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IllRROW COVKTT OFFICIAL PAPER
Who Will Teach Your Boys
and Girls Next Year?
A republican form of government
is founded upon the principle that
all of the people are intelligent.
Schools are established to educate
the children of all the people so that
they may earn- on the government
efficiently. That the schools may
perform this function as they should
it is absolutely necessary that the
teaching staff be kept up to the high
est possible standard.
A dangerous crisis faces the
schools at the present time. Many
of our teachers are securing various
kinds of work for the summer at
salaries of a $100.00 per month or
more. At the end of the summer
vaction a number of these teachers
will glance at the $75-$90 salary
out there in the country school dis
trict with all the inconveniences of
boarding in the country and decide
to stay with their more lucrative po
sition. This will help to cause a
greater shortage of teachers.
Therefore, it behooves us to sup
port the Elementary Educational
Bill which will provide additional
funds for every public school in the
state.
The Civic Club through its sanita
tion committee with which the Parent-Teachers
association is cooper
ating, is carrying on a work that
should have the support of every
man. woman and child in the city.
Clean streets and side walks is a
forerunner to a town beautiful. May
the good work continue.
One of the conditions of the peace
treaty was that the former kaiser
and his son, the. ex-crown prince,
along with a thousand other viola
tors of the rules of warfare, should
be turned over to an allied commis
sion for trial. Holland refuses to
deliver the former emperor over to
the allies and Germany is steadfast
in her refusal to bring the high-ups
to justice, saying that it would cause
a revolution in the fatherland and
bring about such a rotten economic
condition that they would be unable
to pay the indemnity due the allies.
Anyway you look at it you can see
the fox has lost none of its former
cunning.
Hunger even unto starvation is
something unknown to people of
America. In our fullness of stom
ach we should not forget that there
is a race of people approaching ex
termination, through hunger, torture
and outright murder. Remember
the Armenians. Morrow county has
not yet raised her quota, but in all
justice to the rest of the state as
well as to suffering humanity, our
quota should be raised. Let's get
busy.
Thrift. The one great element of
success is embodied in that little
word of six letters. All through the
war the United States government
preached the doctrine of thrift and
it was adhered to by a large number
of people, who put their savings into
stamps. The government is still
preaching thrift but the gospel
seems now to fall upon unhearing
ears. The country at large seems to
have gone stark mad on an orgy of
extravagance wasteful spending. The
drunken sailor, in his palmiest days,
had nothing on this spend-thrifty
nation. But so"ber moments are
coming. Statesmen are not pre
dicting a revolution, but a reaction.
Prices will drop. Economic condi
tions will shine forth in their true
light and it will take a steady hand
to soothe the rocking boat. More
production and less extravagance
will save the day.
The provident merchant never
lets his supplies run too low. The
Normal schools report the supply of
teachers as constantly diminishing
since 1916. Shall we wait till the
crisis is upon usV Can teachers be
trained in a day? What of the boys
and girls who must get their instruc
tion and their ideals of citizenship
from poorly prepared and poorly
paid teachers. Your boys and your
gi'rs. Citizens, Awake!!
The American Breeder says that
$1500 is becoming a common price
for a span of mules. This ought to
make local horse and mule men sit
up and take notice, for such inform
ation coming from the American
Breeder can be considered pretty
authentic.
No Bolshevism Wanted
The Oregon Journal is indulging
in something that sounds like propa
ganda for the Non-Partisan League.
It may not be intended as such, but
it certainly has the ear marks,
friends of the Journal fear it is get
ting close to questionable company.
The Non-Partisan League did not
en joy a gooj war record. Its leader.
Mr. Tow nicy, w as indicted by a fed
eral grand jurv for disloval talk.
There is sworn testimony of inflam
matory and revolutionary talk by
league organizers in the state of
Washington during the war. There
w as a grange meeting in Walla Wal
la during which utterances of such
radical character were made by a
league advocate that the school
board, backed up by representative
farmers and businessmen ousted the
meeting from the high school audit
orium. So incensed were the citi
zens of Walla Walla, a farming town
that the organization could find no
hall or church in which to continue
its sessions.
If this newspaper understands the
Non Partisan League its purpose is
bolshevism in the professed behalf
of the fanner. It is a misguided
move which no farmer can afford
to sanction. Carried to its logical
conclusion it would mean disposses
sion of the farmer and confiscation
of his property. The farmer of all
men must beware of class rule. He
will be the chief victim if bolshevism
comes.
