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THF. A.IRKS FM-S- AS. V:TION
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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
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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.
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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.
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nd Planters' Guide is tha
standard reference for
grower of the Northwest,
fistinf onrcompleta lines or
of Seeda, Trees and Plants,
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and Equipment.
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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
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I.'.fo Accident Health Fire Insurance
Three Good Heppner Residences For Sale
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A fortunate buy of 200 boxes
enables us to sell them at
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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
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