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THE AM ERICAN PRUSS ASSOC! VTION J
Prohibition "Tyranny."
In the course of t long and fervent
editorial entitled "The New Fight for
Liberty," the Chicago Tribune, advo
cating a wine-and-beer amendment to
the prohibition law, says:
believe that great as the curse
of liquor roar be. and terrible as It
Is to have a sodden people, it is not
less terrible to put a free people
under the dominion of bureaucracy.
This republic rests upon the deci
sions of Its people and the new
tryanny rests upon a denial of In
telligence, of decision, of choice.
It is amazing what illogic liquor
traffic propaganda can bring out of
the human brain. Was it not the de
cision of the people of America that
made America dry? Was it not an
exercise of intelligence and choice?
The Chicago Tribune must have shut
iti eyes to the fact that long before
the final overwhelming vote that
carried the Eighteenth Amendment,
far more than half the territory of
the United States had voluntarily
gone dry and that the rest of the area
was rapidly going that way. Ameri
ca is dry because the American peo
ple choose to have it so. We do not
call this kind of rule tyranny.
Is our condition now "terrible"?
Are we groaning under the oppres
sion of bureaucracy? Who is op
pressed because officers of the law
are arresting bootleggers? Certainly
no citizens of good intent.
Who says a sodden people is to be
preferred to a sober people, a few
of whose citizens are sober by force
of law? Surely not the wives and
children of the people who were for
merly sodden.
Under the licensed traffic there
was a veritable flood of bootlegging.
In many large cities the "blind pigs"
outnumbered the licensed places.
The law commonly winked at these
because the brewers and distillers!
festered them as an outlet for their
product. Was the police power that
tried to suppress that evil tyrannous?
No one suffers a all from prohi
bition except a few people who have
acquired under the reign of the sa
loon a morbid appetite for intoxi
cants that could never be cured with
out suffering. Prohibition is primar
ily for the coming generation. We
are not now making it socially in
cumbent on boys to drink in groups
and treat and be treated. It is re
spectable now to let liquor wholly
alone. That is real freedom. Port
and Telegram.
At present it would be very diffi
cult for anyone to clearly define op
timism, or to draw any definite line
between optimism and pessimism.
The two terms are strictly opposed in
their meaning, but the spirit of the
present day tends to merge the one
into the other. Especially is this
true in a community like our own,
where the principle industries are the
growing of sheep, beef cattle, and
wheat. Of course everybody in this
county is especially interested in
these three and consequently every
one knows and feels even in his
own pockets that there has been
very little profit from these in the
last year or two. Now, with these
facts in mind and with the especially
pleasing prospects for the future in
view, it is apparent that the meaning
of the term optimism must undergo
some revision. According to the com
mon understanding of the word, op
timism means looking forward with
enthusiasm to bright prospects. En
thusiasm seems to have vanished in
to thin air and most of the bright
prospects have been relegated to the
past, then how are we to maintain
our optimism?
The fight is on. No man is licked
until he is dead. Let us get into the
fiRht, turn defeat into victory and
win a little optimism. Let us not turn
the old world around.
There is a selling agency or an as
sociation in this county, and some of
them national, for each of the afore
said products, and if every man in
his line would back these up tie
might help his neighbor a little while
helping himself.
The aspect looks like a bunch of
amateur cowboys armed with lariats
and trying to tie a bull individually.
The forces that have been manipu
lating the market conditions for ages
past look very small indeed as com
pared to the great host of people that
they are or have been defeating.
Lets all go together and tie the
hull. From the pen of a Morrow
County farmer.
Homey Philosophy for 1922
Having had their fling with "Bal
ance of Power," the politicians of
Europe are now toying with a new
one, "Equilibrium." They are very
positive that there must be an equi
librium on the Danube. Also there
must be in Equilibrium in the Bal
kans, and it looks like there will have
to be aa equilibrium of North Sea
pbidm I'M mins m
Tells How and Why It Was Formed and the Big Things It
Already Accomplished. Also How the "Bloc" Operates.
By J. H. HOW AH Ik. 1-m.i.tral Aairriraa lira Darraa Krdrratloa.
