La Grande evening observer., February 12, 1917, Image 4

GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1?, 1917.
Aii Independent Newspaper.
Published Daily and Weekly at La Grande, Oregon, by the
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PUBLISHING CO.
J. D. MEYERS H. B. LEITER CLARKE LEITER
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PEACE AT ANY PRICE.
It i the irony of fate that the "peace-at-any-price" voters who
Lcld the balance of power in the last election and who cast the'i
ballots for President Wilson are now turning against him. If
the election were held today, President Wilson might lose the
votes of this class. There is always a class of people in between
the two great parties who sway the elections. They are usually a
bunch of reformers, like the Mugwumps who swayed the bal
ance toward Grover Cleveland. But they are the rule or ruin"
kind, like the pacifists in this country today. They will elect a
man President but the minute he shows any determination to
uphold the National honor or to defend our citizens against a
foreign menace they turn against him. But President Wilson
may have this consolation that he has the loyal support of all
patriotic Americans of both parties. They will stand back of
him through thick and thin, and they are the same kind of people
who stood back of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln,
men and women with some stamina and some back bone who
want to see this great nation stand for something besides cow
ardice and pelf.
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ACROSS THE STYX.
John Kendrick Bangs wrote some amusing dialogues in "The
Houseboat On the Styx." We can imagine some of the great
generals and admirals congregating across tire Styx and talking
of the present war on earth. We can picture Napoleon ami
Xerxes, Murat and Alexander, Wellington and Casar, Maral
borough and Hannibal, discussing the question of whether Von
Hindenburg or Joffre is the greatest general of the war, while
Farragut and Nelson, Drake and Dewey, Perry and Togo, de
bate how the great fleet should quell the German submarine
menace. Modern times bring changes in warfare but the tiling
j equired on the part of the generals and admirals resourcefulness
and daring is just the same today as it was in the days of the
Spanish armada.
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.;53:iuch Crepe de Oheiie", fancy .stripes) yard ...$2.00 ,
-Hfoiiwh Bilk Poplins, sport figures', yar(l.....;.....'..$1.00 ;
tthaiitoiift Pongee, plain and fancy, yd. 65c to $1.50
:Hi-inci Paislcv Satins, extra quality, yard
"... V!...:.:.;:.-::. .,$1.50 to $2.50 .
3(l-inch Taffeta, plaids and stripes, yard
: $1.75 to $2.50
36-inoh Taffeta SilkVaircolois. yard ...$1.40 to $2.00
27-inch Messaline, all colors, yard , $1.00
40-inch Crepe de Chene, all colore, yard $1.50
40-inch Silk and Wool Poplin, yard $1.25 to $2.50
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MARINE CALENDAR
PRETTY
"See here," he told one of his most
protesting friends, "you were raised
The tropics, moonlight, water, a 'on a fairm, weren't you ? You oucht
sentry, a battleship, four marines off to know what a chin-fly is. My broth-
duty, two singing, two playing instru- Ker and I were plowing corn once on a
ments is the story told on a color
calendar which Sergeant C. E. Rice of
the La Grande marine recruiting sta
tion will distribute.
LITTLE STORIES OF LINCOLN
(Continued from Page One.)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
When American honors the memory of Abraham Lincoln, we
honor ourselves. For Abraham, Lincoln is the typical American,
and his rise from a lowly home, where he suffered hardships and
adversity, to the highest place in the gift of the nation is a typical
American story. America loves Lincoln because he was honest
and true, homely and wise, humorous and sad, a man whose heart
beat in sympathy for the common people, a great man whose mind
saw the difference between right and wrong clearly, and who
courageously followed the right, even though it led through diffi
cult paths. That Lincoln is the ideal of American man
hood today shows that we have not entirely fallen into habits of
money worship and that our intincts and ideals are at least aimed
at the highest mark.
O
Senator Lane says if he hadn't been locked out of the Senate
he would have voted against the President's German policv. The
next time he's locked out it will be bv the people of Oregon.
