Tlini-srtnv. August 10, 1926. :
Pasre Four
EX GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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: BLUHHINO OH CUIIK13 "lluhold, I ml" before you this
day u Mi'sNlnff nnil a. curau: A bli'sslng, If ye obey Ihe coin-
mundiiK'nts of the Lord your God . . . , u curse, If ye will
not obey."-leut. 11 20, ST, St. '
Frocks in the
Increasingly
Popular Colors
. rrliieesrf Miuiji de llourbon, u ineiiibei- or tile KpunlKli rrtyal ''
, Hoiihc, who Is vIhMIiik Mm H. C!. Dahlliurg at International' .-"Fullsj .:'
1 Kllim l.u in. l Uln..l,,l. I mi' lu A iiii.i-li.n'u fi.lunila uillhiii ' i.iVill "
IIMirit lllliuyui ni'l llllHI. ( lllia ni:iinc nn,jn mini jjhii ui-i t? BIJO
leu; ivir. i.ewis in me center aim ine iirinee ui uie.riKm. -.
'' "'It's a struggle of darkness against light," says Presi
dent Calles, of the religious war in Mexico. Both sides will
agree on that. , .
;,rv,If Governor Pierce is interested in the telephone busi
ness, we suggest he do something to improve the service at
Baker. That's a job worthy of his best vocabulary.
GET
STATE MuIi
; A DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT
' With some nineteen different measures appearing on
the , November election ballot the voters of Oregon are
asked to decide many questions about which the average
citizen' can know but little and which can, unless aire is
exercised, create a tremendous amount of trouble for the
people of the state. The Eastern Oregon normal school bill
is, '.one of the worthy measures and the state hydro-electric
bill of the Housewives' Council is one of the objectionable
ones.-
Y. Seldom in a slate's history is there a measure urged
i upon the people that has such possibilities of danger as this
.1 housewives' electric bill. Seldom in a state's politics are
tliere found politicians who possess such a combination of
nerve ana oaa judgment as to perpetrate such a bill on an
unsuspecting and normally trusting public. If it were the
(ifllv mnasiim imnonrimr nn thn Imllnt c. tlf .v.;i.i.
rj I VllfiV TUIUIO llllglll,
; give some time and thought to its provisions, there would
j be: no need to entertain fears regarding its fate. It would
! b assured an overwhelming defeat. But with many bills
j to; consider and interesting contests between . candidates,
only the proverbial "safe 'No' " can be surely counted on as
; protection.
j f, There is much to be said on both sides of the state
hydro-electric question in the abstract, but when presented
.in the concrete form approved by the Housewives' Council
'arid offered to the people of Oregon there is no favorable
argument of which we can conceive. The bill, whir-.h wmiM
'plunge the state into ownership of power and water, names
.a 'board, of five citizens to control this' ownership and spend
Uc insignificant sum of forty million dollars to make
j water and power development and the board is not ro
' sponsible to anyone but can do as it sweetly pleases with
tho taxpayers' money and the state's properties. -
;The guise under which it appears,' of course, is to de
Ivclop power and water right and sell to Oregon's citizens i.t
a' nominal rate' the electricity and' water thus controlled.
Wlmt II, Kill ,.l,..,ll,. . :.. i.i
i "'""'i.' niv;iia i.i iiiiu u wtiuin mm over i
these four men and one woman the power to build a great !
'political machine, to control the irrigation of the state, to
uiiiiu ana operate power plants whenever and wherever they
jsiiw fit, to run the state into debt and gouge the taxpayeis
;uiew tor any cieiicit thai might attend their operations.
The bill would give these five "housewives" more power
than all the rest of the state agencies and commissions
fonibined. And any mistakes or catastrophes they might
cause could be corrected only by another vole of the pooplo
after the damage had been done.
We would not expiess any doubt whatever of the sin
cerity of the five citizens who have sponsored the bill and
seek to have themselves mimed on the all-powerful board.
