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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-05-02

soc Quality. May White sale
Csc Quality, May White Sale .
75c Quality, May White Sale
$1.00 Quality, May White Sale
$1.25 Quality, May White sal,
$3.50 Quality. May White Sale
$I.75 Quality, May White Sale
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-05-02
AN AMERICAN HABIT
THAT WAS EXPANDED.

Coming to the relief of the dis
tressed Is not a new sensation to US.
Having sent shiploads of food to the
famine sufferers of India as offhand
edly as the housewife hands out a cut
of the loaf TO the wayfarer, 1t seemed
the most natural thing in the world to
succor Belgium, to take on the feeding
of nation quite informally.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-05-02
lamity."
Again he wrote:
"My active interference was
lanity.'' -

MY active interference was
necessary to prevent it Zone of
President Roosevelt's conserva-
ton measures) from being
made unworkable by an undue
insistence upon state rights, in
accordance with the efforts of
Mr.. Mondell and other con-
gressmen who consistently
fought for local and private
interests as against the inter
ests of the people as a whole. 7"
Mondell's record in support
of the McLemore resolution
and against the selective
draft act is still fresh in the
public mind.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-05-02
RUuLDERS STRIKE

SYRACUSE, May a.-Approximatc-
ly 1000 building trade workers struck
yesterday for higher wages.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-05-02

Take home a Delta fancy, brick OF
Ice Cream. They are put up in card
board cartons and will keep for one
hour.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-05-02

AS a first step in her educa-
tion for entrance to the League
of Nations Mexico should wash
the German propaganda
candy off her fingers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-05-02

The man who will send a
bomb through the mails en-
dangering innocents more than
the desired victim is as brave
as a coyote but not quite.
A victory bond is a citizens
honorable discharge.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-05-02

If the wishes of the House
wives Union (unorganized) are
consulted the city will soon get
some street sprinklers going.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-25
POLICE ARE NOT
HIRED TO LURE,
JUDGE ASSERTS
Conduct Of Detective After Sup
posed Evidence Was Inexcus-
able, COErt Charges.

The hardest charges and sever
est criticism which members of the
New York police force have had to
bear in recent years were literal
ly hurled from the bench in gen.
eral sessions by Judge Wadhams
in an opinion preceding his re-
versaI of Magistrate Cobb's convic-
ton of a widow engaged in war
work, who was arrested on a
charge of soliciting.
The woman, Mrs. Louise Hutch
ms Of New Haven, Conn, admitted
she had dined with Detective
Thomas Cassidy of INSPECTOR Hen
rvs staff and afterward entered a
taxicab with him under the impress
sion that she had been introduced
to him a few minutes previously in
Rector's.
Judge Wadhams said the con-
dYrt of the officer was inexcusab1e,
Md that. if an offense was COM
mitted, the detective aided in it
and was more culpable than the
woman could possibly have been.
He wanted to know if the public
funds paid for the dinner and the
taxicab, and charged that the de-
tectiYe's method of procuring evil
dence was an offense to the public
conscience.
The judge dismissed the COM
plant and then ordered the clerk
to call the attention of Police Com
missioner EnTight to the conduct
of Cassidy with the assertion it
was the commissioner duty to see
that the conduct of his detectives
warrants the confidence in the po-
lice department which the city has
always had in its police officers"
''It is conceded upon the argu-
ment," Judge Wadhams began,
%hat a police officer assigned to
sp&cial duty for the purpose of pro-
tectfhg the moral standards re
quired by the code in the city of
New York, while on duty, engaged
in conversation with a young wom-
an and thereafter took her to
restaurant known as Churchill's
and that while in this place the de-
PENDANT and the police officer had
supper together. It does not ap-
pear on the records whether this
was paid for by the police officer
out of the public funds, OF from his
private funds
Thereafter a cab was entered
for the ostensible purpose of tax
ing the defendant home 1t is al
legged that the defendant acted in a
manner which brings her within
the provisions of the statute while
in the company of this officer
@0flicer Aided and Allotted.
1T is unnecessary to examine
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-25

pair of rosary beads he had been
saying when he died; the other held
a New Testament, and had died
reading the passage, relating to
there being many mansions in his
Fathers house"
He said these examples were in
dicative of the spirit pervading the
entire American army. And ii the
men could have been transported
suddenly from the battlefield TO
this country, the effect would have
been Overwhelming. he added.
mo man who thinks deeply on a
deep subject can ever lose the fruit
Of this thought. However, when
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-25
Sleeps Any Old Way Now

