THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1922.
PAGS THREE
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
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DENTIST
Office upstairs over Postoffice
Heppner, Oregon
DR. R.Z. GROVE
DHNTIST
Successor to Dr. R. J. Vaufhaa
Permanently located in the Odd
Fellows Building, Rooms 4 and 5.
Heppner. Oregon
A. D. McMURDO, M. D.
PHYSICIAN iVRGBOM
Office in Patterson Drug Store
Tialae lm Aaetataat
Heppner, Oregon
C .0 .CHICK, M. D.
PHYsICMl ICEGEON
Office upstairs over Postoffice
Tralae Dm Si. lata at
Heppner, Oregon
WOODSON & SWEEK
ATTORtETS-AT-LAW
Office in Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregon
VAN VACTOE & BUTLEE
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Suit IOS
First National Bank Building
THE! DALLES, ORB.
S. E. NOTSON
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offce in Court House.
Heppner, Oregon
Offlc. Phone, Main (41
Residence Phone, Main Hi
FEANCIS A McMENAMIN
LAWYER
Gilman Building, Heppner, Ore.
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LAWYER
IONS, OREGON
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LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Notice la hereby given that the un
deraigned, haa been duly appointed by
the County Court of the State of Ora
gon for Morrow County, administratrix
of the aetata of John Oaralda, deceas
ed, and haa duly qualified ai auch ad
ministratrix. All persons having claim,
against the estate of said deoeaaed are
hereby required to present the same,
with the proper vouchers as required
by law, to said administratrix at her
horn at Heppner, Oregon, or at the
law office of Jos. J. Nys, at Heppner,
Oregon, within six months from the
data of this notice.
Dated and flrat published, this Ith
day of June, 1921.
CORDELIA BOTEN.
Administratrix,
NOTICK TO CREDITORS
Notice la hereby given that th un
deraigned has been appointed admin
Istrator de bonis non of the Estate of
Andrew J. Stevenson, deceased, by the
County Court of the State of Oregon
for Morrow County, and has qualified
as such. All persons having olalms
agalnat said estate are required to file
the same properly verified, at the office
of Woodson and Sweek, my attorneys.
In Heppner, Oregon, on or before six
months from the date of first publica
tion hereof.
A. L. CORNETT, Administrator.
Data ot first publication June L 1IJ.
MIT BE GUI
C. 8. Land Commissioner gays Million!
of Acres Are Opra to Yoa.
Asaerta Thrifty Farmer la the Moat In
dependent Citizen la the U. 8.
By WILLIAM SPRY.
Editor's Note. No higher authority
on government lande can be found than
William Spry, commissioner of the gen
eral land office. He haa known the life
of the fanner from actual experience
and with this for a base hit continued
investigations have enabled him to se
cure a wide knowledge, a viewpoint that
is just to both producer and consumer
and also a sound economic knowledge of
general conditions.
There are today approximately 200,
000,000 acres of public lands in Uncle
Sam's domain open for settlement. All
of this can be utilized for some purpose
or another, from the making of happy,
contented homes and communities, to
the grazing of sheep upon deserts that
can only be utilized during the winter
months, when there is sufficient snow
to furnish the herds and herders their
drinking water. In addition to this,
there are nearly 200,000,000 acres more
in our forest preserves, 85 per csnt of
which is public land, and perhaps 50
per cent of this is more valuable for
agrieulaural than fer other purposes.
It Is also estimated that the swamp
lands of the United States show an area
of 80,000,000 acres of wet or overflow
lands, and in addition, 150,000,000 acres
of what is known as farm land but too
wet for profitable cultivation, the pro
duction of which could be increased at
least 20 per cent by proper drainage.
What Has Been Done.
