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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1914)
THE GAZETTE-TIMES. The Heppner Gaiette, Established March 30, 1!!3. w The Heppner Times, Established No- J5Consoiuiated February 15, 1912. VAWTF.H IUAFR1), Editor and Proprietor. momiiiE. iin entered at the lMstottiee at Heppner, Oregon, as secoud-clas matter. SiniSCMUrTIOX RATES: One Year Six Months, . . Three Months Single Copies . .1.50 . .75 . .50 . .05 ADVERTISING RATES nisninv. transient. runninB loss than inch, 25c; subsequent lnseriioiiM, i displav, regular, 12 l-2c; locals, first insertion, per line, 10c; subsequent insertions, per line, 5c: lodge resolu tions, per line. 5c; church socials ami all advertising of entertainments conducted for pay, regular rates. . jtOKHOW rOVXTY OFFICIAL PAPER Thursday, July 16, 1914. A tPECVLIAR FEATVRE. There ;is a peculiar feature of the newspaper business that probably Is not tound in any other business on the entire 3Ut. A newspaper is ex pected to publish all the news about all people md every fellow expects to find the sews about everybody else, good or tad, there, and all the news about himself that is good. When the little item comes along that is not complimentary, then the individual concerned swears by all the eternals that the editor has a spite at him and ants to proceed straightway to get even. The editor -who is fit to fill his place is courage ous enough to disregard all of this and pursue his daily work without fear, publishing in his paper the things that he feels obligated to his clients to publish. He is not often a popular individual, and he does not care a rap whether he is or not. He knows, if he is fit to conduct a paper, that he must hit someone every time lie shoots and he also knows that in the course of a few years there will be.many people looking for him with a meat axe. If he is a coward he will quail before tills condition ana his paper will have about R3 mucu force ,as a. wooly worm In a battle with an alligator. In this regard, this business is peculiar but it is an interesting game; one gets such a good grand-stand view of human na ture. Referring to the made-in-Oregon campaign the Dallas Observer very properly says that if Oregon manu facturers would use the methods em ' ployed by those without the state in stead of depending upon a paid prop aganda by paid propagandists they might get more return for their mon ey. About the only manufactured product that is not widely advertised in Oregon newspapers is the made-in-Oregon product, and it is an estab lished fact that advertising -sells goods. True, money is spent on pro fessional boosters who claim to be able to develop public spirit that will tiell the home made product and a lunny s::de of it is that they expect the newspapers who are not recog nized by the manufacturers to get in and boost the game. But, as the Ob server well says, if this' money was spent in straight-out, legitimate ad vertising in the Oregon country news papers there might be more practical results even if there was less hot air and fewer banquets attended only by those who do not need converting. The fellow the Oregon manufacturer must reach if he would increase his sales is the man who buys the east ern made goods and he can only be reached by the methods adopted by the eastern manufacturer legiti mate and skillful advertising. Hills boro Independent. A wheat crop of better than 71,- 000,000 bushels is being harvested in the Pacific Northwest this season despite the many trials and tribula tions that the crop has passed thru during the last few weeks. This la according to the estimates reached by Hyman H. Cohen, chief crop re porter of the Portland Journal, and one of the best informed men in this line on the coast. He estimates that the yield has been shortened at least 5,000,000 bushels by the unfavor able weather conditions, but notwith standing the crop of 1914 will have been found to be a record breaker at tiie close of the season. Bariey and cats will also be bumper crops, the former estimated at 17,000,000 bu shels and the latter at 31,100,000 bu-thek It is a great tribute that is un consciously paid to Mr. Roosevelt by one of his sons. Quentin remarks ihat "Papa is expected to pull every body's chesaat out of the fire." The smart saying has its sordid side, but It contains a great and noble truth. Every man who thinks he is wronged and despairs of relief from existing political parties or leaders turns to Mr. Roosevelt Struggling or op pressed' causes regard him as their champion. An immense number of Americans consider him the tribune and defender of the people, their political St. George to slay dragons of iniquity. Spokesman-Review. What a peculiar world it is. Not deterred by the bad luck that befell our three Meacham train robbers many who were, or claim they were, passengers on that train are now trying to pull off a little stealing of their own. They have put in claims that are undoubtedly padded in view of the officers and railroad officials. They ask for the return of twice as much money as was