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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER. OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1923.
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1 Conaolldated February 15 191
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office at Heppner, Oregon at second-tlau matter.
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR MORROW COUNTY
America Needs Reminders.
By Richard Lloyd Jones
One hundred years after a group of wise and
brave men meeting in Independence Hall created
for the American hoy the glorious holiday, the
Fourth of July, we celebrated the birth of this na
tion in a great centennial exposition in Philadel
phia. The good people of this city-of brotherly
love now propose ith commendable patriotic en
thusiasm that the nation build and hold another
great American exposition in that same city in 1926
to record the progress, and glory in the triumphs, of
this nation in its century and a half of matchless
life.
It's a fine idea. We need reminders. We have
too few holidays to remind us of the lofty ideals of
the builders of this nation. And the too few we
have are accepted as merely a release from labor.
They lead too few of us to the patriotic shrine. In
our individual quest for gain we too often lose
sight of the common aim which is the common gain.
In our search for individual wealth we too often
forget the COMMONWEALTH. That was a great
ord in 1776. It is a word shunned as socialistic
by the avaricious of today.
We need reminders that we may not lose out of
America that which is America. We have been a
generous and hospitable people. We have opened
our doors and welcomed the European malcontent
he who was persecuted by foreign crowns. We
have made welcome the covetous who came to get
from us but not to give. We have made welcome
the foreign-minded who had no idea of becoming
American-minded, who took advantage of our hos
pitality and came to "do us" rather than do with us.
We need reminders lest we forget and forgetting
go astray.
Condemnation of the government is not left to
the "Reds" alone. Nor is it solely the socialist's
obsession. Both major parties play checkers on the
board of government in Congress. They maneuver
for party advantage forgetting to plead for princi
ple divorced from party consideration.
The farmer finds fault with the government. The
laborer finds fault with the government. We find
fault with ourselves. We are the government.
The immigrant talks in the fatherland tongue,
reads the fatherland press, thinks in fatherland
loyalty and hopes to return with Amercian money
to live on fatherland soil. Irving Bacheller recent
ly reminded us that the big outstanding fact about
America was that "to save from the domination of
men whose god was in their bellies our fathers
made bloody footprints in the snow."
We need reminders, lest we ourselves kill the
very thing that was born on the Fourth of July in
16. How much we need it is eloquently told in a
recent issue of "Life," a humorous magazine which
treats this serious subject in a close to serious way
when it editorially asks: "Who Killed the Last
American?" and answers thus:
"I," said the Budget. "I did it with my financial
wheedle. I killed the Last American."
"I killed him," said Bolshevism. "I killed the
last American. I permeated his social structure
with my virus; I did it with my little Trotsky.
"I was the one who killed the Last American,"
said Immigration. "With my hordes I overcame
him ! I overwhelmed him utterly and completely
I, with mv steamship graft!
And all the bells tolled for the Last American,
who gasped to himself and groaned with his dying
breath :
" Twas I who did it ! I let myself be killed.
And all because I didn't know how to save myself!"
The Editor Offers Apology.
lies in its loose provision for pensioning widows.
The existing law makes the widow of a Civil War
veteran eligible to a pension if she married him
prior to June 17, 1905. In other words, marriage
within 40 years of the end of the Civil War gives
a veteran's widow a good title to a pension. The
act returned herewith extends the marriage period
specifically to June 27, 1915, and provides that af
ter that date any marriage, or cohabitation, for two
years prior to a veteran's death shall make the
widow the beneficiary of a pension at $50 per
month for die remainder of her life. In view of
trie fact that this same bill makes provision for
pension for widows of the veterans of the War of
1S12, the possible burden of this sweeping provis
ion seems worthy of serious consideration. Frank
ly, I do not recognize any public obligation to pen
sion women who now, nearly 60 years after the
Civil War, became the wives of veterans of that
war.
The Governgent has so many defenders to whom
generous treatment is due that Congress will find
it necessary to consider all phases of our obliga
tions when making provision for any one group.
The compensation paid to the widows of World
War veterans, those who shared the shock and sor
rows of the conflict, amounts to $24 per month.
