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PAGE FOUR LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1917, You Who are Looking for Quality Merchandise at the Lowest Prices Should Supply Your Needs for Months to Come During This Big January Clearance Sale. Clearance Sale of Womens Suits and Coats Select your new Suit or Coat here at a wonderfully low price. ( The newest fctylw, latest fabrics, best tailoring, all sizes, your choice 'one-half price. " Dresses for Every Occasion Street, afternoon and evening wear. A great variety of styles and patterns. Your Choice One-Quarter Off. The Season's Newest Waists V L.-iwn, Silk, Georgette Crepe, Crepe de Chene. Colors -"White, Pink, Flesh, .Navy, (Jreen. Your Choice 1-4 Off. Our Great New Stocks of Men's Suits and Overcoats at Clearance Sale Prices ....! . $22.50 $20.65 $18.75 $16.90 ..... $15.00 $13.15 $11.25 .Ml ::o. All 27. .Ml 22. 00 Suits and Overcoats. "j0 Suits and Overcoats. 00 Suits and Overcoats. 50 Suits and Overcoats. 00 Suits and Overcoats. 50 Suits and Overcoats. 00 Suits and Overcoats. Sale Price Sale Price Sale Price Sale Price Sale Price All 20. All 17.50 Suits and Overcoats. Sale Price All ,15.00 Suits and Overcoats. Sale Price One lot Men's Overcoats, Sizes 34 to 38, values to 25.00. Your Choice $9.75 One lot Men's Suits, values to $25.00. Your Choice - $9.00 Your Choice of anv T'ovs' Suit or Overcoat at a Reduction of 25 Per Cent. Extensive Stocks at Sale Prices IJed Spreads Sheetings Sheets Pillow Cases Curtain Scrim Cretonnes Comforters Plankets Embroideries Laces Ginghams Percales Dress Goods Silks Velvets Outing Flannel Towelings Towels White floods Linens Ladi les an dMi isses Sport Shoes A Xew Shipment, just received Tan and Lla-k and Patent with white tops. Sale Price - $3.60, $4.05 Urol ecu sizes Misses' Shoes Tan, Plack. Your Choice $1.50 iim Metal Shoes, with heavy soles, lace and button. Just the shoe for snow and rain. Sale Price $3.15, $3.60 Entire Stock Ladies' and Misses' Shoes Reduced. Sheep-lined Coats, Vests 1-4 off Wool Work and Dress Pants ...1-4 off Mackinaws and Stag Shirts 1-4 oft Broken Lines Underwear 1-3 off Men's and Bovs' Sweaters, Re duced 25 per cent Fur-lined Caps Reduced 25 per cent k Stetson Hats Gordon Hats Trunks, Bags, Suit Cases Bargains in Every Department ed 25 per cent kI $2.49 SSI $1.98 Eyj ases Reduced Ctj Department WJ Read These Items Carefully Remember This Ad Only Gives You a Hint of the Many Bargains at This Store. THE OBSERVER An Independent Newspaper. north and south were being considered in England. President Lincoln wrote to Ambas- ' sudor Adams: "If the British government should Published Daily and Weekly at ! " "y way approach you, directly or Grande, Orgon, by the ; '"d""?; ,with PPs.honS that you t a x. ,rv,fx, o,,,, !are forbidden to debate, to hear or in LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PUBLISHING CO. any way receive on the subject of our I internal affairB, whether it seems to imply a purpose to dictate, or t mediate, or advise, or even to solicit, or to persuade, you will answer that you are forbidden to debate, to hear or I in any way receive, entertain or trans mit any communication of the kind. "If the British government, either ( alone or in combination with any other 1 government, shall acknowledge the in j surgonts . . . you will immediately , suspend the exercises of your fun;- On Sale in Other Citieo: Oreeon Hotel tion8 Wo approach the danger of J. D. MEYERS, President, II . LEITER, Vice President, CLARKE I LEITER, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Poatofflce at La Grande, Oregon, as second class , matter. AddresB all communications to THE OBSERVER. 1710 Sixth Street News Stand, Portland: Imperial Hotel News Stand, Portland. Telephone City Official Paper. Member Press Associations. United SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier. Daily, single copy 6c Daily, per week 16c Daily, per month C5c Daily, per six months in advance ?".50 Daily, per year in advance ... $7.00 By Mail Daily, by mail per year, In ad vance $4.00 Weekly Observer-Star, per year In advance $1.50 The Observer carrier boys are in structed to put the papers on the preh. If the carrier docs not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the Observer, as this is the nly way we can determine whether or not the carriers arc following in struction. Phone Main 37 before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be setit you by special messenger if the carrier has missed you. war with Great Britain and other states with a caution which great re luctance has inspired. But I trust Main 37 ! tnnt yu wi" n'so have perceived that the crisis has not appalled us." Those were the words of a brav; man