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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-27

opted 5000 years ago While the ori-
ginai title dates back to fully COCO
years Bootes is represented as gi-
ant holding two dogs in lesh and
chasing the Great Bear around the
Pole. The constellation Is more or
less OF a kite shaped figure and situ-
ated some twenty degrees from the
end of the dipper handle. following
the surve. II can be observed from
March to September.
Arcturus. the principle star. is OF
the first magnitude and one of the
most important II is remarkable for
its rate OF speed often being called
one of the Runaway Stars" There
is difference in calculation concerning
its proper motion but the lowest esti-
mate is n hundred miles per second.
Even at this great speed II has been
20o0 years in travelling over n space
equal to twice the apparent diameter
of the moon. so great is its distance
from the earth.
According to Mrs. Martin II takes
the light of Rrcturus one hundred
years to reach us while Professor
Russell says its brilliancy exceeds that
of our sun one hundred and fifty
times. But. even so. the heat from
Arcturus when 1t reaches the Earth
Is equal only to that of a candle five
miles away.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-27
20 YEARS AGO
tFrOm the Daily East oregonian

(From the Daily East oregonian
September 81. 1919
DR.. Whitaker has the best score, 5s
out of a possible so, in the shooting
gallery contest. H. A. Faxon ranks
next with 81.
The wedding of Professor Carl Guy
OF, a gifted musician of Walla Walla.
and Miss Clara Russell, was solemnized
in Walla Walla on Sunday. The briue,
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. s.
Russell. of Mud Creek. is a bright and
accomplished Umatilla county girl.
with many friends to wish her hap"
piness.
d. NJ. French is in the city from La
Grande after his family who will re-
turn with him Tuesday to make their
home in that city. His friends here
are glad to see him and to know thai,
he is prospering in his now field.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-27
FOUR ANE :. Half BILLION

@SIGURES completed by the
TF Bureau of Internal Rev
enue show that the taxes
and excess profits for this fis-
cal year will total about four
and a half billion dollars. Col
lections to date aggregate 3d.
39,950,612 for all revenue
sources. OF this excess profits
and incomes there has been col
lected only about $2,596,008,-
702 thus far. The law allows
payment in four installments,
if desired. Only two of such
payments have fallen due. 1t
is estimated there is about ST.
600, 100000 yet to be collected
from this source in the pay
ments which fell due Septem-
Der l5, and those falling due
on December Is, 1919.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-27

There has always been more
fuss than fight in Fiume and
no one need worry over affairs
there.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-27
THE FUNNYB0NE
Grabbed Everything.

When Lloyd George was about IA,
his gurdian uncle. Richard Lloyd was
puzzled what to make of him. To
help him in choosing a career for the
lad he put him in a room with Bible
an apple and shilling. If the boy
choose the Bible he was to be par
son. if the apple he was to go into
horticulture, and if the shilling he
was to be a lawyer.
When the uncle went into the room
some time later he found yound David
seated on the Bible, eating the apple.
having painted the shilling to look
like sovereign.-Buffalo CONNER
cial
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-27
AN ERA OF NEW BANKS

- HERE have been 301 ap-
D plications for new nation
- al bank charters during
the eight months ending Au-
gust 81, 1919, according to the
Comptroller of the Currency,
who states that these requests
came from thirty-nine different
states and represent new capi-
tai to the aggregate of $24,-
$4,000. There were sixty-one
such applications during the
month of August alone.
The applications, indicating
a flourishing financial condi-
tion over the entire country,
come from the states in the fol
lowing proportion: from Mon
tana, 26; from California, 21
from Texas and Kansas, each
IT; from Oklahoma, 16; from
Minnesota, IL; from South Da-
kota, IL; from Pennsylvania
and New York, each 10; from
Illinois and Colorado, each g.;
from Idaho, North Dakota and
South Carolina, each z; from
Massachusetts, g.; and from
New Jersey, Virginia and Ar
kansas, 5 each.
These figures represent an
increase of seventy per cent in
charter requests for the same
period in 1918 and an increase
of 145 per cent in new capital
over the same period a year
ago. Since January 1, 1919,
there have been about seven
times as many new charters
granted and applications for in
creases in national bank capi-
tai as there have been reduc-
tions of capital and liquidation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-27
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

