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i i ! FACE FXrft THE UAZETTE'TIMEfl. HEPPXER. OREGON, THTRSnAY, MAT 1, 1D19. THE GAZETTE-TIMES diers should be called upon to per form this honorable but humble task we are not ab'o to say. the publication of which they are a rart than most of the editorial con- I tent. In get-up, in text, in idea, they Th Heppner Gnetle, Established 1 March 30, USJ. I The Heppner Times. Established November IS. 1897. I Consolidated February IS. 1911- ! Published every Thursday morning by Vawter Craword and Spencer Crawford and entered at the Postcfflce at Hepp ner. Oretcon. as second-class matter. j ADVERTISING HATKS GIVES OH APPLICATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year.. Six Months Three Months Single Copies 12.00 1.00 .75 .06 MORROW COINTY OFFICIAL PAPEB OCR GREATEST NEED BUS INESS ADMINISTRATION The greatest need of our country is injection of business . principles into public administration. We must have a system of gov-, eminent and we must have men to administer and execute that govern ment. All this being true, government therefore resolves itself into a bus- iness, pure and simple, and tin officeholders who conduct that bus- j iness are the employes of the public j and nothing else. j But we must recognize that we have among us a distinct class1 known as politicans. They are ! afflicted with an itch for office, which t is really a disease: The mercenary office - seeker should be the easiest to deal with when we have made up our minds ! to clean this whole business up. It j should be no trouble whatever to obliterate from the atmosphere the! stench of the cheap professional politician. Every community is well acquain ted with that species. What they seek is an easy living at the public expense. Their idea is to sit in an office smoking cigars with their feet on a desk and get a salary for it out of the taxes that the rest of us pay on what we have acquired in prop erty by endless industry and hard work. Industries and business must not only pay the bills for the services of the professional but suffer in tolerable interference from that class. The Manufacturer. IS CERTAINLY HE'S INDEPENDENT A townsman, who has nothing vnuch to do but assist in uplifting his farm brethren, complains that the farmers are so independent that they refuse advice from their well wishers. Noah, of the tribe of Webster, says that independent means one of two things; not relying on others, not subject to control. Certainly the rarmer relies on himself alone. The city man calls the plumber for a frozen pipe; the farmer thaws it. The townsman yells for the eleo trician, the doctor, the gas man, the carpenter, the drayman, or the laborer when the slightest necessity arises. The farmer, is his own veternar- ian, his own blacksmith, he does his own carpenter work and his sanitary engineering. The farmer will take a yard of baling wire, a pair of rusty tongs pair of broken nose pliers, and, with the further aid of a second-hand tin can, he will fix anything from the combine harvester to the family clock. You bet he is self reliant. And so he is also a bit peevish when those come with yards of advice, which they unwind yard on yard, reel upon reel. Advice on how to run your farm from those who cannot manicure their own nails, nor scrape their ever-ready jaw, is advice that riles the farmer, and makes him lay bacK his ears, roll the whites of his eyes, and kick back and up with both hoofs. But urban well wishers, who de sire to do something for the farmer, can arrange for 5 per cent farm loans; tested seed at a fair price; the breaking; of the fertilizer com bine; the deflation ut the farm ma chinery trust. These are the city institutions that bleed the farmer. The city philan thropist doubtless can arrange these little matters, and then the farmer will attend , his oratory with the respect one worker always shows to another. tt WAN IT 1'OK THIS. To scrub the floor for even so es timable a gentleman as Col. House, as Mr. Richard Seelye Jones remarks in his Paris correspondence to the Post-Intelligencer, is a poor reward for services rendered in the Ar gonne. Col. House and the other American peacemakers and design- ers housed in the Hotel Crillon ; doubtless track mud and otherwise1 make scrubbing a housekeeping nec essity; but just why American sol-1 It may be answered that the uni formed scrubmen that slush suds around the Hotel Crillon floors do so from