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Saturday, January 1, 1927. Tuna Six LA" GRANDE EVENTNO OBSERVE! (Incorporated) An iDflr.pcnilcot Newspaper FRANK B. APPLEBY Editor and Publisher PARVEY F. MATTHEWS.... .... Uuslnass Manager -" Published evenings, except Sunday, at lilt Adama Avenue, La Qrindo, Oregon. The Olj.w.rver-Htur published every l'rldajr. 'Entered at the Fostoffice at La Qrunde, Oregon, aa Second lass Mall Matter under act of March Ss, 1879. . 1 OFFICIAL PAl'Bfl OF UNION COIJNTT AND TUB CITY OF I,A GRANDE) 1 ' f MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to use for pub lication or all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited if published therein. All rights of republication of special dispatches In this paper, and also the local news he ra in also are reserved. T! SUUSClllI'TION RATES ' Itv Carrier Dally, per month In advance Dally, per all months In advan.....H ... Dally, single copy . ... . Ily Mall ; Dally, per month In advance. .......... Dally, per six months In advance... tally, per year In advance .. ... Weekly Obsorvor-Star, per year .... He Wrote One of Best Sellers and Is Glad He Got $3,000, Not Million .t5a H.bU .a (00 ...13.60 16.00 ..... 13.00 - -: ADVERTISING RATES Display, foreign, per column Inch. ........... ........ .iHspluy. local, per column inch Time contract rates on application. ..MO ..too V. FINISH Till-; WAItK "He strum: Mini of K"'l ciiniiikp, and ilo it; fear mil, nor he fllHUHiyuil, for the Lord find, even my '.find, will he Willi Ihee; He will not fall thee, nor forxnlle thee, lilllll Ihrm hiiMt flulHhed all Hie wnrk." I Chi nn. - H : a . -Happy, is the land where the most urprent pro))lem i.s how to reduce one s weight. j;;Gunbont activities in China thow, nmonp; other things, -that; with all her Imckwaidr.OHB that country has kept her rivers navigable. .., ' ' yDrinking one's health on New Year's is more than ever out 'of style. If there's much drinking done in this boot leg" agd it is likely to be to one's death. v icThe fact that the Associated Press said New Year's reso lutions were out of style is not going to decrease'swearing offe i .It never has been in stylo-.-merely a topic for January conversation. . ' "Someone has congratulated us on reading that the Aimee Ciije,' is not, after all, to bo dropped insinuating that 1027 wijj;be a newsy year. Don't congratulate us; console us. Subscribers may read or pass by, but think of the poor proof reader who has to rend the stuff whether she wishes to ortjiot. " ; -v ( ' V "The Legion New Year's frolic, contrary, to the law of avtfrjlge! with shows, proved all that 'wits 'claimed foT"it, tinij more. The post members are to be congratulated on pro viding such an event. In addition to that, the participants in ;lhe program deserve the thanks of both the Legion and the hundreds of people "in attendance for' an enjoyable en tertainment. Their services were all given, without charge, astwas the theater and practically every thing, in, connection with the affair. Perhaps it can become an annual means of celebration. ' ,' . ' , - . i. , f - - . ' ; ,: COURT TECHNICALITIES . fCourt technicalities have become a byword in this coun try, localise they are so regularly invoked for the obstruc tion of justice. It i.s usually felt, however, that the correc tion of this evil is a tremendously difficult task. The legal profession seems to dodge responsibility for it. Lawyers insist that they are within their rights, and more over that if the rules were ignored, the whole system of jus tice would crumble. Judges protest that they are helpless. The buck is passed to legislatures. sThis is all a mistake, says Judge Marcus A. Kavanagh, of Chicago, who has been on the bench for IH) years. Speak ing of the way England, from which our judicial system is borrowed, has swept away this maze of entangling tech nicalities, he says: V'This relief can be had in the United States without the aid of any legislation whatever. The courts themselves have ih themselves the power and duty to correct these absurd technicalities." , , ''.They were not created by legislatures, he says. "They ar? nil judge-made laws, and have been followed by other judge's until they become precedents." These precedents are not compulsory. The