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v(,r nrn THE t! ZETTE-TPltS, HEITXER, OHK., THVRSIUY. KEB. 2ti. 1920 THE GAZETTE-TIMES Th Hrl""r limlln Ftbl!hd M.-fh I . ltll Th HrP'' Tli K.-M'.riJ NiitmMr IS, 1MT Onol;dl4 Ftrury It, Hit ruMahd v-y Thuti1y mornln by Yawtr aai wr and ntrd t th ro.tofflo t Hpp nr, uron. -ond-clM mttr. AllV.BTlSI'li RTK lilTIH OB APPLICATION Sl-BSCRirTlON RATKS: On Tar (ill Months Thr Month.... Sinai Copl II 1 00 .71 .Ot OF1ROW COCSTY OFFICIAL PAPKR Dealing With the Un-Deported America consists of Americans and ot nothing but Americans, those, ho itnin the past tew years, nave come to mink ot Amer ica as a vast mature ot languages, races ana ciasmng doctrines, nave had me rong viewpoint, Ihey have oeen tnniKing ot America as a piace ana not as an iaeai. Millions ot immigrants have cross ed me ocean trom the Old World, they nave reached our snores, but many ot mem have never reached America. On the other hand, many ot our native born are not now and never have been Americans. Ihere is no such thing as an "American hed. Ihere is no such thing as an "American 1. W. Y." An American is a man una feels American, thinks American and acts American no matter where he was born. America has plenty of room and a warm welcome tor those who wish to become Americans, but it cannot spare a single square foot of soil to those who intend to continue un-American and anti-American. Fortun ately, we can deport some of the most noxious of these intruders, but these are but a small percentage of the unfit. What about the remain der? There is but one answer: They must be Americanized. This, however, is not a task for the Department of Justice, not even for Congress and the various state legislatures; it is a task for the rank and file of American citizens. It is a task of education plus, and of in fluence plus; it is really a task of moral coercion. It is a task for swift and energetic action, wherein Ameri can citizens in all their vast numbers must seize opportunities when they exist, and create opportunities when they do not exist, to Americanize all who come within their own circles or else to cast them out of their circles. It is no time to talk of "broad minded sympathy" or of "concilia tion," where a great question of right and wrong is involved. You cannot "conciliate" evil any more than you can "conciliate" a conflagration. breed sVom and that, by their effects detrov property. A country-wide railroad strike, for instance. We beliee that the attitude of the rural communities of this nation is pretty well summed up in the follow ing resolution adopted by the Nation al Orange at Grand Rapids, Mich.: ! "The interests of the whole public a't superior at all times and in every 1 respect to the interest of any single class of our citizenship." That is true Americanism. We I commend it to every man and woman in this nation today. Robbing Interior Publishers At their Eugene conference, Ore gon newspaper men complained bit terly in resolutions of the burdens heaped upon them by the cost and scarcity of news paper. Ihey have reason to complain, ihe government ougnt to intervene, ine tederal trade commission could well continue its investigations and make lurtner report on the news print situation. Many metropolitan newspapers are prodigally wasting white paper, .tiany an interior daily and practical ly alt the weeklies can only get a ton at a time. The prices that they are paying is exhorbitant. Nine and tnree-quarters cents a pound is the ngure some of the small dailies are asued. There are some interior dail ies and numbers of weeklies that have scarcely known from week to week whether they would have a white paper supply with which to continue publication. All the while many of the metro politan papers are consuming paper with the utmost extravagance was the cause of the recent flurry in con gress which got nowhere. Many big dailies in the cities with favorable contracts are ignoring the request to conserve paper, and, utterly disre gardful of the distressing situation in which many interior publishers are placed, are consuming paper in unrestrained prodigality. Out of regard for the situation the public is perfectly willing for metro- jpolitan newspapers to lessen the number of their pages. Ihe Journal, which has turned away advertising,' in one instance a page for one of its ! principal clients, has heard no com-1 plaint on account of its reduced size. i The precarious position io which the extortionate prices and insuffi cient supply of news print have plac- j ed interior publishers undoubtedly! has its appeal to the public. It ought j to be the occasion for a further probe ! by the trade commission. Portland Oregon Journal. pleasure to millions of people and compete with revival meetings. Hence a new campaign aginst them. In several states the restrictions are already severe, and now comes word from Oregon of a still more drastic regulation. It has been seriously proposed "to make it unlawful to show in any public place a movie act, scene or episode which, if act ually performed in real life, would amount to a felony under the laws of Oregon." If such a law were passed for the movies it would have to be applied to the speaking stage, and then fare well, a long farewell to Hamlet, Ro meo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Rich ard, yes and even Othello's occupa tion would be gone. And if there is an evil suggestive influence in the pictures of the screen and stage is there not the same influ ence in the graphic pictures of the master novelists and poets? They, too, would have to be banned if the Oregon law is to be carried to a logi cal conclusion. And then farewell, a long farewell to Dickens, Lytton, Dumas, Balzac, and to Homer, Dante Goethe and many other of the illus trious bards and dramatists. And what of the Oregon newspa pers? Are they to be debarred from reporting crimes? Surely it is not the picture, screened or written, but the way in which it is employed which has the evil influence. Let the movie reformers exercise a little in telligence or they will be innocently aiding the reaction which must inev itably follow upon excessive restric tions. San Francisco Call. R. M. Hart, local confectioner, has been improving the interior appear ance of his store the past week with new decorations, consisting of wall paper and paint. Christian 8clcnc. Christian Science service! are held evry Sunday morning at 11::00 o' clock in the lodge room in the I. 0. 