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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1917)
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSER An Independent Newspaper. Published Daily and Weekly at La Grande, Oregon, by the LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PUBLISHING CO. J. D. MEYERS II. B. LEITER CLARKE LEITER President Vice-President Editor and Publisher Entered at the Postoffice at La Grande, Oregon, as second-class matter. Address all communications to THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth St. On Sale in Other Cities: Oregon Hotel News Stand, Portland; Imperial News Stand, Portland. City Official Paper. Leased Wire Telegraph Report of United Press Associations. The Observer carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on tfie porches. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglecta gett Rg the paper to you on time, kindly phone The Observer, as tnis u the only way -we can determine whether or not the carriers are following Instruc tions. Phone Main 37 before 7:30 o'clock und a paper will be sent you by special messenger if the carrier has missed you. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier. j Daily, by mail per six months ,.iv. Hiao-lB codv 6c in advance ;. 12.50 Daily, per week 15c ' Duily, by mail per three months Dally, per month 65c Daily, per six months in advanee.$3.G0 Daily, per year in advance $7.00 By MsiL Daily, by mail per year, in ad Tance H00 in advance $1.25 Daily, by mail per month 45c The Saturday Evening Observer, per year in advance $1.50 Weekly-Observer-Star, per year in advance $1.50 GERMANY'S LATEST MOVE. The answer to Chancellor Hollweg's complaint that President Wilson was brusque in breaking off diplomatic relations with Gormanv is contained in the letter of Ger man Secretary Zinimerniann to German Minister von Eckhardt in Mexico City. This is a most amazing docu ment. . While protesting on the one hand eternal friendship with the United States, Chancellor Hollwog, Von Bern- i. nyw1 f lift lt iivf f Jnnnfm flinlmrmtio force was conniv- ntvi.ii- cn vti, vvv, -j ing to form an alliance with Japan and Mexico against the United States. When it comes to diplomacy, the Germans have been weak and ineffective. At every point they have been out generaled. Now an important document falls into the hands of the United States and exposes the duplicity and double dealing of the Kaiser arid his emissaries. The effect of this discovery should be to solidify all of the American force of public sentiment back of the Presi dent. He knows the pitfalls with which we are surround ed. He knows the extent of Germany's secret and under ground negotiations. No wonder Mr. Wilson has hinted heretofore of secret perils threatening the peace and wel fare of this country. It is with regret that we learn that Germany, our old friend, lias become a secret enemy, ruthlessly planning and plotting against us. The German note reveals many things concerning the Mexican situation, it explains our difficulties with Villa and Carranza. Undoubtedly other notes had passed before. The whole maze of diplomacy shows that morality and honor are lacking in the foreign diplomats and rulers who try to embroil a peace-loving country like the United States 'in their villianous war for pillage and conquest AMERICAN INDIEEERENC TRAGEDY. 'ETO BELGIAN ' Although conditions in Belgium are appalling and the need is apparently growing, Americans are completely in different according to the statement of one of the mem bers of the Belgian Relief Commission in the March Amer ican Magazine. . . "Americans," he says, "have practically stopped giving to war tharities, now that the novcltv has worn off. Ple thoric with peace and plenty, our whole offering to the Belgian relief work has been only eight million dollars hardly the size of an average war order and this amount had included old clothes and other collateral. I mentioned the fallacy of regarding the relief work as an American enterprise (save in the men who manned it), when French institutions and the British government were giving nine Farmer, but No Farm! V DkLvou A: ever hax tell of a farmer withoutVi farm? , Did you ever hear Nil of a successful business maKwithoutV bank account? Success is ,iusti likelto come to you without a bank atvwuiu as it is to a farmer without k farm. Thi-1 bank meets your needs fits your fa.- . and is a bank of personal service, "ih rame heart v here for the m;.n who opens a small account, as the man who opens one with more, La Grande National Bank r III " Copyright Han Scbarfner ti Marx r 7 Now for an early "announcement Hart Schaffner :& .Marx Styles for spring are here YOU'LL be glad to hear it; most men look forward to this : event with keen interest. Here are some of the good things you'll see at this store. ' " ' ,. The colors: grays, greens, blues and browns-any number of new ideas you haven't seen before. You'll seethe Hart Schaffner & Marx label in all of these garments; it's your guarantee of absolute satisfaction; a small thing to look for, a big thing to find. The styles-the famous Var sity Fifty Five designs for young men and men who like young style. New belt-backs, pinch backs. Varsity Six Hundred overcoats; some with belt all around. The fabrics all-wool; wors teds finished and unfinished; flannels; serges; homespuns, cheviots; Dixie weaves. 4 l m m l w m mm ma ma i v .j j W at t, 1.13 IM'FMnf million dollars a month in the guise of a loan to Belgium, and the English working class, ground beneath the Jug ernaut of war, were managing to raise more than seven millions a year. " 'All Europe flaunts in our faces the fact that we do not represent our country. Do you wonder that our one hundred workers mostly American college men feel that they have been deserted? They know that if the work to which they are giving their lives, their energies, were to stop tomorrow, it would go down in history as the eccentric effort of a few men "completely divorced from their country. " 'And meanwhile the children are starving!' " O Many persons wonder what the British submarines are doing. ' Particulars were recently given in a British prize court of the sinking of the Turkish transport Gul Gamal. which was torpedoed by the British submarine E-14 an.' sunk with the loss of t'L!()0 lives. This happened Mav 10. 1915, and is the heaviest loss of life that occurred in ;i single naval engagement since war began. Tt is impos sible to conceive of so manv lives more than the in habitants of many well-known towns being snuffed o'lt in a few minutes. O Ontriio lost a good citiz- r. and Eastern Oregon a good trier ' in the death last wvk of Arthur W. Trow. Mr. Trow went to Ontario in 1908, was mayor of that city, and active in development and irrigation. Men like Mr. Trow are needed in the development of this state 0 If the town man who is always kicking about the high cost of living, would get busy with the spade and the hoe and start a garden in the back yard this spring, he would do more to lower his high cost of living than the whole Congressional investigation 0 These are the days for the shoemaker to stick to his . last and let the statesmen run the country. Arcade Property and Colonial Theatre Sold wjovu in.-,,, nKni lor tne purchase of the Arcade theater prop erty and the Colonial theater h Meyers & I.eitex, proprietors of the ! Arcade theater, from M. B. and S. A. ' Gardinior. Tho new owners will take possession of the Arcade property at mico nnd the Colonisl theater after . .. mis aeai will in no way af fect the erection t f the new theater to I erected for Meyers & Leiter by the Grande Ror.de Meat company on the Wtes Mock, corner Adams and Dot Btrec n which work will ntart'ns Ed II. Ford will be the house man flffer of t.c Colonlnl theater. FIGHTING PRIEST OF LOWER NEW YORK GETS A NEW PARISH HE CANNOT LOSE New - York, March lJ) "(United Press) Father James B. Ciirry, for" 16 years militart paster of St. James' Catholic chuivu in downtown New York, tod jusKumcd his defies as ir remo...i ror of the Church of the Holy Kami, conferred on him by Cardinal Faj-ley. Father Currv firt amo n nnhlie notice in his fijrht to keep children ..v.u rusnintr me gTowler" in sa loons for their parents. Later he per sonally COnHnrt il mnT,i iv,nelinnat raids on disorderly houses in hi 'ciKiiimrn xMis and organized down town bo-.; oluVva of miscLjf.
