S 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
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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.
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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
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ienced waitress
at the Home Restaurant. S-I:)tf
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WANTED Daily hi
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' Karsten. Call at
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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
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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
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FOR SALE An- Underwood type-j
writer. Phone Black 3692. 8-otf -
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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". '
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LOST AND FOUND
LOST Army knapsack
'Covo and La' Grande.
between
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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.
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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.
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pcil with machinery, tyi and
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that can dn the techluciil, high
etnas work when It la wanted.
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ped to do nnd which should, to
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