La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 24, 1922, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XXV SEOTIQNTWO LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY,-JUNE 24, 1922 MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 221 SWIMMERS ARE TO BE WARNED MORE CAREFUL Three-Day Celebration Planned by Elgin for the Nation's Birthday ,Y. M. C. A. Secretary tolls of Precautionary Men suros, that, if Followed, f svill save Inny Laves. jBy A. Edwin Tryko, General Sec retary, La Grande V. M. C. A.) The death toll season by drown ing is at hand and durimr these com ing summer months we can look forward with certainty to drowning accidents all over the country due to the fact that people are very careless in the use of the open Waters ot our lakes and streams tor swlmmlni; purposes. With an ounco of common sense and somct times with less than one-half that amount many drowning accidents could be prevented during these SWIMMERS 7 months. In fact 90 per cent or up wards of those who will be drown ed this coining summoV could still be enjoying the joys of life this fall It they would have taken a few precautionary measures which are very simple and for that' reasoo probaWy much neglected. -According to press reports of last Sunday there were two drowning accidents In reuon which, according to Statistics published, should not have occurred. One of the drowning uccldents last Sunday was caused, no doubt,- by impatience and hurry to get into the' water ufter eating a hearty meal. This is a (very sad mistake and one should not go In bathing for ot least one and a half hours or tSvo hours after li hearty Dieul. . ; . The proper procdiure In going in swimming especially in our streams ami lakes which are mostly ot cold water or the temperature is rather ovr, ono should dash some water iu his hand and then on the body, fur the purpose of bringing the body neat 'down so tbut. when he body Is immersed in the w liter there will not necessarily be a shock to the one Is more apt to become accustom ed to the water and no ill effect will bo the result. Often one ot the foolish things pcoplo do Ib to plunKO into water head first without first ascertaining the depth of the -water Or. seeing that there are no projec tions, such 'tis largo boulders or brokdti off piles or thu bottom of the stream or lake Is cuvered with a thick growth ot weeds. Those should all bo thoroughly Investigated be fore one attempts to go Into a strange place. i. lit swimming In the open 11 It always best not to stiy In the. water longer than an hour at the most. Cm ix1 Bliould be, taken that even before that hours' Is up, II one shoutd feel chilly tbey should i in nicrltiit,.l v ftiiiio nut rnh tliom- selvcs vigorously n'nd fast. If foi uny reason you feel a cramp cofii ing on, of. course, the obvious thing Is to get out of the water as tilekl.t us 'possible, but- if tho cramp over lakes you before you got to shore, nnrl if tne cramp Is in tlie leg, give the leg a vigorous kick which wli soini limes take away the cramp. Hut If it still persists swim to short, with tho use of the trims only, let ting I lie leg drag and a bove all things do not Ret excited, and do not slush the- water and wave your hands above your htNrd. 1:ri; that mercy in propelling yourself to shore. It is n very easy mutter Co keep afloat anil propel yourself If one has cramps. If one Is out In a boat and is upset, at ouee realize that you wil. come to tho top of Ibo water as the" bouyaney . of the hotly and the amount of air in the clothes will hrliig yuu to tho surface and of course the obvious thing is not to get excited 'Keep from waving youi arms nutl beating the water. A gentle propelling of the arms aiul a sliglir motion .by the f:;et such' n one does In walking will emrble any one whether they can swim or not to keep afloat and their head above the water. Especially Is this true of women ns their clothes are more dran'd about the body and therefore will contain . more air thun men's clothing and this will help mutcrla'l- ly to keep a parson on the surface ot the water. A detailed nccount of the meth ods of life saving will follow this article. Kcuiiing fully that there are numbers of people In the city that cannot swim, tho Y. M. A. wishes to nn mm me that through their fa cilities of. the swimming pool and itnorurtors the Y will be very glad to teach anyone, man, woman, boy or girl, to swim free of charge. All that will be necessary will he to ' RrntiiKe at the Y tlosk for appoint ment. If these few simple ruli!i a-e fol lowed catofully, the great majority of ill-owning accidents will !bc presented. (Ipsofel t Th OBieTTW) ELGIN, Ore.. June !4. Elgin sister town In the north end of the county, has completed plans for the most successful race meot and cele bration InHlio