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Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

revolutionary was cleaning q shirt. y
woman with her hair done up IN
blue handkerchief was very carefully
ironing a blouse Another was busy
sewing sheets. or something of that
kind i'll a big cauldron. And all the
time people from all parts of the hotel
were coming with their pitchers and
pans, from fine copper kettles TO dis
reputable empty meat tins. 10 fetch
hot water for tea. At the other side
of the corridor was sort of counter in
front of a long window opening mo
yet another kitchen. Here there was
a row of people waiting with their own
saucepans and plates, getting their
dinner allowances OF soup and meat lis
exchange for tickets. On paying for
my room at the beginning of the week
was given card with the days of the
week printed along its edge. This card
gave me the right to buy one dinner
daily. and when | bought it that day
of the week was shipped off the card
so that 1 could not buy another. The
meal consisted of a plate of very good
soup, together with second course
of scrap of meat or fish. The price
Of the meal varied between five and
seven rouhles.
One could obtain this meal any time
between two and seven. Living hung
rily through the morning, at two
o CLOCK uSeO TO experience ueIlNftc re-
lief in the knowledge that now at ans
moment / could have my meal. Feeling
in this way less hungry, / used then
to postpone it hour by hour, and a .tu-
ally dined about five or six o'clock
Thinking that / might ineed have been
specially favored, / made inyeStiga-
lions. and found that the dinners sup
piled at the public feeding houses
were of precisely the same size anu
character. any difference between the
meals depending not on the food but
on the cook.
kind of rough and ready cooper
alive system also obtained. One day
there was a notice on the stairs that
those who wanted could get one pol
of jam apiece by applying to the pro-
visioning committee of the hotel. ] got
a pot of jam in this way, and
later occasion a small quantity of
Ukrainian sausage.
Besides the food obtainable on cards
it was possible TO buy, at ruinous
prices. food from spectators, and an
idea of the difference in price may be
obtained from the following examples:
Bread is 1 roubleA20 kopecks per pound
by card and Is to 20 roubleS per pound
from the spectators. Sugar is II
roubleS per pound by card, and never
less than 80 roubles per pound in the
open market. 1t is obvious that aboli-
iiOIl VI lfle stem NOuit IilttAit
that the rich would have enough and
the poor nothing. Various methods
have been tried in the effort to get rid
of spectators, whose high profits ma
turally decrease the willingness of the
villages to sell bread at less abnormal
There is only one way to get rid of
rates. But as communist said to me:
speculation, and that is to supply
enough on the card system. When
people can buy all they want at
rouble 20 they are not going TO pay an
extra II roubles for the encouragement
of spectators" And when viii YOU
be able TO do that?" | asked AS sooa
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09
EDITORIAL
PROSPECTING
c. c. H., Editor

1t were foolish in him Il the man
agement of the Camefs Back set forth
on the work If the new GEAR without
contemplating the future as weighed
by the past.
And so it is that here and now, we
take our reader aside and whisper in
his ear. We are led to do this especial
~ because of lit OF criticism handed
10 us by friend who az our welfare
al heart.
His Quarrel
The quarrel | have with The man
agement of the Ca1neIS Back our crl-
tie writes. lis that YOU don't take your
readers into your confidence as much
as YOU should. You don't let them
share in the fun. Your tendency is TO
hog all the space III your columns for
Yourself. Hasn't ii ever occurred TO
YOU that lots of US on the outside
would like 10 see our own jokes, essays,
poems, kicks and quips carried as part
of the Camels cargo once III a while2'
Has it ever occurred to US? Why,
bless you, of course it has, We have
always been willing nay, even anxious
to let our reader help load the
CameHS cargo. Can we make it any
clearer than 10 say again that the col
umns of this deserts greatest sand
storm are always open to contributions
from any pen?
Our Only Reservation
All we ask is that the stuff that is
sent in possess a little merit. We have
reserved for ourself the privilege and
right of furnishing the usual percent
OF mediocre stuff in the Camel's week
~ cargo.
And, speaking in general of the per-
ilous course ahead--we have some
rather elaborate plans for the coming
year. They include the opening up OF
new departments and the incorpora-
ton of a number OF special features.
Il * our plan. for instance to run
special editions of this fearful weekly.
dedicated. and consecrated TO particu-
lar humors and passions of the hour.
These will include such as. Blue Mon
day scandal, ~Swindle. Small
Town Metropolitan and-some-
thing never before attempted by this
weckly-a Comic edition Then. not
many weeks hence we shall run our
second annual Spring Poetry number
with prizes offered for the winning
poems.
Schedule Is Elastic
We wish il TO be understood. how
ever, that our schedule of special edi-
tons is not rigid. If we should receive
q petition duly signed by one or more
of our readers. we shall run almost any
kind of 4 special edition requested by
i'm the body of Inc petitions long as
AZ does NOT violate the postal laws. All
Of these special editions viii contain
contributions from local talent.
Taking it fore and aft. it looks like
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09
The Census

