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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER,
MONDAY, JULY 7
WEST'S R
SALE
Offers Still Greater Bargains in Every Department. Every Article in Our Immense
Stock Must Go at a Sacrifice
100 Men's Suits, val- d7 Qfl 25 Women's Suits, fhfh 25 Women's Dresses (gtf (fkfk
ues to $25.00, at - 'H iPl? reg. $25.00 values values up to $15.00 ipO.HJiP
Greater Savings on Dry Goods 150 pr Women's Oxfords, val. to $4.00, at 98c
WatWsui or extra specials during July
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on the stretch, only to become fright- to poverty society is directly to blame, acquisition of such knowledge, vice'jjpijj Y0fSt FOim
ened into a run, finally coming down It has not learned the vital importance naturally follows.
01 dun uiseases
the stretch with his gaits mixed so I to itself of bringing out and develop- J The number of young lives that have
ing the last ounce of efficiency in ev- " guinea tnrougn a iaise ana
woman and child. i S""IJC "V
j ooui in uie come ana in our eauca-
miserably that half the grandstand
turned away in disgust.
THE SCHOOLS OF THE FUTURE.
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La Grande, Oregon.
ONLY ONE LEMON.
"The New Basis of Education," an
article in the Journal of Education,
gives a saggestive outline of the ad
justments which school training, must
$3-59 ! make to the changing needs of the
$7.00 . time. Emphasis is placed on the
change in our industrial system and
the change in our educational stand
ards which this makes necessary. .
Dimly we realise that something is
wrong. Children who are destined for j
the mill and the foundry are treated
as though they were going to college
Boys who will be mechanics and girls
who will be housewives are tossed into
the hopper with those destined to be
lawyers or doctors. Manual training is
an attempted answer to the problem of
the day the problem of training chil
dren for the life they are to lead. It,
however, is but half an answer.
The chautauqua management this
year drew but' one lemon in all the
talent used during the session. That
lemon was a man by the name of Wal
ter Holcomb, who lectured; no, not
lectured just talked at random on
"the Horse Race." Never have we
before witnessed a man who presumed
to go in chautauqua company have the
Serve of this man; never have we
heard a talk that was as poorly con
nected, that lacked foundation, that
reflected the inability of the speakei
more than this effort of Holcomb's.
How he ever got into the chautauqua
booking is a mystery; how he stays is
more of a mystery-
Holcomb's "horse race" talk could
be well described in horseman's lan
guage as follows: "Apparently non
registered for not being standard by
production, the speaker led off with
a 'single foot', hitting his boot be
fore he reached the turn where he
threw a shoe and struck a square trot
when we rear and support great in
dustrial and technical schools as Ger
many has for the continuing education
ery man,
.-.ever will we have equality of re-;tional system as a standard is incai
ward for the various kinds of labor. j cuable. Young people should be
Work that requires wide information taught in the usual classroom way
deep knowledge, expeditious handling sinee the home has faiIed to perform
ciear juagmenc ana a nign aegree ott,(s mission, of the origin of men, s
personal initiative always will be; that n0 mystery may attach to it The
paid more than work which is routine youth should be taught to reverence,
in its nature. What we can have, how- jee and conserve their bodies and
ever, is equality of opportunity for all lhtir health. If it is not taught to
kinds of work. We can by free " f tiem in the schools by proper teachers
easily accessible educational fa-:;, 11 v learned from the allevs and
cilities open the door of hope to the !., dark nlaces instead of the briirht
masses 01 oramy men and women eon-; i;ht of science and wholesome teach
fined in the dungeon of what seems to : jng.
De Uieir late. We Can give likely boys Tr snrA iha hfnrmsh'nn nmiurll
and girls the kind of training that will before the students of the high school
fit them best f or the particular work;;s ntme too early. To have sex hy-
tney cnoose to do. w e can make mis-f gjene thoroughly understood and prop-
.ii CUun:e 01 a vocation ies? erly appreciated by the stuaent means
disastrous to earning capacity by pro-, the spreading of a shield about the
vidmg schools where adults who have youth that must necessarily work s
made such blunders can educate them-, moral benefit,
selves out of work for which they are! .
