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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 30, 1926)
Foreign Fields of Honor V BatKeVi in Beauty: Today -Eight American Cemeteries in France, Belgium and Great ; ; -;,. -.Britain ilore fThan i 30,000 Soldiers of ','- ,: -World War Rest; Remembered -. WASHINGTON; May 29. : (By Associated ,Presg.) Dec oration; Day this year finds America's eight overseas "Fields , of Honor" those in France; Belgium and: Great JJritain where more than 30,000 soldiers of, the World War lie in rest; prac tically i completed. ; . " Except -for the substitution of marble crosses for ,t the white painted wooden markers, ihe natural growth of trees, shrubs, and lawns', and the finishing of .chapel projects, the cemeteries already have taken on appearances of beauty and nermanence indicative lof the care, bestowed by a grateful -government and people. . . , ' - . x , , t : , It i3 ' to these American ' possessions " in foreign lands, spread over, a toxai oi zoo acres oi piameu wiuie wuaaca, .mow the footsteps of-thousands willlead tomorrow. Not .only will lue, pjJLgiiXUaKUS JlUJlUlt:, lilts'! uuaw VJ,vnu;nvMw v"" J those cou ntries, but remembering friends and officials of the 7three Allied nations will swell tne procession; . , , . -. .1 . Commencement of the Decoration Day exercises in honor of the dead in each of the cemeteries will -begin tomorrow in accordance with plans drafted by the General Committee on Army and tTavy Chaplains. ,These provide for special, ser vices in the churches of Great Britain, France and,Belgmm, presided over by American clergymen, and for- continued religious and patriotic observances at the cemeteries on JMon- day. 66 Bushy Tail Squirrel Called Handsome fellow Rev. E. II. Shanks Writes Juvenile Story for Statesman Read .era, Telling of How the Animals Feel Out in the Woods in .Vacation Time , .'k .A niniiva rifha Arnerinn "Fields of Honor" in ?"Vi.; -s,a rinwn ir Vi fnrm fif-jin official rerjortto the War Y" r; . . . , , . . i : Mi of investigators-has iust. been xe- i Ktt Cr.rron' rwv!s Tt. ivaa made, public jannumly.-in 'order that the "next of JKin" of the soldier dead and. their ? friends at home might know; as their thoughts turn to the f war days, just what has been done jn the way of providing appropriate burial ; places in Europe. ' ' : ! -' -; "' ; ; 'J 4 i "One need not trust," the Investigators reported,. to blue prints and diagrams for his knowledge of the lovely spots that I these cemeteries will be after the plans now under way have i been fully carried out. He may go to the American cemetery. 1 uresnes,.only a few miles from Paris, .where under, simpler 1 conditions, the task of making a beautiful resting place, green ' and wooded and flowering, has already been completed. , 1-5 "We returned to Paris happy in the thought that we could V assure every father and mother, wjibsesons lie beneath the s crosses in any of 'the American, cemeteries in' France, that V their dead tvill be cared for, in a way worthy , of the country for which they laid down their lives." 'Gigantic Mountain price . ' .Stood on Oregon Ranges Huge Crater, Eisht Miles in biameter;Resiilt of Exptosion, ' , Can f Still Be Traced; Rlountaln Peak Rose Morje ? vThan 10,000 Feet Above the Sea , I , UNrVERSITY oVoR&ON; Eugene, May 29.(Special) Several million years ago when Oregon was still in the pro cess of formation, a gigantic mountain larger and higher by far than anyoiow in the state, stood where the Three Sisters all raise their peaks more than 10,000 feet above the sea level. ; - This, in brief, is the "story: outlined ' by.Dr.dwin J. Hodge, professor of economic geography at the -University of Oregon, in -his -book, Blount Multnpmah: published by the university last week. " - . ; K'Tfiis pre-historic mountamr Dr.' Hodge further' declares, existed for a million years or more only to be destroyed when , an explosion, which must have shaken the world, blew off its itop. The explosion left a crater, or caldera, as the geologists call itmore than 8 miles in diameter. This -caldera can still be traced. . . - . ; r Dr. Hodge, "discovered" the mountain while making a de tailed study of the 'Three Sisters region in .the summer-of He named the peak "Mpunt Multnomah," and it is the r tory of this mountain of eons ago that Dr. Hodge relates in his 'book, which is replete. .with .proof s,.pictures, maps and purveys, rne dook,-written in lapguase tt,," r" ".Hft author, there s the largest accessible recent lava flow in the United btates; there nre 50 young volcanic cones; there is one of the largest crater ! -es in the world, and there, are .17 glaciers