? ' MONDAY, AtTfllt ST 5, 1918
PAGJS FOUR
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
The Observer
t An Independent Newspaper '
Pobllahed Daily and Weekly at
i La Grande, Oregon.
La Grande Evening Observer
, v Publishing Company, , .
. - BRUCE DENNIS, Publisher.
, , Entered at the Puitufflce at '
v La Grande, Oregon, at Second-clau
Matter.
th, eBeni wur work wuiei, wm I AMERICAN CHAPLAIN RECEIVES. DECORATION ii
be required ft home.
AL,Kli-VIV TIKVKIK
Addrese All Communications to
The Observer, 1710 Sixth Street
City Official Paper. County Official
i . ' ' Paper.
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Press Association.
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Portland.
A great - dwl of thu editorial
comment referring to tli- 1 scent
jgains of ; tlie allies hrlng In . tint
statement Ui I lie erfoct Mutt thlH
jmay prove lo ho the doclisivi iiirn
of the war.' All such cviiini"iit Is
decidedly too conservative . i
'rue tlue lias neon t .in eel over
since, tho lRUi day of ,i ilv Thura
will ' unquestionably In, fnrlluu
fighting and Homo it nicsi likely of
the most Bansnlnnry kind, hut ' as
f ir' the' turning-point-. -that was al
most reached the: mini. lis the Am.
erlcan forces boon mo actively en
gaged.' . :
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IKy Country Tie ef Thee, tweet Land
ef Liberty."
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MRICItTV WHEAT DltlVR.
reached and pnnae.!,
tho fact that the war
in'eana ended.
Is by
, A. National plan is on font for
a Liberty .whoat harvest for tho
coming year. Tho full operation
of tho plan Is up to the farmers of
' the country It Is a amltejr that
' : lien with thu producers to carry
out tho plan as desired. ,In general
i outline the proposition Is to In
crease the acreage of fall bowii
grain over that of last year. This
. Is, the right season to commence,
"preaching" on this mattor, since
It 's found In bo, the best policy
undor the average conditions to got
fall-grain In the ground as early
as, possible. Just as soon as the
fields are cleared of the proae,nt
crop is tho right Urn ft , to bogm
on fall sowing whero such a thing
; Is practicable.
American farmers are asked to
sow this yoar 4 5,000,000 ncros in
: winter wheat and two and a half
million anros more than that would
be, all the bolter. This would glvo
an acreago of twolve.per cant oyer
that of last year, and under simi
lar conditions would ' increase the
.. next yoar'a ylnld to the same ex
tent;' On tho bnnls of n little over
flftoen bushels In tho acre and al
lowing Ion per cont for winter kil
ling, would give n ylcjd of (1(17,-
. 000,000 bushels.
Tho plan fixes a iloflnlto acreage
by states and a campaign Is to ho
: launched by tho department and
state colleges as well us leading
growers to make the quota In th.
different states.
Regulations regarding spring
wheat planting and inattors pertain
ing to tho llvo stock Industry will
follow in duo course of tlnio.
: It Is recognized that the hoys
nt (he front are doing nil right and
thore will soon he muny moro of
thorn and they must be taken care
nf right up to (lie, dot, and the
folks at homo are the ones to do It.
Locally, It Is going to be u hard
pull for many of the wheat raisers,
but they can ot course bo relied up
on to do the best that Is possible.
If tho draft ages aro raised, which
scorns In bo n forcgono conclusion,
there Is n prospect of still further
depletion of available farm help.
' Hut at all haxnrds it Is the pru
dent thing to hare a big surplus
stock of wheat on ' hand. There
was a good output last year, but 11
has been drawn upon to the limit.
The output is good this your, nlso,
but the demands are heavy. There
Is some expertiinry that shipping
facilities will be released so that
the Australian and Argentine sup
plies will be available. This might
. not turn out as expected, and the
. very best thing to do Is to l.u oh
solutely on the safe side, by put
ting In the largest nrreago p.irsibl;, I
It will probably require good) Why not draft nil tho "free speech"
nnny of tho sixty-year olds to help ! advocates to drlvo army mutes?
do it, and ninny who are entirely
proposyiO" " Ingicil qiieuc3
would ' be to say that i contest
'i.ny continue qulto n wulle after
'he defeat -iif ono side 3 the odmr.
Hich a condition piovaliod uflot the
iniltlo of. Cil'.ysburg, which was In
ronllly tho licrnlncr .nr.ngaMiiunt of
the civil war. In the Kiajico-Pius-slan
war, the wir l.r.e!f was iW-
cldod nt MeU. but.. was not iihstilute,
and conchiHive, nnd tho flplitlng
was not over until lh- fail ! ' Se
dan and the slngo of Paris.
