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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
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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
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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.
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