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r.r !rft THK G AZITTR-TIMES, HVTPXF-R, ORE., IHITWI'AV, Al'G. 19, 1920. THE GAZETTE-TIMES! The Hrf" oeit. t!tbiuba Mrnvh lii, n The Hni'Mr Timea. Established November 1. '(57 Oneoi Matad Kabruarr 1&. till. ruMlohwl avery Tlmrnday mornln by tawtrr ana Crawfaa an.l er,!'1 al th roatofT.cn at Hepp ner. Oregon. a evond-ciaa mattar. AITI.U'ATIOS FrnsoRiPTiox rates: One Tur MM Six Mentha 100 Three Mentha .? Slnple Copies .0 MORROW rOVSTY OFFICIAL PAPER A Little More Common Sense, Please! There Is enough profiteering go ing on in this country without the government promoting more of it. In this connection we note a large. Juicy advertisement by the United States Government in the New York Times mind you, IN NEW YORK CITY. In this advertisement. Uncle Sam offers for sale forty thousand sets of harness left over from the war. What will happen? Soma city broker or middleman will buy up the whole lot tor a cheap price and take them out to the country, where they still buy harness and where he will 'profiteer the life out of the farmer. Ye gods! To be a government official. Is it unnecessary to have com mon sense at all? To the man of ordinary' intelli gence, the sensible thing would have been for the government to have in sertd in about 50 country newspa pers a little more total expense than the New York city newspaper charg ed for it. . The large users of har ness the farmers would have seen the government proposal and would nave bought the entire 40,000 sets in jig time at REASONABLE prices. In our opinion the government would come out of such a deal with more money than it would receive from the middleman. We know mighty well that the farmer woula get his harness much cheaper than the city profiteer will sell it to him. Labor is useless without manage ment. Capital is useless without management. Management must pay market rates of wages both to labor and capital to obtain their services. The wages of capital are in propor tion to risk. The wages of labor are in proportion to efficiency. If man agement tails, labor loses its job and part of its market, capital loses its wages and part or all of itself, and management loses its chance for pro fit. If management succeeds, it takes its profit part of which it may re-invest as its own capital, thus enlarging its business and addirg to the market for labor. Recognition of Ihtse elemental facts of business would add much to an understanding of the relations between labor and capital. Oregon Voter. Republican Reductions Amazed at the great reductions effected by the republican congress below administration estimates for appropriations, the democratic mi nority is attempting to belittle sav ings in government expenses amount ing to 12,414,115,144.13 by calling attention to the sum total of appro priations and obligations of the gov ernment at present, says Representa tive Frank W. Mondell, of Wyoming, republican floor leader. Although tiie total expenditures for the fiscal year 1920 amounted to approximate ly $6,500,000,000, exclusive of trans actions affecting the principal of tha public debt, Mr. Mondell explains, the republican congress had no con troll over these vast expenditures by the administration and participated In appropriating for them only to tn. extent of $2,838,283,432.76. This amount was authorized, in the eight fiscal appropriation bills enacted by the republican congress in special session a year ago. In authorizing these appropriations. Mr. Mondell shows that the republican congress rndKced the estimates of the admin istration $939,692,641.97. "Of the sum total of expenditures," continues Mr. Mondell, "more than three and one half billions were swallowed up in the cost of the government oper ation of the rairoads, in settling war contracts, and in the payment of $450,000,000 in loans to the allies which, It is presumed, were contract ed for before the signing of the armistice." SHE IS ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL Mr. Annette Abbott I, Adams, formerly Unltpd , State Attorney ror tne Northern District of Cali fornia, hat been appointed Assistant Attorney General at th Department of Jus tice. This 1 th highest position yet to be bald by wornaa ft f wWWPW vjt f 1 ' 1 1 h 25 cents' worth of chocolates to make tan party. the physic a necessity; he pays the Senator Harding is typical of tho grocer and the butcher two prices opportunities of America. He was and registers approbation; he gives born poor. His father was a strug the banker 8 per cent tor 4 per cent j gling physician in a tiny Ohio ham money and recognizes that In unnat-( let. Young Harding worked his way ural times one must expeot unnatural through school and college. He charges; he pays the garageman, the I worked during the Summer months yu-iuie auu" uiuu, iuo uiaiuou, aiiu 1 ai mruiiug, ai rauruua Duuaiug, ai the railroad their increased rates without a kick, but when any of these progressive business men desire a handful of letterheads they are shock ed at the continual upward trend in the price of printing. We might offer these gentlemen a number of valid reasons for higher printing costs in addition to the ones that they already know to be legitimate, but do not think it necessary to go into our bus iness details to them any more than we expect them to do this for us. However, we will say to them that the day the country printer owed everyone in the community and was dependent upon their charity tor his support the day when be walked in fear of his banker and approached his grocer in confusion is with all offices of any consequence a thing of the past To be a successful newspa per man requires nearly as much talent as it takes to successfully man age a soda fountain and should be worthy of as much remuneration as is expected by the proprietor of a pool palace. In addition to this a successful newspaper man must have sufficient literary ability to correct the copy of men who wish commer cial printing so as to make It intel ligent in its construction. He must work more hours than any other man in business in the village and must pay his employees higher wages than any other commercial enterprise In the, place and those are but few -of the reasons why it costs more to have printing done in these days of ad vanced costs of everything than It did when shoes were selling for $3. 