The United States Reclamation ser
vice, during the last twenty years, have
been on various projects, with the pur
pose in view of reclaiming the so-called
waste places by a careful distribution of
water, and wherever they have pushed
their work, the desert has been reclaim
ed and made to blossom. For the year
1920 crops were produced on 1,153,820
acres to the value of $66,171,650. Up to
March SI, 1922 water has been made
available for 1,183,410 acres, and the to
tal cost up to that time has been about
$110,000,000. The service, however, is
doing but little else just now but mark
time, owing to a lack of money to com
plete projects already undertaken. In
addition, there are many perfectly feas
ible projects which must await action
until congress has provided the money
to commence operations. Many bills are
before the national body, looking toward
the reclamation of lands, perhaps the
most comprehensive being the so-called
Smith-McNsry bill, which creates irri
gation and drainage districts, and au
thorizes the issuance of bonds as in
school and other districts. The feasi
bility of every project, including the es
timated cost, must first be presented to
the secretary of the interior, who, if
interested, provides for an inspection by
the department of engineers. If con
vinced of its practibility, and there is no
money available, the project is under
taken. When it is so far advanced as
to represent a value of two dollars for
every one dollar of construction cost,
the bonds, up to an amount representing
cost, are ordered sold, and the money
derived from the sale is turned into the
reclamation fund for use in the develop
ment of other projects, the management
of the completed project is turned over
to its owners, and the annual payments
far both principal and interest on the
bends are collected as all other taxes.
No default need be anticipated, for the
bonds are a lien against the project, as
are the bonds of any district or muni
cipality. Why More Farms.
Now the argument arises with some
why the necessity for more farms? Isn't
it difficult to sell the produce from the
farms we already have? Well, perhaps
prices for farm products may not have
been altogether what the farmer has
thought they should be, but to the labor
er in the congested cities they have been
decidedly more than they should hsve
been, so much so that it has started a
movement to the country from the city
t.at no power can stop. Of the 490 farm
units created since the passage of Pub
lic Resolution No. 29, approved Febru
ary 14, 1920, giving former service men
a sixtyrday preference right of entry,
487 have been taken by the soldiers and
7,445 of these boys have made applica
tion for a chance to draw for the 490
units; 45,000 of them made inquiries
concerning the openings. In the general
land office, for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1921, there were received 63,
816 applications for homestead and kin
dred entries, and 6,744 desert land ap
plications. Since the date of the Act to
June 30, 1921, there were 62,401 stock-
raising homesteads entered. To keep
pace with this demand there are ap
proximately 10,000,000 acres of land be
ing surveyed every year under the direc
tion of the general land office. So that,
regardless of statements to the con
trary, there is a land hunger everywhere
and men show their willingness to grap
ple with the soil and mnke their fight
under the most adverse conditions in
order to establish homes and build com
munities that there may exist a happy
ond contented people. And why should
ihcy not be happy? The average thrifty
fnrmer is the most independent citizen
in the country today. What if his crops
have not paid him all he should have re
ceived? He has had an abundance to
eat, in both quality and quantity infin
itely better than the average man in
the city, who, by the way, must pay cash
for everything he puts in his mouth un
til by the time he has met his daily,
weekly, or monthly expense, finds his
salary vanished and himself under the
necessity of hustling continuously to
keep the supply from stopping. Well,
the farmer must kocp hustling too, but
while doing so, he can't lose sight of the
fact that his partners are always on the
job lending a helping hand, and should
he want to visit the parks or the beaches
In his automobile during the ripening
season, old Dame Nature is keeping a
watchful eye on what Is gonlg on, and
when harvest time is on, the goods are
thore to deliver. Hard work, of course,
it's hard work for I've tried it; so is
railroad section work, and I've tried that
too, but I confess I have never felt near
ly so independent doing section work as
Li have felt on the farm. The sense of
proprietorship was not mere.
Does reclamation pay?. Go ask the
people of the South, what the drainage
of their lands has done for them. Go to
the Everglades of Florida, which the
school children of the country have
been taught was a dismal swamp, and
witness the redemption that drainage
has brought. Go to your reclamation
projects of the West, and count, if you
can, the increased wealth they are pro
ducing for the country. Where Is your
WOOL PRODUCERS
NOW TOTAL 2000
The Pacific Cooperative Wool Growers
during the week of June 19 to 24 passed
the 2000 mark in membership, which
makes it the largest wool growers' mar
keting organization west of Iowa. The
association now contains representative
groupe of growers in Washington, Cali
fornia, Idaho and Oregon, and is pre
paring to increase its membership in
these states during the current season.
Most growers generally recognize the
value of grading wool and marketing in
an orderly manner, and this method of
wool marketing ia becoming more gen
erally adopted over the United States.
