THE GAZETTE-TIMES, IIEFPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY. APRIL 14, 1921.
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Slats' Diary.
By Ross Farquhar.
Our news columns carry this week
the announcement that the State
Highay Commission will now pro
ceed to the completion of the Ore-gjn-Wa.-hington
highway through
Morrow county as far as Little But
ter creek. This w ill still leave a gap
between that point and the Umatilla
countv line, which includes getting
over Franklin hill. Just what is to
be done here w ill be a matter of fu
ture development, but we are pretty
wtll assured that the entire road
thiough Morrow county will be built
according to original estimates and
further, that the gap that exists in
Gilliam county will be closed also,
and thus connect the road up with the
Columbia river highway at Heppner
Junction. This is good news to our
people, and is evidence of the fact
that the commission is adhering to
the policy of completing the main
highways as they have been adopted
and put on the map.
The taking over of the grading
from a point bevond Lexington to
connect with the macadam road just
west of Heppner by the commission,
has now eliminated any controversy
that might have arisen over the sug
gestion that the market road funds be
applied there. This is fully settled
now and we presume there will be
no further agitation in this regard.
It was a question as to whether these
funds could be thus applied, and
there was no intention to so place
them until the matter was fully
threshed out and it was found to be
acceptable to all parties interested.
We presume that the suggested use
of the market road money on the
Willow creek highway was more to
get at some way of reaching the
desired end that of completing a
job that was so near done, and plac
iny the county in a position to receive
the additional money that would be
spent by the state in surfacing and
maintaining the highway. As the
highway commission has now taken
the matter over and will let the nec
essary contracts and finance the
same, we can dismiss the burden and
turn attention to other matters of
road construction.
The action of the commission in re
gard to the Oregon-Washington high
way was no doubt the result of the
visit of Mr. Booth and Mr. Barrart
to this section recently, when they
went overt he entire route in Morrow
county and .Mr. Booth was readily
convinced of the necessity of the
commission taking over the work and
accepted the views of Mr. Barratt in
regard thereto. The action they have
taken is very gratifying to the peo
ple of this county.
officials hae decided to ignore this de
cision "for fear of international com
plications." (31 The Justice Department re
cently decided that it was legal to
make beer FOR MEDICAL PUR
POSES. Now three hundred brew
eries have filed demands for permits
to make beer. Two or three brewer
ies would be able to make all the beer
Friday- pa has started to raze a
mustash. I dont think ma will allow
him to compleat it. She
hassent noticed it as
yet as it only looks like . neeje j for legitimate medical pur-
a lirtel streak ot dirt poses in this whole country.
on his top lip & she is. These facts can easily kill prohi-
a customed to seeing it . bition. But there are many other
look thataway. minor loopholes that add to the same
Saturday bad to : effect.
rane as like usual on a; Are the people who have voted
Saturday & cuddent gO;j0wn intoxicating liquors going to
a nsning. cut aiuaem ; stand for it r
creatures gather (or hours in advance
and awail the passing of the train.
The railroad company, to prevent the
frantic people from throwing them
selves under the wheels In the strug
gle for tnis gar Dare, nave uuiu irt
two or three teet from the train, and
the pails are emptied outside this
fence. Policemen stand guard along the
fence to hold back the older and the
better-nourtthed people while the chil
dren and the weaker adults are let
through to get the first pickings." j
Sellwood also tells of a desperate
Chinese mother who tried to sell him
her little three-yearold daughter for
60 cents. Recognising the face of an
American at the window of the train,
this woman crowded to the front, hold- j
Ing up the child In her arms, and Im
ploring him to buy it It was explain
ed to Sellwood that all Chinese
mothers In the famine section are'
eager to sell their children, particular- j
ly to Americans, as this means that i
the child will be fed and have a chance ;
to live, also that the returns from the
sale will also mean a little food for
the children that are left and for them
selves. I
Take Time to Heal A Deadly
Wound.
Impatience can almost become a
sin. It is anyway a world vice to
day. In every city newspaper and
from every other person you see
come grouches because of this, that
or the other uncomfortable fact caus
ed by the war continues with us.
The farmer is blamed because he
feels that he is still entitled to war
prices. The workingman is roasted
because he sticks like a leech to his
abnormally high wage. Russia is put
under the ban because she is still
crazy as a loon from the heat of war.
