La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 17, 1918, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY, JA:sUA.UV 17, 19l;V PAOFj stx LA UUANDH LVKXIXO On.SHTiVF.it MEATLESS DAYS ARE NOW EORKLESS " PORTLAND, 'Jan.' 17. (Special.) Meatless days nnd merils In Oro fion, until Mnrch 13, need bo only porkloss, but there ninst 'bo two porkless days per week nml r.t least rnio porkloss men! earn day. This announcement was made a fow days ago by Federal J"nnil Ad ministrator" W. Ti. Ayor, by direct ordor of U. S. Fpod Administrator Herbert C. Hoovor, who toloprnpl'ot! that tbls roKUlallon woubl .apply. throiiBboiit" Oregon. '. Washington, Idaho, California, Nevada and Ari zona until Mnreb 1.1; on account of tho accumulation In those states of. cattle and sheep meat which cniinr.t . bo moved eastward until nfter that date because of traffic congestion. "Followlnpr out its policy of mak ing no unnecessary "restrictions or causing any unavoidable hardship, the Food Administrator has removed nil restrictions on beef 'veal, mutton and lamb until March' 13,".snid Mr. Ayor, "after which date the former rcfiiilations will probably be in force again. Hut as hog products are moat nooded at the front, special restric tions have been put upon pork, nnd the Adnilnlsfrntlon'-wlshes those reg ulations strictly observed. Ham, bacon and salt pork; -for ohvlouE reasons arc tho, best nnd most con venient .moats for the usew)f the armies, and for that reason wo must conserve hog products especially. Tuesdays and Saturdays are. the of flclal porkless days and wo are asked to '.observe at least one , porltlesf meal a day. Patriotic pertplo win , want to do nil they can to help t;u Food Administration in Its impori, ant wo'-k will be able to do miicl. better than this, particularly slncx nil restrictions have been removed from' tho other moats until March 13." ELGIN COUNCIL GIVES . . A FREE SHOW nils Wan to Compensate for Prevl. ouh Failures Ited Cross tllvos Knjnynhlo l'mcmm at City llnll, Phone your Want Ads to the Observer, Main 87. FOR 11 wv mr , , r tt iiy musteroie. oee now ' Quickly It Relieves You Just rub Musteroie in briskly, and usually tbe pais is gone a delicious, toothing comfort comes to take its place. Musteroie is a clean, white ointment made with oil of mustard. Use it instead of mustard plaster. Will not blister. Many doctors and nurses use Muster . ole and recommend it to their patients. They will gladly tell you what relief Ifr gives trom sore tnroat, Bronchitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago, pains and aches of the back or joints, sprains, soro muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds of the chest (it often prevents pneumonia). Always dependable. 30 and 60c jars; hospital size $2.50. PHI EI.OIN, Jan. 17. (Special.) Last Friday evening tho city council gave n free show at the municipal opera bouse to compensate for the failure of the previous' shows. The program was excellent nnd although tlie machine is riot yet properly equipped the pictures were very plain nnd steady. The. program con sislod- of one reel of story of seven parts, two educational features nnd one picture of cartoons. Mr. Mnssman, a represontativo of the Allison and White Chaiitruqun, was In Klgln last week, consulting the business men In regard to Intro. ducing a lyceuni course All the men favored the matter and good programs are expected to come through tho company. The eou -se will start next week. Mrs. Jamleson, of Palmer Camp. Is visiting Willi her sister, Mrs. liarlen Huffman. Last Saturday evening the local Rod Cross gave a very excellent pro gram at the city hall. The audience en Joyce! the selections rendered by Mrs. T. J. Scroggin and Mary Han dell, both of La'Grande. The unique dancing of little Daphno Sommer was greatly praisedl The comic sketch given by Superintendent E. Clav.'son caused quite a ripple of nmtisement. Mrs. Charles Bean, chairman of Uio lied Cross