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The Gazette-Times PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF MORROW COUNTY Volume 42, Number 31. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUG. 20, 1925. Subscripion $2.00 Per Year OF S Prince L. Campbell, Pres ident of U. of 0. Dies Friday at Eugene. BECAME ILL IN 1923 Wii Son of Pioneer Parent! j Long Interested in Education, and 23 Yean Head of University. Prince Lucian Campbell, for 23 yeart president of the University of Oregon, died at his home on the cam pus of that institution at Eugene at 9:46 o'clock Friday morning, August 24. He had been failing ilowly for the past, week, following a rally in which he had so improved as to be able to rido about the city in the University invalid car. Mrs. Camp bell was nearly prostrated with grief. For many months she had kept to a faith that her husband would recover. Dr. Campbell's illness started in the winter of 1923, as a case of in testinal flu. Last winter the president arose from his sick bed to address the student body of the university during a student union drive and fol lowing this sometime later serious complications set in and he failed steadily. Funeral arrangements were made for Tuseday, August 18, being held on the university campus, and the body of Dr. Campbell now rests in a vault in the mausoleum at Eugene. President Campbell is survived by his widow, Mrs. Susan Campbell, a daughter, Mrs. Lucia Henderson, Bax ter Springs, Kansas; two brothers, Dr. Albert Campbell, a physician, and Alexander Franklin Campbell, a law yer, both of Los Angeles; a half bro ther, David Campbell, Portland; n half sister. Miss Dorothy Campbell, Monmouth; two step sons, Campbell Church, Eugene, and Walter Church, San Francisco; a step daughter, Mrs. Edward A. Hassan, Berkeley, Calif., a niece, Jane Campbell, and a number of granddaughters and grandsons. The atory of the life of Dr. Prince I u eUn. Campbell, prevMent of the University of Orftfon, U atmoxt a hiBtory of hifhvr education in Oregon for the past thirty five yi-ftrs. He ww president of the State Norm I at Monmouth from 18BQ to JW02, the institution from which he took hi dVeree before entering-' Harvard, and for the pnxt twenty-three year he hun been the chief executive of the University of Oregon. f'rewidVnt Campbell earn if a tana line of tear hem and mini tent. He waa born at Nrwmarkft, Mo., Oct. 6, 1MS1, the man of th Rev. Thoma Franklin CartipMI and ; Jane Kiiea ICampbHt) Campbell Hi par ent Uok hirn to Montana when he wu four yean old, and in the fall of 1H69, he came to Orpiron, hit father having apt ed the presidency of Chrinttan Col liege. Monmouth, later the State Normal Schcol. For the pat ftfty-eix years Prenident Campbell ha lived in Oregon, with the ei ee,ition of a few yearn apent tn Cambridge while a ntudent at Harvard University, and a year aa a reporter on the K annua City Star, The non of an Oregon pioneer, President Campbell' life spanned two epoch. He grew to man-hood when the state waa evolving from pioneer condition! into a modern and progreaxive commonwealth, and he contributed over a long period to the development of education, which par alleled the phenomenal advance in other lines. In point of year of continuous ser vice he wan among the aenior college preai dcnU in this country. President Campbell's anceutry was Scotch Irioh. Hia great-great-grandfather came to New Orleans from Scotland while a young man. The prendient'a father, Thorn -aa Franklin Campbell, waa a native of Lou tuinna. He waa itudiou and amhitioun, en tered Hethany College, Virginia, and re ceived hi degree In the classical course. Jane Kliut Campbell, President Camp bell's mother, born in north Ireland, wan the flrtt cousin of Alexander Campbell, the founder of the Christian Church. She came to America when she waa 19, and lived In the household of her cousin until her marriage in 1M to Thorn aa Franklin Campbell. Alexander Campbell preached throughout the border states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia. West Virginia, and also in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Mis souri. It was Alexander Campbell who launched an educational movement within the church that was later to lead to the establishment in distant Oregon of Christian College, Monmouth, presided over hy both Thomaa Franklin Campbell and as the state normal by Prince L. Campbell, Alexander was of Scotch-Irish parentage and waa orhrHi wi ly b Presbyterian. Karly In hia career he became identified with the Heceders from the 1'renbyterian Church, believing In a more liberal interpretation of the Scrip ture. Hia first educational experiment waa tried at Itethnny, W. Va., near