La Grande evening observer., April 10, 1930, Page 7, Image 7

Thursday, April 10, 1930
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE.
Page Seven '
MEEKER LEAVES
WORK UNFINISHED
Bequeaths Great Cause to
American People With
His Death in Seattle.
Jly lr, Howard It. Irlgi;s
(Professor of Knglish Touching
New York University and Presi
dent Oregon Trail Memorial As
sociation) A few months ago there died in
tlio city of Seat tin a pioneer whosr
name, Kzra Meeker, hna become
ulfn,osl a household word in our
land. Ah this veteran of nearly a
hundred years wbk passing awtiy,
lie whispered to his daughter, "I
am not quite ready to go; my work
is unfinished."
The work to which he was gling
Ing up to his dying breath, was
the Haying in vitalized and endur
ing forms the great epic of the
"Westward March of America.
At the age of seventy-six,-when
most men aro ready to lay down
their burdens, this intrepid Amer
ican had conceived the idea of re
blazing the fading old traits along
which fully tli r eo hundred fifty
thousand covered wagon pioneers
from every state then existing
North and .SotJth had made the
toilsome journey over prairies and
mountains and desert to plant
our empire states beyond the
Itockfes. Rebuilding one of these
prairie schouncis out of parts of
throe old pioneer wagons that had
crossed the plains, he trained a
yoke of oxen and with one com
panion retraced the old trail all
the wa y fro m the 1 aci f ic to t li e
Mississippi. Thence over the
connecting old National 1'lue ha
journeyed on to Washington
Harry L.
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where ho was welcomed by Presi
dent Roosevelt, who gave hearty
approval to the old pioneer's ef
forts to ninko our history , live
again in throbbing reality. Later
President Coolldgo endorsed his
plan.
Leaves u Omse
Im Meeker lias passed away,
but he has bequeathed to us a
causo that nrust not die. What is
that cause? Outwardly It Is the
marking and monumcntlng of n
famous old trail. Inwardly it
means the saving in vibrant and
truthful forms of tho Oregon Trail
migration in the story uf America's
making a stirring part of our his
tory in which every American.
Kast, West, North and South, has
a vital and an abiding interest.
We aro prone to think of the
old Overland Tmil aa a Western
Trail. It is no western trail at alt
except geographically. , Histor
ically It Is decidedly anKastern
trail. It was discovered and worn
deep by easterners who went
West.
The West, may I remind you Is
simply tho transp hinted Kiist. It
is no more It Is in a very real
snnso the blended North and South.
They sing a song "Out Where the
West llegins;" frankly, I do. not
know where It begins but I do
know where It began. It began
on the shores of the Atlantic. The
pathfinders who mapped and
charted . our Far West came from
every state east of the Father of
Waters.
Native Sons
These heroes may I repeat
were, native sons uf all our older
states. Listen to the names of
just a few of themi Captain Rob
ert Gray, who by discovering the
Columbia, gave us our Initial
claim to the Pacific Northwest,
was a son of old Rhode Island ;
Lewis and (-lark, the first to lead
a 1mm! of Americans n cross the
continent, and Jim Iiridger. who
Corbett
Republican
Candidate
For
Governor
Primaries
May 16
an a boy trapper discovered the
Oreat Salt Lake, were Virginians:
Wilson Price Hunt, who led the
Astorlans overland, and Captain
Zcbulon Pike, of Pike's Peak
faiibe, were sons of New Jersey;
Kdward Robinson, who fighting
under Daniel Booties' was shot und
scalped and ieft for dead on tho
Bloody Ground, was one of the
three Kentucklans who found the
South Pass, tho great gateway of
tho Rockies: Jededlah Strong '
isinJth. the first to dare the great
American desert, and Or. Marcus
Whitman, and his devoted, wife,
who gave their lives to carry
Christianity beyond the Rockies,
wore from old New York; Nat Wy
eth, who built Fort Hall a place
of refuge and help foti weary emi
grants to California and Oregon,
was from . tassachusetts; John C
Fremont, tin fearless pathfinder,
who by a daring stroke won Cali
fornia, was a son of old Georgia.
