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THE UA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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OUT OUR WAY
By WILLIAMS
TO NOUl A NO IM
fiREO OF OARNlMCj
SRXKIN&I ILLTAMEi
EDGE OFF Tntt
OOMAI
oo ooit
GOOD GpSW
MA ,WOOB e
CUTTlM' Th
OoiCh! IF I
CilT LOCK3AW
iTa BE VOuR
FAULT -OO!,
If t i
A nation should renu'inlx-r these days that cocking the
gun is very similar to rocking the IhkiI.
The economical Juno bride will always cook more than
is needed so as to have left-overs to use up.
Some of those trout on I'ive Points Creek that have
bficn waiting five years for an accommodating fisherman
to take them out are "dinned small for their age."
There always seem to be enough signers for anything
being circulated to accomplish the aim of those whose
acs need grinding. As a result Oregon loses considerably
ovr a million dollars in revenue until the next general
election and it's revenue needed badly.
The plea of President Coolidge on Memorial Day fo.
local law observance is a plea that every community in
the nation needs to heed. Not that we, in Union count),
or other people in other communities, are particularly and
dangerously lax, but it is true that observance of the com
munity and slate laws is looked upon with too much indif
ference. Only by solving law and order problems at home
first can we hope to be able to accomplish much nationality.
i
President Pionnar of the Northwest Realtors, in his ad
dress' to local real estate men Friday, said that something
less' than 50 percent of the families in the United States
own their own homes and from that number come only 10
percent of the divorces and domestic difficulties on the
court records. These estimates were made by Judge Sab
bath, famous Chicago jurist, and certainly tend to prove
that home owneiship provide:; a domestic anchor as well
as many comforts and joys iu living Uiut might otherwise
become obsolete in modem life. People who own their owti
homes or who are winking towaid that god are always
the substantial, dependable, worth-while citizens of a com
munity. To train the youth of the land in the advantages
f owning homes is one valuable safeguard for the future.
j THF, ECONOMY OF C(!()l KOADS.
' Although road building and maintenance in Oregon is
romething of a burden on a few classes of taxpayers vlc
Cannot benefit by them directly, our excellent highways
are oulstanding'ecoiiomies for the average motorist. They
arc expensive to build and keep up, but they would be more
expensive to be without.
The mileage of hard-surfaced roads iu this country is
estimated by the department of agriculture at about !50,
000 miles. And this lipac corrects an assumption likely
to have gained giourd that the amount of road building
icheduled for any one year provides a net gain in road im
piovcment. We are not proud .if the fact in some instances,
as the lebuildieg piojccl on the lower Columbia highway
costing over a quarter nf ;i million, but a large part of th
we'll carried on annually, and probably Hie major pal'.,
((insists in rebuilding or ivau facing roads pieviously rated
as hard-surfaccd but v.hich come in for heavy repair con
tracts. The actual gain in new construction ;ince is
estimated at alxuit (io.noo miles.
Improved mads, the department remarks, are not lnx
mics. For the movenunt of every vehicle over the road
there is a certain cost which is le.-s if the road be improved
than if it be left in the slate of natuie. It is therefoi.
in'y reasonable to say that the only limit that should be
placed on oxpcmlituie for load impioveinent is the amoum
which can be saved in vehicular operating; costs. Which is
in line with the u asnmng of mad . , , i ts for the last dec-id.-
that the c-umtiy pay, f,- jnipicveil ,o;as whether ii.
Iu:s them or not.
OFFICE
CAT
fy'Jivnius
'I call my girl 'kIuc'."
'Why. bora use nIic Mirk to ou?"
"No, rosy to Miit'cw! uii a wurm
Might."
All but two Hlute.s Ntill conceal
the fact that women rule.
m:- oxk fou afsop.
A flea lout his way on a dojf'H
bark and after wandering about for
a time crawled up to the dog'r car
and rolled In for dlrvctiona. 11 ut
the dog iiltunderHtandin the mc.i
HaK. knocked the flea off and ate
it.
