La Grande evening observer., May 14, 1913, Image 4

WEDNESDAY, MAY H 913.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER,
PAGE POUR
THE OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNIS -EDITOR
AJi OWHEH.
latere at te poitofflce at La Graode,
Oregon, m second elasi natter.
SUBSCBIPTIOIf SATES.
mall, alnarla CODT ..............
is imposed won me here
' There la a deeper lesson in Mrs
wiiknr's xnnfeaRion-than is often ad'
m(HH hv those who are interested in
welfare work. When a girl ha to
wnrlr fnl WaffeS which ATt. M She
nva. A erim loke. the ordinary les
sons on frugality and right living
sound like mockery. No girl can face
n itnaiHflH without being brought
ZLnr Mr week .' .' ! 15 face to face with the two temptations
telly. Mr mora wmcn una gin iuui.u. "V, -
ed to aress wen or iimo m
she is not given a living wage, she
must be strong indeed to withstand
the temptations which surround her.
a inn(r in her oniv saie-
in welfare work realize this more and
more. Preaching will not suffice.
THE OPENING GAME.
lliv vpvii'UK Ban.w w vv. llVinff Wage IS ner umjr o-
season demonstrated a few things of -uarj( an(j those who are interested
all T o r.rnnrlfl TIPnnlfl who . I!-- V.;n wnra Cir.i4
have interest in the team. Apparent-1
ly the home team is much stronger j
than North Yakima. But for errors! KEGULATE PR1CE OF GOLD.
and uncalled for suicides in attempt-1
ing to steal bases the. home team n for ,nternaUonal regulation
really played good ball. f d has been propos.
Of course there were times such as; l P pi h of Yale
when Mountain made a "Red School J contention of
House throw" le ting in two "" speaker that fluctuations in mon
when the grand stand felt hke . " F ueB0 t0 8 peakare directly
grabbing him and eating him raw, s t
but as a whole it was easy to detect : J, , the world.. production
the few weak spots existing in the J"he ba8ic e)ement of the
home team. ' currency of practically all modern
Head work in baseball means so .. .mlrl nroduced. in
- . .. , , . , - , . nauoim. io b r :
much and the cooi neaaea piayer win
not throw over the first baseman,
neither will he make a wild throw to
second. Far better it is to take a
little time and get the ball in the
hands of the baseman too late, than
to take the long chance and let in
scores which cannot be erased.
There is a hopeful feeling among
'the "Spuds" that this week will put
them well up the ladder and we be
lieve that the team is strong enough
to fulfill this hope.
THE WAGES OF SIN
tnm r 1 was able to earn
. I v M p, - .
mounted to a grim Joke."
This is what led Maude Wilbur of
New York to become a shoplifter in
the big stores of New York, Philadel
phia, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Detroit
and Chicago. After a career filled
with hairbreadth escapes that would
make the average boy desperado's
hair stand on end, she was arrested
in Cleveland where she has served a
ten months' sentence, and, will now
be placed on trial in Chicago on a
similar charge.
Her confession and her advice to
trlrla crime from the heart She had
everything she wanted when a girl,
.nrAa tYkn cheaner the basic
Ullio mrv.Mo, . ' I ,
gold dollar becomes in comparison
with other commodities, including the
price of labor. Which, of course, up
hni.! the argument of those who con
tend that present prevailing high
prices all over the world are directly
due to a steady increase in the world's t
output of gold for several years pasi
AorcnN analysis of the child's disposition
TUB ra w,v. ' re roade in each case.
: t Among the facta brought out in
- Things have reached the stage In at, it is interesting to note that
Oregon when every commission, ev- g chjj(j 0f 8even years of age should
ery state official and most or the coi-1 abje count up to thirteen, w
. . i u a. I i! ao n ntft
leges have paid press agents
And for what!
To furnish stories to newspapers in
the hop of getting advertising for
nothing. -. ,,- - 1 ':
The Observer has-put on the lid on
this kind of "junk." Hereafter when
the railroad commission, the governor
or the secretary of state or the uni
versity or the railroads want their
wares mentioned there must be
check accompany the copy or an ad
vertising order which means that a
check will follow at the end of the
month.
Portland is full of leagues and so
cieties each of which has a publicity
department and usually some one
man is boosting his name berore ine
nublic hoDine at a future date to take
advantage of the advertising he re
ceives. V
' Did it ever occur to you that this
state is "organized" to death. There
is a bunch in every part of the Wil
lamette valley who "organize" for
some purpose and immediately m
otall oress bureau which means
that some snip of a youngster gets a
salary for trying to work the news
papers of the state.
No more for us. We are dene.
WHEAT; LIVE STOCK AND LUM-
BER. "'
Th three irreat pillars of the
Professor Fisher, however, believes (Jrande Ronde valley are wheat, live
XNO one can uuuut
this is a thing that could he ana
should ' be regulated , by , nations
thwMiph international agreement, and
the plajfi he proposes is simplicity it
elf. He would restore the old law
vtr , : -Myt? ; of seigniorage, under which a go-..-.
