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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-08-22
THE NoRTHwEsrs GREATEST UNUSED ASSET

ROM what have this must be state of immense
II possibilities is statement credited to Secretary OF
the Interior Albert B. Fall, who in Oregon on his
first visit Secretary Fall is from the southwest land that is
in the of development brought about by of
foresight courage is be hoped his sojoum in the
northwest will be stimulus to those who wish to this re-
gion make of the abundanty at hand.
This is in reality of immense possibilities The
reary will of greatest undeveoped when
he the Columbia the greatest potential hydroeecrc
power in the There four favorable
sites for the development of power the river The stream
be made to millions of horse sufficient in
volume every train in the northwest to conduct indus
tries gate acreages heat and light homes and operate
machinery Not bit of this power being devel
oped While the nation and the world face shortage of coal
and oil and continue up exhausbe at alarm
rate, allow the Columbia and its tributary streams to
flow idly to the
The situation is deserving of earnest thought by all and
particularly by the head of the interior department There is
Columbia project that especially juses attention
representing the national The Una
ta rapids project primarily irrigation enterprise By de-
yeloping Umata rapids the Columbia several
hundred thousand land brought into state of
will have productive capacity equal to that of the willamette
valley The project declared to be the feasible the
Columbia from engineering standpoint The cost of develop
ment will be comparatively small and three fold
be accomplished navigation improvement and
power development for industrial purposes including railroad
eectrfcaon The federal commission of which the
secretary member has been asked investigate this project
The legislatures of the states of Oregon and Washington have
memorazed the federal commission asking for such survey
There project in the nation worthy of attention
While in the northwest Secretary Fall should be told about
this project and about the general subject of the
of the Columbia basin There is to be found great
est unused asset
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-08-22

exaggerated l have no doubt. There
is a scarcity of food, | am sure.
"Ruled by Ruffians."
The people of Russia are used to
warfare. They are used to hardships
and struggles. They do not believe
what they read in their own newspa-
pers. for they know that the party in
power has printed stories that are
pure propaganda. Right now Russia
is ruled by band of ruffians, who are
self-seekers for gain.
Coalitions are formed because the
leaders must have some means of
force. I believe Russia viii know a
regeneration for her sufierings. I be.
lieve there will come man who Il
Gig enough and righteous enough to
win popular favor through a desire to
bring justice to all the people.
Communism and Bolshevism cam
not last. Did the majority of Russians
favor those doctrines there would not
lnow be wave of internal strife
sweeping throughout the country
81 hope some day to see Russia free
from the tolls of thugs and thieves. I
want to see peasants have the same
right under the law as the now priv
I ileged classes have"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-08-22
g YEARS AGO

(From the Daily East Oregonian,
August 22, 1899
Mrs Mary A. Disosway and Mrs. A.
D. Stillman expect to start on an east
ern trip about d9ptember visiting
Chicago, Ithaca, n. ", New York City
and other points.
Sunday evening the NJ. f. Church
received into full membership Mrs. j.
Tomilinson, Robert S. Rem, Maggie
NJ. Anderson, Lillian NJ. Epple, Carrie
E. Epple, Mrs Eva Foreman, Mrs
Ella Waffle, Edward Inman and Nina
d. Sloan.
Monday evening a party of friends
gathered at the home of Mrs. Mary
Gillette across the river in observance
Of her siXty-second birthday. The oc-
casion was a pleasant surprise to Mrs.
Gillette, who had not had the slight
est warning of their approach until
the visitors had assembled and she
was invited down to meet them.
Games and music were enjoyed, and
refreshments served.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Duncan and
daughters. Mrs. T. Starkweather, Miss
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-08-22
INFORMATION NOT WANTED

