La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, March 10, 1919, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextT0 jb o UfiRAl '-EVKNTNCI 'oBSETCVEfc 'U'M ' " WOXmY. MAKCrr tiTgj2g : 1 KAW '' ' .--V :i.'Mo .!T"-S General ProsberitV: Follorl HiM-W!rWl shoe: ii i . rr a i ,t v 3! ,5 P , Analogy Between "Conditions in ol865 and the i 3 1 V A Elri America NOW READY FOR YOU HERE - Look: here before you buy that's all we auk. The man who knoxrti and admires pood work iiiiiiisltips, honest leather and smart styles, will likes these shoes. Men's Dress Shoes $3.50, $4.50, $5.50, $6.50, $9.00 Men's Work Shoes $3,50, $4.00, $5.00, $6.50, $6.25 Analogy Between "Conditions in ol865 and Present Mast, Encouraging to Business Mon. ,(By Garret Smith) ' Are we of America to enjiyr busi-watres snowed a gross gain of !i8 per ness prosperity or depression in this I cent over the 18.SJ level, period of after-war readjustment? Prosperity on Sound' Basin. Ihii question has been troubling even The fn ; wa, ()ut; not m;re. those in touch with larire aftairs. It u. n ;,.:, ..,,:,. ,.r ,u ., Btfll perplexes the small business manLr th. .niau.k, .,, ,.uifK, . ,h ,0,,d investor, the wrge earner, the , im.reasjn(t volume u businlss Tn9 lliasu of US. . eiimiwintivo aten.lmoo nt U ,,,i,.r.l I liut in seikinf! a cheerful outlook it j swing in business from, early in the is not necessary to be of the privileged ; war until 1872, in the face of wide and few who sit with practiced, jiiigat-ttilBng-nMiMd.. movements of prices Children' hoes Have you Homo children with a wonderful knack of kicking nut shoes 'I They are the ones we want A trial will prove to you that our children's shoes will wear. '" Children's Shoes $2.25, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 Hill's" Department; Store the pulse of trade. A InTiprte into his tory and u drawing of parallela there from give ifood rtason to believe that l immediate prosperity awaits us. I Such a view is presented by tho 1 Guaranty Trust company of New , York in an analysis of conditions in ' 1805, at the close of tho Civil war. compared with the situation in 1018, 'reachintf conclusions illuminating unJ .optimistic. in both directions', shows that the! prosperity of the period rested on more substantial foundations than the j stimulus of rising prices. j Wages, owing to the length of the . period for which contracts are made,' the comparative immobility of workj era, and the power of custom, general- j ly respond more tardily than do prices of commodities to changes in currency 1 or industry. But the continued rise of , At Appomattox the country faced wKes through this seven years was nonarent business ruin. Hundreds of;ue to something more tnan inertia. i thousands of soldiers had to be reab sorbed by industry; the economic and social system of the south was dis jrupted, with moBt of its people in pov Jerty; the nation's money was for the . most part a mass of depreciated irre deemable notes; prices were abnorm- The secret lay in the output from farms and factories. Labor was re ceiving an increasing share of the in creasing quantity of goods produced. The reason for this prosperity, in spite of war, lies in conditions pre vailing on the eve of the conflict. In NOW m THE TTMR TO PICK OUT RKKD, YOU PLANTING TIME WILL SOOX HIS HKKE AND THEN YOU WILE P.E P.USY. WE CAN FILL YOUK WANTS IN ANY, THING T"0 PLANT, AS WE OAliUY A COM PLETE STOCK OF BULK AND PACKAGE SEEDS OF THE HIGHEST TEST AND QUALITY. REM EM HER, ALL SEEDS NEW STOCK. VEGETABLE, FLOWER AND GRASS SEED. WE CAN QUOTE PRICES ON- REQUEST. SEND US YOUR LIST O SEEDS AND WE WILL 1TLL PRO Harris Grocery Phone Main 70 and 77, Farmers Black 192 408 North Fir Street Across the Tracts if ally hi(th, but' rapidly falling; and the crucial test of the reconstruction ii rlnn n ll I n i mm rtiUlflblUNS Cold Cream Cleanses ALSO SOFTENS AND WHITENS THE SKIN All of Your Other Too much soap is more or less harmful to the complex ion. .A good cold cream is not odly a better cleanser, but vA replace the natural oil ayd will prevent dryness aiTd harshness.' An addition al afl vantage is the necessary, mafesage in