hia home, in 140. but It proved a disappoint ment. It remained for a group of devout Illinois members of the church to bring it to success in Oregon. President CampbeH'a father studied law after his marriage and went to Texas for the purpose of practicing his profession. Here he begun teaching, and he afterwords taught in Kansas and Missouri until lttfiS. Political and social life in Missouri waa disorganized because of the Civil War, and he looked toward the West as his goal. With hia family he took passage aboard a aide wheel river boat up the Missouri, and after a long trip in which the party at one juncture was molested by Indians, ar rived in Helena, Mont. President Campbell was fond of telling of the early days in the frontier town, Near the Campbell home was a tree, which served aa a convenient place for a gibbet. The Montana vigilantes hnnged a road agent or two. and President Cum obeli's mother would not permit her children to look out the back door in the mornings until she waa sura they would see ao sight of a law-breaker expiating hia crime from the stout limb of the tree. Thomas Franklin Campbell was called to the nreaideiicy of Christian College in Or. egon in the fall of lHfitf. anfl the family set forth in a stage coach on its second westward journey. The school at Mon mouth had been founded by a group of Illinois men, who decided In IHfiO to found homes and build a Christian school "where men and women alike may become schooled in the science of living and in the prln ciples of religion." No move was made 'until 1 Kr4 when the area now occupied by the town of Monmouth was chosen and the college founders donated the college Dim pus. In lBfiB a wooden building was erect' ed on the present site of the normal school at a cost of fft.flOO and other Improvement were made in Thomas Franklin Campbell's early administration. In 1H7I there were 1B0 students enrolled, with four instructors In charire. Prince L. Campbell obtained his early education In this early Oregon college whore the elder Campbell had establinhed three departments: primary, preparatory, and college. In 1HH0, the year following Prince h. Campbell's graduation, there were IRA dwellings and business homos In Monmouth, and H35 Inhabitants. After his graduation, he tnught classic) In Christian College until his entrance as a student In the olHssical course at Harvard University (n 1HH2. At CnmhrldgCi the Oregon student de veloped a literary bent, wrote a good deal (Continued on Page Four) House and Contents Destroyed by Fire The residence on the Sanford can yon raneh of R. A. Thompson was totally degtroyed by fire on last Fri day morning. The fire broke out about 10 o'clock, and Mr. Thompson states that it must have started from a defective flue, the roof over the kitchen being all ablaze when dis covered. The most of the contents were destroyed also. Mr. Thompson places the loss at $2500, partially covered by insurance. There was ft very heavy wind blow ing at the time of the fire, and for tunately, the harvest crew was laid off and all the men were right at the house when the alarm was given. By dint of the hardest kind of work some of the contents were gotten out and the fire prevented from spreading to other buildings and the hay stacks near by, and also kept out of the grain field. Just near the house the grain had been headed and the stub ble was very heavy and dry. but ow ing to the favorable direction of the wind the stubble was not fired. Had the fire reached the grain, Mr. Thomp son thinks there would have been no stopping it for miles, and the damage would have been great. Richard Pe terson and family were living in the house, and they suffered loss of household goods, while Mr. Thomp son had a perfectly good electric lighting plant destroyed and consid erable other valuable property in the residence. Copper Carbonate Dust Is Good Smut Remedy Copper carbonate dust for wheat smut control, introduced into Oregon by the experiment station and car ried to the farm by specialists and; county agents of the extension ser vice, is past the experimental stage1 and fast coming into general use. I Wheat for 300,000 acres was dusted! last year, and enough for half a mil-! lion acres will be for next year's crop, thinks E. R, Jackman, exten sion specialist about half the total ' Oregon wheat acreage. A saving of one-fourth of the seed, is one big advantage of the dust treat ment This will save about 350,000 bushels annuaHy350,OOO or more for the growers' pockets. The seed germinates more quickly and surely and the plants are more vigorous from the start, Low cost of treat ment, keeping power of treated grain, and effective smut control are other big advantages. Failure