La Grande evening observer., September 21, 1916, Image 3

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1916.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
PAGE THREE
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Our Drug Store.
Jje knows.
THERE ARE TWO MEDICINES WHICH "LOOK" MUCH
ALIKE BUT "ACT" ENTIRELY DIFFERENTLY QUININE AND
STRYCHNINE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE THE MISTAKE
THE WRONG WAY?
EVERYTHING WHICH WE SEND OUT OF OUR DRUG STORE
IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS "LABELED." AVE CHECK UP THE
PRESCRIPTIONS WE FILL AND VERIFY EACH ONE.
WE ARE "CAREFUL" ALL THE WAY THROUGH IN OUR
STORE CAREFUL TO PUT THE RIGHT THINGS IN OUR
STOCK, CAREFUL TO SEND THINGS OUT. SO WHEN YOU
BUY FROM US YOU CAN "RELY ON WHAT YOU GET.
Levy - Vog'el Drug' Co.
PUBLIC PHONE AND RESTING ROOM
LECTURES OF
GREAT VALUE
J. G. SNODGRASS, PRESIDENT OF
COMMERCIAL CLUB INDORSES
THEM.
Head of Local Organization Addresses
Urgent Appeal to Merchants and
Clerks to Attend.
Voicing his complete confidence in
the series and urging upon every mer
chant to persuade his clerks to at
tend the lectures, J. G. Snodgrass,
president of the La Grande Commer
cial club, makes the following an
nouncement to the public:
"As president of the La Grande
Commercial club, I call to your atten
tion, and commend to your thought
ful consideration and that of your
salespeople the short course in sales
manship offered by the University of
Oregon, to begin at the rooms of tho
Y. M. C. A. on Monday, Sept. 25, and
continue, with five sessions each
week, for three weeks. This instruc
tion will be given by Professor G.
Robert McAuslan, the business expert
of the university, who came to them
last year with 27 years of department
store experience, ranging from junior
clerk to general manager.
"His work since coming to Oregon
has been exceptionally successful,
both at the University and at the
Meier & Frank company in Portland,
where he spent his summer vacation
period in teaching 200 of their sales
people. They were so much pleased
that they are very anxious to have
him return.
"Other cities in Oregon are also
asking for him and I feel that La
Grande is fortunate in securing his
services, and that every merchant and
salesperson in town will be greatly
benefited by attendance at every ses
sion of his classes.
(Signed) "J. G. SNODGRASS."
Glimpse Of 16th Century Civilizatien
El Paso, Texas, Sept., .One of
the pleasant surprises in store for
those who witness tho dedication by
President Wilson of the $10,000,000
Elephant Butte dam and who partici-
pate in the deliberations of the In
ternational Irrigation Congress or the
International Farm Congress and Soil
Products Exposition, all of which will
take place between Saturday Oct.,
14, and Tuesday, Oct. 24, next, will
be a trip into the romantic and mys
erious Mexico at least as far as the
street cars will take one into Juarez
El Paso's sister city on the south
bank of the Rio Gmnde.
El Paso is the largest city in t'.ie
United States from which a trip may
be made into a foreign country where
language, manners, customs, mi.de of
dress and styles in architecture are
so absolutely different from the A
merican conception of those details
of life as they are in Mexico, and the
trip be made at a cost of five cents
in money and fifteen minutes in time
if the tripper has no more time to
spare.
El Paso is probably the only point
in the world where a traveler may
pass in so short a time from the ci
vilization of the 20th century as ex
pressed from the modern American
city of El Paso to the civilization of
the 16th century as found in the city
of Juarez, the largest Mexican city
along the international line stretching
from the mouth of the Rio Grande on
the east to San Dieeo, Cal., on the
west, a distance of 2000 miles.
The traveler is not required to go
far into the interior of the country
which has been featured so liberally as
the hot box of revolution, by the news
papers of the world during the past
five or six years, to find men and wo
men living as they lived in Christ's
time.
The houses built of sun dried bricks
made of mud and straw, described
in the did Testament; the land being
cultivated by means of bundles of
brush drawn by oxen, the wooden
wheeled carts, the burden bearing bur
ros, the reaping of grain with sickles
and the threshing of it by running
herds of ponies over it on earthen
threshing floors all will remind read
ers of the Bible of the customs which
prevailed in the time of Moses and
others who wrote the sacred books.
