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THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
Tuesday. March 18, tqio.
THE HEPPNER HERALD
S. A. PATTISON, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
An Independent Newspaper
Entered at the Heppner, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class Matter
TKRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
One Year ....$2.00 Six Months $1.00
Three Months $ .50
BONDED INDEBTEDNESS
THEIR GROUNDLESS FEARS
Vf ANY people are opposed to a public bonded indebted
ness because of the yearly burden of paying interest on
the bonds and the argument is often heard that it is better
. 1o wait till the cash is available to build good roads or make
other necessary public improvements than to sell bonds
on which interest charges must be paid for a term of years.
J he fallacy ot such argument can best be illustrated
by comparing county or other public indebtedness, con
traded for the purpose of making some necessary public
improvement, with a private debt contraced by an individ
ual for the purpose of meeting some necessary demand for
his health, comfort or success in business.
Suppose a man with a reaosonable income and with
good credit in his community, but with no cash on hand
should lose his home by fire and have no insurance. Would
it be considered good business or even good sense for thai
man to make up his mind that he would not go in debt to'
build a home, but that lie would allow his family to camp in
some hollow tree or live in a cave for five or ten or twent
years until he could earn and save enough money to build
a good home?
Suppose some Morrow county farmer had 1000 acres
of tp-bushcl wheat standing in the field but had no mach
inery to harvest it with and could hire no one to cut it iV
him. Would it be good business or good common sense
for him to stubborn"!)' decidethat he would not go in deb..
loi naivcsi macninery because he would have to pay inter
est on the money t
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i ml- .IMMVI.-I may iK- mane uiai goou roaus are not as
essential to the welfare of a community as is the question
ol a home or the saving ol a wheat crop to the individual
that we already have roads that have answered the purpose
in the past and triat are good enough tor the present anc
future. .
The writer lias been told that a family of pioneer sett
lers in what is now Morrow county spent their first white:
here in a cave on upper W illow creek and he is well ac
quaint c-d with a prosperous citizen of C.illiam county who
lells of harvesting his first crop of wheat hay grown in that
county by pulling it up by the roots because lie had no
mowing machine, scythe or sickle. People do not live nor
harvest their crops in any such a way now, however, neith
er are they satisfied to continue in the old way of wearing
out mule teams, wheat wagons and auto tires traveling our
old fashioned, mud-cursed, dust-dammed roads.
Morrow county expended, in round numbers, about
Sfao.ooo last year repairing and trying to keep in a passable
condition our county roads, not including the money spent
in permanent road improvements under the direction ot the
State Highway engineers. If we coninue under the old
system we may expect to expend that much or more each
succeeding year and at the end of that time we would have
no really good roads.
The interest on a bond issue of Sjcjo.ooo at 5 per cent
would amount to $14,500 annually, less than one-half the
present annual iiiaintaiiience cost of the present old dirt.
.1 iiads. Adding to the $'()o,(KM) an equal amount we would
deceive from the state would give the county iSo.ooo for
work wit n whatever portion of that amount which might
Jc expended inl'orcst and post roads again doubled by the
Jcdcral government giving the county an aggregate of
not far from $i,o:)o,oix) which would be' available within
llir next few years for building permanent roads.
Kvery mile of scientifically constructed, well drained,
permanent road built in the county will reduce the annual
t u.st of maiiitaiiinrce of the old dirt roads, so it may readily
Je seen that as the work of making permanent roads prog
1 esses a corresponding decrease 111 maintenance will be
.accomplished and an increasing proportion of the So.iXX)
now spent in graveling mud holes and raking rocks off the
grades will lie availanle tor paving interest on the bonds
.ind creating a sinking lund lor 1 heir ultimate redemption.
ANNUAL CLEANUP DAY
MART critics of the League of Nations have been say
ing that should the LT. S. join the League and be
subject to a border attack by Mexico we could not retali
ate but would have to lay the case before he leagifet Pres
ident Taft answered the critics on that point a week ago i 1
New York. He points out that when a nation fails to sub
mit a case to the league and makes an attack instead the
other nation is relieved instanter from any obligation t"
submit its side of the case. Consequently those who shout
about Mexican border raids have no grounds for their as
sertions. They are equally wrong in their fears about the
Monroe doctrine and about immigration, as most people
will realize who have been following the discussions. East
Oregonian
IT ISXT YOUR TOWN IT'S YOU
If you want to lire in the kind of a
town.
Like the kind of a town you like.
You needn't slip your clothes in a
grip
And start on a long, long hike.
You'll only find what you left behind
HAS MANY RELATIVES IN
ARMY IN FRANCE
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Duncan re
turned a few . days ago from New
port, Va., where they went some two
months ago in response to advices
from Mr. Duncan's old home announ-
For there's nothing that's really '; cinS he serious illne88 of his father
new.
It's a knock at yourself when
knock your town.
It isn't the town it's you.
you
BRAIN LEAKS
By LYNN PURDIN
A prehistoric bone has been found
in Klamath county. Wonder if it is
that famous old "bone of contention?"
American over-seas veterans re
cently were asked to don German uni
forms for making a motion picture
and of course they refused. "How
to be a German" was not a part of
their military training.
I G. B. Swaggert was in from, the
I Lexington country Friday and re-
ports the wheat crop in fine shape in
I tifa or.nUr.-r rrv.n ...1
came through the winter in splendid
condition and Mr. Swaggert knows of
only one piece in his neighborhood
which will require any re-seeding.
Plentiful moisture during the winter
practically assures a fine crop next
summer, barring accidents which
will occasionally happen even in
Morrow county.
Real towns are not made' by men
lafrald
Lest somebody else gets ahead.
When everyone works and nobody
shirks,
You can raise a town from the
dead.
And If while you make your person
al stake
Your neighbors can make one, too
Your Town will be what you want
to see.
