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TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1916.- PAGE FOUR THE OBSERVER JBBUCE DENNIS. Editor and Owner Xutered in the Postoffice at Ls ' Grande, Oregon, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. Daily, single copy 6c Daaly, per week l&c Daily, per month 65e ..Daily, per six mouths in advance $3.50 ' Daily, per year in advance . ... $7.00 Daily, by mail per year, in ad vance $4.00 Weekly Observer-Star, per year ' in advance Jl.W) Advertising: rates on application. All eopy for display advertising must reach the office the day before the v ad appears. Address all communications to THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth Street. .HVHY RUSSIA IS DOING BETTER. There ar many people who do not understand the present success by the Buseian armies in view of the re verses suffered at the hands of the Germans earlier in the war. The foJ '" lowing statement from a Russian pa per, foe Petrograd Novoe Vremya gives eome light upon the situation: At the opening of the war, Russia - muhilized 400.000 soldiers, and or- , dered them to the assistance uf Ser vian Two days later Germany, after her ultimatum of 24 hours, began de- . ploying troops all along our frontier. Half of the troops ordered south had (therefore to be recalled to defnd our line against the Germans. Two hun- t dred thousand men could neither hold the Austrian million, nor the German - million, much less go to effective aid in behalf of little Servia. One mil lion men were therefore called to ' &rms; and without even two weeks' . frilling tihiey were rushed .to two fronts. They were no soliders, mere .human cannon fodder, and the event men. Meanwhile another million men were called to arms, and drilled an entire year. They are soldiers, and they are at the front now. Six hundred thousand more are drilling; and another half million has been called to arms this spring. The rem nant (if tha orioHnal rmv' in Iphr ' than one hundred thousand effectives , of the first recruits not more than six hundred thousand are left; but our total effective today is one mil lion seven hundred thousand, with an other drilled million to back them. Economically, Russia hardly feels the war; many provinces have barely heard of its existence. True, we have an increase of twenty billion dollars (forty billion rubles in our national debt) but the pressure has not sunk into the general public. Only one item has brought restriction the vedka (whisky). Russia today nit;hpr mfLkpK. Ktlln r iikpx tht nr. ticle. As a consequence, according to the statement this spring to tfhe dou ma by M. IJarek, Russian minister of finance, the savings institutions throughout the country, the mother house in Petrograd and ten thousand said branches in tine provinces have wonderfully improved in deposits. If the statement is to be relied upon H is easy to surmise that in future battles on the eastern front Von Hindenberg will find a different story from what he met with a year ago. Caught unprepared Russia did poor fighting. With her great armies - - . OUR NATIONAL BANK IS A MEMBER OF THE "FED ERAL RESERVE" SYSTEM OF BANKS. THIS MEANS ITHAT OUR BANN IS ONE OF A "VAST ARMY" OF BANKS WHICH STANDS TOGETHER TO.PROTECT EACH OTHER AND THEIR DEPOSITERS. WE CAN TAKE VALID SECURITIES TO OUR DISTRICT "FEDERAL RESERVE" BANK WHENEVER WE WANT TO AND "GET MONEY." YOUR MONEY IS SAFE IN OUR BANK AND.VOU CAN GET IN WHEN YOU WANT IT. COME IN AND "TALK BUSINESS" WITH US. BANK WITH US WE PAY HirER CENT INTEREST 6'2 Money for Improved Farm Loans La Grande National Bank LA GRANDE, OREGON Capital 9200,000.00, Surplos $50,000.00, Resource $1,000,000.00 Frd i. Holme, President: C. C. Penington, Vice President; F. L, lieyars, Cashier; E. Zundel and U. E. Coolidgs, Assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS Tmi J. Holm, J. G. 9nod gran, J. F. Cooly, C C Penington, H. B. Browntxm, F. L. Meyer, A. Btokfend, A. T. Hill, H. K CooUdr. brought into use and properly sup plied with munitions that country is now in jshape to take revenge for the kBS of Warsaw pnd the overrunning of Poland. ' WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY Argentina's Growth. Christian Herald. The last census just published fixes the population of the Argentine Re public at 7,888,287. The census of 1895 gave the population as 3,954,911, i so that the record shows almost a doubling vS the inhabitants in the I past !i0 years. Buenos Aires is a ! large and beautiful city with a popu lation of 1,375,914, about Ihsilf as I many as all of Argentina had 20 1 years ago. The fertile soil, the form lof government the encouragement to industry, the improvement in educa tion, the freedom in religion, have at tracted a large number of enterpris ing citizens xrom all pars of the world. Making Our Way. From Charleston News and Courier. How many of us pass our time in waiting for life to give us something instead of trying to find it for our selves. We even go so far as to think that life owes us always more than we receive, that we fulfill our mission on earth by simply living a harmless existence and that fame and fortune sihould be ours by right. It is for this latter reason that we so oftn re sent the good fortune of others and allow ourselves to believe that we have been diseriminHled against by Providence. We do not seem to realiz that it is well worth our while to do some Suing more