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PAGE FOUR LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1910 U Published Dallj Except Sondaj 'BRITE DEXMS . Editor and Owner. '' I'nifed I'ms Telegraph Service subscription RATtx Dally, single copy.. Cc Dally, per week.............. 15c Daily, per month... Cue Entered at the pomomce l'Ls. tj'vntfu as second-class matter , This paper will notpubllsh an ar ticle appearing over a nom de plume. Signed articles will be revised sub ject to the discretion of the editor. Please sign your articles and save ' dlsappolntmew COJTMEJifEMEXT. Last evening ' La Grande's public school graduated a class and the com mencement exercUes were held ac cording to precedent. While everything was extremely sueessful, tho fact re mains that merely going through vu..wccczv l-r. for not h- lng. ; ' ' The pupils who last night addressed the audlen-e in their final Bchool ef fort have hardly begun to live. They are' JuBt "commencing." They are now ready to run against the first bard problem a problem that may leave a scar. Up until now they had parents, close dear friends and teach ers to guide them. But after com mencement they must to a great ex- At An that nmn BiiMinfr arA nnffirtm lng to the history of every Individual each will And himself in tight places occasionally. He will see the folly of many acts and wish he had, acted dif ferently. This Is to be expected and is bound to follow. But there are a Uv car dinal principles, .which I"' UMwrA by young paople, will carry t'::.:.i safely through no matter Low many times they "may stub their toes and fall down. Tlift 1 .-r, nil la Vi j-t ( 1 Xla tirft- est with yourselves above everyone else for you never can get away from yourself, i Hesort, to no hypocrisy of any sort, for hypocrisy Is one of the curses of the world today. At all times be decent for the sake of your self. It pays. Temperate In all things Is essential to round a properly lived life. By that Is meant temperate in thought as well as action. Almost anything is harmful If not done tem- neratelv. t Remember, it Is the Individual who must make good. The Individual must say yen, and he must Bay no. No one else can do it for you. And above all do not expect legislation and law making to mould your career. Listen to t the small voice called conscience, which nature has given us all. When It says, no, heed it and you will never go very far wrong. Treat your fellowman with the same consideration you would like to have bestowed upon you if you were him. Never turn from a man who Is down for you may he the next to fall. On the other hand, give him a helping hand. Aid him to Btand erect, but af ter doing this If he continues to pre fer the fallen life let him remain GEORGE PALMER, Vrtt F. J. HOLMES, TIce-Fres EARL ZUNDEL H Ass't Cash. F. L, METERS, Cashier. LA GRANDE NATIONAL BANK OF LA GRANDE, OREGON United States Depository Capital and Surplus $180,009.00 DIRECTORS GEORGE PALMER F. J. HOLMES W. J. CRURCn F. L. METERS Tf.M. With oar ample resources and facilities we can reader 7011 efficient service and handle your business to year entire stalsfactlon down. : And one thing that should be im pressed upon every clilld whether a graduate or a beginner at school, is the honor of being respectful and obe dient to parents and older people. It costs nothing and it is one of u: greatest dividend payers to be found. . HON (Hi THE HEROIC BEAD. On next Monday the annual exer cises for decoration day will be goac through and a few more graves of sol diers will be decorated than tbarc were to decorate last year. Tomor row Memorial services will be held and the public is asked for two days to stop at least for a portion of the day and pay proper respect to those who wore the blue and the gray. To honor one and not the other would Indeed be maH and un-American for the man who enlisted from the sunny southland and bared bis breast to the Yankee bullet believed with all his heart that he, was right or he never would have endured the hardships fighting for his cause. Men may start to uphold something they do not believe in but they do not con tinue in that path for long if they meet reverses. , The reverses met by the men of the south are too well known to he i.i th!2 '' iifflre to say, It was a battle between brave and honorable men on either Bide and the cause which we now unanimously believe to be right prevailed, v : But throughout the country Monday the beautiful flowers will be spread over the private under Lee and the private under Grant alike. The coun try has overcome what sectional strife It once held and today the old saying of "No north, no south" Is very true Indeed. Senator Heyburn of Idaho found this to be true a short time ago when he tried to make a "bloody shirt" speech in the senate and was almost hissed from the floor. Ameri can people are thinking, along broad lines nowadays. The Spanish-American war forever settled the north and south question, although there was lit tle to settle even at that. And tomorrow when the La Grande church bells ring out the solemn oc casion; when little children dressed In pure white go to the churches to hear a review of that dreadful tinio which made history very rapidly,! let all Join the little ones and by bo donls pay respect to the man who carried the musket that we might today HVa in a nation" that is not rent asunder by internal strife. And on Monday pick the- choicest flowers from the garden and Inter twine them with a few flowers from your soul thus decorating the cold grave that holds a soldier, either blue or grey, not. only with a floral tribute but also with your choicest thoughts reflecting the admiration you hold the heroes who have passed away. Notice for Bids. Bids for the exclusive restaurant concessions and alst for the exclu sive confectionery stand concessions on the chautauqua grounds for the coming chautauqua season, July 3 to 13, 1910, will be received by the chau tauqua committees at the next reg ular, meeting of the committee