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9 r f f ( ' j' ?; r it v 4 TEN PAGES DAILY EAST OKEGONTAN, PENDLETON, OBEOOff, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1921. PAGE FT775 t . , People Here and There RETURN OF WHIPPING POST, SEPARATION OF POLICE FROM POLITICS. URGED BY CHIEF J. 1). Zurilier, Ktunflelil utlornuy, transuded business liuro today, D, M. Wood of Heppner was a bus iness viHltor in I'emllotdn today. 1'erey t'olsom, fanner ami slorkiunn of the I'llot ltock district, wiui hero today, ' K. M. Smith, cusliler of tl' Kuriil iih' Hunk of Weston was here this morning. JO. A. Scliifflor, lot-ul real estate man, has relumed from u business visit to Spokane. ware store of Helix, In u business vlslt or in i'eiidli'tun. C. A. Fitzpittjiek of the Halter Fur niture Btore, left thlH evening )i-,r I'm tlauil, whore, lie will renialii Uur4ng lluyniK' Week. J. 8. Norvul. proprietor of the hard- Melvln (. WlnstocU, or Portland, who has been a business visitor i. 1'en. dieton lor the pant few days, left today noon for Tho lJullus. -- Harry Owens, cigar clerk of th ho tel I'endleton, lell tins liioiniiiK for J,akcr, wiuie he will remain u. few Lts visiting wilh friends. ; H. V.' Ilutclr, the architect, wan in Stan field toiluy. A Street-Car Bungalow i ( I: 'A "'"WW -a t ,.1 I ,r" , 1p itK.t -1 f r1 h ' ' ' - -. . h t,r..-.v.;-..--.,--J-yfyy NEWS OF THE COUNTY OFFICES OFFICERS .Iurl-uUc l.l lli-o. A Iicende to wed has been granted to FianciH Cluud Smith, farmer, of Kt. Paul, (Jietfoiu und Mary Madeline N'el on of I'endleton, "" Suit On Xotc, , J, M, Tliom BeekH to get Judgment on a note, claimed to be pant due and unpaid, from 1. Unit in a Hult filed in circuit court today. The amount ouiiKht l 712.i6, and the plaintiff's allot in y is J. V, Zureher. aicliool .Utciidani o (,hm1, During the school year Just closed there were 5456 pupils in attendance in the schools In Umatilla, the, report beliijr complied by Supt. Y W. Green tir the slate superintendent of public liulruciion ), In addition to this iiinnbir, there were 424 stuuents en rolled in private schools. The total wlvool census cfcthe county, including children from 4 to 19, inclusive, is 7, Z7,H. Tin ro are 61 schools in the coun ty that have adopted 10-month school yeais and ;t are having school nine months. Seven teacherages have been built during 1 lie year, and two buP iiiKH are under construction. This does not take Into consideration contracts for two other buildings at $20(i,0u0 and J'iO.00 Oeacli. Two discarded stiwt cars were uavd liy u Waxhington man to tun . struct ihm liuneulow i -mlig h the "I'ay As You-Uo.1' The long win tmv of tin- cm" aitord a nu-xl .of. Iltfht 'r K hmnu P. T; stands for 1 Positively Tempting Particularly Toasted Preferred Tremendously and finally Post Toasties best com flaka Hal the password to grt them Is not "Corn Flake" ear "Port Tositles" to your grocer. NEWS NOTES OF PENDLETON (o.iijr Knck to I'oriiiind. Iiiih1i1 A. M'alker, IS, and Virgil ftowe, 17, charged with the theft of a Konl cs-.r at I'ortland recently will be taken to I'ortland .tomorrow .by C. I fpaugh, connected with the auto theft brunch of the police department. The four young women arrested by Special Agent Glenn Bushe.of the O. W. rt. & N. ut Kieth last night will also be taken back at the same time. The women were riding In a gondola with 17 men when Bushee effected their ar rest. They sard they were on their way to Ontario. They gave their niiinch anil ages as follows: Alice De vore, 20; Mary Blake. 21; Grace Kel son, '20; mid Bettie Kartell. 21. The Portland Authorities think the women escaped recently from The Cedars. Local Watermelons 4c Pound Have One Put on Ice For You1 "THE TABLE SUPPLY Phone 187 FOWDER MILL EXPLODES IMUXTOW.V, Penn., Aug. 3. (I. K. S. ) Four were killed in a terrific txplobjon in a press mill at the plant of the Dupont 1'owder Company, five miles from the city. The concussion of th? esplusion was felt many miles away. , roitTI-AXD, Aug. 3. t P.) Al though ipiiot reigns In Chinatown, the police believe It Is a lull before the storm. The Chinese are getting re volvers from pawn shops. The peace moves . have failed. The Hop Sings shpt two Stiey Sings and the latter are believed insistinb upon revenge. 739 Main Street Pendleton NEW YG-rtK, Aug. 3. (A. P.) The government won Its suit In the Fulled states District Court to collect $2U2,6(!2 from John D. Itockefeller, al iened due as Income tax on oil com pany shares which he claimed as divi dends and nut Income. CHAS. D. DESPAIN & CHAS. W. GOODYEAR - - Proprietor J 1 4l .MIIS. Sl'MPTIOX IMPROVED. The many friends of Mrs. Norma I Smith Sumption will be glad to know I that she is recovering from an opera ItU n which she recently underwent in Spokane. Mrs. Sumption is the daugh ter of Mj. and Mrs. E, JI. Smith of Weston, and has many friends in Fen- Pay Cash Receive More Pay Less Despain&Lee Cash Grocery 209 E. Court Phone 880 1 L idlcton.. HOME DEMONSTRATION IDEAS FOR HOUSEWIVES Next Time Pay Cash i Did your grocery bill from the charge place look like a mountain to you Monday morning? that. We'll wager it did. There's a way to overcome NEXT TIME PAY CASH Dcopain&Lco Cash Grocery 209 E. Court ..... Phone gSO A modern rural home not only contributes decidedly to the comfort and happiness of the family, not only helps In holding young people on the farm, but It al.so Improves the health of the members of the family, does much to prevent sickness, and lengthens the lives of the farm women. Those who have once lived In a modern home do not willingly go back to the Incon venience