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' LA" filfANDFi ' E VEXTXG OBSERVER
rrnvr.r,r)AY. ,TAXTtat;Y 1. mm
"U GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
' An Independent Newspaper
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Pnl.li.tieH Dullv anft VuAk at l l
Granda, Oregon, by.a Grande Evdff- i
could Wave dreamed
would find America
!oy. home? Jt hen
IngTSy the thousu, and th
Published Dally ana Wetfcljk M W . , ri ,.f ih,.l-.
" n..i.i:ui r iwar. will have to Hhare honors wfi '
thi?t this year. who hi'.n become a mcb'sr of ttio in-oxp(?:-tin
her fctitution prouder of th fact,
th-y are com- ne Wur overseas was simply won
1,1 vp-ir denul, th home service, tor the sol-
A
ih excellent,
;rj by tvervS.
and the canteen i;
e,UMt a it
BIUJCEDEKNIS.JPubli.har. th newWhOfc lr.m-& f f
e 9 hcafU united.
ut tU P.ut.ff if nt f.n flrundd . . .
h.oy
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should
FORUM
WAXTH l.lti:lt
Knlercd at Ike Postoffice at La Grande
Oregon, an ftccond Class Mail Matter,
Address all Communications to
The Observor, 1710 Sixth Street.
t'iU and County Official Paper.
Evening TeW'graph fieport ofUnit!
Prcsa Association,
fcsi Sale in Other Ciljea Oregon Hotel
ilews Stand? Portia,!'!,," Imperial Newa
.Mind, Portland; Multnomah, Hotel
' Ntw Stand, Portland, Oregon.
las yc.-f
There is
in- for
.-e (-iSU-
UMCKIJTION RATES
BT Carrier .
S'vX-t. er aaontk
Baily, per three montha $1.95
Tlnil.. ! mnnlli. tn aAvunrm Stt7K
Daily! per year I- advance. .. ...7.f(l t0 completion,
Daily, single copy 0c
The nant four vears have be
voted tobreaking history. T
l?(o nee the mnkinK of it. '
nceii for (ji;.niint, for
the staying of unpiin'truijn
cin.
The world must be about its T-'nth-er's
business of heeii-, tt-ii'-hir:,
building up, and has no lime for the
violent or the merely fault-findlntf. (
Itich with possibilities for Hie j-di-viclual
us f ir the notion, the new
yar beckons us anil v.-e nui:1': follow.
Our curiosity may be n'l awa! but
ciwhil we watch devflnrimcn.i we
must do our share in bi-ingint: them
l.iit the man and wife who have be
come ill anil itiow that tfieir
are not receiving the proper foonwv,0i
rejoice inwarffiy to hear that Uric vnrk
ban started whereby a telephone or
der will lifing to their doors the nuch
needed foods.
Mr;. I-:. P. Milkman has co-enU'd
to toko charge of the kitchen ii: hei
ebi-ity is too well known to nee.- com
mendation. KheewilJ see that.t.hi'!c;s
are properly prepared and no ':nif:
of Vie work will be onritted.
I.a (;ianit- c an on this New '-''i:
day Kit tlianks for many hies ings,
the least of which is not the Red
Cro.-T. by any means.
I-Milnr Obsei-ver-0 I'leaae allow me
space Devour columns. In rea.gd to
U.e O n and iiuaranilm I ililnk
H is a ood tliinu Eoni'Al.in to
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. .. . a iia'iii. '-in him ll i-i.'Hiii-u oisease. inn
llltlimi,,. ,, ,Ti..(.,,u ,-,,,. ,i,
law 'and sue that tb' town was kept
cleaner, especially Die allots, tbii
wlsu idoa as -well.
a ;:kaiji;k.
I'l'M'11 Iflnl. Pantinw T?.n5r,nV(!P5 Af!
advance jri.ooj'"
Dallv. per year in
Daily, per six months in advance 12.50
Cnily, three months 'i advance. .$1. 2D
nily, per month 60c
The Saturday Evening Observer, by
mail, per year In advance.... . $1.50
Weeklv Observer-Star, by mall, pci
year In advance $1.50
Very Powerful,
Cour.tr Tie of TKm, l-l LanW
Llborl,.'