of Elgin mado a busl ness visit to I.a Grande last Frl lay in tho interest of the lied Cross work. Mr. Frank McKcnnon of Tmbler ipent last week in Elgin where he sorted his potatoes. It was neces- rary to ship the potatoes, to Elgin is no room could be found elsewhere. Lcotn Holmes, a teacher or Wal lowa, visited her stater In Elgin last Saturday and Sunday. W. W. Hackett and family left last Monday evening for their now ho'iie in Corvallls. Mr. Hackett has been a resident in Elgin for many years and owned the furniture store here for many years. Elgin citizens were sorry to lose bo. men a family end wish Mr. Hackett prosperity in his new location. Mrs. Mossinan of tho La Grande Red Cross chapter visited the local Red Cross Tuesday evening. Miss Inez Yares of Elgin mado a business trip to La Grande Monday evening. Miss Clnudlno Graham visited In La Grniule last week. She returned Monday morning. Mrs. Clarence Ilahn and children. of Elgin, went to La Grnndo last week wherohey will visit for a few days. Better than money becnuso they earn money; buy a WAR-SAVINGS STAMP TODAY. Head The Observer classified ads. Daily Observer Makea Clubbing Arramtctnent With' The Oregon Farmer Offers Unusual Opportunity to Its Readers MONG our large circle of readers there we a great many who are in terested directly or indirectly in fruit growing, dairying and other branched of tanning. All of these naturally wish to keep in close touch with ag ricultural activities lhroui;hout tho state; and to know about any fight which is being waged for tho measures Oregon farmers want and against all sorts of sthenics that are detrimental to the people and agricultural interests of this state. !We have, therefore, made a special clubbing arrangement with THE OREGON FAK-. IEU whereby any farmer or fruitgrower, who is one of our regular subscribers and who is not now a subscriber to TUB OREGON FARMER, will be entitled to receive THS OREGON FARMER In combination with this paper at the same rate as for this paper alone. This offer applies to nil those who renew or extend their subscriptions as well as to all new subscribers. If you are interested di rectly or indirectly in Oregon agriculture, do not miss this unusual opportunity, but Bend your order in now. TIIE OREGON FARMER is the one farm paper which is devoting itself exclusively to the farming activities and interests of Oregon. It has a big organi74ition gath ering the news of importance to farmers, dairymen, fruitgrowers, slockrnlsers and poultry men; nnd it has (he backbone to at tack wrongful methods and combinations and bad legislation, and support honest lenders nnd beneficial incafcrcs. We are confident that our readers will congratulate us on our being able to make this splendid and at tractive clubbing offer. A CHRISTMAS llAKGAlN ' 573 P.U'KUS Volt S.-..00 The Evening Observer every day, except Sunday, for one year (:tKl issues) nnd The Otvffon Former every week for five years ('Ji'.O issues), all for only $5 Wo S. Forrest Writes of Scenes at the Front NOTK: The following story by died. Trobably noon, khnkied fig W. , 8. Forrest, United l'ress Staff ures will again occupy these dugouls Correspondent, tells of his cxpor- carrying on the wateli over the wire lences during n night In a front line; ahead and ovor a historic little Am trench in closo proximity to that sec-! erican graveyard two miles in the tlon of the front now held by Amcr- rear, where eleven silent earth- lean troops. Editor. mounds lie under as many roui;h hewn crosses each bearing a nanie nnd tho Intertwined flags of America nud France. The night Poilus have taken their places a few yards apart along the parapet. Tho day poilus have filed By W. S. FORREST (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES 1M THE FIELD. Hoc. 1 B (Ily Mall.) - Night life in a first lino trench has H'to the dugouts for food nnd rest, its little bag of thrills for tho be-j A niachinegun is "rnt-tat-tat-ing" glnner. i(, evening tryout. All machlneguns are frequently tested nt night. A ! fainter "rat-tat-tat" shows that the Iloche Is doing It too. A bright 1'oiluB say nleht trenches are mo notonous but all poilus havo seen livelier things than trench life. To nn American correspondent, spending a first night on the fringe of No-Man's . Lnnd precisely as no doubt hundreds of thousands of Americans will before the end of the war, a nocturnal trench has all tno melodramatic elements to keep up Interest and -drive monotony away. Darkness seems to sottle down quickly ovor the frowsy, weeded grey strip In front which nobody owns and nobody treads In daylight. The low dirt ridge just behind a tangle of wooden stakes and barbed wire ovor across melts quickly Into tho failing light nnd nothing 1b vis ible except your own sandbagged parapet and the ragged mnzo of your own barbed wire. A battory of French guns bark sharply In the rear. Firefly flashes wink a mile behind tho enemy's wire. Tho French gunners arc saying Oood-Nlglit" to a Heche battery and the dull "Doom," "Doom," "Boom," then tho squeal of enemy steel ingi flaring, bombing, machine-gup. above tolls you tho Boche is nnswer-' I1K suspicious things in that lin ing. Unless forsoon things happen Cll,iny black stretch on each side with tonight the gunners will "rest" on nlKlt wntehcrfl whn trust nobody but their arms" until daybreak. On themselves. quiet" sectors like this it often hap- (AnoUlor porio(1 ot Bi,cn(,0 exC(,pt Pens. Inn velccR nf men iiilkintr in "trench With darkness down the night T,i,iSDCrs." They'vo learned to shift are eating supper in their dug- "trench whisper" by constant prac- outs and rigging out in sheepskin t:cc A ponu apologetically explained fiery streak roars up nearby and a small while parachute floats gently down with an Incandescent flare lighting up No-Mn;i's-Land for a hundred yards around. Somebody s.iw a suspicious move beyond tho wiro, nn officer explained. The off icer orders a few rifle grenades fired as a warning to prowling Boche, per haps trying to learn something or to cut the wire. Tho l'ollu heads, sil houetting over Hie parnpot at Inter vals against the blackness beyond "duck down" for an Instant while tho grenades explode with cavernous, roars. These missiles fly Into n hundred pieces each and wipe out life for rods around. More machlneguns are- tapping their warnings or hnvlng their "try outs" here and there along the line. The Bocho again, as if nervous, is doing It too. A hnlf hour follows without a single spark of flroworks. But it breaks out again both sides watch Jackets to begin tho silent night wntch over tho parapets. T'e dug outs corrugatod steel nnd sandbag construction at Intervals a few yards buck of tho first line are Binelly and dark but filled with life. Its human llfo and Insect life, the lat in., ititilrltifr H(M ,1 1 f f m-nncn an Inne . . ., .... .,,. ( I flock of hand grenades roar them- KB fcn.c. aim biiiiii oiiuu , .if.i ..in. . shells. Men say they can get ac- into silence on the other side em.tni.ipd In Insects but the bite of a . '"ry llg.lL su pe.. ...... as ho re-arranged bis nest of .black eggllko grenades on the trench shelf before him, that American soldiers talked too loud at first. But they finally learned to "parlor douco- rient " ho added. Tho Bocho Is active ngaln. A BRITISH PRISONERS' STARVED shell is different. The United Pross found tho Inev- unoie, American sign in ui.esu uuk- . ... ,..,,,.. vnin.los hnlf wnv outs tonight. Penciled names on tho ; N.0-Mnn's-Lnnd 'and Boche like Roman candles and then float (.racefully down under their para chutes Into the German wire. A woodon blinks suggested New York's i East Sido, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Mil waukee and other purer American . mnclilneguns take up the tune. The i Bocho having told the French by the .Menlnv I h i 1 nn florlil!in Rnldiei'S are names suggested early settlers