La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, December 23, 1926, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Textr V'v'w"ierTr LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER' Page Four in (Incorporated) , An, Indrpmitaat Newspaper (TRASH. 8. APPLEBY.. ..Editor nd Publlhr JHAllVET F.; MATTHEWS.. ...BulniM Manager ; L Published evening, except Sunday, at 1416 Adams Avenue. llM Orande, Oregon. Tho Observer-Slur published every Krlday, f Entered., at the Postofftce at La Orande, Oregon, aa Second .Claw Mail Matter under act of March t. 187. ' OKKICIAL PAHKR OF UNION COUNTY AND TUB" C1T7 OH I .A ORANDM r MEMBER ASSOCIATED PIIESH """ . y The Auoclatod Plena la exclusively entitled to iik for pub lication of all; new dispatch aredltud to 11 or not otherwise Credited If publlahed therein. All Mghta of republication of Ysueclul dispatches In thla paper, and alao the local newa bora ia alao are reserved. : ' ' 8UDHCKIPTION BATES By Carrier H)illy. per month In advance...- .Dally, per alx months in advance........,......... Dally, tingle copy '.I .1 By Mall Dally, per month In advance.. ...760 ....ft.bU l0 ' Dally, per six montha In advance. ' Dally, per year In advance-.. Weekly Oborvor-Star, per year...., ...... 6uo .2.6U ...16.00 ...12.00 XilVK lll.KHV TO CiOIJ "Give unto the I.1111I. y kindreds 'of 1 he ieuilc, give unto Hie Iotd ijlory and ntrenKth." 1 i.'bion. I , i 1 pilKfMMIIMS; ! : ( 1; 'j Thero In no fonlmoalls bclw oen i'oiiilleton and Ua XJrd over the normal school, subject tior.shuuhl there be any. Ii fJninde l tt good town Inhuhlted liy good people and no one hits mude uny contentions to tho contrary. . , ; - But me problem of locating a normal school for oimterti Oregon la a matter that should be handled Independently of the Intercuts of uny community. The normal achool regents are under oath to serve the students who come under their Jurisdiction. It Is n very high ob ligation und a man who Is not ready to comply with his obllxulloiiH, re-gm-dlcss of personal Interests, Ik not fit to bo a'member of any bourd of resents. That goes and the sub ject Is not debatable uny more than Is Imnk robbing debatable. - The Must Oregoniun Is Indlgnunt about the normal school decision, not because La Orande was chosen, but because this puper Is con vinced boyond any doubt that thu decision was brought about by Itn tiroiier inothods. On the fuco of ! things there waa somothlng wrong. Advance stories that the thing waa all fixed and would bo carried out. merit or no merit, have been, con firmed In detail. Tho finger of suspicion points plainly to tho door of tlovernor J'lerco und tho sus picion la genoral In La tlrando as well as elsewhere. In plain English a swindle is contemplated ugalust the futuro sellout girls of eastern Oregon and siiortsmanshlp does not require that 4tuyono keep silent when, a plot of that sort Is afoot, .Most of the prospective norniul school students of Kuutern Oregon reside In the 1 countles west of the Blue mutin. ,.(.,.j.. :t .,,.J ,,.,;,i 1 tains. me neavy popuiuuuii in jesiciuuj 11, ow"i 1 there und It always will be found If T !nl,t. ,., Uo,.o , aIW! these gnis arc lorcea to go iu , , . . ; . j u .,4.0 f u0i minimum uunecoHHury a great injustice js uuinii uunc me iumic ""w ('u)liiiun t-ha rues their espouses will )o mill further Increased. It In the literal truth, wnicn no one nan denied nor can deny, thut the Jolh tlun of the Hchool In La Orande places upon students, from the mujor part of the district an extra expense burden equal to the cow of living for a month at a dormitory. Such u loud If Imported will com pel many u truud student to j go homo before her normal training hail been completed. To a Htudent who 1h self ttupportlnK. or partly ho. a f 10 bill often seems un blfg as a house. Kvery year In OreKon hun dreds of students are forced out of our hlKhor Institution of