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THE GAZKTTK-TLMKS. IIK.ITNKI!. OKKGON, TliTL'SDAY, FEB. 2, 1922. I'Adi: FIVE oca a i vpcmng, WHEAT RANCH WANTED 1 want a big wheat ranch in this coun try and will trade two fine ranch properties in the Umpqua Valley near Roseburg in as full or part pay ment. 1 have 841 acres, well im proved. What have you to offer? Address full information to A. T. Lawrence, Roseburg, Oregon. 4t. Miss Ruth French, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. French of this city, was married to Mr. Guy Wagner of this place on Saturday, January 21, Kev. W. O. Livingstone, pastor of the First Christian church perform ing the ceremony. The young people are making their home in this city at present, but may decide to go to Salt Lf.ke City, where the parents of Mr, Wagner reside. We wish to apolo gize to the young people for over looking the announcement of their wedding in our last issue and assure them that it was inadvertently passed over and to them we extend our very best wishes for their future. At the regular meeting of Maple Circle No. 259, Neighbors of Wood craft held last week, the following officers were installed: Mary Lunts fcrd, Past Guardian Neighbor; Kate Swindig,. Guardian Neighbor; Lula Herren, Adviser; Hannah Briggs, Magician; Rosa Richardson, Clerk; Cora Crawford, Banker; Lillian V. Cochran, Attendant; Anna Boyd, Captain of Guards; Sarah Copen haver, Outer Sentinel; Dora Star key, Musician; Amy McFerrin, Flag bearer, Ruth Hottman, Hattie Fergu son, Clara Sprinkel, Ada Cason, Lena Stapleton, Oma Scriv'her, Nora Moore and Lillie Fell, Guards. Fol lowing the installation the members were served with plenty of good things to eat and enjoyed a splendid social time. UTSIOERSMAKEFOR USTRIALTRQliBLE Head of Natioanl Manufactur ers Gives View of Employers Regarding Labor Disputes. Holds Average Employer Was Once Worker and Under stands His Viewpoint. By J. E. Edgerton. Editor's Note. Whether or not you agree with the following the fact that it came from the pen of . E. Ed gerton, president of the National As sociation of Manufacturers is enough to solicit your earnest consideration. He is the head of an organization whose total number of employes runs in vast figures. It is to be be lieved that his opinion is the opinion of the average member and as such is a viewpoint upon which the work er can concentrate his attack or sup-support. CECIL HEMS OF HI J. Monroe of Heppner was loot ing up his Cecil pals on Monday. Miss Gaile Craig left on the local 6n Tuesday for her home in lone. Karl Troedson and 0. Lndstrum of lone were doing business in Cecil vicinity on Wednesday. Miss A. C. Lowe returned to Cecil on Wednesday after spending sev eral weeks in the Rose City. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Miller and son Elvin of Highvicw ranch were callers in lone on Saturday. Minor & Hynd have been busy un loading a car of grain for their var ious sheep camps around Cecil. H. G. Smith, highway engineer, made a short visit in Cecil on Tues day before returning to his home in lone. Mr. and Mrs. Zenneth Logan of Mountview ranch visited with Mr. and Mrs. Everett Logan at Cecil on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Noble of Rhea Siding left on the local for Portland on Wednesday, where they will visit for some time. John Healy, who is feeding sheep at Strawberry ranch near Rhea, spent a day or two at the county seat curing the week. Miss Mildred Duncan of Busy Bee ranch and Miss Crystal Roberts of Ewing were calling on their friends in Cecil on Sunday. Miss Annie C. Hynd and Miss El eanor Furncy were the dinner guests cf Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Krebs at the Last Camp on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Minor spent Wednesday and Thursday at the Last Camp before leaving for their home at the county scat. Mrs. R. E. Duncan of Busy Bee ranch and also Mrs. Geo. Perry of Ewing were visiting at the home of Mrs. Everett Logan on Friday. V. Gentry of Heppner was a busy man in the Cecil vicinity on Friday, but at time of writing we didn't learn whether he was hunting rabbit tails or sheep. Roy Stender, we are glad to say, has recovered from his recent illness and is now hunting up some treasua supposed to be found in Juniper can yon, whether gold or coal we know not. A car load of gentlemen, members of the "Tough Nuts" team of Ione's local rabbit hunt, were seen on Sat urday near Cecil, working harder than they ever did before in their lives. Hal Ely, A. Troedson and W. Pal mateer and several of their friends from Morgan vicinity were busy men among the Cecil rabbits on Satur day. There are not any rabbits in Morgan, as they all make for the fine stacks between Cecil and Hepp ner Junction for a good feed. Two young gentlemen accompan ied Misses Violet Hynd and Doris Mahoney to Butterby Flats on Sat urday. In a short time the Mayor and Constable John were seen chas ing a car containing two gents to wards Heppner and declaring all sorts of trouble for them if they re turned. The Mayor and Constable John saw the young ladies' safely on the flyer for Heppner cn Sunday. Never mind, Archie