A JOINT RECITAL by Leila Sailing,
dramatic soprano and Gail Miller VIII
liams, juvenile dramatic reader ana
story teller, will be given at the Pres
byterian church in this city. the even
ing of September 30th, under the aus
pices of the Woman's Society of the
church. Admission so cents.-Adv.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-27
HE FINISHED THE JOB

III AVING completed the
D greatest portion of his
speaking trip and made a
good job of it the president is
wise to curtail further travel
ing and take a rest. He is too
important to the country and
to the nation to run needless
risks of serious illness.
On his western trip the pre-
sident visited practically all i'm
portant states making speeches
in the larger cities. He
brought first hand news of the
peace conference and the pur-
poses of the statesmen who
drew up the League of Nations
covenant. His talks have i'm
pressed the general public with
the soundness of the league
plan and the fairness of its
various sections. His answers
to critics have taken the ground
from under the Borah-Johnson
forces. All they can do now is
appeal to the prejudices of
those who have not read the
covenant or do not wish to un-
derstand the facts in the case.
They cannot get far. The peo-
pie are too much in earnest to
have patience with such tactics.
-~~~~~s>>~>>>
Complaints are made that
some autoists do not observe
the slow down signs near the
schools in Pendleton. If so then
there is need of the speed cops
attention. If there is any place
on earth where a motorist
should be cautious is in the
vicinity of school where lit
tie children are at play and of
necessity are in the streets
more or less.
There has always been more
fuss than fight in Fiume and
no one need worry over affairs
there.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-27
One of the Few Great Singers in the World.

One of the Few Great Singers in the World.
PROGRAM in English, French and Italian. Mostly
in English. Foreign language numbers will be trans
lated into English by Madame Zarad before she sings
them. Old English, Irish and Scotch numbers will
predominant.
YOU should make it point to hear this master ar
tiste. Competent critics saying the most extra
VACANT things about her marvellous voice, mastery
interpretations and her wonderful personality.
YOU it to yourself to hear this master artistic
PRICES Lower Floor $500, $1.50; Balconies $1.00
and SOC.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-27
Notice

Notice
Call meeting of the Maccabee Lodge
is to be held at their hall, Tuesday
Sept. 80 at 2:30 o'cloek-All members
urgently requested to be present-im-
portant business to be transacted.
By Order of Lady Commander.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-27
Oregon Theatre TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6
ONE NIGHT
THE CIVIC CLUB PRESENTS
The Distinguished French
Prima Donna foprano
zarad
OF the Chicago Grand
Opera Company
In n Program of Musical
Worth.
EXCERPTS:

Berlin Lokal Anxeiger-"Ma-
dame Zarad's place on the con-
cert platform is secure. She Is
conscientious artistic"
Rotterdam (Holiand) Cour-
ant--"She sang with incompar-
able art"
Francesca Zarad is one of the
Francesca Zarad is one of the
few artists who are as accept
able on the concert platform as
in opera. She is the possessor
of a beautiful voice. a charming
personality. great dramatic tall
snt and thorough musical ed
ucation."
Boston Globc-"She sang and
smiled herself right into the
hearts of her listeners"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-27
ABOUT THE STARS
BoOTES.

BOOTES-
(The Bear Driver.)
1t is claimed by some astronomers
that the original title of this constel-
lation was "Arcturus" the lucida OF
the group. and that the name Bootes
is of more modern origin. 1t was ad-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-27

"Are you an experienced aviator?"
well. I've been at it three months
and I'm all here. Boston Tran
script.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-27
, 4% = = %@
THE HARVEST-FRIE

