-OTK HKKMISTOH HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
The High School Mirror
Voi. 2
Devoted to the Interest and Development o f the Herm iston School*
Frederick Hesser, the editor of the Brown, M argaret Neary, L ucille Sul
M irro r is absent from school much liv an , M ary C urrie, Melba Callahan,
to the regret o f the editorial staff.
Eldora
Kingsley,
E d ith
B arthel,
M ildred W yrick , M erna Query, P au l,
The opera. Love Pirates of H a w a ii, ine Morris, Doris Swayze, Ida Rhodes
has been decided upon as the next Lenore and Alice Dyer, Leo Smith,
h school theatrical effo rt, and Lawerence W inslow , Chester Rhodes
Orval Silvey, G wyn Hughes, Irw in
j i k on it w ill start immediately.
Shotwell, H ugh Fraser, W a lte r Fan-
The semester exam inations w ill chier, Norm an Rubner, Harold B ar
Dan
W lnesett and
F ran k
take place on Wednesday , Thursday thel,
Swayze.
and F rid a y of next week.
No. 15
field and Herm iston, another trian g
u la r debate between Echo, P ilo t Rock
and Pendleton a dual debate betweea
Fossil and Condon. In each case the
a ffirm a tiv e teams w ill travel. W in
ners of the dual debate and each of
the tria n g u la r debates w ill meet Feb-
uary 15 in a tria n g u la r debate to de
term ine the w in n er of the district
championship. The champion w ill
meet a team from some other district
to determine whtch shall debate on
the University of Oregon campus
Junior W eek-end, in a state-wide
competition. The question for the
d istrict contests is: “ Resolved, th at
the U nited States should m ain tain a
navy equal in size and strength to
th at of any other nation in the
w orld.”
The local teams consist of Doris
Swayze and Paul Stockard a ffirm a t
ive, Zona Bensel and Grace Skinner
negative, V icto r Stockard and Claude
W h its e tt alternates. Miss Lucile Red
mond is the coach.
Last F riday, January ( , the high
school teams played a double header
practice game. The boys team play
ed the American Legion and the girls
played the eighth grade. The boys
.lost 31-19. H arold W aterm an, cap-
tlan of high Bchool team, received an
in ju ry to his ankle and was removed
The sophmore and ju n io r classes from the game but w ill be able to
expresses th eir sympathy w ith Ida play against Pendleton.
Chester Rhodes w ith flo ral offerings,
The high school debate teams w ill
and Chester Rhodes w ith floral offer
be one of the eight teams w hich w ill
ings.
compete on February 4 as a member
Miss Redmond— “ Class I am dis
Mrs. J. S. Dyer and Mrs. H . R. of the U m atilla D istrict of the high
" ^ A iS w port entertained in honor of school debating league of Oregon missing you ten minutes early today.
P h yllis and M arshall Saturday even conducted under the auspiees of the Please go out q uietly so as not to
ing at the Dyer home. The party ! extension school of the University of wake the other classes.”
was one of the prettiest of the season I Oregon. The schools in the district
The basketball season w ill open
w ith a doubleheader game w ith Pen
dleton in the local auditorium . The
boys w i l l ’ play Pendleton’s second
team and the g irls w ill play the firs t
team. Everyone comeout and give
the teams the needed support.
and the house was gaily decorated
w ith evergreens, snow and 1922’s.
Everyone had a most enjoyable time.
The invited guests included Zona
Bensel, A rlouine Robinson, Mabie
F a th e r— "W ho was here to see you
are Pendleton, P ilo t Rock, Stanfield,
Echo, Herm iston, U m atilla, Fossil last n ig h t T”
Peg.— “Only Lucile, dad.”
and Condon. The debates have been
F ath er— " T e ll Lucile she left her
arranged so there w ill be a trian g u
lar debate between U m atilla, Stan cigarettes on the m antel.”
I f there has been an Influx of home
men and panhandlers to the cit
ies of the west coast It Is a sign only
of a condition which la general, aaya
Mr. Gate*.
Few ex-service men are among the
migratory army of the homeless.
Mr. Gates said that the lowest type
of destitute man Is the one who beg*
alms on the street, and that the prac
tice of giving him money Is a bad one,
since It encourages him. The better
plan Is to direct him to some reputa
ble charitable agency which can help
him.
NEGROES MOVE NORTH less
Census
Bureau
Report
Places
Number at 780,794-
Counter Movement Back to Southern
States ^Iso Is Shown— 47,223
Negroes Born in North Mi
grate to the South.