of growers to allow for the added thickness of stand by retiming the amount of seed sown caused too thick stands in some fields. The bet ter germination of the dust method justifies reducing the common rats of seeding from 60 to 75 pounds per acre to 45 to 55 pounds. Control of smut has been shown by field and nursery tests to be about the same with the dust rightly ap plied as with the liquid bluestonc treatment. Every grain must be dusted, which is best accomplished by running the machine at the pre scribed speed according to directions. When run too fast the machine holds the grain against the drum instead oT tumbling it over the barrel boards to get its share of dust. Two ounces of fine, good quality copper carbonate dust to each bu shel of clean grain, or three ounces for badly smutted grain, are recom mended by the station. The wheat is rec leaned and smut balls removed be fore treatment. Care is taken not to breathe the dust either in treating or sowing the grain. Wild Buffalo Roundup At Yellowstone Park Superintendent Albright of Yel lowstone National. Park advises that Buffalo round-up in the Park will commence August 30th, continuing for about a week or as long as the public demand it. There will be a camp of Crow Indians and the exhi bition will take place on the south side of the Lamar river approximate ly 15 miles from Camp Roosevelt. People will be carried from the Can yon hotel and Canyon Camp to Buf fao Ranch hy busses. Box lunches will be provided by hotels and camps. After luncheon guests wilt be taken in old time stage coaches to Lamar river and one of the thrills of the trip will be the fording of the river. It will be necessary to drive about two miles beyond the ford to the point where the buffalo show will take place. Buffalo will be rounded up by Indians in full costume riding horses bare back. Many prominent people will be pres ent including a number of congress men and probably the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Some people are coming long distances to see the show which will be spectacu lar in a high degree and reminiscent of pioneer days on the great plains when the buffalo was such a conspic uous feature in the wild life of the West. Regular tickets through Yellow stone ParV will of course include all of the expense except what may be necessary for the side trip from Camp Roosevelt, one of the stations be tween the Conyon Hotel and Mum moth Hot Springs. It may be any where from five to ten dollars. Vis itors to the park will do well to eek particulars of the railroad agent fur nishing the tickets, EYE SPECIALIST IN TOWN. Dr. Clarke of Clarke-Stram Optical Co., S2(tVi Wash. St., Portland, will be in Heppner at the Hotel Heppner, from 5 p, m., Wednesday, Aug. 2Uh, until 2 p. m Thursday, Aug. 27th Those having eye trouble should icq him. Examination free. Art McAfee has the thanks of the editor for a very excellent Irrigon muskmelon, which he handed to him on Wednesday, The melon was surely fine, and Mr. McAtee had just beon laying in a supply from the truck of Vernon Jones, S, State Market Agent. On the Cadle Bros, farm, one mile west of Rickreall, there is now in op eration a grain cleaner, which the Portland office of the federal grain investigation department wishes that grain growers who can, would see in operation. The cleaner is called a "grain aspirator" and it will clean any grain of weed seeds or light foreign material. It is inexpensive, light, ean be attached to any standard thresher and it requires but little power for operation. Federal statistics state that in 1923 approximately 475,000 bushels of dockage were produced in Washing ton, Idaho and Oregon. This great volume of screenings was shipped in to the terminals with the wheat; freight was paid on it, handling costs and insurance were added, and it was a total loss. Kept on the farm the screenings have feed value and mar keting costs are greatly reduced. Cadle Bros, are now threshing and it will be worth the while of any grain grower or buyer to investigate this machine with the view of reduc ing a great economic waste. The Producers Get It. A third payment of $20,000,000 has been made by the Western Wheat Pool on account of last year's crop on the prairies. But for the pool that twenty million dollars would have gone, not to the producers of wheat, but to thoae who handle the grain af ter its production. Toronto, Canada, Sun. They Only Produce. The trouble with farmers is that while they raise the crops they have to depend on someone else to raise the price. Albany Democrat. A Consumer's Protest. "Many different requests and pro teats from all over the state come to the State Market Agent's office," says