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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, IIEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1923. PAGE THREE Professional Cards DR. F. E. FARRIOR DENTIST Office Upstairs Over Poatofitee Hrppner, Orrgun A. D. McMUUDO, M.D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office in Masonic Building Trained Nurse Aaaialant Hii(m-r, Oregon C. C. CHICK, M. D. PHYSICIAN A SURGEON Office Upstairs Over Poatoflice Trained Nurse AealaUnt Ht-ppner, Oregun WOODSON & SWEEK ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Offices in Fint National Bank Building Heppner, Oregon Van Vactor & Butler ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Suite 805 First National Bank Building THE DALLES, ORE. S. E. NOTSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Offic In Court Hgum Hfppntr, Oregon Omw I'hone, Main 64S Knidvnc Phone, Main 686 Francis A. McMenamin LAWYER Gilman Building. Heppner, Ore. ry, 1923, at 10 o'clock A M., of said day, at the front door of the Court House in Heppner, Morrow County, Oregon, sell at public auction to the hiifhent bidder lor cash in hand, the following described property, to-wit: The aouth half of the south half of Section 23 and the north half of Sec tion 26, all in Township 3 South, Range 23 E. W. W being the real property mortgaged by R. J. Vaughan and Edith W. Vaughan, his wife, to plaintiff to secure payment of the foregoing amount and ordered sold by the court for that purpose, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the said judgment in favor of plaintiff and again at said defend ants, together with all costs and dis bursements that have or may accrue. This sale is subject to a first mort gage of Ada M. Ayers for $3,600.00. GEORGE McUUFFEE, Sheriff. Dated at Heppner, Oregon, Janu ary 24, 1923. NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT. Notice is hereby given that Mar garet Wright, the duly appointed, qualified and acting administratrix of the estate of Harley Wright, deceas ed, has filed her final account with the County Court of the State of Ore gon for Morrow County, and that said Court has set as the time and place for the final settlement of said account, Saturday, February 10, 1923, at the hour of two o'clock P. M., in the Court room of the County Court for Morrow County, Oregon. All per sons having objections to said ac count must appear and file them on or before said date of settlement. MARGARET WRIGHT, Administratrix, ii - : jl j -:- FEATURE STORIES -:- j l 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER . r - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 IT Caprrisht, 922' " Macmiaaa t-' Folka like to pamper the prodigal eon Maybe no more tlian tliey a oner But no one aa yet has been able to get Any veal lor Me prodigal aaugmer. -From "The Rhymed Renectlona of El der Twlgga." F. II. ROBINSON LAWYER IONE. OREGON E. J. STARKEY ELECTRICIAN HOUSE WIRING A SPECIALTY Heppner, Oregon I'h.n. S7I NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior, U. S. Land Office at La Grande, Oregon, Jan, 6, 1923. Notice is hereby given that Clarence Reid, of Heppner, Ore gon, who, on July 21, 1920, made Ad ditional Homestead Entry No. 017546, for NWtt SW, Section 4, NEK SEW. Section 6, TownBhip 6 South, Range 27 East, Willamette Meridian, haa filed notice of intention to make three-year Proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before United States Commissioner, at Heppner, Oregon, on the 27th day of February, 1923. Claimant names as witnesses: R. W. Owens, J. L. Carter, Chas. Osten, A- T. Harris, all of Heppner, Oregon. CARL G. HELM, Register. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS AN NUAL MEETING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual meeting of the stockhold ers of the Heppner Mining Company will be held at the office of the First National Bank in Heppner, Oregon, on the aecond Tuesday of February, 1923, being the lltlh day of Feruary 1D23, at the hour of 2 o'clock in the afternoon of said day. This meet ing is for the purpose of electing officers and for the transaction of such other business as may appear. D. B. STALTER, President. J. O. HAGER, Secretary. Heppner Sanitarium DR. . PERRY CON DEB PhriicUn-in-Caarge Treatment of all diseases. Isolated wards for contagious diseases. FIRE INSURANCE Waters & Anderson Kucceaaora to C. C. Patterson Hvppaer, Oregon MATERNITY HOME MHtt. G. C. AIKBN, IIKPPNKR I am pri-pared to take a limited num Imt uf mmvrtiity cmmj t my home. P.tlmti prlvilrswl la choaM thtlr own Iltnt or cur and nUtntiun suwurwl. PHONE a& NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned administratrix of the es tate of Frank C. Adkins, deceased. has filed her final account as admin istratrix of Raid estate and that the County Court of the State of Oregon for Morrow County has fixd Monday, the 6th day of March, 1123, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, as the time, and the County Court room in the court house at Heppner, Oregon, as the place, of hearing and settlement of said final account. Objections to said final ac count must be filed on or before said date. MATTIE W. ADKINS, Administratrix. E.J.KELLER TREE PRUNING AUCTIONEERING HORSE SHOEING lleppnor, Oregon L. VAN MARTER FIRE, AUTO AND LIFE INSURANCE Old Line Companies REAL ESTATE Heppner, Ore. