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PAGEFOTJB TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1913 LA GRANDE WEEKLY OBSERVER. t "5 -i :l I " See West's Windows: Sale Starts. Tomorrow: I AH Ladies '.R ea dy -to ear m App a re! S aGriuce d! Not one Garment in our Entire Stock Reserved. Includes the Season's Newest and Best Styles in Ladies' Tailored Suits-Silk Dresses-Wool Dresses-Party WnstoesY Misses and Children's Coats-Children's Dresses-Bath Robes-Petticoats- Shirt Waists, Etc. A bale Without a Parallel aMhis Time of the Year! Just when you need the Wearing Apparel. By buying nowVthese great reductions you will not only save as much now as you ordinarly do after the season is over, but you will get a full Season's Wear and Satisfaction. Come Prepared to Buy for the Sale Prices will Surprise You. i i. Annual Thanksgiving Linen Sale Starts Wednesday Half Price Sale of Trimmed Millinery Starts Wednesday jv. THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS. Editor and Owner Entered in the post-office at La Grande. Oregon, as second class matter. ASSESSORS ARE.NOT MISTAKEN To be a county assessor right now is no snap. He goes out after the property, he is met with argument against high val- uation, for the people claim, it matters not what valuation is placed on prop erty the rate of taxation will be just the same as 'before. The assessor explains that high val uation means a low rate of taxation. But the assessor failed to reckon with the state tax board, or he never wnnlil have uttered that remark. This year, Mr. Couch has raised valuation in Union County right and left. He has endeavored to get as near a cash valuation (which the state law demands) as was possible. wow comes the state tax .board and every other assessor in Oregon that board is entirely wrong when it sees fit there are a dozen girls in America tc their work is not satisfactory, and ac- to tax public service corporations on a day that are in houses of ill-fame who 0 r.r.w, ..w uccu - xiiey love mat Kina or life and will sessed on that basis. . j scoff at the refnrmor ., .. V V VII Will kick him out if he does not get out when asked to. I think to help the good girls to hold themselves up and 10 teach them the worth of a pure life THE BANKERS ARE COMING sessed for 63 per cent of its valuation It is another case of where men at Salem cannot view affairs in Union county in a thorough manner of understanding.' - Quite likely the state board has been looking up the real transfers in this" county and base their judgment on tne amount of consideration recorded in each transaction. This would be far from a fair conclusion, for Union countv Deorile have been nlavinc mora or less at the frama of evninitatinn- Wa Tn, i .1 mean by this, that in many instances UlawZlJ, vT n , T Verdne- 0cCa" where a piece of land was sold a high i pl,flct ,ly by Secretai-.' F. L. Meyers, sionally innocent girls are tempted into purpose of boosting valuations in a I and lts utterance- gives solace to we resorts and held there unwilling vin. consideration was registered ior tne;wo nave our. names signed to those tims, but there are few in this class The bankers are coming, oh, ho! Yes, group six of the State Bankers would be a hundred times better than association will be in La Grande next reformation after they are down. Saturday to hold their convention; to Like a good many other things mingle with each other but. not to which appeal to the public imagina raise the rates of interest. ition. the talk of "whit Bl' - ' j after all, inform&Ucn is a handy commodity--but it is just as well to ac tivate the gentle art of concealing it. Nobody wants to hobnob with an en cyclopedia. It is noticeable that choose for their companions those who Known just about as much as thev rfn cr perhaps a little just a little more. If one has, and shows, a crushingly superior knowledge, life is likley to be spent on a chilly and lonely peak. Speaking quite seriously, though, any one will admit that what we know has an influence on the whole mind and personality. Then it follows that what we do not know has a part in: determining what we are. Lots of people would be far better off without some of the certain kinds of knowl edge they possess. If a man is to make a definite whole of himnelf he must select his knowledge as he does his clothes Or his food. He eannnf. wear the entire output of a clothing iactory nor eat everything tha is cooked. Why should he feel ashamed when he doesn't happen to know all tne variegated knowledge which the sages have been niliner un for cen turies? particular location. This , is Un old , promises to pay besides haviner red ink Most of them fn i w . rally known, Bntj i, " ,j . " . " . I""" , it is still beine worked in everv active ., . " .,UU!)C. game, and while it is gener community. We know of one tract of land that is valued for taxation purposes at $50 an acre. It has been on the market for some time at $60 with no buyers. And this is one of many instances. t. i Part of the Inland Empire, I T A. 1 A 1 1 , . ..... ... v... uwcwu uu nroBrtv j- VBl.,p4 nonr 1. -..oh' wnat wit? OanKers Will Q1SCU88 18 good naturedly informs Mr. Couch and PPf1 18 also valued near " casft k t newsDBDer men and it - worth in most instances, and the state ,l Known to newspaper men and it . should not De known, for what does a A num. the two local banks. ber choose this wav of livino- h. These bankers will come from all of it is easy and such have no desire to be taken out of it. The fact that this is true in some cases, however, does not mean that r formative efforts should cease. If only one in ona thousand can be saved it is worth while to make the effort the eastern Oregon counties and La Grande will have the distinction of en tertaining the money-changers of this La .s Grande National Bank Organized in 1887. DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OP UNITED STATES GOVERN KENT. FJ1CITED STATES POSTAL SAYINGS DEPOSITORY. . '" ' I i nil ill vtinnnnnnA Surplus TTTyi. . .Sljg0.0OQ.fl Total Resources 11,000,000.04 For twenty-six years, in all kinds of financial weather, we have successfully catered to the monetary wants of the people of La Grands and tits Grande Ronde - Valley. ' ' We respectfully solicit yoor business. La Grande National Bank La Grande,' Oregon ! newspaperman know about banking for her sake. More good to society, though, will be accomplished by put- ! except to stand on the other side of the ting emphasis upon preventive efforts i cashier's counter and argue for more among girls who are exposed to temp time on his note ? ' tation. However, there will be plenty for the . i1 .... I moneyed men to talk about. There's the growth of tho country, the market ing of the crops and incidentally the new currency legislation at Washing ton, which may cause these men to 'whwf as" and "resolve." And in all probability some of them may repeat to their comrades what the governo! of North Carolina said to the governor of South Carolina, which was not an admonition to drink Sarr. O, as we un derstand the pages of hhlory. TO PREVENT WHITE SLAVERY "Is white slavery nothing more than a tii)tb" asks Current Opinion in an nr'irle in the November l.nuo. nr.d auttiers it by quoting several who have worked long among the denizens of the underworld. Among these is A. W. Elliott, president of the Southern Rescue mission. He confesses his fail ure, after six years' work among fallen women, to discover the over-advertised "white slave." "There is scarcely a simmering of truth in the various stories of so- called white slavery," he is quoted as saying. "I surely do not believe that KNOW TOO MUCH In one of those whimsical essays as sociated with his name, Samuel Mc Chord Crothers, pastor of the First I Unitarian church at Cambridge, Mass., and preacher to Harvard university, discourses' on "The Honorable Points of Ignorance." In a day when there is so much wearisome and heavy infor mation tossed at one in evey mail it is worth while reading it. Dr. Crothers does not mention Ma cnulay, but it is a fart that Macaulay knew so much that he is almost indis pensable in any consideration of the virtues of ignorance. Macaulay knew so much rtideed that he was a bore. The gay chatter of drawing rooms was hushed when the great historian and essayist hove in sight, for if one just chanced to metion Egyptian hierogly phics the sage was sure to launch into a detailed 6escrirtion of them. Any thing from the way the Assyrians cooked hash to Chinese music was a mero bagatelle to Macaulay. 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