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TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1917.-
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER.
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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
An Independent Newspaper. !
Published Daily and Weekly at La Grande, Oregon, by the i
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PUBLISHING CO.
J. I), MEYERS H. B. LEITER CLARICE LEITER
President Vice-President Editor and Publisher
Entered at the Postoff ice at La Grande, Oregon, as second- j
class matter.
Picked Up By
The Stroller
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THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth St.
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FIRST FRUITS OF COOPERATION.
Secretary of Agriculture Houston is expected to ap
prove in a short time the three-year road construction
plan agreed upon by the State Highway Commission and
District Forester Cecil. Under this plan the construction
will be under the direction of the United States office of
public roads. The counties will put up $131,69-1, the state
$491,250, and the government $491,250; a total of $1,
114,194. The projects authorized are: McMinnville-Till-45
f)00: Coast hkdnvav in Currv County. $110,'-
000; Eugene-Florence, $87,965; McKenzie Pass, $15,229;
Ochocd and Canvon Creek in Crook and Wheeler Counties,
$60,000; John Day Highway, $45,000; Pilot Rock-Long
Creek, $50,000; Flora-Enterprise, $30,000; Pendleton-La
Grande, $75,000; Medford-Klamath Falls, $95,000; Mount
Hood Loop, $125,000; Crescent City, $30,000; Lapine
Lakeview, $30,000; Canyouville Highway, Douglas Coun
ty, $80,000.
It will be noted that Wallowa County is to receive aid
in the Flora-Enterprise road and Union and Umatilla
Counties on the Pendleton-La Grande road if the projects
are approved by the Secretary, of Agriculture. Both of
these roads are important and make forest reserves ac
cessible to the traveling public.
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SECRETARY M'ADOO THANKS THE PRESS.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo requests the pub
lication of the following:
"The Liberty loan campaign was essentially one of edu
cation and without the generous and patriotic support of
the press of the Nation the hope of those in charge that it
would be a popular loan would not nave been realized.
The untiring efforts of the newspapers throughout the
campaign were a constant inspiration to ,tnc various outer
groups of workers.
"At a time when news space was at a premium the Lib
erty Loan was featured at length. The foreign language
press in 36 languages gave daily proof of the undoubted
loyalty of people of foreign birth.
"I shall be most grateful to the press if this acknowledg
ment is given wide publicitv."
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THIS IS GOOD STUFF.
Dr. Preston W. Slossom of the history department of
Columbia, university has drawn up a series of "Don'ts On
the War." Some of them are:
"Don't say 'My country right or wrong.' We aren't
wrong.
"Don't call national necessity and international justice
I wonder if people go shopping for
ice cream sodas and sich.
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Some of the spectators at the fire
Sunday morning didn't have on any
too many clothes. ,
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I wonder why President Wilson
doesn't send for some of the fellows
who know just what to do to win the
war.
I have yet to meet a boy or girl
whose patriotism wasn't 100 per cent
pure. This speaks pretty well of our
schools.
I notice that women usually refer
to a very pretty woman in this way,
"She has very 'pretty eyes and hair
BUT she doesn't know how to wear
her clothes."
The Stroller say a sign the other
day, "Shung-Hi-Low-Chop Suey and
Noodles," which sounds more like a
card game than it does a chop suey
joint.
I strolled into the Observer office to
get back the poem I had written on,
"Spring Lost, Strayed or Stolen"
and I heard Clarke Leiter say: "The
beat thing to do with poets is starve
'em. Whenever you start in feeding
poets, they get fat and sassy and loaf
on the job." I took my poem and
went out. I wonder if he was getting
personal.
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Si Hopper said to me today: "I'm
sorry that I didn't get to see Pershing
before he went to France. I had sev
eral ideas I'd a liked to given him.
One was to send an American aviator
over the lines of the opposition with
hand-bills saying 'Free sauer kraut
and wcinerwurst back of the Ameri
can lines.' It will take brains to end
this war, and I'm sittin' up nights
working mine."
JUST RECEIVED!
So. great has been the demand for this shoe, that we were
forced to order a second shipment, which has just arrived, and
you who have been waiting are especially requested to call and
see them. .
A white nubuck sport boot high top, with low heel. The most
popular sport shoe in our stock, at the same price 50.00
Also three new white canvas
pumps, just in. You who were
disappointed in not - finding
what you wanted, call and
see the new ones ' -
Plain white pump, low heel. .
$3.00
1 strap white pump, cuban
heel $2.50
2 strap white pump, high
heel $3.00
Scholl$;Foot Comfort Service
;; Week
. June 18 to 25
Now is the time for your foot ailments to be taken care of. This
is National SchoU's Service Week, June 18 to 25.
If you have any kind of foot ailment let us tell you what to do
about it. There is a Scholl's appliance or remedy for every
ailment.
- -Call and See Us About Yours
The Arch Support and Foot Eazer for broken down arches, or
flat feet. A broken arch is the cause of most foot trouble. Let
us fit your feet with a pair.
