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SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3, 1922"
.- TirB,01lEGON STATESMAN SALEM OREGON
LIFE Oil IE :B0UB SEA. BY A
SALEM
COUPLE
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Earl L Woods and Wife and Baby Are on Their Way to
Far Korea, Where They Will Have Charge of the
Publishing House of the Seventh Day Adventists
Worked in Statesman and State Printing Offices.
(Earl L. Woods worked In the
mechanical department of The
Statesman and in the state print
ing office. He was called to ! be
the superintendent and general
'TTlftTlflS'AF inf ti miMloMnir firman
at seoni, Korea, 01 the seventh
Da Adventlsts, by the world con
ference of that denomination held
in San Francisco last Mar. He
Is a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E.
Wondi nf 700 North ' TTirh 'trAt.
Salem. He has written home a
letter, which he calls "The China
News," dated 200 miles from Hon
olulu, October 27, 1922, consist
ing: of a 'single article which he
calls "An Editorial on 'Life on
the Bounding; Waves,' by the Edl
r tors" the ' editors being Earl,
' ' Golda and ' E valine, ' and Erallne
; being only about two months old.
Following is the letter: )
'Dear! Folks at Home: I hare
in this Issue news of yonr wan
dering children and of their do
ctors daring the first week of their
-lojourn in the strange snrroond
;lngs of life on shipboard. But
" first let us go back a few days
before their departure on their
long hike to their new home
across about 6000 miles of water
and 1000 miles of land. They
arrived at the home! of I their
uncle, Frank Woods, on Monday
evening, as planned, and had a
very pleasant visit, and started
from there the next morning at
about 8:30 Tuesday morning, for
Mt. View. Uncle Frank gave
them some very fine Tokay grapes
to take on their Journey and the
travelers arrived in Mt. View that
evening and took up their abode
in the Press boarding house as the
free guests of the Press. The
next three days were very busy
ones for them. Earl spending most
of every day in 'Frisco making
all necessary- arrangements and
getting the tickets. Harry came
over on Wednesday and met Earl
at a lumber yard in 'Frisco and
they boxed the Ford and got it
ready to go on the boat for Korea,
Friday afternoon Earl and family
visited a few of their friends, but
were very sorry that the calls
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Store open Saturdays until 9 p.m.
needs be go short. Mr. chapman,
foreman of the type room of the
Press, very kindly asked to take
them to the boat, and so on Sab
bath morning at about 9 they
started for the boat They ar
rived at the boat and began to
receive friends, expecting Harry
and Esther, bat they didn't come. ;
About 11:30 the parser told Earl
there was a long distance call for
him, and it was from Harry. They
had started, for the boat and their
car had broken down on the way
and made it impossible for them
to arrive in time to see them sail ;
they said goodbye over the 'phone.
They were very, very sorry that
it had to be that way, bat had to
make the best of it. Oar travelers
never knew they had so many
friends as appeared to see them
sail. It seemed that about half
of the force of the Press were
there, including the manager, his
son, superintendent, foremen of
four departments, and many oth
ers. Mr. Jones, . the manager.
brought Golda a bouquet of flow
ers and the superintendent's wife
gave her some baby goods. All
in all, it was a very rin send-off
and showed a very friendly inter
est in them and the work they
were starting out to do. At 1:15
m. the good steamer China
backed away from the wharf and
started down the bay, leaving
many friends waving handker
chiefs on the dock. Forgot to
mention among the present, a
very fine box of home-made candy
presented by a schoolmate of
Earl's and his wife. As the boat
went down the harbor it did much
whistling, which frightened Eve
line very much. Dinner gong
sounded soon and we went down.
but ate very little. Went on decL
to go through the Golden Gate
and saw the ship, Lyman Stewart,
on the rocks just inside of the
Gate. The bar was a little rough
and Golda began to feel it. We
dropped our pilot about halt an
hour out and really started on
our journey. About 4 p. m. the
shore line began to get dim, and
at 4:30 it was out of sight
about 45 miles. Shortly after this
Golda began to feed the fishes,
and walking Was tried to over
come the dreadful malady, but
without success, so at 5:45 she
laid down on her bunk and felt
better when off her feet. Eno's
failed to do her any good. Tried
staffing ears with cotton to shut
out sound of the sea. Officers
seem to be very nice. Large land
swells causing ship to go np and
down some that evening. Erl
not seasick that eve, but cant
tell when his time will come.
Favorite expression during the
trial of the walking cure "I'm
afraid I'll die If I quit walking.
Dinner at 7 p. m. Golda couldn't
eat much in the cabin, but her
husband went to the dining salon
and did his share of Btowlng away
the food. They had boards up
around the tables to keep dishes
from sliding off If sea became
any worse. Have a three-piece
jazz orchestra on aboard vfhich
plays while we eat and In the
evening. It was pretty hard to
hold down the dinner, but I did
it. We are seated at the captain's
table. After . dlnner I , vent on
board and took a ' turn or two
about the deck and looked down
at the dark, hissing water; It
gave me a tunny, indescribable
feeling. Can't describe it was
kind of lost, lonely or gone feel
ing, and to think that we were
150 miles from the good old U
Turned our watches back 1?
minutes.