town's history and It will not be emlna to say that the plans are such that the event will likely be the peer of any ever stag ed in eastern" Oregon. The event opens July 3 and will extend to the evening ot July Gth. The racing program is sponsored by Jas. Elliott, who has just put the finishing touches on an $18,000 race course. The purses for the three- day race meet exceed 12,500. AP present there are over &0 head oC race horses In the stables and more are en route to !Elgln. It Is cstlr mated that the total entries will not fall but little less than 100. The daily program Is composed .of many dashes, ladies' anil men's re lay races, chariot and Human races A - bucking and steer roping' con test will also be stuked each day. Haseball games will also be a feature ot the event. Arrangements liavc-been undo tor a game each day, preceding the races. July 4lli ti tiata Itay. July 4th will be a gala day in the little city. Elgin will stage an other -of the excellent parades for which she has become notod. He liable Information Indicates that the parade this , year will not only be a great deal more extensive than nny of th epast but the quality will be Improved, insuring :a parade that will be worth - traveling . miles to witness. ' . An unusually Interesting patriotic program will follow tho purudt. The program will be held at the city park, following which dinner will be enjoyed. . : ' The afternoon will bo replete with races. , , Held Sports, Curing the forendou of July tith a program of field sports will be preseuted. The program will con sist of races for all ages, woights and for both sexes. It will be on the afternoon of the 5th that the races' will be brought to a icluse. i Both roiay races will be finished op that day. -. larJuus Amusements. Various forms of amusement will ho',, pruvldod during tho vvonlngs. Members of the. American Legion are erecting an open-air dancing: pavil ion. Tho Ford garage building, a spacious strueture. Is bulug convert ed into a frontier town, In which win Oo held a real old-time 49 show, with dancing and various oth er forms of amusements. Spevlal shows will bo presented at Elgin's magiilficent theatre and all in nil there will bo something doing every minute GLDDUTK0F DIRT HI'OKANK, Wash., June 24. Oold litres, totaling about $100 have been nicked out of the dirt by worknu-n on the downtown ewor construction jol :iere in the last few days. The' finds are attributed to A low dace in ait old sower pipe about tijrh',- 'en feet under ground. The heavy oins went into the low place and Ua'ed, When the old pipe was torn out, tne coins dropped flown and have leen due out. Most of the coins ar 5 and $Hi frold pieces, Rome of which apparently lound thetr way into th TV - tVijrf- "rBri or frnrp ftTO, AUTOMOBILE S5 I'lnaiit.'iiifl "Wizard' Points out," Reasons JYVhy Uusi- ness will Continue to be .Good. " k . , WEI.I.ESLEY HILLS, Mass., June 24. -Jn discu.-sinc the general situa tion for tho week IKogcr Wi Babson, tho statistician today niado the fol lowing analysis o the Automobile .In dustry: x "Many persns have been surprised at the recent rebound in the automo bile industry and in the price of uu tomobilc securities. Those, however, who have been carefully watching thej situation are not surprised The price. cut in automobiles developed new buy ingj tho extension of the good romis, movement increased the point of sat-l uration; and thp reduction in the cosP of tires and general supplies encour. aged more people to use cars. Thej man who has never had any car now; drives.' one; and . the nmnS'ho was content with one car now has two oi l three. Ts'o, flic saturation point ha not yet been reached. Moreover; aa' our system of good roads is extended,' this satuiution ponit is Puslicd further! and further away. The saturation point for automobiles in this country; will not be reached until our present- system of highways has been complet-1 2d and perfected.- ' "Tho great factor, however, which i is today making business for the uul tomohile companies is the silent andj insistent purp osing of "parts" byi the ; present users of cars. Pcople have no idea of the tremendous busi ness existing today in automobile! parts. It is ircncrully estimated that) about ten billion dollaps is invested in automobiles and their accessories. It is further estimated that a man pends about 5 percent a year on re-1 paint and that a large proportion of, ,UiU in f..- "H.! .,,.... I1...I from three hundred to our -hundred I million dollars of automobile business' ner vear -exists in the -manufacture nil bale nf new parts for cars already,! old. Not only is this a liiruc amount 1 of money, but thcrp is as much not Prulit in this business as in double or trclje hc sumo amount of auto mobile business. It yuu .have uny. doubt of this take the "parts" cat alog for nil car and mid up what it would cost to buy nit the pints of the ear separately. Not only are the companies gotling high jiriccs for mvnu pin in utti, iiii-ti: in imuimciiy on expense connected with the sell- ing of' these; -pints... iWhen buying' a complete.