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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1923)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU VISIONS RUIN OF FARMERS Secretary Wallace Says Going Prices Will Mean Bankruptcy. Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Th! Turkish national assembly un animously Monday elected Mustaphu Kemal Pasha president. 0. Hoscom Slomp, ex-roprnscntative from Virginia, has been tendered and has a ci ptnd the position of secretary to President Coolidge. Twenty-three tourists wen: killed in a motor bus accident Monday at Saint Sail vcu r, a Pyrenees resort about 2o miles south of Tarbos, Prance. Chief Shorty Whitograss, aged 103, one of the olilest hill blood Indians in th United States, died Monday at the Glacier National park reservation. A new rati! of seven gallons of gasoline for $1 was announced by a number of Independent dealers in Los Angeles Monday. The larger compan ies still held to their price of 37 c ents a gallon, or IB cents with scrip. Preliminary budget estimates for tint next fiscal yeur as approved by President. Coolidge provide a total of $1,700,000,01)0 for the "running" ex penses of the government compared with $ 1,K1!G,000,000 for the present year. " Twenty-six persons were wounded Monday in encounters between fas cisli and communists at Molinella fol lowing the explosion of bombs which were thrown against the fascistl head quarters and the borne of a local taa cistl leader at Hologna, Italy. Tidal waves, combined with a severe storm, have submerged 16,000 houses along tho Yalu river and on the west coast of Corea. No estimate of the loss of life has yet been received, but It Is said tho damage to crops and the lumber Industry will bo heavy. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer of Ion, and an advocate of the flat world theory, announces that there is no such thing as a "sunrise" or "sunset." "There Is literally no sunrise and no sunset," ho said. "They are only opti cal illusions. Tho sun la the same1 height above tho earth at ull times." Warrants wero issued Monday by Police Prosecurtor Skeol for 19 gaso line dealers In Cleveland, ()., charg ing them with giving short measure. According to Fred Caley, secretary of tb Cleveland Automobile club, motor ists hero are being robbed of approxi mately $7.10,000 annually by this means. Pederal Judgo Winslow of New York has denied the petition of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klau, Inc., of Georgia, for a preliminary Injunction restraining tho International Maga zine company, controlled by William Randolph 1 1 curst , from publishing ar ticles by Norman llapgood regarding the kluu. Careful selection of immigrants by American consular officers abroad and their enrollment and surveillance for a period uftcr they have been ad mitted to America were urged by Sec retary of Labor Davis, to prevent the alien from "allenlzlng America," upon his return from an Immigration sur vey in lOurope. All hope of finding more miners alive after the entombment of ap proximately 138 workers in the 1700 foot leva of the Frontlet mine No. 1 of the Kemmerer (Wyo.) Coal rum pany WM ubandoned at 8 o'clock Tees day ulitht and tho work of bringing up the dead was begun. Twenty-three bodies were brought to the surface on (he first trip of the mine cars. They were taken to a temporary morgue hero, where relatives gathered to deiitii'y their dead and claim the bodies. Approximately 3,"0 general chair men of the eastern. Western, south t-iucteru and Canadian associations of general committees, Hortherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Knglnemen, have been called to convene In special session at Chicago, September 6. for the purpose of giving consideration to tho question of "Inaugurating a wage HUH anient." according to the of fUlal circular mailed to all members of as sociations of general committees, I. It Kobertson. president of the brother hood, announced Tuesday. Washington, I). C. Thousands of American farmers will go bankrupt with wheat selling at considerably less than cost of production, Secretary Wallace declared Monday, while thous ands of others will be able to hold on only by the most grinding economy. If the present plane of prices of com modities other than agricultural is to be maintained, he added, then, to have general prosperity, prices of farm products must be Increased. Eastern railroads could help by mak ing substantial reductions in freight rates on agricultural products, espec ially if destined for export, Mr. Wal lace asserted, pointing out how, until agriculture, industry and commerce are brought into a more normal relation ship, "acute agricultural problems will develop, one after the other." "The ruinously low price of wheat is not a new agricultural disease," said the