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior, U. Land Office at La Grande, Oregon January !7. 112:1. Notice is hereby given that Wi Milam Cunningham, of lx'na, Oregon, who, on August 14 litliO, made Additional Homestead En try No. 017377, lor WfcSW4. SEtt SWla, Section 20, N 4 NWk, SE NWW, Section 2, NE'4 NE',4, Section 30, Township 3 South, Range 2D Enat, Willamette Meridian, haa filed notice of intention to make three-year Proof to entablinh claim to the land above described, before United States Com missioner at Heppner, Oregon, on the 20th day of March, li23. Claimant names aa witnesses: Paul Hfsler, of Heppner, Oregon Percy Cox, of Heppner, Oregon, Frank T. Peery, of Lena, Oregon; L. L. Miatt of Lena, Oregon. CARL G. HELM, Register. JOS.J.NYS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Upstairs in Humphreys Building Heppner, Oregon LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Notice is hereby given that tho un dersigned has been appointed ad ministrator of the estntte of Ann Mi nor, deceased, and has accepted aald trust. All persons having claims against the estate of said deceased re hereby required to present the anme, duly verified as by law required at the office of Woodson ft Sweck, my attorneys, at Hoppner, Oregon, with in six month, from the date of first publication of this summons. Dated and published the first time this 11th day of January, 1923. W. B. POTTER, Administrator. NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE. n virtue of an execution and or- Hr of sale duly Issued by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of Morrow, Stnte of Oregon, dntod fh. 99ml rlav of January, 1023, In a certain action In tho Circuit Court for said County and Stnte whoroln Tilman Hogue, Plaintiff, recovered InHtrmpnt airntnst R. J. Vaughan and Edith W. Vaughan, Defendants, for tha sum of Twenty-nine Hundred Dollars, with interest thereon at the rate of seven per cent por annum frnnv- tho ninth day of June, 1921, anA th. further sum of Throe Hun H! Dollars attorney's feos, and costs and disbursements taxed at Twenty Dollars, on the ISth day of January, 1923. Nntlea la hereby given that I will on Saturday, the 24th day of Febru- H EM STITCHING I have installed a hemstitching machine at my apart ment in the Gilman building and will give all orders for work in that line my best attentoin. Your patronage Is solicited. Mrs. C. C. Patterson. tf FOR RENT Good room in private residence gentleman preferred. In quire this office. STRAYED OR STOLEN One black stallion colt, 2 years old the coming spring; branded JF on right shoulder, one white foot; missed from pasture at Wm. Hendrix place about Aug. 1022. Notify GUY L. BARLOW Heppner, phone 23F41, FOR SALE-19 head of mules, coming 3-year-olds; 11 2 year-olds. R. K. DRAKE, Eight Mile, Oregon, hone 23F3. KEY KONTEST. YOU ARE INVITED TO BRING IN YOUR KEYS AND TRY THEM IN THE LOCK. LAST DAY FOR TRYING KEYS FEBRUARY 15th Patterson & Son 7h eMtM Smr, LOST A bunch of keys on hexa gon ring; part of ring broken off. Kinder plenne leave at this omce. FOR SALE U. S. Motor truck, ltt ton. pneumatic tires, in good condi tion: reasonable terms. Write Box .191, lone, Oregon. LOST From barn at L. V. Gentry ranch, Saturday night, dark green overcoat. Please return to this of- lice. $5. rewnrd, FOR RENT Wheat ranch, fully euul lined. Write or aee W. H GOULD, Lexington. Ore. FOR SALE Thoroughbred Duroc Jorsey bonr. Sensation stock. Pric $-10.00. F. A. Helms, Echo, Ore, FOR BALK-Two brood sows, wt. nearly 400 lbs., with 6 pigs each; (40 nploce. Inquire of Louis Balslgo lone, Ore. HOUSE FOR RENT 5 rooms an bath. Inquire this office. WILLIAM ALLEN WHITB Ar rw ears ago we oi; worked in the overall factory. o, ... a n-.tl. (rli.1 thftfl flnll naturally the neighbors talked about her, for the people who live along Jersey Creek are really no better than they who live on Independence ave nue, in gpite of the theories that pov erty and charity go togelher. So when she left the factory