La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 17, 1918, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextS aTFRP AT iA'TO EST ,1 7; MURDER OF IIATIOfi, IBlf RUTHLESS HUNS m Pnlae Wsrs' CI0I I now uw,. ."-. viim. aim., '.Starved and. Frozen During i ihe German Drive,. C. Walcott Tells of the Scenes of ftorror He Witnessed Along the Road From Warsaw to Plnsk " Million Persons Homeless. t'-'. This I have seen., I could not J believe it unless I had seen it f 'through and through. For sev ? eral weeks I lived with it; I wtnt all aotfut It and back of It; (Inside and out of it was shown to me until finally. I came to realize that the Incredible was ttrue. It Is monstrous. It Is un- 'thinkable, but it exists. It is the Prussian Walcott. system. F.. C. The following Is n stntemenfby P. C. Walcott, who served as an assist ant to Jlr. Hoover during the time America was doing all that was pos sible to feed the' starving millions, of Belgium, and Poland and northern France. In this work he was brought In direct contact with German mllitiry officials, and saw tho conditions which- tlio German invasion had created mong the civilian population: : . . I vent to Poland to learn the facta Concerning the remnant of a people Uiat had been decimated by war. The country-' !,ad been twice 'devastated. First lie Russian army swept through It and then the Germnns. Along the roadside,' from Warsaw to Plnsk, the present firing line, 230 miles, nearly half a million people hod died of bun- (tcr and; cold. The way was strewn irlth their bones picked clean by tho j nf. rithlnR ,nufncturers nnd deol crows. With their usual thrift, the ers by delivering on address upon this bones to be milled Into fertilizer, but Anger mid toe bones lay on the ground irlth the 'mud-covered nnd rain-soaked clothing, . - . r. Wicker baskets were scattered n'ong the way the basket In which the baby -j (wings from the rafter In every pens- imf home. Every mile there wero scores of them, each one telling a dentil. I started to count, but after a little I had to give It up, there ,-w.erc i to many. That is the desolation one saw along Hie great road from Warsaw to Plnsk, mile nfter mile, more than two hun dred miles. They told me a million people were mnrte homeless In sli weeks of the German drive' in August nd September, 1910. They told me four hundred thousand died on the tray. The rest, scarcely half, alive, cot Ythrough with 'tho Ifusslan army. Many of these have been sent to Si beria; It Is these people whom, the Pnderewskl committee la trying to re lieve. - ' ' " In thfr refugee camps, 300.000 sur f Ivors of the. flight were gathered by the Germans, members of broken fam ilies. They were lodged In Jerry-built bnrrncks, scarcely . water-proof, . un dented, unwnrmed in' tne dead' of win ter. Their clothes, where the buttons were lost, were sewed on. There wero do conveniences, they had not even bcenynble to wnsh for weeks. Filth nnd Infection from vermin were spreading. They were fnmlshed, their tally ronton a cup of soup and a piece of bread; as big ns my fist. In Wnfsnw, which had not been de stroyed, ti city of one million Inhab itants, one of the most prosperous cit ies of Europe before the war, the streets wero lined with people In the pnngs of starvation. Famished and rnln-sooked, they squatted there, with llielr elbows on their knees or lean ing against tho buildings, too feeble to lift n hand for n bit of money or n morsel of bread If one offered it, per ishing of hunger nnd cold. Charity Aid what It could. The rich gave all Hint tlie.f had. the poor shnred their Inst erdst. Hundreds of thousands iverc perishing. Dny and night the plclures (s before my eyes a people starving, jx nation dying. .-' ' The above stntement by Mr. Wnl cr.tt Is a terrible nrrnlgnment of the Hun, but no more terrible than he deserves. . Whnt tins happened In Polnnd. In Belgium, In nurtliern France nnd every other country thnt Ims been blighted by the Hun's pres ence would hnppen In America should the allies, by any chance, fail to win this wnr. '. It would mean the enslave ment of Amerlcun men, the starving end death of American women and chil dren. Either the Hun or humanity must perish. ' ..." ' KILLED BY GERMAN. HELMET t American Soldier Hunting Sou venir Picked Up Charged , Headpiece. Rhjhnokln. Pa. Writing from n dug om In No Man's Land, France, I-oo Comer, n(V(,rpornl In