La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 28, 1929, CITY EDITION, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextJ 1 i; Paire Four LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER Monday; January 28, 1929.. S : 1 J I t , t '1 'I : (Incorporated) An Independent Newspaper PRANK a APPLEBY . . Editor mat pnbllaae HARVET F. MATTHEWS . Buslneee Manager Published evenings, except Sunday, at 1(11 Adams Avenue, La Grande, Oregon. The ODserver-8iar published every Friday. Entered at the Poetofftce at La Grande, Oregon, aa Beoond Claae Mall Matter under act of March 1. 117. OKFICIAL PAPER Or UNION COUNTY AND THB CITY OP IA GRANDE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aaaoclated Presa U exclusively entitled to uaa for publlea ;; ion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited , f puollshed herein. All tights of republication of special dis patches In this paper, and also the local news herein alao are -eserved. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier tally, pel month In advance Tld Dally, six months In advance . I4.il ; Hilly, single copy ,. ,. so By Mail Mail, per month In advance . Oally. per six months In advance . rjally, per year In advance 4'ekly Observer-Star, per year . - tte . U.e !. U.Ot ADVERTISING RATES iji.plav. foreign, per column Inch lHptay. local, per column Inch Time contract prices on application. 410 40c ) A nioth) uctriWs wfililln' U EX-KAISER HAS BIRTHDAY PARTY Hohenzollern Clan Gath ers at Doom, Holland,' for Anniversary IOOHN, Holland, Jan. 28 (AP) Former Kaiser Wllhelm arose at 7 o'clock this morning as usual, read, the Hi I) If. had breakfast and walked In the garden. Kervants wild he showed no signs of strain on account of the exhaustive pro gram of yesterday when the Ho lienxollern gathered to celebrate his seventieth birthday and to hall him as king und emperor. During the evening the guests partook of a repast more elaborate than at noon. I'.uch guest was given a menu card with a gold border and lieurlng a golden Hohenzollern crown anil a picture of tho kaiser In the uniform of a field marshal, under the' picture was printed: "Evening repast on the all hlgh--sl's seventieth birthday: his birth-' notliin' more or MWn a i-liaiivc: day: his majesty, the Kaiser and o1 venue. Tim lute Tex Itlikanl 1 king." , I gut aa good pni iiotlivw an any The menu was mushroom soun. FOCH IS IMPROVING "buddy, f.r It don't make no lif. ferrate In tliU fount ry wluu your bwttncisi Im if ymi're iK-cc-rul. ooli lobster, you nr turkey with vegetables, national pudding and fruit. The party adjourned at J I STl'OKXTS All Hlti:ll V j There are those to whom "Ee yourself is the worst pos J sible advice you can offer. . 1 There's one good thing iilwut a bad cold. You don't have to take' all the advice your friends give you. ABII.KNB. Tex.. Jan. 28 (AP) Students w ho lived in three ilurmi- torles helped firemen save furni ture and supplies frum the Abilene Chriatlun collcxe ' administration building when it was burned today wfth a Ions of (75,01)0. i rtx ii is lMi'itin i:i : Five thousand carloads of grapes came east out of Cali fornia in six days, as indicatinc a nressinc demand. ' ! i WHERE RURAL TAXES CO. Pointing out that the taxes paid by the average American farmer have increased 160 per cent in the last 15 years, while the value of tho average farm is a scant 20 per cent higher than it was in-1913, the bureau of agricultural economics of; the department of agriculture has undertaken a survey to. lind out Just what the farmer s tax money is being spent for. Its findings are interesting. , - The biggest item in the rural tax budget is for schools. From one-third to one-half of all public money spent in farm-' Ing districts goes for schools. Consequently, the rise in the price of education must be largely responsible for the rise in j ! i taxation. , . , In the first place, the bureau points out, prices have risen so that if the farmer were only supporting exactly the kind of schools he was supporting in 1913 he would be paying more lor them than he did then. But the rural school has expand ed greatyK. The iiumbcrQf children, attending such .schools has increased by one-third. The average school term is in creasing in length. More farmers' children are going to high school than formerly. In addition, rural school equip ment is on a much higher level than formerly, while educa tion standards havo been raised so that higher salaries' must be paid for good teachers. . ,l ; ,r Thus, in respect to this major item, the farmer' seems to be getting value received for his money. .", The second item in rural expenditures is for highways. Probably a fourth of all rural tax moneys are suent for them. Here, too, there is no denying that the farmer is better served ' than he was 15 years ago. Nothing breaks down the isola tion of the farm, enhances land values and brings the market closer to the production point like good roads. When the farmer's tax money goes to provide better highways it is being well spent. It is apparent, from this,' that major reductions in rural taxes cannot bo had without cutting off viUil services. What is needed now is more business-like management and careful economy, so that every cent of tax money can be made pro ductive. ! ; i WHEN COURAGE IS WASTED V I , If human beings would turn to worthwhile ends the de- : votion and courage they sometimes put into anti-social acts, ; tho world would move forward a good bit faster. The other day three rum runners