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VOLUME IX
HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1922
NUMBER 13
HEPPNER HOST 10 GOV-
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MRS. JULIA M'CUDDEN
BUIIXIAXT PARTY GIVEN IX
HOXOIl OF VISITING OFFICIALS
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Banquet' and Dunce Kuils 18-Day In- .
spection Trip Over State
Highway System j
Heppner was honored last Satur- j
day evening in having as her guests
a party of Oregon's most aistinguisn
e4 citizens in the persons of Gover
nor Ben W. Olcott, Senator R. A.
Booth, chairman of the "State high
way commission, Hon. John B. Yeon
and Hon. W. B. Barratt, members ot
that body and Mr. R. A. Kline, sec
retary to the commission.
John W. Kelly, R. C. Johnson and
Harry C. Frye, Portland newspaper
writers representing the Oregonian,
Journal and Telegram respectively,
were also members of the party.
Saturday evening was the time and
Heppner was the place which marked
the end of a trip of more than 2600
miles made by the highway commis
sioners with the governor as their
guest over the state highway system,
the trip lasting 18 days, making an
average log of around 150 miles a
day.
The party started from Portland
going via. Astoria, Tillamook and on
down the coast as nearly as possible
to Crescent City, California where a
joint good roads meeting was held
with citizens and officials of that
state.
The party then crossed the Cas
cades into eastern Oregon, visiting
practically every county except Har
ney, going via. Bend, Mitchell, Day-
vine to Ontario, thence to Baker i
and LaGrande and on to the Wallowa j
country. Turning back, the .party j
visited LaGrande and Pendleton from !
there going south over the Ukiah j
Ritter-John Day road, then down the
John Day highway to Spray and ovei
the proposed Pendleton-Prineville
cutoff to Heppner.
The party reached Heppner late
Saturday evening where a substantial
dinner had been arranged at the
hotel and was enjoyed by the visitors
and about 7 5 prominent citizens of
the town and county.
Hon. C. E. Woodson presided at
the .dinner and after large quantities
of spring chicken and other sub
stantial and dainty viands had been
disposed of, interesting tal'ks on road
matters were discussed by Messrs
Booth, Barratt and Yeon, each of
whom showed a wonderful grasp of
the tremendous, problems they have
been grappling with an4 working out
during the past years.
Governor Olcott was then intro
duced and the spontaneous and hear
ty welcome he received showed that
he has a host of warm admirers in
this section.
Governor Olcott confined his re
marks largely to a description of the
trip that was just ending saying that
he had thought befor estarting out
that he knew Oregon pretty well but
he amazing resources of material
wealth and scenic marvels the trip
had revealed to him, proved that he,
in common with the ordinary citizen',
in reality knows but little of the won
ders of Oregon.
The governor made no reference to
politics while in Heppner, having
maintained the position during the
entire trip that his mission was not
a political one but a trip taken to
acquaint himself with the highway
system and its relation to the present
and future development of the state.
"If every citizen of the state could
Ake the same trip I have Just
taken," he said, "we would see a
wonderful difference in the develop
ment of Oregon immediately."
Following the governor's address,
Tiaiting newspaper men spoke briefly
oa their impressions of the trip, all
initing in the opinion that Picture
Gorge on the John Day river, is a
scenic marvel unsurpassed by any
natural scenery In America.
Following the dinner the enest.
were taken to the Elks club where a
dance had been arranged in honor of
the visitors and in which the gover
nor and other members of the party
joined most delightedly. Governor
Olcott is fond of dancing and his
democratic manner and idoa3 made
him a most charming guest to enter
tain. Commissioners Yeon and Bar
ratt and Secretary Kline also throw
official responsibilities and thoughts
of age in the discard and joined with
the governor In making the evening
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Mrs. Julia McCudden of London, who j
came to the United States to repre- !
sent the British War Mothers at the
burial of the unknown American sol
dier in Arlington National cemetery.
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WASHINGTON, July 22 Ameri
can wheati growers hold a strong posi
tion this year. American wheat is
needed in larger quantities to feed
the world. Europe's suprly of the
bread stnple is low. The world's
stock of wheat is below average. The
world's consumptive capacity for
wheat tends toward the pre-war av
erage, while crops of all wheat na
tions, except the United Slates,
show reduced output.