The association had the lowest hand
ling cost of any of the wool growers' as
sociations in the United States, handling
as many small clips aa does the Pacific
association, during the last season. Wool
grading is now in progress at the ware
house, and sales to western and eastern
mills will start in the near future.
The Producer.
Editor Takes Course Ia Agriculture.
Vswter Crawford, editor of the Hepp
ner Gazette-Times, passed through town
last Sunday morning on his return from
the Moro Experiment Station meeting of
the hard-handed sons of toll to study
the best methods of agriculture. No
doubt he gathered valuable pointers he
will use when he retires from the af
fluent though hard newspaper grind with
nothing to do but sit under his own fig
tree and see gathered in the fruitful re
sults of his brosd acres due to the val
uable lessons he learned at Moro. lone
Independent.
Review of Fiscal Year
Shows Prohibition Facts
Reviewing the past fiscal year of Com
missioner Haynes' administration as
Federal Prohibition Commissioer, Direc
tor Joseph A. Linville invites public at
tention to the fact that only 2,627,333
gallons of whiskey were withdrawn as
compared with 9,696,122 gallons the pre
vious year, and 16,491,303 gallons of al
cohol and other distilled spirits with
drawn as compared with 24,856388 gal
lons wihtdrawn the previous year; that
1,216 cases were reported by general
prohibition agents, taxes amounting to
117,10234.24 were recommended, and
fines and penalties amounting to 82,
159,410.39 were imposed. Three end one
half million dollars worth of bonds were
placed in suit, or proceedings begun. Re
ductions in rentals and disposition of
seized property in the amount of $208.
832.50 were effected, and an additional
saving of $156,900 otherwise effected.
Under the narcotic laws 2,195 violations
were exposed, resulting in 1,109 convic
tions and $64,083 in fines and penalties.
Numerous changes in reorganization
took place. Enforcement work has been
vested in state directors snd a mobile
force of general agents under eighteen
divisional chiefs directed from Wash
ington created; a special group was des
ignated to prepare all crimnial informa
tions, indictments, injunctions, libles
and search warrants, and concentration
of claim work resulted in specialized
clerks and expedition work. One set of
reports and accounts are now required
for distillery and bonded warehouses in
stead of three as heretofore.
With a view to reducing the number
of permits, all applicants to operate as
wholesale druggists are doubly checked,
sud reports of state inspectors are veri
fied by reinspection by division pharm
acists. Manufacturers and wholesale
dealers are required to give a monthly
accountability of all drugs received,
manufactured and sold. Forgery-proof,
non-transferable permit forma effectual
ly prevent fraudulent withdrawals.
To expedite prosecutions, all cases are
reported monthly to the central office,
then to the department of justice for
supervision and preparation for speed
trii.1.
The service utilizes submarine chas
ers, speedy motor boats and airplanes.
0. A. C. Farm Pointers
That Point Straight
The dry season in western Oregon and
the cool spring in eastern Oregon are
making the hay crop look rather short.
Several farmers in previous short hay
years have saved their stock by filling
their silos with various available erops
during the summer. Weedy grain, Can
ada thistles and grain, road side mow
ings, other waste crops, etc., while often
not making the best of silage will carry
much stock through a winter. Every
silo should be full this fall.
Spray for Codling Moth.
Adult codling moths are continuing to
appear in limtied numbers and eggs are
being deposited. In orchards where the
apple worm was at all serios last year
a protective poison spray should be ap
plied at once . Because of limited num
bers of moths appearing keep down in
festation sufficiently by delaying the
thinning process somewhat and then
paying especial care to thinning out the
wormy fruit.
Industrial venture that will return an
Income of $66,171,650 in one year on a
total investment of $110,000,000 covering
a period of twenty years? Not one of
the projects but what has produced far
more wealth than is represented in the
cost of construction.
FIELD MARSHAL
ASSASSIN'S VICTIM
The whole world was shocked when
cables flashed news of the murder of
Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson in Lon
ndo. Chief of the Irish General Staff,
Gen. Wilson aided Marshal Foch in di
recting th eoccupation of German cities
by Allied troops. He was commander of
the British forces in Ulster.
