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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-10-21
HAND EMBROIDERED LINGERIE AT
SMALLCOST.

Today's fashion dictates that ones lingerie must
be beautfied and indvdualized with dainty bits of
hand embroidery, added here and there contribut-
ing touch of exquisite loveness We are featuring
this seasons new BUCILLA Package Outfits which
include in their generous assortment all that can be
desired in the way of fine lingerie children's wear
decorative household articles and many other attrac
tive pieces suitable for gifts.
Cut the cost of your lingerie in half by doing the
simple embroidery yourself. Prices, package goods
CSC to 5000.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-10-21

y. N. Baird day was issued a per-
mil to erect foundation under a
dwelling and hrage at 1415 Court
atieet. The yfk is estimated TO cost
500.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-10-21
Grocery Department

Extra Fancy Blue Parmane Cooking OF Eating
Apples per box ................ $3.50
Royal Club Oysters Qarge eastern) No. 2 cans. Csc
Otter Brand Mince CLANS, No. cans, for -. :. 45c
Curtis TunasFsh, No. l flat cans, each .. Csc
Curtis Tuna Fish, No. 1-2 flat cans, each. ... 35c
Burnham and Morrill, Fish Flakes, can ........ 25c
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-10-21
SPECIAL SALE PACKAGE GOODS.
CHILDREN'S DRESSES II PRICE

This lot includes an assortment Of childrens dresses in
packages They made up All you have to do is to hem
them and enbroder the design you wash the stamp
ing out Comes in sizes to years. in coors Of tan, pink
blue and green.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-10-21

Snow Ball Cove Oysters .....s.. SOC
Halls Red Alaska Salmon No. l tall cans, each 45c
Crosse & BlOckwells Anchovie Paste (for
Saliu"lcheS) eacn .'.'......s. 65c
xxx Brand EvapOrated Milk for Cooking, each
1Oc; dozen $110; box x......S $40
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-10-21

There are scores of
original styles in these
pretty sets and single
pieces of neckwear
which are especially de-
signed for attractive
wearing with the new
winter suits and cos
tunes.
75c to $500
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24
EXCEEDINGLY HIGH TYPE OF
GIRL FOUND IN THE
WORK.

1t is no doubt these factors Of adap-
liability of hours TO the needs of edu-
Gated young women. the nearness OF
the work to the home, and the splou-
did provision made to interest girls
OF the right type in the work. and
to ht them for it. that accounts for
the exceedingly high standard Of young
woman found In telephony.
II is n work to which the fondest
mother can safely entrust the morals
Of her daughter. The girls are chapc-
roned by well educated refined women
who are on hand in every department
to watch over their welfare. You see
these matrouly looking women with
their kindly, smiling faces in the rest
room, the locker foom, the educational
department and the lunch room, as
well as in the work rooms.
These older employees seem to taAe
an unusual interest In helping the new
er girls adjust themselves to their en-
vironment. They see to it that no
girl gets to the great switch board
until she has become thoroughly &C
customed to the work.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24
COMMENTED TELEPHONE EN-
PLOYE EXPLAINS ADVAN-
TAoEs OF THE WORK.

according 70 Miss Greenwood, the lot
of the telephone employee is a most
pleasant one. She smiles most affably
as she tells you that not for the world
would she trade places with other
Young women in Offices and factories.
But" she adds, 1T is a work any
girl Of ordinary Intelligence can learn
I'm a very few weeks-and best Of all
she doesn't have to lay out any money
for her telephone education. Instead
az that, the company sends her to its
own school and pays her while she is
learning. As soon as she is out OF the
school her pay is substantially in
creased, and If she keeps her mind on
her work there is no limit to the pos
sibilities for advancement. I'm sure
many girls would not be willing to
work in offices and factories If they
knew how attractive telephone work
really is"
The visitor TO any Of the telephone
buildings in the city-there are many
OF them scattered over Marion county
fnds plenty to Substantive Miss Green
volts statements. The life Of the
telephone girl is a happy one-at least,
insofar as the telephone company can
provide for the happiness OF its en-
ployes.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24
A GLIMPSE OF THE TELEPHONE
GIRL OFF DUTY.

