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171 V ',(. -r i DAILY EAST 0)0 OMlAlf ."PEMDLETOJf, OKEQOIf SATURDAY EVENINQ.-bCTOKER 3j IMP, JOOSTEE3T PAQtS . Mm . ... . . AN TNI.KPBNDKN a-upiisnea iwiir na Bml-W.kly, at I'endletnn, Oregon, by the AT OltKUOMAN Pl'BUSHlNCI CO. Kntwed at the poatorfice at Pendle ton. Oregon, as eecond-claaa mall natter. ON SAT.R IN OTHER CITTER Imperial Hotel Nfi stand, Portland. ON FILE AT Chicago Bureau, tot Security Build in If- Washington. D. C, Bureau Ml Four teenth Street, N. W. Mnikfi mt tha AaaaHatvd Pmn Tha Aoeoctatrd rreee la exclualrely entitled to tha ua for republication of II nm dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In thla paper and aieo tba I oca) nawa publlahed hero T NEWSPAPER BUnSCRIPTlON RATKi (IN ADVANCE) Dally ana year, by mall Iftily. aix montha, by mall Dully, three montha by mall.. Dally, one month by mall Daily, one year by carrier Daily, alx montha by carrier Daily, three montha by carrier.. Daily, one month, by carrier. Peml-Weekly, one year, by mall Semi-Weekly, alx montha, by mall Semi-Weekly, four montha, by mall ,I.M , 1 SO , 1.S5 , .so 7.s , .?. . I IS 1.S0 .75 .00 Telephone , in politics. (By Frank U Stanton.) Thla here bloomln' country Is full o- turns an" tricks; ; : But how a family rlsr When it Rita in politics! Thar's Billy runs the poor house, ' Pick 'a marshal o' the town. An" 'Zekiel'i tax collector, A-projickin' around. Elijah Is the bailiff That'a git tin' over ground; Tom's In the legislature Dad's 'lectioneerln' 'round! Copyrighted for the East Oregonian Tub. Co. Old SlVQQt dong HARDING HAS KILLED HIMSELF ' ITII the election but a little more than a week distant the campaign finds Governor Cox waging a vigorous and winning fight for promotion of permanent peace through the League of Nations. Harding is forced to take the defensive on a subject where the facts are all against him. He has placed himself squarely against the League of Na tions in any form having stated at Des Moines and elsewhere that it is "rejection, not reservations that we seek." The Harding claim that he favors trying some other form of an association of nations has gone to the scrap heap because article 20 of the league covenant bars any member nation from uniting with a counter league. This has been shown by Secre tary Colby, by Attorney General Palmer and thus far there has been no denial from any one that they state the facts correctly. Mr. Harding sought to claim he had been approached by a "spokesman from France" but he had to retract his own words. Mr. Taft is also authority for the statement that no sort of a new association is possible : "No one can suppose that the principal allied powers will consent to a new association or league," said Taft, "when the old one is part of the treaty of Versailles, and it would be fool ish for Harding to insist on this when only through a ratification of the treaty can he make secure our rights and privileges against Germany." In other words, by standing for flat rejection of the treaty and the league covenant, Harding has closed against himself the only door through which he might have escaped from the nefarious position of being a candidate antagonistic to any pos sible means of insuring world peace through joint action by the nations. The record is complete and most any lawyer can ten you that Harding has non-suited himself. The Harding position is such that he is not entitled to the vote of any man or woman believing in the League of XMations, with reservations or without them, or in any other sort of an association for peace because no other association is possible, People everywhere are rapidly awakening to the situation and if thev irrasD the plain facts in the case the election of Governor Cox will be inevitable. NO MIDDLE GROUND LEFT ICT T is unthinkable that the republican party which has al- I ways prided itself on its high patriotism should adyO' cate the crowning disgrace of a separate peace with Germany." This is from the Sacramento (Calif.) Union, a republican newspaper, which also says: "We would be failinsr in our clear duty to our readers did we not endeavor to prove to them that the assumption indus triously exploited by the republican candidate lor the presi dency and his intimate staff to the effect that the present Polish trouble is proof of the utter failure of the League of Nations is a bald misrepresentation. "As a matter of fact the plight of Europe today is so plainly due to our failure to enter the league that we wonder at the te merity of any politician in maintaining to the contrary. Senator Harding is firmly opposed to the league and Gover nor Cox is enthusiastically for the league. There is no middle jrround. It is either the election of Harding and the scrapping of the league or the election of Cox and the adoption of the covenant that is designed to bring permanent peace to the world. Ml H ISNT THIS ENOUGH ARDING declared in a senate speech that the liberty loan campaign was "unseemly." If it was unseemly for the American people to loyally help finance the war, what about the American soldiers who fought the enemy on the west ern front. Were they too in unseemly Vork Harding likewise was almost a defender of the Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs. He has said during this campaign that we did not go to war for humanity's sake. He is an advocate of a separate peace with the enemy and has publicly stated that he seeks rejection of the treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations covenant. What more do you want to know? In offering a reward for anyone who can show he has chang ed his position on the league question Senator Harding has made a joke of himself. It would be more apropo for him to offer a reward for the man who could keep track of his flipflops. - Ninety two per cent of all federal income goes in one form or another for war expenses, past and prospective ; reduce this colossal tax by supporting the League of Nations which is pledg ed to reduce armaments and preserve permanent peace. As expressed last evening there is a friendly spirit between Pendleton and Portland. There is every reason that such a fueling should exist and one way to foster that spirit is for each town to learn more auoui uie otner. i Last evening a small boy on a bicycle was seen zigzagging on the north side paved street while an auto was approaching. The driver was careful and there was no accident but nevertheless the boy was playing with death. That footbalLgama Prday waajLt:nupx; affair ani the Wal man who f JE44 'WU!JHtteel fcttrt-.wortbnrbil wpart la whic hthe Tendleton high school came forth victorious. The charm of the old-time melodies comes back to entrance once a&ain when you play them over on the Cecilian. - PI Hi a n TV ft ayer-rianos Madt by BUSH & LANE A son& of tKe lon& a&o, with its haunting mel ody, or a "hit" from tKe latest revue either one is at its best when ycu play it on this supreme player-piano. ..... For there's a charm about the Cecilian that you will find in no other player-piano. Its superb artistry has converted many a music lover who believed that all players are necessarily " me chanical !' in tone. By the parches, ef a Ceefllaa from the manv-farti.