on; .. , . No.Mlin.s. tho prairies of tho Middle West. In , Lnnd thcro ,s pence nga)n lmtll fact, it was In tho trench Just out- tlmo makes tilings uncertain. Hide that a small bodv of American i Sammies" on November 3 fought i " Tlie uoeno nas no reasim 10 desperately against overwhelming nervous yet,'' winspereu an oi.ic. i. German odds In America's first llttlo "Our first patrol goes out at tivo battle of the big European wnr. o'clock. Would you like to go Tonight the poilus of France nro along. again eating their evening soup, Pntrolling is one or tne nuicier meat stew, bread and cheese and games of hide nnd seek In No-Man's- d'.lnkiiig their rations of Plnnrd on Lnnd nt night and its something the blinds where names Ilka Jano- most American trench soldiers will vlcy Meyers and Meadows are pen-, loam before tno war is over. POLITICAL NOTES tmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmw Horntbrnok May Run ALBANY, Jan. 17. (Special.) In a joint letter signed by the state com mitteemen mid executive officers of t'ne Democratic central committees of .ind nnd Benton counties, the name of Will II. Ilornibrook, publisher of the Albony Daily Democrat nnd former United States minister to Siam, is pre sented us a candidate for the office of Democratic national committeeman for Oregon. Tho letters are being mailed today to members of the State ntrnl committee nnd to the execu tive officers of the vnrious county ommittces. WHAT THUMBS ARE WORTH Digit Is Estimated to Represent Fully vne-inira ot tne Total Value ' of the Hand. One has only to grasp n pen or a ton of some snrt to realize Hint the ilill'i'iviit lingers ure fur hum luniuK Die same value In regard to their use fulness in iii'i-roriiilnu work. The most important, slates 11 writer, Is tlm lliuinb, for without It seizing or hold In,; nould be very imperfect. Th hand is no longer pincers, but merely a claw, when deprived of the thumb. It may be cstliuuted tlui tbe thumb represents fully u third of the toial mine of the bund. The total loss or the thumb i estimated by competent authorities as l.r to ;)." per cent for the riitht nml 10 to 1") per cent for the left hand, except for workers in art, when ill to SO for the right and ."i to 10 per cent for tbe left hand conns near er the value. Tlie total loss of the Index linger causes nn Incapacity estimated at from 1" to "i per cent for the right hand and 10 to 1," per cent for the left. The middle linger Is less important Hum Hie Index. The ring linger Is bast Importune, nnd the llttlo linger may be compared to its neighbor, ex cept In the professions In which It serves ns a point of support for Hie hand. lu Aluskn fish are caught by means of a wheel which works with the cur rent of tho stream. CfJE OF WORLD'S GREAT MEN Johnny Applcsced, flcjponcibls for Many Orchards In Wide nance, Will Not Scon Do Forrjotten. John Chninann':- name i.ecupies nn Important place In our American Ills tory. for lie Is known as "Johnny Ap pleseed. the .iiostle o;' Apple tlrow lag." More than n hundred years have passed since Johnny Applcseeil seat tered apple seeds throughout a widi range of territory i'roi:i 1 nnsylvahli. to the Mississippi co'tiitry, and In hu tnlllty, yet his name has l.een humor lallzed, nnd wo of niture ir- neratinu. will be u loie; lime fiir:,'eiiitig the nam. of this grout father of tlie modern iipple-growing Industry, Hie 'hris'.lar lb-raid stales. Johnny Applesced wits born ii: fcprlnglleld, Mass., In the year 177".. eveiill'ul In American history In more v.ays than one. Alse.it tbe year lS'H he emigrated from Massachusetts, join log those forces starling for Hie un known western country. In the territory between Massachu setts and nbio, and us far as Indiana. Mr. Chapman was a familiar lUu.e. lie foresaw the tide of inlm'ation go ing to the West, and seeing tin1 need of fruit, devote.! h'.s life to its culture. (iiitlierlii; all the apple seeds he roul.l secure m his native state lie