The moral Is; Don't alwayH trust
even close friends.
Why doesn't Komcbody Invent a
table for um' In a dining room that
inn't a centipede.
Oh 1 love pretty eyes
And I love heaving siKh
And I love the Klrls who arc gifted
Hut the thlnr that 1 hatr
Ih ufler a date
To find that my watch has bet-n
llticd.
When n man starts nut to make
soiticthlnij or hliiLself n uontaii
iixiiall) IJiiMicm the Job.
Suspicion Is ulwaya afflicted with
halltou-d.H.
Kurly to bed
Karly to rihe
And our Irl oi h
With other Kuyw.
Francis Kcwlln, Joseph Martier.
Patrick Kennedy anl Itobert Cook.
The benediction w as followed by
"laudale' by t he choir, and u
march. The program was receiv
ed by a large and appreciative
audience.
HIGH COURT
DECISION IS
MADE TODAY
(Continued from Pnge One.)
Knforceuieiit of t he law was i e
Htrafnrd, and the rdnte appealed
to the supreme court.
Joined in opposition to the new
law eventually were a number ul
reiigiouK organ l.rtt ionn, Jew i.sh at
well uh t'hi'tidlKii, and innny edu
cational illMtit utioiiH, rolh'KeH va
unlverKitieH, as well as private am!
parochial schools. The broa l con-
I tent Ion was that states should be
permitted to monopolize the edu
cation of children up to the gram
mar grades. xtht; next step would
be taking over the education in
the higher grades.
The new Oregon law proposed
that alt children between 8 an-1
1G physically able and living with
in a reasonable distance should
attend public Hchouis, '.mlcsa edu
cated at home . by pr ivate tutor;
under state supervision. Iu the
lower federal coii't the (mestion o!
property lights van controlling in
the decision of the cons' It utiona
iiiestionn presented. The private
and parochial schools contended
with Hucres; that t he slate law
under which they had been in
corporated constituted a contract,
which must be protected and
could not be hmkrn: that un l'ii
t he contract they had acquirer?
property rights through the erec
tion of schools which could not
be confiscated or wrlously Impair-
ed without violating the federal
constitution: that teachers bi su-h
institutions had employment rights
which must be pniteetcd: and thai
It waa an inherent right nf par
ents and guardians, guaranteed nv
"Are yon sure." asked the old the fed-mil const it ut ion. to decide
woman. '"Unit this century plant jwhere their children should
will bloom in hundred years?" h-dueated, HMbjecl to the right of
"I'odlive, ma'am." answered the ln. tate to require them to 'm
IT it iUe:in't bring It right S(M1t to a nniblic school provid . I
1 1 hey wei-c not ade(iiateiy cduc.it-
UNION MEN IN : IIRS. URSON'S:-' " :""r'?Sj--'::
TROUBLE HERE RINGS FOUND Ax
The stillness of the niglit waa
disturbed by no sound save the
rustle of a slight breeze through
tho tree. tops. The two nun, par
tially obscured by the shadows
from the nearby buildings, wailed
in silence. Huddenly u car round
ed a curvu In tho road some dis
tance away, gliding quietly nearer,
through the darkness. Tho two
watchers stepped from their re
treat no this is not a paragraph
from u populur magazine thriller
but an ncttKtl Incident lu the ev
ery day lives of (he prohibition en
forcement officers.
On tills particular occasion t wo
men, IS. C. Xee.k one lime w
owner of a lumber mill and
Spain, both residents of Union
were the drivers of the car.
Tho arrest was made near the
Union Htoclt Show grounds last ev
ening about ten o'clock for the car
carried, besides the two men, two
gallons of moonshine contained in
jugs.
Hugo K I Ingham mer, deputy
sheriff and George M. I'ji-rce. spe
cial prohibition officer, made the
arrest and lodged Z' k and Spain
in the county jail here. The rar
was automatically couiiseat'd as a
carrier of liquor.
