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THK GAZETTE-TIMES. HKPPNER. ORE. THURSDAY, FEB. 22. HIT
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The Heppner Times, Established November 18, 1S97.
Consolidated February 15, 1912.
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ARTHl'H R. CRAWFORD, Editor.
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OFFICIAL PAPER FOR MORROW COUNTY.
Thursday, February 22, 1917.
THE LAST CALL.
The last call for the final rally to the support of the Henj -r.er
Commercial Club has been made. President A. M. Phelps
and Secretary Smead have sent out their last appeal for sub
stantial support.
Unless this appeal is healed at the regular meeting of the
Club next Monday night, loathe as we are to write it, the Hepp
ner Commercial Club is doomed to go down to utter and lasting
failure.
Through lean years, when the "piekin's" were hard and
business was not the best, merchant and business man in nearly
every line of industry in the city contributed in a fair manner
to the up keep of the organization which was working at all
times for better things for Heppner, the county and even the
state. Now that the Club should be allowed to die, is lameted
for more than one reason. It is the very time when we are go
ing to need a live organization the worst, and we will have none.
Things that should come Heppner way, will go the way of
the progressive and up-to-the-minute towns that are tar sight
ed enough to see the value of a real live commercial club.
There is no denying that we have got good things in the
past through the efforts of this body. Scarcely a good prop
osjtion can be named, ever coining to the town, but what was
sanctioned and worked for by the club.
In the approaching months the good roads question will
come home to us as it never has in the past; since Heppner has
been designated on the route of the Columbia Highway. V ital
issues will arise when the time arrives for the highway con
struction to start, and there will be much preliminary work to
be done. We wonder what organized body this city will have
then to take up the problems and solve them in an efficient man
ner. Mr. Business Man, can you afford to drop yhir interest in
the Commercial Club? "Who is going to be your official rep
resentative in conference with progressive communities when
controversies arise, and when the community neighbor is striv
ing to get that which justly belongs to you? Are you going to
continue to sit idly by and then wonder why nothing good ever
comes to Heppner?
Heppner has enjoyed a long, long sleep; she is still sleeping
but there is yet time to awake from the long slumber. Show
that you are really alive" to the potential possibilities of your
town and county by' attending the club meeting on Monday
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Oregon's new rural credits law will become effective and
funds thereunder available after the first of the coming month.
There was an attempt made in the legislature, when the law was
up for consideration, to establish a new office to care for its
execution, but this failed, and the administration of the law is
in the hands of the State Land Board, where it rightly belongs.
In order that the law may be better understood, we give
some extracts, covering the important points:
The bill provides that loans at five per cent of not less than
$200 nor more than $5,000 shall be made to one individual, who
must live on the land offered as first mortgage security, the
loan in no case to be for more than fifty per cent of the value of
the land mortgaged, regardless of improvements. Absence
from the land of nine months per year for school purposes will
not disqualify an applicant. The loans are to be written for not
less than ten nor more than thirty-six years, but any debtor
may, if he chooses, pay off any part or all of his debt at any
time after one year.
Loans shall be made only for the following purposes: The
-navment for lands purchased; the purchase of livestock and
-other equipment, and the making of improvements which, in
the judgment of the Land Board, will increase the productive
ness of the lands or add to their value as farm homes; the sat
'isfaction of incumbrances upon the lands which were incurred
in- the applicant for the aforesaid purposes.
t Applications will be made through the county attorneys of
the State Land Board and the fees paid to them will in no case
be less than $10 nor more than $30, according to the size of the
loan. For instance, if the loan be for but $200, the fee will be
$10; if it be for $5,000, the fee will be but $30, and this will
cover appraising the land and examining the title.
Every applicant for a farm loan shall state clearly in his
application the purposes tor which such loan is desired, and
ni)on its approval by the Board this statement shall be deemed
a part of the note or contract under which the loan is granted.
