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TIIK GAZKTTlvTLMHS, 11KITXEK. OKEGOX, THURSDAY. MAY 11. 1922, 1 L. MONTERESTELLI Marble and Granite Works PENDLETON, OREGON Fine Monument and Cemetery Work All parties interested in getting work in my line should get my prices and estimates before placing their orders All Work Guaranteed WORLD'S PRETTIEST? WHAT DO YOU SAY? Catherine Mac Donald, winner of thirty beauty priies, is now sciecti-J in New York as the prettiest woman in the world Former President W il son thinks so, every leading authority of the screen thinks so, foreisn artists say so. Do the readers of this news paper think so? Miss MacDona'.d is photographed here in her latest 19 up-to-date riding outfit The Byers Chop Mill tFomerlr SCHEMPP 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 Pioneer Employment Co. With Two Big Offices PENDLETON AND PORTLAND Is prepared to handle the business of Eastern Oregon better than ever before Our Specialties Farms, Mills, Camps, Hotels, Garages, Etc. WIKK KI SJI ORDERS AT OIR EXPENSE Portias OSk 14 N. Sccoad St Peadletsa OSec 113 C Wcbk St. The Only Employment Office in Eastern Oregon with Connections in Portland sniHiiiiriiiiniiiiiiiiimiiiinniitiiiiriiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHig I A. M. EDWARDS WELL DRILLER Lexington, Ore. Box 14 Uses up-to-date traction drilling outfit, equipped for I all sizes of hole and depths. WRITE FOR CONTRACT AND TERMS iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiBiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuii7 "NOT TOO BIG TO KNOW YOU! -BIG ENOUGH TO PROTECT YOU" Banking in a community the size of Heppner has its satisfactions. It permits closer business friendships than are ever possible in big indus trial and banking centers. F'rinstance, this institution is not too big to know personally everyone of its customers. Still it is big enough to give them the same protection offered by the biggest bank in the land. The same personal friendship and financial protection is here for you, if you will avail your self of it. We would like to have you a satisfied customer. An efficient commercial banking service such as we offer means much more than a mere place to deposit money. We are always ready to ad vise and assist our customers in the many spe cial ways this business has to offer. ' Come in. Let's get acquainted, FARMERS & STOCKGROWERS NATIONAL BANK f . 11 - XZtiS j Community Service KEEP YOUR EYE ON BACK TAXES Local Burden, State, City and County Greater than Govern ment's Demand for Aid Watching Your Community Expenditures More Profit able Than Finding Fault With Nation By Robert D. Carey, Governor of Wyoming. Editor's Note: Robert D. Carey, Governor of Wyoming, gives you food for thought in the following. It is the popular thing just now to find fault with national taxes and to mut ter dark threats about what one will do "next election." The governor points out that the national demand for tax pennies is not nearly as im portant to your pocket book as the state, city and county's demand for tax dollars. On account of large expenditures incident to the recent war and the increase in cost of State and local government, taxes have been greatly increased and people in all sections of the country are objecting more and more to paying taxes. The average taxpayer has little idea of govern mental expenditures and is inclined to blame the State Government for any increase which may be levied against his property. The fact is, that outside of Federal taxes, those that are the largest are to a certain extent local taxes which the people themselves could regulate in many instances if they would but make the .'effort. Generally speaking, the greater portion of money raised by taxation is for the support of schools and for municipal government. In this state each $100.00 paid by the taxpayer in our two largest cities is distributed as follows: City Government $39.93, schools $29.40, County Government $17.57 and State overnment $13.10. It will be seen from the above that the cost of State Administration is comparatively small which is also true of the county, while the cost of maintaining a city is far out of proportion to that of either the State or County. It appears that the small er the subdivision of government, the greater the cost of the same. Schools Need More. As to schools, there is little chance of reducing expenses as we are de manding and expecting better schools and, in fact, it would be a very poor policy to fail to provide funds that they mey be properly financed and improved. While the cost of sup porting them is great, no right think ing person should object to paying his share, and no expenditure of pub lic money will in the end bring great er