La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 24, 1917, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 3917. PAGE FOUR LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER THE OBSERVER An Independent Newspaper. Published Daily and Weekly at La Grande, Oregon, by the LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PUBLISHING CO. J. D. MEYERS, President, H. B. . LEITER, Vice President, CLARKE LEITER, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Grande, Oregon, matter. Postoffice at La as second data Address all communication! to THE OBSERVER. 1710 Sixth Street On Sale in Other Cities: Oregon Hotel News Stand, Portland; Imperial Hotel News Stand, Portland. City Official Paper. Member Frtts Associations. United SUBSCRIPTION RATES. -i . By Carrier. Daily, single copy 6c Daily, per week 15c Daily, per month 65c Daily, per six months in advance $3.50 Daily, per year in advance ... $7.00 By Mai) 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 porch. If the carrier does not do this, misBes you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly jhene the Observer, as this is the tnly n ay we can determine whether or not the carriers are following in struction. Phone Main 37 before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you hy special messenger if the carrier has missed you. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1917 These latter ideas jre deKigred to please Germany. We admire Mr. Wilsoa ia bit- ff.'u'ts to bring about world peace but we are pessimistic about his success for mary reasons. In the first place the Aliiu will r t consent to peace becau;e they fcl it their duty to crush Germany. Nc peace will be granted unless the Allies are in danger of (Meat. Great Britain, having alri.idy the domination of the seas, will cot con sent to limit its sea power, and will continue to make its own laws in re gard to commerce on the high seas and to enforce them against Germany, the United States and neutral nations. Great Britain having won this world dominion at great cost -will not surrender it at the verbal request of the United States. She would be fool ish if she did. Since the present war is being fought because til the nations desire Kraia producing districts the growers themselves are building grain .eleva-; lor3 and it is eciimated thr.t nearly twice as many will be built during 1!17 as now exist. The farmers estimate first of all that they rave at least 2 cents a bush el .by shipping in buik and when this is computed in' relation to an export n ovement of, say, 50,000,000 bushels ' it im;ortan:'e is readily understand-; able. Bulk shipments pre-suppose the j cleaning and smutting of the grain in eltvator at the point of origin. There by the farmers cease to pay freight on thousands of tons of material that ; lessen the selling price of the grain but which can be utilized as feed by the grower. The speed of handling is also a con deration. Sacked wheat is laborious- j !j handled by expensive man power. ; Auxiliary equipment, teams and trucks ae but partially efficient Grain in bulk is moved mechanically, speedily . a i.J without waste. Bulk handling is sack handling January Clearance & Ends Saturday, January 27th SUPPLY YOUR NEEDS FOR MONTHS TO COME territorial expansion, it does not seem reasonable that they will abandon a matter of minutes, their nationa aims and Idea B merely ." uiauer 01 uuuia. because one side or the other loses m the present war. Land hunger ef fects nations as well as individuals. The suffering of war has not appeased this natural inctinct. The people of the United States who have been raised upon George Bulk train handling is a develop-' I ment for the mo3ern industrial effi-j ..ion., smn. rr 4lilk' rt-rvAl-f- Th PV ' fYC ' i vic.iv ui.JW.,5 v,v- - acting in concert. They seem deter mined to "bring about a new and per manent condition which if it material izes this port will have to meet if we Washington's farewell address will are to retain snipping. roruana jour- not annrove tho United States ioinine . "al. the International League to Enforce Peace. Why should we join with a group of insane nationE in signing an other scrap of paper which would be violated by any group of nations which would find it to their interest to Eight Million Acres of National For ests Taken By Settlers in Year. j Washington, Jan. 24. More than ' eight million acres of land was olimin- ! If educed Prices and Real Bargains in every department. Unusual Savings on Silks. Velvets. Dress Goods, White Blankets. Comforts, Pillows, Sheets, Gloves. Shoes. Dresses, Suits, Coats, Clean-Up 1 Sheeting, Pillow Skirts. : Sweaters, Goods, Cases, ' Hate' Caps, Shirts, Underwear, Maekinaws, Trunks. Bags, Suit