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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1920)
Vi t J I'.HT TI1K t; 7.1'TTK-T1M1'S. HKPPNKR, OliK.. TIHItSIVXY. VI H. 2, lO'-'rt. Asks Officials "Why?" v v , ' ' V 1 1 iiiiiiii!!iiniMiiini!iiuiiMUiinit!iiiuiii!iiii!iMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinniiititiiiMiiiiiinMn j STATE NEWS - - - SPECIAL FEATURE SECTION 1 1 Under this Heading Each Week Will be Found Up to-the-Minute News of the World in Picture and Text, Showing the Doings of the Great, the Near- Great and Those Who Are Striving to Become Great. Items of General News Interest Gathered From Over the State at Large. Women's Activities and Fashions. Humor From the Leading Humorous Papers. 5 iiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiMiiiniiiniiiniiMiiiiiiiiimiiiiM Hon. Royal C. Johnson. This Republican statesman from South Dakota, chairman, of the House Subcommittee on foreign expenditures, has been making a tour of marine hospitals and soldiers' hospitals of the country. He was a aoldter himself and saw service in the World War Congress appro priated 19.500.000 for hospital purposes and although this money has been available since March 3. 1919. not a dollar of the amount has been expended. He Is asking 'why" and fixes the blame, for the neglect on high officials. Representative Johnson says: "A solemn promise to care for them was made by the American government at the time these boys entered the service, and the fact that the promise has been broken and violated Is the darkest blot upon this administration and the men responsible for the execution of the laws of the United States." FOR PRINTING THAT HAS REAL CLASS SEE THE G.-T. OUR PRICES RIGHT-OUR PRINTING THE BEST-G.-T. Make No Mistake! Xn matter luv careful you are in pay inir lill, etc., in ca.-h you will sometime or other forget to olitain a receipt. Why not he on the site si.lo by paying out ALL fuiiils via a check book ami receive in re turn a receipted voucher that is upheld by the Indict Courts? The checking account costs you noth ing and your funds are always safe from !os by theft or tire. A FARMERS Sc STOCKGROWERS NATIONAL BANK Heppner Oregon SMALLEST YANK BOXER TO DEFEND TITLE I i Srl Am Here is America's smallest fighting man, Frankie Mason of Ft Wayne. Ind.. who, on March 12, at Toledo, O. Is to meet the British champion, Jimmy Wilde for the world title. Mason fights, at 108 pounds. Wilde can make 106 pounds manufactured in San Francisco, will leave that city for the Oregon metro polis. The airplane w ill be equipped with Liberty motors. A man in North Bend by the name of John Lewellyn, has been sleeping for fifty days, yet the doctors do not regard his case as hopeless and be lieve that he will recover. The First Methodist church at Medford is planning a new edifice which will cost $150,000. A big pipe organ is Included In the plans. A number of Umatilla farmers have appointed Btate senator Roy Ritner of Pendleton chairman of a committee to draft resolutions asking Congress to set a price guarantee on the 1920 wheat crop. The growers are asking that the cost of production and a fair profit be guaranteed. Other members of the committee are Pr. C. J. Smith of Portland. E. P. Marshall ot Pendleton, J. O. Hales of Adams and Lou Hodgen of Athena. Thomas A. Edison at 31) and 76 Echo on the Job. Echo Commercial Club has had five thousand small folders printed giving a brief summary of the bus-1 iness and farming conditions at Echo j and In vicinity. These are Intended i for enclosures In letters written to out of town people and may be secur ed without charge. Echo News. OF Senators Illume Conditions On Lax Administration of the Railroads. HOLD OLD III FAIR Washington, Feb. 25. Presenta tion by Senator Gronna ot North Da kota of a resolution for an investiga tion of the car shortage served to bring out in the Senate an interest ing discussion of the car shortage situation. Speeches by various Sen ators made it plain that the lack of sufficient cars for the transportation j Walla Walla wants to get back to of the country's farm products and I the old time fair basis in connection likewise the products of its manufac- with its annual exhibition, and will turing plants, mills, forests and min : endeavor to include in this year's fair es, Is an extremely serious matter. I program a strong list of horse racing Senator Gronna Is anxious to know ; events. A number of the directors what is at the bottom of the failure prefer this class of entertainment to of the Railroad Administration to the wild west stunts which they think furnish the country and its shippers the people regard as "old stuff." with an adequate car supply. Passenger airplane service between j Senator Cummins, Chairman of the San Francisco and Portland will bo Senate Interstate Commerce Commit inaugurated April 1, when the first j tee, said there was no question of j 10 passenger BOO horse power plane the existence of a srious car short- Y8t J 'isxlt,, A r-v ( - szM:M ACKERMAN TROTS THL GLOBE FOR US Thomas A. Edison, the inrentiYe genius of the world, has Just passed another milestone and one that will not soon be forgotten bis 73rd birthday. . The affair was made a municipal party tns people of Orange, N. J., paying tribute to the man who has given their town such distinction. Here are pictures of Edison at 30 and 73. The big picture Is from an old print In 187? Edison and the first phonograph which he Invented. The Insert is the wizard today. He was born at Milan, O.. Feb. 11, 1847. SUBSTITUTE MUD FOR FAT IN MAKING SOAP Representative E. R. Ackerman of New Jersey, is the United 8tates' most traveled congress man. He has Just returned from ai Investigation trip to all eemeteiiei of France, where American sol diers are burled. He has traveler1 on every continent Africa, In dia, Persia, Australia, 8outi America and the Far North. "NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN," HER POLICY TSv sW ' J J, tnCL H S I" tr -m x .-jer ssssv ryjT' ".Mil.