Lines That Lead
Superior Grain Drills
Canton and McCormick Disc Harrows
Success Fan Mills
Moline and Vulcan Gang Plows
Universal and Perninsular Ranges
FOR SALE BY
Peoples Hdw. Co.
FEED PRISONERS;
CETIHF0RMATI011
Kindness Toward Austrian
Proves Worth While.
WERE LITERALLY STARVING
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Home Products for Home People!
WE MANUFACTURE
White Star Flour, Whole Wheat,
Graham, Cream Middlings,
Roll Barley and all Mill Feeds
GENERAL STORAGE AND FORWARDING
HEPPNER FARMERS ELEVATOR CO.
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Why Compare Beef and
Coal Profits? .
Swift & Company has frequently stated
that its profit on beef averages only one
fourth of a cent a pound, and hence has
practically no effect on the price.
Comparison has been made by the Federal
Trade Cotnmiaston of this profit with the
profit on coal, and it has pointed out that
anthracite col operators are content with
a profit of 25 cents a ton, whereas the beef
profit of one-fourth of a cent a pound means
a profit of $SjOO a ton.
The comparison does not point out that
anthracite coed at the seaboard is worth at
wholesale about $7.00 a ton, whereas a ton
of beef of fair quality is worth about
$400.00 wholesale.
To carry the comparison further, the 25
cent profit on coal is per cent of the
$7.00 value.
The $5.00 profit on beef is only 14 per
cent of the $400.00 value.
Th profit hai little effect on price in either case,
but hat lest effect on the price of beef than on the
price of coaL
Coal may be atored in the open air indefinitely;
beef mutt be kept in expensive coolers because it U
highly perishable and must be refrigerated.
Coal is handled by the carload or ton; beef Is deliv
ered to retailers by the pound or hundred weight.
Methods of handling are vastly different. Coal is
handled In open cars; beef matt be shipped in
refrigerator cars at an even temperature.
Fairness to the public, fairness to Swift &
Company, fairness to the packing industry, demands
that these Indisputable (acts be considered. It is
lropossiWe to disprove Swift ft Company's stste
Dent, thst its profits on beef are so small as to have
practically no effect on prices.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
Real Food and Cigarettes Put Cap
tives In Such Gratified Frame of
Mind That They Open Their Hearts
to Y. M. C. A. Worker and Make
8tartllng Revelations Regarding Con
ditions In Austrian Army.
IONE ITEMS
By E. A. BATCH EtOR.
Thst "the shortest way to a man's
heart is through his stomach" has been
proved In Italy. The American Y. M.
C. A., by a few acts of kindness toward
Austrian prisoners captured when
the Italians made their Piave drive,
were able to secure Information of to
mense value to the Italian army.
These prisoners were In bad shape,
particularly In regard to food. In fact
they were literally starving. They
said that they had been living chiefly
on black bread and gave the Red Trl-
angle workers samples of this food to
prove how lnadeqnnte It Is for the
sole ration of fighting men. The bread
was hard, heavy and thoroughly unap
petizing.
Some real food and cigarettes put
the captives In such a grateful frame
of mind that they opened their hearts
to the T. M. O. A. workers and, with
perfect candor, made startling revels
tlons regarding conditions In the Aus
trian army.
With one accord they said that they
are heartily sick of the war and tired
of being starved. Mutinies of serious
proportions are prevented only by the
fact that many German officers have
been placed with Austrian regiments.
These men, schooled In Prussian dis
cipline, do not hesitate to shoot any
man that Is slow about obeying the
order to advance, so the soldiers face
the alternative of fighting the Italians
or being murdered by their com
manders. Opens Prisoners' Eyes.
It was a revelation to those prison
ers to see American soldiers and Y. M.
O. A. workers. They had been told
U-boats would prevent the United
States getting any considerable num
ber of men overseas. The fact that al
ready hundreds of thousands of Yan
kees are fighting In Europe opened
their eyes.
The prisoners are desperately anx
ious for peace and rapidly getting
to think that even a defeat would be
preferable to existing conditions.
Apparently the hatred of Germany Is
growing more Intense every day and
It Is only a question of time before
Austria will seize an opportunity to
desert her ally.
The treatment accorded prisoners by
the "Y" was an eye-opener to the Aus
trlnns. They have been told tho Yan
kees either killed their prisoners or
abused them so death would he pre
ferred. They hiinlly could believe
; man in nn American uniform would
I hand out food and tobacco.
Work among tho Austrlnn prisoners
Is Just one small pnrt of the American
I i. m. u. A. activities in itniy. splen
did results have been obtained among
the Italian soldiers, whose physical
welfare and comfort are being en
hanced constantly. Not long ago re
freshments were served to ,(X)0 troops
In seven hours at one of the kitchens.
The men arrived tired and dusty with
their heads down and left for the front
singing and laughing.