courts have the power to disregard them, and in most of the states are expressly commanded by 'the legislatures "to disregard the errors and to affirm the judgment unless they c:m see that the error has caused injustice." Hut for the most part, this has not been done. ' ;:The innate conservatism of the bar and bench has pre vented the reform. And when a judge has the courage to cut through the red tape and insist on taking a straight line to essential justice, in spite of technical errors, he is likely to be called by his legal brethren a "dangevous radical." nam .Softly 1 i i i l I rn "i hi ,m. m m m- m vjr-iy w --n J .u r wiiiowmm (bmluifaiy I " ' THAVEL, 1IY MOTOU HTAfiB ,, Irave I Cirando fur .lotcph o no A. M. s -oop M Z , l1"r "" n',e !.. I :-Sl.' la." " liaker only 6 SO M , M " ITihIIi-Ioii 1 1 :00 A. M. . S:S0 l M. . 0: in I". M. "Connection at Pendleton for Walla Walla, Pasco and Port iantl; at l'orllund all polnis South and North. , la fiimle Depot tione 7t All Modern Clialr lar Bt-csa. TO'KKA, Knn., Jan. I (NBA Speelut) Thirty yeurs ago J)r. Charles M. Hheldoil, Topeka cler gyman, wrote the religious novel "Jn His Htep." I Today, more thnn ''33,000,000 copleH of "in His Steps" have lieen sold. Jt Is one the "best sellers" or all time. I A royally of; lull a nlckid a copy would have made the author a i iplllinnalre. IteeailKe of copyrlKlit law riiiirks, - fir. Sheldon's actual I money Jirofils lotal J less than ,' 3,00. I "I'm glad of It," he said. "Tor ) me to 'have made u million from I 'In His Step' wouldn't have lieen I very ("hristllko, - i , "I haven't ll wiiiKle, solitary re- . . :.. . ' .... . i . 1 1111 in win-1 i"u iu K"t, rirn, im ( juMi iI, Iip n(-v-r woul l havo cn- ttcrt-d tht iriliil.stry In tho flint i I plilCP. Ilcil Aivtuml Tho World ' l-'irtv (llfffTfril I'.'iiKllhh clitiorm of "In Hln HlfpH" hiive bi'tn pub IlKhorl. Tin work him been trnns lali'fl Into '21 UHTen-nt IimKuafr and iJiulfctH, )in bi-fn produced In (Inutiatlf rnnn on the Htttffo, and I oven tins hren mt to innslc as a chur-h cantata. ! I'Vw If any novolH in all literary hlRtory Jihvc enjoyed a larifr or moiP widcsiwnd populnrlly. And yi't -Willi nil nf thft 22,000,00(1 copl(-H," Mr. Hhcldun di-rlnrcd. In lltf Hiudy of hlu ColloffH uvtnui' honic In TopcUu, "J never have re eelved ft pnny of real royalty and hav hern paid In all conMderuMy leuM than $;i.0ini in purely volun tary Kl'ts rroin four publisher." A KfiiiiiiiMt fiT Itenl Jiifn Tim ' story of how It happened that tho book never was oopyrlKht (d proporly, and thus beeunio with out font tho property of any pub lisher who fancied it, and huw It happenn now that Uh uuthor aetn nily in haffpy at Iho twist of fate, which deprived him of riches, Ih ono of, literary hlstory'M inoHt rp nnintlc talcK. Soon ufler Dr. Sheldon awHumed hiH present pauloralc! ut tlin Cen tral ronKi'ctcational ohureh In T peku, bark In January JHSif, hu adopted a new plan for Kunday. evcntiiK Hervlces In tho. church. "You'iiK peoplo wimo' not Inter filed In sermons and didactics In t Iioho dayn," 1 r. 'Hhcjdon recullH now, "but they woro Interested In- tcnscly In life. Bo-1 wrote of l(io, to IntoreHt thoin and keep them In the church." Ni'v Way of I'rcm hlntc lurln thu winter of a si l. Or. Hheldon read tho slory of itichard Uriioo to his conKt'eirution, each (.'lutplcr servtnK as a Sunday even ing Hermon and boltiK followed by" a Kiifnil dl.seuHslon. t Tho novel way of preaching ("lirlrtt met wllh approval, and tho uddltlnnnl bonks to "In His Steps", In- 1 KlMi. In this 'Hovel. nilnlMter. Ittrrftr ultrtrr. 'SH-Staper '4Hor, ralli'oud shop Hiipcrlulciidimt, col lepii president, merchant sur Koon, author, hctreHs tuid ot hers were placed In quest of a life pui pono that would bo In His Htepw, KncouraRed by Iho Interest hlu hearers manifested In the story, Dr. Kholdon offered .It to several ChleaKO publishing houses, ull of which declined It. . 