La Grande evening observer., July 12, 1916, Image 4

XA GRANDE - EVENING OBSERVER
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THE OBSERVER.,
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BBUC.G DENNIS, Editor and Owner
neither wore the extreme progressives
"who aro accredited as being fire-caters,
displaying: any sky-rockets. There
was a solemn, earnest intent on the
' face of every man there to select a
Entered in the Postofflce at La .man who would represent a clean type
Grande, Oregon, as
matter.
second
class; of Republicanism free from any dang-
lerous alliances, or fraught with a pos
sibility of developing into a schemer.
We can say to every reader of the
Observer that this year the Republi
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t OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth Street,
SOMETHING TO CONSIDER.
Our sister ' city, Pendleton, has
about concluded to make a decided
reduction in the price of city water
for lawn sprinkling. It is argued
that men do not keep up lawns en
tirely for themselves, but with the
. additional idea of beautifying the
city as a whole. riAccording to this
argument it is about to be decided by
Pendleton if a man will keep a good
lawn he is to have consideration in
the matter of water.
This thought is of interest to La
Grande people for undoubtedly lawn
owners here have never been given
the encouragement they, should re
ceive. Not only is the rate for water
the same as the commercial rate, but
no concession is made to those who
spend their time and money to keep
tr the city's parking strips through
out the town.
We have, an abundance of water
now more than the city can possibly
use, so why not think over Pendleton's
good intentions and see if La Grande
as a municipality cannot offer some
inducement to have a city beuutiful
instead of forcing every individual to
considerable expense, if he has suffi
cient civic pride to make and maintain
a lawn.
CHAIRMAN M'NARY.
Republicans of Oregon, through
their representatives on the state com
mittee, elected Judge Charles N.
McNary to lead the campaign in Ore
gon at a meeting held in Portland
Saturday. The choice is a good one
ami the meeting from which this
choice came was an ideal meeting of
Oregon citizens.
It was noticeable that dark lanterns
were not a part of the equipment;
that caucuses were few, and that no
eelf-styled leader paraded through the
lobby of the Imperial buttonholing
committeemen giving instructions. The
'absence of these things was refresh
ing. The "old guard" was not working
spavin, wno mis not ine sngniesi
stringhalt in his step, who looks every
man straight in the eye and has noth
ing to conceal.
I The campaign this year will be
made upon national issues and it will
be clean and square. . The re-election
of Ed. Baldwin as secretary of the
committee was a wise act, for Mr.
Baldwin has more" inforhiation f roni
the national capital at his' fingers' tips
than any other man in the state.
With this ' to be strictly a national
campaign Mr. Baldwin's fund of in
formation and his ability to procure
anything he desires from the capital
will have its advantages.
HOW DO YOU FIGURE IT?
The writer has been in Portland for
several lays. On every hand the wail
of no business is heard. Business
men openly proclaim that Portland is
getting no better; if there is any
change things are slower.
Yefc-
Poi-tland banks are loaded down
with money. So much money is on
hand that the rate of interest on time
deposits has been reduced from four
to three per cent and money is a drug
or. the market.
If you have feed for live stock and
want money you can get a basketful
of it in Portland, but not many people
have no feed for cattle nor the place
to raise it. .
What is wrong?
Plainly Portland will no longer play
her own game. She fostered the pro
moter for years when outside coin was
pouring into the state; she encouraged
the city addition game and loaned
money on houses for a time. But no
more . The building of a home in
Portland now means that it must be
financed otherwise than through the
regular financial circles. Portland has
over built in evory way and now the
slack in the rope is choking her. But
that's the fault of Portland people.
Business will be but little better in
Portland, apparently, until that slack
in the rope has been absorbed by care
ful, regular every-day business. The
lumber industry when it comes back
will aid materially, but until that
comes back if you have property in
the metropolis you had just as well
sh tight and smile.
MOSBY'S PRESENT
A Gift and Message That Tickled
Lincoln's Sense of Humor.
RETURNING THE COMPLIMENT.
No one will now say that a flying
machine cannot fly in the Grande
Ronde valley on account of the air
currents. It flew and did a beauti
ful job of it
3ik worm JurfvLdx ike, eMhH
An Equivalent That Wat Appreciated
and Trcaaured by the Confederate
Colonel An Episode Born of the
Captura of Ganaral Stoughton.