using cream wlfich is of great benefit to tlo skin. Needs Can Be Best Supplied Here Putman's Drug Store The fexaM store OF THE BONUS SALIENT FEATURES OF THE SIX TV DOLLAR GRATUITY. Applica to Thone Who Were in Ihe .Military or Naval Service Dur ing the War. thero waa a public debt of more than two and a half billion dollars. Foreboding. Unjustified. I iHut in spite of apparently well : founded forebodings, there followed a remarkably prompt restoration of nor mal prosperity. The country's gross business multiplied three-fold between 1SC0 and IUHD. Though tho popula tion increased enormously during this period, still on a per capita basis the business of the country had doubled. The shurp drop in business follow ing the opening of the war was match ed by a prompt recovery. Business reached its low level in 18(!1, having fallen off lti per cent ns compared with the year belorc. liut hy tne next year it had reached the old normal level ngnin nnd passed" it. From then on, with the exception of a slight fall ing off in lHI'i!), there was an uninter rupted gain until the crisis of 187:1, which precipitated a three-year period of depression. Then came recovery so nipid that by 1HH0 it is estimated that the volume of business was only 14 ncr cent per capita less hayu been had no panic occurred. The decline in highly inflated war Following are the salient provisions ! P"1!0" " u,"'ly ,,n ,.' "' of tho law nmvl.iin. n ten .. , nation of pence. It continued with .i ri....ro ,..!.,. f . i two inU'iTiintions, in 1S72 anil ...... .1,1.1 u.n i-u nolo Her vico since April Gth, 11)17. It applies t6',JnIllpersori!;sTViiig tne military or naval forces of the! IKHll, beyond the pc; iod under con sideration. , . ,; ; Wnges lagged considerably behind United States during th,. nr.-.m i Unth in upwnnl anil downward This is taken to Cover the f,.llnivii,.' i movements after 18(!0, according to j which the reaction of 1857 d:d not ma- i Officers and enlist..,! mn e n,. the Ouaranty Trust company's analy- tcrially. or for long, disturb. hih. iiu-y im ifiiM-ii mull- liiiiii iiiti in drawing ine parallel oeiween mi an undeveloped west offered employ ment to former soldiers and to nu merous immigrants as well. But the west of that day was not period, neither currency inflation, nor newly discovered. What was new tvas me uccessiuiuiy or inai region maue possible mainly by the extensive rail road building just before and after the war. The Parallel Today. In all this the Guaranty's analysis finds hope for the present. Today no small part of the world's natural re sources lie untouched beyond the pres ent industrial frontiers, but they will not long remain uncultivated. Enor mous plans for trade expansion, many of them under way before the out break of the great war 'are sufficient proof of this. These include the building of rm'l roads from the east, west and south into the heart of Africa; the construc tion of a transcontinental and numer ous shorter lines in Australia; n sub stantial mileage opened in Siberia in accordance with the Russian program of 1913 for the construction of Hl.000 miles of railway in a decade nnd the completion of Canada's second and third transcontinental lines. Add the recent progress of sanitary engineer ing, which guarantees the habitability for Caucasians of nearly every tropi cal land, and all' point to another of the world's recurrent periods of un usual industrial expansion. America, one of the war's lightest sufferers, will share this prosperity in an intensive growth, in the devo'.on- ment of production at home, with n corresponding increase of business in the newly opened areas of the world the shifting from war to peace bases, nor the long downward trend in prices, nor the rising cost of labor indeed, not even the combination of all four factors proved able to stay a re markable industrial expansion. And thi3 expansion had begun well before the outbreak of the war. Rail roads had passed the experimental stage and by 1850 it was evident that they would occupy the dominant posi tion In inland transport. Previous to that year only 9000 mjlcs of railway had been constructed in this country