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DAILY EAST ORKGOXIAN, PF.XnU-TOX, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1915 T.TGTIT PAGES. (7 SMASH WENT THE PRICES AND WITH A RUSH CAME THE CROWDS no mm LI WJ U U V.CV, F0T7TL. . H.IIIII.IIIIIIIHHHIIH iimimiiai.i.uu.uiMiiiiiiiMiiuMiiiiimii;iMiiMiiim """ i CO mi mi ; !j ! 0 Hn n 13 ri II C 3 opened this morning and "she's" a hummer. The first day's visitors found nothing but the good merchandise they wanted and at prices that really surprised them, for they were lower than what they expected to pay. This is a general sale with sacrifice prices all our over store. Fill your future wants NOW 89.08 oflGBinAU mm otuv n C3 Si- I 1 ,kii;:iiaiiil;liiitiiituiuitirif" A . i at .11 i TT" AR INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. fubllsbed Dally and 8ml-Weely U dirtoa, Oregon, by the BAST OEtAiUMAN 1'UUUaHIXO CO. Official County Paper. Member Lalted Pr AocUUoa. bMRd at the postofflce at Pendleton. Drecon, aa second-tlaae Mall matter. SJetepbone ON 8 ALB IN OTHER CITIE8. Imperial Hotel New Htaad, Portland, Precoa. bowman Nfwi Co.. Portland, Oregoo, ON FILE AT Chicago Bureau, ot Security Building. Washington. D. C Bureau, iol, t'oer UesU street, X. W. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. (IN ADVANCE) Daily, one year, by mall ".....$500 Dally, six month, by mall 2-50 I 1 1 1, three month, by mall 1-23 Daily, one moath. by mall AO Dally, oae year, by carrier 7 60 11 ly, six month, by carrier 3.73 lally, three month, by carrier 1.83 Dally, one month, by carrier ml- Weekly, one year by mall 1.50 eml-Weekly, all month, by mall T3 Baal Weekly,, four month, by mail... -50 MORN AND M1DXIGHT. It isn't a weary way to go, w We're all at the end before we know. Reapln where thorns or rosea , gTOW. Thankful for only a little while For a breathing space in the great Sun's smile, And when the Morning lights Love's face It marks the path to the Good- night Place. Frank L. Stanton. A 0 2 . , . . . , T T ( regular and can't be cut down. I've It has long been accepted as a fact got to dress decent to keep my job. If that the ocean freight rate has a di- Idjdrt spend $1.25 a week on clothes rect bearing upon the they'd fire me sure. So you see your It Will Aid prices paid to wheat self the only thing that U left me to Tbe Grower, producers in the north- economize on Is food.' Fifteen or 20 west and this makes cents Is the highest amount she ever the administration's ship purchase pays for lunch and dinner. 'You bill a matter of particular interest to ( know, sometimes I Just long for a 30 the farmers. If the bill Is passed our cent dinner," she said. 'But I haven't rovernment will be able to purchase the price of It In my pocket book, so and use many German steamers now what can I do? I get so tired of these tied up In neutral porta. The acUon 20 cent dinners year In and year out will tend to reduce the ocean charges that often I think I'd rather not eat w hich since the war have increased in at all.' " some instances as much as 400 perj The Investigator said that "statis cent and will also enable American tics tell us that thousands of working commerce to extend to trade districts girls are receiving only $5, $ and $7 from which we are now entirely cut a week. Such figures, no matter how off because of lack of ships. j Imposing, mean little to the average Imports from Washington show the person, unless It brings Immediately democrats are prepared to put the to his mind a picture of Just what this hip purchase bill through congress wage actually means to working girls, as quickly as a vote can be had. The "To one girl $5 will mean lack of only danger is from filibuster tactics food, to another It will be poor living on the part of republicans who have quarters, and yet to another no sav been organized by Lodge, P.oot et al lngs for the rainy day. But invariably to Tight the measure in every way It will mean to thousands a cramped, they can. out of consideration for pri- subnormal way of life a mere exist' xate hhipping interests. !"ce, not a real living.