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Fe Four LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. Saturday, April 13, 192'J (Incorporaiod) ,: '.v. i 'An Independent Newspaper FRANK B. APPLBBY... L.;..:..Edllor and Publisher HARVEY P. MATTHEWS Business Manwrar I, , Published evenings, except Bunday, at 141 Adams Avenue, L Grande, Oregon. The Obssrver.Slar published every Friday. Entered at the Poatofflce at I Orande, Oregon, aa Second Clan Mall Mutter under act or March 8, 11179. , ; OFFICIAL PAPER OF UNION COUNTY AND THE 1 ' CITY OF LA ORANDE ';. . MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aaaoclated Pross la exclusively entitled to ut (or publica tion of all newa dlspqtches credited to It or not otherwise credited It published herein. All rights or republication of special dls- . patches In this paper, and also the local hews herein alto are . reserved. ' , National Advertising Representative M. C. MOOENSEN ft CO.. Inc., ' San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, ' ' Detroit, New York ' v . SUBSCRIPTION RATES I v ,. . By jCarrlw Dally, per month In advance.....,.'. 75c Dally, six months In advance $4. 60 Dally, tingle copy.... Go .By MU .... - Pally, per month In advance - GOo bully, per six months In advance-....,'..,...., .....13. 60 Dally, per year In advanoe ................... $6.00 Weekly Observer-Star, por year......- $2.00 - ADVERTISING RATES, Display, foreign, per column Inch....... 2o Display, local, per column tnoh:..,..,..........,..-....." 40o Time oontract prices on application. hostess and her assistants. The senior plav, "Crooks For Monthi" will be given at Macca-! uce nan April 24. The cast are working well and expect to give a very credltablo performance; April 21 has becit act as the dute LETTERS INQUIRE ABOUT U. S. PLANS for a hike by tho camp fire girls. 'MailV Woilflpr Whprhpi' They will take provision, and cook IT' . VV,,le.l.nel ikni. i i. ... ! AllID '1-"J Will VAnW Uin . Next, kx;M'r to Ik'Iii' it II very stable their lunch over a campflre. This Is the first hike of the season. Mrs. Walter M. Pierce has ac cepted an Invitation to meet with the Woman's club of Cove at their next meeting, which will be held April 26, and speak to them on the subject of "Contemporary Liter ature." Beginning Aprl! 16 the co-operative cream truck will make regu lar trips over the Cove route1 every other day Sundays included. The truck is now making the trip three times a week. It was also decided ut the last monthly meeting, held at Hnlnes last week, that the East ern Oregon Dalrymens' association and the Payette creamery would each donate $15 for premiums In boys and .girls club work to be awarded at the Union stock show. The only big game hunt Ih years run't tliliik o' iiotlilu' lliut ut H"thooro, Mass., was for de- jiiijH less'n bolii' a, Russian prince, illniiuont heifer. Because 'of her It's about us (Ihiikci-oiik' to lend depredations after stravlnar she jour name us your monoy thaw iWaa hunted down as u public nuis-'recently by Premier Mussolini und , anee. i.-nruinai unsnarn.-inn nnmii America Will Send Min ister to Vatican , By C. IV Willlaiiuoii (Associated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, April 11 (API Many letters inquiring whether dlplomutlo relations are to be re sumed between the United States und the vutlcan are being received by the white house and the state department from all sections of the country. Jn response to all of these letters und to those Inquiring about the American government's attitude in the event the present concordut be tween Italy and the. vutlcan, rec. ognlslng the soverlgnly of the lat ter state, is ratified, the stale de partment sends a brief note In forming the writers that the "ques tion has not arisen." Following the policy of silence established by Former Secretary lf Ktato Kellogg when the Italian- Vatican agreements wero-signed Cove High Ball Schedule Of Six Games Prepared; i-etury of ulate, tho atule depart ment declines to dlttcuHH .the Am erican