The kaiser's goosi has been
cooked since the tl; r.n t nt tho
crown prlnce'n nrmr n! llu; Marno, 1
and tho hown of today only fur
ther Mnnhnsl.r.R tin extent nf H,o
tdofnat. The turning point has hoc n . ? ' "r;S.r: "
i . . i . i iiviu rriii s uiniiviicoi, rsvuis it"
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Chaplain Duval, Knights of Colum bus, attached to nn, infantry regiment,
has been decorated with the French Ooix do Guerre f of caring fur wound
ed -under fire. i ;;
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j Boys Are Hard On
Their Clothes
There are many makes of ciol hins;. Yon can buy a suit
at almost any price you want to pay. flood eh ith iiiR
is an advantage for yon, when it does nut cost too much...
You can keep the expense ofjyoui' Boy's Clothes lower
than ever not by buying cheap clothing, bu.t.by liuy
' ing Extragood. .. '. v
'. Everything You Want in Good Wearing Clothes
. . ; . $7:50 io 16.00 v:
Untn . WetQa) Union
Store ; ; ' ti'MrW$mTlimim . ; Store .
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X'KKHH-- WIMHi AND COTTON
PonKorvnlinn Of Clothing And Tox
llles Is Important. '
Nocosslty.. fok. tho . conservation of,
clothing, nnd textile aa a war meas
ure beciitise of (he scarcity of wool
and linen, the Increased demands
for all textiles, and the advanced
prices, is emphasized by Miss Helen
Lee Davis, professor , of household
arts In tho Orogon Agricultural Col
lege. ,
rHEN IT CAME HOME TO HER' I ; "Since the, outbreak of tho war,"
. . , , ' . JjSays Miss Davis, ''tho wool situation
. : HWNN MMunas, .j. i nn oeen accustomou. to import
J.;rrom Drltlsh sources much of the
In the World;
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RANDOM THOUGHTS .
J la food going out ot stylo? ,-
They also servo who only sit
nnd knit. " 1
The season's best cellar the
well-cooled one.
Why not hnvo tho government
take over tho weather J
. No, , Robert, broken-down
arches won't Intcrfero with your
playing croquet , ,
Our chimneys nro nnsultnblo
for burning soft coal because
they are too sootnhlo. Ex- j
change. X
' STATISTICAL NOTES
Twenty-flvo iper cent of the total
number of munition workers in Eng
land nro women.
Since 1801 tho stnto ot South Aus
tralia has nearly 80,000 miles of' vermin-proof
fences.
England, France, Italy nnd Belgium,
taken together, Import normally -iO per
cent of their brcndstulTs. Tills year
they must Import 00 per cent.
. Amcrlcnns nro tho greatest meat
oatcrs, the consumption being aver
aged at 172 pounds per capita a year,
110 In Englnud, 113 In Germany, 80-ln
France und Holland, (14 In Austria
Hungary, 00 in Kussla and 40 In Spuln,
Henrietta Weird looked nt tUe
change thu conductor had Just glyn
her quarter nnd live nickels.
"Goodness," she thought cxclteilly,
"he's given me u nickel over I , Tin
riding lor nothing!"
' And alio quickly closed her hand
over the change, and then she remem
bered thut the conductor hud rung up
her faro nnd that probably the, nickel
would have to come out of his own
pocket.
"Oh, dear I" she thought remorse
fully. "I'erhaps the poor man has a
largo family and perhaps a nickel a
day Is ull he can afford to feed Ihera
with. I suppose I reully ought to re
turn It to him. But no, he lias a bad
face I shouldn't be surprised If ho
heats his wife every day, and It would
sciwu bliu tight; U suffer for hisrown
carelessness 1 Still, of course,
wouldn't like to feel that I nra depriv
lug his buby of its daily bucket of'
milk no, I'll keep It a man In Ills
position has no moral right to hove a
largo family. Goodness, what if he
should suddenly Und out he gave me
too much nnd demand It back again?
I think I'll get right out I'm only ten
blocks from home, nnywny.'V
And at the next stop she hurriedly
left the enr, still clutching the quarter
mid live nickels In her hnnd.
"I'd better look again perhaps
tqero are only four nickels after nil,"
she thought. And she opened her
bund nnd looked. No, there were five,
but, us sho looked, the qunrtor slipped
through her Angers nnd fell on the
pavement with a hollow,, leaden
Found. i
'Oh l"( she gritted through her teeth.
"Tho dishonesty of this world 1" .
IN OTHER CITIES
Atlanta, On., reports 12,000 Hilly
Sunday converts.
Sncramento hns dropped German
from high school studies.
