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The Gazette-Times
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF MORROW COUNTY
Volume 40, Number 39. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 3, 1924. Subscription $2.00 Per Year
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COUNTY IS HELD
Quick Temperature Drop
and Heavy Snow Fall
Mark Fall's End.
5 BELOW IS COLDEST
Mercury Lowest Monday Night; Snap
Not Severe Though Followed by
Inactivity and Slump.
Winter has comet After one of the
longest falls in years, Morrow county
ti now covered with a thick coat of
enow, with more in prospect. The
fall at Heppner, which began Sat
urday evening, now measures seven
inches. Reports Indicate that an
equal amount, and more in places,
has fallen over the entire county.
Along with the snow came a mark
ed drop of the mercury. Sunday nrght
the thermometer registered zero,
Monday night it dropped to five de
grees below the coldest night so far
and Tuesday night it showed three
below, according to Frank Gilliam's
government tested instruments. Max
imum temperature Monday was 13
degrees and Tuesday 12 degrees above
zero. Yesterday the thermometer
climbed a few degrees, and a heavy
fall of snow last night resulted.
Flurries of snow came down this
morning, and the even temperature
and gray clouds covering the heavens,
give promise of more to come.
After an autumn of activity, last
tng well into the Christmas season,
Industry in this county is now prac
tically at a standstill. A compara
tively few automobiles are braving
the snow and cold, and farmers are
quite generally tied at home, A
sultant slump in local business U
evidenced. The storms to date, how
ever, have not been severe and no
casualties from expOKUre or dumnge
to property has been reported, other
than frozen water pipes which are
keeping local plumbers on the jump,
P. A. Anderson, abstractor, says he
Is contemplatnig having his phone
switched to another line, because of
being on the same line with a plum
ber and having his phone jingle al
most constantly.
As far as the farming industry h
concerned It Is glad to see the snow
come, says Roger Morse, county agent.
ine farmers nave compietm uieir inn
work In good shape and a good
heavy -now is protection against hav
ing their crops frozen and winter
killed. The only thing the farmer
Is, sorry for, he says, Is that it did
not come before the ground froze
thoroughly. There is danger, how
ever, that a big wind will come up
and blow off the light snow, as it
how stands, leaving the ground bare.
Coming at the late date it does the
snow will not seriously affect the
stockmen, either, declares Mr. Morse
Tha fall weather has lasted so long
that the range has been depleted and
H was becoming necessary for the
stockmen to feed hay anyway, so this
added necessity makes very little dif
ference on this score. And so long
as the cold does not become any more
severe there is little danger of loss
from exposure.
The cold snap also comes as some
what of a blessing to the hay grower,
Is Mr. Morse's belief, as it will give
him a chance to dispose of a quantity
of hay that otherwise might be left
on his hands.
Watch Party Is Given
At the Ed Clark Home
Mr. and Mrs. E. D, Clark were
hosts at a watch party given at their
home north of Heppner on Monday
evening, and there was a jolly gath
erlng of young married folks who
whfled away the departing hours of
1923 in playing hearts, seven tables)
being occupied in this interesting I
game. The home was appropriately I
decorated for the occasion. Prizes
went to the following: Mrs. Bonnie
Cochran, first; Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Thomson, second, and Mr. and Mrs.
Spencer Crawford, consolation. The
prises given were out of the ordin
ary. Mr. Clark had butchered a fine
young porker, and he took one half
of this and divided it into the three
p riies, the ham being first, the shoul
der second and the bacon portion
third, and after all it is difficult to
state just who had the best of the
bargain. At the hour of arrival of
the New Year, refreshments were
served.
Thoso present were Mr. and Mrs.
J. J. Nys, Mr. and Mrs, Harry Turner,
Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Gemmell, Mr.
and Mrs. E. E. Clark, Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Penland, Mr. and Mrs. George
Thomson, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hed
rick, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Atlkins,
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Dix, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred E. Farrior, Mr. and Mrs. Spen
cer Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
Wlghtman, Mr, and Mrs, II. R. Finch,
,Mr, and Mrs, E. D. Clark, Mis. Bon
nie Cochran,
I-T. A. Will Give an
Attractive Program
At the regular meeting of the Pa
tron-Teachers association to be held
at the auditorium of tho high school
on Tuesday, January 8, at 3 p. m.
there will be an attractive program
It is desired that all the members
of the association be present, and an
Invitation Is extended also to all pa
trons, tenchers and friends of the
school to come and enjoy the program
which is as follows:
Piano solo Marjorte Clark
Vocal solo Patricia Mahoney
Dramatization by second grade un
der direction of their toucher,
Mrs. Dix. , -
Continuation of discussion of. mo
tion picturos by Mrs. Livingstone,
An appeal for cooperation by Mrs.
