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V. »M. ÛHje îlmtttaüm Wralb ▼OL XX HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, N O V E M B E R 12. 1925 C J L J. F. M ’NAUGHT RED CROSS FINANCES ELECTED DIRECTOR SHOW WIDE SERVICES PROM GRANDMOTHER was the long divided, misconceived That child was Elizabeth Cady TO YOU AND ME and unappreciated woman's club. Stanton. She lived to do her part No. 10 RED CROSS YEAR COMMUNITY CLUB A RELIEF RECORD LUNCHEON NOV. ------ | The Immediate need of women's toward revising many of the laws The following paper was read by souls at the beginning of the club'under which women of her day suf-j Mrs. Rena Waterman at the last Inovement waal education. The fared, and her staters, the |>rgan-, meeting of the Community club: j higher education that they bad miss, (zed women of the United States, are1 In the first place we shall consider ed by not going to college, and they busy with their scissors r a isin g the riC HT VOTE CAST IH ELECTION Past Year Cost $10,321,679.80; three facts; but in ; entity they are J formed their clubs with the »ole ob- rest. Huge Relief Work After Midwest MRS. C ALIARAN TO READ PARKE Doty to Ex-Service Men hut three manifestations of one Ject of self culture. The study per. Only a few women want to hold | HERE TUESDAY Tornado the Greatest in fact, viz.; ON THE HISTORY OF THE DANCE lod did aot last very long. In fact office or engage in professional Paramount American Annals. * Women have deaa-d to exist It was doomed from the beginning, work. Every woman hopes to be a a subsidiary class In the community. Washington.—The national and In They are no longer wholly depend- for It -Is not the nature of women mother. What then was the legal 1 Colonel McNanght Has Served for a or at least it is not In the habit status of a mother. When the club DISASTERS DROP IN 1925 A Concert Ey the New Orthophap^ ternational services of the American Humber of Years as Direc _ . _ . . ent economically. Intellectually and of women to do things for themselv women began to study their posl-1 _______ Red Cross are portrayed graphically „ ,, , tor and Knows Settlers Victor Phonograph W ill be .____ . . . ' « « * « * » * on a ruling class of men es alone. They have . served so tlon before the law they found that 1 In a statement of the Red Cross Heeds. They look on life with the eye8 or long that they learned to like the in aii but ten states and territories Ranged From Fire to Earthquake Feature of Program. finances for the past fiscal year ended June SO, 1925. Expenditures by the reasoning adults, where once they Serving better than anything else they had absolutely no control over and Covered Wide Area at regarded It as trusting children. In the world, and they added ser the destinies of their children. In Colonel McNaught of this city wa8 Red Cross (Including both the No- Women now form a new social Home and Abroad. vice to the pursuit of culture Just those states and In the District of i.., t s tlonal Organisation and the Chapters) * the Commun- U8B ay at an e*®ction during this period aggregated »10.- group separate and to a degree homo- as some of them add an Important Columbia women were co-guardians y club Win be a luncheon given held by the Hermiston Irrigation dis- 321,879.80 geneous. Already they have evolv- P. S. to an important letter. Virtual completion of the largest ' it the Hermiston hoti November 16 with their husbands, of their child trict to succeed himself as one of The obligation of the American Red ed a group opinion and a group The International Council of ren There is one thing that never peace-time project of post-disaster re-|;-t 1 o'clock. Tin program wllj pon- ' ? board for the district. Colonel Cross to the ex-service and service ld€a| Women discussed every important! falls however, and that Is righteous habilitation ever known has been ac- Callahan on - - hr,a "a™ wa* <”>* °»* X e x X d ’ u^edofln»l,2h25 292rac ibym Back the differences between question presented, but makes no prtotest. CBearly something strong-; compltahed by the American Red phe history of the dance, t e ballot and the lack of oppo- the lnter68ta Qf dl8abled Teteran3i the » « e u lin e and feminine ideall lies the decision until the opinion of dele er than moral suasion was called Cross ln le8s than a Z®ar- a3 a Part Those present will have a chance Jtlcn doubt responsible Red Crosg elpended $3,577,916.43, of different habits,, different duties, gates is practically