uttttude on the question in any way.' It was pointed out today that the agreement huve not heeu ratified and the matter could not be difcu8ed until final action Is taken by the papacy und the Ital ian government. Had Representative Youru Aro The United Htatea sent u diplo matic representative to the Vati can more than 80 years ago after considerable debate In the senate over the appropriation for hlu sal ary. Those who supported the proposal contended that the mln. Ister to the pope would not be sent In a spiritual churacter, but "to evince sympathy with (he spirit of freedom" which hud broken out In Italy. . . In h(n message lo congress in 18G9, President Grant said he had been officially Informed of the an nexation of the papal states by Italy and the the United K tales, had recognized the change In the status of their soverlgnly. ' Since that time, the United Htutes has had no representative ut the Vati can'. Arthur Day Is the man who over hauls locomotives which transport members of the British royul fam ily. He has had the same task' lift years. The Florsheim Shoe for the man who cares -s . "Mosc styles ... .$10 . .' N. K. West & Co., Inc. "The Man's Store" Ford Financial Statement For Year Is Given BOSTON, April 13 AV) The 1928 financial statement of the Kurd Motor Co., filed with the Massachusetts commissioner of corporations, shows a profit und loHS surplus of $582,(129,563 us of December ill lust, compared with $054,801,0431 for the year ID Li 7. The Indicated loss of $72.221,4.18 did not take Into account any divi dends wlthdruwii during 1928 by Henry Ford, his wife, and Kdsel Ford, the thwe owners of the com pany. " t .. It Is believed unlikely however, that any payments were Hindu 'td the stockholding trio in view of re cent expenditures In connection with reorganization of plant jiml lirodiK't which caused an liuIiruLtnl loss of 42,786,727 In 1.127. f A llUMsian district has Imposed a stiff tax n buclielnrs. Person , not members of a cultural, chari table or putriollo society also tiro taxed. ' Thirty tons of kukul nuts, used 1 1 v unr'li'nt I Iji wiiHuiih for r'linilli-vi jhavo been sent to a I'aeific coast on extracting piuiu ror experiment al purpoNiM. In Utopia the rents are just as high as they are here, but (Obwrv'r'V'ori'espndpnt) I fVin tnnonf nmluMi, .inini tlHn tn tVio nrnturlv ofta Vio COVE. Ore. (Hncclal) The base- I , hall schedule outlined for the high has paid for it seven or eight times. - One of the troubles of the new commission to study the administration of justice is that nobody knows how many laws are in force. Nor how many are enforced. . i ; . -..lj. 1 .... i Letters addressed to. tho editor ' for publication in Tho J Observer's Open Court column must carry the signature I and address of 'the Writer as evidence of good faith. If h writers do not think enough of their opinions to admit author- t ship, we cart hardly be expected to make other than a waste s' basket disposition of their efforts. A RURAL INSTITUTION school Is hs follows: North Powder and Cove at Cove, April 12. Imhlcr und Cove lit Covo, April , JO. KmUtim-Iko and Cove ut Cove, April 19. KnterpilHe und Covo ut Knter- priso, April 211. North Powilnr und Covo ut North Powder, May 3. Imhlcr und Covo ut linhlcr, Muy 14. A incmm-lul proKrutn urrunsed : hy Mrs. Ituth KpriiiKcr lit honor 1 of MIhh Iilu Hohcrts wus slven ut tho meotiiifc of Mt. Funny Ki-unRO Huturdfty. Mr. C. CI. HprlnKcr read two poems written hy Miss Hob crtH, tho first entitled "Our Flag," liuvliiK been written at the ago of M, the other, "Memories," was. ' One of the symbols of rural outdoor life which was' long written in int. Mrs. Heieno Lin- ...... - . -.r ... ... coin and Mrs. I.oonu McCorkle. of ovei'ioosea Dy me reiormers is me gaivanizea iron man nox j.a arnnde. suns; "Nearer My God whiph stands on its snlit rail in front of everv farm houso. t Tn,!!" " 11 ,1"1'1- Ml'"- Hnringer :t rr., . ;' ' , I , , i ... KUVO tho poem "H "t ine lyps now in use is almost, as oia as rural iree oeiivery. ,Hrd