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This photograph was taken while the armament conferenre in Washington was in session and with
all the delegates in their seats around the rectangular table, the secretaries and stenographers being in
the center. The numbers mark the most prominent delegates present, as follows: (1) Admiral Kato, (2)
Prince Tokugawa, both of lapan, (3) Ambassador lusserand. (4) Delegate Viviani. (5) Premier Driand.
all of France; (6) Senator Underwood, (7) Elihu Root, (8) Senator Lodge. (9) Secretary Hughes, of the
United States- (10) Arthur Balfour, (IH Ambassador Geddes. of Great Britain. (12) Sir Robert Bor
den, Cinada. (13) Spimvosa Sastre. of India. (14) Delegate Schanier, of Italy.
THE CIRCULAR LETTER.
How dear to my heart is the cir
cular letter that comes to my sanctum
each morning by mail. It's offer and
argument couldn't be better, though
honest Johh D. had concocted the
tale. ... 1 gobble each state
ment with exquisite pleaiure, and
swallow with gustto, the smug guar
antee; it's funny to think how they
've gotten my measure, and put up
the patterns expressly for me. . .
1 fain would reply on the spur of the
moment, and fill out the blank with
a moderate check. 'Twould settle
my nerves and abolish the foment
that bulges the veins in my pulsating
neck. . . . The plum-colored slip,
with it's fervid reminder it drives
home the bargain with rivet and
clinch; the oil stock, or auto, or dol
lar stem-winder in either event,
sirs, the thing is a cinch. . . And
there's the envelope that comes in so
handy, in mailing the coin so it can't
go astray, believe me, my dears,
that the fellow's a dahdy, who
reaches my heart in that circular way.
The circular letter, that goes 'em one
better that offers me bargains from
shoestrings to hat the big yellow
letter, the sure money-getter, that
knocks the home merchant as blind
as a bat.
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LABOR HEAD ASKS
FOR EVOLUTION OF
SCHOOL SYSTEM
Secretary Declares Present Methods
Do Sot Give Proper Equipment.
Children Face Life With Unworthy
Tools; Mew Suggestions Made.
By JAMES J. DAVIS,
Secretary of Labor.
Editor's Note. James . Davis is
knoun in labor circles throughout the
United States. The mere fact that he
was made a member of the Presi
dent's cabinet at a time when the
keenest brains of the nation were
needed to guide its destiny shows in
itself that he is a man whose opinions
must be respected.
; preciation of the finest things in life
I but they can never secure those fine
j things unless they are equipped to
: expend to best advantage every pow
'er nature gave them at birth and
'America's educational system today
is neglecting too many of those pow
ers and feeding to excess others.
We Americans have long been
justly proud of our free public school
system. For the more easy-going
life we lived a dozen years ago it did
very well. Now, it seems to me, our
deepest, fundamental notions ot
what a system of schooling should
be are in need of a complete reshap
ing. We have been sending our
children out into the world to work
their way upward, but with blunted
tools in their hands. Now they need
more accurate fitting for the work
they are to do, and we must supply it.
Life's Real Needs.
Let us look at the matter more in
detail. Every vear a certain propor
tion of our children must begin work
and leave school at the end of the
grammar grades. They leave these
grades with the elements of arithme
tic, geography, history, English and
other languages hardly much more
Those who are fortunate enough to
finish high school have, of course,
eone much farther into mathematics
The national system of education
needs reformation.
It has stood still in its fundament
als while every other art and science
has advanced.
The American vouth of todav is be- and history and the languages, and
ing turned out of schools not fitted into the past and present activities of
to give his best to the battle that an the world what we call cosmogony,
ever growing complex economic situ- But the point I am making is that this
ation demands. He is being bedecked system of education strikes me as be-
with educational pretties , a dress ; ginning at the end instead ot at tne
uniform that must be cast aside to ! beginning. All these studies given
give place to the dull drab of the !our children have been useful enough
working garb, and the time he loses i but except for mathematics and Eng-
in making that change is a precious hsh study, they all constitute a train
time of strength and enthusiasm, of
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plastic vears that yield too easily
many times to the fingers ot circum
stance and environment, of ideals
that may be shattered by the rude
hand of necessity.
Children should be trained to ap
ing for the finer things of life rather
than for life's practical needs.
