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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06
They Are All There
Somewhere In France
YOU WILL MEET THEM ALL YOUR
RIVALS AND YOUR STAUNCH-
EST PALS.
BY J. W. PEGLER

BY J. w. PEGLER
Omitted Press staff CorrespondentD
WITH THE AMERICAN EXPEDI-
ITIONARY ARMY, France, Feb. 10
CBy Mail.) "Gabby" and Fat Ca
Isey!"
We'll, I'll be -"
After seven years Gabby+ and Fat
Casey came face TO face on a snow
covered country hillside somewhere
in France. Gabby played right tackle
on the football team out in Chicago IN
his sophomore year. Casey a senior
was center and a bother to the
trainer because he would surround
two-bits worth of chocolate-cara-
mels every day, adding to the dimen-
sion that won him his nickname.
Somewhere in France Gabby swung
his right mitt and clasped Casey
They hung on in a kind of reminiscent
grip searching one anothers faRe for
changes.
: Casey wore a smudge on his upper
lip. Gabby's face was still un-hairy
but little lined by the last few years
of bucking the business line for a liv-
ing. Casey has no cause for wrinkles
having a deaIthy dad. And anyway,
Fats disposition proofed his map
against the corrugations of money
problems.
We find them shaking hands again.
Casey is driving a touring car over
from, Divisional Headquarters to call
for the Major of the Third Battalion.
He stalls on the hill from dirty distTi-
butor points and gets out to sand
paper them. That red-head sentry.
gazing skyward through field glasses
on "aeroplane watch" against the
Boches can be none other than Gabby
the ex-right tackle.
.Gabby is a little puzzled by Fats
but only for second.
What ever became of Charley
Rose?" he asks, "and Bill Lyman and
all the rest of them2"
For the love Of Mike-mccting
you in this forsakcn spot after all this
time. Whcro are you Stationed Can't
we stage a.r-union2 Can't we Fate
Wen, Fat is ergeant-chauffcur
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06
WHERE THE GERMAN POL
SON WILL FAIL

~ ERMAN successes during
VI the war have been
against the eastern Eu-
ropean peoples rather than
against those of southwestern
Europe. Russia with her ig-
norance and Reorganization
has fallen before the Teuton
political offensive. A feature
that has aided Germany in this
connection has been the fact
Russia has been isolated terri
torially from her former allies.
Germany is geographically
closer to Russia than are France
and England. Consequently
the kaiser has been able to
work at shorter range and to
know the precise brand of poi
son" to use to accomplish his
results-being aided at all
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06
THE FINANCIAL END

@LL departments of our ma
II tional activities are deferr-
ing to the necessities of
war. The Administration s
railroad bill, which will permit
the Administration to carry
out the broad-minded plan of
railroad control, already has
passed both houses of con-
gress. The Administrations
plans are so we'll kno wn that
they do not need repeating. AS
a broad proposal they assure
stockholders of sufficient reve-
nues, regardless of increased
expenditures of all kinds which
have resulted from the war, to
Justify the belief that dividends
which have been legitimately
earned in the past will be con-
tinued and that physically and
financially 20 their properties
will be returned to them in at
least as sound a position as
they occupied during the war.
The Administrations finance
bill also may be expected to
become a law in a short time.
The object of. the measure is to
enable the treasury to provide
capital requirements of essen
tial industries. 1t is q war mea-
sure pure and simple. The
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06
SLIDES OF INDUSTRIAL
ACTIVITIES ASSEMBLED

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu-
gene, March 6.-Schools, colleges and
commercial organizations throughout
the state soon will be able to procure
the use Of some handsomely cOlored
stereoptican slides representing vari-
Gus commercial and Industrial actiVi-
ties of Oregon. just collected by the
University OF oregon school Of COM
merce. These slides will be circulat-
ed by the University extension divisi-
on, to whom application should, De
made.
Every important industry in the
state is represented. Many enter
prising firms and corporations have
presented the school OF commerce
with slides picturing their respective
activities other views are constant
~ being added. When complete the
collection doubtless will be the most
comprehensive OF the kind in the
state.
The school of commerce is also ar
ranging to circulate "A series OF motion
picture films OF some of the Leading
oregon industries.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06
wosIN,s DANGER PERIOD.

