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THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
Tuesday, October 28, iqiq
THE HEPPNER HERALD
S. A. PATTISON, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
An Independent Newspaper
Entered at. the Heppner, Oregon, Postoffice pr sepond-rlass Matter
TKIJMS OI' SU!S( KIITIOX
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Three Month:! $ .50
HHill COST OK MKI; MOWS
I'.U'KKS
I'OIS A ATIOWI, IIIIK.KT
We hear of a denomination of
Christians which has actually put
aside pood money legal tender to
he useu in peltinir the facts concern
ins iis speMiiiiK up program into the
newspapers, and before the people.
We congratulate that denomination
upon being willing to realize that
newspapers no more than ministers
and ol.he( families can live on votes
of thanks, ami appreciations- which
those who have benefitted by the
publicity given by the newspapers
sometimes fail to pass. The trouble
with the newspapers in the past has
been that they have not properly val
ued the services which they have, ren
(lred and they have permitted other
people to undervalue them. The la
borer is worthy of his hire, according
to t'he Scripture. This applies to
newspaper people, lor they are labor
ers if there be any such people. The
newspapers are doing less free work
today than they did in the past, and
Ihey will do le.-s in the future than
they are now doin;. The cost, of pub
lishing newh-papers has so enormous
ly increased in very recent, years that
subscripl ion and lulve-rtising rates
have been rnl.'cd and will be mined
slill 'higher in die future. NV'WKpa
per people are not happy over the
situation, but they are compelled to
take care of themselves and save
their publications from being swamped.-
lOxchnnge.
ti:i:as( itv oi i iciai.s ai tc!;
TAX SMUtKl lt-l
A special drive to locate nierch
ants and manufacturers who have
followed erroneous methods In mak
Ing their inventories for the taxable
years 1 !l I 7 and I !)1 X such method.",
lending to reduce tax liability Is
about to be made by the bureau of
internal revenue, it was announced
today.
In cases of voluntary disclosures
before investigation of failure to
make proper return and payment, the
poli 'y of the bureau, it was stated,
will hi; to forego penalties except
Vile-... there is intentional evasion of
the lax. Where discovery Is mode
by riAernment ollicers, heavy pen
allies will apply.
In Home cases Inventories have
been found In have been taken on
the basis of average costs, though it
wiih possible to Indenlify the article!
lemalning op hand at the Inventory
period, nnil ho determine tnclr exact
cofI. n others, because of conserv
ati i m com Hip; methods, flat per
cent, b.h h:ive been deducted, ufter
determining Inventory values. Other
me :t fixed average, based upon costs
of p. lor ycuiH, or rail to Include all
iiierclian.llsc to which they have title
in I heir Inventory.
All of these methods, which have
(he e'T-ct or mincing tax liability,
are emit -m y to t ie regulations of the
hui-cnii and nro Illustrative, Is was
mid, of numerous Irregularities
which have been found.
A warning Issued by (In lnireiu
advises t.upaers who Imve followed
Midi methods t file collect return
without notice ami without idmhiikii
(ion Some laxpiiyeih have voleli
t-trlly nutlfleil the bureau HT tin
plonnent of Incorrect methods, and
are tiling Hinen.leJ returns It Is
only f:ilr to these taxpayers, the bu
resii Mites, Cut their competitors
who have made similar error should
he lucsteil
i:kH) iiih :i :tio
The Oregon Voter tells thin one:
"The law rrtjiilre ranitidines for
elfl.-H to file a lepoit ,,f n f.,,.n,
mire a patriot of Missouri ran for
office ami luitii-d hi the following b-
'lllllcl tllllhflll lepoit or ll.lt It
cost 1 1 1 til In grt elected
' I. I", I t h.nii..' .., p Hiinkliii
lilnnil Ihe leitlen
l."-t Iwu ft ..111 leelb Hint .1 lot III
t .III III II pels., n il ell. '..11111,1 l, nn
. Pl .11. Ill
' M .ll.ll.d Olle beef, I, .III ., ,
,111 I ll.' hllecl 1,1 c. .1,1,1) b.ll t,e, U.K
.'line .iy too ,.,ii, , ; M,t n,
ill I. MIT C.llllll ill i m , ,,,
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' I'lll up lolll ati'V .
