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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPXER, OREGON. THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1DIM. PAGE SEVES Hooverizing Means something more than theorizing. It means practical observance of the Taws of conservation three times a day. The bulk of our wheat must cross the Atlantic to feed the allied arm ics. Therefore the Amer ican people at home must save by substituting for wheat. We can use 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" w '1TH the Deering Combined Harvester you can harvest your crop for one-half the ex pense you can any other way. Two men is all that is necessary to put your wheat in the sack. The machine cleans the grain in perfect manner, takes out and saves all weed seed and leaves straw in bunches to be easily taken care of. Can furnish them with or without an engine. Will have to have your order early in order to insure getting the machine. The factory is lim ited to a definite number of machines and when that number is reached there will be no more for anyone. Give Us Your Order Now GILLIAM & BISBEE Answer This Call HE 3D LIBERTY LOAN means another ly rally 'round the flag. Let your Dollars step to the tune of Yankee Doodle Do or Die just as our home boys are doing over there in the trenches. Subscribe for as many War Bonds as you can afford. Call or write for further information. FARMERS Sc STOCKGROWERS NATIONAL BANK Hcppner Oregon WHY WE ARE AT WAR WITH GERMANY By EPHRAIM DOUGLASS ADAMS Executive Head, Hiitory Depart ment .eland Stanford Jujtior University ; "The object of this war Is to dellvei the free peoples of the world from the menace and the actual power of a vast military establishment controlled by an irresponsible government, which, having secretly planned to dominate the world, proceeded to carry out the plan without r'.gard either to the sacred obligations of treaty or the long-established prac tices and lonn-cherished principles of In ternational action ard honor; . . . This power Is net the German people. It Is the ruthless master of the German peo ple. ... It is our business to see to It that the history of the rest of ths world Is no longer left to Its handling." Presidert Wilson, Augi'St 27, 1917. THE GERMANS AS A CHOSEN PEOPLE. The foundation cause of this war Is Germany's firm belief that she alone has the right to direct the progress of the world and to exploit its resources. For the last thirty years the military autocracy of Germany has seen to it that this belief was taught In the schools, and today that autocracy is reaping the benefits of a blind obe dience to its will, German political writing of recent years is full of the Idea that the German people is "God's i chosen people-destined to impose its! 'Kultur' upon all other peoples." j "The German soul is the world's soul, God and Germany belong to one another." "Germany is the center of God's plans for the world." "We hope that a great mission will tag allotted to us Germans . . . and this Ger man mission is: to look afier the world,"- ''Germany is chosen, for her own good and that of other nations, to undertake their guidance. Provi dence has placed the appointed people, at the appointed moment, ready for the appointed task." "The German people is always right, because It is the German people, and numbers 87,000,000 souls." "Kultur is best promoted when the strongest in dividual Kultur, that of a given , na tion, enlarges its field of activity at the expense of the other national Kul turs." "The attempt of Napoleon to graft the Kultur of Western Europe upon the empire of the Muscovite ended In failure. Today history has made us Germans the Inheritors of the Napoleonic Idea." "The further we carry our Kultur into the East, the more1 and the more profitable outlets Bhall we find for our wares. Economic profit Is of course not the main motive of our Kultur-actlvity, but it is no un welcome by-product." "Our belief Is that the salvation of the whole Kultur of Europe depends upon the victory which German 'Militarism' is about to achieve." These quotations are but a few of hundreds of like expression, and the last one cited is from a manifesto signed by thirty-five hundred German professors and lecturers. Reduced to simple terms, the German belief at the beginning of this war was: "God di rects Germany. Civilization advances only by rumbats between ' Kulturs in which the stronger and God-directed one hits the right to prevail and must prevail. The immediate and present object Is to make our Kultur prevail In the East (in 'Muscovy'), and In ac complishing this we shall also gain economic advantages. This is the first step In our world domination." Where does Anipriea stand in this theory of a "chosen people"? America denies that theory; she denies that God has chosen any one people