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. Historical Society, mtttt mmz& Volume 42, Number 37. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, Dec. 10, 1925 Subscription $2.00 a Year E .5. Economy Program and Participation in World Court Favored. PROGRESS FIRST AIM President Applauds Locarno Treaty; Urges Prohibition Enforcement t and Reduction of Debt. Washington. D. C, Dec. 9. Presi dent Coolidge In his message to Con gress made a literal report upon the state of the Union. The condition of the country, he said, was one of pro gress and prosperity- Further im provements were to be secured by per fecting details of management, not by new or radical adventures. Congress is a national, not a local, government body. That must be borne in mind, for local self government is one of our most precious possessions. Government Economy The wealth of the country, he said, is private not public. No right exists to levy on a dollar or to expend a dollar of the money of the public ex cept for a necessary public purpose.. Progress has been made. The expen ditures for 1925 were five timea as great as in 1916, the last pre-war year, if debt and war time expenses and obligations are deducted we find that the general governmental out lay is onjy slightly more than twice as large as in 1916. The real im provement must come not from addi tional curtailment of expenses but a more intelligent spending. Our economy must be constructive. That 1s economy in the best sense. It is an avoidance of waste that there may be the means for an outlay tomorrow. Public Debt. Its Reduction. We still have an enormous debt of twenty billions o(, dollars. Our ex penditures are close to $30 for every inhabitant and for the average fam ily a tax, directly or indirectly paid, of $150 for national purposes. To this local taxes must be added. Our war debt has been reduced six bil lions of dollars, which means an an nual saving in interest of closo to two hundred and fifty million dollars. The sooner the debt is retired the more will the tax payers save in interest. It has always been our policy to re tire our debts; the Civil War debt was retired in 23 years. Referring to the argument lately raised, that our debt should be allowed to run for 62 years as in European countries, the President said that in the retirement of a billion dollars of the debt in twenty years, at 414, the cost to the taxpayers is a total of one billion eight hundred and fifty million dol lars, while if the same sum is paid at the end of 62 years the cost is three billion six hundred and thirty-five million dollars, or almost double. Taxation, the Revenue BUI While admitting that the income tax exemptions, as set forth in the new revenue bill, go somewhat fur ther than he would have gone, and go as far as he thinks it is safe to go, the President commends the bill as submitted and the patriotic attitude of the members of the ways and means committee which framed the bill. He says he is advised it will be through the House by Christmas and he hopes Congress as a whole will follow this course so the tax payers can have relief by the time their first tsx payment is due in March. The aim in reducing expenditures, he says, is to reduce taxes, not to bene fit the rich but all the people, to en courage industry that employment may be plentiful, to make business good that wages may be good, to en courage prosperity that poverty may be banished from the homes. Locarno Agreements The message . stresses the import ance of the Locarno pacts for the peace of Europe and the world. To day a firmer friendship exists between America and the rest of the world than has ever existed at any previous time. America, the message recites, took, no formal part In tho negotia tions, but on July 3rd, in Masaachu- setts, the message says, tho President publicly advocated such an agreement By precept and example America has thus aided. When finally adopted, the message says, the national corollary to these treaties should be further international contracts for tho limi tation of armaments on land and sea, The World Court The proposal pending before the Senate for nearly three years to ad here to the protocol establishing the Permanent Court of World Justice was mado depending on four condi tions; first, that by supporting the Court we do not assume any obliga tions under the League; second, thnt we participate upon an equality with other states in election of Judges third, that Congress shall dotermine what part