It would be indefensible to insist on that limitation
upon actual war widows if we are to pay $600 per
year to widows who marry veterans 60 years after
tne Uvii w ar. W arren G. Harding.
Live Cecil News Items
Mr. and Mra. Jack Hynd and fam
ily of Butter by Flats and David Hynd
of Rose Lawn, Sand Hollow, were the
dinner iruesta of Mr. and Mra. Geo.
Henriksen of Strawberry ranch on
Monday, the young ladiea and gen
tlemen taking in the Morgan dance
to finish up with.
C. D. Sennett arrived at the Wil
lows on Sunday from Montana where
he has been looking after his mines
for the past few months. Mr. Sen
nett will make his home with his
daughter, Mrs. Melville Logan at the
Willows during his stay in Oregon.
Miss Georgia Summers of the Last
Camp, Miss Ruth May of Lone Star
ranch. Miss Minnie H. Lowe and
Robert Lowe of the Highway House,
all left on the local on Monday for
Portland, ready to resume their stud
ies at their respective schools.
Congratulations are extended to
Miss Vivian A. Logan, formerly a Ce
cil girl, who was married on Dec. 29
to Frank W. Madden of Portland.
We all wish the happy pair every
good gift it is possible for them to
have and enjoy.
Hermann Havercost could not re
sist the temptation of spending Mon
day evening in Hennner tn fnr
himself the results of tho hmino
match between his old pals Harold
Ahalt Of InnA nn4 Jn U., ...
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Portland..
John Krebs, who has been inspect-
i? the "in snH nt" -:.. -
Portland, landed home on Tuesday
urea oi city lite. John is now the
busiest man in Mnrpnu. nu
ing all things buzx on the Last Camp
Make Section 3208 Apply to All
Counties.
The state law requires only one county in Ore
gon, Multnomah, to let contracts of $250 or over
for public work, supplies or materials on public
bids publicly advertised for.
In other counties county courts buy and not only
buy without advertising for bids or specifications,
but do not comply with the law requiring them to
publish their expenditures in such cases in detail.
By a trick in the law limiting its application to
counties of 50,000 or more population, county
courts can buy on private terms the most expensive
machinery and materials, and can let big contracts
without taking bids on specifications as required in
Multnomah.
As a result all the counties in the state are doing
road and bridge .work and erecting buildings by
day's work and the people get no benefit of open
competition openly arrived at and openly accounted
for.
All expenditures for construction work and for
supplies and materials become a matter of personal
judgment of one or two commissioners. This sys
tem has plunged many counties in debt and waste
of funds. Manufacturer.
Farmers' Opportunity
This office was called upon by a bunch of four
young lads of this city Saturday, who were accom
panied by some seven or eight others of their class
who came, we presume, to see what was going to
happen. The four claimed a grievance at the editor
because he had incidentally mentioned in a write
up of a dance at Morgan that some disturbance was
caused on account of too much indulgence in liquor
and that some of the offenders were from Heppner.
For this statement we have no apology to make.
Our apology is that we did not pitch the bunch of
them out on the sidewalk for their insolent talk and
regret that we lack the physical ability to do a job
of this sort when it is presented.
We are always ready to listen to any complaint
that anyone has to offer concerning what might
have been stated in the news columns of the paper;
we do not aim to misrepresent facts in any case,
and when information comes to us from sources we
consider and believe to be reliable, it stands that
way, but it must be understood that all such is
without malice. In the case of these young fellows,
we should much prefer to say nice things about
them, as they are all capable boys, with good par
ents, rather than !o have to once in a while make
reference to circumstances of the sort mentioned
above.
The time is certainly at hand when this nation
will eat as much food as it produces. Any further
increase in demand which will surely come with
enlarging industry and expanding city populations
will give our farmers a better market for products.
It is very unlikely that the numbers of people en
gaged in farming will increase as rapidly as will
the national population. We know that the en
largement of our good farming area has its limi
I tations. The possibilities of imports of foodstuffs
aic limy a niniltu.
No amount of increase of demand will make ev
ery farmer prosperous, nor will it make good crops
and high prices every year. There will always be
ups and downs and there will always be some who
fail to succeed. Year in and year out, however, the
progressive farmers should be glad in the future
that they did not give up the land. Their business
chances should be fullv as good as the city man's.
