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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-01
2S YEARS AGO
(From the Daily East Oregonian
August 1894

(From the Daily East Oregonian
August /. 1S94.)
Nose Woodward is cutting anc
thrashing at the rate of SO bushels
| per acre.
Tracy Inman is again with the w
& G. II. railroad.
| Robert Coppock is thrashing his
wheat ana has a yield of SO bushels
per acre.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. A. Newman and
sons Ralph, Bob and Fred have gone
to Desolation Lake for two weeks
A. p. Bradbury, well known travel
ing man, representing the Oregon
Cracker company is again in the city.
The front wheel of Ralph F'olsom's s
bicycle was completely wrecked in q
collision yesterday.
+. +. Wamsley and e. J. Murphy
have been elected delegates from the
Pendleton fire department to the
Walla Walla firemen's convention.
Word has been received from ]. W.
they are enjoying fine hunting and
fishing on their trip through the Cas-
cade mountains to Salem.
Directors elected last evening to
represent the Oregon Building and
Loan association for the ensueing
term were as follows: j. NJ. Preuett,
II. Alexander C. S. Jackson, T. G..
Haley, Max Baer, John Seibert, c. j.
Smith, Jesse Failing, C. w. Brown
field; for auditors, j. M. Watson, c.
p. Davis and F. e. Mitchell
Peter Parmentier estimates that
there are $500 glasses of beer served
in Pendletou daily. He arrives at his
figures as follows. That including
two breweries there are is saloons i'll
the city selling beer. They will aver
age about 200 drinks daily each. This
estimate is based upon a normal day
as Mr.. Parmentier states that he has
sold as high as 1000 drinks of beer
over his own bar on the Fourth of
July. Other saldon men have done
similar. as it requires at least 10, 900
drings of logger beer to quench the
fires of patriotism Last summer
there We're consumed in Pendleton %
cars of beer. This would amount to
about 1900 barrels or $500 gallons.
Each gallon averages 16 drinks as
they run larger of smaller. Or to-
tai during the summer of 1898 or L.
SSl,2O0 drinks. This allows 333 drinks
FOR each man woman and child on a
basis of a population of 1000. 1t will
be safe to say that only 1000 persons
residents and trannsients are inbebed
so that they must have swallowed an
average of 1880 glasses of beer each
then in addition to all the wine and
other liquors and one is set to Won
dering how there were any sober men
at any time among those whose may
be classed as drinkers. Others must
have attained pretty closce to the dis
tinction of absorbing of from 5000 to
5000 each, while an illustriOus few
got away with nearly 10000.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-01
OBLIGED TIE EMS

ElNSTON. n. c., Aug. i.-(U. Pl
Umpire Rube Brandon. veteran
baseball player, held up a game be-
tween the Kinston Bandits and New
Bern club Of the Eastern Carolina
league three minutes SO the fans could
witness fight. Two bleaoherites
stood up TO settle personal differ
cnce. Brandon, who had just given
tho word to play ball, called time.
The affray was over when the police
arrived. the s.500 fans were satisfied.
and the ohliging Brandon yelled to
the players to "get busy"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-01

Pleasant his smile and meek his way
The same tomorrow as today,
Living this life, its joy and smart,
Yet shirking dutys sterner part;
friend to all he walked along,
But friendly both to right and wrong
Who never braves the cynic's sneer
Nor wins the sinful braggert's jeer,
But seeks through life's long years to
go
Free from the malice of foe,
Buries his talents in the earth
With nothing done to prove his worth.
Better to fight and fall than stay
Upon life's side-lines day by day;
BETTER the jeers than smiles of those
Who should be looked upon as foes,
For friendship has no value when
II makes no choice twixt knayes and
men.
Edgar A Guest)
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-01
TOO FRI IsNDLY

