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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-07

Eccentricity is not crime in Con-
gress. It's something of an asset to
some men. There are men who
wear their hair long about the ears.
There are members who bring their
lunch. There are milonaires and
paupers and slim men and fat men,
tall men, short men, bald men, men
who shout, men Who whisper, men
who chew tobacco, men who firt
with the galleries, noisy men. gum
shoers, scholars, statesmen, dema-
gogues-all kinds Of men in Con-
gress, and many Of them eccentric.
But Herrick surpasses them all.
For sheer eccentricity-for capacity
to do things differently, and do diff
ferent things-Herrick is unap-
preached.
"Lonely Manuel they call him.
He's proud of his title. He has few
friends in Washington, either in or out
Of Congress. He hasn't n relative on
the face of the earth-or so he says.
Yet. week in and week out, Herrick
breaks into print about as often-or
Oftener-than any man who has come to
Congress in many years. His news
sense never fails.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-07

private beauty contest, hoping thereby
to show it was relatively easy to lure
young girls away from home.
Subsequent Developments. while re-
tlectng on his judgment and the method
employed to strengthen his case against
beauty contests. and resulting in phySi.
cal encounters and court actions. failed
to involve Herrick more seriously than
rs defendant and object of legal and
fistic attacks.
In initiating his contest, Herrick
sent letters to forty seven young women
of Washington whose names had ap-
pearcd as entrants in a beauty contest
conducted by a capital newspaper. In
his letters he declared the winner of the
"Herrick beauty contest should have
as her prize 1.-THE whole heart and whole
soul, love and hand in marriage" of II
handsome. wealthy, influential scion Of
noble family.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-07

Congressman Herrick explained the
matter to the satisfaction of the pOsta
authorities.
Later the girls who turned over the
letters to the postal officials regretted
their action, called at Hcrrick's Office
and "humbly apOlOgized. Herrick says
they tried to re.cnter the contest, but
he would not permit this.
Mary Harbaugh. one of these girls,
IN response to the Congressman re-
quest. wrote the following apology:
ITO Hon. Manuel Herrick:
IL, Miss Mary Hurbaugh. do hereby
humbly apologize for the mistake that
] made in turning letter and question
nnire over to the postal inspector.
! (Signcdl MARY HARBACGH.'
When efforts to keep the lIcrrick
beauty contest secret proved futile. the
Western Congressman decided to state
his motives. The reasons he gave for
his activities follow:
Having introduced II. II. S2OS, n
bill for the purpose of disSOciating
movie film managers and theatrical
managers and any one else further
back of them from using. proving
upon and otherwise availing them.
s'iNfS VI Tue IaclllIlcS Inut are Ut-
forded to them through obtaining the
names and addresses of young women
who participate in beauty contests
held by legitimate newspapers, and
realizing that this crowd would offer
most strenuous opposition to the ms.
sage of any such bill, | deemed it
wise to take such steps as ] thought
necessary to obtain conclusive and IT,
REPUTABLE evidence that the Turing
away OF girls whose names and adj
dresses were obtained in the afore.
said manner was comparatively casy.
therefore. ! had sent out some letters
through friends which were of dccov
nature and which many girls an.
swcred, whose answers | nm now
holding for the benefit of the Com.
mittee on judiciary when this bill il
up for consideration.
] am sorry that felt 1t necessary
to perhaps offend the feelings of some
OF these young ladies in gathering
evidence In that manner, but ns I seci
sure that all Of the young ladies' m
whom letters We're addressed viii mot
teel serioUsIy huniliated In considers.
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Fought Way to Wealth
Then He Wanted LOUe

