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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1920)
Films Help to Foreign Trade Motion Pictures a Si'ent Partner of Uncle Sam in His Export Trade. stock and handling It in its many phases from the farm to the home table. The Argentine government has shown special Interest In the introduc tion o f American methods o f handling live stock, as it has indeed In the agri cultural practices of the northern half of the continent generally. As evidence of this, the Argentine embassy in Washington has already Latin People Disposed to Pattern A ft purchased ten films on these subjects er What They See on Screen That for educational use in Argentina nnd Pleases Them— Aids Live has frequently had United States de partment bulletins translated into Stock Introduction. Spanish for home consumption. The Buenos Aires & Pacific railway Washington.— Uncle Sam has ns a silent partner in his export trade the has also been n heavy purchaser o f such films for use along its system. Its motion pictures. IIo w the “ movies” are developing representative In this country was re trade and spreading confidence in cently negotiating with the United American goods and American meth States department of agriculture for ods, and creating an Americanized at films showing the swine industry In mosphere which should prove the the United States, and in making ar strongest possible asset toward per rangements for the Introduction of manency of trade in South America, American swine in Argentina. It Is planned to show important is told by Dr. Julius Klein, commer cial attache at the American embassy, Buenos Aires, who was formerly chief o f the Latin American division, bu reau o f foreign and domestic com “Cut Pay, Pm Not Earning merce. It,” Says City Employee The Latin people, he points out, are disposed to pattern after what they Cleveland, Ohio.— “ I nm not see in the motion pictures that appeals earning the money I nm getting to them. Thus the films have made and I want my salary reduced.” them fumlllar with the appearance of This Is the request sent to City American automobiles and o f what officials by Gottlieb Pfahi. He they can do. The movies have cre is sixty-seven. ated n demand for American-made of He worked for the city for fif fice furniture by showing the fittings teen years. When he made the o f a business magnate’s office, which request he was foreman o f a the South American merchants In bridge repair gang. their prosperity are eager to copy. Last March his right arm was As regards ready-made clothing— affected by paralysis. H e cannot the South Americans, particularly In use ft now. Cuba, have gotten Into the linblt of That’s why he asked for a sal ordering a suit o f clothes like their fa ary cut. His request was granted. vorite hero wore in a certain film. CREATES DEMAND FOR GOODS Thus the merchants have conve to stock up with good lines of ready made clothing, which are very popu lar. The movies have had a like e f fect on industrial development A ll this, Doctor Klein emphasizes, has happened naturally and has not been forced as trade propaganda. Boom to U. S. Trade. The more use that can be made of educational films introducing indus tries comparable with their own indus tries— such ns agriculture, cattle-rais ing, mining— the more benefits to American commerce will result Such films can and should carry a romantic scenario, such as appeals most strong ly to the Latin temperament, with cut- ins on our methods in industries simi lar to theirs. As we show them a new and better method their confidence In us and the output o f our industries grows cumulatively. Germans and Itnllnns particularly have been thus endeavoring to Ingrati ate themselves in South American countries, Doctor Klein says, and the influence o f the Italians in the South American markets from an economic and commercial viewpoint must be reckoned with. Amerlcnn manufacturers o f farm machinery are now co-operating with the Philippine department o f agricul ture and natural resources, In an en deavor to arouse in the farmers of those islands a true appreciation of the possibilities by using such ma chinery. Motion pictures nre being prepared to show the most approved methods o f cultivation, preparation of seed, use of farm machinery, harvest ing and storing crops, and methods of packing and handling where these