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PAOF, TWO THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER. OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. 1922. THE MM-11E5 THK HKPPNEIt CAZETTR. Etablbl Mrrk l"t. THK HE1PNS.R TIMES. EnahlUM NrtwmhT Id. I7. CouolxUnri ffcmarr 11. 11 1L Pubiikbrd 9tt Tbanda morning fay Yawttr mM 8pnrr Crswfrs and taterW at the PoatoAe at Heppner, Or ti. M aaeoac-daaa mattM. ADVERTISING RATES GIVEN ON APPLICATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Tear . Sn Moclha - Tana mota Sine It copies -.- . SiOS . 1.SO . .14 . .Si MOKEOW COrXTT OFFICIAL PAFKE THE AMERICAN PRLSS ASSOCIATION Haying Politics With the Industrial Problem. That there are political motives behind some of the important moves being made in the industrial field by cerain so-called labor leaders who habitually think in terms of politics, is undoubtedly true. It is not entirely an accident that there is an attempt ed tie up of indusry at this particular time, in the middle of the Harding administration, with election day ap proaching, and with a revival of in dustry in evidence which, if permit ted to continue without interruption, would interfere seriously with the opposiion's prospects of success. The leaders conspicuous in the at tempted industrial tie-up are now and have long been committed to the task of discrediting the Harding ad ministration. Their publications have reeked with abuse of the President, of Congress and the federal courts, These leaders are enlisted in the cause of government ownership of mines and railways and ultimate state socialism, their maneuvers must be interpreted with this in mind. Whatever they can do to crip ple and handicap private business enterprises and to embarrass and dis credit the Harding administration these leaders believe will help along the cause in which they are most in terested. Hence the "no compromise," "no arbitration" attitude of these politi cians posing as labor leaders. A peaceful settlement of the trouble would not be to their liking. They are ready to tie the country in a bow knot and starve and freeze the peo ple of this country in order to im prove the campaign prospects of the men and things they stand for in pol itics. There is reason to believe that these politicians do not correctly guage the temper of the American people. When ten or twenty per cent of the American people declare war on the remaining eighty or nine ty per cent, the outcome is not sure to be that the tail will wag the dog. There is a growing impatience in this country with the subordination of in dustrial to political ends by misfit la bor leaders of a certain arbitrary and ambitious type. Instead of beating the administration and the American people into submission they may find the situation reversed before the trouble they have started and are egging on is over. President Harding and the nation al administration are not partisans of either side in the contention. The President has sought to induce both sides to submit their cause to tribu nals representative of the govern ment and of the whole people. Fail ing in this he will do his sworn duty by protecting the public in its rights. If thre are those who do not intend to mine coal or run trains until they have imposed their will on the pub lic, let them step aside and permit others to do the work, if they can be found. These others must and will be protected in their right to work by state and federal governments. The issue involved is fundamental, The duty of the government is clear, and there will be no dodging of duty at Washington. National Repubu created. What is more and this is ; important in not a few cases the idebt limits cf municipalities has been reached. Every motorist desires good roads, and kicks if he does not have ttiem. It is realized more and more that poor roads mean larger tire costs, bigger repair bills, excessive gaso line needs nad more rapid deprecia tion on the car. The motorist might just as well pay for better roads as to stand high er costs elsewhere. If the higher license fee goes to make roads bet ter, the motorist w ill gain in the end. He is being educated to this fact. The head of a large company says that it costs, depreciation included, about $6000 per annum to operate a large truck. This includes gasoline, the driver and all such expenses. The company pays a license fee of only $50 per' truck. Better roads easily could save twice this fee in maintenance and in addition enable the truck to ac complish more work. He states that he would be perfectly willing to pay two or three times as large a rax on his trucks because it would be an economy to do it for the sake of bet ter roads. Heavy trucks wear out hundreds of thousands of dollars more in roads than they pay in license fees. If they cannot afford to pay larger tax es, they cannot afford to compete with the railroads, and the traffic ought to go back where it came from. As a matter of fact, under present conditions, the public is taxed and riders in lighter passenger cars are penalized and jounced for the sake of making possible a little cheaper motor truck transportation. Good roads are not expensive to motorists they are economy. The poor roads are what cost the money. It will pay ten million automobile owners in this country to look be yond their noses in this matter- that is, beyond the sophistries of subsidized associations. The man who advocates higher li cense fees to maintain and improve highways is not an enemy of the au tomobile owner. He is his best friend. Boston Commericial, July 15, 1922. It might be added that every ciri zen who does not own an automobile is also vitally interested in the road question as permanent road construc tion and maintenance will play an important part in future tax bills. The Manufacturer. man out of business. Thus the meat monopoly is maintained. Mr. Record points out that govern ment ownership of railroads would defeat this system. The people should be compelled as common car riers to provide an adequate supply of refrigerator cars, and it might not be amiss to prohibit the use of pri vate cars. The right of the rails to the Meat Trust, to the Pullman Company and