' Kindled Iiviilli ell film.
' V.llke, til? in l i..
' s luinln nh (i(i ,..,,p,.
' I il l I U I 0 I lie 111, I UUeil ellollsll
I.) ,ii ike in p I lilt 10 no at
! ii.i ii i.-til. mi, I i iap
ti". tour diflcicnt Inn,. b limner
mini n. twii-r seine other ay.
' V mtilhutcl :,o to foreins nil
mmu an,) made Lite to nine wbt
. five gt.1. four S.i.l
' lluitei) fully rune old mm, I.
' il.t do( hit llilttr nine tm,,, n,
was elected hf jr, J majority "
".'.iere js little no prospect of
:;i;r,n for ;i national huder t
system being enacted during tlv
"pedal r.:'-sion of cor.-"ers. lit 1
t!'":e is r. fl,;jr,ce that dtiHn? th
l':tv day:- of the r"gvl:(!- ssi'in thr'
begins Dnember 1, this inipo'tar.
me-iKiiie will puss both house. and
it undoubtedly will receive the sig
nature of the president, who has lor.g
been an advocate, of such a law.
President Wilson and former presi
dent Tail have done nim.O to prepar.
the people as a whole for the instal
lation of a budget system. The aver
age citizen neither knew what a
budget is-, or cared, but when nation
al leaders kept pounding the need of
one, and pointed out that congres
sional extravagances could be curtail
ed, the vote for it.
Joseph W. liyins of Tennessee,
ranking democratic member of the
house appropriations committee, and
who has 'nail much to do with the
drawing up of the budget bill, re
centtly pointed out the long time ii
has taken to educate the pn,;
the necessity o- a ':iv".et.
In discussing the house budget
"Mr. liyrns emphasized that "Ihe
chief nieritt of this bill is that it
fixes responsibility and brings the
full light of public opinion lo bear
on those responsible and in th.it way
it will surely bring about a gi'eat.ei
ecenomy mid efficiency in ;;overn
m en i."--I'u si Oregon ian.
COMIOS I.I'.IOV U.l, (ILK.
i.w.Vi j.; Ait.MiSTU'i: ;ay
The following letter has been re
ceived from the entertainment com
mittee of Krunk Hums Post. XO. 2r
American Legion, of Condon:
"We understand that the ex-sol
dies, sailors and marines of Morrow
county have not organized a post ol
the Ameiican I.egieu in Morrow
county. In vii w of the fact thatjhoy
have not, organized a post we wi.-J.i to
extend on behalf of the American
Legion ol Cilliam county and the
citizens of Condon an Invitation
through the columns of your paper to
Ihe ex-soldiers, sailors and marines
and citizens of Morrow county to at
lend our Armistice Day celebration
to be held In Condon November I Ith.
Ill 111.
"We also wish to Mate that we
would like for all soldiers, sailor;
and marines lo wear their uniforms
an we nre going lo have a parade in
the morning.
"Hoping to s, e you all here v. e re
inalnrt "You very truly,
"OA It LAND FKUCiISON,
"W. K. WU.KIN.-l.
"JOHN KAItltIS,
"Entertainment Com."
' i;m hi ici.a:- mass mki:ti.o
Notice is called to the advertlne
ment of the Kami Hureau J4s Meet
ing on another page of this Issue In
which date and places are quoted
where the meetings wtll be held for
'lie month of November.
tlooil addresses will be made at all
of t.ier.n meeting by men who have
nmile a study of the fanners' need
will are able to speak on their sub
lect.i with authority.
All who ran pieslblv ahould be
ituie te hiar these addresse an iiim-h
Hood will be Rained from them.
Several member of the County
Kwtiiive llinr.l and County Agent
Hunt will UlMUka Intensified farm
orgnnliutloii among the many other
thinm of luterest to farmer In gen
eial.
'VIENNA'S AGED
DYING
Most Austrians Suffer From Rav
ages of the Many Wartime
Maladies.
