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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-21
A FAIR DEAL WANTED

M HE purpose behind tht
W. rate case being tried ou
before the Interstate
Commerce, meeting in Portland
today, is to reduce the grair
rate from the upper Columbis
river territory to the Columbia
ports.
The basis of the complaint
by the Inland Empire Shippers
League is that the present rate
is unfair because it is based on
the cost of the long haul to Pu-
get sound over mountain
grade. If the rate to Seattle is
a remunerative rate then it is
plain that the rate to Portland
and to Astoria is too high be-
cause there is a water grade
haul to those places, therefore
Justifying lower rate than to
the sound.
The problem involved is a
very simple one and the justice
of the case is easily apparent to
anyone. The claim is made by
Seattle people that if any
change in the rates is made it
will take the form of an adj
vance to Puget sound ports
rather than reduction to
Columbia river points. The
point they make is weak how
ever for several reasons. One
is that the reasonableness of
the Seattle rate is not ques-
toned in the suit. Another
point is that if the Seattle rate
is not rernunerative it will even
tually be raised anyway, re-
gardIess of this suit and with
out regard to the wishes of our
farmers. The railroads will at
tend to that.
But if through advancing
costs it becomes necessary to
advance rail rates the advance |
should apply to the long haul |
transcontinental rates. rather 4
than to the movement of wheat
from here to tidewater. AS
compared with transcontinen-
tai rates the rates from here
to coast points are high beyond
reason. If the railroads need
more money let the advance /
be applied where it belongs.
The East Oregonian has been
supporting the fight for a wa
ter grade rate reduction be-
cause duty to the farmers of
this section calls for such ac-
ton. 1t is difficult to see how
the present rate arrangement
can be defended.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-21
About Digestion.

Digestion begins in the mouth. The
food should be thoroughly masticaed
and insalivaed before it is swallowed
When this is habitually neglected
stomach trouble is almost sure to fol.
low. If you now have indigestion eat
no beef or veal and sparingly of other
meats, masticate your food thorough
lS and you may recover without tax
ing any medicine. If your bowels
are constipated take Chamberlain
Tablets. They not only cause a gem
tie movement of the bowels but ard
digestion and strengthen the stomach.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-21
Catarrh is Real Enemy
and Requires Vigorous Treatment

Throw these makeshift remedies
to the winds. and get on the right
treatment, Get a bottle OF S. S. 5.
today, and commence a treatment
that has been praised by sufferers
for nearly half a century.
S. s. s. gets right at the source
of Catarrh, and forces from the
blood the germs which cause the
disease. For special medical ad-
vice free regarding your own case.
address Medical Director, ii Swift
Laboratory, Atlanta. Ga.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-21

When you use medicatcd sprays,
atomizers and douches for your
Catarrh, you may succeed in I'M
stopping the, chokedup air. pass
ages for the time being, but this
annoying condition returns, and
you have to do the same thing
over and over again.
Catarrh has never yet been
cured ~ these local applications.
Have 'you ever experienced any
real benefit from such treatment
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-21
For a Bilious Attack.

If you have bilious attacks give
Chamherlain's Tablets a trial They
are excellent. Willis browning, Plat
tonsburg. Mo, has this to say of them
About year ago my wife used a
bottle of Chamberla,ns' Tablets and
they cured her of a bad bilious attack
also of constipation from which she
had been suffering for years"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-21
Essential

'Did YOU read what the newspapers
say about you?" Every line" said
senator Sorghum. "A politician who
doesn't read wha- the newspapers say
about him stands no more chance than
an actor who tries to make up with
out the aid of a looking glass"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-21
ChamhcrIain's Ceiic and DiaIThoea
IyarneHy

Every family should keep this
medicine at hand during the hot
weather of the summer months. II
is almost sure to be needed before
the summer is over and when that
time comes is worth many times its
cost. 1t has no superior for the pur-
poses for which it is intended. Buy
it now.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-21
AMERICAN POSTAL
PROGRESS

