La Grande evening observer., March 22, 1917, Image 3

THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1917.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER.
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GOOD ROADS CAMPAIGN IS UNDER WAY.
Oregon's good roads campaign has been launched. The
Legislature's Committee of Eight, three senators and five
representatives, has taken charge. Contributions were
' made by all members of the committee, and the formal
request was made of the press of the state that subscrip
tion Hsts be opened in their columns for the collection of
' fuJids for the county and state campaigns. The only re
striction as to subscriptions was that none from -paving
companies may be accepted. All subscriptions made for
the state campaign are to be remitted to Senator E. D.
Cusick, treasurer of the legislature committee, at Albany,
Oregon. County campaign subscriptions are to be handled
entirely by the local organizations.
It was the sense of the committee that organization of
county campaigns be left entirely in the hands of the sev
eral counties, and that the sole function of the state head
quarters is to be the dissemination of such' literature, in
formation, advertising and other service as may be re
quired by the county organizations. The state headquart
ers also wil co-operate in'securing speakers for local meet
ings to discuss the bonding bill. There are many ex
cellent speakers in the different counties who arc well
verged in the provisions of the bill and discuss same ably,
and the services of such will be eiilistel to visit neighbor
ing counties, their expenses to be paid from the state cam
paign fund.
To unite all the counties in the state campaign, a con
vention of supporters of the bond issue has been called to
meet at Portland, Saturday, April 7. Meanwhile, the Leg
islature Committee will take charge of the state head
quarters, the immediate work to be under the supervision
of an executive committee consisting of Senator W. D.
Wood of IliUsboro, Chairman, Senator E. D. Cusick of
Albany. Treasurer, and Representative Rov W. Ritner
of Pendleton, Secretarv.
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Mrs. A. E. Tvanhoe has been appointed on the text book
commission. Mrs. Tvanhoe will reflect credit upon East
ern Oregon and will be fully able to meet the governor's
desire that the state textbook commission .shall see that
the school textbooks breathe a spirit of patriotism and
inculcate good citizenship as well as love of country.
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Two countries may be in a state of war. before actual
declarations are passed or hostilities reach an active point.
Japan was at war with Russia , several days before war
was declared. England was at war with Germanv before
a declaration. It seems to be the opinion in government
and diplomatic circles that a state of war has existed be-
I Get A Gold Metal I
There is a contest on at this Bank whereby you can
earn a Gold Medal that is worth twenty dollars. All
can enter. It isn't necessary to be a hero to enter
this contest, but is is necessary to have the "book
bone" of a hero, and "stick-to-it-iveness," for it takes
nerve to quit spending and save.
WE GUARANTEE YOU A GOLD MEDAL
All you have to do is place one dollar on deposit
now, and another next week and so on, for about
eighteen more weeks, and at the end of this time
you will have a "A BIRD" of a medal, with aa
American Eagle on It.
IT'S WORTH A TRIAL
YOU CANT LOSE
This Resolution looks good to me,
And to keep it will surely pay;
"I will start for myself a savings fund.
And bank the first dollar today."
La Grande National Bank
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tween United States and Germany since n week ago
Wednesday when tbe Algonquin was sunk. Regrettable
as it is, it means that this country has not been the ag
gressor and the burden of starting war with a friendly na
tion falls upon Germany. The United States can now pro
ceed to protect the lives of its
precipitating a war because war has already been thrust
upon us. When Congress meets on April 2, that body will
probably uphold the hands of
national pern. The eleven
to the test again.
Mrs. George Grateful
Lady Injured in Chinese War Pro
foundly Thanks Her Friends..
Flrom her bed in the Grande Ronde
hospital Mrs. C. E. George, who was
injured by a bullet that went astray
in the recent Chinese tong war, wel
comed her callers with a smile today
and uttered words of intense appre
ciation for the many kindnesses be
stowed upon her by the people of La
Grande:
"I regret my inability to find
words with which to express my deep
appreciation of my friends," said Mrs.