-rr under our direct elan ef Mllina. yoa r enlr oetain th. HIGHEST GRADE PLAYER. riANO IN THE WORLD with aa unconditional (Tj.rante.. hut are required to oar nor. taaa ' the price, crdin.rllr eikea (or la.lrum.ata of Iciler quality. I I Vtaeflr wn4 M tUwat UIUm mm mt Mr. CeifltM Ui - MV at Mr UmmUh rarala, plwi-MMl Oal MT M f Mlfl t aM. 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FROM THE PEOPLE Local Law Enforcement Pendleton, Ore. Oct. 23, 1920. Editor, fcust Oregonian: Seme year ago near a southern town Negro wu killed by a passing fast train where with other Negroes he vas working on a section of the track. e was badly mangled. Finally the ody in several pieces was assembled, I reparations for Interment, "without I ertoflt of clergy" were made. How ever, before the body was placed in the grave a Negro companion stepped forward saying "Brethren, It seems to me that the occasion requires that something serious be said. There be- no parson present I am goln? to -as sume the responsibility of saying It" So suiting his words for the occasion he proceeded with the obsequies, how ever awkward. Mr. Editor, Mr. and Mrs. Voters of Pendleton and Uma tilla county, I have waited bmg' and patiently for some one more competent to speak "something werious." Why haven't they? Why dont they. How anxiously all of us walled till the great political parties, in convention assem bled, had formed their platforms. Then how equally disappointed and al most disgusted were the nuiy be cause of their omm:lon on the real issues before the nation. Nearer to us and. of so much more Importance be cause they stand right outside our door yard, and rub elbows with un every day, are tho local elections, and the men up before us for public offi ces in our city and county. How we oirld like to know their platforms, their policies, their colors, so to speak. along certain business, social, moral and law enforcement lines. Dont tell us In a general and platitudinous way that you will give us a good business administration, enforce the law and "support the constitution." Tell us definitely that you will not allow to happen again, if It bo in your power to prevent It, that you will not allow to I happen any more the disgusting bac chanalian orgies that did happen at the last Round Up and Happy Canyon. Tell us that you dont stand for such "High Jinks" then or at other times and will do all In your power to stamp I' out. No, no, I will not put it down In writing, lest some one out of this community might sec It In print. Lest some one might misunderstand and think that I was "knocking" the town and people and show that I love so much and have taken such pride In. Cut surely I was not the only one who "saw thlnga" during those three days. Whereever I have been since, out of tnwrr,. tho- rmmm tbinaa -erf their. ortii have fceeg trirbM UOO'IHV face to my shame. Yet uo one more com petent has spoken out. Possibly they think is no worse than a three days 'cold m the head." But I call It moral tuberculosis and moral leprosy, that lll eventually ruin the good and fair lame of our town, "the biggest town of its size in the world," until moral md cultured people will not desire to live here to educate and bring up their "amines. We might as well face the ssue right now, and so cut off the of- f'ndlng right hand; or pluck out the offending right eye. How proud I was to advertise such a town, and to tell people that I was from the town whose pennants were flying In the freeze from the truck I drove for nine months up and down France and Bel gium. Are we going to keep this town such?. How we would like to know what the prospective mayor and his police force stand for. What the pro secuting attorney,, justice of the peace, county judge and county sheriff will do In. his respective office to make a clean moral town, and keep It so, in which our boys and girls might grow up. And In which that will not ty Mibjected to such annual bacchahalism orgies that do so much to break down morals-and spiritual -morale. Those very high things that the schools and churches in the town seek to build up throughout the year. Such satarnalia captivates the minds and Imaginations of the young and puts strange Ideals before them that are far below those things that are refined and cultural, (rr the same way should the, dance halls, pool halls, and many eating laces be looked after, or otherwiso they could be dubbed "Jolly Places" without being a misnomen. Perhaps I have said enough. Possibly, you wilt say too much. But lot me assure you that it comes out of a heart that loves well this community and people. . My twenty one years In your midst, be speaks such feeling. I have no desire to go elsewhere to Uve or to work, nor to die. I trust that I may find my "God's acre" not far whom where 1 1 write these words. , But I feel that I would be recreant of my duty to keep silent any longer. J. M. CORNELISO.V. mic readjustment which began soma time ago In unmistakably reflected In reports from vlrtuatly every Industry and trade of importance, and In the different statistical barometers that Indicate the trend of conditions. After a period of unprecedented expansion and inflation, due to unnatural stim ulus, business of unsettlcment and em barrassment accompanying the transi tion. From the abnormally low levels of last year, failures have risen abrupt ly in both number and magnlture. Skepticism as to the genuineness of the downward prico movement has been dispelled by the progressive and rapid yielding of many markets. Weekly bank clearings $8,603,645, 508. 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