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Newspaper Page TextTHE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, OBEtiOX, THTRSD AY, KKBRVARY 21, 1018. PAGE THREB AND NOW THEY. ARE COOKING TOBACCO TO MAKE IT BETTER For a good many year The American Tobacco Company have been conducting a aeriea of experiments having aa their object the improvement of smoking tobaccos. And it ia interesting to know that one of the greatest of their discoveries was one of the simplest, and that was, that cooking or toasting tobacco improved it in every way, just aa cooking most foods improves them. They took a real Burley tobacco, grown m this country; toasted it aa you would toast bread; moistened it to replace the natural moisture driven off by toasting; made it into cigarettes, called them "LUCKY STRIKE, the toasted cigarette," and offered them to the public. ' The result has been the greatest demand jpver created for any tobacco product in a similar length of time. -y- The change produced by toasting ia not only most wholesome, but the flavor ia greatly improved, just aa cooking improvea meat, for example. Your Wife and You will both ba satiifiad with SILVERWARE purchased at Jaagar Bros. Jaagar Bra.' aanrte it nch to amr yon of Mtl.faetioa la ny Mtoetioa yea might aiatola aUvtrwart or Jewelry. 8hooldyoa ad It otherwise your money will be remnded. Some opportune buying oofcettione! K Doten Hudeon Teeepoone SSI. We guarantee the wear of then to be that of a lifetime. MILITARY WATCHES for the hoy In the eervlce, with luminoue dial,445up. Our Special $100 DIAMOND RING Ite worth bee epread to many atatee. Other Diamond Rlnge 10 totlJOO. Diamond eent throogh roar eapree company for approval. JAEGER BROS. OmeiAMa ui'lsa aura nr., aaaaoaiaa aa roerruND.oaaaon . ' nnnmiii Oaa'a, BndMHM tay PwtlaW RHEUMATISM ' ANTI-URIC. The famous EOOT and BEERY remedy foi RHEUMATISM. . . Contains no opiates or chemicals, and will not injure the most delicate stomach or digestion. Results guaranteed or money refunded Price $1.50 per outfit For sale by PATTERSON & SON & HUMPHREY DRUG CO. LOST One 2-year-old bay mare white stripe in face, branded bar over H on right shoulder, left ear split, weight 1000 pounds. Ten dollars reward if returned to Wm. Cunning ham, Lena, Ore. J1P. NOTICE. All lamps from 10s to and Includ ing 40s will hereafter be charged for .at the rate of 30 cents apiece Instead of 25 cents. Heppner Light & Water Co. F. S. Bender & Co., of lone will continue to take orders for the new McCormick Combine Harvester. We were badly scorched, but are still in line for this harvester business. I will pay the top price cash for good fat chickens and all other poul try, fresh eggs, dressed veal, veget ables and fruits. -Cummings Fruit & Vegetable Market, Heppner, Ore. Having rented the Dressmaking rooms at Mrs. Herren's Millinery Store, I will conduct a general dress making business. I solicit your' or ders for plain and fancy sewing. All work guaranteed. MRS. A. O. DeVORE. Booking orders for pure bred S. C. White Leghorn baby chicks, of a heavy laying strain, for March, Ap ril, May and June hatches. Terms, $11.00 per 100. 60 per cent with or der, balance at time of shipment. MRS. J. H. HARDESTY, l-31-t8 Morgan, Ore. For Sale Barred Rock cockerels, $2.50 each. WIGHTMAN BROS., Heppner. 2mo. FOR SALE 75 good broke mules and several head of good big mares. See Guy Boyer, Heppner. Wanted Woman or girl for gen eral housework. Apply at this office. I i L OREGON GEI5 FEW PLUMS Instead of Going After Things to Benefit Oregon, Mr. Harley Bays State's Representation Only Writes Polite Letters. By F. C. HARLEY, Mayor of Astoria .Washington,' Feb. 4. (Special) Your Uncle Samuel, Bitting at the head of the Nation's table, around which are gathered his big family of states, has "With generous hand been carving and passing along choice morsels to his favorite sons. But how- has-Oregon, fared at this festive board? Well, "Old Man Oregon," as we af fectionately call him at home, has been getting the crumbs the leav ings. The prime cuts went to those states that made known their wants in unmistakeable terms. Oregon forlorn and neglected, sat off at the far corner, too bashful, too modest to make a noise like a regular board' er, and naturally was overlooked. Request at Least Needed. Put this down for a fact: Every day will be meatless day for the guy who won't demand meat when he sees it brought in on the platter. In the past two years I have been frequently in Washington trying to do something for Oregon, for the Col umbla river and for my town, Astor ia. It