O
(.lima will stand by the United '.States against Germany. We
have one friend anyway in the congress o'f nations. And some
day we should remember that and pay her back ten fold.
know his circumstances. First of all,
he has a wife and baby; they ought. to
De worth $50,000 to any man. Second.
ly, he has an office in which there are
three chairs worth, say, SI, and a
table worth $1.60. Last of all, there
is in one corner a large irat hole, which
is worth looking into.
"Respectfully,
"A. LINCOLN."
it was always a mystery to Presi
dent Lincoln's friends why he so reso
lutely sunk political rivalries and did
not hesitate to appoint to the highest
offices within his gift men who were
his most ambitious rivals. When he
was re-elected, his cabinet held one
secretary, at least, who was notorious
ly a candidate for the presidential
nomination. That particular cabinet
office needed urgently an administra
tion of the utmost energy, and that
particular cabinet officer was srivine
. juov vigvi iws auimmstrauon re
quired. The political protests poured
in. Lincoln finally gave !his homely
reasons for retaining his appointee . -,
A Pathetic Figure
"Where There's a Will,
There's a. Way."
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Thoro's no task too great to undertake if you
have the will. If you will to save money, you
can do it. You don't necessarily have to be
"short" to save just bank a part of your earn
ings at this bank, each week or month you will
be surprised at the rapidity of ita increase. Then
you are ready to tackle the larger tilings in life.
Show your will, and determination to win, by
starting an account with us today. And Stay
With It!
MAKE OUR BANK YOUR BANK
La Grande National'Bank
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Kentucky farm; he held the plow
while I drove the horse. Mighty lazy
horse that, laziest you ever saw. But,
all of a sudden that horse dashed
adross the field so fast that even my
long legs could hardly keep pace with
him. WJien we reached the end of the
furrow, I saw an enormous chhfly on
him, and knocked it off.
" What did you do that for?'' asked
my brother.
'Why,' I answered, 'I can't let that
horse be bitten up.'
"'You can't eh?' said my brother.
'Wlhy, you numskull, that chin-fly was
all that made him go.'
"Now," concluded the president, "if
any member of the cabinet happens to
have a presidential chin-fly biting
him, (I'm, going to keep him and his
chin-fly, too, if only the pah- of them
will plow the furrow quickly."
Perhaps no story of Lincoln's was
told under graver Conditions and with
more emphatic application than that
which closed the famous interview or
the steamer River Queen at Hampton
Roads, between Mr. Lincoln, Secretary
Seward and the peace commissioners
of the Confederacy. The discussion
had reached its kernel, slavery.
i ne southern! argument, in all its
were fairly grown, turned the whole
herd into the field. The hogs did their
own digging, and he leaned overt the
digging, and ho leaned over the fence,
fence, proud of his idea. A neighbor
came along.
"'Well, well, Mr. Case,' he remark
ed, 'this is a grand idea. But butch
ering time is 'way off in December,
and the farst comes early. Before you
are ready to kill those hogs, the
ground wilj be frozen a foot deep.',
"Case scratched his head, ' and
thought it over, but there, was only
one answer, and he gave it:
" 'I suppose it'll go pretty hard with
thew snouts; but all I can see for it is,
root, hog, or die.' "
If the mem of the Grand Army still
survive by the thousand, there must
be survivors by the hundred, from the
ranks of those geniuses and wiseacres
who, during the long and terrible
strain of the Civil war, devised infall
ible plans for ending the Confederacy
in a jiffy. One of them was a farmer
who succeeding in reaching the presri
dent after days of insistence. Lincoln,
waylaid during some moments of his
scant leisure, heard him with his us
ual patience, through the whole rip.
ma role of the plan. Then
I II answer you with a story. There
was a man in Chicago who never did
a stroke of work in; his life. One day
he went wild over a jump in the price
m wneat. He nurned oft to a fa-
impressive force, was brought for-1 mous wheat speculator and laid before
ward, if the South were to consent to nlm a P'an oy which both of them
should become rich before nightfall,
wnat do you think of that?' ho
demanded.
"-'Well, answered the grain opera
tor, 'my advice is that you stick to
your business.'
"'But,' asked the visitor, 'what is
my business?'