= THE HARvEsT-FBIE,ND 4
What is this elemental feeling =
in my breast
That gives unstintingly TO one =
prize?
= Because know the heart OF =
each request
Must hold responslvely and .
= wise, =
. OF all that we call forth from =
= him to us.
In fair exchange for what we =
freely lend. =
= We give because we know it's =
only just =
To give in kind so we may =
call him friend. =
= A fair exchange robs no man of =
his worth, =
So why should we withhold =
our wealth
OF understanding, interest in =
= his mirth,
Or sadness. problems. or his =
. health? =
= Should one be niggardly or slow =
10 act
= because the measure of his =
= present state of life2
= Is 1t not better to accept the fact =
= That he Will some day see you =
= through your strife?
= Thus do we richly store up fu- ,
, ture debt
, With friend or loved one who =
, is true.
> His problems must just now be =
met;
. The interest some day may ap- =
= ply to you.
? Consider not the obligation he =
may owe:
, Think not in figures or of
money gain
. Friendship is harvest of the =
? seed you SOW,
, The ripest. fullest cleaning
, of the grain.
. VAN DUSEN, in Oregonian.
, . = , = = = = >
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-14
War Caused Amber Shortaoe

Amber is probably the one product
that disappeared from the markets
Of the entente world during the war.
Other German products were dupli-
Gated, but the closing OF Gcrnnny'S
ports cut off this trade, which has it's
headquarters in Koenigsberg.
Long before the historic age the
natives upon the PrusSian shores OF
the Baltic gathered from its waters,
in great quantities. priced bits Of am.
her. 1t is found mostly on the Baltic
coast between Koenigsberg and Mem
el. Ancient Greece and Rome traf.
fCked in this North sea product. Am
Der passed from merchant 10 merchant
into the furthest parts OF Asia. II
was even used as currency. Thales
Of Melitus used amber in his first cleo.
trical experiments, when he discov-
cred that when amber was we'll
rubbed ii would attract cloth.
Amber has been discovered along
Greenland's coast.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-14
IMPOSSIBLE FICTION

The pretty young wife, passing the
shop window display of new spring
hats, turned her eyes in the opposite
direction and passed on, refusing TO
stop TO notice them.
Receiving "A communication written
with a dull lead pencil on both sides
of the paper the editor smiled and be-
gan reading it.
The head of the family, having just
received a bill for his wife's and daugh-
tcr'S new Easter hats, chuckled to him
self and nodded approvingly.
Getting up Suddexy in the middle
of the night the man rushed through
the darkness and managed to elude
every piece of furniture in the room.
Picking up the first hat she came
to. the young woman tried 1t on, paid
for it and walked out of the store
without a word.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-14

was taught last year. Everybody NJ
home knew il. But this year the things
taught are new. The interest is main
tanned, intensified. The children are
not weighing corn this year. They are
splicing rope. making halterS. mixing
enenf. Is ii dull this year? Is old
straw being threshed over? No. II is
vitalized agriculture. That which
stands out fresh to every one is Max
ing. Things"
Vitalizcd agriculture does not mean
simply the teaching of agriculture. 1t
a the teaching Of sanitation, home
economics, better home COnveniencpS
all the things that go TO make bet
ter living.
1t means yitalizing the teaching ~
~penmanship. geography, arithmetic,
spelling, and reading. 1t means rotat-
ing the work in all these subjects.
Nitalizcd agriculture cannot be in
troduced in an entire state at once,
Any new work must be done slowly,
just as South Dakota is doing II. 1t
must first be put on i'm a few counties
and only in a few districts in each
county. This makes it possible for
the state superintendent and county
superintendent to give the necessary
supervision to the work.
IN the second year the work is ex-
tended TO other counties and other dis
tricts. In the following years still
others are added until finally every
country school in the state is included.
Do the teachers go into this work
without special training? Do the
county superintendent have no train
ing? No. Special training is given
every county superintendent and every
teacher and during the school year the
county superintendent supervises, helps
and encourages the teachers.
Is the work introduced independent
of the community? No. A community
meeting is held. The work is explained
and the people always express their
pride that their district, their children,
have been selected to demonstrate the
success Of the plan.
All this is essential to success. 1t
means complete cooperation between
the home and the school, she parents
and the teachers. Whenever the
work has been undertaken in an intel.
ligent, sympathetic way, there never
has been any opposition to operate as
a stumbling block in the way Of prog.
reSS.
The rotation plan for vitalizing the
teaching of agriculture has vitalized
whole communities in Missouri. 1t
has been adopted in Oklahoma. 1t will
put life into the rural schools Of South
Dakota.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-14
Country Boy and Girl to Be Given
Same Opportunity as City
Children.
SOUTH DAKOTA SETS PACE
Department Of Public instruction
Starts Movement That Will Put
Life Into Rural Schools
Plan 1000 Meetings.
BY LURA PHILLIPS MARKLEY.

