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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08

once in a while the president takes
the trouble TO call the country's at
tention To the fact that it Is not fight
ing because il hates anybody. but
because democracy and humanity
need our help in the world crisis
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08
PRETTY LAWN PARTY is
GIVEN FOR ECHO CHILD
Mrs. J. r. Jordan Entertains
for Her Son William;
Other Social Notes.

ECHO, June S.--Mrs John r Jor-
dan gave very pretty lawn party
last saturday at her home ON Dale
street in honor of her three year old
SON, William. Eighteen little ones
v.rc present and spent two happy
hours. Miss Reulah Barker and
Tern Long assisted Irs Jordan in
entertaining the children
Mrs r B. Stanfield entertained the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08

a married man says there is evil
IDENTIFY no end to a wife's mind as he
gets a piece OF il every day.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08
NIP WANTED rT7Mu.E

Az INTELLIGENT PERSON MAJ
earn 800 monthly corrrsp pondtrIE
for newspap-rH- $50 20 $50 monthly l.
spare time experience urnecoz1larf.
no cauvasSu-. rIhfe-fs surrsafef
send for rr rt.r1TH-r. National Pres
Bureau. Room H.s5 buffalo. s. -
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08

quiet tone is showing in the hog
market at North Portland with a
small run reported over night. There
Was steady price indicated at the
opening OF the dan with values sub
stant!aily on the same basis as the
previous day.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08

.st Fort sheridan training for service
in Europe.
Elihu Root. Jr.. son Of the former
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08

Bennett Clark, son of Speaker
Champ clark Of the House of Repre-
sentatives, n doing his bit at For,
Myer. Va, with 1000 other recruits
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08
MALE HELP WANTED
INSURANCE AND LAND BUsINEsr

BENTLEY s. MONTGOMERY. REAl
estate. firs. life and accident insur
ance agentA SIS Main street. Phor
Eo4
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08
SECOND HAND DEALERS
HEIP WANTED MALE
AUCTIpNEERS

col ". 2. NDHNKA. AJJrlUN.
eer. makes a speciality Of fzrmsEs
stock and machinery sales TIA
man that gets vru the money Law
nrfia-s - rast r-a-rnian nfNca
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08
CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY
MONTANA FARM I.ANns

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
Lands in eastern Montana at 81 %
to SIS per acre Suitable for farzS-
ing or grazing Easy terms. Poi n
formation write or see W. e Ho1A,
Miles City. Montana
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08

United States Commission 90 Russia.
is at Plattsburg in training for
commission in the United States
Army.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08

shcrp Mnrl,ct Sicaly.
STEADY prices continue in the sheep
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08
usCELLANFoUS

EGAL, BLANKS OF EvEPT uE
=.r puon for county court, cireui
u-t justice court, real estste. et'
ale a, East O-sEnnian office
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08
FUNERAL DRECToRs.

JOHN S. BAKER. FUNERAL Dl
rector and licensed EN- bslmer. OF
posite postoffice. Funeral parloI
two funeral cars. Calls responded {,
day or night Phone rs.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-08

Rr-T1AED C. PARK. JR., SoIIc-
itor of Patents. 14l9 F, st. y. w.
Washington D. c
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
THE HEART OF THE WHEAT

f you take a map of Pennsylva-
vania and, with Harrisburg as a
center, draw a circle to show a
siXty-mile radius from Pennsylva-
MAS capital, you will find that the
counties which the line will touch
or enclose raised about half of the
wheat grown in Pennsylvania this
year. And the crop of this iron and
steel. coal and oil, lumber and
cement-producing Commonwealth
was over $4,000, 900 bushels.
Bearing in mind that the students
of food conditions are urging us to
learn to eat what we raise at home.
there is a great chance for us to do
more. The figures show where we
can refrain in order to furnish of
our abundance for our neighbors and
friends in the trenches and the
camps.
Quite aside from this viewpoint, II
is a matter of pride to know that
within a days journey by steam OF
gasoline we can find the heart of
the wheat belt of Pennsylvania. Ian
caster and York, which border our
county, lead. and Franklin and
Berks, which come next in order, are
only one county away. Next door
neighbors, Cumberland and Lebanon,
are fifth and eighth, respectively, in
the wheat list, and our county stands
twelfth. Perry and Northumberland
are in the first twenty. We raised
half a million bushels alone and
Cumberland over a million.
The Central Pennsylvania counties.
notably those to the south, are the
granary of Pennsylvania. and If re-
ports are correct. will give many
more acres to wheat for 1918 in spite
of the shortage of men who have
gone into war or answered the call
for service in the munition plants
or on the railroads to keep the fight
ing line supplied.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
OUR TOWN NAMES

