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'-'"" ' ' -' W7EKLT 0 BSIRrB X.A KRIXZE. ORaG'. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 190. I if" 1 si s Hi' 1 1 . LA GRANOL EVENING OBSERVFR PabUshed Daily Except Saudaj. GEORGE U. CUEEEI. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. United Press Telegraph Service. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Dalft. Tingle copy 6c Dally, per month 65c Dally, six months In advance ...$3.50 Dally, one year In advance $6.60 Weekly, one year la advance . 75c ..$1.00 Entered at the postofnce at La Grande as second-class matter. mu paper wiu not publish any article appearing over a nom de plume. Signed articles will be re vised subject to tbe discretion of the editor. Please sign your articles and save disappointment Advertising Bates. Local reading notices 10c ir iwe first Insertion ; 6c per line rw each subsequent Insertion. Resolution ot condolence. 6c a line. EGEDE A N N 1 V E USA II Y. When Dr. Cook returned to Copen hagen from his discovery of the North Pole, he made the trip In the good ship Egede. It Is worthy of note that this vessel was named after Hans Paulsen Egede, one of the pioneers in Greenland exploration, who was born la Norway 223 years ago and died In Copenhagen in 1768. Early in the 12th cdntury a party of Norwegians end Icelander weut to Greenland to open up commercial re lations and establish homes. They were Christians but did nothing to ward teaching the Eskimos. For over 200 years they were fairly sucessful In selling products between ' Green land and Norway. Then a change came. The Eskimos gave tnein serious - trouble, the scourge of the "Black Death," came and to crown their mis fortunes vast seas of polar ice swept about the east coast, so that this sec tion was lnr.ccossltle. No ships could reach the colony and they were helpless. During a period of 200 years efforts were occasionally made to rescue those who might have survived the : original colonists, but there had been ' no success, and finally this band ot . filoneers and their dlscendants bec ' came merely parts ot history. Hans Egede was pastor of the vil lage church at Vaagen, Norway .and he became deeply interested in the .constantly repeated story ot the colo nist of Greenland. He began to dream of a mission among the Eski mos, and the finding of traces of the unfortunate settlers. . . 'Realizing that there must be a material object to attract and bind followers in such an enterprise, he organized the plan for a trading com pany, members of which company should go with him. His friends and the Bishop of Ber gen, tried to dissuade him in his plans and only his wife, Gertrude Egede, was in sympathy with the enterprise. He pushed the matter of the trading company with such good arguments that Frederick IV.. King c Denmark, took up the matter and empowered Hans Egede to sail for tidings of the lost colony, promising that ships with suplies should follow him. He sailed on the ship,' Good Hope, July 3, 1721, with his wife and two sons, and landed safely on the West coast of Greenland, at Baals river. They worked their way to the north, trying to get traces of the early colo ny, and waited with impatience the ar rival of the relief ship from Denmark. ... It was after discouragement of every sort that this reached Kanzec, aud 1 Hans Egede and his followers were ; urged to return to civilization. But the fever of enthusiasm was not . cooled even by the awful cold, and Hans Egede decided to remain al though many of the party had died from the cruel climate. He and his ' jfamtly lived with the Eskimos in their huts, and after the learned to speak the native tongue they heard the fate of the first colonists. Hans Egede made a journoy with a party of natives to a valley on the east coast, where he found the ruins of Norwegian homes, churches and public buildings. . The entire community had perished and nothing but the ruins ot their buildings remained! After a long nurtoti with the natives, Egede re turned to Copenhagen. r WILL MAKE WORLD MAP. 8. J. Kubel and Bailey, v. hub, wp resentatives at an international con ference of topographers which open ed in London today for the purpose of designing a world map. The conference Is the result of the recent International geographic con gress at Geneva, Switzerland. The plan is to design a world map which will be accepted by all countries rep resented at the congress as official. Lieutenant CO. Close, of the British Army, will preside over the sessions of the conference. Great Britian. Germany. France, Austria, Italy, Ja pan and the British colonies of Aust ralia, .Canada and India are repres ented. Thee si certainly taste of life In Washington that fastens upon all those who have tasted of political honors. We notice that John L. Wil son, a former 'United States senator from Washington, has announced his willingness to serve his state once more. Congressman Burton L. French of Idaho, who twelve Hours before the last state convention thought his nom ination waa secure and under ordinary circumstances would have been, but a few wire pullers during the mid night hour proceeding the day of the nomination fixed up a new slate which won out. Mr. French will go before i'u primaries ot his state for renom inatlon and in Oregon we have Sen ator Fulton who. It is stated, already has a legal practice which in dollars Is paying him much more than a sen ators salary, still It is rumored that he would like to take his former place In the Benate. A witty Irishman once described the desire for office 'sb a disease, as It is contagequs and often epidemic. The definition is often ap plicable. Grain dealers f rom , many of the Western states are in the Indiana caitol today, attracted by the nation al conference to be held there this week DlscuBlng the purpose of the conference President Theodore G. Nel son says: "Of the subject the grain dealers were asked to consider when we sent out the call, the matter of the estab lishing by the congress at Its next meeting of a uniform standard by which to grade grain in all parts of the United States and the linking to gether of the farmers' elevators of the country into a national associat ion for the purpose of backing the movement and the question of how best to reduce the cost of bringing out products from the producer to the consumer, seems to get most atten tion." o&a "'" Nobody has occasion to worry much when "Joy riders" '"ginned up for a time," kill themselves or each other. But when they run over other people on the road, there Is room for protest The inspiration of "Joy riding" is In the loose conduct of young women. Liquor Is its common adjunct. Many girls and young women are bo mad for the Joy-ride that they seem will ing to sacrifice everything for it, ln- eluding reputation. The men care lit tle for the Joy ride. Their object is the woman.Can any young woman be Ig norant of the purpose? If bo she has been very insufficiently Instructed. The automobile and the liquor beats any combination for a downfall that has ever been known before. Oregon Ian. Thanksgiving preparations . have already begun in many of the homes. This is one of our greatest holidays; simple, not demonstrative like our Fourth of July, but in fact more pa triotic than the former owing to the closer home ties. Thanksgiving, gen erally speaking, is strictly a home gathering and every home building act adds Just that much to the uplift ing and perpetuity of our nation. The Honorary Commercial Com missioners from Japan, who have re cently visited the large cities and in dustrial centers of both east and West are back at San Franslsco and will sail for home next Tuesday. The will spend tomorrow in Oakland, accord ing to their schedule. All profess to be . well pleased with their visit nad the treatment accorded them. San Francisco defeated Francis J. Heney and he ts now coming hack to Oregon to prosecute Blnger Hermann for alleged land fraud. If Mr. Heeney ts not careful he will send Dinger back to congress. Stranger things have happened In Oregon politics. over the embassy of the great South American Republic today at Wash ington, and the Ambassador and his graphers of the United States Geo- staff are celebrating in honor of the logical 8urvey, re the America" r,mt-iortependence Day, The Linotype Machine A REPRODUCTION OF THE f OBSERVER LINOTYPE THAT MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR A LARGER ASSORTMENT OF NEWS AND JOB WORK. 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