has not been my privilege to put my feet under Uncle Sam's ma hogany, so to speak; only the elect or the elected the members of the Senate and the House of Represents tives are invited guests at the feast But from the gallery above I have been an Interested onlooker, and my bird's-eye view has enabled me to see some things the banqueters' did not observe. Getting down to brass tacks, and calling a spade a spade, I am speak ing, of course, of governmental re cognition extended to other states contrasted with recognition extended to Oregon. Never in history has this government of ours made such vast appropriations as in the past two years; never before has it let so many contracts or had so many favors to bestow upon states and communities that were able to supply its wants provided they had the backbone to insist upon getting a fair share. Oregon's Share Small. The war business alone: What has Oregon gotten out of that? Only the crumbs, as I said before. Oh, yes, Oregon Is building ships. Sure. But why? Because the Ship ping Board had to have ships, and could not get as many as it needed on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, That's Don't let him get like this Dr. Daniels' Antiseptic Dusting and f Healing Powder FIXES GALLS, SORES AND CUTS Coiti only 50e large can, at our Afeoti Aak lor Dr. Daalalt' Horaa Book iu fnm HUMPHREYS DRUG CO Agents for Dr. Dan iel's Horse, Cow & dog remedies. WITH FREE BOOKS $1000 rash buys 160 acres, all till able, all lays good. 3 miles east of Cecil, Ore. B. C. MILLER, Waitsburg, Wn. Strayed. From Ben Buschke ranch on Rhea Creek, about January 1st, 1918, a red cow branded BU on right hip, no ear marks, animal about 5 years old. Reward paid for recovery of. this animal. BEN BUSCHKE. 3tp. Wanted: First .class man to take charge of small casing room. Inquire this office. Wanted to buy a piece of raw or. improved land suitable for dairying or poultry. . Give full description and. price in first letter. G. W. Court wright, Grant, Nebr. . .' You can get nice fat dressed chick-; ens of me at any old time for the lowest prices at which they can be sold. HARRY CUMMINGS. Vegetable Market, Heppner, Ore. lm . WOOD AND COAL. I handle Rock Springs coal, . all kinds of cord wood and slab wood. ED BRESLIN. 1500 ACRES FARMING LAND FOR SALE. The Penland farm adjoining the town of Lexington, Ore., is for sale In whole or In part. Part cash and terms on balance to suit. E. NORDYKE, Lexington, Ore. WANTED Ewe lambs, white face, wool on. Delivery your nearest rail road station. State price and number you have for sale. COFFIN BROS., North Yakima, Wash. BASHFU i irui'i why Oregon got ship contracts. But Oregon has not got as many contracts aa Its yards can handle; not by a jug' full. Tberea a reason. And spruce. Yes, the government la buying spruce in Oregon, millions of feet of it, because It can't get it anywhere else, except In Washington. Oregon and Washington have all thb spruce there Is. The East can't fur nish it; the South can't furnish it; it doesn't grow in the middle West. So Oregon is now selling spruce to the government for aeroplanes. Other States Get Rewards. But while Oregon is selling the spruce, Oregon is not manufacturing that spruce into aeroplanes. They are building aeroplanes in Washing ton; building them in California, in Michigan, Illinois, New York and Connecticut building them of Ore gon spruce. Why don't Oregon manufacturers with all that spruce right at hand, have a chance to build aeroplanes? Why doesrf't Oregon labor have a chance to turn out the finished prod uct instead of the raw material,only" Why don't some of the vast-Sums paid out to labor in aeroplane factor ies go to Oregon workmen? ' But lets see how Oregori has fared in other lines of war activity. Last Spring, when the draft bill passed, In fluential Senators got busy at the War Department and when the 32 Army cantonments, costing $7,000, 000 to $8,000,000 apiece, were loca ted, they went to states whose sen ators had been most persistent' in their demands on Secretary Baker. No cantonment was built in Ore gon. They went, some of them, on wind-swept sand dunes; into river bottoms; one of them in the South went into a bog. Washington got one and should have had it., Amer lean Lake today is one of the finest cantonments. But Oregon did not get one. Oregon's Wants Ignored. The people of Oregon wanted a cantonment; they petitioned their delegation for it; the telegraphed and wrote for It. But "Old Man Oregon," as personified in Congress, did not raise his feeble voice, and the canton ments went to states