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Saturday. FebYiiaiT 21, 192:1. I'AGE FOUR rm ux Grande evening observer La Grande Evening Observer AS IMHH'tfJVIMiJVr KKWNPAIM'.lt. Published tiiiily Mini weekly at La (Ira rnii-. nn-Kim, liy La Jrn nU" Kvtm luu, (Jb;i'-rv-r I'liliitnliliiK '''ini'i;y. itKLVU DKNNIH, JOditor. Entered at tin 1'ontorrico t flrflndc, Oregon, tin Ho-eond CIwm .Mull Matter. II y Mall. pnily, per year, in Hdvuriee fS.Oft lntily, i months In nclvnnoe I. fid Dully, lhro muni Us. In ndvnr Weekly i I hser ver-Si n r, by mall. ht yen p. in rnlvjiiifH It. .'.ft in hhh iii other cities- Oregon lintel News Hi ii ml. port In ml : Jiniiuriut Nwi it-it and, -Portland; MuHhoiuuh Now mami, rorininu. Editorials from Over the Nation Ad'trcHn nil ooinniunfefitonn to TMI'I flHKJ'IllVKlC, Mlti AUiinn Avti,, La UranUi), Oruon. KtllSCUIPTKlN IIATK.S, Hy Carrier Dully, per mon Hi 7!ir I.'uilv. per three months Daily, pur six ino.. in u'lvuneo ...... $Lfii Daily. mIiikIo copy fie iA'l Y AMI :H TV OIW1UIAL PAl'lill. J'PPPItAL .MAKIIIAriK -V0 Now York World1: Hnnuior t'uppor lu mriwiwfiii- in tiniOIIll ttlO COIIHtUll. sii;;uiir:il nV"S' Uon and paw. u ledcrul marring nnd entitled to iiHi- for publication of inJilivorre uct. Apparently not content iiwm (iipaiciM)H ch'iiih'u . n ii r noi ,v,, t(t0 wpectiiClo of ino redorul 111 ' I'"l". 1... .miIm t I1IOII II Ifi I ii police court cases by reison of tlio FEARS TOLD IN I DESPAIR BOOK1 ...(...rulx., credited blu.t ih.. loi-nl n.vs mildlshcu Uitreili. AH rights of r-puhlleat ion of sit-cliil dispatches herein also am reserved. I.OHU OVEK M.U Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive iflory and honour and power; for thou hast croutod nil thing!, und for thy pleas ure they are uiaLwere made, Hovo lation 4:11. Custom Several widely-circulated hooks on polite behavior and the customs of fashionable society have lately been published, but none has anything to say on the etiquette of the hold-up. The traditional method of procedure was simple. The man with ths pistol said "Hands up," and. his victim put them u keeping them elevated more or less tremulously until the Holdup man nau gone rnruugu ma pockets and decamped. Most persons without special in struction on the subject would instinctively put hands up in such an emergency without the command from the highwayman, because it seems the proper thing to do. But that custom appears to be passe. To put hands up any more is to commit a social solecism. "Hands down" is now the accepted procedure, sometimes reinforced by the ad juration, "and keep 'em down." There's a reason. The highwaymen, who is accord with the spirit of the times haVe been studying "eiiiciency," nave discovered that the "hands up" business attracts too much attention. It is an illustration of "high visibility." ' Ever unostenta tious, preferring to pursue" their profession without be coming conspicuous, modern footpads have changed their tactics. Scholars say there is a logical reason behind ev ery custom. "Hands down" is clue to an incident which caused the capture of a pair of highwaymen. A pedestri an at a distance observed the victim's elevated palms, which he interpreted as a signal of distress and called the police. Since then several victims have received the com mand, "Don't put your hands up. Hands down and keep them down." It is true that in one or two instances lately persons thus accosted have refused to abide by the conventions and, instead of putting their hands either up or down have launched out vigorously with the right and the left and put their assailants to flight. But this is not a method that finds favor with the life and accident insurance com panies. In the main it will lie found safest to conform to custom, whatever that custom. ' Volatcud net, the senator would like to turn tliom also Into rilvorc courts. liut oven If the proposal worn not extremely Impraolleiihle. It Hhould be beaten. because It violates tho sound, est principles of our govern meat, Unit nothing shmihl he eeutrtiliKctt tu Washington which can p.il'oly be loft to the states. Ir'or If there Is ouu subject more than any other on which the local ophiitjii.ur the statcH shoulit be rlnal It Is on the law of ,iuar. rhitre ami rHvorec, If there iu ono subject on which a central iroveni- mcnt should not meddle It Is the ono which Henator f'npiicr has selected. ' l.Cfrl!dnt!on iif hU sort In always backed by people who arc so enor mously lmpr-.