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PACE JTTE DAILY EAST OMCONtAtt, PENDLETON, OREGON, IIOI.DAY fiVEmS, MAY 3d, 1521. TEN PAGES 1 PeopZe Here and There Pendleton merchants certainly ;(how a splendid public spirit when they give such u show hh the cai nlvul, ac cording to tlie opinion expressed ly Donald M. Kobey, graduate of O. A, C. wIioho home Ih at Kuk. Mr. Kobey stopped 111 Pendleton Saturday night on IiIh wiiy to Hpokune whore lie will attend the Modern Aulowoblle School during the Hummer months. He was In churge ot the mechunicul arts work In the high school at Twin Falls, Iduho, lust year but Iiuh uo repled u, pOHltlon ut Llndsey, Calif., for tho coming year. H. leano Crow, of Ut (Irandc, presi dent of the Homo Telephone Co. of Union and Wallowa counties, wuh o ASPIRIN Name "Bayer" on Genuine Take Aplrln only as told lit each package of genuine payer Tablets oft Aspirin. Then vou will Ih. following the directions and dosage worked out I.v .hv.lei.MiH during I vears. nll . proved safe by millions. Take no chances with substitutes. If you see the Payer CriMs on tablets, yon can take thpm wltho-it fear for Colds, Headache, Neuralgia, Chciim.'itism, Kariiche, Touthiiche. Lumbago and for Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve tablets cost few cents. Druggist also fell Pirgcr packages. Aspirin Is' the trade mark of !t:ier Manufacture of Mononcctlcacldwtcr of Salicyllcclilu. PANCAKK8 In a jiffy l.iDi Kerr'a For Saturday v We will give away with each 5 pound can of high grade special blend Coffee one 4 quart alumi num stew pan, worth $3.45 at arty hardware store. Here is an opportunity for you to get one of these high grade everwear aluminum pans absolutely free. Something that will be useful to you every day in the year. Do not overlook this bargain. In our meat department we will have plenty of nice fat hens, veal, mutton, lamb and prime steer beef for your Saturday's shopping. Prepare for holidays, as we will be closed Monday. "THE TABLE SUPPLY Phone 187 and 188 U. S. INSPECTED MEATS CHAS. D. DESPAIN & CHAS. W. GOODYEAR Proprietors Last week the circus and now Senor Ted, the daring gymnast, holds one death-defying pose while sister Jane makes his picftire. A BROWNIE in the hands of your youngsters gives pictures that throw the charm of childhood in strong, relief. Good pictures, too a Brownie is such a simple little camera to use that any child can get real results from the start. 'Brownies $2.00 up Autographic Kodaks $8.00 up RUeMt at the liomn of Mr. nnd Mrs. W. O. Keinpton, 2221 Penureguard St. Saturluynnd Sunday during his visit here to compete in tho golf tourney. Conductor T. M. Iloyd who has a run from Portland to Pendleton wax lie-1 c nipanled down Saturday evening by j Mr. Poyd who wanted to see tne car nival. Master Floyd Williams has returned U his home ut I-a Orande after visit lug his grandmother, .Mis. llattle Sic Creary. B. 13. Aldrich was called to Portland Saturday night on account of the Ill ness of his father, James If. Alilrieh, John Henderson Is spending the week eud at Walla Walla with his U iHUdinother. Manuel Frledly left this afternoon for Portland on a business mission, fc. U Pa Hi n! W'1 Spelling tirade s" f,r UH ,,,B th,ek "' le l;' l"l''l f " eishlh grade In the "" '"' graduation have been made. only one boy secured a perfect rating on the spelling examination. The list of words was exceptionally difficult. A Weston lad has the duly perfect grade, according to the records so far as the listing hus been completed. (Jet Marring' IJk'imi. ' Marriage licenses w re Issued Fri day ufternm n : t the office of the county clerk to Harvey K. Bender, laundryman, and Grace Waggoner, bmh of Pendleton; to Marion V. Martin, a f irmer, and Sarah Vaughn, both of I'kiah. 739 Main Street r NEWS OF THE COUNTY '.OFFICES AND OFFICERS i ..... .. KXDLKTON IX . TIIOl (.1111 L MOOD (Continued from page 1.) l'roni wandering on foreign si ra ml? If such there breathe, ko, murk him well! Kor no minstrel raptures sffflll; I Imh though his titles, proud name. IJuuiidlcxs his wealth us wish can claim, Despite those titles, power, and pelf, 1 lie wretch, concentred all In self, Living shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubjy dying, shall go down To the vile dust, 1 from whence sprung, Imvept, unhonour'd, and unsunK. The Purpose of America he War Is Useless, If wo draw no lesson from It. The greatest lesson Is that of j consecration. Consecration to tt high ideal or to a worthy cause. lie who says, or Infers, that those I Aineiicims who placed their all on the 'altar if their couutrv. to obev Its slightest