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THE IP SUNDAY MORNINC OBSERVE it o' -o o 0 .Wanting TK' ''Economy ilj t i j . . ..i..., . w,,.,., , .,H ....... , . ill the tllilH jr 4uW"t lM-rfHl, tl.I th tililltfH JiMi V IH'.Cil ft lll take Clir Cif tlirMiMlvWI. NVmfttkr w ho y.jll ai'f," ,,j,i ,1,. ,, .... ,i ..., ... . ..., i". i l ,. wub v-..ii un, run i r. happy. 'Til jle,;. win iiHMiy are tint oik who don't noexl. Tltfl ) -jotj uiftrn you slukl wjh oiijiI erttintr it." 'Al'iKti'c-wtlr ir oM friend,. row what oau )x; doik' today' h in tlie discard wlien it eojm's to buvinsr, and it's Jx'st that it Klioiild Ik-, lievond tlie liare essentials to siiKtain life and keep the body d eentlv clothed, there is nothing whose liurehasc eanhot )x delayed if that is obviously If a social i)osition will not it is n false social position. ticnee will not wait to make be afforded, it is an unruly common sense in these days, ll there over was, and the philosopher quoted above gives good council ' when h concludes, "j;uy wnat you eaii afford it." 1 BOXING AS A A revival of boxing is predicted as the result of tin training; the soldiers received in the camps. It is estimated that the civilian hie about three million men who are trained boxers, for boxing was compulsory in many of the train ing camps, and where this was not the case there was sufficient enthusiasm for it lack of compulsion. As a result of the army rules established under it, brought back to a point where it need not be under the stigma of public disapproval, ay it has been lor so long lioxing is not n gentle pastime, but it reijuires that i man be in the pink of physical condition. Had habit and good boxing do not go together. It is excellent train ing alike to mind and muscle, eyesight and temper. As practiced. in the army one of its most evil features was done away with contests for prizes or prize money, AH boxing was done as sport for sport's sake, and not for gain, a safety razor being the highest reward to the win ner even in the great international bouts in which the best mettle of the allied armies competed. Many excellent people fail to distinguish between box "ing as a clean amateur sport and prize-fighting at its worst. As a matter of fact, there is little relation between the two. One is a diversion, the other a. perversion. Nobody who believes in manly sports for men but will welcome the cleaning up of this great game and its re vival under decent conditions. ' BAD ROADS, BOLSHEVIK ROADS A prominent motor car salesman-calls bad roads "I'.ol fchevik" roads. The specialty of a Bolshevik, he says, i. ' to destroy property and kill progress, and nobody can deny that this is exactly what the bad road docs. "The liolshcvik road keeps visitors, tourists and 'new Mood' away from a town, and thereby retards its growth discourages new enterprises and investments and keeps realty values down," says this apostle of the better high . way. It may be objected that the man is not disinterested: that what he wants is good motor roads so that. he can sell more cars, and this is true to a certain extent. I!ut this is (rue also the automobile .is not the coming means of t:nnisiortatipn. Jt already lias arrived, and is too big a part of social and commercial life not- to be counted as a factor in all business calculations.. Where the machine can go, there trade will go that is snVe. Away with the destroyer of property, the menace to prosperity, whether it be a human being ur only a country road! This is to be the age of construction and progress, even if present conditions are a little disturbing, and any reel ion of the country which wants it.s share of the heiie . fits to come will permit no'liolshevVk road to He between it and prosperity. i - 1 i . 1 i 1 . Theright of workmen to "organize is as dear as any thing in the Declaration of Ijidependence or the Const' i . 