HEPPNER HERALD
S. A. PATTISON. Publisher
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; European computation. For the
past two months our bread has
I been 100 per cent higher than it
! would have been if the trades
I were under reasonable control,
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I eliminating speculation anu ine u
unnoiv raKe-on oi miuuiemen.
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Terms o)
One Yeur
Six Month
Three Month
Silb::i'ilAloil,
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FRIDAY. AUGUST It). 1017.
FOOD A DM I MS Til A TOR
NEEDED
From an article in the current
number of Collier's by Harris
Dixon, on the need of a federal
food administrator of the caliber
of Herbert C. Hoover, we make
the following extract:
"Pickpocket prices and ter
rifiic overcharges for bread will
engage Mr. Hoover's earnest and
impolite attention. At first he
may try moral suasion may at
tempt to argue with schemers
who never owned an actual food
commodity in their lives, yet are
now holding ten thousand cases
of peas, ten thousand tons of
rice, squeezing their profits from
the helplessness of hunger.
Where Mr. Hoover fails to con
vince one of these patriots he
means to cut him out, eliminate
him, soak him good, lock him up.
Consider the price of bread:
Last year the farmer sold his
wheat at an average of $1.50 a
bushel. Wheat bread in the
national capital to-day sells for
between 10 and 11 cents a pound
which is at the rate of $20 a
barrel for flour.
The European formula for the
ratio of bread to flour is that the
price of bread should be the same
as the price of flour. The baker
gets a o0 per cent swell in the
water, yeast, etc, out of which
30 per cent he is supposed to pay
his expenses and make a profit.
Bread at 10 cents should repre
sent flour at $20 a barrel, and
twenty-dollar flour means nearly
$4.25 a bushel for wheat. Hut
the farmer got only $1.50. lio
tween the wheat maker and the
bread eater there yawns a mys
terious margin of $2.75 - excess
baggage of nearly double the
original price of wheat. Where
did that go? Who was it that
got nearly twice as much for
doing nothing as the farmer got
for raising the wheat? 1 don't
know his name, and I'm afraid
the gentlemen will never speak
up. The truly modest always
shun publicity.
Allowing for legitimate trade
profits, wheat at $1.5o should
have meant bread at less than 5
cents a pound. 1'nder (he Euro
pean formula it would have
meant I cent bread. Costs are
somewhat higher in this country,
and we cannot strictly apply the
Practically the entire wheat
supply of Belgium is imported
from the United States. Yet, in1
pte ol the extraordinary cost
anu nsK oi transportation, trie
price of bread in Belgium is 60
per cent of the price in New York
City. A large proportion of the
wheat in France comes from this
country, yet the price of bread
in France is 40 per cent below
ours. Bread is now selling in
England for 28 cents for four
pounds, the highest price since
the Crimean War 30 per cent
below our prices. In Canada we
see a lower range of prices to
the consumer than in our coun
try, although the producer real
izes the same price.
Again, for I want you to get
this: Assuming that trie farmer
last year received the highest
average, $1.00, for his wheat.
Then, with all normal costs and
profits added, the wholesale price
of flour should not have exceeded
$0 a barrel.1 Yet during the past
few weeks, at many centers, it
has soared as high as $15. A
probable average throughout the
country is $14. Some one is tak
ing $5 a barrel on 10,000,000
barrels a month-?50,000,000 a
month absolutely picked from
the American pocket. Since this
rise in price above $9 was before
the new crop, we may assume
that over $250,000,000 has been
snatched from the mouth of
hunger in excess of normal
profits of trade and distribution.
This in part accounts for a state
ment recently made to me that
we nave now in this country
thirty thousand more millionaires
than we had before the war
commenced."
Farmers & Stockgrowers
National Bank
of Heppner
Do a general banking business
Foreign Exchange bought and sold
SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES TO RENT
Letters of credit and Traveler checks issued
Four per cent paid on savings and time deposits
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The Oregon
Agricultural College
Wli.'t traim-d ipt'cilnti with mndera Ub
oratorioi and adt'tjuatf equipment gire In
tlrucliun lemlinjf to cullrjiaU drgreei in th
foHciwmtf nolmuls :
AU1UCULTUBE, with 15 department!;
COMMERCE, with 4 department!;
ENGINEERING, with 6 drpartmrnti, in
hi dm ft Civil, Klt-cthosl, Highway. Tnduttrial
Art. Irrigation, and Mechanical fcnf inthnf ;
FORESTRY, including Logging Kugtnear-
in ft ,
HOME ECONOMICS. with major depart
unit a, iiiiludiuf tt aiuintf in tha Tractict
Htlr;
MININO, with thna dfpartmDta, Ucltld
liiK riicmical Ktiginerrvng ,
I'll ARMACY.
