The Hermiston herald., July 15, 1921, Image 4

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Wireless Market Reports for the Farmers
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Battle Front
HAPPY ROBERT AND JACK
coast of the Atlantic. From a point
Pacific Coast Is Becoming One of 50
miles north of San Francisco one
sails northward for hundreds of miles
the Country’s Most Im­
alongside bluffs and promontories,
portant Boundaries.
finding hardly any Indentations of Im­
portance.
Numerous Small Bays.
HAS INTERESTING HISTORY
Two Priceless Features of Coast, San
Francisco Bay and Pu^jet Sound,
Missed by Spanish Explorers in
Their Early Explorations.
Government owned anil operated, the wireless equipment Installed on the eighth floor of the postoffice depart­
ment building In Washington Is employed In the twofold function of giving Information In connection with the
operation of the coast-to-coast alr-mall service and In sending out tho market reports of the department of agri­
culture to the fumiers of the country.
Speed Cause of*
Road Accidents
tho Bttle neck of Ohio don’t have half
Auto Tourist Who Has Driven the trouble that people coming east
More Than 50,000 Miles Gives have when they hit the fancy New
York brnnd of roadwnys.
Result of Observations.
Job for Nearest Garage Man.
NO TWO GOOD ROADS ALIKE
“Don’t Take Strange Road at More
Than 20 Miles an Hour," His Ad­
vice—Car Doesn't Drive Twice
Alike in Any Roadway.
Little Falls, N. Y.—Archie Bnker
claims to be a confirmed uutomoblle
tourist of long and varied experience.
He says he has driven upwurd of 50,-
(XX) miles In his 1010 seven-passenger
six ; and the car looked It when Archie
and his family pulled out beside the
road Just west of Small Gulf, between
Little Fulls and Herkimer, to camp
In one of the most noted of Mohawk
valley tourist parking places.
Baker and his wife and a twelve-
year-old son and ten-year-ohl daughter
said tliut touring agrees with them.
They gave the Impression of huvlng
an Independent Income.
“My experience Is that a lot of
tourists don’t know very much, and
don’t stop to learn anything, either,”
said Mr. Baker. "The result Is, they
have a lot of hnrd knocks. When we
were coming into New York state,
about 250 miles from here, we turned
oft down n side road to cnmp by Lake
Erie. There was an outfit down by
the lake which clulmed they had hud
u lot of hard luck. They dished a
wheel; they tore up a tire; they lost
a tent off the bock end of the load;
they slept cold nights, and they were
Just about ready to quit. But,
shucks! they won’t quit. Nobody
ever does quit once the family have
gone to touring right—the way It
cun he done. Their dished wheel In­
terested me. The man clulmed he
didn’t drive fast, but he skidded,
caught the weight of the car on the
right rear wheel, and smashed It all
a-hllm.
"This was on a strange road, out in
Indiana, he said, und It sure did look
all right. But It smashed him, and
It was pure luck that he didn’t roll
over. I asked him about the kind of
road, and he couldn’t tell me; said
It was pretty muddy, but hud gravel
on It too.
"There you a re I He smashed up
and was taught a lesson, and didn't
know what the lesson was. The fact
Is there are more than 200 different
kinds of good roads In the United
States. I’ve been on most kinds. I’ll
recite a few of them—mountain
contract rouds, stone water-bound
concrete rouds, oil wnste rouds,
gravel, sand and clay, broken down
stone roads, cut and fill crushed
stone surface, cinder, shell, bank
gravel, beach gravel, desert two
trackers, and so on.
“Now It’s the same way with Cali­
fornia. You take a man who’s run out
of Nevada or eastern California desert
roads over the Sierra divide Into the
paved ways of California, he feels re­
lieved. He's on good roads at last.
He's been careful for 2,000 miles. He
w-ants to step on ’er. He does. lie
hits a sharp turn, and bingo! The
nigh wheels drop Into the sand, and
there's a big Job for the garuge In the
nearest town.
“1‘urtlculnrly spenklng, let me say
that the man who drives aspeeding
over a road he has never driven be­
fore Invites death or disaster. I'm
ull right on my old home road. I hit
up 40 miles an hour right along If
I know the road. My car’ll stand It.
But on a strange road, let me say. I’m
one of those 15-mIIer boys. I didn’t
hnve to have an accident to learn that.
It was Just looking at the accidents
and figuring on them that guve me
the warning I heeded.
“Now look’t 1 Remember during the
days when cars were delivered by
tljo thousand over the highways, and
you’d meet a fleet of a thousand cars
all new and all bound eust or south or
west to n destination, because the
railroad boys were laying down on
their hlgh-wage Jobs? Do you remem­
ber how many of those cars were
smashed up, burned up, or were shook
half to pieces? It was done by speed­
ing over strange roads.