Glllilan.
Address on Thrift by Attorney C, L,
Sweck. '
RADIO MAN MEETS
WITH ROUGH SEA
Grandson of Lexington Man
Writes of Experiences in
Alaskan Waters.
Sterling E. Price, grandson of E.
Nordyke, Lexington garage man, has
had some interesting experiences as
a marine radio man. II is now serv-
ng on the Tug Hum aeon na, plying be
tween Seattle and Alaskan ports, and
In the following letter to his grand
father, he tells of an exciting exper
ience on a recent trip of the tug:
. Tug Humaconna,
Monday, Dec. 17, 1923.
Dear Grandpa: - '
I know it is not considered proper
to write a friendly letter on the type
writer but I just got this one a few
days ago and so I am anxious to
practice on it so I hope you will for
give me this time. As this Is the
longest I have ever held a radio job,
it U consequently the first chance
f have had to get s few things that
I needed such as the typewriter, a
drill, an electric soldering iron, some
personal radio equipment, etc. I will
finish paying for the, typewriter and
get the other things after Christ
mas, We had a great trip north but it
did not increase my love for Alaska
a bit.- Of course both times L have
been up there it has been a bad
time of year and I would like to
make a trip in the summer time as
I imagine the scenery is worth see
ing. This trip waa fil-fated from
the day we left Seattle as we were
stuck for two days after leaving in
a fog that was the densest I have
ever seen. Then when we hit the
Gulf of Alaska after leaving, Cape
Spencer we were caught in a storm
that threatened to sink us. The decks
were under water for two days and we
took waves clear over the ship con
tinually, in fact they even went down
the smokestack. ' We met the Coast
Guard cutter Algoquin at Kodiack
island and went to hunt for the
Jap together. She had drifted help
less for three weeks with a broken
tali shaft when we took her in tow.
We picked her uj about 500 miles
southwest of Dutch Harbor and
started back on the long, hard pull
to Esquimalt, B. C. We towed her
as far as Port Etches near Cordova
and anchored her there and went to
Cordova for fuel and stores. That
same evening, Saturday, we went
back to her side but as it was too
stormy we laid in there all that night
and the next day. Sunday evening
the sign looked better so we started
out on the last dangerous tap of out
journey. Once inside Cape Spencer
and only the trip down the inside
passage would be to face. But H
was not to be. About 2 o'clock in
the morning the wind had risen so
high that we were being pulled back
wards so we put about and headed
back for shelter. At 6 o'clock and
only a mile from the anchorage the
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County Officials Will
Hold Meeting at Salem
A convention of county judges and
commissioners is scheduled to meet
at Salem on January 10, 11 and 12.
This is an annual event, and this year
will be attended by the members of
the Morrow county court, Messrs. W.
T. Campbell, judge, and L. P. David
son and R. L. Benge, commissioners.
Subjects pertaining to the welfare
of the various counties of the state
and the administration of the affairs
of the commissioners courts will be
up for discussion, and it is reported
that at this particular meeting the
program arranged is of an exception
ally high order.
Our county court expects to leave a
few days early and be in Portland
for the meeting of the state highway
commission, Tuesday and Wednes-
ilny, January 8 and 9. At this meet
ing the questoin of providing a way
for the completion of the Lena-Vin
son section of the Oregon-Washing
ton highway will be gone over with
the commission, in conjunction with
delegation from the county court
of Umatilla county. While the pros
pect of getting anything through with
the commission at this meeting is
not very bright just now, the matter
will be presented in the strongest
light possible by the delegation from
the two counties, with the hope that
a means of solving the problem may
be worked out. It is understood that
Commissioner Duby, who visited Pen
dleton just recently, has expressed
himself as seeing no way to work
out the problem at the present tunc,
as there appears to be no way of
meeting the financial end of the sit
uation.