as His own; she asserts rather that there are many civilizations, each with itf own merits and defects, and that to each must be left the working out of Us own problems. We Americans are unabla to under stand, or sympathize with, a people who conceive of themselves as a chosen people, chosen of God a people to whom all things and actions, however inhuman or brutal, are regarded as permissible, even holy, because of a faith in their superior mission and civilization. To ut such a belief is direct evidence, not of a leading, but of a lagging civilisation. This German ideal, when expressed merely In theory, even though taught In Germany for the last thirty years, stirred but Indifferent Interest in other European nations. In this war Ger many has revealed in- the application of her theory a lust for world power at the expense of other peoples, a lack of good faith, a brutality that have stamped her theory as involving a re turn to barbarism. By the application of German theory we were forced, unwillingly, to go to war. But today we know that there was no escape from a war between two contradictory Ideals. Germany's eco nomic objects are many and large (they will be pointed out), but the basic cause of this war was the German ideal of a dominant nation. That Ideal, by Germany's own challenge, is on trial in arms. Against It we must prevail, or we shall perish. LIVE CECIL NEWS ITEMS Miss Hazel Winters was a Cecil vi ator on Friday. j Paul Charles of lone returned lome on Wednesday. j Arthur Streeter left on the local .'or Heppner on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson visited with Mrs. Pettyjohn on Sunday. Mrs. J. J. Allyn visited with Mrs. Weltha Combest on Sunday. Walter Pope has laid aside his Ford and has now gone to farming. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Everett visited at the Leon Logan ranch on Sunday. Uncle Joe O.sborn visited Arlington on Wednesday to see the income tax man. Mrs. Hardest)- and Miss Wilkins of Morgan were business callers in Ce cil on Thurday. Miss Eaoton, accomp-niod by Miss Georgia Summers spent Sunday with Mrs. Jack Hynd. Mr. and Mrs. Broady of Morgon vi sited with Mr. and Mrs. Duncan on Sunday at Ewing Siding. The Cecil Auxiliary wish to thank Mrs. Broady of Morgan for her donv tion of '$5.00 towards the Red Cross. W. A. Thomas, who Is on the sick list, left for Hormiston on Tuesday where he intends to rest up for a few days. t -., Mrs. Jack Davis arrived in Cecil Wednesday1 on her way to join Mr. Davis at Leon Logan's for the sum mer. Mr. and Mrs. Medlock and family, of Heppner, came down to take charge of the old Sullivan place for Ellis Minor. C. A. Minor, accompanied by Mrs. Minor and Miss Blanche, spent Wed nesday in Cecil, leaving for Heppner on Thursday. Mrs. Mack Smith and son Austin came down from Heppner for the week end and took In the dance Sat urday evening. Mrs. Rossier and children of Bick leton, Washington, who have been spending a few days with Mrs. Ben nett at the Last Camp, left on Wed nesday for Arlington. Mrs. Boyd Logan and children left on Saturday evening for Portland to join her husband who has been spen ding the winter in California for the benefit of his health. Gene Penland, of Heppner, came down to Cecil on Saturday, and left on Sunday morning with four car loads of cattle for Portland stock yards for C. A. Minor. There will be a meeting of the members of the Cecil Auxiliary Red Cross at Mrs. Lowe's on Saturday af ternoon at 2 o'clock. All members are requested to attend. Charlie McBee and his son L. E. McBee spent the week end visiting among their old friends in and ar ound Cecil. Mr. McBee was on his way home to Pendleton. Charley Hynd and Bert McLaugh lin of Ukiah, who have been staying at Butterby Flats for a day or so, left on Friday for Ukiah. They were ac companied by J. Ewing and Fay Met tie. This Is the first of a series of ten articles by Professor Adams. Mrs. C. C. Chick and son Charles, of Iono, spent a few hours in Heppner Tuesday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dykstra, who resldo a few miles south of Heppner, were in town Tuesday. Food Administration. New food cards have been sent out to all parts of the county for distribu tion through the schools. If any per son fails to receive one within a few days a line to the county chairman will bring one. If the school chil dren have some difficulty in distribu ting the cards, a little assistance from older persons would be appreciated. The American boys are now bat tling on the Western front. We must see that they and our allies do not lack for food. The food situation Is much more serious than many sup pose. Flour and sugar are becoming alarmingly scarce. We should all be exceedingly careful to save both. Many people are using potatoes large ly in making bread. Some have been able to obtain excellent