La Grande evening observer., February 14, 1917, Image 4

iAGE FOUR
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
WEDNESDAY,' FE
ARY 14, 1917:'
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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A HIGHWAY FOR EASTERN , OREGON.
The Observer received a telegram this nioriiiiitr'.that
the. proposed road bills now before the State Senate and
House or Representatives include a lnghwav through
Pendleton, La Grande and Raker. J t is to be hoped that
at this session of the legislature, a bill will be passed that
will definitely establish a state highway through this part
of Eastern Oregon. Once the highway is authorized by
law and the route fixed, funds can be provided for building
the road from the state highway fund, and the counties
also can do a certain amount of work each year. The auto
mobile as a means of transportation has come to stay, and
it is not hard to realize just what this highway would mean
to this state in the way rr1 development. The day is past
when a section isolated from automobile trael will advance
rapidly. A state highway connecting our country with
the Columbia River highway would bring a steady stream
of travel, which could not help being beneficial to everv j
citizen in this district.
If !i -(Umil('to xttiip liifrhwjiv 'svuhMii is; to lw. i-shili- from the blockade zone.
lished we should all work to see thJat the rights of Eastern
Oregon are not lost in the shuffle.
I Child Labor.
Salem, Ore., Keb. 12. (To the Edi
tor) Every good mother and father
is concerned with how child labor is
regulated in Oregon. At present the
child labor laws are enforced by a
commission of four devoted women
and one man. The total expense to the
state is less than $5000 for each two
year appropriation period.
These four women have at heart the
welfare of the child. They are Miss
Pauline Kline of Corvallis, Mrs. Millie
R. Trumbull of Portland, Mrs. Turner
Oliver of La Grande and Mrs. Sarah A
Evans of Portland. Mrs. Trumbull is
secretary of the board and the only
paid executive in charge of the work.
She is sensible and experienced, a
woman of judgment and courage, Her
work requires rare qualities of tact,
patience and firmness in dealing with
rapacious employers and greedy par
ents who conspire to make little chil
dren lie about their cge so as to evade
the; law. She brings to bear upon her
work the experience and training of
years of social service, and that genu
ine affection for children which places
their welfare before all selfish con-sideration.
This work is now in jeopardy, as
legislators propose to consolidate it
into one of the paid political boards.
where it would be administered as a
mere detail by state officers busv
with many other matters and con
cerned primarily with making political
records for themselves. This would
be sacrificing the children's welfare
on the altar of political consolidation.
I urge good mothers and fathers to
write to their members of the senate
and house beseeching them to consider
the little children and not let the poli
ticians get control of Oregon's child
labor administration.
C. C. CHAPMAN.
lie on one side nor all the wrong on
the other side. Also it illustrates the
advisability of each side speaking to
the other with entire frankness. ,
. .It must be confessed that in dealing
"with the social evil, American cities
have done even less than the older
European cities, which have done little
to check it. Crusades, of which the
present one in San Francisco is a type
have never accomplished permanent
reform. No betterment can ever be
worked so long as city governments
Shut their eyes and refuse to recog
nize tne existence or the social evil
Evening Telegram.
Would Keep Out of War
Burbank Gives New
Dahlia to Oakland
California City Adopts and Names its
Official Flower. .Will plant it on
W izard s Birthday.
