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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
HAWAII INAUGURATES
RADIO INSTRUCTION

HONOLULU. Aug. I0.-U y. 81
Plans for the Inauguration Of rural
education in Hawaii by radio tele-
phone have beeH announced by
Vaughan MacCaughey. superintendent
OF public instruction at Honolulu.
sdperintendeHt MacCaughey's plans
call for the installation Of standard
radio receiving sets in all rural
schools. which at nut viii be used
primarily to enable both school chill
dreu and adults Of the community 10
listen in on the regular broadcast
ing OF musical and other entertain
ment numbers from Honolulu. work
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
Traffic Xiolators Fincd

There's a new city traffic officer on
TIE job, and motorists can take the
word of II drivers of cars who nave
been fined within the past two days to
be careful about observing regula-
tions. The following is the list OF
names of those who have paid nominal
fines in city police court during the
past 4S hours George West, F. M
Franklin, Lester Howard, PAU
Brandt, Roy Alexander, I. L. Hagen
M. F. Coons, Will Pedro. \. E. Nc
Dermott, S. e. Powers and Carl Per
ringer.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
To Live On Wild Horse.

Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Estes, parents of
j. III. Estes, have moved from Port
land to place out on Wild Horse
canyon where they will make their
residence in the future. They expect
to be in the poultry business and pos
sibly will raise a few hogs. The
change has been made on the recon-
mendation of Mrs. Estes physician.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
viii Enter Academy.

Francis Arthur Greulich, son Of
John f. Greulich of Pendleton is plan
ming to enter Hill Military Academy
in the fall semester when school
opens, September 13. Several Pendle-
ton boys have made good records at
the academy in Portland.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
Funeral to he Held.

The funeral of the late w. e.
(Dad) Brown will be held at p. m.
tomorrow from the Brown & Brady
chapel. 1t will be under the auspices
of the Christian Science church. j..
S. Beckwith, by whom the late Mr..
Brown was employed, returned home
this morning and is making the flu
neral arrangements.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
Seattle Chamber PLANS Trip.

There is a probability that the Sc
lattle Chamber of Commerce will have
special car representing that city to
Iattend the Pendleton Roundup, ac-
cording to letter which the Pendle-
lton Commercial association mas re-
ceived. Plans are now being made
with this object in view.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
Send More PoIes-scharpf.,

A call for more fishing poles and
some other equipment which he
needs for surf fishing has been sent
from the coast by l.. c. Scharpf in
a letter which has been received from
Scharpf at the American National
bank. The local sportsman is 60
ing after salmon while he is at the
beach. The weather there is cool,
he declares in his letter.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
Mrs. Harper Employed.

Mrs. Glare Harper, formerly en-
ployed as masseuse at Hot Lake sani-
terium, Is q new employe at Miss
Kathryn Boone's Beauty Parlor in
the Judd building. Mrs. Harper was
in charge of the bath house at Hot
Lake for four years.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

August 2s to s9-Northwest
conference of the Methodist
Church at Milton.
) September Is to 23-Second
Annual Northwest Grain and
; Hay Show.
September 81. 22. %. aound,
} Up.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
Band to Play.

The Pendleton Band will appear at
Pioneer Park this evening in their
regular weekly rehearsal to which
the public is invited. In order to
clear up a misunderstanding regard
ing the appearance, A. w. Lundell, di-
rector, states that the appearances in
the park are not concerts and the
band is not paid for them.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
Changes Hobs.

@. F. "Chick" Hastings, assistant
secretary of the Elks, has resigned his
position and has accepted a place at
Alexanders. He is in the credit de-
partment of the big store.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
OTHER NEWS Or THIS
DEPARTMENT ON PAGE 5
Card of Thanks

Card of Thanks
We wish to express our sincere
greatfulness to our many kind friends
and neighbors and to the fraternal or
ganizations( for their many acts of
kindness during the Bereavement and
loss of our husband and father.
MRS. ED. MORGAN
AND FAMILY.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
Alarm was False

The burglar alarm at the American
National bank was sounded this morn
ing when a lock mechanic accident
ally touched the insulated plates on
the vault door with pair of tweez-
IerS
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
Get Marriage License

A license to we'd has been issued at
the office of the county clerk to Lloyd
G.. Scott, barber, and Alma Gettmon,
both of Pendleton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
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To Have Meet.