Colonel John S. Mosby, the southern'
cavalry leader in the war between tbe
states, accumulated many mementos
of that long and bloody struggle, but
Done wblcb be treasured more Jealous
ly than a lock of dark hair wrapped in a
faded yellow scrap of newspaper. The
hair was cut from the bead of A bra-'
bam Lincoln. ' It was Lincoln's own
band wblcb cut it, and tbe great war
president himself who sent it
In the spring of 1863 the Army of tbe
Potomac lay along the north bank of
the Rappahannock, about fifty miles
south of Washington. The Intervening
country was, of course, in tbe posses.
slon of the Union troops. Oft in the
recesses of tbe Blue Ridge mountains,
about thirty miles westward, was
Colonel Mosby, with a body of picked
southern cavalrymen, seeking to do
what Injury he could to the Federal
outposts and lines of communication.
About the middle of March there en
camped at Fairfax Court House, a vil
lage of about 500 Inhabitants, halfway
between Washington and tbe army on
the Rappahannock, a force of several
thousand Union troops under General
Stoughton.
From a military point of view, his
camp at Fairfax was nearly as safe as
Boston. Between his own force and
tbe southern army, under General Lee,
lay General Hooker's great Army of
the Potomac. Even Colonel Mosby's
small force less than a hundred men
was thirty miles away.
Nevertheless, Colonel Mosby deter
mined to capture General Stoughton.
Selecting twenty of his best troopers,
ho started one drizzly March afternoon
for Stoughton's camp. It was after
midnight when he ran into the first
picket, who was easily captured in the
darkness. And thus, taking picket aft
er picket in the black nigbt, Colonel
Mosby made his way without alarm
into the village, until he entered Gen
eral Stoughton's bedchamber.
The unhappy officer was compelled
to dress and accompany his captors.
The pitch black, rainy night and tbe
fact that the men of both commands
wore rubber capes of the same style
rendered it impossible for tbe prison
ers, Stoughton included, to determine
the number of the enemy. With half
a hundred prisoners and a hundred
horses, Colonel Mosby quietly made his
way out of tbe camp and was soon be,.
yond reach of pursuit
The adventure created a stir in mili
tary quarters. Stoughton was roundly
censured for allowing himself thus to
bo stolen from the midst of his troops,
although ho was In nowise to blame.
President Lincoln, whose sense of
humor nothing could quench, remark
ed, when told of tho affair, that he did
not mlndjostng the general, but the
hundred horses were "a serious matter.
I can mako a general with tbe
scratch of a pen," he said dryly, "buj
I cant, make hpcaes.''..,Al..S'i1''''
Shortly afterward Colonel Mosby.
with a few companions, was recon
noitring in the vicinity of Washing-
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WHAT 1STHE USE OF REAPING A HARVEST UNLESS
YOU REAP A "RESULT" FROM YOUR HARVEST. BEING
CAREFUL IN GROWING YOUR CROP WILL NOT BENEFIT
YOU UNLESS YOU ARE "CAREFUL" WITH YOUR MONEY
WHEN YOU GET YOUR MONEY.
REGULARLY BANKING THE MONEY YOU EARN FROM
YOUR WORK OR IN YOUR BUSINESSES THE CNE SUREWAY
OF GROWING A FORTUNE. TRY IT.
BANK WITH US
WE PAY 4IPER CENT 1NTERESV
6V o Money for Improved Farm Loans
La Grande National Bank
LA GRANDE, OREGON
Capital 1200,000.00, Surplus $0,000.00, Resources $1,000,000.00
Fred J. Holmes, President; C. C Pentngton, Vic President; F. U
Meyers, Cashier; E. Zundet and H. E. Coolidge, Assistant Cashier.
DIRECTORS .
Fred J. Holmes, J. G. Snodgtaaa, J. F. Ceoley, C. C Penington, H.
fi. Browntam, F. L Merer, A. BloUaod, A. T. HUL H. E. OoolUc.
Lou. Ou tub road iie'cuaniLTurcPan
old Dutch market woman taking her
garden truck In her cart to peddle It
through the Washington streets. Colo
del Mosby stopped and questioued her.
