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P.m;k FOUR THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HKPPNKK. ORKOOX. THI KSIIM . JAM ARY Ifl, 1019. T.i GA2ETTE-TIMES; The Heppner itajrett. Established March 30, 1SS3. The Heppner Times, Establinhed November IS, 1S97. Consolidate! February IB, 1911 Published every Thursday morning by Vawter Craword and Spencer Crawford and entered at the Postofflc at Hepp ner, OieRon. as second-elasa matter. AH K.HT1MM1 RATES GIVES OS APPLICATION SCHSCKU'TIUN RATES; O. Year - M-M Bix Months 1$0 Three Months .... SirEle Copies....- 05 HIIHHilW COl XTY OFFICIAL PAPKH XO SLOBHEMNG. Every mail and cable almost brings uew evidence of the wonder ful a eition the Hun is suddenly bearing or the American people. He says he loves us nearly as ardently as he hated us a few weeks since Hi has a love niit us that would be touching, were it not so evidently inspired by self-interest. "When do we eat?" That great Hun query may explain a lot of affection. We do not believe in kicking 'em when they are down or in rubbing the skinned nose of a prostrate foe in the gravel. NEITHER do we make it a practice to make pets of skunks that we trap in the hen house. A trapped skunk is a rather pitiable object. BUT he still has his scent bag. And, since it took forty years to make the Hun. It may take as much as forty minutes to unmake him. At least we think so. tt BRING BACK OUR HOOVER So"me people may not appreciate the work of Mr. Hoover but the Am erican farmers are about to rise in their places and sing, "Bring Back My Hoover To Me." Though, until a few days ago, a number of American farmers may not have thought much of Hoover. But when the food administration lifted the milling regulations the other day and allowed the American millers to go as they please, and charge as they desired, the rural contingent woke up with a yell. The first thing the millers did was to boost. the price of mill feeds from five- -eighteen dollars a ton. Mil-feed s are the by-products from the wheat. They form the basic feeds for the dairy and stock-raising industries. To boost these feeds from fifteen to fifty per cent in an afternoon over the entire country, and that Wag 'what was done, Meant that hundreds of thousands of farmers saw their winter's profits pocketed in a day, and pocketed by the millers, because farmers and dairymen must have mill feeds if they feed their stock. In time the poor city consumer will foot the bill, also the farmers will cut down their (locks and droves and herds by the hundred thousand, but for some months, the farmer will carry the burden and bear the loss. Only the work of Hoover pre vented this sort of thing the last two yeara-, and not only enabled the farm er to live, and the consumer to get foodstuffs at a reasonable price, but enabled the nation of workers to have butter and milk and wheat flour and sugar AT ALL. Uncle Sairi let Hoover go away from his job too soon. As the tables of the nation will show in three months or less if the millers and the packers and the commission men are given full sway as of old. WOOL INDUSTRY TO BE SAFE-GUARDED Western wool men were en couraged by government solicitation and the inducement of war prices to increase their flocks and they are now seeking protection from a spec ulative movement to drive down prices, in which imports and govern ment holdings are being used to try and accomplish disastrous results in the wool industry, and that is vital to the whole nation. With the beginning of the year the war industries board has gone out of existence and marks, the end of government control but this does not mean the industry shall not get favorable consideration. A bill has been introduced in Con gress to give the President power to fix rates of duty arbitrarily to prevent slumping markets against I its own supply and Incidentally pro-j tect Western growers. The work of the Boston Wool Trading Association is to be broad ened during the coming season and the warehousing system is to be con tinued for the protection of the growers. Under that system the grower con signs his wool to where it is sorted, graded and baled, and then sold for him on guaranteed samples in some thirty varieties. The grower gets all there is in his wool and has every incentive to grade up his flocks and permanently improve his holdings, while the evils' of speculation are eliminated. AGRICULTURAL LABOR PROBLEM j For the development of the re , sources of the West nothing would , help so much as an abundance ol available farm labor, j By this is not meant school child ren, women, store clerks, city bums, i tramps or labor that must be forced j to work. Organized labor, composed of ! skilled men and women in the