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PAGE FOUR LA GRANBE EVENING OBSERVER THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1914. all the sins which a well fed body can hatch, and a perverted mind can put into execution. The assimilative mind of the youth is not elow to copy the habits of its elders and imi tate them with every increasing vari ety and fresh excitement. 'When the settlers first came to this country, each individual was con fronted with the necessity of doing something towards the support. The young boy had to assist the father, girls learned from their mothers at an early age the duties that would fall on their shoulders at maturity. They were busy had to be and this fact more than any one single factor in their life kept them from allowing their youthful minds running to per verted things. - Its ' a monumental mistake to allow young people to shun everything that savors of work. The wisdom of ages is put in this "Idleness is the devil's cided to quit teaching sex hygeine ( workbench." Nowadays some pigmy in the public schools. They are mind has conceived the idea that going to wait for the voice of pub- home work by a school boy is wrong, lie opinion to tell them to go ahead that it will learn more things in a or stop altogether. . Some had pre- wrong fashion . than all the teaching dieted this move and others' in their can undo. Another pedagogical here- enthusiasm are sorry .that this decis- sy. ' And there is such a vast amount ion has been reached. In its enxiety of perfect teaching. Others claim to guard the morals of its charges . that the work in school is so arduous THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner. Entered in the poet-ffice at La Grande, Oregon, aa second cbaa ; natter. . Advertising rates on application. All copy for display advertising must reach the office the day before the ad appears. Address all communications to THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth Street . ,"- "n SUBSCRIPTION. RATES. Daily, single copy 5c Daily, per week ............... 15c Daily, per month 65c Daily, per six months in ad vance $3.50 Daily, per year in advance $7.00 Daily, by mail per year in ad vance $4.00 Weekly Observer, per year in. advance ...$1.50 TEACHING SEX HYGEINE. Chicago school directors have de- proverb: Broken Line Bargains For Saturday at West's 16 th Annual CLEARANCE SALE..... I I the city came to the conclusion. that something must be done to counter- ' act the baneful influence of perverse moral tendencies. In this it shares the same opinion with milloins of peo ple who are genuinely alarmed about the future welfare of the next gen eration. Y .! ' The history , of every nation isj full of kccourUs of this very char acter. Assyria held her own against Egypt as long as that nation was poor and had to struggle for an ex istence. No sooner, ' however had riches begun to accumulate where the necessity for hard work began to cease,. With ease came luxury, with luxury came debasement, with debasement came effeminancy, with in those days, but somehow or other this the conqueror, : Rome was mis-jit's out of fashion to bucksaw wood, tress of the then known world as and what is more, many of them can long as the necessity of fighting star- not spare the time, they are so busy ed her in the face. When the gold, with their society obligations. 1, And from subjucated riations began ftb the pity of it all is that they cannot flow into her ..coffers, she set an ex- escape the penalty of idleness. Man ample of licentiousness to the world jg 0n active machine. If he or she which was equalled only by France, j is not active, doing something good America is ihe' richest nation in the they will be active doing something that the child needs abundant rest to replace wasted tissue. No one is foolish enough to exact more from a child than it can do. Usually those same overworked children will draw a sled up and dawn a eteep hill for hours without experiencing any fa tigue. Instead of having the gasoline buz zer come around to your alky to saw your wood, nothing would do the youngster more good than' an hour with a sharp buck saw.. That's the training that most of the older gen eration have had and that's one big reason why they are not half dead with cigarette smoking, and ; other abuses. , Work was a splendidthing Saturday Bargains Saturday Bargains In Men's Department In Dry Goods Department 38 Men's and Boys' Overcoats Short Lengths in Outing Flan'ls. All Sizes and all gOOd weight and Regular 12J Cent Grande Styles. Values up to $15.00 ' Choice $5.00 Special 5c Yard Broken Line Dress Shirts " : Includes many "Manhattan" Regular 12 c Heavy Flannettes and "Savoy" Shirts. Val- T1 , . , , . . , ' ues from $100. to $3.00 Both bordered and plain pat Choice 49c terns t0 selcct from Broken Line Men's and Special 8c Yard ..Boys' Hats ; Many styles in both Crusher and Heavy 3 Yard Table Cloth Stiff Hats to select tfrom. , ' ,., . Values to $3.00. , , Regular $2. o quality Choice 49c Special $1.50 Broken line Ladies and Children's Shoes at less than Half of Wholesale Cost Broken Line of . . . ' Bargains. in Ladies Wool Sweaters NEMO CORSETS , in. Values to $5.50, Choice. $1.50 . Values to $4.00 ' Choice $1.19 Values to $8.00, Choice. ...... .