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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-25
HARRY HOUDlN1

To teach the men in the army.
navy and merchant marine service
how to escape on torpedoed vessel
from jammed cabin doors or matches
and entangling ropes and wreckage.
Harry HoUdinin, the "handcuff king"
is today offering his services free to
the government.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-25

Il see Bob Cronin is giving you Il
good deal of publicity in the Jour
nal" said a friend to Elmer Turner.
He mentioned that You had lost a
H'ger and your voice during your
career as a baseball rooter, but he
he didn't say anything about your los
aIg your reputation"
He who steals that which I never
lad neither enriches himself nor
impoverishes me" was all the answer
Elmer had.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-25

today from France. Herr Pinchcrn
general director OF the Vienne Frem-
benbiatt, the Mittags Journal and the
Allgemeine Zeiung, the dispatche-
say. has obtained control of the most
prominent papers in Prague. and
ether cities on behalf of a German
syndicate
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-25
WOMEN ASK FOR TROUSERS.
Bavarian Conductors Can Not Repair
Worn-Out Skirts

COPENHAGEN, Feb. - Women
conductors and guards on the Bava-
rian railways want to wear trousers
instead of skirts. They have sent a
petition to the authorities demanding
that the trousers be supplied at once
as he skirts are worn uut and re
pairs are practically impossible owing
t. the scarcity of cotton thread.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-25
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
GIN ADVANCED

slble, must be the demand of
America if the war is to be won
for humanity and the death
blow given to militarism and
world-conquering autocracy.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-25

Deputy Clerk Draper had son
born Friday, Washinston's Birthday.
So far he has lived up to the tradi-
lions surrounding the memory of the
lirst President. He hasn't told u lie
yet.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-25
HOSTILE RAIDERS REFUSED.

LONDON, Feb. 25.-Hostile raid
ers were repVlsed with losses east of
Armentieres The enemy artillery is
somewhat active around ATessines
southwest Of Cam brai.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-25
A FAIR PRICE

IN ORTHWEST farmers are
NJ to get approximately
$2.18 for wheat this
year, the northwestern price
being on a parity with Chicago
as a result of a $3.50 per ton
rate announced by the ship
ping board for handling the
wheat by water to New York.
The price is a good one and in
Sures farmer prosperity and
the greatest possible wheat
acreage. The price set will be
criticised by some as too high.
However. those making such
complaint will overlook the in
creased costs falling upon the
farmer and the fact that much
of the acreage now being de-
voted to wheat raising does not
produce such crops as are to
be had in the best region of
Umatilla county. There are
many states where the yields
run from five to Is bushels per
acre instead of from 25 to 40
or so bushels as secured from
our good land.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-25
GERMANS BrY AUSTRIAN PAPER
Syndicate Obtains Control of Influ-
entiaI NeM. Snmrcr..

WASHIEGTDE. Feb 25.-German
Interests are acquiring some Of the
most influential newspapers in Aus
tria. according to an official dispatch
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-25

