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The Washington times., 1917-01-17
Mn. Henmick Entertains.

Mrs. Christian D. HemmIck, who
is spending the winter in New York,
will entertain at a reception with
music this afternoon at her studio in
West Fifty-ninth street.
The Washington times., 1917-01-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Mechlin will
entertain at bridge tomorrow evening
The Washington times., 1917-01-17

The Secretary of Commerce and Mrs.
Redfield will entertain informally at
dinner tomorrow evening.
The Washington times., 1917-01-17

Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh has recalled
her invitations for a series of luncheons
and dinners she was to have given dur
ing this month and next owing to the
death of Admiral Dewey.
The Washington times., 1917-01-17

Mrs. E. H. G. Slater will be hostess
at dinner Friday evening.
The Washington times., 1917-01-17
AIDING SOUTHERN BALL
Mrs. William L. Marshall Among
the Patronesses.

the FatroneSSeSs
Mrs. William L. Mershall, president
of the Southern relief home board, is
among the patronesses for the South
ern relief ball to be held at the New
Willard on Monday, February 5.
Other prominent women identified
with the board and greatly interested
in the success of the ball are Mrs.
Claude Swanson, first vice president;
Mrs. Josephus Daniels, second vice
president; Mrs. R. D. Shepherd, third
vice president; Mrs. s. A. Wayne,
Randolph Heth, president of the
Southern Relief Society; Mrs. George
Dewey, Mrs. Elisha Meredith, Mrs.
George Theobald, Mrs. Lawrence H.
Quirollo, Mrs. Richard Pairo, Mrs.
Gordon Lee, Mrs. Leonard Hoffman,
Mrs. Lawton Morgan, Mrs. Marcus
Wright, Miss Armat, Mrs. William
Baggett, Mrs. w. G. Harvey, Mrs.
Albert Hill, Mrs. Andrew Graham,
Mrs. Eugenia Zea Rollins, Mrs. James
Mulcsre, Mrs. Archibald Young, Miss
Rose Fairfax, Mrs. Theodore Tiller,
Mrs. Frey, Miss May Frey, Mrs.
George Corrington, Miss Elizabeth
Zea, Mrs. Belle Riley, Mrs. John Gala
han, Mrs. Lanier, Mrs. Gibbs Baker,
Mrs. Gordon Crawford, Mrs. William
Brantly, Mrs. Maud Howell Smith,
Mrs. Pearce Horne, Miss Virginia BYRD
Jones, Miss Caroline Harold, MRS.
William K. Carr, Mrs. Gustavus Wer-
Der, Mrs. Philander Claxton, MRS.
Hamilton Fred, Mrs. Richard Pardee
Williams, Mrs. Lindsey Lomax, Mrs
Frank Harmon, Mrs. James Hurley,
and Mrs. Mary Thompson.
Mrs. Blaine Beale will go to Rose
mont, Pa, to attend the marriage of
Miss Edeanor Thackara, daughter of
Alexander M. Thackara, American con-
sui general in Paris, to Frederic Cauld-
well, of Washington. which will be
solemnized Wednesday. January 81, at
4 o'clock.
The ceremony will be performed at
the home of Lindley Johnson, at Rose
mont, Pa, by Mgr. Drumgoole, of the
Overlook Seminary. Miss Thackara
will be attended by her sister, Miss
Elizabeth Thackara, as maid Of
honor. The bridesmaids will be Miss
Marian K. johnson and Miss Anna
Thorndike, of Boston, a cousin of the
bride James A Cauldwell, brother
of bridegroom, will act as best man.
There will be no ushers. Upon their
return from a wedding journey Mr..
and Mrs. Cauldwell will be et home
at Washington, after March I. Miss
Thackara selected Rosemont as the
place for her wedding, as her parents
lived there many years.
The Washington times., 1917-01-17
To Give Hop At Fort Myer.

The commandant and officers of
Fort Myer have sent out cards for a
hop in the administration building on
the evening of January 30.
The Washington times., 1917-01-17

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Noyes
will entertain at a SERIES OF dinner.
the first to be given on Friday night
in honor of the Secretary of State and
Mrs. Robert Lansing. They will be
hosts at dinner on the evenings OF
January "a and 81.
The Washington times., 1917-01-17
Tea Dance Called on.

