Show i NEARBY cab AND I 1 YONDER ja the majestic columbia BORN a canadian in a mountain lake formed by the melting snowa which trickle down from the purcell mountains in british columbia the great waterway of our northwest the majestic columbia start off in a northerly direction changes its mind suddenly makes a great U shaped bend flows south across the international boundary line and be arnies an american winding its way south thence swerving nest it accommodatingly acts as a separating line between washington and oregon and 1400 miles from ita source near alie little city of astorca which claims to have been the first ameri can settlement on our pacific coast loses itself in the pacific ocean car crying with it the drainage of an em pire comprising a quarter of a million square miles indian tribes are said to have suspected the existence of a great stream coming down off the continental divide towards the pacific ID ahta northern region but apparently it re for the captain of a boston briding vessel to discover it in 17 it obligingly provides moisture which has transformed barren lands into blossoming bloss oming orchards of renown and near wallula meets up with the oregon trail over which rumbled the covered wagons of the pioneers the outstanding feature which has made tills river far famed however Is its spectacular 50 mile long gorge eliere it lows down a mighty corridor between a row of oddly shaped peaks on one side and a palisades ded basaltic wall over which massive water falls drape their filmy forms on the other producing one of the most beautiful passageways eways ever sculptured by the hand of nature roving ice boxes WISE old nature so arranged matters that every section ot the country has a natural harvesting season for its particular crop the plan worked fine and everybody was happy for many centuries then it was discovered that owing to different climatic conditions home product were grown elsewhere at other sea sons but that they could not be satis fact orlly transported and marketed before spoilage set in to tell american genius that it cant have a thing acts as a signal to set to work to find a way to obtain it and so inventive genius got into action solved the vexing problem and contributed the railroad refrigerator friger ator car which Is nothing more or less than a huge ice box on ft heels for the welfare of the maion now it Is selom indeed that one sees a long freight train which does not contain one or more of these lowly refrigerators and so it Is eliat we have fresh fruits and vegetables whenever we want them no matter where live oranges from florida apples from washington peaches from georgia garden truck from texas meats from and so on an army ot many thousands ot these roaming ice boxes Is on duty day and night year in and year out maintaining a national distribution of table delicacies providing a service which it would be well nigh ble to do without and which has been the means of creating untold happi ness and increasing public health the marine band JOHN ADAMS la president approved a bill which created the marine corps this corps la eluded a musical division which has developed into aliat we mm know as the united states airine band often referred to as the 1 ident s own band philadelphia was the original head quarters of the corps because that city was the capital of the nation at that time the capital and lie ban were moved to washington in 1 ever since which this most ol 01 military bands has played an en latie role in the life of our national capital this bind has played at the 6 house reception every ew carslay car since 1801 it played at the firstin augural ball on march 4 1804 ana practically every inaugural ball si that time ft at the WU house on september 8 general lafayette was the nairn guest and was present when unc made his historic gettysburg it played at the farst egg als c test on the white house lawn at white house weddings of I 1 gram and alice and at funerals of presidents linchon mckenley and harding every dent save washington baa heard ir music the versatility of this world taino la unusual at a gra concert in 1924 it appeared as symphony orchestra in the first P and as a military bind in the jccob part that the music of a nation presses its soul it interprets history its religion its iab social customs as do few 6 j mediums haft been most aptly 1 grated by our marine band a RI |