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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19. x1920. ENGLISH PEOPLE CHERISH MEMORY : OF YANKS' VISIT Many Are Stories Told former Journal Man of Americans Who r Won Lasting Welcome. lly Clyde A. Reals fflycje A. Rett it a former member of The Joarael gUff, now in England under a traveling eciio4an.hH ewtrdrd by the PuliUer School of Jburnallrm of Columbia university. it i The American soldiers left their Impression on ; England. Ask the plain Knglish folk what they thought of the Americaa, and the answer is almost sure to be, "Well, some of them ' were fine, and some of them " (a shrug of the shoulders) "hut vmi find OS Bo." And then! they proceed to tell you about one I or two Americans who won a lasting welcome in their hearts. ; What the overboisterous soldiers did is being forgotten; the Rood that the good ones did. lives' after them. Thin, fact struck me first in the pretty .little town of Winchester, which T reached on my first day's walk through the southern part of England. Of course the town was proud of its old gray cathedral, the top of which stood well up above the three story houses and stores. j . ine wans inaiae me camearai oore many brass: or marble plates inscribed 1o the memory of some old British reg iment or soldiers of the last century. In about the middle of one was a large black memorial tablet in gilded letters, to th memory of those "Valiant Amer ican's" who served in the Great war, "1!H-1?1 ." The closing date has not teen put in yet. J was just arranging: a chair to hold my camera to take a picture of this when two men, one wearing a mourning arm band, stopped to watch the process. They, read the memorial, and asked if 1 had served, in England. I explained that I had served in a camp some 6000 miles from the smell of smoke. FISE LOT OF BOrS J'Well," observed the man in mourn ing, "they were a fihe lot of boys. You know there was a camp near here. Yes, there are the graves f a lot of Amer icans" in. the cemetery. I think there were about "00, but they've taken all but about 200 .away. Seems too bad they couldn't leave them. THey'd be well looked after." . Then there was the Innkeeper at Horsebridge, . a little railroad stop. 1 wanted to get lunch there. The keeper, a genial, well-built man of middle age, slouchily dressed with, a dusty hat pulled over the back of his head, de cided, after consultation with his wife, that there wouldn't be any lunch to spare. Travel was so light that meals had to be ordered in advance. Probably I appeared to be hungry, because he looked at me kindly for a moment and then suggested that .he might get me some bread arid cheese. I accepted readily. He brought in a large chunk of bread, a generous slice of cheese and some lettuce. Then he sat down to keep me company. "You're an American?" he asked at length. ; ; "Yes, I am." "Did you get over "ere In the war?" I described my sojourn at Gamp "kewls, Wash. JflCE LITTLE CHAP "There was a lot of Americans near ere." he said reminiscently. "I got to know one little chap pretty , well. E used to come 'ere a lot. 'E was such a nice little chap. 'E'd come 'ere with the rest and spend 'is money and be one of 'em, but 'e didn't get rough as some of 'em, you know. 'E was a nice chap, such a nice chap. 'E used to come 'ere and see us a lot. We was quite took up with 'im. . I don't know w'ere 'e come from, I don't suppose I'll ever see 'im again. E wrote me one letter after 'e got 'ome. 'E was such a nice little chap." When I had finished my lunch, I said goodbye and started off. As I turned to go, he snapped up to a British salute, calling, "Good luck to you, sir.'" He was a nice old chap, himself. When I arrived at Broughton, a very plain little old village, I was mistaken for an . American soldier. Sergeant Schafer of Princetown, Ind., who had also won a warm spot in some Knglish hearts. If it had been in America, prob ably I should have had three women, two of them sisters who kept the inn, and the other the 18-year-old daughter of one of them, jumping around me in the street. Being English, howeven these three were very reserved, and wanted me ,to recognize them first. I knocked on the door and learned that I could get a room