1 ut Km of the I lilted States, tnc icn to organize1. The only thing that may properly he icstioned js-the use to whiVh thev put f heir organizat ion, que; A court is sai.t to have decided, that in a prohibition regime a man may buy whisky for a sick friend. It fol? low, of iimrse, that he may sit up with the sick friend. Send tfie -children to school a been considered stupid been kept out of school, or a It saids to i'Mson that (lie chst f living ha (, drop. Isn't it ncjf the laws of nature that ,v what goe. up fliyist iiih doitf" ' . Sevifal army Iractors were Jvst in a Xew0Vork parade. Aotractor is suefi a tfight, skittish smt nothing? to be sure 9 " - 1 0Wfti1I.M-'-jl'M'illli'i o s ! 8 ' en "I?etter aii is the sjgi or one o0h9 gtit ttghtinn . T. lanJ IU- Oood iU'a! I!etieriii6 a0.-f biteheiro'i wsVWtMw'Wv Net tNW-hMi' ajH tMtMJ!il POlltrilj0- - I ' "ii w .v "ii m.,r- n nt i in ftr ulwitys w'lmiriK nlmtit r ttlwayn wn.itini? iijr, ili wwiit n jiftrt'intlnr thitin, Hi any nftrr 1uimutuw (I ri ".Vi'VfT put off until tomor desirable. stand a necessary economy If a spirit of pride or inipa a purchase until it can wt spirit. There is need of saving can 1 niloru, only wlien vou RATIONAL SPORT. army is turning back into as n sport to make up for th( training and the new boxing this ancient sport is to Ik just as is the right of bib eyerv day.- Manv a cliilj or slow iust bt-canse lie ha.- lowed to sfj) v out I' I I'reouentlv JVAXTS TOtf;EIWORD FIM.l MARS. a , a s The rcat Mars ento-nriie ui "Kli''"- Tnis f, l n,,t '" anoihororar,, . ut l' '" lvl 1'iiiiit-i vno will, n inn war id is traditionally associated. 1 Professor David Todd, lirect"r of tl. tAmho"Ht i-'olll'" nstronoo,ic.l.,,bnerv fjt"'' h'W ,1,w scheme to 0,'et i) - 1Sl.n wilh th(. nurtjllnSi . He proposes t build a big '.mllooi. capable of rising 50,000 fee'.hie.h whirh is about three miles hli-her th in atiy humhn beiti;: has yet (rone. Tr-en .will be a bn(r of hydrogen to proviflo the lifting power and a bag of oxygci. to keep khe observer alive, for ;he n1;- above the five-mile level is so thin that it will hardly sustain life. This same thinnea is what Profes sor Todd counts on to make his ex periment successful. In that rare at mosphere, any light-signal will have i. much better chance of getting through the outer air-rim of the earth an- sr make its way through space to tbe r? gion where doddering old Man wall bles on his axis. The balloon wi!l b" equipped with a powerful electric lighting syBtem. Onee arrived at it-i )0. 000-foot level, it will proceed to launch a set of blinding code mensag" for the benefit of the Mars population. It is very Interesting and exciting It would be more so if anybody had any definite idea as to wbetlier then are really any inhabitants nn Mars, and if so, whether they have the nee essary organs to perceive such signals, and if there are and they have, wheth er their intelligence is sufficiently like turs in nature and degree to enable them to interpret the messages. An answering set of signal-flashes. even if it merely repeated those sent. would be regarded as proof of all these moot questions, and would be just about the bigge.t piece of news ever turned up in this stale old universe It would expand the human horizon mmcnsely, and give infinite range to the thinking of millions who;-:e thoughts nre now confined to a petty round of material tilings. MOMCY A,l) HUMANITY NOT THE SAME. It in quite possilde to regard organ ized labor aH-wroiiff in some of its present activities without losing light f labor's essential rights. Ijiibor and capital both make mis takes. The present steel strike is a good illustration of that fact. It i well for those who allow their pre.iu lire- ngninst labor to drive them into unfair judgment to remember the words of Abraham Lincoln: Uibor is prior to and independent if capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could, never have exitsd it labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the highest consideration." Quoting this sound utterance of t)'c great president whose judgment of hu man valne.s was always sound, a man ho has been a laborer and is now a capitalist emph:isi.es the danger of egarding labor as a commodity. "We must remember," he says, "that the rights of capital are the riel.ts o'. j oputy, but that the rights ot lj-.nor .ire those of persons. This is funda mental, l'eisonul lighU are superior to tbo.