of the expense we shnll bear; fourth, that tho statute creat- lug the Court shall not be amended without our consent. To those I have proposed an additional condition, thnt we are not to be found by advisory opinions rendered without our con sent. The Court derives all Its au thorily from the statute and it is so completely independent of tho League thnt it could go on functioning if th leaguo were disbnnded, at least until the terms of the Judges expired. No provision of the statute seems to m MESSAG (Continued on Pag Six) COUNTY COURT ATTENDS iMEET OF COMMISSION No Promise Yet Made That th Heppner-Spray Road Will Be Put on Map. In order that they might present the matter of putting the Heppner Spray road on the map and thus re ceive cooperation from the state highway commission. Judge R. L. Benge and Commissioners Bleakman and Davidson were in Portland and attended the meeting of the com mission held there Tuesday, at which time also representatives of the bu reau of roads of the forest sreviee were present. Judge Benge got home Wednesday. and reports that the efforts of the county court at this particular meet ing availed them nothing in the way of the expected cooperation. How ever, they are led to believe that the putting of .this road on the map Is only a matter of time. Commisslon- r Duby, chairman of the highway commission, gave expression to the thought that they were not opposed to the proposition, but at this par ticular time they were in no position to take favorable action. Money is lacking and other demands are too pressing. Judge Benge is sure that the desires of our people in regard to this road will be met, but just how soon, he would venture no opinion. Numerous items to be considered n the adoption of this piece of road at a state highway project will enter into the matter. Tho part that the government will take and just how much money they will appropriate on the construction of the road is one. Then the part the county will play in the financing is another, and when these two forces are brought together n a program that will mean the com pletion of the work when it is under taken, it will have much to do with the action of the highway commission will take, or just how far they will go in the matter of finance. The forest bureau of roads will con tinue their budget meeting in Janu ary, and at that time they may decide to place some money for work on the Hardman-Spray section of this road, and should they do this, the way may be opened for getting action that will ultimately mean the building and completion of the Heppner-Spray road. Our county court put up as good argumentsaa they were able to at Tuesday's meeting and they have a right to expect that results will fol- ow in due course of time. ELKS PAY TRIBUTE Annual Lodge of Sorrow Held Sunday to Honor Departed Members; Van Vactor Makes Address. "If every prayer of Elkdom today were a rose, and every sigh for a de parted brother a violet, our altars would become mountuins of flowers. And, if the outpourings of loving hearts and ministrations of loving hands could but alleviate the pain and suffering of a worn and weary world, could call back, for one brief moment, those dear faces that we are fain to hope look down upon us today from the azure tinted rim of heaven, Elkdom would have solved the mys tery of life and death, and there would be no pain or sorrow here. If the great God of Love and Justice would but again, on the mountain top, proclaim to this mirth-maddened world, in this age of revelry and seeming forgetfulness: 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me;' if the teachings and spirit of the man who, for thirty years, was a carpenter in Nazareth, could but again dominate the heart throbs and touch the heart chords of youth; if there could be but a new clinging to the old rugged cross, there would follow the restora tion of the family fireside, in all of its purity and lovliness, an awakening of reverence and sympnthy for age and infirmity, and a far flung mes- sage to the people of earth, of rest, of peace "and virtue, a message of cheer and hope to disheartened hu manity." This, an extract from the oration of Sam E. Van Vactor, was but one of tho gems of thought that filled his address before the assemblage gath ercd at Elks' temple Sunduy after noon to participate in the annual lodge of sorrow. The attendance was large and the program throughout was of a vrey excellent order, each num ber being well rendered by talent that was mostly