trades union would lose nothing from , abundant farm labor. San Francisco labor leaders are said to be dissatisfied with the out come of the farm labor conference held in the Ferry building recently. It is said that the conference was dominated by farm interests that were not Inclined to give the work ers the consideration labor men should have been given. In spite of the apparent increasing degree of unemployment in cities the conference maintained that there is and will be a shortage of farm labor. The conference went on record to petition Congress to remove all bars to immigration in order that unrestricted immigration may flow into the United States. The American Federation of Labor will oppose any legislation in this direction. As it stands, organized labor uses the high cost of living to keep wages at a figure so high no farmer can afford to employ it, and the cost of farm production cannot come down without a larger supply of cheaper farm labor. The Manufacturer. WORLD TRADE GROWTH LN A CENTURY The chief causes of the growth of international commerce from, less than $2,000,000,000 in 1818, to ap proximately $50,(y0Q,00Q,0Q9 in 19 18, is discussed in a statement made pubile by the National City Bank of New York. Growth iu population, cheapening in transporta tion, and a division of labor among groups of men the world over were, according to the bank, the chief causes of this expansion. "We can scarcely realize," the statement said, "that man, who had. only been able to build up a world trade of $2,000,000,000 a year in all the centuries of his life upon the globe, should have suddenly in one century, increased it to $50,000,000, 000. When Daniel Dod, a Virginia engine builder, came in 1818 to New York, then holding only 60,000 people, filled with the idea titafc te could build an engine which wonlA drive a vessel across the Atlantic, and persuaded Francis Fickel to build the ship for him, they jointly laid one section of the foundation for the tremendous growth Qf world commerce. The others are (fee rail roads, the telegraphs, the telephones, and. the financial and banking sys tems, "It was just 100 years ago that the little ' steamer, the Savannah, built in New York for the tatas atlantlc experiment, passed out oi New York to Savannah, Ga., which port it left a few months later on Us successful venture across the ocean, to which the steamship was, up to that time, unknown. By 1850 world International trade had grown to $4,000,000,000; by 1900 it was $.28, 000,000,000; 1913, $40,000&QUi,CrM, and in the vear just ending aggre gated probably $50,,0a0,.Q0u.u6 when measured in the inflaietf cur rency of the present period. Mean time world railways had grown to 725,000 miles. It is difficult to realize that only 100 years ago the world had no steamship crossing the ocean, not a mile of railway or a foot ot telegraph or ocean 'cable, while as for telephones, wireless tel egraphy,, or flying machines, they are the product of the present genera tion." 5-1 No long-winded editorials are nec essary to convince the people of Heppner that it Is the- proper and necessary thing for them to take over the city water works. Mr. Gates has made a fair proposition and one that was worthy of the attention given it by the council, but there is just one thing to do, and only one, and. that is to own the plant outright. We shall have to spend a lot of good money to get water from the mountains and it is not too soon to get down to brass tacks and tackle the job. Heppner will have to wake up, and that right quick, If she regains a lot of her lost prestige. In this matter of getting an adequate water supply there is no room left for extensive arguments. The time has come to act. ' tt Heppner's schools will not open be fore the first Monday in February, and possibly not then, it will depend entirely on what the Influenza sltua- tlon is at that time. The city health authorities are trying to get the up per hand of the epidemic, and are be ginning to do so. They are satisfied that the return of children to school too soon after getting over the dis-' ease was the means of spreading the epidemic the second time through the school and they will not run this riskl again. We shall have to be patient in this regard and trust to the good judgment of those who SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNTY 'IERK OF MOR ROW COUNTY FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1918. Disbursements from General Fund: Joads and Highways .$28,346.03 Registration and Election 1,754.42 County Court and Commissioners 622.40 Sheriff's Office . 2,075.87 Clerk's Office 2,2!U.5J) Treasurer's Office 288.71 Assesor's Office 1,898.05 School Supt. Office 1,045.58 Court House . 