La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 28, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textmtmt AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS 1 PHONE THE OBSERVER YOUR NEWS. MAIN 37 VOLUME XVI. LA GRANDE, OREGON. SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1917. NUMBER 342. f 1 if HCNE OBSERVER YOUR WANT ADS. MAIN 37 v i 4 t J :'3 -'J if j 1 s CORRESPONDENT TELLS OF IDE TREDERIC COLEMAN SAYS FRANCE HAS SAVED CHRIS TENDOM FROM GER MANS. HEROISM OF FRENCH WOMEN IS DESCRIBED Wonderful Sacrifices Are Made by the Women of France and Great Britain America Entrance Into the War Hailed With Relief Gal lant Retreat of French's Army Is Vividly Pictured Press Club Gives Banquet Frederic Coleman, American news paper correspondent, who is here on a visit to his brother, Loui3 C. Cole man, addressed a large audience at the Methodist church under the aus pices of the Press Club. Mr. Coleman is an author, a writer for the Satur day Evening Post, and has been a correspondent for the New York Herald and the London Express and Chronicle. He is also a graphic and interesting lecturer. Mr. Coleman was with General French at the opening of the war and went through the great retreat of the British army. Mr. Coleman gave a graphic account of the heroism of the British army in holding back the Ger mans until the great day came when orders were given to strike and the Battle of the Marnet one of the great est battles of the war, ensued and France was saved to Christendom. Mr. Coleman told of the relief that American abroad felt when America decided to enter the war and battle for right and to save Christendom from the world domination of the Kaiser. Mr. Coleman Is. pessimistic about the participation of Russia and be lieves that the war will be won through the entry of America on the side of the Allies. "We are not going into the war to fight Great Britain's war, but to fight for the right, to fight to save Christ endom from the Huns. And we must admit that up to date we must thank France for bearing the brunt of the battle for civilization." Mr. Coleman described many scenes and incidents of the Flanders' campaign, some humorous and some Berious. But the Impression that was most vividly left with his audience "was the picture of the wonderful gal lantry of General French's army, of the heroism of the men and women of Trance and Great Britain, and of the unification of the German' people un der the Kaiser. Mr. Coleman does not agree with the theory of differenti--tating the German people from their (rulers. He believes that the German people must be made to realize that in adopting militarism as a national pol icy that they have made a mistake and -the only way that this can be done is "by a crushing military defeat. Through a misunderstanding the magic lantern was not set up in time for the lecture and Mr. Coleman's lides were omitted. Mr. Coleman is (Continued on Page 10.) If Germany's Latest Hopes Come True j. 4. MR. COLEMAN PRESENTS 4. OBSERVER WITH ARTICLE 4. The Observer asked Mr. -4 Coleman for an interview this 4 -4 morning ' and as he is a busy 4 4" man he compromised by pre- 4" senting the Observer with the 4 following article. As the ar- 4 $ ticle is .ver 2000 words long 4 and correspondents like Mr. 4 4" Coleman get 5 cents a word, he 4 4 made the Observer a cool ipres- 4 4" ent of $100. Which is very 4 -4 thankfully received. 4 J. T- 4 4 By FREDERIC COLEMAN, F. R. G. S. (Author of "From Mons to Ypres With French," "With Cavalry in 1915," etc.) Ask the man who has tried to mar ket to a stubborn public an unfamiliar commodity with what infinite patience he has had to hammer home the vir tues, of his Wares. If he chooses to be communicative he will tell you that the man in the street sometimes proves adamant to constant reitera Draft, Law May Take In More Young Men J Washington, July 28. (Unit- 4 ed Press) The United States fr draft law may be broadened to 4 include men reaching the mini- 4 4 mum age of twenty-one years J before tbe next call. 4" 4 Secretary Baker indicated he 4 4 might ask such a change and 4 4 might also seek to exclude men 4" passing the age of thirty-one 4 4 before the second call. 4 ' AIR RAIDS FAIL TQ UPSET DIGNITY OF 'S While Bombs Rain in the Streets Dur ing Big Aeroplane Raids, Counsel . and Witnesses Go Ahead With the Trials. BY J. W. PEGLER (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, July 7 (By mail) While bombs rained in the streets nearby and a hundred guns roared at the sky during the last big aeroplane raid, judges, counsel and witnesses in Lon don courts went right along with the dull job of boiling down evidence in to justice. -s Rose Witten, a pretty girl of seven teen, stayed in the witness box in one court and gave' her evidence in a lit tle louder tone to be heard above the bombs. "You need not continue if you are frightened," said the judge to Miss Witten. "I'm not frightened,"1 she replied. "Let's go on with the story." Before continuing the case the jus tice appealed to