v.snr. rom DAILY EAST (VRF-flOXTAX. rFXDLF.TOX. OREGON', """uv M i;nT 10. 1015. TFV pages. Til (IT JrJ JV. Jzn l El LJ U D I And the Greatest Piano Buying' Opportunity Ever offered to the people of Pendleton and Vacinity ENDS "A WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT." Our story is short, note the low prices and easy terms, and the list of world's renowned Pianos from which you can make your- selection. Have you received one of our cash credit checks as the result of your answer to the rhyme contest, amounts which were from $25.00 to $120.00? Then bring it to iu tomorrow, as it expire Saturday night, March 20th, when this big sale ends. OPEN EVENINGS 'TILL 9 O'CLOCK KOHLER & CHASE, WHOLESALERS for 'L W 4U ". Wf$ytt WW Knabe, Kohler & Campbell, Vote & Sons, Kohler & Chase, Kenyon, Hobert M. Cable, Fischer, Winston, Short inger, Emerson, Newton and many others, together with the finest line of Player pianos on the Pacific coast. fell So liter Come in and Take Your Choice of These Bargains One slightly used Piano ONLY . . One slightly used high grade Piano, ONLY One new high-grade piano, Was $400, Now . . . One new high-grade Piano, Was $450, Now . . . One high-grade modern im proved Player piano, was $750 now $S9 $23 $33 AS IMti'E.MKXT NEWSPAPER. fablMicd Daily and. 8nt Weekly at !- dlrtuo. Orrzoo. by tbe staBT OktttO.NUS PCbUUHlNQ CO. Botared it tb jxMUofnc at Peodletoa. Oregon, u cool Um sisll natter, teicyaoee Offk-lal County Paper. Mcnbcr l&ited I'ram Association. OS BALE IX OTHER CITIES. IsjpwisJ Uutel Neva biaad. Portland. Uregob. Uuwotaa Neva Co, Portland, Oregon. UN f'ILK AT Cbiraro Bureau. W Secorlty Building. Washington. l. C., Bareaa Ml, Four teenth street, N. W. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE) Ually. one year, by Mil $3.00 LMtlly, alz months, by mall lat7, Unt months, by mall 1 li1y, one Booth, by mall lalii. one year, by earrlev 10 fslly, n month, by caxfler S.io la0y. three moot ha, by carrier l.tS lolly, one month, by carrier &3 Berni-Weekly, one year by mall I M Rent-Weekly, all month, by mall 75 Bemi-Weekly, (our month, by mall... -&0 will go to Portland, some to Astoria. Naturally the best results can be obtained by keeping in reach of both mar kets. But the farmer is not the only man interested in this road project. The merchants of Pendleton and of the other towns have a vital interest at stake also. Walla Walla is go ing to have the advantage of a river road. Umatilla county towns must do likewise or pay the penalty. The Cold Springs road pro ject is one in which farmers and businessmen should unite and must unite to make it win. It is a big undertaking but the goal is worthy of the effort. MINNESOTA Vs. OREGON. FISHING TIMK. "I am wishing, oh. I'm wish ing For the time to go a-flshing Down beside the dancing waten in a quiet abady nook. Just to spend the time a- d reaming While the mist of morning. streaming. Breathes tbe honeysuckle's sweetness from the bosom of the brook. "Out among the woods and bushel Where the merry brooklet rushes And the mockingbirds and thrushes sing my sorrows all away, There bealde the restful river Let me lone myself forever Oh, I'm wishing for the finhlnir of a sweet eternal May!" Atlanta Constitution. LNNESOTA has an ef ficiency and economy commission and it has just made public its report. Strange to say this commission does not share the views of those who enacted the Moser spoilsmen's law in Oregon. Instead of recommending that all state employes big and little be subject to instant re moval when they displease pol iticians in office or gangsters out of office the Minnesota commission advises that with the exception of the heads of institutions all other officials and employes be permanently engaged and that their selec tion be by means of merit rules, Evidently the commission has been peons should be content in their slavery. Some people in this country sympathize with the peon in his strugle for freedom. Others favor the other side and are ready to excuse barbarism and injustice when used in defense of an upper class. If we should go to Mexico to settle the troubles in that coun try would our own people agree as to which side we should favor? If we ourselves cannot agree as to what should be done there how can anyone advise this country to inter vene and how can we censure the Mexicans if they disagree and are forced to settle the is sue by the sword? UNCLE SAM WON'T OUT. SELL HAT water transportati on means is shown by the case of the Morris and Essex canal in Pennsylva nia. The canal was built by the state to permit of coal ship ments by water. But for some reason the Le high Valley Railroad Co. se cured control of the canal and has paid $367,000 a year to keep that waterway out of use. All told the railroad company has paid $14,000,000 to pre vent the reduction in rates that would have occurred had the canal been kept in use. No railroad company will ever close up the Cascade Minnesota Locks canal or the Celilo