but in the following decade 21.000 miles were added. While most of the new mileage was in the older sections, east and south, some lines were push ing, westward. Kails reached Chicago in 185.1, St. .Louis in 1855. and the Mis-, nouri river in the northwest three years later. New Fields Open to Business. Gold discoveries in California in 1848 rather stimulated industrial en terprise and materially hastened the than it would I westward movement of population and ministry. - - There was a great expanse of ter ritory, rich in natural resources and responding in development to the rapid extension of railroads. The population had more than doubled in a generation. Farm products, manu factures and exports each hbd doubled decade. There was a' resulting I prosperity at the outbreak of the war ENGLISH ARE NOT GREAT WALKERS WOULD KKSTUKK MIliM 1. 1'UKT.S LONDON, March 10 Thoro Is a legend In thu United States that Kng JlBhnieii are meat walkers. If thoy lire, the recent tu'mi strike showed they don't walk In London. When tills strike forced Londoners to walk they didn't even know tho way homo, l'ollceuieil worn, (imaged. Olio big "bobby" who keeps tho traffic Ktnilliht ut the foot or LutlKiito lllll declared "City" business men had kept htm busy tolling them how to not to some of Urn best known local ities In l.uiulon tlN flisl day of the utilko. "It's past belief," ho commented with sniuo indUiiiiilon. "that inun run ride on a bus for years between, his homo and bis office and still not. know; tho way when he baa tu foot it." Whlto tho stilkn lasted pro'it iltleues formed at the bus stops There was one at Hiimmorsiiittti es timated to be neatly a mile long. Men, women i:nd children strilKulcd desperately to rid". Soinn of tho w.iuien carried b.nbles. Many of tho men were crippled soldiers In hos pital blue. Sonic of tho elilldven weio pile little niits, faint from wcuii- llesH. As tho tube strike was co-lncl- ilenj wllh n strike of waiters nnd j , kitchen staffs, thomoinds of hotel; " residents had to lo their walklnc GOVERNOR MAKES L0N3 TRIPS fiunery. j Overseas men. hoteo for demoMl tKiition. emernliiK from railway sta tion with I heir hwvr kits, dlro ered'they would have to walk lp tho iilhur side of London. "Ixmdon Is certainly mean Hi mo," nnld nm American soldier cheer-; 1 1 aged man ouiployoos. In tli0 hiiga and endless processions of pedes trians homowurd hound of an even ing It waa curious to Americans to nota the. large number of old peo plo imistly min -uray hulled clerks of tho shops and "L'lly" brokerage otflres. Besides dollvory vans and lorries, nwiny rode In Hod Cross uinlmliinces. Thouwanils were awheel, rusted bi cycles having been brought to light from many a basement. Oirl coiiduelorH showed Hk II a-id patience In the emergency. Tho couductorntlos kept n watchful eye on (he Btnigcllng crowds for tho hrs pitlll blue. "1 .11 up , c ol fe- th" laino Tommy," you would in.nr In r cry, sad tho crowd would fall back to let tho llmplni; and embarrassed soldier through to the coveted place. (Continued ft out puKo . 1 ) will lorre industry and commeive to take a loss on products purchased at war prices, the board's auiintincenieiit t said the losses under the pniposul' plan would he les Hum if industiv were repined to await n natural read I " """'"K1"". " Jtistment with its consequent long no Claim must be accompanied hy t'CrlllflP nmu nn.l ........ 11 in.- . . innrl eiidlnineil tlintr irnins longer ' ....-lJ tk n..t.,;.. rotwlllv service ui me coast guard, coast " , V - ,,-..u ...... .......... geodetic survey, light house service w,ll,e l"c ",K" fl0nk m I,r,CPS cun,e ln observed differences render the anal who have ncrformed nctlu ,i,.t .ni,' ;Jnnunry, lBflfi, wages continued to risev flt first sight a little obscure. Af- the navy during the nresent v,.' ,n,v generally mi til July. 1872. In 1880 tor the Civil war the exploitation of r:..i.i .. . ... ; cioiNs, meniuers or tfte army nurses, corps and navy nurses corns. The sum is to be puid to all of the uhove persons who have resigned or received honorable discharge since April bth, 1917; who have, if reserv ists, been placed on inactive duty ; to enlisted personnel and female nurses who shall hereafter be honorablv ills- charged not later than the end of their current enlistments or terms of serv ice; to officers who shall resign or re ceive honorable discharge within one year after the end of the war, or if reservists, shall ba placed on inactive duly. It will not be paid to the following: a. .Any man who had not reported tor duty nt his station prior to No vember II, 11118. b. Men who have already received one month s pay under tho special pro vision of section 9 of the act of May 18th, 1917. c. Men entitled to retired pay. d. 