La Grande evening observer., January 18, 1917, Image 4

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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVES
THURSDAY. JANUARY IS. 1917.
NOW COMES THE BIG MONEY SAVING
EVENT
Begins January 18 lMfe&fcCQ Ends January 27
TEN-DAY CLEAN-UP SALE WHERE ALL COST PRICES ARE FORGOTTEN WHERE , YOU JIAVE
A CHANCE TO BUY THE FINEST FALL AND WINTER MERCHANDISE AT LESS THAN FAC
TORY COST. A CLEAN-UP SALE OF BROKEN SIZES .ODDS AND .ENDS , AND DISCONTINUED
UNES.
ITEMS BELOW ONLY GIVE YOU A HINT OF THE MANY BARGAINS THROUGHOUT THE STORE
Clean-Up Prices on all Ladies Suit. The newest styles, latest fabrics, most
all iz. Value to $40.00. Your Choice S. $6.49
The rn-ar-t C',at. liarjrains ever offered, values to . 57... Your 'hoi.-c S6.49
All kinds of Dresses Stunning styles for dancing, street and afternoon wear.
Reduced 33 1-3 per cent.
One lot of Coats. Suits, Dresses. Your Choice
$1.93
"lean-up Prices on Sweaters, Kimonos, Housed resses.
One lot Indies' Shoes Button and lace, all sizes, values to .4.50. Your
Choiee . $1.95
Kntire Sto.-k Ladies' Shoes at Clean-up Prices.
Clean-up and January Sale Prices in every Department.
One lot Children's Wool Underwear
33c
Clean-up Sale of Entire Men's Clothing Stock.
lieular si. "3. 00 Suits. Clean-up Price
Regular '0.00 Suits. Clean-up Price
Uesj-uUu.' Suit-. 'lean-up Price
hVcrular $23.00 Suits. Clean-up Price
Regular tfO.OO Suits, r'lean-up Price
Kntire Stock Bovs Clot:an$r Reduced 'W 1-3 per cent.
One lot Men's Suits, values to $22.50. Your Choice
One lot Men's Overcoats, values to $20.00. Your Choice
Stetson Hats $2.49 Gordon Hats
$10.00
$13.35
$15.00
$16.65
$20.00
$6.90
$6.90
$1.98
Money Saving Prices on all Dress (roods. Silks. Velvets. Towels, Blankets.
Muslin Underwear
Bates and Carsonia Ginghams. 1st quality, yard 11c
36-in. Dress Linen, heavy weight, yard 35c
One lot Ladies' Cashmere Hose 19c
K.-. .f .f
THE OBSERVER
An Independent Newspaper.
Pofctkhtd Daily and Weekly at La
Grande, Oregon, by the
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
PUBLISHING CO.
J, D. MEYERS, President, H. B.
LHTER, Vice President, CLARKE
LEJTER, Editor and Publisher.
cuted:
The city commissioners are chosen
by the citizens at large, as men com
petent and qualified to pass the laws,
to seket a city manager, and to supervj
viae nig work. Their function is leg
islative and supervisory and not ex
ecutive. Bear that in mind.
They select a city manager. He
hires and fires all employes. In that
commission has a serious subject to of the difficulties encountered and the
study in the question of restoring the 'culture and breeding the race has had
city's credit and financial standing, (from then until now, that trait has
A business man would make short not only been preserved, but has been
work of that by refunding the city's improved upon until it is now one of
debt at a low rate of interest and
starting in on a cash basis. But that
will come in time. No doubt there are
reasons why the city's credit should
be left to lag as it Ls. But on the
Entered at the Poatofflce at La
Grande, Oregon, a second class
matter.
Address all communication to THE
OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth Street.
power lie his strength. He is either whole the La Grande plan is satisfac-
city manager or he is not, Unless he tory, and we recommend it heartily to
has absolute authority over the city all patients with only this adraoni-
employes, unless he can hire and fire, tion
how in the world can anyone expect
results from him?
If the city commissioners are poli
ticians and not business men, if they
"Shake well before taking.'
PROTECT THE PUBLIC
Stoves used to heat theatres are too European war.
the exict sciences
A few years ago two young men
were engaged as competitors in the
show business in a small town. Their
houses were located on opposite sides
of the street, but in almost plain
view of each other.
Now these fellows were exceedingly
industrious and also exceedingly med
dlesome toward each other, which re
sulted in bitter feelings and enough I
personal enmity to start another)
perintendent of tee Indiana hospital
for insane criminals at Michigan City
Medical examination of prisoners at
the time of their trial was the meth
od proposed by Dr. Bowers to prevent
the injustice the people practice
against themselves and . these unfor
tunates. "When a defective delinquent has
been discharged or paroled from cus
tody merely because he has spent a
certain time in prison, he returns to
society a more defective and vicious
ly inclined individual than bo was
previous to his incarceration." Dr.
