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A TIME FOR ACTION.
The time for action has arrived in
gard to securing water for the city
of Heppner. The Common Council
has gone to some expense in getting
surveys, estimates, plans and speci
fications from a reliable engineering
firm, dealing with a gravity water
system which would be installed on
the left fork of Willow creek.
The report Is most complete and
figures given with the drawing in
estimating the cost of the project.
With this report in their hands, the
mayor and councilmen are ready to
walk forth and place before the peo
ple of Heppner, a bonding issue. If
the bond issue were to be voted on
tomorrow there is not a question in
the world but what it would be car
ried overwhelmingly. The citizens
of the town have been long suffering
and have put up with dilly-dally tac
tics of the Heppner Light & Water
Company until the limit of endur
ance has been reached. Mr. Gates
himself admits that the company has
failed to fulfill its contract, because, 1
as he says, "it would be impossible
to get an adequate supply of water
from the present deep wells." He
offers the excuse for this shortage,
that the company was unable to seek
a greater water supply owing to the
uncertainty of the situation. That
is, the company was up in the air as
to what the city might do in regard
to a bonding issue and a new water
proposition.
It is true that Mr. Gates must be
considered by the city in whatever
initial move they make toward get
ting a bigger and better supply of
water, for he holds the present fran
chise in this town. The city has an
equity of $15,000 in the water plant
of the Heppner Light & Water Com
pany. It is also under contract with
that company for its water supply.
If the water company and city can
not come to terms on the purchase of
the water plant, then it will probably
be up to disinterested engineers to
make a valuation and let the city and
the company abide by that valuation.
Now it seems to be the concensus
of opinion among the people 01
Heppner that it would be best to buy
out the interest of the Heppner Light
& Water Company in the water
works and let the city go about put
ting in its own supply system. Mr.
Gates and his company have gone
along for years and up to this time
no satisfaction has been received as
regards the water situation. It seems
to us that if Mr. Gates and his com
pany ever did really have the wel
fare of Heppner at heart, they would
have made more strenuous attempts
to get an unlimited supply of water
a long time ago. There never has
been anything in the way to hinder
this progression. But no, the com
pany seems to have been satisfied to
go along year after year, taking its
toll from the citizens here, with
never a care to future supply, in fact
at times it seemed as tho they had
lost all responsibility as to present
needs. And then the company talks
of what they can do if forced to do
it. That is not the spirit that we
want to foster in Heppner and we
have no better opportunity than right
now to get into the water business
on our own responsibility. Its a
shame that any town must depend
upon water in a commercialized
form. Water is a God-given element
that every baby, boy and girl, man
and woman, and all the lower forms
of animal life as well, must have it
to promote life and health.
The Heppner Commercial Club
has appointed a committee, to meet
and confer with the mayor and mem
bers of the council as to proceeding
on this important water question. We
know that they will go ahead with
the business in hand, only with a
view as to what will be best for our
city. Whether they decide to deal
with Mr. Gates on the new water
proposition or whether they decide
to get entirely free from him, the
people of Heppner are a unit in back
ing them up for a greater water suo
ply for the town. The whole future
of the community is wrapped up in
the water question. Its successful
solution will insure the town's future,
as a thriving community and a place
where people will enjoy life and
comfort.
Many flattering reports are coming
in about the good road work which
is being done on upper Willow creek
at the present time. Morrow county
is to be congratulated upon having
a judge and board of commissioners
who are practical road builders aid
these men are to be congratulated
upon having the foresight and judg
ment in placing the work in 'the
hands of Mr. McCaleb. Upon the
completion of the Heppner-Ritter
road, this city will be an outlet to a
large volume of valuable trade from
the interior. It will demonstrate one
of the practical values of good roads.
"LOOK IT UP."
"Divers weights and divers meas
ures both of them alike are abomin
ation to the Lord." Proverbs, 20:10.
Thinking men and women will do
well to consider the striking argu
ments brought out by the World
Trade Club of San Francisco in their
campaign for adoption of the units
of the metric system of weights and
measures.
They show a striking anomaly:
That the metric system was invented
by a Briton, James Watt, in 1783,
and yet all nations have adopted it
exclusively, excepting the United
States and Great Britain.
That the so-called "British Sys
tem" of weights and measures is of
German origin a relic of the old
German Hanseatic trade league
and yet Germany scrapt it in 1871
and adopted the metric system, in
vented by a Briton.
People of Britannia and America
may well ask themselves whether
they are not carying conservatism too
far.
