THE OAZETTE-TDIES, HETPXER, OREGON, THTRSHAY, AVGVST 1, 1318
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:,t ;!.-., :it -.here seems to lie!
little stir in Hopi'iicr over the prop
osition of rebui'.uiiip the burnt over
district. It is just possible that
many of those who suffered the los;
of th.-ir buildings i" l'u recent con
flagrations have hardly had ti:ne yet
in which to sather themselves to-
cether and formulate plans for new i
structures. In Die business districts
they will be required to conform t.)
the ordinance covering the erection
of buildings, and this means that
they will have to build of brick or
concrete. At this time, also, these
people are contending with the
Increased costs in materials and
labor, as well as the suvcity of labor,
so it behooves them to talc? time fr
deliberation and fully undtrsUnd
where "thov are at ' before going
ahead.
It is certainly very unfortunate for
the city that we have had to suffer
such a severe shock at this particular
time, and we feel that our people
fully appreciate just what they are
up against. On the part of some
there is manifested a feeling of un
easiness and impatience and the
expression of thoughts to the effect
that Heppner will never rebuild; she
can never be the town she once was,
and if she does not soon rebuild
much of her business prestige will
have been lost. However there is
littlo foundation for this and all
those who understand the Heppner
sp'rit have no part in such pessmis
tic mouthings.
We desire to sen the work Of re
building start just as soon as possible
and believe that things are so shap
ing themselves that this will be the
case. A new hotel is the vital need
of the town just now, and the proper
kind of hotel accommodations will
have to be secured. The proposition
of a suitable hotel for this city is not
easv to solve and it is going to re
quire a lot of capital to construct a
modern building, properly equipped.
To bring this capital together is the
problem now confronting those in
terested, and while some work is
being done along this line, so far as
we are able to learn there can be no
definite announcement of plans at
this time.
Other business buildings are need
ed and these will be forthcoming in
time, but in reality the general bus
iness of the community is going for
ward as usual, even though some
what restricted as to accommoda
tions, and we feel that before many
weeks have passed there will be pleas
ant announcements to make that will
have to do with the plans of a
number of substantial business buil
dings that will go up on the burnt
district.
In the meantime it would not be
out of the way to suggest that all of
the burnt over district be thor
oughly cleaned up and made as
siL'htly as possible under the circum
stances. This much can be done to
improve the situation, while those
who seem to be suffering from ex
jve perspiration because of the
apparent slowne-s in rebuilding can
have time to cool off.
The Millitary Police are organized
for the purpose of giving protection
to the various communities of the
vt8te. It is an organization supported
by the State and Federal govern
ments. Morrow county comes under
!:.; protection of this organization
and a squad of the Police are now
Unhjii'-d at llei'pner, ready to co
operate with the civil officers and the
eitiz"i.fe in general in maintaining
peace and ord.'r, in putting down
any sort of disturbance, and in the
Cghtiag of fires. Farmers, especially,
Lionel not fail to call upon them
and they can be communicated with
night or day at '.heir headquarters
in ih'ppr.er.
PF U.tZIV. J'ATKIOTISM
Yi'itli a few notable exceptions
tewvpapers and periodicals have
jii' t . plendiilly the patriotic appeal
jf the hour. With their help the
Government has come through its
financial campaigns with flying col
ors, Without it, these campaigns
might have failed. Their reward is
to be put under new postal zone
regulations, beginning July 1, so
seiere that many will be compelled
to discontinue.
During the past year over 1300
newspapers and periodicals were
forced out of existence by the high
cost of paper and production, On
top of this comes an increase In
postal rates ranging from 50 to 900
per cent according to distance. Why
did Congress revive the antiquated,
wtlonalizing zone system, abolished
by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, and
denounced by President Wilson when
Governor of New Jersey, and by the
postal investigating commission un
der the leadership of Charles K.
Hughes in 1911?