secretary in a statement. "It is just one more acute symptom of the general trouble from which agri cull ure is suffering. The disease it self is the distorted relationship be tween prices of farm products and prices of other commodities. "Th(! sooner tho people engaged in commerce and industry frankly recognize the trouble, the better it will be for all of us. The farmer could get along fairly well with pres ent prices of what lie has to sell if prices of what lie must buy were down accordingly. Hut. prices of other things remain high. That is what hurts. "Wages in industry and on the rail roads are almost twice as high as be fore the war. Taxes are about twice as high. Freight rates are from f0 to 76 per cent higher. Metals, build ing materials of all kinds, are from 50 lo KM) per cent above pre-war prices. All of these are items in the farmer's cost of production. Until a fair rela tionship is restored between agricul ture and industry and commerce, agri culture will be upset and will have reason to complain. "The pressing question is 'what can be done to help the wheat growers get more nearly the cost of produc tion for tills year's crop?' Some urge thai (be government ought to fix a fair price. That could be done- only by the government preparing to buy unlimit ed quantities at the price fixed. Others suggest that the government go into the market and buy 200,000,000 bushels of wheat and store it, on the theory that taking off the market that quan tity would send up the price to a fair figure. "I am mil hopeful of good results for either of these plans. How would Hie government dispose of the sur plus accumulated 1 What effect would either action have on wheat acreage? What effect would it have on the acre age and price of other grains and of livestock? Would the same policy be adopted in case of ruinously low prices for other farm products? The wheat sil nation Is bad enough in all con science, and certainly the majority of our people would favor any practical method Of helping, but we ought to be reasonable sun- that the remedy attempted will do the farmer more good than harm and not make the situation worse instead of hatter. Dry Agents' Ruse Wins. Long Beach, N. T. Iaiy Einstein and Moe Smith, prohibition agents, noted tor their versatile1 disguises, ap peared in the role of fashionable board walk pronienaders Sunday night and pun based rounds of drinks at the NAVY LIMITATION PACTS NOW LAW; Final Approval of Powers Re corded at Washington. SCHOOL DA1JS CEREMONY IS SIMPLE Nations lions Formally Deposit Itatifiea Many Tons to Be Strick en From Navy List. Nassau hotel, one of the best known resorts on Long Island. As a result the president of the hotel and the captain of waiters were charged with violating the Volstead act. Legion To Urge Peace. Indianapolis, Ind. An International effort toward world pence on the part of allied world war veterans will be urged by American Legion officials beaded by National Commander Ows ley, who sailed Sunday from Now York to attend the Urussols confer once of the Inter Allied Veterans' fed eration September 1 to 15. This was announced at legion na tional headquarters here. Six Killed In Plunge. Nice. The Hev. Hiram Grant Per son and Mrs. Person of Newtork, Mass.; Charles M. Cray, two women who have not yet been identified and an automobile bus driver were killed Monday when the bus went over the parapet of the road leading from Nice to Evian and plunged 300 feet into the River Var. Omaha Bakers Warned. Omaha. Nob A plan w ill be submit ted to the Omaha city council for the establishment of a municipal bakery unless prompt action is taken by local bakers toward a reduction in the re tail price of bread. John Hopkins, city commissioner, made this an nouncement Monday. Washington, D. C Seated about a table in the state department Friday, live men recorded the final approval of the powers for tho treaties drafted by the arms conference to end naval competition, terminate the Anglo-Japanese alliance and sweep away the war clouds that have hovered for de cades over the Pacific. It was an epilogue to tho Washing ton negotiations, at which it had been planned to give the place of honor to President Harding, at whoso call the conference assembled, but instead the formal deposit of ratifications was performed almost without ceremony. Secretary Hughes and his colleagues met in the diplomatic reception room, In the presence of only a handful of spectators, including officials of tin department, messengers and reprt sentatlves of the press. Ambassador Ilanahari acted for Japan and the other powers wore represented by the charges of their embassies here, II. O. Chilton for Great Iiritain, Captain Andre d Laboulaye for France and Auguslo Rosso for Italy. Mr. Hughes sat at the head of tin table, with the foreign diplomats