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rical SocW' The . Gazette-Times PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF MORROW COUNTY Volume 42, Number 11. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUN. 11, 1925. Subscripion 52.00 Ter Year T THIS WEEK Judge Phelps Holds Three Day Session Here Be ' ginning Monday. 2 CASES ARE TRIED Important Criminal Cue Postponed Until December Term; Boardman Man Wlm In Damage Suit. The regular term of circuit court wai opened at the court home in thia city on Monday morning, Judge Gil bert W. Phelps presiding, and all of ficer present, including Clerk Gay M. Anderson, Sheriff Geo. McDuffee and Reporter J. S. Beckwith. The court apointed Wm. Ayfers as bailiff. Two cases, only came to trial be fore a jury, and several important criminal cases were postponed until the December term, because of in ability on the part of the interested persons to have witnesses present at this time. While there was a lot of business set down on the docket, there was but few matters brought to issue, and the judge was able to wind up the session immediately af ter convening yesterday afternoon. The first cane to come to trial on Monday involved a suit for damages in the sum of 110,000, brought by Jo hanna M. Jensen against O. S. Wag goner of Boardman. Mrs. Jensen, a woman 82 years of age, received In juries about a year ago in Tom's auto park at Boardman, while the same was in charge of Waggoner and set up a claim for damages on account thereof. Her attorneys were Glenn R. Metzkcr of St. Helens, Oregon, and Wn,lwAn A G.UAa.le t II the defendant was represented bv S. I K. Van Vactor of The Dalles. The ' following jury heard the evidence: M. R, Morgan, C. J. D. Bauman, A. P. Parker, Frank Monahan, David Hynd Joseph J. Hughes, J. N. Batty, Henry W. Krebs, J. O. Turner, E. E. Heliker and C. D. Morey, and after several hours of deliberation turned in their verdict for the defendant. The court allowed 30 dtiys for the filing of a motion for a new trial, A jury also heard the case of Bria tow A Johnson vs. J. P. O'Meara, et at, and after being out for a short time, found for the plaintiffs, allow ing them $11 6.35 on first cause of ac tion, and $520.23 on second cause of action. Thirty days given in which to file motion for a new trial. Other cases on the docket were dis posed of as follows: Ivan Leathers vs. First National Bank of Heppner; demurrer to amended answer overruled. Oregon Co-operative Hay Growers vs. Ira A. Burger; dismissed with prejudice but without costs to either party; done upon agreement in open court. Gordon Hull vs. Claude White; dis missed without prejudice. A. B. Fletcher vs. J. P. O'Meara; settled and dismissed without preju dice as to O'Meara Bros, Mary Dilworth Gateley vs. Paul O' Meara; stipulation that plaintiff have judgment for the return of the prop erty described in her complaint and that plaintiff will waive damages. That plaintiff shall have judgment for her costs and disbursements In the action. Heppner Farmers Elevator Co. vs. R. D. Allstott and D. E. Oilman; de mur to amended complaint overruled by consent; SO days to answer. Hurry D. Wall and F. B. Edmund son v. J. O, Lower; demurer over ruled by consent; 20 days to answer Sadie Lewis vs. F. H. Burgoyne; de fault and judgment. Glenn A. Bull vs. John M. Lundy, et ux.; settled and dismissed. Paul Troedson, et ux. vs. I. M Wagner, et al; demur to complaint overruled; 10 days to answer. Mn'ie Bowers vs. Charles B. Bow ers; demurer overruled by consent. Dennis Spillane vs. Carl Her, et at.; default; findings and decree for plain tiff. State of Oregon vs. Henry L. Ras- mussen, arraigned, pleads not guilty; set down for Monday, first duy of De cember term. State of Oregon vs. V. H. Stickles arraigned; plonds not guilty; set for Monday, first day of December term State of Oregon vs. Wm. A. Duran arraigned, waives time and enters plea of guilty; sentenced to three years and paroled to state parole of ficer with the understanding that Du ran will be placed In the veterans' hospital to receive much needed treat ment. State of Oregon vs. Patrick Brady placed under bond to furnish support to wife and children in the sum of $35 per month On Wednesday morning the follow Ing grand jury was drawn and sworn In: K. H. Turner, A. P. Parker, Ar thur YerKons, Frank Monahan, J. 0 Turner, E. E. Holiker and T. J. Jones. DR. CLARKE, EYE SPECIALIST. I Dr. Clarke, of the Clarke-Stram Op tical Co., 32flMi Washington St., Port land, will be In Heppner alt dny and evening, Thursday, June lnth, at th Hotel Ho iiner. Have him examine your eyes. Examination free, Mrs, Ellis Henriksen and little son acompanicd by her mother, Mrs, Jeff Jones, departed