A full roster of the heroes and
heroines who played significant
parts In the winning of our West
adds lust to lo every one of tho
o.lder stales of tho union.
Nor Is this all that links these
first states to those that were later
added to tho flag. An even ten
derer yet stronger bond may be
found in tho fact that fully twenty
thousand men, wompn and chil
dren your relatives, neighbors,
friends and mine lie burled along
those old sunset trails. And of
theso twenty thousand graves only
one, so far as wo know, is surely
marked. That Is tho gravo of Re
becca Winters, in western Nebras
ka, whose mound Is arched by a
rilHtod wnirnn tiro, on which is
chiseled the mother's nunio and ;
age. You will appreciate my Inter
est in these unmarked graves when
I tell you that four of by creatiCOUUI HV OU1' "'story tatignt to
grantpaients lie somewhere antong us likt! tlmt wc W feel like
the velvety hills of old Iowa. Ho ' sa,uUn tho r,H"' T,U'V require us
have you a tender Interest in to Rv " de: but frankly wo
them, for when the rosier of theso j lum,l' know xvnal 11 ls a11 uuut."
pioneers who mjado tho supreme ' A Chnllcugo
sacrifice trying to reach tho West! There is a challenge to Aniri'
is made, the name of practically lea. If our salute ,to the flag is
every old line American family to ho not merely of tho hand but
will be found nmong the names oft from tho heart, wo must cease
tho heroes and heroines that fell J the too common practice of feed-
along the old trails.
Glimpse of Hardships
Let pile give you just, one glimpse :
of some of the hardships and of . love for our constitution and our
the fine American count go env- I country, we must, with all due re
bodied in that epic making march j spect to the verities, mako our hls
and conquest. Here Is a throbbing j tory vibrate In the hearts of Amur
Incident I had anew the other lea's youlh.
day from tho lips of George' u ,ms te(.n ))iy pl.Vu0Ke during
Illinois, the aged secretary of tho . lho mst month to COV0P eight
Oregon Historical association. As 1 thousand miles of our country In
a boy of ton ho participated with the interest of the cause I have
a company of pioneers In opening Jlisl ,Vt.n , VM(,m.lt to vmi. j.;v.
tho way into Washington through . erywn,,rP i rulim, historical aellv
ihe difficult and dangerous Natch- ; Ui),M am u umi encouraging
ess Pass. "ATter months of grind-HI)irU of rooU,nilon (o forward
Ing travel across the plulns," snld ln 0r ,. association. In
tills veteran, "we had come Into the No)ruf,ai, for Instance, the leaders
Yakln valley; then by dint of , nf l3 tMt association in
toil had wound our wuy up I"' ; miffalo county and the atule have
inKiniu nver. crossing anu re-
crossing that boulder-strewn nvoun
lain' stream 'fifty-nine times one
man kept count with notches on
his whipstock. At last we readied
the summit of tho Cascades. What
we found tluire was expressed, by
my mother in tho exclamution,
W.eli wo have certainly com- U
the Jtimrping off place .at. last. ,(.rt HrJ(1ror at 1ne dividing
"blocking our way was a greatl m( ((f (ne . 0l(j r,h-Oregun-precipice
fully a thousand 't ; rir,,, Ilia trjlna: JiniI this historic
down. The dense virgin forest . Lp jf, u,HO (o ,m peretuated as
defied our progress to right or , t of tn H,at t Hy8lem or historic
left, we could not hew a way for j Hnrinr;t I(J().ho. has for several
our train thiough it,
To turn back
meant starvation
"Wbat was lobe done. Only one j t, ,ho BtnUepic importance or
chance offered lUelf and that wasj,,, (u, )(0Hti whk.h figured once
to unload the wagons and let them; ,n onr nlrnutlomil affairs, and
down the face of that clirf. It was wn,,,n )s oUi in vlvIJ )IM.m;ory by
n desperate venture, but -wc had mnr,r.h. Illlti (roirnn nhmeerM
to take it.
