La Grande evening observer., February 22, 1915, Image 4

MOiCDAY1, FEBRUARY & 1915.
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THF HRFPVPP ere contulncd iivthe AnnaliSt's article: government cost payments advance!
KJUOLul V - Federai Government expend. ! 106 per cent."
KRUCK DENNIS: Editor 'and Owner, i'. -
, '. r i n c '" nearly tffi,ww,wv,vwv, .. (j, .g, .j, j, .j, j,;,-,J, J. A
ffctorwivin the Poet OnW at U hich 1953,600,000 was applied for'4!.-. - $
Grande, Oregon, : as . nee Mid class governmental cost payments an $(,.
v matter, ' ; - .;? ' (145,271,000 for non-governmental cost
. .'. . payments. 1 Under the former heaJ
Advertising rates on application. Ail re lnciuded eXDenses of all general
TZJ'''S-.itmaUHwta. .public-service ( enter
iwra Mic wince urn yvxvrv tuv T . , , , . , i. , .
4 appears. ' prises, und interest; under the. Iat-
"V. i ' '. i ' ,'ter.tha amounts spent for purchase
Addres all communications to of investments and supplies redemp
tHE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth Street 'tion of debt obligations, trust, and
fiURRCBlPTiOM 1ATES ' uency transactions, and counterbai
' Daily, single copy ...........
TWO. GREAT AMERICANS;
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By ANUKfcW MAKUiK.
ancing transactions. Ten years earlier
' 16c 'he aggregate expenditures were $1
65c 256,871,000.
.13.501 "The aearrerate expenditures of the
.17.00 states amounted - to $606,847,00 In
Dailr. per week
Daily, per month ........... a
PaQy,' six months in advance..
Daily, per year in advance..
ySae 1 . ... . ..."..$4.00 1918 and to WWIT.OOO in 1903- The
WmU Observer-StarVper year ' population was estimated at 98,816,000
In advance ... .........-.....$1.60 ir. the latter year and at 80,688,000 in
HOW
GOVERNMENT
'" '. CREASES.
The per-capita cost was $3.80 in
Cost in-- 1918 and 2,3 in 1903, r!;t.r
"In all but one of the forty-eight
: -.rf-.V ; states the per-capita cost of goverii-
'" 1 Jment has gone up comoared with ten
Public expenditures-national, State ears ,K0 xhe ginK,e exception is
city, county, and villsgeriu-e in- South Carolina, where the per-capita
L creasing heavily throughout the coiin- expenditure decreased from $2.55 in
try, both ; actually ; and relatively."; W3 to $1.40 in 1913, a difference of
- Growth in taxes has outrun growth in 70 per cent.; entirely due to a de
population. There are compensations, crease in payments for the expenses
however, provided taxpayers can and of the State dispensary. : South Caro-
wish to stand, the increase. Of thes-j hW has the smallest per-capita gov
, a writer in the New York times An- Anient cost, and Nevada, with $10.4f
ralist says: ; s ; J if- 1913, the largest,' - .. ';.
"When you drive your automobile The Bureau of the Census ' has
' over mile after mile of smooth macuv classified the expenditures of the sev-
Jam and compare the new roads with eral states. Of the $6.93 which was
those which you. remember existed a expended for each man, woman, and
. few years ago, you are enjoying only hid in New York State, 66 cent
what you are paying for; and if you went for general government, 33 cents
do not happen to own an automobile for protection to person and property,
ycu are paying just the same. When . 7 cents for conservation of health and
' you send your children to a new steel sanitation, 43 cents for highways $1.19
end marble schoolhouse and cal to for charities, hospitals, and corree
mind the crude facilities offered you tions, 56 cents for schools, 7 cents for
as a child you are but giving them libraries, 2 cents for recreation, and 9
.comforts for which you are charged; cents for miscellaneous and general
and if you have no children you ans rurposes. The apportionments, for
paying just the same. . .. .. :- education were 51 cents; other appor-
"Or when .you pause to reflect on tionments, 17 cents; public service. an-
, the advantages of living under a bene- tarprise, 13 cents; Interest, 37 cents,
ficent national Government ; which and outlays, $2.83. r
carries much of your, mail and most "Taking up only the items in which
of your parcels at less than the bare he greatest increase occurred in the
coat, which forecasts the weather that decade, it is found that in 1S03 thfc
you may not suffer from . stormn, cost of general government was. 54
regulates the railroads that you may
rot be overcharged, and supplies you
with literature on almost . every sub
ject under the sun, your reflection, if
; carried far enough, will arrive at the
, conclusion that you are getting more
. comforts than formerly because you
are paying more."