ca- reallyinal because those canals were trying to bring about efficiency built by the federal govem- BETTER THAN A RAILROAD 7f F Cold Springs farmers could afford to offer the Northern Pacific a bonus of $25,000 to get them to build a spur line from Myrick to Holdman, they can afford to pive twice the sum for a public i owned hard surface road to Cold Springs landing. Railroads render a great ser vice but not at the low costs at tendant upon water transporta tion. This is perfectly natural and the reasons will be obvi ous to any intelligent man, wo man or child. As Mr. Harrah says, what this county needs is a publicly owned, hard surface road to the river with a public dock at the other end. Such an ar rangement will assure the ful lest competition and that is what is desired. A private dock might be come monopolized by a partic ular steamer line. We should be open for business from any boats operating on the river. Some Umatilla county wheat in the state service and is not giving thought to building up a political machine. THE M EXICA NSTRUGGLE. OME of our tory newspa pers try to imagine the United States is obligat ed by the Monroe doctrine to invade Mexico and take the burdens of that country upon our shoulders. When did the Monr6e doc trine take on any such mean ing? The Monroe doctrine re lates to possible acquisition of American territory by Eupo pean nations. It does not for a moment require this country to take charge of the various revolutions occurring from time to time in the republics of Central and South America. The Mexican revolution is a local struggle. It is primarily a contest between peon and aristocrat. The peons feel they are entitled to some rights and to some share of happiness. The aristocrats who have ac quired control of resources through fraud, deception and often by legalized murder un der Diaz feel they should stay in the saddle and that the1 ment, not by any boss ridden state. The people of the inland empire stand to get the bene fits of the open Columbia river and the case of the Morns and Essex canal will give an inkling as to what those advantages will be. No railroad would spend $14,000,000 to keep a canal closed unless it h'ad some reason for its action. wlf, which each nation jiropo.ted to cross in order to nvt to (trips with the other. Schntckenburger's poem, pro duced under these circumstances, was Included In a collection of verses written by him. und published under the name "German Songs." The poem in question had no great suc cess, and would have retired Into ob livion if it had not hud the fortune some years later to full Into the hand of an obscure lidertafel leader named Carl Wllhelm. who set it to music and manaKed to have It performed at the silver wedding of the Crown F'rince of Prussia, who. after his victorious campaign a?aint France, became the rSermun emperor. Truth to tell, even this did not suf fice to bring the tnnt Into popularity and it was only In 1865. when the "Wacht cm Rhine" was sung In Dres den by the league of Oerman SlnKPrs. that it was received with enthusiasm, becoming, after the declaration of war in 1870, the national hymn. The Oerman government wanted to pre sent the composer, Wllhelm. with fl yearly pension of 3.000 marks, after peace was signed, but he died In 1873. Poor Schneckenburger, too, had died in 1849. without the faintest idea of the posthumous fame of his name was to enjoy as having written the na tional hymn of his country. The manuscript of "Die Watcht am Rheln" passed Into the hands of an heir of the drug clerk's best friend, and later was left by him to the mu seum in Bern, where il now hangs. cers. IJIerla. however, evidently considers Its army a formidable one. since upon the occasion of hostlll ties between any of the powers, It al ways Issues a proclamation of neu trallty. THIS MAY ENTERTAIN A FlItST TKIP TO TIIK "MOVIKS" The other day a country kinsman of Alexander J. H. Garesche, veteran ntorney, paid the latter a visit. It was his Initial trip to the city. De spite the rapidity with which the motion picture has thrust Its presence ! Into remotest sections he was among those who had never seen a "movie." He hHd been too busy harvesting ! crops and superintending the farm 1 to devote any time to this amuse ment and had formed ho definite Idea i of what It was. One night Guresche suggested they take In a. picture show. A drama was being cast upon the screen. It so happened that Guresche had seen the film before and began carefully to explain the various episodes to his uninitiated guest, whose attention was riveted ahead. As Garesche talked, the man from the country tipped his head to one side, then to the other, straining eyes and ears. Finally he turned to Garesche with a puzzled expression. "What gits me." he said, "la how you catches what they're sayln.' Dad gummed If I kin hear 'em!" IX WIXXIPKO. "During a business trip to Winni peg." said a business man, according to the New York Evening Post, "1 ran Into cold