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PAGE FOUR HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 23, 1926. (Bnzttt? Stntrjs TBI HEPPNER GAZETTE, Established March 10. 188. THE HEPPNER TIMES. EtablUhe Noraatwr 18. 1897 i CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY II, 111. PublUbed crerr Thnrmdar moraine by VAWTER AND SPENCER CRAWFORD sod enteral st th Port Ofllee at Heppner, Oregon, as eeond-elati matter. ADVERTISING RATES GIVEN ON APPLICATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: On Year Six Months -Three Month , Sing-la Copies . 81.00 , 1.00 , .76 . .08 MORROW COUNTY'S OFFICIAL PAPER Foreign AdVertista RepreMntatrn THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION The Big Fight. J ACK DEMPSEY, a Westerner who is said to have the instinct of a killer, and Gene Tunney, a native New Yorker who is said to have the mind of a college pro fessor, are to meet today in a ring at the Philadelphia Sesquicenten nial to do batlte for the heavy- weight boxing championship of the world. Dempsey is champion; Tunney hopes to be after tonight. Pro moters say no less than 140,000 persons will pay from $3 to $50 each to see these two powerful young men maul each other any where from three to thirty min utes. For this Dempsey, who fought for a meal ten years ago, will receive in the neighborhood of three quarters of a million dol lars. Whenever a championship box ing bout is arranged, there are clashes of opinion. In this case, there are various church organ izations which condemn the match as uncivilized, brutal, horrible, degrading. There may be some merit to these condemnations, but an over whelming majority of Americans have been carrynig the event foremost in their minds for weeks. For there is something about box ing, particularly a bout between two physical giants, which stirs one's blood and heart. Boxing itself is good physical training. Thousands of American boys will show an enlivened in terest in the sport. Hundreds of young Dempseys and young Tun neys will be matched in school gymnasiums, Y. M. C. A. quar ters and recreational centers. Frankly, this Dempsey-Tunney match will result in worlds of good for the bodies of young and active American boys. Direct Primaries. THE primary system was sup posed to put all government into the hands of the decent and dependable primary and correct every disease with which popular government is afflicted. But it failed to work out that way. Instead of killing the political monsters, it has fed them. In stead of being a weapon with which to fight the money power, it seems to be an instrument which only money power can operate. The recent primaries showed Br.Frank Crane Says NAGGING HELPS SOMETIMES T UDGE JOHN W. SUMMERFIELD is authority for the state- J ment that nagging sometimes does a husband good. It is probably upon the principle that we all need petty annoyances in order to develop patience and poise. The philosopher sees some use in our friend the devil. There could be no courage without danger, there is no virtue without temptation, there is no commendable temperance that does not resist a desire for excess. Evil is a shadow, and where there is no shadow there can hardly possibly be any light. In the same way fleas and insects of all sorts are needed in order to keep us alert. Reasoning in this line it may be a good thing for a man to be nagged a bit to prevent him going stale. It would not do for him to have things too easy. Character does not develop in a uniformly favorable environment. Of course no man would choose nagging nor beg for it, but his philosophic height is largely determined by how he responds to it when it comes his way. He can either be irritated and annoyed by it, or he can de liberately hold his course and ignore it. It can make him a less er man or a greater man, according as he uses it. Anyhow he cannot help himself, and he ought to study how to turn this disagreeable element of his surroundings to his ad vantage. In a play some time ago called Lonesome Like, a man who had been used all his life to being nrgged was suddenly called upon to undergo the death of the nagger. He enjoyed his liber ty for a while, but finally got so lonesome that he took up with his grandmother simply because she scolded him. He found out that he was very lonesome without this continual female super vision. A man can get used to anything, and probably he can turn nagging to his advantage and comfort. "NEWS and PROGRESS" No. ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE AND SERVICE OF THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER AND NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING From latest volume in Manhattan Library of Popular Economics, republished in serial form through courtesy of Bank of the Manhattan Company, New York. SERVING THE COMMUNITY NE cannot travel about the country without be ing struck by the great individuality of its cities, big and little. If there is anything which distin guishes the average American, it is his aggres sive loyalty to his own home town. Therefore, it is not astonishing to find that every community, save the very smallest, has at least one voice the voice of its newspaper. There are nearly 14,000 such voices in 10,000 different communities, and in their printed columns the spirit of each place is expressed. These columns focus what may be called the accumulated town purpose in realizing local ambi tions. Whatever they may be, it is through the news paper that knowledge of community purposes is dis seminated and ideas are unified. Thus, while most vocations are more or less private, newspaper publishing is necessarily charged with a public interest. This has been true from the earliest days. When one of the first papers in the then (1804) wilderness of Indiana made its bow, the editor stated its object to be "to collect and publish such information as will give a correct account of the production and natural advantages of the territory." In other words, he proudly proclaimed himself a "booster," although the word had not yet come into vogue. This ideal persists today; it expresses itself in making the paper not merely a chronicler of the news, but also a leader in organized movements for community bet terment For example, in one town a public-spirited editor labored for years to awaken his city from the spirit of apathy This town was lagging far behind in civic advancement, its roads were poor, its schools antiquated, its business section woefully behind the times, and its parks and public buildings shabby. Worst of all, its affairs were in the hands of those who seemed entirely lacking in desire for im provement. Conditions like these might have daunt ed the bravest. But an editor is not just one man; he speaks through his news paper. When the proper spirit animates it, a newspaper is a nose 01 men, ror it moou iies the best citizens of the community into a force for progress. So in issue after issue, year after year, this newspaper con-! sistently and constantly centered its ef forts to awaken the whole community to its shortcomings and its-opportunities. At last it won. Today the old stagnation has been transformed into a wave of pros perity. New schools, new stores and facto ries, new homes, new streets and parks and the innumerable other improvements that reflect an American community at its best, all attest the power of newspaper leadership. Again, the publisher of a large city newspaper in the heart of the Great Wheat! that in some instances it cost many dollars for the few votes that were garnered. In several communities not as many votes were cast as there were officials employed in the place of voting. Instead of eliminating fraud from politics the primary system invites fraud and at times almost has the appearance of making fraud a necessity. This is done when voters are urged to vote for a certain candidate without show ing any reason for the action. But the worst feature about the primary system is the lack of in terest taken in it. This system probably does more to disenfran chise people by robbing them ol all interest in the proceedings than all other influences com bined. A willingness to vote is one of the chief assets of a peo ple. Any institution which helps rob them of this willingness is pushing the whole country back ward. "The Vanishing American" is n't vanishing as quickly as most people think. In fact, Charles H. 4 that checked all progress. Belt devotes columns of his paper to con-l sideration of the problems of wheat farm-1 ers. This newspaper prints for them infor mation it has gathered trom every avail able source, all as it may help them to solve their particular problems and other wise improve their economic condition. Not satished with precept, this publisher devotes his own 3,500-acre farm to practi cal experiment. Whatever knowledge he gains, he makes available to the agricul tural section which his newspaper serves. As a result this entire community has made definite and visible progress. In 1915 a Community Service Contest was held under the auspices of the Wis-! consin Press Association and the awards recognized the conspicuous service of edit ors in the following order: first, for "wak ing a community consciousness and pur pose;" second, for organizing an area tu bercular test tor cattle; third, tor giving effective support to seven different com-! munity projects; and fourth, tor perform ing thirteen separate services. How the newspaper finds its own re ward in joint expansion with its own com munity is indicated by another instance. Toward the end of 1925 a