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FRIDAY, OCTOBER Ifi, 1914,
PACK TWO HKrr.Nr.K rinKALM, nr.i i .M i.
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E.G.HARLAN
EDITOR
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
TUESDAYS .nd FRIDAYS
EDITORIAL SECTION "
HEPPNER HERALD
HARLAN
MANAGER
SUBSCRIPTIONS $1.50 PER YEAR
OUTSIDE COUNTY $1.50
A PATERNALISTIC MEASURE.
There has been a tfreat deal of discussion
concerning the Eight-Hour measure which will
come up for consideration of the voters in the
cominjr election. The idea as we see it is to
regulate the hours of labor by the state, some
thing which has never been successfully done
at any time.
The measure flavors of paternalism and gives
the worker the idea that he is getting some'
thing for nothing. Regulating the ordinary
hours of labor is not good for any state to med
dle with. The history of the world shows that
the working day is being shortened. This has
been accomplished without the need of laws,
mandates or coerskm but has resulted from
economic, forces.
The last attempt to regulate the hours of
labor and the price of commodities was made
in the rule of the Roman ruler, Diocletian.
This gentleman came into possession of the
throne much in the same way as our friend
lluerta in Mexico did. When he entered Rome
the cry was the high cost of living, another
slogan which has not lost its popularity even
unto this day. Diocletian regulated the hours
of labor and the wage and also the cost of com
modities and attached a penalty of death to
those who "cut prices" and to those who work
ed for less than the "union scale."
Just to give you an idea, manual labor re
ceived 10.8 cents a day; bricklayers, masons,
wagonmakers, shipbuilders, bakers, 21 cents a
day. Teachers were paid so much for each
scholar and writers were paid 8.7 11 hundred
lines. Ten eggs sold for 1.7: oysters cost 43.5
a hundred ; rye, 45 cents a bushel and oil, 18 to
'W cents a quart.
Diocletian's paternalism was not a success,
lie did not know how difficult it was to take
entire charge of the people; that after he fixed
the price he must also take charge of produc
tion, distribution and consumption. When
thi! workers found that it did not pay to raise
barley, eggs and hay, they stopped producing
these things for the market. When it did not
pay to be a preacher, teacher, bricklayer or n
painter, the ambitious tried wnnething else,
When life became unbearable at Rome, tin
energetic found other places to live. All roads
lead to Rome. If you want to know how all
such paternalistic schemes work out, read
history. I'Voni it one mav learn wisdom.
One thing in this measure which looks ques
tionable is the fact that no one can work over
eignt hours a day if he wants to, unless he
works for himself. If a man was a little hard
up and wanted to put in ten hours and was able
to do it, as most men are, he would be unable
10 worn. 1 ms is something for you to
fletcluri.e while you drink your
Postum.
I here is always the class, however, that com
plains about not getting sufficient wages an
are also clamoring for shorter hours. Ma
.1,;. I . I . 1
iu-. 1. dim iMiicauoii nave made men more
ellu unt workers and they render the same set'
vice now in nine ami ten hours that fifty year
ago required eleven or twelve.
All pay is automatic and is based on the ser
vice rendered. Any other basis for remunera
tarn is unsound and unwise, therefore, not prac
ticnble. We are all down on Nature's timcbook
for five dollars a day and the only reason that
we don't get it is because we give a part of it
to .someone elsi- fur in.r ..u 1...... .. .1:
our i ll'orts. The modern employer is ready and
willing to pay for good service and he pays
big sums for big service. The demands of busi
ness today require a high standard of etli
cuiuy, courtesy, good-cheer, alertness and
rapidity. Rut it takes a deal of supervision
and management to get this. People have al
ways pictured an ideal place where everybody
will be on the job. The worker will get there
early and slay until things are cleaned up. and
so full of zeal for the common good that no
supcniMon Mill be requirrd. Each man will
l" the things that he w.iuts to do, the things
that he can do best and he will do it superbly
well. If you want to km.w whether the Ih.ss is
on the iob,Koiie on a vacation or a business trip
o.-i !) imo any nu.1ine.ss house. Co info ..
hotel and find thcclcik playing cards with the
uiMoiucrs. or entering into loud and mouthy
III L'lmiellt -1 mi, I r.iii ...II I .1 ....
