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The Washington times., 1918-11-11
Make Transfers as Widespread
As Possible
BY BILL PRICE.

The Utilities Commission which is going into the ques-
ton OF free nercompany transfers for patrons OF wash
ngons lines should not hesitate to direct the issuance
of these transfers at many points possible without
crpping the companies financially and producing Etua
ton that will furnish just foundation fmsy excuses
for another demand for increase In car fares.
The evidence presented at the first hearing by experts
of the commission indicated that money losses to the
panes would not be large under extensive plans of trans
fers but the companies to have opportunity this week
to offer their claims.
It is pretty well known that in conferences representa-
tves Of the companies had with members of the Utilities
Commission prior to the hearing for increased fares they
left the impression that they would make objection to
transfers scale that would be satisfactory to Wash
ington people.
1t behooves the representatives of these companies
view of the fair attitude of the Washington public in agree
ing to increase of fares to cents straight to cooperate
to the fullest extent In giving and accepting transfers at
every point where the public may be benefited by shortened
rides and rapid transit to points of destination That
means something to people who have suffered and stood for
much In the of bad service
Suggestions that at crossings transfers should be
charged for at cents each to offset possible financial
losses will not be popular Rather than do this it would
be better for the commission to limit the number Of trans
fer points at present until the actual results of the ope
ations of free transfers fully asceraned which would
not be difficult in the of three or four months
Then if the losses comparatively small the number Of
points may be increased.
It is clearly admitted that people in portions of the
city reached by company only should have access
by free transfers to those parts of the city covered solely
by the competing line and that wherever the public may
be expedited in reaching their work their homes trans
fers should be issued Wherever transfers would result in
increased congestion, bring abuse of round trips
fare simply few blocks in leg exercise they should
be denied
It will be hard to believe that small charge for trans
fes necessary at any point and before that question
raised for decision thorough trial of widespread system
of FREE TRANSFERS should be authorized No railway
will be severely hurt by the fullest sort of trial Facts
and not bunk must govern.
The facts far favor giving the people something real
for which they do not many tangible results to their
benefit.
The Washington times., 1918-11-11
o o O

HOWARD GORDON, Of Forest
Glen. sends in the hottest roast Of the
W. r. and E. and the Utilities Com
mission coming to this desk in a long
time. He goes so far as to call It the
Futilities Commission. He ridicules
the idea that there should have been
an increased fare and says things so
hot that they sizzle.
Here's one-"The sooner we have
public sentiment solidlfied and not
controlled by alleged business men
whose sole interest Is profit, and the
sooner We have real citizens organi-
cations and not little mutual admira-
ton societies, made up men who i'm
agine because they have sold goods
and made a little money they have
thereby become the receptacle Of all
earthly wisdom, the sooner We will
have a real, cooperative and efficient
community. There are more orators
- the SQUARE inch in WaSh'- ITO
The Washington times., 1918-11-11
Fairfax Writes the Problems Pitfalls of the War Workers
Especially for Washington Women

a day is coming when all this viii
be changed, when States and COM
munities will stand ready to help
mothers with their motherhood.
For, after all, the community
ought to be just as much interest
ed in having healthy babies born
and well brought up, as the moth
erhood is. Perhaps even more so.
So why shouldn't it smooth the
way?
There are various ways of doing
this. State schools of motherhood
have been spoken of, where every
young girl Of eighteen or twenty
could get a years instruction at
the States expense, in this busi-
ness Of mothering.
Think of the saving, in health,
and in time and in strength and
in pure joy, if every young
mother were trained for her job.
Think Of the panics, and the
baby-sicknesses, and the maternal
breakdowns, that could be avoid
Cug anu Tic SNIOlk HlGu ana
women that would be saved to the
world!
Another scheme that has been
a great deal discussed is that of
a grant from the State to every
mother for every baby. By this
pleasant arrangement the State
would be a godfather to every
child and no mother would be
prevented for lack Of money
from giving her baby a good
start in life.
By all means. there is promise
of better, safer days ahead for
babies.
Meanwhile, are you the kind
of mother that a really wise and
enlightened baby would like to
begin life with?
If not, why not make haste to
put yourself in this desirable
class?
The Washington times., 1918-11-11
A Polar Eden Described By Aid of Science

