La Grande evening observer., January 26, 1916, Image 4

WEDNESDAY, JAN UAKJ,
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THE FARMERS' CO-OPERATION.
Jt is a singular fact that the various
depart menU of the federal govern
ment whirl are designed to prove cf
material aid to the fanner in hi
many lines of work have had to con
vince the farmer that they were
really working to his advantage and
interest with the entire cost borne iy
the government and nothing asked of
the agriculturist and stock ' breeder
but co-operation, it was nevertheless
true for years and is still true in part,
that the efforts met with but a co!d
reception.
Investigation of stock diseases,
methods of raising the average of
crops and of Improving. the strain of
animals have all had to go. through
missionary stages. Every new su
' gestion and advance is met with this
( same indifference if not active oppo
sition. It is pleasing, therefore, to not in
the latest news letter from the United
States department ef agriculture that
the department of animal industry
has succeeded in convincing the stock
growers of the nation that its work
is a valuable one. During the past
year this department has succeeded
in learning many important facta
about plagues of cattle and sheep and
has brought under control several
epidemics that, if allowed , to run,
would have done many times the dam
age they . actually caused.
It is not peculiar of the farmer
that he looks askance at the progress
of the age in his own line of work, but
k is perhaps moic noticeable from
the fact that he is working at the old
est industry of the world. Chnngos
that centuries gone did (not produce
look a little too startling to him to He
accepted at once. Because of his im
portance to the nation, his acceptance
or refusal of these changes assumes
a big signiflcane to the rest of the
population.
Hut -the reports indicate that the
farmer is growing , .more and more
. willing to admit .that science is able
io do much for him, and the task of
' the government is consequently made
easier. " ..'
SAVING THE YOUNGSTERS.'
Miss Julia' Lathrop. at the bead of
the United States Children's bureau
at Washington the only woman bu
reau chief in our government i do
ing one of the greatest - pieces of
work in this 'country. . She has under
way many special investigations on
child life, but the most eonspieeoos
one perhaps, is her inquiries into the
child death rate in America. ...
She approached this vital, heart in
terest question from the industrial,
economic and hygenie aspects," arid
she has already progressed far
enough to lead to the conclusion that
the death rate Is far too high; that
better conditions of living' reflect most
favorably in the infant mortality rate,
and that if children are well born and
well cared for, as American, children
should be end have a right to be, the
death rate among them will be neg
ligible. .
., The children's bureau made two ex
haustive field investigations, one m
Johnstown, Pa., a typical coal mining
and steel producing community, and
the other in Montclair, N. J., a typical
residential suburb, where the death
rate was already near the average,
but unsatisfactory to the local health
authorities.
! In a residential ward in Johnstown
the death rate was found to be 50 per j
1,000, while in th-3 poorer and more
congested localities the death rate
reached 271 per 1,000. In the latter
locality underpaid fathers, over-i
worked and ignorant mothers, and the
poorest living conditions went hand
in hand with the high death rate.
Likewise in Montclair, a far mora
favorable community, for the average
child, the death rate was 39 per 1,000
under the best living conditions and
130 in the tenement section.
Will the authorities and especially
j the rich exploiters of labor take the
'lesson to heart? We hope so, but we
I fear not. However, it is interesting
to note that a committee has been ap
pointed by the chamber of commerce
of JohnHtown to try to solve the
problem of infant mortality along the
lines indicated by the investigators of
the children's bureau.
The East
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Annual'
Days of West's 18th
With Every Article Reduced
4
WW fin Without a Coat or V
An Old One?
... .1 .
tr.;.;.'
, If there ever was Coat wtather It is now. Here's yoiix Opportunity,' ;j !' .
Any Ladies' Coats in the Store Values to $35 00 Ybiir
Choice $9.00 : -c,.:,,,
High' grade t'Seigel" Coats of Broadcloth, Corduroys, ' Astrakaan ricy
MiY-hirPK. oto Tnilorpfl in tlm nowost winter styles every one new many
riw, nin. Th rule at. West's never to
to another is the reason for
J.- this 3fti-aordinary low price. It is your opportunity with 4 to 5; months ot
-" Coat weather ahead. . ..
Entire Stock of Street Dresses at $7.90
Including every Silk Street Dress, every Wool street Dress, values to
$25.00 Eveiy one new this season, your choice";..'..-! - $7.,90
Entire Stock Childen's Coats Half Price
Kcgular $4.00 Coats, now at ..... ..$2.00
Regular $5.00 Coats, now at ,$2.50
Reerular $6.00 Coats, now at
Regular $7.50 Coats, now at
.$3.00
...$3.75
ALL FIGURES OUT.
' We have been reading "A State
ment of a Proper Military Policy for
the United States," prepared by the
war college division, general' staff
corpB of the United States of America.
It is interesting.
Among other things a careful sur
vey has been made of the prepared
ness of other nations for oversea ex
peditions. This includes the quality
JU i lllll I I I 1111 IV I 1 1 II I Bk
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YOU HAVE HEARD ALL YOUR LIFE THAT "YOUR MONEY
IS YOUR BEST FRIEND".
