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i'AOn TWO THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5. 1922 The Gazette -Times T"K liFTPN'ER GAZETTE, Established March SO, 1S97. THE HflTXFR TIMES. Established November 18, 1SS2, Consolidated February 15, 1912, "News Pobli-hed c vPry Thursday Morning by YAWTER AND SPEXCEB CRAWFORD Mid entered t the post office at Heppner, Oregon at second-clue matter. OFFICIAL PAPER FOR MORROW COUNTY WE NEED MORE BURBANKS Bv Richard Lloyd Jones The boy in school fifty years ago looking upon' the map of the United States in his geography found the vast territory between the Pacific Coast states and the Missouri River designated as the Great American Desert. Since that time the surveyor has clearly defined the state lines, and into these states hundreds of thousands of brave people have pioneered. There today great cities stand, sky scrapers pierce the sky, the hammer is heard, business thrives, the parched lands are kissed with irrigation ditches that drain the glaciers' melting Row and spread bounty and prosperity into the lap of an aggressively pro gressive people. On that desert land the great Burbank lives. From or.t that hopeless wilderness he brought forth fruits that have been the wonder of the world. Daniel Webster was a wise man. But amaze ment would make him wiser were he alive today. On the floor of the United States Senate he op posed the acquisition of the Oregon territory be cause he said, "You cannot roll a wheel out there." Soon after Daniel made this declaration a fellow by the name of Whitman rolled a wheel out there. On his wheel Whitman laid a load of apple tree roots. With them he planted out there what have grown to be the greatest apple orchards in the world. The changed map has taught anew the old les son that ail things are possible to the men who de ny defeat, to the men who dare. Twenty years ago we used to speak of undevel oped sections as "the last west."- As we have closed in on these unsettled places we found the new east. While developing ways to fertile fields in what was once the desolate desert we learned much. Now abandoned farms in New York and New Eng land are attracting the college trained agriculturist of the West. The Carolinas and the Southern States about them are revealing farms that lure the Iowan, than whom there is no better farmer known. Florida, long looked upon as a tangled mass of semi-tropical verdure, is proving to be a matchless garden spot. Good land is everywhere. Our agricultural colleges are turning out engin eers to irrigate and drain; chemists who teach us how to replenish the soil ; agronomists who tell us how to grow better grain and captains of commerce who show us how to make a better product-pack and find a better market. These colleges are chang ing farming from drudgery to a scientific profes sion. Lincoln said, "I always plucked the thistle and planted a flower wherever I thought a flower would grow." Give us more Burbanks; give us more scientific ally trained men, and we have land enough in the United States to feed and clothe all the people in the whole wide world. i New York hicks who are easier to separate from their money tha.i the rural rube was ever said to be. Yet we doubt that an ex-Tammany captain is soft enough to be separated from $5000, without one hope of reward, by the tears of Walter Pierce, or by his indefinite promises of tax reduction, or that he would care whoop whether taxes were reduced in Oregon or not. It is not charged that this new angel of the Pierce campaign was forced out of Tammany hall in disgrace as would doubtless have been the case were he so impractical a poli tician as he is now represented to be. But the gift does not concern us a lot. It is, how ever, interesting, for the accompanying revelations of partisan quality in the high-sounding stuff we have been reading about Newberryism and purity of elections. Anybody in Oregon who wanted to go gunning for corrupt practices in elections never had to go back to Michigan, whether he was looking for re publican or democratic game. In more than one election wealthy democratic candidates in Oregon have poured out money notoriously in excess of the amount permitted by the corrupt practices act. In one election one democratic candidate for high of fice was openly charged with so doing. Yet the Portland newspaper which eoes eunnine in Michigan, which sees nothing but sweet sincerity in a handsome contribution from a political hard shell, which discovers only slush and corruption in evrey fund accumulated for any purpose of which it disapproves, has never peeped about dem ocratic corrupt practices in Oregon. Yet in an in dignant reply to a printed letter it says it is not a rabid partisan. Oregonian. One month till election, when the great questions agitating the mind of the body politic in Oregon will be settled for a time, at least. While the Rodeo did not make money above ex penses this year, it came very near breaking even. When it is considered that there was some expense that had to be met in the way of permanent fixtures, such as the grand stand, it is figured that the com mittee came out ahead, as this expense will not have to be met another year. It was a very credit able exhibition, staged