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Newspaper Page TextMorrow county - , , ,. IF YOU WANT ALL THE NEWS OF MORROW COUNTY WHILE IT IS NEWS, READ THE HEPPNER HERALD. WE PRINT IT FIRST HEPPNER VOLUME X HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 12, 1924. NUMBER 42 ry EXPORT LEAGUE MADE FARMERS, BAXKERS, BISIXESS MEN JOIX AT LEXINGTON Committees Appointed to Secure 100 Per Cent Membership in County No termer movement having for its objective the relief of tle farm ing industry in this county has re ceived the undivided support of the farmers themselves, the bankers and business men of the county to the extent given the Oregon Export league, a county unit of which was made permanent at Lexington last Saturday. Former movements, in cluding the Grange, the Farmer's Union, the Farm Bureau and the Wheat Growers Co-Operative asso oiation, have generally failed to at tract but a small percentage of the farmers themselves, while bankers and business men generally either opposed them or remained luKewarm regarding their promise for useful ness. The export league, however, seems to be in a class by itself in the field of farmer's organizations and its ob jective point, the passage of the Mc-Nary-Haugen bill now before "con gress is meeting with the unqualified support of all citizens. At the Lexington meeting Satur day a crowd estimated at 500 farm ers and. others held an all day ses sion at which the merits of the bill were thoroughly discussed and a per manent county organization was formed, with" the following officers: R. L. Benge, of Heppner, president; Henry Smous'e, of lone, vice-president; C. B. Cox, of Heppner, secretary-treasurer. The following community commit teemen were appointed to carry the membership drive Into every corner of the county within the next few days, it being the intention to se cure a 100 per cent membership in Morrow county: Ed Rugg, B. H. Peck, upper Rhea creek; Ed Reitman, C. R. Gunzell, Bert Mason, lone; C. D. Morey, Al pine; Oscar Keithley, Howard An derson, Eightmile; W. O. Hill, Earl Eskelson, Lexington; Roy Campbell, Social Ridge; C. E. Carlson, lower Dry Fork. These men, with others appointed later by the chairman, are expected to enlist any other help needed to make a thorough canvass of their communities in a rapid fire drive and reports from all are ex pected to be in the"Tiands of Secre tary Cox at Heppner not later than next Saturday. Roy Ritner, of Pendleton, a wheat farmer and ex-preslden? of the Ore gon state senate, made a rousing speech on the export bill (explainlng its purpose and provisions clearly. Mr. Ritner raid that overproduction has something to do with the pres ent bad situation in the wheat mar ket but maintained that the work ings of the present tariff laws, as they are related to the wheat indus try are unjust' and unfair to the man that produce's wheat. Thee being an exportable surplus of wheat, the tariff does not help, but the export plan, the speaker asserted, will solve the problem. The"world price of wheat is now fixed in Liverpool and thatTSrice governs in this coun try. The export commission will remedy Tltis unjust condition by es tablisElng a price for wheat used for domestic' consumption based on the prevailing, prices for all the sta ple commodities which are protect ed by the present tariff laws. Labor, Mr. Ritner 'Said, is well organised and is protected by the tariff and the Immigration laws. The farmers have "helped pass these laws which protect everyBody but himself, causlngjiim to pay pfoectlve tariff for what he buys, while" sells his product on a free trade basis. Thla must be changed before the6 farmer and the country generally can enjoy real prosperity. High freight rates on farni products were aTso named by the speaker as a contributing cause to low wheat prices. "Mr. Ritner al so paid" "his respects to the politi cians and officials who advocate di versified farming as the farmer's sal vation. "President Coolidge "sent Eugene Myer and Frank Mondell on tour of the "wheat states to find out what ia iiifi matter with agri culture," the speake" said, "and af ter holding hearings all over the west they reported to the president that all the farmers needed to do was to diversify their crops. "as I drove over from Pendle ton this morning," the speaker con tinued, ''1 longed to have Messrs. Myer and Mondeirwuh m,e so 1 could ask them if they thought the farmers of Morrow and Umatilla counties could make a living raising oranges or peanuts on these wheat lands?" Based on the prices of what he has to buy the farmer should be receiving $1.50 a bushel for his wheat today, he said. . w. W. Harrah, another "dirt farmer" of Umatilla county and an able speaker, followed with the statement that the passaa of thif bill will provehe easy job. Unan imity of opinion throughout the wheat states and that opinion force fully expressed not only In meetings like this but in private letters