When Congress convened last Ap
ril the situation in the farming-live
stock industry of the nation had be
come so tense that a number of Con
gressmen who knew the actual condi
tion confronting agriculture resolved
it was time for something to be done
for deflated agriculture in order to
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J. R. HOWARD,
President American Farm Boreas
Federation.
save not only the farmer, but the in
dustries of the nation. They recog
nized the key to the situation lay
largely in assisting the agriculture to
"come back." They sensed also the
changed conditions. They realized
a new era had come and with it a
turn in the tide of basic production.
This resulted in the formation ot
that much discussed group in Con
eress. the agricultural bloc, which
has to its credit more agricultural
leeisation in the extraordinary ses
sion than ever before was passed in
a sinde sittine of Congress. Let me
mention among them the aid to the
Federal Land Banks, the War fi
nance Relief measure, the Packer
control bill, the Grain Exchange con
trol bill, and the Farm-to-Market law.
EACH MEASURE PASSED, HOW
EVER. ALTHOUGH CLASSED AS
AGRICULTURAL, HAS GREAT
VALUE TO THE NATION AS A
WHOLE.
i the hrst meeting of the Senate a?
ricultural "bloc" was held in the of.
'rice of the American Farm Bureau
I Federation in Washington, D. C. The
Senators, known to be interested in
the agricultural situation, were call
ed by Senaor Wiliam S. Kenyon of
Iowa and Gray Siver, Washington
Representative of the American
Farm Bureau Federation. Senator
Kenyon told his colleagues that it
was his idea that by bringing to
pettier Senators from the Middle
West and South, the principal agri
cultural sections, it would be possi
ble to bring to bear sufficient co-operative
action in the Senate to en
act legislative measures which would
relieve agriculture. He also told the
futility of his and other Senators en
deavors to pass any kind of remedial
or constructive agricultural legisla
tion during the previous short session
of Congress.
Thus the agricultural "bloc" had
its origin. It transcends party lines.
It has its own caucus and is not
amenable to the cartv whiD or nartv
discipline. Heretofore many bills
.have been sidetracked simply be
cause of policy and the domination
of leaders who would hold un the
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in the party ranks. The "bloc" has
thus not only kept new and construc
tive measures from the cold storage
warehouses of specially appointed
congressional committees; it has al
so taken measures out of cold stor
age and passed them.
The agricultural "bloc" in the Sen
ate is not sufficiently strong numer
ically to pass legislation. Its strength
lies in voting as a block and adding
that strength to one party or the oth
er according to the way these parties
favor or oppose a measure. It is the
principle of independent voting ap
ulied to national legislation.
The more than twenty members
are divided about epually between
Democrats and Republicans, so it is
truly a bi-partisan organization. Most
of the Westerners are Republicans
and most of the Southerners Demo
crats. In the Senate "bloc" the west
ern members all come from states
west nf Ohio. These men are en
titled to commendation, not only
from the farmers but from the gen
eral public.
The House "bloc" contains mem
bers from as far east as Pennsyl
vania and is also bi-partisan in makeup.
vhich were put into effect on the in
auguration of President Harding and
the calling of the special session of
Congress. These policies turned the
country away from the paternalistic
tacas wnich seemed to saturate the
public mind under the Wilson re
gime. One of the first things which
the Republican --administration did
was to impress upon business ana
otner interests of the country that it
was up to them to help themselves
ana assist in working out their own
Salvation, instead of running to
Washington and asking the govern
ment to play Santa Claus to all of
their real or fancied needs. Indi
vidual initiative and private enter
prise have been encouraged rather
than discouraged. Legislation has
been enacted wherever it could prove
helpful. But legislation has not been
permitted to take the place of indi
vidual energy and thrift.
The tremendous and varied activ
ities of the government, which col
lectively constitute the greatest busi
ness enterprise in the world, with a
budget of over $4,000,000,000 a year,
have been placed on an entirely new
basis since March 4th. This was
made possible by the speedy enact
ment of the budget law bv the Con
gress. The executive end of the gov
ernment took immediate advantage
of this act of Congress to inrmrtnre
busness methods into departmental
routine and to enforce economies all
along the line.
