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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1919)
e e e "-r SUNDAY. yl'l'TEMpjciR LEARI! FEW FAGTSf Writer (fritizMoo'om Teach- u ui (niwry. Important Hippunlnfli Recorded With. out the jfvenu Leading Up to I Thee tfeing st Forth .- 5ake Hd Srin, - Take Engli.-.), hlsiuij as it is tinieht In HQ Kngli.-r. ve b-Hi wiili iii'sur iind u ' vumun nost. 1-r.jui where fver J'" ": J. J. Ituseullwl was srug learn, 11. G. Wells wrlles In the Suturt ! " "'"ileal show with the Internum duy Kveuini,' l'.wj. Who W, Cm.-' at It West. Juke and 1 had bus and why did he come' win- ,11,1 t '".' Into contact often. a I hi hoeo? Why dldlhe I;oii:an, ie,t tome j ngiua for tlieWtter part of a-century i Evidently souictliln- much umre liuiwr.- taut was guiiii; en elsewhere. A little way on In the storv certain Angles, Jutes and' Saxoni ruU in as Inexplicably. WluucvY Why? Later come the Danes. 'iia. Tv of Kuj.. Jand the erteet or soniutlilag s,,in on upon a doormat in a pasase out sitleu room full of events, win, several other doors. Tlio lur opi-iis, the X.ir mnn kings rush eut of the room, con quer the countr; hastily, say some thing about some novelty of which we have learned uoihins hitherto, the Cru sades, ahd'cxlt to room aaiin. From which presently kiu liichard returns dejected, lie has been flirht liH the Saracens. Who are the Sara ' cens? We never loam. What be comes ot them? We are never told. So It goes on. The bro;:d back of his tory is turned to KriL-land throughout. Its face and hands are hidden, ami we make what we can of ti e wrigslins t Its heels. The American story l slill more In coniprehensililo. An Innocent continent Is suddenly Inuuilateil liv Si:inl-!i. Por tuguese, French, Dutcii and Itrltish, who proceed at once to pick up the thread of various conlliets iniiiated elsewhere.. Someone called the pope Is seen to be dividins the new continent among the Kuropean powers. Colonies ore formed. What are colonics? These colonies, In w hat Is apparently a strenuous attempt to simplify history, break off from their unknown coun tries of orliiln. A stream of lmml);ra tlon begins, from west and east. The American mind establishes n sort of In tellectual Monroe doctrine and declares that America-has no past, only a fu ture. From wjilch sublime dream it Is presently roused to find sometliinir of unknown origin ealUst Kuropean Impe rialism wreclclti't the wr.rid. What is this imperialism? How did it luVn? The teaching of history In most oilier countries is alter the same fashion. Everywhere the teachers present more or less simitar histories of passages and doormats, tlreat events the Cru sades, the lteforinatien, the industrial revolution conic in with a bang and go out with a slam, leaving no clew, leaving our poor heads spinning. Is It tiny wonder If history falls back for a little human touelrupon childish anec dotes nbout Alfred and the cakes, the peerless beauty of- Mary Queen of Scots, and King Charles and his span iels? ! 6,000 John Smiths. The claims and record oNlee of the ministry of labor at Kcw, Kuglniiri, which Is now dealing with millions of forms In connection with unmnlny ment pnj has elect ricatly driven ac counting nnd tnbuhulng machinery. Figures are transferied to specl;.l cards by boles punched in certain po sitions and the cards are sorted by machine into groups. The-e groups then pass through a machine which prints the details from each card on rolls of paper, at the same time accu mulating the figures and producing a total ut any given point. An alphabetical index, corr?fstlng of 1 loosolcaf registers of all Insured work- j ers, contains li),0(-0,(HHt nnnies. of which thousands are identical. There are 6.000 John Smiths. LM0 John Itrowns, 2.000 William Itrowris, l..VM) William' Join's. l,0t0 John Mtiedoniild , and 1,000 William Dnvlcs. Eye Drill for Flyers. - The royal air force of England hat Instituted an eye drill that has made many splendid pilots out of mn who would otherwise have been useless. It was discovered that a large percentage of men only use one eyu at a time, and In the early days pib.rs were not test ed for eye balance. Many men were then passed Into the nir service who could never land correctly. When these deficiencies were discovered a school was formed and under an eye special ist twice n day airmen undergoing the cure were paraded fp eye drill and taught how to'ue both their eyes at the same time. The.reult was that f-"-per cent of the men who would have been bad pilots became good ones in s little while. Immigration Statistics. Between 1 7.0 and'l'siO the estimat ed number ut Inffiif grants was rw.psr,. while the increase in population from other jwitiTces w;i r.,.'il..i:."i4 ; 10-tft. Immigrants (Vt.ll' othr rWJ.-HW ; lSOf.o. hni'dzrant 1.1 t.l!-V7. other 4.1108,1 fifi : 1"M'. Iminiffitiifc-i, H,.7, 214, others' ,(V.:V-P'l ; IW-T. immi grants, 'J.l others 4.7'.Hi.2Jd ; 1KT0-S0, liulcrants. ii.MlMl'l, others 8,-S5.Ll; l''i'O. Immicrnnts, Ji.lMd,- 1 Ciy, others .-::.Sol ; hnml r rants, 3.M1-I. Dl, oile rs. '.: s poo-10, Immigrants, tt. s, oJi.ts 1,171.40. Until lS'vPall alia passen gers eOering the United Slates were0 3 c?ussed os lininlgra.O. In.-e the fl otes until JjiN (tj.ite do n-t 'ke Into H'lTiUlll inn' " ni ' vu.-i. o o " andHors Bcbe Malt r::n for iAna-h fwtni? I-Po nuTonbly a viola- o'i, 10 SGRJPT G4ME- BAGKJ Libretti Wfltes Humorously of nig First Play. Producer Seemingly Ha PorooUea All About, Work Ho PnaoarcW "Great," and It Vfat finally .Returns t Cimmr, "I m;ver shall futyet." said n'de Pinllt-y. tmhor, "(he first time I tried 10 "lo rr the sti'. u Cuiue akuut l"'""1 of rlsurs. At this par'lculur """" ne nt-eded a lyric for Ills show. Wf ,l11'' on Uraadway atid he gave rue cigar. "Itide, a song?' he said, 'can you write me "'So,' I replied. "'Cood!' Jake almost yelled. 'You're the very guy l m looking for. All the others say they can write me dozens of songs. That's the trouble with them. They're too cocksure. When you get home tonight write me a lyric on 'l.ove.' Do I get It tomorrow?' "'Well, you know, Juke,' I replied, 'orlgi.ily I was a telegraph operator and thcu n grain buyer out In Kuusus. However, If you wunt to take a chance, I'm gume. I'll write the lyric' ' That night I llxed up u couple of verses mid the next day I handed the finished product to Juke and ran. lie phoned nic later to say It was great and that It would go into the show Im mediately, it did. The show went broke on the second stop out. "Jake didn't put all the blame on the song that Is, he said it might have been something elso Hint explod ed Hie show. At any rate, he didn't lose lallli in me. Three months later he handed me an old inotheuten com edy script and suggested that I make it a musical play. I demurred, but he gave me a cigar, and so I went to work. A widely-known composer call ed In to do the score, and we labored together a month. Then we submitted the new musical comedy to Juke. " 'It's great,' he said. Then he threw tho script In his desk and we went forth expectantly. For a whole year I inspected tho billboards closely, but saw nothing that would Indicate that Jake had produced the piece. At the end of six months more I received the script In the mall. A man had bought the desk at an auction and found the .play In the drawer. All he asked of mo was that I return him the price of tho postage. I thought thnt reason aide enough, so he cot his stumps back." - Sunlight Not Good Germicide. Sunlight as a germicide proves to be less efficient and reliable at least In temperate regions than has been com monly supposed. In his experiments In Algiers, M. do I.aroquette lias found that, only prolonged or direct expos ure to sunllffht destroys bacteria, and flint its action Is chiefly confined to dry surfaces where the bacteria are BE AS PARTICULAR ABOUT YOUR COAL AS YOU ARE OF YOUR FOOD "ABERDEEN" W T Z S fully dchx-ulnl. r.iict'ri life lli&ds I tire affOrod only by very Intense light. en Hi. Hi.liO Is- more .