than wait for what may or may not come to pass, that we are the architects in large measure of our own success and that we must make the best of what is be fore ub in order to learn the rights to fulfill Kile desires of our hearts. If we make but little headway we are quick with our excuses and are al ways ready to place the blame upon others who can in no way be held re sponsible. If, on the other hand, we do succeed it seems quite natural to take the credit ourselves, whether we deserve it or not. The chances are, however, that if we amount to very much in this world the credit belongs to us more than to anyone else, even thouglh we do receive assistance at times from those who take an interest in us. The point of the matter is that we must fortify ourselves to meet conditions as they come and to do our best to shape them into (happiness and prosperity for ourselves. DO YOU KNOW THAT Better wages make better health ? Better health makes better citizens 1 Better Citizens make a better na tion 1 The U. S. Public Health Service found 78 per cent of the rural homes in a certain county unprovided with sanitary conveniences of any kind? Cholera is spread in the same man ner as typhoid fever? Scarlet fever, kills over 10,000 Americans each year? Hookworm enters through the skin ? He who builds up health lays up treasure in the Bank of Nature? It is estimated that there is 1148 bil lion feet of privately owned timber in Oregon west of the Cascade Range, and 270 billion feet in Washington. The National forests contain 102 bil lion feet, making for the west side of the two states a total of timber es timated at 780 billion board feet. Our Want Ads bring results. MEMBER FEDERAL RESUME SYSTEM OF BANKS. 7 CURIOUS CORDOBA. ," " This Spanish Town U So Compact It Looks Like Ono Building. Coi-doba is scheduled on the Euro jxan itinerary a a half day stand. Those who go from Seville to Granada and those who go from Granada to Se ville take Cordoba on tbelr way. Fif teen minute for the cathedral, five for the alcazar, an hour for luncheon and on to further dlscoverie that 1 the Cordoba program. The hotel of Cor doba are, in consequence, unpalatiah a circumstance in itself which endears the little town to the judicious. "I donot believe there 1 a lift In all Cordotnv, and if your wife wishes for any reason to buy a new hat she must go out of the hotel for it and tben it will be three years old. At night all the tourists are gone to Seville or Granada, and yon and the Cordobaus and the stars share the amenities of Cordoba's one boulevard, of whlcn everybody is very proud, be cause It is much superior to anything that Paris or even Madrid can show. It was a lucky chance which caused them to build Cordoba so handily be tween Seville and Granada. It has pro vided a still little backwater for the traveler' repose, a spot where he may forget that American bars exist, eat bis meals untroubled by the squeaking of a tango bund and adventure himself among the mysteries of a bill of fare Jell.r printed in blue and illegible Span ish. You could put your hat over Cordoba, and very little would protrude. It is the compacted little town. From the tower of the cathedral it ail looks like one building. Too can hardly perceive the streets, so closely do they wriggle among the houses. The roofs are yel low, brown, gray, red; the walls and their shadows every color in the world. Among the buildings the green of palms, orange trees, leinott frees, chest nuts, soothe the glare struck eye. The Guadalquivir snakes through Its rich plain from the faraway flat hills (red, gray brown, yellow), and over all are the great sky of the south and the huee sun of the south, which imposes si lence on the world till nlgbt shall set the guitars a-buzzlng. William Caine in Century. , CAUSE OF RHEUMATISM. Cavities Holding Pus, It Is Claimed, Breed the Dread Ailment. j. ' In the American Magazine is an arti cle on rheumatism by Dr. Arthur It. Beyuolds, who says: "The cause of rheumatism is pus formed and imprisoned in some part of the body. It gets Into the circula tion and is carried by it to the regiOD affected. These pus places may be in spots more or Jess closed up, so they are not easily drained. They may be located about the teeth, at the end of the roots of dead or diseased teetfojlin the crypts of the tonsils, in Boinejof the sequestered places in the nostrils, in the bony sinuses of the head. They may be in tie bladder, the kidney, the gall ducts or other places. The pus producing spot may be as small or smaller than a pea or it may be larger. Its existence Is frequently unknown to the patient, especially if it be hidden in soft tissue like the tonsil. It may even exist in the bony socket of a tooth without giving pain. "Several different organisms produce pus, and any or all may produce rheu matism when transferred to the Joints or the heart. "The physician today seeks for the pus cavity when he meets a patient with rheumatism, nnd lip endeavors to clean It up. Ilbeuuiallc pains have been stopped 1th magical promptness by simply extracting the offending tooth. It is nut always easy to find the pus places in the hidden parts of the body. The X ray shadowgraph is essential hi locating the trouble. It shows definitely and accurately all trouble about the roots of Hie teeth, and its use Is therefore of the first im portance in ferreting out the pus In the deep structures." Duncan Smoked In