For instance. on top Of the Main"
ASyiIding at Meridian and New York
streets there is a big glassed in rest
room where the girls spend their spare
time. You can find little groups Of
them here at all hours, comfortably
chatting, reading, resting on the
wicker couches, writing to the folks
at home" playing the piano or dancing
to the tunes produced on the perfectly
modern Victrola.
You always find dancing in the rest
room-no matter what else is going
on. The happy youthful spirits of the
bright-faced girls seem TO respond
eternslly to this well named poetry of
motion"
OF good books there is a plentitude,
supplied by the we'll stocked shelves
Of a circulating library. The latest
newspapers and magazines are also
conveniently placed to while away an
s.ssfe half hour.
Unlike most employees in other Occu-
pations, the telephone employe has ac-
cess to this rest and recreation depart
ment at times other than the noon hour.
She is employed for two periods of four
hours each. each day. Asftteen- minute
rsst period is provided In the middle
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24
NO NEED FOR TIMIDITY ON
THE PART OF NEW
EMPLOYEES.

From the moment the prospective
employee steps into the enrolment OF
flee she is met in a way to assur,
her that she need have no fear of
being embarrassed with her new oc-
cupation. For weeks she Is schooled
in the mechanics of telephony from
the standpoint of both the local and
long distance operator. She is taught
the extreme simplicity of what to out
siders at times seems to be a hopelessly
complex operation. she has it demon
strated to her that it is easy to give
n subscriber the right number-and
to do 1t quickly. She is taught what
the various signals and signs of tele-
phony mean-and how they operate.
And long before she is asked to take
her position In front of the great
switchboard she is. given practical ex-
perience work in a laboratory that's
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24
AND, oh GIRLS, THE HOME
COOKING OF THE PHONE
LUNCH ROOM.

At meal time she can buy a home
like hot lunch at even less than it
would cost her to bring the cold vic
tusls from home. She may have her
noon meal in this lunchroom-or she
may take all three meals here every
day-at a cost much lower than she
would have to pay in lunch rooms or
boarding houses that are maintained
fer profit.
At every meal she finds kindred
spirits at her right and left hand.
Girls of her own age, interested in the
very things that engage her own In
terest. 1t is an environment that must
stimulate any alert young woman.
No doubt these are some OF the rea-
sons why many girls who started in
telephone work ten and fifteen years
ago are still glad to be enrolled as
telephone employees. There are even
some who have been on the local pay
roll for over twenty years. But in
spirit and efficiency they are all still
girls
Not all Of the young women In the
telephone work are local operators.
There is such a demand for competent
people to fill the high positions, that
almost any girl of apt mind can quail
ify for advancement. in comparatively
short time.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24
PLENTY OF WORK FOR THOSE
WHO CAN NOT REPORT AT
8 AND LEAVE ATS.

Another thing that makes telephone
work attractive TO young ladies who
could not afford to seek other employ
ment is the great adspta biltiy of the
hours. This is particularly advan-
tageous to students-whether in high
school or college-who find that the
telephone company can give them fas-
cinsting and lucrative employment
that will in no way interfere with
their school work. Many an am
bilious girl has paid her way through
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24

materially to the length Of her service.
Unless. of course, she should at some
time before that period has elapsed,
20 the way Of so many telephone en-
ployes. From telephone bell to we'd
ding bell" say the happy telephone
girls, rs not always long step"
Growth of business is not the only
reason why there are always vacan-
cies to be filled in the telephone in
dustry. Scores Of girls leave every
year to take up happy hone duties.
At any rate, it is true that there
Is 10 over abundance of telephone en-
ployes. Any clean-thinking girl of or
binary intelligence can quickly qualify
for the work Her pay starts the mo-
ment she enrolls in the training school.
1t commences to. advance the moment
she leaves it. The position-with it's
many opportunities for Advancement 49,
is hers as long as she is willing to
give service efficiently and pleasantly.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24
SICK BENEFITS, INSURANCE
AND PENSIONS FOR FAITH
Full WORKERS.

