THE GAZETTE-TIMES. IIEFPNER, OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER SO, 1922.
The Gazette -Times
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OFFICIAL PAPER FOR MORROW COUNTY
AYc Should Spwd Up Safety
fly Richard Lloyd Jones
EVER since the advent of the steam engine we
have been speeding up, and uhile that speed
has come with inestimable henefit. it has not
come w ithout its measure of attendant harm. When
the legislature of New York was first asked to grant
i franchise for eighteen miles of steam railroad,
the right to build this first railroad was not granted
without a bitter opposition which contended that it
would be unsafe because the engine would scare
so many horses that an unwarranted toll of death
would result.
The railroad came and those who opposed it were
right in their death toll predictions. The engines
did scare the horses. There were runaways, and
what is worse, there were wrecks on the rails and
an ever-increasing list of accidents have been re
corded as the iron ribbon mileage multiplied.
But for all this we would not erase the railroads
from our maps; we would not go back to the days
when even a king would cry "My kingdom for a
horse."
The threshing machine has cost many a thresher
an arm. But we would not go back to the days
when we flayed grain on the floor.
Mill machinery and foundry furnaces take their
human toll. But we cannot do without them.
We Ry sky-high and all too often we read of a
fallen flyer. It is the price we pay to learn how
with safety to use the swifter way.
The auto brings its price in limb and life. We
pay it and speed away.
We have been impatiently seeking speed. With
the same impatience we must seek safety. The
cost of speed has reached such alarming propor
tions that the "Safety First" slogan was born.
Observe, we did not cry "Cut it out," nor did we
even plead "Slow down." We do not want to
slacken, much less to stop. On the contrary, we
want to speed up. That is progress. But we must
speed up safety.
The National Safety Council reports that the
compiled figures of preventable accidents in 1920
show a death toll of as many people as live in the
State of Nevada. In other words, in one year we
wiped'out by accident one whole State. That means
. that it is time to STOP something. It is not speed
we should stop. We must stop recklessness.
The man-eating threshing machine has gone out
of fashion. But the fool at the auto wheel is busy.
Fatalities from reckless auto driving average thirty
deaths a day. We have speed laws, but they are
defiantly disobeyed and the violators when arrested
are too often dismissed with a modified reprimand
or a petty fine.
To endanger the life of another is not a light or
laughing matter.
We must adjust ourselves to the auto as the
horse did to the train. We make the train run on
schedule, limit its speed on curves, slow down at the
sign of caution and come to a full stop at the STOP
signal. So must we make every auto driver do.
There is but one way to do it, and that is for
every community to impose drastic penalty for ev
ery offender and for every community to promptly
get rid of any officer that fails to arrest the offend
ers and every judge and magistrate that will not
impose the full penalty of the crime.
If it is a crime to take life, it is a crime to en
danger life. Speed up safety. It is the duty of
every town and county government to get indig
nantly busy on this all important job. We cannot
spare our people in whole state-ful lots.
expenses, and there is a strong spirit of retrench
ment in many counties and cities and budgets are
reduced from the estimates of 1921, and state esti
mates will be reduced.
One state official estimates that $250,000 a year
can be cut from the administrative charges of
state departments without lowering the efficiency
of the service. The budget estimates from all state
departments are now in and the State Board of
Control is revising them.
It would be possible before the legislature meets
for the old and new Governor or any state official
to go over every function of state administration
and find just what it costs, what money it earns and
turns nito the state treasury, how many employed
and at what pay.
With these facts in the possession of the Gov
ernor office, that officer could decide what might
be abolished or reduced or consolidated with some
other function, what salaries might be reduced or
increased, and after receiving suggestions from
the people, publish the same.
The facts of each department should be given
to all the newspapers of the state, not just the
Portland newspapers, with the recommendation of
the Governor in each case, and the legislature
would not dare ignore the recommendation to apply
business principles to the situation.
The buck can no longer be passed on adminis
trative reform. Two $10,000 commissions have
been created in the past, and one has a long report
to lay before the legislature. Another is to report
on the expediency of the Washington administra
tive code.