and every command, went for the sorbld purpose of protecting just the material possessions of their land, that there was not In the minds and In I the heart of those men and Americans generally a bigger Ideal the sustain ing of the principles of liberty, equality and Justice In the world which we openly und avowedly enlisted for not only belittles the Great Spirit of Am erica, but traduces our very purpose. Mo gives the He to the very pledge of our faith. He defames the unselfish crusade! spirit, which not only spread Amerl-. canlsm abroad, but made us respected, reverenced and even sainted as a na tion by tke helpless and little peoples of the old world. What Was Poiiulit It Is true we were fighting Germany, but we were fighting something great er, stronger: we were fighting tin things Germany stinid for! We were fighting mi organized state of mind. Imperialist, the old order-of Eiuropc again. We fought not just because It was an American menace, but because it was a world menace and still Is. AVe can no longer be isolated. This Mime fnrce of greed and power alien or domestic, may make Its In rooads In any land, and when estab lished, and concentrated enough it be comes thut same organized state of Jiiliul. It is this und its propaganda we have to fight. It Is the subtle en emies which make for war. It is thin great Idea which John McRue felt when speaking for the illustrious dead he coiiiciled : Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be jours to hold it high' If ye break faith with us who die Wc shall not sleep, though poppiei grow In Plunders fields. t MlfjKioil's Torch The 'torch' we hold today is the torch of civilisation thrice flamed with Liberty, Light and Justice. Ton men came back only part of siue of you came back. Many of us came buck whole In body, but we could not vatber up the strings again some how. This Irf but a natural re-action of war through the cessation of hos tilities. The purpose even seems to have been taken away, and nothing left in Its place. The true civilian pat riot, at home, who backed us loyally, and did his bit. felt it too. Put what got under our skin was the fellow who made use of your absence, w ho made ise of the war, who made use of his country, and the very blood of his own countrymen to swell hi coffers and grow fat the war profiteer; then there was the in l vldual who did It loiely lo save his own hide, the slack er: l-'.-n numfs al-out which too much odium cannot ever be thrown. Theso r.re Indeed men without a country. They have sold their hirthdight for a mess of pottage. Then too. ther was the feeling n the part r.f ninny toward the man or the wnman who had kept the h .n.e fires liiiininir, i t: l necmcd all to.- soo., to forget fc.rr d'd. Put in most of Hie.se cases ihc.v d d not. The lust did not tell you see. But they are the ii.tinv win 'lil am! who backed you loyally tili it hum Imm-rsonal Service Xmlnl Put the point 1 want to make is this Men of tho American Legion. You went In too cause of your country and your ideals. Vou went Impersonally. . you courageously sunk jour ludivd uulliy, sometimes under men not iiiall-! fifd for their positions, you asked no i personal aggrandisement I uthrnt war. You were willing lo sacrifice all and you offered all freely, a,nd many gave all but it wasn't personal that was the grandest part of It. Militarism us such. Is but the vehicle of autocratic, power and imperialistic greed. Its great object Is to control by armed force, the political destinies of others uganst their wills. This was what we fought against. Kueli politi cal control, the regulating and possess ing of others property. Thus greed is the f iindn mental cause of nearly all of fensive wars. Kiicmy W lllilli I lie (.ales ' If then, political control In America Is achieved by 'foreigners who In act and spirit are alien to the princ'plcs of Americanism they became an enemy within our gates, through suhyo In trigue, munipiilntion or control of the ballot, they can if unrestrained accom plish that which an armed enemy from without could not. The great Itussian Army was not de feated by Germany's armies, It was disintegrated through propaganda In oculated and directed by the minds of I the political section of the German general staff. Thui- our duly, our purpose Is evi dent the reinforcing, the strengthen ing of that great strVeture American Ism. There Is a greater danger from and less room for the hyphenate In our midst today than ever before, than even durinK tho war. Xo Half M ay (.rotiMl It is even a mistake to label such as hypht-nnlcs for Its concedes there lie- ing half American. That is