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PA HE FOUJt DAILY EAST OREGON! AN. PENDLETON. OREGON. MONDAY. MAY 31. 1915. EIGHT rAGC3 5 ' I AN IM't I M M M Al'LR. ltit,IUbd ' rirt rm -Weekly lit Iea- rfnion, tr'(ton. pt the tAHT Mli.iloNIA.N 11 llUbillNd CO. Official CimntJ l'aper Umtifr i imed I'rp Amuxlatlon. Kniem! at ih poatorrtre at I'eniiietoa, Urafoa, u xrouO 1m mail matter. ttlepbooa ON 8AI.K IN OTUFR CIT1KS. lmplal Hotel Newt Stand, 1'ortUnd, lienrnaa Newa Co, Portland, Oregon. tiN FILE AT (filmed Bureau, ttuy. Security Building. WaLln-too, l c., Bureau 501, Four tmu street, N. W. wrnsrniiTioN rates (I.N ADVANCE) laMt, on year, bj mall 15 00 Daily, atx nionlha. by mall i (10 Dally, three raontba. by mall 1.25 ally, nne. irmnth, by mall . . .50 Dally, one year, by carrier 7 50 lally, alt montha, by carrier 3 75 laliy, three m.mttaa. by carrier 1 95 lallT one month, by carrier 65 Keml weekly, one year by mall 1.50 Semi-Weekly, all moatha, by mall T5 HU.F PAST TWO. How I loved you, little girl, Merry eyes and gnldtn curl, Checks of rose, lips of dew, Little girl f half-past two. Smiles and pucker, romp and run. Beamy as the morning sun. Through our hearts your fingers twine. As f worship at your shrine. Never trouble, never care. Catch you. darling, unaware; Life, so holy and so sweet. Keep thy roses for her feet. Keep thy music, keep thy dance, Keep thy spirit of romance; -Keep thy sunlight and thy cheer, Put not sorrow and not tear. How I worship, as I might Were you queen you are, of light. And of laughter ,and of love. Angeled with the childhood dove. Selected. DONT ROCK THE BOAT VITH tne country's rela TJ? tions with Germany at a critical stage there is but one course open to the Am erican people and that consists in giving loyal, united support to the administration in what ever action the president sees fit to take. The administration is in pos session of all the facts which includes much information of which the public may be una ware or regarding which there may be doubt because of con flicting reports. It roes with out saying the nation will be justified in insisting that its rights be respected and the rules of the sea be observed But let this be done without recourse to war. The world has enough war underway al ready. Half the world is drunk and it behooves a country like this to remain sober. America has a higher duty than that of participating in the present fight We can best serve civi lization by keeping aloof if we can and thus remaining in posi tion to aid a peaceful settle ment when the time comes. May the country be able to do this. Meanwhile the task will be made easier for the admin istration if the people will keep their shirts on. "This is Tio time to rock the boat." Mllllltllll!limillllllllMlltlllttllllllMlllilllllllllllll)lllllllllllllllltllHlllltlllllllllllll 1 MUTUAL MASTER PICTURES 1 See this Costly j Mutual Masterpicture How would you like to sit in a comfortable chair in E E our theatre, and see on the screen before you a story 5 of love, hate, of riotous human action staged under 5 E the blazing Arizona skies. E "On the Hight Stago" E is this Mutual Masterpicture produced with only one E thought to give the public the best in moving pictures. Robert Edeson. W. S. Hart, Rhea Mitchell play the E E leading parts in this wonderful movie that we booked E for you. E Here Tomorrow 5 SPECIAL MUSIC WITH THE MASTERPICTURES I COSY THEATRE I MUTUAL MOVIES niiiitiHiiiiiiitiiuiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin PLUGGED PIPE LINE" rt NDER the above her.dine the New York World has me iouowmg wiwrtMiug comment upon the Riggs bank cast! : In spite of President Wilson's refusal to read a political issue into the Riggs banic case, the issue was distinctly political. The Riggs bank, which has long maintained close relations with the National City Bank of New York, and formerly main tained close relations with the United States treasury, asserted that the secretary of the treas ury and the comptroller of the currency had been actuated by malice and vindictlveness in their regulation of the bank's methods of doing business. The National City Bank has long been the financial leader of the anti-administration forc es in Wall Street. When the . Riggs bank began its proceed ing against Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Willitms, the head of the National City Bank sent letters to every national bank in the country urging support. A clean-cut issue was drawn be tween the Wilson administra tion and the banking methods which the Riggs bank exempli fied and the National City Bank championed. In spite of the refusal