La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, February 21, 1922, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text2k ft VOLUME XXV LA GRANDE, OREGON. TUESDAY, .FEBRUARY 21, 1922 MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER jlS RESPONSE CHARITY FLI ND IS GENEROUS Reports At Ad Club Liineli Tin's Ninon En-. eouratnmf COMMITTEES HARD AT WORK TODAY Contributions Small Rut Very Few People Fail To Subscribe Something To Worthy Cause. At the Ad club luncheon today reports of several of tho chairmen of soliciting committees for the Kod Cross Charity Fund showed that the movement to raise $3,000 In the city is meeting with very fine responso, niid that aside from less than half u dozen people the response has been unanimous. The half doBe-u whose names were not ' mentioned ut the Ad club include only thoso who have outspoken criticism of tho Red Cross, their followmon irud who aro well known to bo not in accord with Rcarcoly anything of Importance to the hu man raco. It ,waa made plain that this drive will bo a success If sufficient work Is given to it, for the essential thing only is to soe tho people. The merit of the cause is so just and so pronounced thnt everyone whose heart beats right Is anxious to do something. The amounts being col lected nre small, which will mean that constant work must continue until the city has been thoroughly canvassed. The principal speaker at today's luncheon was Dean C. K. Kobblus of the business department pf tle j w.iwM U....I..O.I., u . iiiauo i talk that was highly pleasing to everyone prcsont. The deun is a practical chjp. He thinks down close to the earth and unliko so many ,men in college work, refuses to soar into the clouds making I bUe and white secons and lost, by large and varied claims. He wc-J about the same score, as did the vis plalned the work his department Is jtors, to the Union American Legion doing, gave some concrete examples 'second team. df success thnt had 'rieVeloped as graduates !went into tho "world, but he did not overlook stating that everyone can't Well bo captains of Industry, although everyone has the opportunity. He made it plain that there still must be bookkeepers. stenographers and men lu all other I departments as well as the heads won 41 to 35. Both teams have prac of business. The dean asked that ( tically the same line-ups as when the? people not expect the impossible ; met before. .In all probability the from his department, but assured! All Star City League team-will be those assembled that it is getting chosen shortly after this game. The results. (team will probably be picked from Before the Ad club started on Its the following men: Lewin and Sir business today the assembly stood Irinc. Union; Lester, John and Dave in siltit meditation for a few sec onds when adopting the following resolution which was proposed by Judge Crawford, as member of the resolutions committee. UK IT It KSOLVED THAT, The Ad Club of La Grande is deeply sensible of the loss to the club, the city, the community at large (Continued on Page Five.) X: :! -I: : :I- iir Ht Hi jl-:- NEARLY HALF FIRST DAY. Workers ori the $."1,000 Home v Charity Fund Drive reported last v v evening and turned over $1,2."0 v ;! to the committee in charge as :! v the result of the first day's work. ! I- Some of the workers w;re not v fl able to get started yesterday but v v today practically all district are v :'. being canvessed and from all v ! parts of town come repot t that v :! the people of the city arc giving l! whole-heartedly. ;!; Washington's be Observed Wednesday Wiiahinfcton's birthday, iieeonlinK tn the stute school laws, is' no long er a Ipsal holiday durinif the en tire day. The law provider now fur ubcsrvaitcp of appropriate ext'iriM'R for nut If than an hour and one half's time during the morning nnd observing a holiday In the after noon. Tl: Li (ii.uwhi school will ad here tu this rulliiK hiu tin' cartons rm-in throHliriil tiio htc- ciant- DflMt HALL nil PUUDPCe rLHIUUUbL ISWEDNESDAyUN bHAHbtb IHTHEWODDS ur-k npiinurn Girls' Team of Local Iliffh School Will Plav With Union Girls and Four Other (James Are Sche tluled. Five basketball eumos will be play ed on Wednesday ufternoon and even inp;, making1 the greatest basketball day, considering the number of games to be played, that La Grande has seen for many a day, The big game of the day will tafcc place in the high school gymnasium at three thirty o clock in the afternoon, the strong La Grane high school sex tette meeting the Union high school girls' team! in the final game of the girls' league to be played on the local floor. La Grande met and defeated the visitors at Union several weeks ago by the overwhelming score of 51 to G. but since then the Union team has been improving considerably and expects to play the locals a closer game. The Union team is smaller than the blue and: white squad but play a fast game and the basketball fan will do well to attend this attraction. Reg ular admission will be charged. In the evening four games will be played at the "Y," two of them be iween local teams and two in which teams from Union will meet La Grande quintets. The curtain willrise on