He never caused a man to sneer,
Was never taunted by jeer,
Had never battled with u foe;
But through the years that come ant
go,
lie smiled his easy way along
And played the friend TO right OF
wrong.
lie never ventured night or day
Out Of the well-worn trodden way,
He never pried adventures lid,
He voted as his father did;
But when an argument arose
He sided both with friends and foes.
lie talked as one who loved the right,
But he was never known to fight;
Fearing the hate Of men, he stayed
Holding opinions but afraid
To give them voice. In moments tense
Ills silence gave no man offense.
4 (('DnVftubt IA,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-01
HOTEL DORION
To Those Who Are Interested
in "The Old Oregon Trail"

llonoring the memory Of the true
and only heroine OF the Hunt ENpe-
ditiou, namely "DORION," the Indi-
an woman. whose fortitudc and cour-
age was prc-eminent In that pcrilous
journey across the continent - - -- b..
I have this date. August the first.
1879, changed the name Of my re-
Icentiy ncquired hotel. formerly the
st. George 10 the namo OF Dorion.
hope Il will meet with the ap-
prOval OF an who are interested in
the Old Oregon Trail and viii be a
monument % the memory OF the
courageous Indian woman
u viii b. my aim 70 keep the In
stitution's name uufarnishei and its
environments clean and wholesome.
Ncry truly yours.
l. L. TEMPLE.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-01
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New-York tribune., 1922-09-28
Miller---As He Is Seen by Root
HE Has Perfect Courage. He Never Talks
for the Galleries and He Commands Belief,

Governr Miller the public He
have to depend the or any
interested in the states transactions Of the
ana politics
It's farm life and its city fe
ana aert
temat study of difficult do
work He always knws where to command tho
fdnce which the
with which he to DEAL " '
mas perfect
De Keyed up by eXciment
overcoming but the habitual
leads to do his without thinking
~ MN ne not only conserate and fair
omcla duties sincerity
convection that they
ee from th OF temper which the
Whh suspicion
nau to courage He simple speech without aun,iv
ne never talks for the galleries And belief s has
ABOUT de Is not playing the in order to b
IA hn =; 70 De reelected Governor He is simply doing wha
ne hnks Is peonls
ne ana not seek the office sought him He a 40.
oMce nowit seeking
New-York tribune., 1922-09-28
Harding As He Is Seen by Root
Under Ills Benign Influence Autocracv Dis
appeared From the Government of America

r harding put an end to refusing an autocra+
~ rs' place he selected Cabinet of
aDinet lar ABOVE the
u' MN men who themselves
"ece ana respect He he
was siao TO get It, He afraid uo,d
m the truth as matter
ionI oy IT, tie
o'es as he do we'll his duty part of that o
ooserVan of the limitations ha1
~ am sure we all believe,
free ~ ~ fA'0eAS@'ioh Oh our
m lie exercised the full function incident 70 his
0' "ie ne expressed formally
1a ~ sioh nus opinions pocy while ha s
'ose opihlons in his conduct he
'ne oihca powers of others to compuon t.4 W
de was strong md persistent in carr,a
- N'es ne though WISE but he nota
1 , h vice hateful whether public or in nrvata 1;e
decide ~ ANYBODY consider everybody view and +ben
,seii ano when he had decided nfexible ~
men and private citizens SMALL rich and noo 10
always py genuine good
long ~ ~ ~NS ohe 10 initiate successfully very
iHe PRESIDENCY of the United powerr ~
a mas adjust itself degree the prssaar
y uoAg business With that readiustroant
s" aaoehce OF President e
- eiio@ -f rom Eihn Roots keynote Alhary
New-York tribune., 1922-09-28
Steps to Relieve
Hart>Sr Situation