Noticing a pair of scissors at her belt
and having beard of President Lin
coln's comments on General Stough
ton's capture, he said:
"Do you know Mr. Lincoln?"
"Yah," replied the old woman. "Seen
him often, I have."
Taking the Bcissors, Colonel Mosby
cut off a lock of his hair, and wrap
ping it in a piece of paper banded It
to tbe old woman, Baying:
"I'm Colonel Mosby. When you get
to Washington go to the White House
and tell the presldest that Colonel
Mosby sent blm this lock of his hair
and say also that he is coming over
Into Washington some night to get a
lock of the president's ban-."
Tho old market woi n went her
way, and Colonel Mosby rode back
and forgot the incident Some weeks
later, however, when making another
reconnolssance in that neighborhood,
tho old woman bailed him from a road
side cottage, nurrylug into the cot
tage, she brought forth a scrap of
newspaper and delivered It to Colonel
Mosby.
"Here las s lock of President
Lincoln's hair," she said. "He tolt me
to suy to you that be hat rather you
vould not come ofcr to see him and
that he send It to you by me. Here It
lssl" Youth's Companion.
There's no Question
About it- i
Men, if you're looking for
good High Grade Suits at
an (honestly reduced price,
this is the one store for you.
"Benjamin" "llirsch-Wickwire", and
"Fidelity" makes. Every suit guaranteed
by the maker and by ,. us; The largest
stock in Eastern Oregon -iko select from.
Sizes 'tor every build of man tall, short,
stout or regular,
only during July:
Sales Prices in effect
Reg. $15.00 Men's
Reg. $17.50 Men's
Reg. $20.00 Men's
Reg. $22.50 Men's
Reg. $25.00 Men's
Reg. $27.50 Men's
Suits $12.00
Suits $14.00
Suits $16.00
Suits $18.00
Suits $20.00
Suits . $22.00
Mill
A Washington Farmer
Railroads.
Answers (he
At 6ha Saw It
"What Is the meaning of specter.
Urate V
"Please, elr, I don't know."
"Now, think. What is the specter
that usually frig" tens people?"
"The school 'specter, sir." rail Mall
Gazette.
An Example.
"The evil that men do lives after
them." Even when the amnteor cor
net player dies he leaves ihe fatal in
strument behind. London Tit-Bits.
Hold all tbe skirts of thy mantle ex
tended when heaven is ralnlns- sokL
Tells them they can expect no sym
pathy from class of workerj they
have robbed for years.
(From Pamphlet issued by Trans
portation Brotheilhloods.)
C. R. Cottrell. of Kent. Wash., who
is a farmer and incidentally national, j
marketing and rural credits commis
sioner of the (Washington State I
Grange, received a circular from the
Western Railway Managers' nssocia.
tion, recently, asking for svmmithv
ana assistance tor tne railroad3 and
attempting to show him the injustice
of the demands of the workers for an
eight-hour day. Mr.' Cottrell's reply
ionows:
"Kent. Wasik. March 12. TDK
"To the Executive Committee of the
Association of Western Railways
"Gentlemen:
"In reply to your circular letter (a
perusal ot whicti leads me to benev
that you seek sympathy from farm.
ers in your adjustment of wages with
your employes j sent to me, 1 pre
sume, because of the fact that I fol
low fanning as an occupation, I beg
to state that if your committ2e
imagines it will strengthen its cause
oy appealing to flhat class of people
(the American farmer) who have felt
the oppression of excessive freight
rates for the past 20 years, they will
be somewhat surprised to learn that
the farmer of today is not permitting
himself to be used as a cat's-paw to
ull dhestnuts from any corporation
fire.
"I note m your circular letter that
you very neatly sidestep the real
cause why your employes are de
manding an increase in salary, but.
elaborate upon the new inventions
added to your equipment which makes
the occupation less hazardous than in
former years.
"In addiiic- vour automatic couplers
and other labor-saving devices, lave
you thought tthat by so doing you
deprived certain former employes of
the right to sell the only commodity
they have to sell labor? Have you
considered that your present employe
pays a certain per cent taxes towards
Uhie maintenance of this unemployed
brother? Did you say that he could
take up land and become a farmer?
