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iv;i T'.Vo The Gazette -Times j Tf'E HF1TNF.R GAZETTE, EstaKUW March SO, 1897. I 18, 182. j v"""aaii rcorury la. is is. THE lir ITNKR TIMES, EUbtihfd November robiiOii-d wry Thurday Morainf by VAWTER AND SPENCER CR.4WFORD.rd entered at the post olf.ce t Heppner, Oregon mi eond-claaa natter. OFFICIAL PAPER FOR MORROW COUNTY How Wisdom Will Win By Richard Lloyd Jones Quite to its amazement Wall Street woke up one morning recently to find Henry Ford the richest man in the world. W.hat amazed them most was that he had grown rich in spite of them. Time was when Wall Street refused to help Ford, when it looked upon him as a questionable rMi and wanted eleven per cent. Now Ford is propping up the plutocrats of wobbly Wall Street with a loan of nearly $200,000,000. With finer spirit he is letting them have it at four per cent. Mr. Ford made his mammoth fortune in a clean and splendid way. It is no crime to be rich. It is not ethically wrong to acquire the greatest fortune if you have gained that fortune by helping men in stead of hurting them. John D. Rockefeller acquired a great fortune. Much of his fortune was made by the most despic able practices. He brazenly defied the laws of the land. He was not a man-helper. To gain his own ends he would cruelly crush. His ambition was to corner a commodity. He bought up hundreds of patents and suppressed them because they econ omized for the consumer on oil consumption. . Ford created something. He made an instru ment that consumes more Rockefeller gasoline than all the oil-consuming devices known before. By his inventive mathematical and mechanical genius Mr. Ford caused an enormous increase in the Rock efeller wealth. Compared to him John D. was a one-evhnder affair. Rockefeller is not a loved name. He is not re vered. He is a very old man now. His face is crisscrossed with lines, tears ago a troubled con cience overtook him and he set out to square hinv self. It is possible for a man to do that that is, if our Christian faith is practicable. Polluted water will run itself pure, so will taint ed money. Rockefeller began his substantial phil anthropies by the endowment of a theological school in Rocheser, New York. Then he hurled a great university into one city and a hospital into another. Since then he has been bolstering up weak colleges, creating great pedagogical and re search foundations, and splendidly subsidizing a benignant life-rescue work through bacteriological laboratories, hospitals and feeding stations the wide world over. With all his undeniable iniquities, the Rockefel ler who defied out courts will die. The Rockefel ler who is trying to save life all around the world and after saving it to lift it up to higher and finer altitudes, is he Rockefeller who is going to live. What will Henrv Ford do with all his fabulous wealth? Unlike Rockefeller, he has not cramped his character to get his money. He is not burden ed with Rockefellers handicap. But with all Rockefeller's handicap, Rockefeller may yet over take Ford in the enduring race, unless Ford does more wisely with his greater wealth. When wealth reaches beyond the proportions of supplying rational personal needs, it becomes not an asset but a responsibility. Henry Ford has proven himself to be 100 per cent the right-minded fortune builder. Future generations will measure him not by his ability to acquire but by his power to serve through spending. The Rockefeller-Ford race for nches is over. Ford wins. Now the race for wise spending is on. In this great race wisdom will win. "Cash In" On Experiments Without doubt the subject of road building is go ing to be the greatest single item of expense next to schools which every community will have to con sider in coming years. Good roads are a present day necessity. Millions have now been spent in experimental road construction in western states and the time has come for the public to cash in on the results obtained from various kinds of road pavement test ed under actual daily use over a period of years. What the taxpaver wants is a road which will out live the bond issue which provides for its construc tion and which can be built at a minimum first cost and will require a minimum amount for mainten ance. Before public contracts are awarded for large amounts of future hardsurfacing of highways, pub lic officials should be required to check up on pub lie highways in various states and see what types of hardsurfacing are giving the maximum service at a minimum of expense for first cost and main tenance. This is what a private corporation would do if it was spending millions of its own money. This is what public officials should be required to do when spending millions of the taxpayers' money. Before marriage a man is willing to admit that he is unworthy of his wife, but after marriage he acts as though he had sacrificed himself. Debts Not to Be Cancelled. The refusal of the Harding administration to yield to propaganda for cancellation, in whole or in part, of foreign debts to this country is in keeping witii tne overwhelming sentiment in the United States. There are two outstanding unanswerable argu ments against the cancellation of European debts to the United States government. First, it is a mis nomer to speak of the cancellation of European debts as "wiping them out." It would not mean that. It would mean the transference of those debts to the backs of the American taxpayers. Loans to European nations were made out of funds from sate of Liberty bonds in this country. These bonds are the outstanding public indebted ness of the United States government. They must be paid when they mature. If the portion which Europe obtained from proceeds of these bonds $11,000,000,000 is not paid by Europe then it must be raised by federal taxes imposed upon Americans. In short, the cancellation of European debts means adding $1 1.000,000,000 