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Erid.-ir: 'January f.f3f22 , PAGE. FOUR IX GTfAXDTT EVENING. OBSERVED i I r -, I . I 1 f . t r CHc Obsenvet? AN IMi:i'KMKV' M-:ttMIArHII. J'uSlili'i daily and weekly nt t-a Ornl Oregon, by a. tirando Kveii liiff Observer rublishlnif Company. UltUl li IJKNNIS. Kdltnr. Kntered at tlio I'o.mofi ir nt J-a flrandu, OreKon. H Hccond CIrwh MnU Matter. AddrcHH IJ. comn.ui.ieat.ona to THK OHHKRVKlt, 1 1416 Aduinti Ave,, La Gr uncle, Ori'ifon;, . ('OrSTlT OFFICIAL On ene in oilier cttleB Oregon Hotel Kewi Bland. 1'ortliind: ImperluL News ft and. Portland; ilultnoinau Htand. I'ortland. a v list h i I'll" v it atj-.h. lly Carrier. News J)ally, pit month iil.. itoi throe lIlonlnM .ir.c 2.ar. Dal?, per six ino.. In advance Dully, aingle ewpy 4. btl 6c - Ily .Unit, ' . Dully. per yr. I" udvuiico 00 Dully, fir months, in advance ).r.o Dally, three moiiUm. In udvmice ....f l.&'l Dally, pit month jOc Weekly oli.TV.T-Sttir. by mall, per year, In ndvanen ai.liu MKMiyUt OK ASSOdA'IIUI I'llKM. The ftsi Kaocnttl l'rtrsn l exclusively cn-ltled to use fur nunllcRiion or aw nowa dispatches credited to It or not otherwise, credited In this paper, and also the local news published therein. AM rights of re-publlcatlon of special dispatches here also arc reserved. Bible Thought. Tor Today FRUITAGE OF SKCRET PRAYER lEut thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pruy to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which sccth in secret shall reward thee openly. For your Father knoweth what things yo have need of, before ye ask him. Mutt. 6:0, 8. Reckless Expenditures Official French reports Bhow that '"-' . '''; tho O'fl'hoto lens is nearly one-lu.lt of France's hiiKol""1' u , dolwr l ; of keen Intorest I. .hi . !,;. Wn fiiriirrml:"v,!" lu i"o "o nave never since the armistice was lKed. It0" "' bo1'' f ll;t"' 1s still niountliw 1'lK.lit '"lo'im. And lik cU-rt .ntmosphoror It ,1s said, France, thouKh perhaps tlio must telrtphotograplis have boon secured Jnconspli uoiis example of such ipost- at over 60 lnllia, showing eonsider war expundltiire, is by no iiicuiib lablu detail. AlHihortor range there nlone. It Is said that Knglniiid isjio prnntlciilly ho Unlit to tho ropro tho only country of western Kuropo ductlon of very Binnll objects, which is meeting expenses out of A number of years ago, one ex current Income. perlmented took "Ji jilcturo of, a To Americans Biich a situation Is Jncrodlble. Our current expenses arc Btlll heavy, but they uro well within our governmeut's Income; and at tho Biime time, our war dubt Is being steadily 'diminished. France and her neighbors are plainly head ing toward bankruptcy. Their only salvation Jlos In economy or- livthe. tjcrnian 'Jiidciii'nlty, or both.' y 11 will bo granted that compari son of tlii'lr finances with ours is jiot altogether fair, becaiiBO our war CoBt unit peace expenaes nro both bo much smaller than theirs, com pared with our resourcos. 11 tit near ly all of th(i30 Kuropean countries, and Fi'iinco , (partlcii lariy, ;jlf cor tainly open to criticism ijoeauso til' tlio natuio of their present expendi tures. Thoy uro speniilug too .much money on nrmlcrt and navies. Franco could meet her bills if she reduced her army. And hero she Is planning to bul'd a great, costly navy. The Little Church Passes ''The good vrond and nutumobllo and the spirits of the times which have accomplished the passing of the Utile red Bi'hool house llavo also tlurled the tleclluo of thu little While country church. Investigation lu one liiate disclosed C37 abandon ed rural churches In 50 counties surveyed. The members were motor lug in to the larger churches in the -big towns for Sunday services and other church life. There are as good reasons