss McMillan, it is said, is probably Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, ' 11 extraordinary problems, and a peculiar bur- the only woman so trained available D. C. den is laid upon us, as trustees of what we in the country, as her experience since All the oversea cases of wounded believe is a great institution, to do all In 1914 American soldiers that have been sent our power In making It an Inspiration to has been largely with wounded back to this country up to the present whole life of the community. soldiers returned from the battlefields. time have been sent to the Walter Reed the Her selection for Reed College is con- Hospital. ImmpnM Tasks LI Ahead. sidered important. She was in charge TVe are challenged by a world of fearful nd of sublime realities, and all the high- of the clinic which received the first er Institutions of society have at once the Belgian wounded in August, 1914. Since "U" Students Give Annual task of facing these realities and shaping last February she has been at the things that are into the things that ought Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, Commencement Play. perilous time, is not the col-l.- to be. In this among those receiving American soldiers returned an elect instrumentality " saving from Fance. She was sent to Reed "Cyrano Bera-erae- which strive to ennoble the people, College course de Presented by thm from the equal perils of a false con- for the reconstruction Dramatic Classes. PHOTOPLAYS OF servatism and a false radicalism, instruct- only after repeated requests from MERIT ing them In the arts of having life and of President Foster through Senator having it more abundantly, and' empower- Chamberlain, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene. ing for manifold responsibilities them , the June 19. (Special.) of social sen-Ice- arising out of the stress Hospital Work Began In 1010. Powdered and and strain of the Nation's life? Miss McMillan attended the Liverpool simpering women of fashion and beruf-- college for girls affiliated with Liver- fled and becurled marquises made a pool University for four years. She frivolous Parisian 17th century back- was graduated in 1908. She started in ground for Roxane, the beautiful, and LOYAL WOMAN PROTESTS the academic course, but changed to a Cyrano, the man of the monster nose. scientific course after two years. She who scintillated in Kostana a five-a- ct spent nine months in the United States heroic comedy. "Cyrano de Bergerac," 20c Children 10c after her graduation from college. presented here Friday night at the out- MRS. CHRISTOPHER NOFZIGEg Upon her return to England she went door theater In the city park on the to the National Hospital for Nervous north slope of Skinners Butte. what she believes Is Christian's mind per cent is to be made shortly of the SEEKS STATUS OP CITIZENSHIP. diseases In London, studying massage This was the annual commencement and soul as expressed by his letter-s- Public Service Commission by the nerve only one year. At play, given by university written by Cyrano. Christian is killed Grays Harbor Railway & Light Com- and work for the classes In In shortly marriage pany in- the end of one year she was placed in dramatic Interpretation under the di- battle after the of this city. The requested Horn la Missouri. Wife of Allen Mar- charge of the children's ward of the rection of Archibald Ferguson Reddie, which Cyrano's strategy permits the crease Is to be asked due to the in- National Hospital. At the same time of department of public couple to have performed, and Roxane creased cost of lsbor and materials. No ries Man Who Neglects to Take head the enters a convent. Increase will be made In the minimum she used her afternoons for practical Is 15 years later, upon Ont Naturalisation Papers. one-ma- n It not till the light bills. Cyrano is essentially a play. eve of Cyrano's death, that Roxane dis- DRAFT EXECUTIVE WHO WILL SEE with most of the cast simply foils for covers who It Is with whom she has THAT WORK OR FIGHT REGU- the wit of the leading man. The part been in love. Cyrano's death India has 35.000 miles of railway and AURORA, Or., June 22. (Special.) of Cyrano, a most taxing role, was gaveheroic No alien enemy women have regis- LATIONS ARE ENFORCED. taken by Professor Reddle, who played scene In the fifth. act Mr. Reddie 8,000 miles of telegraph, compared tered at the Aurora Postoffice. al the with sympathy an opportunity for some effective work, with 1(00 miles of railways and 11,000 Nofziger which he did not slight. telegraph 1861. though Mrs. Christopher was and finesse. Margaret Crosby aa Rox This Is the sixth commencement play miles of in here from the Macksburg section to ane, was charming In her sweet Sim- given Mr. by well-modulat- ed under Reddle's direction. ascertain If she was affected the plicity. A beautiful, Former ones were: As You Like It. In ruling. voice is one of Miss Crosby's most 1912; Gynt," 1913: "King Lear," appears that she is a native-bor- n valuable dramatic assets, and ehe used "Peer It Nofziger, 1914; "The Shopkeeper Turned Gentle- American, but married Mr. it to good advantage In her last ap man," 1915, and the "Comedy of Er- who was born in Alsace-Lorrai- prior psr' pearance as a member