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ENTIRE LINE NEWEST-.
MEWS CLOTHING
REDUCED TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT.
$30.00 SUITS POR V. . $22.60 ; t $20.00 SUITS FOR $15.00
$25.00 SUITS FOR $18.75 . , $17.50 SUITS FOR . . . : $13.15.
$22.50 SUITS FOR ........ .$16.90 $15.00 SUITS FOR . ; $11.25
EVERY SUIT MUST OOKONE RESERVED.
WOMEN'S SUITS AND COATS AT
WHOLESALE COST AND LESS
I ENTIRE LINE READY TO WEAR GOODS AT GREAT FORCED SACRIFICE SALE
ENTIRE UNE NEW FOOT
WEAR SACRIFICED. '
GREAT FORCED SALE OF DRY
GOODS. , - ' -
IF YOU DIDN'T GET WAITED ON TODAY COME AGAIN TOMORROW COME EARLY IF
POSSIBLE AND WE WILL BE ABLE TO WAIT ON YOU BETTER.
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FME OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNIS, Editor .and Owner
Entered in the post-office 1 at La
Grande. Oreroa, u second "claea
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THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth St.,
La Grande, Oregon.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.
v "The world owes me a living" has
been said many times, chiefly by idl
ers and. ne'er-do-wells. It is hard to
see how the world owes any man a
living, but that there is a grain of
truth in the generality is coming to be
realized. Instead, however, of admit
ting that it owes every man a living
the modern world, only admits that it
owes every man an eual chance to
earn a living.
This is the . fundamental idea un
derlying the British scheme of un
employment insurance and a national
labor exchange, described in Harper's
magazine. . The two necessarily go to
gether, for before a man can b4 paid
insurance while he is out of work the
nation must know that he is. not out
of work through, his own laziness or
indifference". The labor exchange thus
not only checks frauds on the insur
ance fund, but also makes the labor
supply, mobile. In A other words it
makes it possible to relieve unemploy
ment in one part of the country by
moving the nnemployed to another
part where' they are needed. It has
proved a boon both to the laborers and
the employers in seasonal trades. It
also is solving the problem of what
to do with those broken down in in
doqr industry; Before these workers
become entirely waste material it re
moves them from the employment
that is breaking their health and spir
it and provides the outdodr labor that
builds them up. - ",
' Great Britain is tackling the prob
lem of unemployment in a big way. It
plans to regulate public work in such
a manner that in times of depression
men can be employed ; in : building
bridges, digging canals, reservoiring
destructive rivers, reforestating the
moors and rocky hills, building ports,
developing water power and doing
other labor of a public nature. Such
employment will be held in reserve
until the necessity for it arises.
Before a problem of unemplayment '
is solved, however, the state must go
to the sources of the trouble and elim- j
inate from the army of the unskilled
the large number who have been de
nied an education to make them cap
able. ; Perhaps some day we will have
courts with authority to sentence in
efficient-men and women to schools
instead of to workhouses. ' ;
Chicago woman arrested for selling
watered milk said she couldn't help
it because her cows got up before day
light and ate . dew laden grass. The
trusts with watered stock probably
wish they could explain as easily.
In Detroit, Mich., a teamster has
been discovered who was supporting
two families on $15 a week. What
he had left over he spent in riotous
living. ' ' . , '
Nobody has offered Uncle Joe Can
non any college prof esorship. ,V He
might hold down the chair of profanity
all right.
It is the men who are Burning the
midnight oil who are accomplishing",
great things, not the men who are
burning the midnight gasoline.
' ,' ' A - Missouri editor says a woman
cannot climb a tree. ' No, but she can
make a man do it any time.
The Test of Time
Time determines whether the policies under which a bank is oper
ated are safe. '. ' - . j
This bank has been In business twenty-six years. -
It has grown steadily until It has become one of the strongest and
most prosperous financial Institutions in the West,
The soundness x.. ,.u:, mlicles Is attested by the long list of conserv
' ative business meu vs. transact their business here; also by an
earned surplus of .00, toe work of time and the res'ill ot
conservative managemn, .
