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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-16
Other nominations are: Pol

Other nominations are: Police
Commissioner Arthur Woods, '99,
New York: Assistan; Secretary Of the
Navy Franklin ID. Roosevelt. "a;
Judge Francis J. Swayze. 80. New
ark. y. j.; jerome D. Davis, 'ss, New
York: Charles \. Coolidge. 81, Bos-
ton: Parretr Wendell jr., '02. Boston:
John ". Eliot. "a. Boston; Bishop
Philip NJ. Rhinelander. 81, Philadei-
phiA; Gov. Henry W. Keyes of New
Hampshire, 81.
The election of five members OF the
board from this list will be held COM
mcnceTuent day. June 81.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-16

Bars Liquor and LaW9ers.
NEW YORK, June l3.-Barleycorn
and the barris;ers will not share in
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-16
THIS BAG OF L BOATS
too SMALL To ME.N1 ION

WASHINGTON. June 13.--Se"re-
tary Daniels and naval experts smiled
when asked to-day about 'he tepOrt
that American naval vessels had ar
rived at the Brooklyn Navy yard with
two herman submarines.
one naval officer who pretended L"
take the report seriously aske',
You say there were only two GER
man submarines this time2'
Assured that this was the case he
added: I'VE never pay any attention
to SO small a number"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-16
WILSON TO DEFINE AIMS.
Important speech To BE Delivered
Flag pay.

WASHINGTON, June l2,-Presi-
dent Wilson is planning one OF the
most important speeches of the war
for the Flag Day celebration here
June IA
Officials believe it will be a more
comprehensive statement of the aims
and position of the United States
than even his message 20 the provis-
iunal government of Russia
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-16

the estate of ROllo DerinG. seventy six
of No. 242 North Fourth Street. Pat
erson, y. j., whose will was probatsd
yesterday by Surrogate Beggs. APP
pended to the will is this message to
his four heirs: Please, dear children
do not touch or purchase any liquor
whatsoever with this money you in
herit from me. nor take any lawyer
into your confidence
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-16
NEwBERRY Is NAVAL OFFICER
Former Secretary of Navy Now Conn
uaander In the Reserve.

WASHINGTON. June 13.-Tru-
man H NewberTy o. Detroit. secre-
tary of the navy during the last three
months of President RooseVeIt's ad-
ministrstiOn and assistant secretary
three times previously. has been
commissioned as commander in the
naval reserve and ordered to report
for duty this week at Washington.
Mr.. Sewberry IS So years old and
served as naval lieutenant in the
Spanish war.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-16
GEN. WOOD GETS HIGH VOTE
FOR OVERSEER OF HARV ARD
Police Commissioner Woods and r. ID.
Roosevelt Also Nominated
ITxo na Chosen

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. June Ia
Mai. Gen Leonard Wood received tn"
highest vote in the postal ballot for
r romination to the Board of Harvard
Overseers. which was made public to-
day Gen. Wood was graduated
from the Medical School in 1854.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05

of 1913. but an increase of nearly
1900, 900 in value. the reduction in
quantity being about 4 per cent, and
the increase in stated value. AS per
cent. OF indigo. the quantity i'm
ported shows a fall of about so per
cent, but the valuation shows an in
crease of about 500 per cent. In SUI
gar, of which the imports of eleven
months of 1916 are valued at s219,-
100000 against $95,0OO.0OO in the
same months of 1913, the quantity i'm
ported shows an increase of about IA
per cent. while the valuation shows
an increase of $50 per cent. Hides
and skins show an increase of 40 per
cent in quantity and 81 per cent in
valuation. Wood pulp shows an ad-
vance of Is per cent in quantity i'm
ported and an advance of 3S per cent
in value. Wool, when compared with
the corresponding months of 1914,
shows an increase of 63 per cent in
quantity, and 100 per cent in value.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05
LEARNING TO SPELL.

