THE GAZETTK-TIMKS. HFPPXEU, OREGON, THl'RSD AY, MARCH 20, 1919. fAiiF. fcUiHI t'lmilor 11007 llesrrre District N. 1- KKrOUT OF THF. CONDITION OF THK Farmers & Slockgrowers National Bank AT ilMMWFK. IN THK STATE OE OKEtiON. AT THE CLOSE OE 1u s1nes on mkch 4, 1!m!. ki-:sovkces. Un:.- .iil discoiuus $270. 46-1. 7S Ovi r.i f:s. unsecured 665.42 T. S i- :.ds a:;.! r:itU-aie ( imlel'Ulncs owned ;:! tmpUHlsul 16,000.00 L:h r us an H r,.i. :;-., 4. ard 4 u per cent, iiu- p'.f.U.Hl 6,500.00 Sri u :-s ot'.er ti.au 1'. S. bonds t not iuelmlins r- O'-vnci ntii!otl,s:cil a.145.4 1 St. i; Federal I.eserve Ilank (50 p,r cent of sitb- s-ri;..j,n I. 1. 650.00 Pit-..if; e ami fix'ur.s . , 2,176. 2 La m-u :oscrve '. Federal Reserve Bank 16.3. 8.40 i"a. U i:i vault and ret annnmis due t'ro'.n aati.mal banks 23, 50?. 74 Net aoi' 'lints due from banks, bankers, and trust corn ea:.! s other than included in Items l'i or 15 1,379.05 T-."a: f two Item above. 1 $ 24.SS7.79 Clicks "ii banks leeated outside of city or town, of re- pi.rii'.g bank and other cash items 995.91 Interest '.urnc(i but not collected approximate on No't-s and 1 .ills Receivable not past due 4,778.74 War S.-.rhips Certificates and Thrift Stamps actually owi.ed 1.904.19 TOTAL - $351.547.22 - LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in - 50,000.00 Surnlus fund 10,000.00 Umlhidxl profits 7.699.67 Lcs current expenses, interest, and taxes paid 1,892.61 5,807.06 Net amounts due to national banks ' 9,372.10 Net amounts due to banks, bankers, and trust com panies 275.42 Certified checka outstanding 20.02 Gr.l.iei's checks on own bank outstanding 535.75 Total of Items 32, 33, 34 and 35 10,203.29 Individual deposits subject to check 218,904.62 Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other than ';;r money borrowed) 1,297.31 Total nf demand deposits (other than bank deposits) subject to Reserve 220,201.93 Ccrtifiea'es of deposit (other than for money bor rowed) - 25,024.63 Other time deposits ' 5,310.31 Total of time deposits subject to Re serve 30,334.94 Fills ;:ay;bl; other than with Federal Reserve Bank, including all ob'igatiui.s representing money bor rowed, other than rediscounts 25,000.00 TOTAL -' - S351.5-17.22 State of Oregon, County of Mhtov, rs. I, S. ". Spencar, Ca-shier of t.lie above-named bank, do solemnly swear tl at the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. ' S. V. SPENCER, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me tins 18th day of March, 1919. (SEAL) -IOS. J. NYS, Notary Public. My commission expires June 28th, 1919. CORRECT Attest: J. V. 3EYMER, JOS. M. HAYES, EMMET COCHRAN, Directors. HARNESS Tlu' re are still a few sots of that harness left from the Stock Yards Sale. These can be ordered through the FARMERS' EXCHANGE of the Inland Empire at the prices quoted the day of the sale. F. R. BROWN Roberts Building Heppner, Ore. "OPKX THK MILLS AMI NOT THE MINTS' ivers & Ackley Look for us in the repair shop of Heppner Garage. Best equipped machine and auto repair shop in Morrow County. We rebuild batteries, do Oxy-acetylene welding and all kinds of machine work and auto repairing, and guarantee all our work, A Trial is all We Ask We drive a Super-Six and will go any place any time. Rivers & Ackley PHONE MAIN 81 ""PRINTING THAT PLEASES" THE Gazette-Times Shop By Geo. B. Lock wood. Af a conference of mayors and s-'ate executives held at the White House this week, the question of employment for labor was discussed. Tho suggestions made from adminis trations quarters seemed to sn.uint mostly toward the idea of putting more people on the government pay roll, or supporting more voters by f deral. state or municipal enter prise. 'The welfare of labor in this country depends, as does the wel fare of every other element of the AmerieatCpeople, principally, upon two things; the immediate cessation of the long continued prgy of political extravagance which is adding to the daily living costs and heaping up future tax burdens for the peoplo, and. second, the removal from private business enterprise of the paralyzing S:aud of politics. The war has been over, in effect, for four months. Governmental ex penditures attributed to war are greater today than on the day the armistice was signed. The army of federal office holders has not begun to demobilize. Congress has con tinued to vote out. billions of . the people's money as if money grew on trees. A national administration which preaches thrift to the people practices waste on such a scale as was never before imagined in history. New political schemes, involving vast additional appropriations, are sorouted. They are proposed in the name of social betterment, but they involve the impoverishment of the people and the bankruptcy of their government unless they are halted, a prospect made more remote by the ocstponement of the date of assem bling a Congress elacted by the people partly in protest against the present administration's program of expropriation and appropriation. Tlie-people. are told by the dema gogues that the money the politicians are raising and spending unneces sarily comes out of the pockets of the rich and that it affords a means of redistributing- property. In the end the people as a whole must pay this bill. Land and labor produce all original values, land and labor, the farmer and the wage worker, must, finally rav the fiddler. The adminis tration sets the pace in extravagance and waste; the example is Imitated hv everv state, county, city and town ship in the land. The saturnalia of expenditure has caused an inflation of the currency, with vast incidental hardship to every person of fixed in come, or income incapable of in flation sufficient to keep pace with the activities of the political money spenders. And under this system i: dividual profiteering is so fostered that instead of the rich being made poorer and the poor richer, the iiumber of millionaires in the country has been doubled in two years, while the burdens of the consumer are in creased almost beyond endurance. Not satisfied with the oppor tunities for money spending "afforded by existing conditions, the politicals are reaching out Tor new worlds to jonquer. They would make the world their parish. They would organize a police force for the planet. They would extend tre fabric of jfficialism to envelop both hemi spheres. They would feed clothe, regulato and fight the battles of the entire earth. They act as if they .nought the resources of tho Ameri can people are without limit, and the possibilities of taxation have no boundaries. 