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' T ITU RSI ) A Y . A PR 1 L 25, 1918 4 JIUll i'UUlt tj LA GRANDE , OBSERVER The Observer , , An Independent Newspaper, Published Dally and Weekly at -, ;. La Urande, Oregon. , '' La Grando. Evening Observer ';.. Publishing Company. ' URTJCE DENNIS, PabJitAcr. - Kntered at the Postoffiee at La Grande, Oregon, a Becond-class - - - Matter. to! .1 d as the ircapon for Inability as 'this reason Is Justifiable, lt.lt1 a ease of gettinK together some way for tha host interests of nil.. . ' Address-All Communications to The Observer, 1710 Sixth Street. City Official Paper. County Official . fnper. . t; .. Evening Telegraph Report of United . Frees Associations , : On Sale in Other Cities Oregon Hotel N9ws Stand, Portland. . imperial News Stand, Portland. Multnomah Hotel News Stand, Portland. ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES hy Carrier . Dally, per month ............... .65c Daily, per three months.. ...... ,$1.95 Dully, per six months In advance $3.73 Daily, per year in advance. .... .$7.50 Dully, single copy.. . ............. .5c Bv Mall " Daily, per year in advance. J. . .. $5.00 Daily, per six months In advance 12.50 Daily, three months in advance. .$1.25 Daily, per month.. ............. ;50e . The Saturday Evening Observer, by mail, per year in advance... ..$1.50 Weekly Observer-Star, by mail, per year In advance... '. ... "My Country TIs of The, Sweat Land of Liberty." HAiti) I'ltoroHmoN. 81!(Ti:hhih i. sciiooi, vhaji Nenrlng the end of a successful year, I.a QraMe schools" will record one of I he bent years in their his tory. This has been n your of harmony anions tonchors, of con structive wotk In every buildlnit. and of '.thorough' accord" between school 'board uud faculty. Advancement of pupils this year has boon very marked and- through out the city there is an expression of satisfaction over the work that has- ben done. : ' ' A in ovory other city In Oregon much of the war work i:2s been giv en to the schools to do and the way that Has been nttondod to In I.n Grande 1 Is a matter of common knowledge all over tho state and has.-brought, forth praise from all who are connocted with the nation al activities In Oregon. , Superintendent Churchill has re peatedly paid the highest compli ments pnsslblo to Union county and La Grando schools for the way the pooplo hnvo been Interested in tho thrift stamps and other undertak ings. La Grando has been fortunate securing excellont ability In the dlf- jforent departments as the work of theso departments plainly show. iKach exhibit that has boon pluecd The ellv nnminlKslnn i "in trv 'in ibofore tho public has indicated the, M4sL k.5v few "t rfS Y'fr- REMEMBER THE TU5CANIAJUY A BOND." ( ATI l,H 00 HKillKlt. Choice . SICCI'H Uilng I'lirtlnnd. mifke some kind of nit adjustment over the matter of collecting Hie amounts duo for property Improve ments. . For this purpose meetings are to bo hold on Monday and Tues , day ovonliifes. It Is a hard Job that faces tho. commission to say the, least. It Is farthest from tho com mission's Intent fo work an undue hardship on uuyono and at the same tlmo the city Is with. "Its back a gnlnst the wall," and confronted by demands for which It and the wholu people, stand responslhlo.. .The one who can point out a Way that will ho satisfactory to the majority will bo worthy of a medal for financial generalship. ' It la a condition and not n the ory at Ihjs time, and mistakes -of tho past do not mitigate the neces sities of tho present. :..., It Is not a case of an obdurate creditor and an unwilling debtor. Jn this ..malter- the creditor ronlly needs the money nnd the debtor Is supposed to be In a position where It is difficult to pay. '.;.. Such a situation In private nf t fairs nro coming up almost dully and usually In such cases whore, the debtor dons to the utmost of his ability and tho creditor cxerclsoB the greatest leniency ho can pos sible greatest ca children Working lnr lino. ronTl.AND, April 23. Cattlo re ceipts today, 5011. Although ' re ceipts, (tie somewhat heavier today than a week ago Ihey hre slill away below uo'rinul. I'rlcos have contin ued to rllinb since a week ugo un til today $11 wns .realized for . some excellent