Should she take sick, a special in
surance feature, to which she con
tributes nothing, pays her a sick bene-
fit. After a reasonable length of serv-
ice she is likewise entitled to a death
beneht-and after a still greater
length OF service to retirement on a
pension-should she so desire.
At all times her health is guarded.
She is protected from disease by I'M
usual sanitary precautions. Every girl
is entitled to free consultation with the
company's physician. Lungs, heart,
eyes and hearing are also watched,
both for. the good of the en-
ploye and for the good of the service.
This means less time off on account OF
sickness and a remarkable freedom
from those periods of depression
known as "the blues, to which many
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24

an actual switchboard room In minia.
ture. Here. before practical working
switchboard, she receives and transmits
calls just as she will later do when
she gets into the actual work. The only
difference lies In the fact that urAil she
Is absolutely sure Of herself she gets
no calls from the subscribing public.
Her number. please" Is spoken into
phone, at the other end Of which Is
an instructor. whose sole interest In
life is TO make the learner a more eff
fclent operator.
Should the student make mistakes in
her practice work she is shown how to
correct them-and how to avoid them
in the future She learns exactly what
to do and say under all circumstances.
Every condition that can possibly arise
when she is seated before the big
switchboard taking her instructions
from the general public, Is duplicated
over and over again before the school
room switchboard. And her education
is stimulated by the fact that other
girls, to right and left Of her, are doing
the same thing.
At first the calls are given to her
slowly. As her efficiency increases,
they are speeded up until at last she
is handling calls as rapidly as they are
ever handled even in the rush hours,
And then she is ready to graduate into
the actual work.
But, unlike most business schools,
this one has paid her all the time she
was learning instead OF asking her to
pay 1t. This one gives her perms nent
position Immediately upon graduation
and sees to it that her salary is ad-
vanced and her opportunities increased
as her service lengthens.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24
MABEL COMSTOCK HAS FOUND THE
\ WORK INTENSITY INTER ESTING ~
! FOR The PAST II YEARS ~

are always glad to return to this de-
sirable work.
1t is a position that requires no
previous experience and offers speedy
advancement. The girls are not put to
work answering calls until they have
been given suitable training. The pay
starts the moment the girl is enrolled
in the telephone school.
As matter of fact, the rate of pay
while learning is really higher than
that usually paid to stenographers
and bookkeepers just out of bust
ness college. Yet stenographers and
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24

Of these work periods. in addition 10
the full hour allowed for lunch In
this WAY the girl may visit the rest
room once every two hours if she SO
desires
Should she feel indisposed-a quiet
nook in another part of the building
is provided with hospital beds and
cots. She can lie here in absolute
quiet-subject to the ministrations Of
the capable first aid department at ary
time her health seems to demand it.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24
Dancing, Music, Library
Rest Room, Hot Meals
Elaborate Training School
Equips Girls to Earn a
Better Livelihood

little over a year ago she waE
Just another of the great army Of IN
employed American glrls-clean, bright
eyed, alert and eager to grasp an op-
portunity. But she-like thousands Of
her sisters-lacked the one thing es-
sentIaI "a young womans speedy
success the industrial world-a bust
ness education.
Today-just fifteen months later-shs
has a proud record of four promotions
in as many seasons, and ranks as one
of the successful Assistant Toll In
sff0ctors of the Bell Telephone Com
pany.
Her rapid rise was due to the bust
ness education she received at the
hands of the telephone company.
That-in a words thesstory Of the
remarkable success of Miss Elizabeth
Greenwich, who in January, 1919. was
a student in the educational depart
ment. located in the great telephone
building at Meridian and New YORK
Streets. and who is today occupying
the responsible well-paid position oil
Assistant Toll Instructor.
Il is not an unusual story. As
matter Of fact it is one that is dupli-
Gated many times among the nearly a
thousand happy young women VINO
make It possible for indianapolis to
have telephone service.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24

bookkeepers are not paid at all whils
they are learning their professions. In
deed, many of them not only have no
income while attending school, but have
to pay from $50 to 500 for the privilege
of learning.
Contrasted to such conditions, what
business opportunity is brighter than
that offered to girls who take up tele-
phoning-a free education in a work
that offers lifetime employment-pay
while earning-immediate advancement
and an opportunity to work up to
an unusually well paid, responsible po-
sition.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24
ANOTHER SUCCESS STORY"
FROM THE IRVlNGTON
EXCHANGE.

