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HEPPN'ER HERALD, HKPPN'KR, OREGON.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER fi, 1014
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E. G. HARLAN
EDITOR
EDITORIAL SECTION
L. K. HARLAN
MANACER
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS
HEPPNER HERALD
SUBSCRIPTIONS $1.50 PER YEAR
OUTSIDE COUNTY $1.50
THE PAY OF
ENTERTAINERS
STRUCTORS
AND IN-
THE EFFICACY OF THOSE PRAYERS
One irreverent m;tn writes that since the
American people- had their day of prayer the
fighting in Europe has become fiercer, including
the fierce bombardment of Antwerp and the
dropping of more bombs on other cities. lie
wants to know whether God has turned down all
the petitions of the 4th of October.
But this critic may be mistaken, most pray
er has an effect on the individual who does the
praying, more than it has on those for whom
prayers are offered. This is especially true in
time of war. No one who prayed on October
4th, expected a divine intervention to stop the
cruel war and it was not in that faith that men
and women prayed. But they did expect that
we ourselves would be placed in a better mental
attitude and even physical position to promote
peace in Europe. No one who prayed pretend
ed to know the mind of God in such matters, nor
was any one so presumptious as to believe that
he could influence the mind of God. To men it is
sufficient if they influence their own minds and
get them in the right attitude toward the in
finite, which no man understands and which
no man can comprehend.
The potency of prayer has confounded men
of no faith through all the agis, from a time
long before the Christian era was proclaimed,
but the world still persists in the habit of
praying and we find this habit manifested
among all races upon the earth, even the most
savage. That it should have its highest ex
emplification among the Christian peoples is
natural enough, for Chrisianity, whatever alse
may be said for it, is the flower of all religious
systems that have been known among men.
Our own opinion is that we know so little about
prayer or about God's way among men that we
can hardly set ourselves up as critics and it is
always safe not to pass judgment on the reli
gious convictions of others, whatever those
convictions may be for their faith may give
them insights and visions that the rest know
not of. There are more things than are dream
ed of in our philosophies. We have not yet
touched the mysteries of the infinite universe
in which wc live. We cannot by any possibil
ity reduce it to a mere physical basis, for phy-
sieui inmgs win noi account lor all mat we
know already, and there is so much more that
we do not yet know.
When a man is very young in doubt, or very
old in sin, he is apt to think that he has dis
posed of all the manifestations of faith as "chil
dish notions" and "superstitions of the masses,'
as one writer accuses President Wilson for set
ting apart a day for prayer for peace, but as
men grow older ami think more and wonder
more they become less certain that they know
that all such things are wrong although they
may not know what is right.
W llichever way Hie election went Morrow
County was sure to have a good sound set of
officials.
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SOME LOSSES IN ANCIENT WARS
We may be npi allol by the death lists of the
present war, but the losses are as nothing com
pared with earlier and longer Uars. In the
thirty years' war in Germany, that country is
recorded as having WA lO.iMio.lMHt of its popu
lation, for the war was a desolation. During
the eighty years that Holland fought the Span
ish power, un.li r William the Silent and his
successnis, fully one-I'mirth of the imputation
were killed or starved, and history rvcords that
111 one year in Holland the Spaniards (piartered
or burned f.u.ooo m. 11, women ami children in
tluir ell'oits to intimidate those who had the
audacity to n su t Spanish dictation and when
tin PuUh were urged to surrender a town and
were taunted with the tab meat that soon they
would be starving, tin- replied that before thev
would sum mli r the nu 11 would cut off their left
arms and eat tin m, that they might have
strength in their right arms with which to tight
the Spanish imuisiloi s.
That is the way wars were fouclit in the
oldi 11 turn s and eoin an d w 1 1 It w hat tin n suffer
ed then the present stiil't rings are still merely
summer picnic parties. lut men have im
posed on theins, lv es through wars, through
effort to destroy eai h other and to rule each
other, passes all understanding - and we are
Mill tr.ving to learn that we should love each
other and hold good will toward all men. Are
wi going to l.ai 11 it now, finally and forever?