, So far as there being any mystery
rttending this increase, it is a thing
mat may be easily understood, once
taxpayers consider what they have
been getting in return for their mon
ey. There are better roads, better
cents, aguinst 66 ten years later: 11
cents for protection, against 33; 32
cents for highways, against 43; $1 for
charities against $1.19; 77 cents for
education, against the total of $1.07
spent directly and apportioned, ann
lut 4 cents for interest, against 37.
Taking the forty-eight states as
n whole, the expenses of the genernj
- The birthdays of our two supreme
Americans, coming as they do so near
together, naturally invite comparison
of the two men. ,
' Washington's power consisted in a
certain high and dignified attitude of
supremacy. ' ' ;
Lincoln's influence resided, in his
patience, sagacity, tact, humor and
consumate knowledge ' of human na
ture. -i"- .-.:.y.: .'".''j''--. :
' : Washington's , demeanor : does not
have the calm tranquility of Lincoln's
He was capable of terrible outbursts
of rage, as when he all but brained a
negro slave with the oar of a row
boat, - It must, be said of him, how
ever, that he kept his fiery, temper
under very excellent control. v.
'Washington did not understand hu
man, nature as Lincoln 'did. But he
judged the large outlines with almost
unfailing insight . and was a ;arer.t 1
chooser of men. His sagacity was .the
ability to Calmly consider every alter
native and then to choose the right
one. . i
- Washington, was never gifted with
the power ox literary expression like
Lincoln. .. His diary and soma' of his
letters read like the labored compost
tions of a college undergraduate. His
ablest state papers, like his farewell
address, are said to have been out
lined or even written by . Alexander
Hamilton. "Lincoln was' not. only" a
great thinker but he had the power
not always possessed by great think
ers, of clothing his thought in con-
ummate language. His , Gettysburg
address, . universally : admired ; as a
classic, was written during his jour
ney to the. battlefield. His letter to
Mrs. Bixby on the sacrifice of ' her
five sons to the service of the Union
will never be surpassed. Lincoln's os
caional letters will be remembered
when Washington's more pretentious
and ponderous state papers are for
gotten. ; - ' '- . ;
Washington is more difficult to un
derstand than Lincoln. Like the moon
he is distant, dark, cold, without at
mosphere. He is merely great. '
His strength was colossal," his in
tegrity limitless, in all circumstances
he had the ability to act with dignity
ana grandeur. .;ihe insidious tempta
tion to pander to popular "clamor,
wnicn nas lured many a public man
to destruction, he flung from him as
a lion shakes the drops of dew from
his mane. Washington would never
be elected to public office today. -The
meanness of our modern politics, with
its mouthy demogogues and truckling
office seekers, makes' us glad that
n asnington is so long dead and for
ever safe. ' , ' :',
Though Washington is the first
great democrat, the founder of the
greatest democracy the world has ever
seen, there is still the air, of an aristo
crat about him. He is stark, solitary.
NOWJBN BEBMAY-
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Scores of New Spring Suits, ! CoatSj
Dresses, Waists andSldrts. . 1
The New Spring Suits : I
show many striking changes fiom last season. High empire effects and full
skirts again have thfir day. Smart coverts in the new " putty and sand -shades,
black and white checks, navy, green and grey are the approved coir
ors. New Spring suits . JJ-L. fl5.00 and upwar .
tiew Waists Now Here
Many pretty models, in sheer materials and daintiest of trimmings, long 0
short sleeves, high or low necks: Se4-jvindow. display of these new-waists-'
All priced at .,.,.ZZl . 1.25
The New Spring Dresses
$3.27 per capita.'an increa'seof 54 di
Uent This item of governmental cost
was higher for every state in 1913
than for 1903 ovcont n th. noD. r
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nppl Bgftgr hospitals, and better , Massachusetts. " '.,; '
postal service, because more m6ne:- "In 1913 taxes ' eonRtitutmt .'' 'ni-
Ja been spent, for them, and tho cent, of the total revenues oY the for- !'emot,e' served. There is little about
pending or this increase of money has ty-eight sUtes. v - n --i,"-, r'er" lu jp"r ima,.
