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.1EN FROM OREGON
OFFICIALLY HELD
NATION'S CLEANEST
Surgecn-Gentral Blue Wires
Fact is Disclosed in First
1.CC0.0C0 Camp Reports.
Only Fifty nine Hundredth! of One Per
Cent Found to Have Verereai Dis
ease on Arrival at Cantonments.
6urgeon General'! Official
Telegram
Oreson Social Ilyu'ene Society,
Tin Selling Bltlg , Portland.
A tabulation of out million
reports first received from
camp surgeon! throughout the
country (horn that Oregon
Hads th country with a rate
of fifty nine hundredth of one
per cent found to have a vener
eal disease on arrivliiu lu
camp. !t is hoped that Oregon
can t-nntinu vigorous, meusurts
In combating T!nreal diseases
during the period of demobili
sation and thereafter
RL'PJlRT fiU.E.
Oregon men, called to the color
during the greatest of all war, were
physically the oleanut in the entire
United States Army.
Such is not the mere boast of any
citiun of thin state, backed only by
a high sense of local pride, but It it
the established record of the t'ntted
States Army, communicated to the
Orwaon Social Hygiene Society by
Rupert Blue, Surgeon (leneral, thus
giving it the greatest possible weight.
As will be seen by perusul of the
foregoing telegram from SurKeon
General Blue, a tabulation of l.tlOO.OMO i
of the first reports received from i
camp surgeons places Orenon in the j
lead w'ith a rale of fifty nine hun- i
dredths of one per cent (which means j
less than six men to the thousand I, 1
or, compared with another wire from j
him. this state's standing is hut a ;
fraction lower than 18 times ahead of ;
the state with the highest per cent of I
infection, which was eight and nine ;
tenths per cent (eighty nine men to
the thousand).
This constitutes one of 'lie grandest j
and proudest records of the whole war j
period and, great as has been this
states part in all patriotic endeavors. ;
nothing could fill the lieurts of its j
people with a higher degree of pride j
than the official acknowledgment from j
the National Capital that Oregon s
men stoiid far and away above all
others in clean manhood.
"That the work of the Oregon So
rial Hygiene, Society, carried forward
for Imt seven years, should produce
Ruch magnificent results, is a subject
of the most gratifying kind to the
(nt 1 ra Hoard." said Kxecuthe Secre
tary Cummins. "Every one of Ihe
mun who hava worked so hard to
bring about the. result regard this of
flcial notification from th Surgeon
General as a complete vindication of
Ihe program nought to be carried for
ward in this state. That the public
will respond to sane, clear facts, right
ly presented, is also demonstrated
beyond doubt. Kducators. who have
assisted greatly in the work, may well
feel that )oung men under their tute
lage will absorb the benefit to be de
rived from infoi mution along physio
logical lines, rightly administered,
lareuts must no see plainly that
their children should have the truth
s to their physical beings and that,
baring this, untold good will result '
"Future generations, following, are
hound to demonstrate the benefits ol
Oregon's clean manhood, as set forth
officially," commented A. K, KUel
president of Ihe Society. "This rec
out cannot be overestimated. It ii t
llorlous achievement."
"The full significance of the official
announcement from Dr. Blue is dif
tieult to grasp," said Adolpha Wolfe,
treasurer of the Society. "Dealing as
it does with human life and morals, II
Is, in a larger sense, more important
than many other at hievements, not to
jstract one whit from any o! them.
At the outset, many good people
doubted Ihe ability of the Oregon So
cial H)giene Society to accomplish
worth while results. t think now.
however, no further comment need
be had. Surgeon General nine's tele
gram is sufficient."
Lieutenant Colonel I'. C. Field, di
vision surgeon of the 91st Division at
Camp Lewis, has officially credited
Ihe splendid record made by Oregon
men to the educational work that lias
been and is being done by tint Oregon
social Hygiene Society.
I Growers Congress Postponed
No (lute has been pet for the con
gress of Northwestern apple grower;",
originally scheduled for I 'ecember 10
at Spokane but postponed because t f
llu inllueiiza epidemic. It is row
tnought that the meeting-, which was to
have discussed a proposed standariza
tion of Northwestern graTng r lies,
will be held sonietime in January.
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I'uare S. Soii.erv lie, s..r, if
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. S. S..n irviHe, who
fern.trl r.e?eV'i here but at present
are Portland itlet.t, has written his
(arents interestingly of his recent
gi;tnses lr.to Japan.