A statewide drive for better country
schools is now under way in SCUM Da-
kota. The campaign, under the direc-
ton of State Superintendent of Public
instruction Fred l.. Shaw, in co-opera-
ton with Governor Norbeck, the Com
mercial Clubs of the state, the county
superintendent and others, began
October - and will continue until No
vember 10. Eighty lecturers are
taking part and between 1900 and
1000 meetings will be held, every
county in the state being visited.
Prof. =. G. Holden, director Of the
agricultural extension department of
the International Harvester Company,
and a number Of the expert members
and lecturers of his staff are render
ing every assistance possible. The
campaign slogan is: can equal educa-
tional opportunity for ALL"
Superintendent Shaw is a man of
visiOn-a man of action. He believes
that South Dakota should have better
country schools, that the country boy
and girl should have as good an OPP
portunity for an education as has the
city boy and girl. He deserves the
c~ommendation and support of every
citizen.
Bringing the School into the Home.
There has been Il marked eduCa-
tional growth in recent years; yet, as
Il rule, our rural schools do not meas
ure up to the demands of the hour.
The reason is not hard TO find. Too
often they face the boy or girl away
from the farm instead of toward the
farm. They teach only dead words in
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-14

are men to fill them. At Camp UPTON
little information was available on
farming opportunities in the New Eng.
land states. However, through the &C.
tirities Of the state and federal de.
partmentS of agriculture and the cuun-
~ agents complete information is now
available. The county agents not only
secure information about farm-labor
situations but they also assist soldiers
in getting started right in new com
muntticS. II there is any question
ahont the job being still open, the au.
thoritieS will either telegraph or tele-
phone for the applicant and obtain
definite up-to-the-moment information,
At this writing farm work is available
for all discharged soldiers experienced
in country life.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-14
The Way TO Get IL.

The other day a man Of the "old
maid" type entered a downtown bak-
cry. He announced his intention OF
buying a cake. One after another the
obliging SaleSlady showed him, only to
he told that this one was "to coarse
this n too yellow, and the others
wrong In some way or another. "What
| want" he finally said, lis an hon
est-to-goodness homemade cake. 1
don't mind the price, just SO l get the
cake"
Then If YOU don't mind the price"
retorted the weary s~aleslady, "why
don't you get married and have "A
wife to make one?"
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-14

SbttSliiA FSpS-N NV Y ISbtSEl III
Real Life.
stead Of living things they teach out
Of mans books instead of out Of ma
lures books. There is no connection
between the lessons of the school room
the farm. on the way to and from
schOOl-no contact between what he
studies and the things which form q
vital part of his life.
Must Maintain Interest.
1t Is absolutely essential, first to ere
ate interest in the thing taught; sec.
Ond, to maintain that interest. Upon
these truths Is based Professor Hol-
den's plan for vltalizing the teaching
OF agriculture In the rural schools.
Vitalized agriculture creates con
tact between the school and the home.
1t arouses the interest Of the child i n
his school work. This interest spreads
to the home. All members of the fam.
lily become interested, The home and
the school are drawn together, be-
cause the home itself-the cOrnfeld,
the alfalfa patch, the workshop-be-
comes part of the school.
The rotation plan" maintains in
terest. 1t is the biggest factor In vital
lzing the school,
Not books alone are used In vital.
lied agriculture, Last year when the
pupils wanted to find out which was
the better, the one-ear stand of corr
or the two-ear stand, they did not rely
upon words. They went into the field,
gathered the corn, and weighed il,
Their fathers and the neighbors saw
them in the field and became inter-
ested. The children talked about corn
at their homes In the evening. Many
went into their fathers fields and got
corn and weighed it. Even the Younger
children who were not i'm the agrieul-
ture class gathered corn and weighed
it. There was contact t~here-direct,
vital contact,
New Things Are Taught.
What IL the rotation PLAN? II il
reaching a new subject each wear
through four successive years. Last
year 1T was Growing Things"-corn,
alfalfa, oats, weeds, gardens; with
sewing and removing stains for the
girls. This year 1t is Making Things"
rope tying and splicing, cement
work, farm tools, fly traps; with home
conveniences and cold-pack canning,
Next year 1t will be Live TAings..
In the following year II win be "Soll
and Home"
Every child In school rnsw what
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-14

