LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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Treated Like Beasts by Men, the Nushagak Women
Still Live in The Stone Age
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The Life of an Average Dog is Elevated in Comparison with That of Woman
in Certain Parts of The Far North
, BY JACK JUNGMEYER
(Staff Correspondent.)
Nushaagak, Alaska, Jan. 15. The
native women here cobble with their
teeth.
It is the height of hospitality for
:the "barabara" hostess to chew a vis
itor's moose skin, mukluks into shape
and pliability while ho rests his weary
feet
The character of this attention can
only be appreciated by those who
know how these mukluks are tanned,
ft can't be written. And the rest of
i-l . . . . -
mcti Auiaiva iiduvu woman s me is
on a par with this lowly service to
strangers.
Federal Farm Loan
Association Formed
"Farmers of i'rineville Organize, Elect
Officers and Apply for Territory in
What May Become County of Crook.
Prinevillc, Or., Jan. 15. Prineville
now has a federal farm loan associa
tion. About 15 of the local farmers
met a few days ago and organized an
association, electing the following of
ficers: E. T. Slation, president; M. R.
Professional
FRATERNAL ORDERS
L F. & A.M. La Grande Lodge No.
41, A. F. & A. M. holds regular
meetings fi.st and third Saturday
at 7:30 p. m. Cordial welcome to all
Masons.
L. B. MOE, W. M.'
A. C. WILLIAMS, Sec. '
B. P. 0. E. ELKS, La Granae Lodge
No. 433. Lodge meets each Thurs
day evening at eight o' clock. Home
and club privileges cheerfully ex
tended to all Brother Elks.
FRANK C. B RAM WELL,
Exalted Ruler.
ADNA B. ROGERS. Secretary.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Red Cross
Lodge No. 27 meet every Monday
night in Castle Hi.ll (K. of P. Hall.)
A Pythian welcome to all visiting
Knights.
W. D. M'CARTHY, C. C.
DELILE GREEN
K. of R. & S.
MODERN WOODMEN OF AMER
ICA La Grande Camp No. 7703
meets on the first and third Thurs
day evenings of each month ;n the
K. of P. Hall. Visiting neighbors
welcome.
H. E. DIXON, V. C. :
W. S. ASHMAN, !
Clerk, (Y. M. C. A.)
'WOODMEN OF THE WORLD La
Grande Camp No. 169 meets every
first and third Friday ot K. of P.
Hall. All visiting neighbors wel
comed. ROBERT M'LANE, C. C.
E. W. EASTMAN. CLERK.
L. O. O. M. La Grande Lodge Nr.
850 Loyal Order Of Moose holds
regular meeting every Wednesday
night and 8 p. m. in Eagle Hall,fifta
floor Foley building on Adams Ave.
Visitors always welcome. Dues pay
able at Youn's Sweets.
GEO. YOUNG, Die.
HARRY SWART, Sec.
n -Li1iL"L-L-L-L"L-Li-U-.ru-un-i-ijJii-i,
O. E. S. Hope Chapter No. 1 i.
S. holds stated communications the
second and fourth Wednesday of
each month. Visiting members cor
dially welcomed.
EMMA L. KIDDLE. W. M.
MARY A. WARNICK, Sec.
R9YAL NEIGHBORS. Iris Camp
meets every second Friday after
noon and every fcurth Friday eve
ning, every month in K. of P. Hall.
All visiting members cordially wel
comed. MINNIE BUNTING, OracU.
LILY C. KIM MEL. Reccrdsr.
REBEKAHS Crystal Lodge No. 50.
Meets every Tuesday evening in the
1 O. O. F. Hall. All risitint mem
berg are invited to attend.
ADLA CHILDERS, W. G.
ROSA CLASS, Sec.
S. A I. OF SECURITY. Kt. Em-
their sex has been but little bettered
since the 6tone age should visit their
heavy-featured sisters here who still
dwell in that age.
The life of the average dog is ele
vated in comparison!
Even the fathers, husbands and
brothers prefer club life to home asso
ciation with their women,
j Every village has its "ka-jeen '
j where the men work, eat and sleep
j the married men as well as bachelors
;and older boys. It is the smoking
j room, council chamber, court, theater
: and club.
i The woman is the beast of burden
. as well as the chief bread-winner. She
gathers the berries, catches and pre
i Women who believe the estate of
Biggs, vice president, and J. P. Do
herty, secretary treasurer, W; I. Dish
man, George J.' Dickson and G. W.
committee.
