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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, IIErPNER. OREGON, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 23, 1922.
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OFFICIAL PArER FOR MORROW COUNTY
Tho Economic Grab Game
By Richard Lloyd Jones
CO.MPAKr tV,e finest Oregon apple vith a wild
crab anJ you have a simple parallel of the un
Hdnig reiincirients of political and economic
institutions.
We found the apple ild anj we tamed ft. We
to k 'he sccJ of she best fruit and planted again.
replanting only the best, protecting the trees
from the insect foes, giving battle to the wrecking
worm. e have through a generation of trees pro
duced maielous fruit.
This is not an illogical picture to present in the
cphmJc a'ion of railroads. A lot of people think
that e are going to the dogs. Ex-Senator Petti
grew of S.uith Dakota, one of our brightest but
niot pessimistic public men. has recently written
a bock to tell us how topsy-turvy everything is and
that e are headed for the bow-wows.
We are not going to the bow-wows. The good
Senator is wrong. He points to the danger of com
binations in business. The very danger that he
fears is bringing into life the perfected fruit of gov
ernment control with ultimate government owner
ship of the common carriers of the country. When
we reach that good goal w e are going to create out
of those common carriers a revenue which will
greatly reduce our tax burden.
It is a pruning process, a program of selection
and development of that which brings promise of
the better until we get the best.
We used to be afraid 0 railroad mergers. We
used to pass laws to prevent them. We thought it
a terrible system for small railroads to get together
and organize one large system. Now we think it
fine. We're encouraging it. The trouble is, a lot
of fellows who were progressives in 1S39 haven't
yet got the progressive view of 1922.
Four big railroads, the Northern Pacific, Great
Northern, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul are today talking
merger. This is not a terrible contemplation. We
should hope for its consummation. It is just mak
ing one fine, big apple out of four smaller ones. It's
improving the fruit on our national economic and
industrial tree.
If you want to see a line of old railroad crabs
just look at ny passing freight train. It's a kaleid
oscopic picture of a monumental mix-up, a moving
panorama of the inefficiency and waste of a lot of
little crab roads.
On that passing freight train you will see cars
marked New York Central, Southern Pacific, Bos
ton and Maine, Denver & Rio Grande, Southern,
Great Northern, Lackawana, Illinois Central, Wa
bash, Florida East Coast, Soo Line, Texas and Pa
cifis and so on to the caboose.
Every one of those cars has to be distributed back
to the four corners of the continent until they get
on their own little siding. Petty, little sour crabs,
belonging to an ancient transportation tree.
The United States mail pouch is a mail pouch
anywhere from Maine to Arizona. Any railroad
car should be the same.
The more they merge the better and when we get
one big merger of all railroads, the next step will
be for the government to take them over, run them,
acquire the profit and spend it in running the busi
ness of the government, thereby reducing the tax
burden upon the tax payer.
Railroads, like apples, get better as they get big
ger. It's a great and grand grafting game just like
pruning up the trees for the finer product. We are
going ahead, each day nearer to a more perfect
product.
The popl of that city have undertaken one of the
(treat mechanical romance! of modern times. They will
develop 550.000 horsepower from Skagit river. Ruby
reservoir, 1600 feet above tea level, will be 25 miles long
and its dam 40 feet high, and water will feed through
a tunnel 34 miles to Ruby power house 800 feet lower
down, developing 325.000 horsepower. Gor reservoir,
still lower, will be four miles long, with a dam 600 feet
long and 40 feet high, the water passing through two
tunnels, each two miles long, to Gorge power house,
where 225,000 horsepower will be developed. The great
surge of industry from the Skagit river project will be
turned into the industries and the homes of Seattle, to
give it an electrified advantage over competitor cities.
Why not put Portland on an electric parity with Che
halis? Chehalis has a fine new city hall. But the taxpayers
of Chehalis levied no tax to pay for it. They issued no
bonds. They constructed the new building, which com
bines municipal offices, the fire and police bureaus and
the municipal court, from the profits of their municipal
lighting system. Chehalis does not generate electric
current, but buys it from a private corporation. It buys
for 4 cents a kilowatt and sells for 7 cents. Seven cents
a kilowatt is a fraction of a cent less than the first rate
paid in Portland by customers of the lighting companies.