But no failure to apply such funds to the purposes stated in
the application or enumerated therein shall invalidate a loan
when once made, nor shall anything therein contained be
deemed to prevent any farm owner from selling or leasing lands
L subject to such incumbrance; but if he shall violate his con
tract by applying the money borrowed to purposes other than
stated in his application or enumerated therein, or if he shall
lease such lands or sell tfiem to any person not fulfilling the
conditions and purposes provided therein, the Land Board is
authorized and directed to require the payment ot the loan
upon six months' notice, and said note or contract will contain
a clause providing ineieiui.
BACK TO THE PEOPLE.
After all, the eople, and not the legislature, shall prove to
be the direct law making body of the State of Oregon. After
a forty-day session of the legislature, it is found that they have
referred eight measures to the people. These measures, if en
acted into law, must be passed favorably upon at a special
election which will be held on the 4th day of June, 1917.
The eight propositions which the people will vote upon are
as follows:
State issue of $6,000,000 in bonds to begin construction of
a comprehensive system of roads and highways embracing en
tire state. ,
Direct expenditure of $100,000 a year for four years to
build a new penitentiary at Salem.
To raise pay of legislators from $3 a day to $6 a day, ex
tend legislative session to 50 days and limit number of bills
that can be introduced by each member and each committee.
To authorize assessors of Western Oregon counties to re
store Oregon & California grant lands to tax rolls.
Requiring municipalities to hold their primary and general
elections on same day state primary and general elections are
held.
To provide for classified assessment of property with grad
uated rate of taxation on property of different classes.
To enable Port of Portland to build or to subsidize steam
ships and operate line of steamers to foreign and domestic
ports.
To prevent repeal of any parts of state constitution by im
plication.
All acts of the Legislature against which the referendum
is invoked also will be on the ballot.
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THE AMERICAN POSITION TOWARD THE GERMAN
PEOPLE.
American citizens of German birth or ancestry have never
been disliked by American citizens of native birth or descent.
Our fellow-citizens of Teutonic blood belong, and are recog
nized as belonging to our most desirable acquisitions from
foreign lands. They have for generations, even before, as well
as during the revolution, proved themselves constructive fac
tors in our life, law-abiding and loyal to America and its gov
ernment. This regard does not stop with German-Americans.
It extends to the people themselves of the German fatherland.
Informed Americans are too well aware of -what they owe to
Luther and Kant, Goethe and Beethoven, Humboldt and Schil
ler and illustrious Germans of this generation to feel ill-will to
so great a people.
Public opinion in the United States opposes, not the citi
zens of the German empire, but the policy of the German im
perial government since Julyof 1914. Our German-Americans
owe it to themselves and to Germany and to America to com
preheiid and act upon this just distinction drawn by the Amer
ican people. The masses of America have not acquired this in
formation from sources hostile to Germany. They have ac
quired it from Germany itself. From German authorities our
people have learned that the methods of the imperial govern
ment are those of medieval autocracy and that the people of the
empire do not really rule it.
Th Teutonic system of education from the common school
to the university is a political system in its purpose,-and this
purpose is to inculcate devotion to the ruling power. The Am
erican system is nonpolitical and has no other purpose than to
quality the young to become good citizens and useiul members
of society. German education encourages absolutism in ruled
and subservience in the ruled. American education fosters
responsibility on the part of the rulers to the ruled, that is of
the elected servants of the state to the voters and makes for
democracy. Americans, accordingly, desire the emancipation
f the German people and the reform of the imperial govern
ment. But Americans have not hate for the people of Ger
many. They have not the slightest desire to numinate me wer
man empire, or see its independence impaired. Spokesman-Review.
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House Bill No. 518, to submit to the people a proposal to
build a new penitentiary at a cost of $400,000, passed the Sen
ate last Monday. The bill was introduced first in the House by
Representative Ritner of Umatilla county. Before this meas
ure reaches the people to be voted upon, there will be ample
time to inquire fully into the needs of the state so far as its
penal institution is concerned. From this distance it cannot
be said whether or not the amount proposed will be sufficient
to construct the new building. It has taken several legislative
appropriations to complete other public buildings at balem,
and this $400,000 may prove' to be only a starter and further
and future bills will have to be passed and voted on by the peo
ple to complete the delayed work.
