THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER. ORE.. THURSDAY. JUNE 7, HIT
HELP WIN THE WAR
FIGHT, ECONOMIZE, CONSERVE, PRODUCE
BUT FIRST OF ALL -
uy a Liberty Loan Bond
Liberty Loan Bonds are the safest in
vestment in the world today. They are
issued by the United States Government
and are a mortgage on the United States of
America our country the richest coun
try in the world. They are Uncle Sam's
promise to pay, and he is worth $225,000,-C00.0OO.
Liberty Loan Bonds pay Zy2 Interest
and they may be had in any of the follow
ing denominations: $50, $100, $500, $1000,
$5000, $10,000, $50,000 and $100,000. You
can make a first payment as low as one
dollar and have until August 30 to pay
the balance. Most big business houses
will accept Liberty Loan Bonds same as
cash in payment for merchandise.
-A MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY W. G. M'ADOO-
"Wars cannot be conducted without money. It is the first
thing to be provided. In this war it is the most immediate
help the most effective help that we can give. We must not
be content with a subscription ot two billion dollars we must
oversubscribe this loan as an indication that America is stirred
to the depths and aroused to the summit ot her greatness in
the cause of freedom. Let us not endanger success by complac
ent optimism. Let us not satisfy ourselves with the reflection
that some one else will subscribe the required amount. Let
every man and woman in the land make it his or her business
to subscribe to the Liberty Loan immediately, and if they can
not subscribe themselves, let them induce somebody else to sub
scribe. Provide the Government with the funds indispensably
needed for the conduct of the war and give notice to the ene
mies of the United States that we have billions to sacrifice in the
cause of Liberty.
"Buy a Liberty Bond today; do not put it off until tomor
row. Every dollar provided quickly and expended wisely will
shorten the war and save human life."
W. G. M'ADOO, Secretary of the Treasury.
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The Heppner Times, Established November 18, 1897.
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OFFICIAL PAPER FOR MORROW COUNTY.
Thursday, June 7, 191
RUSSIA'S NEW PERIL.
At a time when other nations are placing more drastic re
strictions upon the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor,
for economic and other reasons, poor old Bfussia is on the verge
of backsliding from the well-formed purpose of sobriety made
in the early days of the war. So it would seem from the appeal
made by the congress of delegates from the front, meeting at
Petrograd to discuss the national crisis. Before the established
government was overthrown, there was a more or less compe
tent authority to enforce the drink laws. Now that a condi
tion bordering on anarchy has supervened, and everybody's
Business is nobody's business and every moujik is clamoring
Sor his "rights" in the old familiar way, bootlegging on an
enormous scale has become prevalent. The army and the whole
jeople face a new danger.
It would be a strange trick of fate if the Russians, having
ot rid.of their Czar and of the trappings of imperial autocracy,
should now rise up another master more tyrannical than the
old. Their country at this hour, with its government only half
organized, its ideals confused and its people torn by the con
lending forces of conflicting opinion, needs sobriety more than
it ever did in its history. In the old days the drunken Russian
at least had a Czar to look after him. Now, if he hopes to prove
I h fitness to rule himself, he must not appoint John Barleycorn
as his chamberlain.
Czar Vodka will make no better emperor than Czar Nicholas;
indeed, he probably will do much worse. The Black Hundred
is quite probably behind the revival of alcoholism, as the con
press of delegates suspects, and its purpose is clear enough
it is to befuddle the rank and file of the nation so that the mon
archy can regain power.
The newly freed Russian citizen who now confounds his
personal right to get drunk with the general principles of lib
erty which the world is seeking is playing into the hands of his
wmies. The German army is by no means the most menacing
of these. Dark forces at home will be ready to seize the first
opportunity to return him to his former state of bondage
Oregonian.
The Red Cross, humanity's one great champion, will re
ceive homage and tribute from our people Saturday. Every
day should be more or less a Red Cross day, but Saturday in
particular will be marked with special devotion and effort. It
will be a red letter day in Morrow county's history also, for it
marks the opening of the Red Cross campaign in this county.
Every citizen should enter into the work in the very same spirit
in which the Red Cross idea was conceived.
CALL THE IDLERS FIRST.
Out of the ten million men who will register today there
will be a percentage of considerable magnitude unable to pass
the physical examination. There will be others upon whom
there are maintenance duties to wives, children and parents
which the government will recognize. There will be many who
are especially adapted to work in the munition plants and upon
the farms. Perhaps these classes will comprise one-half of the
total. How will the others be called to colors? When will they
be called? How will the selection be made? At the beginning
there are to be selected five hundred thousand men for training.
