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.DAILY EAST OREGOWAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 18. 1918. EIGHT PAGE3 J. IT HWrvi "w Xav Air rvrvrrrvmirs-r - --. .wreai. ecr Vfc STESCBJPTIOX RATES OX ADVANCE) " ewfTca at F-eswHe- ; rUy. ea, rj-, by mmU 5.0I e -roowd-cl, saaal luF. a,x Bths by mail lit corps of stenographers, gives! Aside from these four causes! Those 800 Germans who at-a" w. j-s se. i- be. i- Soo.tjs, all its time to the maintenance jof delay the only reason forltacked our 114 men and srot;Twp- 6 N- 35' lit TV OTHT.R OrTJKS. rxiilj-. ttitt month by mall I rw-sSy. one snoata by mall ;r4Jy, cm year by carrier . lB)sraaJS.wj ajewa ftiana. rwtlnl , t-y. si months by carrier "i jNw lud, Oregon , Oaily, three months by carrier. (Vkan .wL"!!!? jaitr, month, by carrier 1.2 1 .SO T.St 3-75 1.S5 .cs Jname and address of parent or other relative or friend design nated by him to be notified in emergency. When a casualty list is received from Gen. Per positive it will have no military value to the enemy. WHY? ' OME anti prohibitionists like to spread forth the impression that in a dry siate moonshiner plants be of files of soldiers' names and the failure of relatives to re-! licked now realize the Yankees O A A rncuita . TViia ,1 i , r i i .m-. nsill .... J i. 1 : 1.' : i i t wc wwu iii. once is military re in xiraiiuenireauy yei, iies reiauves. consiaerartion. Gen. 1'ershing , A copy of the roster of each may, at his discretion, with contingent sailing to join theihold a casualty list until he is Ljcpeditionary Forces is filed in card index fashion, each card bearing the name of one sol dier, his organization, and the 28 YEARS AGO Marine in France Worries More Over Ball Team Than Foe Yft..lrr?na. Dl , aw atxreea. X. "v. Iton-aaa tin TV or- ! Sewd-TR-ee-klr. six months, by mail .75 'the shing each name cabled from; come as thick as the leaves on ihf oourscurvK. Hid W r In The mountains, la whadow and dew, Half hh and iair purple, a fec-aurtirul tone, in ynor sweetness and frail at a dreavm Toss aw at the woodland. ill lo and iba stream. BO cp n tSe craxmi&. crass of u sky. . ZVao (b tba sxaiMieur. aJare4 dose by. Ctoatent In Uaa sxiUnest, apart from tba world. Pure aa tba breezes where tba astowflakes have whirled. 1 Hid deep ia the forests, Per- famine tba air. Not knowing your beauty, modest and rare, Tow brlsbtea the regions up , under the rim Of the peaks, that foqever are silent and grim! Guy M. STEALET. rw.w.w-w.-.-wa.ww Amprifln Rvnpilitinnarv'n tnn q n .1 iv.nf- f orce is listed with the emer-ifor a law violator to avoid de ' , ' . j4?ency address on file in the tectioi. But the successful , take action at the coming rate jcard index. As rapidly as the raid of Sheriff Taylor, Captain hearing here to see that the i new list with emergency ad- Williams and others on the ,ide of the eastern Oregon far-1 dresses is built up the tele-1 plant on upper Butter creek rrrer is aaequaieiy presenteu. ijci. uuijutatcs.iuues 1101 oear out tneir ineory ;ine idea of a uniform rate to iPortl&nd and Puget sound points is irrational when dis- tances and grades are consid ered. Freight rates should be ; based on the cost or service These clerks already are sup-; The captured Dlant was locat- plied with blank telegrams' ed far out in the wilds, almost which require only the rela- inaccessable even on foot and tive's address, name of sender, screened from view. Yet it nature of casualty and the date had been oDeratini? onlv two and filling in the blank spaces weeks until a vieilant shpriff i klcked ovcr the Jaahioaru iln time this rule will apply gen- they get the telegrams off as was upon it. If it is such an1' ... ,,... v. ..TV,..