Mrs. Barton Celebrates
Her Eightieth Birthday
Mrs. Mary Barton celebrated her
eightieth birthday on Wednesday,
January 2, at the home of hor daugh
ter, Mrs. Malcolm D. Clark in this i
city. The missionary society of the
Chilstinn church nnd a number of
frlfnds participated in the celebra
ton, gathering at the Clark homo at
3 p. m. and remaining for a couple
o? rours, and Mrs. Barton was the
'nippiest member of the entire group.
A large and beautiful birthday
cake, made and presented by Mrs.
W. O. Livingstone, and decorated with
80 candles, was presented to Mrs.
Barlon on behalf of tho ladies of the
C. W. B. M. Others brought cakes
also, and following the regular mon
thly meeting of the missionary soci
ety, light refreshments were served
and the eompany departed wishing
Mrs, Barton many hnppy returns of
her nntal dny, Hecauso of her in
ability to go out to church and at
tend its regular meetings as has been
har habit foi many long years, Mr.
Barton appreciated all the more the
vif.it of the ladies and their remem
brance of her in this manner on her
80th birthday. A suitable gift for
the occasion was presented by the
ladies to Mrs, Barton,
OUR
WEIL YOU CAM SET ME POWN AS
EXPECTING A 0UY YEAR AHEAP OUTSIDE
OF KEEPING MY EYE ON THE FECL0WS
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Funds To Be Raised
For Harding Memorial
Drive Will Be Made Between Jan
uary 6th and 16th ; Benefit of
Remembrance Is Lasting.
The Harding Memorial association
with headquarters at Washington, D.
C. is headed by President Coolidge
and all the members of his cabinet,
and an incorporation of responsible
men has been formed for the pur
pone of building a Harding memor-
al.
It embraces the three purposes of:
1st: Acquiring the Harding home
with the grounds, the same to be
kopt always as archives for the books,
papers, imeeches, etc., of the late
President Warren G. Harding;
2nd: Establishing a chair in some
university to be determined, devoted
to statesmanship, diplomacy attd in
ternational law;
3rd: Also of building a mausoleum
and monument in which shall rest
the remains of the late President,
nd ultimately those of Mrs. Hard
ing.
This enterprise calls for Three Mil
lion Dollars, $50,000 of which has
been assigned to the State of Ore
gon as its quota.
President Harding's last weeks of
activities were spent on the Pacific
coast, and the people grew to love
him for his splendid character and
his high ideals, and also to admire,
respect and love Mrs. Harding for
her womanly qualities.
It is desired that voluntary contri
butions shall be made to this fund,
and that a very great many people
should participate in it, that all may
have a tangible interest in the en
terprise afoot.
Contributions may be sent to B.
F. Mutkey, state chairman of the
Harding Memorial association for
the state of Oregon, Suite 403 Cor
bett Building, Portland, Oregon, oi
they may be sent direct to Head'
quarters at 1414 F Street, Washing
ton, D. C.
Between the 8th and 16th of Janu
ary, 1924, a drive will be made in the
several counties of this state to se
cure the funds, but meanwhile, and
during that time, it is hoped that
large number of people will respond
of their own initiative.
Governor Walter N. Pierce is tak
ing an active interest in this Hard
ing Memorial enterprise, and nag is
sued a proclamation calling upon the
various .churches of the state to say
something commendatory to this
movement on Sunday, January 6th.
The movement for the memorial
is non-partisan, and all persons who
desire to perpetuate the name and
memory of a president who verily
yielded up his life in conscientious
dinchnrge of the tasks of President
of all the people, are earnestly re
quested to contribute to the Harding
Memorial.
CLASS OF '20 HOLD BANQUET.
The Class of 1920, Heppner High
school, held their annual banquet on
Friday evening last at the Elkhorn
restaurant, at which time, those of
the class that were in the city got
together and enjoyed themselves. The
spread furnished by the restaurant
management was all that could be de
sired, and the nice thing about this
was, when it came time to make set
tlement, it was announced by Mr.
Cliinn that the bill had been fully
paid. L. V. Gentry had taken note
of what was going on, while in the
restaurant, and he paid the bill for
the feed, a kindness greatly appro
ciated by the class members, Those
present were Etta Devin, May
(French) McPherrin, Odile Groshens,
Margaret Doherty, Cyrene (Lieuallen
Barratt, Elizabeth Phelps, Alma Dev
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OF INTEREST TO MASONS.