81 am so years old and never
was sick until eight years ago when
l got stomach trouble. haye spent
a fortune for medicine which did
not cure. kept on suffering and
getting worse. A fellow worker
told me about Mayr's Wonderful
Remedy. After taking three doses
I felt like a different man; before
taking it could not lie on my back
nor right side. Now can sleep
any old way" It is a simple, harm
less preparation that removes the
catarrhal mucUs from the intestinal
tract and allays he inflammation
which causes practically all stom-
ach, liver and intestinal ailments,
including appendicitis One dose
viii convince or money refunded
BengstOn's drug store and druggists
everyWhere.-(AdV.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-25
GREAT REVIVAL
MAY BACKSLIDE
Army Chaplain Says War Quicken
ed Religion Which Slow De-
mobilization May Spoil

Every days delay in the return
and rehabilitation of American
soldiers will weaken the far reach
ing religious effect of the war in
this country.
The elimination of denomination
al lines and the quickening of a re-
ligious spirit will result if the delay
is not too great.
Thus Captain Robert H. Gearhart,
Jr., chaplain with the 18th division,
and later senior chaplain of the sec
Ond army, summed up his fourteen
months experience in France.
1T is my experience that every
man on the battlefield, specially
wounded, wanted religious aid One
battalion commander who scoffed at
religion before being hurt, came
quickly to his knees when blInded
with mustard gas" he said.
''One sight remember above 9TH
ers was near Grandpre. Two SOL
diers lay dead. side by side. Each
had apparently crawled towards
the other for some distance.
zone clasped in his right hand q
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-25

ligious meetings. 1t was merely
necessary to let the men know it
was going TO be held.
''On the other hand, prayer meet
ings advertised as moving picture
shows made them mad. Chaplains
pulling this sort of stuff were not
successful"
Captain Gearhart said denomin-
ational lines were as nearly elm
mated as possible in France. He
had slept with Jesuits, Rabbis and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-25

they have nothing to do but march
in the rain, and do squads right
and squads left. they lose the effect
of their hard won experience" he
explained
They will none OF them stand for
clap-trap religion or camoufage.
They do not want TO be deceived
into attending camouflaged prayer
meetings.
There was no difficulty in OBJ
tanning large attendance at all re-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-25

whether or not the evidence, which
was the unsubstantiated testimony
of the police officer, if believed, es-
tablished the charge beyond a rea-
| sonable doubt for the reason that
the method of procuring the evil
dence offends the public conscience.
If any offense was committed the
officer aided and abetted if he did
not procure it's commission.
Officers of this city are not en-
ployed by the people to accOst
young women and take them into
PUBLIC restaurants and spend the
evening with them for the purpose,
if possible, of thereafter, having
them commit any offense and ar
resting them. The act on the part
of the policeman is as much more in
decent than anything the woman
could have committed, that he does
not come into court on his own
statement of his manner of conduct
in obtaining the evidence"
Mrs. Hutchins testified at her
trial she was a professional "dra-
matte reader" and had been engag-
ed in preparing war work enter
tainment for British soldiers pre-
vious to her arrest. She said that,
in the course of this work, she met
a British infantry major who in
vited her to dine with him at Rec
tors.
Cassidy Asked Her To Dine.
While at dinner, according to her
testimony, she became angry with
her companion Just after he had
brought two other men to her ia
BILE and introduced them to her.
Without looking at the men, except
for a moment, she left the major
and his companions. AS soon as
she reached Broadway, she swore,
Cassidy approached her and asked
her if she would dine with him.
Believing Cassidy was one of the
men she had just met and that he
was trying to smooth matters over
after the quarrel, she said she con-
scented and they went to Church
ills. After dining, Cassidy pro-
posed that he be permitted to take
her home in a taxicab, and she
asked him to have her driven to the
Hotel Martinique.
During the ride to the hotel she
says Cassidy made proposals to
her which she rejected. He then
told her he was police officer and
the taxicab stopped in front of
Forty-seventh street police station,
where she was arraigned. Sentence
was suspended and she was placed
on probation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-25