Owing to the death Of Admiral Dewey.
Mrs. George Barnett, wife OF the COM
mandant of the Marine Corps. has re-
called her invitations for a tea dance
tomorrow afternoon. The party was to
have been given for her daughter. Miss
Leila Gordon, and her son. Basil Cor
don.
The Washington times., 1917-01-17

Mrs. Wilson will entertain the
wives Of members Of the Cabinet at
luncheon at the White House Friday.
The Washington times., 1917-01-17

guest at the White House last even
ing, has returned to New York.
The Washington times., 1917-01-17

Miss Virginia Dorsey will be hostess
at bridge at the Washington CLUB,
Thursday, January rs.
The Washington times., 1917-01-17

Col. and Mrs. stephen L. II. slocum
will entertain informally at dinner
this evening. There will be nine COW
ers.
The Washington times., 1917-01-17
Not at Home Today.

Mrs. Louis C. Scherer, wife of
Major Scherer, U. S. A, entertained
a company Of twenty-four at luncheon
today. The table was decorated with
a variety of spring flowers. The
guests were entertained at bridge
later In the afternoon.
The Washington times., 1917-01-17

Mrs. Josiah Kingsley Oil and Miss
Joan Oil will be at home Saturday
afternoon from to o'clock at the
Farnsboro.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-12

1t is impossible to divide the
financial burden along lines of
exact justice. Some are sure
to pay more than their share ;
others less; some make money
during the war; others suffer
financial loss.
So don't halt in your duty
because you think something
is not being done just right. 1t
is impossible to do it just right.
The country has to do the best
it can and then "hit the ball"
with all the strength we can
muster.
Do all you can and if you do
more than your share: you have
something to be proud of.
Those who shirk will get their
punishment-from their own
oonsciences if from no other
source.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-12
NAVY POLICY ABSOLUTE
OPE.NESS SAYS DANIEL =

WASHINGTON. June II.-Secre-
tary Daniels has made statements
that the navy's policy is absolutely
Openness and in case of disaster no
atttmpt will be made to minimize il.
Daniels heard stories that English
and American ships were sunk or
disa bIed and Atlantic coast hospitals
filled with wounded men after a bat
tie which left the sea thick with
floating cad. He declared no such
engagement took pace. No Ameri-
can ships have Yet been engaged with
the enemy and none are wounded or
killed
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-12

DIR. d. De Waltoff, newly elected
ce-president of the American Medi-
o-Pharmaseutical League, who has
made the startling statement that he
and his son, a BROOKLYN chemist. have
discovered a new explosive 10000
times as powerful as dynamite Five
grains of the explosive. he says. would
suffice to wreck the Woolworth tow
err while IA bomb OF the compound
dropped from an airplane would
wreck a city ten miles square.
DIR. De Waloff says that he and his
son discovered the explosive by acci-
dent while experimenting with a sub
stitute for gasoline. He has named
the substance "Terrorall" He told
reporters that the ingredients were
easily obtained mot farther from New
York than New Jersey"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-12
OUR EXPEDITION TO PET
ROGRAD

I'm war as in other affairs it
often occurs that the work
of greatest potency in
shaping events is inconspicuous
in its nature; so much so that
the average mind will fail to
grasp its significance. Who for
instance will class Ben Frank
lin as the chief hero of the
revolutionary war, yet in bring
ing France to our aid did not
Franklin perform a service that
was more farreaching than the
work of any one general in the
colonial army?
In the present war it may yet
develop that the most vital step
we have taken or will take will
consist in the sending of the
American commission to Rus
sia. Elihu Root and his col
leagues now at Petrograd have
2 mission compared with which
the work of Pershing is of but
nominal importance. 1t is up
to Root and the other able men
with him to keep Russia in the
war. That nation has a great
er population and vaster re-
sources than any other Euro
pean power. So the allies need
Russia and Russia faces a duty
TO herself to remain steadfast
in the cause until the allied VIC
tory is gained.
Yet news reports from Pet
rograd make it plain that there
il herculean work ahead for
the American commission or
for someone else if those be-
nighted people are TO be held
in line. But it must be done If
it can be done and there is hope
in the personnel of our COM
mission. Reactionary though
he may be in this country Elihu
Root is a very capable man and
2 democrat of democrats COM
pdT6u Will the dN NCA deC GU
ed Russian. General Scott,
our chief of staff, who Is with
the commission is a good medi-
ator as well as a forceful sol
dier. With the commission al
so are some able business and
Industrial leaders, equipped to
help in the solution of CONNER
ciaI and manufacturing prob
lens.
UnostentatiOus as it may
seem the greatest expedition
airy force we have so far sent
abroad is the one to PetrOgrad.
If that commission can accom-
plish its object successfully it
will mean more to the allied
cause than would a million Am
erican soldiers under arms in
the trenches of France.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-12

