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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1916)
AGEFOUR LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER SATJJRPAY, JANUARY lp,lW6; ; . THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner. v Entered in the Postqfflce at La . Grande, Oregon, as second ' class .1- matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. V, Daily, single copy.... . 5c ,: Dairy, per week . '., . . 'ri ; 15c Daily, per month 66c Daily; per six months in. advance $3.50 1 Asmliy, per yeur iu uuyohvo ftww ' Dnilv. bv mail oer year, in ad-- I " ' " . - A. vance ...-... i WhUv Observer-Star, ner . year- ' m aavance ;.... .iv Advertis'inic rates on application,- Ad jMivtw 'Viu flionlnv arivertfsinff must -f- -"fJ r : . if, reacn we uiuce mo uuy uuvig mm Address all communications to THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth Street. SHALL WE . DISPENSE GRAMMAR WITH An eastern educator of note urges that the teaching of formal gram tnar in the schools be abandoned. It is a waste of time, he contends. , The speaking of correct English may be acquired more readily and. surely by ear than by rule, is. his theory.. . ; Much may be said for this view. Doubtless a great deal of the instruc .'. tkm in formal grammar is a fbtftV weariness to the flesh for both teacher and pupil. The child of educated par ents unconsciously learns to Speak in conformity with grammar, We know a little cnap or lour -years wno re buked his sister for saying "You and I," when the objective demanded "me." It was the ear and not rule that prompted, the rebuke. Grammar has been made too arti ficial. Ardent technicians in language have endeavored to reduce English to system and to fathom rules for every use of parts of speech, and the effort has multiplied rules and developed hair splitting distinctions that be wilder the learner and breed an utter distaste for all language study. And this is v to be regretted, be cause there is no realm of study more fascinating than that which opens up to the students of words. The child m whom is induced the love of words, with all their romantic history, their fertilizing possibilites lor thought, is on the road to a sound and thorough ' education.' Since words are the funda mental and essential tools of all human endeavor, the living bodies of ideas, the main avenues to the treas ures of knowledge, love for them, in terest in them, are the beat quickeners of intelligence. A word cannot be pursued to its source without discovering scores of things of enlarging value. The pur suit of words unearths the habits of peoples, their social relations, their '4.4. 4. 4. A ;S : MEEE&RE YQiREEP .. .. I .--w mmm mm , - ?mmmmmmm mmmmmmmm mmmmmmmm. - u4" ii i i t .m i m mn h m it 11 ?ivv r 11 vn 11 11 v 11 11 ' 1 8th AnnualJanuary Clear ance Sale Ef ERY JlMidLl:: MdUCED -' : Warmer Blankets and Comforts, Splendid Savings Now Prevail , " V OCotton Blankets in white, gray tan were all especially good values at regular prices, clearance prices pair 69c, 98c, $1.13, $1.35 Lake-side cotton Blankets, a good one to sleep between these zero nights, made' of selected stock under new perfectly sanitary process. Contains ' no shoddy material. Has finished edges and is a very durable blanket to stand washing. Clearance pair $1.22 Famous Wool-nap Blankets, the fin est assortment in town of whites, gray, . tans and checks and plaids. Clearance pair $1.92, $2.20, $2.48 Heavy large wool Blankets, dark colors.' Clearance ,. ... ..... ... ... .$1.98 Extra fine all wool Blankets. Fresh ' new stocks right from the best west ern and eastern mills. We show aa extra fine assortment of plaids and checks also white and-plain colors.' Clearance pair $3.85, $4J)5 $4.95, $5.40 A biff assortment of Comforts sat teen, or1 silkoKne- covered all put-. terns and weights, each $1.13, $1.35, $1.49, $1.98, $2.25, $2.70, $4.05 Women's Winter Apparel . At such drastic reductions that scores of women"are buying additional winter wear every day! See these remarkable offerings! Suits every one new this season, exclusive stylos, only one of a kind values to $35.00 your unrestricted choice at .$9.90 . Coats at ono-half price none re served many were received just be fore the sale $10.00 Coats $5.00? $12.50 Coats $fi.25; $15.00 Coats $7.50; $20.00 Couts $10.00; $25.00 Coats $12.50. , 'Dresses at one-half iprice charm ' irrg, pretty styles for street, ' after noon or evening wear every one new this season. Regular $10.00, $15.00, $17.50, $20.00, $22.50, and $25.00 ' dresses now at $5.00, $7.50, $8.75, $10.00, $11.25 and 12.50. All Furs selling at cost. . ' $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00 Ostrich Neck Piece, clearance , , 98c Heavy ribbed, large size Toques at t 45c Flannelette Kimonas, regular $2.00, clearance .98c One lot of girls coats at the unheard of low pVice of ..p. .j, t'.98c Great Sacrifice --Men's Overcoats $12.50 i' Overcoats now 1 $10.00 Overcoats now . . $15,00 'Overcoats now . ..