He tiit et.hsted in the Ordnance
I'ciaitment ami vas later sect to
Camp Kreenu-i t, being assigned to the
l'-il'fi Ord::ai.ce Ivp-t Company. He
left Camp Fret-meet SepU mtwr 1 to,
join the AiuetUan L"pe.iitioi,ary Force
Otdnatee lepaflnut.t depot in Sii eria.
From "On the Sea f Ja(an' he
writes:
' Yei-terriay we reached Hakodate, :
Yesso Island, Japan. We caught our j
hist glimpse of land at d Japan Satur-1
day noon. Mu.day morning 1 got up at .
i o'clock, ju:-t m time to see a most
woi.ltrful sut. rise. In the west the
biautiful full miKin was still up. We
had the wonderful effect of moonlight
and sunrise en the ocean, with the
beautiful mom, tan s to break the mo
notony of the unchanging' sea. About i
o'clock we droppeo anchor in Hako
date harbor.
"Hakodate has a population of about
;ci,ooo inhabitants. '1 lie shipping-, for
a town of its size, is very large. !
About on1 Vessels enter that port dur
ing a sea.son.
"When we liropped anchor in Hako
date harbor the natives came out in :
i-anipans, small Japanese lioats a little ;
larger than our row boats, and quite '
crude in construction. I hey sold fruit
and cookies. We biter went ashore. ;
We were the first American soldiers to j
land at thi't po.t. The people were
very hos-i .tabic, sui'ie of them taking !
the boys, to their homes and giving j
tin m si inetliing to eat. '
"1 was most impressed by the count- j
less number of children. They appear i
to be very bright and chetry. They j
stem to play as our children play. I
noticed two groups of children playing i
American panics. The children, as i
well as the grownups, were very much i
interested in the soldiers. On walking j
down street I found myself the object j
of lu or 12 children. They ran in j
front of in e, laughing and chattering j
like so many monkeys.
"After going about a block, my lit
tle llock increasing like a rolling; snow
ball, 1 began to feel the red of a
I healthy blush creeping up from m
ji.tck to my forehead. 1 finally g"t
i away from them. 1 w as not the onh
soldier w ho bad that experience, so 1
was comforted. 1 enjo e l their cheer
fulness and good will, however. Sev
eral of the soldiers stopped and played
ball with the little hoys.
"On the Island of Yesso there are
about L'fl.luKi Ainus, the original people
of what is now called Japan. There
are very few of them left now. Their
experience uas similar to that of our
Indians. They wire driven north by
the Japs in early days anil slaughtered
in gteat numbers.
"All tlio.-e left of the race are now
on Yc.-'s.i Island. They ate savages,
but peaceful and gentle. They have
no education or industry. They live
wild and depeml on game for their liv
ing. They have no written language or
alphabet. Theyjiave a dialect of their
own. Seme speak poor Japanese. I
h uld like very much to explore this
wonderful island for a couple of months
and visit the settlements of these peo
ple, who still live a primeval life, but
are so peaceful, gentle and hospitable,
"VYe left Hakodate this morning and
have been sail.ug towards Otaru, on
tiie same i.-la nil. Otaru is a great, coal
port. We will get coal there. Fiom
there we will go to Vladivostok, a two
days' run.
Kid ward Van Hoin, on the night be
fore the arm stice was signc:l, received
lis commission as captain, lie had
recently relumed to bis regiment, the
li-'ith Artillery, after ins!:uetion at n
Kreticli artillery school.
Writing; to his mother, Mm. Willis
Van Horn, now in Niagara Kalis, No
vember Rl, Capt. Van Horn said:
"I have recently had the pleasure of
staiting a good many tons of steel on
; Ihe way to the bet nc. I am writing
this in a dugout, seme 2i feet below
j the earth's su'rlace, It was pretty good
j to be heie a few days ago, when the
boche were shelling- us, Imt not so
pleas nit new. My telephone is here
l io.d iiiv blankets in a corner. I wi1!
have to be here a few days longer, I
I iruess. "
j After a furlough bete with his
m., it her, Mrs. Alice 'oilman, Louie
j Pullman has returned to the (lout l.-l
; . :d i aval station at San Francisco.
! Youm; 'oilman has been in the navy
, the past four years, having spent the
gtea'er part of the term m the Orient,
i ;i"The limit of our war experience,"
I he says, "has been patrolling the livers
of (.'tuna, and our only encounters have
I been with pirates. This was fairly
! exciting-, but not a man of us but
l.mged to get a transfer to the Atlan-
tic, v here we might have had our
! chance at the hun."