We doubt it. Put I et us not live as those who
are without hope.
() A loenl ntii-aerviimii 1. 1 .. .,
t ... ... n .,. .... .,., .tin cupping now.
. ...mo,, n,. iniown out i.y me ers. grown in the open air. from llppner in
judge of , te, t ion m Morrow County. WohavCjlargo quantities the past few days Onlv
-a mort- int.lhgeiit , las of people than some short time ago a rancher sent 'tis notne rin.!
some enemies l t. Australian Pallet system 'strawberries. A Heooner ,, ,... .
mnl.l ,:.!.. ,w I ...I U :...... . " l-ViOgan.
nnrsF A XI) LOT FOR SALE
1 x-atcH in Smith Henoner and in
order to dispose of same in the next
two weeks 1 am onenng same ai a
romnrkahlv low nnCe. HoUSe HaS SIX
rooms with bath, sleeping porch, sur
rounded by Iruit trees ana ovrry
bushes. Fenced in chicken yard. In
nnire of the owner. C. T. Humphries,
or Herald office.
We are told that Mr. Evers, the ball player,
cleared up more money this year than all the
ministers of the gospel in Morrow and several
other Oregon Counties put together were paid
in salaries. And yet the men who pay their
money to see the ball player may complain
about the expensiveness of building and running
churches, we are so inconsistent in this world.
The father of several boys stated the other day
that it was somewhat hard to help his boys de
cide upon careers for themselves. What to do
is a great problem for those about to start out.
This father thought that if one of his boys
could learn a new trick, if nothing more than
standing on his head in some different way he
would be able to make more money than any one
of the intellectual professions or skilled trades.
The world is paying more for those who can
amuse it than it is paying for anything else. A
man who wants to make money can do it by in
venting some way of making others laugh. It
does not matter how the laugh is made, just so
it is made.
But we are probably not much changed after
all. It has been more or less that way in all
ages. At the present time we are simply doing
more exploiting of such men, just as we exploit
everything else. And as far as preaching is
concerned, muy Sunday can still compare
with the best baseball player of the age, or base
ball magnate even. Sunday can match piles
with any of them at the end of any year. Turn
ing the trick, after all, consists largely in being
able to do something better than any one else
can do it, that is what men pay for.
As a certain gentleman remarked after
election, no matter whether Oregon is "wet" or
"dry" from a beverage standpoint, as long as
the "wet" and "dry" seasons relating to mois
ture are favorable than the people of this state
are insured of prosperity. With wheat selling
for over one dollar a bushel end with the
vicious eight-hour law defeated, Morrow Coun
ty ranchers and citizens can look forward to
possibly even better times in the next few years
than they have enjoyed in the past few years.
Then, too, those warring soldiers of Europe
must be clothed as well as fed and Morrow
County woolgrowers need have! no fear of a
drop in prices. Indeed, it is an ill wind that
blows nobody some good.
One man writes us that he had a grandmoth
er who was Holland-Dutch, a grantfather who
was English Puritan, on his father's side, his
grandmother came from Alsace, mixed French
and German and his grandfather from Switzer
land, pure German. Now he wants us to tell
him what he is in America an-1 what side he
ought to be on in Europe. We would call him
a 'pure and "typical" Americnn, with all the
very best elements of European blood in his own
veins. As to his European sympathies, we
would advise him to choose his Holland-Dutch
grandmother, for she was, undoubtedly one of
the best women in the world and remain neutral
as the Dutch now are in Holland.
FOR RENT
Nice place at Olex, Gilliam County.
668 acres bottom land, nice orchard.
80 acres hill and bench land has been
farmed, about 200 acres in all. Will
rent or sell cheap on time payments.