The committees the Phoenix civic bodies
,acd TO cooperate with taking officials
nave no purpose interfere in the slightest with
,ffcisl functions; only TO assist in securing the
names of residents Phoenix who may be unavoid
bly, overlooked by the enumerators in making their
rounds which must be made within comparatively
hort space of time
he details which required. be avail
bile at the the official visit and the enumer
,tor might be obliged in order to obtain the neces
.arv data make visits He might.
indeed in the of a lodger in family have to
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09
TUT TUT

Editor.
The Camels Back,
Dear Ed,
Yours of recent date received and I
regret that / cannot accept your kind
offer of a position on the staff of the
CameTs Pack at 4 salary OF thirteen
tuts. per month. l hope you viii not
feel uni5indly toward me for forming
down Eour offer fo~ as matter Of
fact I have been compelled 10 refuse
number OF offers almost as attrac-
tive II isn't that don't reed the
stipend you so generously offer, bur
/ have 50 much to do every mornln@
that | honestly don t see how l could
be Of any service to rou.
My present schedule is approximate
ly $ follows: Rise at a. m. dress,
split kindling build fires. empty ashes.
BY that time infant is awake; friend
wife falling to respond to urgent
shouts. I am compelled to battle and
dress the little one again calling
friend wife then dash off across lots
on half mile sprint after milk. start
cream separator at farmhouse ana
grind through ten gallons OF milk in
order to get half pint OF cream, again
dash half mile back through cotton
fields. reLlenish fire, again call drowsy
wife get breakfast. eat same, iced
infant change clothes. shave. cran'1
flivVer no go. heat water IN tea
kettle, gain call friend Wife. jump in
flivver. scorch Il quarter of y mile in
vain delasion of reaching office on
time. change tire, again crank up,
reach office ten minutes past eight, to
be greeted colby by the boss, etc. etc.
From the foregoing sample of my
schedule you viii readily understand
why I am unable TO join the staff OF
the Cancels Back at this time. Amy
suggestions you may be able 10 make
as to how ! can get TO work on time
as it is would be greatly appreciated.
Despondenuy yours.
SLUG NINE.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

We share in the dependency of
Slug Nine. We had hoped that he
could accept our rare offer. As 10 any
suggestions to aid him in circumVent-
ing his many duties at home and thus
get TO the office on time. we beg to
be excused. We. too. have a program
of morning chores 10 he gone through
with before We embark on our daily
journey to the office If his misery
wants company we might be induced
To describe our program We shall.
however, have to leave it 10 our reader
either to show Slug Nine Il way out
of his troubles or TO show him some
thing worse in the line OF morning
chores
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09
HOW SHE SOLVED 1T

Many of concerned about our own cost OF
living in which the high cost of food plays such a
rredouinatinp We prone blame the
butcher, baker and the grocer. We talk loudly
and long of profteers and the general all-around
failure of government officials TO cope with the
problem
But Mrs. Harry D. Weeks of Seattle. Wash'
isn't worrying about the matter at all For Mrs.
Weeks her high cost of living problem,
as far as food goes and she solved it well.
One Off lot, spade one hoe a bundle,
strong determination, did ii for Mrs Weeks she
kept her family supplied with fresh vegetables last
summer put away enough for winter-peas
beans corn, about all the things hungry family
wants for breakfast dinner and supper. Also, she
found space i'm that erstwhile vacant lot train
flock o chickens into producing ways.
ITS mighty little / have buy at the market"
Mrs Weeks said 1T doesn't worry at all to hear
that prices of canned vegetables double what they
were three years ago
You'll have admit if more of us had broken
ciods i'm gardens last of today
would find cause complaint in the potato price
or the canned quotations.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