unanimous. It for. Nothing in the woman move- *t8 r®llef work *“ lhe moj e t*’an to hear the new Orthophonlc Vic- for the light vote cast. which *1,877,916.42 came from tho Na- different ambitions, different oppor- commits Itself to no opinion, lends inent is more significant, certainly■ ygar Prcfla that is creating a sensation ln Mr. McNaught has served for a tlonal Organization, and »1.900,000 tunities and different rewards, Itself to no movemeut, until the nothing was more unexpected, than This great program was undertaken mH8,caI circles. Some of the latest number of years as director and from the more than 3,000 Chapters M accustomed to habits of movement has passed the controver the voluntary abandonment on the following the tornado which struck > ecords will be p'ayed and des- perhaps there is no one on the pro-' and local branches of the society. strife, pursuit of material gains sial stage. In the course of twenty part of women, of class prejudice five mid-western States last spring, riptlcn of the artist and explana- Ject better acquainted with the ?®d p1-088 services to the men of the tangible rewards, years the I. C. of W. agreed to sup and class distinction. Where for. killing 796 people. Injuring 2,339 more, ion of the piece will be given. The •'" b'-ems and needs of settlers than Regular Army and Navy the past year called for »847,376.19, of which the hav® to think in terms of port four movements. Peace and jmerty the Interest of the leisure and causing Inestimable property logs. price of the luncheon wlH b« sixty be Is. He hag a number of times National Organization furnished »310,- money, and loss. Try as he will he arbitration, social purity, removing woman ln her wage earning sisters It left a huge area of devastation In cents. All members are requested ■ p e « ’-ted the project at various 376.19, and the Chaptere, »337,000. cannot think In any other terms, legal disabilities of women and was of a sentimental or philanthrop Its wake, presenting a real problem. ■ ’ -'ify the om.ulttee If they In The Red Cross, however, went to confrences with ‘reclamation offlc- Sharing in Importance with this re while women since society became lais and has performed this duty in j sponslbility was the Red Cross work an organized body, have been en women's suffrage. The women of ic character It has become practical work on the heels of the storm, car tend to be present. every state in the unon fought har- and democratic. Instead of hand- ing for the injured, sheltering 'and -w r that has demonstrated of disaster relief during the year. In gaged in the rearing as well as the moniously against; child labor and ing a tract to sick worker in the feeding whole communities, and help .<• Illy and knowledge of reclamation T a?’ Orb,ed iffelr* a total oi W>Mt.782.»0 up to June 30, bearing of children. They have made for compulsory education because j mills, she would enquire whiether lng every individual sufferer from the ' j this year. This represented »1,622,- the home, they have cared for the they are unhampered by tradition the girl’8 illness was caused by con- destruction back to normal. The voterB are to becongratulated 782.90 of National Organisation funds sick, ministered to the aged and giv. The magnitude of the problem Is in and the gloriously illogical sincerity dirions under which she worked and dicated by comparison.of its huge cas in electing to keep Mr. McNaught on and »300,000 from the Chapters. Re- en t0 the poor, The unusual destiny the board. [ lief In foreign disasters amounted to of the mass of women trained them of women, is concerned only about she would know if It were possible ualty list with that of the entire pre the thing Itself: Bettering condi to have these conditions changed. j »285,579.35. This sum was appropri- ceding year, whose combined losses were 735 dead and not quite 2,000 in , ated altogether by the National p t teed and clothe to lnvent manu tions for children year after year. It would seem as if in the newer fi> FTW THirGS ____ ganlzatlon. factnre, build, repar, contrive, oon- This forging ahead from grand geneatlons the average housekeeper jured, as a result of the record num FARM BUREAU C0-0PERATTVX TO THINK ABOUT Insular and foreign operations of the serve, economize. They lived lives mother til now. is not in the professional class at ber of 192 catastrophles. The atory of the Red Cross sprvlce American Red Cross during the year of constant seriloe within the