for Portland on bun- day, Mrs, Henriksen being on the way to join her husband thdro. Mr. Hon ricknon Is taking his vncatlon at th 1 time and will spend it with his moth er who resides in the Willamette val ley. Mrs. Jones roturncd homo ftom Portland last evening, Albert Williams enmo Friday from Modock county, California, where he has bean residing during the pas year. He was in business for a cou ple of years at Portland, but has ro turned to Morrow county where thinks he will rcmnin. J. N, Batty, Eight Mile farmer, was doing Jury duty in Heppner th woek. JOHN DAY IRRI GATION DISTRICT DEFENDS RIGHTS Suit for Legal Services Filed By C. H. Finn Will be Heard In Portland Next Week. The board of directors of the John Day Irrigation District held a meet, ing at the office of Woodson & Sweek in thia city on Tuesday evening ut which were present Arthur Wheel house of Arlington, M. D. Clark and G. A. Minor of Heppner, directors. S. E. Van Vector, attorney for the dis trict, and C. L. Sweek, secretary, be sides L. B. da Ponte of Tacoma, rep resenting the Northern Pacific Rail road Co., and Dan P. Smythe, attor ney of Pendleton, representing Smythe Bros., large land owners with in the district, Mark V. Weatherford and others. The primary object of this meeting was to consider the suit filed against the district by C. H. Finn of Port land. Mr. Finn is an attorney, for merly located at La Grande, who was at one time engaged by the directors ofthe district in the defense of the suit some years ago determining the legality of the organization, etc. He tjas claims against the district for these services, and has sued the di rectors and their former attorney, F. A. McMenamm, for $10,000, and this suit is coming on to be heard at Portland next week. As a sort of counterbalance to this suit, McMen amin has also filed a suit for $10,000 against the district, and thus a total of $20,000 has become involved. The directors will appear by their attor ney at Portland and defend the dis trict In this suit. Some other matters were also taken up, some bills allowed, and a casual discussion made of the claims against the district. The outcome of the suits against the district will be awaited however before any definite action is taken to clean up the in debtedness and wind up the affairs -of the organization. CHANGE ESSENTIAL DURING VACATION State Board of Health. Why are vacations, anyway? Why do we break into the ordered routine perfectly cheerful and useful fe and go wandering off into the various ends of the world In search of whatever ft ia fie are looking for? What makes us shift restlessly on our omce chairs wnen tne nairny reezes of early summer begin to ruffle the papers on our desks? And why did we catch ourselves wander ng absentmindedly into a sporting goods store, when Wife asked us to bring home two pounds of steak last ight? Change is a wonderful thing. Its atural to develop a craving for iur- roundings and life that we miss in our daily routine. The yearning of i the lonely prospector for a good blow-1 out in the biggest place nearby is no j stronger than the desire of the city weller for a spell of "back to na- Both these feelings are per fectly normal, and on the way that we go about fulfilling these wants of ours for a change depends the success or failure of our vacation. Change is the first essential of a vacation. For a real rest, we must cave our usual haunts and occupa tions and find new ones. Rest is not n entire lack of occupation, but in dulging in pursuits which are strange to us in our ordinary life. The lone some worker In the open wants gsy- ety and social diversion; the worried office worker needs physical exercise and enough mental exertion to keep his mind off his problems. The greatest danger in taking va cations is that of overdoing. We are supposed to return to work rested, refreshed and ready for another per iod of our daily work, Instead we often come back home to recuperate from our vacation. It ia very easy to get carried away by the joy of the unusual outdoor life, or by the ftt tractions of the social whirl, and to attempt feats that would have taxed our powers when we were much younger and in better condition to stand the strain. We must pick the places which will give us the sort of relaxation we need, and then we must tnke it in the proper doses. The best plan is not confine the va cation to one lump, once a year. A longer vacation at that time is very useful, but it Is much better to get entirely away from our work oftener once a week, say, tho it be for only few hours. When we do that, we are not apt to overdo things; we spread our enjoyment over a longer period and get the good effects of vacation