THE GAZKTTE-TrtE8. HEVPXER. OKEGOJJ, TnrRSDAY, ArRIL 10, 1016.
PAliK FOUR
LIE GAZETTE-TIMES
Tbe Hepvmer Oatette. Established
March 3K. 1SS3
The Heppner Times, Established
November IS, 1S9".
Consolidated February la, 1912.
Published every Thursday mwnmt by
Vwter Craword and Spencer Crawford
and entered at the rostomee at Hepp
ner, Oregon, as second -class matter.
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Every fireside in Oregon will ba
interested in the contest inaugurated
by the essay contest section of the
Victory Liberty Loan. The school
children of the state are invited to
write essays, the subect for which
is 'VICTORY; WHAT PRICE."
School principals and teachers will
furnish the children in the grades
with full information and sug
gestions of the thoughts that are
prominent in considering the matter.
The essay will answer whether we
can refuse to pay our war debts and
whether the people of Oregon would
enjoy victory if they are not willing
to pay their share for its blessings.
Selections will be made by County
Superintendents of schools of the ten
best essays submitted in each county,
and the writers of these ten essays
will each receive a silver pin. The
County Supreintendents will make
their selections from the best essays
produced in each room of the county
schools, the decision in this case
being made by the teacher. From
the ten best essays from each
county in the state, the final awards
will be made.
The ten best essays in Oregon,
won from each competing grade, will
be selected by the committee. The
authors of these will receive gold
medals.
Of the ten best essays there will
be one which will be adjudged the
best essay in the state. The winner
of the distinction will receive in ad
dition to the gold medal, a genuine
Prussian Officer's helmet which has
been given by the war department
for this purpose.
Every school child in Oregon ex
cept those in the first and second
grades, is asked to compete. Essays
of children in the third and fourth
grades should not be longer than 200
words; of those in fifth and sixth
grades not longer than 400 words;
seventh and eighth, grammar grades
and high school students should be
not less than 600 nor more than 1000
words.
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WOOL IXIHSTRY ESTABLISHED.
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The crisis in wool and sheep in
dustry is passed in safety, and the
trade is becoming normal.
The industry that has been under
government control for two years is
gradually being freed from restric
tions.
The British wool administration
has decided to act as merchants for
the Australian clip at fixed minimum
prices.
The wool council announces that
Great Britain will require the entire
New Zeland and Australian clip,
selling none in America.
The policy of favoring British
manufacturers with prices below the
American level will be discontinued
from now on.
The stabilizing of the British wool
market means good prices for wool
to the grower for the next two years.
The value of a bale of Australian
wool is now about sixty pounds as
against twenty pounds before the
war.
Propaganda did not end with the
signing of the armistice. The Ger
man secret service is supposed to
have ceased operations, but there is
an insidious, devilish sort of anta
gonism to the loyal duty of Amer
ican citizenship that is seemingly
actuated by the same spirit that was
hphinrl th P.rinn artivitip; in the
early part or trie war. Keports are
being circulated by word of mouth
that the Victory Liberty Loans are to
he issued only in large denomina
tions; that the interest rates will be i
unattractive, and further equally j
ridiculous statements calculated to
make more difficult the subscription
of quotas.
While we have no official an
nouncement as yet regarding much
of the detail as to the forthcoming
issue, ample assurance has b'jen
given by the Treasury Department,
that the investment will be more at-1
tractive than any of the preceding:
loans, and it is expected by bankers j
and financiers that the interest rate
will be such as to prevent bonds
going below par. Victory Liberty
Bonds are the best investment in
the world.
a ;oi.m: payemkxt cheap.
What is a good Road worth?
Ask the man who has fought with
mudlioles for 20 years, and who
finally has a hard surface road to
travel on.
Just now the nation is shelling out
millions on milions for road im
provement. Some of the money
will be spent foolishly, ten cents
worth of road for a dollar will be
secured in many instances, but if
five cents worth of road is secured
it will be a good buy for the farmer.
No man who has not been up
against the winter road problem can
understand what a bad road means.
A bad road, the average American
road, means that the farmer four
miles out is nr.rooned six months in
the year.
A bad road means his wood and
grain and his tell and his stock are
rot transported to market when
they should be, or else require an
exorbitant er.pense for their moving.
The ordinary flivver will pull a
two-ten lof.d on a trailer on a hard
3u;f'Ke road.
That same llivver couldn t ne
gotiate half the winter roads of the
country by itself.
A farmer on a road lives "close
in," if he is out 20 miles and has an
auto.
