fi.tTTTTTVnMTtt. HEPFVER, OREGON, THTRSDAY, MARCH fl, 1919.
THE GAZETTE-TIMES
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March JO, 188J.
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KKKP A ST1FK ITPKR LIP.
American Industries are going
through a more revere trial since
the signing of the armistice than tti
ny time since the beginning of the
war.
It takes a str;ne heart and a clear
visioil into the tium-i to face flip
situation cheerfully.
On the one hand eommouUy prlc"?
dropped oventi-M while cost of
operation remained at the war figure
ud Gtiiiaud fell to zero. Coupled
Vitli this, heavy tax payments are
now coining due with a fifth na
tional loan following in April. In th
meantime business has been stand
ing still pending settlement of peace
terms.
A pessimist can paint a gloomy
picture but one cannot afford to be a
messimift. now. Insterd. forget for a
minute this critical period through
which we are now passing and look
into the future.
' Take vour own home as an
example. Nine chances to one you
have been delaying repairs and im-
Drovemeut8 for from two to five
years due to war conditions, high
rnst nf material and labor.
The condition which prevails in
your home prevails In other homes
and in every industry from the larg
est to the smallest. In development
enterprises of all kinds both public
and nrivate to say nothing of the
empty cupboards and storehouses of
Europe.
Prices and wages are both drop
ping from war to a peace basis and
nothing can stop them. The sooner
industry and labor uecognize this
fact and cooperate to that end the
sooner will the readjustment be
completed.
Spring is coming and with the
signing of peace and final removal
of war restrictions and regulations
of industry business must inevitably
begin to pick up.
From all indications the darkest
hour has passed and we are about to
enter the first stretch of a wonderful
period of developmont and expansion.
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WILL AW A K EX PUBLIC
INTEREST.
After March 15, next, virtually
every individual and every Industry
will more fully realize what taxation
means. Heretofore its burdens have
rested lightly upon the average
citizen and touched only those with
larger Incomes.
Timps have changed and it is a
man with a small business indeed
who does not come under the $1000
nr J2000 exemDtion clause while the
profits of a large business or income
are taken up to as high as 80 per
cent.
Just what the effect on industry
will be, of this heavy taxation, it is
hard to say but the general im
pression prevails that it will retard
expansion and development to a con
siderable extent.
One ereat eood should come from
tim hiirh taxes necessitated by the
war, the tax problem will be brought
home to every family in America and
as a result there will be a general
demand for economy and efficient
administration in public affairs both
state and national, in order to
lighten the tax burden as much as
possible. Manufacturer.
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The season has arrived that the
housewife is thinking of getting the
lawn and garden in shape. You are
planning on sowing that lawn grass
seed and shaping up your premises
and having things look pretty. Now
this is all nice enough, and is the
right kind of spirit and you should
be encouraged to at least make the
attempt. Put the seed in the ground
after getting it in ship shape; we
guarantee that in most instances the
Beed will come up your neighbor's
hens will look after that. Say,
folks, it is about time to think about
penning up all those energetic
biddies that are now poaching on
your neighbors. Take care of them
in good tight pens. Chickens are all
right in their place, but they cer
tainly do raise Cain with gardens
and lawns. We hereby declare war
on the whole !rihe and shall
advocate total extinction of the
species.
HOME MADE BREAD.
Probably the day is coming when
we will be quite passe to talk
of "bread as mother used to
bake." It may be more up-to-the-minute
to compare the bread under
observation or conversation to the
"bread Minnesota makes."
For Minnesota is the champion, A
No. 1, leading home-made bread
state of all the 48. So announces the
U. S. Department of Agriculture's
office of Information.
Ponnnvlvania was, for years and
years, the state in which the home
oven was kept busiest, but gradually
Pennsylvania turned more toward
coke and less toward bread ovens.
Minnesota reached third place three
years ago, and now is first. Figures,
just published, indicate more loaves
of homemade bread made by Minne
sota housewives than by the house
wives of any other state in 191S.
