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EIGHT PAGES PAGE FOUR DAILY EAST ORKtSOXIAN, PENDLETON. OREGON, 1'IMOAY. DECF.MHKU 0, iOltf. AM lM)Krt:.NUb..Nr NKWSl'Al'KH. robllibrd Dally. Wwkly and 8enil-Wkly at IVudifton, Oregon, by tb A8T OKK.UOMAX I'L liLlSHl.NG CO. BLHSCKU'TIO.N HATES. t!y, one your, by mall $5.0(1 i'ally, an month, by mull 2I0 1115, three month, by mall 1.25 ially, uoe month, by mall 50 tatly, one yvar, by carrier 7.."0 Iaily, six nion! us, by carrier 8.75 l-ally, three months, by carrier 1.03 Dally, one munth, l;v carrier tC Weealy, one year, by mail 1.50 Weekly, lx mouths, by mail 7 ft WK-kly. four months, by mall 50 ml-Werkiy, one year, by mall 1.50 ml-Veokly, six mouths, by mall 75 ami-Weekly, (our months, by mall... .60 The Dally East toregonlan la kept on aale at the Oreuin .Ne Co., 39 Morrison street, lor lined. Oregon. korthwest :,-. Co.. Portland. Oreuon. Chlcatto Hure.111, (Hiy Security Rutldlng. Washington. D. C, Bureau, 601 Fonr eatn street, X. W. Member t'nlteii Tresa Association. Entered at the poatofftc at Pendleton, Oregon, aa second class mall matter. telephone Main 1 Official City and County Paper. UNlON JfcQLABEO If love were only laughter And grief were only tears. With nothing to come after To mark the waiting years, I'd pray a life of love to you. Sent down from heaven above to you. And never grief come near to you To spread its shadow, dear, to . you If love wtre always laughter And grief were always tears. But grief brings often laughter, And love, ah, love brings tears! And both leave ever after Their blessings on the years. So I, dear heart, would sue for you A mingling of the two for you v That grief may lend its calm to you, And love may send Its balm to you For grief brings often laugh- ter And love brings often tears. Century. fighting for national existence. They were living with the sword and the bayonet. Von Steuben spent his first winter at Valley Forge where Wash ington's poorly clad and undisci plined soldiers left tracks of blood as they paced the enow. Baron Von' Steuben had been train ed under Frederick the Great and knew the value of discipline anil or ganization. He was a friend In time of need because the continental army lacked both these qualities. The work of Von Steuben and his influ ence upon other officers did niueii towards bringing the American army into fighting shape. He was counted by Washington as one of his most valuable generals. He was such a general. Battles are not won by dashing generals who ride to the front and who are depicted doing so In the school histories. Battles are won through discipline and organization plus commanders who are courageous yet also have the brains to know what's what in the military game and have the ability to drive their plans through. Washington himseir was such a commander. So was General Meade, the hero of Gettysburg. The same was true of Grant, Lee and nearly all the great generals of the past. The thing is now more true than ever, for war is now almost en tirely a scientific proposition. The people of the United States have done well to erect a statue to Baron Von Steuben. He came to us when trans-Atlantic travel was not' as safe as at present and when this coun try needed friends who could fight and who knew how to make other men fight. A PLEA FOU THE PESSIMIST. 1 PROGRESSIVES WANTED. COMMENTARY. Now that the city council has en acted an ordinance governing the sa loons that are to be established after January 1 there will be an end to the uncertainty that has existed regard ing the number and character of the saloons Pendleton is to have. As to the ordinance itself there are some who heartily approve of it; some who condemn it. Many think it al lows too many saloons; others con tend the ordinance throws too many restrictions around- saloonmen. All of this was to be expected. It would Lave been utterly impossible for the council to have enacted an ordinance acceptable to all classes. For saloonmen who think the law too drastic here is a word or two. It la not nearly as restrictive as is the present prohibitory law. Yet many men have engaged in the liquor busi ness under prohibition. They have sold liquor with the shadow of the county jail before them. They shoull be glad of a chance to engage once more In a legitimate business. Eut If they do not want to engage in the liquor business under the restrictions set