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THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
Tuesday, March 4, 1919
THE HEPPNER HERALD
1 t
S. A. PATTISON, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
An Independent Newspaper
Entered at the Heppner, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class Matter
TKKMS OF Sl'JiSCKIPTIOX
One Year -...$2.00 Six Months $1.00
Three Months .50
BRAIN LEAKS
IJy LYXN PUKbl.V
COMMEMORATING THE SOLDIER
TII1C soldiers arc coming home. You would like to see
a lasting memorial of their services to the nation and
of the grateful admiration in which you hold them. Many
communities will be moved by that worthy spirit. Many
ommunities were so moved after the Civil War. The
movement mostly resulted in a population of cast-iron effi
gies of the volunteer leaning on his musket apparently all
factory-made and sold at so much a pound. In Boston
Saint-Gaudens designed a soldiers' memorial that will be
cherished as long as the bronze lasts, because in it a great
artist fittingly embodied a great feeling, 'there are a few
others, but mostly the Civil War soldiers are commemora
te:! with the best of intentions in a cheap and tasteless
and uninspiring way. Looking over the national exhibit
a foreigner would conclude that we thought any sort of
.sculptural junk, just so it had a proper inscription, wa?
good enough for soldiers.
"Our soldiers ought to have the best especially when
good costs no more than bad. That means some care,
some organization, so'me expert guidance. The several
stales might as well take it up, appointing expert commis
sioners with which local communities could consult. A
fine road, a fine bridge, a fine public building suitably orna
mented and inscribed, would make a most fitting memor
ial for a village or a rural township as 'well as for a metro
polis. The movement, turned in that direction, should be
expertly guided by a capable state commission. Especial
ly in the very risky domain of sculpture is expert counsel
needed.
"It would be a great pity if the fine feeling that
prompts communities to com;memorate their soldiers
.should shoot itself off at random, with results anything
but fine artistically. We urge every community to take a
Jiltle lime, seek sound advice, make sure that it is going
lo gel a memorial as good as its intentions." Saturday
i , . .'.'mug Post .
Thieves recently broke Into an ice
plant at Koseburg. Robbing an ice
plant in the winter time Is what we
call the heighth of folly.
Senator Borah raises a great howl
over what he calls "sacrificing the
principles of Washington." We'll
tell him that those principles were
pretty badly shot to pieces the day
tUe Lu.sitania was sunk.
If ,-!eator Borah doesn't, watch his
stop the people of Idaho will soon be
accused of maintaining a nuisance.
Three newspapers on Coos Bay are
to be forced to return $9,000 alleged
to have been over-charged on county
printing. The question is: AVhere
will they get the nine thousand to
pay back.
General Villa is again getting
troublesome along the border. If he
doesn't watch out four or five vet
erans of the A. E. F. will drop ovei
the border some day and get him.
Say, Woodrow! Will our mem
bership in the League of Nations in
terfere with our final duty in Me2
ico?
Now that the ladies have taken
hold of the band we may as well get
ready for the first concert.
The visit of that engineer puts
Heppner's mountain water one step
nearer.
Mary had a little lamb
That romped round and round.
It followed her to town one day
And Mike Curran put It in the
pound.
That one doesn't go very well but
we simply had to put Mike's name
in this week or he'd think we had
forgotten him.
There was a young man from Park
ers Mill
Whose thoughts ran to a still.
With a big copper worm
He began to turn
Out booze with a kick that would
kill.
ALL TRUE
Nearly everyone harbors the sus
picion that he began wearing glasses
too early In life.
To a fat man there always seem
to be too many things on the floor
that have to be picked up.
Mutual poverty may not make two
men good company to each other, but
It breaks down artificial barriers.
In classical music one has often to
wait for considerable Intervals In each
selection for something that he likes.
To a woman the best part of the
afternoon reception Is when she Is
the center of conversation; to a man,
going out the front door.
At twenty a young m::n, after read
ing books like Samuel Smi!', thinks
he can he a superman ; at forty, he
knows "there ain't no such person."
When two men praise the conduct
of the public business the conversa
tion Is soon changed to another chan
nel, because there Isn't "pep" enough
In It.
CIVIC CIXB MEETS
IOXK EVENS S(X)HE WITH LOCAL
TEAM ,
! At the regular meeting of tiio
Ablg crowd of high school rooters Heppner Civic Club held at the coun
and their friends accompanied the cil chamber last Wednesday aftei
basketball team to lone last Satur- noor. a constitution and by-laws were
day evening when the second game adopted and considerable work for
in the series between the Heppner the future was outlined,
and lone teams was played. About ' Hereafter regular meetings of the
a dozen cars loaded with enthusias- clut will be 'held at 2:00 p. m., on
tic rooters went down expecting to the second and fourth Wednesday of
see the Heppner braves lift the scalp each month.
of the Ionians as easily as they ac- The library assocication will here
complished the feat a couple of alter be conducted as a department
weeks ago in Heppner. It was dif- of the club,
ferent this time however, and by
way of keeping up interest and mak- j. h. Wyland, of Hardman, was in
ing another game necessary the town yesterday making a socacil call
lone team buckled in and cleaned on the income tax man and figuric
the platter to the tune of 9 to 16. up how much he will have left &i
The Heppner boys explain their settling with his Uncle Samuel!
defeat in various ways. One fellow Wyland says it snowed every daT
laid it to the floor, another to the during February at Hardman and so
umpire and one rather uiiljaent far has made a good start at keep
youth claimed that the dazzling ing up the record in March. Sick
beauty of the lone girls so blinded folks at Hardman are reported re
Slim that he couldn't see to make a covering and the mild form of small
basket on a bet. pox which has been prevalent i3
Following the came a dance was gradually letting up.
given which was much enjoyed iry all ,
present, the excellent music being I
furnished by the lone orchestra.
