THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1917.
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"" LA QftH4lE EVENING OBSERVER.
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PATRIOTISM AND BABIES.
- How the strength of the nation is being impaired by
the conditions which make babies sicken and die, and
what some .two thousand communities have done to awaken
interest in the conservation of the youngest citizens, are
briefly reviewed in a new bulletin on Baby-Week Cam
paigns which has just been issued, by the Children s Burau
or the U. S. Department or Labor.
Approximately one in ten of all the babies born in the
1nited btates dies betore completing twelve months or lile
ana me unnarens uureau says:
"It was once thought that a high infant death rate indi
cated a greater degree of vigor in the survivors. Now it
is agreed that the conditions which destroy so many of
the youngest lives of the community must also result in
crippling and maiming many others and must react un
favorably upon the Wealth of the entire community."
Two thousand one hundred communities have reported
to the Children's Bureau the details of a Baby Day or a
Baby Week by which they called attention to .the need of
protecting their babies. Ingenious devices tor exhibits,
new methods of distributing pamphlets on baby care, ways
m which information on local conditions was secured and
published, and other interesting features from these loea
. eports are described in the bullcting as suggestive ;for
: those who are planning a similar campaign.
The bureau says: "Not all of the 2,100 communities re
porting a Baby-Week Campaign in 1916 may find it wise
to repeat the celebration m 1917; but tne United btates in
cludes 14,186 incorporated cities, towns, and villages, and
it is doubtful if among .the thousands which have never
had a Baby Day or Baby Week there is a single town or
villiage which would not protit trom such a campaign."
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IS YOUR BABY UP TO NORMAL ?
Bv Mrs. Max West, of the Federal Children's Bureau.
(Written for the United Press)
Mothers alwavs like to know whether their children com
pare favorably with others in their development; and to
have some standards bv which to measure growth. Some
of these rules are simple and are easily remembered.
Ti e average weight of girl babies at birth is 7 pounds;
that of bovs 7 1-2. Healthy babies usually double their
weight by the sixth month and treble it by the end or the
first year. Therefore if the baby weighs 21 pounds at 1
vear of age it is up to normal.
The first, tooth is usually cut from the sixth to the eighth
month. The full set of 20 milk teeth should be in place
when the baby is two years old. The "sixth year molar",
a- it is called, is the first of the permanent teeth to appear,
but as it does not replace one of the first teeth mothers al-
A Minister's View of Business Men's
Opportunities
In the April Woman's Home Com
panion the Rev. Dr. C. H. Jefferson,
plastor of the Broadway Tabernacle,
has i.n article on business men and
Christianity in which he says among
other things:
"No other man in the community
has more abundant opportunities for
the developement of the Christian
character than the business man. If
he is only a subordinate, he can be
watchful and industrious and faithful.
If he becomes the head of a firm, and
employs hundreds or thousands of
men, he dan be tok every one of them
a brother. No finer test of character
comes to any man than that which
comes to an employer. To the men
who work for him he is called to be
just, and considorato, and generous,
and kind, land only as he is all of these
does he fulfill the law of Christ.
"If his business docs not prosper,
ho must acquit himself as becomes a
good soldier of Christ. In times of
financial reverse, he should endure es
one who sees the 'Invisible. Calamit
ies sometimes overwhelm the wisest
and the best of men, and when for
tune is swept away the merchant
should show to the world a heart
that is cheerful, because it knows the
peaca that passes understanding.
Few losses are more depressing and
demoralizing than fcho loss of money.
It is in the business world we have
a right to expect some of the great
est heroes of the faith."
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Get A Gold Medal ?
There is h contest on at this Bank whereby you can
earn a Gold Mednl that is worth twonty dollars. All
can enter. It isnt necessary to be a hero to enter
this contest, but is is necossary to have the "back
bone" of a horo, and "stick-to-it-ivenc9a," 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 oa, for about
eighteen more wooka, and at the end of this time
you will have a "A BIRD" of a medal, with an
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 Grander'National Bank
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Nearly every man keeps a lot of
receipts he will never Have any use
for.
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Surprises and delights await every woman who visits our Millinery Depart
ment. The number of models shown, the individuality, their beauty of out
line and color, the practicability of the styles combined, render our display
a unique style show.
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lOW it to decay because they believe it to be a temporary I Grande is geographically lodated to march or in-the trenches, but the Eu
tooth.
The baby begins to laugh aloud from the third to the
fifth month, and speaks a few words by the end of the first
.year. He usually frames short sentences by the time he is
two years old.
Baby should sit up unsupported a little while by the
seventh or eighth month, stand at 10 or 11 months and walk
alone by the 15th or 16th. The soft spot on the top of the
head should be entirely closed by the end of the second
vear.
Senator Walter Pierce Tells
Of 1917 Oregon Legislature
Senator Walter M. Pierce, in a re
cent address before the Business
Men's Tuesday luncheon, spoke on the
Twenty-ninth session of legislature.
