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THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
Tuesday, April 3, 1923
THE HEPPNER HERALD
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
THE GENERAL UTILITY COM
S. A. PATTISON, Editor and Publisher
Entered at the Heppner, Oregon, Poutofflce aa second-class Matter
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FKHKIAUY haxxkr month
FOR SALE OF I'OllD CA1LS
More than 116,000 Ford ears
Although the shortest, and usually
considered the poorest business
month of the 'year, February sales
exceeded January by 15,000 and
marked the eleventh month In
which Ford sales exceeded the 100,
000 mark. During the eleven
month period Ford sales aggregated
almost 1,250,000.
Peak car sales are usually reached
during the summer months with
drops in the fall and winter but
that has all been changed within the
last year or so through the activities
of tho Ford dealers' association
which has raised the "peak" line to
include every month In the year.
GOODING'S PRICE-FIXING PLAN
The wheat growers are in a deplorable condition and are
groping about to find a remedy. Some of them are devot
ing con.iiderible time and energy to supporting Senator
Gooding s iiill to fix a fictitious price for wheat for a term
of years. They arc wasting their efforts, for such a meas
ure has no chance of winning against the protests of the
consumers of the populous states and, even if it could be
passed, it would not be a remedy, but merely a sedative to
temporarily deaden the travail of the growers. An injec
tion of morphine will soothe pain for a little while, but it
is a dangerous drug to experiment with and, if often used,
has a terrific comeback. Government subsidies are noth
ing more than legislative morphine.
One of the f iniments frequently used in support of the; were sold during the month of Feb-
' . . .,, ." , ,i t l ,.u liuary, according to a statement re-
Gooding bill is that, since other interests are being sub-. ,y lggued b the Ford company
sidixd by 'he government, I lie wlieat growers are justnieu
in asking for similar favors. This is fallacious reasoning,
for two wrongs never made a right. Wheat growers who
hope to get out of their present economic difficulties hy
go eminent help are making a mistake. Their salvation
lies in helping themselves by organization and closer co
operation vvith one another, and by developing their pres
ent marketing associations.
Tt is now generally admitted and has not been success
fully disputed that the wreat growers' associations have
materially increased the market price of wheat in this sec
tion, both to their members and to those who have not
joined the organizations. If a larger per cent of the grow
ers had joined the associations the benefits would have
been toi rcspondmedy greater. Hut, instead of helping to
develop the potential power of these organizations to their
fullest capacity, many members arc now seeking to dis
rut Ihcm. Wliy? because they do njot secure for them
the peak price ol the season for their grain. They figure
that, had they been handling their wheat for themselves,
tiiey would have sold at the top price, notwithstanding the
fact that in years gone by they seldom, if ever, accomplish
ed that teat. They are not content with a higher average
price Ih an they would have received if the associations
were not functioning, which is all they have a right to ex
pect. Instead of trying 1o secure better prices by build
ing up these marketing agencies to their maximum
.strength and efficiency they are now striving to destroy
them.
The co-operative marketing of wheat is not a panacea
for all the troubles of the growers, but it offers a perma
nent impiovcment over the old system, and the extent of
that improvement is contingent, in large measure, upon
the per cent of the total number of growers who support
the system. The growers who refuse to join in the move
ment and those who have joined, but are now trying to
relegate it ic the scrap heap, are simply rejecting an op
portunity for self help, which could be made to benefit
Ihcm far more than any such chimerical remedy as is con
templated in the Gooding bill.
Instead oi "baying at the moon" by passing resolutions
demanding a soothing syrup in the form of an unpopular
and there. cue impossible subsidy, it behooves the wheat
growers to keep their feet firmly on the ground and to de
vole all the energies to the upbuilding and development of
their own agencies for self help and price betterment.
Pullman (Wash.) Herald.
THE BOOB FROM TENNESSEE
Sadder
Ihe land:
mi ee; I ail
and wiser, the gentlemen who are wont to shear
; aim appear in Wall street are reflecting on the
ties of
"I call my new maid 'The Wire
less Wonder.' "
"Why?"
"Because she's always 'listening
in'!" London Mail.
This coat, combining smartness and
serviceability, may offer a suggestion as
to what is being worn for this purpose
In Paris. It is made of brown wide
waled velours with Insets of the same
material cut crosswise at waist and
hemline to relieve the severity and
plainness.
An American in Paris has been, ar
rested lor attempting to sell a hotel
he did not own. Possibly he thought
his receipted bill was a transfer of
title. London Opinion.
.J. .J. .J, . .. . .!. ,
IRRIGON
NOTICE I'Olt PUBLICATION'
021556
Department of tho Inferior
U. S. Land Office at The Dalles, Ore.
March 28, 1923.
Notice is hereby given that Evan
C. Stoneinan, of Hardman, Ore., who,
on Mar. 24, 1920, made Additional
Homestead Entry, No. 021556, for
UVa NWIi, NE14 SWy4, Section 3 2,
Township 5 South, Range 24 East
Willamette Meridian, has filed no
tice of intention to make three year
proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, before J. A. Watcrsl
United States Commissioner, at
Heppner, Ore, on the 12th duy of
May, 1923.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Harvey Hurshman, of Eightmlle,
Ore.