According 10 an article in the Jour-
nal of the Royal Artillery, a shell with
a muzzle velocity Of five miles a Sec
ond, if fired at the correct angle.
would become an attendant satellite
of the earth, and would 60 round il in
q little less than one and a half hours.
If the speed were increased TO seven
miles a second, the shell would 20
off into space altogether, and presum-
ably could be sent to the moon Il cor
rectly aimed.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-14
FARM WORK FOR SOLDIERS
Just Now There Are More Jobs Than
There Are Men Available
to Fill Them.

According to specialists Of the
United States department of agricul-
ture identified with placing discharged
soldiers in agricultural work. Georgia,
Michigan, Montana, Iowa, Idaho, N!r.
ginia, Kansas and Missouri all are in
need Of skilled farm labor. Conditions
at the army camps where the men are
discharged show a surplus Of oppor-
tunitieS for profitable work and a def
cit of laborers. In a word. there are
more farm jobs at present than there
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-14
From the Earth 10 III. Moor

The speed of a shell when leaving
the muzzle of a gun Of ordinary di-
mansions is more than half a mile
a second. The muzzle velocity of the
shells that the Germans fired into
Paris is believed to have been about
one mile a second.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-14

D-Cattle branded
NC or j. Il on the left side, or
LIT on right side, Suitable reward
will be paid for information leading
to recovery Of stock bearing these
brands. Matt Gillen, Wood, S. D.
32tf
The Washington times., 1919-10-02
SHIP BOARD FIRM
ON MPERATOR ACT
Shows No Indication of Civ.
ing Up Liner-NO Protest
Yet From English.

The State Department has not yet
received any protest from the British
government against the failure Of the
United States 10 turn over the former
German liner ImDerator and other
ships TO the Cuuard line.
The state Department has under
consideration the situation growing
out Of the decision to turn over 10
Great Britain twelve American-owned
tankers which were oeprated under
the German flag before the war by a
German subsidiary Of the Standard
OIL Company.
The shipping Board shows no in
cilnation 10 Eive up the Imperator
and other steamers allotted 10 the
United states for the repatriation Of
troops.
Former Chairman Edward y. Hur-
ley attended the conference in Ger
many al which these and other snips
were turned over TO an interalIied
shipping commission TO be allotted 20
the United States and the allies. I'm
der the terms o ftliis agreement the
ships were to be returned 10 the com
mission ana not anyone power.
The Washington times., 1919-10-02
DANCE URGED AS
CUREFOR UNREST
University President Blames
Strikes on Craving for
Thrills.

NEW YORK, Oct. Excessive
emotional energy-"the natural crav-
ing for excitement, which has been
enhanced by the war, and which hnds
no outlet in the ordinary hundrum ex-
istence of a a-World at peace,'N is re-
sponsible for the present social un-
rest. according to- Dr. G. Stanley Hall,
president Of Clark University, who
addressed the international confer
enCe of women physicians.
Labor difficulties may also be traced
directly to this national craving for
excitement, said DR.. Hall.
AT the present time the laboring
classes are greatly exposed to ennui. -
he said, and the return from the ex-
citement of wartime to the monotony
OF everyday life under the present con
ditions leaves many emotional de-
mands unsatisfied.
To combat a trend toward chaos in
duced by these conditions, DR.. Hall
advocated dancing and moving pic
lures.