"And now few words in closing !:
! am the last scion of noble family
who lost their political power during
the ovcrrunning of Europe by Napoleon
the First and whose family has become
extinct except myself. Left practically
an orphan in infancy. ! faced n cold
aud cruel world penniless and alone
and. after overcoming supcrhuman OBJ
staclcs, have fought my way to wealth
and power and am now seeking bride
worthy of my love.
"No young lady should hesitate to
enter this contest because she may think
herself too young to become n wife,
for IT any such should enter the con-
test and be the winner, the marriage
would be cheerfully deferred until she
should have attained sufficient age, and
any young lady to whom this invi-
is sent you by mail or IL brought to you
by my personal ambassador, will please
indOrse the same with your name and
address and the notation accepted or
rejected and returned in order that
the process of selecting winner may
proceed.
Immediately upon the acceptance
by any young lady of this invitation to
enter this contest meeting between
myself and the young lady will be ar
ranged by my ambassador"
At the end of the letter is the fol
lowing QUESTIONABLE, designed to be
filled out by the girls in the "COn-
grcssional Beauty Contest:
Are You engaged!
"What IL your religion?
"What is your age?
What Is your nationality?
Would you be willing to live out
side of Washington II political reyerscs
should ever Gomez
Two of these letters which Herrick
now refers to as "decOys' were turned
tion was raised and the man In whose
name ! hqx NJ the postofice was kept
fnr. - 13f0g repllai xna annrnachSd
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-07
POURED SOFT NOTHINGS
INTO EARS OF BEAUTIES,
s SENT BURNING NISSITES
"W'henever He Got Real Fierce I'm HIS
Courting, He'd 44ct lust as If I svas
Congress and Stand Up In Front of
Me and Make Long Speeches., Said
One Girl

WHAT would o be in
particularly serving
first in Congress?
would you give pointed you passed
dors of the Capitol
"There Hoozt-of Pennsylvania, What?
Don't know Hoozit? Everybody knows Hooz Sure Hoozt
the famous always the
ting into something. Ycah-IIoozit of Pennsylvania"
Would you for
Be willing acquire reputation
in public life?
Accept good-hun Of your
leagues?
Take arpane flights and do the the Capitol
for their benefit?
beauty contest carry on a fervid correspond
with the
Introduce bills prohibit beauty and speeches
about them?
Get mixed up fghts-plain, everyday fghts-xith
parents of the beauties?
Get yourself sued for million huge
for breach of promise?
Have stage out long and lurid
the ardor of love?
Write in of
sressiona debate appropriate
along the publicity?
shake hands with Congress Manuel Oklahoma You
kindred spirits That he
breaks
Hook Seattle Buffalo
They like pubiciymost
rcks price His outshnes them individual fma-
men You hear: "Oh-Herricks crazy! Yes-azy-ke fox"
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"Y0u Can Just Go To-
SAYS Mister Herrick

While the beauty contest was, on N
father OF one OF the girls involved calld
Herrick up one day to. tell him wh.l
he thought OF him. 1t was clear 4
those who heard Herrick's futile eforI
to cut-in on the TRADE at the other eul
that It was Just that-a one .sided ~
probably abusive lecture framed In al.
orful language. Herrick. through u
open windows, could be heard \
"Yo can jest--." &G
Then an interval of silence. ,,
You can jest--."
Another interval of silence. 4
You can jest--." E
Still he couldn't break in. Fiualy,
IN a voice that rang through the stsii
inner court -.
You can jest GO TO HE'LL"
Herrick's latest adventure took bin
soaring into the clouds in an airplass
with the pilot under instructions n
give her everything there is" H6.
rick STYLED himself the "aerial das.
devil of Congress. lie announced h
advance he would circle the Capitol. a.
the failing leaf" the spiral, IN
zimmerman turn and all the rest Of hi
tricks in the airman's repertoire. But.
Ihe War Department said the 'thdl
pare wasn't available and that hI
could only beAtaken alOft for a short JOS
ride, without any of the death .defyirl
antics he anticipated and announced i1l
Advance would be performed.
M ne went. but he wasn't satisfied.
Inc flight was too tame. Manuel wv|
preyed, pcrturbed and pctulant, Anll
nc let the world and army officers II
boiiing Field know it. Also the Mts|
galleries. X
Somebody has tried to throw d
monkey wrench in my plans" he sl|
1t probably came from downtow,l
indicating the Secretary of Waf,l
l'ut I'm going up If l have to get d
wheelbnrrOw. .i
Manuel then took his "arier's al
pirations of to Boiling Field a secuaiI
time, with the avowed purpose Of ras.I
ing something not at all in keeping Will
tne chiiiing atmosphere up above II NJ
didn't get a ride In the stunt" phMI
ana chance to make good on vi
announcement.
And he got his "aricl daredevil
Hight with al the thrills known to iIsI
AVIATION world. Lieutenant l.. J. Mit,I
land. one Of the army's most eIrhI
ilcrs. took him up In an Amerlcin'
6uilt British experimental machiA
Ihey scared for forty-tive minutes
Manuel was treated to the loop.te
loop, tail spin. falling leaf and evs1
other stunt possible. .'s
But the edge was taken of Mar
ucis JOY because the House had IT.
Journed, and the members were n
their way home before he began 10 81
up over the dome. Y ~
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attacked by relatives of young woms
to whom he wrote and suffered DIV,
unpleasant experiences. n
Herrick talks invariably In a loud.
high pitched. sing song voice. Whss
he becomes interested in conversatioa
over the telephone in his Office, hea&
pop out Of windows of hundreds 4
Offices surrounding the court OF N
House Office Building. which covers /
large city block. and Congressman, sec,
retaries and .stenographers "listen ID"
| to the one sided conversation, ,
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Miss
Irna
Maybury