THE FORUM
labor and expenditions," and to the
other, "You are entitled to the re
'siduc and must have it at cost price
('plus storage." He will say to the
j speculator, "Depart thence go and
produce something," and try to
I make an honest living. For like all
other purcesitcs you are a hindrance
HIGH COST OF UV1NG
Editor of Observer: ,
The high cost of livine is a Drob-
lem still unsolved. Your latest cor- to life and growth,
(respondent on the subject (Jennie I Uncle Sam regulates the profits of
Disqua) gwritea a very intorestin the geulwags, and has made it illegal
article on the cost of living and other 'to speculate in gaelway tickets. If
matters, of vital importance, such as ticket scalping is a crime,-why should
success and failure in life persuit. wncai scaipuig, or potato scalping pe
For several reasons I conclude that 'allowed ? If car shortage, does not
the writer is a woman: First, Because effect the ralo of freight by rail, why
ithe letter is non committal, second, should a hypothetical shortage of
a great deed can be read between the (Train be allowed to raise the price of
flower? ,,
When our good natural Uncle Sam
'gets ready to spend the enormous
sum that Jennie Disqua has figured
out for the cultivation of young
brains then man will learn how to
lines, third; it is mild and pcacefying;
fourth, the ending is better than the
beginning.
Her promise to procure me a job
in Washington right away is very
encouraging, and nothing stands in
the way only the writter's doubts of procure nourishment for his body in
my ability to live on fifteen cents a different way, but until then it is
day. She may consider the bargain likely he will have to dig and grunt
closed right now. I will agree not
only to live on it, but will also agree
to maintain normal weight.
It Is just possible that a little
"wider experience of nation and peoples
might tend to remove some of the
scepticism about pleasure-living be
ing more conducive to health and
longevity, than all , the dainties on
the President's table.
The applied knowledge of these
facts wili lessen the cost of living
very consilcrably, but to bring it
down to a just proportion of a labo
ing man's earnings will probably re
quire a complete change in our econ
omic system of distribution.
Uncle Sam will have to 8 top right
in between the producer and consumer
WkJ say to the one, "You must re
ceive a generous profit on all your
for it. At present man in general
very much resembles John Burroughs
figure of the man with a much rake
who whs so hussy raking sticks and
straws that he could not see the
angel holding a gold crown over his
head.
As regards success in life I must
diffor from Jennio Disqua. It cannot
be measured by dollars nor jobs. The
man or woman who during life has
learned from whence they came and
why they came here and who has so
lived that they leave this world as
clean morallly as when they entered
it, will have made a success of life.
dollars or no dollars.
L. Garrick.
iiiiuier, we., reo. a .snould we
idcclare on Germany? No. Is it n
last resort? No.
, President Wilsan will warn Americans
So does Mt
Uryan, and he soys to not grant
clearance papers to any vessel to en
ter said zone. Would not this be a
thousand times better and cheaper
man to enter the war? I do not
want my boys to have to cross the
ocean and fight and die for monarch-
ml governments, for, as Brvan savs
if we enter the war it will be on the
side of the allies and we must not do
that. We are all ready to defend our
country against invasion and all cross
ing the ocean and entering the block
ade zone to get into this European
war. One side is as bad as the other.
Let us keep cool, at a safe distance.
and let them fight it out.
I am a Wilson man. He has done
great thing's for the country, for
which we laud him, and we hope he
may make no mistake in letting us be
drawn into this war. A. F. Wilson.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Scarlet Women Speak.
Oakland, Culif., Feb. 13 Luther
Burbank, whose plant magic has made
his name known around the world
has just succeeded in propagating an
other flower wonder. It is the largest
'white dahlia ever produced. It is to be
known as Burbank's Oakland dahlia,
being thus named because of the great
floriculturist's kindly feeling for this
city.
Burbank offered Oakland Its choice
of a new rose he has recently develoD-
ed, the dahlia or a magnificent glad
iolus. The Oakland chamber of com
merce, to which the offer was made,
selected the white dahia.
The. planting of this official flower
of Oakland will be made a fate event.
It is planned to bring Burbank to this
city on his birthday and make the
day a municipal holiday. State, city
and county officials will be on the
reception committee and the school
cnnuren will turn out .en masse
greeting.
The dahlia is to be planted in one
of the big public parks of Oakland.
This detail is not yet decided, but
popular sentiment favors the City
Hall Plaza.
It was in this park that the oldest
oak in Oakland its age was various
ly estimated at from 200 to 500
years recently died from senility.