NNNE may congratulate our
W selves that our financial
resources are in good
condition for meeting the COM
ing strain of war. The latest
national bank call, May 1st,
showed deposits exceeding
$13, ,075, 100000, the heaviest
total on record, and $1,944,-
900, 900 more than a year ago.
Loans on the same date aggre-
gated $8,751,O00,000, an in
crease of $1,145, 100000 dur
ing the same twelve months.
The increase in loans, being
considerably smaller than the
increase in deposits, it is fair to
assume that up to that date
there had been no initiation of
credit. and that the growth of
deposits was chiefly due to ac-
emulation of savings. If any
further evidence of the excel
lent condition of the national
banks was needed, it could be
found in the surplus reserves;
which on May 1st stood at
1914, 100000, an increase of
S135, 100000 during the year,
Their total reserve was $2,473,-
100000, or S315,0O,00O more
than last year. AS this nation
al banks constitute about halr
the banking power of the Uni
ted States, our banking re-
sources must be regarded as in
q very satisfactory state, if the
position of other banks be at ali
similar to that of the national
institutions. Under the new
Reserve system our banking
have been immense
ly expanded and strengthened.
This is incalculable good for
tune, for had the former clumsy
and inadequate banking sys-
tenn been still in vogue, the
country would have been in
danger at this time Of either a
serious financial crisis, or else
threatened with hasty and i'll
advised fiscal legislation,
which might have required
generations to get rid of after
the war.-From the Clews Fl
nancial Review.
A~~$O~~S~~
Mastery of the air together
with artillery supremacy vii! |
give victory to the side that has I
them; therefore the United !
States will not go wrong if it
turns to the development of a
aviation corps. The /
aviators are the eyes of the /
army these days and if the Ger /
mans can be defeated at flying .
their army will become as gi- |
ant that has been blinded.
SsS~~O~s~~~
If you can give more than |
our share to the Liberty loan |
or to the Red Cross do so. bear !
ing in mind there are many who |
will not do their part; your |
zeal may be needed to make |
up for the slackers who are /
certain to be with us.
~~s~~O~S~~~
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-12
WHERE EQUITY IS IMPOS.
SIBLE

!" ERE i something to keep
Nj in mind now and hence
* forth: it is impossible for
this country or any other cOun-
Try 10 wage war on a basis OF
dividing the burden so as to
1slzke il entirely equitable.
1t Is not equitable that one
man should go to the front
while another remains at home.
N Is not equitable that one gets
killed and another goes un-
harmed
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-12
$1,000. 900 DEAL DECLINED.

Robert StanfieId. "Shcep King Of
America Has Huge EIocks.
BAKER. June l1.--"Sheep king o!
America is how friends designate
Robert Stanfield. speaker Of the
house at the last Salem Legislature.
Friends OF StanfieId believe that
he controls the destInies of more
sheep than any man in the world. He
recently negotiated to sell his lambs
and found that ne POSSESSED $4,000
of these little bleateTs The price
placed on the lot was k1,6O0.00O. The
offer was not accepted and in ten
DAYS the lambs had increased in val
ne $50, 200.
Stanfield is now running sheep al
the way from oregon to Colorado.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-12
GoETmELs NAMES NEW MEN.

WASHINGTON, June ll.-Goethels
has appointed Admiral Rousseu, assist
mt general manager Of the emer-
g,ncy fleet corporation succeeding
X ~ Eustis discharged for alleged
"dislovalty and misstatement of
facts. Samuel Fuller was appointed
To- succeed f. r. Clark consulting en-
ginecr.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-12
28 Years Ago Today

tFrolu the Daily East Oregonian.
June II. 1881
While the buffaloes Of the New
Zoo were being led out of town yes
terday morning they were attacked
by several cattle which. not liking
the appearance Of the hump backed
strangers were incited to give thep
battle.
4 sheepherdcr wos held up by two
men ON Cottonwood street late last
night and robbed Of MS watch and
few other valuabies he possessed
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-12
REALTY TRANSFERS

Deeds.
F. E. King. ct al, to w. F. King,
$l.OO, lots 1. ., and 4, Block 3,
Railroad Addition to Athena.
]. f. Rose, ct ux. to Esther NJ.
Carrell, $40, lot Is, block H of Her
miston orchards.
w. ]. Furnish, ct ux to s J. Moore.
$1.0O, SW IA Sc Ia section Il,
township north. range 20.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-12
DREAMS.


