Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-05
= By GERTRUDE Robson

land during the early part of the week
Friends of John Claire Monteith win
be interested in the following account
Of his concert last week in Portland
John Blaire Monteith, baritone, ap-
peared in concert last Wednesday night
at the Mallory hotel. Mr.. MOnteith is
a specialist in program make up and
the versatility Of his Interpretation
makes him one OF the most enjoyable
concert soloists in the Pacific north.
west.
The reeitative and aria 'VisiOn
Fugitive" from the opera Herodiade
(Massanetl was sung with finished
style and showed the flexible, velvet
like quality Of his baritone voice. In
folk songs and ballads Mr.. MOntelth
is equally pleasing and the dramatic
"Pauper's Drive" and the 'Smug-
gler s Song were given with stirring
effect. He included also songs by
three Portland composers, known 10
the musical world, Katherine Glen,
Tom DObson and Bainbridge-C Crist Miss
Ida May Cook was piano aeeompanist
and the program included:
ohstination (Fontanailles); The
Nine Penny Fiddle CHughes); The La
dy Bug Cambridge Crist); Ask Moth
ing More (Marzials); Flower Fetters
(Willeby); The Pauper's Drive (Ho-
mer); Twilight (Katherine Glen); The
Water Lily (Grieg); Vision Fugitive
(Massanet); The Birthday (Cowen);
| Saw a Ship a Sailing (Tom DobsOn);
The Smuggler 5 Song (Edwards); Mon
day, Tuesday Irish folk song); Eyes
That Used to Gaze in Mine (Lohr); A
Little Winding Road (Ronald); | know
Where / IN Coin (0ld song); On the
Road to Mandalay (Kipling Speaks }
Miss Wilhelmina Doerfler, who is an
instructor at Sacred Heart academy,
spent the week end with her parents
at Victor Point.
The Federation Of Business and Pro
fessional Women, an organization
which is now being formulated in this
country and which will meet in its
first national convention at st. Louis
July IA, is seeking to gather together
all waste women pOwer-this tide Of
which may be easily di-
verted to other purposes-and trans
form it into a powerful factor for bus
mess integrity in the commercial
world.
Mrs. Florence Spencer Duryea ar
rived in Portland last week and has
been meeting business women of the
city to present to them the plan which
a committee of professional women,
representing the best interests Of bust
ness industry, have been working upon
for months. This committee has foand
that radical Propaganda is rife every
where. More especially is it to be found
among the younger business women,
many of them college women, who
nave become infected with ultraradieal
IDEAS, under the mistaken idea that
hey are thereby expressing their in
lividuality.
"The time is ripe for the federation
iays Mrs. Duryea. 'We believe in the
'alue Of properly directed energy The
business woman of today must continue
o preserve her sanity and balance, and
o use the responsibilities the exigen-
les cf the WI has put upon her shoul- !
lers, as wisely and as impartially as
he did during the war.
"our platform win not only protect |
he younger woman just coming into
BUSINESS and help them to make their
wn personal adjustments toward their
work. and to see in it something more 1
han temporary tiding over position
hat means bread and butter, but il
iill enable the older ones, as well, to