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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1924)
il THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1924. PAGE THREE Mr. Douglass, who has been pend ing the past several noontha In this city with his daughtera, Mrs. Chas. 8windi( and Mrs. E. J. Starkey, de parted on Sunday fur Portland. Mr. Douglass owned a pair of steers that he drove and these he loaded on the cara with other belongings and took them along. He had theso animals hitched up and in the Rodeo psrade last fall, at which time many of the youngsters of the town were made happy by being honored a place in the wagon and taking part in the fes tivities, and Mr. Douglass enjoyed the proceedings no less than the youngsters. John McCarty, formerly a resident of Morrow county and well known here for a long number of years, vis ited the city on Friday and enjoyed meeting up with numerous old-time friends. Mr. McCarty is living now over in Washington, near the town of Touchet, where he is engaged in the raising of wheat and alfalfa. He was here to look over a real estate propo sition, and it is barely possible that he may decide to return to Morrow county and become one of our citi zens again. Karl L. Beach of Lexington attend ed the P. T. A. meeting at the school house in Heppner Friday evening. He brought up throe young men from that city who assisted the high school orchestra with their number on the program, the lads adding to the violin section. Following the meeting a number of the members of the or chestra went to Lexington where they furnished a part of the music that was donated for the benefit dance giv en in the new gym at that place. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Wilcox and Mr. Cleve Hcipel, of Estacada, drove into Heppner on Monday evening-, having left home, thut morning. They are guests at the home of Mr. ad Mrs. W. P. Cox of Balm Fork for a few days, and enjoying some of our excellent weather. Mr. Wilcox is still In the garage business at Estacada and sell ing cars, while Mr. Heipel is a suc cessful farmer In Clackamas county. This is his first visit to Morrow county. Pearl P. Hnssler, editor of lone In dependent and political sago of the Egg City, was knocking around Hepp ner on Monday, presumably filling his noodle with more political wis dom (?) and shaking oft some of his mental lethargy In telling what he knows. Pesrl will soon be in post tion to fully Inform the county as to what is going on politically. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Carter who were down from their ranch at the edge of the timber, report that the roads leading into town are now quite dry. The weather out that way is wsrm and sunshiny and vegetation is com ing along as rapidly as it should be after the middle of March or the first of April. Truly this is a freak sea son. Mass will be said for William Brady deeeascd, well known sheepman of Eastern Oregon, at Condon Saturday. March 1st, at 8 a. m. Mr. Brady died in County Leitrim, Ireland, at the age of 65 yenrs, and was buried at Hnl Li muck. He leaves his son, Tom Brady of Boardmsn and other relatives in the old country. Spencer Akers and wife returned home on Friday from Portland. They have been In the city for the past two months, Mr. Akers undergoing a serious operstion for the removal of goiter that had been troubling him for months. He has fully recovered from the operation and feels greatly improved in health. Chns. Thomson came home from Portland on Sunday, making a rec ord drive to this city over the Colum bia and O.-W. highways. He was In the city during the week on pleasure and business combined, and Mrs. Thomson, who accompanied him to the city, will remain there for a time. Hotel Heppner has placed a fire escape on the building just above the front entrance. This is in compliance with the requirements of the state fire marshall's office. The Iron work was done by Frank Shively and T. G. Oennisce and Henry Crump put it In place on the building. There will be an escape at the rear also. Ollie Kincaid is an extensivs far mer residing in the lower Gooseberry section. He farms the old home place and states that grain was never bet ter at this time of year. Mr. Kincaid was in the city for a short time on Monday, looking after affairs of busl- ftess. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ayers and Mrs. D. M. Ward arrived home on Friday from Portland. They spent a week or more in the city and were accom panied there by Mrs. Anna Spencer, . who remains in the city under the care of a physician. Mr, and Mrs, Johnnie Hlatt motor ed home from Portland. Saturday, having spent the past woek In the city where Mr. Hiatt attended the hardware dealers convention. They found the traveling on the highway very fine. Prowltt Cox and wife were down from their foothill farm on Saturday, spending a few hours in the city. Mr. Cox states that grass and grain are growing fine, and all indications are that spring has arrived for sure. C. R. Gurnet, cashier of Bank of lone, accompanied by J. H. Kelly, his attorney from Portland wore in Hoppner Saturday to attend the sher iff's snle of the Peterson lands, In which the bunk wbb Interested. George Peek, who farms successful- Scene of Illinois Wet and Dry Warfare rrf""""i! ; i j V Vter picture shows part of the 1700 state trooi rushed to Ilerrln, IlIino.B, to rait ore order in Williamson County in the war between "IryB" and "Wets," and which are said to be Ku Klux Klau and "Knljcht of the Flaming Circle" resiectively. I-ower picture ia th court house at Herriu, which was under control of the "Dry a." ly in the Lexington country, was a visitor in this city on Tuesday. The past few weeks have been mighty fine for doing up a lot of farm work, and much plowing- is in progress. Jason Biddle, who is owner of one of the leading garages at lone, was aJ visitor in this city on Tuesday. Mr. Biddle is feeling encouraged over the business outlook down his way. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Slocum, Ed Kel ler and Rev. GMtanders of Lexington were in the city on Tuesday evening to attend the jubilee ceremonies of Doric Lodge No. 20, K. of P. LOST Bull-terrier dog, dark tan and white, bearing 1923 Morrow coun ty license tag, rubies vaccine cross on collar. Reward. Address Jack Howard, Heppner. George S perry, Jr.. and family de parted on Sunday for Spokane. It is understood that Mr. S perry will locate at Soap Lake and engage in business. FOR SALE Good, oats and two varieties of barley seed stuff. B. F. Swnggart, Eastern Oregon Jack Farm, Lexington, Ore. For Sale No. 1 seed barley beard ed variety. $36 per ton" at ranch northeast of Lexington. Harvey Mil ler. 4tp. For good, wholenome, home cooking get your meals at Mrs. Kinney's, next door to Central Market, Oilman Bldg. For Bale Nine head good mules. 4-year olds this spring; all broke. Harvey Young. tf. Isaac Howard, prominent resident of lone, was a business visitor here on Tuesday, Present Scandals the Backwash of War (National Republican.) Loss of life and property, so stag gering in modern warfare that no war successful for any nation is conceiv able, Is not the heaviest toll of war. The most terrible injury inflicted up on a nation by war, and the one from which recovery is slowest and most difficult, is the lowering of national morale which inevitably accompanies participation in war. Never was there a more startling illustration of this truth than during the World war, and nowhere was it more in evidence than in Washington at that time. One need only read the fifteen-hundred page report of the Graham investigation committee, which collected some of the facts bearing upon the frightful orgy of waste, incompetency and graft that went on in Washington and at other points during the war, to realize how far human greed will go even in a moment that should lift men above sordid motives and unworthy pur poses, when the vastly increased ac tivities of government under the stress of war necessity makes possi ble the persuasion or corruption of hastily Improvised official personnel to the sacrifice of national interests. Not that corruption was general it was the exception rather than the rule, but It was sufficiently perva sive that it could escape the attention of no intelligent observer. At the end of the war a system of exploitation of the public treasury had (frown up that has not yet been entirely extirpated. The prenent wtde- ly advertised scandals are but the backwash of a flood which at its height brought no word of censure from most of the politicians who have been yelling themselves hoarse about Teapot Dome during the past few weeks. It may be said, has been said, that if all this were true, punishment hould have been meted out to the offenders. It is easier to declaim against such evils in an editorial room or on the floor of Congress than to successfully ferret out and prose cute such crimes, sometimes the re sult of stupidity on the part of gov ernment representatives rather than of evil purpose, and when the result of conspiracy difficult to prove be cause the only competent witnesses are usually those who were parties to the crime. We know that when forty-two bread-cans for each soldier in an ar my of three and a half million men are manufactured, when a billion dollars is wasted on aircraft and as much more on artillery practically corruption than by continuing to in crease the sphere of government ac tivity. Those who would make the government the universal provider, employer and policeman are advocat ing the most dangerous agency of hu man exploitation