and telegrams addressed to -the president and our congressional delegation are absolutely necessary. Mr. Har rah called for an expression from the audience asking all who would publicly pledge themselves to write a letter or two to hold up the right hand. There was a fair response. Mr. Harrah declared that outside the advance in land values there has not been 2 per cent profit in raising wheat in eastern Oregon In the past 20 years. He deplored the fact that some politicians, some big business interests and some farmers' organi zations are enemies of this bill and that hard work may be expected in ordef to win. Fred Bennion, county agent of Umatilla county, spoke, further ex plaining the measure. He expressed the hope that President Coolidge will yet see the light and get be hind the measure with his influ ence. "With all due respect to the president," Mr. Bennion said, ."we must remember that he came from a state where the manufacture of tombstones is the leading industry and that the question of living pric es for wheat is not a live issue. W. P. Mahoney also spoke brief ly, declaring that to him this meas ure promises more , in the way of real help to the farmer than any other plan he has heard suggested, he declared himself for the bill and ready t odo his utmost to help put it over. The importance of private letters from the people to the president and members of congress insisting .that the relief promised by the McNary Haugen bill be granted to the wheat farmers was stressed by every speak er and the newspapers of the county were asked to publish the proper ad dresses of the president and mem bers of the Oregon delegation In congress. These addresses will be found, in another column of this pa per. TO WILSON'S MEMORY APPROPRIATE SERVICE HELD AT SCHOOL THURSDAY Local Sneakers Pay Tribute to the Great War President and .... Peace Advocate Heppner citizens paid a deserved tribute to the memory of Woodrow Wilson, ex-president of th(e United States, last Thursday afternoon when the auditorium at the high school was crowded with an audience gathered to honor the high ideals and undying devotion to a principle of one of the nation's greatest citi zens. Politics and differences regarding national and international policies and problems were forgotten and all united in giving due praise to the high purposes of he who guided the Bhip of state through the stormy period of the world war. The service, which was not de tremined on until the prevloous af ternoon, was not well advertised in the community or the auditorium would have no doubt proved inade quate. The following appropriate pro gram was given: Selection High School Orchestra Song High School Chorus. Prayer Rey. F. R. Spaulding Reading of 23rd Psalm Mrs. Shurte QOURSCORE and leven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the reposition that all men are created equal Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a jinal resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract, . the world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who -fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion, to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the, people, and for the people, shall not perish from- the earth. E NEW COMMUNITY HALL Dan McDevitt and Barney Doher- ty, Jr., two well known young men of the Juniper canyon neighborhood, were in town Friday and made- this office a pleasant visit. Juniper neighborhood is coming to the front, the boys report, and the community life will soon be ad vanced by the completion of a com munity hall near the Ed McDaid ranch, a central location for the neighborhood. The first load of ma terial was put on the ground Fri day and active work will be com menced at once. The new building will be 30 x 60 feet in size, the main hall being 30 x 50, the re maining space being occupied by a kitchen and. other conveniences. The building will be U3ad as a real com munity center where the people of the neighborhood can get together on all proper occasions." Church services, social entertainments, dances, farmers' meetings, in fact all meetings necessary for the ad vancement of the community will be held there. Special rates were secured on 'the lumber and other materials, but the cost of the material alone will reach about $1,000.00, while the hauling, carp(euter work and all other labor connected with the enterprise will be donated. The building is financed by the Juniper Hall association and shares of the alue of $5.00 each are being sold. It is expected the building will be completed by the 17th of March, when it will be opened with a big celebration of St. Patrick's day. The Burgoyne flouring mill at Lexington was the scene of a fire last Thursday afternoon, the blase starting from a hot box while the mill was in operation. For a time it waa feared the entire structure would be destroyed, but the new chemical extinguisher recently In stalled by the