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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1913.
LA GBAKDI IVININO OBSERVER,
P10B7T70
FALLACIES
OF
GOVERBT
OOJfTBIBVTOR DISCT8SES COM.
, M18I0II WHO.
Criticizes SIw of "Mlswllawoo
fund of City.
La Grande, March. B. Editor Ob
server: Up to date there bas not
been much advanced by the advocate
' of a burrlod change to the comnils-
lon form of city government except a
Jot of imserttonn, assumptions and
glttlerlng generalities. Theae have
been repeated again and again but no
evidence of their correctness bus
been submittod. One writer asserts
that "Our present municipal govern
ment is Inefficient, Insufficient, and
inslwer'e." I do nut quite agree with
him there. I think we have at pres
ent an administration that is above
. the average. ' That the majority of
the present council are able and hon
est men who are sincere in their de
sire to bring order out of chaos and
that they will succeed if given a Ti
tle more time. I believe that there
is at least one department that is ef-
' Anient and above reproach, as I will
explain later on.
Neither do I agree with' him when
be says "The administration officers
are practVnlly responsible to no one."
Some of them, at times, ac t as though
they looked at It that way, but they
' are certainly responsible to the vot
ers and taxpayers of the city. If they
are not, then nobody, from the presi
dent down is responsible and our re
publican form of . .government Is a
sham and a farce. There are plenty
of way to make them realize their
responsibility it we only go at It in
the right way. We are told that "A
good system will not be managed by
Insincere men', and neither can a bad
system be made a good one by honest.
Ben." I suspect that there la a mis
print somewhere among that. If there
is not, both statement are utterly un
tenable, for we can not admit that the
creature Is necessarily greater than
the creator and ha good systems can
not be put to bad uso by evil and de
signing men and vice versa.
What assurance have wo that in
sincere men will never be In office
miHor the new system T Is there
any way of telling without fall wheth
ap a. man la sincere or nott Our
penitentiaries are full of living
proofs that the best of our systems of
government and business ran , and
will be misused. Entirely too much
weight is lal on tbe system and
form by the friends of the new form.
System or form counts for very little
a anyone must know who bas had
any contact with the world. The
form of a note or bond for instance,
Is secondary to tbe . reliability and
reputation of the man who signs It.
There Is much evidence that a cor
poration form can be misused. The
National Cash Register company for
Instance whose officers were recently
sentenced to jail, and the commission
men (no Joke Intended-who were re
cently fined In Portland. To the
There is never any effort to cover
up Its work. All its actions are
known to the public and It therefore
must do about the right thing to keep
the confidence. of the public. Unlike
many other public servants, the fire
ladles respond Instantly to a call of
duty, and unlike some others, they
are not offended when their attention
Is called to their jilaln duty. They
do not look at you as if you were
trying to Interfere with their private
affairs.. They have no favorites,
either, they respond as quickly to the
call of the humblest of us as to the
foremost among us, One part of the
town Is as Important to them as any
other part. They do not have to be
prodded every time there la anything
to do, they are always ready for their
duties. They seem to realize that
they are the servants and not the
masters of the public. They are eas
ily approached, no introductions and
no red tape is needed. They are
there for the protection of the public
and not for its secret exploitation.
CHANCE FOR
TENNIS GRAFT
No Rule to Restrain From Com
mercializing Game.
TERM AMATEUR IS PUZZLING
Efforts te Dofins Professions! Led to
Wrangling at Reoent Mooting of Na
tional Lawn- Tennis Association, but
No Decision.
Lawn tennis players who are "wise"
and have a leaning to commercialism
can make tbi most of their opportuni
ties dtti'liig tlic coining season and la.
In the tournaments where transport:!
an.K jvf . b Ma. m Ann aaVArAl 1 1 -J. -, , n I thaw .
-.n. .11 f whleh have . '.. a tlon unJ free board are offered, wheth
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the same system of form of govern- j called upon. If they refused to get
ment as the United States. Strange j up and go to .a Are, not even', the
to say, it does not prevent them from friends of the new form would have
having wicked, Inefficient and un-; the nerve to blame H on to the uys
scrupulous men in even the highest tem that is in use. Will some of
offices, nor from revolutions and tur- them please rise and explain why the
moil without end, while we, under system excuses neglect of duty In all
the same system, have peace and other servants of the city, but not In
prosperity.
Responsibility. inefficiency and
guilt are always personal, but shift
ing them on to the system la cheap
er and easier than bearing them. In
New York City and In Portland, the
chief of police Is appointed by the
mayor and authority centralized '; to
our fire department?
It stands to reason that if all other
departments were run more along
these, lines they would be more pop
ular too.
The annual financial statement
published In your issue of Feb. 28th
is along these lines and our city
that extent, but It has certainly not officials deserve credit for the same,
helped the situation any. The re- There s probably only one Item that
sponelblllty lies far more with theany falrminded taxpayer 'would ob
officlals and the public than with the Ject to. V. Is the last one among the
system. If the system Is everything, expenditures of administration de
how Is It that one department of our partment. An Item of 7,451.96 is a
city government is never found fault little too large to be classed as mis
wlth while all the rest are? cellaneous. The taxpayers , are en-
I have lived In and near La Orando titled to know within a few hundred
for twenty-odd years but do not recol- dollars of what Is done with thnlr
lect of ever hearing anybody klcklnft money. '
about our Are department. I've If the Issue were solely between
heard all the other departments crit- "boodle politics" and "business
Iclzed and1 even cursed. Now, why ; science" the'latter would certainly
should there be such a difference? I
think the reason is perfectly plain,
though few have thought of 'It. It
is the one department that is on a
truly democratic basis.
GARDEN SEEDS
A' full .live of first class garden- seeds on display.
2sow is the time to buy as our line is complete.
- FANCY APPI ES
The best kind for both cooking and eating, box 70c
OUR HOME-MADE SAUERKRAUT IS SPLEN
DID I have some more of the 3 K. Norway Herring and
also some stock fish on hand yet. It is all very fine
stuff. ,
THE (;001 T1IIXGS TOST NO MORE THAN ORDINARY
THIXOS IK YOU KJiOW W II ERE TO BUY.
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VEGETABLES IN SE ASON ALL THE TIME.
be preferable, but that Is not stating
the Issue fairly. All the good sug
gestions about publicity, etc., made
by your .correspondent and otherB.
apply with equal force to our present
system. His argument of the water
pipe will not hold water any belter
than the pipe he mentions would.
Tndcr the clrcums'ancea, as he states
them a prudent man If he were as
badly In debt as the . city Is, would
probably shirt off the, waterand get
Ms supply from1 his nearest tielghbor
for a while. At any rate, he would
not rip out the entire line of pipe on
his property but would only remove
remove a small piece with the hole
where It had been leaking. That
would tie much nearer true economy
than any other plan would be. Much
more mli?ht be said along the same
l'nes but I fear I am encroaching
oo much on your space and on the
line and patience of the public. In
a few days I may have some more to
say on these and kindred subjects.
J. H. BLl'MEXSTIEN.
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LA GRANDE, OREGON.
JU'A V AND PORTLAND WINNERS.
Freshman (!Irl and Hoy Take Honors
at Inter-Class Oratory Meet.
Oregon Agricultural College Cor
vall's. Ore.. Corvallis, Ore. iMarch 3.
Freshman from Japan and Port
land carried off tho honors of the
Inter-Class Oratorical and Declama
tion contest, at the Oregon Agricult
ural collage. Miss Kareen Hansen of
Portland capturing the audience with
a nne presentation of "Claudius and
Cynthia," in the girls' contest, and
N'ao Uyel of Oyodo, Japan, gave by
far the best original oration bis
subject being "The Spirt of the New
Japan."
R. R. Davis, Hlllsboro. won second
place In the oratorical contest for
the Juniors with a eulogy on Lincoln.
Arthur R. Chase, Corvallis gave the
sen'ors third nlare with the iwwt
original oration, on "The Farmer of
the Future."
Anne Rutled.g. Bvanston, 111. was
a close second to Miss Hansen giving
the sophomores second in the declam
ation with "How the LaRue Stakes
were Iost." Hazel Holt, Boston
M"?.. a Junior, took third place with
Kipling's "Knst and West."
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er it be by a club or a hotel. It if
likely to be the lust year for this sun
of petty graft Under the amateur def
inition which the United States' Na
tional Lawu Tenuis association placed
on Its records at the unuiuil meeting iu
New York recently the only thing that
operates UKnlnst a player being an am
ateur sih.'1ijsio he employment by a
merchant of sporting goods In the lawn
tennis department.
