La Grande evening observer., March 21, 1916, Image 4

v TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 191&.
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fV,, COMMISSIONS TO RULE. "
Permanent role is to be obtained
in the United states tnrougn comrois-
moms. These evidenced by the work of
Vie UllVlftMIW VVIUUIWW VUJ111U11U1,
by the general desire now to have
tariff commission, mid the final sug
gestion ori, matters Of national import
ance that It be left to a commission
., to ferret out. ; .
t iWe are coming to a full realization
that congress is made up largely of
inexperienced' men, and that those
possessing experience do. not have it
along special lines, such as is plainly
needed in order that commerce may
thrive in this country.
As an indication of the sentiment
in New England on the rule by com-
If you had the time
and knowledge, could
pick from the world's
coffee, and had the proper
roasting and grinding
facilities, you might roast
your own coffee every
morning before breakfast. .
Still we should say,. "If
you don't like Schilling's
Best better, your griocer
returns youf money."
V. ;v Evenly- eround. 'freed " ' ' : ''
' of chaff, its rich flavor
safe-scaled in airtight
- : v tins. !.:-...-'
Schillings
Best
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Sciilliot't
Best
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A MAN'S WIFE ONCE PERSUADED HIM TO GIVE HER
i AN ALLOWANCE.
SHE OPENED A BANK ACCOUNT.
THE HUSBAND BECAME INVOLVED.
THE MONEY !THE WIFE HAD IN THE BANK. UNKNOWN
TO HER HUSBAND, SAVED HIM FROM BUSINESS FAILURE.
GIVE YOUR WIFE A BANK ACCOUNT. SHE IS YOUR
, BEST FRIENDIANDiBEST PARTNER. :
BANK WITH US.
WE PAY 1 PER1CEN T N iEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS
La Grande National Bank
LA GRANDE, OREGON ; '
Capital (300,000.00, Surplus $60,000.00, ResoarcM $1,000,000.00
Fred i. Holmes, President; C C Peirngton, Vice President; P. L.
Meyers, Cashier; E. Zundd and H. E. Coolidge, Assistant Oaabiera.
;"... ' DIRECTORS . . ;
Fred J. Holmes, 3. G. Snodgraat, J. P. Conley, C C Penington, EL
S. Bnnmton, P. L. Meyers, A. Blotimad, A. T. Hffl, H. E. Ooolids.
missions we print the following from
an eastern paper:
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion exercises a laree measure of con
trol over railroads. The Federal Re
serve Board has wide discretionary
powers in the banking field. The Fedr
oral Trade Commission, though it has
not yet found and Bhaiped itself, is
empowered to intervene pretty exten
sively in manufacturing and trade. The
new shipping bill 'proposes a board
authorized to build or buy ships with
public money then to lease, sell or
operate the vessels in its discretion;
alBo, to fix freight rates for Ameri
can vessels. v- .' .
, The proposed Tariff Commission
will begin, at least, by being advisory
only; but if it does what is expected
it must have considerable Influence on
American affairs through its recom
mendations as to rutes of duty on im
ports. There is a bill for a Waterway
Commission to be advisory only, like
the Tariff Commission, yet to super
vise the whole scheme of inland water
way imDrovements. We seem to be
moving rather decisively toward exten
sive government by commissions, some
of which, at least, will combine to
extent wi8latjve, executive m
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ludlvibl hnwerS.
, This may be our way of getting gov
ernment efficiency, Certainly the
tendency need rot If 6 a great deal
farther than to sw proposed in order
to bring about V situation in which
a set of commissions will be exerting
a greater actual influence upon Ameri
can affairs than Congress or the
President or the court exercises
when the ordinary citizen, in looking
to Washington for action that is going
to touch him personally, will look, not
to any of the three consMtutionai
branches but to a certain commission.
. Nominally, at least, the commissions
mre nonpartisan, ri'heoretncaiiy,
least, they are expert and disinterest
ed. This may finally be our way of
iMiMnt,' o-nvomment efficiency. At
any rate, it may be worth trying.
A NATION-WIDE SENTIMENT.
