THE (? AZETTK-TIMKS. HEPPNER. ORE- THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1915.
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Thursday, May 6, 1915.
THE INTEREST GROWS.
The establishing of the industrial
work in the schools or Morrow coun
ty has been a step in the right di
rection, and the interest in that line
of endeavor is growing rapidly as the
pupils become more familiar with it.
This is an age of progress, and we
are fast retreating from the stern
rule of "reading, riting and rithme
tic" as it used to be meted out to us
when we were kids and going thru
the process of gaining some book
knowledge. U is getting to be the
popular thing these days to give the
child a knowledge of the useful arts
and affairs of life in the early part
of his education; hence the manual
training and domestic science courses
are introduced into our high schools,
and the industrial work is taken up
in the grades that the younger pupils
may get practical instruction in gar
dening, sewing, cooking, etc.
Every right thinking person heart
ily endorses this line of work.
It is the means of interesting many
a boy and girl in school work that
seem to have no taste for the daily
grind of getting the lessons from the
text book. There is many a lad loi
tering around and not attending
school who might be reached thru
some line of the industrial work; in
fact, many a youngster has been
stirred to activity in these lines and
his latent talents brought to light
and he has eventually entered into
the school work with a vim.
We do not know just how this boy,
writing the letter herewith, viewed
the situation, but his letter is cer
tainly evidence that the industrial
work has taken hold of him in good
shape. We are giving his letter just
as it was written to Superintendent
Notson, and will say that we would
greatly appreciate the privilege of
publishing more of such letters in
these columns. We are glad to open
up a department in tnis paper devot
ed to letters of this nature from the
pupils of the grade schools, and
would urge them to ravor us with
letters touching their work, express
ed in their own way. The writing of
the letters would do the pupils good,
and we know that they will be of in
terest to our readers as well as en
couraging the children in their in
dustrial work. Read this letter, and
then send in what you have.
Heppner, Ore., May 1, 1915.
Mr. S. E. Notson, Heppner, Ore.
Dear Sir:
I thought I would write you a few
lines and let you know how I am.
Have you any books about garden
seed? If you have any please send
me one cause I want to raise some
thing for the fair this fall. The
teacher says that she wants us pupils
to raise something for the fair this
fall. It is snowing now. I am going
to have the playthings up when you
come out to visit the school. We are
over at the Burton Valley school.
There is twenty scholars.
We will surprise you when you
come to visit the school. You know
them thorns that was in the corner
of the school house fence we have
cut them all out.
Well tills is all that I can think of
todav. From vours trulv,
GUY E. HASTINGS.
The letter is given in the boy's
own language, and it is all right,
even though he has not conformed to
all the rules of writing; these he will
gain later. We hope he will write
again, and as suggested above, we
will be very glad to publish letters
from any of the boys and girls who
will take the time to write concern
ing their work.
It is not far till the. time of the
Heppner Chautauqua. It comes the
last of June and it is necessary that
active promotion work be begun at
once.
Do you remember that you ever
had a mother? If so, attend the
"Mothers' Day" services at the var
ious Heppner churches on next Sun
day morning. If your mother still
lives wear a bright flower in her hon
or, and if she has departed this life,
wear a white flower in memory of
the best friend you ever had on this
earth.
Let's boost for the Chautauqua.
Mr. Sheepman, tne Heppner Wool
Sales Date is June 8th. Keep it in
mind.
An open river to the sea will mean
lower freight rates for the inland
farmer and a larger profit on products
all the way around.
Stanfleld, which was lately pro
nounced the most progressive city in
Oregon, is striving to maintain that
reputation, and will hold the Umatilla
county fair there this year. Stanfleld
has a bunch of good live progressive
business men, and they have succeed
ed in landing something that will
have a far more lasting value than
the Pendleton Round-up.
RECENT WORK OX CAXCER.
The remarkable studies of Maud
SIvr nn the inheritance of cancer in
mice are yielding positive results of
great significance and interest. Miss
Sly'8 work shows that in mice the
tendency to develop cancer is trans
mitted from generation to genera
tion in exact accord with the laws of
heredity so that it tan be bred into
and out of strains of mice at will.
She has bred cancer through ten gen
erations, and in the stock of ten
thousand mice under observation at
present spontaneous cancer is always
present, arising almost without ex
ception in strains of known cancer
ous ancestry. The proper represen
tatives of such strains of mice "carry
cancer into a strain with which they
are hybridized as inevitably as an
albino mouse carries albinism into a
pigmented strain with which it is
hybridized, and with exactly parallel
behavior of the character."
It is not cancer as such that is
transmitted, but the tendency of the
sells to produce cancer under suitable
conditions, which appear to arise es
pecially as the results of all kinds of
local irritation, reminding us of the
undoubted role that chronic irrita
tios plays in human cancer.
The mass of evidence presented
warrants the generalization that in
mice cancer tendency is a transmis
sible character, whatever the actual
cause of cancer may be. This is a
positive result, the full significance of
which makes it one or the great con
tributions to our knowledge of can
cer. While the exact study of the
influence of heredity in human cancer
at present is practically blocked be
cause not enough facts can be obtain
ed, there are no known exceptions or
modifications to the laws of heredity
which would justify an opinion that
observations on cancer iu mice are
not applicable to man. Hence, says
The Journal of the American Medical
Association, the final lesson drawn
by Miss Sly, based on the idea that
cancer is not transmitted as sueh but
as a tendency to occur from over-irritation,
must be accepted as sound and
practical: "The elimination as far as
possible of all forms of overirritatum
to the tissues of an individual of high
cancer ancestry should go far to elim
inate the provocation of cancer; and
the eugenic control of matings so that
cancer shall at least not be potential
on both sides of the hybrid cross
ought to eventuate in a considerable
decrease in the frequency of human
cancer."
RVRAIi CREDIT PROBLEM.
Notwithstanding the tendency of
some individuals who have been ac
tive in attempts to establish rural
credit systems to dogmatize on the
subject, it is evidently still a problem
filled with difficulties. It is the unan
imous conclusion that short-term
loans on farm land are too expensive.
In addition to high interest charges
and commissions for renewals there
is the expense of frequent bringing of
the abstract down to date. There is
always hanging over the head of the
borrower the fear that financial con
ditions will be such at the maturity
of the mortgage that he cannot get a
renewal at reasonable rates. There
is apparently general agreement that
some form of bonded indebetedness
must be devised. It is urged, in il
lustration, that the public borrows
money in this way and that our great
industrial development would have
been impossible without the sale of
bonds.
But here the agreement ends
Some would have the National Gov-
ernmentor the state-lend money to
the farmers at low interest rates
Others would use banks with capital
supplied by state or nation. Some
would exempt the capital of such
banks from taxation. Others would
exempt the bonds from taxation, us
ing the familiar argument that the
land is already taxed, an argument
which would apply to all mortgaged
property as well as to land. Two
.speakers considered the problem be
fore the Southern Commercial Con
gress at Muscogee this week, Myron
T. Herrick, who has specialized on
rural credits more than any other
prominent American, and George
Woodruff of Joliet, 111., who has an
intimate acquaintance with the work
ings of the Farm Mortgage Bank of
that city. Both protested against
state or national "subsidies of the
farmer." Mr. Herrick criticised ex-
emption from taxation, on the ground
of inequality. Taxes must be paid
and he argues that farmers who are
not borrowing money would join
other classes of taxpayers in resisting
what would be a gross discrimina
tion. Mr. Woodruff would exempt
the debenture bonds from taxation,
using the general objection to "dou
ble taxation." The Joliet plan of
amortization, by which twenty-year
loans are paid out in forty equal
semiannual payments, appears to
have been a success. It reduces to
the minimum one of the greatest dan
gers, that of overvaluation of the
security, for with each semiannual
payment the security becomes strong
er. Congress and the various legis
latures have few more urgent prob
lems before them. While immediate
action is desirable, the devising of an
equitable and workable plan is more
Important still. St. Louis Globe
Democrat. The State Dairy and Food Com
missioner of Oregon has ruled that
all makers of ranch and dairy butter
for market must use wrappers .that
are printed according to the require
ments of that department. It has
been noticed that not a few of the
butter makers of this section have
been using a rubber stamp to mark
their particular product, and this
is very objectionable. From the
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snop nasxbeen receiving lately for
printed butter wrappers, we are led
to believe that there will be little
cause for complaint in the future of
the butter makers of Morrow county
not complying with law. The small
price charged for this work should
be no bar to all getting their butter
paper printed as the law provides,
besides it is much neater than having
to write the names and weights with
a pen or putting them on with a rub
ber stamp.
