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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1919)
THK ;.KTTK.TIMrs lUTPMKU, OliE., THVKSIUY, PKC. 23, 1S19. THE GAZETTE-TIMES !'.:;.- Kst.iMuhf d :: . ' - li.xn EtMlshl S --r lv. 1st: r. : .!! Fabruaxy IS. 1911. r .t nvry Thursday morning by awtcr aad Sacao. Crawford a i fr,!p-pj nt the Tostoffic at H.pp. n-r, vt:r;.ru as pecond-claea matlar. A1IMHI1MM. HATKM GIVEN ON Al'l'l U A HON U lA'UirTION RATES; One Tsar $1 00 i-.x Months . 1.00 "ih'-f M. i.ths .? fcn.fcle Oi'pi ,04 MllKHOW lOlTV OFFICIAL PAPER Restore Our Constitution I mi I it ai-i'ut tune to try to restore a contitutioa to the State of Ore gon? U itn tuo of the worst freak consti tutional amendments pending, with a record of IS per cent of the regis tcrd voters having amended the con stitution in the past and with the con dition of unrest and uncertainty which now prevails, is not now the opportune time to try to safeguard the organic law of the state from fur ther hasty amendment? A vast amount of statutory matter already has been injected into the constitution, making it almost un recognizable as a fundamental char ter. The constitution may be amend ed by popular vote just as easily as a statute can be enacted, with the dif ference that a blunder in a statute can be corrected by the legislature while a blunder in the constitution cannot be corrected except after a costly camapign to create enough public sentiment to get a correction mads by popular vote. It ought not to be as easy to change the constitution as to pass a mere law. Either a two-thirds majority of votes cast on an amendment, or a straight majority of all the registered votes, or a mere majority twice in succession, ought to be required be fore the organic charter of the state can be amended. The people are becoming more and more concerned with the importance of having a stable form of govern ment. There is no stability in Ore gon until we have a constitution that cannot be amended as a passing whim. Oregon Voter. One rich laywer is a monument to many fools and obstinate men, says the Marsh field Times. Wood As a Statesman Because public sentiment seems to be crvstalizing to demand the nomin ation of Major General Leonard Wood for the presidency, there is naturally a desire to know something in detail of his civil achievements. This man is more than a military officer. He is a civil administrator second to none in this generation Great Britain regarded Lord Cromer as the greatest of her colonial admin istrators, and when he retired from the Egyptian field, he was invited to name his own successor. His reply is said to have been in substance, "Unfortunately the best man is un available, since he is an American citizen named Leonard Wood." That is a high compliment, whet her true or false, and it probably re flects the opinion of the statesmen of the world. After the Spanish war General Wood became governor general of Cuba, and his constructive states manship reconstructed the civiliza of that then unhappy island. He es tablished a public school system. He modernized the marriage laws and election systems. He developed the Cuban transportation system. He harmonized the strained relations be tween the government and the church. He transformed the ancient notions of the people touching hy giene and sanitation, and gave health to a nation. His work there astound ed not only Cubans, but America as well. Appleton & Company have just published a volume upon the "Car eer of Leonard Wood," by Joseph H. Sears, and therein the writer quotes; an officer who served under Wood in the Philippines as follows: "When I took my troops into the jungle, I was satisfied if I accomplished my mission and brought my men home safely. General Wood was never satisfied unless he took along with him a geologist, a zoologist and an ethnologists, and could bring back a complete survey of the country through which he had traveled, as well." Wood's record in the Phili pines is a proud one, almost equal to that which he left in Cuba. General Wood is a physician. He graduated from the Harvard Medical scVol in 1SS4, and entered the army as a surgeon in the Indian wars of the southwest. He is not a West Pointer. He is now a major general but he has earned every promotion. He is the ablest commander in the w estern world today, but he is above all the petty redtapism which belongs especially to military educated men. He is great as a soldier. He is greater as a civilian. Long the intimate of Roosevelt, he was the originator of many of the Roosevelt ideas. His place in the army made it sometimes imposs ible for him to proclaim bis opinions, and then he and the modem Ameri can commoner cooperated. Wood was undoubtedly the originator of the Roosevelt preparedness cam paign, as he was of the training camps. He possessed vision, and sensed the impossibility of this re public remaining aloof from the tra vail of Europe. As the dead presi dent loved him, so the millions of Rooseveltians love him for his friend's sake. Pendleton Tribune. To leave an egg stain on your chin is no longer slovenly. It's an inde cent flaunting of one's wealth, says the Bend Bulletin. Words of Comnuend&tion Many compliments have come to u-, as a result cf the Xmas num ber of the Gadette-Times, all of which are highly gratifying to us. It was with extreme pleasure we read the following complimentary lines from the pen of Mr. Pattison, our competitor over in the Herald office: "It gives the Herald pleasure to commend the enterprise shown by its contemporary, The Gazette Times, evidenced in its splendid 28 page Christmas edition which ap peared last Friday. Such an edition is a credit not only to the publishers, but to the town and community as