THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPXER. OKF... THl'KSUAY, JAX. 21. IBIS
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THE GAZETTE-TiMES.
The Heppner 5atette. Established
March 3", lSsJ.
The llepimer Time Established Nov
18, 1?7.
Consolidated February 15, 1911.
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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
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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
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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.