THE GAZKTTK-TDfES, HF.rPXKR. OKK.. TlirRSDAY. AUG. 13. 1914
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" Thursday, August 13, 1914.
WHATEVER HAPPENS THE VXI
TED STATES WILL PROSPER.
With statesmanship at Washing
ton, sound judgment by financial and
industrial leaders, and calm confi
dence among the people, Europe's
war, instead of damaging the United
States, will stimulate industry and
turn depression into prosperity. The
gates of opportunity will open wid3
to American commerce and enter
prise. Ways will be found to carry our
surplus wheat, corn, cotton, lumber,
metals and fruits to the markets
across the Atlantic. And after that
means will be devised to take our
surplus manufactures into markets
previously supplied by Great Britain,
France, Germany, Russia and Aus
tria. By the stress of war the enor
mous foreign trade of warring coun
tries will be greatly reduced if not
practically annihilated. The vacuum
thus resulting must be filled, and we
meed only ships to fill it. These are
sure to come, in some measure if not
immediately in the full tonnage that
will be wanted.
But even if one takes the most dis
couraging and improbable view of
the situation that is conceivable;
even though it should transpire that
every ship that is now transporting
our imports and exports should be
withdrawn from the service and it
became impossible for the United
States to export or import even then
an extraordinary condition would be
presented that should lead ty the
strengthening of our commercial and
financial independence.
If, from lack of ships, we may not
export, then from lack of ships we
can not import. These two pages of
the ledger nearly balance. Returns
of the foreign commerce of the Unl
ted States, as reported by the bureau
of domestic and foreign commerce for
the year ended June 30, 1914, show
exports of $2,364,625,555, and im
ports of $1,894,169,100. For the
year the balance was In our favor,
but for the last four months of the
year we just about "broke even" on
imports and exports.
This means that if we can not get
European gold in exchange for our
exports Europe can not take Ameri
can gold in exchange for imports
We have an abundant gold stock and
will keep it.
If the ships do not carry foreign
commerce the United States will save
the freight, and that alone will
amount yearly to $300,000,000 or
more. If the war goes on American
tourists must stay at home, and that
will make another saving of $300,
000,000 or $400,000,000 a year.
If financial connections remain
broken between Europe and tho Unl
ted States and. the world's great ex
changes stay closed, European hold
ers of American bonds and stocks
will have no means of throwing them
on the market here, and that will
stop another crevasse.
The fact should be considered, too,
that the foreign commerce of the
United States is but a tithe of its do
mestic commerce. In round numbers
our foreign trade amounts to $4,000,
000,000 a year. Manufacturing alone
as shown by the census of 1910, a
mounts to more than $20,000,000,
000. Men and women who know the
greatness of their country, its vast
and varied wealth, its lavish stores
of natural resources and that genius
of its people for quick and profitable
adjustment to changing conditions
view the situation with equanimity
and faith. The nation has only to
keep a cool and level head to reap in
a large way the advantages that are
rightly its tor preserving peace when
other world powers have plunged in
to a gigantic war. Spokesman-Re
view,
tarth was flat and the sun, moon
and stars were lights like lanterns
that were hung out each day by crea
tures of a mysterious spirit world.
Also for long aeons of time men lived
in caves, men in nuiu nuts, mej
lived on raw meat and uncooked
egetables. Is there such sanctity in
old custom and tradition that we
must live, eat and thiuk as our neigh
bors did? If electric lights are bet
ter than nightly campfires, why not
change habits in other respects also?
U abstinence makes be.ter men.
more efficient workers, finer homes,
l appier mothers and children, a more
healthy and vigorous race and stron
ger brains, why not strive for it? Do
not worship the past.; sek to im
prove on it. Enterprise Record-Chleftan.
WAR.
The outbreak of war in Europe
has filled thoughtful men a.nd women
all over the world with horror. With
no sufficient cause, in a quarrel which
does not concern them, thousands of
men are to be led to the slaughter
of other thousands against whom
they have no grievance; whose faces
they have never seen until they are
brought together to kill each other.
Wives will be widowed, mothers left
childless, multitudes of children or
phaned. Then, in addition to this
will be the vast numbers maimed for
life, and the still larger numbers
morally corrupted. Generations to
come will be burdened with heavy
war taxes to pay the cost. The out
look is horrible to contemplate.
typographical standpoint. It speaks
for itself, and will do good work for
the Fair and the advertisers who so
liberally patronized it. These books
are a donation to the Fair Board
from this paper, being paid for
through the liberal patronage it re
ceived from the business men of
Heppner, Lexington and Jone, who
have thus manifested their splendid
interest in the fair.
Only thirty-six more days until the
biggest event of all the Morrow
County Fair.
Did vou eet a oremium book? If
not call on the secretary of the Fair
Board for one.
SOMETHING FOR ALL THE PEO-
PLE TO CONSIDER.
