THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1917.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER.
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Simms Describes How It
Feels to Be Up in A Balloon
Half a Mile Up In the Air Witih. Hostile Battery Shooting
At Him Is the Experience of United Press Corre
spondent Batteries Are Called Up By 'Phone.
(This is the third of Simms four
stories depicting the thrills and ter
rors of playing tag with death in a
sausage balloon above the trencher at
the British front. "Editor.)
BY WM. PHILIP SIMMS.
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD, Feb. 3. (By Mail).
Life in an observation balloon section
is a great game of tag. Death is the
Other Fellow. He is always hot on
your trail and every now and then he
pets you in a corner. Then you're It.
"Get the Major to tell you about the
time he was carried over ,the German
lines and back again all in one night,"
said the young Lieutenant, as we tug-
the winch turned a revolution too far.
The metallic V, where the balloon's
short cord was spliced to the wire
cable, wedged in the opening leading
to the revolving drum, or windlass,
and the cable parted like a piece of
sewing thread.
With a -bound that jerked the bas
ket this way and that like a hall on
the end of an elastic string, the bal-
Ipon went skying.
At 12:21 a. m., the balloon wn.s a
mile high. The major had not used his
parachute to which the harness about
him was still attached, because the
wind at a mile, and bolow, was away
from the German lines which ran some
two miles away. Instead lie pulled at
into German territory.
It was too late to jump now. If he
tried the parachute and landed safely,
it would be only to be taken prisoner
by the enemy.
So cold that his marrow seemed
frozen, he now set about to tear up
his maps, notes and everything which
might help the Germans. Leaning out
of the basket and peering down he
could no longer see the flares sent up
to light the trenches. The indicator
showed that he was falling now, rather
rapidly. Making sure that he had de
stroyed all papers, he waited.
Still falling, the major threw out
some ballast to check the rapid de
scent. One faint hope still was left him
he might be blown back across his
own lines again by the air-currents
nearer the ground.
So, as much as he could, he husband
ed his ballast and his gas, jockeying
the baloon like an aeronaut in an in
ternational race, his prize for winning
being his freedom. If he lost, the best
he could hope for was prisoner of war
for the duration of hostilities. There
could be no half-way.
At a mile high, the balloon was still
dropping, though slowly. No lights
THE WHA T-yO U-MA y
GOLUMJV
BY "G.M."
Time.
How much is a minute?
Sixty seconds?
Not if a woman knows herself. No,
Sir. Turn a woman loose with one of
those little white spaces on the clock
and stretch it out of all semblance to
it"- former self.
Dnylight saving is nothing in her
young life.
This is not a complaint.! It's just a
statement of one of the fundamental
principles of matrimony.
Wo arc not in favor of elastic clocks.
ged at the end of a tiny wire cable, in -the 8au3aSe
the little basket under the "sauaeo"; Still "valvi
; t... .i . . Inf th ,ramn
the valve-cord to let out the gas in , were visible anywhere. The sky was
I murky and there were no stars to
vine" to use the vernacular serve as guides. Jt was to be a fight
high in the wintry skv. But the M: ior !of the B'arac, the offk fr found himself in t'e dark, hit or miss without see-
was too modest. He said : ! at above 10,000 feet or about two miles . "K what he was doing. The absence
bove the earth. It was bitter cold and j trench flares looked bad. He must
getting colder every instant. j have drifted far behind the German
At 12:40 a. m. he passed the 15,000 ines-
foot mark. Though he had been keep-
ing the valve wide open all the time, ' Why Not a Business Manager?
the balloon still soared. j For consideration of the voters, a
Now he looked downward. There I .if wt,- ,,Kiii,in. tk. ,;;
were lights below, lights which flared J system of government and restoring
"Oh, all right. I'll tell you about it
after dinner tonight.' He Ud not like
to talk about his own exploits but ho
mentioned several of his men who had
been the heroes of adventures in the
clouds. But I did get to read the of
ficial report of the incident and this
was the story:
Shortly after midnight one night the
Major, after carrying out certain ex
periments at about a mile high, signal
led that he was ready to come down.
The winch on the big lorry in the road
began to grind and at 12:17 a. m. the
up for a minute then went out; great,
white balls of light hanging in the
air and illuminating the countryside
beneath them.