newspaper in al Burke, Commissioner of Indian J Affairs, reports that there are about 350,000 Indians in the Uni ted States, a gain of 16,585, or 4.5 percent in the last decade. Nor is Poor Lo in a bad way. "I know of no dependent people," says Commissioner Burke, "who have made more rapid progress during the last fifty years than the American Indians." Dangerous Experiments. ONE of the vividly interesting publications on economics printed in 1925 is the volume by James Mavor, Emeritus Professor- of Political Economy in the Uni versity of Soronto. Prof. Mavor entitles his book: Niagara in Pol itics. He goes into detail on the electrical development of power from Niagara Falls in Canada. It is a full exposition of what might happen in Oregon, if the "water and power" consittutional amend ment were passed next November as proposed by the Housewives', Council Inc. Let us take one statement from this book: "The excuse of the Government for refraining from publishing the' report was that the text was too voluminous." This illustrates the fact that details of political business management are seldom revealed to the public. The hydro commission described was charged with habitual extrava gance, which may be contrasted with its petty economy in failing to publish an official document telling of its shortcomings on the ground that it was too long. Oregon's problem is not to be solved by giving five persons, without adequate engineering, in. dustrial or business training, full power to establish and operate a state-owned system with public funds. Development of electric ity on the farm and in rural or suburban districts is progressing, and all needs will be supplied; but state socialism is not the way this will be accomplished. Even if a "water and power" amendment could be drawn that would guarantee responsible man agement of the vast public funds to be placed at the board's dispos al, it would still be an unneces sary and dangerous experiment for the state to embark upon. With no safeguards whatever, adminis trative, financial or otherwise, in the proposed amendment, its adoption would be suicidal for the taxpayers of the state. The Price of Deceit. OREGONIAN. THE virutal collapse of the Ai mee Semple McPherson mys tery was not unanticipated. So strong and vital is the spell of this woman over her followers that one does not marvel to see many of them still unshaken in their faith. Though the law should eventually 6 45 Bank of the Manhattan Co., N. Y. The newspaper mobilizes the best citizens of the community into a force for progress southwestern city issued a special edttioii to commemorate its twenty-fourth anni versary. That issue was devoted to a sum mary of the contrasts it had witnessed and had helped to bring about. When the paper first appeared the town was small, its streets were mud holes, vice and graft were rampant, schools and churches were few and scarcely a building was of more than two stories. The newspaper itself was of small size and practically without money, lwenty-tour years later, as the edition shows, the newspaper occupies, its own sixteen-story building, which it is already outgrowing, and the city, with a population of 225,000 inhabitants, has all the evidences of culture and wealth paved streets, parks, good government, abund ant schools and churches, comfortable homes and an imposing business district. Similar examples of reciprocal contribu tion to a common prosperity might be cited endlessly. They all indicate that America's newspaper publishers have learned, as American business as a whole is learning, to read self-interest in the higher terms of public service. Next article, "Distributing the Nation's Goods.") convict her, and the prison walls screen the evangelist from her converts, we may confidently fore cast a continuance of this blind be lief, and a zealous insistence that that singular character was the victim of blackest conspiracy. But in the main the truth will be ac cepted and the episode regarded as closed. The plight of this woman is a striking object lesson in the futil ity of deceit. Though the moral aspects of the case are repugnant it were easier for the world to for. give a lapse from morality, such as is here indicated, than to for give the effrontery which prompt ed a painful and tragic hoax. We have but to remember that two lives were lost in the search for the body of the evangelist, then thought to have drowned in the sea, to comprehend in forceful manner the untoward effects of falsehood. The deaths of these searchers were the physical evi- dence of spiritual wrongs scarcely less regrettable; for faith, too, may be s'ain by deceit. Deceit practiced in the holy name of religion is fantastically cruel and hurtful. It is not easy for one, however lenient his views, however ready his sympa