In Norway, a husband and wife
who wish to part have first to ap-
ply to a magistrate. who sends
them to a Cancellation board, a
committee which investigates the
case and tries to reconcile the
couple and persuade them to try
again. If the attempt does not
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-25

Protestant ministers of all creeds.
Many of his own chaplains did not
know his religion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-25

succeed they are granted a separ-.
alton order. At the end OF one
year the ministry Of justice is
bound to make the divorce final 10
asked to do so by either party
The whole proceedings are very
cheap. the cost ranging from a dol
lar or two up to rs dollars.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-25

A Persian carpet has been ia use
for over 200 years in the main natl
of the Shah palace in Teheran.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-02-07
Sam Starr Tells Of Movements.
Walsdorf, Germany, Dec. I9, ]

Walsdorf. Germany, Dec. I3. '1s
Since the Armistice has been signed
the censorship is not SO rigid, SO will
try to tell you something of what we
have been doing. On Jan. %, 1918.
at . a. M, we left Camp Merritt and
loaded on the S. S. Baltic. at Hoboken.
N. j.. and early in the morning of the
23rd we slid out of the harbor and be-
gan making our way to Halifax. There
we Joined British convoy and began
our course to England. We landed at
Liverpool on the morning OF the 9Th of
Feb. the day after tho Tuscania was
sunk. | don't know how true it is,
but it is said that the torpedo struck
our ship first and glanced off. then
struck the Tuscanla. Irwin Cobb was
on the Baltic.
From Liverpool we went by train to
Winchester and were there few days
for rest, then we went to Southampton
and crossed the channel on the Prince
George. At Havre. France, we had a
few more days rest then we took box
car ride to Camp De Sauge. near Bor-
deaux. There we got our big 6-inch
long range guns. They will shoot
about J i miles and only weigh II tons.
The 148th have small Holt caterpillars
but the l4Sth have large Renault trac-
tors. Our Regiment has more than 30
motor driven machines. From DeSauge
we made short move to Costlllon and
did convoy duty until we we're ready
for the Front.
On July. 4th. we went to Libourn
and loaded out for the front, and on
the evening of the seventh we took
up position south of Chateau Thierry.
on the evening Of the 9Th we fired our
first shot at the enemy. We were in
the drive there until Aug II. When
we we're at Chehery Chateau. we were
ordered to the rear. We then made a
long convoy to Bouzecourt, south of
Toul, we went into billets there and
stayed only few days then were or
dered back to the front. We went to
st. Mihiel AMI started them off there
and followed them as far as Limay..
Then we went to the Verdun front and
were at La Clair when the big drive
started on Sept. rs. From there we
moved up to Esnes. but did not fire
from there. Then d, Bat. began flirt-
ing with disaster. We pulled our guns
to Nantillois. about three or four hun
dred yards behind our line Of defense.
We we're there 20 days and under shell
fire most Of the time. Nantillois is
about three miles north of Montfau-
con.
/ Next we took a position beween Ain.
creville and Clery lie Grand. about two
and a-half miles from Dun-Sur-M
We were there when the armistice was
signed. Then we went back to Bier
court and were there until Dec. End,
when we started on our way to Ger.
many. The first night out we stopped
at Piennes. the next day went to
! Scbiffiinger. Luxembourg. near Esch;
we're there two days then went to Was.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-02-07