for fine centrallzivl churches as for fine centralized schuols, but the central ized church has n hlg job ahead, if It Is to servo tile , needs of the farm comnuiultles as fully ,aud ns ' faithfully as rt;id the little old meet ing hi.use at tle four corners. Undoubtedly the larger Institu tions can uad will be just hs uso ful, but thu thoughtful wlll glve a nigh for the little country church. Within its wall was filtered a. sim ple but effective! religious life Which Is Btlll one of the corner-stones up holding tlti nation, and as a center fnr'beart-wiinning social and neigh borly lutercoui.se It outalumo many a costly and more pretentious o.U flce. The Lazy Failures A ttuestioiuiuire sent nut by cer tain n-llnol authorities In i; , r, 1 1 1 1 stu dents who (ailed in m, or more auhjectti during Ihe rlivt Hcbool term revealed the fait that 77 per cent of the failures ere due to laziness on the part ot the student or to lack ot lutei est In a particular sub ject. Ten per cent ol Ihe students qui's- tinned tailed hcratiM. i,( illiu'sa or nliKi'llie. Only tv.o per cent claim ed unfairness on the part ot tlr. teacher. (f the remaining uniube! Home lailcd to answer, and otaers laid their iHllures to outside iuter (;a which crw-wded the period of home study iih1 d.i-s.ti...w(.el the M-d-w-d In school. It Is a coliilucnt on JW.' tcxr ait fsUares whl' h should be iiili'Nntt' 3 ' lrelits and tonckers wa,rhllv. iji Tljere in a kazf nttat cvii. tknt Jj w!. niuir.'i cviic pnMBt.ll. ll il. rvaW jv.(l kMtVl V'h Ht akva 'u 1U; aM Me h, . Hllon sil.plh a1 If aw 4 MmKai fMTf, sell es. A similar lu etiaa.a'-is ta ennaa . tl'iliB under any s' .oul " system si oald be valuate an. siiould opea t'.e loor for.tiriiely i.id effivtle co-operation between the school ,l lin hi In ...l,i.-., ftw, ,r,.i-...,il,S. failure fj' h Vii'jMii.r j.ol'it, ' j IN THE OLD THE IJP 7 HE SUBSC&IPTKV4 FOUTUE WEE.KLV n dm jrstr. i imv i- yyf t Photographs Of Everest Olio of the Bcientlflc olds used liy the men who are booUIiik to scale I Ml. Everest is long distunco pho-j toBraphy. Tolephotouraphy enables them to take pictures of dutant mountain peaks which reveal clear ly many othei wlso Indistinguishable objects. The method and lenses used ara not new to photoKrapiiers, although aruatnurg have not had much to do with, then) bocautHi of their cost;. building a tiuarter of u mile away. To his eyes at that distance the windows were Just distinguishable. In the finished picture a pipe lying on a tablo near an open wifiddw is plainly discernible. That ' picture wns initilo with smaller lens and less perfect equipment .than the Everest party use. With un HP- to-dnto outfit (Ulto marvelous things hie done. What they menu In dis covering possible passes over seem ingly Inaccasslblu mountains, or in Having time nnd avoiding unnecso- Bary risks, Is hard to overestimate. After Joseph Tumulty's bonk about Woodrovi'.'WIlBonv, tlio. 'jw.prlil ought to have a similar book from VV'oodrow ' Wilson about Tumulty. Then tho world would Jinow, some thing about Wilson Having solemnly guaranteed China's political Independence and territorial. Integrity, It looks as Jf the powers, as usual, are going to let It go nt that. In this flurry of Ilrltlsh-French war talk, you'll notlco that It's the statesmen who are talking war not tho people that have to do the fighting when a wnr conies. Yes, freedom Is always abused. Look at free , verse. And yet, there Is always some compensation. While the poets are" writing - free- 'vrriic; they're not writing rhymed verso. It only reniaius .now for Kansas and Iowa to turn corn Into fuel alcohol to run their automobiles. . o After reading New York mtmlcj- psl reports, ono doubts whether New York would have been a great deal worse ofr