Impossible. An American patriot is either Ameri can or he Is not, there is no half way. He must be all American and always American. On this point we Americans must be uncompromising yet we must do our part tactfully, Intelligently and sys tematically instilling Into the minds of nir adopted brother from all lands he great meaning and boon of Amerl- canlmr.. Who is the hyphenate? Any man or woman w ho through heritage or adop tion is numbered w ith us, but who fails n undivided aleglancc to our flag and the country for which It stands. Any man or group of men who group themselves as aliens, who group think r vote as aliens or with any other ob- lect In mind in their vote than Amerl- Interest os against either their own or thent of any country from which they, may have sprung. The war profiteer, and 1he slacker too. come In this list. Foreign 'blccs' that is groups of naturalized or other foreigners as such w ho band together In this country and icgreBate themselves from Americans ire undesirable. There Is no room for the establishment of a Hellenic Post, (Continued on page 6.) M s VETKKAXS' AU ltll.L (Continued from page 1.) ie afforded by the measure. Make Srw Taxpayers. The action of the state in making loans would make taxpayers of a great many young men who arc not paying taxes to the county and state .it present. Some opposition bus been expressed to the mejuure on the irrnunil that the state will lav annrox imately six per cent interest on ihe j course, you must pay your share of the bonds it issues while it charges ex-taxes on this property.'" service men only four per cent inter- j OrgaiiiwtkMis Faor Bill, est on the loans. The difference in Comparatively ' few people have the rates, when used as an argument ever realized fully just what the mea against the measure does not tell the, sure means, and this fact undoubted real story, advocates of the ratifica-ily has caused some of the silence that tion of the bill declare. The man who secures the loan will pay his four per cent Interest. In ad dition he will pay his taxes, just as every other citizen is required to do. And in Pendleton, that tax rate dur ing the past yvar was 41.5 mills on a valuation of one dollar. On this bas is. It js declared that the recipient of the loan will do his part toward re tiring the bonds with his own tax pay ment. SMfiiuilr HandicapiMil. Fear that the provisions of the bill would be taken advantage of by spe culators who would buy property from ex-.scr'vtce men and profit by the low rate of interest and the long time fea ture of the loan is expressly prohibit ed by the bill which provides that if an ex-service man sells property on which the state has a loan, the pur chaser of the property must immedi ately repay to the Mate 40 per cent of the unpaid part of the loan, and on the remaining HO per cc'nt he has onl five years in which to settle In lull.; That would enable the Mate to reloan THE GOURMAND Mr. and Mr. C. L. Johnson Are Always Telling Their Friends About Good Tanlac Did Them "It Is hard to tell who thinks most of Tanlac, iny w ile or myself," said C. L. Johnson, a farmer living on K. F. O. No. I, Box ,-, Troutdale, Ore. "For nearly two years I had trouble with my stomach and kidneys, (las seemed to stay on my stomach all the time, nnd often I felt like a deep breath would kill me. My back was weak and lame und hurt so It was all I could do to get dp out of a chair. I suffered from heudaches and dlzzy ness and many a time could hardly walk a step. My sleep was all broken j up at night und it took all my grit and nerve to stay on my Job during the day. "But four bottles of Tanlac put me back In as fine health as I ever enjoy ed in my life. My appetite has come back and what I eat agrees with me. My kidneys nnd back don't bother me any more and those headaches and dizzy spells have all gone. I sleep well and am putting In full time at work every day. "My wife was troubled with chronic Indigestion and she suffered with sick headaches and complained of being all nui down and tired out. Tanlac has done her just as much good as it has me, and now she says she Is feeling better than she has in a long time. We both .think the world of Tanlac and are all the time telling our friends about it." the money which would accrue to Its sinking funds ut a rate which un doubtedly would be higher than the jbond rate. In other words, the state might actually, and In some case It undoubtedly would make more inter est on the bonds than they cost. Kx-Scrvioe Men Iriacti'c. Ex-service men in Pendleton and ('mat ilia county are not actively en gaged In working for ihe measure. The state