. LA OBAXDE EVENING OBSERVER THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 29, 1912.
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In Ladies Kea
Styles foir Sprimig
Cniar
dy to Wear Apparel
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TriE OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNiS
Editor and Owner.
tMered at tbe postofTIce at lu Cm ode
tteeond-clasg matter.
SCBSCBIPTIOJf BATES.
Dad), slnglj tlT
Pally, per week 15e
Pally, per month ...65e
WHERE IS THE COUaHSSIO
FORM I
What hag become of the commission
form of government that was agitated
In la Grande some time ago?
Many people have Inquired at this
office as to what headway the com
mittee has made but of late there has
been no authentic report on the meet
ings of that body. It will be remem
bered that a very strong committee of
business men was appointed by Dr.
Richardson, while mayor, to Investi
gate commission government and ren
der a report to the city council.
There will never be entire satisfac
tion until that committee reportH. Our
notion of the matter Is that each of
the busy men named on said committee
has been loaded with individual work ,
And has neglected the matter, In fact1
that is the only conclusion to draw j
tor all committeemen are taxpayers
and are anxious to do anything that is
for the economical beHt Interests of
La Grande.
Jet us have a committee meeting'
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good of the skirt kind es
capes us if we can help it.
Some of the most recent
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styles in serges, men's wear
suitings, zephyr stripes and
light weight mixtures.
Priced From
$5.00 to $12.50
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Smart, Practical
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The latest styles in nobby
new coats are here and in
such a surprising variety of
styles and sizes that many
tastes and many types of fig
ures can be fitted.
Priced From
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In Our Dry
Goods Department
A CHOICE SHOWING OF
New
Spring
Suitings
WOMENS TAILORED SUITS
IN MANY PLEASING AND PRACTICAL STYLES. A DISPLAY CATERING
TO THE INDIVIDUAL TASTES AND REQUIREMENTS OF EVERY WO
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PARTIAL TO DRESSIER EFFECTS ATTRACTIVELY PRICED FROM
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Rough mannish effect ma
terials that are so popular
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..most of them 54 in. wide.
. $1.25 to $2.25 vd.
New Trimmings
New Overlaces
New Wide
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Ginghams
The Quality Store
The Quality Store
and go deep into the matter. Let La the end and kept on paying in . at
Qruude be one of the cities who adopt the rato he had been paying, he would
a successful commission form, pluc-, not pay into the treasury of the order
ing responsibility in 'municipal nf-' more than one third of what his ben
fairs heavily upon shoulders that are eflelaries would draw'out if his policy
paid to carry the load.
THE 5fOD EHX WOOHMES.
were paid in full
There Is no way known to men of
taking something from nothing.' It
is impossible to subtract $2,000 from
Just how thero Is commotion in the ' $t00, and If the member's widow or
camps of the Modern Woodmen of , other-beneficiary drew out $2,000,
America. The dreaded day has coma j when as a matter of fact he had only
when the assessments of members paid in ?fi00, it was entirely evident
must he raised, as every man who has ' that somebody else had contributed
given the subject 10 minutes' thought the other $1,-100. In this connection,
nniHt have, known it would come. the Observer quotes from a "well
.figures of the mortality tables, but
under ordinary conditions, the average
death rate can be accurately fore
told. ' ..,
"What the actuaries have done is to
figure out the average death rate per
thousand" In the Woodmen ' order.' at.
No member who took the trouble to known Wall Street broker writlng 'in : the Various ages 6f the members' and
look up the term of his life expectancy , a publication not issued in the Interest ,
did not know that if he lived it out to : of fraternal orders
number of human beings. Experience
has demonstrated that an average of
so many will die each year per thou
sand until finally the last of the thou
sand will be laid away.
"Of course it, is possible that a
plague of some sort might ravage the
country that would very greatly in
the very cheapest old line life insur
ance that you could get and If you do
not find that it will cost you. more I gmau
than tne highest rate you will have to
pay under the new Woodman plan,
then you had perhaps better drop
your Woodman certificate and take
old line In its stead
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"I cannot see how any reasonably
Intelligent man could have labored
under any misapprehension at any
time. He did not need to be a great
mathematician to arrive at the correct
conclusion. So long as there were I
more new members coming into the
order than there were old members
dying out of it. It was possible to con
tinue the small assessments, but there
was inevitably a time coming when
that condition would no longer exist.
"This Is not a Woodman paper I
am writing in, but I know that it bus
thousands of readers who are Wood
men, therefore I believe It Is a proper
subject for discussion now.
"Here is the question that is agitat
ing the minds of thousands of Wood
men: 'Shall 1 drop out of tho order
now that the rates have- been raised
In some csbos more than three times
wnui mey were before, or shall I stay
with It?" The present rates were
adopted after what Is claimed to have
been a thorough examination of the
experience of the Woodman order and
other fraternal orders extending over
( a long period of years. There is no
! rPIlKnn O'Kv tlw.on n..n .1.1 tint
. ,. .it,.;,; IIKUICSI DllUUItl IlUk
be correct.
'Whllu It Is true that no man knows' J
the hour of his own death, it Is possi- '
hie to tell with mathematical certain
crease the death rate and. change the fact, you will find that the very cheap
est om line you can get will cost you
at least 33 per cent more per thousand
than the highest rate in the Woodmen.
It would perhaps have been better
that this raise In rates should have
been made before this, but no man who
has been a member of the order for
severalyears has a right to complain
from that estimated Whatsit costs to ; 83 Is- For sevval' years he had the
rnrrv mnmlmr. at certain aee It Protection ror Ills family at far less
Is also true that the younger members
than cost. In all probability he join
ed at a time when his children were
and ; comparatively helpless.
They are now grown up and able to
take care of themselves. The protec
tion they received during these years
As a matter of ' of small assessments was worth all
it cost from year to year to say noth
ing of what may come hereafter. Oa
the other hand the young- man who
now joins the order while he will have
to pay more than young men have
been paying In the past is still get
ting insurance, for much lesB'than he
would have to pay for old lineand in
addition he'gets the social benefits of
the order which are worth something.
of the order have been loaded some'
what heavier than the actual cost of
carrying them in order to help carry
the extra load of the old men; now in
tbe order. v. ,
"The old man therefore has no right'
to complain for he is getting his in- j
surance still at less than cost. The!
old man who finds that he will have to i
pay after tho first of January, 1913, j
some three times or even more than j
three times as much as he has been j
paying, may sort of wince and debate I
the question as to whether or not he '
should stay with tho order.
"IJefore you make up your mind to
quit, old man, I want you to consult j
some old lino life insurance agent in'
a good, reputable company and find
out what you would have to pay for
Call Main Eight
Retail Department
Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Ruberoid
Roofing, Sash Doors, etc.
at the
George Palmer Lumber Co.
m
J ty what will be the average number
,rof deaths per annum among a given ' J
After a Cold Auto Ridei
what could be more comforting or exhllerating than a nice cup of
Hot Chocolate, which you will always find ready at thig season of
the year at our Soda counter? We give It to you pure and cheering, i
full of that goodness and nutriment bo peculiar to the best quality (
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