Let me hasten to say that I am not
for curtailing in any measure the
training of the very humblest of our
children for enjoyment of the finest
1 things in life. The point is that this
BLOODLESS SURGEON AT WORK
This photograph, taken in a hospital operating room in New York
Oty, shows Dr. Adolph Lorenz, the world's most skillful bloodless
surgeon at work saving a little girl from lifelong cripplement. Dr.
Lorenz has just arrived in this country from Austria to perform hii
bloodless surgery on many American crippled children. He was our
trnllesl enemy, but an enemy no lonper
training should come at the proper
time, and that life can mean nothing
to him until he has been taught some
means of earning his livlihood. Our
colleges themselves yearly release to
! the world great crowds of eager
young people highly trained in the
appreciation of life s hnest things.
They know the great deeds and the
great works of art of the far past.
They have a deep understanding of
natural and economic law. They have
been taught to understand and enjoy
life, and measure the present against
the background of the past. But all
this is for enjoyment and understand
ing, it is not a training for actual
work. Many a college graduate en
ters the world wise enough, but actu
ally bewildered and helpless.
Chance for Youth.
f would not for anything surrender
or curtail the trainng we should give
our children in appreciation of the
fine things of life. But long ago it
struck me that for the safety of the
individual and for the safety of the
country, the ideal system of education
for the average young boy or girl in
our land consisted of at least a high
school training and the acquisition of
some practical trade.
This has been no idle theory of
mine. The theory has been in practi
cal operation in the home school
started and maintained by the Loyal
Order of Moose, at Moosehcart, not
far from Chicago, along the Fox riv
er in Illinois. Experts have been
generous enough to praise this ex
periment in the highest terms. They
have pronounced it not simply a re
markably successful thing in itseit.
but a model to the rest of the country
in sound education.
The idea of Mooseheart occurred
to me when I was a worker in the
iron mills of Pittsburg. There I saw
heads of families die and leave their
dependents totally helpless, the chil
dren with little or no education and
driven to work without the slightest
training. Often they were dispersed
so that brothers grew up apart and
unknown to each other throughout
their lives.
What Mooseheart Is.
Mooseheart is not an institution. It
it not a sectarian retreat. It is not a
reformatory. It has no officialdom to
rule it. From the first it has been a
free and untrammeled experiment.
In the first place, Mooseheart is a
home. Mothers are there, so that
they need not be separated from
their children. Babies have been
born there, of expectant mothers left
without aid by less fortunate mem
bers of our Order. This home at
Mooseheart is a comfortable little
town of homes, cottages, offices,
school buildings, work shops, a hos
pital, an auditorium and everything
that belongs to a home community.
The tract consists of more than 1,000
acres, and the tarm mat supplies it
with milk and other foods is at the
same time a model school of agncul
Hire. In the midst of the place is f
lake for water sports and the whole
some exercise they promote. And
we have not forgotten a football field,
a baseball diamond, and a playing
soace for all. We have an orchestra
and a band of over 100 pieces. The
students who form these bodies do
not simnlv scrape and toot and make
noise; they are under the training of
a skilled and inspired instructor, and
they play the best of music and play
it well. Some of the houses and
buildings were designed by Moose
heart students, from materials shap
ed in the schools and shops. While
the students were about it, they fash
ioned ornaments for these buildings,
as well as blocks and lath.
5choo Is Gaining.
Even now barely well begun,
.Mooseheart has grown in the eight
years of its life so that 1,034 chil
dren, from babyhood to young man
and woman-hood, enjoy its advan
tages. It is distinctly on the make.
We are now building a village for
babies under school age. They re
ceive, in babyhood, a care that rs
scientific and practical but yet sym
pathetic and homelike. At every
stage all institutionalism is carefully
avoided. No uniform has been adopt
ed. The children wear individual
clothing, and when they arrive at a
suitable age, they select their own
At a still later age, they make their
own. At all times they romp togeth
er as a huge happy family, as much
as possible, out of doors in the coun
try air and subject to the influences
of the natural loveliness about them.
At Mooseheart the rod is spared. We
find it an effective punishmeht to de
prive the misbehaving of the privil
ege of going swimming, or seeing the
baseball and football games, or the
movies. For we regularly exhibit
motion pictures in the ouditorium
and we are favored with the latest
and best.
Trades Are Taught.
Where we do go far beyond the
public school is in the vocational
training that we make compulsory.
The utmost skill is applied in fitting
each child to the trade for which na
ture and his own tastes have adapted
him. The boys learn carpentry, far
ming, moulding, machine-work, met-
alwork and-work in concrete, and the
like. The girls are taught house
work, stenography, secretarial work,
and kindred pursuits. They know
dressmaking and domestic science.
