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PAGE TWO THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON Tuesday, August 21, 1923 THE HEPPNER HERALD AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER S. A. PATTISON, Editor and Publisher Entered at the Heppner, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class Matter Terms of Subscription One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months $0.50 HOME INDUSTRIES SHOULD BE PATRONIZED The following editorial was awarded first prize by the Colorado Kditorial Association. The prize was offered by the Dry Climate Ink and Roller. Co. Do manufacturers generally really appreciate what the local newspapers do for the community in their efforts to encourage industrial development and make a better market for the factory out put? Read what Editor Byrnes says in the Pueblo-Colorado Indicator: "When a resident of any city, town or community makes the casual remark that he cannot see why he should buy of home merchants or show a preference for home manu factured goods he sets the more thoughtful individual to thinking, and he is apt to thin kalong straight lins. lie has heard a strange sentiment expressed that wakes him up, and he is apt to reflect somewhat after this fashion: "Now, if all the citizens in this town talked and felt as this man does we couldn't and wouldn't have much of a town, and neither community nor state would be getting just returns for the expense and trouble it has gone to in building up the community, and for the civil government it has established for safeguarding the lives and property and other interests of its citizens. It would not be receiv ing just compensation for providing schools and parks and jobs for the wage earners and business for the merchants to enable them to make a good living. Such a man is not giving value received for what he gets out of the commun ity of common interests." "On the other hand the home-patronage and home-industry proposition works something like this: If the local merchant neglects to patronize those who patronize him lie is not doing his fair share, either. If he does not buy his boxes, brooms and mattresses, for instance, of the home manufacturer or the stale manufacturer, and sends his orders away for such goods, he gets the goods, to be sure, but the out-of-lhe-state firm gets the money, and thus it is taken out of the home circulation market and it les sens the wealth of the community by just that much. "And, moreover, the box and broom makers, the mat tress makers, and the proverbial butcher, the baker and the candle stick maker is deprived of so much needed employ ment, and it hurts, for the local laborer and salaried peron in towii has less money to spend with the grocer, the cloth ier, the dry goods man and everyone else in business; and so because a link in' the chain of natural trade has been broken the entire chain of economics is made weaker and less efficient. It works the same way when a family sends its order off tb Squcers, Sawbuck & Co., or other big mail catalogue houses in Chiyork for household supplies, the struggling home merchant or jobber and the state manufacturer is deprived of his legitimate trade, but he is called upon just the same to contribute to a multitude of small benevo lences and enterprises, and he must submit without pro test to being plucked about every so often and occasionally in between times. 'So let it be understood that the business man is a very useful and necessary adjunct to any community, for he not only affords employment to others but he is among the heaviest, taxpayers of the home government for offensive and de!ei..ie purposes, so that he is entitled to considera tion and support, It is thus seen that home patronage has its selfish side and its loyal side that appeal to us both go ing and coni.-.g ' K'ecip' i.v it v is a grand and noble institution when made to woik both ways. It then falls upon the community like man. 1 Irom heaven. It raidiatcs a sustaining and sooth ing influence upon all persons and interests alike. It is a human sort of sentiment that needs to be more generally as well as more generously practiced. It is the Ciolden Rule applied to home and building business affairs. It re lates to everybody and everything. "It the rule were more universally observed there would be bigger and belter home and state mercantile, manufac turing and jobbing concerns, moie employment and lower taxes, and there would be lower volumious dog-eared catalogues of the use." SHOES AT COST LADIES' AND CHILDERN'S SHOES We are going to close out our entire line within the next thirty days at ABSOLUTE COST NOTE THESE REDUCTIONS Ladies' 15-in. hiking shoes, were $9.00, now $7.75 Ladies low shoes, were $3.95, now 3.10 Ladies dress shoes, were $4.65, now 3.65 PROPORTIONATE REDUCTIONS ON ALL OTHER LINES OF CHILDREN'S SHOES. COME IN EARLY AND GET FITTED WHILE OUR LINES ARE COMPLETE. W. P. PROPHET & CO. 13 AWMONTOMomea bimmmmimhiim are visiting at the Home of their aunt, Mrs. M. L. Curran. ACTIVITY IN SHEEI' MARKET Several sheep buyers are in th county this week, among them be ing W. J. Gooding, of Boise; Thos. Taylor ot Burley, Idaho, and Torn Boylen, of Pendleton. It is understood that Mr. Gooding, bought five carloads of lambs this morning from W. W. Buell, after t'ey had been loaded for the Port land market, and rebilled tho cars to Chicago. Mr. Buell is a sheepmaa in the Monument country. Mr .Gooding went