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PAGE FOUR THE GAZETTE-TIMES, IIEITXER. OK EG ON, THURSDAY. JAN. 19. 1922. L. MONTERESTELLI Marble and Granite Works PENDLETON, OREGON Fine Monument and Cemetery Work All parties interested in getting work in my line should get my prices and estimates before placing their orders All Work Guaranteed The Byers Chop Mill (Ftncrt; SCHEMFP'S MILL) STEAM ROLLED BARLEY AND WHEAT After the 20th of September will handle Gasoline, Coal Oil and Lubricating Oil You Will Find Prompt and Satisfactory Service Here HOW THEY TRAVEL IN WASHINGTON Thee art the beautiful ntvr irhan autos that carry paengi 'ie- tween Seattle and Tacoma Thc-v carry 40 people, lout to eighi . ..;h compartment, which are separated by g!a partition panels 1 .i Lie is much less than on the raiitoads, piiiiniiuiiiniiiiiifiniDiiDiiiiiiiti s X jj One Dollar The Auto Repair Shop wishes to announce that our work on big cars will be OKI DOLLAR per hour instead of $1.50 per hour, as you formerly paid for your car repairing;. CONTRACT PRICES ON FRD WORK Estimates Cheerfully (Siren All Work Guaranteed Fell Bros. One Block East of Hotel SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIM 'TTiwaisryairn' Win1!:1""!-' 'iriiiii.'V' ifi i- L..-itr!:F-.1,-i-;'l),i;;,t;,;f,,-..riil;l j i.llinai-liill:, If a Bank Draft IsLoSt Your Money Is Not cA bank, draft need not be sent by registered mail so far as safety is concerned The person to whom a draft is made payable must endorse it before it can be cashed. If a draft purchased of us should miscarry or be stolen, notify us and we will trace it up or issue a duplicate. We pay 4 per cent on Sayings Accounts. rMtKM FARMERS & STOCKGROWERS NATIONAL BANK Heppner Oregon Community Service WEMUSTBECOME GROWER sawmills just completed by the For est Service. The cut of lumber in practically every western state has increased. In nearly every eastern state is has declined. Washington heads the list of lumber producing states ana manufactures a sixth of . . 1 the entire lumber of the country. Nation's Chief Forester Holds Louisiana long held second place, but Out a Hope and Sounds a i "ow y'lds l ?cegon 'r8 .nuyc aim ul""" becomes the fifth in rank, replacing Warning Once More. another of her southern sisters. The I American sawmill has steadily eaten its way westward and now is cropping Says Millions of Acres of Wood the last rich virgin pastures. Over forest industries of this region are practically at an end. Its mill towns are "one with Nineveh and Tyre.' Here and there throughout once vast forests of hemlock, spruce and oak, there is a little group of bottomland farms or patch of pasture land. Nine-tenths of it is a burned and idle waste. An Old Story. The story of these West Virginia mountains tells the history of many timbered regions and once thriving industrial districts in the United States. It is retold in the Alleghany fcrests of Pennsylvania, in the old sawmill towns and lumber camps of thsJ3reat Lakes, in the pineries bor dering the South Atlantic and the Gulf. It is not only a story of forest wreckage but of economic and social retrogression. The sawmill, pursu ing the course dictated by its own financial fortunes, has left enormous areas of unemployed and unproduc tive land behind it and with the pass ing of the sawmill passed the princi pal industry and source of employ ment. Where the denuded land was fertile and tillable and where a gen uine demand for its cultivation fol lowed the lumberjack, as in the Ohio Valley, the destruction of a large part of the forest was necessary to econ omic progress. But enormous areas, stripped of their timber and burned of their young growth, will never be converted into farms; and other vast stretches of low or uncertain agricul tural value will not be cultivated for another generation or more. In fact, the farm economists tell us that the extension of plow land in the United States is due for a slowing up and that the necessary trend of American Agriculture is toward the more in tensive fertilization and tillage of land now under the plow. And we have also learned that a productive woodlot is a valuable, if not a neces sary part of very many of our farms. Many Idle Lands. The real reason for the westward "trek" of the sawmill is not because most of the virgin forests between MANY WANT TO MARRY HER Lands Are "Out of Work" and Can Be Given Jobs. By W. B. Greeley, Chief of U. S. Forest Service. Editor's Note. W. B. Greeley is chief of the United States Forest Service. He is making a life work of saving to the nation the wood that is left and to creating a new supply of timber to fill the demand that will exist for untold years to come. He has some facts and