down there is nothing to compel them to do so. They may go into 1 other callings if they wish. The judges whom President Taft must name for the supreme court will have work of the utmost Importance to do. Many laws with reference to the regulation of corporations are .to be passed upon and such measures as the initiative and referendum will have to be judged. Whether or not these measures are constitutional de pends entirely upon the construction of the constitution. Law is not an exact science. Courts have always, to an extent, at least, made decisions in accordance with public sentiment when the sentiment was clearly shown. Surely this is sound policy for in a re public the people are the source of power and no part of any stream can be higher than its source. Therefore it is important that the president should name men who will be free from bias and are able to construe the law and the constitution for the public good and not for the benefit of special interests. Certain ly the Insurgents are justified ia ask ing that the president appoint men of progressive views. HE HAS A JOB. There is a story of an ex-Chrlstlan ; Scientist who, when asked why he ; had relapsed, or backslid, or became unchristian-unscientific, confessed to having tired of being "so darned hap- j py all the" time." Evidently that man j needed an occasional dash of pessim- i ism to make life Interesting after the monotony of persistent, unvarying op timism. The hopelessly Incurable op timist revels, yes, wallows. In cheer fulness; his object in lifts Is the pur suit of happiness; and. like the infant creeping toward a rake of soap, he won't ho hanpy till he ge's It. Epigrammatic comparisons of op timist nnd pessimist drop often from the lips of would-be wits: "The op timist sees the rose, the pessimist feels its thorns." "Of the two evils, the optimist chooses the lesser, the pes simist both." It Is ns easy to cover the pessimist with obloquy as if he deserved It. If there were no pessimists to bal last the too buoyant optimists, how long would the human race last? The optimist sits upon the deck of n crowded steamer, serenely smiling, blissfully content. The pessimist, sitting beside him, smells smoke and begins to fidget. The optimist says it is his imagination and advses him not to worry, for all will come right In the end. Nevertheless, the pes simist gets up and "noses 'round" till he discovers fire, which is then quietly subdued. But when, on his return, he tells the optimist of it, the optimist exclaims triumphantly: "Didn't I say all would come right in the end?" And the exasperating part of It is, the optimist's confidence Is justified thanks to the pessimist. Is it not an obvious deduction that a world made up wholly of optimists would be as impracticable as one con taining only mendicant friars? The pessimist may be overcautious, but the optimist Is over credulous. The optimist trusts In providence, the pes simist distrusts everybody and every thing. The man who didn't know the gun was loaded was an optimist he's dead; the one who feared it might go off whether it was loaded or not is a pessimist he's still alive. The gen tleman whose head was severed from his body so neatly that he could not be convinced till they had given h'm snuff and made him sneeze must have been an optimist; seemingly he had not the brains not to be. The op timist doesn't know enough to go In when it rains or at least he will start out on a cloudy morning with out an umbrella, .because he thinks he can barrow one from the pessimist if need be, and he usually can. The optimist saunters gayly through life, wearing that fatuous smile that won't come off, secure In the knowledge that drunken men, fools and optimists get looked after somehnw. Left to his own devices, the optimist is an ir responsible baby, dependent for his very existence upon the pessimist. The npt'mist is a butterfly, the pessimist a grub; without the grub there could be no butterfly. Doubtless the optimist has his place in the world; so, too, have the amiable lunatic and the other irresponsibles. But the pessimist is the safer and more useful member of society, and it is to be regretted that his services to mankind get so little credit. Here's to the pessimist; may he live long and (cause the optimist to) pros per! Frank M. Bicknell In Decem ber Lippincott's. Governor-elect Oswald West Is talk ed of for a post on the