- erauiy uirougnoui, me laiiu. .mv.wo..j iiuuuk. m auuai- easy tning to manuiacture 1111' (From tho East Orcsonian. June 18 10.) J. W. Thompson, while driving on the reservation Monduy. ran across lurste lailgcr, which ho grabbed by the tail and throw into his woKon. The animal haft furntahed much umu.se. nient for its caitors. Tho welcome shower Monday even ing ami today wan worth many thou sand dollars to eastern OreKon farm ers. J. M. lientloy ha returned from I'ortland where he has heen combin ing biisinesa and pleasure by looking after the street railway project jind attending the grand lodge of Moaons. James Heck has a lively honto for his express wagon purposes. It ran away last evening and this morning w !Now is an appropriate time for -this grain growing region to as isert its sentiments. Portland is ) lnonr'nllv ntfr1prl in St Inu'pr A LOWER RATE TO PORT-LAND on to maintaining the telegraph cit whiskey in a dry state why blanks for the sake of speed is it that men go so far into the the statistical division is sup-1 wilderness to set up their stills plied with sets of form letters and if So easv tn nvnirl nrrecf rate from the interior than is to be filled in and mailed when ; why do moonshiners keep an beattle. ine inland grower can afford to cooperate in the matter because v our farmers will gain by reductions. had his hoboes out today endeavoring to make them work. ABOUT CASUALTY RE-PORTS -J' ELATIVES of soldiers named in casualty, lists forwarded from France ordinarily are notified witW.n 24 hours after receipt of the further details are available. ! armed guard to watch against. While relatives are general- surprise? It might also be ly in receipt of information appropriate to ask why, if vio within 24 hours after the cables lations of the law are so easy, are received, delays are some-the price of whiskey remains so times due to clerical errors i high and why it is so few drunk caused by the fact that names men are to be found these days. musi pass tnrougn so many REALTY TRANSFERS Peeds. Herbert A. Thompson et list to Thomas Thompson, 1, E5 1-2 SW. 1-4 tec. 22, Twp. 2 N. i S3. Thomas Thompson et ux to Her bert A. Thompson 135. W. 1-2, XIV, 1-4 See. 2 Twp. 1 N. R. S3. hands in France and in Amer- The Austrians are hittintr1 w .V". ' 'iTV,." 1. TlV emergency aa- ine Italian line Wltn . almost 224 Res. Addition. Pendleton. ATIxA-NTA, Ga., June 18 Although In constant danger of being killed or wounded by the Boche shells, gas bombs and bullets, Gardner dams, 19 years old Atlanta lad serving with the U. a Margies In "rance. Is greatly perturbed because the Atlanta base ball club, of the Southern league, la going bad and has just lost seven straight games. In a letter to his mother, instead of telling of the number of Germans ho has killed or captured, the brave youngster complains about the show ing of the Crackers, declaring that he Is the -butt' 'of endless "kidding" at the hands of several New Orleans boys in his company. "When our lads have spirit like that while suffering all the hardships of the trenches, how aro you going to beat 'cm?'' said First Sergeant Gal way, of the local office, after read ing the lad's letter. . oid max hit in itio AUTO THICK SEATTLE, June 18. Frank B. Mar tin, 65, 203 Vellevue ave.. is in Seattle General hospital with Injuries that may cause death which were sustain ed when he was hit by an auto truck driven by E. E. Pels, 238 Central bidg., at Fourth ave. and Union at. According to statements of wit nesses, both I'eli ana Martin Became confused at the street intersection. The wheels of the truck passed over Martin's body. He sustained, concus sion of the brain, a possible fractured Bkull, a broken rib, broken leg and serious internal injuries. SWEDES BUILPIXG ica, incorrect dresses turned in by soldiers, their total strength, but do not1 Lillian Crawford to Hency j. removal of families to address- seem to make "varrlao-P " ott l- N- -2 SE- Bnd x- J - NE- es other than those listed, and i . i1; nd fw- !-8W- .V -NE- 1"- MATILLA county has a ,list8 according to a statement the occasional necessity for J There are plentiful chancea i Isaac Jay et uV to Wvey u Payne vital interest in. ine suD-,autnonzed Dy ine war juepart- caDiing pacK to oen. .Pershing for adventure these dav with 5aou' lots 3 and 4 block u Hermia- lect of jrrain freight ment. A "statistical division to-verify a name or to obtain nut i, . ton orchards. rates and by all means should (with a staff of officers and aaa,address. business. -i . i iuii uminrua, niOOnsnine ictcr KroKh et ux to Ira Shortrldse RUSSIAN SHIPS R.VPIDLX LONDON", June 1 8. Construction of Norwegian merchant shipping in May exceeded for the first time dur ing the war the tonnage destroyed by submarines during the same month, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company. The tonnage sunk was 17,800 while the new construction amounted to 18.217. WESTERN UJilQii DOES NOT ACCEPT RULING tlAK lADUK DUflKll President of Company De clares it is Not Binding ; Because Not Unanimous NEW YORK, June 18. President Carlton of tho Western Union, writing the President, virtually declined to-' accept the ruling of the war labor board as the President requested, un less forced to by the government. He said the board's flndng is not binding because it was not unanimous. He said there Is no danger of a tele, graphers' strike. Carlton sold the Western Union dl rectors and executives would -deeply deplore being forced to lay aside safeguards as experience has showu them a requisite, and believed essen tUil to effective telegraph servlc." . Carlton said. "VV desire to be per fectly fair with you, sir, as we have been with the board." He said, "We are not favorable to sharing the responsibilities of con. ducting a great publlo service with members of outside organizations whose Interests are personal rathe than public." Carlton said. "We desire to be per mirr.niutin to the Western Union would "under the pretext of war em-, ergency waive Its right to stolka dur ing the war but would carry on a propaganda to get sufficient members to disorganize the company after the war, if the Taft-Walsh suggestions be came effective.' Mistakes Battleship For Target; Shells Her WASHINGTON-, June 18. A war ship engaged recently In target prac tice mistook the battiesnip j-ouiiana for a target and exploded a ahell aboard her, killing one man, the navy department announced today. The accident was due to hasy weather. 'The man killed was Fireman Moses L. Morgan of Gulf Point, Fla. HEX Ilia Scbendero vitca catered the British reenxiting headquarters ia New York as a recruit for the Jewish battalion. which is to serve in Palestine as a Dart of the British army, be did aot at first glance eon form to one'i ideas of what a fighting idcist should be. A He was in tact very unimpressive, for bis figure is short ssd slight and his face very boyish and not of the militant type as wa used to conceive it before the war taught us that a first class fighting man also may be of high brow and gentle appearance. His expression is smiling and pleasant and he wears a very old oni ' form dingy with mnch service and mend ed ia a Bomber of places. But on the breast of his worn soldier's blouse there gleams the cross of St George, the highest medal for valor awarded to a Bnssian soldier. Only soldier in the ranks may win It, and it is higher than any medal awarded to an officer. This insignificant, small Jewish boy. who appears so little of the militant ideal ist, has in fact cherished some of the ' - most glorious dreams that ever were known to men. For them be has fought for two and a half years in the Kus&ian trenches and, since it appeared to him that there was no longer sn opportunity to fight for them ia Ku&sia, be has set aut on bis travels around the world to find a place where he can give bin life for the advancement of liberty and de mocracy for all men, and for the exten sion of justice to the Jewish rare. Be feels that be has found this place in the Jewish Battalion, and in his own words be is "very grateful to the British government for the opportunity to apill bia blood on the sands of -Palestine, thl borne of bis ancestors." A Ktvolutionul at a Boy. It was when be was twelve years old that Schenderovitch became a revolution ist. There were msny things to bring this about. There was the seething dis content a monr the great inaates of th people ia Petrozrad who had awakened to the idea of what a democracy might do far them if they might establish it in ptwes of the rule of the Tssr. And tb.n tare was the special wrongs of the Jewa, their excluaion from so much that was aany impositions sod cruel wrongs that were practised acsuut them is the name of religion. As be wss sn alert and emo tional boy he cherished the keenest re sentment st these wrongs snd be resolved