All the ropes and chains were
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MOTOR COACH
Pendleton Walla Walla Lewiston
Spokane Yakim a Bend Portland
Baker BoiseTwin Falls Pocatello
Salt Lake City
3 Trips Daily to Pendleton and Way Points.
3 Trips Daily to Baker and Way Points.
3 Thru Trips Daily to Portland and Way Points.
2 Thru Daily Service to Wciscr, Ontario, BoiseIViii
Falls, Pocatcllo, Salt Lake City and Way Points
Connection ar made at Pendleton to and from Spokane, Coeur d'AIene,
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Connection! ax made at Umatilla to and from Kennewick. Pasco,
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Connection ara made at Arlington to and from Heppner, Condon, Foastl
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ConnactloM art made at The Dalles to and from PrincTi'Ue, Bend,
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Connection! ara made at Portland to and from Tacoma, Seattle,
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Way Points South.
Connections are made at Salt Lake City to and from Denver, Omaha,
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Motor Coaches
Pendleton ....
Walla Walla
Lewiston ...
Spokane
Vakima
Pdl-tlnnH
..5:40 a. m.; 9:30
3:30 a. m
9:30 a. m
..9:30 a. m
..5:40 a. m.; 9:30
5:40 a. m.; 9:30 a. m. ; 6:50 p. m...
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Inquire t SUfire Depot for rti und Khednlei to 11 point!
Eipreu Shipment Crned on All Schedule
Columbia Gorge Stage Depot
Elm and Jefferson SU. Phone Main 799
COLUMBIA GORGE MOTOR COACH SYSTEM
taken out of tho wagons to make
a cable, but when tied together
there were not long enough. The
leader rose' to the emergency. Ho
ordered that one of the oxen be
killed. This wns done, the hide
of the faithful beast was taken
off and cut Into strips which
were added to the ropes and
chains, 8UU tho cable was too
short.
Kill two more oxen,'
munded our leader. The
corn
men obeyed, and with this added raw
hide achieved their purpose. Our
twenty-nine wagons were let down
tho precipice. One of them break
ing loose, was smashed into kind
ling wood. The. others;. safely
landed In the gorge below, were
reassembled. Then the goo.ds. car
ried on the backs of men, women
and children down a craggy trail,
wero reloaded, tho oxen brought
down. Finally the train moved on
painfully down the rocky canyou
until at last 11 reached the smil
Iw, country where the great cities
of Tacoina and Seattle have since
been bulldod by theso and other
dauntless Americans,
Jt Is out of stirring episodes such
an this which may be duplicated
by tho thousands, that tho epic
of tho winning of tho West Is
woven.
The vilal significance educa
tionally of tho saving and teach
ing theso humanized bits of our
history is concretely shown in tho
following Incident. Not long since
a lecture on America's greatest
trail was given in the Hroux, Now
York City before an audience mode
up mainly of high school students
,,f f'Kn parentage. At tho close
; of It a young mini came to the lee
turer to say with onto ion, ."If wo
ing pupils on the husks of history
and glvo to them the bread of
life. If we are to implant a living
jusl nfrecl(,d Die purchase of the
site of old Fort Kiearney, a fam
ous way station and place of pro
tection on the old trail. This has
been taken over by the legislature
to be perpetuated as part of the
state park system. In Wyoming
likewise, leading citizens have
.,., JlholI, lhn niI,.rhHe of the
vMi r linrwi nt u iiiI( tn in nm ri rill I-
I WU .il.l I.'.. ft IT'ill In u-!iv ltrrit-
I The state or wasuington i.((u is iuk-
I ,ntf H)ipH t(J lnv.orlalIsse the mem
ory of Dr. and Mrs. Marcus Whll-
man. A group or financial lend
ers, sons of tho pioneers in the?
state, already have purchased the
j it0 oC 11,0 monument and the tomb
01 imf" JUIIU"""'11
j A few days ago I stood with
! Iu',liI "nirovered nt the spot where
t l,"'sw Christian martyrs and eleven
' followers lie In one tomb
"' w,lH n,,ul ' ''o 'vr
bofore the (niglc rost of It all.
