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I'AiiF. TWO THE OAZKTTE-TIMKS. III-TPXEK. OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1922. Tin: gazette-Times The Hei'l1"' i"n7lt. R9tAbllhd Jriti 1'. H3 Thl Hc i-i ' 'l' Kptbllhw5 i veml'T I. 17. l nX'li truary 1&. Kit. l-ut.lifhul vry Ttiur.lr mornln by an1rr 4 pfUff (1(H nd turned l the I'otlofrlrt t Hepp i,r, oreirnn at tecotid-clast matttr. AlltlCKTIMM: BTK UIVE on Arri.u a no sriUk'KirTMX KATES: n Tr eu Munthi lhre Jriunlha- 1 00 ..h .ot HUHHOW lHi:TV orFUlAL PAPER THE AMKKICA.N ASS-X'lTTON A nunibcr of cities in the east have established their free soup kitchens. Back in the early nineties we re member the free soup kitchens. And often within a stone's throw of the free soup kitchen was an eating kit chen where one could climb on a high stool and get a good meal for a five cent piece. For that five cents one got a big piece of steak, pota toes, bread and coffee and onions for dtsert. The trouble in those days was to get the five cent piece. If one's pride hindered him from go ing to the free soup house or the Salvation Army barracks he could go into some of the big saloons and get a free bowl of soup with a big stack of bread with a big platter piled high with sliced onions. Those were the days when the people went through hard times. Now, if a man joins the soup line he feels that at least he ought to be well dressed. The old time tramp and the hundreds who us-ed to hang around the big beer joints are gone. We have seen a regiment of Coxy's army on the march and seen them in camp, when each carried his tomato can and took his portion of soup out of one of the big kettles. Those were the good old days of hard times. And they were hsrd. Up to date there has been no hard times compared with the early nineties. It was then that the gener . al bankrupt act was passed to super cede the insolvency law of the state, and the bankrupt courts were the busiest court on the job. It is true that times have been hard and many men suffered loss, but when it comes to the hard times that have been ex perienced in this country, the present crisis would not even be a curtain raiser. Wait until a five cent piece gets to be as big as the harvest moon and as hard to find as the needle in the haystack and then we will be get ting hack to the days of 1890. You can rest assured that in those days only a comparatively few could have afforded to ride in a thousand dollar car if such a thing was possible and there would have been a mighty few on the road burning up 40 and 50 cent gas. We do not believe that we will ever experience such a condition ac;ain and we certainly hope never to see again the time when a man can get a meal for a five cent piece. Canyon City Eagle. J.'ng its utmost to discredit the rail road so it cannot obtain adequate funis for capital investment, flip pantly blames the railroad execu tives for alleged neglect as the prin cipal cause of a wreck which cost seven lives. And Oregon Journal follows the lead of the politicians on the Public Service Commission by asserting that "the company by its omn acts was chiefly responsible." The public service commissioners and the Oregon Journal both become ex ceedingly popular for their heroism in denouncing the railway executives. The public service commission he roes get re-elected and the Journal circulation grows. The railroad ex ecutives, giving their lives to the cause of safety, reply not, but silent lv grow older and grayer. Oregon Voter. It's looking better for the sheep industry. Hooray! Some of the sheep men may save a part of their invest ment yet. Most of the Oregon sheep men are either "broke" or badly bent, and it means everything to them if conditions permanently im prove. Oregon Voter. Let the farmer keep his weather eye open when he considers taking advantage of legislation aimed at greatly enlarging his borrowing ca pacity. The adage "Beware the Greeks Bearing Gifts" may not fit the situation with a nicety, but it may he well to remember that borrowed money is easily squandered while that earned by the sweat of the brow usually is carefully, conserved. Re lief must be afforded of course, and it will be afforded, because if the nations' prosperity is not to be dang erously checked the expansion of far mer credit is inevitable. However, washing all the confusing technical fly specks off the picture and looking at it through plain horse sense glass es the farmer never will have a cent of money lent to him except it be on security that is unquestionable, leg islation or no legislation, and when money is borrowed there is establish ed a lien on the farmer's production and correspondingly a cetain domin ation of distibution and the funda mentals of business management. Care must be taken that the financial interests do not get too strong a grip on the agricultural group of our Am erican life. It is obvious that farm ers, particularly stock raisers cannot operate on short time loans but they should be cautious if opportunity is presented to them to get money with such ease that its value will be lost to sirjht. It is easy to drift down the stream, but there must be a day of reckoning always a day of account ing and settling up. The role of domination must be played by the farmer, not by the financier. Operating executives of a great railroad system feel responsibility for the lives and safety of all pass engers. The degree to which they feel this responsibility is hard to realize except by those who are as sociated with them and watch them grow old under the strain. These operating executives do their utmost to hasten the installation of every safety device, and are limited in this regard only by the