the women of the Jersey Creek neighborhood hinted that the foreman had been too polite to her. But If she had remained at the factory they would have given the same reason for her staying. After that, she went to the theater with young men who turned up their coat collars and wore their hands in their pockets in the fall and spring, In Hen of overcoats. During the summer fol lowing her discharge from the over all factory she became a park (lend. When she gave up her counter In the cheap dry-goods store, she re mained at home, apparently keeping house for her father. He worked In "the shops" somewhere over In "the bottoms," and came home tired and grimy at night, and went to bed early. He slept in the room off the kltcnen. and his daughter slept In the front room. He did not know when she came In at night, and he did not think of caring to know. Her father paid no attention to the little brother and sister who teased the daughter at table about the young men who fre quented the house. If the other mem bers of the family had been plaguing the ten-year-old girl who led In the raillery, the father would have been eauallv heedless of their chatter. The eldest daughter made him very happy by simple tenderness, though, of course, he did not understand that his warmth for her and the longing which he felt all day to get home for supper, was happiness. . But, unconsciously, his daughter grew very necessary to him. He was not of the world that analyses its emo tions, yet he could not fall to see her beauty, nor to be proud of her for It; and when she was dressed to go out and she went out early and often-- bis pride blinded him to the gaudiness of her clothes, her frowzy hair, and the shocking make-up on her pretty face. Probably his discernment was not keen enough to see these faults, even had he not been so fond of her. But other fathers who had daughters suw these things, and mothers of the neighborhood who bad suns did not mention the Beusly girl In the family circle. It was only after Miss Beasly hud Joined a comedy company, or ganized to piny the "White Slave" and Only a Farmer's Daughter" through the West, that her name was men tinned at all freely by Jersey Creek's arlslocracy, and then It was as if were dead. And Mrs. Hlnkley, who took cure of the children and looked lifter the lonely old man, often snlrt to Inquiring women of the neighborhood, "It would break your heart to see Mr. Bensly a-grlevln' an' a-grlevln' for that hussy; an' whlnlver he gets a letter from her he reads It at the supper table before them chil dren wld that flourish you'd thank tch, tch, tch, I do wonder if he knows." And after some discussion she would sigh, "Well, It's not for me to tell him." What a wonderful thing Is absence. It Is like the dark In Its power to transform people and situations and the relations of things. Though she had grown up under his eyes, the old ninn and his daughter had scarcely spoken a serious word to each other. The father had never Inquired what his daughter was or was not. She was only "her" In his thought. They were strangers, but when he began to forget her presence, he found him self continually thinking of things he would like to say to her. "Her" dis appeared, and dreams altogether dif ferent from his former conception of her, took her place. He longed for her, and yenrned to tell her the great love In his heart. Among the noisy wheels, he mumbled to himself, speeches that he wanted to make to her, and In the scrawled letter he sent her occasionally, he wrote some of these tender things. One day she wrote thnt she was Coming home for a vacation, and his heart was very glad. He rend and re read the letter, and droned It off at the supper table to Mrs. Hlnkley and the children. As he rend It, neither the hearers nor the reader realized how much feeling the writer had put Into the matter-of-fact words, "I want to be home with , you all again." These words were meant to tell story of heartache and loneliness and despair, hut they were commonplace) and fell short. For poor people are as blunt In sensibility as the com fortably rich, and the suggestion to Mis. Hlnkley of the possibility nf any human feeling In the Bensly girl's heart would have fallen on barren soil. When the day for the girl's coming arrived, Mrs, Hlnkley was gone from the Bensly home, hut the old man had "laid off" a day from his work. He was Joyful In the hope that he might say soma of the tender things h bad written, and then keep up the new happiness that bad come to him, yet be ieared that hu daughter would le so fur above iilni that she would not care for It. He put on his best suit of clothes, and sent the children away. The liouae was