by purely local talent and should be made an annual festival for Heppner. Its management this year was in the hands of good men who admit that there is room for improvement in many ways and future events, if staged here, will be spared some of the features that were the cause of some criticism this season. The big crowds of people assembled during the three days were orderly and appeared to enjoy themselves to the full. A few instances of "ruff stuff" Were noted and the perpetrators were promptly handled by the police force which kept an eye open at all times for those who would be real bad, as well as the fellows who had imbibed too much moonshine and bootleg The town was thrown open to the visitors for a good time, and there was no interference with any who desired to enjoy themselves the very best way they could. The Rodeo will be a bigger success in every way another year. NATIONAL BUDGET ON TRIAL The new director of the budget, General Lord, has before him a standard of accomplishment the administration points to with an excusable feeling of pride. The books for the fiscal year 1922 recently closed show the year began with a prospective deficit of $24,468,703 and ended with a surplus of receipts over expenditures of $313,801,651. The national debt has been reduced $1,041,968,' 844, and a balance of $272,105,512 remains in the eeneral fund. It is only fair to say, however, that Secretary Mellon clearly pointed out some months ago that much of the reduction of expenditure is merely a postponement of payments due to a shift in the gov ernment s financial operations. Calm analysis of the results of the budget sys tem do not warrant more than an indication in its favor, though certainly nothing can be said against it. . The system has not been put to the test, proof of its efficacy being impossible to date. 'ith a more complete knowledge of the resour ces of government now known and a closer tabula tion on expenditures that are elastic, the likelihood is that the new budget which is now on hand will be much more accurate than its predecessor. When General Lord is ready to report, the public will be in better position to judge the system and its workings and perhaps to appreciate" the ground work laid by General Dawes. On its face the budget appears to be working in favor of the American pocketbook. ;" The rain came just right a good shower pre ceding the Rodeo laid the dust nicely, and since that event has passed, heavy showers are placing the summerfallow ground in excellent shape for fall seeding as well as bringing up much that had been placed in the ground before the rains came. New Orleans Thousands of ex-service men are expected to attend the American Legion National convention in New Orleans, October lS-HOth, as a result of the announcement of a railroad rate of one fare for the round trip. Announcement of the re duced rate was made by E. A. Simmon, chairman of the Legion's national transportation committee. The rate has been accepted as official by Han ford HacNider, Legion National Com mander. The reduced fare, which will be ef fective on all railroads, will apply to members of The American Legion, and its auxiliary, widows, of deceased members of the legion and to dele gates to the convention of the Inter allied Veterans' Federation which will be held the week before the Legion gathering. Legion convention officials estimate that a crowd of 100,000 visitors will attend the national gathering as a re sult of the fare reduction. Several thousand legionnaires are also ex pected to take advantage of the fifty per cent reduction granted on all ves sels of the United States Shipping Board. The railroad rate table based on the reduced fare shows that those in Ore gon contemplating attending the con vention, will pay $98.53 for fare from Portland, Oregon to New Orleans, La. and return. In these days of Modern improve ments it is certainly refreshing to run across a roller towel ossasion ally. Pacific Legion. Wives of congressional medal of company their husbands to the Amer honor men have been invited to ac- A ROTTEN MESS If further argument were needed to convince Or egon citizens that the direct primary, the initiative and he referendum, are failures and detrimental to the cause of good government in the state, it is furnished in the revelations of corruption before the Marion county court in the methods used for obtaining signatures to the petitions for the income tax and fish bills. The hearing is a rotten record of forgeryr perjury and falsehood. Notaries, presumably at so much per name, made affidavit that they personally knew all of the signers of the petitions. On the stand they admitted that they knew but a trifling percentage of the signers. Some knew none at all. The notarial commissions of these false servants will be revoked by Governor Olcott, and rightly so. Then they can openly join the army of self-seekers, opportunists and disgruntled ranters who have been righteously rebuked by the common wealth s chief executive and exercise their dishon est and unscrupulous talents in bringing about the governor's political downfall if they can. . There is a contest on in this state between right eous government by the people in their own behalf, and a government by invisible