to the tax bill of the United States. It is sheer folly to presume that the American taxpayers will consent to any such procedure. The other outstanding argument against cancel lation of Europe's just debts to the United States government is that to do so would only make Eu rope's situation worse. Most of the propaganda being disseminated to the epect that Europe is in a desperate situation financially and can never get on her feet unless her debts to us are cancelled, is false and is put out for the purpose of mislead ing tne American public. That Europe s finances are in a bad way and that conditions in Europe are very bad, is true. But that the situation is due to the debts which Europe owes this country and that it would be improved by the cancellation of these debts is not true. The critical conditions in Europe today are due to the policies of European nations. iney plead poverty, but it is notorious that thev are finding billions of dollars with which to engage in war and prepare for future wars. They plead inability to pay their honest debts to the United States, but they are able to find hun dreds oi millions of dollars to invest in other coun tries for the purpose of extending their foreign trade. They insist they are facing bankruptcy, but they are not making any effort to reduce their govern ment expenses and discharge a veritable army of public employees. In some European countries there is one person out of every five on the public payroll. They are pleading inability to raise money to meet interest due the United States on loans made to them in the hour of their extremity, but they are finding hundreds of millilons of dollars to pay out in support of such socialistic propositions as pensions for unemployed, the very payment of which encourages idleness and retards the return of industrial production to a normal level. It has become perfectly apparent that Europe is not going to curtail her armaments, forego her commercial rivalries and lulst for more territory, increase production of her peaceful industries, cut out governmental extravagances, and make an hon est endeavor to practice economy so long as she believes she will never have to "pay up." Nothing will bring Europe to her senses quicker and make for world peace and the return to normal condi tions throughout the world than a realization that the United States govrnment not only will refuse to listen to any proposal to cancel European debts, on the other hand will insist that these debts and the interest on them be met. Nothing encourages the spendthrift so much as the belief that he can easily obtain more money when that which he has is gone. Nothing so quick ly brings him to his senses as the cutting off of his allowance. Nothing will force him to honest toil except the necessity of working in order to obtain enough money o sustain him. Very often it re quires the pounding of the sheriff on the door to in cite some folks to industry and economy. That is the situation today in practically every European country. People who are seldom annoyed about time will soon be reminded of how many shopping days there are until Christmas. i Live Cecil News Items. Mis MiUlr-ed Henrikstn of Cecil school and Miss Violet Bedford of Rhea Siding school and their re spective pupils pave a fine program at the Rhea Siding schoolhoasa on Tuesday night. We heard it rumored that Master Noel Streeter of Cecil was the star performer of the evening out of a first class performance of the other numerous pupils present. A pie sale, followed by dancing, end ed splendid entertainment. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Minor of Hepp ner and Mrs. Phil Brady and son of lone were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Krebs at The Last Camp on Mon day and Tuesday before leaving for Portland, where Mr. Minor will reside for the winter. Our best wishes are extended to him and we hope his health will soon be restored. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Shaw arrived in Cecil on Tuesday from Saskatche wan. Canada and will visit Butterby Flats for some time. Alfred declares there is no place so good to him as Oregon more especially Cecil, and he hopes to make his home here. We wish Mr. and Mrs. Shaw every suc cess. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Thompson and daughter of Heppner were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Krebs at The Last Camp on Sunday. Bob has bought a large quantity of hay from Minor A Krebs on their Cecil ranch and will ship sheep in later on to feed on the line hay grown in Sunny Cecil. - Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Henriksen of Strawberry ranch chaperoned a large party of young people who took in the masquerade ball at lone on Saturday night. We understand Roy Stender of Seldomseen ranch, Cecil, carried off second prise as a gorgeous toreador. Don't forget to take in the dance at Cecil Hall on the 11th. Good music good time and supper served by Mrs. T. H. Lowe. Democratic sandwiches, republican pickles, independent cakes and congress coffee on the menu. Rev. C. W. Duboise of Vancouver gave a splendid service in Cecil Hall on Monday night which was very much enjoyed by all present. Between twenty-five and thirty people attend ed the service. George Terry of Ewing had several of his fingers injured while at work on Friday, and after having his wounds treated at Heppner he is now progressing fine. George A. Miller and son Elvin of Highview ranch were visitors at the county seat on Wednesday, and are now busy grading on the county roads. A carload of fine lambs which Mrs. Pat Farley sold during the week, were shipped from Cecil on Tuesday, going to Illinois. Ellis Minor of The End of The Trail ranch near lone was doing busi ness in Cecil on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Willey and family of The Willows were calling on their Cecil friends on Sunday. William