thy, to feel sorry for professed teachers of religious life who en tangle themselves in webs of de ceit. The wrongs they have done their followers are so insistent for remedy, so pitiful to witness, that the plight of the author of this distress seems ever wholly de served. ATTENTION is called to the proposed Eastern Oregon Normal scholo, as set out in the voters' pamphlet. The Better Teacher Training Committee and Eastern Oregon Normal School Committee present five reasons why the Eastern Oregon Normal should be established. They are: First The natural division of her territory isolates her from our present normal schools, becond The distance from the center of population and our present state schools handicap many young men and women from gainnig advanc ed training. Third That vast In land Empire, containing about two-thirds of the area of Oregon, should have the privilege and fa cilities tor training its own youtn who would be better adapted to serve their Deoole, as teachers. Fourth An Eastern Oregon nor mal school meets with the appro val of the normal school board of regents and most of the promin ent educators of the state. Fifth Oregon has not the facilities at the present time to train one-half of the normal trained teachers nedeed each year, which means we must depend upon imported teachers. Let's bosot the Eastern Oregon Normal and give it our support at the November election. RAYMOND C. CROWDER and Loren O'Gara have purchased the interests of the Curry Print ing Co. in the Arlington Bulletin and Boardman Mirror and took charge of these publications at Arlington the past week. George Huntington Curry, who has been the able publisher of the paper for the past two years, has, with his family departed from Arlington, but we are not informed as to what he will do in the future. We presume that he will get hold of another publication somewhere as he cannot keep away from the newspaper game. Mr. Crowder was formerly editor of the Her- miston Herald, and Mr. O Oara is a practical printer. Arlington will continue to have a good paper un der this new management. WOMEN Their Homes and the World Outside By Kitty Barry Crawford With thrilt of mixed grati VV t tude and excitement I note that children are now proclaim ed artists by world-famous au thority. If you want another rea son for regarding your child aa wonderful read this: MAKttlT VARKO, Budapest, says that the "sense of power" upon which the creative faculty of the ar tist is founded is essentially the same in the immature child and the adult artist, or creator. From this, it may be argued that all children are artists. 'THERE is a preponderance, the Hun- a garian psychologist argues, ol the emotional life in both the artist and the child. This results in a predom inance of the imaginative faculty. This intensification of the imagina tive faculty tends to widen the cleft between fact and fancy. And this, in turn, serves to aggravate the mani fold tensions present in the life of the artist and that of the child. TENSIONS of all kinds, says the Hungarian, are relieved by expres sion. Or by converting a part or all of the energy of tension into creative action. This ends to bring about psychic balance. The need for thus adjusting tensions that lurk in the obscure depths of human nature, finds in the child its most natural outlet in play. In all sorts of "naughty" eruptive outbursts of feeling. In fan tastic imaginings, that also play an important though little noted, part in the life of the normal child. THIS same need for relief is one of the chief imnulsea toward crea tion by the artist. The artist, in oth er words, feels an irresistible urge to lessen his psychic tension by some form of self-expression, notably the creation of some work of art. If he succeeds in achieving complete ex pression, and receiving thereby the approbation of his fellow men, he has another satisfaction coming to him. With the adjustment of the sense of well-being that accompanies the com pletion of an art work, there comes. too, the joy of a sense of his own power. This is comparable with the satisfaction of the child who is prais ed by the parent for finishing his block house or some rude bit of draw ing. MISS GRACE PARKER, founder of Inkowa Club, a woman's hiking organization of New York, believes that hiking has changed the manner of living of many of her organiztion's members. About ten years ago, she declared recently, girls used to appear for the long walks this club indulges in attired in tight skirts with low- quartered sport shoes. Now they come in knickers, broad-toed shoes and woolen stockings. They have learned," said Miss Parker, "that wo men can't have any fun out of doors unless they dress properly." DUTH CROSS, novelist, whose home was once in Paris, Tex., has set tled down to what