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THEGAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1925
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Closing
ENTIRE STOCK MUST BE SOLD
We Are Retiring From Business in Heppner
and our entire stock of Merchandise is being offered for quick disposal. In this stock are many
items that you are needing right now, many others that you will need later; therefore you should
be prompt in taking advantage of the tremendous savings offered you in this Closing-Out Sale.
Sale Will Continue Until Stock Is Gone
A partial listing of stock is given here; this will give you a hint as to the savings to be made on every article of merchan
dise in our store. BRING ALONG YOUR CASH; IT WILL GO FAR HERE.
SUGAR $7.00
25-lb. SACK $1.95
From our Grocery Department, we offer
Special Inducements for CASH TRADE:
Blue Rose Jap Rice, per pound 11c
Kellogg's Corn Flakes, per package 10c
St Clair's Certified Condensed Milk,
per can 10c
DISHES
We have dinner plates, pie
plates, cups and saucers,
creamers, serving dishes, etc., a broken line
containing many articles that you may need
ALL LINES IN DRY GOODS AND FURNISHING DEPTS. MARKED DOWN FOR THIS SALE
Men's Harvest Shoes - $2.00
$3.25 Harvest Shoes $2.75
$3.75 Harvest Shoes $3.25
$3.50 Work Shoes $3.00
$5.00 MenSs DresB Shoes $4.00
$6.00 Men's Dress Shoes $4.95
$10.00 Florsheim Shoes $5.50 to $7.50
J2.50 Men's "Comfort" Slippers $1.75
$5.00 Men's High Bootees, rubber $3-50
$3.75 Keds Basket Ball Shoes $2.90
$1.25 Ladies' Felt Slippers . 80c
$2.50 Ladies' 2-buckle Storm Overshoes 50c
$5.00 Men's Hats - ...$3.50
$6.00 Men's Hats - ..$4.00
$7.50 Men's Round-Up Hats $6.50
Athletic Union Suits, reduced to 90c
Summer Weight Union Suits, fine
quality $1.00
$5.00 Wright's Union Suits, winter
weight $3.50
$3.50 Part Wool Union Suits - $2.50
$3.50 Flannel Top Shirts $2.50
Men's Big Yank Work Shirts $1.00
$1.25 Men's Work Gloves - 95c
25c Ginghams at 19c Yard
35c Ginghams at - 25e Yard
60c Ginghams at 45c Yard
25c Percales at - 16c Yard
Cretonne, was 35c Now 25e
Cretonne, was 50c Now 35c
Jap Crepe . 25c
Outing, was 35c Now 25c
Bleached Sheeting, 9-4, was 75c .... Now 60c
Lmgette, was 75c - Now 55c
44-Inch Indianhead - - 30c
Table Damask 85c $1.10
Cotton Towling 18c
Silk and Wool Yarn 45c
Wool Yarn - 30c
Palm Olive Cold Cream, was 60c .... Now 35c
Palm Olive Vanishing rCeam, was 50c,
.. Now 35c
Combs, were 75c - Now 40c
Brushes, were $1.75 Now $1.25
Tooth Brushes, were 25c Now 18c
Talc Powder, was 25e
Now 20e
Children's Hose 18e to 30c
Men's Leather Gloves kt prices ranging
from 75e to $1.90
Leather Sleeve Vest $5.00
Leather Coats, were $15.00 $10.50
Pendleton Indian Robes $10.00
Pendleton Blankets, $15.00 grade $9.50
$3.50 and $4.00 Riding Breeches $2.00
Men's Dress Shirts, $2.50 grade $1.25
Men's Collars - 10c
Men's Wool Sox, $1.00 grade 75c
Men's Wool Sox, 76c grade 50c
Men's Wool Sox, 50c grade 40c
Men's Ties - 50e
Boy's Union Suits - 75c
Boy's Dress Shoes, $4.00 value $2.80
Boy Scout Shoes $2.00
Boy's Heavy Rubber-Soled Shoes, val
ues $3.00 and $3.60 $2.00
3-lb. Cotton Batts $1.20
tt-lb. Cotton Batts 20c
NOTIONS AT COST
Sam-Hughes Co
m. Jr
CLOTHES PINS 7c
3 doz. in package
Egg Beaters, from
25c to 35c
Cream Whip and Mayonnaise Mixer, was 85c, now . - 55e
GRANITEWARE DISH PANS, MILK PANS, COF-
FEE POTS, WASH BASINS, TEA KETTLES, RICE BOILERS.