New Driver Apt to Be Careful.
“It Isn't the new driver who Is
trapped by different roads; It Is Just
ns apt to be the old-timer. New driv­
ers are careful; they learn around
home, hit tho same roads every day
and learn 'em. When they get good
on the home roads they start off, lilt
another kind of good road, and blngl
Smash up I
“It’s Just tbnt way all over. I don't
begin to claim I’m an expert In nil
kinds of roads; I’m not. All .I’m nn
expert In Is keeping out of trouble.
I’ve been through Berthoud pass, 11,-
(XX) feet above the sen, and more thnn
140 feet below the ocean down In Sal-
ton sink. I know enough to go slow.
That's what I know.
“It’s tho good road that kills. Men
don’t break their necks speeding on
bad roads. They’re caught on good
roads, the way I said. Some pave­
ment Is deadly dangerous when It’s
dry, and some Is deadly dangerous
when It Is w et Take concrete, for
example. There's no cleaner driving
In the world than on concrete. This
side of Buffalo, and here and there
In New York nnd California, you have
concrete roads. Now, when they are
hauling hay for a bottom, or oranges
out of nn Irrigation project, there’ll
be about three rods of dirt on the con­
crete. It’s apt to be clay. It’s Just
like daubs of axle grease on a rail­
road track. You hit that stuff going
right along, feel It quiver, nnd try to
straighten up. Your steering wheels
slick around the easiest they ever did.
You forget where your straight-ahead
is, and with the rear end of the car
swinging ahead you hit hard pan
again, and shoot off Into the chaparral.
Or you climb the fence of the Buffalo
county club, depending where you’re
at
Dry or W et Both Treacherous.
“Dry roads are treacherous and wet
roads are treacherous. There are
more nccldents in western New York
from people coming off poor roads on­
to good ones than there are on rough
country roads.
“Where you know a road Is danger­
ous you go slow and careful. Where
you think the road Is not dnngerous,
but it Is a death trap, you are In peril
of your life. I’m thinking that when
they have paved roads over the Itocky
mountains there’ll be a lot of acci­
dents because It seems so easy.
“I’ve seen more than 200 wrecked
cars beside the road. I’ve seen the
ruins of ten times ns many at garages
the country over. Not one but what
came to an untimely end because of
carelessness of some kind. And nine
times out of ten the carelessness was
because the driver was going too fast
on a road he didn’t know. You’ll find
at the bottoms of slopes In the
Itockles big, beautiful cars, all ruined
—skidded on dust, on clay that looked
solid, on sand that was roller bear­
ings, or on a long peeled log gutter
cross.
“No, sir I My boy, when you get
your car, don’t you drive over any
strange road nt more thnn 20 miles
nn hour, no matter how good it Is, nnd
you’ll find lots of ronds where it’s
better to go under ten miles nn hour
than to go faster than tbnt. From the
Rockies to the Sierras I averaged sev­
en miles nn hour—00 miles nt three
miles nn hour one day. And I passed
two cars before dark that left me be­
hind In the morning. They’d busted
themselves getting there, Eli.
“Go slow. Let the other fellow go
b y ; you’ll get there first, anyhow."
Movies in Shakespeare Memorial?
“No Two Good Roads Alike."
“No two good roads are alike.
Good and careful a driver us I am.
I darn near rolled over out west of
Salt Lake City last summer, skid­
ding In the dust—dry, fluffy dust.
Why, If I'd been driving 20 miles
Instead of careful 12 miles an hour,
we'd rolled end over applecart, and
It was a good road. If you knew how
to drive it. Yes. sir. There Is not
a road In all this United States, not
the best, widest, finest, smoothest
road, that Isn’t treacherous If a man’s
not used to It. I don't mean wild-
eyed hummers, hut Just common folks
like me.
“If you don’t believe It. you study
the road accidents you come upon as
you ride across the country. Half
the skidding Is done where the road
tyjie changes, when» a man Iraves
concrete and lilts oil surface or where ’
he leaves the waterbound stone for i
hard pan.
•‘A cur doesn’t drive twice alike on
any roadway from New York to San |
Francisco. I know, because I’ve made
the trip. Where do tourists coming ,
east bong up with trouble? It a when !
they come off bad roads Into goisl ,
Recent reports front London. indicate that the Shakespeare Memorial
roads. You take the western part of \ theater at Stratford-on-Avon, when not required for Shakespeare festivals.
New York state, and people leaving Is to be used as a motion picture theater. This decision by the governors has
the good roads of Ohio after crossing aroused a storm of protest.
