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Page Four LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE.' -r-p Saturday, January 2, 1932 (Incorporated) An Independent Newflpapet Phone Main 600 P. R. UNLAY , Editor and PublUher EABOLD M. FINLAT ' Business Manager PubUahed evenings, except Sunday, at 1710 Slith .tract, La anode, Oregon. Bntered at the Poetofflce of La Grande, Oregon, aa Second Olaat Hall Matter under act of March a, 1879. OFFICIAL PAPER OP UNION COUNTY AND THM . CITY OP LA ORANDS MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aasoolated Preaa le exclusively entitled to use for publication of all news dispatches oredlted to It or not otherwise credited 11 pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dlspatobes In this paper and also the looal news herein also are reserved. National Advertising Representative - M. O. MOOENBEN CO., too. Ban Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. Chicago, Detroit, New York SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier Dally, one month in advance Dally, alx months In advance uauy, single copy Dally, per month In advance . Dally, per alx months In advance . Dally, per year In advance I) Mull 780 -M.S0 - BO BOO 3.60 -W.00 ADVERTISING RATES Display, foreign, per column Inch Luspjay, local, per column men . i3o , -480 Time contract prices on application lng rubber gloves when dressing rabbits. , . , . Tho Jackrabblt, . cottontail. - and snowshoe rabbits, as well as wood chucks and opossums may become Infected with tularemia. In Washington Fabricating the Skeleton of Akron's Sister Ship Ily Herbert PI u miner , WASHINGTON While the rest of tlio country has had Its attention centered on war debts, attacks on President Hoover and the like in congress, residents of the capital find themselves concerned with problem of their own. And this particular problem Is causing more racket In the confines of the District of' Columbia, per haps, than all tho rest of the doings put together, A move is under way In the house to impose new taxes on the resi dents of Washington. For a long time a special commit tee of members of congress, headed by tho tali and bald Mapes of Mich igan, has been studying the fiscal relations between the federal gov ernment and the city of Washing ton. The committee made its report soon after the opening of congress. Briefly, It recommended that the budget be reduced and that new taxes affecting Incomes and auto mobiles,, among other things, be Im posed. A WAIL STARTS - Loud was the wall that went up that congress was trying "to soak" tho District. And slnr Woshliurton '' Finallv. brethren, whatsoever th intra are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever j voteless, the out cry of -taxation , , . ix , , . i . i. t- .... without representation" was heard uuiigs ure pure, wnatsuever uunga tuu luveiy, wiiiitsuevci things are of good report; if there be any vhtue. and if there be any praise, think on these things. Philippians 4:8. on all sides. ' The people of Washington con tend that a comparison between the city and other capitals is impossi ble. They arguo that Washington's position Is unique; that it exists only becauso the government de cided to build here the world's LIMITING CAMPAIGN FUNDS Every voter can agree with the general principle that nolitical camDaiim exnenditures should be limited and those most magnincont copitoi. limits rigidly enforced without giving blanket approval to 1 WMhmgton'nos no'ind'cdent the limits proposed by Senator Nye's special senate campaign tetonce; that its resources are iarBo- , , , . ,. ... ' I ly devoted to supplying tho needs of funds investigating committee. u tho government. Here's the liCKliinlng ol another Rky queen tlic size or the II. S. S. Akron. In tlio liuse dock of the lco(l)Kir-'.e)Cllu company at Akron, O., the Ilrst main rliiR of tlie new dirigible ZIIS-5 luis been raised into position i:ml Is visible at the left. Ill the foreground arc two other niiiin rlnps now Hearing comple tion. Girders for nearly half tile ship also have been fabricated. The committee's recommendations bear the Nye stamp T1KI1ATR IS HOT and were manifestly dictated by his personal experiences, j, on the other hand, congress in While these recommendations may be just the thing for TTnZl uZ' Z T the thinly populated state of North Dakota, it is possible idonts of Washington oomo say too that other specifications may bo necessary for larger and , " c'eMmen ore ,oud ln thclr more densely populated States. " statements that nothing should bo , . .. mnn nnn . i. ' i i i 'e dono to delay or mar tho progress i Limits of $250,000 for presidential nomanations and ox 0 tno capitai, but at the mmo time $5,000,000 for presidential elections seem adequnte enough, "ey think the people of wasning- f . ii- ton should sharo more ln civic, ox- although the reported expenditures for the previous election ,mcs. were considerably above that figure. '.. jJb newspaper, lead the tieht for ' Provisions of the Nye proposal which are likely to draw i Mombcro of congress reply in 'most fire are those limiting senatorial candidates .to $50,000 nTU' Tied ZZZ and candidates to the house of congress to $10,000 for both guago fuiiy as colorful and bristling nomination and election.' And further limitation to allow "3 " t0"tl th """r .for the difference in population between the states and dis- 't,A4.t.