the Twenty-third I'nlted Statin Infnntry, forwnrded to his sister here, Miss Cecelia Comer, a hunch of stir.nge flowers ho had gath ered while nn patrol duty. Comer hnd promised n younger brother a German itocl helmet as n wnr relic, but In writing Informed tho brother thnt he was doomed to dls npiwlntment until the Americans reach Berlin. He had seen a fellow soldier I14 up a steel helmet nnd then full I dead. . ; The helmet had been electrically j charjed by the Germans. j Almost Beyond Imagination. Astronomers reckon that there are at least l,m.000,0(JO,000 suns In the universe; and some of them are so far distant that light starting from them long before the earliest dnwn of hu man history lias not yet had time to reach US. Ifti S HERE'S ANOTHER FROG STORY j New Yorker's Experience 8eemt to' ' Corrohnrat. Tl. T.u k.. .1.- v wiu wj ma? ": , Kaiser's Press AflenU,.. ' i;' j ; This JsTfhe tliue.nf the ywi when nm. " fwniMtw. mine lad- wr's press ogent-enqMnt lie blnmed nr pulling Hint one about the frogs crank ing. In -such deafening -fashion . that 1hoy enabled the Oermnns tn tirrnp; up their butteries without being dlscov- Lered by Die allies. Hauk Newman; who Invented the famous "snapper" elixir, pnrtly bears out the statement made hy the Hun war correspondent. He knows nil the bnhlts of the Johnny Crnpuuds nnd he declares that they enn make dome noise when they Iwgln to croak. "I don'j, know' anything about tliose' bloodthirsty frog of the Chcmln dos Damea.. however." explained Sir. . .Newman. Hut down In- Oinne Park, where I live, (here Is a'frog ponds and j hundreds of them live a quiet, peace- ii 'iii me. in met, tne rrogs down my j way are musical, for they lull the na il tlvc to sleep. There Is one big fellow,. however, who has o high pitched voice. I named him Caruso because he war bles louder than any fn the flock. For some time Caruso and me were quite chummy. As soon as he heard ray alarm clock go oft at five In the morn ing, ho would come to my window nnd sing a roundelay, which indicated that he was hungry. That was when I had daylight work. Now I'm on nights and don't get to bed until three in the morning. And for tfte post three weeks Caruso and his entire chorus made sleep Impossible for me, so I found It' necessary to move far from the frog pobd." New York Sun. V -j " JUST SIMPLE COMMON SENSE Really Nothing to Be Alarmed About When Speaker Uses Pretentious -. ;. -. Word "Psychology." - ; ; One way to get an audience nowa days Is to call the subject of one's tnlk "Psychology." A JIarvard pro fessor recentlv nmnzpd ft pnnvontlnn topic, In which he laid down several principles about the effect of clothing upon the wearer, and the surprise of bis hearers was' due to the discovery that what the learned man had digni fied by n long word was nothing more than whnt more commonly pnsses for common sense. A good many- of the things he said were nlrendy known to them, If they had stopped to think. When he placed them tinder the hetd of psychology they sat lap and took notice, says the Oregonlnn. He said, for example, that the well dressed man Is 10 per cent more e(B-. clent than the poorly dressed man. He said thnt clothes thnt do not fit pre vent the wearer from doing his best. Cleanliness promotes self-respect. Self- respect is contngious, like confidence. I'he man hp does i not think well of himself Is unlikely to, win .the good opinion o others, u Comfortable cloth ing, made of good material, well hrush-i ert. wns the foundation of the super structure, he said, i He' was talking to hard hended business men, nnd they believed him, because their own expe rience showed Ids' statements to be true. . Hapless Clarlbel's Encounter, o ' The sun wns slowly sinking In die usunl place. Clarlhel Sklppenhop, over whose youthful head scarce thlity-sev-' en summers had lightly flown, Bat In a regulntion-size hnnimock. Idly swinging her foot to the tune of "Keep the IlomeiLInrs Squirming," plnyed on a Hottentot bagpipe 42 miles away. Suddenly a thought seized her. She tried to scream and break Its hold. She succeeded In both. Probably one nnd fifteen elght-milllonths of a cubic second was allowed to elapsetbetween her scream and the tfihe,the thought wns cowering nt her tect "A vaunt," she rled "Don't you know this Is my thoughtless day? Now doggone It, 111 have a headache." Then she went buck to swing her foot nnd tlio hnmmock. ' ' ; 