- cat' J ni;i" buy fi'om any ane of a humireil companies, but when buying a part to one of my present cars 1 must buy of the company which , manufactures the ear. hale of then.: pails is bringing into the older com-, pHincs a Lrciuenoous income. "investois will theiefoie see that the automobile business has giaduated from the experimental stage and has become a gi'cnt settled in:lu. try, at least so far ns the older company i. concerned. The gon( will nsst.t of ev cry business should increase as years g on, pioviilcd it, manufactures hon estly a useful product. The older automobile companies, however, pos sess tho additional nsct of being able to sell parts for existing cars. Many of these ocmpanics could pay their dividends, ccitainly their -"pre-' ferred dividends, fiom the profits frnm sn'e of ra-it. If I'oi di-l 't. manufacture another car, he could do a tremendous business fur years to come in manulacturing parts for the curs already sold.- If the saturation point is ever reached in the automo bile business, the profits from the replacement of maencs and the sale of parts will still be tremendous, "Of course, now automobile com panies do not possess this asset Henco, conservative men purchase on ly the stocks of the older and more, stable concerns. Wise investors' also look carefully U tho capitalization. Before buying 'an automobile 'stock, divido the capitalization by tho an nua) output both in cars and in dol lars. Certain popular makes of cars ur0 over capitalized, and certain com panies with small outputs have very conservative capitalization. There. fore, ono should consider both the output and the capitalization. Neith er factor by itself is Sufficient in judging an automobile stock. "I want to emphasize particularly," concluded Mr. Babson, "the fact thst the automobile industry is todny n permanent industry and that the so-i curities of the standard automobile companies should rank with those ofj the steel companies. Moreover, ill view of the foreign competition which the stool companies will soon have,! i snouiu even ue inclined to sell cer tain steel securities and invest the proceeds in seasoned automobile stocks." . ' In spite of strikes actual and threatened general business is hold ing its own. The index of the Hab.-ion-chiut shows activities at 17 per cent below normal- The same as Ian week. . ' - j - JAPANESESPIIM MUCH GOTTON Most Important Industry in japan, bays Louiinerciiil Paper There. AXTI.lil.AND I.AU S I (Hy A.noclsteil Pion.) TOKIO, June 2-1. Cotton spin ning winch Is the most Important industry in Jopun, Is threatened with a serious crisis, seconding to the 'Dlamoirtl," n Toklo commer cial nowspaper. "The Industry en joyed an unprecedented prosperity during the war boom and nil the spinning companies reaped enor mous profits and wonie of them paid dividends us high as 70 to 100 per cent,'' says this newspaper. "This not li n n a tu rally drew the attention of capitalists with the re sult that old concerns enlarged their manufacturing -rapacity and a ninii bor of new factories were started. anon tliu panic occurred Jn 1&20 tho market suffered from n' over supply ot cotton yarn and tho spin ners were obliged to curtail the output by mutual agreement so ns to prevent a further slump of tho market. Owing to artificial means applkld to relieve the depression of business wliut is known us an In terlm boom occurred list summer and It lusted for several mouths. This hud tho erfect of further en couraging tho establishments of now spinning cunccrns. On account ol thu In tin I in boom tho spinners abol ished tho restriction agreement from December inst with tho result Hint the output Bince that month has been steadily increasing. In Feb- conditlon the prevailing depression will lust ut leost for a year or two and the demand for piece oods consequently will be less, "During March anil April lust Hie etpnrt of yarn to China was com, parutlvely actlvo .about 0,0111) bales wore exported each mouth hut since the outbreak or hostilities the ex port to China bus dot-lined to a negligible quantity. Eevn should the export to China renin in on the 40.UOU bale level that would not bu a very Influential factor In the Tpico of the fact that the monthly out.putof cotton yarn Is returned at something like Sill), 000 bales. It is true thut ipnrt of the yarn pro duced is consumed by the spinning companies themselves for tho nuinu tacturo of cotUin cloths for export but as the export of cotton cloths is as Inactive as that ot cotton yarn