II
THE
U.S. HOLDS PIVOTAL POSITION IN WAR
Whole Campaign Against the
Teutons Hinges on Ac
tion of America.
HERMISTON
HERALD,
STATE NEWS
IN BRI—
A hospital corps of 73 enlisted men
was mustered in Tuesday at La Grande
by Captain Neer. The unit is now in
the National guard and will be Feder
alized later.
Ninety-three Indians residing on the
Klamath Indian reservation north of
Klamath Falls registered Tuesday un
der the selective draft law, increasing
Klamath county’s total registartion
to 1312.
WHAT ALLIES EXPECT OF US
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Photo of California’s weather prophet
taken in front of his laundry in Santa
Claro. Sing Kee has been very suc
cessful this season in naming the
weather we are to have, but, like all
Chinese, does not approve of his pic
ture being printed. He says “him sure
no lain if you print him picture, and
if he lookee sky then him sure lain.”
MORE WORK FOR THE DEEP SEA DIVER
IS DANGEROUS AND DIFFICULT
OREGON.
HE FORECASTS THE WEATHER
BRITAIN IN STRAITS
:
FOR MORE SURGEONS :
•
Manchester, Eng.—The drain •
• which the war has made upon •
• the British medical profession is •
• shown by the fact that more •
• than 250 physicians and sur- J
• geons from the Manchester dis- •
•
Look to This Country for Men, Money • trict are serving in the army.
•
The Insistent demands for •
and Supplies—Renewed Activity
• more army surgeons will get •
In East Hope of General* in
• slight response from this district •
Wert.
• because it has already been •
• combed out, says the Manches- •
By ARTHUR S. DRAPER.
• ter Guardian.
•
(In the New York Tribune.)
London.—America now holds the pi-
rotai position in the war. This fact
will become more strikingly apparent CROW MEAT IS IN DEMAND
In the next few months.
America today Is like a football play Two German Food Speculators in Jail
for Trying to Corner the Crow
er called into the game late in the sec
Market.
ond half, when the rival teams, bat
tered and tired, are still strugsting
Berlin.—Two German food specula
desperately, but are practically dead
locked. The European allies feel that tors have extended their activities
they are near enough to the German even to crows, which are in great de
goal for America to boot the ball over mand on account of the scarcity of
other meat. Emil Andre, a merchant,
the crossbar.
America does not yet appreciate how and Richard Pocha, a retired business
much dependence the allies are plac man, recently were sentenced to two
ing on her, nor the difficulties ahead. weeks’ imprisonment and $50 fine each
Henceforth the whole campaign of the by the Berlin court because they tried
grand allies will revolve around Amer to create a "corner” in young crows
ica—and Russia. But the Russian and sold the birds at exorbitant prices.
leaders today are frank to admit that
Use Schools as Canneries.
for the present at least Russia will fol
Fond du Lac, Wls.—Every school
low the sympathetic lead of republican
building in the city this summer will
America.
be converted into a canning factory.
What Allie* Expect
Pressure cookers for canning fruits
France is looking to America to give and
vegetables will be installed and
her assistance in the line of battle and may be used gratuitously by house
to support her financially. Italy looks wives and schoolgirls for the preser
for money. Serbia hopes to get Slavs vation of foodstuffs during the canning
from America to re-enforce her battered season. Competent instructors from
army. Belgium asks little, but will be the State university will be on hand to
devoutly grateful for anything. Eng give aid.
land, strong and confident, Is overjoyed
with what her new partner already has
done.
America can and will soon become
the dominating factor of the war. She
Is fresh ; her resources are unlimited ;
she has a definite policy. • Whether or
not America wants the limelight, it will His the Job to Clear Mysteries
be thrust upon her.
of Graveyards of
She can become the leader of the
world or the scapegoat of the grand
Seven Seas.
alliance. It is for her to choose, but
upon what she does in the next few
months will depend her position in the
world for generations.
Some weeks ago Premier Lloyd
George appealed to America for “ships,
ships, ships.” Now his appeal, If he
dared speak frankly, would be for Must Survey Ships Sunk by Subma
rines, Mines and Shells In the
speed. It is all very well to talk of
Last Three Years —150
beating Germany In 1918 or 1919, but
Feet Is the Limit
It leaves people cold. The European
statesmen know that the people will
no longer be satisfied with anything
With the Grand Fleet.—Submarines,
but hard facts. Within the central mines and gunfire in the last three
powers unrest has been bottled up for years have added more victims to the
so long that it is becoming more dar graveyards of the seven seas than in
ing, and even the Prussian government any other period of the world's his
fears revolution. The Lloyd George tory. It will remain for the diver to
government has no smooth path ahead clear up the mysteries that surround
of It. In every belligerent the same many of them. Even now the duties
feeling exists.
of these men, so little brought to pub
That is why It is essential for Amer lic attention, is one of the most ex
ica to make speed.
acting of the war.