permanently. This need not rule out the usual holiday but let us plan definitely to leave our rou tine behind us for one day a week, or half a day, all thru the year. Then let us seriously organize the time so that it will be a true vacation in every sense of the word -as far re moved from business as possible, and giving us what we do not get the rest of the week. This will be the very best kind of a holiday for us. Frnnk rurncll,tate evangelist of the Christian church of Oregon, will be In Heppner over the coming Suiv diiy and will hold services both mdrn ing and evening at the Christian church here. Members anu friends of the church are invited to be pros ent and hear him. Mr. and Mrs. Phlll Cohn and their daughter Eleanor came up from Port land yesterdny and will spend a few days in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Cohn were anxious to see their new grand son. The books of the officials of Mor row county are being audited thi week. Floyd A. Russell, expert ac countant of Portlnnd is In chargo of tho work. W. A. Wlrti, auditor for the Turn A-Lum Lumber Company, with head quarters at Walla Walla, was a vis Itor here tha past week, LOCAL NEWS -ITEMS Otis Patterson, attorney of Canyon City, and for many years a resident of Heppne and former editor of this paper, spent the week-end here, be-. ing accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Sue Gilliam. While Mr. Patterson has visited here a number of times since leaving Heppner 27 years ago, this Is the second visit of Mrs. Gil liam in that time, and there was little of the city that she recognized. Mr. Patterson and daughter returned to Canyon City on Sunday, having en joyed greatly meeting old friends and acquaintances. Mr. and Mrs. S, E. Van Vactor drove up from The Dalles on Sunday, re maining in the city for several days while Mr. Van Vactor looked after some cases in the circuit court. They departed for home on Wednesday af ternoon. Attorney C. L. Sweek, who Is secre tary for the John Day Irrigation dis trict, has been called to go to Port land to appear In a suit brought against the district by C. H. Finn. He will leave for the city on Sunday. Children's Day was observed last Sunday at Bethel Chapel. A splen did program was given by many of the pupils of the Sunday School, and was enjoyed by a number of parents as well as friends. Mrs. Percy Jarmon of Pine City, Mrs. Ralph Finley of Alpine and Mrs. Geo. Burn aide of Eight Mile were the women jurors attending the June term of court in this city this week. Treasurer L. W. Briggs is laid up at his home this week, suffering a se vere attack of appendicitis. His phy sician has not decided yet whether an operation will be necessary. Bethel Chapel Ladies' Auxiliary spent a delightful afternoon last Thursday when they entertained in the Chapel honoring Mrs. Polly Church of Hood River. Art Wheelhouse and Mark Weath erford, ranchmen of Arlington, were here over Tuesday night to attend a meeting of the John Day irrigation district directors. C. H. Finn, attorney of Portlnnd, was a visitor at Heppner over Tues day night, attending a meeting of the board of directors of the John Day Irrigation district. B. H. Grady, wheat buyer of Lex ington, was doing business in Hepp ner on Wednesday. He has been quite busy writing up contracts on the new crop. Dr. C. E. Wade of St Helens, Ore gon, registered at Hotel Heppner on Monday, having been called to this city as a witness in a case before the circuit court. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Canfield of Og en, Utah, spent a couple of days in Heppner while Mr. Canfield was lock- ng after some legal matters in the circuit court. C. B. Stanley of Cleveland, Ohio, J. H. Dunlap of Littell, Wash., and 3. 0. Storey of Camas, Wash., sawmill men, were Tuesday. visitors in this city on Mrs. Z. R. Riggs of Portland was a visitor at Heppner the first of the week. Mrs. Riggs represents the lison-White chautauqua people. Joseph Cuhna, Jr., of Echo was in the city on Wednesday, being inter ested in the settlement of a case in ircuit court. Glenn R. Metiker, attorney, was here this week from St. Helens, Ore gon, having a case before the court on Monday, Walter Carpenter of Pendleton, rep resenting farm machinery dealers, was looking up business in this city on Friday. J. B. Stanfield, wool buyer of Port land, spent a couple of days at Hepp ner this week, being a guest at Hotel Heppner. Hanson Hughe departed this morn- ng for Portland, expecting to spena few days in the city on business. C. L. Pepper, attorney of The Dalles, attended to some legal mat ters here the first of the week. Attorney F. H. Robinson of lone was in Heppner for a day or so tnis week, attending circuit