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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.
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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.
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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
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.$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.
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