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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1917)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1917..:: LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER. EDITORIAL PAGE OJR iVTHE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER An Indenendent NewsnaDer. Published Daily and Weekly at La Grande, Oregon, by the SA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER ' PUBLISHING CO. J. D. MEYERS '' H. B. LEITER CLARKE LEITER -President Vice-President Editor and Publisher tintered at the Postoffice at La Grande, Oregon, as second class matter. Address all communications to .:: THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth St. On Sale in Other Cities: Oregon Hotel News Stand. Portland ; Imperial News Stand, Portland. City Official Paper. Leased Wire Telegraph Report of United Press Associations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier. Daily, single copy 6c Daily per week 16c Daily, per month , 66c Daily, per six months in advance. $3. 60 Daily, per year in advance. ... . .$7.00 By MaiL Daily, by mall per year, in ad vance $5.00. Daily, by mail per six months' in advance $2.60 Daily, by mail for three months in advance $1.26 Daily, by mail per month 46 The Saturday Evening Observer per year in advance $1.60 Weekly-Observer-Star per year in advance $1.60 The Observer carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the torches. 11 the carrier does not do this, misfses you, or neglect gettr.g paper to you on time, kindly phone The Observer, as tins is the oniy vay we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instruc tions. Phone Main 37 before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by wpeclal messenger if the carrier has missed you. THE WAR PROGRESS. One is constantly reminded that handling a war is a big job and the careful observer will notice that America's share is being well handled. The President is winning popular approval. Traveling up and down over the state, listening to convocations on street em's, on trains and in hotel lobbies, anyone will soon note that the war is the main topic of conversation and the traveler will be struck with the fact that the people are with the President and approve in the main his policies. Everywhere the people are taking the war with quiet seriousness and they are manifesting a determined spirit of seeing it through. Pacifists are few and far between. Frequently some one is heard to say that the American people have not yet awakened to the fact taht they are in a big war; but this does not seem true, for everywhere there is evidence that the public is trying to prform its many duties nobly. The present task is to clean up the second Liberty Loan; this is a big job; every one must help. The important thing to realize is that every one must do a big bit and do it now. o SHOWING THE STRAIN. . . . . . Germany's situation just now is this: The submarine campaign is a failure. England will not be starved to submission. Her allies are eager for peace. Her internal political system is showing signs of the strain. Econonucally she is in distress. The war may last much longer, but it can only have one ending, provided America strikes and strikes soon with mighty blows of men, money and machinery. o AUTUMN. Prom time immemorial the poets have associated the ap proach of Autumn with a note of sadness. There is no par ticular reason for it, except that poets have long clung to the tradition started by some of our earl ypoets. There is no more reason for a man to be sad in Autumn than any other time. Jov, gladness, smiling, wood nature, happi ness are largely matters of habit. A person can be happy and joyous in Autumn or Winter just as in Spring or Sum mer if they are built that way. Almost any one can woo cheerfulness if they will. The grouches have fallen into HOUSEHOLD I IMFMCl bis iti i - HOUSEHOLD LINENS .' The snow-vfiite purity of fine linen, has ever been the symbol of homelike ness and a well stocked linen closet is the source of much housewifely pride. Our linen slocks include bleached pat' tern table cloths, table damask, lunch cloths, napkins, table scarfs, decorations, pretty towels, etc. Inspect the values we offer. Go into partnership ! with Uncle Sam Buy a Liberty ;i Bond.' Ill 111 ill SAJJL Are you do ing your bit I Your ' coun try is at war. Help win by b u y i n g a Liberty Bond. BED TIME Rather cold last night, wasn't it? Did you miss the extra covers on your bed? Now is the time to select what you need from our large and varied stock while it is complete. Get just what you want in quality and juice. Sheets and Pillowr Cases re just what the name represents them to be. They wear well. I When you buy them you are sure of satisfaction. They are woven from a long staple selected cotton, have a snow-white bleach anda a permanent finish. They will give the maximum resistance to continued ironing and washing, and always make your beds look white and fresh. We carry this line in wide range of sizes. Blankets Ashland Imperial Blankets in gray and tan. Size 50x72. Price .. $1.25 Enfield Blankets, in blue and gray. Size 60x76. Price $1.75 Imperial, blue, gray and tan. Size 64x76. Price $2.00 Addison White Blankets, size 50x74. Price $1.50 Winona White, felted finish Price $2.50 Imperial White Sheets, 68x84. Price $1.50 Juenita Imperial BlanketB, size 72xS0 in tan, grey and blue. Price . $1150 Jumbo Blankets, size 74x80 in grey, blue, pink, tan and white. Price $3.00 Wool Naps, plaids in tan, grey, pink and blue, 66x80. Price ....... $1.00 Wool Blankets, size 68x80 in pink and white. Price $5.00 Dearborn Wool