La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, April 14, 1923, Image 7

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Newspaper Page Text(granite Swntttg tent?r VOLUME XXVI LA GRANDE, OREGON. SATURDAY, April 14, 1923. member op associated press SECMON TWO NUMBER 162 1 EDIATE GUI BAH Work on Fish Ponds at Wallowa Lake to Start Wki,i.ks;.i;y jiii.li "Ofe-iT W. Ualjson 5. Muss., Air. is very uptlm isllc on th iinmoUhUe outlook. Kint, rolurnlnir from his in,,ion trip, h, Juia liwa KolnB thruiiirii n... .,. leportB niHl litfurvs which accuinulul m on his d.-sk during his nlwcncu. JIm-wj slatlslics aru even more i-ncour-UBinir than bo had anticipated; "Aniericunl hualness hasl certainly waked up!" accordinir to the statis tician. "The Hausonchart showed nearly 4,0OO.OUU men out of employ. ,er uko. Today It shows practlcully no unemployment. Whoru tho blast furnaces wore then bein? banked, new furnaces are now (jelni; Hliirtd und premiums are being paid for prompt steel deliveries. The cop per industry Is showing activity tor ,,rl 'or several years and many or the miners liave been given increase or 5(1 cents a day Uiiilding Is still booming and the 1 y J ; jiKiircs win exceed uny previous year iiuinmuiunuinB tile big volume of Si-w lCnsiaiKi eiimiKcii ine must remarkable change in sentiment I find right ut home, hi in now England. A year ago thu mills were culling wages and great num- uers 01 workers weio out on strike. Today the mills are working overtime unu me largest concerns are advanc ing wages. Of course, this Is an un healthy sign for the long pull beeuuse . It Is due only to. the artificial barrier o Immigration. On the other hand. Increased wages are a great temporary miniums to trade. The purchasing power of many cities is simply the total of these cities' payrolls. Increas ing wages In New England's mills or l-J'fr. increases the purchasing pow er of the communities to almost a cor responding amount. This means that thfse manufacturing 'centers will during l!i3 be the best places to send salesmen, because most wag. workers spend all they get. Moreov er, ueh salesmen should be sent to these cities ut once, because the pres ent bourn cunnot be long lived. It Is not based 'on a firm foundation. Many of these men now getting an in crease in their wages will bo out of work before l!i:M is ended. . Cotton IMaiiting Onv ''While coming north last week rrom my winter home at Mountain Jyake in the beautiful Jtidge Lake ' Section of Florida, X saw cotton being planted In Georgia. It Is evident that the South is very happy with present price of cotton und that a larger ucreago will be planted in llll'.l. Torn planting has started in the Koulhwest and tile seeding of outs Is seen throughout the. South an I Southwest. Winter w;heati 'doubtless, was, killed tu sotne ex-tent last tnontii x in 'Illinois, Indiumu Missouri and Jven Kehfueky; but' these fields will soon be replanted for 6ven the farmer is feeling belter than he has felt for some years, in spite of the fact that is not yel out of the woods. JOSEPH, Apr. 14.-R. H. Bonney passed through town yesterday on his way to Wallowa lake. Mr. Bon ney is here to' definitely locate the ground for the construction of fish ponds, on which work is to 'begin within a few days. Ground for the - Domis has been given by Chief Joseph Park und Wal lowa Lake Park. The spring stream which runs west of the grounds will be utilized and the commission con templates building no less than eight of the retaining ponds. At the Union hatchery there are now a half million baby trout nearly ready for' transplantation; By the time the ponds are completed these young trout will bo brought to the lake and placed in them, hey will be cared for during the summer nnd then drift into the lake. They should be between three and four inches in length by that time and able to rus tie for themselves in the icy waters of the big pond, Mr. Bonney stated that Hie com mission will continue to stock the lake until it becomes ' known a the home of the Eastern Brook trout. It is expected that within a few years spawn can be taken from the lake. In the meantime, while the work of stocking takes place there will lie a lot of good fishing. As an attraction for tho many vis itors at the lake, Mr. Bonney con templates bringing a dozen or more of the big Eastern Brook trout from the Union hatchery and place them in the pond at Wallowa Lake pork. These trout represent the larger sizes of the specie and will give the people CHECK DISCOUNT SYSTEM OPPOSED BY MANY BANKS about the first of October the screens I ah idea of what may be found in the will be lifted and the young trout. will lakes in this vicinity. Origin of Man Dates Far Back to Remotest Ages lie grout illlt'lfiilty wna that tho price of what lie hud to sell went down so mud) more than the iru't of v.