LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
THUBSPAY, JULY 6, 19161
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THE OBSERVER
AGE FOUR
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WITHIN THE LAW.
Those who take what in not theirs
-by right can be listed in three clauses:
Outlaws by profession, who risk the
full penalty when they ply their
V trade, the burglar, the cracksman, the
highwayman.
Accidental thievevs who, through
weakness or the pressure of need,
abuse a trust. ' , ; .
The deliberate white handed,
smooth-spoken, "respectable" pillar
; ' of society, who plans his operations
with consummate care, and is con
fident that he is keeping his misdeeds
under cover, his frauds within the
law. , '
For which of these can be enter
tained the most sympathy, the least
: contempt? I
The burglar goes at his business
courageously, at any rate. He does
not pose in his daily life, among Ms
intirlAtAR. na axivthintr Hut n hnrcrlni. I
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He does not first attempt to win the
confidence of his victims that he may
despoil them.
liie trusted employe who goes
wrong by taking what he vainly
hopes to replace deserves pity and, in
the great majority of instances, pity
is given him, together with an op
portunity for re-establishing himself.
. The man, who exploits his own high
standing among Ms fellows to exact
dishonest gains, who hides behind
smug pretensions of exceptional vir
tue while he coaxes money from the
pockets of those who can ill afford its
loss he cannot plead the lack of op
portunity for goodness, the excuse of
poor environment, the defense of
necessity.
: Of all wrongdoers, this last type of
aystematicj professional hypocrite in
spires the minimum of humane consideration.
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Here V a Clothing Sale You've got to Take Your Hat off to:-r-It's One of
the Biggest and Best Things in our July Clean-Up Sale
Your Unrestricted Choice of Any Man's Suit
in Our Entire Stock at 206ff
UNQUESTIONABLY THE BEST MEN'S SUIT OPPORTUNITY IN TOWN. IT
REQUIRES ONLY A LOOK AT OUR LARGE STOCK TO VERIFY THIS
STATEMENT.
kejr $15.00 Suits, now at JZLi'iC $12.00
Rep;. $17.50 Suits, now at $14.00
Reg, $20.00 Suits, now at :.. ..$16.00
"iieff.ife22.50 Suits, now at :..:..;. . $18-00
Reg. $25.00 Suits, now at $20.00
Re?.. $27.50 Suits, now at $22.50 .
AS TO QUALITY
The country's most famous makes to select from. As a result you get the utmost
in quality for the least possible price. And now, during this Sale, at still a Bmaller
price. A saving of from $3.00 to $6.00 on every, suit. A case where we must clear
away our present stock and make room for the next season. This year we carried a
large stock and we carried a, better grade of clothing. That means you will get the
lowest price in years for the values oTered. ' I
ABOUT THE FIT
) From our large range of sizes you can easily be perfectly fitted,
sizes, medium sizes, tall sizes and slhbrt sizes.
We have stout
REGARDING THE STYLE
: Every kind of cloth and pattern to select from, hard finish or soft finish goods. '
New English models, Conservative models and Medium Loose styles. Remember, not '
one suit reserved. See them. These prices only during July. . .. '
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HEALTH IN FOOD TEMPERANCE.
Germany is demonstrating to the
world the fact that every nation over
eats. Part of the liberty of civiliza
tion is an unduly large consumption
of food with proportionate waste.
The most wastoful country in thte
world even on the basis of peace con
sumption is the United States. The
only food dictator we recognize is the
doctor !nd with eating as with
drinking,; when the doctor interposes
his prohibition it is usually too late.
There are many individuals, pressed
to the experiment of retrenchment at
the trenches for reason of health or
finance, who can testify that one's
food allowance can be cut down one
half, and that meat can be banished
altogether, without injury indeed,
with definite benefit. '
If this country should ever be so
unfortunate as to be embroiled in a
war, it is not likely we should ever
come to so narrow a margin of sub
sistence as Germany has been forced
to observe, but whatever the econ.
omies we should be obliged to make,
they would be sura to be regarded as
part of the "horrors' of war. And
yet thle people of means pay some
thing like $100 a week m famous san-
lJrSEE THE MEN WITH THEIR CHESTS OUT AND THEIR
HEADS ERECT, WITH INDEPENDENT WALK AND CONFIDENT
AIR. THEY ARE INDEPENDENT BECAUSE THEY HAVE BANK
ACCOUNTS.
TUBtt!k!PI!f5.MEN WASTED THEIR TIME AND MONEY
THEY WERE PUTTING SOME INTO THE BANK.