a contest between the boy scout second team and the M. I. A. youngsters. Neither team has played any games and both expect to win. Shoit halves will be played. In the second game the boy scouts nre expecting to get revenge for the defeat they suffered earlier in the season from the Union Tigers, a team composed of diminutive high school jilayers and grade school boys. Re ports are that the visitors have im proved since the first game but the boy scouts have been putting in a lot of hard pinrtice and aro in the pink of condition. Both teams play a fast brand of ball. - - '' In the final game preliminary to the stellar attraction of the evening, the Union high school second team will take the floor against the Hi-Y's. Both Yearns arc rated at about par, with the odds favoring the Y. M. C. A team a little. The Union second stringers have lost one game to- the La Grande second team and have won from the Union American Legion sec onds and the Cove high school second team. The Hi-Y team defeated th In the final wind-up of the evening'? quadruple-header, the Stoddard Broth ers an the Cougars, both city league members, will play a post-season game. In the league game hey play ed earlier in the season the first half ended 26 to 15 in favor of the Cougars but the Stoddards staged a rally and Stoddard, Stoddard Brothers; Webb, Cougars; Garrity, Proctor, Theison and Lindlcy, Clerks. The games will commence at about seven o'clock and a small admission will be charged C. C. Snow will referee. Little Girl Formerly Living Here Passed On Death claimed little six year old Louise McCliire this morning, at Baker, according to word received here at noon today. The little girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nell MeClure, was known to many here wh'Te the family lived for some time. The mother is now hi Biker hospital seriously 111 from a com mined attack of flu and pneumonia, that also caused the dt.uth of Louise. Mr. and Mrs. James McClnre, pioneer residents of the Hot Lake district are now at their sou's home in linker. Birthday to coinim'monitin the father of thvir j country. ; i The hk'h school student body will hold a spc-tal assembly lu the ' morriini: and th'1 important item on the rn;'ra;ii will be an address by ; K. It. KiiiL'o. Inral attorney. At the done tif the speri'il aembly !u pp meetlnc III be held In pre ! pu ration for the afternoon's yanie between the Union and ha Grand' trirlV ha.GilMU Wvu wlikh v ill I ),-. L . : . . Flllli fillll IV BOtSCOUTS . . wVi.w 111 KM I I II II II ANN HtmuVfcU District Attorney In poston lieiieved of Job by High Court SEVERAL CHARGES HAVE BEEN PROVED UetellKl! ilil(ie AO JMIort ''.; 1' lifllt L lit l 'LVlil 1' C ( Whole Matter Was a Con spirary. (Kr AHtoclHtcd 1'1'okh) BOSTON, F'eb. SI. District At torney Joseph C. Pcllctier of Suffolk county, was removed by the supreme court today. The court found him guilty on seveial counts under charg es of malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance ill office. . (IIV ASKOCilltl'd 1'rOSS) BOSTON, Feb. 21 The trial of District Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier of Suffolk County, before the full bench of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, which began on December 27 last nnd ended January 24, was the second hearing of the kind in the state's history and involved 32 speci fications of alleged malfeasance, mis feasance and non-feasance in office'' formulated by the grievance commit tee of the Boston Bar Association and by Attorney-General J. Weston Allen. Less than a year ago Nathan A. Tufts was removed as District Attorney in Middlesex County in a similar proceed ing. Attorney-General Allen alleged thut the acts of Pelletier as idstrict Attor ney since 'Nov 13, 1S109, when he took office, down to the date of fil ing the charges, as unfolded by wit nesses, prove that the accused prose cutor had conducted his ofifce in an unlawful and reprehensible manner." None of the chnrges as originally filed specified that Pelletier had received money in return for his alleged mis- conduct.but evidence to this effect was presented in five cases. The attorney gcnernl offered this evidence in con nection with, a claim that Pelletier had "participated in the profits of a partnership of. crime." The action of assistants of Pclletiof in disposing" of cases brought to the attention of the. district attorney's of fice was the basis of five of the charg es. The state maintained that I'ellet.e' .should bo removed because he had re tained the assistants in office know ing their conduct to have been im proper. (Continued on Pago Five.) . w feu. O ' S.