The first regular meeting in 1924
of Heppner Ldoge No. 69 will be held
next Saturday evening, Jan. 6. There
wlil be work in the E. A. degree, and
a full attendance of the members i
urgently requested.
L. W. BRIGGS, Secretnry,
Mrs. Glenn Boyor returned on Wed
nesday evening front Hood River
where she went to attend the funeral
of her father, the late George W.
Renoe,
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Forty-Two at Gerking
Family Reunion Xmas
Forty-two descendants of Mrs. Su
san I. Gerking of Athena, Oregon,
participated in an enjoyable family
reunion during Christmas week at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Cox at
Lexington. Mrs. Gerking was enter
tained by her childrens' families, in
cluding five of her six children, 22of
her 32 grand children and six of her
17 great grand children. Had they all
been present, - the company would
have been 76, but many were pre
vented from coming because of dis
tance and other matters to interfere.
The families arrived on Christmas
morning and departed on Friday.
During the time- they were at the
Cox home there , was a jolly good
time, each night an impromptu pro
gram being .furnished by various
members of the company.
Of Mrs. Cox's family there were
present Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cox of
Boardman, Mr. and Mrs. Harvie
Young of Heppner and Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Young of Heppner, each with
two little ones, and the two younger
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Cox.
Others present from points outside
were Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Beck of
rJtopia, Wash., with ten children;
Mr. and Mrs. Asher Montague of Ar
lington, with five children; Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Gerking of Bridal Veil
and two children, and Mr. and Mrs.
Ben F. Gerking of Holdman,
Mrs. Gerking is a pioneer of upper
Eight Mile, and with her husband,
James Gerking, settled in this county
in 1882 on the farm owned by Bob
Alstott, and they did their part in
pioneering that section of the coun
ty. Whether New or Better
Farm Land, Considered
Present Improved Acreage Can Be
Doubled by Reclamation, or
Made More Valuable.
Whether Oregon should develop
new lands or concentrate more on
settling and making more prosper
ous the lands already developed will
be one of the questions discussed in
the land settlement and reclamation
division of the state-wide agricultur
al economic conference at the college
January 23 to 25.
Of Oregon's total area of 61,188,480
acres, only 4.913.851 acres or 8.2 per
cent are improved. This includes all
land regularly tilled or moved, pas
ture that has been tilled or cleared
fallow, gardens, orchards, vinyards,
and nurseries, and land occupied by
farm buildings.
This area can be doubled by drain
age and irrigation, re part a W, L. Pow
ers, chief of soils. It is estimated that
1,225,000 acres are in the Willamette
valley and its tributaries, 500,000 in
coast and lower Columbia river coun
ties, and approximately 750,000 in the
marsh and irrigated lands of eentral
and eastern Oregon.
One millian acres are now Irrigated
one million acres are in feasible pro
jects, and a half million are yet to
be projected.
A special committee is arranging
the details of the land settlement and
reclamation section of the conference
and is gathering data. It Is composed
of Whitney L. Boise, Portland, mem
ber of the state land settlement com
mission; James Kyle, Stanfleld, pres
ident of the Oregon Irrigation con
gress; Senator Sam H. Brown, Gcr-
vais, president of the State Drainage
association; VV. B. D. Dodson, execu
tive manager of the Portland cham
ber of commerce, and Rhea Luper,
state engineer.
JANUARY CLEAN-UP SALE.
Auother Coleman sale wilt be held
at the millinery store of Mrs, L. G.
Herren, beginning today and ending
at 8:00 p. m. on Saturday, January 5.
This la a special sale on Coats and
Dresses, featured by reductions of
one-fourth to one-third off a splen
did saving on all garments offered.
WILL HAVE SPECIAL PULLMAN
There will be a special pullman or
Oregon Wool Growers going to the
national convention at Salt Luki
City on the O.-W, R. ft N. train No
18, Jnnuary 20, Mac Hoke, secretary
of the Oregon Wool Growers' Asso
ciation, is In charge of the reserva
tions for this trip.