and Ted, "faint . heart never won fair lady." The industrial antagonisms that have done so much to halt the prog ress of civilization as well as bring privation and suffering on untold thousands of innocent persons is as a rule a situation brought about by uersons whose only direct interest has been a selfish one. The understanding between em ployer and employe can be made as near perfect as any relationship known to man. In many cases it has been made perfect. In many others the understanding has been warped and twisted, illwill and an unfriend ly spirit has been given birth to and instead of mutual benefits from good team work the two factions have been forced to a contrariness of di rection that has all but destroyed both. In the last few years this has been a condition that has grown rather than decreased and in tracing the cause to its source one is convinced that outside interference is the grim, underlying base upon which has been piled the troubles of capital and la bor and the same base in its cease less shift and change keeps these troubles in endless ferment and makes their clearing away difficult if not impossible. Good intention is not a guarantee against the unhappy consequences of unwise action on the part of either individuals or nations as units. The intelligent as well as the properly motived use of the powers with which men are endowed and of the opportunities which are made avail able to them by a beneficent Creator k the only formula by which the highest success and happiness may be obtained. A vast deal more is re- quired of us than simply wishing to do right. Every person according to his endowments and opportunities has an intellectual as well as a moral responsibility. This fact is made emphatically clear in the Parable of Talents. Through the honest and industrious employment of his ener- gies and abilities, the man to whom his master had given five talents doubled his capital, and the one of lower degree to whom two talents were given registered also one hun dred per cent profit on his efforts. Tc the third member of the historical trio was given only one talent, pre sumably because of his inferior men tal endowments. Like many of his descendents living in the present age he went off and hid his talent and finally returned empty-handed. It is not recorded what he did beyond this. But it might reasonably be inferred that during the absence of his master he was delivering a course of lec tures under the auspices of the Pal estine Welfare and Protective Asso ciation on "The Evils of Profiteering and the Rights of the Down-Trodden Workingman." At any rate, the two efficient producers were highly com mended, and promoted, while the "slacker" who was more concerned about obtaining his rights than per forming his obligations was con demned for his slothfutness. But even if all human conduct could be assayed and found to con tain in perfect proportionthe ele ments of pure motive and intelligent direction, there would still some times probably be frictions in the re lations of men. Indeed, as long as there are varying degrees of human capacity, a fnctionless world is in conceivable. Men's opinions and in terpretations of moral law are as di verse as their viewpoints, and it is from the clashing of viewpoints that friction results. The problem of re moving friction is, therefore, the problem of assimilating viewpoints. This would not be a very difficult task if only the acceptance of abstract principles was involved. But it is In the concrete application of common ly accepted principles that the dif ference in viewpoints is always diffi cult and sometimes impossible to reconcile. The abtract right of organization in the proper manner and for legiti mate purposes on the part of any persons is universally recognized. In the industrial "realm the abstract right of such persons either individ ually or collectively to bargan with whomsoever they wish is not denied by anybody. But in the appropria tion of these rights, there are those who expand them beyond their mean ing, forgetting that the right to or ganize does not carry with it the right tc use such organization harmfully to the legitimate interests of others or for unworthy ends, that the right to bargain collectively does not im ply an obligation on the part of oth-. trs to become the second parties to such bargaining if for reasons satis factory to themselves they are un willing to do so. They forget also that all moral law is indiscriminate and universal in its application, and that the right to do a thing connotes the right to refrain from doing it. The exercise of one man's right does not necessarily abrogate the right of another. There are providentially imposed limitations upon all rights. Other wise, they would be absolute, and an absolute right can not exist perman ently out of Heaven. If the charac tei and uses of an organization had nothing to do with its right to exist ence, lynching parties might be or ganized with moral impunity; and civil statutes, deprived of a base, would be ineffective and short-lived. Even the sacred right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, for the securing of which