all in the courtroom to "die like Englishmen" if they must die. In Justice Darling's court the roar iwas deafening but court didn't ad journ for amttHjent. - While the raid was at its "'worst be turned to the counsel and said: "The raid seems to be over. Let us go on with the case till they come back." Nn the Chancery Court, Justice Ast bury interrupted to say: "I am told there is a raid going on. If you look out the windows you may see the aero planes." "Not interested," said a wit ness. AIR RAID OVER PARIS IS REPORTED Berlin, July 28. (United Press) An air raid over Paris was officially reported. Bombs dropped on railroad stations, and military establisnments. ONE, TWO AND FIVE DOL LAR BILLS SCARCE Washington, July 28. (United Press) An unusual and acute scarc ity of one, two and five dollar bills confronts the Treasury Department. Multinlication of the government's pay roll and excessive industrial ac tivity to nil war contracts are re sponsible. To meet the emergency the treasury is restricting the allowance of small notes to banks to the number of "unfit" bills brought in fof ex change. Previous custom was to let 'the banks have small notes in ex change for notes of larger denomina tion. - tion, and at others seems unusually easy to convince. The successful business man has but one motto. He must "keep at it until he wins." The great danger that threatens the Allies today is an inconclusive peace. Many of us realize that a peace that is not conclusive would be a victory for Germany. Some of our compatri ots in mors than one Allied country have not yet awakened to that fact. Our danger goes hand in hand with their failure of realization that any sort of peace that does not force the German nation along the paths the rest of the world considers the right road for all nations and peoples, a peace that gives a choice to Germany and the Germans, will render useless all Utopian schemes and dreams. So long as a portion of the con scientious tliought-of any Allied com munity is left unaware of the real danger that threatens, the rock, sometimes hidden, that may cause the wreck of the storm-tossed Victory- ship even as she nears port, we can but take a leaf from the book of the business man, and continue to pile evidence on evidence until all reason able and thinking men are fully on (Continued on Page 8.) SWITCHMEN AID WIS BREAK STRIKE HUNDREDS ARE POURING INTO CHICAGO FROM ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY UNION HELPS RAILROADS ' FIGHT THE TRAINMEN Strike of Twenty-Five Hundred Men Threatens To Paralyize Local Traf fic and Depress Trans-Continental Freight Movements Switchmen's Union Say Brotherhood Switchmen Are Trying To Force Closed Shop. Chicago, July 27. (United Press) Hundreds of switchmen are pouring into Chicago from all parts of the country to aid the railroads in break ing the strike of twenty-five hundred members of the Brotherhood of Rail way Trainmen, which threatened to paralyze local traffic and depress trans-continental fi eight movements. The Switchmen s Union charge the Brotherhood switchmen are striking to force the Switchmen's union out of existence by forcing a closed shop, arc aiding the railroad by importaing strike-breakers. The railroad chiefs admitted at noon they were moving only about half the normal freight traffic. It is claimed passenger traffic is norm al.' Munitions and other government business is given the right of way. The government is watching the sit uation closely. HOME GUARDS TO BE ORGANIZED At a meeting of the Public Safety committee yesterday afternoon it was decided to ask Capt. H. E. Coolidge, on his return from San Francisco, to organize' a company of Home Guards. Capt. Coolidge is expected to arrive tomorrow. PLACE IN THE RUSSIAN LEGION OF DEATH DRILL AIwD FIGHT IN MUD AND RAIN TWENTY ARE KILLED, EIGHT TAKEN PRISONERS. BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD. Petroirrad. Julv 28. Drilling daily through the rain and mud, quartered no 'better tan the lowest peasant sol dier, asking no favors, 'braving at first the jeers and sneers of the male soldiers, the Russian women in the Legion of Death, earned a place in the fighting lino. This is the opinion of Rheta Ohilde Dorr, an American suffragist, who returned to Petrograd after two weeks with the women fighters. London, July 28. (United Press) Russia's women fighters suffered 60 casualties in a brilliant baptism of fire, according to Router s dispatches. The roll included 20 killed and eight taken prisoners. "OLD GLORY"' This name for our flag is thought to have become famous through some poetical allusion. Li 1898, James Whitcomb Riley wrote a poem on the subiect. in which occur the following lines. Editor The Linotype Bulletin. "Who gave you, Old Glory, the name that you bear With such roride everywhere ? . . . Who cave vou the name of Old Glorv?" Then occur the following lines stanzas 3 and 4): "Then the old banner leapt, like a sail in the blast. And fluttered an audible answer at last. "And it spake, with a shake of the