TNE senate interstate committee which has been
collecting evidence concerning the administrators pro-
posed railroad legislation refused for undvuged
to hear w G. McAdoos testimony the New York World
Mr. MeAdoo happens to be the who director
era when the government took the railroads from private
control during the and there anybody the country
competent to word regard to the condition of the prop
critics when they into hands discuss from
the governments standpoint the justice of their present damage
claims he that person The World has always agreed
with Mr. McAdoo railroad theories but loss
how committee which processes to be looking for facts
ufy the exclusion of competent witness the is
gatng Mr. McAdoo democrat to be sure and therefore
more or less paan but the majority which refused to hear
him composed of republicans and at least equally partisan
The committee closed its doors likewise against the repre-
senatives of the railway broherhoods had passed rule
debarrng all witnesses who knew anything railroads
could ahrdy have made higher partisan prejudice
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Lizzie starkweather, Robert Pond and
Master Fred Vincent, all started Mon
day afternoon on buckleberrying ex-
petition to the mountains. They were
to camp Monday night at David
Horne's place and then go on to the
headwaters of Mckay creek. The
party will be absent four or five days.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-08-22

The natives in the vicinity cultivate
the lake bed of Lake Cirtnitz, in mid
eastern Europe during the summer
the waters having departed through
great fissures in the bed of the lake.
In autumn the waters return rapid
", throwing up cascades of foam as
if from blowholes. The lake is prob
ably fed in winter by water coming to
it underground from a body of water
higher in the mountains.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-08-22
CoNnRA ADESHIP

when Forty Years walk hand in hand
with Nine,
And share the beauty Of the morn
ing sun
Age telling Youth what mortal men
have done
Guiding young feet TO pathways truly
fine.
Teaching young eyes to see perfec-
tion's sign
God smiles upon the father and the
soni
For this, the world was made and
life begun,
Copyright, 1921.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-08-22

For this the woods ring out with songs
divine.
oh Forty Years, if you would come to
joy.
Gods richest friendship waits at
your command!
Let each day draw you closer to your
boy,
Go walk the world together, hand in
hand;
Would YOU be rich in all that makes
men glad,
Then be a comrade to your little lad.
oy Edgar A. Guest.)
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12

n cignneanee Of the arrangement Of the Flag Of
W. Future: The thirteen In the stand
for the thirteen States-this isf the
seal OF the United Ststes adopted in 1882; twenty
w i've stars In circle enlarged from
the States added during the
circle
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
By Wayne Whipple

