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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1922)
The Boardman Mirrtr Poardman, Oregon PUBLISHES BVEBT I'RIDA Y MARK A. CLEVKLrAWD, Publisher 12.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Wed f second "laF ma"fr Fob i a' fh" pofi nn: at Koard Under art of Mar. 3, 18 7 9. J'jiiit in is the inseparable com panion of achievement. R. T. Porte Wil l. HAW CHAIRMAN OF NBA8 BAMT REI.IEP KI NO "li is IgpooaiMg to "TggfTfif the fearlul conditions of suffering in Smyrna and other pointtj of the Near Beat, ar online ui a coin in nn ical ion Just received from J. J. Handaaker, State director of Hie Near East Relief. The Turks declared that all refu gees remaining in .Smyrna Sunday, October first, would be deported. In spite of this threat, American relief workers continued to transport the Miffereri to placet of safety on Orcein itJands and the mainland, according to a cable received by Mr. Handsaker October Hb Thirty six thousand were taken away on I'riday, but on Saturday morning another 50,900 appeared who had straggled into the ruined city over night. Those ar riving in the city reported hundreds dying by the roadside of exhaustion. Turkish bandits were robbing and maltreating the fugitives. New born Infants were dying in their mothers' arms. Children separated from their! paranta were crying in the streets. I Among the 2;0,000 refugee are! more than 5,000 infants, all of whom I are suffering. The one spot of cheer in all this' desolation is the relief station, over which floats, the American flag. Sixteen hundred sacks of Hour have! been landed at Mii.vlene for the 100, 000 refugees. A total of :i00,00o has been appropriated More be! ft I must come and at once, unless whole sale death from starvation is to re- MIC, ReeOfOlUnH Hie desperate nature of the crisis, President Hard ing has appointed Will Hays, movie magnate, chairman of a Smyrna lie lief Fund, and will immediately d, slunale members from different slates Including OregOB Mr. Hays' com mittee will work in connection with the Near Kast relief. Funds should be forwarded to Near Kasl Itelief, at 111 Slock Exchange building, Port- land, Oregon, enact modem building laws, with the result thxit they have substantial lilies and a low fire loss. They have thus minimizetl the insurance lav, not by e.pert fire lighting but by fire prevention. rcvjoii UfEBJCAa BED OtOfiG. .TJIT, r ARRVCVf. OV Although tin- American Red Cross after eight years has closed the bulk of its European relief operations. America is slill very potently repre sented in this overseas field for its school children. Ihrough the Junior American Red Cross, are "till carry ing on. For the promt fr, ;ul year, $120,000 has been appr ;ij.u..icd oul of the National Children's fund, rais ed entirely by these Juniors, tor wi rk ir leball of the Euorpean ch'loi-en v hese lives have been to darken' !, by war, and its afterma'h. World rot-cord and under l anding If a fundamental aim of the Jun lor Hed Cross, this conforming with a joint res - ti I n adopled at the Inter national 1,'erence of the Ped CrOM at Cenevi Ap I I, 1921. The ft' i nt i : PREl BNTION VS. lilt PIOHTlNd Willi, the eiiuipmeiii and etllcjency of file departments on I his side of Ibe water Is much superior to lhal or European Hie depart megta, Hie Hie Iomh per capita is six limes as gteai ttefe as it is (a the principal count t ies of Bsrope, I lie reason Is thai Utile allenlion is paid lure to the prevention of fire, whenus, abroad, fire Is regarded as a crime mid slops are taken In fix n aponslhlllty for it whenever it occurs. ' '-"in they arc fttdent I) not tin tier the delusion lhal Insurance pays all the loss, hut they realize that whal It consumed by the (a H jH ,.,. fo. ever and can not he restored Insur anrc Is but a means of dlsl ilhul ing the fire waste tax While the public In f complains about fire Insurance rales, it does not take the