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THF I.AZETTK-T1UES. BtFP.NEK. Ulit... THURSDAY, AUG. 1W, 19 JO. i :-! E..'o Ir.iTe.ws and the Fuvxlv Furse y w. .1 ;,. , ,.; ,.J i r.. :'d niorv : : ,,n . p. r :.t 1 y U.;'imh0.- r- -m- i- I'v.t; : ,!;... i! t i lit r;i e lTiiMK1- ,, , ,j r :a::T ro !ak:ng an un I. ir . . i):' i-l tiiv puhhe. An m . r. ..i - l" r .r.t in .ixorage pru-os K, i...; !' t!.- t:..i:n:ur.i cost of the i a.;an.- if il.trr wen1 no change i:. ir f -r.es. uct.nf: on the price .. .(. lii.t lie (:!''' -il tcruiency of l: u . is low do.ttnw;,Tl. We have tip pcik of ar inn.non. It K ri1 !S"...ibio to lu'liiie. therefore. ;!..'. prices will t'.i'i! rather than rise r t..e neve rates are in effect. "he t is that in the production i.: umn articles of cciunion daily con s,;ii:'i.in. the transport charge is so stv.ail that an increase in rates has no :.pi re. table effect in the family l-u.luei. In bulky articles like coal, oi icar.-c, where transportation is a very large part of the process of pro duction and distribution, an increase in freight rates necessarily means higher prices. But even these cotn- p.irativeiy large increases in particu lar commodities may be absorbed as! a r suit of other forces working fori loner prices. i The increase in passenger rates. while producing a very much smaller, amount of additional revenue than( the new freight rates, will strike more directly at the average man's potketbook. But he new passenger ! rates will raise travel expenses lessi than $3 per capita a year, or less ; than one cent a day. Suburban res- idVnts, who travel thousands of miles' a year for the pleasure of living in the country" while working in the city, . will pay much more than this aver-j age. The Jl. 500, 000, 000 of additional freight and passenger revenue to bej paid by the public for railroad ser vice under the new rates will not go into the treasuries of the railroads nor into the pockets of the owners. Practically all of this additional rev enue will go directly to the two mill ion railroad workers whose wages have been established on a new level after the most careful consideration of all the facts by a government wage board. The recent wage award in Chicago gave to the railroad employes an ad ditional $(55,000,000 a year or an av erage of more than $300 to each em ploye. During the two years of gov ernment operation of railroads, be cause of the increase in the cost of living, the Railroad Administration raised wages by more than $1,000, 000,000 a year. The total increase in wages, therefore, since May, 1918, when the Lane Wage Board made its first award, is more than $1,600,000, 000 a year, or considerably more than the new freight and passenger rates will produce. The increase in rates made . by the Government in 1918, which prsduced about 500,000,000 additional reven ue, were praiically all absorbed by the increased prices for fuel and ma terials consumed in railroad opera tion. As a very large part of the in creased cost of coal and materials purchased by the railroads has been due to the more than 100 per cenf rise in wages paid workers in these other industries, it is plain that the great bulk of the $2,400,000,000 in crease in railroad rates in the past three years goes to the wage earners. I'udr the new scale of railroad wages, the average annual earnings per employe will be $1900, as com pared with ?S30 at the beginning of the war. This is an increase of 129 per cent. The railroad payroll today ; .-ms of $.;.60e C"k.0.Hi a f ..-c-i'.oi.o.iH't' more than it ti e employes mere being :e pre-war rates, plain facts show that the owners do not receive 11 - J-". or any appreciable part cf i:. For some time to come there is not likely to be any considerable in crease in the returns paid to the own ers of railroad securities. The ef fect of the award of the Commerce Commission is to enable the railroads to pay fair wages to their employes and to continue to make the modest return to their security owners that they did before the war. Larger re turns to the owners will only be pos sible as a result of intensive work on the part of the managements to iu ' crease efficiency. 1 The workers have fared very much : better than the owners, because their j w ages have been raised to make up i for the decreased purchasing power lot the dollar, while there has been no I corresponding increase in the pay for j capital. The workers who earned Lloyd Fell Ford and Fordson Repair Station, Heppner Partial Factory Price Schedule of Ford Repairs, Labor Only Overhaul motor and transmission $25.00 Overhaul motor only ." 