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THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER. ORE.. THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1915
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Thursday, July 29, 1915.
WHO AM I.
I am more pawerful than the com
bined armies of the world.
I have destroyed more men than all
the wars of the world.
I am more deadly than bullets, and
I have wrecked more homes than the
mightiest of siege guns.
I steal, in the United States alone,
over $300,000,000 each year.
1 spare no one, and I find my vic
tims among the rich and poor alike;
the young and the old, the strong and
weak; widows and orphans know me.
I loom up to such proportions that
I cast my shadow over every field of
labor from the turning of the grind
stone to the moving of every railroad
train.
I massacre thousands upon thou
sands of wage-earners in a year.
I lurk in unseen places, and do
most of my work silently. You are
warned against me, but you heed not.
I am relentless. I am everywhere";
in the home, on the streets, in the
factory, at railroad crossings, and on
the sea.
I bring sickness, degradation and
death, and yet few seek to avoid me.
I destroy, crush or maim; I give
nothing, but take all.
I am your worst enemy.
I am carelessness!
PORTLAND "BUYERS' WEEK."
Portland assuredly has adopted a
mutually satisfactory method of se
curing the interest of the retail mer
chants of Oregon, Washington, Mon
tana and Idaho, and through the
worked out details of 'Buyers' Week'
it is a certainty that hundreds of re
tailers representing every city, town
and hamlet in the Northwest will be
there from August 9 to 14.
Portland pays the railroad fares
of the men who attend on "Buyers'
Week," if their aggregate purchases
amount to $500 or more. To most
of the merchants of this district such
a purcnase would De smaii. me insi
of Portland jobbers and wholesalers
who are joined in this movement con
tains 107 names. Purchases made
from any of them will bo joined in
making up the total amount.
In addition to all this the railroads
are giving reduced fares for the bene
fit of the families of merchants, and
a program of amusement has been
provided which will fill every night
and almost every luncheon hour dur
ing the week. All these features are
complimentary.
Tickets should he purchased Aug
ust 5, 6 or 7 or August 9, 10 or 11.
Merchants should pay full fare one
way and take receipt.
Through "Buyers' Week" Portland
Jobbers k 'Manufacturers are endeav
oring to impress the trade territory,
of which Portland is the logical cen
ter, tat the dealers of that city are
carrying the largest and most com
plete flocks in many lines that are to
be found on the Pacific coast. It is
no longer necessary to place orders
with jobbers of the middle West or
in the East.
With 30 feet of water on tlie Co
lumbia River bar, a depth that will
allow the admission of the largest
vessels, and with every facility at
Portland for handling incoming and
out going products, it seems to be
a wise thing for merchants of the
three states to visit Portland on this
annual shopping trip, and secure the
advantages of a cash refund of rail
road fare.
Several new concrete crossings are
being put in by the city. A new con
crete bridge is to be built across Wil
low creek at the north end of Gale
street. The city fathers are getting
down to the proposition of doing
some real permanent work.
Actually, folks, we saw four bare
foot "kiddies" scampering on the
court house lawn one day the past
week; and yet some fellow said, not
long ago, that there was not a bare
footed youngster to be seen in the
town. Yes, friend, there are some
"primitive" people living in this pro
gressive place, and if you will get
your eyes down to earth you may be
able to pee dozens of barefooted bo'ys
and girls scampering about in this
old burg almost any day of the week.
Apparently Germany is not much
in favor of America's last note, and
seems to be assuming a defiant at
titude at the present with regard to
it. A few days of calm reflection,
and Elie may look at the matter a
little differently.
GREAT CHAXCJK IX SENTIMENT.
One of the most gratifying phe
nomena of public opinion is the prac
tically overwhelming sentiment in
favor of this country adopting a pol
icy of prepsrcdne3 for military and
naval defense. The great war is un
questionably responsible. It has had
the same effect that great conflagra
tions have in arousing public realiza
tion of the necessity for adequate in
surance. Less than a year ago
the president read a message to
Congress that afforded much com
fort to the facuous pacifists. The
last annual report of the secretary
of the navy made light of the
recommendations of the gen
eral board and contained assurances
of security which were not based on
the actual condition of any branch of
the navy. Assuming illegal authority
he threatened court-martial against
anv naval officer who should dare to
tell the country of true conditions.
Only one of the president's official
family faced conditions and based his
recommendations on our actual
needs. This was the secretary of war.
In his first report, in 1913, he showed
an indifference to military needs. He
even suggested that this country pay
no attention to military aeronautics
until other nations had developed the
art of aviation. But as he became
familiar with conditions, he came out
boldly for adequate military prepar
edness, regardless of the attitude of
his chief and colleagues.
The campaign for preparedness
was generally carried on by private
citizens and minority members of
Congress, aided by the logic, of
events. Now everybody, except the
incorrigible pacifists, are in line. The
last Congress went beyond the rec
ommendations of the secretary of the
navy. He appears to have been con
verted and will take an advanced po
sition in his next report. He is now
busy organizing a board of civilian
advisors to encourage and pass upon
naval inventions. The speaker of the
House has declared for doubling the
number of studnets at West Point
and for assignment of regular army
officers to private schools. The chair
man of the Senate Committee on For
eign Relations has given a ringing
interview in favor of preparedness.
Public sentiment Is aroused through
out the entire country, not In favor
of "militarism," the bugaboo 'Mr.
Bryan raised in the campaign of 1900
but for the establishment and main
tenance of sufficient military and na
val force to protect this nation's vi
tal interests. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
EYE INJURIES FROM ALKALIES,
The daily papers and magazines of
the past two years, at home and
abroad, have contained numerous in
stances of more or less serious in
juries to the eyes from the explosion
of the central rubber bags of some
sorts of golf balls, filled with strong
solutions of alkalies. Popular atten
tion being in this way drawn to the
danger from alkalies in golf balls, it
is well worth recalling the possibility
of injuries to the eyes from other
forms of alkalies.
A boy was busy whitewashing his
father's fence when another boy came
along and they began to talk together
as boys will talk; from talk it was
not far to guying and sport, then
came pulling and hauling. In the
final struggle for the control of the
brush, the friendly boy flapped the
brush into the working boy's face,
la so abundant a fashion that the
lime in the whitewash entered one of
the eyes and injured it for life, leav
ing a scar which neither medicine,
operation nor treatment can get rid
of.
Another injury recently reported
is one not so likely to happen to any
boy. V boy was so anxious to have
his face clean arid presentable at din
ner that he made up a thick lather
and then so completely enveloped his
neck, head and face with it that some
entered the eyes, burning the eye
balls so that the boy was hardly able
to see at all. This boy is injured for
life owing to his own thoughtlessness.
If he or his parents had attended any
public health lecture on the care of
the eyes, they would have understood
the risks of using strong alkalies near
the eyes in any fashion.
WHAT AMERICANS WANT.
In estimating public sentiment the
President's cabinet, it is said, has ac
cepted the belief that the nation has
voiced an insistent desire that the
honor and dignity of the United
States be upheld in the correspon
dence with Germany, but that a
course be followed which will main
tain peace.
This is an accurate diagnosis of the
opinion that prevails very generally.
There is no desire to abandon rights
that have been won at heavy cost, nor
Is there any wish to tolerate indigni
ties that would lessen the prestige of
the United States among the nations
of the world. There is no desire for
peace at a price that would mean hu
miliation and dishonor.
But there is a very ardent desire
that honorable peace shall be main
tained. Americans do not want to
become involved in the European war
unless it is made very plain to them
that it is in defense of the honor and
dignity of their country and that hon
or and dignity cannot be maintained
in any other way. Eugene Register.
Morrow County Fair dates: Sep
tember 1C, 17 and 18.
BUT ONE THOUSAND DEAD.
Telegram.
Over the tragedy at Chicago the
country fairly gasps. The story is
not yet fully told and the list of dead
not yet known. According to all esti
mates, however, over 1000 people
have been drowned. The most of
these, as we gather from reports.
were women and children. It was a
terrible catastrophe. The news of it
is appalling to the entire nation. The
recountal of its various tragic de
tails is spread over pages. of printed
matter, and by the average person it
is read with avidity.
Yet it might serve some purpose if
we should stop to consider that in
vindication of the glories of war they
are killing men across seas at a rate
which makes a thousand deaths ap
pear but as a drop in the bucket. The
European death list, in the year of
its frightful war activities, would
probably run into the millions
counting those who have fallen in
actual battle and those whose lives
have been given as innocent sacrifices
to the god of war.
There have been women and chil
dren among these tens of thousands
of them perhaps hundreds of thous
ands. We have grown accustomed to
the sad recital of war and hardened
to the curse of it. We would scarce
ly give two lines of black type to the
announcement of the killing of a
thousand; and we would certainly
not accord the detail more than an
inch of type. We can read a review
and summary of war events that
chronicles the destruction of armies
and the violent death of hundreds of
thousands without emotion.
We do not stop to think that there
Is horror and misery and black, inhu
man cruelty mixed up with it all. We
tell ourselves that it is fate, and the
inevitable clashing ot national am
bitions that cannot be settled or ad
justed In any other way. We lie to
ourselves that this drowning of the
thousand at Chicago was inevitable
and not to be avoided.
We have among us champioBS of
war who .generate in their own minds
a demoniacal enthusiasm for the glo
ries of it! who believe that we are
not brave and that we are without
honor unless we are ever ready and
willing to launch into the business of
killing-not a thousand, but hundreds
of thousands.
We shudder at this single tragedy
because it is near to us; because it is
singled out and stands by itself as
regards the greater tragedies of war
to which our senses have become cal
loused. But the horror multiplied of
those greater tragedies are none the
less real and awful. The shattering
and gashing and crushing ofTfnen
goes on. The destruction of millions
of homes and the starvation of other
millions of women and children pro
ceed as the business of the hour,
which commands the best that the
brains, energy and wealth and all the
dynamic forces of civilization can
bring to the bloody and miserable
task.
In such a cataclysm a thousand
deaths will not command the waste
of a single breath in telling. And
yet, to kill a thousand people is a
most terrible thing. We realize that
as we read of the horror in Chicago.
By the capsizing of n excursion
steamer in Chicago river last Satur
day morning, more than 1200 men,
women and children lost their lives,
and each day the papers report the
recovery of additional bodies from
the river. The overloading of the
steamer is the evident cause of the
capsizing, and a rigid investigation
of tho accident in order to fix the
blame is to be made by both state
and federal authorities. The vessel
had long been used as an excursion
steamer, and was known to be un
safe, but what are a few human lives
when they are put up against the
dollar. This seems to be a case of
this sort getting the dollars regard
less of the risk to human life.
A valiant fight was put up by the
Hardman citizens during the fire of
Monday night, and as a result the
town was saved from total destruc
tion. It is not a very large place and
had a strong wind prevailed there
would have been no show of saving
it from destruction by the flames. No
adequate fire protection is provided,
and the citizens of that town will no
doubt get busy now and put in some
sort of protection. The little chem
ical engine that they have may be
sufficient in an emergency but it Is
inadequate when a real fire is under
way. A gravity system of water for
fire protection ought to be available
for Hardman without a very great
outlay, and once established it is
easily maintained. One real good
fire would pay for it many times over.
Pendleton's sixth annual Round-up
will be held this year on Sept. 23, 24
and 25. This will be just a week
later than the Third Anna! Morrow
County Fair. Last year, Pendleton
sent over .a train load of special
boosters for the Round-up, who spent
a day with us visiting our fair. We
hope they may be able to do this
again, for Heppner is always glad to
have a visit from the live-wire hunch
of the Round-up city. Come along,
friends, and we shall try to have a
hotter day for you than on the oc
casion of your first visit here.
Mlas Elizabeth Ware, county evan
gelist, will preach both morning and
evening at Liberty sclioolliouse,
Lisht Mile, on Sunday.
yWyjmjP- Shotguns and the W
WS "Speed Shells" W
"Dope"
from and that it leads straight to Remington
THE Remington-UMC Pump Gun and Autoloading
shotguns of today. Adopted everywhere, for use in
traps shot by more of the
Sport than any other make of guns in the world.
In the matter of Shells where is the sportsman who does
not know the Remington-UMC "Speed Shells," Steel Lined
all the drive of the powder kept back of the shot, and showing
results that flatter any make of gun?
For the right dope see the Remington-UMC Dealer. He
displays the Red Ball Mark of Remington-UMC the sign
that his store is Sportsmen's Headquarters of the town.
Sold by your home dealer and 645
other leading merchants in Oregon
RtwiftM Ahm-Uum Metallic CaitrUft
MINIATURE BATTLESHIP BLOWN UP AND MINE EXPLOSION
INTERESTING FEATURES IN TWO EXHIBITION PALACES
Amazing Voice Amplifier and Other Wonders of the World's Progress at the Great Panama-Pacific Canal
Celebration This Year the Year of All Years to Take Marvel Journey to the Pacific Coast.
FROM every part of the world
visitors are thronging to the
great Exposition at San Fran
cisco. The Exposition there is
the most comprehensive and Interest
ing of all universal expositions, and It
will probably be the last to be held
within the present generation. Now
Is the time to see it.
The Panama-Pacific International Ex
position, which opened on Feb. 20 last,
hns charmed the millions who have al
ready beheld the magic city by the
Golden Gate.
Tbe marvels of the universe are dis
played in the vast exhibit palaces, af
fording the most comprehensive sum
mary of the world's progress ever dis
closed. Many of the exhibits are as
revolutionary In their character and
mean as much to future generations
as did the locomotive or telegraph
when It was first introduced. The
Amllon amplifier, for example, makes
it possible for a mnn in New York city
to deliver an address through the tele
phone to a large audience In San Fran
Cisco. 3.000 miles away. Through the
use of heat waves the Intensity of the
voice vibrations is Increased to such an
extent that, although the orator may
deliver his address in a low voice into
the telephone in New York, in San
Francisco It is possible to Increase the
sound In volume sufficient to fill a large
hall. On the other hand, the New York
speaker's address may be distributed
through telephonic receiving disks at
tached to each chair in the hall In San
Francisco. In one of the exhibit pal
aces visitors may. without charge, hear
a man in New York read from the
headlines of the New York newspa
pers. This performance begins In the
Palace of Liberal Arts each day nt 3
o'clock.
The amazing voice amplifier is but
ME A(iETS WANTED
UIk Money Muking Proposition
THE ICELESS QUEEN
REFRIGERATOR
Refrigerators without Ice or
chemicals. Low priced, sells
on sight, Everybody needs
one. Just the thintc for the
farmer, summer hotels, coun
try stores, etc., etc.
Write for Booklet and Agent's
proposition. A few territories
still open.
Const Culvert & Flume Co.,
Portland I Kenton Station) Or.
THE CONFECTIONERY
HARDMAN, OREGON
WILL SERVE ICE CREAM HERE
AFTER ON SATURDAYS AND
SUNDAYS.
COMPLETE LINE OP CONFEC
TIONERY' FRUITS IN
SEASON.
W. K. AYERS, Proprietor
on shooting is plentiful.
shooters know where the right dope
men who are setting the pace
C., Wtolwutk Baildmi (233 Bretdwtj) Ntw Tori
one of many revolutionary scientific
advances demonstrated at the Exposi
tion. The invention has made possible
the transcontinental telephone, and the
principle which Is applied has not been
developed to its fullest extent It Is
said that with the probable develop-
TELEPHONE TWENTY-TWO FEET HIGH AT
THK I'ANAMA-l'AClFlO Kll'OSITION.
This giant telephone la shown in the
Palace of Liberal Arts, Panama-racltlc
International Exposition, San Francisco.
ment of the long distance wireless tele
phone this new invention will make it
possible to project the human voice
halfway around the globe without the
use of a telephone wire. Contrast the
era sixty-five years ago, when the pio
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DISCRIMINATING ADVERTISERS PATRONIZE THE GAZETTE-TIMES COLUMNS
FOR
THE PRICES ARE RIGHT
One 1915 Five-passenger Studebaker. Has
only been run as a demonstrator about 1200
miles.
One 1913 Five-passenger Studebaker. Has
just bsen overhauled and is in Al shape.
One 1913 Ford. Has just been overhauled
and is in Al shape.
I will consider stock in trade
L. E. FRY Arlington, Or.
And
comes
- UMC.
Gun these are
the field and over
in the
City
neer required months to cross the
plains, with that of today, when tbe
orator In New York may address bio
audience in San Francisco.
And there are many other develop
ments as wonderful and as revolution
ary, all revealing the trend of the
world's progress In the arts, science
and Industries. If you are Interested
In mining, for example, beneath the
floor of the vast Palace of Mines yon
may find a mine in operation, with Its
stopes and tunnels and shafts and com
pressed air drills. Walt a moment and
you may witness an explosion in the
mine. A gong rings; an ambulance
das beg up with a corps of rescuers pro
vided with respiratory apparatus, and
effects a rescue
In tbe Palace of Machinery you may
see a miniature battleship blown op by
a miniature mine patterned after one
of the latest types of the suhmarlne
mine. In the Pnlnce of Education you
will see classes of students engaged in
their studies, and perhaps you may b
able to see Mme. Montessorl, the cele
brated Italian teacher, Instructing
classes of children. In the vast ex
hibit palaces and state buildings mo
tion pictures are freely employed with
this object in view. There are forty
three free cinematograph shows upon
the Exposition grounds, and, by the
way, there' is no charge to enter the
exhibit palaces.
If you are Interested In what the for
eign nations have accomplished yon
have only to visit the marvelous dis
plays of the European countries or of
those of the Orient or South America,
Canada or Australia. Among the
French displays yon may, If you wish,
behold priceless works of art never be
fore exhibited In America and which
at the Exposition find sanctuary from
the ravages of war.
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