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THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER. OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. 1922.
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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.
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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
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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. In
business, where it is a matter of dollars
and cents, it is always the assigned
duty of some one to be within sound
of the telephone bell.
"They don't answer" is the state
ment of a situation absolutely beyond
the control of the telephone operator.
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HEPPNEB, OREGON
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this kind to put the average small