ton of the fact that the same was
done for the purpose of aiding II wor-
thy cause. assuring all those who have
not been called upon and had the sit.
uation explained to them, that all
those, with the possible exception OF
one, who have been called upon and
had the situation explained to them
have seen the danger and are very
glad to have the pitfall pointed out
to them and arc now cooperating
with me. would be very glad to
have the CO. operation in the passage
of this act of all Christian young
ladies' to whom the pitfalls which they
might have encountered have been
thus revealed to them.
MANUEL HERRICK.
Though the now famous contest foI
love" letter states the prize" Is thir
ty-four years old. the Congressionq
directory states that Congressman Man.
uel Herrick was born in Tuscarawa.
County, O.. September 20, 1876.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-15

in France to see just what camels
looked like and to find out all about
them.
On to Tunis, Wayne and Porter
went and there they bought camel
to study it first hand. When the
sultan heard about it he insisted on
giving them two fror1his own herd
and thus show his respect for Amer
lea. When they took these specimens
on board ship they found them to be
NANCY and diseased. They next in
vestigated the Smyrna market and
then went to Constantinople. Hear
ing there that the animals grew abun-
dainty in Africa, they turned back
there. But first they inspected the
camels that were being used in the
Crimean war, Which was then in
progress. These were the Bactrian
style and were being used by the
British army.
The two American camel hunters
thought the Bactrian body style of
camel ideal. It was possessed of
many refnements that seemed most
essential. There were no extras to
buy. 1t had two humps instead of
one and that made a much easier
riding chassis and better for baggage
OF freight. So, going back to Con-
stantinople, they sold their Tunis cam
els for $44 and set sail for Alexandria.
But in Egypt they couldn't obtain
permission from the viceroy to export
more than two, although they want
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-15

ed 20. Finally they got 10 on condi,
tion that they would not ask for more
later.
From Egypt they went back to
Smyrna and loaded up to capacity
with Asiatic camels and set out for
home with 33 of the tall, awkward
creatures in tow. They found that
they had paid on an average of about
SIS for each animal. The ship land
ed them at Indianola on the Texas
coast. About 60 miles from the city
camp was chosen. 1t was named
Camp Verde, and it was and is the
only camel camp that ever existed
in these United States.
For some reason the camels all de-
cided that they didn't want to live.
Wayne and Porter had brought back
two camel doctors and they used all
their arts.
Wayne was fearful that they were
dying from eating cactus, so he saw
to it that there was no cactus to be
found around there. Then the baled
hay suspected of being too rich. Six
died before the summer was over.
Davis sent Porter back to Smyrna
for another load. This time Porter
brought Al, and they were added to
those at Camp Verde. But about
this time politics changed at Wash
ington and the new administration
forgot all about the new camel camp
and slowly the homesick creatures
died.
However, other men tried the thing
privately. A Mr.. Walton, of Cali
fornia, offered to put route in oper-
alton if the government would give
him five sections Of land. A Texas
man tried it. A company was formed
that brought the camels into Balti-
more, and the company tried to drive
them overland to the Great American
Desert. But they died on the way.
What an interesting insight on the
official and national conception of the
geography of the continent! They
believed that the great wheat-grow-
ing and rich corn states of today
were a part of a great Sahara and
they would need camels to cross it
safely!
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-15
When Uncle Sam Raised Camels.

