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THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPN'ER. ORE., THURSDAY, SEPT. 30, 1915
THE GAZETTE-TIMES.
Tho HeppmT Gazette, Kstablishe!,
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The Htiiiier Times, KsuMished No
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Consoliilatt'il February 15. l!12.
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Kmtor and l'roprietor.
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Pix Months 75
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JHOKKOW Crtl"T I ' !! 'MI, IWPEIl
Thursday, S,p;. .::l,r SO, 1915.
OITOUTl iTV KNOCKS.
As we view it. ; ir'tintty is now
knocking at ta-: ur of Morrow
county as pptmrfitny lias never
knocked tn?rr Wo .r;l'ably do not
realize that it wa be possible that
this county lias about reached the
point where si'.e U t ) take off the well
worn clothes of iJorniancy and don
the "glad rags" of industrial activity
and development.
The discovery of artesian water in
this county has exceeded the hopes of
dry-land farmer, stockman and every
other business man and citizen alike.
But the unlocked for has happened.
Probably throughout the past three
years while the experimenting for
artesian well water has been going on
there have been only two people who
have had unlimited faith in what the
result might be. The majority of us
were skeptics. W. D. Newlon and
his faiihfuj wife have proved a bless
ing to this county, and it is safe to
predict that their names will live
on the lips of the irrigation farmer
of this section long after the New
Ions have gone.
That great good will result from
these wells there can be no doubt.
But as a suggestion to the Heppner
Commercial Club. Why not send
gome live wire to the Panama Exposi
tion, a man who is acquainted with
his subject matter and knows what
he is talking about. Supply him with
excellent photographs and with his
own personal knowledge at hand, the
advertising that he would give Mor
row county in the next two months
would be inestimable. We have in
mind a man who would fill that posi
tion admirably. He is a man who has
had considerable experience in that
line of advertising. He is thorough
ly acquainted with conditions as they
exist in this county and although we
know he is a very busy man and
might not be able to go on such a
mission, we would like to suggest
the name of W. D. Newlon. He has
spent more money in getting results
which would ultimately put this
county on the map than any other
one man we know. Consequently It
is safe to say that the Heppner Com
mercial Club would not make a mis
take in sending this man, should they
decide to take up this valuable means
of putting our county before the eyes
of the world.
OREGON'S EXPERIMENT.
Oregon was one of the first states
to adopt a minimum wage law for
women. We suppose employers op
posed it from a conviction that it
would be disastrous. Employers
commonly do oppose such laws from
such a conviction. Over a year and a
half ago the Oregon commission fixed
minimum wages for women in retail
stores as follows: For those under
eighteen, and those over sixteen hav
ing less than one year's experience,
six dollars a week; for those over
eighteen and having over a year's
experience, eight dollars and a quar
ter a week, except in Portland, where
they receive nine and a quarter dol
lars a week.
Thw:e do not sound like very for
midable wages. The Bureau of La
bor Statistics, at Washington, has in
vestigated results so far and reported.
Fewer women were employed in
stores at the time of investigation
than before the 'minimum wage went
into effect, but that seems to have
been due to general business condi
tions and to some particular causes
unconnected with the wage law. It
does not appear that men supplant
ed women as a result of the law, or
very generally that inexperienced and
less competent women supplanted ex
perienced ones.
That the law has not resulted in
keeping the wages of women down to
the legal minimum is clear from the
fact that the proportion of women
getting more than the legal minimum
is greater than it was before the law
went into effect, about a quarter of
the girls under eighteen got less
than six dollars a week; so, on the
whole, the law has somewhat in
creased wages in that department.
' Covering but a sinle industry in a
state that is not highly developed in
dustrially, the evidence adduced by
this investigation is not very con
clusive; but whatever weight it lias 1b
favorable to the minimum-wage law.
Saturday Evening Post.
HOW THE FAST I.OVF.S VS.
From the Atlantic to the eastern
base of the Rocky mountains the
settlers helped themselves, as they
advanced, to everything they could
find in the then wilderness. The ut
most they ever paid for the richest
lands was $2.50 per acre-just enough
to pay for the surveys and the mak
ing out of the deeds.
