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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1912)
.-J.- MM m aaanuumi , ..... . . .... -- .- - t ' i t'r. ' EIGHT PAGES DAILY EAST OREGOXIAX, PENDLETON", OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1912. PAGE THREE lit fl to Every Fumiy Here's an Exceptional and Legitimate Opportunity for You to Save and Prosper Double and Treble Your Dollars' Buying Duty o0 M SUITS There's a Reason You may rightly ask, "How can wo afford to do it?" This is tho quietest period of tho year in the men's clothing business. The great success of our January Clearance Sale enables us to surpass the same month of last year by far, and we want to say the same thing of February. We have bought heavy for spring and the goods have commenced to arrive wo have no room to add new balconies and no basement for storing surplus stock so we must reduce. To do this at this time of year we must make a sacrifice. We are not only sacrificing profits, but are actually selling below cost profits will be unknown at this store during the coming months that's our reason. Good medium weight clothes suitable for spring wear. Come in greys, browns, blues, blacks, olives, and tans. All late models. A few of the famous Kirschbaum suits included. Take Your Choice for Only e We Expect Fast Selling The people of this county can buy good desirable clothing here now, at less than we paid the factories for it. For this reason you had better come in quick, before the lines are broken, and get your favorite pattern and correct size while we can supply you. You may not need a suit just now then buy for next spring or summer. $20.00 suits for $7.75, a saving of $12.25 how could you ever earn this am ount quicker or easier. Take advantage of this loss on our part to better your appearance as well as pocketbook. . While the line is large at present, you had better hurry to be one of the most fortunate ones, as good suits will not remain on our counter long at this price. Come and look whether you buy or not. 1 1 AN EXTRA LARGE LINE OF SIZES AND PATTERNS TO See Window Display g UDo FROM Pi ices Talk Here AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. Published Dully nd Semi-Weekly at Pen dleton, Oregon, by the E18T OUEQONIAN PUBLI8UIN0 CO. SLT.HCRIPTION KATES. n!ly, one year, by mall $5.00 Dally. lx month, by mall 2 60 Dally, tbree months, by mall 1.25 Dally, one month, by mall .50 Dally, one year, by carrier 7.50 Dally, alx mouths, by carrier 8.75 Dally, 'lire montfcs. by carrier 1.J5 Daily, one month, by carrier . Heml-Weekly, one year, by mall. 1.60 Beml Weekly, alx mouths, by mall 75 ttaml-Weekly, tour months, by mall... .60 The Dally East Oregonlan la kept on aala at the Oregon News Co., 2)20 Morrlaon street, Portland, Oregon. Washington, D. C, Bureau, 001 o.. I'ortiana. Oregon. Chicago Itureao, 909 Security uuiming. Northwest Newa Chicago llureau, Wsahliiirton. D. taenth street. N. W, Four- Entered at the nostofflca at Pendleton, Oregon, ai second-class mall matter. Member United Press Association. alepbone Main 1 Official City and County Paper. ltovT forget. Strive With nil your might; Keep bope nllve, Keep your goal In sight! Ho fair, Ho square; Be worthy of success; Let your hands bo clean, Anil your soul serene; Keep no room In your heart for bitterness. Deserve tho praise You long to hear; So shapo your ways That fear May never haunt you In the night! Ho strong, bo right; Hold honor dear, And when Another is pressed In a splendid fight Don't forget to cheer For him now and then. S. E. Klser. SOMK HUM III". SUGGESTIONS. In view of tho fact the city of Pen dloton must soon make a new street lighting contract with the Pacific Power & Light company some data contained In a news story published by this paper today may be of pass ing Interest to councllmen and others T)m showing, which Is from the electric trust Itself Indicates the con porn in doing well. It has a beautl ful business Indeed. The physical value of its plants in the northwest totals tho sum of 14,910,103, which figure Is given as tho replacement value by the vice president of the company. Tho company has outstanding a bond Issue of over 15,000,000, and a capitalization, totaling $9, BOO, 000. The report also says that the net earn ings are more than twice the annual Interest charges on all bonds now outstanding. In other words the trust has no real money Invested in its business at all if Its showing is properly in terpreted. It is all borrowed coin. It is a fine System from their stand point. It is beautiful work because they get big profits for nothing. The vice president has a right to brag about the status of affairs. Hut it is most too good a thing. Men should not be allowed to get something for nothing. At least not too much. It tends to breed indo lence and arrogance. It is also the cause of anarchy and discontent. People do not like to see a few men rake 'In millions without effort on their part when there are others who must struggle hard all the time for a bare llvlthood. Perhaps the Pendleton city admin istration can do something to relieve the situation. When the new street lighting contract is made maybe more favorablo terms can be had. ll rhaps a clause can be inserted In tho contract to the effect the city wont have to pay for lights unless they burn. Perhaps wo can get n few more lights so as to brighten up the dark spots where the "Jack the Grabbers" hold forth. Maybe Pen dleton can get rid of its sixteenth century street lighting service in the business district and get municipal cluster, lights installed at regular in tervals as they should be. Maybe tho electric trust can be induced to use some of its profit money remov ing tho unsightly