in which they are contained run
under the icecaps, and there is no
reason why they may not extend
to the poles. II the obliquity OF
the ecliptic was nearly the same
then as 1t is now land the known
causes OF its variation do not ad-
NIT OF its ever having been very
great, the poles themselves
would have been the very places
Of highest temperature within the
polar circles, the true hearts Of
the polar Edens.
Science has not had much sue
cess In settling the question of the
cause Of the former mild climates
around the poles. Did the atmos-
phere contain some constituent,
now dissipated. which caused il to
retain more solar heat? Or did the
earth at that time traverse n
region OF space where a higher
temperature prevailed? Or, owing
to changes in the level and ar
rangement of different parts OF
the crust Of the globe, we're warm
oceanic currents directed into the
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the earth. buried under ice thou
sands OF feet in thickness, with
only scattered peaks Of rock pro-
jecting up through the icy mantle,
and almost ceaselessIy whipped
by snow-driving tempetsts at a
temperature so degrees below
zero, while its barren coasts, ten
thousand miles in circuit. are in
many places themselves crowned
with lofty cliffs of eternal ice.
Yet where the rocks of that
frost-blasted continent, which, in
habited as thickly as Europe,
might hold 500 million peopIe.
show through the snow, they ex-
hibit to the astonished eye OF the
geologist the fossilized remains of
plants and animals that cannot
live except in a genial climate, and
which tell only Of sunshine. warm
Zephyrs, flowing waters, mirror
lakes, soft blue skies, grassy
glades, scented forests, flower
dotted fields. and facks Of animated
beings. In that place which is now
but a glittering expause of cry
stalline desolation, a vast white
tomb erowniuE tho hur'nI noIs
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matte effects similar to those now
ascribed to the Gulf Stream along
the northwestern coast OF Europe?
Or was the axis of the earth in a
different position from that which
1t occupies at persent? All these
and other suggestions have been
put forth and argued. but none
has been generally accepted as
satisfactory.
II the phenomenon was due to
geological changes. it may never
recur, but il il arose from astro-
nOmical causes, which are usually
periodic in thar action, It is pos
sible that a similar state OF af-
fairs around the poles may re-
turn at some remote future day.
The tremendous character Of the
changes that have taken place
since the epoch Of the towering
poles is strikingly Illustrated by
the state Of affairs on and around
the great Antarctic Continent to-
day. There is land half as large
again as ell Europe, heaved up 30
high that its average elevation
above sea-level is twice as great
49,. ~ INV other continent on
The Washington times., 1918-11-11
BY GARRETT p. sERVISs.

BY GARRETT p. SERVISS.
THE story Of the explorer,
Steffanson, who has dlscov-
cred, between the north end
Of North America and the North
Pole, an island larger than Ire
land, where there is an abundance
OF coal, revives the old wonder
tale of geology about a time, or
times, when the polar regions Of
the earth bloomed with an almost
tropical splendor of life. both ami
NAL and vegetable. In calling this
a wonder-tale | do not mean TO in
innate that it is a fiction. On the
contrary, its truth has been dem
onstrated over and over again,
and Steffanson simply brings us
another bit OF evidence to further
substantiate it.
Around both ends Of the earth's
axis grew carboniferous plants in
such abundance that subsequent
ages have changed them into beds
Of coal Such beds, as far as they
have been discovered. lie, OF
course. only on the borders Of the
ice hut n Is "loar thHt the ro"'-s
The Washington times., 1918-11-11

lap of a parent with a natural
gift for mothering, there must
be at least nine chances that he
will make a connection with a
mother whose talents run to
housekeeping or to office work,
and who won't know any more
about milk bottles and infant
psychology than its father does.
We know now that the old way
of leaving these most important
matters to chance was a very Sc
rious mistake, and that it has cost
the lives Of nobody knows how
many babies. / wish every young
mother were so convinced of this
that she would see that her first
baby didn't find her unprepared.
Not that she isn't sure to make
some sort Of preparation. She
will embroider its dresses and
hemstitch its pillow slips and
crochet lace for its bonnet. But I
mean sensible preparations, prep
arations that are really in the in
terest Of the baby's health and
all-around well-being.
1t is true that as conditions now
are, a young woman must bestir
herself more or less to acquire
this special education. 1t isn't
anybody's business in particular,
to see that she gets it. There
aren't any official channels
through which she can get it-that
is, all of it, though the Children's
Bureau at Washington does a
great deal, and in the larger cities
highly useful maternity centers
are developing.
Community Babies.
But far-seeing people say that
The Washington times., 1918-11-11