Lotus Robinson, of Hardman, Ore.
Raymond Steers, of Hardman,
Ore.
Tilden Williams, of Hardiintn,
Ore.
J. W. DONNELLY,
19-2 Register.
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Mr. ayne of Hermiston conduct
ed the church services at the local
church Sunday.
Batie Rynd drove to Pendleton on
Thursday morning in his Winton
bug and returned Friday in a second
hand .Studeba'ker three-quarter ton
truck. He made the trade with the
expectation of rebuilding or use as
a bus and for transporting his mel
ons to market.
Ishmael Hendrick entertained a
number of his friends with a party
at his home Thursday evening in
honor of his eighteenth birthday.
The evening was spent in playing
games after which refreshments
were served.
Rev. Mumau is confined to his
home in Hermiston with la grippe.
Miss Hazel Smith was an Echo
visitor Sunday evening.
Frank Ryder and family have
moved Into the Beckley house
which they have rented. They have
also rented the Mike O'Donly place
for the summer. i
Mrs. McCarthy, E. W. and G;ty
Benefiel of Pendleton, and Arthur
Benefiel and family of Hermiston,
were Irrigon visitors Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse White, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Strader and Gertrude
Graybeal wont to Umatilla Saturday
evening. Mrs .White took sick and
the party did not return till Sunday.
En'rUi'S
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Make Your Money
Work For You
The reason some people seem soprosperoiis
under all conditions is often because they
have money at work for them. They have
saved a reasonable portion of their earnings
and placed it in the bank on interest. They
are then assured of a certain definite income
every year.
You have to work for your money. Then
make your money work for you. Two dol
lars per week placed in a savings account
every year for ten years will amount with
interest to over $1,300.00. Can you not save
two dollars per week?
We pay 4 per cent interest and compound
every six. months. We would be pleased to
have you open an account with us.
TVederai. RESERVE
First National Bank
Heppner Ore.
Among those absent from school
this week were Ouida and. Ishmael
Hendrick, and Mabel and Harvey
Warner.
Hugh Grim, Lee Carroll and Lyle
Seaman were in Boardman on busi
ness Saturday.
Mrs. F. H. Rieks is on the sick
list this week.
Bert Benefiel returned home Mon
day after a visit of several days in
Pendleton.
Mrs. Holland of Portland visited
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Sailing, this week end.
Henry Wadsworth, of California,
visited with his brother M. F.
Wadsworth, several days this week.
A. M. Oillis, traveling representa
tive of the Tum-a-Lum Lumber Co.,
was an Irrigon visitor Friday and
Saturday in the interest of his com
pany. Mi3s Miriam McCullough of Saa
Francisco, spent a few days last
week with her sister, Mrs. F. MeeTts.
The Walla Walla Concrete compa
ny has its force on the job to con
struct the pipe line to the school
grounds.
Bain Jones, of Pasco, Washington,
visited with relatives in Irrigon oa
Monday.
The young people of the Sunday
School will give a program at thu
church Saturday evening. The pop
ular prices of 15 and 25 cents wilt
be charged.
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ins world and wondering now u was uone.
The called him "the booh from 1 ennessee. lie was
Clarence Saanders, head of the I'iglcy-W igley company, j
much nuMiii-uied in recent dispatches, lie shot athwart j
Wall street like a meteor, and within a few days emerged j
a m'lliou (lobars or so richer and with the scalps ot many ,
Wall 'ireet bears hanging to his belt. j
The auo.i'.tt of the transaction runs like this: Out m
J ennessee .;e lias a inanuiaciuring cnicrpnse w nose
snares of stock are listed on the New York stock exchange,
lie lotiud t ut that the bears were selling short on stocks
in I'.cs coinpanv for the purpose of depressing the market.
Alter organizing a, pool that gave him a checking ac
count ot if.io.ooo.oo he floated into Wall street himself and
began buying Ihgley-Wigley stock. Contemplating him
as ' the booo from Tennessee," the Wall street bears kept
on selling short, which means that they were selling
shares of stock they did not own. Their only way to save
themselvcb was to keep hearing down the market if they
coald : rd then buy Pigley-W 'igley at depressed prices in
order to make deliveries.
The ' booo from Tennessee" kept on buying and the
price began to rise. Ordinarily the stock was worth $50
to $5", a share. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon it had risen
to $150 a share. By that hour the "boob" owned 198,000
of the "K',ooo shares of Ihgley-Wigley, and the bears could
not bin a share anywhere for any price, much less deliver
the rkarcs ihcv had sold.
Wbet. they had settled with the greenhorn from Tennessee-
I hey were a million dollars or so out of pocket and
he had a million or so in. It was a case of one lamb from
xU? conntr that they didn't shear, and the episode a theme
for their regretful rumination. Oregon Journal.
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