THE GAZETTE-TIMES, IffiTPXER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 23, 1022.
PAGE FIVE
FOR SALE A fine Shetland pony
mare. C. C. Calkins. tf.
FOR SALE A Shure Hatch incu
bator, good as new; capacity 220
eggs; price $25. Phone 22F5, Hepp
ner: 2tp.
Mrs. John McCarty, who was a
guest at the home of her brother
Claude Sloan last week, has return
ed to her home near Walla Walla.
Echo News.
FOR SALE One P. 8t 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.
Miss Olive Bassett went to lone
the first of the week, where she will
teach domestic science and other
branches in the high school there
for the remainder of the school term.
Miss Ethelyn Hull of Portland,
met with the Patron-Teachers' asso
ciation on Tuesday evening, and pre
sented to them the proposed program
nf the Ellison-White Chautauqua and
Lyceum bureau for the coming win
ter season. The program called for
a guarantee of nearly $800. A can
vass of the members of the P. T. A.
present, and others of the city se
cured pledges for about 90 season
tickets, and it would be necessary
to gather up about 250 in order to
guarantee the association aqainst fi
nancial loss. Upon discussion, the
P. T. A. decided not to accept the
proposition, and as a result there will
doubtless be no lyceum course pre
sented in Heppner the coming win
ter, unless other parties are willing
tc take the responsibility of sponsor
ing it.
Oregon May Have Poli
tical Conventions Again
Portland, Feb. 20. Oregon will
again have political party conven
tions if a movement, started here last
Monday in the annual meeting of the
Oregon State League of Republican
Clubs, is successful.
"This would not change or take
anything away from the present di
rect primaries," explains Edward A.
McLean, secretary of the lague. "The
primaries would remain wide open,
the same as now, to as many candi
dates as might aspire to any office.
"In other words, we do not wish
to do anything destructive but aim
at doing something constructive but
the resolution adopted will speak for
itself."
First steps in this matter were tak
en in the annual meeting of the lea
gue held a year ago, when a reso
lution similar to the one adopted this
year was introduced and referred to
a committee consisting of L. E.
Schmitt, D. C. Lewis, Edward A. Mc
Lean, Lee Laughlin and Mrs. Will
iam Cary Johnson. This committee
at the league meeting on Monday re
ported the following resolution:
Resolved by the Oregon State Lea
gue of Republican Clubs in annual
Convention assembled that we de
clare in favor of action by the next
legislature for the establishment, un
der proper safeguards and on a tru
ly representative basis, of party con
ventions, in county, state and cong
ressional districts, for sound reasons
among which might be mentioned
that under our present primary sys
tem Oregon loses one of the most
valuable features of the party sys
tem of government that is, the dis
cussion of the most important pub
lic questions in party counsels anJ
the framing of constructive public
programs in the platforms of party
conventions and the election of pub
lic officers properly pledged to carry
out the platforms approved by the
people. Such party conventions
would take nothing away from the
present direct primary system. They
would simply add to it. The voters
in the primaries would have the ab
solute power of decision, the same
as now.
And be it further
Resolved that our Secretary be in
structed to send a copy of this reso
lution to every Republican candidate
for Governor and for the next leg
islature, with a request for the atti
tude of each one on this matter and
to give publicity, as far as possible,
to these answers, in order that the
republican voters in Oregon, who ap
pear to be overwhelmingly in favor
of party government, may know how
each legislative candidate in the May
primaries stands on this question.
Seymour Jones, speaker of the
house in the 1919 legislature and
M. F. Hardesty of Astoria, took an
active part in the discussion of the
wording of the resolution which was
finally adopted unanimously.
The biennial election of officers re
sulted as follows: President, Col.
James J. Crossley; secretary, Edward
A. McLean; treasurer, Mrs. Clara
B French, and as members of the
executive committee, H. L. Canoe,
L. E. Schmitt, Mrs. Harriet Hendce
and Charles E. Lockwood.
WASHIKGTOM TO BECOME
LEADER SAR HOI
Coast State to Rival Sister
Commonwealth in East
in Production
Natural Resources Have Scarce
Been Touched; Unlimited
Wealth at Hand
Phone 873
ALEX GIBB, Plumber
At Sturkey'i Eleotrtcal Shop.
I FIX ANY OLD TIIINC1 Au n.
dlatora, ItMiKrn, Hrntrn mil Tin
ware Bpnlred. Dirty
Clilmncr" Cli-nncd.
GlulDKt K(o.
By Governor Louis F. Hart,
of Washington
Editor's Note: Governor Louis
Hart of Washington became a nation
al figure when he drafted what is
known as the "Administrative Code,"
a code that is now a law and has done
much to place the administrative bus
iness of the state in the class with
great industrial corporations for ec
onomy, efficiency and results obtain
ed at a minimum of expense. Aside
from this his outline of the possibil
ities of his state should interest ev
eryone who still feels the thrill in
the words "Young man, go west."