THE SCHOOL Or MUSIC. oftrt Inifrat
linn in th principal diyartintnU of focal
ami ntttrumftital mime,
THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT, nroll.d
!(' oaiMa m 1916 17. and won racommtn-dnti.-n
fi r O ('. from tht Witrn Ipart
mil. i tf I'll 1' S War Inartmtnt oo of
lh" Mlrn ' dmiinttulnhrd institution!" at
hti;n Iratnin. All radrta will tt furnnhfd
fti'ipi. ir tuufnimi by th t. S (loTirnmtm
and Junior and armor radftt, nrollrd in
' I' t .. b a-iten rummutation f.-r
: )! nr. aa !! aa all transportation and
; autf tNtwicu at th an w-ka' Summer camp.
REGISTRATION BEGINS OCTOBER S,
ll'7 Information on itqutat. Addreas,
Rci.stiar, Oregon Agricultui! Cullagt,
CoiT.Kii. Oregon.
KEEP COOL
IN OUR
SUMMER UNDERWEAR, SPORT SHIRTS, BATHING
SUITS, KHAKI CLOTHES, TENNIS SHOES
COOL HATS AND CAPS
Sam Hughes Co.
Heat extremes have no injurious eflect on vulcaniz
ing work that is done in this shop. The repaired sections
are really stronger than the original tire. We use only
the best grades of new rubber repair stock, especially
compounded for this purpose. You'll know the utmost
freedom from tire trouble if we do your work. Let us
prove it.
REPAIRS, SUPPLIES AND VULCANIZING
HARDMAN GARAGE
HARDMAN, OREGON
THE BRICK
McATEE & AIKEN, Props.
ICE CREAM and CARD
PARLORS.
-and lave money. By our method
you can build at big or ai little a
house ai you want and get the max'
imum of beauty and practicability.
All yon need If Common Sentt
and a Hammer.
We tend you ill the material, ready-cut,
bundled and numbered.
Write today lor oar Plan Book. It'a free.
RF.ADY BUILT HOUSE CO. M
305 8W Street Portland. Oregon W
Address all inquiries to C. F. SCHOONMAKER,
Morrow County Agent, Heppner, Ore.
People's Cash Market
HENRY SCHWARZ, Prop.
All Kinds of Fresh and Salt Meats
Poultry and Lard Phone Main 73
Miss Blanch Minor drove a
party of friend up to the sum
mer playground last Sunday
afternoon and all report imviriR
lull a splendid trip. Those in
tin) party were: Misses Norma
Fredericks, Neva Ilayeu, Nora
Hughes, Cybil Cason, Gladys
Lane and lllancli Minor.
Red Cross Sewing
All ladies who desire to do
sewing for the Red Cross during
the Summer months are request
ed to call at Mrs. L. G. Herren's
store for the same.
Mrs. I'hill Cohn, Chairman.
Here is a new shoe that you
will like. It is made in pop
ular English cut in Black or
Tan, White rubber heel and
Neolin sole.
We have a full line of wom
en's Walking Shoes in Tan
Black and White.
E. N. Gonty Shoe Store
THE HORN PASTIME
SOFT DRINKS, CANDIES,
FRUITS, NUTS,
TOBACCOS AND CIGARS.
A Quiet Resort where men may meet their friends and
discuss the News of the day.
VICTOR GROSHENS, Proprietor.
HEPPNER : : : OREGON.
Quality, Service
& Sanitation
Our Fresh Meats are the best in the City. Our
Extension Cooling Plant assures Fresh Sweet
Meat at all times.
If you are eating our Hams and Bacon you
know how good they are. If you are not we are
both losing. Phone us your orders, we guarantee
entire satisfaction.
tilt Meat k Colt Storage Co
Johnson Bros., Props.
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Will be held at Heppner, Oregon, September 13-14-15, 1917
As this is the One Big Gala Event for Morrow County the Board intends to make this Fair the best ever held.
The Secretary is busy now shaping up good attractions and promises that they will be something entirely new this year.
All attractions given the people by the Fair Board will, while new and novel, be of a patriotic character. Big Auto
Parade Thursday, September 13, at 10 a. m. Every owner of a car in Morrow County is urged to have their car in this
parade, and help make it the biggest event of the kind ever pulled off in the county.
SI 500 in premiums. Make your plans to take home some of this money.
Wakh thi ipacr for ht of attractions which will be published AuguM