They may . be entirely loyal to the best interests of the state
of Oregon and may think that our water power can best bo
developed through public enterprise. But we are not will
ing to give them a trial to the tune of forty million dollars
of taxpayers' money. It may be a fine idea for these five
"housewives" but it's too dangerous an experiment for
Oregon.
One would think that sinners of snrh n not i linn umiM
have . experienced enough lax burden already without con
sidering a freak forty million dollar Ixind issue, that they
would have had enough of political inefficiency and non
responsible public boards without wanting to provide a
cuper-opportunity for repetition. It is commonly acknowl
edged that a private business would be bankrupt in six
months if run as inefficiently as most of our government;:!
affairs. What hope could there be for a forty million power
project operated by the same kind of politicians with no
KUDerrision at nil? Oivrrnll ni:iv' nviini-imnnl n,.ai..,...ll..
. . - . r. i iiii.ii, i,v vti., 1 1 , 1 1 ii 1 1
with legislation, but we are confident she will not go to'
bucn insane extremes as invited by the Housewives bill ui
the coming election.- 1
HAI.KM, Ore. A up. 1 II. (Al)
Oih hundred thousand tlulItirM
worth of United H tales .Treasury
eertlf kalta. mailed Cor Unlivery to
the. Oregon state I reinjury here ttnd
to be paid for from funds of the
world war veterans state aid com
mission, were stolen I'rcni the. reg
istered mail pouches on Union
was hcldun uud robbed .bv.1 wo-, tin
masked bandits near . " Raw
Wyo., shortly before J o'clock at-
11 may uiornui, accordinjf, o wora,
received here early .this ufte,l'n,oonj
by Major W. It. Himusorl, sqcretary
or the commission. . ,
The 1'iivelopo had bvvi carefully ;
opened the contents removed arid'
the empty contulner put- hack Into,
its place. Word of. the loss was re-
ceived lure following the arrival
at -Portland of the empty envelop.'
The. amount contained in Ihe.
single package Is us lurpfe us poalul
authorities had unofficially est!-'
mated the entire loss from the rob-'
bery. at which time 23 pouches of1
mail and 60 packuges were, ojtened
by the bandits.
Pacific train No. ft when that train1 "It looks as If somebody
:. a(. 1 ' .-f 111 'ruin I V- "
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of cyg
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r Prices
See Our Windows
N. K. WEST & CO., INC.
La Grande's Leading Store For 25 Years , '
hire tipped thrm off, and ' tlmy . MeiTCnger, AlTested v
jCar' said major HlmpHon this uf
, ernoon. They apparently took
, plenty of time to do the job.. Jt
' j looks very much as though they
nvust hnve had help from the In
side." .
. The emct denomlnntlons of the
Individual certificates fs believed
to be JIO.OOU each. They would
be reudfly nugotlabUv and the
bandits would have little dlilieulty
my dispersing of them' for spot casli.
authorities lie re slate.-. .
BOY "BANDITS"-
In Murder Case, Freed MAKE ESCAPE i
- I IN COLORADO
'i M'lit, Wtul,.cliurt!a . wuiiith .Iniilttv
I'nlk'il Stales Is about )3,3UU,U0U,-
(Mill. . '
8BATTI.K. Auir. 1; (AP)
Harry Marrciiffcr,'- hold hero uClo.rj :
poRuiuinuun nuics accusi.-u nun 01
(Continued from Pago 1)
THIS 1.0(1'' l.llil'. A ()Vl:H KOIt A S(IN(1. Tlip hiirk
trrnuiid .art nf utllorn CaliforniA fluat In I lip touriiAitifni '
hM nl I'ssarieilH
dolner nuy with Hurry Ollmoro. ,,,,. . ... ... ,.
