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I I 'A OK TWO THE GAZETTE-TIMES. I1EITXER, OREGON. THURSDAY. ArRIL 13, 1322. I The Gazette-Times Tha HH'Tir ttaxetta. Kitabltahad March i'K lltl Tha Hn'C'T Tinier Katabllahad nfrahfr IX, 1)4. ConaollilattMl k'ebruary IS. 111. ruHinhed avary Thuraday morning by i mmtrt mm4 sea-eer Crawford j and erilaied at the roMottn-a at Hpp- ar. urKuit aa aconl-claa mattar. If Mr. Bur-bank ants to do some thing that send his name thun denng down the a.ies, let him cross, the ps and the hen, and produce an animal or fowl tha.t will lay ham and eggs. Al) l-.HTIMM. A I' RTK GIVEN OS 'Ut A HOW SLIUSCRIFTION RATES: Taar.. Commissioners -ho inspect movie pictures and censure them have an aful snap. Nothing to do hut sit aaiund and see the pictures and get paid for it. fii M.iih lhr atoniha biiitcia Cvtuea 1100 ! 1.00 .7k .M UUKtlW tUl.M V OFFICIAL r ArklK Forcicn Advaftmna Rcpmratatnr THE AMLRJCAN PKESS ASCIATJON Editor Gazette-Times: Upon my arrival home April 1st, 1 note that you have printed what Reduction of taxes is the thought 1 u yon trom Benton, Illinois, uppermost in the minds of most peo-1 A? 'ndicatd in that artic'e-1 "me Pie just now, and esepcially is this north from Benton, crossed the Mis the case with the office seeker. The j'PF1 ,er 8t 9nln? I11'no,s' !nt0 man nM h- rfrvteJ to re- northern Missouri and spent two days munerative ortice is particularly so- j licitous about the welfare of the dear people just now, and in his efforts to make himself popular with the electorate he is quite certain that he is the one who discovered that taxes are too high and if the people will but elect him to office their tax trou bles will be at an end. Such talk now is mere campaign fodder. It has been the hue and cry of office seekers since the establishment of el ectoral offices. Men have been elect ed on that platform year in and year out and still taxes have continued to climb. In Oregon during the past twenty years most of the rise in tax ation has been due to the direct vote of the people themselves. If the taxes are to be r educed it looks like it is up to the people to vote that way, or change the system of lawmaking in the state. The pledge of a would be office holder will not bring it about. Joseph Herald. Fighting the Bloc Senatorial spokesmen for finan cial and manufacturers' lobbies con tinue their vicious opposition to the agricultural bloc. Were they success ful in their attacks on the farmers' alignment their opposition would be tragic; being futile, it is merely funny. The logic of the finance-controlled senator condemning the agricul tural bloc is simple: "All other in terests have been organized for many years; the farmers have not. There fore the farmers are sinners." Which is reasoning very much like Sydney Smith's famous syllogism: "Adam was the first man; all men are born of Adam; therefore elephants are fond of peanuts." Fortunately, a better reason for opposition than this must be found before the agricultural bloc is dis turbed." The Producer. YE? r o f i i a y J3 at- . ? Slats' Diary By Ross Farquhar Friday I am afrade pa is going to loose his job and get out of wirk. He was writeing about I a lady witcn aiea wiie liveing out in the Coun- C 1 '7 and 1 gess he got " 1 mixed up with another story for at the bottom of the peace he sed jThe loss was Fully cov- fered by Insurance. The boss found it out in time to Keep it out of the papar. Witch was Lucky i for Pa. Saturday Ted had a berth day Party down 2io his house tonite. Red Smith was there and him and me is Deadly Enemys. So 1 sed to him. One of us has got to go. 1 of us did. I hope they are haveing a rotten time at the party. Sunday My eye looked bad so I diddent go to Sunday skool. It was a Beautiful day. The sun shined and the roads as good so are little family went for a trip in the ford. We past the skool house where pa went to skool when he was a Innocent lad. It brot back a lots of Fond memrys to pa and he sed That there skool turned out sum of the best men in the united States. Ma confided to me that it turned him out witch was why he never Graduated out of it. Monday Jane got real Insulting with me today. I was a telling her about are Family tree and how proud we was of it. And she sed What part of the tree are you. You mu-.;t b; the sai. But just wait. It if a long worm that has no turning. Tuesday Pa must of done sum thing awful today. He brot home sum Flours for ma. then he tuk her out to eat dinner and then he tuk her to the pitcher show and set in twenty 