Cases. The season's newest Coats and Suitsvalues up to $27.50. Your Choice- - ; $6.49 Men's and Young Men's Suits, all styles and colors. .Reduced . ' 33 1-3 per cent Clean-up Sale Boys' Clothing 1-3 off do so? Does Mr. Wilson think the from he National forests, and within the forests were made avail able for homestead entry in the last fiscal year, as a result of lard classi fication work, according to the annual report of Henry S. Graves, chief of the Forest Service. signing or a piece ot paper would eliminate national hatreds, national dreams of conquest and expansion? Does he think any of the nationB would really disarm if they signed an agreement to do so? Does he think Great Britain would "scrap" the great navy needed to protect its great empire? The fact is the present war merely With liquor advertising barred from newspapers and mails, it will sooa come to a point where the deaf-mute shows the evil passions and the lusts language will be the only means of dis THE NEW PEACE PLAN President Wilson's words in favor of peace and of a war without victory will find some response from the hearts of the American people. The American people want peace. We are a cosmopolitan people. Many there are in this country who have been torn in their sympathies because of ties of kindred with the . mother Hngton and hold aloof from entangling countries. But all are good true hon- alliances and bend our energies to est Americans and they would like to minding our own business, to protect- of nations on a rampage. What Eur ope needs is more democracy, more sympathy for the common people, some real Christianity. Until Europe is civilized and sane an agreement whereby we would cast our lot with nations which arc still barbarous, un civilized, and insane would he the height of folly. covering -where a bottle car. be fou.id. The Oregonian. FILM NOTES. They have put tortoise shelled glass-, es on poor Owen Moore those "Har vard student glasses that make the ignt oi lony. . I most respcrtable of men look like bull- Let us follow 0,e policy of Wash-1 f , f A QW uk , rvsivi dtcI ttsvl.1 alnnf fwim antonfflinff see the great European war end as President Wilson hopes without hu miliation or conquest But President Wilson in his speorn to the senate deliberately overlooks the present status of the war. He ignore Lloyd George's recent speech es and the recent notes of the Allies, These told President Wilson, plainly that the Allies did not desire peace but surrender, not peace but reparation and indemnity, not peace with an qua) power but the humiliation of an enemy appearing upon its kn-.'es as a suppliant. President Wilson ignores the mar tial and militant spirit of the Allies as one would the cries aid shouts of a combatant in the hot 'A battle. But his latest note dv not bring peace any nearer and it will bring from Europe the same hoots of de rision that his first n ;le brought. For Europe is not yet ready for peace. None of the nations has been suffi ciently scourged or chastened. None has yet awakened to sympathy for the common people. President Wilson proposes that nn ing our shores from the foreign in vaders and to building up a civiliza tion of our own on the American con tinent. . EDITORIAL COMMENT International League to Enforce Pence should be formed. He proposes that the United States Bhou'id jc'.n in order to help this great work for humanity. He urges the adoption of an inter national Monroe doctrin that all na tions abandon their drowns of expan sion, of conquest, of new colonies, of places in the Sun and con..nt to re main in the statu quo si far as new territory is concerned. He proposes that this league shall Tvtduce arma ments both on sea and la.vl and alsi hall insure all nations fr?e acres to the sea and freedom upon the sen. Portland And Farmers. Time will prove that the dock com. mi union acted with intelligence and foresight in its determination to meet the requirements of the bulk grain movement. The grain growers of the inland em pire have declared their intention of shipping grain in bulk. They announce their intention of doing business with the terminal that will provide bulk handling facilities. Years ago they made their first request. Seattle acted. Portland did not. When shipping has been restored to normal and wheat again is exported fiom tidewater instead of being sent cast in cars, the great test of leader ship will come. Then it will be either ) Seattle doing the business at the end or: a mountain haul because of super ior terminal facilities and a more ag gressive port policy, or Portland at the d ot of the water grade adding to this ratural advantage facilities