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r r.Y I oi"R Till: ;.7.KTTE-TIIKS HFTPXFR, OKE., THTORDAY, JAW 1, 1020. THE GAZETTE-TIMES Tha Hrr" Oaiatta. E.tabllahad March 10. 18f Tha Hrrnr Tlmn FfttaMtlhad Norambor IS. 1S7. Conaolidatad February la, 11L Publiahad avary ThuraJay morning by Vawta? Ml IffWf Cnwfor4 ana antarad at tha Poatoffloa at Happ nr, Or.iron. aa aacond-claaa mattar. AnrEBTISMO RATES n I T !f on AITI.ICATIO SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Taar Ona Fix Montha Thraa Montha Slngla Coplaa- II. 0 . 1.00 .u , .01 MORROW COCXTT OFFICIAL PAPER VE RCRAL SCRIBE The country correspondent, heneer we chance to sight him. Is usually pursuing the coy, elusive item. ' 'Tis he who takes bis pen in hand, and with the best intention, Recites events some two weeks old, that he forgot to mention, And tells us that a certain swain has got himself a motor. And that the girls will all look out, or, if they don't they oughter; And at the church cantata, he is very sure and certain, He Jokes, he warns, ne gives advict and also sympathizes, And punctuation syntax, too, he ut terly despises. When e are torn he greets us with a welcome never chary, And when we die he flatters us in each obituary. He is a good old scout, and true to every heart respondent. So let us doff our hats to him the country correspondent! Tennyson J. Daft. FACING THE SEW YEAR History is a record of extremes. It divides the eras of hardships, luxury, conquest, cruelty, lust, splen dor, famine, industry, idleness, greed and pestilence. Though it is writ on stone, paper and the minds of men that danger lurks in extremes, the lesson comes down the centuries to this day un heeded. At this moment, hallowed by its Christian significance, a man is at his neighbor's throat for dollars. A year ago it was for principles and the principals were nations. Now prin cipals are individuals, even as you and I. The extreme that perpetuates all others is the present day disregard for that basis of all happiness, con cord and prosperity the Golden Rule. It's a good rule that works both ways-benefitting him who applies it and bringing good to all humanity. In the practice of it you can never reach the extreme. The Golden Rule is self-modifying. It engenders love a fellowship with and affection for all human kind. Love is the parent of good, another word self-modifying. Let's summon the good, the decen cy, the Real in us at this auspicious season and face the newday, the New Year, the new era with a new feeling for those about us and a bet ter understanding for all that peace-on-earth-good-will implies. All the fantastic economic patent medicines have been tried by Europe and all have been fruirful of misery shall we accept certain demorali zation by following them ? Herbert Hoover. WHY ARE THEY GLOOMY? When the United States govern ment shipped a load of alien Bol sheviks, anarchists and similar ilk to Russia the other day, we all im agined that they must have been a happy, well-pleased lot. If what they preached is true, this country is a mighty bad place in which to live. Our government is a despotism. Our people are starved, oppressed and enslaved by capital. Nothing good comes to the vast ma jority in this land of gloom and tyr anny. And here they were these Bolsheviks and fiery-tongued orators going away, far away from all these things. More, they were going to Russia, the paradise of their ora tions. Still more, their pockets wer stuffed with the money their easy working jaws had brought them. Were they happy ? They were not. They were the most down-in-the-mouth steamerful of passengers that ever left New York. Most of them were just about ready to burst into tears. We can't understand this. But wait! Maybe that shipload of gloom was because the voyagers HOGGING THE TROUGH t x . i. - The above is an apt illustration of the news-print situation as it exists today. And it has all been tVeught about through a piece of legislation known as the excess profits law. This law is designed to bring rev enue into the United States treas ury, but it does not work out that way, and it does ultimately, hurt the country newspapers. You ask why. Because newsprint is becoming scarce and the scarcity is brought a bout through the increasing demand of the big city papers for more print , paper. More advertising space is 'being bought by the large corpora ' tions. Of the millions of dollars be- ing carried on in national advertis ing campaigns at the present time, j from 60 to 80 per cent of the amount i would go into Uncle Sam's coffers j as excess profits, were it not so ex pended. j The enormous amount of advertis I ing has caused the metropolitan pa pers to increase the size and num ber of their pages and the demand for newsprint, has, as a conse quence, become serious. The coun try newspaper is being hit the hard est. He is the little fellow and in many instances he has been forced entirely ouut of business. It looks like a case of a newspaper being forced out of business on account of too much advertising. The Gazette-Times has been for tunate in being able to get an ade quate supply of newsprint, but un less the production of paper is great ly increased in the near future, a situation will confront all newspa pers which will have to be met with level-headed legislation. will now have to go to work. To jail with the rich speeder or the poor speeder. The man who jeopardizes life by reckless driving should be placed where he can't hurt anybody but his selfish self. Ore