George. "It was a terrible accident
and when my physiciuns held grave
fear that amputation of my foot
seemed necessary I confess that the
world looked pretty dark. Even in
the darkest hour, however, I was
farced to feel a cheerfulness through
the generosity md the heartfelt sym
pathy of La Grande people. And then
when it became apparent that l would
not suffer any loss of limb my joy
knew no bounds and my bright hopes
have been reflected back and forth
from the flowers sent by friends to
my bedside. The money, amounting
to about $550, that has found its way
to me from the purses of friends dur
ing this affliction will be very help
ful, and I am so thankful for it. When
I think of the bullet that whizzed
past me as I fell and realize how
surely it would have struck me in
probably a vital place had not the
first bullet hit mo where it did, I feel
that after all I am very, very fortu
nate and things might have been
much worse."
After resting a moment Mrs.
George turned her head . murmuring
o herself: "I am so thankful for all
these favors; God is always good."
New Interest In "the Work Of Hotel
Employees.
"E. M. Statler was the first hotel
man in America to establish a death
benefit plan for all employees with
out cost to them," says Merle Crowell
in the April American Magazine.
"Every person on his pay roll, from
dishwasher to house manager, is given
a benefit certificate which provides
that a sum equal to one year's salary
shall be paid, at the employees death,
to any person designated. This is an
month has the same stnnding as the
oldest official.
'"Charity? Not at all!' Statler will
tell you. 'A man is bound to worry if
he feels thhat his death might leave
his family unprovided for, and worry
.does not make for efficient service.'
"A stock subscription plan is 'also
promoted for the benefit of employ
ees." Fuller's earth is now used in bleach
ing, clarifying of filtering vats, and
rarely for filling cloth, the purpose for
which it was employed originally.
Ambassador Was Dead, and That wag
All.
London, Feb., 20 (By Mail)
When the late Russian ambassador,
Count 'Benckendroff, lay on his death
bed, the London newspapers were
keenly interested in his conditions.
Ono reporter, somewhat more per
sistent than his revals, mode almost
hourly trips to the Embassy to re
ceive bed-side bulletins. Each time he
appeared he was informed by a ma
jestic English flunky in gold lace that
there was "rahly no chynge in his
Excellency's condition. Quite nothing
to report." After about six weary
rounds between his office ond the
Embassy, the reporter became sus
picious of the monotory of the butler's
reply, and said he d just sit down and
wait until there wan some change.
"But, rahly sir, remonstrated the
flunky, "there'll be nothing futher to
report, His excellency died two hours
ago."
Freakish Gowns and Summer Furs
For American Women Must Go
Chicago, March 21. (United Press)
Freakish styles in the costumes of
American women are doomed. The !
1500 designer-dressmakers, here for
the sixth semi-annual convention of
the Fashion Art Iieague of America,
said last week. They will compete
for prizes offered for the best and
simplest designs of various gowns, in
cluding tailleur, afternoon and even
ing frocks. Exhibitions of the gowna
on mannequins will feature the con
vention, which ends Thursday even
ing. As an example of the pressure
tho designers are bringing to bear in
the effort to eliminate freakish modes,
the style committee has issued an
edict, tabooing "summer furs." No
longer will milady appear in tho tor-
citizens without thoughts of
the President in this hour of
Senate tmousters will be put
High School Class
Games Was a Big
Freshman Victory
On Monday evening in the gym of
the La Grande high school the classes
of the high school played out a bas
ketball tournamont. The games Were
fast and scrappy and each class
struggled hard for the honors. The
Fireshman class being the weaker
team, and having no first squad man
in their class, obtained the aid of
"Tubby" Niles the high school ath
letic coach, to play with them.
Naturally the Freshmen class, being
strengthened with such a star, subdued
their opponents. The first game of
the evening was played between the
Freshmen and Sophomores, the game
ending with the following score:
Freshmen 9, Sophomores 8. The sec-
fond game was played between Seniors
and Juniors, the result being Seniors
21, Juniors 17. After ' this double
header the two winning teams played
a fast and exciting game. The Sen
iors being tired from the game be
tween them and the Juniors, fell a vic
tory to the Freshmen. Score was
13-15. Lineup was:
Freshmen Bean, Spencer, Niles,
Hunter-Dutch, Proctor; utility, Hais-
.ten, Horstman. Sophomores E. Ly-
, man, R. Lyman, F. Young, Chcnault,
Taylor. Juniors McDonald, Stod
dard, Bunting, Currcy, Roberts. Sen-
, iors Millering, Murphy, Larsen,
: Pearson, Reynolds.