court. Just received, a new shipment of summer felts, at the Curran Millin ery Shoppe. Frank Engleman, business man of lone, was a visitor in Heppner on Tuesday. C. W. Troedson, farmer of the Ella section, was a visitor in the city yes terday. WHY MANY FARMERS DO NOT MILK COWS. (Morrow County Extension Service News.) The distribution of hours of labor in dairy farming Is quite different from that of general farming, or of any other enterprise. Herein lies the reason why dairying is absent from so many farms. It is a 7-6iiy job. It requires a larger amount of labor than the handling of any other class of live stock, and com pared with crops, Its labor demand differs greatly in the time of the dny the work has to be done. It will be noted that the time re quired before sunrise and after sun set varies from about 6 per cent In June to nbout 65 per cent in Novem ber. Taking the year as a whole, about 30 per cent? of the work must be done before sunrise and after sun set, The summer season alone calls for about 16 per cent of such time, and the wintor season for noarly 60 per cent. DID YOU KNOW That an acre-Inch of water or the amount of water that would covor an ncro of land an inch deep weighs 113 tons. On May 20 It ruined 1.2(1 of an Inch at Heppner. This means that more than 142 torn of water fell on each acre of land. SUCH IS THE FAITH OF MEN By a B chapin sfrtY 1 Jf ftl-. W O k fl-L LET YOU OFF TM! TIME ! , . WW'iJI u-J2Z J wtffJ I.,, 7, . , , ,,, vto to scrub the porck and yr ?m,A,&rA, flW W ffffffl ffWffi Cleam the hem house . . to'T I f W)X . . ll Ijj y ' Boys and Girls Summer School Session, 0. A. C. Oregon Agricultural College Cor- vallis. June 4. Many new and attrac tive features are planned for the twelfth annual boys' and girls' sum mer school to be held at the college June 15 to 27 inclusive. Cla-sses for local leaders will be conducted, music will be furnished and lead by Paul Petri, director of the school of music. and such authorities as Walter M. Pierce, governor of Oregon. Miss Ger trude Warren of the United States department of agriculture, and W. J. Kerr, president of the college, will speak at the assemblies. Many mem bers are expected to attend from Morrow county. Five hundred club members and 200 local leaders from every county in the state will be there. The expenses are the necessary roil fare and $15 for room and board. Quarters will be in the college dorm itories, the girls in Waldo hall and the boys in Cauthorn hall, with meals served in Waldo. Club members will furnish their own bedding. All club members in Oregon of good standing are eligible to enroll. ' "Busy at alt times" is the motto of the club department. Class work will start at b:J0 and last until noon. One and one-half hours will be al lowed forHunch. All club members will report at 1:30 for assembly. Af ter assembly the "clubbers" are free MARY PICKFORD IN Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall From the romantic novel by Charles Major. Directed by Marshall Neilan. MARY PICKFORD NOW AS AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD SPITFIRE Depicting a grown-up role Miss Pickf ord appears in her greatest photoplay in a type of portrayal long and greatly admired by millions the world over. Her wonderful smile changes in an instant to a tempest of anger and stamping of feet to as swiftly turn to pleas for pardon. A splendidly romantic story rich in comedy, alive with thrills, replete with action, with Mary Pickf ord in a darng horseback ride. STAR THEATER Sun.-Mon., June 14-15 20 and 30 Cents ttmttnintnniat:tti:mmii ROLLED BARLEY - FEED OATS Car to arrive last of this week. If you need feed you had better se us soon. Our flour sates have doubled during the past month. THERE IS A REASON. Brown Warehouse Co. WK DELIVER WITHIN CITY LIMITS. A WORD OF APPRECIATION. Heppner Post No. 87 of the Amer ican Legion desire to express their great appreciation of the generous re sponse of the Heppner people in the Endowment Fund campaign, as well as their thanks for the willing as sistance given by the prominent cit izens who performed much of the work in connection with the drive. The prompt raising of the quota is evidence of the sincere sympathy of the community with the endowment fund movement, and the local post ia truly grateful. Mrs. T. J. Humphreys departed this morning for Portland and Hillsboro, expecting to go on to Eugene in a few days to witness the graduation of her son, Roland, from the Univer sity of fti-egon. ' J. B. Huddleston and sister, Miss Bess Huddleston came over from Lone Rock yesterday for a short visit in this city. to Bpend the afternoon at recreation of some sort provided by those in charge. Stunt Bhows, movies, and