-cd by some compara tively minor evil that tiny tit a to and I cuui'ls. dlstrnrl contrrcss xtlll more and to fore,, i very part of the country to cout'urm t a law which one stale may thlak loo lax and another loo lunl. . .. If Senator "'muter would only con sider the amount, of ceutralliiatloit anil bureaucracy which cannot be es caped because of economic necessity lie would, not be s, anxious to coin, plicate the federal system by nn uecesnury federal meddling. Domestic Spankings While societies are formed to promote peace and or ators are trvintr to induce nations to use reason and moral Ktineirin in cot rlinrv l imit- rli ff ifitltips thf hnmp. thnt VlHVPll of rest from which is supposed to go out the inspiration for peace, is threatened with an invasion of force if the advice of officers of the law is to be taken seriously. A Detroit wife is advised by a judge of that city to spank her husband as a cure for staying out late at night and associating with bad company, and a New York mag istrate advises husbands to have their wives arrested and committed to jail if they will not cease from gambling at their card parties. While it might not be so distressing a sight to see a woman spank her husband as to see a man beat up a child as a means of leading them to a better life, the effect of such forceful measures, used by their parents with each other, will not likelv promote the peace education of their cliildreh. Besides, the Legal Aid Society, in its domestic decalogue just issued, admonishes the mother not to inter fere every time the father chastises a child. So, besides (Hy The Associated Press.) "I.KVKI.ANI). ()., ..h. 4. ThH process of political, social. Industrial 'tnd ruclal disintegration cannot be stayed by deluding ourselves in,.. minitiiig that we nn shut our Oie ugliest facts , of our tinn "iinuiy enunt "Hay by day. in every way, the world Is uruivlnir l,eit..h .....i bettor," Clenn Krnnli, of New York 'lly, editor of the I'cnlury Magazine, told tho meeting of tlie.i'ounc.t of fit.' .vciuuuisi episcopal Churrhl nor, today. j I'.'lve fears were specified by Mr.' I'rank as oontnlned in the hooks of I certain authors who have gone In! inak up what Mr. Krank termed the' meraiure or despair." The prophesy! of tlie Ncwliark. Ages springs from' some one or all of tlicHe.l'lve distinct tars, tie said. He described these aa the Itlologlcal tear-that the het t.i,,,,., OnCO Of the u-nH.l ..... demand a stan.lanilw-.l. arbltrnry. nsycb.dogicai r, .. ii , short-cu, remedy. If they think tll(iy "L,' L J''" can nure one defect, say marriages win ,,,,, , , ,,. . """"" bv hue ,,,! irli-l. trim , v ... "' " " " '"surgeni to ,.,,,,.,.v i.V.v w m,,,, ""uiviuual whom we Hitherto regard. ,,. ' ., , "..- ins one ol the mainstays of progress- rlflcc th niosli essential privileges ,tlra Kenn,,,le , , , ... . , . ill locil govern lit. to congest tho civilization hH ,,v..,-r..,....i ...; In centralize still furtheiv to Is-due r,,r ei i... tlve fear that the bigness and com plexity of the modern world have out stripped the administrative eapaeily of nianliind. and the Moral fear that til"' younger generation has renounced alleglunce to all w holesome slandarda of conduct and Is on the loose. The authors named by .Mr. Fro nu ns having eontribulcd In some of their work to this literature of desnair in. elud l.olhrop Stoddard, l.ebon. Trol-' ler, l-.verctt Dean Marlln. Lord llryee. i I., f. Jacks. Dean Inge, II. ;. Wells, Kdward Grant fonklln. Italnli Ames' Oram, Maillsnn (Irnnt 'anil olheis " "1 do not. suggest that we dlsregarl tills literuture of despair," sad MrJ h'ranli. "These five fears are well grounded. Our duly in lo conciuer them not y emotional Ineenlalion, but by removing their causes. I "lint there is also a literuture of hope, made up of creative ideas, I he new idealism and the new; spiritun, values. I venture to suggest some' Idens that seem to me must be res-. oiled front 1 he jargon of technical Hclinlarslilp. taken out from under the exclusive patronage, of cloistered Inlel- leclunls und put to honest work in l!i direction of .our public affairs if we are lo close the door to a m w Dark Aifcs and open the door to a new It,;, nnlssance. There are fultii:-..! Na tionalism; Economic Inlernatlonalism. 