. TTsOn a dingy little cot a little
. fellow lay
. And watched the shadows on 4
. che wall rhat doomed 4
- across the way.
. AMI tho TO folks like YOU and I
- me the wall was bleak and 4
. bare
. Vie saw lighted
. WOOD and fairies dane
. ing there,
. AzS from his fare there fell 4
- away The cruel lines Of
- Iain
- As ra neheld the goblins leap
. among the golden grain.
- And " ltched the bright-hued 4
. tuuer-ies that flashed 4
- among the flowers
. All dreams. but dreams that
. MADE him siad for many 4
= happy hotsTs.
- And often when the twilight 4
- TelI Beyonr the rusty
. snrs
- -Asd framed his cage. he saw 4
an elf fit round To Hght
- Inv stars.
. A spleer and CROOKED little eli
. Hr1o turned first left 4
- Lhen right.
. And zg-Zagged thru the
. Milky WAY I'll all Of il 4
- s<as bright
. And slarry paths TO happiness I
- s2e saw where YOU and 1 4
- Could only see faint points 4
- OF light upon a gloomy 4
- SKI
y Al drea ms they weTe-but I
. dreams devised with ma 4
. EiC childish art
. Thar shut despair forever
- rnom gallant little
heart
y James J. MONTGOMERY
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-12

A fellow up at Athena who wanted
to be a swell ate pound of dried
apples and drank SIX glasses of ice
water. 1t is needless to say that he
succeeded admirably.
w. F. Matiock and C. $. jackson
have sold the south nalf of lot eight
in block f to a New York gentle
man in the consideration of $2750.
Several younug ladies and gentle
men procured team today. drove
a mile or so below town and picnick-
ed in the shade of the classic groves
of the Umatilla. an admirable way
to escape the excessive heat.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-20
Ensign Page, Washington
Boy, Killed in Flight
Mother Receives Official Telegram Telling of
His Death, Result of Seaplane Acct
dent OFF English Coast.

Stunned by receipt Of the official
telegram from the Navy Department,
telling of the death of her son.
Ensign Phillips Ward Page, U. s. N,
r. F., as the result Of "seaplane ac-
cident" of the coast of London on De-
cember IL, Mrs. Anna Marie Page, his
mother. who resides at 1T5s Q street
northwest. last night awaited with
stole tranquility for further details
Ensign Pages body has not as vet
been recovered from the sea. Mrs,
Page Is attended by her daughter,
Dorothy Page. who Is in the govern
ment service here. Only last week
Mrs. Page received an assuring mes
sage from. her son telling Of his safe
arrival in England.
Death Is Verified.
Official announcement of Ensign
Pages death as given out at the
Navy Department last night follows:
The Navy Department has been ad-
vised OF the death of Ensign Phillips
Ward Page. u. 8. ". r. F.. Class S,
which occurred In England, on De-
cember II, as a result of a seaplane
accident.
Ensign Page was born at Boston,
Mass on November %. 1885. and en-
rolled in the Flying Corps of the
United States Naval Reserve force,
Class ;, from Massachusetts,. on May
l9. 1917. He was ordered. under date
OF November 10. to proceed to Lon
aon. England. and report. to, Vice Ad-
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-20
.HEALTH0F US.
SOLDIERS GOOD,
REPORTSAYS
Overcrowding and Shortage
of Equipment Have Been
Overcome, Says Baker.

