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THEHEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
Tuesday, December 13, 1921
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THE HEPPNER HERALD
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
S. A. PATTISON, Editor and Publisher
Entered at the Heppner, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class Matter
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The Tangled Skein
Untangled by the Herald
Bell Hop
Whether the United States and Canada
Are Peopled by Incendiaries
By W. F. MALLALIEU, National Fire Protective Association
We must admit that the older nations of the world regard us in Xorth
America with curious eyes. They cannot understand exactly how we do it.
They have not made up their minds whether the United States and Can
ada are peopled by incendiaries or if we are childish people who love to
lay with mulches.
Perhaps in the carelessness of the use of fire the United States and
Canada are the greatest offenders in the world. Our citizens grew up with
the smell of smoke in their nostrils and the clang of the lire gong in
their ears.
Jf the average citizen can be persuaded to stop and discuss the mat
ter, he will admit that the results of the fire are deplorable, that the annual
Joss of from 15,(100 to 20,000 lives is distressing, that the almost incredible
destruction of property is at least unfortunate; but there his interest seems
to end, and he turns his thoughts to more personal affairs, unless fire
may happen to visit him as well, when for a time it acquires a personal
flavor.
"A More Brotherly Distribution of Wealth,
Health, Joy and Freedom."
Hy REV. JAMKS MKYEUS, Wapplrigers Fulls, N. Y.
The mission of religion to the present disturbed social order is not
so much a message to the poor to respect the sacredness of the property
rights of the rich, although it is that also, as it is a message to the rich
in the name and spirit of Jesus Christ to bring about a more brotherly
distribution of wealth, health, joy and freedom in the world.
This cannot be done by charity, nor can it be done by violence. The
inequalities of the present economic order can be eliminated only by a
more brotherly distribution of the profits of industry at the source of
production.
Wealth can be reapportioned in a brotherly way only where it is
made, in the process of its production, by the granting of a truly living
wage, by a voluntary decrease in the interest expected for the use of capi
tal, and by a very material increase in the financial rewards paid to human
beings for their labor of hand or brain.
Is it brotherly that (lie financial burden. of life should bear down
the hardest upon those who have the least? Is it brotherly that a poor
fiDan should have to pay the highest prices for all of the necessities of life?
in it brotherly that the day laborer's pay should stop the minute lie gets
nick and has to stay at home, while the higher-paid officials of the coin
jiany, although better able to stand the financial drain of sickness, have
their salaries continued to them as long as they are ill? Is it brotherly
thnt the highest profits in the real estate business should be commonly
derived from tenement property, the least desirable accommodations in
J he whole city, where the poorest people have to live?
The question no longer is how does thi! other half live? The question
lias now come to be how does the other 85 per cent live? Hence the nec
essity fur a more brutherlv distribution of Drofits.
Some of the girls in this world who
insist on bobbing their hair make the
, statement that many of the ladies of
early biblical times wore their hair
bobbed and they are imitating them.
Wonder if they ever read about the
clothes Eve wore the first time eho
was on earth?
Some of the fellows tthink we might
as well have our arms taken away as
Mr. Volstead made it inconvenient
for us to get ammunition anyway.
A few of we who are stomach-aching
about the hard times should sill
down some evening and let our dad
dies or granddaddies tell us how
they, in an early day, enjoyed getting
out and hustling for something to
them that there wasn't any such a
thing.
It might be that the bootlegger is
n't entitled to any credit, but as far
back into ancient history as we can
remember the bootlegger has de
manded his money when he deliver
ed tihe goods. A lot of merchants
have adopted the same plan. -
A lew of the reformers who are
praying and working that skirts will
be made longer, are hoping that their
prayers wont be answered and their
labors will have been in vain. We're
not tilling where we slam on the
question.
We just think that, times are hard.
If it was really true it don't seem tlhat
fur coats and dining room suites
would be selling at 1000 bucits r.
throw.
A couple of generations ago the
young men used to kid themselves in
to believing that two could live as
cheaply as one and the maturing
generation don't seem to have learn
ed much from the experience of their
elders.
Currier says it isn't bigamy when
a married man runs away with
another man's wife if de doesn't taKe
his own wife with him and he gen
eraally don't).
With Santa Claus headed this way
and coming at a rapid rate, means
that father will soon be reminded
that ill doesn't do any goon to m
plee his check book as there are a
lot more where the one he lost came
from.
Funny how soon Jess Willard de
cided he'd recall thai challenge to
.Tacit Dompsey after his almost de
liiHimnt oil well tui'iird into a gush
er. T Isn't very long until Christmas,
but it's a long time afterward.
