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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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