The Treasury department has been
in the hands of one of the most suc
cessful financiers of United States
and the country is receiving the
benefit of the sound financial poli
cies which Secretary Mellon pro
ceeded to inaugurate. Interest rates
have been lowered from 7 to 5
per cent, which in itself has been a
tremendous stimulus to business.
Secretary Mellon has worked out a
plan looking to the retirement of the
tremenlous stimulous to business.
same time reducing the interest
charges which this debt carries.
The country has responded to this
safe and sane method of conducting
the nation s hnances. Every issue
of short term treasury certificates
which has been put out under the
present administration has been sub
scribed many times over before the
date of the actual issue. The value
of Liberty Bonds which bear a very
intimate relation to the financial pol
icy of the country, has increased 15
per cent since March 4th.
Secretary Mellon climaxed the
first ten months of his administration
Nations. Doesn't it beat all? Here
we have a United States that's big
ger than all Europe. You don't hear
Nebraska suggesting an equilibrium
of the northwest, or Texas asking for
an equilibrium of the southwest, or
Vermont demanding an equilibrium
in New England. Why doesn t Eu
rope try a little United States unionism?
Slat's Diary.
By ROSS FARQUHAR
Friday when I cum home this
evning ma sed to me Where you ben
& I answered & replyed
no place she sed Yes
you have you ben down
to Bud Flatterses barn
boxing with gloves on &
so 4th. Now you get
'.the cole & kmlmgs in
I sed How did you no it
& she sed a little burd
told her. But I new
how she had lernt it &
I busted up are old wee-
ja bord with a hamer
witch wont tell no more
folic am tn a
1 Saturday mrs. Gil-
lem was a telling ma about a ole
lady across the crick witch has silk
wirms. ma sed You tell her to drink
punkin seed Tea. Pa nudged me in
the rib & he choaked trying to keep
from laffing on his pie. I dont think
ma seen the joak. neether me.
Sunday When I cum from being
a: chirch I ast pa witch 1 of the
cumandments was the hardest 1 to
keep frum busting, pa cleered his
throte out & sed he gessed the
8teenth cumandment seemed to
cause more disturbants jus now then
enny other 1. ma wont have enny
more rasins in the house, nor east,
and so 4th.
Monday ma was skolding me
when I cum home frum skool for the
reeson I had tore a hole in my pants
witch was new since Crismas. I ast
her how did growchy wimmen get
husbands. She sed thety don't. She
sed the husbands gets them growchy.
So I let her think she was rite.
Tuesday I went to a party agen
witch we are haveing a lot of them
now & I was tawking to Jane on 1
side & I sed Do you enjoy these kiss
ing games & she sed No I dont I
woodent care a cent to kiss a boy.
I sed No I woodent neether. so we
dropped the diskushion & went on
eating strawberrie ice cream witch is
my favrit odor.
Wednesday A new girl cum to
skool today witch sets in back of me.
I ast her what was her name & she
sed it was Geranium Epp. I thot at
1st she was kMding a me but she sed
that is rite so I gess she knows best. J
Thursday I think I am agoing to
like Epp. Only I cant use her 1st
name as it is to hevy so I call her
Epp for short, she knows a lots of
things I dont no because she is very
smart & helps me in my long divish
un & jograffy &so 4th. I dont like
her in the same way as Jane tho.
Stopping Waste of Natural
Resources.
The world is beginning to wake up
to the reckless waste practiced for a
half a century and more in the pro
duction and use of its natural re
sources. Two-thirds of every ton of
coal has gone up into the air or into
the dump. Enormous volumes of
natural gas have been allowed to es
cape to the limits of an earth atmos
phere. Hundreds of millions of bar
rels of petroleum have flowed over
the ground to utter uselessness. And
so all along the line.
Everywhere you hear of steps be
ing taken to correct this wasteful
ness. Thus, if conservation becomes
the rule hereafter with new discover
ies below the surface, there will be
less and less need o' fear that the
world will go short of coal and gas
oline in the not very distant future.
Canada doesn't propose to be a
squeezed-out orange like some sec
tions of the United States. During
the last five years enormous coal
fields and petroleum deposits have
been discovered in Alberta, her
northwest province, and already she
is passing laws against wasteful
handling of these resources.