76c Tin Coffee Pots, 4-qt. 60c
$1.15 Tin Coffffe Pot, 6-qt 85c
$1.60 Tin Coffeepot, 8-qt $1.10
25c Graters 15e
$1.25 8-qt. Stowpans 80c
$1.50 17-qt. Dishpans ....TToc
$1.00 14-qt. Dishpans 60c
$1.25 Teakettles 80c
$1.25 Water Buckets 80e
$1.60 Tin Bread Bowls $1.00
$6.50 "De Lux Wash
Boilers $4-60
$1.00 No. 0 Galvanised
Wash Tubs 70e
$1.00 No. 1 Galvanized
Wash Tubs 75e
$1.25 No. 2 Galvanised
Wash Tubs 0c
Quart Cups and Measures 10c
One-Half Gallons 15c
Milk Pans, 8-qt. 20c
Aluminum Pie Pans 20c
Tin Cake Pans e
"Eieout" Cake Pans 10c
"Eieout" Cake Pans, large 20c
$1.60 Glass Water Pitch
ers $100
$2.50 Carving Sets $1.00
BEHIND THE SCENES
AT WASHINGTON
(Continued from Page Three)
Little Pennies and Loom Million.
Behind the scenes at Washington it
is felt that Calvin Coolidge could
have no better talking point with the
American people than government
economy and tax reduction. He al
ways links them together. His phrase
in a previous economy speech that
"I would rather talk about pennies
and save them than talk about mil
lions and save nothing' summarizes
the whoie Coolidge economy scheme.
He is not terrified by the fears of
some of his political friends that the
economy program can be carried too
far and perhaps Injure the Republican
Party, at next year's elections. Nor
is the President impreed by the
reports that business and trade have
been injured by his economy pra
gram. He contends that "each tax re
duction has been followed by a re
vival of business" and that 'if there
is one thing above all others that will
stimulate business, it is tax reduc
tion. " In a terse statement of his
position on the particular point, Mr.
Coolidge adds: "If the government
takes less, private business can have
more. If constructive economy in
Federal expenditure can be assured,
it will be a stimulation to enterprise
and investment,"
Time Coat of Golf and Ponies.
The other day In Washington, at a
private dinner of newspapermen, X
heard the President explain why he
rides an electric horse instead of one
of the prancing steeds that scorch
across the plains of Montana. You
will be surprised to know, aa we were,
that Mr. Coohdjre'a synthetie pony
is part of his economy program. Will
Uogers alleged that Coolidge rides
an iron horte because it doesn't eat
oats. The President destroyed this
theory. He told us that he rides his
mechanical nag because it eaves the
time he would waste In ordinary
horseback riding- He explained that
his time is the country's time and
that he does not ffel justified in
squandering any of it in unnecessary
exercise. He refrains from golf for
the same reason. When he feels the
need for the benefits that come from
golf, Mr. Coolidge takes a walk. He
says that it dots him just as much
goud aa golf and economizes time.
Sparkle of Grace Coolidge.
No account of the hold of the
Pre mdent on public esteem would be
complete, without anting that in ac
quiring it he has had an able and
charming adjutant in the prson of
Mrs. Cooltdge. Since Francis Folsom
Cleveland shed the lustre of her per
sonality upon the White House forty
years ago. there has been no First
Idy of the Lard mure beloved than
Graft Good hut Coolidge.
She Is the exact antithesis of her
husband in temperment. He is cold
and unemotional. She is vivacious
and buoyant. She is as unspoiled as
a girl and sparkles with a girl s nat
ural enthusiasm. She has been a
Spartan mother during this past year
of personal grief, reaolutely refusing
to wear her heart upon her sleeve,
though all the world knows that her
smiles on public occasions screen an
inexpressible sorrow for the loss of
her second-born.