For instance, there is Mable Com
stock of the Irvington office, who is
Prefectly content to help handle the
phone traffic of Indianapolis classic
suburb. Miss Comstock says that as
a convenient homelike place to work,
the Irvington exchange can not be
equalled anywhere. She is decidedly
proud Of the coy type of bungalow
architecture used in the building, the
great trees back of 1t and the home
like lawn and hedge in front. ITS
like working in your own home" she
says-"almost like not being at work
at all.
Eleven years ago Miss Comstock was
a messenger. A little later she en-
rolled in the telephone school and
since then her rise has been rapid.
She has become by turns. operator,
recruiting officer supervisor and clerk.
Those who know her say that, like
many. other girls, the cheerful asso
Citations she has built up in telephone
work, and the attractive nature of
her employment. will probably add
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24

school by taking advantage OF this op-
portunity-and it is always possible
for more Of them to do so
Other girls. who prefer not to 20 al
the way Ia the center Of town each
day for their employment. avail them
selves of the opportunity TO work in
the various outlying exchanges withiI
easy walking distance OF home
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24

feminine workers in other fields are
so frequently subject
There is at all times friendly
rivalry between the girls in the var
ious exchanges-each trying to excel
the other in good spirits and cf-
ficiency. Nor are the girls in the out
lying exchanges at all willing to admit
that their sisters in the central build
ing have any advantage that can not
be duplicated In the other exchange
buildings Some of these girls in the
outlying buildings even insist that
their own rest and recreation rooms
are cozier and more attractir re than tho
beautiful rest room in the Main"
building.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-24
POSITIONS OPEN NOW FOR
AMBITIOUS GIRLS.

Opportunities are now open for be-
ginners in both the local and the
longdistance departments. Good po
sitions at attractive hours also await
experienced telephone operators no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-25
FACING TWO CHARGES.
Arthur Fleming, Colored, Awaits
Trial for Househreakinr.

Two charges Of HOUSEKEEPING were
preferred against Arthur Fleming,
colored. twenty-one years old. in Po-
lice Court yesterday, and because of
his failure to furnish a real estate
bond he was committed to Jail for
a hearing later in the week. Fleming
was arrested Sunday night by Detec-
tive w. F. Burke Of the eighth pre-
cinct. who recovered quantity of
property the prisoner is charged with
having stolen.
Before being taken to Jail. Fleming.
1t is stated. accompanied Detectives
Mullen and Burke to number OF
apartments and houses and admitted
having entered them. He is said to
have gained entrance with a screw.
driver. ID: o..
Discussing the arrest this morning.
Detective Mullen said he does not be-
love Fleming is the expert Jimmy
worker who has made large hauls at
apartment houses in this city the
past few months. A screwdriver Elem
ing is, said to have admitted using
to gain entrances to houses and
apartments was recovered by Detec-
tive Burke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-25

