THE G AZKTTE-TIMK9, HEPPNER, ORE., THVKSDAY, JVLY 1, 1020.
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The Glorious Fourth
It seems to be the fashion o these
after-war days among certain groups
of people, especially in the cities, to
sneer at patriotism. To the senti
ment of love of our country, there
are plenty of people w ho try to back
up all the ills that have come upon
us. Is sugar extortionately high?
Drat such a country! Are the rail
roads bad performers? Democacy
is to blame. Are the politicians ram
bunctious? The country is going to
the devil.
Nothing of the kind. The country
is not at fault, the republic and dem
ocracy are as glojious as they ever
mere, the nation is as right as it ever
was. The trouble is human. If there
are wrongs they are wrongs perpet
rated by human people and they will
be corrected they cannot persist in
this democratic republic. Evolution
and the war was only and incident
of evolution brings to our doorstep
queer children. They don't look
right to us today, but 50 years from
today iwe will know that the trouble
some foundlings were only details in
the long, long trail of earthly pro
gress.
If everything went well with us,
we would not know it because there
iwould be nothing to contrast it with.
We must have the hard knocks to
enjoy the sweets of existence.
The Fourth of July is upon us
again. Let us remember that on that
day, July 4, 1778, when we gave to
the world our Declaration of Inde
pendence, a nation was born that
gave world evolution its sharpest im
petus. It suddenly brought to the
front a smouludering consciousness of
human dignity, of rights that belong
to every living soul. In the 141
years that have elapsed, the common
people of this earth have advanced
in education, intelligence, good living
and liberty more than they did in the
4000 years previously, and that de
claration, and this democracy, hare
been largely responsible for it.
Glorious Fourth! Aye, it is as
glorious as 144 years ago, and its
glory will live as long as the iword
"liberty" sounds good to mankind.
Senator Harding's election will
mean a business administration.
Unless dwellings are built here
during the summer, Heppner will
face a housing shortage In the fall
that will border on catastrophe. The
question is, "What are we going to
do about it?"
With two good highways leading
into the heart of Grant county, Hepp
ner should be able to make a bid for
interior trade that will appeal to our
neighbors just over the mountains.
Nature has favored us geographical
ly, its up to us to do the rest.
Food Exports Dropping
The figures show that our enorm
ous food exports of during the war
are rapidly dropping down towards
the size of the quantities shipped be
fore the war.
In the year 1914, foodstuffs con
stituted 18 per cent of our total ex
ports. In 1918, they were 40 per
cent of the total. In April, 1919,
they (were 43 per cent. But April,
1920, the last month for which de- !i
tailed figures of exports are available,
shows a reduction of 21 per cent.
This is a piece of information which
our rural communities should have,
just as a city manufacturer snouia j
have and has similar information j
when exports of machinery drop.
The quantity of fresh beef, for in
stance, exported from the United
States, which jumped from 8,000,000
pounds in the fiscal year 1914 to
231,000,000 pounds in 1916, and
614,000,000 pounds in the calendar
year 1918, dropped to 174,000,000
pounds in 1919, and Is now running
at the rate of about 150,000,000
pounds per annum, as against 514,-
000,000 pounds in the closing year
of the war. Of bacon, for iwhich the
foreign world still clamors, the ex
ports in the 10 months ending with
April, 1920, are only about two-thirds
as much as in the correspondnig
months of the preceding year; wheat, ;
two-thirds as much as in the same :
months of last year; corn in the 10
months of the fiscal year 1920 only j
13,000,000 bushelB against 62,000,-
000 in the same period of 1918; and
oats a little over one-third as much
as the annual average of 1919-1918.