Bowers declared. "It is almost cer
tain that he will return to prison on
a new charge, and the same foolish
experiment with all its attendant ex
penses will be repeated." Baker
Democrat.
tnents ami eaDhig ear dialed at
the Observer Jst Printiag Depart
meat l-X8-f.
Ob Sole in Other Cities: Oregon Hotel
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City Official Paper. Member United
Prvss Associations.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1917 , mummals as a reward, don't you see
insist upon dabbling into matters of dangerous. The city authorities of , They went t0 all kijlds of trooble
petty patronage, if one commissioner Lr',on fhouM J3 a '' from their to keep ub on ei.h other's business,
wants to reward this faithful 'worker Pera ho,U9e t're- A few dollars are Mlow got a han4 Tegister
In Ward 1, and tho second commis-. sma!' be considered before the and hjs cashieri in addition to selling
sioner is grateful to this worker in safety of the public. It was fortunate tickets and s!ighting the public, kept
Ward 2 and wants him put upon the hat the flre urred when the opera co(mt of every that went m
payroll, and if commissioner No. 3 , "Quae "as not iuieq wim people. J across the street.
hnB a very intimate friend who helped j VFW ji-rjr F ' Tic other feI,0W certain people I
him in the city election and would like i . ,, ' r ' purchase the first ticket sold and the
to st him attached to the municipal ' ..J""" McC,a"ant- tthe a3t onc. f,om his busy antagonist and .
THK LA GRANDE PLAN
that you have knocked the theory of ; "I every day, and then they both would
Kme of our neighbors are thinking
of taking up the managerial form of
city government. Among them are
Aberdeen and North Yakima, Wash.,
and Pendleton, Oregon. This shows
some thouht and some foresight. But
a word to our neighbors in advance of
their changing their form of munici
pal povernrmrit might not be nmisK.
The hi-t'jr.' -f municip.-.l govern
ment in the Unitel States has been:
Plying from one form of government,
to another. Municipal government is
bad in a certain city. The citizens are
vexed and discouraged. They talk
things over. i
"We can't do anything or accomplish ,
anything under this charter. We mu.'t .
amend the charter," they say. !
"It is the old moth-eaten charter,
that if holding us back, and which ,
prevents us frvrn having good nr,d .
. efficient government."
So the citiwns get together with a
bunch of lawyers, and the u.-iual pro- .
cedure is to meet in a back .ffice
nml frame up a city charter un
der which the Angel Gabriel or the
ApoKtle Paul could not manage a city
miccoesfully. There is this provision
here designed to protect a certain in
terest, there is this provision designed
to protect "Mr. So and So." nnd be
fore the citizens get through, there is
a patched up charter that prevents the
main idea sucecfr.ful municipal gov-'
ernment. 1
The I.n Grande plan theoretically is
thi", nnd our citizns st lemt should
ma iter the theory of our city govern- j
rm-nt a it would be if ideMly txe-
the managerial form of government in
to a cocked hat ?
In other words our advice to Aber
deen, and North Yakima and PcndL'
ton is not to adopt tho commission
or managerial form of government
unless they are willing to go the whole
hog, that is, divorce municipal busi
ness from politics; elect business men
gal fraternity was his due. Political- .fatter emaelve. by thinking how
ly the appointment may not have been lnl , n I I
expedient, but high tributes were paid ' ,T.hV da ' t0 frra thls.,E i
to him by W. W. Cotton and other, as "jat, had they spent all th.a mis-;
to his ability as a lawyer. Judge Mc- Placed energy and ingenuity upon the
Camant is a lawyer and Republican of CTCatlv e"d of Jth',r bus,ns and
the old school, and in his new position OQt and boosted tha game in gen-ra ;
of trust and honor should have the they mght ha.vc, Wn s';
iroo wishes of nil , instead 01 inviting ianure as ir.ey urn.
It's a pretty safe rule that, "he who
nnd choose the city manager for a city i
manager, and let the city employes; FORM V RI'FiM ('RFI)ITS runs his neighbors' business has none
aki orders- from him and him alone, j ASSfK'I ATIOV ' run n'3 ct".
I.' the city commissioners go mixing fnion county should not be the last'Stick t0 'qur ?ims an,i ketP firin?
with the city employes, giving them , ul(,,ini7C a rurr.i credits associa- Let the other fellow do the worry-
orders. listening to their underground tin n,js j, rroppr!y a matter for ng. The Pilot, .Seattle.
gossip, and tale-carrying, and spying th(. atrric.11tnrni ,.0ncil to hanHln :
an.i reporting on earn other, tne wnole whil.n ha8 the mntter in and it
ystem will go overboard, and the city ifl to nop(Ki tniR pu))lic matter
manager will t-oon walk the plank. wi (p takcn up promptly and expe- I
The game is worth while. We nd- ,,t0,.
vise Aberdeen, and Pendleton, and , - !
