La Grande evening observer., February 20, 1917, Image 4

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WASH I NO'i ON 'S BOYJ IOOD.
(Jcorge Washington !i:ul so many sides to his charac
ter, his life was so full of stirring events that we are ac
customed to pay little attention to his boyhood. Outside
of the cherry tree story few of us know very much of his
boyhood in which was sown the seed of his later great
ness. Washington was fortunate in being born of good
family. His ancestors were men and women of good char
acter." If heredity counts for anything, it did in Wash
ington's case. His father was a wealthy planter, who
gave him the benefits of moral and mental culture in his
home. His father impressed upon his son the maxims of
religion and virtue, and imbued him with a high sense
of justice and generosity and a love of truth. George
Washington's half brother, Lawrence, was ambitious, well
educated and cultivated. Young George looked up to
his older brother as n model. Lawrence, in 1740 obtained
a. captain's commission in a regiment raised in the colonies
and served under General Wentworth and Admiral Ver
non against Spain in the West Indies. Here we find the
secret of Washington's martial spirit. Me was then a boy
eight years old. While his brother was away to war, he
ployed soldier, drilled vhis- playmates, took part, in, sham
battles. Washington's father died when he was' eleven
years old in 1743 and he left his family well provided
for. Washington was his mother's eldest son. His mother,
Mary Washington, was a woman of good sense, consci
entious. She governed her family strictly, exacted de
ference, at the same time inspired affection. History
gives a pretty picture of the widowed mother, with her
children at her knee, reading to them her faorite work,
Sir Matthew Hale's "Contemplations". This book was
one of Washington's treasures, preserved by him until
his death. Washington's bearing toward his mother was
affectionate and considerate during all her life. Both had
' a high temper but both learned to control it. Washing
ton received a practical education not the learned
languages or belles lettres. He was trained for ordinary
business. By the age of thirteen he had copied all kinds
of business forms, lulls of exchange, notes, deeds, etc.
And these were a model of neatness and exactness. The
boy Washington did everything that he undertook well.
But he was not a nainbv pamby or a goody goody. He
excelled at all sports, running, jumping, wrestling, pitch
ing quoits. He had a fine physique. He threw a stone
across the Rappahannock. He could ride the most fiery
steed. He was a natural leader, respected by his fellows
and chosen to arbitrate their disputes.
Washington, being of good 'family, associated with the
best people and one of his tasks was to school himself in
deportment and manners. There is still preserved today
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leads them all. He sends 1 4
The Evening Observer away jft
every day to friend in the ft
Creek army.
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deep breath the
of living has not Lb
There V a Hat Style
for Every Man at
Take a
high cost
vet affected the price
It's easv to listen to other
people's troubles.
Every town 1' " days has
a war college. What a lot of
talent President Wilson can
ill on in case of war.
Ann Wednesday Services.
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On Ash Wednesday there will be !
services in St. Peter's church at 10 a. j
m. and 7:30 p. m. .
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you the Hat
Don't take
Drop in today and we will show
for your head Something new
chances. Buy vour new hat at this store
The new styles at the old prices $1.50 to $5.00
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m his own handwriting a manuscript entitled "Rules for elected a president."
JJehavtor 111 Company and Conversation." This illus
trates Washington's exactness and his desire to do all
things correctly and properly. Living for a time with
his brother Lawrence he met many military and naval
officers, and his nature thrived in this military atmos
phere
If the Pavne Tariff bill, he said, "had been in effect
during the calendar year 1916, there would have been
placed in the treasury as customs dues $241 .79 1,000 in
addition to the amounts collected under the Underwood
Tariff Law." This would have been sufficient, with decent
economy, to have paid all the bills, without resort to thia
The youth aspired to a military career, and his hold-up of the brains and energy of the country,
brother obtained for him a midshipman's warrant in the
navy. Although his mother was brave and resolute, she
refused her consent and the naval career was abandoned.
Upon such small things the fate of nation's depends.
Ji.rl Washington joined the British navy, he might have
)-en weaned a wav from his love tor the Colonies and
would probably not have been their leader ia the Revo
lution. ,
So Washington returned to school, studied mathe
matics and land surveying, fell in love when he was fifteen
with an unknown beauty, but pursued his study so dili
gently that he was much further advanced at that age
than the boy of todav, for he was tall, erect and manly
and had acquired the habits of self-reliance and self
training. So we find him at sixteen taking a snrveving
contract for Lord Fairfax and starting out on an expedi
tion beyond the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia. This
tune Alary, mother ot Washington, did not object. Her
boy had grown to be a man. Henceforth his career was
his own to make. And he drove steadily ahead along lines
that inevitablv led to military and public service.