What Women Think
By Mary, the Girl Reporter
No'nci: i itovn sai.k
Scaled bids will be received until
the. hour of 11) o'clock A. M. llie 6th
day of January 1H22, and Immedl
nlcly Ihoreal'ler publicly opened by
the I'ouuly Court of Morrow County,
Oregon, at th" ol'I'ice of said Court In
(lie Con'ill.' C. i t House ill the city
of Heppner, ()rei;on. for I lie purchase
of bonds of said county, Issued for
I lie building ,nf permanent roads
therein. One block of mill bonds he-
Ins for sum "f TU'i0 "ii.
"Number 2"1 wi"K
lor the sum of $.1
, aeh, Num:" - Ml I " "H' ' ,01'
111.. sum el' t r.tiO 00 each. One block
iif si.d bonds for tide sum of
S til. 000 .I'll. same beins; ill ilonouiin
iilions of $I.0:ili. t'O oil'".. Said
l,on, Is U be.ir date of November, 1st
:i'U'.i. and to mature absolutely with
,it option of prior redemption,
November 1st 11129, said bonds bear
interest all not to exceed 5 i per
rent per annum, payable seinl-ar.mi-ally
on May and November first,
principal and interest payable In
I'ulted States Gold Coin nt the office
of the County Treasurer of Morrow
County. Oregon, or aii the Fiscal ag
ency of the State of Oregon In New
York City.
Said bills must be accompanied by
a ceiiilied cheek for r per cent of the
face value of the ho'lds bid for and
must be unconditional.
The approving ha-.al opinion of
Mes.us Teal. Minor & Win free, of
Poillatul. Olei'on. w U be luniisheil
the successful bidder.
Tli, i Colli ,! hold the re-:' -o reject
;;m or all bids. The assessed valu
,ii urn of l lie county is $ 1 r. fi . 0 : ! 00.
J. A. WATKKS.
.,. County Clevis.
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Christmas Candies
BIG VALUES FOR LITTLE MONEY
THE CASH VARIETY STORE
CHARITY
BA
Under the auspices of
Heppner Lodge No. 358
B. P. O. ELKS
Monday, D
ecember 26
uridine
For Members of American Legion and
Their Families as Well as All Elks
The entire proceeds to be used to make a Merry
Christmas for the needy of the community
9:00 P. M. Sharp Adm. $1.50
Tills Space Contributed by Minor & Co. and Thomson Bros.
s -
Maw Rays she knows a women trr
Arlington who miskalkllated. She
kalkilatevf she wood live to be 68
yeers old ami only salved munney
enuff to kcap her that long. She is
now 72 yeeiu old and wunderln tiott
she can malt a llvln.
The ladys arfe flnaly got the kwiltm
maid for tier disabled youke:ay-y
players an rhi"n found out It wassen:
kwilU thay needed. What tncy
neaded was longer skirts an bactn
an eggs. Tlnty have started to maik
the s-kurts.
Teechcr say? the roal down stock
ins can be made to hold as mutch
Kriiiuus presence as the uther kind if
you taik an ordynary hat. stretcher
an start at the top an work down
with it. An teechcr has tecched for
a good mi nny turms.
Paw si s be has rove tlie s-lvi in
tear on his think factory so it will be
iiup issilie, lor li i in to turn oavr :i !
new iivf on the furst of the voir. j
l'nkel Ike sos the liminiiaslitni ol t
M'tus l oin cnsluin put him in mind of
an ild hmi' mkistry beciv.se the
lecler liddled around so mutch.
Are teechcr listed Nic lleatry why
dose the iiiissury river floe south an
Nic ses it floes south heoawse the
gulf of niecUsico is at the uiher end. ;
1 looked in the family record book
the uther day and found out that 1
shood have graduated las june. Paw
and maw are tryin to decide whitch
one of thhem maid a nilstalk in ritin
my burtti record down. Maw '11 win.
Paw sed well annyway Kosko Ar- I
buckle w ill never be the man ho was
and tiuw she Hue up an se,l that
wusscnt what they arrested him for
The edditor of the Herald wrote
to nie the uther da. and ast me why
I spelled sum of my wurds wrong
an I s.it lift- down and I rote him a
letter he wont forget for a Ion,: time.
My biggest purcentaKc comes to ice
from the fact thai siniph fide spellin
is easy fur mo. I pess the edditor
w ill let me uloan.
Ant lucy got tashunable witliout
poin to cniiy (Xpeiits. Week befo.li
last dlic went to Tcrtland an she en
MKeil a burth. Wlien the trains
run together It noi'ke black
mark on ant lucys bussum an she is
us proud of her burth mark is ous
; sin alU'o Is of tier triplets.
You will find that Xmas
present suitable at a 15
to 25 per cent reduction
below 1920 prices
Yours for a Merry Xmas
WM. HAYLOR