Still Determined to Win.
I have had an opportunity of talk
I must make it perfectly clear that ing with a diver who has had wide ex
there is no weakening of the determin perience, and who, when I saw him,
ation of the allies, no desire for “peace had only shortly before completed the
without victory.” But there is a real survey of a wreck. It was a difficult
dependenec on America to assist in ob piece of work, and one illustrative of
taining a peace which, in the words the hardships of the profession. He
of General Smuts, would establish "se had found the wreck, but fully a mile
curity in the future” for all peoples, and a half from where the vessel had
large or small.
foundered. A strong current had
Blit that peace cannot be secured swept it that distance.
without the full and speedy co-opera
“Will it be possible to go down to
tion of America. I state this, not on
my own authority, but on that of men the Lusitania?” I asked him, recall
who know every detail of the situa ing the discussion in American marine
tion as it exists today. Labor, Ireland, quarters as to the possibility of sav
liquor and food are only a few of the ing the vessel
“I believe the water is too deep
questions which this government must
settle while at the same time It con where she went down for any diver
to reach her,” was his answer.
tinues its pressure on the enemy.
Around the British premier is a course there have been many notable
group of men who are stern and un diving feats In recent years and new
compromising—Milner, Curzon, Carson appllcances are always being experi
—but they have reached a critical mented with, though there seems noth
luncture, and will make or break the ing at present which would warrant
government by their decisions In the the belief that a diver could go down
to the great liner. It is possible to
next few weeks.
HERMISTON,
work at a depth of 150 feet, but no
further.”
He told me of one of the most re
cent of his diving exploits.
“I was sitting on the blade of a
ship’s propeller trying to release a
cable which it hud fouled as she went
down. As I finally got the cable free
the propeller began to move and
pitched me off. It revolved several
times. I thought my number was up,
as I believed the blades would cut my
air communications, and it was impos
sible to get to the top. The water was
very deep. It didn’t, though, and my
only trouble was in regaining my feet
again. It is extremely difficult to get
a footing once you have lost it. Some
times you come up legs first. It was a
narrow squeak.”
One of the navy divers recently lost
two fingers when nipped by a crab
which, he said, measured fully two feet
across its back. There are many
stories about divers which they them
selves cast suspicion on, but this was
not .one of them. The fingers were
gone when the man came to the sur
face In an exhausted condition.
But working in the cold seas, where
much of the diving of the navy now
goes on, there are no such menaces
as the octopus of tropical waters.
While many craft now lying in com
paratively shallow water may be
patched up and raised when the war Is
over, It is certain that divers will prin
cipally be engaged In ascertaining the
whereabouts of wrecks, the causes
which led to their destruction, and the
repairs necessary to attempt any re
covery of the vessels. The profession
has been largely augmented during the
war. There are great difficulties in
surveying ships, particularly If they
lie in northern seas, where the water
is very cold and where they are at a
depth of from 125 to 150 feet. At the
150-foot depth the pressure is so great
that before divers are brought to the
surface they must linger in a sort of
“twilight zone” at a depth of 120 feet,
or slightly less, so their lungs can get
In proper shape before they can be
brought to the top.
One case of the sort which has Just
been brought to my attention is that
of a diver who had gone down to
fasten a cable to an anchor which had
been lost in water more than 120 feet
deep. It was very cold, and his hands
became so numbed that he was unable
I to “carry on,” and had to be brought
to the surface. He was rubbed and
| brought back to good condition again
| and once more was lowered to the
“twilight zone,” where his lungs could
go through the process which has been
I found absolutely essential In bringing
their cells back to normal condition.
It has been found that where treated
otherwise the diver becomes easily
I subject to tuberculosis.
By the sudden death this week of
his uncle, Sir Aivon Paxton, in Iowa,
Paxton Ridgeway, a young man of
Sutherlin, inherits the income from a
large English estate estimated from
$40,000 to $5,0000 a year.
Joseph McAllister, secretary of the
desert land board, announces that he
has resigned his position to join a regi
ment of engineers that is being formed
in the state for duty in France. The
regiment’s work will cover construc
tion and engineering.