8 cent seats. It was all 1 cud do to help frum Ming. Because us men understands each other. In occasions like them. Wednesday I thot Jane was a trying to make up with me today. I herd her Whistle so 1 goes up to her and ast her was she a looking for me. She sed I was looking for a Gentlemen but you will do. I want sum 1 to Fix my roller skate. But the skate diddent eet fixed. As fur as I was Concerned. Thursday I was absence frum skool this morning & I tuk a xcuse at noon when I went back. Teecher ast me if my ma rote it or my pa. I sed ma of coarse. I wodent want to use none of pa's xcuses because he never gets by with them. A specially with ma. If George Washington never told a lie it's a cinch he was never a newspaper reporter and had to write up funerals and weddings. Edina, Missouri, and from there to Kirksville where I took the Wabash, being called to the southern part of the state. My observations briefly stated in last article are only em phasized the more by conditions ev erywhere 1 'ent- Waiting, Waiting, Waiting. In Illinois the state highway com mission has been waiting with money on hand to build roads. Waiting for the readjustment of prices on mater ial and labor. At Kirksville, both the dean and president of the State Tea chers college told me that they had the cash on hand to put up much needed buildings on the campus, but were waiting for the readjustment of prices of material and labor. The hotels at Kirksville were full of traveling men who wanted to go out a few miles into the country from the railroad, to see country merch ants and were cursing and sweating because the roads were too muddy, while Missouri has been doing so lit tle in the last few months, and are waitirfg for the readjustment of prices of material and labor, before proceeding with road building pro gram. At Fulton, Missouri, another col lege center, they told me substantially the same story. Everywhere I heard it repeated by people who seemed to know what they were talking about, that Iowa was the worst hit state in the Union." It is my opinion that there is and has been no over-production; it is only a matter of proper distribution. I was on the Union Pacific system lines for most of my journey coming and going, and I noticed for miles and miles the right of way had been farmed. In Colorado and Wyoming where the right of way is much wid er than in other states, this was very noticeable, but no less so than on the high priced lands between Kansas City and St. Louis. Price of Production and Distribu tion. What is most needed is a baptism of sanity, or sound, thoughtful, con servative thinking with our hand on the throttle, eyes on the track ahead with orders for full steam ahead. "Let's go." No time for freak legis lation favorable to one class at the expense of another. Bankers, law yers, merchants, farmers, stock rais ers and professional men must all bear their share of this adjustment. One of the biggest, brightest, pro fessional men whom it has been my pleasure to meet, boarded the train at his home town, Independence, Mis souri. He introduced himself to me within an hour after entering the train and we occupied the same Pull man on our journey to Salt Lake City. He was not only a professional man, but he was a business man and owned extensive interests in ranches and was engaged in the raising of sheep on a ranch on the Oregon Short Line railroad. He told me that they had suffer ed the greatest loss this winter their sheep raising business, because of the weather conditions and short age of feed. He told me it was lm possible because of the cost of trans portation to ship the sheep to teea They shipped an abundance of corn to their sheeo. but this would not sustain them because of the unusual weather enditions on their ranches. On this same Pullman sleeper for more than two days together with us were men from different sections of the country. I remember one very bright, intelligent business man from Vermont, another from nttsourgn one from Iowa and several others who engaged in these discussions and conversations which took the form more of a "round table." A few days cooped up together in a Pullman sleeper is a good occasion to get the opinion of men who are traveling and may know considerable about conoi tions in different parts of the coun try. And these together with the other people whom I have met on the last month of travel, left the impres sion that what we most need today is trust in other people, and to get to work and keep everlastingly at it. There is no over production