Aside from this tragedy theirs has
been a marriage of surpassing hap
piness, and today stands forth, in this
incompatible age of ours, a shining
example of clean and simple family
life.
Hughes and Borah.
President Coloidge is not the only
interesting figure behind the scenes
at Washington, as he is, of course,
by no means the greatest man who
ever occupied the White House. Our
public life sustained an eminent loss
when Charles E. Hughes relinquished
the secretaryship of state. My own
conviction is that he resgined for
two primary reasons first, a feeling
that Mr. Coolidge henceforward it
likely to be his own Minister of For
eign Affairs; secondly, a disinclina
tion on Mr. Hughes' part to collab
orate with Mr. Borah, now chairman
of the Senate Committee on Foreign I
Relations. Hughes and Borah do not
see eye to eye on any of our out-1
standing foreign questions. They
disagree on the World Court, on rec
ognition of Soviet Russia, on the
question of holding another disarm
ament conference, and on other mat
ters. Herbert Hoover's Engineering Mind.
The retirement of Hughes leaves
Hoover and Mellon as the strong fig
ures in the Cabinet.
An impression prevails that Her
bert Hoover is now the paramount in
fluence behind the Coolidge throne.
Executive orders have recently trans
ferred to the jurisdiction of the Sec
retary of Commerce important gov
ernment agencies like the Patent
Office and the Bureau of Mines, both
of which were formerly under the
Secretary of the Interior. The fields
in which Hoover la now supreme are
almost innumerable. The President
has a very high regard for his ca-j
pacuy u aamimswrr $u mem i
ficiently and skillfully. Hoover is
still a young man. He will be only
51 years old next month. His friends
are confident that another ten years
will find him President of the United
States. They feel that his mining
engineering mind could be put to
work effectively in the White House.
Melloa's High Character.
' Andrew W. Mellon, I need not tell
you bankers, la a great Secretary of
the Treasury. He, too, has great
suthority in the Coolidge high com
mand, because of the universal re
spect In whichthe Is held throughout
the American business community.
Mr. Mellon Is not only one of the
richest men in the world, but one of
the most modest. He seldom makes
speeches. But as Senator Couzens,
of Michigan, had occasion to learn,
Mellon can hit hard in a controversy,
whenever his facts and figures or his
official honor are at stake.
With the vast question of our Eu
ropean debts, Secretary Mellon is now
at grips. As chairman of the World
War Debt Funding Commission, the
negotiations for settlement of those
debts will be mainly under his di
rection. The government during the
past few weeks has made substantial
progress in inducing our European
debtors to approach a settlement.
Italy has already opened negotiations
at Washington. Belgium will do so
later in the summer. France and
Czechoslovakia will follow suit early
in the autumn. The Administration
expects no early cash results, but it
is hopeful of presenting Congress
with concrete evidence that progress
has been made.
Dealing With Our Debtors.
Our government's policy in these
matters is well established. It will
exercise no Shylockian pressure in
any quarter. It desires to secure the
formal recognition of the debts, rath
er than immediate liquidation of
them. If France, Italy and others re
quire moratoriums or reduction of
interest rates, the Administration and
Congress are not likely to turn a deaf
ear. But a cold shoulder will be
given to any proposition of cancella
tion of the debts, in part or in whole.
On that score, Europe will find Amer
ica standing pat. Europe cannot per
form miracles, even though some of
our people expect them. Civiliza
tion could not suffer such a stagger
ing blow as four years of war de
livered It, and recover anything ap
proximating its oldtime equilibrium
in the brief span since the Armistice.
We must make up our mind to be pa
tient about the twelve billions that
Allied Europe owes us.
Dawes Dares to Denounce Palaver.
I am sure you expect me to talk
about the exploits of Vice-President
Dawea. With the general purpose of
his crusade to change the Senate
rules you are familiar. He Is now
in the midst of a nation-wide cam
paign to make the country understand
that it Is necessary to revise those
rules in order that genuine majority
power may prevail in ' the United
States Senate. Opinion in the Senate
itself will probably be found to be
sufficiently strong to prevent the
changes that Dawes advocates. But
there is ample indication that the
country at large sympathizes with his
efforts to convert that palace of pa
laver Into a body that will deliberate
and legislate and not procrastinate.