Its place has been taken with a sturdy
young oak from the foothills of the
Coast range of mountains.
It is hoped to make the Plaza a
typically Oakland park, for the Cham
ber of commerce has requested each of
the other 27 Oaklands in the United
States to send it a tree to plant beside
the; central oak. . Oakland, Md., al
ready has responded and the other
Oaklands are falling in line. The re
quest for oak trees following the re
fusal of the other Oaklands to sur
render their nanie to this city.
After the Oakland dahlia s Dlanted
in this park representative of all the
Oaklands, each city and town of that
name will be given a bulb of the offi
cial) flower for planting in one of its
paries.
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A generous type in
rich brocade satins Kxta , showing to
particularly suitable " n
choose
for Holiday Gifts.
from at
25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50
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Made of high grade natural silk, popular
crochet or accordion titche bright
colored itripej.
they knew of no law where schools
could be closed on account of measles
or at least without consent of the
techool board.
Under these instructions the flag
'was removed by Superintendent Arant
and school was continued until the
following Tuesday evening when, at
the regular meeting of the school
board, the health committee presented
a written petition to he school board
requesting that the school be closed.
Though it was further shown in the
evidence that M. K. Hall, county
An unusual showing of
Ladies' Xecke war. The
and
at'; attractive
prices.
50c to $1.75
KEISER
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All bright aillc-
over 60 plain new spring styles
catAri n
popular hapet. Colors
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was brought to his attention, and that
he was not consulted and knew noth
ing of the institution of the case until
after it had been commenced. : He be- !
lieves that the case is essentially a
question between the health board of
the town of Union and the school dis-
'trict and that inasmuch as the case
was instituted by the health board at
Union, it being entitled, "State of Ore
gon, G.' Hi Rollins, -W. D Hanks, O
M. Crossland and W. M. Emery,
against E. E. Arant," and A. J. Ter-
ral, the attorney who had the case in
health officer, was called and advised hand, and representing the plaintiffs"'
Confession
amends,
of fault makes half
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"Where There's a Will,
There's a Wat."
There's no task too great to undertake if you
have the will. If you will to save money, you
oan do it You aon't necessarily have to be
"short" to save just bonk a part of your earn
ings at this bank, each week or month you will
be Burpriaed at tho rapidity of ita increase. Then
you are ready to tackle the larger things in life.
Show your will, and . determination to win, by
starting an account with us today. And Stay
Wrtii It!
i MAKE OUR BANK YOUR BANK
& La Grande National'Bank
In San Francisco, where a crusade
against the uptown "tenderloin" or
"red-light" district is being waeed. a
chief among sinners courageously met
in intellectual combat a chief amontr
accusers. She attacked him in his own
pulpit with earnestness and exception
al vigor. Keeping safely within the
"bounds of propriety that governs dis
cussion in a house dedicated to God,
she put this crucial question to the
pastor: "What do you propose to do
with us scarlet women after vou have
ariven us into the street?"
Of course, the minister of Christ
could not reply. There is no answer.
Ever since society was organized it
has turned its back upon the scarlet
woman. She never has had a place
except among the women of her own
kind. The door to good women is
closed and forever kept stoutly barred.
Has the scarlet woman any claim
whatever upon society? Tho sensa
tional debate in a San Francisco
church established one startling prece
dent her right to be heard in her own
defense. Not a voice was raised in
protest. The fact that the Associated I
Press and its oowerf ul newsnanerv 1
carried a wail from the underworld,
ior me iirst time in history, to all the
homes of the United States is proof
that at least in this land the scarlet
woman is still regarded as a human
being.