voice, and it said: By the driven snow-white and the liv ing blood-red Of my bars, and their heaven of stars overhead By the symbol conjoined of them all, skyward cast, As I float from ths steeple, or flap at the mast, Or droop o'er the sod where the long m-asses nod. 1 Mv name is as old as the glory of God WQ1VIEN WIN FIGHTING LINE ... So I came by the name of Old Glory." KERENSKY IS ! GIVEN POWER 'OF DICTATOR PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT . DELEGATES TO HIM UN LIMITED AUTHORITY MINISTERS PLACE THEIR RESIGNATIONS IN HIS HANDS Russia Fails To Do Anything But Slow Up the Amazing Teutonic Ad ' vance Germans Are Closing About 2cernowitz Which They Claim Rus sians Are Abandoning Roumanian jArmy Is Reorganized and Fight ing. London July " 28 (United Press) The Russian Provisional government has vested Premier Kerensky with the unlimited pow er,, which the Workmen's, Sold furs', Peasants', Congresses voted to the Ministry, according to a Central News Dispatch. Nearly 'all the Minister placed their port ... folios at Premier Kerensky's dis posal. '.London July 28 (United Press) Russia failed to do more than slow up the German advance in Gnlicia. - Dispatches indicate the harden- ing of the Russian lines. Desperate offensive attacks have been launched at other points designed to relieve the pressure strongly closing about Czcrnowitz. The Teutonic advance made amazing speed. ' German dispatches insisted the Russians were abandoning Czer nowitz before the Teutonic armies. The day before ' the Teutons were reported fifty miles distant. X The Roumanian armv is re-or- ganized and complctelyevIvi&iS ' from its crushing defeat of last fall and is vigorously pressing the army. - ITALY NEEDS MONEY TO HELP IN THE WAR U. S. SENDS TEN MILLIONS IT? ALY HAS TWO MILLION MEN READY TO ATTACK AUSTRIA Washington. July 28. (United Pressl Italv awaits the United States to furnish money, fuel, and munitions before launching another great offensive against the Austrians, it is learned. Simultaneously a new payment of ten million was made Italy. It is stated Italy has two million men ready to attack the weakening Austrians. Tt in learned .Tanan will soon vastly increase her naval co-operation with the Allies. It is deemed unlikely that Japan will send1 troops to Russia be cause of the political effect. Dr.Carter Starts An Investigation BY LOWELL MELLETT. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) London. July 8. (By Mail) There is an English surgeon named Carter who is always making trouble for himself. Some years ago he was pro fessor of Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Morbid TVnatomy, as well as Cur ator of tho Museum at Grant Medical College, Bombay. Walking down the street one day, carrying all t his title, he met a native suffering from a rare leg ailment, one that meant amputa tion at an early date, and danger to the native'3 life. Ho explained the situation to the native and offered him five rupees for the privilege of per forming the amputation that after noon. The native grabbed at the bar. rain and his life was saved. But the next morning Carter was awakened by a congregation of halt, maimed and blind nativM outside bis house, all clamoring for the opportunity to cam five rupees. The dispatch of Indian troops to- Mesopotamia resulted in the appearance there of Major Robert M. Carter, Indian Medical Service. Very (Continued on Page 10.) Ex-Czar Falls Off Bike And Breaks His Leg London, July 28. (United i Press) Nicholas Romanoff, ex '4 Czar fell from his bicycle in 4 Tsarskoe Selo gardens and 4 , broke his leg, according to an 4 J- Exchange telegraph dispatch. 4 It is declared the Russian news- 4 J. papers were not permitted to 4 4 mention the accident.' - J 244"444442 COMPLIMENTARY DINNER I TO INTERNATIONAL Y-M-CA-SECRETARY GEORGE MtDILL TELLS WHAT THE Y. M. C. A. IS DOING AT THE FRONT. BIG ORGANIZATION HAND LES MANY PROBLEMS Aid Is Given the Government in Tak ing Care of Moral, Mental, Physical and Spiritual Needs of the Army . Work Is Done in Prison Camps Pacific Coust Associations To Be Kept Up to High Standard. The complimentary dinner given I M' "7'' th f.ommf htel by 'these two fronts alone. This com L??!? t tlXe ?ard, f P1-! posed at least one-third of the entire ternational Secretary George McDill j was attended by the following direc- tors: Geo. Palmer. Geo. Cochrfn. Geo. I W. .Gilhfirt.. S. TV rv M w,i I if! v. viA,n w n ou n t t i son, Geo. H. Currey, J. T. Williamson, Fred Holmes, Albert Hunter, James V. Walnum, H C. Grady. Mr. McDill brought a message to the men of what the Y. M. C. A.: is doing throughout tho country and on the battle front. It is the big organi zation that is able to handle the many problems that are confroning the gov ernment, today in taking care ptjstfceir men,' morally, mentally, physical!" and spiritually. He gave a brief .outline of the scope of the work that is being conducted in the Uerman prison camps, of .hn excellent treatment the secretaries ars receiving by tho differ ent