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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1924)
TUN TIM 111! -II Hit A lift UU11N.H, II A It N H Y OOU Kit M Q O M Hat unlay, DucrmtMir 0, 1021 Mi l'A(3I0 St E !3 ! t V fir. 51 ,'ir s 1 si irJ'i GOLDEN RULE DAY TO AID NEAR EAST five Million Dollars Noodod for Rofugee Orphans Undor American Caro. Dy W. 0. HINSON, D. D. Oregon Chairman Near East Roller , and L. 8. BOOTH, Western Washington Chairman With tho cooporutlou of civic mitl religious tonclorti throughout tho Uni ted StntoB, tho Nonr Kant ltollof linn inaugurated IIh oiiiiiiniltt tor tliu oeond nhHurvniico of Ititurniitlunul Golden Ilulu Suiulny on December 7. Tbu nlm In to rnlno funtlH to provldu during tho coiiiIiik your for 100,000 orpjiun children under American euro 1u lllhlo Imudri. Moru than five mil lion dollar la thu mliiliniitn nuedod. Hutting nsldo of ono day each year lu lienor of thu (lolclon Uulo art n guide to Individual, national and Interna tional llfo, hi nn American Idea which ban Iilhiii approved and adoptuil by twunly-throo nntloiiH. Tho day, Decem ber 7th, will ho obnurvud throughout Kuropn and lu iiiauy non-Kuropenii countrloM, nueh as Japan, Korea and Palestine. Four annual holldnyH Christmas, JJow Year, Hantcrn nnd Armistice Day havo horotoforo hi on celebrated In-. tcrnntlonnlly, A fifth baa now boon I W. D. HINSON, D. D. Added to tho lint Tin movement wax started In America by tho Near Hast Itellef art a now, ntrlklng and Inten Hive method of raining lutein for thu feeding of thu children In American orphnnugun In lllhlo Land. On thin day Ducumhur 7 Ameri cana aru asked to eat a dinner of oup, bread and mow, or of corn grltn and condensed rnllk, or of rice, maca roni nnd cocoa. Ait they eat thin ovel meal, they aru asked to remem ber that, course an It Ih, It lit all that ,holdn body and itoul together for the orphaned boys und girls overseas, to -whom tho elementnl factor of hunger la each dayn vital problem. People hero aru reminded that, how ever poor thu fare may hcoiu, they can at leant havo two bowl of noup If they like, and two nllcei of bread. As they flnliih their second nerving, thuy aru asked to remember that thu orphan wardH of the Kour Kant Itellef can have only one serving, for I hero In not enough to allow more. They am nuked to remember that those ehll drum axlnt on Much u diet .ICr, duyn out of each yur. and they will not live to become men anil women nn Iuhh more bread and more hoiip aru provided. Those who eat tho' (Jnlduu Itule dinner will not lack dlHtlnKUlHlied company. Kucb a meal will hu nerv ed on HunJny In thu Iioiiioh of klngn, jirlmu mlnlnturn and prenlilentii. Thu Coldon Hnl" l a universal creed. It ih n common denominator of all religious and noclal welfare or ganization. It Ih a tunt of our re llKlon and our Hlncurity. Hidden Hule Kunday lu a day for personal stock taking, for measuring our liven by a .universally accepted ntnmlard of llfo to uscurtuln bow nearly we havo at lulnod to an Ideal. It Ih n day of jdaln llvlriK and IiIkIi thinking. Tho dinner, however, Ih not an end In Itaolf. It Is an occunlon, In tho jwordu of I'ruHldont Coolldgu, "for bringing to tho mlndn of thono who are prosporuuH the charltablo require iuunts of those who are In advernlty." I On Golden Itulu Sunday tho cltUonn of all natlonn will ho neated figura tively at thu name table, purtuklnu lit erally of thu name food, thinking thu name thoughts and entering Into n now realization of tho brotherhood of mankind. Full Information, with namplo menus and HUKKontlonu for tho obser vance of tho day, will hu furnished by the Near Kast Itellef, Portland or 'fleattlo. ANCIENT CHANT REVIVED liolrut, flyrlu. Kor many centurloH, children lu Palestine liavo lined, for grace before meiilu. u chant which ban been handed down from early church futhurs. Tho chant uurvlvos today au a thrlco-dnlly oxurciso in nil