-'-----p-r' Site To Be Selected Soon On m. Hinily; Work Is Com prehensive. Now that the winter cump has been put down on the records as having been a success from every standpoint.1 the local Boy Scout authorities and the two troops of scouts hero are look ing forward with much zest and an ticipation to the summer camp. The local authorities expect to es tablish a summer lodge somewhere on Mount Emily in addition to their reg ular summer outing. They are already preparing to select tho site and to arrange the other deatils. In all prob- short time and as soon as the weathr permits work will begin to arrange the lodge along the following line: A log cabin of good sized proportions will be built, which will have a large din ing room devoted to meeting places and serving as a dining room. An other room will bo utilized as n kitchen. Each patrol will have its in dividual bunk'house containing sleep ing quarters. Will Be Permanent. The object in buil'Jing nnd furnish ing such a lodge is to procure a per manent place where the boys cap spend week-ends in the-coods and it will also furnish an ideal site for practicing woodcraft and other similar projects. In addition to the building of the summer lodge, plans are being made to take a two weeks' outing during the summer, both troops going. As soon as conditions permit the dates and site will be arranged and select ed and further necessary prrang; ments, as equipping themselves, etc., j will be handled. One of the outstanding phases ....... .,H..n ,..nt. t tu I national boy scouts is fire prevention. i (Continued on Page Eight.) Annual Meeting of . Irrigation Company Was Held Yesterday The Iji Grane Irrigation company held its annual meeting in The city hall yesterday afternoon. - A new-board of directors was elected. Those "who will serve on the boanl.this' year 'are A. J. Hrecdlove, ( O. p. Johnson, ) George Chapman", Thomas Bayliss ai)d J. H. Russell.. , - . -J- f The board .of directors choso the" officers for the.yvar .as follows: J. II. Russell, president, an Thomas Bnyliss, secretary., The company also decided to put in a concrete ditch along Z avenue u soon as the weather permits. CH1I.I), MATCHES; SAME STORY. PERTH, Scotland, Feb. 21. Three-year-old Alcxaner McGregor played with matches and set fire to some straw. Firemen hail difficulty in sav ing a nearby million-dollar factory fi-om destruction. WILL IT COME TO THIS? Moral Malady Grips World Savs Van Dvke By Dr. Henry Van Dyke. (Copyright, l'J22, by NEA. Service, Incorporated.) PRINCETON, N. J., Feb. 21. The war W'as caused in great part by a disregard of national psychology. Germany, obsessed by the Hohenzo'l ern myth, was utterly unable to put herself in tho place of other nations and understand how they felt. A somewhat similar lack t)f psycho logical sympathy is tho main thin:: that imperils peace at the present hour. If the nations would only try to do unto others as they would have others do unto them at least half the difficul ties that beset Europe, nnd that sor. iously affect the United Stales, would melt away. But the other half would remain and would have to be dealt with by practical measures, like those which have recently been undertaken at the Washington Conference and carried through to a success which, though not yet complete, is greater than the friends of permanent peace dared to hope at the outset. The condition of affairs In Europn certainly is not altogether good. Hut it' might easily be worse. The task of peace-loving nations at tho present moment is to prevent, that deteriora tion. If that can be stopped tho nal ural forces of good which reside in hu manity will gradually bring about a'l improvement in industry, trae, fin ance and all the arts of peace. I do not believe that humanity is bankrupt, civilization shipwrecked, nnd the world doomed to destruction. That idea is a delusion of hysteria in minds of a certain type, shell-shocked by the war and not yet returned to normal and reasonable ways of think ing. But the mass of people in America and even in Europe are really not like that They enjoy their victuals nnd their sleep, their simple pleasures nnd their family relations. They love their home and their country, and IHnK to work for them. Indeed, thnv wniilfl mni'h rutnnr work fnr they would much rather work for them quietly than be shot to pieces for them. That is why they are hun gry for peace. iMy estimate of the situation is not official. It is simply the opinion ot a private person who has knocked about the world for 70 years and been in close relations with al!sorts and con ditions of men. On this visit to England and France I met the leading statesmen of both countiies and heard them talk in the fieedom of private intercourse. Neith er France jior . England is militaristic or imperialistic, whatever babblers may profess to believe to the contrary, No militaristic government in France or England could suivive for a week. The people would make an end of it. I saw a good deal also of my old friends, the taxicab drivers, and found them much improved in manners and, I hope, in morals. I did not meet with a single pirate among them. Of course, they growled about the price of gasoline and with justice. 