C. E. Spence. "One received the first of the month was f ron a Portland lady, stating that she was a member of the Housewives' Council, enclosing an English market report printed in a Toronto paper .which quoted the f-ol lowing prices of bacon in London : Danish 23c to 25c; American 21c to 22c; Irish 24c to 28c. The lady want ed to know why our bacon was sold at this price, after the expense of shipping it two thousand miles, while the price in Portland was 36c to 40c. She was referred to the meat packers. Fruit Prices Are Good. The extremely dry weather since June 1, together with spring frost in jury and the damage of last winter have considerably reduced the fruit production of Oregon, and because of the curtailment prices are good and growers are expecting fair re turns. Prune shipping organizations are applying rigid grading and in spection this year and they will make shipments systematically. Moving to the Cities, Although the increase in population of the United States is over a mil lion a year, last year two million peo ple moved from the farms to the cit ies. Low returns and high taxes are the two reasons generally given. Gov ernment statistics state that farm wages in this country have increased over 200 per cent during the past fifty years, while taxes have far in creased this ratio. Potato Inspection Pays. Oklahoma is following Oregon and is working to standardize the potato industry. In 1924 there was no shipped-out stock inspected, while up to August 1 of this year nearly a thousand cars had been federal state inspected and found ready mar ket outside. Standardization of neaiv ly everything is demanded and it is those who get in early that get rep utations and permanent markets. Sovereign Grand Lodge Meets at Portland Next Much interest is being taken thru- out Oregon and Washington at this time in the meeting of the Sovereign orand Lodge of Odd Fellows, which takes place in Portland September 21 to 25. This is the gathering of the leaders in the order from all parts of the world. The Odd Fellows lodire has probably more members than any other fraternal organization in the world, there being approximately 2,- 700,000 members. The state of Ore gon has 43,000 members. Every city And small hamlet has its Odd Fellows lodge. Much effort is being put forth in Portland to make the gathering a big success, coming as the final gathering of a big convention year. The city alone is contributing from its com bined convention fund $20,000 for the entertainment of the visitors. There will be drill teams and de gree teams from many parts of the country, and the Odd Fellows and their families in this section are or ganizing the local lodges to attend the gathering, especially on Wednes day, September 23, when there will be a monster parade, participated In by all members of the order. There will be numerous floats and bands in this parade, and it is the expectation of the managers that there will be 25,000 or 30,000 in the line of march. METHODIST COMMUNITY CHURCH Mrs. E. C. Alford, pastor of the Methodist Community church? will present at the evening services a series of tnlks on the general sub ject, "The Three Addictions of the Human Family and a Fourth." Mrs. Alford has presented these addresses to various organizations, in cluding high school student bodies. She is recognized as a lecturer of the Oregon Anti-Narcotic Association, as well as secretary of the Public Morals Department of tffo Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Oregon Conference. Anyone Interested In the moral up lift of the community should hear these addresses. The series will be gin on next Sunday night, August 23. BREAKING INTO THE THE TAY TOOK WiS FIPST , CORONER'S HEARING AT SALEM INTO DEATH OF GUARDS IS SENSATIONAL Salem, Aug. 18. Ellswortb Kelly and James Willos, two of the eon-' victs who escaped from the Oregon state prison here in the break of Wed nesday, stood for three or four min utes in plain view of the guards in both towers number one and seven and during that time both guards had their guns trained on the pair but ignored the plea of other guards and failed to shoot This was the sworn testimony of five guards before a coroner's jury which convened yes terday at the order of Coroner Lloyd Rigdon and District Attorney John H. Carson, to investigate fully the circumstances surrounding the death of two guards and one convict and the escape of three desperate crim inals in the daring break last Wed nesday. Disclosures Are Made. It was but one of the sensational disclosures yesterday which among other things indicated that "Oregon" Jones and Ellsworth Kelly had been permitted to cell together, that John Davidson, prison guard trapped m the