in conspicuous "company order"; he arranged things, himself, and a Sunday stiffness and quiet prevailed. He sat In the front room waiting for her. When he beard voices at the fence, be recog nized that of his daughter, and his pulse quickened; but when he looked through the curtain and saw a stran ger with her, his heart sunk. Father and daughter met at the door; he held out his hand to her and she passed in, followed by the stran ger, while the father said awkwardly, "Well, Allie" and after a pau&e, "how are you?" A smile Inclosed the commonplace answer, and the old man continued In a high-keyed tone with the upward inflection, looking vacantly at the dupper stranger who had not been introduced, "1 s'pose you've been get tln' to be such a grand lady " He laughed nervously, and with conscious embarrassment. The daughter seal ed her guest, and the father, with a feint at cheer, chirped, "Well, you're loukln' hale and hearty." "Is there anything in the cupboard, pa?" asked the girl, as she took off her soiled gloves and threw her Unuc shabby cloak and her expensive, but betowsled hut upon the bed. "1 a'u Just dyin' for a bite; we didn't set any breakfast." The old man went to get something, and when he re turned the stranger was gone. She did not taste what he had brought, but turned and threw her arms alxmt his neck ; there were tears in her eves as she said, "Oh, pa pa ain't it good to be back again !" The father, summoning all bis cour age to break away from the common words of welcome began again In a quavering, nervous voice, "Well, Al lie I guess 'at nieliby you you think someway that yer daddy has forgot you, but Allie, I tell you, I do you know, I think a whole lot of you." It was the best he could do, but he kissed her, and that was some thing It was a great deal for both of them. Then they relaxed, and talked of the children, about whom she asked a great deal, and of the neighbors, about whom she asked nothing. The "Comedy Company" bad Ing she cried herself to sleep, .brood ing over her own personal sorrow. She was awakened by her father scraping the ashes from the kitchen stove, and her heart rose to her throat with great love for him. Dur ing that emlre day the girl held her father In her mind as she went about her household duties. It seemed to her that her life with him wag really worth living, and she was glad that since her return she bad sent ber old companions away. Yet her band was raised against the world ber narrow world that Is the epitome of the great narrow world because It persecuted ber and pointed Its finger at the one being she loved. But the very fact that her father was set apart froj) his fellows because of her drew him close to her. And the night thoughts followed her all through the day, till she longed for hi return. It was a good day In her life. She heard his footsteps on the walk In front, and heard him coming around the bouse to the kitchen door, When he crossed the threshold she kissed him. The old man was a little abashed at the suddenness of It, bat he was pleased. He took a chair and sat in the back yard leaning against the house. From there be talked with her through the open door. They had passed the usual questions of the day, w hen the old man said, "Allie, y can't guess what Mrs. Hlnkley said about you this evening." The daughter blanched as she stood In the doorway, and said nothing. It was dusk, and the old man did not notice her. "She said, sez she, 'Mr. Beasly, do you know that you are doln' wrong to keep Allie In the house there?' I says, Why so, Mrs. Hlnkley r and she wouldn't say nothln' but 'Well, y' are, that's all." I s'pose Mrs. Hlnkley thinks that 'cause you're grown to be so purty an' an' all that you're ashamed to stay here In Jersey with your old daddy." Strange things were crowding Into the girl's mind a fearful lmmastery In her heart. Then the temptation came with her father's question. "But you ain't ashamed to stay with your poor, hon est ol' pap, are j Allie?" There was a short silence. As It lengthened Into a distinct pause the man's heart was shot with fear. He felt remorse wrap him about re morse and humiliation. He sprang lamely from the leaning chair to his HIS OWN GAME By JANE GORDON Secretary of Labor Davis, Addressing Wom en's Industrial Conference Stresses Im portance of Looking After Welfare of 8, 500,000 Women Who Dailly Work in Am erica's Industries and Commercial Institutions. If n IrM ! l it -1 ,1H CIPH OK-i OF ALL WAGE EARNERS IN U. S. "Father and Daughter Met st the Door." fulled, ami she was at home to siaj1. Her absence had muile both father and daughter understand how much each was to the other. The little signs of endearment