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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1920)
Tin- r. izmi'.T ws iivi'pvrn nnv Till U!1AY, MAR. 23. liO. THE GAZETTE-TIMES VTh !. 1J Tfc H.ppi.r TiP's. Ki'.bll!iJ Nt.vT.br 1. Crwl:datd t.rur 111 TuMIkh! vry Thursday morning tjr Vnwtrr ( Sin-bc Cmwlor nd nlr.l at 1tif ToMofflc at HrP- ti.r. Oron. wond-clasa matter. AnVKKTIMV; RTF lilVES OH APPLICATION St HSCRirTlOS RATKS; One Tear UN S,i M.mh. 10 Three M.-titha l Sinala Toplea MORROW COt XTT OFFICIAL PAPER viu'Ipox epidemic in Canada; thou sands of cases in the city of Toronto alone My lady in Toronto has the same nature as my lady in the United "States, and so the most popular doc-1 tor in Toronto is one who has discov ered a scarless way to vaccinate. It is a sub-skin method he calls it i Subcutaneous." The doctors all over are very' much interested. It is expected that the Toronto physicians will give them earlv information and instructions at an early date, but we learn that the vaccine was given a good deal like a hvpodermie. the operating instrument Metiverinp it below the skin. In a majority of cases the reaction did not appear until after the second day sometimes not until the tentn aay. In the average, however, the swell ing subsided, leaving a hard noauie below the skin, and which persisted No Mercy for Political Corruption should be some limitation safeguard ing the levies, as it is unfair to tim ber property, much of which is own ed by non-residents w ho are helpless in the matter, to impose a double burden upon it. The question as to how to vote on this tax measure is therefore puzzling many, for the same problem confronts all taxable property as confronts the timber ow ner. Of the 2,000 or more school dis-j triers in Oregon, there probably are; a hundred or so which lack adequate j property to finance decent local j schools. For the sake of these one I hundred poverty-stricken districts. shall we place an unnecessary tax burden on all the property in 1,900 other districts? If there is no other way out of it, for about a month. peared. Then it disap- lt was a happy coincidence that Newberry and his associates were convicted and sentenced on the same day that three communists were found guilty of criminal syndicalism in Portland. While in Michigan the law defended the republic against the attack of a millionaire by corrupt use of money, in Oregon it defended the republic against attack of three men who style themselves proletar ians and who propose violence. There could have been no better proof that in the United States all men are equal in the eye of the law. There are manv miscarriages of jus tice, but they favor the poor as often as the rich offender, and the cause is not in the law but in the people through whom the law must be en forced. The fact that our courts convict the Newberrys is the best possible reason why there should be no com munists in America, at least none who attempts adoption of their the ories by force. So long as purity and equality of the ballot are protected by punishment of the rich who would corrupt it, the poor have no cause to fear that the majority will not rule If any are not then satisfied, it is be cause they desire the rule of a minor ity established by force, and the rev olutionist enters the same category as the corruptionist. Among republicans in other states as well as Michigan, also among many democrats, the election of Hen ry Ford would have been considered a national calamity, both because he was a leading champion of that pacv fism which tempted Germany to at tack us and which sent us into war unprepared, anl because of his con spicuous ignorance of public affairs. In defense of Newberry's conduct the plea is made that his motive was good, but that plea cannot be enter tained, for it is a revival of the old argument that the end justifies the means, that it is permissible to do evil that good may come. To havi conducted corruption would have been a greater evil than the election of Ford, for success of Newberry by that means would have incited imita tion until the poison would have spread through the nation and would have infected the laws which corrup tionists helped to enact. The follies of Ford are so egregious that they would surely have been exposed in the senate, would have limited his influence to his own vote and would have prevented his re-election. Bet ter endure a Ford for six years than a moral disease which spreads like a cancer for a generation. Portland Oregonkn. Heppner needs more houses. Have you studied the millage tax measures for the support of educa tion in Oregon? Read the resolu tions recently adopted by the educa tors of Morrow county. Heppner doesn't want any boquets, but she is showing the right spirit in this county Fair work. And after all, the fair will mean big thing for the town as well as the county. many w ill he tempted to vote the tax. But possibly another way can be found out of it. Oregon Voter. A man over in Baker county is go ing to contest with Nick Sinnott, the election for representative from the 2nd Oregon District. He has a lot of nerye, to say the least, for Hon. Nick ; is about the best man that ever rep resented this district and the people Viiin nn tVi e aic utiti iiiiiicu iu ivttp hum v . .... -ri d- jod, it we are not mistaken, incoa ker county man is a democrat. Unlike Grant county on the south, Morrow county is suffering somewhat ' of a drough so far as political candi- dates are concerned. Over in our sister county there are from three to a dozen candidates for every office. Excess Living Costs ' Excess profits taxes undoubtedly are the main cause of lowered pro duction, says the Pacific Manufactur er, and likewise the high cost of liv ing. Congress must shift the heavy bur den of taxation from production which is now penalized on its output. The fact is coming home that tax ing production with excess profits taxes is almost directly taxing the ultimate consumer. Consumption taxes when placed on the necessities of life are hated as so-called luxury taxes upon articles of general con sumption. The excess profits taxes were her alded as bearing heavily on the great corporations but really result in m creased prices on consumers. As the luxury taxes were designed and advertised to fall upon the rich, yet many of them, as ice creams and con fectionery, fall on the poor. Re-adjustment of our tax laws is one of the important problems be fore congress. No Scar For My Lady There are few among us who do not carry scars of some kind or other, but when it comes to a vaccination we are most of us vociferous against it. "Scar on my arm," says my lady; "never!" Recently they have had a very bad The road to eternal salvation will be literally paved with gold by the time the World Inter-Church Move ment finishes its campaign for mill ions. Money is undoubtedly a neces sary thing in carrying on of the Lord's work, but in the big scheme of present day activities, God's Gospel appears to be a very secondary thing. Get the dollars is first and foremost at all times. Maybe in the end the missionaries will be better paid, we hope so. In the meantime, white col lared gentry in the high salaried offi ces which of necessity must be high ly remunerated, are holding down the job and asking a weary and ever-contributing laity to come across with more dollars. Let us hope that we are not getting pessimistic. Babies Play No Politics Republican babies die as fast as Democratic babies, if they do not have the right kind of care; and mo thers in child-birth are subject to the same perils whatever political party they may favor. Safeguarding the lives of the next generation is "big business," which all approve. Whatever policy is ad opted toward public utilities, the mo thers of future citizens must receive protection from the government. The real economy of life-saving is dis puted by no party, whatever its views on public expenditure. The Sheppard-Towner bill is spon sored by a Democratic Senator and a Republican Representative. The first proposed expenditure of less than 25 cents per birth is a good in vestment. Various nfembers of Congress have said that this measure must tint of all nppeal to women; that if they do not want it it will not become law, but if they do want it, and will make that desire known, it will be passed by any Congress of whatever party as soon as they feel the power of that one-half of the population, which knows at first hand the importance of protecting mothers and babies. Will the other half of the population deny the importance of this measure when they are so ready to give large sums of money and time and labor to protect cattle, fruit trees and fish? Timber Pays the Tax Fortunately for the family of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Colpitts of Promise Ridge school district in Wallowa County, there is a good deal of tax able timber in that district, which is the largest in the county. No other family resides in the whole district. Mr. and Mrs. Colpitts, being the only resident taxpayers, hold a school dis trict meeting, vote a school tax, hire a teacher (whom they board) and se cure educational advantages for their seven children, the only pupils of the school. We glean the foregoing from Enterprise Record Chieftain. While this is an extreme situation, it is typical of many similar in Ore gon and by contrast emphasizes the needs of sparsely populated districts where there is no timber to tax. In such districts, and there are many of them, there is little taxable property of value and the residents provide schools with the greatest difficulty. One of the purposes contemplated in the proposed 2-mill state school tax levy, to be voted upon at the May 21 election, is to help equalize such conditions. The district where there is little taxable property would re ceive state aid based on the number of children of school age, and this aid would be contributed in part by timber already taxed heavily by school districts advantageously locat ed with reference to timber to tax. An objection to the measure is that it does not guarantee that the district taxes where timber carries practic ally the entire load would be reduced in consideration of the heavier tax ation of timber to r.eip nnance schools in parts of the state remote from timber. There is no certainty but what the new state tax would be added, without any corresponding reduction of local taxes on timber. While education is entitled to prior consideration, it would appear that in such districts where already there are ample funds for education there Gilliam & Bisbee Can cut down your high cost of living by selling you: A Sharpless of a Primrose Cream Separator that will save all the cream. 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