La Grande evening observer., March 19, 1914, Image 4

LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1914
PAGE FOUR
THE OBSERVER
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TRAINING CITY MANAGERS.
The University of Michigan, like the
Oregon University,' has established
a course in municipal administration
for the training of city managers cap
able of earning from $2000 to $10,000
a year in the positions made avail
able by the new type of government
which is in vogue.
A course in municipal government a
few years ago meant a course in ward
heeling politics. A man couldn't
learn it in schools. The classroom
was a dark back room, the dingy of
fice of a city boss. There was no such
thing then as a science of city gov
ernment. It was something which
everybody could do. Those who failed
in other fields found a welcome in the
field of city politics for the simple
reason that the less the man knew or
cared about business the better off he
was. In those days the spoils sys
tem prevailed. Jobs were distributed
without reference to fitness, experi
ence or knowledge. Contracts for im
portant public works were farmed out.
Nothing was done without reference
to politics and the securing of votes.
The administration must make itself
solid with the political hangers-on by
letting them feed at the public trough.
j"1 In those days, clean, honest business
tnen had nothing more to do with mu
nicipal politics than they could help.
The more unscrupulous, by corrupt al
liances with the clique in power, fat
tened off the contracts, concessions and
special privileges. The great majority
of good citizens sat back disgusted.
What a long way we have gone is
made evident by the fact that now we
have courses to train men to become
efficient city managers. . The Univer
sity of Michigan is by no means the
only one in the field. Harvard, Colum
bia, the University of Wisconsin and
numerous others provide such instruc
tion. It is but a symptom of the
country-wide awakening to the im
portance of putting competency in the
saddle in city affairs.
Incidentally, those cities which have
obsolete charters do not get the full
benefit of the new spirit which ani
mates municipal government.
echoes of the big1 urban' health c'am
poigns. Normally the country is healthier
than the city. Co-operation, to avoid
the ills to which the old type of city
seemed an Inevitable victim, has made
the new type quite a different place.
Necessity has compelled cities to guard
closely all possible sources of contag
ion and to undertake the education of
their residents to live so as to secure I
the maximum physical well being.
S AMERICAN BOY SEEN
t AT HIS VERY BEST t
, ;
PUNISHING THE SOLDIER.
In some respects the United States
government is about the slowest mov
ing body in his country.
In certain departments it is like the
man who has heard of the twentieth
century, but who considers it an idle
rumor which will be contradicted by
later dispatches.
Its attitude toward military pris
oners has been in this class.
Instead of taking the viewpoint
adopted in so many of the states which
The marble scramble on the corner
oi Adams and Chestnut yesterday
afternoon was better than the best
circus that ever came to La Grande.
Promptly at 4:05 Pat Foley' with his
able private secretary, "Gustave," as
cended to the roof of the Foley hotel
building and with his silk shirt sleeves
fluttering in the wind, proceeded to
untie the packages that contained
10,000 marbles. , :.' i
From above Pat looked down upon a
see of radiant, expectant faces, red
sweaters, shirt sleeves and waving
hands and hats. A great shout greet
ed Pat's appearance, and reminded one
of the appearance of a great political
rapid fire gun getting off the rear
platform of an observation car, Pat
was "some" hero for the time being,
and no doubt would get every vote for
Governor from this crowd. More than
750 eager, marble shooting, play-for-keeps,
quit-cher-fudgin, sore thumbed
youngsters, with hearts that beat like
form the Union, the Union itself ap
parently has ronsidered that the way a minature fire engine, with faces up
our forefathers did things is ' good turned, with eyes rrvlted on every
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enough for us. ",uvc vl ",e "la" wlln lne maroies,
,, , , ., , , - ,, . . uirungeu me street ana maae it iook
The who e idea back of the treat- . ... .
as much like a busy bee hive, or a
ment meted out to soldiers guilty of hornet's nest as any imitation could,
purely military offenses has been pun- There was nothing "staged" about it.
ishment. 'It was spontaneils, virile, American.
