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East Oregonian Kourtd-Up Souvenir Edition Pendleton, Oregon, Friday, September 21, 1917. Page Twenty-Fry Twenty-Eight Page s TALES OF UNDERSEA FIGHTING (Hy lludyard Klpllnpc ) They hour. In place of classic names, letters and numbers on their skin. They play their Krtsly blindfold gamed In little boxen made of tin, SometimoH they stulk the Zeppelin, Bometlmee they learn where mines are laid or where the Baltic Ice In thin. That Ih the custom of "The Trade.-' No one known how the title of "The Trade" came to he applied to tho submarine service. Some say the cruisers Invented it because they pre tend that suhmurlne officers look like unwashed chauffeurs. Others think It sprang forth by Itself, which means that it wus coined by the lower deck, where they always have the proper names for things Whatever the truth, the submarine service Is now "The Trade;" and If you nek them why, they will answer: "What else could you call It The Trade's 'the trade.' of course." It Is a close corporation; yet It re cruits Its men and officers from ev ery class that uses the sea and en gines, as well as from many classes that never expected to deal with either. It takes them; they disap pear for a while and return changed to their very souls, for the Trade Uvea In a world without precedents, of w hich no generation has had any pre vious experience a world still being made and enlarged dally. It creates and settles Its own problems as It goes along, and If It cannot help It self no one else can. The Trade lives In the dark and' thinks out In conceivable and Impossible things, which It afterwards puts Into prac tice. Four Nightmares. Who. a few months ago. could have Invented, or, having Invented, would have dared to print such a nightmare as this: There was a boat in the North sea which ran Into a not and was cuught by the nose. She rose, still entangled, meaning to cut the thing away on the surface. Hut a Zeppelin In waiting saw and bombed her and she had to go down again at once, but not too wildly or she would get herself more wrapped up than ever. She went down, and by slow working and weaving and wriggling, guided only by guesses at the mean ing of each scrape and grind of tho net on her blind forehead, at last she drew clear. Then she sat on the bottom and thought. The question was whether she should go back at once and warn her confederates against the trap, or wait till the de stroyers, which she knew the Zeppe lin would have signalled fpr. should come out to finish her still entangled", as they would suppose. In the net It was a simple calculation of compara tive speeds and positions, andv when It was worked out she decided to try for the double event. Within a few minutes of the time she had allowed for them she heurd the twitter of four destroyers' screws uulrterlng above her; rose; got her shot In; s:iw one destroyer crumple; hung round till another took the wreck In tow, said good-bye to the spare brace (she whs at the end of her supplies), anJ reached the rendezvous In time to turn her friends. And since we are dealing in night marcs, here are two more one gen uine, the other, mercifully, false. There wus a bout not only at, but In the mouth of a river well home in German territory. 8he was spotted, and went under, her commander per fectly aware that there was not more than five feet of water over her connlng-tower, so that even a tor pedo boat, let alone a destroyer, would hit it if she came over. But nothing hit anything The search was conducted on scientific princi ples while they sat on the silt and suffered. Then the commander hear-J the raHp of a wire trawl sweeping over his hull. It was not a nice sound, but there happened to be a J couple of gramophones aboard, and j he turned them bothj on to drown I And In due time that boat got home ! with everybody's hair of Just tho same color as when they had started! The other nightmare arose out of silence and Imagination. A boat had gone to bed on the bottom In a spot whero she might reasonably expect to be looked for, but It was a conven ient Jumplng-off, or up. place for the work in hand. About the bod hour of 2:30 a m. the commander was waked by one of his men, who whis pered to him: "They've got the chains on us, sir!" Whether It wai pure nightmare, an hallucination of long wakefulnes, something reiuxlng and releasing in that packed box of machinery, or the disgustful reality, the commander could not tell, but It had all the makings of a panic in it. So the Ird and long training put It into his head to reply: "Have they Well, we shan't be coming up till o'clock this morning. We'll see about It then. Turn out that llghl, please." He did not sleep, but the dreamer and the others did, and when morn ing came and he gave the order to rise, and she rose unhampered, and he saw the grey, smeared seas from above once again, ho said it was a very refreshing sight. Ldurtly. which on fours with the gamble of the chase, a man was com ing hpme rather bored after an un eventful trip. It was necessary for him to sit on the bottom for awhile. and there he played patience. Of a sudden It struck htm. as a vow and an omen, that If he worked out tho next game correctly he would go up and strafe something. The cards fell all In order. He went up at once and found himself alongside a German, whom, as he had promised and pro phesied to himself, he destroyed. Khe was u mine-layer, and needed only a Jar to dissipate like a cracked electric light bulb. He was somewhat im pressed by the contrst between the single-handed game BO feet below, the ascent, the atack, the amazing re sult, and when he descended again. j his cards were Just as he had left The KxIMloit of K H. E 11 "proceeded" in the usual way, to the usual accompaniments of hos tile destroyers, up the Straits, and meets the usual difficulties about charglng-up when she gets through Her wireless naturally takes this op portunity to give trouble, and 11 Is left, deaf and dumb, somewhere In the middle of