choice, and that they are not compelled to engage in this menial sen-ice unless they so desire. This, however, we submit, is not a sufficient answer, and is one that overlooks the essential opposition to the soldier-scrubman the uniform. If the uniform of the American sol dier stands for anything, and for two years we have loudly proclaimed that it does, then it is worthy of a higher station in the Hotel Crillon than that of the scrub bucket and the mop. A soldier may properly scrub his barracks and perform such other duties as are necessary to his own health and comfort one thing; but when he eem with originality and attractive' ness. Only their practical and utih iarian value prevents them from! being works of pure art. I Take the advertising pages of a: metropolitan Sunday newspaper. ; The uninitiated might say, and does say very often: "Who in the world! can find time to read the advertise ments?" Yet, take a trip around the department and specialty stores any Monday morning and you will find good reason for paying tribute to aa vertising. Bargains? No, not at all. The stores that follow a policy of never "giving things away" are as crowded as the ones that deal in "from $100 to $50 for this day only." Advertising, like the motor car, That is has progressed with a giant's stride is put to because it renders the kind of ser- States army may indicate that the wearer is either a man who has fought for his country or who has scrubbed floors for Col. House, the doubt cannot but detract from some of the affection and admiration we have for it. Scrubmen and dish washers are necessary, and no stig ma should attach to their callings. But none the less they are not sol diers; their vocations normally call for entirely different qualities, and the differences in perils and hard ships that exist between them make for a difference in popular esteem. If Paris is totally destitute of scrubwomen, if dishwashers and scullions generally are not to be had, it is proper that such soldiers as have a taste for this sort of work should have the opportunity to - indulge profitably in it but as private in dividuals, not as soldiers. The uniform should ever stand for valorous and self-sacrificing service m the army or navy, and should never be confused with exploits per formed with sapoho or the Gold Dust Twins, for the comfort of Col. House or any other private indivi dual. Seattle Post-Intell igencer. tt TWELVE CYLINDER SPACE. work as a soldier scrubbing floors vice demanded by the man who pays and washing dishes for a hotelful the bills. Why advertised You of peacemakers and their families, j might just as well ask the question, he becomes a standing argument ' why an automobile? Both are why a great many Americans want i doubled at times. But once tried r.otjiing to do with the army. j they are never surrendered. To the If the uniform of the United , initiated they soon become an in dispensable means to an indispen sable end. The reward is in the good they bring and no one knows better than the men who owns the one or practices the other. As long as we are on comparisons between automobiles and advertis ing, here's another. Years ago an automobile that would run fifty miles without laughing in your forward looking face was the wonder of the age. It was always a gamble wheth er or not you would, reach your "destination" today, tomorrow or the next day. And it was pretty much the same with the half-shod adver tising that strode the printed page or walked beside the road. Today you are reasonably sure of reaching home on the same day if you have the juice and the tires are not too holey. The automobile of 1919 delivers service and satisfaction in proportion to the amount you pay for it. So does 1919 advertising. Some men are content with a Ford, others realize the advantages of a Pierce Arrow. Western Advertising. Home On Leave. Edgar Copenhaver, son of Win. Oopenhaver of Sand Hollow, la home on ft short leave of absence from the Navy. Edgar has been stationed In the Philippine Islands and this is hiB first visit home for two years. He expects to make rather an extended cruise soon. Edgar will graduate from Heppner High School this year, his service in the Navy giving him the necessary credits. He will report back to Mare Island on May tenth. How often do we hear or read in the public prints: "What a difference between the first gasoline buggy and the 1919 super-accessoned multi cylindered automobile!" One