IF YOU ARE LETTING YOUR MONEY SEAWAY FROM
YOU, STOPm-. -f
YOU CAMr$TOP,W,IF. YOU'riLk! tp6 WAMXTO BE
INDEPENDENT. THE. ONLY WAY YOD CRN ECO ME SO IS!
TO BANK VOUR MONEY. - ' v-'
WE PAY PER CENT INTERESTION TIME 0EP0$n '
La Grande National Bank
v -:"opiua 3Mo,ooo.()o '.6oiim iw,ooo.ioW , .
BMonrtM $1,000X)0.00
Pred J. Haloes. Piwlu(f f . VQ C, SnjJ Vie; Pj5Wt
AMlttMtt CMbtert.
J. P. Coaler .
T. L. Merer
Vi i, "') DIRECTORS.
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Take Advantage During the Last Days of West's January Clearance
Sale and Supply Your Dry Goods Needs now at the
Smallest Price of the Year
Blankets, Quilts, Bed Spreads, Pillow Cases.,
f rv Fabrics. White Goods. Linens. Wa.sh Goods. J)
Ribbons, -Corsets, Gloves, Ready-to-wear, Etc.
shows the largest variety in L,a Grande ot JJry a
every article is new, and clean; is .iustified in b
one knows that when an article comes from West
Supply your needs now most all new goods n
wool and cottons were the lowest it had been for y
to 33 1-3 per cent lower than any store will be able
this week of the January Clearance Sale.
Sheetings, Towelings, Towels, Curtain and Drap
ress Goods, Silks, Notions, Underwear, Hosiery,
Now at January Clearance Sale Prices West's
oods, things for your home, things for you to wear
eing here by the merits of the article itself. Every
's it is good.
ow on hand was contracted for months ago when
ears. All prices now during this week are from 15
to offer the same goods for later on. Last week
Mail Orders f , f
Promptly Filled JtAilAmUtM kWl7lb 7 January 3 1 C
. 1 Jim Z.TT. ' . . ' ' ' . " "
could be made of the enormous quan
tities -ot hot air used m selling them.
r.nd organization of troops. and4jthe
available transports. i
The figures show that if Japan; for
instance, undertook to bring war. tc
us, she could land 95,745 men upon
our shpres 22.5 days after slie started
her expedition. That if no accident
nf n.nri.m inri tin iiniU.ncnnJhlf-
-....I... j La f ir !. '-Comes'inaw a complaint that th
... it j doughnut is not what is used to be.
tervened and if we offered no objec- . . ....... ....
lU .' . tv. i r Well, it used to be indigestible. Can
lion w ine invuHiun nu Mini tiiiu vruupr I . . ...
could be unloaded and the transport
Aunt Hetty Green, the richest
woman in the world, scorns female
suffrage. Nobody has ever doubted
Aunt Hetty's sanity.. ;
lit be worse?
turned back with the celerity ol
ferry boats, the next consignment ol
troops would arrive 41 days later and ,
would be composed of 142,622 men.
Thereafter, if everything worked ti
schedule, 142,622 freshmen, includ
ing soldiers, artisans, doctors ..and
nurses and all the various arms of
service could be landed every 1 days,
that iveryday the conquering
horde, on the average, would amount
to 2478 of who, about one-half wold
be fighting jnen and' the other half
would belong to- the transport, the
commissary, the' medical, thtj; signal
and other non-fighting arms.-,)' : (
The survey"5 shows that - Germany
could land 440.000 men here every
30.8 day, or nearly 14,000 dayf the
It has not been positively estab
lished that no man ever set the
world on fire with cigaret stubs.
And it is feared ithat the price
f gasoline will soon be so high that
he women witl ise it for perfume.
year 20 per cent ores were being ship
ped from Nevada.
' From Alaska, according to data col
lected by Alfred H. Brooks, about
GRfcATEST 'PRODUCTION
ANTIMONY ORES.
OF
The prices of antimony in 1916 were
probably the highest known since the
metal became a regular article or com
merce. The highest prices were natu
rally Tefleeted in" Jar the largest pro.
duction made in the United States,
and probably the same -statement is
true lor he world's production,
Accoramg to preliminary iigures
first nxiHtdltion rriv!no in 1R.8 davv.nl1u.ai1 tnr h t Tn,t !. tits Cltrt v
if Ur it started.. fSSk i !if tlKjc SMTrfj(dPrJpi Vm, & W'
None of the ether aomi miumnt''o ir4rrtrted
. . ,''- -i.M.2L ki I States is stimatedto have been about
anywhere near Japan or Germany rrt t ftnft .J,.; .i nnn .
ability for. invasion.