No Danger in Clothes if the
Mind Is Right.
The l-'ugene Register, which Is ably
edited by a man who knows humanity
very well, heads an editorial, "Girls
Will lie Girls,' and then he argues the
present condition of the growing girl
in ,tho following very sensible munner:
"A 1 eeont speaker whose remarks
found a place on many front pages
laid irreut stress upon the immodest
diets of the young girl of today as a
prime cause of juvenila delinquency.
"We daughters of old-fashioned
mothers knew very little of the present
causes of delinquency. Wo dressed
The latent r.-pmt of the fe-ler.-.l
controller of the currency cives an
impressive picture of the pm. perity
of the American people. The lii'uic.s
cover only the national b.oik:., v.-ho'ie
combined resource'! are les i than
those of the state bank-, and trust
companies. They show that, on No
vember 1, the date of the hint, call,
the resources of these I units amount
ed to almost $2(.om,OM,(0.
Thin ii. .1.777.(!i.'fl.0iii more tn-in
the banks' resources on Aujr.i.H
showing an astctiHiinic ra'e of pain
thruuifh the fall months. I he depos
its during that twii-mouth
ARKANSAS" ".THOMAS SCATS'"
.. R. Chick says ho linn been nd-v.'-ii'il
to "believe only half lie hcnrV
but be doesn't know which lialf.
would be
NKW EAR'S POEM.
The following (xjem was sent to
The O;orver by i-ne of its readers:
All alone in n.y yiiamber tiiiii.ht
I watch th tjiN.r take his flight;
Tko mo-ments pas and leave mu s.rffli-,
in;;
for v,'i-h the year what hopes ate
dying!
Strange thoughts are flitting throsh
my li.rain,
'l'1-.ey crowd' my hpnd -it can't con-:
tain
Theni all at nine and so I'll writ!
And eae;e them ere they take their
. flifht.
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; ir " w : h o
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tj i 'i. .i r" ii l i f
teiepnone qraers'-camuiiy
selected
and -promptly, delivered .
A S'oiilh Tint Springs woman Is f?o
jr nluiis slio in;i)coft her hiishnn'! h'j'.vn
din r-il,. tin.tK it Iim.mA ti Iw.n Iia ifime -.
" ' " - I or nit;
out lit iilf;nt.
J With enje spor ) time passed away,
The unflefHred yeur kuha slrem(th
'Hie infant y-ar came to my armi j
lUfcuilinj me with winning charms, .
I tff;i;ht I saw v.ui'h p!cauie there
t surely brourht no care.
The flermans nro forced to wonr pa
per midenvenr and eat inullen-Ief
iotip.Mi'mplilH C'ommerelal-AiiMcnl.
Well, t III m Is their war.
Clearance aie
iiiai
Starts Saturday, January 4, Ends Jan. 31
Every Article in the store at Clearance Prices
increased $l,l(ir,,m0,m. 'J his, Urn,
at a time when the people were mak
ing heavy payments on Liberty
bonds.
During the presuit year, it is stat
ed, there has only been one ttr.'.i&nnl
bank failure in the coua'.f.-, a small
institution in (.'idifornin.
There has been n larger growth in
the last five years than in the pre
ceding twenty-five years, and our own
war demands have not -Ii t the ac
cumulation. The gains are i!i ib'ite.l
pietty uniformly over t!m ennntry.
The total banking-power i-eprrsent-ed
may be imagined from the follow
ing comparison: The resources of the
national banks of the Dulled Stale?
now exceed the combined resources of
lie of l-,ng-
Nor-
. i it ii i i
way, Sweden, ticumaii;, u nian i mu
Japan.
And this Is nothing to th" i imineiin
power we may wield after a few yea'-'-nf
constructive pea'-e.