The great problem before the peo
ple of Oregon is building up our state
industrially, so that there may be a
tetter home market for products and
better support for the industries we
now have. On top of this we have
the imperative duty of bringing about
conditions so that there may be new
factories established and Industries
developed. This includes every line
of human endeavor, from opening up
new land for cultivation, opening up
stone quarries and brick yards, wool
en mills, planing mills, public utilit
ies and railroads.
Grants Pass took the Initiative and
voted bonds to start the construction
of a railroad to Crescent City. Rose-
burg is taking the same steps to start
a ratlroad to the Coos Bay country.
These affirmative actions or enter
prising communities are not all that
is needed to get more railroad con
struction in Oregon. The attitude of
hostility and the desire for radical
legislation and administrative con
trol of corporations has got to be
changed into a policy of friendly co
operation and encouragement if we
are to get large sums of money ex
pended on cocstruction work.
It is not enough to encourage the
Made-in-Oregon campaign and ask
the people to purchase more of the
products of the home industry. If
we want the- industries to flourish
and make it possible to get more
manufacturing enterprises in Oregon
we have got to reduce taxation, we
have got to quit enacting experimen
tal labor legislation, and, we have got
to quit inventing new schemes to
throvunjust burdens of taxation on
the men who happen to have a little
more property or capital than some
of the rest of us. We must encour
age capital to Invest In real estate,
industries, banks, public utilities and
merchandising.
With such a program in the minds
and consciousness of the people, Ore
gon would resume her old time pros
perity and go ahead by leaps and
bounds. To establish faith in the fu
ture of tlild commonwealth there
must be the heartiest co-operation
along constructive lines. Trying to
accomplish everything by political
agitation and coercive legislation on
ly drives away Industries and makes
the Investment of capital in construc
tion enterprises uphill work.
The thing for the people of Oregon
to consider is that while they are all
working to better their conditions in
dividually, collectively they are asked
to enact new laws making it impos
sible to accomplish that result.
The Eugene Guard, a leading Dem
ocrat paper oi me Willamette aueyj
speuna iu luutpuuieuiury terms ui ui.
Withycombe, Republican candidate
for governor. It says:
Dr. James Withycombe is one can
didate who is in a position to be en
vied. He has behind him the full
strength of a reunited party, and he
has the hearty friendship and sup
port of all his late opponents In the
primary election. There are no sore
spots to be avoided and no old
wounds that have not yet been healed
over. He is generally admitted to be
an estimable gentleman and a man
who is fully acquainted with the
needs of the state. He Is calm and
sane and level-headed qualities in
a chief executive that the state stands
in special need of just now.
Much profound discussion is found
in the newspapers of late on temper
euce and total abstinence. A Pen
dleton newspaper goes back in his
tory about 2000 years, and cites old
authorities to show that the people
inhabiting the British Isle have
drunk strong liquor through all these
centuries and still have advanced in
influence and power. From this it
concludes that because men have
had the habit of using acoholic bev
erages for 2000 years they cannot be
weaned now, and that no particular
harm has been done any way. For
thousands of years men believed the
George L. Cleaver, dry candidate
for Congress in the second Oregon
district announces as his platform:
State and national prohibition; using
the $6,000,000 wasted each day in
America for liquor to help solve the
labor problem; national woman's suf
frage; direct power of people in gov
ernment; greater federal assistance
In river and harbor development In
Oregon; a non-partisan tariff board;
loyalty to our public school system:
International peace through arbitra
tion; Oregon getting its share of the
National Irrigation and Reclamation
Fund. Mr. Cleaver is a resident of
Union county where he has extensive
banking and agricultural interests.
The Gazette-Times this week com
pleted and turned over the premium
books for the Second Annual Morrow
County Fair, and the office force at
fair headquarters have been busy in
mailing them out. We are naturally
modest but are willing to say that
this Is a piece of work from the
printer's view point that has not yet
been excelled In this neck 'o the
woods; neither have we seen any
thing from the various sections of
the Northwest that excells It from a
G. L. Hurd has transferred the ed
itorial and- business management of
the Stanfield Standard to Chas. E.
Miller, an experienced newspaper
man, who will hereafter publish the
paper. Mr. Hurd's other business
interests at Stanfield have made It
necessary for him to do this. Mr.
Miller takes hold of the paper in good
shape, and with the earnest co-opera
tion of the people of his community
will be able to make them a good
newspaper.
Lou S. Smith, assistant agricultur
ist of the O.-W. R. & N. Co., was in
Heppner for a few days this week,
coming over from Umatilla county.
He is gathering up samples of corn
for the coming corn, show at Walla
Walla, and doing some other work
in his line as he passes along. He is
traveling by motorcycle and this
gives him good opportunity to get
out where he pleases. Mr. Smith
states that one find's out how big
Eastern Oregon is when he under
takes to get all over it in this fashion,
and if he should try to make every
locality as he goes along he would
scarcely get through on schedule
time.