excla mation mark hardly suffices to record the degree of our wonder. Yet there are other developments equally astonishing. Take adver tising for instance. In 1903 or thereabouts the quarter page was the large unit of space in the Saturday Evening Post. It cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $500. Only a few of the daring advertisers ventured forth so boldly and they were the admiration of their times. Now the unit is the double page at a cost of $12,000 or $14,000, as you take it with or with out color. And there is a waiting list as long as your arm to get within the sacred spread of those much courted center pages. Take the color pages in the wo men's magazines $9,000 or there- Mrs. P. Luper, milliner, will move her stock to the building recently vacated by Case Furniture Company. Look for announcement of re moval sale in paper next week. F. R. Brown, of the Farmers change, made a business trip Ex-to Hermiston today. Wednesday, returning During the past couple of weeks, Mrs. Bowker of the Heppner Garage has disposed of the following cars: Fords O. Peterson, Eight Mile; Walt Helmick, and Prof. Boitnott, city; K. L. Beach, Lexington, Add Moore, city. Buicks W. H. Cronk, Tnnp H R Wa.rnpr. Lfixine-ton, abouts at a clip, and as many of i studebakers J. M. Hayes, city, L. them as the mechanical facilities of Turner, lone. Hupmobiles Sloan the 'publishers can handle. They Thomson, Echo. Dodges E. M. form a more interesting feature of Shutt and Oscar otto, Heppner. Air . Experience Without Risk . i -iV I. PlrMtel Mere man hag made a spinning top look foolish in the perfection of an Indoor whirling device which is to furnish extreme airplane train ing at the least possible risk. William Guy Ruggles, in the machine is the inventor and is ready to be twirled in three different directions at once by Colonel Oscar Westover, controlling the levers in the fore ground. Uuggles can also control the machine from the seat and it is his duty to right the plane after being whirled until he has seem ingly lost all sense of direction. illlllllllillllillli 51' Your Summer Wardrobe In planning your summer tilings we place at your disposal not only our large and well selected stock but also expert salespeople with years of experience in panning costumes, matching colors and materials, and will be glad to help and advise you in every way possible. Then there is THE BUTTERICK QUARTERLY FOR SUMMER. In it you will find the correct styles for every occasion for city or ' country; for beachside or mountain camp; for indoor or out with des cription of materials, dressmaking instructions and other special features. Many models from the Paris and New York styles being shown in colors. THIS IS GINGHAM WEEK and throughout the country this week ginghams are being featured and shown. Nothing else in the summer fabric line is so practical or so adaptable to so many uses and styles as the gingham as it has been developed. We can show you a splendid line of the finest of imported ones in the new plaids and colorings. They come 32 inches wide. Zephyr and tissue ginghams also in 32-in width, and in plaids, stripes and plain colors. Domestic or American ginghams in unsurpassed qualities and col orings and in suiting stripes. Scotch plaids as well as the more staple colorings and patterns. Our Gingham Prices Range 75c, 60c, 35c, 30c, 25c WHY PAY MORE? New Silk and Serge Dresses, New Capes and Dolmans, New Coats Minor & Company llllllllllllllilllllillllllllHM A Hit AT .Rugs "Brothers on Rhea Creek 11 miles south of Heppner on Saturday, May 10th, 1919 SALE BEGINS AT 11A.M. FREE LUNCH AT NOON. MACHINERY. 1 10-foot push binder. 1 8-foot double cut-away disc. 2 24-foot Harrows. 1 3-inch wide-fired full truck wagon. 2 3 -inch wagons. 1 3-inch narrow Avheel wagon. 1 3-bottom plow. 2 Walking plows. 1 Disc plow. ' 1 Hay baler. 1 Generator. 1 Wood saw. 1 Chum, 10 gallon. 4 Sots harness. 1 Chatham Fanning Mill. 1 Cream Separator. HORSES f) Draft mares, sucking colts by side. 6 2-year-old colts. 1 yearling. 10 Work horses, aged 5 to 8 years. 13 3-year-old draft colts. , CATTLE. 10 cows, several fresh, (j Yearling steers. TERMS: All sums of $10.0 and under, cash ; over that amount, 6 months time on approved notes bearing 8 interest per annum. THIS SALE MADE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF The Farmers Exchange of ihe Inland Empire Heppner, Oregon. F. A. McMENAMIN, Auctioneer F. R. BROWN, Clerk. 1 4