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MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1917,
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER.
PAGE THREE
Metropolis Makes Effort
Towards City Beautiful
all good
SUDDOI-t.
whether their business interests hap-1 in the field.
.New York. April 80. (Special) streets, are proposals that
Not all public efforts in the MetroD-: citizens -n nH a
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oils umree auys are war measures, nor
are all her street parades military.
Post-luncheon strollers in Sixth
avenue one day last we6k over-stayed
their hour in thousands to watch a
flamboyant procession 1,200 strong,
with three bands. Placards exhorted
the public to "Brighten Up the Ave
pen to focus in Broadway or another
unorougniare, or even in another city.
It is thus by localized unofficial ac
tivities that city ibeautifying must be
carried on at present in America, a
condition unthinkable in some pa
ternalistic European countries, where
keynote of the meeting which will be
held in Philadelphia from April 26 to
May 2. One entire session will be de
voted to Red ' Cross nursing. Miss
Jnno A. Delano, chairman of the
Committee on Nursing Service of the
American Red Cross wilb take up in
detail the work of that organization
This meeting will tend
,, " "Tri T Civil. A. 7 jl ""o"i UUIU1CUU UUUUU'lO
., x ,OUu, ana comprehensive city planning is the
tSTTt wTV0 Cal fSfWinw. of government Compared
pride. It was the flowering of the with thera American results are
"Sixth Avenue Week" celebration. .-.i x Ill
That much abused and long dingy "SZ, .TiL. " ?
thoroughfare, jealously aroused bv
the revivals going on in Fifth Avenue
and Broadway, decided not to be
pocketed. The merchants of the Ave
nue have banded together as the
:Sixth Avenue association. From
ternalism sufficiently to copy France
ana uermany in this respect?
to stimulate nation-wide enlistment in
this humane service.
Less romantic than the Red Cross
service but equally valuable 'as a war
nursing arm of the government is
the work in connection with the cam
paign against tuberculosis in the
Army and Navy being planned at the
request of the Council of National De
fense by the National association for
the Study and Prevention of Tubercu
losis. Five thousand nurses doing
tuberculosis work, either exclusively
while ago the town hoard of one
township after another decided to reg
ulate business within its borders.
Each went at it regardless of the
other. They decided what kind of
scales their common store should use,
but no two agreed. So . the store
keeper had to buy four sets . They
ruled on the minimum number of
clerks to be employed, minimum
wages and maximum (hours of work
and the number of hours the store
should remain open and the kind,
amount and quality of goods to be
sold, the size of store he should main
tain and the number of counters. In
all these ' matters they ' disagreed.
Furthermore each town board oe
mandod a separate annual report,
each. according to a different system,
making necessary four sets of books
and an additional 'bookkeeper.
"When it camo to setting prices the
store-keeper should charge, tho four
or on part time, will be made avail
New York's penchant for midnight able for ths work of prevention 'towns quarrelled so violently that they
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Herald Square toCentral Park they ,elm 'M. ,hM t ' Mm. .association is submitting to the Coun-
are furbishing. The city has been r..nki. i. v ... oil nf wtVnni tw rannrt nr.
l iit a ,ii i . I ,- r r .
i however, will for n immn t lnoot . nnrea Dv a commission corrroosed 01
demon- tnaan fA nrva Be a hnnnnn 4-ia mn. ! Dr. HfllTnnnrt M TiitrtrR. NftW York
askea for more
Hock has been selected as a
Biraiion, in wnicn Bwwe aecorauon ;:.,. j ;!,; 1n
and illumination are to rival Longacre i8hens 6 e r V'M
Square. Even the' Elevated Road T ' .
there is to be fresh painted. , imKme, if you can, Coney Island
The Fifth Avenue association BtarW?rood,ntr, " darkness in the midst of
mis marsnesi ret sucn is its plan lor
ftho summer. Distracted resort pro-
ed movements of this sort here some
years ago and is now reaping the bene
fit. The Broadway asociation fol
lowed, but its results are as yet
hampered by the ragged mess made
of it by subway construction, that has
long since accustomed New Yorkers to
the honrors of possible trench war
fare on American soil.
In the platform of the Great White
Way 'boosters there is a wholesome
recognition of the fact that great as
Broadway is, it is not the whole of
New York. The planks advocating a
State Commissioner of Health, chair
man; Dr. George W. Kobef and Dr.
