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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1921)
kchangeur W lor Davis FOUNDER OF SINN FEIN 5k. s ecuo&rry Weston, Ore&on ROW'S lis HEE To Have Your HARNESS OILED AND REPAIRED ADTO TOPS Will Make You a New One or Repair the Old. 6000 WORKMANSHIP WHITMAN'S HARNESS STORE Phone 122 Milton. Ore. I I s f tt I .-; Arthur Griffith, feundtr cf Sinn Fain and vie president of the Mlrlh Republic," who waa arestsd by th Idly enough to cure for the ever rising NEGLECf OF DISABLED MEN Legion' lnvtlptlon Show Lack l AtUntlon to Mn Who Suffered Torroro of Wr. Investigation by the American l.a Itlon reveal shm-Mug condition nf nil. iimimKrniPiit and neglect In tho gov wmnrtit's treatment of disabled vet erans, according to report of the Le gion' findings made public by K, W. Malhralth, Jr, national commander. Tito Legion hat launched a natlon-wldn fight for the correction of these condi tions, which Mr. Oalbralth ha de scribed a "a blot and a dlgrce on the nnme of our country." More than 20,000 veteran are 1(111 In hospital suffering from wounds and Inflrmltlea luRVred In their country service. Many of them have bean there lnc they were brought back front France on tho hospital shlpa, Their number I Inrreaiilnir at the rate of 2, BOO a month, due mostly to tho develop ment of tuberculoid antonit mcu who were gassed. Statistic ahow that more than BOO.000 men were dis charged with disability rated higher than 10 per cent. Exports sgro that the rk In hospitalisation will not come for five or ten year. Yet, gov eminent hospital at present are tilled to overflowing and even contract ar rangimnt are not being mad rnp- COLONEL GOFF ( V 1 s (V n "" ' r.4 Col. Quy D. Coff, who Is gtntral counssl of tho Unlttd State shipping board. British. PRESIDENTIAL VETO BLOW TO RAILROADS tide of disabled men whose condition demand hospitalisation. Certainly, there Is no lack of wit JliiKiiess on the part of the American public to do all In human power to aid hco who paid the price for the vic tory. The same expert who estlmnl that the peak of the problem will pot come for five or ten yesrs say In the meantime V0O0.00O,00O mut be sient In It solution. The government list not been niggardly. More thn $VHV OW.OOO already has been pent. Mis management Is the gist of the Legion Laundry work done at home. Mrs. R. R. Riley, S. Broad street Washington. Railroads of the coun try after Dec 31 will be prohibited from buying equipment from compan lea in which they or their officer are interested, as the result of the veto chare. Lark of vision and foresight by President Wilson cf a bill to delay and the ever-present governmental red further the operation of such, a pro- tap Is blamed as responsible for the hibltory provision In the Clayton ant!- death of disabled men before aid could trust act. The last of three separate hm. for tne incarceration of two-year suspensions of the prohibl- tabled In Jails aqd Insane isylum. C , . . and the charity wsrds of public hoi tory section haa expired. mhm . he ,nm. The president In announcing hi trefttmfnt M pauner!l. veto through a message to the aenat i addition to its activities In advo declared the railroads bad been given eating reform In the conduct of tho several extensions of time to prepare government bureaus, the American Le for observance of the law, and that glon has dedicated Itself to the t re no adequate reasons bad been preaent- mendous task of "humanising" the ed for further postponement of It. op- dreary lives of 20.000 disabled buddies who are patient In the hospitals all erUon- over the country. Every Legion post In thl country has been assigned to the definite Job of taking care of a certain hospital NORTHWEST LUMBER ' MILLS LOWER PAY Tacoma. Wage cuts of from IS to 15 per cent in the lumber mill of tho Northweit became effective January 1. It waa announced here by the local branch of the Loyal Legion of Log ger and Lumbermen. The wage reduction will arfect (0, 000 workmen and tho new scale is expected to be adopted by all mills, wbether they are members of the Loy al Legion or not. t'ndcr the new seal common labor will be reduced from 14 40 to $3 60 per day, and skilled labor will rocelvo a proportionate rut. The new scale. It was explained, was recently drawn up at a meeting of the trustees of tho Four L organ isation In Portltnd. Doth employers and employes were represented on tho board that tnsdo the cut BRIEF