" postal rates recall som,
4. interesting facts regard
ing Uncle Sans earlier meth.
DDS of handling the business
Up to the time of the Civil
War, it was the rule that the
recipient of a letter should pay
the postage thereon. For sec
ond and third class matter the
rule applied for many wears
longer. This was the fore-run-
ner of the great C. o. D. svs-
tenn, so successful in many ways
though finally repudiated by
its own father, the postal sys-
tenn. In the beginning the de-
pertinent narrowly escaped re-
glstering a great success. 1t
provided different rates ac-
cording to distance, which was
right and proper, but failed in
its execution by not providing
a zone limit. In lieu thereof it
inaugurated an arbitrary meth
cd between the larger cities ac-
cording to distance. AS the
country settled, small cities be-
came large ones in so rapid a
manner that the business failed
to keep Ur with them. This led
to great confusion and in
equalities and finally to its re-
peal.
Considering the purchasing
power of money in the early
days. postal rates were i'm
mensly higher than now.
In letter to this paper an
old resident said:
''In my boyhood days, a man
drove up with his family in a
covered wagon stated that he
had a letter in the local post
office, the postage upon which
was 25 cents. AS he had no
money he asked for the priye- |
ige of doing a days work by
which he could redeem his let
er. He was granted the OPP
,ortunity and the next day "
vent into the woods and made
80 oak fence rails, which was
good honest days
work. He received his 25 cents
good honest days wage for 4
he time. But what of the pre- ]
ent day? Should everyone who
eceives a letter in these times
AVE to do twelve hours at hard
abor in order to redeem ii, q
mere would be more "kick%
gainst the government than Z
yer. Borah could put up"
Aboutl the time mentioned
nvelopes came into general +
se. Previously one had to i
old the paper with. the blank :
ide outward and seal it with
yafer or sealing wax. Then it 4
vas most carefully addressed a
o the proper person and US
ally in care of some banker or {
,rominent merchant who could 4
Jentify the recipient. This h
vas deemed necessary for the !,
of possible fraud y
gainst the U. S. mail service. "
his was only 70 years ago. II
Who says we are not progress
i've? a
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-21

work is worth is much as n mans
and she ought to get mems wages.
Then old Bill Jorkins got on his
legs and spoke; well. so they do,
num- said he; ''Leastways, my old
woman always gets mine"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-21
THE DAWN WILL BREAK

= The dawn win break-so long
= the world has waited.
So slow 10 learn the way of
highest good.
q So SLOW TO get the Golden Rule
translated
In terms of love and blessed
brothorhood+
: The dawn win break-when
= shall our hearts be caring
= That babes are born with not
= a shred to wear
= That counties mothers. heavy
= burdens bearing.
? Need everything-and weep in
blank despair?
? The dawn win break-some day
we will awaken
And say of miseries, They .
, shall not be-"
We are our brothers keepers
they. forsaken,
Shall all be clothed and fed. :
made glad and free.'' !
We win not rest till Right shall .
speak decision, 1
And all shall know the hea- 1
venly Fathers love;
The dawn will break, and we the 1
Christ will vision. 1
And seek his win as it is j
sought above. 4
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-21
Women and Wages

Prospective CandIdate--What we
maintain and will die for if necessary
is equally of the sexes. A women's
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-21
FoR the sUMMER GIRL

The heroine of old, who in the sum-
mer time wore her white. clear starch
ed muslin frock flounced from the
waist to the hem, has her counterpart
this summer. But We talk of vOile in
stead of muslin. and like to add a
dash OF color 10 our blanche toilettes.
Copenhagen blue is an admira BILE
foil to the white frock. Wolfe floun-
ces. hemmed with a device in this pale
yet very effective color. have all the
charm OF feminity, with the distinc.
ton demanded bs the modern girl
! The Standard Box and Lumber co
at Schofield. or. is preparing to re.
build following n fire that destroyed
5.0O0,Q00 feet Of lumber and the saw
lli, planning mill and poweThouse.
The sun., 1919-08-06
TO ARREST OTHERS
IN BANK FAILURE
Philadelphia Prosecutor VIII
Push Case, He Says.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug 5.-District At
torney Samuel p. Rotan, after a confer.
ence tonight with the State and city
officials investigating the affairs of the
North Penn Bank. which closed it's doors
about three weeks ago with an ap-
parent shortage OF S2.144,000, sair there
would be a number OF other arrests.
I'VE have gone over all the facts In
volved In the case at this time" said Mr.
Rotan. There will be several more
arrests shortly. Who they are or how
important the men TO be arrested are,
will not say at this time. We will ar
rest and prosecute every one against
whom we can get evidence sufficient to
obtain a conviction"
Securities valued at more than $40, 900
were turned over to Col. Fred Taylor
Pussy. Special Deputy Attorney-General,
to-day by Walter o. Colhesh, the clerk
In the North Penn who described himself
as boob" at the hearing OF Ralph 7.
Meyer. cashier of the wrecked institu-
ton. who is under $25.000 bail.
The securities were the assets of the
Motor Sales and Service Corporation, In
which Colhesh was a partner. and were
TO cover overdrafts at the bank of this
corporation.
The sun., 1919-08-06
PRINCE MAX TELLS
OF TALK WITH KAISER
Violent, and Unoware of
Troops Hostility" He Says.

