La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 02, 1918, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text.tjmiW"" -. X' PAGE FOUR ! FRIDAY, AUGUST-2, 1918- LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER I The Observer Aa Independent JSiwipsper- . : PubTuhed "bally and Wftakly at ' j,1 L Grande, Oregon. ! La Grande Evening Obewer Publishing Company, v'-'" ' BRUCE DENNIS, tWilhhy. Entered at the Poatoffice at . La Granda, Oregon, aa Second-c&u Matter. : Address All Communications to The Observer, 1710 Sixth Street. City Official Paper. County Official paper. casualties, e.von 1f f mlicli lenalvo man nt moro utf- Ptroacnt reported, are nothing , life tlo destruction of. life , that; waa wltniesned -ot; (iotty.v burg and '-.Cold Harbor'- and many other places that oould be named. And all the arnilt'fi 'engaged," hot!i north and south, 'ould make but few divisions of jthe armies now on the western front. Every casualty cist that comes brings the fact nearer homo that tt is a serious affair and that th BUSH "SHIP BUILDJNG - ., 3rJr-- 158 "THIS JXTOl.KHAHU; TMI.N'M." '-'4 ill'" ''i' i-ii,"1'-- V'-:i' By Captain' Andrew It. Marker. My scepter Is the club of Cain, my crown was forged from the epear that pierced the Ilea it of Evening Telegraph Report of United sacrifices that, ai;6 bplng made com- Press Association. ;'j On Hale In Other Cities '. Oregon ilotel News Standi Portland. , imperial News Stand, rortiana. 'Multnomah Hotel Newa Stand, r Portland. ' ' "" 1 ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES ?: - Br Carrier " Daily , per month .......... 65e Daily, per three months.... ......1.95 Daily, per six months in advance $3.75 : Daily, per year In advance. . $7.50 Dailv. aimrie cod v., , 5c - By Mail - . . -Daily, per year in advance...... $5.00 Daily, per six months in advance $2.50 Dally,- three months !i advance. .$1.25 Daily, per month....... ... .....50c The1 Saturday Evening Observer, by mail, per year in advance. .. . .$1.50 Weekly Observer-Star, by mall, - per year in advance. ............. $1.50 My Cauntry Tie of Thee, Iwm) Land Liberty.1;. . - , - JOII 3IVKT HIS THOHOTOII ; ' . Whllo ropoi to ' from all sources ' show great war preparations In all departments,' tho vrork Is not to be - allowed , to lag In any particular. .! The arrangements for extending the draft ago may be accepted as a ' certain . Indication that " there Is to be a larger list of man-power av : tillable for service., The, subject will not be roeolved with exact uni ty by congress, but there will not i be a great amount of discussion, and what the war program' cnlW .. for will be met. .Tho ',; ages will i likely bo from 19 to 40, but In any i 'case there ' Is evidence : that the United States. Is to have an army ' that will be efficient and adequate. That" Is tile' bnfy-reaaonnble,' way to - go about the business. : It Is a job - .that Hob before the country and there is to be no failure and no chance to be taken which will ren der the sacrifices already made of no avail. ' ' - It 1 Is' a practical : certainty that the crowu "prince's army will be ifiiven back, or perhaps It Is more accurate to say that they will to. A tiro anyway lo the Vesle '' rlvor, - where It may bo supposed that they "' will bo as well ontrenched as It Is - possible to bo to meet further prossiire from the allied armies. : But henceforth It Is to bo a war of agression on the part of the al ' lira and of defense on tho part of the niielny. It will rciulre an : abundance of man' and munition 1 power to keop up the ascendancy, and It Is Idle to believe otherwise. ' This condition ban been foreseen ' fur a lung time and all the re sources of tho country are to bo marshalled for the impending task, i It In nnnio satisfaction to bo told that 00, 01)0 airplanes nre within sight, and also to know that tho v: submarine, menace Is becoming loss - ti : and lean In evidence. .The tronu . arrivals In France nre also, keep ' Ing well up with the schedule. While all these things are as sat isfactory as could well he expected there Is every erldonro that there will ho no let-up whatever. As V many men will he called as can be mustered ,nnd nt tho same time ; keep up the essential Industries at. home. It nil Indirnles that unless the very unexpected happens the conflict before. It becomes uniiuall . fledly declsivo, will last well Into t next year If not longer. All plans nre being laid to mako the Issue rertaln and pence permanent when It does come. as a silent plea for steadfastness at homo. Thore Is ; no war giving and war ; effort ; tluit comes ' nny- wnere equal to mat ot tho men who stand like n. Btono wall and those who man the machine gnna to the last breath. The people oj hoone can never i adequately repay the me,n who stand to , the end at the front for - the principle .that freedom on. earth way again reign THE DETECTIVE .STORY A careful study of theOntcst volume; of detective fiction givesithe following resultB forulo pages: it Number at nods, 135. Broadest Hump made by hero In apacno aou, .i.i ieet. Number of people who "nod compre hending!;;", fifteen. Numberiof whistles of astonishment, twelve. ..