He discussed briefly rural credits,
assessment of personal property, the
grain bill and normal schools.
He recommended commission form
of government for the state.
His address follows:
"The most striking thing to me in
the last session, of the legislature was
the tremendous increase of business
and pressure brought to bear upon
legislators, as compared with the ses
sions in which I served twelve and
fourteen years ago. During the ses
sion fourteen years ago, I had a
stenographer about half the time, dur
ing the session twelve years ago, I
did not find work for a stenographer
a third of the time. During this last
session I hnd one of the most compe
tent stenographers in the state of
Oregon, Miss Anderson of La Grande,
and she was busy all the time. I also I
had the services for several days, of
my personal friend, chairman here to
day, Geo. T. Cochran.
So many bills were introduced,
covering so many different subjects,
that it is simply impossible for a
member of either house to read, and
more than in a small way, compre
hend the effect of the proposed legis
lation. There were introduced in the
Senate 317 bills, and in the houss.
there were introduced almost six hun
dred bills. I myself, introduced manv
more bills than I intended to wh?n
the session commenced twenty in all,
ten of which became laws. My most
mportnnt work there was not neces
sarily confined to the bills thnt J introduced.
"The first real struggle in the Sen
ate was over the rural credits bill.
The bill was prepared by the Granite,
the Fanners' Union, and State Tax
Payors' league of which I am presi
dent, and was introduced by the Com
mittee on Agriculture. Thore was nn
attempt on the pnrt of the Mortgage
companies, who have been exnctin;
excessive and burdensome rates of in
terest, to throttle and kill the law, by
means of legislation that would have
made it inoperative. But finally after
li great deal of discussion, and many
contests, the law was passed, which
will give five percent money, if se
cured by mortgages on farms of. this
state, to those farmers who live un-1
on their farms, end do not wish to'
borrow nn amount exceeding SfiOOO.
take some pride in the fact that the
Sennte accepted my version of the
matter and passed by a good majority,
the bill thnt is of such vital interest
to thus community.
Assessment of personal Property.
"The law governing the assessment
of personal property in Oregon has
never been such thnt the assessor
could reach or collect from owners of
stocks of goods, in all cases, the
share of taxes that they ought tD
pay. I introduced in the sennte threa
motasures on the subject of assess
ment amd taxation, covering what I
conceived to be, defects in the existing
law. For instance, prior to the enact
ment of these laws, a man could move
into La Grande on the 5th day of
March with a stock of goods, carry
on business for an- entire year, close
out his goods on the 28th day of the
following Februairy, and pay no share
of the burden of taxes and in no way
be liable to assessment. A man
could be in business on the first day
of March, and under the laws that ex
isted before the enactment of the bills
that I introduced, he could sell his
business after the first of March,
leave the state and there was no legal
way by which taxes could be assessed
hnd collected from that personal prop
erty by the purchaser of that stock,
provided he purchased it after the
first day of March. Under the law as
it will exist, after these senate bilis
have become effective, as they will in
Mlay this year, the assessor will be
empowered to assess the personal
property at any time he finds it and
the tax becomes a lien from the date
he makes the assessment. Transitory
goods can be taxed and the tax col
lected personal property tax is made
a lien upon the real estate owned by
the party having the personal prop
erty. Senate Bill 221, Grain Bill.
"I was deeply interested in Senate.
Bill 224, which was introduced by my
self and known as the grain bill. It
had strenuous opposition, was re
ferred to three committees in the s?r
ate, and finially emerged, was put on
third reading in the senate and was
passed. During the last days of the
session it passed the house and will
become a law in May. It will provide
for state grading of grains and hay
when shipped through a public ware
house. It will not affect a private
operator who wishes to have his grain
or hay handled through a private
house, when marked "Not for termi
nal weights mnd grades." It is the
first step which is absolutely ne.-c-sary
in the bulk handling of gr.iin.
It will save thousands of dollars if
we can dispose of the sack bill, which
this lull docs for us. In this work,
I feel that I have helped my friends
in paving the wny for n vital change
in the loading of grain.
Normal Schools:
The establishment of more normal
schools in this state is a mntter In
which I took deep interest and great
pride. Representative Sheldon of
Jackson County was very anxious to
have the normal school of Southern
Oregon loctited at Ashland. He was a
personal friend of mine and his bill
was arranged, so that I thought it
fitted conditions at home. It pro
vides that there shall be two normal
schools established, one established at
Ashland in Southern Oregon, and a
second school is provided for to be
located by the Board of Regents of
the Normal school. In this, we have
the best chance that we will ever have
to secure a state institution. La
secure that state school. The large ropean nations have concluded that it
district of Wallowa County must come requires five persons in the rear to
through La Grande, the large district keep one soldier well equipped. There
lying east, Baktfr and Ontario, just is much that women can do. The can
about balances the population lying to fill the clerical places and become tele
the west, Pendleton and the sparsely phone and telegraph operators, and
settled country, to the Cascades. We upon emergency they can' run the mo
are the educational center of Eastern tor cars. The hospital duties are
Oregon, the moral tone to our town, largely monopolized by them. The
the high standard of our public survey should cover all the potential
schools, a city government unequaled resources of the county, animals, grain
in the northwest. All these features and food supplies of every character,
combined make La Grande the logical A war census indeed, so complete that
point for location of this normal upon a day's notice we can respond to
school. We should give a unanimous the call of the government with every
vote in this country, to a referendum substantial resource of the county,
bill which will be put on the ballot This should be done everywhere. It
November, 1918, which I believe will ought to be provided for without de
lead to the location of the Eastern lay. Pendleton Tribune.