1t is interesting to discover, from
an examination of the United States
Official Postal Guide, that among
our public men after whom towns
have been named Franklin seems 20
lead in popularity, there being thirty
one Franklins in the country, rs
against thirty Clintons, twenty eight
Washingtons, twenty-six Hamiltons,
twenty-five Madisons and twenty five
Monroes, twenty-three Lincolns,
twenty lone Jacksons. twenty Jeffer-
sons. eighteen Websters and fifteen
Roosevelts. The name which has ap-
pealed most to the town founders,
however, is Union, which. with its
congeners, Unionville, Uniontown,
etc, is applied to ninety-siX towns in
the United States.-From the Out
look.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
EFFECT OF THE WAR
IOmaha Bee |

One of the incidental and unex-
pected effects of the war has been the
restoration of the American mer-
chant marine. Old glory again flies
over ocean commerce to the extent
that 26 per cent of the exports for
July were carried in American bot
toms. A steady increase in shipping
under the American flag has been
noted since the war commenced. This
change was unquestionably stimu-
lated if not entirely brought about
by circumstances which removed the
great fleet of German commerce car
riers from the sea, creating a de-
mand that only American vessels
could fill. At present the larger part
of our ocean traffic is carried between
North and South American ports, al
though the flag once more flies over
ships bound for all part of the
world. The reawakening of this in
dustry promises much for the future.
AS efforts will be made to hold for
eign trade after the war, so will ship
ping be fostered and not be permit
ted to fall out of American control
again. Ship owners have learned one
great lesson of patriotism and may
be expected to apply 1t. to the end
that America will. indeed, become
the greatest among maritime as
among commercial and industrial ma
tions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
TO SAVE RAILROADS

Unless the Interstate Commerce
Commission has become a nuisance
to the country instead of benefit,
1t will this week, without haggling
over trivialities, order an increase in
freight rates. This is one of the big
questions of the hour-one of the
vital measures for keeping our coun-
try intact while it wages a great for
eign war.
Strangling the railroads means
eventually suffocating all trade and
commerce. Gripping transportation
lines to the point of making them in
capable of hauling the nations traf-
Tic is such utter folly that there can
be no defense for it.
The /. G. G. has all the figures in
its own office unless the /. G. C. has
neglected it's own business. 1t knows
exactly what the roads have earned,
what they have taken in, and what
they have paid out. What, then, is
the use of unwinding miles of rcd
tape in order to come at these very
sta tistics from another sources
The country is in no humor for
trifling. 1t sees now the ruination
from policy of strangling the rail-
roads, because to-day the railroads
have not sufficient equipment, owing
to that strangling process. to handle
the nations business.
So unless the |. G. G. is to be
classed among the forces that arc
helping Germany in it's war upon the
rest of the world it will Immediately
enable the American railroads to do
what the American people demand
of them-which is to carry their
shipments quickly, safely, and as
cheaply as possible, after making a
fair profit - Evening Telegraph,
Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
PLAYING WITH FIRE

n LAYING with fire is costly
business. Carelessness in permit
ting rubbish to accumulate and
reckless handling of fire started the
blaze that, spreading to the adjoining
garage of the Harrisburg Automo-
bile Company, caused the blameless
owners of that building and its con-
tents heavy loss in money and incon-
venience due to the destruction of
many business and pleasure cars
stored there.
We are not strict enough in our
fire precaution requirements. State
Fire Marshal Port is doing an ex-
cellent educational work. He is teach
ing the people the folly of trifiing
with fire. But his authority is limit
ed and the force at his command
cannot be expected to patrol the
whole State. What we need in Har-
risburg, for example, is an ordinance
that would give the fire chief wider
powers than he nows enjoys. There
should be no deterrent fear of too
severe punishment for negIectful
property owners. Stiff fines, with i'm
prisonment for repeated offenses
would do much to induce careless
tenants to mend their ways. II
wouldn't be so bad if the property
of the offenders only were at stake
but unfortunately, the man respon-
sible for fire is often the smallest
loser, while wholly blameless persons
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
CRUEL, CRUEL WAR;