No corporation or private business would hesi
tate to put its affairs in order, and while dealing
fairly with all faithful employes and necessary ser
vices, would not fail to adjust its affairs to the abil
ity of the people to pay, and make every depart'
ment prove value received for money invested.
l he Manufacturer.
Harold Dobyns, Govt.
Trapper, Is Promoted
Harold Pobyns. popular trapper of
pmlatory animals in the county has
received an appointment as assistant
predatory animal inspector, and is
leaving for Portland to confer with
Stanley Jewett, who is head of the
work in this section. Mr. Dobyna will
he in Portland until Pec. 7, and will
then go to Olympia, Wash. He was
here yesterday for a short time be
fore leaving for lone where his rela
tives lire. Mrs. Dobyns and their
small daughter, Patricia, will remain
at lone for a month.
Mr. Dobyns is rated as one of the
best trappers in the United States.
The office of the biological survey
which conducts the government trap
ping of predatory animals wrote Mr.
Jewett that the thesis on trapping
submitted by Mr. Dobyns was the beat
that has ever been turned in to the
department.
Since 1916. Mr. Dobyns has been
trapping in this county, and during
that time he has killed 50 bears, about
1000 coyotes, 100 wild cats, two lynx,
and though porcupines and badgers
are not on the predatory list, 1000 of
them have been killed by this one
trapper in his service here.
Mr. Dobyns was busily engaged is
his work when the news of his ap
pointment came, and this month he
had already caught 27 coyotes. He has
now picked up his traps, and is on
his way to the new job.
"Bolliver" is entering on a long va
cation. Bolliver is the faithful bay
horse that has carried the trapper
over the hills for six years. Mr.
Dobyns says he has ridden Bolliver
enough milage during the last six
years to take him three times around
the world. The horse is not for sale,
the trapper says, he will be turned
out and will spend the rest of his
days as an idler in green pastures.
Mr. Dobyns says he isn't sure that
he will like the speech-making part
of his new job, but adds with his
characteristic smile that he is "go
ing to do his best."
Mr. Dobyns reports that there is
very little snow in the mountains
now. He says deer tracks are rather
numerous in places along Meadow
creek Pendleton Tribune.
It will be learned with regret that
Rev. John C. Hall, pastor of the Con
gregational church of lone, wilt close
his labors here January first, after
three years of service. He is as yet
undecided whether he will accept one
of several pastorates open to him in
Oregon. Washington and Colorada or
go Kat and return to one of hia form
er fields. lone Independent.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hunt were in the
city Saturday from their farm home
in Sanford Canyon.
Future Outlook for Oregon
TTTHAT policies shall control in the organiza
W ' e next General Assembly and in the
' ' new state administration that will be in con
trol of the affairs of the commonwealth for the
next four years?
The people do not want an old-fashioned legis
lative session starting with fifty thousand dollars
wasted on five- and ten-dollar-a-day useless clerks
and experts and ending with an orgie of log-rolling
and midnight sessions for big appropriations with
out formality of rollcalls.
The people do not want four or five hundred new
laws passed creating new jobs and commissions,
creating new places for pets, and imposing new
taxes, fees, license? and permanent burdens on the
taxpayers. All candidates have run on economy
platforms and the people demand action.
In California a Governor has been elected who
as state treasurer has resisted expansion policies,
salary raising and padding payrolls, and his plat
form is business polities in state affairs, death to
parasites, but retaining all useful and necessary
state emploves.
In Washington a new state administrative sys
tem has abolished 71 boards and commissions and
2S4 state employes in administrative service, mat
ing a direct saving of $1,734,719 in the past ten
months, and a yearly reduction in state payrolls of
$133,902.
A commission of prominent men was named
early in the year to report on the Washington ad
ministrative system. Will they submit a report of
any kind favorable to reform on new lines, or will
they uphold the present system which has resulted
in checking state development i
The people demand a cut in the total of tax rates,
without weakening the efficiency of our state gov
eminent, without abandoning a progressive high'
way system or impairing our educational system
Washington ras increased ths emcienry of state
government by an entirely new system.