Tho case has not yet conio up (or
trial.
.vcullhy
d Kred
pn
pns-'.l
iiset t-te;u!i
niiicni were
ny n-ligion. 1
re c!illdrn
should be inert as-d
in tile new law. The state- ;
d that it was Its duty lo
children their true alle',iauc-, anl
io impieas upon yonug uiiini.s th.'t
the rhiimu of the government w
,i iperior to those of any
The authority to teqnir
to attend school embr aced t he
light, the stale insisted, to com
pel them to go to public schools.
IM uca t Ion, important in build -
ing up good citizenry, e;;me wit.'i-
Iin the police powers of the stub",
tindei- their general w vlf ue jur
-lie! ion, regun further uset te l,
in.sl.'dlng that in such mailers the
out
Stift! mud would benefit
faces greatly If they would
it on.
A man bad a llltle ne
He walked the forest through
Whenever he got hungry
Me'il take a chop or two.
floret
back."
some
leave
To have two rings stolen by
holdups und then finding them a
month and a half later on the
ground mlba from the scene
of the robbery, only to lose, the
diamond selling from one the
day following, has been the un
usual experience of AlrS. Tige
Larsen of 1-n Grande.
On the evening or April M.
Mrs. I.arsen was attacked by two
thugs in Nwlin's Hook und Sta
tionery SI on. Among other
things her wedding ring, her di
amond engagement ring and an
onyx ring with a diamond set
were taken.
The criminals were, masked
and never discovered. Later Mrs:
l.arsen found the wedding ring
on the floor of the store but all
hope of finding the two other
rings was given up as they were
or greater value.
Saturday afternoon, while on
an outing trip to Wallowa Lake,
the rings were t'uund by .Mrs.
J.artieu about &it feet from tho
cabin In which sin- was camping. .
The rings were on tin: ground
ajid looked as If (bey had either
I n (brown down or were drop
ped Irum s uneone's pocket.
They had been lying in the
place in v. hieh they were discov
ered for some tunc. The dia
mond engagement ring ws un
wrapped in the soft earth with
the onyx ring, wrappd partial
ly in tinfoil, a foot or two away.
The diseovery of the rings in
this manner and by Mrs. l.arsen
herself Was little short of a mi
racle but her good fortune was
short lived for yesterday the dia
mond setting was lost from (he
ring while it waa being worn und
has not yet uccn recovered.
For the smart young lady or her smart mother
... we present the Patsy, which combines
youthful smartness with all the dignity a
dowager could demand. June's Calendar
Style, the smartest shoe of the month!
In 'Pdtent Leather with blonde kid Interlacing
quired; that chlldn n in public
school wo lid be excused under
the new law a certain n umber
of hours each week for such re-
( ligmus Instructions as their par
hi-tnviCi! :iponi' It' t'iic way
ym hor changed. I can't under
tuiiil. lull; .iiiii nlwas was kind
to dumb animal and nil that,
and rt when It romes ' '
IUII Writ, try Ixdii' dumb ami
m'c bow jrr grt mil
"You seem to foi'Ket, m dear,
that the dolhir I earn Is worlh only
ti.r per cent ol the dollar our lath
er earned."
"Well, why don't you earn bet-
Almost anbo'ly would rather
hae a steady Job than lme tlaly
wo I k.
I le I went to hear a meiuoi y
expert lecture ia.d night.
She ---Was lie good V
lb' - N.iw. he torgol to show up.
Old ;ml (Who bad (tist :tt on
a Mtnu nianV but ) : "(hmhI m a
eloiis. what a Mart ou gar iitr
1 I bought It was miiiet"
"l"nt change our wile mid
don't drink, too freqin inly - - (f
Mu want to Iie heunni T'." sa
a San l-'ranci.teu in (in' ii.iri;tn.
ed elsewhere.