town council proved adequate and the blaze was put out with damages estimated at less than $100.00. Song Church Chorus Address r"Wilsoa the Man" C. E. Woodson Song High School Chorus Address "Wilson the President" S. E. Notson - Address "Wilson the Christian" Rer. Livingstone Violin Solo Miss Steele Address "Wilson the Idealist" Rer. Spaulding Song Church Chorus "S AS OTHERS SEE US" A correspondent of the Iriuh Times, published at Dublin, Ire land, who has been visiting this country and making a study of the workings of the national prohibition law has written a lengthy article for his paper, giving his impressions of prohibition as he found it in New York City. On the ground that It is sometime good for us to "see our selves as others see us," and not by way of endorsing all of the opinions and deductions expressed, the Herald publishes a few excerpts from the ar ticle, which is headed, "1,000,000 Drinks Per Day"; "At a conservative estimate there are, on an average, one million alco holic drinks consumed in New York every day amongst a local population of seven millions; in other words, any man who frequents, any medium priced resaurant in New York can have a cocktail or a highball, or a bottle of beer there, it he is willing to pay a couple of shillings for it. If he were to trace that drink to Its source, he would certainly find that it was not from the last bottle the proprietor had stored up before Pro ohibitlon (that old gag died long ago), but it was the product of a quietly working, clear-thinking, co operative organization of men with a big job on their hands, growing more and more powerful In the execution of it. The late and deeply respected President Harding said the Prohibi tion question would not be settlod in twenty years. The truth of that ut terance, and- all he meant by It, will only be realized over that period of time. "It is not tho passionate utterances of Governor Pinchot about a few thousand or a few hundred thousand (as he generously amended it) as sorted lawbreakers holding up the proper functioning oT the Voltitead Act (and which, to take him literal ly, must be driving very many mil lions at least to join the assortment). It is not mpe rairy persiflage,' of this kind that ia going to get to the root of the proper control of the li quor question. There Is a demand tor it amongst all classes of people.. It is not possible to ignore this fact, and evidences are not lacking thru out the cities of the United States. Do the thinking sections of all par ties on the liquor question pause to think of the growing tendencies of the citizen to consume liquor where and when he can get It? Of tho steadily-acquired taste for prohibited drink amongst the youth of the coun tryall the more desirable because (Continued on Page Five) AMOS ACQUITTED OF MURDER CHARGE AT CAXYOX CITY C. L. Sweek has returned from Canyon City where he attended court last week as principal attor ney for Claude Amos, who was charged with murder in the first de gree for the shooting of Carl Mink ler at Monument last fall. The trial lasted five days and was bitterly contested, a special prosecutor have been employed to assist the prosecuting attorney. The defense set up the claim of tempor ary insanity due to the alleged fact that Minkler had broken up the Amos home by undue intimacy with Mrs. Amos. The men engaged in a fight at a dance at Monument and after Mink ler had given Amoa a beating the lat ter secured a rifle and shot his an tagonist dead. The Jury was out 25 hours and finally brought in a verdict of aquittal on the grounds of self defense. It is understood the "unwritten law" covering such cases was s. factor in the verdict. Mr. Sweek, who was accompanied by Mrs. Sweek on the trip, says he never before experienced such roads as he found between Olex and Con don and between Dayville and John Day. His car mired clown frequent ly and he was pulled out by teams, Cowboy's lariats and auy other available power. Mr. Sweek was assisted by Otis Patterson, of Canyon, in the de fense. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS TO CELEBRATE JUBILEE Doric Lodge, Knights of Pythias, will observe the 60th anniversary or Golden Jubilee of the founding of that order and also the 40th anni versary of the institution of the lo cal lodge, on Tuesday evening, Feb ruary 19th. An open meeting of the lodge will be held to which the public is cor dially invited. There will be four short addresses given on the cardinal principles of the order, as follows: Friendship, Charity, Benevolence and Patriotism. MORROW GO. RANCHES IK M. STl'AHT ACQUIRES MATLOCK, tVHETSTO.VcT TRACTS Will Reside Here ami Develop Model Country Home and Fine Stock "Farm . Perhaps the moat Important real estate transaction involving Morrow county realty In recent years waB closed this morning when D. M. Stuart, Portland capitalist, became the owner of the T. J. Matlock and Whetstone ranches located on Hln ton