! Lieut. Haroll ,1. Blackmail is the
; fir-t Hood River officer to reach home,
; inlawing his demobilization from ser
! vice. Lieut. Blackinan, who received
j his commission last summer, following
I a course of instruction at Fortress
j Monroe, Va., was with a coast artil
! lerv regiment, at Camp F.ustace, Va.,
' ,.Mi;liog embarkation for overseas duty
! when news of the armistice came.
Lieut. Black man, mustered out at
; Fortress Monroe, reached home Thurs-
! Ilerboit S. Field, in a letter to his
partner, Hal Nesbit, says that the limit
; of his actual battle experience' was
I reached when the hur.s shelled the
itown in which his unit was stationed.
Boche flyers, too, he stated, (lew over
'the tow ii one day and lired machine
j guns, killing two civilians.
Mr. Field was engaged in clerical
work with Headquarters Company of
, the o22d Infantry at the time he wrote.
! In a letter to his mother. Mrs. J. F.
I llatcht'Wer, Lieut. George Katchelder,
vvlio has completed training at a
1 French Hying school, says that he w as
S assigned to duty as ferryman, that is,
: dying; plant s from a testing point near
I Paris to different parts of the front.
! The letter was w ritten November 7.
I ieut. Katchelder writes that he
finished his air training without the
'least accident, although three of his
'comrades were killed by falls.
I K. E. Johnson has received a letter
written bv his cousin, Lieut. Howard
Johnson, just before the signing of
the armistice, which states that the j
1 voung aviator had just received his Ii- j
cense as fighting pilot and expected,
after a few days' further training, to
go to the front for combat with the
hun.
S In a letter to his mother, Mrs. Min
nie J. Vonder Ahe, Karl Vonder Ahe
says that training has not in the least
.eased on the patrol ship. Chow, on
which he is stationed to inspect Lewis
machine guns. Mr. Vonder Ahe, who
i has been stationed since the spring of
i l!T7 at the Goat Island station, says
he wt-U uintii the charge to sea ilut.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. I.araway trunk
their son. Tt.urtoii, of the i aval medi
cal reserve corps, en route to t'..r-pean
waiers. His shin, the MatM-ru. saiied
Friday, I'ecemler i, aovnM g to their
la.-t Utter.
Local friends have just received
word from Mrs. V. K. Abraham, h
is v is. ting her parents at Forest drove,
that her bust ard, Ma). Abraham, is en
route home from France. Mat. A bra-:
barn wet t overseas w !th the Advance
Sihiul Hetachrnet.t of the UthOivi-1
Sim., w hich rev t r got oi'-pss. He was,
in France about six wttks. J
"It is merely a matter of weeks be-'
fore we w ill tie back in Homl River," j
says .Mrs. Abraham m he letter.
Howard Cooper, who has been in
charge of the souad engaged in the
study of steam engineering at the 1'el
! ham Hav, N. Y.. schsd of the navy,
has been promoted to a course of :n
tensive study at Stevens Academy at
Hoboken, N. J. The out.g man's par
en's. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Cooper, have
, been informed by the I't lham Bay cum
, matitlant that young; Cooper is the
youngest man ever to have been simi
larly honored, ami his grade is the
highest attained in a similar examina
tion. i Young Copper is 21 years old.
"1 would certainly appreciate a lit
tle snappy, frosty, weather, such as
we always Jget in Hood hiver about
; this season," says William Tollman,
navy man stationed at San I'iego, Cal.,
I to his mother, Mrs. 1'. A. Tollman.
; "The weather we have down here is
j like that of a Hood River Fourth of
j Juiv."
Sgt. Hoyd I., trench, member of
the (il'th Regiment. Coast Artillery,
which had just completed training- and
was preparingto move up to the front
when the armistice was signed, in a
letter to Mr. and Mrs. (ieo. H. Lynn
writes that be has been made mess
sergeant of his company. Sgt. Fiench,
formerly a member of 12th Co., says
his men, now that the tight is over, are
all longing to get back to the North
west. Kenneth McKay, former manager of
the Hood River Fruit Kxchange, who
has been in the Spruce Production di
vision, having- recently been promoted
to a first class sergeantcy, after de
mobilization at Vaucoiut-r Harrccks,
returned here Monday. Sergeant Mc
Kay, an experienced apple marketer,
contemplates opening an office in Port
land. In a letter to her parents, Mr. and
Mia. I , McDonald, Mrs. Lawrence
Schetky, who has been visiting- rela
tes in Ontario, says she started for
Newport, K. 1., to meet her husband,
a lieutenant aboard the I'. S. S. Flor;.
i a, expected f rom overseas duty before
( hnstinas.
The boys of the t'.rith Artillery now
in France, are among those forces des
ignated for early return to the t'nitcd
States and mustering out. It has
many Hood ICivt r sons in its ranks.