Brooklyn, N. T, expects to run trains
In now subways In 1HLS autumn.
New Tork in 1017 spent $20.112,WX1
for dwellings to heuso 07,410 persons.
Carney's Point. N. J., must spend
$30,000 in WIS for new school build
ings. Snvnnnnh, Gn., has nn organlrntlon
ot girls praying dally nt sunset for
American success In tho war.
BITS OF INFORMATION '
L'nttcd Stales mints In 1017 mado
400,000,000 new coins.
l'nlted States hns 4,2S3,2S0 Metho
dists In northern states.
Glasgow In September quarter of
1017 sent to the United Slates goods
valued at ?l,0'J0,S7li.
More than 44.000.000 acres of conl
Inmls In 14 states of the fulled States
are to be openctt 101 S.
SAYS THE OWL
Even the cave man had Ideals, but
bo carried a club.
Tho pay envelope should be nn Inci
dental not an ultimate ambition.
An enormous amount of asbestos Is
being lound in tho rrleskn district.
Cnpo Colony, nnd thousands ot bags
aro now being shipped to Kngland7i It
is snld to bo of very good quality,!
ABOUT PERSONS r
Sirs. M. A. West, 80 Salt Lake City,
has 187 living descendants.
Seaman nardy of Cleveland Is the
last survivor of Perry's expedition to
Japan. ,,
Paul Fell of Shcnnndonh, Pa., sur
vives a 1-5-foot full off a roof. Alighted
!n n snowbank. 1
Mrs. Bridget Miller of St. Loula, Mo
27 years an applicant, has Just been
granted a soldlcr-wldow'a pension.
Kdwnrd Sargent, ft mlllhnnd dead
In DmiiIcIsoii, Conn., was a French
nobleman living under an assumed
name.
THE CYNIC SAYS
A sura way to bo Ignorant la to think
you know It all..
I.ovo.bnsed on pity Is apt to came
out In the laundry. . .
How dldlcult to draw tho line be
tween genius and insanity I
beyond the possibilities "f the drnlt
will necessnrlly be called on for
Tho foe may take consnlnllnn from
the "crnw-nsh," which swims just as
detlantly backwards. , . f. ;
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
A man never ha to go halt way to
meet trouble. :
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The clergyman la usually the best
man at the wedding.
Insomnia Is seldom caused by the
things ii man doesn't say. s
Monie Mien iniike a Kpcclnlty ot doing
nilier they nre dunned by..
W. i, N 'b ii'iii, hIh itm keep ap
.,i ti.. i . me !mtl.
Pave sugar dally. , "."
Omit icing from cakes.
Sweeten with substitutes.
If You Want, to Share
Tho Victory "Over- There"
wool used in manufacturing here.
England , now needs all the wool, she
can obtain to meet the demands of
her armies . and her people. She
has even established wool reclaim
ing factories In- uha war zone) to
which all - uniforms and wool mat-
iiuiii uid uBvuiiuieu Ltsrriiury- - are
i taken. Those garments that, can
Keep on following the program jeriols of any description gathered
or tne- i-'ooa Administration, wnat-; from the devastated
ever It may be. .
Go lightly on; the sugar, llin- be cleaned and remodeled are, used
itlng your consumption to two again. Others are ground up,- a llt
pounds per month for every mom-! tie new wool added nnd pew nut.
ber of the family.' Iforms and blankets manufactured.
Use plenty" of fresh vegetables I Germany keeps track of every bit
and spare the other foods for ship-!01 wo01 ln l"nt country by refus-
mont overseas. ing io se,u any new garments or
Do not let "up on the, ' .vlnr of i'or'"' Wo?"
Use the eubstitutes, Re
member we must build up a big
wheat reserve out of the. new hnr-
vest In addition to taking care of
over to
re-manufactured.
"Vast quantities of cotton are be-
IOST Somewhere in this city, a purse, containing $75 in
currency. Liboral reward If returned to XXZ, this office.
Ads similar to the one above appear in most every paper.
Yet some people will, continue to enrry large sums of
money around. Why not carry a check hook, and if you
lose it there is no great loss;' that's the only practical v.'ny
to carry money, , 1
Start a checking account today with us, and
pay by check. , You surely know thut we have
, a safe place to keep your-money.
.Don't' wait 'till, you , have lost a wallet to start your '
' account, but put it in this bank tomorrow morning.
Member Federal Reserve SyBtcm
La Grande National Bank
' jLA GRANDE, OREGON .
government to be av
our boys nt the front and the Al-"'s "u"iiiuiihu iur military pur
lles, - poses every few days; Much thin
cotton clgth Is being used In the
hospitals for binding the wounds
of Injured
using as little'
Can nil yon can
sugar as possible.