So diversified are the interests of
the state of Washington that it would
be impossible to write of its possibili
ties and accomplishments and separ
ate its civic, industrial and agricul
tural activities. Washington is not
alone an agricultural state, nor yet
is it an industrial commonwealth, it
is both. Washington might well be
termed the "Pennsylvania of the
West," for within its confines have
been found in large quantities al
most every known resource, except
oil, and prospects are good for that.
As an agricultural state it has long
ranked near the top as a wheat pro
ducer and the fame of its fruit has
gone far afield. It contains within
its boundaries the highest mountains
and yet millions of acres of prairies
and plains land; a dry climate on
the east side where irrigation is nec
essary, and a rainy climate on the
west of the mountain slopes where
there is scarcely any winter. There-
foie the development of the state of
Washington cannot be said to be
bound up in any one particular en
deavor.
Comparatively speaking, Washing
ton is a new state, having been ad
mitted to the Union in 1889, and her
main industries to date have been
lumbering, mining, fishing and agri
culture. Natural resources in time
disappear and the state government
fully realizes the absolute necessity
of protecting the great forest areas
that are yet uncut, and the replenish
ing of the salmon and spawn in the
rivers emptving into the Pacific ocean
and Puget Sound.
To Protect Resources.
The protection of these resources,
the rehabilitation of cut-over lands in
order that agriculture might replace
the lumber industry in the far dis
tant future when the Washington for
ests have gone the way of the forests
of eastern states, are now taking and
have taken a foremost place in the
problems that confront the state.
With enormous resources, many of
which, though of almost inestimable
value, were scores of miles from
transportation lines, the state has
before it a great problem in the mat
er of roads, but one which is rapidly
being brought to a place where it
should be. Washington is building
through the State Highway offices a
system of paved roadways that will
he second to none in the United
States when completed, and when
consideration is given to the varied
scenery which the state has to offer,
the value of these great roads, out
side of the industrial development,
may readily be seen. The highway
system of the state of Washington
has become of vital importance and
only through an agressive building
program on the part of the state has
it finally assumed the proportions
that are necessary for the upbuilding
of the agricultural territories. Evi
dence of the development that fol
lows, the building of good roads is
noted in the manner in which farms
of small agricultural communities
spring up along the line of the paving.
Great acreages of waste land, sage
brush that lay hot, dry and barren
is being reclaimed by the efforts of
individual communities and state aid
through the department of conserva
tion and reclamation. In this depart
ment, the reforestation and protec
tion of the standing timber from fire
has played a great part in the preser
vation of the fir, cedar, spruce, and
hemlock with which the western
slopes of the Cascades are covered.
Salmon Depicted.
The state of Washington carries on
an extensive propagation of salmon
and game fish, and even now is mak
ing a determined effort for the re
plenishing of the sockeye salmon in
the waters of Puget Sound. These
fish have nearly become extinct be
cause of unrestrained fishing, In the
matter of the propagation and re
plenishing of streams with fish, the
state of Washington has taken the
lead, and long after other states find
that their lakes and rivers have been
fished out, the gamy trout will be
found responding to the fly in the wa
ters of Washington. And, despite the
present low condition of the sockeye
salmon, generally conceded to be the
best food fish in the Pacific waters,
the work of the state department will
bring back a normal supply within
a few years.
.This varied interest taken by the
state in industrial affairs has brought
about a peculiar condition in the po
litical aspect of the people of the
state, in which industry plays an im
portant part, and many strange new
laws passed far in advance of other
states have been the result. The in
dustrial insurance law designed to
protect and make compulsory insur
ance in all hazardous occupations is
the result of this interest. And the
outcome of that interest has been the
establishment under a new adminis
trative code of a department of Labor
and Industry designed to handle la
bor disputes, the regulation of wo
men in industry, the safeguarding of
the plants in which men and women
work, and practically every line of
endeavor touched by labor in hazard
ous and other occupations.
The expense of keeping up various
activities outside those usually en
gaged in by state governments
mount to a place where taxation had
become almost unbearable. At a spe
cial session of the legislature in 1920,
as governor of the state, I was given
the power to have drafted what af
terward became a law, the "Admin
istrative Code." The state system,
whereby numerous boards and bu
reaus were either abolished or con
solidated, for but four months, but
already the "Code" has justified it
self and the confidence of the legis
lature in its passage by showing sav
ings in practically every line of en
deavor in which the state operates.
Some idea of the many functions car
ried on by the state may be had by
the following names of the Code de
partments: the Department of Public
Works, the Department of Business
Control, the Department of Efficien
cy, the Department of Health, the
Department of Taxation and Exam
ination, the Department of Conserv
ation and Development, the Depart
ment of Labor and Industry, the De
partment of Licenses and the Depart
ment of Fisheries and Game.
