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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1918)
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVE! AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published Daily and Weekly at La Grande, Oregon, by the LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PUBLISHING COMPANY. J. 0. MEYERS H. B. LETTER CLARKE LEITER President Vice-President Editor and Publisher Entered at the Postoffice at La Grande, Oregon, as Second-class Matter, Address All Communications to THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth Street. making ly so doing, it is a matter of national importance that, if tin's country shall feel the strain of war as our 'allies have heen feeling it for thrwe years, the ordinary I good-class entertainments, so neeessarv to community ilife in peace times, shall not have Ix-t-n squeezed out of existence by government "priorities" and other adverse conditions. City Official Paper. County Official Paper. Evening Telegraph Report of United Press Associations. Member of the Associated Press (Morning Telegraph Report) The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper an I also the local news published herein. On Sale in Other Cities: Oregon Hotel News Stand, Portland; Imperial News Stand, Portland. Multnomah Hotel News Stand, Portland. TI1K FOOD SITUATION'. Sonic SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier I By Mail Daily, per month .63c Daily, per year in advance $5.00 Daily, per three months $1.9.') I Daily, per six months in advance ? ?."'' Daily, per six months in advance $3.75 ; Daily, three months in advance .$1.25 Daily, per year in advance $7.50 Daily, per month Oflj Daily, single copy 5c The Saturday Evening Observer, by mail, per year in advance $1.50 Weekly Observer-Star, my mail, per year in advance $1.50 ;J The Observer carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porches. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or nnjriects getting the paper tc you on time, kindly phone The Ouserver, as this is the only way we can deter mine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone Main 'IT before 7:!i0 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special messenger if the carrier has missed you. "My Country Tis of The. Set Land of Liberty." THE NEED FOR ENTERTAINMENT ''We' are at present engrossed in the mechanical side of the war; it is beginning to move, hut needs all our 'shoulders on the proper side of the wheels hefore it can, be called more effective than cumbersome," wisely say:) an exchange and goes on to remark: The moral side of the conflict is apt to escape us. It should he considered as a single problem, just as the me-: , ehanical, yet there are threatening signs in that quarter.1 ' which apparently receive little or no attention from those ;' who should handle the subject. It seems that recent changes in railroad and other! . conditions are working such havoc with the various fornn! ; of entertainment in the East, that large numbers of them, are going out of business, and an amusement famine is setting in, which in time may be expected to reach this; eoast. ; Now this is no time for extravagance in the way ol'; I pleasure-going, and very soon, if America docs her pro-; mised share in bearing the brunt of the war, people will! have no heart for spendthrift habits, which are rep re 1 (hensible enough inordinary times. I Jut there art; i'orn;.s; 'of entertainment that play as useful ajmrt in the fight for democracy as the manufacture. of munitions them-' selves. They are needed to take those subjected to, con tinuous mental anxiety away from themselves; to encour-' : age a wholesome reaction when danger of low spirits and depression might take the edge off the fight we are put- ' ting up. Within the army camps, this principle has re ceived its due recognition. ! But what has been found necessary for soldiers on scientific principles is, or will be, just as necessary for those bearing the strain and anxiety of the war at home. 'The man or woman who in the midst of affliction can enjoy an hour or two of amusement and laughter from time to time, is better fitted to stand the strain than those who brood continuously; they are less likely to fall' victims 1o unreasoning despondency. And if America re nounces her amusements as non-essentials, in the midst of a trial of which no end is yet in sight, she will sacrifice sources of buoyancy and good heart that cannot be re placed. In London, the entertainments are all in full swim,': also in Paris, though the gay cilv is still almost within earshot of the (leriuan gnus. The only change in the nature of these pleasure haunts is that they arc lighter and more full of fun than before the war, and cheaper, while the performance is frequently broken in upon bv an anno einent from the manager