-m-mmA-.- tricts would forbid spending more than two cents a vote ij.: . ...,,, ... tl...!.l ' lor every vote cast lor an canamates in a aunaionui cuui-(l paign and four cents by a candidate for the house of rep- , jl'esentatives. Neither of these would pay tho cost of Qn'c Chats With Parents ltllKAKS IN KOUTINE By Alice .Tmlsou I'eale Regularity of routlno is necessary 'mail distribution of campaign literature among the qualified electors. ; Senators do well to discourage excessive campaign expen ditures,' which always suggest offices bought and paid for, "niJno cMWs onlth nd i"" sbut any reform in this direction must come from the parties i But breaks m routino are lmpor and candidates and those who contribute to their war chests. ant; to Thy R'vo opportunities -mmmmm loarnlng and for adjustment. H, ., Life, except ln an Institution, Is t ' NEAR EAST HARMONY ' novcl' wh0"y 'ot'"o In character, Good things come in small packages and from unexpected llf0 ln "n institution, places. For example, there is that lesson in international ' holes" wl'th noJa". peace and good will the world is mow getting in the little nceln .tl,C3 variations, too, lest ho Ttnllran of., (no ' I become bored and mentally Inactive UillKUIl states. through tho eternal sameness of his S, Wliilo in some of the larger eastern countries there are . tla,v,a- ,. . , - . ,. ., . ..... ,, ... Ho needs them to glvo him a conflicts and frictions, in that little corner of tho world I sonso of occasional festivity ond known as the Near East there is concord of nations, neigh-' """""y- to ncut th0 vcrs of ' .. , ..... . growing up with memories of spo- Juorhness and peace on earth, good will toward men. "". oiai joys. ' This.is indced f wclconvo and promising turn of events. mgorV .Centuries of fighting and mutual distrust and hatred among an occasional party an these should the Balkans, the fact that they produced the match that "'n' th0 normnl col,rso ot .touched off the World war, and their geographic location Dllt t'wy should bo judiciously had nearly convinced tho world that they would be tho last rt JXTV to enjoy the blessings of permanent peace. ' ' I nflor nn niesa or when, for somo What a picture of international confidence and good will is presented by the Balkans today ! Tho prime minister of Bulgaria is a welcome and honored guest at Angora, the .Turkish capital. The foreign minister of Turkey recently visited Athens and was received with acclaim. Greece and Bulgaria have linked hands in friendship. Bulgaria and rrp"t tired"'"110 """ b0l"B" Jugo-Slavia are co-operating in settling the Macedonian ques-1 such observation win indicate lion. Albania is treated as an ally on terms of parity aiidjl t'.rt,"''' honor, and Roumnnia is cntcrmsr into inter-Balkan con-1 n schedule, ferences. Much of the credit must go to Premier Venizolos, the grand old man of Greece, and Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the president of the Republic of Turkey. roason or other, homo has been up set. Children vary much ln the amount of excitement they con stand, even of the happiest sort. Watch your child carofully after thcro has been some departure from his regular schedule. Notlco whether It is not the easiest thing to understand why the members of tho proud white race use the most paint on their faces. Health 4 ti i,.hi;mia The winter months are open sea sons lor wild rnbblts, and In con ocquenco too tho season (or tula remia. Tularemia is a disease primarily jAlfocting wild rabbits, ground squir rels and other rodents. But It may also affect man, who usually contracts It by handling dlsoascd animals. Hunters, market men, ond cooks are particularly prone- to become .infected. Tlio Ulscaso Is caused by a germ, present In the blood of the affected animal. Man may contract the disease by coming in contact with the blood or tissues of the Infected animal. Breaks In the skin appear to en Jnanco the chances of becoming nfected. Hut there nro many rases on rec ord whero tho dlsoose developed in an Individual whoso skin was ap parently intuct. Tularemia may develop In from two to five days after exposure. Cure should bo tnketu however, not to make breaks In routine the rulo even with the youngster who seems to stand them quite well. , For this makes him difficult to manage and Rives rlso to unhappy disciplinary situations