it Cennany had tak en t ti cily, as tho Kaiser Vlnnnod and Ipinoscd a billion dollars' in demnity on it. . .,, "Self-defense," what crimes i "oinmllled In thy name! I he harp that once through Tat a's hall. etc.. Is Mtlll twanging n Utile out of tune. :.Mti)si.j ri .M:ui, Uty Assoclatcil tross) Tllll.ADKI.lMIIA, Jan. V.. The funeral o( Senator I'etiroso was held iiuletly here Friday morning, lteporlers were excluded from the services. SHOT IIY HOI.Dl I-. Illy Aasoclutcd I'rcsat 1'KTROIT, Jan. (. Will M. t ham bcilin, director of sales of the Max well Motor Car corporation and prom inent clubman, was shot and wounde l i serimi'ly cncsilav night, when a .audit attempted to hold him up in s.-cbliliil pint of llv citv airing .v N-"OY-'-m. J r 71 f VYir. Ill ftS);t3 h"'s I II I t UIIVI1VIIJ17II.ITH 111 " III I 'pW TOMORROW I C A '' I j ' "' BIGDAY AT WEST S : I o 1- , -t I : yra TtC 1 1 - a A i- J! .... n act HOME TOWN m i wammi u -. -i THE WAY TO PA HIS YEARS CLARIOM THE HANDLES OH MOTORING TKIt.MS. CUT-OUT A device for making n ord engine sound like a Rolls-Royce. MUFFLER Al device for deaden ing the noise of Ihe exhaust. Seldom Used on modem machines. ONE-MAN TOP Ho called because it takes one man eight hours to put it up. CARBURETOR An instrument for mixing air nnd gasolino so that only :nr can get into the cylinders. ALL AII0UT HENRY. Henry's great intorest in tho Muscic Shoals property may, be due to the natural affinity between a shoal and a Ford. Nnshvillc Southern Lumber man. .... ';;'.t v M , Anil crnnking Fords suggests mus cle. - . The slork has visited . the homo of Mr. and Mrs. ,1. Allen Shnver of Ashe ville, N. C. You say it. THE (it)';!) OLD DAYS. An old Scotchman was threatened with blindness if he did not give up drinking. "Now, McTavish," said the doctor, ."It's like this; '.you're cither to stop the whiskey or lose your eye sight nnd you must choose." MAy, wcel, doctor," said McTuvish, "I'm an auld man, nun, an' I was thinkin, I ha'e seen aboot everything worth seein'." The eld-fashioned girls showed in. diviiluality, hut the lalter-day gills show most .everything else.. Only five more months until straw hat time. Do your shopping early. The lucky husband is one who catch es a glimpse of his wife's true com plexion. A f: '.' i'.l-' PO.MK. Fwouid f -were an ngleworm, Away down in the ground, And, like the worm, make both omf.s . meet Xjystniply curling round. " Snipe people appear U cling to the'r nitini! in the belief that Heaven i operated on the pay-as-you-enter plan. I'll K OLDEST ONE IN THE WOULD "My wife and I have been married l'J years and wc still hold hands. It we let go we'll kill each other.'" I'OM E. Maiy had a little jug; She corked it up too soon; The stuff inside began to work, And stalled toward the moon.' Do you remember when a telephone wns a convenience ? A Swell Shlmtigucr You Know She "What does Jack mean when ho says I hlide a slippery beol?" He Tbat's Just his slang; he a'tnenns illiiof." that you shake u wicked Thouc 393 W, r'r I THE OFFICE CAT ' - ' A TVT? T )V Ffc 17 ' ' : . - I - JA UAR I : . II a 'X.. Na".".;'1..-'--'' BEST BUYINGr DAYS, OF THEEAR . ( BBJWaS&r J ... ., . ,? : , - - ARE RIGHT NOW ' - -J ' v.- mm Viring 1 I mmi m. mm. mm Mt mm WWW ' This store saves money for Its customers without a doubt it ' v iakes Vvcry effort to, cut down the cost of living by reducing prices . . .01 necessities wherever and whenover (possible. ...... ' I HI ; . ' ' Wc al" now holding ouPj Annunl January Clunranee salo, tho ono ' , j iisbiiIo of the year that brings peoplo froiu 'iniles around to partlci- PVftiii the values offered. ' , f ... ' II 'r AU'our resources have beqrif'called on to .make this an unprecedent- I I ed event to give offerings ,ithut will be woll worth the tinis you'll give to their investigation t ,and t imrchase. ... II I ' i linn i . .1 ., . . EVERY ARTICLE REDUCED J ' (Contract Lines Excepted), , '' II flv.rmSSSs 111- REGOMMENDED OREGON AGRICULTURAL LIKiE, Corvallls, , Jaiv C. " COL- Public nuisance" is .the! .term applied by Henry Ilartniaii, 'associate professor of horticulture; tri'any home orchard the owner of which does nothing to keep out .inscuU.