figures that are surprising. The lumber industry of the United States is dropping behind the Rocky Mountains. This is the outstanding fact in the 1920 canvass of American CO per cent of the timber left in the United States lies beween the Rocky Mounains and the Pacific Ocean. From that region the country must draw a steadily increasing part of the thirty-five odd billion feet of lumber which it needs every year for its dwellings and industries. Last summer I rode over a 60-mile stub railroad in the mountains of West Virginia on which thirty-five sawmills, large and small, have been dismantled and abandoned within the last fifteen years. Its stations are mostly sawdust piles, each with its cluster of vacant, rotting buildings. Another stub a few miles distant once marketed the product of twelve large sawmills. Now one of them is left and its humming saws will be come silent in four or five years. The BOY CHAMPION SHEEP BREEDER -7 A 1 Jv, t,L W I'm V-;' Hi ftm Poem hp- LET S GET BUSY. A better world is what we crave ain't that the way you take it? Well, set right down an' talk with me, let's figger how to make it 1 reckon it's a good big job, and stub born in the makin' but you are right, yes, sirree, bob It's wuth the undertakin' .... There's heaps of law you under standbut law is made for sinners. The courts of Jestice we sustain, ain't where we get our dinners. . . . You're right again. . . . While they compel religiousness or morals, they seldom heal the chronic sores that keep up endless quarrels. So, gettin' down to solemn facts, this rule has never failed me to blame myself a whole lot more, fer little things that ailed me Correct you are ! ... A generous dose of lovin' and forgivin' will keep a feller's conscience clear, and aid to better livin" . '. . And that's the "Better World" we crave a world of friends an' neigh bors, who do as they's be done by, in their soul-absorbin' labors. . . . You got it in a nutshell! The con tender an' the fretter can neither help theirselves, nor make the world around 'em better. M Miiiniir ndie. at San Kranritit. who Advertised for a husband who would send her through iiilltur She KOI many an swers, hut han t picked the ma vet Clarence Tisdale has his photograph taken with hi champion Ram bouillet. which recently won the blue nhi,on fot the oathwest against all the veteran breeders The boy lives ,n Coleman County. West Texas With his pocket money he tv- mht the sheep when it was a lamb ) Hn folks would have nothing to do with the lamb, so he brought it up himselt The prize carried $100 in money the Atlantic and Great Plains have been cut, for such cutting was neces sary and inevitable. It is rather be cause much of our good mother earth is out of work. There are some 326 million acres of loggedoff land which have not been converted into farms. Eighty-one million acres of it are wholly idle as far as the production of any other useful crop is concerned. Many other million acres are grow ing but a small portion of the wood they might produce. A large part of every old forest region' is idle today. There are twenty million unemploy ed forest acres in the Lake States and another twenty million in the South. Idle logged-off land lies within a stone's throw of great lum ber consuming centers in New York and Pennsylvania. There are over five million acres of it in little New England. As the sawmills move across the Great Plains into virgin fields, the average homebutlder or manufactur er pays the piper. With every fresh move, the freight bill on lumber pro ducts goes up. Consider what this means to a great market like Chica go or New York. Nearly two and a half billion feet of lumber pass thru Chicago yearly. It is the greatest 500NAS SHE GETS DONE POINTING -is. Jj BEAU'S DOWN STAIRS I I M ' HGHE ' a pen- I m cmrrr III fc 'j'h I I fc-H w xl 9 1 W I I JM, II II .1 II 1 .,3 ai'fi: F. Park. I V-i, JJLj- 1 1 1! IJ Tm 11 - - 1 50 JUST TAKE Of YOUR CDAT- fj I Oril f N SHE'LL L t? J "" S5 lumber market in the world. Thirty years ago is was supplied by the abundant forests of the Central and Lake States and the freight charge on the average thousand feet of lum ber coming into the city was well under $3.00. Today, with the bulk of the lumber shipments coming from the far south or the far west, the average freight bill is not less than $13 per thousand feet. The lumber users and distributors of Chicago are paying from twenty to twenty-five million dollars a year in added traffic charges because the sawmills in nearby states have cut and moved on. And for every dollar of this excess freight, there is an acre of idle forest land within three hundred miles of Chicago's lumber yards. Warning Given. Because of unemployed