warrinig rations. Mr. McDill tola of the scrvico tliat ho will render to the "coast associations during the period of the war. He has been commissioned by the (International ! committee to ussist all associations in keeping up to the highest standard of efficiency possible. ' Many of the directors expressed I their gratitude in having Mr. McDill visit the local association, he having j had the privilege of sittine in, council 1 with the leaders of the nation today planing ways and means to promote safeguards for the boys of the army and the navy. L. D. S. CONVENTION. The primary association workers of Union Stake are holding a convention today at the Tabomacle. . Represen tatives are present from all the wards. Mrs. Frances K. Thomassen, general secretary of Salt Lake City, is in- attendance. The regular month ly Priesthood meeting of L. D. S. church was also held today, with rep resentatives of all the branches of the church present. British Death Lists Cause Home Economy T. P. O'Connor, Irish Envoy to America, Discusses the War Luxuries in England Have Been Wiped Out He Says Self Denial At Home Comes Because of Heroic Sacrifices of Those In the Trenches. ' BY GEORGE MARTIN 1 (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, July 28. England didn't abandon "it's orgie of ostenta taion and luxury" until the death lists began to pour in from the trenches." "Then the small sacrifices like style in dress and fancy foods came easy to them," said "Tay Pay", (T. P.) O'Con nor, Irish Envoy to America, discuss ing Uncle Same food and supply con servation program here todays f The white haired celt went89 to tell more of what happened t the British housewife and other stay-at- homes, drawing comparison with the same things happening in this country today. He expressed keen interest in the government's plea to women to aban don their beloved "style" in dress and the appeal tn men to curb their ap petites at table. Luxuries in England have been prac tically wiped out," said ha "A few men still drink champagne now and IMS OF MEN HURLED AT TRE FRENCH GERMANY USES GREAT FORCE ON THE FRENCH FRONT MANY GERMAN REGIMENTS ARE ENTIRELY WIPED OUT f On the Ausbem-Campagne Front -Germans Have Employed One Mil Ion and Sixty-Five Thousand Men On All Fronts They Have Take the Offensive Heavy Artillery Fire Reported Near Armentieres and North of Ypres. London, July 27. (United Press) Germany used one-third of its en tire army since April 16th in fight ing on the Au3bem and Campagne fronts. The French inflicted much torrific losses against this great force and the enemy is now entirely without re serves, except the nineteen eighteen class youths. .'' Calculations show since April 16th. that the Germans used seventy-one di- ,le;a .n.Av:.l .' 1 1 I iiJ. i v..j burg's disposal. x i Tj "'j""""1 develo.Ped e fact that many merman regunenis were lowiiy abolished. Germany is on the offensive on all battle fronts today. The Crown Prince is continuing his powerful, drive against the French Champagne front. The British officials' statement mentioned considerable enemy artil lery activity near Armentieres and North of Yyres. .. Front dispatches indicate' the-Ions continued duration of this fire and detailed its character as sufficiently violent to indicate possibly prepara tory measures to infantry attacks. Meachain Attends Meeting. Baker, July 28. (Special) Walter Meacham, secretary of the Commer cial club, left Thursday for Nampa. Idaho, where he will attend a meeting of representatives from all of the towns in Idaho and eastern Washlng- ton touched by the proposed Ever- preen Highway, that is to extend from tihe Atlantic to the Pacific, encircling into the United States and extending into aritisn 'oiumDia. Mr. Meacham says that the path finders for the road will be present at the meeting. ' 'A .part of the highway Is expected to pass through a portion of Eastern Oregon! , HOSPITAL IS REORGANIZED. The Grande Ronde Hospital was re organized at a meeting held this week. Dr. C. T. Bacon was re-elected presi dent: Dr. Whiting, secretary-treasurer in place of Dr. Holt; Dr. Richard son, vice-president. Dr. Hall nnd Dr. Bouvy were added to the staff. J. H. . Trayner was appointed superin tendent. then, but with a certain air of apol-' ogy. "The lesson I think one might draw from what is taking place in England is that self-denial has become easy to those outside the trenches largely be cuuse of the heroic sacrifice of those who are in the trenches. "The war thus has had a great ele vating influence on the morale of tho nation. It has been a benef icient In terruption of the great orgie of os tentation and luxury. "Men's and women's appetites for enormous wealth and great expendi tures have received a check. "All these things will finally re sult In a more equitable point of view as to the distribution of wealth among different classes of society and pave the way for an approach to a more popular state. "Dinners have been reduced uni versally to three courses. And you (Continued on Page 10.)