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! I LET 'ER BUCK East Orcgonian Round-Up Souvenir Edition Pendleton, Oregon, Thursday, September 18, 1010 , .' . J..-?. 1 .- i "l '...! " ..- Piiffo Twenty-On) weak to mm . . wjesas worker Dire Need ofReliefFound in Region Reclaimed" From Bol heviki Says Correspondent. Itary hospitals want them, too. We ore anxious that they be used to the best advantage, and In this have the cooperation of Mme. Pederewskl and of all the government' officials." For some time Miss Downs has been doing Americanization work with foreign born people In Pittsburg as ! director of the Y. W. C. A. intema- tlonal Inetltute there. is: NEW YORK.' Conditions In Poland if Warsaw. They were carding wool due to luck of food, clothes, medical mid roeclved loss than a dollar a day. end ' and hospitals, are described Conditions In the factory wore most Ki-uphlcally in a message lust recelv- primitive, The girl simply came In, ed by the overseas committee of the hung up her shawl on anything han- Y. M. C. A. from Lois Downs of 1 Ittsburg. head of the Y. W. C. A. commission to thut stricken country. This mission went Into Poland sev eral months ago to investigate condi tions and discover how' members of the Polish drey Bumnrltan unit which had been trained fur reconstruction and social work In their native land might best be used to advantage. Miss Downs tells of a trip Into the department of ' the Bast . territory that la being taken from the bolshe vik!: "It is Just impossible for me to give you any Idea of the utter lack of food, houses, clothes, medical aid, hospitals everything," she writes. "I saw many sick, hungry, uncared for children that were too weak to eat or cry. I saw many children In all sorts of conditions and only heard six cry ing. It sounds unbelievable. "Men, women, children, horses and cows, If a family Is lucky enough to have them, are all living together In dugouts, In box cars, in open wagons, along the roads In the open with no covering or shelter from the heavy rains, flefugee camps have, at best, only a bare wooden plutform for each fumlly. All these camps are filled with typhus, amullpox and cholera cONes. ' "In one hospital sixty-six cases of dysentery broke out within two days. Men, women and children were all lying on the floor In small airless rooms with only one dirty blanket. At Iho same cump wo fotid a -ward filled dy and went to work. Few of them uore more than one garment. None of them had shoes or stockings. ' "I visited a club ot business girls the other evening and with great dif ficulty got them to play some games end forget the serious things they or dinarily discuss. In the end 1 was swamped with requests for classes In English and stenography. "The advance unit of Polish Grey Samaritans arrives In Warsaw tomor row and will go to work the next day. We have had difficulty In arranging their work as there are many things to do. Mme. Pederewskl wants them to train some of the Warsaw girls for canteen work. The minister of pub lic health wants them to help nurses In the epidemic hospitals and the mil- MINES AND OIL ILLS HAVE PROVIDED 58 PER CENT OF RAILROAD TRAFI AnTericanTMining Congress to be Held in SCLouis Will Dis cuss Current Problems. ! VV VSv Wc Carry a Full Line of Harness, Collars, Saddles and Chaps We Specialize in TOPS. UFHOLSTI AND BEPAIOinO AUTO mum Pendleton, Oregon Phone 773 Opera House Corner Let us put a Plate Glass in your car. It will be classy and serviceable ST. l.OUIH During the past five ' prehensive plans yet devised for a years the mines and oil wells of the j meeting of this character. There will United States have furnished exactly ba. (rttnlt ana open discussion of la- fid per cent or tne tonnage originating on United mutes railroads. The pro- ! Ui.cers of the baslo mineral wealth Hth badly wouded soldiers suffering Vf tno country employ approximately from dreadful lun, head, stomach ! i 500,(00 men. This Is lurgely skill vounds. The surgeon, a splendid labor. These facta furnish a ba man who spoke . English pre-, tia tor tne interest aroused among fectly, had operated on these men I mnng men In the grave problems llhout an anaesthetic. I saw an ,,'.,. nation Involving Iodine put on Jier hand, which had n-rnntaEM in production. The ree- oeen mown 011 uy a nnnu grenuue n ngnlxed danger of continued industrial bor's plan to nationalize Industry and the effect of labor control of rail roads and coal mines upon all na tional activities will be shown. The relation of mining to Industrial pros perity and the close connection be tween the present low per-mon pro duction and the extra-ordinary cost eight-year-old girl stand up and have transportation, wages and 'present low lot all commodities will be discussed. There will be national cunieieii rold and silver producers coal oper ators, oil nhale and petroleum men, etate geologists and economists, with special urograms for each. War min eral producers a"d those Interested 'in tariff for American mineral' and cliemicai products ari -e:ng filled to- retlier and advocates and opponent ',it Pluo Sky Laws, leasing bills and ; conservation will hold special confer- .5 ices. The Invitations are signed by 'Governor Frederick D. Cardnorl of I Missouri, by flulkelos Wells of Den jver, president of the of the Aemrican ' minlnir congress, by Mayor Henry W. Kiel of St. Louis and the combined commercial bodies of this city. never made one cry. "Polund is surely In dire need of re lief and workers. Everyone here is In great -need of norma recreation. The woman and girls are dreadfully nervous an the result of years of fear. One simply cannot keep them from continually discussing horrors. "Very fewv factories, are running so that the girls who formerly worked in them are now doing public work with the men- clearing up-bluldlngs that have been burned down or blown up by the Kueslnns and ' Oermans, helping In the public gardens and riich things. I did see some women end girls working In a factory outside conferences, sporadic In character, during the national crisis, has broUKht a warning from the mining men end bus resulted In calling a gen eral mining and Industrial convention 11, thl city during the week . of No- einber 17, where all conflicting In terest can get together for the pur posse of considering a concrete bUHi t cm program to be placed before the congres.of the United States, backed by the nation's leading industries. Already, the American Mining Con gress, which has called the convention rh a feature of its 22nd annual meet ing, is at work upon the most com- I k.- f Will . sm-w im -,t I tA - n. tier ms-.. fzoar-? If' in 1.1 1 ii iiit 1 r 11 wx 5 J R I Q Hit J.' J ,l.l .UNI,..,. ', I .... . r j t" 1 -. ..... 1 1 Court St., Pendletn, Looking East Let 'er Buck? Bring us your "Maverick" power transmission problems. Chicago Belting will rope and tie them giv ing you satisfactory belting service with least loss and least cost. are doing it for others and can "do it for you. 7 ITIqkb Won't have anything but leather belting. .He knows it costs less for every horsepower it carries. He knows that belting troubles would cost more far more than the saving to be made by substitut ing something else for leather belting. 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