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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAt. PORTLAND, SUNDAY. HORNING, JANUARY- 8, IS
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IH EAST SIBERIA
Kamchatka Natives Pray to Photo
of American General) Machines
.From U. S. Turn Russ Wheels.
DidtionaryWay Is Too Hard
Ring Prefers His Own Spelling
J emison to Handle - -
Advertising for
i Willys-Overland Co.
By Teerlek MsCorsrick
(CoprrtcbUd. 1(22. by rrwUrie MoCenafck)
It rarely fan to Um lot of a hero, even
Russian hero, to be enshrined in the
heart of his countrymen and In history,
and while eUll alive turned Into a Rus
- elan saint and made a father confeaaor.
A. picture of an American aidewheel
steamer from San Francisco. Ions was
worshiped In a temple in Japan. And
1 for years a dosea native subjects to the
csar said Iholr prayers to a major gen
eral la the. United states army.
-Even so rreat a hero as Clemenceau
merely; dedicated a monument erected
br his .countrymen to himself recently
In Franca. Bat according to American
travelers who were la the Anadyr penln
sula at the time. Major Oeneral Dlt.
while arnbaaaador to France, waa wor-
shipped through the medium of a newa-
paper portrait ussd as an Ikon and hung
In the place of honor In the corner of
the family room of an Kast Siberian
. home. . Oeorge Kennan reported that
elided. candle nickered year In and year
' out before the portrait s smoky features.
TCE5KD DOWIf TtBKEY
On the other band American traders
sent to the Amur a cargo of deviled tur
i key In cane. The cans bore a glorified
label on which was pictured no other
than Old Nick himself, holding a tur
key on the end of a red-hot pitchfork.
The religious East Siberians depend
good deal on pictorial representations of
what the world offers them, when they
buy things at the shops. And supposing
. the labels to be truthful, the eans were
taboo and Ills Satanic Majesty was
sent back to Nlcolalvek, to. the American
merchants, to whom he properly be
torged la thla case. They took Dlx but
' turned down Nick and turkey.
It generally Is said that the reason
Russian shopa have pictorial atgns show
ing what they aetl la that the people as
a rule cannot read. Not only the pur
chaser hut the clerk cannot The Amer
ican custom of putting pictures on goods
' contained In cans, therefore, suits the
. requirements In East Siberia Near the
border of China, before the Trana-Sibe-'
rlan railway was opened, an American
traveler found a can of California fruit
which he prised more than his dress salt
OLD PRISTS Tit ASK
A lithograph In colors, dating from
the flourishing era of the lithographic
art In America of the fifties, long orna
mented the walls of a Kamchatkan na
tive dwelling. It repreaented the Amer
ican kiss of reconciliation after a lovers
quarrel, and when being looked over by
an Isolated and forlorn American trav
eler, waa regarded with pride XT the
owner, evidently because the print fa
the neoeeaary evidence of his pen cul
ture and refinement of taste, and proved
his familiarity with American art and
the mannera and customs of American
audety. The natives had come Into con
" tact' with the kissing custom when it
was brought to Kamchatka by the Rus-
nl ana. And regarding Ruasla as the ex
emplar of all that waa great In civili
sation, ths owner of the American print
' thus was able to make a comparison In
which 'America figured on an equality
"with. Russia.
- ' I was calling on a comrade of the
rtiaslan-Japanese war, Oeneral and ex
Governor Tolmatcheff, In the country
- outside Vladivostok. A boy came In and
whispered a request Into ths ear of ths
general's lady. He wanted to play In
.. diaa."
THET CKT MOVIES v
..' . From early times In Russian-Amerl-,
. ran relations Ruasla got her American
, literature In the form of the writings of
James Fsnnlmors Cooper, Washington
Irving, Longfellow and Bret IT arte.
Nowadays ths Kast Siberian gets his
American literature in the form of the
', moving picture, and the successor also
of the Nassau street print Is ths photo
film, la ths country 15 mites from Vlad
ivostok tn ths first eight months of the
. year 71,717 persons witnessed American
educational films illustrating American
Industrie, schools, landscape and nat
wral wonders, engineering works, cities
and Uvea of distinguished Americana
Kaat 8fbrln also has had somewhat
f our drama. A number of Yankee
7 elasetca have been shown here, such as
"The Honor of the Pugilist." "Romance
ef the Girl Spy." -She Married for Love,"
- Don't Wake the Baby," "Sunny Jim's
; Lows Affairs," "When Ussy Want to
Sea, am. Miss Dorothy dish and other
! ef the Lds Angeles school of art are
; wary wall known in the steppe, the tan-
; dm, aad ths taiga hereabouts.
