La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, February 17, 1922, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPACE FOUR li'K GRANDE TCVENTN1 OTiSERVER Pridnv. Trlmmrv 17. 10:22 r V- ? V Che Observer j imi,iv:iii;t mow si'Ai'i:ii. l'uhlmliril ilmly and weekly at La llramlo, on'Ron. Iy l.a iiriitiua Even tug ObHi't-vrr l'utill.Miiff t'ompuny. IIIIUL'K DKNNI.S, Killlor. centered at the I'oHtorriou nt.a (Irandu, OreKcn, tin MwcnnU I'Ihkm Mail Matter. A'itlriiHN all OH.SUHVHIt, roiiiiiiiinU'iitlolis to THI'- 1110 Adams Avit, l.a oreiron. fir ' a '.jiwyer..,.. cii i' a.no roi vrv unauiAk I'AI'llt. itm anln In itlhir .'llli.M Oreirun Hotel New Bland, 1'urtiuiul: Imperial News Htand. l'ortlnnd; Mullnuuiak Nw fltarnd, rurtlatid. BtllKCItll'TluN II ATMS. Uy t'rriirt Dullv. bit month 76? T.-IIV ..f l.r..n mn.ilhH . 12.2 Dnily! per Fix 1110., In advanco M-6 Uailv. alm-le cmv PC llv tlll. rtII(f nr.F vi-nr in inlv;iri('fl 1 5. 00 Dully, ix month, in fwlvmice lBily. three inuntliH, lu tulvanca I1;6 Pallv. imt iinnith 60 Weekly (nt-i vi-i-star, by mall, per year, In nilVMiire 1 .UU i,vnti.it t,f ANMIKIATKU 111 KHNt The Asoc)it'.'d l-retta in exclusively entitled to ue lor ininucnunn ui mi news diHimU-liiH rrvilllnl to It or not otherwlm ererJItert In this i)npr. and a) ho the loenl nt'W'H piihlifhutl therein. All rlKhtu of rt'-ptihlitation of rtpeclal dinpatchffl hr nlho fir.: i-o.strvcd. Bible Thought. For Todaj THE NKW COMMANDMENT: Jctus said: A nnw commanUinent I give unto you, Tlmt ye lovo one nnother: us I have lovod you, that ye also lovo ono auotJior. By this Blmll ull men know tlmt yo Ituvc lovo ono to nnother.- John 13 : 34, 30? Another Gift Embassy Thi pit'ct'ilcnt csUblishccT by J. P. JlnrjMn in giving a house in London to the ,Vnited Ht;ilu for an embassy may be followed in n few months or a year. Another wealthy American is said to bo purcha.intf and u'finishin'-j a former palace in Paris with th.' purpose of prti'iitiny it to the nation aa an cmlm.ssy. It is considered likely that the American government having accepted Mr. Morgani's similar tf'tt, -will also accept this one. The United States needs all the em bassies it can Kd, for that is ono thing in which there has always been a shortage. frJomehow we have man aged to hold our own in foreign dip lomacy, but it has been in the midst of adverse circumstances, with inade quate facilities for both the routine or clerical work and the vastly im portant work carried on through soci al channels. Poorly house, poorly paid, our representatives abroad have done their best, and it has been creditable There has been ho much strength and power back of them that they have commanded respect in Fpite of tlu; conditions under wihh they have Kud to'work. . Now, howevor, it seems an though this nation ought to be about ready to irop the role of the eccentric whose ahabbiness can be tolerated because of wealth and power, and to assume noma of the outward signs of dignity uhd resPet which belong to it. jlf it seems advisable and proper to accept occasional gifts of fine em bassies from wealthy citizens it should ids o bo advisable and proper for tho frovernment to provide other suitable tuildings in other lands to house its diplomats. i it';-? ! r- t ft , HANK HlBBARD FOUND A PURSE ON TWe STREET TODAY liiX HE KEPT HIS FOOT ON IT TWO HOURS BEFORE HE HAD CHANCE TO PICK IT UP - THS PU&Se VJAS EMPTY. a mutt Lit larlu ! i i - MSMfKssMmmsiJatm- m m m w w mm m m w in mm Motors and Morality j The automobile has been scored se verely as ft contributor to delinueucy and; Uh eneouragenii'iit to extrava lince. Now arises a salesman to point but that it i far oftener a source of true moral uplift and a meant. op thrift. The salesman reasons something like this: If a man of limited means wishes to buy a car, he must give up his extravagance. In older that he may Have, he stays nt home at night instead of going out. This bring;; him under the influence of his wife, which, inevitably makes a better man of him, and nlMi generally induces him THE OFFICE CAT V:'..-, . yj-AH filt Anuvlntrd H'o J.T.li:j:.K, St-utaml, Feb. J7.