department of the American legion has held meetings over the slate in which the provisions of the measure huve been explained, but lo cally, very little action has been taken by members of cither the legi on or by any ex-service men. "Whether the ex-service men have an opportunity to buy their own homes or farms on loans from the state will depend on the action the people themselves take," Perry i Idleman, commander of the Pendleton Post No. 23, American Legion :aid. "From a business point of view, the bill strikes me aa a mighty good one, both for the best interest of the Htate, and a-i a mark of the willingness of Oregon to say to the ex-service man: " 'Come along, former soldier, sail or or marine and accept our long time loan to assist you in getting the home von have come to want since your return from the service. The state won't give you anything, unless you take the cash feature of the bill, but you can have a loan If you'll give a first mortgage securing it. and then of prevails relative to the measure. Members of the Commercial Associ ation listened to an explanation re cently made by Harold Warner at a weekly luncheon, and a motion was passed without a single dissenting vote pledging support of the organization to the success of the measure. The Womens' Club und the W. C. T. U. have also given the measure their support. The ne.oliitl(u. Following is the resolution adopted bv the Pendleton Commercial Asso ciation: Hecognlzing the heroic sacrifices of our soldiers, sailors and marines who offered themselves in the defense of our country; ltecogni.ing the difficult problem of readjustment to the economic life of the country which they met upon their return front long months of ser vice that took them from homes, fam ily nnd positions; Recognizing, then, the handicaps they faced by reason of unequal loss es and sa(rifices Imposed upon their . " n if II China I Our China Department offers many gift ideas for THE JUNE BRIDE During the past week two new patterns of fine English Ware have been received. Popular Patterns at Popular Prices tJeuelet7 Pendleton The LargeU Diamond patriotism In that great emergency which threatened our very existence as people and out of which they brought us victory and pea.ee; Itecognizing tho great . benefits which will accrue to the city of Pen dleton and adjoining country if the veterans' aid bill Is passed, and Itecognizing the equity, the Justice and the duty of the people o-f the state of Oregon to make some early read justment of the unequal losses suf fered by our soldiers, sailors and ma rines, therefore tie It, Kesolved.' that the Pendleton Com mercial Association hereby ratifies and gives its unanimous approval to World War Veterans' State Aid Fund and does hereby urge that all citizens of the state of Oregon show their gratitude and appreciation to the sol diers, sailors and marines of the late war by giving their hearty support to such a meritorious bill. Adopted by the Pendleton Commer cial Association this pith du of ""'ay. 1921. Attest: C. I. HA" Secretary Tl FOR .SALF. Ivory wicker baby bug gy. Inquire 50 LiUclh. Pay Cash Receive More Pay Less Despain&Lee Cash Grocery 209 E. Court Phone 880 Start Today Don't wait until tomorrow to start buying your groceries for cash at this grocery. The individual who waited never got there. You will always be sorry if you delay. Start today with a purchase. Pay Cash Receive More Pay Less Despain&Lee Cash Grocery 209 E. Court ' Phone 880 In Memoriam To honor our nations Heroes Both living and dead The . Inlaud Empire Bank Ore. Dealers la Eastern Ortrm. WANTED AT O.WK Girl for gen. eral housework. Phone 1SFI4. FOR RENT Kurnlshed apts., with gas. Inquire White's Doughnut I.unch. FOR .AUK 8-room house. A bar gain if taken at once. For particu lars write Ho 105. Adams, Ore. FOR SALE lllg Butck and one 1920 Dodge, -and one Chevrolet. Will give terras. Inquire N. P. Mciean. 614 Garden street. Phone 222. XOTK'K FVTUIAXS Knight rank will be conferred Monday- night. May 30. Your presence Is requested. A banquet will be given by the Senior 3d rank team to all pres. ent. Come. XOTIfE )U1 Pendleton clubwomen who wish to attend the crab supper Thursday evening under auspices of local fed erated clul are asked to register not later than Wednesday noon with In formation committee. Price for sup per. 50 cents a phUe. Demonstration of 'Kerr's Cereals at tfle Corner Grocery, 300 West Webb, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. You are cordially Invited to step In at any time between 9 a. m., and p. m. The waffles will be made- from Kerr's Pancake flour. The Pendleton Ding Co.