returns. Necessarily the cost of government has increased in proportion to the in creased cost of living and everything costs more than it did a few years ago. Consequently both officials and mployes must be paid higher salaries or wages, supplies are .costing more and it is much more expensive to care for an inmate of a penal or char itable institution. Further, new and increased demands are constantly be ing made upon the State, and the State today is engaging in many act ivities that it did not formerly. Per haps the greatest burden that the States have assumed is the building of highways. The Federal Highway tele -Jeter tM, wv.cATUcn I -7 V AVTOCSTER, How the sins of the fathers fall heavy on the innocents is indicated by the above sign. Little Helen Hicks, Zyt years old, of Guthrie, Okja., was born after her father had been sent to Atlanta prison for a political offense. She is one of the yreat number of appellants led by Eugene Debs, who went to Wash ington to plead for the release of their relatives from the Federal prison SOME FRIENDS ARE LIKE SHADOWS -AROUND OMIY WHEN THE SUN SHINES. COPYRIGHT IPg2 AJTOCASTCR 3E CO Acts have caused every State to or ganize Highway Commissions which are necessarily large and expensive organizations and which are spending vast sums of money. This to a large extent transfers to the State an ex pense which was formerly borne by the County or local community and while it necessarily increases the State expenditures, there is no ques tion but that it is bringing about bet ter highways and is saving large sums of money formerly wasted upon poorly located and ill constructed highways. Selfish Demands. Unfortunately, at each session of a legislature each community and in terest demands from the legislature appropriations for its particular ben efit. Few members of a legislature have a general knowledge of the State or its institutions, and frequent ly have to take it for granted that an appropriation is necessary and through lack of knowledge money is sometimes voted unnecessarily. As a usual thing, during the first session of legislature, after a Governor has U. S. HAS HER OWN "SIAMESE TWINS" ' A $ii if np 1 x p mmTt H Two little American girls, Vtolct and Daisy Hilton, 16 years old, of San Antonio, Texas, are successors of Rosa and losefa Blaszek, world famous as the "Siamese Twins." They play and move with ease and rapidity. assumed office he has had little or no time to investigate the needs of the different State institutions and on this account is not able to advise the legislature as is possible after he has been in office for some time. There have been instances in this State when money was voted for unneces sary improvements for State institu tions and recently the State has aban doned an expensive light and water plant which was provided for one of the institutions for the reason that it was much more expensive to operate it than to obtain light and water from an adjacent city. This is an example or a member of the legislature get ting through an apropriation simply because he wanted something and this was about all he could think of at the time. k . . . Anotner cause ror tne increase in taxes, is the voting of bonds which has become most popular and which are very often voted on with little consideration of the needs for which the money is to be raised and as a rule little interest is taken in bond elections. Not long ago a bond issue f 1 f FEUX HAVE YOU I III ( P0 L 1 N E ANTfcLL li to HOMF J.WARD "" S ( "6 KARRIEP! SHE'S SUCH Nev?-ft a sweet PENSIVE . sT ill o ( I KNOW ' YOU'RE ) I R Ut ff I PENSIVE BEFOR.E, ) W n.f? ALL AUKeL'S n V EXPENSIVE J Poem lc Jjllncle John GOOD ROADS. With machinery constructed fer carryin' heavy loads, it springs the proposition of securin' better roads. . . .Where once we folbred by-ways, as we driv the frisky shote, or pok ed along the highways that would stall a mountain goat we now en counter road-hogs in their mighty souper-eight, or run acrost the flivver with its precious human frieght. In these strenuous days of "Git there" we have got to have the track, when half the people's goin' out, and half a-comin' back, When Granny and the children gets the taste fer higher speed, I reckon that a better road's the everlastin' need. . . . So, the Legislatur' socks a big ger license on yer boat while the tight-wad uses language that I would n't keer to quote. . . . Then resurrect yer shovel an' yer scraper, an' yer hoe, and don't be pessimistic when you're partin' with yer dough, Remember, we are livin' through a mighty restless hour, when rapid transportation is the center-pole of power There's no excuse fer terrapins, or lazy-minded toads, when Progress blows her whistle, in the call fer better roads. . . . Bold Hold Up By