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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE.
Friday, August 15, l93(j
(Incorporated)
An Independent Newspnpfr
P. R. FINLAY Editor and Publisher
HARVEY P. MATTHEWB , Business Manager
Published evenings, except Sunday, at 1710 Sixth street La
Orande, Oregon. The Observer-Star published every Friday.
Entered at the Postolflce of La Orande, Oregon, as Second Class
Mall Matter under act ot March 2, 1879.
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memory recalls thein you will find that your native town has
made considerable improvement, to say the least, so has the
country at large.
The moral standard has been raised with the passing years
and the world is better than it was in those times of the
' "good old days," but we will not make the most of our oppor
tunity if we do not raise the standard still higher, and this
is a job in which we may all have a part.
New figures have put the world's population at something
over two billion, divided among the Continents as follows:
Asia, 950 million; Europe, 550 million; North and South
America, 230 million; Africa, 150 million; Australia, 7 mil
lion. These estimates show an increase in the world's popu
lation during the past three years of about 100 million people.
If the sun was to disappear, it is estimated the temperature
of the earth would fall to something like 300 degrees below
zero.
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DROUTH DISASTER
STORIES TOLD AT .
GOVERNORS' MEET
(Continued form Page One)
pects of feed 3,000 people starving
tthlla winter."
While many other counties report
ed conditions almost as bad, a major
ity were more op torn 1st ic.
In Washington
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law
of Christ. Gal. 6:2.
GOOD OLD, BAD OLD, TIMES
' Tomorrow is usually a little further off than yesterday.
both have a perspective which in some ways shows them up
in more nearly their true relations and in some ways distorts
tho view and makes them look grotesque. And yet the yester
days were once the present, pulsing and important, and im
perative in demand. Tomorrow, too, will be just the plain
present one of these days. And they are all alike, more or
less, in the essential elements that compose the conditions of
any period.
, There are dreamers who are continually visioning the
brighter day ahead, crystalizing it into the acme of perfect
conditions in a moral way, and probably also in a physical,
economic and industrial way. And the dreamers have always
had to announce from time to time a postponement, more or
less indefinite, of the glad and perfect day when all the wrong
will be righted.
So, loo, there are the retrospective dreamers, forever living
in the past and investing the departed days with a glamor
and glory that was never quite justified by the facts in the
tima when these past times were prosaic and practical pres
ent. These reminiscent experts harp upon the "good old
days" and deplore the decadence of the new! the deteriora
tion of the manners and morals of the day In which we live.
, It does not require an enthusiast or a. professional optimist
to find the actual facts of the record and learn that the "good
old days" were: not a bit better ttyun the todays we live'
through and wrestle with and glory in. We find George
Washington writing some aphorisms upon the subject of
comjnon etiquette, in which ,he advised some of his followers
to refrain from spitting upon the floors and into the corners
of the roonte of polite homes.
Manners of the people as a whole today are better, gentler,
more courteous, more unselfish than they were in those hazy,
good old days. And while the newspapers now and then
carry considerable news of crime in these days, the general
moral conditions in this and in practically every country are,
in the main, better today than in those days to which some
are harking back forever for comparison and contrast.
, There are more people now than in the less populous days
of the century ago, and there are more papers and quicker
communication, and therefore more thorough publicity of
the remissness and delinquencies of the more people now
than when Benjamin Franklin started his little gazetteer
two hundred years ago. If you will back some old timer
squarely up .against the facts as his serious and honest
lly Herbert I'lmiimrr
WASHINGTON Uncle Sam cm
ploys 200 people every year because
letter writers' have not yet learned
how to use tho mulls properly.
Last year some 25.OOU.UUO pieces
of mail found their vuy to the dead
letter offices located In five differ
ent parts of the country.
Of this number, l&.uoo.OOO carry
ing correspondence only had to be
destroyed becuuso no. clueH to the
identity of either sender of intended
recipient could be found.
Here In the capital is one of these
five sectional receiving oflloes for
undellvcrable mail. And every day
It Kets about 200 ubsolulely blank
envelopes.
This is the most valuable class of
dead mail, because it contains u hlh
proportion of checks, drafts, money
orders and the like.
It, was only recently that one such
envelope was found to contain a
check for 1 106 ,000. A Canadian rail
road was trying to send the amount
to a Mississippi lumber firm. By the
time the error was adjusted, it is es
timated that more than $1,000 lu In
terest was Involved.