new to Hcppner people. Mr. Van Vactor did not fail to pay proper respect to that evor-increns ing number of departed brothers of Hcppner Lodge, of which he is i member, and each number of the pro gram was of such nature that it fitted Into the general sentiment of an oc casion befitting tho benevolence of the order. DONT BE SOKRV. You'll be sorry If you miss the rip rnoring comedy the Rhea Creek Grnngcrs are presenting at their hall on the evening of Friday, Dec. 11, at 8 o'clock, They will also hnvo an auction sale of fancy work and farm products. One beautiful quilt will bo disposed of, nil to be followed by a free supper mid dance after the pitgiam, Come and help tho Grange start their fund for a now hall, and profit yourself at the same time Don't be sorry, CRANKING UP yyjjW "X Vtt.mg- ceDiy CHRISTMAS p Thirty-six Heppner high students are talking, eating and dreaming about debate this week, following the announcement of the interclass con tests to be hold Monday, Wednesday and Friday of next week. Nine per sons have been selected to represent each class, and these will be divided nto three teams of three members each. Each team will meet one from rival class. The members of the teams arc: freshman, Dorothy Her- ren, Jack Casteel, Terrel Benge, Paul Jones, Harlan Devin, Margaret Not- son, Elizabeth Elder, Clarence Hayes and Velton Owen; sophomore, Gerald Slocum, Zaida Tash, Kenneth Merritt, Kenneth Oviatt, Ellis Thomson, Nel- ie Babcock, Robert Turner, Lois Reid and Stephen Thompson; junior, Aura Gentry, Marvin Gemmell, Ethel Moore, Orrin Bisbee, Merle Becket, Louise Thomson, Marjorie Clark, Eral Ayers and Mary Ritchie; senior. Duck Lee, Lucile McDuffee, . Crocket Sprouls, Bernard Dohcrty, Leonard Schwarz, Margaret Prophet, Eugene Doherty, John Turner and Clifford Driscoll. Monday, December 14, the fresh man negative and the sophomore af firmative, the junior affirmative and the senior negative will debate the question "Resolved that the primary election law in the State of Oregon should be abolished." Wednesday the .question will be Resolved that the plan of divided sessions of the legislature should be adopted in Oregon" with the junior negative and sophomore affirmative, the freshman affirmative and the se nior negative as contestants. "Resolved that Oregon should adopt a system of old-age pensions" is the question that will be debated Friday by the junior affirmative and the freshman negative, the senior affirm ative and the sophomore negative. Football uniforms and equipment have been put away for the 1925-26 school year and in their stead have appeared from their hjding place the wherewithal for basketball ' games, Practice begins this week, so on Mon day afternoon the boys met for the tentative organization of the teams. Each class will have Its own group of contestants, and from these the all-school team will later be chosen. Practice will be held every night un dcr the direotion of Coach Finch. In addition to the boys' teams the girls of the school will compete in in terclass basketball, with Miss Miller as coach. They will hold workouts three times each week. New members of the Hcppnerian society were presented to the student body in a program held in the assem bly Friday afternoon. Rcta Craw ford and Audrey Beymer gave the drat number of the program, a char actor skit. Nellie Babcock, Ethel Moore and Mury Case gave readings. The biggeRt single event of the past week was the formal banquet tendered the football team by the members of the Arion literary socioty Friday eve ning at the school. Covers were laid for more than fifty football men members of the high school faculty and Arions. The menu was; fruit cocktail, roast chicken, gravy, brown potatoes, creamed cauliflower, carrot peanut salad, parkor house roll fronch pastry nnd coffee. The plnn of the toast was thnt of the structure of a football. Those who talked on their topics wero "The Outer Part of the Ball," Mr. Finch; "The Inner Part of the Ball," Mar- Woolgrowers to Meet In Heppner Saturday To get a better understanding of the present relations between the Forest Service and the wool growers and to get behind a movement to modify certain of the Forest Service regulations, a meeting of the wool growers will be held in Hotel Hepp ner dining room Saturday, December 12, at 2 p. m. At this time a committee of the Wenaha Permittees Association and their attorney, H. C. Bryson of Walla Walla, will be present and will ex plain the action they have taken on Forest