The Metric System is no untried
theory.
Its principle the principle of
decimal computation has been used
in the monetary system of the Uni
ted States since 1786. If the United
States had heeded Thomas Jefferson
we should also have adopted this
system of weights and measures!
t
oasea on aecimais so simple a sys-
tern that a child can learn its main
features in ten minutes. We know
how well it works with money. It
will work equally well with weights
and measures.
The World Trade Club has started
the ball rolling. What we all need
is to look the subject up.
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Mr. Gates brought out in the com
mercial club meeting Tuesday eve
ning that one of their patrons used
4000 gallons of water during the
month of June anl 75,000 gallons
during the month of July. Under
the meter system this would not have
happened. A more equal distribu
tion of water for everybody would
give better results, but until we have
a greater supply there is no danger
of anyone washing the soil away.
We heard an old-timer remark the
other day that such and such a thing
happened the year the railroad was
built into Heppner. Well, the rail
road got into Heppner alright, but
stopped just a few feet inside the
city limits. In view of the fact that
the Heppner branch is one of the
best paying lines on the entire Union
Pacific system, it seems that it
wouldn't be out of the way for us to
ask the company to put the passenger
depot, at least, up town. We never
got it, perhaps more because we did
n't ask it. The passenger depot
should be up town, a suitable loca
tion could be secured now and it
might be an opportune time to' put it
up to the railroad company in a force
ful manner.
THE HOPELESS QUEST.
When the child is easily harassed
by the maternal "Don't," it confides
to itself : "Just you wait 'till I grow
up, and I'll do as I please."
As it escapes a bit from the mater
nal strings, and enters high school it
chafes at the restrictions, and at the
home chains, and yearns for the time
when it will have a job, and be in
dependent. And, having graduated and, by
much diligence, having secured a job,
the amazed student is pained to dis
cover that restrictions and obliga
tions and don'ts have increased
amazingly.
"Just you wait 'till I get a business
of my own," cries the employe; and
when he does, he discovers that all
of his past troubles were indeed
trifles compared to his new respon
sibilities. He has pay rolls to meet,
he has to work whether he feels like
it or not; he has to work day and
night, often without noticeable re
sult, and he finds the exactions of the
public, on one side and the stress of
competition on the other, almost
overpowering.
"I'll sell out and get on a farm and
be my own boss," he shouts in des
peration; he must be desperate to
make this sort of an outcry.
And by the time he has gathered
a herd of hogs, that have to be
slopped twice a day, and a herd of
cows, that have to be milked ditto,
and a few miles of fence to keep up,
and ICO acres of crops that have to
be cultivated and harvested at ex
actly the designated time regardless
of legal holidays, visiting relations,
or the mare's sore shoulder, he un
derstands that the farmer is more of
a slave to the job than any other
man, because he is in the kingdom
of nature, the most exacting despot
in creation.
Always, from birth to death, we
seek more freedom, and always we
acquire more chains, to tangle up
with the ones we had.
But the wise slave, at least, wraps
his chains with the rags of content
ment, so that they do not chafe his
eternal soul to the quivering quick.
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It has been estimated that Hepp
ner lost as much as $200,000 during
the past year on account of the water
shortage. New home builders and
new industries will come to Heppner
when we get water.. Another-factor
second to water is electrical power.
Cheaper power and adequate water
will give the town the proper start.
THE DAY OF THE DEHYDRATED
FARMER HAS PASSED.
If there is one American citizen
who can rejoice that he is not his
yandfather it is the farmer in July
tnd August.
Time was when sunstroke and heat
prostration were the chief rural
amusements during these months.
Haying time and the harvest of the
small grains come when torrid heat
bakes the earth, and the sun has
nothing to do all day but shine.
When they cut grain by hand and
put up hay with a strong back and
a three-tined fork, the fanner was
fried and baked and broiled, until
tnose ot mm tnat survived were a
leathery substance averaging not
more than three per cent moisture.
But the inventor removed the sun
stroke from the American farms
when he produced the mower, the
reaper, the binder, the harvester,
and, most of all, when he brought
forth the motor plow, the cultivator
and the tractor.
Even the hot dusty trip to the store
is made a pleasure when you face a
twenty-five-mile-an-hour breeze in
vour flivver, with a shade over your
head, and a cushion to your back.
The farmer's wife too has become
emancipated. The red hot stove in
he oven-like kitchen, with the chore
of cooking three meals a day for fif
teen harvest hands; that little slice
of gehenna has been generally re
moved from the wife's career, and if
she doesn't cook by electricity, or
home made gas, she at least has a
four-hole coal oil s-ove, instead of
he young blast furnace she once
tended.