turnkey's office, was expected to carry a gun but did not have one on the day of the break, and that Guard Nesmith, also in the turnkey's office at the time of the break, had a re volver within easy reach but failed to get it for use although he had plenty of time to do so. Statements that if the guards in towers one and seven had shot soon er the break might not have been successful came from Robert Craw ford, Peter White, Charles McKinley, E. C. Charleton and S. B. Sandifer. Guard White testified that he was in the turnkey's office when Murray rushed in brandishing a knife and telling him that if he failed to obey instructions he would "cut his heart out." When Murray noticed David son and Nesmith in the office on the other side of the room he turned to cover them and White who was stand ing near the door, fled and ran to the front of the building. There he found Kelly and Willos coming down the rope. After finding that he could not get out of the gate to get a gun White went back to where the two had reached the ground and putting his hand into his pocket as though he had a gun, ordered the two to put up their hands. They did and for sev eral minutes stood thus until Jones came out of the arsenal and told them to get their guns. Had Guns Trained. Questioned bv District Attorrney Carlson, White declared that ho had noticed both guard towers and that Holrr.an in No. 1 and Hubbard in Ni. 7 both had their guns trained on the two convicts in front of him. "I wanted them to shoot so I stepped back a few feet to give them a clear shot and .motioned to Hubbard to choot," White reloted. Hubbnrd in No. 7 made no response. 1 hat both Holman and Hubbard had warning of the break was given in the testimony of Robert Crawford, hend of the flax plant, who was trap jvc out in the yrd when he rounded the south corner of the west wing, hy Murray who ordered him not to move. "When I first snw Murray and t'te rope dangling at the front of the building I hollered 'break' at the top of my lungs," Crawford declared. mi ttmmuumHnutmmsnmmmnnmHKttami SEED WHEAT AND RYE We saved yon money last spring on aeed wheat and be lieve we can repeat this fall. We hare samples of aeed, aome certified, aome not. Let ua hare a chance to show our aamplea. POI LTRY SUPPLIES Brown Warehouse Co. WE DELIVER WITHIN CITY LIMITS. titttttntt:mu:tjmjn BIG LEAGUE - NV I D . . 'jy '"-?y"" 1 TOxJ Trl-jir When Murray finally left him to go to the arsenal after a gun, Crawford ran into the basement of the admin istration wing and it was not until after three of four minutes from the time that he entered the basement that he heard the shooting begin, he testified. Didn't Want to Shoot. Why Hubabrd in guard towncr No. 7 failed to shoot was explained on the stand by Charles McKinley, who ran to Hubbard's tower after escaping from the turnkey's office after a tus sle with Oregon Jones. Hubbard told me that the men in the yard had their hands up and that he didn't want to shoot a man who apparently had surrendered," was McKiniey's story. Further evidence that Hubbard, at least, was informed that there was a break was given by S. B. Sandifer who at the time of the break was in the guards' quarters across the street. When the alarm in the guard house sounded he ran out, ran to the front gate where he was unable to get in and where he witnessed the descent of the men from the roof. When he saw that he was not going to get in, he declared, he ran along the wall toward tower 7, calling to Hubbard to shoot. Hubbard will probably be called before the jury some itme this after noon after it convenes at 1 o'clock. Turnkey Is Rapped. John Davison gave evidence against the conduct of Turnkey Nesmith with the statement that at the time of the break there was a revolver in th e drawer of the desk at which Nesmith was sitting. Murray was the first to enter the arsenal and it was he who fought with Davison. As soon as the fight with Murray began, Davison called to Nesmith for help, which he declared yesterday was not answered in any manner. It also developed that Davison was in the turnkey's office for the purpose of protecting the turnkey during the dinner hour, but that he did not have a gun. Warden Dalrymple, it was said, was the first warden to place an extra man in the arsenal during the dinner hour when the line passes through the chapel. It was his intention that this extra guard have a gun, and the guard did carry one until a month ago when Charles Charleton, ex-principal keep er, ordered Davison not to take a gun into the turnkey's office. More evidence on prison rules and customs was given by George Robin son, chapel guard, who declared that despite the fact that the Jones-Murray gang was noted