THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNERy OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1917
rr.T rj st T H. T C T frTyT f XT home, and m various other ways, for practically all ot this corn
jJJllJlVlVJL OjHVjllUiN grown here will be fed to livestock in the form of ensilage or
, otherwise.
The Gazette-Times
Successful corn arrowinsr is but one contribution to Yakima
prosperity, but an important one; it is an example of -the trans-
IOriUailOU 01 lUC UlSUUIt UUllIlg lue yaai live ui di.v jrom iiu
a one-crop country to one of diversified crops and interests.
The Heppner Gazette, Established March, 30, 1883.
The Heppner Times, Established November 18, 1897.
Consolidated February 15, 1912.
Fanning as a business m the lakima valley is on a nrm
foundation.
"Farmer" Smith is one of the men who put it there Yak
ima Daily Republic.
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TEE NEW BREAD LINE.
The American Bread Line has stretched. Once white
bread stood alone. Now in the line of honor, with eornbread tor
captain, are rye-bread, barley-bread, rice-bread, potato-bread,
buckwheat-bread, and oatmeal-bread.
Do you know them all! Each has its admirers. Here is a
chance to try oatnieal-iread. '
OATMEAL BREAD 1 cup "boiling water; 1 teaspoonful
salt; y yeast cake: Vi cup lukewarm water; 2y2 cups white
flour; 1 cup rolled oats.
Pour the boiling water over the rolled oats and salt. Uol
slowly, letting it stand y2 hour. Add yeast and sifted flout.
Knead, and let rise until double in bulk. Mould into loaf and
place in baking pan. Let rise until light. Bake in a moderate
oven from 50 to 60 minutes. The addition ot a spooniul ot
browrn susrar and some chopped nuts will make a bread that the
children will enjoy for school lunch.
A HEROIC INVITATION.
The Brtish narliament has invited the United States con
gress to visit the war zone and obtain first-hand knowledge of
what is going on there. The-.offer should be accepted, by all
means. Uur troops get tneir nnai training m nance; wuy
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR MORROW COUNTY.
Thursday, October 25, 1917.
TUBERCULOSIS CONFERENCE.
The Northwestern Tuberculosis Conference recently held
in Portland, was a most successful meeting both as to attend
ance and in the increased enthusiasm of the delegates attend
ing. There were two hundred thirty-six delegates present.
Ninty-one of these were from outside of Portland and forty
nine were from outside of Oregon. Delegates registered from
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Cali
fornia, New York and British Columbia.
The whole program bore upon the increased responsibil
ities laid upon the anti-tuberculosis workers because of war
conditions. Positive figures prove that at least 2 of the men
of the draft age have been found tuberculous. That means that
there are at least 200,000 cases of tuberculosis amongst the men
of the single age period 21 to 3l! Using this conservative es
timate of the KNOWN cases the estimate of the number of
cas'es for the whole civilian population is appalling.
The program adopted by the Conference was one that com
prehends a great need and that sets out with full confidence to
meet that need. The anti-tuberculosis associations of the coun
try will need three times the money that they had last year if
they are going to accomplish in 1918 the work that will be set
before them. The delegates pledged themselves to work tor
this Amount.
The Conference went on record as advocating the use of
open window ventilation either continuously or at periodical
intervals of five or ten minutes each between class periods, such
flTieTI Will dow ventilation to be continued regardless of the arti-
". ficial ventilating systems installed in the schools in this section
of the country. It was further resolved that the (Jonterence
goes on record as placing the health of the school children
above everything else in the school curriculum.
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Bntte Record-Herald: What greater lawlessness is there
than that of assaulting workingmen for no offense other than
their endeavor to do an honest day's work! What greater tyr
anny is there on earth today than the tyranny that would die
tntp tn iripn whether or not thev shall work and where! What
greater disloyalty can there be to our government than the beat
intr of a man because a registration card is found in his pocket-
bearing testimony to his readiness to fight his country's battles?
HANDWRITING ON WALL.
. Ill management, fear and greed combined are responsible
for some of the prices being asked by retailers, especially food
rlenlers. Some retailers are flagrant offenders. Under cover of
war talk they have boosted retail prices far beyond what is be
ing asked by other dealers in different parts ot tne state ana
itv
Our country has been forced by necessity to disregard the
lessons of economics, and to fax prices on munitions, steei, coa
and wheat. There is every prospect that this price-fixing wil
ho evtended tn many other articles.
Rnt nf what avail is it to the wage-earner to have whole
sale prices fixed when retail prices are permitted to leap to the
skies!
Tt lnnks as though the average retailer could not be depend
ed upon to scale his profits within reason, or to gauge his sell
inrr nrie.es 'hv the regulation enforced upon wholesale prices.
The strong hand of government may have to be invoked, upon
the retailer. It will be a big job, and perhaps mucn injustice
may be done to individual retailers, but the wage-earning con
burner must be protected from ruinously high cost oi living i
tinia (mrsTOmPTif. has nower enough to protect him.
