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U GRANO'E EVENING OBSERVE
Sunday Mrniiu,' Observe!
Pibllnjed Dally and Week? at La
Grande, Oregfli, by Ia Crandji Even
ing Observer Publishing Company
BRUCE DKNNIS, Publisher.
ilifio i9in times the misery to lie run in.itilulicn.i and exiiiO'S'' the, The canneris', nf the riniijl Lay dh ! Cold , has ben ill In Sal..m blind in thin countrv durini? the nast
o I A moricin attitude toward public af- rln earing for the oip!i:iin fern- i fiom I7.S0 to J 14 a iiuart, and oni! ii,. ..., ,i..n .. f.. ht ih..;-
fotllrfS ill tilL Heclloli."
prom or cricap moor it. lair, it is ireeuom 01 in press.
KnQred at the ?ostoffice at La Grande
Oregon, as Second Clan Mail MatUr
Address all Communication! to
The Observer, 1710 Sixth oStreefr
City ififtl County Official Paper.
i'!if on!
emporary. In the Jonjr ruO even th"
ti''If''T lose hy it, and thto'tlt CO
tin community In i:!v'iiy.u Iohhi
i no (haul is never strtuiKti' tnuri it
weakest link. UJiencft'r then O-e ww
pie in the community 9 eying to live
una waff whcJi Ik nut a decent living
wujfo, mete m a v. mm ihik, a ora;)
upon themselves and un ii the oth
er voikeia iff the rgrnmtjnity.
lo pay an nun anno woum put a
larmier upon initiative. It would Aold
the vfliole wfirld to a ileud level. Uut
there xhouhl be 9 minimum Htundurd
On Sale in Other Citiea (Jregun ilotJ
Btand. Poland; Multnomah Hotel ?-W noone should be allowed
Newa Stand, Portland, Oregon, I ' , . .. . . ,
, I he occasional weakling has to be
8UJiSCHIIKWON UATato carried by file community in some
By Carder foin or other., fiut city slums are a
Dally, per month ... , 9m habit. .So are bedraggled, miHci al.li
Daily, per three montha ..fl.tm farms. They arc largely due to ha.y
Daily, per aix month, in advana .7i thinking, and it is time that hazy
Daily, par year iu adva.c. .....HM M M , ,
Daily, single copy & :
By Mail
Daily, per year in advane J5.00 There Is Plenty Of Sugar to
Daily, per ill months in adwvM KM " ,
Daily, three montha 'o advance.. ll.Ifc i UCU'COUna.
Daily, per month 0 i i
.Weekly Observer-Star, iy bwU, per Though the sugar supply, according
year in advance..'. 11.34 1 to ilealeis, has been a little tiht late-
Oiir.i.-ilv tin I iisu-ri for tmiiiM limit n n- ' nil ffhiiitftr rri vai him mn..A
Aimrican newsuiei have tht.:,- vision for the children km iwin'ed aftv thri'ati'iiinK with arrpst the man Parv"ln
riiu ,.v l. i ,i 'out by the coiiiiMUMder of ihe Muibln-! who sold the hvx-ran'e for whlskv. ! to ,he malnutrition of mothers, ac
l!ut irenenilly aiieakinir. these fault h0,10 "O
are,jhe "defects of their Oi tues" ...,0. v .
tl.- v nieOU- represent the over- hunt , GOOD WOKK WAS
of tiling which are in themselves 'ou'
I Oirding Oi a report issued today by the
I When K. H. Owen, n fnilt raiser of American Ken t.ros. fl
ISald Uut:t, Hood itivnr iTislriet, kill- The increasing amount of blindness
cd a berry-rallng bear, the anluial'n ' among children at birth was thought
T30NE AT JUAREZ o'"al "j,,"ed him, inaklng awo-; at first to herald the advent of some
un ou t Tir ins eiotiins before lie new war disease. But investigation
e.ser.peti
il iiil.le to be sacrificed. 't
This fact was so clearly. recoirniWd i
J during the war that there was no cen
sors. p imposed on the American'
press, in the European sense. What- detailed reports on the iwc'H puni
over ci'iiKin-iihin tviut.,( un. u,.1n,il u r., .live, a xdwi Inn inlii Jliarrz to dilve
It was the only instance of the kind on "11 Vlllu troops, when Hio battlt there llie 'ttor Rtieat at Wanhint-ton ! p pp-ayr wq VAflvp
v ..... ..... mnilliu UU UUt! I u S, ' - -
WASIIIftOTO.N', July i) Official
by American experts proved that the
. famished condition or the motners re
Goveinor eOlcott has been Invited acted on the eye-sight of their infants,
by Governor Hart of 'a:ihincton,to !
