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r.Min two THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEFPNER, OREGON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1922 THE GAZETTE-TIMES. the itn i- rii r,A7.RTTK. Ett:iid ; THE HEITNKH TIVKS E.tblibd j r4mftUtTd rVhroanr !&. 1912 fuhli.h.4 fffT Thtlmlay morning by Vavter ana Bpnrw Crawford and ntrr at tb PntornV at HppftT. advektikim; ratks ;iven ON API'LH ATION SVBSCMPTloN RATES: On Vrtr . U N fill Mofttka IK Tfcrw Months ."5 .M MOKROW COI KTT OFFICIAL PAPER Fomn A d rrt i-1 r.f RprttentatiT THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION The School House Leads Us. By Richard Lloyd Jones. Democracy has defects'. Our government is not without fault. But m-ith all our faults we have I better government than any thing any other country in any other clime or time has ever pro duced. In time of distress every people the wide world over hold out their hands to us for help. We are a people of big ideas and, compared to the rest of the world, small faults. Europe is a continent encumbered with mon umental faults and little ideas. That is shown quite as much in her mechanical and inventive in genuity as in her parliamentary practices. The Swiss will make a very in tricate and delicate watch which will do many things, ring bells, tell the time of tide, the season of the moon and still, as the Yankee would say, have a saucerful of wheels left over. We make a pocket piece that keeps time. That s the main idea That is what a watch is for. The French and the Germans make more complicated cameras than any we produce. But we do what they don't; we put a simple little camera into every home, and collect the priceless snapshot memories of life as we live it. These are but evidences of our tendencies. We get a big idea and use it. Europe and Asia live largely in darkness because their schools have been for the select and the masses are illiterate. They seek to cultivate a few minds to super lative intelligence. e do no less. and we do vastly more, we culti vate all minds as far as we can en courage every mind to go. Behold the little red school house, the cornerstone of our greatness. It has done wonderful things for our country. Now it is going to do more. Just about the time that Europe and Asia are beginning to get the essential idea we are pushing the little red school houses together into the big brick, modern, metro politan Consolidated School, with all its better equipment, social les sons, assemblies and better teach ers. Now we are making the school work play. We are beginning to teach by eye as well as by ear.' The film is going to be a better story-teller of history and geography, a better re vealer of biology and botany than any book. For a long time we graded our pupils by averages, holding the bright boy back, which discour ages the slow boy. But now comes Dr. A. H. Sutherland, an other pedagogue of distinction, who out in Los Angeles has dem onstrated the value of de-grading our schools so that the slow boy is encouraged rather than discour aged, helped rather than handi capped, and the quick boy is not held back. We're a long way ahead of the rest of the world, and we're going to keep a long way ahead. di'ry or the investor. The Mji- The above comment upon the Dmison bill is taken from The y.jriuljcturer published at Salem, and is an intelligent explanation of the workings of the proposed bill. It should be borne in mind that this bill is the child of a select banking and brokerage circle on Wall Street. Representative Den ison hails from Illinois and is sponsor for the bill, but is not the real author. He is the tool of cun ning financial operators who are seeking to control the investment! capital of the country and to cen tralize this capital in New York. The bill carries with it the cre ation of state commissions to pass upon security issues. This means that another tax eating commis sion will be foisted upon the tax payers in addition to the diverting of funds into and through the fi nancial centers of the country. Our postal laws have been so designed as to keep down fake promotions to the minimum. Prac tically every state in the union has its security law and precautions have been created by legislation throughout the land. The Deni son bill is just another page to be added to the already overloaded statute and will not prevent the bootlegging of spurious stocks of any kind. California has most drastic "blue sky" law, yet Calif ornia is a ready market for spur ious stocks. There are hundreds of prohibitvie laws upon our stat utes, yet their violation is flagrant and they fail to accomplish the purpose for which they were framed. The Denison bill has been cop ied after the webb-Kenyon bill, Its application to states is exactly the same and just as drastic. There is no demand for it. The people are not crying for protec tion and we believe that just so long as the people of this land are not seeking its enactment that there can be no actual necessity for its existence. Every corgressman and senator from the West should vote no on this bill every time it shows up. Attention to this fact should be called to the minds of Oregon's delegation at Washington. There are big things ahead in Oregon, things that will require liberal public financing, and if they are to be accomplished such fool mea sures as the Denison bill must be slaughtered. Direct Primary. The people of Oregon will not vote to abandon the direct primary and restore the old convention system or any other convention system to take the place of the direct primary. This may as well be faced. Effort to get them to j well as public schools. I Laws which would create a Istate monopoly of education and i prevent educational liberty are quite another thing. I Legislation which tends to cre ate political or religious hatred is ' extremely dangerous to the future ! u'.,tlhino rtf aiip rnnntrv I r do so is wasted effort. Defeat w.ll . sobef judement and not inflamed be it; finish, with the direct pn-passions oe a guide in dealing mary. uniformed and intrenched j wjtn such n important quesnon stronger than ever, and its defen- ,s r,,otril,tjn!T educational advan- 50 per cent discount on til jewelry, Yourex silverware, China and cut glasa. Cash talks. HAYLOR. FOR S.LE-li18 Hudson speedster excellent condition; almost new cord tires. A real bargain, at Heppner Garsir. tf. Kd Bristow is a leading merchant of lone. He wa: in this city on Mon day looking after business. Mrs. May Case returned from a. trip to Seattle on Monday, where, she had been to get her son, Don, located in school. uers and champions elevated to political preferment where they can punish the instigators of the