Russia is paying the penalty
of disruption and turmoil; let
all the allied nations take warn
ing and put the soft pedal on
internal differences.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-25
. . 80 { ~~%~~ So 4
"a LETTER AND \ SWEATER. 4

~~~Ae A~~~~~~A%
~ LETTER AND \ SWEATER. 4
= Dear Lad, the military orders 4
y say 4
= That I must knit for YOU in SOL 4
y emn gray; 4
y Yet as my needles click, it al I
y most seems I
= I'm knitting more than wool. \ Z
y coat of dreams 4
= ! weave for You, compact of .
CLEANS and glory. =
= Gayer than Joseph's in the =
Bible story. =
= Now the gray wool seems bright =
er to behold. =
= Until it shines like skeins of .
FURNISHED gold, .
= At thoughts of dear, kind, fool .
ish things You said =
3 one evening when the sunset .
? burned its red; .
= And last of all, one thread of .
rosy hue. q
At thought of-yes. you've .
suessed-a kiss for you, .
BY "Fenena" in the Chicago .
Tribune. =
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-25

America should be able to
outmanufacture the world and
the fact is one of our biggest
war assets.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-25

The goal of victory is not
close and it may take some
hard driving to reach it even
in 1919.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-25

United we stand; divided
we fall"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-15
STATE FAIR AUTO RACES.

The Iowa State Fair entertainment
program for the coming fair includes
two days of auto racing, Friday, Au,
gust % and Friday, August 80. These
races are held under the sanction OF
the International Motor Contest asso.
citation, which, to those conversant
with rules and usages in this kind OF
sport, insures the best of racing. The
program will include long-distance
races, dashes, trials against time in
Efforts to establish new records, and
various other events and exhibition
Stunts. Many Of the most noted dirt.
tack race drivers Of the country have
!. Snfsrsd their cars.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-15
BACKING Up General Sherman.

Flatbush-So your wife has gone to
the front as nerse?
Bensonhurst-Yes, sne has, and her
mothers up at the house while wife's
away.
"oh, her mothers living with you
now, is sLe?"
SYes. And begin to realize that
what General Sherman said about war
Is just about right" !,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-15
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
UNCLE SANS WAR EXHIBIT.

State fair yisitors should make
1t a point to look up the Govern
, ment War Exhibit that has been
prepared especially for the Occa-
sion. 1t will be. staged In Power
hall, located convenient to the
main street car entrances. This
exhibit II a regular museum OF
war equipment and hghting tog-
gerry from the army and nayy de-
partmcnts and also include nus
Merous trophies CLEANED from
the battlehelds of Europe.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-15

Plan to camp a few days at the iowa
State fair and enjoy the big show at
your leisure
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-15
A Hundred and One Other Features
of Educational Value

Dairy Exhibts-Cow Test Demonstrations-Nfin and
Mining Exhibits Highways Enthusiastic Institutions
Exhibits - Industrial Exhibits Mercantile Exhibits
School ExhbtsCollege ExhibtsBaby Health Contests.
Boys Judging Contests-Boys' Baby Beef Contest
Boys and Girls Pig Club Contestssheep Shearing Con-
tests, ETC., etc, ETC.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23
Here's Where Some of
the Money Is Going

OFTEN you wonder where all the money
wentl Well, where some OF it is going
the North American Reviews war week
ly Will tell you;
"The democratic administration, said
the Roosevelt-raft statement, having
spent billions of treasure and exercising
more absolute power than any admins
tration in our history, must give an &C
count of It's stewardship.
"We know already some OF the items
OF Migrant waste and worse than waste
which viii have conspicuous place in
that formidable accounting.
"Rut there still reihains vast fields as
yet but partially explored. Representa-
tive Madden, of Illinois, gave a glimpse
into one of them In the course OF a re-
cent debate in congress. He revealed a
state OF affairs in the war-Risk Bureau
which literally caused his fellow con-
greSsrnen to gas for breath. The sub
Ject under discussion before the commit
tee of the whole was the deficiency APP
preparation bill we quote from the Con-
gressional Record OF Tuesday, October
l7ths
''Mr. Madden; Mr. Chairman, want
to correct q statement I made to the
eject that the war-Risk Bureau has H.
600 clerks. I have ascertained that they
have 1900; that they have increased
he number 1000 within the last few
weeks.
"1rr. Butler: Does the gentleman
mean to say that they have $4,000 clerks
In that one bureau7
mir. Madden: Fourteen thousand.
''ndr. Butler; "Whew (Laughter.)
snow, even for what our democratic
Stacker congress- we submit that here
was an occasion when laughter was
anything but timely. Still less anus
ing ala 1t appear when Mr.. Madden
launched his staggering Indictment of