parties are examples of the evening entertainments. The boys will be taught blacksmith ing, stock judging, crop production horticulture, farm mechanics, bee keeping, poultry, and bacteriology in such a way that they will benefit most from it The girls' program has been increased. Baking, canning, cook ing, house decoration, table service, and other home economic subjects will be taught. FAMILY REUNION AT J. F. BARLOW HOME A very pleasant family reunion was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J F. Barlow, the Wm. Hendrix place on Heppner Flat on May 23rd. At noon a big dinner was served which consisted of roast chicken, veg etables, salads, fruits and cake. The order of the afternoon was games of various sorts, after which refresh ments of ice cream and cake were served. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. F. Barlow, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bar low of Heppner; Mr. and Mrs. Z. J. Gillespie of Elkton; Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Cox of Boardman: Mr. and Mrs. Claud Coats of Oregon City; Guy, hdward, JLeita and Kay Barlow oi Heppner, and grand children Edith Marie and Lucile Barlow, Dale. Irene and Jesse Cox and Echo Marie Coats, also Mrs. Elva Perry of The Dalles and Miss Crystal Roberts of Heppner. A pretty wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Barlow near Heppner Sunday, May 24, 1925, when their son Guy L. was united in marriage to Miss Crystal N. Roberts. The bride wore a very pretty gown of navy blue fiat crepe with lace and the groom a blue serge suit which was very becoming. The bride is a young lady of Heppner and student of the high school, while the groom is a young farmer of this section where he has resided all his life. All the immediate relatives of the voung couple were present. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow departed at once on their honeymoon trip to Portland and other valley points, where they spent ten days, returning to Heppner the end of the past week. COMMUNICATED. Grain and Potato Crops In State Looking Good State Market Agent. There is the largest acreage of spring wheat in eastern Oregon ever planted and its condition is very promising. Much of the alfalfa was frozen out last winter and this was largely sown to spring wheat. With the exception of alfalfa all farm pro ducts in eastern and central Oregon give promise of big yields. The same conditions are true of eastern Wash ington and northern Idaho. A large grain crop is in prospect in the Wil lamette valley, if weather conditions continue favorable. In fact the pros pects for general farm production throughout the state were never bet ter than at present. There is every indication of a large potato crop for Oregon this year. there having been plenty of rainfall in May to give the crops a good stand. Eastern and central Oregon potato counties report splendid prospects and a large yield in the Willamette valley is fairly well assured. m Ke?dess Selling Coats. Our whole method of buying and selling needs reorganisation. There are many lines in which the merchan dising of an article equals the manu facturing costs, and many farm pro ducts go to the consumer with more middle costs and expenses than the price paid to the farmer for them. If one half of the selling cost of domes tic requirements could be eliminated the results would be living costs to the raisers and manufacturers; low er prices to consumers; greatly in crossed consumption, and a nation wide business increase. Co-opera tive organizations seem to offer the only remedy for this condition two wny profit-sharing organisations that will divide present middle toll be tween producer and consumer. When consumers and producers are ready for this, it can come, but only thru organisation can they be ready. Our Beat Potato Market. State Market Agent Spcnce says in his opinion Oregon s best potato mar ket is seed stock and that if we will produce strictly high-grade seed Cal ifornia will take about all we can raise. Writes Interestingly of Trip to the Orient North Pacific Ocean. Bound for San Francesco, May 15, 1925. Vawter Crawford, Tht Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon. Dear Sir: Herewith paper which perhaps may be of Interest to you, the same as it was to me. I see quite a difference in this compared to our U. S. news papers. I have seen all the great pa pers of Japan and China and I find not one murder printed. I am told they don't publish murder or their trials, etc., but they are committed in such numbers they don't even miss them. Sometimes when I see condi tions, etc.,-its a God-send that they have such destruction in both Japan and China to put many poor