The Chronicle had hoped for the
Domination of Hiram W. Johnson. It
regrets that the decision has been
otherwise. But that ends it. It is
not the individual who is of most
national Interest. It is the principles
'and not men to (which party loyalty
must be given If parties and. Indeed,
the republic Is to endure. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Morrow county farmers are pro
gressive. The annual trip into Slier
man county is becoming an me::;
that is looked forward to by nianj
of our best agriculturalists, and the
number nuking the journey increases
each year. Stops are made along the
way for a study of conditions as they
may exist in me various locauues
and finally, when the great wheat
belt of Sherman county Is reached,
our farmers get first hand, the meth
ods employed so successfully. A visit
is made to the experiment station at
Moro and our farmers can see for
themselves what the demonstrations
as carried on mean to the farmers of
Sherman county. More is the pity
that every farmer in Morrow county
will not be able to make the trip this
year. County agent Hunt is urging
all who can, to join the junketers and
ha guarantees that It will be a time
well spent.
Slats' Diary
Friday Went swimmin !wtth Jake
and Blisters today. 1 was lerningr
Jake 2 swim overis
hand but he cud-
dent. killed a .
grate big water
f 3 ' i snaik over a ft. 1
long. Blisters can ' 5
s. Keep unaer waier
while vou count :
len Tf vnn cniint
fast enuff. Is
Saturday
& .VaSS'i8 pulling
ii weeds and ma give
1 T f nie 15 cts & I sed '
s handsome and substantial struc-j think that It was being raised on land
that is selling as low as forty dollars
Ian acre. Some of the wheat gives
i certainly was surprised to And promise of making as heavy a yield
'a exoellem grain in Morrow ; as will that ot the famed Walla Walb
untv." said a Walla Walla farmer j belt." This man was so much im-
who made a tour ot inspection over; pressed with what he saw that it is
not unlikely that he will return and
invest In land here. Morrotw county
beats the world when it comes to pro
ducing crops at a low cost and on
land that is now selling for less than
any other wheat land of like quality
anywhere.
the grain fields here the past weei.
North of Lexington 1 saw wheat
which was to me a revelation, and to
IE p !
up !s
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How About that Big Ya-1
1 cation You Promised 1
1 Yourself? 1
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E p0 you remember how thru E
i all the long days that you have i
5 been working that you have 2
been thinking about the big S
time that you iwere going to s
have next Summer. E
Now is the time to go, the
weather is getting hot. Plan
your vacation so the whole r
family can enjoy It. It's a nice S
automobile trip thru the moun-
tains to the Springs. After 5
you get there you'll find enjoy-
ment for the whole family. S
There's fishing, swimming, 5
dancing right out in the cool, s
shady mountains. In the big s
nine forest. In the soutuern
Knit Wear
for Women
(Como on ma the;S p;ir, of vmatilla County, Ore.
war tax aim as yet 1
ben taken on. 21 lllllimillllllllllllllHIIHIIIIIIIMIIIII
' oto. mnro tiIpaca Jir !
T tshu! SSill Lehman Hot Springs
the Boy skouts: n,.,,,M nmthm. Prons.
was giveing for 17 cts a ticket. J. E . S s
was there and I ast her did she have Til 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 """
enny ticket. She sed yes so I sed
Suppose we eat sum ice cream &
we did. I iwas jokeing her and kin la !
nukeing love 2 her & she sorta i
blushed red & sed I bet you dont
know what color my eyes is. I sed
They are like a bunch of pansies in
a fence corner. She smiled cause I
cud see she was tickled. I
Sunday pa & ma & me went on;
a Weak end pickmck with a luncn ,
and sum lemons wich Iwas for lem-
onaid. Wile ma was "preparing our
lunch pa &. me got a skift & we went 1
Fishing, pa got his line fast & was
leening out and just for fun I rocked
the bote & he went out hed 1st. He
cum up iwettern a mad hen & then
we cum in. But some way my fun
was spoilt & his muddy finger prints
was on my pam beech pants.