there for the night. MISTAKEN FOR SOLDIER Thf three t them stood in the parlor and chatted with me as I took off my haversack. The girl and her mother were satisfied by that time that I was myself and not Sergeant Schafer, but the other woman was still dubious. They all explained that they knew as soon as I spoke that I was an American, be cause there had been a camp of Amer ican soldiers near by. Then they told me about Sergeant Schafer, and I assured them that I was not he. Annie Joyce, the girl, had been only 14 years' old when the Americans (first came. She was prettier than the usual English girls, so I could really believe that she was popular with the dough boys. Sergeant Schafer and several others-had been there for two years and J had walked over to the inn almost every week end. They had taken Annie to some of the company dances. When they asked me what I wanted for dinner, I said I should like some fried potatoes, a steak and some bread and butter. , . "Butter: exclaimed Annie's aunt. "Why, we 'never' eat butter when we have meat. But I know you laddies. I mind how your soldier laddies 'always wanted butter every meal." : LIKED MOST OF-THEM , In the evening while her mother and aunt were tending the bar, Annie sat in the lounge room and talked to me. She had learned an American one-steplSand could still remember it fairly well. , The Y. M. C. A. hut that had been at the camp had been moved to a place closer to the village and was now used -fre quently for dances. She liked most of the American sql diers. Of course there were some well, she hardly , knew, what you would call them, but they weren't so nice. But, then, you would find that any place, wouldn't you? It was plain that Sergeant Schafer had left an impression that was stUl strong. He had promised to come back to England, and she had received one letter from him. She didn't know whether she would like to go to America. The old woman caretaker at Bindon Abbey had also had her' hands full with the American soldiers. "And a finejot of boys they were, too !" "Of a Sunday," she rambled on, "they'd come here for tea. 'Can you fix us a bite t' eat?" 'No, I haven't any thing here." 'Well, can't you give us just a pot of tea?" So I'd" give them a pot of tea and some bread and butter, and oh, they'd say it was so good. And you should have seen this place. Just filled with them. ,I'd have to say, ?Cow, will you move or $ can't get you a thing to eat How can I be about when you're all in here like that?' And they'd crowd back and give me a little place to move in. And I'd get them their tea and their suppers and boil them eggs. And they used to .come here. for-breakfasts, and -some'd want dinners, too. Well, how could I do it all, and me alone like that, and so I'd have to re fuse them their dinners, poor dears. "And I made some English girls feel pretty well ashamed of themselves one day. Some Americana was sitting around here and the'd had their tea with them- and the dear boys passed around their' cigarettes and the girls took some. 'Now, you look here, boys,' I said,' you bring these girls here and give them their tea. and that's all right. But when you've given them their tea, that's enough.. . You pass around your ciga rettes that was sent over here from your homes for you to smoke. And the girls ought n6t to take them.' : And that wa right, with cigarettes so hard to get like that "Oh. the dear boys they liked to come here. They just went crasy about this old abtfey. And they thought thia was the finest cat They used to say they were going to take it home, but I stopped them when I used to tell them where the cat goes I go. Yes, Bir, where the cat goes I go. Well, they stopped talking about taking the cat after that. 'Spose they thought they might take care of the cat, but they couldn't take care of the cat and the old woman, too." Girls Start Making Candy as Result of Friends1 Compliment Just a year ago at this' time three col lege girls, Miss Marie Williams and Mrs. Ada Ingalls, sisters, and Miss Ma rlon Reed, a cousin, were gathered ona afternoon in their kitchen at 94 East Seventeenth street, making chocolates for Christmas gifts to their friends. A friend or two dropped in and were asked to sample the home ' made sweetmeats and their comment was something like this: "Why don't you girls go into the chocolate making business? 