, TOBACCO AFrmOTETJ
1 . Aanertcaji cigarettes have been tntro
i duced all along the East Siberian coast
.and when ths Canadian and American
troops cams here In lilt, all through
, ftnetn Siberia. But for 100 years the use
of Virginia tobacco waa ons of ths sur
est ways on the East Siberian coast of
1 convincing the native that ths user was
- i not a Russian. When Ruasla wished to
, send i an Investigating expedition tot,
i Sakhalin la ths beginning of ths last
, century, aha equipped It with Virginia
tobaoco In order to disguise Its origin.
An American prospector told ms that
a few years ago he was entertained In
a Korlak village In North Kamchatka.
Mis host brought out a box from which
waa produced the family treasures. They
receipted of half a dosen china cups
. heavily ornamented with gilt he said.
One 1 wss marked. 'V)od Bless Our
Home" ; another. "To Father" ; another.
"Merry Christmas." and so forth all
evidently the contribution of American
Siberian relations, of some whaleshlp
kipper when on his annual crutee in
Bering sea. "I drank tea." said the
American, "from a fins mustache cup
- a hick cautioned ths user to "Remember
Ma'"
,"S OI B STEAMBOATS T8ET
Soma of ths first steamboats need In
the country were American. The Uraurl
and Chinees Eastern railways were built
with atoel ralla manufactured tn Mary
lend. The largest order of Its kind for
steel ralla aver received In America' was
for supplies to build ths Amur railway
od te supplement the needs of the
Trans-Siberian. American locomotives
did considerable part of the hauling
on these railways and soma of ths first
locomotives ever built tn America still
may be seea In tT railway shops of
Vladivostok and Nlkolsk locomotives
or the ancient -tee-kettle" kind. These
. railways still depend on American tools
sad replacement ralla
If there Is anything tn the past which
did not find Its way hers through trade
channels. It has been Introduced by the
lied Cross, lbs American army canteen
. or the T. M. C A. East Siberia has re
ceived everything from ua from "no
tions' to burnt-cork art. ths negro cake-
walk, and now Jaaa and the Jesa dance,
Vasoball. handball and ths latest version
of ths American language.
tCflornrsted. tisi, by Frwlerk MeCenalck)
But any war
By lUas; W. Lardner
To ths Editor:
X sea by the papers whero titer sure
patting on a old fashion spell down
tn Detroit and glveing away prizes
',.-;;.;.;: to the kids that
can spell ; the best
and etc.' and a
event like this
kind always stirs
up a lot of int. In
a town and is a
good thing; for a
town though. It
does seem kind of
t u n n y to hold a
spelling contest in
a place where they
pat a x in Cousins.'
theys no subject
which I am more interested in it
than the subject of spelling and this!
may come as a supprlae to some of
my readers as the impression seems
to of rot around that I am not a A.
No.,1 speller though nothing could
be further than the truth. They may
be a good many wds. which I don't
rpell them the same way like they
are spelled in the dictionary but that
is no sign that my way ain't just aa
good and maybe a little better and I
always say that if people can under
stand easy what a man means, why
that means he is a good speller and
I will bet you can't find no wds. in
any of my writelngs that is as
hard to understand aa wds. you will
find in the dictionary.
In fact the dictionary way of spell
ing wds. is so hard that after every
wd. they half to write down some
other wd. thai means the same thing
so as people can tell what the 1st
wd. meant.
Speaking about the dictionary it
has got a couple of chapters in it
which ydu can read without going
to sleep and one of them tells where
several different men. of learning baa
tried to fix up our language so as
every letter would have only one
sound and as soon as you seen a wd.
spelled out you would know the
right way to pronounce it, and one
of these men said the only way that
could be done would be by adding
14 more letters to the alphabet. This
idear was throwed in the ash can
on motion of the people that makes
alphabet soup.
In another chapter it tells where a
man named Ellis was trying experi
ments with the letters we have all
ready got and he found' out that you
can spelt. the wd. scissors 6000 dif
ferent waya It didn't: tell what he
done with himself the rest of the
morning. And it didn't tell why we
half to go on spelling it scissors when
sizxers would cut your nails just as
pretty.
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H. It. Mencken has wrote a book
on the American Language, which
he brings out in it how different we
rpell than the English though we
are supposed to both be uselng the
same tongue.