L. O. RALSTON, Owner,
608 Market St, Portland.
! TLts
: good coffee
SEAL
In 1, 2 and 3 pound cans
" Never in bulk
5RAND
Cround, Unjnuund or
Pulverized
Cfiase & Sanborn
The Importers
RESTAURANT FOR SALE.
In the city of Heppner, Oregon.
There is a good restaurant in Hepp
ner for sale. Located on Main Street
and doing a first class business. It
is well equipped with everything
necessary to do the business.. .Clean
and neat in everv particular.. .There
are some household effects which will
go in the sale, all new and useable
articles.. .The right man can take this
place and make money, as it is a
money maker now and you know what
I it is to buy a business paying well,
Just drop a line to the owner or bet
ter yet, stop in and talk it over with
him... He is desirous of making a
change.
Yours for business,
GONG LANE
Sold only by
Phelps Grocery Co.
The Irish in America are generally plain in
their statements that they are glad the United
States is keeping out of the war. Not so with
the Irish in the old country. The last enlist
ment included some 2",000 Irish with 8,000 of
them from Dublin and its districts. Redmond,
the Irish leader, has made some of the hotest
speeches of the war.
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The wars involve exactly 847.000.000 of two.
pie, which is some more than half of the people?
now living on the earth. Out of 817 millions.
11 is uelieved a million will not be seriouslv u.
sed in the world as a whole, but it is different
m the family circles there even one son will
oc missed.
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Till A mrii'n n ........... I . . t
" n.-'i'viiiii.'ius wno are in:
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w i.o.u.v me an v.orman in sentiments and
1 nose wtio are 111 t ranee are quite as French a
l lie l- rem h themselves. Environment seems t.
aiieci t-ven moral judgments.
berries growing today in his yard.
PROFESSIONAL COLUMN
J. H. COX
CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
Plans and Estimates Furnished for All Kinds of Buildings.
First Class Work Only.
I Make a Specialty of and Have Complete
Equipme7it for
House Moving
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
Dr. A .P. CULBERTSON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office Second Door North Minor &
Co. Store.
Heppner,
Oregon,
Drs. WINNARD & McMURDO j
PH YSICIANS & SURGKONS j
Heppner, - . Oregon
Dr. F. N. CIIRISTENSON
DENTIST
Heppner, Oregon
Offices with
Drs. Winnard & McMurdo
C. E. WOODSON
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office in Palace Hotel. Heppner, Ore.
SAM E. VAN VACTOR
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Heppner, Oregon
S. E. NOTSON
j ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office in Court House, Heppner, Ore.
WELLS & NYS
ATTORN EYS-ATLAW
Heppner, . . Oregon
KNAITENBERU & JOHNSON
ATTORNEYS
AND COINCELORS AT LAW
lone, .... Oregon
W. I SMITH.
AHSTUACTER
Only complete K of bjtract book
in Morrow County.
HEWN Kit.
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' T. C. DENNIS EE.
ARCHITECT ANT) CONTRACTOR.
LOUIS PEARSON
TAILOR
.Irppmr. . , Oregon.
UK. PUAZEALE. I). V. M.
PKITTV STOCK INSPECTOR
l:h". Orrjon.
Heppner Garage
All Kinds of Repair Work Done Quickly
We are agents for
Ford, Overland and Mitchell
Automobiles.
vtelP-
fiaoo fill!
STOVES
mm 1 e
offer you stoves of
H every description
THE GREAT MAJESTIC
MALLEABLE RANGE
(Which has no equal)
down to a $9.00 Cook Stove
Heaters from $2.00 to $40
Note the parts of the New Mission
Heater for wood and coal, has duplex
grates the same as a Steel Range.
If you want something to make a fire in
Come In And See Us
We will be glad to show you what we
have
Gilliam & Bisbee
The First National Bank
OF HEPPNER
Oldest Bank in Morrow County
Capital, Surplus and Profits
$140,000.00
Your Banking Business Will be Appreciated
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