for desperateness, Oregon Jones and Ellsworth Kelly were permitted to live in the same cell and ail of the four men involved in this break were celled in the same tier of the same ward tn the same wing. Willos Is Moved. James Willos, he declared, had been moved near the rest less than a month ago from the south wing to the north wing. James R. Carey, head chapel guard, responsible for the change and the celling, had previously denied that Jones and Kelly be celled together and had declared that he moved Wil los because Willos had been in a cell facing the back of the prison and wanted to come to a front cell on ac count of the "front view." CORN FLOUR By A. B. CHAPIN SW1WE MIJw LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Harvest is progressing in a lively way in the Hardman country and trucks are bringing the grain to Heppner as fast as it is threshed. The yield is good but the grain is light, one truck man telling a rep resentative of this paper that the average was 120 pounds to the sack, This truck was making several trips a day from Hardman, landing 165 sacks of grain at the warehouse, and when the Heppner-Hardman market road is completed he will be able to to beat this record. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Latourell de parted on Sunday, their destination being East Lake south of Bend 1, where Charley will try to land some big fish. They were joined at Biggs by the fa hter and mother of Mr. Latourell, who are on a visit to Oregon from their home at San Diego, Calif., and the party will spend some time at East Lake. Various garages in Heppner are preparing for the work of testing and adjusting lights under the new Ore gon law. This law goes into effect September 1st., and all machines must have their lights properly ad justed by that date, and drivers be prepared to show their certificates that they have complied wiht the re quirements. Robert Barr and wife and two chil dren of Mt. Vernon, Wash., arrived here on Thursday evening last, re maining until Sunday to visit at the home of his brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Barr. The two families left Sunday for an auto trip that will take them to various points in Washington and British Columbia. Roger Morse returned last evening from Vancouver, Wash. He assisted H. E. Cosby, extension poultry spec ialist of O. A, C. in a culling demon stration at the Chas. Dillon place at Boardman on Wednesday, and these gentlemen are in a similar meeting at the poultry farm of Gerald White at Lexington today. Oscar Keithley of Eight Mile was in the city Saturday on a bustle for advice of their physician, so that ba some machine extras. His threshing by won't be "over exposed." Sunshine is progressing well and the grain is making a fairly good yield. Mrs. M. L. Curran returned home from Portland Tuesday evening, hav ing spent two weeks in the city mak ing selection of her fall stock of mil linery. Mrs, Emery Gentry came over from Pendleton on Sunday and ia looking after the store of F. L. Harwood dur ing his absence from the city. Leonard Carlson, extensive wheat raiser of the Gooseberry section, is doing business in the city today. He is accompanied by hia family. When Oregon Jones, Murray and Kelly were returned from their dar ing break in March 1924, they were not placed in the "bull pen" or given any kind of discipline, Carey testi fied. He asserted that the men had been placed near each other because the place was more easily seen by the chapel guard than any other place in the prison. The rifle marksmanship of guards at the prison came up for criticism during the testimony of John Dav ison. Davison was asked by District Attorney Carson if the guards had regular rifle practice, and if he knew what their marksmanship average was. The guard replied that prac tice was held twice a month. No standard of ability was required of guards, he declared. Targets nine and three quarters inches in diameter were used for free style practice at a hundred yards. "Are the guards good shots?" he was asked by Carson "Some are and some aren't. There are some pretty good ones and some pretty bad ones." Asked to explain the proportion be tween them he replied that there were nbout "fifty-fifty" of good shots and "those who weren't. As far as he recalled, he declared, Holman and Hubbard were not good shots, Holman averaging about one out of five hits on the nine and three quarter Inch bullseye at 100 yards. Sweeney waa an average shot, he judged. SHUMWAY FOR SENATOR CAM PAIGN NOW ON President of Grain Growers' Co operative Association Wants to Do Something for Farmers. (Oregon ian) Getting acquainted in Protland, be ing introduced around by A. H. Lee, A, R. Shumway, candidate