Notice! Anyone bringing In three
paid-up subscriptions to the Thomas
Cat one year will get n free ride out
;;1 j to the cemetery and buck.
i In n Hot Springs rustanrnnf the oth-
: .lnv IIiih.a C th,. .,-mia Vn,..-W.,l
v''l Iho rnlTee. lull- wo (liin't liellevA ert
each day
A ltd passed with Hire; and now L GOColNG FRENCH WAR LOAN
hear
The cooings of mother year.
TUi rrone, and as it p.".s-:ed it sent
Forth mystic hands .chich straight-
'way went i
Into the garden of my heart.
And from it ere he would depart.
ever beard a complaint on tea.
differently,' Haiti she.
"There Is good reason to deplore the L the national banks of i:
extreme dress in which some or tne i.,.,,1 nvnnce. lltwv. Go-man
young girls of today indulge, It Is true,
and possibly tho speaker could buck
her lamentations with facta and fig
ures. Still, much can be said in fuvor
of modern feminine dress as any phy
sician or physical culture expert will
testify, lietweon the smart "hoiVQeorge Chamberlain Is Not
sunt lis opposed to mo long, streei
sweeping one of the former genera
tion the choice is plain. Tho girl of
today, iincorseted or corseted so light
ly that every muscle moves with
healthy freedom, is aurely more sen
sibly clad than tho girl of yesterday
who went locked up In steel. The mod
em blouse, open at throat, permits the
freo circulation of the blood in a way
Only rearlcas, ;ut Right.
The attii'-k on the war depm-l men1
by Senator Cliamln i -lain i t only n
forerunner of what is to come. The
open attack on pacificism whi. h hurls
at President Wilson his early nt'.HmV
in the late war is ri:'bt and propel
and .Senator Chambeilaia will have
Hope's fairest flowers he rooted out,
Upturned the soil, and subtle doubt
flow should one address that new Crept in and scattered there the Feed
woman Juiltro the president lias up-!of discontent, that bitter weed,
pointed tn Washington "your honor-j
ess," "your bonorlne," or "your lion- I cast it out it sprang afresh
olette?" jl mourned the weakness of my fle:'h,
A rid knew not what, to do, when lo!
To Pessle Fltizzlo: If yoti nro RjTwna whispered: "The Gard'mr will'
".lentous woman," why employ a "prl- know."
vote detective?" You can Imagine ns .
much In n nilnuto us lie can discover .TwaR trU(, 0n ni,;n m.. ilr,p(.., wur0
1,1 " J"1'"1"- j stayed.
. ,, , I owned my weakness; asked His
1 hero nre not many dlvorcPR tn Ihp. i n. ,
He heard, nnd 'flowers of peace He
sent
IF;
lifirnes In whleli mother spends more
time over the cook hook than who does
over "The I'lisslonate I'ups" or some
other bent Beller.'
Olieer np! Maybe If yon hud ,Tnwn
Dee Unckefeller'R millions and Mh
Mm much yon would be Rind to be poor
nirnln nnd be equipped with the rtd
reliable hash digester yoti now pos
Hess. When n married wnmnn conprntn
bilrs a bride, she says: "I. Impw you
will lie us happy as I am." A married
wnmnn nlwayn makes a bold front and
hopes no one will suspect tho roal
truth.
In the SiuiKtown rlrcuit court the
other day old John Ituddy, who was up
for n divorce case, was asked by the
Jtidtfe what he wanted. John replied
that "some six months aco lie em
harked on the sea of matrimony nnd
nnw wl-hes lie hud missed the boat,
To take the piece of discontent.
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f-'t
t ' '1 ii in 1 1 1
um will bo charged for when meters
are read in the spring.
J. D. MeKKN'N'O:;,
President City of l.a Grande.
JOi.W COI.I.IDH, .
Itecorder City of La Crande.
Y. M. C. A.
Educational Department. Short
hand and typewriting. Day classes,
10.00 a. m. to IL-:t0 p. m. Night
classes 7:30 p. m. to 9:o0 p. m.