Millions of dollars taxes are delinquent in thh
state. Single counties have had to bil in fifty to
one hundred thousand dollars of taxes on lands,
and continuing old methods will turn this state over
to the tender mercies of socialism and communistic
radicalism.
Confiscatory taxes are eating up the prosperity
of the producers and the property of the people,
Continuation of such policies by an old-fashioned
loot legislature will meet with stern rebuke by the
people.
An inefficient machine-ridden legislature, or
ganized on the old lines, pursuing old methods, with
reckless, careless, extravagant, incompetent lead'
ership will not relieve the plight of the people, nor
promotv) the development of industries, or bring
settlers to Urceon.
Great promises were made during the campaign
as to what could be cut from the overhead of state
The Farmer Wins the Election
PERHAPS the most significant phase of the
recent election is summed up in a public state
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incut issucu uy mr. jiay Oliver, rvasmngiun
representative of the American Farm Bureau Fed
eration, as follows:
"The entire membership of the senate and
house agricultural blocs was returned to con
gress by a safe majority. We consider this a
full vindication of The American Farm Bureau
Federation's legislative programme, as well as
- that of the blocs, and proof that the legisla
tion was in line with public sentiment."
Mr. Silver's analysis is obvious, but it tells only
part of the lesson.
The result evidently heralds an awakening of
the public mind to the fact that the real pary in
which Americans are interested as a unit is the
American party whose backbone and sole platform
is the prosperity of the man who tills the soil and
keeps the world alive.
Twenty years ago no one could conceive a Dem
ocratic farmer rejoicing at the election of a Repub
lican to Congress, but likewise twenty years ago
we could not conceive Illinois listening to the opera
in New York as per radio today.
The world moves. Blind partisanship is giving
way to common sense, and we are coming to see
that such matters as the national budget and the
tariff are not properly placed in the sphere of poli
tics. The farm is in this category of national fac
tors that must be safeguarded and developed re
gardless of party if the nation is to progress, and
fortunately the farmer has sensed this fact himself.
While the great cities have poked a great deal of
fun at the farmer and smiled at his ingenuous sim
plicity, seemingly he is the only force in American
life that has displayed enough common sense to
organize along intelligent lines and sufficient acu
men to make good.
The legislative success of the farmer may be
traced more than anything else to the fact that it
has been based on justice, and is for the common
good.
The State Highway Commission has made the
Wallula cut-off, so-called, a primary road, and will
thus be able to cooperate with the government in
completing that portion of the Columbia Highway
to the Washington state line. The Commission
was "forced" to do this, according to the statement
of the Portland Oregonian.
IT'S TOASTED
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which gives a
delioious flavor
LUCKY
STRIKE
VCIGARETTE,
(Sleep,
, Baby, Sleep By John D., Jr.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., has again laid
down the laws of good citizenship. Save your
pennies, he says; don't run an automobile un
less you can afford it, don't have a phonograph un
less you have money for "such luxuries," work
eight hours a day conscientiously, obey the author
ities, don't violate the speed lawsexcept possibly
during working hours and respect prohibition.
Thus the young multimillionaire revamps the re
actionary rules of life laid down by the rich for the
poor for ages, the recipe that has spread the spirit
of socialism further than anything in the world.
Young Rockefeller is possessed of so much
wealth he cannot count it. Certainly he never
worked and produced it. Doubtless its beginning
rests on "thrift and saving" by his father, but it
has swollen to countless millions without work.
The youhful Croesus says that thought of a six
hour work day is puerile. Naturally the man whose
bursting bank account is swelled every minute by
picking off a percentage of the production of
countless thousands of men is not enthusiastic
about cutting down their hours of work. Every
little bit helps.
His allusion to the phonograph as a luxury dates
back to the dark ages. The phonograph has saved
the sanity of thousands of lonely women on the
farms and given joy to millions of men and women
from whose sweat the Rockefeller millions have
sprung.