fac ing each other at the sides. Without preliminary tho secretary stated tin purpose of the gathering and added that at a preliminary meeting in his office the ratifications bad been exam ined and found complete. He then held up a paper embodying the American ratification and placed it in the center of the table. "I herewith deposit the ratification of the United States," he said. The others followed suit, each pronounc ing the same formula. Then the documents, constituting a record of I he day and the hour at which the treaties became effective, were pass ed from hand to hand for signatures Hy pre-nrrangement, a telephone Hash went to the navy department at tho moment the last name had been written on the navy limitation pact. The ink had not dried on the sig natures before orders wero speeding over the wires which meant the strik ing of 7.10,000 tons in fighting ships, new and old, from the navy list. The process of scrapping will begin at once. ! PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. ALEXANDER REID Physician and Surgeon Something to Think About By F. A. WALKER Has Anyone Laughed At You Because INVENTION MAKES FILMS LOOK NATURAL f DicagO, - - Invention of a "natural vision motion picture film, which adds depth to the two dimensions of Width and height of the standard pic ture, was announced Sunday by tho George K. Spoor Essanay Film com pany, which expressed its intention oi opening up me oui cnicago rJssanay plant, closed seven years ago, to begin the production of the new pictures and the equipment for their produc Hon on a vast scale. Seven years of effort and $1,500,011 was spent by George K. Spoor and P. J. llerggren, the inventors, in perfect Ill the new films, camera projection machines and screens, the announce ment of the company's Intentions said. The three dimension pictures, ac cording to the company, have a field 40 foot long and 20 feet high, an area from three to ten times as great as that of the pictures now shown. The camera with which the pictures are made is four times as large as the ordinary motion picture camera, la equipped with two lenses, employs the principle of superimposing one pic ture on another and uses films twice us wide as that now used. Diphtheria Cure Found. Chicago. That the deaths of chil dren due to diphtheria are entirely needless and can be prevented, is the declaration set forth in a bulletin from the health department. All diphtheria In children can be prevented by sim ple and painless vaccination. Three dosos of toxin-antitoxin injected through the skin, the bull, tin says, will provide permanent protection against contraction of the disease. UNTIRING PATIENCE "P O GO complalnlngly through life from yeur to yeur is one of the sure ways of making yourself miser able and curtailing your earthly exist ence. In such a state of mind no man or woman can hope for great achieve ment. If you have any grit or spirit, if you have a desire to make progress In your vocation, whether it he build ing bridges, painting pictures or mak ing dresses, you will lind as you wend your may on the brief journey that It will In the end be exceedingly profit able to you to pay court to patience. It is the patient who are first to And plentltude and content. Day by day they mount a little high er. Week by week they become strong er. They accept adverse criticism With listening ears and smiling lips. They are never gross of speech nor in considerate of the sensibilities of others. They refuse to pose as heroes when in their hearts they know they are cowards, us the most of us are, when by some sudden shift of circumstances we are put to the test. The putlent prefer to keep honor bright rather than to yield to base de ception. They are not in haste to get rich. They refrain from Judgment of others, being too much occupied with Judgment of themselves. They begin their duties in the morning quietly. They deliver their words gently und hold to their pur pose of being patient throughout the day, however trying the day may be. There is always about them that sub tle power which commands and retains enduring respect. The Impulsive come to them for ad vice. And If you will give your vision a wider Held in observing you will dis cover that In any grave crisis the world lirst turns to these patient folk for a solution of its dlfflcultlea. Patience and application go safely over the roughest pat lis and scale the heights that pierce the clouds, and dwell in perpetual sunshine. There Is no barrier patience cannot eventually solve. It grows not in every garden, only Where there are fortitude, friend liness and fallh. the three sisters who bring to the world and its peoples the brightest star of Bope and the sweet est blessings from Heaven. (, 1313, by McClure Nt-wspapor Syndicate.) O IBfEN MEARIN'AC'TOOn HEAL jlrtely about tmi5 