lea in I n,: by Inability to meet a month a board bill. When they voted ut Halrm Mon day five of the normal school ro KOiitM, led by Governor l'lerce, uver luoked the one phuHe of their duty that Hhoutd have counted with them above all other cuiiMlderatloim whatsoever. If thut Hort of muff in to be tolerated und continued hy (icopte In hlh plucets In OrcKon It will be proper for our people to repeal the law UKuiiirtt train rob-bint:- I'endletou b'Aiat Ureuonlun. i s , ('()X(.HAilb.TIOXS, , GK;VM)i:. i Tho Dallen extondH the heartlet of cpnKi'ululutlonH to La Clriiude, the victor In the friendly rivalry for tho new ICautern Oregon nor-. 2 inal Hchool. " 1 Of courne The Uulle would have 1 felt better If the normal nehool had J? been located here. To nay other- , wle would be hypociiny. - iitit no ' would Hood Itlver. Jcnd, 1'endle-, ? ton, Arlington, Wen ton und many t olher. have preferred that they bo derilunaied. There were bound to T he diHappolntmentH, for there could J only he one winner. v ' 'S No applicant for itm normul run T chui'Ke unfulrnoHH. Kach city pre-" ?J Hented Itn claims and uallficutotiH J to the .tieHt of 1U ublllty. No n't- fc temptH were made to belittle ud- J No anl- ' T Last Minute Suggestions From "The Store of Christmas Cheer" ki PKEJU1JK K VS. FACT ; The Pendleton East Oregoniun refuses to be nice about tlio- normal school location. with an editorial calling the Hoard of Normal School Regents, in that pan of the district - , , ,, ta !.. xi iu,.lthcso gliis lire forced to go t 111 ClfeCt, "train lODDClS. IVinsiblS mat uiuie waa nu un.c. I(.rallrte for Ilormi training they .w.ulUl,, 'locntinn fnv thi no'Tnal excent at Pendleton, that! will ba subjected each year to a jnwpt" - ----- - . ... ' ,, ,i rKK,-v onense f a-i 44 fur their train fare alone. I vantages of other sections. Institution, that the purpose Of Service to the people Of this! If they eat while travelling or pay mosltles were aroused: no liuor- area.is defeated by the selection or i.ranue. " Jt's too bad that the subject has been raised at all, worse' still that the Pendleton paper insists on continuing it. Ilowj much easier it would have been, how much more productive. of goou will lowara inai, tii-y, u it h m5 -ii . .... Annn..nnfl "Vnn linunH n Pntio-rnt-.tilRtions. OLiter iraptsia tuii--ci uv. , 11 ,.v... o j Since we COUIQn I nave U, we are gutu you iiie me luiiuiuiic city. We're for you good luck!" But since the East Oregonian refuses to do that and per sists in misrepresentations regarding the voting and the merits of each city, just to keep history straight and sup plant prejudice with fact The Observer feels that it should review the situation. The last editorial from the East Ore-1 gonian is printed elsewhere on this page together with the congratulatory one from The Dalles Chronicle. : j In the first place we wish to refer to the question of ONE MORE SHOPPING DAY UNTIL XMAS Don't disappoint the kid dies - " Don't forget the ladies Santa Clause comes but once a year. EXCLUSIVE NEW HAT From Beth & .Fisk $10.00 to $18.00 - A SMART NEW : HANDBAG " A' delightful gift' $2.50 to $25.00 . : -r. population to be served by" a normal' school'localed here or ; inj Pendleton. The E.-O. repeats over and over again that its citv is the center and that there is "and always will be" 3 58 per cent more population west of the Blue mountains than e4Bt. Possibly true. . But the Blue mountains do not con- sljituto the dividing line in Eastern Oregon, nor do they raise I .........,..(.. M,-l,nv.