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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1918)
Vol' H.WK l-ranri' Musi Ho Kwl If We Would', lt.l.t The Hun This letter ha beon received, by Ton Jeurnal: jlumlock Or. To the Editor of Taa Journal The agent of the food administration for Tillamook county gave notice to the people or thU coanty that no person was allowed saore than one sack of wheat flour in the lioune at one time, and ordered all who had more to return the sur lilas to him or iiomeone he might llKnatH to receive II. Some, with fear and trembling returned a sack ir two and received at I he rate of 410.40 per barrel for which they had , vaiit over $12 per barrel, and wore furred 1o buy bog teatl for Ul family at more than double the price of the flour Is it to win Hie war or to fill anmehody's pocket that Hi- Mtlot ni Mat out, with a threat of a 5000 fine and two yearn in prison? v.. v. PROCTOR. Kor lack of food, Krancc was re-r-nutly on the verge of collapse The true import of an appeal by cable from the French government for satire wheat has never been made fiuhllc in all Its significance. The idtuatlon was one of the most critical that has raced the allies. The Im mediate peril is now removed, but It would again appear If wheat were not regularly and faithfully sent from Anwxlca. ir Frame should collapse, what? ir her four years of bleeding should ticrome fatal to her. what? Where would the American army In France then be? How long could the American boys only in moderate strength yet. along with the British, be able to resist the terrible Hun drives? It is a thought to give every American something for the most terlous comteinplation. It i.. true that the substitutes cost more than white flour costs. Hut II is tn be rememberi d that at the time I we filtered the war American mills were not eiuipp d for grinding all th substitutes. Corn flour practically disappeared from the market for a sitae through lack or facilities for grinding it in quantities to meet the Midrienly created demand. There were but few mills with ma chinery for grinding oat' Hour. Barley Hour was almost unknpwn. There were no mills in the Northwest with the facilities for grinding bar- toy Hour. The rood administration required the mills to Intall the machinery for seanufacture or all the substitute floors. It is costly machinery. It may o out or use at the end or the war. The new machinery was installed, not on a basis or whether It would isty or what it would cost, but on a twsis or getting an adequate supply .if the substitute Hours ai a war i.umuri'. ;:.;t r.i iNpeii.se meant nee . r i ! y Increased cost or tbg sub stitutes. This Is one of tin can M or fiigber prices for barley, out. corn and other flours. Another cau.io Is the higher price formers are getting for these prod nets. The farmers had the pr; tloir wheat cut. That the prii ol -viry crop they grow should bo sim ilarly cut is a plan that tho farmer .ulil not be expaeted to agree to. Mr. Proctor asks the question, "I at to win the war or to fill some body's pocket'" that food adminis tration, rules are established? The rood administration is doing everything In Its power to prevent profiteering. Thus, every mill Is un der license. It cannot operate wlth ut a license. Its property Is virtual ly taken charge of by the govern ment. Us books are examined by the Food administration, and its profits ki jit to the iiilnmuin. If undue profit . are attempted by the mills, the miller. ai" penalized. fHie wholesalers are similarly licens ed, aud their business similarly sup Tv)sed. Chair books are Inspected, The regulation is the strictest sup crvlslon ever exercised by the govern ment over any private business In America. The regulation' Is so rigid that If a miller, wholesaler or re tailor does not submit to government requirements Ills license is taken away, and without a license he can mi do business. it is a great length to go for the tMineril or consumers. It seems In Todlble that loiisumers can cora iijln. The food administration Is without authority to fix the price or the far mer' barley, or his oats, or his corn. "Congress refused to grant that an Hiority. Hills have been Introduced for (that purpose, but congress doe.) .ot psss them, ir there is fault that those substitutes are high prUi-d ii ! i a fault Ol congress alone. Coajresj Is the one power that can grant au thority to the president or to the 04)4 administration to fix prices of the raw substitutes lo the farmer. Mr. Hoover ban public ly dc , Un d ihat the pii.c- cil coin tbOUl Im loss WHKAT Will. WIN II IT. than the price of wheal. But he la without authority to make it lower. Tag only regulation he can MM restriction on the