It isn't the town it's you.
Jerry Brosnan was circulating
among,, his friends Thursday telling
a few of those good old stories for
which he is famous.
who passed away the day after they
strated east. Mr. Duncan had been
away from his old home for 11 years
end he says there is little change lu
that country in that time except
changes the war has wrought in
thinning out the young men of the
neighborhood.
Mr. Duncan has two brothers and
14 cousins with the American Eripi
ditionary Forces in Europe and t
last accounts' they were all still in
France. A peculiar circumstance is
that all of the 1 6 relatives have seen
active serivce on the west front and
all came through without a scratch
except Leiutenant Aner Duncar, a
cousin of Walter, who was wounded
while flying over the enemy lines.
Mr. Duncan thinks the east is ?.
fine place to visit for a few weeks
but it is Heppner for him when it
comes to a permanetnt place to live.
"Era of Air is Davning,, says a
headline in the Sunday Oresonian
We thought congress had adjourned
r,r-ri.nn brewers will turn their j
breweries into candy factories after
July first." Candy beans?
Oregon's quota for 1919 War Sav
ing Stamps is $10,000,000 a mere
bagatile.
Even the American Indians have
voiced their approval of the League
of Nations. Which puts Senator
Borah In a class by laimself.
We have just learned what make;)
Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle such a
fighter. He has ten children.
'
Mary had a Iitttle lamb
That used to make things hum.
It tried to stop a car one day
And now the lamb is on the bun:
Plans are under way to make Ore
gon first is the fifth Liberty Loan.
But why plan that's Oregon's nat
ural position.
A presB rumor has it that Jonath
an Bourne, Jr., Is to run for senator
In Oregon. Even though Oregon
has committed some pretty foolisn
political blunders in the past It can
hardly be expected that she will
"pull a boner" like that. '
Klamath county wants to secede
from Oregon and become a part of
California. Klamnthltea should re
member that California will be Just
as dry as Oregon after July first.
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The Little House With The Big Program
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lead This List of Attractions
RECENT DEATHS
MART.ATT
John Wesley Marlatt, a former
well known resident of Heppner,
PTf-'ed away at his home at Wapata
Washington, Friday, March 14th.
n-'ed 75 years and 11 months. The
rrmnlns were brought to Heppner.
fu iera 1 services being held at the
Ch'-I Man church yesterday afternoon
conducted by Rev. F. A. Andrews.
Interment was in Masonic cemetery.
NOTICE TO COHKKSI'ONhKXTS
11 . 11 1 . .
n-iiiri s annual cican up tiay Mtuil he made a partic
o'.ulv special order of Im.siiu ss, tin, ear because there ;s
m ii'im h to do. The burnt over districts should receive
.-pedal atleiilioii ami not be allowed to remain a commun
ity cvcsoic lor another season. The Herald understand
that the v'ivic Improvement club will take more than a
passing interest in dean up day tbi vear and in that case
may hope to ee some real results accomplished. I it t,,o
much to hope that the old Palace Hotel dehiis will be clear
ed trom the streetts and the sidewalks opened arotmd that
corner. Nine months is a lone, time tor ciliens and tax
pa) ers to have to walk around an obstruction ot" that kind.
A WELL MATED PAIR
A T Washington on Tuesday, when conirrcs finally
adjourned with much important legislation defeated
by a iMiliUster. .ViLifis Pentose and l.al'ollcttc, alter hav
ing done all they could to make the filibuster a success,
lode away together, which at least was fitting, as one has
not .1 whit tnoie real tcg.ui! for the country than the other.
The old saving ol birds ot a leather flocking together applies-
bet e.- Vaiionshttrg ,icn
The Herald welcomes communica
tions froTii siiIhici Ibers and the public
Ri-nenilly touching on subjects of
general Inturrrt to the community.
All article Intended for publication
must be xlKiied with the trm- mime
of the writer not nweiwrrHy for pub
lliatlon but a an evidence if pnod
faith of the writer.
Write only on one tide of the pa
per. Avoid pemonalltle.
Writ,, a Irgllily a piwulMe, pay
ing particular attention to the spell
ing and legibility of nume of per
Mini, place, etc.
t'tiblli-hlnft of communication,
doe not mean that flie llir.ild ne-
rewmrlty Mrce w ith the vli wt ex
pri'ed. The Herald, liow r it, -believe
that It I the province of an
Imlepi-ndent loral newspaper to Hlv
kit tide of every quint Ion of loml
IntereM a nearly a powdtilo.
Ttv editor reervi- the runt tn
re)is-t alt matter whuh he moulder
Imprup.T or unfit for publication.
Anonymmi atticlin t ttau:ht to
the wate banket.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19
The Lure of the
Circus
Featuring Eddie Polo in his great
serial. Get the habit its a sure
thriller.
THURSDAY, MARCH 20
Commencing on this date we offer a
splendid line of Fox Specials, featur
ing Tom Mix, Gladys Rockwell, Geo.
Walsh, Jewel Carmen, Theda Bara
and William Farnum.
FRIDAY, MARCH 21
Madge Kennedy an unwed widow in
The Fair Pretender
Her newest Goldwyn picture reveals
the fate for a wonder a happy one,
that overtook an awful fibber.
SATURDAY, MARCH 22
Douglas Fairbanks
in
Manhattan Madness
Special Saturday, March 22
A gripping story of New Yorks slums
and palaces.
Empty Pockets
No children under 16 years admitted
unless with parents or guardians.
25 and 35 Cents
SUNDAY, MARCH 23
William Russell
in
Up Romance Road
Also the usual release of Scenic and
Comedy offerings. A fine showing.
Every One A Headliner In The Movies
Get the habit You'll like it
r Theatre
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Idaho, having tried to teach the
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