battling for tho Union. Now the press of this country and the Allies are twisting these words into nn argument agninst, and using them as an answer to President Wil son's peace note. Such n course is silly. No one knows what Abraham Lincoln would do or say if he were in the presidential chair today. But it is certain he would suoak for humanity and would sturd ily defend American rights on land ' and sea, whether infringed by Ger-1 many or the Allies. But he would be a man of peace, even though thrice armed. President Wilson has a right to speak for peace since our welfare as a nation is involved. Whether we should entnnglo our selves in the European mess nnd join in n world-wide congress of nations in a theoretical attempt to preserve world-wide peace in another matter. We believe that we would do well to let well enough alone. tors reach a dazzling figure. The to- tal of the holiday gratuities awarded j to employes runs up into the hundreds ! of millions, exceeds, in fact, the bud j get totals of many considerable na tions, mercnnnuising oi every oranen in every community reports volume of business, profits, speediness of turn over, prospects for the future unsur passed in former years. But the measure without which this unprecedontly wide distribution of th2 rewards of industry would have been impossible is still being referred to as a cowardly surrender, a usurpation of congressional power, an unwise and vicious device of incapable statesman ship. That measure is, of course, the Adamson law. It is a little difficult to imar.-inc the conditions that would exist now hail the crisis not been dealt with which this measure was designed to meet. We may get some vague idea of it from the relative scarcity and advance in prices caused by the car famine that resulted from our too abundant, embarrassing prosperity. Probably the strike, had it taken place, would have been over long be fore this date, but wo would s!.ill l:e suffering from its effects. The rail roads themselves, which are contest ing the law and whose representatives denounce its beneficient purposes most savagely, would not have made $1, 008,000,000 in net profits. A strike would not only have checked tha in mon sense if I had not? men withdrawn, and of two million! Possibly you have observed that! men tranferred from constructive; Henry George Jr., a tremendous work to that of making munitions, the friends of man, died lately worth sev- j remaining laborers maintain for these I eral million dollars. I six or seven millions that are with-1 So many people believe that when drawn from production and for them- ! they are not sleeping or eating, they j selves "a standard of living higher as j should be having a good time. : a whole" than that which was mai-i- If a man works only eight hours attained when the six or Beven millions Picked Up By The Stroller day, and has rules against doing too much, his age will advance more rap idly than his wages. About the best example of repartee I know anything about was afforded by the man who found thirteen gram matical errors in "Murray's Gram mar.'" When an employer realizes that one of his men is becoming so valuable that a competitor may want him, suggestion of more pay will come from the stingiest and hardest heart. No Place for Knockers. Secretary Meacham is right. Bake is no. place for the knocker and fault finder. Everyone should join in the movements for the benefit of the city. There ore big ones to come up this year and everyone should be ready to join in the good work. Baker Herald. Poor Boys' Chances. Some people persist in believing that "chance" is the important factor in success or failure. That it is a factor that must be reckoned with is hard to deny. But that it is very flow of revenue, but would have caused i 'ar, fr,om being the main factor, cv FRIDAY, JANUARY, 5, 1917 WHAT WOULD LINCOLN IK)? Certain shallow minds lovo to settlo any question by somo isolated quota tion from the utternncos of some great wan. To their minds the quotation settles all doubt as to the wisdom or expedi ency of the project in quest ion. Just now the press is full of dis cussion over Lincoln's letter to Charles Frnncis Adams, ambassador to Great Britain during our own Civil war. At that timo Gladstone had hinted that proposals for mediation between the heavy inroads on revenue already earned because of defense fund ex penditures. Did congress, in the exercise of au thority it believes to be delegate! to i it, ever legislate with happier imme- j diate results? With good for'une so t generally ilittused, should lot even erybody who has ever succeeded, whether in attaining health or happi ness, wealth or power, agrees. In Chicago the life story of the gen eral manager of a great industrial concern has recently come to light. He began as a poor boy with a very hum ble job low down in the scale of the business which he now heads. It took the most biased of the opposition ben.: on . ... i. n. i 1 . . . , . turn i0 years to reach the top, but he It looks as if we would have the si.ow with us for some timo. When the thaw conies, look out for jcur sidewalks. It might be a good idea to clear them off now. movea to a more tolerent, to even n kindly disposition, toward thin well considered piece of legislation thai preserved tho business world from convulsion ? Reasoning after the fact, if congress has not this power to avert calamity, it is not ought to have it ? St. Louis Post-1 lis patch. After reading a copy of the Con 'Thai fa to say ihe T1 1 i?'tl env Nick more than half tho were at work, withdrawal of workers of the country has not les sened production or comfortable liv ing. This great fact has been neglect ed and its tremendions implications unrealized. It showsthut before the war work was so ill-adjusted tha not more than one-half the possible production was obtained and the stand ard of living was twice as low as it need have been. The Christian Herald. Sinnott. Congress must be a drearv waste of words. "War is hell," remarked Commis- sinnpr Mpk'ftnnfin ctrt cnniantlir l.o U , ! Stroller was compelled to remark that the commissioner had drawn a picture of the statu quo in words which cer tainly did not lack force. Opening up his mail is the very best thing the Stroller does. There is What Are the Masses For? The British debt is rising with ap-'nl.wavs 80 much uncertainty about it. palling speed. Every week about ""ls can aimosi oe detected: irom the $180,000,000 arc needed, nearly all of oufcde of the envelopes. Letters from this for war. Most of this colossal sum is borrowed, chiefly from British subjects, in the form of various war loans, treasury bills, and so forth. The annual charges on the national debt as it will be next March will be much over a billion dollars. This sum equal to more than one dollar j thrown away every minute since ! Christ was born. It means that the ' great masses will pay this stupend ous sum to those mostly wealthy cit izens, who have subscribed heavily to war loans. The millions who have given life, health and service are to bear this colossal burden, and those who have loaned are to" reap interest. The Christian Herald. EDITORIAL COMMENT Some Adamaon Ijiw Effects. Evidences of our amazing national prosperity rush on us in tumultuous exhibits. Dividends distributed nmong inven- did it. When asked whether there nro any "chances" today for the poor and friendless boy, this man gave the fol lowing very complete nnd compre- hensivc reply: ' "Rise enrlv. wnrV Into, nlnv linrl undeniable that congress , merry, don't worry, and be eood." It's a recipe that leaves little to chnncw: but spells hope nnd success for anyone with ambition nnd determina tion. It is a mighty good thing to memorize nnd follow in our determina- lSnil a barrel of philosophy, nnd vou i tion to be one of the mnnv that are may soon reduce it to a pint. j going to make 1917 their banner year In writing, remember that nn opin- along with the rest of this vicinity. I ion usually makes nn enemy; informn-; Hnker Herald. I tion rarely does. I After a man reaches sixty or seven-1 a.'h Workers, More Production ty the only help he can hope for is , The war has brought an economic from a fairy. j miracle to England which may well Of course I have made mistakes: amaze the world. She find fW feminine correspondents tell their story in the handwriting and the sta tionery. But then there is the vast unknown. Who knows where the re3t are from and their contents? Some might contain checks! One might tell of some rich relative leaving us a mil lion! Others might speak a word of praise for some worthy deed well done. Or you might get a roast fver- bal I mean, not a nice beef roast, al though in the days of parcel post one would be very acceptable). It is saM that we are not a nation of corre spondents any longer that we ro longer write letters. Perhaps this is true and the reason may be that we are all writing books and magazines. I But it is really a shame. There is so much pleasure in getting them that we really ought to write one or two once in a while. Letters cast in the I mail box will return some day oute- Two Unanswered Questions We may wonder why the Lord gave so litttlo otner may wonder SrAIl"!tl,11Jwith S much- careful that they don't return to haunt you in court. Ed Howe's Philosophy. (From E. W. Howe's Monthly.) SEE OUR WINDOW Saturday January 6th ALL ONE PRICE COATS $4.75 Jones & Rabone how would I know the value of com-'despite the work of four million J
