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VM.r 1 T-R THK t; VZITTK-TniF-S I1TTPXER, oliK., T1IVKSDAY, J AX. I IS, 1020. THE GAZETTE-TIMES t",,7!' Is:.it l: ;rn T. . . ! V it.- i 1 7 Cm. .i: !: ! ): uar K-. rut !ih. vrjr Thu:-.!y n:ornint by lawtrr -r Oxford ! .i nir-r t h !..!. t Hyp nr. in. fts ts orM-vlasa matler. aivi:ktimm; huh i; i v e os AITI.H AH0 SI liSOniTTION- KATKS: ! Tr II C 8 M"ftth Th- V..r.lh ."I S,i.c) l'.-., m - mohhuw roi xTT orricuL papkh r-.:--i foremost has got to be ! out the problem a to whether t'v .Vnftution of the United States, p-.-'tcctir.i: t!'e right of the individual to :im'nc material progress, to aectt- to save, is to be protect ed. V Theory and Practice If you have time to w astc and your neck of the woods has not been clear-1 ed of the I. YV. V. pest, grab one of j these birds w ith the red insignia in '. his buttonhole and ask him to tell you j about his econoxic theory. Don't j argue with him. It's a waste of i breath. Just let him rave and cata-j logue a few of his more lucid re-1 marks for future reference. After! leaving him, run over a few of his ar-1 guments in your mind. Then figure i out for yourself if the nut house is ' not just as good a place for your un- i desirable acquaintance a? the noose gow. His theories are lovely things. All about how everybody w ill be as rich as everybody else and only a small part of a day chiefly devoted to sleep ing, eating, resting and enjoying life will be given degrading labor. Only he won't make it as bald as that. He'll sprinkle in a few big words, twist a few honest statistics to match his ideas, quote a few bug authors and misquote a few real thinkers. You may go away with the idea that he's quite right, you know, until you get out of reach of his voodooism and consider his arguments in the clear light of a little rea-on, If you flounder about between the orv and theory and finallv admit tliat you know about as much about econ-1 omics now as you knew about K. P. before April. 1917. maybe you will! resort to the crude, unscientific meth-, od of putting his theories up against j practice. You will merely turn to the : "R's" and under the heading "Rus-j sia" will not the superb manner in J which the I. V. V. millenium. which j is basically the same as the Bolshev-! istic paradise, works out when it comes true. Honest workmen, like yourself, who like vour three squares a dav and coca cola will find your Russian brother who is rioting in proletarian freedom plugging along twelve hours a day and facing a diet of lead if he suggests a strike for eleven hours and a minimum wage of 500 rubles, or about ten cents a day. It doesn't matter who owned the property in the first place, the poor, the hoorzhwazee. or the plutes. the vultures on the top of the heap have taken it over and protect their rights by red guards who would make baby killing Prussians sick with envy. Food is a commodity tn. .which the long-haired spell-binder who climb ed into the ex-throne rooms revel, while the poor wops who didn't have pull enough to get in with the higher ups, or were too tender-hearted to be red guards, lap up the crumbs thrown from palace windows and haunt the vicinity of the e.vroyal garbage cans. Just to show how delightfully equal everybody is and to save the formal ity of murdering the rest of the fam ily when a woman is desired by one of the heads of this orderly govern ment, wives, sisters and sweethearts are "nationalized." Nice idea. How would you like it over here? White-hot irons, caldrons of boil ing oil. stuffy graves for the living, racks, thumbscrews and various oth er thingumbobs of the middle ages are the popular Russian substitutes for courts or justice, with an occa sional old-fashioned massacre to keep the constituents in line, in com parison with St. Bartholomew's Day would slink into the class of a Sun day school spelling orgy. this is the I. V. W. economic the ory put in practice. Great stuff, is n't it? All in favor of allowing them to practice it in Russia - step for ward. Company, Halt! The Pacific Legion. It is encouraging to note the fact that lots in the burned district are be ing bought by people who intend to erect modern homes. There is na reason why that particular part of, Heppner should fail to become a cen ter of beautiful homes. We predict that once building starts, there will he a general move on the part of property owners there to re-build. The John Day Irrigation project received the unanimous endrosement of the lrigation Congress in Portland last week. By virtue of its being the largest project in the West at the present time, is bound to gain and hold the attention of the government tnd its success is practically assured. The first reform necessary is to put behind the flag at every school house the Constitution of the United States. There should never be a graduation certificate or a diploma issued to a West Point cadet, a state university student, a high school scholar or a