3U0TE ME AS SAYIN6
MY CHIEF- PESIR.E TO
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5 Killed, 8 Injured By
Accidental Shooting
Oregon Game Commission Compiles
Report of Firearm Casualties
For the Past Year.
Hunting accidents resulted in the
death of five persons and injury of
eight others in Oregon during the
Fall seasons on deer, smalt game and
birds.
This toll of human life was re
vealed in the summary of accident re
port completed this week by the Ore
gon State Game Commission. A care
ful check of all fatalities and injuries
has been supplied the commission
through district deputy game war-
frnis.
A total of 10 counties are listed in
the summary with Douglas county at
the head of the list. One person was 1
killed and one injured in Douglas
hunting accidents. Umatilla and Wal
lowa counties each reported two in
juries. One death was reported in
each of four counties. Lane, Linn,
Jackson and Yamhill, and one injury
each was reported by Cursy, Des-:
chutes and Coos counties.
The most common mistake of be
lieving a man to be a deer caused
the death of two hunters and injury
of two. The accidental discharge of
guns killed three and injured two.
Careless aim caused the injury of
four persons.
It was not hunters alone who were
killed or injured. One nine year old
girl was killed by accidnetal discharge
of a rifle and a 10 year old boy was
njured for the same reason. Two
other small boys were injured by the
careless aim of a hunter.
Rifles were responsible for the
death of four persons and injury of
four. Shotguns claimed five victims,
of which one was killed.
Notices have been sent to those re
sponsible for these accidents calling
their attention to the provision of the
Oregon Laws, which prohibit any per
son guilty of accidentally killing- or
njuring another person from carry-
ng or bearing fire-arms in this state.
This provision of course, excepts the
right to bear fire-arms in self de
fense and does not apply to peace
officers or members of military or
ganizations while on duty.
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.
Our great task for the New Year
Structural Life Building, and
should it be necessary we can well
afford to neglect many other things
order to succeed in this. The
church is the greatest help in this
work.
It is planned that the Lexington
and Heppner Christian churches shall
hold an all-day union service with
the lone brethren on next Lord's
Day. Our participation in this will
necessarily depend upon the weather.
The Bible School will be held at the
regular hour, 9:45 should the weath
er conditions be unfavorable we will
hold the other services in the church
as usual. Bring your morning church
offering to the Bible School. Should
the weather be propitious, we will
leave in cars for lone at 10:30. The
Christian Endeavor service will be
held for those of the young people
who cannot go to lone. Let us all
be at the Bible School on time, and
we will there learn definitely of the
program that is to follow, should be
n.ater of the weather leave us In
doubt LIVINGSTONE.
BANK RECEIVER ARRIVES.
J. D. McCully, pioneer merchant
and banker of Joseph, Oregon, ar
rived at Condon last Friday to take
charge of the Condon National Bank
as receiver. Mr. McCully has not been
actively engaged in the banking busi
ness for several years, but was for
merly cashier of the First Bank of
Joseph, and is thoroughly experienced
in every detail of the business.
Mr. McCully has orchard interests
at Hood River and his family reside
there, though he spends some of his
time at Joseph where he is also in
treested in the McCully Mercantile
company. Condon Globe-Times.
W. P. Strandborg, director of the
Oregon Public Utility Publicity Bu
reau, with offices in the Electric
building, Portland, was a visitor here
the last of the week. Mr. Strandborg
who Is an old newspaper man, made
this office a very pleasant call. He
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Thijjyeek
No Red Flag For White
House.
Giving George the Gate.
Earth Care at $35,000,000
Per Pound.
Inside the Coffin.
Moses and Wilbur Wright.
The public, thanks to Senator Bor
ah, will learn all about that dreadful
Russian conspiracy to plant the red
flag on the White House.
Already part of the horrible truth
has leaked out. A secret Service man 1
says that Russian Communists, dis
guised as a literary society, met in a
hall in New York.
You don't need to be told that, from
such a meeting, it is only one step to
seizing a nation of one hundred and
ten million and planting the bloody
red flag on the White House.
The people can never be grateful
enough to Secretary Hughes for pre
venting that. Paul Revere, in his
ride; the gentleman that carried the
news from Ghent to Aix, or the Greek
soldier who Bet the first Marathon
record, must make way for Charles
Evans Hughes, who kept the red flag
off the roof of the White House. .