The big newspaper editors spend
oodles of monev in cables to show
that peace is not yet here. The fi
nancier nails because peace did not
instantly bring back the normal con
ditions of 1914. Pretty nearly all of
us are entirely out of patience with
the antics, world-wide of the ignorant
rtds and extreme radicals every
where. If the average intelligent man
would stop to think a few minutes
he'd realize that the supposedly un
natural conditions which are world
wide today are only natural, after
all. When a great storm has deluged
a field, you don't go out and plough
the nest minute. You are lucky if
you can take the old plow through if
two or three days later; it is the ex
pected, and you take it as only natur
al. If a fire destroys a factory, the
hands to not go to work at their
machines the next day as if nothing
had happened; nobodv expects them
to. The natural thing is to rebuild
the factory first. If a great flood
washes out a mile of railroad track
nobody expects the trains to be run
ning smoothly over the spot in a few
hours. It takes time to make repairs.
There has been a great human
storm; a terrible human fire; a cata
clysmic human washout. The signing
of apeace paper did not make actual
peace. If full peace comes in 10
years after such a fearful conflict the
world will be lucky. If farmers and
wokingmen and industry and com
merce and finances settle down meas
urably in 10 years after the conclu-
hafta wirk in the gar
den. Jake cum down &
we plaid in the house
like we was bandits &
finely ma rekwested us
to stop, she sed Seize it yunguns
or 1 will be a nervus reck if you
don't, so we did. I was lucky ma
forgot to make me take my Bath
Sunday They was a man hear in
town whitch had the flew & he sed
if he cud only get sum whiskey he
woodent only be sick 1 day so hi?
kin fokes got him sum. He was rite,
his funeral is tomorow afternoon.
Monday wanted pa to give me
permission aslo the price to send off
to a cumpny & get a Educated mon
key. He sed No not as long as I am
a round hear. & when I begun to
laff he swang at me. & got me to.
Tuesday ma is started a studying
French whitch will be 3 ungs he
has mastered english & French &
pa's.
Wednesday a lady called on are
house today & pa got to argueing
with she & ma about religious things
& the Bible and etc. The lady ast
pa did he beleave in Infant damna
shun. Ma interupted & sed pa prac
tised it when I was a Infant 8t he
had to carrie me wile walking the
flore with the collick or sumthing.
Thursday I seen a poor littel dog
get hit with a ottomobeel today in
front of are house & he was fatally
killed in the acksident.
It is not out of place to say, in
referring to the Heppner Herald that
in winding up its editorial in last
week's issue, regarding the meeting
of taxpayers held at lone, the "un
kindest cut of all" was contained in
the statement: "Perhaps, after all,
the failure of the highway builders
to pave Ione's principal thorough
fare is about the biggest dead fly in
Ione's ointment jar." This could
have better been left out; it is bring
ing up a subject that the citizens ot
lone are tender on, and we can not
blame them. In other words it raises
at this time the question in such a
way as to create a factional feeling
that has no right to be brought into
this discussion. We fancy that there
would be some pretty loud talk and
no small amount of kicking on the
part of the residents of our own city
should the same thing take place
here, and there was naturally much
disappointment on the part of the
lone people that the highway did not
go through their main street, as they
had a right to expect it would. This
whole question of taxation and ex
penditure of county funds should be
threshed out on its merits. Now that
the question is up, let the people
have the facts and leave out of the
discussion the question of persons
and localities. No one part of the
county has a greater interest in the
matter than has any other section.
The main part of the Herald's ed
itorial was a preachment against
bringing of personalities into this dis
cussion, then, after the fashion of a
kicking cow, when the milking is just
finished, and one is congratulating
himself that for this one time at least
he will secure a fine milking, the
bucket is kicked over and he is be
spattered with the contents thereof,
the above-mentioned quotation be-
spoils an otherwise fair statement.
The Bitter Truth.
Joseph Hergesheimer, who en
joys an even greater literary repu
tation in England than at home, din
ed with a friend at a New York restaurant.
The novelist was condemning the
prevalent commercial spirit in liter
ature and said:
"In true art money should never
be an object."
At this point in the conversation
the waiter brought in his exhorbitant
bill and Mr. Hergesheimer, scanning
the document, siehed and remark
ed:
"It is true that in art money should
be no object but it should be no
objection either in these times.
Detroit Free Press.
Participation In Athletics.
Athletic procrauis have been devel
oped In a number of state depart
ments of the American Legion, la in-
dlana end Iowa Legion backetball tour
naments are under way, and In Massa
chusetts, under the leadership ol
committee composed of notable Mas
sachusetts athletes, Legion members
propose Interstate competition In a
number of major sports.
Proposed Oregon Law,
The option of a $2,000 farm or
home loan or cash compensation at
the rate of $15 a month of service for
niviron veterans of the World war
will be granted. If a bill sponsored by
the Legion In the state legislature Is
passed.