IT Is sminently fitting that on this Flag
1 Day Of 1921, which we observe next
Tuesday, We should stop 10 consider what
the dag of tomorrow wiz be. And We can
best do this By considering for q moment
the evolution Of our national emblem from
its inception with the birth Of the Nation.
Before We had a fag-eyen before we hal
. nation-ths Tag Of the United Colonies
was raised on q height in Cambridge across
the river In plain sight Of the British in
Boston, on New Years Day, 177e. On the
<th Of January General Washington wrote
to Jossph Reed, his secretary, who was
then ta Philadelphia:
I'VE srs at length favored with q sight
Il his hs3esr's most gracious speech.
brsathtng sentiments Of tenderness and
compassion for his dsludsd American sub
3eeth Ths speech send you.
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proved By authorities and experts. vas prs-
presented IN the White House on Flag Day,
1903. The officials in the War and Nsyy
Departments were 50 pleased with this de-
sign because Of its symmetry. heraidie con-
sistency and for the reason that IL crystal
Lies and illustrates the history Of tbs cou,-
try In the Gag. that the ofbciai opinions and
the implied ssaetion Of the Gevsrnnent
enabled 81 10 be exploited % the ''fl.s sf
the Future" AMI various manufacturers were
thus encoursge4 70 make and sell II.
For years Il has been recognlssd IN tie
departments at WsshinEton - the sp-
proved and accepted arrsnssment pendins
ofhcial action Two attorneys general and
secretary Of war have investigated ths
matter and rendered their opinion that this
arrangement Of the starr ID In accord visa
the requirements Of ths act Of ls1s. and
that the proper mode Of adopting any -
Sign should BE- By executive order Of tAs
President Of the Omitted statA
TyHE Nation 10 row standing IN de dess-
i way Of q new epoch. Hawaii, one Of
the several territories. has nearly enough
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she came to the Beech creekr' -. agsi.
addressed the engineer.
No, sir" he replied emphaticaIly. Il
would have you know there is no better
behaved locomotive in all the world. A,
docile as lamb; as patient as an OF as
faithful as a dog-that's the old '99o.'"
There was genuine admiration In IN.
eyes Of The Little Fellow" Removing
a Erimy glove. be bestowed an snectiop,t,
pat on the side Of the locomotive tender.
only a railroad boy reared in a railroad
town can know az we do the engineers
affection for his pet.
About how much Of q load can she
haul?" was asked.
Wen, 1t all depends on the rrsde.-
came the answer. About four ps,senr,r
cars is her limit on the Beech Greek. Out
on the level she can tax. care Of eisht
or ten cosches."
And does she srunt and puff or ever
lie down on youy"
Never complains, my boy. Handle he,
properly and she responds without a rnur.
mur. / tell you, this In a human ensins.
Ihinf OF her glorious psstl She ha. sons.
thing to live for
Our interest In the ''s99" 10 NOR, th.,
an ordinary regard for q pile Of iron and
steel. Ours Is a sentimental affection 40,
the veteran engine born out Of an iptimst.
relationship with the once proud speed
champion. For not the least .urpriaas
feature Of our visit 10 our old home town
Jersey Shore-to have q look at the fsmou,
locomotive was the revelation that the eu-
Eineer who csresses the throttle Of the
''s99''-the Little Fellow" we have 70.
ferred to above-is none other than our
own dad!
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aborins up the grades Of . sinsls-track
coal mountain road!
Up there In Jersey Shore We found the
old ''99e." She was ready for the days
journey up the winding Beech Greek into
Clearheld and Patton, q run Of about 120
miles. Did you ever hear of the Beech
Creek? It has curves and grades and then
more curves and grades. In the days when
Teddy Roosevelt was organizing his famous
Rough Riders for the Spanish American
War they used to say that any chap who had
ever worked on the Beech Greek w,s quail
med for q place in the front ranks Of the
Rough Riders"
How the '999" has changed! Her old
number has disappeared altogether. Now
she is known as the '10S6." It was twenty
nine years ago that the Empire State Ex.
press made its frst western trip from New
York to Buffalo. The "so9" came from the
West Albany shops Of the New York Cen.
tral in 1898.
What q shout went up In 1898 when Old
'999," with q few preliminary trial heats.
picked up her Empire State Express and
peeled OF q new speed record Of 112.5 milss
an hour. In our railroad town the nsv,
created q sensation
But look at the ''Sos''-now the '.1ose''
-as We saw her the other day ready Tor 4
trip up the Beech Creek!
What's the best speed she can do nevy,
We asked The Little Fellow" up in -. eah
window. By The Little Fellow ~ m..,
the engineer Of the "1oss." He N ma !.
little shaver Of an engineer, silver -toppsd
in service, rugged and brown from lons dsy.
and nights Of service. They can tuck Ii
away in the locomotives headlight.
II reckon she can do about sixty mils. m
hour when we give her the co. smiled bael
Tho Little Fellow"
Our eyes wandered up over the pro6l.
of the dethroned champion.
About how many years. ssrvia. d ~.
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to fifteen; and although Tennessee, Ohio
and Louistana had been admitted to the
Union before the War Of 1912, the Gag hoat-
ing over Fort McHenry in September. 1914,
was Of the fifteen star and fifteen stripe
kind and, in this particular instance, the
stars were placed in three rows Of five each.
It was an ensign Of this exceptional ar
rsnsement which Francis Scott Key saw
while = temporary prisoner on . British
ship Of war the night that he wrote The
Star Spangied Banner" during the unsuc-
cessful attack Of the British on Fort Nc
Henry.
But the eommonest nas from 1795 to
1S1S-the ensign under which most of the
battles of the War Of 1912 were fought
had circle Of ten stars, with Eve more
placed outside in such q way as to arrange
the whole fifteen in the form of a rude
hve-pointed stsr.
THIS design evidently suggested to Cap
L tain Samuel Chester Reid the idea Of set
ting all the stars in an exact Eve pointed
star. In 1918 Indiana and Mississippi had
been admitted. increasing the stars to twenty.
Securing the cooperation Of Peter H.
Wendover, q member Of Congress from New
York City, Captain Reid agitated the ques.
tion Of q 6xsd arrangement for the stars
In the nag. But Congress saw that the
addition Of other stars to the twenty shown
in the captains design would soon render q
regular e-pointed setting impossible. SO
It passed the act, which President Monroe
signed on April 4, 1918. declaring that
from and after the fourth day Of July.
1918. the nag Of the United States be thir-
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To make rebel Gag before Congrsss had
declared for separation and Independence
required more than q skillful nesdls-a brave
heart, q ready wit and discreet tongue. To
Betsy Ross. possessing al these, was grant
ed the immortal honor OF being chosen to
make the FIRST dag Of <he United States.
washington's Interpretation Of the mean
ing Of the nsg he had designed not only re-
flutes the assertion that be took the stars
from his family crest, but II also reveals
the real reason for altering the form Of
the star at Mrs. Ross susssstien. In diving
the meaning Of the DAG be designed, the
commander in chief wrote;
We take the star from Heaven, the red
from our Mother Country, separating Il
ey white stripes, thus showing that ws
stripes shall 30 down b postasiS MN.
senting liberty.
Il h not strange that, N d ussNs...,,
and turmoil Of more vital nattsr, Amin,
times that try mems souls" the cs.ti.s,.
tai Congress overlooked the formal sdoptie.
OF the national standard for nearly Q year.
Attsntion seems to have been called 70 he
oversight on or just before the 18th Of June.
HI. for on that date this entry was made
In the Journal:
RESOLVED, that the dag Of the thir-
teen United States be thirteen stripes, al
ternate red and white; and the union b.
thirteen stars, white in blue held, rep
resentins q new constellation.
IN THE frst Gags made after the adoption.
L according to Trumbuil and Peaie, the
military painters Of that day, the stars were
set in q circls-either with thirteen in The
eircumference or twelve outside and iarrer
star In the center. Az the Gag was to Be-
the ensign, not Of a monarch or over lord.
but Of the sovereign peipie, the widest pos
sible latitude vas allowed in the arr,nre-
ment Of the new constellation'-the only
fixed condition being that there should be
thirteen. No American should consider
thirteen an unlucky number.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12