and there will be shortage in almost every line within twelve months from date There will not be enough meat be cause of the scarcity of cattle, sheep and hogs. There will be a scarcity of power because of the scarcity of horses and mules and this will lead to the shortage of foodstuffs in all lines, as sure as time, within the next few years. We in Morrow county, Oregon have felt the strain of readjustment less, and will continue to feel it least of any people on earth. J. Perry Conder. R. A. Thompson of Heppner made a hurried trip to The Shepherd's; Rest on Tuesday. His shepherds certainly got no "rest" for R. A. soon had several of his bands of ewes and lambs on the trail for his Heppner ranches in charge of Lon Merrill, Gene Penland and Al Goosen. Bill Pearson is left behind at The Shep herd's Rest and we heard him say he will take a good "rest" before he leaves with his band of ewes and lambs or know why "Bob" left him alone without even a coffee pot. Surely the county weather prophet has been at work again with his evil eye on Cecil especially. Friday, April 7th was a beautiful, warm day everybody busy out of doors. Sat urday, April 8th, cold, windy and any amount of ice on all ranch wat ering troughs, etc. Everyone crawl ing into their winter furs once more and hugging the old heating stove and muttering. "With all thy faults, love thee still. Manv inquiries have been made since last Saturday night regarding sign post which has been erected near the Cecil bridge. No one can give any information but the sign reads, "B. B. 8 miles to Kork." The mayor" and "Constable John are at their wits ends to know wnere Kork is for they are sure B. B. means "Bottled Bee." Oh! they are so dry! Master Noel Streeter was explor- ng on various parts ot cuneroy Flats alwig with Master Jackie Hynd on Sunday. These two future ranch ers were so engrossed in their ex ploits that the dinner gong failed to bring them to time, but by evening they were first at the supper table and the last to leave. Elmer Williams, government trap per, left on the local tor rortianc- on Tuesday. Harold Ahalt who is now trapping for the government was a caller in Cecil on Wednesday and had succeeded in getting seven coyotes in a very short time. - A large party of young people from Cecil vicinity took in the big vaudeville show in Morgan hall on Tuesday night. They were in charge of "Constable John" and of course were a well behaved bunch, and all report a good show. Mr. and Mrs. A. Henriksen of Wil low Creek ranch and also Geo. Hen riksen of Strawberry ranch returned to their respective homes on Tuesday, after attending the golden wedding activities of their parents in Portland. Jack Hynd, accmpanied by his daughter, Miss Annie and also Miss Eleanor Furney, teacher in Cecil school, autoed to Castle Rock on Saturday for a change of scenery. Mrs. Mary Halferty and son Ray of Shadv Dell ranch, accompanied by Miss Grace Palmateer, teacher of the Four Mile school, spent Sun day with friends near lone. Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Tyler and children and also Grover Curtiss of Rhea Siding were all visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Logan at Cecil on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Van Schoiack and children from Arlington were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Krebs at The Last Camp on Sunday. Mrs. J. E. Crabtree and children of Dotheboys Hill ranch, also Mrs. Roy Stender of Seldomseen ranch were callers in Cecil on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Gentry of Heppner made a short stay in Cecil on Monday on their return journey from Arlington to Heppner. Mrs. Geo. Noble of Rhea Siding and also Miss Edith Swick, teacher of Rhea Siding school, were callers in Cecil on Tuesday. State Engineer Baldock of La Grande and Resident State Engineer Smith of lone were in Cecil on Wed nesday for a short time. j Bob Ballentine, who has been working on Willow creek for several months left on the local for Pendle ton on Wednesday, Mrs. Roy Scott of The Lookout spent Wednesday at the Highway House, Cecil, as the guest of Mrs. T. H. Lowe. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Harbison of Morgan were calling on their friends in Cecil on Sunday. Misses Doris and Dana Logan spent Saturday with Miss Crystal Roberts at Ewing. Ellsworth Rickett and friends of Heppner were callers in Cecil on Thursday. C. A. Minor of Heppner made a hurried trip to his Cecil ranches on Thursday. 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