Well, they will be more and more
different as the yrs. go by, so what
say is that it don't do no harm for
me to spell a wd. different from the
way some old English dictionary
writer spelled It, provided I make
the spelling easier, which is what
Americana generally always do. Like
for inst. an Englishman would say
I have the honour to enclose i
cheque." ' ',
Whereas we would say:
'I have the honor to enclose i
check." which fa two : less letters
which dont amt to much in one
sentence but would be a big-saving
in a long book. Take Wells', history
book for example, and if he had
used American spelling 1 1 bet he
could of wrote it in at least a nr,
leas. time.
Wile we are on the subject of
spelling, though I don't want to dis
courage none of the Detroit boys
and gals that's trying to I Improve
themself s , along those lines, yet it
seems nessary to say at this pt. that
spelling is something which you can't
master' no more than singing alto.
Either you are a born good speller
or a born bum speller and if you are
a good speller you won't half to
spend no time in school studying how
to spell this wd. or that.
On the othef hand if you are a rot
ten speller you will keep on being a
rotten speller though if you have got
a good memory you can get high
marks.
. Like for inst., I know a gal that
when she was in school she always
got a. 100 in spelling because she
studied all the wds. that waa in the
book and memorized how to spell
them. But for the 1st. 2 yrs. after
we was married we lived on Prairie
Ave. in Chicago and every time she
wanted to write and tell one of her
friends her address, she would half
to go out first and look at the Btreet
sign. But a woman don't half to be
a good speller to be a good wife and
in fact some of the best wlfes I know
has their bad spells.
B S. J emison, formerly advertising
and sales manager of the Oldfield Tire
company, Akron, Ohio, has joined the
United State . Advertising corporation.
Toledo, Ohio, in an executive capacity.
Toe corporation is ' controlled by , -tba
Willys-Overland company..
Before his association with his old
friend Barney Oldfield. v Jamison w
with the Miller Rubber , company .- of
Akron, in. charge of sales promotion.
J emison brings with him ; a wide e
perience . in , successful .merchandising
methods, preceded by IS years of cosmo
politan newspaper work, in -which, he
earned a national reputation. He, Is
widely known as an anaXjrstst of mer
chandising problems and territorial con
ditions.
The United States Advertising cor
poration plana further additions to Its
staff in connection with broader plana
of activity in 1922. '
Auto Shows Here and There
st - at - t' r at i St" ' si at ' at ' at ' at " St st
Score Scheduled in U. S. A.
London. Ontario ........ ...National Moior Enow of Western Canada.'... January
New Tork National Automobile Show ....... Jan. 7-14
Buffalo, N. T. .............Buffalo Automobile Dealers' Assn.. Jan. 14-21
Tulsa, Okla. ............... Automobile- Show ......... ........... Jan. 14-21
oakiana. cai. Automobile - Show ........... Jan.J-22
Milwaukee .Fourteenth' Annual Automobile Show Jan. 19-25
Cleveland Cleveland Automobile M. and IX Asan. Jan. 21-24
PORTLAND, OR .....Annual Automobile Show , Jan. 22-29
Chicago ........National Automobile Show Jan. Sa-Feh. 4
Chicago ........ .....Automobile Salon Jan. 2-Feb. 2
Minneapolis ...............Tractor Show Feb. 4-11
Minneapolis .......... Automobile Show . . Feb. S 4-11
Winnipeg, canaoa ...(JanadLan Automotive Ekrulp.'Assn. Show..'. Feb. 4-11
Kansas City ....Kansas City Motor Dealers' Assn. Feb.' S-14
Atlanta ..soutnem Automobile Know-..... ......... Feb. 11-11
San Francisco '
Louisville, Ky.
Syracuse .......
Des Moines ..
Springfield.1 Haas.
Brooklyn .....
Boston .......
Newtrk. N. J.
.Sixth Annual Pacific Automobile Show.'...-. Feb. 11-12
.Fourteenth Annual Automobile Show.. Fen. 20-25
.Fourteenth Annual Automobile- Show Feb. 2e-2a
.winter Automobile Know ..............Feb. 74-Mar.
.Seventh Annual Automobile Show... Feb. 27-Mar. 4
.Eleventh Annual Show ..................... Mar. 4-11
Decreased Material
Co s t s Responsible
f or BuickEednction
i . -.:-, "...