of the unt rors." 1916. The play was omitted last to its annexation by Germany in 1871 i versity cast, having finished her four year on account of enlistments near the thus making her an alien through his years of work here with a remarkable production. failure to acquire citisenshlp. Mr. Nof- record of Improvement in dramatic un date of ziger, under a misapprehension, regis- derstanding and power. Miss Crosby's as an enemy alien. His wife, home Is in Riddle. Or. Light Rates May Go Up tered - however, does not like the idea of a Norvell Thompson's work aa Rague- ABERDEEN, Wash.. June 22. (Spe- Missouri-bor- n woman having to regis neau. the "pastry cook or poets, aa application to ter as an enemy, and If It Is possible serves mention. This freshman, from cial.) An increase the so, lighting rates in Aberdeen. Hoquiam s legally to avoid, she will not do Nyssa, has already won his way to im 25 fi and Cosmopolls amounting to about mm Mr. Nofziger, his wife and sons are portant parts in the plays given by loyal Americans. The Postmaster here the dramatic interpretation classes. .M has taken up the matter of Nofziger's The performance of John Houston as try Comte de Gulche. patron of the arts, h, erroneous registration and will to have his papers canceled. . also in love with Roxana, was con spicuous for its spirit and poise. The story of "Cyrano" Is fairly well known. The action is built around the Look These KLAMATH PLANS FOR RODEO of Cyrano, who, because of at ; character Finley H J ' his enormous nose, believes himself N PLANNING the Institute we Fourth of July Celebration to Be forever precluded from woman's love. had a definite thought in mind. He is in love with his cousin Roxane, I Held on Large Scale. who unwittingly tells him of her pas- An would to those sion for Christian, a cadet In the Prices: institution that offer in guards, and begs Cyrano to protect her bereavement the same refined and restful KLAMATH FALLS, Or., June 22. lover In case of danger. Cyrano prom Hot Cakes 10c atmosphere we would expect in our (Special.) In order to better accommo- lses, becoming Christian's devoted that date the big events of the Rodeo at friend and writing for him the won (all day) own home. the July Fourth celebration here, the derful love letters which hold the af Work With Modoc ball park boundaries are being of Roxane. finally becomes . 15c Although beautiful substantially. The old line Captain John K. Cnlllson, O. It. C. fectlon It Beef Stew.. this residential enlarged evident that the heroine Is In love with Fin-le- y fence blew aown last Winter and is Though the enforcement of the work Roast Beef i .15c Comfort Funeral Institution is so distinctly a being rebuilt on lines which will em- or fight regulations recently promul idea, is all, regardless of acreage. gated by the War Department will be and Eggs 3Sc with that ease and efficleney it for their brace a much larger in the hands of local draft boards, gen- that only the physically fit ever means. No one else can or does offer more A moat exciting programme consist- Rib Steak 30c you go ing of bucking contests, cow girl races, eral supervision of their work will be Woodstock feel. If home at night for any stated price. tieing, races, exercised by Captain John K. Culltson Chili Sc tired and nervous, there is trou- roping, steer wild horse O. R. officer In charge of the execu- Sc ble some place. It to be bulldogging and the world's champion tion ofCthe selective service law In Ore Beans in those delicate.and intricate or- bucking bull Nero, are scheduled in gon in the office of the Adjutant Gen 6 Rice 5c gans, the eyes. the billa now appearing over the city. eral. IN Captain Cullison has been in charge (always busy) Better have Dr. De Keyser. Vis- J. P. Finley & Son Umatilla to Front. of draft operations In Oregon lor eev m ion Specialist, test them with his Progressive Funeral Directors Southern months. He has h&d some mighty ONE scientific, modern instruments, eral MONTGOMERY AT FIFTH -ll PENDLETON, Or., June 22. (Spe- knotty problems to solve in that time. Leading Leading and. If necessary, fit them with ill Ninety-thre- e The Featur of tha r u ... n cial.) men In the service but In every case his rulings or inter Machines all harmoniously combined the proper lenses. "i t 1, ,..r'";f with a population of between 1800 and pretations have been upheld by the In one handsome New Trouble-fre- e 2000 of part Marshal-Gener- al Washing Writing Machine of the First Quality Is the record the southern Provost at in which you will find your own WOOD'S of this county, according to a list of ton. In at least two instances his in favorite feature of your own favor- Dr. A. P. De Keyser enlisted men which was received today terpretatlons resulted In issuance of In ite typewriter, and the others besides. Serv-iv- e Second Columbia Building from Pilot Rock by the Patriotic structions irom tne trovost .Marshal- THJB WOODSTOCK TYPE WRITES QUICK LUNCH Floor League. The league is working General directing all draft boards in AGENCY. 363 Wasalasrtoa, Cor. West Park on a roster of all of the men from this the United States to follow the course 804 Oak Street. 101 Sixth, Corner Stark county in the service 4a any branch. folnted-ou- t by Captala CuUlaoa,