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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEITXEK. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 23, 1922.
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on Gale street are not large enough, i ture had the immaculate gall to in-; the increasing safety of the traveling
The first water on the fire was from i trc Juce bills for five different forms : public.
ithe hydrants close to the building, 'of tax, and this on top of all other The foregoing figures are the re
j.ind there was not sufficient pressure ! taxes. jsult of statistics compiled and issued
' te get a stream of any force upon the The last legislature appropriated : pV tne Interstate Commerce commis-
Ircof of the DuilJing. there shouia $10,000 to create a commission "to 5icn
.ni TrMioW'HPP-'the ration f he property. As
r, (rom wcond-clm mttfr. $00( a$ me j,ose wj(s nn m from
' K.-.lrant An Main ctrnf hr
till I1UIMI VII I'lHill -JW ,
jwas a fine force of water, but this
'came too late to save the building,
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APPLICATION
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THE AJOUCTOESSASSOt"IATION
saved near-by residences.
Conference Accomplishments
Shine Forth
It is related that while Michael
Angelo was decorating the Sistine
Chapel his work elicited compara
tively little praise from his associ
ates, was the object of criticism by
his enemies and of indifference by
the casual passerby. None realized
the magnificence of his work or the
wondrous beauty of his artistry un
til the task had been completed, the
vraiTolding removed, the accessories
cleared away.
Much the same might be said re
siding the work of the Conference
for Limitation of Armament. Al
though it lasted but the short space
of three months, publicc attention
wearied, critics multiplied and be
came more caustic, and even many
of the friends of the movement be
came discouraged. This was because
the stupendous task being performed
by that conference was concealed
and confused by a multitude of de
tails and the confusion of discus
sions. But now that the scaffolding
has been cleared away and the com
pleted accomplishments of the con
ference stand forth, it is conceded by
all true Americans, and by the world,
that no body of men ever accomplish
ed more toward the peace of the
wcrld, the upliftment of mankind and
the elevation of responsible public
opinion than did those men who offi
cially composed the Armament con
ference.
Of so momentous and stupendous
a work pages and volumes will be
written, so that it is impossible to
embrace within the confines of a few
sentences a just review of its tasks.
However a few sallied points may be
set down in passing.
First, was the asurance given up
on the onening day by President
Harding, who called the conference
that, "This is not a council of nations
seeking to remake mankind," but a
convention of the leading powers of
the world for the purpose of apply
ing the better attributes of mankind
tc the pressing problems of the day,
a conference called by the United
S'ates of America, because, as he
stated, "We enly wish to do with you
that finer, nobler thing which no na
tion can do alone."
Coordinate with this was the very
definite program placed before it by
the United States, which called it, a
program to which it was firmly held
by its chairman, Secretary Hughes.
Upon its opening day its feet were
claced in the straight path of duty
that led to definite results by the spe
cific and detailed statement regard
ing disarmament made bv its chair
man. Secretary Hughes.
In so far as this and other nations
were concerned, another large contri
buting factor to the success of the
conference was the fact, as the Presi
dent stated in his address on the clos
ing diy of the conference, that no
nation wa asm- at any time to sur-
render any of its sovereignity, im
pair its nationality, or do anything
that wotili: humble its national pride.
.No intrigue was proposed, no offen
sive involvements were suggested. It
was a conference of equal sovereigns
discussing means by which they
could mutually work to serve the
common cause of mankind.
In so far as the United States alone
is concerned, the conference was
success '.icause it was backed by the
people and because at every stage
of its progress and in every day of its
duration the public was apprised of
what the conference had done and
what it contemplated doing on the
morrow. In short, there was no se
crecy. As a corollary to this, the
President placed upon the official
American delegation two representa
fives of the United States Senate,
that branch of the government coor
dinate with him in the making and
the conclusion of any binding agree
ment. He went even further, in that
one of these selections represented
that political party which is opposed
to the administration.
Virtually all the history of the con
feience was given to the world from
day to day, nor did that frank publi
city end with the edjournment of the
conference, for on its final day it
made provision for the publication of
all the records in connection with the
conf- rence and the complete minutes
of each day's session. This will be
given the world as soon as it is made
up, so that the world may know why
decisions were made and why some
proposals failed; who was to blame
to whom belongs the credit. There
will be no aftermath of "steel boxes"
of secret memoranda to serve a base
and partisan purpose, to befog the
truth, to prejudice public opinion and
to aggrandize few individuals.
The fire on Saturday afternoon
in which the Christian church build
ing was destroyed, has again illus
trated the fact that the water mains
Slat's Diary.
Br ROSS FARQUHAR
Friday ma sent me to the dent
ists after skool tonite to get a tooth
fixed up witch was
acheing terrible. When
the dentist laid out his
pinchers and his goug
ers & stuck a looking
glass in my mouth I be
gun getting nervus &
then he went out to get
a hammer or sum thing
I cuddent set still so I
got up to walk a round
a little & just nacheral
ly walked out. I bet
he was supprised to see
me gone. But 1 was
supprised when I got
home, he had telefon-
ed to ma & she was all drest up to go
when I cum in home so we walked
back to the office & got my tooth
pulled & a licking to.
Saturday was out in the ford
with pa & he made a mistake & run
in a iron telefone post & busted up
the front end and unloaded us on
the St. Pa looked up at the post &
seen a sine on it witch sed Cars Stop
Here, he turned to me & sed that
is 1 sine that vou can beleave.
Sunday had a good dinner acct.
company was here. I eat a lot ot
beef loaf s pie at frute & then I ast
for cake please, ma sed my gra
cious if you eat any more you will
bust. I sed Well pass the cake
shut your eyes & stop your ears up.
Monday I gess this is blew Mon
day for I seen ma was in a bad yu
mor when she slapped me for pull
ing wiskers out of the cats chin She
sed about the only thing sum men
does for their wife is to keep them
from being a old maid.
Tuesday Pa sed he thinks he
made a big discovery of how to run
a ottomobeel without gasoline. He
says a gas meter will do it because
it runs all the time he just got his
gas bill today.
Wednesday Jake & me was a
coasting down the hill in my wagon
they was a man walking in front
of us & just as we got in back of
im he moved over & we glumped
into him. & nocked him for 2 bases.
he agreed he was going to set the
officer on us but shux he never put
out his hand so how cud we help
our self.
Thursday tonite the telefone
rung & mrs. White ast ma to cum
over & play 500 with a bunch of
ladys ma sed 0 I have nothing to
wear. Mrs. white sea ume on
over any ways. & she did & pa &
me red a detective story S eat ap
pies.
ascertain new sources of revenue,"
in addition to all present taxes.
The legislature before spent $20,
000 on a commission to find ways
to consolidate the commissions. They
spent the money and then quit.
The last legislature enacted over
four hundred laws, many of them
raising salaries, creating new offices,
raising fees, etc.
Shall these same leaders be re
warded for their tax-boosting labors
by being given more power and high
er offices when they promised reduc
tions-
New state institutions are to be
fastened upon the people, and there
is a program on the skids to raise
official salaries at least $100,000 a
year.
Think these things over.
It will be up to the people to vote
for candidates who have qualifica
tions recommending them as being
able to carry out a retrenchment
program.
Flirting With the Income Tax
An exrensive commission is hav
ing an expensive investigation made
and will have a voluminous report
printed costing in all possibility $20,-000.
They have $10,000 to investigate
with, clear back to the days of Adam
Smith, and it will cost as much more
to print their findings and submit
their bills to a popular vote.
The legislature and legislative
commissions have become too much
of a joke to be taken seriously and
anything that a lot of tax experts em
ployed by the legislature prepares
will be voted down
It does not seem to occur to the
experts that what the ordinary citi
zen and manager of a business or
industry wants is less taxation and
regulation of his property instead of
more inquisitions and new taxes.
On top of the proposition to put
over a duplication of the federal in
come tax for state revenue there will
he the Single Tax on the ballot and
Oregon is to be the experimental
cround of economic theories. The
Manufacturer.
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Usually after a business depres
sion a man aoesn t care now quicn
the business "comes back" or how
fast the stuff he has to sell increases
in market value. John Kilkenny of
Heppner, Or., however, is an excep
tion. Mr. Kilkenny is in the sheep
business. He runs a mere trifle of
about 20,000 sheep, so it can be un
derstood that he watches the game
and is interested in whatever hap
pens in the industry. At the Imperial
yesterday Mr. Kilkenny expressed
the fear that the' sheep business is
taken last year imposed a hazard on coming back too fast. He thinks
it would be better it me return to
higher prices would come more grad
ually than by the sudden jump which
has characterized it within the past
few weeks. Lambs, he explained,
Iknt.a m,rA than rlnnhlpH in vfllllP rp.
i IiaVW I1IVIV illMII U"UUI 111 .h.hv . v
was shot to pieces and the bottom
had dropped out of it, for I realized
that it would improve it had to ,
although a lot of sheepmen have
had a hard struggle holding on."