Delay Cashing Certificates. '
Minnesota members of the Ameri
can Legion, are attacking the red tape
and delay by the government in cash
ing its certificates Issued to disabled
veterans to pay their expenses while
traveling to public health and voca
tional training centers. Because of the
difficulty In cashing the paper, the ex
service men are now forced to accept
discount of ten per cent Authoriza
tion by legislation of federal reserve
banks and post offices to pay cash on
presentation of the certldeates Is the
remedy suggested by A. H. Vernon;
Legion department commander, In let
ters to F. W. Galbralth, Jr., National
commander, and to the federal board
fu. Vocational Education. It Is be
lieved that the Legion will adopt the
suggestion and back legislation to that
end.
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Most Inconvenient,
In the departed days a somewhat
befuddled guest appeared unsteadily
before the desk of a smart hotel and
demanded in thick but firm tones that
his room be changed.
"I'm sorry, the clerk humored
him, "but all the rooms are taken."
"Mush have 'nother room, insist
ed the guest.
"What s the matter with the room
you have now?"
"Well, if you mush know," ex
plained the dissatisfied tenant, "ish
on fire!" Minneapolis Journal.
0. A, C. BOY SEES
GR1M T R AG ED Y
Starving Chinese Clamor For
Garbage Thrown From
Diner.
Killing the Prohibition Amend
ment.
Prohibition will be effective in two
years, and bootleggers will then be
an extinct race, was the opinion ex
pressed by U. S. Attorney General
Daugherty at a meeting with Wash
ington newspaper men today. News
Item.
Guess again Mr. Daugherty.
One by one the bars are being let
down, even this early, so that the ac
cumulation of them if allowed to con
tinue and remain in force for two
years more will leave prohibition less
effective in 1923 than it is now. It
certainly is disconcerting and discour
aging to the thousands and millions
of good rural people who have fought
the rum traffic in this country during
the last fifty years.
Let's see how effective the prohibi
tion amendment is becoming.
(1) Almost any big liquor dealer
whose wet goods are seized by the
enforcement agents can get a court
order for their return on some tech
nicality or other or upon some lying
statement or other. Anyway, in the
cities. A seizure of $20,000 of wine
and spirits had hardly been made in
one New York joint this week before
renditions too appalling for descrip
tion and misery too awful to look upon
were witnessed only six weens ago m
the famine districts of North China by
w i Sellwood. Y. M. C. A. secret
h ,,mib nf O. A. C, who has jusi
returned from 18 momns serYicc .u
Russia and China, and who travelled
10 days, covering 800 miles, through
the famine-Btricken section from Pekin
near the northern boundary,, to Nan
king, near the Chinese coast.
"That ten-day Journey was one long
horror," said Sellwood. "1 am haunted
yet by the memory of the drawn, des
pairing faces and the pitiable cries for
food of the starving, half-naked men,
women and children who crowded un
der the train windows, minis "k ""
arms in desperate supplication to us,
every time the train slowed up or
stopped. There are 45,000,000 Chinese
confronted with starvation in the
famine district, and the dally death
rate is 15,000 a day. Typhus and
pestilence are adding their toll to that
of wholesale starvation, and condi
tions are simply beyond any adequate
description.
"In Russia I have seen corpses stack
ed up like cordwood, and many other
things very shocking to people who
live comfortable, well-ordered lives
here In the United States, but these
were nothing to the tragic things that
were visible on every hand all along
the 800-mile journey through the
famine districts of north China. The
corpses were not stacked up in orderly
f-i,in as in Russia. The survivors
are too weak and wasted to under
take any such task, and those who
perish are left to lie where they fall,
n. are rolled into streams nearby.
AlmoBt at any time we could look
.... ... hnrties floating In the
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tro.mB or lvlna about on the ground
It is a common thing for famine vic
tims to succumb while digging for
roota to eat, and the mute evidence of
this last futile effort to secure some
morsel that will sustain life a little
longer, is visible on every hand; the
dead bodies of men, women and chil
dren may be Been lying beside the hole
in the ground that has Deen aiig wuu
sticks, or with the wasted claw-like
hands' of the starving. Long ago all
dogB, cats and even rats have dlsap
raMul in this land of horrors, except
tor a few wild, half-crazed dogs that
are dreaded by the emaciated numan
creatures because they fight so
tenaciously for food and sometimes at
tack the children in their desperate
hunner. Everything eatable has been
eaten except leaves, roots and grass,
and these are rapidly being exhausted
Where there are trees the bark from
these is also used, and most of the
trees are dying as a result This vege
tation is ground up Into a sort of meal,
and made Into a kind of cake by mix-
ith water. It is Daaea wnen
Inc
f.,.i n h obtained. Millions of
Chinese are living on this diet alone,
"Ona of the most pitiable Incidents
of the Journey was the wild clamor
all along the railroad at points whera
the garbage from the dining car was
dnmned dally. Knowing approximate
ly where to expect this garbage to be
dumped, thousands of gaunt, starring
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