Away back in 1856 your Uncle Sam
set aside $4,000 to spend for rails
ing camels! Yes, sir, he did. In
those days the maps used to show
the states of Kansas, Missouri and
on to California as white and marked
in the georgraphies in big letters,
"The Great American Desert" Ev-
anybody thought of this country as
, barren and desolate and useless.
Even the congressman believed this
to be true, so they voted this money
for the use of the army to get across
this "desert" to the smiling shores
of California.
A young man by the name OF
jefferson Davis, who had good imag-
ination, first thought of the plan.
He would have Uncle Sam use the
camels in trade and to chase Indians.
He planned to bring the camels from
India and start a colony of them In
Western Texas.
After telling congress about the
plan and receiving permission to spend
the money, he sent Captain D. d.
Porter to the Far East to buy the
camels. Then the trouble began, for
neither Davis nor Porter knew any
thing about these great ships of the
desert. They sent along with Porter,
Major b. C. Wayne, but it seems he
knew little more of the animal. They
inspected the zoos in England and
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-15
DANGER SIGNALS OF
CHILDHOOD.
Mouth Breathing.

Perhaps the most common among
conditions in children that interfere
seriously with health are troubles of
the nose and throat. The mother who
lovingly presses her baby to her breast
while in the act of nursing, thus in
terfering with its breathing, does not
realize that she may be laying the
foundation for future distress to her
child that may affect it throughout
its entire life.
AS every one is aware, the nose is
but partially developed at birth, as
suming shape and form only with the
general growth of the body. That
portion of the nose which we see is
the least of it. The most important
part, the part with which we breathe,
is inside, and is most intimately con-
nected with the development Of the
brain, and therefore, Of intelligence;
with the ears, and therefore with our
sense of hearing; with the proper
formation of the mouth, and therefore
with the growth of the teeth; with the
lungs, and therefore with a sufficient
supply of oxygen, upon which life de-
pends.
In an infant, the nasal passages are
extremely small, whereas the glands
at the back of the nose and in the
throat are large. The least thing that
interferes with the intake and output
of air through these narrow passages
affects the general health, and more
particularly the condition of these
glands.
Nature has provided an abundance
of glands in this location at birth:
because children are peculiarly sus-
oeptible to air borne diseases. By
that l mean to those diseases of ear
ly childhood so well known to all of
us, such as measles, chicken pox,
whooping cough, diptheria, ETC., and
which are due to germs that are car
ried about in the air. These glands
are natures sentinels that guard the
passageway to the lungs and blood
and protect the body against the in
vasion of these germ diseases, to
which the tender bodies of children
are so liable to succumb. AS we
grow older and stronger and more
able to resist the action of germs, the
glands in the nose and throat shrink
because we no longer have the great
need for them we did in childhood.
But anything that interferes with
nose breathing during the early years
of life causes these glands to take on
an additional growth, and in time
large masses of them may be formed
completely stopping up the air pas,
sages at the back part of the nose
so that breathing through the nose
is not only extremely difficult and only
partially performed but in some cases
is absolutely impossible and mouth
breathing not only while asleep and
du fng the night but all the time be,
col les the rule.-Dr. Charlotte c. West
lANew York World.
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-30
WIRELESS USED IN WAR
AGAINST B00TLEGGERS

DETROIT, May 30.-Wireless will
be used by the State police against
rum runners, attempting to smuggle
liquor over the border, Colonel Roy
Vandercook, head of that organiza-
ton, announces.
Any activity on the part of rum
runner in Canada, indicating he is
going to leave will be flashed by
Canadian custom officials, and State
police in charge of the several sta
tions on this shore, will Immediately
notify prohibition officials, Mr.. Van
dercook says.
One wireless station is to be in
stalled at Negaunee, another at Gay
lord, third at Grand Rapids and
others at Detroit and elsewhere.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-30

Peterson finds time in addition to his
duties to do a great deal of hunting.
He is "a regular L. s. hunter, and in
this capacity for Uncle Sam he has
had occasion to train some cat dogs.
He has two old dogs who have freed
so cats during their combined car
eers. Another youngster now two
years old, has treed 80 cats. Peter
son yesterday shipped three pups of
the cat breed dogs to other U. S.
hunters in the state. One went to
Bend and two were sent to Maupin.
Oregon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-30
MAY DAY MOVING SETS
NEW CHICAGO RECORD