Mrs. W. H. Miller Dies.
Mrs. Llllle Miller, wife of W. H.
Miller, of Hardman, died in the hos
pital at Heppner on Sunday morning
last, after some weeks of suffering.
She had been operated upon for a tu
mor and was not in condition, phy
sically, to overcome the operation.
She was prepared for burial and the
remains taken to Hardman where In
terment was had In the cemetery.
Mrs. Miller was a Bister of A. W.
and Chester Saling and Mrs. W. W.
Brannon of Hardman, and was a wo
mon well respected in the community
in which she has lived for the most
of her life. To the bereaved husband
and relatives the sympathy of the en
tire community is extended.
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Don't Forget to Shut Off Water.
Don't forget to shut off the irriga
tion water when the whistle blows at
8 o'clock. Parties falling to observe
this regulation will be deprived of
the use of the water.
H. L. & W. CO.
Go to the Heppner Bakery for
your bread. 26 loaves for $1.00.,
HEALTHOGRAMS.
By Dr. R. R. Daniels.
If you would be well in summer,
don't over eat, either of meats or of
starchy foods.
Drink plenty of water, but don't
food the stomach with water while a
meal is being digested.
Don't drink ice-water nor eat iced
foods; both are common cause for
gastritis and diarrhoea.
Don't avoid fresh vegetables for
fear of typhoid fever; more typhoid
fever comes from over-eating on
heavy foods than from anything else.
The body keeps itself cool In sum
mer by perspiring. If you are ex
posed to the summer heat, drink
plenty of water, and keep the pores
open with a dally friction bath..
One help in keeping cool In hot
weather Is to take a sponge bath in
tepid water every morning. This
keeps .the skin active, and an active
skin means warmth In winter and
comfort In summer.
Don't stuff yourself while spending
your vacation In the country or In
the mountains or at the seashore. If
you do, you will have to pay for it
when you get back with a "sick spell"
of some kind, and In this way your
vacation will do you little good.
There are still a few people who
persist in wearing woolen underwear
during the summer. Such a sin
against health deserves the punish
ment they usually receive; discom
fort from heat during the summer
and plenty of colds as cold weather
begins.
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Por Infant and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
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Only 36 more days until the opening
of the
2I ANNUAL
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HEPPNER, OREGON
SEPTEMBER 17-18-19, 1914
BIGGER and BETTER
Are You Preparing Your Exhibit?
A little care in selection and preparation will go a long ways toward making finer
general exhibit and your chances for securing a premium are 'much better. Don't
let another day pass by without selecting something.
The Fair Board has a larger sum to offer for
premiums this year. The list has been re
vised and several important changes made.
SPECIAL ATTENTION WILL BE PAID TO THE POULTRY DEPARTMENT. Mr.
O. E. Freytag, who has been secured as Fair Manager, will conduct a special ser
ies of lectures and demonstrations for the benefit of tho many poultry raisers and
all interested in that industry.
NO ENTRY FEE WILL BE CHARGED ON STOCK ENTERED THIS YEAR.
All animals that have been properly examined by the State Veterinary or an au
- thorized deputy will be eligible to enter for premiums.
THREE BIG DAYS OF ENTER
TAINMENT and FUN.
The management has spared neither pains nor money in securing the best talent for
entertainment available. You will be thrilled by the baloon ascension and the var
ious acrobatic stunts. You will be entertained with band music, vaudeville acts,
quartette singing, dancing and many other things to 'numerous to mention. And
last, but not least, the exhibits, which will be the surprise of your life.
Further And More Detailed Information May Be Obtained From
W. W. SMEAD, Secretary,
I HEPPNER, OREGON.
THE THREE CARDINAL VIRTUES OF
A WELL MADE SHOE ARE
QUALITY
In which the FLORSHEIM shoe will be found pre
eminent STYLE
For which the FLORSHEIM make has always been noted
EASE AND COMFORT
Which is assured in a degree never before attained . .
A SHOE WITH THE NAME
"THE FLORSHEIM SHOE"
Woven in the strap is a guarantee of the above
qualifications.
SAM HUGHES CO.
Get away from the heat of baking
during these warm summer days and
buy the necessaries at the Heppner
Bakery.
Good, home cured bacon; extra
fine homemade lard. Low prices Peo
ple's Cash Market.
Did you read our new adv.? We
will furnish you the goods and give
you a square deal. City Meat Mar
ket. Storage batteries charged at Hepp
ner Light & Water Co. Prices range
from 1.60 to $1.75 for recharging.
Ladles Get away from the heat
of the stove and do your Ironing with
an electric iron.
If you want extra fine meats at the
right prices, see the Old Reliable
Dutchman at People's Cash Market.