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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1932)
V 1 ' ' ' ' ',' '' fn,n.mHlu11 nncoruorated) Ao Independent Newspaper Phone Main 00 WUIIR HAROLD M. FIN LAY Buslneea Manage Published evenlnga, except Sunday, at 1710 Blitli atreet, La drande, Oregon. ' '" "' ' Entered at the Poetofflce 01 I Grande, Oregon, aa Second Olaaa Mall Matter under act of March 3, 1 879. ' , ' " .'- - .' OFFICIAL PAPER OP UNION COUNTV AND THE '. CITY OP IA OHAND8 i f i' ",, , , ... MEM13BI1 OP AHBOOMTED PUES8 The Aaeoclatcd Prone la exclusively entitled to use lor publication or all newa dispatches credited to It or not otherwlae cerdlttdlt pun llshed herein. All rights of republication o apeclal dUpatcbaa In tbli paper and also the local news herein also aro reaerved. , . . , " National Advertising Representative... M. 0. MOOENSEN CO., Inc. Ban Pranclsco, Los Anuolci), Seattle, Portland, Chicago, ; Detroit, Now York BUBBOtUPTION DATES Hy Currier ' Dally, one month In advanco Dally, alx months In advance Dally, tingle copy .14.60 Ily Mall Dally, per month In advance ......... Dally, per elx months In advuuco .. Dally, per year In advance . ' ADVEHTISINQ RATES Display, foreign, per column Inch Display, local, per column men .'J.60 l.00 -430 45o Time contract prices on application There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath lie power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war. Keclesiastes 8:8. I WINKING AT GRAFT Newspapers frequently have been accused of making heroes out of crooks' and criminals, but most of the blame should be shouldered by the public, it scorns. Newspapers present the facts and the public does 'the rest. The majority of people lead rather dull, drab lives devoid of adventure and romance. They long to pull themselves nut of the deadeninir routine of life, but cannot; so they worship the men wlio can. ' ' , - For that 'reason, and because ho is a super showman, the people of New York idolize Jimmy Walker, their mayor, in spite of good evidence to prove he is a grafter just like many of his predecessors. The other day when Mayor Walker appeared in court and was charged with numerous shady deals a' worshipping public gloried in the clever retorts which' he showered upon the examiners, and cheered his defiant speech delivered just before leaving the stand. The people are willing to wink at graft and other forms of corruption in public office as long as the grafters are clever. A Tammany leader declared that if Walker were removed from office he would be re-elected by the largest majority he ever received. And suchi a result would not be surprising. The New Yorkers havevxe-elected incompetent and dislronest men before. In the face of such evidence can the people complain about high taxes) inefficient government, and general lawlessness? If enough people wanted to clean up this country they could do it, but as long as they insist upon idolizing criminals and corrupt officials it will never bo cleaned up. ' accordance with eound buslnese prac tice but Its . effect aa a stabilizer would bo of ineatlmablo value. High er taxation would chock - proeperlty excuses and lower Imposts relieve the depressing effect of adversity. But. no gDvornment for any length of (Ime can contlnuo to enend more and more as the people obtain less aim less. Tuxes must full aa the people's cupoclty to pay falle; and rise only as tlio cupuclty to puy rises. How could this bo done? Let ui suppose that tho federal government abolished all indirect luxation consumption tuxes of every kind, Inheritance , taxes and capital gains taxes. Tlioro would bo one tux only - an Incomo tax. It would be paid by everyone and tlio actual paying would do an additional good In making every individual tux conscious. The federal government would then fix a ecilca of graduating rates which, when applied In "nor mal" times, would yield sufficient revenue say 4. 