- Detective hero sucks In bis breath seven times. . ; Reformed crook sees heaven good woman's eyes, four times.. In a TAHI'AI.TIKH I.KiHT. While tho country has recelvel notice to be prepared tor a more extended list of casualties and the reports today aro more large than heretofore reported, the, number of actual fatalities is not large In pro portion to the number of men en gaged. It Is to be hoped, but hardly expected, that the proportion will keep on in this way. But the fllgltcat speed attained by detective's limousine In pursuit of kidnapers, live hundred miles an hour. .-. s 1 - Highest distance climbed by detec tive up preclpltlous wall, forty-live feet ' v,.-- ;'. vi. .: . - ::'::- ; "' ,' ' Number of occasions on which he might Just as well have used tho stairs, flve..v i ... ,t tl . . ' Number of languages spoken by de tcctlvo hero like a, native, apparently, twenty-four; also n smattering of an cient Javaneso nnd Tasmania!!. : ; ; . Number of occasions on which re formed crook narrowly esenpes being accepted by the good woman and so ruining tho story, twelve. .'- ; Number of Inquiries from wlfo of tender ' whetlier It Isn't tlmo to put away the. trash and go to bed, Ovo. Now Xork Envonlng I'ost. ; . SAYINGS OjvWISE MEN Learning without thought la Inbor lost. Confucius. '. They never fall who die In a great causo. Lord Byron. " it Is wcil to think. : It la divine to act well. Horace Mnnn. ' Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can. Thomas Curlylo. ' To live thy better, lot thy worst thoughts die. Sir Walter Raleigh. ' Be 'who has learned how to obey will know how to command. Solon. Words are daughters of earth hut Ideas nre. sons of licnveu, Doctor Johnson. A friendless heart I like, a hollow shell that sighs over Its own empti ness. Thomas Ilood. Absence ot occupation Is not rest; a mind quite vacant la a mind dis tressed. William Cowper. If you know how to spend less than you got you hnve tho philosopher's stone. Franklin. Oood nature will nlwnys supply the absence of beauty but beniity cannot supply tho absence of good nature. Joseph Addison.. ' , ., LUSH LACONISMS - Stock speculator's tipple SInr-gln. Too many toots make a man desti tute. A couple of horns don't mako the moon tu. Would yon call a pony of brandy n spirited nnlniaU Tho highball Isn't nlwnys an anti dote for low spirits. Boston Tran script. . , , Fleets Take to the Waters at fireat Building Plants. '. 'i WASHINGTON.'Aug. 2 (By Unit ed Press.) Germanv took 40 vears to build up her war machine. The United I jnr'"1- ' - Stupes shipping board has taken less Upon my forbidding frontlet than 10 months to bridge the Atlantic shine, the symbols of Tyranny, and ocenn with ships. 1 a groat,' obsequious people ,bow ' Exigencies of the war hnve forced Idown to me In fear and .serve lne this government to accomplish things Kd. it never before believed possible., And Tho glorious genius of an Intel- no task faced was greater, perhaps, lllgence derived from Cod I prostl than the building of ships. Today, Ituta to the service of passlona America s merchant marine Is the -snared wltn unites. Devoid of . pity, despising mercy, I know ,iio joy but tlie, wild delir ium of' battle, that revels, In de struction and Is lillml to, tho odds. , 'I force my devotod subjects from peaceful; homes, -fllug them to the flaming' cannon, mid Mj them on greatest in the world ; its growth has been nmazing even to the shipbuild ing1 officials themselves, j .. .The shipping board, since its crea tion, , Inst , September, has 'placed 1,714,172 deadweight tons of vessels in service. Two hundred and sixty- one seagoing snips, ot seagoing ca- writhing n grotesque , agonies paclty, have Been commissioned, 'this fields of gliasllinoss nnd grlof. does not include the scores of ships I ; Tn0 d.ad wno hnv.u,dQ(t i llly already built nnd owned by American uefense ; r leave to rot uron yie citizens. .. - .'