Cameramen &3 W ft- SfeS' II" M J"tmM life iVv? Jw Arrow indicates Premier Lloyd George amid the foliage of St Georgio's Palace, Genoa, facing a battery of enthusiastic cameramen who, in their desire to get the first and best picture, have "struck up number of poses ranging from the dramatic to the humorous. of $350,000 was submitted to the people of a school district and at the election 350 voted; one person for each $1,000 of bonds to be issued. It seems that many fail to realize that bonds must be paid and that to retire them and pay the interest the money must be raised by some form of tax ation. Budget Benefits. There is no question but that the adoption of the budget system in many of the States means the saving of large sums of money that were formerly voted without regard to the necessities of the State government; in fact without a budget system ap propriations are made haphazard while with the budget a careful sur vey is made of all proposed expendi tures. Further, the provision in many budget laws that no appropria tion can be made by a legislature until after the passage of a budget bill does much to discourage the in troduction of appropriation bills. As to the cost of City government. the people themselves by taking more interest in municipal affairs, could bring about more efficient and more economical City Government and if Cities would employ qualified per sons to superintend their expendi tures a great deal of waste could be eliminated. If more careful consid eration was given to the matter of voting bonds, no doubt, in many in stances, they would not be voted, but as long as the people are demanding more and more reduction in expense cannot be expected, and only when the time comes that the people and their duly elected representatives make up for that which is absolutely necessary can they expect a reduc tion in State, City, or Municipal taxes. Homey Philosophy for 1922 When the six cylinder's only hittin' on four and we're good an' sore. Up goes the hood and the old wrench and pliers are dragged out. Soon she's buzzing along again an' we set tle back happy. If the old wagon happens to be an eight of a twin six, we'd throw a fit if every cylinder didn't fire. How many of our own cylinders are missing every day? Even the slowest of us, the low-geared boys, have quite a few not firing and they're trying to get the old boat up the hill under all sorts of handi caps when a little examination an" overhaulin' would shoot us up on high. Shoe Repair Work E. N. Gonty Shoe store is now prepared to take care of all shoe repair work. There is a good man on the job. Bring your shoe troubles to Gonty. Adv. 1 Wl Rev. MA. MATTHEWS D.D..LL. D. The Unbalanced Woman If she is unbalanced or unseat ed or out of her place, what is the cause? Who is to blame? Who brought about this change? There is but one answer. Her God-de creed protector is to blame. Man is wholly responsible. The fed eral head of the family is guilty. Woman's place is home. Her throne is the domestic circle. She didn't leave it of her own volition. She didn't sacrifice her Dlace vol untarily. Man is wholly responsi- Die tor the unbalanced condition of woman. He is the federal head of the family. It is his business to provide and protect. And it is his business to exercise the righteous discipline necessary to a perfect home and a good gov ernment. He has utterly failed in these last two duties. He has fail ed through indulgence, because of a lack of courage, a sense of re sponsibility, and a willingness to face his plain duty. He has prac ticed indulgence until he has made the woman extremely extravagant. The average girl hates work, despises domestic responsibility, and is criminally conspiring to avoid those high duties. The man has neglected to build the home, to make it attractive and magnetic. Consequently, the woman has gone out into the world. Many of them because of necessity have been forced into the trades to live. Many of them have gone out into the world be cause the head of the family did not perform his duty, did not make the home happy, did not regulate it. Women have been thrown into the nerve-wracking conditions of the outer world. The strain is too great, her nerves are unsettled; she is unbalanced. Her unbal anced condition has oroduced a state of extravagance, female reck lessness, wnicn is jeopardizing the whole domestic life of America. The man is wholly to blame for these wretched conditions. If fathers do not bo back rn their homes, and husbands do not perform their duties as federal heads of their families, the dom estic life of America will suffer irreparably. The suilt of the men has unbalanced the women and has produced social conditions which brine the blush to evprv cheek. Heppner Oregon a. '&