The claim was that tt was to
assure the Post Office Department
"cost of service." The final result
will be to decrease revenue, just as
the doubling of the price of postal
cards has reduced the income form
that source. The incompetency of
those who drafted the "rider" to the
war revenue act of 1917 which pro
vided the zone system is shown in
the following anomalous condition:
A quantity of newspapers or maga
zines, made up and billed through
by the publisher to a point west of
the Mississippi, will under the new
law cost approximately eight cents
ner codv. A single copy of the same
nerioiHivil rlroniicd in the street box.
collected and 'worked" through tne
post office aud delivered to the ad
dressee, will cost but four cents!
It is a curious situation when
wholesale mailing by publishers costs
double that of a single copy mailed
by a private citizen, particularly
when the argument for the passage
of the zone law was simply to secure
"cost ot service.
Thus is the patriotism of the
press paralyzed by short sighted
legislators. Leslie's.
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IDEALS THAT INSPIRED RECENT
JULY FOl KTH CELEBRATION
New ideals that inspired the recent
July Fourth celebration were out
lined clearly to the Division on
Women's War Work of the Commit
tee on Public Information by Miss
Josephine Roche, director of work
with the foreign born. She said:
"We proclaim a new Declaration
of Independence for the whole world,
which all people will share, instead
of America alone. We have always
been proud of Independence Day and
the ideals that brought it into being,
and on this particular Fourth, 191 S,
if the women of 1776 could be here
they would realize that their de
scendants have not drifted away from
these Ideals and that the Americans
who have come more recently to this !
land have been drawn by the same
vision of freedom which the founders
of the Republic had.
"These great groups of our for
eign born are the people who have
been fighting for centuries for de
mocracy and liberty, in the Old World
just as our ancestors fought here.
A wonderful faith in America, a
trust that they will here realize their
ideals and find for their children a
better chance, bring them to us.
We are beginning to understand we
have as much to learn from them as
we have to teach them, and that
altogether we must work for the
realization of our Ideal America.
"Never has there been such an
'all-American Fourth' or 'one which
expressed so truly and, fully the
intent of the signers of the Declara
tion of Independence. From all
quarters of the globe America has
drawn to herself loyal citizens bring
ing her the best from the old land.
New faith and strength will leap in
the hearts of those people fighting
in Europe against autocracy and
terrorism,- when they learn the tid
ings of this Independence Day on
which their former countrymen so
overwhelmingly reaffirm the pledge
of America to the oppressed of the
world."
What a pity it is that President
Wilson made such grievous blunders
in picking the men to whom he has
entrusted the conduct of the war
plans. He could easily have gotten
much better timber, and might eas
ily have had the war won long be
fore this. We have men in this town
that can discount McAdoo, Baker,
and the whole lot at Washington
at least that is the conclusion one is
inclined to form after hearing them
dilate for a few hours on the subject
of what should and should not be
done in the circumstances. Their
stock of knowledge on subjects mili
tary is something at which to mar
vel, and we feel life impeaching the
whole bunch at Washington for fall
ing to make use of their valuable
services. But it was ever thus. The
wrong man is usually chosen and
we have to mush through a crisis In
any old shape, while If real genius
were recognized we could sail
through with colors flying.
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THE RAILROAD ADMIMSTKA
TION AND THK FARMERS
The United Skates Railroad Ad
ministration has established a de
partment to be known as the agri
cultural section, whose particular
duty will be to look after the rela
tions between the railroads and the
Department of Agriculture. Its pur
pose is to give all possible assistance
to the agricultural development of
the country. The extension work of
the Department of Agriculture and
the stimulation of agriculture, es
pecially In relation to transportation,
will be assisted as much as possible
by the new section.
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LOANS TO OCR ALLIES
The United States has now loaned
to our allies $6,091,590,000. The
advances average obout $400,000,
000 a month.
These loans to our allies are an
alogous .to leading weapons to
friends who are aiding you in the
defense of your own home. The
money is being used to defeat our
enemy, to maintain armies fighting
side by side with our soldiers, and
fleets patrolling the same oceans
with our sailors.
