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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1921)
"Ill 1 - CAZF.TTlvTlMKS, HF.ITXF.R, OKKGOX. Till KS1UY, FIT.. 24. 1921 THE GAZETTE-TIMES V.rrh 1... lt'l Tha lia: t'T r Tura. KtraMiahad N.-Trribr 1. lt: Oorx l Sai.1 ft-ruarj li. ll'.l rubllahad avary TtiurT roorntna; by . tiimt Imm rrwf j ttj ntr.l at tha Ptwt.iiT.o at Harp- ! fif. t'trac.-n, aa ont1-rlM mattar. ti KHTItlX; IHITJ liltiS OS APri.lt ATIO SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ( Tit Yr f-.z Munlha Thra Months mia CVrlaa II 00 1 00 .71 .01 morrow rorwTT orrinu. fapkh THF. A.IRKS FM-S- AS. V:TION wstedj The Key to the Tax Problem. M. M .Moulton, a representative in the Washington legislature, ad dressing the hvJro electric meeting at Walla Walla ably presented an idea that should he emphasized over and over again in Oregon and Wash ington. The advice is more applica ble in Oregon than in our sister state. .Mr. Mouiton's point is that the remedv for tax burdens in the north west is to delevop our resources, such as irrigation and hydro electric pouer, therebv enlarging the amount of assessable property. Speaker Louis E. Bean of the Oregon house of representatives, made the same point at the meeting held in Pendleton on February 5. The East Orcsonian has on manv oc casions made the same argument in slightly different words by urging that Old Man Oregon should get to work and reduce the tax rate by in creasing the state's wealth. If we cannot reduce the divisor let us in crease the dividend has been this newspaper's slogan and it brought from a Portland paper the charge of being a champion of high taxes, which charge is not true. To solve any problem it is first necessary to properly analyze the fundamental conditions involved. This the ultra conservatives who de vote their time to mere futile com plaint about taxes fail to do. They assume that the state is extravagant and cities and counties likewise. They are in error. Government in Oregon is on a parsimouious basis and there is abundant evidence to prove it. We should frankly accept the fact and turn to the one true remedy for high taxes which is moru development and more production. The Umatilla rapids project will illustrate the point. The estimated cost of developing power at the rap ids is S20.5OO.0OO, though the cost at this time would doubtless be larg- j er. Kut it is estimated that land tha' mav be watered through use of pow er for pumping purposes will pro duce $30,000,000 in crops annually a sum equal to more than half the total assessed wealth of Umatilla county. It is idle to predict what the irrigable land would be worth when reclaimed but it would add colossal wealth to the tax rolls of Oregon and Washington. That is a certainty. On top of that would be the continuous hydro electric power that would be developed and which would be avail able for industrial purposes. It may be safely asserted that the continu ous horse power, measured in terms of coal at less than present pricey would be worth from $5,000,000 to $25,000,000 annually. There is en gineering authority for this state ment. To develop the Umatilla rapids project would mean to lower living costs, lower industrial costs, includ ing the cost of farming; it would re duce railroad expenses and freight rates proportionately; it would light en the taxpayers' burden not by re ducing gross expenditures but by re ducing millage taxation through in creasing assessable wealth. This i; the true and only remedy for the tax problem in an undeveloped region. This state, and in a lesser degree the state of Washington is in the same category, is situated much like a far mer who has but one-third of his land under cultivation. Finding him self hard pressed he must either cut expenses or increase his gross in come He cannot reduce operating expenses because those expense? are based on conditions beyond his control. Naturally his course is to bring the remaining two-thirds of his lanj under cultivation. He must look to development rather than economy. Oregon is in exactly the plight of such a farmer. We are making use of less than one-third the potential wealth of the state. We must draw on our unused resources and make them produce just as must the far mer just referred to. There would be no sympathy for a complaining farmer who failed to farm two-thirds (if his land. Why should a slothful state be entitled to different consid eration? Development must be the slogan for the northwest. We should take the constructive, affirmative course, not a policy of negation. The rem edy for the tax problem is at hand if we want to use it. We had clear counsel from Speaker Bean on Feb ruary 5 and from Representative Moulton at Walla Walla last Satur day. If that idea can be pressed home throughout Oregon and Wash ington we will arouse a sentiment that will assure development not only of the Umatilla rapids project but of other enterprises that will bring this region into its own. Pen dlclon East Oregonian. LUCKY STRIKE cigarette. Flavor is sealed in by toastir President's Cabinet Not Legal Body. Every four years when a new pres ident takes his office the American people hear a great deal about his "cabinet." One would think that the cabinet is the greatest body in the country', at least able to put through great acts and measures. As a matter of fact, the president's "cabinet'' as such has no legal exist ence or powers. In creating the de partments 132 years ago, Congress authorized secretaries to head them, but no mention w as made in the law of a cabinet or a cabinet council. Their secretaries were to be advisers of the president and to conduct the various government businesses under their charge according to the laws provided by Congress. Of course President Washington called his secretaries into consulta tion frequently, but it was some years after the first presidential office began before the term "cabinet" was heard. It would be interesting today to know who first used or printed the word "cabinet" in connection with the president's secretarial confer ences. Just now, when a new cabinet is so much in evidence, it is instructive to know how this body operates They always meet in executive-secret session, and on regular fixed days se lected by the president himself and officially announced. If each secre tary's important department business were taken up and discussed, the meetings would be endless affairs Consequently, each secretary dis cusses such matters separately with the president. Only matters of weight, involving administration pol icy, and pieces of legislation de sired by the president and the sec retaries, are discussed at the sessions. We shall decline the appointment if some future president sees fit -to offer us a cabinet job. About all a cabinet member is, is a four-year tar get for every opposition kicker in the country. He Wanted to be Hanged Quite ; Publicly. i A Chicago uuirJeror who wa; i hanged one fine mornir.g recently, !kept the newspaper readers of that jcitv entertained during the last week 'of his life with denunciations of cap-1 j ital punishment. One Jay he sug-j j gested that they publicly hang him in 'Grant Park, which is the lake front ! adjacent to the business setcion and j its teeming millions. He said that .hundreds of thousands would see him swing and that the gruesomeness of capital punishment would be too much for 05 per cent of them. He forgot to speak about the effect on those hundreds of thousands if they had all witnessed the fearful spectacle when he walked into a res taurant and shot the proprietor dead, nor of the gruesomeness to the peo ple in the dining room when the mur iered man s blood was spattered all r. er their tables. We rather imag ine that those diners thought pretty well of capital punishment at that particular moment and wished that they could pull the rope. Thus it is w ith all assassins. They forget about their victims whose joy ous lives they have blotted out, of the wives and children and mothers whom they have stricken with grief. They think only of their own miser able selves of the terrible thing it is for the law to take a life that had no compunction in blotting out an other life. Perhaps capital punishment should be abolished in the promotion of a greater civilization, but certainly there are two sides to the question. 1 needs room in which to take care of' her present or protective popula tion. I .' j's nfcrtfj th.it there will be a g living report Iron the committee on public plav groiruls at the next meeting of the Brotherhood. We consider this one of the pressing needs of this town and shall wait the committee's report with interest. 'Mk,ll KmhI aad t'anilr Salr. The Kn.U-aor H-it'ty if the Chris tum iluinh will nive a pule of eookcl fi'ml nn.l honienwule vamlies at the Humphreys ltun store on Saturday. I'ctimiinn at 10 Oit a. m. Many kooiIIos will he at your disposal at this time Saturday. February 2"tli. The Anieriean Lenion Post at lone are preparing to put on a blK ball in the auditorium in that city on the eve. evening of March 4th. It will be a :rainl affair. T tr .-. i . fcf" w cw I' I " IV" ' I 1- OUR SEED CATALOG nd Planters' Guide is tha standard reference for grower of the Northwest, fistinf onrcompleta lines or of Seeda, Trees and Plants, FertUiiera, Poultry and Bee Supplies, Sprays and Sprayers, Dairy Supplies and Equipment. MAKE EVERY seed planted, and every acre cultivated, yield tha biggest return. Diamond Quality Seeds are tested and adapted to the clima tic and soil conditions of the Northwest You can "bank" on big crops when you plant Diamond Qual ity Seeds. A for Catalog No. 430 There is bound to be a better spirit of cooperation in this city among all our citizens. Good things are com ing to Heppner -and we believe the good horse-sense of the citizenship here will compel them to lay aside anything that will hinder progress. ! It is the right way and cannot arrive ' too soon. Ere long there will be a hammer-burying ceremony and the knocker will go out of business. To assist in alleviating the distress in both China and the Near East, Morrow county is to be asked for $3400 the most of which can be handled as foodstuffs. We have grain and our contribution should take this form. It is promised that transportation of all grain and food for the famine districts will be free When the people of our county Full v realize the awful condition that now exists, they will surely be liberal in their response. Charles Evans Hughes will make a great Secretary of State. He is one of the big men of the nation and a real statesman. As has been suggested before, there are many things that Heppner needs. We believe one of the main things that Heppner needs just now is the completion of the Willow creek highway. A good man at our elbow has dropped the thought that it will be well to concentrate on one or two good propositions and see that they are put over; in other words, it will not pay to get too many irons in the fire. Commissioner Barratt is seeking all the aid we can give him in his efforts to help along the com pletion of the highway. We must not fail to get behind him. It requires but three cents a day to save the life of one person in the famine district of China. We are called on to give relief in the awful extremity that now exists in Shan tung