Show ut it NEARBY NEA P Y Q g AND by 1 I 1 T T I 1 YONDER YO i maxey hoax axy e y 1 U S the majestic columbia BOIN ONN a canadian lu in a lake formed by the melting snows which trickle down from froin the purcell mountains in british colub columbia ha tile the great waterway Na of our pacific north west the columbia Colum bla starts olt off in a 11 northerly clitia changes Us its mind suddenly males a grout great U shaped bend llos south across the alie international boundary line mid and becomes un tin american Am erkan winding its way south theme swerving west est it accommodatingly coil bioda I 1 I 1 n ly acts as a sep separating separation aratin line between washington and oregon and 1400 miles from rom its source near the little city of astoria which chic h claims to have been the first american settlement on our vacille const coast loses itself in the pacific ocean car ring with MII it 11 tile the dral drainage nige of an empire comprising a quarter of a million square miles indian tribes are suld sold to have suspected the existence of a great stream coming down off the continental divide towards lie he pacific to in this northern region but apparently it re for the captain of a coston tra trading vessel to dis discover coer it to in 1790 it obligingly provides moisture which thich has tran barren lands into blossoming bloss oming orchards of renown and near wallula meets up with the oregon trail over which rumbled the covered coTe reil wagons of the pioneers the outstanding feature which has mode made tills this river tar far famed however Is its spectacular SU mlle mile long gorge where it flows 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 falla drape their filmy forms on the other producing one of the most beautiful passageways eways eer sculptured by the hand of nature roving ice boxes W ISE old nature so arranged to matters niters that every section of the country has a natural harvesting season tor for its particular crop the plan worked fine and everybody was happy for many centuries then it was discovered thai oat owing to different climatic conditions home products were grown elsewhere at other oilier sen sea sons but that they could not be satisfactorily facto rily transported and marketed before spoilage set in to tell american genius hat it cant can t have a thing acts as a signal to set to to find a way to oil ob tain coln it and so Invent inventive he genius got into action solved the ve vexing x ing 7 problem lem and contributed the alie railroad oad refrigerator friger ator car which Is nothing more or less than a huge lee ice box on wheels for the welfare of the nation now it Is selom indeed that one sees a long freight train truan which does not contain one or more of these lowly re an and so it is that we haie hae fresh fruits and vegetables whenever wo we want them no DO matter where we live oranges from Flor florida lda apples from washington peaches from rom georgia garden truck from texas meats from and so on an army of many thousands of these roaming lee ice boxes Is on duty day and night year la in and year out a not notional lonal distribution of toll table delicacies providing a service re which aich it would be well nigh ble to do without and which tins has been the means of creating untold happi ness mess and increasing public health the marine mar in band JUHN JOHN ADAMS in P 1798 approved a bill which created the marine corps this corps in eluded it 11 musical division which has since dec developed loped into what we now know as the united states anlue bodd band often referred to as the lives ires identa own liand band philadelphia was as the alie original head quarters of the lie corps because that olty was the capital of the lie nation at that time the capital and the alie blind band were enod to washington to lo ista eer blace which this most ancient of military bunds bands has placed ao A enviable eible role in alic lie life of our national cap itell tills bund blind tins has played at the white house ilou se reception every new years day since it placed at the first in boll ball on OD march 4 ISM ISKI tind at practically every inaugural ball since ehni time it played at the white louse house on september 6 1825 when beneral was the nations guest cesi und and was present when lincoln made his historic gettysburg speech it closed lii fd at al the first egg rolling con tesi CM on th llie white house lawn at the white house weddings of nellie grant and alice roosevelt and nt the funerals of presidents taylor lincoln mckinley and harding EN every ery president sao sac washington has heard beard its music the versatility of this world famous i organization Is unusual at a gran grand concert in 1024 it appeared as a symphony orchestra in tile the first part and as a military bond band to in the second part I 1 that the music of a nation ex presses its soul it interprets its ll 11 history its religion its patriotism and lib social customs as do few single mediums ha bois been most aptly illus 1 trotted by our marine bond band 0 m 1921 western newspaper union onion |