State
Alleging a
p.'itrlotirm
evpenditilr
Armiineiil.
a purpose to promote
by lafje public se'iool
m, the si ate root en rl.-d
.-'edernl government had no right
;o interfere. It was for the s;ate
ourts ami the people at the pons
to remedy any defects which
might develop, it said, and not
:'t the federal courts, because lo
cal conditions must always con
trol in s'Jch matters. Ins!s:iii'T
that "soni'! vestige of sovercign
pow er" should remain with stale
governments, Oregon gave warn
ng t hat should its law be held
invalid, a movement would !.
itarted at once for a constitutional
amendment.
Summarized, Oregon's argument
was that the national government
vvaa founded upon the theory that
church and stale should be main
tallied si-pa rate, a principle to be
closely guarded ill Hie education
of its youth: that the right of al
state to control a minor whn
public welfare rer.'ilred had be
thoroughly established in
courts an. I Included cout rol overi
their education: that private i;:i I!
parochial schools are net super-)
tor lo public schools, t here f. ire j
tho new law would not deprive
them of any lights or privih-g.-sj
or subject t hem to any dia.idvani-1
ages; that the opposition camel
from those who wanted child
given seelarhin religious instrik'
Hon: that the
survival of t he
ents or guardians might de:;ire;
and that the religious views of
some parents could not be per
mitted to destroy the effoctivciicds
of salient law.
(J.;.b s Co.
that with an increase of faeiliti'
attendance In the priimuy grad 1
that It had het-n comk.lent held
in the ciunts that states cojld
at their pleasure amend or can
cel stu b chatters without ( n
ouutering any constitutional pro
hibition: I hat the new law would
not in t erf en- wit h religious lib
erty: that those who desired t
semi their children to puroehi it
private schools could do so during
hours when t heir attendance .it
the public school .was not re-
Support et I Priate Schools.
The protestanl Kpiscopal church,
the Seventh Day Adventlsts u:i'l
the A inerican Jewish committee
each filed a brief as friend of the
com t In support of the position
taken by the parochial and pri
vate schools. Opiwments of the
new law declared it a serious
menace. They attributed the
weaken ng of the moral fiber of
the time to the lack of reiigio is
and iiioi al t railing, pai t icularly
in children, deelai ing that unless
present tendencies were restrained
conditions here would be worse
than those in .Soviet Kiu;sia. Ore
gon's idea of separation of chin ch
j and stale would mean, they de-
ciareu, mi cnuien inn unij uuur,
le eailfie if. s;hotIs oould ho -pror
hiblted from teaching religion and
morality, nil religious Instruction
j would be brought within the con
! trol of the slate.
( The parochial schools tool; the
'view, also, that the most effec
(live rellgto IS training could be nc
Icoinpl'shed as a part of the daily
lit Involved the I eii ucat ion ol cmim-en. i ney ue
nublic schools-' nouneed the new hiw as not only
j e:;t re me I y unwise but arbitrary,
; revolutionary, oppressive, anil vio
'lative of rights which since the
foundation of t he government
have been considered essential lo
liberty.
t'hium'S Heiioiitictt 1.
Kurt hermore. I lie oiqionents of
the new law stated as a fact thai
not private or parochial school
in the state had been deficient or
delinquent in any respect; that
none had taught objectionable or
prejudicial subjects or unpatrio
tic doctrines; that if they weie
inferior in any respect to the
pibtlc schools the remedy ::t.
not in legislation which would de
stroy them, but in acts to regu
late them; that the new law wonid
not result in broadening the edu
cational field or in correctinsr cvrls
or In promoting the general wrd
laro of the people.
They denounced as without
foundation the charge made I y
friends of the new law that the
increase in crime among children
was due to private schools, an I
that such schools were eond .!!
by bolshevists, communists and
syndicalists. Never before had a
state, they declared, attempted lo
prohibit u distinctly useful busi
ness, whose beneficial effects had
never been questioned. If pri
vate schools could be prohibited,
they said finally, any lawful busi
ness Jn w hleh the people may be
engaged, could be destroyed r.l
the will of the state.
