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Public Auditorium y
vol.. 32, wo. as.
HEPPXER, OKE., THUR8DAV, NOVEMBER 81, !!.
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LOCAL REO
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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