a. c.nent, as a rcadias; ami ") .ThesA boxes are cremrioUR creatures at crossroads, lnvinor M'"- l" '' ave a sketch in "i , ,,T . , . . . memory of "Miss Huberts tho teach- ; ineir Kina ana aweiung logcmer in grotesque companionsnip. er." Mrn. KprinKer wus elected ? Some lean together as if forever whispering sweet secrets; Kr,,nKe lecturer to rui the piaco . .. . . . - . . . ., left vacant by the death of Miss f iOtnera pun apart as u petulant aiier a quarrel, ucciiaionaiiy itnberiH and k. it. poweii was ' 'the group assemblSs'M MdreYormai, ordW YaMM 'Vflirt is 'rKS'VMXS!!! ? given the dignity of an upright anchorage in better keeping Tim next mootmir ot the grange i with tho great postoffice department. . TiJy i i : With half an imagination one may picture these rural' squire k. Thomas, who has been f mail boxes chatting with each other interminably like an end- Vr'l "locauon!' f, less session of a sewing circle. If they could talk, they would his umber land near cove for & probably speak of the eccentricities of the men and women rnmveThcreT'",';:" rTuZ j who posted them at the crossroads as sentries of civilian-1 'i'"o baseball game between the ; tion, of the weather and about the condition of the highways. uI'Tsuifc1! 5 in" avictTy "rir - What happened to the proposal of a year or so ago to Vme- ' c01''' ,,0 7-- i i install at crossroads and rural centers cabinets of lock boxes iiawy.ifunio'invwuh Mr s similar to those in postoffices? It is to be imagined that comstork and Mrs. w. a.; . ijt... '1 McNeil to select the pictures to be j the scheme provoked such a Storm of protest nmonjr rural ue,i i tne picture contest to be : t folk, with whom the traditional tvrie of mail box is n clier- ""lu 1,1 disnict convention of ished institution, that it had to be abandoned. The present tea'u'iaUm i.e" kl"!' n-om the eighth i Style well BCl'VeS its purpose. 'i ' ' jgnide pupils or Cove und Union. Tho new Kpworlh league offl- :;: . , cers were installed tluitiluy evening ' ' m .' t'rrL-mr ' ' '' at the Methodist church. The Hov. ; OUR BAKERY PAYROLL ; . , !T. I'. Ornhmn was installing offl- f Innmooinrr lnnn! nntrenllo l niMlni. tn tUn n.nrln,il i,... nt Cel', giving before tile Ceremony i ' , i . , . ... . u short sermon on tho subject I i La Grande products is as important for community pros- "seek yo niat iim kingdom or ' perity as insisting on buying those things grown and pro- J ZJiTV duced on Grande Ronde valley farms. Bread and pastry vim coniey as u special number. t provides an example. Here we have as well equipped ami rnV: as efficiently managed bakeries as can be found in tho - Apm m. ti,o imie feiiow Northwest. Their products are of uniform high quality. Yet u1t;rsdh30n"lKj,t paun,Sa- 'VMa ia ll,e i some outside bread and a great quantity of outside pastries I . n cabin to ie imiu t and cakes, particularly, are shipped in and are bought by La )Z ,,;ta .?B. i,S i Grande housewives from local dealers. These foreign pax- ,,y Meivm i.oree. lie has brought ; tries represent the work of possibly a half dozen bakers who ior " cabin.'" worTViMoIn : live in Spokane or Portland or some other community. The on It as soon as can be arranged. f money La Grande people pay for these outside products In to luie a fireplace. I means a living for these outside bakers and their income ! ITI ",',,'"1,";j'"Aof m"",,!!"1"! ! is spent in these other cities, not in La Grande. If tho SallU! chapter No. K'S. are giving a party volume of business were inverted to our local bakeries, they ( ",!1l,')"0plrtl0!')4Ml'- "lul Ju,", I would be foited to employ more bakers, would bring nev The members of the sewing cmb i families to La Grande, would increase a payroll that is R,,t fi TnS&'lteTJZ I light here for rent, food, clothing professional services, i;ar- fiii one or tiu-iv wrieu and 4 "d vey other living requirement. The volume VirVXZTuS V, : of money spout here would be inerenaed and the money turn- owi ix, ah of tin members were over speeded up. And the pastry-loving palates of La G ramie u"ll"K "t",, Wed' people would lie equally or better satisfied with consumptinn j A '"' 8-'ie win be given in of the home product. Buying La Gtan.le products is a selfish uV! activity lor every citizen. To fail to do it is to ignore an 1 J.'