-live t'"n polor.1. Mue holny slightly more eiwerful that) j other c.lnrs. To 'terla are ehler'oj kll!eyby lmnlroit $.0;, nnd uftra-vr?t- 1 let riiy hn fulled to show the T'uc terleldal action 80 generally PreOited tneni, me intra-rwi if o Di ur Inem clent. At he;t pnnMfiht acts only at 1ie surface, while layers of fat 'or nitlticle prevent even the slight (mil nary penetration. By Naval Precedent. It Is a cift-lous anomaly ef tho senior service, sfrys the London Dally News, that an oilieer who attains, us Lord Jolltooe and Sir David ltc.ttty have Just attained, the rank of admiral of the fleet, Is required by precedent to retire from active command. The rule niev have been designed to eliminate old sendogs who had become too ancient to bite, but It seems singularly foolish to penult Its application to men like Jelllcoo and lteatty. Ity the unprece dented rapidity of bis promotion. Sir David has tlnlshe'd his sea career at the ago of fort.v-clci.it In the prion1 of his llh'. Tho army is free from this senseless precedent, for the rank of Held marshal which is the military equivalent to the rani: of iidmii-al of the fleet was, of course, held during tho war by both Lord French ami Sir Douglas lla!g. Someone Is Lying. Excerpt of a conversation between Jim Ne!ll and bis brother "juicer," l'lke Fwlng of the C. 11. yard. "The fool kill didn't have sense enough to let go of the bar he had on bis shoul der when he felt the lloor dropping away from his feet and. of coir-se, when the old magnet added the bar to the under side of the plate it was currying down the shop, the Uhl went witli it. The worst of it was the craneman couldn't turn off the Juice nnd release the kid wlthoiv dropping the plate on top of him at the same time, so" "I s'pose they had to let the kid hang there nnd starve, huh?'' lleove Together. Swinging the Ax. Uncle .Toe t'animn was tMinmolxtltifi on a certain tfovenunental bureau. "It's a iniphiy polite bureau," he faiti thought fully. "Why, they never tire a man in that department. Tlny ask him to temler his resignation. Ami teu derliiK'. you know," said t'nelc loe SLilUii', "Uuderius makes It lcsr tough." EMISSARY OF SATAM SPEAKS Sworn Foe of Industrial Content, tho Rumor Monger, Glories in Fo menting Social Unrest. I nm tho Humor Monger. Home on the winds of Hades, from the halls of his Satanic .Majesty, I wander nmnnj; you credulous mortals nnd spread dissension. Suspicion (Hid envy arc my body puards. and I urn the sworn enemy of Industrial Content. Krom North to South, and from Knst to West, I carry my whispering to the erirs of the workers, and I revel USE ONLY UTAH COAL A Great Coal Preparation Unexcelled Q Udim Mshcantile . jj HDAT 11 0 Ic riol 1 5 In h.Jllch doH'-hr In tin fii-liit nnr ... . . . V.. v I am the devoted follower of Ana nias, and oh, hot? I hate the Truth I 1 dellghtgln funning the tod t Sines of Auarchy wlttt the seeds of Sf.il content. My propaganda Is conceived In rest hew minds nnd given shapo and life by fertile Imaginations. Velocity and facts ire strangers to me, nnd I seek only the cans of the Impressionable sous of Adnm. Sometimes I almost blush at the case with which I arouse their suspicions throu Ji my ally vporlugs, nnd I am forced to ad iiktt that a thrill of pride runs through mo from the Hps of my pointed ears, to the end of my tall. Whenever I begin operations pro duelhm Immediately slackens, for my Imps nre Indefatigable In their effort to obstruct. After tho-first Injection of my se