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WORLD HAPPENINGS LABORITES WIN IN ENGLAND OF CURRENT WEEK 'New Government First in History of Country Asquith Supports. Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, ex-minister to Denmark, died at his home in ISrooklyn late Monday. The democratic national convention will be held at New York city begin ning Tuesday, June 24, following the republican convention at Cleveland Juno 10. Discovery of a serum for scarlet fever was announced Tuesday night by Dr. A. H. Doches, assistant profes sor of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia university. Permission to build 32 miles of rail road from Crano to Iiurns in tlio Oro gon timber section was granted the Oregon-Washington ltailroad & Navi gation company Tuesday by the inter state commerce commission. Tlio new soldiers' bonus measure was introduced in tho senato Monday by Senator Copeland, democrat, New York, who proposed to pay $1.25 for each day of active service. Ilo esti mated tho entire cost at about $1,500, 000,000. Albeit U. Fall, former secretary of tho interior, who was the center of an attack over tho leasing of tho Teapot Dome naval oil resorvo in tho senate Tuesday by Senator Caraway of Ark ansas, is ill at a New Orleans hotel and unable to receive visitors. Judgo Jacob Trieber Tuesday in structed a jury in United States dis trict court in Jonesboro, Ark., to rs turn u verdict of not guilty in tlio case of Dr. Mary E. Lococq, practitioner of tho Abrams method of diagnosis, who had boon charged with using tlio mails to defraud. Kam.say MacDonald, English parlia mentary labor leader and probably the next prime minister, in a niiiarli able speech in tho houso of commons Tuesday declared for a foreign policy that will restore tho influenco of Great llrituin in Europe in favor of poace and order. A word chosen from more than 25, 000 suggestions as the one best calcu lated to "stab and nwako tho con science of tho lawless drinker," was announced in lloston by Deloovare King of (juincy, who offered a Drift of $200 for tho most suitable epithet. Tho word Is "scoffluw." Congress, faced with tho task of evolving a method of aiding the farm er, received Tuesday another proposal to add to the list already in band when the McN'ary llaugen bill, pro posing a $200,000,000 federal ugrlcul turnl export corporation, was intro din ed In the senate anil house. Tho 12,000 workers In district No. 2fi In Nova Scotia of the United Mine Workers of America walked out Tues day. Nlue thousand of them uult be cause of tho failure of wage negotia tions, followed by the llritlsh Empire Si eel corporation's 20 per cent cut in the scale and 3000 others struck in sympathy. Drastic measures to meet tho finan cial crisis caused by the abrupt plunge of the franc were taken by tho cabinet Tuesday tho must momentous mens uro affecting Internal affairs decided upon by the I'oincnro government since It assumed power. Tho steps announced were: A 20 per cent in crease In all tho French tax rolls, ef fectlve immediately. Four years of national prohibition have brought happiness into thou sands of American homes, helped solve unemployment problems, in creased consumption of home-made products, lengthened terms of oduca (ion and cleaned up "Main street." Prohibition Commissioner llaynes de clared Tuesday night on tho eve of tho fourth anniversary of constitu tional prohibition. The American Lotion executive committee after setting September U to 19, inclusive, as the dates for the 1924 national convention to bo held In St. Paul, Wednesday started an ng fi, sslve campaign in support of ad justed compensation for world war veterans and went on record us op posed to tho substitution of ordinary London. The conservative govern ment, headed by Stanley Baldwin, met defeat in the houso of commons Mon day night and for the first time in the history of England a labor government will probably take office. The labor amendment to the ad dress in reply to the speech from the throne introduced in the house by John Robert Clynes, deputy leader of the parliamentary labor, on January 17, was adopted by a vote of 328 to 256, J. Ramsay MacDonald, the labor leader, himself moving closure, which was agreed to. Tho amendment reads: "lie it our duty respectfully to sub mit to your majesty that your ma jesty's present advisers have not the confidence of the house." The labor party had the support of Herbert K. Asquith, former premier and leader of the united liberals. Premier Baldwin will present his resignation to the king and the king will summon J. Ramsay MacDonald to form u new government. For a prime minister about to suffer extinction Mr. Baldwin was in excel lent vein. Remarking that labor was about to be put into office by the votes of a progressive party, which elicited liberal cheers, he created roars of laughter by turning the tables thus: "Yes, but progress is not necessarily forward," and then quoted figures showing tlio gradual diminution of strength of the liberals In the com mons from 37G in 190G to 115 in 1922, adding: "And you only got bigger numbers at the last elections by appealing to the voters to keep the socialist party out." Mr. Baldwin, in his speech, took the solo blame for the protectionist policy, Which he