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THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
Tuesday, October 30, 1923
THE HEPPNER HERALD
' AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
S. A. PATTTSON, Editor and Publisher
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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.
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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.
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PUSSYFOOTER
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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