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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1921)
I'At-K TWO TIIK OAZKTTVMIMKS. I1T.ITNT.K. ORKOOX. T IU'RSDAY, AUGUST IS, 1921 THE GAZETTE-TIMES Tl Hffprtr '5a!:ik B.iaMtahad U. .i I . ))) Tr.t tin fi.tr T-.w.n. B.tabllahaJ 0Mi'.l;ti;e4 February la, lfll I'ul ii.had ..'v Triutfetar morning by awi mm4 9mtr Crwfr4 ftid nir4 al th. 'ogtottto ml U.pp r..r. urtton aa coTu1-ciajs matter. iDTTlHc; R4TK r IV R X OS irpi.nTio e-e p-own ; the brush as kept burned off so that there as nothing to hum. The forest service never ! grew a forest, nature did it with the aid of lightening that kept the brush all burned off. There is so much ' brush now that fire is dangerous, and , it is just a question of time when j they will be burned if the present j policy is pursued. Blue Mountain EsgU, Canyon City. UPWORirTION RATES. y mt Y.ar S.a aloDiha Tnr Monltit M.ngia Coplae 1100 1.00 .74 .01 OHHOW 1l TT IIKMI UL PATER I THE A.MLRHA.S FKLSS ASSOCIATION J Pellagra May Occur in Any State The fact that 10,000 of our fellow citizens may die of pellagra before the year ends, and that a much lar ger number may be invalided for months, if not longer, should bring home a warning to all of us that we cannot afford to neglect nature's in exorable laws. To put it popularly, each of us is a walking laboratory, and we are ill, indisposed, or vigor ous agreeably to the chemical reac tions that take place within us. Pellagra is evidence of nutritional derangement proof that essential physical changes are not taking place w ithin the body simply because of a deficiency of protein in the food eat en. In a kindred way, man suffers when his dietary lacks a sufficiency of vitamines; he may have beri-beri, or he may be stricken with scurvy. Again, the infant may be inflicted with rickets i. e., faulty bone growth, owing to the absence of that element in its food which builds up the supporting framework. While pellagra is at present virtu ally localized in the South, still it has occurred at times in pretty nearly every state in the Union. Climate has no direct bearing upon the ap pearance of the disease; the basic cause of the malady is a faulty diet. The appetite may be satisfied, yet the body will weaken and the nerv ous system become gravely deranged by reason of a shortage of protein in the food eaten. It is well for every body to know this fact and to see to it that his self-contained laboratory be furnished daily with enough of each nutritive element to insure health. A properly balanced diet should in clude, according to the U. S. Public Health Service, cereals, starches, sweets, fats, fruits, green vegetables, lean meat, and a sufficient quantity of milk. And of all of these, the ex perts tell us that milk is the most important single food in balancing a diet and in preventing or curing pellagra. Where this cannot be had in the fresh or raw state, then a thor oughly satisfactory subtsitute is avail able in condensed or evaporated whole milk. Now we know why Dr. E. V. McCollum of Johns Hopkins University has persistently urged that each of us consume a quart of milk daily. Are We Ready to Think? How are taxes to be reduced or at least how are they to be kept from increasing beyond the bounds of reason? It is useless to complain about high taxation unless the people geir erally are offered a remedy which is acceptable. When the burdens of government begin to oppress the individual he is inclined to blame the public official or political party in power at the rime. As a matter of fact this atti tude is somewhat like locking the door after the horse is stolen. As the so-called standard of living of the individual in this nation has increased, so have his demands on the city, county and state govern ment increased. In developing a magnificent sys tem of public undertakings, we have at the same time developed a tre mendous overhead and a large num ber of public employees. As the successful individual must finally adjust his living expenses to a less figure than his income, so must the successful community finally ad just its tastes and demands on gov ernment to its ability to pay the bill by taxation upon itself. As a nation we are responsible for our own government. If we sanc tion and permit waste and extrava gance it is our own fault. It is use less to blame temporary public offi cials whom we are responsible for putting in office. If the people wish economy and a reduction in tax bur dens it lies entirely within their own power to secure them. Honest and efficient public service should be re cognized by retaining capable offi cials in their positions. The right kind of men should be encouraged to go into public service by a know ledge that meritorious work in pub lic life will be recognized as a badge of honor in the community. Unless we are ready to curb our demands for public expenditures it is useless to complain about the in creasing burden of taxation. We must set the example which we ex pect our public officials to follow. The Manufacturer. The violent thunder storm Sunday night started a number of forest