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THE G AZKTTE-T IMES, HF.rPXER, OREGON, THVRSD AY, FEBRUARY 13, 1I0.
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J h:i:ii i ,!:: .on;it. r is to !iave thrv
f er -!a . -ivp in a'l. i:,icli of the
'- r : Oi!ators w iil have a prominent
ft'ir.n i ; i airmanship, bin will not
a! u apiI t.i sor--e .is a n.nfrree cn
iv.y v it r. v. r.ii:re-. I. unroot, of
f r;ih: Xi)rris,
Cummins, of Iowa:
i'1'.io: Knox, of IVnn
il Halo, of Maine, have
k. on a:: ,-vi to j,;:t the plan into full!
.e ti6inni:ig of the!
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Uardi
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'oulv because of the honor he has methods of decentralization of con-
heen cIiom'H to fill. He will receive trol to do away with the bitternesses
an emolument if fl-.i""1. as com-'of factionalism and to make possible
pared to the JT.Sihi paid his col-! a united effort on the part of all the
ieasues Hut both he and they, be- members to work for beneficial re
fuse i f the new" ease ami celerity of ! construi tion legislation w ithout re
piocednre, without diiliculty of gain-j sard to any class or section of the
ins 'lie roerenhnm of the chair, w ill country, tc make themselves popular
be thus easily subject to the demands j w ith each other and the nation, and
of public opinion, it is declared. to make it impossible for the Dem
it is the expressed intention of the:ociats to say in the future that the
Republicans in both Senate and Republicans are less democratic in
House in the new Congress by these their legislative methods.
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IVvteiitx ('oi lier on I'iuiuhs.
As ; u -t-ift of .hi;, n is thought it
til! II, t he passible t'er it to be said
lust t e '.e;.;;b!ii an party in its re
lurn i p er is to L:e held under the
direct; n ia t;:e striate of a few men.
heil i :;; e;,rs, who liail from any
f arlii ; !.-.i e ?i;m i f the country. It
ass. rted o Moses and Hale that
ne ct the principal causes of the
efeai of the Democrats at the last
tleetii ;i was t'.ie oligarchic cornering
y the southern "hog combine" of
onm'..:tee ci airmanships w hich en
abled it to discriminate against wheat
od iu favor of cotton and to deluge
5i;e S.uith w lt'ii appropriations for
ulitary cantonments and munition
Isntr.
In the Hm.-e. too, the Republicans
re preparin.g to do away with this
domination o: the South, and to
iake the speaker a isssened force in
i making of laws. The srreat fight
ever toe Keed rules in the insurgency
days tinder "I'ncle Joe" Cannon
irouKht about the selection of a
Committee on Committees which took
from the speaker the controlling in
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Our city cousins are spending their
w inter evenings dreaming back-to-the
land dreams, talking about "three
acres and independence." and pictur
ing the easy, toil-free life of the Hon
of the soil. And some of them are
ecniing out to farms to try their
hand at making green things grow.
They are restless under their burden
of indoor work and the high cost of
living, and next summer's farm
work seems mighty pleasant when
one is sitting by his hot air register
cn a cold night.
City papers have printed interest
ing stories of men and women who
left city employment to make for
tunes in fields of grain and pens of
pigs. City folk read about billion-
. ... , a ?uar w neat crops, minions mane in
" .'" " '"-"'"-. snip oi,(vni cott011i livestock and
111 committee:, and therefore in
fcrgely determining the character of
lha 1,. . j i...
u or re- , the tami,.
ruiuM invtran.y cut ot tneni. While
tncle Joe is now- regarded
lavuiT made an excel lent nni:p
id while he was subject to removal
U any time by a majority in the
House, there is no tendency on the
art of the Republican.-! to ip to
Hie i.iU way of doing i hiuss.
Speaker Clark and the Democrats,
tth the South .a control, have
iiapeu legh-Iat;,.:- -.. i li a view to
t&eir own interests quite as much
throug'i ti.e siiiai :!iimjer of men
a the Committee in t'oiiiniit.ees to
as. g. .at an extent anl therefore, it Is
trged by the Republicai.s, cs much to
Cie detriment of the country, as tno -
farmers
rolling in wealth as they carry the
, day's butter at.d esgs to the market
nousine.
' Easy U get along on the farm,"
as I they conclude.