believed would solve the un employment problem. He paid his respects to ex-Premier Asquith, leader of the united liberals, who had turned the support of that party to the labor ilis, by comparing Mr. Asquith with ";ui obstetrician about to bring a child into the world with tho intention to smother it should it fail to meet his expectations," and declared: "I think infanticide is worse than suicide." HIS government, lie said, had been accused of committing suicide, but, he exclaimed, "there are worse crimes than suicide!" The prime minister predicted that tho future lay between the conserva tives and the labor party, and to ring ing ministerial cheers ho added: "Do we look like a beaten party? we are ready to take up tho challenge from any party whensoever and by whomsoever it is thrown down." In his general remarks about labor's policy Mr. MacDonald declared that socialism had no hard and favored doctrines. Tho man or nation that found an easy way to lay hands on capital for any purpose except specific economic purposes, in his belief, was going into bankruptcy. MEXICAN TROOPS IN U.S. TERRITORY Federals Allowed to Go Through Two States. JUAREZ DESTINATION Commander and 1500 Men Expect to Ite-enter Own Country by Way of El Paso, Texas. China's Downfall Laid to Mali Jongg. Chicago, 111. Muh Jongg is respon sible for tho present corruption in China, the Rev. George Stens, a mis sionary In China for 30 years, declared Sunday at St. Mary's mission houso at TVchny, HI., where ho Is studying American educational methods. "The bandits who rob at night in China gamble at man Jongg by day," he sad. "Covernment officials sit through tho night playing with offi cers, employes and underlings in of fice. They lose in tho end. Their regular duties uro neglected, and when it comes to paying their losses they resort to nil kinds of rascality. "In China there Is a saying that the victim of the habit can no longer be trusted. I know men and women in China who have lost their entire pos sessions playing this game. There are few games so contagious and 1 am sorry to see it getting such a hold in America." Train Service Crippled. Louden -Although the strike in augurated at midnight Sunday night by the members of the Associated So eieties of Locomotive Engineers and Vlronion has failed thus far to tie up the country's rail communication, enormous inconvenience has been caused to nil classes throughout the country. In London the situation was aggravated in the afternoon and night by a steady downpour of rain. It is difficult at present to ascertain to what extent the strike is affecting the general train services. Naco, Ariz. While hundreds of citi zens of Mexico and tho United States looked on Sunday afternoon, Mexican federal troops crossed the internation al boundary at this little town, en trained in special cars waiting for them, and began their journey to Juarez, Mexico. There was no demonstration. Fif teen hundred Mayo Indians made up the command. Ceneral Jesus Maria Aguirre, in charge, hoped to effect a crossing of the border at El Paso, Tex., under cover of darkness. In their trip to Juarez, the Mexican soldiers will cross portions of the states of Arizona and New Mexico. The troopers eventually will be sent to Jalisco, Coahuila, where tho forces of President Obregon are battling to quell the revolution. A special train of the El Paso & Southwestern railway carried the troops. It left Naco at 1:15 o'clock. United States immigration guards are accompanying the troops to El Paso. Phssage of the Mexican sol diers into the United States was ac complished in the presence of United States immigration authorities. It was a long, tiresome process. Each sol dier was required to register his name as he entered the United States. More than four hours were required to in spect and register the entire contin gent. The Mexican officials desired to send the troops across in a body, but American immigration officers ex plained this was impossible. Most of the train which carried the troops was composed of freight cars, the officers riding ahead in coaches. Fifty cars were assigned for the trans portation of the soldiers and 12 cars for equipment. The officers occupied tho remaining two cars that made up the train. Mexican officials announced 500 additional troopers will arrive in Naco from southern Souora in a day or two, but the exact time of the arrival was uncertain, they said. NORTHWEST LEVY ON LOGS TARGET Washington, D. C. Attorney-General Daugherty has reversed the tariff commission in its first report to the president under flexiblo provisions of the tariff act. In an opinion sent to the White Mouse, Mr. Daugherty had ruled that tho commission's construction of the section laying import duties on logs of cedar, fir, spruce and western hem lock was Incorrect. The president tins returned the commission's report, with the opinion, to tho commission with Instructions to "proceod in ac cordance therewith." Tho commission's action, which was overturned by the department of jus tice, was taken late in August upon tho application of log buying interests of the Pacific northwest, which sought a reduction of tho full 50 per cent permitted by tho flexible provisions in tho rate of $1 a thousand board feet on logs of the species