rum witling muscles loso their pep, nnd a frown replaces the smile of con tent iiicnt My campaign thus far in the world has been fairly successful, nnd if the workers who are possessed with com mon sensa and wImIoiu do not expose my methods I exppct in be decorated pon piy return with the Medal of Dissension nnd Legion of Untruth by His Bulimic Majesty, the King of Hades, the last ruling survivor of tfte House of lleelzelmb. Speed l'p, the magazine of the Suhmurluo Hout cor poration, Newark shipyard. To Prevent Beriberi. Two thousand physicians assembled at the Imperial university In Kyoto recently to hear Ir. Shlmasuno lec ture on beriberi, the cnusH of which Is much disputed anions medical author ities. Tho disease Is not contusion, und Its chief cnuso Is eating pure rice, although tho doctor disbelieves the theory thnt rice ever causes blood poi soning. The speaker said that if rtee Is taken Into the, body along with other foods there Is less danger of beriberi. He died the cases of prisoners, fae tory hands, Ituddhlst monks and oth ers, who nte mueh wheat mixed with rice. Buddhist monks eat ten or twenty times as much other food ns rlee, and rarely KtifCcr from tho dis ease. Among tho factory hands of tho Kejlho Iron foundry of tho Mit subishi company 450 of the 2.000 Jap anese suffered from beriberi beeauso they ato pure rice, tvhlle only 0 of 8,(K0 Koreans suffered from the disease-presumably because they nte mil let and beans. Doctor Shimasono advised the eat ing of wheat wllh rice, In the ratio of six parts of rice to four parts of wheat. This will rreate a market for the shi ment to Japan or larger quantities of wheat from Oregon and Washington, Knst nnd West. Sufficient Unto Themselves. United States marines who huye bob nobbed with Filipino headhunters and have long been friendly with the C'ha rnorros of Guam, met their Waterloo when they tried to establish the en tente cordlnlo with tho' f'hn-PhuV W tho Virgin Islands. According to the marines the Clin- 9 1 ' o 1 e I 11 - 0 i; K v S a sr Clum ye 1,oor niK'.'rs." on llio vvOc !v of the They live haihor of ChtiO.fto-Ainalle, decline to mingle or Intermarry with the negroes, ami re sent any eo'slde Interference wllh their affairs. They are the hardest drink ers and best workers on the island, their oidiuiry bringing lb,, a good llv'ng tiu tishernieu and -awt of straw hats. The tribe is said to Tiavo come originally from theDuteh aio French Leeward Islands. "So far.te.e marines have taken euily long distance observations of the ClKi-Ohns. l-'or wliiU tin tribe In not hustllo, its members Imllento that thoy want to he left alone, "H. C. of L." nr Nelson's Day. Tho returned soldier, who N disgust ed to Und how horribly dear every thins Is. will enjoy this story of Hora tio Nelson. ' Tho admiral was dining with lteek font, tho author of "Vatbek," and a very rich man. Owing to the great scarcity of wheat, even such folk often denied themselves bread at dinner. Lord Nelson asked for bread, ami when told by a servant that bread was not served nt'Mr. lleckford's table, he look ed rngry, drew from his pocket a shill ing, nnd sent his own servant to buy leaf, observing that, having fought for his breuil, he ws not going to be denied It by his fellow countrymen. Dearth of Queen Bees In England lteekecping In En'-lnnd was badly hit by tho war. for the scarcity of sug ar made It impossible, to supply the hives with syrup for winter feeding it Is estimated that owing to this and oilier war causes, the bee population if Hnglnml has been reduced by 7ft per cent. Last year, In uplie of the war. England paid nearly fourteen million dollars for Imported honey, now the food production dc)wrt- ment of the government has. neeitlea to Import ojieen bees from Italy and In other ways help to restore the la duMiy, Beware First Fatee Slip. Honor Is like an island, rugged and whlmut a landing place; we can never tin ire re-enter when we are once out- Bide of It.