BERLIN, Aug 8. THE Neto Berrtner
Zcttpno to-day publishes excerpts from
lengthy description by Prince Max OF
Baden. former Imperial German Chan
cellor. of a telephone conversation he
had with Emperor William November s,
1913. The conversation lasted twenty
minutes.
~The Kaiser was very violent and
frightfuiiy unaware OF the attitude of
the troops toward him." says the de-
scription. 1--WE spoke of a military ex-
petition against Berlin. but no refused
10 listen to my accommodation that
he abdicate. Had the General STAFF told
him November s, rs 1t did November Q.
the truth about the army, / have no
doubt that the Kaiser would have alb
dicated the evening OF the sth.
Then It would, In human calcula-
ton. have been possible for the Ma
jority Socialists 10 keep the working
men In the factories. Certainly there
would have been an uprising, but only
by the radical element. The troops in
Berlin would have conducted themselves
more reliably.
zone OF the most dangerous points
of contact between the rioting workmen
and the soldiers was the fact that the
Kaiser had not abdicated."
The sun., 1919-08-06
STORM AND FLOODS
SWEEP NORTH OHIO
Crops and Property Damage
Estimated at 81, 900, 900.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. Aug. 5.-Damage es-
timated at nearly $2.o0O,o0o to crops
and property resulted from rain and
electrical storms which almost reached
cloudburst proportions, that swept
northern Ohio late to-day and tonight
Small streams reached the 1918 flood
mark and railroad. street car. telegraph
and telephone service was crippled
According to news advices received
here, Ashland county suffered most, the
damage being estimated at $1,000, 900.
Between forty and sixty bridges and
culverts are reported TO have been
washed out. The flooded area in the
Katotawa Valley. east of Ashland, and
the Mogican Valley. southeast of the
city, is said to be greater than during
the flood of March, 1913.
The rainfall here was the heaviest in
eighteen years. according to Weather
Bureau officials. During twenty eight
minute period $50 inches fell, forming
small rivers and flooding hundreds OF
Easements. In some sections of the city
children took advantage of the situation
by DOMINIC bathing suits and swimming,
the water being so deep automobiles
could not navigate.
The sun., 1919-08-06
NEW DEVICE GIVES
SECRECY TO PHONES
French Inuention Puts an End
to Listening In"
By q star Correspondent Of TEE STR.
Copyright. 1919. all rights reserved.

Copyright. 1913. all rights reserved.
PARIS. Aug. 5.--The element Of Sc
crecy has been introduced finally into
modern telephony. An ingenious in
vention destined TO render telephone
communication private has been per-
fected by a French Captain Of engineers.
and was announced by him to-day In
an Official bulletin of the Ministry of
Posts and Telegraph.
II a person at one end Of telephone
wire desires to communicate n secret
message to some one at the other end.
with absolute certainty that neither in
territorial tapping of the wire nor their
accidental crossing would enable any
one to pick up the conversation. he
needs only to attach the new apparatus
to the telephones which are in communi-
cation. and talk.
Any one listening in would of course
hear conversation. but 1t would be un-
Ineligible and strange. Briefly. this is
how it works: An apparatus which is
composed of a voice transmitter some
thing like a telegraphic current trans
mitter. systematically deforms the tele-
phonetic currents as they are produced
at the sending end and reforms them
at the receiving end, restoring their nor
NAL intensity. Perfect hearing and
understanding is possible only at the
two ends of the wire.
The apparatus is very delicate and
complicated AFFAIR and was intended by
the inventor for use at the battle front.
Experiments were being made at grand
headquarters when the arnistice was
declared. For the present 1t is likely
the benefits of the invention will be
reserved for official usage and with
held from the general market.
The sun., 1919-08-06
SEVEN BODIES TAKEN
FROM ARSENAL RUINS
Washington Orders Inquiry
Into Explosion.