If there is any manner of selection by which the loafers in the
list can be first called, it surely would be common justice that
the government summon them. In every town there are more
or less men of military age who seem to be without occupation,
ambition or purpose. They loaf about the streets. They are
idlers. They frequent the hack rooms of cigar stores and sus
tain the pool halls. The very best thing which could happen to
men of that type would be a call to arms. They would then be
under orders and would be compelled to take physical training.
They would be able to shake off their fixed habit of drifting.
When they leave the camps and return home many of them will
be among our best and most useful citizens. Even if called to
the fighting front, the shockof changed conditions might arouse
them to unexpected strength of character. In the first 500,000
men this tvpe should be. Pendleton Tribune.
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The dust on Heppner 's streets is getting deep now; what
will it be by September. We used to boast of our dustless town,
but now it would be an idle boast. We are going backward,
not forward. Our condition surely is as prosperous now as last
vear and the year before. Figures do not lie, and they say we
ire better off financially. Lets go down in our pockets and set
tle the dust.
A POTATO PATCH PILE.
Nowadays we have potato patches; tomorrow we may
H.nk of them as wotato Diles. A Missourian has been experi
menting with potato piles for three years, and asserts that last
year he got 42 bushels from a plot ot ground omy eigni ieei
square, ov nn oiyalent of over 28,000 bushels to the acre of
ground sp;icj used. .
This potato plot is six feet high, it was maae Dy puuiung
seed potatoes a foot apart each way, covering the layer with an
inch or two of well rotted manure and six inches of earth, and
so on until the pile was six feet high. Around it was a crate
like affair, allowing two inches of space between narrow boards
for the potato vines to come through.
When his crop matured all he had to do was to knock the
crate apart, rake out the potatoes and save the earth for the
next year's pile. ,
This new idea potato gardener, R. E. Hendricks, Kansas
City, Mo., believes he has solved the garden question for city
fnU-a whn little around, as far as potatoes are concerned.
He says that potatoes can be planted much later if done this
way than if put in the ground via old-fashioned methods.
By the Hendricks method no hoeing is necessary. All one
has to do after getting his potato pile built up is to give the
growing tubers plenty of water,
Tf Mr TTunrJnW PYiwiment can successfully be duplicat
ed in a million backyards this summer he will be entitled to all
i,nr liia fnr.d-nPf.dinQ- country can bestow. There 11 be
iui; nviiviw .wv o w
no potato famine then. '
BUICKS
LEAD
For This There Is A Reason
See These Cars
Five Passenger, six cylinder, 45
horsepower - . - $1220.00
Five passenger, four cylinder,
35 horsepower - - $795.00
These prices are F. O. B. Heppner
BUICK DESIGN
BUICK VALVE-IN-HEAD POWER
The Tightness of the Buick Valve-in-Head motor and
not the enthusiasm of its salesmen has made the Baick
conspicuous for leadership.
This new four has a Buick Valve-in Head motor (with
electric starter) which develops thirty-five horse power
on brake test and is sq reliable for rugged service that no
eulogy is necessary among "men who know Buick."
Its lines are beautiful. Finish and color are exception
al. Deep, tufted black genuine leather upholstery. Cov
ered floor and running board, with aluminum bindings,
give a trimness of appearance that is peculiarly Buick.
Body, hood, fenders and running gear are painted a
glossy, long-wearing black; wheels are black with white
stripes. Times 31x4 inches.
SEE THE BABY BUICK AT THE HEPPNER GARAGE
ALBERT BOWKER, Local Agent
All Buicks have the Delco lighting and starling system.
There is none better.
Notice fo Farmers!
This is the season of the year of uncertain weath
er conditions. A good grain crop may be ruined by
hail in a few minutes.
Protection on your grain against hail is written
by me by the season.
COSTS NO MORE NOW THAN LATER
Get my rates at once
I also carry all other kinds of insurance and bonds,
ROYV.WHITEIS
The Insurance Man
Heppner, Oregon
Padberg Ituys More Land.
Wm. H. Padberg, extensive wheat
grower of this county, this week
purchased from the trustees the C.
A. Rhea land, consisting of 200ft
acres. The ranch Is situated on
Rhea creek and there Is also con
siderable wheat land on the hills.
Ora Ad kins has been farming the
place the past two or three years.
The price paid by Mr. Padberg wai
$20 per acre.
To Win the War
"We must all speak, act and serve together,"
President Wilson.
America in the Great War expects full
arid efficient service from every individual.
For each there is some special duty
to work with and for the Government.
The First National Bank stands ready
and willing to cooperate with patriotic
citizens of this cbmmunity.
First National Bank
Heppner, Oregon