interstate commerce commission in the event Commissioner Lane should be promot ed to the court of commerce. This is complimentary to Mr. West and he deserves the compliment for he made a capable member of the Oregon rail road commission. However Mr. West already has' a position in view. He has contracted to serve as governor of Oregon for four years and it is nuite a distinguished post, although the salary is not large. ' There are ovrr 02.000,000 people in Some are saying saloonmen cannot !tyie United ."tates, according to the make much money under the restric tions adopted by the council. Very ; well. It Is not a good thing for sa loonmen to make too much money. I; is better for society at large when men spend their money for groceries, clothing and other supplies for them selves and their families rather than for booze. The present idea with reference to saloon laws Is that they should not be devised with the idea of promoting the liquor business but with the Idea of restricting it. Society is const antly purging itself of its vices and affair. Its follies. At least his Is true of any nation that Is going forward and the American people have not yet gone ln t.i decline. It was up to the council to pass a strict regulatory law. Such a law was promised the people and it would have been bad faith arid poor policy for the city administration to have failed to enact such a law. It is now up to the administration to strictly enforce the ordinance and by doing so maintain Ruch a health ful state of affairs as to obviate the necessity for another dose of prohibition. SEWING MACHINES IN OIIN. census estimate. They are fine peo ple too the most of them. Toronto people engaged In a riot because they are forced to use pay-as-you-enter cars. That's strange. The racing men in New York will rejoice' when Governor Hughes puts on the ermine. The council will legalize drinking but will try to bar saturation. American exports of sewing ma chines to the Hongkong market and for China gncrally are again on the increase, after about three years of depression. The recent history of the American trada outlines the entire situation .in a way, although American machines have not been able to control the market entirely. Unfortunately Hongkong has no import returns' and the import returns of China show the imports of sewing and knitting ma chines as one class, and the exact portion of such Imports which is made up of sewing machines can not b ascertained. In 19o6 the Imports of such machines can not be ascer tained. In 1906 the imports of such machines Into China amounted to 127,292; in 1907 the value of such imports was placed at $105,411; in 1908 it fell to $79,881; In 1909 Jt reached $126,328. I. A. K. TROUBLES BEGIN. That English election Is a protracted THEY DID NOT BELONG. A FRIEND IX NEED. By the unveiling cf the statue to Baron Von Steuben we are reminded that a comparatively few years ago life In thcUnited States was very dif ferent from what It Is at present In 1778 there were no garages or alr- ships. There were no skyscrapers and no transcontinental railroads. Peace and prosperity did not abound . ar now. When Baron Von Steuben came to America, the people of this land were The Odd Fellows were to give an entertainment at the town hall one night. A lady asked little Arthur, aged 4 years, whether they were go ing to the entertainment. "My pop says we can not go because we do not belong," he answered. "Oh." said the lady, "you can go anyway. . ryV."y f an go to this whether they belong to the lodge or not." "That's what I told my papa," little Arthur replied. "We went to the cir cus the other day and we didn't he long." Delineator. WOMEN IN POLITICS. In Now York city there are all sorts of political clubs for women, not only the suffrage clubs, but those that take for their creed the platforms of the recognized parties among men. This year they havo entertained the can didates and seem to have some excuse for their being In the social affairs of the campaign at least. Tommy Pop, what Is a dividend? Tommy's Pop (who has been stung in P. D. & Q.) A dividend, my son, it what Is left for the stockholders after the dlwy. Do you take the Bast Oregenla .? At a recent state meeting of the Daughters of the Revolution at Deca tur, two Chicago women declared that Mrs. Matthew Scott, the present re gent general, had given her word that If she were elected she