The race in the West is to be to the strong. The in
dustrial future of any Western city is to be gauged by
its utilisation of hydro-electric power opportunities.
The growth of industry together with expansion of port,
distributive and marketing facilities, will determine the
future prosperity of any Western city.
Washington cities are going ahead electrically. Cal
ifornia communities are the most highly developed elec
ally in the nation.
Why not pnt Portland on an electric parity in ser
vice and cost of service with her competitors?
Portland has the opportunity to not merely at
tain a parity with her competitors but to outdis
tance all cities in the nation in the electric race. All
the big proposed projects on the Columbia are with
in the transmission radius of Portland. Up here
we think the Umatilla rapids project should be first
constructed because the cost would be compara
tively low, the engineering task simple, and land
to be irrigated is adjacent to the project. How
ever, if a disinterested survey should show some
other project as the favorite for early work we will
be for it.
What we want is development and from the
standpoint of Oregon's influence Portland holds the
key. If Portland will devote to Columbia river de
velopment one half the energy that was wasted on
the fair proposition we will secure results that will
be far more lasting than could be obtained from
any exposition. Pendleton fast Oregonian.
Live Cecil News Items.
Congratulations are extended to
Mr. and Mrs. Joe White who were
married at The Dalles on Tuesday
November, 14. Mrs. White was Miss
Mary Ellis of The Willows. Cards are
issued by the happy couple for a re
ception which will be held on Satur
day evening at their new home near
The Willows.
Judge Robinson Ione'a leading at
torney acrompained by Ed Bristow
the genial General Dealer of lone
and hi son Edmund were roaming
round the Cecil hills early Sunday
morning in search of geese, or what
ever they could catch. Results at hand
Master Harvey Smith of Four Mile
visited his friend Noel Streeter at
Cecil on Sunday. The young hunts
men left in search of all kinds of
game, but they never saw jack
rabbit and landed horn disgusted
with their days outing.
Mr. and Mrs, C. W. McNamer, Mr.
and Mrs. Mike Kinney and. John J.
Kelly some of the leading citisens of
Heppner made a short call in Cecil
on their return journey from Port
land where they took in the sights
of the Stock show.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ally of Forest
Grove have been busy looking after
their property near Cecil and visiting
their old neighbors at tho same tine.
We were pleased to see Mrs. Allyn
so much improved after her recent
serious operation.
Ellis Minor made a short stay in
Cecil on his return journey from
Portland before leaving for hia ranch
near lone. We were glad to hear from
Ellis that his father is improving
since he arrived in Portland.
Mrs. J. H. Samuels and children of
Athena arrived at Willow creek ranch
the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Chand
ler on Tuesday and will spend some
time visiting before returning home.
Peter Bauernfiend of Cecil is visit
ing friends in lone and Heppner for
a few days before leaving for Paso
Robles Springs, California, when he
will take treatments for a few months
Miss Violet Hynd and Miss Haiel
Anderson of Heppner and several
Portland Holds the Key
THE delegates to the open river conference are
welcome guests in Pendleton. This place is
not on the Columbia yet it has shown more in
terest than any other community in the cause of
river development. Our interests are three fold.
As the capital of a wheat producing territory this
city is interested in barge navigation on the Colum
bia so as to reduce freight rates. We are interest
ed in greater power development and it irrigation
through pumping which may be brought about
through harnessing the waters of the Columbia.
It is now well recognized that to open the river
we must develop its power resources. The swift
water at various places in the stream prohibits
barpe navigation. At present powerful boats may
navigate the Columbia and Snake as far as Lewis
ton but we have no real commercial navigatipn.
We won't have until the river is further improved or
a type of boat is produced that will revolutionize
our method of water transportation " '"
But the dirficulty that confronts us is blessing
in disguise. We need power as badly as "we need
cheaper transportation. . Most of the power' devel
opment has been on a private basis and the. aim
has naturally been minimum development and max-J
imum rates. We pay high for-eiectncity tor ngni
ing purposes. The rates are such as to make elec
tricity prohibitive for heating purposes and almost
prohibitive for industrial purposes. We, need
cheaper electricity so that it may be more general
lv used. Our railroads should be electrified and
much of our arid land should be watered through
pumping by electricity. ' -
There is plenty of potential power available.