M - i1" Wit . '.Ili I.' ; v ..-,s
In the old days the fellows from
the city. used to'' sell gold bricks, to
'the farmr Now the smart larmers
from.the tourrtry get it bsclion tile
prices at whleh they sell egg. vjilo
applet, to the city,
The United Sfates is called the most
lawless country in the world, in spHe
of the fact tha. Congress and ; 48
state legislatures,' keep on grinding
out laws as fast as the governors will
let them.
VfWPsteWfili T?Br.quite..jigmficaaci In that
,rntimortyvorM IrrtM' qt'tenUKpreased, "W er all
creatures -or nsBit.'.;. - The matter of
concern .to the individual is not on of
enminaimg naDit, but
In view of the scarcity of fuel for
5,000 onvfoinirtg.abcrut 2,000 .tons
of antlmon, valued -at about $325,-
000.
' The price, which in July, 1914, had
been down to monthly average that
ranged fronrK.44 to 7.11 teut a pound
and aepenaefl, on tne trajiqnrese grad
ually, though; unsteadily.' to the end
of 1115, when. Chinese, Japanese, and
American antimonjrvwere 'quoted at
about 40 cents a ipound.
iMfriers and smetters,'. apparentlv
thinking that the Wgh prices would
not De neia long, aid not begin "pro
duction s quickly as thev might have
dor, but before the close of the vur
i properties in Alaska, California, Ida-
no, Nevada, urepon, Utah and Wash
ington were producing. Prices for
ores ranged irom 51 to S2.10 per unit
of antimony. At first onlv ores carry,
ing 'SO per cent or more antimony were
thrift habit is a sound foundation for
a fortune lose sight of the fact that
it is also an important facor in ebar-
' acter building. It is because this
685 taons of stibnite ore carrying 58 1 latter is so that : the pj-omoters of
per cent antimony was produced in the thrift in this country are devoting
Fairbanks district. It is reported that ! such earnest efforts to institute the
132 tons were shipped from Nome, I subject of thrift into our schools with
but probably more was mined. j the ,same degree of enthusiasm and
The largest production was made system as are used in j the teach
f rom deposits near Wild Rose Spring, ; ing of other vital subjects;
in the Panamint -flange, Cal. Other t All students of American economics
deposits were mined in California at have long recognized the, need for a
many places in Kern county, in the hearty concerted effort on' the part of
eastern end of San Benito county, : all in our country to Eliminate the
and on Moore's Flat near Grass Val-1 many haibits of iexWavagance Jinto
ley... In Nevada considerable quanti- j.which.vwe have carelessly! or indiffer
ties were mined at many places, most : ently fallen, and'iior ourfuture indi
of them in the northwest quarter of , vldual and national welfare practice
the state. Oregon, Washington, and conservation in the management of
Idaho produced small quantities of. our natural resources,"ilhdlistries and
ore, and in Arkansas a company was ! modes of living. ,
Ig'"n,i?ed t0 work oId properties west J The thrift habit ensues as the re
of "ham. r. - suit of a certain desirable attitude of
. The present high prices are of. mind and an understanding of the
course temporary. The Chinese de- vaue of money, and therefore f '
posits are large and are, worked by its proper use, for, to quote the words it
very cheap labor, and deposits are of that great American teacher and
being developed in other parts of preacher of thrift, Benjamin Franklin,
the. world, so that; as soon as the "The use of money is all'.the advan
war is over, and - possibly before, tage there is in having money."
prices will probably drop nearly to a ' The earning power of America at
level W!th those of 1914. the beginning of 1916 istwery high,
j and the value and permanence of the
HABIT AND THRIFT DAY increased and increasingprosperity
I wi" b exactly in proporSon to th
Feb. Sd to Be Observed Annually in Wls nse made of it. As Jhe Ameri-
Doping Thrift rit f SZ&SSt
inemseives to a greater, Jrtent than '
heretoforet but insist thatt become a
part of the lives of their chtfdren to b
taught them just as Jwsonal n4
moral cleanliness is nowjtsaght-
recognition or nabjt values and the in
tensive caltivation of those which
nana ror greater nroerow iut y--i
er development.
The establishment of Thrift Day is
designed to direct the attention of the
individual to every habit that could
in the leastwise be connivwf wuv
Want. .l.:l 1 ! ... , .
tweepertdinjf,
. Thrift Day. iri no wise "is designed'ai
an observnnce f or '--nrfeeriinese, fti
gardlmess or Txnnrini,onc. n.
lcr, fciggenf broader'
true meanfngj thrift and frugality
!L i l we" Knswn and
understood by the neonlo nt
try, sad .cantiri: aay , wayi W.-'ioni
founded with tWnki(.wJ..j
the bank. It will provide a Raii
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T. vP0 flve Brothetrf Mara- X
X!efnc'-ProbaW have
utoiMhllataiald wnt aa It ue ' t!;gj pe jTnl(Lr more antimony were 1 by their opposites.
WtliWd 3 ae tfemiUHl, Wor. .wj(L Jieopde wko,fwI. that the
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T r,"y lmf9: worth f2,M0 each, .
fanny, e watchdogs, fljfo boys X
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