creek, a few miles east of Hepp ner. The deal Includes tho 1280-acre Matlock ranch, known as one of tho best appointed stock farms in the county, situated on the Oregon Washington highway seven miles east from Heppner, and tho Whet stone ranch of 1,000 acres adjoin ing. The Whetstone tract Is most ly first-class range land with some creek bottom ' while the Matlock tract Is well improved with more than 100 acres of fine alfalfa land under irrigation. The combined tracts will consti tute one of the best stock farms In the county and It Is understood Mr, Stuart Is already planning extneslve Improvements which will make the place onp of the model fine stock farms In Oregon if not in the entire Pacific northwest. I. L. Hanna. of the firm of Sym-onds-Johnson Co., Portland, handled the deal, which means much to the better stock movement In Morrow county. Mrs. Matlock will make her home in Portland after about March 1st, at which time Mr. Stuart expects to take over the properties. Not without Interest to the good road movement in Oregon is the statement from Mr. Stuart that without he fine macadam highway compleed last summer past the Mat lock ranch he would not have con sidered the investment he has just made In Morrow county proptriT. 6 LOCAL EXPORT LEAGUE FARMERS AXD BUSIXESS MEN BACK McXARY-HAUGEX BULL Mass Sleeting at Arlington Thursday Pledges Its Unanimous Support That the farmers of Gilliam coun ty are fully awake to the necessity for doing something to better their financial condition was plainly shown at the mass meeting at Arlington last Thursday when representative farmers from all parts of the county met to discuss the McNary-Haugen wheat export commission bill and to organize a county unit of the Oregon Export Commission league. That tho leading business men and bankers of the county are equally interested with the farmers in putting the measure across was also placed I plainly in evidence by the presence of representatives of practically all lines of business from every town in the counlj', many of whom had driv en 40 or CO miles literally "through" roads well nigh impassable and . which Frank Hurlburt described as (using that short but expressive word that is supposed to sizzle. The Arlington opera house waa crowded to the floors with citizens who seemed to know just what they wanted and with a rather clear un derstanding of how to go about to get it. There was no division dur ing th(e meeting. There was plenty of discission and suggestions from farmers, bankers and business men and it all crystallzed into a set of ringing resolutions endorsing the McNary-Haugen measure and urging ' our representatives in congress to leave nothing undone to accomplish its passage. Copies of the resolu tions wore ordered wired to each in dividual member of the Oregon dele cgation In congress, to President Coolldge, to Senator Norrls, chair man of the senate agricultural com mittee, and to Secrotary of Agricul ture Wallace. Mark Watherford, big wheat farmer of Shuttlcr flat, and formerly a practicing attorney at Albany, was chairman of the meeting and T. A. Weinke, of Condon, was secretary. Mr. Weatherford, In his introductory remarks, after pointing out the pur pose of the meeting and the urgent need for immediate relief for tho wh(eat farmer, said that if the McNary-Haugen bill passes and proves successful It will cause all the Dem ocrats to become protectionists and If It does not pass it will cause all the Republicans to becoomte free traders. The remark brought forth applause. E. R. Jackman, of O. A. C, was present and to him fell the duty of explaining tho measure which he did In a lucid and satisfactory way. Many questions were asked the speaker to bring out some point not entirely clear to the questioners. T. A. Weinke was called to tho floor and responded with a brief but snappy speech declaring that the welfare of every resident of tho coun ty was conditioned on the success of the farmer. "I am for thla bill," declared Mr. Weinke, "first, last and all the time because I believe it 1o be a measure of justice long due tho farming Industry. I am Republican and as a citizen I am first for my country and second for my party. At the present time I am for President Coolldge but should he fail to givo this measure his heartiest support when the test conies I say here and now that I am NOT with him auy longer." The speaker's statement was heartily cheered. Permanent officers elected at th? meeting were; Mark Weatherford, of Arlington, president; James F. Dyer, of Mayvllle, vice-president; T. A. Weinke, of Condon, aecretary treasurer. At the close of the meeting prac tically every man in the ball signed the membership roll. Chas. li. Cox, a member of the board of directors of the Oregon Ex ooort league, W. P. Mahoney, of the First National- Bank, W. II. Pad berg, big wheat grower of Rhea, creek and a representative of the Herald were present at tlys meetlnf from Hppner.