" Mosfstcessful men lift themselves) ANCIENT SKYSCRAPERS,
by their bootstraps from the abyss of Roman House. Were Tall and FUmiy,
adverse circumstance. In the strue-i the Street. Narrow Lane.
Here Is a Home Treatment
that Overcomes even.
Worst Cases.
'
by
Blood
gle to excel! many potentially capable; The tenement house is no new thine.
of a bicker nlarp than nnr hnArro- So crwi f was the nMm)ur nf snr-h
of those who have had to leave thejsvstem awards them fai, preJ,,dpnt J houses and so badly were they put up
school of the shop. We will not bej Jefferson onee proposed a method for- in ancient Koine that in (!9 A. D. the
gripping the problem at its base until the disco of geniuse3 in Virginia. jEmperor Otho, who wu then marching
we provide free education along spe-lwhat we . . an Pf)nraHnna. jagamst .telhus. fuund In way barred
cial lines for the countless men and!r. - f. 0f . . v I ; tw.e,uv. m" "-T llJe. nl,ns
, . ji. "'""'"sra'n" " ucci int's tnat n;id itvn uutierm ned bv art
women who cannot provide a decent . . D.pnlll,pa pvprvtt.t,p , ,
I o ..,... , I uuuuouu. . 1) J i?H'lliaiiCVU9 v vtintJc
It is no accident that most of our j of tenement houses was so common an
great writers, our ereat artists, our j occurrence that little attention was
. . ...... ... i.
great musicians come from the ranks
of the common people. Through the
common people run those deep cur
rents of thought and feeling which
living for themselves for the simple
reason that they are not trained to do
any particular thing superlatively well.
Just now there is much talk of pro
viding a minimum wage. There is no
doubt of the intrinsic merit of the
orinciple. But what of those who can
not earn even the minimum? No law
ran compel employers to hire the in
efficient, When minimum wage laws become
general and thousands as result are
out of work society will wake up to
r'act that inefficiency is everybody's
business. For the greater nart or the
nefficiency which condemns so many
IHMrdrra are
s. s. s.
Banished
A tiny pimple spreads to the tide of
the face and often covers the cheeks
tnd bridge of the nose. It is very de
structive to the glands of the skin. No
external treatments wilt overcome It,
as the cause of lupus is from impurities
in the blood supply. The only known
method of cure is to get the blood sup
ply under the control of & & &. the
famous blood specific. Its action is
quite remarkable and has direct Influ
ence upon the network of small blood
vessels and glands in the skin.
From the fact that S. S. S. is purely
a botanical preparation, it is accepted
by the weakest stomach end has great
tonic influence in all the digestive or
gans. It is certainly a wonderful blood
medicine, and is prepared direct from
native materials gathered by the ex
perts of the famous Swift Laboratory.
Xot one drop of minerals or drugs is
usea in its preparation. Ask for S. S. S.
and insist upon having it. And if you
desire skillful advice and counsel upon
any matter concerning the blood and
skin, write to the Medical Department,
The Swift Specific Co.. 183 Swift Labo
ratory, Atlanta. Ga. Do not allow some
zealous clerk to larrup the atmosphere
in eloquence over something "just as
good" as S. S. S. Beware of all substi
tutes. S. S. S. is what you need.
For Cuts, Burns and Bruisei j
In every home should be a box of j
Bucklin's Arnica Salve, ready to apply j
in every case of burns, cuts, wounds 1
or scalds. J. H. Polanco, Deivalk
Tex., R. No. 2, writes: "Bucklin's Am
ica Salve saved mv little girl's cot
foot. No one believed it could b
cured." The world's best salve. Only
25c. . Recommended by all druggist.