The worst of the shortage OF
equipment and overcrowding result
ing in tn excessive deaths in fouI
army camps. reported by Gen. Cor
gas, has been overcome. The health
conditions in all the camps are i'm.
proving. Adequate supplies and IA
cilities are now on hand. This was
the result of a wide inquiry yester-
day made public by Secretary Baker,
with hgures as to the clothing sup
plies and the health report Of the
army for the week ending, December
Il
"I want to say" Mr.. Baker said.
that Immediately upon the receipt
OF the report OF the Surgeon General
telegTaphic instructions were for
wa-ded to remedy the conditions he
complained off, and am now inform
ed that they have been remedied al
most completely.
mo observation camps for newly
admitted men have yet been estab-
lished because it has not yet been de-
cided whether to assemble all new
men for health observation at one or
l"O CChlCISp 70 cSlaOhSh PldSCS
for them in each Of the camps.
Explains Delay.
. Mr.. Baker explained that the rea-
son for the slowness in furnishing
wooIen garments rs that every pos
sible facility for their fnanufa acture
in the United States il now and has
been taxed To- the safrnosfb He ex-
planned that contracts for the 1nan-
ufacture of woolen cloth had been
allocated wherever they could be
filled, by William Eiseman. OF the
War Industries Board. "''
The health report for the army for
the week ending December Il indi-
Gates that the increases in measles,
and meningitis have ceas-
ed, except in three or four camps.
The non-effective rate of the Ma
tional Guard Ia larger than the week
before, however. standing at 4aS per
thousand as against Is. for the week
previous In the national army it
was 404. as against S.. New cases
in the National Guard were slightly
less on the whole. and about the
same in the national army for all
causes.
At Beauregard. La. Cody and Sc
vier. S. c.. and Travis. Tex, a slight
increase in pneumonia is noted.
Meningitis cases have decreased in
all but Camp Doniphan.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-20
D. C. DESERTER
FOUNDIN n. Y.
F. H. Brigham and Wife
Charged with False State
ments to Army Board.

New York. Dec. l9.-with tear-flled
eyes, 4 Young married couple stood
before United States Commissioner
Hitchcock today and heard themselves
charged with having made false state
ments before an exemption board in
Washington TO enable the husband TO
evade military service.
Their tears. it later developed. were
not due to fear OF punishment for the
offense so much as TO realization that
their arrest and the proceedings 10
follow would reveal that they had
lived as husband and wife prior to
their marriage They have a baby a
few months old.
Say Baby Is Here.
The youthful prisoners were Fred
erick II. and Florence Brigham They
were indicted in Washington, charged
with stating that they were married
on June q. 1916. while their marriage.
according to admissions to Assistant
United States Attorney AXman. took
place some time after that date.
The Brigham's have been living for
the last few months at 13l West 117th
street. Mrs. Brigham said the baby
was with relatives in Washington.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-20
ALLIES REFUSE
PEACEPARLEY
WITH RUSSIA
Are Ignoring Negotiations
Which Have Begun at
Brest-Litovsk.

Amsterdam, Dec. 1s.-The foreign
ministers Of the central empires be-
gan at Brest-Litovsk today their ne
gotiations with Russian ptenipoten-
tiaries for peace. Petrograd still in
sists it is general European
peace" they are striving for.
Not the slightest doubt is enter
tained in responsible quarters in the
allied capitals. however, that Berlin
and Vienna are trying ,frantically
to complete a separate deal with
Russia before the week is over. so
that they can present the Teuton
peoples with a diplomatic Christmas
gift.
The central powers are not be-
lieved to delude themselves for a mo-
ment with the idea that the western
allies would even discuss peace at
this stage. Foreign Minister Bal
four's statement in the Commons to-
day. and the news from London that
the allies are ignoring the Brest-
Litovsk pourparlers, removed all
doubts on that score.
Dispatches fBom the Swedish cap
ital tell of a strong fear on the part
Of Teuton Socialists that a separate
peace will mean the death knell to
Socialists in Germany and Austro-
Hungary. since 1t would return the
militarists to undisputed power.
Meanwhile news came from Aus
tria-Hungary today showing that the
Bolsheviki propaganda is beginning
to bear fruit. Demands much like
those made by the Mujiks. of Russia,
are said to be made by the Austrian
PEASANTS They want nobility abol-
ished and the land of the mobiles dis
trtbuted to them. the peasants. A
resolution to that effect already has
been introduced in the Reichzat by a
Czech deputy. it is reported. II this is
true, the Bolsheviki are realizing their
fondest hope to bring about social
revolution in other countries.
The story of recent Hungarian
peace gathering attended by 10000
persons was brought to Stockholm by
DR.. Weltner. the Hungarian Socialist
leader. He declares the Hungarians
consider separate peace the greatest
possible danger to democracy"
Meanwhile civil war goes on uncon-
fined in the interior of Russia. The
latest big city to be struck by the
horrors Of fratricidal slaughter e. is
Odessa. the great Russian Black Sea
port. There the Bolsheviki are 'strug-'
Cling to retain control against the stifr
resistance Of the .Ukrainians. Bitter
street fighting Is reported with ma
chine guns planted in windows and
on roofs. Bolsheyiki forcez sfso are
reported marching on kiea.