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THE GAZETTE -TTHtS. EETTVEll, ORE, THTHSPAV, ACO. 14. 1919. THE GAZETTE-TIMES a-j to Boston and all the bush h !0 i: Cf.nolumi,i l"bfcry 1$. T SI 2. luhimhi vry Thurmi- morning bl and nifie.i at the I'usiolVe al Hepp- !'. Orison. ft ,)aa matter. l I.N1Mi: RtlV! LIVE n Teir C.x Mentha Thre Months Sinjtlt Cvpica Tlo.V RATE: I! 00 1 1)0 75 MORROW CO V STY OFFICIAL PAPF.K H'HY NOT DEEPER? Now that the administration at Washington, through the attorney general's oif.ee is so Nh has been built up in Oregon noulJ be ic?:royei. Yet absence of water competition in earning wool results from the ac tion of the sane government which uses it as the ground for raisins the rate. Wool is here ready to ship by water. Ships are here, able to carry it. Men are here ready to buy or ; charter the ships. But the shipping board does not allow them to be used for that traftc. Dozens of ships lie idle in the Willamette river, but none os ; of them is allowed to carry wool to i rhe Atlantic coast. ater competi- i :ion is thus decidedly potential. The I onlv reason whv it does not become o Whatever the facts may be and whatever adjustment shoull be made n matters affecting the farmer, the appeal to prejudice and to class an tipathies is not the way to get things lone, nor is now the time to secure relief except by the slow process of better methods of doing business, .hich ought to engage our undis :urbed professional attention. Organized labor has succeeded in purifying itself from the irresponsi- ! ble extremist, and hopefully agricul 1 ture can do as well. Farmers do not i.-tn'il is triflt tht hinr!na hnar nrp. vents. Then the railroad administra-1 Pess the same strong national or- :ion a department of the govern anization as does labor with which o resist spurious and dangerous "'ing nr a Tfar Vi A nrt Aie icKn u-siit.4n t b, ... .w . ,the govemment-as a reason for ac- it be a good thtng to get at the bot-! ;ion wnjch wou!d destrov the Port. torn of the whole business a good deal quicker by going back to the wholesaler? As usual the retailer j is coming in for his round of knocks and some of the boys who are getting the cream are standing back laughing up their sleeves. We would not at tempt to say that there is not an in stance of profiteering to the discredit of the retailer, probably there have been a number of instances. But the prices of the retailer are based upon what he has to pay to the wholesale man, and it seems to us that right there is where prices are apt to be boosted, if anywhere. However, the retail merchant has stood close inspection before and we imagine that he can do it again, and that is more than some of the big boys have been able to do. Some of the big boys who have made millions the last two years. Come to think about it, from glancing around near at home, we can't see where the re tail man is getting rich very fast and what holds true in a town of this size is pretty well duplicated the entire country over. t-t Is it possible that Shantung has been "ShanghaieJ' by Japan? A GREAT DEAL OF PURE BUNK. "Armour can't afford shoes." What do you think of that? But it must be a fact, because Mr. Armour says so, and he is one of those big meat packers in Chicago we hear so much about. So, of course, it must be true. And he says only the work ers can afford to buy shoes now, since shoes are so high. Can you beat it? Of all the bunk that has appeared in the press lately regarding the high cost of living this latest dope from the lips of Armour and some of those other highbrow millionaires is the greatest bit of humor yet. Yes, it was only last week that Mr. Armour bought his first pair of shoe--in three or four years. He says, "1 never like to buy when prices are 'and wool business. There may be valid reasons why no ships are available to carry wool, but they arise from the abnormal conditions created by the war. Water competition first ceased to be actual ind become potential when at the outbreak of the war ships were with drawn from the Pacific coast. The situation thus created was aggravat ed when the United States went to war and withdrew American ships from the Pacific. It is now continued by employment of ships built on this coast to carry food to Europe and ties to the Atlantic coast, to the ex clusion of wool and other commodi ties. From the beginning it was ab normal, and never warranted with drawal of rates based on water com petition. Within a few months it will end when all American troops will have returned from France and when the extraordinary demand for ton nage on the Atlantic will have abated, also when tonnage now under con struction will have been completed. Mr. Rosseter of the shipping board predicts that within a year the gov ernment's merchant fleet will have passed into private hands. At that time assuredly, probably before, ves sels will carry wool from Portland to the Atlantic coast and make water competition actual. The purely temporary, abnormal nature of present conditions does not justify a change in rates. The great injury to the wool business and wool ?n manufactures of Oregon forbids rt. Before another wool clip can be marketed those