the criminal waste that the employment
of these IA 900 clerks involved He said
hat he had documentary evidence to
show that there was not one of these
clerks who did more than one days
work in a week; that clerks supposed TO
be working at night report for duty at
O'Clock and immediately thereafter go
ous 20 dinner, and when the theatre is
open they go 70 the theatre and never
come back; that the clerks themselves
say they are doing no work, and laugh
on the streets at the ease with which
they can ge- money opt Of the trea ury
Of the United States; that they know
their services are not needed; hat those
In authority know they are not needed
hat they are such a throng in the bu-
reau OFFICES that there is not standing
room, much less desk room for them.
aAnd what are they supposed TO do,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23

these hordes of salaried unemployed,
these pensioned men. and women of
leisure who put IN their hours of labor
In dining, going to the theatre and GO
Ing TO bed, only to rise the next morn
ing and begin the bored routine of idle
ness all over again. they are supposed
to do that which If left undone Is a
treacherous, brutal wrong to our SPLEEN
did soldiers who have been hghting for
our liberties. They are supposed to see
to 1t that the soldiers auotments are
promptly paid. If there is any depart
ment in washington where, above all
things, quick, efficient work IL impera-
lively demanded IL IS this war-Rlsk Blu
reau, whose duty 1t In to sc that the
crying needs for support Of the mothers
and wives and dependent little ones,
whose bread winners have risked their
Lives on the battlefield, shall be without
q moments unnecessary delay supplied
from the funds these brave men are
confidently entrusting to the hands of
the administration for that purpose.
"And that thing Is precisely what the
War-Risk Bureau, with its $4,000 clerks
doing one days work in a week, leisure
ly pensioned Men About Town, dawdling
over dinners and killing time at the
theatres, are not doing. The allotments
OF soldiers money to their dependents
back homo have practically ceased.
Wives and mothers dependent upon hus-
bands and sons for support have not in
thousands of cases received a penny Of
the money the absent soldier directed
the administration 20 give them.
"Tne complaints from these needy de-
pendents all over the country have be-
come a national scandal They have
In some instances it has been necessary
for congressman to employ g special
force Of clerks, stenographers and type
writer's TO take care of them Congress-
man penison, indeed, went so far as to
suggest that an 'expert'-Heaven save
the rnarki-be detailed from the war
Risk Bureau TO the house orice build
ing to relieve congressman of this bur
den that is rapidly growing into1erable.
"And now the deficiency bill is ask
ing for over seven million dollars more
Of the peoples money TO support these
l4coo whose idleness is as much a
shame TO many of them personally a
it is a disgrace 70 the administration
They are not necessarily TO blame. They
asked for jobs and got them For de-
serving democrats Il was a come-one
como-alI invitation And they all came.
Naturally.
1.-THE administration asks for owe
$1,000, coo more to pension them tina
they may continue laughing in tn
streets, if they think 1t good taste,
Uncle Sam as ar easy mark"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23
AND AGAIN, MORE AIR.

We were greatly surprised the other evening en-
tering a observe that windows were
tightly closed and remained during its whole trip
Here is another instance OF that strange unwingness
to take precautions against disease
the lesson of the dangerous maady
The air in closed and crowded mpossibly
dirty, than that In any theater entered
We have noticed also that relaxing their
vigilance in ventilation.
Why in the of all that is next to godliness'
people afraid of fresh air. especially mild
weather we have been enjoying lately? And why do
aside the lesson of the epidemic before the plague
IS over?
II such examples Of easy carelessness isolated
we could understand But they general enough to
be next TO criminal fresh air is necessary proven
tive of disease (and most physicians think
why not insist having it wherever go? 1t is
the cheapest thing in world the necessary
Modern thought is opposed to the morbid dwelling
upon disease Very we'll But must not forget, says
the Ohio State Journal that equally dangerous is
emily and sloppy neglect of sanitary conditions There
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23
COURT TIE LIGHT.

Disease. danger and death Turk the dark. Shadows
menace and threaten.
B1ackness conceas; the and unknown ar.
feared
Lands where the night is long promitive
~a ess populous than those where the pro
gress.
Gloom lends itself to the forces OF evil. Germ life
thrives where the suns reach
Vilainy and vandalism cling to closed shutters
drawn blinds; ploe-s and pagers plan and split spos
n places ill-ghted. not illuminated
Darkness coaks crime. Many outrages Of history
conceived connived and directed dark damp
Of cellars.
On the other hand. genius is often fostered gar
res, where light filters through the cheers
though poverty shifts hungry at the latch of
Many has long associated death and Oblivion with
blackness; life and hope with brightness.
The torch of knowledge has advanced the world
while ignorance is bandage TO the of progress
Modern business gives great consideration the
value and influence of light Industrial insurance
panies find it a formidable factory in their field Faulty
lighting responsible for 20 to 80 per accidents
resulting in damaee claims.
But the ligh that is individually vital is the LIGHT
WITHIN Don't let morbid thought Illumination
snuff it
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23
eERMANY's FUEL SUPPLY CUT.

Germany has been off from its usual supply of
oil and gasoline result of the armistce with
Austria and the consequent stoppage of al ltraffc be-
Austria and Germany. Germany has been obtain
ng gasoline from Galica and Rountana Up
to the time of Austrias complete collapse and
der, is understood Germany had been planning to
import large of oil from the fields of the eau
casus Germany fuel-ol supplies within her own
borders and been using for lubricatng oil derva
i've tar-benzol. This source however, will not
supply Germany's Generalization of the Aus
tran army that thousands of miners will return
Austrian fields that it is probable there
will not a great suffering because of lack
o this winter in Austria.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23

railroad ticket office IL being er-
taDished at Camp sherman 10 take
care Of the u 900 men who are to get
discharges. beginning Saturday. Pas
senger trains viii be switched into
camp. which viii eliminate the neces-
sity Of the men going to chulicothe
After the men have received their nav.
noneommissioner officers VIII conduct
them to the railroad ticket office and
then to their trains. Transportation
VIII be provided by the military au-
thorities. 70 points from which the
men were sent 70 camp. It Will be
the aim of the authorities TO see that
al men are returned to their homes.
One thousand military regIstrants,
now in training at the vocational
school at Winona Lake. are to he
transferred TO Indianspo where
they will receive training at the state
fair grounds. Orders TO that effect
from the war department at Washing
ton were received yesterday by Capt.
William Ostermaier. the coramandant.
Preparations already have been star
ed TO move the men and the transfer
Is expected next week The Winona
camp then will be abolished. It IS un-
derstood
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23
THE coNouERrNo OF WILLIAMS THREAT.

The Christian Science Monitor is authority for the
statement that visitor in shining called the
French embassy Berlin occasion. A presden-
a election taking place in France at the time with
NJ Brisson and NJ. Faure candidates I want to see
ambassador, said the stranger to the fooman as
he opened wide the embassy door. His excelency is
engaged" Il him once, replied the strang
err throwing off his mantle and revealing himself the
emperor. M Herbette said the being i'm
mediately admitted the ambassadors room q am told
chance OF NJ Brisson becoming president, and
IL he does mobilize Immediately Bris-
did president. but Faure quite unexpect
eddy did The kaiser would perhaps have regretted his
call French embassy had he been able foresee
the part which Felix Faure played in bringing about the
Franco Russian alliance.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23
TIE EAsTLANp ECHO.

Three years ago the steamer Eastland sunk at her
dock in Chicago carrying Sl2 persons to their deaths
ncapacity of federal steamboat inspectors
established principle that the government
sponsble for the acts of its hence the only
Of the relatives of the unfortunate victims
disaster to the of the boat The claims
have been carried the supreme decision
has been handed down under which all the claimants
lose their fight for damages Doubtless the matter has
been settled strictly accordance with law
the accident had occurred railroad. owing to the
faulty inspection of rolling stock millions of dollars
damages would have been demanded paid moro
responsibility attached to the government or
its officers charged with the security and limb
there would be more hesitation in appointing such
places political henchmen entirely lacking in qualifca
tons.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23
WHY WORRY?

Don't let the "readiustment" bugaboo brighten you
into becoming watchful waiter. AS Samantha Allen
used to say, BE cant! Great periods of industrial de-
preston have always been caused by overproducion
but such situation meets todayin fact along
lines our shelves bare the cupboard Of old
Mother Hubbard Production and consumption will
quickly level and along normal lines Wages
Hcan normal. not the democratic bread line of
1914 Republicans will be in both branches
OF congress when the reconstruction measures are
brought feel assured of non-sectional
legislation needing but the presidential signature
make it function for the nations welfare why worry
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23