- The attitude of these men towards the shipping bill is peculiar In view of the past professions of the repub- Ucan party to the eriect our roetcn- ioudu in u&uuu uci ucm ant marine should be encouraged, cracy prevails, w here Invention . ha There Is now a chance to "restore our j made the greatest advancement, where fla to the sea" and to do so at a time nature Is bountiful and starvation when great general rood can be ac- ahould be unknown. There Is some conipliahed but tha move erets no sup. thing wrong about our handling of port from g. o. p. sources. Com- affairs when respectable women and meriting on the republican opposition to the administration's measure the Cincinnati Enquirer said: "The republican party has regu lurly announced Its devotion to the American merchant marine, but dur ing all Us years of unbroken power It signally failed to keep its promise to the people and kft our harbors . T i . v. t .1 and all other harbors in the world singularly vacant of vessels flying our flair. "The present administration for the post six months can show more vessels flying the American flajr through Its policies than the republican party can show in the e!i?lit y-rs of Grant f ha fmir rnn of Haves, the four vearl . . ( f Garfield, the four years of Harrl- and Roosevelt, a total of St years." The beauty about the administra tion's plan Is that under the proposed shipping bill the government will own the steamers. In that way it will be possible to provide rates based on the cost of service and rates will not be as at present bated on the amount that can be obtained. Expresident Tait says the Filipinos are not yet fit for self government and therefore they We Likewise should not be given Apirar Badly, their Independence. It Is the same thing as saying a child should not try to stand until he has learned to walk. But let that go and look at the matter from another angle. If Philippine Islanders knew of some conditions in the United States they could Justly raise the question as to whether the Americans are capable of governing themselves. A few weeks ago an investigation was made into the condition of working glrifl in some big eastern cities. The search brought to light a condition of barbarity about as heartless as could be Imagined. "A girl of 22 was sick last winter," said Miss Packard, "and absent from work for a week.x She Is a clerk get ting IS a week as saleslady in the white goods department of a large upstate store. 'You see, I've figured it all out she said. "I pay $2 for my room that bill has to be met every week. Then once a month 25 cents Is taken out of my tiny envelope for the store benefit fund. That also Is Now remember these things do not exist in a land that is Ignorant or poverty stricken. What Is worse they Rlrls who are Intelligent and willing to work are forced to exist under con ditions enumerated above. Tolerat ing such torture In our own land and with abounding evidence that we fall far short of making proper use of our fovernmental privileges H Is doubtful If we have any call to cast aperslons on the political abilities of the Fili pinos. Many people have very erroneous views as to the ethnology of the Mexi can people and of An InU'Hii;etit other so-called Latin Antt.ry. republlrs In Central and South Amt-rla. The original Inhabitants of Mexico. the Aztecs, were very advanced pro- son, the It years of McKlnlcy pie ajid were immeasurably above the North American Indiuns in intellect The South Americans also were ad vanced In science and learning to an extent few realize. It Is now claimed that for centuries a certain tribe has made use. In a crude way, of the prin ciples on which wireless telegraphy is based. In the Juamara region of the Ama zon the nalives use a crude system ol wireless telegraphy, which, it is as serted, has been in operation from an cient times. The transmitter found by an explorer was a hollowed trunk of a tree suspended from a horizontal pole stretched between two stumps. Inside the transmitter had been ar ranged much like a violin, and it was explained that when the instrument was struck smartly with a small rub ber hammer a vibration was created that carried for miles over the hills. The receiver is very similar to the transmitter except that it is placed on a hardwood platform, the base of the hollowed tree trunk being ground ed on the platform. When the mes sage is struck in the neighboring vil lage, sometimes thirty miles away, this receiver catches the vibrations, causing a Jerkey, singing sound. In Mexico irrigation enterprises of considerable consequence had been carried out before the conquest by the Spaniards. Mexico's troubles have been due to misrule and the prohibit ing of education. There are historians who say that should Mexico be given a generation of free and general educa tion the people would make such pro gress as would astound the world. Idaho Is also planning to get aboard the water wagon. As time goes by the American peo ple will realize more and more fully that they ought to have a feeling of deep thankfulness for a great many evil things that might have befallen them in 1914 and did not. CURRENT THINKING THE VISTULA RIVER. The Vistula river, along which the great struggle In the eastern theatre of war is raginpr. Is thus described In a bulletin issued by the Xatlonal Geo grai hic