For many years We have been
grumbling and seeking remedies for
the enormous port and terminal
charges In the Harbor of New York,
which are an intolerable burden upon
the farms and upon the consumers
OF the state. For long time the
waterfront Of New York had been
held in private ownership and fault
was found with the wharfage charges.
Then in order to relieve commerce
the city acquired the ownership of
the waterfront. The result Of that
effort Is that the dock property be-
longing to the City of New York is
valued at 100000, and it is
credibly asserted that the city leases
Its docks at low or nominal rates to
favored individuals and corporations
and the lessees get the profits from
charges which make the cost of
docking in New York the highest in
the world. This appears by testi-
mlony taken under oath before joint
Legislative committee which reported
on the 30th Of January, 1922. The
report enumerates twenty-four city
piers leased by the city for S1,494,-
W and sublet by the lessees for
$5,6S5,oo0, an advance of s4,190,283,
and profit of over 2S0 per cent.
l will quote paragraph from the
committees report illustrating the
way In which this was done:
"The Maritime Shipping Company,
concern without capital, not mari
tlme' and owning no ships, occupied
Pler ", at the foot Of East Twenty
fourth Street, from September /
1919, to November ID, 1920, at an
annual rental of $4,000, and rented
berthing privileges at a net annual
profit Of $61 900 over the rent paid.
"Sabbatino g. Co., a concern COM
posed OF a young saloon keeper's
helper, who was later interested in
small moving picture house, and
ships clerk without capital, and
not engaged in shipping, received
from the Dock Department large
number of berthing permits between
June Z, 1918, and September %, 1921.
which they sublet to ships entering
the port. While their records were
destroyed or suppressed, numerous
cases of such rentals showing
profit Of from &C to 400 per cent
over the amount paid the Dock De-
partment We're established. Thew
were permitted credit account with
the Dock Department, and depositod
during this period over million
dollars in bank.
Little or no effort has been made
by the city to limit or restrict
wharfage charges by lessees or per-
mittees."
One special way of distributing the
moneys exacted from commerce for
the use of these docks is reported bv
the committee. 1t is by forcing the
policing Of the docks into the hands
of private agencies whose service was
q charge upon the commerce using
the docks. Under this system the
official figures show there were en-
ployed in policing the docks of New
York in the year 1920-12,OO0 men
at a cost of $35.S5o, ,O00-more men
and at a higher cost than in the en-
tire public police force of New York
with its six million inhabitants.
These things illustrate the reason
why it costs more to get barrel of
apples from the waterfront of New
York to the grocer than it does from
Niagara County, four hundred miles
away, to the New York waterfront.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-28

These things illustrate one reason
why the farmer gets lew prices for
his products and the city consumer
pays high prices for his food, and
the profit leaks out somewhere be-
tween the two. We have long known
and felt this evil, but every remedy
proposed has been strangled by
some other proposal and nothing has
been done. Now something effec-
tive is being done. That decision
of character which marks the nat
ural executive has been brought to
bear upon the situation. Three things
are being done: First, the canal
terminals. Second, the tunnel un-
der the Hudson for vehicles and foot
passengers to relieve the congestion
of freight and make the use of tho
city docks to that extent unnecessary.
This is to cost s29,00O,0O0, and is to
be paid in equal parts by the states
of New Jersey and New York; and
our State Legislature has already
appropriated $40 100000 of the S14,-
100000 required. These appropria-
tions were part of the reduced econ
omy budgets that I have been speak
ing of. The reduction could have
been made larger by the omission Of
cheoO iIeHls, una thaC would doubt
less have been done had the policy
followed been merely to acquire
credit for economy. But wise policy
for the state demanded the expendi-
ture and it is being made. More
than four-fifths of the state lies
west Of tho Hudson River. Thou
sands Of miles of territory naturally
tributary to the Port of New York
lie west of the Hudson River. Inex-
pensive access to that great market
AFFECTS every farm in the great
region which feeds the city millions.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-28
Public Economy Replaces
Period of Extrouago,,ct

During the same period the popula-
ton OF the state Increased less than
ID per cent, from 9,113,6l4 under the
census of 1910 to 10,384,S29 under
the census of 1920. We were increas.
ing our expenditure more than six.
teen times as rapidly as we were in
creasing our population.
Nor does this tell the whole story.
SO strongly was the current of lavish
expenditure running that the official
budget requests for appropriations
which confronted the Legislature of
1921 amounted to $2o1, ,644, ,2e2. .43, and
to these were to be added necessary
appropriations, chiefly for debt serv-
ice not included in the budget.
amounting TO s4,621 ,545.6I, making
grand total which that Legislature
was expected TO appropriate Of $780,
2o5,s3S.04, an increase over the an
propriationS Of 1920, of S61 ,045 1921 "A.
AT the time, when the pressure of
ITS enoJmous war debt obliged the
Feaeral government to tax the peo-
Pie OF the country to the limit, our
state government was obliged to
range over the same field for sub
2ects of new and additional taxation
10 meet its enormous and steadily in
creas1llg expenditures. Everybody
could see that this process could not
go on, yet no one seemed able TO
stop it. To stop such a PROCESS is
not easy. Nothing is more difficult
and painful than contraction. Every
body who enjoys the furtherauce of
has own projects or his own profits
by the extravaganza of government
wishes the contraction to be applied
somewhere else. Every appropriation
refused and every cut in the pay roll
New-York tribune., 1922-09-28
appropriations i'm City
Mount in Meantime

