La Grande evening observer., May 25, 1914, Image 4

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MONDAY, MAY 25, 19u.
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OUF DUTY TO OUR NATIONALS.
Secretary Daniels is in a fair way
to become the incubus of the Wilson
administration. Referring to the ap
peals of refugees for protection, he
i3 quoted as saying: ''They went into
Mexico to get big profits, and they
shouldn't expect the United States to
look after them if they did not stay
at home."
As long as our citizens
behave
themselves in other lands a stand of
this sort is only reactionary brutal
ity. Of course men migrate for
selfish reasons in order to better
their material conditions. The habit
is an old one, dating back to the
dawn of history and including whole
tribes and nations of men. No event
amount of reading is necessary to
convince one that migration is es-
sential to what we. call civilization,
li Europe, for the last three hundred
years had been of Mr. Daniel's mind,,
the United States would be a wilder
ness. Think how Mr. Daniels' career
must have suffered in that event.
However much we would like to
keep all our people at home, no
amount of coaxing or compulsion will
. hold some of them. That being true
for all the virilo breeds of men, civi
lization has established a code of
customs, masquerading under the
name of international law, for the
protection of wandering citizens,
which guarantees them the right to
pence and prosperity long as they
observe the law of the land and re
frain from meddling in internal af
fairs. Among modern nations Great
Britain has most successfully de
fended the rights of aliens in bar
barous surroundings. The long arm,
the prompt reprisal, the show to
force at the impressive moment, the
coolness of the British seaman and
the judgment of the British diplomat
have stood tho world in good stead
these many years. The aid Amcr-
La Grande National Bank
Organized
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF UNITED STATES GOVERN
MENT. UNITED STATES POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITORY.
Capital .$100,000.00
Surplus". . .TTT. $uo,ooo7oo
Total Resources 11,000,000.00
For twenty years, in all kinds of financial weather, we have
successfully catered to tho monetary wants of the people of La
Grande and the Grand Ronde Valley.
We respectfully solicit your business.
La Grande NationalfBank
a Grande, Oregon
icans re8erve' in Mexico from British
! seamen has been
.d within
the last,. month j
fact, Mexico is
aimilar servl
a matter of
, last of many
,uj uic "",, . -..t:..j
great powers ir Denina
In the struggle between savagery
and civilization, the world powers i
must uphold the international modei
as applied to aliens, else unspeakable
horrors will ensue. That solidarity
of interest was stoutly voiced by Sir
Spencer, St. John, British minister to
Haiti half a century ago, when he
rescued an innocent American from
a dungeon on that island. Said Sir
Spencer:
In the out of the way places of the
world the British government con
siders every white man an English
man. We believe it to be for the
best interest of our country to do
everything in our power to maintain
our foreign commerce; therefore, the
lives and properties of our merchants
must be protected. Some day the
United States will arrive at the dig
nity of wishing to do the same.
Meanwhile, the British government
will render this service until the
United States is big enough and
strong enough to do it for herself.
In the half century since the
Briton pitied our defenceless con-
uuiuu, we nave grown strong enougn
to protect our own, but unRappily for
our blood brothers in Mexico the will
and preparedness have not matched
the ability. An American business
man in Mexico is more helpless than
a Bulgarian peasant in New York,
and the reason is not far to seek.
.
There have been too many statesmen
. ., . , , . . . , . . .
of the Daniels stripe at Washington,
men who are constitutionally unable
to look beyond boundaries and ob-
serve that no government worthy of
the name cun shirk its international
responsibilities without
its citizen. -, '
hardship ' to
ALL PLAY AND NO WORK.
This, is vacation, time. For many
youngsters it is going to be a time
in which to follow all of the youthful
bents, to hunt and roam in the hills,
fish and frequent the old swimming
hole. For some it will be visiting
time, when grandmother's place will
have a sort of magnetic power draw
ing them to farm barns and hen
houses where they will come in
contact with new life.
A small percentage will be com
pelled to do some kind of serious
work. It is snfo to say that this
small percentage will in the end have
spent the best vacation, for all
absence of training causes young
men and women to develop habits of
frivolity.