Sunday, October 22
Awoke at 7 feeling good; Golda
still sick. Breakfast at 8. . Seems
funny to have Chinese waiting on
you. Breakfast was good .and
lots of things on the menu to eat
if you like them. One thing about
life on ship you can eat all you
wish. You can start at the soup
and go all the way down the menu
and have more than one helping
If you wish. Evaline is tine today
with the exception of being a lit
tle fussy, doe to lack of nourish
ment due to Golda not eating
much. Took Golda up on deck
a little before dinner to get some
fresh air. I played a game of
shuffleboard a deck game also
borrowed a book from the ship
library and read a little. Golda
ate supper on deck, but she didn't
eat very much. She was feeling
a little better before going to bed
at 10 p. pa. My favorite place is
out in the extreme ' bow, of the
boat, where It rolls and pitches
the most. Beginning to feel like
an old sailor. Golda's favorite
expression: "A great lief If you
dont . weaken." Turned back
watch 26' minutes, and day's dis
tance was 329 miles.
Monday, October 23
Golda a little better; can eat
a little now and keep it down,
but still very dizzy. Eveline fine,
but still a little fussy. A lovely
day and sea Is quite smooth.
Golda played me a game of shuf
fleboard and won it. She also
won a game from one of the lady
passengers. Perhaps you would
like to know something about
shuffleboard. They mark a lot of
squares on the deck 30 feet apart
and you have four little round
wooden blocks each and a long
handled stick with which you try
to shove these blocks hard enough
to land in these squares and these
squares have numbers in them,
so the object of the game Is to
get yours in the squares with the
largest numbers In them. Passed
the, steamer Lurllne of the Mat
son line at about 6:45. and it
was a pretty sight their, twinkl
ing lights gleaming across about
one mile of water. Forgot to
mention that we had fire and. boat
drill this afternoon. They got
the jazz orchestra up on the front
deck for dancing, but it wasn't
much of a success, as there were
only about two couples on the
floor dancing. Most of the pas
sengers are missionaries and do
not dance. Passed tne steamer
Nile at 10 p. m. The captain
tried to signal her with the whis
tle but she didn't answer. Cap
tain changed the course of our
boat for a little while, as the
movements of the Nile were aus
picious. The Xile, seemed to stay
in one place for such a long time.
Soon went back on our course
and reeled off some more miles.
Tried to send a little message to
the Nile to Mr. Bowers, who is
supposed to be returning from
Korea on her, but the wireless
operator on the Nile said he
wasn't on the ship. Don't know
why he isnt on board, as he
wrote me he would be. Maybe
he has put off his coming home
until I get there. One can surely
sleep fine on the water it rocks
you to sleep. Eveline makes a
great hit with all the passengers
and officers. She has been as
good as can be, and they think
she is a wonder she is. Have
some strange passengers on board.
One is a Hindu priest, returning
home to Calcutta after 16 years
in the States here he has been
pastor of a flock of crazy 'Frisco
society women who fell for his
Hindu religion. Then there are
some traveling salesmen, a sea
captain who pilots boats in and
out of Shanghai harbor; a de-
EDITORIALS
OF THE
PEOPLE
About Advertising
To the Editor i wish to in
quire if there is any civic body in
Salem such as the Commercial
club, Business. Men's league or
other organization that has juris
diction and regulation over ad
vertising and sales including
window displays and window of
ferings? If so it is high time
said body should commence to get
busy. I understand in Portland
there is an organization of this
kind whose duty it is to investi
gate newspaper advertising and
window offerings and to see that
same are conducted upon honest
and fair and square lines.
It is my understanding of the
law that if a merchant displays
an article in his window for sale
at a certain price and a customer
comes in and tenders the price
and demands the article displayed
th.3 merchant is bound under the
law to turn over the article lis
played and not try and palm off
some s'nlar article of inferior
quality, also to sell the article to
the first individual who comes in
and offers to buy the article fea
tared.
There was a sala recently con
ducted here in Salem where the
merchant displayed several valu
able dresses and offered to sell
tective, some missionaries for In- them on a certain day for $1 to
dia, Japan and Korea, and a non
descript woman out for a high
time, and a piano player in one
of the cafes in Shanghai. Few
interesting facts concerning our
boat. She was built in Scotland
33 years ago and is certainly a
good boat yet. She has been kpt
in fine repair and they say shs
can make about 23 miles an hour
now. Same boilers and engine as !
when built. Is 9000 horsepower.
Was Admiral Dewey's dispatch
boat in the Spanish-American war.
Wireless can send 4000 miles and
receive messages farther than
that. Operator let me listen a
minute or two to a concert in
'Frisco. Must have a set some
day and then will talk to you.
Distance, 339 miles. Retarded
watches 23 minutes.
Tuesday, October 21
Had breakfast with Golda In
the cabin. Went on deck about
10. Golda still dizzy. Played a
few deck games and then went
down in the steerage and watched
the Chinese gamble. This boat
has a crew of 100 or more. Cap
tain said that the, reason that
we changed our course was? to
keep the Nile from running into
us. They must have been hav
ing a, big party and trying to
get rid of their booze before they
got to the United States. Sea
beautiful and calm. Gave Golda
a dose of Mothersill's seasick
remedy and she ate a fairly good
Bupperi Read a little in the eve
ning and listened to the music.
