La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, October 17, 1916, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Textt TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1916. PAGE FOUR LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER THE OBSERVER, CLARKE LEITER, Editor and Pub lisher: J. D. MEYERS and H. B. LEITER, Owners. Entered in the Postofflca at La Grande, Oregon, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ; By Carrier. Daily, single copy 6c Daily, per week 16c Daily, per month 66c Daily, per six months in advance $3.60 Daily, per year in advance . . . $7.00 By Mail , Daily, by mail per year, in ad vance $4.00 Weekly ObserveriStar, per year in advance $1.60 Advertising rates on application. All copy for display advertising must reach the office the day before the ad appears. CITY'S DUTY TO FARMER By David F. Houston, Secre tary of Agriculture, who urges Businessmen to Coope v rate in Promoting Rural ' ' Prosperity. Address all communications to THE OBSERVER. 1710 Sixth Street TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1916. A FEW, WORDS ON t A GRANDE. La Grande is a fine place to be in. It is busy, its spirit is cheerful and optimistic. Th climato is healthful, the air invigorating, the days bright and sunny. The people are cordial and hospitable, active in many kind of social and civic endeavor. Given pleasant surroundings and plenty of work to do, what more can any man want? VOTE NO. should The single tax amendment be defeated because: It confiscates titles to all lands. It makes all home owners tenants of the state. Who wants the state for a land- jora i UNLOAD CARS PROMPTLY. The west has a car shortage. It is getting worse. The cause is largely the movement of grain east by rail and congestion of traffic in eastern terminals. Local, shippers can help the local situation by unloading cars promptly. GET OUR SHARE. The county judge and county com missioners of Union county are to be commended for their promptness in applying for a part of the Federal aniwftnpliitinTin fnv rrnnA ."An A a Within the next ten year the Fed- minion'ai with 4,500 teacners, a r Article VII (Final Article) What One Business Man Accomplished. "Let mo give an illustration of what I have in mind. 'I shall give only one of many. It may servo to indicate whit the urban community, what business men, may do almost any where in the Union. Thirty years ago I knew well n certain county in the South. I recall vividly the con ditions then existing. The farming was neither better nor worse than that in the section generally. The better farmers were fairly comfort ably off. Those below them were holding their own. Those still lower down were livhig from hand to mouth, their farming scarcely more than a pretense. There was a busi ness man, a banker, in the county who had vision and sympathy. He turned his attention to the rural dis tricts. He began to ste what could be done about cotton. He established connection with the department of agriculture and entered upon the work of cotton breeding. After a lone and difficult experience he suc ceeded in breeding a sjed that would produce an inch-and-a-quarter staple. The next task was to get enough, farmers to produce the cotton and to create and to establish a local market. But this was not all. The cotton had to ibe properly ginned. It was a new sort of product, and the spinners had to be reached. Intelligence and per sistence won. I was in that county a year ago. I found it a sort of oasis. When cotton wan selling at 12 cents a pound in all the rest of the South, 90 per cent of all the cotton in that great county was selling at from 19 to 20 cents a pound. Another busi ness man had attacked the problem of corn production and had won his right. .These two men rebuilt their county agriculturally and incidentally made their towns. The farmers were assist ed in solving not only their marketing robloms but their rural-credit prob- ems as well. Outlook Bright "I am optimistic about the future of American agriculture We still have vast resources. Our farmers are the moBt alert and capable in the world. They do not produce more per 1 acre than any other farmers in the 1 world it would be foolish for them . to undertake to do so but they do ', produce from two to six times more : per man, per unit of labor and cap- j ital. They use moro and better ma-; chinery. They have the assistance of j more powerful practical and scien-1 tific agencies. No other three nations j in the world combined have as power-1 ful forces aiding the farmers as this Nation has. The land-grant colleges and. experiment stations are without parallel. They are 07 in number, nave a total valuation of endowment, ' plant, and equipment or 128 million rest ' wwiiMPiiiiisMiwiyii Miw i m i hi ! Mil ii i iiaii i i ! mimiiiim lmiim i i n wyiBiuiaiii.i ntih H nmni m mm in 1 1 m i irmrr m m . . eral government will spend $85,000,- dont student body of over 60,000, and 00 for roads. Ten millions will be a vast number receiving extension in pent on roads in national forests. struction. Their great ally, the de- Oregon will receive $1,180,000 from prBcTi. Tnd the $75,000,000 appropriation and ap proximately $1,000,000 from the for estry appropriation. For 1917 Ore gon will receive $78,687 from the agri cultural department appropriation ana frn;itn irom tno Jorestry ap propriation, a total of $206,481. The plans of the state for road uilding must be approved by the de partment of agriculture and forestry service. Outsido of the forestry ap propriation, the state will pay half tke cost and the Federal government ne half. Roads from industrial or narket sections to thickly populated sections will be aided. Eastern Oregon, under this scheme, will be entitled to aid on a state high way connecting up with the Colum bia River highway and for aid in im proving roads that pass through na tional forests. 