In
TO rMMIGRATE
,-i...f,i 'rim .w..... i I II; ouinncd ivtn of A iiii-i-ii'iins
1 1 v i. a iicn .iUMUCl n i rilBUI Cil ' " ,i ,, o. . 1.. i l.
themselves. And thev did' it so thr- 1 "co- Klve ,iial vralso to t ho ,"'"
i,liiv ,l hn..M .h..i iu work of both Ls rt i ll-ry ami the; 1 .
., n,,,?,.,.,! :,t.if Jv. .... ! cavalry. ! Mrs, Charles If. Kugel, B7 of 75f
,'sfi,,,i J It is Baid that some of llie achieve-' Wilbur t:ti cot. Salem, lopp-d off the PARIS, July 10 .(Correspondence
The government itself did undertake ""'nl8 of the secoinj hallallon of the eeicbi-.-tiun of lir filTieifi wedding j of the Associated Press.) A warning
to gu ile the new r iners bv issuincr 2n1 fi('ld "ftlllery uniler command annlver:ia.:y Siini:'.y ennii g with a ' voice on the dangers of German infil-
jul.i ' .I,,, u ir ,, ,il,li,.,.ib n ..I of Lleuti-nan- Colonel II. I .Vwhold ,ll-'1" through the a!: as a passenger ' tration hy devious ways comes from
i officio il veraior .of he WhtZ,Z ,war "pectaouhu- as any lu the i the plane piloted by Lieutenant tutemburg. According to the iournal
" I'tuiir won urhuo 11., urn ill nil Ml-O if it I Ulill C V.
"My
Iv. there is nlentv in nielli. Thn kpu
son's production is estimated at the
I respectable total of over 2,21(i,0O(),Ullll
pounds, or 147,1100,0(10 pounds more
than the average for the lust few
years. Cane sugar is below the aver
uge, hut the record beet 'sugar crop
more than makes up for it.
More thah two billion pounds of
sugar is quite a little sweetening. II
meuns more than a million tons. It
provides more than 20 pounds for eV'
ery man, woman and child of us, or
Cheap Labor Is the Poorest ' ",,0llt 100 ",umls I"'r fan,i,'- Anl ,nl"
T ! ! makes no allowance for the Cuban
xjauui. crop, a great deal of which will be im
. ' ported into this country.
' ir hnnn litlm, mnnt.t nrnCn,:i .... ...
,". 1 ; " ...... i nus tne outlook for cann,ng is very
,.,r u ,.,, w,,,,,., uie , ,! in,,,(.,i, Hd likewise good is the
.miiu. p.uspen.us oau.ins ni me worm, outlook for the multifarious sweet bev-
iiui cneap inonr means just tne op- ;,.,.,, lhul havt, takl, the ()u(.e ,)f ,
ro. ,,ros,.,iy, means n oom to coholie drinks in this country. The
ine inuorer ami to me man wno lures ,.m i,,,l,,si , , . 11,0 l,,,1,,i.
.iL-. An.,l...,l.. ...l ..1 : 1.1
,; . ' " 7""." the engagement Is t.ikii into con-i
get It. It never attained either any Huoration.
Kieut i-iicuiai.on or any great innu-
Trouble In lh Future.
i of Each, of 42 petitions now before the
! Luxemburg Chamber for naturaliza
tion, 38 come frifin Prussian subjects,
I several of whom have been identified
lnm 'I hi nil), IP t tU' " "e"i'" . v......... ... n...,.u. ThA nPHUMlll.fr lu llliviivu nllnl..t.
, w K..i i,n . . . ..i l - -lnol.lv . ' . 1 -..nni.r.11 n,n
war news, ike other news, finm .l,,ik- . . . ... .. ...... ...... . ... .. v ' : tug new vnrletlefi of troulile. One con- " """ " "
less, with acts of rightfulness during
the war. None of them, the Esch pa
per affirms, would have dreamt of
changing his nntiunufrly had the Geiw
mans won.
Reports from Switzerland indicate
that Germans will try to pacifically
re-enter France under the guiao .of
.Swiss c&izenship. According to a
message from the Associated Prt0i
correspundeiA in Switzerland the oth
er day, fSlJy one hundred thousando
Germans and Autrians are waiting
on the border line between Basle and 1
Conseace for admittance into Switz
erland; but the federal authoritieaare
keeping a strict watch on these woulil
bg immigrants. at
Long Sentence, ' '
In "I.es Mlserahlea" Victor Hflf his
one aentenn nf a riuodrebj Uiw-s,
and earlier In the hook, in one of
chapters descriptive of Waterloo, IJiere
are over fill lluea niihout a full Mop.