Allow nothing tj go to waste.
Back lip the- boys at the front.
Guarantee the eoldler's rations
by sticking to your own.
Housewives. attention! Can
fruit without ,sugar or using as
little as possible. Yon may sweet
en the fruit When opened,, after
the supply hns become moro plen
tiful. , ......
Omit sweet plckluj and wntor-
melon rind picklos this year. Lim
it your jams and jellies to tho
needs of old pr,oplo, children- and
'nvallds.
Store the fruits that will keep
without canning. Dry fruit instead
of canning and help Uncle Sam
work out the problem of preserving
the maximum of fruit and voee-:!
tables with the minimum of sugar.
'Don't forgjt that corn syrim-ii!
may be used In conning, replacing I
one-third, the amount of sugar. Usu i
your Ingenuity to help win the win. 'J
nnd pass along a good reclne.
It you are not a member of the'!
army that fights, you must be all
member ot tho ono that saves. !
We, must feed. 120,000,000 Al-
lies nnd our big army at the front.
Food must go across the water and J
you must make it possible for that I
food to go. We. can save in many .
ingenious ways, besides denying1!
ourselves the foods most needed '
overseas, Let us save until it
hurts, and be glad of the chanco
to suffer a little Inconvenience for J
the sake, of those, who are giving
their lives. ;S
If a recipe cnlls for- one cup of it
sugar, use in Its placo one cup tf J
strained honey, or one nnd two-;t
third cups of corn syrup. If honey
syrup Is used the amount
other liquids called for In tho re
cipe must be reduced one- fourth j
cup for every cup of honey or sy-'i
rup. j!
Go easy with your spoon more If
than five, million soldier hoys nro'i
dipping from our national
bowl. . '
A barrel of sorghum in the eel-,!
nr Is worth a ton of sugar In Java, ii
Tho man who would cat rnhe at I i
Christinas must cut sugar now.
On your honor as a womnn, hnwit
much sugar do you really need? J
Look upon the distribution nfn
sugar as just a little arrangement
between friend and see that the
Allies gel a talr share. They are
bearing the brunt of the war and
hnuld have first claim.
soldiers. Incredible
amounts of cotton aro used in the t
manufacture) ot explosives. Mil-'
lions of yards of cloth are being j
UBed for camouflage purposes." , I
Shipment of Adding Machine
Paper in atNewlln Book and Stat
ionery Co. 8 2t
CHICHESTER S PILLS
f'.'TV I'ftaieai juiytur vrwutfor a
TLe no ether. But ef yoar
Ilrnutat. AtkfwClTlXIlXft.TeBat
SOU BV MIQGISTS EVE8YWMERS
SPECIAL
Economy Caps 25c per dozen
' As long as they last , '
Harri s Furniture Store
. H. ft HARRIS, Proprietor
tOO Flit STKEEtf ' ' - PHOXE:
Red 3171.
ACQUIRING A
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I MAJESTIC STEEL RANGE, '
1 MONARCH STEEL RANGE,
1 ROUND DINING TABLE, 10-ft. extension,
1 PRINCESS DBESSER, l.AIACY SECTIONAL BOOK
CASE, 1 WARDROBE, i LOUNGE, 1 CHINA CLOSET, 1 BUF
FET, 1 MUSIC CABINET. These nre all used goods, as good
as new and at ONE-HALF PRICE.
Furniture Exchange
Black 1241 " E.d0N01IUE ' Fir nndjeffcrsori
Best Prices Paid for Utird Furnidire, or will Exchange for New
LIBERTY BONDS ACCEPTED AT PAR.
Most women who hnve perfect
figures did not hnve them orig
inally. They have acquired them.
A woman gradually takes the
shape of her corset so the corset
produced by the most artistic
designer is the right one to wear
to secure a perfect figure.
j TljoDtR.T'SoasrTS
Front Laoad
Fine Razors, Rmor Strops, Hones,
Scissors, such as barbers use, and all
kinds of scissors for household uses,
also Manicure Scissors and Nail Files.
The very best brands made, you will
find all these at Silverthorn's. 8-atf
rAMILY ORUS STORE
LA QRANOCOnKOON,
are most symmetrically and ar
tistically designed. They are
comfortable, stylish and grad
ually mold the figure into those
beautiful lines that every wo
man admires and desires.
PAULINE
LED E RLE
nBaeaWMfli'V;rili
APyERTISING
IS IN3URANCE
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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 projection to the
buyer of advertised goods.
If, by chanco, you have an experience with
the deceptive Jelling practices or mislead
ing advertising, please report it to us.
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