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22 Page frbs 7 -if Friday, January C, 1922 INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE ilCED TO MARKET IN RAGS II Inch Gsntlemtn Orlv-n to DssperaU flus to C..ilf Cuci.gii F00.J I for Mia VMi'y. Cvorlt II. 'IVrliwi.i', util I-lr of the Ot and Mioo Recorder, tells this lj of it I'riiit liuiitii'H ruwi to meet ! high timt of living. 'Ifi Oft of tint Mrillli-milU'lifl cities ; I'riinco I spent iiimiy days the gut of u French gentleman whom 1 V known for several years. Iln hud ' delightful vlllii, Imt was In thfc l(,lllll of UIOHl llllddllW'lllXM ll-0l jit-i'il of stilllclciit. money with which . Iimliitiilii 11 piifii riiiw;M In keeping ilf IiIm station lii life. ! morning fefl his house curly to t nk a lli I tin Mediterranean; returning to lliouso shortly ufltT 7 o'clock I iiioii,i'i to meet lii the corridor .truinplKli looking Individual whom! ta i'Mii- wiih entirely out of keep Svlili tin' general surroundings. I Jdi to him: 'What urn you doing r?' looked tip tit me wjtli a Millie lltul I discovered IiIiii to ( luy hoHt. Ill iitiiaKcmctit, I wild: flint's till lltlt 1 1. llHVI! )'OJl been ill over hy 11 t rum cur? Vmi ure ok'iug 11" mussed up.' Ho replied: 'I ivf- J 1 1 -1 been down to the tmsrki't lt llil is th wuy I have to no. The t;itit who bring In I lit- Hunts, tilts, unit vegetables nrc Mich wicked ltt)TM I lltlt If I should gllduWII (llOSSod (tfl it K-nt li-iuiifi, 1 would luivi' notli ig'left, not even my dollies. So, I d"WM Willi t lit K HlUged "111 Milt, tm over my hhotUdcr n ml shiifllc ;6 through the niiirl.t't Malls, When m-i' somcililng that. I want 1 begin i' j haggle and burpiln with tin' "fiuuiil. That Is tin only wny I an rpt food 'titi;ti for my finally with of ) money tliat I have to mjumk!. If 1 iitiihi4 "' w.v would Iiiiiiij every i hoat 1 pendant to a tamp post." -uMlMPOSED sentence by wire , i llt1lls Is Probably tho Most Novel Us , j to Which the Telephone Has : Deen Put. II MM, j "' ' r' 1 ln telephone bus lone Iiimmi recog. runt! j,( H valuable aid In fighting i',' .ot-t Arcs, hut It ri'imilin'd fur Stanley t I V. Walters, chief forest raiit'i'r of tin 'act, iJU'rli'l Kiirroinollni; Hood Jtlvrr. (r-., urah l"" 11 " 'i"vl n-i ciitly wlo-n rt (llscoVf-rcil two cainpi-rH who imu eft llrow humlnc, i-ontrnry to fon-st Im. i'..fiili.(l..iiu ' t'lilllui; up JiiMtln (hillitnik of Hood '"'titer, ilio raiiKiT kuvp hU "d'Hiltnony" piirtIV4.r n. iclfplionf, the Justice llHtoiicd fro iln cnniperM while tlo-y ciitcrcd fiiim rif a of KUllty and Imposed linen of i a IiSt" uln the unfortunate niiiure IK ftf.-rn, iiiillnii'lliik' Walteri to collect lie iii'Hicy on helmlf of the court. I) uk 1 lll,!"'t ''v' " ""' na""'H ' ,ne .'. iltciiilcrn." Mr. Onthaiik Im epioted n .c''ialiiB. "Mr. Walter proinlheil to pnv nrltarU)e iih with the lata when lie comes tnwfpv to Imj. wv,.r the linen. In order I'k' r.1,1,1 I nuiy keep my docket recorda u HtralKht." i ,hu' I Home After 2 CO Yeare. intc ! J'1" ,n, nrHt H'1"''' ,l"'' timr'ln''l ,0S(...loutli from the horder under (ieneral Monck, years ao, Hie t'olilntreani lOurdH olhVlally revisited CohlHt renin . alien the old colors of the. Second hnt- talion were presented to the town R'l.li.li i'Ivi.u tli.. reLflment ItH liuilie. The color party cotislHteil of ten " n' ftfllrers and forty-six other ranks, In eimttiidlni; part of the rculiii'Mital hiind. orn-TIiey wore full dress, with scarlet -row tOnlcs and bearskins. The Kind's ,n oOn Scottish Ilorderers, n the terrl fyc 0i-hd regiment provided a Ktronjj con- tlliK'ent to welcome the Kiinrds to t'old " ttfeani nnd line the route. 'M S .t an Impressive ceremony In the ""tmiiiict Hipiare, within a few yards of ('0,ttn- house in which General Monck had "f ;litn headipiarters, the colors worn grafoi iniilly handed over hy Lieut. !en. SHr Alfred Codrlnt'ton. ccdoiiel of the C! dst renin Kuards. They were iic- ceptod on behalf of the town hy I'ro- ,VOMt Cnrmlchacl. Afterward, headed "by the regimental band, the colors WTe escorted to the parish church. London Times. MANY FAST DAYS IN YEAR rmon mil!) Greek Church Insists on ftlaorou Ob oivrtnwt of R"coanlt(i Perlodi of Abitlncnce. More hi rift tln.ti any other cliurcli In Its observance of fust cluys, the CroeU Cliiirth also Is more rltforoua In Its fiiHtltm than other churches. Tli Iciiten fiiMlcr must abstain not only from llesli, but must 'do without flsh, ejt's, buller, cheese and even the nil which Is so much a piirt of Oreek cookltiK. Iurlii( Holy week the ortho dox tlreeks eat hardly unythlnK hut hreml. Am soon ns I-i'iit approiicliestho tin ek fast, It Is culled I he nlmps where food Is sold are decorated with evergreen, nml the Lenten fare Is temptingly displayed. As tin Oreek do not consider shellfish either meat or llsh, crabs, lobsters and other crus Uiccuns uri? sold and ftiteii with par ticular relish. The longest fust lng time for the Greeks, Is "Tie Omit Fast," which lasts 4i days. The m xt longest fast Is of 40 diiys. It begins Nov, J5 and ends the ny liefoi-f the Kreat feast of Christmas. LnirliiK August there ure 15 (lays of fasting, l'.eginiiliiK the Monday lifter the fust .Sunday after I'cntecost, until June 20, Is the next longest fust. This year It was 10 full days. Add to these long fasts Rlx s'nt tered fusts of one day eni'h, uml there Is a total of 1i: fust days which or thodox (irei ks and all visitors must observe each year. WIRES CARRIED BELL'S TONE Inoenioue Idea Gflved Time and Ex pense to Committee Charged With Making a Selection. rii'U . S.