At least seven persons are known 10
have been killed Monday in the ex-
plosion of ammunition at the army
arsenal in Raritan, ". j., Lieut. L. r.
Jeffords, the arsenal adjutant, announced
at noon yesterday that six bodies had
oeen recovered. and later another was
dragged from the ruins. officials of the
arsenal are checking up all the men
VINO were at work near the scene Of
the explosion, and relatives of missing
men have been asked to come TO the
morgue at Germantown to identify the
bodies. IT is believed that at least
Twelve men were working near enough
to the explosion TO have been injured
The hrst body to be unearthed from
the ruins yesterday was that of Louis
ST Clair who lived in the Ferrer col
ony at Stelton, two miles from the camp
He was identified by a card in a pock Il
and by another resident Of the colony.
One OF the other victims is believed
to have been George Turk, 272 Oak
street, Perth Amboy who has been
missing since the explosion His parents
visited the morgue yesterday, but were
unable TO identify a7y of the bodies as
that OF their son. The body of John
Besenyer, 16 Division street, New
Brunswick, was identified by relatives.
j.. Logan Clevenger. editor of the
ferth Amboy NeUs, received word yes
terday from United States Senator
Frelhghuysen that he had received as
suranee from the Secretary of War that
thoroueh investigation OF the explosion
munition Supply Division OF the ord
nance Department have arrived from
at once.
The sun., 1919-08-06
LURING LIGHTS FOOL RAIDERS
Nassau sleuths Find No Games I'm
Major KeIIy's Home.

County Detective Carman Plant OF
Nassau county headed posse of six
men in q raid on the home Of Major
Arthur w. Kelly. PAT Long Beach road
oceanside, at Rockville Centre. L. l..
Monday night, under the mistaken Inn
preston that It was gambling house
SO It developed yesterday Major Kelly
a brother of the former Mrs. Frank j.
Gould, purchased the house from Sam
uel z. Stern OF 299 Broadway, Manhat-
tan, and took possession July /. He has
worked late at night recently in an en-
deavor to get his new home in order be-
fore the return of Mrs. Kelly from
France. The fact that lights were seen
burning there at all hours Is believed to
have been responsible for the suppose
ton that games of chance were being in
dulged in. -
Detective Plant appeared without a
warrant just before midnight and Major
Kelly admitted the officers under protest
They found nothing. Yesterday the
Major complained to District Attorney
Weeks.
The sun., 1919-08-06
POTASH MINERS ON
STRIKE IN GERMANY
Trouble Spreads on Threats
of Violence to Workers.

MAGDEBURG, Germany, Aug. (de-
layed) A general strike has been be-
gun in the potash mines through the
Strassfurt district because of terroriza-
ton by few radical elements which
threatened to cut off the needed electrical
current, When this. threat failed they
promised to plunge empty cars into the
shafts and to cut the cables letting down
and pulling up the working cars. This
SO frightened willing workers that they
Joined the general strike. which was
started everywhere in the district by the
use Of the same methods.
The strike is almost as important as
the uprisings in the coal regions. for
potash Is one OF Germany's remaining
raw products which is urgently needed
for export and for fertilizing purposes.
From Halle reports come that already
one-third OF the German potash miners
are on strike as result OF methods
similar 20 those employed in the Strass-
furt district
1t Is reported from Essen that the
workmen of the Diergardt mine, who
were the only employees to obey the
demands of the Communists and INDIE
pendents that work be stopped until the
release Of political hunger strikers, have
surrendered Internationally. The men
returned to work yesterday.
The sun., 1919-08-06
TELLS CONGRESSMAN
TO IGNORE DEMANDS


/ WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-william A.
Wimbish Of Atlanta, special counsel for
the Southern Traflc League, told the
House Interstate Commerce Committee
to-day 1t should sit tight and proceed
with investigation of the railroad prob
lem just as II organised labor had not
demanded trf-partite control of the
roads
,'Tf you are going to adopt Govern
to surrender to the demands made upon
(which is Northumberland lie down
supinely and let one class dictate, then
am in no position to help said Mr..
Wimbish. II don't believe you will 1
believe there Is enough patriotism,
enough courage In this Congress not to
be stampeded and inundated and
forced to do things that fail to meet
It's approval"
who introduced on Saturday the Plumb
plan bill by request, wanted to know
what Mr.. Wimbish thought Of so-called
demands by capital in framing general
railroad bill. r.
This committee or this Congress
should not surrender to capital any more
than 1t should surrender to labor" he
replied.
The situation" he continued, lis
too serious for suggesting new theories
and untried experiments"
1t was assumed. he told the commit
tee, that Government ownership and
operation were not immediate subjects
Of consideration and that Il was under
stood the roads soon would be returned.
The practical question" he said.
concerns the character and extent of
legislation necessary to safeguard and
promote the well being Of the public
and Of the carriers under private opera
ton and control"
The sun., 1919-08-06
BRITISH CABINETS
PAY RAISE IS FOUGHT
But Commons Passes the Bill
on Second Reading.