mentioned. The law provides that tho duty shall not apply if the nation, province or po litical sub-division from which the commodity is imported has imposed any restriction on its exportation within 12 months. KING IX NAME ONLY TING OBERON Is the husband of the Fairy Queen, but though he is King hi3 power is very limited, for the only time he has any power at all is between night and day. This of course makes him very dis contented, for while he is a King there Is not much fun in being one if you cannot rule somebody or something. The fairies were all very respectful and addressed him as "Your Majesty" always, but it was to their Queen they looked for orders and not to King Oberon. . , The Queen had to be very careful of her subjects and of herself as wellat the hour between day and night be cause her King was always looking "Called for a Pail and Went to Work." for a chance to display li is power, which was of so short duration. Once he had used this power to send all the fairies flying over a deep, wide river which he knew would frighten them very much because the fairies do not like the water, and he had sent all the Goblins running to ward them when they reached the op posite bank, hoping to scare them so they would drop their wands Into the river. King Oberon is a very meek hus band when he has no power, but dur ing his hour the Queen has a great deal to contend with, and one day she decided Something must be done to make him behave when the hour be tween day and night came around. King Oberon had always had a very easy time living in the fairy palace. He was waited upon and never had to do any work at all. But one day the Queen ordered him to scrub the palace inside and out. Of course he made a great fuss and said he was a King and it was de grading for him to work, but the Queen only answered that he must work or she would use her power to make him something else than a Fairy King. This so scared Oberon that he took off his crown and kingly robes and called for a pall and brush and went to work. All day he scrubbed and into the night, for the Queen would not let him rest. "You will have time to rest," she told him, "when your hour comes to rule." At last his hour arrived, but he wns so tired he could only drop his scrub bing brush and fall asleep upon the ground, for he was still scrubbing the outside of the palace when his power began. King Oberon slept all through the hour he might rule, and the minute It ended the Queen awoke him and set him to work again. He was only allowed to stop for his cup of dewdrop tea and lunch which the fairies brought to him, and then the Queen ordered him to work again. All day, day in and out, he worked, sleeping only when his hour to reign came uround. At last he begued the Queen to be merciful and let him go back to his old way of living. "I will see how you behave," said the Queen. "If once you dare to use your power to bother my fairies or to bother me, back to your scrubbing you go." Meekly King Oberon put on his robes and placed his crown on his head and mounted his throne and there he sits day by day a King in name only. And when the hour be tween day and night arrives King Oberon is in bed sound asleep, for he knows that once he displeases fils Queen again lie will work for the rest of his days, and what is the use of being a King, he thinks, if you can't sit on a throne? Even If he has no power it is better than scrubbing. ( by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. ALEXANDER REID Physician and Surgeon UMATILLA - - OREGON G. L. McLELLAN, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Fraternal Building Stanfleld, Oregon DR. F. V. PRIME 1) E NTISTRY Dental X-ray and Diagnosis HERMLSTON, ORE. Bank Building 'Phones: Office 93. Residence 751. Newton Painless Dentists Dr. H. A. Newton, Mgr. Cor. Main and Webb Sts. Pendleton BUSINESS CARDS mmommmmmmmmmm Umatilla Pharmacy I W. E. Smith, Prop. Mail orders given special atten tion. Quick Service Satisfaction Quaranteed Umatilla, Oregon I J. L. VAUGHAN I S!OG E. Court Street X PENDLETON, - OREGON T YOUk Haw to read roar char acteristic! and tenden ciei the capabilities or f ,f A XIllA wwlmtitM that mailt as ihowD in your pabm. War Declared on "Fags." Salem, Or. Local police announced Monday that an aggressive campaign Russia Buys Cotton. New Orleans. The Russian soviet government has purchased a small quantity of American cotton which it is understood is for shipment directly to Russian ports, according to cotton factors here. The purchases to date, so far as Is known here, amount to around 20,000 bales. How much Amer ican cotton the Russians have received through Germany there is no way Of ascertaining, but it Is believed some has reached the soviet republic. will ho launched here to enforce the law prohibiting tho sale of cigarettes to minors. It was said that this law hits been violated by many tobacco dealers in Salem, with tho result that headstones for tlio crosses that stand numerous complaints have been filed at tho head of tho grave of every with tho police department. The local American soldier In European ceme- ' courts. It is said, have promised to co teries. The executive meeting closed opcr.no wl'h the police in enforcement Wednesday night. of the cigarette law. $200,000 Cargo