conditions will pro bably have passed and the time will have arrived to undo what is now iroposed. Then why do it? Ore Ionian. By letting the crews off on week days (some one diy in the week other than Sunday) the farmers are iving their men a chance to do what hopping they may want to do while he stores are open. It works to an 'dvantage all the way around. t-t DID YOU KNOW That the proprietor of the Hotel Crillon, Paris, occupied by the Amer- . . -i ..in?nt nsfi mis arnnn nf trt chin. ms. i.i .ii.w w t rirAnv, iron. 14 Mif n-ril. thoir la.'L. n board another department or . " jiuttuuuuu utcy suuum supply iu common sense. There is coming out of the North west a powerful and aggressive movement, amounting almost to an agrarian revolution. Hopefully it will spend itself before reaching the rank and file of American farmers. We da not want an agrarian revo lution, particularly just now. The in terests of all classes of people are in volved alike in the stttlment of great corld questions in which we all have a common interest and it ill behooves us to fall to fighting among ourselves. Besides, as we settle down and re solve our differences by peaceful methods and succeed in ironing out our difficulties, we shall find, quite 'o our surprise in some respects no doubt, that after all we are pretty much in the same boat, and that in general the farmers' interest is not much different from that of others Anyhow, we have had quite enough of quarreling and excitement in the world. What we need now is to set- '!e down a while, work hard daytimes ind sleep well nights. "Get ac quainted with your neighbor; you night like him." In any event, let us keep cool and leave something to be settled next year, and perhaps even something for the next generation to work out, for they will be wiser than we and hopefully not so agitated as we may be and probably are at this larticular moment. Yes. let us keep cool, lest we get 'he political jimjams before we know it. Country Gentleman. t-t So long as we are without a hotel, ve might at least put our attention to iroviding a more comfortable and convenient camping ground for the hundreds of auto tourists who are nissing this way. Tourists say that 'here is only one town in the North vest (Pendleton) which has a worse wiping ground than Heppner. Its "id odium and could very easily be eliminated. THE NEW ORDER. The world surfers from incom- crcasinj their number or ad'ing to ght for it on the floor. tiling in this respect, but its scope is their di.l'.culiy; and besides, people, Incompetent leadership has caused not as large, and the attendance is are agitated already as much as is ' every great war, and competent lead- much smaller. But both are two pood for them or safe for the country. ; ership has won every peace, and be- growing institutions which everyone cause we have in the United States of us should foster and encourage at such virile leaders, we have less rea- every opportunity. son to fear the prevailing world-wide j unrest than any other nation. W e have passed through similar exper iences and know what they mean. Ex perience is the best teacher, and the ourned child alone dreads the fire. The Master warned us twenty cen turies ago that "He who taketh up .he sword shall perish by the sword," out that w arning will go unheeded as long as human nature is what it is, rlague Conference and Leagues of Nations to the contrary notwithstand ing. There is deep significance in .he cabled statement of Secretary Lansing, printed in his reveiw of the League of Nations, that the world is it ill in danger. And we shall continue to have ex periments in government at the de nand of an insistent and clamorous ninority, led by conscientious ob jectors to the prevailing order of hings, and we shall ly for these ex periments, just as a good citizen pays 'or the custody and care of the crim inal, the pauper and the insane. The Aeak are always the burden of the strong, the sick of the healthy, and he improvident of the thrifty. We are trying Socialism in North Dakota under the guise of a farmers' movement. We tried the same ex periment in 1892 under the name of :he "Populist Party." That party jlected a substantial representation in Congress, but where are Senator sockless Simpson and the Populist Party now? We are having the rule of the anarchist in Russia, and the ippeal of the I. W. W. here, and a demand for the recognition of a po litical labor party. We had the threat of a political la bor party magnified many fold in 1870 to 18S0, when the Knights of Labor appeared to be so formidable that it was the bugbear of both the reat political parties. Where are "Sand Lots" Denis Kearney and the Knights of Labor now? The Prohi bition Party carried New York in 1854, and elected its governor by a fair majority. Last year in New York it polled 37,000 votes out of the 2,- 200,000 cast, and Governor Clark, the Prohibition leader, is a forgotten figure in this dry land. The clamor for a new order of things has been heard since the world began. The tribes of Judah were per petually at war. Moses, reviled by the mob, in despair, cast down the tables of stone and broke them to pieces. The Greatest Teacher of the World, when