alias Charlus 15. O'Hcrn. a waiter. uZv Ihn,,",,n,,'r1"R ? '""
. released today Btier DetectlvJ .,I M " ' s,"'",f'
Ken. declared no evidence -.. """, ""'
found to connect Marrenser llh V"0" ' "K; J r '" " ';-
the death of Gllmorc 1 Mil e resort own and "I ues.lay
lllBllt elluuixed their efforts with a
Kent ordered the release, after real old fashioned wesli rn "slU k
visltlns In Vancouver, II. a. mun up", of the v. M. f. A. sinunier
named lu notes by T. H. Seymour. ralI1,p ,K,P )yt, A u.r ,,,. t
hud already - been urenared how- . . J ":! 7 ,ulu UL " "wompiished
;. The OreBon stale treasury yioaes nttmcU hl nolra oy T
mlllilnir Itir ItiLVnlilmfv . ..A nlwl ! . ... .
ever. In .readiness to puy for the
uunuivawa us soon us iney umycu. . symour charccd that Mrv
search that.
The certlficules were beinir sent1 V i . . ""' ine tiepuiy sner Tf.
iao ccniucuus wtre ucinp scnL vcnirer nnd her son had done awav iis.- ...... .11..
hero by ClillJs and company,
Chicago.
Fire Fighter Overcome
4 By California Flames
Mviui UN mote, whose body was
found In a lake here last Novum-
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. PAN FltANVISrO. A hit. 1 (Al)
t'alirornla's forest fires, which
have been - asserted by Htnte and
federal forest offtidnls. to be 60 per
rent Incendiary, lodav eltUmed the - niore's life
lire of a fire fighter. i
Mr welly n Al. Koster. . Ited Mli.rrj STVA SI.OIT IUKS,
liUMlness man. dropped dead after i
htt and his purtnur. John Morse. HA I. KM. (he.. A up. 19 (Al').
1 had been battling thr-e houri to W. Hh-usloff. pnslden" of the
(avert flaim's approachlui; a farm Valley I'aeKtnjr company of this
I . rtv iinil ilKiiirinnilli' nrimhi.x. r..c
UUUBl'i t 1 " " -
, - j state representative from Marlon
; I county, dropped dead of heart
ltclgium bus recently panned n 1 fall nr. In the waiting room of a
lar provhlliif? for compulsory in- j local physician's office this morn-
suranc of workers aalnnt ohl In p. Prior to comintr to S;ilem
age and premature death. j he was a resident of l'etidleton.
Iloth boys ore nrmed heavily and
..rri........
ber. and whose aulu dlsimueiir.td 1. aamjmnnry bat-
nt the sumo time..,. . .'.u may ensue once they are cor-
.nered.-
" Seymour . told the secretary of;
the cooks and waiters union here
Monday that "the police will soon
know all ubuut Ctllmore's missing
automobile."
Mrs. Marrenirer whs a benefi
ciary in a policy for $5,Uno on Oll-
K-jvcnit biui (jeese l.uve ,..,n
succefsfully ritled in captivity- by
the United States national zoolog
ical park. This in the fir.st I hue
this lias ever been done.
AmerlciinH living
number C.Tmm.
in London now
III'8
Complete with
Battery
Alt rirst-class New York
btirjrliu s use. Yale and . Ev
eready Klashllffhts.
Heason Is thai they are
dependable, handy size. . and
economical. . . ,i
Sec Our Window ;
Red Cross
Drug Store
Blue Mountain Butter
and
Blue Mountain Ice Cream
Arc the Very llcst Obtainable
BLUE MOUNTAIN CREAMERY
K. F. T LER, lYom
Telephone Main 60 1109 Washington At.
$1 SALE
Thursday - Friday
Saturday
VALUES TO $6 TO BE SOLD FOR ?l
HATS, CAPS, SHOES DRESSES,
WASH SUITS
A?t 8"c, al ol,,cr ilcms (o c,HSc ouL
. . , 1 Ta,,lt,s r Cenuinc Bargains.
See Window Display Buy What You Need
Norton's Kiddy Shop
Infants' and Children's Wearables