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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1916)
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1916. LA GRANDE LVENING OBSERVER PAGE THREE OF INTEREST TO WOMEN Tested Recipes Flower Salad Cut the whites of hard-boiled eggs into pointed, petal like strips. Lay aside two whole yolks, mashing the rest. Mix the mayonnaise and fill the calyx of the arranged petals with the mixture. Put the remaining yolks through a fine sieve or ricer, dropping over the petals to give tho appearance of pol len. Cut lettuce leaves In fine points to simulate outer green. Serve if possible on a low glass dish or small individual dishes to represent water. Pot-Cheese Pastry One-half pound or two cupfuls flour, one-half LADIES' SAMPLE SHOES Newest Styles Every kind of shoes sold for women's wear is here at the price you want to pay and whether you choose to pay $1.95, $2.45, $2.95, $3.45, $3.85 Your price value per dollar will go the limit here. Xmas Slippers for Men, Women and Children Boys' High Top Shoes $2.45, $2.95, $3.25 THE HUB w Rugs Rugs Rugs Our Factory Representative, With the Finest Line of French Wilton Rugs Famous Herati Line AND MANY OTHERS Will be here this week. If you are in the market for any special size or colorings, call us up and we will arrange to show you this entire line. SPRING LINE DIRECT FROM THE FACTORY W. H. BOHNENKAMP CO. Rug Department IfloD. rt crip Front SOLID COMFORT Standing, Sitting or Lying Down Wfcea you stop to think that you spend between five and six thousand hours every year in your corset, you must realize how importan, it is that you have a perfectly comfortable corset. A poorly fitting corset frequently leads t severe nervous and organic troubles which cause years of suffering, i In the MODART Corset we have a garment that always gives genuine comfort, sitting, standing or lying down. PAULINE LEDERLE, pound or ona cupful butter, ono-hnlf pound or one cupful pot cheese. Cream the three ingredients together until thoroughly blended bo that a moist dough is formed. Chill over night Roll out the next morning, cut into squares, and All with any desired nlipArl. sweetened fruit, as annles. strawberries. rasiberries, peaches, apricots, etc. Bake in a hot oven. Wlien Cream Is Spilled. On the farm where there is a quan tity of milk and cream handled, there is occasionally an accident and cream is spilled, and any busy woman who htis had to clean up the mess knows the difficulties of trying to scrape or soak up the cream. If it is well cov ered with bran, the difficulty is solved. The bran soaks up the cream, and can then be swept up and fed to tho pigs, and the floor is easily washed. Lowest Prices Corsets Laced Sommer Hotel Bldg. NEW POLICY NEEDED IN GOVERNMENT RAILWAY CONTROL Halpf ulness and EncouragamBnt Urged by Alfred P. Thorn. CREDIT MUST BE IMPROVED Inorcat of Transportation Faoilittaa Nctary to Soour Raliof From Hifl.i Cost of Living May Thus B Provided For by ths Railroads. Washington, Nov. 28. A new polley of government railroad regulation, based on constructive principles of helpfulness and encouragement Instead of upon principles of repression and punishment, was urged by Alfred P. Thorn, counsel for the Hallway Execu tives' Advisory Committee, the first witness on behalf of the rallronds be fore the N'cwlands Joint Committee on Interstate Commerce, which has Insti tuted a general Inquiry Into the prob lems of railroad regulation. "It is proposed by the Joint resolu tion of Congress." said Mr. Thorn, "to go Into a comprehensive study of the whnle subject of transportation, to make a now assessment, after 29 years of experiment, of its history. Its pres ent conditions and its future needs. The railroads accept tho view that reg ulation Is a' permanent and enduring part of government In America and that the first duty of the carriers Is to the public. That duty Is to afford reasonable facilities on reasonable terms ami at reasonable rates, and this must bo done before any private Inter ests can be considered" Certainty, Safety and Sufficiency. Mr. Tlioni contended that the real In terest of the public Is In being assured of certainty, safety and Niillkiency of transportation facilities, rather than In rates. The first consideration of the public Is to obtain transportation facili ties. What the cost. Is, Is in reality a second consideration, he said. Mr. Thom proposed an Increase of transportation facilities as a method of securing relief from tho high cost of living. "There have been less than 1.000 miles of new railroad construct ed In the United States during tho past year," he said, "less than In any year since 1848, except the period of the Civil Wnr, and yet the cost of living Is dally advuncing owing to a shortage of supplies whlob might be remedied by securing access to new areas of pro duction. Credit Must Be Improved. "This leads to the consideration as to whether railroad credit Is as Rood as the public Interest requires. It is Im possible for railroads to earn enough to supply the necessary new facilities from current revenue. TJiey must be provided from credit. Investors can not be coerced, hut must be attracted." Among the conditions affecting rail road credit which deter investors he mentioned the following: "First, Railroad revenues are not controlled by Investors, but are fixed and limited by governmental authority