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THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1913.
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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER.
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THE OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner
Entered In the post-office at La
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number .of children on the sour?! side
who can then take advantage of the
new building.
The railroad company will not on
ly undergo the expense of actually
building the subway proper but it
will also pay its proportion of the
tax that is required to erect and con
struct approaches, paving to t'f
right-of-way and the numerous oth-
which always go with
ft
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15c ! er expenses
Advertising rates on application. Ail
eopy for display advertising must
such an improvement
EDUCATED TO PLAY.
Teaching children to play seems to
the average man or woman as super-1
fluous as teaching a duck to swim or
a dog to bark. Yet it is a fact that
today many children have to be taught
to play if they are not to stand around
bored and helpless with every facility
for play at hand. Some day a twen-
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. rorcu un, mum uib uajr wivru u,e , to te ug , (JetaU jUSt Why ttUs CMI-
ad appears. .'. dren of this generation need 4 struc-,
- tion to play while the children of p re-
Address all communications to ; ceding generations just picked it up
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. ' in mew I urn mure in u movement.
La Grande, Oregon. .
LOWERING THE COST.
: Those who claim that agitation in
the paving matter has done no good
should turn attention to the bids that
i: were opened last night for the Spring
;i street contract.
It will be instantly seen that exca
vation has dropped from 50 cents to
89 cents-i-this means 11 cents a yard
saved to property owners on excva
fc:n alone. This and other citations
referring to the lowest bid made. .
On tt, the price has dropped from
86 cents to' 10 cents, a saving of 26
cents a yard to the taxpayer.
Paving has dropped to $1.00 a yard.
This is for concrete paving. But think
of the saving La Grande's first pav
ing cost $2.15 a yard, then finally
dropped to $2.00 then about $1.95, fol
lowed by a switch in grade of paving
and the price paid was $1.47. ' Now
a standard concrete paving is offer
ed at $1.00 a yard.
Curbing, straight, has dropped from
50 cents to 35 cents a lineal foot,
while circular curb drops from 68
cents to 40 cents a foot. '
, And with all of these drops there is
another V t is also important Ce
merit drops from the tremendously
high price of $2.85 in La Grande to
$2.45, with a possibility of it going
much lower. This is of prreat impor
taritewhen it is considered that the
city is about to begin "work on the
new reservoir. '
In the above we have quoted ' the
bidB, but the council has not as yet let
the contracts. In these prices named
property 6iers can buy just what is
mentioned at the jfcrices attached, if
they pay more, then it is .up to them
iJ the council. -For certain it is that
the way is pointed out clearlv so none
nfiod err. The excavation, fill navine
and curb can all be had t 4 he lowered
prices if La Grande - wants to save
the money.
SECOND STRRET SUBWAY."
The O.-Wf R. & N. company is to
be commended for at once recogniz
ing the need of the Second street
subway and instead of fighting such
a . move expresses satisfaction and
willingness to do its part in order
that the large and fast growing sec
tion of -La Grande across the tracks
toward the Palmer Lumber company
mills may travel in safety back and
forth to the business district
A new school building in that part
of the city will be doubly . useful if
the subway is built because of the
supported by thirty-three social organ
izations for definite play education ror
children. The advocates hold that as
play forms character.as much as work
or perhaps to an even greater degree
the same care should be exercised
in seeing that they learn to play as
now is given to making sure that they
learn to work. No doubt there is much
to this position. . ,
At the same time we must remember
that if children were allowed to be
children as they once were; they would
not need all this costly and intricate
systematizing. The trouble with many
parents is that they are not -content
to let their youngsters improve their
play as thej w,ould if let alone,, but
insist on robbing them of al! power of
initiative by showering on them every
imaginable gibcrack that they think
makes, play easy. Toys and intricate
paraphernalia of play are all right in
moderation. But when bestowed '-.on
small children to excess only result in
the child losing all ability to make
fun for himself. . In -such cases the
toys are but crutches on which he
learns to lean. v
Taking young children to commer
cial amusements vaudeville houses,
vaudetteSi" etc., leads 'them . to be
lieve that somehow or other somobody
is going o make it their business to
amuse them. Early in life they, become
surfeited with excitement caused by a
constant round of new sights and sens
ations. ' As a consequence in some
circles we see blase infants of six
of seven who are as unable to amuse
themselves as Robinson Crusoe was
to make a ship that would take him
back to his native land.
Not a few homes nowadays are so
spick and span that there is no place
in them where children can have
little comfortabe disorder and gen
eral riot. Even the back yards have
grown so nice that children mustn't
spoil the pretty green grass.