Knglaud's record la held by th)for:
elgn enlistment act, one sectlma of
which reaches Its six huodredtty word.
papers familiar with their life and 1' "I'JT.'!!' .'IT U'Z! I '1''7 t-'loM.er easts nl. eye for-
. 1 warn in tne unj wnen wireless tele-
made contact, and
command to fire
; phony will hp so perfect that a nnin
-.na,, an,, r.pntutra, in giving 11 III . . ,. .
Ih.ni A..-oll.. ,U ...II ' " "UU
mn. ilv. u-,. 1,. n . J. iT " instant i lie coinnianu to lire was will have a receiver In his hat ami he
, , . ,. , ,Kiven. tne snarpnei nogan sweeping , imaged by l,!s wife all the time.
It would be a fine, varied, complete, 1 the fence coiners and grand slaud of,
human, interesting newspaper, would the race track, wheie the Villa troops 1 1 "
it not, if everything in it had to be were, exactly on the target. Many Like Him.
Country Tla of Thee, Swoot
Land of I.lbi lrty."
him," so says J. Sidney Cntes in the
Country Gentleman in a discourse on
cotton in the south.
It is the delusion of a profit in cheap
labor as compared with high-priced
labor which has given our cities their
ugly alums, their breeding places of
crime, holshovism, tuberculosis and
othor plagues, moral, physical and
economic.
It is the delusion that cheap labor is
cheap which has kept children em
ployed in mills nnd factories and in
mines, stunting their growth, pre
venting them from becoming strong,
capable citizens.
It is the delusion that cheap labor is
y.
the candy industry and the soda foun
tain industry will certainly flourish.
The greatest sugar-consumer nniong
the nations will consume mure than
ever, forgetting the deprivation of war
times. And because sugar is concen
trated fuel, and a mighty producer of
energy, the American people may he
expected to do more work then usual.
Would Declare Press a Pub
lic Utility.
William J. Ilryan suggests that
"some day all news will he issued
through government channels, and will
cheap which has produced the eondi-jhavc the approval of the proper au-
tmn oi wnicn a trained observer can , thorities before it is printed. '
rny: "I went recently through the Mr. Bryan will probably have trou
Ghetto of New York City, notorious I hie in winning any large number of
for itr depth of misery and poverty, American citizens to his point of view.
I.nt 1 can pick a hundred thousand i If there is one principle which, more
Wlnte-men farms In the south whereon than any other, characterizes Ameri-
submitted to government censors be
fore it saw the light of day!
New Use Found For the
X-Ray.
Colonel Nehold's batteries got oft All newspapers often bnve hdvortlse-
sixty-fonr rounds with such speed i ents which could he rewritten iiilvan-
and accuracy that observe,: a report tageously. Hut It took a church paper
to oner llie most original one yet:
"Wnnled A minister who has been
married 22 years Is very desirous of
securing a change."
the, action like a perforiua'nce of the
prio gun teams In Trance which
made new records with the French
75'a, When the Infant.iy advanced.
every point of vantage, around the
A new use has been discovered f.
the X-liay
covered by the police will be X-Raved . ''" ,e-' bullets.
to determine ul.ih..r .h.v ...,i': ! The cavalry conies In for a full
anv mark or device which miirht I,.. f measure of praise for its raipid mot
use in giving a clue to the sender of T' ' Ut 'h0 "hel
while the performance of llie enge
neera in throwing across the It io
Grande In less than an hour, n pon
toon bridge capable of heprlng the
heaviest equipment Is iieponted a
the deadly niissle.
Persons who receive suspicious look
ing packages ure urged to turn them
over to the authorities at once, with
out opening them, in order that they ,,.lving n(.w ,,.,.,, , Ulut line
may be investigated hy this modern. Tne "doughboys'' of the, Infantry
metllud. nf mnme come in fur their usual
It has been suggested also that theiahare of praise which is in no way
hand grenades brought to this coun- dimmed by he mention of the success
try by returning soldiers shall be very of the engineers, cavnliy and artil-
areftilly handled, as it is possible to lery.
load them with the most deadly ex-
plosives.
N'o one who has any reason to he
suspicious should hesitate a moment
in calling upon the authorities for aid
ind investigation. There is no possible
way of knowing nil the ramifications
of the homb plotters' schemes, nnd the
result oT inattention or carelessness
may be too dreadful to be risked un
necessarily. ,
CO.MMAADHlt Of
'I'll I-: WYOMING
Get The Habit
of saving nnd thrift; iiu'rcnst' your
working c;i)it;il. Wo oflVr you tlu
benefit of our largo bunking facilities
V mill long OTcporioiiei".