contributors to The news coiumns
of the Gazette" warns our cOntempor-
airy. "can he of assistance to the edi-
torial department by writing as tersely
as they can"
And in the same issue we grab this
from the account of the union depot
hearing before the corporation COM
mission: In answering the question,
Johnson stated that to his knowledge
he did not know OF any.
1T requires skill TO write terse Eng
fish. TO compact meaning into the
greatest breVity of sentence. etc con
tinues the editorial. Not much skill is
required 10 dodge such an expression
as greatest brevity".
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09
FACT AND FICTION


I'm not at all what you might call
In any way bone headed.
Fact and fiction. Snappy diction-
To these I'm thoroughly welded.
Par example, I know what Romeo
Told Juliet on the ladder
I've travelled seas like Ulysses
And he was some I'll gadder.
In mathematics through qUadratics,
In Gale" and ''trig." I've shlmmleo;
| caught the dream in Newton's bean,
From crooks the truth I've jimmied.
| know today what the sphinx would
say
If he should start to chatter.
And. 100. just why when love is nigh
Your heart goes pitter- patter
Now. as | said some lines ahead.
cor mayhap only hintedD
There's not much dust inside my
crust
My larnin's not been stinted.
But will you try to tell me why
| never have much luck
In matching the dubs-my checkbook
stubs
With the balance the bank has
struck?
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

"A large year for the Camel's Back. In
closing. and before any of the collected
crowd can get to the rear exits. let US
remark that our subscription rates re-
main the same. with no reduction in
the size of this package OF Diffle.
Full steam ahead. Camel, and damn
h. Ii -. shnr-ta
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09
NEW ENGLAND ORANGE TREES
lScrihner,s AIacazinel

Marvels of adaptation viii he
achieved. but they Will not be achieved
without confidence and that kind of
patience that outlas1s life.
/ had friend. a Spaniard. who,
though he lived in New England and
knew the bitterness of its winter winds
as VOL as any one. asked me WHY we
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09
From the Washington starr

Does your boy mind when you
speak TO him.?
Yes" replied Farmer CorntosseL
doubtfulIy. But he's got us so i'm
pressed with his superior knowledge
that we don't often venture to speak
to him.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

on the level now. how would II at
feet your outlook on the new year 3D.
x0i had 10 face the cold fact that for
each week of the - YOU had 10 make
M IA cargo for the CameIs Hac(- That
each week Won had 10 sit down arC
lsllock our. on an average. 1000 words
so arranged and related one to tho
other. that they would appeal 10 (par
don US while we confer with the circu
latiou deptD all, yeas, 1900 readers
How does it affect US? Well, nov
that you ask, we never think or 1t Dol
just that way. We cannot afford to i7f
ourself think of (to use the fetchina
pbraseology of the local ad. writers
tile absolutely tremendous enormitE
Of the responsibility. If we did, cold
shivers would taxi up and down our
back and we'd run like hell.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

Glendale Wide Awake Solves Housing
Problem and Looks for New Prob
lens to Work for More Problems TO
Work
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

The chances are that if prohibition
We're abolished few of us would think
about booze With the country dry
however. we are all dying of that
imaginary thirst.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09
HEAD IN THE DOUGH-
(Fronn The Rpub's. Wastebasket)

tOntnueU IrOm IdsL Weeh-
Glendale Works Fast to Make Tow n
Most Attractive Place in State for
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

WHAT no. WHAT HO:
If each week someone would Write
-Four lines OF grief or cheer
TO -op this col. of this and that,
iii welcome this new year.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

We are informed that style dictators
contemplate beating the high cost of
womens apparel by decreeing sleeve
less gowns and bare legs to be fash
ionable. Well, those are bare posi-
bilitieS
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

Which would. indeed. be quite out or
the ordinary. If you viii refer to al
lost any piece of magazine fiction
YOU will learn that when the hero IS
moved 10 SILVER, he usually is frozen
in his tracks"
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

great many people who profess TO be interest
better working conditions are interested only
in better 1oafing conditions.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