Washington, D. C.—“With the awak­
ening of the Far East, the shifting of
world Interest to the Pacific, and the
rapid growth of its commerce, the
western rim of the United States
where It touches the vastest of the
world’s oceans Is becoming one of the
country’s most important boundaries,"
says a bulletin Issued by the Washing­
ton, D. C., headquarters of the Nat­
ional Geographic society.
“This rippling line of Pacific surf
marks the end of the great Aryan
migration, which began ages ago in
some mysterious, unknown land of
central Asia, surged through the deep
valleys of the Himalayas, and has
since poured ever westward, making
the greater part of the world’s history
as It went. Across this boundary of
white colonization the yellow people
of the East have shown themselves
ready to flow In a counter current,
making complicated racial problems
and giving the western boundary an
ethnic Importance which none of the
other three boundaries possesses.
“For centuries after the discovery
of the Atlantic coast of America, even
for centuries after Balboa first looked
upon the Pacific at Panama and after
his compatriots" sailed ships across Its
vast expanse, the Puclflc coast of what
Is now the United States remained
practically unknown. Cabrillo, a Span­
ish navigator. It Is true, entered San
Diego bay near the present Mexican
border In 1542 and his expedition later
sailed north as far ns the big bulge
In the coast line. But the two price­
less features of the Pacific coast were
missed; San Frnnclsco Bay, one of
the greatest, safest, nnd best of the
harbors of the world; and the en­
trance to Puget Sound, where land­
locked Seattle and a group of other
fine harbors now handle a large part
of the commerce between America and
the Orient.
“This failure of early navigators to
find San Francisco Bay, though many
of them passed up and down the coast
and the Spanish even made a special
effort to discover a satisfactory har­
bor, constitutes one of the mysteries
of the Pacific seaboard. The bay was
first sighted from the land In 1760,
more than two hundred years after
the Spaniards began their search for
a Pacific coast harbor, and it was six
years later when the first ship sailed
through the Golden Gate.
Where Mountains Meet the Sea.
“The Pacific coast of the United
States is markedly different from the
Atlantic coast, especially that part of
the latter south of Massachusetts, with
Its relatively low sandy shores and
Its outlying bulwark cf sand islands
and sand spits. San Diego bay, only
ten miles north of the Mexican border,
Is the only bay of major Importance
on the Pacific coast of the United
States land-locked by a sand spit.
Point Lomn, forming the northern
boundary of San Diego bay, however,
Is a ridge several hundred feet high,
and from there northward to Canada
with only a few miles of narrow low­
lands between the sen and the hills
or mountains by way of exception, the
coast Is bold nnd rugged. Parts of
It are what geologists call a ’drowned
const,’ where mountains have sunk so
that the water meets their steep
slopes. Parts are ’uplifted coasts'
where mountains once under the sea
have partly emerged, and their slopes
are still lapped by the waves.
“It is the mountainous and bold
character of the Pacific coast which
sets It off most distinctly from the
“North of the main bulge of the
Pacific coast. Cape Mendocino, small
bays are more numerous In California,
Oregon and Washington, and about
many of them railroads have been
built and considerable commercial de­
velopment has taken place. Finally,
at the mouth of the Columbia river,
over 500 miles north of the Golden
Gate, a good deep water harbor Is
reached at Astoria. Ocean vessels
may even ascend the river to Port­
land nearly 100 miles Inland.
"More than 850 miles north of San
Francisco Is the ten miles wide strait
of Juan de Fuca, the entrance to
Puget sound.
“After an Interval of nearly 600
miles where British Columbia fronts
on the Pacific, the Pacific coast again
becomes territory of the United States
as the southernmost point of Alaska
Is reached. For more than a thousand
miles to the roots of the Alaska pen­
insula the waters of the Pacific bathe
the shores of this territory, and for
an even greater distance the long arm
of the peninsula and the Aluetlan
islands off Its point sweep out Into
the ocean.”
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It was a big day for Robert Knelpp
(right) and his brother Jack when the
‘President received them and Insisted
that they all be photographed. The
boys, who are the sons of Assistant
U. S. Forester Leon F. Knelpp, chief
of the branch of lands, had Just re­
turned from their uncle’s ranch In
Arizona and brought all the cowboy
“trimmings”, and Laddie Boy Is an
Interested spectator.
Many Vessels
Are Still Idle
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Recent Visitor to Important those associated with arrival and de­
parture.
Ports Found That Only
Held Up for Days.
At
that
time every available vessel
Tankers Are in Demand.
was In requisition, and barges were
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Prospects of
Reasonably
American
Tanks
NECESSARY
Revival In Trade Are
Favorable— Crews on
Freighters and Oil
Are Well Fed.