That" he would say. els not the
way we did 1t In Delaware"
Got Back at Professor.
For ave days Harding failed in
geometry until the usual sentence
clattered at his ears.
Such conduct. Mr.. Harding" said
the professor. would not be per-
mitted in Delaware"
Next morning Harding rose con-
tritely and asked permission to take
more of the class-time than was his
by right in order that he might dem
onstrate the lessons he had missed.
The professor assented. and Harding
blackboard. He worked through the
class hour. through the chapel hour
and through the hour of the next
recitation, clear around the room on
the blackboard, soothing the pro-
fessor's occasional outbreaks by
When he had completely finished and
the 1dgeting professor was glazing
at him, awake at last to the fact
that this intriguing rascal had mess
ed up his school plans for the whole
day. Harding turned to him with a
twinkle in his eye.
Now, professor" he asked. could
they do better than that in Della
ware?'
Faculty for Quick Study.
DR.. ]. B. Virtue. who knew him
we'll in those days. remarked once
upon Harding's faculty for quick
study.
"He might neglect his lessons to all
appearance" said Virtue. but when
it came time for him to make them
up he would sit down with his face
to the wall and his head in his hands
and just, soak 'em up. Sometimes.
when there were half a dozen difficult
ones to make up, the effort at con-
centration was visible in every line
and action. Then. when he was
through he would jump out, Of his
chair with a yell.
Now, darn you he would say.
I've got you And he would slam
the book against the wall. He al
ways had it. too. l watched him."
RinEleader In Playing Franks.
Between his varied activities he
seems to have been considered the
ringleader in the harmless deviltry
of a small town college. Once a pro-
fessor offended his class by declaring
them dumb as oxen" whereupon the
next morning he found himself greet
room. They had been gathered from
nearby farms. And again sheep were
bedded down in the Presidents study
And an effort was made to convince
a greenhorn that he had offended
against the law, and should hide in
the college belfry, where it was the
benevolent intention Of the class to
keep him hidden and supplied with
food and water until the fun died out.
But in none Of the pranks is a sug-
gestion Of malice to be found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-25
MISS Balm REACHES PARIS
Washington Red Cross Worker But
Recently Left Poland.

Miss Ruth Olive Balm, formerly with
the American Red Cross in this city, has
arrived in Paris from Poland. according
to a letter received from her yesterday
by friends in this city. Miss Balm was
sent to France in November, 1918, and
was for some months connected with the
base hospital at Mesves. Later she was
stationed in Paris and in December of
last year returned to the United States
In March of this year Miss Balm was
again called into service by the Red
Cross and sent to Paris. and on June 3
was ordered to join the commission in
Warsaw. Miss Balm and her party were
the last of the American women to
leave Poland, as noted in her letter, a
part of which follows:
Things are happening fast. Three
weeks ago today august ID 1 was in
sc-Litewski-the papers call it
Brest-L itovsk-preparing to evacuate in
hurry. 1t took US five days to get to
Warsaw. travelling in freight cars Some
trip. And in Warsaw things weren't
much better. Last Thursday the boil
shevists were just sixty kilometers away
and we were hustled out. There are still
a few American Red Cross men there,
but we, the last of the girls, arrived in
Paris this morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-25
BY HERBERT COREY,

IBERIA. Ohio. August 2o.-"You
put rag over your thumb-this way
and kind of twist it in the wet
PAINT said United States Senator
Warren G. Harding on one occasion.
That's the way you initiate quarter
sawed wood. I was just an ordinary
painter. but there was no better
grainer than I was anywhere in our
neighborhood."
Between the painting and the grain
ing and the boarding himself and
some country editing and the occa-
however. that young Harding was
not profound student He was a
luick student. All agree on that, He
could tear the meaning out of a les
son in jig time. Nor did he merely
parrot the lesson. for he never re-
cording to the comment of half a
dozen of his former fellow students.
For all that, no one has ever claimed
that he drank too deeply at the fount
of knowledge. Life held too many
other attractions, perhaps.
Didn't Shine in Some Studies.
Nowadays he would be called a
bear" in mental science and history
and philosophy, and especially litera-
ture-he read more, perhaps, than he
has ever had time to read since of
the masters of English prose-but he
did not shine in certain other studies.
He always passed and with high
grades. but he seems to have willfully
neglected them until the danger line
was reached. Then he would make
up arrears in a squirt of furious study
ing.
THAT'S the way he used to do in
geometry" said Frank H. Miller. his
partner in the Iberia Spectator For
four or five days he would hardly
open the books. Then he would work
until or S o'clock in the morning
and defeat the suspicious professor
in the morning"
Once Harding's young scholastic
goat was had by one professor, who,
being a graduate Of Delaware Univer-
sity. a few miles away. continually
talked of his alma mater. Did an un-
fortunate student of the Ohio Central
College make an error the professor
would light on him with reproof