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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1921)
r.,i. two THE GAZKTTF-TLMKS, 1IE1TXKK, OKEGOX, TIU'KSDAY, APRIL 28. 1021. THE GAZETTE-TIMES Tha Happrar iafattn, Ealabllaha4 March la. llfl Tra Haaaar Timaa. Katabl!aba4 Noramtar 14. H7 Oonao!ldata4 Fabrvar; 15, 1111 ruHinhad avary Thuraaa.? nornlna; iwtrr mmm laam Crawfaaa aiM antarad at tha Poaloffica at Kapp r.ar. k'racon. a.a aacond-claaa mattar. All I KTItlC RATE 1 V N APPI.HATIOM Slats' Diary. By Ross Fari tHR. -idiy-l give Jane $um candy hitch I had tuk out of a sack whiten ma had put away for private use then durins skool time I l Mo Thraa a SUBSCRIPTION RATES: a tha .. Montha.. Sing la Coaiaa MORROW rOVWTT OFFICIAL PAPBB THE AMERICAN PKF-SS ASSXtATION y ..- CT1 AW d FA S '3 should sav something that might be construcJ bv someone to be a posi t;e stand on anv question that comes up. he will rush into print to sav that it was only a joke" and he did not mean what he said. Whether his evplanation is satisfactory to Mr. Ma son and the lone people, we are not Iug Stevens tuk a hand i Prepared to say. It came up to our full out of her Desk. I was cernly mad and cuddent hardly keep my seet. But I did not beet upon him I am to much of a genelman & then he is pritry big enny how. Saturday had it all planned to go afishing and Blisters had a boat and me & lake had arc bate dug and etc. Then ma & ra High Cost of Government. As related to purely domestic af fairs nothing in President Harding's put up a skeme on me by copchd- initial mes.N.ige to congress is more mg l shud ort to wirk in the ole interesting than his admonition a- garden. It seems as if makeing me gainst extravagance and his hrnrvurk is the fondest thins thev are So the bate had to go with out and his firm stand for economy in conducting pub lic business. Lvery taxpayer feels the burden ,,f, ....,,, I. . f,..,.., .v., ..... I nicipality on up through the country, state and nation. Increases have reached a point to where the cost of government has become an element in the cost of living. But while all taxpayers feel the burden, probably few of them real ize its enormity or how progressive ly it has grown. Take for example the taxes paid by the Southern Pacific in the state of California. In the last nine years the amount of taxes paid by this cor poration increased 175 per cent, or from S2.954.0S4 in 1912 to $3,127, 353 in 1920. In other words, its taxes in 1920 in California alone amounted to more than $22,000 per day. Under the so-called King bill just enacted by the California legis lature the tax rate will be greatly in creased. While the corporation pays the tax it is well to understand that taxes are included in the cost of service to the people and it follows there fore that the people are really the ones to suffer, and this is why the cost of government enters into the cost of living. It is generally realized, and yet we continue the practice of electing untrained and incompetent men to conduct public business, that the cost of government is unnecessarily high and that the application of ordinary business methods and the exercise of average intelligence in the adminis tration of public duties would alone effect substantial economies in this respect. The source and cause of the high cost of government is indifference on the part of the average voter. In stead of seeking fit and competent men for office the average voter casts his ballot for the office seeker, with the result that more often than other wise incompetent men are elected. So long as we follow this practice of electing men to office, just that long will incompetency and extravagance pyramid the tax burdens. Relief resides in competency and economy and the way to giv; this remedy force and effect is to elect men who not only know how to ren der efficient service but who have the moral courage to root out useless boards, bureaus, commissions, and kindred parasites and place public administration on a sound business basis. Not only have we elected incompe tents but we have permitted faddists and political will-o'-the'wisps who are mere theorists, pay no taxes, "who toil not neither do they spin" and who earn their bread by the sweat of other men's brows to di rect our course and load up the pub lic pay rolls with departments and bureaus utterly without regard for cost and for no valid reason. This too must be corrected. ot me. When the fellas cum home haddent enny fish which helped me a little. Sunday after s. skool pa & ma went to Ant Emmies house for din ner & I w ent to Jakes house & then we went down home & clum in the winda & had a gloryus time a doing as we pleased, we found sum old fotagraffs of pa & we set & laffed till the teers run out are eyes, here after when I want to laff I will look at sum of his old fotagraffs. whiten was tuk about 20 yrs. ago. Monday ft sed they are a fella here in town whiten has 2 bottels of reglar beer like men ust to drink before the antysloon leeg busted it up. The fella sed he is saveing it to trade for a ottomobeel. pa sed he is a myzer. Tuesday nuthinjf doing only a test in skool. rotten day. Wednesday pa cum home and was looking for a reseet for make ing sumthing at home, he was mad because he thought ma had hid it. whiten she did. she hid it in the Bi ble so they are a fat chants of he ever finding it. Thursday ma was good harted. when I cum home from skool she baked a lotta cookies & she maot animals out of sum of the doe for me. she had tiger & snaiks & dogs & cats & fishes & cows & etc. Jake cum down to help me & we nlm'H cirkus & farmers & everything &j then when they was to dirty to play I with we plaid like our mouths was' Noys ark & marched them in & etl them up. expectations, and we are fully sat! fied. We also want to commend Bro. ! Pattison for being a Bible student 1 and to so ably bring to attention of his readers these great sayings of the writer in Ecclesiastes. and w e prer ! sume the exact quotation referred to j would be: "Dead flies cause the oint-1 ment of the apothecary to send forth i a stinking savour; so doth a little folly him that is in reputation fori wisdom and honour." The idea of making Heppner more attractive has not been abandoned by the Civic Club, and the ladies are again calling for the planting of dahlias by our residents, with the idea of creating the "Dahlia City." There should be a general response to the request of the Civic Club. The flow ers grow here beautifully