Charles J. Hatfield. This report,
which will be made public when mil
itary expediency permits, embraces
tho suggestions growing out of the
work Dr. Biggs dicH in Franco when
ho was called by the French Govern
ment to consider the problem of tu-
iherculosis in tho French Army. The
modern navement. the burpo nmn1o. I -Hook may be ordered by the War De-
ftiora of subway construction, an ade- I Partment not to run this season. This
qnate and ornamental lighting sys- l'is a blow to many Now York buslnesa
em, the elimination of fraudulent and men who lhave summer homes in that
misleadine advert s ne the reduction ."e Bnu enjoyea uieir cooi, resuui
or nre tisks ana insurance rates, a
campaign to prevent littering of
; Some Good Advice.
: Don't think too much of your own
methods. Watch other people's ways
and learn from them." This is good
advice, especially when bilious or con
stipated. You will find many people
-who use Chamberlain's Tablets for
these ailments with the best results,
and willlHo well to follow their ex
ample. Adv.
prietors, anticipating orders from the
War Department, are devising ways
and means of inhaling their light ef-
internally on their attractions and letlvario" state and local organizations
none of it escape skyward or seaward 1 a.ro. 1,c,ng enll.stcd . co-operate in
is the problem. This solved, the big ltTnep 0WT sections. Of these tho New
already under way a comprehensive
plan for organizing the workers in its
state and responses are expected from
the vr.rious other states soon. ' This
means that should compulsory mili
tary service be adopted in this coun
try there will be coupled with it com
pulsory anti-tuberculosis education
for the young men of tho land that
will put the fight against tho Great
Wlhite Plague on a basis of effective
ness nevar before realized.
playground will do business as usual.
Resorts further down the shore and
usually reached by boat will suffer
more. The boats making Asbury
park and other points near Sandy
trip back and forth by water.
To the young woman, war nursing
lias the same romantic appeal of dan
ger and self-sacrifice that soldiering
has to the young mam Of great in
terest to all American young women
who are contemplating war nursing is
the program of the annual meeting of
the National Organization for Public
Health Nursing, just announced at
Organization headquarters here.
Nursing preparedness will be the
finally agreed to set up a common vil
lage government, which took over the
question of charges and wages, but
let the town boards continue their con
flicting regulations in other direc
tions, "The village board promptly raised
tho clerks' wugos ana lowered the
store's selling-prices all along the
lino. Then thoy. raised, his village
taxes, and, thus encouraged, each town
board boosted the town taxes a notch.
"The the store-keeper's other ex
penses began to mount. The farmers
charged more for provisions and the
wholesalers from which he bought his
other supplies followed suit, till he
not bnly could not make a living but
ran in debt, .The local bank seeing
how precarious his 'business had be
come, refused to lond him any money.
"The store-keeper humbly weiit to
the Village boand and asked it tA do
two things first to take over entire1
control itself and stop the expensive
muddling of the four towns'; and sec
ond, to allow tho store to raise its
charges enough to moet its increased
expenses. Otherwise, he said, he'd
have to go out of business.
" 'You can't go out of business,'
they decided after duo deliberation,
'The people havo got to have a store.
A railroad official propounded this ryvo can't let you raise your prices be
parablo the other way to illustrate the cause the people who olocted us would
need for a more enlightened national not like it. Bosidcs, your clerks are
railroad policy.
"There is a little village not far
firom New York that lies at the inter
section of four townships. Right at
the four-corners, projecting into each
township, is tho general store. A
If Penn's Thick does not satisfy you
In every way, return it to any dealer.
He is hereby authorized to refund
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gtting uneasy and wo're thinking of
raising their wages again. If you
don't stop complaining and give us
bettor service wo'll take your store
away from you and run it ourselves.' "
And that is almost exactly tho situ
ation with the railroads today.
" LONGACRE."
Constipation and Indigestion.
These are twin evils. Persons suf
fering from indigestion are often
troubled with constipation. Mrs. Rob
ert Allison, Mattoon, 111., writes that
when she first moved to Mattoon she
was a great sufferer from indigestion
and constipation. Food distressed her
and there was a feeling like a heavy
weight pressing on her stomach and
chest. She did not rest well at night,
and felt worn out a good part of the
time. One bottle of Chamberlain's
mil. ... xl.:- -1 - il. i
laoieis correctua una vruuuic bu umi.
sne nas since ieit line a ainerens per
son. Adv.
ber, a direct descendant of Francis
Scott Key, the author of "The Star
Spangled Banner," is now serving his
country in the arm of our mftional de
fense which will be "First to Fight"
the M.irine Corps.
