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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!
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DkLvou
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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
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Copyright Han Scbarfner ti Marx
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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.
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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!' "
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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.