processes are involved. Aids Live Stock Introduction. Introduction of American breeds of live stock and poultry into South America, particularly Argentina, Is to be aided by the use of motion picture films, prepared for this purpose by the United States department o f agricul ture. These films also w ill show American methods o f breeding live National Anthem Turned Policemen Into Statues Boston. Mass. — By playing “The Star Spungled Banner” over nnd over an Italian band kept two policemen, who ordered them tc stop, standing at salute in the Fells reservation, near here, until their arms dropi>ed numb and helpless. A few Ital ian women and children, who were along for an outing cheered and applauded in great glee. Then the bandsmen fled. Soou after the tumultuous strains had begun resounding through the woods Policemen Jordan Frost and Huberts ap peared and informed them they must stop, as they were in the state reservation. The lender at once ordered “ The Star Spangled Banner" played. swine-breeding farms, the work In thf big Cldcago packing houses nnd the preparation o f the product for thf table. Pictures will be made of the various types o f American hogs, and an effort will be made to give 3ome idea o f the vnstness o f the industry in this country. C A TTLE RUSTLERS USE AUTOS Cattle Are Now Taken Across the In ternational Boundary by New Method. Beginn, Snsk.— The mqtorcnr, 11 seems, has achieved another success by winning its advent into the cat tie rustling business. The old nnd well-known practice o f cattle rustlers, when they used to drive their stolen herds before them, is now a thing of the past. A few days ago three calves were stolen from herds near Bengough nnd spirited across the international border by two motorcars. Three of the rustlers were arrested on this side of the line nnd two others In Mon tana and are now awaiting trial. Adrianople Is a Beautiful City was the Journey’s end to a tired avia tor. Charming A lo ft or Afoot. Seen from aloft, the city, surround ed by poplars at its outer rim. Its house gardens within the city showing green vines nnd flowers, Its outlying fields bare, aroused memories of Mar din on mountains, Dlarhekr by the Tigris and hosts o f other Turkish Strangers Treated Kindly In an A t cities, always sleeping In beauty, whether visited by sunshine or moon mosphere of Friendship— City En ligh t dures Its Shabby Gentility The longer the stay In Adrianople With Pride and Calm. the more the charm o f its beauty Adrianople, Thrace.— The decadence grows, a charm that Is as great afoot o f two centuries, present political and as nloft. Adrianople Is n city thnt hns the economic disintegration, wars with out end, and an uncertain future, have tone o f country friendship about it, been unable to destroy the ineffable not unlike n county seat o f the South charm the Turks originally gave to The center o f the agricultural exchange Eastern and Western this city o f eighty-odd thousand souls. business o f Adrianople Is still a holy city In faith Thrace, It Is frequented by pensnnts and in nppearance. Romance still nnd traders of Turkish, Greek, Bui garlnn, Jewish and Armenian nation abides here. “ The Orient is the only place left alities. There Is record o f but one to Europe where cities seen at close American ever having done business In range are beautiful,” remarked Jules the city, nnd he came here from Paris Sebotln, a French aviator, while vis and bought up all the brooms. W hile no day knows what the nex* iting the most beautiful of all mosques, Slnan’s masterpiece here the mosque day may bring forth In the way of o f a thousand windows but one, erect political strife nnd crime, today the ed at the order of Sultan Sellin II., in city preserves this tone of friendship nnd order. Strangers ns they go along the sixteenth century. The first Impression o f the city hns the streets or visit the shops nre The been one o f Infinite beauty. Arriving trented with kindly concern. courteously from across the lofty Balkans In an Turkish officers salute airplane, the city had been seen with nnd there Is no glint o f hostility In a rush, n plnce of spires, nnd slate the eyes o f the Turkish soldiers car domes and red roofs, plnnted at the rying their new rifles, recently dis Intersection of three rivers. It had tributed to them by Col. DJefer Tnyar been a welcome sight. It had come at Bey. The decadence