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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1932)
Wednesday, September 21, 1932 Pasre Four LA GRANDE EVENTNO OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. i a D (Incorporated) Am Indepe-ndent Newspaper Phona Mala to HAROLD M. PIIOAY . Published evenings, except Sunday, at 1710 Bltto street, L Qnuule, Oregon. Bntered at the Poetofftoe of La Grands. Oregon, as Second Olaaa Mali Matter under act of March 9, 1878. OFFICIAL PAPER OP UNION COUNTY AND THM CITY OP LA ORANDI UKMIiER OP ASSOCIATED PHB88 The Associated Preai la exclusively entitled to use for publication of all news dlepatchee credited to It or not otherwise cerdltedll pub lished herein All rights of republication of special dispatches In Una paper and also the local news herein also are reserved. National Advertising Representative 11. O. MOOKNSEN CO. Ino Han Pranoleoo. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland. Chicago, Detroit, New York SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier Dally, one month in advance Dally, ell montlie In advance Dally, single copy II) Dally, per month In advance Dally, per els nunths In advance . Dally, per year In advance , . ADVERTISING RATES Display, foreign, per column Inch . Display, local, per column Inch Tune contract prices on application 'WW The steps of a good man are delighteth in his way. Psalm ARMAMENT REDUCTION Last week Germany served notice to the world that she would send no representatives to the League of Nations arms conference at Geneva until she receives assurance that "all states will be subject to the same rules and principles in respect to disarmament, and that no discriminatory system will exist in the case of any one of them." The German foreign minister, Von Neurath, in his note to Arthur Henderson, the conference chairman, said, "Germany cannot be expected to take part in negotiations with regard to measures of disarmament to be laid down in convention until it is established that the solution which may be found is also to apply to Germany." The English government promptly expressed the view that Germany had no legal right to seek a revision of her military status except through the world disarmament conference, and charged Germany with a deliberate attempt to disturb the harmony between nations at this crucial period. Yesterday President Hoover, realizing that the Geneva conference will go on the rocks if Germany presses her de mand for greater military and naval strength, appealed to Germany to reconsider her ultimatum and continue to work through the world conference for a general reduction of the armaments of all nations. Judging from the editorial comments of German news papers, there is not a great deal of hope that Germany will neea tne aavice mat is being decided that right now, when other nations are in no condi tion to enforce their demands, is a good time to have things her own way. She was able to bring about a reduction, in reparations which was practically cancellation; and thnt doubtless encouraged her to insist upon arms equality. ; The Versailles treaty, which is the sharpest thorn in Ger many's flesh today, allows her only a very small army and navy and restricts her battleships to 10,000 tons or less. And the other nations who signed the treaty agreed that they would gradually reduce their armaments to proportionate levels. But in spite of conferences and agreements the European nations are not reducing their armaments and France con tinues to insist upon "security" and to maintain a huge stand ing army, gigantic air forces, and a strong navy. Perhaps Germany's recent move, therefore, is not entirely destructive in its influence. It may be the means of securing the long-sought general reduction of armaments, combining iU pressure with that of the United States ultimatum that war debt revision will not bo considered until European na tions stop spending so many millions yearly on armies and navies. GOOD EXAMPLE Policemen are usually extremely useful citizens when your house has been robbed, or your store burglarized, but Patrol man Robert Overman of Detroit has proved that they may be just as useful in other ways. Here are the facts: Patrolman Overman lived on a little residential street of small homes, small apartments and vacant lots, hardly dif ferent from the average street in the average town. Children played in the streets, exposing themselves to possible injury from motorists. Neighbors just didn't exist. Most families didn't know who lived across the street, and what's more to the point, they didn't care. So Patrolman Overman decided that his street wasn't a very good place to live. Then he got busy, lie cleared the weeds from several vacant lots as a starter. Other residents of the street became interested. He told them he was going to build a playground to keep the children of the neighborhood off the streets. In true neighlwly fash ion, they turned in to help him. They built swings and teeter-totters from scrap lumber left when Overman's garage was partly