Service matters. Representa tive wool growers from Grant, Wheel er and Gilliam counties have prom ised to attend. Among the subjects that will be taken up will be the question of mod ification of the blanket rule on bed ding out and other matters of much importance to local wool growers. The meeting is being called by R. A. Thompson, president of the Uma tilla Permittees Association and all wool growers of Morrow and adjoin ing counties are invited to attend. LEGION AUXILIARY MEETS. ' Heppner unit, American Legion Auxiliary, met in regular session nt Bethel chapel Monday night, the prin cipal business being the election of officers for the coming year. Mrs. Morse, president, and Mrs. Moore, secretary, having declined nomination for reelection the following officers were unanimously chosen; Mrs. Ar thur McAtee. president. Mrs. Walter 'Moore, vice-president, Mrs. A. H. Johnston, secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Dick Wells, historian. Tho following were elected to the executive com mittee: Mrs. A. M. Phelps, Mrs. F. E. Farrior, Mrs. Harold Cohn. Fur ther contributions of jelly having been received, another shipment for Hospital 77 is being planned before Christmas. NEW OFFICERS CHOSEN. Heppner Lodge No. 69, A. F. & A, M., chose their new officers for the coming year last Saturday night. C. J. D. Bauman was elected W. M.; F. E. Farrior, S. W.; R. W. Wightman, J. W.; Frank Gilliam, treasurer, and L. W. Briggs, secretary. Plans have been completed for a joint installa tion on Monday evening, Dec. 21, with Ruth Chapter No. 32, O. E. S., who hold their election tomorrow evening. garet Prophet; "The Lacings," Eu gene Doherty; "The Air," Crocket Sprouls; "The Air Pump," Duck Lee; and "The Boot Behind the Punt," Miss Simpson. Following the banquet, the guests went to the music room and were en tertained by a program of music and recitations. To celebrate the year's success in football and provido a gay get-together for the members of the team, the "H" club held its annual banquet Sat urday evening. An unlimited amount of food, and peppy talks by members of the team and faculty made the ba sis for a gala evening. The third grade was awarded the prise for having the most mothers at the last Patron-Teachers' meeting, held Tuesday afternoon in the assem bly hall. Mrs. Alford and Miss Fred rockson gave papers on "The Child of Pre-School Age" and "Tho Ele mentary Ago of tho Child." Frecod ing these papers, Miss Miller sang a solo and later Mrs. Gemmell gave a reading. By A. B. CHAPIN SCHOOL HAS DEBATES Interclass Contests Will Precede Choosing of Team to Represent School in Other Meets. Activity in debate is assuming a paramount place on the high school calendar this year, with the goal of working up a representative high school team which shall be able to meet and cope favorably with teams from neighboring schools, in much the same manner as athletic contests are held. To this end a series of interclass forensic clashes will be held Monday, Wednesday and Friday of next week, to be participated in by a picked group from each English class. The members of this group have been se lected after the completion of the intraclass debates, in which members of the same English class debated against each other. The contests next week, which will decide the class championship, will be held in the assembly hall of the high school, with persons not direct ly connected with the school as judges. Anyone interested in hear ing the debates is invited to attend. The following week the winners of the interclass championships will compete for the P. T. A. cup, and the victors in this event will have their names engraved upon the cup, and shall be declared the champions of the school. Judgment of the debaters' ability is to be based on six points, the com bination of which form the ideal de bater. The first point is originality, and this is to be stressed greatly, with insistence on each contestant doing his own work and doing it in his own way. Other points are de livery, stage presence, argumentation, veracity of statement, and use of Eng lish. The schedule for next week is: Monday morning, December 14, freshman negative vs. sophomore af firmative and junior affirmative vs. senior negative. Proposition "Re solved: that the primary election law in the state of Oregon should be abol ished." Wednesday morning, December 16, junior negative vs. sophomore affir mative and freshman affirmative vs. senior negative. Proposition, "Re solved: that the