'Then ho submitted It to the. edi tor of tho Advance, a conKrctfntlon al church weekly periodical pub lished In f'hlcaKu. Jn 1 s ( U "In Ills Hteps" bewail to appear In this publication as a serial. instead of sendbiK two complete copies of Iho novel to tho copy rlKht bureau In Washington, how ever, tho munaKctiHMit of tho Ad vance forwarded only a part of ono. No copyright, linos wcro car ried alonx with tho serialized ver sion. Theso biunders Resulted In the KrnntltiK or a defectlvo copyriKht to lr. Sheldon, which was not dtH cOVered, liowtjver, unlit alter tho novel had been published In book lonn, a Hit in 1 1 edition of loO.nmi copies, pupcrbound. An unusual demand for tho story attracted the attention of pub lishers Koncrally, Tho Irregular ity of I r. Sheldon's copyrfRht was found huiuediately and tho work was thua thrown on tho open uinr- ket, to bo .seined upon eHKorly by sixteen d I I'll1 rent publishers with In threo months. Htinllnrly, tho lack of an lnttr nat tonal cupyrtght permit tod the wave of popularity of the book to swoep neroM tin Atlantic to Kuk lund, where twenty different pub lishers bctrau IhhuIiik editions al most simultaneously. Since then "In Ills Steps" has been translated Into almost every Important lahKUUKo. Thcro ' are Home editions even in the dinlccts of West Africa. Next to the Itlhto It Is doubtful tf any book has hud as lure a Circulation as "In His Steps' dur ing tin last thirty yours. As lr. Sheldon,' the author, has had no opportunity, neither has he hud a desire to cash in on ihe veritable krold mine the novel, properly copyrighted, inisht have boon," "After nil", ho reasoned, "the main thinK about a book Is to have it read, and not particularly to hav it roup n 'Income for Jts mithor." if 1 hud wished to reap bis profits, I never would Jiuve entered the ministry in the. first place. , . , "Too, 1 feel tho fact thM tho copyriKht' was found defectlvo'.un douhtedly incf eased Iho . cjroula liou of the novd. ' Publishing, liunsei that might never have touched it otherwise took It up and made it available to common poo-ph- everywhere, It woubt have been wholly out of keeping with the spirit of the wojk for a pastor to writo a story about whut ' he believes Jesus would do If Ho were on earth, ami then turn ;t 1. 000,000 or more from Iho Bale of It." ' lr. Sheldon accounts for the wide circulation of tho book by asserting that "nothing1 ever lum been ,or ever will be more Ihler HSiintf to people than reliKlon." ir. Sheldon will bo 70 years of BE BE DANIELS STRANDED IN PARIS Wild and ftjtive ad-venturer imidit ths , J5 PJl. Oook4al I 9ji ftf ah 4E8fi! STRANDED 'i ! iStwmlVinwbtr' 1, . sou to her t " ll!TO. Dl". tV f J pleasure i jnf y v Y ?. Atli after-Bldniht mm' s' y ) Iw br Pari, rl. ''jiLj&3. I () with JAMES HALL, . FORD STERLING and IRIS STUART ..- Dirtcui bn ARTHUR ROSSON Hal Roach Sunday Monday Myrm dhovild. Jfc star: UCJ YiritN Oakland rTfv fciaaiaflril iiisssaawaaaasstajja 1 TODAY J. Oliver Cunvood's "COUNTRY BEYOND" We wish to thank our customers for increased business the past year and we M ill do our best the coming season to give the highest quality merchandise to be had for the price. Stai-ting Monday, January 3rd, we will sell all discontinued items at less than Half Price, and all other merchandise will bo sold KYVa to 30rr Off. Ot Your Children's Shoes at Special 98c and $1.98 Prices NORTON'S KIDDY SHOP Starting Monday Morning West's Greatest 4 January Clearance Sale 29th Annual Savings Event Largest AssortmentsHighest Quality N. K. West & Co., Inc. La (2rancles Leading Store For 25 Years ugp l'Ybrunry 2Q, .1112 7. Toduy hp Is a "f'hriat Hoolallat," aa ho terms himself ono who applies th teach ings of tho .Sermon on the Mount to evoryduy life. Ho Is a man nfl decision who speaks firmly and deals not in pla titudes. ' Hfl hits well-defined con victions, and the courage of them. Jn other words, in meeting his puts to tho imaginary characters' iu Ills world, (umous story, "Whut, Would Jesus Do?" and he lives as he believes a minister should live own problems, J)r. Sheldon con tin- j if ho is to follow accurately In Ills iinlly nsks himself the question ho steps. "A XKW YEAR'S RESOLUTION" mukin' nnv La Grande National Bank I'LL SA VP MORE AND ILL HAVE MORE make it keep it A Happy. Healthful and Successful New Year! With the passing of 1926 we completed the most prosperous year in our history. Ap preciating the. patronage and encourage ment of our many friends and customei-s, wo extend to you our most sincere NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS Crescent Meat Co. Exclusive Meat Market ! NO COLD STORAGE TR0DUCTS ac 11 1