One of Canada s scientific investi
gators reports that "if the coal meas
ures of Alberta be carefully conserv
ed and scientifically utilized, and all
the gas, oil and other by-products be
recovered to the best advantage, the
whole world can be supplied with
fuel and oil for a thousand years
from the Alberta fields alone."
The future of the coal mining in
dustry in America contains some
thing like this: great plants at the
mines when the coal at its arrival at
the surface will be turned into elec
tricity (to be carried by wire to cities
and towns) and into gas, coke and its
other valuable parts, all of which can
be shipped in small containers and
cheaper than coal in the bulk.
Optimism For 1922.
To say that the year 1922 opens
under immeasurably better condi
tions and with infinitely better pros
pects than did the year 1921 is to
state the obvious. Neither is it par
tisanship to claim for the Republican
admnistration the lion's share of the
credit for the improved situation.
There can be no explanation for
this improvement other than policies
by his issuance of the Treasury Sav
ings Certificates, a new form of gov
ernment securities which have an ir
resistible appeal to the man of small
means.
Due to the influences of the ad
ministration freight rates have been
lowered. Agricultural sections of
the country have been tided over
their crisis. The tax laws of the na
tion have been rewritten, lifting
from the shoulders of the average
citizen a burden of $300,000,000 for
the current year.
These are some of the more tangi
ble things which have conspired to
bring about greatly improved condi
tions in the past ten months. But in
themselves they would have fallen
far short of accomplishing what has
been accomplished had it not been
known throughout the country that
the influence dominating the ad
ministration now in power and the
policies of the Republican party
which will direct the affairs of the
nation for the next few years are
conservative influences, constructive
influences that assist legitimate ac
tivities without coddling them, in
fluences that stand for and work for
the amelioration of the conditions
and environments of the common
citizen without yielding to the falla
cious theories of communism and
socialism, influences that stand four
squared for the protection of both
capital and labor, in the realization
that without one the other is help
less, and without harmony between
the two progress is impossible and
distress inevitable.
In short, the optimism with which
people of all classes in the United
States face the new year may be
largely attributed to the fact that the
administration now in control of all
branches of the United States gov
ernment and whose policies are di
recting the destinies of this people
is an administration whose ideas of
popular government are the antithe
sis of those held by the administra
tion which preceded it.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank the neighbors
and friends for the kindness shown
to us in the sickness and death of
our sister, Emily J. Bird; for the
beautiful flowers sent by Mr. and
Mrs. Arlet Brock and Mrs. Edna
Slocum of Portland and the W. R.
C. of Heppner and Mrs. J. B. Car
michael of Lexington.
Mary E. Barton.
Sarah Brown.
Nancy A. Gentry.
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A. M. EDWARDS
WELL DRILLER
Lexington, Ore.
Box 14
Uses up-to-date traction drilling outfit, equipped for
all sizes of hole and depths.
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Now the holiday excitement
is over, and are already back
to normal living.
We beg to call your atten
tion to our store where you will
always find a
Complete Stock of
Staple Groceries
at prices in keeping with
good quality.
Your co-operation has made
the past year possible, and .we
bespeak good things for 1922.
Sincerely,
Phelps Grocery
Company
Phone 53
1922 ECONOMY 1922
Economize by having your old dress, suit
coat, blouse and gloves Cleaned
and Repaired.
LLOYD HUTCHINSON
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LOTHES
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FAIR TREATMENT COMBINED WITH BEST PRINTING
1921
Was a good year with this store.
We enjoyed a fine trade all
because of the very liberal
patronage of the home
folks. We look for
ward to
1922
with pleasurable anticipation.
At this store you will, as in
the past, find dependable
merchandise at right prices,
and will be met with courte
ous treatment.
Sam Hughes Company
ONLY "QUALITY PRINTINO" PRODVGM AT THE O.-T.
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Time Flies
Every man has about the
same time in which to
make his success so many
years, so many hours a day
in the days of the year.
Can you afford to post
pone opening a Savings
Account and building up a
small fortune for yourself
from a few dollars saved
regularly and the interest
your money will earn!
Fir National Bank
HEPPNER, OREGON
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