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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1919)
V lUM-HfAWt--- FAflKfl BHND BUIiliKTIN, BKND, OftKGON. THUIWDAY, MARCH o, 101ft JW-Si,.4.iSl.Vfc'rjaWr3IIWMMi-M"-il",",' COUNTY QUOTA WILL BE MET $195 PLEDGED TO STATE CHAMBER. John Ij. Kthcrldgo Tells lttisincss Men of Alms of New Organisa tion, nnd Is Assure! De schutes Will Ilnlho 800. ' (From Saturday's Dally.' Declaring that the State Chamber of Commerce is In no senso a Port- land organization, that a largo ma jority of Its officers are from the etato at large and that tho votes of clubs outsldo of Portland easily con trol the decisions of tho chamber, John L. Ethcridge, chairman' of the state membership drivo, spoko beforo a gathering of business men of Bend, Redmond and La Pine at tho Pilot Butte Inn last night. Although the drive docs not begin officially until Monday, H5 toward the county's 1800 quota was pledged, and Guy L. Dobson of Redmond, E. L. Clark of La Pine and D. 0. Mc Pherson of Bend, county membership chairman, promised that tho entire amount -would bo mado up before next Saturday. Immediately following the meet ing, Mr. Etherldgo and a number of those who had already signed up motored to the dance at Tumalo, -where 10 memberships were picked up, Just six tnoro than had been estimated as the quota for that sec tion, and making at total of $195 Tor tho evening's work. Tat Jt In THE BULLETIN." CAP AND GOWN WILL BE WORN BE.VD HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS DE CIDE ON' UNIFORM GARB COM MENCEMENT WEEK CALENDAR IS ARRANGED. (From Friday's Dally.) Tho senior class of 1919 will wear gray caps and gowns this year in stead of tho customary garb worn by tho previous graduating classes. This custom will probably bo adopted toy all of tho future senior classes. Several plays are being considered for the class play of 1919, and work will soon bo commenced In earnest. Tho calendar for tho week beginning June 16 has been chosen and Is as follows: Monday, class picnic; Tuesday, class play; Wednesday, class exercises; Friday, commence ment. Tho Junior class won the right to keep the silver cup offered by tho Central Oregon bank tho remainder .of this semester. The winner was Tressa Palmer, a junior. Stanloy Bond, a sonior, won second place, re ceiving tho J5 cash prlzo offered by the Miller Lumber company. The baseball season will opon In about tbreo weeks. Tbo boys aro practicing each night, and a first team will be chosen next week. Games will bo scheduled with tho teams of the county schools and also with teams from Prineville, Red mond, Madras and The Dalles. Tho mumps aro still causing many absences, John Clapp, Florence Mc Klay and Mildred Hoover bejng ab sent this week. Put It la THE BULLETIN'." SPRING CLEANING TIME IS HERE. If a house needs spring cleaning, how about the human body after a -winter of indoor life and heavy food? Don't suffer from indigestion, bilious ness, bad breath, bloating, gas or constipation, whon relief can bo so easily had. Foley Cathartic Tablets r.lAan ltfnmnrh nnrl Tirturnla nn1 tnna up the liver. Sold everywhere. Adv. ' BRICK vs. ,l,llllll,oJ BRICK BUILDINGS IN BEND OTHER BUILDINGS VALUE ABOUT VALUE ABOUT $500,000 $2,000,000 FIRE LOSS IN FIVE YEARS FIRE LOSS IN FIVE YEARS OVER NONE , $100,000 gcT1 BEND a 3h jUbcrl &C 'Dcpcio Ei.&inntr and OiUI Ptty Officer, U. S. Ntt Mmbr ol tha Foreign Melon ol Franco Captain Gun Tumi. French tUttlnKln C award Wlanoc ol tho Croix do Quae rat B 1 1 1 1 1 li 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 r: pxrifbi, im. tr ntiiir aoi nritioo o Toronto ftsptti Maun Aama ban loa. Dulmcn was very near the Dutch border and as It was qulto easy to get out of tho camp attempts at eseapo were frequent Most of thoso who ran Most of Those Who Ran Away Were Brought Back. away were brought back, though. The Germans were so easy on thoso who tried to run away that I almost thought they were encouraging them. One chap was doing his ten dnys In the guardhouse for tho sixth tlrno while I was there that Is, he had Just about completed his period of detention. lie claimed that tho nlxth time ho had really got across the border and was arrested in a little town by tho Dutch authorities and turned over to tho Ger mans. That Is against tho law la most countries, but he swore It was tho truth. I am not so sure, myself. He got away for the seventh time while I was at Dulmcn and was not returned. Ten days In the guardhouse Is not such a light punishment after all, be cause water three times n day is nil the prisoner received during that time, but It Is pretty mild compared to some of the things the Huns do. One morning I thought for euro 1 was going cafard. I was Just fed up on tho whole business and sick of do ing nothing but suffer. So I strolled along, sticking my head into barracks doors, sometimes trying to have a talk, other times trying to pick a fight It was all one to me: I Just wanted some