One thing, however, American agriculture must
learn: If this nation is going to eat more food
than it produces, the first job of our farmers is t
study the home market. The real demand for our
food wil not be in foreign trade. Home consump
tion will be the demand to which the farmer will
cater and those who study this home demand most
carefully will reap the best profits Prof. Robert
McFall in Farm Life.
President Vetoes Pension Bill.
In another column is presented a summary of
the pension bill passed by Congress on December
31st. On January 3rd, President Harding vetoed
the bill, giving his reasons therefor as follows:
To the Senate:
To the Senate:
I am returning herewith Senate bill 3275, "An
Act granting pensions to certain soldiers, sailors,
and marines of the Civil War, etc.," without my
approval.
If the act were limited to its provisions in behalf
of the surviving participants in the Mexican and
Civil Wars and widows of the War of 1812, it
would still be without ample justification. The
Commissioner of Pensions estimates its additional
cost to the Treasury to be about $108,000,000 an
nually, and I venture the prediction that with such
a precedent established the ultimate pension outlay
in the half century before us wiil exceed $50,000,
000,090. The act makes no pretense of new con
sideration for the needy or dependent, no new gen
erosity for the veteran wards of the Nation; it is an
outright bestowal upon the Government's pension
roll, with a heedlessness for the Government' fi
nancial problems which is a discouragement to
every effort to reduce expenditures and thereby
relieve the Fderal burdens of taxation.
The more particular objection to this act however
Walter M. Pierce enters office as governor of
Oregon with even more friends than he had on
election day. The people hope much from him and
will give him general support, in spite of political
differences. The insistent hammering on state
economy which he kept to the front has borne fruit
already, for expenses have been cut materially and
the state tax will be less this year than last. Mr.
Pierce in his first utterances, probably promised
more than could be performed, but the very excess
has given people the belief that much can be ac
complished and will be accomplished.
As a matter of course, the new governor will ap
point his own men to take the places of those who
served under Gov. Olcott. When a new party en
ters executive office, in state or nation, it is the cus
tom of the losing party to charge the winners with
ousting capable men to make room for political
henchmen, and the "pie counter" is spoken of
sneenngly This is mere claptrap, for it is estab
lished practice for each executive to name his sub
ordinates and assistants, and the state expects
nothing else. Enterprise Record-Chieftain.
Insurance losses throughout the United States
cannot be lowered until this country finds a way of
lowering number of fires, 95 per cent of which are
due to carelessness, according to J. H. bchiveley,
secretary of the Insurance Federation of San Fran
cisco and a former state insurance commissioner
for Washington.
Mr. Schiveley points out that every law passed
to correct fire losses in the various state legisla
tures has penalized the insurance companies in
stead of aiming at a reduction of fire risks.
"To illustrate," said Mr. Schiveley, "the state of
California realizes more out of the underwriting
profits of the insurance companies than the com
panies do themselves, in the regulation of the com
panies. "We burn up nineteen times more property in
the United States than they do in Europe and the
cost of fire indemnity in this country is $4.50, as
against 35 cents in Europe."
Insurance rates are the measurements of the fire
hazards and the policy holder is responsible for
these rates because of the fire waste.
Misses Annio anH ITlftaoia Ct..J..
students of Heppner high school who
have been spending their vacation
with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stender at
Seldomseen. loft nn tha lnt -
Heppner on Tuesday.
Mrs. Geo. Henriksen and daughter
Miss Mildred and Miss Violet Bed
ford, who have been visiting their
mends in Canby for the past few
days, returned to Strawberry ranch
on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hardesty of Mor
gan and E. B. Gorton were looking
up their friends in Cecil on Thurs
day and for once in a lifetime could
n't find the sun shining in Cecil.
Gene Penland was a busy man in
Cecil Mondav rounriinr nn attl
which C. W. McNamer of Heppner
had bought from Minor & Krebs at
me last Lamp, j
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Rietmann who
have been spending a few days with
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Van Vactor at The
Dalles, returned to their ranch near
Cecil on Sunday.
Mrs. Jack Hvnd and Mian Vinlpt ann
Master Jackie left for Heppner on
Tuesday, ready for the opening of
scnooi on Wednesday.
