WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1913.
LA GRANDE EVEM1NG OBSERVER,
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BBUCE DENNIS. Editor and Owner The state now face8 extraordinary
, j,eaVy deficiU to be caused by the
nrtter. tutions. These deficits added to the
-- , tremendous tax recently announced
Advertising rates on application. Ail for year meAnB that the state of
S'SfbS Oon is gettin herself into such
aXappeara. f shape that outside money will shun
, her; that property will drop in price
. Address all communications to because of the tax burden; that fore
rHE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth St. ccIogu,g common, and the cry
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' SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ca.am.iy win oe neara vnuK11uut
Daily, single copy 5e the commonwealth.
Dally, per week 15c It takes no imaginative powers to
Daily, per month 65c figure .this out. Not at all. It is a
Daily, per six months in 'plain mathematical problem. .
DaHy,' per" year' in advance: $7.00 Chasing rainbows in private life is
Dally, by mail per year in ad- jvery expensive, as art will admit, yet
ranee $4.00 the state as a state has been chasing
Weekly Observer, per year in 'rainbows for the past 10 years.
advance ' Politicians have been playing to
" " ' the. non-producers and the non-tax-
EIGHT nOURS AND A DEFICIT, payers in order to get their votes.
1 As a result we have laws that are un-
This continual endeavor , to do fajr to property owners and more than
. something for limelight attracttion
which has been going oh for some1
time by the politicians in Oregon was
bound to sooner or later bring on a
condition that would attach enormous
expense to the state. The eight-hour
law for all state employes was the
unfair to the tillers of the soil
Eight hours a day in state institu
tions is foolishness, for if you will
notice the large percentage of state
employes in every institution and in
every capacity work mighty little
while they are on duty. If theirs
'were similar cases to the man work
ing on construction work, or inder
constant supervision ; where results
were demanded and every moment of
time was utilized then the eight-hour
law would rightfully anply. But the
state employes do not work that way.
Suppose Union county ranchers
worked but eight hoars a day sup
pose it took two shifts to do what
one shift is now doing on the privately
owned ranches; well, you would pay
more than 50 cents a dozen for eggs
and more than 80 cents a bushel for
wheat, and then it is quite likely
almost every rancher in this valley
wculd be broke because of the labor
cost.
What the state needs is more pro
duction .from her employes rather
than a less production and shorter
hours.
But until the days of sanity prevail;
until the days of electing too many
irresponsible men to office disappear,
Oregon may expect to"" nave, almost
positive confiscation of property pre
vail at times.
HOUSEKEEPERS
Must be Watchful
For great efforts are being made in
this vicinity to sell baking powders of
inferior class, made from alum acids
and lime phosphates, both undesir
able to those who require high-grade
cream of tartar baking powder to
make clean and healthful food.
The official Government
tests have shown Royal
Baking Powder to be a
pure, healthful, grape
cream of tartar baking
powder, of highest
strength, and care should
be taken to prevent the
substitution of any
other brand in its place.
Royal Baking Powder costs only a
fair price per pound, and is cheaper
and better at its price than any
other baking powder in the world.
La Grande National Bank
Organized in 1887.
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
UNITED STATES POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITORY.
Capital $100,000.00
Surplus 1130.000.00
Total Resources $1,000,000.00
For twenty-six years, In all kinds of financial weather, we have
successfully catered to the monetary wants of the people of La
Grande and the Grande Ronde Valley.
We respectfully solicit your business. "
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon
CITY
THE
ADVANTAGES FOR
COUNTRY.
A new league has just been formed.
No, not a baseball, football or basket
ball league, popular as these are. A
league for the enrichment of com
munity life. A league to fertilize
dormant minds.
The heads of the extension depart- j
ments of several state universities,
each of whom has as part of his job
the task of providing lecturers, in
structors and entertainers for hun
dreds of localities, have pooled issues
in a kind of circuit riding arrange
ments, whereby they hope to get for
respective communities better talent
with more varied offerings at reduced
cost
This is more important than maybe,
you realize. It is Important to the
city man as well' as to the folk di
rectly concerned. To keep folks who
live in the counttry and in the small
towns from wanting to rush into the
already overcrowded cities and become
consumers instead of producers of
food is about as big a problem as we
have. Its solution is helped when
some of the attractions of the city
its concerts, its "shows" its lecturer
are carried to the rural districts.
If all the state universities were to
do what the institutions in question
are planning to do, life in the village
and on the farms convenient to the
villages would soon develop new
points of interest. The craving for
the city is a wholesome craving, born
of the desire for fellowship, amuse
ment, culture. But the cost of grati
fying it in the city is usually great,
involving loss of neighborliness, cur
tailment of freedom, sacrifice of ident
ity. Put into the country, so far as pos
sible, the best of the attratcions of
the city, alongside the country's pecu
liar advantages, and get a result to
bo preferred.
It is a good work which the new
league i3 undertaking and it deserves
success.
They fear that grave robbers will
steal the -remains of Asahel Bush, the
Salem deceased banker. . And yet we
boast of our advanced civilization.
The mayor of Portland has finally
refused to .listen to the appeals of I.
W. W. men for free speech on the
street corners. Portland should have
refused this three years ago and a
lot of trouble would have been
averted.
Croup and Cough Remedy.
Croup is a terrible disease, It at
tacks children so suddenly they are
very apt to choke unless given the
proper remedy at once. There is
nnthincr better in UlS worM than Dr
King's New Dlscorwry. Lewis Cham
berlain, of Manchester, Ohio, writes
.knnt his ehildreai "Sometime, fat
severe attacks we wars afraid they
would die, but sine w. proved what
a certain remedy Dr. Tine's New
Discovery is, we hav. mo fear. We
relyon it for croup, esnfhs and colds"
So can you. 50c and L0. A bot
tle should be in evwry lor. At H
dniffgista. H. B. Boeklin Co.,
Phlla. St. Louts.
J ANUARY
Clearance Salic!
Our Entire Line of Men's,
Women's and Children's
all included in this great
sale-nothing reserved.
No Job Lots Bought for this Sale. We are
putting on this sale to reduce our stock
before inventory. Nothing but our regu
lar stock at Reduced Prices.
One lot of Misses' shoes,
patents, kids and gun
metals, in button and
lace shoes, up to $3.50,
sizes up to 6, $1.00 Pair.
One lot, Boys' shoes, gun'
metal and kid; good ser
vicable shoes for winter;
sizes up to 5V2; regular
prices up to 3!00, at $1.65
One lot of Ladies' patent
kid and gun metal shoes;
button and lace, all sizes;
regular prices up to 3.50,
at $1.45.
One lot Ladies' button
shoes in black and tans;
all good lasts, some high
tops; mostly 4.00 grades,
Special $2.75.
These are only a few of the BARGAINS you will find
at our store during this SALE, which STARTS JANU
ARY 2nd. Don't fail to take advantage of this sale
and SAVE MONEY.
10 Off on all Men's, Women's
and Children's Hosiery.
NO SALE ON RUBBERS.
Lo J, French Shoe Go.
La Grande's Exclusive Shoe Dealers