1,585.98 Coroner's Office 158.15 Widows Pensions 690.00 District Sealer of Weights and Measures 1 57.91 Poor 114.60 "ounty 287.1 Circuit Court 298.90 Justice Court 363.75 District Atty. . 64.20 Advertising 130.00 Current Expense 521.88 Jail, Board of Prisoners 85.15 State Library 168.85 Water Master 20.15 Health Officer 27.00 Tax Rebate . . 94.30 County B'air Expense 1,937.94 War Fund 784.15 Heppner Fire Relief ' 200.00 Auditing of County Books 310.00 Boys & Girls Aid Society, Portland 36.00 County Physician 60.00 County Agriculturist : 750.00 Emergency Fund - oO.OO Prohibition Fund 18.00 Lavatory at Fair Grounds 1,016.50 Warehouse Guard ' - 200.00 Total Disbursements from General Fund $48,553.06 Disbursements from Road Fund: For Roads and Highways - $ 53,097.82 Tom Arnold, who farms an exten- A. C. Allison and son were in from sive tract of land on Eight Mile, Butter- preek on Monday. ventured to Heppner Wednesday.! , , ... , . . . . , . I Tyndal Roblson, wheat farmer of neignoornood Has escaped the: Eighl MlBi was a business visitor In flu epidemic so far. ' (Heppner on Tuesday. Total, General and Road Claims $101,651.88 Summary of Warrant Account! Outstanding General Fund Warrants June 30, 1918 445.78 Outstanding General Road Warrants June 30, 1918. 525.32 General Fund Warrants Issued July 1 to Dec. 31 48,553.06 Road Fund Warrants Issued July 1 to Dec. 31 .... 53,097.82 Total $102,621.98 General Fund Warrants' Paid, July 1, to Dec. 31 $ 36,555.53 Road Fund Warrants Paid, July 1, to Dec. 31 52,73.89 Outstanding General Fund Warrants Dec. 31, 1918- 12,443.31 Outstanding General Road Warrants Dec. 31, 1918 849.25 Total - - - $102,621.98 Amounts on hand in various funds Dec. 31, 1918., General County Fund 1 - $ 557.10 Special Road Funds u,wa.w General School -- High School -- 1,626.53 Union High School m.ti Trust Fund - 341.45 Indemnity Fund - I2-00 Indigent Soldiers Herd Law Fund l4 35 Prohibition Fund - - 455.70 Fire Patrol Fund - 85.28 Irrigation Fund - 96-00 City of Heppner - - 1,694.17 City of Hardman 34-04 City of lone - - 488-54 City of Lexington - - m 70.30 Special School Districts of County 7,885.04 Peoples Cash Market FRESH AND CURED MEATS POULTRY AND FISH C. D. Watkins, Prop 'r Heppner, Oregon FOR INCOME TAX INFORMATION SEE Farmers' Exchange of The Inland Empire Rooms 5 and 6, Roberts Bid., Heppner, Ore. - F. R. BROWN, Manage I SHOULD CALL ON dim mm Total .$53,017.38 State of Oregon, County of Morrow, as. I, J. A. Waters, County Clerk of Morrow County, Oregon do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct ac ,mt nf th claims allowed bv the County Court of Morrow County; the funds on which same were drawn, and the amount of outstanding warrant not paid, tor tlie six montns enuing Dec. 31, 1918. Also a statement of the amounts on hand in the various funds Dec. 31, 1918. In Testimony Wheivof, I have Hereunto set my nana aim official Seal this 11th day of January, 1919. J. A. WATERS, County Clerk. (SEAL) Oregon' legislature convened on Monday and are now busy with their work of, grinding out laws (or the re gulation of our citizenship. W. T Vinton was chosen president of the senate and Seymour Jones, speaker of the homse of representatives. Our own Mr. Woodson has been appoint ed oa several of the important com mittees and we confidently look for ward to his making a fine record In the legislative halls at Salem. Thanks, Pat. Line in Tuesday's Herald: "Tlme3 are giving Want Ads Get Results. Try Them." their time and energy Jto the wiping Yo bet they do; this has been out of the plague. The children are proven time and time again. Here all young and will have plenty of Is just -whee people get results for time to make up wnat they will have; their advertising, and we thank Bro. lost by reason, of the enforced vaca-j Pat for calling attention to the fact tion in a prominent way. NOTICK TO C'KKDITORS. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the County Court of the State of Oregon for Morrow County adminis trator of the estate of Joseph A. Hughes, deceased, and that all per sons having claims against the said estate must present the same, duly verified according to law, to me at Heppner, Oregon, within six months from the date of the first publication of this notice, said date of first publication being Jan. 16, 1919. JOHN L. HUGHES. Administrator. FOR YOUR inr o o fn i ifuv fc? IU JL I, IU I WE CARRY CHOICE GOODS H. M. Olden, who farms a lot of good land In the' Fairview section, was doing business at Heppner Mon sweat" 1! mm POULTK AT THE HEPPNER MEAT MARKET H. C. ASHBAUGH, Proprietor. 1111 A w I'lU eats and ffl IM&Mi FRESH AND CURED MEATS, POULTRY AND LARD. FISH IN SEASON. Finest quality meats at the lowest possible price. Phone Main 203