grammar school pupil who has not passed an examination and shown his knowledge of the meaning of the Constitution of the United States and its representative form of government. In the political agitation that has gone on, it seems almost to have been forgotten that great as is the Constitution of the United States, its greatness consists in the freedom it gives to individual enterprise and for combinations of enterprise and capi tal: the protection it gives to individ ual investors, and the stimulus it fur-! nishes to individual initiative. j U. S. spells not only "combina tion" but wealth and independence j as the reward for business enterprise which enlarges output, improves , quality and reduces prices. It is thus that here the people are j better and more abundantly fed and ! clothed, and let it never be forgotten j that labor consumes more than 90: percent of what it produces. Grant County Journal. Band Is One of Town's Best Assets The late war brought home to the towns, big and small, little and large, the value of a good band. The band I played when the boys marched away, ' ?nd they played when the boys came Kme again. There was nothing that could help to brush back the tears like the band. And unfortunate was th-it town that did not have a band. Every public gathering can be made a snappy, lively one, if there is a band there to dispense lively music. Social gatherings without end are made a success instead of a failure if there is band or orchestra music. We believe that Heppner has too long neglected its musical possi bilities. Many of the older genera tion have grown away from things musical, and the youngsters are com ing up without its influence and los ing some of the best things in life. We have a competent band leader and band instrumem teacher with us now. in the person of Professor Aus tin. He is building up a class and a number of youngsters are among his pupils. It is an opportune time for parents to get their children inter ested in playing a musical instru ment, for by learning now, the chil dren will have something which will remain with them througnout their lives. They will have some musical accomplishment. Learning in youth comes easy. Now is the best time to start and Mr. Austin will give you a square deal. Time or Places Railroad traveling is of two kinds: first, that in which you watch the clock to see how much longer it will be until you reach vour destination;! second, where your interest centers! on the things passing by your kaleid-j oscope window. The first is tiresome, uninteresting. The second recreation and enjoy ment. Life's pullman is also peopled by the same two classes of individuals. Those who have their eyes and their mind set on the goal they hope to reach some day. but fail to appre ciate the opportunities that fly by the window of their soul every day. Then there are the lovable, suc cessful folks who take an interest in life as it comes. They do the things that are brought to their notice and before they realize it they have come to the top of the ladder. One is wish ing. The other working. Isn't It Awful? We have been reading the London Nation, the New .York Nation and the New Republic pretty attentively for a year that is, every week and we find that there is nothing right in the world. This will be surprising to many readers of these lines who prospered fairly well during the year just pass ed, who had plenty to eat and wear, comfortable homes and pleasant ac quaintances, and who had many an enjoyable time in 1919, winding up with a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. "he two Nations referred to and the New Republic know better you .vere grieviously wronged; you were foully oppressed, and you have just managed to survive this life of hor rors. Wake up, you down-trodden fool, and revolute. Perhaps you do not read the three magazines referred to maybe, you don't even know them. Well, they are lit'ry magazines, issued weekly, and you can't afford to be without them if you are a grouch or a Job's com forter. Read them carefully and you will find no good word for anybody who does anything in the world; on ly criticism for everybody and every thing from President Wilson, Lloyd George and Sarn Gompers down to Bill Jones and the constable. And how they do "view with alarm." Oh boy! But wait! That's not quite true. They DO see everything good in Rus sian Bolshevism, notwithstanding half the people of Russia are at this moment pretty near as close to death from starvation and freezing as hu man people can get without passing away. Your two Nations and New Republic are the best little apologists for Bolshevism that ever popped ar ound the corner, thereby getting their journals quoted in many Bolsheviki organs and thereby also persuading many a dollar across their subscrip tion counters. Our observations are, however, that they are not getting very far with their denunciations of every thing on earth or their propaganda for Bolshevism. The