CHICAGO, May SO.-May Day
moving here set a new record for the
period of the housing shortage, ac-
cording to the requests for changes
to telephone and gas companies. More
than 5000 changes daily were asked
of gas, light and coke company be-
fore the yearly exodus to new homes.
This is so per cent higher than 1921.
j. S. Wartenfield, Chicago Real Es-
tate Board, said the "own your own
home idea is responsible for hun
dreds of the movings.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-30
Mrs. Spraul Dies

Mrs. Lottie Spraul. aged 2S. and her
infant child, died las, night at Echo.
Mrs. spraul. who formerly resided
here, is survived by her husband, two
children. Julia and Nellie Peebler and
her father, Jerry Boarland. Mrs.
Spraum was born in 1894. She was
married to w. j. Peebler, of this city,
whose death occurred in 1915. Her
marriage to William Spraul took place
in 1920. Funeral services will be held
tomorrow at p. m. from the presby-
terian church, with Rev. George L.
Clark, pastor, officiating.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-30
DIR. Hill to Depart.

Dr. David b. Hill will leave tonight
for Salem, to serve as a member Of
the State Board of Dental Examiners.
The board will spend three days in
theory at the State House and win
in addition devote three days to
dental work among the inmates of
The State Penitentiary. DIR. Hill will
be absent from Pendleton until June
10.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-30
Makes Record Run.

X 1t was not so very many days
since the Old Oregon Trail over the
Blue Mountains was impossible to
auto traffic, but Kenneth Keeney of
La Grande, evidently was not inform
ed about that. He came to Pendle-
ton from his home in La Grande
about the middle of the week, and
drove a Franklin car back with him.
'He made the trip in two hours and
IS minutes, which is thought to be
record for the season. He encoun-
tered only few bad holes, he re.
ports. The road was blocked for a
few days on account of heavy snow
which fell last week, but the warmer
weather has melted the blanket of
white.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-30
BOSTON POPULATION TO
BE 100000 IN 1870?

BOSTON, May SO.-Boston win be
a city of 6,000,O00 population in 1870,
according to w. j. Mcdonald, real
estate man, who bases his figures on
the growth and expansion of the city
in the past At present the city
proper has a. population of about
74S,0O0, but reasoning that the sub
urbs which are closely attached to
Boston will ultimately join it. McDon-
aid believes more than thirty cities
and towns will be Incorporated.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-30
Firtccn Arc Confirmed

Bishop l.. H. Wells, of the Episcopal
yesterday at the Church of the Re-
deemer. Those confirmed were Mr..
and Mrs. C. NJ. Cook, Mrs. Mary Gar
rouette, Dwight Schannep, Alvin Ross,
Miss Frances Ross, Mrs. Bernard,
Miss Minnie Kraft, Miss Ruth Wilbur,
Miss Mildred Wyrick Miss Merle
Jack, Miss Garnet Jack, Miss Emily
Carney, Miss Helen Clark and Mrs.
Emmett Estes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-30
Movable Fence Easily Made

The best and handiest movable
fence for hogs, dairy cattle. or horses
is made of good grade 26 inch woven
wire stretched to well braced end
posts and lightly stapled to heavy oak
stakes driven between. Two men and
a team can put up 100 to 100 rods Of
such fence a day and it is more DUR
able and more easily moved than any
other type.-O. A. C. Experiment sta
tion.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-30
Fish Are An Gone.

The north fork of Meacham creek
is said to contain no more fish. The
reason that stream is lacking in its
usual number of members of the
finny TRIBE is that Ralph Fowler
and some friends have just returned
from there where they spent several
davs fishing. They report fairly
luck.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-30
Yox Fined $3.50.

Herbert Yox, arrested Saturday by
Deputy Sheriff Jake Marin on two
charges, was fined $3.50 and costs by
ging charge. A chcarge of adultery
which Yox and Mrs. Grace Tuggles
now face will be heard Saturday
morning. Both the man and his COM
panion are in the county Jail in lieu of
bonds to the amount of $500 each re-
qured by the court.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-30
Stores Have Displays.

Pendleton stores are showing win
dow displays today in honor of the
holiday, Patriotic colors are featur-
ed. Only few flags are flying, how
ever. and the court house is the only
public building which shows the Stars
and Stripes