By a sfrnnge freak of legislation the
delegates voted a new constitution and
bylaws to supersede the old, which
practically were Identical with thelnsvs
under which the association has been
directed for more than twenty years
with one unimportant exception. The
gieat opportunity of enacting effective
laws to govern the game, which Is be
coming luore widespread every year
and uttmctlng the youth of the coun
try, was completely lost In the nilsts
of urgumental fog and uncertain verb
iage. The clause In the section defining an
amateur which would hare prevented
the stlgma-of accepting valuable gratu
ities If not money would surely have
been passed bad slight . changes beon
made In its wording which would have
made tt ns effective In operation. It
appeared that the majority of the dele
gates were lu favor of legislation of
this sort i
But they split on the question of legit
imate clubs entertaining players. Karl
Behr was quick to see this and endeav
ored to have the objectionable features
amended. Lyle E. Mnhan and other
members of the revision committee
were given time to submit a change
The result of their labors was so hope
lessly Involved that Behr's efforts and
-the objectionable clause, which was
the crux of the whole structure, tum
bled together. This clause, which was
stricken from the amateur definition,
read ns follows:
"Has never accepted from
iny hotel, club or similar organization
at which or In connection with which
a tennis tournament- Is being held,
transportation or money for transpor
tation or board, lodging or other gen
eral living accommodations or money
to cover any or all of the same, or
any secret or exceptional reduced rate
in connection with such tournament.
The Interpretation of this rnle shall
not prevent a player from taking nd
vantage of a reasonable special rote
from such hotel, club or similar organ
ization if such special rate is properly
announced nnd is open to any one en
terlng the tennis tournament"
Two remarkably strong points devel
oped In favor of such a cluuse as the
above being Incorporated In the Amerl
can rules. England has recently enact
ed such a law. and the International
federation, which meets In Paris next
month, contemplates similar action In
Its efforts to standardize all of the laws
and rules for all nations.
Henry 'W. Slocnm, the chntrman of
the revision committee, stntck a true
note when he stated that an American
nmnteur might and himself debarred
from foreign tournaments because of
the laxity of the American rule in this
respect and after the meeting It was
remarked thnt a question of this char
acter had once been diplomatically in
slnuated by England as to a player uii
the United States Davis cup team, who
part lu the matches
The one. thing thnt Impressed those
who attended the thirty-second annual
meeting or tue .association was the
fact that the voting of proxies no long
er falls into the hands of one or two
prominent officials It was much split
up.' the western and southern clubs
standing fairly well together In voting
upou moxt matters, with a sprinkling
of the smaller eastern clubs giving
them the balance of power.
On several occasions the line of de
marcation appeared almost factional,
the west vutlim against the old guard
of the east. It is likely that tills pe
culiar feature will rather Increase than
diminish, as the clubs throughout the
country are becoming Interested and
educated In the government of the
game.
lu connection with the awanf.ng of
the national nil comers' rhnn.nl..nhi..
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slno are "aware that the lournaroent
must lie given a pleudid setting in or
der to coutlnue ft there. The grow
have been scientifically surveyed, so
tbut s greater number of courts win
be available next August
Senators Tryinfl Out Collsglan.
Inflclder Zncb Hrnard. a student at
Columbia university. New York, snd
native of tbut city, bus been signed for
trial by the Washington club.
Chamberlains Tablets lor Constipa
tion. For constipation, N Chamberlain's
Tablets are excellent ' Easy to take,
mild and gentle In effect Give them.
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JONES NEW YALE COACH.
Old
Eli Player Is Selected to Head
Football Staff This Season.
Howard Jones. Yale 1008, Sheffield,
was recently appointed bead coach of
the Vale football team for the year
1013. Jones will tuke up his duties at
the spring practice and will havo com
plete charge of the team In the play
lug season next full. The appointment
is for one year.
Jones' home Is In South Orange, N. J.
ne coached at Syracuse university the
year of fcis graduation from Yale, spent
the fall of 1909 with the Yale team,
coached Ohio State in 1910 and since
then bus been each fall with the team
of his alma mater at New Haven.
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Souths Now a Rhodes Scholar.
E. A. Son thee of Sydney, who has a
brilliant record as an all round Jumper,
will be one of the Australian Rhodes
scholars to enter Oxford university.
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requirement of a perfect cor
set. The popularity of the Gos
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been followed by a number of
Imitators. Other than lacing In
front all these imitations are
totally lacking in the essentials
.which make Gossard corsets so
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Every woman who investi
gates buys a Gossard corset ',
A complete line of all mod
els and sizes always on band.
Prices J3.50, 5.00, 6.60 asd
8.50.
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