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THE GAZKTTE-TIME9. HKPPN'KR, Thursday, September 17. 1914. tAGE TWO WE SOCK THE KXIFE INTO PRICES ON HARDWARE. A BIG BUSINESS AT LITTLE TRICES IS OUR WAY OF DOING BUS INESS. WE ARE NOT AFRAID THAT OUR BUSINESS IS SOON GO ING TO BLOW UP. WE ARE HERE TO STAY, BY CARRYING WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT AND BY DOING A SQUARE BUS INESS. TRY US AND FIND OUT WHETHER WE STATE FACTS OR NOT. WE WILL PROVE TO YOU THAT WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY. COME AND Gilliam fa Bisb HEPPNER, MI f A Qpl Funeral Director L. LfiuL.j and Embalmer CALLS ANSWERED DAY OR NIGHT. HEPPNER WOOD YARD ED BRESLIN, Prop. Dealer In i Wood and Coal Leave orders with Slocum fft.Ja iW4 The Dalles, 7 Will Reopen SEPT. 8th, 19U. Far particulars apply to SISTER SUPERIOR fflMSPEED SHELLS ."v .r.i w foi ihort. ever DISTINCTIVE PRINTING Such as the Gazette-Times Printery can turn out gives the user a feeling of pride which less attractive printing could not give. WHEN YOU NEED sJ&1msf 7Htlfa4 And Yon M Be ' PRINTING TRY THUVffL M m Resu,(s V OREGON Drag Co. or phone Main 60. otcademi 7 Oregon. SEE US. Sieel Lined Arrow and Nitro Club Everybody caUtthtm "Tht Spd ShtlU", Steel Lined, all the explosive force kept bach of the shot. No tide expansion. A straight away blow that gets the load there quick. You take a shorter lead on the fast birds get more of them. To get the Speed Shells be sore to see the Red Ball Mark of Remington-UMC on box. To keep your ran cleaned and labrietd right, uh Rem Oil, the new powder tolrent, nut preventative, and gun lubricant. Rraiojtoi Aratt-Uaieo Metallic Ctrtridfe Co. ZM Bieaeiuf, lev lark Farmers, Union j News Column ! I e By Peter Radford, National 1 Lecturer, Farmers' Vn- ! iou, Fort Worth, Tex. Farmers to Ask Federal Aid. Port Worth, Texas, Sept 12 With representation from more than two thirds of the states In the Union, the eleventh annual meeting of the Far mers' Educational and Co-Operative Union of America came to a close in this city after a three days session. The keynote, of the convention was the action of the body in voting to ask direct aid from the government in the present crisis which confronts the American farmer s.s a result of the titanic struggle across the water. A plan was formulated whereby the Federal government will be asked to tide the farmers over the emergency, and a committee was appointed to go to Washington to consult with Federal authorities relative to the situation. A high tribute was paid to the work of Peter Bradford by National President, C. S. Barrett, in his open ing address to the convention who declared that It was the Radford type of men which keep one's faith sound, his courage high and renews his faith in humanity. He stated that Mr. Radford had been, of Inval uable assistance to mm in nis worn and that his wise counsel and sugges tions had materially assisted him in the solution of problems confronting the national work. The National Union has strong and active organizations in twenty-seven states of the Union and is composed of a membership numbering eight million. Tho officers of the Union were unanimously re-elected for the coming yctr, as follows: President C. S. Barrett, Georgia; Vice-Presi dent, A. V. Swift, Oregon; Secretary-Treasurer, A. C. Davis, Arkan sas. Profitable Prices for Farm Products The greatest encouragement that can be given agriculture is profitable prices for farm produccts. Crop des troylng Insects have been a stubborn enemy, and Jupiter Pluvius has play ed many pranks on the furmer, but there is no pestilence like low prices; they will sap the life-blood of an in dustry. It is one of the most pitiful sights in the twentieth century civilization to see a farmer after he hag raised a crop sit helplessly by and wath the bulls and bears of Europe and Amer ica trample over It, and yet If the farmer will only organize and co-operate he can successfully fence out these animals that devastate his pro ducts after the harvest. The Orgon farmer needs co-opera tion as badly as diversification. The World's Greatest Financier. The world's greatest financier is the Orgon farmer's housewife. Her daily investments exceed in shrewd ness the clever transactions of Wall Street and no business concern or corporation, however ably officered has ever been able to approach her in economy. She is the Nation's ablest trader and her transactions more nearly reflect the progress and prosperity, of the country, than the reports of our clearing houses. All legislation, financial or other wise, ought to be so plain that the housewife can understand it. Our legislators, state and national, .shoot so far over the head of the average citizen that those who are unable to employ an attorney and accept his statements in blind faith, must for ever remain in Ignorance of our laws. Of course we have so many laws that no human can expect to read them and survive the ordeal, but any person who feels an irre sistable impulse to legislate, should try his proposed law on his neighbor and get it down where the common people can understand it before at tempting to put it on the statute books. Ability, Not Quantity, Pays In Farming. No farmer gets rich by the quan tlty of production. It Is the price he gets for his products and economy and business judgment displayed In management that makes the farm er wealthy. We cannot pass a law that will increase the price of production or reduce the cost of plowing the land and marketing the crop. We must depend upon factories and transpor tation facilities for marketing our products and upon improved mechan ical appliances and the business abil ity of the farmer to reduce the cost of production, and to more Intelli gently market his products. The Men Behind the Plow. The