East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, August 18, 1922, DAILY EDITION, SECTION TWO, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextJMT,Y'EAST OEEGONIAN,' PENDLETON, OREGON," FEIDA7 EVENING AUGUST 18," 1022 ED-BY-LETTER WASHINGTON. Aug. 18. Unhappily-wed couples whose matrimon ial ventures -were Innocently promoted by Uncle. Ham through the medium of the malls, lire Inundating the Post Office Department with letters relat ing; their domestic difficulties , and asking fori governmental aid, accord ing to oftictalH. The epistles containing the sorrow ful tales of decorted brides who em barked upon the good ship Matrimony only to run afoul of the rocsk'of dis illusionment and lie loft stranded are turned over -to Solicitor Birwords, of th. post O.fiee Department. The let-: partment, as our business, such as ar.. I ters, Howards says, often are pitiful in their contents. They plead for, aid Irom the government In locating tru ant husbands. They tell of having been left in destitute circumutanc.es far from home. Some rilame the Pos tal Service for their marital woes. Others demand redress from the gov ernment, holding that they were woo ed entirely through the mails, which, therefore, mudo the ; Post Office De partment entirely responsible An excerpt of one such letter, which is said by Solicitor Edwards to be typical of nil, reads as follows: "I want to know If I cant start suit against my husband. We married through a correspondence club adr vertlsed in the newspapers, and he sent me money by a ' Post Office money order to come and marry hint He also courted me by mail ranging for marriage details, , was transacted entirely by mall." Numerous letters of this kind are received- by Solicitor Edwards each Week. He invariably accords them to prompt rely, explaining to the un fortunate wives that the department deals only with the collection, dispatch and distribution of the malls: not males and has no control over the persuasively gentle language written in sealed envelopes by unscrupulous lovers seeking, matrimonial alliances. NOT SO GOOD? "I'iGirnxG ixm amkiuca." LAWRRNCE, Muss., Aug. 18. (I. N. 8.J "I am fighting for America and I can lick any man In .the clty," declared Frank Fox as he landed a haymaker on the Jaw of Harold Beg- After the ' lony, of Lowell. Fox, a veteran of wedding he failed to support and taker the World War, was given a ten diy cure, of me and finally left me alto-I sentence by Justice Chandler. An ad gether. I want to know if I can do' dltional fine of $5 was assessed for be anything through the I'ost Office te-' ing Intoxicated. , ' Mem Waiife The Northern Pacific Railway Company will employ men at rates prescribed by the. United States Labor Hoard as follows: ; ' , 70 cents per hour ... . 70. cents per hour .. 70 cents perjionr 1J,..la VIA. t..,M ...,...................a...... " l,"'0 an... a...... Stationary lOnglnecrs various rati: Stationary Firemen various rate Holler makers ....... . 70 to 70 cents per hour , Machinists Dlacksmiihs Sheet metal workers.... Electricians Passenger Car Men ......... PrelKht Car Men , Helpers, all classes .70 cents per- hour 03 cents, per, hour 47o Per hour one half for time , - ' Machinists anil Helpers are allowed time ami worked in excess of. 8 luiuro per duy. . i Young men who desire to loam these trades will bo employed and given an opportunity t do so. ' 1 '.''' "A strike now exlftta on the Northern Pacific Hallway" " Apply to any,, round house or shops or Superintendent, Northern Pacific Railway at Pasco, Wash. I By DAVID MvCHl'RCH( (International News Service Staff Correspondent.) , ' LONDON, Aug. 18. The good old boxing days are In the past, accord ing to Lord Lonsdale, the modern counterpart of the Marquis of Queens bury. , Jack Dempsey, Georges Carpentieri anil the rest of the modern school of boxers do not rnma itn to the ntfini?. ards of the old riders of Flstiania, ac-1 cording to Lord Lonsdale. ' I "Casting back over' at least half a centurx-of boxing, one cannot hulp ex- ! perienelng a pang of regret, even of I sadness, In comparing the years that lie at the beginning and the end or I his period," Lord Lonsdale said. "For It seems" (hat the old days ore gone gone beyond dreaming and desiring; those great, grand old days when swart men; lusty men, went up against swart, lusty men for the. sheer glory and honor of the fight and left nil thought, of cash and kind in the locker at home. ' "I have no hesitation in saying that the enormous purses offered and the moneys made by promoters in getting up exhibitions are going to ruin the art. They are utterly out of propor tion to