-i,Vr fn I n f li-niirlp fni the area to thtt 3 ilB JIIOUllllUUIIi"w ' ' ' -' " m 1 w'est. There is no disputing the fact that the twelve counties riferrcd to contain more people than the remaining counties tills side of the Cascades. Tmi of these counties are nearer Pbnrlleton. ciirht nearer La Grande. And we are quick to luiiiliit that it does cost money to ride on tho railroad or diSve a car across the mountains between this city and our . , ' i t n inflirest western neignoor. , i t But what has all that got k dn with the price of eggs? TKe location of the Eastern Oregon normal school was based nif n consideration of what students from the area cast 1 S 5 5 oftho Cascades would actually do in selecting a school, not what they should do, not what Pendleton would line 10 nave llf'in do. Take a map of Oregon for a minute. Over in the Willamette valley near Salem is a normal at Monmouth, a uni versity at Eugene, an agricultural college at.Corvailis, and down in the southern part or tho state a normal school at Ashland. There is now a railroad across the Cascades to Eoirene. soon to be connected up nt Bend, also an excellent , stjtte highway, and there is a fine highway from Lake and Jj Kbtmath counties across to Medford aniT Ashland. I f What would naturally happen to students' originating Ji fifm Klamath and Lake counties, from Deschutes, Crook, Jefferson, Wasco, and Hood River counties? Would they select the easiest, closest, and must attractive "way and go to Mffilfhoulh or Ashland, or Eugene or Corvallis? Or "would S thpy'choose the more difficult, the more distant (in most jk inAances), and the least attractive and decide on a La GrfiWlo or Pendleton normal? Ifc! "The answer is obvious because the territory 16 be served - by iie Eastern Oregon normal is obvious. Pendleton could J ntjjlmvc hoped to draw from more than five counties west ofpjie Blue mountains. In that area, according to the 1!)20 JS ceB3us, there are 42,110 people. In the six counties east of r( thjSpilue Mountains from which La Grande cannot help but ntQict students the pn)iilatiun is 51,7;I0. Center of opula- J titw? What population? . 5 mother point deserving of attention for history's sake: tj Wfren the voting was in process, Mr. Starr moved that The Jj Di-Ili'S be selected (as the editorial from the Chronicle ft records), and was supported in that choice by Mr. Bryant ofMoro and Mr. Fuller of Ashland. But the ramming six regftits voted advcisely and The Dalles was eliminated. D&3 the East Oregonian charge that the vote of these three nnfrg thus expressed was "fixed," unfairly prejudiced, be cuSg! they preferred The Dalles to Pendleton? Does it ctm dciHh Mr.' Fuller for taking La Grande as a second choice anitirnise Mr. Bryant mid Mr. Starr for turning to Pendle- toifterThc Dalles had been eliminated? What foolishness! N ITo say the least, the silly charges of the East Oregonian nrihjinost unbecoming for the press of a defeated city. As Ji wetfiaid yesterday, we are confident it does not express the seijument of the people of that fine community. And we ho(tS the members of the Board of IUgents serving the cdQ&ional interests of the entire state of Oregon to the best of Jfieir excellent ability will overlook this thoughtless step anjfithese careless remarks on the part of an otherwise wogjiy and. esteemed contemporary. -V A Lovely Afternoon Frock A Welcome Gift , $10.75 to $65.00 TO receive one, of these smartly, tailored satin, crepe, or velvet frocks would be delightful. ' An Exclusive Winter Coat' A Timely Gift fUR entire stock of fine coats at a saving of 20'o. A new coat would be a useful gift. ' Chic. New Kid Gloves La Grande's Leading Store $3.00 n ;. $L95 Tjovely Silk Hosiery. , ' $1.00 TO $3.00 Dainty New, Handkerchiefs 25-. $2.25'. MK. West &Co:,hic. ... Our. Store Open till 8:30 Xmas Eve. . ,, For Over Twenty Fjye'. Years - Dresses, Shoes, Hats, Un derwear, Stockings, Knit Caps and Sweaters, Boys' Jersey Suits and Gloves, Crib Blankets and Bath Robes, Boxed Handker chiefs and Garters, Powder Puffs, Powder Jars, Shoe Horns and Pin Cushions. Dolls and Toys Low Priced LOOK All dolls and toys not sold by 6 o'clock Friday evening will be sold at 25 per cent discount. ,, . . . I,, Italic riMrcKcntct by l c VokoiiU. I iiml wait the i isv i l i.r t tic i i'kciu.h i Ami Is nut the ability to acx-Oli cll lialKMl OWttU tu MUO III tlramle. wo ahuuM Imve ! and tile stnle at larw l..v tilt- mali-i.,.., ,. .. ...... rccllnir in years lu emiie. i --. ,.,i.iurti, i ,,.1,1 1, n,iu ,.j,..'u ..i.'