La Grande evening observer., June 18, 1914, Image 4

PAOE FOUR.
THURSDAY, JUNE, 18, 1914.
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COMPLAINT FROM LADD CAN
YON. '
' The people of Ladd Canyon are
indignant over the condition of the
county roads in that section.' They
claim no work has been done .there
for three years and that the high
ways are in very bad condition.
It should be borne in mind that
Ladd Canyon is a decidbd part and
portion of Union county; that the
people out there pay their taxes and
' travel the roads. They are entitled
tr consideration just the same as any
other section of the county is en
titled ' to consideration.
Charles Mays, one who is familiar
with the Ladd Canyon district says
there is a strong sentiment against
the apparent neglect of the roads and
that the blame is laid to a' great ex
tent upon La Grande.
This U but natural for La Grande is
not only the county seat, but the
commercial center of the county
where people from all . parts often
ccme. Those living away from this
city feel that roads should be made
arid kept in condition so they can
reach the county seat without abnor
mal effort, and they are right.
It is not an easy matter to keep
mountain roads in first class condi
tion, but the effort should be made.
A little work now and then helps a
great deal, and as road taxes are al
ready high a little more will not be
too much, if such be necessary to
give the Ladd Canyon people what
they are entitled to have.
(states can be handled at will so far
as commercial interests are concerned
by a few men, that fact should be es
tabllshed and the blame placed where
it belongs.
. The country awaiU the detailed ex
planation of the President's remarks
of Monday. '
FAST .DRIVING .SHOULD BE
' STOPPED.
No town in Oregon permits auto
mobilists and motorcyclists to drive
as fast as La Grande does. '
, This is common comment from
traveling men and strangers who vis
it the city.
Why the fast driving? There Is
plenty of time. Rarely an emergen
cy takes a physician more than the
speed limit through the streets, and
when such cases occur they are per
missable, of course.
But it is this every day fast driv
big that causes the danger.! Fif
teen miles an hour is the ipeed-limit
Yet that ordinance is violated hund
reds of times each day It shouldn't
be. Results of an unsatisfactory
nature are sure sooner or later . to
follow. Would it not be much . better
to be careful than to-be sorry?. ,
When the fire truck runs out of
the fire station get out of the way.
Climb close to the curb and stay
there. If you are driving stop your
machine and wait until the fire truck
and the volunteer firemen get by.
. Don't think because there is a fire
you have the privilege of driving six
ty miles an hour through the streets
because the fire truck and volunteer
firemen in their individual machines
do. You have no such right and you
are violating the city laws the mom
ent you attempt to keep up with he
firemen. Besides, you are only in the
way at a fire. La Grande has paid
men and a first-class volunteer force
who can accomplish more if they are
let alone than they can with a hund
red private machines buzzing around
like bees.
Just keep in. mind, that you have
no right to make the run to a fire
at more than fifteen miles an hour,
or perhaps the chief of police will
be forced to impress it upon you.-
Aim taie motorcycle riders come
under this ordinance also. Motor
cycling has never been curbed very
much in this city and it is high time
that the law was promulgated to ev
ery machine owner who insists on rid-
jing faster than the ordinance pro-.vides.
BANKERS SAY, "STOP."
THE PRESIDENT AND THE "BUS
INESS LOBBY.
President Wilson made some very
pointed remarks Monday when he as
serted that a "business" lobby was
endeavoring to depress the entire
country just prior to the anti-trust
legislation.
It is really due the people of this
nation to have a more exhaustive
explanation from the chief executive.
If his ideas on the matter are cor
rect' and there really exists another
"insidious" or "business" lobby, the
whole matter should be exposed and
this coutfVy should fight out the
matter rijrht now.
The nttctmpt to adjourn congress is
displeasing to the President and he
will "call their hands." That is what
everybody wants. Calling of the
hands of men who ore in a combina
tion to force legislation would be the
most refreshing thing the president
could do and would put him in high
standing with the people ngnin, re
gardless of the business condition
that may follow. If the United
Oregon bankers at the Medford ses
sion sent word to the President urg
ing him to let up on business, which
is really the sentiment of this state
at the present time.
But, judging from the President's
attitude all along the line, he will
answer the bankers courtcsously in
a way that will convey the intelli
gence that he is running the mill just
now and) while he would like to ac
eiiiieso ho must delay the matter un
til he has whacked a few trusts, ad
justed the canal business and proven
to everyone that the cost of living
hns been reduced.