They will arrange a schedule of
valuations that will be referred to the
federal commission as a basis for the
consideration of loan that may be de
sired by any of the farmers who wish
to take advantage of the federal farm
I loan act.
I The territory that the assnointirm
county if Deschutes county is success
has applied for is what will be Crook
ful in securing the division voted at
the last election.
Dinectony
ily Council No. 2646. Meets second
and fourth Thursday evening at t
o'clock at Eagle Hall. Visiting mem
bers are we' omed.
C. E. STITT, Pres.
C. W. COOK, Fin. Sec.
VIOLA L. HCCUE. Rec. Sec
DENTIST
E. P. MOSSMAN Dentist; rooms 7,
8 and 9, Sommer building. Phon
Main 717; office hours 8 to 12 a. in.
and 1 to 5 p. m.
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS.
DR. J. L. INGLE Osteopathic phy.
sician.
DR. MARGARET INGLE Osteo
pathic physician. Diseases of wom
en and children. Third floor New
Foley Bldg. Hours 10-12 a. m.; 2-5
and 7-8 p m., and by appointment.
Office phone, Red 1761; residence
Red 881.
VETERINARY
DR H. W. RILEY Granduate Veter
inarian Hospital. 1409 Madison Ave.
State Stallion Inspector and Inspec
tor of stock for shipment. Home In
dependent Phone, Black 41. Farmen
Co-operative Phone, Main 112.
ATTORNEYS
CRAWFORD & EAKIN T. H.
Crawford and Robert S. Eakin, Att
orneys at law. Practice in all the
courts of the state and the United
States, Office, West Jacobson build
ing, rooms 9-10-17. La Grande Ore
gon. COCHRAN & FBERHARD. Geo. T.
Cochran and Colon R. Ebcrhard
Attorneys. La Grande National
Bank Building.
E. W. EASTMAN Lawyer- Offic
Rooms 1 and 3, La Grande National
Bank Building.
R. J. GREEN Attorney at Law..
Rooms 14-15, Paltner-Roesrh Bldg..
La Grande, Ore. Practices in all
State and Federal courts.
ALBERT SMALL Attorney at Law.
Rooms 26-27, La Grande National
Bank Building. Practices in all
state and federal courts. Phon
Main 11.
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
H. E. ROSKAMP," Contractor and
builder, La Grande. Ore., Phone Red
1981.
ARCHITECTS.
C. B. MILLER Architect, Room 28
New Foley Build'r-g.
Sell H The Observer want ads will
sell it
pares the fish, spanks the children and
makes the clothes and footgear for the
family.
Then, when sho thinks she has
earned, it, the woman goes to the
cache where last year's fish have been
"ripened" and regales herself on what
the natives here regard aa the choicest
tit-bit, but from which a self-respecting
dog would fleo in horror.
That is the pinnacle of her joys.
Her routine of conduct and service
falls to levels so repulsively low that
they cannot even be hinted at here.
If you ever doubt that the world "do
move" forward just come north to
these flat tundra lands and spend a
day as the barabara guest of a folk
still wallowing in the dirt age.
Rodent Control Is
U. S. Bureau Problem
Biological Survey and County Agents
Unite to Exterminate Omnivorous
Pests One County Lost $75,000
One Year.
It's time for the frisky rabbit and
busy ground squirrel to hunt their
covers. No less distinguished person
ages than highly specialized scientists
of the United States biological survey
and the county agents of the Oregon
Agricultural college extension service,
are after their scalps, pelts and mis
chievous little lives.
The work of rodent control has al
ready been under way with some
startling results and will now be
coordinated to increase its effective
ness. Farmers in the counties infest
ed by the gnawing pests are joining
hands with the federal and college
men to combat them, demanding the
greatest number of lives for the least
amount of money.
R. A. Ward, of the United States
bureau of biological survey now in
charge of the work in jackrabbit and
ground squirrel control in Oregon,
working with the county agricultural
agent, has concluded a campaign in
Crook county which resulted in the
killing of 75,000 rabbits last year, at
a cost of about $700. It is estimated
that if the rabbits had lived and ef
fected the normal increase they would
reach the enormous total of (300,000
this coming year.