' mad tax. WiW -'"an--',-' ...'' i" . i gination. ; -Jf
. ...0... . .... . Mi u tivm mis source or revenue lor the
governments forty-eight : ti nwnbei-, several geographic divisions varied
.are aeciarea to nsva "Vied with tho i from 69 per cent, in the West North
national Government in devising new Central divisionembracing . the
ways of spending public money." , States of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri,
Meanwhile population has not kept the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas
pace with the expenditures. For ex-'to 91 per cent, in the Middle Atlantic
ample, the State of New York, in divisions-embracing New York, New
which the population is increasing at j Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The only
, the rate of 25 per cent., while that. States realizing only 60 per cent, or
of the entire country is at the rate less of their revenues from taxes were
of 20 per cent., governmental costs in ! North Dakota, South Dakota, Mon
New York have increased about 200 tana, and Wyoming. '
per cent. Reduced to a percapita ha-j - "The tendency toward larger om
uls, it appears that whereas this ex- lays; for public buildings, education,
pense in New York in 1903 was $2.86, "road's, aiid other public enterprises
ten years later it was $6.93, or an in- is well shown by the fact that whilo
crease per capita of 142 per cent. Tho the population of the forty-eight
Federal Government in 1918 cost El. states as a whole increased from
per cent, more than it did ten years 20 per cent from 1903 to 1913 and the
before. Many other interesting points revenues increased 94.3 per cent, the
are of quain designs and are very charming looking along old fashioned pic-1
turesque liues-There are pretty silk models and also ones in heavier materials
Priced, ; l 10.00 and up
- Smarl New Spring Coats
Many women are tired of wearing that heavy old winter coat and these' new
smart, jaunty, airy looking coats we are showing are now a welcome sight.
New checks, stripes, coverts in sand and putty shades, and greys are the princ
iple new colore.. Priced :. $8.00 to $25.00
J5PR1NGJMERCHANDISE
NOW ON DISPLAY 1N
EVERY DEPARTMENT.
drop of blood from the great heart of numerically superior. The Teutons ad
w ashmgtbn. And not a shell plowed vanced in massed formation the state-
:.s way through the ranks of blue r,r ment says, fighting their way forward
gray in tne great uivu War, but left despite great gaps torn in their ranks
a lurrow on Lincoln's careworn cheek Dy Tenoft artillery and finally drove
and craggy brow. . the French out. French gains are
LA GRANDE NATIONAL BANK
Capital $200,000.00 ' .' Resources $1,000-000.00
-Surplus $50,000.00 ' ' 1 -
OFFICERS: ' i T'
Fred J. Holmes, President C. C. Penington, V.-Prest.
F. L. Meyers, Cashier
Earl Zundel and H. E. Coolidge, Ass't Cashiers
Fred J. Holmes
C. C. Penington
F. L. Meyers
DIRECTORS:
A. T. Hill
J. F. Conley
J. G. Snodgrass
H. E. Coolidge
A: Blockland
H. S. Brownton
What This Bank Aims to Do
To promote our customers' interests as we would our own ;
To do all we can to make their relations here profitable
and agreeable to them;
To contribute to their enterprises, the co-operation, fore
sight and timely assistance which a good Bank can
- properly bestow.
ginatiort,
Lincoln, on the other hand, ; is"
glorified common man, democracy
personified. - Lincoln embodies- the
humanity, the ideals, the longings, of
the plain people. His greatness
not unique and lonely, it is diffused
throughout the general mind. He has
in him the color of the ground, the
mellow soil, the tang and odor of
the prairies of Illinois. Through life
ne i-urrieu witn nun a reminiscence ox
the log cabin in which he was born.
There are conspicuous traits,' how
ever, which are common to both Wash'
ington and Lincoln. . One of these is
the characteristic of. humility! " a;:
Washington happened to be present
at the congress when his name waf
broached for the supreme command
of the continental army, and unable
to endure public praise, he retired into
a cloak room to hide his embarassment
and confusion. 'v
When a Springfield paper first men'
tioned Lincoln's name for the' breSr-
dency he wrote a personal letter to
the editor begging him not to mention
him in that connection, pleading, that
he was unworthy to be even ..thought
cf for that exalted station.
I have noticed that the . boughs
which bear the most fruit always hang
the lowest And these two great fruit
ful boughs, bending beneath the vast
accumulated weight of character ano
genius, always hung near the ground;
the greater a man is the more simple
and unaffected he is. And in this trait
of humble self-esteem Washington and
Lincoln were supremely great.