Of course, the bunkers are to be
congratulated on speaking their
minds, but it is hardly expected that
the President will bo guided by them
when bunkers from ttthor states have
failed to impress His Excellency.
THEY ARE HUNTING LAND NOW.
"I have always noticed," remarked
Land Attorney John T. Williamson,
a few days ago, "that when times
get n little close people begin the
La Grande National Bank
Organized in 1887.
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF UNITED STATES GOVERN
MENT. UNITED STATES POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITORY.
Capital .$100,000.00
Surplus $110,000.00
Total Resources $1,000,000.00
For twenty years, in all kinds of financial weather, we have
successfully catered to the monetary wants of the people of La
Grande and the Grand Rondo Valley.
We respectfully solicit your business. ; ,,
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon
search for land. " This is noticeable in
the demand for government land that
is now going on."
And every 'period has itr barom
eter. 'When everything ( is moving
lovely; when twenty dollar gold pieces
are easily obtained, there is little
thought of breaking the sage brush
land and making it produce the crops
that feed mankinjd. But- when de
pression overtakes us; when the hard
money is scarce, it is then that man's
thoughts go back to the soil and he
yearns to make grain displace the
sage brush, to make the Btump land
yield its portion of the world's 'sup
ply of food. '' 1 ;
ERROR LN PRICE.
"Round-up" to Cost 50 Cents Instead
of 25 as Announced Yesterday.
Inadvertently display , advertising
yesterday in the .Observer announce 1
that the price for the wild west show
June 24 for the visiting merchants
would be 25 cents. ..The sum should
have been 50 cents 'which admits to
the grand stand. Children will be ad
mitted for 25 cents.i
Another Eruption. ,
Redding, Cal., June 18. Mount
Lassen is . again in eruption. The
outbreak could be plainly seen from
Redding at noon. About one thousand
tourists are encamped at the base
oi the mountain.
William Harder Dead.
Portland, June 18. William Hardi
er, twenty years general agent for
the Great Northern at Portland, and
one of the best known railroad men
in the Ur.'t?tl States, died very sud
denly here today of heart failure.
AN OLD TALE OF TWO CITIES.
Travel From New York to Philadelphia
In Stage Wagon Days.
In the New York Gazette or Weekly
Post Boy of May 9. 1708. appeared tbla
notice:
To the Public:
Ttint the Stnge-WuBRons, kept by
John Rnrnhill. in Elm-Street. In Phila
delphia, and John Mercereuu, at tb
New-Bluzlng Star, near New-York, con
tinues their Stages In two Days, from
Powles-Hook Terry, opposite New
York, to Philadelphia: returns from
Philadelphia to Powles-Hook in 'two
Days also; they will endeavor to oblige
the Publlck by keeping the best of
Waggons and sober Drivers, and sets
out from Powle-Hook and Philadel
phia, on Mondays and Thursdays,
punctually at Sunrise, and meets at
Prince Town the same Nights, to ex
change Passengers, and each return
the Day after:
Those who are kind enough to en
courage the Undertaking, are desired
to cross Powles-Hook Kerry the Even
ings before, as they must set off early.
The Price for each Passenger Is Ten
Shillings to Prince Town, and from
thence to Philadelphia. Ten Shillings
more. Ferriage free: There will be but
two Waggons, but four sets of fresb
Horses, so It will be very safe for any
Person to send Goods, as there are but
two Drivers: they may exebauge their
Goods without any Mistake.
Persons may now go from New-York
to Philadelphia, and back again in five
Days, and remain In Philadelphia two
XlKlits aud one Day to do their Busi
ness In: The Publlck may be assured
that this Itoad Is much the Shortest
than any other to Philadelphia, aud
regular States will be kept by the
Publlck's obliged humble Servants.
JOHN MEUCEItEAU and
JOHN HA It Nil ILL.
MUSICAL HEADS AND FACES.
They Have a Shape All Their Own,
Saya a German Scientist.
That all musicians are "freaks." so
far as their physical appearance goes.
Is the opinion of Dr. Pnu! Sohu, the
Gorman scientist. Not only this, but be
(Inds that, regardless of their race or
imtinnallty, nil persons of marked mu
sical ability show a close resemblance
to one another in the shape of their
heads and faces. The head and ootin
tenance of the typical musician often
look very much like those of the llou or
the sphinx.
The peculiar shape of a musician's
head Is due, Pr. Suhn believes, to the
gradual expansion of the sound center
of Ills brain and the consequent rhnnce
In the conformation of his skull. This
Is why the heads of WiiL-ner, Beetho
ven. Hubert Schumann. Itlchnrd Strauss
and other great musicians all have an
eccentric, abnormal and sometimes fan
tastlc appearance. A musician's sound
center develops abnormally because It
Is there that everything In his life duds
Its motive.