Oregonian.
Mrs. J. C. Dodson returned from
Heppner t-nday where she sepnt a
month visiting relatives. Her bro
ther, Jesse Kirk, has had several
strokes of paralysis and is barely
able to move about his home. Mrs.
Dodson says the Morrow county met
ropolis has been experiencing some
real winter weather although there
was not as much snow as there now
is in Joseph. A niece, Mrs. Lulu
Bassett, who was to have accompan
ied Mrs. Dodson home for a visit,
arrived Saturday. Mrs. Bassett's
home is in California and she is vis
iting relatives in the Northwest. She
was at Heppner while Mrs. Dodson
was there. Joseph Herald.
Railway Travel Growing Safer
Thirty years ago, Mr. Average Am
erican, you took eight annual railway
journeys, and now you take twelve.
Then you rode twenty-four miles
each trip, and now you go thirty-
ei&ht miles. Notwithstanding you
ride half as many more times now,
half again farther each trip and
doubtless spend half as much more
time in railway travel, yet the dan
ger to your life is less than half as
great as it used to be. If you have
ridden once in the last 33 years, your
chances of being killed were one in
91,000,000, or, if you have taken one
trip each year during that period,
you came as near losing your life as
one is near to 2,760,000. One ride
your life of only one in 5,673,000,
and on your twelve customary jour
neys you were as far from jeopardy
as 473,000 is greater than 1. Alto
gether, the railways of the United
States carried in 1920 about 1,390.-
000,000 passengers, with one killed . cently. Not long ago lambs could be
for each group of 5,673,000 carried, I bought for $2.50 any amount of
while in a tota,l of 472,000,000 peo-! them and the other day lambs,
pie carried in 1889, the death rateUheared, were sold for $8 a head,
was one in 1,523,000. The danger j which is indicative of the way the
to life of railway travelers in 1920 j sheep business is moving. Wool, too,
was therefore less than one-third of 'said Mr. Kilkenny, is going up faster
what it was in 1889, most of the re- than he cares to see it; he wants a
duction occurring since 1907. To be high price for wool, naturally, but he
sure, there have been very bad years . would prefer that the quotation
and exceptionally good years, but the j moved upward more sedately.
They are paying a dollar on every
sheep to hold the wool," observed
V. B. Barratt of Morrow county,
sheepman and a member of the state
highway commission, "and they are
chareine no interest. I have contract
ed all of my wool at a very satisfac
tory figure. The sheep industry is
lcokine good. Having contracted
for this seasons clip, Mr. Barratt
came to Portland to confer with a
couple of officials of the forest bu
reau from Washington, D. C, and to
jet into action for the regular month
ly meeting of the commission, which
opens today. Oregonian.
Rats Kill Calves.
R. C. Rasmussen, a farmer living
near Stanfield, has lost four calves
as the result of attacks by big wharf
rats, according to information
brought here to County Agent Fred
Bennion. The calves were attacked
at nieht while in their lot by the hun
eht rodents, it is believed, ana tne
skin on the calves' legs was chewed
by the rats until the arteries and
veins were all cut. ueatn usuauy
resulted the day following. That
such attacks have not been uncom
mon is a statement of Mr. Bennion.
A strychnine poisoning process is
used in getting rid of the pests. Re
cently Rasmussen was awakened
during the night to find that young
pigs were being chased by the hun
gry rats. East Oregonian.
Cifford H. Esselstyn has been ap
pointed manager of the Tum-A-Lum
yards at Echo and will arrive from
Lexineton today to take up the work.
tsselstyn will
1922 - ECONOMY -1922
Economize by having your old dress, suit
coat, blouse and gloves Cleaned
and Repaired.
LLOYD HUTCHINSON
Where
They
CLEAN
LOTHES
LEAN
FAIR TREATMENT COMBINED WITH BEST PRINTING
Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
general trend throughout the whole; never lost confidence in the sheep leave Saturday for their new home
reriod has been decidedly towards business, he savs, even wnen u ar nuuu mver. r
Some Plain Talk on Ttaxation
We are told by the politicians that
the people are to blame tor nign
taxes; they voted them upon them
selves. If this is the fact, then the
people can "unvote" them, and we
would respectfully call attention to
some matters that the people the
'tax voters" should ponder over.