Some three score years or more
ago some crank started the idea that
inasmuch as the government owned
the public domain, it in reality be
longed to all the people and if it any
where contained special treasures
like lead or zinc or coal or iron de
posits, the whole people should own
these 4ePs'ts-" The idea seemed a
good one to the men in the far east,
who knew nothing of the frontier or
the hardships incident upon its set
tlement and redemption, and they
caused a law to be passed to secure
to themselves their pro-rata of the
undiscovered or undeveloped wealth.
It was tried for five years and its
unproductiveness and its manifest in
justice caused congress to repeal the
law without one dissenting vote.
But a few years ago the thought
was revived in the east and though
in the interval between the repeal of
the old law and the resurrection of
the old thought, the west, and most
ly the deserts of the west, had sup
plied the means to the east to enable
it to make available its many re
sources and grow rich, this revived
thought took a strong hold on eastern
cupidity, and the then President, one
Theordore Roosevelt, selected a per
sonal friend, one Gifford Pinchot, to
go west, spy out the land and see
what he could find and appropriate.
By the way, it is understood that Mr.
Pinchot, for his personal use draws
large annual revenues from coal
mines in Pennsylvania which origin
ally cost his ancestors only $2.50 per
acre.
In the meantime because of the
partial subduing of electricity to
man's use, water power had become
valuable. So had timber lands, so
had oil lands, so had iron and coal
lands.
Thus when Mr. Pinchot came west,
what he did was in effect to deliver
an ultimatum to the men of the
desert, which, set to words, was about
this:
"Our great and beneficent gov
ernment loves the men of the desert
almost as much as it does the lovable
mongrels in Mexico; it wants you all
to prosper and so opens the whole
of this domain to you, only keep in
mind that if you discover any for
ests, any streams that will make wa
ter power, any coal or iron mines or
oil lands, you must not disturb them
for they are on the public domain,
they may become valuable after a
while and all the people of the east
have a common interest in them and
must realize their pro rata of any
profits that may come from them."
Then he sent out a small army of
his friends on government salaries, as
spies to see that the greedy men of
the west should not appropriate any
thing in which his benevolent friends
in the east had their pro rata inter
est. In this way about one-third of
the state of Idaho was placed under
a timber reserve, including the
streams that water power might be
created from. In the same way Utah
oil and coal and timber lands were
covered. In Alaska some nervy men
had begun to make some coal lands
available for the people, but the cry
went up that they were monopolists
and the government immediately sat
down upon them, and so for five years
past, the general public up there has,
with ample coal measures at its doors
been forced to buy coal from Japan
and British Columbia.
But it is idle to inveigh against the
mingled cupidity and stupidity of the
educated idiots who at long range
feel it a duty to rob the west though
they know no more about the real
conditions than they know of the God
they pray for blessings from. So
they continue to pray to God and to
prey upon the west. Goodwin's
Weekly.
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
Those of us who have witnessed in
dustrial education and its beneflcient
results little appreciate the advance
ment that has been made in our edu
cational ideas of the past half cen
tury. The public school, which was
the advance agent of industrial edu
cation, was not established without
argument. Many there were who
strenuously opposed public schools
as an imposition upon taxpayers. No
h'ss an influence than Herbert Spen
cer proclaimed it at as late a date as
forty-five years ago that the state had
no more right to administer educa
tion than to administer religion, and
that the proposed general establish
ment of schools at the expense of tax
payers was an infringement upon the
rights of the person so taxed. They
said it was plunging the slate into
benevolency which would eventually
breed political corruption and bank
ruptcy. We have had both these ca
lamities, but few attribute them to
education.
Industrial education, under which
head cornea our agricultural colleges,
experiment stationo and farm exten
sion work, found no easier sailing in
entering the harbor of service than
did its forerunner, the public school.
Ever since man began writing rec
ords, we find two classes, those who
are content with, and hold fast to,
the things they iiave, and the other
that seeks newer and better ways.
Radical and conservative, progressive
and reactionary. Between the two
forces are hammered out compro
mises that make for real growth and
development. And so it has been with
our long steps in educational matters.
The advocates of influence of blood
lines in breeding livestock and in
their claims of being able to estab
lish special types of livestock partic
ularly adapted to producing greatest
possible results in certain lines, have
met with opposition in their propa
ganda and have found their strong
est ally in the agricultural colleges
with their small army of scientific
workers. The point of attack in pro
moting the special types of livestock
has been in the class room with the
rising generation, in judging at the
fairs and stock shows, and lately in
the tests for milk and butter produc
tion both in an official and private
way.
The milk cow testing associations
are being organized in every part of
the Union. At mos of the state fairs
and at many of the county and dis
trict fairs these milking tests are car
ried on and they are proving one big
point to the average man who milks
cows, and that is some cows always
return a loss, while others make a
profit and that the little details of
keeping a record of what cows are
eating and what they are producing,
is absolutely essential for success in
the business. This is becoming more
and more necessary as the price of
products, the price of the cow and the
cost of the feed that she eats all ad
vance alike.
The benefits derived from free
schools, the necessity of agricultural
education are now disputed by few if
any people. And rapidly is coming
to prevail the acceptance of the nec
essity of getting better financial re
turns from livestock through tiie in
troduction of the right blood lines.
One of the war's remarkable ef
fects upon American trade was shown
here when, for the first time in his
tory, sugar was purchased for export
from the United States to Switzer
land. Although Switzerland is a next
door neighbor of Germany, the great
est beet sugar country in the world,
the war has caused an embargo to be
laid on the exportation of sugar from
Germany and Austria-Hungary, and
consequently the Alpine republic
finds it necessary to send three thous
and miles across the Atlantic to se
cure the national supply of sweeten
ing. Not only Switzerland but Great
Britain, France, Italy and Greece
have been purchasers of sugar in the
New York market. In the first nine
months of the war exports amounted
to nearly 500,000,000 pounds valued
at over $23,000,000. Naturally the
heavy export demand for sugar which
usually comes to the American mar
ket has kept the prices comparatively
high, and the American farmers who
grow sugar, either in beets or cane,
are likely to have a prosperous sea
son. In fact persons familiar with
the sugar trade agree that the war
has saved this industry from extinc
tion for the time being. Prior to the
outbreak of hostilities and following
the legslation adopted by congress
for the free admission of foreign
grown sugar, many sugar mills and
factories closed down and tens of
thousands of farmers abandoned the
planting of beets and cane. With the
better price conditions brought about
by the war, the American crop prob
ably will be larger than ever before,
and it will be possible to continue su
gar growing in this country, at least
until the European conflict ends.
BANKERS ARE TAKING NOTICE.
Myron T. Herrick, ex-Governor of
Ohio and ex-president of the Amerl
can Bankers Association, had the fol
lowing to say concerning rural cred
its. To read of a man of national
prominence and banking experience
being at last in faver of the farmer
coming into his own, must convey to
the yeomen of this land that their
fight for right has not been in vain.
Mr. Herrick, speaking before the
Portland Chamber of Commerce, said
in part:
"When we realize that the farmers
of this country have assets aggregat
ing $45,000,000,000, and an annual
output of $15,000,000,000, the ques
tion presents itself in a very workable
form.
"On such a basis there should be
no difficulty in obtaining credit. It
certainly would not be difficult in or
dinary business. So all that we need,
then, is organzaton."
And "rural co-operaton," he sug
gested as the programme.
"The best breeding ground for co
operation," he continued, " is an as
sociation distinguished from a cor
poration or a joint stock company.
The recently enacted laws on credit
unions and soealled co-operative
banks in Oregon and elsewhere are
not enough. These laws tend to in
terfere with, rather than encourage,
co-operation.
"The laws to be enacted should
make it legally possible to do through
an association what now may he done
through a corporation or a joint stock
company."
Mr. Herrick emphasized the neces
sity of organizing the farmers on a
definite legal status, so that they col
lectively, may be able to transact bus
iness and thus obtain the benefit of
rural credits.
"But the laws that should be en
acted," he added, "ought to be gener
al in scope. That is, they should not
be confined to any particular class or
persons. They need not contain one
reference to agriculture in order to
permit the farmer to avail himself of
them."
He explained that the last three
Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Wil
son each in turn have recommended
co-operation as best edapted to the
need of the farmers.
IONE.