When parents learn to inject com
mon sense into their love- for little
ones, when they treat them more like
simple children and less like pocket
editions of men and women, we won't
need to hire salaried instructors to
teach children to have a good time. '
The
Biggest
Bairgaiis
We have offered are now on display in our show windows
$5.00
$5.00
For Your Choice of a Large Line
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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.
: :i .' ENTIRE LINE. ;.
PUMPS AND OXFORDS
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20 Per cent.
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27c
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the wanted shades and in just
tie light weight for dainty party ana
afternoon dresses.
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Think of it. Here you can choose from the largest and most varied line pf 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. mi gg
All the newest, this season's styles, and values up to $30.00 - - 3)l0JJ
$15.00
I W2fs Remodeling Satei
the Americans don't know what they Edgar Allen Poe was mentally unbal
want
- New Marriage Laws Scorned.
' ay ue. i'aull S. Hunter. .
' (Written for the United Press.)
, , Denver. Colo., Aug. 18. If such a
law as that recently passed in Wiscon
sin forbidding the marriage of dis-
anced and an inveterate user of drugs
and drink; Goldsmith was called "the
inspired idia"; Rousseau and Oscar
More Alfalfa Needed.
Spokane. Wash.. Aue. 20 With the
slogan. "More alfalfa means more rfnl.
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Wilde were moral and mental perverts T " ' f
of the lowest order. Shakespeare was I enrn -state, will conduct a characteris
highly immoral in that he had an ille- tically strenuous alfalfa campaign in
China has made up a new alphabet, . nerRons anil oomnellini? th steri.
nA th.r. nnthinv . t.w. china e8" persons ana compelling. tne sien
And there was
needed mom
A composer of ragtime ssys that
he cannot write a note of music. Well, been born!
it isn t necessary, is it 7
One of the Rothschilds spent a for
tune to get a rare butterfly, not a so
ciety butterfly, either. . i
With T. R. pleading for a larger
navy and Bryan pleading fo.r no navy
at all, the foreigners must think that
lization of defectives had always been
enforced, three-fourts of the- world's .
,j . known
greatest geniuses wouiu never nave
This was the opinion ex
pressed today by Dr. Pautl S. Hunter,
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-six years. .
It has grown steadily until It has become one of the strongest and
most prosperous financial Institutions in the West
The soundness u. -K policies Is attested by the long list of conserv
ative business n.nn : transact their business here; also by an
earned surplus of if1 SO ii.,v.00, the woTk ot time and the resil) of
conservative management.
This bank has facilities for taking care of more high grade b'lV,
nesa and offers its services to those who appreciate the best in
banking.
La Grande National Bank
La Grand, Oregon
Capital, 100,000.00 8urplns, $130,000.00 Resources, 1,100,000.0
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF UNITED STATES OYIBMtBJIT.
UNITED STATES rOSTAL SAVINGS DKP0S1T0BT.
down through heredity but along with
secretary of the Colorado state board them come that thinS which has com
of health, as an answer to the state- Pelled every advancement in the world
ment of surgeon General Blue in which f literature, art, science and inven
the surgeon declared that this country tfcn- The question of why great tal
must stem the propogation of defect- ent seldora accompanies physical
ives and that the Wisconsin law is the heaIth has "ever been answered. .
"crorrect answer. Dr. Hunter declares The present agitation over eugenics
that love will laugh at laws just as he is not new. It began in Sparta before
has laughted at locksmiths. Follow- the time of Christ, when, in order to
ing is Dr. Hunter's statement attain physical perfection as a race,
Theoretically I am heartily'in favor all cripples or weak or deformed ba
of prohibiting the marriage of all men bies were exposed on th mountain
and women who cannot show a clean tops .to die or receive strength from
bill of health, but it does not work out the gods. None but the strongest were
me inland Empire commencing Wed-
nesaay, aepiemoer zt. ,
Forty Inland Empire communities,
speaking through their Commercial
clubs, have invited the famous agri
culturist to include their districts in
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It is true that all these ills come has promised shall inciude.every lo
canty of the Inland Empire that will
gitimate daughter, It is hardly neces
sary to refer to Byron and Robert
Burns, for their drunkenness and the
open immorality of Byron are too well
corn and fiiry herds in theVlnland
Empire.