Surveys of crop output mad-3 by
experts of the commerce department
show that wheat stocks are the low
est in several years. Argentina and
Australia have much less wheat than
last year. The carryover crop of
the United States is comparatively
light because of th eheavier demands
from abroad. Canada is reported to
have largo stocks on hand.
To meet international wheat de
mands the United States and Canada
wil share in orders, the United States
keeping in the lead as a wheat ex
porter. Experts And that wheat is
pasing through somewhat the same
stages of readjustment as wool, cot
ton and other staple products. In
pre-war times Europe was relied up
on to absorb the American surplus as
wheat producing countries.
The world would have faced serious
wheat shortage during the post two
years if surplus wheat stocks had
not been accumulated as a result of
heavy production during the war
years, acordincg to the expert opin
ion of the government. Successive
large crops during the war years
helped to carry the world over the
lean producing years that followed
the war. The records show, how
ever, that both production and con
sumption of wheat have been below
average for five years.
Wheat consumption of Central and
western Europe fell from 2,000,000,
000 bushels In 1913 to 1,200,000,000
bushels in 1917. Since 1917 there
has been a steady recovery In produc
tion and imports by Europe. In 1921
consumption reached about 1,850,
000,000 busels. This year Europe's
consumption will go back close to
pre-war levels.
Does Heppner Need Two Newspapers?
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Once in a while the writer has heard the com
plaint advanced that one newspaper is enough
for a town the size of Heppner; that two news
papers entail an additional and unnecessary
expense on the community. Let's look into this
thing for a moment.
There was a time when Heppner had hut
one newspaper. That was years before the
present publisher of the Herald ever saw the
town. Evidently a demand arose for the second
publicity organ for another was started and or
dinarily such enterprises are not established
unless there is a demand, promised patronage
and fair prospects of making good. The two pa
pers were published for several years when they
were purchased by one man and consolidated.
Then for several years the town again had but
one paper. Again, there was evidently demand
for the second paper and, again, a new man came
in and started the present Heppner Herald, a
little more than eight years ago. Since that
time the town has had two papers and while
neither of them have grown rich both have made
a living, supported families and did what they
could to make Heppner a better town.
There was also a time, no doubt, when Hep
pner bad but one store,, one blacksmith shop, one
barber shop, one milliner store, one garage, one
drug store, one bank, one only , of each line of
business now represented in the town.
Following out the same line of reasoning
would Heppner be a better town than it is today
if every business man in town but one represent
ing each different line of business would pack up
his goods, lock his doors and move out thus giv
ing the man remaining in business in his par
ticular line a monopoly in that line? What a fine
plan that would he for building up a town. For
making a pretty good town a still better town to
' live in and to support schools and churches and
Chautuaquas and all the other activities that go
to make a live, progressive modern town. And
what supermen those who remained representing
the various lines would need to be from the stand
point of ethics and strict integrity if they could
all refrain from adopting as their business slogan :
"All the Traffic Will Bear."
But, to go a bit further: why not, for the
righteous cause of making Heppner a better
town to live in, have all these individual mono
polists, in turn pack their goods, lock their doors,
and move out after inducing Rears and Sawbuck,
or some other gigantic merchandising monopoly
to open a branch in Heppner and handle every
thing from needles to threshing machines and
from khak? pants to pink pills.
The .way to build up a town is to encourage
new people to come into it, build their homes, go
into business, patronize other business. houses al
ready established, help support the schools,
churches, Chautauquas, social dances, ball games
fairs, round-ups, and speak it gently until after
they get settled help pay the taxes that all these
things cost us. Kvery citifeen, if he is fairly de
cent, partly honest and inclined to be law-abiding
at tinles, is an asset to his towns if he patronizes
its different business institutions and pays his
bills and any other policy that has a tendency to
cut down the number of going businesses can
only hurt the town.
True any of us might, from a selfish stand
point like to have a monopoly in our own part
icular little' line but would any of us be willing to
see that sort of thing become general?
Does Heppner need more than one newspap
er. Does the town need more than one of any
thing else?