It is an absolute mistake to sup
pose and to follow out the theory
that young" boys and girls should be
in 1887.
luxy and do nothing. Man is an
active being and when he is' not do.
ing something useful he ' is doing ,
flomet,njng contrary to , the institu
'This lat
ter means getting into trouble. It
is "not goirfg to hurt the boy or girl
?e?i, som?kind of light and
several hours during the day.' ' No
one who has been a real ooy or girl,
would for a moment begrudge either
the innocent pastimes which mean as
much to them as profitable pursuits
mean to mature men ; and women.
But that is not the point. The . point
about this whole business of training
is the habit which" is formed. Much
of the instruction obtained In school
U going to be forgotten in its de
tails, but the habit that is being
formed is going to stick tothe boy
and the girl throughout life.; For
this reason the habits that are
formed while the mind is plastic and
formable, are going to cling to them
j like barnacles to a seagoing vessel;
they are going to be part of the
child and later of the - man and
woman; they will either make them
useful or frivelous; they will either
make of them selfsupporting mem
bers of a community or they will
make them butterflies, subsisting on
the labor of someone else.. ' It often
is very immaterial whether the work
to be performed is gainful or not.
The question to ask is this, is it
forming a habit of thrift and econ
omy, or is it educating the boy or
girl to feel inferior when doing some
right kind of habit? And that is
kind of useful labor? When this,
latter spirit, manifests itself and
parents aid it through a spineless
method of disclipine, you can rest as
sured that neither will amount to
very much in after life.
Some boys hate work as much as
some prohibitionists hate liquor. It
ij not in them to do anything profit
able. True, the work which a'school
boy or girl can perform does 'not in
tr.t aggregate amount to-much
when measured by a standard of
money or a wage scale, but neither
is that the point to be gained. The
point is, will the work form the
largely the point in all school work.
It should behoove those who have
children capably of doing something
worth while to map out for them a
summer schedule of light work for
each day, or for so many hours each
day, and require them to follow that
plan scrupulously.
Many of the captains of industry
started in that way and have time
and again preached against the
frivolous lossvof time by young
people. They realize the force of the
old proverb, "as the boy, so the man"
and know that "as tho twig is bent,
so the tree will grow." Ask any
successful man in this community if
his parents allowed him or her to
waste three months of precious time
and they will tell you that they had
to work at an early age, some of
them in the fields, some in shops.
That's the basis of their succers.
New York women asks for divorce
because her husband insisted that she
cook the cat for dinner. Probably
she doesn't know that the cost of
living problem is becoming very
acute.
I Unstarched collars will be fash
lonable for men this summer. It will
be pretty hard for a laundry to put
a saw-tooth edge on an unstarched
collar.
An English scientist declares
nature intended every man to have
several wives. But did nature in
tend to show him the way to support
them ?
Sick Headache.
Mrs. A. L. Luckie, East Rochester,
N. Y., was a victim of sick headache
and despondency, caused by a badly
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weakened and debilitated condition of
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Adv.
ROBBING THE COAL PILE. 1
Smoke That Goes Up the Chimney Is
. Fuel Thrown Away. ,
For the benefit of any oiie who may
not see the analogy between n robbed
coal pile and a smoking cblmucy It
may be bnc-ily am simply explained. ;
The visible part in smoke Is nearly
all carbon, either as soot or cinder, and
carbon is the principal combustible
part of cofll i. 0.. the useful part, the
part capable of yielding heat Carbon
completely burned forms an invisible
gas, carbon dioxide: therefore when
ever the gases from a stack show
black they contain carbon, which indi
cates that complete combustion has
not taken place in the boiler furnace.
In other words, of the available
beat in the coal has not been realized.
It Is the same as though the corre
sponding part of the coal fed into tho
furnace had been thrown away, for,
although it has passed through the
furnace, it has been thrown away up
the stack beyond recovery. Is this,
then, so very different from robbing
!be coal pile?