thst when be was a man be would do bis beat to brlp bis countrymen throw off their fetxera His first rhanre to suffer for liberty reme, curiously enough, through America When be was srventeea years old be bad for some tima associsted himself with revolutions ry grosps in Petrorrsd, and ne day there came to him from America a tonality of literature containing revo lutionary propaganda On the way frots the station to the bom of S-henderovitrb the bos was broken and the revnlutinnarr pampalrta were discovered. Beheadcr witch was arrrated and thrown into prisos for foor meet ha At the breaking out of the war rV-hea-derovitra with eroree of his comrade hurried ta the front ia defence of their ros n try. for they were loiai Kuaaiaas an.1 ware esrer t take part La the straggle li. defeat the Germans. For two years ssd AKMY FROM THE JNS1DB . ... . r?- 1 r,y , 1 II ' - '! , l ' II -Xf Mil It -r ' S Xal C.ft1'. I a Misi-smnawViiiiTi r umitr-Z-Z' -Xi..'."" . . ' . ailrT iirTf I a Youthf uLSoIdier JHkla aw as sa aa.t.U.a.. Iwt. m.iA a vt . j !...., - w. as tun. K,tO . ... , , . .Jth food was fmproTftl a half lie Buffered In the Rufcaian trenches. He was gassed, shell shocked and wounded, but that which tie describes as the most terrible of all that hs had to undergo was hanger. "That was so terrible with me and with many other soldiers. he explained, "that my body, my legs and arms hare been swollen to three times their natural size It was either hunger or bad food mos of the time when we were under the treacherous command gf those German spies who were passing themselves off ai KuBftian officers. We were giren a loaf of hard bread a day and nothing more for weeks at a tume. Then once in a while as a change we would hare soup made of red beet in which we could dip our bread. For many weeks we would grt no hot food at all. I can emomber having mat ontr once or twice all the time that I serre-i the' army. We were at times girer potted meat, but when it was opened if wss so bad tha' it was unfit even for the most hungry. Jt was positively de composed. Five or Six Cartridges a Day. Home idea of I lie trearhcry or indif ference of oor generals, our Minister of War and other officials who had to do itb provisioning and equipping the army can be gotten frm the fact that we were t first given only five or six cartridges dsy. This went on for a year before Kerensky came in. When Kerenskr waV at the head of the government we were) given 250 cartridges a day, and ne Wfri also given proper equipment, new nni-, But before Kerensky rsme In, he. ea use we were so short of ammunition and equipment always, we fought witb anything that we could find at tile mo ment, aometimee it wss with rhiiis or with axea, and in the Carpathians fouxht with our hands. "At one time when tresebry and in difference had completely demoralized sections of the army boys with less than six weeks trsining were aeot to the front. Tbey did not eves know bow to handle a gun. During an engagement j have seen them running over the field and asking each other bow tbey could load their pieree. Is consequenre lots .f these boys g"t their finders blown off sn.l were otherwise wounded by their owe rifles. "Yon can imsgme the demoralisation of boya who had never bad any training in camp, w ho had. some of them, never bevu a a ay from home before they were rushed off to take part la a battle. With no 'ralainr, no prnj-er equlpDient and no real leadership, tbesa bojs were driven frantic. I have ares them when tbey tUA SCHENDEROVITCH WEARING HIS ST. GEORGE'S CROSS. were under fire rtishin- around the field tliotiting for their motlirri and father to come to their aid. 