they wtll nut be liM-epji ed to go oil with the miiiiifactiiie of cot ton cloths that cannot bo sold. Ac cording to statistics till per cent of yarn produced Is consumed in the country and tho remaining 40 per cent Is exported but owing to the fallliig-off In the domestic demand it Is tenrod that the market will Inevitably suffer from over supply. "Moreovor, tho rapid development of tho spinning Industry In China in recent years, coupled with the keen competition ot British. Amer ican and Cicrmau goods and the pro posed raising of the tariff of China and Imllu, hi o considered further factors likely to bring uhout a crisis of the spinning Industry In Japan. ' RAPID PROGRESS SPILLWAY It will not bo long bcfnro the lovul ot the water at Denver lake Is again back to the high 'witcr murk, Jircording to 0f A. Kratn city manager, who has Just return ed from the Inko where he hns been superintending the Installation riot the now splllwuy.-. Mr. Kratz reports that the water has rlHfu 3 '.4 feet , since his crew went to work to chock the washing, out ot the hunks where the spillway was by putting in n temporary dam and that now It Is within four leet of high Water mark. In order to do the work us eco nomical as possible Mr. Krali Is making use nf a portion of the wuHhout, which Is as doop na 36 foot at places. In such a way ns to save excavation. Uebrought buck with him some pictures show lug the progress oC thu work und tlie dumago done by the spillway's being carried away which graphical ly show that If steps had not boon taken soon nftor the washout the damage would huva been much greater ami it would ' have rust a great deal more to repair It. ' (By Associated rresa) " . CHICAOO, Juno. 21. Legislation to prohibit traffic in human glands will be introduced In the next ses sion of the Illinois legislature ac cording to two members of tho gen-i'mry list, howuver. a reaction set oral assembly Hoprcsentiitlvos ' and tho depression began In real I Thomna J. O'Orady and I.iwrence G. O'llrlon both democratic mem bers fiijin Chicago districts. IJUXWIAI, O'DIKI'V ii:.MI0S ,(llv Aniot'tntt'tl t'ruf.) 'lH'M.IN, Juno Oen. Owon O'Duffy, chlor staff of, the Irish republican army, einphutlrully cun trudit'ts the allegation that Flelid Marshal Wilson's assassination was the work of thnl organixntlon. earnest. The stock, rice, cotton yarn and other mercliarellso mar kets began to slump In uuick suc cession, while the amount of specie kopt In Japan abroad rapidly da creisod owing to the large volume of Imports ordered during Uie in terim ooom last your. Tho domestic consumption of cotton - yarn1 has greatly decreased as limy be Inforred from the partial or total stoppage or work . In almost all the weaving districts. In tho opinion of those who nro well Infotinied with the LA GRANDE CONSTRUCTION & SUPPLY CO. General Contractors and Builders Screen Doors, Windows and all kinds of Mill ai '....Cabiuet "Work. Estimates on Plate Glass and.... Store Fronts Phone 428-J Cor. Greenwood and Madison La Grande, Oregon H. P. Neilson andKJhas. E. Harris, Props. . I PRICES on Tires, Tubes, Gabriel Snubbers, Bumpers, Spot Lights and Tire Chains. : Over Btocked and! must move them We want your repair business on any make of car. ; , 'Our Guarantee is what you need on your repair work Home of the Chevrolet and Nash. BLUE MOUNTAIN GARAGE . AVERY HARRISON, PROPRIETOR THE WORLD'S FINEST MATTRESS W. H. Bohnenkamp Co. SUNDAY and MONDAY Y'S .1 . i ,. i Mi.i; .mimsiiim-; OCDf.'X, I'tJih. June 21. Aflnr watcliliiK a mine In Otl'-n nnvnii fur ncv;rit. la. ubsi.-rvlni; two inp Twh1 miners poius 10 work ut im curly hour vnci mnrnirtt:, hut full ing to find Unit nny ore h Im'Idc mini if sheriff "t Upnlln AVrdnd-ty Kiit it ml rtirly Thir.Hy mutt fiirtlu-r invexiiciitlnn. Tln-y ruM his ftlll. wircnil harrplfi mi wlit JESSE L LASKY PRESENTS Big 3 Day CELEBRATION and RAGE MEET - ELGIN, OREGON July 3, 4, 5. Parade, Band Concerts, Dancing, "49" Show, Athletic Smoker, Field Sports, Etc. The Best Galaxy of Race Hor3es Ever Assembled in Eastern Oregon. $2,500.00 IN CASH PRIZES BASEBALL GAME EVERY DAY KlfKli CAMPIXO (IROl'ND.S Kor ri.vim iTMTvutioii write or win- Iver ' HillHHISl'll ry- t. GLORIA SWANSON -in HER HUSBAND'S TRADiMARK" ASlIIM.MKI.'INr. advert influent fir Iter lin.liahtl's jirnsperity! That's all she meant tn liiin! Ami for her woman's heart ilii'iii'l lie ive Iter fown:; in ii .jewels and pleasure Hut when n belter man ollfered love--? Sec this vivid roiiiaiH'C ol' modern married life! llii il'lin,) tM ii of Mcxiivn hamlits the flight across the IJonlei the treat7 love seene in tlie lost forest 1 liven more dash and heauty than in ( ililterinir iloria's nther selisat if li, Klinor (ii n's "Tlie (ireal .Moineiit." Comedy "A CHILI ROMANCE" 1 ToRcob- REOULAR PRICES , ' . a .... .