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0 page rorft THE GAZETTE-TnCFS, HEPrVER, ORE., Till USD IV, JVLY 22, 1920. THE GAZETTE-TIMES Tha Rapptar Oatatta. EiUbllshcd March I). ISM Tna Happriar Tlmaa, K.taMlahad Norambar IS. Conaolidaiad February la. llt Pubtlahad arary Thuraday mornlnf t Yawtw a4 HawaM-a Crawfaaat 4 anlarad at tha Poatnfflc at Happ nar, Oracon aa aecond-cUaa mattar. ADVF.RTI1IWO RATE r. I T O 31 APPLICATION BUBSORIPTION RATES: Ona Yaar. t! M l Montha 100 Thraa Montha. .? Slncla Coplaa M MORROW COfJITT OFFICIAL PAPER Germany Must Disarm It was the plain purpose of the Germans when they appeared at the Spa conference to evade complying with the disarmament provisions of the peace treaty. Luder sharp pres sure torn the Allies they are coming to a clearer sense of their responsi bilities. Afte protesting thai the re duction of their forces to li)v,000 would require fifteen mouths, they re forced to accept January 1, 1921, as the ultimate limit. The obligation to reduce the Ger man army to 100,000 was never a matter to be adjusted according to the German's convenience. It was a definite and positive condition im posed upon them for reasons of safe ty. When they deliberately disre garded their engagements in this im portant respect it ill becomes them to complain that they should be charged Iwith bad faith. Compulsion is the answer that they invite. The German contention that an army of 200,000 was necessary, and , that it would take at least fifteen months to bring it down to the size authorized by the treaty, was based on the pretext that internal condi tions were unsettled and millions of rifles and machine guns remained in the hands of the people. No effort, it (was admitted, had been made by the government to recover the guns car ried off by soldiers at the end of the war, no attempt to secure possession of thousands of machine guns, mor tars and cannon and make the proper disposition of them, as required by the treaty. Pleading its own weak ness as an excuse, it confessed that it had contributed to its weakness by doing nothing to disarm disor derly elements among the people, says the New York World. At the instance of the allies, the German government may find means to keep faith with them and hope to regain the confidence of Iwhich it has proved unworthy. If it again vio lates the conditions to which it has newly subscribed, it must submit to further occupation of German terri tory, presumably the Ruhr region. So long as it hesitates over disarma ment It will be treated with open suspicion and be shut out from friendly intercourse with its neigh bors. It cannot expect to enter again into normal relations Iwith the rest of Europe while inviting accu sations of trickery and dishonesty by its obvious reluctance to comply with Its obligations. Suggests Wet Platform The democrats had to crack a rid dle at their convention on the booze question, straddling the delemma by nominating a wet candidate. As long as the matter has had so much discussion Iwe feel at liberty to sug gest a campaign "platform plank" that would span the gap from grape juice to bourbon. We suggest the following. We the democrats of America, Iwho saved the democracy from the world, favor the enforce ment of the law, be it wet or dry. When it was wet we liked our bour bon, at a bit a drink and when It is dry, Iwe get along as best we can; standing, however, unalterably op posed to wbiBkey at more than ten dollars a quart, either wet or dry, and we recommend that all bootleggars rally round the flag and patriotically cut the price (wet or dry-) We be lieve that the republican party is to blame for high cost of booze (wet or dry) and we democrats solemnly pro mise all law abiding citizens that we will wage a relentless war against all bootleggars who sell or attempt to sell law abiding and liberty loving citizens whiskey (wet or dry) for more than ten dollars a quart. We favor pohibition and are opposed to whiskey selling for more than ten dollars a quart. (Canyon City) Blue . Mountain Eagle. The world will not mourn as the youngest son of the former kaiser passes. Halfway, that little town over in Baker county went nearly all the way so far as population is concerned, with an Increase of 300 per cent. After all, the population of a city does not always indicate its real big ness. Los Angeles has outstripped San Francisco in numbers, but the metropolis by the Golden Gate main tains its place as