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" Historical Society Public Auditorium y vol.. 32, wo. as. HEPPXER, OKE., THUR8DAV, NOVEMBER 81, !!. SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER YEAR Oregon TI 1 IlVIiiih LOCAL REO S ELECTION TUESDAY Postponed Election to be Held in Masonic Hall Other II. C. Newt. On account of the flu epidemic and the consequent shutting down of all public gatherings, the election for Morrow County Chapter of the Red Cross was indefinitely post poned from the third Wednesday in October. Now that the ban lias been lifted the election will be held on Tuesday evening next at the Masonic ball. This must be borpe In mind by all and a large attendance of the Red Cross members should be present. Election of a board of directors will take place, and from this board will be chosen the chair man and secretary for the ensuing year. Mrs.' Cohn, chairman of the Mor row County Chapter, desires to ex press the thanks of the Chapter to all those who volunteered their services in carrying on the work at the emergency hospital during the epidr lie. This service was largely gratuitus and the spirit thus shown is gi-duy appreciated by the Chap ter, v Under date of November 15th, the War and Postoffice Depurtmeut issued an order extending. the mail ing ot Christmas parcels through the month of November. This means that parcels may be mailed up to the time the local postoffice will receive mail on November 30th. Fu ther provisions have also been made for the boys whose labels have not been received. Under this ruling, an Individual, who should have received a label but who failed to receive it or has lost or destroyed it, may receive carton not earlle,- than November '21st upon signing a statement at any Red Cross Christmas Parcel station sub stant.ally as follows: Thi underlined hereby makes appli atlon to forward to (Name), (Organization), American Expedltl onar Forces, a Christmas Package, The undersigned hereby declares that ho or she is nearest living relative in the United States of the prop; id recipient; that he or she has iint received this man's label from abroad; and that should such label iie received it will not be used; and ',ha. to the best his or her knowieugt unci belief only one Christmas Parcel will be sent the proposed recipient. Local Chapters and Auxiliaries of the county will please take note of this regulation nnd be governed accordingly. Word comes from Division Head quarters that there Is the most urgent need to continue every form of Chapter production activity with one exception: All surgical dressings work except work on Army dress ings Bhould be stopped Immediately, but army orders should be completed without delay. All dressings now complete should be shipped without delay to the Division Warehouse. Materials that have been cut but not worked up should be held until further in formation has been received. Advices from Washington state that calls from Red Cross Commis sions in many parts of the world in dicate an almost unlimited need for civilian relief abroad. Each Chapter should therefore make every effort to finish at once all the refugee garments that have been allotted them, that they may be In position to take care of additional orders. Additional allottments of refugee garments are being prepared by the Bureau of Chapter Production and will be Issued them rapidly, as one garment now will be of infinitely greater service In saving life than many garments after winter is past. "Those who have been making surgical dressings should know of this need for refugee gaiments" says E. I. Saunders, Director of Chapter Production, "and should be urged to enlist n this branch of the work. We suggest that you hold meetings at once at your workrooms reading to the workers the telegram from the War Council and this letter explaining the situation fully and organize the necessary change in work. Further Information will follow as the situation develops." Mr. Saunders further says: "This closes one page in the history o the work of this Division. The realization that the surgical dress ings made by the loyal women of the Northwest have saved the lives lot many boys will be a source of life-long gratification to all who have participated In the work. , In rejoicing that this phase ot Red I Cross activity is no longer necessary, let us not forget the misery and suffering throughout the world that still call to us to continue our production activity along other lines." ! In order that the Chapters and i Auxiliaries may bo further informed, . J,, In !. - tf J to In the communication above. The message comes from the War Council of the American Red Cross, and Is of vital interest to all: "On February 10 last year nearly six weeks before the United States declared war National Ked Cross Headquarters advised its chapters to prepare for war. That ' which has followed in the record of : the Red Cross in helping to win this 1 war and to relieve the suffering growing out of it, constitutes soine- , thing of which every American citizen has a right to be proud. Every American Red Cross worker must feel a sense of gratitude in having had a share in it all. "The moment is now come to prepare for peace. Actual peace may come at any moment; it may be deferred for some time. Until peace Is really here" there can be no relaxation in any Red Cross effort incident to active hostilities, i "But with peace, let no ne sup pose that the work of the Red Cross is finished. Millions of American boys are still under arms. Thousands of them are sick or wounded. Owing to the shortage in shipping, it may take a year or more to bring our boys home from France.