Gratifying news to motorists waa the
aanouaoscnsnt . made by the Howard
Automobile - company. Buick distribu
tor, threwgn George W. Deem,
that the 1922 Balck models had received
a substantial stash tn price at the heads
of the s fOciala of the Balck Motor
paay, effective January L.' Xn-fnaklag
this price reduction the Buick factory
has explained that the cat la made pos
sible by purchase of raw materials at a
price which la below that formerly paid.
aa well aa la the Increased prodection.
of Buick cars tn the new and up ts date
plants which have been added to the
factory at Flint. Mica.
"In glancing back over the .28 years
that thla company has - been building
valve-ln-bead f cars. remarked
"sad summing up all ef the
.Annual Automobile Show ,
.Newark Automobile Dealers' Assn.
vt.r' ii-ix 1 models which have
Mar. 11-11 1 Una, one readily can
the 122
what giant
strides have bees made In the auto me
dve Industry. The ceenig year prom-
kses to eclipse all preeiooa recorda wbtc
have been fcung up by Ute Bstc Motor
company in number ef sales soade. Dwr- ,
tag the past fiscal year the woaums at
sales reached each a ktgh pent that the
Automobile Chamber of Commerce, ant
ortantsatkm which la compos I of auto
mobile manufacturers, again aaeertainea
that the Buick outsold ail other makes ef
ears bet eoa, and. ceaeeqaenUy. It waa
awarded first cfceioe st ta twe national
actotnobiht snows tn New Tork eat
Chicago." , " i - ,
Park Improvement
At Baker Is Halted
Baker. Jan. T Treeerng weather has
put a stop ts Improvement ef Poll man
aarlu. where the Automotive association
of this city plans to hold Its automobile
races ta July. but. according to the mem
bers, work will be resumed as eoea aa
tba weather - permits. The track has "
beea banked higher est the tarns so that ,
the racers can take the cm ta at a
greater
But they's another wd. of cheer
which I might breath ' to folks that
has trouble with their spelling and
that is that some of the -most famous
people, in history was rotten spellers
and men like Shakespeare ' and
Chaucer and etc was so bad that if
you read their stuff you will some
times find the same wd. spelled 4
and 6 different ways on the same
page. Geo. Washington, Babe Ruth
and John L. Sullivan is others who
might be mentioned aa guys that
dumb to the pinnacle but if you
asked any of them to spell pinnacle
they would probably bust you in the
Jaw.
As for good spelling being nessary
for financial success it would almost
seem like the facts of the case was
just opp. The richest people in the
world is the boys that draws the
comical cartoons. These guys makes
more money than a boot legger, but
they half to send out for a copy "of
yesterday's paper before they can
sign their name.
If those ain't enough alibis to tell
teacher, why you might mention that
nobody but a nut could spell our lan
guage right that is according to the
dictionary. with all, the paradoxs
and inconsistents and etc. which we
have got in it. We may think the
Russians and frogs has got a hard
lingo to master, but suppose ygu was
a foreigner going to school in this
country and you thought you was
getting wise to the system of spell
ing when all of a sudden you would
run across 5 wds. like lough, bough,
dough, rough and cough. There is
5 words spelled the same way only
for the 1st letter. Try and make
them rhyme.
RING W. LARDNER.
Great Neck, Jan. 6.
(Conmsht. 1921. fey the Bell Sjndite. Inc.)
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the oil pipe. Clean the oil pipes out
frequently with flushing oil every time
the lubricating oil is changed.
Some motors, as Fords, do net have
any oil pump but have a ifrravttv fmA
The oil la splashed up through aa oil
funnel en. the end of an oil pipe by the
magnets in me iiywheeU Next it runs
aown to the front part of the motor to
the timing gear. From the tuning gears
It flows down Into the cups In the crank-
case, keeping these fulL The connecting
roa comes aown Into the oil. splashing it
up Into the connecting rod bearings, cyl
inder wans, wristptns. cam shaft. . push-
rods tor tappets) and mala bearings,
forming a dense oil spray. The oil then
flows back to the oil chamber by the
flywheel. The oil also lubricates the
transmission, footbrake and the gears
la the transmission case.
Another lubricating system is the
pump and splash aa tn Buicks and
Chevroleta. - The oil pump pumps oil
to lubricate the main bearings and under
each connecting rod , In the crankcase
MAIN SEXSIttSS
COMICTllKCTiaIKSS'
there Is a series of channels which the
oil pump keeps filled. The rods come
down to the oil in channels and function
the same aa en Fords, splashing the oil
to all Internal parts of the motor.