B. B. NUTTER
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ROLLS AND SCROLLS.
borders and linings everything in the
newest designs in Wall Papers are
here in the most artistic patterns and
most popular colorings. We are show
ing a particularly handsome line of
parlor and drawing room papers the
kind that will please the discriminat
ing housewife of artistic tastes. The
qualities ars high but the prices are
exceedingly reasonabte.
17081 Siith St. Pho.u- Red 9:i-
paid to it.
The tenants of these houses have ji
been described by a writer of the time J
ns fearin;: to be buried or burned jl
alive. Companies existed for the nur- i !
makes great writers, great artists and pose 0f propping and sustaining !
great musicians. From the lowly, the f houses. i
hv.nble and the obscure must cornel In t-omparison with the tenements of ji
the leaders of tomorrow That i .-hv ! n,ost modern fities. those of Koine
THE
The Test of Time
Time determines whether the policies under which a bank Is oper
ated are safe.
This bank has been in business twenty-sli years.
"It has grown steadily nntil It has become one of the gtronges'. and
most prosperous financial Institutions In the West,
The soundness ... policies Is attested by the long list of conserv
ative business n.n transact their business here: also by an
earned surplus of ;1V "i .....no, the work of time and the res-ill of
conservative managem-ii
This bank has facilities for taking care of more high grade b'n'.
nees nd offers Its services t o those who appreciate the best in
banking.
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon
Capital. $100,000.00 Surplus, I130.0O0.O0 Resources, 1.100,000.0
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF C5ITED STATES OOTEBSMEJlT.
U5ITED STATES POSTAL 8ATI5GS DEP0S1T0BT.
That is whv
a system of education which neglects ?ere -' Mgb. Martial allude ;
, , .. , i to a poor uimu, a neighbor, who had to ii
u7;w"ra " l"c su mount stops to rea. li his garret.
called upper stratum is fundamentally! Til:,t snrret must have been perilled '
wrong, lunuamcniaiiy unjusi ana. nearly ItAl feet above the level of the
damentally foolish from an eco
nomic point of view.
In this world there is enough for
everybody. The trouble is that we
do not equip everybody for the job
of getting their share. Some dav
! when we do give everybody iust as
much equipment as they can handle
we will take the fractional minority
that remains the hopelessly ineffi
cient and keep them in confinement
as today we keep lunatics. Before any
such penalty will be meted out, how
ever, we will give all those suspecterd
of inefficiency the benefit of a sen
tence to the nearest school.
TEACHING SEX HYGIENE.
It would be well for every city in
the country to follow the lead of the
Chicago board of education, which
plans to have sex hygiene taught in
the high schools beginning with the
j noxt term. Some will argue that home
! is trre proper place for children to
j learn the mysteries of nature and per
haps it is the best place but offsetting
thi trgument is the fact that it is
not being taught in the home. Much
of -the vice prevalent in the world is
the result of inexcusable ignorance
Certain knowledge comes to all young
people and when it comes from im
proper sources it is usually tainted
with, salacious and vicious suggestion
When there is no restraint upon the
street. ! j
It is possible that Martial exaggerat- ;
ed. but it is certain that Augustus, to jj
make less 'refluent the oct-urrence of '
disasters, limited the heicht of new
houses that opened upon the streets to
atKint sixty-eight feet. As this was a
remedial regulation and referred only
to now houses fronting on the street,
it follows that some houses must have
exceeded that height.
This, moreover, was Irrespective of
the breadth of the street. In Berlin the
medium width f the streets is twenty
two meters, mid in Paris the narrow
est streets are nearly eight meters
wide, while the streets of Rome ex
tended only five or six meters, aud on
these narrow streets the tall houses
were built. I.icht and air must have
had some difficulty in penetrating those
narrow, walled In passages.
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The Surprise.
A man told his daughter that if she
learned to cook he would give her a
surprise. She learord the art. and he
surprised her by discharging the serv
ant girl.
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