LA GRANDE NATIONAL BANK
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Capital and Surplus, $2-15,000.00
'JIE.Mr.KIl p'l'DKRAT.K'KS'KliVK .
SYSTEM. .
Sound, Reliable and rrogres.sivo.
SOURCE OF NORTH
WEST WATER SUPPLY
Aloro than a million people of Ore-
son, aiahliiKloH, and Alaska drink
wator from .Vest Jtouvrvea.
l-:ii:lity-Hi'pi ciiii's ami towns of
lOii'mm, Washington, nd Alaska ib'-
rivo the water supply lor their munl
.ripal water works from the Nalioiial
Kchchik of the Norih J'aciflc Disirlet,
iicrouliiiK to a ropmt just compiled
in ihe office of Ilistrirt Forester
Ueorue II. Cecil. Of these towns
ithiriy-eihl, haviiiK iin estjmatod
'population f ;i!),outi, jue, la )te
Hon Totiy-uvo. with a population of
ti;;-l,iMitt, tui la WawhinKton ; and
even, with 1 f.,00 0 people, are in
Alaska.
The l.iruer towns of the d'striel
osinu Naiiotntl For ft waei are
I oitlanl. Kiir-'cne, Oie;;on City, Hose
;)uir, Albany, Medirid, Ashland,
!lliikei', l.u (Irande, The Dalles, and
Mend. Oiokou; Seattb
Kw-rett. Walla Walla, Yakima, We
natcln'e, Aberdeen, Tort Anneles, Kl-leiistiurt-',
an 1 Koslyn. Washington ;
and Aneho' auc, Cordnv a, Ktlciliknn
iuid l'eei shorn, Alaska,
j The Korest Serviro , 'operates with
'the towns lu protecting thtjjr wtier-
shetls from fire and tivspass, n:ul
e ery priori Is made to ke the
water free fiom any sort of contami
nation. Formal romper-alive iiR-ieo-me.nts
between the Secietary of Atii
collnral and the city officials aro in
et'i ect pro v id Mi); for this pr oiect '.ou
of the w ate sheds of Tacoim-. and
Walla Walla in Washington, ami
Oregon City. Tho lalb's, nufhir.
Wallowa, Haliet, m. Toledo iu Oro-iitn,
SAM FRANCISCO, July ."JO Cap
tain Harloy II. Chrmty, commaiub r
of the super-dieadnaiiKh Wyoming,
ono of the "bin four" of the new
Pacific, fk'ie. W1s commander or tho
CruiRnr San Dkpoiwhon she w:ts itiinlr
July 1!, 10 IS near Fire Lsland off
the Now Yoik coast by utiilclnR n
mlnP supposed set adrift by a Gor
man Biibniarlno. Ho has been in
the nrvy many yea in and is a brothe"
of Howard Chandler Christy, tho
widely known lllust-iator.
Cannibal Movie Fans.
New Zealand Maoris, native .Tir
linese nnd the 4itiinlt.als of the South
Ken islands have d-'velopni n n ve
nous tippet hp for tin American movie
stnrn. Their nppethf, however, doesn't
crave blood. Thej- vunt them o the
Bcreen.
Out of Sight.
If there ever was a fool-killer he
mut have retired froui business,
Chicago News.
DISCOVER CAUSE OF
CHILD BLINDNESS
WARSAW, Poland, July 15. (As-;
sociated Press Correspondence.) The
abnormal number of children born
Miss Alice G. Kinnard
Diroot from tbo Stanilai'tl Finisliion Co., Xow
York, will spend a few days in our store, for tho '
' purpose of assisting tho women of I.a f Irande
in tlieir sewing problems and explaining to thorn
the merits of Standard Patterns. Bring your
sowing problems to liss Kinnard, while she is
with us. Wo are sure she will, be able to help
von.
HERETRIDAY AND SATURDAY
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A special session of the Oregon
legislature for tke purpose of ratify
ing the woman suffrage amendment
to the national constitution is not at
all without the ranjre of possibilities.
In fact, it is believed in Slate House
circles that such a session is highly
probable, and that within tho not fa:
distant future.
At a meeting of the city conimi
sionors of linker, last week, an ordi
nance was passed permitting street
Tdeoma, improvements to he carried out undev
the Hancrot't bonding act. An election
will be held to vote tne binds, which
will he issued in amounts as the work
is actually beinp done, ami no bond
will be issued" until needed. Honds for
the, buildinn of, a natntorium will ulfio
he voted on at the same election.
A ISargfain
BUICK 191 S seven
" paisenger, new cord
. tires, new spare tire.
Guaranteed good as
new.
