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! FRIDAY, AUGUST-2, 1918-
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
I
The Observer
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Matter. :
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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
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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.
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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." ;
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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'
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l,ADY
OVKIK.'OJIKS t VHK
MOiti'Hixro. '
Bill Hart, Star Saturday, Sunday.
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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
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harmless preparation that removes
tho catarrhal mucus from the In
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stomach;' liver and Intestinal ail
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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. ;'
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'; 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
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100 FIR SHRIiUT
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- , ' ; $25.00 in trade and ?'25.00 cash
$.'10.00 in trade and $21.00 cash .
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$10.00 in trade und ?I2.00 cash
' 4fi.00 in trade and $7.r.O cash
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