of the president to find political sig nificance in this proceeding, it was loaded with political dyna mite. If it had been proved that the president's secretary of the treasury and the presi dent's comptroller of the cur rency had been actuated by personal malice and personal vindictiveness in dealing with a powerful but politically hos tile aggregation of banking capital, the consequences would have been serious, in deed, to the administration. Its good faith would have been impeached, its financial poli cies discredited, and the coun try would have reached the re luctant conclusion that the great authority of the treasury was used as an instrument of financial persecution against bankers hostile in politics to the party in power. What has happened, how ever, is quite the reverse. The court holds that, "the good faith of Mr. McAdoo and the comptroller is absolute and complete." The court holds further that "the bank persist ently violated the law long be fore Mr. Williams was comp troller and these violations continue to the present day. The only question that remains at issue is whether the comp troller had the technical power under the statute to impose a fine for these particular viola tions of the law. If he had so chosen he had full legal power to close the bank and ask for the appointment of a receiver, The opinion of the court as to Riggs banking methods shows that such drastic action might easily have been justified in law if not in expediency. The one great fact that stands out in these proceedings is that the United States gov ernment under the Wilson ad ministration is not in partner ship with Wall Street finance,! and that the pipe line that used) to run into the United States j treasury is plugged. That is a condition of affairs that j ought to be no less gratifying to honest bankers than to all other honest citizens. CIVIC CITfzENSHIP RE CEPTIONS HE suggestion of civic re Vjj ceptions on July 4, or other appropriate days, to foreigners naturalized in each community during the year is by no means fanciful. There was a time when the great privilege of American citizens was conferred at wholesale, almost indiscrimi nately, in crowded courtrooms, as election day approached; pvhen inquiry into fitness was perfunctory or wholly lacking; when court fees were paid by party committees which asked a return in votes. The process has since been somewhat per fected, but still has too little jthat is calculated to make the right kind of an impression on ' tVi a TA1V1 nf i1 1 OlMf Anything that will tend to magnify in a proper way in the mind of the new citizen the value of the gift he has just received and the importance of a right exercise of its privileges will serve a good purpose. Nonpartisan civic receptions of the sort specified would facili tate the work of the great Am erican melting pot. Native-born citizens just ar rived of age, as well as natural ized citizens may properly be included among the commun ity guests of honor at such re ceptions. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. There was a time in the Uni ted States when Decoration day was an event of the year and all turned out to do honor to the soldier dead. Now what if Great Britain also should fail to come to our terms ; would we have to whip England and Germany both? Cupid has been a busy fellow in the Pendleton high school. It will be summer tomorrow. THIS MA Y ENTERTAIN HIS CTREJULL. . A medical practitioner on board an ocean liner administered, rather free ly, sea water among the patient who were ill No matter what their ail ments were a dose of the briny fluid was quickly handed to them and they were told to drink It up. One morning the physician feU ov erboard, which caused quite a con sternation among the passengers. The captain came cm the scene and in quired the cause. "Oh, it's nothing, sir," answered one of the sailors; "only the doctor has fallen into his own medicine chest." JVDGE SIJGHTLY PREJUDICED. In a negro district a member was on trial, charged with chicken steal ing. The evidence -went to show that the defendant had been found with his foot in a steel trap at the door of a hennery, whUe an empty sack lay nearby. The decision of the Judge was to this effect: "De co't finds dat de 'fendant had no criminal 'tentlons. Dah hain't no law to p'vent a Bern man frum puttin' his foot In a steel trap et he wants ter do it." Itevene Action. Pat Kehoe gave a dermatologist J-0 for changing his pag nose into a Grecian nose! Mike He did? Pat He did! Next day Callahan knocked it back Into a pug nose again for nothing at all. Kansas City Times. HOW TO HEAL SKIM-DISEASES A Baltimore