Long Creek is to have a big race
meet September IL, II and l3. Relay
races will be a feature. The prizes
total $1,000.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10
NezUs Notes of Pendleton

continue in the fruit game. The name
of the boy was not divulged by Chief
Taylor.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-10

saddle destined for the winner of tne
roping.
The New York herald., 1922-07-09

this group have a fine opinion Of
white men, and better one even,
OF Americans. Maybe it's because
they don't see too many Of them, or
maybe it's because the Bible was
brought to them by American mis-
sionaries.
Anyway. the old chief simply took
Il for granted that you would know
the Bible as well as they do II not
better. So out Of courtesy he asked
me to ask you to Fecite q bit of
Scripture while he followed the text
In his own language. What was I
to say? It wouldn't have done to
tell them the truth. They would
have lost all respect for you II I
bad. You may want to come back
here some day. and in that case
You see? You'll have some standing,
Intellectually / mean"
] forgave Willie, but 1 doubt
whether would ever be forgiven by
the Reka Rekans If they knew
Later, as silent apology to them,
I read all of Leviticus, and was
interested to learn that the fourth
chapter is concerned with the sac
rificial offerings to be made by those
who have committed sins Of ignor-
ance.
All Of this could have happened
only in the South Seas Of course.
As the French, who own the island.
say. "Dans rOceanie on fait son
impossible"
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might have thought that she was
half asleep. but every now and then
she would say 'Tera!" (There!) }
sharply, noting an error in the re-
citai before the chief himself had
marked It. ! was beginning ITO
wonder how many chapters there
were in Leviticus when there was
moments respite. Green drinking
cocoanuts were brought for refresh
ment, the children running up the
trees like monkeys on a stick and
dropping the fresh nuts all around
Us. I was watching with some
anxiety two boys who were having
game Of tag around the trunk of
tree. about forty feet above the
ground. when Willie touched my
arm.
They want you to rocite," he
said.
Not Leviticus!" said.
mo. no! OF course not. Just
some story about America You
know how these PaumQLuans are.
They have any amount of old legends
about their history and t.,ey think
we have too. It doesn't make any
difference what you say; none Of
them understand English. But re-
cite something. The chief has asked
you to. 1t viii please them and they
expect It."
knew q good deal of verse, of
one kind and another, but. as it
'sG1,ally happens on such occasions,
The New York herald., 1922-07-09

superior race, imposing in this cheap
manner upon an audience Of So
called savages. The superficial ad-
vantage was with me, but the credit
was wholly theirs. They thought
/ was telling some old tale Of my
forefathers, and although they
couldn't understand, they gave me
courteous attention. Willie didn't
mend matters any by the explana-
ton which he gave Of the nature Of
the story.
TITS all right" he said when I
had finished. You did fine and
they liked it. 1 told them it was
about a ship that had all her sails
blown away, and the sailors went
mad with thirst before they were
picked up by another vessel"
Afterward the biblical contest was
resumed, and 1t was still going on
at sundown when Willie and were
compelled to leave. We had a good
deal Of difficulty in getting the
boat through the surf but we sue
ceeded at last, and the sailors rested
on their oars while we waited for
the schooner to come up. Willie
chuckled softly to himself, and after
a moment of silence he said:
II didn't want to tell you before,
but, you see. it was Leviticus you
recited. 1t was the eleventh chapter.
The odd chief-Wait! You don't
understand! Let me explain. For
some reason or other tkcnA9ves In
The New York herald., 1922-07-09

my mind was q blank. ] couldn't
even remember the beginning Of
Paul Revere's Ride. And everything
was quiet, every one waiting ex-
pectantly. Then as luck would have
it, I recalled the first stanza Of a
ballad which was legendary enough,
and having come to the surface Of
consciousness it refused to submerge
again. 1t was q shameful thing
to do, on such an occasion, but be-
ing hard pressed 1 was forced to
stand and tell the dignified assembly
that.
A capital ship for an ocean trip
Was the walloping window blind.
No wind that blew dismayed the crew
Or troubled the captains mind.
The man at the wheel was made to feel
Contempt for the widest blow;
And 1t often appeared when the
weather had cleared
That he'd been in his bunk below.
The Immortal Ballad.
Having Cotton a fair start, verse
after verse Of this immortal ballad
came to mind, and I recited without
a halt to the end. The Reka
Rekans seemed pleased. ] noticed,
however, that the old chiefs mind
was still on the Scripture contest,
for he continued reading his Bible
But even he looked up from time
to time and nodded encouragingly.
For all that, felt. as I gay, thor
oughly ashamed of myself. There
was !. a member Of a presumably
The New York herald., 1922-07-09
Peter B. Kyne.

q Jolly slkirmish over the compro-
mise.
with my job and one-third Of the
city gone, decided to go into busi-
ness for myself. So / deserted from
the militia because they wouldn't
discharge me. Not having one nickel
to rub against the other, borrowed
$3.50, rented a little store in a tenn
porary shack on the San Francisco
water front for 3125 month, hired
The New York herald., 1922-07-09
Literary Venturers Of the Day

wild impulse. Everybody had those
wild impulses after the great dis
aster. Mining camp stuff! Three
months after I had started that busi-
ness I hated it and hoped it would
burn up so I could get the insurance,
pay my bills and quit. But ! was
crippled with rheumatism and
couldn't work for anybody else, SO
/ had to stick. AS soon as / was
able to walk, however, I went back
into the lumber and shipping busi-
ness and let my manager run the
store, until one day a strange man
came and pasted notice in my win
dow and started sorting my socks
and neckties and counting them with
q view to ascertaining assets. If +
hadn't forgotten that mans name
I'd dedicate book to him. I could
do this with good grace. because
some years later I wrote a lot of
short stories and paid for that fail.
"a Y a. thC ldtS VI 1uV CtIilS Oh tuS-
dollar.
Shortly after my disaster in Yid-
dish hardware I got few dollars
together, quite my job in the lumber
and shipping business, spread forty
dollars worth of gold lettering on two
neat offices in California street and
cot puuca1f nm &c n I,,pnIoo~ A~olyo~.
My beer and skittles days were. over;
I was 28 years old and something
had to be done about it. How
worked! And how l worried trying
to do business on nerve and jawbone!
did it, too. / was making the
grade nicely when 1 couldn't resist
the opportunity to take a little flier
for big profit. So took it, and
nursed it, and was feeling very happy
until got chopped down with pnen-
monia in the midst of the deal
whereupon, like Cardinal Wolsey, I
cried FAREWELL a long farewell to
all my greatness! Two months later
/ returned to my offices to pay the
rent, sell my furniture, scrape the
gold lettering off the windows and the
black lettering off the doors. Then,
like the romantic Arab, L silently
faded away I had resigned my job
and made a splurge 'on my own in
California street, and while scarcely
anybody knew anything about it
was young enough to think they did
And / was too proud to accept the
good jobs that were offered me;
was sore from soul to suspenders
and my bruised spirit sought sur
cease from woe by reviving an old
boyhood ambition, to wit, authorship
There had never been any authors
in our tribe, there had never been
been any business men. I had tried
soldering and business, SO why not
try writing?
II was still Ill. had tempera-
ture. Perhaps was excited. At any
rate I went home and, using an in
cident that had come under my no.
tice in the shipping business, wrote
my first short story and called it "A
Little Matter of Salvage
II enjoyed writing it; to me 1t was
almost real. But when had typed
it knew it was failure, because I
was a failure and nothing profitable
could come out of my crazy head. So
tucked it away and took job as
assistant business manager to syn
dicate Of halfwits who purposed es-
fronfinued nm EnLaaf,ian P00e
The New York herald., 1922-07-09

write the boss and tell him my in
tentions. He was so irritated about
it that have never been able to rid
myself Of the impression that. despite
his reticence on the subject, he really
valued my services.
From that day to the present I
have never held myself cheap. For
my labor or the product of my labor
/ have always demanded more than
I thought it was worth, and fire.
Quently 1 have gotten it or enjoyed
The New York herald., 1922-07-09

a manager at 800 a month, wired
the store, papered it, built show
window and wooden fixtures, put in
a meager stock of mems furnishing
goods and was my own man. This
is the Arabian Nights period of my
life, and do not like to write about
it. L stocked that store on jaw
bone as we say in the army. / was
absolutely unknown, yet performed
that miracle! The reason? Well,
San Francisco is just - San Fran
The New York herald., 1922-07-09

for me. Somewhere In those amolder-
ing ruins lay q better job and
broader future, and one day when /
rode up to the pile of brick that had
been our office building and saw the
manager and the boss son throwing
hot rocks OF the safe in order to
get at that accursed ledger and re-
sumo business-well, / laughed and
rode away. And I never went back,
although I did have the decency to
The New York herald., 1922-07-09