Dawes wants less decorum, and
more decision In the Senate; less
prerogative and more progress; less
wind, and more wisdom; less time
killing, and more time-filling. He does
not desire arbitrarily to shackle free
speech. He aims merely at increas
ing the efficiency of the Senate, de
stroying one-man power to block ma
jority rule, and generally to inject
common sense into the procedure of
a body steeped In hide-bound tradi
tions and a somewhat exaggerated
conception of its own importance.
Eventually His Cause Will Win.
While there is widespread evidence
of popular approval of Gen. Dawes'
program to reduce hot air in the Sen
ate, his prospects cannot be described
as favorable. A count of noses dis
closes that it will be exceedingly dif
ficult, if not impossible, to marshal
a majority in favor of changing the
Senate rules on proposed lines. There
is apparently a coalition of Republi
can stalwarts and Progressives strong
enough, with a solid Democratic op
position, to prevent the revision that
Dawes demands. Meantime he is
carrying the war into what he calls
the enemy's country.
Between now and the congressional
elections in 1926 the Vice-President
intends to plead his cause in every
state in which a Senator is to be
elected. He relies upon the merits
of His case and his dramatic method
of presenting it, to accomplish the
desired result eventually, if not
now.
Borah's Splendid Isolation.
One other personality who Is very
much behind the scenes at Washing
ton and very often in the limelight
in front of them, is the brilliant
and distinguished Senator from Ida
ho. William E, Borah was 60 year
old the other day, but in looks, in
vigor, in courage, and in fighting
spirit he is one of the youngest men
in American public life. Many of us
differ with Borah's political views,
but nearly all of un at Washington
have unbounded respect and admir
ation for his statesman-like qualities.
He is easily the Demosthenes of Con
gress. I would as soon have my
schoolboy son study and memorize
Borah on the American Constitution,
as I heard him glorify it durnig the
Warren debate in the Senate, at I
would have my boy study and mem
orize Burke In the House of . Com
mons on the American Revolution.
Borah has the reputation of being
an irregular. Yet on major occasions
at Washington in recent times he
was more regular in supporting Cool
idge Administration policies than
Republican Senators whose regularity
is their stock in trade, Borah was
with the President on the soldiers'
bonus and Bursum pension bills when
so-called regulars were moving heav
en and earth to pass them over the
Coolidge veto. In his drive for econ
omy, Coolidge has no more uncom
promising supporter than Borah,
Borah's political future is one of
the Interesting speculations behind
the scenes at Washington, Undoubt
edly he would like to be President.
Unquestionably he would command
an immense personal following thru
out the country. But Borah's defects
are mainly those of a constitutional
incapacity for team work, Borah Is
not much of an organization man.
He looks upon himself as his own
organization. It has been said of him
by a friendly critic that Borah "would
rather be the whole of a defeat than
a part of a victory."
Japan Would be Friendly.
Nothing has interested me so much
in the west as a close-up of your
views on the Japanese question. I
find an inclination on the coast to
consider exclusion a closed incident.
I know that Congress and the Ad
ministration would like to consider
it a closed incident. But the trouble
is that our Japanese friends are not
inclined to look upon it that way. I
am very certain that Japan does noi
consider the Act of Congress, by
which she feels a gross affront was
offered to Japanese pride, an inci
dent that is ended for all time. Every
responsible utterance that emanates
from Japan is that her people are
bent upon removing some day, some
how, what they call a blemish upon
their national honor. Only yester
day, speaking in the Middle West,
Count Soyeshlma, a distinguished
Japanese statesman now In this coun
try, declared that Japan is fervently
looking forward to the time when
the wrong we did her will be righ,ted.
But W e. Must Face Facta.