. ." , 'stricken ' field, pausing In my vul- Bes.des the 201 bottoms completed, jtur0 fUght only l(ll)g on(,UKh lo nearly 200 other hulls aro afloat In wnet my 8W0ri for i mor0 san. vnnoils stages of completion. These gunary Uesolatlon! win aggregate approximately M0Pj, r ,ay . oga to 8plen(,ld clt)efl, , , , . .adorned 'with the choicest gems of One hundred and f.fty-eight Wp-jArt aDd , chol.lslied lrol)lllell of yards are engaged in produwng ships Al .,, wllon i;. do. with which to transport men and ma- ; gllttud ,-,, are left to ermls to. he front Keels have been lte thet ot tliolr vanished laid' or will be laid on more than 700 i..,. , - . wfiva. fitwl riO.llOfl mon nrn Hninir their I AROUND THE WORLD In England It Is mandatory to cm ploy at least 70 per cent of female In bor In all tndustrlnl plants. The tnlloring trndo In New York city has over 110,000 women workers of the voting ago who are iinnntur ollr.cd. A resident of Richmond, Cnl., hs saved all the odds and eads of sirlnx for 17 years, and now has n ball welgli Iiik W pounds, nnd Is said to contain about 40 miles ot siring. Bill Hart Picture at Saturday, Sun daynever shown before, 8-2J!t bit in the shipyards of the United States. ;- " , . A '' ' : YOU ARE DOING IT. Every time you read, you purchas era of Liberty Bonds and War Savings My "ruthless, rapacity I Jiistlly with the philosophy of "blood and nation lis to exploit thci small and the weak; .that'God, working 'thru the pitiless lawn of evolution, wills the. subjugation of tho weak and the siiivvul of -the strong. Stnmps, of what the United States IB i , ; ,. ... ... , . ,. doing in France in;buiiding wharves nZoZi , .,u m, ' ",c ipeaco and brotherhood is but tho mans with gas or shelling them out of iblea of ;-ilontlm(Snt:ll, a, ho fl0. nnsittnn with hie o-uns or snrnnnol. or ..... ' ... . .... . r pnistry or ioois. v of bombing their arsenals or cities, Tre!.tlef) pnaco-pacts, the solemn tr nf Hin irwin! wm-lf nf nnr nrmv And : . . . . . " . ipicagoj 0f a nation's honor, I con- here, or of any or all of the great or snuill achievements of America, here or abroad or dp tho seas, you buyers of Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps truthfully can "I had a hand in this"; ''I contributed to this"; "I am helping do this"; ;"It is part of my work." ; iuia.-.-.-fi'j.-w----i.i-----.-----"i VAW.''.W....t.M.-i-ta':tl" ! We're ready to help you by showing you superiority - of Quality Merchandise. ("anvas Gloves, heavy weight-. ;. z pair zoo Men's Khaki Pants .....$1.50 to $2.50 Men's Bib Ovei'alls.....$2.00 to $2.50 Men's Heavy .Jump 're $ 2 to $2.50 Men's hvy. Jiinipei's....$2.00 to $2.50 Men's Work Sliirtsi..75c, $1, $1,50 ' :'Men'8 Work Pauts.j.....$1.50 to $3.50 Men's 'Piiieflwr $1.00 Suit and up' Leather Mitts... ..........35c, 75c, $1.50 Leather (IJoves 135c, '$1, $1.25 up Men's Soeks -- 12c, 25c, 40c bUo Kt.etsui! JIats,,....;...".l Men's Work Slioe's.......... ..$4, $5, $6 ......::.$3to$8 Store Open v !4 ! 8:00 A.M. to Union 6:00 P.M. V Store '; .. aOiiiw'niu: t I ' A" Union Store ' Saturdays, 8:00A. M.rio ' 8:30 P. M. ! f"risaa4aaaaawiiaiiiasi or, or comity, or -the; capacity of covenanted, peaces' - I. revere no Cod. I acknowledge no superior. I am amcnablo to no law. -I respect no arbiter but tho sword.- v ; ' :' I, tnysolf, am Odd. arbiter, law, nnd the ..Court of Last Besort. I AM PRUSSIAN AUTOCRACY! State Fair, Salem, Oregon, Septem ber 23-28. Splendid exhibits, excel lent music, high class entertainments and a superlp racing curd. For- par ticulars write A. JI. Leo, Salem, Ore' gon..:' ,i ,-.': ,8-I-eod,lm V Job Printing, The Observer. Main 37 l,ADY OVKIK.'OJIKS t VHK MOiti'Hixro. ' Bill Hart, Star Saturday, Sunday. .....,. . 8-2,jt : fllRO.VlC . COXST1PATIOX. It Is by no means an easy mat ter to cure, this disease, but It can bo done In most Instances by taking Chamberlain's Tablets and comply ing .with the plain printed direc tions that accompany each package. Nothing Is Loct Everything lives, flourishes nnd do- cays: Everything dlcw'hut nothing Is 4ot:. For ilie.iJe:itlulticln!t, of life only ohnnges Its form, and tho destruc llon of 'one 'generation Is tho vlvlflco- tlon nf the next. Cood. ... v ' Try that new drink Aflicola at Silverthorn's. 7-29tf FAMILY DRUS STORE ' 1 i a QRANor.oncaON. vert ' Into '-moro i "scraps of paper" -r-polnts of slratogy to deceive tho amiable and the unwary. ' Materialism, physical force, I mako tho only foundations of a na tion's glory, cannon the solo cus todian of a nation's honor. In trigue I , substitute for diplomacy; I fill the world with hateful splca and corrupt the policy of peaceful nations with my insidious machin ations. , . . t, ,, I