Obermendig. Germany. Dec. 25, '1s.
Friend Colonel: 1t has been some
time since have written you. SO here
goes. Today is Xmas. to the Germans
and people in the States, but to the
soldiers Of the Army of Occupation. it
is just holiday. 1t showed last night
for the first time. SO that makes it
seem little more like Christmas.
But when we get home we'll celebrate
all the Holidays we've missed and
some more besides.
/ have forgotten where was when
! wrote you last. but anyway | have
done lot Of travelling and all Of it in
the Holt mail routes My Division
went on the front thes1st of June and
was under shell fire almost continuous
ly till the finish. We were on the
Marne near Chateau Thierry on July
18th when the big show opened and We
followedsit on around to the st. Mihiel
drive. which wasn't nearly as bad. be-
cause the Bosche either surrendered or
run like H. And then we were sent
to the Verdun front and the Argonne
Woods This was about the worst
place of all. Every foot of ground we
gained meant lot Of hard fighting.
have been close to the Athena boys
in the l4sth but have never had a
chance tosee them. was able to see
the work they did on the Marne. and
believe me. If any of the Athena boys
were pulling the lanyard. you can bet
she has her full quota. I guess most
Of the boys will heat me home. as am
in the Regulars and liable to stay over
here for some time yet.
Well. the whistle just blew and the
"chow hounds" are lining up for the
Xmas dinner. which consists mostly of
the famous "corn willie" so must close
and line up. We are stationed in a
small village near Coblentz. Germany,
on the Rhine. Pvt. John L. Wall,
H. @. Co., 8sth Inf.
John encloses the program of q
"Real honest-to-goodness American
Minstrel Show, staged directed anc
played by members of Headquarters
Company. 3sth Inf. 'Rock o the Marnt
Rgt. on Christmas Eve. of which
he was member of the chorus. :
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-02-07
kept PLEDGE
TO Send BREAL
American Nation Maintained A.
lied LoSf Through Self
Denial at Home Table.
AvERTED EUROPEAN DESPAIR
With Military Demands Upon Ocean
Shipping Relieved, World Is Able
to Return to Normal White
Wheat Bread.
AvERTED EUROPEAN DESPAIR

Since the advent of the latest whea,
crop the only limitation upon Ameri
can exports to Europe has been the
shortage Of shipping. Between July
and October 10 we shipped G5,0S0,30,
bushels. II this rate should contlnu,
until the end of the fiscal year we will
have furnished the Allies with more
than e37 100000 bushels of wheat AM
flour in terms of wheat
The result of increased production
and conservation efforts In the United
States has been that with the cassa
tion of hostilities we are able to re,
turn to normal wheat diet. Supplies
that have accumulated in Australia
Argentine and other hitherto inacces
sible markets may be tapped by ships
released from transport service, and
European demand for American wheat
probably will not exceed our normal
surplus. There Is wheat enough avail
able to have q white loaf at the com
mon table.
But last year the tale was different
Only by the greatest possible savinl
and sacrifice were we able to keep d
steady stream of wheat and -four NOV.
Ing across the sea. We found our
selves at the beginning of the harvest
year with an unusually short crop
Even the most optimistic statistIcians
figured that we had bare surplus of
20,000,000 bushels. And yet Europe
was facing the probability of a bread
famine-and in Europe bread is by fal
the most important article In the diet.
All of this surplus had left the
country early In the fall. BY the first
of the year we had managed to ship q
little more than 100000 bushels by
practicing the utmost economy at
home-by wheatless days, wheatless
meals, heavy substitution of other
cereals and by sacrifice at almost
every meal throughout the country.
In January the late Lord Rhondda,
then British Food Controller, cabled
that only If we sent an additional 75,.
O0O,O0O bushels before July / could he
take the responsibility of assuring his
people that they would be fed.
The response of the American peo-
pie was S5,000,00O bushels safely deliv.
cred overseas between January and
July 1. Out Of harvest which gcve
us only 20,000000 bushels surplus we
actually shipped 141,000000 bushels
Thus did America fulfill her pledge
that the Allied bread rations could be
maintained, and already the American
people are demonstrating that, witt
an awakened war conscience, last
years figures will be bettered.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-02-07
CHARLES M'LEAA DIED
HERE FRIDAY EVENING

Charles Mclean died at his home in
this city Friday evening. after suffer-
ing from an illness of long duration.
He had been confined to his home for
several months. and since returning to
Athena from Washtucna. Wash. near
which place he had resided for the
last eight years, he had been unable 20
be on the streets only few times.
Mr.. Mclean was born in the Province
of Ontario in the Dominion of Canada,
of Scotch parents, August 2. 1858
where he was raised, and married to
his wife, Isabella, in 1880. In 1886
they made the long move from there
to the state of Oregon, at first settling
near Pendleton, and shortly afterward
buying land near Athena, where he has
since resided with the exception of a
few years spent near Washtucna,
Wash.
For many yesrs he was great suf-
ferer from asthma, which much re-
duced his strength; and for the past
few months declined very rapidly. He
is survived by his wife and three sons,
one son having died some years ago;
also by niece who for number OF
I wears was member of his family.
Early in life he became member OF
the Presbyterian church, to which he
adhered ever since. The funeral was
held Sunday afternoon at the residence
in Athena, conducted by the Rev. W.
A. Pratt of the Methodist church. in
terment being in the Weston cemetery.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-02-07
Creatures of Habit.