Major General Frederick Funston, commander of the
southern department United States Army, dropped dead in the
lobby of the St. Anthony hotel at San Antonio, Texas, on Mon
day evening. General Funston was a national figure and had
won great distinction as a soldier. At the time of his death he
was in supreme command of the troops on the Mexican border,
and had succeeded in handling that delicate situation in a sue
cessful and satisfactory manner. During the Phillipine war he
won promotion by the capture of the insurrectionary chief,
Aquinaldo.
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Heppner has on her Sunday clothes today and extends the
glad hand of welcome to the visiting Elks from Condon, Fossil,
Pendleton and The Dalles.
George Washington is 185 years old today, and his memory
is still fresh in the hearts of his countrymen.
You don't see so many of the boys going to the depot as
formerly. There is a reason. .
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Would you like to see Heppner off the map? Don't allow
our commercial club to die. .
Try the
Sam Hughes
Company
"House of Reliable Merchandise"
We are Heppner represen
tatives for the Florsheim
Shoe and Hardeman Hat.
A Complete Line of
Fresh Groceries
Always Found
Here.
A GOOD PROVIDER FOR THE HOME
A WIDOW in speaking of her late husband said :
"He was always a good provider." In the
mind of this bereaved woman, this was a high
tribute to her husband's character. It is often true
that the best husband is the man who saves a part
of his income for the future. By this plan he is able
to provide all necessities and many of the luxuries;
he constantly accumulates money and property that
will safeguard his family against want when he i3
unable to work, or after his death.
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mTmra nnniDTiiTi a murt r-r nujMvm i-intjt A
GOOD SAFE INVESTMENT.
PAID ON SAVINGS ACCOUNTS IN ANY
AMOUNT. ,
CHECKING ACCOUNTS INVITED.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Heppner, Oregon
CAPITAL $100,000.00
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AFTER COYOTES
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carcass. '
(2) A method which has stood
the test of long usage is, "The Drag
Trait," made by dragging part ot a
carcass, entrails or other animal mat
ter behind a cart or saddle horse. A
fresh horse skin makes an excellent
drag, as the operator can stand on it
while placing the poison or trap, and
remount his horse without leaving a
sign of his presence. Poison baits
should not be placed too thickly along
such trails. Six or eight to the mile
are usually sufficient to account for
such coyotes as discover and follow
the line.
(3) Poison baits may be placed
anywhere along stock and cross-country
trails in connection with a scent
attractive to coyotes. The rotten fish
cent (government formula) -is es
pecially useful. A few drops on
brush or grass tufts usually cause
coyote to Investigate. Baits placed
within two or three feet of such drops
are likely to be found by the animals,
(4) Poisoning large baits or car
cases is not recommended. The prac
tice Is largely responsible for much
of the objection on the part of resi
dents to poisoning. Large baits with
out poison are useful as poison sta
tions, especially when the snow is
deep. Whenever coyote signs are
noticed about such "stations," the
small, lard-sugar baits may be used
to good advantage.
Care and precaution to avoid acci
dents in poison' operations cannot be
too strongly advocated. Proper ap
plication and supervision will do
much to overcome the existing pre
judice against this valuable and econ
omical method for controlling pre:
datory animals. Further suggestions
on the subject of poisoning will ap
pear in the National Wool Grower as
they are determined from the several
large experiments now in progress
under direction of the government.
It has been suggested that doge
are readily trained to respect lard-
sugar pellets if offered one or two
containing Ipecac Instead of strychr
nine.
Respectfully submitted,
T. M. ALEXANDER,
A. H. CHRISTIANSEN,
FRANK A. MATT,
National Wool Growers' Committee,