Is it reasonable that the people
hould have voluntarily increased the
state taxes 521 per cent in ten years
when the population has increased
but 16 per cent and valuations only
23 per cent?
Is it reasonable that from lyia to
1922 the people should have volun
tarily increased their total state tax
from $3,021,402 o a,do,;u, ana
to continue an political overneaa
at war levels?
Is it reasonable that the egislature
should spend (or waste in other
words) $43,331 on clerks for a forty
day session over $1000 per day,
Why should the legislature Keep up
this oernicious demoralization of
voune people when experts could be
secured to do the work much better
for an expenditure of around $7,000.
Whv waste money paying hve to
ten dollars per day for overtime for
ncompetent people as legislative
clerks when it can be done right for
less?
When the farmers are taking a de
flation of fifty per cent and the wages
of labor and the profits of business
are cut in two; when the cost of liv
ine has come down from 30 to 40
per cent, why not reduce the cost of
public service at least 2o percent r
When the state of wasnington nas
abolished 72 boards and commis
sions' and effected a saving of $2
600,000 why retain them all m Ore-
eon?
Washington has consolidated all
boards and commissions under ten
heads appointed by the governor and
responsible to the people; Idaho has
abol shed boards and commissions
and adopted the cabinet system with
seven heads named by the governor
and responsible to the people. Why
not Oregon follow this example?
Why should Oregon retain an ob
solete system of tax-levying and
money-squandering boards and com
missions, all interested in more ap
propriations?
The special session of the legisla
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Sale
I will sell at public auction at my place 12 miles northeast of Lexington and ll2
miles east of the Artesian Wells on Sand Hollow, on
Tuesday, February 28th
The following:
11 - Head of Horses and Mules - 11
I grey gelding, 8 yrs. old, wgt. 1400 lbs.
1 bay mare, 8 yrs. old, wgt. 1400 lbs.
1 bay gelding, 5 yrs. old, wgt. 1600 lbs.
1 black filly, 4 years old, wgt. 1300 lbs.
1 brown filly, 6 yrs. old, wgt. 1200 lbs.
1 bay filly, 7 years old, wgt. 1250 lbs.
1 black mule, 7 yrs. old, wgt. 1300 lbs.
1 brown mule, 6 yrs. old, wgt. 1300 lbs.
1 brown mare mule, 6 yrs. old, wgt. 1200.
1 bay mare mule, 3 yrs. old, wgt. 1300 lbs.
1 black mare mule, 7 yrs. old, wgt. 1000.
3 No. 1 milk cows. 1 short yearling heifer
Farm Implements and Machinery
1 Hardwood wheat rack, 16-ft.
6 sets of harness. 1 fanning mill.
1 McCormick binder, new. 1 Saddle.
1 cream separator, as good as new. '
Some household furniture and other
things too numerous to mention.
2 Bain' wagons, 3 inch,
1 double disc, 8 foot.
2 blade weeders, 12 and 13 ft.
1 24-ft. harrow. 1 3-bottom John Deere
plow.
1 Superior hoe drill,
Sale to Commence at 10 O'Clock A. M.
Free Lunch at Noon
TERMS OF SALE-A11 sums of $10.00 and under, cash; all sums over $10.00, a credit
of 7 months time will be given on approved notes with interest at 8 per cent. Five
per cent discount for cash on sums oyeer $10.00.
B. S. Clark, Owner
E. E. MILLER, Auctioneer - F. H. ROBINSON, Clerk
We are now showing many
latest patterns in
French and Domestic
Ginghams
Devonshires
Percales
For Spring and Summer
Dresses
Good time now to make
your selections
Sam Hughes Company
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ONLY "QUALITY PRINTING" PRODUCED AT THE O.-T.
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You have a perfect right to
I 'lan and work for your future;
to save and invest something
ior tomorrow.
There's small chance that
something will happen to make
you rich. But you have a per
fect right to expect success
when you practice thrift, add
regularly to a Savings Account
and allow your interest earn
ings to accumulate.
Are you waiting for the time
when you can afford to save?
Kemember this : It is not what
you can save, but wljat you
WILL save that counts.
Fir National Bank
IIEPPNER, OREGON