Most of us in the Eait sympathize
with the coast's desire for Japanese
exclusion, but regret that Congress
found it necessary to enact exclusion
In the manner it did. Most of us
thought that It wuold have been bet
ter to make a concession to Japanese
pride and bring about exclusion by
diplomatic agreement with Japan
agreement which would have accom
plished our purpose while not of
fending Japanese pride.
But all that is history now. We
face the future, not the past. I see
no war-cloud on the Far Eastern hor
izon. I see, on the contrary, a Japan
for which good relations with this
country are of the very breath of
her life. But I also see In Japan, a
proud, a militant, a military people,
across whose heart and soul America
has seared a deep scar. I believe the
present temper of the Japanese gov
ernment an4 people to be pacific and
friendly toward us. But I would
rather be a historian than a prophet
as to what the future holds in that
direction. We must be prepared for
emergencies prepared on land, on
sea and In the air, and prepared par
ticularly on the Pacific Coast at
Tongue Point and elsewhere.
Voting As a Duty.
Mr. President, I am gratified to
have had the .opportunity of discuss
ing with you even in this rambling
fashion soma of the personalities and
policies that dominate the scene at
Washington. Too few of our people
are Interested In Washington. 1 have
often discovered, when leaving the
disfranchised District of Columbia
and entering the United States, that
there is a widespread indifference
toward public affairs among the rank
and file of our people. That indif
ference manifests Itself In the amaz
ing apathy of the voters on election
day. Last November, despite an in
tensive drive to bring out the voUs,
only a, fraction over 60 per cent of
our enfranchised men and women
took the trouble to go to the polls.
In 17 states in other words, in more
than one-third of the union fewer
people voted in 1924 than in 1920.
It is the public fashion to criticize
congress and the men elected to con
gress. It is the fashion to do so, even
in Oregon, I find. But I submit to
you that Congress is no better than
we make it, and no worse than we
deserve. A 60 per cent vote is not
entitled to anything better than a 60
per cent congress, or a 60 per cent
legislature, or a 60 per cent admin
istration either in the state or the
nation. Even Germany, a few weeks
ago, when it elected Field Marshal
von Hindenburg president, regsitered
a consdierably higher percentage of
her total vote than anything we are
accustomed to in the United StateB.
Voting, in my judgment, should be
converted by law from a privelege in
to a duty, and the violation of that
duty should carry a penalty.
Each Must Do His Part.
So I close, Mr. President within
the time limitations of the City Club,
whose practice might well serve as
an example to the United States Sen
ate, I close with an appeal to you
men and women of the West, now sit
ting so firmly in the National polit
ical saddle, to maintain your interest
in public affairs. Our America is sail
ing toward her appointed destination
aboard the finest craft that ever
sprang from the hands of political
shipwrights. But no ship, no mat
ter how splendidly constructed, can
sail unless she is efficiently manned.
The whole crew must take part in
steering her, not a minority.
We, the 115,000,000 sovereign peo
ple of the republic, comprise that
crew. To each and all of us Is en
trusted the sacred task of piloting
the ship of state. That means active,
personal, regular participation in pol
itics, and, above all, faithful per
formance of our duty on election day.
Ours alone will be the responsibility
if the American ship of state is de
flected from the channels which lead
to the harbor of our highest hopes.
Frank Harwood returned on Sunday
night from Portland, having spent
several days in the city on business.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNTING.
Notice is hereby given that W. E.
Pruyn, administrator of the estate
of T. R. Gaynor, deceased, has filed
with the County Court of Morrow
County, Oregon, his final account as
administrator of such estate and that
the court has fixed Monday, the 81st
day of August, 1925, as the time, and
the County Court Room in the Court
House at Heppner, Oregon, as the
place for hearing such account and
of objections thereto and for the final
settlement and closing of said .es
tate. W. E. PRUYN, Administrator.
PLEASE SETTLE UP.
Having lost all my business In the
recent fire, I find myself badly In
need of funds that I may pay those
whom I owe. I am therefore request
ing that all those knowing themselves
indebted to me will make an effort
to settle with me in full or In part
immediately. I shall greatly appre
ciate your help now.
HENRY SCHWARZ,
Peoples Cnnh Market, Heppner.
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