New York.—Worldwide retrench­
ment has affected no class of the In­
dustrial community more than the
men (and women) who “go down to
the sea In ships.” Ships have been
laid up In every Important port I have
visited, from United States of Amer­
ica to Britain, Holland, Belgium,
Egypt, New Zealand, Australia and
even South Africa, where the Durban
whalers seemed to be compelled to
take a re s t “Business as usual” has
only appeared to be available to the
oil tanks, and at Tampico quite re­
cently I have known a vessel to wait
much over a week before being able
to take oil aboard.
It is quite clear that those who di­
rect the destinies of the world’s ex­
change of commodities have realized
the pressing need for “peace, retrench­
ment and reform,” and the curtailment
of the wages of seamen, masters-at-
arms, quartermasters, engineers, oil­
ers, water tenders, wipers, trimmers,
stewards, cooks, and assistant stew­
ards Is only a symptom of worldwide
necessity.
When war -broke out $20 a month
for an able seaman and $17 a month
for an assistant steward would be
considered acceptable.
Before the
war terminated, with the signing of
the armistice, stewards had In Britain
a most active leader in Joe Cotter,
and his efforts on their behalf led to
the assistant stewards receiving £11
per month from the shipping compa­
nies and £3 as a bonus from the Brit­
ish government, roughly $56 per
month, while In the United States
messmen obtained $70 per month, add­
ed to which 'they were paid $1.50 a
day while In port. In the shape of
overtime—that Is, on days other than
Smoking an Emperor’s $2,000 Pipe
more valuable than battleships. I
have known ships held up for days
because they could not obtain barges
for their cargoes. In 1915 Great Brit­
ain owned 8,675 vessels of 19,235,705
tons, and had In 1920 so fur recovered
from her stupendous war losses to
possess vessels of 18,111,000 tons. In
1914 she employed 295,653 seamen of
various grades, thousands of them be­
ing Lascars and various Asiatics, Ger­
mans, Swedes, Norwegians and Rus­
sians. What they total today none
can compute.
In addition to the actual monetary
reward general conditions have Im­
proved to a surprising degree, In con­
formity with recognition of the brav­
ery displayed by all seamen working on
allied vessels during the war. Some
years ago I traveled to South Africa
on a boat belonging to the Union
Company of Britain, and during the
greater part of the trip we were
compelled to drink condensed sea
water, while fresh bread twice per
week was regarded as a luxury. Sail­
ors fared as best they could on salt
beef or pork and hard biscuit The
introduction of refrigerating plants
has altered that, and, sympathizing
with the seamen, the British board
of trade evolved a compulsory sched­
ule of foods. This was In operation
for some time after war had been de­
clared.
The shipping board and American
shipowners generally have been ex­
tremely liberal In their treatment of
their sailors, and I have seen, ou an
oil tank of the United States, petty
officers, seamen, firemen nnd wipers
sit down to dishes of ns good quality
and as well cooked (if not so well
served) as could be obtained in a first-
class hotel In New York.
Subordinate hands on American
freighters and oil tanks are better
fed. In the main, than those on liners
crossing the Atlantic and going from
Britain to distant ports, while In most
cases accommodation Is much supe­
rior on the former classes of vessels.
It Is satisfactory to know that pros­
pects of a revival are reasonably fa­
vorable. But whatever the outlook.
It Is clearly recognized that to be
profitably engineered the shipping of
the world must be run on a basts of
rigid economy nnd superlative effi­
ciency.—George Laval Chesterton In
New York Herald.
Catches Big Catfish.
Bardstown, Ky.—G. C. Duncan of
Bloomfield, while fishing near Wheat-
ley, Ky., pulled from the Kentucky
river a yellow catfish that weighed 62
pounds. He hooked his catch on a
throw line and it took an hour to get
him In the boat.
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Representative Roy C, Fitzgerald of Dayton. Ohio, photographed In his «
office in Washington while taking a few puffs from a $2.(XX1 meerschaum pipe J
once owned by the late Emperor Francis Joseph of Austoia. The pipe, said »
to be one of the most remarkable specimens of meerschaum carving in the J
world. Is owned by L. O. Shank of Dayton. There are nine figures on the »
pipe. Illustrating the experience of eight youths with their first try at clan­ J
destine tobacco smoking.
Seven boys, all under twelve
years old, found guilty by Mayor
Myers of Greenfield, Ind., of tak-
Ing pennies from the milk bot-
ties set out on porches, have
been sentenced to stay at home
after six o'clock in the evening
for 30 days. Their parents are
Intrusted to enforce the sen-
tence, and not to permit any of
the boys to leave their homes
between 6 p. m. and 6 a. m., un-
less accompanied by the par-
ents.
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