Phone your Classified Ads to The
Republican. We will collect later
Phone 4331
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09
NO COMPLIMENT
washington starr

washington starr
Maybe imitation is the sincerest
flauery," said Uncle Bill Bottletop,
but / don't see as a wood alcohol mix
ture is any special compliment TO the
memory of old John Barleycorn."
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

our personal opinion is there should be less
disturbance this country if bad gotten rich
of the
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

The big question now is: Wh9t1l
we do with the pretzel?
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

But, gosh, Think of the intervening
time.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

BY the way, what became of the
local fair price committee?
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09

Five years from now we'll all be
desiccated
Arizona republican., 1920-01-09
PARENTAL DIFFIDENCE

What are you newshounds good for?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-04
RETURNING THE SOLDIER DEAD
- HE policy of the department in regard to the re
" from France of the bodies of deceased American sole

- HE policy of the department to the return
" from France of the bodies of deceased American soldiers
was announced by Secretary of War Baker to delega-
tion of forx and womenal relatives of dead
menfrom Pburg Greensburg, Lesnring and Scottdale,
Pa Chicago, ST. Louis Baltimore New York, Birmingham Ala,
Richmond Va, Washington D. c. The secretarys
ment a folows
At the outset the department promised that it would
return practicable the bodies all soldiers who died
in France and whose next of kin desired the return.
The department departed this promise
abaed effort all obstacles have
been the matter of the of all bodies from
England Italy North Russia Belgium Luxembourg Siberia
Germany and outside the in France and step
which be taken has been taken these bodies
The French temporarily withheld its consent
to the exhumaon of bodies the where the largest
number allied dead buried The state department seek
actively have this and it is
the steps will be taken with the American dead
buried there No preference will be permitted in the
of but that will be followed
exception which those who be brought
speedily without distinction between officers and
upon any other ground
The wishes of kin will be the sole determining
Those who desire leave the bodies of their dead
in France will be permitted to do AS between those who
different the action to be taken the
of bringing home these deceased soldiers the de-
desire have free discussion of the
order that all decons may be made the ba
full information and the wishes of those most interested
respected"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-04
INFLUENZA VICTIM TO
Be BURIED IN WESTON
CEast oregoniaa specially

WESTON. Feb. 4-The body Of the
late Mrs. Charles Hilyard arrived in
Weston Monday morning accompanied
by her husband. Charles Hilyard and
her mother. Mrs. A. A. Kees. Mrs.
Hilyard was taken to Hot Lake some
time ago where she underwent an ope-
ration from which she was rallying
satisfactorily until she was stricken
with Influenza She is survived by her
husband, mother. three brothers and
one sister Burial will be in the odd
Fellows cemetery al Weston.
Mrs. A. w. Lundell died at her home
on South Broad street Tuesday morn
ing from the effects of influenza. She
is survived by her husband. A w
Lundell. one daughter. Miss Eva Lun-
de1l and three sons. Virgil Lundell of
Pendleton and Leon and Harvey Lun-
dell Of Weston Funeral arrangements
have not yet been announced.
Cola Carlile Of ogden, Utah, and
Ponathan Carlile Of Hood River, Ore
Fon. are in Weston 10 attend the fun-
emi OF their sister. Mrs. Charles Hi
yard.
l. n. Davis was a business visitor
10 waila Walla Tuesday.
A number Of Weston growers club
bed together and shipped a carload Of
red Mexican beans g. san Frapeise
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-04

this week. These beans were grown ir
1918, and are reported to have been
sold for 1-2 cents a pound on the car
in Weston.
r. N. Smith. cashier of the Farmers
Bank, was in Walla Walla Tuesday.
John Mayberry was visiting his
parents in Milton Monday.
The influenza situation in Weston
does not appear to have improved very
much. While some are being released
from quarantine. other families are
being quarantined, so that the number
of cases remains about the same.
]. w. Porter returned to Freewater
Monday, where he has a position as
salesman in a store, after spending the
week with his family who have been
afflicted with the influenza.
Weston schools will not open before
next Monday, and possibly not then
unless the influenza situation shows
a marked improvement.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-04
KEEP THE OLD TOWN HUMMINo

