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THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPXER. OKF... THl'KSUAY, JAX. 21. IBIS p;k two THE GAZETTE-TiMES. The Heppner 5atette. Established March 3", lSsJ. The llepimer Time Established Nov 18, 1?7. Consolidated February 15, 1911. VAWTKR CRAWFORD, Editor and Proprietor. Issued every Thursday morning, and entered at the t'ostomoe at neppner, Oregon, as second-class matter. " SVPSCRirTIOX RATES: One Tear 1150 Six Months, "5 Three Months 60 Singla Copies 05 ADVERTISING RATES Displav, transient, running less than one month, first Insertion, per inch. 25c; subsequent insertions, 12 l-2c; disulav. resular. 12 1-zc: locals, nrst Insertion, per line, 10c; subsequent Insertions, per line, 5c; lode resolu tions, per line. 5c; church socials and all advertising of entertainments conducted for pay, regular rates. MORROW COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER Thursday, January 21, 1915. THE BRIIKiE BUILDER. An old man, going the lone highway, Came at evening, cool and gray, To a chasm vast and deep and wide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim, The sullen stream had no fear for him; But he turned when safe on the other k side. And built a bridge to span the tide. "Old man," said a fellow-pilgrim near, "Your are wasting your strength with building here; Your journey will end with the end ing day, You never again will pass this way; You've crossed the chasm deep and wide, Why build you this bridge at evening tide?" The builder lifted his old grey head. "Good friend, in the path I have come," he said, "There followeth after me today A youth whose feet must pass this way. This chasm that has been as naught to me, To that fair-heared vouth may a pit fall be; He, too, must cross In the twilight dim, Good friend, I am building this bridge for hiin." Selected. W. R. ELLIs7 The sudden death of Hon. W. R. Ellis at hia home in Portland on Monday came as a shock to his many friends in this city where he lived for so nany years and was highly honored and esteemed. Judge Ellis, as he was known here, made his home in Heppner when first coming to this state; he lived here for many years and was a citizen greatly re spected. He was the teacher of our school, and many of the men and women of this community now living here were his pupils. Later he was the superintendent of schools of the county, and then was promoted to higher stations of responsibility, as it was from this city that he was first elected to serve the State of Ore gon in the halls of Congress. But through all of these promotions In political life and the changes that came to him; he was just the same Will R. Ellis that our people knew from the first; never forgetting the humblest of his friends and always ready and willing to Berve them to to the best of his ability. Through out this Eastern Oregon country he had many friends that were glad to do him honor, and in his death there has passed from the activities of this life one of Oregon's most prom inent citizens. The action of the high schools of Morrow county in forming an asso ciation for better athletic advance ment is a good one. For many years these three schools have been in need of some organization that would bring a closer relationship in this re spect. The athletic branch of our schools today is one that is receiving its due share of development and en couragement, and athletics properly handled, adds much to school life and the development of the physical side of the student. Heretofore, lit tle misunderstandings and some hard feelings have existed between the schools of lone, Lexingeon and Hepp ner, more because of no perfected organization of any kind which could lay down certain rules defining who might participate and under what condtions, In various athletic con tests. We predict that a better feel ing will exist among the three schools from now on, that athletics will be placed on a higher plane and that more students will be induced to par ticipate than previously. A bill has been introduced at Sa lem to abolish the present law giv ing the Secretary of State authority to collect automobile licenses, and transferring it to the various County Clerks in the state instead. The measure provides that County Clerks shall issue all licenses, collect all fees, and that the latter shall go Into the county road fund. This bill should pass as it will put the money where it rightfully belongs. rnoGKiss ix rural saxita- TIOX IS IMPERATIVE. Say that business is good. Two dollar whweat la looming near. Spokesman-Review. During 1!) 10-1 4 encouraging ad vance was made in the sanitation of American cities. The rural districts, however, so far as sanitary measures for preventing the spread of infec tious diseases are concerned, failed of corresponding progress Excepting a few localities in a few states where local health authorities cooperated vigorously with federal authorities, sanitary conditions in rural America remained worse than cliy dwellers can imagine. The farm is in more danger from contagious disease than the tene ment. Its protection is the sparse ness of rural population, which ren ders rapid spread of infection ditfi cult. The problem of making the ru ral regions healthy has only begun to be touched. But the United States public health service has set at aid ing the state to clean the country dis tricts, and the Rockefeller foundation is also dealing with rural sanitation. An obstacle to rural hygienics is the absence of health organizations Rural communities have smaller funds than urban communities, and the maintenance of sanitary societies nevertheless costs more in the coun try than in the city. Ten thousands urban dwellers can oe reached more easily and less expensively than 10U0 rural dwellers. The financial difficulties may be men in ways resembling that adopted in Maryland. Its legislature has di vided the state into 12 sanitary dis tricts. each under the oversight of a health