me-" Let Mr.. Kyne> tell his own
story:
II was q private In troop Of
militia cavalry when the fire and
earthquake destroyed a third Of my
native city. In the afternoon of that
memorable day managed to locate
my troop and reported for duty po-
Icing the city. With a gun at my
hip and good horse under me, there
came over me a feeling that I was
free at last. No more double entry
The New York herald., 1922-07-09

cisco. and q very tender, tolerant,
whole-hearted San Francisco she
was in those days of terror and mis-
fortune.
II lasted twenty-three months.
think might have lasted longer,
but / didn't want to. I had an idea
that all the money I found in the
cash register was profit, and spent
it accordingly. That business was
side issue, anyhow-the result Of a
The New York herald., 1922-07-09
v. PETER B. KYNE.

I'm HERE must be something |
vitalizing about the air of
California, for the energy,
mental and physical. of the native
son" Is beyond question. The State
has produced astonishing tennis
players, who. however. are inclined
to burn out" quickly; fine crews,
formidable football teams and track
and field organizations that in the
last two years have proved little
too good for the best among the
Eastern colleges. The athletic
prowess Of the Californians has been
attributed to climate that permits
a continuity of development inde-
pendent of season. But that win not
serve to explain the particular men,
tai alertness OF the Californian.
In literature and journalism the
Californian has been especially con-
spicuous. A very large percentage
of the magazine policies of the coun-
try are dictated by Californians. In
thinking of the States contribution
TO American fiction a score of men
and women, either Californian by
birth or by virtue of long residence,
leap to mind: Gertrude Atherton.
Wallace Irwin and Will Irwin, Harry
Leon Wilson, Stewart Edward White,
Lloyd Osbourne, Gelett Burgess,
Frederick O'Brien, Kathleen Norris
and Charles Norris. George Kibbe
Turner. Gerald Beaumont, Grace
MacGowan Cooke and the subject of
the present sketch, Peter B. Kyne,
who well qualities as one of the Lit
erary venturers of the Day.
Perhaps Kyne has not had quite
80 many varied occupations in the
course Of his life as Frederick
O'Brien and Harry A. Franck, who
preceded him in this series. But he
has had enough. and with his un-
abated activity who can say what
the future has in store? Once he
was even a business man. His own
way of putting it is that he was the
worst business man that the State
of California ever produced, but il
pressed on the subject he may admit
that he did not take In enough terri
tory. TO be brief, at the age, of Is
or less he left school because the
same one room schoolhouse could
net contain him and algebra at the
same time. At 16 he accepted" a
position in general merchandise
store. working from o'clock in the
morning till at night for $40
month and Found"
Then came the Spanish American
war. Kyne enlisted as a private in
q regular infantry regiment. In that
capacity he served for a year in the
Philippines. Then he returned to
California and was sent to business
college. After six months there, DUR
ing which he acquired a smattering
of double entry bookkeeping and an
acquaintance with stenography and
typewriting, he found a position in a
wholesale provision house that paid
him 81 week. From there he went
fo work for $50 month in whole
sale lumber and shipping Office. At
the end of six years. he says. II was
worth $3.50 month, but was receiv-
ing only ninety, which discouraged
The New York herald., 1922-07-09
Eleventh Chapter
of LeviticuS
Continued from Preceding Page.

you mind if they go on with the
speaking?"
Mind" said. please tell him
I should like nothing better"
.T have told him already. It's a
contest they are having, the three
best men on the island. They are
in Leviticus now but they've come
all the way from Exodus since the
morning. Man! They re fair
marvels at it,"
A Musical Flow of Words.
i understood nothing Of the
language then, but I enjoyed listen
ing to the musical flow Of words.
One after the other, the three men
recited from memory, chapter after
chapter, the old chief, with a well
thumbed copy of a Tahitian Bible
on his lap. checking the mistakes
BY his side were three naf shells
of cocoanuts, and when a contestant
made an error pebble was- dropped
into his shell. There wos an old
grandmother sitting near me, making
cats cradles with q piece Of string
setched around her hande.s. -
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Continued on Following Page.
The New York herald., 1922-07-09

F." HERE must be something
vitalizing about the air of
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-09-18
New Airplane Camera
Surveys Great Areas
Hitherto Inaccessible