0. F. building. Testimony meetings are held erery Wednesday evening at 8:00 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Eugene Slocum. All Interested are thse serTlces. invited to attend Fed Case has gone to Hot Lake to undergo a course of treatments at the sanatorium. Herman Netlson of Hardman a Tuesday caller in Heppner. Clarence Rice is over ranch near Monument to week on business. from his spend a ONLY "QUALITY PRINTING" PRODUCED AT THE G.-T. Dr. B. F. Butler returned on Sat urday from a brief business trip to Portland. Class Bonding and Taxing The $3,000,000 North Dakota bond issue has so far been refused by big loan companies for various reasons. It is to be used to establish a farm loan bank, build and operate state flour mills, elevators, stockyards, in surance, etc. The William R. Compton Invest ment Co. of St. Louis now refuses the bonds on the ground that they do not wish to encourage state social ism. If it could be shown that under state socialism these big industries could be conducted more successful ly for all the people, the bonds ought to sell well. If the farmers' organizations can handle banks, insurance, flour mills, elevators, cheaper and better than they are now handled it would be fine. But the farmers' flour mill would have to pay him more for grain and sell him flour cheaper or what ob ject could he have in taking the trou ble to run it? But has the farmer a right to run the state government in his own in terest as a class? Where does he get the right to bond and tax all to benefit his class? Rural Attitude Towards Labor Unions From the big cities we hear that the impression is wide-spread that the people of rural communities, the fanner and the townsman, are op posed to labor unions. This is sim ply ignorance. The country people are not oppos ed to organization. As a rule they favor it. The farmer has his farm er's club, or grange, or farm bureau, and the townsman has his club, asso ciation, and in many cases, board of trade. And the folks in the quiet places of our nation are not incon sistent. What they do themselves they are willing for other people to do. But that which they do oppose is the ruthless actions of certain labor unions and leaders, the widespread unnecessary strikes, which cause suf fering in city and country, that make living and working hazardous, that Cradle Shows Strength of Land A crusade under state and national agricultural forces is on in 39 states for "Better Sires Better Stock." This is a wise campaign. How about "Better Mothers Bet ter Babies"? Scientific care is at least as im portant for mothers and babies as it is for hogs and cows; and sound, healthy children are as necessary to a sound, healthy nation as good live stock. At least 32 of these 39 states agree to the proposition, for that many of them have made permanent their Children's Year committees and are carrying on a determined cam paign to give American babies a chance to become strong men and women. In 1916 more than 75,000 babies died before they were a month old five times as many as died during their second month. That happened because of the health condition of the mothers durine pregnancy and because they lacked skilled care and attention. Perhaps there was vener eal disease in the parents; perhaps the parents were ignorant of the need for skilled care and attention; perhaps the family income was too low to buy it where the need was re cognized. Under the provisions of the bhep- pard-Towner maternity bill the gov ernment would undertake half the cost of maternity and infant welfare work in the states. The state univer sities would help educate mothers and fathers, too ! by popular simple pamphlets on the importance of ma ternal and infant care and how to get it; and through public health nurses and consultation centers, scientific principles would be applied to save and increase the nation's greatest wealth human life. WHERE, IO The Question Is Settled DINE WITH US Our New Big Dining Room is not exclusive to transient trade. It's for the folks of Heppner First, Last and All the Time. Give the wife a rest and a treat a Sunday dinner here. SHORT ORDERS, TOO Elkhorn Restaurant Willow Street Carrying aTon a Mil for less than a Cent Freight rates have played a very small part in the rising cost of living. Other causes the waste of war, under-production, credit inflation have added dollars to the cost of the necessities of life, while freight charges have added only cents. The average charge for hauling a ton of freight a mile is less than a cent A suit of clothing that sold for $30 before the war was carried 2,265 miles by rail from Chicago to Ixs Angeles for 16 cents. i Now the freight charge is 22 cents and the suit sells for $50. Th com of the nit has incnuad 20 dollar. Tlx frtlght on h has IncrMMd only 5 tun, Othr transportation chargaa antar Into tha ' coat of tha flnlihtd articla carrying tha wool 10 tha mills and tha cloth to tha tailors but thasa othar chaxgas amount to but a faw conta mora. The $10 pair of shoes that used to sell for $5 goes from the New Eng land factory to the Florida dealer Tor a freight charge of 5 cents only one cent more than the pre-war rate. Beef pays only two-thirds of a cent a pound freight from Chicago to New York. American freight rates are the low est in the world. Qhis advertisement is published by the Sbsociation of Railway executives Thoti Urirmf information concerning th$ rmilnai tiiuntion may obtain liUroturt by writing to Tht Auoeiotion of Railway xMWxi, 67 Broadway, Ana York. 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Many a man and woman strongly opposed to drink cannot be persuad ed to join in the hght against smok ing. They are of those who fought drink because of the crime, misery and poverty which so often resulted from it, and not because drinking gave men pleasure or entered into competition with the little prayer meeting around the corner. Unable to see crime, misery or poverty as consequences of the smoking habit, and indeed convinced that the fra grant weed has a soothing effect up on irascible dispositions, they cannot be induced to join in the new cru sade. But, the moving pictures also give We have them in full variety, but also best quality Fancy Dried Peaches, Prunes, Pears, Grapes, Figs, Apricots, Rais ins and Sultanas. If you prefer these canned .we also can supply that want. Phelps Grocery Company 5 S3 KY i ET a package today. No tice the flavor the whole some taste of Kentucky Burley tobacco. Why do so many "regular men" buy Lucky Strike cigarettes? 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