thing to do. I found what I wanted, all right I had quite a talk with a sentry In front of a barracks. It must have lasted three-quarters of an hour. Ho did not know what I was calling him. and I did not know what ho wan call ing me. I could havo handled hltn all right, but nnother sentry came up on my blind sldo and grabbed me and tho talk was over. They dragged me to the commander of tho camp and he Instructed them to give ine a "both". "So IHcy Took me to the bathhouse, where I was stripped and lashed. All the tlrao they were whipping mo I was thinking what a Joke it was on me, because I had been looking for excitement and hod got moro than I wanted, so I laughed and tho nuns thought I was crazy sure. I was dumped Into a vat of hot water and at the samo time my clothes were given a boiling, which was good for them. Tnea I was forced Into my wet elothes and marched back to the bar racks. This bath and the stroll through the snow In wet clothes Just about did for me. Nowadays, when' I sit la a draft for a second and catch cold, I wonder that I am still alive to catch It Having gone through DIx made and the Dardanelles and tho sinking of the Georgie and four Ger man prison camps and a few other thing I shall .probably trip over a mtiiiimiiiiiitmrmrmiiHiiniiiiiiiinti I Gunner Bepew OTHER BUILDINGS BRICK & LUMBER CO. liulifin n church carpet ntul urvtiH lily neck, Thot would bo my luck. Thcro were nil tho diseases you can think of In this camp, Including black cholera and typhus ami homebody was always dying. Wo had to make colllns from nny wood wo could And. So It wos not long beforo wo were using tho dividing boards from our bunktt, pieces of flooring nnd, In fact, tho walls of tho barracks. Tho olllcors were quar tered In corrugated Iron barracks, so they had to borrow wood from us for their colllns. Wo would mnko tho box and put the body In It, glvo It as much scrvlco as wo could, In tho way of prayers mid hymns, nnd put It nwuy In a holo nenr tho barracks. There was fo much of It that a single death passed unnoticed. One morning tho German sentries camo to our barracks they never catno singly nnd told us that an otU ccr was going t6 review tho prisoners and ordered us to muster up, which wo did. I was tho Inst man out of tho bar racks and on account of my wouuda I was slower than tho rest You understand I had had no medical treatment except cro'po-papcr ban dages and water; my wounds had been opened by swimming from tho Georglc to tho Moewo and they had been put in terrlblo shapo In tho coal bunkers. On account of the poor food and lack of treatment they had not oven started to heal. Incidentally, tho only cloth bandages that any of us had wcro what wp would tear from our clothes and I havo seen men pick up an old dirty rag that someono clso had had around his wound for a long tlmo and bandago his own wounds with It So It was nil I could do to drag my self along. Tho officer noticed that I was out of lino anS Immediately asked my name and nationality. When ho heard "American" ho could not say enough things nbout us and called mo nil tho swlno names ho could think of. I was pretty thin at this tlmo and getting thinner, so I figured I might Just as well havo It out beforo I starved. Besides, I thought ho ought to know that wo aro not used to being bawled out by German swlno In this country. So I told him so. And I said that he should not bawl Americans out, be causo America was neutral. He then said that as America supplied food and munitions to tho allies she was no bet ter than tho rest Then I said: "Do you remember tho Dcutschland? When she entered Hal tlmoro and New London she got all tho cargo she wanted, didn't she!" "Yes." "Well, if you send over your mer chant marine they will get tho same." For that answer ho gave mo ten days In the guardhouse. He did not liko to be reminded that their merchant ma rine bad to dive under to keep away from tho Limeys. I admit I w'as pretty flip to this of ficer, but who would not bo when a slick German swlno officer bawled him out? It was while I was In the guardhouse that Mr. Gerard, the American ambas sador, visited, the. cjimp, Ho rnmo to. this camp abouf cveryslx Tlionlfis", at a rule. Even In tho German prison camps the men had somehow got infor mation about Mr. Gerard's efforts to Improve the terrible surroundings in which the men lived. Somo of tho men nt Dulmcn had been confined In vari ous other camps and they told mc that when Mr. Gerard visited these camps all that the men did for n week or so afterward was to talk about his visit and what ho had said to them. Wo knew Mr. Gerard had got tho Germans to make conditions better In somo of the worst hell-holes In Gennany nnd the men were always glad when he camo around. They felt they had some thing better to look forward to and somo relief from tho nwful misery, Mr. Gerard was passing through tho French barracks and a man I knew thero told him there was an American there. Tho Germans did not