. BTr-M1KA,29;URSELF INDEPENDENT BEFORE IT IS TOO
LATE. BANK SOME MONEY NOW.
BANK WITH US
WE PAY 4 PER CENT INTEREST
Money for Improved Farm Loans
La Grande National Bank
LA GRANDE. OREGON
Capital (200,000.00, Surplus $50,000.00, IUsoarca 11,000,000.00
Fred J. HolmM, Preaidant; C. C Penlngton. Vic President; F. L.
Jicyara, Caahiar; E. Zundel and EL E. Goolldga, Aaaiatant Caahlars.
DIRECTORS
Frad J. Holmas, J. G. Snodgraaa, J. F. Oonley, C. C. Penlngtoti. H.
0. Browwto. F. h. iUjnm, A. BIcUmmL A. T. KM, EL E. Oootidt.
atariums and rest cures to have them
selves placed on what is essentially
war diet the plainest kind of food,
and just a bare sufficiency of that.
And they coma away from the "cure"
benefited. i
Our prosperity has had one bad ef
fect on us it has deprived us of a
proper sense of proportion in the use
of the earth's products. The pleas
ures of the table are not to be disre
garded nor condemned; they are a
contribution to the general value of
life. But when, they are made alto-
for the most part. It is true that the
destruction is on a hitherto unpar
alleled scale, but this is offset by the
fact that production is also on a
hitherto unexampled scale.
Outside of the increase in the na
tional debt by foreign loans, easily
made up by so young and so rich a
nation as Canada, and the loss of
able-bodied men, easily made up by
immigration, Canada is paying her
way as she goes.
This will enable Jier to "come back"
much more readily than any Euro-
gether an end in themselves, when we pean country involved in the war.
live almost exclusively to eat, when Canadaa best market is always the
we interpret life in terms of an un-J United States. This market will be
necessary superabundance of eatables, in nearly normal conditions,
we are only laying up hardship for Intensive cultivation ,of the Cana
ourselves when any sort of an emerg- dian wheat fields of the west will re
ency in crop-failure, economic crisis deem the situation in a short time,
or war shall strike us. . Ontario can resume Iver manufactur-
Germany is a healthier nation to- . ing for the west because the west has
day for living nearer the bone. Dis- ' not been suffering.
ease is decreased. Mentality is clar- The idleness of sDeculntors in fjil-
ified. The strength of the body is re-" gary, Regina and Winnipeg is a
served for other purposes than the mere incident. The business of the
burdens laid upon it by over eating.
It is too bad that a war is required to
teach a nation the difference between
essentials and non-essentials, and
America, if she is wise, will learn her
lesson out of wisdom intead of out of
necessity.
it is protected and that the innocent
will not suffer outside the prison walls
while the guilty suffer within.
"The normal man is made out of the
abnormal criminal by ethical, educa
tional, physical and spiritual methods
at Great Meadow.
"If a man is physically defective
he cannot reform until his weakness
has been obviated."
Therefore Warden Homer deals
with each man as an individual. One
man may need to be placed where he
can live in close touch with nature,
so he is given work on the prison
farm, while another man may be ob
sessed with a desire for knowledge,
he is placed at work in the prison
library, or is given some sort of cleri
cal work that will help him meet his
desires. , f
Common sense, love and charity are
combined at Great Meadow and that
is why 100 per cent of its men are
making parole and 971 per cent of its
graduates are making good..
REPORT OF CONDITION OF
LA GRANDE NATIONAL BANk
t La. Grande in the State of Oregon at the Close of Business on June 30, 1916
No. 96-43
CANADA WILL "COME BACK."
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts ......'
U. S. bonds deposited to secure circulation (par
value) :
U. S. bonds pledged to secure U. S. deposits (par
value) . . . .'
U. S. bonds pledged to secure postal savings de
posits (par value) ...'...
Securities other thr.n U. S. bonds (not including
stocks) owned unpledged
farmers of the west is the important Subscription to stock of Federal Reserve Bank . .
matter. And the lurirer th .tiVf . IjCss amount unpaid v
on the western plains the greater the. T A!
$690,813.72
growth of Ontario manufactures,
Canada has her own markets, the
great west and the United States, in
Annesley Burrowes' graphic pic
ture of war prosperity in Canada
shows our neighbor to be no less ben
efited than ourselves from the indus
trial and financial inflation coincident
witih the European conflict.
We have been held up to contempt
because of our incidental profits from Francisco; B. S. Howard, J. Holmes,
the supply of munitions, both arms Bend, Ore., John Drum. Denver: Mar-'
and food, hut, of course, English and l?.Zuper, Waistburg, Wash.; M.
