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!'.u;k two THK O AZl'TTK-TIMES, I1EFFXF.R. OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST '27 1021 THE GAZETTE-TIMES T!. it. ner ;af.:, b"s:a! i;shd Cfn..;i.iiin-j Ifi'tuin is, u;j ritl.h.d .v.r Th;ir..:ay morning by m4 Spriorr Irantora All k.H I l.MM, HAl'KS . H K OS KL'bik-Kli'TlC'.N KATKS; l.ai $2.00 Muiitht i.tio (tufa Month. fr-i'ii U;u.. .. .v6 v,;-vc aa;!aNe that can bo made to h:'U' the purpose better. Ie Portland Telegram and other rc papers supporting the Umatilla : project tre to be compliment their vision. A northwest news cr that cannot enthuse over the subject of hydro-electric develop ment in the Columbia basin is not 'awake to one of the big things of .this region and foils to understand one of the most pressing needs of the whole nation. Pendleton East Ore-Ionian. MtlHHUW IU1V1Y uri'llUL I'APtB 1 TH AMLRICAN PKLSS A-SSiXlATTON a ouOject to Arouse Eathusi' asm in a very able editorial last week tne ortiand lelegram gave much imormation concerning me Umatilla rapius project and me great benefits tuat womd ioiiow in the wake of its construction, lhe Portland press is generally tavoraole to the project and sucn interest is justified because tne project is one of genuine state importance. In tact it may be truth fuiiy claimed for the project that its development would serve a need that is nation-wide in character. Here is why. The project, though its first purpose is irrigation, involves power development of such magni tude as to win attention from those who see danger in the growing scar city of coal and oil and wish the sit uation relieved. The railroads are great users of coal and oil. It is said that coal constitutes approxi mately 35 per cent of all freight carried by the railroads. According to the same engineering authority al most a million cars are devoted to coal carrying and they carry 42 mil lion tons at one loading. Of all the coal mined in the United States one fourth is used by the railroads them selves. The railroads devote one third their total energy to hauling coal for their own use and annually pay out stupendous sums for this class of fuel. The shipper of course pays the bill and the burden ultim ately falls upon the consuming pub lic The high cost of fuel is one reason why freight rates are high. In the case of the northwest rail roads this use of coal represents an economic waste because our power streams may be made to provide suf ficient electric power to move all traffic. The Umatilla rapids project alone, if constructed, will provide 120,000 continuous horsepower in ad dition to a still larger amount of sec ondary power for use in pumping for irrigation purposes. With the project developed there would be no occa sion for the O. W. R. & N. system to use coal. There would be sufficient electric power to move every O.-W. train and still have abundant power left for other industrial and domestic uses. The roads would not only have cheaper power but better power and more economical operation. An elec tric locomotive does the work of two or three steam locomotives. Where electricity is used in railroad opera tion track capacity is increased 50 per cent, thus working to reduce the need of double tracking. Through the fact the power at Umatilla rapids goes unused we lose annually from five to 25 millions of dollars. This is a staggering sum and when this waste is ensidered the cost of building the project seems small. This region is being contin ually penalized because this natural resource is not put to work. The whole Oregon-Washington country is penalized. So is the nation at large because every car of coal brought here for railroad operation or for use in an industry that could be electri fied, represents coal taken away from some other region that needs it worse. The price of coal throughout the nation is needlessly elevated by this process and the consuming pub lic of the nation pays the bill. We are using up an exhaustible resource when there is an inexhaustible re- Slats' Diary. By Ross Farquhar. Friday pa & ma includeing me & 2 of my cuzzens went to Jaxon souair to a rolitikal .v.- meeting. They sung the itar Spangled bannei pa & a gentalman was ? 5 tawking & when the tfcj. s singing seized they did r i -j aent notis it & pa was , " a yelling out loud so ev ry 1 cud hear You Only i r Need 2 rasins. sum peo- pel laffed. xcept ma. Saturday we are get- pting reddy to go back nome agen tontte. are ar V'lCCtt hoc Kan rom ntc "n uvu ,k17 J-'n-o flnt tn th mnirtrifv nf , . , . ; . 