The loss in a single Central Oregon
county last year due to jackrabbits
was about $75,000, while in Crook
county the fanners had the pleasure
of seeing more than this sum roll
away to market on wheels instead of
going into the stomachs of the om
nivorous rabbits. With County Agent
Blanchard, Mr. Ward held 18 meetings
in Crook county recently, where the
clubs organized expressed the inten
tion of continuing their campaign.
Poison is the weapon used. It is
mixed by a specially trained mixer,
and applied under the direction of ex
perts so that in no way it endangers
the lives of domestic animals and
birds.
Ye Have Always With Ye
Considering the number of job-hunters
in Salem at the present time, we
ought to be hearing of a labor scar
city in other parts of the state.
Eugene Register.
The West and the War
Gertrude Atherton's structures on
the West, as not being sufficcntly in
terested in the war, have aroused a
I storm of indignation and at the same
time have served to bring out tne
facts.
The West in general resents the
tnvputation that it isn't intelligently
aware of the vital issues at stake, ami
isn't concerned with relieving the suf
fering the war has brought to Europe.
The people of the prairies, mountains
and coast states, being as wide-awake
i as any part of the nation, know well
emough what is going on.
An eastern man, after spending
eight months in California, says the
attitude of the Pacific Coast is as
follows:
"The country beyond the Rockies is
7,000 miles from tho European distur-
ibance, and its echoes are correspond
ingly dim. The newspapers do not
print the war news so fully as the
eastern papers do: and bo, while read
ers there are triven all the important
facts, they miss much of the color.
'There is rot a constant stream of ar
rivals from Europe reaching the West
i and quickening interest and sympathy
There must be a, finish to all things and this special will
finish the Coats. Every Coat reduced to almost nothing. Every
Cloth Coat in the store for less than $16.75.
$42.50 Cloth Coats $16.75 Same reduction all through the line.
Coats $1.00 to $16.75 the most wonderful bargains ever heard
of but we must close out every coat.
SUITS
About twenty Suits left that are this season's Suits best of
materials and good styles. Prices for Thursday and Wednesday
$3.90 to $11.75. These are bargains worth while. Come in and
see these bargains. Now is the time as they must be closed out.
E. E.
with the belligerents, as there is in
tho East. Submarines are not calling
at western ports. Little European
shipping of any kind comes there,
compared with the great volume of
shipping that maintains the contnet of
the Atlantic-and Gulf ports with the
war zone. Neither are there scores
of young Americans writing letters
home from the French and British
ambulance service. In every respect
the war is farther away from the daily
life and attention of the people of the
West. And the Pacific Coast hns not
even shared the prosperity which the
war has brought to the East 'the
wave of prosperity spent itself against
the eastern Rockies.
"It is therefore quite natural that
East and West should look at the con
flict with different emotions."
The editor of one of the leading
newspapers on the western coast re
marked the other day that he thought
the Coast states would secede from the
Union if the United States entered
the European war.
When such bosh is written out
here, the West must expect that tho
East will have distorted ideas about
this part of the country.
Neither Miss Atherton nor the
editor is right. The West knows
about the war, knows that it is across
the ocean, knows that this country
might get into it and that such a step
would be costly in many ways.
But the West, brimming with pat
riotism, thinks it not necessary to run
around in a fit but that sanity is ihc
necessarv thing as this country pre
pares itself to be the meti.h for any
foe that thinks it can clan witn u.
Baker Herald.
Turkish Hospitality.
The Turkish people, like must others,
are of "mingled yum" anil have their
virtues as well as their faults. Writ
ing about u visit In n Turkish home,
an Kiigllsh woman, Miss lira re Elli
son, says: "In no oilier land have I
met with such lavish hospitality.
It Is the custom too for the master of
the house to pay all llu visitor's bills.
That I should have proposed to slump
my own letters hurt my friends." The
Turkish bathroom Is described ns an
Improvement on the western Kiirnppuu
one, for it ts "a marble basin like a
fountain," enabling the bather to wash
always In ruuning wuter insleiid of lu
a vessel more or less soiled b.v Immer
sion. Atoms.
"Father," said a little boy iie day,
"where U atoms?"
"Atoms, my souV You mean Athens
surely r
"No, father, atoms, the place where
things are blown to." "
COATS
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