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Washington.—The total number of
negroes reported as bom In southern
states and living In the North and West
Bank Robbed Often.
had Increased from 440,534 in 1910 to
Shipshewana, Ind.—The Farmers'
780,794 in 1920, the census bureau State bank here was robbed of $15.000
announced in a special report on negro in currency and Liberty bonds early
migration based on returns of the last the other day. The safe had been
census. The southern boundaries of opened with the aid of an acetylene
New
Jersey,
Pennsylvania,
Ohio, torch. Officials said the loss was cov
Indiana. Illinois. Missouri and Kansas ered by Insurance. Local authorities
were taken as the dividing line between believe three men who came here late
the North and South for the purposes In the day In an automobile committed
of the report.
the robbery. I t was the ninth time the
O f the 10,381,309 negroes enumerated bank had been robbed In 20 years and
In the last census, there were 38,575 the third time this year. Shipshewana
for whom no state of birth was re- la located ten miles west of Lagrange.
ported.
The 780,794 southern-born
negroes shown to have migrated to the
North or West constituted 8.1 per cent < > ♦ ................. ................................. * * * * ♦
of the total of 9,006,943 negroes bora
His Luck Is Out When
In the southern section. The percent
age of this migration for the pre
Tadpoles Hatch in Milk
ceding decade was not shown.
Nairobi, Africa. — A native
Against this migration from the
charged In the resident magis
South to the North and West, of the
trate’s court here with milk
total of 741,791 reported In the last
adulteration strenuously denied
census as born In states of the latter
the allegation.
region, 47,223, or 6.4 per cent, were liv
In the temporary absence of
ing In the South. Thus the proportion
experts he might have been ac
of southern-born negroes who migrated
quitted, but his luck was dead
to the North or West, according to
out, for during the course of the
the report, was only about one-fourth
trial a fam ily of tadpoles hatched
larger than the proportion of those
out In the milk.
born In the latter region who migrated
He was sent to Jail for a
to the South.
month without the option.
“W hile It Is Impossible to calculate
exactly the extent of negro migration
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from the South during the decade
ended with 1920," the census report REMEMBERED FATE OF BABY
said, “the available data Indicates that
approximately 400,000, or somewhat Small Wonder T hat W inifred Feared
fo r the Health of the Precious •
more than half of the 733,571 survivors
Neighborhood Newcomer.
of the net negro migration from the
South to the North and West prior
When the stork arrived and left
to January 1, 1920, left the South sub-
Betty Lou on the doorstep of the Jones
sequently to April 15, 1910.”
“Although migration to the North family, she was at once the wonder
and West has not taken place among and delight of the entire neighborhood
the far southern negroes to the same of children.
And why not? She waa the first
extent, relatively to their total num
bers, as among the negroes In the baby that had happened In the com
. northern part of the South, there was, munity for eight long years I Louise,
nevertheless, a pronounced Increase In being the last, and now a little old
such migration from the F ar South dur woman, was among the first to call
and pay her respects to the new baby.
ing the past decade.”
When Betty Lou had reached the
As examples of this gain, the report
cited Increases In the migration of sedate age of three weeks, she was
negroes from southern states to Penn wont to decline for hours In ber brand-
sylvania from 1910 to 1920 as follows: new buggy on the front perch of her
Georgia, 1,578 to 16,196; South Caro home. This was quite a subject of
lina. 2,115 to 11,624; Florida. 393 to 5,- gossip among the children and In some
3t0. The migration from Alabama to cases caused quite a little comment.
Ohio Increased from 781 to 17,588; It Is needless to say that the children
from Mississippi to Illinois, 4,612 to were never very fa r away from the
Jones porch, and one dsy Winifred
19.485; Texas to Missouri, 1,907 to 4,-
and Ixmlse were heard discussing the
344.
matter In whispers and with much ani
mation.
Winifred Imparted to Lents* In
35,000 “ VAGS” IN NEW YORK
tones of great solemnity the terrible
Very Few Former Service Men Are tale of how she once knew a teeny
weeny baby that bad everything “Just
Among Migratory Army of the
lovely,” but when It was only two
Homeleea.
weeks old. It “took ammonia and died
New York.—There ere, according to of too much air.”— Indianapolis News.
a conservative estimate, 35,000 home
less men In this city today.
Since
Lilies Used for Feed.
1914 the average age of these men
Growing water lilies for food Is a
has dropped from forty-seven to thirty- new Idea In America, though It has
two. and many of them are mere been practiced on a large scale tor
youths. Roy P. Gates, member of tbs centuries In the Orient. Scientist»
national committee
on
vagrancy, lately have been making a study of
stamped as Incorrect a report pub the food value of the lotos Illy, the
lished In a San Francisco newspaper Mg yellow water Illy found In many
under a New York date line, that New lakes, ponds and rivers In the eastern
York's homeless are drifting to the and middle western United States.
Pact Be coast because they have been This Illy was highly prised as a food
ordered by the police to find Job« «T by tbe American Indians. Just as Its
gat out of town.
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pins cousin, tne lotus of China, India
and Egypt, Is a favorite food there.
