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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
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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. " '
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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:-' ,
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The Passing of Buffalo Bill.
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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
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