the financial cen ter of the Pacific coast and continues at the head in foreign shipping. The days of the "terribe Turk" are ..Indeed numbered. The allies have issued an ultimatum to the Ot toman leaders which muBt either be accepted or rejected by the 25th of July. Should Turkey refuse to sign Ui treaty or give It efTect, then the Turk will be ousted from Europe "once and (or all." The Bubonic Plague in Amer ica Prevention is always better than a ure. If we can prevent the ill irom tonniig our way, we avoid the .roubles uud expense that conies with n.e mie. And aiso we avoid the risk .1 disaster thai comes 'with the 111. We believe that it is the duly of a newspaper to warn its readers whenever it thiuks that an ill is com ing their way inorder that they may iake preventative measures. liubonic plague has entered this country agaiu. Coming from Mexico, it has obtained a 'foothold in Pensa-K-ola, in New Orloans, In Galveston, .uid Houstou. We are, therefore, bounded on the south by the bubonic plague. The great distributor of this black death is the rat. You can quaran tine against humans, against cattle and live stock in general. But you can't quarantine the living rot. You are only safe when he is dead. The health department of one of the Gull cities attacked has caught a large number of rats and examined their dead bodies microscopically and sci entifically. It was found that 40 per cent of them carried the germs of bubonic; "a very high percentage," said the health officer. The Vnited States Government es timates that there is one rat per per son in this country. That means one hundred and ten million rats. If not controlled, it would be easy for these rodents to carry the bubonic plague to every corner ot America. What's the answer! Plainly, a war to the death in every community, in every house, on every farm against rats. The situation is so grave that no time should be lost. Let us get together in this town, In this com munity, and plan for -a relentless drive that shall take in every foot of ground. Prevent the plague from coming to this neighborhood. Let's get busy, neighbors! Housewives and Sugar Hoarding "In spite of a world shortage of sugar and a decrease of 400,000,000 pounds in domestic production, there has been used or boarded during the current year in the United States 15 'per cent more sugar than In former lyears," states the Department of Agri culture, which goes on to suspect that both housewives and commercial concerns must be boarding. These great government depart ments deal in masses of course. Statistics are available to them that are not available to the average news paper editor, but iwe are going to take the bull by the horns and asserveate that the Department ot Agriculture is wrong when it includes housewives among the hoarders ot sugar. Certainly, of course, many a house wife has fifty pounds, or even a hun dred pounds, laid away in the cup board. But that's not hoarding. She accumulated that 100 pounds from fear fear that when canning time arrived she couldn't get any sugar at all. Fear that, in a fetw months per haps, she couldn't supply her hus band and children with a very great necessity sugar. Moreover, it was' not uncommon for a woman to buy 100 pounds of sugar in the old days, or even a bar rel. It was not hoarding then, when the big profiteers didn t have us throttled. Why is it hoarding now? "Neither personality nor geo graphy, but paty principles consti tute the issue this year." Senator Harding. With a new process discovered for the manufacture of rubber tires and a Portland man's device for using crude oil in motors instead of gas oline, cost of motoring may come ddwn. Slats' Diary Friday Went 2 a forth of July picknick and had lots of things 2 eat and etc. pa & mister Gillem was setting on the grass tawking iwen ma acksidently overherd pa say She bad the prefc tiest ankels and her neck was the nicest I ever seen and tawk about a high stepper De leave me that old girl was shure there & I invested a hole weeks wag es on her but she never showed. I satw ma but sed nothing she was gltting white un der her curls & she up & ast pa Who is the husBy. Pa tride 2 eiplane It was a race Horse wlch be had lost money on. but ma was 2 hard harted 2 beleave him. Saturday ma give me a f bill & sed You go 2 the drug stoar git a ticket 2 the city ft a dimes worth of chewing gum. I got the ticket ft jumped on a car ft (went 2 the city ft bought the gum and cume