orphan agon of tho Near lOiiHt itellef. .Several thousand copies of wordn and miiulc have boon ueut to America for lino lu the observance of Golden Hule Hun ilay on Deccinbor 7. "SEND ME BACK" PLEADS THURBER Uauf-i-MM ie-iH- wnn. i m i urn CHRISTOPHER C. THURDER "All I link of tho American people In that thuy will neud mo rlKht hack Into tho inldnt of It nil UKaln. I want to bo out lu Greece taldiiK thu motherluHH children out of tho leaky, desolate ciuupn and plarliiK them lu homos of comfort," Miiyn Christopher (, Thurher, who In spendlnK tho early weekn of December In Oregon ami WanhltiKtoti an npenker for' Golden Uulo Sunday, December 7th. During bin five yonm lu Turkoy, Thurher lived through moru exper ience than would come to tho average person In ns many lifetimes. Ho wan Imprisoned by thu Turkn for four moutliH because ho would not pay bis Income tax u tax larger than bin whole Income. One night, while alone In bin office ho wan suddenly nummoued to the Turklnb headquarters, wheru without ceremony or explanation, ho wns beat en Into Insensibility. Thu noleu of bin feet weru mashed to n pulp, bin ribs crushed, nnd bin face wan nlmost un recugnUnhle, when, after a night of In sensibility bo wan found tho next morning by the other Americans. loiter, while taking children from the bodies of their dead mothers, an Infected louse crawled from thu body of a child to Thurber's body, and for days bo wan delirious with typhus 'The thing that caused me to lono faith lu God nnd man and everything nnd everybody, wan tho order from Now York naylug that since people In America weru getting tired of giv ing, wo must take lu no morn children. Four thousand children prenented tliouiHolvert In a period of a little over a year. They weru the remnants of 280,000 people driven past my relief station during thu last three yearn, not moru than 30,000 of whom nun rived. How could I refuse those chil dren? I couldn't' I look them In, and I fed tlmm. We cut all our ra tions to two meals a day, and that wan black breud ami water. Hut wo saved thu children." When thu orders came from thu Turkn that oven thu children must lonvu Turkey, Thurher wnn 200 miles from thu const, with three ranges of mountnlnn between him and safety. It was lu thu dead of winter, with deep snow everywhere There were neither railroads nor automohllen, and thu 7,000 children weru transported In re lays on the three weekn' Journey to tho sea. Many died enroute, an fre quently thero wan no shelter either by day or night nnd they had to nleop lu thu open In the snow When final ly thuy reached the const and saw tho American flag flying over tho nhlpn brought for their rescue, and thu white-coated sullorn tenderly lifting thu little children to places of nafety, Home came to him and asked, "Wheru Is God?" Naturally they thought they hnd reached Heaven. Whun Thurher arrived In Constan tinople ho found thousands of peo ple huddled In tho great Helemlo bnr racka In CountutUlueuJji: the. barra&kn Get The Habit and eat at the CLUB CAFE Levens Htel Betiding Meals at all hourw and I tho menu includcH everything ohtainahlc in thu local mar ket in Hcason Special Sunday Dinners Quick courtcouH service lii vvhloh .Moroncm Nlghlongnlo iiii mnrtnlUod horsulf a fow gunorntlnnn ago. Typbun, typhoid, Hinnllpox, dya ontory, nuurvy, worn only n fow of tho dlfuiuinw taking heavy toll of human llfo, Thurlior bought cnlibnKO by tho cnrlonil to break tho iicnirvy; but whun oven rnrlnniln woro not sufficient to glvo tho nocoHHary green foodH to tho scurvy aufferor, bo bought u field of txruns and with that linden tho dlmmiio, Ho iilnyod lu Coniitautluopto until (Ifooco again opened her eaten and allowed tho remaining rofuguon to find Hboltor In her border. Thurbor hopeit, after visiting Oro (ton anil Washington, to return ngnln to tho caiuiin In Orooeo, where bo nnvii thero arj at leant .in.OIIO orphan children, many of whom must dlo thin winter from Hheer exposure, The Near Kant ltollof office are nt 013 Htook Kxchnngn Ilulldlug, Port laud, and 330 Hurkci Midi;., Houttlo. HAWAII MAI8INQ FUND POH QKEEK REFUQEES Honolulu.