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r.;K four THK 11AZKTTK-T1MKS. HEITXER. OK EG ON, THURSDAY. MARCH 2, 1922. L. MONTERESTELLI Marble and Granite Works PENDLETON, OREGON Fine Monument and Cemetery Work All parties interested in getting work in my line should pet mv prices placing their orders All Work The Byers Chop Mill (Formerly 80HEMM-3 MILL) STEAM ROLLED BARLEY AND WHEAT After the 20th of September will handle Gasoline, Coal Oil and Lubricating Oil You Will Find Prompt and Satisfactory Service Here 5 1 ! To the Automobile Public j e 3 BaMaHHaBHaMMBBBBi 3 I Have the NO NOK self-adjusting bearing 3 bolts installed, and eliminate your bearing trou- 3 J bles. They have been tested and give perfect r satisfaction. Made for all cars and trucks. 5 3 I WE SELL ZEROLENE OILS 3 t 15c per quart. Over 5 gallon quantities 570 3 Pel gallon. Differential and transmis- J 3 3 sions filled at 15c per pound. 3 ! Fell Bros. j 1 Block East of Hotel. Auto Repair Shop. 5 3 55 tlllll!Illlil!!llll!l!IIIIlllllllll!l!llllllM i m i I Ex-Service Men You are to get your Oregon j State Bonus this month. . Are you going to follow the 1 , old saying 1 j "EASY COME, EASY GO," j I or are you going to make that I money work for vouf 1 i ' H Save It I !" Why not put it into a SAV- j j 1XGS ACCOUNT IN THIS j j BANK and draw 4 interest 1 every six months. Then when opportunity presents itself you will be prepared to meet it. FARMERS & STOCKGROWERS I NATIONAL BANK 1 Heppner Oregon j . . ., .,,.,,.,.-... - . . .j. and estimates before Guaranteed MM S POPE BLESSES PEOPLE AFTER ELECTION H f " In III'- I :f lif lrtMf if I ; uj t M lit r ML s. Lifvf H ' Exclusive and first pictures from Rome showing the new Pope, Pius XI, blessing the people in front of the Vatican, immediately after is election to succeed the late Pope Benedict. Upper picture is a close up of His Holiness on the balcony surrounded by some of the Cardi nals who elected him. Lower picture shows crowd receiving blessing. These pictures were made with a special Ulcphoto camera. FARMERS NEED CASH RETURNS, IT HI ED FARM VALUES, TP REVIVE PROSPERITY When prices of commodities go up the only recourse is to curtail buying because the farmer's labor is not reward ed except in assets he cannot liquidate without closing up shop. Lack of income the stumbling block to trading that spells a revival of bus iness activity. By Cyrus H. McCormick, Chairman International Harvester Company. The importance of agriculture in its relation to the problems of re construction and as the principal foundation of real prosperity is more fully recognized today by the nation as a whole than since the middle of the last century. This recognition should make possible the solution of some of the farmer's problems which in the past have been understood by few except those actually engaged in farming. The agricultural problem, how ever, is deeper than is indicated by current discussions in the press and elsewhere, which treat it purely as a present emergency. In my judgment, the root of the trouble is in the fact that America's farmers have not received adequate compensation for their effort, as compared with the compensation in other vocations. The accumulated wealth of our agricultural classes largely repre sents enhanced land values rather than the earnings from their labor or the profits from their investment. The farmer should have a fair re turn for his services as compared f FDR THE LOVE O ( ? BOBBVJ! V , J L P MlK ! y. V I Clf YOU COME HERE Xj VHO HAS BEEN USING ) T fWI t , if Wp my shaving cxnrrr r- I ' j ' I f GEE, WHAT &g CYRUS a McCORMICK with the earnings of any other class, and if we exclude the item of en hanced land values he has not re ceived this return even in better times. Perhaps the most serious aspect of the agricultural situation is that the farmers' fixed expenses, which ;he manufacturer would call over head or burden, are now much high er than they have ever been before. The single item of farm taxes in many localities is higher today than the rental on the same farm would have been a comparatively short time ago. Again, especially with the younger farmers, land has been ac quired during recent years at a high valuation, and present crop returns cannot meet the taxes and interest charges. These overhead or fixed expenses are beyond the farmer's control, and constitute a problem that is more serious to him than the dif ference between the values of what he sells and what he buys. Curtailment Only Recourse. The only recourse of the Ameri can farmers in the'eurrent period of distress is one that he and many others have employed before that is, heavy curtailment of buying. Farmer's purchases were far below normal in 1921, and they remain