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PAGE FOUR LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20; 1913. THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner Entered in' , the post-office at La ' Grande, Oregon, second class matter. .... 65c , SUBSCRIPTION RATES. . l Dally, ingle copy 5e Daily, per week . ..... . . ..... Dally, per month ..... , . . . . . . Daily, per ) month In ad- . ) ranee ',. .,-., $3.50 Daily, per year in advance. $7.00 Daily, by mail per year in ad vance ...V. $4.00 Weekly Observer, per year in advance $1.50 had to be employed and the total amount. of wages that had to be paid it tended to reduce operating expens es and increase net earnings But in the past few. years state aft er state has permitted its servants, the legislature; to decree that additional men shall be, employed by the railways m excess of their necessities, wnetner viewed from the . standpoint of e'co- 15C I nomical operation or of public safety. As a result of this legislation millions of dollars have been wasted in hiring useless labor money which might otherwise have been ao expended as to improve its quality. The real purpose reduce the cost of railway service of this legislation has been o increase the number of men that railways must employ. The legislatures have,, in ef- Adwtlaing rates on application. All feet, robbed the railways and given tne copy for display, advertising must , Pil to unnecessary employes in ord reach the office the day before tlie er that the members of the legislat ed appears. ' - ,,ures might get the votes of railway ., ' labor. Address all communications to 1 THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth St., La Grande, Oregon. V KRUTTSCHNITTS VIEWPOINT. : Julius . Kruttschnitt, . director of maintenance for' the Harriman system for many years, and a man who has recently climbed still higher in rail road circles, discussed railroads from the railroad's viewpoint in a recent statement The article says: .. .When congress wastes 'millions of dollars and suite legislatures squan , Again, laws have been passed to compel the railways to UBe special pat ented headlights on their locomotives. Acetylene headlights of high efficien- ( cy and closely approaching the electric headlight in brilliancy and power were already in use. The railways using , these efficient and expensive devices were forced to discard them and incur I heavy outlay for specialties promoted , by inventors and private corporations whose claims were strongly advocated by lobbies of promoters and labor rep resentatives whose disinterestedness had not always been above suspicion. ; he Biggest, Eargams We have offered are now on display in our show windows For Your Choice of a Large Line SUITS GOATS DRESSES Less than the cost of the mateiial used in the making, is the price we of) fer on these attractive, seasonable ready-to-wear garments. Come and see for yourself . Not one tailored suit, coat or dress but which is worth three to four times the price asked. , ; $5.0 '. ., . ...!. I. J $5.00 oer minions more, there ! nardly ' x'i AnROlTATP NAVY passing comment. The money is a.NEED OF AN ADEQUATE NAVY. y obtained I ll raised by taxation; j . .""" '" ; ' ' kti ' wheit expenditure. Increase, M . Illustration of whether for good reasons or not, taxes the folly in permitting our naval forc ean be and are equally increased. The to, be weakened, made by Col. railroads, equally servants of the pub- Roosevelt at Newport, China, he set lie, cannot raie? money with such ease forth, permitted herself to become im and facility.' Thev cuntoet it onlv bv .potent in war,;"If the American peo rendering the services of freight and pie," he said, "were to follow in Chl passenger transportation. The nation- j "ese footsteps doubtless some decades al and state governments can make . would pass before we would suffer to their income cover Iheir expenditures ! the extent of China: but long before because they control both the income i that time had come we would have had and the expenditures. The railways to abandon all pretense of upholding must keep their, expenditures within the Monroe doctrine; we snoum nave . thnr larnnwi Wm. wViiio thev hdvA ' had to abandon Panama and Alaska T aome control over their expenditures and every insular possession, and we they have .almost no control over their . should have had to surrender all rigM expenditures they have almost no con- . to say what immigrant shall and what trol over their income, their passenger and freight rates being fixed by pub lic authorities. And, while the man agemits'of the railways cart to some extent control their expenditures, they cannot by any means completely con trol them. In consequence, in spite of ill the managements have been able to ip, operating expenses have been . steadily increasing ' This has been largelaWue to advances in , wages, practy Vy . all, of which have been wary I y arbitration boards. Witt.v our knowledge no accidents to railway trains in this country have been proven to be due to their being Insuficiently manned. American rail ways have spent some $250,000,000 in equipping their locomotives and cars with automatic couplers and air brakes, which not only increase safety but relieve brakemen of the danger and labor of coupling and setting the brakes by hand. For some years the railroads enjoyed a return on thiB very large expenditure, because- by reducing the number of trainmen that immigrants shall not be admitted to our country, and the terms upon which i they shall come I ere and become cit izens or hold land." There is no greater phampion of an adequate navy than Roosevelt and his arguments are always effective when he launches forth into this subject. He may br bitter in his denunciation of the members of congress who have fought and are fighting appropria tions for two new hy.ttleships a year, but he is right when he says that these same men do all they can wjth wan ton and ignorant folly to plunge us into war. The policy of the leaders of the forces opposing an adequate ENTIRE LINE. PMPS AND OXFORDS REDUCED 20 Per Cent. Embroidered Batiste This season's newest novelty in dainty-wash fabrics. Sells regularly for 70e per length of 48 inches. Special 45c Length ' 27c 50c Silk Tissue, Special, Per Yd. . AU the wanted shades and in just tie light weight for dainty party ana' afternoon dresses. Our Special "Fifteen Dollar'9 Suit Sale Lasts for a Short Time Only. Don't Delay. ' Think of It. Here you can choose from the largest and most variedline of high grade men's clothfng in Eastern Oregon and save from $5.00 to $15.00 on any suit you select Takes your unrestricted choice of any man's suit in our entre stock. 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