Here's A Lesson That Our Colleges
Might Well TaKe To Heart
In the April American Magazine
Dean Herman Schneider of the engin
eering school of the University of Cin
cinnati says:
, "Our colleges might well take to
their classrooms a lesson from their
.athletic fields. No athletic trainer
I would think of putting track candi
date into the grandstand and giving
them a lecture of the theor of jumping
I hurdles, followed by a demonstration
of his own. A team trained in this
I wise, presented with diplomas, and
.sent to compete with youths who had
, learned to race and hurdle in the hur
ly-burly competition of the comer lot,
would make a pitiful impression."
Service, A Hotel's Most Important
Commodity.
In the April American Magazine is
an article by Merle Crowell about E.
M. Statler, one of the biggest hotel
roen in the country.
"A hotel has just one thing to sll,"
Statler declared. "That thing is ser
vice. The hotel that sells poor service
is a poor hotel, though its rooms may
be fit for sheltering princes and its
food faultless. And the hotel that sells
good service is a good hotel. You may
gamble on that. I can build a two-n.illion-dollar
house, but I can't make
it pay without courtesy."
Fine Workmen Sometimes Make Poor
Foremen.
"The best workmen sometimes make
the worst foremen," says Dean Her
man Schneider in the April American
Kagazine. "There is the case of a
'drayman for a big jobbing house whj
I was promoted to foreman becnuse of
t unusually faithful and loyal work.
Forthwith. he grew fretful and wor
j ricd, then .his health Degan to fail. Ho
; proved to be one of the most incompe
tent foremen ever employed by the
firm. One day he asked for his old
job, and became once more happy and
efficient. "
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iH'"m itvc wccn mi i it-u un in iao
5 Canal Zone by a North Carolina man.
rid temperature of a July day, bundled
to the ears in, furs, if she would dis
play good taste. Tho designers, how
ever, are discriminating carefully be
tween tho sensible and the extreme
and have therefore made no effort to
banish the very practical short skirt.
"Skirts are to hang straight, with two
to two and one-half yards about the
hem. They Rhould be six to eight
inches from the ground a 'tiny bit
longer than last season," said Mme.
Allie E. Bailey, president of the
league. Dresses are to be of wool, or
combinations of wool and silk, and the
hats, parasols r.nd other accessories
are to be of contrasting color to en
liven tho ensemble.
THE WHA. T-yO U-MA. J
COLUMf
By "GM"
Spring.
Spring is Nature's apology for Sum
mer and Winter.
Everyone, including the man who
froze his face last January and the
man who suffered a heat prostration
last August, is supposed to be hnppy
in Spring.
Spring is the time of year when
radiators, tea kettles and prima don
nas quit singing and the birds begin.
Spring is everywhere, in Spring. In
the step, the eye, the atmosphere,
everywhere. There's only one place
where Spring isn't. That's in a $1
a day hotel bed.
The only unpleasant thing about
Spring is poots.
Spare Ribs
Spare ribs is a very considerate
meat. It growo its own handles.
It comes to the table grouped
around convenient bones. And it sits
up on the plate and behaves itself
whilo it's being eaten.
Would to heaven wo could say as
much for chicken wings.
We have always suspected that the
chicken heard about the arrangement
the hog had made with his ribs, start
ed out to grow its bones accordingly
and made a botch of it.
But the chicken did better with its
bones than some food, at that. Look
at fish. And even tho hog fell down
on some points. As instance pig
knuckles.
Furniture.
Do you live on your furniture, or
for it?
Every once in a while our wife gets
the idea that furniture is something
sacred. And she gets to lavishing
more loving care on rugs and racks
and tables and chairs than she does
on us.
Maybe that's natural. The furni
ture's home more than we are. But
we resent tho alienation of bur wife's
affections by gate-leg tables and
things just the same.
We are in favor of chairs to sit in.
Pillows 1o lie on. Carpets that can
take a little granulated tobacco with
out getting sick at the stomach; and
hice curtains that can be crumpled out
f the way when the occasion demands.
Wc want a house with nothing in
it that can't be abused with impun
ity. Will the City of the Future be Built
in a Straight Line?