of an old-fashioned house which has no improve ments. That the scarcity of modern rural homes Is due more to Indifference th&n to lack of money, is shown by the fact that at least half our farmers have uutomobllcs whllo fewer than one in 13 has a modern home. Most farmers who can' afford large automobiles can afford Improvements for their homes, and in most cases modern con veniences are a belter, more per manent Investment than an aiilomobile. ' . TOO LATE JO CLASSIFY Kin DANTE at Meachara Saturday night under auspices of Meacham Hotel management good music. - Criminal Expert Advised Ab: andoning Kid Glove Methods; Would Save Young People. BT KENT WATSOX , (International' Xews Service Staff Correspondent.) ST. kOUIS, Mo, Aug. 8. The re turn of the public whipping post as a crime preventive is udvocated by Vic tor J, Miller, president of the St. Louis Police Board. "Handling criminals with kid gloves r, not a successful method," declares Miller In Vis contention for the bring ing back of the drastic erstwhile "pun ishment stile." ."We cannot accord criminals the same treatment as we would a gentle man,'' says Miller. "I know the whip ping Post is illegal, hut It would be of great benefit In many Instances If It could he used. Many criminals do not care particularly about jail or even prison terms, but If a -big policeman while politicians collect money from them, flecking how crime has been reduc. ed In t. Louis, Miller declared that booze will continue to be sold in soft drink bars without knowledge of the police. It would take. 3,0 police men to enforce prohibition In this city alone, he said, adding that he does not "suppose prohibition will be effectual ly enforced until the taste or desire of Honor dies out. "Itight now," Miller stated. ''Wo ere devoting our time to the stopping of crime. That . is not going far enough. Thought should ibe given to crime prevention, When we get to the source of the crime the problem. Is solved. We are trying to make it so hot for everybody having any part In, crime that there will be no ambition to engage in the business. . When crim. inals see they are not going to get eway wilh their nefarious work they'll o.uit ,..'..'.. Kid-Olove MelluHlii ffcmrod i oeueve in discouraging -younger criminals. Kid-glove methods won't do that. Some social uplift clubs have a perverted Idea about going easy, but the only way to reform a criminal is with a shotgun or a nubile whiDnimr takea them Into an alley and gives i poet. Criminals would have a horror them a good heating it does much to keep them straight for a while. Our St. Louis holdover has the softiest planks in the world and the man who gets In them always says he was put there for doing nothing, not I thinking that ir ne aia uo someining he could keep out." Criminals would rather loaf in Jail than work, Miller asserts. Partisan politics works to the detri ment of police departments In the larger cities of America, declares Mr. Miller In a sweeping denunciation of partisianshlp. "When voters back a man,' he said, "they should back him he-ause he is capaule of serving efficiently not be cause he wears the label of a party. I am a Republican, lm I don't know wtiy. Hut I forget party In doing my liuty and there Is no set of politicians telling us how to run our department. ,"St. Iuls has the most efficient police department In America. It Is for the resson that we don't have a gang of political pets serving on the force and giving protection to a bunch of lounge llsiard law violators. We run the department as a business organiza tion. ' Graft seldom slips in and when v e find graft we immediately elimin ate it. Soft drink bars are not selling hixiw here under police protection of the whipping post and drastic as such punishment may seem, it would b less costly In the long run, alj an gles considered. , . "Immorality and crime work to gether, eliminate the one and you're lid of the other. People say It is Im possible to eradicate certain vices ? that they are necensary. . That is not true. The social evil can be eliminat ed. If it cannot then civilization has been a failure. Statistics show that 6 J per cent of the lunatics of the country ! are so because of one great form of this evil. I shall always protest against it, regardless of the politicians who protect vice or crime. I am to be thre- and a half moreears in office and I shall keep up my work. There is noth ing that can deter me. When I quit this thankless job I'd rather go back to my father and mother and say I'd saved one hundred boys and girls than that I had made myself popular by pleasing the petty politicians." 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Gose, of Kin derhook. Pike County, Illinois, and sent to Postmaster-General Will Hays The poem reads: i do wish that Mister Hays Could see my sweet . and charming ways, And how polite and nice I am When some guy comes to mail a ham. How sweetly to those nuts I smile When they keep asking all the while They're looking for a hale of trico. A kiddy-kar or Meerscham pipe; And round the office they will stick Till I get peeved and darn near sick. But yet I have to smile and say: "You're package did not come to-day." And then they draw an ugly sigh As if to say: "r think you' lie;" . I spread them one elastic grin And say: "it will soon be comin In." If Mister Hays would come and see The way some folks are treating me I know full well that he would sob And he would let me keep my Job. He'd ay: "Dear Doc, If you'll stay here ri(. boost your pay two beans a year." THE U. S. 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