THE GAZKTTK-TLMKS. IIK.ITNKI!. OKKGON, TliTL'SDAY, FEB. 2, 1922.
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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.
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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. We want you to show
it to your friends and advertise our
work. All we ask of you send us
95c to pay for postage and boxing
and we will send the portrait prepaid,
free. Mail your photos, with 95c.
Give us a trial. No frame catch
buy your frame where you please.
We copy anything and everything,
Money back if not pleased.
PALM ART CO.,
Hastings, Neb.
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
Just Arrived!
From the Factory
Carload of
Oliver Chilled Plows
All Kinds
25 Per Cent Reduction
of former prices
Come in and see us in regard to your future needs.
Peoples Hardware Co.
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