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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1913)
0 Greed Final Reductions Now in Force in Every Dept Every Article in the Store Must Be Sacrificed Now Eveiy department in the store to be torn up and rebuilt more modern during the month of August. Windows and entire store front to be torn out. New balcony builded and old one torn out. In fact there is not one shelf , ledge or case that will remain intact. 1 The above reasons are why we must sell our stock at a still greater sacriiice and sell it quick When West's Modern Store opens for fall business it will be with an entire new stock in every department. Gome today and get your share of our present stock. Watch Our Win dows and Ads. West's Remodeling Sale Watch Our Win dows and Ads. THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner Entered in the post-office 'at La - Grande, Oregon, as second class matter. '!"' SU3SCRIiTilON RATES. Daily, single copy 5c Daily, per week 15c Daily, per month ...... ... . . . , . 65c Daily, per six months in ad vance $3.50 Daily, per year in advance $7.00 Daily, by moil per year in ad vance $1.00 Weekly Observer, per year in advance ..... . . .'. . . . tl.50 i 1 Advertising rates on application. AH copy for display advertising must reach the .office the day before the ad appears. Address all communtcations to TOE OBSERVER, 3710 Sixth St., ; La Grande, Oregon. WHY THEY HATE THE AMERI 1 CANS. Every once in a while the Ameri can public, the greater part of which is so busy earning a living that it has little or no interest in foreign af fairs, reads with a feeling akin to amazement of "anti-American" dem onstrations in some of the countries that lie to the south of us. Now the average American con ceives himself to be a rather inoffeiv hre, peace-loving person and when, for instance, he reads in his newspa per that students in Mexico City p's currying banners in which are inscrib ed the motto, "Death to the nn . kees" he is mildly surprised. If he has followed the national relations, with Mexico even casually he realizes I that for the last three or four years' 1 fiM4-;,.lu cfa.J Mils government uoo ugu,n.j ed up nights figuring out ways to avoid hurting the feelings of Mexi- j cans Knowing that his country has ! no desire to add to its troubles by stealing Mexican territory he is at a loss to understand why it should be so hated and suspected, not by Mex- j ico alone, but by practically every, coun I y on this hemisphere south of ' the Rio Grande. Conscious as he is of the good faith j of his government the average citi-j zen at the same time has a keen reali- zation of what it might do if it tried. He knows that it does not have to! stand the insults of these comic opera I republics if it wants to strike back with its army and navy. To him the i spectacle of Mexico or any other1 country of the hot tamale belt defy-j ing the great republic is ludicrous. The truth is that the stay-at-home ' citizen does not realize that the grab bing money interests have made them selves as unpopular abroad as they have at home. In Central and South America many mining, timber and ag ricultural concessions have been cor nered by rich Americans. If, when' they got a foothold, they minded theii own business and kept out of the pri vate affairs of the countries in which they are we would have little trou- ble. Instead of doing this, however they interfere there as they interfere here. The result is that a few weal thy adventurers serve not only to dis credit the Americans who do tend strictly to their own affairs in for eign lands, but also cast a suspicion on the good faith of the whole na tion. Not all of our trouble with Cer, tral and South America is due to this cause, but part of it undoubtedly is. : Friction has been caused by the calm attitude of superiority which so many i administrations have assumed toward the Latin-Americans. It has seemed to those southerner as though we im agined we had a corner on all the good government and civilization in the world. N-Uurally they don't like it. Another cause lies in the fact that we have been over-imperious and ov crlenient by turns. We have veeicd fron- one policy to another instead of adopting one steady course and adher ing to it. Mex;o has offered a pe? linvlf uoubUfome and puzzling prob'2'3 on ly because it is so near to us au;l be cause !t has be n so torn by nisscr sion i- last Aw years. The hostile attitule toward the . United States shown there is, however, not peculiar to it, but is the common attitude of Latin-America. Ic is high time for us either to lick somebody as an ex-, ample to the others of make a defi nite and consistent attempt to make friends with our southern neighbors ity credits Theodore Roosevelt with being one of the men who has en larged the language. However, the colonel is outranked by Sir Ernest Shackleton, the explorer. It is through writers who penetrate into new fields, making words used by hitherto un known peoples part of our own lan guage, that enlarge the dictionary more than others. Any person who sets out to learn all the languages and sublanguages of the world will have a gigantic task on his hands, for it is estimated that these number at least 3,j00. This task, however, would appear to be hardly less arduous than that of a person who sought to learn all of the 500,000 words which now constitute our own English tongue. - The integrity of the tolacco trust j is now being qustioned. In all fair ness to t'.ie trust, it never claimed that the ele;tic.i rigar cam-i under the P'-r food la''.