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riit llh4 vrjr TturUy morninf by ,
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(,'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
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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
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ment of interest on the public debt,
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and such a ta would be eminently
equitable. Pendleton Tribune.
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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.
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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
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Our Invoice
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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
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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
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