50, wheat for 60 cents and "Horse shoe" at 45 cents per pound. The fact that we dare write and publish these truths is proof positive that in some offices at least fear and trem bling have been superseded by that knowledge of actual value which makes for commercial and intellec tual Independence. It Is to laugti! Clay Center, Neb., Sun. Slats' Diary Friday I tuk 50 cts I had earnt working & sent it 2 a Co. which is 2 send me a secret for how to get rich very quick. I dont want to hafta wait like pa has & then end up by being a poor man who must work for a liveing. Of course 1 will help pa ma 2 show my hart is in the right posi shun. Saturday ma put me 2 work nocking bugs off of potatoes & I got tired & set down 2 rest tc ma cum out & ketched me & she sed What are vXh 1 91 M M ! - This Is Today you about & I sed I am about done . she sed No yure not & you go rrte ahead now so ahead I went. Sunday at Sunday skool the teecher ast Jake who was Rebekka & Jake sed she was a lady which lived on a farm which they called Sunnybrook. Monday had a tawk with Jane this afternoon p. m. & acksidently got sentimental & I ast her diddent she like me & she sed Diddent I dance with you and she sed it real sassy, but all the same I have a feeling I am Ace high with that little lady. Tuesday A lady which visits at Jake's house was tawklng with me today & she ast me did my pa ever disagree with my ma & I sed. Does he well I'll say he does. And I told the honest facka 2 for here of lately na disagrees with most everything ma says. Only he never lets' her know it. Wednesday The skool teecher aid me & Jake we was 2 take Km Isthenicks next year at skool. Jake ast his ma what Is Kalisthenicks A she sed she haddent never caught none. But I diddent let her know I thot she was ignorant for I know blame well it Is some kind of a book which we must study like Rithme- tick only worse, Mebbe, Thursday got stung on Getting Rich. The Co. rote 2 me sed To get Rich work like the devil & dont spend a cent. Senator Harding Measures Up It is to laugh! The printer goes Into the cigar store, lays down 15 cents for a 5-cent cigar and sinlleB; lie goi-u to the boot shop and gives up flfteen Bimoleous for a pair of flve buik kicks and rejoices with the store iuun over his prosperity; to the drug gist ho hands a dollar for a bottle of physic that he formerly bought for or- a J ....... Viir olrllnv 60 cent to abe outlay as payment torrential candidate ot the Republi-1 Every tree-born American citizen can take genuine pride In the selec tion of Warren G. Harding, United States Senator from Ohio, as the pre. teaching, at house and sign painting and at a printer's case, to earn the money to educate himself. . When he came out of college he went to a little, unknown college in Ohio, which is no longer in existence he taught school and worked as a printer until he took over the Btock of liabilities ot a little local sheet which had more obligations than type fonts. ; Intensely practical and exceeding ly ambitious, young Harding worked night and day to build up that paper, and today he has in the Marion Daily Star as fine a small town dally as is published in the country , Harding is self-made. He has grown from a farmer lad into a man whose wise judgment and counsel have been courted by the biggest men in his party. , As an example of the old saying that every American cradle is the po tential birthplace of a president, Harding stands pre-eminent. Through all his steady climb Hard ing has never lost sight of his early struggles, He has always felt the deepest sympathy and understanding in the efforts of the working, classes to better themselves. He has the closest personal sympathy and under standing with the farmer element be cause he has been a farmer. Since he has grown to power and eminence, he has been in contact with the class es that administer the country's in dustries, and he has learned their problems and their difficulties. So he is equipped mentally to weigh and balance in the scales bt his cool judg ment the rights and wrongs ot each. In his public life Harding has ever been governed inall his decisions and votes by his cool judgment and abil ity to put himself in the other fell ow's place. He has not forgotten his experience as a laborer and farmer, and his votes have reflected his sym pathy and understanding of the needs of the masses. He has never cast a vote agahist the Interest of the people; and he has fathered and supported all of the important meas ures aimed to better the conditions of the laboring classes. Among the legislative acts he has supported may be mentioned the child labor law, minimum wage law, the civil ser vice retirement law,- the rehabilita tion of industrial