set out to cross Lake . Erie from Eiieau, Ontario, to Cleveland, in a 50-foot boat : with 1000 cases of whisky. Lake Erie is a violently stormy ; place in the winter, and such a trip, in so small a !xat, is an extremely hazardous undertaking; and when the engine of r this boat went dead throe hours out of port, the men were ! faced with a critical situation. , ,; For threo days a storm drove their helpless craft across i f tho lake. Then, one morning, they found themselves drifting ill- JP . M .l ... I a iuw inuos on me l'ennsyivmiu shore. You would imagine ; j that by that time they would have been willing to dump their ; wmsn-y oveiinmni ami jump at the chance of saving their . skins but not. this crew. Instuid. one of them donned a life belt, jumped overborn d, and swum ashore. Then he went t nvui... hi,., unci M-creiiy arranged lor a tuglxiat to go out and take the disabled eiaft to a sheltered haven where it could lie unloaded. 1 I Hut before the tug could get out another storm came up j ; ana ine nout was driven back out into the lake. For 11 days ! it floundered about in mid-lake, repeatedly on the verge of ;. ; going tiown. i lie men aboard had no food. The launch was , cold. They could do nothing but wait- for death or rescue. ;j At last one of the big trans-lake cai ferries found them. And even then the rum runnel's balked at being rescued. They a asked tho captain to convey news of their plight, secretly, ; .' to their associates in Ei ieau, so that a new lioat could be sent ; out to get the whisky across the lake. The captain gruffly i refused, and the men Were taken into an Ontario port in spite of themselves. i They had Ihh-h adrift for 1 1 days under fearful conditions yet, to the end, their one thought was for their cargo of '. whisky. If such endurance and courage could lie put to work in the service of society, instead of against it, the world would be a great deal better off. j PARIS, Jan. 28 A") Malslwl Ferdinand Koch pawed such a ood night and his condition bad so Im proved generally today 'that his physicians IhotiKlit It iinnecesKary to Issue a bulletin. All' vInKh to him, however, are still prohibited. Kgg yolks may bo removed from the whlto by using a piece of the egg-shell. The edges are shnrper than a spodn and If any ettg yolk should get Into the whlto w hen ' Oermany and many other nations, separating tile whites will not beat! Male participants In the celebra- up stiffly. ! lion, garbed In the gala uniforms p. m. The former kaiser today wrote Queen Wilheimlna a long letter of thanks for ten years of refuge. He dwelt especially on acts of friend ship or Count Hentlnck and ex pressed his wish for tho welfare of the lutch people, ' 1'art.of nan Uttt Today only pail of the Hohen zollern clan was the kaiser's guests as many were Invited to tils homes of liutch noblemen. Count Ileli tltiik will entertain half or the birthday party tonight at Ameron Bn castle, and tho other hair with the kaleer n an honor gueat to morrow night. On Wednesday the employes and servants on tho lloorn estate will be given a spe cial feast which the former ruler has promised to attend. That will end the festivities. i )n his seventieth birthday yes terday the former kaiser stood re splendent In a field marshal's uni form of the first royul gunrds. I'p- un nis oreasi were ine highest dee- ; j : Pied-Piper Shoes I The Child's Greatest Health Shoe . ' Is Exclusive With Us. ' N. K. West & Co., Inc. "La Grande's Leading Store for Over 30 Years" U. Si Treasury Conscience Fund ; Now Totals Over Half a Million Ferdinand Koch, marshal of France nnd commander-in-chief of the allied armies In the World war, Is 77 and has been putting . up u courageous and winning fight against heart disease. Here Is . one of the best pictures of the marshal taken slnco the war. Here and There In Legislature j ed the privilege of railway fanvor J one cent a miln within 'the boun durk'B of Oreffon If a bill introduced J toduy by Senator -Hall paiwea tho ; h'friHlaturo und in Binned by tho I governor. HA1.KM. Ore. Jan. 28 (AP) Senator Norbtud today introduce,! a bill to prohibit the opnratlon of fish traua went of a lino drawn WASHINGTON (AI) Treasury officials aru confronted with many difficult problcnia but one that never1 haa been solved la just how much easo is iven the troubled consciences of thousands of con tributors to the conscience fund, which now aggregates $568,604.61. Back In 1 S 1 1 when Albert Galla tin of Pennsylvania was fourth sec retary, serving the longest term any secretary has had as financial head of the government, a person which name was never dlculged sent $251) to the treasury to pay for some wrong done the govern ment.. Whether It was for failure to pay taxes, for theft or for some thing else never was learned, but the money was put In a fund, mark ed as having como from unidenti fied persons. Hince then thousands of c u at tributions pf a similar nature huve been, received. f ' Generally- contributions' are ac companied by unsigned statements to tho effect that it is for -payment for defrauding the government oi for overnight in . falling to make tho proper payment Occasionally, however,- the anonymous writer will admit it i for a minor theft. A New Yorker sent $500 to the treasury und to make certain that It would reach the proper fund he took five $loo dollar bills and cut them exactly In tho center, sending one half of each to Secretary Mel lon and the other half to the collec tor of internal revenue. Neither half could have