The period between fOrty-five and
fifty-fiye years of age is said to be a
crisis of danger period in woman's
life which tests her for her fitness to
continue in the race. 1t is then that
she suffers from such annoying symp-
toms as heat-flashes. nervousness
headaches. the blues or dread of
i'm pending evil. or some dormant dis
ease in the system becames active.
When a woman is passing through
this crisis there is one tried ana true
remedy Lydia E Pinkham's Nege-
ts bic Compound. which after forty
years Of success IL now considered
the standard remedy for woman's
ailments.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06
% YEARS AGO

(From the Daily East Oregonian
March 1890
Some pupils are leaving school be-
cause of the 81 rate bill the directors
found it necessary to impose.
The petition presented by Mrs. I-ana
for a sidewalk leading from the Pres
byterian church to the kindergarten
should be allowed by the council
The latest rumor in local politics is
that Mr. John Young has drawn out of
the race for the county clerkshfp in
favor of Mr. f. ]. Sommerville which
leaves the field open for the renomina-
ton of Mr.. Houser for sheriff.
1t is again reported that County
Commissioner Clark Walters would
like to be the democratic nominee for
state senator.
The Jackson Dickson Co, Inc. Will
begin business in Pendleton on or
about April Is and will make a special
ty of developing the latest resources
of eastern Oregon, particularly of
Cmatilla county and Pendleton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06

There Is more Catarrh In this section OF
the country than all other diseases put
together. and for years 1t was supposed to
with local treatment, pronounced 1t In
durable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly
Influenced by constitutional conditions and
therefore requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Medicine. manufac
tured by F. ]. Cheney & Co, Toledo Ohio
Is a constitutional remedy, Is taken intern
ally and acts thru the Blood on the Nh
cods Surfaces Of the System. One Hundred
Dollars reward Is offered for any case that
Halls Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Seno
for circulars and testimonials
F. ]. CHENEY & Co. Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06

many sheep and cattle men of eastern
Oregon went broke because OF heavy
losses.
Roland Oliver was a classmate at
the University of Washington of
Oscar Main, accused OF numbering
Fred II. Swayne at Napavine,
+. T. Wade was at one time stock
man in the Ukiah country.
Some of our former star ,Pendleton
gamblers are now engaged in more
useful occupations.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06
DO YOU KNOW.

That That's is pronounced Tah-ees.
The East Oregonian in early days
maintained a circulation library for
the benefit of Pendleton people.
Twenty eight years ago this winter
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06

There els to be a spectacular eclipse
of the sun on June S, traffic conditions
permitting.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06

Government has undertaken to
conserve all the financial re-
sources of the Country in order
that there may be no unneces-
sary competition when the. war
loans and other of our treasury
obligations appeal for public
support. Hence Secretary Nc
Adoo and his advisers have
deemed it a necessity that
other provision be made for fl
nancial aid for corporations
which are so seriously affected
by these new conditions. Money
is showing increasing scarcity
for time accommodation
feature which is encouraging a
more general use of demand
loans. However, we are for
tunate in, having a national fl
nancial system based on sound
principles. 1t appears quite
reasonable to assume that
ample financial facilities will
be made available as the date
approaches for the offering of
the Third Liberty Loan. There
no longer appears reason to
doubt that the rate which this
new issue will cary will be
412 per cent and that its gem
eral terms as to its exemptions
from taxation will not differ
essentially from the recently is
sued a per cents.-From the
Clews Financial Review.
~s-S~-~O~~~S~
The chief problem in con-
nection with possible japanese
action in Siberia evolves
around how such action would
be taken by the Russian pOpu-
lace; it might be so used so as
to give the kaiser a chance to
turn Russian manpOwer, un-
der German control, against
the allies.
The man who would burn a
flour mill these days is in the
same class with those who
would sink an allied merchant
ship; it is too bad that Dayton
watchman did not hit the fire
bug he shot at.
e~OS-O-S-SS
Some of our northwest pa
pers seem to feel it their duty
to rouse enmity and prejudice
between north and south and
west; do they want to Russian
Iize our country?
~O>-~-~~~
The New York women voted
efficiently indeed; they voted
to back up a war administrati-
on that is making good and de-
serves support.
~~0~S~~
Russia is not a bear; it is a
sheep with wool as long as the
hair on a greyhound.
~~O~~~~
There may be vegetable
shortage next winter; get out
your shovel and hoe.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06