Minnesota fathers, brothers, hus
bands and sons, are to be congratu
lated! They, more than the men of
other states can boast of the BREAD
THAT MOTHER MAKES. Minne
sota mothers must be making good
bread, else there wouldn't be such a
wholesale demand for it.
However, let's give the credit to
where it's due. Give it to the
thousands of Minnesota girls who
joined the breadtnaklng clubs
nourishing ail over the state, as they
ought to flourish in every state, and
every section of eery state. There
are now 16.030 girl members of the
Minnesota clubs sixteen thousand
girls becoming past masters in the
art (: binr ' read as mother used
PORK PACKERS MERE PIKERS.
The profits of the Federal reserve
banks for the past year make the so
called "profiteering" corporations
look like pikers. The New York
bank made net earnings of 109 per
cent.
Would somebody please advise
how much of this is paid back to the
government in the form of taxes such
as are imposed on other lines of in
dustry, including private banks.
Manufacturer.
SAM HACKBERRY SPEAKS.
"I don't explain it Dut I've dis
covered that next to doing a thing
yourself the surest way of finding out
something is to enqiure of the feller
who has something to sell you."
"That sounds all mixed up," we
countered.
"Not half as much as the facts,"
said Uncle Sam.
"You see we hired a county agent
a while back who was supposed to
either know everything about farm
ing, or to go and find out.
"And who was going to redeem our
entire valley from its agricultural
sins.
"And so, when he had got well into
his nice seat down at the county
courthouse, I up and writ him a speel
about some things I wanted to know
about this new fangled farming."
I knew Uncle Sam was sarcastic
then, for there isn't a keener, more
up-to-the-minute farmer than he in
the county.
"And so I writ him about what
fertilizer to use, and where to get it,
and how much it would cost.
"And about how to pjit lime on
clover.
"And about phosphate, and how to
dig a ditch with powder.-
"And what about spraying them
old apple trees of mine that's been
gettin' tiredcr and tireder every
year until last year they nigh quit
bearing anything but tent cater
pillars, and wooly bugs and green
lice and sich.
"And I waited four weeks and
then I got a note from him sayin
that he had writ to Washington re
garding some of my queries and
when advised by the department
would inform me.
"Meanwhile I had writ two fer
tilizer concerns, and four powder
people, and a spray pump outfit, and
a lime plant or two and I had enough
books and letters and general mail
matter to start a correspondence
school.
"And it all came by return mail at
that.
"The feller who expects to see you
come back with a dollar sure gives
service, my son."
Good morning. Have you paid
your taxes yet?
A Dink receipt from the Sheriff
will be evidence that you are in
good standing with Morrow county
Savings And Comfort.
Higher rates of wages paid during
the war have opened to workers the
choice of various new standards of
action they cannot all be called
standards of "living."
The near-sighted have used their
unusual wages to indulge in all sorts
of extravagance which gave little
real ' satisfaction and contributed
nothing to permanent family sta
bility. Where they are not harming
themselves, they are cultivating
tastes which they cannot hope per
manently to gratify.
Others, the far-sighted ones, have
used their increase in wages to im
prove their comfort up to the full
efficiency point for tnemselves and
their families, and are thinking care
fully before they spend their surplus.
Many are investing wisely in homes
or working other well-considered investment-purchases.
The wisest of all are putting a
large share of their earnings into
Savings Stamps or savings banks to
provide for necessities that may
arise, and particularly to establish
a "turn around" fund that will
enable them to meet more com
fortably any changes in business or
employment that may result from
post-armistice conditions.
These far-sighted people have
taken the war, end its unusual op
portunities for earning, very serious
ly; just as they did not expect t.ir
war to last always, they have no!
banked on war conditions in em
ployment enduring indefinitely. They
are ready for the future. If wage.
keep up, they are still so much
ahead of the game.