did not vanish as the days wore on. She smoothed his hair when she passed him, and he caught her dress and tombed her sim ply with his bund as she came near him at her work. So much was his heart wrapped up In her that he did not notice the absence of the neigh bors from the house, and when he asked them to come, and laughingly upbraided them for their social care lessness, he accepted their explana tions with no thought of their insin cerity. His pride In her knew no conven tionality nnd no propriety. Once, when the boys in the shop were eat ing their noonday lunch in the shade of the building, be looked up from a piece of pie to say In a lull of the conversation, "You fellers may talk all you want to about your purty girls, but 1 bet I've got one at home 'at '1 bent all yours put together. Some o' you young fellers orto come out an' see her." And when the fel lows winked at one another and set up a laugh, the old mnn toughed, too, and suld, "That's what I said; and I didn't smile w hen I said It ; she's the purtlest girl you ever saw cf ber dud does say so." He told her that night how they hud laughed, and how be lutd "stuck to his words and made them shut up," but she was bending over the stove In the dark corner, and he could not see the (lush In ber eyes, and the quick quiver of hate that curled the muscles of her upper lip. The old man and the children prattled on until she composed herself, and Joined the fam ily group. That night she tossed In her bed and turned her feverish pillow n hun dred times. She cursed the world, Its people, and Its social arrangement. She wanted to make people suffer, Her father's disgrace, nnd the thought thnt she could not defend him made her frantic. When It was uearly morn- teet and staggered to the door, cry ing piteously with woe In his voice, "Oh, Allie, Allie my my little girl, Allie! We'H move, Allie; we'll move." He came to her and stood help lessly before her. He could not know why she was dumb. He misunder stood and was turning away In a slow agony of shame, when her love for him swept her as upon t wave Into his arms, sobbing. She recovered quickly, nnd has tened to a sputtering pan which she pretended needed her attention. The old mnn touched her dress In his wonted way, as he passed her going toward the door. He hesitated, and seemed to have another protest upon his Hps. The daughter felt that she could not keep her sorrow back If he spoke. The old man did not note the pathetic tremble In her voice as she cried to her little sister, playing at the door: "Jen-nee, Jennie, o-o-h Jennie, you go cut me a switch; I got to tend to your pa. He's makin' me spoil this supper." She added in a firmer voice, "The very tdee of our movln'." And the old man, looking back with smile, went Into the twilight full of Joy. Lacked Press Agents. The king ordered all the men to take the Held. The chancellor trem blingly approached the throue and whispered something, but his majesty shook his head Impatiently. "Let the publicity end he taken care of by the women and children." "But the women and children," ven tured the chancellor, "will have all they can do to till the soil, operate the factories, keep the bourses open, and so forth." "Then let the publicity end take care of Itself!" the king Insisted stubbornly. The result was about what you might expect. The war was fought with valor and brilliancy, but when It passed Into history It did so with al most a total lack of anything like dis tinction. St. Louis Qlobe-Domocrat. (O, WaeMra Newspaar Union.) The man brought his boat to shore and gave a low, soft whistle. Leaning forward, he endeavored to sight through the fall-colored brush the crude old house that stood on the edge of the wood. He could Just glimpse Its chimnys, from which smoke was ascending. He bad discov ered this dwelling, when on bis bunt Ing trip he had mistaken bis way back to the hunting lodge and been obliged to ask direction. The house had seemingly been oc cupied by a strangely attractive young woman and a crabbed and shabby old one. The old woman had brusquely informed Thornton that "the men folks" were working an she couldn't tell him. The young woman came smilingly to his assistance. "The paths hereabout," she told him, "are so misleading." Thornton, gazing from the faded crimson felt hat on the girl's dark head to the rough high boots that ended her overall costume, was sur prised again, at the softness of her voice. The vision of her dark, eager eyes, the flash of white teeth between arimson Hps, with her recurring smile. haunted Thornton so that he made the trip to the bouse at the edge of the wood again and again. 