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PACK EIGHT THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNEIt. ORE. THURSDAY MARCH 22 1917 The Gazette-Times The Hqipner Gazette, Established March, 30, 1S83. The Heppner Times, Established November IS, 1S97. Consolidated February 15, 1912. EDITORIAL SECTION ?jr ?:heat mU r " i-i-iHo i5 uu bvuiusr ai if. an auvanee.oi neariv :aju tier cent. . Onions have, advanced around 300 per Cent. Of all these products, wool is the least offender of any of them. But the consumer little feels the advance in wool for wool represents but a small fraction of the cost of woolen clothing. Before the war, we estimated that the sheepman received $1.70 for the wool in an all-wool suit of clothes that retails at $25.00. If wool has doubled in value, then the sheepman is actually get ting $1.70 more from the customer on each $25.00 suit that he buys. This represents an advance on the suit of less than 7 per ! cent. Clothing, of course, has advanced more than 7 per cent. but the rest of the advance is due to the increased costs of the other articles that enter into the cost of a suit and the sheepman cannot be blamed tor that. Of all the articles that have advanced in price by reason of war, the consumer is less affected bv wool prices than that of any other necessity of life National Wool Grower. t-t VAWTKIJ CIS AW 1 OUl. Proprietor. AKTHl'lt K. CRAWFORD, Editor. I Issued every Thursday morning, and entered at the postofliee at Heppuer, Oregon, as secoud-clahs matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Three" Months $ .60 (One Year Hx Mouths .75 Single Copies $150 .05 OFFICIAL PAPER FOE MORROW COUNTY. Thursday, March 22, 1917. .OPPORTUNITY. A well known writer and dramatist, now long since dead, once wrote, "there is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." No doubt this trite quotation which has worn the test throughout the years, is as true now as it was when written, let we recall a statement made a few years ago by one of the sturdy pioneers of this country, a man who came here and grew up with the country and amassed some wealth; in which he said that the days of real opportunity were past. It was his opinion that all the land had been taken up, which is practically true, and that there was no longer the op portunity for engaging in the sheep business or running cattle on a large scale, which is likewise true to a large extent. And in making this statement he really meant there isn't the chance there used to be. But his line of reasoning appears now to have been paralyzed with the thoughts of big-scale business. He could figure only in thousands of acres when speaking of ranches and the same figure when talking of stock raising. Farming was really removed a considerable distance from his active pursuits on the ranch. True a little hay was raised to provide against a severe winter and that was about all. Abun dant grass sufficed for all needs. This same pioneer is living today and he can see how far his statements have missed the mark. Since he made his re marks, a matter of two years, a very short time, many farmers and sheepmen as well, have amassed wealth, or at least a good i healthy competence. And as the sheep and cattle industry de clined as a large scale business, fanning, which had been as suming scientific proportions, took the lead in industrial pur suits in this county. In two years time, farmer after fanner lias paid off his debts and stowed some of the velvet away in the bank, an ample and sensible precaution against the prover bial rainy day. Where the old farm wagons once found their weary way over the country roads to town, now speeds the auto mobile and it seems that every fanner has one. Yes many of our farmers have lately found that the day of opportunity, so far as material things are concerned, has not passed by. The wiser ones are looking well to the future, and like the thrifty munition makers of the East, are considering the present by contemplating future conditions and preparing io meet that day when prices recede to normal and possibly be low normal. BELGIUM WILL SUFFER MORE. In carrying on the ruthless U-Boat campaign, Germany has in view one thing and only one thing. That is her ultimate salvation from utter rout. Whether or not Germany can out-last her enemies depends primarily upon how long her enemies can last. And in turn, the staying qualities of the allies is determined to a large ex tent upon the foodstuffs shipped over there from the United States. Germany undoubtedly figures that her U-Boat warfare will be a means of disrupting American shipping ami thereby cut short the source of England's food supply. But whatever the effect of this campaign may be upon either England or tlu United States, the little country of Belgium is bound to re newed suffering. The people of that country are depending! largely upon the United States, France and England to feed them. The U-Boat campaign will probably not hurt Enghvnd materially, as that country is coping very successfully this men ace at the present time. But the effect on Belgium will be felt and every time a ship load of food stuffs goes down in the deep Atlantic, there are hungry widows and orphans in that country who must feel the pangs of starvation. The only, tiling that can possibly justify the U-Boat campaign is war itself. War has been the excuse for many atrocities during the last two vears. I. tt C BETTER ROADS-MORE SPEED. You can't blame our antoists for speeding, once they have the opportunity. That new speedway running west to the depot is a good example of road work. Now if it was only possible to lay a substantial foundation and then surface with gravel, a lasting road would be obtained. As it is, already there are pigns of ruts and cutting up. However, the improvement is a good one for the time being and will add some pleasure and convenience while it holds its present shape. LAMBS AND WOOL NOT TOO HIGH. In a daily paper, we recently saw a