D. 8. PORTER, despite his eighty
three years, was among the most &C
tive and lively Of the distinguished
gathering.
The coon hunters, headed by Com
missioner GARDINER, who well
coined them at his beautiful coun-
try home, four miles south Of T. B,
were attired in orthodox hunting
uniforms. The real coon hunters
carried kerosene oil lanterns, but
JOHN POOLE and several others
were equipped with powerful pocket
searchlights.
Divided in squads they followed
guides. MERRITT CHANCES party
had a "cullud gentleman" as guide
He became warmed up and lit up
early in the evening and led them
around in a circle until they came
in at midnight
One possum was landed and the
coons captured by all OF the va
rious squads looked something like
this.
The Washington times., 1918-11-11
TODAY'S TOPIC
HOW TO BE A GOOD MOTHER.

keeping, even when they have in
sinuated a good deal Of age-old in
struction as to the deft secret
management of husbands, they
have never breathed a word as to
the science and the art Of mother
hood.
The idea has been that women
become mothers by a sort of mir
acle, without the slightest pre-
liminary training. The sight Of
their first baby, the sound of his
earliest cry, has been supposed
not only to fill their hearts with
a big, sufficing mother-love,
which perhaps it does, but to fill
their brains with an encyclopedia
amount of very special knowl-
edge in regard to child food,
child clothing, child hygiene, child
training, and all the rest Of it.
But have you ever known a case
where this happened?
Women who are ignorant about
the proper care of children be-
fore their baby comes, are unfor-
nately just as much so afterward.
And these are the cases in which
the baby and nature together
have to get along as best they
can.
What we need is an ever so
much more general education of
girls for motherhood. Not a SEN
timental, but a practical educa-
ton.
The Risk of Births.
Babies oughtn't to have to
take the terrific risk they do in
being born. It isn't fair to them.
Where there is one chance that
a baby will happily drop into the
The Washington times., 1918-11-11

n ONE women are born moth
y ers;" -,
- We all know that. And
we are all sufficiently worshippers
of the beautiful maternal principle
to admire these women profoundly
and to recognize that their chill
dren are blessed.
This, of course, in case they
marry. But women who have by
nature the wonderful gift of moth
ering don't always marry, by any
means. And in that case we pay
a great deal less attention to them
and sometimes disregard their
gift altogether.
Now, inasmuch as so many born
mothers remain single, and as
those who marry are unfortu-
nately rather a small percentage
of ali mothers, it comes about that
a multitude of babies who deserve
better of life fall into pretty mex
pert hands.
1t happens all the time that re-
ally high-grade babies, babies who
look and act as if they knew the
difference, become the charge of
hopeless amateur mothers-moth-
ers who didn't learn anything
about mothering in advance, and
who probably never will learn very
much through experience.
That is to say, true motherhood
isn't a physical thing. You can
be the parent Of a child without
being its mother in the sense
mean. You have to make an eff
fort and learn how.
Motherhood Untaught.
And this is, l think, becaues we
women have had a totally wrong
attitude about motherhood all
these years. Mothers, even the
best ones, haven't felt any obliga-
ton to teach mother-wisdom to
their daughters. Even when they
have patiently taught them house
The Washington times., 1918-11-11
Famous Coon Hunters Of
Washington.


Washington.
Among the 100 or more famous
:oon hunters Of Washington who
took part in Commissioner Gardi-
ner's noted coon hunt Saturday
night on his Prince Georges Coun-
ty farm were the following:
POSTMASTER NJ. o. CHANCE.
CAPT. j. F. OYSTER.
WADE COOPER
ED GRAHAM.
CLIFF BERGMAN.
WADE ELLIS.
W. P. RICHARDS.
j. @. McGRATH.
ADMIRAL PEOPLES.
B. F. SAUL
JOHN POOLE.
HARVEY GIVEN.
RINGGOLD HART.
w. F. HAM.
GEORGE W. WHITE.
JUDGE AUKAM.
KING CORNWELL
RALPH LEE.
DR. A ]. CARRICO.
SAM FRAZIER
The Washington times., 1918-11-11

MISS NETTIE N. oRME and
MRS. C. N. MADERT, navy yeo-
women, have the honor Of being thd
first women members admitted =
Garrison 104 of the Army and NaxE
Union.
The Washington times., 1918-11-11