- But what ever the time, our protecting arms must be about them and their i families over the whole period which must elapse before the normal life of peace can be resumed. "Our soldiers and sailors are en listed until the commander in chief tellS them there Is no more work for them to do in the war. Let every Red Cross member and worker show our returning soldiers and sailors that to care for their health, welfare and happiness, we are en listed for no less a period than they are. "The cessation of, war will reveal a picture of misery such as the world .has never seen before, especially in the many countries which cannot help themselves. The American . people will expect, the. Red Cross to continue to act as their agent in repairing broken spirits and broken bodies. Peace terms and peace conditions will determine how' we may best minister to the vast stricken areas which have been har rowed by war, and in this great act oi mercy, tue heart and spirit of the American people must continue to be mobilized through the American Red Cross. "On behalf of the War Council, we accordingly ask each member of our splendid body of workers through out the land to bear in mind the solemn obligation which rests upon each one to carry on. We cannot abate one instant in our efforts or in our spirit. There will be an abundance of work to do, and specific advices will be given, but even at the moment of peace let no Red Cross worker falter. "Our spirits must call us to show that it is not the roar of cannon or the blood of our own alone that directs our activities, but that a great people will continue to re spond greatly and freely to its obli gation and opportunity to serve mankind." CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Sunday, Nov. 24. 10 a. m., Bible School. 11 a. m., Morning worship. Ser mon subject, "The Working of God's Providence." 7:30 p. m., Preaching service. Subject, "God's Message to Man." Mid-week service, Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. After having been closed for from four to six weeks, the churches have now genreally resumed services throughout the country. There is not much danger now. Don't be afraid to come, our church building Is well ventilated. F. A. ANDREWS, Pastor. THE FEDERATED CHURCH. Sunday School, 9:45 a. m. Morning sermon theme, "The Signs of the Times." Evening Service at 7:30. Sermon on "God's Promises." In the midst of universal rejoicing, lot us come together In services of praise and tlwnksgtvlng next Sun day. H. A. NOYES, Pastor. CARD OF THANKS. Words cannot express our heart felt thanks to the many kind friends who assisted iu the burial ot our beloved son and brother, Cleve B. Cochran, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel V. Cochran. Mrs. L. D. Swick. Mrs. Louis Morris. ' Mrs. Frank Turner. J. L, Cochran. " Thanksgiving 1918' "THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION have a special reason for observing Thanks giving Day this year. The war is over, and it is meet and proper that we should return thanks to God for his goodness and mercy to us as a nation. Right has triumphed over force, and democracy is vouchsafed, to the peoples of the world. I therefore ask that the people of Heppner follow the injunction of the Thanksgiving proclamations of the President and the Gov ernor and meet with the churches in their respective meeting places, as announced in the newspapers, and make Thursday, Novem ber 28, a day of special Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the blessings we have received. W. W. SMEAD, Mayor BE Motor Transport Service Will Help Solve Transportation Problems. Julius L. Meier, Regional Director for Oregon, Washington and. Idaho of the Highways .Transport Com mittee, Council of National Defense, under date of November 18, 1918, has issued Bulletin No. 1 from his office in Portland, and as it covers a subject of vital interest, we are glad p give it space in our columns. Man cannot live alone the few noteworthy exceptions who have "Robinson Crusoed" have merely given the world some Interesting tales, so I take it as axiomatic that as long as the earth is inhabited, man must travel about from social and economic necessity. We will cease to need roads and cease to transport ourselves and commodities when mankind ceases to exist, so why should it be our everlasting lot to wallow knee-deep through mud and almost impassable roads in Winter, and during Summer be followed in all our travels by an obnoxious cloud of dust A road should not be considered for this generation alone, but be a factor of such prominence and permanence as our present experience teaches. Let me briefly show how good roads reflect values to farm lands when transportation is available. A given piece of land will produce a crop that requires of the owner an expenditure for seed, fertilizer, labor, wear and tear (depreciation) on tools, machinery and Implements', then the crop moves to market and a great factor in the farmer's profit will depend on the cost and the promptness of this transportation; the net return from a farm handi capped by lack of transportation is less than from one that has it; transportation is a double-edged sword for it cuts the costs on the return farm-needed articles as well, such as groceries, seeds, etc. Before the pastoral stage of man he depend ed on what he could find; then by subduing living creatures he depend ed on his flocks for food and cloth ing, they living on what they could llnd; then the agricultural stage came and wbb an immensely import ant growth, for man now learned to manage plants and raise them at will; men now ceased to roam about and settled in one place; then came private ownership of land, increase in population, the building ot com munities and the growth of cities and finally the market. The Highways Transport Commit tee of the Council of National De fense is now well organized to en courage and promote all endeavors to