La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 16, 1914, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextLA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER THE ; OBSERVER BBUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner. Eatcred tai'; the ; port-fflce at I Grande, Oregon, aa . second elm ' Matter. .' Advertising rates on application. All copy for . display advertising must reach the office the day before the ad appears. Address all communications to THE OBSERVES, 1710 Sixth Street SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dally, single copy Sc Dally, per week . . ...... . . . .v,15c Daily, per month ............ . .65e Daily, per six months In ad vance ...........13.50 per t b a $ Dally, by mall per year In ad vance ............v.. ...... MM Weekly Obsjwer, per year in..... . . advance .... v. $1-50 SECOR'S FINANCIAL PLAN. If "Patrick" SeCor can pull off his plan to finance the Union County Fair association as Indicated in last evening's Observer, there will be a goodly number , tiptoe and call him blessed. For Union county people want a fair one that can be depend ed upon each year and in order to have that the home of the fair must be free from mortgage and not subject to the semi-annual interest , payments...,.'- Under the SeCor plan the whole transaction is reduced to units. He ' would unitize the fair grounds by selling it off in town lots with the deed carrying express privilege of holding county fairs there as long as the association lives. At first thought it sounds good. . Every stockohlder would be protected from actual loss which seems sure to follow unless something of this kind is done. A deed to a lot in that part of the city is always worth what it .will cost under the SeCor plan. And, best of all, the county is ! then assured of a permanent fair grounds and the whole energy of the association can be centered upon the annual expo sition rather than to scraping money , together to pay interest. THE PIONEER AND SETTLER As we understand the common ac ceptance 'of . the ' term, "pioneer" it has reference to those who came to . this country in its early history. Men and women who shaped the destinies of things in this neck o' the woods.1 The "settler" came later. Probably after the; schools and churches were built and roads laid out. " The settler deserves proper con sideration, but the pioneer deserves profound respect. It is easy for we Johnny-come-laties to enter the La Grande National Bank Organized DKSreiUTED DEPOSITORY OF UNITED STATES' GOVERNMENT. UNITED STATES POSTAL SAYINGS DEPOSITORY. Capital . . . . . .1100.000.00 Surplus $140,000.00 Total Resource $1,000,000.00 ; For twenty-six years, in all kinds of financial weather, we have aucessfully catered to the monetary wants of the . people of La Grande and the Grande Ronde Valley. Wa raapactfoHjr solicit your business. La Grande National Bank ; ; - V La Grande, Oregon'; - . 1 west in Pullman cars and after ar riving" here walk on streets properly paved and enjoy the other luxuries of modern civilization. . But the pioneer first of all is entitled to admiration for his grit and fortitude. f The set tler was also a stayer and did hi part. But in reality the two should not be confused. THE CASE OF CHESTER ''1 BROUGHN. At last Chester Broughn has been caught. Aftar running the gauntlet of many juries, facing a number of courts and enjoying acquittal it was left to a Malheur county jury to find the young man gnWf natag worthless checks. ' v - . The conviction of Chester Broughn should be a warning to every young man or woman , who has , begun to flirt with dishonesty. " Broughn is apparently a bright young man in many respects. He has some win , ning traits of character, but he posi tively would not abide by the laws of man and as a result he is finally caught in the legal net and is headed straight for prison. : ; There is one interested more in this case than any other person, in , eluding young Broughn himself. That person is his mother. She is a wom an of excellent education and refined ! tastes, who loved her boy, just as every mother loves her boy. Through the many instances when young Broughn was charged, with crooked ness there was one who -always stood at the bar of justice pleading with ''' court and lawyer to save him to save her boy, her baby boy, for this boy will always be her baby, regardless of his age. ; The pangs of grief which pierce that parental heart must be terrific as she hears sen tence upon the baby she had "cud dled" Bo many years the boy whom she -was so proud of and pictured as a successful citizen in the future. : The one who suffers most in this ' case, where justice was forced to act to protect society from young men like Broughn, is the mother. BROWN HE PAYS. Carl Brown, carrier on the Lardo Warren mail route,, spent Saturday Sir town looking after business mat ters and greeting old-time friends. Mr. Brqwn Ytta made an enviable re cord in carrying mails to Warren the past fall and winter, and has done it at great personal cost, pending an adjustment of compensation by the department for the enormous increase in parcel post mail. The new order now admitting 60-pound packages to the mails will enable the miners in Warren and Big Creek districts to in 1887. ship practically all their supplies by parcel post. The charges on sup plies taken into that .region at this time of the year by freighters is 10 cents per pound, or 6.00 , for 60 pounds. The pottage on a 50-pound package by parcel post to point with in the second con (150) miles) is 54 cents. Meadows Eagle. - ' There are thousands of. .'Browns Mutni ill. ,ui nit fftmilntf im TTiMa Sam's parcel post business,' says a Boise newspaper, in this' connection. They contract to carry mail; they are now required to carry freight They cannot quit excepting at the expense of their bondsmen. The parcel post is desirable, but it oturht to say at feast tJia cost of aaielcev ft Is now bringing 'in enough so Uncle Sam could afford to do it. Uncle Sam alone can get away with such a dis honest way of doing business. - - . SINGING TO A PHONOGRAPH. One' of the Most Trying Ordeals In an Opera Artist's Career. Specially constructed violins, cellos, tubas, drums mid reed : Instruments are required us ticcoinpiinlraent to the grand opera sinter when , tie or sbe essays to waft the voice upon a phono graph record. And It Is safe to say tills singing to the phonograph is the most trylug ordeal in the artist's ca reer. .' .'. .:'.!!'. Singers lllto Caruso, Melba. Karror, Amato and a bust of otbers are united In dec-luring the singing for records is tbe hardest work they ever have undertaken, They are bereft of their audiences tbat Inspire confidence, and they necessarily must be direful to avoid false notes or Inflections. Tbe slightest clearing of tbe throat or tbe muffled shuttling of feet will spoil a, record. Aud then It all has to be done over again. : . . ' . The stutter Is ushered Into a great barnlike . room, curtained off at- one end. Through this curtain protrudes a gigantic Iwihs born, suspended from tbe celling It Is attached to the pho nograph record. 1 -1 It U then the singer notices a bevy of . musicians, but with Instruments the like of which he never has seen In any theater. .The violins are of different shapes from the Instruments with which he Is familiar. The horns are of vurled rthapes. and to each Is attached a little funnel tbat points In the direction f the large receiving, horn: This in to concentrate the sound.' The conductor Hits on a platform high above his' musicians and the singer. Thus be offers uo obstruction to tbe free transmission of tbe sound waves. Tbe singer is stationed upon a platform and close , to tbe mouth, of tbe born. A red light flashes, the musicians pour forth light ' soft melody. , for which their Instruments are particu larly designed, and tbe grand opera artist loosens bis vocal cords. His tone must be steady and strong. The slightest variation Is recorded upon the wax record, and a trivial noise jnay spoil the performance. Once he has finished, tbe record Is placed upon a producing machine and played over to detect faults. These errors are pointed out and the singer rehearsed to prevent them. Again he repeats the song, and perhnps a dozen times he is forced to sing before a perfect wax impression Is obtained. Great grand opera artists are paid thousands of dollars for a series of rec ords, and tbe sale of these brings mil lions to the manufacturers. Indian apolis Star. - . , Dueling Prime Ministers. In the old days a number of British premiers figured on the dueling ground. I,il.n Wilson Ooker wrote In 1841: I "Within the last hundred years six persons have fought duels wno nave been prime ministers Pulteney (Lord Bath). Lord Shelburne. Mr. Pitt. Mr. Fox, Mr. Canning and the Duke of Wellington. 1 might also add Peel, who twice challenged, and Castle nsHfrh wlin war almost a first minister. nr info ronrs tho cuBtnm baa certainly decreased, and the- house of lords ban not now. t dare say. above bair a aos en who have actually fought" Lon don Standard. Kansas In Rfme. I love the state of Kansas, with Its fields of wheat and corn; I love tbe Kansas sunset nod the Kansas dewy morn, and. speaking tnetapborlc, I grow fat on Kansas crops and never mind the absence of tbe yield of rye and bops; I love the Kansas porker and the Kansas topnotch steer; I love tbe Kansas tephyra and the Kansas atmosphere; I love tbe Kansas ser mons, and I love tbe Kansas jokes, bnt tbe thing I love In Kansas most la tbe Kansas kind of folks. Kansas City Republic. - YouCariLowcrTheCostofLmng awsswsisisiaaaii"sss . y If You Take Advantage of the Savings' Offered During this Month at WEST'S 1 6TH ANNU ALCLEARANCE SALE , Save S3.70 to $7.50 - - ' on Men's Clothing Save $5.00 to $12.00 - - - on Men's Overcoats Save $5.00 to $20.00 - on'Ladie's Coats Take your choice of any Tailored Suit for - $9.90 Take your choice of a Large Line Coats for - $1.19 Save One-half the price on New Coats for children One, lot .Children's Coats to $10.00 for - - 69c Special 9c Sale of Cotton Goods, Values up to 25c yd. Save Va to Vi Price, on All New Dresses 35 Men's and Boy's OVERCOATS Values to $15.00 $5.00 The Organ Like most tmiatrtant inventions, that of tbe organ Is veiled In mystery. The Invention of the organ has been at tributed to Cteslbius. a barber of Alex andria, about 250 B. C; also to the cel ebrated Ari-hlmedea. '.'20 B. C. It is certain that the organ was brought to Europe from the eastern or Greek em pire and was applied to religious devo tions In churches about A. O. TiO., It it Different Now. When the Brst i'ulluian car was put Into operation on our railways the sys tem of bookkeeping was very cruae. The conductor collected the fare from the passengers and before be turned tbe money in to the company collected his own salary from the revenues. No receipts were given, uo records kept Paid Her In Full. Candid Hostess ion seeing ber neph ew's fiancee for the first timet-1 never should have known you from your pho tograph. Reggie told me you were so' pretty. Reggie's Fiancee No; I'm not pretty, so 1 have to try to be nlee. and It's such a bore. Have yon ever tried? Londou Punch. , Legal Ability. - "Why does a man have to hire a lawyer for every little OilngV Ain't the laws plain?" "You don't understand. A good law yer can take any law and prove that It doesn't mean what It says." Wash ington Herald A Pr redox. .'"Since; Footllght Inherited a fortune he Is a parados'." "What's tile answer?" "lie's both the richest and poorest actor on r1 "----" Bean Decision Means Much. Portland, Jan. 16. The decision of Judge Bean, of the United States District Court, in the suit involving the legality of the six-for-a-quarter etreetcar fare absolutely robs the council of the right to regulate charg es, fares or rates which may be ex pected of patrons by a public service corporation in this city and curtails the power of the council to fix a com pensation for Ihe granting of a public utility franchise, according to City Attorney La Roche and Commissioner Daly, of the department of public utilities, in commenting on the- decis ion this morning. j The fixing of all charges, rates and I fares is left entirely with the state railroad commission and this body can also rescind any section of a franchise which provides that a public service corporation shall pay a remuneration to the city for the grant In other words, the city has prac tically nothing to say about : what charges shall be made for service or what compensation the city shall re ceive from a public ' utility company for a franchise. Commissioner Daly is going to secure a written copy of the opinion as soon. as. possible and go over it thoroughly to determine if the city has been left any loophole through which it may retain at least ! a bit of its power to have a little to say what shall be a reasonable regu lation of service or a reasonable com pensation for a franchise. "It now looks as if our only recourse is to carry our fight before the state railroad commission," said Daly. l"I have already determined on this step, and the city will be prepared to show that the company can sell six fares for a quarter and make money. ' Iri I all probability I will submit a report I of the case to the council tomorrow ' and ask for the privilege of prepar ing an appeal to that body. "According to this decision, if, the city' granted a franchise to a public utility corporation and attempted to limit in any way the charges which may be made for service, the com pany after accepting the franchise could appeal to the state railroad commission on tbe ground that the regulation was unjust, and if the com- ! pany made a showing to justify its contention in the minds of thfe com mission, the provision of the fran chise could be set aside absolutely. Also, if a franchise is granted with the provision that a certain compen sation be paid the city for the privi lege, the state railway commission could declare the compensation unjust and the company still would retain its franchise and would not have to pay the city anything for the privilege. "As a concrete illustration, should the city grant the franchise now pending to the Portland Railway, I Retail Departments-Phone Main 8 For Lumber, Lath Shingles, Sash and Dots Ruberoid Roofing GEORGE PALMER LUMBER Men's Heavy CLOTHING Reduced , Light & Power company for the right to cross all the bridges owned by the city over the Willamette, and the city would make an exact compensation of 3 cents a car for each car crossing the bridges, the company, 'after ac cepting the franchise with this pro vision, could turn around and appeal to the state railroad commission on the basis that its earning capacity would not warrant this 3-cent charge, the commission' could rescind this clause in the grant, and the franchise would still be' retained by the corpo ration. ''. :.''. 'f; ' '-v:' "Jt appears to me that this propo sition is absolutely unjust, but we are. going to' make a strong fight to protect a few of our rights in the mat ter." Berry Bros. Grocery A nice assortment of Vege tables to pick from for your Sunday Dinner: Celery, Cauli flower, Cabbage, Carrots, Head Lettuce, Hot House Lettuce, Sweet Spuds, Green Peppers, Parsnips, Turnips, Dry Onions, Pine Apples, Grape Fruits, Jon athan Apples. We also have P. S. Canned Peaches, Pears and Apricots. Phone Main 721.