Monday Jake's cuzzen cum 2 visit
him today his name is Harrol & he
wares big glasses & Blond Hare. Jaks
& me will have sum fun iwith him.
ma is waiting for pa to cum home:
haveing found a Receet in his pocket ;
telling how to make yure own brer
at Home. J
Tuesday Pa was telling 2 ma;
about a fella wich Iwas arrested be
cause he was selling beer in a dry
Town for 50 cts a bottel & ma Fed
he should ought to be arrested. Pa
sed enny man wich wood sell Beer
in a dry Town for 50 cts ought 2
be sent to the Sylum.
Wednesday Met J. E. today & she
ast hvhy my eyes were so red & I sed
I guest I had a cold in my hed or
sumthing & she sed it must be a cold.
& I never tumbled till now.
Thursday Ma sold sum rags &
paper & stuff 2 a junk man and she
had near a ton & let him have it for
a tin cup & a Pack of pins. Ma issent
so very good at Aggers. Pa sed the
only thing she can multiply is words,
There may be some large lodge
homes In thes tate of Oregon but
there are none any finer than the
home of Heppner Lodge No. 3!
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elk3. Local Elks and Heppner peo
ple generally may well be proud of
Many women prefer
knitted undergar
ments for summer
wear, so we provided
for their choice an ex
cellent assortment of
lightweight material
in several styles.
Prices Are Attractive
Thomson
Brothers
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The Question
Is Settled
DINE WITH US
Our New Big Dining Room
Is not exclusive to transient
trade. It's for the (olki of
Heppner First, Last aai AU
the Time.
Give the wife a rest
and a treat a Sunday
dinner here.
SHORT ORDERS, TOO
Elkhorn Restaurant
Willow Street
Gary Trucks
1 to 5 Tons
QUALITY COUNTS
5 Models
8 Sizes
Contractors, Lumbermen,
Loggers, Farmers,
Dairymen
ATTENTION
We can now make the most liberal terms to purchasers of trucks, for
all kinds of contract work, fourteen to eighteen months to pay up in; no
payment to be made while trucks are idle during winter months. Put your
boy or hire someone to operate a truck on a contract job and earn a truck
for your own use. Immediate delivery if you order a "GARY."
NEW LOCATION
Gary Coast Agency,
Northwest Distributors
Inc.
10th & Hoyt
Portland, Oregon
There were some prettq
long waits for the Doctor in
the horse-and-buggij daijs
CUTTING
MACHINERY
We have both the DEERING and McCORMICK Lines.
Mowers, Rakes, Reapers
Binders and Headers
and a complete stock of extras for both lines.
would ad vine getting your extras at
the earliest date possible as they will
probably be bard to get later on.
Gilliam & Bisbee
Seecf your tin ao
cording to tht road
thty have to travel:
In sandy or hilly coun
try, wherever the going
is apt to be heavy The
U. S. Nobby.
For ordinary country
roadi The U. S. Chain
or Usco.
For front wheel The
V. S. Plain.
For best remits
everywhere U. S.
Royal Cords.
(DVlOORO-NOBBY-CHAJNUSCO-PIAlll
jfAKE it easier to get around and
you make healthier and hap-
pisr communities. No one any longer
questions the worth of the automobile
or begrudges any legitimate ex
pense connected with it
But millions of car owners are rebelling at
the iaea that running an automobile has got to
irsn waste.
II
Every now and tben you hear a neighbor
complain that "he doesn't seem to have much
luck with tires."
Send him to us.
The minute a man begins to question the
service his thes are giving him, he's ready to
listen to reason.
Our business is built on the principle that
tne only way to get better tire service is to get
better tires to Start with.
That's why we have taken the representa
tion for U. S. Tires.
U. S. Tires hav5 a reputation for quality.
Built up through years of creating better
tires. Such as the straight side automobile tire,
the pneumatic truck tire.
It is not by chance that U. S. Tires are made
by the oldest and largest rubber concern in
the world.
We are proud to represent U. S. Tires in
this community.
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United States Tires
Heppner Garage
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