. i x. iwmoMi a charee on the pro
ducer or owner of gold bullion lor
converting it into coin, and he would
have this seigniorage regulated by
I on "official index number of the av-
oi-nra nrire level of all other stable l, ,!,.
commodities." In other words, when; d th
the reiauve pn ui svm counties iney pre one anu uwf aum:.
measured by the average price oi prohnbiv the onlv reason they were
I other commodities, the bullion owner 1 ever d'.vidrd ' was due to the dssh-3
would receive less for his bullion, f )aving a coiniy seat located
ihAN'ltV tendinjr to restrict the pro-
duction of gold until a stab'e level j j,u)i wit;, lVese three great
was restored. And at all times, soigourres there U a wonderful ".a, we
Professor Fisher claims ,the tendency - Bhn,j nc ,: , f the state.
.would be to keep the gold dollar orj Knoah 1imiu to. last two gv.cr-
l othor unit of currency, on a stable ,.,, wnh r .-Cvo mills in onera i .n
everyininij b,iu c--- - -
. . 1.., i,a cnnut. nf linsia. nt the same time leaving sop-,, . ... . nermnnent commeral
her nnrents. was soon abandoned and arale commodities subject to the us- 8lan(jing 0f the two counties, to say
- t. I i..a..An,.AA r,r .linn u ant nnmnnn
Ltock and lumber,
this statement.
We have many other resource" that
bring in money, but the wheat, live
stock and lumber are staple ni can
be depend! upon every year.
The same" resources abound in
Wallowa county. Truly, Union and
Wallwoa counties are one and the
rniv.e. Fv leeislative act there 'ihs
been an imaginary line establbltfd,
it comes ': to business
people of the two
ji. n Vmr mii resources. Here
she takes up the narrative by saying:
"I got work in a store and discov
ered that either I had to steal to pet
nroqentable clothes or accept the
proffered, friendship of men inside or
outside the store, i ne wnpr '
able to earn amounted to a grim joke.
As against the men, I chose to be
come a thief, and while I am "down
and out" as they say on the street, I
prefer jail to some other things.
"I have spirit and some honor, tho
best kind, left. No person can tak?
these from me. Of course, the crim
inal life don't pay, and I think I have
learned that lesson. With the val li
able lessons in life learned in the lost
two years, I am planning to start
anew when I have served whatever
ual Influences or supply ana acmami. nothjnjr 0f anything else that .s pn-
The theory is an ingenious one, t' (luce(j jjut here COmes the horse
say the least, and is likely to attract buyorg f rom Canada and the federil
the attention of financial experts nil; povernment after the Union and Wal
over the world. The present system is ,()wa horses because they claim they
concededly imperfect, for it, not only j are bettel. than the horses raised elsn-
offers a premium to the gold bullion where they have better wind and
producer, when the relative price of beUer f ect etc.
gold is low, but imposes a double bur-j wheat the old standby is a win
den on the public generally by unduly ner one year with another. Prices
'iicouraging gold production at tr.e j ajways gve a reasonable margin of
the very time when commodity puces
are being forced upward through an
The proposed plan of, relief Is there
fore worth considering, and it iJ not
unlikely the time will come when
something of this kind will be actu
ally undertaken by the leading na
tions of the world.
Drofit to the grower
Then with the fruit crops, the pay
already too plentiful supply of j,V;d.J rolls Rnd the smaiier industries, why
The Test of Time
Time determines whether the policies under which a bank Is oper
ated are sale.
This bank has been In business twenty-six years.
It has grown steadily until It has become one of the strongest and
most prosperous finsnclai lustltutlons in the West.
The soundness of Its policies Is attested by the long list of .conserv
ative business men who transact their business here; alse by an
earned surplus of $130,000.00, the work of time and the res-jll of
conservative management.
This bank boa facilities for taking care of more high grade buM
ness and offers lis services to those who appreciate the beet In
banking. ' " '
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon
Capital, $100,800.00 - Surplus, $130,000.00 Resources, 1,100,000.01
DESIGNATED DEPOSITOR! OF FJilTED STATES COTEKJfSTEST.
USITED STATES rOSTAL 8ATI5GS DIPONTOBT.
worry and fret over business. lo
you not realize that if you fail to
make good in either of these coun
ties,' that the doors of the commer
cial world elsewhere are closed to
you?
The same argument prevails in
favor of Baker county, for the pro
ducts are the same. No one in Baker
has the least cause to complain of
business, for again we say, if by your
ability you cannot make good in East
ern Oregon then try not elsewhere
for you are a dead one. There is no
room for you and your ideas any
place in the world. You are a "nev
er was," to use someone's else expres
sion and you had just aR well go into
the commercial discards first as last.
WHAT CHILD OF SEVEN KNOWS.
Teaching by the use of object les
sons has long been the accepted meth
od of presenting new facts to pupils.
