Friday. December 4, 1925.
Page Four
THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVES
(Incorporated)
An independent Newspaper
FRANK B. APPLEBY..
-Editor and Publisher
HARVEY F. MATTHEWS..-
BoaUiesa Manager
Published evening, exoept Sunday, at Ml. Adam Avenue,
La Grande, Oregon. The Observer-sUsr B'lbllstoed ererjr Friday.
Entered at the Poatofflce at La Grand, Ortsroa, fea Second
Claaa Mull Matter under aet of March J, III.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF UNION COUNT! AND TUB
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credited It published therein. All right of republication of
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lu also are reserved. j
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J.OVR DKKKAIinH. NOT: Owe no itmn any thing, but
to uvi mm another. 'J'hon shall not slcul. Thou shult not
covet, 'rhoti shall love thy neighbor us 'thyself. Romans 1.1:
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; The giggling girl at the foolish age through which all
youth seems to pass generally settles down later on. Per
haps it is all a triumph of mind over chatter.
j And now, after much time has been spent and many
words have been spilled, the investigation of the Shenan
doah disaster comes to an end. The 'results are that big
Birships will continue to be sent on' "political" overland
jtnissions to state and county faii-s and the government will
continue to have an inefficient and dangerous aviation serv
ice. What more could one expect from an investigation?
MENACE OF COMPULSORY VOTING.
.' That educator who made the statement that not more
than 5 per cent of the voters have an intelligent idea of
why they vote or what they vote for in national elections,
was probably guilty of gross exaggeration, and yet, even
those-wht questioned his assertion will agree with the
others that there's something radically wrong with a large
jjart if the electorate.
That many persons having, the right to vote do not
vote because of ignorance or vote ignorantly is doubtless
true, but they are not confined to the foreign bom. One,
however, is no more excusable than the other. Illiterate
ilioiwliml4-4iU.W-tUtii4rU4' ttt-iikihipwrd--ritiUve-liorn
Americans-should possess enough pn'de of citizenship
to inform themstjlves on election matters before entering a
booth with a ballot. ' ' i
Persons tinder the ago of 21 years are forbidden the
ballot on the theory that they are incapable of voting in
telligently, and yet there are millions of voting age whose
mental standards are lower than other millions of grade
and high school pupils.
Compulsory voting already adopted in some countries
might do the nation no little harm by driving into the
hands of unscrupulous politicians the illiterate hordes which
do not now vote and which are generally 'unfit to exercise
the right of franchise. All might le better governed if
more voted intelligently and the ignomnt Voted less. The
danger of "getting out the vote" lies in the tendency among
Hie "vole-Belters" to corral only those of the electorate who,
tan not think for themselves.
THE ENGLISH DIDNT LIKE IT.
The London Daily News was ' somewhat perturbed at
the recent speech of President Coolidge before the New
York Chamber of Commerce,' if its comment is rightly in
terpreted. The following quotation was cabled to this
country after Cal had told the New Yorkers what a great
Milvation was our wealth and resources to the nations of
'Europe following the war, that the credit we extended and
the ftxKl we furnished prevented a collapse and famine
overseas: 1 -i ! i '
It is not easy to think of any. parallel to Presi
dent Coolidye's amazing address to the New York
Chamber of Commerce, except a certain notorious
prayer. The author of that prayer also thanked
God ho was not as other men are, and recorded
with the same smirking self-satisfaction his finan
cial righteousness and his virtuous Belf-iestrnint. '
No rich parvenu can ever have addressed his humb
lest poor relation in a tone of mure offensively
oleaginous patronage than this.
Perhaps the News is right but it must consider that
President Cal was talking lo the family and cavesdropiiers
were not invited. It was a hearth-ide speech, perhaps just
8 little reminiscence of by-gone days, an excusalle touch
of national ego from which very few nations ore free. The
London News should have put cotton in its ears, a practice
Americans resort to frequently when we are burdened with
nn Englishman's story of "who won the war."
THE ANIOrJVMOOS BEMEFACTbP?.
IP25 SY WCA SCTVtCt. INC.
102:1 NASI I ROADSTER
Isftoks and Performs like new.
$775.00
Perkins Motor Co,
Phone M-500. Cor. 4th in Adama
OFFICE
CAT
TMAba MAM K MO.
By Junius
Visitor: "Who'd the respon
sible party here?
Wflcp Hoy: "Gupbh that's mo
I'm hlmned for everything."