-nmr diseases.. "It is nu uyekuro to go Uirough the illainctj.i a ..valley, and see ,the fls'." said ' Profussor honiii ' nrcliar Flarlmaii "llft.tii'tfrmt nciv find tVO ! or three acres' 'prorlurlhit: nfithlniiit all. All farm 'and .home cuclulrds in the stale are Jii a had way and uijiny of theni in the valley are a ifieuace to the commercial orcharil Ists." -r.i.v Most homo orchards are too large, thinks I'rofc-'si ," ILtrtman. An or chard of a Bloiien trees well taken care of Is better than several acresjiuau. shot his wife of trees given no attention. Treesiday. according to In a homo orchard may be sprayed! and trees kept clean at an average; cost of 50 cents n tree each year ! A definite spraying program shonl. I ' Clean-up Sale of Furnitilre We have many wontMiul Bargains In practically ill lines Cash in on UicnVNOW W. H. BOHNENKAMP-GO. La Graude's Pioneer'Hoiue Furnishers TT be followed and a thorough job done, Professor. Hartman nadvised. Just one spot as big as a (j)iu, juii' bo tho means of Infecting the home orchard to Sail Jose scale. Professor Hartman recommended arsenate of lead as a spi ny for all I biting insects like the codling moth,! limp-sulfur in a proportion of "one i to nine" for San Jobo nnd orchard shell scalo and nicotine sulfate "1 'to 1000" for uphills. MINIMIS ST.UiVINU (ly AHSoclalC'-l press) WASHINGTON. Jan. G. ' West Virginia coal ".miners declare in a ,nrerl appeal to President Harding Hint ramllies are , starving. Tho ,,,ii.,,.u. launch cnnl railict the Ktate- ment ot Governor . morgan of WestiJ Virginia that there is no slinationj J among the miners. it 'l a u r, .i.ii cii.i.r PORTLAND. Jan. C. William J. l i Johnson, street car barn work- S anl himself to- I tlio police who J said Jealousy ,was thu cause. Ilotb i were taken to the hospital in the t same ambulance. Johnston Is un-'J conscious nnd his wife is hysterical. : : ;;-r.i r : 1 bo followed and a thorough jb SOITH DISSATISKUCD Arthur Benson, bank messenger, were (Ttv Associated Press) '. . WASHINGTON. Jan. 6. Charges were made in the senate by Senator Trammel of Floirda that interstate Commerce Commissioner Aitchlson used his good -offices to obtain n decrease of 16 por cent in lumber rates from a reduction tho south." tho west and opposed of the lumber rates in BANK LOOTED. IRv Aaaociatad Prass) CHICAGO, Jan. 0. John Hoffel, president ef the Maywood state bank, was shot and killed and Louis Sween ey, chief of police of the suburb, and Bargains SOAP V I I Swifts AVhifp ,Si;ii, J; Luna AVliitjp P. and (!. Xai l'ls Xai.tha, A. M. Xaotlia, Civstal White, Suiidv Mondav. 5ap, laWe bar : -. t i t i AVliiu- Uophx Xaptlia, -1 liars Jen 1 1 11 1 4 liars .Fine assortment of Toilet Soaps. Full lino k if fresh fruits and vegetables. Joel': V aaaaacaasi Arthur Benson, bank messenger, wcre wounded today when five bandits robbed them of the $12,000 pnyroll fo! the Maywood plant of the American) -Can conipany. MORE I.OAXS WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 6. Approval of 107 advances for agri cultural nnd livestock purposes, ag gregating 2,G7i,O00, was announc ed today by the war finance corpor ation. . Tho advance Includcl: California, J21.000; Idaho, $112,000, and Mon tanu, 1141,000. .. ; , TI Observer Want Adi. '' in - :-e Ilia, liars 'Jo,. llav .1 ' 2)c 1 bail 2o,- 4rliirs ''."). Grocery isQaaBtBiflBtaaa