The old Missions of California have
long been fabled in song and story,
yet there is a mission in Juarez and
another At Ysleta, Texas, a suburb of
El Paso, which were nearly 200 years
old before the foundations fpr the
first California Mission was laid. It
is true the architecture of the mis
sion of this section of the United
States is not as ornate as is that of
the California missions, so far as may
be judged from the (ruins, but it
marks the difference in temperament
between the Franciscan fathers who
passed this way in the train of the
early Spanish conquistadores and of
the Jesuit priests who traveled in the
wake of the later explorers who devot
ed themselves to the discovery and or
gaization of what is now known as
California.
The part the followers and succes
sors of Cortez, the conqueror of the
Montezumas, in the settlement and
development of what is now south
western United States will 'always
have an interest for even the most
casual reader of American history
and nowhere else can the evidences
of the endeavors of those pioneers of
the western world be studied at first
hand as they can at El Paso and its
immediate environs.
These little journeys, whether into
Mexico or up and down the Rio Grande
on the American side of the rive.
may be taken in perfect safety. While
there are in the neighborhood of 40,-
000 American troops stationed in hi
Paso and patrollin- the boundary line
and while the soldiers are much in evi
dence on El Paso's streets, the tide
of travel between El Paso and Juarez
is as high now as it was in the days
when Forfirio Diaz was at the helm
of the Mexican Ship of State and Mex
icans and Americans mingle in amity
as though their respective govern
ments were not at loggerheads.
During the time the irrigation and
farm congress is in session there will
be a series of military maneuvers at
El Paso in which the largest number
of troops, ever gotten together in the
United States will participate. Owing
to the absence of forests and the pe
culiar lay of the land the war game
which will be played on so grand a
scale may be witnessed from points
of vanta'ge which will accomodaTVe
hundreds of thousands of spectators
should it happen that there might be
that many to occupy them.
While the irrigation congress is in
session in El Paso, following the de
dication of the Elephant Butte dam by
President Wilson, the delegates to
the International Farm Congress will
be gathering to hold their annual con
vention as soon as the irrigationists
have concluded their councils.
In the meantime the doors of the
International Soil Products exposition
the largest agricultural fair to be held
in the United States this year, will be
open and will afford visitors an excel
lent opportunity to see what is being
done in the way of development along
all line of agricultural activity.
The United States department of
agriculture has agents already on the
ground preparing to install an exhibit
for which the national congress has
made an appropriation of $20,000. The
Canadian government will also make
an exhibit which will rank as one of
the best exhibits ever made by the
Dominion. Besides, twenty states of
the American Union which are classed
as agricultural states will make ex
hibits and to those will be added the
exhibits of countless counties of Texas
New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and
Southern Caluorniu.
The exhibits of dairy and beef cat
tle and hogs will be particularly good
as will be the exhibition of minerals
from the mining districts of which
El Paso is the center and chief city.
While El Paso is comparatively close
t the Tropic of Cancer it is not hot.
Its elevation of nearly 4,000 feet ab
ove the sea, coupled with its extreme
dryness and rarity of air and a lack
of rain fall and consequent lack of
humidity gives it a peculiarly delight
ful climate at all seasons of the year.
This may be of interest to many who
may have entertained a fear that be
cause of the city s proximity to tne
tropics its climate might not be desirable.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Oyster Month
(Girard in Philadalphia Ledger)
There are 70 kinds of oysters in the
world and all of them are good. So
far as the records go, the first man
who said oysters should only be eaten
in R months was Butter. In "Dyet's
Dry Dinner," which appeared a little
more than three centuries ago, it was
written:
"It is unreasonable and unwhole
some in all months that have not an R
in their name to cat an oyster." .
Bismarks was champion long-distance
oyster consumer. He ate six doz
en at a sitting. They began eating oys
ters long before the Christian Era,;
but Swift said, "He was a bold man,
that first ate an oyster." There are
enough oysters eaten each year
throughout the world to feed every
person in the United States 100. In
other words more than thirty million
bushels. Five out of every six oys
ters are American. The oyster is the
most valuable commercial product that
conies out of the sea. According to
Sheridan, he is a romantic cuss for
that celebrated wit said,"An oyster
may be crossed in love."
Loan Leeches
(From the Detroit News)
The suit of a loan company to re
cover from a laboring man $100 for
$50 originally advanced is a reminder
that a peculiarly offensive type of
parasite continues to thrive in tlvs
community, despite intermittent ef
forts towards its elimination.