' In Germ, Florence, Rome and Ven
ice the Red Trlanglo has been dis
played and fine work Is being done for
men on leave and among tho wonnded.
I At Genoa the association comes Into
! Intimate contact with American will
i ors forming the gun crews of merchant
ships. These mllors find the home at
j Biosphere of the but very pleasant aft
j er their long and monotonous voyages
and are ss happy as schoolboys when
I they see tho well-known sign.
Army Appreciative.
Tho Italian army Is so appreciative
of the work of tho association that It
has given It carte blanche snd Is ac
cording every facility for carrying out
the program. Labor and material are
furnished whenever possible, and
travel on all the railroads Is to be bud
without much of the red tape that us
ually surrounds journeys In wartime,
The physical feature of the work Is
making a particular bit among the sol
dlers. They take to American sports
In great style and are deriving benefit
from the mass games that have been
ao successfully used among sll the al
lied fighters.
Wounded men find that properly di
rected sports help them greatly In tbelr
progress Inward health and strength,
sod this work tin been Introduced In
several of the convalescent hospitals.
Mrs. A. E. Rivers came up from
Portland Wednesday.
W. T. McNabb was a Portland
bound passenger Friday.
Mrs. J. B. Sparks was a passenger
for Condon Saturday morning.
Ed Melton was an lone visitor
from Cecil Friday evening.
Mrs. W. Ray Blake returned to
her home in Grass Valley last Sat
urday.
Mrs. Carrie Hulburt was a pas
senger for Heppner on Saturday's
train.
B. F. Warren was a Portland
bound passenger Sunday, after a few
days' visit in lone.
Miss Lovely W'arfleld left for
Monmouth Friday, where she will
attend the Oregon Normal School.
Mrs. M. B. Haines and Miss Elsie
Brown returned the latter part of
the week from a short viBlt to valley
points.
W. F. Honey, of Gresham', who
has been in lone for the past week
on business, left for his home Sat
urday morning.
Mr. J. E. Cronan came up from
Portland Thursday to take charge
of the bank while Mr. Cummings is
on the "flu" list.
Louis Padberg and family and
Miss Pearl Padberg returned to
Portland Sunday to be there for the
opening of the schools.
C. E. Hensley, formerly employed
by Rivers Auto Co., was in lone
during the past week representing
the Singer Sewing Machine Co.
J. H. Bryson, who formerly owned
the lone Garage, came up from Port
land Thursday for a few days' stay,
He returned to the city Sunday.
Miss Josephine Woolery, who has
been visiting at the A. E. Johnson
home the past week, left Saturday
for Portland, where she will enter
school.
WHEN YOU THINK Of
GOOD eat:
THINK OF THE
Thos. Hinton arrived in lone Sat-
rday evening. Mr. Hinton is a
rother of Mrs. J. C. Devln. Mrs.
Devln's mother, Mrs. H. E. Hinton,
is also here on a visit.
Miss Beatrice Sperry, who has
been visiting with her parents while
Portland schools were closed, return
ed to that city Sunday to resume her
studies at Benchke-Walker.
Word was received the latter part
of the week telling of the death of
Frank Calkins at his home in Port
land. Mr. Calkins used to live on
the Ambler place, just below lone,
Misses Clara and Nina Anderson
left for Portland Thursday morning.
Mrs. J. W. Long was In lone the
latter part of the weeTl on business.
She returned to Portland Sunday
morning. .
The local school which has been
closed for the past five weeks, will
probably open next Monday as the
flu seems to be on the wane, no new
cases having developed during tho
past few days.
Earl Puyear left Thursday for
Charlotte, N. C, where he Is in the
aviation service. Mr. Puyear was
Phelps Grocery Co.
here on a fifteen day furlough.which
Is the first time he has been ablo to
visit homo folks since entering tho
service a year ago.
Mrs. L. C. Skeen, who has been
here taking care of her mother, Mrs.
aLnd.who la In poor health.was sum
moned to Mldvale, Idaho, Wednesday
by tho news that mombers of her
family were very 111 with the "flu."
Word has been received horo since
her departure that her son had died
and was buried before Mrs. Skoen
reached bis bedside.
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NEED LABOR IN SOUTH
Shorts as In Cotton Belt Is Bsrlous
' Preposition.
j Th question of securing cotton pick
er Is proving s great annoyance to
I Southern cotton planter. Hearts
from sll parts of Alabama show that
ponon pusem are snon everywhere.
Plantation owners have put la a larie
acreage of rottoo this year snd the
boll are already opening so fast the
farmers cannot get the crop picked.
Ki-ir li iprBed that a large amount
of cotton will be lost IX bore pickers
How About that Contemplated
BUILDING?
The Government has reduced
the ban on building. Or rath
er raised the price. Instead
of a $1,000 limit on new
buildings, you can go ahead
now if it don't cost in excess
of $10,000.
Turn-A-Lum Lumber
Company
LEXINGTON and IONE
are but secured, ,.
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