A thousand years from now we
may know as much as the Romans
did 2000 years ago.
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"When the German people have
spokesmen whose word we can be
lieve," said the President, "we shall
be willing and glad to pay the full
price for peace and pay it un
Tudgingly. In response, Dr. Hem
rich Albert is appointed by the Ger
man people's government as Under
Secretary of State in charge of the
Chancellery. He is the Linhanged
scoundrel who under a Red Cross
mask was Bernstorff's financial
agent in promoting strikes, fires, ex
plosions and all manner of deviltry
in the United States while we were
yet a neutral nation. "A spokesman
whose word we can believe" ! Har
vey's Weekly.
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
The democratic party will appar
ently be compelled to nominate Mr.
Wilson for a third term. He is the
democratic party. He is the absolute
dictator as to its policies and its
destinies. All admit the situation. All
other aspirants have substantially
faded into the shadows, Clark, Mc
Adoo, and divers lesser lights.
Who, then, shall the republicans
nominate to meet the Wiison issues?
The campaign will soon be on, in
deed it is already getting in swing.
Unhappily the most of the active re
publican candidates belong to the
conservative wing of that party.
None of them is likely to be nomin -
ated. In this list are Harding, Wat-
son, Lodge, Louden. The' party is
overwhelmingly progressive. These
mert will not do. Still they reflect
the organization of their states, and
they are states potent i;i conven
tions. Ine rank and hie or the party was
for Roosevelt five to one. It is cer-
tain that the Roosevelt policies and
Bust From Roosevelt Death Mask
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James E. Fraser, the noted New York sculptor, la making a bust
of the late Colonel Roosevelt from the death mask taken of the for
mer president. Erawr -was a clse personal friend of "Teddy's," and
formerly made a bust from life of the great leader. This bust, shown
here In the making, Is being produced from the mask at the request
of the family. Fraser is best known as the designer of the "Buffalo"
Dickie and his statue ."The end of the trail."
Roosevelt principles still dominate
the republican electorate. It is also
true that the nominee of the part)'
must be reflective of Roosevelt senti
ment, unless the party desires to re
main out of power for another eight
years, lhis is not an age or political
reaction. The party must get in
line with big Americanism, and
nominate a man with vision.
One figure is outstanding. One
fifure overshadows all others in the
mind and hope of the average voter
namelv, the ablest soldier of the
land, the most capable administrator
of the republic, General Leonard
Wood. Pendleton Tribune.
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Abundant rains this week are
causing much rejoicing among the
farmers and stockmen of Morrow
county. Grain and grass is coming
along in fine shape an the Heppner
hills are taking on the, beauties cf
early Spring, while the fruit trees are
putting forth their blossoms. Some
pretty heavy frosts the first of the
week but no damage to fruit has
been reported. Abundant yields of
r.i.i and fruit are in promise and
the fiockmasters all repc-rt excellent
: duclion of lambs. Old Morrow
county will come to the front in lino
shape this year.
NEW REfflliE AGT
FULL! EXPLAINED
Portland, Ore., April 7,
The Revenue Act of 1918
laxes on many articles of
1919.
provides
general
use. On and after
1919, manufacturers
Febrcary 25,
of the follow
ing article.; are required to pay a tax
upon their product when sold:
.Automobiles, motorcycles, automo
bile trucks, tires, inner tubes, parts
or accessories for automobiles and
trucks, pianos, organs, phonographs
and records, tennis rackets, skates,
base-ball goods and other sporcing
goods, chewing gum, cameras, photo
graphic films and plates, candy, fire
arms and cartridges, hunting knives,
electric fans, thermos bottles, cigar
and cigarette holders and pipes,
hunting and shooting garments and
riding habits, articles made of fur,
toilet soaps and toilet powder. The
manufacturers of any of these ar
ticles should communicate at once
with Collector Milton A. Miller to
ascertain their liability. The tax
on these articles does not apply to
stocks in the hands of dealers, but
only to articles sold on and after
February 25, 1919 by tho manufac
turer. Another section of the Act pro
vides a tax of lO'c upon sculpture,
paintings, statuary and other objects
of art, when sold by any other per
son than the artist. Therefore, any
dealer handling this class of goods
should apply for information f-s lu
Jits liability,
Oh and after April 1st, there will
be a tax of Sty upon the eriles of all
1 articles commonly or commercially
known as jewelry, including precious
metals or imitations thereof, anil
ivory, watches, clocks and opera
gla-sca. This tax is to be collected
by the dealer upon such goods when
sold to the user, and every store in
Oregon handling any of thcae lines
must collect this tax upon all sale.?
made commencing April 1st, 1919.