King George, of Greece, was noti
fied that Greece could do without him
and was sent from the country, tak
ing his Queen with him. King George
will not, like Henry the Second of
England, exclaim, "Shame on a beat
en King," turn his face to the wall
and die. He will turn his face toward
Paris or Monte Carlo, excellent cook
ing and plenty of snobs in both places
and play King in safety. That's bet
ter than being a real King anywhere
outside of England now.
Things are better than they were,
even for kings. In Cromwell's and
Danton's day their heads were cut
off. The Greek King goes away, with
a pension of $28,000 a year for life,
$18,000 cash being paid on his leav
ing. The Greeks will have to pick and
dry many currants to pay for that.
This earth has a hard core, like a
baseball, or a golf ball. It is a gi
gantic sphere, bearing a pressure of
25,000 pounds to the square inch, ac
cording to reports made to the Wash
ington Academy of Sciences.
While that central sphere, 4,000
miles in diameter, is probably made of
iron, a great magnet, perhaps some
believe it may be made largely of
gold, platinum, or both. Those heav
iest metals would work downward
toward the centre. What desperate
efforts men would make to dig down
to that central core, if they could
be sure that the gold and platinum
were there. Men will dig a hole thru
the earth some day. using the sun s
power to dig, but by that time gold
will no longer be money, and money
will no longer be so important.
Platinum, more valuable than gold,
may be worth $700 a pound. That
sounds costly. But think of radium,
with which the market is now glutted.
w e had almost a monopoly of the
precious substance here for a while.
But great deposits of radium-yielding
pitch blende found in the Belgian
Congo have upset the market and the
price dropped to about thirty-five mil
lion dollars a pound. A short time
ago it was thought there was not more
than half an ounce of radium in all
the world.
It is now believed that radium in
the sun accounts for the enduring
power of that star, sending out light
and heat through hundreds of mil
lions of years, with a certainty of
lasting hundreds of millions of years
more. We had plenty of radium here,
once, if it be true that lead is radium
that has lost its power. If the stars
are fountains of radio-active power,
do they grow quiet like our earth and
become planets to some bigger sun
when their radio active energy dies?
The golden lid of Tutankhamen's
magnificent coffin has been raised,
showing glorious decorations in blue
and gold, with plenty of space for an
extra corpse or two. There are still
one or two doors to the coffin to b
opened. Then will bo found the re
mains of the creature who once ruled
all Egypt, now a dried mass of skin
and bone, preserved to prove, three
thousand years later that nothing
matters except what you do while you
are still alive.
The bonus bill is back in Congress.
Capital, fearing to be taxed, tells you
with tears in its eyes, "It will cost
seventy million dollars next year if
you give the soldiers their bonus,
Another year of war would have
cost this country FIFTY THOUSAND
MILLION DOLLARS. The men that
went across, lost their jobs and
watched the prosperous people profi
teering, prevented that.
The Government railroad in Alaska
ends at Nenana. From that point
mails to Fairbanks are drawn by dogs,
taking twenty days. Now the dugs
will get a rest, and the letters will
go flying in four hours. That's prog
ress.
Moses with his friends wandered
around the desert forty years, Start
ing after a comfortable breakfast,
flying machines would have taken
them to the Land of Promise in time
for luncheon.
Moses surely Is interested in Wil
bur Wright, who helped his brother
invent the flying machine and Is now
in heaven.
1924 YEAR FOR
CO-OPERATIVES
Market Agent Points Out the
Fault of Movement in Past;
Urges Support.
Br C. E. 8 PENCE. State Market Agent,
723 Court How, Portland.
Monopoly-controlled prices on ev
erything he has to buy. Inflated
freight rates and deflated farm prices
are forcing the farmers to come to
gether to save themselves and their
industry. They realize the truth of
the remark made recently by a Re
publican U. 8. Senator that "monop
oly Is absolute master of every pro
duct necessary to feed, clothe, warm
and shelter the human body," and
they know too well that unless they
also combine their industry, and fay
power of alliance, buy in the same
markets they are now forced to sell
in, there is little hope for bettered
conditions in agriculture.