it would be possible to devise. What is everybody's busi ness In government Is nobody's busi ness but that of the politician en abled to use public power for private advantage. The simplest government naturally the least corrupt gov ernment. The increased complexity of government, which has reached the point where the government's hand is in every man s pocket and its nose in every man's business, carries with I it the increased danger of organized , graft using the government for sel-! fish, personal ends. One of the most flagrant abuses in troduced on a large scale during and immediately subsequent to the war was that of government officials re tiring from public posts to accept pri vate employment in the prosecution of claims before the very tribunals to which they had belonged and which they had helped to constitute. The lengths to which that had gone was shown when Secretary of the Interior Lane, one of the most high-minded men in the country, left the govern ment service to enter the employ of powerful interests upon whose right he had been called to pass while a member of the cabinet. Mr. McAdoo does not now see the impropriety of his leaving the Treasury department in the middle of an administration to accept employment at huge fees in a half dozen directions where political and personal influence rather than legal talent was the thing sought by his employers. Senator Gore, of Ok lahoma, one of the progressive group in the Senate, thought he was justi fied in leaving the Senate to take em ployment as a lobbyist for oil in terests. Washington, during and for some time after the war, was overrun with attorneys, special agents and lobbyists whose stock in trade was the personal and political pressure they were able to bring to bear on government departments and on Con gress. The system of getting things done by favor became so well en trenched that business men came to believe that they could not even get justice without the help of certain powerful people with connections in side the departments. Naturally that system led to the point where some thing more than justice was sought for through the Bame agencies. Take the case of the Alien Proper ty Custodianship. Because the prop erty belonged to alien enemies it was assumed that exploitation could go to any lengths in looting the treas uries of seized concerns, and any sort of deal, advantageous to favored in terests, could be driven in the sale of these properties. Anyone who criticized these transactions was called "pro-German." Mediocre at torneys were employed by the govem- night. The fraudulency of this thing could not be proved in court, but the gross impropriety of it was recognized by everybody. Ships, lands and build ings were unloaded on the govern ment under circumstances which en riched individuals, some of whom were close relatives of persons high in official life. Deals were made I which no one outside of a lunatic asy- I luni would have seriously considered on a business basis, all of them to the sacrifice of government interests. It is true that too many of those j who were parties to such transactions 1 lingered in Washington after the war. The civil service system held some of them. But there should have been a real cleaning of the Augean stable. The merciful spirit which, because the war was over, thought it was just as well not to pursue or puninsh when recovery of what was lost was im possible, appeals to every man of gen erous impulses. But it is unfortunate that this whole system could not have been crushed when the war which bred it was over. The American people may at least be certain that what has recently been revealed, so far as it refers to present conditions, is of slight moment as compared with that which flourished in Washington during and immediate ly after the war period. There has been a comparative cleansing of the official atmosphere. The guilty are few as compared with the guiltless. The present revelations will serve the purpose of ending for all time, it is to be hoped, the system of selling of fical influence to private interests. Those who proclaim the general rot tenness of things are like the barroom loafer with lim burger cheese in his moustache who tearfully declared that "the whole world stinks." Under the leadership of a chief executive who is the personification of integrity we are coming out of a mess, not gettng into one. Despite the twin enemies of the republic, the corruptionist and the demagogue, we are moving forward to a higher plane as the war which blunted the con sciences and sharpened the greed of men recedes in the past. Wanted! Dressmaking work done promptly, satisfaction guaranteed. Prices reasonable. One block north, two west, of Fanners Bank. Mrs. W. C. Isom. Experienced girt work. Addre-s Box will do house 