would make long trips vcsl, planting the seed and supplying the scattered set tlers wish enough to provide Uu-ni Willi depnnla .... i, li nis VI - ;lt -taousaa.ls oi protltieuiL; ;.ppl.. oidiaril--Ihroiihnu: tliia vast territory. We us; wc we ail; '.Iways love tin so who unniav d- not always levc th. se wiiem mi Get a Can h TO-DAY KM From Your Hardware or Grocery Dealer Men In German Camp Entlroly Depend ent on Food Sent From England. Rotterdam. According to relensed Englishmen who have arrived from Hie ennip for Iliiilsh civilians nt Ruh leben, Hermun.v, no food hud been pro vided for them by the Hermans In the Inst three months. They were entire ly dependent on tho parcels sent out from Great Britain. Most of tlie prisoners at Itiihb ben are suffering from stomach troubles owing to the fact that they have prin cipally had to live on canned food. As a result ot Hie monotonous character of tho life there all inmates are men tally abnormal, say tliosj who liavs been released. Scaled Mount Ararat. . Mount Arurnt In Armenia Is now generally believed 'o have been tho spof where Noah left the nrk. Not until 1S20 did n mountain climber suc ceed In sealing lis steep assent. Doc tor Parrot, nn Englishman, achieved that distinction. For centuries the nintmtaln had defied the efforts of mountain climbers, and the Christian ecelesiacrics of Armenia assorted, us nn article of faitii. Hint Jehovah had made the peak his earth!., home, nnd Hint no human could possibly reuch the lop and escape divine vengeance. When Doctor Parrot declared that he had tic eoinplishei Hie ascent tho priests re fused to believe him nml they cling to this ntliliide of skepilclsm In spite of the fact Hint dozens of explorers since have stood on the top nf tlie Greater Ararat and gazed out over Armenia ,J. NOTICE ! i J. Tho Observer doalron to no- J J. euro tho names of evory Union j .J. County man In tho United J 4. States Army or Navy service. .J. j. Beid their names and correct . ! address, namo of Company and .J Division to Tho Observer. I .j. .j. .j. i- .J. ! ! CHICHESTER S PILLS rlil.rliwl'ralMumuiiTnnidi 1-1 1 la In lUd nd Ui!d miUlllcVW I0L0 nu othr. Jltty of your MaMoXII llltANO i'lLl.s, lr!J vetre known a. licit. Sulest, AUy KHh1 10 SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE A Ferny a Day , Mi-a-Mnm i Boy at the. Front Means a or a mmmmm Every man, woman and child in tin's city nan hcl) keep one of our boys at the front supplied with cigarcts and tohaceo by setting aside one cent a day for each working day. Just think- what tliis little sum will do! For 2") cents we will enter your name on our Tobacco Fund list and will send 4" cents worth of smoking to bacco and eigarets to our boys in France. Jn the kit will be a postal card stamped and addressed to you, ami on the kit will be a request to the soldier asking him to write a nies.iL'c yon on tho postal and mail it. The Fed Cross takes charge of these kits of smoking material and dis tributes them; the French government sends back the postal bearing a one cent United States stamp- and admits the .tobacco free of duty. Purely if as busy an organization s the Fed Cross Society and as pre occupied officials as those of the French government will do these things to see that our.soldicrs get a chance to smoke, it isn't asking much to ask you to set aside one cent a day for the purpose. Send in your contributions of any nmount 25 cents, $1.00, $."i.00, or more. For every 2") cents that you give, a separate postal bearing your name goes to tlie front. Here's 43 cents worth of tolmcco which is sent for your quarter: A package of Tuxedo tobacco and four books of cigaret papers. Three pouches of Bull Durham Tobacco and three books of papers. Two packages of Lucky Strike cigarets, twenty cigarets in each package. A return postal card addressed to the contributor on which the soldier will pen his appreciation and gratitude for the gift. THE OBSERVER TOBACCO FUND J