LOUlS BROWNLOW II having q
new suit of clothes made.
A most efficient COMMITTEES had
charge of the opening and dedi-
cstory exercises for the KNIGHTS Of
Columbus hut-P. J. HALTIGAN,
w. G. FEELEY, LEO F. STOCK
CHARLES W. DARR, and MICH
AEL ]. DRISCOLL. That hut win
make many a soldier boy feel st
home.
-Four men, who have reason 10 b
puned up but are not-JACK BOO
BAR, HOWARD PHILLIPS. EU-
GENE ADAMS, and ROE Full
hERSON. The first two headed tho
committee of the Kiwanis Club for
the last Liberty bond campaign.
Aided by their co-workers, they
turned IN subscriptions for 81 ,32O'-
800. ADAMS and FULKERSON
are high lights Of this organization.
CAPTAIN HELLDORF Is the
name of the German courier vho
carried the allied peace terms to Spa
for transmission to Berlin. Seems
that all these Teutons have held of
too long for their own good" writes
B. S. NJ.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE has
meeting Tuesday at 8
p. m, GIL Twelfth street.
Mrs. NJ. B. N. jumps on the Wash
ington laundries for present high
prices, and says she thinks The
housewife deserves
some consideration from some direc-
ton.
She declares that the OCTOBER
GAS BILLS were unduly high, de-
spite economies in cooking and
lighting. 81 am willing to nav mn
just debts, but do not wish to rnaks
presents under compulsion," she
writes. Gas company officials take
notice.
CHARLIE LANCASTER fears
that the Republicans have got in bad
BY dividing the responsibilities with
The Democrats Of running the conn
try during the next two years. He
thinks it would have been better had
they let the Democrats carry t.
--SNfr load for while Longer.
The Washington times., 1918-11-11

rTencn revolution"
CHARLES s. GABLE, secretary Of
the Washington chapter Of the Ameri-
can Institute Of Banking. Is right IN
feeling pleased with the interesting
educational program for that organi-
zadon for the season Of 1888. The
program includes a practical banking
course Tor men and women, consist
ing Of twenty-five lessons.
The Washington times., 1918-11-11
BOnaparte Made the Salad

How One King Was Condemned death Without
Phrases" Coward of Blood Royal.
The Washington times., 1918-11-11
HEARD AND SEEN

than there were in Paris during the
French revolution" IT
The Washington times., 1918-11-11

LOUIS BRoWNLOW il having 4
new suit Of clothes made.
The Washington times., 1918-11-11

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE has
important meeting Tuesday at 8
p. m, GIL Twelfth street
The Washington times., 1918-11-11

But far-seeing people say that
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-07-06


her imaginary lover his wifc enters
the office. she Is discharged to keep
peace In the family.
In new lodgings sylvia discovers
the manuscript of a play. She rec
ognizes It as having been rejected by
her former employer shs remem-
bers, too, the engaging young man
who wrote it. The play details the
adventures OF a poor girl who 1put ii
over, to the extent OF being taken
lur by the smart set. sylvia deter
mines to do this very thing.
The erstwhlIe typist blossoms out
as a dashing widow. she is taken
up by society after inyenting and tell
ing a romantic story of her husbands
death In the service of his country,
There she meets Don Meredith, au-s
thor Of the play, though he is igno-
rant Of her knowledge of his affairs
Matters take dramaSfc turn when
her fictitious husband turns out to be-
a real man and not dead at ALL Don.f
who has fallen In love with the sup
posed widow, is heartbroken to find
that she is not free. the ensuing1
complications and the manner ine
which they are circumvented make
a film PLAN at once absorbing and
thrilling
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-07-06
WILL USE
PROFITEERINGR REPORT
TO FRAME TAX BILL

In answering the Borah resolution
asking for profiteering data when the
treasury department declared some
business had made excess profits of
2lSO per cent it said that next to a
food dealer who made tha5 profit
same liquor man with an excess
profit of 1890 per cent: another H.
quor man made l5a per cent. a stor-
age concern made 4T2 per sent, while
in the dairying business the excess
ranged from nothing to 1872 FER cent
banking went to 50 per cent, contrac>
tors to 596 and others were mentiOn-
eG with high excess profits nlcinded
clothing manufacturers. flour millers
and packers. mining concerns. retail
coalors. department stores and paper
manufacturers up to 176 per cent. The
report will he used by congress in
framing the war tax bill.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-07-06
REVELATIONS FROM THE
DAYS BEFORE GREATNESS
WAS THRUST UPON THEN |
Chapter Z
Elsle Fit2rllaurlce.) J