the science. "Where are the Charlie Mitchells today, the Frank Slnvins, Jimmy Cor betts and Peter Jacksons? These 4 sunns oi ineir ase were me successors 4, or contemporaries of equally virile stalwarts in Kllrain, David, John L. Fitjssimmons, Jem Mace and Tom Kinff. ' ' . "Have we. Any cause for pride when we try mentally to match our great est with these? I think If even a Dempsey could have stood to the as sault of any of these warriors, al though Dempsey Is, without doubt, the one outstanding figure of our day, a great , boxing fighter He is the sole exception to the general rule of medii. ocrity, but it is open to doubt If even he could survive the grim fitness, the fighting prowess, that was an innate part of every ono of those giants qfj the past. ' ! The old 'raw knuckle' fights. were not such terribly gory affairs as are generally imagined. They were, more injurious, certainly, but not half so punishing as the modern glove fight. 'In those, bold days a gallon of heer and a five-pound note were quite sufficient provocation for a real fight between men who knew how to fight nd who had studied the relative values of jaws and knuckles. But today a harassed promoter must needs wheedle his boxers with honeyed at i" m ' 1 Your Letter Heads, Envelopes, Bill i Heads, , Cards, Ledger Sheets, Receipt Books, Scale Weight Blanks, Invitations, Announcements? Programs, Bill of Fare, Butter Wrappers, Dodg n, ers,HandBills,MeaVTickeis,M fact " any thing you want in, the LINE OF PRINTING. ' ::r 'c'1' : ' t . : ' A' OUR JOB DEPARTMENT IS EFFICIENT AND REASONABLE AND PROMPT. . j H ON r J ' FOR THE . : ' : . ; "Job 'Man,;::' -- You will findi him ready at all times to please you. v I; 1 ..." ' Job Department 3E itmHiitlimitriiivf ' -: "i':.."..:.--'- ...l.... ..A phrases containing, prpinises, of,.thpU?r ands of pounds Jje'ifo're, thcif cohsc'ni't grace the ring a ridiculous situation. . "There would be a palliative even for this if glove contests today were worthy of the fabulous sums, at stake. But the actual fighting is as farcical as the sums concerned. So, much has boxing, deteriorated that it. is almost wlthj the certain cc-nvjetion of being. hoaxed that ..one-' goes', u a contest.' ,. ,; ..... . modern liHruGE FOliBSlAX KILLED MOItO,' Ore., Aug. 18. George Frazier, foreman of the crew rebuild ing tlje high bridge near Sandon Sta tion, o nthe Shanlko branch of the O.-W JJ., & N .fell 20 feet yesterday afternoon- about o'clock. Me wis taken, to Grass Valley, where he died. Frazier lost his balance and tslipned off the bridge. He turned a complete sommersault, striking the ground ion hands and knees. Both wrists were broken and he suffered internal in juries. , WeU-Mapped, Hirtoric nioroughfaresILead Auto , 1 ourihts Into the JVever-Never Country ... Up along th hnntlle mountains, uiire th Itulr-polHeU snow slido shivers Down unit through the blf fat , mumliei that tha virgin ore bed stains. Till 1 Imai-d iha mlle-wlds mutter . liitfSof uptiuusliiftl rivers,. And btyund the nsmeleiis timber saw lliiniltahle ylalusl Tea, your "Never-never country"- . yes, yuur "edge ot cultiva- ' linn" And 'no aenea In golmi further" -tlll 1 crussed the range to aee. Ood forgive met No, I didn't. It'a Ood'a present to our nation. AnybuUy intuht heve found It but Hie Whisper came to Ale! , Kipling's "Tha Explorer" HERE Is a blaied trail from your town to th N e v r Never " L T. I I beaten in sand fit (it 1 by the "eary , '' i l it feet of women. chiseled in rock by the crit of men, consecrated in the blood of heroes and -heroines. It ia yours to follow. It leads from the shady street j en which you look out from your home, or from the hot and clang- ' ing strip of steel and brick be tween the office building., out across the silent desert country, where the stars . bend down at night; into the sanctuary oi high who sometimes, in the rush for the 7: IS, wonders what it. is all about; if sometimes during the day your eyes look straight through filing cabinets and plastered walls into the wide spaces of desert and mountain, lake, and stream; if in the evening the phonograph nest door sounds a trine too continu nusly, jarring, and you get. to thinking, and the pipe goes out You need to hit the trail. . Tha Country Cod Remembers The blood of explorers is in your veins, - or you wouldn't be here, a citizen of these United States. The blood is there, re. belllous and restrained, tor a torpid liver bottled tonic will do. For explorer's blood there is but one treatment; the open road. The trails have been blazed for you They lead through the New Northwest; the Northwest of Lewis and Clark; the Northwest