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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.
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VAWTKIJ CIS AW 1 OUl. Proprietor.
AKTHl'lt K. CRAWFORD, Editor. I
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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.
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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.
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with Germany may be imminent, and is certainly
we find no pleasure in contemplating, vet it would
War
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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."
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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
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