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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1915)
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 19J5 ' ' rK FOUR. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER THE OBSERVER at last the body alia into dissolution and dreamiest dust, the Sul aprtadf t RUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner. its majestic pinions above the ruins like a tomb-searcher, lifting each shroud which despair has cast over buried hope, peopling the imagina- AnUred In the Post Office at La . Grande, . Oregon, as second class .- matter. of its earthly tenement, and reveling ition with sinister portents, and con thousand in the divine delerium of its nativa freedom, is out upon a pathway .of stars. '' v. i . ' ' ,r That which we call death is but an ad appears. iJOrea il communications to HE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth Street SUBSCRIPTION RATES; . ' if'' . - - Iaily, single cops ............ 6c Oktiy, per week 16c Daily, per month 66c Daily, six months in advance... $3.60 Daily, per year, in advance.... $7.00 Oaily, by mail per, year, in ad vance .14.00 Weekly Observer-Stir per year in advance .V. .$1.6 ON THE DEATH OF FRIEND, There is a constructive and de structive principle in nature All nature speaks the voice of recurring i growth and dissolution. ' We listen sorrowfully to the bleat: winds of Autumn as they ' moan through the dismantled forests and rustle the dead leaves o'er "meadows brows and sere." .; : '.', '', . But we know that these same winds will be soft and vernal in tho Spring and the dead flowers will blossom and bloom again. So, too, there is a constructive and a destructive principle in life. There is an angel and a demon in the breast of every man. Life is a bat- J tleneld where these two contending forces forever come and go. The gravity of this destructive - principle asserts its groundward do minion upon the body as soon as it comes into the world. Surely through the years it turns the raven locks of youth to gray, and humbles the haughtiest head, until at last the body falls to earth as a tree, smitten with "a bald and dry antiquity,'1 goes down with, a shout upon the hills. -, ;, , , The Soul, on the other hand, grows more august as the bodily powers de cline. It is not subject to the de structive dominion of physical law. It is accredited Envoy of a Great King, endowed with ambassadorial powers. It fenders only a compli mentary homage to the laws of the physical realm in which it is tempor arily sojourning. The nearer the body approaches the end of. its existence, the more re sponsive is the Soul to those radiant worlds which invite it. And when copy for display advertising 'musti epoch in the eternal evolution of the reacn me omce tne day Dei ore tne iooui. - Eternity islhe endless succession of the Soul's transitions. The ' Soul of man is a splendid Nomad. It strikes its tent from world to world, forever following the flowing star of Futurity, forever sky ward soaring. Transition, transfiguration, trans formation these are the Soul's syno nyms for that carnal catastrophe we call death. The Soul knows no negation, no annihilation. ''.- Its essence is immortal, its . ex istence is an endless splendor. From age, to age it renews, iti youth, from world to world it takes its marching orders from the dread tribunal of Eternity. v The shadows on the dial, the strik ing '-of the clock, the running of the sand,;' day and night, summer and winter; months, years, cycles, these are; nothing to the Soul that knows not -.time nor age nor decrep titude, but isvdentined to span the starry stretchepf infinity.' When the flvimVfeet of the oantinur centuries shall havWworn the proud Pyramids into, driftnwdust; , when the earth itself shall wa old like a garment and be folded away, in the abysmal garrets of dead planet?, the Soul will still be faring forth upon its starry track,' in quest of radiant realms remote and conquests ever new. - Life is the jailor of the Soul, death its only deliverer. . ' r ' A What is called life is only a journey to the grave, and what is called death is a passport to liberty, knowledge and rapture. it is lire, not deatn, that men should fear. Life, like the jailors of Columbus, cumbers its glorious captive with chains, Death liberates the celestial explorer and sends it forth upon new voynges of discovery, : Death has no terrors which life has not given to it. As the light conceals the stars, so life conceals many things which the night of death will bring forth as points of light in our sky. Death is a scorner of shams, a de stroyer of deceptions. It will reveal many hidious hypocracies which life has either countenanced or concealed. Only the stark truth will withstand its inexorable flame. . Life may know the truth, bu death loves it. Death strips NOTICE The Knights and Ladies of Security will hold a hard time social Wednes day, June 9th at K. of P. hall. ctures, Music, Dancing and Lunch All members of the Order and tilth friends invited. PRICE ONLY 25c By order of the committee away every mask every sham, every artificial and false distinction. Prince or pauper, death brings every man to his pure individuality, A, man may live as a deceiver he must meet death as a man. Alexander the Grqat, observing Diogenes looking intently at a human skeleton, asked the philosopher what he was searching for. "That which I cannot find," was the astute reply; j,"the difference between the bones of a king and those of his slave." Death glorifies what is in man; it jjuiiiuvb Hum i.i uil mill. Death is the final democracy. Death will teach us, among other things, the absolute absurdity of fear. Pear is the ghastly tribute which superstition pays to the unknown. Through the shadowy past and the forbidding future, fear gropes its way LA GRANDE NATIONAL BANK Capital $200,000.00 Resources $1,00000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 OFFICERS: Fred J. Holmes, President C. C. Penington, V.-Prest. F. L. Meyers, Cashier Earl Zundel and II. 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 juring from the. future a phantoms of horror. Man U a god in chains. He is i-j slavery still to fears that were hid ious with age when antiquity was i nrattlinir babe. He is fearful still of the lurking shadows of vanished ages,: He is in bondage still to an tiquated beliefs and ancient bigotries. He is dominated still by septers that long ago were dust, He is typical of one of those old gladiators in the ancient .Colosseum at Rome.