all law is instituted can be and often is forfeited because of its abuse. The confusion arising from the opr eration of the principle of collective bargaining seems to be general and is very difficult to dissipate. Those who directly profit most from the ex ercise of this right construe it to mean that they may bargain with their employers through any repre sentative whom they may choose or who may be gratuitously furnished for the purpose by those in the or ganization having higher authority The rejection of this interpretation is usually met with the protest that the principle of collective bargaining Is being dened. Most if not all those holding a contrary view would be willing to recognize the principle by dealing with their own employes col lectively through representatives vol untarily chosen by them out of their own number and without outside sug gestion and interference; but they are not willing to bargain for labor of their own employes through rep resentatives Outside of their employ ment. They predicate this position upon the supposition and belief that their own employes have sufficient intelligence for the purpose, that an alien dictatorship is not necessary, and that they are themselves better friends to those whom they employ and are more unselfishly interested in their welfare than can be foreign agents who live upon the tolls they arbitrarily take from those whose la bor they sell. These sharp differences in the un derstanding of moral rights are the real basis of industrial antagonisms. They have grown as our industrial processes have multiplied and be come more complex, and have been highly accentuated by the sordid uses to which they have been put by in dustrial parasites parading in the guise of friends to the toilers. So in dustriously have laborers been re minded of their rights by political and economic buccaneers that obi- gation as an important item in the program of life has been almost lost sight of. A large portion of the; wage-earning masses has been in'( cioctrinated with the idea that work was sent upon man as a curse and that only those who work with their; hands are to be regarded as working! men. The idle life has been held up ! before them as the only happy life. They are made to believe that their employers have little or nothing to do except to draw dividends and play golf. The thousands of men m America who derive material profit from strife between employer and employe un doubtedly constitute the chief ob stacle to the establishment of har mony and goodwill in the industrial world." The overwhelming majorities of both employers and employes are essentially honest and would gener ally enjoy harmonious relations ex cept for the assiduous meddling of outsiders. Ninety-five per cent of all men who employ labor, have themselves been wage-earners and have earned their promotions by hard work and sacrifice. They know the wage-earner's viewpoint much better than the wage-earner does or can know theirs, and the average employer of labor is very naturally the best friend his employes have outside their own family circles. May the time soon come when the public will recognize these facts and will by the pressure of an aroused sentiment force into productive employment the professional disturbers who live only upon the sweat of others brows. Then and then only can and will there be peace in the world of indus try. Chatham. Morpan, Ore. Advertisement. ALFALFA BAM H TO TRADE. Who has a gooi wheat ranch to tral without any money changing hamls either way. for one of tha best near In. hiehly Improved Willow creek al falfa ranches a money mker. Owner simply wants to raise wheat for a while. See ma at onca, E. M. 8HUTT. A 'I vertlsemant. Seed rye for sale at the Scott Mc Millan Warehouse. Lexington. Ad. i,!!f,,',f,,,'!!'s,tf ?'J!tf "tmt!t'!,TI!!Ht1't!t!!t!?f,inin!f,,'!,!,,",,,ttt' -3 mm f t Ctrelullw ' ' 7 insures vii ir' tbsolun : V? ,7 IWIlUdl. Sjrgl Grocers I . RecomaiendpPjaCKS Albers a Quality the hotcakes 1 West Central Market FRESH AND CURED MEATS g Fish In Season H Take home a bucket of our lard. It is a Heppner product and is as H good as the best. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiin THE GAZETTE-TIMES Your Paper. 12.00 Per Tear, Big Bargain in Small Creek Ranch i 16 acres, all under ditch, partly in cultivation, alfalfa, ! strawberries, raspberries; good five room house, good s js barn and out buildings; stock and machinery; good E spring and well. Price $2250.00 if taken at once. 7 s I ES miles from town. 3 1 ROY V. WHITEIS J i Real Estate and Insurance, Heppner. illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli WANTED Man or woman to es tablish permanent business distrib uting our products. Pays up to $10 per day to the right party. Write Kleen Zo Eze Co., 207 AtcKay Bldg., Portland, Ore. ' FOR SALE One P. & 0. plow, 2-bottom, 16-inch; 1 double disc, 9 x 10; 1 4-section steel harrow; all about new. See J. C. Sharp, 2 miles north of Kilkenny ranch. A Portrait Free In order to be doing something during these dull times, we will make you a 14x20 oval convex $5.00 por trait FREE. 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