TRUEL, cruel war! Having
threatened our liberties and as
sailed our institutions 1t now
butts unceremoniously into the sa-
cred precincts of our own private
preserves. We use the word advis-
edly, for has not the Draft Board
just stepped in and deprived the
community of it's champion apple
butter boiler? Hearing no vote in
it has. And a few thoughtless-if
not heartless-reporters, who, doubt
less, take their three a day from the
bars of the quick-lunch parlors, and
therefore know not the delights and
blessings of applebutter, have dared
to jeer.
We tell you it's mighty serious,
this intruding of the mere business
of soldier-making upon the rights
and privileges of the applebutter
boilers at this, the very height OF
their busy season. Almost anybody
can be n soldier, but how many of
us can boil applebutter; We ask you
that? And yet. along comes the
Draft Board and says the champion
applebutter maker of the York
County applebutter belt must fore
sake his big black kettle. lay aside
his long-handled stirrer, let his
crooks yawn with emptiness and his
cider turn to vinegar, while he goes
hence to training camp to hike up
and down the livelong day at the be-
hest of an arbitrary top sergeant. to
whom, in his gay and careless
young life, the best applebutter ever
boiled means nothing, absolutely
nothing.
No wonder the American people
are wroth with the Kaiser. No won
der they are buying Liberty Bonds
by ever-increasing millions. We
know now why Edison is working
overtime on inventions designed to
blow Germany over the Alps. It's
because the Prussians have begun TO
trifle with our bread and butter.
Things have reached a pretty pass
when the German Imperial govern
ment comes between us and our ap-
plebutter supply. Emperor "Bill' is
due to learn that there are some
things we simply won't stand, and
this is one of them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
MIR. ATTERBURY, who has been
ML nnnrn tinn ,,inn r,rnnidnn4 ~

n N r. ATTERBURY, who has been
W operating vice-president of
the Pennsylvania Railroad,
has been requested by the Secretary
of War to assume the important du-
ties of director general of railways
in France for service of the great
American army in the world war.
AS director general of railways in
France for American service Mr.
Atterbury will report directly to the
commander chief of the Ameri-
can forces and operations in that
country.
The big proposition is to be
worked out in quick time. 1t means
the creation of additional railroad
facilities in France from chosen sea
ports to the battle front to transport
American troops, equipment and
supplies. The existing French rail-
roads are now pressed to their capa-
city. Therefore, the work set for
Mr.. Atterbury is first to create and
equip a railroad system, equal tc
the task it must perform, then to
operate and maintain 1t.
Fitted For the Task
1t is pointed out that upon the
dispatch and effectiveness with
which the work is performed de-
pends very largely the success OF
failure of the American war opera
tions in cooperation with the Allied
forces to crush German militarism
Mr.. Atterbury is man of decision
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Senator James P. McNichol has
been moved to the house of a friend
in the suburbs of Philadelphia ard
stood the trip fairly well.
Senator Charles II. Kline writes
to friends in this city that he eX-
poets to win the Allegheny county
iudgeship fight in which he is en-
gagged.
Senator f. E. Jones, who has a
son in the Lafayette air squadron in
France. says he wishes he knew how
TO ny himself as he would like TO
be in the fight.
Senator w. NJ. Lynch, who has
been reelected uperintendent OF
Farview, says that he plans to finish
new buildings next year and to do the
work well in spite of high prices.
Senator II. L. Haldeman, who
has served in the National Guard
since 1t was reorganized, plans to
visit some of the southern canton
ments this fall.
Senator Frank e. Baldwin is
making Liberty Loan speeches in
the northern tier.
Senator c. w. Sones says he is
too busy with his big enterprises to
run for governor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22