CHICAGO. Sept, IS Photo
graphic maps taken by a new cam
era used in airplanes make possible
the surveying In few hours OF vas,
areas hitherto inaccessible. accord
ing to J. NJ. Mercer. editor for the
western society OF engineers.
This camera. Mercer asserted. was
developed by Mai. James W. Bagley
because experiments made immedi-
ately after the world war showed In
accuracies In the method OF aerial
photography. The camera has three
lenses and a Photographic transform
er by means OF which Photographic
maps can be made which will be "cx-
ceedIngly accurate" stated Mercer,
Recently an aerial survey was
made OF the city OF New York." Mer-
GER continued. "for use In connection
with the location OF certain import
ant railroad and tunnel properties.
The same maps were used by the zon-
Ing commission. and for such work
they are invaluable.
During the war, our air forces
were an indispensable means OF OBJ
tanning maps showing the most com
plete detail o. enemy operations. The
lessons iearnad In wartime are being
put, to good. d.Hses. a
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-09-18
l5rlolASnss'
.EnJ

PesGy Joyce said she was in the
west for hard work. She kissed
Charley Chaplin the other day.,
ay ~ ~. .s..-
Boston man broke his leg In an
empty coal bin. Another evil result
effthe coal strike. i8s4 oN q :
One man carries $500. 600 insur.
anee aud 80 others . million. They
eiatter themsclves.
In Hasrah. Okis.. eitiseas Kick be.
cassc alse O'Clock curfcw wakes
Fthess W and that's tho srSth. "a
sPhilsdeiphia caught robbcr steal.
Ing kisses. rhcy say he had some
worth two aud three ice cream sodas.
Crasshoppers are bad In Alberta.
Cspads. II may boost the price Of
Alberta pcsches, ,,a
had to chloroform New
York waitress 10 close her mouth.
This. however. In nothing now. =
Sociosy 10 exterminate cats is,
stAsted. II could ss doae by teach
Ip6 doss 70 cltnt trees. sii fs- ,ss
statue ee Miles stsndIsh so,s tn
Mad kn6eted of BY ushtniig. Nay
Aa~> 49, ~ A. hs.- >h~..s sa~A~>.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1922-09-18
Americas Ex.Service Men
Best Treated of Any
i'm World
Republican Administration Spends More
for World War Veterans Than for
ANY Item Except the Public
Debt
4. a. REPRESENTATIVES, cart W. RipOiCk
(MONrN>N, MEMBER NOCsE COMMITTEES
ON NGktCtIrtkE

/ Veterans Bureau, The number Ot beds
in these hospitals taken over by the
Veterans Bureau h In excess OF Is
600.
There were many ex'Service men
llving In remote sections OF the coun'
try who We're not aware OF the bcnc'
tits they could receive and should be
receiving from the government under
the Veterans Bureau. In order that
no worthy ex.service man entitled to
benefits OF any kind n,isht he neglect
ed, the Veterans Bureau conducted a
drive in which over i,5.o0o eSservicc
men were interviewed and 10000 new
claims were alcd and handled as a
result.
As a result o. this tremendous pro.
gram Of Federal aid to exseryice men,
all Of which has been put into efrec,
by the Republican Party and the
money for which has been appropri'
a,ed by . Republican Congress. the
following sunmariza,ion may be
given:
(D Over 100000 exserviee men
have received hospital treatment: 90
900 ex.servicc mca are, now receivinr
treatment in hospitals: over 100000
ex.scrvice men have been called for
examination in order TO ascertain u
thes should receive hospital or med
icAl treatment.
(s) over 10000 ex-ser,ice men
have entered vocational training and
10000 more have been Ieelared ehgl
bic for vocational training.
(3 Compensation for disabled eN'
service men or their depend'nts g.
being paid out a, q rate In excess OF
sl.ooo.00o In cash every day, includ.
ing sundays.
CO. over $4,000 medical EXAMINATIONS
are being made free every month in
order to ascertain the physical and
mental treatments needed by afflicted
exserviee men.
(5) over 1000 new claims are being
handled every day by the Veterans
Bureau and all work In that bureau ls
practically current and belng conduct
ed at minimum loss OF time and
minimum expense both 10 the govern.
ment and to the exservice man con
cerned.
co. An Insurance business Tor over
100000 ex+erylee men Is. being con
Quoted by the government. without
any cost OF naturalization 10 exserv.
ice men. AT premium rs'es, Tar below
thor private companies charge for
Ike policies.