Senator Hughes. Baird is IS and be-
cause of his advanced age will not be
a candidate when the present term
expires In November.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06
REVELATION

. REVELATION. 4
= TIL poverty knocked at his door.
. He never knew how bare
. The uneventful days of those
= Who have but want and care. 4
. Till sorrow fingered at his 4
> hearth.
. He never knew the night
= Through which all troubled 4
= souls must fare 4
, To gain the morning light. 4
, TIL suffering had sought his 4
He never knew what dread 4
. May wrestle with, nor what 4
, grim fears
. OF agony are bred. 4
. And yet. till these unbidden 4
= guests 4
, Had taught him to possess 4
, A clearer sight, he never knew 4
. The heights of happiness. 4
Charlotte Becker.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06

Russia is not a bear; it is a
sheep with wool as long as the
hair on a greyhound.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06

There may be a vegetable
next winter; get out
your shovel and hoe.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06

The New York women voted
efficiently indeed; they voted
to back up a war administratl-
on that is making good and de-
serves support.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06

Some of our northwest pa
pers seem to feel it their duty
to rouse enmity and prejudice
between north and south and
west; do they want to Russian
ize our country?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-03-06

The man who would burn a
flour mill these days is in the
same class with those who
would sink an allied merchant
ship; it is too bad that Dayton
watchman did not hit the fire
bug he shot at.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

fright. I was crawling alongside a ridge
it had been an old irrigation farm, and this
was low levee running across. 1 heard
on the other side splash which 1 thought
was made by one of the innumerable rats,
but l put up my head and looked over-so
did Fritz, not yard away We both stared
blankly in each others face for. long
second and then both of US turned and
bolted. This was excusable for German.
but I have no defence. When I went back
to look for him, after a court martial by
my own conscience, he was nowhere to be
seen. i
"There was another night when Fritz got
the better of me. In my explorations 1
came across path through their barbed
wire which was evidently the place where
their patrols came out. l thought would
provide a surprise party for him, so
planted some percussion bombs and put a
small Union Jack in the centre In the
morning the Union Jack was gone and a
German flag in Iits place. Everybody from
the brigadier down rubbed it in that Fritz
was too smart for me.'
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
\ Sentry More Scared
n Than Himself

Following is Captain Knyvett's own
account of the only night raid in which
he was injured, and as result of which
he was invalided home with twenty
wounds:
1--WE were planning to take portion Of
the trench opposite, to straighten our line,
and I had secuted down hundred yards
of it from behind and got good idea of
the strength with which it was held, taking
bearings Of its position. The next night,
as the attack was to take place at daybreak,
I thought I had better 60 over and make
sure that had made no mistakes
crossed over the first trench without any
difficulty. There did not seem to be any
one on guard then went toward their
support lines, where there seemed to be
more men, mostly working parties.
passed there and, with objectionable care
lessness, stood up to have look hound,
thinking that it was too dark for me to
be seen. But l got shock to find there
a sentry almost beside me, though he
was, if anything, more scared than my
self. He pulled the trigger without taking
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

you bet I will!' And you may bet that I
shall as soon as ever l am passed as fit
again.
"The pain of my wounds was soon alto
gether forgotten, for each medical officer
that examined me finished up with a liquid
melody of the phrase, 'Blighty for you!'
MY leave was long past due, and the very
next day l was to report for transfer to
the Australian wing of the Royal Flying
Corps, which would have meant several
weeks training in England, but The best
laid schemes O. mice and men gang aft
a-gley!,and there's a science shapes our
ends, rough-back them though Huns may!"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Gas !!