.'-;' ,,"'h h" ,,,,"' hoen i rppoi tunily to incieufe your own chance for greater pio.s- m. innba Pet"onu" m"'s. ii.u perity. llousewive.1 who refuse to tmv bread and pasli ic;;, ! V." " M"' ,'hrl,l" ...... ii ,i i.i . . . . . i x'""'k wne hnsii-sKes at the I'or- js well as oilier products, brought in from the outside, are m.-eitiig Thursday at n... heme : helping to protect und promote their own family incomes, i.'" 1'" " ""d. The women are . . "gain si'Uing on the Imllall blank- niieic UIOT III1IIK Mil! HUIUC WIICII Villi 1WI.V lllflll. lllSltil els. Kelresl nt a were served to on the locally made brand. It's a good investment. TRY W. K. GILBERT CO. FIRST ! tin mi-ii ami tour ohllilreu. Ih- ni mct'tini; will le nt the lu'int ,t Mitt. t. Van 1uum MuiMie ltarty t& Klven for j Hrsi, liulny Saturday uttirnoon. Tlu i;trty whh clvrn at the home oi Min. Meaner Towle tul It whh 1u Iioiiui of IteKHii'n llh Mithtlay. I luw w u ntteiiileil were leMu (iiity. Ht-I'tt tiray. Muvu Ony, Mhx- i me IVUe, .lt un Miller, Kuth Itart h y. J!in Kottor, Maxfur I'onlpy. ' l.oi lUiktT, I'lani Itoheitu, oio ilty tioluv nntl Hit Kiicnt ot honor, Hsle llolay. Many Klttn wer rt itlve.l y the blrthtlay child anil the afternoon whh spent In playing IJ .jirs anj unloving (he if(it;h fPSTWttM I'ii-uu iilch wr rv by thw RUN A BIG CAR IF YOU LIKE- But A New For By All Means! It is generally recognized as not only smart style but smart business for the owners of big, heavy cars to own a New Ford, too. If you can afford the exjK-nse of the big car, yoti can't afford to be without the added convenience, greater all 'round usefulness of a New Ford. If your wife or members of the family drive, think of tho times you or they are denied the en joyment of a car by having.-only-one available, for all purposes. , With your New Ford always ready to go, the transportation requirements of your business need not interfere with those of your family's sport or social obligations. A car is at hand when you need it and in this day of speed and many activi ties, you must both work and play with the aid of an automobile if you would stay abreast of tho times. Cull liil mm The New Standard Coupe $713 Delivered In La Grande . Five steel-spoke wheels, windshield wiper, speedometer, theft-proof ignition lock, five balloon tires, Triplex shatter-proof glass windshield, gasoline gauge, mirror, combination stop and tail light, bumpers, tiro cover, etc. Greater Utility, Greater Economy The New Sport Roadster 638 The New Ford is the ideal companion for your big car because of its greater utility and far greater economy. Quick to start, quicker to get under way, easier to put through traffic, easier to park, faster and easier to drive over rough, roads. ' For business, sports, or general family use the New Ford meets an urgent need. While your bijr car is especially expensive to operate on slioit trips about town and over the valley, your New Ford is gone and back with minimum oil and gas consumption, lowest possible wear and tear. Through rain in spring, heat in summer, cold and snow in winter it goes with utmost conilos't. .If mud-splattered or dust-covered it is quickly, easily cleaned. Tires are inexpensive ' reprtir costs are notably low. And what a pleasure it is to own and drive! Delivered In La Grande Five steel-spoke wheels, windshield wiper, speedometer, thervproof ignition lock, five Killoon tires. Triplex shatter-proof glass windshield, gasoline gauge,' mirror, combination stop and tail light, bumpers, tire cover, etc. You'll Be Surprised! 1) yen like a car thal's iikIIc. fliel. lull i.f "pep" and kii V Yeu ll be sui pri-eil ut the easy, re.mtort.ihle way Ihia New Kurd shows lis puwer. A Bleat performer, iirive It ami see for yourself! PERKINS MOTOR CO. FORD LINCOLN FORDSON 4