-lllnir u church hell by long-ills-tnnce telephone Keenis t be goln the mull order lioiises o;ie better, but tlmt's whnt a Troy (N. Y.) hell company actually did recently when a prospec tive customer called up from llosion. lie was chairman of a committee appointed to select a bell for a churn In one of the suburbs of Loston, and called up to arrange fur his commit tee to visit the hell rompuny's nules room at Troy. While on the wire, however, hi happened to hear one of the bells toll, and the telephone t ns milted the sound so clearly nil dis tinctly that he at once suggested that I.. ....... I !.!.... ..1, Tfiltf ! the committee select n hell of the de sired tone by listening to It over the telephone. Accordingly, the committee gath ered at the- chairman's ohV In Bos ton at Hie appointed time, nnd, ac cording to arrangement, the bell com pany at Troy detnmistrated the toll ing of Its bells over the long-distance telephone. After listening to several hells the committee selected one with which they were thoroughly satisfied, and saved the expense of a trip. World's Great Rivera. "There are comparatively few riv ers whose exact lengths nr known," says IMrector Otis of the United Slates geological survey. The survey, however, Issues n list compiled by It of lengths of the principal rivers of the world, which It says "Is probably as nearly accurate as any other to be hail." The United States has the dis tinction of containing within its bor ders the longest river system of the world the Mississippi Missouri the Mississippi, from Its extreme source, measuring H.-lSfl miles, the Missouri from Its extreme source 2,915 miles, the Mississippi-Missouri 4,221 miles. Other great rivers are the Nile, Af rica, -4,HK miles; Amazon, P.razll, II, IHK) ; Oh, Siberia, 3,200; Ynngtze-Ki-ang. China. 3,100; Amur, China. o.!0; Kongo, Africa, 2,!KK); Yenisei. Siberia. 2,SS); Hwang, China, 2,700; Lena, Si beria, 2,(UK); Murray-Hailing, Aus tralia, 2,:U0, and Yukon, AlnsUu and Camilla, 2,300. f twanted Line Put Out of Order. I foperator, will you please see that lay telephone is put out of order?" c'.friils strange request came over the Wjre the other day from a Lynch btjrgh, Va., telephone subscriber, who explained that his bell had been ring ing almost constantly for over live lipurs. lie hnd, the man explained, Inserted an advertisement In a local paper nnnouticlng that he desired to vacate tin eight-room residence, giv ing a telephone number for Inquiries. So successful was the experiment that after the entire family had been worn out answering the telephone the householder begged that Ills line be disconnected for the night, In order that they might have an opportunity to recuperate. Rebuilding Ypres. .Present conditions at Ypres are de scribed by a correspondent in the Lon don Morning Post: ' "When I saw Ypres lust," he writes, I'four years ugo, It was n huge mound :of broken stones and only the relics of the CJloth hall nnd the Cathedral CJiurch of St. Martin told that it had once been a town. At that time only W cat could wulk through Its shattered ptreets with safety, and men lived In ihples under Its ruins. Today Ypres 13 a town of 000 new houses, built of a much too vivid red brick with no i regard for architecture. Eleven hun jjdred more are to be built, and standing- on the ramparts you may see the iiiew houses growing under the patient , 'hands of the builders." New Discovery. Kmuliiting tlie study of the tenket tle by .lames Watt, which resulted In the invention of the steam engine, two Newark (N. J.) men accomplished what Is claimed to be remarkable progress In the construction of steam boilers through a study of the coffee percolator, says Popular Meeliunles Magazine. The water, Insteiul of being hented In large quantities, Is boiled, u gallon at a time, in n Hat receptacle Just over the lire pot. The water be ing only one-quarter Inch deep, quick ly becomes steam. The excess of water drips down on a lower set of similar plates. The saving In fuel is said to be considerable. Balancing It A foreman was one day having a walk round the Job just before knock ing off time when he found Mike Cas sldy putting