from here to Condon this forenoon. Tom Boylea, of Pendleton, was in town this morn ing and it was reported on the street that he had bought most of the lambs on Butter creek' on his way over. This report, however, could not be verified. It is undestood that buyers .are prepared to pay about 9 cents for good lambs delivered at Heppner. SSSlBBBBIIBBBn"""E""""BBBHBBMIS (KH'KKTM AM) GKASSHOPPF.KS Interest in hollyhocks seems to be waning the past week due either to the hot weather or to the Clevc- i ! A marraigyo license was issued ! Thursday afternoon by County Clerk I Anderson to Clifton Davidson, 22, of ! Portland, and Mary Chandler, 18, of land classic that was published last j Cecil. week. Whatever tho cause, holly Charlie Bell, who lost a thumb in hocks and hollyhock stories are sort . . t , t k h big out-of-state mail order houses in THE TAX PROBLEM We believe the greatest problem before the American people today is the problem of taxation, says the Shena doah, la., Sentinel Post. Two sane methods of relief are open. First discourage new governmental fads and fancies which add unneces sary Jaws to our statute books with increased nuinhers oij '"employes and nunc government overhead. Oftcialisnii spread's like the jrreen bay tree if left to its own course, sol trim down to essentials. Second, see that all property pays taxes equally, which it does not do at present. Under our existing laws any per son is at liberty to convert his property into non-taxable -3--. .,,! it,,,c ..c1-nii.- nil tonus ot taxation. t. .,l l . .lull nu.-' v. .-v The necessity (if it ever existed) for tax-exempt bonds , is past and the u.'iy is here when no such loophole us tins should remain to enable those most able to pay to escape taxation. I'verv dollar that tax-exempt bonds absorb cuts two 'w;iys -'it doubles the tax on other people and removes a dollar from industries which need it for expansion and development. of curling up and grasshopper ami cricket stories are taking the center of the gtafjo. Friday afternoon Ananias club was holding its regular session on the bench in front of Prophet's store, with Emmett Cochran, Uzz French and Squire Richardson pres ent, when the talk turned to grass hoppers: "Some of those old hoppers have mighty sharp teeth," remarked Mr. French, "and they can eat most any thing. Up at Frank Monahan's place they aro eating holes in the side of tke house and one year I remember hearing it said that the chickens and turkeys ate so many of the insects that it killed the fowla. The hoppers, after being swallowed, would just eat a hole out through the chicken and hop off to finish their meal in some garden." "Hoppers art) not in it with tho big, brown crickets that we used to find on the range over on the John Day," commented Emmett Cochran. "I remember one year I had a band of lambs there and one day they rambled Into a patch of crickets. It scared them darned sheep so bad that they wouldn't eat or' do any thing else but mill around in a cir cle and it took nie two days and a half to get them out of that band of crickets and Quieted down again so they would eat. , "The crickets always travel in one direction," continued Mr. Cochran, "and when they come to a river tliey never stop traveling nor cackling but just wade in and take their chances. That time on the John Day after I ot my sheep untangled from the darn crickets, I went down to the river to see what they would do. Well sir. there must have been a good mny billions ot tl'fm and I'll tell the world they d dn't stop a minute but just hopped Into the water a Id took their chances. Thero must have been several billion drowned for the river below was covered with dead crickets for uilies but there was enough got across to cat everything there was on that S'de of the river and to scare all the sheep Into fits." S,mlr Richardson wlno-1 the pi i epilation from his brow, fanned himself with his hat for a moment a.m looked grieved. "Well, I can tell you felU.ws one tiling,'1 he finally said. "I have soon a few clckets and giass'u"ppo:s my telf sail I could tell yr,u a sL.:y a!iout '.iui that would make yon rri:ow. OUlhl line pi sera inn. "'o j--v of ihc r.aco aud police juig? or fie cltj i Heppner, hv I-. ".alntam tUo d.gnity of my lfU. i tf : u Mlowe will Jtt nil my term expiil t wiVl tell yo me cricket and g Whopper sioiies that will wake you wish you had to:d your Mores lut." trade supplied, Mr. Latourell says, so they have, to bring a lot of machines from Portland under thir own power. Misses Catherine and Cecilia Col leary, of Vancouver, Washington, Forehanded People Inside of the vault of the bank are located the individvual Safe Deposit Boxes main tained for those forehanded people who want the BEST OF PROTECTION for their valuables. Bonds, stocks, insurance policies, mortgages, records, receipts, jewelry, trink ets, etc, deserve better protection than they receive when kept in an office safe, tin box or hidden away somewhere. This bank has these Safe Deposit Boxes for rent at the rate of two dollars a year and up, according to the size of the box, It offers you the opportunity to keep your valuables where it keeps its own. Rent a Safe Deposit Box today, for the number now vacant is limited. Farmers and Stockgrowers National Bank HEPPNER, OREGON - ---i lfc his is Reel Seed ea Weather You have the weather, we have the makings Schilling's or Folger's either in regular paper packages or vacuum tins Phelps Grocery Company