fires. Standing in the valley one could see the lightening hit and the fire start. If the forest service would burn the brush and undergrowth out of the forests during the winter season there would be some chance to save the forests. Forest fires by lighten ing is natures way of preserving the forests. That is the way the forests The Small Town and the Royalty Hound The specialty of American novel ists anxicus to produce "best sellers" just at present is fiction portraying the ugliness, sordidness and vulgar ity of small-town life. In their anx iety to create something lucrative these royalty hounds are rather over doing the job. There is plenty of sor didness and vulgarity in towns of all sizes from Lickskillet to New York, and those who go 'round hunting for it are sure to find it. Along with these features of life in America and every other country beneath the sun are ample elements of nobility, hero ism and beauty. Charles Dickens, during his first American tour, saw nothing but crudity, vulgarity and braggadocio. He was entirely blind to the picturesque and the heroic in the pioneer portions of the new world. His failure to comprehend the true inwardness of what he saw, which he later confessed, was due to the fact that he was measuring Am erica with an insular yardstick. Some of our present day satirists and sav age critics of rural America seem to be testing the life of the villages bv the standards of great cities, over looking the fact that the small town has the same right to live its own life as has the big one, and that neither is a supreme court to fix by its own narrow ideas the proprieties in the other. What a joke Lincoln's envir onment either in Specer county, In diana, or New Salem, Illinois, would have been to the literary smart aleck of an eastern seaboard community little less than a century ago! How blind such superficial commentaries are to hte realities of life in any conv munity! There was a time when Anv ericans, perhaps, were peculiarly boastful, but today American civili zation stands in need of more writing up and less writing down. The way to curb the tendency of novelists to write books which libel American life is to cease buying them; but there is a mean spirit of detraction and a desire to appear superior to one's surroundings that perhaps will al ways make many people anxious to read a book which satirizes their neighbor, however unfairly .-r-Nation- al Republican. glati' Diary. By Ross Farquhar. Friday My unkel Hen tuk me on his truk down in the country & show ed me to a Chappel where sum Italyun pe pul goes to chirch. It was a tiney little place Stunkel Hen sed it wood hold about 50 fokes on ly it never got a chance in hot wether. They was a ole lady a setting there very kwiet & we stood there & lissened toher think for a bout a our ii then we went on home & eat a water mel lon whitch unkel Hen snuk up on in a patch near by the rode. Saturday pa was unfit to go a feeshing today, las nite he was ang ry at sum 1 and slammed the dore shut & forgot to taik his toe inside withhim. he says now it was all my fault. I spose so. his watch stop ped and he blaimed that onto me to. just because I had tuk out a cupple scrues. Sunday pa wanted to get a se gar but diddent have the 10 cts in small change. I sed I wood taik his $ bill and get it changed for him. but he sed o never mind I guess I can wate. he is suspishus here of lately, he wont even trust a safety pin. I guess he issent enjoying his vacashun. Monday went back to New Or leans today, slipt out by my self to seesum sites, saw a man a woman which musta ben man & wife be cause he had hold of her like she was arrested, they was fussing he sed he was a going to get his ore trunk& go. she sed yure in the cen ter of yure trunk rite now & when you button up yure vest the trunk is locked up. Tuesday wile I was walking up saint Chas st a lady cum to the dore ofa house & sed Hay. I turned & she sed 0 I was mistaken I was a look ing for a nice little boy but I guess you mite do. I sed I Will Do. Noth ing of the kind went on dilligent ly. I guess I lernt her a few. Wednesday I met a nother nice little girl today & we got very sosh abel. we eat ice cream Si she lent me her chewing gum. I like her. she seems to ditto. I sed I dont see how a swell gurl like you can care for a boob like me. She answered & re- plyed Yes it is quere aint it. Shes a bully gurl. if Jane new this they wood be sum trubbel I bet. mebby not to. Thursday me my cuzzen got in trubbel with the grocryman for call ing him the champian lite wait, he kicked me. pritty near. Morrow countv has one distinc tion, at least: It stands in the lead of all other counties in the state in per capita taxes for all county and local purposes. Itie time to dig up will soon be at hand. "Why Heppner Gets Trade" Under tin's caption, as a sub-head the write-up in the East Orcgonian ;of the I0th inst.. descriptive of the trip made into Grant county by the Umatilla county representatives a few Jays previous, is the following: j "In other words the trip home by way of Heppner shows why this I countv has lost business tnat former- ily