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MOItUOW OH M'V OFFICIAL PAPKH
Thulsday, April 22, 1915.
MR. SVXllAY .VXD THK PKKSS.
Billy Sunday, in his talk to the
New York Press Clul) on "The News
paper and its Influence for Good or
Evil," pays tribute to the general
integrity of the newspapers and the
newspaper editors of the country that
we believe is well deserved, but when
he says that "if the newspapers of
New York, Chicago, St. Louis and
Boston combined in a clean-up move
ment all the gangs and thugs and
thieves and dishonest politicians
would beat it," he exaggerates our
power for good as much as he does
in the declaration that "if every news
paper in the country was suppressed
crime would increase 100 per cent in
twenty-four hours and all hell would
hold a jubilee.'The press will blush-1
ingly admit that it has an influence
but it is not prepared to claim such
tremendous power as Mr. Sunday
would so graciously confer upon it.
If it possessed such power and did
not exercise it it would very properly
be held responsible for the continu
ance of evil in the world. Unfor
tunately, evil is not so easily removed
as his assertion would indicate. It
has been firmly intrenched upon the
earth for a good long while, and
forces more potent than could be
brought to bear by the press or any
other human organization have as
sailed it continuously for centuries,
yet it survives.
This much, however, we do assert,
that the influence of the press, what
ever it may be, is always against evil,
never for it. As Mr. Sunday declares
with much picturesque emphasis, the
newspapers have an influence in the
prevention of crime by the mere pub
lication of the news, but its effect
along that line is not a mere inci
dental product of the business of
news gathering. It is an active, per
sistent and united enemy of evil in
every generally recognized form. Up
on some moral questions there are
differences of opinion, some holding
a thing to be evil which others,
equally honest, believe to be harmless
and newspapers which take a stand
for or against such debatable matters
are condemned or praised as the feel
ings of their readers incline. But ev
ery real newspaper supports all that
is unquestionably good and opposes
all that is undoubtedly bad. We know
of no exception to the rule. St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
EUROPE HAS NEARLY CLEANED
US OUT OF WHEAT.
Wheat is the most erratic of all
products in the markets of a war
scourged world. Prices fluctuate
violently from day to day, and the
most seasoned traders can not know
what changes an hour may bring.
Why should wheat perform puz
zling antics when other staples of
necessity to the warring countries
hold fairly stable in the markets?
Copper is even of greater importance
to the fighting nations than wheat.
In a pinch substitutes can be found
for wheat. For lead and copper
there are none. Yet these metals,
while advancing steadily in price
have been practically free from vio
lent oscillation.
Speculation accounts in part for
this difference. Many speculate in
grain; few in the metals. Yet cotton
is also a speculative product, and
cotton, though violently deranged by
the outbreak of the war, now holds
fairly firm at the moderate prices
that were regained several weeks
ago.
Undoubtedly foreign buyers have
done much to manipulate wheat
prices toward a lower level, but they
must now be close to the end of their
manipulating resources. American
stocks are running low and we can
not have much of last season's crop
to spare. Wrhen existing export con
tracts have been filled the stock re
maining will be close to the usual re
quirements for seed, for consump
tion pending the new harvest, and for
the quantity that is normally held on
carryover.
This means that, broadly speaking,
it is a matter of little or no concern
to the United States whether foreign
buyers take another bushel of the
present stock. Yet foreign buying,
though not so keen of late, continues
in volume more than sufficient to
clean us out. Total exports of wheat
and flour from the two coasts were
7,311,000 bushels for the week end
ing April 10 a falling off of about
3,000,000 bushels from the preceed
ing week, but still exceeding exports
for the corresponding week in 1914
by nearly 5,000,000 bushels.
I It now seems all but certain that
prices will continue high for our re
maining stocks. What will happen
when the new crop goes on the mar
kets is something no one can clearly
foresee. There are too many un
known and miKuowable factors to
make predictions safe. The size of
the coming crop ii the United States
and other wheat-growing lands, the
influences of weather, the duration of
the war, the status of the Dardanelles
these and other elements cloud
the problem. Spokesmau Review.
RAILROADS AND THE PUBLIC.
While we have a good many mile
of railroad for a new country there
is urgent need for improvement of
those already built and the construc
tion of many more additional miles,
leading into new territory in order
to insure its ultimate development
and settlement. Everybody is inter
ested in the expansion of the rail
roads and everybody would like to
see as good road beds in this state as
are those in the most thickly settled
sections of the East. We cannot
afford to be eternally at war with the
railroads, as we want more of them
and should be disposed to encourage
their construction rather than their
destruction.
A banker took for security on a
loan a consignment of hams. The
loan not being repaid he went to ex
amine his security, only to discover
that the hams had all spoiled.
Another customer applied for a
loan. The banker inquired what se
curity he had to offer. The customer
proposed hams; "I have had some,"
the banker said.
The housewife asks her grocer to
send her an Eastern ham always
Eastern if she has the price. The
grocer suggests a choice country ham
- home cured. She replies too
often, in substance if not in the
words of the banker, "I have had
some.
When choice Eastern hams retail
at 22 cents, country hams bring
about 17 cents. Now and then a
home-cured ham is just about per
fect, but single handed, it cannot
rise above the general reputation of
country hams. Its market value is
the same as its inferior neighbors.
This suggests a neglected depart
ment of the county fair. Much atten
tion is given to the live porker too
little indeed to the Hog carved and
cured for market. If a high stand
ard can be established for the home-
cured product the price will rise cor
respondingly. Western Stock Journ
al. A small farmer tilled his seven
acres of clear land for years while
thirty acres of brush pasture lay idle.
He learned by accident that the hea
vy growth of hazel trees covering his
waste land was a valuable crop,
awaiting the harvest, and during a
single winter he and his sons cut in
to chips and sold hazel bushes enougli
to buy . the whole farm. Another
struggled along on a coast home
stead. He would be struggling still
but for his discovery of the demand
for cascara hark. His crop was a
competence for life, sown and grown;
all that remained for him to do was
to attend to the harvest.
Very little grows that is not con
vertible to the use of man; very lit
tle is in reality waste. In'the home,
in business, on the farm, the net pro
fit too often goes into the discard,
being mistaken for waste. Thrift
converts waste into the by-product.
Bread puddings, hashes and stews
try the skill of the thrifty housewife
and her back door is always a dis
appointment to the garbage collector.
The by-product becomes her hobby
when she learns that waste is the
handmaid of poverty.
The packing industry showed no
great returns until hoofs, hair, hides
and bones became the recognized
profits of the slaughter-house. The
oil industry was a catch-penny busi
ness while it was confined to the ex
traction of illuminating oil from
crude petroleum; it became stupend
ous with the utilization of the hun
dred or more petroleum by-products.
It is quite possible there is a pot of
gold at the end of the rainbow, but
while one is rushing thither he may
well pause and look about his feet;
it may be that, unwittingly, he has
come upon what he seeks. Western
Stock Journal.
How about that May Day picnic?
Mr. Knocker, you will please take
notice that our little city continues to
make progress along all lines.
Days like Monday and Tuesday of
this week teach us more than ever
the value of crude oil for laying the
dust.
In another column will be found an
Item from the Pendleton E. O. which
states that it has been fully settled
that the district forest office will go
from Heppner to Pendleton as soon
as quarters are provided in the new
Federal building. It is stated that
this information comes direct from1
the Bureau headquarters,' and that
paper seems to' take it for granted
that there is nothing more to the
situation. It also Btates that 'this
change is one that has long been de
sired by stockmen and It will, of
course, be very gratifying to them.
Now we presume that this applies to
a very small bunch of stockmen resid
ing In and Immediately around the
city of Pendleton, for It cannot be un
derstood to mean any considerable
number. The fact Is that the very
great majority of the stockmen who
use the forest and who have any busi-
ness with the district forester's of.- '.
'are residents of the territory trii i-
tary to Heppner. Many of these ai
I now sending in their protests to il-.c
I Heppner Commercial Club again-1
the removal of the office from this
city, and our commercial body is so
! ing to be able to put up such a sho v-
' a it-til onnvinpa tha Ritrnoii lnvid-
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quarters that they will do a grave in
justice to the very large majority of
the users of the Umatilla forest if
they remove Hie office from Heppner
to Pendleton, or to any other place
for that matter.
It looks to the people over this
way that Pendleton is trying to put
one over on us by committing the
head office of the forest service to a
proposition to which they have not
assented. At any rate, Heppner is
asked from headquarters to make her
showing, and this too with the under
standing that there has not as yet
been any decision made regarding the
removal of the Heppner office to
Pendleton.
THE CHAUTAUQUA.
Heppner will this year attempt her
first Chautauqua. We understand
that it has now been fully settled that
the course will be staged here early
in June. The talent that will visit
Heppner at this time will be of the
very best, and the class of entertain
ment of the highest order.
There has been some doubt in the
minds of quite a number of our peo
ple as to whether we will be able w
put through to a financial success
such a large undertaking, as it menus
the selling of a great number of sea
son tickets. We believe, however,
that this Idea is fast beginning to dis
appear, and as our people get warmed
up to the proposition it is becoming
apparent that the financial end can
and will be taken care of. Heppner
never falls down when undertaking
any worthy enterprise, and she will
not be the loser on this Chautauqua.
It Is now a matter of consistent
boosting and the enterprise will be a
success from the word go.
The rule has been that few places
have come out ahead the first year
on their Chautauqua, It being rather
hard to get people to fully realize the
worth of such a course. But after
the first year it has been found easy
to make it go.
Both Pendleton and The Dallas
have held very successful Chautau-
quas and they have undertaken larger
programs this year which are being
pushed at the present time. We be
lieve that Pendleton gave her first
Chautauqua last year, and it was a
great success. Many of the smaller
places have joined the circle this
year and expect to make their Chau-
tauquas the occasion of hringing
large crowds of people to their towns,
so we shall certainly not be behind
the procession.