,
So nmdi lins betii wrltttn on
ladles icnrterrt that mi? womlt-r why
m iiiiu'li comment han been en lift
ed by the young I n (.tUnde woiiuui
who hud embroidered mi hers the
innci'trtionf
"ir yon tin rend this you an?
too tlarii clone." 1
Khl, "Pawn tuo the ffmvy, ma."
Ma: "If what, Willie?"
Khl: "If you don't, 111 start
unnietlnng." , r .
" .
The secret of belnj? an efficiency
expert, Is the ability to sny yes or
no In about ftvo columns o flfj
u res. ' i
.,.,,..,; . ..,
No, PrlNCllhi, n diplomat Is not
(he man who hands out I he .shoep-
Hklns.
An IndiiHtrous lady
Jh Alius Hetty Wales
I.oiik bourn ahe ispends
.Manicuring her nails,
When someone else does It, It's
ln; but,
When you do It, it's experience.
Another trouble mmjiih tn lo to
know Just when the ballon tron-
Mift mill tressfur.
Ike Gotdhoy slipped on the. Ice
I he other day. He Hays if bis nose
had hern shortn he Vould have
damaged his expensive teeth,
"How hlff Is your home town.
At?"
'Oh, aboul the .size of New York;
but It Isn't built up yet."
m '
Conscience is like a railway swit
ch. If It Is carehilly tended. It
will keep you on the right truck.
The more u nuin has the more
he wants with, ihe possible ex
cept ion of being the lather of
twins.
Twenty years ago a furniture
deulrr advertised: "We stand be
hind every be.L we sell." Muyho
that was what rhvo the inventor
his Iden or the shut In bed.
Mother: .."Kvcvy jteniiy you got
you imit Mive and put in our
bank."
Tommy: .."What Is papa golnjr
to buy miw, muiim:"'
There are too many people in n
hurry to get somewhere who find
themwelws entirely at lnss ns 1o
what to do when they got there.
Syracuse. N. Y., professor boj-d it
was very quiet In the Garden oC
Kden. )
Hut he must nrlnrlt that Adam,
ami Kve raLsed Cain.
His Idea of a good collector Is a
man who marries money and col
lects It.
Smithsonian Institute
Report Weighty Volume
plenty of good rending matter,, If
you're erudite enough lo know
what It's about. , .
FOR SALE
lo acres. Improved, Iii Krult-
dule for
4" aeres, improved. 1 1 miles
rroin l. Grande
Hi" Urns, well improved, tn
eluding Itiipleitti-nts
'l nrrea xtm rholee nnll
well tmproved fur $Snin
CnO urn s uear t nioit. t (.
under v ittlviitiou, at a
r-al hut gain.
Knrnlitbed honw for sle
plumbeil mi A uir..l
City milk route thnt Is bring.
Ing ri;; emti month.
Invest little!
New model n hntnp for fXKi.n ,
Tlenl V ot Itnilli ill.ite liinn..v f.wr
Hn inrm tenns. 1onr r
-vu pivfer. inrhiding options i
pny nil or in p.nt ut tinv time.
nm will like this plan upon l.i
vestigniton. GEO. iT. "ci'KREY
REAlTOll
Varm loans
flOA.nno lo hmn oil In.m lanil.
(lly rimrlcH 1'. Slowart)
WABIIINdTON, (NIC A Special)
Th SmitliRontTtn Institution's
report for the InBt flscar 'or. just
out. Is a weighty, volume men
tally welitlity, that Is to say; Its
avolnliipols Isn't so very conslilcr
ablo. . ' ,
. For Instanee, "The Electrical
Structure of Matter," by Professor
Wrnesl ltnlherford.M. A., JJ. Sc.,
H., I'll. D., F. 11; 8.. V; A. A. A.
S.. M. H. N. H. und then Borne),
Isn't exactly, what one ivoulil pick
us a hfilllmc. story for children
thooiih It mlKht put 'om to sleep,
at. (hat.
'.
A vncmnn contalnlnfr lianl upon
two Mllions of wn molecules to
the rulilc inch doesn't seem like n
very thin varmint but Dr. Wr.-W.
Whitney snyn It's the thinnest nny
liody 4?ver has been able to pro
duce, xo wonder '"The. Vacuum
There's Somethlnpr In It" was the
title Dr. Whitney cbosfe for Ills art.
