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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1920)
THK ti AZKTTK-TIMKS HKrPXER, Ol.K.. Till KS1UY, J AX. 22, 1120 THE GAZETTE-TIMES Th )UH'Hr tlm.ttfc EUblihi Mrrh II, 111! N..TT.t' 1. 1: i (Yfiot!tSit4 Fbrur It. llt j riit llh4 vrjr TturUy morninf by , I ,r mm lifirr! Crawford I (,'li.is. It. Latourvll. local dealer. ' tractinc a great ileal of attention expected and desired to many and establish homes, to raise families and to perform all the duties of citizen ship. Now the American birth rate is decreasing. Except for the for eign element among us. who still rear larce families u e would present are looking fr In the near fut as the two Morrow county teums inclined to take on the irrigation ure, feel isls. i.'iehed his fust Kordson traetor tliia week, wliieh he is using for dem onstration purposes, lie has a nuui ! her of orders for this popular traetor and espeets a complete shipment at ! an early date. The Fordson is at- from the farmers. The lieriniston basket ball team has been trying to Ret games i! both the lone and Heppner fives, and K. S. Aekerman, publisher of lone Independent, was a Monday enlng visitor in Heppner. the ev- it is likely that they will net all they a sad spectacle, not much better than decadent France. The public treasury is in need of money. If men insist on a life of single blessedness or single cussed ness, suppose they pay for their avoi dance of duty. One hundred dollars a year each from seven million men u'iiiiM Assist matpriulK- in the pay nl nfra t th roito!T!e t Hpp rr. lron. econd-claM infctUr. AllVFRTlSIMi RATK R I V M OH AITI.II ATIO STPSCRIFTION RATES: On Tr , It 00 Fix Month 1-00 ThrM Montha tt PingU CopiM . .01 ment of interest on the public debt, MORROW CO If TV OFFICIAL FAPBH and such a ta would be eminently equitable. Pendleton Tribune. VM.t 1 t R ' I pp Before Buying Your I- -7;j Winter Shoes I Step in and look over our ock 11 How Shall Our Debts Be Paid? In one way or another we' must contrive to raise a billion and a half dollars annually, says Country Gen tlemen, on the public debt for inter est alone, before a beginning can be made on the principal. All this is in addition to our daily needs and as a contribution to the high cost of liv ing. The expense of the government! Somehow we have learned to lean upon the Government and expect it to perform prodigies for us instead of bending our backs to the burden as before the war. We need to take a lesson from the condition of Eng land, in which country, we are told, the demands so much exceed the re venues that the daily deficit is over ten million dollars, mainly because so many men and women have found it more comfortable to let the govern ment do it than to meet by their own exertions the hardships following the war. In the meantime the national oc cupation in most countries seems to be that of calling strikes. If this is to continue, who is to pay the debt? Capital says we must work it out. Labor says virtually: Let capital pay the bill. And that is exactly what frightens capital, which is only another name for our national surplus. The Gov ernment found it necessary to draw heavily on capital in time of war in the shape of income and excess-profit taxes under a graduated scale that approached confiscation when the fig ures w ere large. All this means that if labor de clines to work, then capital must pay the bills as long as any capital re mains. How, then, will our indus tries be floated ? Our very' national prosperity depends upon holding and keeping at work whatever capital we have. It must be remembered too, that vast sums are invested in enterprises that depend upon daily labor in order to be effective. Not only that, but in many kinds of business the capital will become extinct if the business is not pushed. All capital is invested for the sake of income. Six per cent is consider ed good if capital is constantly em ployed. If capital is to lie idle even six per cent of the time because of strikes or insufficient labor, how shall it earn its dividends? This all means, if it means any thing, that whatever we do not earn through keeping our capital busy we must earn by hard labor and perhaps under great disadvantage if our cap ital should sink so low as to make the proper equipment of factories and similar plants impossible. Wherefore, the sooner all classes of people begin to realize that the biggest question now is not greater wages and shorter days but rather a busier country, at least until this debt begins to shrink. The sooner we be gin to realize that, the better for everybody, and let us deal justly, es pecially with the workmen, but let us not fool away our capital nor smash our investments. Above all, let us have an end of strikes. Farmers will plant corn next May as certain as the season comes round. In the same way and for the same reason let all men everywhere work at the jobs which they have se lected by reason of the occupation they have chosen. If advertising doesn't pay- there are many shrewd business men who are wasting millions of dollars every year. In view of the fact that the reso lutions regarding the Japanese ques tion adopted by the American Legion at Minneapolis, were of such a dras tic nature, the national legislative committee of the Legion calls atten tion to a statement just issued by the Japanese Ambassador. "The Japanese Government, reads the statement, are placing the ques tions i:nposible for the promotion of friendly relations between Japan and the United States, and having care fully examined in the spirit, the sit uation created by the question of the so called "picture brides" have de cided to adopt measures for the pro hibition of such brides from proceed ing to the constitutional limits of the United States." William Jennings Bryan has thrust himself into the arena again. Men may come and men may go, but Will iam Jennings talks on forever. Concord (N. H.) Evening Monitor. BACK FROM ELBA iffl I 242? I Keep an Eye On Russian Bear word democracy implies that every citizen should be a politician, to the What a world of prosperity would be added to Heppner if every farm er, every stockman and every towns man did all of. his trading at home. The dollars produced here would cir culate at home in a never-ending manner. Yet sent out of town, these dollars are gone, yes, gone forever. It is gratifying to The Gazette-Times to note the fact that Heppner mer chants are beginning to realize more and more that this traJe can be kept at home. Mail order tactics on the part of home merchants will defeat the foreign trade grabbers