warden. This is a doctor who devotes himself wholly to public health and receives not less than $1, 800 a year. The state supplies ade quate hygienic supervision, but also encourages the counties to cooper ate. North Yakima has demonstrated the feasibility of rural sanitation. It grew so rapidly in population that sanitary provisions failed to keep pace. Epidemics of typhoid occurred and the deaths from this filth disease numbered five times the average rate for the entire country. The chamber of commerce secured the help of the national public health service. An aggressive campaign for the eradica tion of typhoid was initiated, a health officer appointed and a professional nurse engaged. Within a year only five cases of typhoid occurred in North Yakima, and four of them had originated outside of the county. This opened a country-wide campaign by the national health service for rural sanitation. What was done there can and should be done everywhere. WHAT IE ITALY SHOULD 0 TO . v .WAR. The strengthening possibility that Italy may enter the war in the spring and the reported declaration of Lord Kitchener that war will really begin in May turn the thoughts to the re sults of such Italian action. Assuming that Italy will not fight for Germany and this is the reason able presumption, because Austria, an ally of Gtrmany, is the hereditary foe of Italy and is heartily hated by the Italians, and because Turkey, another ally of Germany and Austria Hungary, is at odds with Italy and in position to stir up trouble among its Mauslim subjects if follows that Italy will fight against Austria and Turkey. To keep out of the war would be to lose all claim upon the victors for a share of the spoils of victory. If Italy means to acquire the Trieste district of Austria and the Trentino district, both of which are peopled by men of Italian blood and speech, the present passive pol icy of neutrality can not be maintain ed, for the victor at war does not con sider that a nation is entitled to re ceive a reward for neutrality. The attack of Italy upon Austrk which would be followed by the as sault of Rumania upon Hungary, st strong is the racial sympathy be tween the Ruman and the Italian would hurl at least 1,000,000 first class fighting men against the sore ly strained dual empire. It is Im possible to imagine how Austria Hungary would continue to cope with Russia and Servia. The Teutonii peoples would realize that defeat foi the dual alliance was inevitable ant' the governments at Berlin, Buda pest and Vienna would have to dea' with subjects fully aware of the ter rible truth. The first chance foi peace would be born. The military effect would be tha' Austria would have to quit Poland and Galicia and leave Germany t endure the entire brunt of the Rus sian advance. The resources of Rus sia are so exhaustless that German; would have to retreat. It would b compelled to abandon Prussia, east and west, and stand at bay along thr fortresses from Dantzig to Cracow that is, from the Baltic to the Car pathians. The political consequences of Ital ian interventjon would be that Aus tria would lose the Adriatic coast Croatia, Slavonla, Trieste and tlu Trentino, as well as Bosnia, Bukow ina, Galicia and Herzegovina. Hun gary would be reft of Transylvania if not of the Flume. But the Ger mans of Austria proper might entei the German empire and add at leas' 10,000,000 Teutonic citizens to it This would be a first step toward ut ter unification of all the German peo pies in Europe. Spokesman-Review It t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t T T t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t Y t Y t t ? T t t Y t t t t ? Y t Y t There Is some agitation hereabouts for improved train service on the Heppner branch, ... ., , I SUCCESS. Leslies Weekly. The secret of success is ihat it Is The Students of Heppner High School announce the appearance of FRANCIS RICHTER EMINENT AMERICAN PIANIST AND COMPOSER IN PIANO RECITAL at the High School Auditorium Wednesday Evening, January 27, at 7:30 This is a rare opportunity to hear a musician of exceptional talent at nominal cost. Mr. Richter studied abroad for many years under the famous teacher Leschetizky, and those who have heard both Richter and Paderewski play claim that Richter easily rivals the great Polish performer. DONT MISTAKE THE QUALITY OF THE RECITAL BY THE PRICE OF ADMISSION It is not a money-making scheme on the part of the High School, but an effort to offer its patrons an exceptionally high class evening enter tainment at a price within the reach of all. Seats on sale Friday morning, January 22, 1915, at the store of MINOR & CO. ADMISSION: Adults - 50c. Children - - - 35c t t t t t t t t t t t T t Y t T t Y t t ? Y t Y t t t t t t t t Y t t t t t Y t t Y T Y t t t io secret. Everyone desires success. rt is obtainable by all in a reason able measure. The man who has no .mbition to succeed has nothing to ive for. He is of no use to himself ,r to his fellow men. He might as veil be dead and buried. The world on one level would be ommonplace and intolerable. The ,uccess of one is measured by that of jthers for like happiness success is dative. One may be happy with ittle, and another unhappy with audi. So one may succeed in a mal measure and still call its uccess, vhile another achieving greater dis inction remains unsatisfied. No man succeeds by himself. No ;reat business is ever established by ne man working alone. The great st gift of the successful man lies In is ability to surround himself with hose who can best hold up his amis, carry out his purposes and ollow out his plans. A man cannot think for his fel ow workers unless he thinks with hem. He may be able to plan; he nay have experience that entitles im to command, but if he is att empting big things, he must trust .is associates and they must trust ilm, There must be a fellowship of nterests, and a keen appreciation of emperniental differences, which are f minor consequence in the opera ion of great affairs. It is a wise providence that creat d men with these differences, as it reated flowers with variations of are he best evidences of a Creating land. Success never conies to the employ r without the help and support of hose with whom he surrounds hlm elf. It never comes unless the em doyer and the employee both deserve It never comes in its full fruition o capital unless it Is willing to recog .ize the part that labor has In ereat ng It. These are the fundamentals. Vith them success has been estab ished and maintained. Without hem, success even if established has een lost. The interests of capital and labor re alike. One needs the other. Co operating they establish success. Con flicting they Invite failure. The dem agogue who preaches to the contrary I Is a public disturber, and should be I cast out, for a demagogue never filled a pay envelope and never will. Soiiki Facts Preaented at the Hail Road (oimnissioii Hearing. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, there was 20,022 passen gers hauled on the Heppner branch giving an average of 19 passengers . per train mile and passenger revenue on their Heppner branch of $17, 698.05 besides the freight traffic which amounted to 22,017 whole tons of freight hauled, but as the Railroad has not yet filed any sta tistics showing the freight revenue it is impossible at this time to know j the combined passenger and freight revenue of the Heppner Branch. J Supt. Palmer, of the Railroad Company, swore under oath that he did not know whether the. Heppner Branch was operated at a profit or loss. The passenger earning for 1912 showed the average of .61 cents ' were over 2,000 Americans within its borders in 1874, at the time the per train mile, for 1913 .57 cents per train mile and for 1914 .54 cents per I train mile. The Railroad Company I tried to show from this and testi monies of some witnesses that the population of Morrow county was de creasing, we think It shows that the automobile travel Is increasing and 1 the Railroad Company will continue to lose business on the Heppner Branch train unless they put on a motor train service from the north end of the county and to conect with outside points. They filed an exhibit giving the population of lone as 239, the pop ulation of Lexington as 185, and the population of Heppner as 880. We who live in Heppner know that the actual bonifide residence of Heppner for the past six months has been nearer 1600 than 800. We are quite sure from the reports of citizens of lone and Lexington that the popu lation of these towns would be dou ble the number given above. Some of our so-called progressive (?) cit izens who are willing to go on the witness stand and give the weight of their influence and testimony In favor of the opposition of two daily trains for Heppner Branch 111 have some difiiculty, we anticipate, in con vincing the citizens living any consid erable distance from Heppner, there by compelling them to bring their families and remain all night at the hotel in order to catch the early morning train out of Heppner, that they are really working for tht best interest of our town and county. The fact that the branch train on the Heppner line has not been late but once or twice since the petition was filed on July 29, 1914 as contrasted with the record of the year before, certainly proves to the Railroad Com mission that there is room for Im provement. The train being on time enables some of the country people to arrive home before an late hour at night. The estimated cost of the opera tion of a motor train between Hepp ner and Heppner as filed by the Rail road Company is .28.15 cents per train mile, while the revenue for passenger is .55.25 cents per train mile, there is no doubt that the pas senger travel would be increased by having two daily trains and accord ing to their own statistics they can afford to do this. J. PERRY CONDER, Chairman o Committee. President Wilson's Cabinet. We have been frequently asked of late to name President Wilson's cab inet, by our readers, and for the ben efit of all we give their names here with. Secretary of Stato William Jen nings Bryan, of Nebraska. Secretary of the Treasury Wil liam Glbbs McAdoo, of New Vork, Secretary of War Lindley M. GarrUon, of New Jersey. Attorney - General Thomas Watt Gregory, of Texas. Postmaster - General Albert Sid ney Burleson, of North Carolina. Secretary of the Interior Frank lin Knight Lane, of California. Secretary of Agriculture David Franklin Houston, of Missouri. Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield, of New York. Secretary of Labor William Bau chop Wilson, of Pennsylvania. The salary of the Cabinet officers Is $1 2,000 each. . IRRIGON. Allan McCann made a business trip to Heppner Saturday, return ing Sunday. C. W. Caldwell, Fred Caldwell, Sam Shannon and C, L. Roadruck spent Monday and Tuesday at the "Cabbage patch." They have been working on Mr. Cabbage's well. A Sunday school social was held Saturday evening and was well at tended. The social committee of the x. P. organized class got up a good program after which they were serv ed refreshments and conducted games. A church meeting was held in connection for the purpose of elec ting trustees and elders of the church here. Mrs. W. M. Castle was elected trustee for one year, Mrs. C. L, Road ruck was elected to serve for two years and J. S. Cabbage was chosen to serve in the same capacity for three years. L. A, Doble was elected elder for one year, W. M. Castle for two years and J. L. Edgebert for three years. R. E. Blackman of Milton ar rived In Irrigon Saturday and con ducted the church meetlne that eve ning. He also visited our Sunday School and preached Sunday evening returning to Milton Monday morning. Mrs. Llnnie Carl will speak at the church Monday, Jan. 25, at 7 p. m. Mrs. Carl is a state W. C. T. tr. of ficer. A good attendance Is certain. RAMS FOR SALE I hare Lin coln and Shropshire. Both lambs and yearlings. C. A. MINOR.