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"WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1916.. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER tAGE FOUR THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner. Entered in the Posloftice at La Grande, Oregon, as second class matter. , SUBSCRIPTION KATES. Daily, single copy 6c Daily, per week 15c Daily, per month - 65c Daily, per six mentis in advance ?d.5U Daily, per year in advance . . . $7.00 Daily, by mail per year, in ad- vance 00 Weekly Observer-Star, per year , in advance $1.50 Advertising rates on application. All copy for display advertising must . reach the office the day before the 'ad appears. . Address all communications to THE OBSERVES. 1710 Sixth Street. THE THREE DARK DREADS OF HISTORY. The human race has had three great plagues to contend with at one or another time in its history the plague of hunger, tho plague of dis ease, the plague of war. Famine, Pestilence and War lave been the three dark sisters that have over shadowed human life for great per iods together. Two of these have been conquered. The organization of commerce, the multiplication of means of communi cation, and the stimulation of feeling of physical brotherhood amongst all peoples, has made of famine on any large scale a very remote possibility. Pestilence in all its4 more raging forms, even those forms which still remain in barbarous countries, has been effectually conquered by medi , cal science. An instance of this was . seen in the recent outbreak in China, whore a very obscure and little known but particularly virulent contagion, was quickly curbed and controlled by medical scientists contributed from all the civilized countries. Pestilence has lost its old time power of terror and death.') Even where specific cures are unknown, impenetrable sanitary bar riers may be raised, and powerful preventatives brought into play. There "is this to note about the plagues of famine and pestilence; they did not come by man's will. He found them lying in wait for him. Man had no voice in the coming of Hunger, nor did he declare in council that a state of Disease should eist. Of the plague of War, however, it must be noted that it comes exclusive ly by man's will. It exists because' he declares it. It comes only at his bidding. It does not fall by an acci dent to crops or a failure of nature as Famine used to do. It does not come on the wind, nor breathe out of the miasmatic marshes, as Pestilence used to do. It comes expressly . to man's counsel and will. If man has succeeded in conquer ing the other plagues which he did not will to exist, why should it be thought impossible for him to conquer this plague War, which has no exist ence outside of his own -will ? If he wills the destruction of War, as he willed the destruction of Famine and Pestilence, is it not resaonable to ex pect that he will conquer this as he did the others? The present war has done more than anything else could have done to teach this generation how fully in control of its mundane destiny it is. The power that declares and sustains war is the will of the people. No matter how refined that will may have become in various official channels, it is essentially the will of the people tltW Mim& through all phases of war. If, then, , that will could be swerved to peace, if that will could be educated to the advantages of peace, how could war possibly continue? It simply could not continue. Here then is the germinal fact of all pacifist philosophy: War exists because of the will of the people; if it disappears, it must be the people's will that banishes it. -t The next great plague of the na-. tions to drop back into history as a black and hateful memory, is the plague of War. , ' PROSPERITY AND EDUCATION. BANKING YOUR MONEY IS ONLY GOOD ARITHMETIC CARRY YOUR MONEY IN YOUR POCKET; YOU SPEND IT, YOU SUBSTRACT FROM WHAT YOU HAVE. PUT YOUR MONEY IN OUR BANK( YOU SAVE IT, YOU ADD TO WHAT YOU HAVE. ,THE CAREFUL MANIALW AYS." ADDS TO" WHAT HE HAS. BANK.WITH US WE IPAY H PER CENTilNTEREST 6V2 Money for Improved Farm Loans La Grande National Bank LA GRAWDE, OREGON Capital 1200,000.00, 8urplus $60,000.00, Resources $1,000,000.00 rred J. Holmes, President; C. C. Penington, Vic Presidents F. L. Meyers, Cashier; E. Zundel and H. E. Coolidge, Assistant Caahlsrs. DIRECTORS Fred J. Holmes, J. G. Snod grass, J. F. Conley, C. C Penlnerton, H. . Brown ton, F. L. Meyers, A. BJokland, A. T. HiH, H. E. Ooolttf. w HY? We Consider Your Success Paramount to Our Own Because ov.- succors depends on the development of the communities served by us and the prosperity of their inhabitants. We have made large investments for your convenience and comfort, in property which cannot be moved to some other locality if our buainem does not prosper as can yours There fore not only from public spiritedneas but from business interests we wish to cooperate with you in anything tending to further the welfare of the community. No proposition is too small to receive our cheerful and thorough consideration and active encouragement Eastern Oregon Light & Power Co. Always at Your Service Telephone Main 34 Will education survive prosperity? Docs knowledge pay? One must have considerable schooling to be a book; keeper, yet a bookkeeper gets no more pay than a bricklayer, and of ten considerably less. A college pre-ec.