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Great and Those Who Are Striving to Become Great. Items of General News Interest Gathered From Over the State at
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Hon. Royal C. Johnson.
This Republican statesman from South Dakota, chairman, of the
House Subcommittee on foreign expenditures, has been making a tour
of marine hospitals and soldiers' hospitals of the country. He was a
aoldter himself and saw service in the World War Congress appro
priated 19.500.000 for hospital purposes and although this money has
been available since March 3. 1919. not a dollar of the amount has
been expended. He Is asking 'why" and fixes the blame, for the neglect
on high officials.
Representative Johnson says: "A solemn promise to care for
them was made by the American government at the time these boys
entered the service, and the fact that the promise has been broken and
violated Is the darkest blot upon this administration and the men
responsible for the execution of the laws of the United States."
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Here is America's smallest
fighting man, Frankie Mason of
Ft Wayne. Ind.. who, on March
12, at Toledo, O. Is to meet the
British champion, Jimmy Wilde
for the world title. Mason fights,
at 108 pounds. Wilde can make
106 pounds
manufactured in San Francisco, will
leave that city for the Oregon metro
polis. The airplane w ill be equipped
with Liberty motors.
A man in North Bend by the name
of John Lewellyn, has been sleeping
for fifty days, yet the doctors do not
regard his case as hopeless and be
lieve that he will recover.
The First Methodist church at
Medford is planning a new edifice
which will cost $150,000. A big pipe
organ is Included In the plans.
A number of Umatilla farmers
have appointed Btate senator Roy
Ritner of Pendleton chairman of a
committee to draft resolutions asking
Congress to set a price guarantee on
the 1920 wheat crop. The growers
are asking that the cost of production
and a fair profit be guaranteed.
Other members of the committee are
Pr. C. J. Smith of Portland. E. P.
Marshall ot Pendleton, J. O. Hales of
Adams and Lou Hodgen of Athena.
Thomas A. Edison at 31) and 76
Echo on the Job.
Echo Commercial Club has had
five thousand small folders printed
giving a brief summary of the bus-1
iness and farming conditions at Echo j
and In vicinity. These are Intended i
for enclosures In letters written to
out of town people and may be secur
ed without charge. Echo News.
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Senators Illume Conditions On Lax
Administration of the Railroads.
HOLD OLD III FAIR
Washington, Feb. 25. Presenta
tion by Senator Gronna ot North Da
kota of a resolution for an investiga
tion of the car shortage served to
bring out in the Senate an interest
ing discussion of the car shortage
situation. Speeches by various Sen
ators made it plain that the lack of
sufficient cars for the transportation
j Walla Walla wants to get back to of the country's farm products and
I the old time fair basis in connection likewise the products of its manufac-
with its annual exhibition, and will turing plants, mills, forests and min
: endeavor to include in this year's fair es, Is an extremely serious matter.
I program a strong list of horse racing Senator Gronna Is anxious to know
; events. A number of the directors what is at the bottom of the failure
prefer this class of entertainment to of the Railroad Administration to
the wild west stunts which they think furnish the country and its shippers
the people regard as "old stuff." with an adequate car supply.
Passenger airplane service between j Senator Cummins, Chairman of the
San Francisco and Portland will bo Senate Interstate Commerce Commit
inaugurated April 1, when the first j tee, said there was no question of
j 10 passenger BOO horse power plane the existence of a srious car short-
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GLOBE FOR US
Thomas A. Edison, the inrentiYe genius of the world, has Just
passed another milestone and one that will not soon be forgotten
bis 73rd birthday. . The affair was made a municipal party tns
people of Orange, N. J., paying tribute to the man who has given their
town such distinction. Here are pictures of Edison at 30 and 73.
The big picture Is from an old print In 187? Edison and the first
phonograph which he Invented. The Insert is the wizard today. He
was born at Milan, O.. Feb. 11, 1847.
SUBSTITUTE MUD FOR FAT IN MAKING SOAP
Representative E. R. Ackerman
of New Jersey, is the United
8tates' most traveled congress
man. He has Just returned from ai
Investigation trip to all eemeteiiei
of France, where American sol
diers are burled. He has traveler1
on every continent Africa, In
dia, Persia, Australia, 8outi
America and the Far North.
"NEVER TOO OLD TO
LEARN," HER POLICY
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Soap from mud, Is the claim of British chemists, V. E. Weston
and his son. shown in their laboratory in England. They have worked
out a process of making soap by substituting colloidal clay for the
tatty acids ordinarily used.
"Never too old to learn," is th
living policy of Mrs. Frank E.
James, wife of an Indianapolis.
Ind., real estate. man. So in June
of this year she will graduate
from the Indiana Slate University
in the same class with her xo
year-old daughter
"Take it from Me"
says' the Good Judge
Wise tobacco chevvers long
since got over the big-chew
idea. A little chew of this
real quality tobacco gives
them better satisfaction
and they find their chew
ing costs even less.
With this class of tobacco,
you don't need a fresh
chew so often and you find
you're saving part of your
tobacco money.