Private Deubor's mother is a great
grand-daughter of the author of our
national anthem, on the maternal side.
Deuber's resemblance to his renowned
ancestor is said to be so noticeable
that many of those who have seen the
original Francis Scott Key picture
have commented upon the remarkable
likeness. .
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' Heal Skin Eruptions.
Painful eczema is more active in
spring when tho blood is over-heated,
the burning itching torture is un
bearable, relieve it at once and heal
the eruptions with Dr. Hobson's Ec
zema Ointment. This antiseptic rem
edy 'is promptly effective in all skin
troubles. Pimplos, blackheads, acne,
iiimiTini hi
m
Morgan s
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tetter, ring worm, scaly blotchy skin,
all respond to Dr. Hobson's Eczema
Ointment Get it today at your drug
gists, 60c, guaranteed. Adv.
Dry Wood, Poultry Supplies.
Feed,
All Varieties Seed Potatoes
Highest Price Paid For Poultry
SMITH-NOBLE PRODUCE CO.
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Home Ind. Phone M. 734
Union County M. 291
LA GRANDE,
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Charlie
Penn
Manufacturing Expert of
Tho American Tobacco
Company and a famous
authority on the manu
facture of chewing tobacco.
say a CharliePetm
"The manufacturer who
places a 'MONEY BACK
GUARANTEE' on his
product must not only
have faith in it hut must
know it is what he claims
it to he titans business." t '
Penn's Thick is guaranteed to satisfy or your
money hack.
Chewind Tobacco
is made from full-length strips of rich, ripe, per
fect leaves of the choicest white Kentucky hurley
tohacco, carefully selected.
"It's as mellow as a June apple and as
sweet as a nut."
Fixing Food PriceM,
Washington, D. C, April 30. (Spe
cial) The secretary of agriculture, in
response to a telegram regarding the
fixing of prices of food products, to
day, April 24, made the following re-
"Your telegram received. No
agency now has power to fix prices of
food products. Have suggested that
Congress confer power on the Gov
ernment to fix minimum and maxi
mum prices if the emergency requires
them. The object of a minimum price
to producers would be to stimulate
production of certain, staple products
by assuring farmers that these pro
ducts would not be disposed of below
a certain level which would give them
a reasonable return and would not
cause them to suffer loss in any event.
This would have to be done under prop
er regulation. The shortage of im
portant crops in this Nation, the
greatly depleted resources abroad, and
the waste and destruction in Europe
should cause a continuance of remun
erative prices, but as an additional as
surance to farmers the power indicat
ed ought to be vested in tho Govern
ment. It is not suggested that max
imum prices be fixed to producers,
but thnt power to fix such prices gov
erning the distribution of products be
given to the Government to be used
if necessary to control uneconomic
speculation and manipulation in the
handling of food products. It is of
the first importance that no stop be
omitted greatly to increase the sup
ply especially of the great staple food
products of the United States in
every direction.".
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Depend on This
YOU CAN DEPEND ON
A GOOD CONVERSA
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LINES. .
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fSffSSTjSar dealer, and we will send you a 10c cut and a leather pouch
QUICK DELIVERIES
are a feature of this lumber
business. When you give us an
order you can confidently rely
on getting your lumber a little
before yoti need it. That means
no delay in construction, bo
waiting time that you have to
pay for Think that over.
GEO. PALMER LUMBER COMPANY
Retail Dept. Phone Main 8
Bad Cough? Feverlsn? Grippy?
You need Dr. King's New Discovery
to stop that cold, the soothing balsam
ingredients heal the irritated mem
branes, soothe the sore throat, the an
tiseptic qualities kill the germ and
your cold is quickly relieved. Dr.
King's New Discovery has for 48
years been the standard remedy for
coughs and colds in thousands of
homes. Get a bottle today and have
it handy in your medicine chest for
coughs, colds, croup, grippe and all
bronchial affections. At your drug
gist, 60c. Adv.
Key's Descendant Enlists.
Baltimore, Md., April 30. (Spe
cial) Following in the footsteps of
his illustrious ancestor,- Francis Deu-
attention
LADIES Did it ever occur to you that no two
faces, thumb prints, or figures were ever ex
actly alike.
Why therefore, should you compress your vitally
delicate organs into a stock or. ready made
corset?
Bearing this in mind why not be fitted with a'
Barcley, the only Custom Made Corset in La
Grande. .j- , .: ) i
Mrs. C. H. Scranton
Residence 1703 Second St.
Phone Black 481