HOW it feels to discover suddenly
4 i that your gas mask is gone, when
tunes are rising thick about you, is told
by Robert Hillyer in "The Metropoli-
tam:
1.-The first light was just breaking through
the SCARED and broken branches of the
wood Blue mists were circling poisonously
up from the hollows, and a faint odor of gas
hung on the damp air-a kind Of gas which
hangs for days round valleys, hollows or
damp substances such as leaves Shells
spun through the air with a sound of rim
ping linen and burst into fragments here
and there among the blasted boughs.
"The chilly light, the silent dead forest.
which seemed even more silent in contrast
to the extraordinary grunts, thuds and
whistles of the guns, the deserted road
Uttered with carcasses of horses, the exotic
hour-all this was comparable to nothing
except the morbid dreams of Poe, or the
Wild wastes of Dante's Inferno l walked
downhill into a little valley where the
blue mists were particularly thick.
"The odor of gas became stronger and
suddenly l realized that should have to
put on my gas mask. Three poilus came
down the other side of the hill, and, notic-
ing that they wore their masks, felt for
HiihC' ~ was uot LneTe. Inc cover WAS
still hanging round my neck, but there was
no mask inside. / remembered having nm
buttoned the cover that l could get at
my mask quickly. In the tugging and push
ing OF our stranded ambulance, it had fallen
out without my noticing it.
Il became absolutely panic stricken anf
lost my head completely. l recalled all the
frightful tales had heard of gases burninh
out ones lungs and eating into ones flesh.
1t just happened in my fright that / did
the right thing. l held my breath, closed
my eyes and dashed blindly up the other
side of the hill. Luckily the gas is never
fatally strong so far back Of the trenches
unless fresh gas bomb has just exploded,
SO l suffered no harm except little sick
ness Of my stomach.
"They change the gases constantly. and
each new gas has its own pecularities--one
has practically odor, one has an odor
like violets, one like onions. one like mus
tard, etc. The gas that gave me my scare
had sickly acid smell, particularly sickly
when mingled with the smells of gangrens
and decaying horses / now carry two new
masks with me slwaysl"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
X|hen a Compass Would
w Do No Good

Naturally it is very easy to get lost
in No Mans Land, and then almost any,
thing is likely to happen. A compass is
useless
for you may be lying on a ffteen-inch
she'll just covered with a few inches OF
earth, and the stars refuse to look down on
its pain and the sky is always thickly veiled
Turn around three times and you don't
know which trench to return to- 1t is an
awkward predicament, and many time l
went blindly forward, just praying that it
was in the right direction. The Germans
horn-rimmed glasses but bewilder him the
more, and we have had several of them
walk into our arms without intention
though they soon found that thereby thew
had bettered themselves. There was one
young Bavarian officer VINO made this mis-
calculation. I saw him moving near our
wire IN the early dawn. l called to some
men to draw bead on him, but he came
toward us, and at the last with run
jumped down into our trench. Good morn
ing!' said to him. looking down my auto
matte and you never saw such a crestfallen
countenance in your life. 1t must have been
some shock-expecting to join his own peo-
pie and suddenly finding himself in the
camp of his enemies"
On another occasion the positions
where the author was located were
f1anked by gap of hundred yards,
which was patrolled two or three times
nightly.
"a German with string of water bottles
around his neck and 'grunt' that NAV
have been password stepped down into
our trench. He had evidently been out to
get water for himself and comrades from
their nearest supply and taken the wrong
turning. He made an attempt at a grin
when he found where he was and evidently
thought the change could not be for the
worse"
Another task of the night raider is to
locate machine guns, which ordinarily do
not fire in the daytime for fear of being
exactly located On one occasion the au-
thor was all but trapped by Germans.
Throwing himself under the very para
pet of the German trench, he escaped OBJ
servation, though machine gun was
firing above his head SO close that he
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