- Under thu Inndornhlp of Governor Itnymoud V. Ilrown, tho Is land of Hawaii halt derided to act iih i Good Hamarltaii lu llllile Lands by sending n donation of 125,000 for tho Greek refugees through Nonr ICnnt Itellef A proclamation binned by Gov. Ilrown HiiyH; "America's work In tho Near Kast In a uymbol, not or tho political nud commurclnl America, hut of tho Idealistic and humunllnrlau America. Weighed In tho scales of tho future, this Is thu America of which wo and our children shall hu proud, livery person lu Hawaii should bo proud to havo nemo part lit It." CHRISTMAS SEAL RESULTS ARE H JGE Scourga Fsit Yielding to Health Through Work Financed by Chrlitmas Saals. Tho Christum heal U v.lh us agalu. Boven million of them have buen dis tributed throughout the state of Ore gon to be sold during the month of December to finance the "right Tuber culosis Give Health" campaign, Tfat seal, with Us bold victorious figure, typifies the saovament which It has financed so successfully that within the last fourteen years the death rate from tuberculosis has been cut In half In the United .States Throughout tho country, odd hundred thousand people are enjoying the Christmas season, who would have perished. If the dls- WM. F A R R E NOTARY PUBLIC FIRE INSURANCE, Standard Stock Com panies PRACTICE, before U. S. Land OlTice and bureaus of the Department REAL ESTATE; city, acreage and farm property YOUR BUSINESS SOLICITED ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES Lamps, Toasters, Sweepers, Irons, Percolators, Etc. ROSTERS AND PERCOLATORS All Reasonably Priced L S. Geer & Co. I oano weru us uucoul lulled us It was docado and a half a;o. In OroRon, the loll lu tuberculosis deaths In 102,1 wnn 02.1, and the bast ontltnatflH Indicate (hat about B000 people In tho Htntu aru afflicted, Tu berculosis lu now oharactnrlssd by loaulns npeclalhitn an a preventable, curable dlmmse, nud one Hint neod not menace thu lives of our ultlxens, if known muiisuren of prevention and proper living nrn put Into practise, Tho chief object of the Christmas Real Halo In to flnaneo thu oducatlonnl campaign which will help equip th Itennral publics with nunh Information about the maintenance of their health. that tuberculosis shall be ultltnatoljr eliminated an a destroyer of muukiuo, MAV PATTHItN OlH CHlANDOItlMHtK.V A.VKW Klguron giving thu death rnto lu thu United Htnten for 102.1 Just made public show n mortality of 12 1! per thousnm! nn against 11.8 for 1022. Hovun ntnton, however, nhow lower mortality rates than obtained tho preceding year, lu yearn to come, itntUtlcH Much as those probably will hu regarded moru with curiosity than wllh Interest. What eliangM' In longevity thu human rare In destined in experience In thu next five hun dred yearn calinol even bo surmised, but that nemo radical change will bo brought about seems rortnln, V. M. Child, under professor of thu Department of Zoology, Univer sity of Chicago, has been experiment ing with tho lower anlmaln and with plant llfo for thu Inst twobty years. Finally be has proved It posslhln art Iflclnlly to alter tho general pattern of nn nrgnnlnm. Using nliemlcnl agents, temperature nnd electric cur rents, animals have been developed with small and Incomplete huodn. nthom have been developed without any heads, nnd some with abnormal ly largo heads. One or these days the human species may be reproduced with all Ita Imperfections, only to be perfect ed by thu nppllnntlon of natural forces that await thu harnessing by science. o SHOP KAItl.V CAMPAIGN HIWCMMM The Whop Itnrty. Mali ISarly cam paign Inaugurated by I'ostnmster General Now but year proved to bo mi iiniiuallfled success. It wnn of grime benefit lo the people nnd