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Portlaad, Oreo
Sport
Slants
Alan J.Gould
How will Canvpolo tare in a
bout wllli Camera It may take
a wrecking crew lo clear the debris
if these two heavyweight huskies
meet but the Gawky Gaucho from
the Argentine at least Is following
a more rugged path than the
Amblfng Alp fiom Italy, in prep
aration for their projected outdoor
battle.
In his last four fights against
such men as Hjeenuy, Scolt and
Risko (twice). Camjpoio has fought
nearly 40 rounds. Ho has taken
a battering but he has also im
proved against tough focmen.
Camera lias appeared in an even
do.ou affairs only one of which,
with the negro A.co Clark, boro
tho semblance of being a contest.
It went six rounds. None of tho
other eleven bouts lasted two
full rounds. All told, Camera
has had only 4S minutes, or 10
rounds, of actual action. Tills
represents no moro than one good
aftern-ooiCs "woVko.ut in a gym
nasium. It develops that variations of
the Rockne and Warner shifts. In
widespread . use on the grldiorn,
caused sufficient trouble for the
football rules-makers to take ac
tion against them. As taught by
tho masters themselves, these
phlfls before the ball Is put. into
play have been so accurately de
veloped "and timrd that few, if
any. infractions of I he "stop
rulu" have been Incurred. Less
experienced coaches of the saim
schools, however, have made it a
liard llfo for officials trying to
enforce tho old rule requiring u
stop of "approximately" one sec
ond. They no ware fortified by
tho now 'regulation calling for a
halt on the shift of "at least" one
(:eeo nd or tho equivalent of a
rapid count of six, Instead of four.
The referee hence forth will car
ry a split second slop watch to
cheek up on any eleven apparent
ly "getting away with something"
on the shift. It is tho fifth of a
second that counts on a momentum
play, the main idea of which is to
deceive I lie opposition lief ore it
lias a chance to readjust Die de
ft mi sc.
If it keeps up inueli lunffer,
sports of alt sorts literally will be
in tho HpotliKhl. College fool
liiill was played under the Incan
deKcenls hi nvjiny party of tho
country Inst year. On May 0 tho
Des Moines baseball elul of the
Western hjnpuo "will Hprlni; an in
novation liy -openhiK Us Heanon at
nlirht under a battery of MO flood-
liHThtH.
In add il hm lo baNeball and foot
ball the outdoor HpnitH wiiicli have
taken to ilhimlnfition Ineludc track
and ffHd, soccer, tenuis, Hkatlng,
trapshootliiK and Kolf, in lis mlnlu
'tlire rouiHi form, such as flourishes
in llorlda.
I'omllntf a typewrilio and pound
ing the cindi-i-H seem lo Kit to
Ifnther, ( y I ,olund, the Texas
t'hristiiin Hprint nee. has innbi-
tlons to become a sports writer.
1 lo- has some conspicuous prece
dent for this aim in life. 'hnr!ey
I'nddock was a fluent contributor
to Iho spifftine' coiuiuns tf news
pupers as well as niawfiJnes, wlien
ho was not in the movies or on tho
lecture platform, I .oren M urch
ison's bllned stories for I he pa
pers caused the Olympic commit
tee In l!i-4 to bur 'play-wrilerH."
.1 acksoii Sehol. is the author of
"Split Seconds" and other books,
as yell as infitfuzliwt articles.
hike bees out of a hive. Im
patient, to le hnv..liiK around,
thousands of hkHo boys and yoiiu
in.en have, betfiin to swarm upon
llie c-inderM. about the jumping
pits and over tho hurdles. Track
and field activity Is a sure har
binger of sprit if? in schools and
cu I leges throiiKhoiH the counl ry.
Only Frigidaire
can give you the better vegetables
i i i
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made possi
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The new Frigiilaire Hyclrator brings you an added serv
ice a service offered only by Frigidaire. For Frigidaire
alone has the Ffydrator.
Celery kept in the Mydrator becomes tender and
brittle Tomatoes retain their firmness and flavor.
Lettuce takes on added crispness. Even wilted vege
tables are made fresh again by the Hydraior's moist
reviving cold. Sec a demonstration today.
Jcxkc Hoscnhaum
Klcctiic Co.
La Grande, Ore.