CHILDREN ARE EMACIATED
Till: C Ml'I'lltK I.IKI.M
'i he Ciiiiipfire (iirU liel.l a cere
iinml.il meeiing t u,,. borne of Ml.n
Miiy 'tat k on Kilday etiiing. Afler
li e rile and limine, light re-
1 ' ."'biiii'iil wete m'lii'il. , geneia)
i ,i,.. lime i enjoyed Tbn-e .'i
M it. pi i.. , -in b...,i. the ,,,...--. were
Mie lleituce SigKby, Ltbil Mike--ell.
III iiln (iw.-n. Kliabeih lluion
M .i K.i t Inn. liuth T.i-b. Pllv
ii. Velum ll.ill, i:.ln lliiinph-
ie. With-it lai i,(, Klorenee C
"ii. t'lance I'jnk.-r and Ml llelle
SI. lie olio la EU.Uilian of the miclct)
Ihe Campfire Cut have torn or
c.iUt.,1 r,ir ati, nt jr,.r. Their pro
Mum w (imirtth.it broken indt by
Ihe enf.irred t,nn U winter bill
they a,P p4nnin hu,K, fr
to )er.
Mi lluk-h llmnn of Tul.iln. Wh
inst.in. rame in Ut r'n.U) ecnln
t" iit a few iUi witj, tdlle,
hete Mi llrann wa formeily Mix
s,he Haner, n, ha many frlra.t
in thi rlty
Scrawny, Limp, Listless From Malnu
trition and Seldcm Smile or Play
American Red Cross is
Helping.
London. Dr. Ethel Williams, a New
castle doctor of 30 years' experience
recently has returned to England t'rmn
Vienna. She attended the Woman's
International conference at Zurich,
where she heard so much about the
conditions of disease in Austria that
she decided io see for herself what
those conditions really were. She
spent a week in Vienna, visiting the
hospitals nnd the school kitchens,
studying medical statistics, Interview
ing representative people, nnd seeing
as much as she could of the city.
Speaking to a Manchester Gutirdinn
representative, she said:
"What Impressed me most was the
appalling condition of every old per
son I saw, nnd of 95 per cent of the
children. The old people were like
walking death's heads. There nre so
many things that persons over sixty
cannot digest. The mortality among
the old 1ms Increased by 150 per cent.
"What struck me most when walk
ing about the streets was that there
were no toddlers. Children of three
and even four years were carried by
their mothers. The children did not
run nbout, or shout, or quarrel. It
was four days before I saw a child
playing.
Most Children Emaciated.
At least 05 per cent of the practical
ly well children were painfully emaci
ated, with discolored circles around
their sunken eyes and the tendons of
their necks showing like those of old
people. Even middle-class children
have these scrawny necks, and when
they run their cheeks flap like those
of old people. Hut they seldom run.
They nre all limp and listless.
"The scene In the out-patients' de
partment at the biggest state chil
dren's Tiospltnl wns pitiful no sound
or attempt to play. The children sat
quietly on thuir mothers' knees or
against a wall.
"I saw several ewes of osteo-mnln-chla,
u disease so rare before the war
that the only two cases I had ever
seen had been shown to me as a curi
osity. It seems to come from lack of
fresh food, nnd there have been 250
cases In Vienna, nnd I heard of an
other epidemic in a German town.
"The bones soften nnd hecotnn dis
torted, the pelvis hones fold Inward.
In enrly stages It is curable, but n bad
case never will wnlk again, and n
rather bml case always will hnve diffi
culty in walking.
"The cases were those of older chil
dren and adults. They told me that
the hospitals were receiving about 15
cases n day. nnd those they had to
turn nway Inevitably must become
worse. I used to test the condition of
the children I enw by feeling their
fleshless arm. When t touched one
child the father said: 'Don't touch
him. He has this bad new disease, and
It hurts hliu so much.' I realized I t
I bnd hurt hltn, but the child was too
listless to shrink from the pain.
