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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
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dows and Ads.
THE OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner
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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.
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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."
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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