sine waj to gel lower rales hi following the example of the coun tries of Kuropo and cnarilnn and eiilorclng measures for the prevention of fire. The people prefer to pay the losses of their neighbors caused bv carelessness, etc., rather than compel llnli neighbors to build safely and maintain then premises in a clean and orderly manner so as to reduce Ibe danger ot lire not only In Ihelr own properly bin lo the property ot t he enl ire community. Utile or no effort Is made lo fix responsibility on those Ihrough whone negligence flies are permitted to starl in Ruropeen eountriaa reapoaalbtllty attaches for damage done to your neighbor's property by a fre orlginal Ini on your own premlaee, ami there lire besides, penalties for fires arbilng Ihrough avoidable causes ICven the u Inveattggted, The development of fire depart meats bus nearly all been along Hie line of Hie fighting, while fir,, pre vention has been the study In Hal rope While their fire righting and ofMtjh iiersonntd do not compare with fhej do not have the flrca to ml their Hre Inst is one sixth " ourx li lias been antlv iMiim,l out that vv I we have been s.i ml in our time di isiug new and Mare pow erful apparatus, and also building wooden cites KuropeajV countries hgVI been uiilylng the fire reslst-l Ing power of materials of construe Hon. and hae taken advantage of the latest knowledge of construct ion ( Ject of the overseas program is ml put heai into the dispi- ted childrt Ot Europe, ii give them com rage, to I uild up HKH faith in the luture. 1 takes lo t.'ii . sands of impov'r 'i I I too ept il'f children the opm.iii j i.ity for health, play, educa'ou ird b.ippi.i" s (Harwiae denied, them. The countries in which the hi In will co i. ui' Ihrough the co poe-i-tion of tic- school children and Hi , I Junior Red Cross, are Albania, Aus-' ; tria, Helgium,, ilzecho-Slovakia, I France, Kangary, itari, Jugo-siavia1 land Poland. At Tirana, Albania the j vocational school is to become a per tnanem inatitutton for the technical training of boys In Austria, white Offer in gteema to increase after the close of Hie war, the work inelud 4 lifBlili games, a production program In ibe schools, and financial assist a rale. School gardena, arorkahone and an ait class are also included amom; the activities. Belgium has intensified the work of the Junior lied Cross and plans ta eniae completion of a playground a' La Eouvlere, its operaiions for one year, further assistance lor Cbarleroi and other playground extension act ivity. BdttCatiOtta work in behalf of French war orphans entails a con tribution by the American Juniors to ibe education or ihiny-one-schoiar- nhip and appreiiticeship holders, as 'ance ;it a child welfare cetnler and maintenance of a ylayground in Paris. A representative of Ibe Aniei lean Junior will continue to assif the Czerho-Slavakian Junior Red Crofi in an advi.-ory capacity. Aid la Hungary s centered in promotion of service to children in be schools, who show their aptiiudi y issuing a Junior Red Crorts publi cation oi their own which is epread intr rew of effective fervice. An"ien.' f.ot'ii- tiar- vlcomed the Am-nan playground idea and a model pla.v ground will be opened with cert inm. i.s before the end of the summer. A chain of farm and trad schools, in cluding two school ships, recein as i isiance .and a playground was1 est ablished in Florence, the birthnlac of Florence Nightingale. Jitga-Slavia offers a field aim liar to Austria, and Is virgin grotuid for j the inculcation of Junior Red Cross ! ideals and habits of service. In Pol ! and, activities are centered mainly 'n j the devastated area and conditions I along the Polish-Russian frontier ate j receiving special attention. Aeeori Ing to R. P. Lane, European dlfecto of the Junior American Red Cross, j "tb" spread of the Junior idea throc- ut the countries in which Amer- i ii an Junio n I.; attested I. y ctf are under a (jele prooiu. 