-. National Tennis Title Today. Newport, R. I., Aug. 1. Society turned out in force today to witness the first day's play in the competi tions for the national singles and doubles championships which are be ing played on the N-wport Tennis club courts under the auspices of the National Lawn Tennis .association. YOUNG makes his Challenge Issued to La Grande. John Weller, chairman of the ath letic committee of the Baker Y. M. C. A., has issued a challenge to the L Grands Y. M. C. A. for a relay rac '; ; r.ween teams representing the two in stitutions some time in October. It proposes that each team be composed of 20 runners but makes no furthei suggestions exceot for a meeting of representatives of each city to perfect puns in case the Union county town "-""-tain the challenge. Ba ker Democrat. glit iCCC, Co Eat DECALOGUE FOR INFANTILE HEALTH. Campers Return. The Test of Time Time determines whether the policies under which a bank is oper atcd are safe. This bank has beer In business twenty-six years. It has grown steadily until It has become one of the stronses'. and most prosperous financial lustltutlons In the West. The soundness ... .'- policies Is attested by the long list of conserv ative business n.on : transact their business here; also by an earned surplus of jnn n.,.,00, the work of time and the res-ill of conservative management. This bank baa facilities for taking care of more high gra.le b'n'. ness ind offers its services to tboBe wbo appreciate the best In banking. La Grande National Bank La Grande, Oregon Capital. $100,000.00 Surplus. $130,000.00 Resources, 1,100.000.00 DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF TMTED STATES GOTERNMEJiT. ITS1TED 8TATE8 POSTAL 8ATIXG8 DKrOSITOBT. The Brooklyn Civic league which has been waging a campaign against the house fly, has drawn up a set of com mandments for babies' health, each commandment being amplified and ex plained for the benefit of mothers The'conimandments are as follows: Do not give your baby impure milk. Do not give your baby ice water. Keep the flies off the baby's food, and do not give it anything to eat on which the flies have feasted, unless it has first been boiled. Do not dress your baby too warmly. Bathe your baby a few times each day. Do not keep your baby in the kitch" on. Do not allow your baby to lie direct ly in the sun. , Do not give your baby any tea, cof fee, or alcoholic drinks. Do not give your baby any pacifiers. Do not give your child any soothing syrups. A BABEL OF WORDS. The Rochester, Pa., council will de-; cid what women shall wear in that j town. If the members are all mar- ried men it's safe to bet it's something j cheap. Lack of pride in not covering his bean with a toupee is a source of much physical comfort to the bald headed man in hot weather. J. T Williamson and a group of six boys have returned from a few days' outing on Mt. Emily. 7; e youngsters 1 had 9. delightful time with Mr. Wil liamson as ch;ierone." They report huckleberries plentiful but ripening --1 Vi!t it " :11 'po'iire more sunshine to prepare the fields for the ..uiveoierii. Special While They Last Oranges 35c per dz Lemons 50c per dz The English language continues to make headway. It is now spoken by at least IGO.000,000 persons the world over, as against the German language which is spoken by 1:10,000,000, the Russian spoken by 100,000,000, ihe French by 70,000,000, the Spanish and the Italian by 50,000,000 each and the Portuguese by 23,000,000." Undoubtedly, if accurate statistics could be collected, the number of per sons who can read, write and speak English in addition to their own na tive tongues, would realy exceed the number of those who speak any other language in addition to their own The Americans and the English are the world's greatest travelers, and in catering to these travelers the peo ples of other count:-1.-: have felt ob liged to learn the English. Our own languagfe according to the latest dictionaries, now corr-ans cout half a million words. It is growing at the rate of 5,000 words a year. It is interesting to know that an author- A WORD OF THANKS. La Grande, Aug. 1. To the Editor I La Grande Evening Observer: Wi'l ; you kindly grant' us the 'privilege , j through your columns, of expressing to the people of La G.'.tiide our mctf I grateful thanks for the'r sympuny j and f.verous work given during the fire yn our plant, Sunday nipcht, July 27th, especially the unoilfish work that was furnished by he citrens fireii en and our employe?.' If ii had n;t lu.n for such assUtitnt'! we c: taniiy could not have sa 'e l our saw fill, l:.rrs, shaving vault, machine and I blacksr, ith shop, planing mill, hoy. j factory and dry sheds, notwithstand I ing organization an 1 preparedness Words cannot express our feeling to wards our employes. To a man they showed their loyalty in ail wajs: they were' on duty many hours without a murmur, going from one post to an other as circumstances demanded. While we know that they feel that the company apprecia':.?s beyond meas ure their had work and salt denial.-, we cannot let it pass without so ox pressing it. , One learnsin their hour of trials; and disaster their friends, as selfish ness and strife is pushed aside, and we become one great family. i Again thanking one and all for tl eir ; generous work, we remain, j Yours very truly, The George Palmer Lumber Co., By George Palmer, President j French oLan Denounced. Paris, Aug. 1. Bitter denunciation tf the French government's failure to nrevent the French banks from lending money to Mexico, was voiced in the chamber of deputies by Deputy Perrissou. "The savings of the pui lic. he said, "are prejudiced by lending money to an unstable government." f J oao Phone, Red 3931. La Grande. NOTICE TO QUALIFIED VOTERS. The New Commission Charter is now ready for distribution and all quali fied voters desirinc a copy can secure one by applying at the office of the' City Recorder. j LEE WARN1CK. ! Adv. City Recorder.! 7-29 ot I We Fix 'Em Whether the car be a Lozier, Franklin, Overland, Maxwell, Ford or any other make We Fix Tm, and We Fix 'Em Good Nearly every ear owner m the valley as well as the city, heads for our (Jarage when in .trouble. IT IS BECAUSE lie is never overcharged. He gets good, honest work done bv the best ina d'.h.'ists on the on-t. ' ' f. Our work holds up because we hire the men who know how to do the work right. WHEN TROUBLE STRIKES YOU, COME TO US AND WE FIX 'EM. Leig'hton's Garage Ml hinds of repairing done quickly