The modern idea is reformation, j rt was a demonstration of the acquisi-
' , . . tive quality in man, untrammeled by
Dozens and scores of prisoners in , ,
, conventions, unrestricted by any rule
this country take hardened, supposed- f th solendid oicture of
ly desperate criminals and make men ' young boys whose senses have not
of them. . The method ueed is decently been dulled by excesses. ';.
kind treatment mingled with a recog- J he nrst handful is released. Thirty
nition that when they passed inside tnted pellets are drawn to the pave-
ment by a big law, thirty little mar
the prison doors they did not cease to bes m
be human. Bad though they may be :n i;ttie D0Ckets. Another handful
and often are, they're looked on as comes and another and still another,
inherently good until they're given ab- And Pat and Gustave smiled. How
solute proof that they're inherently they scrambled and wriggled, writhed
, and struggled, juggled and jostled,
for the little pieces of baked earth.
Today when a soldier deserts and when a marble bounded on the hard
with thousands of homesick boys in pavement and rebounded, ten hands
the army it's a wonder more don't de- in baseball fashion shot into the air
sert he is subjected to the extreme to hauI !t down and reduce to Ps
..... .. . session. The marbles were nobody's
of prison discipline. At army posts . . , . .
r I marbles as long as they were in the
he does menial jobs about the place ' aW but many of them never ,anded
and in doing them is exposed in all on the pavement, for an eagle eye had
his shame to the eyes of every man measured the path of the marble's
in the regiment and of every casual descent and placed under it a small
, . j , . , gripping machine and clutched it
passerby. An armed guard stands I
over him ready to shoot him down like j Wnat a ramb,e and scramble for the
a dog on the first suspicion that he j marbles -that sought to elude the
is attempting to escape. All during , eager grasp of some midget. Like
his imprisonment he is treated like footbnll players making a center rush
. . . . . ..i. four heads f oeirtsed together when
a man of whom the worst may be ex-' , , . , .
, . four arms reached out to extract a
pectcd. When his term is over ho is : . k ou(. of r
dishonorably discharged from the puny a thousand spectators witness
army, his taint of dishonor passing ed the squirming scene, and went
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chief resigned with the end of the
week and C. W Drumm was advanced
to assistant chief and T. G. Van Vlack
was appointed as fireman and janitor,
The street superintendent bought
two cords of wood at $7.50 for roller
and 50 yards crushed rock at $1.40,
for repair of North Fir street. He
spent $52.50 for labor repairing North
Fir macadam and $75.00 for street
cleaning.
The walk on First street, over the
ditch draining Deal Canyon is get
ting very poor. Several have asked
that something be done with it. They
want the city to construct the drain
so they can build a walk on it. The
drain should have a concrete bottom
s it can be flushed and cleaned and so
flow of water will be greater.
down to his children and his children's ck to tneir own muroie nays in yne Bowser Pump company win
i,ii,l..on .spirit when pee-wee shooting was as ,jve lne fire department a gasoline 120
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TUBERCULOSIS ON THE FARM.!
That tuberculosis is more prevalent
in farming communities, and that the
city is rapidly coming to be healthier
than the country is a statement mad
by n prominent member of nn anti
tuberculosis society.
Strange as it may seem, we actu
ally get more air in the city than do
many country dwellers. In the city
organized fresh air crusades have
awakened most families to the neces
sity for some form of continuous ven
tilation. In some parts of the country
houses still are closed as tightly as
possible (luring the greater part of
the winter. In the city the health de
partment have borne down on the ne
cessity of pure water until the greater
number fight shy of private sources of
supply. In the country wells with
water from doubtful sources are by no
means uncommon. The average city
man works fairly steadily for a third
or more of the twenty-four hours, but
usually has enough time left for rest
and recreation. In the rush seasons
the farmer works abnormally long
hours at heavy labor and in slack sea
sons has diluYuHy in keeping busy.