-e of property in any cla.h o.' the two." This principle is now formally :-ce gnized by the United Stales govern :iient. I'ongrisa a few years ago ex essly declared by statue t.iat ''!abo not a commodity." That is to say, dealing with labor, employers an' not dealing wilh anything like the me. terial commodities of coainierce. b'.li ith human life. Every unit ot th' labor thev buy is' computin.h-l no! merely of mechanical or musculo. work, but of human thought aiel ftvl ing, pleasure mid pain, love unit i'ope mi! aspiration and suffering and a" the other emotions of the soul. This is the modern, olihglitcncd n!ti tudc lowjird nuimi.nl labor.' It is rapidly iniihig its way tiuoug'nout the civil .cd world. To oppose -it is not on.y unfair but unsafe, in the present moo,. millions who were -former dici.e. And yet there are men ill -his man try today who, mtluomvil ov c-asr. ejiidi. e or imagined sclt mlere.-i. ive tne narui.ioou 10 say, c hhi not recognr.o orgatilc.l laoor, anil en seem to take ii virtuous pridi n that anachronistic position. YOU I'.VY lOU I'll KM, ANYWAY rmancut roads have been argued, for and against, in Union .county for nrx'iind the .subject is pretty well nuleistood. Of the value of pennn- i-nt 'hard-surfaced roads pretty much ryone is now convinced, it was imply a qticsfinii of voting to build hard-s(iCiii;cil funds and lmivc the method of paying out of th question. vote in Union county in favor of ernianent roan; woiitu oe uvern nam ing. TV objection in the minds of many o the proposed plan is the njrthoJ of lying for the roads in sho-.t. some oeople nre against W'nds. w-mh is wply Inn rowing money ami pnyisg terest lor l lie use oi u. In the pi io-e.t'roa.l program there are u numoer , inings io cor.sir.cr i t)l The amount to Im raise T'V lon.ls i;S proMmnieiy i.i-v g " , aal bonds, the fiist leingpa-d eJ.. aiT.i tne lasi in i:mo. i nt.m.T, interest wil b.feSSH.J..U mt tne iotai f bonds nnd interest will be $.'.:U2,- '.0. Put in addition to this siftn rnis- Pby knds, froi the slate highway eoninnsn l-niin county gets rue sum of SI "7J HS mnkil and to- I k"teB0SfltSO rivicls JO' .0 (HXV - .EDITORIAL PAGE. The total exnmriiture liy the countv I would be $2,: 2,250, and t. total r? iceived would be f:j,770,OOU, or more lothan the amount of tl.t) 1 tods and in - terest of ?p,7,750. In othj-jvords, the nuiu ntciKd jrom ine siaie n.vnv.av comr.:sion would pay the interest on the eounty bonds and $457,750 more, Reny-mber one tng, however. The i 51,272,01)0 whieh would be received from t tne state hignway commission Union county is goirg to pavi anyhow, The question now remains, is Union eounty going to spv-nd that immense sum of money to build roads in thi? county or in some other county? In short, a vote against bonds is .an ex pression or the fact that you would rather build roads in some county oth er than Union county. It is no longer a question of raising a million and a half and paying interest on'that mon ey and only getting the million and e half dollars' worth of roads. It is also the question of getting back over a million and a quarter dollars that th'. county will have toipay, anyhow, anil will be lost if the coui.ty bonds are not voted. One million two hundred and seven ty-two thousand dollars is quite a sun of money. If our county court tdiouic waste, or lose, or even pass up r chance to get it, ''somelhing bad'' would happen to them quick. What should be done to the person wlu votes to throw this money away? It is argued that the money paii" out for interest is nn expense, but die you ever look at the matter from thi.' angle? From the experience in build ing roads in other counties nr.d state? it is estimated that 50 per cent of tht money expended remains in eircula lion in the county in which the road; are built. We would pay interest or l.r,()0,000. Ninety per cent of thi ' lm expended lor ronil in t.ie count; i is approximately ?2,rmi.0O0. If thi; ! money remains in use in the county isn't it fair to allow interest for it We would pay interest on one and one half million dollars and gain jnteres on two and one-half million dollars. I' you will figure it this way it looks a; though the county would get the bes' of the matter in interest. Another point. These bonds are t' be