steers. An aelvanco of m ti. Trnlnlnir of tliel-25 to $1-50 nil along the lino Is In that partlcn- IS 5 LISTENS TO OBJECTION Subjccti of Delinquent Assessments to Be Made Special Order. On Monday and Tuesday' Evenings Citizens Invited to Discussion 'V',:'.''";1 'Matter.. At the meeting of the city commis sion yesterday evening, a large num ber of property owners presented tho matter of advertising property on as sessment delinquencies. Tho whole matter was in the way of an appeal to ease up as far as practicable on the proposed collections. This matter received the respectful attention of ; the commission, but at the, same time it was shown that the city must have money to meet its obligations.' The final result was that the commission j will hold meetings on both Monday j and Tuesday evenings of next week,) when this question of the advertised j list of delinquencies will be taken up 1 ly afford, both ro cnobled to go Witn (ne property owners affected, and i a plieiiomenaL record In any mar ket. I'ortlniid claims the distinc tion today of having thin advance. Wuil finished steers sold at $1,125 land hlghor, whllo ordinary stuff sold up rs high as the top price obtained ; a week ago. Quotations arm Good to choice steers, $12.75 to '$13.75; medium' to good steers, 511.75 10 $12.75; common to me dium steers,' $10.25 to $11.25; choice -cows . and hclfcrs $11.25 to I $1 2.2 5 ; common do good cowb and Iholfers- $7.25 to $10.75; cannors, $4.25 to $(1.25;. bulls. ' $6,25 to $10,75; calves $8.76 to " $13.25; stockers and feeders $70 to $90 por head. Hog receipts today, 1,100. On a very small run hogs climbed today 15c. Quality wns very good In the main. ami the advance of 15c was woll earned hy quality. Quota tions are: Pilme mixed $17.05 to $17.00; medium mixed $17.40 to $17.05; rough . heavies $16.40 to $16.65; pigs $15 to $16; bulk $17.65 to $17.70. Sheep receipts today ",00v No change in quotations, Which r.ro: Prlmo spring lambs "$20; heavy Ininhs, $10.50 tq.$18; yearlings $15 to $15.25; wethers $13. $13.50; "ewes $12 to $12.50. lJUST ARRIVED ! NEW MILITARY SPORT BOOTS FOR LADIES. N Those shoo Vmo yterday 1y express and. woVt- just .fhimliod l'"11 in the Bhclf-already-for you. Those arc mapm in !'VJ,ta,T. Onliaii Tlit-v are a trifle lower than a Ciilam jhcpl; niakinn most eointoit able street shoe, or school shoe for rh: Come in and see them any time. ' AVe also have these Uii ' : lian heels for spring and llnfo" ffils ftar, .',.. the Bagdad Railway . must be . extended by us to the open aea. even to India Itself.'.' ,u "ueigium muse remain unaer uernian uomination,. . ; . . mere, exists no better line of attack for tho German ormy lit a future war with France," whom It Is necessary "to weaken to such a degree that she can never again be iliuigei-oUB to us." t"WII1 anybody believe that we will band o vet the lands which we. havo occupied In the West, on which the blood of our peo ple has flowed?" "Wo aro not an In stitute for lengthening the life of i dying states." . : Itut it 18 on Poland and Western Russia that Germany has all alonii fixed her eyes. . , "We ought aot to let fall the swonl.from our hand be fore we have assured our future. Our eastern boundaries must not remain where, they are." "Livonia, Kurland, Kstbonla, have been for more than seven centuries sister-countries 'united through German traditions. It Is true Germans do not yet represent 10 per flcnt of the inhabitants: but their char- Ifcter filters through the whole." "Let us bravely organize great forced mi grations of the lnfoi'lor peoples. Pos terity will be grateful to us. We must coerce them! This Is one of the tasks of war. Such forced migrations may appear hard, but It is the only solu tion. . , ; The Inefficient peoples, discourag?d and rendered Indifferent to the future by the spectacle of the superior energy of their conquerors, may then crawl slowly Uowards the peaceful death of weary and hopeless senility." The writer of this was here viewing especially the non-German populations of South America. How Is America Interested In the European political and territorial re sults of this war? Well, first, we ore at war. Germany believeB that peace now, on the terms she outlines, means a Germany victorious. That