No dance tonight. Went to bed
10.30. Beautiful moonlight. Dis
tance, 327 miles, retarded watch
es 21 minutes.
Wednesday, October 25
Golda feeling better. Played
some deck games, had a lovely
day; sea calm. Golda went down
to dinner for the first time. They
tried to dance, but again a fail
ure, and they didn't keep it up
long. Wireless operator and I
are getting acquainted. He and
I both carry Howard watches and
they were both given to us by our
mothers. Distance 337 miles,
and retardqdj watches 21- minutes.
Thursday and Friday, Oct. 20427
Sea good on Thursday but
rough on Friday. Activities on
ship about same as other days,
with the exception that the peo
ple are writing letters to send
back at Honolulu. Expect to
sight land about 3 a. m. Sabbath.
Can't enter harbor until 6, and
must stand doctor's examination
before we can leave ship. We
expect to go to church there and
look up a Mr. Stafford, who. Is
there and who used to work at
the Press. Captain announced
that we would probably leave
a customer who would buy $
worth of other goods in the store
I know of one party who decided
she would take advantage of this
offer and went as early as
o'clock a. m. and made her pur
chases totaling $5 dollars, tell
ing them she was doing it to get
a certain dress advertised in the
Honolulu about 4 p. m. Sabbath.
Distance, f310 miles. Retarded
watches 18 minutes.
Well, folks, that is most of the
happenings so far. It is getting
real hot weather and we are be
ginning to wish that we had some
cooler duds, but will strike cooler
weather in a week. Evaline is
getting to be a bigger girl every
day and is very, very good. Hope
grandma is better by now. Tell
her we miss our nurse very much
Am enclosing a few things that
may be Interesting. Will close
for this time. Pardon all mis
takes, as the typewriter belongs
to the purser, and I don't savvy
it very well.
Thursday we left porthole open
and woke up to find waves send
ing water through our room.
Will write as soon as we get
to Tokyo. Lots of love to you
all.
Earl, Golda and Evaline.
BOYS
GIRLS
We are going to give away
$100 as follows, to the boys
and girls of Salem: ;
December 5th to 23rd to-;
the first three lucky Boys,;
ten dollars each; to the first,"
three lucky Girls, ten dol-
lars each; and to the nextj,
eight boys and girls who are,
successful in this contest,'
five dollars.
Only boys and girls un
der 16 may enter this con-;
test. Apply to Mr. Harding;1
Monday from 4 to 5 p.m.
Welch Electric
Co.
379 STATE ST.
window. They told her that de
partment would not open until
S:30 a. m., and so this party was
waiting in the store for that hour
to arrive, and while she was wait
ing along about 7:30 in comes a
boy about 12 years of age and
one of the proprietors says '"Oh,
you are the boy," and notwith
standing the fact that the lady
was standing right there in the
store waiting for the particular
dress, over her protest turned the
dress over to the boy and only
smiled when protest was made to
him about it.
By, all fair means the lady who
first went there and made her $."
purchase and was waiting for the
time to come that they had told
her, was entitled to the article
displayed. It is an easy thing to
display valuable articles in win
dows days in advance at a ridicu
lously low price, then when the
day comes around have some of
their own relatives or employes
come around and take them out!
for them.
There are those who say "it
serves' em right for trading at a
store that resorts to such dishon
est trickery," but I for one be
lieve the general public is en
titled to some protection from
such fake methods and it tht
Commercial club or Business
Men's league have jurisdiction in
this matter they should keep an
eye on these questionable deals.
In fact, it is my belief that in
case there is no organization
whose duty it is to investigate
matters of this kind, then the
prosecuting attorney or chief of
police should take a hand and see
that none but honest and fair
dealing in these matters prevails.
It is only just to the merchants
who do business here in Salem in
an honorable and upright way.
Would like to hear from some
of the others' who got stung on
the above mention-ed fake sale,
and there are a. number of others
to my certain knowledge.
FAIR PLAY.
NORTH HOWELL,
Lawrence Everett, $ months
old, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E.
Dunn of Parkersville, passed
away November 24. The funeral
service was held at the residence
November 26, conducted by Rev.
R. W. Achor of Woodburn, and
interment was in the Pioneer
cemetery. The large number of
sympathizing relatives and friends
who gathered to pay the last
tribute, as well as the beautiful
flowers heaped upon the little
mound attest the sincere esteem
In which the bereaved parents are
held. It love and sympathy ran
bring a ray of comfort tc the eor-
rowing parents. It is theirs V .
lest measure. f - -
Mrs. Charles 5 Dunn and threi
children of Portland "are Vritia-
relative in this section. '
Mr. and Mrs. D. W; McKay
and daughter oi. Vancouver, east
Sat ui day for a few days visit wit
relatives here.
Feail Lander of Woodbara r,
ited her sister, Mrs. C L. Hon
gan, a few days last week. t
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