THF I.AZETTK-T1UES. BtFP.NEK. Ulit... THURSDAY, AUG. 1W, 19 JO.
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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
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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
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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