results with as high as fifty per cent, of potatoes. Others use somewhat smaller percen tages. Rice, if first cooked, may be used with flour for making good bread. Corn meal, cooked as mush, may also be used freely in all forms, for there Is a surplus on hand. By using them, we not only save wheat but we help our potato producers. Every body should try to come within the limit of three pounds of sugar per person per month. One Heppner family of eight is using only eleven pounds per month. One Lexington family, by using honey, has almost ceased to use sugar. No frosted ca kes should be made. No sugar should ever be found in the bottom of a cup of coffee or tea. The boys in the training camps in this country are receiving a very small sugar ra tion. If you are selfish enough to use sugar extravagantly, your patriotism is of a question brand. The spirit of co-operation in food saving shown by the great majority of the people is certainly fine. Only the intensely selfish, the Ignorant, and the pro-lluns are failing to mea sure up. War means sacrifice. Let us prove our right to the title of Am erican citizens by sacrificing until we know that we are sacrificing. Let us It Cost the Average Family Less Than 10c Per Week for Packer's Profit in 1917. The Meat Bill is one of the large items in the family budget but less than 10 cents per week of it goes to the packer in profits. - In converting live stock into mdat and getting it into the hands of the retail dealer, the packer performs a complex and essential service with ,the maximum of efficiency. J) The above statement is based on . Swift & Company's 1917 figures i: and Federal Census data: Swift & Company's total output (Meat and by-products) . 5,570,000,000 Pounds Swift & Company's total Profit - $34,650,000.00 Profit per pound $.0062 U. S. Meat Consumption 170 pounds per person per 'year 170 pounds at $.0062 $1.05 per person per year The average family 4 persons $4.72 per family per year 1918 year book of interesting and instructive facts sent on request. Address Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois Swift & Company U. S. A. prove that we prefer our form of gov ernment to an autocracy. Save food, especially WHEAT and SUGAR. S. E. NOTSON, County Chairman. Wood and Coal. I handle Rock Springs Coal, Cord Wood and Slab Wood. Leave orders at Humphreys' Drug Store or phone 392. ED. BRESLIN. J. L. Kincaid, pioneer farmer of the lower Gooseberry section, was in Heppner over Tuesday night, paying i his taxes and attending to other bus iness matters. Mr. Kincaid does not get over the injuries he received some two years ago when he was run j over by a team on his farm and recei ved severe injuries to his right arm and shoulder. The hurt still bothers him a great deal. R. F. Wiglesworth, Butter creek sheepman, was in town Tuesday and reports lambing under way at his ranch. The cold weather is hard on the little lambs, but every precau tion is being taken to prevent hem from getting chilled. BLACKS LI Dr. J. G. Turner, Portland eye spe-j cialist, made his regular monthly vi sit to Heppner on Tuesday. LOSSES SURELY PREVENTED CUTTER'S BLACKLEG PILLS priced. D relet re el ny western stock- mffi. because they protect whert other ig YrgpS Write tor booklet and testimonials. lu-nosB pttg. piaciuBg mis, 50-doso oka. Blackleg Pills, $4.00 Use an yin Sector, but Cutter's simplest and strongest Ttie superiority nf Cutttr product is -hie to over IS years ol speviilkinu in VACCINES AND SERUMS ONLY. INSIST ON libit 3 it uuuuuuiuiuic. The Cutter Laboratory, Berkeley, California DELCOLIGMT Increases Farm Efficiency 1. Saves time and labor Work formerly done under poor light and by hand can be done better and in less time with the aid of electric light and power. 2. Labor it attracted to the farm The "back to the farm" movement is made practical when the conveniences afforded by electric light and power can be had in the country. 3. Keep the boy and girl on the farm Electric service on the farm offsets city attractions. Valuable labor and valuable young, manhood and womanhood are saved to . the country community. Solve the retired farmer problem Electric light and power make the farm home so attractive and comfortable that the farmer and his wife remain on the farm where their advice, experience, and immediate interests are of great practical value. 8. Lightens burden of the housewife Increased farm work in war times means increased labor for the house wife. Electricity offers the only practical means of taking the drudgery of household tasks from her shoulders. Delco-Light it a compact electric plant for farm, or country hornet. Self.cranking. Air-cooled. Thick plate, long-lived better?. Bell bearing. No belts. RUNS ON KEROSENE THE DOMESTIC ENGINEERING CO., DAYTON, OHIO, U. S. A. ft 4. VAUGHN & SONS Dealers throughout the World.