People from all over the county are
already becoming interested in the
coming event at Heppner and this
Chautauqua will undoubtedly bring
large numbers of people here for the
week. The entertainment features,
and also the educational value of the
course is bound to attract the people
to our town.
We will have to work to make our
first Chautauqua a success; those
that will follow on succeeding years
will be easy to handle, and we will
have established a high order of en
tertainment and instruction that is
uplifting in Its nature. Let's put our
shoulder to the wheel and lift, with
no other idea than that of making it
a complete success.
IONE.
Mrs. Morris from Wasco was an
lone visitor last week, being the
guest of Mrs. W. J. Blake. She also
visited with E. M. Shutt and wife
while here.
Carp Hale and wife from the North
Yakima country were in lone a few
days the past week visiting with
friends and relatives.
L. L. McMurray took a car load of
hogs to Portland a few days ago and
got the top price for them. They al
lowed him $7.65 right through. Lax
understands the hog business from
A to Z and we are glad they netted
him such good prices.
R. F. Hynd one of our old timers,
from Portland, was in lone last week
shaking hands with friends and at
tending to some business matters.
John Hosner was a passenger to
Cecil last week where he went to
help Jack Hynd during the busy sea
son. We see W. H. Padberg from the
Lexington country driving a 1916
Ford these days.
Miss Kittle Wllmot made a trip to
Milton last week, going over with
her sister, Mrs. McMillan, In their
auto. They report a splendid trip.
The fish In Rhea creek are catch
ing fits or being caught these days.
We counted about thirteen Jitneys
camped up and down the creek last
Sunday. ,
Mrs. Ellen Phelps of Baker, Is vis
iting with her brother, Mr. R. F.
Wllmot In lone.
John Wilson from the Padberg
ranch, came down to lone last Satur
day with a load of spuds. He was
driving a horseless carriage,
John Olden and wife from the
Rhea creek country were In town last
week with a Jitney load of eggs and
butter, taking out a goodly supply of
eats to help feed the hungry ranch
hands.
Sox Morgan from near Rheas Sid
ing and Jim Franklin from Cecil,
were lone visitors last week.
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BIG RED
MEN'S CLOTHING
All COLLEGIAN Made Clothes
NOTHING BETTER MADE
$25.00 Suits, now
$22.50 Suits, now
$20.00 Suits, now
$18.00 Suits, now
$15.00 Suits, now
THOMSON BROS.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
AGO IN HEPPNER
Heppner Gazette, April 3, 1890.
Capt. Homer McFarland has re
cently received a brand new baritone
horn, the neatest in the- band.
Tyson & Boyd have received the
contract for building the new hotel
foundation. Good for home talent
and enterprise.
M. D. L. French, brother of Mil
lard, is in from Indiana. He and his
brother are In the hardware business
at Remington, Ind.
Wm.Walbridge had a runaway up
at the home ranch last week, result
ing in one of the horses receiving
some severe cuts from a barb wire
fence.
Mr. Taylor Dodson and family,
accompanied by Miss Etta Minor, left
last Tuesday morning for Fairhaven
where they will find theif future
home. Miss Etta will remain with
them this summer. Mr. and Mrs.
Dodson are old residents of Morrow
county and of Heppner, and the com
munity can illy spare them. We wish
them prosperity in their new location.'
The grand Jury failed to find an
indictment against Bud Kieffer, and
he was turned loose. He celebrated
the event by striking Judge Clifford
for a "half." We are not acquaint
ed with a man in the country who
will avoid labor as skillfully, and still
labor so earnestly to bum money on
which to get a "jag" aboard, as this
same Bud.
The ball game at lone last Satur
day between the I. A. S. and the H.
H. S. was a dandy good one, the vis
itors being victorious.
John Harbke and wife of Portland,
are visiting with friends and rela
tives in lone these days.
W. P. McMillan and family of Lex
ington were visitors at lone one day
last week, stopping with R. F. WU
mot and family. j
Ralph Beckett is the happy po
ssessor of a new Ford these days and
the way he files around is not slow.
Art Reece and wife from Toppen
ish, Wash, are visiting at the home
of Mra. Reece's mother, Mrs. L. P.
Davidson.
Muriel Cason, Bert Mason's good
looking bookkeeper, was a visitor at
Heppner last week.
Roy Whitei8 and wife have moved
to Heppner where they will reside In
definitely. Mr. Whiteis has taken up
the insurance business.
Mr. Sears, our paper man, has re
moved from over the print Bhoe to
a more secluded place over in the
neighborhood of Mr. Halvorsen.
lone is In darkness these nights
owing to repairs being made on the
boiler. We will soon have more
light on the subject, so In the mean
time let the coal oil do the work.
Walter Cason has moved from the
Barton residence to the B. F. Morgan
house, formerly occupied by Hoy
Whiteis.
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