for the re publican nomination for United States senator, has started bis campaign. Mr. Shumway is a farmer of Umatilla county, residence at Hilton, and pres ident of the Oregon Grain Growers' Co-operative association. "I am not issuing my platform yet," said Mr, Shumway yesterday. I want to do something for the far mers. I believe that the government should do something for the agricul turists, maybe not like the McNary Haugen bill, but something anyway. "The state Income tax is all good enough in its way, but it is only a drop In the bucket. Mind you, I'm for a state income tax, but it does not solve the farmers' problem. Nor do I consider that reduction of freight rates will solve the problem of the farmer. "What we need is a competent mar keting system. If this ean be brought about, then the farmer will be ma terially assisted. I have been con nected with a marketing association which covered nine states. Nowhere, however, could we sign up more than 25 per cent of the farmers and with only 25 per cent of the growers in a co-operative marketing association it is impossible to bring about the ben efits which we aim at. Mr. Shumway is a member of the legislature, being the representative for Umatilla and Morrow counties, and for years he has been promin ently identified with the farm move ment. Thus far be is the only as pirant for the nomination for United States senator who is a fanner. SUNLIGHT OR COD LIVER OIL State Board of Health. When examining children in Ore gon, one is strongly impressed with the large proportion who show signs of slight rickets. As many as three- quarters of the children attending clinics often show "bumps' on the head, grooving of the ribs, slight bow legs and other signs, and give his tories of delay in the appearance of , the fit afld Sn 8tarting walk. The symptoms are rarely very severe, and are usually found in ar tificially fed children, tho not always. Rickets is a disease of infants and younger children in which the bones do not become hard as quickly as they should. It was formerly thought to depend on the amount of lime In the food. While this may sometimes have something to do with the case, we know that the true cause is s queer mixture of lack of a "vitamine" in the food and insufficient sunshine. When a child gets sufficient sunlight it rarely develops rickets. On the other hand, the sunlight may be in sufficient, and yet rickets be pre vented or cured by giving some fatty food which contains the necessary vitamine. Cod liver oil is one of the best of these foods. Other fats, which do not ordinarily cure rickets, may develop this property when they are exposed to sunlight Cod liver oil might be termed "bottled sunlight" In this Northwest country, what between winter clouds and summer smoke, a baby is hard pressed to get enough sunlight to keep from getting rickets. This is especially true of babies who are born late m summer, and see rery little of the sun through the first, important growing months, Mothers should see to it that their I babies get the advantage of what sun- shine there is: preferably under the which has passed through glass win dows does no good at all, because the results are due to the ultraviolet part of the light, which is filtered out by glass. ' The best plan is to give all babies cod liver oil, particularly during the dull months. In moderate doses it can do no harm, as it ia not a medi cine, but just a special food contain ing a very necessary element Young babies don't have a well-developed sense of taste, and usually learn to love the oil. The amount of rickets which usually develops In unprotected children here is not severe or espec ially dangerous, but may leave slight permanent disngurementa, and may perhaps even sliirhtly cripple the child. Therefore plenty of sunshine, or else cod liver oil! NOTICE OF SALE OF ANIMALS. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned, by virtue of the statutes of the State of Oregon, have taken up the hereinafter described animals found running at largo upon their premises in Morrow County. Oregon, and that they will on Saturday, Sep tember 6, 1925, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at their place 12 miles northeast of Heppner in said Morrow County, sell to the highest bidder for cash tn hand the following described ani mals: One Iron gray mare, box brand on left Jaw, weight 1000 pounds; One Iron gray gelding, brand PB connected (P reversed) on right hip, weight about 850 pounds. One white mare, branded B W on left shoulder; One sorrel yearling, bald faced, no brand; One black mare mule, branded dia mond T on left shoulder; One black mare mule, branded B on left shoulder and L V on right