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Dick Wells got badly burned in the
face on Sunday by the explosion of
a can of chloride of lime. His eyes
filled and it appeared for a time that
his sight might be affected but no
serious Injury was sustained, and
under treatment of a physician Mr.
Wells is getting along in fine shape.
PATRIOTISM. WITHOUT HESI
TATIOX If our soldier boys deliberted as
long over doing their duty as some
of our people at home hesitate over
doing theirs, the victory would be
doubtfuL
It is a sort of financial cowardice
to hesitate to put your money in
United States Government securities,
and to deliberate over the wisdom
and patriotism of the investment is
to hesitate in supporting our soldiers.
THE ' ATONAL GUARD
The adjutant general of the state,
who has just returned from Wash
ington, brings word that the federal
government desires the creation of
i numerous and ccmpre'-ensive ua- j
tional guard, represented fully in ;
each of the towns of the state. With i
the call for several millions of troops !
abror.d the government reilizes that
exigencies may occur at home re
quiring armed forces of considerable
m-gnitude, a;d that the national!
guard is the natural source upon ,
which to draw in such emergencies. !
This will offer opportunity for ,
men who are exempt from the draft,
either because of dependents or be
cause of age beyond or below the
maximum or minimum army limit,
to serve their country effectively.
Just at this time there will be a
dearth of arms and supplies, be
cause the factories are working full
time to supply foreign needs, but as
soon as possible there will be forth
coming both gu ts r nd equipment.
Meantime organization and training
may begin in earnest everywhere.
The rudiments of military activities
are easily learned without either
uniforms or rifles. All that is nec-
sssary is the presence of r.ome man of
mili'.r.ry experience, and willingness
on the part of men to sacrifice their i
time and comfort to engage in fre
quent drill. Hitherto the weakness
of the national guard has been lack
of authority on the part of officers to
compel the men to attend drill.
That ought to be cured in the present
emergency by patriotic devotion
everywhere.
A competent and well drilled
home army of 2,000,000 men ought
not to be difficult to organize in the
48 states with the months to elapse
before the close of the year. It is
to be hoped that they will not be
needed in actual combat, but there
is no asurance that they will not be
needed. We are living in an age
where the future is uncertain and
explosion always possible.
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This paper is not in position at
this time to make a definite an
nouncement regarding the putting
up of a new hotel in Heppner. We
have taken the matter up with Mr.
Wilkins of the Palace Hotel Co., and
he stated to us that he is working on
a proposition of securing funds for
the building of a modern hotel on
their lot, the plans contemplating a
structure that will cost at least $60,
000 for the building and equipment.
From what we learned from Mr. Wil
kins, he is assured of $30,000 of this
money from substantial stockmen
and farmers of the county, and he is
asking that the balance, $20,000, be
supplied by the people of Heppner.
He has placed this proposition before
a number of the business men and is
awaiting their action. He feels thai
the time is very short for action if
anything toward the building line is
to be accomplished before winter sets
in. Mr. Wilkins further states that
should this money be raised, he can
guarantee the beginning of work in
side of thirty days.
Mr. Wilkins has had many years
experience in the hotel line in Hepp
ner and feels that he is capable of tin
derstanding what is needed here, but
he will not take hold of any proposi
tion whatever that does not compre
hend the construction of a first class,
modern hotel in every respect, and
the plan he has sketched out is for a
75-room house, all outside rooms.
The business will pay good dividends
and should appeal to those who have
money to invest. We hope to be able
to make mare definite announce
ment regarding this proposition with
in a week or so. The Palace Hotel
Co., of which Mr. Wilkins has been
the manager, is working out a plan
of reorganization and will be in posi
tion to sell stock within a very short
time.
City Fire Alarm Arrives.
The new electric siren fire alarm
is here and will be installed as soon
as the starting switchboard comes.
The alarm will be placed on the roof
of the Roberts building with the
operating cord in the telephone office.