1 - Flrst-Hand Earthquake News. 4 'y- A volcnloglst rflf the Carnegie Geophysical laboratory reports that he bus nearly perfected apparatus for re cording upon wax cylinders the subter ranean sounds of enrthquoltos. says the Scientific American. "The ordi nary commercinl cylinders are unsuit able fortius .delicate work, and accord ingly the Inhnrntory has secured a sup-' ply of cylinders of the old, pure watt type. .Tlie microphone used In this con nection has also been greatly Improved and n perfect little portable field outfit weighing less than a pound' has been evolved." - ' ; Naughty Mamma's Boy. My husband, who Is at Camp Sher man, wrote home and told us this Joke the boys plnyed on a "momma's boy" who was the goat of the whole com pany. One night while he wns over to the Y. M. C. A. they fixed np the head of his cot with sticks and tied n string to them, then waited until he got sound asleep nnd pulled the strings, nut enme the sticks and down went the bed. He nenrly exploded he was so mad nnd my husband sold hud you been .lis tening you could have heard him swearing clear home.-7-Chlcago Trib une. ' - .1 All In Some Day. lne day nt a Southern cniHp one of the negro soldiers was showing me a service pin with three stars which he always carried In his pocket I asked him who the relatives were nnd he re plied : "mc Is fo' maself an' the other two Is fo' ma hrudders; one Is going to enlist nn' the other Is In the nxt draft." Exchange. Very Much Out of Place. Among the guests at a receiitlon was a distinguished man of letters.- Ope ft tho ladles present snggested to the hnnfeoa Unit he seemed to be out ot place at such n party. "Yes." replied tho hoHtess, wllh-4ilsit smile, "you ace, lie oan't talk anvtklng but WW." V DOINGS OP THE DUFFS v tall. COMB ClttS StE TH NCM TUVTUikicr --MIIT ; liouve mem ravin i- ABOUT T ImUfre tooii Tuiuk-SoO ARC, In The BATH TU5? LOCALS i I And -x-s-' Advertising in Brief TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. To whom'it may concern. I will not be responsible for any indebtedness contracted by my wife, Maggie Young. ROBT. H. YOUNG. August 14, 1918. . 8-14-t BIG DANCE. f'Bigl patriotic dance at PerVySat urIay night. 815,3 NOTICE. State Fair, Salem, Oregon, Septem ber 23-28. Splendid exhibits, excel lent music, high class entertainments and a superb racing card. For par ticulars write A. H. Lea, Salem, Ore gon. . 8-i-eod,lm ' CONFECTIONERY FOR SALE. ' . ... -..'.'' The Hermann Confectionery, on Fir street, is now offered for sale includ ing all stock and fixtures. MRS. MARGARET E. HERMANN. 8-3,tf ; , , , , : Job Printing, The Observer, Main 37. Classified Ads t - FOB CENT BURNISHED FOR RENT Furniaied housekeeping , rooms.' Phone Bllck 831. 8-14tf FOR RENT Furnished housckeep-8-7tf ing rooms. Red 962 FOR RENT FOR ' RENT MoiSera, 5-room house. Call Main 780. 6-28-tf FOR ' RENT 1512 a bedroom, two lAdams avenue, 1 iilocks , from center of twn. I'litio Black 3901. j 8-10tf WANTED. WANT TO BUY S ock cattle, any number. F. E. Stitwell 8-14,4t 1 WANTED An expc ienced waitress at the Home Restaurant. S-I:)tf 1 1 WANTED Daily hi se work. Maude ' Karsten. Call at Observer. 8-13,0t WANTED Girl for general house- work. Apply Chri Istie & Amsden . Variety store. 8-14tf WANTED To rent furnished, or port ly furnished house,! by permanent tenants. Inquire Observer office. Observ 7-1 6tf WANTED Chalnnini; State high way.. 1100 fiat. JExperlence de aire.l, but not demanded. Apply R. A. Pratt,': I6t7 ,6th street. M701. " ' I 8-16.1' FOH SALE TRADE FOR SALE Lynch Co. , Teams! The J. D. 8-10,i.f FOR SALE, WOOD-l-Cord wood and pole wood. Phone B(Bek 341. 8-12,Ct j FORS ALE Cut flowers. Phone Red 511, or call 1702 Snruce St, 8-10tf FOR SALE Two gentle 1 mares, j weight about 2560 Jbs. J. L. .Mars, j S. avenue. . j 7-26tf f- FOR SALE An- Underwood type-j writer. Phone Black 3692. 8-otf - T , - I FOR SALE Onerton used auto truck. McCrnry Auto 7-17tf j FOR SALE Mountain hack, nearly new; top and brake. Call Farmers' 22x1. FOR SALE Moto ycle for sale, or trade for hay. 1 lone Black 3452. 8-16,tf FOR SAIE Used laxwell car, in first class conditio! Inquire. 1420 8-14 Y avenue. FOR. SALE Restat iron. and: fur- nlshed roomsi ill sell cheap. Phone Main 736. 8-12 if FOR SALE. A Ford, Maxwell. Chevrolet and an' Overland. All : in first-class shape. " t ; 'J. A. McCRAR". ' T-3'J-tf LOST AND FOUND LOST Army knapsack 'Covo and La' Grande. between 8-1 6, 4t j Fraternal Directory. ' K. of L. of Security Mt. filmlly Council, No. 246, meets the second and fourth Monday evening at 8 o'clock at Eagle hall. Visiting members are welcome. , " J. K. FITZGERALD, Pres. ABE HARRIS, Fin'l. Sec, FLORENCE BRYANT, Rec 8ec WOODMEN OF THE WORLD La Grande Camp No. 169 meets every - first and third Monday at Eagles Hall. All visiting neighbors wol- come. Dues payable at the office of the clerk. New Foley Bldg., 9 ; I rodo 6 p. m. ; - ' J. J. MURCHISON. C. C R. J. KITCHEN. Clerk ix. . S. Hope Chapter No. 13, O. E. ' 8. holds Btated communications the . second and fourth Wednesday of ' jeaoh month. Visiting members cor ' dlally welcomed. SADIE E. GIVEN. W. M. MARY A. WARNICK.Sec REBEKAII3 Crystal Lodge No. 60 , meets every Tuesday evening in the '. I. O. O. F. Hull. Ail visiting mem bers are Invited to attend. ROSA GLASS, N O. LUCIA HALEY, Rec. Sec. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Red Cross Lodge No. 27 meets every Monday night In Castle Hall(K. of P. hall) A Pythl m welcome to ill vlaltlcg Knights ,C. K. McCORMICK, C. C. DELILE GREEN, K. of P.. & S ROYAL NEIGHBORS Iris Camp meets every second Friday after noon and every fourth Friday even ' Ing, every month in K. P. hall. All vtsitlug members cordially weloom HENRIETTA OHARST, Oracle. MARY L. WEST, Becorder. .." , 1 A. F. 4b A. M. T Orande Lodge No. t. 41, A. F. ft A. M. holds regular meetings first anl third Saturday at 7:30 p. m. Cord'sl welcome to all Masons. ROBERT 8. EAKIN. W. M. A. C. WILLIAMS, Seo. F. O. EAGLES, AERIE NO. 259. Meet first and third Friday of each month at Eagles Hall. Visit ing members welcome. J. F. STACEY, "W. P. : LEE BELLINGER, Secretary L. O. O. M. La. Grande Lodge No. 860, Loyal Order nf Moose holds regular meetings every Wednesday night at ? p. m. in Eagle Ball next I to Elks' Bldg. on Washington AT. Vlaltois always welcome. Dues pay' able at Young's Sweets. Ml. W. C. HANSEN. Die. HARRY SWART, See. Rubbering at f m I BY ALLMAN 40DERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA La Giande Camp No. 7703 moets on the first and third Thursday evenings of each month In the K. of P. Hall. Visiting neighbors welcome. V L. J. MDNHALL, V. C. W. F. ASHMAN, 'Clerk B. P. O. E. ELKS, La Grande Lodge No. 433. Lodge meets each Thurs day evening at 8 o'clock. Home and club privileges cheerfully ex ' tended to all Brother Elks. ' R. J. GXEEN, ' Exalted Ruler. A. B. CHERRY, -- . Secretary. r i 1 Professional Directory CRAWFOED & EAKIN T. H. Craw i ford' and Robert S. EaIn, Attor neys a law. ' Practice In all the court of the state and the United States. Office, Weet-Jacobson Bldg., rooms S-10-17, La Grande, Oregoo, . ATTORNEYS DR. A. N. Therapy; specialty; Science. MAYV1LLE Mechano chronle diseases my Physical and Mental Hours: 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., 7:00 to 8:00 evenings. Phone Black 2311. Rooms 1 and 2 over Coolldge Paint Store, Adams Ave. COCHRAN EBERHAKD Geo. T. Cochran and Colon R. Eberhard, Attorneys. La Grande National Bank Building. Topless Sport Model j Look Your Best and Be Comfortable in a FitONT LACE CORSET the only corset with the patented VENTILE Back and Front Shield . Be fitted to the corset designed for your firure. There are LA CAMIUE MODELS tor every figure. They are always fitted by a scientifically trained cor- setier. This service goes with the corset and such comfort. A full line of the latest models al - on hand- P"ced at ,2-00 nd j "D . ifVIr. KnhK KatflSntl . Corsetiere Jrf) Re. 170? Osk. Pbon. Red 32!?1 j R. I. GREEN, Attorney at Law Practice in all state and federal , courts. Office La Grande National Bank Building. . , ' AJlCfnTEUIS C. E. MILLER--Architect, room, 17, New Foley Bldg. Phone Red 1371. DR. MARGARET INGLE, Osteopathic Physician, specializing la diseases of Women nnd Children. Hours 10 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 8 p. in., and by appointment. Phones: office Rod 1761. Residence Red 881. 37 Now Foley Bldg. Dr. J. L. Ingle has entered the U. S. Army. VETKHIitASX DR. H. W. RILEY Graduate Veter Inxrlan. Hospital. 1409 Madison Av. State Stallion Inspector anc inspector of stock for shipment Home Independent Phone, Black 41; Farmers Co-operative Phone, Main 112. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS UP I'UUKIH STIIEET. Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an ordinance of the City of La Grande, Oregon, adopted August 7, 1918, any legal owner of property on or adjacent to Fourth street, from tho south line of O avenue to the north, line of.'. C avenue In La Grando.' Ore., whose property has been re-nssesscd for the' payment of the improvement of said Fourth street, in re-assessment Dis trict No. 64, and whose assessment hns not been paid, will be permitted to make payment of such assessment in ten equal annunl installments, with in terest thereon in accordance with the Charter, commencing from the dote when the first installment would have been payable if application had been made under the original notice of re assessment, by making the applica tion and payment ns hereinafter stat ed. '. Application must be made in writing signed by the legal owner of the 'property, and filed with the City Recorder within fifteen days from the 0th day of August, 1918, the day of first publication of this notice. The application must state therein that the applicant is the legal owner of the property and give the descrip tion thereof; that he waives all de fects both jurisdictional and other wise in the proceedings levying such assssements and wilt . pay such as sessment If allowed to pay in In stallments and makes such appli cation under the above ordinance and the applicant shal also, at the time pf filing such application, pay to the City Treasurer all Install ments that would have been duo had the application boou made un der the original notice of re-asses- me,nt and also interest thereon to the time of the last of such installments would have been payable. ,;: ;. :r john collier,., , Recorder of the City of La ' Grande, Oregon. Job Printing, The Observer, Main 87. To Be j5 In individual, as in I National affairs, it ls. j important to look ! ahead. The steadily j increasing number j of those utilizing the j Savings facilities of i fjf) this institution indi- I cates a growing.appre- j 5 ciation of this.' . To any who are not it present making use of this feature of our ser vice, a cordial invita tion is extended. $1.00 OPENS -AN ACCOUNT.-' 2! C $ ) j Jyj in? I wrs; CW) 7W'i ? - United States ct National Bank La Orande, Ore. (f) i i Prepared TTWrjW' WWW PAGTC RRVTTS - Be Fair WITH THE RUY YOUR SUPPLIES FROM mA I'ltl.NTl.NO OFFK'K THAT PAYS ITS PRINTERS A HOVE THE UNION WA(JH HCALB, AND IS A UNION SHOP. v It Is the oft repeated story, ,Vhen People of Union County want Printing (hut Is hard to execute, when tlioy want a Job of work dune that requires skill, workmanship, careful planning und earnest applica tion, they finally come to the Observer's Job Printing Depart ment. . Tlilg office does the work, bat In all candor, thnt Is the class of wtirk upon which there In little profit, and frequently . soma loss, because of the Intrl- -rate nature and timo-nliKorbing features of such Jobs. .-.;. - For Instance when a Telo lilinne Directory is to print or a High School Annual, mich ns tlio .Miinlr, which is just Issued, nra to bo printed, tho Observer Job Printing Department is the only otflce in the county equip pcil with machinery, tyi and jirliitern to get out the work. Union county must have and maintain such a printing office,; that can dn the techluciil, high etnas work when It la wanted. But- We respectfully call your at tention to the smaller work, which we are abundantly equip ped to do nnd which should, to a certain extent at least, go to the office that maintains a plant capable of doing tho hard cluna of work. In tho smaller work there Ih n profit and we respect fully call upon business firms 0 possessing home pride who know upon reflection, that In order to keep a big plnnt run ' nlng it miiHt hnvo nit clnsseH of printing. Do not send us your technical, linn! .'printing, that can not bo done by iiiiyono else In tho County, and then send your smaller work elsewhere, It IS NOT FAIR. When it comes to prices nn smaller work, it. stands to reason that this shop can mora ihnn comfteie with nny other concern, for we keep a regular force of Journeymen printers and pressman and pay , these men above the Union scale of wages. If yon arc a believer In well paid Inhor nnd want to uphold hhcIi principles, send your Job printing to this office, where It will he handled at the least pos sible cost to yon, and nt the ' same time you are assnrcd of a good grade ot work. Observer Printer (MIJobPrintingDept.