'Put so far ns I couid see they played no tricks with their fares. Thoy were as obliging and cheerful as you can 41 . J I. Henry Van Dvke. expect men with a rough life to be, and they wore always grateful for the small bonus added to thoir too low legal fare. Let me wind up this interview in two sentences: ... The chief cause of tho present trou bles of the world is moral -tack of thought and dullness of heart among us men. ... America must help Europe, of course, but the best wiiy in which she can do this is by helping Europe to understand and help herself; the time tor dropping pennies in the hat has gone by. CHICAGO, Feb. 21. Fifteen rail way unions met hero todiiy with mine workers to plan a "defensive alliance." (fly Associated Treus) 1 CHICAGO, Feb. 21. President I'wis of the United Mine Workers of America asked, the coal operators of the central competitive livid lto meet with ' union officials in Cleveland, 'March 2, for a wage conference to avert the impelling strike. Some oper ators have rejected similar requestH, saying they wished to discontinue col lective bargaining with the miners. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. The housu military lominllteu will coli- iludij Uils week Its huirlng on the Ford AIuhcIo Shoals otter. . tV.v A ssocitil fl I'rcss) WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. ' The McCoinbnr -bill providing for five million --dollars of government aid to farmers to buy seed grain and Iced for livestock was reported fav orably by the senate ' agriculture committee. ' niv ApaiM-latiMl Prona) SAN FHANCISCO, Feb. 21. Mrs. Alice Hills of I. (is Aneles, a pas senger, anil Humid lioiiowuy oi Sun Friinilsro, a waiter, Jumped from ,th "llni.v BiicHoyo. late yes terday and drowned white the ves- was :t 0 0 miles south of I.os Angeli-H, according to n radio mcs- saue. No cause was given. Public Service Refuses f 1 y AHMoclatcrt PrcHs) SALKM, Feb. 2 1. AH Inning tlid original ordir uranlliiK Incrcaard ratos to 1'aclfic THuplmuii nnd l'i njili rnmpany nnd Hrortyin tho IM'titlnnei'H who nskcil for h rmicnr Inir, tin public wrvicu commission today handtMl down 1U final decis ion on llii company' application tor blcbcr rated , , Tho (iirrcnso ordered 'ebruary 2S !;trt yar, cffcclivfl Mnrrh 1, ranc id from ;:o to 0 per emit for dlfff.'n-Ht i liitlSi'H of BiM' Ice. A re- licariiiK v.n Htkcd for by the city of Portland, ilia On-uon tclcphono icdi-nttlou nnd utlitv oi .mizatioiiH and munh lialitleif. Tho loMirmt; f ocuipl.'d Hovcral rtc ki' l r I '-iiHiPi'.r. i l!;. ;- .7-r. to; Ijl'-.phnf. lylINt WORKERS PREPARE FOR I ALLIANCE lllfl'lEHPF IQ HUUlLllUL ID PLEASED Br it BIILBUL" First Prcscnhitioii of Oper etta Drew Packed House j WILL BE REPEATED AGAIN TONIGHT Cii.tc Large ami Li Every, W ay Pt'i-lornied As (..red italily As Professional Company ...Could Havo Done. . Had a stronger hnikpcned Into tho high school auditorium lust evening not knowing that homo folks wore giving the comic opera Uulbul" he would have been amaz ed at a company the size of the one that played traveling In these dlays ot expensive travel, and he would have boon further amazed at such a company . stopping outside the larger cities ot the coast. So far ns detecting tho amateur 111 any ot the parts or suspecting thnt the singora of the loading parts woro not professionals no one would have done so, for lnst eve-' nlug's entertainment was so strict ly high chess that It was profession al In every appearance. . I'leasant J'lnt. "Dulbtil" la un attractive) comic opera taking Its place along side such attractions as the ''Durgomas-r' ter,' 'Flnrndora" and othors of; like nMure. The little plot 1b a pleasunt one, tho scenes aro excel lent and the opportunity for the voice lias never been lost sight of by tho author. . In tho garden of the palnc whero act ono Is slimed the chorut opons the evening with singing that, fills the auditorium. It Is not from weak stringy voices wafted through, tliu air, but with Lindsay's full orchestra, tho singers brought tho niidteiico right on their toes tho moment the curtain went up. George Illrnin ns tho King "Iamlt," never appeared so well n bo did last evening. Possessing all of the characteristics necessary ho swnggered onto thu stage In kingly manner and then Ills magnlficlcnt volco rolled out through the audi torium lu a commanding ns well as melodious manner. ' Acting FiiulllexH, Mrs. liny Fuller hs "Dulbul,'' the princess, the beautiful daugh ter of the king was properly placed, Her voice was Just right for tho part she took nnd her singing and. acting woro faultless. t Stuart Ilennott us "Caspian," tho Arabian prince, appeared as a peri funic peddler, acting tho part of a (Continued on Page Fpur) MANDAMUS WHIT IS SUSTAINED I1Y COURT.. SAI.EM, Feb. 21. Tho supremo court sustained! the mandamus writ issued in the case of 'he State of Oregon ex rel Zocth Houser, ni sher-. iff of Umatilla county, against I. M.. Sunnep, tho county ju''ge, and the board of county commissioners. Tho case was an original proceeding In mandamus to compel the defendant to audit certain expenses relating to criminal proceedings. Justice. McUride wrote the opinion sustaining the writ. Body a Rehearing hoarln wure flayed by tho conimls slun for burdening thu Mato with nnut'ceRsary exinniv) nnd watlnK state -officials' tlino. Kvhlonce was produced at tho ndumrlnfr thut wan InRiifflcliAit to UHtify g changf) in the orlRlnai order and Increase.) Said tin! ('onunlsstoii. Thu cnnunlH rtlon declnriHl that no cvldeuro worthy of name for Rtipport of ua netloiiH of error waipruttenU'd. ; : f Tonlghi mm V eunotmay ivm in (be wojjtorii jiortloti oC tU hIaq i'H'.l lu t'. !!..