- - - - - - -
suRLEsoN THRoTTLEs FREE PRESS.

The people of the United States will surely resen
the gagging of their congress and their free by
1.-THE autocratic seizure of the transatlantic cables
SELF giving the country miserable postal service
during grab the cables. He is the of the
wires Nothing be the cables that he
doesn't like.
The great peace conference at Versailles will have
surleson of cable and the much-crtcized
the other Whatever the president wishes Cree
give out about the international meeting just that
much and more will Creel give out.
What Burleson have the peace delegates
congress- just that much will Burleson give
and Senators in congress and the news
papers all country denouncing this unheard
order The people of the United States have other
of knowing just what takes place in Europe
cept through their and this constitutional
light is to be taken away from them.
The South Bend Tribune points out that this censor
1hp is imposed and the press and the peo
pie of the United States after the chief executive him
self had publicly stated that the emergency
exist 1t is done. nevertheless, the euse
OF emergency measure and with that uthori
ty which congress all too willingly handed the
president months
OF all the unusual things done by the war admins
tration belttles the American people this
none smacks strongly of autocracy. SC
petty peanut politics Between and g. wher
the peace ship sails congressman should do all in their
power TO prove that they and not school bows
to be locked in dark closet when the master is
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23

Rensselaer, Republican. who for four
months past had been at Camp Tay-
Tor. KY. arrived here this morning
on the early north bound train and
continued to his home at Hamlet on
the milk train TO Shelby and then east
on the New York Central Private Lee
hiy had just been discharged from the
army. He was still in uniform but
had instructions to return his army
clothes to Camp Taylor within ten
days. The government furnished him
transportation from the camp to his
home. lie was accompanied as far
as Monticello by Private z. Connell.
whose home is in White county. These
soldiers were among the first discharg-
ed from Camp Taylor
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23
BULLING THE MARKET.

1t is an Ill wind that blows nobody good. The great
slaughter OF dairy heifer calves by farmers
milk production will scarcity OF dairy that
will make a good market for in a position buy
heifer calves and raise them for sale later
There is pretty certain be high market for cows
for several and the loss of darymen in the
past year will be the gain of the who get
in right the future.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23

widely prevalent certain fatalstic philosophy
capable of much harm The "our-own- will
and the whatpustcomeywl-be schools thought
their values but they good working bases a
crisis when conditions theories. confront
usually find result of actions in what
comes And right have no doubt that
cleanliness, scrupulous cleanliness. the
we'll water. will happy result There
IS neither fear fatasm in keeping clean-us plain
common sense.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23
WE MUST PAY

In the JOY of victory the country will overlook much
Of the seconalsm partisanshp nepotism and favorit
ism which have resulted and inefhciency.
the the country has suffered ought not be so
readily forgotten. The of this must be paid,
years to Hquidate the debt
Those who have needlessy increased the burden should
be held TO a strict accounting
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23

All soIdiers returning from the
camps and environments are kind
~ asked 10 register their names
for this column. The Times is go
Ing to nearly thousand soldiers
from this county who are In
France. Many of them won't he
back for u year or more. They
want TO know where their fFEends
are. ibis column VIII tell them'
so soldiers and their frfenfs Will
pIense let us know when they re-
turn and from whence they return.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23
NOTICE.

Friends of the Times, who have
sent In soldier letters must exercise
patience. They will NIL be prtnted
but must be published in the order OF
heir receipt. by government order
our space is limited because of news
print shorf-Se and we arc only al
lowed TO use certain amount OF
printed matter daily. Don't fear that
the letters viii mot appear In their
turn.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23

Mr.. and Mrs. George Bailey. of LO-
Wen. have received letter from their
son, Lieut. L. l. Bailey. Camp Lee,
virginia. lie is in a replacement unit
and expects to 20 overseas. He prais-
es the y organization and what it
does for the soldiers.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-11-23

The editor of The Times wishes to
acknowledge the receipt OF the Camp
Jackson. S. c. Trench and Camp. the
bright and snappy publicity organ Of
the camp and thanks Private Ben s.
WAGNER Of Hammond. who sent Il.
Private Wagner is with the Asst Bal
loon Company.