The olean IN. " Times headlines
It this way: "Twins Born Seven
Times in One Street" The news fills
US with amazement and tempts us to
philosophize. Amusement, because
twins should like being born 50 well
that they repent the act seven times !;
to philosCphize on the force OF habit
which makes them continually choose
the same street as the scene Of their
natal encores. It seems to us that If
we were twins with an incurahle birth
habit, we should desire a BIT Of varI.
ETY.. Having been torn once in Olean,
we should yearn for some different
place for our next debut; we should
try TO be born in China. in France, In
Salamanca, in Cnttaraugus, In Indiana,
at Aurora Pond.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-02-07
GUILTY
IN TWO COUNTS

Henry Albers, wealthy milling man
;of Portland and well known throughout
The northwest as a capitalist. was
found guilty on two Of the seven counts
lof the Indictment for sedition. at Port
land. The maximum penalty on each
scount is $4,000 fine and 20 years i'm
prisonment.
The jury deliberated about three
hours and brought in a sealed verdict.
Wednesday evening which was read in
reQuft yesterday morning. The court
pranted a 30 days stay.
Albers was released on $l0,0
bonds the same as previously.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-02-07
New Manager.

John Montgomery. until recently IN
the employ of the Pacific Coast Ele-
vator company at Pendleton, has taken
over the general management OF the
Farmers Union Grain Agency in Una
tilla county. ". W. Harra. president
of the Agency, and one of the principal
stockholders in the concern, accom-
panied by Mr.. Montgomery, was in
the city Tuesday.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-02-07
Meetings at Weston.

The Ministerial Association of Wes-
ton has decided to hold union revival
meeting in the near future. They are
fitting up brick building on Main
street in which to hold the meetings.
and are understood to have secured the
services Of Evangelist George Taylor
of Los Angeles, to conduct them.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-02-07
Another Letter From Bat. D.

Another Letter From Bat. D.
Wasserbillig. Germany. Dec. s,ls.
We Athena boys are all getting along
fine We are following the Huns up as
fast as they vacate. ! guess we have
seen France for the last time. The
people here are German. but they treat
US fine. We are billetted in houses
with them. we occupy one part Of sthe
house and they another. LuxemHnrg
IS neutral country, and gets all their
provisions from Germany, therefRre
they had to do about as Germany SAID,
SO the people tell US here, and that
Germany starved them almost to death
and they sure show it. LuxemDurg is
a small country, not larger than Una
tilla county. This is very rich ceui4
try, and the most civilized we have
seen since we left the States. There
are some great farms here and 1t is a.
great mining country for coal and irorf
Verdun was the last large town vp
came through in France. 1t is cloee
to the line where the Germans held fbr
four years and they say there were tn-
ly "a houses that were not shelled by
the Germans. 1t was large city and
there is hardly a house left stan ling.
There is an underground town in this
city and it is sure a sight to see the
trains and everything underground.
They had large ammunition plants un-
der there and our = - trains got their
ammunition from there while we were
on that front.
Wasserbillig Is at the mouth Of the
Moselle river. We have been on the
road five days and have several days
to 90 yet. We are headed for CO.
blentz, on the Rhine. The German line
is just across the river from where We
are now. We can see the Prussian
Guards walking along the bank Of the
river, but that doesn't bother us any.
We have troops in Germany long
ways now and they are still going.
They are rather slow in diawing their
troops back, but it takes time; and
we are not going to allow them to re-
organize and give us any trouble, so
we are keeping close behind them.
will give you little history Of the
Front. had some narrow escapes but
never GO hit. | have couple Of
pieces of shrapnel that struck in tree
just over my head about foot. We
we're in one position for about four
weeks at town called Nantellois.
near the Argonne Woods. The Huns
shelled us every day and night and it
sure got on our nerves. One could
hear most of them coming but couldn u
tell where they were going to hit, SO
it gets ones goat. Ed and had one
1