aim and naturally missed me, but if he had
been wide awake he could with ease have
punctured me with his bayonet l did not
stop to pass the time of day with him, for
the place seemed suddenly alive with Huns,
as he called Heinz, einz!'-probably the
name of his corporal. But 1 dived into
a shell hole and fattened myself as much
as possible. AS I was lost to sight and
escape, they began to cover the ground
with bombs. These all went we'll be-
yond me, and had it not been for
'Butterhngers' I might have escaped. But
a bomb slipped from his hand, roll
ing into the hole in front of him. He
jumped back into the safety of the trench
and did not know that the bomb had fallen
on it exploded. But knew tiny
left leg was broken in three places, twelve
wounds in my right, and others on my
back, twenty that afterward had to be
dressed, not counting some other scratches.
Then they came out to look for my friend,
almost stepping on me, but after half an
hours fruitless search they gave up. About
two hours later started home on my long,
painful crawl. 1t took me about twenty
minutes to pass the sentry near where
was lying, but after that there was no
danger of discovery, the front line still ap-
pearing almost unoccupied; but 1 was get
ting dizzy and not sure of my direction.
knew, however, where there was derelict
aeroplane in NoMan's Land, and made
toward it. When l sighted this was over
come with relief and laid my face in the
mud for while to recover. l had now
crawled about six hundred yards, dragging
my useless leg And my elbows were
skinned through, being used as grapples
that dug in the ground ahead, in that way
dragging myself few inches at time. /
knew our trenches were still about two
hundred yards away, and the sweat of fear
broke out on me as I remembered the two
machine guns in front of me that would
fire on anything seen moving out there,
and no one expected me to return that way.
So | crawled higher up the line, where It
was safer to enter, and few yards from
our trenches gave our scouting CALL Several
of my boys came running out and tenderly
picked me up. l was all in and could not
move q muscle. My own boys would not
allow the stretcherrbearers to touch me,
but six of them put me on stretcher and
carried me over the top just as day was
breaking. They would not go down into
the communication trench or she'll holes,
because they thought it would be too rough
on me, and so carried me over the exposed
ground, and when they got me to the dtess-
ing station they said: You will come back
to US, sir. won't your I said: Yes, hpys,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
THE Trained Scout
1 Is Cautious

How does one go about these nightly
maraudng trips? Here are few hints
for the beginner:
"The trained scout moves very cautiously
in No Mans Land, with all his senses at
high tension. After moving from one she'll
full minute. If there are any human beings
near, they will likely betray themselves by
loud breathing, a muffled sneeze, or some
rattle Of equipment. If satisfied that the
way is clear, he moves forward into an
other hole. Should he suddenly come into
sight Of the enemy, he is taught instantly
to freeze, and the chances are he will not
be noticed"
Prisoners and information arc what
the scout seeks. y Here is the way six
men set out:
at was a pitch dark night and the occa-
sional star shells only served to make the
black more intense when they faded. As
we crawled out one behind the other we
had to keep our hands on the foot ahead
several Intellectual attempts to find the
opening in our barbed wire and then cut a
new one. Was this like the darkness after
Calvary? The red signal rockets escend-
Ing from the cnemy's trenches gave no
light, but only burned for second or two
as a ruddy star. And the green lights
turned tho vaporous fog sickly yellowsh
green az though II were some new poison
gas Of the devils over there. led the way