Plaids, pink, blue and ,grey. Size 68x80. Price .... $6.00 Glenr Park Woul iBlanketa in tan, grey and blue. Price $8.00 Sultana, all wool blankets, size 68xSO. Price $7.50 Beatrice, all wool blankets, size 72x40, in blue, wisteria. Price .,.. $10.00 All Blankets listed in order of weight and quality. . Of all false economy there's none more pronounced than in the jmrehase of cheap bed ding Blankets and Com forts. The Blankets and Quilts you buy here are of the best quality obtainable now. Come in and le t us show you some of these Blankets and Quilts, in fact any sort of Bedding. We count it a pleasure to show them to you. Better have the Blankets before it gets too cold. After thoughts are apt to be chisled out of chilly experi ence. Also a new line of Indian Blankets just in. Prices $6 to $10.00. Size 72x78, filled with card ed cotton; price $5.50 Comforts Kvcry Blanket listed here is made to comply with the Health Laws of every State. Listed in order of weight, we have: . Si 72x78, idled with card ed cotton; price $2.25 Size 72x78, filled with card ed cotton, prict. $2.75 Size 72x78, filled with gar netted cotton; price . .$3.25 Size 72x78, filled with gar-, netted cotton; price .$3.50 I Size 72x84, filled with new . carded! cotton; price. . .$3.75 i Size 72x81 ( filled with gar netted cotton; jn'ice . .$4.00 Size 72x81, filled with gar-, ed cotton; price $4.50 ' that, manner hut thev could cret out if thev would. Everv lerou.nd to a study he had commenced, season has its charms. The many changing tints, the gold en sunshine, the crisp, cool tinge to the air makes this one of the most delightful seasons of all. o ALSACE-LORRAINE. are so he covered it with brown ''But the red showed through, so he Bcraped out the brown and put gray in its place. "Still the red showed. He took un his palette knife and began to sornpe i Whistler, and, seizing his hat, he made airesn saying to a student who was off.' watching him: "'I suppose you know what I'm trying for here?' "'Oh, yes, sir,' exclaimed the stu dent. " '"Well, it's more than 1 do, said The Woman Who Pays life by check instead of in currency escapes a lot of worry about money matters. She has an emirate record of where her money goes and a receipt for every penny she has paid out. Besides it's so much safer to have the cash in the bank than in the home. Our sjo cial department for women will be glad to giro information. La Grande National Bank The status of Alsace-Lorraine will be one of the big obstacles to peace. France wants her provinces restored, j Germany wants them turned into an independent king dom. The latter solution would set up another "powder magazine" like the Balkans in the heart of Europe. o St. Petersburg (Petrograd) may fall. But the farther the Germans go into Russia the grater danger they are in. Napoleon found that an army far away from its base of supplies was a liability instead of an asset. o The promoters of the Million Dollar Liberty Loan sjie cial knew where to go to get the money. The farmers and stockmen of Central Oregon are supjiorting the Govern ment liberally. It's up to every one to buy a Liberty Bond. No one is too large or too small. This is not a case of letting George do it. Rippling Rhymes By WALT MASON If one could coin these golden days, we could all buy Liberty Bonds. It: -o- inist be nice to be able to buy a $.",,000 or $10,000 bond. o Buy a Liberty Bond and forget it. -o I fir rr. IX liUOKKX IIKI.GIIM. By J. O. GII.ULAN. A broken henrt from a broken home Sought the broken church of the bioken town. To find at its altar the comfort she craved When the Comforter seemed to have flow, A broken chancel, A broken cross. And a broken Christ were all The mourner found that awful day When she went to the usual place to pray. The crucified Christ Krom His crueifix torn I.ay mingled with ashes and stone' And the blood of the worshippers Caught in the church when the murderous shelling wai done. Yet she humbly kneeled In that gruesome aisle And prayed to God from that funeral pile, And looked above The carnage there: And heaven's dove To answer prayer, In silence brought The peace she sought; And the broken heart was healed. New music right off the press. Hear it at R Hall dance Tucxtay night, Oct. 23. Jazz music by Jazz Band. 10-19-Ht. No Bluff. Robert) Henri, the New York artist, told a Whistler story at the Art Students League. "There was no pose about Whist ler," he said. Whistlor had no 'side.' "Once, in a Paris class he WAR enn. Wild Geese. Wild geese were flying south today; I heard them honking overhead; and to my aunt I paused to say, "The Winter's coining, Autumn's dead. It's ujj to me to lay in coal, to buy a stock of flour and spuds, to strip my slim and meagre roll for weather strips and Winter duds. Th e weather nivmlmf in his den, may tell us what next week may bring, but all the j.rophecies of men are mere ly tommyrot, by jing. I would not for cold days jirejiare, if warned by any human seer; man says tomorrow will be fair, and it is dark and bleak and drear. Man says tomorrow will be cold, and it's so hot we stew in sweat; no weather rightly was foretold by any human prophet yet. The wild geese have no maps or charts, no instruments of brass or steel- they do not try to break our hearts with "highs" or "lows ' or kindred spiel. They have no traps to measure wind, to weigh the clouds or test the air but when for southern dime they've skinned, for Wintry days we should prepare. -lei 1 CCCS,C Pa,,ivant. some southern island is their goal; so lend me fortv bones, dear aunt, and I'll lay in a stock of coal." (Copyright 1917 by George Matthew Adams.) ducting he did not like the red back-' IK .-...;.