Mr. Rockefeller's Bible class doubtless sits with
mouths agape but the public Bible class, consist
nig of more than a hundred million people, will be
more deeply interested if the young man will tell
them how the farmer and the miner and other use
ful workers in the world can get a just return for
their labor, and how the people can prevent the
amassing of fabulous fortunes by those who don't
work for them.
Having thus expressed ourselves will the spend
thrift possessors of talking machines now turn on
that charming record entitled, "Sleep, Baby, Sleep."
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
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Live Cecil News Items.
Jack Hynd, mayor of Cecil, left
on the local on Sunday for Portland.
He was accompanied by his sister
Miss Annie Hynd, of Rose Lawn
Heppner. Constable John is again
kept busy.
F. H. Halferty, who has been spend
ing the last few weeks with his moth
er Mrs. Mary Halferty of Shady Dell
returned to his home in Portland on
Tuesday.
Misses Mildred Henriksen and Vio
let Ledfprd of Strawberry ranch
visited at the home of A. Henriksen
of Lexington on Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Annie Hynd and Herb Hynd of
Butterby Flats, were the dinner
guests at the home of Mrs. Geo.
Henriksen on Wednesday evening.
Johnnie Shufelt and Earl Henrik
sen, two popular gents of Rhea, were
the guests of Herb Hynd, of Butter-
by Flats Wednesday evening.
Herb Hynd of Butterby Flats, ac
coinpained by Annie C. Lowe of the
Highway House were transacting
business in lone on Thursday.
Mrs. G. A. Miller, who has been
visiting relatives in Battle Ground,
Washington, for three weeka return
ed home Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Funk and daugh
ter returned home on Sunday from
Portland where they had been taking
in the sightv
Mrs, Tocom returned to Portland
Sunday after spending a few days
around Cecil and Heppner.
W. E. Ahalt and son Harold oi
lone were calling on their Cecil
friends on Wednesday.
W. T. Benedict of Lyle Wash., was
calling on hia old friend Henry Street-
er on Saturday.
Walter Pope and Geo. Krebs of Ce
cil spent a few days in Heppner dur
ing the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Farnaworth of
Rhea were visitors in Heppner on
Wednesday.
T. W. Lowe of the Highway House
spent Friday and Saturday in Hepp
er. Mrs. Geo. Henriksen was a business
caller in Arlington on Thursday.
Marion Van Schoiack, of Arlington,
was a Cecil caller on Tuesday.
Mr. Harbinson and F. C. Maloy were
Cecil callers Thursday.
W. Osborn was a county seat
caller on Monday.
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WILL you have
your old suit
fixed up, or buy a
new one? Either
way, see
Lloyd Hutchinson
Where
They
LEAN
LOTHES
LEAN
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.
Gilliam & Bisbee
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1 FRESH AND CURED MEATS 1
Fish In Season
ITake home a bucket of our lard. It
is a Heppner product and is as
good as the best
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Let's 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 jazzy you can't keep your feet
still. Come in and hear the wonderful Brunswick Super-Feature
records today.
If you haven't a Brunswick Phonograph this will 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"
Then explain how comfortably he can get it for you and
bring him to oar shop to hear it He will enjoy a Brunswick
Just as much as you and your friends. Everyone who appre
ciates the best music should own a Brunswick the favorite
of musicians.
2311 -"Tricks" 2317 -"Panorama Bay"
"Dancing Fool" "Thru the Night"
232 "Tomorrow"
"I Wish I Knew"
2318 "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" '
"Eleanor" .
233S Why Should I Cry Over You."
"Gee, But I Hate to Go Home Alone"
Jack Mulligan
Sherman-Clay & Co.'s Representative, at
Harwood's Jewelry
Store
Odd Fellows Bldg., Heppner
Sheet Music Phonographs , Records
Music Rolls
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ter blanket made. For a cheaper blanket
we also carry the "FRESNO" a standard P
brand.
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Friday, December 15th
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