In the play " Forget-Me-Not."
middle-aired folk will remember, thn
author raises the question of a double
starxlard for men as against a single
standard for women. He pubs on the
lips of Stephanie, an erring woman,
these words which she hurls with t.re.
mendous dramatic effect at a rich lib-
ertine: "Why should a man lonrf t.
lives while a woman stands or falls by
Marine Corps Tries
To Find Mens' Heirs
Washington, D. C, Feb. 14. The
endeavor of the European nations to
locate relatives of men who have fal
len in battle while serving with the
various foreign legions bears an in
teresting comparison to similar efforts
now. being undertaken in this country
to trace the relatives or heirs of men
in tho American service who have
died, . some of whom left valuable
property. 4 .
The United States Marine Coros
the school board that school could not
;be closed for measles.
The school board decided it would
be for the best interests of the com
munity to close all city schools.
It was also shown in the examina
tion last night tlmt no flags were put
up at other public buildings by the
health committee and public gather
ings were unrestricted, excepting re
strictions were put upon children un
der high school age attending Sunday
schools or other public gatherings and
theaters.
During the course of the examina
tion there was a great deal of animos
ity, shown, between the two local
boards. '
had looked into the matter and was
attending to it, had informed him that
a lawful order of the state health
board had been violated he thought it
best the parties in Union settle it
among themselves. While he is doubt
ful about the law of the state having
beein violated from the circumstances
reported to him by both sides, yet in
asmuch as the proceeding had already
been started without consulting him
he deemed it not,jroper to recom- ,
mend a dismissal to the. justice. . He, ,
states that the Question should
heen tested by an injunction proceed-
a tivii ucuon in tne circuit
court between the town and the schrml
district, or those representing the con
tending sides; that inasmuch as the
case is to come before the grand jury
When seen today District Attorney
Hodgin said in regard to the Union I the facts will be presented to th oirw
issued a bulletin today, containing the controversy that while engaged in the judge for his opinion as to wheth
names of Sergeant Albert Jolly, of trial cases in the circuit court and j er law has been violated by the su-
Melbournc, Australia; Corporal Thorn- attendance upon the grand jury a case
as Brophy, of Doublin, Ireland; and instituted in Union against Professor
Private Owen Woods (former address Arant for violating a quarantine of
unknown), m a futher effort to locate tne health officer of the crty of Union
their heirs or next of kin. iThese
men, who have been dead over ten
years, left effects of considerable
value, and numerous inquiries during
that peroid have failed to locate their
rightful heirs.
penmenoent or the schools tearing
down a quarantine flag placed on the
school grounds by the city; health offi
cer, quarantining against measles. ,
"What Did You See?"
The spokeswoman for the San r rftn-
circo scarlet women proposed a rem
edy, not for the denizens of the red
light" district, whose cases are ir
remodial, but a preventive for the fu
ture. She said to the pastor of the
church: "You and your people say
'our boys most sow their wild oats
All right, you see before you the har
vest of those wild oats." She begged
church mothers to rear their toin ao
that they would not debauch women.
The extraordinary incident at San
Francisco illustrates for th
sandth timo the well-known truth that
i yuuuq ouesuoo aoes all the right
UNION MEN BOUND
. TO GRAND JURY
.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Local persons differ in the matter
out the majority of the people seem to
think Arant is a victim between the
two contending boards.
The prosecution showed that an at
tempt had been made to hold a joint
mcetmg ot the health committee and
the school board Sunday, Februarv 4.
but tht there was but one member of
each body present. No legal or defi
nite action was taken at this meet
ing, the evidence showed. Superin
tendent Arant was not ordered to
close the schools.
The schools opened Mondav morn
ing, 'February 5, as usual, but between
the Sunday meeting and the opening
of school tho city marshal, following
the instruction of the chairman of the
Union board of health, had placed a
white (measles) quarantine flag on
North school. When he learned of
this action School Superintendent Ar
iint is snid to have immediately con
ferred with the school board and he
was informed that the board had not
brdered tho school closed.
Superintendent Arant then confer
red with County School Superintend
ent a. t,. ivaiihoe and Distrirt Atw.
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