TUESDAY, AUGUST, 29, 1916.
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LA GRANDE .EVENING OBSERVER
THE SHEE- TALK-WAY I
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STATING IT IN .MILLIONS.
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And I sez, "Molly, by cracky, you get fixed to go to town.
I'm just achiri' fer to buy ye a grand new Shee-talk-way gown.
I've been selfish, I'll admit. I've a lot of things to rue. i
I have thot a heap of Henry and I ain't thot much fer you.
"But we'll take in this Shee-talk-way if the whole plantation skids.
It will make, this year worth living fer yerself and.fer the kids.,,, ,
I s'poso. there are spme things to do, but dero 'em,'le't 'em rest
Till we git the inspiration, then well tackle 'em with zest."
There are 38,500,000 men now un
der arms in Europe.
Over 3,000,000 men have been killed
in the last two years.
More than 4,800,000 are lying in
the prison camps of the nations.
An -additional 5,000,000 wounded
men are receiving attendance in the
war hospitals.
The cost of the war is reckoned at
$100,000,000 a day, which cost is
greatly increased by the new offensive
movement.
The cost of the war last year was
$30,000,000,000 (thirty billions of dol
lars) and the total cost to date in
money alone that is, in money ex
.pended is nearly $70,000,000,000
(seventy billions of dollars.) This
sum . represents borrowed money
mostlv. which must be naid batik bv
the people of the countries now at !win surprise a good many people. The
war- i committee discovered that the food
In Belgium there are 7,000,000 peo- .pply ' the country is growing fas
pie living on three slices of breai and lter than population. This is not
n enn of Rnnn n i wherein the astonishment lies how-
In Sdrbia there are 5,000,000 people
wholly destitute dying daily by the
We hev hed the circus fever, and the itch for county fairs.
We hev had the baseballitis and them one-horse Btreet affairs
That they call a grand carnival, we hev hed 'em all, by jing,
But there s nothin' stirred us home folks like this new Shee-talk-way thing.
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Ma's been savin' of the butter money since the news got to our place,
And the boys hev been affected by amazin' works of grace,
They are up without a callin' hustling off to feed the stock,
And they're puttin' all their coppers in an old gray woolen sock.
Mother sez to me this morning we wuz talkin' "bout the thing
"It's been thirty years this summer since I wore this weddin' ring,
I ain't asked fer much vacation, I've been happy tilin' long, ,
But I'm going to Shee-talk-way till I get plumb drunk with song.
"All my life I've been jist hungry for to hear home things like this.
Seems1 there ain't a thing that's com in' that I just can bear to miss, ,
I s'pose there are a lot of things I ought to do that week
But I want to hear them singers sing and hear them speakers speak."
Gosh, it seems that these old eyes of mine hev been almighty blind.
I ain't been no hard taskmaster, I hev wanted to be kind,
But a sort of irrinnv feelin' ketched my heart to beat the band
When I seen the calloused places on her quiverin,' wrinkled hand.
Then I thought about the mornin' when we left the parson's place
Comin' up here to my clearin' I kud see her smilin' face,
I kud hear her voice a singin sweetr'n a meadow lark,
'Nen I reached and tuk her hand in mine, jes like we used to spark.
Dog'-goned if she wuzn't crying, fussih' with her wedding' ring,"
As she says, "I've alius wanted just to hear somebody sing,'
Somebody tn eive expression to the music of my life
That's been humtnin1 thru my heart-strings ever since I've been your wife."
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Then I swallered hard and said I guess I'd better feed the stock,
I kud hear the birds a-singin' with the tickin' kitchen clock;
All around outdoors wuz sunshine, trouble all seemed gone and say,
We'll be like a pair of lovers goin' to that Shee-talk-way.
Tom Hendricks in Lyceum Magazine.
lever: it lies in the committee's state-
monf thnf thorn dm nAnnla wVin :Ka.
roadsides for want of food.
In Ppland 11,000,000 pciplo
homeless and 3,500,000 of them
' liove that we have reached the limit of
aro our ability to make production
are pace with population.