Both Washington and Lincoln were
the simplest, most unpretending of
men. The integrity of both was thor
ough, all-controlling and uncoirupt
able. They were of goodness all com
pact. Their rectitude was the recti
tude of rocks ' which the fretful surf
cannot shake, which affront and rep
rimand the foaming fury of the sea. -
A wondrous gentleness ' suffused
and softened s' all their .rugged
Rtrength, a gentleness which was not
wefityiess, 1 for only jgiants can be
truly gentle. It was the gentleness
which comes from chastening, from
monarch energies harnessed and sub
dued, and which in reality is power
in repose. ( , ,
The sympathy of both was as uni
versal as the charity of the snew that
hides all scars, or as the compassion
of the rain that loves all leaves. Not
a r'ragged reg-imental" left hra bloody
footprint on the frown fields of Val
A solemn regard for spiritual and
eternal things is an indispensible ele
ment or all the greatness. And botn
Washington and Lincoln were, in the
best sense, profoundly and devoutly
religious. When I think of the Revo.
lution, I call up before my mind's eye
t. a ... . . r . -
me picture oi wasnington Kneeling
fcv the snow beneath the tree wrest.
ling in agony with God in behalf of
nis distracted country. And when I
think of the Civil War I remember
the lank and haggard form of Presi
dent Lincoln, bent beneath the weight
of his responsibility, pacing the floor
of his room through the dreary vigils
of the night, his sleepless eyes often
bathed in tears, and often heard in
solitary 'communion with the Invisible.
Called to be the Captain Generals
of our two great wars, the grandest
ngures in the Valhalla of our heroic
dead, these men' have, nevertheless.
bequeathed to immortality a memory
as gentle as the evening, air when
summer, zephers - stir the tasseled
corn or , bow the nodding plumes of
the ripened harvest. Their lives ara
like twin bows of peace that overspan
the lowering clouds of war and proph esy
the promised glory of the thous
and years of peace.
claimed, however, : at ..Argonne and
along the Meuse. .; ; .(
Russians Admit Reverses. :
! Petrograd. Feb. 22. Russian foivea
have retreated after their defeat, at
the hands of Austro-Germans in the
lake region but they are now making
a stand again and have checked the
enemy, dispatches from the front as
sert. The Slavs are said to hav as.
sumed the offensive at several points.
IN PENDLETON.
OBSERVATIONS OF OTHERS.
"Billy" Sunday is "reviving" Phila
delphia; but she may faint again.
t. Loans-Globe Democrat. - ,
'Turkey has not 'yet':" published a
book explaining the, war. Turkey ha.
no imagination. Chicago News.
' With' so much peanut, politics about
the navy one would think there would
bej more shells. Boston Transcript.
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CORNUCOPIA OFFICIAL . HERE
New Operator Comes.
E. H. Egghart, formerly of Pendle
ton will be the operator at the West
ern Union office after today. O. H.
n-esier wno has the position under
Manager Sprinkle, will leave tomor
row for San Francisco where he ex
pects to take up telegraphy though
likely the wireless sort, with which
he- haB had four yearsr experience.
Statements of Pendleton Citizens Are
- Always of Interest to Our ReatVrs.
To many of our readers the streets,
of Pendleton are almost as familiar'
as those of our own town, and we are
naturally interested to read of han-
penings there. The following report
from a well-known and respected eiti
sen will be helpful to numbers of
m2?..and hew in La Grande.
Wlllum HcGlwmi'. Mt, Maj.l-n.Ul. .
shop, 711 LiUeth St., Pendleton. Ore .
says: "Kidney complaint came on me
suddenly anld I mt an v. t
couldn't bend m- back to shoe a horse.
The kidney secretions were filled with .
sediment and: nainfni t i
had no strength at all and my back '
was lame and sore.. One of my fam
ily who had been, cured of kidney
trouble by Doan's Kidney PiUs. ad
vised me to use them and I did. In
a short time, all these troubles left :
me an(j i was able to work all day
wiUi ease. My health is fine now
and my back is strong." ,
Pnpe 60c, at all dealers. ' Don't .
Doan's Kidney,vPils the same that
?'mP'y ask for a kidney remedy get
Mr. McGiwor haA PuifA.riiu..
Co., Props.. Buffalo, N. Y;-j-Adv.
OUTBURSTS OF EVERiv i T TRUE-by condo.
Man Thought Mysteriously Missing
Kecently completes Visit ..
Finishing a visit which a few
months ago led to much speculation,
IV D. iJolley, postmaster at Coruuco
pia, is in La Grande visiting relatives
today. Several months ago, immedi
ately after tfie election, he went to
Baker,' intending to come to La Grande
but changed his mind and went east.
As he is quite old, and his Eastern
trip was. not confided to others, his
absence created much speculation and
considerable worry.- He returned how
ever, eventually, in good health, and
iG now here carrying out the visit he
had in mind at that time. -
Sheriff Goes to Salem.
Sheriff August Hug left this morn
ing for Salem on official business.'
French Admit Losses.
Paris, . Feb. 22. Heavy German
losses in savage fighting in Alsace is
claimed by the war oflice. It is ad
mitted that the Gallic forces were
compelled to retire from Btrong posi
tions near Hohroth, .' northwest - of
ley rorge, but drew -a corresponding " Munster, when ' attacked by a force
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