The Literary Digest, published by
Funk and Wagnalls at New York, re
cently made a canvass of BOO news
papers in all parts of the nation to
obtain the sentiment existing on pre
paredness. The expressions of differ
ent editors, as published in the Digest,
make interesting reading and prove
bevond a doubt that the nation is
ready for a campaign of sane pre
paredness. Some hold that the government
should own all munition plants, while
others claim supervision should be
adopted rather than ownership. Near
ly a would have a navy equal to any
nation on the globe and quite a few
favor a vary large standing army.
Generally speaking, the standing army
question resolves itself into state
militias with a Federal army of fair
site. Torpedo boat destroyers, sub
marines and aeroplanes are demand
ed by nearly every editor.
Congress can do nothing bettor than
study the Digest's compilation of opin
ions and give heed to what seems
to be the prevailing sentiment.
INDIAN NAMES ARE BEST.
! . Indian names for the west seem in
favor even in the effete east,' where
, once anything in the west was consid
J ered coarse and subject to revision. We
jare told by a Philadelphia paper that
I some Blackfeet Indians, with a taste
and respect for nature that shames the
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(Wot
ruuYv
account
1 i.. v,.. nwituurjui to the Secre-
jmiciiM-v, - -
tary of the Interior against the bar
barous custom of tacking silly, mean
ingless, vulgar names to notable
natural objects which the Indians long
ago named with appropriateness. A
melodious word, with poetic signific
ance and very likely commemorating
some charming native legend, is calm
ly ignored in favor of Jones' Gulch, or
Smith's Falls or Dolly Lake.
It is even worse in the matter of
towns, says the eastern paper, Near
ly all the good names in North Ameri
ca are those bestowed by the IndianB
or the early French and Spanish ex
plorers. After them came the Anglo
Saxon, "pattering the landscape with
his own patronymics and other taste
less and meaningless proper nouns.
, We can understand why a person
with the 'imagination of a hitching
post might prefer for a beautiful
natural object his own name or that of
n fonuila re atlve. or some Tooimn
Grand Falls. High Peak, Swift Rapids,
Broad Canon: but we cannot under
stand whv authority , should permit
him to vandalize that way. Unless
there is some excellent reason to the
(contrary, authority ought to insist al
ways upon the Indian names.
A0TOM6BILE ORDINANCES.
The Saturday Post calls attention
to automobile regulation in most cities
as follows: - r' '
"Speed limit, ten miles an hour" is
the siem that faces you at the city
boundary, and In the next ten minutes
a dozen cars go by you at twenty
miles an hour. We should say offhand
that hardly one community out of fifty
lives un to its automobile regulations,
Spasmodic enforcement of local laws
is a constant source of grier to motor.
ists, You cut across the street inter
section fortv-nine days in succession
and on the fiftieth day are arrested
for not turning a square corner. Na
turall v vou are offended.
Another affliction is the absence of
signs. In some towns you may park
your ear anywhere you please. In oth
ers, of the same general aspect and
with no warning sign, you may be ar
rested for leaving it on a certain
street or too near a fire plug. Your
muffler cut-out is a tolerated nuis
ance in a half a dozen towns, while
in the next one its use is a misde
meanor: but there is no sign to tell
you the difference. Signs cost little
too. The beginning of automobile
regulation for any town should be
"Say plainly what you mean and stick
to it." . . f ,
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THE FORUM
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THE COUNTY ROAD BOND ISSUE
AGAIN : .
La Grande, March 21. (To the
editor) There is being circulated a
petition for a $400,000 bond issue to
give this county a few miles of nine
foot lhard-surfaco roads. We are to
pay 4 1-2 per cent interest on that
bond issue for five years then start
to pay the principal -with . the: like
rate of interest on deferred pay
ments. Me interest the hrst year
would be Ila.UOO. This is a dead
weight, paying for a dead horse.
Wlhy not take tfhe $18,000 and buy
y.uuu loads ot gravel placed and dis
tributed on the roads? If the pres
ent roads aire properly graveled,
rounded uo in the center then a hol
low made down through the center
then nlled nrst with laree erevel.
Chen smaller and at mat xapped with
small gravel and sand the roads will
be like those in Canada which are
not, excelled any place. The trouble
with he a-oads in the county in my
judgment is that they are not prop
erly drained. If a road is graveled
good, then rounded off and tfhe drains
to either, side put in shape so that
the rains will readily find their way
to the river the roads will be in good
shape with very little repair -each
year.