at low levels. Meanwhile the prices of practically everything the far mers buy have been constantly work ing lower until we now find that the single item of increased cost of trans portation almost, if not wholly, rep resents the reduction of the purchas ing power of a given unit of farm produce lOday, as compared wiui the pre-war period. This increased trans portation cost decreases the price of what the farmer has to sell and also increases the cost of what he must buy. While the farmer has endeavored to meet the present situation by tem porarily buying less, he cannot in that way escape the burden of fixed charges, based on enhanced land val ues, which must be met regardless of the price he obtains for his products. One solution of the problem that suggests itself is a better system of marketing farm products. The de vising of such a system would pre sent more difficulties than those that have 1een met by co-operative ef forts like the various growers asso ciations of California, but they are not insuperable. If foodstuffs can be carried over when there is a surplus that not only will stabilize agricul ture, but will provide insurance against a possible food shortage in the following year. Food Shortage Not Impossible. Even though crops are now sell ing below cost of production, it is not visionary to consider the possi bility of a food shortage. America has repeatedly been an importer of wheat in the past. The indications today are that while the 1921 crop was sold below a fair price, the surplus going abroad at less than the cost of production, it is possible and even probable that we shall be importing wheat in 1 922. Aside from the question of food sup ply, these facts constitute powerful argument for a better system of crop marketing. Under such a system the farmer could avoid the necessity of selling under pressure at too low a price, and the world's greatest grain grow ing nation would be spared the econ omic absurdity of importing wheat to meet its domestic requirements. Why Not Insure Againt Short age? Nations and municipalities pro vide sinking funds against future contingencies. Any well managed business builds up reserves in pros perous times against such a period of strain as the present. Why, then, should not we make an effort to pro. vide a reserve as insurance against shortage of the essentials of life. when such a provision would in a great measure stabilize the value of the farmer's crops and also would protect the whole people against the distress that would inevitably follow any serious shortage in the world's food production? Much study and considerable time would be required to put such a plan into operation. Imediate relief for our agricultural classes might be found in better financing in making available of sufficient funds at reas onable rates, and thus enabling the farmers to "carry on" until the con ditions improve. There are ample funds in the country seeking invest ment and there could be no safer ba sis of investment than the credits of the American farmer. Immediate financial relief should not be considered solely as "first aid" treatment. If funds were more readily available in emergencies at more equitable rates of interest, the necessity for forced marketing of crops would disappear and the mar keting would be done more system atically, with a consequent gain in the average orice received. In some ot the older countries r,rain crops are not rushed to mar ket in any such brief period as with us, but are stacked in sheds or under other cover and are threshed and I marketed throughout the year. With better storage facilities and financ ing the American farmer could, by a similar process, avoid some of the I loss incurred by throwing almost the " - - - 1 1 " Poem llOyUncle John - 11 ) 11 11 .1 1 I, OUR ARCH ENEMY I view the fiend of Discontent with shudder and alarm. ... 1 realize the vast extent of this old monster's harm. No walk of life may be im mune from pangs of discontent, from barren wastes of sandy dune, to Doric battlement. It spreads among the favored few, where fortune left her smile, and scatters seeds of strife anew, among the rank and file. ... It strikes the soldier, late returned fom victory's bloody field, and where the patriot WOUNDED ASK PRESIDENT NOT TO FORGET Wounded and disabled soldier are supporter of the bonus for all but not to the exclusion of special legislation for disabled. A deleg. tion of wounded from the Walter Reed hospital, Washington, was ap pointed to call on the President and Congress asking that pending leg. Islation aimed to assist them be not overlooked in handling the bonus question. The picture shows the delegation leaving the White House. tcort?d by the Preaident. M THE BANDS ON SOME CIGARS