that an air raid will shortly take pla -. Whilst each ami all are ready to saerifi -e luxuries am! pleasures wherever it can help the trovernnient in its w.ir- the Americans now in Europe are uninten tionally hindering our team work in food-saving by send ing to this country near-facts and incidents which seem to show that the allied nations arc not short of food. - The American visitor in Paris is often able to get pastries and other dainties, and the American soldici writes home about the ' hospitality of "French people Neither of them understand that the French are puttin their best food forward to show their appreciation o! Americans, and that the few .frills on Parisian life in th way of pastry for the Ameri -ans count neither one w;n nor me oilier m me great looo prooieni oj riaitce. If the American visitors and soldiers could see how the rank and file of the French people live, they wonlt": write home a very different kind of a story. These stories are not intended to do. harm, of course yet they filter back throughout the United States and. being taken as first-hand informations what is the aver age American family to go by, anyway, if not by letters from its own Bill or Jim with Pershing? lead to a certaii slackness here in food conservation, on the assumption that the hardships in allied countries have been magnified. The facts are as follows: There is actually no starvation in any of the allied countries, not even Belgium. People are on short rations, yet really manage to live. Even during the blackets day? in .Belgium, there was not actual starvation so much as danger of starvation. Every one of the countries now depending upon us for food are without re.-ji-rve supplies. They have ration.' for today, and are aide to fight and work, and the visito: going about, among the people would be. quite within tin truth in writing home that there was no starvation. The ever-present danger, the supreme peril is, that something may interrupt the flow of food from this eoun try. If we fail in our great war responsibility, the lank' of the allies would be swept as bare as -Mother Hubbard'; cupboard within two weeks. That would stop war worl uid weaken the fighting force on the western fro tit. Th.it is the true danger, and no optimistic stories from illied countries, whether they come in the soldier's letter or are spread broadcast by journalists, must be permittee" to weaken our determination to help the allies througl 'tly: food stringency which will be increasingly acute fron now until the end of this year. Our food program; both for the ailics and ourselves is based upon facts planned to secure results over a loin. Doriod and that it must be adhered, to both in spirit aw" letter. That is the gospel of food saving in a nutshell So let us keep the faith. SAVINO KAILKOAD MONEY Order No. (, issued by Railroad Director McAiloo, i. expected to save a good deal of money for Uncle Sam'; borrowed railroad system. It lops off three ancient evils First, it abolishes the time-honored institution of "loir hying ' by forbidding the payment of money to clove, gentlemen known as "legislative agents."' Second, it completes a reform inaugurated a few year: go by the Interstate Commerce Coimuision, by forbid ding the issuance of all passes for transportation, cithc across state lines or v ilhin states, to people who have w legitimate claim to tliehi. Third, it forbids payments to persons or agencies or behalf of associations of carriers. What this means ma; be inferred from the fact lliat one small railroad has bee: a paying member of thirtv sm li associations, with annual meiuberrihip fees of 1 ."),( X 10. Added to the other economics made 'possible bv noop 'he railroads and eliminating tin ny poolUlf iiachiiierv of competi tion, this .will help materially to pay tile .S.WO.OOO.Iitli) ; 1 car that the government has promised, for railroad rent (iOD AND THE KAISER iclitiion of hate. Mr. Girard tolls us plainly the designs of Germany upon our United States, If she wins this war. We must not cherish hope of "'peace without victory!" It would be but a truce until the enemy had recovered enough to go Jnto another equally terrible conflict and then, very likely, more terrible for ua in America even than this. You people at home may think you reajun what this -war ii, but you cannot fully take it In, so fur :tway. You must see the vast pre parations, tho conditions over here i:i regards fuel, food, etc. Talk with the men from the trenches and those rescued from the bubiiiuiincs, to begin to understand. Of course you understand that near the front the huts are some times small, the equipment much less complete and often there arc but one or two workers in a hut. Some of our men are in dugouts with the soldiers, somo arc now on the yachts, with the sailors. In fact the Y. M. C. A. with its men tnd women, is everywhere. Money