'These; are different." j "We were all busy doing other things at that time. I was one of the domes tic science teachers at the Girls' Poly technic school, but someway the sugges tion of our friends stuck," said Miss Williams, "and so we set up a little shop of our own at home, working at nights and on Saturdays. The demand for our chocolates was immediate. Our first batch was 10 pounds and now we are making 1000 pounds a month, disposing of them through 45 prominent downtown stores and shops. We are making now a total of 15 distinct varieties." . 9 Sunday Blue Laws Here Soon RingTellsHowtoEvadeThem Salmon Hatchery on Rogue River Sought Gold Beach, Dec. 18. Business inter ests and citizens of Curry county gen erally are supporting the movement to have a salmon hatchery established on the lower Rogue river by the state fish commission for the purpose of restock ing the stream with Chinook salmon. The Coos and Curry delegations in the coming session of the legislature are being- urged to get behind a bill, which it is expected will be introduced, provid ing for the work. The Rogue is called the most important commercial fishing stream lying. wholly within the state. Steat ChristtnaSr mm Au w w .aaa. m U i 1 1 1 1 1IC home brew beer witch you certainly don't expect to enjoy drinking it. ' RING W. LARDXEU. Long's Island, Dec. 17. (Copyright, 1920, by the Hell Syndicate, Inc.) Trees' History Planned Spokane, Wash.. Dec 18. Action was taken tq preserve Washington's oldest apple trees and compile hintorkal data concerning them "for the good of , the apple industry " at the session here of the Washington State Horticultural asso ciation. . ! I , i Rat Kats i Fortune . . Strasbourg. Dec. lt.-r-Katej have eaten up about J13.000.1 thej whole, of the life savings of a farmer in the village of Sackingen, in Baden. I The (farmer, who .had stored his wealth in a flour bin, discovered on t opening, it that all that was left of his fortune was a number of bits of -paper. ! i j . 'Surf bathelng Fill the bath tub with water . . . Then you and the wife and kiddies put on a bathelng suit and get In." Iiardner huMPi. r . "fc X rv si' I Savings Christmas Pianos . $15 Sends Piano Home $25 Sends Player Home Would Saving One-Fourth (or Less) When Buying a Piano Interest You? We are in better position than ever to render you effective service in buying: your Piano'or Player Piano at a . ' 25 per cent or more lower cost. ; Portland's (Factory Clearance) Sale of America's Pianos SJSSv!i being sold for $178,237.00. The Schwan Piano Co. i.r'.jM based on large volume through lower prices in this sale produced savings to Portland and Coast Piano Buyers of $82,103.00, in which you share f, jstill will share, provided you buy during the time of sale of the balance as below listed of now $107,625.00 to be sold at $76,028.00, therefore at a saving of $31,5S7.O0. Many carloads of pianos are being shipped. from eastern factories to be sold here in Portland and on the coast. Player-pianos are now sold in the east we are told to the exclusion of pianos; many factories have discontinued the making of pianos and now make exclusively player pianos. We have taken advantage of this trade condition in the eastern market and have bought up by the hundreds such pianos as were still unsold in some of the eastern factories. I r . SPLENDID NEW 1921 MODELS 11 $900 Steger & Sons, Sheridan model, each. 4 1000 Steger & Sons, Chippendale models, each. 2 1300 Steger Natural Player Pianos. . . . 1 1300 Steeer Miniature r.ranrl 1500 Steger Parlor Grand, mahogany . 1 3 2 7 4 .$675 . 750 .975 . 975 1125 5 11 725 Reed & Sons Upright Pianos, each 525 750 Reed & Sons Uprights, walnut and oak. each. 562 800 Reed & Sons Grands, in upright form, each. . . 595 1150 Reed & Sons Player Pianos, mahv. and oak. ea. 862 4 1050 Singer Plaver Pianos, walnut and nak. arh 797 1 3 650 Thompson Sheridan models, oak, wal., mah., ea. 487 w inompson Colonial models, oak, mahy., eachu 525 950 Thompson Player Pianos, mahy., wal., oak, ea. 712 If you don't wish to pay cash, terms $25 and $50 cash, $14 to $30 monthly. If you pay $100 to $200 cash, then $10 to $25 monthly. NEW 1920 MODELS v- 4 $000 Steger & Sons Upright Pianos, mahy., each . . $595 3 700 Reed & Sons, walnut and oak. erh acta 522 ?.ed &,S?n Large Uprights, mahogany," each 565 675 Singer Upright Grands, each . .... . . ..... 