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HEPPNER, ORE., TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1921
NUMBER 51
VOLUME VII.
LOCAL ELKS INSTALL
NEW SET OF OFFICERS
CHAS. B. COX RE-ELECTED
EXALTED RULER
Three Condon Men Initiated
Same Evening Into Fast
Growing Lodge
ONLY CHANCE TO SEE TOTAL
ECLIPSE OF MOON THIS TEAR
The End of A Perfect Day
Heppner Lodge, No. 358, Benevo
lent and protective Order of Elks,
held installation ceremonies last
Thursday evennig when the follow
ing officers were inducted Into office
Chas. B. Cox, exalted ruler; B. P.
Stone, Esteemed leading knisht; L.
E. Mikesell, esteemed loyal knight;
L .L. Gilliam, esteemed lecturing
knight; Gay M. Anderson, secretary,
Walter Moore, treasurer; Ray M.
Oviatt, tyler; S. W Spencer, trustee.
Chas. B. Cox who served the past
year as exalted ruler was re-elected,
as were B. P. Stone, leading knight,
Gay M. Anderson, sec'y. Walt Moore,
treasurer and S. W. Spencer, trustee.
L. L. Gilliam was advanced from the
office of tyler to that of lecturing
knight and L. E. Mikesell from the
lecturing to the loyal knights sta
tion. Following the Installation cere
monies George H. Flagg, Eugene
Newman and Fred Belgrade, all of
Condon, were initiated into the
mysteries of the order, after which
coffee and sandwiches were served
in the buffet.
Exalted ruler Cox was also chosen
as the representative of Heppner
lodge to the meeting of the grand
lodge which meets at Los Angeles
during the coming summer. Mr.
Cox, who is one of Morrow county's
most progressive young farmers,
says that so far as he knows he is
the only regular farmer who is ex
alted ruler of a lodge of Elks in the
United States.
buckim; stkeks favorite
MOUNTS AT WRIGHT RANCH close.
Heppner folk who wish to witness
a total eclipse this year should not
retire too early next Thursday even
ing for on that date a total eclipse
of the moon will occur which will be
thhe only phenomena of the kind vis
ible on the Pacific coast during the
present year.
According to the program the as
tronomers have mapped out the
moon will enter the outer shadow or
penumbra of the earth at 8:57P. M.
Pacific time but it will not begin to
enter the real shadow, or umbra, un
til 10:03 o'clock. At that time the
shadow will begin fo show on the
rim of the moon, and will slowly ad
vance across the moons face until
11:23 when the moon will be entire
ly within the shadow and the eclipse
will be total.
The moon will remain in total
eclipse until 12:05 when it witi ne
gin to pass out of the shadow until
1:26 o'clock when it will have com
pletely emerged from the shadow.
It will remain, in the outer shadow
or penumbra, however, until 2:32
A. M.
Last Sunday's Oregonian gives the
following general information about
the phenomena which is of interest:
The moon is eclipsed when the
earth passes directly between the sun
and the moon. As the earth travels
along its path, it always casts a
shadow out into space, because it
cuts off that portion of space from
the light of the sun. The moon,
which ias no light of its o-.vn , but
shines only by the reflected light of
the sun, is thus robbed of its light
when its path passes through the
shadow cast by the earth. Because
this shadow was a portion called the
umbra which is entirely cut off from
the sun's light, and an outer portion,,
the penumbra which is only partially
1 deprived of light, the moon becomes
pale before the eclipse proper begins
nnd remains so tor an hour after its
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More than 100 men and women
enjoyed a days sport at WVight Bros,
ranch on Uhea creek last Sunday
when a minim, e Round-Fn va hob',
there.
About. 75 1-i-B.l of v' 'i l at-resteers
had Ik en ivrVI -I'd .ii'.
bukaroos had a m.-n y Hue sindd
ling the crU. rs.
Hiding a buckiiift sieii' is some
different from ridi'ii; a buchiv!-' ray
use bocau-M- no Mh has yot been
built that will lit and si i'-it to the bo
vine back ami all the rider has to
hold on by are sursingle, hands and
heels and a strong determination
not to be thrown.
Visitors at the affair Sunday re
port that till these means failed in
some cases that day.
One young black steer furnished
plenty of entertainment. He seem
ed to be of a highly nervous temper
ment and didn't relish the feel of a
cowboy a-straddle of his back and
after the riding act he run amuck
and soon sent all the riders to the
top rail of the corral fence for safety,
he had the devil in his eye and mur
der in his heart but there were too
many aginst him and he was finally
brought to terms.