The major in his sausage was' cross
ing the line." He knew in an instant
sausage was swaying just out of reach what had happened. He had risen to
of the landing squad. Then, "by an er- a high cross-current of air and was
ror oi judgment, as the report puts it, being swept over the German trenches
Spring Is Coming,
So Are Germs-
The loug-dela)-ed Spring time will soon be
here in spite of the abundance of snow still "with
us." Are you, Mrs. Housewife, and Mrs. Mother,
mindful of the added dangers of contaminated
milk that come with warm weather?
Are you giving the same care and precaution
to clean milk that you are to the baby's food and
your own?
Are you aware that in Summer .time greater
vigilance against impure milk is needed than in
winter?
Is the dairy supplying your inilk a clean
dairy, or is your milk supplied by people who give
milk scant consideration, having" other work to do
and let you take what comes from the barn, milk,
dirt, filth and all? Are you buying milk from
dairymen who make that their own and sole busi
ness along scientific lines?
Pure Milk & Cream Company equipment, sup
ervision and sole time is devoted to the end of
pure milk. It is only a matter of time until the
vision will come to every housewife and mother in
La Grande. Why not "Get the vision" right now?
Milk, Cream, Buttermilk, on Delivery Outfits. Re
tail window at the plant,
Pure Milk & Cream Co.
(Dealers in pure milk and cream.)
the old councilmanic form, has been
proposed by a committee representing
various important interests. The
charter provides for a Mayor at $4,
000 a year and 11 councilmen' re
presenting seven wards on the East
Sido and four on the West Side at
$100 a monnth each. The Mayor,
Auditor, Treasurer and Municipal
Judge would be elected at large; each
ward would choose its own 'rcprasent
ative. While it can be said that the com
mission has :imply proved that to it
any other form of government would
that v. .SRctt
be preferable, it is doubtful if the
voters are ready to return to the old
councilmanic system. That the coun
cilmanic form cf government has
many distinct advantages over the
commission, there is no question. The
council is less autocratic and bure
aucratic, and is wholly representative.
But it gets us no nearer business
method of conducting the business of
the city. The Sp'.bator thinks thr.t
tho tax-payers are heartily tired of all
systems of governments th:it leave
the control of municipal business af
fairs to politicians. Those of us who
pay tho expense of the city govprn-
Kscalators.
The escalator is a stairway that
climbs up the middle of its own back
and lets people ride on it.
You get on the bottom step and
stand there, letting your feet feel use
less till you get to the top. Then
the darned thinjr turns into a sidewalk
and goes right on, leaving you to get
off the best way you can.
Escalators probably are the first
step toward wandering sidewalks,
That's what we're afraid of. With
them in operation a man wont even
b'j able to stand in front of his own
house without traveling all over town.
And when he starts home at night it
will all depend on which direction the
sidewalk is going whether he ever gets
there.
Also, how will we ever find our
burlier shops, with the pole3 on the
go all the time?
Tea used to lie a strong, virulent
drink.
But today it is so weak it has to
ride to the dining room on a thirty
dollar wagon.
We owe some department store or
other that much besides a debt of
gratitude for supporting our share of
the now puny and decrepit beverage
to the table.
Wo know a man who frequently
drives his wife into a blind rage by
saying:
"Agnes, if the tea isn't ahie to be
up and around today you might wheel
us in a cup."
One of these days shell hit him
with the wagon.
Light.
Light is a priceless illumination the
Lord arranged to shed on the world
twelve hour a day. But He miirht
have known we couldn't lie satisfied
with it.
Judging by the actions of bird3 and
chickens and other close-to-nature an
imals, we have always thought that
(lllsk WJ1S Jl KlKrfrpuf Win ftrwl flfiflnnnfl n
me.it know very well that we could broad hint to folks it was time to go to
not long do so if we called in politic- bed.
nans to manage ouv business. There
is no commercial enterprise in the city
today that could survive a year's man
agement by the politicians to whom
we have been in the habit of entrust
ing tho affairs of the city.
But do we do it? Not on your in
candescent bulb! We turn Mr. Edi
son's juice loose and let the meter
i run races with our pocketbooks while
we sit around till midnight and wreck
if IT. IK n Qfifn imiH Wiga vinl ... ir. . .