Ic-le. (
Arcnrdlnir to II. I Jones of the
American Telephone and Teleftraph
Company's resenrch laboratories,
".slthple compulations show Hint
ir we could hnvo a fnillion persons
talking steadily and : convert the
eiieiRv of the voice vibrations Into
heat, they would have to talk an
hour mid n half lo make a cup of i
This Just rocs to show that even
scientists make jnlslakcx. Who
hasn't son a mere minute and a
hair's talk between only two. per
sons, one of Jones phones .Rener
ate heat, enouKh to burn out the
connection! iut In the main the
.Imllhsonlaa's hook Is perfectly ac
curate, with luts of nice pictures
taken ot Ihe Itoek Creek zoo, and
N'rwi'Klan Will Attempt to .
i'rove Kricson Was lllsoovvrer
01.SO. (AI') To prove lhat It
was, possible for l.elf Krirson to
have discovered Americn f.no venru
before Columbus, t'aptuin KolRero
intends to make an attempt next
year to reach that country in a
vessel tho exact duplicate of tho
boots used by Ihe old Vikings.
His boat will be 40 feet Ions; and
12 feet wide and will follow a
route by Hover, Finlsterre, lladcr-
ill and then flernsn the Atlnntle 1n
the hope of reaching Philadelphia.
The Norwegians still dispute
Colnnrbu.H' claim nnd Insist . Eric
son wus the discoverer of America.
IHc Uimis' Dnnitliter Promt She
.Never i:nteroil I.lti'rnry I'lelil
T.OVimV. f API Mr TTnl. S...
iiBlnl. last Burvlvinir dnnuhter of
( hurles Dlcktuis, who has just cele
brated her K lit ri birthday, tukes
pride in the fact that she has newt
hade any attempt at. literary achie
vements. Mrs. Pcriurlnl remembers 'nil the
The Start
Isn't Hard
BUT KEEPING AT
YOUR SAVINGS AC
. COUNT IS WHAT
COUNTS. ...
IS YOims GP.OWING
REGULARLY EVERY
WEEK?'
La Grande
National
Bank
Sound Rellsbl. . ProtrestdyB
Hear tho Welsh (ilivmrn nt
I.. I. S. Tahi nini le. Monday,
N'oveilllier 30
' !sjsasatissssiMsss..i..
Silk and Flannel
Dresses
Saturday Special
$10.7
Here's another stroke of value-giving superior
ity that attests West's leadership. These smart
new Dresses, late styles novel button and embroid
ery trimming;, many colors to choose from at this
- unusual price. In all sizes, especially larger sizes.
A wonderful opportunity to have a new Silk or
' Flannel Dress at small cost.
. SATURDAY ON SALE AT
$10.75
J Formerly Priced Up to $2.r).0O.
N. R. WEST & CO.
"ba Crande's lad in? Store lor 2.r Years" '
Kreat contemporaries of her fath
er Thackeray, Gcorfro Eliot nnd
other early Victorians. She re
sembles her father more 1hnn any
Zj H 25
OUNCES ffiggffl CENTS
7 JSTJL'JLJC 1
for over .K. years 1 1
k WHYPAY WAR. PRICES ? Ilk
! Million$ of pounds M
used by the ffly
A gift which is sure
to please, and sure of
recognition as the
choice of a discrimi
nating taste, can be
selected from our
holiday offerings of
Qr a tie's
U'r it ing Ta pers
other member of tho family.
Itrnd Pnlkit Matron Resigns
11KXO. Or., After learning that
the city budget committee recom
mended to the city conuctl that a
change be made in the personnel
of the womnn's tfrotccUve division,
Mrs. Ethel V. Johnson, head of tho
division of thre.e years, turned in.;
her resignation. Mrs. Johnson wasf
a. police matron in Portland before
romlng to ltcnd. J
APPLICATIONS
For a limited number of St udent Nurses will be considered
In order to fill our class commencing January 1st, 192C.
Qualifications, four years high school or equivalent.
For full particulars call at Hospital or write Superintendent.
The Grande Ronde Hospital
Red Cross Dm?
Store
Children's
Wool Stockings
Itignlar Oc tbIiic, In rllvmnimiuyi .lark color, tn rW m,
KPWlal at .Vk- jKirr. Site S to J.
INPAVrS" AI.I.-SII.K HAI.f HOSE
In Mr ValiM', ,
To Close Out Mr
A Fetf oilirr .ood UaixaiiM at 25r, (
I.AtIES' SHIRTS '
Mm. in 44 tn mnilar lino to Vahim, '
rionn Out mt t'tr ,
iMr.s' i.m silk nr.t.Ts v , V
To SUI at sop
ixrAvrs" !. MiorB st7.r t
Sprrial at $1.00
Seirral Other (.-nnd Rargabiv SSc lo IO,
Norton's Kiddy Shop
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