- fltfrniaft competition is evcix cutting in- t tM toMWtont busiiu'.ta and thi'icliy affactinjr tli itranite trade, whick is nc of Aberdeen's! Ieatiin(r induntrieK. I,arjrt EnRlish cities are reported to be buying tombstones and even war memorials from iormany at rules that are substantially clieapcx thu'i Aberdeen granite firms can proluv them while payintf pre-ent wages. ; American wholesale apents who onec bouffht large quantities of Ab erdeen granite ulso are reported to have purchased . $."0f000 worth of headstones from (Jermuriy, these bu ing nuuiufactured Pioni Scandinavian granite. In consequence .there' has been a great slump in orders received here for tombstones and mortuary memor ials. Many Aben.'cen grajiito firms have notified their workmen of an im pending cut in wages. Your Gorset Is 1 1 erei MlflRflim: ! "LU ' EMI IK CHEAPER innn auiirj (Iy AsBocluted Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17. When Ferdinands do Lesseps, French engi neer, started the construction of a great cnnnl from the Gulf of Limon to the Bay of Panama, Central A merl in 1H81, he is .supposed to have (Uy Associaud Vresa) WHY PAT WAS HAPPY. The professor of sociology met Pa, on the street one morning, "'nc genial Irishman waa whistling and singin; by turns, apparently as haPpy as a lark. "Well, well, Pat, you seem to be happy. Would you mind tellimr ine the reason for your happiness?" inquired the professor. "Oi would not, sor," answered Pat. "Oi have just done three good deeds, and "onny.man hb has performed three good deeds in less thin tin min utes has reason to be happy." "Indeed he has!" commented th professor. "Hut, pray tell me what three good deeds have you perforruc.l in such a snort space ot time: "Well, For, as Oi was conun'- past the cathedral this mornin' Oi saw a poor woman wid n "wee bit infant in her arms, n-cryin that hard 'twould melt a heart of stone Oi asked he phat the matter be. She said that for the want of three dollars to pay the. fees she could not git the baby baptized, an' it was a sickly baby nt that, an liable to die soon. Oi felt that bad for her Oi pulled out a tin dollar bill, all the money Oi had in the world, an' told her to git the poor child baptized and bring me back the change. She went inside rojoiein' an' soon returned, all smiles, give me back the change and went" away beapin' blessin's on me head. Now isn't that enough to make onnybody happy?" 'That's splendid, .Mud the profes sor. "Now what were the other goon deeds?" "Others!" ejaculated Pat . "Why thala all." , . "But I : understood you to say yo'i had performed three good deeds." "An' so Oi did! Don't you see? Oi dried a widow's tears; that's wan. Oi saved a sould from purgatory; that'" two. An' lastly, Oi got sivin good dollars for a bad tin." iKvrr listen to one of these fellers that talk for an hour or more and leave you wondering what ho said? A little girl announced to her moth- to get a better car than he planned i 0l" hl' mil!, wful clean at originally. This means more saving nnd more staying nt home; and then, when the new car is bought, friend wife goes out with him more, and so the moral cycle is complete. The Halesman is probably right about the situation in a far higher percentage of eases than the deeriers of modern life would believe. The only pity is that he is not right in every cae, and that sometimes v1k thn Holf-deiiial and thrift are practised to buy an nutoimtbile, they might bet ter be exercised for other things first. Huch as a home or a well-established business, or sound credit with the mer chants nil around, with the car as n final goal when permanent possessions lire usMired. school the next day for the visiting nurse was coming and was going to search her. Both you and your trouble will be forgotten in a hundred years, so why waste time worrying? l--n't it astonishing how ma-iy "sweet poppies" of December realise aftnr Chrsitmas that they are only "wall flowers." "Bout the only difference V.vten a naggin woman an' a buxu-saw, ser Al Snyder, is that a feller e'n stop a buxz-Miw. The Amerian Bible Society has con 1 rati -t nd to h:ive it i iii-int imr ltn lit .,,,Ui,l,. firm h,.., 1 1 ..r V.. ,il...-m I b" dolie nee dbe felt, however, as the content wil loot change with the Presses. Every kid knows about half the lickings he gets are just to nlie his parents' overwrought nerve i and not for anything e-pecially bad he YOF N EYElt CAN TlXI,. ' lT .1 Ii...