Miss Grace Palmiter of Hood River
was the guest of Mrs. Mary Halferty
for the week-end before opening her
scnooi near lone.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Miller and
son Elvin of Highview ranch spent
Tuesday with Mrs. Turner at her
home near lone.
Mr. and Mrs. McEntire and children
of Killarney were calling at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Tyler at Rhea
on ounday.
Miss Malinda May of Lone Star
ranch left on Sunday for Bend where
she will resume her duties as teacher
once more.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Streeter and
family were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. Hardesty of Morgan on
Monday.
E. H. Carpenter of Portland, late
store keeper of Morgan, was calling
on friends around Cecil on WedneS'
day.
Keith Logan, student of Heppner
nigh school, spent his vacation with
his uncle, Leon Logan, at Four Mile.
Misses Chandler of Willow Creek
ranch were calling at Butterby Flats
on bunday.
R. E. Duncan of Busy Bee ranch
was doing business in Cecil on Saturday.
District No. 23 to Have Well.
School District No. 23 the Devine
school is going to stop carrying
water from a distance, and have con
tractcd with A. M. Edwards to drill
them a well at the schoolhouse. Mr.
Edwards moved his outfit there this
week and the work of sinking the
well vas begun.
Mr. Edwards was In Heppner Sat
urday to get a new Ford truck from
Latourll Auto Co. Hereafter he will
bo prepared to do all his own haul
ing and thus be able to expedite his
moving from place to place as his
services are needed.
Frank Hale, stockman of the Rit
ter section, is in Heppner this week.
Gilliam & Bisbee's
jZ? Column j&
A full car load of Poul
try supplies just arrived.
Anything and every
thing for the chicken in
stock.
A flash light on a dark
night is a necessity. None
better than the Winches
ter. We have all styles and
sizes.
Who said the roosters
were crowing and the
hens cackling over the
Poultry Supplies to be had
at Gilliam & Bisbee.
Water turns the wheel.
Money turns the business.
We have the business it
don't turn. Creditors
please take notice.
Gilliam & Bisbee
Semi-Annual Report
OF COUNTY CLERK OF MORROW COUN
TY, OREGON, FOR SIX MONTHS
ENDING DEC. 31, 1922
Claims Allowed By County Court Against General
County Fund
Expense of
Roads and Highways $
Election
Current Expense
County Court
County Sheriff
County Clerk
County Assessor ;
County Treasurer
Court House
Circuit Court
Justice Court
School Superintendent
County Physician
Widows Pensions
Overseer at County Grounds
Poor
Jail IIIIZIZZZZIIZ
Bounty
District Sealer
County Agriculturist
Health Officer "'Z
Tax Rebates
District Attorney ...rT.
Insurance
Water Master
County Surveyor
County Coroner
Tax Collections
Feeble Minded
T. B. Cattle ZZZZ
County Institute
State Library
Amount
9,720.62
856.17
354.65
1,440.96
2,377.65
2,171.71
2,292.24
597.38
1,873.91
438.00
174.71
1,087.17
60.00
670.00
150.00
642.44
38.05
395.00
53.72
1,300.00
12.00
508.61
54.05
220.00
75.50
3.87
121.15
121.51
26.00
100.18
200.00
181.48
TOTAL $ 28,319.73
Claims allowed from Road Funds, including bond fund
and Special Roads 40.818.43
Claims allowed from Market Road Fund account 26,311.65
Miscellaneous claims allowed 1,851.86
TOTAL CLAIMS ALLOWED $ 97,301.67
Summary of Warrant Account
Outstanding General Fund Warrants, June 30, 1922 37,724.15
Outstanding Road Fund Warrants, June 30, 1922 1,517.72
Outstanding Market Road Warrants, June 30, 1922 30.60
Outstanding Miscellaneous Warrants June 30, 1922 104.07
General Fund Warrants issued July I to December 31,
. '922 28,319.73
Road Fund Warrants Issued July 1 to December 31,
1922, inculding Bond and Special Road Fund Ac
counts 40,818.43
Market Road Fund Warrants Issued July 1 to December
31, 1922 26,311.65
Miscellaneous Warrants Issued July 1 to December 31,
1922 1,859.86
TOTAL $136,686.21
General Fund Warrants Paid July 1 to December 31,
1922 11,661.78
Road Fund Warrant Paid, including Bond and Special