At another time there came a
I scries of letters full of hundred dol
lar bills. They wero addressed to a
girl in the middle west, who presum
ably had left town after getting me
llrst three.
Postal authorities have on idea
that the girl's lover staged a profit
able holdup. Tho money will be
turned Into the treasury unless a
lawful owner can be located.
Tho pustofllco department prides
Itsell on Hie fact that more than
09 per cent of valuable paper Is
eventually returned to tho careless
senders.
CI'KIOI'H .MISCKI.I.ANV
Theso blank envelopes contain all
sorts of things. There are legal pa
pers of every description, photo
graphs, kid gloves, silk stockings
even, locks of hair.
A $10,000 bond found in an nn- PENDLETON, Aug. 15 (A1) A tem-
adUrisscd envelope recently turned j pern lure of 107 degrees was ex perl -out
to be a part of the loot lu a ' enced hero yesterday. There was a
mull robbery. slight breeze.
IMCK.WiK.S Al CTIONKO
Everything more valuable than a
five-cent poctago stamp is kept. Last
year property worth I5.425.000 was
found In dead mall, but the govern
ment realized only (250.000 from It.
It received S81.000 from auctioning
undcllverable parcel post packages.
Thero were taken from letters $48-000-
In cash. Postage stamps to the
amount of S32.000 were salvaged. And
$80,000 In fees for delivering deud
lettel-H was realized.
Three cents is charged for the de
livery or return of dead mall for
which an owner can be found.
Tho postofflcc department has In
Its possession a pretty wooden Christ
mas box as a prlxe exhibit. It con
tains a gun. attached to the latch
which probably would have killed
the recipient If It hadn't goue off In
tho postolflce beforehand.
107 AT PENDLETON
HKlMCEII KATES EFFECTIVE
SALEM. Ore., Aug. 16 W Reduced
commercial and residential electrlo
lighting rates', resulting from an or
der of the public service commission
on July 18, became effective today.
The order of the commission affected
only the Pacific Northwest Public
Service company in Its Portland drea,
extending from the north city limits
of Portland to and Including Salem,
and was estimated to cause a saving
of $840,000 a year to consumers.
BILLINGS DENIES
FATAL BOMBING
(Continued from Page One) ,
i .t..rnr. ; lustml romnpriRiitlnri . "
short, and found disconcertingly little citizen ;the l"' TOT m-i in... - , 00 f
tloiial constitution eek, Sept. M-jiu "Closlnt dale for application, Ll:
observed., an oe cos m n which the .Tjjjg . ?. 930 r
. ,,.,,, ,,uMt llf mil Will . .1.. i JCHIUIUt." VVU CbClUIJM tlltxn .
TiZ SorT VanaoTumark of the people's coyenan one . no reosono, other, nod fsTQ
stock for tale.
U. B. Bteel ahot up 7 points, one
of tho sharpest advances in vnw
hj Amittu;i uojim, ,
v.. pnPh,n Air Reduction. I lilU.tUlHUtt 01
;.r i white a.!..'..., ,i,i all veterans to ; the time up on J up e 6, the Hawu,
mounted 111. Profit taking by traders , comrades who have not yet I bill wo pufclnto law . extending u,,
who bought at lower levels for a turn urge their con n time to -January a, 1935." .
caused some recessions from the best applied for the benellts 01 ll'j-. .
levels.
maxe application.'? me coinm,.,,,...
said. "The legion eought to eiu
ne anil on June 6, the Rai
ThR mnrket closed strong. bales I
approximated 1,650.000 shares.
CORVALLIS IS :-
TO BE LEGION
HOST IN
'31
(Continued form Page One)
role of saboteur. Last night Billings j
cmpnaiicany aemeu xiuving oeen at
721 Market.
Chief Justice Wlllam H. Waste an
nounced the hearing would resums
in San Francisco Monday and an
effort would be made to bring the
case to a close at once. The Jurists
recommendations will guide Governor
Young in deciding whether Billings
shall receive a pardon.
BULL MARKET
RULES DAY IN
WALL STREET
NEW YORK. Au'g. 15 P The over
grown bear faction clumsily stumbled
Into a trap in today's stock market,
and was forced to pay fancy prices
to get out.
A long list of Important shares shot
up 5 to 12 points in the final hour
of trading, as tho bears, after three
days of unsuccessful efforts to send
prices lower, fell over each other to
buy back the Hhnres they had sold
some 4,500 beds. Never before In the
history of soldier legislation has a
measure of such importance been
pushed to such a prompt conclusion
at the beginning of u legislative ses
sion."