With these qualities, Governor
Miller, with his loyal co-adjutors,
has stopped the growth of expense
In the state government. He has
turned the tide. He has changed the
tone of government. He has given
leadership to the men in the legis-
lative and executive departments who
mad been struggling vainly against
the current of extravaganza. They
have increased the efficiency of the
executive force by decreasing the
pay roll nearly 10 per cent. Instead
OF increased appropriations there
nave been decreased appropriations.
Inc Legislature of 1921, instead of
increasing appropriations sci 900 900
above those of 1920, as the budget
demanded, reduced appropriations to
1888, 81 ,2S3.66, a decrease of S9.467,-
622.s4 from the approximations of
1870, and cut of over 10000 .0Go
from the budget demands with which
they Notwithstanding the
fact that deficiency appropriation
of S10,476,773.57 had to be made for
expenditures authorized. but not COW
cred by the 1920 appropriation of
sl45,o00,000 That meant a reduc-
tlon of expense OF government of
over S1S,000,000. The new spirit
created by this right about face of
the state government appeared when
the budget demands of 1922 came in
at S145,019, ,665.0S, less than the de-
mands of 1921 by s62,372172.
Upon this budget the appropriations
of 1922 we're held down to sI33,147,-
s07.34, decrease from the 1920 ap-
preparations of s12,072, ,0S9.26, and
about the same amount less than the
budget demands.
That this change was not due to
some accidental circumstance is ap-
parent from the fact that in the same
period the appropriations of the City
of New York, under that political
control which is now seeking to sub
stitufe a man of their own choice in
the Governors chair, increased
from .........s263,475,32s.7s in 1920
to ............ 334,543,75657 in 1922
An increase of. 71,0s8, ,42T.g1
In this same period the direct tax
New-York tribune., 1922-09-28

develops the surplus power Of the
water required by IL for canal pur-
poses; and laws under which private
owners may develop their own water
power and manufacture electricity,
subject, nevertheless, to the super
vision and control of the government
OF the state, both rs to the distribu-
tion Of the electricity and the charges
to be made for 1t. A million dollars
has already been appropriated under
the first head, and more than score
of licenses have already been applied
for under the second Great wars
have been fought and great countries
have been conquered for the acquisj-
tion of less wealth than la assured to
the people Of the state by the ending
OF the proAigatc indecisson under
which we have suffered for all these
years Of wasted waterpower.
am not seeking TO enumerate the
things this state administration has
done, but rather to illustrate its
same capacity has been exhibited in
construction work. with economy Of
expenditure. The support of univer-
sal public education has been con-
tinued with enlarged liberality. The
construction Of good roads has been
doubled. The maintenance of good
roads already constructed has been
systematized and made effective.
Rapid transit problems have been
solved. Disabled soldiers have been
cared for. The workmen's compen-
sation law has been made doubly
effective by making the compensa-
tion promptly available. Practical
and broad minded welfare legislation
has been enacted, notably the es-
tablishment Of children's courts and
child welfare boards. Full compen-
sation has been provided for farm
animals destroyed because dangerous
to health. Public health service has
been brought to condition of high
est efficiency, with the mortality
rate at the lowest point-12.2 per
thousand-and with 2,313 fewer
babies, less than year old, dead IN
1922 than in the preceding year.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-28
Coercion in Strikes
Not To Be T0IeF6fea

need not dwell upon the reve,ss
tion in administration ard iegisIs1
tion which has brought our goyela
ment from the basis Of prohigss,, =,
expenditure - the basis Of carer.
economy. The figures OF governm,ss.a.s ,s..
retrenchment already pass the nss
beyond which amounts are SO ~
that our minds become incspscls Z.
measuring them. With Andrew Ms.7
Ion holding the shield of protees.u1i
over the Treasury, and 9~ehsss. ~
Charles Dawes, with accurate snew
ledge and torrential enthesis,.r"
welding the sword of q Crusauss
multitudes of superauous empicsssrs, .r,
have crowded the roads away llyss
Washington, and the govern mssii
establishment Is resnming ITS nssu'-'
and healthy dimensions.
We are all employers and lasofSlIs "a
and the general public is APT -
impatient about strikes. So long
strikes were u contest between is1ss,
ers and employers TO secure for isyvs
Its fair share of the new wesnh
which has come to mankind fnro1sA
invent .on and discovery and the aps
pIication of science and the AZ =
organization, the sympsthies Of sss
American public were with lsps.. s.
When . strike becomes an attemps =
tcsAtInusd on Rm, passl
New-York tribune., 1922-09-28