and action, demonstrated in his
handling of many difficult problems
In the conduct of the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
Mr.. Atterbury is a little more than
81 years old and in the prime of
physical and mental vigor. When
A. j. Cassatt jumped him over others
IT was to clear the Pennsylvania
Railroad of such congestion as was
seriously troubling travellers and in
terrupting the operations of indus
tries dependent upon the company
for transportation. Mr.. Atterbury
quickly brought order out of chaos.
He is now scheduled to undertake
In France probably the biggest Job
any railroad man ever had to con-
front. His training and knowledge
will stand him in good stead. Mr.
Atterbury knows a railroad and its
operating functions from the ground
up. He understands all about loco
motives, cars, tracks, signal systems
and operating practice. He knows
exactly what can be got out of given
facilities, over q railroad line,
whether single or double tracked
Will Spend Millions.
Our government has backed con-
tracts for three hundred locomotives
to be rushed to France. It is about
to issue rush orders for $50, 900 tons
of steel rails to go there. Contracts
have been placed for spikes. Many
other things will be needed. When
they get to France they will have to
be put together. Repair shops, loco
motive roundhouses and coaling sta
tions must be built to make the sys-
tenn complete.
The understanding is that the
American engineer corps, now in
France, will be greatly augmented
and put under the American director
general of railroads. Probably fur
ther necessary supplies from tho
United States will be ordered BY
him, and certainly upon his requisi
ton. AS matters appear now he
will have supervision of the expendi-
ture of tens of millions of dollars in.
side of a few months, and coinci.
IDENTIFY of the organization of com.
plete operating force for the Ameri.
can service railroad system. to bc
created in France for the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
IN OTHER CRISES

TN another part of this page there
have appeared nightly brief sem
tences designed to remind Harris
burg people of the standing of their
city and what is their duty in order
to make it advance and to stimulate
by reference to this community in
other days the enterprise and pa
triotism of its residents to-day. In
the researches necessary to ascer-
tain the facts set down from day to
day; from reading in books labori-
ously penned, study of records and
comments by travellers; perusal of
"reminiscences and autobiographies
and the scanning of newspapers of
one whole century and part of that
which went before. it has never
been found where Harrisburg Jagged.
Those lines in John f. Barrett's
Pennsylvania" song
Faithful in the crucial morning of
the young Republics life"
are singularly applicable to Harris
burg. 1t was the boast of the men
of Harris Ferry and Paxton during
the Revolution that there were no
Tories here. F'armer-fighters who
held the Blue Ridge and kept the In
dians of the northern country out of
the lower Susquehanna valley laid
down their lives on Long Island and
before Quebec and it was long said
Of John Harris that he got rich be-
cause he had faith to take in eX-
change for grain and cattle and skins
the continental currency. When the
Revolution ended there was hardly
Il house in this section that did not
have paper for gold or silver or sup
plies furnished the Congress.
In the War of 1912 the people
here advanced money to the govern
ment when the British were burn
ing Washington and the sons of
Dauphin were marching to York. The
first bank in Harrisburg was a big
supporter of the government and
among its first investments were ma
tural securities.
From that day until the outbreak
of the Civil War no call by federal
authorities ever found a deaf ear in
Harrisburg, and during the war of
the rebellion it was in this city that
Jay Cooke found staunch friends and
banks were proud to show how many
of their customers had bought gov
ernment bonds. Money came from
stockings and chimney corners to
buy and the faith that shone in the
dark hours of the Revolution bright
ened the weary months of the war
for the Union.
Harrisburgs record in giving men
is high in the list of patriotic mu-
inequalities. Its spirit has been COM
mented upon in many States. 1t
will not be more sparing of its dol
lars than of its sons" in 1917. His
tory shows that it has never failed
in any crisis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
SEASON OF PROMISE.