burned, they laid out a baseball diamond and an ingenious workman fashioned a scoreboard of waste boxes and boards. As a result Patrolman Overman's street is vapidly becom ing an excellent place in which to live. Children of the neighborhood didn't have to he asked to come to "Overman Park" to play twice. Their fathers followed them. And now the big problem is to find room for a baseball diamond for the boys. Their fathers are using the first one almost as much as the voung stors. Overman himself summed the whole thing up very well when he said, "This sure goes to show that it doesn:t cost anything to enjoy yourself if you just find out how." Other Papers Say: I'HKSIIlKVr IIOOVKK I KIIITS HACK All the world loves a fighter. Whether we agree, or disagree, a man who has the courage of his convic , BUSln&M Manager W.50 So Mall 600 .a 60 -6.00 .420 45e ordered by the Lord : and he 37: 23. given her. She seems to have i tions, and flKlits fur what he believes 10 be NRht. rrgardless ot the con sequences, hx. our resjvot and ad miration. frraldent Hoover occupies that ! position tixlny. In opposing the Im mediate cash payment f the bonus in the face ot the American llon convention In Portland, which (avors it. the President of the tinted states exhibits a degree of moral courage, which has never been surpassed in OUT OUR WAY II I I I COME. OKI ,TobE.! ILU -ET . S'V'I I WOO OOr.OR VNUPCTEVER 'IT 1 . IV I 7 l.WOO'RE. COAVtMCr FOR. T I I I I I I A I ausT TOUGH LOCr - Hi ft iP V I io WA'Je. nothinct sor a Piece 1 It ,V I P , 1 I 1 OF CROCHET VNOHK TO HIDE; I 1 I Mlll'IIH llllllll 111 I'-- BEHIMO NHEK1 "TvAErCs . fr I I I - SOMeTHlKlGr "TO Be DOME. H&ftE this country's political history. ... This courageous action, may well spell his political doom, and Presl- I dent Hoover knows It. To defy an I organization of 4.000,000 war vctorans the strongest political unit In the j country today on the evo of a presl I dentlnl election, will be designated 1 by every practical politician, as j nothing short of political suicide. I Nevertheless President Hoover does i It. And he does It, because he be lieves It is his duty to do It. As he well says: "I was elected to protect and promoto tho Interests of all the people. As long as I am presi dent I shall continue to do so and to opposo with all the strength and Influence at my command, any demand that runs counter to the common welfare." In the legion convention there arc ; many men, with decorations on their . uniforms, granted In recognition of ; their bravery and courage under fire. : We don't give medals and decoration for bravery In civil life for courage . under the fire of political opponents. ! ... Nevertheless, regardless of how the ; election comes out In November, re gardless of whether President Hoover , wins or loses: we believe the time will come when thousands of Ameri can men and women, IN THEIR MINDS AND HEARTS, Wll grant mednls of gratitude and approval, to President Hoover, for ' placing 'what ho believed to be their welfare, above ; his own political fortunes, at this I critical time In tho country's flnan- . ctal and economic history. i He may be beaten beaten badly. But ho will nt lenst have this satis- ; faction perhaps the greatest satis faction any public mnn can have I that he went down fighting with his ; colors nailed to the masthead fight- ' ing for those things in which he I believed fighting for his country ' all the country whose welfare he took a solemn oath to protect Med ford Mnll-Trlbuue. II. S. HACK TO 1'OHKVHONT . United States aeronautical en gineers havo been making definite progress. This was Indicated dur ing tho national air races when1 Major Doollttle brought back to this country the land piano speed record with an average of more than 298 miles an hour and on a trial run more than 309 miles per hour. The feat' of Mrs. llalzttp In cracking the women's speed record aud bringing it up to 255 miles an hour strength- j cned this conviction. j It has been eight years since America held the speed record for : land planes. For several years this country's aviation engineers have stressed development of both planes , and engines that hud durability. Tests show the Steel- lM$$f&&&X'&f r 7 f cut "jrnW of Golden t?AV4v'"iS ' ' I sfVfl i Wesi to he perfect for SiisiiXS CV7 I JfMl Vn"and..thermeih. Xt$t&fl3fr&?3r- 'O '?lS.WWj uds of codec making. lJ."r '75 VTLZ' Mi They figured that speed without durability would be worse than use less. In fact dangerous. As a result Franco has held the land plane rec ord and England and Italy the sea plane mark for years. ; The recent feat of Amerlcon-bullt airplanes In copping these two rec ords indicates thnt United States designers are coming up alongside their fellow craftsmen of other coun tries In speed and at the same time not sacrificing In safety. The wide differential between sea and land plnne speed records of more than 100 miles an hour Is explained by the proctices of construction. Sea planes that have gone more than 400 miles an hour use engines that may run only a few hundreds miles be fore