whose senators were not backward about coming for ward. Therefore, if It was not un patriotic nor selfish for other Sena tors to ask then It was not unpatriot ic or selfish for Oregon to expect to participate in the distribution of the war pie. - How many soldier's lives that have been snuffed out In improperly loca ted cantonments by pneumonia and spinal meningitis might have been saved had even one of these canton ments been built In Oregon, where conditions are healthful; where the Winter has been mild; where epidem ics are unknown? - Not only Oregon, but the Army it self has been the sufferer because Oregon did not get fair recognition in this matter. Portland Practically Ignored. And where and how is the Army buying its supplies? Is there a gen eral purchasing depot at Portland? No only a branch office that buys mainly for Vancouver Barracks. Se attle has a general depot; San Fran cisco has a general depot; Portland has a dinky little subordinate pur chasing office. Yet the Army Quar termaster today Is one of the busiest buyers In the American market, his purchases run into the millions mon thly, and he buys according to his rank and importance of his office. Oregon today hasn't got a single Army post within .Its borders, unless you want to class antiquated and ne glected Fort Steven., as a "post." When Senator Warren was chairman of the military affairs committee he got appropriations year after year, until he had built up Cheyenne the biggest and most thoroughly equip ped post in all the United States, Fort D. A. Russell. Oregon has no Fort Russell; it has only Fort Stevens, a seacoast "defen se", so notoriously behind the times that a hostile fleet headed for Port land would with a single broadside blow It sky high and steam on up the Columbia without even hesitating. Its normal garrison is about 200 men. What defense have we, anyway, at the mouth of the Columbia River?. The Army War College, our highest military authority, says the Columbia River is the natural gateway to our Western interior. I came to Wash ington two years ago to get an appro priation for a naval base on the Col umbia. The necessity for naval de fense of our river was apparent; the need has since been testified to by the Helm Board. But has the Columbia been provided with adequate defen se? ' Not a dollar. The Atlantic Coast ports are well defended; they have had Influential and active representation In Con gress; the Gulf Coast harbors are all better defended than our harbors, though less liable to attack, but the Oregon coast and the Columbia River, after all the warning sounded, is as inadequately defended today as it was at the outbreak of the European war. Oregon Gets Only a Report. All we've got, after two years Is a report a report Secretary Daniels didn't even consider when he sent his estimate to Congress in December. And that report is all we're going to get for some time, unless the Oregon delegation awakens out of Its lethar gy. Aa for appropriations, generally, what has Oregon obtained from Con gress in recent years? Well, it usual ly got what the Secretary of the Treasury, was kind enough to recom mend, but not always that The House took the river and harbor es timates for Oregon, as for other sta tes, and grouped them into a river and harbor bill; that bill would pass, and go to the Senate; there millions would be added for other states, but no additional appropriations were authorized for Oregon not in late years. Oregon has been getting what the House allowed, and no more. The Senate has not raised the House's ante not for Oregon. . Surveys and Promises Are All. And irrigation projects! What a record? Here Is Oregon dumping more money than any other state ex cept -North Dakota, into the reclama tion fund, and getting back a fraction of what It put in. If the law had not been amended some years ago, Ore gon would have fared better, but that is past. The reclamation law was en acted In 1902; Oregon was early al lotted two projects; neither of them is anywhere near finished yet, though begun 15 or. If years ago, and as for new projects, ail Oregon gets Is sur veys and vague promises of some thing to come in the dim and distant future. In irrigation matters, Ore gon is the goat. Of course Oregon has had a few ap propriations for public buildings; its National forests are administered af ter a fashion; it has got a couple of fish hatcheries, and a lot of sundry items of that sort. But what do they amount to? Look what other states are getting. Other States Reap Harvest. When it came to passing the Ore gon & California land grant bill, Ore gon didn't get anything like what it was entitled to; it got what an active little bunch of conservationists said it should take. The Oregon delega tion was simply shoved aside and told, "You take what we give you." What is the result?