doctor suggests this simple, but reliable and inexpensive, home treatment for people suflcring with eczema, ringworm, rashes and sim ilar Itching, burning skin troubles. At any reliable druggist's eot a jar of resinol ointment and a cake of reainol soap. These will not cost bit more that seventy-five cents. With ths res Inol soap and warm water bathe the af fected parts thoroughly, nntil they are free from crusts and the skin Is soft ened. Dry very gently, spread on s thin layer of the rcsinol ointment, and cover with light bandage if necessary to protect the clothing. This should be done twice a day. Usually the distress ing itching and burning stop with ths lint treatment, and the skin toon be comes clear ana healthy again. A HINT FOR SHAVERS If yon want a refreshing shave, with a thick, creamy lather, try a reainol shaving stick. It contains the soothing, healing reainol medication which makes it especially welcome to men with Under facet. rufck See Telephone 524. Divorce of Lake (From the Chicago News.) In a ruling announced on Saturday the interstate commerce commission has ordered the railroads owning ves sel lines on the great lakes to dls-! pose of these hollngs. All the vessel lines operating regularly between Buffalo and western lake ports are now owned by railroads. The new ruling becomes effective Dec. 1. Therefore presumably It will not af fect navigation during the present season. Evidently the commission believes that under the Panama canal act, which forbids ownership by railroads of boat lines competing with the land lines of their owners, it had no dis cretion but to compel their divorce. If the commission had the power to use its own discretion In this matter the Issuance of the order might not have been deemed expedient at this time. However, the fundamental Is sues involved had to be met sooner or later and perhaps it Is as well thai there is to be little further delay in meeting them. In acquiring control of all the reg ular vessel lines between Buffalo and western lake ports the railroads were not actuated by a desire to promote lake traffic. Broadly speaking, they sought to lessen the Importance of lake carriers as competitors of the rail carriers. The public would be better off had the railroads never en tered the field of water transporta tion on the great lakes. It ta possi ble, however, that 1n the near future CURRENT THINKING THE HIGHEST PATRIOTISM From the Chicago News.) What it means to be an American citizen was admirably set forth by President Wilson in his address In Philadelphia on Monday, to 4,000 naturalized Americans. Much of what he said in that address will live long. Not only should It stimulate true patriotism, which is the patriot- Ism of humanity, but it should atlm ulate right thinking with respect to Internaional relations. The highest form of patriotism was defined most clearly, perhaps. In the passage in which the president told his hearers that they could not dedi cate 'themselves to America unless they became thorough American In every respect. "You cannot become thorough Americans," said the pres ident, "If you think of yourselves In groups. A man who thinks of him self as belonging to a particular national group in America ha not yet become an American, and the an who goes among you to trade up on your nationality is no worthy son to live under the stars and stripes." It Is true and we should all realize it that thinking in terms of groups either with respect to nationality or economic standing or divergences of religion or any such divisions. Is a denial of the fundamental democracy that moot nearly exprewies the Ideal out of which grew this great nation. While making It clear to his hear ers that no foreign born citizen of the t'nlted States should be expected to renounce his affection for the home of his birth and the nation of his or igin, the president gave them the ur gent advice not only always to think first of America, but always to think first of humanity. "You do not love humanity,'' he declared, "If you seek to divide humanity Into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded to gether by love, by sympathy, by Justice not by jealousy and hatred, 1 am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the pas sions of his fellow men. He has lost the touch and Ideal of America, for America was created to unite man kind by those passions which lift and not by the passions which separate and debase. We came to America, either ourselves or In the persons of our ancestors, to better the Ideals of men, to make them see finer things m no! mra A Pig Shipiiiint of lki Oo Just n:c:ivd Everything bought