And if we go out on the street we
run chances of being winked at by a
beer sign or a movie ad.
Notice of .Stockholders Annual
Meeting.
employ trained business men to con
duct our private business, whv should
we cling to the foolish policy of choos
ing politicians to manage the public
business? The voters of Portland,
who arc tho city's stockholders, should
choose not a lot of politicians, who Ti, n.,.,! -,.:.... ,u
no. unusually are m politics because : holders of the Grande Rondc Rcser
they have made a failure of everv-'vnir rv, ,m ui.i t. i.
thing, else but a trained business man I Grande National Bank, 1 41 Grande
to manage their affairs. i Oregon, on Monday, April 9, 1917, ot
Tlie stnous objection to this is that 1 10 o'clock a. m. At this meeting a
it will throw the politicians out of
"Kiuy lunraiivc joos. Ana tnc ob
jection will be made by the politicians.
Tho Spectator, Portland.
The King of Wurtemburg draws a
.net profit of at least 10,000 pounds a
year from the hotels he runs in the
Black Forest.
Let ua print your farm sale bills.
such other business considered as may
properly come before said meeting.
WALTER M. PIERCE,
President.
First publication March 8th.
Last publication April 7th.
3-8-15-22-29;4-5
BUTTER WRAPPERS for aale at
The Observer Office.
To One Dead.
I think that if you suddenly returned,
A little bewildered by the light and
air.
Hut smiling secretly at alt you learned,
Shaking the grave dust from your
shining hair
I think if I should come with you to
tea,
I should not find you changed or
grave or sad,
But keen with talk of what there was
to see.
Laughing the while in that frank way
you had.
There would be stories of the shad
owy host,
And sprightly comment on the
things they do;
How this one was a most exclusive
ghost,
Or that one was adorable in blue.
It would be good to hear tho things
you said
Your light and usual ' gossip of the
dead.
David Morton in The Century.
THE BEGGAR
He comes and stands besides my chair,
And with an offhand, careless air
Tcllj about a pair of skates
Ho saw down town. "They're Number
eights.
That's just my size.
They're nickel plated, awful swell;
Some kid might grab 'cm you can't
tell,
For a surprise,"
Of course, his clever plan goes
through;
What else can his fat uncle do?
To make a child's young heart unfold
Is quite the dearest power of gold,
And well we know
That all life's happiest, sweetest ways
Aro walked in childhood's flowery
maze.
Thus may we borrow from, the days
Of long ago. William F. Kirk.
That Carload of Bulls.
(Contributed.)
We all apTPK t.hnf Vn mln.J
bulls shipped out of La Grande Satur
day, March 3, waa tho best lot of Un
ion county pure breed bulls that has
ever been sold to go outside the coun
ty. However there has been some
misunderstanding as to the breed
represented in this lot ond the men
that raised thorn. When such a' mer
itorious lot of home bred etuff is
sent out we want the men that pro
duced them to get full credit for their
stock and nro tiArawitli minw iia
ft ' " ft un.
of sellers and number of head in the
siupment. These cattle were bought
by H. P. Whitman, representing the
Pendleton Meat company. Most of
them wota nno viiai. nJA :
jvw. viu w no ayi U9f
and brought their owners close to $10.-
wu ior cue 44 neaa. The car was
made up as follows:
Shorthorns W. J.Townley, Union,
five head: C. iW rwdav tw t.i.
two head; W. W. Green Sr., Union
five head; W. W. Green Jr., Union,
six head; total, 18.
Herefarda RIocklnnH Rn t
land City, 21 head; J. W. Chandler,
vaeaierj, ia urande, five head; total.
26. ,
The total number in the car was 44.
Butter Labels for sale at
The Observer Office.
Song of applo-tree, honcysweot and '
murmurous. !
Where the swallows flash and chim
mor as they thrid the foam
white maze, i
'Breaths of far-off Av&lon are blown
to us, come down to us, I
Avalon of the Heart's Dosire, Avalon
of the Hidden Ways! j
Song of Applo-bloasom, when the
myrial leaves aro gloaming
Like undersides of small green waves
in foam of shallow seas.
One may dream of Avalon, lie dream
ing, droaminsr, dreaming. i
Till wandering through dim vales of
dusk the stars hang in tho trees.
Fiona Macleod.
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