o f Adrianople goes the end o f a four-hours’ ride, and !t at a dignified pace. There Is little or none o f the seething squalor and dirt nnd noise nnd poverty o f Constnnt! nople. There Is none o f the clamor o f Constantinople’s street cars and automobiles. Pride In Shabby Gentility. There are a few ragged beggar children who besiege the stranger, but for the most pnrt Adrianople endures Its shabby gentility with pride and calm. Here there are none o f the fallen houses nnd dusty streets which characterize the majority o f the cities o f Asia Minor. Prayers are called from the mina rets ns. o f o ld ; also the old nnd new bazaars do a slender business In sell ing American and European calicoes nnd homespun cloths and Turkish sliver mounted pipes nnd cigarette holders, nigs. Junk, to passing peasant customers; or else when these are lacking they swap with each other, nf ter the happy manner o f all the Or! ent. Decadence seems to have heightened the beauty o f the mnlestlc old mosque o f Sultnn Bn.vztd. The windows are broken In, the locks are ntsted In the doors, the grass is growing up between the flagstones, the fountain In the court no longer sptushes Its water In the sunshine, and the Interior o f the mosque Itself Is slowly deteriorat ing. Few worshiper': come here, but on the drowsy Friday afternoons, the Mussulman's day o f worship, come a devoted band o f musicians and slng- I ers. The avltor stumbled upon this Mrs. Longdcn afforded quite a thrill'to a record crowd at Brooklands, Eng- group and one o f the red fesed band land recently when she donned her goggle* and started In the 100-mlle racei saluted with the simplicity o f the Turk Mrs. Longdon was among the leaders when she was forced to retire on t o and said, “ Allah esmarladlk.” — "May count of engine trouM*. l God abide with you.” Airman Describes Romantic Charm of Mosques and Gardened Homes. DECADENCE OF CITY GOES ON Woman Rides in Motorcycle Derby Remarkable Escape Due to Crotch of Tree As B. A. Edgar was driving through Westfield, Mass., one o f the oldest nnd biggest elm trees of the town sud denly crashed to the ground. By sheer luck Edgar stopped his cur so that the crotch o f the tree saved him from almost certain death. Arctic Rescue Very Thrilling * - Vardo that the soviet government was equipping a new expedition. Soon afterward we received n di rect Inquiry from the Kanada ns to our position, which we Immediately telegraphed -both to the Kanada and the Solovel, at the same time asking them to give us theirs. The Kanada replied asking us to stop for a con versation, nnd In the conversation which followed with Commissar of Captain Gives a Plain but Graphic Marine Mikhallnff and Captain Mokn- Account of Perilous Voyage— Ex loff o f the Knnndn It wns explained citing Race in Ice-Laden Sea that the vessel had been dispatched — Joy Hard to Describe. by the soviet government In order to give assistance If It should he neces London.— Cnpt. Otto Sverdrup's nar sary or In caca there should be diffi rative of the rescue of crew and pas culties o f any sort In consequence of sengers from the Russian steamship the political changes which had oc Solovel Boudlmlrovltch, which drift curred since the Solovel had left ed helplessly for months In the Kara Archangel. It nppeared also thnt they sen. Is a thrilling tnle of Arctic ad had orders to bring the ship hack to venture. Captain Sverdrup’s story, Archangel direct. as printed In the London Times, fol Exciting Race in Ice-Laden Sea. lows : A fter the conference wns over, It was In April last thnt I was en therefore, there began nn exciting race trusted with the task of planning, between the two ships. The lee equipping and leading n relief ex through which we had to force a pas pedition to the Kara sea in order to sage was very different from thnt we senrch for and if possible to rescue had hnd to tnckle before. This wns the crew nnd pnssengers on board the ordlnnry polar Ice nf the Knra sen, the stenmshlp Solovel Boudlmlrovltch, closely pneked, with only a few stnnli which at the end of January had be gaps of open wnter. I hnd very little come Jnmmed in the Ice outside the hope o f getting through, nnd thnt we W hite sea nnd afterward was carried (lid succeed wns due only to the re In the ice through the Kara straits markable qualities of the Svlntogor into the Kara sea. There the vessel as nn Icebreaker. drifted