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PAGE TWO THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON Tuesday, October 30, 1923 THE HEPPNER HERALD ' AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER S. A. PATTTSON, Editor and Publisher Entered at the Heppner, Oregon, Postoffice as Becond-class Matter Terms of Subscription f One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months So.qo McARTHUR NO More and more are the voters of Oregon, in common "With those of the rtM of L'nele Sam's domain, becoming tired of the. old la-liioned, fence straddling politician. More and more are they coming to admire the candidate for public oil ice who ha. the guts to come out squarely and declare j u -1 where he -.tanhs on questions of the hour. Oregon politician -, in the past hae been largely of the straddling variety and particularly have they been reticent regarding the Ku Klux Klan, otherwise described as the invisible empire. J'',x-(iovenor Olcott was a notable exception during the last campaign. J le denounced the klan as a menace to good -government and the resujt was that the members of the hooded order threw their strength to Walter Pierce and Oliyjlt was defeated by a real landslide. With that bit of history still fresh in the minds of Ore gon politicians it requires no small degree of g courage is a more refined word for any man who as-. Jjires.ljO a seat in the United States senate to, in his an nouncement of candidacy, openly and unequivocally declare himself absolutely opposed to the klan and all that it stands for and, in effect, to defy the organization to do its worst when the time comes. That is exactly what C. X. ( "Pat") McArlhur did a few days ago and he did not stutter any when he said it. During his service in congress McArthur has been known as fearless in expressing his opinions and position on any question that has arisen and it is no secret that in this he stands as one of the few public men in the state with1 such a: record. I Ie was defeated last year, not because of his independence, but rather because he was catfght in the Olcott avalanck and lor the time, buried. vSo far McArthur is the only announced candidate for senator to declare himself. The others are all playing old fashioned politics so far as the klan is concerned and all up-standing citizens, whether they agree with him or not, must respect his independence and courage. Mayor Maker has' made an open bid for the klan vote but without using very plain Knglish in making it and so far the 'others are keeping pretty much under cover. The people are getting tired of pussyfooters. Mat McArlhur is no pussyfooler. H-W-H-W- -I- .K-K-M-M- -h HARDMAN 'V j j j j j j j Tlio Union IiIkIi hcIkio! of Ilanl man, Oregon, 1h now coiiiplctinff llii'ir pri'pnratloiiH for a Halloween carni val to tie n'ven Saturday niKlit, No vember 3. The first feature of the carnival i to lie a (i o'clock cafeteria dinner In the Lodge hall. liccjnnlng ahont fi:S0 o'clocli, nov 'IIU'H 11 )l 1 1 lefreKlinienlH will he on Mile In booths In the high schoul ainlilot'liiin. A free program consisting of a mliiHlrol show anil a gipsy operetta will be given In the curly part of tho evening. The auditorium will lie used for dancing niter the program. Ity Mael Hays. Advertise It in the Herald. rllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!IIIIUIISIlllllllllll!llll!llllli!INIIIIIIIIIIIII!l!llil!IIII.Tl Elkhor n Best Eating Place in To tvn We ire now nerving All Kinds of Shell Fish To Order s S Our food ti best qtiulitv, well conked, neatly ercd Spefial ntlentioit jivcn to lodtfc mul ilub biinijuct- Ullduu-u "1 ' 1 I ir;.uuuam I i:i)V.VKD OHINN, I'ri'P. 1 1 I 1 W c ici ne eur p.itroua.vic s isaaiuiiuiyiuiuiiatiuiiiMiUBtmtuiuujwuautDuiDuuiamittu PUSSYFOOTER W HKAT M KSi:HIKS IIjA.TKI The planting of two wheat nurs eries in Morrow county was com pleted by County Agent Morse this past week. They Include some three hundred odd rows of fall grains with space left for it considerable quantity of spring grains to be planted later. In these nniHeries are thirty-five varieties of winter wheats Including three selections of white Turkey lied and all of Hie smut-ri -slstant wheats that are under test at the I Moro station at the present time. As there bus been considerable dif ficulty In the