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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
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All 27.
.Ml 22.
00 Suits and Overcoats.
"j0 Suits and Overcoats.
00 Suits and Overcoats.
50 Suits and Overcoats.
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50 Suits and Overcoats.
00 Suits and Overcoats.
Sale Price
Sale Price
Sale Price
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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
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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
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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
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