Hurglars who got some Jewels In
Tarrytown, N. Y., didn't tarry.
Keep your teet h off steering
wheels during green corn s-'ason.
LETTER OX
FIRE RATES
MADE PUBLIC
(Continued frm Pftgo One.)
iiuiitc It would make nil approxi
mate icductitJii of 7 per cent hi
our clly fire insurance rnics.
"This reduction, as slated, i ap
proximate and would not apply
where, the fire protection Is not
adequate. It has been our cxper
iente that when a city is re-rated
tiler- have been changes ts oc
cupancy ami additions to buildings
oi- an Increase of hazard which
were. not measured In the old sur
f y. In ruses of this kind it is
M-eej-Nary for us to bring the sur
vey up to date before the credit
ij allowed. On the other hand
we find where hazards have been
decreased and a larger reduction
is in .order."
la-sides the 7 percent reduction
v hieh Mr, McCune promises -In
event the new equipment is In
stalled, which will be decided ut
(he poils Wednesday, u 10 p.q
n ul increase will be placed on l.a
Grande insurance rales ptovlding
nothing is done to remedy - the
present condition, city of ficluls declare.
This Style Is Always Popular Witlr Little Boys
Sacred Heart Academy
Ser vices Hold Sunchiv
i'ontlnupl fr.mi Onf )
MARKET JOEL'S GROCERIES
riionc Main 7.VJ
(;()()si;i:ki!hiks. i,v n;u (jai.i.on
Tut your uidor in eiuly.
! I, .ney.
I ItlNhop MrOiath gave nil nt
: I'1 "ft iat.- add i ess, emphasizing
jtliM title happiness in this liie
can be acquired only by duly
rtaillilully pettoirued. He pointed
t out lo t he g i a-1 nates how stn-c- s
can come only ( h rough pe rsi-wr-iunee
in the right, sincerity hnttml
t led, i ha rit v toward all und lo a I
servile to the goXerunient 0f the
! I n'led Slat s and onlhned by
the edmalional sjslelil of the
!a'm i mater.
The net no iii Iter on t he pi o.
gram w as a song ly t he dun. .
' ' o n s e c r a 1 l o n to the Sacr d
I tea 1 1 " The w ords and m l-!c
Ol t (US Sit tig W eie COlHp'ISed '
Hie sisters of St l-'lliltrls iM S)l,.
Ms--. New oi I, The choir also
?- iilg "I Mi. Sahltoi is. No. ,
I Ii. Thomas and "Titli Turn D- oi j
No ;," l.y Cos. w ic after w hlc'i !
llenedU Mori of tlo- Mont ltt, s- d j
Saetai'l- rit" was given by Hlshoo
bdialh, assisted by ltt-vi-n-nl !:
.1. Kelly. to m Hak r, liec
erend S. T. Ituckb-y and l;.ei.
nd J'elei Haucl were a 1st) pn 5
mi.
The Nearest
Service
IS
Ford
Service
Perkins
Motor Co,
4th and Adams
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No-. -. Xs; V T LSTA'EoES, V
QrlW'A ( - sN ScveTJ-tiNCi 'v -
Of Att VA y . I ' LIKE 7hiS
Jx V jmC4- . JO 1 i VV - Age 8 to 16 .
YOUR
Troubles
ma Yin-: vi: havi-:
Till-; SAMI-: kind
AMI CAN TIIKItl-:-
i" m-; tho hk sown
I1KI.I' TO VOl'.
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National
Bank
Soun.l - Kvliulilc - I-i-oei'skIw
Children's Stamped Dresses
.....Klc
..IO lo $1.50
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S'.ir Six Siniml. n fni-
.S!ar l'i-;irt Cotton
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I0i'
Ill'
I Or
Norton's Kiddy Shop
Where Quality Is Higher Than Price
Our old friends and customers will find us in
OUR NEW QUARTERS
Prepared to :crcd hotter than ever.
Elect rieal Cowls of All Kinds
La Grande Eleclric Company
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