cartoon, illustrating the advance in prices. "Wool was placed first, potatoes second, wheat third, onions fourth, and so on. Such a cartoon only ex cites prejudice of the public against the sheepman, who is al ready in bad repute. Our complaint against such publication is that it is misleading. Of all the products mentioned, wool had advanced least and its advance meant least to the consumer. Wool that is now selling at 40 cents sold before the war at 20 cents; the advance is about 100 per cent. Potatoes that are now selling at 4 cents a pound sold before the war at 1 cent a pound. , bickerings and community rows COMMISSION GIVES ASSURANCE. Friends of the road bond issue all over Oregon are much heartened by the attitude of the new State Highway Commis sion. The Commission has come forward and stated that no un due preference will be exercised to favor one section of the state over another, or to favor one type of pavement over another. It has made it clear that it will co-operate with all the conn- ties instead ot with only a few. Also it states that if contractors' bids for paving and other road construction are too high, it will purchase the necessary machinery and construct roads and paving by day labor .under the supervision and direction of the state engineers. No selection of a State Highway Engineer has been made, as the Commission shows that it intends to cut its garment ac cording to the cloth. A different type of engineer may be need ed in the event the bonds do not pass, as there would b little or no paving work done, and comparatively little money would be available for other highway construction. Formal official statements of the Commission's policv will be incorporated in the official argument in the state pamphlet to be sent by the Secretary of State to all the voters prirtr to the special election. Copies of these formal statements will be pub lished in advance by the state campaign committee, with copies of the bonding act and such other official information as is needed to present to all the public the important facts of the case. What has happened in Russia during the past week may be looked for in other European countries now engaged in the great war; it is not among the impossibilities that the same thing may occur in Germany, and wiser ones than we are look ing forward to startfing developments within that nation be fore the summer months have passed. It is a little early, per haps, to be making predictions of what will really take place but the people of Russia have given a foretaste of what may be expected. The burdens and horrors of war have about reached the limit. The people will yet rule. It 's a source of satisfaction to everyone that the railroad strike was averted. All of us number among our friends old railroad men in the transportation department who have been in the service of different companies from twenty to thirty years or more who have attained to ranks seniority and whose stand iug, in case they had gone out on a strike, would have been ser iously effected. It is not so serious a matter for the young men in the service who have not yet taken upon themselves the uares and responsibilities of the older men. Both the brother hoods and the railroad officials should be congratulated upon accepting the mediation of federal officials. It looks very much is if the time is coming when strikes will be a thing of the past all questions being settled by arbitration. Portland Live stock Reporter. Try the t ; 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, with Germany may be imminent, and is certainly we find no pleasure in contemplating, vet it would War .'rmethin eem that there is being a lot of unnecessaiy fuss made about he whole affair. Really, when you look the thing square in the "ace, how is Germany going to conduct a war against the. United States? She can send no navy to our shores, and getting an army over here is an impossibility, so we say that there seems to be quite a lot of bunk handed out from different sources re garding what Germany may do to us. We feel that there should be preparations against possible invasions; that the men ace of the German submarine, whatever that may amount to, should be met, and that our "dignity" should be upheld both at home and abroad, but it is hardly necessary to keep the en tire country in an uproar, and make the people believe that if we avoid war it will be through the wonderful wisdom of those at the head of governmental affairs at Washington. As a friend of ours down the line expresses it "Germany is not prepared to make the United States as much, trouble as did the lousy old Apache, Geroniino, thirty years ago." t-t - It seems that in the history of all schools, little and big, sectarian or non-sectarian, public or private, there must at some time gr another be a sort of civil war. In such a strife there is, of course, two factions, each opposed to the other, else there would be no petty embroilments. But such cases are too often not warranted, and especially in a small school which has a struggle for existence, ami where the taxpayers should be getting full value received for every dollar expended in the dis trict for school purposes. Petty bickerings, feuds and jealousies in a community serve only to keep tilings in that community pretty well upset. Imaginative wrongs are often times magnified until a bad in fluence spreads out, engulfs the schools and the entire social system of the community. It would be far better in the end if all parties to the feudal dispute could get together in the be ginning, settle their rights and wrongs and proceed in harmony with a cemented friendship. The teachings of God and the Bro therhood of Man should tend to ultimate elimination of petty SAYINGS HELP ALL ALONG THE LINE U A BOY that is taught to save money will rare ly be a bad man or a failure; the man who saves will rise in his trade or profession steadily. This is inevitable. ' 'GLADSTONE. 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