Mrs. Jack Hughes, from Fox Val
ley, is visiting with friends in lone
these days.
Mrs. M. Morgan is visiting out at
the Burroughs ranch with her sis
ter for a few days.
Last Sunday's train brought home
a large bunch from the Round-Up.
They all report a fine time.
Mrs. J. H. Cochran has gone up
to the Yakima country to visit with
her children for some time.
A. E. Pierce left lone last Wednes
day with a carload of hogs that he
will take down to Portland.
Quite a number of the Masons went
"up to Heppner last Monday evening
to attend some lodge doings up there
Chas. Allinger, who lias been hob
bling r.bout for some time on a walk
ing cane, has trrown the stick away.
C. R. Johnson is very busy finish
ing putting up his last crop of hay.
Don't worry, Chas., it hasn't rallied
yet.
Miss Kittle Wilmot was a passen
ger to Portland last week where she
will visit with friends for a short
time.
Peanut Dan, the premium painter,
is with us once more. He is making
Ed Moore's house look like a man
sion. The way real estate changed hands
here last Sunday was not slow, and
those who missed a good deal are
lucky.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Lundell have
gone down to Rheas Siding to spend
a couple of weeks on Oscar Lun-
dell's ranch.
Floyd Ftaxier is the happy daddy
of another baby boy, born at his
home last week. Mother and child
getting along fine.
J. E. Frazier and wife were in town
last Monday visiting witli Mrs. C. J.
Anderson, who is schooling her child
ren in lone this winter.
Sam Esteb went up to the Ed Day
ranch last Sunday to wire the new
house preparatory to putting in elec
tric lights.
R. N. Hymer extracted several
bunches of whiskers without pain
at Dick Turpln's shop while Dick was
letting 'er buck.
Dalles Perkins, of Portland, spent
several days recently visiting with
her father. She returned to her
home last Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Turpin, who has been visit
ing with her son Dick for the past
couple of weeks, returned to her
home last Tuesday.
The Benedict girls of Morgan went
to Pendleton last week in their car
with Fay McNabb as pilot and they
had some time at the Round-Up.
E. R. Lundell finished up thresh
ing last Sunday after a splendid run
and has moved to lone again where
he will school his children this win
ter. Herman Ray. and family, who have
been living in lone for the past year,
left for the Valley Saturday of last
week, Mr. Ray having disposed of
his lone property.
Elmer Griffith received a carload
of gasoline, distillate and coal oil
the latter part of last week. It seems
good to have a few spoonfuls of gas
in the little burg once more.
O. D. Forbes drove his jitney over
to Pendleton last Friday taking over
Dick Turpin, Flossie Kirk and Mrs.
Turpin. They returned home the
following Sunday, reporting a splen
did time.
Vawter Crawford is one of the
Ioneites these days. We do not
know for sure where he keeps him
self, but he generally hoves in sight
about meal time. Our friend Vawter
has not got over the eating and sleep
ing habit yet.
E. M. Shutt is very busy building
a couple of cow bams. His son Law
rence and another blind schoolmate
look after the milking, which gives
E M. a great deal more time to drive
nails and hammer his, thumb. , E. M.
has a very fine bunch of milk cows
and he Is preparing to give them the
proper winter care.
Lou Land, who has been in lone
for the past six months taking care
of his parents, who are getting old
and feeble, left for his home at Win
chester, Idaho, last Thursday, where
he will paper and finish his new
house. He will probably return af
ter a time. His wife, who has been
in Portland for some time, will meet
him at the Junction and accompany
him home.
13,0(10,000 1'eoplo at San Francisco
t , Fair.
San Francisco, Sept. 28. When
the gates of the Panama-Pacific expo
sition closed at midnight nearly 13,-
400,000 persons had seen the big fair.
Officially 13,325,553 have passed the
turnstiles up to Friday night and it
was estimated 60,000 or more visit
ed it yesterday. .
Ideal September weather has drawn
big crowds daily; trains are crowded
with belated vacationists, Only two
months of the show remain.
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by
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MORSE Gasoline Engines
direct from the factory
At Greatly Reduced Prices
At least 25 per cent un-
tier last year's prices ,
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Deep Well Pumps and
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