000,000,000 a year. Should buslnexs rise AO per cent above "normal" the rates automatical ly would be Incrcuued 20 per cent. On tho other liund, should it fall 20 por cent below "normal" they would be cut 20 per cent. The trend of business could be tiiken, perhupB.' from the fedorul re serve board's Index of manufactur ing, or some other Index thought better to reflect all conditions. But the calculation of "normal" bUHlness, depressed buslne.w or prosperous business need not bo particularly ac curate, for It is an essential part of procedure thut errors made In one year ho adjusted In tho next. There might bo a surchurgo to covor the amount by which tho previous year's revenue fell below tho anticipated amount, or in depression thoro might not only bo a reduction In tax rates to correspond with tho more difficult business conditions, but also a tem porary reduction offsetting the pre vious year's oxcesa collections or ac tual economies, on tho part of the government. It Is not difficult to Imagine that such a plan as had been outlined would be an Immense force working towards business stability. No longer would wo have the unhealthy booms of a 1020 nor the equally unhealthy duplhs of a 1032. . . While It Is obvious that nbout the most tho government can do at tho present time Is to retrench firmly so that again there may bo somo reason able prospect of tux revenues In ex cess of outgo, It Is only at times llko tho present whon adversity , bears heavily on overyono'that thoro exists tho necessary desire to plan for tho future. Now Is tho tlmo to lay tho groundwork for obtaining a business stublllwr whoso operation tlio" onus 1)fwad'veralTy''"wuT'iec1(i tho oxceas of nrosperity.-r-Henry JUch, mond Jr., In. the Magazine,,; ,Wejl Street. HOUSES IN TQWN , MOSTLY OCCUPIED (Continued Prom Page One) tlvlty, howover, In this county la not confined to the man with the gold pan and shovel. A , few large outside companies are roported to havo representatives here at the present tlmo muklng Investigations and engaging In actual development work.- .' i , . . . f . . ! - Durlnir May the local bank han dled approximately 3200 worth of IsWiders "pilglitet Vrolhs' 'In 'death." " j The volcano Is upt now In active eruption. i, . v.; v ' There- is no record of any other deaths In Hulemaumau. and whether Hawaiian once offered human socfl lloee to Pele by burling the victims Into the first pit la a. moot question. The fire goddess was unquestion ably the mfiet feared of all the Is land dtetles.and In olden times none dared approach the pit without first making offerings of Ohelo berries. Hulemauynaui .commonly preferred to as the house of everlasting fire, means ."house .of .jerns.v so named because ferns were thrown Into the crater to appease Pele'a wrath. : , MAY HKOOVKK 1IOIIIKH WASHINGTON, June 3 Ml The n.tixKY mTnimr.B.omxATrRT. , . WASHINGTON, -June 3 ( Repre sentative Raluey, , the - Democratic floor leader., was revealed .today to have withheld his signature from the conference report adjusting . .differ? enccs between the house and aenato on the billion dollar tax bill. He opposed the tartlla on lumber and copper, voted into the measure by the senate after the house had approved Import levies on oil and coal. . '. t - , ' Arrangements were made this morning to get copies of the final version of the bill printed, and to seek house and possibly senate sanc tion tomorrow. . : - 1 gold In quantities .amounting to national park service today autnor- moro than" tnreo .ounces., uunvr n&eu . oupennienueut ta. . jjeuvii.v, w the Hawaiian national pant, to try to recover the bodies of William Hunes and Margaret Enos from Kilauea cra ter. .!'.--. V ..... ' it .- ,! I , i Nuncs, after shooting the Enos girl, tossed hor body Into the crater and Jumped In himself. The tragedy was tho result of a family quarrel. ' The bodies are about 900 feet be low the surfaco of the rim. Loavltt outlined n plan to lower rangers In to tho pit. ,. : . . if ! ll( An ultimate plan was to bury tne bodies yhere . they are by dropping dynamite closo to them. Brothers purchased a consineranie quantity of gold during the month. , C, C Palmer .stated itlwt . he bought smell quantities of gold from, ao person- Tuesdoy. The. smallest purchuse that -lie has made was for 40 cents. Other purchases amount ed to as high as $120. ARITHMETIC IN THE SCHOOLS If . any school children could have'Tibard "Dr. Robert K. Spear of New York University deliver a little speech , the other night, they would have decided that thei were listen ing to a doctrine almost too good to be true. Dr. Speer, to the surprise of all, declared that at least 85 per cent of the arithmetic taught to school children nowadays is dead wood and might as well be abandoned. Teaching children how to extract cube roots and how to handle com plex fractions, he believes, is a waste of time; and he said: "If we teach all the children the arithmetic necessary in (he following actions buying at a store, making change, leading, writing letters and IravePing we will have covered a large percentage of their total use or arithmetic." This is all true enough. The1 youngster who ever has to use the more complicated arithmetical exercises, after he is out in the world, is the exception. Most of us can go through life quite happily without that sort of knowledge.' Dull this very quickly brings us up against that perennial problem of the schoolmaster; is the pupil to lie taught only those things which will be of direct benefit to him later in life, or is ho to bo put through ii'stiff course of sprouts with tho idea that tho mental discipline involved is going to make his mind more capable? During the last decade or two the tendency in this country has been to emphasize the strictly utilitarian side. Latin, Creek and higher mathematics are declining, to be replaced by courses in economics and business administration; if the schoolboy is to get less arithmetic, that will 'only be in line with the current trend. Hut there is much to be said for the "mental discipline" idea. After all, one of the prime objects of any educational system is to teach pupils how to use their gray matter to tl'ie best advantage; and if sweating away at the intricacies of cube root or Caesar's Commentaries helps do that, the job may not be quite as useless as it looks. Baker, La Grande Junior Leaguers Play Here Sunday t The American Legion Jun- lor league teams of Baker and La Grande will ploy a practice gomo In La Grande at the L. H. 8. field Sunday, beginning 8 at noon, according to an- Q nounccmcnt hero today. The game originally was scheduled 8 to be played in Boner ouy conflicting events caused its removal to La Grande. Tho gamo will be ended In time for tlio Eaglcs-Mlsslons game scheduled for later In the uftoruoon on tho same field. It will be tho first intercity game for either team and a close contest Is anticipated, 1!I,HTKH OKOWS TKMI'KKATK BELFAST OT Drinking In -northern ' Ireland shrank one-half In 10 years, said Hugh M. Pollock, finance minister, announcing that revenue from liquor taxes fell from $13,450,- 000 in 1022 to $0,171,000 last year, Q, W1 $$ FIRE GODDESS OF HAWAII CLAIMS HUMAN SACRIFICE " i (Continued From Page One) to reach the spot where the two fell, only 60 feet from tho ever-bolllng lavo. Is by climbing down a. rope. The girl's parents said they might profer to leave tho two where they had fallen u" there was some means of covering them, up. Their attitude was In deforenco to tho legend that relieves Kilauea was the scene where ancient JICONFEREES MAKE ! TAX BILL REPORT i rVint.lmiiwT Wmm PnrA rinnV and eight per cent on income over (4.000 with , a surtax schedule grad ufttlng.to a maximum of 56 per cent Income In excess of $1,000,000. Tho corporation tax voted by the senate Is 14 per cent. Complete details of the new reve nue wei'fl withheld pending prep aration of the report to bo submit' ted to the house; , . Experts said the pill pnssed by the senate . raised . $1 .1 17,000,000 In new revenue. They' reported the compro' mlso measure provides within i couple of millions of dollars tho sum the administration has declared will balance the budget with the aid of the, national economy bill pending in the senate. It waa authoritatively learned that the house conferees surrendered on virtually every provision Inserted in to the revenue' bill by the senate. In Washington ; By llerlirrt Plummer WASHINGTON In a small of fice in a occluded part or the senate office building on cnpitol hill a sen ator from Kentucky 4s engaged in a task which he believes ts the hardest single job ho has tackled In his whole career. , ... He is Senator Barkley and he te writing the keynote Bpeech he Is to deliver nt the Democratic national convention next month at Chicago. ."I feel, exactly as. I did the, few days before I got married years ago," he admitted. "I can't get the .subject off my mind. I tiling about it while I ara .eating, while . am sitting w the senate chamber listening to the tax debates, ,when I am .walking .home in fact it is, on my mind practically every one of my waking ,miuute3." Already he has spent more than 200 hours In compiling, reading and writ ing the speech. And he believes that befor-a he gets through he will have spent at least 600 hoMrs-.in its prep aration, .,-v (.., - Seeks Swlnslon , Barkley.' obtained this-secludea spot because he .didn't wlsh to be dlsr turbed. Almost 'the retveree of what he had wanted has happened. He no sooner gets settled ;dowq; for work when a long, raucous sound of a bell sends him scurrying,' across the hill for ,a vote on -some item Un , the tax bill. -. , ; , v And when it is remembered that the senate has been In session day at FA JU1L Because It's Better at Falk's - - IjsCheaper, Colorful E A RUGS That Will Enliven Any Roonrl- IMPORTED JAPANESE COTTON RUGS ' ' 1 IN VARIOUS COLORS size 24 x 4s -fc Size 27x54.:.......:.,, 59P BEAUTIFUL (CHENILLE AND COTTON RUGS ' - , i - With Gorgeous High Color Designs Size 24 x 40 . .l: ..:..:-..:-.. $1.25 oJid' nlhf 6f lote,""hls troubles may be readily understood. "But wait. until we get. through with the tax bill." ho said. "Then I'm going into seclusion. : Nothing will bother me then." ' An Hour Speech His Keynote address will bo as near to one hour long as he can make it.. He is striving to have it' as brief a3 hi nossiblv can to cover the subject, believing' that the shorter It Is the more effective it will be. ' , ' ' , nn im nn ffnr of the mlcroDhone Dn.IUan,lnnain hllVfi told lllm lie hOS an excellent voice lor Droaucasung. it- ,irwnt. iia ins oniv one conueiu; - "I've got -to have enough time . to fix this speech line 1 want n. Other Papers Say: l i, i:imi i; tax Minium to i;.sk ST II A IX The farmer's income vuniiihon; taxc rise. The businessman find. profits harder to oMhIii tunn ever; Ills tuxes double. No sooner tins tho Hfi!nrle,1 worker received notice o a reduction In his wws than he l laced with a hirgcr tax bill. Bach a ntute of HfiulrH li ridiculous yet. at leu.H purl or the U.000,000.000 a year collected anil upont by federal. Hlaio ii ud Um'hI hov eminent bodln might well bo collected and spent upon a sum; hatt. Suppose that the federal govern ment woi run an tho lnrnwa corpora tion In the world whtch it in often said to be. In aeeord with sound corporate practice, In times of pros Verity a surplvii would be laid up. whloh In times of depression could be drawn upon, Furthrrmoro, In creases In expenditure would take place for the mowt part In times ot prosperity and there would be firm re in nehment in times or dllllculty. Not only would such a ntem be in AM r tt. n.hnrn. tawa Stat Jell Champion, aAown in ln artitt' AfcA abov, ia only on of th many Stat Fair jam and Jlly prU winntr who Lr(o in mamf an rncu- atuo ribbon jamt and jIU$ ONE BOTTLE TWO BATCHES Ona boltlo or Cvrto vrlll iitnk not una hutch, hut two full lOor 1 1 itUTnfrli of trHli'rry jam or two full bnU-hra of jam op Jally from mmty olhar (rulta, S Toy I x book unclar tVannMitsii CHAMPION IOWA JELLY MAKER "TN the last 5 years my jams and ' 1 jellies have won 83 prizes at the Iowa State Fair. And the Certo short-boil jelly making method de serves most of the credit. "Certo, first of all, reduces boiling time, to one minute for crushed strawberry jam, for instance. And this fact explains both the speed and economy of the Certo method of making jam or jelly, as well as the quahty- of the product that results. ., "Fot with only 1 minute's hard boiling needed, 12 minutes is ample time to make a full batch of prize winning jam or jelly. And since no fruit juice has time to boil away, I often save as much as 2 '4 ft per glass over jam or jelly made the old long boil way. - . : ; "And my Certo-made jam tastes better, too .-. . simply because the short boil keeps the ripe, delicate flavor of the fruit itself from boiling away in wasteful steam." Why don't you do at Mrt. Osborne suggest nd order a supply of Certo today with your strawberries? You will be delighted , at the time and money it will save you. And the axtra flavor it will give your jama and jellies, too ... if you will follow care fully the Certo recipes that come in trio booklet attached to every Certo bottle. Get your bottle from your grocer's today. It isaproduct of General Foods Corporation. 6 Genet! Pood. Corp. Grande ' Ronde Meat Co. M - A . .flirt', ifrt-m T'l r i MEATS OF EXTRAORDINARY QUALITY for which you fmyio lWe than tKe ordinary kind. Try a STEAK or ROAST You'll be delighted. Fatted by E? O. Ex periment Station; Beef Boast E. O. Experiment vBeet Pound 13c Cube Steaks Each . 10c Butter 2 Pounds 41c Pork Loins V4 or .whole -. Pound L 10c Beef Boil Experiment Station Beef Pound .............. 8c- Pork Shoulders :, ' Very Lean ' ' Pound 7c Bacon Backs Extra nice nnc! ' lean Pound 10c Pork Legs ' '2 or whole Pound He Steaks fery tender Pound 17c Pork Roast , 2 Pounds .. ...... 25c Hams 12 to -14 11). Pound 15c Pork Shanks ' Meaty . Pound 6c GROCERY DEPARTMENT Certo Sperry's Oats Grape Fruit ;. For makinp; Quick' Cooking Preferred Stock Jain & Jellies ' or Monarch 2 49c se 20c 3 tiii 49c Crab Meat Pineapple Chocolate Yacht Club Matched Slices Ghirardelli's Sweet Fancy Claw Meat Dole No. 3 ' Ground 'a Tins 2i2 Tins A meal in a minute.: . Each 29C 2 for . 25C 1 T.'nS 33C Tomatoes Fresh Milk Bayo Beans ' Utah Solid Tack From our own dairy Union County 2' i Tins Strictly Grade A Product 2 for.. J. 25C Qua,,......: 9C 10l"ags 49C, , - . i '- Strawberries, 4 cups - 25c Crate 24 . . . . . . . . $1.35 Carrots, fancy large bunches, each ...... 5c