If marketing conditions are to be
improved the remedy lies not in the
methods of Townley or Trotsky or
Lenin. Competition will provide the
key." If grain buying is a profitable
business, farmers may enter that
business whenever they wish. Some
of them are now .engaged in this
business. If they wish to go into the
milling business or the warehouse
business they may do so. Some of
them already have flour mills. The
field is always open. If they want
to enter the mercantile business
there is nothing to prevent unless it
be the fact that farming is usually
more profitable.
It is not fair to berate business
men because the problems of the
farmer have not all been solved.
We all have unsolved problems to
face. It is dangerous to incite pre
judice and to preach class govern
ment. It might be possible with
sufficient effort to get the state
drunk on this stuff but sooner or la
ter Oregon would wake up with a
headache.
Surely the Journal with its great
record of service, is not going to
champion the Non Partisan League.
Let it be hoped its purpose is an ex
pose of the league and not support.
Pendleton East Oregonian.
A mighty nifty new hotel we are
going to have, with all outside rooms
and a phone in thirty of them. The
weary traveling man can look for
ward to his regular visits in Hepp-
ner with pleasure in the future.
Our country friends will have a
place at which to stop and our own
townspeople will have an institu
tion in which they may tke a great
deal of pride.
Slats' Diary
Friday Teacher was grouchy to
day she sed she had told me all she
krtowed & I was
still as ignorant
as a elefant. Done
a Kind ack for a
old lady . wich
takes' in wash
ings & pitchei
shows. carried
her baskit up a
hill. & she Give
me a nikkel. It
all ways pays 2
be kind.
Saturday A
tuth was acheing
wich wassent the
same I had pulled.
Pa tuk me down
2 the dentists shop
& got me a new
pare of shoes 2 ware.
Sunday after Sunday skool pa &
ma had a nother Fuss. Pa sed he
was going 2 rite 2 a expert on famly
trees so as 2 git his pedigree rote
down on paper. MaM sed she thot
his famly tree was full of nuts &
Lemmons then they was a lot of
trubbel. Et a cold dinner. & pa
did 2.
Monday felling Rotten. Dont
know whether it is the flew or Im
in love ma tellefoned the dr. Jake
bought some birdseed with a nikkel
& put it under a old hen he sed she
wood hatch em out. If they stayed
under her long enuff.
Tuesday Ast pa why did they
give dieing peepul a swaller of wis
key & pa sed it was 2 leeve a good
taste in there mouths.
Wednesday met the new min
ister of the church & he ast me
where was the post off is & I told
him & he sed for me 2 cum to his
church & he wood show me the way
2 it 2 hevvin. Gess that's a pritty
good bargen.
Thursday Pa entered on his 8th
bottel of spring Blood tonic, teecher
ast Jake wot was the mane producks
of Indy & he sed they was coffy &
she sed wot 2 kinds of coffy do we
Get frum their & Jake sed we got
strong coffy & Week coffy from In
dy. pa & me tuk a walk & saw a
wummin with her dress wich reech
ed 2 her shoe tops. Pritty neer. Pa
sed that was funny. But he diddent
Smile. J. E. acks like she mite be
beginning 2 thaw agin. Sum girl.
County Division
Historv h:is shown that there are
instances in the progress of this
country where county division was
the proper proceedure. There have
.been other instances where one big
'county split made a loosing game
for both the old county and its newei
offspring. Where the country is
sparsely settled and the land not
; highly productive, in the main, it
would appear evident that the one
I big county would stand a better
i chance for existence than two small-
...
er ones maintaining two separate
governments.
The case in point is that of Grant
county. Grant is one of the larger
counties of Oregon. Canyon City,
which is the countv seat, is situated
in the extreme southern part. Now
the people of northern Grant are
clamoring for a county by them
selves, as we view it, their main con
tention being that they are too far
removed from the seat of govern
ment, that poor roads make getting
to the county seat a tedious journey
and that anyway, the county is too
large as it is and should be divided.
Hence a move has started which
results in a county division measure
on the ballot. While it is no concern
of ours, anymore than we are great
ly interested in the welfare and hap
piness of our sister county on the
south, the situation presents some
features which may not be altogether
unlike an ultimate scrap for county
division coming out of the north end
of Morrow county and the west of
Umatilla.
In Grant county, the Blue Moun
tain Eagle contends, that the new
county would start off with a debt
of $150,000, for there is already an
authorized bond issue of $140,000
and in addition to this the cost of
division would approximate $10,000.
With this bad start the assessed val
ue of taxable land would be less
than $4,000,000 upon which will
have to be raised at least $100,000
annually. As it is now, the assessed
value of the property is nearly eight
and one half million and the taxes
raised are $160,000. The Eagle
points out that this will not double
the tax but will come so near it that
somebody will do some squirming.