1M, Heppner. for these seised properties. Flocks of favored lawyers grew rich over with mi f rosiult whan unnnav rtnnaii branding iron is made for every two .nat fbul.ou larie attorneys horses and mules owned by the gov ernment, and a thousand things of the Bame sort happen, that there is rot tenness somewhere, but to prove criminal intent and corrupt collusion is another matter. But no such sys tem can thrive in the national capi tal for four years without the blight of it remaining for a long time to come. While a war is on, criticism of gov ernment, even of the evils of govern ment, is treated by many people as treasonable. The role of critic ia an unenviable one. Under the plea of emergency things may be done that would not be tolerated in a normal time. And this opens the door for great abuses. Government at best functions inefficiently in business ac tivates. There could be no better plan for destroying the nation by Thoroughbred Barred Rock Cocker els Famous Holterman and Klein smith strain, at a bargain. Gerald A. White, Lexington, Ore. tf. Reduced Prices on STANDARD MAZDA LAMPS at Case Furniture Company It's Seed Time Now Spring Rye Beardless Barley Bearded Barley Hard Federation Wheat Early Baart Wheat BROWN LOWRY '"l IIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilllllllllllllllllllllMlllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllIllillllllllllllllllUIIIII-' Grippe! It is a winter plague which claims thousands every season. Scon's Emulsion will strengthen you against Urlppc, and if yon have had it, Scott's will re- 4 store your strength faster than any other medicine, Scott's is Just Blood-Food arott (k Bowne, Wnmniwd, N j, s-M Strangled Butterfly 0A mi I,oiiIhi Ijuvscin, of Wnlnii HirlhKK, Tex., known ax il "Hroail vvny Butterfly," huh found Htrnnxlui In ht'V luxurious N. Y. mmrtiiiont--tlie prey of what poller cull a "roll hory linu," which khIh wrnrcrs ol mliiHhlt' Jewels lu llroiulwiiy nlglu lifts and stop lim at minder. WE THINK of WASHINGTON now as our victorious general and statesman. But victory and glory came to him only at the end of fighting, enduring and in resisting discouragement. Reverses, retreats, failures had no effect upon him. They only inspired him to greater efforts and he won. .His Birthday Febru ary 22nd OES the little demon ofd iscouragement whisper Dnps hp trv to tell vnu that vnur Well, that little thought is If such thoughts have been both- Read again the in your ear courage is gone the worst enemy of success. ering you stop and study Washington. story of his life. If you are in the ranks of those determined to win, you will be pleasingly surprised in the many ways we can serve you if you'll make this bank "your bank." First National Bank HEPPNER, OREGON ELKHORN RESTAURANT Come in and look over our new location in the Odd Fellows Building, where you will find one of the best equipped dining rooms in Eastern Ore gon. And when you have inspected the front, come back and take a look at our sanitary kitchen. You will be able to get quick service at our lunch counter. GOOD MEALS AND SERVICE AT POPULAR RATES ED. CHINN, Prop. HI That strapping big new Overland engine has everybody talking. It is all sinew and power. It sends you zooming up the stiSest climbs as nimbly as you please. This is Overland Power Dem onstration week. Come in take an Overland out and prove to yourseli that it is the most automobile in the world for the money. Champion $695 ; Sedan $795, f.o.b. Toledo. COHN AUTO CO. Heppner, Oregon istiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiitii'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinitiiiiiiiiinHiiiiiiiniiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir Big Sale on Coats 1-4 Off OREGON CITY WOOLEN MILL, ALL WOOL MEN'S OVERCOATS 1-4 Off PALMER COATS IN LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S 1-4 Off Thomson Brothers THE UNIVERSAL CAR Buy Your Ford Now WITH spring almost here thousands of families, antici pating the demand that is certain to exist for Ford Cars v and Trucks are placing their orders for immediate delivery. Sales now are far ahead of sales at this time last year. Advance orders calling for delivery under the Ford Weekly Purchase Plan have already reached a total of 255,753 Cars and Trucks. The prospect of securing prompt delivery is daily becom ing more uncertain. We cannot urge too strongly, there fore, the necessity for placing your order immediately, if you are planning to drive a Ford Car this spring. See the nearest Authorized Ford Dealer f" Drtrolt, Michigan & Il is not nmsaarf to pay foe your car in hill in order to secure delivery. You can ( on the preferred list for early delivery by nuking a small payment down. Or, ii you wish, you can arrange for delivery under the terms ol the Ford Weekly Purcheee Pisa.