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We have been told, so often that
repetition becomes a bore, that our
literally starving. Over 200 Polish
cities have been utterly wine?! out.
pnd 15,000 villages ha.'e b :on da- farming system is wasteful, and will
strayed without a trace. In whole dis-I continue to be so until we study in
frjefs of hundreds of milos there can- tensive cultivation and realize the
not b found a child about 12 years ' value f fertilizers, This applies to
, pld, They liave succumbed to starve-1 grazing land-as well as to that devot
ion, . . ea to Tna raising or grain. w nave
Ja France 500,000 boy under 13 ,ven cont,nt t0 turn odr he8 ,00se
years of age have been called to the tn immense ra.ipei; but the t'me has
slaughter. ja'ived in man. states and is rapidly
And this is the year 1916 of the coming to ottnw, when grasses and
Christian Uo and all the great in- He are studleJ .for the production of
stigators of the war cail thomaolvoa cattle Just us oAey are In Europe. It
Christians is unreasonable to expect that the de
, The world has erected an altar to niand for food will not cause an in
Mars. The Cross has been superseded ! o' ase of intensive farming which will
by the dripping sword. Cat vary haa rexult in such increases of crips and
been veiled by Verdun. The hell of , animals that even tremendous grmth
theology is no longer reserved until f population will fail to overcome lb
after death; it has been established in ' The, Chamber of Commerce found
the crudle of civilization. j .hoi. while population increased 200
' per cent, the production of wheat in-
OUR INCREASING FOOD SUPPLY, creased 500 per cent; corn, 270 per
. Iconl; oats, 475 per cent; potatoes, 250
The recent report of the committee ,per cent; rice, 3,000 per cent.
on statistics and standards of the number of cattle, which
the number of hogs is also increasing.
The decrease in the cattle supply was
reflected in the price of beef. It is
natural to expect that high prices
will have their effect on the cattle
raising industry in encouraging the
development of better grazing lands
to replace the ranges where the food
supply is governed almost entirely by
the weather.
The fact that we export so much
food, even in years of world peace,
must have indicated to most thinking
people that the United States is in no
danger of 'becoming dependent on oth
er countries for sustenance. This for.
eign demand for our surplus also ac
counts for the fact that prices have
not fallen, In spite of the increased
supply. ,i , ;
New Styles and Colors in
SILK PETTICOATS
They have just arrived and their va
riety in style, color and price is inter
esting! Of taffeta, flounced and fulls
and ruffled to hold milady's skirt a
little fuller!
New shades of blue, wisteria, gait and
emerald green, reds, navy and black
manv changeant effects also are shown
to harmonize with the new costumes.
Priced at $3.75, $5.00 and $6.00
more agreeable to dwell on its de
velopment: as an. undersea transport,
a . suomersiole blockade - runner
through the use of which a nation at
wa. and with its ports, bottled up may
yet gain access .to neutral countries and
carry on a needful if restricted commerce.
Brooklyn Has Searchlight
New York, Aug. 29. E. A. Sperry,
Brooklyn business man, has just built
and put atop his building a search
light of 1 billion 280 milljon candle
power. It is 60 per cent stronger than
the navy searchlight tried out here
last May, which could be seen 35 miles
away.
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Wilson a superman; f. r.,.i
J CAESAR Or OLD.
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oc. l,ouis, Aug. zy. a race ot su
permen' ia coming. They will be the
product of the great American melt
ing pot and the plains of the Western
United States and of Australia. Theiv
religion will be the brotherhood of
man. Ihey will play 'hunches' on all
great decisions and will use their won
derful brains for following their
hunches' to the limit. Thev will have
The e transmigrated soul of the soldiers
United States Chamber of Commerce from 1907 to 1912, is now increasing;
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,i,w..nnc?ai Kniuu i" me ouronean war tne our-
cl vi Buuis, uccHuse iney are tnose 01
men who unselfishly have given their
This is the belief of Albei t P. War
rington, President of the American
section of the Theosaphist society,
here to speak before the national con
vention of the Thcosophists opening
Thursday at the. Planters hotel.
"The new race will express spirit
ual attainments just as the Mediter
ranean races expressed beauty in all
Hs forms and the Teutonic races ex
pressed scientific attainment.
"President Wilson is an excellent
example of the new race which even
now is being iborn in the United
States. iBut it will be much greater
then even that represented bv Presi
dent Wllnon."
Mr. Warrington also referred to
Col. Theodore Roosevelt as the rein
carnation of Caesar.
"Mr. Roosevelt is the same type of
man in me present age as was (Jaesar
during his time," he said. "He may
be the Caesor of old. It is highly
possible."
THE "FEDERA. RESERVE" SYSTEM OF BANKS, OF
WHICH OUR BANK IS A MEMBER, WAS THOUGHT OUT BY
THE BEST BRAINS IN THE BANKING AND BUSINESS WORLD.
THIS SYSTEM DEMANDS THAT A BANK BE SOUND BE
FORE IT CAN BECOME A MEMBER BANK.