In order that a complete list of
dealers in these goods may be com-
"
!-ild, all such dealers should send!
their names to the Collector at Port
land, stating the business engaged In..
On and after May 1, 1919, there
will be a tax collected from the pur
chaser of Ice-cream, soda water, and
such other refreshments of this kind
as are served at soda fountains and
similar places of business. Owners
of soda fountains and ice cream
parlors should be sura to have their
names listed with the Collector at
once.
On and after May 1st, 1919, the
luxury X&x will be effective. This
provides that a tax of 10 shall be
collected by the dealer from tie pur
chaser on carpets and rugs selling at
over $5.00 a square yard; picture
frames, trunks, valises, purses,
portable lighting fixtures, umbrellas,
fans, smoking jackets, men's waist
coats, men's and women's hats, caps,
boots, shoes, pumps and slippers,
WASHINGTON TKKL
AT LATIN WEDDiNt,
Washington has enjoyed the
thrill of a dainty "Latin" wedding.
Senorita Marie Amalla Bonillas,
daughter of the Mexican ambassa
dor to tbe United States is now
the wife of Lt Giuseppe Coppola
of the Italian array, assigned . to
duty at the Italian embassy at tne
Mpitah
Before you buy another
. pair of shoes, call
and see our
Military Heel
In gray, brown and black kid
Also in stock with Louis
heel.
$6.50 $7.00 $9.50
LI GONTY
Shoe Store
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LE-GEORS
men's neckties and neckwear, silk
stockings or hose, women's si'.k
stockings or hose, men's shirts and
women's pajamas, nightgowns and
underwear, kimonas, petticoats and
waists. Practically every store in
Oregon will be affected by this tax,
which will apply to all that part of
the price for which the goods are
sold in excess of the price stipulated
in the. Act. ,
On and after May 1st, 1919, per
fumes, essences and extracts, dentri
flees and similar articles, as well as
pills, tablets, powders and other
medicinal preparations, will be sub
ject to a tax of one cent on each
twenty five cents, or fraction. This
tax will be paid by stamps affixed
to the goods by the seller. Other
new taxes are on shooting galleries
which will pay $20.00 a year, riding
Don't Throw Your Ford
Blocs Away
WE HAVE JUST RECENTLY PURCHASED A NEW CYLIN
der reboritig machine, nnd are new prepared to rebore and
fit new pistons and rings in your old Ford, Dodge and Buick engine
blocs, thereby saving the purchase cf a new bloc, as well as the long
delay, as in the past, when this work was sent to Portland.
We have the equipment and an expert mechanic that under
stands this work thoroughly.
All work absolutely gu.iranteed.
Bring in your car for the spripg overhauling. We make a
specialty of complete overhauling and electrical work.
we can't do
THE UNIVERSAL GARAGE
HILL & JOHNS
20 Years to Pay
FOR
CAN
LWAY FAR
Lands for all. Irrigated or non-irrigated, Wheat,
Livestock, Dairy, Poultry or Mixed Panning. $$11.00
to $30.00 per acre buy3 good rich fertile prairie wheat
land, and $50.00 per acre for irrigated land, water
right from the Canadian Government.
Your Opportunity
To start with a small investment and make your
farm pay for itself. Join one of our parties and see
for yourself. Season is now open.
For information call or write to
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'armers
OF THE INLAND EMPIRE
F. R. Brown, Mgr. Heppner, Oregon
L. P. THORNTON, 208 R. R. Exchange Building,
Portland, Oregon
There is no money made in feed
ing your chickens high priced
grain without keeping their sys
tems in perfect condition.
Poultry Powder
We have the exclusive sale of
these celebrated remedies.
GROCERY COMPANY
academies which will pay $100.00 a
year, "for hire" cars to pay $10.00
a year for each car having a seating
capacity of more than two and not
more than seven, and $20.00 for
Leach automobile having a v seating
capacity of more than seven. It is
the intention of the Internal Revenue
Bureau to give wide publicity to the
various provisions if the new Act,
but it should not be forgotten that
the taxpayer is supposed to ascer
tain his liability, and that ignorance
ui mo inn id uuv iiciu uj wis vuui ,o
I to be a valid reason for not com-
I plying with the law.
I Collector Miller will be pleased to
furnish all information upon request,
but obvislously has no means of
reaching everyone affected by the
Act and notifying them individually
of their liability.
it, it can't be done.
IANPACIFIC
Exchange
or
Will
Dolt.
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