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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPFNER, OREGON, THURSD AY, JULY 26, 1917.
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OFFICIAL PAPER FOR MORROW COUNTY.
Thursday, July 26, 1917.
HOW ORVILLE WRIGHT WOULD END THE WAR.
To see Orville Wright's name connected with any discus
sion of the way to end the war means, of course, that what fol
lows will be about airplanes.
Mr. Wright presents the airplane situation on the battle
front practically as it has been presented by military author
ities that are engaged with it as a war factor. With all nerves
strained on both sides there is slight superiority with the en
tente allies. The smashing preponderance is what is needed,
and the United States is to supply that.
The eminent American inventor is quite sure that this
country will do with the airplane precisely that which it is ex
pected to do. We have the industrial machinery; we have the
mechanical genius and efficiency; we have the constructive and
executive capacity, the money, the patriotism, the public spirit
all things that are requisite to fill the European war order
for airplanes and men to fight them. Moreover, as Mr. Wright
specifically states, "we are bringing over to this country for
eign motors which have stood up against the rigors of war
usage" to be duplicated in American plants; and American
plants in his opinion will be able, upon these models, possibly
with an improvement upon them, to meet the full demand for
battle planes.
It is is, however, the Wright optimism with reference to
concrete results, when American made and American manned
war planes get fully into action, that commands attention. We
have this statement: "There seems no reason to doubt that
in a year hence we will have sent abroad thousands of fighting
airplanes that will be better than anything yet produced." And
then we have this: "At present the difference between five
years and more of war and an early victory for the allies is 10,
000 airplanes."
Is the prospect too roseate the cut too short? Is this last
summary of the situation but the dream of an inventor? Or
ville Wright is an inventor who is also a very practical man;
and more than that he is predicting in another way what the
battle experts have predicted if Uncle Sam does his part in air
fighting as expeditiously as he can. Portland Telegram.
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TWO DOLLAR WHEAT MEANS PROSPERITY ON FARM.
In all probability the house will agree to the senate's gov
ernment guarantee that the farmer will be paid not less than
$2 a bushel for wheat. The market may carry the price yet
higher, but our grain growers now have practical assurance
that the price will not be less.
With that guarantee the farmers of the Inland Empire can
face the misfortune of a light crop with easy hearts. A field
that runs 15 bushels will bring them not less than $30 an acre;
and even the low yield of five bushels at $2 would be better than
one of 20 bushels of 50-cent wheat, as the cost of harvesting,
sacking, threshing, hauling and warehousing the lighter pro
duct would be reduced all along the line.
In normal times, with wheat selling at 60 or 70 cents, a
light crop would be a severe misfortune to the Inland Empire;
but $2 wheat or better will mean large, new wealth tor this re
gion and continued prosperity on the- farm. It means that our
farmers will go on buying automobiles and increasing their
bank accounts. Spokesman-Review.
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Property owners will be taking good care of their own in
terests if they will give the city council a true view of their po
sition on street jraving at this time. If the sentiment is strong
enough in favor, the election will undoubtedly be held. If too
much opposition is apparent, the matter will be dropped for
the present. For the convenience of the property owners of
Hommer. The Gazette-Times is running a coupon this week. It
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is desired that every property owner fill out this coupon anr
mail it at once to Mayor Notson. It has been decided that this
method will solve the situation as it now confronts city officials
, Fill out the coupon at once, sign your name, and send it in.
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There is a lamentable apathy on the part of many Heppner
property owners regarding the street paving. All that the city
council has ever asked in this matter is the real expression of
the property owners. It would be a useless expense to all tax
payers if the city council went ahead and arranged for a special
election and then have the proposed measure voted down.
GERMAN DOCTRINE OF TODAY IS WRONG.
The appalling conflict which has been drenching the world
with blood is not a mere fight of one of more peoples against
one or more other peoples, is the opinion of Otto T. Kahn, a
New York business man who has given the war and war condi
tions considerable study.
According to Mr. Kahn it goes deeper. It sharply divides
the soul and conscience of the world. It transcends vastly the
bounds of racial allegiance. It is ethically fundametnal. In
detei mining one's attitude towards it, the time has gone by
if it ever was when race and blood and inherited affiliations
were permitted to count.
Mr. Kahn said, in his remarkable speech "The War and
Business," before the Merchants Association of New York, ov.
Friday, June 1, 1917: "A century and a half ago Americans
of English birth rose to free this country from the oppression
of the rulers of England. Today Americans of German birth
are called upon to rise, together with their fellow-citizens of alt
races, to free not ouly this country but the whole world from
the oppression of the rulers of Germany, an oppression far less
capable of being endured and of far graver portent.