- There he stands at bay, with drawn sword, turning this way and that as the wild beasts of the arena come forth from the under world to assail him. One after an other they spring upon the gladiator and there is a desperate struggle. Covered with sweat and smeared with blood the gladiator eventually succeeds in driving his ' destroyers back into their dens. Hut he never quite succeeds in exterminating them. Kver and anon they return to the struggle. The glauiator 'is ever at bay. The metaphysical ; history of man is the story of these mournful struggles. Death is the final triumph of the Soul over these phantoms of the abyss. V - In the clear light or death s im mortal dawning, we shall see that fear is a horrible humbug hulucina- tion, the heritage of primitive ages; and death itself we shall -find to be, not the fearful spectre of our dis ordered fancy, but a beautiful and benignant angel, whose face mirrors all the solemn loveliness of the starry heavens and whose voice is as caress ing as a mother's when she croons to her babe at even time amid the mel low shadows. ' The bigotries which debase and the superstitions , which enslave will be stricken' like carroding , shackles from the limbs of man. Reborn, re generated, and refined, his furtive eye will begin to beam with a light no seen on land or sea and never yet be held in the eye of mortal, man the beautiful, phosphorescent light of a disinthralled intelligence. His sens ual face will assume a look of eth ereal and exalted beauty, and he will come forth from the sepulcher of dead superstition into the exceeding great and marvelous beauty of life without fear. ; ? X We thank thee, Death, -for the splendor thou wilt shed ' upon our mortal stupidity, for the i surcease thou will give to life's carnal thral dom! When the sun of life shall sink hissing into the darkling sea of ob livion, and the lovely and majestic night of death shall rise on the Soul, oh then, will the joy of a life thrill through us like wondrous wine; the immortal symphonies of the singing stars will fall like blissful balm upon our wild hearts; a million radiant worlds will beckon to us their azure fingers, and with a shout of victory that will set the abyss pealing, the Soul will soar above the little earth and ook down with reminiscent' i pity upon the little fears and little hopes and little aspirings of meiii V"V ,- i A. R.' MARKER. 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Special made fibre silk hose in the popular shades 35c and 50c Black Cat hose in black and whites 25c . Everybody Goes Swimming Every woman can learn to swim now w ith the Y..M. C. A. tank and the Elk's tank now open. We show won len's new bathing suits ; in morroon, blues, blacks and green with idifferent color combination stripes and trimmings. Sizes 34 to 46. Priced $1.50 to $4.50. Just received new knit bathing caps, priced 65c and 75c Still Continued The Sacrifice Sale of Entire Stock of Women's Suits and Coats An opportunity that no woman with her coat or suit still unchosen should miss. Because there are now only alimited number of garments left, every one most desirable no more suits or coats will be received this season. The reductions are most generous and you get 5 months yet of good seasonable wear. - ; . t tion failed. Whether the monopoly If a majority of the people of the Uni win continue ana state control ex pand over other lines depends alto- ted States wanted state socialism, and persisted in that desire long ENGLAND'S CHANGED VERSION What This Bank Aims 1o 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 eo-operation, fore sight and timely assistance which a good Bank can properly bestow. Nations, being sovereign, can . do exactly what they like with the pos sessions of their citizens.' Individ ual rights are not inherent but are simply privileges allowed by govern ment. Acting upon that principle the British parliament took over the control and operation of all factories manufacturing arms and munitions of war, -thereby nationalizing at one foil swoop an entire and ' important ine of production. j To annreeiutp lha full n.u.n.f.... .f I thisaction by parliament it must oe remembered that England has been considered the stronghold of individ ualism. In spite of the widespread and successful operation of municipal utilities the British parliament until recent years has been anti-socialist The rule that comnetitinn tho ife of rade and that property rights were impregnable withstood all at- lai'Ks until Lloyd George appeared witn his- social and industrial pro slam. uuv i.ioya - iieorire never laimed to be anything more than iciui inui. his eiioris to Weak up tne large estates were in the inter ests of individualistic, peasant pro prietorship and the government's ap perance in strikes was simply to me diate and arbitrate. vNow, however, parliament meets strikes by gobbling an entire industry, aiming at motion oly instead of sub-division. British statesmen are opportunists, i not theorists. They took over the state manufacture of munitions of war not because it was right but he- cause, all things considered, it was the most practical plan of operation. In the pinch of events private opera- gether upon the success of this ex- enough to make their control effect penment. There is nothing to stop live upon the co-ordinate branches of his majesty's government from doing j tne government, the United States as it likes except such weaknesses j, would be socialistic today. But the as experiences develops. If these, majority of Americans do not want so loudly emphasized by advocates of ! state socialism and an analysis 01 x e that state control of. .industry makes its greatest advances. In peaceful nations it proceeds with a slowness: which must discourage the enthusiasts. the old order do not appear the war will have brought Great Britain to the brink of state socialism. The English are utilitarian by nature and stick to whatever line of action "makes good." "' Any sovereign state can try social ism whenever its ruling body desires. economic and political structure of the country leads to the belief that they will never want it consistently enough to bring on the "bloodless revolution." Oddly enough it is through war against which socialists in vain car ried the banner for world-wide peace What the taxation reformers seem to be striving for . without visible re uiltfr is a plan that will reduce every one's taxes and at the same time yield ' a larger tax revenue than the present system. Dr. Wiley recommends that we : spend an hour at each meal. But, perhaps, we. can't afford to eat that much. 0iijr Silverware Stock ji r Li 'r. . 15 Vsumpieie ror June Weddings FAIRFAX - MOTHERS - LENCK - CHANTELLY PATTERNS IN SETS OR FANCY PIECES Let us Show You Our New 18 Carat Wedding Ring St I GRIST & CO, Largest Jewelry Store in Eastern Oreg
