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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1921)
Tin: i;a.i:tti: timi:s, uiutxek, okegon, TiirusiuY. makcii 3, 1021. THE GAZETTE-TIMES Th9 lit'r :ittft. FitM!h4 Mn-ch I". !MI Crir.K !: rt"UrT Jfc H'.t F'i!t,UhfJ Thur1y tnomlnf fcy wtrr 4 rearer Crafea4 nil nl-.l l th I'olloir.ot t Hpp nr. ap acon.l -ciAM ir.ttr. IDtKHTIMMi K4TKS OH rri.iiATio StUSCRirTlOS RATES: On Yar Sis Montfaa.. . ThrM Month Kinfi Cail lite 1.00 HORROW CO! TY OPrlrlAtP4PKR LViE AMtRk AN PRLS AS V:T!ON Some Different Now! Just now, as taxpaying time ap proaches, c are reminded that the cost rf government is mounting. There is, ci" course, a reason for all this as e mut have hotter roads, hetter hools and heiter conditions ail down the line. In this town of Heppner it :! take 55 mil's on the dollar of your asesed valuation to square your acccint w ith the tax col lector this year. We are not com plaining, of course, for many of the things we are paving for we have voted upon ourselves, and we have to pay the fiddler. Speaking of schools, we are re minded, by looking hack over the files of January 31. 1 10 i , that J. W. Shiplev, who was then county super intendent of schools, stated that the average teachers' wages at that time was about $40 per month, and there were 43 districts with 60 teachers employed. The principal in Heppner at that time received $1000 per year of 9 months, at Lexington the head of the school got SpOO for S months; lone, $4!5 and at Hardman, $400. It is some different now. The average wages received then would scarcely pay the keep of a teacher these days. I Flavor! No cigarette has the same delicious flavor as Lucky Strike. Because Its toasted LUCKY STRIKE CIGARETTE that ei-.ts there. Whv not be a Kvter tor a good caoe: it will help ou to get a b ' icw of things. The town of Prairie City is figur ing on building a new jail. They ought to be able to buy a second hand one at a greatly reduced figure. Canyon City Eagle. To be sure. Heppner has a second-hand jail that could be bought dirt cheap furnish ings and all. Send us a bid. Is This Not America's Most Serious Problem? The Surrey, a journal printed in New York, more especially for social workers, is noted for its radical opin ions and for its defense of even Bol shevists in cur midst. Certainly no body of education would think of calling the Survey conservative. And yet we read in that journal a letter quite evidently written by a workingman one who thinks even if he does not think very straight ac cording to educated standards, de nouncing the radical Survey as an or gan of the exploiters of labor. He talks in a half rambling manner of cutting to the ground the thing that he declares is the cause of all our trouble capital. He would totally change the economic system upon which present civilization rests. Of course, without saying it, he is Tor the Bolsheviki system. The man's name is Butler, so nobody can sweep him aside as "an ignorant foreigner." But even though he is not a for eigner, and even though he is un doubtedly ignorant or he wouldn't believe as he does, he breathes the sentiment that so many of our work ing people hold today without being I. W. V"s., or Bolshevikis or Anar chists. What does it all mean? Does it mean that the civilization which we and our ancestors have slowly, pa tiently and with so much sweat and blood and agony built up over 2000 jcars, is to be thrown into the din card? Does it mean that people whs are yet children and incompetent to think, except as they think crookedly through such educated hypocrites and liars and enemies of mankind as Lenin and Haywood, are to complete ly overturn the progress of centuries and throw us and our children back into even worse than the middle ages? It is a vast and serious and even blood-curdling problem, and those who are carrying forward progress by evolution may well become alarm ed into definite action. It is not a problem for the rich and cultured and the super-educated alone. It is much more a problem for the great mass of middle-class people of America who work with their hands or their brains for a living and are glad they work. In considering that problem, it might not be amiss to quote Lincoln, as follows: "Labor in prior to, and independent 01 capital. Capital in only the fruit of la bor, unrt coul'l never have existed If la bor had not first existed. Labor is the superior to capital, and decerves much the higher consideration. Capital has 11a rights., whkh are aa worthy of pro tection as any other riKhta. Nor la It denied that there Is, and probably al ways will be a relation between labor and