"The doctors could do practically
nothing for the out-patients who rould
rot he taken to the hospltuls. The
mothers were In despair. The doctor
said the greatest wunt of all was for
cod liver oil. Funds rnlsed In England
bad sent supply, but It only lasted
two days. Practically every child un
der two Is rickety.
Suffer From Starvation.
"It Is extraordinary how little Vien
na his suffered from war epidemics
such as typhus. The enormous Increase
In stcknes Is due to starvation disease.
Almost all of Its ihlld population ts
stunted, starved, left without vitality,
vigor or energy. An enormous num
ber are tubercular and a considerable
proportion of these will die. Another
considerable proportion will for all
their lives probably be stunted In mind
nd body, and all will be handicapped."
The children of school age provided
with one meal tif smip and bread In the
day by American ltd Cress workers at
a special kitchen she vNltiii were
watched let they luuilil ink lb-bread
home. "You lini-l ent the bread," Ihe
workers told them. "All Unit we can d,
Is to help you to keep well nnd -trontr."
The American ltd Cn I opening
more of these k',!. hen, mid hope tn
feed 4n.isi or in.. re children, but that
noly menu f,i, f,,r en,, section f the
people, the children of school sl'i- and
even then only one meal In the dny.
MORE ROADS FOR THE MONEY"
First Toothless 8w,
Cobiwaier. M tm CuMwiiter lay
rlulm to being the birthplace ef the
ufBlnnl toothless lnursaw. According
n l W. Ilennett. one of h- oldest re
Idenls. ilurliig his boyhood there was
a machine shop fur turning ,,! i
"atM near the tewn. owned , John
Jolyn. who operated the d My of
all toothless saw. The tmthlr disk,
according to Mr. Ilennett. li
Inches m dlsnieier, bad been cut from
a plat of common sheet Iron and at
tached to a Is, he. When In rapid luo
tn0 tha saw would rut through a
srge steel file, throwing a trrau of
1-arks '.H itii-bef.
(Farm Journal)
Lane county, Ore., Is a good il
lustration of a county organized un
der the county-unit method for ef
ficiency and economy in road bei'd-
in:;. Tliisj is one of the several pro
gressive counties that has eliminated
I be r.ntique township method ol
ing from ten to a seoie of local
so-called road builders in each crein
ty. One county superintendent in-u;-iges
the road work of the county,
li-us saving thousand.; ef dnlla'.-. in
"i -lipment, which is not duplk-Jted
V- the taxpayers of each township,
"i i.e number of political hangers-en
who draw saliry and do little voiv
in ;ctu -n. is down to the miniii.um.
llach outiit in the county improves
highways at the rate of twenty iiiilss
a week, possible only because Lane
cqj'.nty has a wellltnit organization
and a modern machinery equipment.
By modern methods this county is to
day able to do work at one-third the
cost and in one-fourth the time for
merly necessary. Lane county h
road mileage of 1,800 miles, of which
about 600 miles 'have macadam oi
gravel surface, the balance being
common dirt road. Long established
roads have been changed gradually
from dirt surface to macadam. Thr
ultimate aim is to have the roads so
built up that when the paving stag,
is reached and a permanent surface
can be laid the conversion can be
made without loss of money already
expended.
In Lane county the macadam roads
are maintained at a cost of $200 r
mile, as against prices as high ac
$5000 in ot'her sections of the coun
try. The cost of scarifying and re
dressing ranges from $20 to $50 a
mile. Gravel is hauled from local
banks, the equipment used being
operated by two men.
Wor'k on the highways continues
throughout the year. The road
sea rfied from February to May when
the ground is wet and easily worked
The resurfacing is done from Novem
ber to February when the soil i:; p'as
tic and compacts easily. As a result,
fiie surface remains hard all summer
an!! does not crumble and blow away.
New construction is carrii d. on
through the dry season from May to
November.
