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.