means a , continuance of military autocracy in 1 Germany a continuance of nn nggres j slvo liolley n continuance fct German faith In its special destiny to rule the world. ' " - ' I AKainst that Gerninn ideal we are t0 ) figUtlng. Hut we are also fighting An olive dial), cloth top, military heel, iiviii'-ation tip, welt . sole. Price $7.50 A brown, all ; lo'atlicr, light weight calf, imita tion tip, military 1 heel, welt sole. Trico .U$8.00 A Made soft calf all 'leather, 'military flieel, imitation wing tip, welt sole. Price ., $6.C0 A brown, low heel.' .d.lf skin, wing tip, welt, sole. Price $7.00 summer. . . - A brown, calf, Cuban liccl, welt sole, imitation tip, price - '. - $9-00 An all-grey kid- Cuban . fhcel, cloth top, welt sole,' price -" $8.50 A chocolate brown , kid, 5 cloth to), welt sole, Cu- , ban heel, price ...... $8.50 ;s A black vamp, grey top, V Cuban heel, welt sole, price - - $8.50 ; - Brown Hose ' to match all shoes Fibre and lisle, 40c and 85c pr. A white canvas, military ..heel,- welt sole, best grade of canvas, price ......$6.00 A' white kid lace boot, Louis" heel," welt sole, plain toe, price ........1 $9.50 A white canvas, Louis heel,-welt sole, plain toe, price $5.00 and $6.00 Olive Drab Hosiery ; to match the new shoes. Fibre Silk, 85c pr. m ..'.-..''.' a . . along.- , It 13 a matter In which not only tho delinquents, but the whole pub lic ,hus nn Interest. Those who havo paid are affected Indirectly as well as those who aro delinquent. The ones who hnvo paid, are ns re sponsible ns far an the city's obli gations go ns arc those who have not paid. The demands of the war are urg- it is hoped to have a pood attendance j and to arrive at a just and reasonable ; conclusion. - The commission authorized .thc manager to proceed with the instnlla- tion of necessary measures to insure for the summer months a safe water supply. The exponso entailed is but nominal, nnd while the supply is WHY WE ARE AT WAR WITH GERMANY ' ' ' Dy EPHRAIM DOUGLASS ADAMS Executive Head, History Depart. . ment Leland Stanford Junior University Despite the prevalence af robbery, a few continue lo keep money about their homes, In thus doing they arc not only risking Hie loss of the money, hut also their lives. How murh safer and belter it would he if these people would bring their money lo this hank. You're not running this risk are you? ... - 4 Never despise a smnll beginning. llcmcmber, "The I-ofty Onk From a Small Acorn Grows." to save the Americas from the "next step" in German Imperialism. In the first 5'cav of Hie war,' the one great fear expressed hy German officers was that a long war In Euroie would "cause America to wake up." Wake up to what? Not to the need of American participation In the war. j The German officers thought America j negligible for this war. But. they did, and do, fear that America would awake to the dnnger to herself, her I Idenls, her Institutions, her Interests, ! nnd that being awakened, Germany's ncxt step in world domination would j be harder than the present one. There Is no hope of a changed Ger I many of establishing those peaceful i aid friendly relations which should determine international conduct If j Germany gains her objects, or any rairt of them. In this war. She has the best policy to "be absolutely on the ' Fogsd'ctthcroti'Mcrcd'biiQVioni I ct' her heart upon certain material safo side. . ! ,r"y or ,h lonj-Mtsbiuind prc- objects. We mint see to it that she e l t larnationAl action and honor; ... This , .... . . t 1 powor la not the Oarnian people. It la step blocked, we may hope that her I " ruthlma mnatar of tho Otrroan peo- yc,,,e nisv awukeu from their dream t pie. ... It la our bualnesa to aee to 1 , ... D . . , , . tvet, i ft that the hiatory of tho reet of the i of empire. c nght for a world eace, world la no lonaer left to Ita handling." jyc8. mlt We also fight for self-pres- THE MATERIAL AIMS OF GKIt MANY. 1 t.oto. Germany bellwes that she has the right to dominate the world. Her THE NATION AND MORAL DUTIES militaristic, autocracy believes, that ! The rulers of Germany believe that ibis war Is a step toward such world they have the rlsht to prevail over all domination, but that German demands I oiher natloas: They also believe that for me present may rest saiisned wun the poteer of. tha state Is the oaly ob substantial gains In Knrope. For years . ject for which Its rulers should strdg- ' "The object of thlB war la to dellvur the free peoplea of the world from the menace and tho actual power of a vast military establishment controlled by an lutinln nnn n ' . i. i 'i i ' irretpoitslblo QOvornment, which, having ..,.u.n...v, .v ,v id ium.