that begins beyond the Dakotas, and runs out in the irregular coast of the Pacific. Where Traila Rua Out and Stop It is the Never-Never Country, the country ot buttes and basins, of piled mountains and sun-swept plains, drained by the "a imagined rivers." Some people have called it God s Country, and it is true that it is nearerato God than most, for here the work of creation recently left off, and the ba tBH.. t ' a. fe tA.Vl. M r:Vv TO: the Snake, ty the Spake to tne Oregon--or,' as' Captain Gray, tne "Boston" named-it. the Colum bia and by the Columbia to the Sea. It was this Trail that Mar cus Whitman rode from his mis sion at Walla Walla to Washing ton, to tell the Great White Fa ther of the growing strength of the Hudson's Bay men, and to ad vise that the country be saved, to the United States. To counteract the British power Whitman led back the prairie schooners carry ing 1,400 immigrants, pioneers, in 1844, and 3,000 more followed the next year; so when Clay, the clev er politician, enunciated his elec tion slogan, "54-40 or Fight," there were 6,000 men and women in the Willamette Valley to make tens.. Today it is laced with high waysthe old Oregon Trail, but how different! and a dozer, others as magnificently conceived and wrought. The country through which they pass, much of it, is still untouched. The bear and deer still haunt the kill, the mountain lion glidfes like a shad ow through the tangle of under growth, the coyote sings from the lonely butte his nocturnal re quiem. Yet by easy marches on the trails, and at their termini, is the luxury of fine hotels, the re finements which the struggle of all the years, everywhere, has pro duced. And the explorer of' 1922, his prairie schooner a touring car, his bivouac a hotel suite, if he chooses, sinews of the New Northwest. I ssbbt- 'ittiev lead ; froy 5Wyis?a ia rvveryisijwa, Because of them tits soost inexperiences! wayfarer. cannot become lost. TlkS iiaaaUalrr mi t High? One of the most famous of the coast-to-coast highways is the Yel lowstone Trail, a good road from Plymouth Bock to Puget Sound Its marker is a yellow square, with a double circle in black in closing the name, "Yellowstone Trail," and an arrow pointing in the direction, of the Yellowstone, These markers" are on telephone poles along the route. The route of the r Theodore Roosevelt Inter national Highway, from- Portland, Me., to Portland, Ore'., is indicat- 4 . t". . ,v j ill, f , '?'H'A,Tf mill i ' -'v'-Tf..' ; i r - -''l , "1 will lift mine, eyaa ante the hilla" is tha "Many Claeiar" region, Clacier National Park. - iH-rt- ItolK Hie trrson." Tlio -lmiil a ISlxi-e llislmay valleys, flowrr-rlad to the snow line; along Ihe torrents, leaping from lodjre to ledge, boiling In ranvona, ripi'Iinr in pools to the flah of striking trout; out far ther, to the annjMt on the vnirr ninlea among the sequestered is lands; the long trail. And so. If ou art one of these the riatte, over South Vi tools and matertala f the lttiil.l rs are Ktreait about. Ijcwis and 1'tirtt -t-re commia sittneil by Jefferson t, lraere that country betm'een tbr 11I orthvst and the western' tvean and in IvKI-S they bUxed the pe io,i Tra I, from the Mutaouri to to good hla" claim. But Clay was not a fighter, so the line of settlement beaten from the British Minister Buchanan did not rim tha ice at 64-40, but followed the 40th paral lel. It was enough. At the western end of the Ore gon Trail two New England sail ors spun a coin to decide the toame of a city. "Heads" was Boston. "tails" Portland, and tails won. Tails named Portland, but heads built it, the outlet of the Inland Empire. Bride iaf tka Ceatarie In 1951 A. A. Penny, front Pli noia, beached his cane on Alki Point-MAUVi." Chinook Indian for "After a while." And "after a while" Seattle was built on Alki Point, objective of transconti nental r - 1 1 .-.it. .1 - l a v t,t A ! a L a I and the Orient. Today the slogan of Seattle ia Sot "afur a shile." It is "now." Leas thaa a century in year ' has intervrnrd between arc a J ' v hitman's rtOe and tie prest nt. I But judired in ' rms of orJirsry ' progress the Oregua Trail hat ' adanved twenty centurie-. The country through whivh Whitman rods more a wfl-Vrnes than (he defiles of tha BUu-k Feret J gone. tea Caeasi beat bat the T-- Tba-e his food trout from the streams or duck from the marshes, or anges from California, olives from Spain, all of the luxuries of the world and of the region served on fine linen what of his hard ships? No "Roofhiaf It" New There are none. He can live as easily, or as strenuously, as he chooses. He can take his tent and kit and rod and gun along, if