-EP, BadeAutoo.
Phone Mti M . . 2i9 Dejigt Strc,? 1
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IN l.KSSKNI(i COST OK I.IV1NC
WASHINGTON. "July SO As n
means of lowerintr livinir costs. Rep
resentative Kmerson, Kcpublican, of
Ohio, introduced u resolution Monda
proi,isin; repeal of nil taxes nnd im
port "duties on suitar nnd foodstuffs
ind the removal of the war tax on
freight chat'Kes paid for the Uanspor
intion of food.
K. C. Stanweod, who was scrvinj:
his third time as sheriff of Columbia
county, resigned to enquire in luisines
for himself and the county court Sat
urday appointed II. K. I.ellare, hi-:
chief deputy, to succeed Stanwood.
Work at the Portland Flmirini: mill i
will not start until the middle of
Amarust. The mill is still grinding
wheat of the 1018 crop.
The recent discovery of enormous
copper veins in the Hercules miniuit
district, about 20. miles northeast ol
linker, are looked upon by old-timers
as the first step toward an active min
ing era.
AltMY COl.l.KOK OI'EN.K.n.
NKW VOKK. July .10- Anions the
solHier pup. Is nst Camp Oix army col
!ct;c whoch oiv'tied yc.'e!4iy. is.Maj.
icn. II. I'. UHie, commander of the
cintonmcnt, who wiM take the course
in motor mechanics, one tX the 111'
popular subiicts in the euiriilum. .
i": n i number of enlisted inetrand of
ficers hav re;isterfd in the nev.'
school. Tin eiptipment has cen do
l",0,:iil by the Kn.hts of I'elunifci.is.
,T. Penlcjt.. a farmer living neai
Muno'mah station, was run o?r mar
his home Saturday niKht by an ayto (
mobilo'di iven hy Mr. and Mrs. I'red
Vance, of .S.i'lein, dyin? a fo hours
later.
SoKTiinij n:ooi,E a
iciiis
l f.l
JOXKvr. Alaiika. June M ( Pt
Whew. land Is vielduiu from "0 to
I 0 bushels a acre ibis e.t; in On
iVe1ein reiilnn. The yerase In tin
'district fs likely ' be clo-e t .fli
'bushels. One field, of J'-o acres
hettov 111 .ill fiO bushels to the
. . 0
J'liiua II. p.irnes. rreMtnt or the
i fci)iml train oxvrpofc'. tion. ifm ius
(dilate? MtA'ary that he c.iniio; a
IP'csent sraut a ,f'riiilt for v
ipi'tin( of flour hy the l'.i. ific Inter j
iiVitoual romiwny of'orllai.d Ha n;.
.Ji.:ys that no pernios have tecn t:i;:nt
ed for Indiildual shippers rcii !i
"5TT
M.i, - Two hundred children, jranc j0tl Bi
i'.iiiuin nKo fiom tei days Q twelve) Si
v s.riave b-en nta orph.ins ft-1 Oslwrnf de Vai ila. who Tiifcl the
the infliieftn ,doni!c In CcashA. t,,,. gl,o shot for America, re-
I'see.-ttt. and vicl-ltr.Qiceordlnit leO. Jmmed to the0'rmy hosplti! In lVn
dlnwch leceivedOv the Rovernerjj Tr, fw timtmer.t for ras. afier vis ft
i. if flee from the V. 9 Oihlchcai'oRi frandmo!her In Or.ints Oass
Hart Schaffneri
Clothes
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What $45 will
do now!
You know what $15.00 is, but maybe you haven't a very
clear idea of what $4o.n0 worth of clothes is. WeVe got soma
dandies here at S lo.OO. and we wnnt vou to Irnnir It T
x4he greatest values you ever saw at the price; the fine fabrics,
ami tailoring innr. only tne best custom tailors offer. Waist-
seam models too, in mixtures of creens and Innun.
When we say they're made by
Hart Schaffner & Marx
That should be enouch about the quality. You are absolutely
guaranteed complete satisfaction by us.'aa well as Hart Schaff
ner & .Marx.
Also we have many styles for the more conservative drefwer;
styles for the so-called hard-to-fit man. Satisfaction guaran
teed. .
FLORSHEIMSI
The "SARANAC" '
A Flbrsheim Style of 'the Times "
After an 'scnce of nearly seven mSnths, we can again
show you K1.0RSHKI?4 SliOKS in dressy English lasts-Cor-!-van
is the cSlor, nnd there e only a Iimid number, so if vou
e plannineen M.ORSHKISS for fSil h,ter get tm i)w-
thecoloros g,w,l, ar.,? very dressy la; in all sites r.
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