past In raising winter barleys in parts ol this county, eight varieties of winter barleys have been planted to check on their winter hardiness and yields. The nurseries are located on the Lawrence Kedding farm at Kighf niile, and at Troy Ilogards, three miles north of lone. An Appreciation A. W. Oemniell, who was seriously Injured in a runaway accident recent ly, wishes to express his thanks and appreciation to bis neighbors who. uninvited, went to tile (lemiuell ranch last. Sunday morning and pro ceeded to seed his summer fallow ground tc( wheat. Many other neigh borly acts were performed by these same neighbors In behalf of Mr. Ciem niell and his family dining his con finement in the hospital all of which are fully appreciated. "It's good to live among such neighbors," was Mr. (leinnieU'H remark in reQuestiug tho Herald to print this notico und he Is right. Anybody w ho imagines that horses are a thing of the past should attend the l'luillc International Live Slock Kxposltiou this yeHr at Portland, November 3-10. The draft horse di ll vision Imiudes Percherous, lyiglans. i Shires and Clydesdales and heavy horses are reported coining from Iowa and Illinois. Shetland ponies are promised from several points e.ist. and the iters,, shew i:si'f is to have fancy saddlers. H.n'Kr..s Ar. dn ir.i', (!,.i, s of all kinds frem the l.U :-. st t.ill!!i'T! 111-- (Ml !' , : tm '. The lie-e -'lew j ..,. of il'.e- t !n i'. i , , v.t ; e'' I'm- ar. t'atile .shipment Sunday S c.i.i of I.e. f i'i:fe , i t ,-' t from the lo.al yards to the port land market. Shippers wire: petvv Hughes 1 car; Keisey, of Hitter. car; Hans Hanson, of Kilter. 4 cars. ,'1 - - - i Pyramid Temple Prepared by th National Ciprifjraphlc So ciety, VViiHhlnjum, 1. C.) Archeology, modern transportation tnd radical government experiments line been made bedfellows by the (penliig of a hew automobile road by .lie socialist government of the state f Yucatan, Mexico, lending from lleiiila, the capital, to the wonderful ili,ns of Chielien ltza, which might bu enned America's Thebes. One of the voiid's most Interesting remains of ur ancient civilization Is thus made iccesslhle to students and tourists as t by-product to a radical government's hin to make work for laborers during In economic depression by pushing ond construction. In the hot, rather dry Yucatan penin sula, which today Is little visited by tutslders, civilization reached Its high tst point on the North American con inent In the years before the coming f Europeans. After the Uniting of lavages by Columbus and his linmedl Ite followers, both on the West Indian slnnds and on parts of the mainland, he discovery a little later in Yucatan f structures built of stone, and built veil, and of artistic carvings, came as l great surprise to the Spaniards. While some of the structures were n use at the time of the Spanish coli iiest, a number of once great cities tin been abandoned and swallowed up y the Jungle. Some mysterious fate lad overtaken tills people, the Mayas, mil only a somewhat degenerate rem nint was clinging to the works of their Here Illustrious ancestors. The wholly lew regime resulted In the final extin ulshment of their culture. Temples and palaces, prisons, "con tents," arenas for games, astronomical Ihscrvntories and monuments, all ac- i turately built of masonry and decorat i Hi with artistic carvings and hlero j fl.vphlcs, are some of the sign posts : Jointing to the achievements of the I ilayiis und their development of cui i lire. Archeologlsts state that at the ; .line of their mysterious decline they 1 M'i'o at the threshold of a true civili 1 tatlon. Indeed, In some ways they had 'iiirpiissed in intellectual achievements I he civilization of the Egyptians and he ltahjionians. Their Writing and Architecture. til their system of writing, the Mayns lad reached a most interesting point, ioiinu among no ether existing people Ji the world, the transition point be tween picture writing, which the Ohl lese have never passed beyond, and jhenetic writing by means of an alpha let such as that we use. The architectural types of the Mayas mil their decorative designs have ten ures so similar to some of those of be old world that the earlier students if the American ruined cities believed hut their builders had been Influenced i.v