A number of hard bucking horses
were also ridden but before .that part
of the program was over rain stopp
ed the fun and drove the crowd to
shelter.
DESTRUCTION IN ERIN
IS HELD S20M0CQ
COM Ml i 'TJ'i: I STI M TFH N"I".!M)V
AT o.OOO FAMILIES
lie-port of Koi'ioly if Friends Is
I'lih'i-hed .Vtor '.Finite
l'lobe of Situation.
SHERIFF McDUFFKE GRABS
ONE MORE STILL
Sheriff McDuffee and deputy Chid
sey made an excursion into the Gur
dane section, on Big Butter jreok
last Tuesday on official businers
The trip was successful and w-en
they returned they were accompan
ied by Lum Gordon who after a
short interview with Judge Cornert
contributed the sum of $562.50 to
the public fund as a penalty for mak
ing an excellent quality of corn
whlslcey.
The plant, was located in an al
most Inaccessible canyon not far
from McLoughlin's sawmill and the
officers had an all night hunt to lo
cate the outfit through one of the
worst snow storms the sherriff said
he ever faced.
They arrived at Gordon's cabin at
5 A. M. and found Lum preparing
breakfast. He was a good sport and
invited the officers to Bhare his meal
and the warmth of his cabin which
they gladly accepted. Only about a
half a pint of the finished product
was found, Gordon explaining that
the demand has been so great lately
that he could not accumulate much
of a stock. He had 350 gallons of
fine corn mash on hand, however,
which was just pettnig in prime con
dition for th still and Gordon told
the sV'rriff that if he had only wait
ed another week, h" would have had
the run finished and the prodm:t.-cLis
fnund and t,roi;r-'r'r , Hi. 'but', the
cooker ami 'vorai wv.-
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The American coniittee of relief i
in Ireland tonight made public a re
port pf an investigation of condi
tions in Ireland by a unit of the so
ciety of Friends. The report asser
ted that material damage Inficted
by the British forces within 12
months amounts to approximately
$20,000,000."
The unit sent to Ireland by the re
lief organization in' February also
reported there were 2 5,000 families
in Ireland in pitiful need of instant
help from American people.
These people, the report said
were composed of men and women
who have quietly gone about their
peaceful pursuits all their lives and
who have refrained from taking
part in armed activities.
The report, the resut of investiga
tion In nearly 100 communities, was
made public the committee officials
said in order that the American peo
ple "may have the opportunity of
judging by this first hand evidence
of unbiased witnesses the extent of
the destitution and sufertng."
done to Dublin, but said that be
The report did not Include an of
ficial estimate of malicious damage
tween October 1920, and March,
1921, "claims for malicious injuries
Including both material damage and
death have amounted to 594,899
pounds."
The unit's figures of $20,000,000
material damage in reland, said the
report, "coincides substantially with
the total figures given by Irish
republican statlcU-ns, and It should
be noted are less by $8,000,000 than
the estimate given us by a respon
sible crown official."
Regarding labor conditions the
report said:
"We may point ot-tthat even
when employed th workman re
ceives a wage so low that it would
be difficult for an American to un
derstand how an Irish workman can
support himself and his family.
"The prevaiinig wage for ordinary
unskilled labor ranges from 'i to
114 a wrtk. Today the 25,000 fam
ilies to which we rotor have not
even this- scanty income."
A, to rivt ruction of jrxp;rt"y upc!
in Vrow'TrB an0"F.,'t k- liriii farm pro
lific the ' :.:!,. :
Fiom l h i-t rv'.n'.e t.f t!.e :'
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Abstract of President Harding's
First Message to Congress
Following is a brief outline of the principal recommenda
tions of President Harding's first message delivered to con
gress last Tuesday:
Foreign Relations No separate peace with the central
Powers, "on the assumption alone that these would be ade
quate." "The wiser course would seem to be to engage un
der the existing treaty, assuming, of course, that this can be
Satisfactorily accomplished by such explicit reservations and
modifications as will secure our absolute freedom of inadvii-a-ble
commitments and safeguard all our essential interests....
No helpful Society of nations can he founded on justice
and committed to peace until the covenants re-establishing
peace are sealed by the nations which were at war."