1 In their efforts to secure a share of public money for roads in this section he officials of Union county nre en titled to hearty support. Gordon Hats' Stetson Hats scientific agricultural organization in the world, with a total annual budget of $30,129,000, having increased in three years by 50 per cent. It has a stafT of moro than KJ.OOO people, many of them highly trained experts, and all of them of consequence, with throe exceptions, in the classified ser vice. The farmers have the benefit now of a number of long-needed and highly beneficent legislative enact ments. The Nation is committed to an expenditure of millions. for the di rect education of the farmers, and of $160,000,000 from Federal and State n nerio.1 of five years, with many ad- strhtest degree apprehensive about ditional millions annually arising ! tlle ?"tur ""d one does not compli from local sources. C.reot numbers of I mont. 1 intelligence of the Ameri farmwn and of farmers' organizations I cun larmor wno attempts to alarm are alert, intelligent, and acting vig- Copyrilii Hvt Schaffner& Man When you come to this - for the first time store You'll be received as a new friend. , You'll find a spirit that will make you like us; whether you buy or not. 1 ' -'-'y- - ' You'll meet expert salesman ready to help you and give you what you want not what they want to sell you. You'll find Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes the finest made. You'll see the famous Varsity Fifty Five suits and the Varsity Six Hundred overcoats. It wont take you long to appreciate the advantages you get by dealing with this store. Your complete confidence, is more valuable5 to us than any money you might spend for merchandise. ma wrMirw priori Manhattan Shirts Interwoven Socks orously for the betterment of the life of the Nation. No other people have ; such enormous expenditures for gen eral education. Other countries are , depending upon us more and moro for foodstuffs, and ii) the years to come Europe in particular is likely to ask our service. There never has been any real substantial rompetion with i the American farmer, it is not thrent I nning today, and I am not in the him. My plea is that business men enlist for more active duty in the struggle for rural improvement. The call for unselfish service is insistent and I urn confident it will not fall up on deaf ears." loggers Consider Prohibition. Flotsam and Jetsam A "NEST EGG" Misfortune is liable to overtake you ' in money matters. Then it is that a good sized "Nest Kgg" in the Bank comes in "powerful handy." Over and over again have we seen comforting relief come to those who had accumulated a fund in this bank. If you haven't started an account, now is the time to do it. In seasons of prosperity, place a part of your income in our bank. Some day this fund may carry you over a rough and rocky road. .a CJrande National ank Capital and Surplus $250,000 Deposit $1,000,000 Portland, Ore., Oct. 17. (Special) What about prohibition? Has it helped you as an employer? lias it helped your men? These, with other m I questions of human bettermtnt, will ne uie cniei topics ctiscu.-iseci on the J j program of the Fifth Loggers' Wel 1 1 fare dinner, to be held Thursday, 0:15 J I p. m October 20th, at the Pacific ; j lagging Congress, Portland, Ore, i,Oet. 20-28. 1 Human betterment in the lumber I ; camps and mills of the northwest will J : be the general theme of the dinner. Other subjects discussed will be ; t- ports from employers w'.o have p'-o-ijvidcd Employes' clubs, Modern Camp ! Buildings or Industrial Y. M. C. A. nutiiiings lor tno use or tieir em i ployes and families. Sever.,! .-tire- taries in charge of Y. M. C. A. J ; branches in the camps will b; present 1 1 and toll of the progress of their work. A. V. Laird, vice president of the I j Logging congress, will be chairman, l .I. 1). Young of the Ii.nwn-Foulsen J lagging Co., will open tn.i discussion 1,011 prohibition and J. S O'fiormnn of rue i omnium Loggers ns?o?Mtioii, will act as ollicial timekeeper and see that the speeches do not exceed 10 minutes each. A committee, with rtpi ?jnla.ives from the five northwest states and British Columbia, has Lcen appointed and a large attendance is expected. Folks Need A Lot Of Loving Folks need a lot of loving in the morn ing; The day is all before, with cares be set The cares we know, and those that give no warning; For love is (iod's own antidote for , fret. Folks need a heap of loving at the noontime The battle lull, the moment snatch ed from strife Halfway between waking and croon- time. While biekeritig and worriment are rife. Folks hunger so for loving at the nighttime , When wearily they take them home to rest At slumber-song and turning-out-the-light time Of all the times for loving, that's the best! Folks want a lot of loving every min ute The sympnty of others and their smile! Till life's end, from the moment they begin it, Folks need a lot of loving all the while. The Omaha Excelsior. The Third Degree, famous police captain who was stupid but brave, ignorant but will ing to learn, once had a suspect in the "third degree room," endeavoring to find out who were his accomplices- "Vere ver you last night?" asked the captain. , "In the back of Blank's saloon." ' "Vot Ver you doing?" "I was playing solitaire," answeredl tho suspect. "Ach! Now I have you," shouted th officer, "who was you playing solit aire with?" The Joseph P. Price School of Vo cal Music announces its opening i its studio, over Young's Confectionery Store, Adams Avenue. Mr. Price is a pupil of Madam Bope, New York, and also of Miss Florence Jeppcrson of Boston. He is conduc tor of the Y. M. C. A. male chorus and also of the L. D. S. Tabernacle choir. Congregational Meeting Called. i j J There will be a meeting of the con l i gregation of the Lutheran church at the church on M avenue Wednesday evening of this week at 7:30. Rev. Theo. Sc-hoenbcrg, field missionary, I .... n . , .. t ., .1 ,a . I. a nn :M m Will in' ,IVIVllt CIIIU IV II. IV I'C fill mi- I portnnt session generally. All mem- WE CAN SUPPLY YOUR WANTS IN STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. GUARANTEEING PROMPT ATTENTION TO ALL ORDERS THANKS FOR YOUR LIBERAL PATRONAGE Mammoth Grocery 1211 Adams Ave. PHONE MAIN 82