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THE GAZETTE-TnCFS, HEPrVER, ORE., Till USD IV, JVLY 22, 1920.
THE GAZETTE-TIMES
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APPLICATION
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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