East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-01-22

expressed himself to this effect in his
speeches during his campaign and
his speeches won many votes from
thinking men. He is the type of man
the common people wish to see in
office and he is a good man to send
to Washington March 4-on which
day we will get a president holding
the old time faith that this should be
land of freedom and of opportunity
for all and who is going to restore
that vision of our fathers or know
the reason why.
BY the death of Ella Ewing. a Mis-
souri, giantess, the subject of giants
and giantesses is
Eight Feet brought to the front
Three Inches. for discussion. The
st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch rises to the occasion by securing
all the information it can upon the
subject.
! The true giant class has included
many hundreds of men, but few wom-
en-. asserts the P.-D. Data as to any
woman who exceeded Miss Ewing's
height, about 80 inches, are as re-
liable as those on which NJ. Henrion
pretended to figure that Eve must
have been 11S feet inches tall Anna
Swan, who went through the Barnum
museum fire in New York in 1864;
Elizabeth Stock of South Carolina,
Elizabeth Fairman of Kent, England;
Anna Hardy of Lincolnshire, Angelina
Melius. American giantess," who ap-
peared in London in 1921, accompani-
ed by a Manila dwarf; Miss Cooke,
Englishwoman, and Miss West ''of
North America" were none of them
more than Sc inches.
Charles Byrne, whose skeleton is
preserved in an English medical mu
scum, was 100 inches tall; McGrath.
orphan giant" brought up by Bishop
Berkeley, was 90; Josef Winkelmaier
Austrian, about whom much was
heard 25 years ago, and Cotter, were
} 103, and Chang, Chinese giant, was
80. Kink Og, Noachian giant, was 50
tall he is said to have escaped the
flood by wading along in the wake of
} the Ark. No adoption of nature to
environment, however, accounts for
the tallest Missourian that ever lived.
! Her part of the state was remote from
} the district affected by river floods.
Many of those in the short-lived giant
class continue to grow, as Miss Ewing
Is said to have done, until the day
} of their death.
Missouri's tallest woman, accord
ing to the Post Dispatch, was of ad-
mirable disposition. She was eminent
J ly feminine and her standards were
those of the we'll brought up Ameri-
can country girl. She was 3S years of
age when she died.
BY order of the provisional COVER
nor of Shanghai Chinese woman was
shot to death for vio-
China's lation of the national
EarneStness. edict of the new repub-
lie against indulgence
in the opium habit.
The news sounds brutal and to some
it will constitute proof that the Chi
nese are too barbaric for self govern
ment But the best Interpretation of
the affair is that the Chinese people
have awakened to the awful effects
of opium and are going to crush the
habit even if to do so they must slay
the opium users. The action of the
officers at Shanghai shows with what
tragic earnestness the new republic is
undertaking this great reform and it
should make the world take notice.
If China is to become great she
must do so through the strength Of
the Chinaman as an individual and a
citizen. No nation however large or
how wealthy can be strong if in their
private lives and in physical and mem
tai vigor the people are weak. The
republican officials realize this fact
and their first great crusade is
against opium. When they have
crushed that dragon under heel they
will have done much toward the
awakening of their people and the
strengthening of their government.
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Woodrow Wilson realizes he will
have so many serious things to do
when he becomes president he will
have no time for frills and fuss. The
diplomatic service and the army and
navy will have to do the spectacular
parading during the next few years
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Certainly no man will be considere |
coward when he runs from vol
cano.