The school authorities of . the
country were, urged to join in the
government campaign to make
thrift a happy national habit in a
telegram sent by Secretary Glass of
the Treasury Department to the Na
tional Educational Association in
convention at Chicago. Secretary
Glass asked that the teaching of
thrift be made a. part of the school
curriculum during 1919.
The telegram reads as follows:
"To the members of the National
Educational Association assembled at
Chicago I wish to extend the sincere
appreciation of the Treasury Depart-
ment for the assistance rendered bv
the members of the teaching pro-)
fersion in the Liberty Loan and Warj
Savings campaigns during the past
year. I
"Besides being of immediate value i
In meeting tho financial needs of the j
government these campaigns have;
been of permanent value to. the I
country in .encouraging habits of
wise spending, intelligent saving and
investment. These habits of saving
and patriotism, eucouraged and
stimulated by the necessities of the
war will have a great permanent
value to the country if applied to its
development In time of peace.
"The teachers of the country by
their daily contact with the children
who are to be its future citizens can
do much to influence them in teach-.
ing good citizenship and thrift. It is
therefore my earnest request that the
school authorities throughout the
country incorporate the teaching of
'hrift in the school curriculum for
1919. 1
CARTER GLASS.
THE FEDERATED CHURCH.
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.
International Lesson Topic "Jos
hua, Patriot and Leader."
Morning Service, 11:00.
Sermon Theme, "Morale."
The Christian Endeavor and even
ing services will be combined. The
C. E. Society will have charge of the
service which will be held at 7:30
p. m.
Loader, Elizabeth Phelps.
Topic, "A Prohibition Jubilee."
An excellent program has been ar
ranged. Come out, old and young,
and enjoy it.
H. A. NOYES, Pastor.
Chas. Vaughn left this morning
for Portland, and from there he will
go to Dayton, Ohio as a guest of the
manufacturers of the Delco Light
ing System, for which Vaughn &
Sons are the agents at Heppr.er. Mr.
Vaughn is one of fourteen agents
who will go to Dayton ' from the
states of Oregon and Washington as
winners in a sales competition put on
by the Company and they will join
with those of other states in a big
convention gathering in the eastern
city on the 14th of this month. They
expect a big time, as great plans
have been made by the Delco people
for their entertainment.
F. R. Brown of the Farmers Ex
change of the Inland Empire, re
turned from Portland on Tuesday.
He had been below for several days
attending a meeting of Canadian
Pacific land agents of Oregon and
Washington, of which his company
is one. Millions of acres of good
farm lands are owned by the
Canadian Pacific Railway in Alberta
and Saskatchewan, and a campaign
is being put on to interest settlers
in these lands. We call attention to
the advertisement of Mr. Brown in
another column.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Cochran of
lone were in Heppner on Monday.
They were accompanied by their son,
Walter, 'who Is home on a short fur
lough from the naval station at San
Diego, Calif. Walter has enjoyed
the training he has received anil says
it has been a fine experience, hut he
is now ready to retire to private life
again and will endeavor to get his
discharge. He has had some ex
perience on the seas but did not get
to go abroad.
Ernest Howell, son of Hank
Howell of this city, has received his
discharge from the Navy and arrived
at Heppner the first of the week,
coming direct from Norfolk, Va.,
naval station. The young man had
an interesting time of it and comes
home a fine specimen of physical
manhood.
Mrs. Celsus Kelthly is at the home
of W. L. Copenhaver near Swaggart
Buttes this week, where situ ia
nurfilne Mrs. Conenhaver throuirh a
spell of Influenza. Mrs. Copenhaver
has been very sick but is now re
ported to be improving.
Some eight carpenters arrived at
Heppner to begin work on Momhiy on
the various contracts of C. A. Lans
downe in this city.- Mr. Lansdowne is
now prepared to push his contracts to
rapid completion.
Frank Glasscock, young farmer of
the Hardman section, was in Heppner
yesterday.
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; Away
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Help Uncle Sam solve the Labor Question by starting that Home right away.
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