well, whose business men so liberal ly patronize its advertising columns. Every evidence of enterprise and progress such as this on the part of the newspapers of a community, no matter who is the publisher, is a benefit to every interest of that com munity and the Herald would be petty, indeed, if it failed to give cred it for meritorious work of a contem porary because i contemporary is, perforce, a competitor. We congrat ulate our neighbor and wish him the degree of prosperity such enterprise merit3." t-t A lawyer in a court room may call a man a liar, a scoundrel, a villian, and no one makes a complaint when court adjourns. If a newspaper pub lishes such a reflection there is a libel suit or a dead editor. This is owing to the fact that the people believe what an editor says. Banks Herald. Lots of people can "whistle in" but need a tug boat to bring them to a landing, opines the Malhuer Enter prise. t-t Branch Line Need3 Improving Of course while the railroads are operating as a Government owned utility, we cannot expect any im provement made in service. In fact it haa been one deficit after another since Uncle Sam undertook to run the lines. While railway employees have been the recipients of substan tial wage increases and fair working hours, increased efficiency is not no ticeable to the public, and on the whole, matters seem to have gone from bad to worse. The present condit'on of the Heppner branch of the O.W. cannot be laid at the door of the United States Railroad Administration, how ever. Every little high water down Willow Creek for years past, has raised havoc with this line. Dinkey trestles have gone out, bents have become weakened until, in one in stance at least, human life has been lost. Time and again it has been said that the Heppner branch is one of the best paying roads in the entire system, yet the service is undeniably rotten. Dangerous curves and a soft soggy road bed make transpor tation difficult, uncertain and in many places, risky. We would like to see sufficient stress from some quarter, brought to bear upon the management of this system which will result in quite a few dollars being spent in making some far-reaching improvements in the road. Improvements that would place the track high and dry from these wash-outs. : .ami iiiiiiiiih 11 Do You Need Gloves this cold weather? We have the largest and best stock of Cotton Gloves in the city PRICES RIGHT Phelps Grocery Company siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiw PUT YOUR PRINTING PROBLEMS UP TO US. WE HAVE HELPED OTHERS OUT OF THEIR DIFFICULTIES AND CAN DO THE SAME FOR YOU. The nilwty) of the United Stitei ire more thaa niw-third. Dearly ne - half, of all the railwaji of the world. They carry a yearly traffic m muck greater than that of any other country that there it reaily no baaia for compart on. ladeed, the traffic of any two nations nay be cnv bined, and ittli it doe not approach tha commerce of America '.wrne upon AaMricaa railways. Vmlu4 If jim tinam Cummtmi. Ask Any Doughboy Who Was "Over There" and he will tell you that American railroads are the best in the world. He saw the foreign roads in England and France, the best in Europe and in other Con tinental countries and he knows. The part railroads have played in the develop ment of the United States is beyond measure. American railroads have achieved high stand ards of public service by far-sighted and courage ous investment of capital, and by the constant striving of managers and men for rewards for work well done. We have the best railroads in the world we must continue to have the best. But they must grow. To the $20,000,000,000 now invested in our railroads, there will have to be added in the next few years, to keep pace with the nation's business, billions more for additional tracks, stations and terminals, cars and engines, electric power houses and trains, automatic signals, safety devices, the elimination of grade crossings and for recon struction and engineering economies that will re duce the cost of transportation. To attract to the railroads in the future the in vestment funds of many thrifty citizens, the direct ing genius of the most capable builders and man agers, and the skill and loyalty of the best work men in competition with other industries bid ding for capital, managers and men the railroad industry must hold out fair rewards to capital, to managers and to the men. American railroads will continue to set world standards and adequately serve the Nation's needs If they continue to be built and operated on the American principle of rewards for work well done. , Tht$ dstirinf information conctming Iht railroad tiht ttim may obtain literaturt by writin to The Aliocia tion of Railway Ezteutiea, it Broadway, New York. Are You Out? The first of the year is at hand and it would be well for you, Mr. Business Man, to take stock of your stationery, printed forms, etc., etc. If the supply is running short, you will want to replenish at once with Gazette-Times Quality Printing which is the kind all discerning busi ness men in Heppner are using. Phone Main 882 for Quality Print ing and get Service. Gazette-Times The Martin Luther Petelle , , , .. , f ... V- L , - I 'Yiff mum, - j: ! ( 1 ! ' V ' S m far i ' ( : - I is coming to J Lexington 1 Will begin meetings at the I Christian Church, Dec. 28th 1 You must hear him or miss a treat of a lifetime. I He Preaches the Plain Word of God I Miss May Morris j will lead the song service 1 at these Gospel Meetings. i If you like good singing, come 1 and hear her. I 'fk Some of the themes to be discussed I fr AVtfV- "Will the Old Book Stand?" I "The Battle of the Ages" Lampbellism hxposed " "What Must I Do to Be Saved?" REMEMBER: Beginning Dec. 28th, Lexington, Ore. Hi