forest land, we are draining our timber re sources six times as fast as they are being replaced. Because of this, we today feel the slowly tightening grip of a national timber shortage. The idleness of forest land is making it more difficult and costly to house our people, to supply our newspapers and magazines with paper, to main tain our manufacturing industries that depend upon wood. It were well to heed the writing on the wall. We should view the unemployment of acres exactly as we view the un employment of human labor. The answer is not far to seek. For estry is no longer a fanciful theory. It has become the concern of the ev eryday business mam We are pre eminent as a nation of timber users. We must become a nation of timber growers. Once the' business man grasps that fact and puts his support behind the nation-wide reforestation, the problem of timber supply will be in a fair way toward solution. There is forest land a-plenty in the United States to build her houses, supply her factories, and print her newspa pers, if it is kept at work growing trees. fare, finally turned and said: "Wait er, will you please tell me what is on this card?" "Sorry, ma'am," the waiter replied sympathetically; "but I can't read either." "Cohn, I've lost my pocketbook." "Have you looked by your pock ets?" "Sure, all but der left-hand hip pocket." "Veil, vy don't you look in dot?" "Because if it ain't dere I'll drop dead!" Some Aspects of the Farmers' Problems. (Continued from rage Three) The nearsighted guest, who had vainly tried to decipher the bill of DF THANKFUL TO HcWEN FOR A 6000 NEIGHBOR -- GOD SENT HIM i COPYRIGHT iQie MS AUTOCASTCR 5CRV COj Ing one-third of the Industrial product and halt the total population of the nation, the rural communities ordi narily enjoy but a fifth to quarter of the net annual national gain. Notwith standing the taste of prosperity that the farmers had during the war, there Is today a lower standard of living tmong the cotton farmers of the South than In any other pursuit In the country. In conclusion, It seems to nie that the fanners are chlctly striving for 1 gen erally beneficial Integration of their business, of the same kind and charac ter that other busiiiens enjoys. If It should he found on examination that the attainment of this end require methods different from those which other activities have followed fur the same purpose should we not sympa thetically consider the plea for the right to co-operate, If only from our own enlightened self Interest, In ob taining an abundant and steady flow of farm products? In examining the agricultural si tun Hon with a view to Its Improvement, we shall be most helpful If we main tain a detached and Judicial viewpoint, remembering that existing wrongs may be chiefly an accident of unsymmetrl cal economic growth Instead f a crea tion of malevolent design and conspira cy. We Americans are prone, as Ir. fessor David Friday well sn.vs In it admirable bok, "Profits, Wa res bS Prices," to seek a "criminal lnteni be hind every dlffleuh and undesirable etv nomlc situation." I con positively as sert from my contact with men ! . large affairs, Including bankers, that, ss a whole, they are enleuvnri!( M fulfill as they see them the ohHgsr'.An that go with .'lelr power. Preoccupied with the grave problems and heavy tasks of their own Immediule o.Talre, they have not turned their thnightfut personal attention or tliolr roiiatnic tlve abilities to the deficiencies 'if at'rl cultural itislness organization. Agri culture, It may be snld, sulTim from their preoccupation and tieslect rather than from any purposeful exploitation by them. They ought now to begin to respond to the farmers' difficulties, which they must realize are their own. On the other linti'I. my contacts with the farmers have filled me with respect for them for their sanity, their pa tience, their balance. Within the last year, and particularly at n meeting called by the Kansas Stnte Hoard of Agriculture and nt another called by the Committee of Seventeen, I have met many of the lenders of the new farm movement, mid I testify ,ln all sincerity that they are endeavoring to, deal with Ihelr problems, not as pro moters of a narrow class Interest, nut as exploiters of the huplcw consumer, not as merciless monopolists, hut as honest ment bent on the Improvement of the common weal. We can and must meet such men and such a cause half way. Their business Is our business the nation's business. PRINCESS MARY AND HER BEAU II llll I II 1 1 -f'p VI,,.,., 1 1 ,1 . V'A4 7wl v if Snapshot shows Princess Mary of England promenading in London with her commoner fiance, Viscount Lascellees. He's a hardy lad, it seems wears no overcoat in winter. . i