Taxation Readjustment of internal taxes and revision or
repeal "of those taxes which have becme unproductive and
are so artificial and burdensome as to defeat their own pur
pose." Tariff Instant tariff enactment, "emergency in character
and understood by our people that it is for the emergency
only,"
I tail roads Efficient ope rat ion,
the iral'li- can boar.. Railw
lion mini be reduced" .."T'
ai'" ibe heritage of cnpitaleiic i
EMV.l lajior mu.-l join nianagenn :y, :n
P'tMif vvbi-h Miy is the public to lie
Hie
,'ht and will continue u
a cost within thai which
ales ;1m! costs Ol' OJM'ia-
' n i i n in:: obsi ach s v Inch
ii iti'in must he removed
rstniid.it;; that, the
I and simple Ji'n-
1 1.
laws govern in.
all the
federal
t ice
people."
(.ood Itoads The streiigtlieniniJ
aid.
Conimiiiiica! ions "Private monopolies tending to prevint.
the development of needed facilities should be prohibit! d.
Government owned facilities wherever possible without unduly
interfering with private enterprise or government needs,
'ho'iid be made available for jreneral usages."
MciTlumt Mai'iltie The United States means to establish
rnd maintain a M eat iv reliant marine.
Aviation Regulation by the federal government and enr
couragement of aviation for development for military and
civil purposes
Service Men "The American people expect congress un
failingly to voice the gratitude of the republic In a generous
and practical way to its defenders in the world war." The Im
mediate extension and utilization of government hospital
facilities to "bring relief to the acute conditions most coin
plained of."
Public. Welfare Co-ordination of various government
agencies now working on the subject and indorsement of the
pending maternity bill. '
Lyinchlng Congress sought to wipe the stain of barbaric
lynching from the banners of a free and orderly representa
tive democracy. A proposals for a commission with repre
entatives of white and black races to study and report on the
subject," the president said, "has real merit.'
Aimy amd Navy Early consideration of pending appro
priation bills was urged. "The government is in. accord with
the wish to eliminate the burdens of heavy armament," said
the president. "The United States will ever be in harmony
with Buch a movement toward the higher attainments of
peace. But we shall not entirely discard our agencies for de
fense until there rs removed the need to defend." We are
ready to co-operate with other nationB to approximate dis
armament but merest prudence forbids that we disarm alone."
National Finance "The staggering load of war debt must
be cared for in orderly funding and gradual liquidation. We
rha'l hasten thr.HPlution, and aid effectively In lifting the tax
burdens if we strike resolutely at expenditure."
Administration Enactment of a national budget system
and general reductions by efficient management of the cost of
government.
Iloxiness "Less of government In btisinesH a well aH more
business In government There is no challenge to honest
and lawful business success. But government approval of for
tunate, untrammelled business does not mean toleration of
restraint of trade or of maintained prices by unnatural meth
ods... Anxious as we are to restore the onward flow of
business, It Is fair to combine assurance and warning In one
utterance.'
Agriculture "The maintained retail costs in perishable
foods cannot be justified Reduced costs of baHic produc
tion, has been recorded but high cost of living has not yielded
in lfke proportion Without the spirit of hostility or ha-ste
in accusation of profiteering, some suitable inquiry by con
gress might speed the price, readjustment to normal relation
ship, with helpfulness to both producer and consumer. A
mi asurlng rod of fair prices will satisfy the country and
give us a business revival to end all depression and unem
ployment." These were the principal subjects touched on In the ad
dress, which wan about 7 , ' 1 0 word In length, and a huge
portion Of Which Was devoteil to the related subjoin Of pence,
the league, of nations' and the country V loi' iVn policy.
addition
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OR. VAN WATERS LECTURES
INTERESTING. INSTRUCTIVE
RECLAIM VAST AREAS
Heppner was especially favored
last week in having with us Rev.
Dr. George B. Van. Waters, who de
livered a series of lectures on "The
Sacred Literature of the Old Testa
ment in, the light of Modern Scotar
ship and Genetic Psychology."
Through the courtesy of the man
agement of the Hotel Patrick, the
lectures were given in the hotel din
ing room, and were well attended.
These lectures were educational and
illuminating, as well as intensely in
teresting. The doctor has studied this sub
ject deeply and thoroughly. In addi
tion to his own researches he quoted
from a number of the world's best
scholars of today, thtiB turning the
searchlight of truth on things that,
to many of us, have heretofore seem
ed abstruse and difficult to under
stand. It is impossible to give even a
brief synopsis of the lectures in, this
space, they must be heard to be ap
preciated. Those who were eo for
tunate as to have heard the doctor
will not soon forget the great funda
mental truths, clothed in beautiful
simplicity of language, which he
gave to us. His teaching of the be
ginning, growth and development of
religion among private peoples was
particularly instructive.