forces seeking to fatten their purses and advance their political standing at the expense of the state. They have seized upon the very laws that the people fondly hoped would purify politics, and have by falsehood and unscrupulous manipulation, while the majority of voters were sleeping, worked thru a manipulated minority, by fraud, deceit and cor ruption, to gain ends that will hamper and restrict the development of the state if those ends could be effected. Fortunately the majority is awakening, and as the nefarious methods possible under the present political system are brought to light, there is a growing revulsion against the false prophets of progress and purity, who stand publicly arraigned as betrayers of the people. Klamath Herald. RABIDLY PARTISAN It is vigorously denied by a democratic newspa per, the Portland Journal, that the $5000 contribu tion of Jesse Winburn to the Pierce campaign fund is Newberryism. Mr. Winburn is a newcomer, He or his friends have let it be known that he is an ex-Tammany captain from New York, where he made wad of money out of the advertising concession on the streetcars, ' Now it may be that Mr. Winburn is one of those POWER OF PUBLIC OPINION The railroad shop crafts have lost the strike. They have been beaten as no band of strikers was ever beaten. They were beaten because from the very start public opinion was solidly against them and no strike can succeed against such opposition. Public opinion was against them, first, because after the public had established an impartial trib unal to peaceably adjust differences between them and railroad managements, they refused to abide by its decisions; and, second, because they refused to accept a wage award though it fixed wages from 29 to 90 per cent higher than in 1917. Strikes are bad things. They smybolize anarchy no less than industrial warfare. This one has visited misfortune and hardship on many who were contented with their rate of pay and working conditions out wno went on sinne De cause an arrogant and stupid leadership so ordered. They deserve no public sympathy, for from cow ardly assaults on defenseless men who refused to etrik tn hnmh-throwine. train-wrecking and mur der they stopped at nothing to accomplish their selhsh enas. When smypathizers under the false and subtle pretense of "defective equipment" deserted trains on a sweltering desert and subjected innocent wo men and children to suffering and hardship their reprehensible acts were brazenly applauded by strike agitators. . If mis strike did nothing else it set the sober mind of America in action against bolshevism as it never was before. It has aroused the law-abiding, law-respecting element of the people to a re alization that bolshevism is not confined to Russia anH that it the cherished heritages and institutions of civilization are to be preserved a public duty at taches to tne citizen to see mat justice prevails, law is upheld and transgressions and transgres sors are commensurate! penalized. -The Manu facturer. Mr. Pierce, author of millage tax bills, which created additional tax burdens for the people of Oregon to meet, wants us all to vote for him now as the great champion of lax reduction. The most of this tax reduction talk is bunk, and Walter is the chief "spreader, whose sincerity on this question Is open to serious doubt. Practical Horseshoer has taken entire charge of the Scrviner Black smith Shop. GENERAL BLACKSMITHING Lame and interfering horses carefully attended. Phone 512, Heppner kan Legion National Convention in New Orleans in October. Their ex penses will be paid by the Legion con vention committee. airs. H. G. Weaver of EUiotsburg, Pa. has appealed to State Headquart ers of The American Legion of Ore gon to assist hr in locating her son, who is believed to be somewhere on the Pacific Coast Out great work for Americanism, adjusted compensation and an awak ened citizenship fades in the back ground when compared with our con tinuous battle for the buddy for who the war will never end.- Pacific Le-(rion. Shell Fish! DO YOU ENJOY SHELL FISH! Oysters Clams Crab Served in any style to your order. Our Sunday dinner should also attract you on these warm summer days. Bring the " Ife and have dinner with us. Elkhorn Restaurant Heppner Gilliam & Bisbee's j& Column .' Come in and get the County Agent's machine for the dry treat ment of your wheat Copper Car bonate. The work is perfectly done and economically. Get your order in early as it takes some time to make one. We have sold all kinds of grain drills and have decided that the Kentucky double-run feed is the best suited for this territory. Come in and look them over for yourself. The Revolving weeder is the one that gets the weeds. If your are going to use the dry treatment for your seed wheat, you can not .afford to pass up the Calkins machine. Announcement I have secured the" STUDEBAKER Agency for this territoryand 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 Llllllllll!lliMlllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lillllllllllll!lll!llllllllllllll!i: I Central Market I FRESH AND CURED MEATS f Fish In Season 1 iTake home a bucket of our lard. It is a Heppner product and is as f good as the best. 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