East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-28

lowed and how much can be done in
that way towards meeting the short
age can only be surmised. II may be
taken for granted OF course that buy
ing interests will use the increased
acreage talk TO bear prices next sum-
mer Yet even at that il is difficult
to see how prices can fail to be above
normal and IL the war continues un-
abated it will be strange IL this years
wheat prices are not surpassed. The
outlook is bright for the weatgrower
and for the woolman.
S~S~ss@
Why are there no empty houses in
Pendleton and why are new houses
being built here
Why Pendleton constantly when so
Thrives. many other north
west towns complain
OF vacant houses and lack of build
iub oPtidllOHS
A big part OF the answer, in the
view OF this paper. lies in the fact
Pendleton followed a very moderate
course several years ago when many
other towns were nourishing booms,
Consequently there was no over
growth here and no resultant slump.
But that is not all Of the story.
Other factors have contributed
strongly to the upbuilding of the city.
The location OF the state hospital
here has had a bearing on the situ-
alton. The Roundup has brought
people to Pendleton and widely ad-
vertised the place. The building OF
the new high school immensely
strengthened our school plant and
caused additional families TO come
here to secure the educational ad-
vantages of the place. The mountain
water system is another asset and it
will continue to be such in the fu-
ture. 1t is also evident that the
freight terminal when established here
will be a substantial boon to PEN
dleton. The high prices prevailing
for wheat mean prosperity to the city
and there are other factors working
for the advancement of the COM
munity. All told the outlook for the
future is favorable indeed.
To the Germans their cause is DUST,
their conscience clear. No such out
burst Of lofty
To the Germans enthusiasm for
Their Cause is just. Kaiser and
country would
have been possible had there been
anywhere as serious doubts as troub-
led, in England, Charles Trevelyan,
Ramsay Macdonald, John Burns and
Lord Morley. AS the facts were pre-
sented to the German people there
seemed to be no question thatstheir
war-lord, who had kept the peace for
the twenty-six years Of his reign, had
in this emergency stood for peace un-
til the last moment, moving only
when Russian perfidy compelled him
to. 1t was necessary to strike first,
even as a football team seeks to get
the jump" upon its opponents, for if
Russia or France were to deliver a
blow while German mobilization was
under way and incomplete. the coun-
try would be in the position of fri
gate raked in the sailing days by a
broadside when taken aback" and
helpless. The public actually trem-
bled lest the Kaiser hold off too long.
and when he moved he seemed to
them Of Olympian stature. His Ian
guage, bombastic as il may have ap-
peared abroad. was pitched TO the
keynote of the hour; one heard for
the first time praise of him as unser
lieber, gutter Kaiser. He stood for
the whole people when he opened the
war session of the Reichstag and,
with his great sense of dramatic val
ues, called upon its leaders to come
forward and place their hands in his
even the socialists, whom he had
dubbed traitors to the country in a
speech at the Krupp works but few
years before. All this at the very
moment that battalions in every town
and city were marching, singing. to
the front and Won Emmich's divisions
without waiting for siege-guns or re-
servists. we're victoriously assaulting
Liege.
From Germany Embattled-an
American Interpretation" by Oswald
Garrison Willard, in the Christmas
(December) Scribner