$2.90 Saturday Bargains In Ladies Ready-to-Wear LOT I. Ladies Coats and Mackmaws Values up to $10.00 Choice $1.90 LOT 2. Ladies Coats and Dresses Values up .to $25.00 Choice $3.90 LOT 3. Childs and Misses Coats Values up to $10.00 Choice 98c Broken Line Ladies Waists Both Tailored and Lingerie ' Waists in white and black. Values up to $1.50 Choice 49c j I I Broken Line $7.50 Ruff Neck Sweaters-Your Choice $5.00 world. No. amount of preaching is going to arrest this influence of ease that comes from wealth. Every body bows to it. There is a vastly growing class of men and women in this country who are setting exam ples to succeeding generations for gaudy display, for frivolity, for reck less expenditure, for fast living and thr.t is detrimental morally and phy sically, and you cannot get away from it. A little horse sense and healthful work has the edge on all conventions for sexual hygeine and libraries of good advice. There's no better cure for sexual perversity than a grub hoe, a pair of overalls and a job, taken about eight or ten hours a day. La Grande National Bank Exery Article in the Store Reduced Do yur Shop ping in the forenoon and avoid the af term on rush 1 1 I 1 n m P p. i 1 i 1 I f THE DECLINING BIRTH RATE. Organized in 1887. DKHIHKaTEI) DEPOSITORY OF UNITED STATES GOYERNHENT. UNITED STATES POSTAL SAVINGS DKPOSITOSY. Capital $100,000.00 Surplus , .$110,000.00 Total Iti'NOurces ..$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 Even Germany, long considered the land where large families flour ish, is revealed as having a declining birth rate. According to Professor Wolff, a noted German economist, the rate has fallen by more than ten to the thousand since 1875. Economic pressure is responsible for small families, in Germany and elsewhere. In other words, the cost of living is one of the big causes of a declining birth rate. It takes' a couple of almost heroic mold to bring large families into the world nowadays. The expenses of main tenance makes the average parent content with a few. i tir7n.d and jthe man went Of course, it is all wrong, but while admitting it is wrong, it is well to look on the human side of this big question. Men with fami lies have it borne home to them con stantly that they have given "host age to fortune." The duties of home are also economic ties, limiting their freedom of movement from place to place and putting on them all the time a heavy burden of ex pense and worry which the bachelor or the man who has no children does not have to bear. Children who have been brought up well, given a good education and sent into the world able to care for themselves and cope with conditions and solve the great problems of live are commonly supposed to owe a heavy debt otf gratitude to the?rt parents. From one point of view they do owe this debt, just as well as all of us owe a debt for all the good things of life. From another point of view, though, parents, owe a debt of gratitude to their children for the pleasure they get from hav ing them home. It often seems as though parents owe children far more than the children owe them. Many a couple iWoud be lazy, selfish and cold if they had not been bur dened by having children to love and cherish. The cost of living is but one of the causes of the lowered birth rate, for hand in hand it goes with the so called higher standard of living. Men and women of today demand more than those of yesterday. They want more comfort, more conveniences, more leisure, more amusement. Be cause they value the superficial more than they do the deep, the tinsel more than they do the gold, the coun terfeit pleasures more than they do the real blessings they deliberately cut themselves off from one of the purest joys in the world. the motorcycle engine, medal for Maxim, please. Carnegie A dollar saved is next of kin to a dollar earned. tTTT i Says BIG ben The tenth is the last day to pay Iwater rent with out penalty. Iat THE PEOPLE'S STOKE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene The University includes the following Schools and Colleges: College of Literature, Science and the Arts, including the groups of Languages and Literature; Natural Sciences; History, Journalism, Political and Social Sciences; Philosophy, Mathematics and Educa tion, leading to the Bachelor's degree; and Special Courses prepara tory to Law, Medicine and Commerce. College of Engineering Civil, Electrical, Chemical, Railway and ' Architectural leading to the degree Bachelor of the Science of Engineering. School of Education, preparatory to High School Teaching, Princi palships and Superintendencies, leading to the Bachelor's degree. School of Music Piano, Voice, Violin, Theory and Harmony lead ing to the Teacher's Certificate or the degree Bachelor of Music. SUMMER SCHOOL JUNE 22 TO JULY 31, 1914. SCHOOL OF CORRESPONDENCE STUDY. Send for general or special Catalogs, Address, The Registrar, Uni versity of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. A New Zealander has discovered a frost proof potato. . Now if some body will discover a frost proof water pipe we will all have the laugh on the plumber. American boarding house dwellers apparently have missed nothing, not withstanding the fact that we ex ported 118,000,000 pounds of prunes last year., Maxim has Invented a silencer for THE TELEPHONE By furnishing quick service in com munication multiplies a man's capacity and makes it possible for the business man to transact more business. EVERY TELEPHONE A LONG DISTANCE STATION r innrnriinpiiT . rm . . - . t N m FN IrlrFHIINr SYS Ml J IhkU 1 1 W II la W I U I kin