eleventh annual meeting of the National Farmers' Union was 1b session for three days at Fort Worth, Texas, last week. The delegates attending the meeting came from more than two-thirds of the states in the Union and every branch of ag ricultural endeavor wag represented. The wheat farmer from the North west, the corn grower from the Mid dle West, the tobacco farmer from the Virginias and the cotton farmer from the Sunny South all held counsel together aad were united in their effort to solve the grave prob lem which now confronts the Amer- lean farmer. Coming, as they did, i direct from the soil, with their hands , brown from exposure and their j minds attuned to the needs of the hour, there was no chance for dis sentlon among their ranks and there was a complete harmony and unity of thought and action, such as befit tho class which feeds and clothes the world. Farm Facts Where there Is a silo there is prosperity. There is not enough of the com munity spirit among our rural dis tricts. The need of the rural communities today is intelligent and consecrated leadership. The farm is the power house of all progress and the birthplace of all that is noble. The laws relating to business are wholly uusuited to the transactions of the farmer. The farm is the nursery of civil ization and tho parsonage of all re ligious denominations. The waste of effort through im practical methods of farming is tho greatest tragedy of the age. Co-operation between practical farmers and proficient business men will eliminate Ignorance and preju dice. Something is wrong in our mar keting system when a small crop brings more money than a bounti ful one. The farmer asks no special priv ileges. The business of farming only wants the same opportunities afford ed other lines of industry. Tho nation's menu must be made up from the fields, pastures, orchards and eardehs, and to tarm intelli gently the farmer must know what is needed. It is as much a duty of the country pastor to exhort us to own a home while on earth as it is to inspire us to build a mansion in the skies.. U'r must clve the same care and consideration to a system of co-operative laws, extending to the farmer the facilities adapted to his business that is jiow afforded corporations. The rural nress. the pulpit and the school are a trinity of powerful influences that the larmer must uttl izo to their fullest capacity before he can occupy a commanding post tion in public affairs. Farm tenancy is the greatest men ace now confronting the nation and can only be checked by affording the tenant and the laborer facilities for acquiring property and by re ducing the high rates of interest which are now sapping the vitality of agriculture. ' Under the present system of marketing farm products, it is pos sible and often occurs, that people in one part of the United' States lit erally' starve for the want of a pro duct, while the same product in an other part of the nation is wasting for want of a market. The Morrow County Fair. Next week Morrow County will hold a fair. At that time she will display to tho world the wonders of her resources and they are many. At one time a part of the great Eastern Oregon desert and later a ralt of Umatilla county. This section of the country "has been steadily finding it self and becoming more and more productive each year. Today Mor row county is a rich agricultural community. Broad wheat fields cov .er its hills where the soil is deep and rich. Its foothill ranges are the best in the Northwest and in the production of beef cattle alone it takes first rank with tho larger coun ties of Oregon. . Not only does it pro duce beef cattle in'large quantities, but also mutton and dairy herds. For many years Morrow county has been noted for the excellence of its dairy herds and also the excellence of its beef herds. Morrow county stockmen were among tho very first In the entire Northwest to improve the breed of beef cattle. Long before the big ranges were cut down in Eastern Oregon Morrow county had a repu tation for thoroughbred cattlo The country tributary to Heppner pro duces an immense amount of beef, wool and mutton each year. There are many other fertl'e re sources of the county which will ail have a showing in the coming fair. To the old timer a trip to Heppner at this time will be well worth the time and money while to the younger generation it will be p. surprlso. Pertdleton Tribune. A. M. Slocum came up from Port land last Sunday evening. Mr. Slo cum still retains considerable busi ness Interests In this city. J. A. Gibbons of Castle Rock, came over from the Columbia river town on Sunday. I Will Give $1000 If I Fail to Core Any Cancr or Tumor, No knlfa, no pain, no pay until cured. Any lump In woman's breast la cancer if hard; it always poisons deep glands under the arnv ana Kins quickly. Any tumor, lump, or sore on the lip, face or body long is cancer. An Island plant plaster and blood specific makes the cure. Writ ten absolute guaranlen. 