The loan leech, fattening on the
misfortune of its victims is not quite
so worthy n figure as the pickpocket
since the pickpocket may occasional
ly rob someone who can stand the loss.
The loan leech bleeds only those who
are in desperate straits. No one else
falls into the creature's clutches.
In Chicago the courts are making a
systematic and determined fight on be
half of those who are harrassed by
loan companies. It would be well if all
local exploiters of the needy could be
compelled to bring their books into
court and show cause in making their
collections. Publicity and the law are
held up constantly by loan leeches as
clubs over their prey, and no one fears
publicity and law more than a loan
leech.
Log Cabin Of Lincoln
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger)
The log cabin where Lincoln was
born on the Big South Fork of Nolin
creek, three miles from Hodgcnville,
Ky., cost very little as compared with
the stately memorial temple enshrin
ing it that was consecrated to its ob
ject by President Wilson. But on the
logs with charcoal the boy Lincoln
once did his sums in arithmetic, and to
the loft at night, with pegs in the
wall for a ladder, he climbed to sleep,
and in the rafters, he thrust hi, lib
rary Aesop's Fables, Robinson Cru
soe Wecms' Life of Washington. Lin
coln once said that his education could
be summed up in Gray's line: "The
short and simple annals of the poor."
Other men have seen the light of day
through the chinks of a one-room
cabin and have worked barefoot a
field, and have risen on stepping
stones of penury and hunger. But Lin
coln all his lifetime remembered those
that were poor and acquainted with
grief, even as he. In the White House
he still dwelt as close to the soil as
when he trod the loam of Hardin
county and the firelight was his lamp.
Where The Niles Meet
At the junction of the White and
the Blue Niles, 1,400 miles from Alex
andria and 1,000 miles from Uganda
stands the capitol of Sudan, which
'but for the life and death of General
Gordon, might still be a struggling
Sudanese village. Khartum means ele
phant's truk, and may well be a long
strip of land which separates the tur
bid waters of the White Nile from the
clear and rapid streams that come
from the mountains of Abbysinia. Ac
ross the White Niles stretches thr
straggling, ancient dervish capita'
Omdurman, with a population of ove
60,000; and it is practically a part of
Khartum, as Brooklyn is of Greater
New York.
The quays, streets gardens and pub
lic buildings present the picture of a
civilized town as regular and a good
deal more ambitious than some metro
polis in the growing West. The maj
ority of the streets are wide, mac
adamized and lined with Heautiful
trees. There is an excellent system
of lighting and tram-cars that connect
Khartum with the suburbs, from Gor
don College on the east to Omdurman
on the west, as well as with North
Khartmun across the Blue Nile; and
sleeping cars, run twice a week from
Khartum to Cairo.
Progress in Baker.
(Baker Democrat.)
More Main street building improve
ments have been made in Baker this
year and more are in progress than
have been noted in ceveral years.
This is evidence that the business
of the city is expanding and that the
business community is keeping step
with the march of progress.
His Hand on the Pulse.
(Pittsburg G.jzot'e Times, Rep.)
"When you start out to be military,
be military and nr-t political." It was
Charles Evan3 Hughes speaking be
fore a.i audience in Oakland, Cal., on
Saturday Those who were willing
to traduce tho West in order to con
struct a case for the Democrats have
Baid that the West was for peace, cost
what it would, that Mr. Wilson's
strength there was that "he has kept
us out of war." Mr. Hughes has
found in his speaking tour through
the very country under discussion that
tho spirit of the West is for national
dignity and the maintenance of rights
it is for a military establishment
without looking to tho political main
chance. Former President Roosevelt's
quiet but powerful method of dealing
with Germany when the latter show
ed an intention of unpleasant aggres
siveness in South America is tho sort
of spirit admired by true Americans,
whether they be in tho East or West.
That situation brought us close to war
but there was no silly shifting of
ground, no endless sen?s of notes, no
lives lost. Mr. Roosevelt, by his firm
bearing and significant suggestions
as to our fleet, settled the question
involved and allowed Germany to pre
serve her dignity, losing none of his
own, and gaining prestige abroad and
at homo. The Westerners are learn
ing something about Republican ideas
as to preparedness end our interests
abroad, ideas which they find are more
acceptable than tho supine foreign
policy and juggling of defense mea
sures that have characterized the re
cent Administration. Mr. Hughes is
showing by his leferences to the mili
tary situation that he understands
what tho people want.
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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.
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