utilize the highways to their full modern- extent, and to this end Is now directing the establshment of highway rapid-motor service. This is not necessarily a product ot the war, but a delayed work that would have been successful if formulated HIGHWAYS WILL IMPORTANT FACTOR mg, D JSflVilVEl' t before this because of the facilities available through the use of modern trucks, and this conclusion has been proven sound by the satisfactory re sults obtained by motor transporta tion in support ot the war. Julius L. Meier, regional director1 of the highway! transport comsaKtec, has begun a vigorous campaign te establish dependable motor track transportation based in many respects upon present Governmental reel post very methods of the post office department. He is cheekiag up localities . that hare motor truck lines and those where such facilities are now lacking. State Director Amos Benson has been out checking conditions of highways in localities that are now planning the immediate establishment of such rural motor express service, and especially has he been active in causing the early completion of highways that were begun this summer. Earnest re sponse from the contractors to com ply with his wishes has been grati fying to him. Chairman of District No. I, Fred A. Rasch, will leave in a few days to make a study of the conditions with a view to establishing receiving sta tions at the road junctions to the main highways, and at the fanners' premises, so there will be prompt receipt and dispatch of all commod ities shipped or delivered. Facilities should be arranged so that a farmer who puts any produce on his shipping platform with In structions to the carrier may return to his farm and continue his work without any need for personal ex change of v felicities. The motor express service wll! stop but a moment and be on its way. The farmer may put In the box a request for merchandise to be purchased for him and returned on the same day, and in this wise he can order meats or fish with as much ease as if living in the city and hav ing avaialble market home deliv eries. Mr. Herbert Nunn, State Highway Engineer, is giving his earnest co operation to this work, and in view of the termination of the war it looks as if road building will be the major industry very soon, until both city and country reap the full advantage of such service as only good roads can give. Mr. Julius L. Meier, director of highways committee, is just in re ceipt of a telegram from Kdwar.1 N. Hurley, chairman of the United States Shipping Board, in which he ur08 renewed action and vigor iu all movements that pertain to motor truck transportation. He says: "Food must begin to move soon from every hill through every valley of the great country behind our shores down to the shipping, points before we can start our ships from the ports and fulfill onr duty, and with the promise of the war's end before us the highways transport committee throughout this land could and should render a peace time service by stimulating highways transport of nourishment and sup plies so badly needed. Routes and channels from shipping points must be opened up and efficiently main tained, and our merchant marine must be built up to meet the demands (Continued on Page Eight) tM" CONSERVATION WEEK. According to telegraphic instruc tions from Mr. ' Hoover, the week Pec. 1-7, will be observed as food i copsfcrvjition week. It is planned to : put on a campaign for the purposed ol informing the people as to the 1 real food situation in the world. 1 ( By that time the neutral countries ; me central umpires will be; abla to furnish some information. wnn.B -win give an approximate estimate of their needs. The an nual report of the Food Administra tion reveals some astonishing re sults. While nearly the whole con servation program was purely volun tary, the American people demon strated their ability to do a great thins. There have been some shady apois; gome people who through Ignorance, selfishness, or lack of patriotism have fallen short. But the aggregate amount of food saved is almost beyond the grasp of the mind. Let us all decide that we will do cur part luring conservation week ta inform ourselves and those around us as to the food situation, and let ub be Just as ready to re spond to the call as we were before peace came. No one will be asked to do anything unreasonable, but all will he asked to do something. In this w;ork America may not only perform a commendable human Italian act, but she will be executing a master business stroke. S. E. NOTSON, County Chairman. "My Four Years in Germany" will be-presented at the Star Thanksgiv lng. See adv. School Opened Monday. , Mier an enforced vacation of five weeks, Heppner schools oDened again Monday with all teachers in attandanoe. The influenza ban was lifted and all departments of the work was resumed, though with somewhat light attendance. Some parents, perhaps, were a little afraid that it might be too soon to allow the children to come together again in the school rooms, but there is also quite an epidemic of mumps in town and many were kept away on this account. The school board feels UuU there is now no particular danger from the Influenza? as that disease is fast disappearing, aad every precaution is being taken at the school building to have plenty of fresh air and thorough fumiga tion. There has heen a serious loss of lime that will have to be made up. A program has been worked nm that wiJ) shorten some of the play periods and lengthen the class periods so that by the end nf Hip second semester the lost time will hare been recovered. This' will necessitate closer annlication nn trip part of pupils to make up their stumps. Parents are therefore re quesletl to help with the home. study work and by their cooperation ! uic pupil will