and not by one but by several govern mental authorities, which do not recog nize responsibility for assured results to investors and are uncoordinated. "Second, Railroads cannot control and tho government cannot and does not limit the expense account "Third, The present system of regu lation Is based on a policy of regulation and correction and not on a policy of helpfulness and encouragement "Fourth, The outstanding obligations of the railroads huve already exceeded the financial rule of safety and Involve a disproportionate amount of obliga tions bearing fixed chnrges. "Fifth, The Investor must accept a subordinate obligation or security with no assurance of a surplus of earnings to support It. "Sixth, Other competitive lines of In vestment present superior attractions. "Seventh, The railroad business Is largely controlled by political Instead of business considerations. Look Forward, Not Back. "We may debate about what has caused the present conditions," said Mr. Thorn, "but we cannot debate about what the people need. The President has taken tho view that we must look forward In this matter and 'make a fresh assessment of circumstances' In order to deal helpfully and Intelligent ly with the problem. Abuses are no more prevalent In the railroad busi ness today than In any other business humanely conducted. The great ques tion now Is whether tho existing sys tem of regulation gives the public re liable assurance of sulncient present and future railroad facilities. "Those who oppose any change must make their appeal on the ground that the present systems assure the public of tho continued adequacy of trans portation facilities. If they do not, no argument based on the desirability of tho present una I system of regulation will be accepted by public Judgment Tho question of 'stales' rights' Is not Involved. If tho regulation of transpor tation facilities privately owned should fall government ownership must fol low, and then all power of the states over the railroads would disappear. "Let hs debate this question, then, not upon any mere theory or Jealousy as to the distribution of governmental power, ut upon the large Issue Of what tho public Interest requires In respect of the assurance of adequate transportation service." ' Otitcrhaus, Only Surviving Civil War Major General, Detained In Germany By Carl W. Ackerman (United Press Staff Correspondent Disburg, Germany, Nov., 10 (By Mail) In a little apartment on Hindeivburgstrasso today sits an old American general, who is waiting for the war to end so ho can return to the United States. This aged hero of Lincolin'a day is Major General Osterhaua, only sur viving Major Goneral of the Civil War, father Admiral Osterhaua of the U. S. Navy and Grandfather of Lieuten ant Osterhaus, U. S. N. Major Gen oral Osterhaus will soon be 95. Tho General, whoso hair and beard are creamy white, sat in his library reading war news when American newspaper men called today to pay their respects. He is vigorous and alert and appears still to be in his seventies. His joy at seeing Ameri cans was great and he beamed with happiness. Repeatedly ho asked that his greetings bo sent to America and to say that he , was "going back as soon as the war was ended." Major General Osterhaus discussed many phases of the war with the greatest zeal. He is a great admiicr of Field Marshall von Hindenburg and he believes the war would have been ended long ago if Hindenburg hud beer, made chief of the General Staff at the beginning. "Hindenburg is the greatest gener al the world has produced," he said. Ho would have defeated Napoleon the first day." Major General Osterhaus' library u lik? an old Civil War museum. One of his desks' I believe, was given to him by President Johnson. Ononis desk were autograph photos of Lin coln. Johnson and other American statesmen of the Civil War period. He has the keenest recollection of freouent meetings with Lincoln, and members of his cabinet. Johnson appointed him American consul at Havre, France after the Civil War. Before that he was the first governor general of Louisiana after the state was admitted to lie Union. Fashions By Margaret Mason Writen for the United Press The hand that rocked the cradle Now makes shells that rocks the world, For female fingers fashion Almost every bomb that's hurled; And maidens, wives and mothers All stand working, sun to sun, With bits of glittering metal That will kill men when their done, W.o knows, Oh Tommy Atkins, As you throw that hand grenade That your wife or sweet heart made. London, Nov. 1 (By Mail) Tho early Victorian females, most raise their lily hands from their' tatting end crewel work in horror as they look back across tho River Styx and see how the hands of their twentieth century female decendants are oc cupied. I am sure they don't consider it maidenly or ladylike and yet those stanch and willing women munition workers of today are doing cruel work too. Down at the Ibig arsenal at Wool wich, just thirty minutes from London by train, seventeen thousand women from sixteen to fifty years old at big machines are turning out with fleot and capable feminine fingers bits of glittering copper and aluminum and brass which, assembled into shelio, bombs, handgrenades, cartridges and all those deadly and frightful weapons of modern warfare are dubbed muni tions. Not only are the wives, mothers, sweethearts and sisters of Tommy