---Stiver Threads. IHE Gives With i It ., JJH II I It 1 0 0 o c O -tTf?- o BELIEVED IN uki di miwa, t,.,t ti, ,,ih . o- Queer S.9ry of Superstition ExistinQ in England Comparatively Only I a Few Year Ao. I ., , j In I!u"jo fl.iys of nlitontlmi It 1 rtilhor tlll.'.rulPto uli'rstmnl tlip mn.-O ttillty of people f Hlxty r sO fiiiy wars ngn, but from the fuHuwinK It will lm floar thnt thy hml nut en tlrely ovotTOLiit lie ldon of evil spirit t-ntt'rliiK itiiiilnuiu Uiljis, tvLimrK ! tho London Tlmetf. A tradition has been current In the village of MHIN rook, Bedfordshire, that sixty or seventy years ago Vvo life sized eillgles were removed front tho altar tomb In the church twln to the strung" noises they were beard to make, and removed to the cetlr-r at the rectory, where owing to their con- tlnuanee of emitting noises they sojli.s - turbed the residents In the diulldiuii that In self defense they were Interred in the consecrated ' (round of tho chir- hynrd. LAXATIVE Aed People . THE BANE of old age is constipation. The bow 'els become weak and unable to perform their functions without aid. For this purpose only the mildest and gentlest laxative should be used. The use of harsh cathartics aggravates the trouble and makes the constipation worse. Chamberlain's Tablets arc a favorite with people of middle age and older on account of their gentle action. FRANKLIN CAR- Highest Tire Economy Lowest Tire Investment The tire economy of the' Franklin Car is not only indi cated by its figures of 12,500 miles, but is emphasized by the tiro anxiety of owners of other cars' carrying from ono to four srure tires. Franklin owners seldom carry a spare tire, and never have a heavy spare tire investment. They are free from tire anxiety, as well as tire expense. LiVht. weij:;ht and flexibility take the Franklin over tho greatest distances with unbroken speed on all roads. This means longer life to tires no sudden starts and stops, with the inevitable rind and strain. The tires on the Franklin. Car aro not pounded out suddenly, but wear out gradually. . All Franklin owners will tell you that they get a consistent, all-round economy of 20 miles to the gallon of gasofme i 2,500 mit-r to the set of tires ' .. SO f" slower yctirly depreciation , ' ' We will be glad at any time to demonstrate the Franklin e ' Carti'verany mails you name and t explain Direct Air Cooling ami other Franklin differences "whiclj, mak pr exceptional,. . ... . 'ii... year-round jenormancc. Hilton's Garage ' H i. .I n Mll cdiditoL T'"1"' uO'ieolo jtsts recently decided thre,e days Mutues. The recovered tne ed and the man h:id lost hialegu, bu the head "'0' woman ns rofcivtjri'cl and the man s head is In the ftses- 'ioti0C u res;0 fit of ihevlllage. The ehureh tvcrds tdiow that early in the Ia- century there was ft hand- nfciifiomn with full-leugth 11 (t- iiiv of William "luett and Mitry, his wife. In the church am? theso llgures nree with the reconl The figiirtH nre recumbent and tht bend went upon eifdindderci cushions bung with tassels carve. I In' stone. They rt present a man clad In plate armor tui'l u woman wearing tho head' dress ojf the Elizabethan period. Tho 1 tomb aiid ctllglc are carved out of Tit- ternhoy-stone amt the traces of heavy 1 glldluw Htul the superior workmanship j s(l,w that the monument must have 1 been a' very handsome ono, tho appro, J imato, date of erection being ubout 1 ltuiO. - 0mk '''--- ' -'' 1 4 fa-, I Mft..AMIswMBrT! tllirsslsl J v mi rl . . I: 8 lion of the (VrWon probihtlon thai0 Its wig $ 10 1 be Y' -rtnltted O o 0 Jn thf.sPt.it G O O Ttene :al r.OTwn. o h ts t0 n con- I in? an investi(r;'.0in into la of the compuud. 1 o e ducting merits . . e "':wrssii LI Yrrr. , ,. ....... e
