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L2 ORAKDE OBSERVER.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1917.
r EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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; An Independent Newspaper.
i Published Daily and Weekly at La Grande, Oregon, by the
XA? GRANDE EVENING ' OBSERVER, PUBLISHING CO.
J. 15, MEYERS H. B LEITER GLARKE LEITER
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THE PEOPLE'S BARGAIN.
"The annual increase of our wealth is estimated to he
fifty billions of dollars. The American people are not
asked to give anything to their government, but merely
to invest a small percentage of the annual increment of
wealth in this country and take in return from their gov
ernment the strongest security on the face of God's earth ;
to receive in return for the money lent 3 1-2 per cent per
annum, both principal nd interest exempted from all tax
ation except estate or inheritance taxes, and with the
filrth'er provision that if the government should issue any
other bonds during the period, of this war at a higher rate
of interest the purchaser of a Liberty Loan Bond may turn
it in and get a new bond at the higher rate of interest.
"In protecting the credit of the United States govferri
ment you are protecting your own credit, you are protect
ing your own business, you are protecting every interest
you have in life and property. In doing1 that you are
rendering a patriotic service in supplying the sinews of
war to your country." William G. McAdoo, Secretary of
the Treasury.
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SCHOOL WILL SOON OPEN.
School opens September 10. These are the days that
the mothers will be thinking of getting the children back
from the camps and the mountains. The boys and girls
will be broAvn as berries. We hope that all the news
papers in the country will not spring that old chestnut
about the boys and girls creeping to school like snails.
We will never forgive Shakespeare that exaggeration.
Our experience is that boys and girls like to go to school.
They cry for it. It may have been different in Shakes
peare's time, Perliaps Shakespeare wont to some school
like Squecrs', where the boys were underfed and beaten
for even showing any spirit, Our boys and girls will ho;),
skip and jump to school merrily and joyfully. Their
teachers will if they are wise 'encourage this happy joy
ful spirit; we do not want too much repression. 'What
is merely animal spirits is often mistaken for meanness
and badness. The doctrine of perversity prevails in some
schools. The modern idea, which prevails here uiubr
City Superintendent Hampton, is that the school child
shouhhiot he kept sitting at desks too long. Physical ex
ercise is mixed in: the children get up and walk about the
room; they sing and dance. We. are glad that the schools
are so conducted now days that happiness, jubilant spirits,
and merry laughter are not regarded as a crime.
White Slippers
Straps
Low Heels
Cuban Heels
Values up to $5.00
20 Per Ceent Off
SALE OF ::SHOES
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-'hiidren's'-aiid
MisIeV Button and
LaceWhite Shoes
Reduced '
10 Per.Cent V:
We consider this one of our greatest "cuts in shoes. '-" Every pair of our summer shoes reduced AH' are1 new ",
this season. Some are tfieihost popular modes in .footwear-this summer, and will be good for fall and-'"
spring. .;-v";;- : v-?i5vAOV-Oi
We are offering thesesplendid bargains, simply because we make it a policy, not to cany goods over from
one season to the next. ; . . . , Vv , -,. ,
You will find some great; bargains here and at the prices listed below you will find them all real values.
Genuine White Glove Kid
, ' Lace, f ormeryseUing at
$13.00, now $11.00'
White New Buck ., Laeev
formerly selling :atr$6.00,
Now ....'. $4.95
White Reinskin vLace,
formerly selling at $6.50,
Now ,.. . $5.15
White Reinskin Lace,,
formerly selling at $4.50,
Now ...1 $3.60
White Reinskin Lace,
formerlv selling at $5.00,
Now '. $3.95
Our Bargain Table
Full of good bargains, in white canvas shoes,
slippers, white buck shoes and slippers patent
and kid pumps and slippers. All at wonderfully
reduced prices. '.:'..,.
Your Inspection Invited
iMg.iiMi.tfn-i.f if y
White Buck Sport Shoe,
formerly selling, at $6.00,
.Now ..'. ..... $4.95
White Buck English
Walk, formerly selling at
$4.50, Now .,i.....-$3.65
White Canvas Sport Shoe,
formerly selling at $4.00,
Nbw, ; $2.95
White Canvas Sport Shoe,
formerly selling at $3.50,
Now $2.49
Men like Dunham Wright don't grow on every bush.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Success To This Strike.
HOGS ADVANCED $2 IN WEEK.