funds that are available for capital expenditure. The Public Service Commission feeling no such responsibility and meanwhile en Slat's Diary. By Ross Farquhar Friday ma went to a wedding this after p. m. & when she cum home she sed she had all ways herd that mar rages witch was on Fri day was unlucky. Pa sed he reckon they was he sed he diddent see why they shud ought to be any diffrent frum other marrages. ma sed WHAT. What also sed I. because I diddent un derstand what he ment. So while they was De cideing it out I tuk the dog 8t we went up to Jakes house and chased the cat. Saturday pa and me went down town to watch & lissen at the prade & evry 1 witch walked a past pa tuk a look then laffed. Finely pa got sore & sed he wood bust sum body on there noses if they kept on that awav. Finely I looked up above his hed & there was a sine hung up & it sed Unfurnished Room For Rent & thats what was the cause of the laffing. Sunday when pa started in to shine his shoes ma sed go out in the shed, when he lit his pipe she sed go out dors. Finely he put on his hat & went out & ma sed Where you going & he answered & replyed 1 am going down to the crick & spit. Monday The teecher ast 1 of the girls if she had ever tuk Percentige & she sed she was exposed to it but never ketched it. Got a slap for snickering. Tuesday ma had Co. this evning witch is a reglar Gosip. Pa sed Less me & you go out in the shed the only nice things that woman ever says is about her own self. Wednesday are skool studies is getting harder evry day. Had to stay in tonite because when the teecher ast me what was a Referendum I sed it was sum thing you shoot off of the 4th of July to sellabrate I got caught in the rane. also in a lie beings I sed I stayed to help the teecher clean up the skool. Pa new diffrent. Thursday I gess Jane is peaved with me agen. I think I will let her go forever this time. She sung the Love nest to me & then ast me if I thot she ever cud do anything with her voice & I told her they was a lot of money in being a auctioneer. French & Co. Bank At The Dalles Is Closed refrain from making permanent ' they receive and pass the ball. Good1 barking connections in other quar- basketball is always thus played! ters. for after this bank reopens with whether the game adopted by the j the bad and doubtful assets elimi- coach is long-pass, short-pass or a1 m:::d. it will be an institution thor-' combination of these two as is now! oughly worthy of the support and becoming more general with the bigi pt.ronage ot its oia clients. i teams. However, instead of a game O. B. ROBERTbON, characterized by rapid shifting of "State Bank Examiner." players and swift passing rushes. lending in a shot for goal, we see (contests in which there is an excess jof mass play, wrestling between players, holding hacking, charging, j and rolling about on the floor after i the ball. Basketball games, all too frequently, are changed into football games. We often hear discussions of the relative weight of basketball teams as if that had anything to do with the matter. The physical quali ties that make a basketball player are speed, height, shiftiness, stam ina and ability to pass and shoot accurately. The instant one man starts to use his weight in a basket- $100,000 Suit Is Filed By Woman Against 0-W.R.&N. News from The Dalles is to the effect that damages aggregating f 100,000, as a result of injuries sus tained at Celilo in the head-on colli sii n of two O. W. R. & N. trains, were asked of the railroad company by Mrs. Reta E. Cole of Amity, Ore gon, in a complaint filed by local at torneys of The Dalles on February 25. This is the second large damage suit to grow out of the Celilo disas-i btt" game he commi,s 8 foul ter, an action for $25,000 for person al injuries having been entered two weeks ago. Mrs. Cole was on train No. 17. Her young son. Jack Cole, and her mo. There are several reasons for this lack of good basketball play in north central Oregon. One is the size of the courts. Basketball cannot be properly played on a court much less ther, Mrs. J. W. Walling, were killed! thn 50 bV 70 feet in size and 60 by when the coach in which they were 1 80 feet ,s sf'n bet,er. and the ceiling riding was practically demolished Mrs. Cole herself was injured, both legs and both arms having been brok en, and other injuries sustained, the complaint alleges. hould be high. It is true that the of ficial rules provide forH smaller area but the result of playing on small courts is a maximum of overguard ing. A basketball team must have a chance to maneuver. A slow, hea vy, strong team will find it easier to win over a fast team skilled in the rudiments of the game when the con test is played on a small court. Only cne or two steps need be taken be fore a man is covered. Gymnasiums are now largely constructed for bas ketball but architects and school boards pretty generally fail to realize the desirability of a large court. But there is another reason for our lack of fast basketball, namely, the manner in which the referees Editors Please Copy. Editor Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Sir: The following letter is written in the hope that it will be read by ref erees, coaches and players of basket ball in this section of the state. In sofar as they find the matter of in terest to their readers other editors land other officials handle the games, are requested to give space to the Possibly we cannot change the courts letter in their columns and to use but we can change methods of refer the caption "Editors Please Copy" in eeing. In many instances there is order to insure a wide circulation, a lamentable lack of knowledge of This letter is not written with a the rules