-.f?ar Soap from mud, Is the claim of British chemists, V. E. Weston and his son. shown in their laboratory in England. They have worked out a process of making soap by substituting colloidal clay for the tatty acids ordinarily used. "Never too old to learn," is th living policy of Mrs. Frank E. James, wife of an Indianapolis. Ind., real estate. man. So in June of this year she will graduate from the Indiana Slate University in the same class with her xo year-old daughter "Take it from Me" says' the Good Judge Wise tobacco chevvers long since got over the big-chew idea. A little chew of this real quality tobacco gives them better satisfaction and they find their chew ing costs even less. With this class of tobacco, you don't need a fresh chew so often and you find you're saving part of your tobacco money. THE REAL TOBACCO CHEW Put up in two styles RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco City " Red Crown" gives greater mile age because it is correctly made, it'raicht-distilltd, all-refinery gasoline. Look for the Red Crown sign before you filL STANDARD OIL COMPANY e Gasoline of Quality Geo. W. Milholland, Special Agent, Standard Oil Company Heppner, Oregon. TIME TO CALL A HALT Lincoln H Grant f:ARFit-LDv;ggyy Mckinley Boo6?tiT ; la- 'Let us stop the orgy of waste, this perennial vacillation and curb the mounting taxes!" ge. lie suid that In ordor to main tain the car equipment us it existed when the government took posses sion it was necessary to supply 100, 000 cars each year and that simply to maintain existing facilities. Even that number would not provide for the growing commerce of the coun try. "Inevitable," said benator Cum mins, "we are now suffering from even a greater car shortage than we were when the Government took pos session." Senator Oronna is anxious to find out not alone the facts as to the shortage of cars but also whether certain officials of the Railroad Ad ministration have been negligent or wilfully interfering with the opera tion of the railroads, lie presented some evidence to show that an effort had been made to force the farmers to throw their grain into the market at one time and thus reduce prices and that this had been done through an order of the Railroad Administra tion which resulted in grain cars not being reloaded with flour when emp tied but hauled one way without a load. Senator Gronna said it was such mismanagement or abuse that he wanted to have probed. j Senator Harrison of Mississippi and also Senator Williams of that state referred to the great car short ' age In the lumber Industy. Senator t Harrison said that when cars could ! not be secured for the lumber plant , the plants were closed down and men ! were thown out of employment while children went hungry. Senator Kellogg of Minnesota went Into the car shortage situation In much detail and asserted that the Government had not taken adequate steps to provide enough new cars and that what cars had been in service had been overworked and not main tained as they should have been. OLD NAMES FOR MODERN CARS HOME SWEET HOME by Jack Wilson eo(6,MOW DO THff MAKE IMrTM10NJNOKU cm, OUt OP GLASS OR. PMT6 - M0STW Paste.'! ONLY "QUALITY PRINTING" PEODUCED AT THE G.-T. I Of GEORGE, MRS GRAKT SAiYS 1 If THOT MAE AUIS0N5 ENOA&fcfltNT "BI esrSir-i H III? i ... i . n rr i 6LCTMEN THAT ACC6mr Howt10 V0lJ t'HI "W-rER F'ANCE 'S Eaiy to Trace Appellations That Hav Been Given to Distinctive Makes of Automobiles. The first, sedans were portable en closed chairs carried on poles by two men. Tin y were extremely populnr In Kiu'lnnd and are still uxed In China and India. The modern sedan hns un enclosed body aud accommodates seven passengers. "Limousine" wns originally the name of a cloak worn In France, nnd prob ably originated from Limousin, the nnine of un old province In central France. Todny it is applied to the clmuffeiir-drlvei cur with an enclosed compartment. The driver's seut Is out side, but covered by a roof. "Roadster" was first npplled to ves sels that worked their way by mentis of the tides. Later It was used fur bicycles. The modern roadster has nn open body and was designed pri marily for two persons, hut of recent years the four-door roadster, accom modating four passengers, has met with populnr favor. The "touring car," which Is the most familiar type of car, takes Its nnme from the fact that It Is used by motor ists on lengthy tours. It Is an open enr also, with n tonneau and four doors, seating seven passengers. To Stick Labels on Glass. The druggists' I'imilnr ami Chemi cal (ouettc says that mucilage of trag acBiitli Is a satisfactory agent. The muelliiL-e Is made by pouring over the gum enough water to a Utile more than cover ii. and then, ns the gum swells, ndillir more water from time to time, In s ...i I portions until the mucilage Is hri.ii ill lo such a consistency that It n :i I"' ensily spread with a brush. If tie :ule'-! are of thick paper, per haps Hour p iste might he better. Dex trine ilissohed In cold wnter make tenacious msti. Its odor, however. Is not partleiiliniy agreeable. Indian Women Progressing. Oklahoma Indian girls are us much Interested In the canning campaign as their palefnce sisters. In Hiickliam county, Okla., they attend nil the meelliigs held by the home demon stratlon agent, and this year made an excellent booth exhibit of the fruit nnd vegetables they bd canned and dried. One Indian woman also exhi bited UK) chickens of her own raising. Kxehange, t London's Housing Problem. The London housing board hns In spected 2.000 houses Unit may be con verted Into lints, of these l.iHKJ have been approved nnd work Is to be com menced Immediately. Work has also been begun on 8IHKI houses. Indicts Indian Bureau faff ' :nCllr 'V'. WM :: .iff. J Hnyder 3 lg?Mti!2rO vts.ii V Homer P. This Ttepubllcan statesman from New York Is chairman of tho house committee on Indian affairs, in reporting the Indian appro priation bill the committee made sweeping reductions of the estimates amounting to nearly one-third the amount asked Congressman Snyder Indicted the administration of the Indian bureau under Otto Sells, Democrat, and produced figures to show that the bureau's expendi tures have been increasing ai the rate of $1,000,000 A YEAH while the Indians have been decreasing.