Road accounts, July 1 to December 31, 1922 41,815.43
Market Road Warrants Paid, July 1 to December 31,
1922 26,327.20
Miscellaneous Warrants Paid July 1 to December 31,
1922 1,851.86
General Fund Warrants Outstanding December 31, 1922 54,382.10
Road Fund Warrants Outstanding December 31, 1922 520.72
Market Road Warrants Outstanding December 31, 1922 15.05
Miscellaneous Warrants Outstanding December 31, 1922 1 12.07
TOTAL $136,686.21
Cash On Hand In Various County Funds, December
31, 1922
Fund Amount
General County $ 19,363.98
General Road 13,580.81
Market Road 485.24
Road Bond 33,780.39
Road Bond Sinking 20, 1 74.93
Motor Vehicle License Fund 5,796.71
School Fund 2,686.95
Elementary School 343.16
High School Tuition , 804.01
Rodent Bounty 179.32
Prohibition 1,910.26
Dog License 229.64
Indigent Soldiers .85
Trust Fund 424.95
Fire Patrol 58.96
Lexington-Jarmon Road 12.57
Morrow County Fair Fund 65 1 .99
Herd Law Fund 19.35
Indemnity Fund 12.00
Boardman City 23.35
Heppner City 26.91
Hardman City 14.23
lone City 446.54
Lexington City 3.78
West Land Irrigation District 76.78
West Extension Irrigation District 238.44
John Day Irrigation District 2,275.18
District Boundary Board 2,956.28
Road District No. 1, Special 1,127.35
Road District No. 2, Special 4,532.17
Road District No. 4, Special 91.76
Road District No. 14, Special 4,821.82
Union High School No. 1 741.43
Special School Districts 6,172.56
TOTAL $124,064.65
(ss.
State of Oregon,
County of Morrow,
I, J. A. Waters, County Clerk of Morrow County, Oregon, do
hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct account of
all claims allowed by the County Court of Morrow County, Oregon;
the funds on which said claims were drawn and the amount of out
standing warrants, not paid, for the six months ending December
31, 1922.
Also a statement of the amount on hand in the various funds
of Morrow County, December 31, 1922.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and official
seal this 9th day of January, 1923. (
(SEAL) J. A WATERS, County Clerk.
Milkman Makes Deliv
eries In A Dress Suit
Did you ever see a milk man all
fussed up in a dress suit making his
early morning deliveries? No?
Well, you will if you go to the Star
Theatre Wednesday or Thursday, Jan.
17 or 18. "Two Minutes to Go," a
First National picture starring Char
lie Ray, is the attraction.
Charlie has the role of a college
boy, who Is forced to earn his own
school expenses. He gets a job on a
.milk route. Out late at a party the
night before, he hasn't time to change
his clothes before reporting for work
in the wee hours of the morning. He
arrives on the job all togged out in
his evening clothes and is neany fired
by the boss for being tardy.
The figure cut by Ray peddling
milk In thin fashionable purb is one
of the most humorous ever shown on
a n otion picture screen. His con
sternation when he meets his sweet
heart on his route while so attired
knows no bounds. All sorts of com
plications ensue, and the result is
one of the amusing and fascinating
screen entertainments of the decadu.
"Two Minutes to Go" is an excep
tionally clever story of college life
by Richard Andre, and a splendid
cast is seen in support of Charles
Kay. Charming Mary Anderson,
popularly known as "Sunshine Mary,'
is seen as Ray's leading lady.
Morrow county should certainly en
joy a bumper crop this coming year
from present indications. Farmers
coming to the city from all points in
the county report that grain never
appeared in better condition for the
time of year, and it seems to be get
ting such a start that it should come
along ahead of the usual midsummer
hot winds. Everyone wishes nothing
less than excellent crops with good
prices for our farmer folks in Ut23.
They say that
No meal is too elaborate or too simple
for them
That eaten regularly, they are nature's
best safeguard for health
That the best apples can be bought at
Sam Hughes Co.
Phone Main 962
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