$&25 ..$5.00 ..$7.5 ', 1 Entire stock of $20.00, $22Jtt,,f25,'00; High Grade Overcoats at .... . . . $9.95 X v 4V- 4 r 4't; yt 4 ) 4 4 f 4 4 4 if 4 if 4 f Hr IF t1 t "I1 ,-l.':f: Hi r F F a!9:l:' ;f:'.a: l f1 I l Hi iti 9 r 9 -f .Ht" HF'dCi Men's Winter Work Clothing at Real and Genuine Reductions v t Men's heavy wool sox, clearance 19tr und 39c pair. r ; Men's Mackinaw Coats well made good weight water proof materials full cut $5.00 Mackinaws $3.75; $6.50 , Mackinaws $4.90; $7.50 Mack : inaws $5.65. Military-collar, flannel shirts, clear ance .;. $1.20, $1.60, $1.98 This store is principal agents for the famous Cold Seal Rubber Foot " Wcai Overshoes,' Rubbers Shoes, Rubbers', etc.,-at Clearance Sale re ductions. Men's "Malone" heavy wool Pants $2.50 grades at $1.90; $3.00 Pants at $2.25.: Men's leather Mitts; fleece Hired. . . . 49c to $1.19 Men's leather eanvasa . gaanffet . Gloves, leather raced, pair .,. Agents for ' "Stephenson Staley " Brand" Underwear, ' union suits at clearance prices .90c to $4.90 A No. 1 Work Shoe the best in town for the. money full stock up persdouble soles of'' oak "tanned' ,; leathei- double leather toe caps sole . leather heel counters Clearance. $3.15 . Men's Fur Coats at 25 per cent dis count. . Men's Sheep Lined Coats at 25 per cent discount. Men's Winter Caps With Fur Ear Flaps at 25 off 50c Caps nbw ... 75c Caps 'now!,;i'. , ..38c ...57c. $1.00 Caps now . $1.25 Caps now . . ,75c . .95e 4-4- 4- f 4- i t religion, , science and philosophy. Once given a. vital, interest in. words, the desire to use them wisely and cor rectly will come, and grammar will take its proper and intelligent place not as an arbitrary and troublesome study, but as a useful method bear ing the same relation to these tools of the brain that instruction in carpen- IMS u i Sou wti START RIGHT NOW TO LIVE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE RIGHT. ARE YOU FACING AN OLD AGE OF POVERTY? IF YOU ARE EARNING MONEY PUT AS MUCH OF IT AS YOU CAN IN THE BANK EACH PAY DAY. YOU WILL BE HAPPY WHEN YOU SEE YOUR BALANCE GROW AND SEE YOUR MONEY PILE UP SO IT CAN REALLY "PROTECT" YOUR OLD AGE. START RIGHT NOW. try bears to the saw, the chisel and that no further . obstructions will be the plane. , ' met with,' it is " said that . all -traffic" . And, in the second place, grammar may use the canal soon after the first may well be spared to us, although we f t'16 year. could wish it pruned of any absurd But the future is by no means set refinements and much perplexihg tle1- Tne cause of the September terminology. As a resolver of 6c- slides Temains uncorrected, although casional doubts, it retains its value General Goe'thals believes that he has even for the trained writer, who has discovered it. Whether the sides of come to rely wholly upon ear and , the waterway will be sufficiently habit. Such an experienced writer as .' strong to bear the earth that has Arnold Bennett' wos caught tripping since slid down from the nils is Per in his latest novel. His ear led him , PlexinK the engineers, astrav in the use of "whom" n nlaon ' while the Panama canal, it is whore many of us trip as the subject hoPed will be reopened during this of a verb. Such dangers are ever month' this (loes not mean that the present, and ;a knowledge of gram- lredeins win be complete. A great mar alone can' save when the ear "work must be done befo1'9 tn,mc can fails. Had Bennett troubled to parso leaeh the nlaxim,lm- Some shipping his sentence, he would have avoided "ltercsts have expressed a loubtv as the pitfall. to wnether the Panama waterway can But the" main thing is language ultimate1y serve all commerce. If study, and as we think, the foumlu- not' Tne ngnt 01 m -Nicaragua tion to much 'knowledge is a love of would be regarded as valuable. This words themselves, an interest in them intfreat has onlv recently developed, as living things. If the teaching of prnmmar tends to discourage this, then there it something wrong in the method of teaching. PANAMA AND NICARAGUA. ana Jt appears that it may have no little effect on the consideration of the Nicaragua treaty. i -Some of these $5 an liour dancing (teachers of last season can now get jobs tending door in skating rinks. on the stage in support- 'of such" "Madame Butterfly.' It is one of the eminent actresses. as. Henrietta Oros- man, Maxi'ne Elliott, Mary Mannetr ing and Ethel Barrymorei with all of whom he has appeared at various times.