equal or si'perior to Puget Sound's and thereby re-establishing ourold-time northwest leadership as a grain terminal. There is some dispute as to whether sl ips will take bulk cargoes of grain from northwest ports, but there is no dispute concerning the movement nmong the growers to ship to the ter minal port in bulk. All thru the great in which Moore is bein co-starred by the Famous Players with Irene Fen wick and is to be released on the Para mount program. When one sees Moore in those glasses it is quite easy to un derstand whv Miss Fenwick decides that she can get the combination ot the bank vault away from him. It looks like taking candy from a hoot owl. - Pauline Frederick has made only one resolution for, the New oYrk. The Fani ous Players star has crossed her heart' and vowed not to buy a new motor car eery month during 1917. In the last twelve-month she has purchased so many cars that her irate mother de manded to know whether or not she was trying to have one to match every gown just as the mere hoi polloi tries to have parasols that comport in their general color Bcheme with various hab iliments. " ' s I ft Dead or Alive! A dead dollar is the one which is hidden away; which earns you nothing, and which is liable to turn up missing with out a moment's notice; or the kind you carelessly push across the counter, for this and that; things you really don't need then wonder in a week's time where they have gone. A live dollar is the one which you place in this bank, where it is always safe. They will call for company; the result is, more saving; then when opportunity arrives, you are financially able to meet it with open arms, and a bank account. La Grande National Bank Tiny Marguerite Clark just sits back and laughs while her associates at the Famous Playsrs studio rave about the continually soaring price of beef-steak. For, Miss Clark, though not a vege tarian, elmoat never touches beef. Her appetite is almost as small as she is herself and she frequently goes for days at a time without eating meat. The first murder to be committed in the Famous Players studio for many months occured the other day when Harry Lee was shot for refusing to wire Irene Fenwick orders to crack a bank safe out in Wheaton, 111. It was a very tragic affair, as the shooting was done by Edwin Sturgis, formeryl a bosom pa of Lee's, just after the pair had had luncheon together. As director Del Henderson neglected to stage a burial Rccne after the shooting Leo reported at th studio on the fol lowing morning to inquire whether or not he was to be interred, but was informed that the ceremony would be omitted. So Owen Moore, who is co starring with Miss Fenwick in the pic ture, "A girle Like That,". bought the disconsolate corpse n drink. IDE HIGH COST OF LIVING? Mr. L. Garrick Contends It Is the. Cost of High Living 'That Causes All the Trouble He says Man's Stomach Is Ungrateful and That Fifteen Cents a Day for Food Is Enough Pays His Respects To Mr. Pyal's Statistics! , -La Grande (To the Editor of The Observer) In accordance with your expressed wish, we venture a remark eternal fields there surge herds of the ' majestic animal from whom he bor rowed his nom de plume, and that the afterworW is in truth a happy hunt-... , ing ground to Colonel Cody, the spirit. .. militant. Who shall say? Why may , it not be true that for each and all TJV there is a heaven adapted to earthly tastes,, with sin and sorrow, anxiety..... nd worriment, WTong,ah4,. injustice, . jealousy and envy, oppression and ' caste, all burned away in the transi tion from earth, across the fest divide? L, XV woo u SLraugv, hluvcuvc, tmpiTsaive the money of their own to keep theml?I:dJvator0U8 lifhich.vBuffaloBilL- while tHey study science, could b , "v "ft . . 'W- maintained free; it would not be very to Actress Hole For Marguerite ( lark. Following her success in the screen w'optntion of the Grimm fairy talc "Snow White," Marguerite Clark will star in an adaptation of the late Molly Elliot Sewell's piny "The Fortunes of Kifi," which will be released by the Fnmous Players thru the Paramount Pictures Corporation In February. In this productio Miss Clark for sakes the little fairy princess for the more sophisticated role of a struggling young star in a small rrench theatre. Despite her high connections she is thhe grnnd-neice of the pope Fifi has r hnrd struggle of it and spends many bitter moments because of her older nnd more experienced rival, Julie Cam-pionet. This is the first time that Miss Clark has played the difficult role of nn actress on the screen, but those vho hnve seen her previous perfor mances will expect her to handle the temperamental, vivacious little French player with distinction and finish. A theatre will be constructed in the Fnmous Players studio ns the setting for a good deal of the action. or two on Mr. Dyal's article on the ! long until we would find bread .High Cost of Living and the cause thereof. We read the article with some interest and a good deal of amuse ment. Of all the, accusations, justly or unjustly, that have been orought against the kaiser, surely, this is the latest, accusing him of feeding the world, and coming from a staunch supporter at that. Well, may the kaiser paraphrase the dying words at the immortal Caesar then fall. To say or to believe that Gern.any feeds the world remmds us of a little story. There was a time when good wise men (?) believed that the sun and all the heavenly bodies revolved 'around his earth in 24 hours; proving that there is nothing too absurd for gome man to say and for others to be lieve. But to take Mr. Dyal's article seri ously (if that is possible) those sta tistics he offers (without casting any reflections on Dyal's veracity) are utterly unreliable; they are equally as mysterious as the leak on Wilson's peace note; they ere mostly issued to influence the market. And besides they fail to take Into account the millions of bushels of grain that are today stored in this country waiting for a rise in the mar ket. Neither do they take account of the many thousand tons of potatoes that are lying rotting waiting for a rise in the market. The 70,000,000 that Dyal advises Uncle Sam to send to Germany for manure might be more profitably spent in establishing a free college of i ob- the tainable without applying farmer or the jobber. , K-Wheat can be produced without either plowing or sowing; it has been done and will be done again in the very near future. It is simply a ques tion of knowing how? There is just one more remark alio1 we are done. 'We deny that the cost of living is Et tu Dyal"; j high; it is luxuriant that costs high. how many things do we see in a gro cer's store that we could very well do without. True it is written that mn shall not live by bread alone. But nowhere is it written that mants. stom ach is to be a receptacle for a por tion of every conceivable product of the earth. God ordained that man should eat to live but man thinks that God gives him life that he may eat. The man whose food and drink is costing more than 10 to 15 cents per day is wasting his substance on his ungrateful stomach and his reward will be premature old age and death. Respectfully, ' L. GARRICK. worm in bun. His wae a backbone of iron. His.waa a.hrain of eterneet. i-. stuff.; His were muscles of tempered.. .. steel.. He was a real, man, teeming- v with .virility. He, livedo rtbe , life.. He - i sidestepped no ;-dangex. He faced hisvv-y .f enemies. He fought a good fight. SubiH.-C' stantiaJly the last of the spectacular actors in a drama of' the ' plains now1 drawing to its final enrtain he goea 'f-' with applause crowned with triumph-'' as men measure life's success. Pen dleton Tribune. . j:-' , Our Want Ada get replies. j Pottery I Sale The Passing of Buffalo Bill. One of the unique figures in the epic of western life has passed to the ul timate range where there are no rid ers and where the cowboy is tamed. The picturesque costume, the long sweep of grizzly hair, the rifle and spurs are left behind as the Petersque gates are swung, and well may the ! J pioneer wonder what may be the pic-1 1 ture of Buffalo Bill in his angel garb ! and etherial surroundings. It mv be I science in every state capital for the that in the spirit world he can find cultivation of young brains, where glass balls to break with a rifle of boys and young men who have not i mystic form. It may be that over the All Pottery, one-third off during this sale. "Mack. Pottery Excepted" Come in and look it over while the assort ment is complete. La Grande Seed & Floral Co. Foley Hotel Building. v RICHEY PIANO HOUSE PIANOS DIRECT FROM FACTORY TO CUSTOMER. TAXPAYER IN LA GRANDE 30 YEARS High Grade Pianos Specialty How much taxes paid by Transit Concerns to the upkeep of the City. No culls or second-hand poods worked-over, skipped and reshipped, hawked from town to town to bepiiile the unsuspecting public. "Whv buy of small annexes of Portland Houses, goods handled upon consign ment, thus Haying several jivofits. Stop and relflect. Puy of the local dealer, keep your contract and account at home. Prices are what count, not house to house canvassers, or street corner ex hortatory. Call and convince yourself before buying, who has the Pianos to select from, also as to permanency of appearance. RICHEY PlivKO HOUSE OPPOSITE SOMMEB HOUSE Our Want Ads bring result.