- ......... A mi are mere snooting .stars in ,0fnr uie movies, too ; A boy has loen admitted to the high M-hooI in Jamaica, N. Y,, at the age of ten. Poor kid! (lermany wants more credit. France vwntM to heed Omar's advice: . jUj, txke the cash and Kl tie credit Jvf b-4 the raiiKc- A fr vl(out drum! ' .irt Mt ii! lord fiifc the tH tljA "hi-h.H V is bunk", t'" Kit go- ... you marriwl Daddy?" asked kittle France, "No, dear," replied her mother. j'what made you think so?" "Well, I just see that name on most of our towels," SHE KNEW A tiOOD THING. Durinir n dangerous epidemic in a small Western town every in feed" I h'Hi-c was put under quarantine. Af teP thf tlist hd J"'!! cheekrd h" health tfirrr rr tkinrf dnwut the quainrine .k" when n oil it gun. yrnteMiti. " M wont lUC to tohtj tA ff.n LONDON, Feb. 17. The monthly salary of a ngrse in the municipal happened on the rude graves of many i hospital in Moscow is less than the travelers over the "gold route." They'losc 01 n CBK0 01 SHan 111 lnat were the graves of those who had fall-j This striking example of the dispro en and died on this route in the heart-' Fortion between wages' and the cost breaking journey from coast to coast!0' livlng in the Russian capital is dis-; through the tilmost impenetrable jun-1 closed 'n a report just made by a I gle, while answering the feverish lure j npecial commission sent to Itussin ' of California gold.. Within the past ,hy ihe Health Committee of the Ia- few weeks the "gold route," which Buo of Nations. really reached from New York to San1 The Commission says that a cr.ke j Francisco, has been opened again af- j of soaP in Moscow' cost 8,o00 .rubles ter it had been a memory only for wnlle n" 'n the city hospital were more than fifty years. 'paid only 5,0X0 rubles a month and Today's route leads by the gnives'of I tnat t"1- ,,ud 10 be content with very the hurdv AriroiimitH mii, follnua in scanty ioou. general way the jungle trails that they trod, but goes through the Pan ama Canal. The canal has blotted out the land lanes of the "gold Toute." The arrival of the steamer Venezuela in New York early in February com pleted the reopening of the historic old route. The route was "blazed" when the side wheeler California left New York late in 1848 bound for a Puget Sound port. While she was still following the pathway of the galleons down the old Spanish .Main, however, California blazed up on the horizon through the discovery of gold. lAt Aspinwall, now Colon, the hardy adventurers who mude..up her passenger, list, heard the news, were lured by it, and disembark ed with the hope that they could speed their journey by breaking through the Hi junglc-lnhgled miles that la be tween them add Panama and' another western port,'' Taboga. History rccoTds that many of them got through after a desperate strug gle, but' others were not s'o fortunate. For omo time thereafter 'the "gold route" held ; its own with the-famed Overland Trail acns the plains,. but in,- 18gV a' railroad, .was built' across the isthmus and the old, route was fin ally abandoned with"' the clearing- of -""il 2000 Yards of New .TISSUE GINGHAM 68c Tissue Gingham "will undoubtedly play a prominent part in the summer's wash fabrics. Thin and sheer as voile, yet with the crispness ot organdy, 1t is beautiful In the colorings of spring. Over 40 patterns of this new ma terial just in checks, smiill plaids and stripes. Ask to Bee it. 32 leches wide. Priced 08c yd. New Mid Oomi'iVte Ktm-ki of Doth "Xemo" and "Henderson" To those who find comfort In their par 'ticular favorite "NEMO" or "HENDERSON" our tocka are now complete, your particular corset in your size Is now here. To those, who are not acquuintod with the great number of styles we carry lu these two colebrated makes, we invito you hero for the " express purpose of learning the advantages of them. People who have worn them for years appreciate their fine quMllties muro each year. Our stocks contain a model for every fig ure, for every piirposo and wo will gladly demonstrate their superiority. We want every woman In La Grande to thoroughly acquaint herself with tho many styles and kinds we carry at all limes, anu especially invite you hero now while our stocks aro new and complete. ' . ;. I.- The model Illustrated horo is one we are offering at a special price, reduction. Jt is a very new model of tho C.1-. Ilious Self Itcdiiclng Xomo' models. It has a low bust and medium skirt and is made of wiiite or pnk coutil. All si.-es now. Price $1.00. Sale of The poverty and misery that pre vailed in Russia as seen in the hos-1 pitals which the Commission visited ! made a deep impression uporj tlu members. Nevertheless, the Commi-i- ' sion stated, there is a high state of efficiency in the municipal hospitc.'i and the Commission emphasized the spirit of sacrifice displayed by those ' entrusted with niinisterng to the; health of the Russian people, especial- j ly of the children. MILLIONS OF DMEIfT Uy Associated Press) ' LONDON, Feb '17. "About 8(!,000,- 000 working days were, lost as the ' result of labor disputos in the Unite 1 j Kingdom last year, says the Labor j Gazette. This4U tho greatest losi of worljing tiniCj from that cause ever j recorded in - the' 1'ritish Isles and is more, than three times that of last! year. The numher of workers involv-i X V . V es pd wn nluiiif 1 Son OOO the Indian and klntlrcd dangqrfi fiVin This tompaies: with n loss of 27,- 000,000 rking hours in IOl'O when about 2,000,000 workers were involved the all-la nil trail. Some times die.' California and . .her sinter ships, the Oregon and Panama. 