1 There is a bottom to every meal barrel. There is an end to ever: purse. There are limits beyon. which the process of depleting th private payrolls to fatten the publi navrolls may not safely go. Think ing in billions is glorious for the pol Iticlans. but that sort of thinkiiu cannot, like Tennyson's brook, go o.. forever, without taking account of tin fact that there is a last straw oi every camel's load; that these bill ions must be earned as well as ex j pended. I Tim ereateet material, tne greates. moral, the greatest patriotic issue o: today is political extravagance aiu waste, reflected in abnormal living costs, taxes under which business en terprise is staggering, a currency de preciated in purchasing power, and a fear of the future which halts bus iness enterprise. An effort is being made to divert the attention of the people from the situation, first, by the theory that every Dody is going to be supported by the government under the new freedom, and, second, that a scheme of world reconstruction Is under way which will bring peace and prosperity to mankind through the phrases of a new world constitu tion. It was said of Germany before the world war that every citizen carried a soldier on his back. It is coming about in this country that every citizen is carrying a politician on his back. The people are already stag gering under this burden, and the politicians responsible are lying to them as to the real causes of their difficulty, and telling them that the remedy is to pat two politicians on 3ach back by voting money out of the treasury to fatten the public payroll ind the bankroll of tho public functionaries. JThe resistance to this process on the part of the minority jarty since the war ended has been ill too feeble. It must become or ;anized and miliant, and reflect it self in the policies of Republicanism as represented in Congress, or that Republican majority will be swept out of power by the same sentiment which swept it in. "Carthage must be destroyed," was the daily cry of a Roman senator, repeated until the thing was accom plished. , "Extravagance and waste must be 'ended, political oppression of and hindrance to honest and legitimate business enterprise must cease," should be the cry of every Republican and of every thoughtful, patriotic American, from now on, dinned in the ears of his neighbors and conveyed to his representatives at Washington. For, stripping all other issues of their fine phrases and exalted imagery and inflated boinr bast, we see t.t the evil of political waste and political enslavement of the productive processes of the peo ple is the menace which throws its shadow on every American home, and which must be met and fought and whipped if this country is to be saved from irretrievable disaster. Heppner Delegation Here. For the purpose of consulting with W. L. Thompson, acting chairman of the state highway commission a dele gation of Heppnerites is here today. Those in the party are C. E. Wood is. 'ii, joint representative; W. O. Minor, W. T. Campbell, county judge; G. A. Bleakman, county com missioner; E. R. Brown, manager of the Farmers Exchange and Vawter 1 Crawford, publisher of the Gazette-i Times. Saturday's E. O. , i S8 Best for the West Established 1885 Delicious Sweet Corn "Golden Bantam" Exceptionally early and in flavor and tenderness not equalled by any other variety. The ears are short and compact and the kernels plump and creamy. This and a thousand other veg etables best for the West, may be selected from Jig catalog and found at your dealers. Write Jjgj Seattle or Portland for Catalog, Free. THE GAZETTE-TIMES, Your Home Paper. $2.00 Per Yea;. Lambing is now in full sway in I most parts of the county and the sheepmen report splendid ' averages. The weather conditions have been good for the most part and the season promises to be very successful. l'HY IT SVCCKKDS. Ilerause It's For One, Tiling Only, and Heppner People Appreciate This. Nothing can be good for every thing. " Doing one thing well brings suc cess. Doan's Kidney Pills are for one thing only. For weak or disordered kidneys. Here is Heppner evidence to prove their worth. J. C. Ball, retired farmer, says: "It has been several years since I have had occasion to tako Doan's Kidney Pills but speaking from past experience, I can conscientiously say they are a splendid medicine for backache and kidney disorders." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don'l simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills thfe same tha' Mr. Ball had. Foster-Milburn Co. - - ttffTlo. y. At Morgan Feed Yard 22 Head Herefords and Shorthorns, ages form 10 to 22 months. All registered. Just arrived from Iowa. ARTHUR MARTIN HEPPNER, OREGON or phone County Agent F. R. Brown. II She kept her promise true EVEN THOUGH IT SENT HER SOL DIER LOVER BACK TO FRANCE. William Fox Presents PEGGY HYLAND in Bonnie k me Laurie An enthralling tale of romance and patriotism in loyal Scot land and bloody France. Thursday (tonight) & Friday Jar. 20&21 Saturday, March 22 Douglas Fairbanks In MANHATTEN MADNESS Sunday, March 23 Wm. Russell in UP ROMANCE ROAD Monday, March 24 A gripping story of New York's slums and palaces. Empty Pockets No children under 16 years admitted unless accompanied by parent or guardian ADMISSION PRICES FOR "EMPTY POCKETS "WILL BE 25 and 35 Cts.