The United States Department of
of making a comfortable living.
Many are now planning to leave
their city homes with a few dollars in
their pockets. There will be many
failures among them. Some are com
ing with enough capital to get well
started. They will thrive if capital
is combined with learning and energy.
Naturally, every person who leaves
the city forthe farm, thinks he can
make good on the land. Thinking
so doesn't, however, make it so. The
average city-bred mail is a poor
farmer. He cannot stand farm work
as well as he stood shop or office
work. And it requires as much
agricultural knowledge to be a suc
cessful farmer as legal education to
be a money-making lawyer.
Herbert Quick, member of the
United States Farm Loan Commis
sion, is the foremost farm student
who opposes the flow of city-bred
men to farms. He insists that no
man without farm experience should
assume the responsibility of owning
and managing his own farm. Quick
believes that city workers should
first serve an apprenticeship as farm
A YORI OK WARXIXG.
j In a statement received by the
J Collector t f Internal Revenue, Mil
! ton A. Miller, from Commissioner
i Daniel C. Roper, taxpayers are
'cautioned against allowing them
j selves to be imposed upon by
jstrangers who claim to be "Income
j Tax Kxperts." They should dis
criminate carefully between really
i helpful, authoritative advice in tax
matters, and irresponsible advice.
Mr. Roper states further that the
bureau is arranging to furnish for
the benefit of Income Tax payers in
every city and town in the country, a
free advisory service by trained
collectors, agents. Inspectors and
deputies. At the offices of Collectors
and their Deputies and at other
central points, free information and
advice with respect to filmg returns
under the new Revenue Bill may be
had up to the final date for fiiling
such returns.
Ranks, Trust Companies and sim
ilar responsible institutions have
always cooperated in furnishing au
thentic Income Tax information, and
have generously offered to serve the
government and taxpayers in this
respect again this year. It is the
aim of the Bureau to bring its
agencies as close as possible to every
person and to make available in
official form all necessary informa
tion regcrding the requirements of
the law. The Bureau welcomes aid
from every responsible agency in its
efforts to enlighten the people on tax
matters.
Kvory taxpayer Is assured of a
square deal from the Government
based entirely on the tax lews and
regulations and the facts in his case.
No other influence is allowed to enter
into Internal Revenue matters and
Agriculture has learned that farm i laborers, and that city women should
start in the kitchen of a farmer's
wife's home. Both husband and
wife thus would learn farming from
the bottom up.
"You can't learn farming from the
top down," Quick asserts.
Those city people who are having
their annual winter farming dreama
would do well to write Quick or the
United States Department of Agri
culture setting forth their qualifica
tions, resources, knowledge, and then
let a farming expert decide whether
wages Increased 64 per cent in 14
years.
CiMes are worrying about unem
ployment problems.
, Ail theoe things are joining hands
i bring a growing bark-to-the-soil
army from practically every large
city. And nothing farmers can say
'.'iil step C oir. They'll come, the
man and woman who never saw a
farm, and men ind women who
Imagine a farmer lets nature do all
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wigiu nave none nad tne speaker the Solue wUo kll0W agriculture will ! they should stick to the city or tackle
lull power he had in fcrmer times, j come . xhev will make good. Some agriculture.
To offset this the Republicans have j who are ambitious to work and learn , There would be tewer failures
amed a Steering Committee, com- will come. They stand a good chance among ex-city men farmers then.
rtu vi judun, 01 Illinois; Moore, or
Pennsylvania; Anderson, of Minne
ota; Gillett, of Massachusetts, and
fcondell, of Wyoming. A similar
tommittee will be continued during
ISie next session, to confer with the
speaker regularly and to see that the
ork of one committee does not over
bp tjjat of any other. It will go be
for.d the functions of the Committee
n Committees, which selects the
eiembership of all the committees,
sad of the Committee on Rules,
nhich frames the order of business
f the House, and do what its name
fadfoUes: steer bills on an even
totirj through the hands of the
tsembers and the committees to en
actment. WiJl Advise With Members.
It is likely that the hew speaker,
Iioeviv he may be, will also have
6out him, in addition to the commit
tas mentioned, ( personal advisers
horn he will consult from time to
time in regards to methods and pro
dure. He will therefore be even
less of a czar than now. The great
the statement of any firm or in
dividual that they are in a position
to exert special influence with In
ternal Revenue oflicers is wholly
without foundation in fact. Pains
taking and opeu-minded considera
tion is given in every case regardless-
of whether the taxpayer appears in
person or by attorney.