'in labor disputes. vduui tuscnargo tneir argonaut pas- ;, ( st'ngers at Aspinwall, and after round-1 -Rodent eating 'snakes aro protected ing the Horn would -pick "thnt..utjhy law in sonic countries. again at Panama or Taboga. The! r ships established the first regular all-j It costs $10 a month to have a Ulo water route between New York and;nhone in a Jananesn d.velliv San Francisco, and took a whole month m - in the passage. It was necessary at times to pack the passengers in rath er closely because of their numbers, but there were no serious accidents reported. Although never as well known as the Overland Trail or the iroutc around the Horn, the "gold route" held as much' romance and gave rise to as stirring tales as the other early travel lanes to tho gold fields,- History re cords that the first steamer to arrive over the "gold route", was given n trementous ovation in San Francisco, the event being referred to as one of great historical importance. S',,TJie,N(;w ..Spring Footwear This, new two strap , pump i i of' tar Very fine dark brown kld; 'i1 has a junior Louis heel, and , turn sole. It is lirictij at $1 1.OO. ;; This pump is., an 'ARM STRONG." our lrifihest grade shoes. They are , stylish, 1 hold their shape and; weal excep tionally well. Ask those 'who wear thorn. Our entire spring stocks are now ready for both men nlld women. Prices start' nt HkYiM and range upwurd to $12.23. Ladies' Handbags Kvi'rv One New! $1 .19 . The sale of ladies leather handbags began yesterday morning -with many responses to our ad. These bags word secured, in a. special purchase at a price that makes possible their selling at less than half their value. Nearly all are genuine leather, some jre tooled and fancy leathers in brown, black and gray. All are ncu and ruled wltn mirrors. A great variety of styles and ch a real valud at -HMO. Sec wlndowl Set display tlisldo, neir entrance. New Spring COATS .For the Little' MisV Coats for 'tho smaller girlso.f . 8. 10, , 12,. and 14 years, are among : the new arrivals. All in' bright , spring shades; Tho, matorials and styles lonnw very tloscly those of hcV older sisters or her mother belts, pockets Hnd large collars. Prices aro from 7.r( to ltl!.r0. Ilring hef- iri and 'try sumo of them on. m cJ '""' : M r'3 i?,.'a &&0 M A - Sweets to tho Sweet j What is more acceptable than a, box of fresh, hand-made choco- i lutes from the Palace Confection ery. 2-1 5-U Is That CoM and Cough Hanging On? YOH will be convinced th.it Dr. fanii's New 1 )iM.oery does j ut wh.it ili? ine.inl to do soothes cough r.nv . lhtn.its, congest ion-tormented rhets, It-.tns the .hlegm p;ick anil brr.iks tlie'liin.ite culu and gripic attack, relie-A the conviction in the ltr.nl. No iV'intid druA-, therclore piK f r chil.iVi a i well Y urownup. Kiglst aw.ivVv u w ill lnutict the rliinge for ilv.' Vi'ttcr. II a mn- nu'ing, hc.ding .i tc th.J ,m will appreciate. I'uy t nit tie .il any driij;. Kista on 'he way luVe to-nilit, ottc. Milliohs of Housewives : byniore Qhefs by mole Railroads by moreVestaurants and by mere Hotels than any cYheii Brand OK. Skze 7JIUA .infants and invalids: ASK FOR hi s ilie Original ; Avoid Imitations nd Substitute For Infants, InvalldanndGrowIngCWldren I Rlcnnlft, milted fraln ertract In Powder Tho Origin! Food-Driiuc For All Ages No Cooking Nouriahlnj Dicertiblo New Discovwry t'j-t-ii. urm tout i ty k'.'Wt, I .y B"tl. Don i mm It's moderate in price and never fails A pound inn of Calusic contavs full 16 oi. Soi bakinc rcvdre ccm in I? In The Business World Tha man kwho" has ' character and Vi aintains al good deposit in has man ad- a reliable bank vantag W a prepared to help our (UpogitArs fully ! tajMQf tAelWaA wiH permit. T-t bwEtness tuid itafi with ut. it . .f;M 14: I HMt. It liml.'T Mltllo ii. dill i.iki.1 all tim out jf I't. Kina f'il,. Mill ii-.i,,.... M'l . "ill ip ho ll0t, tie l:.ir.,j.v. r. KiniV: Jills At Si A Mmi!.rTLu 1 oz. c ms a'.'jic w tT iw us tarryu.s' tin w.n fcrin t l;n tfw ct a mm m whi'tln i- Vierui V court! V-i y.'$ r8"? i. . .e ' , mmmmm - 0 ( a o G e . o o I o : "-y' . t II.