THE REAL TOBACCO CHEW
Put up in two styles
RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco
W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco
City
" Red Crown" gives greater mile
age because it is correctly made,
it'raicht-distilltd, all-refinery
gasoline. Look for the Red
Crown sign before you filL
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
e Gasoline of Quality
Geo. W. Milholland, Special Agent, Standard Oil Company
Heppner, Oregon.
TIME TO CALL A HALT
Lincoln H Grant f:ARFit-LDv;ggyy Mckinley Boo6?tiT
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'Let us stop the orgy of waste, this perennial
vacillation and curb the mounting taxes!"
ge. lie suid that In ordor to main
tain the car equipment us it existed
when the government took posses
sion it was necessary to supply 100,
000 cars each year and that simply
to maintain existing facilities. Even
that number would not provide for
the growing commerce of the coun
try. "Inevitable," said benator Cum
mins, "we are now suffering from
even a greater car shortage than we
were when the Government took pos
session." Senator Oronna is anxious to find
out not alone the facts as to the
shortage of cars but also whether
certain officials of the Railroad Ad
ministration have been negligent or
wilfully interfering with the opera
tion of the railroads, lie presented
some evidence to show that an effort
had been made to force the farmers
to throw their grain into the market
at one time and thus reduce prices
and that this had been done through
an order of the Railroad Administra
tion which resulted in grain cars not
being reloaded with flour when emp
tied but hauled one way without a
load. Senator Gronna said it was
such mismanagement or abuse that
he wanted to have probed.
j Senator Harrison of Mississippi
and also Senator Williams of that
state referred to the great car short
' age In the lumber Industy. Senator
t Harrison said that when cars could
! not be secured for the lumber plant
, the plants were closed down and men
! were thown out of employment while
children went hungry.
Senator Kellogg of Minnesota went
Into the car shortage situation In
much detail and asserted that the
Government had not taken adequate
steps to provide enough new cars and
that what cars had been in service
had been overworked and not main
tained as they should have been.
OLD NAMES FOR MODERN CARS
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6LCTMEN THAT ACC6mr Howt10 V0lJ t'HI "W-rER F'ANCE 'S
Eaiy to Trace Appellations That Hav
Been Given to Distinctive Makes
of Automobiles.
The first, sedans were portable en
closed chairs carried on poles by two
men. Tin y were extremely populnr In
Kiu'lnnd and are still uxed In China
and India. The modern sedan hns un
enclosed body aud accommodates seven
passengers.
"Limousine" wns originally the name
of a cloak worn In France, nnd prob
ably originated from Limousin, the
nnine of un old province In central
France. Todny it is applied to the
clmuffeiir-drlvei cur with an enclosed
compartment. The driver's seut Is out
side, but covered by a roof.
"Roadster" was first npplled to ves
sels that worked their way by mentis
of the tides. Later It was used fur
bicycles. The modern roadster has
nn open body and was designed pri
marily for two persons, hut of recent
years the four-door roadster, accom
modating four passengers, has met
with populnr favor.
The "touring car," which Is the most
familiar type of car, takes Its nnme
from the fact that It Is used by motor
ists on lengthy tours. It Is an open
enr also, with n tonneau and four
doors, seating seven passengers.
To Stick Labels on Glass.
The druggists' I'imilnr ami Chemi
cal (ouettc says that mucilage of trag
acBiitli Is a satisfactory agent. The
muelliiL-e Is made by pouring over the
gum enough water to a Utile more than
cover ii. and then, ns the gum swells,
ndillir more water from time to time,
In s ...i I portions until the mucilage
Is hri.ii ill lo such a consistency that
It n :i I"' ensily spread with a brush.
If tie :ule'-! are of thick paper, per
haps Hour p iste might he better. Dex
trine ilissohed In cold wnter make
tenacious msti. Its odor, however. Is
not partleiiliniy agreeable.
Indian Women Progressing.
Oklahoma Indian girls are us much
Interested In the canning campaign as
their palefnce sisters. In Hiickliam
county, Okla., they attend nil the
meelliigs held by the home demon
stratlon agent, and this year made an
excellent booth exhibit of the fruit
nnd vegetables they bd canned and
dried. One Indian woman also exhi
bited UK) chickens of her own raising.
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London's Housing Problem.
The London housing board hns In
spected 2.000 houses Unit may be con
verted Into lints, of these l.iHKJ have
been approved nnd work Is to be com
menced Immediately. Work has also
been begun on 8IHKI houses.
Indicts Indian Bureau
faff ' :nCllr
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Hnyder 3 lg?Mti!2rO
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Homer P.
This Ttepubllcan statesman from New York Is chairman of tho
house committee on Indian affairs, in reporting the Indian appro
priation bill the committee made sweeping reductions of the estimates
amounting to nearly one-third the amount asked Congressman Snyder
Indicted the administration of the Indian bureau under Otto Sells,
Democrat, and produced figures to show that the bureau's expendi
tures have been increasing ai the rate of $1,000,000 A YEAH while the
Indians have been decreasing.