-hut n' had to buy. What the farmer wants Is liisher produce prices or lower merchandise prices. Now to haw iiierchnndittr prices ko up still hlKln-r in us everything indicates will le the case, the fanners must Ret higher prices fur their 1023 crops, or else there surely wilt bo another col lapse in iH:M. We cannot get Rood business by disregarding either the. Multiplication Table or thu Ten Com mandments. Ituhr Invasion Help. "The Kuhr invasion is also helping spring busim ss ovtr here in America. For the first time in history except tlurijig tho Great Worlil War wo aru shipping col;e to I "ranee and Ger many. Japan, which iiad ordered great amounts of steel from Ituhr mills, is now turning to the 1'nited Statin. Kurope, which last year had turned again to production, is ho. busy playing politics and watching the exhibition of a War Pageant staged In the Ituhr Valley.,.. While Kurope 13 indulging In this luxury, she must eat and live. Hence. Franco and Ger many are again buying Roods in Am erica, as the export figures lo be Is sued shortly by the Department of r-AiP-rce. will clearly show. How Ion this situation will last.-no nn ran tell; but it is helping usliere in ' the United States. "Spring business is also being In creased by the belief that Congress will not be in session again until irembcr and then for oDly a short ses sion. Whatever the motives of our , politicians may be. the fact ri-main that they are a great drag on uv nrosnerily of America, I'nder our present system of government th" on reason we have any prosprri'X Is be in use of our tn mendous natural re. nources. Our forests, mines, fort Hi fields, nnd oth-r great gifts of fWu enable lis to afford to indulge In fue- ttoal leRislation and political log-rod ing as a pastime. Hnc", when w ceane this s'lfish game for ntn months, business almost always pH- up. Certainly this is ono of the chb'f causes for optimism today. "f aiii very hopeful for ImiiM-diat.' business.' concluded Mr. Habson. "as the robins come back nnd th tree l-uf out business w ill be uood. ami al1 of us prosperous. I only ndd l-t u be sure not to abuse this prosperity, or tho Iiitbsom hart, which nnu fnn'M nt i abo C-rui, n Hi C.Li; a.-,- ju tr LOXDOX, Apr. 14 Much specula tion as to the ape of man has arisen as a result of the recent discoveries of fossil human skulls in South America, Tataffopia and the island pi Jersey. The estimates as to the an tiquity of the human race range all the way from ten thousand to a mil lion years. Dr. Wolf's reported dis covery in Patagonia of a fossilized human skull of the tertiary period, however, may nullify all previous scientific calculations on this subject and the public is now getting a lit tle chary about accepting even scien tists' estimates regarding the date of the origin of the human trace. bver since the unearthing of the ashes of King Tutankhamen, who, in the view of anthropologists, is to be reckoned only as an 'lnlant, as the ace of man goes' startling discov eries have been made all over the world which upset all well-established anthropological foundations.' Dr. A. Smith Woodward, : director of the geological department of the British 'Museum, makes some inter esting commentaries on the latest discoveries in skulls nnd bones. "For moment. says he, "the public seemed to assume, that we had found at last the first man who lived on earth. I fear, however, that these conjectures are as baseless as they are interesting. Since the skull from Jersey is said to have been lound near a neolithic burial chamber, it is probably much nearer our period than any of the skulls of" fossil men which show resemblance to their ape-like ancestors. And since the snecim'en from Patagonia comes from a country which has furnished more 'mare s nests in the study oi pre histoiic and ancestral man than any other oart of the world, it will not excite interest among anthropologists until some geologist admittedly skill ed in such matters has satisfied him self that this is a true fossil, defi nitely a-ociated with the remains of extinct animals." J Who. then. Dr. Woodward asks, was the first man on earth "To be strictly accurate," he irephes, "we ; have not yet found him, although i we? have some reason to think we know where to look. In the dim : borderland of time which separates, man from monkey there roamed,! somewhere in Central Asia, a form: of large-brained ape destined to be ine precursor oi man. ii ir inimw sible to fix a date for his appear-i ce, but we do know that when hei came into being the tumaiayan mountains had not yet reared their! peaks." ! The eminent British geologist says nothing has yet been discovered re pecting the habits and lile oi tnese apes. A party oi Amercian natural ists is now searching for them in promising localities in Mongolia, he Ids. It was in the Neanderthal, near Dusseldorf, Germany, writes Dr. Woodward, that the remains of the earliest man of whom anything is really known were discovered. Com pared with our knowledge of his an- ' Youngest 4 cestors," he says, "he is an intimate acquaintance. But it is impossible to assign him a date in years. Swed ish geologists .reckon his . age '.as about 12,000 years." - "Neanderthal man," continues the British scientist, "was defin(tly a man. He lived in caves fromSWiich he sallied forth to hunt the animals such as mammoth, irhirioceros, rein- deer and bjson, which then roamed over Europe. 