Miow mai me ims.i is
away, i-.nter a dryg'-ds store and see the
clerks throwing paper wads and calling to ,,..
""other and the fact is patent that the super.
I'm 1 inn on 1 he ioh.
The lower the intellectual plane the more
umiououuiv required. To do
away w ith suh i isi-,, is the ultimate aim of
.dmation. Every wise parent Is teaching his
children to do without him. The px.,1 schtn.1
tea. her is working toa p,.ji,t where his services
are no longer needed. The aim of the law is to
make all laws unnecessary. So the intent, also,
in commercial institutions is moving towards
a point where the least possible supervision is
required. .
The entrance of the state in the matter is
a backward step. It takes away the feeling of
personal responsibility and gives the worker
the idea that someone else will guard his in
terests and throw us back to the time of
Diocletian and the attempt to conduct modern
business on the policies of that age can have
only one result, the result which all schemes
and systems which flavor of paternalism have
experienced.
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Hides and Pelts Wanted
...1, Wv.r ivnnts voiir hides, pelts
and wool and will pay good prices for ,
ame. Call on or pnone mm v
Ileppner Milling Company s omce
any time.
1(R SALE (). I. C. boars. One
two-year old, weight 500 lbs., one hve
months old ana several umei hb-
Ml thoroughbred and registerea siotn.
Archie Cox and Frank Lieuallen,
Ileppner, uregou.
A few more of those 8 day Mara
thons at Haylor's.
morning s
The MAXWELL "25!
Lightweight Cheap to run-ask for Demonstration.
$750
f . o. b.
factory
LOST A brown mare, 6 years old
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and weighs about pounus. is
marked with a star on the fore-head
and with a brand on the left should
er C. It., with a Z directly below it.
It was last seen about two weeks ago
near Parker's Mill. O. E. bright, ot
Heppner, is the owner and will give
$10 reward for its return.
The Jack Rabbit Garage
Headquarters for OIL, GASOLINE, and all kinds of AUTO
mobile Accessories.
Expert Repair Work
THE BLESSING OF WORK.
A short time ago we heard a well known
local party make slighting remarks about a
prominent man of our community. The person
to whom he referred has made a business suc
cess and quite naturally figures his wealth in
several figures The one making the remarks
has never made a success of anything and has
reached the point in life where he is air-tight
to new suggestions and in thinking of him, a
Thirty-third Degree Hardshell unconsciously
comes to our minds. All men who have acheiv
ed any prominence or position have had to
work. There are some things which you have
to do for yourself. Lady Macbeth was troub
led with a sickness which no doctor could cure
and to the question, "Canst thou not adminis
ter to a mind diseased ; pluck from the memory
a rooted sorrow?" the honest doctor replied
"Therein the patient must minister to her
self."
In that great essay Self Reliance, Emerson
says over and over again, that the source of
all that we can receive or have is within our
selves. All healthy people are glad to hear
this and the wise who are sick accept the fact
and bestir themselves to action.
Heaven has been pictured as a place where
all labor is unknown. Heaven is a goal where
everything is provided and much of it. Eter
nal rest, ease, luxury, angels for servants and
nothing to do, are requisites for happiness and
immortality, according to many interpreters of
the Bible. A place where there is little work,
much to spend, ease and luxury, has seemed to
be the suburbs of Paradise. It has been this
octrine and the natural pull of inertia that
have led people and nations to death. The few
who have acquired the work habit, and the
very wise few who have foreseen and have un
derstood the sure penalty for inaction, have
escaped. Not to succeed, but to forever be in
the struggle, has saved and kept verile the
people who have preserved the race. When
Home lost her small farms her decline began,
because the people as a whole were not work
ing. "He brought many captives to Rome
whose ransom did the general coders till," was
said of C.esar. Slaves made from unransomed
captives did the work for the Romans, and be
came the active men of the country. Scented
baths, museums, banquets, public corncribs.
free soupkitchens, made ruin of the greatest
nation of its time. Nourishing food, good
clothing, beautiful, artistic and sanitary homes
are all wise to have. We should have them,
for we are the heirs of the w isdom of all ages.
In wisdom we should begin where our parents
left off. But we should not decrease our ac
tivity, nor lose our virility. We should be an
evolving race in strength.