nar- In 1906 in the U. S. a woman can all. Usually she lacks professional REPORT GIVEN ln the past year, recounted by the re T’ere nre a few things to think Included relief In foreign disasters, row confines of the home. Their rt. A co’umn might be written the League of Red Cross Societies, labor wag iven for tho8e (J )ov. didate for mayor in a small town training. Even when she has some port, ranges from fires heading the list „f them. Each Is a part| Dart Junlon Red tQ Cross Foreign Projects, . .. , looked , , , for would have been considered a Joke. Instructon In household, ,tasks she , of destructive forces with 29 disasters, Organizaton Does a Gross Business of lngular Chapter„ and ed . and . . the reward . they Such unimportant things as this almoet never connects cooking with | to mine explosions, tornadoes, ty- similar functions. Besides its disas- va® Purely a spiritual reward. Thus $75,740 for Ytar Ending ‘’’’a project and each helps ter relief, the National Organization we find the sphere of our gTand however Is not the reason wl y we chemistry, food with dietetics, clean- phoons, floods and oatthquakes. wanted suffrage and got it. Here is'illness with sanitation, buying with I Th® Santa Barbara earthquake was ench farmer. Few localities can financed these other branches of for mothers. 1,__ ,, ok i among the outstanding events record- October 31, 1925, one of many why we needed a hand book keeping. She is an amateur . . .. . The Red _ j Cross „ . . boast of so many features that con eign work also, including »110,238.72 , B i ad ln the report. had A thousand questions of service, in law making. and she takes to her home an ama- oompleted eomnl«t<*s its i t « relief m l i e f organization n r p n n i« a t i n n on tribute to their general welfare. for assistance to Insular chapters, unpaid, loving. Intimate, must have A little girt sat In the corner of teur to help who could do so well | the scene within a few hours of the The period of depression Is over or ; *177,450 for the League of Red Cross That the Hermiston Farm Bu -,n „„ „„J th„ f, , , p f , , rs „„,.1, 1 Societies, »84,384.43 for Junior proj- left the strongest kind of mental her father’s law library watching if the housekeeper herself were a disaster, and in addition had launched reau Co-operative did a gross busi . . . . . . clrcnmstanc». ir 6cts «broad, and »80 057 62 for other hablt wake- When women with wide serious eyes a scene the capable commander. Instad she I s ' » program designed to permanently _ . ° W s j Insular and foreign operations. emerged from the seclusion of their like of which was common a genera hopelessly at sea when expected to restore every person affected by It, ness amounting to »75,740 for tha are well considered: In addition to its paramount duty to homesi, when their responsibilities tion ago. The weeping old woman evolve a system of housekeeping all to bis former status once more. year ending October 31, 1925, was The new water contract The Red Cross service in the period the statement made by Sidney Barn, assist veterans and other service men ceased to be entirely domestic, ar.d »nid a story of a dissipated son, a by herself. This irregular state of The new Farm Leader. and their families, and its disaster became somewhat social, in a word. following the wreck of the Navy air shrewish daughter ln law and a affairs has been ca,rfcfully studied ship "Shenandoah” was typical of Its ard, manager, at the annual meet relief, the Red Cross expended at New Experiment Farm. ing of the Co-op. held at the Colum McKay creek water for new lands, i home through Its national and chapter wk€n many began to think, they Btate 0{ servitude on her part—a and Is being well organized for our promptness and effectiveness. Serv bia school house laot Friday even j funds, a total of »10J9.616.05 for its naturally thought in human terms. story pitifully sordid ln its detail. present help. Woman’s place Is In ice ln this Instance was afforded by Umattria Rapids power project. I Public Health Nursing Service; »164,- They couldn’t have thought other- The farm had come to her from her the home. This is a platitude Red Cross chapters ln the vicinity of ing. The report b I iows , the. busi More and better roads. 135.09 for nutrition Instruction; »314,- wise If they tried. When she came father’s estate. For forty years she which no woman will ever dissent the wreck, and by representatives of ness to be in excellent oondltlon, the Better conditions for farmers. 