Herald only $2.00 a year.
WANTED Will
clean cotton rags
office.
pay cash fo:
at the Herald
tf.
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
IK)Si' of us who believe in the principles of interna
tional peace and who earnestly desire the establish
ment of a League of Nations at the Paris conference re
ceive but little of either inspiration or encouragement from
iditonal expressions in the Oregonian or Telegram. It is
too much a matter of habit with those newspapers to be
"forninst" any cause a democratic president champions. It
is therefore somewhat refreshing to read the following ed
itorial expression Irom tnc Uevcland Plaindealer:
"Under the eyes of millions a great new miracle is be
ing wrought. A dream ol centuries is assuming reality.
( hit oi t..c jealousies and turmoils of a world ruined bv war
the League of Nations is taking form.
' Sensible Americans, like sensible Britons and sensi
iie I'leiiclunen, realize that behind the idea of the League
1 N-ili.-iis lie. a mighty truththe truth lhat the nation.
I colli, nig an.; Utile, can no longer ailord the useless lux
ury ol w:ir. li cosis too much. Civilization was pu.she;
i'o n.-.ir llie i i . i s :;: :!'.,. ioiu years lo have much pa
tience now with anvoiie who stands in the way of perfect
ing a gu.u .iiit.,.., in.ii a,j,i'ih lor tlie prevention of fu
in. i .;-!. c!. u w.n-. in Dunging the representatives ot the
n:;iH.i!., giiiui upon the mam leatures of the league
i icsi li iii Ai.so:; ha.-, performed a mighty work that wil
.".HVIll'.
I lie League ol Nations will stand as a monument to
ti.e pel ..iMciice, i outage and resourcefulness of the demo
i . ... .. i i : i , i . ....
1 s .linen to n iiMi icniiaiiism. It will he at
I'uee the jusMicatioii and the gloi iiicatioii of America am
lu-i p.t,tiui i r the n i ineiiilou .sacrifices endured for ic
i . .. , . , I I . !.. ...i.: .i
') -. .inn nil- i. I 1111 . lift H'.-l i-i'i.ri'v.'iii -i 1 1 ,.w
haw phw.l in bringing the conference to accept the plan
. . ilouu.U to ilu' republic's credit."
And this fu. ni the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph:
" Hi.' bed rock foundation ,,' tu- entire scheme i the
mutual good faith of the members. It i conceivable that
ultimately traitors will manage to slip in. They get into
the chinch, secret societies, the armv and navy, and every
human iiiMtution. They are dealt 'with appropriately b'v
lhe.se organizations and the League of Nations will' al.su
haw its stern duty to perform. The text of this coiistitu
lioii all. ads countless opportunities lor unfavorable criti
cism. Necessarily it embodies compromises that amount
to inconsistencies if not contradictions. lUit the net result
ol the lommiitee'.s labors must be regarded as distinctly
encouraging, p, mcipally because the committee was guid
ed by the evident determination to present Munething that
.should at least haw the makings of a practical plan. The
problem at Pans was to construct a scheme that looked as
il it imght woik. It may be said that they have made an
excellent beginning."
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:ed here and there
A polite man never meets a stranger.
Is nine points
Ri'lfpowssion
the lawyer.
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with
Kven good
for u quitter.
luck can't do nnythlng
A uinn never poses as a hyprocrlte
when he Is 11 lone.
A preferred creditor Is one who
never links for his money.
One week In
mnlie one strung
tlit country
in the c!ty.
should
Spi-nklng of votes. It Isn't qiintity,
but quantity that counts.
S'.' -cry loves enmpnny and Bhe
u .111 ; ty tins u houseful of It.
A l hasn't much use for a ninn
wl:n 1 too cowurdly to promise.
Time ami tide wait fur no inim
and a woman Is always l.ehlml time.
Mind your own business unless you
are paid for minding oilier people's.
Mure men would have Indigestion If
compelled t eat their own winds.
Every time 11 girl (.( 11 snmll d nt
In Iter h.-iirt she li.nuliirs It Is broken.
Wbi'ii 11 limn Is looking for illll'n-iil-tie
he villi Hud two where bo expect
one.
At muni' period In his career every
limn ciirrlin unmet hi ng In bin pocket
fur lin k.
tMn't climb mi high that the world
will not you wbi'ii It wniiU to rt
tin.v the bidder.
An rtiihiiHlHstlc meeting Is that of
two girl oliuins who haven't awn rich
other fur an hour.
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