the Sea of Marmara, diving to avoid hostile destroyers In the Intervals of trying to come at the THE ISoppOlT Ufl "The Purity Sweet Shop" 10W ALL OVER NORTHWEST for Quality and Service Anything Cheese Sandwich and Everything to Eat From a ich to Porterhouse Steak Ice Cream and Fountain Delicaci Confections of 1 Kinds HI SGfi 50 IPaeo fault of her aerial. (Yet It is note worthy that the language of the Trade, though technical. Is no more emphatic or incandescent than that of top-wide ships.) Then she goes towards Constanti nople, finds a Turkish torpedo-boat off the port, sinks her, has her per iscope smashed by a six-pounder, re tires, fits a new top on the periscope and at 10:30 a. m. they must have needed it pipes "All hands to bathe. Much refreshed, she gets her wireless linked up t last, and Is able to tell the authorities where she is and what she Is after. In due time E 11 went back to her base. 8he had discovered a way of using unspent torpedoes twice, which surprised the enemy, and she had as nearly as possible been cut down by a ship which she thought was run ning away from her. Instead of which (she made the discovery at 3000 yards, both craft all out) the steamer steamed straight at her. "The enemy then witnessed a somewhat spectacular dive at full speed from the surface to 20 feet In as many seconds. He then really did turn tall and was seen no more." Going through the Straits she observed an empty troop ship at anchor, but re served her torpedoes in the hope of picking up some battleships lower down. Not finding these In the Nar rows, she nosed her way back and sank the trooper, "afterwards contin uing Journey down the Straits." Off Kllld Bahr something happened; she got out of trim and had to be fully flooded before she could be brought to her required depth. It might have been whirlpools Under water, or For Your Satisfaction the 1918 Season We Offer in Passenger and Commercial Cars Franklin Marmon Cole Reo Duplex Four Wheel Drive Truck Republic Two Wheel Drive Truck Distinctive Construction, Durability, Efficient and Economical PARTS, SERVICE AND SHOP EFFICIENCY BACK OF EACH SALE. Pendleton Auto Co, Established 1907. Oldest and Finest. . t . 1 - if 4 if -I ' - f Jlf ii Af - Ft? thing she had fouled dropped off and let her recover her composure.) An hour later: "Heard a noise sim ilar to grdundlng. Knowing this to be Impossible In the water in which the boat then was, I came up to 20 feet to investigate, and observed a large mine preceding the periscope at a distance of about 20 feet, which was apparently hung up by its moorings to the port hydroplane." Hydro planes are the fins at bow and stem 1 which regulate a submarine's diving. . A mine weighs anything from hun dredweights to half-tons. Sometimes It explodes If you merely think about ( It; at others you can batter it like j an empty sardine tin and It submits J meekly; but at no time Is It meant j to wear on a hydroplane. They dar- ; ed not oome up to unhitch it, "owing ; to the batteries ashore." so they t pushed the dim shape ahead of them till they got outside Kum Kale They j then went full awtern and emptied the ' after-tanks which brought the bows down, and In this posture rose to the surface, when "the rush of water from the screws together with the stern way gathered allowed the mine to fall clear of the vessel." Now a fool, said Dr. Johnson, would have tried to describe that. addition to enforcement of the crim inal laws the Indian bureau made a personal appeal to all Its employes and to prominent persons In local communities, resulting in a most suc cessful pledge-signing campaign. The evils of drink are also being vividly pictured In the schools. The Indian Is by no means a stupid fellow, and many of them, although not signing the pledge, are In their own way protecting themselves when under the Influence of liquor. In Miami, Fla. (among other things a trading post for the Semlnoles) the story is current that these Indiana always paddle down the Miami river In pairs; that they do their trading, deposit the ir surplus cash with a certain merchant of tried honesty and then go off for a debauch, one on the first day and thm other on the next, the sober feJw refraining from even a drop of flre water" until his brother has flnbtbeA his fun. When toth have had their day. under the guidance and protec tion of a sober mate, they recta tai their funds from their merchant de positary and paddle away to their homes. other things (They tell a story of a boat which once went mad In these very waters, and, for no reason as certalnable from within, plunged to depths that contracts do not allow for;- rocketed up apain like a sword flfh. and would doubtless have so continued till she died, had not some- ITUE WATKlt. Since colon il days Intoxicating li quors have been a curse to the Indian so much of a curse that It render him incapable of taking care of him self or bis property. Never before has the government been quite as active In its efforts to break up bootleeglnar among the Indians as at the present time. In the last three years 508, 8S0 pints of alcoholic liquor have been confiscated and destroyed; 5511 ar rests have been made and the amount of fines assessed against convicted of fenders about equals the annual ap propriation of congress made for the ,-urpose of breaking up the traffic. In Pendleton Auto Co's. New Garage is Credit to City notind-t'p week saw the opening of the now home of the Pendleton Auto Co., on the corner of Fast Ciurt and Johnson streets. The finishing touches on what is undoubtedly as complete and attractive a garage as there Is on the Piiclflc coast were put on last week by painters and dec orators and the moving from the old garage completed. The new garage will be for the dis play, sale and storage of cars and se ct t-soriee only, the company having derided to keep the shops In their prtsent location so that there will be nu noise or dirt at the new place IXsjvlay I loom Kaoe Onurt. 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