GENERAL NEWS TRADITION TO BE BROKEN oooeeeo tan CLOTHES 1 DESIGutD RIGHT MADE RIGHT I WESTON BATHS, BARBER f and TAILOR SHOP I R. L. Reynaud f t ; President-Elect to Rid In Auto In Inaugural Parade. Washington. Tradition will give way to progress next March 4,' when Diplomatic relation between Rou- where former service men are patients, mania and Bulgaria have been re-e- The Women' auxiliary also will be tahiiahed mobilized to share In the work and h. it nt pa rfcto ind . dvh? and philanthropic orgsnlxatlon Warren O. Harding a tho new presi is under quarantine following the out- J TjL'J" dnt-of UDlte1 8,", huAt ,h . ., There Is also the dangerous possl- ,.,,.., tanta ut Pennuvlvanla urea i .a rvumi ' u..v. bty tht y,, hospital patients, re- Prellmlnary return disclosed 8831 wlBlBe da, aftw dny w,h no Interest commercial failures In the United otMer tn,n their physicsl condition, States during 1920, a against only win become bitter against the country 6451 in 1919. which once honored them and whi-h Colonel George C. Richards of. Oil apparently has cast them aside. In City. Pa, was appointed by President wverai hospitals. Bolshevist agent Wilson as chief of the militia bureau uve 'lributed Inflammatory lltera- lure oy wgemuus iueuiuu, ui mum, an example Is the Inclosure of the of the war department The time immemorial custom of printed matter In bouquet of flowers. 1. Ill T V n 1 An n t, m. ' . . nfMfFTi nTin t " K ""I"1"" " lUD in one case discovered by Legion in- rKUshlJ itiulil Public at the White House on January vestlgators the propaganda was en 1 "v 1. waa abandoned owing to President titled: "You foucht for America and Wilson's illness. what did you get out of It?" And In- Participation by teachers in the ad- deed, It does seem that the sick vet- ministration ofpubllc school I asked enn got little out of It except a short In a rewlutlon adopted by the Am.ri- iTZuZ - w, j. .J, . . . of having done his duty and a maimed can Federation of Teachers, in annual convention In St Paul. rrfce 2000fi00 wno tr, ,helr bad. Seven thousand government em- ()M ia)(, the Lejion' national com- ployes In the District of Columbia wnnderi an(j are banded together in must be dropped from the payrolls If t,e American Legion, are determined the annual legislative, executive and that the hundred million shall not for- judicial appropriation Is passed In the get In this work of giving the die- form Just completed by a subcommlt- obled man a fair deal and making him tee of the public committee on appro- content we shall ask the coeratlon priations. f A?Z ,1 together and we will stick together." Inaugural parado up Pennsylvania avenuoi Announcement was made that Senator Harding had decided to use an automobile for bl rldo from the capltof to the Wbtto House instead of a carriage, the typo of conveyance used by every president with the ex ception of Andrew Jackson since the Inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. President Jackson rode horseback. Tho Cleveland Grays, a national guard company, will constitute Provi dent Harding's personal guard. India to Boycott British Duke. Nagur, India. A boycott on the pro posed visit of the duke of ConnuuKht to the east and a tribute to the mem ory of the lata Lord Mayor MacSwIncy of Cork were voted In resolution adopted by the Indian National con gress. A message of sympathy to the Irish In their struggle for Independ ence was adopted. ; Dl S. L KDaliRDj j Veterinary Surgeon 1 Phone Main 253 J City Draylng Leave orders at resi dence (Marsh cottage) south of Weston Mer cantile. Phone 361. urn - ninriril n btu. A. Linuinin 3 n Idaho Legislature Meets- Boise, Idaho. The sixteenth Idaho legislature was sworn in and officially took up Its duties Monday at noon. At the same time elective state officials took the oath of office. Peter O. Johnston of Bingham county was elect ed speaker of the bouse, and E. W. Whitcomb, president pro tern, of the senate Six thousand persons attended the house warming of Idaho's capltol Monday when the newly completed 11,000,000 building was thrown open to the people of the state for the first time. $15432,000 Voted to Irrigate Lands. Salem, Or. The biennial report of Percy A. Cupper, state engineer, which la now being complied for the legis lature, which convenes here next Mon day, will show that bonds aggregating $15,832,000 have been voted In Ore gon for Irrigation purposes. Of thla amount of bonds $5,577,600 wera au