'"Dalrned if I know,' rejoined the
operator. But, whatever it is, you
stick to it.' "
The "war governors" of the various
states had their pet peculiarities, and
sometimes the air of the White Hons.
coined . anH thp ilanQrimi. . .
oi negroes and pleasant during their visits to Wash
rnL, ,.i .u jington. One state governor, filled to
Gentlemen addressmg the com- the brim with wrath over troubles in
missioners, "your statement of the 'euW. !,. : v:
conditions reminds me of a man out in wealth, went to Washington and "had
Ho Tl 1 "ame f ? Wh Un- " OUt" first with Secretary Stanton to
h R, ",Se VCry Ia''K-e f a huf;e increase in his After a
hogs. But as they grew, ,t became stormy interview, such as Stanton
too big a job to feed them. Finnic il.. m . i.. j , T
he planted an immense field in nota- govern krtU llw ' "T
and. as soon as the potatoes dent, prepared to make the adminisl
a peace on the basis of emancipation
of the slaves, the entire structure of
southern society would be plunged into
irremediable ruin. No work would lie
done, nothing would be cultivated;
whites and blacks alike must starve,
for the freed slaves, accustomed to
overseers, would undoubtedly abstain
wholly from labor.
The president waited for Seward to
make some effective rejoinder. But
the experienced statesman could find
no cogent reply. At length, Lincoln
framed the answer, in a story culmi
nating in a phrase that gave common
currency to a colloquialism,
tration respect what he conceived to
be his rights and those of his fellow
citizens. Three hours passed, while James B.
Fry, who described the occurrence,
watched and waited for the outcome.
At length the governor emerged, smil
ing and happy.. Mr. Fry went in to
the president.
"Well," he remarked, "I see you
have sent the governor away satisfied.
Did you have to concede very much to
him?"
"I conceded nothing," Mr. Lincoln
responded. "I simply worked around
him and took three houlrs doing it.
And all the time I was doing it, I was
in mortal fear that he would find out
what I was doing. 1 reminded myself
of a farmer out west. He had a big
log lying in the middle of his best
field, and all his neighbors wondered
how he would manage it. But before
long there was his crop growing as
fine as you please, and the farmer was
happy as could be.' .They asked how
he had got rid of the log. ,4 v
" 'Why,' he said, 'that duni los? was
too big to haul and too knotty to split.
ano too soggy to burn. So I just
plowed around it.' " '
toes:
During one of the public receptions
at the White House, a farmer from
one of the border counties of Vrieinia
used it as the occasion for demanding
mat tne president attend immediately
to his claim for reimbursement for
some hay and a horse that had been
levied on by Union soldiers.
"But, my friend, if I were to take
up such cases during such a war. I
could make work for twenty presidents."
But the farmer was nersistent: hia
loss obscured, in his eyes,, all the
emergencies of the government and
the war. The president had to revert.
to the recourse of his frontier days.
oee nere, mend," he observed,
your case and mine remind me nf
what happened to a husky old Illinois
riverman I used to know. From beinr
a mighty good rafteman, he got the
job of being captain on a steamboat.
He knew the (river well, and ha
could trust only his own hands at the
wheel when his boat went thrmio-h Mia
rapids. One day the old craft was
plunging and wallowing in the boil of
the waters, and her captain was hang
ing on to the wheel for deanvlife. v)i
a boy pulled his coatte.il anxiously:
' 'Say, Mr. Captain,' said til eboy,
u" wish you'd stop your boat for a
minute; I've lost my apple .over
board."' 1
Mrie Doro, Lasky Star In Paramount
Picturss.
Mnrle Doro plnys the title role of tha
I.nsky adaptation of "Oliver Twist." a
l'arnmount Picture. The costume bIih
wears ia the same one which she usi-d
In the great all-stnr revival of the jilay
Ht the Now Amsterdam Theatre In New
York durinir the Dickon Centenary in
1912, in which she won a Kront nersnn.
al success. The producers have mine to
great lengths In order to make every
detail of this adaptation as authentic
ns possible. Copies of the celebrated
Crulksliank illustrations of the. iir
trillion of the stnry were obtained and
useu as models for the construction of
tinny 0f the scenes.
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