Peeled and boiled, the American wa
ter Illy Is as farinaceous and whole
some as a potato and delirious to the
taste.
Propagation of the American lotus
Is not difficult, declare scientists, and
there are numerous ponds and lakes
In nearly every state, remarks an ex
change, whose waters are suited to the
profitable culture of the lotus Illy.
Divisions of Earth's Interior.
From tbe evidence avallahle, R. D.
Oldham traces three divisions In the
earth’s Interior. The solid outer crust
with a thickness of Vi to 1 per cent of
tbe radius (or 20 to 40 miles), has
high permanent rigidity, but from un
known causes has been subject to de
formations, with displacements of as
much as ten miles vertically and 100
horizontally. The next section, about
h alf the radius In thickness, has high
rigidity for such streams as tidal ac
tion, with low rigidity for long-con
tinned stress. The central nucleus has
low rigidity. The conclusions relat
Ing to the two Inner divisions are
drawn from records of earthquake
waves.
Harnessing Volcano.
Tentative plans for the harnessing of
Hawaii's mighty volcano, Kilauea, have
been prepared by a committee of mnnu
facturera on the Island, according tc.
news reports. The volcano continuous
ly Is giving off vast quantities of heal
ranging as high as 2,000 degrees
Fahrenheit. I t Is planned to harness
the heat and develop It Into electricty
for the unlimited development of Indus
tries on the Island. It Is proposed tc
make the heat available by borings
made In safe territory, to depths where
the heat Is constant and high enough
for the development of a continuous
steam pressure.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS IN
PICTURE HERE NEXT SUNDAY
Popular Star Has Job of Making
Sour Old Man Laugh; Audi
ence Laughs Too
In “ The H a b it of Happiness," the
new T rian g le fine-arts realease Doug
las Fairbanks has the fittin g profes
sion of m aking people laugh.
He begins it in his efforts as Idle
son of a w ealthy banker to u p lift the
w orkingm an. H e has come to tbe
conclusion th at w hat the workingm an
needs more than anything else Is to
laugh occasionally; and, w hile he is
giving them exercises m orning, noon
M ade in Kodak factoría
by Kodak workmen
The frigate bird, also called the man-
of-war hawk and the “frigate pelican,"
Is a sea bird, so called from Its attack»
on other birds. This bird, very large
and with black plumage, is capable of
very powerful and rapid flight
II
sometimes measures ten feet from tip
to tip of Its extended wings. On ac
count of Its Immense extent of wing
and Its dashing habits. It has been
called the swiftest bird that sweeps
tbe seas.
The frigate bird Is a tropical sea
bird of two species. The larger ranges
all round the world within the tropics;
tbe smaller Is found only near the
eastern seas from Madagascar to Mo
luccas and southward to Australia.
Both species breed In large colonies,
building their nests on rocks, high
cliffs or lofty trees on uninhabited
islands. Tbe birds often fly far out
to sea, but most of the time they re
main near ahore.
The frigate bird's aerial evolution»
• r e extremely graceful and It'soars to
great heights. I t Is said never to dlvt
for Its prey, but to seize fishes on I)
when they appear at tbe surface or
above IL Flying fishes form a great
part of Its food. Thia bird of prey also
pursues gulls and terns and eats the
fish It forces them to disgorge. The
male acquires under Its bill a bright
scarlet pouch which la capable of In
flation.
History la the first distinct product
e f man's spiritual nature, his earliest
expression of what can ba called
thoughL—Cariyto
Much In Little.
Tbe brief style la that which ex
presses much la little.— Ben Jooaon.
ne6s rivals of Pepper delegate a band
of thugs to visit his home and do hint
up w hile a crooked deal is put over
in W a ll Street. Fairbanks meets this
[crowd and, find ing them ill-disposed
' to laugh at the best jokes out of his
book, tries another course, uses his
' fists In a manner th a t is a delight to
beholders.
U n fo rtun ately, the thugs draw
th eir guns, and one of them proves
i too many for the hero, and he drops
' in his tracks at the head of the stairs.
B u t the situation Is solved In a clever
manner that makes for more th rills
and much laughter.
Also an Andy Gump cartoon.
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“Frigate Pelican** Secures Its Food
Chiefly by Forcing Its W eaker
Brethren to Disgorge.
and night, his success draws the a t
tention of a certain D r. Stone, who
has a ll but given up the task of try
ing to make Jonathan Pepper, hia
richest patient, relax Into a smile.
As Stone's assistant, therefore, he
Invades the gloomy mansion of Pep
per, where the power of the financial
world sits In sour state listening of
a superannuated m instrel playing
Chopin's "F u n eral M arch" on a bass
viol. Poor Fairb an ks almost throws
up the job, but he suddenly finds
th at old man Pepper has a beau tiful
daughter who is w ell w orth going
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