- When Lord Lumley neglects his wife, she falls an easy prey to the wiles of the talented D'Orelli, a past master of the art of. reducing the feminine heart and brain to the dan ger point. But D'Orelli has already accomplished the downfall of lone woman in his native Italy, and the enraged husband of his victim is in pursuit of the perpetrator of the di;ed with vengeance in his heart. Whet part he plays in the domestic story of the Lumleys, and how' he finally gets the reventre which he seeks form the nucleus of this absorbing drama. Mary 1'iektord I'llm Tuesday. Mary Pickford is prom" of a letter received from a Japanese student at Harvard University complimentimr her upon the artistry f her work in greatest compliments that ' she has ever received, as the educated Japan ese is quick to. resent, , any. maccur acies in depicting the customs of his native land. This film - is at the.. Arcade Tuesday of next Week. . .. y At the Snmmpr TTntof. L. N. Conley and wife, Cove; J. Mi Kemp, Grants Pass; Mrs. E. C. Roche ford, North Powder; S. H. Moss, Se attle; T. a. Austin, Portland; H. B. Hagen, Spokane; C. T. Kronenbergi. Elgin; Maggie McKenzie, Stella New bill, Summerville; Ethel Cochran,. Union; C. T. McDaniel, Wallowa; M. W. Case, G. H. Fullernider, Portland; F. D. Arrington, Chicago; H. H. Lit tle, Cove; David B. Seger, Portland; E. C. Tucker, Salt Lake, A. E. Willey, Wiallowa; L. B. Carter, Cove; E. T.. Tobin, Seattle; Paul C. Dorritzer, Portland; William Owen, J. W. Mc Conncll, Redpath Co.; R. H. Lews, Sol Harris, Portland. imnniii i imiTrrrrrr KM .BANK WITH US. ' WEPAY PER CENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS 1 La Grande National Bank LA GRANDE, OREGON ; Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 Resources $1,000,000.00 Fred 3. Holmes, President C. C. Peningtoh, Vice President F. L. Movers, Cashier Fred . Holmes C, C. Penington A. Blokland E. Zundel and H. E. Coolidge. Assistant Cashiers. DIRECTORS. ' . J. G. Snodgrass J. F. Conley H. S. Brownton H. E. Coolidg A. T. Hill ' , K. U Meyers flf T.illinn Tucker, the self-effacing art of Arthur ii.iiius in nis wonaeriui interpretation of the thankless role of D'Orelli. nn,l it. An.Ari v . . ton. n. a. . .. mo uiuuirn Bj-mpaineuc m- wwral snaes m the history j terpretation of Giuseppe by William of the canal occurred. From then on' Sorelle render complete the en invmpnf wwkw...M .... - . u-vf tw avitAlAnt. It- Vi nanjiwajf ws pracucaJly closed! v v-v,li1 ui Air iierrv, v There are indications thn't the so- A . called Nicaragua treaty is to come up j j. v v for serious consideration at this j 4 jimm oi congress, ine reason giv-iv en is the growing fear that the Pana ma Canal may be found inadequate to meet the demands of traffic. One of ! the prominent Republican members of I the Senate recently took the position ithat Nicaraguan affairs had boon suspended too long, and that the mat ter should be settled one way or the other. Much criticism of the treaty has been heard. This has dealt principally with the loan feature. The proposed right of way for a canal through Nicaragua is now regarded as of most importance. When the treaty was first presented to the Senate, the canal clause attracted lit tle attention, for the selection of the Tanama route had been made. But now discussion of the Nicar aguan right of way has been revived. No one knows how much trouble will do experienced in Tannma. On Sent -r MOVIE NEWS V V V V 1 ... I Hummingbird Here Monday. A three-cornered struggle, for an in nocent woman participated in by her husband, an intriguer and the victim of a former successful coup by this crawling snake frms the basis of the thrilling story of "The Mummy and the Humming-Bird," in which Charles Cherry, the distinguishes Frohman sxar, is lntroaucca to the motion pic ture public in a Paramount -niptnm produced by the Famous Players Film company. This screen adaptation of! ine piay oy Isaac Henderson, which is the attraction at the Arcade Monday of this week, abounds in suspense, in scenes of gripping intensity, and in moments of breathless dramatic thrill, as three strong wills clash in the struggle for masterv. una delightful acting Y SUN DA Y j i i fA . i I yski a a rf i i to all shipping. Recently it was re oponed to vessels drawing less than twenty feet of water. Weather and other conditions lnve been so satis factory that the dredges were able to accomplish a great deal. Assuming :. - . The art of the star, revealed in his consummately clever depicting of the part of Lord Lumley, the charming though absent minded scientist who neglects his beautiful wife for his cnemistry, will ce a revelation to; iow wno oave not una the pleas ure of seeing his remarkable work Johnston's and McDonald s Fine Candies I A Everything forYour SweetJTooth J!!LTb.FanUly. IW.5W7 Will n 1