The only way to keep up the motor is
to uusn it frequently, it Is to your ad
vantage always to keep your eye on the
oil gauge if your machine la equipped
with one. On Ford cars the only way
to tea if the oil line is stopped up is
when the front bearing starta to knock
and the motor gets hot. If you are not j
in a good place to correct, a temporary
remedy Is to put in plenty let oil so it
will run up Into the oil caps : in the
crankcase. To clear out an oil pipe re-
move the transmission cover and on the
right aide the funnel Is located just
ahead el the flywheel. By running a
long wire down into the pipe, the mo
torist often Will find that the circula
tion will open up. If this does not work, 1
the wnoie motor wul have to be disas
sembled to free the contents of the pipe.
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PORTLAND
East Side
Boulevard Garage, 42d and Sandy Rd.
Brooklyn Garage, 668 Milwaukee Ave.
O. C. Burnham, 290 Grand Ave.
Bybee Ave. Garage, 1392 Mflwaukio Ave.
ConweO & Mullen, Union Ave. it Knott
Eagle Garage, 5802 92d St,
Eveready Service Station, E. 12th and
Hawthorne Ave.
S. P. Gaither, 1322 E. GlUan St.
Gatxka Anto Supply Co., E. 33d and
Hawthorne Ave. j
P. E. Graham, 1133 Albina Ave.
J. J. Gretner, E. 4 2d and Belmont Sts.
Gribble Bros., 5037 Powell road
H. & H. Garage, 103d St. and Foster R'd
Harmon Sc. Co., 37th and Division Sts.
Chris F. Heick, 993 Belmont St,
Long & Silva, 462 Hawthorne Ave.
Mulford's Service Sta., 363 E. 11th St.
Pioneer Garage, 160 I.E. 17th St.
Serve-U-Garage. 61 Union Ave. N.
Tourist Garage, 124 E. 6th St.
Union Ave. Garage, Union and Weidler
Union Ave. Tlra St Battery Shop, Union
Ave. North
J. F. A B. R. Van Slyck. E. 21st and
Division -Weber's
Garage, E. 30th and Belmont
F. R. Woodbury, 1438 E. Stark 3a.
PORTLAND
West Side
Buchel dc Volden, 75 North 10th St.
L. H. Bontsel Co., 15th and Flanders
Columbia Storage Battery Co., 45
North Perk St.
Dspp Sc Neubauer, 783 Front St.
R. O. Emerick, 428 Coach St.
Evening Repair Shop, 23d and Raleigh
..GuTs Automotive Service, 129 North
10th St.
Glob Garage, 50 North 20th St,
S. H. Kauffman, 6th and Ankeny Sta.
P. W. Kinney, 1050 Corbett St.
McMahon Bros. Service Station, 1264
Division
P. A. Mullen, 605 First St.
A. G. Onslow, 23d end Washington
. Portland Buick Repair Shop, 16 th and
Jefferson
Portland Garage, 5th and Taylor Sts.
Prasp Motor Car Co., 11th and Conch
L E. Taylor, 12th and Flanders
Undoes Motor Co., 704 Kearney St.
Unioa Depot Garage, 335 Hoyt Sl
Universal Lubricating Co., 248 Flan
ders St.
Anson A. Webster, 20th and Jefferson
OREGON
Ath ena Davidson Auto Co.
Bend Bend Garage
Banks Banks Garage
Boyd Boyd Garage
Clackamas Earl Doardorff
Coqufflo Cmrdnera Garage
Cove Wsiaaer Bros.
Eagle Creek A. C Cogswell
rlermutecA-Nea Sc Barker
MarskfUld Aat Service Co.
Manpis Fisher's Garage
Medlord Wm. Offutt
Mirwaukie Station MHwaukie Service
Station
Monroe T.'H. Carpenter
Moro Deschutes Garage
No. Portland Eachnnge Garage
Oak Grove Skoog Brothers
Pendleton Round-Up Garage
Pendleton Qeu Long
Pendleton W. E. Smith
Pendleton W. E. Tanaier
Prineville L. V. Seers
Priaevule Qkks Motor Sale Co.
PrinevOIe Service Motor Seles
Redaiond Doblnng Garage
Roseburg Devaney Sc Burnett
Roeebarg Roy Catching
St. Helena Cwpeland Ante Co.
Seleen Marion Ante Co.'
Salem Ray CSbert
Scotta Mills Earl Grosaong
Silverton Alloa Brothers
: WASHINGTON
Csshas Stage Garage .
Carson Chris' Fletch
Goldendale Goldsndal. Garage
Vancouver .Vancouver Tiro Shop
Vancouver Vaaconver Battery Shop .
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