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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."
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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.
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this cold weather?
We have the largest and
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in the city
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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.
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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.
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