In, the near future the doctor
plans to give us a series of lectures
on the "new testament". Surely no
one who heard this series will will
ingly miss any of the next.
0,000,(H)0 ACRES IX 10 STATES
TO BENEFIT
Quarter of Billion to Re Advanced to
Reclamation Fluid
DANCE AT lONE
A dance will be given at lone. Sat
urdavevening, April 23rd. Music
by Heppner four piece orchestra. A
good time assured. lpd
CAPPER WOULD CUT
(Telegram AVa-shlngton Bureau)
WASHINGTON, Apr. 16. Twenty
million acres of land in the arid and
semi-arid states of the west will bo
reclaimed and made productive, if
United States Senator Charles L. Mc
Nary's bill advancing $260,000,000
to the reclamation fund is enacted.
The bill has been carefully drawn
so as to avoid objections made in the
past to similar legislation, and Sena
tor McNary believes that it containa
the solution of the reclamation prob
lem of the west.
It Is expected that the measura
will be reported out favorably soon
from the committee on reclamation
and irrigation, of which the senator
is ,the chairman.
"This bill," said Senator McNary
today, "Is designed to promote tha
agricultural development of the six
teen arid and semi-arid slates of tho
west. A preference Is given to all
ex-Bervlce men on all the public
land in each of the projects contem
plated, and also on excess land,
which means that acreage beyond
which any one individual is permit
ted to own and which he Is compel
led to enter into a contract with tho
secretary of the interior to sell at an
agreed valuation before work on the
project is started. The maximum
farm unit in the reclamation pro
jects under this bill is 160 acres.
The secretary of the interior is given
authority to reduce this acreage to
eighty acres.
"The payment of water rights ex
tends over n period of twenty years,
and the irrigation bonoK, which aro
to be issued by Ihe various districts,
will carry interest, rate al not to ex
ceed live per cent.
"I'tider the hill the government of
the rnilytl Sl.'iles is to advance to
Ihe federal reeln mat ivn i'uiid if 'J 'ill,.
mill!
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1 1! wsi'turi v ri(! t ii"
TO IM.AMK FOR SI ACS ATI
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diees liutei'state 'onunei'i e Com
mission Should T;i!,e lo:a(ie
lii reducing Itarcs
n dolhiis
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cla
lilt
for much of Ihe difficulties of tin
country and particularly Ihe reason
for the lack of freight moving at
the present time.
lie believes that the law which
provides that the interstate com
merce commission hall flsx a rate for
transportation which will produce
earnings amounting to 5 Mi per cent
is capable of working both ways. In
a speech he will make when he In
troduces the new bill he will stale
that he believes the commission
should now on its own motion re
duce the rates which have paralyzed
business.
He argues that until the provision
for this guaranty is removed It
should be made to adapt Itself to
business conditions and the commis
sion should not wait for shippers or
railroad owners to ask for a change
In the rates but should proceed to
a revision downward without further
notice. ,
Hut Senator Capper will go furth
er and will demand thnt tills provi-
i sion be taken out of tho law as un
I just and false economically and a
, great, hardship to the west and parti
cularly the Pacific coast, for under
i ItH operation long haul rates are
i practically prohibitory and If con
i tinned means a rearrangement of
i business, and particularly manufact
j urlng, to eliminate tthe long haul.
I Not only would he wipe out the
j guarantee feature, but .Senator Cap
j per proposes to urge another bill to
I strengthen the power of stale gover
I niiients over intra state rates and the
! conduct of transportation nt general.
H claims that the tendency to
cen-tralize the control of transporta
tion In Washington has left the
( states largely at the mercy of the
I dictates of the Interstate commerce
commission to the damage of the
Htute control and development of the
, state enterprise and Iniative.
i He would make the state govern
ments so Ktnnig In transportation
mutiers that .their rulings would
have to -be given heed by the federal
a lit boi it ie and bilievs that such
aciioii would be of rie.,1 bcrn i'ii to
HIM)
this
malum fund for :f '! ,,,oiio .Olio
in 1 a'.1:: ; if 1 r,,tiOi.llli'l in 1 !i I ; .a ml
r- ( I . I H 1 1 1 , 1 M M I thereafter rai'll year
until i be nil $ U T,ti,(Mill.lMMI has ic-eu
paid info liie i ecbiina! ion fund.
