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THE 0 47RTTK-TTMES, HEPPNETl. ORE., THT'KSDAY. MAR. 16, 1916 " TACK TWO ' ' ' i i HWirtv n-w ln,lil In thp nrpxidpnrv is nnitp i ..,'.v.,... ' THE GAZETTE-TIMES. The HoiM"r Gaidlf. Kstahhshed. Hst-oh 3. 1S. , , x- The llei'imer Times, Established .No vemtter 1 lv". OonsolnlatiHl February 15, 1!12. V A V T K K C H A F O U I Eiiitor ami Proprietor Issued everv Thurslay morninp, and entered at the IVstottice at Heppner, xire;on, as s eeond-elass matter. srr.scinrTiox katks: One Tear ?? 8i Montlif Three Months Pins'e Copies MOHHOW tOl NTY OFFICIAL I'APKR Thursday. March 16. ll'lti. THE LAST WKST. A very few years ago the home Feekers and honiebuilders, residents of the New England and other east ern states, headed for what they termed the West: Illinois, Iowa, In diana, Missouri and other now Middle West states. The vast Oregon coun try was always referred to as the far West. Today the center of popula tion is in the state of Indiana and is not so slowly progressing westward. Oregon of the three Pacific coast states is the only one which has not yet reached the million mark in pop ulation. Whether or not Oregon's failure to advance as fast along all commercial lines as either California or Washington, is due to restrictive legislation which lias been passed in this state there can be little doubt. Restrictive legislation keeps out cap ital and it takes capital to start the wheels of commercial activity and keep them going. But we are glad to say that the people of Oregon are finally coming to themselves and have decided to put their shoulders to the wheels of progress rather than to continue devoting their time in pass ing freak laws which have in the past proved such a hindrance to the devel opment of the state. Oregon is the last of the WTest, but In another dec ade, she will have passed over the line and joined in with the other states of the Union who are making the best of their natural resources as well as creating new industries. Oregon is the last of the West and Morrow county is near the end of the line in the counties of the state. Not near the last in size by any means, but last in development. In the line of opportunity we can proud ly say, and it is no idle boast, she stands at the head of the list. No county in Oregon has better land for tho price and it would be conserva tive indeed to say that land is cheap er today than it ever will be again in the future. Oregon will undoubtedly have a wonderful development with in the next few years, when the real influx of population begins, and it will then be that those incoming homemakers will turn their eyes to Morrow county, for we have the best propostion here in the last of the last West that the homeseeker will be able to find. HERBERT W. COPELAXD. new .Nation Clllieeneu "-j and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Without an army they fought the greatest of existing world empires that they might realise this vision. A third of a century later, without a navy tliey fought the greatest navy in the world that they might win for their Nation the freedom of the seas. Half a century later they fought through an unparalleled Civil War that they might establish for all time on this continent the inalienable right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A third of a century later they fought to emancipate an oppressed neighbor, and, victory won, gave back Cuba to Cubans, sent an army of schoolmas ters to educate for liberty the I'hil ipinos, asked no war indemnity from their vanquished enemy, but paid him liberally for his property. Mean while they offered land freely to any farmer who would live upon and cul tivate it, opened to foreign immi grants on equal terms the door of in dustrial opportunity, shared with them political equality, and provided by universal taxation for universal education. The cynic who can see in this his tory only a theme for his egotistical satire is no true American, whatever his parentage, whatever his birth place. He who looks with pride up on this history which his fathers have written by their heroic deeds, who accepts with gratitude the in heritance which they have be queathed to him, and who highly resolves to preserve this inheritance unimpaired and to pass it on to his descendants enlarged and enriched, is a true American, be his birthplace or his parentage what it may. LYMAN ABBOTT. Herbert W. Copeland, for the past few years a teacher in the rural schools of Morrow county, has an nounced his candidacy for the office of county school superintendent. At the present time Mr. Copeland is teaching in the Pilot Rock Junction school just below Pendleton. In speaking of his candidacy, Mr. Copeland says, "For the past several years I have been registering and vot ing as a Socialist, being a member of the Socialist party, but now I have decided that I am a Republican, in fact have always been a Republican at heart, so I am seeking the nomin ation at the hands of the Republican party." Mr. Copeland attended the So cialist convention in Portland two years ago and has been an active member of that party in this county up until the present campaign. "The issue," says Mr. Copeland, "will be as to whether the office shall be held by a man or a woman." He is opposed for the nomination by Mrs. C. W Sliurte, a woman who is well known throughout Morrow county as an edu cator and a woman who has had much previous experience in the work of school supervision. The Wool Situation, It is reported that strenuous ef forts are being made in the Condon country to contract for wool on the sheep's back at 19 to 21 cents. These prices do not appear attractive to the sheepmen at the present time for the reason that there is not enough ad vance over last year's prices to war rant them to contract at this time According to wool men, clips will he at least one pound short in weight over last year which will necessarily mean lighter shrinkage and this will off-set any damage that might be in curred through breeding wools from lack of feed or thin sheep. Pelts are reported extremely high and agents operating in the local field recently were offering prices far below value PATRIOTISM. A nation is made great, not by its fruitful acres, but by the men who cultivate them; not by its great for ests, but by the men who use them not by its mines, but by the men who work in them; not by its railways, but by the men who build and run them. America was a great land when Columbus discovered it; Amer Jeans have made of it a great Nation Jn 1776 our fathers had a vision of now holds to the presidency is quite likely. But he has not said, has never said, that he would refuse the nom ination if giveu to him, nor is it prob able that he will say it. For one reason he would be reluctant to re fuse a thing that had not been for mally offered to him. But the great er reason, we think, lies in his high ideal of public duty. He feels, he must feel, that if the call for him should become imperative he would have to heed it. No man of his char acter could refuse the demand of his partv that he serve it in the highest office in the gift of the people. How ever reluctant he might be, however unwilling to establish a precedent op posed to the traditions of the su preme bench, the higher duty would forbid that he refer to the possibil ity of such a demand. All he can do with propriety is to protest against the use of his name in that associa tion, and that he is doing with as much emphasis as he can give to it. Justice Hughes may not, and prob ably does not, want the presidency, but he is not the sort or man wno would make his nomination impossi ble by such a positive declaration as that of Gen. Sherman: "1 win not ac cept if nominated and if elected I will not serve." There were reasons for Sherman's curt refusal that do not exist in this case and the circum stances are not at all parallel. Jus tice Hughes, notwithstanding his ju dicial office, is a statesman by educa tion, training and instinct; Sherman was a soldier. Mr. Hughes is, no doubt, the strongest man in the Re publican party today. It is the pre vailing opinion that he would be the nominee if he would announce a will ingness to permit his name to go be fore the convention. There is no probability that he will do that, but it is conceivable that he may be nom inated despite his objections. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. IX MEMORIAM. Alone on the cepot platform, Dathed in the cold winter s Dreeze, Stands an empty eight-gallon Deer Wlth'nothing in it to freeze. Shorn of its former glory, Drained of its last amber dreg, Beerless. bungless and friendless, Stands an empty eight-gauon Keg. Arco (Idaho) Advertiser. OVR LOSS OX WOOL. The January imports at the port of San Francisco amounted to more than $13,000,000 and about $5,500,- 000 of this were on Australian wool en route to the manufacturers of the Atlantic seaboard. This wool weighed nhnnt 2(1.(100.000 pounds ana was valued at about 20 cents per pound which is more than the best western wools are now worth. Did we lose that five and one-half million dollars? Evidently not, as we never had it, but we did lose the opportunity to supply this wool and it was partly, at least, our own fault. We do not have the sheep, in the first place, though there are thousands of unused acres out here that lairiy ache to be pastured with sheep. And then, we don't have the qual ity of wool to compete wun uiai which pays for the long haul from Australia and then sells for more monev than do our home-grown wool. The wool market will be good for a long time to come, in all probability and western sheepman can supply its demands by proper sorting and grad ing the fleeces in the shearing sheds to meet this foreign competition on quality and by increasing the number and quality of their slieep. Do we want these millions oi aoi lars? We do. Let's go aner mem with better methods. Rural Spirit. THE ASTORIA NAVAL BASE. .,,'?, .ft': PUPILS GIVE PROGRAM (Continued from First Page) ' &y&&$&i ':-vs S pi mm, I Vm NY. 'x: .-4. xc'.s'...---. .ist l.'vtx w i - -.v , 1 4fr V W0i J- iiiSjgWVJ? W Copyrirht Mil by R. J. KcynoHli Tobacco Lu. 3 ax m the national joy smoke is the real tobacco for jimmy pipes and makin's cigarettes Representative Hawley and Sena tor Lane of Oregon, have introduced intn the halls of Congress a bill which will provide for the establish ing of a naval base at the mouth of the Columbia river. Lnder tne pres out nlan of nreDaredness the bill ehniilrl. and in all likelihood, will carry. The Astoria naval base com mittee is asking for preparedness without "pork." The Committee insists that the Co lumbia river is nature's outlet for a vast empire. It Is the shortest, most mobile route from the Pacific to the Middle West and the Atlantic. It is a route which, if unprotected, an in vading army from over the Pacific would select for its march to the Mississippi valley, with ample sup plies in its great productive store house for commissary, arsenal and hospital. It is the route and the region over which and within which our own military forces would travel and be maintained, with a base of supplies adequate for extensive and prolonged operations for the defense of the Pacific coast. The committee contends that this is no time for little, pickyunish poli tcal dickering and trading it is time for action of the highest type of statesmanship and patriotism. The Inland Empire has gone these years without carrying a policy of preparedness insurance. Its poor business on the part of the govern ment and unfair to the citizens who Inhabit the land. Tom, the Chimney Sweep Elmer Bucknum Plnocchio Duck Lee Pied Piper Howard McDuffee Cinderella Elizabeth Huston Aladdin Andrew Baldwin Pollyanna Olive Boten The mother of Mary and John was Reatha Owen. Rose Ellen Hale and Gladys Brown favored the audience with a piano duet. The sixth grade gave a charade, proper noun, two syllables, tnree acts. A well known author whose Doem "March" was read by Nellie Clark in the last act. The first act a spelling lesson, words pronounced by Charlotte Wlnnard, teacher or the school, and words spelled and mis spelled by Lawrence Wilkfns, Ellii Irwin, Conrad Johnson, Linley Pot ter, Edward Groshen, Baird Patter son, Freda Brown, Nellie Clajk, Ailene Sprouls. Second act, a quar rel or dispute over the worth of Rockefeller and Carnegie. The whole charade, Wordsworth. Elizabeth Huston played a piano solo. A playlet that brought forth much merriment was "Oh You Teacher" by pupils of the sixth grade. In the ab sence of the regular teacher Herman Hill was delegated to take charge of the class until the first rece3S period He had a very unruly class but man aged them quite successfully. The pupils were: Edwin Bucknum, Paul McDuffee, Tom Mahoney, Conser Ad kins, Allen Case, Jack Howard, Lin ley Potter, Agnes Boyd, Vera Cowins, Vivian Robison, Anita Turner. Song, "Down by the Shore," by the following girls: Florence Cason, Frances Parker, Agnes McDaid, Blanche Groshens, Ruth French, May Chan, Erma Ashbaugh, Evelyn Hum phreys, Edna Brookhouser, Ruth Tash. Another comical skit was "Seeing the Animals" by Carl Cason, Violet Merritt and Fay Young. The charac ters were a swell hotel clerk, a suff ragette, and a spoiled child. The parts were well sustained and created much merriment. Violet Merritt played a piano solo. The closing number was a play, "Patriotic Peanut Stand," by pupils of the seventh and eighth grades. The first act was a meeting of the Young Citizens' Club to plan the means of making money to improve their town. Yankee Jones, a leader, suggested a peanut stand when the circus came to town, which met with the approval of all. Act II represents the peanut stand and the various scenes which take place on circus day. The result of the adventure was gratifying to all for the club made more money than was expected. 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Two hundred acres of seeded al falfa land near the mouth of Butter creek was sold this week to the Thomas Richards family by Pete Sheridan for $30,000. The land is a tract across the road from the home place of Sheridan. Glenn Richards will move onto the place soon and will improve it for the owners. Echo News, SPRING TIME IS GARDEN TIME We have large and full assortments from three of the most reliable seed houses in the country. Vegetable and Flower Seeds PHELPS GROCERY COMPANY ie G.-T. Printery ft J manship at pleased to demon- superior work manship at any time. LARffiCIIAMCS P0PU Catholic Church Services. First Mass, 8 a. m. Second Mass, 10:30 a. m. Christian Doctrine, 11:30 a. m. Evening Devotions, 7:30 p. in. AiAGAZIND 300 ARTICLES-300 ILLUSTRATIONS TTF.P Informed of the World's Progress In Kngineering, Mechanics and Invention. For Father and Son and All the Family, It appeals toall classes Ula ana loung men ana women. Jiomeu throughout tho wnrM. 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