20.00 Overhaul transmission only, or repair or replace magneto 14.00 Install or refit one piston or one connecting rod 4.50 Install or refit two or more pistons or connecting rods 6.00 Tighten one connecting rod bearing 2.60 Tighten tw o or more connecting rod bearings 4.50 Replace transmission bands (Sedans and Coupes, $1.00 extra) (with starter, $4.00) 3.45 Replace transmission cover gasket 2.60 Grind valves and clean carbon 3.00 Repair cylinder head bolts stripped one or two 2.50 Clean out oil feed pipe 3.25 Clean crank case or install gasket under lower Repair leaky carburetor 1.00 Adjust clutch fingers and transmission bands .60 Overhaul rear axle and rebush springs and perches when necessary 7.00 Adjust transmission bands only .40 Tighten all bolts and nuts on car , 3.00 Overhaul steering gear including replacing of quad rant or gear case and rebushing of bracket $ 3.50 Replace radius rod . .75 Straighten front radius rod and line up front as sembly 1.00 I IP.K INSURANCE WATERS & ANDERSON Successors to ('. V. Patterson Heppner ''3' 6 8 . Buy Your Clothes With Both Eyes Open My clothes stand for the idea that the only real economy yi clothes is in quality. Now is the right time to select your Fall suit. I also earn- a few Ladies' and Men's Overcoats. Very practical because they give confort in all conditions of weather. Ladies' and Men's Overcoats $35.00 My experience as Tailor and Cleaner is 27 years. Ladies' and Mens' Suits cleaned and pressed $2.00. Dresses, $1.75 up, Skirts $1.00 up. Heppner Tailoring & Cleaning Shop Main St. G. FRANZEN Heppner -:- -;- Oregon !qS gSSLOff'tTfrra s. J ' 1 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, Inc. Northwest Distributors $1000 a year befcre the war now re-; I reives J2300, and his wages will buy more, bochuse tliey have advanced more than the cost of living. On the. other hand the investor with flO.-i 000 of 5 per cent railroad bonds, gets the same $500 a year he received be-j fore the war, but he finds that his! $500 will buv onlv half as much as' before the war. i Esei lb THE- UNIVERSITY- or OREGON im maintained by the state Id order that the young peo pie of Oregon may receive, without coat, the henefita of liberal education. The Unirertity include the Collate of Litermtur, Sdience and the Arts, the Graduate Schwl. the School of Phys icej Education, and the profeaaional Schoota of Law, Medicine tat Portland), Architecture. Commerce, ournalfsm. Education tnd Music. High standards of scholarship are made possible by an able faculty, veil quipped laboratories and a library of nearly 100.000 volumes. Supervised athletics are encouraaed and every attention liven the health ftnd veils re of the students. With a heightened eonfidene iaiaed by the recent exprrfatoa of aahlle support, the l' adversity aow entering upon is era of large development and extended aaalalneaa. For a catalogue or for any information, address: TUB HKMSTHAK University of Oreftea Eugene. Oregon Buying or Selling mii hhii mini itt'ii Mini win TTirinriiMnTTMniiiTmTTiir' T Whether you are in the market for farm lands or city property, or whether you desire to sell your present holdings SEE ME Here Is A Splendid Wheat Ranch 1150 Acres, 14 miles from the railroad; 950 acres tillable; 480 acres summerfallow; 2 1-2 miles to school. WATER PIPED TO THE HOUSE AND BARN Large house of modern construction. Investigate this and learn of the amazingly easy terms upon which this high grade wheat land may be purchased. Arthur R. Crawford REAL ESTATE Heppner - - - Oregon O 1910 Now the whole family can o out on a Summer evening Select your tine o cordinf to the roade they have to travel: In tandy or hilly coun try, wherever the going it apt to be heavy The U. S. Nobby. For ordinary country roadt The U. 8. Chain or Uico. For front wheelt The U. S. Plain. For beit result! everywhere U. 8. Royal Corda, BTMLCDRD-NOBW-OMIN-USOO-PtAlR THE women should cer tainly be thankful for the automobile. It has given them a chance to see a lot more of their husbands. But it has done a great deal more than that. It has brought people closer together, given them new intefests, swept away old prejudices. What affects one man now generally affects a good many of his neighbors in the same way. And they have a better chance to get together and talk things over. It's had its effect on the tire business. they're beginning to insist on knowing what they are getting. And the more they insist, the better it will be for us. IV Wv want our customers to Know what they are getting. That's why we represent U. S. Tires so there will be no doubt about it. Whatever the size of your car, you know that the U. S. Tire you put on it is the fcesr kind of tire its makers know how to make. U. S. Tires are guaranteed for life, without any limi tation of mileage. When automobiles were That ought to mean some new people were willing to thing to the man who has buy any kind of a tire. Now thought about tires. United States Tires HEPPNER GARAGE, Heppner, Or. 10th & Hoyt Pprtland, Oregon
