La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 20, 1916, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER THURSDAY, JAN UARY, 20, 1916'.. THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner. Entered , In the Postoffice. at La Grande, Oregon, as second class matter... SUBSCRIPTION RATES, j Daily, single copy ., Se Daily per week 15c Daily, per month .. 65c Daily, per six months in advance $3.50 Daily, per year in advance ,....$7.00 Daily, by mail per year, in ad vance $4 00 Weakly Observer-Star, per year in advance .....$1.54 Advertising rates on application.. - Ad copy for display advertising mast reach the office the day before the - ad appears. the baby came we should assure him the continuation of such care. The : child we would make strong and I graceful with games and dances. . When the youth and . maiden were ! passing into manhood and womanhood, j w should teach them the sacred mys-. teries of life that should keep them- J selves strong and pure to be fit moth-1 ers and fathers in their turn.- -And all I the while we should establish and up-1 hold the social justice that assures , every father, ' mother, and child - the I material well-being tghat is the found-' ation oi. aiir .wnoiesoneness. . j vvBii we ever come to wis i ur is ; this a dream too idealistic to be real-j ized ? Men. dreamed of making the j automobile perfect and their dreams were looked upon as, idealistic, ' let they have produced the perfect auto mobile. ' '.? . ; : .' -.... Address nil communications to THE . OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth Street. PERFECT BODIES, FOR MEN AND AUTOS. The automobile shows have started. Those who visit one or more of these shows will note the beautiful bodies that now enclose the motors. There is nothing unnecessary; every part is of some use and expresses that use in its appearance. The big hood pro tects the throbbing power within; the long stream line tells you of air cleaving speed. ' . It has been less than a quarter of a century since the first automobile ap peared. Each annual reincarnation of the machine has brought more perfect co-ordination of parts, more unity and simplicity and resultant beauty of lines. Yet as you look at the per fected model that is found in prac tically all makes today you wonder why the automobile was not always ' built so. The perfect model of the automobile always existed in mind; why did man ever make the gawky ' thing with useless dashboard and pon derous, angular body ? Then consider the bodies of men and . women. They are not perfect, even now, though the perfect model of the human body was not only in mind, hut was manifested by the Greeks thousands of years ago. ; During the ' automobile's development, ' bxnf we waited with keen anticipation for the improvements in form and line that were sure to be found In the next RURAL CHURCHES. Just to Remind You! To Visit West's GlearanceSay;; Again and jSecure More of Those Big Bargains Every- 4; body is Talking About. : P. 1 - : ' . . .. vr-. . .... J , i i .i i i ., , rirr-iim i l i . i L.i i ' " t Every Article in the Store Reduced i . As a result of the first state wide scientific tinquiry into country church conditions ever made in the United States, which is now being completed by an Ohio State association, working under the supervision of the Commis sion on Church and Country life, some rather startling facts are brought to public attention. For instance, the Ohio survey, still incomplete, shows, that 83 per cent of the churches have fewer than 100 members and 21 pe? cent have fewer than 25. Only one in j 16 has an individual preacher and a ' large proportion of preachers get ; about the same pay as a day laborer. ! Fewer than 40 per cent of the rural population are church members and, only about one-third are increasing in membership. One church in nine has been abandoned in recent years. Recently a conference - was held at Columbus, Ohio, attended by a num ber of clergymen from all over, at which some of the facts gleaned in And please, bear in mind that our stock of all kinds are of the most worthy, Honest Merchandise. Goods that are new and of actual use right now. No matter what you need to wear, or for your home YOU'LL FIND IT HERE AT A COMPELLING DISCOUNT- v if MIJUMbM and needs of a community, without add and spell correctly. The thing sacrificing purely religious work. contemplated is the training of the There has been much interest of student's mind to grasp the principles late in a movement to establish social , and do the work of business institu tions on the big modern scale. The college aims to take the place .. , . ' , i i. i. churches, without sacrificing tho pure surveys be started in all of the states, these surveys to be used as a basis for a future extension campaign for church and country life improvement. All work will bo inter-denominational. If the Ohio conditions prevail in other states it would seem that it is timo such surveys were made. J The national committee in, charge of ,the movement, a subsidiary body of. the Federal Council of .Churches, centers in the rural schools. It is a field of work that might properly be taken up similarly through the rural of the much vaunted, but now trusted, "school of experience.' ly religious work and in view of the less It en have been content, generation after rural churenes include some of generation, to bring forth jthe same wrperrect models of humanity and look for nothing better. ', i ; Suppose that who have directed. At. - 