-i,.,..iu aecrewy uiannud to tionunate the worm P.UNNIN' RISKS ! Member Federal Reserve System La Grande National Bank ' LA GRANDE, OREGON , lorvatlonj aad our best chance to save ! ourselves is this present moment I German political writing has been full . of the "terms of peace" after a war, and today those terms remain unal- Ble. Still further, they believe that moral principles nnd Ideas have no place in determining tho actions of I tered. The Russian negotiations have the state, since tho sole, duty of the j served to provo that what has for a ; state is to get power. '. This Is Oer- urns innr ueen puoiic opinion, is now ) man political philosophy. American official opinion. The quotations will j' political philosophy, from the very be show this. t ginning of our institutions, has on- First, tho more gcnersl purposes: 10sed this theory, and now In this war ii we come victorious out of. this war. i is fighting against It. For the Ger we shall be the first people on the - man theory necessarily carries wlta It earth, a rich stream of gold will pour utter denial- of the claims of moral over the land." '-expansion of our feeling, of International right, of hu lwwer both L'ast and West, if possible j man deeeacy and chivalry. 0(10 otrr ea; political and military '. The Gorman hlFtorhui. Treltschke. i6r, to other words, whatever Is nec" eseary Is moral." From this it follows, lmdnternatlonnl relations, - that there' Is no rule or guide to conduct except self-interest. In this present war a follower of Treltschke, one of the leading, common-school' educators of Germany, Kirschenstelher of " Munich, drives home the theory. "The great lesson which the German people has had to learn Is to think in terms of power. . . .' Let no one here say that small states, too, can have a national life of their own. True, so long as the great states around thean allow them to exist. But any day may see the end of their existence, In spite of all treaties to the contrary. . Xeither alliances nor treaties provide the least security. . . . There are no ethical friendships between states in our day. . . . There are only friendships of convenience. And frlenl ships of-convenience last Juat as long as the convenience Itself." , -. . Professor Eulenberg of Leipzig sums It up, "All ethical considerations are completely alien to tho state and tha state must therefore resolutely keep them at arm's length." Can we wonder that the German Foreign Secretary spoke of the broken treaty with Belgium as a "scrap of paper?" or that the school children of Germany celebrated the sinking of the Lusitaniat or that German agents In America, smoothly friendly In ap pearance, secretly plotted, before we were in the war, to destroy our In dustries, our railways, even our lives? is there no such thing any more J as a common humanity no "decent ! respect to the opinion of mankind,";' as Thomas Jefferson stated It -la the j Declaration of Independence? Is ourj ideal of righteousness, yes, even ofjl unselfishness, impossible in Interna- tlonal politics? J7ii tear, if Germany jl is defeated, may deride these ques- lions, out if uermany tcins, the Strug- gle has but just begun. This American 'democracy of our denies, and has always denied, the German theory; It asserts that the laws' which formulate the duties of men toward each other are binding upon nations equally with individuals. For centuries civilization has been slowly advancing from Ignorance, prejudice, and selfishness toward sym pathy, understanding, and a desire to see justice done, whether between in dividuals or nations. The "be all and end all" of a state is not Power It is Justice. And the German government has left us In no doubt as to the results of her theory, Jn application. That government has broken a solemn treaty with Belgium, ordered tho mur der of innocent