A WANT AD will do it.
Now rests no care wiihin
Save how to please the
best.
He bears for me my every woe,
And none save Him my sorrows
know.
l ..-rv .il-
trfftr-NATlUWft.
P.vo staiucs at the enirunce of the
mv hrei'.r.t ; Tuileries gardens have been protected
Card'ncr l;u"1 ,)as bn'O hist winter. Now
they have another coat of some thou-
I sands of captured German helmets to
i silimilute tlie French war loan.
During the Period we are closed
telephone your orders and we
will be glad to make deliveries-
Well, Knowledge Is Power.
Jl lie had been to tho cieiitlt to
t a toolh pulled. A few days later
friend of the family, a man whoe
had presented an extremely hnrefooi.
jl appearance, called at .Jlmmie'i;
m1-''1. .Ilmnile squirmed aroiiuil invhlte
id IhillllY ashed: ".Mister Itrown. did
burl inueh wl-en ya potehor hair
:llled'i" i
Cau3e of Roar of Waterfalls.
The roar of a waterfull is produced
.lmost entirely by tile bursting of mil.
iona of air bubbles.
Newlin Book & Stationery Co.
I
.lob Print int
()TU 10 TO W.VTKIi. ISTJItS
I Owinir to the cold wo.ither and
other conditions incident to w'nter
I weather it Is not practicable to read
lall wati r motet's dnrilti; the winter
iniontbs, bet as tlu supply oT w.'.ter
jat Heaver Creek !s llmtted. it Is
llhetel'ore hotiby t.ntilted tint all
.wat.-r n;;ed in excess of the minim-
I
iuiposi'ibki lo the days of high-boneiljtho country with him wain ft he Itadj
collars and stiff-necked dresses nnitjit before when li- dan d t ra-t. res . p
when the'-.e blouses came In headaches, i)H, Ram-tity of the Hcniocratic party '!
and tell the truth.
Unpreparoiincss i.i net o-dy
went out.
"To he strictly honest, girls nf the
li'.if lamented Past dressed as they did. wo nlwavH have coat
becau-e it was the style. Times undjit is iipparenl that, we
styles have changed, but girls have learn nothing from rpi
not. changed so very much. The glrljthe senator snya "We
of today scants just what girls luivolparod to cuter the war;
n'ways w anted to look pretty and unprepared to bring our
tylirh. In Ibis desire good girl nnd! Yes, aiid we are ll:i!.-
delinquent share alike. ing for them when we i
"The immodestly dressed girl needs ;and we m e unpivpiin
pot an old-fa:diioned mother, but ajthem and their dependent
rood one - not one who will deny her 'meagre pay as n sol. Her.,
the right lo her modernity, but who Put what could be evp"
ntitunj
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NEW READINGS
A coaled cellar makes a warm
house.
It's a Fhort lnno that lienra no
sip.
! v.?- '
eve unpre-j
,' are new;
y", heme."
red in r:u'-j
!le:il liepie i
Truth is
pood lletlon.
not Htrnnger than
not
i-Miid thou;;!its nre best,
sfciid haiiil ihotuhiH.
r-tii
tlu-ti
tn
ted wi'.h
will tcttch her wvt to miapt it wimdy wnr secretary sue
.The Now Year Great
as It Is.
elnrv Ih
wo have had
ignorance and dtii u iH' ha ; ro
rnuntry both in life and in tn,.
It is decidedly iei'ti-H.: to
that an Oregon seniitor hi- tin
njro to Kpeak vli;it he Lumv- m
truth. Atul we dare ray tlut
whojn ho hits ut !-:iv will h:
in ;t:uu'C
, luse
h as Uaker? !'i
to her Uri No livo plrl could be incident Wilwon hns tie snor.cmmM
tercsted in old-fashioned, stothry never letting n man jro when .ne,
,-l(1tl.,w. l.ut inti'M.dfM run be accoin-! hooka up with him. In It
pHshed by making a pirl understand
that her favorite movie actress nffoctn
riim-ile, modest styles for the street.