stolen. Very likely some of the claims are filed by people who were not aboard the train at all. They are simply trying to do a little robbing on a safe basis. Here for sure is the psychology of crime exemplified in a new way. E. O. The contest for nomination to the office of supreme judge between Judge H. L. Benson of Klamath coun ty and Judge Charles L. McNary of Marlon county is drawing to a close with Judge Benson standing to win by one vote. To settle this contest and to find out who was really nom inated it has been necessary to make a recount in many sections of the state and the result in Harney county is yet doubtful. If the vote should stand as indicated there, Judge Ben son will have a majority of nine votes. t According to word received from Umatilla, actual construction of the diverting dam of the West Umatilla project will start soon. Morrison & Knudson of Boise, Idaho, contract ors, have unloaded supplies at that point and a large crew will be added at once, There seems now no chance of work pf construction of the West Tjniatilla project bfln? delayed A daily newspaper, owned, man aged, edited and circulated by wo men, is expected to make its first ap pearance in San Francisco within a few days. It will serve the interests of the Democratic party in the com ing campaign, and it is liopsd to make it a permanent publication of that city. Sherman county suffered a severe storm of hail and rain on Sunday evening and much damage was done to ripening crops. The loss is esti mated at $250,000, and the sufferers are the farmers on the east side of the Deschutes Valley where the force of the storm was spent. AVHO HURT BUSINESS? Editorial Portland Journal. At last, there is official confirma tion by a great non-partisan body of railroad corrpution. Yesterday's report by the Inter state Commerce Commission of crookedness in the New Haven is one of the most extraordinary indict ments ever brought forward in this country. Remembering that the management of the road was by the Morgan and Rockefeller group of banks in New York City, the com mission's finding is a dramatic and significant event. The commission finds that there was a working alliance with polit ical corruption in New York City which cost the New Haven stock holders $1,200,000 paid to politicians for securing Westchester charter changes. The New Haven was made to pay $11,000,000 for the Westches ter when it was not worth over $5, 000,000. John Billard was allowed to buy from and sell back to the New Haven, Boston & Maine, stock at a profit to himself of $2,700,000 and was then rewarded with a directorship in the road. The New Haven was made to pay $20,000,000 for Rhode Island trolleys admittedly worth no more than $8,000,000. Dozens of trolley properties in Connecticut and Massachusetts were bought for the New Haven at almost any price the owners saw fit to ask One thousand newspapers in New England were subsidized, and hun dreds of thousands of dollars spent on civic bodies, lobbyists, legislators and even college- professors to in fluor.ee uubiic continent in favor c New Haven monopolization of tne transportation affairs of New Eng land. Large sums were paid in five states to lawyers who never partici pated in any litigation for the com pany. The losses to New Haven stockholders through corruption and maladministration are placed by the commission at $60,000,000 to $90, 000,000. Dummy corporations were frequently employed to carry out the malordorous scheme of corruption. What makes this recital of dishon est manipulation and waste extraor dinary is the paramount fact of who did it. The road was managed, not by its president, not by its board of directors, not by its stockholders, but by certain great Wall Street finan ciers who were supposed to embody the highest integrity of the country. They were Mr. Morgan, Mr. Rocke feller and their associates, who ad mittedly represnted the best there is in Wall Street. Their opinions were law in the financial world. Their judgments were regarded as infalli ble. Wall Street almost deified them. Yet look at their work! In their efforts to control the transportation of New England, they guided a great railroad system, one of the best in the world, to plunder and disaster. In their desire to ( exploit the people of half a dozen great states, for their own gain, they squandered $60,000, 000 to $90,000,000 of the money of the New Haven stockholders, many of whom were reduced to bankrupt cy. What is more, these heads of New York banking houses, by interlock ing directorates, control many of the great industrial and commercial en terprises of America. They and their immediate associates exercised sway over the great world of industry, fi nance, insurance, commerce, bank ing and transportation. In all these great fields, is it not almost certainly probable that they employed the ! same vicious methods, dealt with the same stealthy politicians, indulged in the same corrupting of government that they have been found guilty of by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion in the New Haven management? In the light of