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THE GAZKTTF-TLMKS, 1IE1TXKK, OKEGOX, TIU'KSDAY, APRIL 28. 1021.
THE GAZETTE-TIMES
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Slats' Diary.
By Ross Fari tHR.
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hitch I had tuk out of a
sack whiten ma had put
away for private use
then durins skool time
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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
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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.
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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
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c!i Vtti. cr liiTiiiiiiiiv which surmlies vnnr rnmrminifv
with electricity suddenly ceased to operate!
The motor-driven machinery in busy factories
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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
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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
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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
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Our Ginghams have been purchased since the new
E price on cotton goods went into effect.
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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