he likes, and camp by a running stream at the day's end. and trail his fly across a pool, and know the scent of coffee making, and bacon crisping alongside fct trout. Or he ran command the service of Michigan Boulevaid and the cui sine of Times Square. And where the immigrants scanned the sand, or sought for markirgs on the tre or atones, to Snd the y that Whitn.an and the others went, he can "let he' out" and foilow with unworrkd mind past intersections and de tojra the guide signs that sho? the roads eeerywhere. The trails are blazed, the routes are laid out cUarly and unmistakably. The uuctrtaint.es which disturbed ar.d delayed tav,ers ef the uat ar b.aied tra us are the ed by red bar on a white field, with the "T. R.""of the cartoonists "f 1008 in blue on the. red. The Evergreen Highway, from Salt Lake City to Puget Sound, is des ignated by a green tree on a white field, with green bands at top and bottom. But even, -these trail markers, or biasings, would leave a multitude of questions unanswered in the mind of the tourist were it not for the remarkable comprehensive and accurate official auto trails maps Usued as pocket folders. Taken in conjunction with the maps, however, the blazed trails are open books to convenience, comfort and luxury. , Mappiat Out a Vacatioa The wayfarer on the Yellow stone Trail at Zero, Montana,! headed toward the Park, sees on. his nap that the next considerable .' urn 7" av A biased trail through the Can yon of the Shoshone. garage accommodations of Miles City are. listed on the map. The distance from Zero is 29 miles. There is another, good hotel at Forsyth, 47 miles beyond Miles City, the map tells him. For the larger cities local maps are given, with the hotel locations, their rates, garage locations and rates for storage and repairs. By means of the blazed trails and the of ficial auto-trails maps it would be quite practical for a deaf and dumb tourist to venture into the land of Levy's and Clark with as surance that he will always know where he is, and how to get where he is going with maximum comfort. Through Ore gon and Wash ington runs the Pacific Highway, paralleling the coast, marked by a white diamond. Also in a general south to north line is the California-Banff "B" 1 i n e, 1 e a d i n g from orange groves to eternal mows, marked ith a C and B, black on white with a blue belt between. Other blazed trails of the far North west are the Ore gon Trail, the Pike's Peak "O" to "O" Highway, the National Parks Highway, and the National rark to Park Highway, "life i4deoffelt, tmTAW bert Pike Highway, the Gallatin! Wtty, the Black and Yellow Trail J -the Buffalo Trail, the National Parks Pike, the. Union Pacific High- way, tha Electric Highway, .th, Geysers to Glaciers Road; the.Yel-j lowstone Highway, the: Yellow-i stone Glacier "B". Line Trail, the Billings-Cody Road, , the Kansas; White Way, the Arrow Head Trail, . the Glacier Trail, the Lincoln) Highway with its red, white snoy blue bars, the Dallas-Canadian Denver Highway, the Midland) Trail, the Great White Way,-thee-. ; OmahaLincoln Denver' Highway' the Red Trail, the Denver-Dead wood Road, the Colorado to Gulf f -Highway, the Rainbow Route, the! Custer Battlefield Highway, the! Green Trail, and the Central Hon- , tana Highway. It is . a., laceworkl .i" over the entire country. Everyj trail has its distinctive marking,' -the new heraldry, by which t can, J be followed without effort and, without error. .".'-.. , ;' ,. , , ., . , r ... : 5 Seeing. America First. i .f It is a magnificently organized! . system- of roads.- - Of course it is J. not complete. Almost all are good i roads, but all excepting, perhaps, that unrivalled section of the Ore- gon Trail known as the Columbia, Highway, and a few others like it,! will be made better. There j will be additional roads, leading into the fastnesses where the snow peaks still guard virgin valleys, where the forests hsve never been disturbed by human footfall, where maps have not been made.. But for the present what has,1 been done is adequate, marvelous, I ? : rr x jLL irt i ! f " n: . ' ii t road . that t ma IwtiU. like a railroad"- -a pierced skoaleW ef the Cascadee, Columbia River Hichvay. Hiphway. To the ea.t, in the Idaho, Montana, Wyo-cven. Provided with anything ming Country, touching Utah,! from a tin Lizzie to a costly tour- town ia Miles C.ty, at an eleva- t olorado, and Nevada, are in ad-1 ing car, an omcial auto-traila map, tion of 353 feet, with a popula- cition the Banff-Grand Canyon; and a kit, the blaxed trails show tion of 7,1'37. The hotel aad Road, the Salt Lake-Yellowstone i the way to see America first. -v', -: