THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER. ORE., THURSDAY, SEPT. 23, 1915.
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THE DREAMS OF GENU'S. experience of the American navy In quences to those who have not the
the wars of 1776, 1S12 and 1861,
when the splendid sailors of our
It has been some weeks since our Atantic coast manned our fighting
immortal inventive geniuses were set ,.hips snows tnat an oceanic mercan
to the tasks of providing a new and tile marmei wnen we again have one,
simple means of National defense. w(u prove an invaluable resource for
Thi- idea of thus outwitting the pon- tne navy of the United States,
der.ius devices of Mars originated 0ne of the things American pro
with the genial naval humorist, Sec-! ,,-- milst Rnon .c(,uire is extensive
retary Daniels. Necessarily Secretary i markets. Our domestic mar.
I Daniels had no particular line of in
ventive procedure in mind and that
was left to the matchless ingenuity of
brains that find the solving of such
profound problems daily amusement.
It was suggested that perhaps some
means of sinking vessels by electrical
waves from hidden shore batteries
could be devised- However, that was
MORROW COl VrV OFFICIAL PAPER
Thursday, September 23, 1915.
MERCHANT MARINE AND SENSE.
In a well pointed editorial, the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, in a recent is
sue gives its opinion of the seaman's
act passed by the last Congress and
which is slowly but surely killing the
American merchant marine. It is as
follows:
Speaker Clark, in a side remark
durin? his address to the Missouri
Association of Highway Engineers,
declared: "At one time the Ameri
can marine was the greatest on the
seas, and if we act with any sense we
will have it again." This is a senti
ment that should appeal to every loy
al American. But there will be some
divergence of opinion as to what con
stitutes sense. Certainly what the
last Congress did and what it at
tempted to do showed a poor quality
of sense. The seamen's act, which
will go into effect In November, will
largely increase the cost of operating
American vessels. Already the Paci
fic Mail has sold out and Pacific for
eign shipping will be in the hands of
Japanese and Chinese. While 363
crafts of all kinds sought the protec
tion of the stars and stripes after the
great war started, we may expect to
see most. If not all, of them back un
der foreign flags when the war ends
Most of them were American-owned
before the war and nsed foreign flags
only because of the excessive cost of
opration under the old American nav
igation laws. The new act will great
ly add to the cost.
We Infer from Mr. Clark's remarks
that he is committed to the ship pur
chase project the president, the sec
retary of the treasury and the secre
tary of commerce ineffectually press
ed at the last session of Congress
The threat that the government was
going into the shipping business
backed by all the resources of the
treasury, not to make money but to
improve shipping facilities, checked
private enterprise. The proposed in
vestment would buy but a few vessels
but they would be enough to demor
alize rates. If Mr. Clark would en
courage the American merchant mar
ine, let him urge that great marine
authority. Representative Alexander
of Gallatin, Mo., chairman of the
House Committee on Merchant Mar
ine, to give heed to the practical sug
gestions submitted to him by men
who have had experience in practical
shipping and know what should be
done to enable American shipowners
to compete in foreign commerce with
the rest of the world. Or if we are
to transform the lot of the sailor, let
us pay the difference in cost of oper
ation under the new conditions. It is
not sense to Impose unreasonably
hard conditions on our shipowners or
to threaten them with competition by
vessels whose deficits are paid by the
taxpayers.
"Motoroad" is the name of a new
beautifully illustrated magazine that
came to our desk the past week. As
the name implies, It is devoted to
motoring, good roads, outdoor activ
ities and the scenic resources of the
Pacific Coast. The paper, which is
published in Portland, is edited by
Charles Warren Myers. Joseph R
Gerber is the business manager. Vol
1, No. 1 of this magazine contains
some beautiful views of the new Co
lumbia highway and some very In
teresting articles by Leslie M. Scott
and Samuel C. Lancaster. "Mo
toroad" has a place to fill in the mag
azine field in Oregon and we predict
success to its promoters from the
very start.