Farmers must realize the situation
and they must act. They must or-
'nie and stand solidly together. It
is not at all impossible when they
once appreciate the situation and its
gravity. Every important industry in
the nation is controlled by combina
tion, except agriculture. There is
little hope for one outside industry
against such odds. It is the prey of
all the combinations. A G re sham
farmer aptly stated it when he said
that under such conditions the farm
er had no more show to succeed than
would an individual with a few thous
and dollars have in starting opposi
tion to the sugar trust or trws Stand
ard Oil Company.
"You can't get the farmers togeth
er," "they won't combine and stick,"
and "it can't be done." These, you
farmers hear every day. The same
songs were sung in the south when
the movements were started to or
ganize the cotton planters and the
tobacco growers 90 per cent strong.
But it was done, it was done because
the southern farmers had come to
the point where they knew it must be
done. It was done with labor1 a task
just as formidable as organization of
farmers. It was proclaimed to the
world that it would be impossible to
organize the many different classes
and trades in the ranks of labor into
enough strength to force fair wages.
It has been done and further, this or
ganization has been powerful enough
to put up the bars against emigra
tion, it has forced congress to keep
out those who would swarm in and
thru competition weaken their organi
zations.
If farmers could only be of one
mind for one year on the matter of
eo-operatWe selling and buying they
would have an organization as power
ful for success s that of the Bell
Telephone Company. They would be
n complete control of their market-
ng; able to fix a fair profit price on
their products; powerful enough to i
force out the army of middle-handlers ,
and profit-takers, and then thru joint
action, with consumers get the pro-
ducts to the homes, at so much less
expense that retail prices would be
greatly lowered, even while the pro-
ueers got much higher prices.
There are few farmers but what
admit that their one hope under pres
ent conditions is to combine as oth
ers combine and get their just share
by right of might, yet when it comes
right down to backing their own ad
missions, too many will hang back to
let the others put it over waiting
to see how it works out before they
come in. And this one fact is more
responsible than all others for the
limited success of the many co-operative
organizations in Oregon the or
ganizations are not backed strongly
enough, there are too many sitting on
the fence waiting results results
which they make impossible by their
outside competition. They are borers
from within.
It would seem that the time had
come for the farmers of Oregon in
every county in Oregon, to walk into
this matter of mass production. It
would seem that 1925 should see them ment" is another rather binding one
ready to quit arguing and protesting which all growers should have con
and to come together solidly in the j aide red well before signing the "mar
one determination to run their own keting agreement." Section 17 reads:
business, rather than to let the other
combinations run it for them and
take over the profits.
Dr. Chick Will Leave
Heppner for The Dalles
Dr. C. C. Chick is closing up his
practice in Heppner, and expects to
take up his residence in The Dalles
by about the middle of this month,
where he will continue the practice
of medicine. Dr. Chick has made
fortunate connections at The Dalles
and will be on the staff of the bifr
hospital in that city. He expecta to
be succeeded here by Dr. Johnson of
Arlington, who has been a resident
and practitioner in that city for sev
eral years and is not unknown to
many here.
People of Heppner and Morrow
county generally will rejrret to learn
of the decision of Dr. Chick to leave
here, but they wish him well in his
new field, and he will not be so far
from Heppner that he cannot call this
way occasionally.
FARM BUREAU MEETS SATURDAY.
The annual farm bureau meeting
will be held in this city on Saturday
next, beginning at 10 a. m. The ses
sions will be held at the I. O. O. F.
hall, and while the weather is rather
Inclement, the meeting is an import
ant one and it is urged that all mem
bera be present if possible. Outside
speakers are to b, present from O. A.
C. at Corvallis. These will be E. L.
Potter, head of animal husbandry
department; E. R. Jackman, extension
farm crops specialist, and H. A. Lind
gren, livestock specialist, and these
men will deliver addresses on sub
jects of vital interest to the farm
bureau members. At the business ses
sion the question of reducing the
dues and putting the organisation on
a more workable basis will be pre
sented for action. Farmers of Mor
row county are urged to make a spe
cial effort to be present, and all bus
iness men are cordially invited to at
tend. Dinner will be served in the
hall at noon.
GROWERS 10 VOICE
THEIR DISAPPROVAL
Gilliam County Farmers
Call Mass Meeting
At Condon.
TO DISCUSS O. C. G. G.
Returns From Association Past Year
Were Unfavorable; Waye and
Means of Withdrawing Aim.