also eunbled post olllce employees to de liver all thu Christmas mull before noon on December 25. Thu Depart nieut again this year asks the hearty cooperation of thu public lu order that tho record made last year may be equalled, If not excelled. When you shop early and mall early you are helping thu clerks In the post ottlce to ent their dinners home and you are grently benefiting yournolve You hnvu a greater rhnuco to secure n better selection It Pays To Market Beef of Quality Mitt Hit IdAN. TIB, MAn..APH,MAy.JUNr..JUlV,AUG,3EPT,.QCT. NOV PEC, IOO LS5. I oVCMICMO ' fi o o, 900 e-.otl.i $000 pt f. jk'Mit $7.00 $0,00 SSOO It In condition und quality rather than weight that decide whether a st! In to bu placed In lhc beef mttle clnsilflcatlon. Within tho clans It Is condi tion and (juullly that largely determine thu amount of profit that goes to the nhlpper, Choice to prime Hirer, bring from 7B cent to $3.78 per hundred weight over the common light stock, according to u Htitdy inndo of llgl tweKh steer coming to tjiu Chlcngo market by the Kearn-Iloebuck Agricultural Fw datlon, 'Iliu bulk of thu shipment are classified under tho grade of prlmo Mrem, V-00 lo 1,C00 pounds; choice steers, 1,17) to i.IMN) pounds; good Htcern, l.UQ to 1,000 pounds ; medium nteem, l.l(W) to l.KK) pounds, and common ruugb st corn, IKK) to 1,'JOO poundn. These lire thu classifications of the United State llurraii of Market. I'rluio beef steer nru the Ideal type, combining exceptional breed nu and thnrotiRh flnlshlui;. .Short neck nnd short Ickh, smooth flesh nnd well filled, bulclui: briskets lire prerequisites, l'rlme beef steer aro rare, even tcri Kood enotiKb to grade lis choice nro few. They nhow most of thu chnrnrtrrle tics of the prlmo crude, kooiI breeding and Inni; fcedlnir, smooth flesh and thick fat. On tliu block the quality steer will show a good proportion of red m covered with n modest amount of smooth white fat. Thu lean, whll firm ol texture, will bu mellow to the touch, Tho carens should carry down full t thu bock, helet: highly marbled with bright lean of n line grain. of gifts from thu atorus, you havo moru time to wrap them securely und you aro sum that they will arrlvo at their destination In time lo bu opened Christmas morning. You nru Klei) relieving thu burdoiiH on thu clerks behind tho counters In thu tores, and you nru giving it practical demonstration of tub good will that Chrlidiuu Hum nlgnlfles. Acting I'ostinaatur (lunural, John II. Hart lelt requuet that you refrain from using small envelopes In sending your f'hrlstmnn cards an this vory greatly retards thu sorting and dis tribution of thu mulls. IM nil of us pull together this year, do our shopping oorly and do our mailing early, lot's make It n gemilluu old fashioned Christmas celebration 8TATM.MI!XT TOO ltltOAl) Knlhur: "I toll you Its nn outrage thu way thu modern flapper carries on ModcMy and Innocenco aro things of thu pant. Thuy can no longer bo found " Daughter "Oh, yi. they can, daddy In tho dictionary" w&$mPiftw&w& What is nicer than fmtr SfuiitittJitual Olltratntafi Okrft We carry a complete line of engraved cards in a variety of designs. All you need 8tUtt ymtr fflljmr attb mt mtU irhtt m tn airit ynitr iuiituiimal tairtr, Order early and avoid the rush l)t im5-ifttti- xwt&immwfimAvM 'Afetefr- " . rre-Ji km 2kEWJ, wr T. 7r "w s. lel4M tMeM NOTICIJ Kotlcu In hereby given that the an durnlgned will recolvu ut this olllc, Itooms .1 and .Masonic Hull line, llurns, Oregon, offer for imrruaie of ten share of thu Block of the Jlurns Flour Milling Compatiy of the par vnluo of J 1000.00 Thu undurslgiied resorves the rUht to reject any nnd all offers submitted. All offers should bu In our hands rot later than January 15, 192C Dated at Hums, Oregon, thU 13th dny of December, A. I). 1324 II V. 8CH MA ISA Attorney In Pact for the lliirs of Henry Lulg, dec to do is come in and satf tMUMMV iCiS-