NOWDAYS BURN BETTER 'N TH' TCRAC.r.n entire grain crop upon the market within a short period and thereby de pressing the price. Let us not deceive ourselves into thinking that our agricultural prob lem will be solved if the farmer is restored to the relative position he occupied before the war. The far mer cannot hope through future years to obtain in the enhanced value of farm lands the reward for his heavy toil. This may occur in some localities, but in the main that condi tion has passed and the farmer must now receive a better and more de pendable return for his efforts than in the past if he or the rest of us are to enjoy real prosperity in the fu ture. Homey Philosophy or 1922. If we'd all had a chance to buy a ticket to be present at the beginning of the world there'd been such a rush some of us would have had to take back seats on the ocean. Just figure how you'd look on in wonder, the thrill you'd feel, the desire to plunge into the greatness of a land and ex plore its possibilities. Imagine the compelling wish you'd feel to do something, to be a part of the plan. Why not realize that a new world opens every day at sunrise, that its opportunities are there just as virgin as they ever were, just as filled with the possibility of doing something worth while? What do you say if we all get up bright and early next Mon day morning, watch the sun come up an' think hard; and then break away and go to work harder? Boy, the world will be worth millions more if we all do it. Red Haired Chap Used to ! "Devil" Joseph's Police, Wm. O'Rourke of.Pendleton was. in Joseph on business the past week, 1 returning home on Sunday. Mr. 0'-1 Rourke was formerly a resident of Joseph, making his home here for a time with an uncle. The Herald man knew Mr. O'Rourke in Heppner, where the debonaire young Irishman mingled with kith and kin for sev eral years. It was in Heppner that William told us about some of his escapades in Joseph. Doubtless there are some young men residine here now who participated in the Hallow- een and other petty outbreaks in which young O'Rourke and the late , I ... - y v t- ii 1 1 ' . x 1 - V J I fires have burned, the arch-fiend stands revealed. The tenets writ in. sight of Cod, to guide our glorious land, must feel the foul, blasphemous rod, in dis contentment's hand. . . . 'Mid bless ings, countless as the stars, where heav'n and home are blent, the foe of mankind bursts his bars, -the curse of discontent! Gus Schuler were leading characters of the cast. There may be some who remember an occasion wherein the young men spent considerable time in the cooling waters of one of the irrigation ditches hiding from the game warden for a breach of the game laws of the state. b'Rourke i:, not up in the world very far so far as inches are concerned, but he is as full of ambition as an Irishman with red hair can be, and that's say ing something. When the call to arms came a few years ago, William was amongst those who desired to serve his adopted country. His first attempt to get into the service was blocked because of his height. This did not deter him, or even discourage him. He took exercises tending to add to his inches, sought admission into first one branch of the service and anoth ei and finally was accepted in one of the non-combatant divisions. There's nothing of the slacker about that chap Joseph Herald. Civil Service Examination. The U. S. Civil Service Commis sion announces an Acting Assistant Surgeon examination to fill vacan cies in the position of Acting Assist ant Surgeon, at $480 a year, for part time, to $2400 and $3000 a year for full time, U. S. Public Health Ser vice, throughout the Eleventh Civil Service District; receipt of applica tions to close March 18, 1922. For further information and appli cation blank apply to the Secretary, Local Board of Civil Service Exam iners, at any first or second class post office, or to the Secretary, Eleventh U. S. Civil Service District, 303 P. 0. Building, Seattle, Washington. "Make your banker your best friend," is the advice of the farm management department to farmers. "Keep him informed as to what you are doing. Always advise with him first when you need to obtain a lean." 0. A. C. Experiment station. PIANO TUITION Experienced, capable tuition by Mrs. Bessie Bruce Gihh, at the Wattenhurgcr house, tf. KANSAS WILL JAZZ IF SHE GOVERNS Helen Pettigrew, pretty blue ,e'yed miss of twenty, wants to be 'governor of Kansas. She is head of an Anti-War Club. Her cam paign for the governorship is being managed by 1 younger sister. Her platform includes opposition to all "Blue Laws." She also believes in jazz music, beer and light wines for those who want 'em; that women ihould smoke if they wish and dresa 1 they please. "It