HE officers of the Pendleton Commercial Assoca-
III ton will assume their duties under conditions that should
year splendid activity the betterment and
upbudng of Pendeon There general spirit of
tom desire to down anything that macks of
faconal and to work unity for the good of the
town and its territory.
The Commercial association has ambitious plans for the
ture They needed This city afford rest its
past aures The world those who do keep the
pace soon lag behind
Though Peneon wide reputation for progessiveness
could lose that reputation quickly There is
question if there not other that have of the
Pendeton spirit than Pendeton time to take notice.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-04

Ef you owes a debt to Satan,
Don't you worry bout it.
Bekase he'll tell YOU all de time
Dat he kin live without it,
II.
He'll tell YOU fo' he lands YOU
Inside his blazin' gates:
II des de very creditor
Dat waits, an waits. an waits,"
-CnnNrinhfed for East Orf
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-04
MISPLACED SYMPATHY

~ Journal opposes the ansedition bill that
VI would make it felony for to revolution by
the United States Just now there are hundreds
agators America who preach
luton They dupng ignorant foreigners and some
shaow-minded Americans The at Centrala
anarchist spirit these men have aroused
To there should be punishment for who preach rev
that there should be punishment
directly responsible for such deeds of violence The
uy conspire and the commission OF crime
guilty who fires the The Journal is con-
using independence with the Kerensky dea
The remedy IS beefsteak and less mush
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-04
AN OVERSEAS DIARY
(By Rev. ]. E. Cornelison who served
with the Y. NJ. C. A. overseas.)

Tuesday Sept. 17.-W.Iile the 27th
divisions rest they are also doing some
special training for their next line
work. The tank battalion OF the Brit
ish working with our tank men, gave
a demonstration .of maneuvers out
near Beauquesne. Those big tanks
certainly can go up an almost impos-
sible hill or grade. They turn around
in less room than Ford In fact
they just about turn around on the
spot. One track stops and the other
moves and makes the tank sq1irm
right around. 1 had to wait for one
tank to turn and cross the road as I
went to Terramesnil with a load. So
1 saw the demonstration. They are
wicked looking birds as they bristle
with machine guns. OF the 16 men
in the large tanks. each man learns to
manipulate anything pertaining to
the operation of the tank. This is
true so that if just one of the crew
remained alive he could take the ma
chine out of danger.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-04

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now able to do my work. 1 cannot
thank you enough and l recommend
your medicine TO my friends who are
sick. Mrs. SUSIE SACATANsKY, 25
East 18th St., Bayonne, NJ j.
1t must be admitted by every fair
minded, intelligent person, that a medi-.
cine could not live and grow in popular
ity for over forty years, and today hold
a record for such wonderful success
as does Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, without poss essing great
virtue and actual worth. Such med
icihes ulusf he locked 1ror and termed
loth ss.-.-d.--I ! 49, .--.-...,.s W W
Der5Oa
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-04

Death by starvation and exposure
threatens the lives of thousands of
birds in the state of Minnesota. accord
ing to Carlos Avery. state game com
missioner. Deep SHOWS and severe
cold have already k.l.ed hundreds. hs
aid,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-04

Ivy lCiIidlC u ObDtC-
IL felt so tired all the
thine, had bad head
aches, and for six
Imontks | could not
work. / was treat
led by a physician
land took other re-
Imedies but got no
relief. A friend told
|me about Lydia E.
|Pinkham's V G e e.
table Compound and
Ii [ has hClDed me
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-04
Women Want Vote

MANILA. Feb. 3.-The women OF
the Philippines have launched cam
paign for suffrage. The senate COM
mittee has been holding public hear
ings on the Sison bill providing for
their enfranchisement.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-04
SIX MONTHS |
COULD NOT WORK
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Made Me Strong and
Able to Work. Recommend
It To All My Friends.

Bayonne, N. III had pains in back
and legs so that could not stand caused
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1920-10-21

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asistir la fiesta escolar de hoy Dsseo
concurrir mafiana
Con muy buenos deseos, quedo,
Muy alta. y s. S.
Mercedes soLA.'k
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