495 10 Si01" Player Pianos, walnut and oak, each . . 695 625 Thompson's Sheridan models, oak, mahy., each 468 122 Ihompon Cloml models, oak, mahy., each 495 950 Thompson Player Pianos. mahonv rh at te j . . l . ' n you uo not wwn io pay casn, terms are made as low as $15 and $25 cash and $14, $15 to $20 monthly. SCHWAN PIANO CO. DOWNSTAIRS STORE NEW FACTORY REBUILT AND USED PIANOS "? ?I22 feed & Sons Upright Pianos, each. .$495 1 1000 Stemway & Sons, factory rebuilt 435 6 575 Schroeder Bros., 1919 model, each. ." " 435 8 650 Gaylord's, in walnut, oak and mahogany, each 487 6 675 Wood & Sons Artist Grands, oak, mahy., each, 495 1 475 Howard, manufactured by Baldwin Piano Co. 295 3AVt 5 IU &4d3 HT HtlflG TUUH AWN SAIFSMAN j, schwar, Plano Co bers of city or traveling salesmen, and you benefit by these (man local niarnew prices m new, ana still ower prices on SDerlaln faetnrr LIBERTY BONOS ACCEPTED SAME AS CASHfRUTHFUt ADYEnfisiNG values no i ? oowntn: wrv mould you pay inflated prices' A.atak tfikllSl BtiailA Ski litis . - . I'nutn TuUn rlANu Hi MAIL shipped subject to your appro piano you may oraer. ever from the manufacturer. 3 4 3 5 5 4 $1150 Reed & Sons Player, finest mahogany . . .$695 625 Davis & Son Oak Upright Grand 395 ; ' 900 Steinway & Sons, dark mahogany. 345 475 Hallet & Davis, rosewood. . 195 800 Kranich & Bach, in quarter sawed oak. ..... 365 750 Singer Colonial, massive mahogany. . . 345 700 Conover, golden oak, large .. 315 1800 Aeolian Orchestrelle, m mahogany 395 475 Newby & Evans, Circassian walnut . 295 575 Baus Piano Co., flemish oak. 345 .650 Bungalow Player Piano, mahogany. ..... 395 950 Thompson Player Pianos, mahogany, each. . . 595 900 Steger & Sons,, mahogany . 495 750 Pianista Player, 65 notes, flemish oak ....... 395 625 Mendenhall, in golden oak. 435 Terms of payment as low as $15 and $25 cash; $6, $10, $12, $15' monthly. $5 or $10 In Records Purchased Sends One Home for Christmas . as;rzw $75 JJ!.-S08SJ 910 C'a.fc. SS Monthly $120 t Caiik. ST Moatkly $150 SIS Cask, SS Monthly $275 S35 Cask. SIO Momthly makes it easv for von tn k.. . j - fully 20nto 2s2?e,f distrlbutioB It considers' aVunnicessaryTfo Tnstanci Vret numl . . " imvi wnu in . u ui iiuiiio aiiu auurcii 11, our i;t lower rebuilt and-iiserl n inna An nnf .U , Keaa. RIUflT ana fnmnr rnr nm . ,, : VX. ii ivcb .uu cibv icnns. j . """in ne year, auowina lull amount y piano -or piajer-piano purchased carries with it Schwan Piano Co. ?l'.".tor tls.fle the people through its unprecedented values, truths fullr namea. wny snould Pianos not have nrlc. irt.ntit w,v ahmiiH m,-v Tour old piano, organ or city lot taken in part payment . Ope F.TealBtrs for tke Beaeflt et Those Wk Can't Cei dvertised, and you will understand why we have thousands our nome witnin suaranie 00 miles. hrslHea th niinn will ha paid. This virtually crives you a one-year trial of the s guarantee oi satisiaction; also tn usua e Darts- Basiaesa Hears Before Ckriataaaa 101-10.1 Tenth St. at klna,t ui Stark Sta, Schwan Piano Co. rertlana's Lara-rat Plan DUtribntvra By Ring W To the editor: I don't know how it is around different parts of the country but ut our way the boys is all worried about Blue Sunday and what are they going to do with, themselfs when trie lords day alliances gets to work on the sleeping- beau tys down in Wash ington and slips an other dose of bug poison to the boys that still staggers to their ft. when the band plays the land of the free. A few of the boys takes the prop osition like a joke and say they won't nothing come of it, that the Master Minds that -makes our laws will knock this one for a row of rhubarb. Well they said the same -thing in re gards to . prohibition but you can drive your flivver up and down Main St. all day long now days without getting side swipped by no beer truck; - - The boys might as well get.it tn their bean that the new law will go through like it Was playing Tale and in a few more wks. old Mr. Monday. that everybody use to crab" at be cause it meant go to work, will