she regards as the "thrilling life of a New England farm woman." She recently married Geo. Palmer, of England and California, and together they have bought a farm at Winstead, Conn. Her second book, "The Unknown Goddess," is just off the Harper press. MISS CROSS' day begins at 6 a. m., when she gets up and gardens. She doesn't farm, but her garden is in a fair way to become famous. Fruit gathering is also included in her early morning activities, as the farm boasts a famous old apple and fruit orchard and blueberry patch. THE place purchased by Miss Cross and her husband had on it a very old farmhouse. This they have had torn away, except for the massive stone chimney centering the building. Their new modern home they built about this old hearth. Fairly early Miss Cross is in her study above the big living room, bu tmid-afternoon finds her occupied with the commun ity life of her section. SHE gives parties for the women of her neighborhood, sits and sews with them, and takes part in the ex change life of her locality. "I get all my milk and ice during the sum mer," she said proudly, "for the use of my spring. A nearby neighbor who uses the water puts up ice and brings me milk for it. I also belong to the Grange and the local Woman's Cub." All correspondence addressed to Kitty Barry Crawford, care of this psper will be answered. (American Home Syndicate) See us before you build. Our prices are right. Heppner Box A Lumber Co., Yards aero is from de pot. 22-tf, NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE. Notice la hereby given that by vir tue of an execution, decree and order of aale issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Mor row County, in that certain action in said Court wherein J. B. Colt Company, a corporation, as plaintiff, secured a judgment against M. C. Marshall, as defendant, on the 14th day of December, 1925, for the sum of $400.00 with interest at the rate of six per cent per annum from April 17, 1924; the further sum of $50.00 attorney's fee and costs and disbursements in the sum of $11.00, I will on Saturday the 16th day of October, 1926, at the front door of the Court House in Heppner, Oregon, at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m., offer for sale and sell to the highest bidder for eash in hand, all of the follow ing described Teal property belong ing to M. C. Marshall, or ao much thereof as may be necessary to sat isfy said judgment, costs and attor i.oys fees, to-wit: All of Section 16 in Township S North, Range 24 E. W. M. SEtt of NEK and Ett of SE14 of Section 23 and SWtt of SWK of Section 24, in Township 4 N. R. 23 E. W. M.; also the NEtt of Section 19, Township 4 N. R. 25 E. W. M, all in Morrow County, State of Oregon. . GEORGE McDUFFEE, Sheriff of Morrow County, Oregon. NOTICE OF SALE OF STRAY HORSE. Notice is hereby given that I will sell at publie auction to the highest bidder for cash the following describ ed property: One bay gelding, age about 4 years, weight about 800 pounds; no brand; white stripe down the face and white sock on right hind foot. Also, one black stud, age about $ years, weight about 700 pounds; no brand; white star in the face, white sock on right hind foot. Sale to be held at my ranch one mile west of Boardman, in Morrow County, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon of the 30th day of Sep- ember, 1926. ALFRED SKOUBO. NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE ON EXECUTION. Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of a foreclosure execu tion duly issued out of, and under the seal of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Morrow County, on the 8th day of September, 1926, pursuant to a judgment and decree entered and rendered in said Court on the 2nd day of September, 1926, in a certain suit in said Court wherein Elisabeth M. Keeney, was plaintiff, and Ida L. Matlock, a widow, Horace J. Matlock, and Jennie Matlock, his wife, Benjamin Matlock, unmarried, No rah Matlock Metschan and Otto Metschan, her husband, Juanita Mat lcck, unmarried, Ida L. Matlock, as Executrix of the Last Will and Testa ment of T. J. Matlock, deceased, J. I. Hanna and Lulu Hanna, his wife, Nancy E. Stuart, unmarried, and D. M. Stuart and Kate Stuart, his wife, were defendants, and which judgment was in favor of the plaintiff, and against Ida L. Matlock, individually and as Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of T. J. Matlock, deceased, for the sum ot $5,000.00, with interest thereon at the rate of six per cent per annum from the 4th day of No vember, 1922, for the further sum of $115.82, with interest thereon at the rate of six per cent per annum from the 2nd day of December, 1924, for the further sum of $194.79, with in terest thereon from the 3rd day of December, 1925 at the rate of six per cent per