they break up. Land planes that hove gone more than 300 miles an hour In this country and have thus broken all existing records will run many thousnnds of hours before any repairs are necessary. t Predictions have been Justified that a year of slack sales would prove to be one of progress in technical mat ters. Walla Walla Bulletin... . By Herbert l'lummer f WASHINGTON Habitues of.the galleries of congress who thrlllrdl nt tho idea that perhaps Ccne TunneV would come down from Connecticut1 Buino any to sit in tne senate .nay have as great a treat In store niter next March 4. ( For advance reports reaching Wash ington indicated that Connecticut Republicans had hit upon one . Mr. Thomas Albert Dwlght Jones as the man they hope to place In Col. Johnny Tilson's seat In the house. This Mr. Jones is "Tad" Jones. Yale's famous football and basqball star as an undergraduate and more recently head coach of Ell's grid Iron teams. Of course, before Jones enters the house, ho must beat his Democratic opponent In November. ATllI.KTK-l'OI.ITK'l.lNS Jones will not be the first man to enter the field of national poli tics by way of the athletic route. If ho should enter the house, he would havo as a colleague a South Carolin ian whoso proud boost Is that his ability as a baseball player sent him or at least had a lot to do with sending him to congress. Tommy McMillan was once a star on the Charleston club of the Sally league. Tad would find plenty of company among his colleagues In the house. Many of the representatives won famo In their younger days as ath letes. Fred Pumell of Indiana, a Re- In Washington jj By J. R. Williams publican leader of the house, was a ! champion pole vaulter at the Univer sity of Indiana. Hamilton Pish of New York, a Harvard football star. whs captain of the team for one year, and Is an old grid foe of Tad's. Bnnkhiad of Alabama was a star fullback at 'Bama when he was in . college. Dick Kleberg of Texas won I note as'(i pitcher at the University of Texas and turned down the offer of a big league contract. BACHMAX AX ATHLETE Carl Bachman of West Virginia, I tho Republican whip, was an all I round athlete at the University of West Virginia. Lou Douglas, youth j ful representative from Arizona, was j a baseball star at Amherst, j Fred Vinson of Kentucky still is . remembered at Centre college for his ability to play baseball. The lanky ; Elzey of Mississippi was a diamond star at the University of Mississippi. I Fred Britten or Illinois once was 1 an amateur boxer of note. And over , in the senate, Barbour of New Jersey once was hailed as a potential heavy weight champion boxer. Venice in Its Glory Crowo and Cuvalcazelle say thai In tho days of Dandolo Venice held state In the imperial city with all but tmperinl rank. Venice "owned, as her chroniclers alllrra, a quarter and n half of the whole Greek em pire "n 'jifitt ''of 'Itiousjnutfnbpuf gov erned hy her own laws; Candln, which hail been bought of Boniface of Montserrat, anil all ports of call from Venice to the Dardanelles." ' American Paper Money Massachusetts began to Issue pa per money In lCflO; South Carolina, 1702; Connecticut, 1700; New York, 1709; New Jersey, 1709; Rhode Is land, 1710; New Hampshire, 1709 10; North Carolina. 1712-13; Penn sylvania, 1723; Maryland, 1733; Delaware, 173S; Virginia, 175D; Georgia, 1735. Land of Many Tongues The principal languages' of Switz erland are German, spoken by 71 per cent, and Italian, by 0 per cent. Other languages are Koinnnshe and I.adin. 15y the federal constitution of 1S4S and 1S74 German, French nml Itnllnn are recognized as na tional languages. Require Good Company "Riches are like men," said HI Ho, the sage of Chinatown. "They lose respect If they drift Into un worthy companionship." Washing ton Star. lj'oe flvmi nt tho Cooking School . . . says: uoiaen west tonee One try . . . and you'll KNOW WHY!" Featured at Your Favorite Grocery Store. REDUCE EXPENSE, BATTLE CRY OF NEW YORK MAYOR . (Continued from Fags One) but It expected action of a political work. New York expected changes; sort rather than business. There Is sound politics In Mayor McKee's action, - politicians' agree, but the first effect Is economic: Almost- the minute McKee assumed office business management of the city came Into the spotlight. 1. Ho ended a long-time printing monopoly, cutting $50,000 off the cost of ballots. - 2. Reduced his own salary from 40,000 to 125,000 and cut the pay of other officials. 3. Fired an Important officeholder who didn't produce' the facts and figures as requested, 4. Ordered the police commis sioner to take a census of the un employed so that relief could be handled efficiently. 6. Started to fight Tammany's plans for a special mayoralty election. 0. Said the 5-cent subway faro would be upheld. 