We all take olT our hats to the man who
steps in and starts something where before
there was nothing doing." People who make
fortunes or any thing else have not waited for
things to turn up, but have gone out and turn
ed then tic themselves. And the elinviv of
the whole discussion comes in the statement of
h fond mother to a schoolteacher a few days
np "We send John to school so he won't have
to work when he gets out." Stand awnv from
:IS. Uiy.
NOTICE.
Fall and Winter hats will
be ready the first week in September.
Mrs. U. U. LleLaney, L,exingion, uit.
FOR SALE Ford car in run-
ning condition. 1913 model and
recently overhauled. Will take
a team of work horses as part
payment. Inquire at Herald
office. '
This is a Personal Invitation
To the People of Morrow County
When in Portland Stop at The Imperial With Phil
Metschan, Located on Washington Street at
Broadway, formerly 7th St. Right
in the Heart of the City.
The Imperial Hotel
Reasonable Rates
Let O. M. Yeager do your carpenter
work.
The People's Cash Market is making
special prices at the present time on
bacon and hams. If you need any of
these now it the time to take advant
age of the reduced prices. It is a
good habit to drop into their market
; occasionally, it will mean money in
your pocket.
SEE HARLAN
Before you place the order for that piece of
CLASSY JOB PRINTING
See O. M. Yeager for estimates on
Septic tanks, cement walks and base
ments. .
PROFESSIONAL COLUMN
F. DYE,
DENTIST
Pemanently located in Odd Fellows
building, Rooms 4 and 5.
Dr. II. T. ALLISON
PHYSICIAN & SURGEONS
Office Patterson Drug Store
Heppner, - - Oregon
Vic Groshen
Ice Cold Beer, Either Bottle or
Draught, To Quench The
Thirst These Hot
Summer
Days
Heppner, Oregon
Dr. A .P. CULBERTSON !
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office Second Door North Minor &
Co. Store.
Ileppner, - - Oregon.
Drs. W INNARD & McMUKDO
' Til YSICIANS & SURGEONS
Heppner, Oregon
Dr. F. N. CHRISTENSON
DENTIST
Heppner, Oregon
Officeg with
Drs. Winnard & McMurdo
HOUSES FOR SALE ON EASY
TERMS-Small Payment Down
Stop Paying Rent Money Into Sombody's Pocket. Own Your own
Home and be Independent. We invite your Inquiries.
BINNS' REAL ESTATE
If the EiKlit-Hour measure had been worded
to the effect that everyone would he compelled
to work vight hours, some of its promoter
would move to other parts.
The war is irettinjr closer. Representatives
of foreign countries have been in nearby coun
ties buying horses and mules.
Glass roofs nre xpular in Paris, in fact they
are almost necessities.
Be he ever so hourly, there's 110 liubaild HI
your ow n.
The real "World Series" is still going on.
C. E. WOODSON
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW
Office in I'alare Hotel. Heppner, Ore.
SAM E. VAN V ACTOR
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW
Heppner, Oregon
S. E. NOTSON
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW
Office in Court Hnue, Heppner, Ore.
ELKHORN RESTAURANT
Best Meals in the City and at
the most reasonable prices
Everything neat and clean
Short orders served in quick and satisfactory style
WELLS & NYS
ATTORNEY S-AT-LAW
Heppner, . Oregon
City Meat Market
FRANK HALL, Prop.
Retail Butcher
Fat Stock Always Wanted at Market Prices.
Phone 563
KNAPPENBERd & JOHNSON
ATTORNEYS
AND COINCELORS AT LAW
lone, .... Orrron
W. L. SMITH.
AUSTR.UTER I
Only complete nl of abstract book
In .Morrow County.
HKITNER. . OREGON
FOR H.NE IT-YO-DATE HOMES
Se
T. ('. DEN N ISLE,
ARCIimvr AND CONTRACTOR.
I.Ol'IS PEARSON
TAILOR
J. H. COX
CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
I'hrnsand Krtimalr Furnixhed for All Kinds of Buildings.
Firxt Chi Work Only.
I Make a SiHcinlty of and Have Complete
Kquipmrnt for
House Moving
Heppner Garage
Ma . -
All Kinds of Repair Work Done Quickly
Wc are agents for
Ford, Overland and Mitchell
Automobiles.
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dtppiur,
Oregon.