'Motlirr! Motbcr !' they would cry as rh"y were dj ing. A'o 5crue of Discipline. "Tbey acre so little inalriM-ffd in w:ir fare that even a ben tbt-y were in the trenrbes they did not stay in tliPiu ditrinx the enemy's fire The llitesisn Ivo's nrf very tender hrsrte.1 in sonic ways, and having bad no military discipline thy would rush from fblr frem-ho ahrn fhey aaw their comradea. often boys had come with tlim from home sttd wfm were like brothers to them, struck down by the enemy. Tb-y would rtih ont to the wound'-d. ph k tht-m up. kis tlu-m sttd nurse them la their anus as a mother would. "In a battle near Vi'srvsw. in l!l"i. ae mere Bold out r-y our offif rs. Tb bayonet chaWe was Dot so l.nd, Init we were ordered to dtop onr runs snd re- inowcd den l.y iUl- i.?rmans. Our of. fi-rrs snd Utsf in the Wiir ffi'-e lis- iciud to t'vrr.u iiiii- t!i:it the Kiiis-r W'il b"lm tobl tlifio to do. Tb'-J eonsiderid Iiim tlM-ir superior offieer atid sold llieir rotmtry. SoLkolin'i a:i the most treacb-' rrtms .if all llMk "ncni I.' "J nev'r mint to reiwntlM'r Itarano vltib, for I was E.n-srd there and 5iM" Kio-siiirt rl tlo ir liv.-s tfi that f ir ! t- it liifted all nlzitt and si) day. heziiiniiig st lii'iit, tt'lu-ti were siibterti-d to u surprise- sttaek. Th t;,.ro:ans surround. -d is un four i'b s. aiid f. r tlie first tllni they us. d the ll.irt.v-tw mile sun, also the (,'a ntta'k snd !ra'''d us with liiml fire. Tlie Iti nvens w ere rid and (:iliiini: i metal fell over our'iio-n. sr:d sllhiml. i a. had re.piistors the sns -nme wqtiiik that rnarv of lis r.ill tot pet tbeni sd justed. Ju-t a lift aoiilj flow from oni rr,me with gas aud died tn fhat Duauion, tlicir eyes starting from their heads and their Darkened tonciiea lialiKius out '1'bi-y had heeu so terrified when tbey were estilit by Ihe gas that the tendons of their arms stiffened in tins position in whieh tbey were caught and their arms cnuld not he hent back again. Medical Service Overworked. "Uurm slid after these great battles the medical serviec was so overworked, so few in .lumbers lj contfiarison to the need, (hut tliere m-emed to be no doctors it all. Men Moo like flim sll over the hatt.'efield. There was no one to pick them up or look after them. 1 wss so maddened by what I saw. as were many of the other soldiers, thst' if my own mother Ind ,,,, to the battlefield I wou'd lisve kilbd Ler with a bayonet just lik? biff ard l.brtwl iny one ele. M'e were frantic and did lopfh. .Many oftot know ahat ae did nor what to do he luen put tl:eir hatid I I to j I respirators, but were c-i!-Sht treat, and It wa then'tLat , we were hauls part way up TL-y dj'iwt their. IleiL We retreated over men's fates. aith their' "Von awk me ahat ! received the Cross a-ero orrr- of Saint Ceorre for. It was on sr. oc casion when the Germans had captured our outpost and cut us off from t rest of our line, getting around back of na German sentries were posted along line running from the German lines and be tween our section of the Russian line which had been cut off and the rest of the Russian forces. It was necessary that we re-estrhlish communications with the other end of our line and my commanding officer assigned me to carry a message to the superior officer In charge. To do this it was necessary for me to get through the German sentry line. This I did crawl ling on my stomach ovcr the Russian No Man's Land. It took great caution to accomplish this, and it wss also said that it required courage to persevere in the task. As I was successful in my mission I was grven the cross. "When the revolution wss declsred w were all very bappy because we believed that at Inst we should have liberty. greater opportunities of happiness for every oneond freedom from persecution and eouol rights for Ihe Jewa The regi ment to which I belonged, the Fifty-third Volynske of the Fourteenth division, was the first to support the revolution ana I was one of four men to raise the red revolutionary flag. The soldiers of Russia considered Ker ensky a champion ef the Russian cause. And most of them still consider mm so. It is not true that Kerensky sold Russis. t and most Russian soldiers would will- mrlv fia.it for Kerensky at any tlma lie worked like a ranatic to rati ins revo lution a success. He became ill from ihardwork. Whatever anybody aaya about Kerensky do not believe that he ever sold linssis. Ue Immediately made everything verv much better for the men in the army. as I have aald, and warned ns that we carried our rifles in. our right bsnds and democracy In the left end if we threw down our rifies we would los ne revoin tion. Then Came Trolzks. "Then came TroUky from America and Lenine from Switzerland. Coming from America