(Condon Globe-Times)
A number of Gilliam county wheat
growers have issued a call for a meet
ing at the Gilliam county court
house, Saturday afternoon, at one
o'clock, January 5, 1924, to discuss
the matter and method of withdraw
ing from the Oregon Co-Operativ
Grain Growers' Association. Many
of the local growers, it is said, are
highly dissatisfied with the returns
received through the association.
Some have refused to market their
wheat with the association in spite of
decisions -upholding the co-operative
market agreements in Oregon, Wash
ington, California and Idaho courts.
There is no doubt that individual
growers have sustained losses through
marketing their wheat co-operatively
when comparing the average prices
received in the association with the
prive received by some growers out
side the association. At all events,
there is enough feeling among grow
ers that this is so, that the meeting
for January 5 has been called to dis
cuss ways and means of severing their
connection with the association. It is
proposed to do this under the provis
ions of paragraph six of the co-operative
membership agreement. This
paragraph reads as follows:
"Every member of the association
shall have one vote, but upon written
demand or petition of 10 per cent of
the members or by a vote of 40 per
cent of the district delegates at any
regular or special meeting of the as
sociation, an appeal may be had to a
referendum on any problem or prob
lems of general concern to the asso
ciation. When such a referendum
is demanded each member shall have
one vote for the first five thousand
bushels or fraction thereof, and an
additional vote for each succeeding
five thousand bushels or major frac
tion thereof. In determining the vot
ing power of the members the num
ber of bushels of wheat sold by the
member tha preceding year shall be
taken as the measure of Iris voting
power. Likewise a written demand
of 10 per cent of the growers in any
district shall cause a written vote on
the above bushelage basis within the
district on any question concerning
the district."
Paragraph eleven of the member
ship agreement, however, seems to
make withdrawal impossible. Para
graph eleven (a) says:
"If at any time before March 1,
1922, signatures to this contract by
growers of wheat, or owners, o les
sors, or lessees, of land in the state
of Oregon together with the signa
tures by growers of wheat or owners,
lessors, or lessees of land to sub
stantially similar contracts circulated
in the states of Washington and Ida
ho shall have covered twenty-five per
cent of the production of wheat by
bushels in 1918, in Oregon, and Idaho,
taken as a whole, then this agreement
shall be binding upon all the sub
scribers in all its terms and there
shall be no right of withdrawal what
soever." Paragraph eleven (b) further says
that if signatures covering S5 per
cent of the wheat grown in 1918 in
Oregon are secured before March 1,
1922, then the agreement is binding
and that there shall be no right of
withdrawal whatsoever.
Section 17 of the "marketing agree-
it the association Drings any ac
tion to enforce any provisions hereof
or to secure specific performance
hereof, or to collect damages of any
kind for any breach hereof, the grow
er agrees to pay to the association all
costs of court, costs for bonds and
otherwise, expenses of travel, and all
expenses arising out of or caused by
the litigation, and any reasonable at
torney's fee expended or incurred by
it in any proceedings, and all such
costs and expenses shall be included
in the judgment and shall be entitled
to the benefit of any Hen securing any
payment hereunder.
It is reported that association of
ficials recognize the wide-spread dis
satisfaction that prevails among as
sociation members in Oregon and that
there ib some sentiment among the
officals to follow the same plan that
was tried in Washington to submit
the question of the dissolution of the
association to a vote of the members.
How strong this sentiment is remains
to be seen.
State Wool Growers Meet
In Pendleton Jan. 28-29
The Oregon State Wool Growers'
Convention will be held at Pendleton
on January 28 to 29. According to
Information from the committee in
charge, sent to County Agent Morse,
the convention this year wilt be big
ger and better than ever. Among the
speakers on the program at this meet
ing are F. K. Marshall, secretary, and
W. S. McClure, former secretary of
the National Wool Growers' Asso
ciation; Colonel Greely, of th Uni
ted States Forestry .Service; H. W.
Kavannaugh, IKstrict Fo renter for
this section; representative of the
Oregon Experiment SUliun, Oregon
Agricultural College Marktinr u
thorities, and William Pollman, pres
ident of the Oregon Cattle and florae
Kaisers' Association.
The annual banquet will be held on'
the evening of the 2Uth, and reserva
tions for plates should be lent to
Fred Bennlon, County Agunt, at Pendleton.