Pino m i
NUTIUA PROJECT
(East Oregonian.)
Portland's enthusiasm over the possi
bilities offered by the Umatilla Rapids
project has apparently been aroused.
News stories carried in the Portland
newspapera, and oral reports brought to
Pendleton by local men who attended
the luncheon when Fred Eteiwer snd
Doctor Penrose spoke alt bear testimony
that the Rosa City is interested. Follow
ing is an editorial carried by the Oregon
Journal yesterday on the rapids:
"In Portland Monday were men from
Pendleton to enlist local interest In the
Umatilla Rapids power project
When they return to the Round-Up
City they should be able to report that
Portland's interest was instant, enthus
iastic and substantial.
Portland's visitors represent the larg
est practicable power project in the
Northwest today. As the center of
market already partially prepared, as
a means of irrigation, as an agency of
electrification of railroads in Oregon
and Washington, as an aid to beat trans
portation on the Columbia, as the ener
gizer of possible nitrate works and other
industries, and as a source of cheap
power, heat and illumination for cities
and towns in a zone comprehended by
Portland, Spokane, Tacoma and Seattle,
the Umatilla Rapids project is unique
and compelling.
A descent of the Columbia 17 feet In
2 1-2 miles creates Umatilla Rapids
about three miles above the old Umatilla
boat landing. A dam which will raise
the low water level of the Columbia $0
feet would aupply water by gravity or
pumping for a now non-productive area
of several hundred thousand acres. It
would provide 300,000 horse-power 11
months of the year and 500,000 horse
power during the season when 260,000
horsepower would be needed for irriga
tion pumping. It would electrify all the
railroads of Oregon, if desired. It would
double the navigability of the Columbia
between Celilo and the mouth of Snake
river.
From such a project a reserve current
could be fed into Portland at a cost so
low that no other form of energy, heat
or illumniation would be as cheap. It
would make Portland in literal truth the
electric city of the world.
The project is big enough to thrill
the imagination, but not so formidable
as to rob it of practicality. The Koekuk
dam in Mississippi is a greater engin
eering feat than that proposed in the
Columbia at Umatilla Rapids, but the
per-second-foot flow of the Columbia is
double that of the Mississippi at Keo
kuk.
The Umatilla project is one that
would pay its way in the Colombia basin
under conditions prevailing now, but it
vculd prove tha mightiest engine of de
velopment and the greatest stimulnr.t
to colonization yet devised for the Nor
thwest, The necessity for concentrated action
on the part of both Oregon and Wash
ington to start the wheels grinding to
make a reality of- the dream to harness
the Columbia River by building a dam
near the Umatilla rapids is the subject
of an able editorial which recently was
published in the Portland Telegram. The
editorial is aa follows:
A delegation of representative men
from Pendleton and neighboring points
in the Columbia basin, Monday present
ed in a clear and convincing way to the
Portland Chamber of Commerce the
plans and possibilities of the Umatilla
Rapids irrigation and power project
These men came to present one of the
most attractive development projects
that could well be conceived.
By the investment of approximately
$32,000,000 in a power plant at the rap
ids on the Columbia, 500,000 horsepower
may be generated and 500,000 acres of
arid land may be made fertile with irri
gation water. Primary power may here
be produced at a cost of from $5.50 to
(6.65. Power from this plant may be
sent to Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Spo
kane, Walla Walla, Lewiston, Pendleton,
Ontario and Burns. The area that can
be irrigated lies about equally divided in
both states.
This is a mammoth project interest
ing and inspiring in its possibilities. A
half million acres of new fertile land
could support the farms and in tribu
tary towns no less than 200,000 new
comers. Such a contribution of popula
tion to these two states would vastly
increase our commercial and industrial
wealth. Practically every acre of such
project would be tributary in a trade
way to Portland.
A half million of new horsepower
means even more to this Northwest than
a half million new acres. That amount
of power put to work here would call
for a factory supported population of
another 200,000 or more; and it would
give cheap power, heat and light to all
the farms, villages, and cities within
reach of its transmission lines.