The national commander announc
ed the legion's policy regarding fut
ure hospital construction, as follows:
"In view of the unfair neglect of
the disabled and. in view of the fact
that It Is poor economy for the gov
ernment to wait until un accute
situation confronts It, the legion fav
ors a hospital policy which contem
plates a government agency to antici
pate the need, and to provide facili
ties at any future date, as in 1935,
1940 or 1945 In order that a man can
get Just and fair care In time, per
haps, to give him a fighting chance
for recovery."
To Promote Education
Announcement was made in the
address of a fall activity of the legion
in the promotion of education and
patriotism.
"Education and patriotism," ho
said, 'go hand in hand, and our 10,
000. posts of the legion, are now en
gaged in arranging for certain studies
in our schools the coming year to
link together these two principles of
VIUIIbCUDiii. - c mii i-"-"
have every class in every school adopt
a regular course in study In flag
etiquette and flag education. Respect
for the flug. means respect for law
ond order, and it calculates in a
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Pouch, underarm and back -strap
styles some are trimmed with
embroidery all have Individual
style, some are zipper types, ond
all are fitted with coin purse and
mirror. Colors that are in har
mony with fall costumes wine,
black, navy, brown, and green.
We haven't many, they will un
doubtedly be sold by Saturday, If
you want one don't wait.
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From Observer, Tlmr., Aug. 15, I'MI.".
ueo. Miller states that threshing :
returns In Ids section of the valley
show a heavier yield than the grow
ers were estimating.
It is reported that Hutchinson
Bros, arc about to Hlart u bank lu !
Union.
Tho largo cereal crop of Eastern
Oregon needs harvest laborers. Har
vest hands is the cry from every
county.
Wl Ilium Smith has purchased 3.
W. White's feed etoro on Adams ave
nue. Conductor O. J. Uuckman told
about seeing the tooth of a mastodon
which has been recently discovered
In the C rut hers placer mine in Hye
vulley.
TKX YKAHS AfiO
I'mill Observer, Mom., An p. Hi, IM'Ml
According to the ctty uuinuKor. Ii
Grande now has enough water for
n short time.
Roy Plcxer Is thp new chief of
police for La Grande.
Truffle, botli eufit and west, was
held up on the O.-W. hum from
yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock un
til tluls morning by a frcli;ht. train
wiiik which occurred Just eiwt of
Union Junction.
A baby son. weighing 8 pounds,
wan born this morning to Dr. and
Mrs. C. B. Moore.
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l'rom Observer, I'rl.. Auk.
The Tom Strand home outalda ot
the city limits was damaged by fire i
at l'J:16 this afternoon and had It (
not been for tthe pumper truck, it j
would have been destroyed.
Four players were thinned from
the ranks of entries in the Eastern
Oregon tennis tournament at Union
this morning in the first lap of t
threo days of play. j
Preparations for the numml Labor j
day celebration In La Orande swung
Into their final phase, with the
launching of the Labor day Queen I
contest, and completions of other !
arrangements. j
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Swatx are the i
parents of a baby boy born to thrm !
Sunday.
liaised Don kIi nuts, doz 2."
Our Scrumptious Doughnuts sugared, doz
French Doughnuts, doz
Chocolate Doughnuts, doz
Lemon Cakes, each
Delicious Cup Cakes, doz
Jelly Rolls, each
Chocolate Kolls. each
Mocha Hulls, each GOc
A delicious cake for the family GOc
WIM) UP AT THE WINDMILL
.25c
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Starts
Saturday
Aiul 16
Only A Few Days Come Buy
$28-85
Now buys you Hart, Scliaffner
& Minx :15 ?10, ?45 suits for
year 'round wear.
$22 50.a!p .i-
Now buys you extra fine Mich-
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ael-Stern 30 suits gol or now
and for hill.
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Fancy collar attached Q -t -i f
Shirts, $1.50 values P-I-1.D
3 FOR ?3.00
Rayon striped collar-attached Q-f OCT
Shirts that sold to 3 pl.OD
3 FOR ?4.00
New Showing Manhattan Shirts.
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Great August Blanket Sale
$11.50 OREGON CITY JUS $9:20
$12.50 OREGON CITY&ES $9.95
$13.50 OREGON CITYiLS $10?80
A SMALL DEPOSIT WILL HOLD ANY BLANKET FOR YOU.
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