Chicago, Aug. 18. (United Press)
Hogs sold at nineteen dollars a
hundred weight. A two dollar ad
vance in' a week.
. The Weather. .
Portland, Aug. 18. (United Press)
The U. S. weather forecast: "Fair".
P. J. Driscall of La Grande was
registered at the Imperial Hotel,
Portland, Tuesday. .
With whatever fortitude heaven has given us, we shall
endure the horrors of the hunger strike begun in Ellens- J 4
burg, Wash., by 61 members 6f the pestiferous I. W. W. !
These rascals were arrested for intimidating workmen
in Ellensburg, and having been housed in a temporary
prison, were served with food. They declined to eat, and
have informed Sheriff Garrison that as long as they are
kept in jail, they will keep "up the hunger strike. They
have let it be known that they intend to starve themselves
to death, so that civil and criminal suits may be brought
against the Sheriff. ' ' ' " '' : .
With extraordinary equanimity, Sheriff Garrison views
the efforts of the vicious I. W. W. to "get the law on him."
He says if their heirs sue him for damages, he will set ud
4. 1 : J j. j ?e v . ! - . ,
u cuumurciuiiu ior room rem; ana 11 ne is cnargea wim
murder, he will be able to prove contributory negligence.
In the meantime, he is thinking of having the gang engag
ed in the hunger strike arrested on the charge of trying to
commit suicide a crime which, while not serious enough
to merit capital punishment, is yet great enough to earn a
term on the rock pile.
There is grave fear that the villiahs in jail in Ellens
burg will not carry out their threat. Already, four of them
have broken away from the control of the hunger strike
Headers, and are eating heartily and obstreperously . It
would a L lord the peaceful, law-abiding citizens of the Pa
cific Coast a deal of satisfaction to see this strike carried
to a successful conclusion. Portland .Suvuiur.
LET US DESIGN BUILD AND ERECT
YOUR MONUMENT OR MARKER
Vermont Marble & Granite Works
Corner Cove and Jeff. Ave. Phone Red 61
Supporting' the
government
The Fcpe's Propose
This is n time for every citizen to support the
United States Government and ninny nre doing so
lit considerable cost or sacrifice to themselves.
We have joined the Kejerul Reserve Banking Sys
tem established by the Government to give greater
finanoi.nSistaliility and strength o the member banks
and protection to their depositors.
You can gie y.w support to this great Govern
ment enterprise w'. : e!.(a:n its protection for
your money by hi coining one of our depositors.
The Kaiser will be found ready to accept Pope Bene
dict's proposals for pc::ce. The Prussian war of frilfc
fulness with its utmost disregard for tin; canons of civi
lization, was checked at the Ma rue, baffled at Verdun ana
is doomed to hopelessness by the rising of nearly all the
nations of the world now joined in resistance to the ter
rorisiu of the outlawed absolutist.
The terms are undoubtedly offered in good faith, but in
the very nature of things, they would, if accepted, leave
l!ie Prussian military power in position to remain a future
menace to a peaceful world. They do not even propose
n;i lennntv tor the crime of Pclffium. a crime that, in the
conscience of mankind, should be paid for by the junker
dom that committed it.
It will be difficult for the allies to consent to' negotia
tors on the the terms proposed. Oregon Journal, Port
land.
Member
Federal Reserve
System
La Grande National Bank
Niiticnal Cleanup.
Plihu Root declared in a speech tint there nre numv
persons in tins country traitors in deed and word, who
ought to he taken out and shot. Root is right and what
is more if the war continues for a year or two and the
cou-.try gets tlo.wn to real serious business on account of
it this very thing will occur. There will be the greatest
cleaning up a nation ever saw. Editors of seditious pub
lications and labor leaders, mostly of foreign birth and
under Prussian or T. W. W. influence and pay, will be
given short trials and swift sentences that will' end their
activity for all time to come. There is either an American
nation or there is not and the test will come within two
years jf the war continues. When peace comes again it
is to be hoped that the idea will have been driven lining
that when a man takes the oath of allegiance to the United !J
State ho understands all the obligations that act imnoscs. 5
i 'any t ,'apiTa! .lourna!, tSalem.
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Sure you will be pleased with
. our way of cleaning your
dainty summer woolens
and silks.
We have the equipment and
the know how" which make
for excellence of output.
Dry Cleaning Department
Standard Laundry
Company
Geo. Gilbert, Manager
Phone Main 56 La Grande,
Ore.
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