'Peliiupiency and moral Houndncss
depend init upon fashions, but upon
ioeals, and the successful parent or
social eiie worker in tho one who
unn oiesent itlealii which nre within
it,., .,..,..,..,...,.,... f (i, vminir. nnd h"Wr time convin.'i.or the p-
of n port to nroiiM their interest."
j The proverb ibofit the pen be
i liif' iniiiitier than the sword fa
! temporarily canped.
l.llt'W
' CiUT
lie the
iho.-e
much harder time nrnvi
pU- they were vii;hf,
hush has been t'tk- e
mouths, lhn ietr. hr
luin attaek it was u':m
tenet for anyone tn sp
STATISTICAL NOTES
"N'ew York has mere than 070,000 reg
istered women voters.
Vnlted States In 1017 Used 3,100 tons
of peat In stock foods.
I'nlted Slates last year produced 1,
".Hi.SKi pounds of sheet inlea, j
Pennsylvania railroad now employi
0.:'..it woiuen to replace men.
Ih. !
.5 DAYS MORE
Buy ycur Var Savings Stamps according to your
pledge. It is a patriotic tlut-y and a binding olli-jation.
La Grande National Bank
Meniber. rcccral Reserve System
l.)i'sit;Ti;itt'(l Depository of t Ho Unitt'd .States
(iovernmeiit
ll
Attended to
promptly during the time the stores are closed.
Christie & Amsden Variety Store
PHONE RED 3991
SKATES SHARPENED AND HOLLOW
GROUND 30 PER PAIR AT THE
HARLEY SHOP
H'il
Observer advertlsmR wlli bring re-
i, K
evlr. Business Man-
illut there has lie.
'then and the lea
icratic party feitmi out in
jstood with the p-
The aiualiraniatisl hits of the entire
eveild wilt have to lie lak.n off to Ih
old ycei-. He did more things to tlii
.,1.1 .,.lh utwI am ll...... 'lu.l... Il,a
any of his late lamented pi 1ccessnrs. jDocidedly til C Pl'O
lie has iiImi giviyi us nji chamt'itgnej 'q EstiO'l
tliirst for cxcitemWit "air then takcrt! 8
,,'v hi. b.
(L.ii.oi ,
,i the Pi
V"' -''
cur war away aed left ua with a beer!
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I'i'vii, Kui-i. - ucive
lot
lie I
r....l ...e ,1.1..
ever did the world stand on tip-!ls the bt-d tliitu- in a
' toe to meet a coining year ' it docs;has been prnjccttd f.n
f.rhis on The world seethes withi At the pitm nt m..in
pi'sstbilitics. There may be a nicojihes in la (i!el;
f .iily peace in atotv'wilh a major I They n. f to.w . p
luu'ue to lO'k up, or there may were obtainable, but
be the feggrxt war yet. 8 ;f,ie of si.-k tef.m he.
TO re Is possible fin intcriu&uinnVjineatu- lit "p. SnSn y
ndjiistmeitt which wiM advance the all the,, tune ,.! it 1
brotherluiod or mini 'y generation, get hei. wh.Xvi
and there eipinl Hisj5kilitie for the iek and iiffi
th.il
(,.!-.'
1' i.
the most colossal display of greed the Tln Ib-d t
0 world litis ever seen.
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Netted Gems and Peerless . Potatoes
"Finest" grade, every sack guaranteed,,, "
' Delivered to your home. .
Phone us your ordcr---Red 1781
Clyde - liiclclle
As a matter of economy" you .
should ' qonsult ' the Obser-
' ver's Job Department before
placing your, printing -we I
are satisfying- La Grande's
jeaclingj firms p-ut iis on
yur caJling 3istu Phone Mairr'
37. 0nlVeHighclass Printers
"are,;eniplod.
9s
a 1 " J
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At the beginning of Inst year who, a
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