The Morrow County Fair Board
expects to clear the association of
debt as a result of good financial
management and the liberal patron
age of the people given the fair just
closed. If this result is accomplished
the future success of the fair is as
sured, and the Board will be enabled
to offer more attractive awards along
some lines. This should apply partic
ularly to the stock exhibits, which
have to date been very disappointing
largely because of a lack of sufficient
funds for making the awards attrac
tlve to the farmer and stockraiser.
Better results will be looked for here
next season.
mere suggestion. The inventors
might perfect a means of sinking
warships by wireless if they saw fit.
Anything was satisfactory to Mr.
Daniels, seemingly, except a larger
and more adequate Navy.
So far, the method of protecting
our shores through the medium of
our inventive genius has not been
perfected, but while we are waiting
for the solution of the trifling prob
lem it might be well to review the
result of similar activity in Europe,
here Secretary Daniel's idea appears
to have occurred in several thousand
minds of similar trend.
A Petrograd correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger notes that the
Russian War Ministry had several
highly developed plans submitted for
establishing Russian supremacy over
the Kaiser's hosts. In fact, the total
number of plans during the year was
7,000. All but 100 of these Ideas
it is recorded, were clouded by the
heavy odor of mandragora, while all
of the practicable 100 were rusted by
the mists of antiquity. Russian in
ventive patriots were invited to de
sist. The Ministry had real business
at hand. What Russia needed was
men and guns, not idle dreams.
It is not strange that among the
17,000 assorted plans was at least
one that contemplated eliminating
the enemy by electrical w,aves. It is
noted that one plausible genius
named Voyvitch inveigled the mili
tary authorities to a demonstration
of his device for annihilating Ger
many, Austria and Turkey with arti
ficial lightning flashes. Of course his
contrivance didn't work and the fail
ure disgusted the observers, includ
ing Voyevitch's wife, who promptly
left him. Doubtless he has since di
rected his inventive skill to providing
mechanical means of performing
household duties.
In Germany the inventors and
cranks are equally busy. Some of
them are rendering valuable assist
ance, but they are the practical men
who concern themselves with subma
rines, flying machines, big shells, and
high explosives. The only real inno
vation that has come from them has
to do with chemical processes for gen
erating poisonous gases. A corre
spondent describes some of the more
ambitious plans which provide for
a little of everything from drowning
out hostile nations to changing the
laws of Nature in Germany's behalf.
A Hungarian genius Is going to put
a quick end to the allies when he per
fects a few minor details of his pet
idea. He has discovered a method of
altering climate. When his completed
formula is put to work it will reduce
the temperature to a point at which a
polar bear would promptly stiffen and
die. A cold reception is in store for
the allies when this creative mind
gets his plan in operation.
Another one, named Akkermann,
has a plan that will render his home
town of Munich immortal. The model
is already complete, it provides a
huge tunneling machine which moves
under armies at the rate of five miles
a day, thus paving the way for Ger
man divisions to spring up in the rear
of their foes. If this subterranean
monster does not end the war the gun
of another German genius named
Melnicke will surely do it. This gun
will throw shells an incredible num
ber of miles and has a trajectory cal
culated to threaten the solar system.
Still another one is perfecting a sys
tem of magnets that will dispose of
the allied navies by drawing them out
into the zone of submarine activity.
Another one had a fine idea for flood
ing half of Poland by making use of
the Vistula, but the doughty German
army ran the Russians out of that
territory before this budding genius
could make his name immortal.
Meanwhile British genius appears
to be confined to literary and lingual
activities applied to the field of coax
ing recruits into the ranks and ex
plaining why these recruits don t ao
something after .they are tramea.