Kcarly one third the prospective water 'power of
ihe nation is in the Columbia basin. The total pos-s'bl-
livdro-electric power of the region runs above
70 million horse power. 'Three projects on the
r. .-, the Bonneville, Celilo and Umatilla rapids
pri'vets, mav be made to produce over 2,000,000
horse newer.' The task is to get the river harnessed.
Pendleton has no more interest than other towns
a securing development of the river. Our selfish
i.-.i.v : k in the matter are not as great as those of
rvrtund. Many in Portland have not yet awakened
Ic Hie fact but the real destiny of. our metropolis is
t& v.p with this subject and forever, will be.
A line on what Columbia power development
Pnnfand was rettentlv given by the Ore-
rv, . Journal in the following editorial, which is wor-J
uy of reproduction: . ..
Wl y not put Port!e4 on an electric parity with la-
S'he avemg. householder in tnai cuy w
. ... .t.i -i-.ii, . m nsl unnraximatlng
i. . - nv -i-.., ji, . cost aDorvximating n
im,nth He Is able to buy current for house heatingfrom
hi. municipal plant at ete kilowatt boor. H. Is
able to electrify his borne tomplttely at a rost of about
'vVhy Jofimt Tortland on 0 Vr 6f-
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Prison Helps the Farmer
WHETHER the officials of the International
Harvester Company have been more inter
ested in marriages than in machinery may
not be decided, but figures given out by the census
bureau would indicate that the trust had better pay
closer attention to business if it hopes to keep up
the exploitation of men who till the soil.
The census department shows that in 1921 there
has been a decrease of 41 per cent in the total val
ue of farm machinery products sold as compared
with the year before. The largest percentages of
decrease appear in horse-drawn vehicles and in
tractors and traction engines.
This is a tremendous falling off, but while it has
been in progress price reductions on farm machin
ery manufactured at the Minnesota State prison,
granted in response to a request by the Minnesota
Farm Bureau Federation, have saved farmers 'Of
that state $150,000 in a year.
A report from this prison shows that 7,108 farm
machines have been sold in the last twelve months,
including particularly binders, mowers and rakes,
This represents an increase of 139 per cent in the
use of binders, 38 per cent in the sale of mowers,
and 10 per cent increase in the consumption of
rakes.
The manufacture of farm machinery in the State
prison comes as a result of farm bureau activity
and should prove an inspiration to other states, for
seemingly a way has been found to get at least the
thin edge of the wedge into the iron ring the Har
vester trust has held around the throat of the farm
er for years.
It has been contended that putting on the market
the products of prison labor would unhorse busi
ness, but if the Harvester trust be unhorsed, no
body will grieve very much. .
The farmers pay their share for the support of
the restricted criminals, so it is not a bad idea for
them to get something out of the labor of their
wards.
f I School to Save Human Life
1-LAT dwellerein New York are now to be
H blessed in the erection of a bacteriology build
ing in which the public will be shown how to
prevent disease.
.. A museum with models will demonstrate how to
eradicate rats and flies, and how to ditch to do away
with malarial mosquitoes, and how to indulge in
home pasteurizing of milk. Also the sanitary hand
ling of food and the proper kind of plumbing that
should be installed in the public safety will be
shown.'
Truly New York is a wonder city. Medically
there is nothing like it in the world. Your million
aire ravs $10,000 for an operation from skilled
hands that perform the same operation on the
needy free of charge. For the poor the city is a
medical and surgical paradise.
Forward looking men of course have now come
to see that prevention is becoming more and more
necessary in the practice of medicine. In the old
days doctors were taught how to cure disease. Now
they are being taught how to prevent it.
It is high time the national and state govern
ments recognized the necessity of following New
York's lead. ,
The elections are over. Our new government
officials will soon be in harness. What a relief it
would be if they would spend some of the public
money for the preservation of the public health.
. New York has the advantage of a great concen
tration of medical skill that does not exist in the
country, but the principles of health consrevation
apply alike in all districts.
Why cannot the national and state health depart
ments' educate the people to health preservation
through officially advertised instructions and talks
to the people signed by the proper authorities.
The newspaper is the vehicle to spread this
knowldge.
We have said this before, but sometimes it takes
a surgical operation to get an idea into the head of
the government. ' ;
Shell Fish!