In the city a united effort has been
nnde to inculcate the means by which
good health is to be secured; in the
country the intelligent and the pro
gressive know what to do and what not
to do, but many others have only heard
chiefly to make it possible tor tno wen-1 Then came the counting. Tlipre
behaved prisoner to regain his stand- was no cheating. "I bet I got nior'en
ing in the army. Nothing could be you did," and "Did you win a prize?"
more sensible than for the United were frequent exclamations. And Pat
nniH tho nri7.n and rnsp into nonn'ur-
States to get up to the standard :...
" itv in the minds of these future
the states in treatment oi prisoners.
in
voters.
Hucrta is recruiting boys into bis
Mexican army. They probably will be (
clu men by the time the Mexican war !
is over.
will install it, other expense probably
fo.00. This was in the budget.
Respectfully submitted,
F. J. Lnfky,
General Manager.
MISS LYNNE TO SING.
A man arrived in New York from
Paris with diamons in his teeth. Ho
bought his equipment in order to meet
American pastry on a fair basis.
Spring floods on Mars are reported.
It n't this another good excuse for an
advance in the price of food in tlio
United States?
TAXES PAID; HAPPY.
The income tax man is eternally too
late,
For I've paid my taxes, county,
school mid state.
Of course my income is entirely too
small,
So the county treasurer got it
quite nil.
He gave my log one long, hard pull,
And wrote a receipt for taxes in
full.
So now 1 sleep nights; no burglar 1
fear;
My "rent" is pnid up for another
while year.
-C. D. SCOTT.
PUBLIC DANCE EDICT
(Continued trom Page I.)
work done by Contractor I'hiUI.-.,
amounting to unoat $700, was allowed.
I The police muue 14 arrest, re eased
10 and had 4 in jail. Fines $40.00.
Josie Palmer was gjven a chance to
go out and get $10.00 with which 10
I pay her line for being drunk. She
has not come back yet.
The manager's report for the past
I week, was read, as follows;
The water superintendent spent
i $.15.90 on taps, metering, repairing a
!hyd rant and a main.
The recorder collected $40.00 fines
and forfeitures, $75.10 on sewer dis
trict No. 3, Sect. No. 1-A, $2.50 for
5 building permits, $1.00 dog tax. Of
eight cases in court five paid lines
and throe worked on streets, lias
i transcripts of bond issues on which we
receive bids March ISth, prepared.
I The treasurer collected $700.00 as
sessmcnt and interest, $578.70 water
rent including $14.05 warrants. Paid
, $1080.00 improvement bond interest,
also paid $385.29 warrants with $:i(i.!8
interest thereon. Also sent out no
tices. There wore no calls during the week
for the fire department. The assistant
Song Bird to Make First Grand Opera
Appearance Tomorrow.
Although she has appeared in Euro
pean grand opera, Miss Felice Lynn,
well known in La Grande, is to make
her first American appearance in a
grand opera role tomorrow night in
Boston, when she sings as Gilda in j
Rigoletto with the Boston Opera
'company. Announcement of her ap
pearance comes to Mr. and Mrs. Jay
i Van Buren today from Dr. nnd Mrs.
,F. E. Moore of Portland, who were
present in London when Miss I.ynne
made her grand opera debut.
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STOKMY SESSION HELD.
Governor and Desert Land Board in
Near-Fist Fight.
Salem. March 19. The stormiest
session of the present administration !
occured today when Governor West
endeavored to get the state desert land I
board to require the Des Chutes Land j
company to enter into a contract em
bodying features which West believes
are needed. Attorney General Craw
ford and Governor West were so angry"
that a fist fight seemed a certainty.
La Grande fNational Bank
Organized in 1887.
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY t'F CMTED STATES GOVEBJfHEST.
EJflTED STATES POSTAL AVI'fiS DEPOSITOR.
Capital
Surplus
.$100,000.00
r$iTo.oo6T6o
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 L
Grande and the Grande Knnde Valley.
We respectfully solicit ynr business.
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon