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Pag Four t WW LA GRANDE 'EVENING OBSERVER, CRA'NDfe; ORE. (Incorporated) Independent Nmpaptr Fnon Main 600 tlfHAROUD U. FINLAY . . Bualneaa lluuget i. Publlitaed rening. usept Bundaj, at 1710 autb itrot. La ,.-.jOrande, Oregon. : st, Xntered at the Poitoffloe of La Orsnde, Oregon, at Beoond Olaa -j Mall Matter under act ot March a, 1B7. OFFICIAL PAPER OP UNION COUNTY AND TBM j, CITY OF LA QRANDB !li MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS jj Toe Aaaoelated Preaa la exclusively entitled to use for publication f of all nam dlapatcbea credited to it or not otherwise cerdltedlf pub 'j!llehed baraln. All right ot republication ef apeclai dlapatcbaa In PtttiM paper and alao the local news herein alao are reserved. im National Advertising Bepreaentatlr It. O. MOOENSEN CO, Ino. Ban Franc lace, Los Angelee, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Detroit, New York SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier , Dally, on montb In advance TBo Dally, six months In advance M.-0 Dally, single cosy So By MaU Dally, per month In advance . 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WAS THOREAU RIGHT? It is hardly surprising that the celebration recently held nt. CanptwA. Mush., in hnnnr of the 115th birthday anniver sary of Henry David Thoreau did not attract much attention Vcan leaders are trying to m im-' ,, : Other Papers Say: CliKDIT FOR TUB IP-Tl'KN dollars for highway construction pur poses to give unemployed famiie em ployment, . This, program, wlil send 00,000 men into highway camps and will set. in motion the .wheels of fac tories which supply goods to con tractors. . , , , . ... . . And tliroughout . the nationj bank,- now under way at Los Angeles might well bo dedicated. f' Here, 'a'' In few other corner- of the world, is the opportunity for the cementing of friendships that can bring a clearer understanding- to trie participants' and through them to their nations. Here is the'opportun lng houses are putting into clrgula,-j ity for men and women from all parts tion new money for the accomwoda- jof the world to learn that between tlon of their patrons, railroads have i themselves and their fellowman there outside of his home state. proven. en t In business with President Only a small group attended the ceremonies, and news of tempting to establish the iact 'that the event received very little space in papers outside of Con- cnlcf executive is responsible lor the present upward trend. cord. And this, in spite of the fact that Thoreau ranks as Tbae lcadere shouW go slowly ,n one of the greatest thinkers and writers the nation has ever this enterprise. For them to assert produced, is only natural; for Thoreau preached a doctrine .fne'rurec which is not very popular in the United States today. j business improvement might lay him . - open to the suspicion that he had Thoreau, as you doubtless remember, went to a little pond something to do with causing the ae iiTthe woods near Walden, built a rude cabin there, and lived ;,pr!'on" . , , .. ... , . . , i Tne ract of tlle m"er Is that as a sort of hermit. He wanted to demonstrate that most 'president Hoover was not responsible of us spend our lives struggling to acquire things that really ,or th0 nard tlme8 ot tne p8 don't do us very much good when we get them. He lived juu tTrc'rUw the simple life and spent most of his time thinking and writ-ing them. jng. j The depression was the result of . But the nation has come a long way from the simple life :D n!L tmhV 'tSJwL.r as Thoreau lived it. If America two decades before the jthe world war to 1929. international Civil War was too much engrossed in a frantic effort to get ;nkere. domestic banners, heads or non-essential things and perfonn non-essential deeds what .-lgh7B would you call it today ? Thoreau s time was an era of placid 'poor, Republicans and Democrats, an leisure by comparison. , jf them had a hand in creating' the ' ..Thoreau never lived to see the era of mass production andr ZTLTtA JTiass disti'ibution. of installment purchasing and high pres- binty m the matter and for any one sure selling, of speeding automobiles and blaring radios. an of them to attempt to place the iuiiuiiu uit me jjrt-iuenii is not gooa sportsmanship. , . However, In a limited way the presl. dent Is responsible for the present improvement in conditions. To the extent which the reconstruction and relief meneurw of the administration been able to preserve their credit both of which are necessary to quick en the return of prosperity. America spent a dozen hectic years gambling with destiny. Her people In dulged in a money-making orgy and a spending frenzy. They hypothecated the future for the glories and pleas ures of the present; and when the future arrived it foreclosed on its mortgagors. Nobody alone Is responsible fot this condition. And nobody, who had the ear of the multitude, foresaw the con. sequence of the golden, material era. The few economists who hoisted' the; danger signals were disregarded and scoffed at. , The result has been painful, but It is only the" difference of national lines and the physical characteristics that residence In varying parts of tne world have brought. Meeting on an equal basl-3 In an event where the test Is In the mind and body and not in the name of the country from which they come, tne athletes will be overlooking a duty to their nations, to the world, and least of all to themselves, if they do not make' friends with other com petitors. 1 . 1 i 1 J , Good far beyond figuring in dollars and cents will result if the thought of friendship for the sake of a better understanding is not overlooked. The United States has offered' itself as a generous hot to the cream , of the B II erbert Flu miner WASHINGTON Return of that burly and now gray-haired chap, ceorge Akerson, to the political scene as eastern publicity director for the Hoover campaign somehow seems to be Just one of those things that were bound to happen. Most Washington newsmen and po litical observers never quite became accustomed to his absence in and around the White House. His rela tionship with Hoover had Its begin ning when the president made up his mind definitely to seeic the Repub lican nomination. At least that's what everybody thought when George quit newspa per work back in 1925 to become a member of Hoover - 'personal office staff lh' the department of com merce.' '. ' ' v: ' "' He was regarded from Jhe start Essentially as a political press rep resentative. , . , ; ' " ' UK'S' 'SON' TO HOOVER ' ! But there 'are other reasons,'1 per- 'haps more personal, why Akerson has forsaken his desk as a motion picture executive to do ' publicity again for President Hoover. There has been an unusual intimate side to the relationship through the years of these two men. It was Akerson, as much as any one. who made "the Chief" . known to the world. He always talked of "the Chief" wherever he went. Ev erybody knows the president's dis like for those little human stories of his sayings and doings so val uable for publicity purposes. But he did much to make Hoover understand in the days that he was with him as his secretary. To the .president, he was never 'George" or "Akerson." Always It was "Son." And when he left the White House he went with the assurance of both the president and Mrs. Hoover that they would ever regard him as "Son" a mem ber of the family. . Perhaps this, more' than any oth er one thing, prompted him to re-j turn to the'firing line to battle forj "the Chief" orice more. ' ' ' -FALKJS WC'U SK IT'S imrJ KK AT r'Al.K-H - IT'S CIIBAPBK DON'T DELAY! Saturday is , The Last Day You Can Buy Florsheim Shoes at $6.S5 & $7.85 AMer Kalui'iluv the'" ho linik to, tlielr regular price of f and 'J. Kelect a pair now and enjoy a year real comfort.- , . is evident that the era of retrtbatton i world's athletes. Ii would be too bad is almost over. If President Hoo7or's if that cream were .not churned relict program has been of virtue In through contact to a butter., that nowi'as we were three or four years ago, that the modern ultra-complex civilization is man s noblest achievement. I !;It jis true that our national income has greatly increased since, the time of Thoreau; our homes are infinitely finer and more'' convenient ; our methodH of transportation and conv inunlcation have broadened our horizons and stimulated our minds; the common people are better informed and letter ed'uc&ted. ,v gut are we any happier than the people who lived more lhari'a century ago? Our greater knowledge and larger wealth bring with them also greater problems. The higher wf eimb, the greater the danger of falling. Some men are advancing the theory that we are on the verge of destroying oU,! civilization because o our inability to solve the compli cated questions which face us. i Yet we arc doubtless safe in asserting