hostages, bombarded unfortified towns, torpedoed unarmed passenger ships, destroyed works of art where they could not be carried to Germany, plotted secret war against neutral nations all of them actions she once pledged herself to forego has lost. In short! all sense, appar ently, that she is dragging the former good name of the German people through a mire of dishonor, the stain of which will not be removed for generations. Against tbis mad phi losophy and mad government tha war must be waged, until they are de feated, or there la no safety for men or nations. This Is the third of a series of ten articles by Professor Adam. Don't tot It Linger. nvs)iWW5fWafl Why not Tfour GA TES Quality TUBES - The Tube with the Test Sample Attached ; . Gates "Quality" Tnht's are sold at a pi'if'c lower than : any other tube on the liiavket in the .same class. , Yet yoiu-' disi'thnits are higher. It is a matter of service to you. Anticipate your needs and order at once. Come In and Investigate. . - Gates Half Sole Station - 1105 Foley Hotel Building. ' , domination combined, Indissoluble con nected wlih economical expansion, this Is our war aim." "The territory onen to future German expansion must ex tend from the North Sea and the nl- at whose feet princes and rulers sat, eagerly absorbing his teachings, de voted his life to spreading this gospel of Power. It Is true, be Bald sneer- Ingly, that "a stock of Inherited can e to the Persian Gulf, absorbings he ceptlons of Integrity and morality Is Netherlands and Luxembourg. C"lt-1 a necessity for government," useful. serl.ind. the whole basin of the Dan-1 that subjects of the state be o&rdirnt), tine, the lialUn Peninsula and Asia but "the end all and be all of a Mlnor" v i slat Is Power." "The state Is the Herond, the fmmciitVife alms: "Our j sole Judge of tho morality of Ita own relation; wUh Turkey have drawn usl actions. It Is, in factjnbove morality,' A cough that follows la grippe or an? other cough that "hangs on" from winter to spring wears down the sufferer, leaving him or her in j a weakened state unable to war off sickness and disease. Joe. GiUard, 14S Fillmore St., Nashville, Tenn.. writes: "I was Buffering with a dry hacking cough and a pain in my chjest, hut since taking Foley's Honey nnd Tar I have been re lieved." It sootbes, heals and cures coughs, colds nnd croup. - Good for whnnptag cough. Sold everywhere. Adv. Mr. Grain Farmer: ' Are you prepared to handle your grain in bulk? Do not wait until Spring nnd Summer when you are buried with work and worried with labor shortage, bnt build your graneries now. Vou can buy the lumber and roofing paper for a first-class 1000 bushel portable granary for $54.f8 and it will last for years. Sacks for the same amount of grain will cost you $125.00 and this would-be a dead loss against this year's crop. A granary of this sie can be moved nnywhere and can be filled directly from the thresher, dqing away with high priced ' labor handling and sewing sacks. . The boys in the trenches need the sacks for sand bags for the protection of their very lives and perhaps your boy is among them. Spend your, money in your own valley by buying lumber manufactured at home. , When you buy sacks part of the money goes to India. BUILD YOUR GRANARIES NOW Be prepared by building, them before the farming season opens up. Bo sure to get good lumber, well seasoned, as low grade lumber will give you trouble in a few seasons. Don't use green lumber. . Save money keep what you spend at homo mevent loss nnd damage from exposure to weather leave the sacks for our boys in the tenches; help win tho war by building gianaries now. Portable granaries of this type aro universally used In other sections. One trip with a good team will haul the ma terial for one granary. For particulars as well as prices on Union County lumber for all farm purposes, see - - The George Palmer Lumber Co. LA GRANDE, OREGON l... OIL BURNERS , Your wood is gone, the summer is here, that oil burner that you have longed for is ready to install in your Ifange FREE TRAIL nnd guarantee cover your dollars. Furniture Exchange Fir and Jefferson E. J. DONOHUE Black 1241 Best Prices Paid for Used Furniture I I i I I I I I I I I I I I I j I I I I I I I it ii I I t