which may otherwise be avoided. uumsii joritNAMsT hies LONDON, Jan. 2 on The world of British Journalism mourned to day tho death or C. P. Scutt, editor of tho Manchester Guardian, be causo during 57 years ho showed the heights to which Journalism based Idealism and humanltarlanlsm Its development Is sudden. Tho 1 cim attain. Mr. Scott was 85 years patient suffers headache, chills, 0lil. body pains, vomiting and fever. j h0 took the Guardian, then a There commonly develops at the fllttlo provincial newspaper, and place of Infection a hard, painful ;nade U into a, great editorial med-piinple-llko swelling, which soon , mm whoso voice reached dally softens and breaks down, leaving a , around the world. From Scott and punched-out ulcer. his paper the saying grew up: "What Thi tvmnh trinniia lit th rnitiftn (Manchester does today, Hngland will ci the Infection become swollen and , tnlnk tomorrow." CAN.VMAN STOHM SKVKUK TORONTO, Jan. 3 (-31 Struggling painful. Fever may last two or three weeks. , Tho patient 1b weak, and recovery takes place slowly. The disease is practically never jn tho slush and Ice-strewn path of fatal, and appears to leave no per- ' a 300.000 sleot storm, repair gangs mancnt after affects. sought today to patch up western One attack appears to render the Ontario's incapacitated communl suffercr immune to the disease lor cations system. llf- j A furious galo yesterday levelled There Is no specific way of pre- more than 1.000 telephone and tele venting the disease. graph polos. Automobiles skidded Hunters, cooks and market men on slippery roads causing scores of should protect thtMii wives by wear- tuvtitents. Oregon Has 278 Standard 4-Year Schools, Report By C. A. Howard (Superintendent of Public Instruc tion, written for the Associated Press) SALEM, Ore. (PJ Oregon has 278 standard four-year high schools at tended by 40,000 students and i taught by 2000 teachers. One nun- , dred fifty-eight of these high schools 1 are small institutions with 75 stu- dents or less. Since the effective and economical administration of these small schools calls for a d!f- j -ferent typo of organization from -that usually found in the larger i .schools, tho stato department of cd- I ucation prepared and published a 1 ,manual for officers and principals ,of small high schools in the spring -of 1030. Tho manual pointed out that (whllo some of the small schools were effectively handled, many of them on tho other hand, were carrying unbalanced courses and were being .operated at a per pupil cost that could not be justified on tho basis of the educational service rendered. It was shown that whereas' high schools of 200 students and over wero being operated at a cost of approximately $140 per student, half the high schools of 75 students or .less wore costing over 8185 per pu pil. Twenty of them wero actually -costing over $300 '.per- puplK . re In tho manual, for small high rschcols, the state department set up a limited but vital course of study and presented sample programs . for handling this course in schools, in .which tho classes are small. Corre spondence or tho department with theso small schools is definitely .re lated to tho proposals in the man and the publication itself is .now .used by the colleges and uni versities training new high scljool teachers. Reports for tho school -year closing in June, 1031. the fjrst full year in which the manual hns been in use, show a very definite Improvement In tho organization of ,tho programs of tho small high schools, ond visits to nearly 100 of them show that a hotter type of teaching is being done". On tho financial side the reports are no less encouraging. Of the 158 schools falling ln tho classification for which the manual was designed, 10G, or almost two-thirds, show n decrcaso lu per pupil cost of opera tion. Among tho 106. the averago decreased os compared with tho preceding year was $42 per pupil. Tho state department of educa tion will continue to work on this .particular problem in the belief that through helpful counsel and super vision, tho cost of Operating many ,of these schools can be further re duced and tho educational service hnproved at the same time. Utilities Fare Better Than Other Industries During Year of 1931 v How Incomes Compare Since 1927 Tho following table compares estimated net Incomes of American Industrial concerns, railror.cfs ond utilities for the year3 1927 to 1931. The Income is shown both in dollars and In percentages, the 102D total being used as 100 per cent: J RELATIVES J5STIMATEI) NET INCOME 12I00 VjO 2-1 MO 2G 84 Yrar Indus. Kails I'tH. ; Indus. Kails Vtll. 1927- $2,302,000,000 $498,000,000 $260,000,000 60 77 07 1028 2.968.000,000 51G.0OO.G00 336.000,000 86 84 85 1929 3.458.000,000 C47.000.000 397,000.000 100 1C0 100 1930 ; 1.872.000,000 414,000,000 407,000,000 64 64 103 1931 - 1,018,000,000 148,000,000 392,000,000 