'We have found his tools, flint and bone, and wo have found even the bone Pins with which possibly the early women fastened the rough skins which served- them for petticoats. We have also found remains of paint and rouge, which seem to signify the dawn of vanity. "Most remarkable of all, we have ascertained that these early human beings believed in a future life, an enormous advance in thought. They buried their dead, and with the dead we have found both stone implements and the bones of animals which had been buried when still covered with flesh, and were doubtless intended to be used as food in case, the departed spirits should suffer he pangs,, of hunger." - ACCESS IS MADE TO 10,000 SMOKES ANCHO It A G K . Alaska. Apr. 1 i. Through arrangements being inado at Anchorage by Captain Nick Gaikema, Norse seaman and one of the few per sons who have visited the Valley of the Ten Thousand 8moliK. this mar velous volcanic region will bo nuufc accessible to hardy tourists next sum-1 mer. Captain Gaikema has picked a trail chat wilt admit of access to the; region, including. ,.M.t. Katmal, . in a distanfcu.of sopie thirty Jliiles. ThM. trail was, laid out last summer whe Captain Gulkvma penetrated the valley wlrli a view to scouting the re gion and selecting both a route and headquarters for hardy tourists who wish to view tho phenomena of thousands of fumerolcs and smoking volcanoes. On the trip Captain Gai kema is said to have bravd deuth a thousand times In threading his way through the treacherous Jiudian lab yrinth. His walked over lava bridges jind caverns when tin sound of foot- uteps on the thin covering echoed far below. At night ho camped on moun tain slopes whore the rock was too warm for comfort while iuy winLs bathed his frame. In considering the Valley of Tt n Thousand Smokes. Cnptain Gaikema recommends it only to tho most har tourists, those capable of carry bu: their blankets and provisions on tlieb- backs and climbing along a rou,' country where nature must be appli ed to for shelter. During the summer, staunch gaso line boats wiy be used between An chorage and a snug bay of tin- Kai mal volcano, whenco adventurers will lehftnite th" Vnlley iifoot. WASHINGTON, Apr. HJ.-Bank- ers, bank depositors, business and commercial concerns generally are all deeply interested in the outcome of tho efforts of the federal reserve banks throughout the country to compel banks tp pay at par checks drawn upon them. Particularly among whatiare com monly referred to as country banks, it has become ,the practice to charge a commission or exchange tor re mitting funds to clearing banks in the payment of checks drawn upon them by depositors. The practice is said to have 'brought the banks con siderable income, and for that rea son they are strenuously contesting the position of the federal reserve banks which would cut it-off. Some states have come to tho re licf of the banks indulging in the i practice by enacting' laws which ! would authorize its continuance. iThis was the case in North Carolina. When the federal bank at Richmond, Va., decided to extend its "par clear ance into that suite it encountered opposition from the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Monroe and 11 other banks. The . federal reserve bank at Atlanta, Ga., had a simitar experience with banks in that slate. The North Carolina banks defended themselves under the act of 1921 of the general .assembly of that state which authorized banks and trust companies to charge a fee for re mitting funds in payment of checks drawn upon them. The state courts of North Carolina, however, held the state law' unconstitutional on the ground that it was in conflict with the federal reserve net, and that it contravened, the legal-tender provis ions of the federal constitution. , The United States district court for Northern Georgia without going into the merits of the controversy dis missed proceedings brought by the American Bank and Trust Company and other banks of Georgia on the ground of want of equity, and its action was approved 'by the court of appeals. : - When the case reached the su preme court, that court took notice of some of the charges made by the Georgia banks. The opinion, written by Justice Holmes, referred to meth od which it was asserted the Fed eral Reserve Bank of Atlanta in tended to use to force the 'Georgia banks to cash checks at par, giving most attention to the declaration that the Atlanta reserve bank in tended "to accumulate checks upon the country banks, until they reach ed a large amount, and then to cause them to be presented for payment over the counter or by other de- When You Buy ; Meadow Harvest Butter You Get the Best Scientifically Made from Pure Cream Union Creamery Company Phone Main 122 . La Grande, Oregon. vices detailed ot reiiuiro payment In cash in such wise as to compel the plaintiffs (the Georgia banks) tu maintain so much cash in their vaults as to drivo them out of business or force them, if able, to submit to the defendant's (fedentl reserve bunk's) scheme." Pointful? out that lin action would lie against a man who through "dis interested malevolence" caused a run upon a bank and ruined it, Jus tice Holmes stated that "a similar re sult if. less complete in its effect is to be expected from tho course that tho defendants are aliened to intend." The supremo court conclud ed "thatthe United States did not intend by that (the federal roscrve act) statute to sanction this sort of warfare upon legitimate creations of tho states," and it sent the case buck to tho district court to bo tried on its merits. After such a trial the district court entered a decree dismissing the com plaint of tho Georgia bunks, and the fifth circuit court of appeals nf finn ed the decree. Thus the Georcia case is back in the supreme court for tho second time, where it has been joined by tho North Carolina case. Because of the importance of an early decision the two cases have been advanced for oral argument on April 2:). It is expected that a final tension will be .handed down at the present term of court. The federal reserve jianks- declare the two cases are regarded by them "as essentially test cases," and em phasize the importance to business generally of having their position sustained, pointing out that while in individual instances it may not bo of much . moment whether a small commission or "exchange" is charged by tho bank upon which the check is drawn, it is of material importance to know when checks upon ibanks HEY KIDS! A Free . BALLOON .. ' With ' EACH ICE CREAM CONE SATURDAY ' "While They Last v We Use the Famous COCO-COxNE not members of the federal reserve system accumulate in largo numbers wnether the full face value of the checks will bo received. Should the small banks bo permitted to churgc "exchange" for cashing cheeks, it will be necessary, the federal bunks declare, for business housos to ad just themselves accordinfly, and cith er require their customers to pay the cost of collection or increase their prices to cover it. UACIIEI,0lt YOUNG AT Ml liOISIC, ltlaho. Apr. 14. Having cast his ballot for every republican presidential candidate since 18ru, when John C. Fremont of California ran for office, is the boast of John Schmidt, 91, resident of 1 ui ley, and believed to be the oldest bachelor in Idaho: Schmidt was Iborn in New York and went to (,'alifornin during the gold boom days of the '60s. . He came to Idaho in 1864 and has resided in this state ever since. In the elections of 18(30 and lHI'.l, Mr. Schmidt cast his ballots for Abraham - Lincoln for president. Schmidt, remarkablv active for a man !)1 years old, says he feels sor-. ry for men who show their ago at only 7!) years. He. does all his own . housework, but snys that his being, a bachelor is not his fault. He admits thero was a girl in San Francisco the early days, but her parents objected because they thought him too poor. ,VAK Vin-S1 MKr.MOY (By Associated Press) RAN KUANOISOO, April 14. Ban " I'YuiU'lsco's veterans of tho World war will hold u reunion hero on tho sixtli anniversary of America's entry Into tho war. April 12. P lwaSi 135' ' it he LLDHU0' PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS 1 mwr-Tf i H 3 mn mmMT potato nscuir 4p 'or Kit mn l. .L hu No Time Wasted on a Hoteint Hughes t Just place the food to be cooked in the oven Set the ihf rmnmewr at the dwired cooking temperature and the pointers of the time control clock when cooking u to tart and finish .V The range will do the nat ' ' ' ' 1 Just this one convenience h.u lived many houri during the day for American Housewives all over the country . ' It can do the unit tor you ! There a Hotpoint Hughe Electric R-wce designed for every household requirement "t ui . rum wiv.iuwk hu iti us vtuiuiian,itc me one mat suns you out , . If more convenient for you to trL'phone, then call us and we will send Thu adteriurtwn, u me of a sntet earrpng a ntw reap. Tlity art mJjuM V Cut ihem out and tare for reftttnet. EASTERN OREGON LIGHT AND t POWER COMPANY V Edward K'Jche Hardy, Jr.,' who entered Columbia University at H. In a senior at 14 and the ynur.gr st person ever admitted to tho Phi Pea liappii honorary tiatwal'y. Week End Specials Detl Spreads, $2.0!) lo $1.35 Sheets, 72xU0 .?1.8J Pillow Slips, 42x3G, each ..55c Large Covered Willow Picnic Baskets $2.!)8 Fancy Willow Market Baskets Me, 85c, Wc Japanese Table Cloths $1.2o to $1.85 Extra Special Saturday Only Tumblers, 5c Each Andrew's' Variety Store LIVING ROOM SUITES f We are now showing the most complete line in Mohairs, Velours ami Tapestries in the history of La Grande. W. H. Bohnenkamp Company GIFTS THAT, LAST THE WIVES OF KLV; TUT and their Jewelry " We have heard much of King Tut but, so far, very little of his wives. Indeed, the wivts of King Tut never had the opportunity of the well dressed lady of today the opportunity to secure Diamonds, Wrist Watches, Bar Pins, Finger Rinjp and all kinds of Beautiful Jewelry, which are now within the reach of all, at J. H. PEARE & SON f La Grande s Leading Jeweler . , 2ffl II III , f ?'S.5.l - - - "V -N " "V "