La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, September 21, 1919, Image 11

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"-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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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Queer S.9ry of Superstition ExistinQ
in England Comparatively Only I
a Few Year Ao. I
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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,.
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year-round jenormancc.
Hilton's Garage '
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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.
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