Ciill'ord McDonald, a'brother of Mrs.
Schetky. is stationed at the Newport
Naval .Station and will be able to visit
his sister.
WHAT BOYS SAY
ABOUT RED GROSS
Since the soldiers overseas hnve
been informed by their oflieers tlmi
I be American Red Cross will play San
ta Chins this Christmas for all Ihe
bovs In khaki who have no relatives
ill the 1'niti'd Slates, Red Cross Hend
(pinners ut Washington has been re
elvliig hundreds of iippeals. Inci
dentally the men at the front have
taken this time to express their ap
preciation for the work done by the
Red ( 'ross "( v er There."
Following arc u few excerpts taken
nt random from letters inclosing
Christmas I'aikage Coupons:
"I'far Mr , Miss or Mrs lied i"'rn.s. I
would appreciate It tremendously
appreciate II tremendnusly If yon
would send me a .Vm.is paek.ige I rune
no relative , ami t lntie wimetliiiig from
the good uld t' S A vvoihd he apnrt-.-i-fcted
beyond words. Tne lied Cross Ims
done ho much for us over lieie. mid yon
don't know 1u-t how we nppieclate It
beyond evervthlnv else"
An Italian thus addresses his Chris!
mas appeal :
"To Whom It May Concern. I em b,
rvee In Frame and, having no people
In the I.' lilted Slates, would like to n-
elvs r Hole pin kaKe from the Hed Cross
on Xinsi. I hiii in No Man's Land In a
Ida; woods, mid It Is rail, lug."
"I have been Informed the
will send X mas pa. kages to
lied Crosi.
nv soldier
k..e i on
ll totiHno
I Cros in
1 Si-.iree.y
who Bends them
his
m hi pa
pun 1 have re,,;
ami other thmns fi
my fourteen month:
like to w rite Hiiln.
lei overing fiom w
'd
inn
,'in the lie
, m Pintle.
I h i n In 11 1 e h
splt.ll
il.nds, ami the
with d.ii! p:i
t rocs lutnis'ies us witn d.ii puners.
wriiitifr material, toha
fruits and
reio Poi.
"I have no one else to send tny Xin
i oup.in to. so am sendleii it to yon.
;,er nolee on our -.i!J.-' :Ji hoard IT
! send a package I would appreciate It
if
ou would in, I, ,
would Klltdiy p,i
pose on oii. "I'll
l, i
tor same, for I
It I don't w h nt to ini
- Hed Cross is the best
fliei.d we have."
(hie Red Cross nurse
"Am in, losing tli- e..u
he. mire ali the ho., s hi
I heir packages Hi. si, then
wtiics :
oli, but p'f
Ht the front
'tl ll one is I.
I e'lspei t all
tiling hoi In
i Intl.- ion.-s,,
our appnriii
will appreciate ll, as
others will have som
w hi, h w ill nirike me
VVotils cannot expies.
for the lied floss "
j "The Heel Cross K
great help and
any and every-
! blessu.K to the soldi
where "
i ' Hi of the A. K
I being shown evideu,
i work the lied Cros.s i
! tre'nely thankful."
j "hear Hed cross
- left dear oid Ami-ri
rs
P. are (otisianti
of the wonder!;
doing and are ex
Workers After wr
i-rii-.-i w f tho-ignt ve
i.'. lium v.cir Uocln-ss.
V e i iiiuiot pra-se vou
w er e t ra el in a u a
but we d.d not
too big lily for our wan k,
folk at home to send me
have no
( 'hr i.stmas
package."
"Words catmot express the (doii 1 on
we are under for the work you aie do. tor
to help us Hlong "
"1 ktrovv thev would gieat'y
anv- little remembrnn, e T wi
sin. ereiy thank tiie Hrd Ciuss
kindnesses and henetin iliey
btowed uo-ou our boa."
iippre, iat
sh to mo
for ull in
havs
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Mushrooms Offered For Sale
While many Hood River families
have lonir gathered the delectable
fungi annually, the first mushrooms
ever placed on the local market were
brought to the city last week and sold
by R. A. Collins, bee rancher, to the
Consolidated Mercantile Co. The mush
rooms retailed for "0 cents per pound.
It is said that many bushels of
mushrooms have gone to waste on Co
lumbia lowland farms west of the city
this fall.
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Wi l l III MR! I T I'llONF. 21.U
Why Shouldn't We He Well Pleased
when our efforts to serve the public with Shoes of the
better sort are so generously and increasingly recognized.
Why Shouldn't You Be Well Pleased
when we continue to offer just the ri ' h t Shoes ai a little
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