'Ihe heirs of a man who has died or may die before receiving the pay ment. Officers and men who were dis charged or relieved from active duty without receiving the benefits of this act should present their claim as fol Tews: n. If service was in Ihe army, to the Zone Finance Officers, Ia'Iiviu building, Washington, D. C. b. If service was in the navy, lo the disbursing officer, bureau of sup plies and accounts, navy department, Washington, l. C. c. If service was in (he coast guard, to the const guard heaihpiarters in I lail lm tut dtM SSd mS 1 I- I miw ' . t h riod of stagnation. loriginal discharge certificate or orders ,to inactive duty together with a state j incut of various assignments for ser vice. In'ce the original naper'Jiave - lecn lost.lt will be necessary it er- Alaiksn Eecullve Csn Trtvel B.flt) ' vict was i?i the navy to obtain n certi Miles Within His Own Com- , fit d copy from the bureau of navi-c. monwcalth. ' lion, navy department, Washington, . U. C. niui a-certifa-ate f mm the officer Juneau. Alaska. few covtj :tor uiv 'V hom final settlement of pay w der the Stars and Sn-lpcs ean tnivcl made. sUiwing that no payment of this o,tsi( ioIIcm wlihln their eonucon- gratuity wns made by bim. lf'iiiit''s wenllhs, and llov. Tlionots Itlccs. Jriwere li't bv Ii dichargeil' soldier it ln mat:- will be ne-ssary to obtain from the adjutant general, "Washington, 11, C., a rertifente showing that tlity wei-e issued. s& fnllv. "Last lime I visited here on leave thoro nm strlKe. nmojof Alaska Is one of Hie few. befnio that the taxis Hid unit. i In, tour of his tmritory ho giK-s British T.nniWes during te lube from Jiinenii to N.ne on tliw .flrsi hip, atrial slopped a ltryal Air Fore? (lieu cresvm llie liulf ''of Alnsfs al lorry, Vwlng th-ir kits lino it r,K p Cook Inlet to Anrhnrnge. At: '.Ml offi,, .,dien f"ini wiilia while thoyaalned llh .e drlvw, Kalrt.:ik he strikes (he Tnna.is river f.. . S?. - . T l " '.'o to lake thorn to tbj'lr dostluath? (and b.arils a Hl-niw heel river lit for li., n " ., g,i,.,,,,.I, ,' v"i7"i.,.v Many We.f Ena Jiuslnma hnuicy M. Sllchnel e Bering sea. 'I I,. mo pat thek motor delivery Tans ut the nn oeeij v-sel or hiuuch tes hua dlBposiof Uonio-uolng women ondl U Noa. to " l!l:, h!J receive the SO) gm:oH in ( lectiWi Vh.the aKtlemrnt ciKlilf mm Iwi mm the I ItfL-Tk h 14- Mi ml i PIV 1 ! "V,- -jJC- Bi .1 -V J Fourth Liberty loan bo.nds a?a(J. for deliver. United Rtjitttationf bank. Ji 2-21-fj Jm a Jl J f J. -CECZ COSPEIl 3 I D''C AccountanL J tnncome Tax Adviser I' 61-lnMain St., Pendelton, Oregon . 4- ' y The WDressej Woman lii pductory GT 1 POLISH (Wearing the proper model! the right kind of a corsett gives one the feeling of toemfrl ivrelHIressed, but the corset juust fit, ,ro get a really good fitting! tiric ClearieoScaTetiere are at y0lir f Onfl nf mil TnpVne! i'm rtivfinn BFswwwiar, the (si each Package. The blmm veis In refres?irnefit you can pos sibly buy, ifi SEEFIT to teeth. drcetft, appetite eaj dlicstlc-fi. Have you seen that new lot of beau tiful goldfish nt 3-10-3 i FAMILY DRUG STORE LA ORANDCORCOON. The Observer furnishes am! prints Butter Wrappers. " Front r. f o : J PAULINE. LEDERLE vThff PriCfi Uf 5 fvt 1 r jr vi 1 BlueStem ltlGH PATENT) Sea Foam TftS Ffavor r-.4.J'-.T'iii" JiS I XT ,23 I i Lasts (STRAIGHT GRADE) . . WHEAT GEE1I3, GRAHAM AND" WHOLE .WHEAT TLOUS ' THE GUARANTEED TLOUR . THEY ARE GUAR ANTEEDoBYo " Graiide; Milling Co. g e WH03S GUARANTEED IS GOOD . o' ICanJted by All Dealers,! 1 1 mi ii pay accoou o o iSi! O- o la . ' 0 s O o A? rer