Siven this institution goes direct 'y to the comfort and help of our boys, remember. Without the Y. M. the soldier vc-jld have no place to go In the camp ,i:o place in town where he ought to go, and he would have little to vary his army messes, ind no contact with American wo men. (He never meets good French women, only the -wrong kind.) lie would have few entertainments only what the boys themselves would get up and I rather think -hoy would not write so many let ters home If they had to provide the Taper and had no warm room r conveniences with which to write. Often they come and tell us they lo not know what they would - do without the . M. I am asklufr a friend in Now York to have some copies of this letter -ypewritten so that you can read it easily. Write to me, addressing me at U. S. Army P. O. 701, France, and tell me all the home news. You lo not know how I Ion for it. I wish that I could make this long letter more interesting by tell ing you other thlncs which I cannot include, but at least It gives you 5ome little idea of what Y. M. C. A. srork Is. I Just want to add that we some '.inies have a sort of a part;- here 'or the hoys. A little while ugd we inked ihe girls from the camp can 'een to come and help and had :hoco!ate served by the ladies in ho various rooms, with sandwiches, luile like a reception at home, and Thanksgiving, as we could not do much in our rather small- rooms, e had roasted ehesnuts and ap ples given out. We do not begin lo have enough magazines. Send good ones for he boys. Th best. For mercy's lake do not semi Vogue . and the 'Woiuans' Magazine." Send things the fellows like. I ;et exasperated beyond endurance by the stupidity of people who use ip previous transportation fpe.ee by tending Ki'.ch fool things! Send; -IcCluros, Colliers', Saturday Ever.-: is Post. Geographic Literury Di- i -est, Outlook. Harpers' Monthly. rhe World's Work, Sunday Times, ' He. Send story magazines and ' Life. Tho London Graphic, al.m. .Now I re:dly will stop, with love1 to all and the horn; that I may h"ar from some of you. Affectionately yours. ALICE J. KMGriT. -0- 5 S 101. No More Currency Panics Do you remember the shut-downs, tin- husi-jicr-.s depression and the lack of cuiplocmcut which followed the currency panic of'lDOT.' To prevent another i-nri-i-m-v panic tin federal Reserve I ianliillt; N stem keeps on hand an immense siipplv of currency ( fur nish the banks which belong to the vslcui of which we are one, so that they mav'al all times meet the currency requirement- of their depositors. Doesn't it appeal to von to -;. t it- pn.icc- tioti, without cost, by beciinill-.' otic of our depositors,' Member federal Ri M-rve Sv.-lein La Grande National Bank liefoie and in the early davs of the war the Kaiser win the greater. He was the supreme rider. Soon after hi umleriook the conquest of the world the rclatioiishn 'hauled ami now became a partncrshij of two equal br ings, although it was still "Me and (imi." 'flu- Wallowa Sun ;-oniments as follows: Now the Kaiser modestly takes second place and throw-; the lespoi'sihiiity foe the wol'id war Upon (iod. Ir a recent message he expresses himself: " I feel more deeply the l es,oiisibiiit placed upon u;e by (iod." as if the Sn-pi.-nie Power had called upon Kaiser Wilhekn to alter tin world. We can not help kit wonder vbat tin- relationshi) will b - when tin- war i- over. Uippudroipo vaudeville tomorrow it the Arcade. 2-I;i-U. For Hard-to-fit Women Some wunicr. a;c hi'.i to fit in torsets; some just think they are. The town of Charlotte. Midi., with a about fi:i persons, is credited by the Tiv incut at Va-!u;iutou with hoinr the fir.-t the countrv to report itse!!' pin per cent "; population of tsury Depart-i-oininunity in riftv." that Ik i ' j i VBl m J: ! is. t verv man. woman I'.lll molt Thrift Stamps Headquarters !' jjive publicity t.i tin per cent. Which one will it 1 and a;d is enlisted tin-fir.- 1 in 'harlotte has one or as a regular saver. Oreijyn campaign is anxious to t Oregon citv or town lo t;o 100 What the Army Y M C A U Doingrln France l Letter to M ViKs Alice licin-oieics M.. I. mei I; I'U't, I ' II ( Ka-ti i r ( INSTAl.l.MV.NT Tliliriv . wri H Tin: AMLiiic n i:i i:i) lTIONAHV VOIiClS IN ;ii.CL - 1 hope you will all h;oe , !cippv I hi iMrr.r.s. We c;t;-. h-.mlly it (o p? a very .Merry one tor a of ii... Ai I write this 1 t eni.-nih,"-th:t you faMioT possitily receive i! until long inter Ihe C'hrisanas m.i-'-p rul the advent of the New Yiir. 1.. t -is pi;iy tliut it may oe tlie last rear of ihe war. if only we it. Accomplish our object the W'lvlJ. one for all. film: th- I'liisslan numeracy and its p.