covering 257 which is the largest acreage of any ice field as far south : United States. ;The are?f;he points out, is Unsurpassed cr its scenic beauty and as a natural playground. , The present North Sister, says Dr. Hodge,; was the north lie or slope of the, gigantic mountain which was at least a . ThA rtak'of "Multno- :ah, looking northeast at the present Sisters, can be visual--d mentally hi;rh above and to the risht of the Middle Sister. i brief, as Dr. llode reconstructs the pre-historic mountain, 3 Middle and South - Sisters have risen in- the' crater of cunt Multnoman since the eruption or .its top. , Tha mrronfi rfl1Hpvfl Idff.Kv fHo kjnrnTncirm mn he traced . . .in remnant irpsr.cnts ct,rrrtn ijisror, lwii Lh: Jh::b?.nd, ths.Scuth P"T:rr.rt"r.r.d.Hrcl:c3 . . Rev.iErnest H. Shanks . -Have you . ever been out in the big- woods, and stayed long enough to get acquainted with the wild life? You will soon learn that if you are to be on friendly terms with the birds, sqtiirrels and "other wild-things you must be very cau tious' and careful not; to frighten' them. '' Move slowly and quietly; 'and' at the'first sight of any one of them you must freeze" at once. ' That'isi you must stop and stand still. . You must not jfcaove or make a soimd or you will drive .them all away. " ' ', ' v ' , Bushy. Tail was .a great grey squirrel. He was young, and very proud, for he was a handsome fellow. He got his name from-his wonderful tail. ; It was long, and heavy, and made a fine showing when he arched it up over his back. ; i Bushy .Tail's father was ah old squirrel called Big' Bluff. He was always blustering about and scolding and bossing everybody; threatening to fight and nover doing it, so Big Bluffy was a good name for", him.' But Bushy. Tail's mother was one of the sweetest little squirrels that ever lived. They called her pussy Willow because' she was so quiet and pretty and peaceablel Their home , was in a great oak tree that stood in the heart of a -great forest. .There were all sorts of trees in the forest, The tall stately poplars, the flowering dog: wood, the black walnut and hickorynut, and quite a good many beechnut trees. " ' ' 't- , .There were a good many neighbors; too. There was the numerous Redfur family.. They were a noisy, lot. always quarreling, .and sometimes : fighting. 4They were smaller; than Bushy Tail "and .his (people,vThey kept. on friendly terms f6r that reason! perhaps.-vlTien there was a family of Blacfcbuns, large black squirrels;i who lived in the big poplar hear by. r There was a young squirrel in the Blackbun family tlje' same1 age' as; Bushy" Tail whom they called White Sock because he had one white foot.. White Sock and Bushy Tail were great chums and. always played together. There were a few other, grey squirrels in the. neighborhood. One family was especially interesting to Bushy Tail for there was a coy young squirrel- there by the. name of Kittikin. j She was pretty: as a picture and stayed near home with her own folks. But Bushy Tail frequently; played in her tree and helped gather nuts. 4 They were "fast friends. : " ' It was great fun to play hide-and-seek, blind-man's-buff, tag, high jump, and run races from the top of one tree to another; What great sport to run out on a limb of one tree, make a spring to the limb of another, and so on from one s;de of the. neighborhood to the other. ,Some times the Red furs would give chase to Bushy Tan and Black Sock.:. Then it was. great sport. . Big Bluff would sit out and" scold and boss and order them about, all to no purpose, for they took no notice pf him. Pussy Willow would beg of Bushy Tail ;to come home,' and Kitikin's heart wotild almost jump out of her mouth for fear Bushy Tail would get caught." But .both Bushy Tail and White Sock were the swiftest runners, and could, jump the farthest of any of -the squirrels. ; Then when the nuts "were ipe they all turned in -and Home, Ended in One Act Florence Smith Vincent Lets Jack and Jill and Mamma Jones . . s Demonstrate JSere. for ;You in a Natural tittle Scene in Spring , THREE'S A CROWD ' (Why Men Leave Home: A Tragedy in One Act)' . SCENE The combination living room of a little love nest in the early afternoon of a Saturday in spring. CHARACTERS Jack The big, blond, boyish man of the house and hus band Of- ' .'