which will bo held on Thursday, June 2 at 8 o'clock at the commercial club room The committee reserves the right to refuse any or all bids. GEO. COCHRAN. W. L. BRENHOLTS, Asst Cash. Q C, C. PENISGTON O. L. CLEATER F. M. RTREIT H. L, BRENHOLTS FIERCE DIG TO LIVE, URGESWSOIJ. Secretary of Ajr lecif ore's Rsrn edy For Fid Cost ProHsin. , NEED OF GREATER PRODUCT 103 Cabinet Officer Points Out Importance of Soil Coneervation Before Confer ence at New York Produce Exchange to Consider Problem of Labor and Best Methods of Farming. James Wilson, secretary of the de partment of agriculture, who recently addressed the New York Produce Ex change on the food cost problem and its relation to the farm, said that con serration of the soli both east nnd west would determine future prosperi ty and promised government aid in any state move ment to Increase the productivity and Improve the condition : of . the soil. V A The exchane bad called a conference ou thia subject and Invited . the secre tary, congressmen and the heads of the various bis JAKES WILSON. railroads In the enxt. As an outcome of the dls-tivniiiii n permanent orgaul ration wua Xoruual, on which the rail roads are represented, to educate the farmers of the state of New York lu the best Interests of production and of Inducing residenti In cities to go "back to the farm." ' "We cannot afford to buy food from foreign countries," said Mr. Wilson. "We must see to It that our western farms produce enough, not only for home consumption, but also to sell abroad and square up the balances of trade. : , y "It costs more to get anything done In our country than la most others. Production does not increase ns fast as population. Price:; f.) i.;;. It costs more, to pay carriers, dealers, manu facturers, all classes. The farmer gets bg prloos now, but It costs h!m tv.-!?e as much to grow things as it old ten years ago. Cannot Afford to Buy Abroad. "The fact that population Increases faster than food sets us thinkinc. We. cannot afford to buy food from foreign countries. The balances of trade for goods bought and sold since the civil war, Independent of . farm products, have been heavily against us during that time and have been 'paid by ex ports from the farm. 1 "Most of our people in the east are being fed from the Mississippi valley, ana the states from the south dratv much from the same source. For the last half century the young people of the farms have been educated to leave them. No teacher until recently taught a scholar the way to make more of his day's work on the farm or how to make the acre respond better, and for a very good reason. The teacher had never learned it himself. Education flows downwurd from the university regarding everything but agriculture. ir applied science along this line Is not understood at the fountalnhead there will be no stream from -which to drink. . ' "Ignorance permitted the soil to be come unproductive. The hlchest Intel- ligence Is required to bring back fer tility. Generally speaking, our farms are managed with too little capital or the farm Is too large for the means of the operator. Help is dearer than It has been, nnd it Is scarce In all sec tions of the country. Illgher'prlces for farm products will Justify more pay to the farm hand and have a tend ency to keep workers on the farm. "The cheap food of the Past has been one of the great advantages the manu facturer has had. lie has it no lontrer. Neglect of the soil will very soon Im press ltBelr on all classes. Soil Conservation Urged. "Importations of food will brln about a change In our economics, a revolution In our policies, which may be avoided by better farming and a comprehensive view of the situation by those who deal In big things, wheth er carrying commerce, manufacturing or finance. If the America w know today la to continue with Its opportu nities for all classes, high price for skill and labor, home ownership' for every Industrious man, education for very child, an easily acquired com petence for every frugal, industrious family, we must look to the soil and Us power of ' production. : Other na tions prosper by commerce and manu facturing, but their working classes are not as comfortable as ours. "Every state should organise' to con serve fertility of Its soils. The depart ment of agriculture would gladly co operate with all of them. This de Wrtffl1 J&aS.corM JH'j?ciBtlsts.thaJ win i could be made useful In this regard. There Is no kind of conservation that compares at all In importance with Boll conservation, while all are Impor tant -We are late in beginning, but, high prices are Impelling and Insistent from every standpoint "Some political economists tell us that boys leave the farm because land yaluea ar so filch, but land values east of the Alleghenles bave gone down , because the boys left the farms and : renters without capital got possession j to grow grain and hay for sale." ' Medicines that aid nature are always ni": EuccesKful. Chamberlain's Cough Keroecly v aril on tliis plan. It loosen ide coujili, re . lievesihe lungs, opens the secretions and aids r"m in reftDr'B? the vvon health? Wing-tip ' Collar to match A Wise Ste toT Step into our s tore, to-day ! 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Prices $1.25 to $2.50 Semi-Annual Clearance t J of Tailored Suits and Millinery. 1 Every Ladies Suit Y Y in the store reduced 25 1 rnmnmgs rcduccu per cent. N O ii LO WE QUAUTY STORE The HOSIERY 4 I JUNE NOW IN STOCK. X T. SCOTT Kertzman, Steinway, Wellington, and Ludwig Pianos. mm Storel 4 before. - high quality merchandise $ f V and zoc vd ! plain . ; . , . . .20 to 35c vd . . . .45 and 60c vd X . . : ; . .15 to 50c yd r , per cent. "All 'Millinery and est mmmmmm vsh sk.v& W Call at our store and look over our line of the famous J. and TVf. SllfiP .'A clino fn-r rronflo- men in every sense of the 4 word. None better made. I best- fitting shoe on the 5 j marKei. . - . SMITH & GREEN,' Depot Street Shoe Repairing Shop J. a a. r X X 5 L m 4 m h 1 5 r n 1 saai