1 Hcmocratlzed Industry, Liberalized Business, Nationalized Polities, llu- llinnicd ndncatlon, Soclnllzed liellg. Ion and the Idea of n Well Trained ltaoe," - Mr. I'Ynnk staled that Cultural Na tionalism will ronvorl world politics into a competition In e.ce!lence in stead of a competition in armies; com-i inon sense will force us into some sort of inlernational munageiuenl of the fundamental iconoinic rights of tran-i sit trade, migration and investment in j hnckward countries: Democracy in j Industry must be workable democracy ; ami. not emotional: Hie business or the future must be socially sound in order to be commercially sound: Research should marry government aa tho schism between polities and. facts lias meant a dangerous celibacy iron, which we sulferdaily; the primary: business of education is to make the student at home In the modern world i nnd religion must speak to society as A MIRROR I'Olt MIS-ICRS Greenville. 1'ie.lmont: For centur ies unnumbered the miser has been subjected to pity and derision. In his maxims I'ublius Syrius said that 'the miser is as much without whr lie hits us what he has not." llurton remarked in his "Anatomv of Mnl. nneholy'' that it is "n mere mild ness, to live like a wretch and die rich." Nothinif better hits been said. however, than in this story from tho Itichniond Tiines-Dispatelit IWhen a trtun gU no mean he cyurn't spen' a nickel without ftjr urin' hits fi' per cent on a ilolluh," said Chareoal Kph, ruminalively, "he ain't provin' nothin' t' nobody 'ecp tin' he gvtina live pore utitl tlie ricli." Miyoue wno nas observed many misers will attest the truth of that sag comment. They will make more hullabaloo over the loss of u dime than -the poor man will make over tt thousand time as much. Thrift und miserliness are not identical, however much . they are confused. Nobody loTOS a tie-lit. man oveanf his heil'H. Which would .you rather do, live rich and; tlie poor, or live poor anil tlie rich? ; : 4tfWe$ jl cm v hi : i ; III i.W99STH?:'lrs?tBA- IU miniwiim " Picking Style Winners O. 1 1 I otyieaomi THE OFFICE CAT is a specialty witn tne xn. iv. vvrji LxLxuumao OF Tfl CHARACTER OF THE GARMENT. When vou knoit cones from this store you know it's right . l ..a.. . . b - ..i.;. .j-.. . i.;. ... i i.. 1 t. ... 1. aeain ourviuaitinice ui saiistaction Htanus imi ox uulii purchase. Wonderiul new spring models in the prettiest de signing. Y6u can choose without difficulty from any of thtfee they are lasmoneci 01 superior ma terials antVare irresistibly smart. A large new assortment of Coats, Suit's and Dresses just received-$18.75 to $75.00. HUH " THE BEST KKADINO MATTER IS IN BANK HOOKS .A man who could neither reud nor write applied for n job as janitor m a church. When the church bonrtl learned he was illiterate it refused him the job. But he soon found another, and beinit thrifty, he saved enoujrh to start in business und ten years lutor ho hud n larice store and a bank bal ance of $250,000. A chance came to hint to buy the property he occupied and a friend, nut knowing his worth, advised him to (ro to the bank antl make a loan. When he asked the bunk cashier for the loan of $100,000 the cashier showed surprise and replied: "But you have a balance of $2,10,000 in this bunk. Of course, if you would tather sivtn a note, we will gladly advance; yciuythe , loun." Thejin'nn ndmitted lib couldn't. Mgrt'ubi. nariicv so never drew out any of; his .money. "My ;odlH'ssi ' niitnj Uiittki ; of it. If you can -ninkje 'a ijmrYuir' million ten years without hetnir ah e to with institutions as well as Individuals. While Mr. Frank said the- Literature of Pespalr could be gathered together In a five-foot shelf and so labeled, the Literature of Hope was found here and there, thrown lip as unconscious by-products of the thought nnd Inves tigation of our modern biologists, psy chologists, economists, statesmen an 1 others. !umt!!!!mtiit;;mt:!:fc:t::t:yi:jmmtiit church" the