LONDON Aug. 5.-The Governmen. Nh,
that seeks to raise the salaries o, Az,
Cabinet Ministers In amounts rans,,.
from $4,000 to $4,000 each and =.
crease the salaries of a number :,
Under-Secretaries was strongly oppo,.S
in the House Of Commons to-nlrht
Sir, Donald Maclean, National Llb.r,,
declined to give his consent to the ma,
sure until the Government had decls,.s
Its policy with regard TO a reduction ~
the Government Departments TO vhs.
he considered scale conducive to n,'
tional efficiency and economy. oth,,
members approached the Government h,
showing a bad example when ecopom,
was declared to be imperative, and MA
the measure would lower Parliamen, n
the estimation of the people.
Finally, after a defence Of the bill nv
Andrew Bonar Law, the Goyernmsn,
leader. and an agreement TO postpon,
further consideration OF the measur'
until autumn, the bill passed its 49,
ond reading, 176 to SO.
The sun., 1919-08-06
TWO RoBBERIEs REVEALED.
West 1eOth street Apartment RIM
sacked and JeweIry Taken.

Delayed police reports of week end
robberies began to filter through yes
terday. Two cases were made public
but no arrests have yet been made in
either. Mrs. John Francis Ryan. wife
or former naval officer, returning to
her home in CSC West 16Oth street
Monday afternoon found the apartment
had been ransacked and about SO 200
worth OF jewelry stolen. A dumb wait
OF door had been forced, the burglars
ascending the shaft. Mrs. Ryan said
two solitaire diamong rings and a dia-
mond bar pin with ten stones were miss
ing.
An attempt to force a safe so clumsy
that the police suspect a gang of boys
was at work, was reported by Ernest
Marando, aNdealer in paper making sup
plies IS Morton street. The safe door
had been cut open with hacksaw and
the papers strewn about the Office. A
watch and some other valuables were
stolen.
The sun., 1919-08-06

the b. r.. T. offices that his action In
leaving had nothing to do with the pres
ent situation.
Mr.. Dempsey has taken an executive
position with r. u. Seamans Company,
Inc. an Independent oil concern Of 94s
Broadway.
At the Offices OF tho d. r. T. II was
said II had been generally known for a
long time past that Mr.. Dempsey was to
leave, ana that he had no other motive
than to better his position. His salary
with the company was $4,000 year.
He was one OF the officials indicted on
a charge Of granddaughter as result OF
the tunnel disaster last November. He
has not been tried yet.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
property of the company is offlcialiy In
the custody Of the United States District
Court at the present time owing to the
pending receivership. United stato'
Marshal James NJ. Power Of Brooklyn
said yesterday that he was contemplate
ing taking no action.
Should the property be seriously en-
dangered Marshal Power would be
Obliged to take steps to safeguard II
and might be forced to swear In special
deputies for the purpose. but neither he
nor the company officials were inclined to
anticipate such trouble.
The special police guards which the
company asked for on Monday have beoi
arranged for and uniformed men will be
concentrated at points where violence
might take place. These points include
generally the car barns and certain
neighborhoods where strikers are apt to
congregate. Extra precautions will also
be taken at all power houses.
Motormen employed at the Fresh Pond
depot of the b. r. T. said last night that
a check had been taken of them when
they left work in order that the oficials
might be sure that they did not walk
away with the handles with which the
cars are operated. 1t was reported that
similar precautions had been taken at
other depots.
Members of the executive committee
Of the union stated that 200 pickets would
be on duty to-day in the vicinity OF
barns. but that all of their men had been
advised to avoid violence and to keep
strictly within the law.
An attempt to get Mayor Hylan to is
sue a statement on the situation met
last night with no SUCCESS. Secretary
John p. Sinnott stated that the Mayor
could not be seen, but that he may write
some kind of q letter about 1t to-day.