and they are not very difficult to raise and such available space as each house holder possesses should contain a large number of the beautiful var ieties of this flower. YOU- Can make that suit or dress last twice as long hy having it properly and thoroughly CLEANED AND PRESSED LLOYD HUTCHINSON TAILORING Cleaning Pressing Dying Repairing The winter wheat crop is estimated by government experts at 620,000, 000 bushels, the fourth largest in the country's history. The American farmer is not fool enough to accept the advice of the demagogues who have been urging him to raise small er crops and starve the country into submission to class demands. The farmer produces to the limit of his capacity, and if every other factor in our industrial life would do the same we would soon be a far more pros perous and contented people. While on a business trip to Portland last week Frank Engleman was taken ill and Mrs. Enpleman went down Thursday to be with him. They are ex pected home in a few days. lone Independent. The Gazette-Times is quite fully satisfied with the explanation given by the editor of the Herald last week regading the "fly in Ione's ointment jar.' If we get his meaning in that explanation, he did not mean what he said in the former article to which this paper and Mr. Mason of lone had called attention. We say that we are quite fully satisfied, because we have learned long ago that no tatement, editorially, of that caner should be considered to mean any thing. If by any chance its editor Special Coffee Sale Cigarette To seal In the delicious Burley tobacco flavor. It's Toasted l?Baaaaa3?I 1 1 V X.' .!. l, I P il, T :,.l,i ,..,,1 T... TJil '51 UU1U Uiippt'U il lilt! JJlgUl HUH 1 UW- c!i Vtti. cr liiTiiiiiiiiv which surmlies vnnr rnmrminifv with electricity suddenly ceased to operate! The motor-driven machinery in busy factories mm For the week of May 2nd to 7th We will sell Folger's Coffee as follows: 1-2 lb. Free with each 2 1-2-lb can. -1 lb. Free with each 5-lb. can. Phelps Grocery Co. Phone 53 jj DON'T BE HELD UP with your spring tractor work on account of Magneto Trouble AVe are specialists in magneto repairing and carry on hand tit all times a large stock of repairs for nearly all makes of magnetos. By bringing your tractor magneto in now to bo overhauled and worn parts replaced, if necessary, you may save many valuable days later on which might otherwise be lost on account of magneto trouble. We guarantee our work and our prices are reasonable. Battery Electric Service Station Heppner Oregon ONLY "QUALITY PRINTING" PRODUCED AT THE O.-T. Auto Repair Work We Guarantee Our Work to be Satisfactory Bring in all your gas engine and tractor troubles to us Hardman Garage Hardman, Oregon What 'Poor" Soil Farmers Are Doing. Much has been said about worn out Eastern farms and about the in ability of Eastern farmers to compete with the farmers of the West and South. As a matter of fact, Eastern farcns are or can be made as pro ductive as the farms of any section of the country. What is needed is interested young folks to make them profitable and attractive. We just have word of a young New Jersey farmer who grew 142 bushels of corn per acre last year from se lected seed, with proper fertilization and cultivation, and on no better soil than the average in the East. The young folks in the rural com munities of New Jersey are being ed ucated in a way to make them pro vident and thrifty. Not through the organization of boys and girls clubs, but the State Board of Agriculture is making it possible for those with little money or none at all to secure funds with which to purchase orig inal stock. A limit of $100 will be placed on the expenditure for calves and young swine, while $50 will be the maximum in the case of poultry. The movement owes much of its success to the efforts of President Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, of the State Board of Agriculture, who started the fund with a loan of $10,000. The indorsemeent of the county club agent is all that is necessary for any boy or girl to embark in the produc tion of pure bred live stock or fowl. Dignity is lent the plan by en rolling the members of these clubs in the New Jersey Breeders Association, j would come to a standstill. The many little power-driven contrivances which add to the convenience of your shop or home would be useless. Even the lights by which you work and play would be snuffed out. Yet the great sen-ice rendered by the Light and Pow er company is too orten iorgotten. It lias become so much a part of our everyday life that it is taken for grant ed. Only on the rare occasions when something goes wrong does the Light and Power Company receive even a passing thought; and that thought is perforce a damning one. In the light of actual facts, the Light and Power Com pany takes on an entirely different aspect. Its welfare and the welfare of the community as a whole are one and inseparable. The extent and character of the service it renders influences to a considerable degree the establish ment of new industries. And the more widely that ser vice rs used, the cleaner and brighter the community w become, for electrical power is clean power. Literary Disrest. PAID v. i 1 1 jpilllllllllllllllllllllllllM ir 1 1. ur 11 Pure Ice, Full Weight, Prompt Delivery Courteous Service There are four points that satisfy our patrons Do we Berve you? If not, just phone Main 362 or ask one of our drivers. Once a customer, always a customer. MADE AT HOME FROM PURE WATER JAMES G. COWINS Il One Swallow Does Not 1 Make a Summer Neither does one GINGHAM H ; For the little miss or the grown-up ginghams cool, fresh, pleasing are indispensable for summer E5 H AND NOW during the cool days of spring is the E EE time to make up those frocks which are to give you rj so tnucii pleasure and comfort later on. Es I . PRICED RIGHT g Our Ginghams have been purchased since the new E price on cotton goods went into effect. 1 Sam Hughes Company s A F E T Y & V m ... . -aw .tfu. vj..-. ....... J S E R V I C E Haven't you some one big thing that you feel you "can't afford" just now? It's an old and true story. The salary barely keeping pace with the cost of living. The thousand and one little ex penses creeping in. The unexpected demands which must be met. Be our salary large or small, we have all had the experience. A savings nccount at this bank will help you. It works for others. It will work for you. TRY IT. Fir National Bank HEPPNER, OREGON