dangerously nbout. She had With full steam up from all o f her left Afchangel provisioned for only ten hollers she hurst her way splen two months, and food, coal and fuel didly through the strong pack Ice. were falling short. Now nnd then she was beaten nnd The big, powerful Icebreaker Svla- hnd to hack nnd make a fresh attack togor was placed at the disposal of nt full speed. It wns not often thnt the expedition by the British govern more than two attempts hnd to he ment nnd sent over to Bergen. IleTe mnde, Hut It happened sometimes thnt she was quickly manned, equipped and the maneuvers had to I k * repeated nine provisioned fo r sLx months. W e left or ten times where the Ice wns 20 feet Bergen on May 1.1 and arrived at thick or more. Tromso on the 17th. There we lay At first the Kanada hnd n little until June 7— a very painful period start, hut the ,oles were soon changed. of waiting for tis nnd doubly pnlnful The Svlntogor went ahead nnd con for the Russians hungry nnd cold on tinued to increase her lead, nnd when board the Solovel, who had been in at Inst, at 7:10 In the evening, we formed by wireless that we had sighted the Solovel far away north started. ward on the horizon, the Kanada hud At Vardo we shipped 60 tons of sup fullen far behind. plies more, nnd having left on the At about the snine time we re evening o f June 0 anchored on the ceived the following message from the morning o f June 12 In Blelushya bay, S olovel: “ We see your smoke In the Novavn Zemlyn, where we took on south, 20 degrees enst." W e were de board 600 tons o f coal from the steam lighted by tills message, which made ship Hnrde, which had been dis us realize thnt our hard-tried nnd patched direct from Troinso. nnxious friends on hoard the Solovel were In high hopes o f relief. Up Against Strong Ice Barrier. Thrilling Night on Icebreaker. W e passed through Kara straits In the Svlntogor nil were keenly practically untroubled by Ice until the morning o f the ICth, when we en alive to the anxiety and seriousness countered n large mass o f old close- o f the situation, and followed with packed polar Ice. It wns clearly no enger Interest the display o f prowess use trying to force a passage through given by the Icebreaker during these this; we had to try to find the newer hours o f the night. Of the crew all n: d more penetrable lee which had who were not nctuully keeping watch drifted from the west Into the Knra were on deck hour after hour discuss son through the strntt. We steamed, ing and marvelling nt the carrying fea therefore, In n northwesterly direction, tures o f this extraordinary drama. hut ns there appeared no Improvement Some stood leaning over the rails so In the conditions wo turned about and ns better to fn jo y tb<* sight o f the went In a southeasterly direction until great Mocks o f Ice, now crushed Into fragments before our bows, now the polar Ice was pnssed. Then, fortunately, n breeze sprang hurled In n whirling mass nlnng the up from the northeast nnd made a con ship’s sides— nnd nil to a wild accom siderable Improvement In the Ice con paniment o f deafening crashes In the ditions. Then we steered north In the Ice, and o f groans nnd walls nnd direction o f the Solovel, and about shrieks from the hard-pressed vessel's 8:30 in the evening, according to the hull nnd rig and engines. Suddenly nn Ice lbs- would rise and last position received from her by wireless, we reckoned thnt we were threaten to fall over the ship’s rail, within about eight or ten minutes dis and then the sailors were not slow In heating a retreat to safer quarters. tance. On the 18th the weather clenred, nnd Others, who stood In groups right for having taken the necessary observa ward In hows, fared no better. When, tions In the morning and nt noon we as frequently hnppened, ttie ship continued our voyage nt 1 p, m. At crashed nt full speed against n really the same time we received a wireless high solid block of Ice, nnd nt the giving the position o f the Solovel, same time rose several feet In the air which was considerably further north a shower o f spray and Ice splinters flew over the deck nnd forced the Im than before. A little later we suddenly enught prudent spectators to a headlong re «Ight o f the Russian Icebreaker Kann- treat. In the meantime we were npproach- da, steaming after tta. She had had the advantage o f the strong northeast Ing