these criminal transactions by the greatest banking heads in this nation, who would turn Woodrow Wilson back in'his effort to make these things - impossible? Who but special interests would re peal his tariff bill and restore to these groups of great financiers the power to tax the shelter, food and clothing of allhe people? Who would repeal the new cur rency bill which took from these New Haven wreckers their personal do minion over the credit and money of the country and give that control into the hands of the American people? Who can offer a single sound reason why the president's bill for a trade commission to supervise the trusts should be rejected? Who can put forward one legitimate argument against the president's bill to send to jail a trust brigadier for such ex ploitation as befell the New Haven? Who that reads the Interstate Commerce Commission's arraignment of the New Haven management, can offer one single objection to the pres ident's bill for regulating railroad issues of stock securities and for re quiring the proceeds of such securi ties to be applied to the road instead of to the benefit of dishonest direct ors and managers? They say President Wilson's policy has "hurt business." Is it President Wilson's policy or the Morgan-Rock efeller method of running railroads and other great institutions that has hurt business?" FACTS ABOUT HYDROPHOBIA. In the current issue of Farm and Fireside, the national farm paper published at Springfield, Ohio, Her bert Quick, editor of that publication goes on with his articles showing the damage done to the sheep industry of the United States by worthless dogs. He says that there are many reasons for the proper control of dogs aside from their effects on sheep. He says that dogs dissemi nate the germs of hog cholera and other livestock diseases from farm to farm. But there is another rea son for the confinement and regula tion of dogs, and that is hydrophobia of which dogs are the sole source of infection. Following is an extract from Mr. Quick's article: "The strict muzzling of all dogs in all seasons of the year for dogs run mad as often in winter as sum mer has been shown to be an ab solute preventive of rabies. It lias been worked out perfectly in Great Britan since 1887. In that year and the two following deaths from hy drophobia in Great Britain were re spectively 217 for 1887, 160 for 1888 and 312 for 1889. In the latter a muzzling law was passed and en forced. In 1890 the number of deaths dropped to 129, and in the j two fcllowir.s years to 79 and 39. In THE PEACH CANNING SEASON IS ALMOST AT HAND. Let us know how many boxes you want and we'll -sell them at the very lowest market price. The Price will be about 65c the Box Golden State Mason Jars, half-gallons $1.50; qts., $1.25; pts., $1.00. Economy jars same. Fruit or Berry Sugar, $5.50 NOW, will be higher later. Better get your supply early. SAM 1892 the ordinance was repealed by the dog worshipers. Deaths from the bites of mad dogs rose by the fol lowing steps in the years which suc ceeded: 93, then 248, the 672. Hor rified by this sacrifice to unmuzzled dogs the law was passed and enforced again. In 1896 deaths dropped to 38. next to 17, to 9, to 6, to only 1 in all Great Britain; rose in 1902 to 13 and since that time not a single death has occured in England, Scotland and Wales from hydrophobia. The muz zling of dogs saves hundreds of trag edies every year. "All dogs should be muzzled for reasons of common humanity. If this were enforced the worrying of sheep would be largely a thing of the past." Get vour Drintlng done in an up-to- the-minute job office, one that turns out the highest class of work In the shortest time. Yes, The Gazette Times I'rintery is that office. Mrs. Ida Warnock, who, has been spending the past three iftanths at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Minor near town, departed on Wednesday morning for Portland. Virginia to Vote on Prohibition, Richmond, Va., July 14. Out of an estimated total of 140,000 qual ified voters in Virginia, 68,936 have signed petitions calling upon Govern or Henry C. Stuart to call a state wide election to decide whether liq uor shall continue to be sold in the state. The petitions were filed today and Governor Stuart is expected to call the election for September 22, as provided by the enabling act passed by the. last Legislature. Of those who signed the petition, 57,356 live in the counties, most of which already aro "dry." HUGHES CO. Harvest (Goods WHEN you come in for your Harvest Supplies, don't overlook Thomson Bros., who are well pre pared to fill' your orders with the best goods at the lowest prices in town. COME IN AND GET OUR PRICES. Thomson Bros. DOWN BY THE SEA SALT BREEZES ARE COOL AND REFRESHING; DAYS ARE DELIGHTFUL; NIGHTS PLEASANT. THE Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company sells round trip tickets daily at low fares to North QUEEN OF ALL SUMMER FOR ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE, FARES AND FULL INFORMATION, ask J. B. HUDDLESTON Agent O-W. R. & N. HEPPNER, OREGON Beach PACIFIC COAST RESORTS