Seized. New York. Three thousand cases of whisky, gin and champagne valued at $200,000; an ocean-going tug bout, valued at $50,000. and six men were seized early Sunday by officers of the police boat Manhattan after a battle In New York harbor that continued up the North River to the foot of Cham bers street. No one was wounded. Police found that the boat, the Capital No. 1, had been captured twice before. CARRIAGE AND MOTIONS OF THE HANDS TTI7HILE the characteristics, ten vv dencles, propensities, etc., of a person may be read best from the lines, the mounts and the signs of the hands, all taken together and to each assigned Its proper significance, much may also be learned from the manner In Which the subject carries his or her hands and moves them. Of course, this must be studied wherrtthe subject does not know that he Is under obser vation, since otherwise he may hold his hand, or move It, In a strained, un natural manner. For example, when the person is of an open, frank nature, he will have little to conceal, and will open his hand or palm freely to the gaze. The hand of one whose thoughts and life need concealment will close more or less tightly, and the fingers will en deavor to hide the palm, as It were. Note, therefore, whether the subject seems bent on hiding his palm, even before he knows that he is under ob servation, and deduce therefrom a se cretive nature. ( by WheeUr Syndicate, Inc.) O Pressure of Wind. The pressure of wind as one fee!s It fanning the face or in the struggle against tho gale, increases in a ratio very much more rapidly than the In crease in miles an hour. Mathemat ically, It is reckoned in the ratio of the square of velocity. For example, the pressure exerted by a 10-mlle breeze as compared with a 50-mile gale, is not as 10 to 50, but as 100 to 2,500, which are the squares of the velocities. Thus, in breasting a gale a person receives 25 times as great an impact as that of a teu-niile breeze, which is sufficient to snap out a tag (lying from a pole. The pressors ef the ten-mile breeze at ordinary air density, Is only 0.3d pounds to the square foot, while that of the strong gale Is nearly ten pounds. The aver age adult, garbed for out-of-doors when a gale Is blowing, presents a consid erable area to its violence, and n great force smites him. No wonder the nat ural Impulse Is to turn the shoulder to the blast and reduce the area against which the pressure can act. Wind pressure also varies with the nature of the air Itself; the ley gale of win ter is heavier and exerts a greater force than one of equal velocity in summer. O Most Useful Kind. "What kind of coal do you wish, ma'am T" "Dear mo, I am so Inexperienced In such things. Are there several kinds?" "Oh, yes ; we have egg coal, chest nut" "I think I'll take the egg coal. We hv eggs oftener than we have chestnuts." I Qhe Whj I Superstitions By H . 1 R P 1 N Q KlNq FOOLING GHOSTS A N OLD-TIME superstition which is still occasionally met with in the rural districts is that a funeral pro cession should not return from the cemetery to the house by the same route which it traversed before. In Virginia there Is a prevalent su perstition among the colored popula tion that after a funeral from the house the position of the door-knobs should be changed. The Virginia ne gro frankly says that this change Is made so that "the ghost cannot find his way In." The first superstition mentioned Is of a kindred nature and had originally a like purpose. It was to throw the ghost of the departed off the trail so that he could not find his wuy back to the house. Along the Carolina coast a stake is sometimes driven through a grave as soon as a body Is burled to keep the ghost of the deceased from "ha'ntlng." Among the peasants all over Europe there are similar superstitions to these and among all savage tribes kindred precautions are taken to keep nway the spirits of the departed. The cus toms under consideration are not re lated to the superstitious which are many concerning the protection against ghosts by means of "charms" but have to do with primitive man's conception of the spirits of the dead as entities which could be "physically" controlled hy sympathetic magic and easily deceived by the more vigorous spirits embodied In the living. That primitive idea is the basis of the mod ern superstitions mentioned above. The old English law enforced in com paratively recent times which direct ed that a certain class of malefactors should, after execution, he buried at a crossroads with a stake driven through the grave was but a legal enactment of this primitive superstition. l(S) by McClure Newspaper .- n.Ucate . I' Electrical Fixtures and Supplies Electric Contracting i Eat and Drink AT THE NEW FRENCH CAFF, I X E. J. McKNEELY, Prop. 1 1 Pendleton, Oregon r Only the Best Foods Served X Fancy Ice Creams ; I Furnished Rooms over Cafe X Juick Service Lunch Counter X 1" connection with Dining room T 10u Are Welcome Here We Specialize in JOB WORK Take that next job to your Home Printer f It. X. Stanfleld, President. Frank Slonn, 1st Vlce-Pres. M. R. Lint, 2nd Vlce-Pres. A ..... j nwjn i. nolte, Cashier f : Bank of f Stanfield Capital Stock and Surplus $37,500.00 wirrnai. aj welfare, anaiote.) 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