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Published Dally and Weekly at Lw let the engineering end and the bouses
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Grande, Oregon, by la Grande Even1
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Oregon, as Sccou4 Class Mail Matter.
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Country TIs of Thoo, gwoot UiW
of Liberty.
I Jbin llie
iBbdGoss
Zlttqfou JfodisaVfeart
ft III it xsut Itll
011 the job be soldiers who have seryed
in that capacity in the army, for they
will know what they are doing. Let
the fellows who hid behind different:
and various objects to kefep from go j
oing to the war be ordered to the 1
highways and their places in ordinary
life bo filled by soldiers who served
with the colors. ,
But don't think Seriously about the I
Amerifiin Kolilifr lioincr nrflorml nut tn I I
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(ic highway construction for some :
time? to coone, lit least.
Give Qnly th thingsat:ari?; Useful
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vnmwTT.T. T'TWT) AT TTTTS RTfiPP a p.nnn PTAm Tn rnw t? xrhu tttw vKTrrra tM-m-m win' vn THI THINGS THIT
BUY FOR THEMSELVES. OUR NAME IN ANY ARTICLE! S A SKJ Of QUALiTY. IT MI AITS THAT WKOEVI GIT8
YOUfl GIFT WILL HAVE RESPECT .FOR 3PUR TASTE. . . . . .
EXTRA STRONG VALUES IN ACCESSORIES
The Large Minority in the!
Legislature.
Our Boys Building Roads
Think Again.
Wo have iill joined in the honest
exultation that the flower of manhood
went to tho service; that the boys urn!
men worth while were with the colors
all of which is absolutely true.
They left their drug stores, their
department stores, their law offices,
their farms, their newspapers, their
sawmills, etc. It is no fault of theirs
the war did not . continue for five
years, giving all n chance to fight
they went there for tluib purpose,
which is sufficient.
Now they me our heroes, as they
should be. Now, they are first in our
thoughts because they arc the fight
ii'g 'force that saved tho nation uiul
the world. shen the boats land and
the 'bauds play they will be worshiped
lit they step onto the soil of U. S. A.
And yet, there are some home bodies i
who are planning now a big rood
'building program for tho soldier hoys
n, soon as they get bnek. fi lie ..c homi
b'dies talk about putting mi many
thousand soldiers to work' in tone j
place and so ninny in another--!! irootl ;
dml like Texas fnnns out' her eon- j
virts for highway conMi eetion. ' j
ft's nil silly and wcitk. Aiiiciii:in
i-o!dieis' are lul going to be juit t--buildiiiK
rouds .lit loooe jor orc ti-'."
t j tome, if ever. They Me nut rou.l
builders at home they uiu and. do
build them in war time for war. pur-)
..poses, but tllc-'o l'ojs, the best wr
have, are not goiug out on our high '
ways and woik with pi k and uviil
not now. !
ANe suppose tl" ll tjliinoe hopit!
Unit, wben it anies honie, will, be
jnmieiliatety " (old lliere is av puVdi
load to huilil h'oiu l.a (irande to Hot
Luke ;ipdr tlo'v are wanted for thor
purjM'se. The will be ti'ld tluit the!
li Hows vho staved at home when the
i.fl.1 camc f'Sf men wiU di?ve out Jo
tlo U; inn. hints and i-fl tluui whii
Vthcy work to build JH'rinaHi'iit htfrh
liiij fur the Tblic. " ,p'
'J'hat would be a'rue ideture t(
paint or .e motlii. 1111.I itlis of
the fig'litfng men of tins land. I.cf
tuin the thing &ound for this tlu
$ wn.vQt abould .-h;kc J!t : Every sol
dier. H inunie'it he returns and i-
Seyitiour Jones of Marion county
has been 'chosen speaker of the
next house of representatives.' That
is, he has been bo considered by it
majority of the members of the house
and therefore ho will be upeuker. Hoi
decuted Denton. Iiurdick of Eastern
Oregon, and the whole legislative
bunch from cast of the mountains is
left in the minority for the next ses
sion., Sometimes this is futal to leg
islation for a strong minority will
clash with tho majority until there
is nothing to tho session but clash.