COP WITH MANY DEGREES
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RECEPTION COIfflEf
i:i'i.(TKi) (Jir.srs i:v.ik
t;i;i:i'.Ti:ns. iu;. r km to tow.v
I William I. Uiiislip, a policeman In
! the Ninth precinct of the Washington
force, has been nwurdiM degrees of
bachelor of laws, master of laws and
muster of patent laws by the Nu
j tlonal university, and degrees from
! Virginia Polytechnic institute anil
Georgetown Law school. Haisllp was
an otllcer in the nnvy during the wur
FORES! SERVICE AND
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The best news of tlio season for the,
people of this county Is that a con
tract has been let for grading and
macadam on tho lower end of the Oregon-Washington
highway through
the corner of Gilliam county and that
Sheerln & McCall, yho nub-contracted
tho work from the Warren Con
struction company, are assembling
their plant and getting ready for ac
tive construction. Tho rock crusher
Is being set up and as soon as a short
S?m?MerJdSr'ltVKeSdScaiLb(!5eid section of the work Is graded the
Under a recent r'.ling :n the fores
try bureau the forestry service may
mow cooperate with the counties of
any state in which there are forest ve-
Borves in tho building of forest roads
through or adjacent to the national
forests according to recent advices
from Washington D. C.
Under past arrangements all fed
eral forest funds for road-building in
the several states were turned over
to the slate highway commissions for
expenditure but under the preseint
plan tho forest peoplo may co-operate
with one or moro counties indepen
dent of the state.
The ruling may prove valuable in
the case of the Pendletom-Prineville
cut-off in case the highway commis
sioners should fail to see their way
clear to put that very important sec
tion of the highway on the state niap.
The commissioners looked the
route over last Saturday but gave no
intimation while in Heppner Just
what their decision on the matter will
be.
Heppner people did not expect a
decision from the commissioners at
this time but feel assured that the
commission will give the matter lull
and Impartial consideration at the
proper time .
KOIt SAI.K OK TKAHE 1-ton
Ford truck in good condition. Write
R. B. Wilcox, Lexington, Oregon, or
call at ranch 4 1-2 miles below Lex
injtoa. 13-15 pd.
the perfect ending ot some 18 more
or less perfect days. Tho newsppper
i boys also, in spite of the evidence of
' advanced age indicated by their un-
thatched domes, allowed the hiyh of
; ficials to pet nothing on them when
it come to choosing winsome partners.
', They also agreed th.it Judge lJutton
made no mistake when lie recently
declared In the Imperial lobby that
Morrow county has It I'll over tii
movie studios In the matter of really
pretty girls and beautiful women.
I The party left at 5:00 A. M. Sun
'day morning for Portland.
Hills That Never Failed the Buffalo for Ages
Gray With Exhaustion
By J. R. HOWAKD, American Farm Bureau Federation.
Hen; and there a liilltop eighty ha worn out and lies benealli Vr.
sun, indifferent to the feeds in its keeping, to the hungry who tramp over
it. Hills that never failed the tm!T;ilo for nobody knows how many tho'j-r-Ptid
years are (,'ray with the exhaustion of extensive production.
Fortunately farmers arc awakening to the fact that 'oil must he
revitalized. Public opinion forbid.", the burning of straw. I.e;nirneu ,ave
Ix-en put t' making hay am nitr'-gen. Fertilizer companies are doing
business. Phosphate and Imic-'njic deposits-are being di-t ributed. The
hilltop eighties are being rejuvenated. Just as the bind has been devita1
ize.l, hi.rc and tbep; a farm community has worn out.
No nation has ever iicn above the level of its itgneultiirv, and the
dead eoiiiinunit ies scattered tiirourb the United Stat s are comparable
U the white alkali patches on the hilltop eighty. And if allowed b
spread will ruin our country just as sure as blight will wipe out an apple
orchard.
macadam crew will follow up with
tho crushed rock. II Is expected the
work will be completed by the first
of tho year.
This link, when completed, will
give Heppner a continuous macadam
and hard surfacM roud to Portland,
Pendleton and ail connecting points.
Tlio state highway cotnmlHMon, re
recognizing l he value of completing
inns y-iiiiio jink, were ready to let a
' contract some time ago under an ar
rangement with Olllii iii county thai
the market road fund of that county
; would be applied on tho county's
i-harc of the work when an adverse
decii-ioti by a Judge In Pol!: county re
garding the use of mt.rkel to,
oaio-ii nie iiiancf. uiner i.rrangc
monu wore mado by Iho coiiiiuiHHlon
and William county officials with the
result that thu work Is to bo completed.