cripples law and the woman's bureau of the Labor De partment. He has voted for woman suffrage and supported the cause in states where ratification was doubtful, using his eloquence and his influence for the cause of suffrage. Indeed every act of his political career is marked by progressiveness and far-sighted realization of the im portance ot political developments. Harding is a Republican of the Lincoln and McKinley type. Like these great figures of the past he be lieves in the importance of co-operative action In deciding the great Is sues. He has consistently decried the egoism of autocratic methods of gov ernment. He has always said that the great strength of the Republican party lay In Its willingness to profit i ' "THE '"' l; 'UNIVERSITY-- J I OREGON OREGON i maintained by the state in order that the young peo pie of Oregon may receive, without coat, the benefit ol liberal education. The University indudea the College of Literature, Sdenca and the Arte, the Graduate School, the School of Phys ical Education, and tha profeaelonel School! of Law, Mediclne-Ilt Portland), Architecture, Commerce, ournelftm. Education and Muelc. Hifh standard of scholarship ere made possible by enable faculty, veil equipped laboratories and a library of nearly 100.000 volumes. Supervised athletics are encoursfed and every attention given tha health and welfare of the students, With a heightened eonlldenee tallied hf thm recent expreaelon of auhlte aapport, tne Uulvereltr la now eateriaa sees en ara al larse development and extended aaefulneaa. For a cetslof ue or for any Information, addresst THE HKUISTRAR Unlverellr ol Oregon Kateae. Oregon by wise counsel, and he has declared frequently that a president's cabinet should enlist the biggest men ot the party instead ot sawdust puppets to bob their beads to presidential or ders. Only by havlnt. men of such calibre can government really suc ceed, and when he Is elected to the presidency and takes his seat In the White House next March 4th, his cab inet selections will show that his practical knowledge ot men will en able him to build up an organization such as surrounded Lincoln, McKin ley and Roosevelt, all Republicans who believed in this great fundamen tal policy. 1 Harding personlly is the embodi ment of the finest American man hood. He' is a good fighter, but clean fighter. He Is a good friend, but even friendship has never stood In the way of his duty. He is an able man as his every private and public act proclaim.' He Is a good man, religious and tolerant, a gentle, kindly husband and a good neighbor. In Ohio they loveTiim. They will tell you that success has never gone to Harding's head and that he is the same genial, generous, keen wltted companion that he was when he ws just -the editor of the Marlon Daily Star.- His employes on the Marion Dally Star will tell you that he is their friend and fellow worker, as well aB their boss, and that they take their troubles, their joys and their worries to Warren Harding with just the same freedom today that they did before the ' people ot Ohio selected him for high honors. Harding is an ardent patriot. His love of country and his worship of the flag is the outstanding thing in his life. On the occasions when he went abroad tor rest, recreation and study of European government and 13 11 a uiu Battery Young Th only tonic any bat tery needs la little ceu-g( now and then. Squar treat ment and a drink of water once week go long way toward keepinc it in tip-top shape, Hu You can b sure your bat- -tery ig new when you get it if it ha Threaded Rubber Insula tton the kind elected by lit manufacturers of pasaenger ears and motor truck. Battery Electric Service Station J. W. Frltsch Phone MAIN 83 Heppner, Oregon conditions, he always said on his re turn, that every time be went abroad he came back glad and proud ot the fact that he is an American. The next president of the United States will have great responsibilities and heavy tasks. He will have to bring order out ot the chaos ot dis order which an administration of in efficiency and misrule has created. Serious problems will have to be met and answered. The man who under takes this heroic task must be a man who measures up big. He must be an honest man, a fearless man. a strong man. When the Republicans in the Chi cago convention eliminated all other claimants tor the honor ot standard bearer they picked the right man in Warren Gameliel Harding ot Ohio. He is the man who can lead the country out ot the darkness into the light. He is a man we caa pin our hopes and our votes on with confi dence that he will live up to the great traditions Of the party ot Lin coln and McKinley and Roosevelt. Harding and Coolidge, for home and country, is a slogan every good citizen, whether Republican or Dem ocrat, can support with joy, with con fidence. Laxton McMurray and Amanuel o7TdWs.dUh "QUALITY PRINTING" PRODUCED AT THE 0,1. Saturday on business matters. An aH'refinery gasoline with t continuous chain of boiling points. STANDARD OIL CO, ' tCalatnrala) GEO. W. MILHOLLAND, Special Agent, Standard Oil Co., Heppner, Oregon 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 he 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, Inc. - Northwest Distributors 10th & Hoyt Portland, Oregon ESSE? SEES Fabrics for Fall Sewing With the cooler weather and school days near at hand, now is the time for fall sewing to start. We have a fine line of goods in now for that purpose and an abundance of new goods arriving every day. Prices Right THOMSON BROTHERS m
