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THE GAZETTE-TIMES.
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Thursday, March 30, 1916.
OUR BIRTHDAY.
The Gazette-Times is 33 years old
today. It was eleven years after the
town of Heppner had been started by
the Hon. J. L. Morrow, Tom Quaid
and other sturdy pioneers that the
first Issue of the Heppner Gazette
came off the press. This was five
years before the railroad. During
the years that have come and gone
since the advent of J. A. Stine, the
first editor, the paper has made a
steady, conservative growth. The
present management has strived at
all times to make the paper better
and this will continue to be their aim
in the future. We have tried not to
get ahead of the community in which
we are living, but rather have we
strived to work hand in hand with
the community and advance as it has
advanced. This has been our idea of
conducting a paper along sound prin
ciples and we feel safe in stating that
we believe our policy has been fully
appreciated by our friends and read
ers. We start on our 34th year with
greater hopes for the future of Hepp
ner and Morrow county and we are
still firm in the belief that we are liv
ing in a community which is destined
to come into its own before long.
MADE-IX-OREGOX TEXT BOOKS.
The Heppner Commercial Club has
gone on record as being opposed to
the plan of printing school text books
in Oregon. The Club is not so much
opposed ao the printing of text books
in this state, for that organization
is naturally behind every movement
which has for its object the improve
ment and growth of home industries.
But the Club is skeptical over the
feasibility of printing text books at
home.
The agitation to have the text
books printed in the state printing of
fice was started by our etate printer,
who maintains that at least 60 per
cent can be saved. He and other ad
vocates for state printing point to
California as a state, which they al
lege, has had success with state print
ing of text books after several years
fit experimenting.
In writing on this subject, Elbert
Bede, editor of the Cottage Grove
Sentinel, says:
"This proposition sounds nice
enough at first reading, and, without
investigation, almost any citizen, es
pecially if he had children for whom
he was buying books, would become
enthusiastic about it. But upon a
problem as large and important as
this it is well to ponder a little.'
"It is to be observed that Califor
nia experimented several years before
it attained anything like success.
"We too, might be willing to ex
periment a few years in order to re
duce the cost of school books 50 per
cent. Oregon likes to experiment.
Experimentation creates no fear for
us, that is one of our long suits; in
fact, it is about our only long suit,
and while it seems to stand the wear
pretty well, we should not forget that
tailor bills may have to be met some
day.
"While we are experimenting with
the publication of school books, we
might find a few worthy and patriotic
citizens who could be induced to give
of their time for service upon a com
mission for the preparation of text
matter for the books, upon a commis
sion for selecting the type in which
the books should be printed, upon a
commission to select the paper of
which the books should be made, up
on a commission to decide whether
the books should be folioed at the
top or the bottom, upon a commission
to decide whether the books should
be side-stiched or saddle-stiched, and
upon a' commission to see that other
commissions performed their duties.
Still other patriotic citizens might be
willing to act as secretaries and
clerks for the numerous commissions.
"The money to pay the numerous
commissions and their clerks and sec
retaries might be advanced by the
State out of the moneys to be saved
later by printing the books at home.
"After the commissions had per
formed their duties faithfully up to
the time the books were needed, and
drawn their salaries equally as faith
fully, it might be discovered that the
private publishing houses had copy
rights upon all the standing works,
that satisfactory substitutes could
not be secured, and that the plan
could not be a success.
"Investigation might prove that
California had these and other trou
bles."
However, most of us agree upon
the fact that the present cost is in
deed high. We are also agreed that
the present law which gives us a
change of text books only once In
every six years does not permit of
the flexibility of text matter in our
schools that there should be. Yet,
again, if we were to lake up the State
printing of school books, there would j
be a very great possibility of getting
into just such a situation as brother
Bede has outlined before us.
ROBERT SERVICE.
CIVIC BEAITY.
The movement of property owners
in doing away with the wooden awn
ings that have heretofore adorned
the fronts of our business houses, is
a timely one. While the fever of
civic improvement is growing it
might not be amiss to suggest ex
tending the crusade into our resident
districts and start th'e removal of un
sightly fences which now give our
town the appearance of a community
grave yard. In the old days when
stock ran over the country care free
yards in town had to be protected.
We have passed that state now aud
sooner or later the fence will be sup
planted by the pretty green hedge
and Heppner will then be taking an
other step forward.
A FORECAST.
Unless Villa shall be speedily killed
or captured, Carranza's army will
melt away and Mexico will be nearer
united than it has been since the re
bellion was first sprung against Diaz.
And the cry will be one of hate and
defiance against the United States.
To bring this around was what doubt
less prompted Villa to make his raid
upon Columbus, N. M. Doubtless the
militarists on the border have under
stood this from the first.
The chief danger of this, will be to
American residents in Mexico.
Then will follow a swift blockade
of the Mexican ports and probably the
rushing of an army from Vera Cruz
to the Gulf terminal of the Telhaun
teplc railroad, a second from the Rio
Grande and a third from some part
in Arizona. On the part of the Mex
icans it will be chiefly a guerilla war
fare; there will be no really great
battle. There will be a great clamor
at first and portentous threats of
what is to be. The business of our
navy will be to prevent supplies from
getting inland; of our different ar
mies to take the capital and chief
strategic points in the country, and
then to order the civil powers there
to order an election and see that it is
a fair one to do what was done in
Cuba.
It will be a vexatious, expensive
and uncomfortable business; it would
really be a mercy to that country to
permanently take and hold the north
ern row of sparsely settled states, ev
en as California, Arizona and New
Mexico were held in the war of 1846
1847jj Goodwin's Weekly.
Portland schools, by tests of Dr.
Edmund Myers, show 45 per cent ef
ficiency. They are next to Los An
geles the most expensive, and his con
clusion is, too many fads and fancies
and not enough elementals. Seven
out of a class of 31 did not know
what state the Hudson, is in, and the
class average in geography was 34.6
per cent out of a possible 100. As an
example of socialistic service under
public ownership the public schools
make a poor showing. E. Hofer in
Pacific Coast Manufacturer.
IMPORTS XOT FALLING OFF.
The Democratic claim that the war
has shut off imports and is therefore
responsible for the failure of the Un
derwood tariff law as a revenue pro
ducer is hardly borne out by the fig
ures of the department of commerce
The department's analysis of foreign
commerce for January, 1916, just is
sued, shows that in that month total
imports amounted to $184,362,117.
This compares with $122,118,317 in
January, 1915, and $154,742,000, in
January, 1914. It is therefore appar
ent that Imports are growing rather
than reducing.
Import figures show that there was
a falling off in 1915, but this decline
has been more than recovered. For
the seven months ending with Janu
ary, 1916, imports totaled $1,097,-
148,991, while for the same period
ending with January, 1915, they to
taled only $930,503,236. During the
seven months ending with January,
1914, Imports totaled only $1,067,
752,498, so it is evident that they are
increasing rather than falling off.
The fact is that by throwing down
the bars the Underwood tariff law has
stimulated importation of non-duti
.able goods by increasing largely the
list of articles that may be brought
in free. This explains the falling off
in revenue. The war Is not shutting
off the stream of imports, as the Dem
ocrats would have us believe. It has
enormously increased the export
trade of the country and thus has
nullified the worst effects of the Un
derwood law by turning the balance
of trade back in our favor, but it has
not cut down the total of imports.
Customs revenues have fallen be
cause of large additions to the free
list. Eugene Register.
Robert Service, a well known at
torney of Baker, is making an active
campaign for position on the public
service commission. He Is asking
for the vote of the common people.
In telling of his qualifications, the
Portland Oregonian has the follow
ing: Mr. Service has lived in Baker 15
years. He is 49 years old, married
and has four children. A native of
Scotland, his parents came to Wis
consin when he was 5 years old, and
he grew up and was educated in that
state. '"" '
He has had an interssttng and va
ried career. , For five years" he was
head bookkeeper of a lumber com
pany at Red Cloud, Neb. Then for a
year and a half he was general mana
ger of a sash and door factory at
Crown Point, Ind., from there going
to Pocatello, Idaho, where for nine
years he was in the retail lumber and
coal business.
For seven years after coming to
Baker he was a manufacturing
wholesale lumberman and shipper. It
was in this business that he became
interested in the subject of freight
rates, to the study of which he de
voted himself for eight years.
He has frequently appeared before
the Railroad Commission, now the
Public Service Commission, in rail
road rate matters. It was he who
brought before the Commission the
log rate case, from Baker, inv1912,
which was said at the time to con
tain more elements of freight rates
than any Federal or state case pre
viously brought in the Northwest.
In 1912 Mr. Service was a candi
date for Railroad Commissioner on
the Progressive ticket. Up to that
time he had been a Republican. Some
time ago he left the Progressives and
returned to the old party. "
He is the fourth announced candi
date from east of the mountains for
the one vacancy in that district on
the Public Service Commission. The
other announced candidates for the
Republican nomination are James E.
Kyle, Mayor of Stanfield; H. H. Cor
ey, present secretary of the Commis
sion, whose home town is Pendleton;
and Ed. Wright, of La Grande, Coun
ty Clerk of Union County.
From the West Side only one can
didate so far has announced himself.
He is Fred Buchtel, of Portland, dep
uty state sealer of weights and
measures. However, it is considered
certain that Thomas J, Campbell, of
Roseburg, one of the two incumbents
whose terms expire this year, will be
a candidate.
Clyde B. Aitchison, of Portland,
the other incumbent, also expected
to run again, though he has not' an
nounced himself. Under the old law,
when all Commissioners were elected
from the Btate at large, Mr. Camp
bell and Mr. Aitchison were both
elected In 1912. This year, with one
Commissioner to be elected from the
West Side and one from the East
Side, one of them may step aside.
THE SENSIBLE WAY.
Everyone who travels the roads
ought to devote a little attention at
this time of the year to the good that
can be accomplished at small expense
with a drag. With this simple tool
and a team one man can do more for
the roads now than a whole crew
with teams and graders can do later.
The secret of good roads at reason
able cost is maintenance work at the
proper time. If incipient holes and
ruts are filled up before they have
had time to grow to large propor
tions, money is saved for the taxpay
ers and the roads are kept in the
best feasible condition. It is the
stitch in time that saves nine.
Unfortunately, this vital principle
has never been fully recognized. It
has been the happy-go-lucky custom
to build a good road at great expense
and then permit it to go to ruin for
lack of a little attention at the right
time. Eugene Register.
Villa is getting the recognition he
has been striving for. ,
Clean up and paint up.
Library Association Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Hepp
ner Library Association will be held
on Tuesday afternoon, April 18 at 3
o'clock at the library. All patrons
are urged to be present at this busi
ness meeting. It is the desire of the
present officers of the association to
i hold an lection of officers and a quo
irum is necessary for this. Therefore
(remember the date, and come out for
this meeting. If you don't like the
I present management come and elect
I new people for their offices, and if
I you do like the present officers, prove
jit by your presence at this business
meeting. M 30-3t.
A. J. Hicks, who for several years
nubllshed the Heppner Times, Is now
! located at Sumas, in Whatcom coun
i ty, Washington, where he is the own
!er of the Advocate-News, a weekly
: paper. Sumas is a town of about
2000 population and timber is the
'chief resource. ;
The warm weather brings the road
louse to the surface.
We are offering one of the best
residences in Heppner at a sacrifice.
If you want a good home and have
$600 cash we can do business, for
our terms on the balance will be your
terms. There is no better bargain in
Heppner. We will be glad to show
it to you at any time.
SMEAD & CRAWFORD.
FOR SALE.
One thoroughbred Duroc red boar
pig. Also four good work horses and
one wagon in good condition. Prices
reasonable. Inquire at this office.
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Robert Service
For Public Service
Commissioner
He Is a Baker lawyer with a bus
iness career and has hammered the
railroads too often to expect their
support He is the common people's
candidate and is unalterably opposed
to railroad graft. A vote for him is
a vote for better regulation.
: Heppner Commercial Club meets
on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each
month.
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Lady Assistant
J. L.YEAGER
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Phone Residence Heppner, Oregon
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