422.76 for First Aid and Life Saving; lnto a generaton which Is reaching national organization. It demon building and equipment being val p r o v i d e d two words the Established results of Experiment »445,707.34 for Junior Red Cross; pMa()nate handa toward democracy had tolled iblde by side with li^sr f r o m strates graphically the value of each ued nt »2175 with a balance of »33» husband getting a simple but com are dropped out of It. Woman’s of the more than 3,000 chapters of ! »132,769.88 for Instruction ln Home . . . . ... , . , station. Hygiene and Care of the Sick; and t»®«**** <hese “®w ldaaIs- fortable living from the soil. Tlxkn place is home. Her task Is home the society which are at work In vir being due on the building. The net Economic conference. carried on similarly Important home When men could do little more than the husband died. Under the will making. But home Is not contain tually every part of tho country, In assets or profits including the 2 per Assistance of O. A. C. dutle-s. Included in the latter were ! theorize women were able easily and the son Inherited the farm and ed ln four walls bf an individual the facility they afford the national .cent returnable to members totals Treat Northwest Development. »2419, according to the report. C. I such valuable services as the Enrolled effectively to act. That the mass (everything on it— house, furniture, house. Home is the community. organization in emergencies. ' Farm Bureau Co-operative. I Nurses’ Reserve, for which the Na- women are invariably found on ! barn, cattle, tools, etc. Even the There were 61 domestic disaster op M. Jackson and Henry Sommerer The city full of people Is the fam erations reported in which the Red Better Farming. "e0“ 1. ° T , " 1ZB“O.n. ^ . e“d' d J ? - 5/ the dide of new Ideals. Is no evi- were reelected directors for a two 562.64; while other national opera-I V"' ¡money ln the bank was his. A ily. More fertilization. Cross rendered service either through yeai’ term on the board of directors. tlons at home amounted to »302,957.64. denoe of their moral superiority to ciau8e In the will provided that the The public school ls the real nur chapter or national staff personnel More Cows. The regular meeting of the Farm The chapters, ln addition to the large men. It Is merely evidence of their gon should give his mother a home sery and badly do home and family during the year. In 34 of these the More Hens. Bueau followed the meeting of the part they played In all Red Cross intellectual youth. during N4r lifetime. So here she rational organization appropriated a and the nursery need their mother More Asparagus. activity, spent J678.000 of their own total of »3,047,256.49, the greater por Co-op and H. K. Dean of the experi New social Ideals are different was after a life of hard work and We think of a community where More Melons. funds on general chapter services. for men to acquire ln a pradtical loving service, shorn of everything; men and women divide the work of tion of which was received as direct mental farm spoke on the relative More Home Gardens. The broad humanity o.’ the Ameri contributions for the relief ot speci value of different varletl-ee of alfal can Red Cross can never be measured way, because their minds are fill a pauper, an unpaid servant in the governing and administering, each fied disasters. The relief operations fa on the project. He said Grimm More Hogs and Sheep. ed with old traditions, Inherited house of another woman— her son’s according to his special capacity by the money It oosts, but even in following the northern Ohio tornado Better Maiketlng. bare terms of dollars and cents, the memories, outworn theories of law, wife. Wag it true that the law took and natural abilities. The division of June, 1924, were brought to a close showed highest yield with 6.94 tons Tnw Testing Association. scope of Its work is Indicated. A government and social control. They her home away from her, the farm of labor between them Is on natural in May, 1925, after an arrangement per acre with a one per cent kill More Eeayly Potatoes. study of these facts also shows the cannot t rld of theBe at once. that descended to her from her and not conventional lines. Note had oeen made with the Lorain chap last Winter. Some of the tender More Berries. necessity for the largest possible en ter to provide expert services to the varieties showed a kill of 80 to SI More Co-oeration. rollment, since