sYss nay break, yos noy shattsr, tas pass
u yox sciD,
Bss tie soest Of the roses ViH cling to it
stiu" Tom Moore,
A Ii aboard, sons and daughters Of
Romance! II your blood tngles at the
hight Of the Midnight Express sweeping
through the dark, skimming the rails with q
gvish and eoar, gather close. II you never
knew that locomotive has q soul read here
the story Of old ''s99," aged in point Of
years. but possessed Of the imperishabls
spirit Of youth that refuses To grow old or
lie.
Dsst remember the old "999"f In her
youh shs was the most famous engine that
ever drsv . railway train. Nearly thirty
years ago shs was drawing the Empire
Stats Express from New York City Ia
Bufalo, covering the 439 miles In .irbt
hours, win stops At Albany, Utica, syra-
euss and Rochester. Everybody knew about
he '-Se9." The ''old GIRLS" pictur. was
IN every roundhouse, In every caboose, over
the desk Of nearly ever master mechanic In
the country.
TAs years have come and gone a. the years
vfl come and 90, and ''999" had almost
slipped our memory, until the other day
~ happened 10 read something about the
famous old sngins- It was q report from
Utica, N. Z. that eur beloved ''999" Of
cur youth had gone to the scrap heap.
Grand old speed queen that steamed proudly
sut to the Worlds Fair in Chicago to be
acclaimed Q champion now reduced to scrap
iron!
But wait. Our interest In the once mighty,
.aee9' prompted rs to make q little in
vestiration. To the headquarters of the
New York Central and Hudson River Rail-
~ Co., In the Grand Central Terminal.
N.v York, we directed q query: is It true
.h.t old 'e99' has gone to the boneyard
yb.r. sleep the once proud mistresses Of yes
seryer"
In.zin. our JOY when the reply came
s.cL: "old 's9s' is still in service" Con:
-, our oyernowing JOY when We were told
go, that this same old engine, her
-.nh.r changed, was actually serving back
- ., our own home town In central
p.ar.yly.nia! Can you beat It?
onr own home town is Jersey Shore, .
-. AZ 1000, ten miles north of the city
- wiIliamsport. 1t Is the southern terminal
v ,h. Pennsyrania division Of the New
Wy Central. From the town of our youth
. ,inrle- track railroad famous a the old
Rsech Creek Railroad radistes out through
Oh. Clearfeld county bituminous coal region.
n was over this very line Of road, mind you
th,t the old "99o' now travels every day
of her nfe-OUR railroad.
Think how the mighty have fallen Once
the proud leader of the vaunted Empire
State Express: now q pathetic old figure
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Pile? Not for the Old State Locomotive She's Still On Du