Now what do the hard-surface
men want? They want a 9-foot con
rete or bitulithic road. I asked a
man who is a road builder and an
enthusiast of this proposition, how
much it would cost and he said $1.60
per square yard. I said: "Does that
Include anything else?" iHe Said,
"No, of course the gravel on the
sides would be extra, the excavation
would be extra, the draniage would
be extira and the culverts and tiling
would be extra." So you can be
gin to realize how much it will cost
when they get done. Then what have
you? You have a few miles of road
for joy riders to have a good time
on and an indebtedness of $400,000
with interest of 4 1-2 per cent per
annum. tA man with ordinary judg
ment can figure a littleiwhat it costs.
You pay $6.60 for . every five foot
square of side walk you have put
in. How would you like to pay twice
that for a double sidewalk down the
middle of the road past your farm
for a quarter of a mile? Now, of
course, I do not mean to say that
you will have to pay for all of that.
Not at all. You see the county is
bonded and we all have to pay. You
see, the follow who does not pay any
taxes that signs that petition will
Ihelp you out. (I guess not). A lot
of people can't afford a concrete walk
out to the front gate, still they t!iink
they can afford a concrete road 9
feet wide down the full forty acre
fence bordering the road.
Pome people talk about the Roman
roads and how permanent thoy were
and what an advantage thev werq.
You might as well talk- the sar-e
way about the pf.TiWs. ...The Rom-
Its like Fourth: -Street Jhare In La" 1 1
jThis Store a Big Fashion
, " Nearly every woman in the land ia just about now turning over the
'I - pg of a spring fashion book.
- , This" store is tha big fashion store of La Grande where the modes are
i displayed us soo as they come out.
' To comr hwre and walk about the store ia like turning the leaves of a
!U,i gicat book of fashions.
y ! ' ' What is he length of the sleeve? , The size of the hat? The styjeeof
( ! Hit. coat?. The volume of the skirt? The newest thing in neckwear? The
' latest shoes? Hosiery, Flounce petticoats, ribbons, wash goods, gloves
. waisis? Do any of these problems puzzle you? '" '
Come to 4he fswhiori store and find them solved. ' We have the nw
: ' things as soon m they come out in New York and we can keep you
posted.
foot' walking for the horses than we
have' for the children that go ' to
school. The children have to walk
in. the road and aie in constant dang
er of being run down 'by some aixiu
maniac. The sane thing to
done up there would have been to
put in concrete sidr walks and had a
good gravel (road well kept up and
drained and f.ll the drunks and peace
disturbers nmde to work on those
roads for a credit of $2.00 on their
fines under proper supervision. -
And some people think we need
as good roads in the rural districts
as in a thickly congested part of our
commonwealth. Just because a hard
surface road might pay in a vei-y
thickly populated district is no rea
son why ilt will pay in a sparelj- i it
tied community.
I am in favor of putting the coun
ty prisoners to work on the road fand
give them credit for their work on
their fines instead of forcing a hum
an being to ?ot. and waste away in
a dungeon under the courthouse.
, In any event, a person ought to
look twifce before 'he signs to.i bond
issue petition. t "
E W. EASTMAJi., '
- ", , , ta Grande, Orcgo-A ,
STUDENTS IN CLUB,
Oregonians at San
Jose Normal Ip i
" elude Two l turinnc UU.s.
,r'The Oregon ciu'o, composed 'of
ybung Indies from California's nYth
western sister state who are ctrn 'led
as students in the State Norma! school
in Snn Jone, were e"t?rtain5d Friday
afternoon by Mrs. S. G. Benson, her
sc!f formerly an Otegji girl, on behalf
of tier granddaughter, Mi'ii CmmI
Currey, and the ratter's ch'im Mi&s
Nell Bradley, both of whom reside In
eastern Cregon, at tho westeily l-ase
C.t the I;lie monntain?, says San Jcse
ifn.) Dsily Mercury; -
, Mrs. Benson wca aUo assisted in
nti rtai'-Ii.p by her daughter, Mrs. A.