tempted to express an opinion with reference to the then existing order, did not hesitate em phatically to respond: "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's." The old order has stood the test of time, while new orders have come an1 nnna a n . ., F. . t Mr4 ,. in. . . i , i .,. I uw lilvUIIIIUi a IU I1UI IHI- :etent leadership, and the public' j ,.,.;., t . , lL . ,, ... ... . posing procession of false prophets -ays the price. Without the men of A Z.Lt. j... t ..... I Remember now that your oppor tunity is here to help make the 7th , Morrow County Fair the best yet. ! Boost for it and prepare your ex- hibits, as they are the biggest boost ; that you can give. Then after the ! Fair has passed on into history you will feel gratified in the thought that you also had your part in making it that big success. When everybody is hosting there is less time for kicking. ' The successful passage of the fleet of dreadnaughts through the Panama Canal is a striking illustration of the utility of that waterway and of its in calculable value to this country, says Harvey's Weekly. Amid the natural exultation over the achievement 'here should be an appreciation of the need of retaining absolute posses- ion and control of that Canal, as one of the territorial waters of the Uni ted States, instead of surrendering it to an international and alien control, is we should of course be obliged to io under the Covenant of the League of Nations. i t-t LOSE FAITHFUL OFFICER. Oregon's National Guard loses a faithful officer in the withdrawal of Col. John L. May after thirty years of loyal service. It is unfortunate hat his resignation was brought about by intemperate criticism such is some of our dailies lent them selves to before and after his re- urn from service abroad. Undoubt edly Col. May made mistakes, even is every other colonel made mis- akes, but no man was ever more patriotic, more unselfishly loyal or more devoted to his duty to his coun- ry, his state and his regiment. While his thoughtless critics have wounded him deeply, they cannot take from him the consciousness of duty well done nor deprive him of the affec- Mon in which he is held by thousands if Oreonians who know how faith ful he has been. Oregon Voter. high," so it is quite evident that the lcan Peace Commissioners, is ex. packer has not been eating very much of that silver-lined beef in the blue label. But why shouldn't his shoes last him two or even three years? He saves the sole leather by wearing out rubber tires. Proba bly he has spent enough on tires dur ing those three years to have bought foot wear for his entire family the rest of their lives, and auto tires have been going up along with everything else. Here is a president of the Corn Exchange Bank who says he has not bought a pair of shoes since 1916. Having had his hand on the pulse of business trend, he probably saw what was coming and laid in enough shoes at the before-the-war price to last him till prices come down again. But the final wind-up of the whole laughable business, laughable if it wasn't so serious, is the statement of H. H. Merrick, president of the Asso ciation of Commerce and the Great Lakes Trust Company, "that it is the working man who is buying shoes at the top of the market and keeping prices high." We wonder what kind of low down propaganda this is anyway? Do the old boys smell a rat since Uncle Sam has decided to go after the profiteers rough shod, and are they now trying to tie something on to the workine classes? Who in the deuce wears out shoes, anyway? It isn't the old boy that rides to and from his office in a big limousine, of that we are sure. A BLOW AT THE WOOL BUSI NESS. The proposal of the railroad ad ministration to raise the rate on wool from the interior to Portland is a beautiful example of the effect of government management of indus- pected to present a bill to this gov- mment of $1,000,000, and that at Peace Commission dance given last month the waiters opened hundreds if bottles of champagne. That the common pleas court at ittsburg, Pa., refused to grant a -harter to the No-Tobacco Corpora tion, which plans a nation-wide anti 'obacco campaign. That in India only 12 women out of every 1,000 can read and write. That Heppner is the only town of ;ts size in Eastern Oregon which has in exclusive shoe store. That the war increased taxes in 'he United States by 20007c, in Great Britain about 1100 and in France and Italy about 6. KEEP COOL. The agitator is abroad in the land, agitating. He is not trying to settle things down but to stir them up. He is engaged principally in finding fault and in telling how bad things ire. He talks a great deal about "abuses" and "rights"; about "priv ileged classes" anl the "downtrod den"; and he hints darkly about "doing something." He talks most ly in generalities, but his illustrations ire concrete and there is just enough truth in what he says or seems to say to make the whole thing dan gerous, particularly now when noth ;ng is as well established as most 'hings ought to be. The agitator himself has seldom succeedel, but he asks and usually lets a following because he is his own demonstration of the seeming 'ruth of what he says. Besides, there 's a queer psychological kink in us 'hat leads us to react sympathetically o the one who tells us that we have been abused; and so It is that the agi- ator, if he be ready of tongue and a ays the price. Yon, the world would lapse into an irchy, and perhaps into barbarism. It was so at the beginning, and it will be so at the end. I No army wins without a general; no ship sails without a captain; no and quack doctors. Liberty of the 1776 brand still survives, and the no ble statue in its honor still lights up our splendid harbor. Leslies The Seventh Annual Morrow ST. ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL An Accredited Training School for Nurses Pendleton, Oregon Young women between the ages of 18 and 35 who can be credited with one or two years High School or equivalent of same will be received as pupil nurses. For further information Address Sister Superior Sell Your Wheat Having arranged to repre sent the H. W. Collins Grain gency, we want our friends mi clients to know we are in 'he market to buy. FARMERS' EXCHANGE F. R. BROWN, Manager Heppner, Ore. BE A LEADER H mu 4 1 IfW Mi n Wi immii W" '" -El An immense problem in reconstruction confronts the present generation. Are you doing your utmost to prepare to lead in its solution? 1 1 1 MmmMSsMamMmBmgm'tmmmmmmkmmma Oregon Agricultural College TniM for ludmhip In the Indutuln i profettlont u foOoan : HOME ECONOMICS. AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE. FORESTRY. PHARMACY. MUSIC, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, CIVIL ENGINEERING. ELECTRICAL ENOINEERINO, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL ART. MINING ENGINEERING. LOGGING ENOINEERINO. MILITARY tCIENCt. Tt Cdlftt Ittinlnt intludu court In Entlirh. Economln. Art. MMhmwin. Modna Ualuun, Phyvcil Education. Industrial Journalism. NUural Scwncct. tod til ttil aucilw Three regular terms Fall term begins September 22, 1919 For Coltrgt Catiloc. Itluitrticd Booklet other informtloi addrrw THE REGISTRAR, Orefc AcrtcuKurM CoUee. orvau "U.HJ4MI I II v 1 "Surest Thing You Know," says uie uooa juage ttp It's a cinch to get a real quality chew and save part of your tobacco money at the same time. A small chew of this good tobacco gives real lasting satisfaction. THE REAL TOBACCO CHEW put up in two styles RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco "-1 revolution succeeds without a strong County Fair is just a month away, nan at its front, no political party Its the one time of the year when the wins a lasting success without a per- peonle of the county come together manent policy and aggressive lead- in a genuine sociable way.. The Far- ers to plead for it on the rostrum and mers' Picnic held annually is a good DOJfT THROW YOUR OLD HOES AwAY! After n Before I rJgmt I We can make them as good as new and our prices are reasonable THE BOWERS SHOE REPAIR SHOP C. M. BOWERS, Prop. tries which are normally in the hands -ood mixer, usually succeeds in of private enterprise, also of the ' rounding up a respectable number of effect of conduct of government injidmirers who follow him, and gen watertight compartments. The pres- erally to disaster, for his "true things ent rate was made to compete with j ire not new and his new things are i water lines. It has stimulated hand-; not true. 1 ling of wool at Portland to the point ! The agitator's stock in trade is dis- E where this city has become the sec-'content, and there are always enough ond wool market in the United 'llustrations that mav be used in such E States. It has also stimulated woolen , a way as to excite if not to make des-; s manufacture in Oregon. Because oerate a certain and not inconsider- water competition with the railroads j able proportion of our fellow men. is potential, not actual, and because i But this is no time for agitators. the railroad administration needs There are enough troubles necessar- s more money to make good its huge ily on hand without hunting up more. s3 deficit, it is proposed to raise the rate .There are enough puzzling questions to much that wool would go east-j to be decided without needlessly in- Cool - Sanitary - Convenient g Thats our new location g in the Gilman Building Fresh and Cured Meats 1 Poultry and Fish 1 Peoples Cash Market i H OVIATT & IIAPPOLD, Props. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii pilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllW We're Off Again Full of cheer and that optimistic American spirit. Peace-time industries must soon be going full swing speeded up for delayed peace necessities and luxuries, creating a job for every home-coming fighter, reabsorbing every loyal munition worker. Now '8 the time. Start things going, buying and selling all along the line. Buy what you need. Start If you buy you deplete the goods of the merchant and he must buy, and he in turn depletes th surplus stock of the fnanufacturer, who thuB is forced to buy more raw materials, produce more goods, employing more workmen. BUY NOW Start the ball LET'S GO! BUY NOW! a-rolling, headed for prosperity U. S. Department of Labor KOGER W. BABSON, Director General; W. B. WILSON, Secretary, Information and Educational Service. ill