La Grande evening observer., January 23, 1917, Image 2

Kirsehbaum
Clothes
There is but one Kirsehbaum .standard in .fabrics--100
PER CENT PURE WOOL
There is but one Kirsehbaum standard in canvases,
I.'nings, threads, etc.
THE VERY BEST OBTAINABLE
There is but one Kirsehbaum standard in workman
ship
THE MOST PAINSTAKING
$15, $20 and $25
Hill's Department Store
Quality and Service
SUNKIST
NAVEL ORANGES
Far More Than Just "Delicious"
ORANGES - What do They
Mean to You?
They mean more than merely flavor. Xo fruit in
more delicious. And because that lusciousness is
the thin that is immediately sensed in eating
Oranges, they have become known to many thous
ands as "good" simply because they taste good.
The Special Trice of '!) Oranges for 53c
and 19 Oranges .for 53c
Should entitle everybody to serve them more often
in their home.
(Jlove-pieked, scrubbed with brushes, wrapped in
sanitary tissue, this fresh-picked fruit is as good in
winter as summer.
PHONE MAIN 80
PATTISON BROTHERS
GROCERY
We are doing
our best to give
you first quality
work in our 3
specialized de
partments. LAUNDRY
DRY CLEANING
CARPET RENOVATING
SHERRY'S
SHEKUY'S
! of Chinatown, by Jerry Marston, fa-
I ther of the twins. The boy who grew
i up as Chang was taught by his cap
'tor to hate everybody who bore the
name of Marston, and the operations
of Chang's hatred constitute the plot
of "The Sign of the Poppy."
Bluebird will exhibit a "mystery I Stolen as an infant and raised as a
play" at the Sherry theatre today and Chinaman, one of the Marston twins
tomorrow with Hobart Henley play- grew up as Chang, victim of the opium
iixr a il ii'il mn Tt will Hp pnt itw habit with hatred in his heart and
"The Sinn of the Poppy" and will tell ; drug-distorted mind. Against Alvin
an intPi-estine- fctorv of adventure. ' Marston, his twin brother, Chang di-
STANDARD LAUNDRY
COMPANY
La Grande, Ore. Goo. Gilbert, Mr.
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At Sherry's Today and Tomorrow j
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BUY'EM NOW!
NEW NAVEL
SUNKIST ORANGES
We have just received a large supply of the sweetest
and choicest Oranges of the season.
On Sale While They Last
One-Half Case $1.90
Whole Case $3.70
The above prices are about one-half the usual price
if bought by the dozen
Harris Grocery
PHONE MAIN 70 FARMERS PHONE B. 192
408 North Fir Street, Cross Track
filled with exciting episodes and rected his vengeful inclination.-, unci
screened in Bluebird's usual superior , the result forms the plot. How ret.i-
detail and excellence. Mr. Henley will ! bution finally overtook me u.u,-
: .,.., ,..; t.rntti.ira. nno of ; wrecked twin and napinness came to
II 11 pel Julian
whom was stolen when an infant and ; Alvin and his bride, a. tor ateos.
was raised to all intents and purposes ceaseless persecution and distrarting
as a Chinaman. The kidnapping- was worries forms one of the best enter
retaliating vengeance for a wrong 1 tainments ever projected in the popu-
enmmitted against Hon Li. the ruler lar series 01 eiuemra pnoiupiuys.
I
ARE Nl STUDENTS IN
Our Want Ads Bring Results
The Vast Majority Are Pupils in the
Public Elementary Schools Ger
many Stands Closest to United
States Women Overwhelmingly
Control Profession ; Ratio Is Close
to Five to One.
(Boston Transcript.)
There may be pessimism about the
results of American education, but
there should be no gloom whatever
concerning' the vast numbers of our
'people who are at least putting them
selves in the way of receiving educa
tion's results, liy the latest figures
of the United States bureau of edu
cation it is shown that one American
in every four is attending school of
some kind or other. The total num
ber of students is 23,500,000, or ap
proximately 24 per cent of our entire
population. To this proportion Gcr
mnny is the ncaiest competitor, with
a report of 20 per cent; Great Britain
has 19 per cent; France, 17, and Rus
sia only a little over 4. It appears
that the result is less favorable to the
United States if actual daily attend
ance and length of school term be
taken into the reckoning, but, none
the less, the figures are highly en
couraging. It is important to realize at the out
set that the vast majority of these pu
pils are in the public elementary
schools. There the enrollment in
creased from lti.900,000 in 1!U0 to 17,-
935,000 in 1914, a gain in four years
of more than 1.000,000. It is true that
the gain in the public schools has been
even more rapul tnan tne increase in
the grade schools. In public second
ary departments tne enrollment nas
advanced from 915.000 in 1910 to
1,329.000 in 1915. This brings the
enrollment in secondary schools of all
kinds to 1,500,000. Such an improve
ment as this is the disposition of the
people to take advantage of the more
advanced training is very important,
and further gains in this branch
should be eagerly cultivated. Hut the
fact remains that the pupils who go
no farther than the elementary
schools outnumber the high school
students by about 10 to 1. The grade
schools still represent the only train
ing ground which a vast majority of
our population are nine to enter.
Probably it will be always so, no mat
ter how much we seek to encourage
the high school attendance. And the
dominant lesson of this situation
points to the fact that wc must never
siu-i ifk-e American elementary educa
tion to the demands of secondary edu
cation. 1
It is interesting to observe that
within these elementary f.-hools, which
are afi.": ; U the chief training ground
of American youth, the burden of
te.u-'ring is more and more falling on
wemtn. In public elementary schools,
says the commissioner of education,
the number of men teachers has de- ,
creased 8 per cent. Th; ratio between
the t'.vo groups 1ms thus been tipped
very heavily toward the women's side. ;
Indeed, of all 70(1,000 t;aehers in the
country, only lfiS.OOO are men. This
preponderance reflects itseif even in
the high schools where salaries have
always been higher. In 1900, teach
ing positions in the public high schools
ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO.
AUSTIN J3ROWNELL, Manager
HOUSE WIRING A SPECIALTY
Supplies and Heating Devices
Phone Main 120
Sommer Hotel Building, next to Western Unioj
were evenly divided between men and j
women. At the present time the wo- ;
men outnumber the men by 8000. Wo
men, largely responsible in the home i
for the welfare of American children,
.seems more and more to be assuming ;
lespcnsibility for American chihli -n j
in the schools.
Notice.
To all carpente'-s interested. There
will be a meeting r.t 8 p. m., January
23d, at Goodnoughs shop. B-isiness
of importance. All atte:.d by request
ol committee. l-22-2tp
Overheard at the Zoo.
The I. Ion The lciipuvil. yi;i know,
on ii in t change bis vpots. Tli" Zeln-n
t iim't limine my (-tripes ei'he.-. hut
no line ever lhiit;:ht li nf su!"e lent In
terest to make a piuvcrli of. .New
York Times
.' t Tiir AircADi:' touav aM ivmokkow
.'-as3feltf j , .
XI
l A, -
f5r
IS.
uj.a Isx.is (all lor 7."i,C00 Valunlrers, Scene
in "The Birth of a a; on."
TO ATHLETES
who are subject to lameness and
soreness of the muscles, wc recommend
WHITE UNIMENT
Especially good for the rub down.
Try it t Sold only by us, 25c, 50c
md $1.00.
LEVY-VOGEL DRUG CO.
L G raids, Orcgaa.
THE WOKI.D'S (ilfEATEST
FILM SPECTACLE TO PLAY
THE ARC APE TWO DAYS
The period of the "re.-orstruct inn,"
so vividly brought buck to he rr . n
ory of those who may have cone
through it and reproduced afresh for
those newer generations who now
view it for the first time, in Griffith's
"Birth of a Nation," shows the time
of Johnson's administration and he, as
the nation's executive, in the hands of
a ring of politicians and power seek
ers, who are manipulating the affr.r.s
of the south to suit, their own ends,
it turns to the ruins of the flower
decked South Carolina village of ante
helium days, the place where the
blacks ver? light hearted and care
free, even under the bonds of slavery
turns back to the town that by war
':a: Ne:i left half in ruins, the street like
- ?s- -.Town, tho stately mansions of
the old days tottering and crumbling;
to a town where those once wealthy
iow a:e in direst poverty wheie the
"black is as good as a white man,"
as was the slogan of the northern men
. f th.- Lynch and Stoneman type.
Women are menaced by the black
minions of the northern whites, or are
attacked, whites are driven from the
streets, menaced by the colored troops,
or nssaul'ed. Homes are invaded.
Justic? is a forgotten thing. The land
Knows no law l,ut that conceived
the wind. Thev strike wit.hnnf
even the warning the rattlesnake
gives, but are far more deadly.
This all. wonderful, soul stirring,
breath-taking as it is, is but another
of the innumerable "dramas within
dramas" of which "The Birth of a Na
tion" consists.
This glorious spectacle is to be giv
en here in its entirety, with its ac
companying Symphony orchestra,
its effect, paraphernalia and its
trained mechanicians for that
purpose and is to be nut on here in
by the same fashion down to the smallest
tne race then in control. Then-the detail that amaz.ed New York and the
chivalry of the whites is given new other cities. The matinees, daily at 2
ife. I iu Ku tlux Klan is formed, o'clock will m.i nn ,iii or.
These nders of the night, in ghostly and 50c. Nights at 7:45; prices, 75c
-v "".i-u, Mores, anil and $i. Seats
hundreds and thousands. They ride 1 either night.
are now selling for