. ,. . V v , . Jill--A slip of a girl who is Earnestly trying to put 'away childish things and conduct herself with the dignity demand ed of a.matron of three months' standing. ' Mamma Jones- Jill's maternal parent. . Luncheon over, Jack allows himself to be tied to or into the proverbial apron strings "to help with the dishes." ' ' Mamma Jones seats herself by the window. Jack (tripping over a rug, letting slip a platter but agilely recovering it' before it reaches the 'floor. In the effort loses his balance and bumps his head against a sharp corner of the door: "D m!" Mamma Jones . (stiffening) : "Swearing in the presence of your little wife and you only married for three months ! I'm ashamed of you, John!" . Jill (rushing in from the kitchen to cling to her husband) : "Oh," Jackie, dear, did you . hurt yourself ? 1 From the : sound I was afraid you'd broken a leg or something." ' Jack : (ignoring Mamma Jones, Tflinging'iah ami about Jill's shoulders) : "Don't look so frightened, sweetheart. I'm L-iall-rightnothing broken -but my pride a3 a, waiter. -"Bat , I did have to do some tall juggling. to-save ttua platter. Jill (with a gasp, taking it from him and carefully bearing it to the dishpan) : "Jackie? ' And your Aunt Nettie com- - : ing to supper, tomorrow night! How "terrible it you'd broken it and wekl had to tell her! She'd have been sure to miss it the very first thing -X know, she would !" Jack (nodding) : "And, missing it, she'd have asked for it. Probably think we'd smashed it on purpose. or hidden it from sjght because we didn't like it. That's Aunt Nettie - awfully sensitive. I'd, hate to hurt her feelings." Mamma Jones (scornfully, -in the doorway) : . "Nonsense, John. Any woman who would send a platter like, that '- deserves to have her feelings hurt. Every time you sit down to table the thing rises and hits you in, the eye. There's a place for everything, and black mourning bands are out of place on a china dish. To digest your food you ought to be merry over your meal. And that black border is depressing! It is ugly and Jill knows it - as well as I do." r . Jill (quickly) :, "I never said so, mamma." J Mamma' Jones: "Perhaps "not, but I've seen you 'scowling at the thing and I know what you would like to say if you dared." - r t M -w Jill: "Dared, mamma?"- u Jack: "Dared?" In 1.' . Mamma Jones "Well, if you weren't too polite, then, if .that t: -Vt . ,'. (Ooatiad ' on page 4.) i ; Rufe's Ravings ; i . . -jaw i me . . . - .i, .- jr ED - - , , - , - j NOW THAT THE ELECTIr IS OVER V : . ' ' ' - : V.- '" -.,.".' ' . AKD '. TJHE COUNTRY , SAVED, ',. WE CAN turn our attention-to more important matters. Such as box .scores and ? f Ishin yarns. "..' -..;. .--4 ' V : i - ""'' . , , J . - , . STOO BAD--But .WeTl have .to worry along without enjoyln thebnefitB of some of the things the defeated candidates were goiu' to do .for ..us "if nominated and etected.!,". .' j-, - . . , .., - $ i ' - NOW FOR u old paper drive there are eeveral tUoosand cam paign posters i that may - just ' as well be gathered tip and. sold for the benefit or the Boy Scouts un less, of eure, some of those per ennfal .candidates want to i save 'em for the next ralapaisn!. - -,? WHEN ATIIUO held 'up the armlssmari .from , the i circus siJe sfcow'the poor "fellow hail 1 to sit -- . (Cootinael a r sj C.) . Memorial Day to Witness Laying of 1 : Corner Stone of Harding Monument . (By Central Tress) MARION, 1 0.. May ' 29.-Memr orial Day, here -winmefin 4;the greatest gathering ot distinguish ed personages, since the 'day of President Harding's funeral. On Memorial' Day -the ; cornerstone for the preatr Harding Memorial is to ba laid, amid .impresaiTe' cer emonies. .- - ' 'Work'on the monumental Mem orial has been rushed until all . is In readiness for the plrting of the corner stone. .Vice1 president Dawes ywho ? Iwll ' deliTer .the cll matlce address of he day will pre side at. the laying of the' stone, will use the trowel -which" Presl den' Harding himself used when performing a like serrice at Kat chikan, Alaska, during his ill-fated Alaskan tour. , ; Postmaster General ' Harry S. New, United .States Senators F,B. Willis and Simeon pi Tess and Governor. A.VV -Donahey hare ar ranged to 1 take part, bf the pro gram .In connection with, the cor nerstone laying., '. Amonr other, prominent peri sons' who hare "."accepted .lnrlta tions ; to ' attend the . services , are former United States enator Jos eph F. Trelinghuysen,. Archbishop John t. McNlcholas. Cincinnati; Gebrse ;. B. . Christian.. "Washing-i ton, former .priVate secretary, to Pre 5 Jeht Harding, .and. Dr. Jesse S-j akMrsT Jlaf ding's pastor-and su; .rintendent . of i. the Dayton District of ;ihe Methodist" Episco pal church.;. - '" ' " I, " Officers" ''of "Fraternal" Grand (Continued n psgs 6.) .&4rJtm,.