on back. Wen I entered flie house ma was setting in a chare ft swetting ft she grabbed me ft batted me a few ft sed Where you ben. I told her ft left the room but I herd her say Ot aU the Blame heds he is the wurst 1 ever seen. . Then she sed she dld dent say 2 go 2 the city for she want ed 2 go her own self. Sunday at dinner ma ast pa did he like the pie crust ft pa sed it iwas fine only for one thing, ma sed Wot ft he replyed The crusts is 2 close together. Monday Went down to the city Jale 2 see a hobo wlch had been ar rested for Fragrancy. Tuesday Jake's cozzen Art wlch has been in Frants come home and he nad a gas mast a hemlit ft it croyx dagger ft a hole in his leg wlch was a baynet stab frura a hun. Wednesday I acksepted a posl- ai ii.rfii ZJ - 1 ten tion with a farmer today 2 ride a horse Vile he wood plow corn. I sure am soar tonite ft I feel as tho I woodeut care of the band wood play the Star spangled banner all the Time. Friday Lade off. Outworn Ideas About the Auto mobile The motor car is one transform ing modern invention to which the world hasn't yet been able fully to adjust itself. We are having an ex ample now in Kansas City's frantic ecorts to deal with the traffic prob lem in cue aowniown districts, me city doesn't yet know what to do with the automobile. It can't quite realize that the car has passed from the class ot luxury to that ot the necessity. In its traffic ordinances. In dealing with narrow streets and -in ignoring the demand for great motor thor oughfares it is still acting on the as sumption that people really don't need cars and could get along with out them It they only would. The trouble is that it is hard tor us to make our mental adjustments to new conditions. Our old ideas cling to us and hamper us fwhen the condi tions on which they were based have passed away. The present generation recalls vividly when the automobile was regarded as a sort ot treak. It was a tov for eccentric persons of means to olav with and a toy that Iwas a nuisance to the rest of the com munity. It made frightful noises. It emitted a terrible stench. It put ev ery respectable family in jeopardy by making it unsafe to go out with old Bess and the family carry-all. One ot the noisv monsters was likely to come along any minute and cause a runaway. Grudgingly we admitted the automobile to decent society and gave it some of the privileges of mod ern life. It isn't so very many years since it was permitted on the Cliff Drive on sufferance two afternoons week. Not so very long ago the council iwas discussing whether the ned limit within the city should be allowed to go above eight miles an hour. Manv of us are still thinking of the motor car in terms of twenty years years ago when all the prophets predicted that it would never be any thiiiff more than the plaything for rich men. We still talk about it as a luxury and when in a thrifty mood hiw much the industry !s costing the country, and how much tetter oft it would be if the money were invested in houses or clothing or what not. Anil vat. If we consider the matter fairly, we must admit that the motor car has become an essential part of American life. Th truck, of course, is indispensi- Kio Nn rtellverv business couiq get on without. It has supplemented the horse-drawn vehicle within cities, u ir. crowding the trolley and the steam train or express service over short tinia There is no argument here. Rut the sevlce of the passenger while in some respects not to be reckoned in dollars and cents, is Just as fundamental. In every city tens nr thousands of persons use it as a means for rapid transit to and from work. For the doctor, the salesman, the painter and men In a dozen other nKiinntinns the motor car Is a busi ness vehicle Dure and simple. It has become Increasingly the reliance of tha former. It enables him to get to j.dwn and back in an hour, whereas it used to take mm me oeuer vau nt a. day. Finally, it is the greatest nnnidhle aid to family life. There may be persons who sneer at such a statement as exaggerated on1 who reeard the relation of the automobile to the home as of negli- eible value. They simply do not comprehend the facts. To many a busy mother, both In country and city, the family motor car nas Deen a li'fA Hver. It has helped break down the isolation and loneliness of farm life. It has enabled the city woman to keep In touch with her friends in distant parts of town in a way never possible before, and it has