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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- !
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 .
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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