"Roadtown", tho city of the future,
described in the April American Mag
azine, is the novel idea of an inventor
named Edgtar Cliambless, who has
conceived an entire city with an ideal
transportation system shooting out ui-
to the country in a straight line. En
gineers, city planners and efficiency
experts have marveled at its possibili
ties. 'IWbile studing the transportation
problems of New York City, trying to
figuro out a subway system for
freight delivery, Mr. Chambless evolv
ed a housing scheme, a series of
towers like smokestacks, joined and
braced from outside, each apartment
an entire floor with air and light on
all sides, easily accessible by fast
elevators, to be built of concrete, two
hundred and twenty-five stories high
What's the
Between aDozenEggs
and a Quart of
Milk?
A six-cent egg at a convention of Milk
enthusiasts would feel like a bad cent.
It would immediately go out and get
sorambled. Every time a man is askea
to say anything about the value of milk
he says it's worth a lot more than egge.
The report of the tri-state milk com
mittee appointed by the governors of
Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland
give us this information once more. It
says that a quart of milk is equal in food
value to eight eggs. And it says that
when the consumer pays forty-five cents
a dozen for eggs while a quart of milk is
worth nino cents he is paying three aid
three-tenths as much for the same food
value. It costs him two and three-fourths
times as much for real food when he pays
twenty-nine cents a pound for round
steak.
What is there about a hen that makes
the consumer want to squander his money
a her product while he kicks like a steer
when the price of milk is advanced a
ant? Is it because eggs are solid and
Bilk is liquid? Or is it because the kea
makes noise about her basiness?
- Country Gentleman.
(See The
Pure Milk & Cream Co.
and engineers pronounced it poss
ible! Suddenly, in tho night, the idea
came to him to take the towers down1
and lay them flat on the ground to
build out into tho country not up in
to the eky.
"This, then; is the plan for the city
in tho country; The houses, whether
a hundred or a thousand, are all in
one line. The basement is a con
tinuous passage, with a noseless and
well-ventilated system lof transpor
tation. Each house has its own stairs
to the platform, which runs tho en
tire length.
"In this basement are the conduits
for all the pipes and wires of Road
town. Having gas, water, end elec
tricity in a straight line is one of the
great economies of the new city.
"Every apartment has on two sides
air and light. The two ends partition
off tho adjacent houses.
" The country, with gardens and
farms, is immediately accessible at
overy point. Within a half mile on.
either side, there are two acres of
land for each family, sufficient, the
intensive agriculturists assert, for
their support.
"The roof of this long line of houses
is also continuous passage."
Jesus Never Stood for "Peace at Any
Price"
That Jesus was not a pacifist is the
gist of the following quotation from
an article in the April Americas.
Magazine entitled '"My Silent Part
ner," which gives a new interprcta-.
tion to the life of Christ as applied to
modern problems:
"Ho went down to Jerusalem at the
very beginning of hi3 public work, and
all the way along the road he heard
the complaints of tho peasonts about
the exactions and oppression of the
priests. When lie finully reached the
city his temper was pretty well
aroused. He strode into that temple
and stood like a young giant among
that noisy crowd of traffickers. He
saw the poor coma timidly forward
and drive their bitter bargains with
the priests; his blood boiled.- He
stooped down and picked up some bits
of cord that lay at his feet and while
he watched h half unconsciously
braided them into a whip."
"Then suddenly he trode forward
into that wrangling crowd of petty
theives, and began hurling their coun
ters to the floor. One after the other,
he flung their tables and chairs before
"htm; he opened the cages whore the
doves were kept; he turned their oxen
lose upon them. The theives dropped
back amazed; the crowd, quick to sense
the situation, flung themselves eager
ly at his back. And so, his eyes flash
ing fire, his little whip rising and
falling across the backs of the skulk
ing crew before him, he drove them
forward, through the court, under the
gates, out in the city streets. Single
handed, unknown, without reputation
or authority, he had attacked the
stronghold of special privilege, and
won. The temple had been swept
clean."
Baby Words Rule Songland.
In the April American Magazine
E. M. Wickcs says:
"The simpler and clearer a lyric is
the more chance it has of getting ac
ross. To carry simplicity to its limit
words of one or two syllables are al
most invariably eoential to a popular
ong hit. The writer has to think in
the same terms as the groat mass of
the people."
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