spectacle of seeing their fathers anil mothers kept in j rend nor' write, wiiuvouiTyou Lve the straight and narrow way lv spanking and jails, the children are not lo be deprived of their time-honored privilege of being spanked themselves. France's Attitude lieen had you bad an education?" the cashier innuired. "I would be u janitor replied the merchant. Onco a maid lost her hold on a struj) An. i reciineit in n hache or's up. "Oh, pardon!" she cried, And tho monster replied: "Keep your seat-I'm a sociable (nap. u When a man trues to his tailor the tailor says, "that fit when he knows it doesn't. Anil Hie niun snvs, 1 II pay you nCNt week when he known ho won't. Wonderful world. Oon't tret discourai',1. It. I ,,fien the last key on the bunch that opens I lie lock. lloU'lintr is twice i, lei,. I o .Imv. elihR coal in the furnace, ami it takes twice as lone;. :,n t),era must hp something about bowlimr llmt makes it popular. NOT THAT KIND? Jud Tunkins says he thinks meblic the ex-kaiser will mukc a (rood hus bund. Anyhow he's not tho kind of niun to make his wife chop the fire- WiHul. TIIKY r.VNT UkSE Somebody compliiins that there arc too many lawyers and doctors in the counlry. .Well, that's natural euouijh. Luwyera and doctors are uhout Ih? only people who ate able to collect fees for their failures. BEST OK KKKKUKNCES Two dutkevs cm n ... ,k. ni. !kirts of a crowd where 1 Hiande The latest examples of cabinet making by enterpris-iiTs?iimK niiuuies, one o mem turned to his .eonipnnion and asked, "Who is Ant jiunn, Sam?' I "1 ilon't know, what his namo is," is.id Sam. "but he cvrtainly do re icoinmeii htsself." Report from Paris that the Washington conference treaties are scheduled for ratification in the near future is encouraged to those enlisted in the movement to rein force peace with amicable agreements and to lessen the menace of war by limiting armaments. Ratification by trance would complete the first grouping of the nations in agreement, as proposed by the Washington conference, and would make the first stage toward permanency of peace, under the Washington plan, an accomplished fact. ' Ratification by France would help to negative the charge of militarism that lias been filed against it 'and would place it before the world as co-operating with other nations to make peace enduring. The more selfishness a man has the more he is likely to be making a clamor for personal liberty. Hugo Stiiines says the Ruhr situation does not call for talk. He's right. It calls for payment. The allies say the Turks are bluffing, but they wish the bluff did not have to be called. , - - - - c - ing .correspondents seem to lack glue. Many a girl w ho has worn orange blossoms discovers she has picked a lemon. High School News Happenings in anil Around the School Centers I'he (by .lames t'okcr) Mimir Staff is working hifd to it ready for the i, ..u ,i... n.i i... ...) have he scllool niinu; printer In a. sliorl lime. i ins annum is expected to be one of the host that ' I . I ... ' I ' ' ." ... -- -' Jii tei ,vv . : v. nnv Jjtd:s i Icivf! u - ' 1 r.k ix h.is been printed by our high SCllOol. j The Oregon Society, "Sons of tho Amc.iciii Revolution". Is offering prizes totaling fifty dollars on topics connected with the war for American Independence. These prizes arc giv en to cneoin-iige lose of our countrv and Ihe study of its history. The idea of tin- light company, to avc.llilht, will pot be heeded b. i- .. ! m..i..' .lM.I.nlu .1 lu. silt wwk.s ev- 'v.. '...Rv,A vViW4- Jaiii.':i J '.ttui i. !. tl. ..'WeAtern.rf:liHunVl?r.v ice.. L i. ! hiirii(-.l in rrvirw'ir.K. liis tlkw:ift- the Impoi t:uu-' or wit- t f yon w.MM to Hfi- tin- spi "M ol tm1 mum: 1 ln U'H'urnm pminiy no inuro in.i j! La liraiiilc "IIIk'h Sfluml" MhnltMitllm no error.' l.mlv. ' tho f;;inu. lu-twein IVmllo- j iou nn.1 La tJrunl. .Sahinhiy nlKlil i'ljr.KT RKSUT.TS AVTTH A WANT AD it i. .. ,.i.i tl.t.i (li-nmlf sliowii 1,,"v"""' ii'mon- p'P in hiirklnwr P 1,t,r u'1,ni lltr,i it1 i ih-,n w:ts i v.T shown in lllc past. ;l m:m:i:::i:::i!;::?:i:;u r.au rniu. ' coiuins of spnnt:. the ii fonvcrsiitioii iromul the- of a constitution, tin1 third, tho ffinninK of the jfror'-tust rcpublk; in tlio liistory of tho world. Ho