This year it is not believed such a
condition will follow, even though the
minority Tb very huge and healthy. It
is thought that Speaker Jones will
allow his appreciation of the entire
Ktuto to n point vAorc he will ut least
give suitable recognition to tho boys
from east of tho mountains, even
though they did not support him for
upeuker.
The Evening Observer mentions
this now to impress upon uny one
who may havo Influence with nny
member of the next session to urge
harmony and single purposo of the
body. There' is much to do and the
Willamette valley boys, although in a
big working majority, will find that
Eastern Oregon is of some conse
quence und is of great help if they
will but take off tho big odds in favor
of tho valley and let the bunch grass
fellows play on an even1 break.
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It Was at Frightful
Cost.
There, is at least a small bit of con
solation that tho end of the casualty
lifts is prnctically in sight. The Ob
server's news report the other day
said that the total of casualties would
be reported within n week or such a
matter.
A returned soldier at Pendleton is
quoted as saying that tho people lit
tle Veali.e the extent of tho losses
that were sustained by the American
armies when they began the drive on
tho Ilun. This may well be believed.
As the veil is lifted in Europe we
fun Hun how t ,'omoorloou leoi'n flin '
achievements of the allied nrmies in
tho immortul 119 days from July 15,
tho date of the last German drive, to
November 11, when Germany admit
ted defeat If valor in battle be the
supreme test of manhood, then the
losses ns the victories--tell that the
race has grown.
An English authority estimates our
casualties in the Argonnc-Meuse bat
tle, by far the greatest ever fought
bv American armies under American
s
command, nt 1(10,000, eight times
those of the Gcrmnn3 nt Grnvelotte,
and tho figures now coming in indi
cate that ho is approximately correct.
This gives us n loss of ubouL 20 per
cent. At Gettysburg, the losses of
the two armies were 4S.000, or 30 per
cent., but when the battle tiiure was
over, north nnd south alike were ex
hausted. At the Jleusc the Amori-
but there was nobody to fight".
. When our marines were thrown
across the path of the Germans after
they had come doWp from the Aisne
and the Veslo and were driving it
! spear-head toward Paris, less than
I forty miles away, tftcy had more than
'1000 casualties out of 8000 engaged,
but they never yielded an inch. At
the second Mai ne 'the 38th regiment,
regulars, held off five times its num
ber, despite enormous losses. In this
buttle, 6nc "of the most dramatic and
important in the world s history, wo
hr.d, according to Pershing's report.
300,000 men, about as many as the
allied armies at Leipzig, or at least
CC per cent, more than all the armies
lit Waterloo.
it is much harder to enforce such a
remark. To hunt out the cases which
have not been reported is a big job,
ai d to arrange all quarantine orders,
procure the flags and cards, and per
sonally visit each home, as the health
officer or deputy must do, is an un
dertaking that seems1 small, yet it is
large.
But whatever the ize of the job,
whatever the expense of tho work, let
La Grande try it out. "It will act as
a'break 'on tho "public 'ntintt; at leas',
and may accomplish good results.
Quarantine Honestly En
forced Should Help.
Some time ugo there was a plan
set on foot to quarantine all cases
of the prevailing epidemic. It was
ans were ready to fight the next hour ! easy to say "We will quarantine," but
rsMjrij liimsTMAS guts
Thi loar people should buy use
ful Chrlsimas presents. Wo have
everything froml a kiddle kar for
the baby tV Columbia Graphonola
for tho hale family. W. H
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Its at $16.50 until
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The best candy mlde is
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the kind
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Only three weeks left within which to buy the
Wiir Savings Stamps for which you made your
pledge to the Government.
Union Comity must purchase $30,000 more t j
make her quota.
, Wo liaveXnadira splendid war record; don't
let us fall doVn on this. .
Use War Savings Stamps for Christmas pres
ents.
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