120 page book Bent free. Testimo nialsoflO.OOOcured sworn tn. see some: no XRay swindle, "strictly reliable." old Dr. & Mrs. Dr. Chamfey & Co. M 438 Valencia St Snn Francisco. Cal. Kindly mill Oils to someone with cancur, U. S. cancer cure. THE PROPOSED EIGHT HOUR LAW COLUMN ! I Oregon Newspapers Decidedly Against This Initiative Measure. Work Xot Killed by Cluck. Commenting on the recent editor ial in the Rural Spirit wherein it was stated that enactment or defeat of tho proposed eight-hour law is up to the farmers, the Tillamook Headlight says: "The Rural Spirit is wrong. If the law is enacted it will be because the politicians fooled the farmers with the Oregon system. The law is apt to carry because all the unem ployed and. tho employees as well will vote as a unit for the law. A large Dumber of dairymen were in favor of the eight hour law for coun ty and municipal employes. As long as the county pays the bill, it is O. K., but now that the bill is to be in troduced that will effect the farmers, they are un in arms against It." Eight hours a day for county or municipal employes is purely a mat ter of interest to taxpayers. Every onepays taxes directly or indirectly. If these taxpayers see fit to enact eight hour legislation for county and municipal work, they pay the bill and it ' is their privilege to limit hours of labor as they see fit. Muni cipal or county work 'is of an artifi cial nature. It can therefore be reg ulated. That which is not done to day may be attended to tomorrow. Farming is a work of seasons. Season ,1s based upon natural law. Man-made laws cannot regulate sea sons. We have no eight hour fruit, no twenty-four hour cows, and no rainfall that can bo governed by laws. Weeds grow and must be cut. The ground bakes after the rainfall and must be harrowed at once else moisture Is lost. In some parts of Oregon it requires more than eight hours to make the trip to freight cars with grain. Farm work is peculiar to itself. In no other work does timliness count for so much and fre quently what is not done today can not be done' tomorrow. Tho work of the mine, the mill, factory, shop, office or store can be done by two or three shifts a day with no loss in ftutput or in quality of product. But the cow that is milked with a change of workmen twice a day becomes unprofitable. There are weeks when more, than eight hours a day are required on Oregon farms and there are weeks when a less number of hours serve to complete the work. .The enactment of the eight hour law for Oregon as it is written, will not create more jobs for more men and lengthen the period of work In the country. It will cause one far mer to exchange work with another farmer. It will render Idle more ian half the farm hands In Oregon. It will result In many a fruit or dairy farm falling into the hands of the industrious Japs. The farm hands and the farmers will make common cause in defeating the pro posed eight hour law iu Oregon. Rural Spirit. v Reat It. ' On the November ballot there Is a proposed eight-hour law. It pre scribes a universal work day of eight hours for everybody in the state. Failure 'of an officer to enforce it re sults in his dismissal from office for malfeasance. It ought to be beaten. If passed and enforced, It would destroy the agricultural interests of the state. It would either put farm ers out of business or cause them to rise In a body to overthrow the measure. Under its terms, no employe in any capacity can work more than eight hours a day. A dairy farmer Lcould not run his lwsiness without employing two sets of hands. That would double the cost of dairy pro- duets or put the dairyman out of bus iness. In nine if not in ten cases out of ten, it would drive the dairyman either out of business or out of Ore gon. The same would he true of Irri gation farmers. Their crops might be burning up for need of water. But with the eight-hour law in effect, the water would have to be shut off whether the crops, were saved or not saved. In ' the busy harvesting season, farmers almost universally work ex tremely long hours.- The labor sup ply and the limited number of har vesting machines make such hours necessary. Many a time the work begins at five or six a. m. and does trt end until darkness, especially in the threshing season. There is al ways extreme haste in cutting and threshing the grain because of the peril of the early rains. If the eight-hour law passes, it would be a calamity to harvesters. The number of men would have to be doubled by placing on two shifts. There wouldn't be men enough to supply the demand. There wouldn't be a farmer In Oregon who could af ford the added expense. The law would be a worse pest on Oregon farmers than would the Hes sian fly or weevil In the wheat. Vote 321 no. Oregon Journal. 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BECOME A PROPERTY HOLDER Lota valued from $25.00. Located In the heart of California the great resort center near Ban Francisco. 2 -- 5 8 "in order to advertise directly, we will give deed and title to one of our 25 x 100 foot lots to a limited num ber of persons sending us the exact solution of the above problem. PROBLEM: Fill In the missing numbers now represented by clashes so that the sums of each column will he 15 each way; that Is, lior izontnlly, vertically, and diagon ally. Address replies to Central Building & Financing Company, 723 Chamber of Commerce Illdg. Portland, Oregon. ment and It In about the most harsh and unyielding piece of legislation ever proposed. By this bill no em ployer in any line of work whatso ever, from college professor to farm laborer, may give work to any per son for more than eight hours in any day or more than 4 8 hours In any week. The hill continues: "The per iod of nine consecutive hours with eight hours for work therein, and one hour for eating and rest, shall by the provisions of this law, be identical for each, any and every cal- ender day of each, any and. every cal ender week." Clerks, farhihands, printers', teamsters, threshers, log gers, boys and girls working on the premises of their parents every conceivable class of tollers comes un der the bill. The proposed law has nothing in Its favor and should re ceive a unanimous negative vote. Enterprise Record Chieftain. Oregon has had enough of freak legislation. Thove is no demand for a law such as is proposed. All In dustries in which it Is practicable to employ the eight hour day are now on the, basi, or else tending that way. Oregon l.eeds a char.ee to as similate the laws she has, before trying any new ones. Springfield News. (I Per Cent Money 0 Per Cont. 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