Whenever the alarm is sounded a
small alarm is given in the power
house enabling them to get the
pressure on quickly. It is claimed
by the manufactures that the siren
can be heard for twelve miles and
there can be little doubt that It will
be able to arouse even the sleepiest
of our residents,
Prof. H. H. Hoffman will be
located at Kennewick, Wash., for the
coming year as principal of the
schools, instead of Toppinish as
mentioned in our last issue. Our
informant evidently had the two
points confused, and the professor
himself gave us no definite informa
tion as to just where he would be
located.
notice after that date.
We have endeavored to arrange
hours that will accommodate all, and
ask your co-operation in' observance
of the same.
HEPPNER LIGHT & WATER CO.
A 10-20 and 12-25 Case Gas Trac
tor, guaranteed to be in good con
dition, for sale by Vaughn & Sons,
Heppner.
FOR SALE OR RENT 320 acres
north of Lexington. Price, including
buildings, horses, cows, pigs, machin
ery and fence, $30 per acre. Good
water. Will take part cash, some
exchange or crop payments. Prop
erty free apd clear. Write S. C.
Schwarz, 127 East 16th St., Port
land, Oregon.
FOR SALK ford uar In good
condition. Price $360. W. W.
Shamhart. Inquire N. A. Clark,
Heppner. 3t
FOR SALE One sow, with six
pigs nine weeks old. See Guy Shaw
at office ot Standard Oil Co., Hepp
ner. l6-2t
A 10-20 and 12-25 Case Gas Trac
tor, guaranteed to be In good con
dition, for sale by Vaughn & Sons,
Heppner.
D. A. McAtee ' and son are plan
ning to erect a good business build
ing on the property recently pur
chased by them from the Elks, and
adjoining the property of McAtee
& Aiken. Mr. McAtee is in Portland
this week completing arrangements
for beginning work on the structure.
When completed this building will
add much to the appearance of Main
street and will be comnuidious
enough to house several lines of bus
iness. Patterson & Elder will have
their barber shop there and we un
derstand that Louis Pearson will
also occupy a part of the building
with his tailoring establishment.
Mrs. F. N. Frye entertained in
honor of Mrs. Maurice Frye on Wed
nesday afternoon last, the Frye
home in West Heppner being thrown
open to some fifty guests. A pro
gram of vocal and instrumental
music was the cchief feature of the
afternoon. Misses Charlotte Win
nard, Elizabeth Phelps and Velma
Case rendered solos on the piano and
vocal selections were by Mrs. Marie
Sims, Mrs. Maurice Frye. Mrs- Lillie
Turner and Miss Neva Chidsey, Mrs.
Dr. Winnard presiding at the piano.
Mrs. Frye has a very rich contralto
voice and her selections were greatly
appreciated and enjoyed. Refresh
ments of ice cream and cake 'were
served and a picture of the guests,
ensemble, was taken by Mr. Frye to
be carried home with them on their
return to Chicago.
SEE
ME BEFORE SELLING
YOUR GRAIN
I am grain agent at Heppner for the Pacific
Grain Company, successors to M. H. Houser,
and am prepared to buy your grain outright or
on consignment, as you prefer. Can also furnish
grain bags at the lowest price.
ROY V. WHITEIS
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TO RED CROSS KNITTERS
Attention of Red Cross knitters Is
called to the new shipment of yarn
that has arrived at headquarters.
You can get your supply now by
calling at the Federated Church
from 2 to 4 o'clock on Wednesday
afternoons.
NOTICE !
Any person who drives over any
fire hose with auto, wagon, or any
kind of vehicle when such hose is be
ing used at fires or by the fire com
panies at practice, or any other time,
will be prosecuted.
By order of the City Council,
W. W. SMEAD, Mayor.
NOTICE
Beginning August 1st, our office
hours will be from 8:00 a. m. till
4:00 p. m, including the noon
hour) for the first 1-4 days pf each
month, during which time a cashier
will be on duty the entire time.
We will from and after that date
observe our rules for collections,
which are as follows: Bills are due
and payable at the office of the
Company on the 1st of the month
following use of service delinquent
if not paid by the 10th and service
liable to discontinuance without
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