--- ,'",j. f (i ) ' ' lwo.'jtyww'wv.e:1 s T!ie I fording "Memorial nt Marion, . Ohio, es .risnalized .by the artist frcrt porch. . Ja ths i of the famous JlariUnj home with its historic i!ctt one of tho late JYcIicnt's Ust portr HistoricCemeteriesTo , Be Found in This CjSiinly j . ' -r - w.. - . Nearly All of Oregon's. Pioneers and Soldiers Sleep Their Last Sleep ""Beneath the Sod cf the Willamette Valley; History Is Related " V (By Ella McMunn and. Cecil Vfere Ashbaugh.) ' ; Within the borders of Marion county lie all the historic cemeteries oif the state, although here arid . there one .finds an old grave elsewhere, and there are a few-distinguished men and women of. past generations who have been laid to rest at Lone j Fir and River View cemetery at Portland, while' it is only necessary to recall a littldjof the covered 'wagon days to bring uppicture of the lonely; mounds of earth made along the trail orXthe long treck westward by Ihe hardy pion eers who broke tiieir hearts and laid down their lives, but gave us our glofiotis Oregon; - !.." It - is an jold stoiyjbut one that gathers sweetness . and pathos and power as the years go on- the story; of Jason Lee vho came, in 1836 with a company of! devoted Christians to bring the gospel that it might replace the i tomahawk in the lands drained by the Willamette. The 90 summers and win ters that have followed each other since tha,t far day have not dimmed ithe glory of the achievenientand what they did shall be told( in the ages to come when the stones that mark their resting place shall have crumbled to dust ' ' The First Oregon Grave ; Within an enclosure of about 50 feet at Leellission ceine tery.tlyinjg within the eastern, confines, ot..Salem, i are - two dozen gravea of those who came in the. good ship Lausanne, those soldiers cut the XJrbss. whose heroism and sacrifice have never been duplicated in. Oregon. - When you have stepped within the. gate" bearing the inscription,- "Methodist Mission aries of 1836,''. your glance falls upon, a simple white stone that reads as follows: . : . ; " j r : "Beneath this sod, the first ever broken in Oregon for the reception of rwhite woman and child, lie' the remains of ANNA MARIA PITTMAN, wife of Rev. Jason Lee, and her infant son. She sailed -from New York, 1836 ; .landed in Oregon,, 1837; was married July 16, 1837 and dijd June 26, 1838, age 35 years j in .the full enjoyment of the love which constrained her to leave all for Christ and heathen souls. . Lo, we have left all, and followed Thee. What should we have, there-' fore?' Matt xix-27." . ;.':.'.""-'.; In the history of Oregon there is not a sadder incident related than the death of Anna Pittmari Lee. For two years her body rested under the fir trees at the old Mission, nine ! ' (Continued on par .Ji . Tribute to Custer Dead Planned By Descendants ',!'' ; ,. : - J.:,.VV" - - Half Century Passes Since Signal Fires of Once Mighty Tribe Burned Low-to Die in Valey of itte- Big Horn, ! as Struggle Closed . . . , V f. DENVER, May 29-(By Associated Press). A half century has seen the signal fires of the once mighty Sioux burn low and die in the valley of the Little Big Horn. lime nas erasea tne lodge pole trails from the plains of the Rosebud and,the passing years hav quenched the fizme kindled at word .of Custer's crushing defeat. " But the story of that .heroic struggle remains one of the romanic chapters in frontier history. ' ' ' '. ','y-.-,. m ; Next'month in the valley of the Little Big Horn river, in .southern Montana, where 'on June -25, 1876f Gencral Gccrge : Armstrong Custer led five companies of the Seventh mvAlrv .to slaughter, the new Seventh1, under command of General Fitzhugh Lee, .will face 3,000 descendants of those ;6ux and 1Cheyenne", warriors who riddled Custer 1 these Indians' and cavalrymen will unite! in solemn tribute to .the memory. of the-red and -whiteman's dead; The ceremony .under the .auspices of the Custer Memorial agsociation, vrill be in commemoration of the .semi-centennial of .the famous -battle..:; j.;; ! : . " ' - ; ' ""VA thousand Crow, allies of Custer! by reason cf their hatred of the 3ioox, who poached upon their buffalo hunting ground, will be encanined nearbv. Thpv will n-rfi;-!C :the revivar of. dances, Jtribal ceremcnies port3 auj cZtl 'J of half century ago ' , .'.:' - Irom this Indian village, a reproduction of the cr.e Cm ,ter encountered, the cavalry, with regimental band LT-rir-fprth "Garry Owen thp Seventh's tehr: v fi-V.iir- t - -' .will swing on to the historic. battlcrrrci:- !. A-i V.. " '. approach the knoll where Custer, x.iih I.L i; .:. 1 made their;last stand.. th h--.i -.-'! rt-.. rromtne valley . below will ccrr.o t! death kongs. At the crest of tho i.. on which lias been carved ther-i the?a-two forces v.ill rr.cf.t in ,i piay a : .he?a-two forces v.ill rr.cf.t in L 1 . - General . Lee i.r.J CLnur.c.y Vc ::