issued in amounts not oxrecdini $400,000 n year. It will be four year before the total iss-ie is out, and thi amount of interest- n;iid in the firs' four years will ho $12 ,000. I!y thai time the roads will he practically com pleted and we would nave the use o' them during the time of paying fo them. Figure it over for yourselves. Wit the fund from the state, we get J-1.17, 750 more than the tolal paid out fo. bonds and interest. We pay intcres on 51,500,000 and have the use of S2, 500,000. and also have the use of thi roads- while pr.ying for them, llov can the county lose? I'.y poor construction or misuse o' funds, did you say '.' The work will be under the direetioi of the state highway commission. I lias been pretty thoroughly demon stinted that Oregon has a h',;hwa; commission th.-U h as near 101) pel cent in efficiency and honesty iu cai be found nrywhire. There is littb dang of losing anything througl them. After all the objections are consid ercd, leniember tln-re is one fiwt tha is incontrovertible we are going ti pay for these roads whetlyr we go them or not. .Why not get them? Elgin Ilecorder. JEWISH 1IOI.10 VV IS ONE 01 (il.OOM. Yesterday was Yom Kippur, great Jewi.-n Pay of Atonement, was faithfully 'celebrated in all Jcwi-h synagogues, institutions th I th am homes, it America. To its sanctity a the most important of the f ast Oay-f there is r.dded a double significauc for the calendar bus brought Yon Kippur on the Jewish Snbhnth, mak ing it n doubly sacred day, and it v. pei baps the most tragic Pay of At onenicicl in tb'e history of ancien Jewry. From their home ill Pales thus, from the shoies of the Haiti and the lUack seas, .from Poland an. rlie frozen wa-tes of Siberia fron every foreign land into which JewisJ relief, worker has penetrated, the sai New Y'car message tVint comes to tin country is ever the same "Europcai Jewry is peri.-hing". America is the, only land ill whicl the new month of Ti- hrie. the Ilebrn ie January, brings any joy to the Jew ish population. The year of . .'a'S'.' reekoning from the Pay of Abrahan on the' Jewish calendar, dawned ol September '.'."wh, the Feast Pay o Kosh llashonnh. It was not a fens' day for some six mil'.ion starvint Jews of Europe because flvery day fo tltc past four years l.as been a fas day for liw- i of theyi. s,i yesterday i Y'om Kij.pur fast was nU too easy fo these starving millions to olwerve The Jews in te fcai-rackcd man tries abroad proba'dy 1ivo snffirei jmore than any o-.tu-r people, and tfie; e dving Uy thousands of starvatioi m.l disen.-i The Yom Kippur fc'.-b-I during the twenty-fours whea i goo' lew would llow food to pass hi: lips, was Vi'"l more t-an i coi.toiaa itiou.of the fue ynir fcist tl'. bajobrei lot of ttie ti.ooo.ots' jew in'.ur Orphaned -j'ldign and wi-'ovv r(, cWtinu'y being turn av.a- of-If,.,,,,, the over'crow.le.1 charitable st,t .s and food stations to ,t , n to strei-'m of I'o':-.- i,! p.-art" only hope that th "'ftitries. The creat ni ot Jew ry will nirvive in coming winter depends upon America B'u fortnight becen Kosh Hos honahj and Y'om Kippur isol rve" ns fta peileo Ol rein-memv. durinf. which lac Divine Judge weighs the eearthly deejs aga-ist cac!!si ffvidual bcrora entering his Tinal fate in the Book of Iu.gment. Th year it i? a i period of deep sorroM as 'well for -many niui-i n iiii uens. lui-reiurin ui Jewish relief agencies in New York f.how that several "hundred thousands have tried without avail to trace their dear ones abroad wno have been wal lowed up yi the ehaos of wnf vhen communications were broken. These people are at a loss whether to hope j that their loved ones are dead or that it is their fate to face a new year oT terrible suffering and sorrow. In view of the terrible situation abroad, Jews throughout the country have organized campaigns and drive to raise a total of $35,000,000 in tne United States under the direction of the American Jewish Relief ' Com mittee, the Central Relief Committee and the Jewish Peoples' Relief Com mittee which are appropriately cul minating in many states with the be ginning of the Jewish New Y'ear. DOES ENGLAND AND JAPAN UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER? The Aasociuted Press recently car ried a news story from a man who has been stationeil in the Far Eai-t who, in speaking of America's future, called attention to the news censorship which obtains in that zone and he urges this country to remedy tfie mat ter at once before it is everlastingly too late, and before the ''open door' iu China is closed to America. According to this correspondent's view, there is an understanding between England ind Japan. Many in this country have ffrril t'niit verv thine, nn.