"W'e have carefully molded the
objections ill this lull thai worn
made to former hills when in I ho
government was lo accept from Ibci
various irrigation districts Ihe bonibt
issued by these districts and in (heir
I piace istne iiiueii Mimes cert 1 1 lea ion
of indebtedness for sale lo Ihe gen-
publie. This was subjected
Washington April Kail road
companies will lose die guarantee of
5 n per cent now provided for in the
Kch-Ciiiuinins bill ii" nennlor Capper ;
can accomplish II.
lie believes that. Ibis feature of 1 ,
transportation act ,s responsible; . .. ,...... ,. W!IH , ,,,, ...
dor I his plan Ihe federal government
tie
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ll i ppefH Of I be
C.M'Cli III Hltl
w ii bin I be im
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i i ,i,ii on I i, t
We., 1 1
ill Ha
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was lending Its credit In such a way
as lo establish a bad precedent and
aluo In a manner which would sub
ject It almost inevitably to abuse.
'.Under this hill no reclamation
district formed under its provisions
shall offer any bond for snlo until
after the project has beeji In actual
operation and has demonstrated Its
feasibility and its profitable charact
er to the Irrigators themselves.
When this fvtage Is reached the bill
provides that the secretary of the In
terior shall examine the project and
If he so finds shall certify that tho
land contained In the Irrigation dis
trict Is worth double the value of tho
bonds proposed to be sold by that
district. Then the district may sell
ItH bonds In any way that it chooses.
The United Rtates government does
not In any way lend IIn credit to thii
Jproject, but. it dons certify of tho
actual conditions and value of tho
lands in the project. By advancing,
the original $2.r0,n00,000 later an
projects' are actually In operation,
examining and certifying as to their
condition, the service men and farm
ers are enabled to reclaim nnd mak'i
productive large Billions of our wes
tern rounlry.
"Twenty years following the es
tablishment of this plan, or to be ex
act, In 1!)I2, the reclamation fund in
required to repay Into the treasury
of the Frilled Stales $.10, 000, 001)
per year until the total amount ad
vanced h repaid. It is estimated by
that time tho reclamation fund will
have reached an aggregate of $100,
000,000, and that added to this sum
every year will be the fees received
from the sale of public lands and tho
royalties fiotn the base and opera
tion of all oil land under the oil
leasing bill. Those fees It is est I.
milled will amount to $H, OOO.ouo an
nually, and the lolal fund available
for Ihe reclamation pniposi-K will ho
j sufficient to develop in a law way
i I lie In il'.'l bio lands itl these ul.iti t
Sllacepl I liie of pi Oil III I i, II. A coir el -
v;iiie c;iirn,i!e of the total amount
I of land t ha t ma y be bou r b t n inter
e II i I ,v, I ion 1,1- I lie I, a I a 1 IOII 1. 1 Hi I
l.iil i 1 1 mm.,,1 , a,., II ,
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and the officers say every thin?
about his plant was neat and clean.
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po'iml".
"Your d"b siiiimi," id ihe r
porlo. "wewd i.bis drn,.a-e p-ison-al!y
and personally rolmcteij evi
dence as lo the aiue of the prop-
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ib manij to
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poultry produc t, ,, ., diiy n e. ;s
o the ways and means roomm t -for
consideration in connection ,vith
the permanent tariff.
S -1 ;. ami K -V. It! .-" ''". " :
jiou.i'iii' the W i ' I 'i l: ' 1 ' ' Ion
: a- oiaa iOII, as to !;. d-'.: of 'I e
'reclamation bill whblj n.tioi Mc
i Nary hopes to be stile to tn'roluce
I in tlie senate w ithin a dy oi i- u-
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an 'I
illl the
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be done
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idy v. , t tan,;,
the lie, aid. "
" ItlMKted the
I tie-popu-OIH-
Of
l )U"I
lady,
Women aie not built that way."
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1-1 . a i , 1 1 , . . I !.. I .' !, I fund
, i.'.il,0'iu,oi)ii and i.jlilv i.o.h pi,,
i Jet I lo I ll" f . I i ! I i wb. II I be v.i I II" of
Ills lands initially becomes tWtce (be
value of ihe total bond is.,ui; it im
poses tlj bell,"