Red Cross service Is Women, on the other hand, have few fathr? the house she had lived ln the Inventiveness of women, most families ot any tornado sufferers who per cent. Principal Hough spoke on antiques to get rid of. Until recent since childhood? Could nothing be of which goes to waste because they More Booftlng. maintained almost entirely by Ks required such assistance In the next the matter of free text books ln the lack the wonderful constructive abil two years. In this single disaster the membership. The annual Invitation ly thlelr minds, scantily furnished done. More Confidence. irchools, stating that after Investigat j to participate ln this work through with a few personal prejudices and The aged judge shook his head ity of men. relief work, as finally accounted, ing, the books would cost less than membership ln the American Red preferences, were bare of community sadly. ‘‘You see Mrs. Grant,’ he reached a total of »1,019,751.23. Women Invented spinning. They COLD SPRINGS ITEMS Cross, Is extended from Armistice ideals or any social theory. When explained, "the farm has never really could never have harnesBcd the1 The mid-western tornado of this half the present price. The meeting Day, November 11, to Thanksgiving, they awoke and found themselves been yours since your marriage, for lightning to their wheels. Women year, covering a strip of territory 400 passed resolutions to be submlttd to Mr. and Mrs. J. Templeon and November 26. ln need of a social theory It was only then It became by law your hus. established the first public play miles long Involved an expenditure logtalotarg favorng tho free text Frank Rack were Cold Springs vis- up to June 30 of »774,000, while the natural that they should choose the band’s property precisely as If he ground. Men extended the play total amount turned in to the fund book Idea. Mr. Jackson tolld of tors Sunday. meeting wth some of the association Red Cross First A id most modern, the most progressive, had bought It. He had a right to grounds across the country. thr°U^ Bt? ’ en““? Red, C^ ’ lm«lon '«rowers of Irrigon on a pro- the most Idealistic. They made leave It to whom he would. No Womn established the juvenile was »2,645,000. In addition to this i “ .. . E. E. Shaw was a Pendleon visi Popular in America their choice unconsciously, and they doubt he did what he thought was court. Men took It over and worked sum specifically collected for the pur : PM‘“>n of going ln with that organ- tor Monday and Tuesday of this pose, the Red Gross had expended ! Nation in the raising and marketing A s Accidents Gain began the application of their new for your own good. I wish I could out a new system of criminal juris- from week. Its regular Reserves »124,000. melons, on the advice o fthe county I found theory, almost automatically. help you but I cannot, the law is In ail these disasters, Red Cross agent action in the matter wan de (Contlnued on page four) The play apparatus for the school I The rapidly mounting toll from The machinery that they employed| Inacorable in these matters, workers have been impressed by the reirred until the arrival of the pro- ~ T~ ' ---------- -- - ■ ■ ■ ---- -------------- ground have come and are being traffic accidents has brought home to - — spirit of determination and hopeful iect leader In December. A com tbe public tbe necessity ot being pre ness shown by the people. Once they erected by Harla Taera. A new flag recovered from their grief and bewil mittee wag appointed ln the matter. pole with a new flag also constitutes pared to render prompt assistance while awaiting tbe doctor. During the derment, they began at once to re Mr. Jackson stated that perhaps the the Improvement ot the ground and past year 356 chapters of the Ameri build, materially and otherwise, and rrlgon people would hesitate to Join building. can Red Cross were Instructing always on a better scale where possi with Hermiston growers uniess as classes ln First Aid, and la the same ble. Another significant feature of sured of the growers here pro Superintendent J. A. Yeager vis period certificates were issued to these occurrences, as noted in the re ducing stork of the same quality as port of the Red Cross, was the prompt ited the Cold Springs school one day 20,601 persons qualified by Red Cross experts. ness with which tbe local chapters theirs. A resolution was offered ir.