.t, .... .. "J""1. "" " fimjuw.ni ri... k..ii..u ,iiv r....w expetieu uiei The Dalles mmle LIXKX HARGAINS Hand Embroidered Guest Towel 9S Hand Embroidered Vanitv Sets $1.10 Hand Embroidered Scarfs $2.29 Hand Embroidered 36-in. Lunch Se.ts....$3.98 Hand Embroidered lo-in. Lunch Sets.. .$4.98 .Hand Embroidered 5 1-in. Lunch Sets....$5.9S These are the lowest prices ever offered to the people of La. Grande on guaranteed pure linen hand embroidered pieces. Hand Embroidered 12-in. Pillow Cases Very special at $1.98 pair NORTON'S KIDDY SHOP "Whore Quality Is Higher Than Price tliut tho tiitm'Bst of the mute (it, lui-Kc would have bevn bt'Ltt-r HerveiJ 1 by it Hi'houl here, thut would have : relieved congestion nt Monmouth. ritat wiih our prliH'tpal Htund, and the one thut brought us to the front ii m a Htronic eotiteixlei'. 1 .ill the riKcnt.s held thai It wiim the Intent of the people to oHlab llsh u normal m-hool fur the bene fit of Kiistern Oreuon, und not for the tate um a whole. Under this Interpretation without doubt either Pendleton or Iai (irande were the loKlenl sites. ' An thhiKN now siuml. MtlM itnolher ft normul Hehoil for Orexun, or un W outlay of Novernl hundred thouMand 2 ' dollars for cnhirKenient of the I .Monmouth nonntil, Is Inevltubte. L j No one contends that students f:'tnt ijilho WlllumettH valy will attend ;ith li (irttnde normal so. In this respect, the situation at .Monmouth No one en n erltielxe Coventor I'leree, Sam Koxer or other nem beiH of the board of regents for their course, fierce voted for li , ( Irande, his home, town, und he would have been a tutor citizen if he hud not. Kozer advocates keep tiiK all state bullditms us ueur one tenter as possible und favored l'pn- . ttleton. His vote was bused on hon eta. eonvu'tlon. W. .. Hryant, of' ,Moro, '. L. Starr of Portland, and J. II. Fuller, of Ashlund. who voted ; for The Dulles, did so because they believed that a normal sehonT lu ', this eliy wouhl serve both lSastern t.reKon and the state as a whole. . The thought Persia' j, however. thai Kusteru oreKon should have hud no any in the mutter; that the quite natural element of home town partisanship should have been eliminated. Im (Irande recent i voted for li (irantle; i'endletou re- I tcetits tor I'endieton and The Unites j partisans fur The Dulles. To have let Willamette valley and southern ' Ot'ejion resents settle the matter would have been more equitable. Or. another assumption may be nd vutieed. 'otild It not have been better if the normal school Mil had placed selection of the site In the , hands of un impartial bourd, made ' up of the presidents of alt nor mal schools. colleKPS und unlvers J itles In the aiulc? ( These ante-mortem thoughts are1 hi no way tliiKed with bitterness! because The lhilles wus not select! and we hoin xb.vy rc Hot so' interpreted. They would have been ' equally true were this city the wln-j tier. U tiinde played the Kame fairly und mpjareiy. und the re-; ncnta voted In the iwm way. Were; tho sityjUiMr revenieJ, and The j presented. We were defeated, f.'0'id fUrht, not Ignobly. but1 iiiis oriu u Hi iiiiuujiiicw 'In victory V The Dalles C'liruilldS 5 I I 5 I 1 (- T. U Im-m ilirec liiiriiM KlrlH cull y- ( N?& - '"' 'iill,,i-iie.vH thiiiRH set' ' i V A ' Asn. '"" hl for him s.i he ten off j -V , 8g; ' , r'"' llto'n.M. 'IniiI Inmls -her- lft ". 'iVvI I XV x '"en iliiV(.-(lKsmi!l women tlrlve i I , V' ' v "C-s "'! htirni. ui the tuiijth I "" ' r '' ' " ' '"' I '-r Comedy "MADAME DYNAMITIC VV TODAY and FRIDAY All New Show ' STAR ' : Christmas Day J :-; ,; i mim - - - " -1 " " , , n . . - .