80 be and Noras had become good friends, very good friends Indeed. It had taken, at first, much Ingenu ity to persuade her to meet him at the turn of the shore promises of books of travel-lore. Noma was vastly In terested In pictures of foreign lands- Interested In views of Thornton's own city, with Its wondrous taU buildings. The famous musician enjoyed Im mensely the girl's delighted enthusi asm. Then he had later been able to persuade Noma to ride in his motor boat, and they had plowed Joyously down the lake together. Noma was all surprises and charm ing originality. Thornton regretted that the young women of his own class at home might not hold for him a like Interest They were all wearisome. In their expected modem attitude. Noma was different every hour, ae sweet and winsome as an innocent child. He engaged in musing fancies of her over his evening cigars at the hunting lodge the most adventurous after he had glimpsed one day a male occupant of the mystifying house. This man, hurrying in the direction of the wood, had the roughness of an ancient pirate. That night Thornton Indulged the fancy that Noma had, In Infancy, been kidnaped by Lizzie and her co-conspirators. As time passed In her delightful proximity, Thornton did not hesitate to make love to the woodland maid In whimsical, tender fashion that had won hearts more sophisticated. He carried his violin the night he took her to ride on the moonlit water and wooed her with music that set his audience on fire. That night he kissed her before he let her go. Next day he was returning to New York. He smiled amusedly at his own handsome reflection In the mirror over the thought of his reluctnnce to leave this woodland girl. Then he went to bid her good-by. He choose moon light again for the setting, for he had an Idea that the episode might lead to later Inspiration. Noma came again at his call. She wore this evening an unaccustomed dress of trailing white. It was vast ly becoming. Thornton smiled covert ly at the flowing draperies. "It Is good-by tonight. Noma," he said ruthlessly. "I am going hack to the city. It Is not likely that we shall meet again." Breathless, wide-eyed, she stood re garding him. "Come down to the boat," he In vited. "We will float Into the moon light while I play my farewell to yon." The girl, poised In her white drap eries, did not move. "Good night," she said dully. "Go, please now." Thornton hesitated. Perhaps she would make It uncomfortable for him These lone women In solitary places Briskly he retracted his steps to the boat From Its seat he could still see Noma standing there a white vision In the moonlight. The vision haunted him atterwnrd. It was strange how that lust sor rowful gaze of the gypsy-dark eyes did haunt him how ho could fancy the girl's trill of laughter In the high notes of his violin. Poor little Noma It bad been rough on her. his close companionship ; Its abrupt uprooting. So thought Thornton. Then one day he came upon a billboard In front of tbe Palace theater. Noma's picture, flaunted In the very white robe In which he had last seen her, confront ed him. Below, Noma of the overall costume; Noma In red gingham. "The Oirl of Lone Wood." he read, "Featuring Noma New-comb." It was in busy New York, so that It was not strange that, turning, Thorn ton should tg the noted actress her self regarding her own printed por trait. Lovely In modish attire, she smiled recognition to him It was the old witching smile. Breathless, wide-eyed as the Noma of their parting had stood, so Thorn ton now waited. The actress moved on her way. "Oood-by. Mr. Thornton," she said. "It Is not likely that we shall meet-again." Washington, Jan. 30. Secretary of Labor James J. Davis in an address before the Women's Industrial Con ference held at Washington, discussed the problem of women in industry in America. Secretary Davis stated that there are today 8,500,000 women in America who are in the ranks of wage-earners. Commenting upon this fact Secretary Davis said: The fact, as revealed by the recent census, that of 572 occupations listed, only 35 failed to show employment of women, calls for serious consideration. In almost all lines of industry women are at work side by side with men, sharing the same conditions, conforming to the same standards, and turning out the same products. In many of these occupations, women, by superior adapta- Ulllly, uy ym ucuiai iiiucaa, nave wun pi&iiwii. men as workers. It is significant that during the decade between 1910 and 1920 the number of women employed in our strictly industrial plants increased by 100,000. "Under the pressure of the demand for increased pro duction during the war, women were forced into indus try at a greatly increased rate. The