cipital producing mutual benefits The error is in assuming that the whole of the community exists within that relation." tiri.r We vote for all the tax measures, we buy all the autos, go to all the shows and dances, borrow all the money we can, and then wake up all of a sudden and want to know what's the matter. There is nothing the matter except the drive is over, and we've got to pay the fiddler. Can yon City Blue Moinlain Eagle. Slats' Diary. By Ross Farquhar. Fridjy went to a soshul meetin at the church tonite & we had games & contests & so they ast a lot of kwestions & all we had to do was to anser them, the 9st kwestion was 4 Are you trooth ful. All the ladys rote ves on there na- iL per. Thpn hp lnm Kwestiun was now old are you. A lot jof the ladys spesh- ully them witch is not married and are singel snuk out & quit playing. Saturday pa home tonite & was very sick, he had went & had a tuth pulled & the antiseptik witch the dentist had give him made him sick in his stumik. ma was very kind to him & give him hot coffy & custard pie & supe & pik kels & wen he went to sleep she took a i, i a $ out of his pokket & had me go get sum candy for us to eat. Sunday pa tuk us out fording in otto this evening we got lost it was so dark & the lites went out on us. pritty soon pa sed We sure are move ing sum. look at those mile posts were passing, then we diskovered we was passing telefone poles or toom stones or sum thing. Monday ma had a letter from her brother Ike out in Conn, he is my unkel & he has been marryed 3 times & has now got a good job traneing wild animuls like leperds & tigers & lions & ostriches and so 4th. pa sed he shud ought to make a good 1 after all his xperients. Tuesday pa told me las weak that Mr. Homes had a job doing sum wirk passing bills. I ben a dodgeing Mr. Homes ever sents. so he finely cot me & give me the job & I past them mostly but when I went in to clleck from him he had wentout. mebby he seen me comeing & will dodge me like I ben dodgeing him. I hope not. Wednesday no skool today on acct. the teecher was vaxinated & it was takeing. I beleave in vaxina tion witch I never did before, pa tuk me to the city in the ford & we was stopped I time by a pleceman. he sed Say you big hick this is a 1 way St. just like that. Pa replyed & sed Well you big boob I am driveing I way aint I. the judge let pa off easy but tawked awful plane. Thursday ma is hireine a new hired girl. 1 cum today & ma sea Well haw about yure Ansestors she sed Honest misses I ain't got enny think like that just a little roomatiz & a cupple bunyans but no ansesters. I gess she thot they was a dezease. Wonder if the railroad people would consider a proposition to give Heppner better passenger service. They will have the opportunity to do so for it is to be put up to them. As was stated by Mr. Barratt at the com mercial club meeting Monday, the people of Heppner have been long suffering in this matter. They have taken what has been given all these years, not only in the matter of train service, but in water service and light and power service, and it would seem that the time has arrived that better conditions will prevail. By going after these things in the right way we can get relief. At any rate, it is not going to be so very long before we can have an outlet to the main line of railroad over the Willow creek highway, and the greater portion of passenger traffic will go that distance toward Portland by auto and abandon the railroad entirely. We believe that this will not be necessary, how ever, as the railroad company will no doubt listen to reasonable demands and arrange to give the branch a more satisfactory passenger service. That was rather a cool reception the Near East and Chinese Relief got at the hands of the lone Indepen dent scribe. You better take the word of those who know, Bro. Ack erman, and not trust too much to an Associated Press report which may in the end prove to be Japanese propa ganda. People in the Shantung province of China are starving by the millions; there is no doubt of this and the people of Morrow county are asked to contribute just a little tow ard alleviating the terrible suffering Honest Work or Closed Indus tries. In discussing the labor situation before a meeting of mine operators; and representatives of labor organi-j zations. and the necessity for perfect ing new working agreements under ; which shirking on the job and re quiring two men to do the work of one are common. C. F. Kelly, presi dent of the Anaconda Company made some plain statements which should be heeded by all employers and em ployes when he said : "There is no business in the Uni ted