been redeemed by the, treasury without the other half as the treasury requires two-thirds of a mutilated bill for redemption. Since 18-7 there never has been a year in which some sort of an Increase in tho fund has not been teceived. Almonds may be roasted for sail ing or bonbons by putting them In an ordinary corn popper and shak ing thenr over a brisk fire. Al monds become - bitter if left In water to cool after boiling. This influenza epidemic is rath er hard to reconcile with the heal thy throats .we're all supposed .to havo from smoking wonderful ciga-reta. A robler was arrested after holding up u crowd entering a night club, still, you'd hardly ex- between the range light ut Kort ' leut hlm to wait until they came orations within tho gift of Imperial Stevens and the range light on v a'iauiJUiiilHieiiL, wastl. Senator I'pton introduced a blll of their military ranks and wear- providing for the organisation of ing spiked helmets, saluted hint as rural fire protection districts out side of Incorporated cities and towns, nnd providing for the levy- j ing oi taxes nna issuance or bonus for tho maintenance of the dis- out. niayuv uiose w nei lea down in i . ... , . t """Jwiy. i"e Hitiser una King. Pennsylvania area I the worst peo- Prim-ess Hermine. whom the pi' In the world. Most of lhdr : kalxer married In exlie. was not offenses seem merely those of six present to share her husband's trl- appeal. umnh or to bo addressed ns "em- trlets. Tho measure glvea county cour They call them speakeasies, and 1 1 after a few hours there some men! have been known to speak hard,1 and others to become speechless, j TRY W K. GILBERT CO FIRST EDISON OFF FOR SOUTH 5" tj? 1 U'MaxVri'i: - i(W );; - : 1 ' authority to establish the fire pro-, teetion districts on petitions from the people, and if objections aro filed by H5 or more residents of the proposed district representing 60 per cent or more of the assessed property valuation, tho court Is authorized to call an election on tho ijlrestibii. ; : " ! The district would be governed by a board of directors, who, among other things, would elect a fire chief, , , : j Two bills which abolish tho of- -flee, of county Judge and would. create tho office of county commis sioner to take the place of tho county judge's oTflee were intro duced to the house this morning y Itcpresentntlve Anderson and t'arkln and Speaker Hamilton. House bill 2(i6 provides for the appointment of county commission ers ror counties of Oregon and tho abolishment of the office of county ! Judge. The act provides that in each case the preMont county Judges are nppulnted commissioners to fill out present terms. Off to the sunny south, but to work, not plav. went Thomas A KdlMon. The (ami d Inventor announced Mint In the laboratory of his winter home in Km t Myers, I'la., he will coiitltuie the synthetic rubber experiment which have been occupying his scientific at tention in recent livontliK. rictmvd above n they left Newark. N. .1.; for i heir anmuij Mojoum in Dlvie hp, lelt tu right Kdison, Mrs. KdlKoti. tbeti son. Climbs, and bis wife. House bill SCO would transfer all Judicial jurisdiction heretofore placed In the county courts to the circuit courts. It Is a companion bill to a!t)&. --'' ' Members or the Grand Army of the Republic in good standing, ir residents or the state, will be grunt- press." The official explanation j was thai, she was 111 with whut ut Tlrst seemed to be chicken pox but 1 probably was only grippe. There was a rumor current, however, ' that she was only diplomatically III i since the greater ujirt of the Ho-' heiuollern clan refuse to rerognlxe i t ner as -ner tmpcriai majesty." con-, j ceding her merely the title of the j kaiser's spouse. WHERE THE HOOVERS ARE RESTING UP r r : U hGA Aflir th Uvrti. Ir uvl li.itn ncCfKyitateil by the RtKnl will tour of ifcuth Amrrlcn. the prvwi.lent-elevt h4 wtfn .r KynK ihr;r tiri real nst now, as guests of J. i Penny At Sea ll', his unique winter h'm af fiiii iu-fH h. Kin. This picture, transmitted by telephone from AtlamtH. t;a.. to H-n l-Ynuciw-o t th firt (.f jh Iiuur welcome tu rvavq hnr, peuny U shows t U txuu reft, with ih Your Financia Engi neer Financial wrecks vary in the seriousness of the damage suffered. If your total savings amount to $100 and you lose it all by investing in . some fake stock, your finances are ruined. If you own a big. business and it gradually be comes so involved as to throw you into bank ruptcy, your finances are ruined. . . The important thing for everyone who has ac- . cumulated or seeks to accumulate money, is not that a few people suffer financial wrecks, but You could probably name lots of reasons why certain men fail. Not always, but in many cases it's due largely to the lack- of sound financial judgment and advice - - lack of a fi " heer to steer the proper course. . Business and money are handled successfully according to certain fairly well defined rules provided by experience. Your banker is usually acquainted with these rules in considerable de , tail. He knows, from his contact and experience how some mistakes can best be avoided how some steps can be taken with assurance toward success. Your banker should be a competent, friendly financial engineer, ready to help yoiv when wanted. ' , . 1 V, hen you wish if, we like to dscuss your busi ness and financial plans and to be of every jmssi ble service to you. I , , . 4 5Ca (Sraui-r Member Federal Reserve Jfatutiral Resources . Over Millioa 'Forty-First Year Of Friendly Service"