that men will not turn back. Only an occasional Thoreau can be satisfied to separate himself from his fellow men and live in primitive Simplicity. The rest of us will continue in the fascinating race, struggling to attain wealth and luxury and fume and influence. For in most men lives an unquenchable desire to attain, to possess, to excell, and to rule. Thoreau's own age found him a bit "queer", and we "mod erns" have even less time for his strange philosophy. ', i Why? There were many advantages in his way of life. And in the past two or three years the American people have had ample cause to doubt if their high-speed society is really getting them anywhere, We are not quite as sure: wo contributing to it, Mr. Hoover is eniuiea to creau. But so lar as rem edying fundamental conditions lscon ccrned. Mr. Hoover should not claim credit for thlB has not been accom plished yet. i Mr. Hoover's reconstruction program Is acting on the buelncss world exact ly as a priming of water acts on a leaky pump. It Is hastening the llow of normal business Just as the prim ing hastens the flow of water to the top of the well. It Is speeding up tho recovery of business in the hope that tho speeding up process will set in motion the laws of economics that aro neccHsary to sustained business prosperity. To this extent Mr. Hoover is entitled to credit for bringing buck good times. Out here on the Pacific const we can understand how this priming of the pump is working out. Tho con grew appropriated many millions of TYPHOID MARY ..To most of us, "Typhoid Mary" is just a name out of medical history. It was u little bit surprising, the other day, to read that the woman on whom a generation of medicos havo fastened that name is still alive, an inmate of a cottage of North Brother island, New York City. Typhoid Mary has been there move Hum 17 years. She is in perfect health and she has committed no crime, but she is under detention and she probably will be to tho end of her days. She works in the laboratories of a city hospital on the island, takes all her meals by herself in her little cottage, and while she is not strictly a prisoner she is never allowed to get very far from the watchful eye of the city health de partment. Now and then she is permitted to go into the city for an afternoon, but she always returns in the evening. There is something unspeakably tragic about this woman's ease. Mary Million that is her real name -has the misfor tune to carry the germs of typhoid fever in her system, and although she has never had the disease herself at least ,r7 cases of it, several of them fatal, have been traced to her. To permit her to have her liberty would be to loose a cer tain, devastating source of infection upon everyone with whom she came in contact. So she must live in a cottage on an island off Manhattan, a virtual prisoner, cut off from the freedom that makes life worth living. Was there ever a woman much more unfortunate? This case, somehow, seems to symlxilize the way in which the modern world has erected restrictions on individual liberty for the sake of the common good. Mary Mellon is the victim, not of wilful injustice, but of the order of society which must, now and then, sacrifice one for the sake of many. The MODERN WAY to end digestive ills tvtkxt lime the acUU at gnsesnf -Li indigestion torment you, you will ho thankful for HUma-Hrc. Thin pErannnt antacid pmvrirr net fmir way to Itrtng relief. Ami it ilip-stion of fiMulu inoct likrly to fiTiiirtit. You may gt-l it only at Retail DrugStorc. Try it tmluv! MSMA-REX r 434oz. Jar 50 GLASS DRUGS, INC. speeding up recovery, he is entitled to credit Xor It: But lie has not cured the fundamental came ot our nation til distress. Only time, which measures tho swing, of economic laws .can do that. Albany Democrat-Herald. - FOSTKKINO" FRIENDSHIP '" Tho world needs -many-' fUiinfcVt to"' day, including efficient leadership. economic balance and the fostering' of friendship in the interests of greater understandings and general goodwill. It Is to that need of the fosteriniof friendship that the Olympic gamea could be spread, figuratively, to make. this world a little better eating. Walla Walla Bulletin. , ." ' '," Not Very Speedy '-' The first1 railway trains lh Eng land' and this country ' rah very Slowly. Coal tf n ins ' In Erigrnnd, -for -a time, 'moved 'aFthe rate of three and thffce--dartors ''infioi 'p5; houf.. The first American- locomotive jused for,c0afrnriulhig was .