thorized since 1916. i ; Have You Paid ! YOUR BLACKSMITH BILL?:! ; J F. SNIDER WOULD STEER SHY OF CAMERA Colonel Whittles Ladr of "Lost Battalion," Backs Off From Mo tion Picture Machine. Although Colonel Whittlesey, an ac tive mrtjiber of the American Legion, led the famous "lost battalion" through the Ar gon ne and was one of the M Americans who won the blue ro sette of the con jrresslonal medal of honor, be told "Fatty" Arbuckle that he would be "scared to death" If placed before a motion p.cture camera. "Ton can starve a man; yon can wound him with bullets," said Colonel Whittlesey daring a recent visit to a Hollywood movie studio with the port ly comedian, "but you can't dim bis love for the, movies. Just a few hours after my boys of the Three Hundred and Klgbth Infantry had landed In a safe billeting area on being relieved Etheridg Return To Portland. Portland, Or John L. Etheridg, former president of Morris Bros., Inc., which failed recently, leaving a long list of creditors, came back to Port land Monday morning from Minnea polis in custody of deputy sheriffs. British Press Want Navies Limited, London. Insistence on tho desir ability of restricting naval armament and the holding of a conference on tha subject by the United States, Great Britain and Japan has been renewed by London newspapers. Two-Cent Far Law. Unconstitutional Des Moines, la. Iowa's 2 cent rail road passenger fare law was held to be unconstitutional by Judge Martin J, Wade, of the United State district court Drs. A. D. & R. A. FRENCH OPTOMETRISTS French Optical Parlors 15 E. Main St. Phone 653 Walla Walla, Waah. Eastern Lumber Terminal Planned. Washington. According to the re port of the federal reserve board, work fmm (heir perilous position, the whole ha begun on the first unit pf r. large hunch were In a 'Y' hut watching a lumber terminal at Hackejisack, J. J., -five-reel comedy." to store, handle and sell lumber - ' mm brought from seaport in Washington, Oregon and California. Washington. The metric system of weight and measure is fixed as thi single standard for the United State la a bill introduced in the house by Representative Britten of Illinois. In The Days. "Who' the boss hereT asked a traveling salesman a he stopped at' a farm with a set of the World's Best Literature In 12 volumes. "He is," replied the man at the door wearily, pointing to the hired man loafing hard In a field. "I'm only hi employer." American Legion Weekly. triule mnrlM nivHtfiiu outinnl or no f... g.il hukIpI. Huii tmt or ihoK and d -rtKkm tot PRf aA)CH i TOrt on pUMiUWIItr. Hank nrfutw" iTiari BUILD rORTUWIS fua. Omr Irm bookWU tctl how, w o UlltM And n( yoa mow. w nw iwf D. SWIFT & CO. PAT NT LAWYER, .303 Seventh St. Washington, D. C. 'CiLi. lH ilS . ill Calls 2ou TO A WORLD OF INFINITE' BEAMY AND CHARM America's Winter Playground Outdoor life lilonl. An endlcas vrUty"of healthful recroation, iiHRtimr and slulit sculng lours. It . thuuftanda of nillua of iiU'turttia vad highway are tlio adinimtloti smliltllulit of motor ulhusiaaU. A real semi-tropic winter paradise. Tit DUactand Pleaust Way t. Calif orals ti Via U UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM which Imcps at the iIIbkii.1 of its patrons two ex tremoly attractive and intorvntlng route -the world .famous Coltimliia Kivvr and Shasta I tout, or through Salt Lake City and one hundred mil of orango grovca in the ttuiiny Koulhland. WHT HOT CO 0NB.WAr:MD ntrTCUItT8S.0TBEI rltrl, til in, innH and irlniva hoi icolM ll ruiiiiiiriii, Hi run li ,1 i.lin rar ami illniiiS tut romiiio. itatluua mo Ilia iilillbtt war cuailurlaUla, talaiHlla. 1st our asi'iit lull yo all alxiul II, .raia yuuf llln.itarr.' wake i"r ratiiiM. ilrlitar nf tlrkoia, tiil'l'lf lii.llin lno t alllunil HiamlMia. A nloaaanl varlalloli tinm II. all rail lrl In I'alllurnla titiia Han l,ii lium l'rllanH 10 H.a CaiiriM. llliinii llm -Kit cat'' ui "Ala.ka" arif lilio ilay. I'uunrciiunlli rurllamt. Il lull )tiH alwut II. 8. B. Nsuon, Asvnt. .Ium, tiru. WM McMURRAY tili "HI-H6rXT" UTHH f (TD ATT tW DRY i v lU P. T. Harbour PHONE 273 OUR NEW MATTRESSES are in. Get one and REST EAST for the remainder of the winter. 'A ROSS Furniture Store You Need Your Home Paper and it Needs You Prcston-Shaffcr Milling; Co. Established 186 Athena, Oregon Waltsburj, Wash. American Beauty oando Pure White Made of selected bluestem in one of the best equipped mills in the Northwest. Sold In Weston by Weston Acrcantile Company