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THK O AZl'TTK-TIMES, I1EFFXF.R. OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST '27 1021
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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.
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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
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flnt tn th mnirtrifv nf
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. 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
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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.
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