Perhaps that would be feasible if you
would assist in eliminating the waste
between himself as a producer and
the consumer, but at present any
railroad man on the continent would
starve as a farmer.
"If I have been correctly informed,
it takes combustible mnterial, proper
ly placed, to make the various parts
of your iron monsters do tihe bidding
of man and transport the farmers'
crops to market at a price sufficiently
large to guarantee a certain per cent
to your bona-fide stockholders and
large enough to pay dividends on the
watered stock. The only added cost
to you from former years is the in
creased cost of labor to produce, as
you own your own mines of fuel.
"Has it occurred to you gentlemen
that it takes combustible material
properly placed to cause the human
machinery to move and do your bid
ding? Your employe does not own
his mine, but must purclhase in the
open market at a price from 50 to 200
per cent in excess of what he had to
pay 20 years ago? Do you know that
$1 today will possibly purchase the
same article that cost SO cents 20
years ago?
"No, Mr. Railroad Owner, instead
of using such methods to keep your
employes down" to the lowest level,
you should seek the cause of this high
cost of his living. Open up your
closet door and there you will find
the skeleton of high freight rates be
tween producer nd consumer. Go
farther or. and upon opening other
doors you will find other -skeletons
that will explain to you why vour
employes ask for on advji.ee in
wages. You hove ono of the st-ong-est
organizations on earth. Why an
tagonize your employe because He has
seen fit to follow the example, you
hare set him? j Rather seek co-oper
ation."' '--L ' . .: u.vjr;,
Exclusive La Grande Agents,
t
tf take pleasure in informin&r you Ian itom this venr of mvrrrssirft loo-.
ii. i ii e tir i , .1 r es o
laTi 1 wa?mngtou state islation in a few states, notably New
harmony with organized laiuoi.
(.rood luck to your employes.
"Yours truly,
(Signed) "C. R. COTTrtKLL,
"Farmer.
PRICE OP GAS TO DROP
Overproduction of Oil Is Forecast By
iv i messes
Washington, July 1, In the easo
line hearing before the Federal Trade
Commission it was predicted that the
price of gasoline is destined to drop
soon because of the recent discovery of
oil f icdls which, it was contended, will
produce an overproduction. It was
brought out that the price at the Kan
sas refineries had already, within the
last few weeks, fallen from 21 cents
to 17 1-4.
The witness who startled the com
mission with these statements was T.
J. James, secretary of the Association
of Refiners of Kansas and Oklahoma.
A large part of today's testimony had
to do with the system of bookkeeping
by which the volume of crude and
refined oil and the gasoline supply in
sight were determined.
Mr. James explained that the drop
in the price of crude oil, owing to the
uncovering of oil fields in Kansas, had
not yet had time to be reflected in the
prices of the jobber and retailer. He
said the fall in the price must event
ually take place.
PRISON REFORMS ENACTED
New York and Virginia Pass Progres
sive Legislation
Now York, June 20. The reform of
prison and. charitable institutions was
York. The way was paved for the
practical abolition of the antiquated
and unsanitary Sing Sing prison, and.
the cell block system of prison con
struction, and the building of a new
$2,000,000 prison along modern lines,,
remodeling Sing Sing for use merely
as a receiving and distributing center.
The New York- legislature also
adopted a plan under which long-term
prisoners by faithful performance of ,'
their work and good behavior may
earn a commutation amounting to one--
fourth of their minimum sentences.
Virginia took its first step toward
abolishing convict labor by repealing"
an act which permitted contracts to be
made for the employment of prisoners..
A law was also passed increasing the 1
good-behavior allowance of prisoners
Another new Virginia law provides for
the segregation of the feeble-minded.
Singing Evangelist Found Dead
Hillsboro. Or- Julv 10. Geonre A.
Webb, of this city ,was found dead
at his residence yesterday afternoon,
having apparently died from apo
plexy about two days before. He
leaves a wife, who was absent visit
ing relatives in Baker county. De-'
ceased was born in Illlnoois about 6i
years ago and he and his wife were
professional singing evangelistts and
both have traveled quite extensively
over the country holding meetings
for the Christian church, of which
they were members. They , have re
sided here about 10 years.., Funeral
arrangements will not be made until,
Mrs. Webb's return.. - 1
Eastern Ftevarfe.
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