Frenchmen, for their part, seemingly
are too busy conducting the major
portion of the allied fighting to waste
time and energy chasing inventive
will-o'-the-wisps. Oregonian.
kets begin to approach the point of
saturation, and new markets abroad
should be systematically opened and
developed. As effective a means as
any of achieving this industrial and
commercial expansion is the creation
of an oceanic mercantile marine to
carry our goods In our own bottoms
and bring back imports in American
ships. National merchant marines are
a source of1 the success of England,
France, Germany and Japan in gain
ing markets in Africa, Australia and
South America. We can not expect
to cope with our foreign competitors
in these markets after the war unless
we have ocean-going ships of our
own.
The expense of transoprting Amer
ican exports and imports In foreign
craft constitutes an economic drain
upon American resources. Mr. Fassett
declares that our freight bills annual
ly run from $210,000,000 to $250,
000,000 p'aid to European, Japanese
and even Chinese carriers. An ocean
ic mercantile marine of our own
would cause this expenditure to be
paid to American carriers, lessen the
cost of imported commodities and en
rich our people proportionally.
Spokesman-Review.
THAT DESIRED BILLION-DOLLAR
LOAN.
strength and faculties to compete.
Strong as he was, Newell Dwight Htl
lis, famous clergyman, was struck
down by the chariots and his career
crushed. There is no check, no hin
drance, no let to the madness of the
age- '
And so there are orpnans tears
and congested slums and the strug
gles of toiling women, and the hope
lessness and weariness and crimes
and moans and sighs and sorrows in
a world that ought to be and could
be a place of beauty and pleasure and
gladness.
What idiots and fools we are!
Oregon Journal.
Last week's issue of the Stanfield
Standard concluded ihat paper's life
in the journalistic field, and it is
followed by the Oregon Optimist, an
other weekly, with S. Norton Bobo as
publisher. This new paper will in
clude the whole of Eastern Oregon
in its field and will work at all times
for bigger and better things for this
section.
Great Britain wants to borrow a
bilion of dollars from our interest
gatherers with which to buy of Am
erican producers, war material. It
no doubt would be a good thing for
our country if a billion of dollars
could be taken from the vaults of the
capitalists and put into active circu
lation in the trade centers of the re
public. It would quicken business
everywhere.
But what are Great Britain's se
curities. She has much property, real
and personal, and very confidently ex
pects, when the war ceases, to prac
tically control the world's ocean
trade, as much as she did thirty years
ago before Germany began her won
derful commercial expansion. But
is she sure of this? Germany is liv
ing on her own resources, and call
ing upon her own people to sustain
her, and then her expectation is that
a prostrate world will reimburse her.
The other day in calling for subscrip
tions to another war loan the Ger
man secretary of the imperial treas
ury said:
"Our economic future must be
freed from the economic burden of
war. The heavy burden of thous
ands of millions will be borne thru
decades by the instigators of the war
and not by us."
There is nothing on either side to
Indicate that there Is any disposition
to bring the war to a close, rather a
determination to fight on until the
other side is subdued, so utterly that
what is left can be taken as spoils of
war, and both England and Germany
is anticipating, that after the war
shall have been ended one of the re
sults will be that the conquering
power will assume control of the
world s commerce. This Is so appar
ent that it has a look as though the
war was originally sprung to ac
complish this very purpose. This
fact ought to be a serious one in the
minds of the American capitalists
who are considering whether to make
the loand esired by England. Half
the sum desired would make our
country the dominant one in the
world's trade and pay better interest
than the whole sum would if loaned
to Great Britain.
we claim to bo a world power,
but never can lay a just claim to that
title so long as we utterly neglect any
effort through which to supply on the
sea an object lesson that will prove
to the less enlightened nations of the
earth that we have any existence.
Goodwin's Weekly.
UNITED STATES' FAILURE TO
CREATE ITS OWN MER
CHANT MARINE.
Those who contributed to the fund
to assist in sending the Morrow Coun
ty exhibit to the State Fair and the
Portland show have given a practical
demonstration of their faith in our
section. No better way to advertise
Morrow county has yet been devised,
and the money thus expended will be
returned many fold in days yet to
come. We shall confidently expect,
also, that the Morrow county exhibit
will carry off the usual number of
blue ribbons.
More than 70 pupils enrolled to
date In Heppner High School, and
more are coming, Verily, it begins to
look like the new school building will
be crowded to the limit and before
many years more room will have to
be provided.
It was the rare good fortune of the
chamber of commerce yesterday to
hear J. Cloat Fassett of New York
speak about the mercantile marine of
the United States. His legal training
newspaper work and public life as a
congressional representative and his
extensive interests in banks, farms
and mines have adequately equipped
him for broadage discussion of such
a national problem. If the chamber
could frequently hear such speakers
on economic affairs they would add
greatly to the value ond interest of
the weekly gatherings.
Mr. Fassett's Illumining and In
formative address swept the whole
field. Among the many matters
touched upon were the service of a
merchant shipping to the national
navy, the service an American oceanic
marine could render to the producers
of this country and the saving of over
$200,000,000 in oceanic freight char
ges annually to this country,
One of the reasons why England al-
WHAT IDIOTS WE ARE!
In the most famous pulpit in the
world, one of the most famous
preachers of the world confessed Sun
day that "life long ambition for
wealth and power has utterly crushed
my life."
It was Henry Ward Beecher s old
pulpit in Plymouth church, Brook
lvn, and the preacher was Dr. Newell
Dwight Hillis. He said, "these am
bitions have brought me to the brink
of poverty, and humbled me so that I
am not worthy to unloose the shoe
latches of a poor worker in the
slums."
The Indictment of ambition "for
wealth and power" Is not new. It is
only personal testimony as to a bit
ter experience from a new source
It is the human bent for riches
that makes countless millions mourn
It is the "ambition for wealth and
power" by rulers that has made a
cockpit of Europe and drenched a
continent In blood
The great sin of the world is avar
Ice- It robs a beautiful world of much
of its loveliness. There could be an
existence on earth of sweetness and
loy and gladness. Nature and the
Omnipotent have placed here every
thing for the complete happiness of
the race. The forests, the beautiful
mountains, the lovely valleys, the riv
ers, the birds, the changing seasons
and all the Infinite variety of delight
ful environment are an Eden if man
kind would only seek to make It an
Eden Instead of a shambles and a
cockpit of struggles
But Mammon has been lifted up to
be worshipped. There is an idolatry
of dollars. Society is a maelstrom
of selfish "ambition for wealth and
power." The very children, by the
stray thoughts that drift from the
ways has all the men it needs for its
enormous navy is that it has the parent, are taught that the ultimate
greatest hiiiuuui oi umreuuuie "ip- end and aim of life is gold, gold
ping in me worm, this provides i K0ld.
scores of thousands of experienced i And B0 the struggle goes on. It
hardy and skilful seamen and hun-crusheg the weak under the jugger
dreds upon hundreds of those auxil-, naut 0f ambition. The strong, com
iray craft that the nay requires for I paratively few in number, drive ruth
efficient and successful operation. The iegBiy 0n, reckless of the conse-
JUST RECEIVED
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IONE.
Perry Hopkins is very busy these
days doing some carpenter work for
Mrs. M. Jordan.
Jessie Vickers of Heppner was on
lone visitor this week, being the
guest of Miss Zelma Engleman.
Mat Halvorsen went down to Port
land with a load of cattle last Sun
day where he will spend a few days.
Dr. Turner and wife were located
at the lone hotel for a day this week.
They left for their next stopping
place.
John Olden was In from the ranch
last Monday with a load of etggs
John says the roads are, well, you can
guess.
Orln Grablll went up to Pendleton
for a few days last Wednesday. He
will probably let 'er buck while he is
up there.
Mrs. M. Jordan was a passenger to
Pendleton on last Wednesday's train
where she will visit with relatives for
some time.
Dick Sperry was on last Wednes
day's train bound for Pendleton
where he will be able to let 'er buck
for a few days.
Uncle Mun has joined the plumb
ers union ana is ousy snining up
the plate glass front of Ione's plumb
ing establishment.
LInnie Pennington was a passen
ger bound for Pendleton last Wed
nesday where Bhe will visit with
friends for a few days.
Phil Doherty. after spending a few
days out on the ranch, departed last
Monday for North Powder, where he
has his sheep located.
There was a large crowd came
down from Heppner on Sunday b
train, all looking as if they had been
having some good time.
Mrs. Chas. Allinger and daughter
Llllie were passengers to Spokane
last Monday where they will visit
with friends for some time.
These chilly mornings that we are
having makes a fellow wonder how
much coal he has in his bin, and
how long his woodpile will last.
Mrs. E. J. Bristow and her child
ren, who have been up at wana
Walla taking in the Frontier Days,
returned to her home at lone Monday
night.
We see Motor-cycle Charlie on our
streets every day- while he is not
the dare-devil that Motor-cycle Mike
used to be, he makes Maud get there
to beat the band.
Tindall Robinson's wife, wbo has
been In Portland for a short vaca
tion, got off the train one night last
week. Tindall met her at the depot
and they jitneyed home.
Tom Dorman was a passenger on
last Monday's train for Ferdinand,
Idaho. He will go from there to his
daughter, Mrs. Bud Nolan, where he
will visit for a short time.
The new water tank that the rail
road has been building is just about
completed and by the size of it we
would think that these iron horses
must be very thirsty creatures.
E. R- Lundell went out to his ranch
to finish up threshing. E. R. had a
big run and has several days yet.
We hope he gets through all O. K. as
he Is the last fellow out this year,
Dck Turpin, who has been on the
sick list for several days, is feeling
a whole lot better. He and his moth
er will go up to Pendleton Friday
and enjoy the last day of the Round
Up.
Mr. Miller and family, who have
been visiting with their daughters,
Mrs. J. H. Blake and Mrs. w. J
Blake, left lone last Wednesday for
Weiser, Idaho, where they expect to
locate permanently.
Miss Brown, a sister oi mrs. dbbuu
Haines, who has had to go on crutch
es for some time owing to an injured
member, has discharged the crutches
and is going to school. She gets
around as well as ever again-
Mrs. Walter Eubanks, who has
spent the summer in and about lone
returned to ner nome ai renuieion
last Monday. She was accompanied
bv her sister, Mrs. Lethia Woods,
who will visit with her for some time.
Last Monday night a dance was
given in the skating rink and while
the crowd was not as large as It
might have been, there was a good
bunch there. The music was furnish
ed by Bowker's orchestra of Port
land and was a little the best we ever
have had the pleasure of hearing.
A carload of FAIRBANKS &
MORSE Gasoline Engines
direct from the factory
At Greatly Reduced Prices
At least 25. per cent un
der last year's prices
We are fully equipped for installing
Deep Well Pumps and
Irrigation Systems
of all kinds, and guarantee all work to
give satisfaction
When you want water
get our prices before closing a deal
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AH kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats, Poultry, Lard
We pay highest cash prices paid (or Stock, Hides and
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"Diamond From Sky" Starts at Stnr.
"The Diamond From the Sky" will
open at the Star theater tomorrow
night, when the flrst chapter will be
shown. Lottie Pickford, sister of
Mary Pickford, Is the leading lady in
this picturlzed romantic novel. Man
ager Sparks is offering as an addi
tional attraction some vaudeville by
Billings and Billings. The feature of
this show is the five-year old Rey
nolds Billings, who Is said to be one
of the greatest child delineators be
fore the public today.
We have a few choice RAMBOULLET rams
left. If you need any fine-wool rams don't
miss seeing these. We also have a few
coarse rams. The sheep are right and the
prices right, Address,
Rugg Brothers
Heppner, Oregon.
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