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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.
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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
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