here is guaranteed to be just as represented, or your money cheerfully refunded We are agents for eastern manufacturers and can sell direct from the factosy to you, saving the middleman's profit. Easy Terms as low as $ 1 0 down and $5 a month. Our Big Stock "" n rv n UlMlbUU and Rail Line the facilities for freight traffic by wa ter will be lessened because of the action of the federal authorities In driving out of business the sole owners of vessel lines operating be tween Buffalo and western ports. If the railroads merely transfer their holdings to friendly interests hiving an Independent legal existence, the situation may be made neither better nor worse. If the boats are disposed of in such a way that they are taken out of the lake service, the facilities, at least for a time, may be greatly re duced. Because of the Interstate commerce commission's order the opportunity Is presented for a real revival of water traffic on the great lakes. The freight shipping Interests, however. must take hold of the matter If this is to be the outcome. In earlier years the railroads were able to drive Independent lake lines out of exist ence by refusing them dock facilities and through route and Joint rate ar rangements to the seaboard. Under the Interstate commerce law as It now stands, refusals of this essential ser vice are forbidden. Therefore It is In the power of the Interstate com merce commission to guarantee to In dependent vessel owners fair treat ment at the hands of connecting rail lines. In these circumstances efforts should be put forth by men Interested In securing low freight rates to devel op and maintain on the great lakes vessels serving the interests of ship pers. than they had seen before, to get rid of things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite." Such passages from this remark able address deserve to be cherished by Americans as Lincoln's memorable words at Gettysburg are cherli.hed. They, like the words of Lincoln, ere an expression of the life purpoie of this nation. A full understanding of these truths makes It easy to grasp the president's meaning when he spoke of the man who Is "too proud to fight." Deep significance lies In his assertion that "there is such a thing as a nation being so right that It does not need to convince others by force that It Is right." Ours Is a nation "conceived In lib erty and dedicated to the proposition CASTOR I A lor Infants and Children. Till M Yoa Bara'Alwajs Bough Bears ths 8ignaturof ItiaiMr) .r?R Xtf it is! Watch for her in the! next issue . of this paper (tti X i in Our New Store mm mm that all men are created equal." We should "highly resolve" to use again the words of Lincoln that we n ttlve or adopted sons will protect and per petuate "government of the people by the people and for the people," by applying to its processes the for mulae of love, of sympathy, of Jus tlce. . Tok Wins Wife, Cluuw. CHICAGO, May 29. In an affida vit filed In the circuit court, Noator K. Clarkson, evangelist and owner of the Full Gospel and Rescue Journal, charges his wife, Mabel B. Clarkson. who Is suing him for divorce, desert ed him December 21. 1912. and went to live with Owen D. Conn, "a well known burglar." It is charged that Mrs. Clarkson lived with Conn until he was shot by the police In San Francisco while en T h6eet Standard Grocery Co. C L. Bonney Pret. Announce to their friends and the people of Umatilla County that they are now con ducting the above named grocery. It will be our aim to run a clean and up to date store where you can get the best of the best at prices as low as possible, con sistent with the high quality and good ser vice you will expect. Cash and approved thirty-day accounts solicited. We cordially ask for a part of your patronage. Telephone 96. The Post EffiGionf Gor in Amoriea Franklin LET SHOW Pendleton Ph00eM1 818-820 Main Street gaged In his "profession." When aha went to live with Conn, It la charged, she deserted her children, but later she returned to Chicago and kidnaped three of them. It Is alleged. Clarkson now asks that the children, be returned to him, alleging that she Is an unfit person to have them. It Is charged further that Mrs. Clurkxon. after she had lived with Conn, threatened to give Clarkson Si. great deal of notoriety unless he sup ported her. Ttto obvious Course. Randall Delaney Is very gloomy, says he doesn't care how toon ho dies. Rogers Then he ought to consult a specialist. Life. ' Experience teaches us that a lot of experience doesn't teach us any thing. R. H. Simpson. Sec. Corner Court and Johnson Streets 6-30; weight 2750 lbs. US YOU Auto Co. 812 Johiuoo Street