suppose she still has in her old bonesi'
we inquired. recalling Dame Rumor's re-
port that ''999' was on her way 10 III.
boneyard
Well, our master mechanic, c. P. Diehr,
says she's good for ten or twelve years more
service" replied The Little Fellow" And
in q moment he added: You can't kill this
old gal-she's got a lot of kick in her yet.
She's q proud old engine-too proud TO
iie.''
The little engineer climbed down from
the cab and told Us how the '.999''-or the
'10s6' ~ GOES singing on her way every day.
taking the ups and downs of life with the
same spirit she possessed in the days Of
her youth. Once in a while she may falter,
but always the ''10s6" delivers her passen-
gers at the other end of the line.
Has she figured in any bad wrecks or
smashups? Has she killed anybody since
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12

teen horizontal stripes, alternate red and
white; that the union have twenty stars.
white in blue field, and that on the ad-
mission Of every new State into the Union.
one star be added to the union Of the flag I:
and that such addition shall take effect on
the Fourth of July succeeding such admis-
SION
By this act Congress went to the oppo-
site extreme, giving infinite latitude in the
star arrangement-even more than that i'm
piled BY representing a new constellation
in the original resolution adopting the flag.
The admission. within three years from
the final Flag Act Of Congress, of Illinois,
Alabama, Maine and Missouri, proved the
decision to have been justified, for those
four stars would have broken up Captain
Reds design. Then it was fifteen years be-
fore another State came in but in the four
teen years following that, seven-Arkansas,
Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin
and California-were added. After another
lull OF eight years, seven more-Minnesota,
Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada,
Nebraska and Colorado-followed one an
other. Colorado was called "the Centen.
nial State" because it was admitted in 1875.
There were now, at the end of the first hun.
dred years of our history. thirty eight States
in the Union.
1t was because there were 20 many star
circle hsgs on the Northern side in the Civil
War that the Confederates were forced to
withdraw their first ensign, which they had
made like Washington, some having thir-
teen stars in a ring; for this they substi-
tuted "the Southern Cross" as a battle flag
because. in the smoke Of action. the North.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12

ern and Southern star-cireles could not cas-
ily be distinguished.
Although uniformity in the star arrange
ment had been avoided rather than cuiti-
vated, the making Of Gags By machinery
them equally spaced and In straight rows,
level with the stripes Of the largest hass.
yet one made for the Centennial Exposition,
and still exhibited in sPhiiadelphis. shows q
large circle With stars grouped inside and
others scattered outside Of II.
EvOR thirteen years after the Centennial
i not q star was added to the canton Of the
flag, then six new States-Sorh and South
Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho and
wyoming--were admitted In 1889 and 1890.
Six years later Utah came in after q long
delay because Of polygamy In that territory.
and eleven years after that Oklahoma was
admitted to statehood. In 1912. BY the sd-
mission Of New Mexico and Arizona, the
number of stars was increased to forty eight
-set In rows Of eight stars each and fllins
the blue 6eld 20 that not another star can
be added without q radical change IN The
grouping.
As the SIZE, shape ana proportions OF tne
canton have been hIed By orders from
the War and Navy Departments. the addi-
ton Of another row in the union would mean
the making Of the stars still smaller. II
this were done they would soon lose their
strength and character. As with the stripes.
IL their number had been increased to forty
eight Since this limitation has been an
ticipated for generations, hundreds Of de-
signs have been sent in to obviste the din
Guilty which reached the crisis in 1912. Many
so-calied solutions are fantastic reminders
Of the rattlesnake Gags before the Revolu-
ton. Others have been more reasonable,
but they would have been practicable only
for a short period. One method was known
as staggering" the stars-placing them zig
zas instead of in straight rows as now
but this seemed TO the authorities neither