profit of millers, ,,, I Pt-iierB. and this M has done. Congress ought to give the food administration power to fix the price or corn. Meanwhile we are engaged In a ter rible war. Our greatest work In that war la yet to be done. We have but little conception of the sacrlHces we may have to make. The real aacriricea up to the pre sent are by the young men who are offering their lives, and by the par ents and wives who are ottering their sons and husbands as hostages and defenders of freedom and of the re-1 public. Compared with these supreme acts' or devotion the slight privation or uslnc hiibstltutes IuhImuI of wheat I i flour I-. nothing. Tii,' baying f tor stamps is no ; thing. ' The purchase of a Liberty Ilond Is 1 nothing. A gift to the Red cross Is nothing In comparison with the gift of a man ly young man In defense of the homes and privileges and free Institutions or America. U France should rail and the whole brunt or resisting the conquer ing Hun fall upon America we would see times when we would be thankful to even have black bread with which to satisfy our hunger. The French soldier's bread ration is already re duced to 21 ounces a week, which Is three ounces a day, but little more than an American Is allowed to con sume at one meal. Portland Jour nal. Till: LINKS IHi.UVN The hour has long since struck when i here can be but two classes of pMpl in this country Americans and PrO-Of BsBli There can be no such thing as neutrality. Every citi zen is either for or against his conn try. The Government Is tailing on every man. woman and child within our borders to declare themselves. ..ml the call can no more be evaded than could the call to the ranks. Cncle Sam has no intention or unduly oppressing any person. Nevertheless there is a war to right and win, a cause to be battled for to a triumph, and in this every persons services are called for and must be given to the extent of that one's ability. The hour has struck when we must separate the sheep rroni the goats the clttens rrom the parasites and leeches. Ten million or our people are already enrolled, but this Is only about one-twentieth or our numb.-r. These ten millions are enrolled In the arms 1. curing division. Hut there Is an arms-rurnlshlng department to be maued aud financed, as well as all the other sinews or war, and to this task the other ninety million are call ed We some Time ago arrived at tb certain knowledge that Hie world is at war lor a prlneple, and every hu man l;e!iiK la HiIh country inn t tth r accept or reject that principle, Ones and Tor all wo must determine whether or not man shall ! free l or ti"' puppet nt n patty tyrant, once and for all we urn! determine whether i PMpM nhail ebpoM their own gilagiancg or be subject to the call of royal butchers who would feed tlicin to the Moloch of war pure ly to further their own lust ror pow er. And iu Hie determination or this mighty question every person ot or dinary Intelligence among us will be recorded on one side or the other, As we have stated, there lit no mlii die ground you, reader, ore either American or Autl-Amerlcan. This Is Your home, and Its safetv Is menaced, your services are deinuicl , ... ..,,,. Wash., are well toward the oil, and you can no more evade tint op ,lI( H1 Klln11K. A pen of O. A. call tlKiti ou inn evade the Icioh (. i!illr,., .,.u,; noy forth place at of lire and death. Storrs at the end of the :!7lh week. We repeat, we must separate thu ,, ,, A c iul.r,.( Rm.s hold s. .- hlieep from the goats. Kver.v com- ' ()(, ,,,,. Hl .,lllmun H. ,., ,,r """lily should label Its entire the flrHt ,mir y,.ar Tn0 ten brtU cltiziiihlilp loyal or disloyal, as the t the forni(.r ooatast had produced case muy be. Slackers, traitors audll016 jgH,,! average of almost pro-Hermans should bo placed In a j ,00 ,,.,, bjelttdlag tho late tall and i lasH by themselves. Loyal Americans wu.r season. They laid KB eggs should liave i.o dealings with these i durnf the last week, gaining 5 on people They should be mude to r.el I Uie flrgt ,,,, an(l 7 on the Be(,ond. the heavy dlspli-asure of their loyal j The en of flve at l'ullman laid 619 uelKhbnrs. lie llielr station high or staudlug what It iu. And III this melting and remould ing process, rgoa or nullouallty should bare absolutely no weight whatever. The loyal American or Herman blood or nativity should be as warm ly welcomed Into the ranks or the country's derenders as the purest blooded American among us. On the other band, the slacker or pro-Uer in, in should not be aligned, It mat- Neglected cohhI iputlcni may cause i i i not If his ancestors nunc over lu I Piles, ulceiiiilou of the bowols, ap Ihu Mayflower or ir hi., fathers . poudlciil.