The season swells with promise.
Time has placed
A pillar of bright fire before our
eyes.
Our manhood answers, lifting to
the skies
Uncompromising foreheads strangely
graced
With starry luster. Turning from
the waste
OF slothful deserts and of easy life,
We bear the sword and march into
the strife
To fight for goals on rocks of justice
based.
Though we have often fallen by the
way
And laughed at things that should
have started tears,
And turned our dreams to figures,
wan and gray,
That faded with the weight of
many fears
We are regenerated. for to-day
We give the world our future and
our years.
HERBERT S. GORMAN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
IOHN THE GREEK

] never felt so small in all my life
as l did when 1 read of John Lam
pas, a young Greek of California.
Lampas gave the Red Cross his
touring car, his gold watch. his bank
deposit of $521. and all that he had
left in his pockets-about $25.
This disposed of all his worldly
possessions, and then he enlisted in
the American Army with this SEN
tence on his lips: That's all | have
and I'm glad to give it,"
If this Greek ever lives to return,
and God knows / hope he will, he
will reap a reward from the Ameri-
can people that will prove the depth,
the BREADTH the wealth of true pa
triotism.-The Silent Partner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
LABOR NOTES
BY BRIGGS

Ironmolders at Galesburg, ILL.,,
have organized.
Plumbers at Casper, wyo.. are
paid 81 a day.
Organized patternmakers now pay
their dues quarterly.
Dallas (Texas) hodcarriers now
get 30 cents an hour.
Walters at Memphis, Tenn. de-
mand minimum of $14 week.
FL Paso (Texas) printers have
been increased SO a week.
Butcher workmen at Kansas City
Mo-, have secured union recognition
Massachusetts unions will demand
woman's 4S-hour work week.
Washington Cd. c. Painters
Union has a membership of over
65S.
Amalgamated Lithographers OF
America have a membership of A..
$50.
Boston and Maine shopmen have
increased wages five cents an hour.
Seattle, Wash, has a new butcheI
workmen's union with 400 members
1t is estimated that 20 per cent. o
all industrial casualties are prevent
able.
Pressmen at Winnipeg, Canada
have signed three-year agreement
Millmen in Seattle, WASH, have Sc
cured the eight-hour day with tel
hours pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
HOME FOR INEBRIATEs

T HE STATE is about to build a
home for inebriates.
This home, where drunkards
may go to be cured of their intem-
perate habits, will cost a lot OF
money to erect.
Likewise it will cost a lot more
money to maintain.
This money will come out of your
pocket and the pockets of all other
taxpayers of the State.
If there were no saloons there
would be no inebriates. If there
were no inebriates we wouldn't have
to spend this money to save the
hulks of humanity wrecked by booze
What's the answer?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
To Head Army Railway

William Wallace Atterbury be-
gan his education in railroad
management at the bottom of the
ladder. Upon receiving his de-
gree of Bachelor of Philosophy in
1886 from Sheffield Scientific
School, Yale, he entered the en-
ploy of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road as an apprentice in the AL
toona shops. With his technical
education and his close applica-
roading @ his his gpromotiop gUD @ ,ms was ranid
and in 1896 he was made general
superintendent of motive power
of the Pennsylvania Lines East
of Pittsburgh. In 1908 he became
general manager. and in 1909 he
was promoted to the vice-presi-
dency. The Washington corre-
spondent of the Philadelphia
North American writes of the
part he is to play in the war:1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
THRIFT AMONG CHILDREN

HR. ]. GEORGE BECHT, Secre-
tary of the State Board of Edu-
cation, is authority for the
statement that pupils of the public
schools of Pennsylvania are learning
how to save money and that the
habit of thrift in the schools is grow
ing rapidly. The necessities of the
times are having their effect. The
hardships of the war period are
doing what peace and prosperity
failed to do. If this war teaches
thrift to the coming generation it
will not have been without its bless
ing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
THE FALL

Give me the old October woods
When the leaves are turning
brown;
The smell o. pine
Is finer wine
Than any in the town.
Give me the old December snow
That turns the world to white
Up there in Mich
oh, Lord, / wish
That 1 was there tonight.
douglas Mulloch in Tote Road
and Trail"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22

are put to much expense and incon-
venience, to say nothing of the risk
to life and the loss of property at a
time when the world Can ill-afford to
lose a pennys worth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22

loans of the war. There will be
plenty of occasion to consider infia-
tion. even in the modified form of
reserve notes. when the third or
fourth or fifth Liberty Loans become
necessary.