Truly the bov Washington was father of the man.
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The Malheur Enterprise is now edited by George
Huntington Currey, formerly of La Grande. It is a
bright, well edited, eight-page newspaper. ' Mr. Currey
is to be congratulated on getting possession of this news
paper and tho people of Malheur on getting a clever, alert
newspaper editor.
Extravagance Uncurbed.
This vicious method of taxation is a continuing alluring'
incentive to the greatest extravagance. The great masses
of the people do not feel it and are consequently benumbed
as to its effects. Government revenues must be obtained
in some way and it is for the people to provide them. A
just tax levied upon all alike in proportion to their means
would not be felt. A stamp tax for instance is equitable
and economic. If such taxes are increased too heavily the
people are put to it to inquire as to whether government
is being conducted on business principles and without
waste and extravagance. The legislators are curbed by
their constituents and by this sense of responsibility made
careful and wise in their conduct of affairs. Under the
present methods they become heedless and lawless. They
make enormous levies upon an unresisting class, and ex
travance increases unrestrained.
It is time for business to organize and to intelligently
and boldly fight .thpse vicious political raids. " '
Taxing Success is the Latest
Proposal Before Congress
" Worse Things in War
Than Slaughter" -Shepherd
Hiding Behind Preparedness.
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"Where There's a Will,
There's a Way.99.
There's no task too great to undertake if you
have tho will. If you will to save money, you
can do it. You uon'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 its increase. Then
you are ready to tackle the larger things in life.
Show your will, and determination to win, by
starting nn account with us today. And Stay
With It!
MAKE OUR BANK YOl'R BANK
La Grande National Bank
T T T T T 1 I I I I I T TTTTTTTTTTT rf
(The Bat he Review New York.)
The course of the Democratic administration has been
marked by the greatest extravagance, but the statesmen
who are responsible for it, now, in defending this bill, the
8 per cent excess income tax, hide behind the provision
for preparedness.
"The Excess Profits tax," says Kitchin, "will in larger
part be paid by those who were loud Humorists for pre
paredness, who in every shape, fashion and form, de
manded oil their representatives here, these immensely
increased appropriations for the army and navy."
This is fine logic The whole country needs military
protect ion as a matter of the commonest kind of sense, anil
yet the people who had brains enough to see it and insist
upon it, using those same brains to make their business
ventures successful, must pay, while the vast majority who
receive the benefit, go scot free. "The tax they propose,"
says Representative Loiigworth, " is a direct tax upon suc
cess ,just plain, ordinary, modest, success, the success that
distinguishes efficiency from shift lessiiess and thrift from
wasiei unless.
The nroirress of the Democratic iartv bus been in:irl.-,l
by studied, deep-seated antagonism to business. American
business, both at home and in its efforts to extend opera
tions abroad, has been the legislative target of the party.
Sectionalism and class destruction h-v een its - open
object.
In the debate on the bill Representative Fordnev listed
as ut necessary and useless v. pc!vlitures. the Shipping
hill .fr.O.OOO.obi); tiu. Armour Plate plant between $ll'
OOO.ODO and 20.000,000; the Nitrate plant "to make ferti
lizer for the Southern farmer and nothing else under God's
heaven" .0,000.000. "and," he continued, "here is $1 (),
000,000 spent on the Mexican border to catch Villa and
did you catch him? "No." he added, "but with your
.slogan that you kept us out of " ar and with this $lfi2,f)00,
000 and the money raised by t' e Democratic p;irty voir
United Press Correspondent Says the Sight of Thousands
of Men Marching, Herded Together Like Unthink
ing Beasts Is Sadder Than the Sight of the Dead
War Produces Moral Disintegration.
BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD
(Quoted from Today's Issue Of Every Week)
New York, Feb. 20. Those of you who follow the things
I wrote for The Observer and the United Press may have
been impressed with the horror of slaughter among the
fighting people in Europe.
But there are worse things in war than slaughter. In
the current issue of Every Week I have told what those
things are; and a summarized quotation from that story
may interest you:
"Isn't the slaughter terrible?"
Everybody who returns to the United States from the
war in Europe is asked this question, trite as it seems.
My answer must always be:
"Dying or killing are not the most terrible things that
war brings to a man, woman or child. In Europe you see
worse things than dying or killing. Worse things happen
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