29 23 09 I'lltST TASTE OF Olt AND Ol'EUA WEATHERFORD, Okla. T) The first grand opera to bo presented in Western Oklahoma was sponsored recently by Southwestern State Teachers rollego bore. By Laurence II. Sloan (Vice President. Standard Statistics Co., Inc.) NEW YORK on When the In come reports have nil been made out ond it becomes possible to draw ! up n composite account, it will be found that corporation profits were lower in 1931 than in any recent perhapr. lower than in any year year since 1921. In view of the grave unsettlemcnt of the economic scene at the pres ent moment, it does not appear that any public purpose would be served by an attempt to estimate, thus far In advance, the trend of 1932 earn ings. So-, attention will bo given horp mainly ( to, .the, pipbabla J931 results. " ' ' " . One thing can bo said, .however: it is. difficult to conceive how the 1932 showing can be worse than was that of 1931, and bases for the ex emption that somo betterment may occur, especially in the latter half of tho year, aio not entirely lack ing. Eut beforo any validity whatso ever can be given to such an expec tation, we must await developments of the next half year. Broadly, estimated, we compute that the net income ( after fixed charges) of leading industrial con cerns will amount, in 1931, to around 65 per cent or the 1930 total and to somo 30 per cent of tho 1929 total; . , That 1931 net of leading rail roads will amount to 35 to 40 per cent 'of tho 1930 total and about 25 per cent of the 1929 total, and, That 1931 net of leading utilities will run much better, comparatively say fully 95 per cent of 1930, and almost equal to 1929 results. Comparative data for a large group of ' concerns the securities of which arc actively traded in are shown in the accompanying table. Although adequate long term data aro not available, it seems to me a reasonable surmise that, excepting only the 1920-21 down swing, the collapse which has occurred ln in dustrial and railroad profits during tho last two years Is the most vio lent tn the current century. So far as 1932 is concerned, there aro many doubts. But upon one par ticular point there need be no doubt whatsoever. That Is: Beforo business profits can be , stabilized at even the current low level, commodity prices will havo to stabilize and the banks ccaso J deflating; beforo proflta con begin to climb upward again, commodity ! prices must begin traveling in the j tamo direction, and bank credit j must again begin to expand. FUNERAL FOR i MR. HELMS IS HELD TODAY (Continued From Page One) .warning ond without provocation by two young outlaws October 10. !'Sinc that- itlme' ''he.l lias : hnn i fighting for his life in a La Grande I hospital. At first it seemed that ho would recover. He stood the ini tial operation well and. seemed to be improving, but relapse followed re lapse, weakening his system beyond .tho possibility of repair. So he died yesterday afternoon, as true a mar t-yr to tho cause of law and order ,ao any man who ever faced the guns of the public enemy at home or the .foreign enemy in war. "After tho reverent tribute that will be paid by a sorrowing public cno duty remains. It is to put the two murderers on trial at once for first degree murder, secure a con viction (which presents no difficul ties slnco the district attorney holds their signed confessions) and then hang them with as little delay as possible. "Since the murder was commit ted in cold blood by armed men who were already fugitives from : Justice there can be no Justification : for withholding tho most severe j penalty the law provides." j Pall bearers at tho funeral wore ( paptaln K, Loo Noe Sergeants J. A. i Robertson and Cecil Ltouallen, also ( Oflcer Ted Chambers, a.11 of the I stato police, and Lieutenant Walter ; Lancing, from stato police head i quarters In Salem. Honorary poll I bearers wero Sergeant Houston and ! Officers Tubbs, Anderson, Hartln : and Walker, Sheriff Jesse Brcshcars and Joo Zimmerman, federal prohi bition agent. FALK. : y 6 MORE DAYS (Monday to Saturday, Inc.) Of The JANUARY ' ;'H CLEARANCE ; By the amount of favorable comment heard from many of the satisfied shoppers who at tended the first day of Falk's Clearance, we ..Jtnow we are giving the greatest values ever offered on high quality merchandise in La Grande. ; Be Here Monday! Award of Nobel Prize to Lewis Feature of Year By Ware Torrey NEW YORK iP) Decorations of tho 1931 literary year reached high est distinction in this country with the award of tho Nobel Prize to Sin clair Lewis. ... Whatever Americans may argue pro and con, European opinion .evaluates Lewis as a responsible commentator on American life. $6,607,058 Are Available For Fire Prevention PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 3 (Special) Funds aggregating 96,007,058 for preventing and suppressing forest fires have been