people of the United States and England will have nothing of communion and as for the "viewing with alarm" stuff they are making too much of a "Wolf! Wolf!" game of it. Heppner Was Bawled Out ' When S. H. Boardman of Board-: man answered "present" for Hepp-I tier at the recent meeting of the Irri-1 gation Congress in Portland, Hepp- tier received one of the most humili- J ating "Raspberries" that ever was; the misfortune of any town to re- j ceive. In other words, we were; "bawled out" if that slang phrase may be used in this connection. Ac- :ording to representatives of the John Day District, who were present, the secretary said, "You, a Boardman man, representing Heppner, why what's the matter with Heppner?" That is just the question, "What is the matter with Heppner?" Prob ably Mr. Boardman was just as capa ble of representing Heppner insofar as that particular meeting was con cerned, as any of our local men would have been, but the outside world does not view such matters in that light. And Heppner should have had her representative there. Let us hope that we will profit by past mistakes and not soon put ourselves in a position for such a public bawl ing out as we received at that meet ing in Portland the other day. T. J. Mahonev. manaeer of the Col umbia Basin Wool Warehouse at Portland, and vice president of the First National Bank of Heppner, ar rived the first of the week to attend the annual meeting of the stockhold ers of the bank. S. T. Robison, Eight Mile farmer who Is in from his ranch today, says the late snow has all melted and that the sumnierfallow has absorbed near ly all of the moisture. The early history of the Northwest shows that Old Fort Benton, where Fort Benton City, Montana, now stands, at the head of navigation on the Missouri river, played an impor tant part in the development of this particular part of our country. For years, Fort Benton was a distribut ing center for a large territory. The old buildings are still intact at the fort and the following eulogizing lines have immortalized Old Fort Benton, by Thomas Murray Spencer, the Oregon-Montana poet, who sells cigars for Mason-Khrman Company of Portland. "THE OLD FORT." Old Missouri! Can you tell me? As thy younger waters pass, Silent as the Old Fort yonder. Now a grim and crumbling mass. Tell me of its brave defenders, Of its traders, trappers, braves; Man the loop-holes with its heroes, Rouse the warriors from their graves. Let the incense of some battle Hover o'er the silent tomb, And the war-whoop shrilly sounding, Mingle with the cannon's boom. Though its glory has departed. And its crumbling walla decay, History throws a halo around it That shall never fade away. THOMAS MURRAY SPENCER. G.-T. QUALITY PRINTING USED EXCLUSIVELY IIS THERE ARE MANY BUSINESS FIRMS IN Heppner which use G.-T. "Quality" Printing exclusively. For this the rea son, to anyone who has compared G.-T. printing with other printing produced lo cally, is perfectly plain. In every particular that produced by The Gazette-Times excells. New and modern equipment combined with intelligent and efficient treatment of every job accounts for the difference which is making Gazette-Times "Quality" Print ing the standard printing of Heppner. Phone Main 882 If you are needing anything which is printed. The Gazette-Times Our Invoice J 1 Just Completed J discloses the fact that 1 we have several broken I 1 lines, as well as some I g we shall discontinue. 1 1 These we shall sell out regardless of first cost. EE g You will find them all 1 represented on our 1 BARGAIN TABLE 1 Look it over and see 1 what you can use. j Phelps Grocery I Company 1 ill m THE UNIVERSAL CAR Don't Depend on Spring Deliveries Spring deliveries of Ford cars have never been certain, and they should not be de pended upon. Demand has always been greater than the supply or production. So, if you would be sure of having a Ford car, buy it now while deliveries are possible. Don't wait even next month is an uncertainty. Only a limited, specified number of cars has been allotted to this territory. That allotment cannot be increased, because the demand all over the country is greater than the supply or production. Get your order in now, and you will be one of those who is sure of a Ford car out of our allotment. It's first come first served. All orders are filled in rotation. So, if you would be forehanded, if you would be certain of having a Ford car when you want it then you will buy a Ford car now. A signed order with us is your protection. It is the re sult of the wisdom of looking ahead. If you buy a Ford car now, don't think you have to "store' ' it. The Ford is a car made to serve its owner for business or pleasure throughout the entire year. Ford owners have long since come to recognize the fact. It is no longer popular to ' ' lay-up ' ' your car for the winter. Buy a Ford car now and use it now. Chas. H. Latourell Authorized Ford Dealer Heppner, Oregon Insist on Genuine Ford Farts UBttflM