Society: "The Vistula river, one of the might iest streams flowing toward the north, sweeps in an Irregular course through three empires, Austria, Russia and Germany. It serves as a frontier line letween Austria and Germany, be tween Austria and Russia, and for a shnrter distance between Russia and Germany. Upon Its banks lie the cit ies of Cracow, Warsaw. Modltn, PlocK. Thorn, Kulm, Graudens, Marlenburg and the. Baltic port of Danzig. ' The Vistula rises In Austrian Sile sia and takes a circuitous route of 650 miles to the sea Its source is on the northern slopes of the West Besk Iden, a spur range of the Carpathians. The upper reaches of the river run through a narrow, wooded valley, nar rowing In places to a picturesque gorge with tree-hung sides, and throughout its highland way Is sur rounded by as wild scenery as can be found within the United States. Just before reaching Cracow the Vistula leaves the mountains, and from this Gallcla city seaward It Is navigable for smaller boats. Its di rection from Cracow is away from Its mouth, and It penetrates deep Into the plains of Russian Poland before It turns, not far from Warsaw, back to German lands. Its banks through th hirh Polish nlateau in the south and In' the neighborhood of Warsaw are hlKh bluffs, often sharp and raced with itna!v held earth erosions, and altogether difficult of passage be tween bank and bank. From Warsaw on it is navigable for larger river craft. The olain through which the river passes from Warsaw to the Prussian bnnndnrv smooths away into swell ing lowlandit. th river course becomes tricky and wandering, while the sandy banks are forever sliding Into the wa ter. The Vistula enters Prussia ten miles above Thorn, the strong Prussi an frontier fortress. Beyond this point it cuts through the Prussian ridge, enters low country again, where Its shiftinff banks give considerable trouble to navigation. The Prussian government has expended large sums of money In the endeavor to win a mastery of the river, and keep It ser viceable as a great trade artery. The Vistula has a heavy traffic of lum ber, grain and other farm products. Before reaching the North sea at Danzig, It divides Into two arms, that on the west retaining the name Vistu la. Thick sheet Ice binds the river at Warsaw, as a general thing, from about Christmas time to the first of March. It is visited by periodical floods of powerful headway In spring and In mid summer. The Vistula forms one of the moat Important com mercial avenues in Russian Poland, In lfillill!llllllli!ll!ll 1 ' I m I E3 53 ittiwumMtmninHtmimft! iilliuilllliltliHIlliiJuill.ItU IllllilllllilillS HI. iMTiATi"725 Main street addition to its omportant Prussian traffic: It Is connected by canal with the German river Netze, and through It with the Oder. It has a drainage basin 74,000 square miles In area, and receives the rivers of recent war fume the San, the Bug. the Plllca. Bzura and the W'iepti as tributaries." THIS MA Y ENTERTAIN TlIE RESEMBLANCE. The Russian army of 8,000,000 men Is a prohibition one. Russia, in fact, is now a prohibition country, the czar having closed all the governmental vodka shops, which yielded a revenue of $450,000,000 a year. SEND your next order for TO JUST step to your telephone and tell Central "One". We'll call for the order and guarantee to please you. NO MATTER WHAT YOUR PRINTING NEEDS MAY BE, WE CAN FILL THEM I 1 j ' y " sr-3 r -? "Prohibition." said Representative Hobson, "is advancing everywhere Take politics. The politician, even the statesman, was a heavy drinker In the past. How different now! "A political failure; during his first, last and only term, In the house went Into the house barber-shop to be shaved one day. " 'Congressman, ah,' said the house barber, 'do you know, sah, you remind me mighty strong, sah, of Daniel Webster T' "'The brow, eh?' chuckled the con gressman. 'Is it the brow, Oeorge.' "'No, sah,' the barber answered; lt ain't de brow. It's de breff.'" A BY-PROD I'CT. A teacher In a children's Institu tion was giving the geography class a lesson on the cattle ranches. She THE spoke of their beef all coming from the west, and wishing to test the chil dren's observation, she asked; "And what else cornea to us from these ranches?" That was a poser. She looked at her shoes, but no one took the hint. &he tried again. "What do we get from the cattle besides beef?" One boy eagerly raised his hand. "I know what It la. It's tripe!" he announced triumphantly. The Youth's Companion. ItritUh frtilxrr at ITaotlo. NEW YORK. Jan. T The 6wedb.hr steamer Bur, which arrived from Lon don, reported that she saw today a British cruiser engaged In taget pac tlce 20 miles southeast of Ambrose channel m H3 E3 t s 3-