Canadian factories show a imilr "Vi y'"' . yT,
i,i u... t .i.... . " "UMr.i a: orcy, Salem; J,
in the same boat.
Real estate owned other than banking house ....
Net amount due from Federal Reserve Bank
Net amount due from approved reserve agents in
a normal condition. A quick restore- xt "eW nicaK- and st- v
(lm - . - M , rawra Net amount due from approved reserve agents in
tion of her own form can be readily I iri other rPSPrv riti .
Net amount due from banks and bankers (other
than included in 10 or 11)
Other checks on banks in the same city or town
as reporting bank
Outside checks and other cash items
Fractional currency, nickels, and cents m;
Notes of other national banks
Federal Reserve notes
Coin and certificates
Legal-tender notes
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due
from U. S. Treasurer ..:
forecasted.
Foley Hotel Guests.
H. D. Haley, J. D. Rae, Portland;
Chas. 'Schiras, Enterprise; R. John
son, Starkey; E. H. Giles, -Spokane;
B. F. Morehouse, Mrs. Belva Cochran,
Seattle; E. Reinlander, Mrs. Esther
Mitchell, Wallowa; J. F. Grodzke, W.
L. Kidd, R. H. Hopkins, Portland: G.
mac, remuetin; u. Simmons, San
H.
Rjhoades, J. Hanlev. Portland: A. J
Hall, Boise; Myrtle Chandler, Elgin;
But. munitinn. anA m.i. tn'Miss Rutledge. T. T. Maronev. EH
only a part of the story. The tXJ'
ing up of industrial activity lhas af- 'jersey; Daisy Belle Mason, Lucile
fectod other lines. Canada, to be '. Christainsen, Pendleton.
LIABILITIES
sure, is not a manufacturing nation, j
Hut insofar as it is such, there are j
72,000.00
10,000.00 .
5,000.00 87,000.00
13,586.00
15,000.00 "
7,500.00 7,500.00
49,000.00
7,340.99
3,880.00
24,511.29
14,800.64 ; :;
77,359.37 92,160.01
12,958.24
3,655.98
2,140.03
484.48 2,624.61
5,265.00
305.00
53,565.40
850.00
3,600.00
.....$1,058,616.14
200,000.00
50,000.00 250,000.00
10,497.21
72,000.00
17,139.91
391,91 7.36'
95,760.08
341.38
9.608.50 '
5,000.00
Surplus fund
Undivided profits .,
Circulating notes outstanding
Net amount due to banks and bankers (other than
included in 29 or 30)
Demand DeDOaits:
. . , ; I Individual deposits subject to check
lYisoncrs families Are Cared For , Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days . .
A Ihnmi XT V T.. Ti rv !l. it . . .... i . .
evidences of general tvit'w-'ir' II L.'-'Ml
, - " ; r- io tsviiig , j MJICU ObULVS IIULKJSILH
ccuviiy. .much discurfted today the Homer Hon-: Pnfnl Sflviniro Hannnifa
It ia in tho fields, the tors& nml or System nt the Great Meadow tris-iTim nennaitn navai.in nftn. in 4to ,".,W-li
the mines that Canadian treasure lies ' m V0"1.3"10 ,s ffoln'r on Quietly to 30 days or more notice):
and energy ia being applied to these rfm Tj" ," 8 ; cates of deposit
no !ess revcrim y than to shrapnel William J. Homer, warden at Great Total w.. . t1 nRa .....
mrimg. Now levels of energy Sinve' Meadow and his wife, known by the ' State of Oregon, Countv of Union ss- J,uos,oio.i4
leon tapped. Men that hitherto did prisoners as "Our Lady of Comstock". I, F. I Meyers, Cashier of the "above-named bank, do solemnlv swear
not perform productive labor are now ?re """"ff because .they ; that the above statement is true to the best of my kAowlede-eTrf
. ii' i u. v., , " "MS. r T unrvron n..v:"
j .t , , Q' ' No nmn fan b? betteriMi in prison
and the workmr n in all linos have if his mind is ill at ease because he
caught the faster rythro. ! fears for his relatives outside," says;
Economists have explained Ufa eon- Warden Homer. '
tinuam-e of, the war by th fact that ! .' "Thc re- first thing .that is!
, ' . """.done when a man enters Great Mea-
the rUona are paying as they go, ' oow is to care for his family, see that :
206,351.70
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of July, 1916
H. A. ZURBRICK,'
Notary Public of Oregon.
FRED 3, HOLMES, ,
A. T. HILL, ' V
J. G. .SNODGRASS,
P . ti- - ''-.' "-' '. Directors.