stifle; One red polled cow, branded AQ on left hip; union the same shall have been redeemed by th owner or own- I ers thereof, W. B. BARRATT 4 SON. By Arthur Brisbane Horrible, But Welcome. One Minute After I Died. The Power of Mothers. Quality, Plus Advertising. Our navy will make experimente with what ia called the "death atroke." It ia an interesting invention guaran teed to destroy all life with which it eomea in contact within ft radine of twenty miles. It ia horrible but WELCOME. Make war dangerous ENOUGH and war wilt atop. Don't believe the ignorant millions who think that s thing al ways will be, because it always HAS been. Two men pointing automatic pistole at each other's hearta don't ahoot. That only happens when one of them gets the drop. Mr. Aldrich, prosperous lawyer, ia sued for divorce. His wife allege a cruelty. He replies, "My only cruel ty waa almost atoning her to death with jewelry." He spent $175,000 on jewelry, gave the lady $35,000 aable coat, a chinchilla coat costing $8,000, and securities worth $100,000. The lady replies that Dot sables, not jewels, not securities, not even the fur of the chinchilla, most inter esting tittle animaL can give rent hap piness. She's right. But in thia world we measure everything with money. The lady's lawyer, George Gordon Battle, demands for her alimony of $75,000 year. The Court can give her that; it cannot give her love and affection. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN made many speeches worth hearing and the world applauded. What would the world give if he could come back and make another speech of thirty seconds on "What I Saw, What I Felt, What I Knew, Where I Went, the Minute After I Died?" The British Government, to fight depression in British trade, will un dertake international world advertis ing on gigantic scale. Thia proves again what everybody knows, that Great Brtiain has statesmen working for her. Five billions dollars will be appro priated at first to boom eoioniat goods. The idea of the British Em pire, solid and sound as ft steel bul let, is that QUALITY, PLUS ADVER TISING, ean overcome any trade de pression. Anybody can stand poverty, be cause almost everybody is compelled to stand it. We have plenty of prac tice. Few can stand prosperity. Farm lands on the edge of Detroit have boomed, and farmers have sold out at prices never dreamed of. Now fifteen of the suddenly rich according to doctors, are nervously unbalanced. The shock was too much for them. In poverty they could have kept their balance indefinitely. Two young roughs, each a gang leader, engaged in a, fist fight, and a blow on the head stretched Anthony de Lucca, seventeen, dead on the side walk. The police will do something about this, because it wasnt ft "regular fight," with ropes around the fighters, ruffians watching and gate receipts that make it profitable to violate the law. How long will the Stites dis grace themselves by licensing bru tality? The marriage of a young girt in the Vanderbilt family has caused newspaper discussion. A Protestant Bishop performed the ceremony, al though the mother is a Catholic and her daughters were brought up in the Catholic faith. All that is the business of the fam ily and those immediately concerned. But in one statement made by the family you observe the ancient wis dom of the Catholic church. When young Mr. Vanderbilt, a Protestant, married Miss Fair, a Catholic, it was stipulated on the mother's behalf that all daughters born of the union should be brought up in the Catholic church. There is wisdom. Daughters become mothers, influence the children and men about them, and form the next generation. The church that has the mothers on its side is the church that will survive, for mother: create and guide the children and influence the men. PORTLAND ELKS BAND WILL PLAY AT THE 1925 ROUND-tP Pendleton, Or., Aug. 19.-The Port land Elks' band of 40 pieces will play at the Pendelton Round-Up all faur days of the show, September IS, 17, 18 and 19. In addition to the I'ort landers, known for the pep and har mony of their music, there will be the Pendleton cowboy band, the Am erican Legion bugle and drum corps and two other outside bands which will be engaged this week. The show will have three new judges this year, and each Is entitled to th.i honor of being called ft cow boy. for all are accomplished horse men. They are Fay LeGrow of Athe na; Will Swiuler of Umatilla, and Herbert Thompson of Pendleton. For years they have been active In the work of the Round Up, being promin ent in the arena in tho handling of steers and wild horses. L. A. Anderson and family wmi visitors In the city un Wednao.iav from their home in the Gou.ei.ercjr country. s