1 . . . J m . . - .' ' . ui evoiuuon qc automobile should turn to the improvement of human bodies. : Wis should think and teach nothing but truth and faith;' knowing that the material is but the expression of the mental. We should permit no future mother to dp the things that would impair her mind or body. When these interests; Federation of. several churches in" each community, good roads, public health, better farming with special stress . on agricultural college extension ' 'work,.' co-operation among farmers for selling, bavin'? and producing, consolidated schools, .pub lic recreation and establishment of so cial and recreational centers at churches. Country preachers are to be urged to educate themselves mow thoroughly in the practical interests wants to turn, put men fitted, after a results of the Ohio church survoy ! little knocking about, to become busi ness leaders and captains of industry, just as it turns out in other depart ments students fitted to teach Latin or analyze ores or build a sky scraper or survey a .railroad. ' ' And all the big. colleges will come to it before- long,, as j they -realize that business ' just a honorable and re quires' just is ;much; training and as much brains as Irornari activities . or dinarily thought of . as more: VinteJ lectual.".. -V . ' : : v something of this sort is essential to the future of the rural church. The k'ea of federating the churches ' of r community,; so far as federating is practicable, is one of the most.im-.j portant of all the steps propo,itti.,T . - , -u UPHEAVAL IN FAIR REGRETTED. BOARD W4 mimM The recent upheaval in , the state, fair board, follo'ved by the reaigna tion of N. K. West of Ia Grande and . H. Booth of Roseburg, is sincerely regretted by all Oregonlans who iakt a pride in the annual exposition, a hi? most every, citizen takes such a pride. Jt is easy, to recall the deilcaCe con"' dition that the state fair , was onc in; when seemingly nothing was go-, ing to save it from the grave of per petual slumber that practically every ' ano artists. county fair falls into. N. K. West ; was appointed on the board and the,, work of resuscitating the state child was begun. How well this effort suc ceeded can best be told by the extra ordinary successful fair of 1915 and the strong position that the state fah now occupies in the hearts of the peo ple as compared with a few years ago, The trouble about-th fancy shirt3 Irt the store windows, where! the price! is iow, is mat tneynever Have your number. " . America spends $225,000,000 a year on music, lessons. (.. That doesn't in elude the -phonograph and player pi There is one thing in favor of our own troubles, however. They don't bore us like those that other people tell us. The man who swore off smoking tho first is now wondering how he ever had the heart to throw away a butt This revivification was not brought I over an inch long, about by political methods. All who! ... ... are personally acquainted with N. K. West know that lie does not play poli tics. But lie possesses a heart for I good live stock, good farming and all that goes to make a state fair. He has given part of his time and his energy that the state might benefit and wo repeat that it is a matter of regret to Eastern Oregon that the bat tle between the secretary of the fair and the governor reached such a point thnt it disrupted the organization anJ will cause tho state fair to be placed in the hands of men who must neces sarily undergo training in order to i.have tho experience possessed by both Mr. West and Mr. Booth. The probabilities are that the sick ly, amaciated woman who never sees a well day will outlive any fat man in town. Man's most distinguishing char acteristic probably is his desire to see how close he can skate to the hole in the ice. WHEN YOUR MONEY IS IN OUR BANK IT IS SAFE FROM FIRE, BURGLARS AND YOUR OWN DESIRE TO SPEND IT. THE WAY TO HAVE MONEY IN THE BANK IS TO "PUT" IT THERE, LET IT "STAY" THERE AND ALWAYS ADD TO IT. JUST SAY, "I AM GOING TO HAVE MORE MONEY" AND BANK IT. THIS IS THE ONE SURE WAY TO GET AHEAD. PBNKWITHUS. WE PAY PER CENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS I La Grande National Bank PRACTICAL COLLEGE TION EDUCA- LA GRANDE, OREGON Capital J200.000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 Resources $1,000,000.00 Fred J. Holmes, President Q. C. Per.ington, Vice President F. L. Mors, Cashier 11. Zuudol and H. E. CooUdgo, Assistant Cashiers. DIRECTORS. Fred ". Holmes J. (J. Snoilgrass J. F. Conley C. C. Penington II. S. Rrowutoa F. L. Movers A. Blokland A. T. Hill H, E. Coolidge It can't be charged much longer thnt the colleges are "academic and impractical." Their prosent tendency is in tho other direction. Columbia university, the largest institution of Higher learning in the world, hns just decided to open a school for business. Not at nil a "business college" or of the usual type, but a sort of gradu ate school for business training, open only to students who hnve completed two years of study in college. Thus it puts business formerly so de spised by scholars on about the same plane of scholarship as engineering, medicine, the ministry and other pro fessions. The instruction will include such subjects as accounting, finance, manu facturing, real estate, insurance, for eign trade, the work ef consular and diplomatic officers and many other matters requisite for private enter prise or public service. And in all these hranches, it should be remom-barr-d, tho studc will not be merely leaning