East Oregonian Kourtd-Up Souvenir Edition
Pendleton, Oregon, Friday, September 21, 1917.
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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Cutting off a corner of the display
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Men Hare Ret Room.
One of tho new features of the gar
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in comfort.
On the east side of the Court street
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basement, for the garage will be steam
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