-l nmv the natter is driven home bv one of ouriPr'ncipal commodity used in h'.gh v.iy -itizens of standing openly charging ! construction. Will the same people hat r.o American news in the Fun" '-'nst is released without fust lieing 'blue pem-fled" by censors of Japan :md England. Can it be that before the ink on the oeace treaty is dry before the recol- ections of this horrible war have been j -cared over mat we nnd oreat liri am and Japan entering into an agree-1 ment to hamper American commerce n the East nnd to so censor news in ?hina that the big nation is to be poi oncd as to Americn's standing re garding her with the final object in iew of closing the door in China to America? There is no jingoism about the re lort mentioned. It, along with many ither matters wherein England fig ires internationally, must be weighed n the most careful manner by Arhcr cans before we let down all the bars ind conclude that Great Britain pos sses the extreme friendship for ut hat she now assumes. HAY THE PRESIDENT'S RECOV ERY' BE SPEEDY. The illness of President Wilson is leplorcd anil regretted by every good ritizen. He was on a tour of ihe ouutry preaching a doctrin,. of states nanship which he sineeredy be'iev..? is he best thing for the nation, and his lenlth broke down. His physical be ng is not sufficiently strong, to stand he strain which he has bad to under ;'o for many months. Regardless of whether people agree vith the President on the issue before he nation, all feel that deep sorrow 'or his affliction which can only be du ilicated by illness entering the home f an individual American. None of us believe that there is any lunger of the President's affliction lie ng fatal, but if such should be the ase we are confronted with tie ting 'dy of having the vice-president of the lation take control of things at this rritieal time. Let every prayer he sincerely offer ed for the speedy return of Mr. YVd ion's health, both for his sake and for he sake of a great people. niE SCHOOLS AND THE PEOPLE The citizen has or ought to have as nnch interest in the public school as ie has in the city bail, lie ought to be is interested in the board of education is in the board o'f aldermen. It ought to be the duty of the loard of education to get in touch with he public and keep in touch with it. When there is a board of aldermen o be elected, some 00.000 voters go to he polls. When there is a board of ducation to be elected, Denver is for tunate if it can get one-fifth that lumber to go to the polls. But the board of aldermen sees to it hot the Doonle arc enfouruged to go o the polls.- It provides them with al- nost 200 voting places. .When there 'is a school election lbout thirty-five- voting places In all his big city are supplied. Why is this we do not know. The board bf cdura- Vdy of ihe pei-iple to vte one nay of otKer. I'ocky Mountain .News " . CVTS.IN GltKlT Pf.MP. IN . BELGIUM. If Tabby has jii't pi 'cnted the il ly witli an entirety superfluous bunch t kitte-, or Tommy is tcvrtirj e- type and stalking the canary, I' 'd. " , ntirvly i..-cssarv to rcwrt t,i. voter Viil or the phSigun. ost ship he off.