soduce tho genius .of a great neocle:' Scientists. nhllosoDhers. statesmen and captain genxrals, de vote their inspiration to my glory, and dedicate their works . to the pe,rpotuatlon ot my pomp and pride nnd power,- - And thus ' I clotho my wanton brutality, In a seductive splendor and create the Illusion that my mis sion Is God-like and benign. For tho support of my colossal establishment -L lay a crushing bur den on the shoulders of thp 'poor. I squander the lives and savings of my subjects and return nothing but tho glamor of a splendid tyranny. The glory which I confer upon the pliant few is as cold and cheer less as the, nodding plumes on a hearse, as shallow as the shimmer of the silver plates on a coffin. I am without conscience, or hon- Troiiblejd about , ten years, ago with what - tho doctors called gall stones, often I thought I would dio before, the doctors could get here, when he would glvj me a hypoder mic, of morphine and advise an operation. ,. A ., - neighbor r told- me about Mayr's Wonderful -Remedy for Bt.oinnch trouble - and since tak ing tho-first dose two yeara ago. I have not had an attack nor needed a, hypodermic." It. Is . a simple, harmless preparation that removes tho catarrhal mucus from the In testinal tract and allays the Inflanu niation' which causes practically all stomach;' liver and Intestinal ail ments, including appendicitis. One dose will convneo or money refund ed. : For sale by driiggsts every wheTe -' ' - - ; ' NILSON TRACTORS., - Built up' to & Btandanl. not (Town to a price. i . ,' , , J-ltfht weight Strong pull Superior quality. Automntle Traction by "puir. inBtead Of dead weight. Stands up to hard service with mini mum expense. Nilson Senior, 24-38 II. P.; Nllaon i See our local agent, or send for catalog. NILSON TRACTOR BALKS COMPANY, East Mort lnon nnd Hast Third Sta". Portland, Oregon. WHICH WAY ARE Y0UM()ViNG? -i " Common sense toadies us, and it la true, that we nre never stationary, never still; that we are always moving either for- . - , ward or backward. Take it homo to yourself if you are not saying something, . you arc slipping backward. It takes grit to start a Bank Account, so yon had, better "Sand Your Track"; it will start you FORWARD.- Which route do you choose? The forwnrdroutev "of course then start forward today, by starting a Savings Account nt this bank. ;' ,-.(.' - f We take every precaution to protect your . , . savings, and it's always ready when you need it. Try it today. . ' Member Federal Reserve System La Grande National Bank '; LA GRANDE, OREGON" " . The production of mDk is a confining business,but it needn't confine you. . All the exasperating work, all the constant worry of taking care of , cows and taking care of them right will be done for you by an expert dairy farmer if youwill just keep in your storeroom a case or several cases of ' " ' If you keep cows you have to milk on Sunday and other times when you might be off the place. The fifteen Carnation evap orating plants scattered throughout the Middle and Far West answer the milk t question for you. ' Every day they evaporate, sterilize and hermetically can the fresh milk brought in that morning from the farms. If you keep cows your wife must strain the milk and laboriously wash pails and pans. The Carnation can brings rich, pure, wholesome milk right into your kitchen and ' dining room. j ' :.. . , ' If you keep cows you some times have too much milk and sometimes not enough. With a case of Carnation on hand none ever spoils, and you always have enough. Rememher Your Grocer Has Carnation- Carnation Milk Products Company, Seattle, Washington v MVWH-,W,.,'l,L-JiMW A Week Trial Free Harris Furniture Store '-I a- ."'".' ., H. D. HARRIS, Proprietor 100 FIR SHRIiUT PI10XE: Ked 8171, LIBERTY BONDS WANTED! FOR A $30.00 IJBKRTY HON O YOU CAN GET - , ' ; $25.00 in trade and ?'25.00 cash $.'10.00 in trade and $21.00 cash . $:i5.00 in trade and $10.f0 cash $10.00 in trade und ?I2.00 cash ' 4fi.00 in trade and $7.r.O cash ' - $50.00 in trade and $3.00 cash LIBERTY BONDS ACCEPTED AS PAYMENT ON ACCOUNTS Furniture Exchange Black 1241 E. J.' DONOIIIIE ' ' Fir and Jefferson BEST PRICES PAID FOR USED FURNITURE. ADVERTISING IS INSURANCE An advertiser's advertisement is his volun tary agreement to do certain things. Good business policy, law and public opinion re quire that an advertisement-agreement be fulfilled." This serves as a protection to the buyer of advertised goods. If, by chance, you have an experience with .the deceptive selling practices or mislead ing advertising, please report it to us. ' ' 4