East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-12-31
1921 WAS PRETTY GOOD
YEAR IF YOU LIKED II
BY LEO II. HEATLEY
International News Service Staff
Correspondent.

NEW YORK, Dec. S1.--Despite the
statement of Henry Ford that history
is all bushwah, the year Just fading
out saw some big strides made in
many ways.
In women's styles, the abbreviated
skirt, female cigarettes, bare knees
and wishbones and roll-top stockings
came, saw conquered and went out
again. Due to the high cost of liv.
i ing skirts will be worn longer from
now or.
literature didn't get very far. Tie
Anti Saloon League ISSUED Il pamph-
let entitled, The Yonkers Plan,
which detailed moppins p methods,
hut bootleggers thought it WAS a joke
book dramatic critics declared Babe
Ruth bad actor and aensu ed Judgo
Lands for not increasing his fine;
book reviewers declared the first
hundred pages of Tho Outline Of
History" were the hardest; VI. l..
Mencket, declined to write a book on
gresham Herrick, of Oklahoma
| started beauty contest, winning
great applause as a statesman; Pres
Iident Harding was awarded the alu-
minum pickle dish as champion IN
finitive sprnter, Babe Ruth started
writing for the newspaper; Babe
Ruth stopped writing for the news
papers.
In science an inmate of Oshkosh
invented an elliptical umbrella, with
the handle on one side; a New York
er invented a one-man cockroach
trap: Kansas City man invented
( double breasted socks; Edison inven-
ted a questionnaire; Germans discov-
cred synthetic gold, but France sees
it as a monarchist plot; genius dis
covered methods of feeding a glass
of gin to William Jennings Bryan
/ London rooster got his sex instincts
mixed and laid eggs another geniu'
invented an alarm clock that would
mot ring
As regards prohibition, moonshin
ers and bootleggers unanimousl!
agreed it is a great success and Wig
orously opposed repeal of the Eigh
teenth Amendment.
Business--very little
The political situation has been in
teresNng, Lloyd George decided t
attend the Washington Conference
then he decided be would not
changed him mind, and vice versa
Irish won their freedom, but refused
ito stop fighting until brick manu-
facturers sign an armistice; Docto
Crafts said war is all Sherman sal
it was and advocated a Nineteent
Amendment to prohibit ice cream
sodas; Tumulty wrote one or doze
books about Wilson.
Crime had a gala year. The Anti
Saloon League decreed possession G
cloves merited capital punishment
Oklahoma woman found murder bes
vehicle for getting into the movies
In sports there wasn't very muc
doing. All American sport writer
picked All-American teams; bootleg
gers won thousands of running con
tests with the dry law; Dempse
staged a vaudeville act with George
i Carpenter, a Frenchman, at Jerse
i City, July >; a man lost his ey
waiting for a flapper to get on
street car.
There wasn't much doing in musi
either. Richard Strauss, the Aus
1 trian composer, announced he wrot
i his best piece while waiting for h
wife to dress but failed to explai
what he did with the rest Of tn
| four hours; carousal owners and Of
gan grinders installed new edition
OF "The Last Rose Of Summer" an
"Alice Ben Bolt"
Looking backward. it wasn't sue
\ bad year.