North Yakima to adopt the commis- j National Thrift Pay is February 3.!
Hon form of government and especial- start in now and save your money
ly the La Grande form. ianj mnke a toward indopend'-
It is working well here. But it ence. ,
might not work well in the other
THE MENTALLY SICK
EDITORIAL COMMENT
THY NEIGHBOR'S BUSINESS
cities unless politics 'Acre absolutely
eliminated from the system as it has
Li-en here in 1 Hi Grande, nnd unless
'.he cornmis-iiir.eni are big enough
as they aie here in Iji Grande abso
lutely to f.ir-et politics in city affairs
and run them as they would their
own, insisting noon the city getting
dollar for every dollar expended and human nature is tho fascination of at
relegating the spoils system to the tntir.g to someone else s busincs
Sack ground, ;;nd refusing to reward
party nnd personal workers with posi
tions at public cxpemie. Here nothing
. ut efficiency count?. The city man
ager is IT.
Things have not yet reached the
nilleniiun in La Grande. The city
Here is something that may cause
i you to open your eyes.
; "Every year society is unjustly
sending to prison hundreds of insane
and feeble-minded persons who, in
,'the cour::e of their mental disturb
ance, have viola'cd the penal laws.
"This culpable practice of punishing
the mentally sick should in the course
of justice cease.
"Society is being poorly protected
, when it sends insane and mentally
defective individuals to penal insti
tution and then releases them from
One of the most pecular traits of custody uncurcd merely because their
sentences have expired. Yet this ir
rational procedure is being continu
ously practiced 1 y our courts ard
boards of parole in all states of the
Union.
These two paragr: phr. aro taken 1
11 inarico away oacn in the cave
men times when one fellow wai
Anxious to know what was coin? on
in the other fellow's den. There be
ing no windows to peep into or to from a paper read nt the last Illinois
eve-kirop uniiur. u was no little task conference of chanties and correc
ts get this .information, und in spite tionB by Dr. P. Bowers, medical su-
The La Grande National
Bank Issues Booklet
"BANKING MADE
PLAIN"
Bdoeatmg tie public in a practical knowledge of the simple Methods
of bankisg is a stissicn to which enterprising banks all ever th5 country
are more and more devoting themselves, and as a means of service
to the eommuity, one of the latest booklets along this line eititlod
"Banking Made Plain" is now being distributed by the Ln Grande
National Bank
The booklet is noteworthy because of condensing irito a small space
a really remarkable amount of practical information, concisely yet
readably stated, and typographically attractive.
The forepart f this booklet gives in a concise manner the pre
liminary requirements of banking in relation to deposits, chocks, and
accounts. There are fifteen sub-heads under the heading "Accounts",
thirty sub-heads under the heading of "Checks"', fiftetn tub-heads
under the heading of "Deposits" and other main headings followed by
various sub-titles are "Identification", "Overdrafts", "Banking by
Mail" and how a "Clearing House" operates.
A few of the Sub-heads will serve to indicate the naturo and scope
of the booklet, as follows:
"How to Open an Account'-, "Forms of Accounts vhich can be
Opened", "How to Balance Y'our Account", "Bank Statement", "De
posits for Collection", Deposits by Mail", 'Deposits of Husband and
Wife', "Death of Depositor", etc.
We find more good information under "Checks" such as "How
to Draw a Check", "Altered Check", "Lost Check", "Undated". 'Tost
Dated'", "To Stop Payment", etc.
The latter part of the booklet deals with what every borrower
should know and gives a similar wealth of informction and in
cludes brief and adequate treatment of Bueh subjects as "Notes"
"ColM.;rc.r, "Discounts", "Note Mado by Minor", "Note Made by
alarned Woman", "Negotiability" aud many ethers.
Under the head of 'Drafts" and "Bi:l8 of Exchange" are "Accept
ance", "Acceptance for Honor", "Due Date'" "Joint Dravee", "Notice"
etc. '
Then fnllnu-c MTnilnrcoTviAr,c" 1 ...
j T Vi ' -"v- , ki'iuk an explanation oi many sinus
and liability of ndorcera in rann thi- k. 1 .
jects of "Protest", "Collections ', "Lost Paper1', and some very use
ful "Bank Don'ts".
Any one who -Jrishes a copy need only apply at the bank where they
nfi 1 1 ha n at m Hi it At'