DO YOU ENJOY SHELL
FISH!
Oysters
Clams
Crab
Served in any style to
your order.
Our Sunday dinners are an
attraction and should appeal
to you. Save the wife extra
work Sundays by taking din
ner with us just bring the
whole family along.
Elkhorn Restaurant
Heppner
Gilliam & Bisbee's
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Come in and get the County
Agent's machine for the dry treat
mept 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.
gentlemen friends were the guests
of "The Mayor" after taking in the
dance at Cecil on Saturday.
Our sympthies are extended to Mrs.
Geo. A. Miller and family of High
view ranch. Mrs. Miller's father pass
ed away on Novemter, 11, at Battle
ground, Washington.
Mrs. Karl Farnsworth who has
been visiting friends in Heppner re
turned to her home at Rhea Siding
on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ashur Montague and
children of Eight Mile and friends
from Free water were calling in Cecil
on Sunday.
Miss Annie C. Hynd of Butterby
Flats left on Monday for Heppner
where she will visit for some time,
Mr. Kellogg manager of tho Tum-a-Lum
Co. of lone waa doing business
on Willow creek druing tho week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. McEnUre and
children of Killarney were doing busi
ness in Arlington on Thursday.
Mr. Sydney White of Portland was
looking up bis friends in tho Cecil
vicinity on Saturday.
Everrett Logan of Heppner spent
Wednesday and Thursday in Cecil.
H. J. Streeter was a business man i
in lone on Tuesday.
Mrs. C. C. Chick, wife of Pr. Chick
of Heppner is a patient at the local
hospital following an operation which
was preformed upon her yesterday
morning. Pendleton Tribune.
Miss Neva Hayes is leaving this
morning for a two weeks vacati
which she will spend with relatives at
Eugene and Portland. Pendleton
Tribune.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at La Grande, Oregon,
November 18. 1932. Notice is hereby
given that William Cunningham, of
Lena, Oregon, who, on August U,
1920, made Additional Homestead En
try. No. 017877, for WKSW. SE4
SW14, Section -20, NfcNWfc, SE14
NW14NW14, Section 29, NEKNE14,
Section SO, Township S South, Range
29 East, Willamette Meridian, has
filed notice of intention to make Fi
nal three-year Proof, to establish
claim to tho land above described, be-
for United States Commissioner, at
Heppner, Oregon, on the 12th day of
January, 1923.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Paul Hisler, of Heppner, Oregon;
Percy Cox, of Heppner, Oregon;
Frank T. Peery, of Lena, Oregon; L.
L. Hiatt, of Lena, Oregon.
CARL G. HELM, Register.
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WILL you have
your old suit
fixed up, or buy a
new one? Either
way, see
Lloyd Hutchinson
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Gilliam & Bisbee
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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Lets Play It Over Again
That's what you both will say when you hear the latest
Brunswick hits fresh from Broadway. They're catchy and
tuneful and the dances are so jaizy you can't keep your feet
still. Come in and hear the wonderful Brunswick Super-Feature
records today.
If yon haven't a Brunswick Phonograph this wiU be a good
time to learn how It excels in tone, the utter absence of vibra
, tion or metallic suggestion.
Models are beautiful, the range of prices suits every pocket
book; payment can be arranged in accordance with our con
venient monthly plan. -
Say to Father "I want a Brunswick"
1 Then explain how comfortably he can gat It for you and
bring him to our shop to hear it He will enjoy a Brunswick
Just as much as you and your friends. Everyone who appre
ciates the best muaie should own a Brunswick the favorite
of musicians.'
2311 "Tricks" ' 2317 "Panorama Bay"
"Dancing Fool" "Thru the Night"
. 2328 "Tomorrow"
"I Wish I Knew"
2318 "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"
"Eleanor" '
2335 Why Should I Cry Over You." '
"Gee, But 1 Hate to Go Home Alone" .
Jack Mulligan
ShermanClay" &. Co.'s Representative, at
Harwood's Jewelry
Store
Odd Fellows Bldg., Heppner ,V
Sheet Music Phonographs Records
Music Rolls
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tile, marble, concrete, with
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Makes all house-
cleaning easy.
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ter blanket made. For a cheaper blanket
we also carry the "FRESNO" a standard
brand.
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HOUSE CLEANING
TIME
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
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