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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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