attack upon an institution so sacred. Those who understand and ap preciate the evils of the direct pri mary will accomplish much if they work for its improvement and the reformation of some of its most flagrant abuses. There is room for advisory conventions, which recommend candidates nominated openly and urge that thev be vot ed for at the primaries. The se cret societies already have their tickets. Why may not other asso ciations with honest purpose open ly select candidates and promul gate platforms upon which those candidates, may stand to which they will be held accountable? Not so good a method as the old convention system. Granted. But better than a primary controlled solely by secret organizations. Some improvement at least, and some chance to fix responsibility. The direct primary will produce better results if those who desire better results have enough patriot ism, energy and courage to unite and work to produce those better results. But if they fritter their effort away in fruitless efforts to abolish the direct primary they will accomplish nothing for their pains and money.-Oregon Voter. tages to certain prescribed chan nels. The Manufacturer. Sober Thought Required, The campaign for and against the Compulsory Education bill proposed in Oregon has aroused the state from a religious and po litical standpoint to a greater ex tent than any measure in recent years. Aside from any special argu ments for or against the measure it is basicly contrary to the prin ciples of freedom in religious and political thought as guaranteed in our constitution. Proper laws to assure education in American citi zenship and our principles of gov eminent are one thing, and such laws should apply to private as The Cost of Public Apathy. Though the people of America are one hundred per cent opposed to any more taxation and are heartily sick of the burdens thai have been placed on them, they fail utterly to cause their repre sentatives in Congress to take no tice. Every man dodges the issue by saying to himself "What's the use of my saying anything." As Mark Twain said of the weather: "Ev erybody growls but nobody does anything." Best authorities agree that addi tional Federal taxation this year is unescapable. National receipts will be less than figured on and expenditures more. President Harding has announced an un abridged span of $697,000,000, and if Great Britain fails to pay interest on money lent her here during the war the deficit will be $900,000,000. Against this may be deducted $272,000,000 of the balance in the Treasury at the close of the fiscal year, and this spells additional taxation. , The farming interests are flatly opposed to a sales tax, the busi ness interests shriek at the thought of screwing up the corpor ation taxes, which undoubtedly would prove a final blow to a bus iness revival. There remains then the income tax, now outrageously high, but standing out as "the best bet of the politicians." If the public remains apathetic, as is its custom, then there will be no justification for complaint when the new burden is added. It is questionable if any coun try in the world is as unscientific in its taxation as the United States. This is because the peo ple refuse to take an interest in what is being done in their name. SEPTEMBER BARGAIN SALE Announcement I have secured the STUDEBAKER Agency for this territory and will be able to supply this popular car. The LIGHT SIX at . $1,190.00 The SPECIAL SIX at $1,525.00 The BIG SIX at .. . $1,950.00 The Light Six at this price is the best car bar gain for this country. These prices are for delivery here. KARL L BEACH, Lexington, Oregon l 1 1 1 j 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 f 1 1 1 i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii mitiiii JM tint ti:;w I Central Market I FRESH AND CURED MEATS f Fish In Season iTake home a bucket of our lard. It is a Heppner product and is as good as the best. 1 TiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiR !IIllillIIIIIlIIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIliltllllIIUIIIIIIIIlUIIIIIIIIItlllllIlllllllllfllllIIIIllllllllllllllllIlllIlllllllllliIIIIlllllllHIII1 HARWOOD'S DIAMONDS -:- WATCHES -:- JEWELRY -:- PIANOS PHONOGRAPHS -:- RECORDS -:- SHEET MUSIC 1. 0. 0. F. Building, Heppner " illlllllllllllllllllilUIIIIIIIMIlllltlllMlllllll tllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltl' lllllllllllllllHlllilllllHIIllinitlR GO TO WallaWallaConntyFair Walla Walla, Sept 13-16 More Fool Legislation. Passage of the so-called Denni son blue sky law by the United States Senate would add handicap to legitimate business transactions while offering no new protection against the average crook and fake stock salesman. The bill which seeks to prevent in interstate commerce the hand ling of securities, the sale of which is already prohibited in var ious states. The bill' leaves the field wide open for personal soli citation by strong arm solicitors, and adds no real protection to public not already given in our legislation covering fraudulent use of mails. Particularly would the bill be a blow to western states with vast undeveloped resources of mining, oil, water power and agricultural possibilities, all of which must se cure outside capital to carry on their work. Many of the best and most con servative bankers assert that the measure would prevent the sell ing of legitimate mortgages and other securities outside the con fines of the state where the mort gage is given. Bankers and real estate men oppose the bill be cause, while it is ostensibly drawn to prohibit certain bad practices, it then permits by a series of ex emptions many of the kinds of se curities that might be abused. Al together it is just another mea sure that strikes hardest at the West without offering any com. pen&ating advantages to either in' Washington State Fair Yakima, SepL 18-23 Pendleton Round-Up Pendleton, SepL 21-23 FREE FREE Make This Week "PAY-DAY AT TUM-A-LUM" and Receive Free Tickets to Any of the Above Fairs For all accounts paid in full on or before the date of the fair in amounts: $ 20 to $ 50 $ 50 to $100 $ 100 to $250 $ 250 to $400 $ 400 to $500 $ 500 to $600 $ 600 to $700 $ 700 to $800 $ 800 to $900 $1000 & over we will give we will give we will give we will give we will give we will give we will give we will give we will give we will give 1 Ticket 2 Tickets 3 Tickets 4 Tickets 5 Tickets 6 Tickets 7 Tickets 8 Tickets 9 Tickets 10 Tickets NOTE The above will also apply to Casb Sales Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. P S. We're Choke-full of Plans and Mater ials for Homes and Farm Buildings Steinway Pianos WEBER A. B. 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