Church. Blr Walter Scott in bis "Heart of Midlothian" refers to one Duncan of Knockduuder, an important personage, bo smoked during the whole of the sermon from an Iron pipe tobacco bor rowed from other worshipers. We ars told that at the end of the discourse he knocked the ushes out of his pipe, replaced it In his sporran, returned the tobacco pouch to its owner and Joined In the prayer with decency and atten tion. Domeitio Strategy. Husband I am not ready to go out yet. Wife But I am. and we must go Immediately. Husband But, my dear, your hat Is not on straight Wife Dcnr ine! Isn't It? Wait a minute till 1 go to my room and put It right Kxlt wife for half an hour, and her shrewd husband completes his work. Argentina. If the country has the same average potentiality for producing food as land similarly situated In North America or Europe, It would seem that Argentina can support 100,000.000 people easily, ts only small parts of It lie outslds the temperate eone. Ths Point of View. "The darkest cloud has n sliver lin ing." remarked the optimist. "Rut It Is dark cloud. Just the same," Insisted the pessimist. Ex change. Silly Fellow. "Ton art the ouly girl that can make me happy." Are you sure?" . ' "Yes; I have tried til ths others." Philadelphia Record. '.-'.' Middy Blouses! Middy Blouses! Now Ready August Designers and Patterns andJFreelFashion Sheets JUST UNPACKED 2 New Summer-Waists - One is of Organdy with a pretty Embroidery Collar and with Short Sleeves. Special Value $1.25, all sizes : . The other is an Organdy Waist with a heavy lace insertion on each side and Dainty Embroidery Front and Collar; Long Sleeves Priced $3.00 all sizes For Warm Days Cool, comfortable pumps. Every pair redua-d. We show more styles and a bigger range of sizes and widths than any other store in La Grande It makes a difference, too, when you come to be fitted; it makes the fitting easier for you also you are sure here of an accurate fit which always means solid comfort for hot days and every pair now at greatly re duced prices in our July Clean-Up Sale. O. A. C. Man Writes Book For Women Architects The MacMillan Company, publish ers, New York, have accepted for pub lication a college text book on Domes tic Architecture, by Eugene L. Robin son, professor of Rural Architecture, Oregon Agricultural College. This text is designed especially for the use of girls in schools of Home Economics and is the first architectural text book for girls to be published in the United States. It contains about 90,000 words besides 50 ink drawings and problems in house planning. The scries which is to include the new text consists of standard works on Home Economics subjects, such as Cooley's Foods and Household Man agement. This series is edited by Professor Sherman, of Columbia Uni versity, New York. The book on Do mestic Architecture will appear in August. Professor Robinson has charge of a rather unique line of work at O. A. C, called Rural Architecture. In cluded among the courses is the one on House Construction and Decoration in which a hundred women have dur ing the college year made drawings much like the sketches of an archi tect. The author of the forthcoming text is a graduate in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, is a licensel architect of Illinois and was recently promoted to Professor of Rural Architecture at O. A. C. O. A. C. Hens Beat Own Record After having shattered all records for one week's laying at the Storrs, Connecticut, Egg Laking Contest, the Oregons, entered by the Poultry de partment of the Oregon Agricultural College, came right back the follow ing week and did two eggs better. The first week's record that excited the comment of poultry journals and newspapers all over the United Sttcs was C2 eggs by the pen of ten hens. lhis was nn uverage of 6 2-10 eggs 'per hen a week, nlmost an egg a day. The following week s record was 64 eggs or an average of 6 4-10 eggs per day. The grand average of all pens and varieties for the same week was 45 eggs per hen. DEFENDANT TWO YEARS OLD. Son of British Officer Charged With Improper Guardianship. New York, Ju 25. Audrey P.id dlc, Jr., nearly twa years old, the son of a British oiheer now at the front, will be erraiirned in ths Children's court next Friday charged with im proper guardianship. Audrey's mother, Mts. Audrey Rid-, M S . I aV W II T v w .T r T T- ! die is an American woman. She is a wireless operator and an aviator. Af ter the husband went to the front, the British authorities put her under sur veillance. For this reason she and the baby returned to Amreica. Since arrival in New York she and Audrey have lived in hotels here. Finally, the child was left, officials of the Children's society say, with a OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE By Condc 1 "Wl IT'3 Au. RICJHT TO r t A big Shipment Just Received of These Popular COLLEGE STYLE MIDDIES The stripes are light blue and white, dark blue and white, red and white, orange and black, green and white. Sires up to 44. Choose one s:t once for it doesn't take long for the sizes to get broken. Price $1.50 maid at Mrs. Riddle's apartments for several days. The proprietor of the hotel called on the society on May 5 to take charge of the child. The society officials said Mrs. Riddle's mother, a wealthy Chi cago woman, has given assurances that she will take the child and care for it if it is legally committed to her by the court.