B. Scrio ' '
The v.'.rlnrs of the Bei?n home at
CI North Twelfth street were prettily
d-.corated in green and gold, st.iing
effects bt'ng obtained by artistic com
binations of escholissds &r.J snii'nx.
T'.ie nftfmoon wm delighijubj
passed v.'th music and arnes, dainty
refreshments being served near the
close nf the festivities.
, Those present wer.v ' "''
, Miss Mury Gore, Meford, Ore.
Miss Evp. Osborne, Medfor:!, Ore.
Miss Tilith Allen, Chants Pass.
Miss Anna Clinkinbeard, Marshfield,
Ore.
Miss Dons Magiie.53, MyrWe Point, '
Ore. ;
Miss Minnie Parker, North Bend,
Ore. :
Miss Alice Todd, Tillamook, Ore. :
Miss Edna Demmer, Medford, Ore. j
Miss Elsie Youngstead, Astoria, Ore.
Miss Helen Witherspoon, Grant's
Pass, Ore. i
- Miss Helen Boston, Sacramento, Ual. !
. Miss Bernice Best, Sacramento, Cal. i
Miss Nell Bradley, La Grande, Ore.,
Miss Carol Currey. La Grande. Ore.
Misses Genevieve and Virginia Serio,
San Jose.
State cf Ohio, Cltr of Toledo, I
Lucas County, i
Frank J. Cheney makes oath tha. he t
senior partner of the firm of F. J, Cheney
ft Co., doing business in the City of To
ledo, County and State aforesaid, and
that satf. Tlrm i!!! pay the sum o ONE
HUNDRED DOIrLARS for each and ev
ery case of Ctarrh that cannot be "ured
by the use Of HALL'S CATARRH O'TREI.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and acb'ild In
my presence, this 6th day ot Docembor,
A D 18SS.
(Seal) A. -W. OLEASON.
Notary Public
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally
and acts directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the syBtem. Seid for
testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY ft CO, Toledo, O.
Bold by all Drug-glut. 75c.
Take Hall' Fually Pill, for contl'patlon.
WRECKED
Tho Old' "White School
Building, and Rook eni
Lumber are ;; For . Sale
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YINACfeE OR f :
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'Phone Black 12
A Part Missing
The next Ford peace expedition
ought to have . a muffler. Chciago
Post. , . ' ' "
IF Ki
Take a glaai of Salts to flush out your
Kidneys and neutralize irri
tating acids. - r ,,
Kidney and Bladder ' weakness result
from urio acid, says a noted authority.
The kidneys filter this acid from the
blood and pass it on to the bladder, where
it often remains to irritate and inflame,
causing a burning, scalding sensation, or
setting up an irritation at the nock of
the bladder, obliging you to seek relief
two or three times during the night.
The sufferer is in constant dread, the
water passes sometimes with a scalding
Bensatlon and is very profuse ; again,
there is difficulty in avoiding it
Bladder weakness, most folks call it,
because they can't control urination.
While it Is extremely annoying and some
times very painful, this is really one of
the most simple ailments to overcome.
Get about four ounces of Jad Salts
from your pharmacist and take a table
spoonful in a glass of water before
breakfast, continue this for two or three
days. This will neutralize the acids in
the urine so it no longer is a source of
irritation to the bladder and urinary or
gans which then act normally again. .
Jad Salts is inexpensive, harmless,
and is made from the acid of grapes and
lemon juice, combined with lithia, and
ia used by thousands of folks who are
subject to urinary disorders caused by
urio acid irritation. Jad Salts is splen
did . for kidneys and causes no bad
effects whatever.
Here you have a plea&ant, effervescent
lithia-water drink, which quickly relieves
bladder trouble.
A FRESH SHIPMENT
OF LUNCH GOODS
BY EXPRESS TODAY
Boiled ham, lunch loaf, dried beef, Bmoked
salmon, kippered salmon, Saratoga chips,
cream brick cheese, limberger, Roquefort,
Pimento, and green Chili cheese.
A COMPLETE LINE
OF GREEN VEGETABLES
J. G. Snodgrass Grocer
Phone Main 13
Service.
Quality
Book
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Before the Spring rush be
gins let us put your wa tch
in good shape. 1
Our work gives satisfaction,
ask lanyowe. ; ' .
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