-or at $3,500 a year is net mak'ng as much money as many a worker in a munitions factory; and who will deny that he is a hundred times more useful to the community and to the world ? Yet the college professor has spent a score of years in preparation for his career, while a twelfthmonth ago the munitions worker was cutting hair in a barber shop. One reads of "W. J. Conners, managing directori" of a steamship line, who first attained prominence as "Fingy" Conners, the toughest youngster on the Buffalo docks. "Fingy's" boast was that he didn't need education; he could hire educated men for $25 a week. When the uneducated ride in auto mobiles, while school teachers with a college degree r two have to pinch and scrape to keep themsleves and their dependents alive, what encour agement is there to amass learning? One beholds a picture wherein one man is studying a textbook, while an other is reading the sport page of a newspaper. "Which will succeed?" asks the advertisement. The one who reads the baseball news, of course. But on, the author of the ad seems to believe that it will be the studious one. And he is right. There is more to success than money. The scrimping teacher is getting more out of life than the know-nothing whose pleas ures are limited to eating, drinking and driving a car. The uneducated man who "succeeds" usually insists that his children go to college. Pros perity for the country means greater prosperity for the schools of frttie country. The greater our wealth, the more we feel the need of education. I MAKING THE BEST OF IT. , An American consul in the far east, who is acting for Germany and Aus tria while the war continues, reports an interesting fact. He says that' he receives occasional requests from prisoners qf the central allies in Si beria for reading matter? And though they speak and read German, they do not want German books. They want first of all, works in English; if these are unavailable, then works in French. There are two reasons for this re quest. One is that a German book would be read in a few hours, while it takes hard study and consumes a great deal of heavy time to wade through a work in an unfamiliar language and the prisoners have plenty of time to kill. The other ex planation offered is that the soldiers feel that they may as well be learning a new language. This is a typical illustration of Teu tonic efficiency directed into a proper channel. What other nation produces soldiers who would make such a re quest ? The iMothers All night the feeble plaint had never ceased, The tiny clutching hands had found no rest. Till wan and gray the slowly-paling east Touched dim the baby face upon my i reuse. .111 - i , ...... . . t in-nr uou, i saia, -on, teacn me how to pray! Through easy paths my faith has loitered slow; No words have I, I know not what to say, Save this alone O God, I love him so!' A hand was sudden laid upon my hand; A woman's eyes looked pitying at me; A gray-haired form stood close "I understand. I was a mother, too, in Galilee. "Across the sunny Galilean sea I heard the rumored power of Jesus' name, I laid my dying child upon "his knee I trusted him same?'' JL JL j 4 Pit. A A W TV canst thou not do the The whisper ceased, and through the blinds nstart The first soft rays of morning sun light crept. t Wurm-brcathing. gathered close against my heart, My child stretched drowsy limbs, and smiling, slept. Martha Haskell Clark, in The Chris tian Herald. of "Seigen Made Goats and Suits for Women-j& Misses a ; : r ARCADE THEATRE all This Week See this interesting moving picture style show, showing the newest modes in Women's and MissesV "Seigel" made Suits and Coats as x worn in New York. It's & treat you'll enjoy besides, the many style pointers you will be able to secure, regarding "what's what' in the newest Coats and Suits. "Seigel" Made Garments Are Always Just a Little in Advance! That is one reason for the popularity of these Suits and Coats. And the tailoring that is superb as only man tailored garments are. As for the materials only the best that can be obtained are used wheth er it be cloth, silk, buttons, trimmings, etc. That is Avhy the real "Seigel" Apparel is so smart. "SeigeF Apparel Sold Exclusively in La Grande at ii1. rTBWimirr,,jW GOOD ADVICE. , ' A La Grande Citizen Gives Informa tion of Priceless Value. When vnu RllffAr frnm VinVmin Headaches, dizziness, nervousness, . Feel weak, languid, depressed, 1 Have annoying urinary disorders; I Do you know what to do? Some La Grande people do. 1 Read the statement that follows. Ift.'K fmm a l a CZ-mnAa oifiviin - I Testimony that can be investigated. Mrs. J. Filener, 3103 N. Fourth St., La Grande, says: "I was subject to severe. It required 'only one box of jjean s ruaney nils to maKe my oacK feel as strong as ever. Since finding disorders, I have taken a few doses wnenever i nave noucea any trouDie and they have always given great sat isfaction." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't sim ply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mrs. Filener had. Foster-MUburn Co. Props., Buffalo, N. Y. Adv. fflii! I SI lllll 1 1 !!iSi III 1 S 1 Money to Loan Have $50,000.00 7 per cent in amounts from $ 2500.00 up, to loan on Grande Runde Valley Farina, Have (50,000.00 8 per cent in amounts from $1000.00 up, to loan on farms in Union County. $ 250.00 10 Per Cent I 600.00 10 Ptr Cent $ 700.00 10 Per Cent $1,500.00 8 Per Cent To loan on Improved City Prop erty. Also an unlimited amount of capital to loar. on La Grande property on monthly repayment plan Building loans a spe-, cialty. W. B. SARGENT. President LA GRANDE INVESTMENT COMPANY LA GRANDE, ORE. A New and Stylish Stetson that Men Like Immensely HERE is one of the most beautiful hats we have ever shown it's the feature hat from the superb line of Fall Stetsons. A remarkably graceful and dressy hat. with just the touch of smartness that all like to see in these young feeling days. One thing that surprises us its becom ingness to such a large number of men. The cue for men this season is to wear better quality in their hats and wc are proud of our Stetsons, every one of them. You will want one of the Stetson Comfort Derbies too, to alternate with your soft hat. la J 1,14 mmmm gren - - TT A Tm r HOITIG Of HART SCHAFFNER & MARX Clothes