A project so vast is in danger of being
laid by for dreaming purposes. It is
doubtful if private capital could handle
so great an enterprise. The two states
and the federal government must under
take it or at least lend support to it to
give it the credit and staying power
necessary until it shall become self sup
porting. The objection will be made that indus
tries are not yet here to absorb the
power; that the railways are not yet
ready to scrap their locomotives and
build power lines along their tracks;
and that settlers are slow in coming to
newly irrigated lands, and that we al
ready have many acres of idle lands un
der copious water systems.
All of this is the voice of the wait
awhile, the voice of the unambitious;
the voice of the slow. The Umatilla
Rapids project is a manifest opportun
ity. This land, this water and this water-fall
lie already at hand to be linked
up for a purpose that is rich in all the
elements that make up a prosperous
country.
The project will never be developed
without talking about it and some day
it will be an accomplishment But it
will not develop itself. Otherwise the
Indians would have been gathering al-,
falfa and potatoes where they gathered
only sage brush and jackrabbits.
HOMEY PHILOSOPHY FOR 1928.
In the complete history of all the
world, covering every line of life from
politics to industry, embracing all the
professions, all the trades, all the en
terprises, and any and every avocation
of mankind, has there ever risen to the
top and stayed there s thief, a burglar,
a shrewd swindler, a trickster, a Uzy
lout, a man without principle, a liar, an
ungrateful rogue, a crook stripped of
human sympathy, a niggardly, parsimon
ious, pusilanimoua pussyfooter or any
other kind of a no-good? Not one. An'
we're all striving for the top. The way
to travel may not be hard to find, but
the way not to travel is stuck under our
noses every hour.
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the grooves in the bar are so arranged that when a
matrix arrives at a point directly over the channel to
which it belongs, ft "let's go and drops into ha
channel.
If, however, there b a matrix in the line which was
not designed to drop into one of the channeb op
erated from the keyboard, it will be carried clear
across the distributor bar and dropped into the last
channel, and from there tt will find its way to the
sorts stacker.
The distribution of the matrices b the most won
derful part of the Linotype. The distributor will
handle the matrices day after day and week after
week, taking the lines as they come, separating the
matrices and dropping each one into its proper chan
nel without an error. It does its work automatically
and requires very little attention.
The manipulation of the Linotype keyboard differs
from the operation of a typewriter in that it re
quires practically no physical exertion. Oa the
typewriter the operator strikes the keys with con
siderable force, while on the Linotype the slightest
touch on the key-buttons b sufficient to release the
matrices from the magaxine. One quick touch on
a key will bring down a matrix: if the key b held
down the matrices will continue to drop until the
channel b empty.
When the Linotype wis first designed it was
thought that, at best, it would be used only for
newspsper composition, and, perhaps, no larger face
than 8 point would be used. But such has been the
excellence of the machine and its product that H boa
taken possession of every branch of composition for
the printing trade. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, cat
alogues, editions de luxe, books, mages ine. newspa
pers, newspaper advertisements, tabular work, and
commercial job work are now set on the Linotype.
The range in sise and face b from five point to 41
point.
The Linotype b sometimes called a type-setting
machine, but thb b not correct ; H does not set type.
It b a different departure front the old typesetting
methods. U might be considered a substitute for type
setting. It b, strictly speaking, a composing ma
chine, as it does composition, but its product b not
set type, but solid slugs in the form of lines of type
with the printing face cut on one edge.
The original Linotype carried 90 characters ia one
magaavine and the mold was stationary; that b, ia
order to change the length or thickness of the slug
the entire mold was removed and another substituted.
The development of the machine from the original
type has been steady and graduaL As printers learn
ed tu aospt their work to the machine and the ma
chine to the work, they demanded more of the Lino
type and improvements began to appear. The two
letter matrix, which gave the operator 180 characters
in the magaxine instead of 90 ; the Universal Adjust
able Mold, which made the chance of slug in length
or thickness the work of a minute; the two magaxine
machine, which gave the operator $9$ ehataetess; the
quick change machines, which permit a eossplete
change of magasinea In a minute by one man ; and
the last grand triumph, three magaxine Linotype and
the four magasine Linotype, The former giving the
operator a selection of six or more faces and TtO
characters. With the original machine only the text
matter of a newspaper could be set ; with the modern
four magaxine machine the. entire paper, heads, ads.,
and text can be set from the machine without change
of magaxines.