at their own gaftie. Printer's ink and pub lished price lists will turn the trick. D. M. Ward made a trip to Mon ument the last of the week. He drove over in his car and found the roads in a bad condition for motoring. We note that the Russian Bolshev ists, Russian anti-Bolshevists and Russians of all the other score or two of parties, are united on one thing they don't want self-determination of peoples in what was the old empire of Russia. They simply will not have inde-j pendence in Ukrania, in Siberia, in Lithuania, in Letvia and other lands conquered in the good old Russian bear days. And so, when the Bol shevists send armies against those struggling new nations, the so-called freeman of Russia, of all parties, shriek their applause. A little revolution and a whole lot of terror and cold-blooded murder isn't enough to change the instincts of that cunning old bear. One of these days if it hasn't already started will see reaction in Russia. Already they have a strong armv. The movjiks and muts of the old Russian army who couldn't stand good plain democracy, and thought they could do as they pleased under Bolshevism, now find themselves conscripted and disciplined with an iron hand. This new army is putting down civ il war and threatening the frontiers. Next, if historical precedents count for anything, a Napoleon will arise in Russia, and the Russian army will need the strong men of Ukraine, Si beria, Letvia and other provinces, to go out and help conquer the world. The Russian bear! For centuries he fought with nothing else in mind but to take other people's lands from them. For centuries he lusted for the fat loot of other nations' homes. It will be well for the world to keep an eye on "the bear that walks like a man." Chairman Havs struck at one cause of our troubles when he point ed with scorn at the man who takes no interest in politics. The very extent of being informed on public affairs and voting accordingly. In difference of many is largely due to the fact that politics is too much a matter of office-seeking and getting and too little a matter of rival prin ciples of government. Oregonian. Tax the Single Man It is expected that the census will disclose at least ten millions of sin gle men of marriageable age in the United States. Assuming that one forth of these are physically incapa ble of marriage, there would be left enough to materially increase the re venues of the government, if taxed for the luxury of celebacy. It is a luxury in the sense of selfishness. Single men are able to spend their earning upon themselves, and to waste their substance with responsi bility to no one. There are substantially as many single women as there are men, but most of these would be pleased to become partners in the establishment of a home, if given the opportunity. Thousands of women are now engag ed in industrial and mercantile occu pations who would promptly ex change their places for the kitchen and dining room, were their own, thus giving place to more men in the business world. ; One of the causes of social and ' industrial unrest is the fact that wo men have so largely displaced men in stores and factories. None can deny that the domestic and industrial I status of half a century ago was con ductive to better and more normal standards than the conditions of to day. Then there were few women ! employed in other than domestic du- ties. Perhaps the cotton factories invited them, but their presence in the stores, banks and industrial plants are almost unknown. In that day men and women both i . h i of heavy, hand-made work : 3 shoes for men. We also have in slock the well known . O'Donnell Shoe for men. ( . C. M. Bowers Shoe Shop Main Street Heppner Plllllllllllllllllllllllllll Our Invoice EE I Just Completed 1 discloses the fact that 1 we have several broken j lines, as well as some I we shall discontinue. 1 These we shall sell out regardless of first cost. You will find them all represented on our I BARGAIN TABLE I I Look it over and see j 1 what you can use. 1 Phelps Grocery I Company 1 mimTiTumfnTmimiiWiMi How to Guarantee Spring Delivery of Hudson and Essex Open Models No large Money Outlay Required. Make Your Choice Now. We Will Store It For You and Insure You Against Disappointment In the light of the year just closed, it is not conjecture to assert that a shortage of Hudson and Essex cars is sure to recur this Spring. More than 22,000 Essex cars were sold in the past twelve months. The factory capacity was increased time after time. Beginning with a daily production of 30 cars, it reached 125 cars daily. Yet we were never able to overtake advance orders. A similar condition was true with re spect to Hudson. You remember how scores waited in vain for delivery. Perhaps you were among those disappointed. Practically our entire quota of both Hudson and Essex cars were sold weeks ahead. Few were able to get delivery who had not placed their orders ahead. Settle the Delivery Worry Now This year we have arranged a special plan to guarantee you delivery, during the acute rush of orders. It will require no large outlay of mon ey. You can place your order now. We will have your car ready for you on the day you want it. Thus you dispose of all concern about getting your Hudson or Essex when you want it. It will be a source of satisfaction to know you are insured against having to accept some less wanted car, when the season for open types crowds the market with more buyers than we can supply. ' If your preference is for a light car what choice equals the Essex? It represents a new, unexpected value. It brings to the light car field such qual ity and tine performance as was hitherto found only among large costly cars. Note the Quality of the Essex If speed is your requirement see if the Essex does not meet it. Where luxury and finish are demanded compare the Essex with any car. It is needless to speak of the Hudson. All know what it has done. Its records, which prove supremacy throughout the range of performance, are confirmed by the satisfaction that more than 80,000 owners know in their Super-Sixes. The supply of Hudsons and of Essex has never been sufficient for the demand. You can only insure yourself against disappointment in getting either of these popular cars, by placing your order un der the convenient plan we have set forth above. Vaughn & Sons iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMmiiiiitniiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniiiiniiiiiiiiim iiiiiiiiini iiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiit iiiiiMiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