The owner who through ignorance
Hllows conditions to exist which are
not favorable to the most economical
operation of his boiler furnaces, ni
thongh he is unwittingly robbing him
self, is nevertheless stealing from his
iiwn coal pile. Power.
Various Courtships.
He wished to Join tho congressmen
And sooi: got in the game.
2 used to see lilm now mid then
When he was wooing Fume.
He isn't wooing Fame today;
Ho Jilted her, you boo
Went nftor spoils, nnd now they say
He "courts nn Inquiry."
San Francisco Chronicle.
In the Upper Set.
"Mrs. riyuiptou-Todgers is very
proud of the fashionable Illegibility of
her handwriting."
"But I thought it was the secretary's
writing?"
"Of course. It took Mrs. Tlympton
Todgers three years to find such a sec
retary." Cleveland Tlalu Dealer.
Possibilities.
We cannot nil bo handsome, and we can
not nil ho young.
There's much that none of us may ever
learn.
But each man may be silent when h:
ought to hold his tongue,
And most ot us can spend more than we
earn.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Putting It Off.
"ITo's a mean man."
"How so?" i
"Wheu his little girl begs for nn toe j
cream sundae he asks her If she
wouldn't rather have a gold watch
when she's nineteen." Louisville Cou
rler-Journal.
contest window featuring the famous"
Porosknit
Suits
Calient Sorvice.
Colonel Junies Hamilton Lewis went
over to a hotel near the capltol for
some luncheon. He Mulshed, walked to
the door of the cafe and stood looking
out Into the lobby, occupying the place
usually held by the head waiter.
A very pretty woman came up. mis
took the senator lor the head waiter
and asked: "May I have that table
over there?"
"Certainly, madam." the gallant colo
nel replied. "It will give me great
pleasure to escort you thither"
He led her to the table, pulled OHI
ber chair anil Seated her. Slit- picked
up the bii! of fare, glanced at it and
then said to Lewis: "What do you roe
unniend today?"
"Madam." Lewis replied with -mo or
his famous bows, "if I were not mar '
rled I should unhesitatingly recom
nend myself." Saturday Evening
Tost.
Modest.
".Now. Willie." said the visitor to a
little fellow who had been In school
only tw'i weeks, "who Is the smartest
boy In your class?"
"I'd like to tell you." he replied, "bio
papa says that I mustn't boast"-Chi
cngo ew:i.
The Sixth One.
"Smythe A- Co. are going to erect a
five sti.ry building."
"Will it pay?"
That's another story." Philadelphia
Ledger.
tie that blows upon dust fills his eyes
with It Danish Proverb
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Boys' Union Suits
50c
Flying Fish.
Interesting are the habits "f the I:
Ing llsh. that queer denizen of the i
found principally in the region o.' tli
trade winds. "Does It" rise from
sea like a bird?" you ask. No. I
shoots out of the waves like an nrro
and with outspreading wings sails or
the wind In graceful curves, rislui
sometimes, one might say, to tin
height of fifteen feet, but not often sf
high, and then, lowering. It agaii
touches the crest of a wave and re
news Its flight This operation may bf
repented till It covers a distance, say
of COO yards in tho case of the stout
not half that distance la covered. A i"
ship sailing through the trade winds
will often be visited on dnrk nights bj
nylng Dsn. which hit the sails or rij:
King and fall on deck, whore, of course
they soon jive up life. St Nicholas.
The Inconsolable Widower.
"There is only 0110 inconsolable wld
owor and that Is the ostrich," said the
zoo keeper. 'The ostrich, if bis ma ti
dies, never remarries.
"He is also the most faithful of hus
bands, a sequence not always incvitn
ble. lie waits on his wlfo like a chev
aller. He digs tho nest for her. Ot
the forty days' setting he does tin
hardest share: ho docs the night work
covering the eggs from sunset till lati
the next morning.
"Sometimes, naturally, domestic com
plications occur, and tho ostrich kicks
He kicks, in fact, his wife to death.
"But what a consolation it must b(
to her as she passes away to think
that he will remain true and conssu(
to her memory and never, .never sect
another inate."-Philndelphla Bulletin.
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