Attention has been called, in this
column, to the time wasted by the
child in school, in the study of arith-
metic and grammar. Spelling is an
other subject which is being greatly
5000 TO Ia 900 words which the pupil
is expected to commit to memory.
A student of the subject who has
made compilation of the vocabu-
laries in general use in personal and
business letters, has found that only
SAP different words are used in the
greater part of the correspondence
from twelve different sources varying
from love to business letters.
The investigators have established
that spelling can be taught and taught
much better than it ever has been,
with the cutting off of about three
quarters of the words now commonly
given in the spelling books and the
schools-and concentrating on the
rest. Recent Boston experiments
show that $500 words should be am
pie for teaching the children of the
elementary grades.
MOI only Is the amount OF WOrk
done in learning to spell open to crit
icism but the method employed as
well. There are a few simple rules
for spelling which once acquired
would make large space in the mem
DRY for something else.
Take for instance the rule which
says: Words of one syllable or words
accented on the last syllable, ending in
a single consonant preceded by a sin
gle vowel double the final consonant
on taking suffix. In remembering
this the pupil leans to spell thousands
of words without committing them to
memory.
There is another rule for spelling
the plural form of words which is
hardly less useful and important
A study of the derivation of words
also would prove to be a great aid in
learning to spell. If more attention
had been given to this subject prob
ably stereopticon would not be spelled
with an "a as it is now done by
about nine-tenths of the high school
and college graduates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05
THE WORLD DO MOVE.

The world was startled when James
Henry, in Albany in 1885, made bell
Jingle at the other end of mile of
wire by means of an electric current.
That was the first signal ever sent in
America by the wonderful mechanism
which has developed into the tele-
graph The experiment in Albany
academy was greeted by scientists as
a step in an age of discoveries to
come.
The latest achievements in that
series of discoveries are thus described
in news dispatch from San Diego,
Cal:
The new naval radio station at Cho1-
las Heights. near here. which was for
mally opened here Friday, gave a
demonstration of power today when
the operators on duty talked with the
Arlington station; the Darien. Pana-
overheard French operators at work
on the Island of Papette. South Pa
cific, and concluded by exchanging the
time of day with operators at a radio
station near Melbourne, Australia.
The triumph of 1917 is infinitely
more appealing to the imagination,
says the New York Mail, than the la
borious experimenting of 1885. Yet
the gossip across the ocean from Chol-
las Heights is the logical outcome of
the tinkling of the electric bell in the
Albany academy. And behind the
success achieved by the American,
James Henry, lie years of experiment.
atior by men of many nations. In the
long perspective stand the figures of
the Englishman, Bishop Watson, with
his Leyden jars in 1774. and of the
German, Soemmering. who in 1909
contrived an apparatus for the trans
mission of signals by letters.
The work of these men. and of d
host of others, Swiss French. Rus
slams and Americans. was put into
the apparatus at Chollas Heights
which enabled the American opera
tors to exchange the time of day
with their fellows near Melbourne,
Australia, 1000 miles away.
Truly. the domain of science is a
republic and the entire world is en-
braced in its frontiers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05
Having begun the European war by

Having begun the European war by
an act of perfidy, says the New YORK
Post. the German government now
seeks to end it by an act of criminal
insanity. In a mad lurch away from
the efforts to bring about peace oy
reason and negotiation, the German
authorities announce that they will
run amuok on the high seas Malay
pirate could not have made the an
nouncement more brutally- prom
February ]. 1917. sea traffic will be
stopped with every available weapon
and without further notice. And
mark that this is no determination of
Yesterday The step must have been
decided upon two or three weeks ago
The German notification speaks OF
instructions given to the command
er.s of German submarines Many OF
them are now far from German ports,
waiting to commit murder; and must
have had their orders a fortnight
back. So that while the neutral world
was working for peace, and confident
la expecting that the German govern
ment would make known the terms
II hoped to secure; and while all the
foreign dispatches and diplomatic in
dications pointed to continued opposi-
ton by the kaiser and his chancellor
to the policy of frightfulness on the
sea: the desperate resolve had already
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05
WARS EFFECT ON IMPORTS.

High prices abroad are an impor-
tant factor in the large increase in the
recorded value of imports into the
United States. The stated value of
the merchandise imported in 1915 is
33 per cent greater than in 1913, the
year immediately preceding the war,
and 81 per cent in excess of 1912, the
former high record year of imports
A comparison by the foreign trade
department of the National City Bank
OF New York of the details of the inn
ports of the United States in the
eleven months of 1916. for which Of
fetal figures are available. with those
of the corresponding months of 1913
shows that in many instances the in
creased valuation is chiefly, and in
some cases entirely. due to higher
prices
OF copper. other than that in ore,
for example. the quantity imported
shows a decrease of 5000. 900 pounds
when compared with the same months
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05
PAGE IN CONFERENCE
American Ambassador Discusses Prob
le.as With BaIfour and Spanish Agent.

London, Feb. 5.-Walter Hines
Page the American ambassador had
a conference lasting a full hour with
A. J. Balfour. the foreign secretary
at the foreign office today, and later
another conference lasting more than
an hour occurred at the American
embassy between the Spanish ambas-
sador and Ambassador Page
All the parties to the conferences
are maintaining a rigid silence but 1t
is assumed from the length of dis
cussions that the whole range of
questions growing out of the rupture
of diplomatic relations between Ger
MANY and the United States was dis
cussed with Secretary Balfour and
that the conference between Page and
the Spanish ambassador related more
particularly to the question OF partlc-
ipation of Spain and OF spanish
American countries in action similar
to that of the United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05
GLOBE SIGHTS
IFrom the Atchison Globe. ]

[From the Atchison Globe
When a man gets just so drunk he
must either sing or cry.
When you drink to somebody
health, you are injuring your own.
Men are so stubborn that it is Il
wonder there aren't more hung jurics.
An excuse never sounds as plausible
to those who hear it as to those who
give it.
Don't be discouraged if some peo-
pie criticise you. A lot of people are
even dispieased with the Lord.
Many men get credit for industry
who would like to quit if they knew
how to make a living by 1oafing.
If your worry is limited to the flu
ture welfare of the race, the chances
are you aren't losing much sleep.
You can't get into a crowd without
seeing some people who remind you
that the white race shouldn't be so
loud in boasting of its superiority.
Alb Adkinss uncle has Joined SO
many lodges he has to have his coat
iapeis made extra wide to provide q
background for The lodge emblems.
Jude johnson, one of our promi-
nent henpecked men, is sure that if he
took the time he could trace his wife ;
ancestry back to me Norman conquest.
"A woman is only a woman rs
Colonel Kipling remarked, in singing
the praises of tobacco. So it isn't 50
strange that the broken heart mends
while the tobacco heart grows worse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05
in ANNUAL MEET
Kansas Insurance Federation
CoRveneS Here Tomorrow.
Officers of National Organiza-
ton Are ON the Program.

Two hundred insurance men from
all parts of the state will arrive in
Topeka tomorrow morning for the
annual meeting of the Kansas Insur-
ance Federation. The opening ses-
sion will he held tomorrow afternoon
at O'Clock at the Chamber of Com
MERGE
There will he only two sessions, an
afternoon session and one in the eve
ming. In the afternoon addresses will
be made by Mart Mckee. secretary of
the National Insurance Federation.
and George D. Markham of ST. Louis,
vice president of the same organiza-
ton. Following their addresses the
annual election of officers will be
held
There will be no attempt to formuI-
ate legislative program and no sug-
gestions or protests will be made to
| the legislature now in session accord
ing to Luther c. Bailey of Topeka
president of the Kansas federation.
There will be general discussion
| of insurance problems that face KAN
sas agents but as for legislative con-
ditionS we are satisfied" Bailey an
nounces.
Fight State Insurance.
However it is certain that the Fed
GRAFTON will pass general resolutions
condemning the agita ton prevalent
| in some parts of the country for state
insurance. THE Federation is un-
alterably opposed to the entrance of
any brand of paternalistic socialism
in the government" l.. c. Bailey
states. "And we regard state insur-
ance as wrongful as would be the
taking over the newspapers of the
state
There are some 5000 insurance
men Kansas the greater ma tOrity
of whom are members of the Fedora
ton. All branches of the insurance
business are represented in the Fed
Grafton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05

Once upon a time there was little
girl who didn't like broth And this
same little girl was hardly ever num-
gry-unIess for chocolate cakes, or
fudge, or crackerjack maybe, or some
thing her mother wouldn't let her eat
Mothers ere so queer sometimes
They won't let you cat the things you
want and they make you eat the things
you hate
Well, anyway, this particular little
girls mother brought in from the
Kitchen a lovely blue bowl. full of
stea ming broth and set it down in
front of the little girl.
There" she said, that's good, I
know, and you must eat it, every bit,
bottom of the BOWL
Now the little girl had heard that
before ard it didn't fool her one bit.
She knew il was just a scheme to get
her to eat the broth she hated. So she
pouted out her lips and propped her
elbows on the table and scowied as
hard as she could.
Just then a sweet little voice said,
Pm sorry you won't smile at me-"
Now the little girl was SO cross She
didn't notice much about the voice. she
iusl answered Grossly, 81 don't feel
smily," and didn't look around.
But I'm in the world such a little
while, I'd like to see smily some
body" the sweet little voice replied.
Then the little girl noticed.
She looked around. sh. looked up
and down but not soul did she see
even her mother had gone back to the
kitchen.
II must have been dreaming" she
SAID to herself, after she had looked
everywhere.
No, you're not dreaming" said a
little voice right above her plate, II m
right hcre."
sHeret" exclaimed the little girl
GROSSLY. where is here?"
Just above your BROTH replied
the voice pleasantly.
The little girl looked a.-d sure
enough, there in the steam rising from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05
SIDE TALK S
When I Was Ashamed.
By Ruth CAMERoN.

Last year, in the week before Christ
mas, something happened that made
a very deep impression on me-
A delivery wagon from one OF the
shops came to the house one evening
The man brought me package wnich
I had had sent out c. o. d. he was
very cross because he had to wait for
me to make out check, ana L rather
resented his manner.
WELL" he said, Il guess you would
MT want to be held up if you had
eighty-five more calls to make
1 didn't resent his manner after
that. only felt ashamed of myself
for having added ever so slightly to his
burden. For it was then half-past
o'clock,
"Surely they don't expect you to go
to work at the regular time in the
morning if you work that late at
night!'' 1 cried.
"Oh, don't they?" he said. 81 have
to be at the stables at o'clock
Just think of it!
Eighty-five calls to make after nine
thirty, And then to be at the stable
at O'Clock.
AS he hurried out of the door with
my check, he added, And you ought
to see the size of some of the bundles.
The ladies could put them in their
bags easy, but they'd rather have them
sent!''
And I burned with shame again as I
thought of some of the little bundles
which 1 had had sent, so that 1 need
not wait.
That there should be some extra
burden on the shop people at Christ
mas time is inevitable.
That We should make it any heav-
Ter than it inevitably has to be is
abominablei
The man or woman who does this
and then goes about saying merry
Christmas on Christmas morning, is
in the class with the Pharisees who
LAY heavy burdens and grievous to
be borne on mems shoulders. but they
themselves will not move them with
one of their fingers"
What can we do?
We can shop early (too late for that
this year, but scar it into your heart
that you will next year,
We can shop in the morning.
We can carry small bundles.
We can charge things, or pay cash.
We can decide before We start just
what We want. so as to be able to
state it definitely.
We can be infinitely patient with
any irritability or incompetence
We can smile. speak please ntly, per-
haps say word of sympathy (not
patronizing PITY here and there
So shall we come a little nearer to
the meaning of Christmas time-Peace
on Earth. Good Will Towards Men,
Copyright by George Matthew
Adams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05
WHEAT COMES BACK
News Favorable Shipments Boosts
Chicago Market Cents.

Chicago Feb. 5.-Assertions that at
least for the present the loading and
shipment of breadstuffs and provi-
sions purchased for the entente allies
would continue as fast as supplies
could reach the seaboard, led today to
a sharp advance in the May delivery
of wheat. which was also bullishly af-
fected by a notable decrease of the
United States visible supply total.
The extreme advance amounted to
5M cents a bushel, May touching
$174A as against s1.6Ss % at the finish
on Saturday More distant options
than May were lifted only l to 1 u
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05