Washington's Problem.
It is hoped that under the Admin
istrative Code that the business of
the state will be carried on much
like that of any large industry and
that a great saving to the taxpayers
will thus be made, and that under
this system the state will find its full
est development in industrial, agri
cultural and civic lines.
The great problem of the state of
Washington today is to carry on the
functions which are necessary for its
industrial and agricultural advance
ment without burdening property to
a point where it cannot stand the
weight. Tax problems consume a
major portion of the constructive
thought in the state today, and with
a mind to reduce if possible the bur
den now borne by property, a tax
investigating committee composed of
men from nearly every walk of life
are now investigating tax laws and
conditions with the idea of revision
through the state legislature, thus
giving relief to property. In this
respect the state of Washington is
probably in no different condition
than any other state, except that steps
are being taken for a possible rem
edy.
Politically the state of Washington
has had a stormy career and has tri
ed most of the "cure-alls" that have
emanated from the human brain in
the last 50 years, to say nothing of
haviiig discovered a few of her own.
The initiative, referendum and right
nf lecall are all in vogue, and every
'.ect'on sees thi former two play an
important part in affairs of state.
The primary election law gives the
people the direct power to nominate
candidates, and whether for the best
or not is seemingly here to stay.
Washington has made rapid strides
in industrial lines in the 32 years
that she has been a state, and with
an unlimited amount of water power
that remains to be developed, there
is little cause to worry about her
future development. It is not a ques
tion of development but of how rap
id that development will be, and not
the least factor in this development
has been and will be a far-sighted
policy on the part of her state government.
When Checks Will Be Ac
cepted in Payment of Taxes
Checks will be accepted in pay
ment of income and other federal
taxes, announces Clyde G. Huntley,
collector of internal revenue, only
when honored by the banks upon
which they are drawn at par, or full
face value.
This annonucement is made by
Collector Huntley on instructions
from the commissioner of internal
revenue, at Washington, D. C.
Therefore, where it is known that
the bank upon which the check is
drawn will not pay the same at par,
the taxpayer should remit by bank
draft or money order.
Collector Huntley calls attention
to the fact that all federal officers
and employees must pay an income
tax on their salaries.
The salaries of officers and em
ployees of the state or any political
subdivision thereof, such as a city,
town, county or hamlet, however,
are exempt from taxation under the
federal income tax law. This law
expressly provides that this exemp
tion does not extend to salaries paid
federal officers or employees, "in
cluding the President of the United
States, the judges of the Supreme
and inferior courts, and all other
officers and employees, whether elec
ted or appointed, of the United
States, Alaska, Hawaii, or any poli
tical subdivision thereof, or the Dis
trict of Columbia."
Failure to file an income tax re
turn on or before March 15 makes
the taxpayer liable to a penalty of
25 per cent of the amount of his tax
and a specific fine of not more than
$1 ,000. This is a statutory provision
and cannot be waived by the collec
tor or any other authority. Clyde G.
Huntley, collector of internal rev
enue, announces that returns for the
j)ear 1921 must be filed by the fol
i lowing persons without any excep
tion: ! Every individual who had a net
. income of $1,000 or more, if single,
!or if married and not living with
! husband or wife: Every individual
who had a net income of $2,000 or
j more, if married and living with hus
I band or wife, and every individual
I who had a gross income of $5,000 or
imore, regardless of whether or not
that sum netted him a cent of profit.
Every married person living with
husband or wife, in order to claim
the exemption of $2,500 and $400
for each dependent, must make a re
turn, although his actual net income
for 1921 may have been only $2,000.
For Sale A country home light
ing plant; 1000-watt. See Starkey.
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Fire ffld Fire Is
is the most destructive element mankind has to deal
with.
America's fire fighting apparatus and methods are
developed far beyond those of any other country on
earth, 'still fire losses in the United States last year
totaled five billion dollars ($5,000,000,000.)
You cannot afford to let your home or business go
uninsured. AT ONCE! NOW! TODAY!!
. ROY V. WHITEIS
Real Estate and Insurance
Have that damaged
tread fixed before it
causes a lot of blow
outs and punctures
and costs you five or
six times the price of
having it repaired.
Bring It Here!
We will vulcanize it
making it as good as
new.
Have any tire trouble? Bring it here
C. V. HOPPER TIRE SHOP
Tri-State Terminal Building.
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.
We have just received a
new shipment of
Australian
Jam
Made in Hobart, Tasmania
13-oz. Net, Pure Fruit - - - 25c
$2.75 per dozen
27-oz. Net, Pure Fruit - - - 45c
$4.75 per dozen
Many Flavors, Exceptional
Quality, Attractive
Prices.
Carload of Olympic
Flour just in.
Phelps Grocery
Company
Phone 53