This bank has facilities for taking care of more high grade b-i li
nes s and offers fts services to those who appreciate the best In
banking. .
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon
Capital, $100,000.00 Surplus, $130,000.00 Resources, 1,100,000.08
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF C.MTED STATES GOTERXXEST.
UXITED STATES POSTAL SAT1SGS DEPOSITORY.
CEREMONY.
Ceremony keeps up all things..
Tls like a penny glass to a rlcb
spirit, or some excellent water
without It the water were split,
the spirit lost Of all people la
dies liuve no reason to cry down
ceremonies, for they Mike them
selves slighted without It And
were they : not used with cere-
; raony with compliments and ad
dresses, witli less and kissing of
. hnmls they were the pltlfulest
creatures in the world. . But yet
nietblnks to kiss their hands aft
er their lips, as some do, is like
little boys that after they eat the
apple fall to the paring, out of a
love they have to the apple.
John Selden. , V
! t Zoological Myths.
Certain creatures oft heard of. pray who
ever saw?
There's the camel wlieso back broke be
neath the last Btraw.
There's the wonderful goose that laid
yeuss of pure gold '
And the bull that got In where the china
was sold. "
There's the ass that the skin cf a lion
' doth wear
And the wrong pig we frequently get by
the ear.
The wild horse that never no, never
could drag
Us somewhere. There's the cat we let
out of the bag.
There's the bird that gees whispering se-
. crets around.
Whoever has seen It. whoever nas found'
There's the oft mentioned dog In the
manger that Mnnds . .
and the elephant some one has 'got on
his hands.
There's the ravenous wolf from our doorc
that we keep v
And the wolf that goes round In tbi
clothes of a sheep. ,
Thure's the nightmare that somebody tetlt
us they've had.
There's the cut with mnf lives, and the
March hare that's mad.
And the fox that declared that the hlgl j
iniwi were sour.
And the grim dogs of war. It would talp
quite uii hour
Just to list all the odd. freakish creature
that we
Nearly every day hear of, bet never once
. set.
-St. Louis Glebe-Democrat.
-. WAGE ARBITRATION. "
-The experience arising from:
! large wage controversies places
a serious ' responsibility upon
thos whose duty it Is to enact
' proper legislation, governing the -relations
between employer and.
' employee,' to consider whether
the Erdmun act should not be
' an.ended to increase the number
of arbitrators and thereby con-
: Ktitute a board of sufficient size '
'to properly represent the public.-
; a well as the parties to the con- .
, troverey and to direct the neces-'
nary -.farreaching Investigations V
and fully share the responsibility r
of an impartial (Tetermlnation of
the eipiitable and economic ques- '
tions iirising from such disputes ,.:
It will also be found -necessary
: to provide a longer time than
"tlifrty days specified In the act ;,
for the consideration. of the sub-.;
vjwt mid the .rendering of a de- i
cision. It mny hot be nossible to' i
'' provent strikes or lockouts by .
- requiring compulsory arbitration, ;
but It Is wise 'to consider wheth
er an obligation should not be
placed upon the employer and r
employee, to advise the authori
ties of the questions at issue be-
fore any lockouts or strikes con .'I
become effective, .so that by due
. publication and inquiry the gov-
: ernnient and the public may. be
fully Informed of the extent of ,
the controversy tind Its causes. ;:
Samuel Ilea, President Pennsyl- :
vuuiu Kailroud.
ROUND TIE GLOBE
. New York's Chinatown has a popu
lation of 5.000.
. Woolless sheep Is one of the peculiar
ities of the Kongo country.
Less than one-third of the area of
Komi is suitable for farming. .
'" By anew system of machine teleg
raphy 300 words a minute can be sent.
Subject to government inspection.