others, means that these monopolies get the benefits of public service cor porations, without restrictions or reg ulation. They enjoy franchises which never have been granted them. The subletting of franchise puts the pub- he in jeopardy. As a fact, passing the right of way by the railroads is perhaps a greater public menace than passing the buck by the government. The railroads should be compelled to supply refrig erator space in railroad cars sold at a price to all alike and under gov ernment supervision. But whether you agree with Mr. Record or not, his article in another department of this paper is well worth reading. Paying for Good Roads. Every so often newspaper editors find on their desks publicity from some automobile association protest ing against any higher license fees on motor vehicles. The arguments usually are carefully prepared and forcibly presented. Automobile associations all over the land appear to be opposed to taxing the industry more because it is taxed so much already and in so many ways. It pays all the taxes any other in dustry pays and the license fees in addition. Of course, a big business like the motor industry pays enor mous taxes. But the product of this business causes other taxes to be high. Auto mobiles, especially larger cars and heavy trucks, wear out a great deal of road. It is only fair that they should pay, largely through license fees for the road which they wear out. Those best qualified to know, state they are not doing so. At any rate, anyone who goes a little way off the main avenue of motor travel knows that the conai tion of side roads is worse than few years ago. The side roads and side streets have had to be neglected so as to maintain the principal chan nels of traffic. There has not been enough money to go around. Practically all the motor fees have been used to maintain roaas, ana in addition the other taxes of most mu appalling, if not inflammatory. The American workman never can rise to state of happiness and content ment if he is the continuous victim of the profiteering see-saw. Any discontent is dangerous. Out of discontent came America. Test Western Wood in Million Pound Machine Hard Work Does It. In June, 1914, the only country on earth whose credit was worth 100 cents on the dollar was the United States of America. Its bonds were the only national securities that could be sold at par. Today, eight years later, the only country on earth whose credit is worth 100 cents on the dollar is the United States of America. No need to look far for the reason for this. The United States is the only country whose people have not devoted themselves to politics to the exclusion of other lines of human endeavor. Whatever it has done, it has avoided socialistic experiments, that tend to substitute be it enact ed" for downright hard work. Its prosperity is based on the solid foun dation of constructive employed hu man effort. This country has had its politics, in great plenty, during the last eight years, but through it all has managed to give its principal attention to oth er affairs. True, also, the war touch ed us rather lighter in one way than it did the others, but we did accumu late a debt of more than $26,000, 000,000, in addition to a matter of twenty-odd billions paid in actual cash and in 100-cent dollars, so that in the matter of money the last eight years has been as expensive to the United States as to any country on earth. The moral to this, if it has any moral, is that success, either for a nation or an individual, requires steady application to some useful pursuit. When the rest of the world gets ready to work as hard as it talks, it will share in the prosperity that has come to the United States. Omaha Bee: The Profiteering See Saw. Now we hail the period of pros perity. Analysis of the boom dis- closees that wages rise rapidly, sometimes to incredible heights, but that the cost of living nses still more rapidly, and to still more incredible heights. Soon we strike the reaction, the period of depression, and then we find that wages fall rapidly, but that food prices simply stumble They never drop with the thud of the workers wages. From March to April of this year, for example, we learn that the aver age weekly earning of New York State factory workers declined 42 cents. This is a reduction of $2.05 from April, 1921, and a reduction of $4.78 from October, 1920, which marked the peak of earning. As against these figures the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the cost of living declined only 4 per cent between December, 1921, and March, 1922, in the coun try as a whole. True, since June, 1920, there has been a drop of 2 per cent, but despite this the cost of living remained 67 per cent above 1913 in March of this year. The retail cost of food did not change at all from March to April, either in the country as a whole or in the leading cities of the great Em pire State. Surely our political economists can find a lesson in such figures. When we poke under the public nose such evidence of outrageous profit eering, plus bungling and faulty tax ation, we create a condition that is BULLETIN TELLS HOW TO CULL Word has just been received by Dis trict Forester George H. Cecil that the Forest Products laboratory of the Forest Service at Madison, Wis., will make strength tests on Douglas fir structural timbers. This work will be don in co operation with the West Coast Lumber Manufacturers' association. The Dour- las tir test material will be collected in the Columbia river. Coos bay, Puget sound, and Grays harbor regions. The collecting will be done by C. W. Zimmer man of the Forest Service Timber Test ing laboratory of Seattle, Wash, C J. Hogue, manager of the West Coast Pro ducts bureau, and D. F. Holtman, con struction engineer of the National Lum ber Manufacturers' association. Mr. Ceeil stated that while the Forest Service has made nearly one-half mil lion strength tests on the commercial woods of the United States, only meagre information is available on the strength of wooden columns, with the recent in stallation of a testing machine of a mil lion pounds capacity, large wooden sol um n tests are for the first time possible in the