on his coat In prepara tion for sotting off home. "Now, then, Mike," usked the fore inan, "why ure you getting ready to go now? It is half an hour before time." "Well, foreman," answered Mike, "you see, it's like this 'ere. I have to get up at six o'clock to be here by seven o'clock, and so I did not think that there was any , harm In getting ready hulf an hour before the time to go home." London Answers. He'd Had Enough. It happened on the transport coin ing back. "Show me your Identifica tion tag," demanded the medical oilleer of a colored private. "Ah done chucked It overbo'd, suh," confessed the other. "Ah Jus' naturally ain't got no ambi tion for no nio' of dem death checks." RAILROADS ASK , FOR FAIR PLAY President Sproule of Espee Makes New Year Statement San Francisco, Jan. 3 Regardless of differences that may arise from time to time between the men and the managements of the railroads, loth of them unite in the desire to give the public good service, William Sproulo, president of the Southern Pacific company, said in a statement made public today. The railroads, Mr. Sproule pointed out, are permitted under the trans portation act to earn a return only upon the value of so much of their properties as is used in the trans portation business, Because this value Is fixed by the interstate com merce commission "talk about earn ings on wutered stock or inflated vfllucs means nothing," he said. After discussing the new status of the railroads under the United States railroad labor board, Mr. Sproule said, "The railroads enter 1022 with the knowledge that the public intere st must always prevail arid are bending every effort to have their erju'-pmcr' in condition that will justify the puo lic expectation of good service. In re turn the railroads n:.k the public to see that we are fairly treuted." The statement follows: "In the railroad business 1921 is notable as the year in which the pub lic entered with authority into the settlement of disputes in railroad ser vice, when the managements and the men are unable to reach agreement among themselves on questions of wages and working conditions likely to interrupt the commerce of the coun try. "In l'J2l the principle prevailed that the right of men to strike for the purpose of stopping the service to the public is a blow at the public itself, and the "public will not allow their business to be stopped or thrown into confusion by quarrels among railroad men. "So in 1921, the United States rail road labor board met a crisis in the railroad business of the country, by exerting their authority in favor of orderly procedure. The transporta tion act of 1U20 provides for settling such disputes, insead of disorderly strike methods calculated to disturb the business of the people. "The public have decided not to take any of the bludgeon blows in fights between men and manage ments, for in a railroad strike the public cannot stand out of the way but receive their share of the blows regardless of who wins, and in the end nobody wins. "In this decision, the transportation act of 1920 created the railroad labor board. On this board the men, the managements and the general public are equally reperesnted. All of its nine members are named by tha President of the United States. Three of them are selected by the President from a list of names submitted by the representatives of the railroad employes; three more are selected by him from a list submitted by the railroad managements; and the re maining three are selected by the President on his own inititiative to represent the public. "On questions of wages the act goes even farther than this equal repre sentation of tho three interests con cerned, for it gives the public the fi nal voice in the decision by a simple rule, This rule i that when the board decides a question of wages or working conditions at least one of the public three men must join in the majority decision. "Already the people have noticed that the labor board is a hard work- ling nnd patient body. All railroad l men concede that these men have to deal with hard problems and, though thus far their decisions have not giv en either the men or the management all they contended for, both sides al rei.oy begin to see the wisdom of i congress in lifting railroad labor dis putes out of the strike zone into the 'zone of impartial federal authority. That public opinion supports this view is already beyond debate. "The railroads enter 1922 subject to this new jurisdiction and, with the knowledge that the public interest must always prevail, are bending ev ery effort to have their roadbeds, rolling stock and equipment in con dition that will justify the public ex pectation of good service. "In return, tho railroads ask the public to see to it that we are fairly treated.; to see to it that we are not discriminated against either on the public highways