be a 2d xnias with people wakeing up run or zip and slaping.l another on the back and hollering merry Mon day and many of them Personly I haven't saw no draft of the statue but they tell me it pro vides for everybody to go to church and as far as- that is conserned why they might just as well because it also provides that they won't beno movies or no ball games or no Sun day paper and you can't dance or go rideing or swiming or picnicking or shoot craps Or play cards and etc witn penal tys all the way from 30 days to a couple of minutes in the electric easy chair. Well friends when this comes off they s just 3 ways to take it the same like It was vwith prohibition. You can pack your tooth brush and night gown and move to Paris or you can stay here and obey the law or break it. Now wile many books ana songs has been wrote about the glorys of gay Paree I seen enough of it so as I would advise my readers to stay here even, after the Master Minds passes the next amendment witch is comeing after this one and witch will provide that you 'can't eat meat or have corns. ... As for obeying the law they's no use obeying the letter unlest you also obey the spirit and the spirit of, the law is to see that everybody nas a rotten time Sunday, yourself inclusive. This ain't as easy as it sounds like, so for the benefit , of my readers I have figured out .a ideal program for a blue sabbath "as fol lows: 6 a. m. Get up and take a cold bath. Shave with ice water and find your own clothes. . I 7 a. m. Breakfast. Burnt toast and any good coffee substitute. 7:30 to 9 a. m. Don't smoke. ' 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Sabbath school and church. 2 p.m. Have duck for dinner to witch is invited a man that was in the war and his wife and 4 kid dies. Ask the man about the war. 3 to 5 p. m. Keep asking the man about the war. No smokeing. 5 p. m. Vespers. 1 6 to 7:30 p, m. Try and call up somebody that has got a new num ber. ' 7:30 to 9 p. m. Church. 9 p. m. to bedtime. Talk nice about everybody. As for the boys that wants to evade the law, in the 1st. place they can't be too carefull as the pen altys is going to be mighty stiff like for inst. 8 yrs. if you are caught laughing unlest Its at 1 of the minis ters gigs or some funny, crack in the colic for the day. But for the boys that is willing to take a chance I have got up a seri ous of substitutes for the different crimes like motoring, etc.. that can be pulled off withtout no fear of detection unlest the people you play with and invite Into your home is a'wolf in cheap clotheing. MOTORING Every time you get home from church run qut to.the garaj? and change a tire. v CARDS, Cl!APS ANDJTTC. Set in church with a pal and bet on any of the following propositions. fl. The next gal that comes in will jibe a blonde. The odds against this is about 2 to 1 unlest it's a ski jumper's church. 2. Will the text be from a odd or even number chapter? 3. Who will cough next a man or a woman? SURF BATHEING Pill the bath tub with water and pour bbl. of salt in it. Then you and the wife and kiddies put on a bathelng suit and get in. You duck them and they squeal. PICNIC Put your dinner in a basket along with some bugs and dirt. Sprinkle the dinning-rm. floor with leaves and sand burrs and set down and eat; MOVIES Put out the lights and shut the window curtains. Hang a sheet at one end of the rm. and set and chew gum. - BASEBALL. Set on the ironing board and keep hollering, "That a boy." FUNNY- PAPERS Your wife gets in bed and you pretend like its 2 a. m.' and you are just getting home. . She says where have you been. You say you been to a lodge meeting. She breaks off a bed post and hits you over the head with it. You say, "Bam." GOLF Hide a Couple of balls 1 Sunday and look for them the next. veryDoqy or coarse has got a favorite sport witch they like the best and I "vill leave my readers to pick out witch one of the above sub stitutes that'sults them best, and at first glance It may look like they wouldn't be no fun in. none of them but I never seen no law yet that it wasn't fun to break it. Otherwise they wouldn't be nobody makeing TRANSPORTATION HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE . 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