would not ask for a re-election and consequently they opposed indorsing her for an other term. Mrs. Scott denied that she had ever made any such promise. She was Indorsed by a close vote. If she wouldn't remind him of It, a man could go on living with his wife forever without noticing that he had ceased to he in love with her. The Misery of STOMACH DISTRESS In entirely banished after a short course of tho BIUts. No more Smoth ering npcllH, Heartburn, Belching, Bloating or Vomiting because it will tone the entire digestive system and assist greatly in the proper digestion and assimilation of the food. Try a bottle of HOSTEfTER'S STOMACH BITTERS today. It Is for all Stomach, liver and Bowel His, Colds, Grippe and Ma laria. Refuse all substitutes and lm- mltatlons. ' THE PENDLETON DRUG CO. NCIEM9 OSOERS-TOD tH tHESMJtJ FviTOY I JST" HA ITS I DECEMBER. HAVE vou MONEY BANK? MTHEMMM Why not decide to secure yourself today against old age, sick ness and loss of employment. Don't take chances, of an unex pected strain on your finances. Incomes melt away before those (lemons, expense and extravagance. Begin now, to save, how welcome it vil be in that needy hour that is apt to come. We will pay you 4 per cent interest on the money you put in our bank and compound the interest every six months. THE American National Bank Pendleton, Oregon UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY Jewelry Survives all Other Gifts and is Especially Ap propriate As An Expres sion of Sentiment and Regard. DIAMONDS Solitaire and Cluster Rings, Iiroochcs and other Jewelry; superb stones of finest cutting. RICH JEWELRY In tasteful ami novel ideas for Brooches, Lockets, Studs, Laval Hers, Chain Plus, etc. FIXE WATCHES That are ornamental nnd (1 urn bio for all pur ihso8, from tho most noted makers. SILVER TABLE AND TOILET WARE. CUT GLASS, UMBRELLAS, NOVELTIES Arc hero In profusi on for your lnsMcUon. A. L. SCHAEFER LEADING JEWELER. Annual School Board Convention PENDLETON, DECEMBER 10th State Superintendant Ackerman and R. F. Robinson, county superintendent of, Multnomah will speak. J. W. L Kaufman, humorist will will give one of his side-splitting recitations. All teachers and members of different school boards are invited to attend and get acquainted. An en joyable time promised to all. 1 Chickens! Chickens!! Chickens !! All kinds, sizes and colors, young and old For choice dre nd oaea pfaone your order night before. We dress noae exespt for order to If yon like cold storage povltrj patronise the other feltew mt tore jomnetS. East End Grocery Be. Fkoae B. SMI. Telephone Main 536 Headquarters For Toilet Goods We are Bole Mnttfctnrere end Distributor of the Oelehreted f TOILET CRKAM COLD CREAM TOOTH POWDKH and MT. HOOD CRKAM Tallman & Co. Leading DrugKlau of KaUr orc- OU) LIN: 1 LIVE STOCK IN SURANCE. Indiana & Ohio Live Stock Insur ance Company Of CrowfordiYtlle, Indian Hu now entered Oregon. Follclei now gooi In eTery tate In the Union. Organ ed over 16 yean ago. Paid up Capital IJOO.OOO.t. Ai eU over I4S0.000.0O. REMMUER, thin la NOT a Mutual Live ck Injur nee company. Mark Hoorhouse Company Acnt, Pmdletoe, C. IIS East Court SC. Fboae Uala f - mm rug PENDLETON DRUG CO. WE DEAL II DRUGS NOT PROMISES You Make a Bad Mistake When you put off buying your Coal! nntll Fall urvliawc It NOW and Mxtire the brut Rork Pprlnirn cal tho mlnrw produce at prim considerably lower Hum thoxe prevailing In Fall and Winter. Ily Mocking up now yoa avoid ALL danger of being un able to wen re It when eold w rather arrive. HeiryKopittke Phone Main 17S. Fresh Fish Meata and Hanaagea EVERT AV. We handle only the pareet f lard, harm and bacoa. Empire Meat Co. Phone Main 18. FRESH MEATS SACSAGES, FI8II AND LARD. Always pure and delivered promptly, If you phone the ' Central Meat Market 108 E. Alta St., Phone Main SS. wn . a KMr, a 60 YEARS JS?fJEXPEnieNce Dim v. Mm DC3IC1N8 C&pvninuTft Jt a pnlrklip nwtmn nnr unit fr0 Ui,nr ml Invention II pnrtinl.lr i.iloninhln, Cm, i.,,,...,", tliMirletlf ona.loniiiii . HAKilptJfiK on l'iu VeriaJnotfc. without chnruo, lullm Scientific American k faftfidftumielr mtiifTftttvi wiwklr. t,rat mv enlftUon of mnj unentttlo Imtnml, Ternn m . IflllNN X i:n 86!Bro.dM. Now HVIlIf V VVl " 11111 I srmoeb one, rat V Ht. Wublugiuu. 1!. Unfurnished housekeeping rooms for rent In the Bast Oregonlan build ing. All modern conveniences. Bbv quire at 19. O. office. !