More than $200,000 will be collected
in annual licenses by the corporation
department, according to an estimate
made by Corporation Commissioner
Schulderman. The license fees be-
came due June 1, and since then ap-
proximately $440,000 have been col-
lected.
At the Redmond Commercial club
Guy E. Dobson gave a talk on liberty
bonds Wednesday, which resulted in a
unanimous vote that every member
present buy one or more liberty bonds,
and do it now. The people of that
community are responding enthusias
tically.
H. H. Corey, public serivce commis-
sioner, returned this week from Wash
ington, D. C., where he attended the
hearings before the Interstate Com
merce commission on the 15 per cent
increase in railroad rates asked by the
carriers of the country. He declared
that every indication points to the
West faring much better than the East
in the matter of increases.
A new strike is reported in an old
mine known as the Johnson ledge
which has produced much gold since
its discovery in the early '60s, but has
been abandoned for many years. The
vein is on the farm of Mrs. Catherine
McDougal Calhoun on the west slope
of Blackwell hill, three miles south
of Gold Hill, within a few hundred
feet of the Pacific Highway.
FOODSTUFF IS NEED
Two Bills Pending in Congress; One
Basis for All Work in Schools.
for Development in Production;
Other for Official Control.
Declare Experts.
Washington, D. C.—The urgent need
of food legislation was emphasized by
Secretary Houston, of the agriculture
department Wednesday in a statement
outlining in detail the purposes of food
bills the administration has asked con
gress to pass.
“Co-operating as we are with the
nations of Europe in the war against
the central powers,” said Secretary
Houston, “the task of maintaining the
subsistence of the allies is at once a
political and moral obligation and a
military necessity. War is always de
structive of production, and, in a pe
culiar sense, it is destructive of the
production of foodstuffs, since war
leads to a scarcity of labor and labor
is one of the chief factors in cultiva
tion of the soil.
“In addition the wheat crop of prac
tically the entire world has suffered
serious reduction during the last year,
and the prospects for the coming year
promise little or no increase in the
production of this essential cereal.
“One of two courses lies open to our
government. The first is to continue
as we are at present, that is, to permit
unhampered the abnormal operations
of trade, rendered all the more abnor
mal because of the needs of the allies
for foodstuffs from this country. The
second plan consists in the regulation
or control of our foodstuffs to the
double end of maintenance of the sub
sistence of the allies and the protec
tion of the food needs and commercial
interests of our own people.
“The bills now pending in congress
provide for systematic development of
our productive forces and an adequate
control of distribution and consump
tion, to the end of copserving for our
selves and for the allies the foodstuffs
provided through the stimulation of
agriculture.”
Secretary Houston describes the first
food bill as a measure to stimulate
production and the second as one to
control distribution. What is to be ac
complished under each is given at
length.
Survey Idaho Resources.
Lewiston, Idaho — The Federal and
state governments are now engaged in
making a survey of the agricultural
and industrial resources of the state.
A census is being taken of all com
munities, which when completed will
show the name, address, sex, nation
ality and occupation of each resident
over the age of 18 years. The census
of this city will be taken by Lewiston
Troop No. 1 of the Boy Scouts of
America, under the direction of Attor
ney Delos J. Needham, scoutmaster.
The scouts started work Monday.
Compilation of figures on the Des
chutes county registration on war cen
sus day shows that of the 996 regis
tered 640 have asked for exemption.
Three claim exemption on the ground
of being legislative, executive or judi
cial officers, 15 for total disability, 394
because they have dependent relatives
Strawberry Crop Outlook Good.
and 48 on account of their occupations.
Chehalis—A. J. Milem, secretary of
There are 69 aliens registered, five of
the Washington Fruit Growers’ associ
whom are alien enemies.
ation, states that unless unusual
Ontario now has passed the $30,000 weather conditions develop, strawberry
mark for bond purchases. Population growers will have the biggest crop in
considered, Ontario aspires to the the history of the business this season.
honor of sending out more bond sub The first home-grown ripe berries
scriptions than any other city of Ore came in Thursday, selling at $4 a crate.
gon. Ontario’s banks are caring for
more than $1,000,000 of deposits and
her bankers are hard at work of in
ducing the owners of these funds to
participate in the loan. Ontario and
Burns are the only two cities visited ..*******************ccc.**4***4***4***4*4444*449
recently be the Portland speakers Wheat—Bluestem.......................... $2.61
where women have made up a consid Fortyfold...................................... 2.56
Club................................................ 2.56
erable portion of the audience.