All Sizes and Shapes
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bvanv name as vague as 'national honor.' ,
""Don't say Wall street or 'British gold' orjhe North
cliff e press'" made this war. You don't have to bribe a
nation to make it resent the murder ot its citizens
fore the publishers of the country: labor is becoming
scarcer and higher, print paper, ink, and type metal are
daily increasing in price and the cost of gathering the
tinwo rt tha xfrav tnv rho lnlnrmnhnn nt t IP nil h in is.
"Don't call every pro-ally 'pro-British. Great Britain j mounting steadily as the struggle proceeds.
IS only one Ot a UOZen Or?SO Ot tue UUltt. - . v.f VlQ nv.nm-ni- no nner.i.rntpl W twa liAiisP.
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of congress, never for a moment thinks of paying the
newspapers for their labor or their space, as they do the
Support The Government!
At this critical period in our history
our manufacturei's are offering their
mills, and our young men are offering
their services to the United States
Government.
Do your bit, by subscribing to the
Liberty Loan. This bank can furnish
Bonds in denominations of $50, $100,
$500 or $1000. You can pay for bonds
in installments.
Come In and Talk It Over
La Grande National Bank
"Don't say that both sides think they are lighting a
defensive war. A man niav honestly think that two and
six are eleven, but it doesn't make them so.
"Don't call universal training 'Prussian militarism.'
It is no more Prussian than it is Swiss, French, British,
Argentine, Japanese or Australian.
"Don't' sav that we owe aid to France on account of
Lafayette. We didn't help France in 1870 and We were
right not to do so. We only owe aid to any nation when
it is fighting (as at present) in a righteous quarrel.
"Don't say that 'it doesn't make any difference to the
workingmanvhat country governs him.' On the contrary,
it makes more difference to him than any one else, because
the rich man can spend his time in travel or buv his way
into the privileged class if he finds political conditions op
pressive. "Don't break into lyric praise of universal training as
a school of democracy. Rome armies are less democratic"
than others, but all rest upon a basis of command and im
plicit obedience. The army may level the rich and poor,
but it doesn't mean equalitv between officers and men."
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MAKES STRANGE BED FELLOWS.
The same papers which damned Elihu Root when he
was a candidate for the presidency are now lauding him
up to tlie skies when he is try i no- to get Russia back into
the war. Polities'?s a contemptible game at best.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Manna in the Wilderness.
Manna in the wilderness has nothing on the subscriber
who knows when his time is up and comes around and re
news without anv special invitation. Weston Leader.
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The open season for slackers began today. Uncle Sam
is out with his gun and expects to secure a large bag, but
of very poor birds. Salem Capital Journal.
munition worker, the shipbuilders and all others whose-
services or goods they require in the prosecution of the
war. Instead of even appreciating the loyal support and
generosity of the newspapers already ridden to death
and overtaxed by -war prices they purpose to levy a tax
upon their advertising receipts and increase the rates of
postage on their circulation.
Many publishers will be forced out of business and
financial ruin will be the reward bestowed upon them by
the government whose hands they are holding up while
enemies assail the nation from without : and insidious
treachery and disloyalty menace it from within.
Why not place the burden of the war taxes upon those
industries which are certain to make enormous profits
from the manufacture and sale of the munitions and
supplies of war. The Salem Capital Journal.
The Newspaper and War Taxes.
The government is depending upon the newspaper to
sell its war bonds. Without the publicity campaign
never before equalled in this country the "Liberty Bond" j!
issue might have been a failure; yet Congress refused to S
appropriate a single dollar to pay for this advertising!!
space. i;
The campaign for Red Cross funds is largely depend- ;
cut upon the generosity of newspaper publishers in do- !
nating their space freely to the cause. j
The army and navy recruiting campaign would fall flat
but for the sentiment created in the newspaper cduoa-jj
tional campaign. !
In fact, back of all the war preparations the mohiliz- j
ing of the resources and industries of a great nation, over
taken in total unpreparedncss by the catastrophe of enter- J
ing a great war is the work of the newspapers given freely
and unstintingly. The newspapers' advertising space rep i J
resents its chief source of income and it is giving it awav.'j
to the government in time of need without hope or prom- ,
ise of recompense. I
There are no prospective war dividends dangling be-'-
For Economy's Sake
Buy Advertised
Goods
When you buy sugar you pay less per pound when you buy it by
the dollar's worth. You pay still less per pound when you buy it
by the hundred-pound sack or by the barrel..
The same is true of the manufacturer and the merchant. The,,
larger-quantities of anything that he can buy the less he has to pay
for it. It costs less to handle it in large quantities than in small
lots. It costs less per pound to ship in solid carload than it does to
ship a carload in separate shipments of 100 pounds each. Just as it
cots you less to buy a hundred pounds of sugar at one time than it
would to buy a hundred pounds a quarter's worth at a time. Less
n money. Less in time. Less waste less in every way.
The manufacturer and merchant who advertise are enabled to
buy and to sell in larger quantities. By doing a "quantity" busi
ness they cut expenses and save waste on every hand. They can
sell better quality pay the small advertising cost and SELL FOR
LESS than if they were doing business in a small way.
In these times of advancing prices carefully compiled statistics
prove that the advertised brands of merchandise have advanced
much less in proportion than those which are not advertised.
IN THE INTEREST OF ECONOMY BUY ADVERTISED MER
CHANDISE FROM MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE