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PAGE FOrR THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPN'ER. ORE.. THURSDAY, At'G. 24. 1118 THE GAZETTE-TIMES. The Heppner Gaiettc, Established Mart'h So. im-3. The Heppner Times, Kstablished No vember IS. 19? Consolidated February 15. 112. VAWTEil CRAWFORD - - Proprietor ARTHVK R CRAWFORD - - - Editor Issued everv Thursday morning:, and tntered at the Postolliee at Heppner, Oresm. as second-class mntter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year 1.P0 Six Months " Three Months 5f Single Copies 05 MORROW fOl TV OKKU lAb PAI'KH Thursday, Aug. 24. 1916. THIS IS TRVE. In commenting on the recent sale oi the Benge farm to W. 11. Padberg in this county. The Condon Times says: " but this method of add ing more land to large farms is just what is the most serious drawback to the development of the country. This purchase will probably send a family out of Morrow county, and the buyer may not stop there, but will, no doubt, buy more land and another family will leave, and then another, until that part of the county is almost depopulated and all the land in the hands of one man." This is true: Mr. Benge is already making preparations to leave Morrow county, for a time at least, and we lose one of our best families. On the other hand, Mr. Padberg is only to be congratulated on his keen business judgment. When he bought the Benge ranch, he got one of the finest wheat farms in the county and at a figure that will never again be as low. It may be Mr. Padberg's intention to sell off a part of this in later years when realty values have doubled or trebled the present price. WHAT THK FARMER RISKS AND ;.IXS VXDEK XEW ACT. Just three weeks from today the Fourth Annual Morrow County Fair will be on in full blast. Will you be there? Yes, so far as the Blue Trail is con cerned, Heppner will have "a place in the sun." Yet we are only goin?; out after what we are justly entitled to. From the condition of the Willow creek road, both above and below Heppner, at present we wonder what it will be like after the wheat haul ing season is over. It snowed in August. The moun tains south of Heppner received about an inch of the beautiful one day last week. Truly this is a remarkable season. In another column of this paper appears a notice from the city mar shal asking people to rid their prem ises and the streets in front of their property from weeds. Attention is called to the fact that weeds add to the danger from fire. Also they make an unsightly appearance. We trust everyone of our property owners will heed the request. In the August issue of the Oregon Retailers Journal appears the picture of M. E. Smead, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Smead of this city. Mr. Smead was the efficient secretary for Buyers' Week and largely responsible for the success of that event. In his secretarial capacity Mr. Smead has been given many responsible jobs and has proven to be a master in the handling of details. Many Portend business men's excursions have tetn intrusted to Maurice and in every event he has handled things in a high ly creditable manner. He has been connected with the Portland Chamber of Commerce the past three years and is making good. 1)0 YOU KNOW? Do you know of a mail order house that has ever contributed one cent in taxes or otherwise toward defraying the expenses of your town? Do you know of one that has ever contributed a cent toward your chur ches or your school? Do you know of one that has con tributed a cent to the welfare of the community in any manner, shape or form? Do you know of one that has done but pull money out of the community money which never comes back. Do you know that the traveling salesman who visits your town to sell goods to the merchant spends thous ands of dollars per annum for hotel bills, drayage, automobiles, cigars and laundry? Do you know that the money spent by traveling salesmen who visit your town goes at once into circulation to the butcher, baker, grocery store, the truck farmer, the barber and the liv ery man? Do you know that the money spent in your town by traveling salesmen visiting your town goes almost Im mediately to the bank and becomes working capital for your merchants? Do you know that the mail order house never sends out a traveling salesman, whose spending would go to build up your town? If you know all these things, ad vise your friends to patronize your home merchants who buy from the traveling man who visits your town and do likewise yourself. Oregon Retailers Journal. The Federal farm loan act is the Magna Charta of American farm fi nance," says the foreword in "The Federal Farm Loan System," a new book by Herbert Myrick, author of "Co-operative Finance," "How to co operate," etc., and published by the Orange Judd Co., New York. Mr. Myrick tells the reader much about the recently enacted rural cred its law; what it is and how it works. Every farmer and student of finance may gather considerable useful in formation by reading this book. It contains, incidentally, the full text of the new law. Among the advantages to the farm er, pointed out by Mr. Myrick, are these: He may borrow money upon long term notes, extending from 6 to 40 years. He pays interest not to exceed 5 per cent. He owns all the stock in the federal land banks and has the sole voting power in the local land associations. He pays a little of the principal each six months. He has the privilege of paying off the debt faster if desired. He may invest savings in farm loan bonds, paying from 4 to 5 per cent, and which are nontaxable. "The strictly limited incurred by the individual farmer deserves to be emphasized," says Mr. Myrick. Then he elucidates: For instance, suppose you hold 10 shares amounting to J 50 (upon which you had borrowed $1,000). If the association got into financial difficulties, you might lose some part or all of the $50. If all the land of members were washed away, and all the members failed to meet their pay ments which is unthinkable you might be called upon for as much as 50 more. This is the same liability that inheres to shares of national banks. It should be almost impossible, un der the strict supervision which the new system provides, for any national farm loan association to get so deep ly involved as to cost the sharehold ers any part of the mgney they paid in for shares. In the event that your local as sociation should become so involved that you would have to lose the $50 you have paid in and be called upon for $50 more, your own farm, even though mortgaged to the association, is not further involved in any way. In the instance cited, you paid $50 for 10 shares because you wanted to borrow $1,000 on a long-time mort gage on your farm worth $2,000 or more. Now, if some calamity killed all the other members and washed away their land, but left you alive and your property intact, even in that almost unimaginable event, you could be called to pay up only $50 more than the $50 you paid in ori ginally for your shares. Now suppose that at tne lime this quite impossible calamity occurred, there was a balance due from you of $500 on your mortgage. The mort gage, though indorsed by your as sociation, is in fact held by the fede ral land bank, to which you must con tinue to pay the installments as they come due under the contract. As long as you do that, your mort gage can never be called or fore closed. And no matter what happens to other members or to their property your farm, your home, all the real estate covered by the mortgage, U free from any liability whatever to the other members or to the holders of securities for which the various mortgages are held as collateral by the federal land bank. "This thoroughly American plan of American farm finance," says Mr. My rick, "is the best plan yet to be de vised for the farmer, but it you don't organize to control it yourself, how can you complain if capitalists or ganize the joint stock land banks the act authorizes?" Rural Weekly, pays for the casual inspection, and the law is perfunstorily satisfied. The public grows impatient over the frequency with which courts find conflict between statutes and the con stitution, but we sometimes think that it would be a great thing if the courts were as well empowered to set aside laws that violate the fundamen tals of common sense. ANOTHER VICIOUS MEASURE That the Fair Board's boast that this year's fair will be "Bigger and Better" is not an idle one is our con elusion after hearing the favorable reports concerning the excellent ex hibits already partially prepared. SAMPLE OF FOOL LAW. (From the Portland Oregonian.) One of the most useless and sense "less laws Oregon possesses is that known as the eugenic marriage law. It requires a certificate of physi cal fitness only of the male . If a Portland man knows he is physically unfit he goes to Vancouver for his marriage license. The trip costs 50 cents for himself and bride, and he not only obtains the license without embarrassing questions or examina tion and the $3.50 he would have paid in Oregon for examination and notari al acknowledgement. Many persons, physically sound, go to Vancouver for marriage