province where 50,000,000 peo ple are facing death by the terrible agonies of starvation. Guy M. Walker of New York, writing in the New York American, answers the plea that over-population of Japan makes necessary a Jap anese policy of territorial expansion. The islands of Japan, excluding Ko rea and Formosa, writes Mr. Walker, have an area of 150,000 square miles and a population of about 55, 000,000. England and Wales have an area of one-third that of Japan with a population of approximately 45,000,000. Italy also is more densely populated than Japan, while the German empire is only sligthly less so. The island of Java has one third the area of the Japanese islands and a population of 36,000 -000. The province of Bengal is twice as thickly populated as Japan. Korea, taken by the Japanese as an area for overflow, is almost as dense ly populated as Japan, while the country is nothing like as rich or fer- ! tile. The province of Shantung, al- it 2. so said to be necessary as an outlet Tuesday me & Jake found a pack i for Japanese population, has two and Far Better Bread! THE KIND YOU'VE BEEN HANKERING FOR! Here It Is! Heppner bread is n FULL, l'LTMP loaf, with the same HODY to it that MOT1IKR used to mak! Does it go down EASY? Bettor HKMKVK it does! Greatest domestic bread iu the world! 20c the large size; 10c the small Tor sale at Thomson Bros, and Phelps Grocery Co. SEND FOR SOME TODAY Heppner Bakery Slats' Diary. Friday was at a party tonite agen & walked home with Jane. I stopped at her gait not wanting 2 ack rood & leave her 2 ear ly. We seen a star fall out of the Sky & I sed to her Mak a wush & it will cum trew. She sed 1 wish you wood go on home. Her wish :um trew. Sum day she will go 2 far. Saturday Vol entines day. I got a pitcher of a dun ky which had my inishels rote under it I cant imajen whom sen it only the riteing looked like sum notes I have fourmerlie reed, frum Jane. & 1 spent a dime on 1 for Her. As Rudder Flipping sed in a pome which he rote A Fool they Was. and etc. Sunday They was a fine pitcher show in town tonite which was Wm. S. Hart & a funny comedy at the pit cher show and ma kinda wanted 2 go. All so I. But pa objeckted he sed he was awe full sleepy. So we went 2 church. Monday Teecher was tawking about advise. She ast me did I all ways take my mas advise & I ex clamed to her that ma never gives me no advise. She jus tells me what 2 do & I most all ways generally do of reel cigaretts today & we went out in the summer kitchen & lit a cupple. pa cum in uneckspected & grabbel at me. & all so caught me. I ex clamed they was only little innosent cigarets. But he wsa cold harted. I am riteing this a standing up. got sick be sides. Wednesday ast ma for a jitney for 2 get sum candy today. She sed Slats I cernly get tired of haveing you ast me for money all the time no you cant have it. I get turned down so offen I am getting tired my own self. Thursday we saw Mr. Gillem a passing the house today with a paper sack under his arm. ma wondered a half times as many people to the square mile as there are in the Jap anese islands and it is a mountain ous, rugged country, not nearly as fertile a country as Japan yet it has always been self-supporting. The Japanese official year-hood for 1920 shows that anly about 40 per cent of the arable land of the Japanese is lands is under cultivation, 00 per cent being held by the crown or the nobles. If this ground were open to cultivation, it would furnish ample means of supporting an additional population as great as that now liv ing in Japan. Overseas territory is sought, says Mr. Walker, only for the purpose of avoiding the surrender of what it was like wimmen do & pa 'these feudal privileges and as a ba sed prices was up so high it was hard sis of increased naval and military 2 tell wether it was a nickels wurth strength. In other words, there is of cabbige or a $ wurth of appels. no basis for the claim that Japan L. MONTERESTELLI Marble and Granite Works PENDLETON, OREGON Fine Monument and Cemetery Work All parties interested in getting work in my line should get my prices and estimates before placing their orders All Work Guaranteed F. R. BROWN I.'.fo Accident Health Fire Insurance Three Good Heppner Residences For Sale FARM LANDS CANADIAN LAND I Buy Grain Sell Realestate UP STAIRS IN ROBERTS BUILDING Heppner, Oregon illllll!ll!lllillll!lliUII!ilil!ll!ll!;!lllllil!lllll!!ll!lllll;ll!lllllllllllllll!llllllllllll If You Want Seed Rye Z32m A fortunate buy of 200 boxes enables us to sell them at $2o00 box Good grade, faced and filled GANOS ROME BEAUTY Phelps Grocery Co. Phone 53 You would do well to call on g Scott & McMillan Warehouse Company Lexington, Oregon lllllllllllilllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM . ' v.'. V " , , " '! V . " ! : This is the shell that gets em AS dealers in sporting goods, we want to do xx a!l we can to contribute to the success of your hunting season. We want to do more than sell you our goods. We want you to get your share of the game that is to be had in this section. For this reason we are recommending to your use this season the famous Winchester Shells. By the Winchester sys tem of wadding, the shot pattern in unbroken by es caping ga3-blast or pieces of waddirg. The pellet3 cover a 30-inch target so thorouchly at 40 yards, that no bird could get through without being hit three or four times. We recommend these shells to your use with the utmost confidence, feeling that whatever the weather conditions may be, these shells will play true to form and give the best results that can be had from any shell on the market Come in today and look over our new stock. Gilliam & Bisbee S3