The difference between riding on
i spring seated mowing machine, un
der a parasol, and pulling a sythe
liroueh the tough grain by main
strength, is the difference between
i"riculture of today and yesterday
nfternoon.
In time probably he will turn an
tutomatic machine loose in the field,
?nd it will harvest the crop, and
'hresh it, and sack it, at the rate of
in acre an hour; meantime, farming
;n endurable even in August.
A great many men would be Pres
ident, but the Medford Mail-Tribune
says he must measure up in this
fashion : "We want a man who has
the prohi vote and labor vote, who
is as dear to Sam Gompers as he is
to William Jennings Bryan ; who is a
"man's man" and yet doesn't wear
whiskers; who is a ladies' man but
never jazzes; who is jovial, without
being fat; forceful without being
tiresome; tactful without being spine
less; who has a future, but not a
past; who has the fire of youth with
the wisdom of old age; who is detest
ed by Wall street, but has the con
fidence of men of affairs; who is just
to capital, but fair to labor; who puts
principle above party, but never puts
mush above meat; who is strong in
the east, but can carry the west."
We know one Morrow county far
mer, and he is not one of the largest,
who will receive $30,000 for his
wheat crop this year. Another man
bought a ranch this spring and the
crop pays for it this fall. What's the
matter with Morrow county? Noth
ing at all, brother.
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f PACIFIC GRAIN CO.
S Successor to M. H. Houser 5
GRAIN, GRAIN BAGS AND TWINE 1
Local Agents
CARL YOUNT, lone T. H. LOWE, Cecil
JOS. BURGOYNE, Lexington
1 R. V. WHITEIS, Heppner 1
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Only Used Sign Language.
Ephum Johnston was up before
Judge Shimmerplate on a cruelty to
animals charge.
"'Deed, Ah wahn't abusing that mule,
judge," the old man demurred.
"Did you not strike It repeatedly
with a club?"
"Yassah."
"And do you not know that you
can accomplish more with animals by
speaking to them?"
"Yassuh; but this critter am dif
ferent. He am so deet he can't hear
me when Ah speaks to him in de us
ual way, so Ah has to communicate
wid him in de sign language."
Charleston Mail.
"Did you read what the newspa
pers said about you?" "Every line,"
sail Senator Sorghum. "A politician
who doesn't read what the newspa
pers say about him stands no mors
chance than an actor who tries to
make up without the aid of a looking
glass."
When the Wife Is Away.
Peter Finley Dunne said the other
day:
"It's folly to say that two can't live
as cheap as one two can live tar,
iar cheaper than one.
" 'Did you send your wife to the
shore last August?' I asked a married
man.
" 'No,' he answered. 'I can't afford
it. It costs too much.'
" 'But,' I said, 'your wife's tastes
are simple. Surely she could sojourn
at the shore without spending any
great amount.'
" 'I know that, all right,' he said,
'but August of last year while she
was at the shore I spent more than
$200 a week.' "Chicago News.
Depressed by Contrast.
"Does your wife object to you Tun
ing around with your men friends?"
"Not my married men trends," re
plied Mr. Dubwaite. "But she draws
the line at bachelors."
"Why so?"
"She says whenever I go out with a
party of bachelors I always return
home greatly depressed." Birming
ham Age-Herald.
THE GAZETTE-TIMES, Your Home Paper. $2.00 Per Year
E. M. Shutt and family, who have
been enjoying a two-weeks vacation
at the beach, are expected home the
last of the week. They are making
.he trip In their car and journey
'.hrough the larger towns, covering
the distance by easy stages.
SPECIAL
ATTRACTIVE PRICES
ON FIVE AND TEN BARREL LOTS OP
White Spray and Dements
Best Flour
The Northern Grain and Warehouse Co.
have just received a carload of White
Spray and Dements Best Flour from
the Eureka Mills at Walla Walla.
ALSO MILL FEED
Grain Bags and Twine
We are in the market for all kinds of grain.
C. B. Sperry, Agent
lone, Oregon '
Going to Look Him Up.
"That fellow dipping called me
'Old Silenus,' " remarked Mr. Jagsby. 1
"He seemed to thing it a great joke."
"What are you going to do about
it?" I
"I haven't decided yet. I have for-'
gotten about all I ever knew about
Silenus, but I have an idea that he
was neither a pillar in the church nor
an ornament to society." i
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