Chandler and son of Wil low creek ranch were business men in Heppner on Monday. Kenneth Mahoney and party of friends from Heppner were visiting the Mayor on Sunday. Miss Mary Chandler of Willow creek ranch was calling in Cecil on Saturday. Miss Minnie Ries, teacher of Four Mile achool, was calling in Cecil on Tuesday. How to Buy World Peace The Japs and the Germans glory in war. They teach their sons that the noblest deed in life is to die in battle. Every American mother believes, however, that service is greater than sacrifice. She believes in sacrifice when sacrifice is the last ser vice her son can render. But she would have him so serve that he would not be called upon to make the supreme sacrifice. By falsifying a telegram the German Bismarck forced a wholly unwarranted war of conquest upon France. Ever since that crusade of conquest Ger many busily prepared for "Der Tag," when she would rule the world. Austria, Russia and Italy were to be her quick assets. She would conquer France. Then England. With that accumulated power she planned to work out her already plotted scheme through the help of Mexico to invade our country across the Rio Grande. Thank God, all this was prevented. Germany now says she cannot pay her indemni ty. Germany whines. France is fearful of Germany, as she has reason to be. The German mark is practically worthless; but Germany is not bankrupt. Far from it. Germany is rich. The Germans are getting rich fast. Gold is an arbitrary standard of exchange. The Germans are an ingenious people. They find it to their advantage to establish another form of ex change among themselves. They appraise com modities and exchange commodities direct. Robert Brewer, the head of the Exchange Na tional Bank of Tulsa, Okla., who has just returned from Europe, says: "You can't legislate paper money into power, but you can establish a com modity appraisal exchange for the whole world as Germany has done. Then we can make Germany pay her debts, not with marks but with products." That is sound. This done, America should follow the Borah plan of trading in our war claims for tight riveted assur ances of peace. If by this process we buy the peace of the world, we would get world peace at a bargain counter price, and our sons would be saved. The election is over. Walter Pierce is elected governor, and that by a good, substantial majority. This comes pretty hard to a lot of us republicans, especially those who backed their partisanship with good, hard dollars and had a democratic friend walk off with the kale. Then it is rather hard to have to take the jibes, but we shall all live through it. Walter will doubtless make us a pretty good governor, and we are sure of one thing, if he keeps all the promises made to the people of Oregon during the campaign, he will have a man's job for the greater portion of his four years of incum- bancy. Things never turn out quite so bad as pre dicted in a heated political campaign, and there will be a chance for us all to get along and our differences, if any real differences exist, will soon be forgotten in the new order of things. And then if should be rather nice to change the personnel of the job holders about the state building down at Salem and let the public gaze on new faces for a season.. The job holders will be there under a new administration, and we doubt not but there will be just as many as at present, and they will be fully as eager to draw down the pay check from the state. IT'S TOASTED one extra process which gives a delicious flavor LUCKY STRIKE CIGARETTE, 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 - !fe and have dinner with us. Elkhorn Restaurant Heppner Gilliam & Bisbee's j& Column j& .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. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. May of Lone Star ranch were visiting in Cecil on Sunday. Mr. nd Mrs. J. 1. McEntire and children ot Killarney left for Hepp ner on Friday. Wanted By permanent renter res idence elose in to main street-Inquire this office. It. New Legion Chief Col. Alvin W. Owsley, of Beau mont, Tex., is the new Commander-in-Chief of the American Legion, elected last week at New Orlean. Cooking Utensils ms CLEAN 33 feajT " For quick results on all metalware use SAPOLIO Cleans Scours Polishes HWMtni Em). Mortu'i Sou C, Ntv Trfc, U. 1 A. acDoa XJCD llllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll WILL you have I s your old suit . I j fixed up, or buy a I f new one? Either f j way, see f Lloyd Hutchinson I Where LEAN 5 Thev I LOTHES 'LEAN mmmmm iiiiiiiiiiiiiri illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli; 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 i3 the best car bar gain for this country. These prices are for delivery here. KARL L BEACH, Lexington, Oregon BLANKETS RSffiffl OREGON CITY WOOL EN MILLS I "HUDSON BAY" Virgin Wool, and no bet H tpr hlanket made. For a cheanpr hlanket. we also carry the "FRESNO" a standard brand. PENDLETON INDIAN ROBES AND SHAWLS Fine Showing in Artistic Patterns and Colorings. Sam Hughes Go. Phone Main 962 Good Printing Is Our Hobby The Gazette-Times Gilliam & Bisbee MMMMmMmmMMMmmm WHEN THERE'S A SONG IN YOUR HEART THERE'S THE WORLD AT YOUR HEARTH Verily, music is sunshine on a dreary day ! Such an easy comfort to acquire, too, that every person should share it; the best music of the earth can be heard on BRUNSWICK which, playing all makes of records at their best, enables you to hear the artists you de sire, no matter for whom they may sing ex clusively. Jack Mulligan Sherman-Clay & Co.'s Representative, at Harwood's Jewelry Store Odd Fellows Bldg., Heppner Sheet Music Phonographs Records HOUSE CLEANING TIE Calls, among other ' things, for a good Broom We have just received a large shipment of excellent brooms, at remarkably low prices quality considered. A white enamel broom holder free with each Phelps Grocery Company PHONE 53