-cl r.m' L ii r- c , J. 7CfC There r.re certain types of fig ures, however full bust and small hips, snudl bust and large hips, short stout figures that require special designing in corsets. In MOP.AitT Front I acc.i f ir sets tneie are special si-es and mo.lcls for jtHt such figures. Wc can give n;y woman, of whatever fire or sh.im-, the kind of style and fit she should hac. OD,-5RT (csCtlZ-Zl rront Lacot' PAULINE LEDERLE I Always Comfortable ! All Ways This comfort idea applies to you; we have your size and will measure and fit you properly Keno sha-Klo s e d - Krotch r t t-l . t union ouus !',i'?S'- I If)- i f HP y is Wrm 9MSBBI They will give you a new. realization of Underwear Comfort. -Light, Medium and Heavy Weight garments are await ing your selection. Your choice of fabrics: Cotton, Worsted, Wool; also Silk and Wool Effects. You will like Quality Since 1S76 which is a guarantee to you of Value and Service. i Sold Exclusively from SIGNED SOXES Which Identify the ! Genuine KLCSED-KROTCH and COOPERS QUALITY t Two Big Advantages which cost nothing extra, but arc J worth much to you. 2.00, 2.25. $2.50, $4.50, i- 5.00 and 8.00 Thorscn-Hendi-leksen Lumber Co.' to establish Ifox factory at Toledo. ; Arleta to have Carnegie library. Cortland has municipal paving p'ant but oil companies cannot de liver r.?phalt. Falls City Northv.est Fruit Pro ducts Co. will operate Pugh Iokhu juice factory. o About Constipation. Hoar Wood's Musical Trio at the Arcade tosiorrov 2-tn-lt. Certain articles of diet tend to check movements of the bowols. The most common of these are cheese, tea and boiled milk. On the other hand raw fruits, especially apples and baa anas, also graham bread and whole wheat bread promote a movement of the bowels. When tho bowels are badly constipated, however, the sure way Is to take one or two of Cham berlain's Tablets Immediately after supper.- Adv. $100 Pvcward, $100 The rR'Jerg of tMs pnpor trill be plaivi to iearn that there is at least o:ic dreaded disease that science has t;cn able to cure in all its stagos and that is citftrrh. Catirrh belnK ratly inrlu(.'nei"d bv consTltutionnl conditions requires cons: huMonal treatment. Hall's Catanh Medicine is taken internally and a-'is thru the Blood on V-'. Mucous Sur faces of the Syst-jm thereby destroying the foundation ot the disease. Riving tho paiient Biivr.-nh by building up th con stitution and Hssisinij nature in doing Its trork. The proprietors have so much faith In the curative powers of Hnll's Catarrh M'd'.ririe that they ofTer One Hundred Dollars for any case that It fails to cure. Pnd for list of testimonials. Address P. J. CHKNKT & CO., Toledo. Ohio. Sold by ail Drusgist. 75c Fraternal Directory . O. O. M. La Grande Lodge No. S50, Loyal Order of Moose holds regular meetings every Wednesday night at S p. m. in Eagle hall next to EUs' Bldg. on Washington Ave. Visitors always welcome. Dues pay able at Young's Sweets. CEO. YOUNG. Die. HARRY SWART. Sec G. P. 0. E. ELKS, La Grande Lodge No. 433. Lodge meets each Thurs day evening at S o'clock. Home and club privileges cheerfully ex tended to all Drother Elks. NORMAN DES1LET. Exalted Ruler. A. B. CHERRY, Secretary. K. of L. of Security Mt. EmIU- Council, No. 24f.. meets tlve secern', and fourth Monday evening at $ o'clock at Eaele hall. Visiting members are welcome. J. K. FITZGERALD, Pres. ADE HARRIS, Fin'l. Pec. FLORENCE BRYANT. Ree. Pec. KHALED TEMPLE NO. 170 Dra matic Order Knights of Khoraasan. Instituted Feb. 2 0, 19H. Meets the third Friday of each month at K. P. hall.. All visiting Votaries welome. C. M. HrMTHREYS. Sec; WOODMF.:,' OF THE WORLD Grande Camp No. K9 meets every first and third Monday at Eaules" Hall. All visiting neighbors wel come. Dues r-'oable at the c;f-e of the clerk. New Foley Bldg., 0 a. iu., to 5 p. m. J. J. Ml'ROHtSON, C. C. R. J. KITCHEN, Clork. v. F. & a. M. La Grande Lodge No. 41. A. F. & A. M. holds regular meetings first and third Saturday nt 7::0 p. m. Cordial welcome to lit! Masons. ROP.irUT S. EA KIN, W. M. A. C. WILLIAMS, Sec. - KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Red Cross Lotltre No. 27 nie-ts every Monday night In Castle HallfK. of P. hail) ; A PythUa vrelcotne to .11 visiting i Kciglits j C. K. JlcCORJJirK, c. c. ' DELILE GREEN, K. of R. i S. iREBESAHS Crystal Lodge No. meets every Tuesday evening in Hie 1 I. O. 0. F. Hall. All visiting mem j bers ate invited to attend. I SARAH MrCLLRE, N. C. ! MATT IE GOLDEN, Roc. Sec. MODERN WOODMEN" OF AMERICA La Grande Camp No. 7703 m.-ets on the first and third Thursday cvrnincs of each month In the K. I of P Hall. Visiting neighbors welcome. L. J. MUNHAI.L, V. C. W. F. ASHMAN, Clerk P.OYAI. NEIGHBORS Iris Camp meets every st-cond Friday after noon rnd every fourth Friday even ing, every month, la K. P. hall. All visiting members cordiallv welcom. HENUIETTA GHARST, Oracle. NELLIE V. VINACKE. Rec. O. E. S - Hope Chapter No. 13, O. E. S. lioirts stated communications the second ar.d fourth Wednesday of each n.i nth. Visiting members cor dially welcomed. SADIE E. GIVEN, W. M. MARY A. WARNICK,SV.