you can well imagine that Trot zky had a great Influence over na Ira mediately TroUky and Lenine began tti tell the people that they would make everything right for them, they need not ficht any mora They aaid thst tba capi talists of Russis had been drinking the blood of the soldiers and that the people should go to the capitalists sad tell them thst they sh.Mild give up their money sr thst sll should shar alike. "At first these promises were wonder ful. The people had bsd three snd s half years of war. they bad lost so many men and had bad such bad leadership and had been so much betrsyed that they turned to Trotrky ana Lenins t they promised them peace, justice for ail, liberty and equal property rights. "In this way the Bolshevik! began tj take charge of Russia. And the Bolshsw vikl Invited the Germans In, We do no know now whether Trotsky and Lenin are German agents, but undoubtedly the are in favor of the Germ ana But most of all, they are in fsvor of power for therax selves, snd to keep their power and to In crease it tbey have done what they havw. They believe that they can retain control of Russian affairs, but this cannot be ao. They may keep on for little while, bnt then there will come another revolution The Russians wast a republic, but ia their hearts they, would rather have monarchy than the Bolshevik!. If I had been willing to Join the Bolshevik! the would have (Wen me a high position 1 probably they would have made me gen eral that is the way tbey do thing. Bof although r am a revolutionist I am not a traitor and I would have nothing to OS with them. I "There Is another thing that the Rne sians will not have In the end, they will not have German rule. The German have everything now they have the food, the steel, the Iron and Ihe le.id-every. thing. It may go along for two or threw years so. lint In his neart ine li'issiaw detests the German nod despises hlag and eventually be will arum ami trees; the German. And he never will he sad isfied until ha has thrown all tlia Trail sians out of his country. I "As for me, since I wonld not Join tho Bolshevik!, there wss not bins for c bnl starvation In Russia. Unices I was nl'b ing to Join them they were not wiiiina that I should have anythl.ir it all. And I also saw thst so far aa Ihe Jews wtr . concerned the revolution haj beii of ne avail. With Kerensky '.t lon-i- no dir ference whether man wss a Je- or Gentile. But allhouch Trotsky 1 a Jiw, the pogroma aiainst the Jews Imve hejua again In Russis. I bnd fought for Uos siai I had fought and spilled my Mood , for the revolution, bnt Trotikv. who U Jew himself, cares much men about bis own power than be does shout .itice te the Jews, For that reason be an- lenine afford no mora justice tn the -er than they received from the Tssr. I therefore decided thst I t-on I leave my own country and come la be ' n'ted Statea, and I made my way -Siberia to Vladivostok and then ka bama.. There the English . ut me money for my passage to . - sad afterward Jewish socities holpt I t reach New York. i Through starvstlbn I was ret? - t weighing only ninety-seven pouii . sad you can see that I am much better oov ndeed quite well hi some waya. B;u stiO I am not well. .or I dream and wake nf in the night. My fingers tighten, for 1 . think that I see a German. Aa for corn ditlons In Russia, the atarvation of I ha people, the chsoa and hopeless misery, tha terrible disappointment that the revolt tion should have brought them so little of what they bad hoped for. If I could ' lake my heart out and giva il to run te read, perhaps yon could nnderstand It, I ennnet tell you any other way. I "In Russia I have no home now, and I am not allowed freedom. My mot he snd father being Jews- have Bo fr . .Ions. But now that the British government has offered to give ths Jews l'aleatrm-. I tcet that as a Jew I wish once more to f.gba. r wonld not wish to be like a heir.-nr and . bike something for nothing A i Christiana have apilled then Palestine it ia right thst we J. do our part I aa twenty r old. but I have lived so nnni I aometimee feel I cannot a any longer. I feel that I ba the place where a mas ought ei the i ia old are hat ing - is ta ad. T