-ndirgOfeli'ies to IVm. . liri$r thftwa Sll t.at l-sappearcd from IV.gium. ThoxV ci' starvation NVw mice havrOrrap Beared in terrify ii- num'-crs.Tmt the -.its. alas, havcramt And the )-pb of Holgn'yjtHisy and far rdvHrgrd with their work of reconduction, ar suffering from a pest oiIBcehh makes theni long for the Pied Pity-r 8 o 0 even though InPbe of German on,rin. In the fairytale Cindoreti Vs fairy godiitm sent her if pumpkiro coach drawn by six tleek mice. Litile Cin derella Belgium, sitting .among he. iflhes, wants So uchfairy &:t't. TU Itruss'is National says ttia; even b "little atom of a kitten" brings idol lar, and offers good prices for a cargo. ' Why not blimp a lopl from the good ora u. a. a. : A stiady hand and'a steady brain must guide this country for the next six months, else we will' partake of the awful condition which European na tions are now going through. Nothing is safe for the future unless it is made safe by careful Americanism wisely handled by the rank and file of Un people. Probably there is no class of labor that will attract as little public atten tion by striking as the shipyard work ers. Try as hard as it may, the Amer ican public cannot avoid confusing the shipbuilding layout and the spruce department with big profits during days when the best men in the world were working for $"0 a month. Coal is liable to be one commodity that will go off the market should the present disagreement between labor and capital continue. But, there i still plenty of wood in Union coun'y, looking at it from a community self ish standpoint. The argument to wait until prices come down to build highwnys is the equivalent of arguing for a reduction in the wages of labor, for labor is t.ie argue w neiay construction ier this reason, be frank enough to take a stand against the present day v.-ue.i? The La Grande Ad club proposes to see that Union county gets what the state and county pay for in the way of good .roads in this county, nnd the tax- payer iu say umt-u io uie men. Union Republican. Greater production, with a tighter curb upon the commercial arteries which distribute foodstuffs, is going to be the final cure for present high prices. Let us all go to work for six months and by that time things will begin to get back to normal. The steel corporation management belongs to the nntequated period, for organized Tabor is here to stay and the employer who does not recognize that fact if, to say the least, very dense. I.et us hope the preachers will not strike. But goodness knows if the wage question causes strikes, they I have a perfect and valid right to a strike at midnight. call The far-seeing people of Union, realizing what tourist travel means when the highways are completed, have arranged to begin the construc tion of a fine hotel. Cove, like Phoenix, will arise from the ashes a bigger and bettej- town than ever before. Article X is still the unknown quan tity. Wall Street Journal. Congress is opposed to both daylight and moonshine. St. Louis Globe Democrat. One of the most annoying features of the high cost of living is the high cost of flivving. Seattle Times. Dispatches speak 6f cold storage eggs -being libeled, as if that were pos siblc. Little Rock Arkansas Gazette A scientist' says people who eft meat are savages. He is wrong; they are either rich or lucky. Pottsvillo Journal. Some day Mexico will pile on thi last straw, nnd then she'll soon be as civilized nnd cducatul as the Philip pine's. Houston C.ironicle. You have to hand it to the kaiser fo one thing: he hasn't suggested a plar for control of our railroads. Green ville (S. C.) Piedmont. . f An Illinois farmer sold the hide of a calf for $i! and then went to town nnd paid ?S for a pair of 'shoes. Now' he knows what a skin game is. Loo Angeles Times.'- striking for a weekly w.ve of thirty Are the window-eleaners wise in six dollars? If they're not carrfu' coUeg-e presidents will try tq take jobs awsy New Y'ork Evening Tele. Toli-r.-im. All lop nrV fiot in cold stoMgi, I Walii-eton fost. Sorn cd-o'r to tt into.ar tha peafc. W all Street Jourr!. . Pe!aps the "Irjsh Republic" o':d O'd-e the mandate to govern Boston. all Smt Jounwl. . l augh and grow ftr. This rr.'.od is the only one in rr-aSb. of the average purse. tteenv!?.e (S. C ) Piedmont.0 Pork is sd to 1 on the t.oggan in Chicago, but the slide we ant to see it or.is toward th ifome-plAte.Ss-V-.toon Star. - n bo-nB Its TO- Oviet party Ifts boo promoters plan V mak America just as happy as Russia. .