"CO-OPERATIVE" ERA VPS.
As one result of the effort of the
American people to cheapen the cost
of distribution of merchandise they
buy and sell, a series of bona fide co
operative undertakings have been
launched in various parts of the
country. Along with them have
gone fraudulent private concerns,
which are in reality deliberate stock
swindles. One such was haled into
court in the western part of the state
a few weeks ago.
The affidavit ot the treasurer of
the concern showed, among other
things, these figures:
Total sales on shares of stock,
$225,390.
Notes taken on such sales, $124,
039. Cash received on sales, $131,350.
Commissions and expenses of Bales,
$74,262.
Net cash received, $57,088.
This shows who has been getting
most out of the eempany, namely the
promoters. Their share In cash has
been $74,262 out ot the total cash
receipts of $131,350.
One man who bought five shares of
the stock said he was told the concern
aimed to sell goods "at cost, plus
running expenses." The agent who
sold the stock received half of the
money paid as his commission. Yet
on top of all this, the concern prom
ised a large profit to its shareholders.
A chain of these socalled co-opera
tive companies has been started at
various points in the northwest, and
it behooves farmers and others to be
very wary of them and not to sub
scribe to any of their stock until they
have taken advice with local bankers,
or some person who can analyze the
scheme away from the spell of the
agent. Enterprise Record-Chieftain.
PUBLICITY SAFEST METHOD,
The purpose of the publication of
the delinquent tax list is two fold:
First To give notice to property
owners that their taxes are delin
quent;
Second To enforce the payment
of those taxes and thus secure the
needed revenue for the conduct of the
county and state governments.
The Times contends that the pub
lication of the delinquent tax list ac
complishes both results at a minimum
of expense to the taxpayer.
That newspaper publicity is the
most prompt and effective method of
disseminating information and giv
ing general notice to the public is so
generally acknowledged that argu
ment seems unnecessary. The news
paper spreads the notoice by discus
sion for when Brown reads the notice
he promptly speaks about it to Itob
inson and also with Jones and thus It
spreads. This is proved by the fact
that other states having a law similar
to the Oregon statute have reduced
the delinquent tax list from six and
eight newspaper pages at first to less
than three or four columns in length,
a result that the personal notice could
never accomplish.
Another evil which the personal
notice fosters and permits Is that if
at any time a tax collector was
prompted by a desire to profit by not
sending a notice to the owner of some
valuable property he rould easily
hold out the notice, have a friend
purchase the property for the taxes
and get possession of the tax title.
It is true such emergencies may be
rare but they do occur and newspaper
publication gives notice to all the
world that cannot be escaped, evaded
or denied. Everywhere there are
men who are willing to profit by an
other's carelessness or pressing nec
essity. Such men watch the tax ti
tles which often return them exces
sive profits. Newspaper publication
prevents this nefarious business by
the universal , scope of the notice,
which it makes public.
Everywhere that it has been tried
newspaper publication has proven ef
fective and while the law has not
,been in effect in Oregon sufficient
time to accomplish the same results
it is none the less needed for any
thing in which the people and tax
payers are interested is benefitted by
newspaper publicity. Daily Marsh
field Times.
Read the article on another page
relating to borax, and its value as a
fly destroyer. Borax will not kill the
fly, but will destroy the eggs, thereby
preventing them from hatching. Its
use will prevent a lot of "swatting"
later on.
We overheard a good citizen of
tills town registering a kick the other
day relative to the arrangement of
the new postofllce. Never mind,
neighbor, just a little of the right
kind of hustle and you can have it
removed to Pendleton.
Goliath, according to Billy Sunday,
"was the head cheese and the whole
work." "Who's that gazaboo?" ask
ed David. "Then he gave Goliath
the once over." Here the evangelist
illustrated the effect on the giant by
himself foiling at full length upon
the platform. The language accom
panying the ocular demonstration
"Beaned! David soaked him In the
coco between the lamps and Goliath
went to the mat and took the count.
David chopped his head off and Go
liath's gang beat it." And then he
stirred the trail hitters with this ap
peal: "Say, are you riding a blind
baggage or a gospel train? I'll know
in a minute whether you are men or
mutts. If you're a man you will fight
your way down these aisles to take
my hand. Oh, I'll have your num
ber! I'll know whether you've got
gasoline or dishwater in your veins,
whether you're real or a four-flusher."
CLEAN-UP PAINT-UI" WEEK.
This is the week set aside by Gov.
Withycombe as clean-up, paint-up
week. We rushed the season for the
clean-up job, but we have all the
more time now for the paint-up part
of the program, and It is needless to
say that the citizens of Heppner will
cooperate to their utmost with the
Governor in making the State of Ore
gon "spick and span."
Thomson
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AH 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
May 1, 1890.
Hon. W. R. Ellis is having erected
on lower iraie sweei., a tuuimu
dious and well arranged residence.
Ben Hunsaker has traded his city
property to J. B. Sperry, taking in
exchange a herd of Hereford cattle.
John Lord, the Arlington horseman
was in town last week. He has dis
posed of a number of his fine Clyde
stallions.
We are glad to note that Wm.
Hughes, who has been suffering from
paralysis, superinduced by an attack
of diphtheria, is getting better rapid
ly. Nat Webb has purchased 6,000 dry
eweB and will take them to range
across Snake river.
Sheep are shearing very light this
season, but the Quality remains equal
to tmit formerly taken from the wool
ly Inhabitants of our time-honored
hills.
A. C. Petteys, the prosperous resi
dent of Pettysville, called at the Ga
zette office Saturday.
Mrs, Scott Brundage of Weiser,
Idaho, is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Webb.
Henry Blackman, democratic can
didate for joint senator to represent
Grant, Harney and Morrow counties,
received the nomination and was met
with a grand ovation upon his return
to Heppner.
G. W. Ilea and T. J. Matlock re
turned from the democratic state con
vention on last Saturday's train.
Kill The Flies.
Now is the time to swat the flies.
Kill one fly now and you will do bet
ter than killing a thousand later.
Clean up all filth, thereby destroy
ing their breeding places. Every
body get a swatter and kill the flies
as they appear.
DR. A. D. McMURDO,
City Health Officer.
FOK SALE OR TRADE.
One good young Mammoth Black
Jack for sale or trade. Also some
good work horses to trade for cattle.
Inquire of Frank Anderson, Heppner,
Oregon. Local and long distance
phones. lm.
CJraduatlon comes but once in a
child's life. A serviceable present
is appropriate. Visit Haylor for Rift
suggestions. 3t.
Drs. Lowe & Turner, the well
known eye specialists will be in
Heppner May 14-15. See them at
the Palace hotel.
Drs. Lowe &' Turner will be In
Lexington May 12, Hardman May 13,
Heppner May 14-15 and lone May
16-17.
Anyone desiring the services of a
maternity nurse will do well to write
to Box 105, Lexington, Ore.. Prices
very reasonable. M 18-6t.
WANTED A harvest job for a
man and wife and 16 year old son
for the coming season. Woman -to
cook; man can handle machinery or
do anything else. Or I would accept
a position on a ranch by the year
with a place to keep a family. Ad
dress 1104 Wilson St., Hood River,
Oregon.
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