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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
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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.
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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.
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(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
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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