covering fouling and a lack feeling of resentment against any of capacity to see the fouls and call other referee or team. And there is them. Some officials like to see no wish to give the impression that. teems rough it. They feel that calling Heppner teams are at present more fouls simply slows up the game. Such free from the practice of fouling men have never appreciated basket in basketball than are other teams, ball at its best. Basketball is a far The writer is simply convinced more interesting game both for spec that in this section of the state bas- tators and players when there js a ketball is not being played as it maximum of open passing and shoot should be played if the highest devel- ing movement and a minimum of opment of play are considered. The wrestling. game should be characterized by bul-1 The official basketball rules are let-like passing and by rapid criss-1 explicit in the matter of personal crossing of players on the court as fouling. When a player finds him self near an opponent who is passing or shooting for goal this player may do one of three things: I. He may throw his body or arms in front of I the opponent in an effort to block ori interrupt the pass of shot after it has ! left the hands of opponent; 2. He may strike the ball from the opon ent's hands providing the blow hits the ball only; 3. He may lay hold of the ball in an attempt to wrest it from opponent's grasp. A careful reading of the rules will show, it is believed, that any other action or play is impossible. The instant the player lays his arm or hand across the opponent's arms, or makes body contact with opponent, he has com mitted a foul. Consider the matter of guarding from behind. It is prac tically impossible for any player to guard from behind without body con tact. And yet the practice is con stantly followed by players with no reproof from officials. A recognition of the meaning of the personal foul would do much to improve the qual ity of play. If every referee would call his teams together before each game and tell them that their guard ing was to be limited to the three methods mentioned above we would hove a new and far more interesting game of basketball. The best official the writer has had the chance of observing in action is Ralph Coleman of O. A. C. Mr. Coleman officiated at the state tourn ament at Salem last year. If he was to officiate at some of the games in this section he would throw all of the members of both teams off the court for personal fouling before the first half was completed. Estimating roughly after one or two attempts to keep count during a contest the writ er judges that an average of fifty or sixty fouls are committed during an ordinary basketball game as we now play it. Only about one in five of these is called and sometimes not one in ten. Basketball is fast developing into ! a great high school and college sport In popularity and interest it promises I to approach football. Some of our big universities are playing to crowds of ten thousand or more and the size of the crowds is frequently limited 'only by the seating capacity. Bas ketball used to present a yearly defi cit which was met by the profits from I football. Now it is regarded as a j money-maker. If the game is to de I velop to its best in our smaller high ; schools we must make a closer study of the application and enforcement ,of its rules. Yours truly, ; J. W. HEARD. Hepner High School, February 28, 1922. The banking house of French and Company at The Dalles closed its dcors last Thursday morning, and has been in the hands of the state banking department since. This is the oldest banking institution in Eastern Oregon and throughout the long years of its existence it has stood out as one of the financial Gib raltar of the 'Northwest, and weath ered many a financial storm success fully. The bank is now in charge of O. B. Robertson, state bank examiner. The private fortunes of the French family, amounting in the aggregate to more than $500,000, will be thrown in the breach to prevent loss to depositors, and Mr. Robertson is sues the following statement con cerning the reopening of the bank: "Under ordinary circumstances I would hesitate in my official capacity to make a statement such as I shall now make pertaining to the French & Co., bankers, but I do not consider this case an ordinary one. I firmly and sincerely believe that this insti tution will reopen for business with in a period of ten to 15 days and perhaps sooner. "I base my conclusions on the fact that the stockholders of the bank represent heavy financial interests in other lines, and they have turned over to me outside assets aggregating approximately onehalf million dol lars with instructions that I nego tiate, a loan against these assets in a sufficient sum to liquidate all of the slow and doubtful paper under criticism by the state banking de partment. There is nothing to pre vent putting the institution in first class shape on the securities to which I have above referred, and I feel quite positive it can be done. "It is really a pleasure to me to state that the French families are willing and anxious to sacrifice their private fortunes for the purpose of preventing a loss to their depositors. In view of their attitude in the mat ter I feel that the -depositors should REM OVAL SALE At Minor & Co., Beginning MARCH 10th, 1922 ' Dry Goods and Men's Furnishings We are going to clean up our stock of slow-moving merchandise in preparation of a New, Clean Up-to-date Store. Spring Dresses on Display INOR&CO M 1922 - ECONOMY -1922 Economize by having your old dress, suit coat, blouse and gloves Cleaned and Repaired. 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