-Omaha Bee. The more we watch min's Tfort to straighten out the affairs of th6jorUI the more we bejjeve prayer. licF mond Nawi .cader. , The future n our air service is pl.in flcd with implicitfaith in the poier of the league to prevent war. rf3ri'n viUe (P. C.) Piedmont. " Prices we are told, "will come down in the near future. Maybe that near futuro is like near-beer, somethin,; that is n't. Nashville Banner. The chap who went through that hell on the western front can't be per suaded that the cost of living is too high. Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. Fourteen points, forty five amend ments nnd four reservations seem to be all we hnve got out of the situation to date. New York Morning Tele graph. A superfluous clause in the new Ger man constitution provides that a Ger man shall not accept a title or a deco ration from any foreign government. Albany Journal, FORTJM WATIOi; SUPPLY QUESTION Water, water, and more water. That Is what La Oramte wants, and that Is what tho Grande Rondo val ley wants. When we get water then seo La Grnndo grow, not be dead like our lawns are, but you will see the desert blossom like the rose, sickness nnd disease will cease. The undertaking business will fall off, and we will be more content, and not have sucfi a fault-finding spirit But oh! how long before this hap pens? We have lived on promises while our lawns have burned up, our trees have died on the promise of being resurrected In some future day. but I am afraid they will have to remain In their graves until the reseond resurrection. Too bad. Isn't it, to think that the once beautiful city of La Grande should have to wither and decay for want of water, when there is plen ty nround us. I havo lived In La Grande for 15 years and have drank river water every year, but have been promised every slimmer that the water system would be improved. Ah! but alas how disappointed we have botn when we have tried to beautify our homes and surroundings then In the months of June, July and Ang- list. 191!) hnve said to you "your lawns and shrubbery will have to dry up and become like the summer threshing floor." Then we say again, "Oh! how long lvfore we an have a second Moses to lead us out of the wilderness and give us plenty or good water " How soon this will be I am not prepar ed to say, hut we are looking -forward to 1920 for that Moses to ap pear. , II. W. NIBLEY. CARLOAD OF OVERLANDS (Continued from Page 1) eliminated, making this car easily run, handled and quickly repaired. The demonstrators claim that the greatest improvement in the new car Is the unusual smooth riding qualities, which are due to the spring suspen sion. The new Overland has a 100 inch wheelbase and a 130-mch sprint: . base. The car is manned with a Delco lighting system, has a Tillotson car buretor, the windshied is adjustable, both the upper anl lower glass, all the spark and throttle control is removed from the steering wheel and placed on the dash, thus eliminating extra wir- ing and connection. The air is brought in through an enclosed radiator, which concentrates it on the engine. There is a crow n rolled radiijtor and- a baked ennmel finish. The top is a one-man top. Under tho front and rear seats ' is a roomy place for storage. One unique feature of the new Over land is the way in which the uphol stering can be taken out in case one wifhes to carry anything that might '.end to wear or tear the Wather .cush ions. The gas tank is located m fretit. and is so Tilaced, that no matter how steep the grade, the last drop of gaso line will feed into the enie. The can received yestr4ay art for demonstration purre, ut aayioa desiring to l shown the car or to take a ride in the new Overling r cordi ally invited to come to the Union Mo tor company, whtre (V car will b tlsdly shown. The Qn4and company V.i promi-M t rraUf ail of tbaif ore-vies on the turning ant of Una -ar ar t it it ixtri tool tb UI 1 an tnofmbut demand tor than), tint " that m the neit 1A nunttv tnoKUfh c:t c.n be turned out to tort-t tAt tcmsri o The Tim M tor d(t tWtartt W be tlf UhM ! sfrtviof-nts. s ' tr t H Jvt a ful line i t f t tot cre ttjtt will'te readytot.'te tt f) lie int emprffpnrv. M o a -ii. wr. uuiKe srv vara ,0r urt ff"1 mechanics i the features of tne car. thus Vrf,i7 arefulraige.w; for tk Overland jear in all garaO which handle (jfi I Overland automobile. o .1o f f ) r V 0 o v w. '. w;gyiriTp; 1 '-; '.' ' o 0 " o O o