- Millions of dol lars that will come from the sale of grant lands and grant timber are go ing Into all the other states that had no legitimate interest in or any claim to our land whatsoever. What's the reason for all this? Why -its perfectly clear to anyone who will spend a few weeks in Wash ington watching the Oregon delega tion at work it's hardly fair to use that word let's say, watching the Oregon delegation perform. We've got in Congress a fine bunch of letter-writers; they write nice, po lite communications requesting this and that be done; they never Insist. But letter-writing is all wrong down here. Letters don't get you any where in official Washington. Action Is Required. The Senator who delivers the goods to his state is the Senator who doesn't depend on letters, but who puts on his hat, calls a taxi, rides down to see Secretary This or Secretary That, and talks turkey straight from the shoul der, requesting nothing, but stating very plainly and directly what he ex pects for his state and why he expects it. And be doesn't do these things till he's posted on his subject. He knows what his state needs; what it can dp along a certain line; what It is entitled to, and all about it. Jn other words, the Senator who delivers the goods Is, by training, a business man, accustomed to busi ness methods. He knows his goods; he knows how to dicker; he shows some pep as well as knowledge, and he carries home the bacon. We've got to have such men repre senting Oregon or we'll continue to pay the penalty for supporting a fine young bunch of "ready letter wri ters." We need men who know Ore gon, and, knowing the state, know how to present Oregon's case at Washington. Congress is filled with lawyers; but we are not living In the age of law; we are living in an age of business big business. We need business men to look after our inter ests. If we don't pick them we won't get our share of Uncle Sam's busi ness; we'll get crumbs. (From the Portland Oregonlan, Sunday, Febru ary H, 1918.) Time For War Risk Insurance Ex tended. The following telegram has been received by the State Council of De fense for Oregon from George F. Poi' ter; Chief State Councils Section, Council of National Defense, Wash ington, D. C. "The time ,for filling applications for war risk insurance has been ex tended by Congress until April 12th. Automatic insurance, however, has ceased entirely and no man is now insured by the government unless he has applied. This makes voluntary application doubly important. The time limit originally set was February 12, but the extension grant ed by Congress is due to the large number of men who have so far availed themselves of the opportunity to take the Insurance. Relatives and friends of enlisted men are urged to call their attention to the extended time in order that every man will yet have a chance to put in his appli cation for the war risk insurance. Dressmaking Elite styles by Mrs. George Moore two doors south of First National Bank on Main street. All work guaranteed. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Vaughn return ed last Thursday from Portland, where they spent several enjoyable days at the annual automobile show. The show was a big success In every way, was the report brought home by Mr. Vaughn. Hooverizing Means something more than theorizing. It means practical observance of the faws of conservation three times a day. The bulk of our wheat must cross the Atlantic to feed the allied armies. Therefore the Amer ican people at home must save by substituting for wheat. We can use .4 - CORN MEAL-Both yellow and white, Hominy OAT MEAL, rolled oats and bar ley flour CREAM OF RICE, whole rice and buckwheat flour Have you tried the new Potato Flour ? This is one of the newer substitutes proving popular in the kitchen. THE SAM HUGHES CO. "House of Reliable Merchandise" Machinery for the Farmer Whether it be PLOWS, HARROWS, DISKS, WEEDERS, DRILLS, WAGONS Or Something Along the Line of Motors, Gas Engines or Automobiles you will find whBt you want at Vaughn & Sonus Agents tor Hudson, Super-six Chevrolet Get our figures first or last Comparion of price with value will find you buying here. This Tear "refu,Iy p,an j plantings choose varieties for food value and productiveness. Plant GOOD SEED Strive for big returns. 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