Whether as wives, as wage-earners,
or as destined for a career, girls who
leave Mooseheart are equipped for
mastering life, for understanding
life, and enioving it. So are the
boys.
But the point of this, the everlast
ing point of it, is that while tnese
voung people leave moosenean to
take up life, and wnile they are
trained to make the most of life and
its fine thihgs, to the playing of mu
sic and tne painting or pictures
where they can, they all leave with
some useful trade. Whatever hap
pens to them in after life, they will
the lips of listening friends; but just
as Brown was preparing to resume,
Jones, who was sitting quietly in a
corner, interrupted him sharply and
hopefully: "And did you happen to
notice,' he asked, "a picture of me
lending you a fiver in the autumn of
1919? Argonaut.
Such a Good Baby.
One hot afternoon a voung man in
shirt sleeves was wheeling a baby
carriage back and forth before a
small house in Washington. He
looked hot, but contented.
"My dear!" came a voice from an
upper window of the house.
"Now let me alone!" he called
back. "We're all right."
An hour later the same voice,
again, in earnest, pleading tones:
"Arthur dear!"
"Well, what do you want?" he re
sponded. "Anything wrong in the
house?"
No, Arthur dear, but you have
been wheeling Clara's doll all the
afternoon. Isn't it time for the ba
by to have a turn ?" Harper's Magazine.
Wanted Instructions.
A man, who had just returned from
a four-week's pleasure trip to Col
orado, stopped at the receiving tell
er's window at the bank and handed
in $100 in traveler's checks to be de
posited to his credit. As the teller
looked over the checks he asked :
Mr. C., what kind of a time did
you have on your trip?"
A wonderful time, replied Mr.
C.
After a moment's thought the
teller asked: "Would it be asking
too much for you to chaperon a party
of us on a trip next summer as you
are the only person I ever knew who
came back from a vacaction and was
n't broke." Indianapolis News.
Let It Stand.
Mistakes will happen in the best
regulated families, especially if one
of the number is slightly deaf, so
while it sounds rather cruel in print,
the following incident wasn't nearly
as funny as it sounds.
The slightlty deaf person met an
old acquaintance on the street. This
old friend was always making big
deals and telling of them. When he
stopped his deaf acquaintance he be
gan talking excitedly. The slightly
deaf man listened, but didn't under
stand a word. When the acquaint
ance had finished he said:
"Congratulations. Thai's fine.
be found on the rock of self-support Mighty glad to hear it," supposing
d self-preservation. Their self
respect is as secure as their livelihood.
SMILE AWHILE
His Chance at Last.
It was a thrilling story that Brown
had to tell: Disaster, shipwreck,
bravery against odds, and wisdom
when all wits were scattered ex
cept Brown's. "I had abandoned all
hope," he said, when his narrative
had ruh on for an hour. "It was the
most hideous sensation imaginable
and as I sank for the third time, my
past life seemed to rise before me
in a series of grini, realistic pictures.
I saw everything I had ever done.
A murmur of sympathy rolled from
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of course, that his friend was telling
him of the successful consumation
of a big deal. The acquaintance,
slightly taken back by this, shouted
that perhaps he didn t get him. With
a long look upon his face the slightly
deaf man replied that maybe he did
n't. The acquaintance shouted as he
started away: "I say I buried by mother-in-law
yesterday."
"All right. I didn't understand
you, but the congratulations still
hold good."
And both smiled Kansas City
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Doubles or Quits.
"Spell your name!" said the court
clerk sharply.
The witness began as follows: "0
double T, I, double U, double L,
double "
"Wait!" ordered the clerk, "Be
gin again!"
The witness repeated: "0, double
T, I, double U, E, double L, double
U, double U, double 0 "
"Your honor," roared the clerk,
"I beg that this man be committed
for contempt of court."
"What is your name?" asked the
judge.
"My name, your honor, is Ottiwell
Wood and I spell it 0, double T, I,
double U, E, double L, double U,
double 0, D." Lutheran.
. Positive Identification.
He was newly arrived in this coun
try and was none too familiar with
the use of the telephone. So he
took down the receiver and demand
ed: "Aye vant to talk to my vife."
Central's voice came back sweetly,
"Numtier, please?"
"Oh," he replied, perfectly willing
to help out, "she bane my second
vun."
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