annum, for the further Hum of $300,00, with interest thereon at the rate of six per cent per annum from the 24th day of November, 1924, for the further sum of $150.00, with interest thereon at the rate of six per cent per annum from the 24th day of March, 1925, and for the further sum of $500.00, attorney's fees, and 19.40, cost and disbursements of said suit, and it was further ordered and decreed that a certain mortgage be foreclosed and the real property therein and hereinafter described be sold under foreclosure execution, and all of said defendants be forever barred and foreclosed from all right, title or interest therein, and which execution commanded me to sell the following described real property, situated in Morrow County, Oregon, to-wit: The southwest quarter of Sec tion 24. All of Section 25; the northeast quarter of the south east quarter; the south half of the southeast quarter of Section 26; the northeast quarter of Sec tion 35; the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the northwest quarter of Section 36, all in Township 2 South, Range 27 East of the Willamete Merid ian. Now, therefore, in obedience to said execution, I will on Saturday, the 9th day of October, 1926, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon of said day at the front door of the Court House at Heppner, Morrow County, Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, all of the above described real property. The above described being the real property mortgaged to secure the payment of the above sums, and the proceeds of such sale will be applied to the payment of the above sums and accruing cost of sale. Dated at Heppner, Oregon, this 8th day of September, 1926. GEO. McDUFFEE, Sheriff of Morrow County, Oregon NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned has been duly appointed by the County Court of the State of Oregon for Morrow County, executor of the estate of Mary D. McHaley, deceased, and all persons having claims against the said estate of said deceased, are hereby required to pre sent the same with proper vouchers to said executor at the office of Jos. J. Nys, his attorney, at Heppner, Ore gon, on or before six months from the date hereof. Dated this 2nd day of September, D. E. GILMAN, Executor. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior, U. S. Land Office at The Dalles, Oregon, August 16, 1926. . NOTICE is hereby given that Har riet M, Brown, formerly Harriet M Stephens, of Heppner, Oregon, who, on Dec. 11, 1922, made Homestead Entry under Act Dec. 29, 1916, No. 018654, for SHSWK, Sec. 27, T. 8 S., R..25 E., WttSEtt, NEttSWU, Section 8, Township 4 South, Range 26 East, Willamette Meridian, has filed notice of intention to make final three year Proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before Gay M. An derson, United States Commissioner, at Heppner, Oregon, on the 4th day of October. 1926. Claimant names as witnesses: E. E. Rugg, Iva Hiatt, Guy Fuller, A. J. Knoblock, all of Heppner, Ore gon. J. W. DONNELLY, Register. E. H. BUHN Expert Watchmaker and Jewelry Repairer Heppner, Ore. DR. A. H. JOHNSTON Physician and Surgeon Graduate Nurse Assistant I. O. O. F. Building Phones: Office, Main 933; Res. 492 Heppner, Oregon A. M. EDWARDS I DRILL WELLS I also handle Casing, Windmills and Supplies, do fishing and eleaa out old wells. , Box 14, Lexington, Ore. DR. F. E. FARRIOR DENTIST X-Ray Diagnosis ' I. O. O. F. Building Heppner, Oregon Frank A. McMenamin LAWYER Phone ATwater 6515 1014 Northwestern Bank Bldg. PORTLAND, OREGON Res. GArfield 1949 A. D. McMURDO, M. D. PHYSICIAN SURGEON Trained Nnrae Assistant Office In Masonie Building Heppner, Oregon C. L. SWEEK AT TORNEY-AT-LAW Offices in First National Bank Bnilding Heppner, Oregon MORROW GENERAL HOSPITAL ' Surgical, Medical, Maternity Case Wards, and private rooms. Rates Reasonable. Mrs. Zena Westfall, Graduate Nurse, Superintendent. A. H. Johnston, M. D. Fhyai-cian-in-Charge. Phone Main 822 Heppner, Ore. S. E. NOTSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office in Court ous Heppner, Oregon MATERNITY HOME MRS. G. C. AIKEN Private Rooms. Special Car. Same Price to All. Phone 476 Heppner, Ore. AUCTIONEER Farm and Personal Property Sale a Specialty. "The Man Who Talk to Beat the Band" G. L. BENNETT, Lexington, Ore. DR. C. C. CHICK PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Officr in Brosius Block Hood Rivt ,- Oregon C. J. WALKER LAWYER and Notary Publie Odd Fellows Building Heppner Oregon Maternity Hospital Wards and Private Rooms. Rate Reasonable. Mrs. Zena Westfall, Graduate Nurse Phone Main 322 Heppner, Ore. C. A. MINOR FIRE, AUTO AND LIFE INSURANCE Old Line Companies. Real Estate. Heppnsr, Oregon JOS. J. NYS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Robert Building, Willow Street - Heppner, Oregon