plan of divided ses sions of the legislature should be adopted in Oregon." Friday morning, December 18, ju nior affirmative vs. freshman nega tive and senior affirmative vs. soph omore negative. Propositoin, "Re solved: that Oregon should adopt a system of old age pensions. In each case the first debate will start at 9:00 o'clock, and will be fol lowed at 9:45 by the second. Members of the teams are: fresh man, Dorothy Hcrren, Jack Casteel Terrell Benge, Paul Jones, Harlan Devin, Margaret Notson, Elizabeth Elder, Clarence Hayes, and Velton Brown; sophomore, derald Slocum Zaida Tash, Kenneth Merritt, Ken neth Oviatt, Ellis Thomson, Nellie Babcock, Robert Turner, Stephen Thompson, and Lois Reid; junior, Aura Gentry, Marvin Gemmell, Ethel Moore, Orrin Bisbee, Merle Becket, Louise Thomson, Marjorie Clark, Earl Ayers, and Mary Ritchie; senior, Duck Lee, Lucile McDuffee, Crocket Sprouls, Bernard Doherty, Leonard Schwarz, Margaret Prophet, Eugene Doherty, John Turner and Clifford Driscoll. On Saturday, Dec. 12, the ladies of Bethel Chapel will hold their annual bazaar in the chapel rooms. STANFIELD SAYS STATE OUGHT TO GET LAND MONEY Oregon Senator Would Turn Over to States Full Proceeds From Public Lands. Senator Robert Nelson Stanfield, re publican, of Oregon, chairman of the senate public lands committee, an nounced at Chicago Monday that at the coming session of congress he would introduce a bill providing for turning over the full proceeds from utilization of public lands to the va rious states in which government re served property lies. He also will urge enactment of a law giving rights to basic industries that now are dependent upon utiliza tion of such resource's, such as the livestock men, who now graze catfle upon the public lands only by permit of the bureau of forestry. Development of the eleven western states in which the government has 180,000,000 acres of unresreved public lands and 136,000,000 acres of re served territory, aside from national parks, game preserves, national monu ments and mineral and Indian reser vations, is throttled largely by rea son of removal from the state tax lists of those lands, Senator Stanfield said. The public lands aggregate thirty per cent of the total area of the elev en western states and in some of them, the appraised value of the land which is exempt from state taxation is one fourth the total taxable value of the state. REBEKAHS ELECT NEW OFFICERS. San Souic Rebekah lodge of Hepp ner held their election on last Friday evening and chose Ruby Corrigall, Noble Grand; Mabel Chaffee, Vice Grand; Lilliam Turner, secretary, and Etta Devin, treasurer. The appoint ive officers will be named later and installation is set for the first meet ing in January. A practice of the installation ceremonies on Friday eve ning, Dec. 18, is arranged by the lodge that all may move smoothly on installation night. A hearing is on at the court house this afternoon involving the case of W. H. Clark and his girl wife, the authorities not being satisfied with the way the matter stands, it being alleged on the part of some that the young woman is not of responsible mind. Local Stockholders of Tri-State Ter- ( minal Company Hold. Meeting Here Yesterday Afternoon. There was a meeting of some forty of the stockholders of the Tri-State Terminal company residing in this county, at I. O. O. F. hall on Wednes day afternoon, the object being to take some action on the reorganiza tion of that company. This meeting was attended by Herbert Egbert, pres ident of the state Farmers Union of The Dalles, who was accompanied by Messrs. Emreson, Richards and Rob erts, prominent farmers of Wasco county. Mr. Emerson was formerly connected with the Oregon State Grain Growers association as one of its officers. These men seemed to fa vor the Tri-State company being placed on its feet again, and after some discussion of the matter, a vote was taken, and the meeting also strongly endorsed this move, there being but two dissenting votes. Af ter trying to liquidate, the Tri-State company found that it could not do so without a great sacrifice of its prop erty which in turn would result in a heavy loss to the stockholders, and so it is proposed to stay in business long enough to meet an upturn in affairs. TAKE LITTLE DAUGHTER EAST. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Vaughn depart' ed on Sunday for Rochester, Minn., taking their little daughter, Eloise, to the Mayo Bros.' institution for sur gical treatment. They expect to be absent for about four months, as it will require this length of time for the surgeons to do their work and re move the trouble from which the lit tle girl has been a sufferer for sev eral years. WILLOW LODGE L O. O. F. ELECTS. On Wednesday evening, Dec, 2, st their regular meeting. Willow Lodge No. 66, I. O. O. F., held their elec tion, which resulted as follows; J. J. Wightamn, N. G.; Adam Knoblock, V. G.; A. M. Phelps, secretary, nnd Al bert Adkins, treasurer. The appoint ive officers will be named later and the date of installation is set for Wednesday evening, January 6, 1926, Mr. and Mrs. Cf L. Sweck have adopted a young son, Mrs. Sweek ar riving from Portland the past week with the child. The boy is mighty bright little fellow, 17 months old, has been well trained and cared for in the institution for homeless chil dren in Portland, and his newly ac quired parents are mighty proud of him. Wa note that Cul has already assumed a more fatherly and digni fled appearance since welcoming the littlo lad Into his home. lITOfilGIZE UrisWeefc ttva By Arthur Brisbane Exporting Power. Bootleg. Why Did I Eat Too Much. Solitary Confinement. The Scandinavians run a cable un der the water, ship and sell power to Denmark. There's a hint for New England, especially for Maine, which intelli gently plans to harness the great tides in the Bay of Fundy. The Maine export about which w-j know most is seed potatoes excellent po tatoes. This writer has bought many a carload. The "power crop" of Maine should bing to the State millions of dollars every month, without the inconven ience of fighting potato bugs. Nothing comes suddenly. It took a long time and several revolutions for the humble bourgeoisie to take power from kings, nobles and clergy, thus increasing a thousandfold the number of those with a share in life's good things. And the merchants, the "money men" did not gain power except as they learned how to use it. The next step along the path of democracy will be another increase in the number of earth's children that share its prosperity. That step will be taken when the great crowd learns how to rule itself and finds competent leaders that won't betray it. If our men of power, have any in telligence, the change will come a long time hence, and as peacefully as an election in a golf club. The trouble is that our "big" men take themselves too seriously, at taching to their bank balances more importance than to historical prece dent and the right of others. Frank Sasale, aged forty-five, is ar rested for -chaining his children to the floor, and flogging them with a heavy rope. He beat his wife when she released one of the children, chained down for four days. Bootleg whiskey. Mrs. Ferguson, Governor of Texas, takes prohibitoin seriously. She wonders why they arrest bootleggers who carry two or three pints for sale, but don't arrest bootleggers worth more than $5,000. The Lady-Governor has something to learn about American methods. In this country five thousand dollars mea'is protection, five million dollars means immunity. African savages capture a hippo potamus, eat all their distended stom achs can hold, lie down beside the car cass, sleep, wake, eat more, sleep again and so on. Some die of ptomaine poisoning as the meat gets bad. The survivors think they have had a good time and give thanks to the pinknosed idol that they happen to worship. We improve on the hippopotamus eaters, and the Romans with large marble receptacles to which they re turned food previously swallowed, that they might Bwallow more. But our eating, like our thinking and our ideas of justice, is of an age 1,000 years behind our scientific age. We are nearer to cannibalism than to civilization. Onehalf of the adults do not even know enough to protect their children from the effects of gorging. New Hampshire revives solitary im prisonment for criminals. For a strong brain solitude is a good thing, if not overdone. Every man worth while see men tal solitude, difficult to find m this age. But for the weak, criminal brain solitude is dangerous, breeds bitter hatred, leads to insanity. As well prescribe solitary confine ment for a cancer patient as for a a criminal. EPISCOPAL SERVICES. On next Sunday at 11:00, Arclmea con Creasey will hold services at the Episcopal church in this city. The religious educational department of the church will convene at 9:45, an J there is welcome for all at these ser vices. Shop fhfti OliV (plwmis -13 I 5 t !l I 'I lnfffrri n ::::::;::::::::::::&