The road-building machinery con
sists of two tractors, two graders,
two scarifiers, four rollers, one laad
leveler, four cars with a capacity ot
eight cubic yards each, and otuor
smaller pieces of equipment. This
represents an in vesti.K ,it of a1 ou'
120.000. It "ests $25 a IV I" no cr
ate a tractor outiit, p-yforniif;; Hie
same work that $75 foi uenv di 1
when men ami t.oa.nV w?re depended
upon. For instance the a'( iv.ge erst
of hauling rock i' now twelve rents
a mile as comn.i -ed with twenty-:
en cents under tl.e n.an and horse
miethod. "It was either get machin
ery or stop roal v-'r nUmrethev,"
said County .Pulse li "VW now
have two tracioc .mi' t-: and the re
suits are bo atutoOet try t'Uit tVy
warrant th purchase of three more.
The. tractor power la dependen upon
almost entirely in Lane county. The
tractor is used for four distinct pur
poses. Where the road or ground
Is too hard to be broken by a plow
the tractor with a scarifier la now
used. The scarifier is pul'ed
through ground so hard that eight
'.lorsea could pot pull a rooter
through It and the work la done bet
ter, since it tbreaka up a strip five
feet wide and can be run stralghter
than the rooter, thus leaving nr,
places not loosened up. The tractor
outfit travels twice as fast and ruts
a atrip five times as wide, so It really
does ten thnea as much work as the
horses in the same length of time.
The second use of the tractor is in
scarifying gravel and macadam roads
which in some cases must be done
once a year In order to smooth th"in
up and place them in condition to
withstand travel. Formerly Lane
county used a small acarlfier which
was pulled with a traction engine.
With the tractor outfit three miles a
day can be scarified at no more cost
than one mile before. The direct
'cost of running Ihe outfit formerly
was nbout $24 a day; under the pie
lent method the cost is f 15. or a hv
I Ing of !'. a working day, building
' not one. but two miles of road a day.
J The third use of the tractor Is in
i grading, using the tractor and grader
! Instead of the four-hoise grader for
merly used. In this way several t linen
as much earth can be removed a
with four horses and a grader.
The fourth use of the tractor l
hauling rosd material. With tin
four cars mentioned having an aggie
gate capacity of thirty-two cubic
yards, the tractor travels at a vh1
of two and a hslf miles an hour,
which for eight boura Is a total ot
twenty miles; deducting delays fi
loading, there Is a net of siiteen
miles. There Is not only a saving In
the cost of hauling but Indirectly In
other costs, such a making the ma
cadam. Rock ran be delivered aa tssi
as It Is required
lly the use of proper o-gamviii-n
s
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GAMBLING
The man who spends his income as fast
ashejnakes it, is GAMBLING in every
sense of the word.
He may win present pleasures but 'he
loses future independence. Those who hail
"the good fellow" now, will sight "the poor
beggar" in days to come.
H is up to you, young man. Your IN
IH'. PENDENCE is determined by what you
save.
Start a SAVINGS ACCOUNT tor'ay
and add to it every pay day. That is the sur
est way to win success and independence.
First National Bank
HEPPNER, OREGON
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000.00
! PEOPLE'S CASH MARKET
Choicest of Beef and Pork always in stock.
Dressed Poultry on Saturday. Fresh fish on
1 lmrsdays and Fridays. Cold meats for lunch
ri.t on a t. . b. Sheer is a money saver.
Cnr cold storage insures you the best of meats
always.
OVIATT & HAPPOLD, Props.
Fine Creek Ranch
We are offering a fine bargain in a 720-acre creek
ranch of which 60 acres is alfalfa land under the
ditch. Good orchard, three good barns, good
dwelling. No. 1 grass land.
price $20,000 on easy terms
Good 6-Room Hou
se
right in the edge of town with one aero goo-I
pardon land. Good well of water, small barn.
PRICE $1100.00. ONE-HALF CASH
TERMS ON BALANCE
RoyV. Whiteis
THE REALESTATE MAN
and modern road-making machinery
cry county may build practical and
serviceable roads lor greatly reduced
coals, t.et us not adnpt Ihe slogan.
"More Money for Roads," but "More
1',., a.l fur the Moor. " and see thai
none of the half billion dollars Is
nici!
i Only )al Monuwt1,t
I. who bar, ral.4 tbemselres a
! "wwtn-nt la th minds toil nttmorte
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