WE CAN TAKE CARE OF YCUR BANKING BUSINESS, AND
SHALL BE GLAD TO HAVE YOU COME IN AND "MAKE YOUR
SELF AT HOME."
BANK WITH US
WE IPAY H PER CENT INTERESTS
6y2'IMoney forj lmproved FarmLoan;
WHAT OTHERS SAY
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La Grande National Bank
LA GRAWDE, OREGON
Capital 1200,000.00, Surplus $50,000.00, Resource 11,000,000.00
Tnd 3. Holm, President; C. C. Penington, Vice President; F. I
Merert, Cufcier; E. Zundel and H. E. Coolidge, Assistant Caehlert.
DIRECTORS
Trti J. Holme, J. G. Snodgrus, J. F. Conley, C C Penington, H.
B. Browptoo, F. L. Meyers, A. BlokUnd, A. T. Bill, B. G. Coolidge.
The Deutschland's Triumph
(New joik World, notoriously
ally)
The safe arrival of the Deutschland
at Bremen completes a voyage which
in novelty and in the conditions of
dnring and adventure involved, no less
than as a feat of brilliant seamanship,
is without a parallel in the history
of navigation. No wonder Germany is
delirious with joy at this triumph of
submarine transportation. It has
been one of the great naval sporting
events of the war, the challenge of a
fragile craft to the superior sea pow
er of the enemy, and the strategy with
which it was carried through may well
:i rouse the enthusiasm of friends and
foe alike.
Undoubtedly the return trip was
the vital test of the undertaking. For
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a sunniarine ireignxer 10 sup mroupn
the enemy sea-lines and cross the At
lantic in circumstances of more or less
mystery and doubt was one thing.
But to get safely home past watching
wnrrrnft. niwl phiHini the nets nml
traps of an enemy fully ndvised of its j
movements that wns the supreme'
trial, nnd the success with which it
was done is the crowning tribute to
the seamanship of Capt. Koenig and
his crew.
In the hands of the Germans the sub-1
marine has become equally an ob-'
ject of obloquy nnd of praise. It is
Coast Gets Business.
Oakland,-Aug. 28. Thanks to Eu
rope's warlords, the cream of the shiD
building business of the world is com
ing to the United States and Califor
nia is getting the creme de la creme.
In most instances, shipbuilders are
working clear around the clock, great
electric lighting systems being provid
ed for the night shifts. In order to
get the maximum of speed, the build
ers, in many cases, are divided with
the men the big bonuses given for the
completion of vessels before contract
time.
To determine the effect of the war,
tho Oakland Chamber of Commerce
has just completed a survey of the
shipbuilding business of that port.
Here is a part of what the investiga
tors found!
At the Union Iron Works (Charles
M. benwab concern) $30,000,000 worth
of work on hand; four 10,000 ton ves
sels for private account, two 9,500 ton
vessels tor tne Standard Oil company
one 9,750 ton steamship for the Mat
son Navigation company of San Fran-
cisco; one 9,300 ton steamship for F.
D. Strahan of Georgia; one 6,000 ton
steamship for C. H. Smith of San
Francisco; a number of oil tankers
from 70,000 to 90,000 barrels' capac
At Moore & Scott, one 10,000 ton
and two 7,300 ton steamships for Nor
wegian capitalists; several oil tankers.
IW. F. Stone, two 235-foot wooden
schooners with a lumber capacity of
1,500,000 feet; one for Sudden &
Christenson of San Francisco, the oth
er for the J. F. Hanify company of
San Francisco.
Union Iron Works officials attribute
their increase in business to the grant
ot a lease ot Alameda municipal wa
terfront land, which permits of build
ing six 10,000 ton vessels at the same
time. This plant is to be made the
biggest shipyard in America, plans be
ing under way for the construction of
two building berths for warships.
the boom is also due to the order
of Holland prohibiting exrtort of
Dutch ships. Advices to shipping cir
cles from Rotterdam quote A. Schip
pers, a leading Dutch shinning man.
as saying that "America was never
able to compete with Dutch shipbuild
ers, either before or thus far in the
war, until Holland was closed to the
export of ships for European firms."
Savoy Hotel Guests.
E. O. Heath, C. Gezel, W. E. Orr,
Portland; Mrs. A. C. Daily and fam
ily, Enterprise; James S. Hammond,
Echo; E. C. Hardesty and family,
Portland; M E. Gordon, La Grande;
Jno. Henderson, Garfield Thomas,
J. G. Kilpatrick, Portland; M. A. Mill,
J. E Twidwell.
The value-giving policy, which is the
biggest asset in this business, has never
been better shown than in our present
full stock of
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