licens es as a matter of economy. The cost to Multnomah County of this pil grimage of both classes is about $4,- 1 000 a year in licenses that would be paid into its treasury if it were not i for the law. I There are, it is true, many county ; seats from whence the thrifty or de fective bridegroom may not get to a i neighboring state at small cost. There he pays his fees to the notary public. For this grudged payment he gets nothing of value to himself or the state. The physician can not make an accurate test for the prescribed legal fee. The bridegroom (Elbert Bede in Cottage Grove Sen tinel.) There will be found upon the ballot this year the most vicious single tax measure ever presented to the voters of Oregon. It will appear under the title, "Full Rental Value Land Tv a :d Homesteaders Loan Fund Amend ment." While the wording of the measure is somewhat indefinite, its enactment would undoubtedly mean the substi tution of a full rental tax on all land in lieu of all other taxes. It would make no difference whet her or not such a tax raised twice as much money as was needed, or whet her it produced only one-quarter the necessary fund. What would be the results of such a tax? Suppose you own 160 acres. Uuder this measure you would pav to the state the full earning capacity of the land. Therefore, the land would be worth not a cent to you. The man who rented a niece of equal value would earn just as much from his rented land and would have no investment. If you should rent your land, the full rental would go to the state. If the full rental tax was not paid the land would become the property of the state and could never again pass into private hands. If that lan t pure, unadulterated single tax, what is? But that isn't all. Is it the tendency of renters to improve land, or to let it deteriorate? The latter, of course. So our lands and farm buildings k ould gradually deteriorate would be come less productive and we would go backward, Instead of forward. Under this measure the full earn ing capacity of the land goes to the state for tax. Therefore there is nothing left with which to take up the mortgage. The mortgagor could not pay the mortgage, so the mort gagee would have to take the land, and the land would be worthless to him, for its earnings would go to the state. Therefore this measure would rob all those holding mortgages of all the money thus invested. Is it any wonder that with such freak laws coming uo at every elec tion people hestitate to put their mo ney into Oregon lands or to loan mo ney on Oregon lands? t ? ? ? t ? ? f ? ? ? t t t ? ? t i t ? t t ? n n i W M W nhl 1 -J LLI&J Li,iy I v I $ SEPTEMBER 14, 15, 16, 1916 This would be a good time to straw all the roads. Auto tourist travel through Hepp ner is increasing. More artesian water in North Mor row means more people in that sec tion and a consequent more rapid de velopment. Miss Elaine Sigsbee returned to her home in this city last Tuesday evening after visiting a couple of weeks at the Vawter Crawford home in lone. 01 Forbes of lone passed through Heppner last Tuesday. FOR SALE Several head of work horses, both broke and unbroken. Can see them at my Tub Serines ranch. JAS. CARTV. Yellowstone The National Paradise for Animal Life and Animal Lovers Tne oldest, largest and test known of all our National Park sj also the most livable. Reed what Secretary Lane says about the park in a book let reprinted by UNION PACIFIC POPULAR ROUTE TO YELLOWSTONE and let us Kelp plan a trip for you this season. Tni interesting book, together with trip com, and othtr information FREE upon application to any 0-W.R.R.&N. AGENT or th GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT, Portland j Entertaining Educational Amusing I t T t T ? t t ? T t ? ? t ? T t ? ? X I T i T T T I I I I I I I I I I T i T RT MITER. Aviator In Thrilling Dives and Loops. He performs the most thrilling stunts ever attempted by an aviator. THE ELKS' BAND, Of La Grande one of Oregon's premier musical or ganizations, will furnish music on all three days. Amusements A P!enty---RolZF Wheel, Dog and Pony Show, African Jungle and Girl Show, Aeroplane, Portland Ad Club Quartette, Punch and Judy Show, Magician, Flying Trapese and Revolving Ladder Act three times daily, Elks' Band of La Grande, Dancing and Other Features. Lectures on Subjects of Interest to Agricul turists, Horticulturists and Stockmen. Colt Show. Stock Judging Contest Best County Fair In Oregon Don't Fail to Come ! W. W. SMEAD, Secretary t f ? f t t f ? ? ? I f ? ? ? ? f t t t T T t t T J ? ? ? ? t T t t t t ? ? t t ? ? ? T t ? t t ? f f 1