creatures out of their misery. Ai a whole Ja pan and China are 50 years behind the times, compared to the U. S. The poorer class ia what one would con sider slaves, especially in China, Al most all kinds of labor is done by coolies. They are hitched to a cart, drawing from one ton to three thru the streets, etc. Its nothing to see a coolie carry 600 pounds; that 1 ab solutely saw done; two sacks on the shoulders and one on the headgoes along as if he liked it. Large tim bers weighing from 1800 to a ton 8 men get under it and walk off. Yo kahama is at a standstill; no build ing, going on except a few small shacks. The city was absolutely de stroyed and I doubt if it is ever re built to its former beauty. Shanghai is a very busy place and there is con siderable shipping at this port. One sees ships from almost every foreign country. This city has wonderful buildings, wide streets, excellent car service and ia the only city that has appearance of our American cities. I visited many other places but will not take your time further, as per haps this is not of interest. I went as far north as Dairen, Manchuria. This is a wonderful city, also, with a fine climate. This city is laid out nicely, with wonderful harbor and up-to-date dockage equipment, etc. Have bad a wonderful visit during the two months I have been touring. Yours truly, E. C. AMSPOKER, Formerly operator, O.-W., Heppner. Former Heppner Man Boosts California City C. R. Johnson, who was at one time engaged in business here, and later at lone, but for many years now a resident of Southern California, ia a booster for his little city of Ingle wood, situated some few mile out of Los Airgeies. When Mr. Johnson first located in California he was at Hunt- ingttv Beach, but ome two years go he moved op the coast a little ways to Inglewood, and is well pleased with this locatom. In 1920 this city had a population of 3500 and it is now 15,000, states Charlie. The fol lowing clipping from an Inglewood paper shows how the city is going ahead: Ninety-seven modern homes were added to Inglewood during the month of May, according to the records in the office of Building Inspector John J. Jackson. That is, permits were taken out, and work commenced, that number of homes. Permits total $362,955, of which $240,000 was for residences; $30,500 for business structures; $86,716 for school buildings and $5539 for addi tions and repairs. Permits for May, 1924, totaled only $44,000, showing an increase of $318, 955, or more than 700 per cent. Only May, 1923, exceeded this month s rec ord in the history of Inglewood, but May, 1923, included the new First Na tional Bank, the city hall, and other public structures which made up most of the permits. In the matter of actual expansion May, 1925, ex ceeds by far any month on record. PORTLAND'S BRILLIANT FESTIVAL That very brilliant and charming event, the Rose Festival, which has made Portland, Oregon, the very cen ter of floral and festival attractions in the Northwest for the past six teen years, is to be again staged the 15th to 20th of this month. The Ro saria Pageant with a chorus of 2000 and a cast of 5000 will be presented each evening, the famous floral par ade on afternoon of the 18th, and the Merrykhana parade on afternoon of, the 19th. Many other interesting features each day. For this event the Union Pacific has made a round trip rate of a fare and a half, tickets to be on sale June id to 19 inclusive, with a return Limit fixed at June 22nd. The fare from Heppner will be $10.50. Call on C. Darbee, Ajjent. Heppner, for any other information desired. METHODIST COMMUNITY CHURCH Children's Day Services will be held at the Methodist Community church next Sunday. This is the an nual occasion for . stressing the ed ucational interests of the church, and the raising of the Children's Fund for the education f Christian work ers. It is also Flag Day, and the pa triotic expression will be one fea ture of the morning service. There will also be baptismal services at the morning hour. In the evening the children will give the program. "'How the Son of a Savage Became the Redeemer of His People," will be given in story by one of the Junior. E. C. A l.FORD, Psstor. Wright Saling of Hardmiin has been spending a few days in the city. For the past year he has been looking after a band of snevp for Messrs. Dav idson & McCurdy, finding the sale of diamonds rather slow. He will have more to report concerning the dia monds later on. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cohn of this city are the proud parents of a tine boy, born to them at the maternity home of Mrs. G, C. Aiken on Satur day, June 6. The young man ha been named Phillip William, for his pa ternal and maternal grandduddii1. By Arthur Brisbane A $2,000,000,000 Word. Nature in No Hurry. Only Human Babies. "The Lord Have Mercy1 Mr. Woodbridge, new head of the Advertising Clubs of the World, says newspapers are the "pre-eminent ad vertising medium for selling mer chnadise quickly." To the real business man it is more than that. It is the ONLY advertis ing force that can BUILD UP A NAME. Repetition is Reputation. And only newspapers can give a REPUTATION the REPETITION that creates value. Dollars put into brick, mortar, steel and glass will tear down. Money invested in advertising, building up a name WORTHY to be advertised, will outlast all your fac tories. Ford's factories perhaps are worth fifty millions. The one word "FORD" is worth at least TWO THOUSAND MILLIONS. South Africa, land that produces gold, returns to the gold standard. imitation old Mother England. Down there, below the equator, under the hot sun, tens of thousands rush to a new gold field. About ten times as many blacks as whites are in the rush. But, needless to say, when the dust settles the whites will have the gold dust. What would happen to the gold standard and the world's finance if thia new gold field should suddenly multiply by two, or ten or twenty. the world's gold supply? That, how ever, will surely not happen. All through the ages, while men have cut each other's throata to get them, gold and silver have maintain ed their value, based on scarcity, with slight fluctuations. Providence seems to have arranged that for its myster ious' reasons. This is the only country that has any supply of helium gas worth while. We get it after it has leaked up thru the earth and in pools of natural gas. According to Dr. Ehnd, chief of the Bureau of Mines, "it takes 20,000,000 years for helium to leak from miner als and rocks and come within our reach." - - Many things happen in science that couldn't happen if this earth were only 6.000 years old, as was once be lieved. It took millions of years for evolution to change a creature as big as a fox, with seven toes, into the horse of today. It takes 20,000,000 years for helium gas to become available. It will take our sun 300,000,000 more years to cool off. A New York lady ran a baby farm. The babies died rapidly, especially if their board bills were not paid. One poor infant dug up after burial had a fractured skull. The rate of mor tality was horrible. If anybody kept such a farm for baby dogs or cats, the "Cruelty to Animals Society" would probably su pervise and regulate it. How does it happen that the so-called Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children knew nothing about the baby farm or its deaths? Dean Inge, who doesn't like to be called "gloomy" is in London, de scribing America. He sajjs our "rushing energy is mostly pose" and the language we speak is something like the English language. On the whole the dean is friendly. In one of his essays he tells you that when St. Paul thought he was in spired he was really suffering an at tack of epilepsy. If St. Paul could stand that, we ought to be abe to stand criticism of our Yankee language. In Pennsylvania, William Cavalier, fifteen years old, and a murderer, has been sentenced to die in the electric chair. The sentence wound up with "And may the Lord have mercy on your soul." The reporters thought the boy winced a litlte at that, and at the words "Death electric current passed through body until dead.V .The boy smiled as he left the court, and a few minutes later, in Mb cell, he was playing a popular song, "Ka terina," on his phonograph. Fred Lennig, warden in charge of the young criminal, said, "Listen to that music. He doesn't know what it's all about." You may truly say the same of a system of "justice" that sentences to death a fecbie-mindvd boy of fifteen. HEMSTITCHING. Mrs. Devine wishes to announce that shy is still in the hemstitching business; her machine was not des troyed by the recent fire; sue her at .he Bui'knum residence. At the farm labor meeting held In the County Agent's office last Satur day, a committee was appointed to meet with committees from Wanco, Sherman. Gilliam and Unutilla coun ties, at Arlington, Saturday, June 13, to work out a hwrvent w.i; scale fur the Columbia River diitrict. Senti ment at the ntt-eting fitvorvd the sume wag scale as lat year. The com mute appointed to attend the Arling ton meeting wm Andy Rood, William Padbery, Karl KskoUon, O. T. Fwrgu non and Karl WarntT. Mrs. Kichhrd Wells departed for Portlnnd and Kugvne this morning, Hi'cotiipnnying Mrs. T. J. Humphrey. She will attend tho ruin in? ncemunt exen'ines of the Univernlty of Oregon and witnens the graduation of hr niece, Mii Georgia Shipley.