or on the water ways or in taxation. We ask for a square deal. We know that under equal conditions! we can serve the public wee. We are sure that tem porary diversions of business and temporary inequalities and unfair taxation are bound to be corrected, because the public perceives that in the long run good and reliable rail road service is a primary necessity. Perceiving this, they will also see that the railroad service they expect and want cannot be maintained unless the money devoted to the public in transportation gets a fair interest rate of return. Only a paying busi ness can prosper and grow. Men and women will not put their morey Into the railroad buoineH unk4 they believe It will be allowed to earn a fair return, and under the transportation act the railroads are permitted to earn a return only upon the value of so much of their proper ty as is used in the transportation business. The value of the railroad property is determined by the inter state commerce commission, but since September first, 1920, no rail road is guaranteed a return upon this or any other valuation. "Because of this fact the talk about earnings on watered stock, on inflated values and all that sort of babble means nothing. Such talk is either designed to deceive or is th3 child of ignorance, since the return to the railroads can only be what they are able to earn upon this valuation of the property devokd to the pub lic (service of transportation. "While the problems of the rail roads in these limes require Hhe j highest type of business management, even such management will succeed to the extent largely that it enlists the public goodwill. And it can be properly faid that regardless of dif ferences that may arise from time to time between the men and the mr-.migements, both of them unite in J desire to give the public such good service, and to establish with the public such cordial relations, that the railroad business may advance through present adversities into the prosperity that will redound to the benefit of all concerned, along the path of better understanding. "Railroad men enter 1922, there fore, in a spirit of mutual hope and mutual help, in the feeling that the past five years have served to clari- ;fy railroad questions and that in the j next five years it will become plain to all men that the railroads have to go forward in improvements and ex pansion in order to sustain the growth of this vast young country. That growth will require that large sums of new money be found to put into the railroad business, and to ob tain that money we must have the I public goodwill in favor of a reason 's'1 .-vv. IHf F4KHH5 ST A IK Mf'C Tl ii urnum ess i CP 8 Successful Combination Safety, combined with useful service is the basis on which we invite your account and bank ing business. We are always glad to have you consult our officers regarding financial or business matters. 5 Eyrmers State Bank INDEPENDENCE , OREGON able rate of return upon the invest ment I "The pt'blic interest i3 safeguarded in the use of that money by the rail ! roads because the latter cannot issue I any kind of security for it without first getting the special consent of the authorities of government. On j the other hand, the railroads have 'no incentive to put money into the ' roads unless the facilities the money ! provides are of use to the public. The railroads wish to be responsive to jjthe public needs for transportation, on the basis of a square deal and a fair return." FREAK CROPS COSTLY Time and money are lost by Ore gon fanners each year through pro motion of freak crops and dealers who Bell seed at high prices by misrepresentation, says G. R. Hys lop, chief of farm crops at the O. A. C. Experiment station. The sta tion invests money every year in investigation of these freaks and has established a service to keep grow ers informed of the results cf trials. If the crops are not profitable, the station finds it out and will tell any inquirer, who may thus save the loss of money and crop that comes from failure. Alaskan, Titanic, durum and Polish wheats, emmer, and Eureka clover are some of the "wonder" crops found generally unworthy The Enterprise is still $1.50 a yea i Worth While Printin ' ESS3EBE29 There is as much difference in printing as there is in clothing, for instance, or most anything else. The cheap, shoddy kind is expensive at any price. You may be able to save a few dollars by placing your order with an es tablishment where none of the elements of good printing is used. Like a shoddy suit of clothes it is a constant reminder that you did not get your money's worth, irrespective ofj what the price may have been. t The Enterprise is endeavoring to furnish good print ing neat and attractive in design and upon stock which will fit the requirement. PROMPT SERVICE AND HONEST VALUES. Independence Enterprise Phone 7221 i