1 the famly. pa sed he wood hatto ast for a weak off when he got home to rest up from his va ashun. met a poor little orfan kid & give him a dime, he had never new the love of a pa & ma them haveing died before he was born. I seen a lot of sad incidents when I was travelling. Sunday this is a good day to be on a trip not haveing to go to any chirch or Sunday skool. pa is getting ust to ndetng in a sleeper now only ma was verry angry at him when he lum out of his shelf this morning & stuck his foot in her face. Monday home agen. this issent such a bad ole town after all. all the kids and my dog is anxious to hear me relate my experiences, ma sed I mussent go down & go a swimming So I went. & cut my foot on a mus sel shell. Tuesday the Sunday skool had a picknick today. I had a sore foot & had to stay home, thats my luck. The only day in the year when they is enny fun about a sun. skool & then hafto stay home, all the other kids have went. I feel as lonesum as a gote without nothing to but at. ma sed it serves me rite for disobed ients to her commands. Wednesday they was a man in town who sed you cud blindfold him & he wood find enny thing. I wood like to see him play golf & find the golf balls. I beleave he is a lire. Thursday went to see about a po sishun as a offis boy but the manager sed Yure not big enuff. So I re ply ed & sed All rite I'll go back to skool. that meks me shiwer. saw Jane, she was smileing. But I dont think sh seen me. Pep Is Distilled Brains One of our interesting contempo raries has aw riter who undertakes to put the binger on "pep." In an article which shows in every line that he himself has pep but that, singularly, he knows nothing about the real meaning of "pep," this writer re marks: "The quiet, steady, thoughtful man who has his employer's inter ests honestly at heart is outshone by the shallowpate who gurgles with easy enthusiasm and imparts to his labors a noisy and feverish activity." That is our idea of the worst defin ition on earth of a word. It is just as if, upon being asked to define the word "man," the writer had replied "A man is a tree." Our friend has evidently watched a few nervous, four-flushing, unsuccessful (unsuc cessful is right) frauds at work, or at play, and has jumped to the concic: sion that they are examples of pep. They are as far from real pep as Mil waukee is from Timbuctoo. Pep comes from the head, not from the lees, arms, tongue and , '"'.e!es. Pep is silent, distilled Nail's, not noisv acrobatics. Pep is :'ie result of downright hard think mg on whatever work the individual has in hand think out the problem ' so that the best results of vhieh that '-.in is cjr.:t-h- shall be obtained with ! the least expenditure of time, mon , ey and labor. Jumping and running : around, making one's tongue wag 1 like a dog's tail are simply the very opposite of real pep a definition of am'ther thing altogether. Pep gets things done and prop erly done. Pep eliminates human nuisances and puts thinking and erfr cient and therefore careful men in their places. Pep is success and nothing else. It forces results. You can no more argue against pep than you can ar gue against success. Our own experience is that those who object to pep are folks who nev er "get there," chiefly because they are lazy with their brains. Brain laziness is a common human vice, and thats why most people never reach a point much above the bot tom of the ladder. Try this some time: If you have an employee who "gurgles with en thusiasm and jumps about in noisy and feverish activity," give him a problem of your business that will take hours to think out and solve. Make him sit down quietly and ac tually think. Ten to one he'll be up and on the go in half an hour. That one is lazy with his brains and has no real "pep." The Morrow County Fair Heppner, Oregon September 15, 16, 17, 1921 UaEaZSraBBHUEnBBP'. Trying to End War That conflict was so costly in treas ure and in human sacrifices that I be lieve mankind todav is standing in combination and in the consciousness of a determination that the whole de velopment has been wrong, that ac quirement thhrough might is contrary to hitrian justice, and in our sorrow and sympathy and our sacrifices, we of America, and all the world, are re solved today that warfare eought to w"ie to an end. 1 am happy to bring you word that jour government is doing all it can to bring about a conference of nations and to have their spokesmen look each other in the face and come to an understanding that will remove the causes of war. Not a surrender of nationality, which we cherish, not a surrender of our liberties, of our right to determine the ways we shall pursue, but to remove the reasons for war and put an end to costly arm aments. I believe we shall succeed. I would like to have much less of resources for destruction, and more of resources for instruction in Amer ica. I would like to have less of toil to maintain arms, and more of play to hearten the American people. I do not believe the best of citizenship comes out of the constant grind. President Harding in an address to citizens of Lancaster, N. H., August 4, 1921. ((strike)) WVmt's toaste $Jf Cigarette No cigarette has the same delicious flavor as Lucky Strike. Because Lucky Strike is the toasted cigarette. Your DOLLAR has the PUNCH in buying HARDWARE at GILLIAM & BISBEE'S JOIN THE GOOD PEOPLE WHO TRADE HERE Who have perfect confidence in our methods and cer tainty that our prices on Quality Hardware are right Dependable HARDWARE for 35 years "We have it, will get it, or it is not made11 GILLIAM & BISBEE Morrow County Fair, Heppner, Ore., Sept. 15 to 17. ONLY "QUALITY PRINTING" PRODUCED AT THE G.-T. Illllli 1 LIFE and FIRE INSURANCE I LEON W. 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