polos and danger ous overhead wires that menace the lives of firemen and others whenever there is a blaze In the business district. In making theso humble sugges tions the East Oregonlan realizes fully its own wickedness. We realize we are "assailing business and driv ing capital from our fair city." We are muckraking and hounding genial gentlemen who draw good salaries and try to earn them. We aro very unworthy from tho standpoint of the oloctrJc trust. Nevertheless, the sug gestions are put forth and our hon orable city fathers may make such use of them as they desire. among us and who once a month in a London review enlightens Hritish shades of woman's voice lave been up the subject of the American voice, says the Chicago Record-Herald. Our tones are louder and higher than he likes; "the soft and carefullv modulated voice, in both men and wo men, is rare enough In America to bo noticed." Our critic is inclined to believe that the unmelodlous Ameri can voice, along with the cursory and peremptory American manner, has come through our necessity for boss ing "a great mass of rude and unculti vated aliens." However that may be, the Ameri can voice has become conscious of its peculiarities witness the hundreds of "schools of expression" which are trying to tone it down. This amelior ating Influence thus reaches at least the feminine sex, so that if the softer readers on American affairs has taken sacrificed by directing rude and un cultivated aliens In the kitchen better ment may presently ensue. ' However, other influences that mili tate against carefully modulated tones remuin to be combated. Pass ing over that of climate, two at least may be mentioned. The average wo man is all too willing to back up her vocal apparatus against the uproar of the train and the trolly. Also, she Is never aver'so to enter into a contest with the general hubbub of a recep tion or an afternoon tea. The struggle Is gallant but unequal. She can never win; what is one poor, thin pipe against a tumult but little less than infinite? Put on the damper then, especially when he game Is go ing dead against you. Keep silent on the "L" and djn't try to swim against the conversational Niagara at your club. the city. He went to Walla Walla and made a spectacle of himself by trying to talk up an electric road from Stanfield to Walla Walla in hopes of hurting our town. He want ed to make "grass grow in the streets of Pendleton." All this because the people of this place did their plain duty as they saw It. Because they were unwilling to stand in with the obstructionists ant? help knock out a great public enter prise In order to benefit a few pro moters at Stanfield. Because we would not help those promoters work to secure the O.-W. R. & X. freight division when it Is moved. Because we would not help Dr. Coe and his friends In building a magic city of air and sand with the firlce of lots sky highward. Because we would not help get the government to abandon the West Extension so as to make Dr. Coe's own water filing become ef fective. Pendleton people were absolutely right in the position they took from a standpoint of self interest and from the standpoint of Justice. They should have the loyal support of every Pendleton institution. Yet there is a sheet here that for reasons un seen to the eye has gone over to those who fight this city. It has been doing its utmost to flimflam upper river farmers and get them to be catepaws to pull Dr. Coe's chestnuts out of the fire. It has worked to unjustly turn those men and others against this city and its business men who provide it with what legitimate support it re ceives. It is a peculiar spectacle and hard t. understand. But maybe it Is the normal result when a socialist runs a reactionary republican newspaper with the aid of an office force re cruited from the ranks of drunks, de generate sons and forged check ar tists. Again It is barely possible there is a sequel to the $250 tale recently tcld by local gentlemen, some of whom by the way are with the anti-extension brigade. ART NOTE. It is estimated that J. Pierpont Morgan's art collection Is worth $20, 000,000. What a wonderful thing it is, somebody says, to be able to Invest $20,000,000 in art! But is Mr. Mor gan's collection of any real benefit to the world? Has his Investment helped in any way to develop art? His collection consists almost exclu sively of things that were produced by men who have long been dead and much of it is safely stored be hind doors that are closed against the public. The man or woman who makes a collection of a ton of coal w-hich is placed at the disposal of people who are suffering does a much greater thing than one who invests $20,000,000 in junk that goes by the name of art merely because it is old or lias been handled by kings. Nei ther Jane Addams nor Tean Sumner has, or Is ever likely to have, much of a collection of art. We suspect, however, that each of them does more every week for humanity than Mor gan has done along that line in all his life. THE AMERICAN VOICE. A PECULIAR SIGHT. If there was ever a journalistic bird that befouls ita own nest it is the local sheet that has been squawk Ing against the West Extension. Pen dleton started the move-Xor the west extension and wants the , extension built. A few weeks ago the subject was reconsidered here upon request, and after listening to two nights of able debate the members of the Com mercial club voted,' with only one dis senting voice, to stand by their past action asking for the extension. Immediately after tho meeting cer tnln people headed by Dr. H. W. Coe, who has been a persistent Pendleton knocker, undertook a boycott upon this city. 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