Oregon Normal School in La Grande. -
Commission Form of Government GERMAN SYMPATHIZERS IN OUR
Recommended: I MIDST.
"It is my opinion that we are ap- "
proaohing a crisis in legislative mat-; We have them with us.'
ters, and a commission form of gov- Men with such pro-German spirit
ernment of some kind will soon aa wouid endanger the safety of the
substituted for the legislative bodies
in the several states of this Union.
During the Inst hours of the last legis
lature we appropriated more than $2,
000,000, with a bare quorum of sena
tors present, oftentimes, with scarcely
any senator voting, with a realization
of the importance of the appropria
tion. True, the bills had the recom
mendation of the ways and means
committee. If we could have in Ore-1
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Stars and Stripes and turn our fair
land over to the kaiser.
It is hardly believable, but it is
true, that one Ewald Nobach, presi
dent of the German Verein of this
city, is circulating a petition memor
nlizing congress in protest against
the "manufactured sentiment" which
is about to involve the United States
in war.
The audacity of the thing at this
gon, say five commissioners, to be nnnwit f an awful .mo; woo cm.
electe from each Congressional Dis- as to bring forth the severest con-
met, limning a. uuuy 01 niteon in an, demnation and censure yesterday,
to sit in continous session at the State when the petition was learned of.
apnoi, patterned alter the model) Such a movement on the part of
v.iy uuvummeni, oi i.a uranae, to
take charge of all matters legislative,
then members of that body or coun
cil, would have ample time to consider
all proposed legislation and requests
tor appropriations for money I be
lieve that it would be a vast improve
ment upon the present biennial ses
sion of the legislature composed of
ninety men, mostly untried end un-
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any of our citizens is unwise, to say
the least. Baker Democrat.
A short time ago we made editorial
comment on the offering of the O.-W.
R. &. N. company to builders of silos
this year along their lines. Following
is the offer, which comes from Frank
W. Robinson, traffic mlanager:
lo anyone who will contract to
Kidney., iMctuiK ivt ueriuu oi ionv u:u - -1 x, t.,-
days, every second January and Feb- " " JK!
ZZV th r f reff0n 8t haS seed cm adapted to the o alTty suf
vP J m S .-mUCh pro-ficient to grow corn necessary to fill
he'S'o'r aUsntb' ingln : capacityprinted
necessary, will send an expert to su
tive, the referendum and the recall.
I believe is the state that should lead
in the abolition of the legislature and
the establishment of a council of
trained business men to consider all
matters legislative."
EDITORIAL COMMENT
It seems ' imperative that there
should be a complete survey of the re
sources of each state in men, pro
ductions and those imph ments and an
imals which may be available in war,
pcrviso the filling of the silo, so that
same will be properly filled."
Here is an opportunity for farmers
to get la high class of tested seed.
Farmer Smith, who has this matter
in charge for the O.-W. R. & N. com
pany, has had great experience along
this line. He has porsonally seen all
the corn in the field and has been in a
position to select only the best. When
we realize that selected seed means
double the yield of "haphazard" se
lection, the importance of this offer is
apparent. The high price of hogs
during the past several months is
After thirty months of observation we ' suroIy a T"111 meentwe for large
have been seemingly taught no lesson aoren ot corn this year. In a few
from the struggle abroad. Now that ?'ear? nW' after the Northwest
conflict menaces our own country we . become,)a corn-producing section,
are just beginning to awake to the'Plone.f8 W?U tel1 at one time
need of preparedness. The surest wav ! ns e grown
nrobablv is to take the onimttf - m cms country,
unit nn.l tnr iha .. it :i. "WW-".
possesses the legal authority, and it
probably does in an emergency and
upon the broad ground of public safe
ty, to immediately provide in each truth. (Bacon.
vuuucy lur u survey unaer competent
authority, to the end that the general
-Portland Live Stock
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
No pleasure is comparable to the
I standing upon the vantage ground of
' .. " . 7 ..." ,u I unexpected to happen,
supplies when such shall be need-
LdVTwfmilita,T RRe " fr0.T ?,! Your grammar if of secondary im
c 4o, but for present purposes , t will portance if you have something to
bo best to cover the ages from 15 to eay.
65, because there is work that boys I
can do and work that old men can A man from the great city is apt
do. They might be efficient in the to act -1.au ,riit;, '
actual work of armies, either upon the 'as if he built the great city. '