want him to see me, but ho put up an argument with the commanding officer nnd they finally said ho could Interview me. I never was so glad to seo anyone as I was to see him. The picture Is still with mo of him coming In tho door. Wo talked for about an hour and a half, I guess, and then ho got up to go and he said I would hear from him In about three weeks. Just think what good news that was to mo I They let mo out of the guardhouse and I celebrated by doing all the dam age to German sentries that I could do. Tbo, men in the camps went wild when they learned that Ambassador Gerard was there, for they said ho was tho only man in Germany they could tell their troubles to. The reason was that be was strong forMbe men, no matter what nationality, and put his heart into the work. I am one of those who cannot say enough good thlnss about him. Like .many others., if It liua not nuon lur "Sir, vluiuul'l would bo kaput by now. A few days nfler this I was slow ngnln ns wo wero inarching to tho bread house nnd tho guard at tho door tripped me. When I foil I hurt my wounds, which inuilo mo hot. Now I had decided, on thinking It over, that tho best thing to do wiih to bo good, slnco I was expecting to bo released, and I thought It would be touch luck to ho killed Just beforo I wns to bo released. But I had been In tho Amer ican navy nnd nny gnrby of tho U. H. A. would havo dono what I did. It must bo the training wo. get, for when n dirty trick Is pulled off on us wo got very nervous around tho hands nnd aro not always able to control them. So I went for tho sentry nnd wnl loped hint in tho Jaw. Then I received his bayonet through tho fleshy part of tho forearm. Most bayonet wounds that wo got wero In tho arm. But thoso arms wero In front of our faces nt tho time. Tho sentries did not aim for our arms, you can bet on that A wound of tho kind I got would bo noth ing moro than n white streak If prop erly attended to, but I recclvod abso lutely no attention for It and It was a long tlmo In healing. At that, I wns lucky; another bayonet stroko Just grazed my stomach. I had been at Dultnen for three weeks when wo wero transferred to Brandenburg, Havel, which Is known ns "tho holl-holo of Germany" to tho prisoners. It certainly Is not too strong n nnmo for It, cither. On tho way wo changed trains nt Osnnbruck nnd from tho station plat form I saw German soldiers open up with machlno guns on tho women and children who wero rioting for food. CHAPTER XXII. "Tho Hell Hole of. Germany." On arriving at Brandenburg wo were marched the threo or four miles north west to the camp. While wo wero be ing marched through tho streets a woman walked nlongsldo of us for qulto n wny, talking to tho boys In English nnd nsklng them nbout the war. Sho said sho did not believe anything tho Gcrmau papers printed. Sho said sho was an Englishwoman from Liverpool nnd that at tho out break of tho war not being nblo to get out of Germany, sho and her chil dren had been put In prison nnd that every day for over n week they hnd put her through the third degree; that her children had been separated from her and that sho did not know where they were. Sho walked along with us for several blocks until a sentry heard her ssy something not very complimentary to tho Germans nnd chased her away. When wo arrived nt the camp wo were put Into tho receiving barracks and kept thero six days. The condition of theso barracks wns not such that you could describe It. Tho floors wcro ac tually nothing bat filth. Very few of tho bunks remained; the rest had been torn down for fuel, I suppose. Tho day we were transferred to the regular prison barracks four hundred Russians nnd Belgians wero hurled. Most of them had died from cholera. typhoid and Inoculations. We heard from the prisoners there beforo us that the Germans had como through the camps with word that thero was an epidemic of black typhus nnd cholera nnd that the only thing for tho men to do was to take tho scrum treatment to avoid catching those dlsrarcs. Most of the four hundred men had died from thu Inoculations, They had taken the GcrSHjnB' word, had been Inoculated and had died within nlno hours. Which shows how foolish it Is to believe a German. Nono of us had any doubt bulwhat .the scrum was poisonous,.. (To Bo Continued.) BEND MAN IS GIVEN HONOR (Continued from Pago 1.) ganlzation bo Invited to Bond for their annual meeting next fall. Ho predicted good wool prices for tho coming season in splta of tho hugo quantity of government owned wool which may bo disposed of. T, E. Fell of tho Portland -Wool Warehouse Co, spoko on -grading and Its importance to the shoepman in bringing about higher prices. (From Monday's Dally.) With more than 50 sheep men from all parts of tho intorlor of the state In attendance, tho annual con vention of tho Control Oregon Wool Growers' association began horo this aftornoon. Addresses on various phases of tho sheep industry wore given, ample opportunity being given for