new ;LAcjije o'NationcJ, But if Bash Ball eont pay any better than itj1ii1la5t year, iaoultjnt think lT'u3UZfl C$OCJ TIME T gTAHT ANY N.GUJ LEMQuE5. i ET HEL R. PEYSER You pick out a new ' t in a moment? It isn't because you take any old thing. It isn't because you have no taste. It isn't hern use you don't cure how you look. It isn't because you don't care fur style. It is because you are a busy person. It is because you Want the right thing, und the biggest reason Is that it Is be cause you wait until you see in the window something you know will 'suit and you go In and get it. Or It Is because you see In a shop stall just the thing. Those that laugh don't deny that you have good-louking bean covers. SO Your get-away here is: You waste no time hatting and you are well hatted. ( by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) UMATILLA OREGON DR. W. W. ILLSLEY Osteopathic PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 'Phone Hes. 711 Office 551 Office over Hank Bldg., Hermiston. Calls answered at all hours. DR. FRANCIS P. ADAMS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON HERMISTON, ORE. Bank Bldg. 'Phones: Office 92. Residence 595. Office Hours 9-12. 3-6. Calls Answered Day or Night. DR. F. V. PRIME D E N T I S T R Y Dental X-ray and Diagnosis HERMISTON, ORE. Bank Building 'Phones: Office 93. Residence 751. Newton Painless Dentists Dr. H. A. Newton, Mgr. Cur. Main and Webb Sts. Pendleton JAMES D. ZURCHER Attorney-at-Law STANPIEIJ) - - OREGON BUSINESS CARDS Umatilla Pharmacy W. E. Smith, Prop. Mail orders given special atten tion. Quick Service Satiafaci ion Quarantoed Umatilla, Oregon i 2 rfotrC6oKBook i ... : .. i A Judicious woman that is diligent and religious Is the very soul of the house. Blshup Thorn. MORE SUMMER DISHES TJERE are a few more dwiches which will be Useful when nre- partng for a camp or fishing trip. i m mm Mock Lobster Sandwiches. Plake one cupful of cooked hali but, or tunny Bah, add to it a hunch of button radishes sliced in slivers. Season with salt, cayenne und moisten with mayonnaise dressing. Prepare as usuul, by spreading the bread with softened butter. Mushroom and Egg Sandwiches. Sprinkle a cupful of broken mush rooms with one-half teaspoonfu of salt, let stand a while, then stew, add ing a tablespoonful of butter. Cook five minutes, mince the mushrooms, draining off the juice If too much! Add one tables Dial of cream, thicken with a tea spoonful of Hour and cook until smooth, then add to the mushrooms together with chopped hard-cooked egg. Use on whole wheat bread. Chicken a la King Sandwiches. Mince one cupful of cold chicken, add one-fourth of a cupful of cooked mushrooms which have been cooked in butter live minutes and well chopped. Season well and mix a thick White sauce to spread, about six table poonfoia. Add chopped red pepper, a dash of cayenne, salt and grated onion to season. Use on buttered bread either white or whole wheat. Cottage Cheese Sandwiches. Moisten u cupful of cottage cheese with chill sauce, add a dash of Wor cestershire sauce and a tables nful of minced olives. Spread on buttered graham bread. A delicious cottage cheese sandwich which may be served to the children is prepared with chopped candied cherries added to the uuuuig cream or any fruit Juice to moisten. ?J. L. VAUGHANt 906 E. Court Street PENDLETON, - OREGON t Electrical Fixtures and Supplies Electric Contracting t-e-i Eat and Drink AT THE NEW FRENCH CAFE J. McKNEELY, Prop. Pendleton, Oregon Only the Best Foods Served X Fancy Ice Creams r urnlshed Rooms over Cafe Juick Service Lunch Counter In connection with Kining room You Are Welcome Here We Specialize in JOB WORK Take that next job to your Home Printer med -O- Italian Laborer in Luck. An Interesting and valuable find was nade by a laborer working near the Jtimlet of Ognlu. Italy. It consisted of wo ancient bronze vases containing J00 sold coins dated :ttX 15. C The nrlty und Intrinsic value of the find lave caused its worth to be estimated it several million lire. Sweetbread and Cucumber Salad. Soak a pair of sweetbreads In cold salted water for an hour, then drop into boiling salted water with a tea Ioonful of vinegar and boll twenty five minutes. Drop them again Into cold water to harden. When cold re move the membrane und cut Into small pieces, reel and slice two or three cucumbers Icto very thin slices and mix them with the sweetbreads. Just before serving mix with mavon nulse dressing and garnish with "the tender tips of celery and with olives Celery and mushrooms added to this dish make it a very delicious salad. oooooo R. N. Staafleld, President. I Prank Sloan, 1st Yice-Pres. J M. P. Ling, Stud Vice-Pros. I Ralph A. Hollo, Cashier Bank of Sfanfield Capital Stock and Surplus s:n,5oo.oo Four Per Cent Interest Paid on Time Certifi cates of Deposit HM