"Speaking as one bora of German parents ,1 do not hesi
tate to state it as my deep conviction that the greatest service
which men of German birth or antecedents can render to the
country of their origin is to proclaim, and to stand up for those
great and fine ideals and national qualities and traditions
whicli they inherited from, their ancestors, and to set their faces
like flint against the monstrous doctrines and acts of a ruler
ship which have robbed them of the Germany which they
loved and in which they took just pride, the Germany which
had the good will, respect and admiration of the entire world.
"I do not hesitate to state it as my solemn conviction that
the more unmistakably and wholeheartedly Americans of Ger
man birth throw themselves into the struggle which this coun
try has entered in order to rescue Germany, no less than Amer
ica and the rest of the world from those sinister forces that are,
in President Wilson's language, the enemy of all mankind, the
better they protect and serve the repute of the old German
name and the true advantage of the German people.
"Gentlemen, I measure my words. They are borne out all
too emphatically by the hideous eloquence of de6ds which have
appalled the conscience of the civilized world. They are borne
out by numberless expressions, written and spoken, of German
professors employed by the State to teach its youth.
"The burden of that teaching is that might makes right,
and that the German nation has been chosen to exercise mor
ally, mentally and actually, the over-lordship of the world and
must and will accomplish that task and that destiny whatever
the cost in bloodshed, misery and ruin.
"The spirit of that teaching, in its intolerance, its mixture
of sanctimoniousness and covetousness and its self righteous as
sumption of a world-improving mission, is closely akin to the
spirit from which were fired the religious wars of the past
through the long and dark years when Protestants and Cath
olics killed one another and devastated Europe.
"I speak in sorrow, fori am speaking of the country of my
origin and I have not forgotten what I owe to it.
"I speak in bitter disappointment, for I am thinking of the
Germany of former days, the Germany which has contributed
its full share to the store of the world's imperishable assets and
which, in not a few fields of human endeavor and achievement
held tlie leading place among the nations of the earth.
"And I speak m the firm faith that, after its people shall
have shaken off and made atonement for the dreadful spell
which an evil fate has cast upon them, that former Germany is
bound to arise again and, in due course of time, will again de
serve and attain the good will and the high rerpect o! ti
world and the affectionate loyalty of those of German blood in
foreign lands. I
"But I know that neither Germany nor this country nor
the rest of the world can return to happiness and peace and
fruitful labor until it shall be made manifest, bitterly and un
mistakably manifest, to the rulers who bear the blood-guilt for
this wanton war and to their misinformed and misguided peo
ples that the spirit which unchained it cannot prevail, that the
hateful doctrines and methods in pursuance of which and in
compliance with which it is conducted are rejected with ab
horrence by the civilized world', and that the over-weening am
bitions which it meant to serve can never be achieved.
"The fight for civilization which we all fondly believed
had been won many years ago must be fought over again. In
this sacred struggle it is now our privilege to take no mean
part, and our glory to bring sacrifices."
THREE YEARS OF THE WAR
The war that began three years ago has brought tics three
years nearer to peace. It has done some other-things."
It has brought us nearer to the time when the people of
every land shall rule and be the sovereigns of the statey and not
the servants of a sovereign.
It has brought the Old World to realize that the aristoc
racy of manhood is far better than the aristocracy of birth.
It has taught the New World that there is something high
er than the making and spending of money and that service to
humanity is the noblest service of all.
It has taught the whole world the bitter lessons of adver
sity and of the chastening hand which spares not those it loves.
In h uman, cruel, rutlhess, sanguinary, awful in every re
specfc as this greatest of all wars has been and must be, it will
be worth its terrible toll if it shall lift up the eyes of a thought
less, luxurious, spendthrift world "unto the hills from whence
cometh our help."
In God we trust! Leslies.
J. L. Hutchins is the ne wowner and editor of the lone In
dependent and that paper made its first appearance under his
editorial guidance last week. Mr. Hutchins appears to be a
young man of ability and will undoubtedly give the people of
lone and vicinity a good paper.
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Morrow county heard the call of war last week as she has
never before heard it in all her history. The first call is said
to be only the beginning. It will be hard for a peaceful com-
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the McNamee building, across the street.
There will be no Interruption in business,
and all old friends and new customers alike
are welcome to our services.
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TOTAL RESOURCES :
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munity such as this has always been, to become steeped in the
spirits of warfare, but such a new condition is presenting itself
and its appearance is looming larger every day. Every citi
zen will be called upon to do his full duty. This will bo no time
for shirkers. Waging war is an unpleasant duty, but it is a
duty, which once entered upon, cannot be pursued with too
much vigor, or too thoroughly done.