"WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1916..
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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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
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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.
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DIRECTORS
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We have made large investments for your convenience and
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fore not only from public spiritedneas but from business interests
we wish to cooperate with you in anything tending to further
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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.
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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?''
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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.
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Headaches, dizziness, nervousness, .
Feel weak, languid, depressed, 1
Have annoying urinary disorders; I
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Some La Grande people do. 1
Read the statement that follows.
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wnenever i nave noucea any trouDie
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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
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HERE is one of the most beautiful
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A remarkably graceful and dressy hat.
with just the touch of smartness that all
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One thing that surprises us its becom
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The cue for men this season is to wear
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