IT'S THE CUT OF
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out Thursday.
It contains a special seventeen-page "Men's Wear Section" '
sponsored by twelve of America's leading manufac- .
turers, including the makers of
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The two outstanding spring styles in men's suits illustrated
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The Texan nod Koulhern Afrlh
ntllst relays furnished iU-n luipeliiK
for an April cauipalgu that draws
uation-wldo attention the end of
the month to Philadelphia and
I)e-i Moines, wheio tho Pennsyl
vania and Drake carnivals hold
sway. Close lo 10,000 alhletes
lotupclo annually In lhono spec
tacular meets, with the Fresno re
lays nu thn Pacific const furnlsh
liitf a simultaneous chance on
April for tniro concept ruled
track a nl field competition than
any ol her day In tho year.
On this dale It may be possible
to coin punt the perforins iicoh of
three of the country' great est
college Hp r inters-. I't.ioi.unalely
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they camml bo fioUen lordlier
lor the day, but it will bo worth
noting tho returns If Frank Wy
kofr of tSouthciHi California por-formjs-
at lrosno, Cy Luland of
Texas (.'htisan does his stuff at
Dch Moines and (Inorfio Simpson
of Ohio .Stale again leads tho
sprinting parade at I'hiladclphla.
Simpson, Wykoff and I -eland all
havo bit I he world's official rec
ord fij;u! o of !t a-f soi'OIhIh for
thn "100" so often that It has
ecaseel to lx startling. Hitnpaon
ran tint first "nlnc-lhrco" 'ever
witnesKi'd on historic. Franklin
Held IiiM April but later, with the
starting blocks ho did "nine-four"
nt Chicago, inland him started his
limo drive sensationally in Texas
and Wykoff has been pronounced
iinheatahlo on Mm coast.
1L wilt he niio of tho hi;', 1 1 Hpols
of tltu year if I hewi I hree, witli
Tola n, llracey and a few ot hers,
can be collected for tho National
Colleidatn championships in Chi
cago next. June.
Among a number of other track
and field pei-rormeiH worth keep
ing an eye on as tho season sprints
along arc:
Htevo Anderson, I'nlversiiy of
Washington hurdler, who has j
come close on severa I occasions j
. "ii.M mi i . in n n v-
ord of H -f nicoiids for tlio
y.inl journey over Iho high tiui-
bfllK.
i ;t ie. I-;"i n, a ud Karloiv Uolh
ert, Ktanfold strong M'n .each of
Whom has he ri close; to U'l feet no
It r In the. sii'itpnt. Kien. already
iiolils tho discus tossing record.
IM lliiiiiin of (ivorgla Tecfi, the
Olympic In i ntd Jump chiunpiou
ami recmd -holder, who Is ainbi
tlous to wind up his collcgo career
by beat ing ''i h-ei.
Itob V'jiii Odel of Kolll hern
Ciilirornla and Hi M Nelson of Uul
I'-r. in .lie hfKh jump.
JIii.i i!i y lirltngcr of I'eniisyt
vunia, in Dm decathhrn,
I tut-c h is t.t ken n not her swift
Stride toward a piiee In t,lie South
ern JiUtletie sun by eiiKiiR.lig Wnl
:ir; Wiii-li'. A ?;th,i ma's fritJKMia
ffttil li,i II i-imi'Ii, foi a. t e-year
period, start mg in 1 1. The
"baby" of the Soul hern confer
ence is already full-grown, so far
a Hports competition Is concerned.
Wade developed championship
leu ins. Uofc Uuwy winnirs and
AII-Ani'-rlcans sueli us Wlnslclt
and Holm at Aluhamu. Ifo will
take a fine reputation as a cOftch
inf genius tu the wealthy North
Carolina nchuol.
ItKCKUTS SHOW UAIX -KUatiNJJ,
Ore. (XV) Postof
flco rccnlpts in lOtigcno during the
first rpiartcr of 1930 amuuntod to
)41,99G.ll, V. E. Yorati, postmast
or, announces. This represents an
increaso of moro than 12 per cent
ever the receipts for tho first quar
ter of 1929.
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