Chicken Dinner, JkUm-iiig' Party,
Pretty (iirls, All Attraction
.Needed
When Judge Campbell was advised
that the members of th0 state lii;:h
way commission iiccomptvr.ied by Gov
ernor Olcott, and a lew other celeb
rities meaning three Portlnd news
paper writers-were expected to
drive from Dayvillo to Heppner last
Saturday on the last leg of their
highway inspection ti in, he :rga:iized
a reception coinniltl.ee to go forth
like knights of old, meet the distnig-
uisluvl visitors and escort thetu to
town with nil due pomp and cere
mony. Had some things t'.ia. tho
judge, who piloted tho party, planned
oi lmp'.'.eneil, aind other things that
ho didn't plan on, not have happened,
this story could have been, told in few
lines. "But," as Frr.nlc Cilllam
might say, "thin life is jus I. ouo
da-mod thin 3 after acother anyway,"
and that proved true Saturday.
If the governor had not gona
around by Condon, if the commission
ers had not been delayed at Spray,
it a tree had mot fallen across tho
road, if Sam Kotson bad not told tho
story or tre. hard lot of the man who
went to live at Spray, if Crawford
and Clark had not eaten so many
snails and sausages, if the h. in. had
not fallen down in his deductions
regarding auto tracks in the dust
mid the workings of the highway com
missioner mind, and 11 Jiarrau luul
not, lor some unknown reason, eva
ded the llardnuin police l'orco by
avoiding Main street and . slipping;
his party through a back alley In
passing by that, town, all might have
been well auillhe procession might
have rolled into Heppnorj us per orig
inal plans with flags waving, drums
heating etc., etc anildbt the plaudita
of Hie populace.
According to Mr. I!ai rat.t the trip)
was unnecessary so far as tho visi
tors neediing a guide was concerned
for that gentleman says that when ut
Dayville, Governor Olcott learned
there was to bo it dance, Mr. Iiooth,
who Is a deacon In the Methodist
church, learned there was to bo a
chicken dinner, and Johnny Kelly,
Harry Krye and It. C. Johnson, learn
ed that Heppner waB where Judrfa
Dutton came from and all the pretty
girls ho nasi told them about stayed
at; neither flood, fire, blowouts nor
any other physical obstacles would
have hhidered their coming and each
man would have plowed along tho
trail with a definite purpose In view.
Hut the trip was worth whilo at
that. To several members ot thu
parly actual road conditions between
Heppner ami Spray hid been a closed
book. We had hear abort It but it
reunited actual experience to under
stand, j
Going up "Dead Man's bill," be
yond Rock Creek was uji epoch ill
some of our young lives and coinlni;
down was at least, two opt ,...
we reached Hock creek again and got
our breath back tho voto was 10U
per cent pure that that particular
road needs flxin'.
As everything turned eut the re
ception committee lost onu perfectly
good governor and threo excellent
road commissioners aurlni; thu day
but as things ultinuitely turned 011C
the lost officials found themselves
and beat the committee to low::, tl in
proving the potency (,l' tho niline
passion, strong in the mind of man- -chicken
dinner, dancing party, pietty
Jlrls.
liven Hob Carnner toil tit exceed
tlio speed limit with sucli attraction
ahead.
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A warning of Impo -'arici to al' ;cr
::ons c e. t nig to i.;n li to I h" ai io.i I
foieM. tf camp, 1H being (ie it (,ut ,
I l.e fori : t I angci.s In I he 1 , ;e,-t t; i
every ( ,1 mpo, wit Ilia . he f .;.!( i; 1 o .
em. r .ev:-ve niu:,t have a p.niit t
lonhl c: 111 1 lires. This y, a 11 imtn 1 -
1 funds!.itio nilo of the foio.t . t i , -. , ami
is Iciti-; ri I ,!: ,1 in 01 her : die 1 i
of tho country and total ituigets sa
that from now on the rule iim.,:. i
observe! he-re. Penults may bo, le
cured from any forest ranger, ,