The winter days are very fair when
flakes of snow bedeck the air, when
frost is on the window pane and drifts
are piled thru vale and lane; and what
a different scene to view when on
is turned to mush and all the eye can
see is slush. We slip along our slushy
way and cuss the weather all the day,
we slide and CULVER at the knees and
moan and whimper, snort and sneeze.
oh, winter days are very nice when
they are full of snow and ice and tho
they be a little chill and tho we often
slip and spill, it's much more pleasant
then to fall than when the slush is
over all. So spare us from the winters
day when all the sky is fair as May,
for tho the sky is fair and sweet, it's
most unpleasant under feet, and tho
the day is mild and rare yet under
foot it is far from fair. And so we
wall and moan because we loath the
January thaws, we 1oath the gooey-
ness and mush, and all the very slushy
slush. At morn the caves are all
adrip. another day wherein to slip,
the streets are full of mush without.
Come let US get our rubbers out.
There are lots of people who don't
know much about music. but they can
Blow their own horns,
Harp on one string,
Drum up scandal
and
Fiddle their time away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05
Get into the slmplifed card index
case" said the head clerk. II defy
anyone to find anything there"

YES said a travelling man. Il was
once out OF sight of land on the At
lantic ocean twenty-four days"
Another man spoke up: "On the
Pacific ocean one time l didn't see
lane for twenty-nine days"
A bald man knocked the ashes from
his cigar and contributed his bit:
Il started to cross the Kaw river at
Topeka in a skiff once" he said, land
was out of sight of land before 1
reached the other side
What" demanded the man who
had spun the first yarn. THE Kaw
is not more than 500 feet wide at
Topeka"
"Quite true" said the bald man
quietly The skiff turned over ana 1
sank twice"
Stitch thrustfng his head, features
and neck out of his bedroom window.
ITS me, DOCTOR" said a dark figure
on the doorsteps.
"Oh, YOU" said the doctor
1.-The baby has been crying these
four hours, and everybody in the
house is up. but nobody can quiet
him. said the d. f. on the steps.
1.-The poor childi' said DIR. Stitch.
III throw down some sleeping pow
ders."
And he did, and Mr.. Wee Gates
for it was he-hurried home with
them, and found the baby still crying
and the family awake and worrying.
Here, everybody" said Gates. And
he gave a sleeping powder to Mrs.
Gates. one to Aurn Iron Gates, one to
Miss Garden Gates and took one him.
self.
And they all fell asleep Immediately,
and didn't hear another sound from
the baby till next morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
81 BOY Z. MoULToH.

From the Rubaiyat of Flat DweIier.
Wake, for the clatter in the court below
Scatters all sleeping for an hour or so;
Soon will the tom-cat lift his Iusty wall
And past my portal noisy milkmen go!
Yea, tho I toss upon my couch and fret.
Still does my neighbor play more records
yet.
Could but sumber ere the dawn draws
nigh,
Skis it not ?that the alarm is set?
Now thru the streets they rumble on their
way,
Wagons and trucks announce another day.
Hoarse are the drivers as they call and
shout.
Scarce have 1 slumbered since 1 hit the
hay.
All my Beloved when, and if so, how,
Didst ever sleep sOothe DER the anguished
brow
OF one who dwelleth in flat as We?
4e gods! There goes that darned alarm
clock now,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05
WlNDDAMAGES BAKERY
The Brick Smokestacl1 at the College
Hill Bakery Blows Down.

The high wind Sunday morning
blew down the big brick smokestack
of the College Hill bakery. the fall
ing brick crashed thru the roof of the
building and damaged machinery and
equipment to the extent of several
hundred dollars.
c.. l.. Jordan. proprietor of the bak-
cry, said three or four days would be
required to clear up the debris and re-
build the flue ready for operation
again.
The Cooperative club had been in
yited to attend a dinner at the bakery
tomorrow but because of the dam
aged condition of the bakery the din
ner will be postponed until a week
from tomorrow, February IS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05

forgetting all of a sudden to frown,
but who are your
I'm the BROTH fairy" replied the
little creature. and l live only for n
minute while the broth is steaming
hot. And won't you please smile to
me just once?"
But | hate broth" said the little
girl, suddenly remembering
No matter about that" laughed the
fairy, you won't hate it if you
smile-you can't. Please, quick, For
I'm going" and the fairy voice was
fainter.
So the little girl smoothcd away her
frown and smiled her very best smile
as sweetly as she could-and then
quite suddenly she was hungry
tCopyright-Clara Ingram Judson.)