Firms or other persons who offer
to prosecute claims against the Gov
ernment can secure no special con
sideration beyond the merits of the
claims as determined by the facts and
the law.
Any former Government officer or
employee Is barred by statute from
actitjg as counsel attorney or agent
for prosecuting claims against the
i T'nlifiH Smtoc which tt-ArA nenilintr
while lie was an officer or employee;
and is also barred from aiding in any
manner the prosecution of such
claims within two years after leaving
the Government service.
Very Respectfully,
MILTON A. MILLER,
Collector.
Home Portraiture
Portraits taken in the home are often more natural
and pleasing than when taken in the studio.'
Until the 1st of March the people of Ileppner
can have pictures taken in their own homes at any
time.
MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR THE BABY
C. S. Reeves
Room Barnard s Lodging House.
MARKET DAY
MOXKY NO OBJECT.
It was not so many years ago that
a $100 hog was a neighborhood
scandal.
Nine farmers In ten then would
consider a man unbalanced, possess
ing more money than sense, who
would pay one hundred real dollars
for a single hog.
In skimming through some recent
sales of breeding stock, taken hap
hazard over two thousand miles of
country, we gather items like these:
The 1917 grand champion of the
national swine show sells for $2600.
Breeder refuses $2500 for a young
ffice once held by Clay, Blaine, sow.
Carlisle, Crisp, Reed and Cannon will In reports of a dozen mid-winter
ht almost entirely a parliamentary sales the lowest price for young
e. It will be exceedingly difficult .stock was $52, the average was near
for the new speaker to either run his er $100 a head, and dozens of hogs
arty in the. House or in any way gold for prices above the $500 mark, good business; for a single registered
directly manipulate the making of j One breeder announces disposing sire will return several times his
tiws. He will still be a decidedly im-j of three hogs at private sale; one cost in a single breeding season in
ortant influence when his argument; brought $5500; another $2000; the the increased size, improved form
fc heard on the floor, but that will be third, $1050. and ease of fattening of his progeny.
A thousand dollars Is hardly an
average price for a proven noar in
the championship class.
Ten thousand dollars has been
paid for a single heg in the past
year; probably more, for our reading
of hogology Is but 'casual.
The point is that this country has
in a decade become the chief hog
breeding spot on earth.
Not only does the nation lead in
strictly American breeds, like the
Chester White and the Poland China,
but in imported breeds like the
Berkshire and Tamworth American
breeders no longer need to go abroad
for fancy foundation stock.
A pig is no longer just a pig.
He Is more likely to be worth
$1000 and to be housed in a better
home than the average farm family
dwelt in when dad was a boy.
And these fancy prices are proven
AUCTION
SALE
Morrow County Fair Grounds
FRIDAY, February 21st, 19
WE CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE DATE OF THE SALE ON FRIDAY
THIS MONTH ON ACCOUNT OF SATURDAY BEING A HOLIDAY. SALE
BEGINS AT 1 P. M. SHARP.
All articles listed before Monday, February 17, will appear in the advertising.
THE FOLLOWING LIST IS OFFERED FOR SALE:
2 Geldings, 4-7 yr. old. Wt. 12-1500.
8 mares, 3-7 yrs. old. Wt. 11-1500.
Bred to registered Pereheron
horse, service fee paid.
10 3-months old pigs.
1 Piano.
1 Heating stove,
i China closet.
1 Bed stead.
1 Writing desk.
5 Kocking chairs.
1 Refrigerator.
2 Small tables.
Other small articles of household
furniture too numerous to men
. tion.
TERMS $10.00 and under, cash; balance 6 months on approved notes at 8 percent.
Farmers Exchange of the Inland Empire
Heppner, Oregon
F. A. McMENAMIN, Auctioneer F. B. BROWN, Manager.
The HEPPNER GARAGE
23J Cents Per EaMm
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THE machine and repair shops of this Garage are now in charge of Messrs.
RIVERS & ACKLEY, men who thoroughly understand the business.
All accessories, tires and car sales business continued under old management.
ALBERT BOWKER, Proprietor