Red Russian.................................. 2.54
On consent of the State Board of Oats—No. 1 white...................... $46.00
Control, ita secretary, R. B. Goodin, Barley—No. 1 feed..................... 42.50
invested $5000 of the “patients’ fund’’ Cattle—Steers, prime...$ 9.25@10.25
st the Oregon State hospital in liberty Steers, good................... 9.60@ 9.25
loan bonds.
Steers, medium............. 8.500 9.00
Lester Sinnett, employed at the Lo Cows, choice................... 8.25@ 8.50
gan tie camp, south of Bend, died Cows, medium................. 7.50@ 8.00
Wednesday in a local hospital from in Cows, fair....................... 6.75@ 7.25
juries received when a wagonload of Heifers........................... 5.00@ 9.25
Bulls................................ 5.006/ 7.75
ties ran over him.
Calves............................. 7.50@ 9.50
A medium-sized black bear was Hogs—Packing............. ...
killed within five miles of Albany re Rough heavies................. 10.10014.75
cently, it being the first time a bear Pigsand Skips............... 13.00013.50
has been seen that close to Albany for Stock hogs....................... 12.00013.00
Sheep— Wethers............... ...
probably 25 years.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT
It was announced at a recent meet
ing of the State land board that $200,-
000 worth of the latest issue of the
rural credit bonds had been taken up
by bankers of the state and of this
amount loans of $6000 will be appor
tioned to each county. The board also
lowered the maximum amount of sing
le loans to be made under the school
fund from $5000 to $2000, as the
school fund money is nearly all loaned
out.
The Public Service commissions of
Washington and Oregon, working in
co-operation at a series of hearings to
be held in the near future, expect to
establish grain standards which will
control the movement of grain through
the Pacific Northwest.
Idaho and
Montana have no grain inspection
laws, consequnetly the action of the
Oregon and Washington commissions
will govern.
The commissions will
hold hearings at Portland June 18, Ta
Signed With Lead Pencil.
coma June 19, Spokane June 20 and
London.—The decree of abdication Pendleton June 21.
which overthrew ex-Czar Nicholas of
Russia and the most autocratic gov A chapter of the Red Cross was or
ernment of recent times, was signed ganized at Prineville Saturday. Tele
with the stub of a lead pencil.
graphic authority was received in the
The act of abdication itself was morning, and by evening over 300
typewritten—the one modern note In member* had been signed, and had
the whole story—but when It came
paid the entrance fee of $1 each.
to signing it no pen was to be had.
Finally, M. Shulgin, who accom The official count in the Baker
panied War Minister Guchkoff to
Pskov, fished a bit of lead pencil from county recall election showed that
his pocket. The czar took It and County Judge J. B. Mesick had been
recalled by a plurality of 32 vote*,
More than 1,000 members of the Naval Reserve, hailing from all portions scribbled his name with a shaky hand. that William J. Duby had been elected
These
details
of
the
great
Russian
of the United State*, are now quartered on the Commonwealth pier. South
hi* successor and that the attempt to
Boston, which has been taken over by the United State» government and coo- revolution have just been received recall Commissioner J. P. Ritter had
here from Petrograd.
_
failed.
HEALTH IS IMPORTANT
Uncle Sam’s Agencies Are Working tc
Extend Sanitary Regulations of
Cities of Rural Communities.
The most important element in the
education of children is the establish
ing of good health and right living
habits, according to those experts oi
Uncle Sam’s bureau of education who
make this their life problem. Half a
century ago the attention of those re
sponsible for the care of children in
city schools was drawn to these im
portant features of school and life and
work, and much has been done, say the
experts, in the last two decades for
the improvement of the sanitary fea
tures of school houses and grounds and
for school regimen in cities.
Only recently, however, it is pointed
out, lias much attention been given to
health conditions in country schools,
but rural school sanitation is now re
ceiving the attention of several govern
mental and state agencies. An inter
esting study of rural school sanitation
lias recently been completed by the
United States public health service in
a certain part of the state of Indiana.
It is thought that the conditions
found in that locality are, at least in
the main, those that exist to a more or
less degree In many of the rural schools
In the country. For one thing It was
found that there Is an undue number
of one-room rural schools. Among
other things It was thought by the of
ficials making the survey that an un
due number of old buildings are being
utilized which have largely passed the
limits of usefulness for educational
purposes. Many of these, it Is said,
were without the proper sanitary fa
cilities and some were even without
any water supply. Many had faulty il-
lumination of the classrooms and still
others were without adequate class
room equipment; some were improper
ly heated and poorly ventilated und
still others presented evidences of in-
efficient janitor’s service.