The musical head and fnce are of
primitive type, because tnnslenl genius
Is a reversion to the time when men
communicated their ideas by means of
more or less Inarticulate sounds. But.
although the musician's physical ap
pearaace Is barbarous In Its lack of
beauty anil regularity. It contains no
Mnt of degeneracy.
The typical musical head Is charac
termed by the horizontal breadth of
the forehead, the broad nose and chin
Now-a-Davs
It's the man with the "punch" that wins.
.The same is true with stores, with them, the
' ' punch ' ' may be their goods, prices, values
or service but a combination of all these
'things is necessary for a store to win.
" ' -': - ' . . .) . ; . .
That's why the West Store leads all when
it comes, to Suits, ; r : . , ,-.
" "Hir-Wickwire," "Benjamin Washing
ton' "Society Brand" and "Fidelity Suits"
are four great lines that can't be beat for val
ues, fit and long wear, and our modern Men's
Department gives you service as good as most
city stores.
SUITS $15.00 to $30.00
. MliH.i inn ii i
., M.kwrf. ....... . .
Half Minute Talk
Monday, while selecting a suit, a new :
customer remarked that he had been in1' '
a number of places, seeking a new suit, '.
and in no other store had he seen such ""
a showing of perfect fitting clothes as
he did in the .West Store and all were
such values too.
Had he been. .in the habit of buying"
his suits here, he wouldn't have been "
surprised at the 100 percent value he
got in every suit. Suppose you try us
next time.
and tbe wide, extremely mobile mouth.
The brow often overhangs, greatly, as
was so notably tbe case with Beetho
ven. Tbe eyes are lustrous, but bear a
separated, dreamy expression. The
bands are brond and strong.
"Musicians," says Dr. Sobn, "are ab
solute slaves to their sense of sound.
and it Is this that not only affects their
physical apjiearance. but makes tbem
mentally so nervous and excitable. Tbe
main feature of the musical intellect is
that mental excitement seeks a differ
ent outlet from that In tbe ease of ordi
nary men." New York American.
MARK TWAIN AS A LINGUIST.
Hit Grim Vow After Ha Firmly Decid
ed to Learn French.
When Mark Twain was a young re
porter, working on tbe San Francisco
Call, be made up bis mind to learn the
French language. He did not want to
go to tbe expense of a teacher, and so
be bought a grammar and conversation
book and set to work. Before breakfast
he pored over the lessons; lote in the
evening be was at it ngnin, and every
available moment of the day he em
ployed with equal assiduity.
He soon began to look about for op
portunities to tnnke use of his new ac
complishment. Accordingly be began to
eat at a French restaurant once a week.
One day as be and bis roommate
were coming out of tbe restaurant they
found on the sidewalk just outside the
door a Freucbmnn. He was asking
first one passerby and then another tbe
way to a certain street, but no one un
derstood blm. That was Mark's
chance. The Frenchman looked at
blm n-lth wistful eyes and began to
talk. Mark listened attentively. Three
or four times tbe stranger was com
pelled to repeat his question, then
Mark seemed to eatcb bis drift But
he had scarcely spoken half a dozen
words in reply, when the Frenchman
fell to the sidewalk in a dead faint,
Tbe true cause of tbe stranger's
fainting may never be known. Very
likely he was famished, and perhaps
he bad been put out of this very res
taurant because of his seedy appear
ance. But, whatever the cause, the j
Joke was on Mark for once. Mark's
roommate was careful enough of h!s
friendship not to tell the Incident at
the otilce of the Morning Call, but he
teased the rising humorist n good deal
about It. When the fun had lasted
king enough Murk set his jaw, and
with unlimited determination written
on his features announced, "I'll learn
French if it kills every Frenchman In
tho country!" Youth's Companion.
Unfair Advantage.
"Your valet went on strike, did he
1 hope you did nor accede to his de
mands?" " Ton my life. I had to. old chap
The cunulng creature actually threat
ened to leave me one morning when 1
was half dressed." -London Opinion.
A Trying Position.
"This Is going to put me in a very
trying position he muttered.
"What, my dear?' she asked.
"1 have been summoned to serve on
Jury." London Telegraph
Nettle and Bee.
untie Bertie had Just been stung by
a nettle. "Mother." he asked, "if a bee
settled on a nettle would the bee sting
the nettle or would the nettle sting the
bee'f"
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