1C.CKX New Zealand farmers teep bees.
The population of India is Beven
ttmcs greater than that of Great Brit
ain. " .''j r.". '. v '
The choicest corks come from Algeria,
whii li has 2.S0O.QOO acres of cork for
ests. . . - . . -
-Cast year British shipyards turned
out more than 1.750.000 tons of hew
Vdpping. , ;, ; - - ,
Of the 112 tourists who lost their
lives last yar by Alpine ascents elev
en were women. ; .
Records kept for twenty-five years
show ,tliat the proverbial fopginess of
Loudon is decrestslug.
A floating drydock with n lifting ca
pacity of 30,000 tons has Iteen built for
the British admiralty.
Esierts In China are investigating
the possibility of using bamboo pulp
In the manufacture of paper napkins. '
There are over 32.000 beggars In
Vienna, and It Is stated that thetr av
erage Income is more than that of most
worklugmen. '
Accurate photographs of building
and land have been taken by United
States army aviators from altitudes as
great as 1.000 freU '
The Salvation Army Is at work la
forty -seven different cortrjcjind has
fifty-five periodicals, prunes in i. :
ty-one languages. r . ' '
The value of secondary metals (those
recovered from scrap metal, sweepings,
skimmings, drosses, etc.) last year in
the United States was $52,585,390.
The recent ' census shows" that ; New
Zealand's population is over-1.000,000
The 1006 census showed a total of 888
678 and the 1011 census 1.007.811. ' '
By the construction of a pumber of
short cuts In Siberia the time from
Berlin' to Peking will within a year of
so be reduced from thirteen and on
half days to nine days. , .y
'.TrtnldadT which was the first Wesi
India Island to test wireless telegra
phy, is now to have a larger plant at
Port of Spain, which will have a max
imum radius of 2IO0O miles. . ,
, Military rowdies are again stopping
Inoffensive coolies and. others whom
they: suspect of wearing cues In the
streets of Nanklug and relieving them
ol the "objectionable appendages.
vTiales are Increasing rapidly, as it
no longer pays to kill' them...-. Twenty,
five years apro 400.000 barrels of whale
oil were produced annually.' The quan
tity has now fallen to about GO.OOO bar
rels. i :
' To Insure the owner of . a privare
shaving cup kept in a barber shop thai
he Is Itsonly user there has been in
veuted a paper cap to cover it. which
cannot be removed . without breaking
a seal. ,.':.v; ' -.;;-..,:'. y,
: .Collectors of etchings and engravlnj?
must occasionally pay high prices foi
their treasures. A Iie.-ahrandt print,
'Jan Sylvius." signed by the artist and
dated lti4(i brought at auction recently
81,025,
The' Westminster Men's Society For
Women's Rights of Loudon publishes a
weekly paper culled the" Eye Opener.
Among other things it deals with the
present tnetBeieut state of the law for
the protection .of women. , . -
.'A poet says It's hard to be poor. Wa
fall to see anything difficult about It
New York Americas.
Increasing the supreme court, from
nine to eleven suggests going from
baseball to football. Norfolk Ledger
Dispatch. . s, - ' -it
.Health authorities now declare that
the finger bowl is full of germs. Nev
er drink from the linger bowL Detroit
Free Press. , , " '
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Yon can now have your
Auto top or seats
Repaired at home by one who
knows how. Prices very rea
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1306 ADAMS.
WE SELL V
Pure Artificial Ice at 50e a
hundred. . -'
Pure river Ice at 30 cents a
. hundred.
Our Artificial Ice is made
from . pure Beaver - creek
water and is guaranteed as
pure as the city water."
Please get your orders in
before noon each day. .
G R AN D Y
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THE ICE MAN.
1$
5.00
GIVEN IN
PRIZES
To any boy or girl 15 years or un
der who will writs the best essay oh
how much actual money The Ward
robe saves the community it serves
in a year. Conditions and prizes will
be explained on Saturday.
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