Egyptians, Itabylonlans or Hindus. The types of arches and certain sculp Mred designs were compared especlnl f to those found In the great Hindu i'mple of Boro-Pudur In Java. It Is ie more general opinion now, how ver, that the works of the Mayas tere the result of a culture born on tils continent and acquired by this eople In their toilsome wny upward Vom savagery and through barbarism. The story of Yucatan In recent Imps Is the story of henequen fiber, jmiimil, that doesn't seem to affect Ju average American to any great ex eat. Put It does nffecf him every line be buys a loaf of bread. The story night be framed like that of the house hav Jack built. Henequin means ren- leiiiihly cheap and plentiful binder wine; binder twine makes possible the l-c of harvesting machines; harvesters lie.ipcn grain production ; che.i; grain c ans c! cap bread; and so hoiieipiin, it"l arid Yucatan, pl.iv important parts n foe !': g Amovi. a an 1 ! he w mid. The elh.er s..!e ( Ihe s;,.-y- the a;-.-! ih-(' i;-;r' t of The hen.sp;.'n in litr ;.n. the jwiiritie ef we.ihh if.io ,',i."il.'U chicdy from the gram belt .f -rih America - mi louhrod'y plav cd ts a't in swinging tie p. -ducal p-:i-fi: 1 n in from extreme feudalism to so 'l.disiil. ller.oiiuen. which is n sort of cactus let unlike the century plant or the puhpie cactus" In appearance, had .cut grown lu Yucatan since yrciUs- J V ,,1 -s i of Chichen Itza. toric times und its filler was used in local plantation and village industries. Put there was no outside market of considerable magnitude for the fiber until the increasing use of harvesting machinery ;n the United States created a demand for large quantities of bind er twine. Once a Feudal State. Rcfore what may be culled "the henequen era" in Yucatan a traveler in the country might have imagined with a few concessions to race and climate that he was in the heart of Europe's old feudalism. Some of the principal land owners hud truly baro nial estates through which one could travel for days. On the most extensive estates were scattered half a dozen or more great stone castie-like haciendas In the care of major domos In these sumptuous dwoMings members of the owner's family mbht not spend a night a year, for they lived for the most part in state in the capital, Meri da, or spent their time traveling in Eu rope or the United States. In those days cattle raising was the chief in dustry In Yucatan and prosperity never reached below the few members of the propertied class. Climate and physical conditions gave Yucatan its feudalism. The surface of the country consists-of only the thin nest of soil, and underneath Is porous limestone. The climate Is dry and hot half the year, but there Is a reasonable amount of rainfall during the other six months. Yucatan Is one of the few areas in which there Is an appreciable rainfall, but no streams or even stream beds. As fast as the rain falls during the rainy season it seeps through the thin soil and souks Into the limestone. The lack of surface water, and the fact that hardly any food crops can be grown on much of Yucatan's poor soil, made it practically Impossible for the peons to exist except under the wings of the great landholders. The latter constructed capacious reservoirs lit their haciendas, in which enough water was stored during the rainy season to supply all their retain ers through the six months' dry period. The situation was helped out, ton, by the cenotos, the unique water holes of Yucatan, apparently formed by a fall ing in of the roofs of subterranean hikes. In most cases these queer natural reservoirs were owned by the landed proprietors. Laborers Now In Control. Toward the close cf the Nineteenth century honequeti production shoul dered out cattle production from the place of first importance, and before many years the fiber dominated the life of the country. The old feudal system remained largely unchanged, however, and the landowners became extremely wealthy. But some of the prosperity Inevitably filtered down to a growing middle class, and even to the planta tion lnborers, and soon Yucatan gave indications of a political turbulence unknown In the older feudal days. When the World war came prosper ity reached Its peak In Y'ucatan, with henequen fiber selling for as much as 19 cents a pound. The few landowners were