The large number of children pre
senting physical defects of such gravity
as to demand specialized metileni and
surgical attention, say the experts, is
an evidence of the need of medical
supervision of the school children of
the counties in the Interests of the
child’s educational advancement and
for the protection of the community
health.
The undue number of mentally de
fective and retarded school children
revealed by the study made emphasizes
the necessity, say the experts, of the
mental classification of the children for
the purpose of revealing those who are
In need of Institutional or Individual
ized treatment.
CUBA IS BEST SHOE MARKET
Offer* Greatest Possibilities of Any
Country In World for American
Manufacturers, It Is Said.
Cuba Is at present the best market
In the world for American footwear,
says a report on the subject Just pub
lished by Uncle Sam’s bureau of for
eign and domestic commerce. Al
though the climate is tropical, very
few even of the poorest natives go
without footwear of some kind, and
the per capita consumption of shoes
is therefore very heavy. Over 80 per
cent of the business is done by Amer
ican firms, as there Is no competition
from local manufacturers and not any
of great Importance from Europe.
In spite of America’s strong position
In the market, however, the author of
the report, Special Agent Herman O.
Brock, asserts that there are many
ways in which our hold on the market
cun be strengthened, as there are a
number of features In the Cuban trade
not well understood by the American
manufacturer.
IS
DETERMINED
TO
FIGHT
Lambs................................ 10.25@14.00
Flour—Patents, $12.40.
Millfeed—Spot prices: Bran. $35.00
per ton; shorts, $38.00; rolled barley,
$49.00; rolled oats, $53.
Corn — White, $72.00 per ton;
cracked, $73.00.
Hay—Producers’ prices: Timothy,
Eastern Oregon, $28.00 @ 30.00 per
ton; valley timothy, $22.00024.00; al
falfa, $20.0061)23.00; valley grain hay,
$18.00020.00.
Butter —-Cubes, extras, 37c per
pound; prime firsts, 362c. Jobbing
prices: Prints, extras, 39c; cartons,
1c extra; butterfat, No. 1, 39c; No.
2, 37c.
Eggs—Ranch, current receipts, 32c
per dozen ; selects, 33c.
Poultry—Hens, 17@18c per pound;
broilers 16 @ 21c; turkeys, 22@24e;
ducks, 17c; geese, 12@13c.
Veal Fancy, 141015c per pound.
Pork—Fancy, 193c per pound.
Vegetables -Artichokes, 70075c per
dozen; tomatoes, $1.75 @ 2.75 per
crate ; cabbage, 3@4c per pound ; egg-
plant, 25c; lettuce, $1.75@2.00; cu
cumbers, 90c@$1.50 per dozen; celery,
75c @ $1.25; cauliflower, $1.00 per
dozen; peppers, 20@40c per pound;
rhubarb, 203c; peas, 6@7c; aspara
gus, 5@6c; spinach, 406c.
Potatoes — Buying prices, $3.50 @
4.00 per hundred.
Green Fruit — Strawberries, $304
per crate; apples, $1.25 per box.
Hop* — 1916 crop 8@6c per pound;
1917 contracts, nominal.
Wool — Eastern Oregon, fine, 53c
per pound; coarse, 55c; valley, 55c;
mohair, 55060c.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Makes
Vain Attempt to Enlist in Six
Widely Separated Cities.
Longfellow's "Evangeline” still wan
ders.
From coast to coast, lingering here
and there to grasp of the forbidden
fruit, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
also wanders, it Is presumed. In a vain
attempt to enlist In Uncle Sam's ma
rine corps and be "first to fight.”
Longfellow was rejected for enlist
ment on account of physical disability
In six widely separated cities during
one month. The marine corps finally
Issued a bulletin to all its recruiting
stations to be on the lookout for the
modern “Gabriel” and not accept him
for enlistment.
Strontium Ore Produced.
For the first time In many years
strontium ore has been marketed from
deposits in the United States, accord
ing to J. M. Hill of the United States
geological survey, department of the
interior. Most of the ore marketed in
1916 was produced In Arizona and
California. The ore mined in the state
of Washington was not marketed. The
domestic output was equal to about
10 per cent of the ordinary demand,
which amounts to 2,000 tons.
The
British embargo on strontium salts
need cause little disquiet among Amer
ican users, it is declared, for abundant
ore is no doubt available In this coun
try, and American chemists have
shown that they can profitably make
Cascara Bark—Old, 8c; new, 7c per
the salts needed here.
pound