be able to reach the proper standing at the end nf tho year tD entitle them to promotion. ir yon can lighten the work on the boys and girls at home, mornings and evenings, it will give them a be'ter opportunity to work at their books. The school board and the acuity are united in making this ru quest t3iat the very best can be made of a situation that none of us were responsible for. In the new arrangement of things t the school house there Is the very best of cooperation on the part of teachers in both the High School and the grades, and they each and aJl stand ready to do their very best in bringing the classes up to the point where they should have been had the influenza not interfered with the work. Victory Celebration ut St. Patrick's Church. A solemn thanksgiving to God for the victory over Autocracy and Pnisaianism, and for the peace which lias descended upon this war woary world, will be offered up in St. Patrick's church on Thanksgiving Day at 9 a. m. The sermon on this occasion will be delivered by Father O'Rourke, and after the Mass the Te Deuni will be subs. All are cordially invited to be present at this Victory Celebration. Connly Superintendent, Mrs. Lena Snoll Shurte, contemplates, in lieu of the regular three days teachers institute, to hold three local in stitutes, these to be on Saturdays. One will be held at Heppner, one at lone and one at Hoardman, accord ing to the plan Mrs. Shurte now has in mlml. Owiug to the influenza ban, the comity institute had to be abamdoDtxl and now that the schools will hsive to make up as far as possible the time lost, it is thought best not to call the teachers away from thplr work for three days, hence the plau to hold local insti tutes. Full announcements will ap pear later. WOULD BUILD m IE IN HEPPNER H. V. Gates of Heppner Light & Water Co., Makes Proposition to City. To the Mayor c! Heppner, O'egon: .lutt after th- !ne of July 4cn and being among a number of citizens discussing the necessity of a hotel, I said to one of them "Buy the water works and I will build a hotel" since then quite a number have asked me if I would. There fore I am answering the question so often asked me, and I will be repaid if it does no more good than to spur the people of Heppner to some kind of action that will terminate in the building of a hotel and re lieve the present distressing con dition. Several existing conditions In Heppner consist of the following: 1st. Heppner is without sufficient hotel accomodations; If it is to prosper it ' must have them iu .quantity and quality to meet all demands. It can secure quantity through the construction of a lot of cheap shacks. If It Is to have quality, now, with a clear field, is the time to provide for such a hotel; it should have all conditions of capacity, quantity, safety from flood or fire and for the present or future demands of the public. It 3hould be attractive to the traveling public as well as an advertisement for the City. 2nd. Construction now, with a scarcity of labor and material, and war prices for both, will increase the cpst of building at least forty percent above normal or pre-war costs, every dollar put Into building now, will, after the war, have a value of only sixty cents. The shrinkage on . building costing, $60,000 would be 124,000, having a value after war conditions are ended, of -only $36,000. Increased taxes, war demands. cost of building; financial conditions could not be worse, and it is for these reasons that none have come forward to even suggest a way to finance the undertaking of a hotel. Another problem for Heppner to settlo Is a water supply now and for future. Present conditions are: 1st. Present supply Inadequate and very expensive to procure. The supply can be increased" by using more wells, but as a penalty of in creased cost of operation .and water rates for all patrons. It is, or should be, a well known fact that any cost of operating a utility must be borne by its patrons; if they refuse, then it must go into bankruptcy, and then, by order of the Courts or the Public Service Commission, the patrons must pay. 2nd. The only other supply is on Willow Creek, 20 miles from Hepp ner. This supply would flow by gravitation to Heppner, this supply is, at a minimum flow, amply suf ficient for a City of 2,000 and It can be easily augmented by using a con servation reservoir on Ditch Creek and Bupply a City of 5,000. For de creased cost of operation and a plentiful supply of pure water. Wil low Creek must and will be the future source of supply. 3rd. Any further expenditures for new wells, or pumping machin ery uses, (at practically a loss), an investment that could and should be applied on the Willow Creek pro ject. 4th. All medical and engineering experts; all public Service Com missions, and all who make a study of the protection to health and property, manufacturing, and beau tifying the City, unite in recommend ing City ownership and operation of water works. The Willow Creek supply should be developed by tile City. Among other reasons are, that it could secure funds for con struction at a lower rate of interest than the private utility can; lower rate of interest lowers cost of opera tion, tending to lower water rates. 5. The present water works would be the, distribution system for the City just as it is now. The Public Service Commission engineers have inspected, tested and valued it and they report it is well planned and constructed; that the reservoirs are in the right location for the future; that the water mains are well plan ned and hydrants well located; that the pressure from reservoirs is good for both domestic and fire use; and, that any failure to put them to such use would be a deficient fire depart ment; the wells and pumping equipment would always be and are (Continued on Page Eight)