'liie Last Word in ny Language - jSeBB A Frenchman ajd an Americ, were parting company in Paris. "An revoir" said the Frenchman. I as he turned awav. a "Whats (hat?, demanded the Amir ienn. The Frenchman "In your language explained tht: it means 'goo U ihev tinned again to leave eie other, the Frenchman was greer With a cherry "Wood alchol". "Whats zat?" "That's 'goodbye' in any langua' - - Exchange. Voters. Do You Understand? That the so ( ailed compulsory education bill, on Die November ballot, WOOld close every private school ot grammar grade in Ore gent That It would deprive parents of the right lo send children lo Btt) religious school or non-sec-larian aehool privately operated in Oregon? That it would confiscate mil lions of dollars worth of prop erly without cause, now devoted to private school work? Thai it would add more than 11,000,000 annually in taxes to tin taxpayers by throwing sev raj thousand pupils into public schools, lor whom buildings would he uecessiirj ? That It violates the sacred lights oi parents to train their children as they deem best, by robbing them of their constitu tional right lo attend privately operated schools where religious thought is featured or to a mm tectorial) school, such as Hill Military academy T only the mints can make mono without advertising. $100.00 CASH PRIZE AWAITING YOU I Also 1 argett li i en ' Other rash prizes for il t of words ma le at the I,. contained in theworda "SAFETY FIRST" Serd ten con is for ,.v n, subscription to the Safety Fn ;! azine, which gives rules of tV 'est. Act now and you ma. the 100.00 cash prize. Add res Safety First Magazine, 5 1 , K Heel N. , Portland , Oreg.ru. in li s Msgs 1 1 n vi in i the f. ,st vo l It lt IM ULICATIO.V Dejwrtl it of the Interior U. S. Land Office al The Hi tregon, September IS, 1922 Notice is hereby given that ." el I liclinmer, of lloardman ,'on, who on January li, mix, iiomesiead entry No. IIHI470 M'.'v, NL'14 (being I tut "D" Umatilla Project ) , Section 10, Township I.N., :iange 25. E., Willamet 1,. Meridian, uas nieu nonce ol intention lo i,,ake inal proof, to establish claim 10 lh and above described, before C (, 1 nneo ,-naies vjoi.imsiuner it lloardman, Oregon, on thj lsrh ley of Mtober, 1021 Claiinani names as Witneaac Joseph T Healy, W. O Finn, , I lloaidnian, and J C Hullengei f .lloardman, oreon J. W. Donnelly. ;i3-37 Rag les, Mich C remade lor le .111 all ler PUBLIC SCHOOL Vote 314 x Yes ' ; "ii"u hlatur) ami coromm a!a, t, the end that ivmerican "'ilious . peTua'ted"''11"1' 9Ht and American tt5 lueln'm''".1 iir,lTl ,"Hl"" nppmr believe that only by unlvereal Mvoatlon 01 our childrea un laodard and uniform bins can these thtm- "1- Mill ll veil This bin pronocea no reililoui restrict: m of the right of the parent u tca h rehglon to acvoiding to ins o it ralee no hura 1 It co"' mplates no limitation il 111 1 s own way and f i.IIriou ..itierence. n.,1,1?1''" ihl"i'" V"1; ",, uslir' to Insure that all 1 Inldrer I s attemling the H at tl,r, Uomi L"' b" ,M"h, ",lk" ,!,,r," ll",r years nl tint tlic outlook may to he a unified outlook . . the amnion weal ami ror their country and its institutions v- uiiuou weal nf ,T!? '"."w H" A,",'"'" nation we miiat have al' American Instruclnr our children aioag NCOgaiaed MaadeHl lines l,m.,ce f a ; i.os uo uot uuderstaml them properly do not support them. One Flag One School One Language P S MALCOLM. S3, ta pectorO eoera) in Oregon. Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. (faM Alv-i tin :n -ni WHY BOARDMAN ? 1 Because the Climate is Good, e e e e e People are Sociable Inlelligent Enterpri sing Town is New and Growing 3 Location Well Chosen Half way between The Dalles and Pendleton On 0 W Railroad On Columbia River Soil Will Raise Anything Water for Irrigation from West Extension of Umatilla Project v McKay Creek Dam Will be built, assuring more acreage under wate r. i Boardman is a New Town But Not a Boom Town Write Secretary of Commercial Club 6