"Here is the iqea in a nutshell: The
states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho
and Montana import annually $29,000,
000 worth of packing house products
and enough other things, such as dairy
products, poultry and eggs, to swell
the total to $40,000,000. We ought to
be raising these things right here in
the Inland Empire, where we have
every requisite for their successful
production. :
"If, at the end of three vears, we
can cause that $40,000,000 to shrink
to $20,000,000 or to $10,000,000, it
will m.ean .more money for the farm
ers, the business man and for every
one in this Spokane country. In a few
take an active interest in the movement
The campaign will be arranged by years we ought to be exporting tnese
the Spokane Chamber of Commerce, i products, so great are our opportuni-
co-operatmg witn commercial oreaniz-
ations of the Inland Empire. For four
weeks Professor Holden and his asso
ciates will carry the message of more
alfalfa, hogs and dairying to the fields
and schools and business houses of
the Inland Empire. The party, which
will be augmented by, a number of
spoKane business me$, will travel by
special, train, and at each stop will
make swift automobile excursions to
the surrounding farms and to com
munity gatherings, to tell of the won
ders of alfalfa. .
The opening gun of the -campaign
in , practice. The strongest parents allowed to marry. 1 his system pro
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bring rortn puny cnildren; the most oucea me greatest pnysicai giams oi wi1 be an alfafa day at the Spokane
moral produce immoral offspring. The history, the most perfect animals of J interstate fair, probably Thursday,
old ioke about the "minister's son" is all times, but mentally the race be- September 18. The next event win be
founded on history. jcame dwarfed; their brains went to
On the other hand, many of the seed. They produced no really great
weakest fathers and mothers, while
! transferring their weaknesses such as
drunkenness, insanity, perversion and
all the traits Surgeon General Blue
says would be eliminated by law, also
t nr an1 1ian n-iii stV aI tnamealvce in
ly in war and feats of strength.
If the plans of the eugenics enthus
iasts were carried out in the one mat
ter of prohibiting marriage of persons
pass on the "divine spark" that has who drink, sixty per cent of the Ameri
lighted the path of progress sines i can people would be old maids and
time began
In fact, genius, nine times out of ten
is very closely allied with ill health,
criminality, insanity or drunkenness.
There are very few of our greatest po-
bachelors. It is evident from this how
long it will be before such a law' be
comes general.
Only by training young men into a
full and complete knowledge of the
ets, musicians, painters, authors and sin committed against the next genera-
other artists who were not afflicted tion by marrying diseased persons, can
with some weakness which was inherit
ed from the parents,
Wagner, Dean Swifth and Charles
Lamb wers insane; Keats and Robert
Louis Stevensin died of inherited tu-
a rally of northwest governors, grange
and farmers' union officials, educa
tional leaders, bonkers, railroad offi
cials and business men of Spokane.
This will be followed on the succeed
ing day by the departure of the spe
cial train.
Speaking of the campaign President
Charles Hebberd of the Chamber of
Commerce said: "This is of vital im
portance to the prosperity of every j
tyi -i n wiman onj flilr4 in tlia Inland
Pmniro fTh0 nlfnlfa Aamrxn otrotirtn
"It costs $1.04. to produce the av
erage bushel of. wheat, including weaT
and tear of the soil, according to so
well known an authority as Dr.-J. H.
Worst, president of the North Dakota
Agricultural college. He says the
farmers are mining the soil and rob
bing future eenerations everv time
they grew a wheat crop, and that they
are in reality producing the croD at
a real cash loss every year, consider
ing the present and future interest of
all concerned.
'.'Instead of these vast wheat farms
in various parts of the Inland Empire,
we should have more farmers produc
ing things at a real profit things that
will conserve the soil and will mean
prosperity for all."
Popular Railroader Here.
P. A. Quackenbush, a former engi
neer, out of La Gracde, but now
f-mrloyed on the Milwaukee & St.
Louis out of Oskaloosa, la., is here
visiting former friends. Mr. Qtlnck-
enbush says that A. C. Murphy, itho
was until a year aco a popular con-
work will be the first stey in a three-, ductor out of La Grande, is trainmas-
year campaign for more alfalfa, hogs, ter on the Milwaukee & St. Louis.
the race be strengthened. Laws con
trary to the fundamental instincts al
ways have been violated and always
will be. The instinct to have strong,
healthy children must be cultivated.
berculosis; Coleridge and De Quincey , Marriage will then occur only betweeo
were opium fiends; Pope, was a dwarf men and Women capable of becoming
and Herbert Spencer was an invalid; parents of the right kind of children.
Drink 5y.QNatural Mineral
and
You'll Know the Joy of Living
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