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THE OAZKTTE-TIMKS. III-TPXEK. OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1922.
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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
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1'lan and work for your future;
to save and invest something
for 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!
Remember this: It is not what
you can Bave, but what you
WILL save that counts.
Fir National Bank
HEPPNER, OREGON