conditions of the reconstruction period have continued the demand for their employment. There is no evading the fact that women are in industry to stay. The duty devolves upon the whole people to see to it that their employment is safeguarded so that the general welfare of the nation may not suffer. "I am confident that we can keep on our way toward giving to all our women the higher, better, nobler things of life. For our country can be only as good as its wom en. The nation of the future can be no better than its mothers. Today more than one-fifth of the women of the United States are employed in gainful occupations. More than one-tenth of the married women of the nation are so employed. These figures demonstrate clearly the need for thorough consideration of the problems which con front these mothers and potential mothers of our citizens of the future. Upon the right solution of these problems depends our very existence as a nation. "These problems are more than mere matters of in dustrial technique or industrial efficiency. They are prob lems essentially human, which must be met and solved from the human viewpoint, for whatever position women may occupy industrially her great service to humanity and to the nation is in her capacity as a mother. We must see to it that we do not sacrifice motherhood upon the altar of greed for industrial production." In this connection, a recent statement issued by the Women's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor is very pertinent. The statement dealt with "some exploded theories about women in industry." The ex ploded theories were enumerated as follows: (1) The theory that women work for pin money. The cold hard facts, proved by statistics collected by the Government, show that the great bulk of working women (and they comprise one-fourth of all the wage earners in the United States) work out of necessity. Their wages are used for the purpose of keeping themselves alive and supporting in whole or part others dependent upon them. (2) The theory that girls who live at home can get along on low wages since their family will take care of them. The facts show that in a majority of cases girls who live at home must contribute to the family support rather than the family supporting the girl and leaving her to use her wages for non-essentials. (3) The theory that women in industry are transients; that girls go to work merely for a short time until they have an opportunity to marry. Industrial statistics show that a very large percentage of women in industry are there permanently. The percentage of those who go to work temporarily until they marry is comparatively small. It does not equal the percentage of those who have been in industries from 25 to 40 years, or of mar ried women who must work in order to assist making the family income sufficient to support the family, or of wid ows who must work in industry in order to raise their children and provide a home for them. (4) The theory that women enter the industries be cause they prefer that sort of thing to housework. A survey of wroking women shows that by far the majority of them, after eight or ten hours of industrial work, go to their homes and there engage in housework until late at night, and are up in the morning sufficiently early to do what is necessary about the house before going to work. All of which demolishes the theory that these women work in factories in order to avoid housework. THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION. It is highly encouraging that Gov. Pierce has asked the present state highway commission and engineer to re main on the job until the legislature is over, and asked them in a way that won their good will. The governor, the commissioners and the engineer sat with their knees under the same table up in the highway commission office and got somewhat acquainted. The governor found that the members of the highway commission were not a group of incompetent wasters of public funds. The commissioners found that the govern or was not merely! a demagogue. It is a good thing for the good roads cause that they got acquainted, and with the governor's full concurrence, the letting of contracts for the 1923 road program is to proceed as it ouht to at this time of year in preparation for the working season. The deeper Gov. Pierce gets into state government, the more he finds out that it is well administered. It is a fine sign that he is willing to dig in before acting arbitrarily, and that he is open to conviclion so far as administrative method is concerned. Oregon Voter. Chas. Erwin, leading wheat raiser of the lone country, was transacting business in Heppner on Tuesday.