gonoral discussion on all prob lems of intorcst. Tho convention will bo formally closed thla ovonng, whon tho visiting wool growors will bo guests at a dlnnor given in their CHICHESTER SPILL DIAMOND VTSam BRAND A. y.ur rMlt for CIII-CUBA-TkI UIA.MUNU UUANU 1'lLl.U It Gold metallic boxci, sealed Ribbon. Taem MO OTBBB. I nuU ul uk tmr CMI.CMJ SMAM0M0 SHAMS PILLS, for twentr-Hre years regarded s Heat.Bafeat, Always Reliable SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS &J& EVERYWHERE gggg vfyz B. A 1 kku. amlA with BluctO lflHT ((.! V ALPHA INMAN DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Funeral Services for llrml Girl to Ho Held from N'lswoiigor ('Impel Tomorrow. (From Monday's Dally.) Alpha Iiiiuan, aged 10, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Will In man of this city, died nt 9 o'clock Saturday night at tho llend Surgical hospital, whoro shu hud uudurgoiiu an opera tion a short tlmo before. Sho had been III for snvurnl months, nnd thu operation was undertaken as tho only possible chnnco of saving nor llfo. Funeral services will bo held nt 10 o'clock tomorrow morning from tho Nlswongor undertaking pnrlorn. honor by tho Ilond Commercial club nt tho Pilot Ilutto Inn. In tho absence of tho president of tho organization, N. G. Jncohaon, supervisor of tho Donchutes national forest, temporarily filled tho chair, introducing K. N. Kavnnngh, as sistant district forester In chnrgo of grazing, as tho first speaker. Mr. Knvanagh touched first on tho sub ject of flvo-year grazing permits, from this turning to thu question of provontlon of disease among sheep nnd tho prevention of loss from other causes. Health Rules Important. "Tho forest scrvlco Is anxious to seo all hoalth rules carried out, and Is ready to refuse grazing pormlts to all owners of Infcctod stock," ho do dared. "Losses from scab In tho northwest In tho last fow years havo run into thu hundreds 'of thousands of dollars, and It Is tho duty of every owner, nnd particularly of each mom bur o't this association, to keep his oyes opon for evidence of nny dis ease of uu Infvctloixi or contagious nature." Mr. Kavanaugh emphasized tho advantages of open hording, declar ing that tho sheep will get moro from tho rango by this method, and that tho rango Itsolf surfers less. Especially ho urged that tho asso ciation como to tho forest service with Its problems, nnd advised tho wool growers to make tho most of their organization as tho best way of adding to tho prosperity of tho sheep Industry. Mr. Jacobson further dovelopcd tho subject of tho mutual Interests of tho forest scrvlco and tho sheep mon, relating tho manner In which cattlo ralsoru' associations, by co operation, havo incrensod tho carry ing capacity of tho rango. Ho ad vised tho leasing of prlvutu rangu by tho association rather than by indi viduals, nnd declared that special Instructions for borders would bo well worth tho whllo of tho em ployers. Tho loss of stock through stray ing, and even through stealing, was brought up nnd was referred to tho association as a matter which the Central Oregon wool growers, by tho nature of their organization, could handle, in co-operation with tho forest sorvlco, with consldorablu success. bAH.WAikfortlMM Firm All Wool Suits Made to Order Two-Piece Suits 21.fi0 Three-Piece Suita.f24.fl0 A big varloty of splendid wool ens to pick from, Bamo fabrics others ask 130 to 935 for. Wo guarantee to fit you per- fectly and ploaso you In evory way, ASK TO SEE Our bljf varlotv of mu ;$162 tenuis tailored to mowuiro at WONDERFUL VALUES lULOUn Ie. Hjr.ware. $21 SfnffltSjjffi ROD AND GUN CLUB FORMED J. A. KAHTICM HEADS NEW REND ORGANIZATION COMMITTEEM ARE APPOINTED AND NEXT MEETING SET FOR HUNDAV. 4 (From Monday's Dally.) Organization or 11 rod and gun club was offoctud youtorduy aftornoon when local sportsmen met nt tho lloud Amateur Athlutlo olub, Judge J. A. Hastes was elected president and 1j. O, Carroll socrulnry. A com- mlttoo on organization, composed of Carl A. Johnson, L. Douthlt and It, M. Smith, was appointed and later, on motldn of N, G. Jacobson, a com-v j' mlttoo on education wns named, com posed of Mr. Jacobson, 1). II. Pooplos and Clydo M. McKay. It was decided,. that tho club should bo conBldored as (i department of tho II, A. A, C, Tho next mooting of tho club will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday alter-noon, Iut It In "TIIK BULLETIN." Sharpless Cream Separator w w w Or Ar Call and sec the NEW MODEL SHARPLESS w F. DEMENT &CO. WALL ST, w EXCLUSIVE Exide FEATURES 1. The Unit Cell Assembly. 2. Non - Flooding Filling Plug nnd Vent. i 0. Improved Methods ot Sealing. 4. Rubber Jars of Special Compound. 5. Increased Power for a Given Weight and Size. 0. Cases of. Improved Con struction. The initial price may seem high in comparison to other batteries, but when you con sider the above points, the EXIDE is the very cheapest on the market.'. For Sale and Rent By H. R. RILEY Near Pilot Butte Inn. t