=
january 90, 1855, was a great day
i for Nebraska. II saw the birth of the
first white child in the state, and his
lname was James Henry Robert Raley.
And seven years later he crossed the
plains and came right over the hfil
Unto Pendleton on his way to PORT
Hand, where he remained until 1864,
when he returned with his parents.
They built log cabin on the exact
spot where the Eastern Oregon state
Hospital is now. Remember when
1.-THE .excavators found some old bones
There and thought they were the re-
mains of a prehistoric animal Those
were the homes of the Raley,s old blue
work OK that fell in the well back in
l'6G.
James Henry Robert learned his A,
b. C's off his flour sack trousers and
tnen went TO the University of Oregon.
He completed his education in 1877,
spent two years growing Iuxuriant
crop OF whiskers, and in 1879 mar
fried Miss Minerva Pruett. Speaking
of whiskera, he shaved them off about
six years ago and no one knew him
so he has been lodging barber shops
ever since.
July 5, 1873, found our hero MEM
Der of a scouting party who assisted
in repulsing an attack made by the
Bannock Indians. Further military
glory came in 1887 when Governor
Pennoyer appointed him colonel, as a
member of the government militia
staff.
The Colonel Hooyerizes on tobacco,
for he rarely lights his cigars. On one
OF his frequent visits to his cabin at
Granite Meadows, he placed his cigar
In niche in the logs, Next morr@ng
he saw a rat. who evidently believed
that cigars were made to be smoked.
clipping with the weed.
The Colonel has fulfilled all his boy
hood ambitions. He was, before TAX
ing up his present profession of law.
an Indian fighter, barber, Che has
his shears to prove it), COW puncher
and surveyor, and was manager OF
the Real Estate and Loan Associa-
tion of which w. r. MatloclS was pres
ident and C. s jackson secretary.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-07-06
"TTI1 FAIR PRETENDER,
HAS NERVE AND CHARM

Madge Kennedy as a stage-struck
typist who does not achieve her am
bition but finds herself In a maze OF
high society complications instead
this is the oruS OF the newest Gold
wyn production. ''rhe Fair Pretend
err" Which comes to the Alta theater
beginning Sunday.
The star is sylvia Maynard. work
ing-in the office of a play producer.
In her enthusiasm to prove her ahii-
ity to act, the girl shows the man
ager what she would do if given the
star part in a play then being put on.
II is passionate. love scene. and
while Sylvia uses her employer as
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-07-06

Eugene O'Brien, recently seen with
her in The Moth, and s'Poppy,' >
whose polished performances reflect
his long experience on the stage ana
the screen. He has appeared with
such famous artists as Elsie Janis.
Kyrle Rellew, Margaret Ellington,
Ethel Barrymore, and Frances Starr.
and before the camera with Clara
Kimball Young. Petrova. and Edna
Mayo. He is now registering a per-
senal hit in the metropolitan produce
ton of Booth Tarkington's Julian
Streets comedy The couatsy Cou-
sim"
The heavy" is played by stuart
Holmes, villain OF a thousand photo
plays.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-07-06
SARSAPARILLA-
PEPSIN, NUX AND IRON

The combination of Hood IS Sarsa-
parilla and Peptiron is one of the
happiest because one Of the most
effective and economical ever made
in medical treatment. These two
medicines, one taken before eating
and the other after, work together,
each supplementing the other. They
give a four-fold result in blood
cleansing and nerve-building, and
form the finest course of medicine.
Get them of your druggist today.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-07-06

ister, at the special request of Sir Ed
ward Kemp, Canadian Overseas min
ister of militia, who represented that
his unique war experience could be
best utilized in connection with the
organization of the Canadian air
force.
Three weeks ago Mai Bishop took
to France a handpicked fighting
squadron, of whom a large percent
age were Canadians. and it accounted
for an extraordinary number of en-
emy machines.
On the morning of the day he re-
ceived the order to breturn to England
which was quite unexpected by him,
he went out for one last films at the
enemy and before his return brought
down five machines
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-07-06
ConIdn.t Wake ,cm Up.

LONDON, July G.-The impossible
simply can't be accomplished. even
for the War Bonds. Thus British
aviator's pamphlets brought no sub
scriptions when they fluttered down
from the clouds urging people to
Wake Up and Buy War Bonds'" and
landed in Chelmsford Cemetery.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-07-06
BRITISH AIRMAN
WHO DOWNED Y
HUNS REWARDED

3 LONDON. july 5.--wIth - Ger
man airplancs brought down to his
credit. the Ercatest number OF enc
my machines destroyed by an enten
te airman so far Maj. William A.
Risbon has been transferred from the
Canadian active force at the 'front.' 70
a position at the office of the Brtish
chief OF the air staff,
The recall OF the major vas ad-
vircd ~ I--gl Wc.g, tt'tlA ar Ia'n-