United States. A wooden column thirty feet in length is readily accommo dated in the capacious jaws of this huge machine and this giant of wood breakers will test the strength of horisontal beams and girders with a length of eigh ty feet, forest officials state. The purpose of the study is to secure data on the strength of wooden columns and the effect of defects and drying on wood when need as a column. Such data is needed in the preparation of lumber grading rules and establishing of sale working stresses. Foresters believe that the tests will show that it ia practicable to use smaller columns, or lower grade material of the same size, which would mean a substantial saving of material, i In all 80 timbers will be tested, of these 40 will be green, the remainder ' after two years of seasoning. Forest 1 officers say that the timbers selected will be of both good and poor grades and will vary from light fast-growing to heavy slow-growing woods. Forest officials point out that Douglas fir, the principal commercial trea of Oregon and Washington, may be consid ered the most important of American woods. Though ranking second in point of production, it has a comparatively wide distribution, and the great variety of uses to which its wood can be put, places it first and as a structural timber it is unsurpassed. Poultrymen must continue keeping at a loss low producing hens, or cull their flcok either by trapnest or external char acteristics. A hen's ability to produce profitably ia indicated by her vigor, shape of body, temperament, color of skin, width of back, depth and pliability of abdomen, and time of year for molt ing. (Extension Bulletin 347, Sugges tive Points in Culling the Poultry Flock, H. E. Crosby, 0. A. C. tells the particu lars.) - Culling for good layers begins with se lection of good eggs for hatching; chicks are culled when first hatched, and again when transferred to brooder; whenever weak or runty chicks are discovered they are culled out; and pullets that are a few months later starting to lay than the average are discarded. Culling is a SOS-day watching for unprofitable hens, but it pays. Hens that are large and coarse and have small sunken eyes are big eaters, poor layers, and belong rightly to the beef class. In yellow-skinned breeds the same pig ment that gives certain parts of the skin their yellow color also colors the yolk of the egg. As the hen starts laying this pigment breaks up and disappears vent, eye-ring, beak, skin and shanks. When ahe quits laying the color returns in hte same order but more rapidly. Heace the presence or absence of color give the skilled poultryman an indica tion of whether or not each hen is lay ing. Lack of color may be produced by sickness, or lack of yellow corn and green feed. Good judgment does not cull en color alone. Since hens begin molting when they stop laying, the late moltera are likely to be the best layers. The later the hen lays the greater has been her egg production and the later she molts. Poor layers will have more new wing primary feathers in July and August than the good layers. L:-iii!i!!ii!ii!iiilin;;auM s Central Market 1 FRESH AND CURED MEATS Fish In Season jj Take home a bucket of our lard. It 1 is a Heppner product and is as g good as the best. H HEMSTITCHING I hava installed a hemstitching machine at my apartment in tho Gilman building and will give all orders for work in that line my best at tention. Your patronage is solicited. Mrs. C. C. Patterson. afl-tf. hi; ALFALFA AND WHEAT FARM FOR SALE Best proposition now on market in Morrow county. Situated 5 miles northwest of Heppner on railroad and highway. 940 acres. 45 acres now in alfalfa, enough under ditch to make 85 acres. Orchard, 2 good houses, outbuild ings. 320 acres under cultivation; 1-2 this in grain now, the other half sum merfallow, balance pasture land. Good concrete dam, all private ditch. For par ticulars write Box 116, Heppner, Ore. 4t For Sale Tent, 16x24 and fly. In quire C. Darbee, O.-W. depot, Heppner. Bust the Beef Trust Mon opoly. George L. Record, star of the Chi cago convention when Koosevelt headed the Bull Moose movement, now comes to the foreground in New Jersey, swinging his axe right and left at the Beef Barons, mercilessly exposing their system of control. The facts are so potent that fair ness demands steps be taken imme diately to put an end to the abuse which spells nothing but control of prices, the ability to extort from the people the heavy tithe they must pay nowadays for the privilege of living, Fortunately Mr. Record does not stop at exposing the system. He points the way to relief. The railroads nave few or no refrigerator cars to carry meat or perishable products. The Big rive comprising the meat monopoly have their private refrigerator cars. Small competitors are thus placed in an impossible position. They must eith er put cars of their own on the roads or hire cars if they can get them from the Beef Trust. If a little fellow puts his own cars on the roads, says Mr. Record, there is always some obliging railroad offi cial ready to sidetrack or divert them until the ice melts and the food reaches an unmarketable condition, It does not take many operations of They are GOOD! BtfjddlQfrentndStttMtnry rai Answer inw-f 5 1 V 1 w Jfoleprwf Jfosien Elegant In Appearance Famous For Long Wear Sam Hughes Company Phone Main 962 i the telephone operator sayi, "They don't answer," it is after a sin cere endeavor to get your party. She cannot compel an answer. The party called may be unwilling to leave a particular household duty may be in another part of the home beyond closed doors may be chatting with a neighbor may be marketing may be slow in answering. Strange, but true, calls are sometimes designedly unanswered. Telephone records show that the great majority of "don't answer" re ports come from residence calls. 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We want you to feel perfectly at home with us, and whether or not we do a great amount of bus iness together, we shall try to make our relations both pleasant and profitable to you, Firsft National Bank HEPPNEB, OREGON nicipalities and states have been in this kind to put the average small