(lie-,, Stour bridpe Lion,' 'which i moved 'at a fcpeed of ten, mllos per hour. 'MYSTERY STORY RKADKRS ' ' There 'are many little, stories, heard' now and then in private con versations, about their personal re lations. One of the best concerns the time the two crossed the coun try together on a business trip. They had procured some detec tive books before leaving to induce sleep on the train. In the sam drawing room, - Akerson occupied the upper berth and "the Chief" the lower. Far into the night they read as the train rumbled on. "How' many murders have you got up there, Son?" asked Hoover. "Pour up to now, Chief," replied Akerson. - "Give me- that book," came the command, and George surrendered. T I Ends ;; I Tonight : with 111, HltKNDKI, LOIN .MOHAN MA1IOK EVANS i SATURDAY I I ONLY I Jhrob-a-Second Outdoor Dramall ;t.jHfiVO nitrinnnTinil fLnhrill-a-M'mute IP ,t Ladies , Today and Saiwday The first 100 ladies will receive n Coco Cola "Ticket" jfood for one Coca Cola Free at . Wright's Drue. Store. 'i Damp Wash " L 1' -5c. &.lbJ :. ,, '"'J,,';.. Alt flat. i work-, Ironed;, .bath , . towels (Huffed;. wearing .op-. . j.pnrelr tfamp.l! v.! i;h .U'jns.l': I Phone Main 56 Standard 'Laundry 'ft' 'Cleaning .Co.". .'' "Wife. Saving Station"' Premier Repays Gift to Party By Match King By Elmer, W. Peterson STOCKHOLM (P) The ghost of Ivar Kreueer, suicide match king, is stalk ing through the political campaign of Sweden as the country prepares to elect a newr second chamber of the riksdag,, ox. national parliament. The role which the spectacular in ternational .financier played in the politics of. his-home country Is Just beginning to be understood. Spread His Clfts He is beinK revealed as a political opportunist." 'seeking goodwill where It would do mm the most gooa. in vestigations ' of the financial wreck which he left, shows that he gave money to-'1 several Swedish parties and contributed also to political treasuries in other countries where ho had Interests. But here in his homeland; the liberal party, which for four years has held the balance of power, seems to have been recipient of the real political sympathies of Kreuger. A year 'ago he handed 50.000 crowns, then equivalent to $13,500, to ! Carl Gustav Ekman, present prime minister and leader of the liberals. ' This was done while Kreuger still -enjoyed public respect and confiderice" and there is no ques tion but that it was, politically, ethical gift. Ekman has returned tho money voluntarily to the Kreuger adminls trators, announcing that the former match king mnde the contribution on his personal Initiative and with oufi asking any favor. This action has been Interpreted as a move to force other similarly benefited parties to come out Into the open. At any rate Ekman 's frank tactics have rather minimized Kreuger as a campaign issue, . Politicians who, ordinarily, might have been violent in their denuncla Hons, havo been mentioning Kreuger with considerable ' tact. There is rather general agreement that the fi nancier's true political convictions were overshadowed by his desire for untrammeled progress in his busi ness projects; In Stockholm he had many friends among newspapermen and the press did much to gild his name. He held a majority interest in a press bureau which transmitted news of Sweden to all parts of the world and investiga tion of his affairs has shown that he was thoroughly alive to the value of modern publicity. That he was a thorough political opportunist was revealed by the files of the Stockholm, Dahblad, a news paper which he owned until It was absorbed by the Stockholm Tlgnlnen. While he was in control, his hired writers flirted with all parties, criti cizing only mildly and patting each on the back In turn. i The Lavendar Lunch Depot St. ; Baked or Fried Chicken or Baked Ham Dinner, ' Sunday 35c Includes Potatoes, Dressing, Bread, Vegetable, Drink, Salad or Pie IIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1I1II1I1IIIEI111IIIIHI1 Boys and Girls Hoys and Girls Matinee .Saturday Only ' 5C From One Til Two O'clock See More Shows Silver Moon Cake Special Each 34c il'.';V ' SJtV-) 0 : . .'v ' i 1 1 Coffee Rings Assorted Butter Cookies Dozen V . . ... 15c Date Nut Cup Cakes Dozen . . . . 15c o o Q CD tr ee CS u S3 O T3 C S C3 Loganberry Pies Each 20c French Pastry Each . .... 5c Each 13c - 2 for 25c Macaroons and Lady Fingers To Order Wind Up At The Windmill A Strictly Home-Owned Bakery