Good highways from one end of
the county to the other, making quick
and easy transportation facilities
and better com:"u:iiMtKUi with the
present countv seat, v, ill be the sol
ution for the people of the north
end of Grant countv. believes the
Eagle.
A Duty of Citizenship
Citizenship brings to all of us du
ties as well as blessings, and it will
not do any of us any harm if once
in awhile we take stock of ourselves
and balance our activities against our
apathy in matters of public concern.
Only in this way cm we measure up,
as we should, each year a little near
er to the standard of sound Ameri
canism. We are going to talk very frankly
on one subject for a few weeks and
it will be a pleasure to receive from
time to time expressions from our
readers on what we have to say.
Their thought will guide us. More
over, it will disarm those who may
be disposed to criticize us as sound
ing a selfish note.
Every person in this and every
other community should give some
thought to the suggestion that adver
tising be established as a reguular
and legitimate part of the govern
ment functioning. Those who study
the question of government adver
tising will soon realize it to be the
plain duty of every good citizen to
play his little part in bringing its
importance and necessity before the
recognized authorities, because it is
of first importance to the people.
; Let it be understood at the outset
we are not advocating government
j advertising with any thought of the
small amount of revenue it might
bring to this newspaper. The record
of every country publisher who gave
! away hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of space during the war
without thought of fee or reward
'should be a sufficient refutation of
such a thought. This newspaper
: wants to see government advertising
established because of the immeas
urable benefit it can be to our farm
ers, because it can be made to save
thousands of lives every year and
! millions of dollars for the people,
i The first thought the public should
'digest is this: Government is not
; something apart. Government is the
; will of the people. The funds of
the government are supplied by the
1 people to be spent in the interest
' of the people.
I
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In2000 Counties This Month
The Forces of the Church of Christ
Will Gather To Face the Facts
IN 2000 counties in the United States the pastors
and laymen of 30 great denominations will meet
in conference this month.
It is the kind of conference that generals hold
before a critical engagement; that business men
hold before entering a new market. A conference
of judgment, not emotion; a clear-eyed facing of
the facts.
A Survey that Business Men Must Admire
For more than a year hundreds of workers have been
quietly engaged in making a scientific survey of the mission
fields, and of America county by county.
The facts developed are startling. No such picture of
America's religious situation has ever before been drawn.
On the basis of these surveys thirty Protestant de
nominations are uniting in a
Nation Wide Cooperative Campaign
Each of the thirty denominations has its own "For
ward Movement" organized and officered. The Interchurch
World Movement is the clearing house for all of these.
It is the agency which the churches have created to
avoid duplication, to foster cooperation and make sure that
every man and dollar render the utmost service possible.
The month of April will be devoted to making
the facts of the survey known to America; in the week of
April 25th -May 2nd, will come a united simultaneous
financial campaign.
Whether You Are Inside the Church or Out
To every man and every woman who loves his country,
these 2000 county conferences are vitally important.
For the facts developed by this great survey show
vividly what forces are at work in America and what kind
of a country this country is to be.
See that the pastor of your church appoints
delegates. Any pastor can tell you the con
ference place and date. Or write direct to the
Interchurch
WOUtf) MOVEMENT
45 WEST 18th STREET, NEW YORK CITY
The publication of this advertisement ia made poaaible
through the cooperation of 30 denomination.
Here We Are !
The
Battery Electric Service Station
Formerly in Rear of Heppner Garage
is now in its new home in the Ashbaugh Building at the
Corner Main and Center Streets
YOU WILL FIND HERE BETTER FACILITIES FOR THE CARE AND REPAIR
OF ANY MAKE OF STORAGE BATTERY.
Also a Complete Line of New Batteries, Generators and Starter Motor Brushes and
Parts.
All Makes of Ignition and Distributor Contact Points and Parts, Magneto Repairs,
Ignition Coils, Wire, and In Fact Anything You Want in the
Automotive Electrical Line.
Your Battery Inspected and Distilled Water Supplied FREE OF CHARGE.
Drive in any time and try our Good Service
Phone 83
ATTENTION GARAGE AND REPAIR MEN-Above is our phone number. When
you want service call us.
The Battery Electric Service Station
J. W. FRITSCH "The Battery Man," Ow ner.
Corner Main and Center Streets Heppner, Oregon
Forty Dollars An Acre
Forty Dollars an acre for the best wheat ranch in the heart of
the Eight Mile farming district. Third of crop goes with
sale. Small payment down and easy terms on balance.
Also am offering an A-l Dairy and Stock Ranch of 1000 acres.
INVESTIGATE!
Arthur R. Crawford
Licensed Real Estate Dealer
Heppner, Oregon
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