to do things in a mechanical way, as a boy or girl learns to pound the t;,etvrtter, or tsUe dictation or The English cabinet seems to be do ing more fighting than the navy. f 4 .j. PECULIAR FACT5? ABOUT i- WELL KNOWN PEOPLE. .J I Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 20. - 'h An evening brim full of blood i and thunder moving picture is J- Governor Hiram Johnson's f favorite pastime; and the blood 4 ier and thundcrier they are, the better he likes them. A Fats and Oils (By Wilbur S. Forrest) j London, Jan. 5. (Bv Maill Crent 1 Britain is expected soon to put fats and oils on the list of absolute con traband just as it did with cotton. Scientists have been demanding that this be done for some time, saying it is the ignorance of government offi cials concerning the use of fats and cils in the manufacture of high ex plosives which has loft this raw mat erinl supply open to Germany this long. Prof. E. B. Poulton of Oxford calls it "the national neglect of science "saying in part: " It is dangerous" that a countsy which depends on ! science ior ira existence nnd prosper ity should be ruled bv nn!it;-i-na nj civU servants who. with hnrrflw M exception, are luttarly ipnomnt of science; Lawvcr -noHtlrinna -ftv-i,.. '.heir attention more shvidilo m A v ni iiu-misnip innn uermcn def-at hav0 permitted ti,e 'oort f--om Er.ir land of materials f ir propnlsive am munition fats and oiU" Cotton is already on the absolute contrabanl list, tins action having been taken after ,a widespread campaign by scientists who claimed that cotton exported to Germany was merely so much ammunition for the German army. Sir William Ramsay leader of the scientists campaign against cot ton has begun a campaign against fats and oils which he says, are vital to German ammunition making. Sir William declared today: 'One third of German ammunition for heavy ?-uns consists of nitro-glycerine; and fats are the source of glycerine. I really can't understand the incredible folly of going on providing the Ger mans with means of killing, our men. Untold thchisands of lives fend an ever .growing volume of human misery are a terrirjie punishment for the nee- lec't of science. It is possible that mi litary experts are mistaken- in think ing the final decision in this war can be reached hv fiff-htincr. 'It mnv have to oe reacneo Dy economic and finan cial pre sure." England's official .ig norance of science as applied to war has. lengthened the strugge.' Sir Wil- j liam .declared,, continuing,: "If the government had seriously 'considered this x)ssibjlity at the outsat. , and made preparations accordingly,',, ask ing ior ana accepting advise on the Subject, the war long ago would have been over." Many well known British scientists have joined Sir '(William in his newest campaign against ;the ex port of fats and oils. It is predicted that the government soon will turn over to the Navy the question of keep ing Germany from getting these com modities. . ' Does New York Like Horse Meat New York, Jan. 20. New Yorkers are not taking kindlv to the meat diet the Board of Health recently authorized the butchers to provide them. About tihe onlv effect fhn horse meat move has had on the pub. lie is the revival of the good old gap about "Neigh! Neich!" As revised fn date it goes like this: Butch-- Can't I si?ll you some nine ihnrso steak today? Customer:- Neigh! Neigh!' At which the butcher's boy is expected always to laugh. Sort of a horse laugh you know. .The pub lic officials have made some serious efforts to get the horse meat sales started declaring they believe it would be a good thing economically. Health Commissioner Emerson points out that horse meat is cheaper than beef and quite as lrutritious (though slightly different in, taste and of somewhat coarser fiber, it is as di gestible as beef; tihat the horse is less liable. to suffer from tuberculo sis than is the cow and that the horse is more discriminating in its eating and drinking than is the cow. Ar guments, from various sources against horse as food for human be ings, are that. the flesh is darker, tougher and . less palatable than cow meat: that inspection to' insure good meat would be difficult to. establish; that young healthy horses whose meat mdght.be good to eat,, are worth twice- as much, as', cattle that only' crippled, ailing, aged or broken dolvn horses are kep to put on the food market and that, finally .the public won't overcome its prejudice against horse meat any- now. 'inere are some norse meet sales, but the market is exceedingly restricted and mighty few shops list the item. Dr. W. T.. Hornoday of the; Bronx- Zoo said-todav'.-tliat horsemeat is impure and should r.oc be leaten by human beings. Dr. Harlot Brooks said horsemeat was- a bully idea. He suid he ate lots of it in France and liked it. Katherine Boment Davis, secretary to the State Pardons board, said ah strongly favors tha horsemeat idea, had eaten it in Hungary and Bohemia and liked it, thougn it was "a little bit tough." President Frederick Nath an of the Consumer's league said he didn't like thu idea. Sevei-il other prominent New Yorker? said they didn't like the idea either. "About the nearest New York will ever come to indulging in horse meat," said one man, is a flying at the racehorse meat at Sheepshead Bay; and many a man will tell you he couldn't even get a square meal from them. BerthoB.- A Bed Warmers For the Zero Weather The New Metal Hot Water Bottles and Combination Syringes Everything in Light Grade Rubber Goods -JLlL.J i tt