Hudson as the old Erie Canal did
thirty years before. To the revival
of this great enterprise Governor
M;ller's administration brought the
same kind of treatment which makes
great business enterprises succeed.
The first step was to secure for the
management Of the Canal an expert
enced and competent man whose
business it was to manage transpor-
tation lines. That was done. Study
of this transportation line showed
the canal needed to be deepened for
the use of larger boats. 1t was deep
ened. 1t showed that the canal
needed to be better lighted for use at
night. 1t was better lighted. 1t
showed that the shippers of grain
elevator owners, whether directed by
railroads or otherwise. A million
dollars is being used for the con-
struction of state grain elevator in
Brooklyn for the use of shippers by
the Barge Canal, and million and Il
half dollars has been appropriated
for the Improvement Of the Harlem
River to make more safe and ready
access to the Brooklyn terminals.
The result is that the great New
York canal system, forgotten by the
business world. is beginning to come
back to its own. The traffic upon the
canal delivered to the Hudson River
rose from 2S1, 1861 tons to 1902 tons
during the year 1921, and for the first
eight months of 1922 the total canal
traffic was at the rate of 100000
tons per annun1, IN incr case of about
56 per cent. This was done with
decrease in the cost of maintenance
of the canal Of over 100000.
l have mentioned certain material
things that were done to the Barge
Canal to make it available for pres
ent-day business, hut these were
mere incidents. What that great ac-
tivity of the state needed most was q
revival of the spirit that Dewitt
Clinton had when he dug the ditch;
the kind of spirit that the great
builders of America had when they
conquered the continent for Amer
lean enterprise and American homes;
and that spirit Nathan Miller
brought to the leadership of our
state government in the resurrection
of that great public utility.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-28
Full Text Of u Roots Keynote Speech Republican State Convent

new and prosperous undcrtat;r. I
enforce the principles of f@ag y
morality in the government y, s,se,'e
state will continue with tho az. ~ ne
OF the good people Of this s.ssl sssspfoysl
will fail because the peopls ssot ot II
Indifferent 20 express their a.. s9e
at the polls, end it's sueees. ffp'evsl
ure will be felt not only in ~ -. 'ai.
ture government at Albanv tas ia-
every town and village Of IL oM hi
1t will be felt in a higher ae stass,
standard Of public morals; il u;p, iysef Z,
felt in higher or lower VIII VIII BE-
estimate. Of the value Of honser so.'efes
loyalty in public affairs 'f and
New-York tribune., 1922-09-28

This increase from s43,o74,ooo in
1911 to Sl45,219,o0o in 1920 was more
than TRIPPING the expenditures of the
state government in ten years. The
increase Of the annual appropriations
amounted to 23 per cent of the total
appropriations made in 1911.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-28
levied by the state was reduced
from .......s. .S35 ,0o6.523.91 in 1920
to ............. I9,s78,700.2s in 1929
A rednrtinn Of s1h12a.S2a.6a

A reduction OF SIT, ,I2g,SE3.b5
Mean time no floating debt was
created, no money was borrowed, no
obligations were deferred, no sink
ing fund payment was omitted, and
the surplus of money in the treas
ury of the state was increased
to .,.......... .S41,2s1 ,294.1S in 1922
from ........ 31,503, ,409.63 in 1920
New-York tribune., 1922-09-28
Miller Applauded
For His Economics
Temporary Chairman Says Great Savings
We're Effected While Vast Public En-
terprises We're Launched and
Put Into Operation

ALBANY Sept s7Folowing is the of keynote
peech opening the Republican State Convention:
New-York tribune., 1922-09-28

The total tonnage delivered to the
Hudson River from the Erie Canal
and the barge canal, which took it's
place, Tor the same years was:
1890. 1,693,12S tons
1900. 00.............. 1,099,s72 tons
1910. 0.............. 540,609 tons
1920. 0.............. 281,361 tons
The state had spent upward of
$l5o,O00,oo0 in Barge Canal con-
struction along the line of the old
Erie. The Barge Canal was opened
from Lake Erie to the Hudson in
l9l8, and in 1920 it was carrying one
sixth part as much freight to the