-i, nervotU prcelrutlon, purn totlglit llie Ilrlllsh at Bunker's Hill. I lysis. Iion't delay Irenlineiit. Ilewl Tho mighty engine oT public opln rene -n La l-VI. OatharttO Tablet g, inn workH slowly. Ilul thin engine Is ' Do ill. i i ni'ly, er.slly, gently, Bhrmlai UP for the nice, iiml OUr i Without injui 10 louiiicli or lules- advice to the man or woman ol mi ttnal lining, Coutaln no Imiilt lortn A m, : n an procllvli Ii-h uould lie loi sing very lOWly, I II.AHVKHT The initial movement for placing Oregon upon a voluntafy "wheatless until harvest" basis, thus rallying to the urgent call of Uncle Sam In his great task or reeding our army at the front and the armies and civilian peoples or the Allies, was taken on Thursday, May 23, at Portland, when County Food Administrators, assem bled from 18 out or 86 counties, un animously adopted the following resolutien: "Whereas the wheat situation or the nation and the Allies has become exceedingly acute so acute that only by the most drastic curtailments in consumption ran America meet the grave duty and military necessity which ennfronls her, tlitweforc, ho It IteHolvcd. thai It Is Hie uiiiiiiIiiioUh conviction of the County Food Ad inliistrutors of the St.i ' of Oregon ami others nlt.-ndtnK the Food Ad ministration conference held In Cort land May 21-H, 1 9 IN. that Oregon ,e . H, M nmly m-y ,, upon voluntary wheatless basin, this to continue until August, 19 IK. And be It further Uosolved, that each county admin istrator shall Immediately take steps to bring his county to such wheatless standard; that this resolution shall not contemplate curtailing consump tion of wheat products by heavy man ual laborers, or others necessarily de pendent upon bakers' bread to a point which will Impair their ef ficiency: that bakers should limit their consumption or wheal Hour to 70 per vent or that ol the correspond ing period or 11)17; that dealers should sell with each pound of wheal Hour three pounds or substitute, and should not purchase nor sell to ex ceed 'iro per cent of their last year's purchases or wheat Hour without special petlnlt; that dealers and com munities further be requested to eli minate wheel Hour sales entirely, and In any case to use their best ctrorts to i oiiflno such sales to a maximum or one-half pound or wheat flour per week ler person; that steps be taken at once to Induce nil dealers, homes and hotels to turn back all supplies or flour on hand beyond the ultra minimum required within the spirit of this resolution, except that where flour on hand Is so remotely located that Its return would be Impractical, permission be given to retain the same." " THK Sf.tlteiTY OF l.HtoH It wilt be harder perhaps, for the isruier than any other class or peo ple to adapt himself to the labor shortage, because his most Important work Is seasonable. Husluess houses have already been seriously crippled by so many of our men being called Into service, but they are bravely ad- Justing their plants to conditions, by '' mon- r ImlnUig women ror these positions, i ins shortaga will, or course, be I'lt on the farms this year, for astdS from the draft, war Industries are blrliiK all men avallubu- Wliirnir II Is possible to :i I in.i chillers' M Hie' furins. In place of , It it iii I In' r, thin should be clou- I' Cue man ii unable lo meet Hi Is ex ! peuse, 'or machinery Is usually c then by combining, farmer i can affect lbs sana result, it will mean co-operation all uIoiik the Hue At HO WIIKAT Til. I. timi:. this year- It will mean helping ea-h '"'" 00" 'other In various ways but all this I Is a part of the debt we must cheer- fully pay In a world war or the mag nitude we are now waging. oiti:oo iikns Kcoiti-: Oregon hens at Hlorrs, Conn., and eggs In the tirst six months an aver age 129.5 per fowl. The pen was first ror April, with a yield or 112 eggs. The pen or While I.ckIic.imh entered at I lie- ciine conic ,t have n record of f.,r.f ckk lo their credit and hold tenth place. o Dangers of Constipation Ing di ii; I' I ne by lie d llro for fat folli:i. Bold i: i;hhitii:s vh. m xi iui.s Our people have a saying, which has become current, that the luxur ies of one generation are the neees sltes for the next. And really wo seem to have practiced Just such a system of evolution. Our people are shining examples or the truth that extravagence breeds extra vagenee. We of this generation listen to old people as tbey describe conditions of their day, and we wonder how they managed to render life at all endura ble. Yet these same old pjople In their day, enjoyed lire to tho full. Thiy did not consider themselves In any sense objects or plty.Thcy lived sim ple, wholesome lives, and the wis dom or their mode or lire Is amply demonstrated by the mere