came this way and how by one stroke that business and much more may be made to flow northward. " 'We can see why business is go ing to Heppner.' said Judge Schan nep when the party was at Monu ment, enroute to the capital of Mor row countv. The roads to Monument are good. But Monument is 55 miles from Heppner and after we had cov ered that distance we saw the situa tion more clearly in its real light. Grant county business is going to Heppner instead of Umatilla county towns because that route is the less er of two evils. The road to Hepp ner is not a boulevard and after we get our North and South road to func tioning it will seem even less of a boulevard than at present." The article goes on to state fur ther that in getting out this way the people of the Monument section have troubles also as "immediately on leaving Monument there is a grade that is a half-brother to our own be loved John Day grade," and the pic ture is, of course, set forth in about its worst light. The fact remains, however, that Pendleton and Umatilla county are going out to get all the trade possible from the Northern Grant county sec tion, and from now on they will leave nothing undone that should be done to get it. True they will have to get hold of money with which to make the road building program the suc cess they hope it will ultimately be but we have no doubt whatever of their getting it, and in time dividing up, at least, what little of the inter ior trade Heppner now enjoys. Condon is also looking forward to a goodly portion of this trade because of their connection with the John Day highway. Yet Heppner has all the advantage in distance and it only re quires the completion of a good road that can be traveled the year 'round between this point and Monument to insure us the permanency of this trade, as well as opening up to us other parts of the interior trade we are not now getting. With market road money and for estry service money the Morrow county end" of the Heppner-Monu-ment road could be well built; and if properly constructed, as much of it now is, the maintenance will not be excessive. A little co-operation by Grant county to get that end of the road in good shape is all that is real ly needed now', "as our own county court has a mind to do all that is pos sible, and to do it just as fast as the means is provided. With the Grant county end of the Ritter road put in as good shape as is the Morrow county portion, there will be no question as to where those people will come to the railroad. Heppner being their nearest outlet, they are going to come this way. In the meantime, it behooves Heppner business interests to keep well in touch with the situation and be prepared to get and hold this trade regardless of what is done by Umatilla and Grant counties in the construction of the North and South road; a move that is a good one and should succeed. For looking at it from this distance, a good road lead ing into Heppner from Long Creek via Ritter, and another good road from Monument to this city will be the means of inducing a goodly por tion of the tourist travel that may ul timately come over the North and South road to come our way. 4 Dr. Brumfield undoubtedly had several "doubles" from the number of times he was reported to have been seen in Central Oregon. He evidently lost little time in getting to Canada, where he has been ar rested by the R. M. P. and is now be ing returned to Roseburg. The circus will be in town Satur day. Get the babies ready so that you will have an excuse to see the elephant." This rainy weather is making it rather unpleasant for those who are not yet done with their threshing. There should be little complaint, however, for the season, to date, has been very excellent and our farmers have been "making hay while the sun shines." The Morrow County Fair Heppner, Oregon September 15, 16, 17, 1921 taw LUCKY STRIKE CIGARETTE jbte. K otop) .cea Morrow County Fair, Heppner, Ore., Sept. 15 to 17. ONLY "QUALITY PRINTING" PRODUCED AT THE O.-T. I LIFE and FIRE INSURANCE I LEON W. BRIGGS, Agent j Representing Idaho State Life Insurance Co. A : strong, progressive, Western company with attrac- : five policies equal to the best. 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The Season's Latest Showing For the Snappy Dresser New Fall and Winter woolens coupled with STYLE and WORKMANSHIP at prices you can afford to pay Same particular attractive values from $30 to $40 LLOYD HUTCHINSON TAILORING Cleaning Pressing Dying Repairing Watermelons ;duce Your Income In An Imaginary Way Suppose you were compelled to get along with from $3.00 to $5.00 less a week, you could do it no doubt without inconven ience. Reduce your income in an imaginary way by a decision on your own part. Deposit the amount of the reduction in this hank every week. - The best part of it is that you increase your income instead of reducing it. The money in your account is yours and earns interest for you. Fir& National Bank HEPPNER, OREGON Are now in their prime We get them fresh from IRRIGON every other day . You know what Irrigon Quality '.means! Phelps Grocery Co. Phone 53