no longer able to dominate the state government and the laborers and their friends, who gained control, re shaped the entire scheme of things. Wages of workers were fixed by legis lation at $.1.2o to $iM (In United Statei money) for each eight hours. After thi armistice the pi Ice of henequen fell sharply, and by 1!J1 It had fallen to 4 cents, and In W22 it reached Its lowest point, 3'a cents. The wage laws re mained unchanged and many of the plantations, carefully tended for years, were abandoned to wild growth. Tin country then etivrieneed what was probably its Brv.itevt im-unic crisis, lloncqucu production whs g-";t'y re duced and conditions b-ive improved somewhat wish the liher now at -i1 cents a pound. Yucatan is the thumb, which, with the linger of Florida, almost riiiioej the tlulf of Mexico. It is for the most part a tlat plain, its highest hills being measured In only hundreds of feet. It is ene of the first lands to which the world-faring gulf stream gives It w arm tli. HELD OX ASSAULT AND BATTFKY CHAIWl Frank Andrews, George Andrew and Frank Barnes were given a pre liminary hearing before Justice Cor nett Saturday afternoon on an as sault and battery charge, Andy Rooc jr., being the complaining witness. According to Mr. Rood's tesiimor.;. he was going from Heppner to In: ranch with a truck load of sect wheat when the three men over.ook him in a Ford car and Frank An drews demanded settlement of a la bor bill which he claimed to be du him from Rood in the sum of $267 Rood swore tho demand was made in a threatening manner and he grabbed a wrench and jumped from his truck to defend himself. He picked up a rock and threw it at Andrews but missed and dropped the wrench at the same time when An drews struck him in thy eye with a hammer knocking him down. The three men then all attacked him, he testified, and he finally gave the check for. the amount demanded. The three defendants swore that Andrews quietly asked Rood for a settlement and that Rood struck him with a piece of chain then grabbed the wrench and jumped out after which Andrews swore he struck Rood in the eye with his fist knocking him down. All three defendants denied that a hammer played any part in the fracas and that Andrews did not threaten Rood in any way. It seems there has been a dispute ever wages dating from last winter with a difference of opinion between the parties of about $230. iigsbee Is now open and prepared to take first-class Photographs B.G.SIGSBEE PHOTOGRAPHER Located on Main Street Opposite Star Theatre, Hcppner (7 Heppner Tailoring Company Successors to G. Franzen SUITS MADE TO ORDER Old Work Remodeled CLEANING and PRESSING All Work Guaranteed New York Life insurance affords the holder PROTECTION in more ways than one. It protects your family in the event of your death. J It protects your business, of which you are, perhaps, the most valuable asset, while you are living. It protects your credit in times of financial stringency by the loan privilege it offers. It protects you by substantial payments if to tally disabled by accident or disease. It pays double in case of accidental death. The New York Life offers many different plans of insurance each of highest merit in its place. Can you afford to take chances against fate when you can secure absolutely reliable and trustworthy protection at a moderate cost? Think it over. Phone Main 13 or write us and we will be glad lo call and show yourself and your wife past what these policies are. New York Life Insurance Co. S. A. PATTISON, HEPPNER, NEW BIG PACKAGE 1 1 1 Cigarettes Mr. Rood stopped payment on the check and the three defendants were held to the grand jury in t.ie sum of $250 each. Bonds were fur nished and the three men left for Astoria today where they have em ployment, expecting to return when the grand jury meets in December.. Dan Stalter returned Saturday eve ning from his Mayflower mine in the Greenhorn district where he spent the summer doing development work. Mr. Stalter says he has definitely established the fact that his mine is on a true fissure vein and of such values and quantity as to make the future look very bright. He has spent more than 20 years develop ing the property and expects, to start shipping ore as soon as the roadrl are open next spring. Studio Co, Resident Agent OREGON 2415f a 5