weather. One day. particularly, a biting wind whipped the snow, and all teamsters and driv ers suffered terribly, "When I got In my taxi to leave the hotel I observed to my chauffeur; "Well, this Is sure enough winter weather. .Isn't It?" "The chauffeur nodded and replied grimly: "Itelleve me, sir, I ain't seen a but terfly all day.' Hie Motor KnthusIaM. "Would you tell me where I could get some giant firecrackers?" said the determined looking woman. "We can order them for you," re plied the, merchant. "Might I Inquire what you want with them?" "To wake my husband. He has given no attention to an alarm clock. The only thing that will arou him Is a noise like a bursting automobile tire." Washington Star. X IXS1STKXT LAY. When winter Is done, and gay sun beams betray The rack of days grim and un tender, 'Tls then nature hastens to change her arrar And dazzle the world with her splendor. And this Is the tny spring Is piping to you: "Now off with the old clothes. And on with the new!" You may smile In defiance or frown In dismay; , Hide your purse or exultlngly ahow It; For this Is the lay spring la piping? to you: "Now off with the old clothes, And on with the new!" Browning. WHY THE nABIFJ PIE. CURRENT THINKING 1 STOKY OF "DIE WACIIT KHEI.V." AM (C. N. F. in The New York Times.) "Die Wacht am Rheln." which Is the German national hymn and Is be ing sung now by all Teutons, whether at home or on the battlefields, was written by a certain Max Schnecken burger, who was born In the little town of Thalhelm In Wurttemberg. Hchneckenburger was a druggist's as sistant In Bern w hen he composed the poem In 1840. At that time, says The Neue Frele VrtKMH, France was voclferlously de manding a march on the Rhlne that Is to say, war with Germany and German patriotic songs began to be heard from one end of the stream to the other. The subject of the song was almost exclusively the Rhine it- (The Fort Worth Record.) Environment has much to do with Infant mortality. Is the conclusion to be drawn rom the report of the fed; eral children's bureau. The bureau made invetlgaV'on8 at Johnstown.' I'll., and while It submits no views of Its own, the report shows that In the poorest sections of the city the death rate -was 271 per 1000 or more than five times that In the best resident-' lal sections. ' I Babies whose fathers earned $10 a week or less, the report says, died at the rate of 256 per 1000, while those whose fathers earned 125 or more a week died at the rate of 84 per 1000. Artificially fed babies died at a much more rapid rate than breast fed babies. Only 46.6 babies per l. 000 died under one year of age when breast fed for at least three months as against 165.8 per 1000 who died fed with artificial foods. I When the mothers were employed a large part of the time In heavy work babies died at a rapid rate. In one group of 19 mothers whose ba bies all died, 15 had been keeping lodgers. In houses where water had to be obtained from the outside the death rate was found to be 198 per 1000 as against 118 per 1000 In houses where water was supplied by pipes. WORLD'S SMALLEST ARMIES. : 3 B EGINNING Monday, March twenty-second, and continuing during the week we will have our annual one dollar window. (From Tlt-Blta.) If ever the disarmament of the wnrM occurs there will be several countrlea that will not have much toj a do in that line, such as, for Instance, Monaco, the army of which compris es 75 guards, 75 carbineers and 20 firemen. Another diminutive army Is that of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, which numbers 135 gendarmes, 170 volunteers and 20 musicians. The republic of San Marino can put in 13 th field a total of nine companies, i consisting of 950 men and 38 offl- g cers. commanded by a marshal. The 3 army on a peace footing consists of one comoany of 60 men. The flzhtinar force of the "Black S Republic" (Liberia) la composed of ? 700 men and almost as many off!- F,jl If you are not familiar with our custom of having a dollar window in March every year, we are pleased to say that this is an annual affair in which we display in our windows two or three hundred articles selected from our stock which sell from one to five dollars. We sell any one of these articles for. one dollar and you have the choice. In selling these articles at one dollar we are losing on the value of them but in another way we do not feel as though we are making a great sacrifice. You will be glad to purchase some of these things for one dollar and we are glad to sell them to you so that we can re place them with new stock which we will receive in April. Our ultimate object is to keep a fresh and new stock and you will appreciate that when you come into our store to buy a commencement gift or a wed ding present. We have called this a dollar window but let us change that and say A Dollar Display, for we intend to use both our windows using one for our china de partment. ROYAL M. SAWTELLE - . Established 1887. 3 M E3 3 4p lillllll! Hi