fn'-t that the, the exponent ot thin simple, rrtiKitl life, are yet with us to bear testimony to Us merits. There Is gnul need that, in many respects, we revert to the frugal life of our ancestors. Truo, In muny nutters tin Ir luxuries have really become our necessities and tin m more an extravagance than were their simple luxuries. Hut we have added unnecissarllly to these lux uries. It Is these wo are called upon to forego. Mark well Hie man or woman who continues tho extravagances or for mer years. Their patriotism Is of a purely negative quality. Henceforth, until this war Is won, extragance and disloyalty am going to become al most slnonyinous terms. And even then our frugality will be worthless unless It be print Iced in the name or the cause, and Hie re sults applied to tho cause. o mzikim: hi : h Rev. Lyman Hrough, Pastor. A cordial Invitation Is extended to you to attend our services . The Hours ol the service on the Sabbath are as follows; Preaching at 11 A. M. Sabbath School at 10 A. Youug Peoples' meeting l M. Song service at 7:30 P. M. ai M. 6:45 Preaching at 8:00 P. M. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 P. M. no liol V FAMILY CHURCH I Catholic i Cor Miller and C. SU. Sunday High Mass at 10:3 o'clock Week days Mass at 7 o'clock. Instructions lor children Satur days at A. M. Rev. Father Francis, O. F. M. Rector. - i . CHItlSTlAX HCIKNCK HOCIKTY Services at 11:00 o'clock. Sub Jc t of Lesson-Sermon next Sunday: "Adam And Kalten Mini " The Testimonial Meeting. Wednes day at 7:M0 P. M. 'i lie readtiiK room In the clnircl, Kdirice, Is open on Tuesday and Krl iluy rrom 2 to 4 P. If, Sunday School mi t.c or, Sunday at 10 o'clocU. Pupils may he admitted to Its classes up to the age or 20 years. The public Is cordially Invited to the Church Services and to the n li n It cohIk no more to be Hiire you get your money's worth Ask f r Crescent Cinnnmon, Nutmegi Pepper n n l other Kpict'H. All grocers Hell them. Crescent Better Spices The rallr'-ad emplfl as an pleased I with the Increase In their wages, but .... . . 1 1... .... ,i.A ' after all lliey are not so mmj alrcrafl boys, who get a raise every lime Hmy go up. How would you like to pay $1.70 per copy ror the morning paper? People In Washington who are will ing to pay that price can get the New York Times by aeroplane service. WRAY'S AUTO STAGE ALL TOURING CARS Between BURNS and BEND DAILY a a Maw - BI M-MSpp pV0r " 5 ' . Br vyfri ' flfl Lea? BEND ot 7:45 a. I,,.,..,. I'.I'WVSI nt 700 n FARE, each way $8.00 50 Pounds Baggage carried Pw . Exeat lo per II M.H'tH it II trains in Hem. Passenger Arrive a Portland, from Burns, in 21 hours, fare $16.05 Prompt attention gifen Especially PerUha tie Contignmenw. Inland Empire Keuli.v Coniminy. AgentH WE CURE We Are Speclallats WE CURE CRIPPLES We take timi broken store it to heallli and stretith ami usefulness. These tlays you jus! can't affortl to lose flie ser vice that your ear should pve. and which it will give if you keep it in health. If vonr Car hicks efficiency, is weak or faulty in any action, bring it in and let uh give it the onct over. We never fail to diagnose the ailment, and then we aDDlv the proper remedy to the seat of the trouble. Let us help you to help your car in PERFECT CONDITION. Lee Thornhurji-" Steam Vulcanizing Plant in a part f ili' equipment. Universal N. BROWN & SONS Brown fs Satisfactory Store QUALITY MERCHANDISE Walk Over Shoes Stetson Hats Bums, : : We carry kN advei-H-e.l oh il-an Farming for Profit The year HUH, more than any previous year, mark's the progressive furmer's harvest season from his soil. Tln world is eUmoring for his products. If you would reach the top notch in production, you .should provide your force with The Latest and Best In Labor-Saving Machinery We have the implements to easily DOUBLE your pro ducing? capacity. Why be content with the oimortunity to clean un time help your oountry in the Come In and See Our Splendid Line Get into the class of moderns and move on with procession. You can't afford to be left behind. M will surely be If you cling to the old methods. I. S. Ibid Kidneys Laid lllm I A slight kidney Impalrin. i ' lead to dropsy or Hrlght's di Don't neglect It. Kran.i Hlngham, Utah, writes: "I was bicd with my klndneys so bad I not work. Tried many kinds or m cine which did me no good. Ti tried Foley Kidney Pills; now Ing as good as I ever did beror Sold by Read Bros. in., arrive BDRNg 7:00 p.l ni Jinivc lilM ' .:IMJ D.lil all shipim-nts in our eare CRIPPLES lown, cripbfed Car and re- your Government by keeping Garage Co. Bon Ton Corsets : : Oregon the "Home I rcilmt- Page" scant profit when you can have a larue one, and at the sami' bijr drive'.' tl, you & CO. -i-K