the Folovel, hut It wns a slow busi wind, which had parted the Ice, and ness. The Ice became worse and worse our long wait for the purpose o f tak In the last stage, and It was mid ing observations had also helped her night when we reached her. An hour to overtake ns. On June 17 our wire more was required before we could less had picked up a call from the moor the Svlntogor by her side, so big Kanada to the Solovel. which con and thick were the surrounding Ice firmed the rumor we had heard at floes. Desperate Battle Fought by Ice breaker With Great Floes in Kara Sea. SHIP DRIFTS FOR MONTHS The whole crew o f the Solovel and all her passengers, 87 altogether, had gathered on deck nnd were greeted bj us with a resounding hurrah, to which they responded In the same w w . Their Joy Is not easy To describe. To drift without aim, almost without hope, in the darkness and cold of thl Tolar night, with hnd nnd Insufficient food, In cold nnd unclean quarters; and In constnnt dread of getting so far north thnt rescue would be Im possible— thnt Is nn ordeal so hnrd thnt It Is not every one who would come through It entirely unscathed. Immediately after wo arrived thf cnptaln o f the Solovel nnd Ms w tfi nnd all the pnssengers, seven In num ber, enme on bonrd. They were invit ed Into tile saloon nnd trented to re freshments, which they evidently ap preciated. One of them said it waj like coming into pnrndlse after thelt anxieties. The pnssengers nsked lenv« to transfer to the Svlntogor ns they were greatly exhausted nnd needed medical attention nnd better diet, nnd I wns glad to bo able to grant their request. Then we set to work to pul provisions nnd coal on board the Solo vel, so that the crew could at one« prepare a proper meal with something better to ent and drink thnn they had had In the last few months. 8econd Relief Ship Arrive*. About four o’clock in the morning we were awakened hy loud hurrah« from the crew o f the Solovel, who were hailing the arrival of the Knna- dn, which hnd nt Inst nlso go. through, Had the Knnndn not been so fortunate ns to get Into the lane mnde In the Ice by ttie Svlntogor, It would hnva been hardly possible for her arrive so soon. Next day wo shipped more coal nnd provisions on bonrd the Solo- vet, and were helped with hearty good will hy the crews of the two Russians. This done we started In the after noon o f June 20 on our homeward voy age, the Svlntogor lending nnd the Solovel and Kanada following. At first the Ice was loose nnd fairly onsy to get through, but afterwards It be came closer nnd more difficult to force, There wns fog, too, which mndo It Im possible to keep proper observation ol ttie Ice conditions. Consequently we often had to stop n fairly long time, especially ns the fog prevented the other two ships from keeping with us, It wns evening on (he 21st when we reached the Kara Ren entrance, nnd there wo wero ngnln obliged to stop for thick fog. W e resumed our vnyngo nt 2 o’clock next morning steering for the mid dle (ff the Knra strait, hut nt 2:30 p. m, were unlucky enough to ground on nn unknown sandbank. W e nt once began to tranship coal to the Solovel nnd Knnndn In order to get the Svlntogor afloat ngnln, nnd nfter un loading 060 tons of coal we nt Inst got her off. A diver from the Kanada ex amined the ship’s bottom nnd pro- notinred the dnmage not serious. 8o we continued our voyage to Blelushya hay, where we handed over more pro visions nnd supplies to the Russians nnd took on coal from the Horde for our voyage hack to England. A fter n cordial leave-taking from our friends on the Solovel nnd Knnn dn these vessels left us on Juno 29, shaping their courso for Archangel. On July 1 we hnd completed our coal ing nnd next day nt 2 p. in. we begnn our homeward voynge. * Wife Deserted 40 Years Ago Applies for Divorce Stinbury, Ta. — Claiming thnt her husband deserted her a year after their mnrrtHge forty years ago, Mrs. W illiam S. Fenster- macher, sixty, brought suit In the Northumberland county courts seeking nn absolute di vorce. In all those years, she says, her hushund never mnde nny effort to make up their dif ferences. At the snm® time Charles II. Smith, sixty-eight years old. and Mrs. Sara 8. Herb, sixty-six, o f Ashland, were granted a license to wed. His bride-to-be has been married twice, while Smith, a building contractor, was wed once before. i . • • e e e e e e e e e * .
