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THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEFPNER, OREGON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1922
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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
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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
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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 $700
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$ 800 to $900
$1000 & over
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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. CHASE ESTEY
KURTZMAN BRAMBACH VOSE
DAVENPORT & TREACY STECK
STROHBER STROUD ALDRICH
WHEELOCK
THE WONDERFUL DUO ART
comprise part of the Sherman-Clay & Co.
' line.
Any of these pianos can be purchased on
attractive terms.
Let us assist you in making your selection
JACK MULLIGAN,
Sherman-Clay & Co.'s Representative, at
HARWOOD'S JEWELRY STORE
Odd Fellows Blclg., Heppner
Sheet Music Phonographs Records
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Make a fresh start get a clean
tankfulof "Red Crown" and then
watchhow your engine performs.
Watch it on the hills. Every
drop of "Red Crown" vaporizes
rapidly and uniformly in the car
buretor and is consumed com
pletely in the cylinders. You get a
continuous stream of power
more mileage at lower cost
"Red Crown" is uniform in qual
ity you won't need to bother
with carburetor adjustments if
you fill your tank with "Red
Crown" and nothing else.
Fill at the Re Crown sign
et Service Stations, garages and
other dealers.
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"A.B.A." cheques
Whether you are planning a transcontinental tour, or
only a motor trip into the next county, you need a
supply of "A. B. A." Cheques in your pocket
You will find them safer than currency, and just as con
venient in making payments at hotels, garages, railroad
offices, etc, where they are readily accepted as payment
The only identification needed is your countersignature
in the presence of the person accepting a Cheque.
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FirA National Bank
HEPPNER, OFEGON