«t week. Many cities throughout the United organized emergency relief before and passed petitioning the county States are showing Interest In secur help could be received from outside ! court to resurface the Dlugonal road ing first aid instruction for their po sources. A direct effect of their ex- ¡ leading out of Hermiston to the east, lice and fire department personnel, «JUMfa Bird Told Me.M ample has been to stimulate disaster Henry Ott spoke on the advisabll- In early days superstitious people and through the work of local chap y lle f preparedness among chapters ' „ puttln llp gtlm. Bnd offered ters, practical results have been ob all over the country. ,, . . . in . favor of . con- paid considerable attention to the birds » .v . n . ’ figures and . facts tained ln such cities as Washington, and tbelr different cries, which were be Tho services of the American Red j D C.; Toledo, O.; Boston, Maas.; Cross are performed Invariably ln the ,:r*te »ling ns being the best ad.ipt- lleved to foretell eventa Thus comes name of the American people. On the j 7or thiB p; 'it the country. The tlie old saying. “A little bird told me." South Bend and Indianapolis, Ind.; Port Arthur, Texas, and other commu effectiveness ot this representation i Bureau vot- ; t ' purchase forms says the London Dally Mail. during the past year. It will launch which cost t1 • ci-hborhood of Traces of thia belief are to be found nities. In co-operation with the State the ninth annual roll pall this year j each f .. ¡,c in onr own Old Testament, where verse authorities. Intensive training in first 10 end 12 foot on November 11, to continue unt" l»||„g w. r-h tr.c 20 of chapter 10 of Ecclesiastes speak» aid and rescue methods has been r ny prccufls given to State police and constabulary Thanksgiving, November 24, during of “for a bird of the air shall carry ’’ a, Th re is up t in putt’ - eir members at four State training which support through membersnlp the voice, and that which hath wing» i me ,...g i of a good ’ H ir Will be Invited for 1926. ■hall tell tbe matter." It ls generally schools. Instruction in those subjects in tho I in ■id of ’ate and ggreed that It is from this belief in the What Becomes of Red Cross Sweaters muc’ good i-, universal -knowledge of birds—whlci. public and private schools, colleges ’cd *< be S ':im - and universities has increased during Wbat becomes of the sweaters pllshcd th- •.omit; yer- of course, are supposed to see every which the American Red Cross has thing from tbe sky—that we get this the year. Attention has been given to training teachers at institutes and asked for? In the first place, they are •eying. summer schools. needed for the 30,000 disabled veter- LOCAL REBEKAE The Red Cross first oid railroad car an*, still ln hospitals this winter, the I N S i/ LO^GE C /er< ym d n s ifo r iM M ATaJker bag been in continuous operation garments being In great demand. The It covered An Anglican clergyman. Rev. Canon throughout the year. surplus left from the war has been The local Rebekah lodge JourneT- Charles Griffiths of Bristol, England 10.340 miles, visiting 1S7 cities, where exhausted since the Armistice, hence wan the proprietor of a prosperous 1.200 meetings were conducted by the the new call for tbe sweater-knitters ed to Boardman W-dnesday night manufacturing business in the Earn surgeons, with a total of 14dgt7' to resume their needles, a call already! wheiv they Installed a lodge of the being met. end of London, the publication of his people. order ln that town. The local degree Industries particularly have availed will discloses, tbe New York Times Th. American Red Cross serves In""'"' Put °" ,ho work *n • credlt- •ays. The business. the^pRppfssture-i themselves of the Instrnetlon afforded yonr name; you can make It more a,)le manner. of harness for tradesmen's horses. 'wS's hr thw Red Cross. The Western W ee effective by adding your name to Its; __ , established In 1750. and was left to tr,c Company, for example, reports n membership during tbs Roll Call, HERMISTON LOSES TO ATHENA the canon by the will o f a relative 12 reduction of the accident rate per Nsv. 11-26. yean ago. The canon Is said to have LOOS em been • generous employer, and the Hermiston high foot ball business grew to large proportions un- lost the font ball game Arm 1st tee L. H. Berry w ent to Yakima on der his snpertMon. j U fino» Is reported In the Blue Day to Athena high by a score of Tuceday retRrnirg mountains at Meacham by tourists. 8 to 0. 16 ANNUAL MEETING HELD FRIDAY O 0 - ' F a ll C o lo r in g t 1