States that has been hit as hard as the metal mining business. "The labor of the Anaconda com pany gets ten cents for every pound of copper that we produce. The freight and refining expense is ap proximately 21 cents so that near ly all of the 12 i or 13 cents we re ceived for a pound of copper was given to you and to the railroads so that there is not much core left for the Anaconda company. In ad dition to what we pay you and the railroads, we have to find money for coal, timber and other supplies. I don't care what the propaganda of the I. W. W. or the Wobbly is, or what your views about the capitalist ic system may be, but I do know that on the first of the month the Aancon da company has to pay its bills, and I do know that it has been difficult to find money enough to pay them. "I haven't any use for a narrow employer, any more than I have for an agitating radical; one represents a type that is as far wrong from an employing standpoint as the other does from the standpoint of an em ploye. "I believe you have a right to or ganize as long as you act squarely; and fairly upon the broad principles of union organization, but there is j one thing 1 don't think you have ai right to do and that is impose un- j necessary, burdensome, grievous j and oppressive restrictions upon in- j dustry and I haven't any hesitation , in saying that I think you have heenj guilty of doing things that are costly, i inefficient and oppressive in your ac-! tions towards us. ! "The principle objections the em- p lover has to trades-iiMonism come from the tendency to preach a slow ing up and the constant claim as skilled work that which is not skilled, because skilled work commands a higher rate of pay. There has been no place where we have suffered from these things more than we have right here in Butte. "It is constant fighting over the jurisdiction of work that makes op-! pressive conditions. If we can es tablish reasonable conditions, rea-! sonable rules under which we can go ahead and do business, and if we can cut out these grievances which we feel are foolih and oppressive, there is no reason why we cannot proceed amicably, fairly, decently and self respectingty and co-operate in our work. "If we can get down to a decent basis with one another, one that is fair, we are ready to go ahead, and if we cannot, we are ready to break. : If we agree, we will continue; just as we have in the past ta try to live up to our obligations and expect you to live up to yours, and if it conies to the point where we mustj break, it is a break for good." The Manufacturer. j Qbe Gasoline ' of (Jiiality Red Crown gasolln has welf, earned the right to be called "Tbd ' Gasoline of Quality." Its continuous chain of bofljriff points insures all of the qualities of a good motor fuel ready start ing, rapid acceleration, and maxU mum power. Yoo can get Red Crown gtsoUnwhiw veryouseeth"R.dCrowti"ilgn. Look for it on garages and servics stations. Efifets, STANDARD OIL COMPANY Look for the Name "Willard" on a baitery identi fies it as the product of the pioneer in starting and lighting batteries. It stands for the most im portant battery development the Willard Threaded Rubber Battery. When you buy a Willard Threaded Rubber Battery the only battery with Threaded Rubber Insulation you buy freedom from old time separator troubles, because the plates of this battery su-e insulated not merely separated. Saves trouble and expense. Ask about the Willard Threaded Rubber Battery and how you can recognize it. Battery Electric Service Station J. W. FRITSCII Phone Main H.I Heppner Willard Batteries Far Better Bread! THE KIND YOU'VE BEEN HANKERING FOR! Here It Is! Heppner bread is a FULL, l'LUMP loaf, with the same HODY to it that MOTHKK used to makol Does it go down EASY? Better BELlfEVK it does! Greatest domestic bread iu the world! 20c the large size; 10c the small For sale at Thomson Bros, and Phelps Grocery Co. SEND FOR SOME TODAY Heppner Bakery I I L. MONTERESTELLI Pi 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 Life 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 If You Want PP 11 Jl 1LJ J U 3 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 Seed Rye You would do well to call on Scott & McMillan Warehouse Company Lexington, Oregon H ' U it ' . I . .A . .A I. : ; .'Hv .V WMCHMTM, This is the shell that gets em AS dealers in sporting goods, we want to do xx. all we can to contribute to the success cf 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 i3 unbroken by es caping gas-blast or pieces of wadding. The pellets cover a 30-inch target so thoroughly 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 la