coni'lud od iy HayliiK that Washington's siu cohm was duo largely to his lliroi distinct fharucU'ristics, Ida soiikc oi" rlKht. tlnit Ih, lie was a man with -i conscience, his sonso of justico, and his Hiipi't'inu loyalty t" the I'nttod Stat os. A siiort poii nvx'tliiH- was hold fol IowIiik1 Uio Mr. Uov. gulRloy's addros alio:- which Mr. Towlor announced that ttiiM'e would lm no more school thjit day. Tho Senior piny Is to ho March, ninth nnd tenth. Hon't miss it. Mr. I livens, manager of the local Western I'liton, has been giving lee ttiroH to tho various Knglish elassos the past week on tho subject of ielo mains. lie dofinoil tlie dlflercnt foiina of tek'KriniH, Kiving the (PP'(. ximato tlnio that each would take hi transit, and toll us many ot lior terosViiiir and . educational, polnl. oj:tttnm:m:n: fuller inarteri e G. Huntley Hector. cnndtliuus li inu-1 Willi the lothini' ,lv. it in- i I rent 1 of the iiallii nan peon ininni io"'om u-m; t rack season. I- rotn Ihe in- I'oi- t re- mle. example. be 4; nimnu: font! vidod empbi I1.n1.tn.. When eaufie of tho location ami nature- 01 j teres! llmt Iuim' been shown. It seems the work it is niMTysarv llmt rm-ithat ve will have a l;ii'K. '"hinHMH. 1 ... t 1 1,'v.u'vmin i liooinir (hut the weather or eanning be fnrni.she.l ho:ird aivl 'wtil hecome war ,.i.t ,,Mi.i..,..,.i f traininii- m:iy lie n ,.,.,iit..n.. ..f 11... futiiro. unite a nundier of the nicin ..u.t.r -nioi-elnr.. Mm value need not ' beis ol htftl. year's le Included In oonipulitur Ihe net in-1 omne of the employee. The rule th.it active stnrtcil In the near are track team ; so we have hopcM for a very .stiecessiui mm mo.isuh. u pllen tu board and Imlin lurnlshed seamen. j The value of board ami IoiIkIm : furnished hospital einplovea i to lie' rolurnCd ns Income unle.'W (he em- j ployoe Is subject to duty at any limej tlliring the M hours of 'l ifuy and j therefore is re.iib ed 10 accept quar. j tors and meals at tho hospitals tn I addition lo his regular ' compeus-t . lion. The rental of a dwelling "and ap purlenanecs then ti" 1 a -n lulled i minister of the jtospel are exemvtod by the revenue att ol M'L'l, and n- longer needs o be im-ImhM in j;ro-s Income. i'ectain Items, as shown on forms, for ma k inu; the returns, are ;;peei;"ic ally exempt from the income tax such as proceeds ol" life Insurance policici, amounts rt reived through accident o ht ilth Insurance, alue f propcrtv aciiiiirtl by silt, henuesi, descent o" devise. Interest reeeivtd n state and certain federal bonds, amounts ve eehed as eoinpensation. tamtly al (utmeiiU and allnw.inces. umler the provisions of the war risk tnsurinee antl vocational rehabilitation pensions for nuiitary : naval serv- lie Ih lime of war. etc. schedule hat been urranROil as 101 lows: A dual meet with Pendleton, ul Pendleton. The "I'ounty -leei" ai I.a. (.JrailtU-; a dual incel with Pakr at La Ciando, and llio "Knslern itrpfiou Meet." AMMHhly Held. Thursday inorniuK. Iho fourtlV por- iotl. an tnwvuinly was tu tu 111 nonor of tho ISIrthday Anuiveisary or Cleo. i Wc.shlnnton. Hov. (1. 11. ouigloy of I the Klrst Methodist rhurch was the '-peakor. In IntrtMlncinK Mr. Ouigloy. Mr. Towler staled that v ery Htudenl in the Pulled Statcif waa taking; some itime during the i iy to commemorate in..-, t.iriit n( iieorireWashinalon. .Mr. 'n,.iiv staled In his uldret;s thai he hud his life U Mvo over, he would anplv himself to the study of the lives of the ri oat men. He nUed ns to study the bioRiaphiea of such men us Wshinloii. Lincoln, und 1-Yanklin. just to see where their Rreatness lie. Mo said tint the only thine that was jiermanettl and Immortal was great ness emboilied In the live of great nun. He spokn of the three meat achievements of Washington, which wore: Pirst. the seenrini: of the lirdo- t' ! pendence of the thirteen original col- nnt-m weonrt. the weunn ni im-e eoionUs into a union by the adoption in: I Snodgrass and Zimmerman Funeral Service Par lor, Licensed Embal mer, Ambulance Ser vice. Phone Main G2. 1505 Fourth St La Grande, Oregon UJ-Tkiftyolkr. I am 4oir4 to'. KoVe a Teal mezQqc for you! I have been, -encjjaecl to VorJ for,tke liveh Bank ii hif toiv wot m m M La lrande t National Bank ii..'t V V ''' " t '-