gon Voter. ASYLUM NOTES That plaything of the asylum known as the Oregon system is a very popular toy these merry days. A year and a half ago the people approved a whim of the inmates by passing a law attempting to reduce the prices which publishers of coun try newspapers could charge for their advertising. Seeing that they can go as far as they like, and the silly public will applaud, the "nuts" now have prepared a measure to fix the legal rate of interest at 4 to 5 per cent. It is as logical and just as the newspaper rate law passed in 1917. And other laws equally logi cal and just should establish the max imum price of wheat at 50 cents a bushel; eggs at 20 cents a dozen; butter at 20 cents a pound; overalls at 75 cents a pair; wagons at $60 each; automobiles at $250 apiece, and so on. But why make so many bites of a cherry ? Let's clean up the whole job at one gulp. We hereby propose one great, grand constitutional amendment, making it a crime to dwell in Oregon and try to make a living, and providing imprisonment for life as the penalty for such vio lation. Let the measure appropriate all the resources of the state to con struct a penitentiary for incarcerat ing the guilty, with C. S. Jackson, in court jester's costume, as command er of the guards. Enterprise Record Chieftain. THE BONA FIDE FARMER It is provided that the directors of the new Farm Bureau Federation shall be "bona fide" farmers. This is a brief and blunt way of stating a fundamental requirement, but it doesn't end there. It opens up the whole question of the selection of farm leadership. Cream rises to the top. Born leaders are irresistibly pushed for ward, and others fitted to assume responsibility are quickly loaded with it. But ambition, egotism, and plain, unmixed nerve also lead oth ers not qualified for sane leadership to push into the front ranks and strive for places at the head of the procession. This second fact is more important than the first because in it lies the danger. These two class es of leaders are always in evi dence: the able and the self-chosen. To-day, more than ever before, false leadership is gaining ground Shallow-minded men with persuas ive and aggressive manners- coupl ed with a certain shrewdness that en ables them to impress the body of their followers, are leading large groups of sound-minded men into dangerous situations. The whole world cataclysm has been the result of following the wrong leaders. First, Germany. went into the valley of death in blind faith in a false leader. Then Russia was swept into chaos by following the bloody path of purposeless rev-J olution led on by upstarts whose, shallow minds could not foresee thai in the end they could face nothing but disaster. In the same way small er groups within all countries are now surging on after the cheering anl flag-waving radicals who can thrive and exist only in a season of hot-headedness, far removed from clear and sober thinking. And this wave of upheaval has not stopped short of the basic group in society, the people on the land. "Who expresses the real agricul tural thought and interest?" is a question heard on every side, not on ly among government officials, Con gressmen and business men, but al so among groups of farmers them selves. Trie mere fact that the ques tion is asked shows that there is wide-spread doubt in the sincerity and ability of the recognized leaders of the present moment. A decided lack of confidence in those who have been the recognized spokesmen for farmers in the past demands that a new vote must be taken to reestab lish them or replace them. Coun try Gentleman. HIGH HEELED SHOES Every physician, every nurse, every physiologist, every scientist, who discusses the subject, condemns styles of women's footwear. Amer ican women can no longer pity the poor female aristocracy of China, who deformed the childish feet The situation in this land of suppos ed intelligence is nearly as bad. Women are poking their toes into pointed shoes and elevating their heels upon wooden pegs, just to o bey fashion. The result is injured health, anu suft and ample bills of the doctor, in the end. The first trouble comes in corns and callouses, then possible bunions. Then the back weakens. Then internal troubles manifest themselves. The medical world is attributing an appalingly high per centage of female lliness to the ab ominable high heels. If the women have not strength of character sufficient to stop the ruin which confronts them, the legisla ture of the several states will act as a matter of future generations. Pendleton Tribune, g To all our g Friends and Patrons j 1 We wish you g A Happy, Prosperous j and Peaceful j I New Year 1 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. The Gazette-Times i br k 1 Martin Luther Petelle 1 Evangelist, now at Lexington I In rousing meeting at the I Christian Church You must hear him or miss a ' I treat of a lifetime. I He Preaches the Plain Word of God I We desire to express our sincere apprecia tion for your loyal pat ronage during the past year and hope by qual ity, prices and fair treatment may merit a continuation of the same for 1920. Sincerely yours, Phelps Grocery Company - A Miss May Morris j will lead the song service j at these Gospel Meetings. I If you like good singing, come I and hear her. Some of the themes to be discussed g "Will the Old Book Stand?" 1 "The Battle of the Ages" g "Campbellism Exposed" "What Must I Do to Be Saved?" I Meeting now in full swing at Lexing- ton, with interest growing nightly. 1