TlriInnT anI nlmner IS the handwriting on the wall. The
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' wise business man read it long ago. There is no step govern
nw,t mav take that, the Tiublic will not sanction in the interes
of regulating prices downward so far as food necessities of life
are concerned. Oregon Voter.
MILLION-DOLLAR CORN CROP.
Pm,r vlra nrn last, snriner "Farmer Smith." agriculturist
with the O-W. R. & N. Company, was peddling about Yakima
county little 5-pound sacks of seed corn and asking farmers to
v.,nm,.,Mf viUh it Many laughed at him. and said "this
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wasn't a onm hplt. "
This year half a million bushels of corn matured in the
Yi.l-ima vallev. and what is more, the average yield is conserva
tively estimated at 56 bushels to the acre, while many farmers
report that their crops will run 100 bushels or more to the acre.
The average crop yield in the United States is but 25 bushels
It is hardly probable that a single ton of this great crop
will be shipped out ot the valley; it won't appear m tne granu
4nfl nf S20.000.000 or perhaps $25,000,000 which will-be re
ceived for crops grown this season, though if it did the amount
would be increased by about a million dollars.
That million dollars, however, will be added to the income
of Yakima farmers in profits on bogs, sheep and cattle; in the
increased returns on hay sold which otherwise would be fed at
should not our congressmen, upon whom rests the responsibility
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for maintaining the troops there ana providing them witn wnat
;hey need?
Some such course of instruction is especially desirable be
cause congress so persistently refuses to accept the judgment of
military experts.
This invitation, by the way, is not only generous but heroic.
Who will ever question the courage of a country that under
takes to educate an American Congress! The Dalles Chronicle.
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TO SHORTEN THE WAR.
The effect in shortening the war of a heavy oversubscrip
tion to the Second Issue of Liberty Loan Bonds can hardly be
overestimated. T
However brave a front Germany may endeavor to present
ii trip outside world and to her own people, the truth is that she
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is facing fearful odds and is in dire straits. The embargo placed
hv President Wilson on American shipments to neutrals struck
Germany a body blow, and shipments to her from South Ameri
can countries are going to be stopped or greatly curtailed
through our influence and our control over coal supplies needed
by their navies and industries. Germany's efforts for pence are
dictated largely by fear of America and America's power, lne
(Wmaii neonle are crvmg for peace, and the time has come or is
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shortly coming when the German Imperial Government must
needs listen to the German people. They are being fed now on
hopes of victory and stories ot dissentions among tne American
neonle and a lack of support of our Government by our people.
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No more convincing argument could be made to the people
of Germany of the hopelessness of victory being obtained by
continued fighting than a great oversubscription ot tne iiperiy
Loan, demonstrating not only the tremendous power of Ameri-
:a but the fact that the American people are wnoie-nearteaiy
in favor of prosecuting the war with vigor and willing to fi
nance our Government to the limit.
F,verv mi r phase of a Liberty Loan Bond not only supplies
he sinews of war but it shoots a fact into the German mind
Hio fnet tliat the American feorle are behind the American Ar
my and behind the American President, and that there is no end
to this war except the achievement at tne ends that America is
fighting for. Every purchaser of a Liberty Loan Bond does
something to end the war, does something to shorten the war.
When you shorten the war you shorten the terms of our
snlrliors who serve in France: vou save many from death and
suffering and privation. You save others from the dangerous
voyage across submarined seas and the dangers of service in
The success of the Liberty Loan will be a shortening
of the war and a saving of American lives. We have given our
sons to battle, we must lend our dollars to back them up, to
make them powerful and effective, and as safe and as secure as
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Our unconquerable determination to fight to the end, to
fight to the last man and the last dollar must oe mumiesieu ue
tween October 1 and October 27, 1917- and bring to the German
the hrmelessness nf their struggle in behalf of the Ger
man Imperial Government against liberty, right, and justice
and the American people.
Heppner people and the public in general should have no
fears of our water supply being bad. Read the report of the
state health nfficer. There mav be some ills that our people are
suffering at the present time but it does not seem fair to blame
these troubles on the Heppner water. On the other hand, we
are assured by the management of the Heppner Light & Water
Co. that they stand ready at any and all times to do everything
in their power to keep the water pure and healthful; it is to
their interests to do so. The water now tastes a lot better since
we know it is free from improper microbes.
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Reports from Pendleton are to the effect that she lias
oversubscribed her bond quota of $750,000 by about $80,000.
Another evidence of the ' ' Pendleton spirit. " '
The Lihertv Bond drive ends on Saturday evening. Have
you bought yours yet? , .
Hoover
Approves
KEEP ICE IN YOUR ICE BOX THE YEAR ROUND.
MOST EFFECTIVE WAY
OF REDUCING HIGH
COST OF LIVING.
SAVES EVERY MORSEL OF THAT
HIGH PRICED FOOD STUFF.
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T7T Subscriptions for the Second
issue of Liberty Bonds close
on Saturday, October 27th, 1917.
Do your bit by handing in your
subscription on or before that date.
We tender the use of our Vaults
for the safe-keeping of Liberty Bonds
free of charge. ,
The First National Bank
Heppner, Oregon
(Assets'.
One and One-half Million Dollars.