made available for tho fiscal year 1932 for the 38 states and territories co-operating with the U. S. forest service "Under the Clarke -McNory law. Regional Forester C. J, Rnnkina hnnv nf tho vr .hnw.Buok has announoed. State, federal, a tendency toward the writing of 101(1 Prlvate funda make UP the toUxl colm and thorough commentaries on whlch snowa ft 01 M12.878 over peoplo and their affairs, rather than tne last fiscal year, ending June 30, tho splashing out of mannered ori1931, jj modernistic pictures in book form, j Of this amount, tho federal allot- Durvuying tne year, wie leading - w-t,. -w, books fall Into this category of re- t Washington It is $105,503, while state straint and measured power. Gals- and private owners'1 funds for fire worthy and Walpole illustrate it ! prevention and fire suppression are markedly. , Tho first novel John Galsworthy has written in four years, "Maid in Waiting," again estimates and an- 0315,576 for Oregon, and $389,702 for Washington. Tho larger share of the state and private funds budgeted is for forest- Tho real name of Ed Krause, Notre flame's . star sophomore tackle, is Krauczunas. It wos shortened by hl.i prep ronh m Chicago. VATICAN LIBRARY COLLAPSE! ft 5 -rAnn.ks.'.-M i alyzes England, and adds a shrewd fire prevention. The grand total of comparison with America. Scenes .state and private funds for both pre- ana peopie aro aescrmen wun u-ais- i ventlon and suppression for the year worthy's usual leisurely conviction. I iS fiet by the state forester's budget "Judith Paris" by Hugh Walpole at $5,034,620, against $5,062,813 for is the second of a projected series . the last vear. state forest fire nre- of four novels dealing with an Eng- ventlon budgets amount to $3,000,660, llsh family through two centuries. and atato suppression budgets to Characters are very well-rounded. $789,941. Funds from private sources scenes are thoroughly Staged, and total 972.SG2 for nrevmtlnn nnrt A07I - as with Galsworthy, we have a defi- 057 for suppression. The co-operativo nito recognition of the influences, federai allotment to the states motives and characteristics that amoUnta in all to $1,572,638, which underlie the, action. ,R MmR mnrrt t.hnn )nRt. wav . In lighter vein, Margaret Ayer Barnes, winner of the last Pulitzer A mie P m ea'. Prize, gives substance and slgnifi- Privato funds budgeted have already cance to the situations of her newbeea sinco the beginning of book, "Westward Passage." tne current fiscal year- Part of tha Arthur Sehnit7.ler. whn riipH fihort- money is used in the winter months ly before the publication of "Flight ln construction of firebreaks, forest into Darkness." handled the intense tralls- logout towers, and telephono theme r of 'a rpanjs t gradual descent . Mnes- into insanity ' in "so natural a man- " California's bo-bperativo budget for ner that case history became drama, j forest fire protection is largest, with Willa . Cather deepens her indi-, $764,940 in combined state, federal. vidual channel of writing in "Shad- and private funds available. Other owo on tho Rock," with her quiet states with more than $300,000 avail strength jand finished writing, as able from all sources are Washington, Virginia Woolfo in vastly different Oregon, Wisconsin New York, Michl techniquo develops her analytical gan, Minnesota, Maine, Idaho, and approach in "The Waves." (Pennsylvania. Nevada and Hawaii Other novels offering the balanced ! joined the list of co-operators ln fire point of view characteristic of the ! protection for , the first time this year include Edna Ferber's "Ameri- iyear. can Beauty"; A. J. Cronln's "Hat- j ' . i ter's Castle": Henry Fauconnlcr's "Malalsle" and "A White Bird Fly ing" by Bess Streeter Aldrich. Outside the field of novels we find less experimentation and more as suranco ln this year's output of short stories. Tho O. Henry memorial award volume contains work of such pol- j Steele. Somerset Maugham has published a collection, "First Person Singu lar," that is representative of his knowlcdgo of human nature, niograpliics More Conservative Biography has turned still further from the extremes of ballyhoo and rlrtfRiiln tn morn rnnsprvntlve nsti- matcs. ' J Ray Stannard Baker's "Woodrow . Wilson,' Emanuel Hertz's "Abra-; ham Lincoln" and Clennel Wilkin- son's "Nelson" serve to illustrate this trend. Aii unbiased view of the times and tho personalities involved i Is found ln the correspondence of : Ellen Torry and Bernard Shaw. j H. G. Wells has tried to glvo us j a fresh consideration of old facts j in "The Science of Life." which he wroto with Julian S. Huxley and his : son. and in "Tho Work. Wealth and I Happiness of Mankind." SPECIALS! Dressed Hogs, Q head off.' Lb.. OC Sausage, 100 pork. 2 Lbs ...uC Veal Steak. -t rr Choice loin. Lb... JL 4 C Grande Ronde Meat Co. 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