provided a means ot recreation the whole family. Every warm evening the Kansas City boulevards swarm with cars carrying latner, mother and children. Every Sunday the roads about the city are similarly crowded. On a smaller scale tne m thlnv la enlne on in all the omoilor communities of the country. When an article so meets the needs of human nature In wholesome fash inn that it. has come into almost unl versal use, It is simply stupid to wave It aside as unnecessary. Of course, w mlirht live in a cave, as our an cestors did, kill animals for food with a luh pad Arena In their skins, we could get on (without bathrooms In without electric lights, without running water, without books and magazines and newspapers, ah nf thou modern inventions have tak en labor that otherwise might be turned to digging caves and making clubs. But It is useless to talk about turn ing back the clock. Human nature makes civilization and In turn Is made by civilization. The automo bile has responded to the demands of modern life. It has become one of the essentials, like the railroad and the nrlntlnr Dress. In dealing with the various prob lems involving it, Iwe shall go wrong niM hntt mir henda affainnt a stone wall if we fall to understand the im portance ot the motor driven vehicle to the Individual and to the commun ity as a whole. Kansas City Star. LOST Bay mare, 8 years old, weight about 1500, branded JM con-' nected on left stifle. Reward for in formation leading to recovery will oe paid Dy K. p. Berry, Heppner, Ore. 2tp. WANTED House cleaning, day work, washing. Ironies. Fifty cents per hour. In town only. Phone 542, Lizzie Nelson. ttp. MI LKS WANTED I want to buv mules tor the eastern market, aged 2 to 7 years. Write me the kind and number you have to sell. Ludwig Nelson, Ontario, Oregon. 3tp. Robert Buschke has been putting a faw davs this week at the John Padberg ranch west ot Heppner, set ting up a new combine. in R. E. Crego, local phone manager, spent Monday In lone on business. He was accompanied by E. M. Badger of the Wasco office. Mrs. Rufus Farrens and Mrs. H. B.' Clark and daughter, Miss Inez ot lone were visitors in Heppner last Saturday. FOR SALE Kitchen cabinet and) cream separator. See J. B. Cason Heppner, Jtp. JOXKS WEEDERS WITHOUT THE FREIGHT We have for sale at Heppner, 25 sections of the Jones Weeders, the last to be manufactured here. Mr. Farmer, after they are gone you -will not be able to buy Jones Weeders without paying freight. Better buy yours today. 4tp PEOPLES HDWB. CO. FOR SALE One 3 1-4 wagon; one cook house tor 18 men; one Nelson straw stacker, hood guaranteed not to waste straw; one Garden City feed er, guaranteed not to slug, a machine used but 25 days. F. E. Mason, Lex ington, Oregon. PEARL OIL (KEROSENE) An ideal home fuel for oil cookstoves, oil heaters and oil lamps. Get it at your dealer's. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (CAtiroPNIAl 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 biresomeone 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, Inc. Northwest Distributors 10th & Hoyt Portland, Oregon When the train came in back in i9iO Sabot four that o uotdini to tha roadi thay hava to trarah In sandy or hilly coun try, wherever the going la apt to be heavy The V. 8. Nobby. For ordinary country roada The U. & Chain orUsco. ". For front wheels The U. S. Plain. For best result! erarywhara-U.S. Royal Cords. KOORD-KXBy-CHAlK-USCD-PlAIR TEN years ago you might have seen one or two automobiles waiting outside the station, when the weather was pleasant. Today the square is crowd ed with them. And most of the cars you generally see there are moderate-price cars. Anybody who tells you that owners of moderate-price cars are not interested in the quality of their tirca has never met very many of them. We come in contact with the small car owner every day and we have found that he is just as much interested as the big car owner. There is one tire, at least, that makes no distinction between small cars and large cars so far as quality is con cernedthe U. S. Tire. Every U. S. Tire is just like every other in quality the best its builders know how to build Whatever the size of your car, the service you get out of U. S. Tires is the same. It isn't the car, but the man who owns the car, that sets the standard to which U. S. tires are made. IV We feel the same way about it. That's why we represent U. S. Tires in this community. United States Tires HEPPNER GARAGE