7. Declined a limousine for him self and said other officeholders might be expected to ride more cheaply. But most startling was his an nouncement that the budget would be cut as much as $100,000,000. Bud gets are difficult reading, seldom nre first parge news for more than a day. Mayor McKee kept the budget on or near the front page for several days. In the opinion of Peter Grimm, chairman ' of the Citizens' Budget commission, a non-partisan civic or ganization, it was time that the bud get did become first page news. In 1926 when former Mayor Walker as sumed office the budget was $437, 000,000. It climbed every year, be ing $631,000,000 In 1932. Grimm, said the city's expenses weye actually over 700.000.000 In 1932, certain Items not being apparent In the offi cial budget totals. The funded debt In 1926 was Sl.- 565,000.000. In 1932 It was $2,246, 000.000. The debt situation became such that Wall Street bankers de clined to lend tho city money with out severe retrenchment. Grimm believes the principal op portunities for savings are In salary and wage cuts, which he says should total $30,000,000. These reductions are difficult to make because most rates are mandatory under the state law. Grimm says if the cuts are not made voluntarily changes In the law must be sought. Salaries and wages advanced In 1930 over 1929 by six and a half per cent; In 1931 over 1930, eight per The La Grande Observer fnmg School IS BEING CONDUCTED FOR YOUR BENEFIT Don't fail to attendl MISS ALICE GRAY will give you valuable information on home economics and the products she uses in her work. Be sure and notice her demonstrations using 25 Ounces for 25c SAME PE1CE' f os Over 42 Years The demonstrator will show you that K C is a DOUBLE ACTION baking powder that in using it you get FINE TEXTURE and LARGE VOLUME in your bakings that you can use less than you do of high-priced brands. You will realize that it is not neces sary to pay high prices for bak ing powder. After seeing the demonstrations use K C in the same way in your own home. Give it the oven test and judge by results. ODI GOVERNMENT DIED MILLIONS OP POUNDS cent; In 1982 over 1931 another six per cent- These advances occurred, Grimm- points out, despite difficul ties engendered by the depression. "When Mayor Walker assumed of. flee." Grimm says, "there were Iie.ooo city and county employes, receiving wages and salaries of 248.0OO,O00. In 1932, there were 148,000 employes, and their earnings were $308,000,000 - a $120,000,000 or 48 per cent increase wtr -u itv hns assets Of mayor a v.-j some $25,000,000,000, including about $20,000,000,000 ot assessed tbiusu nnrf Hr..rt. nurnerslllD Of SOme $5.- 000,000,000 of other Items. Its pay roll runs a million dollars a auy. has 19.000 policemen. Its educa tional system employs some 40,500. Mosquito Saves Man's Life Two bites from a mosquito saved the life of a man attacked by a ter rible tropical disease, in Iioscombe hospital, Itournemouth, England, re cently. The mosquito, a rare Afri can specimen, was taken In a cage from the tropical disease research laboratories In London. At the hos pital the cage was opened and the buzzer allowed to take two biles at the patient's leg. Normalcy ' President Harding didn't invent the word "normalcy." It had Its place In the language long before be was born, but It was obsolete and not often met with. Ho gave It currency through his use of It In his Inaugural address "we must strive for normalcy to reach stabil ity" Just as Roosevelt gave popu larity to several words, notably "strenuous." Believing in History "Since we must go on without nt temptinR to change the past," said HI Ho, the sage of Chinatown, "we may as well try to believe that ,ln the eternal ordering of things his tory bus revealed no mistakes." Washington Star. When Glass Sticks When two glass vessels get stuck together so that there Is danger of breaking them In getting them apart, put i cold water In the Inner one, and bold tho outer one In warm water, and you will Had that they will separate at once. ' Ancient University Tradition, says that the Univer sity of Paris dales from 7S0, but authentic annals seem to commence about 1107. niEKBBSHSE FALK8 MUNSIHO $1.60 Shorts, Bloomers, Vests, and Step-ins Mow Reduced to Never before has this perfect fitting lingerie been sold at such a low price , . . delicate pastel hues of peach and pink, Indian MountU Afeheologicul excavations of In dian mounds have led to the conclu sion that these mounds seem to have been designed for a variety of uses, Some of tliein were burial places, others foundations for edifices, while still others served ns fortresses. The most pretentious were used for sac rillcinl and other religious purposes. In many of the tribes the custom I obtained of collecting the bones of the dead, cleaning them carefully and putting them in a common grave, over which a mound was erected. Prairie Chickens Wiped Out Prairie chickens are now entirely extinct In the West, and at present are found In considerable numbers only on the Island of Martha's Vine yard, off the const of Massachusetts. They were mercilessly persecuted both for sport and for food and will probnbly never again be found In large numbers anywhere outside of game preserves. Theory's Importance To despise theory Is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says. Fontenelle.