That it is also the most effective way
to teach tho difference between nor-
m.l ami nhnnrmnl dnvelonment of
children ha? been demonstrated at the
' national hygiene exposition at Wash
ington.
1 The mental and physical attributes
; of two b,o-8 from North Carolina af
flicted with hookworm were compar-
I I ... .t A -Y. I! 1 f .AM
ea wun inone oi iwu niuumi nun,
' prominent families, and some striking
I facts were brought out in the com
! parative examinations.
I Physical measurements, blood pres
sure tests, haemgoblin counts, exami-
UV vw -
Ing an article representing each pro-
...nt.er aa he' counts.. He
should be able to repeat the days or
the week, make change in simple sum,
recognize the principal colors, tell the
time, pick out the missing details in
pictures, and be able to draw these
missing features as well. Any child
not able to do these things has been
retarded in his development in some
psychological way.
One of the boys tested, at the age
of six, was shown to have the de
of the average boy of 9,
and his father explained this by say
ing that, since, one year of age, the
vnA YaA Wn fed chiefly on bananas
and milk, and meat only during the
last year.
. Th two hookworm subjects, aged
fourteen and seventeen years, show
ed the mental development of boys
only nine years o fage.
Without any further comnreni u.
is evident that the national campaign
in th south acainst the hookworm Is
not only needed, but that it has al
ready, more than paid in the number
of people who have been restored to
normality.
HELPING TO BUY HOMES.
Some families pay rent because
thev want to. The purchase of a
Home, especially on the contract plan,
means giving hostages to fortune in
much the same way as does the hav
ing of children. A permanent home
owned entirely or in part by the sal
aried man or the wage-earner means
an interference with that freedom of
movement apparently necessary for
securing the highest possible price
for brain or manual labor."
Other families' pay rent because
thev have to. This is by far the larg
er class. With the instinct for home
owning and with the ability to enjoy
all that a home means, they lack the
first payment demanded for the kind
of a home they want. - '
It is to help the latter class that a
proposal has been made to use, the
$10,000,000 now in the 'hands of the
city of Chicago as its share of street
railway profits for the creation of a
fund to permit the flat and tenement
dwellers there to become home own
ers. There is sound economic sense at
the bottom of the suggestion. A city
where most of the inhabitants own
their homes is usually free from the
which marks the commun
ity that numbers its renters by the
thousands. Men having a staKe m
tho lncAlitv take more interest in its
affairs. They watch its politics nnre
closely. They lose few opportunities
n ntp The labor situation is im
proved by substituting for the class
of "flitters" one that is financially in
terested in holding a permanent resi
dence. For those who are nomads either
by choice or by conviction that their
best interests lie in keeping foot free
of entanirline connections With any
one city little can be done other than
to tempt them by some such method
as this to come into the home own
ing class. Yet the "tent dwellers" m
this world, the gypsies of our mod
ern business and industrial system,
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ai not easily Drioea w kivc in
independence gained by having no
initi.'iBble possessions.
The Chicago contemp'u -i-s the
loanmt; by the - of the uv.-.- pay
ment on the hous? nnd lot. I. is sup
posed bat the ural human irnv
in;; I n a habitati r. and a h.i :p will
do the lest.
A Pittsburg church has barred dir
ty faced parishioners. It is said the
rule was passed because the preacher
could not produce satisfactory re
sults when his audience did not look
clean.
What the people put on their backs
and into their stomachs must be made
cheap, says the president. Of course,
he was not referring to porous plas
ters and stomach pumps.
Two hundred New York physicians
have agreed to give their bodies to
science, for special autopsies. Now,
if they will only agree, to treat them
selves when they are ill, everybody
will be happy.
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8.00 HATS .... 6.00
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LA GRANDE, OREGON.
It must be certainly great to have
a brother like Charles Taft. He acta
more like a friend than a relative.
An Englishman has succeeded in
producing a stingless bee, but in busi
ness affairs people will continue to
get stung as of yore.
President Wilson is upsetting so
manv nrorsdpnt.4 thnt we shouldn't he
r - --(
.nmricail if ha l-nilff his hipvdo 'nn
nation ol the teeth, eyes, ca:e ana the capitol steps.
The government's suit against the
coffee trust will be dropped. Perhaps
there are not sufficient grounds.
Wages and hours are at the bottom
of the whole problem which confronts
the working woman.
A German says electricity will cure
insomnia. If aoDlied Riifiou s .:n
' . '"J t win
also cure ennui.
1 1: If. llniriiCMf . 1 tine it.
ritnenport for Pj-of. Taft ir.sleod of
the usual faculty chair, and a great
problem has been solved.
Bryan and Clark have buried th
hatchet, but it is probable that both
marked the spot.
There is no tariff on dictionaries.
Maybe that's why we are using to
many imported words.
House for Rent, Furniture for Sale
Furniture for three rooms for sale
Will rent house to party buying,
desired, reasonable rent, good loc'
tion, large grounds, modern. Call at
Oberver office. 5-12-tf