Atkins, tho typical working women, employed at this new sort of fancy work but delicately reared and cul tured gentlewomen as well are eager ly and efficiently doing their bit. There is work for every grade and degree of age and mental and phy- rical developement. Tho pay for all is better too than the workers cangct in any other sort of a position. It averages from 3 to 5 pounds or $15 to $25 per week. One time comfortanie English households r.re plunged into chi'.os and gloom through the loss of their chambermaids, nursemaids and cooks who hear the siren cull of tho sliarpnel and tho shell. Mansions in Mayfuir and Park Lane, hovels in I Whitechapol and the East End dis- j gorge alike their bits of feminity into the insatiable maw of the government arsenals. Never have so many furcoats, never J has so much jewelry been sold in London as at the present moment j and the women munition workers are ; the busy little buyers. The first thing a poor little erstwhile factory slavey does when she draws her first prin- I cely (in proportion) pay check nt the, arsenal is to treat herself to all the j cheap jewelry her little starved fern- ! inine heart has craved her whole life long. She may top off with a warm coat of fur and after this reckless i spending orgy she is contented to settle down and save her salary with the exception of what she spends daily ! on real food. And my how she does eatl t There are canteens established at the different arsenals where the girls may get the most nourishing food for the cheapest rates. Four meals are served a day, breakfast, lunch a very high tea at a very low price, and din ner. There also are lodgings establish ed near the arsenals for all those women who wish to live close to their work. These are called hostels and furnish comfortable and sanitary rooms for modest sum. 1 At woolwich, under the wise and human jurisdiction of Miss Lillian Barker, the government lady super visor, the women workers are like one hugh family or a school for girls. All sorts of things are provided for their amusement and instruction in their recreation hours. There are dancing classes amaturo theatricals and ed ucational courses. So, although the work is strenous and the hours long, the effect on the women of this steady work, good pay, noursing food, clean lodging, fresh air sand above all, blessed spirit if inde pendence they have attained, is work ing miracles with English womankind. Thanks to their munition work they will 1)e fit physically, mentally and financially to take up the burdens of their poor maimed and broken men folks after the close of the war. ' Strango and yet fittingly simply isn't it, that these same deadly bits of metal shining beautifully golden m the sun should be bringing death and destruction and disfigurement to the one, health, prosperity and life to the other. Twenty four hours, day after day, night after night, the huge arsenals are busy turning out the munitions Your Opportunity, Mr. Merchant . Here Are Some Bargains Worth While A good selection of store fixtures and shop tools will be sacrificed this week regardless of cost or value. A fine lot of adjustable shelving. 1 track ladder, fits any shelving. Shop repair tools and accessories. 1 Remington Typewriter, good as new. 2 Glass showcases 2 ft. 3 in. by 5-foot long. 1 ceiling track rug rack with arms for 36 rugs. ' 3 sections, stand or wall carpet rack, 12 rolls. 1 wrapping counter paper roll rack and twine holders. 12 adjustable display couch racks. 1 double seated surrey, used only a short time. 1 Overland delivery truck, equipped with removable upholstered spring scats for passenger service. All are in good condition and at BARGAINS. TO THE PUBLIC All bills duo me must be paid at once.' Contracts not now due must be paid as they come due. Come into the office this week while the big sale is on and confirm your balance. All bills against me or members of my family must be presented at tjie office this week for payment. FOR RENT STORE ROOMS My entire store rooms and basements are for rent as one or sepa rate rooms. , F. D. HAISTEN By H. B. Haisten, Atty. in Fact Give Electrical Christmas Gifts They Are Beautiful And Practical A in 6: We have on hand a wide assortment of these and dozens of other devices. Sold On Easy Payments If Desired Eastern Oregon Light & Power Go. that spell troubb for the enemy. Since the days of Eve and Adam woman has been doubbed a trouble maker. Now she is glorying and be ing glorified in the role. As making munitions which is synonymous with making trouble, end is certainly mak ing good. Sorrow What a man is there who does not labor laboriously, though all uncon sciously, himself to fashion the sor row that is to be tho pivot of his life. Maeterlinck. - Sir Franceses Paolo Tosti, Italian composer and song writer died in Rome Monday. Wit and Humor Digging Potatoes "'Want a job diggin' potatoes Vr a farmer asked a farmer asked a tramp. " 'Yes,' the tramp answered, 'if ye mean diggin' 'em o' gravy'." ' Chance for Somebody. In time somo obscure American will gain world-wide notoriety by publicly confessing that ho does not know how to make peace in Europe. New York World. HOT WATER CUP pint or quart of hot water a few minutes at any time. RADIANT GRILL Can be used as a hot plate toaster or broil er. i RADIATOR Just the thin for small rooms and chilly corners. PERCOLATOR' Useful every, day in the vear.
