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PAGE FOUR HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 21, 1926. TBI HEPPNER GAZETTK. EiUhlUM Marsh 10. U81. TBI HEPPNER TIMES, EatahlUhed November 18, 187; CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY li. Hit. PebUftbca' mrrf Thvrsday mornlnf by TAWTER AND IPKNCER CRAWFORD and ntrW at the Post Offlc at Heppner. Oregon, as aeoond-olaaa matter. ADVERTISING RATES GIVEN ON APFUCATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Dm Year Six Monthi Three Mentha 8iai Copiat , M 00 , J. 00 , .76 . .M MORROW COUNTY8 OFFICIAL PAPER Foraica Adrartblns Repraentative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION The Political Pot. THERE has been very little in terest, apparently, in the local campaign. But few county offi cials are to be elected; county commissioner, assessor, treasurer and surveyor will about complete the list, and of these there are no opposing candidates except in the office of county commissioner. George Bleakman of Hardman, present incumbent, is the republi can nominee and Chas. B. Cox of Heppner is the democratic aspir ant. Both are excellent gentlemen for whom this paper has high per sonal regard, yet we are con strained to give our political pref erence to Mr. Bleakman, not be cause he is the republican nomi nee, but for the better reason that he has made good in the office. There is no one disputes this; the years of experience Mr. Bleakman has had in the affairs of the coun ty as commissioner has proven that he understands how to carry on for the county, and he has done this in excellent shape. This ser vice should bring its reward in re eleciton. The people of Heppner, we feel, are under special obliga tions to Mr. Bleakman. He has during the past six years worked for the improvement and construc tion of highways directly benefi cial to this place, and while all of these projects are not yet com pleted, they will soon be, and we must acknowledge that Mr. Bleak man has been a consistent and per sistent worker and to him we can give a large measure of the cred it for this work. We are sure of another fact, also, and that is that Mr. Bleakman has had at all times the welfare of the entire county at heart, and no section appealed to him in vain if its cause was found worthy. Bleakman has been a good commissioner; let's keep him on the job. A young man, but not lacking in wide business experience and splendid ability is Fred E. Kiddle of Island City, republican nominee for joint senator from the dis trict of Morrow, Umatilla and Union counties. Mr. Kiddle may not be very well known in this part of the district, but we are sure that the republicans will make no mistake by standing by their nominee for the important state position. He was state command er of the American Legion, and DtFrank Crane Says THE DUNES ARE INDOMITABLE SOME time ago the writer visited the wild sand dune country of northern Indiana. This sandy waste stretched along the southern shore of Lake Michigan between Gary and Michigan City. The high sandhills are ages old. Some are "wandering dunes." Moving slowly through the years they have worked eastward. In their track new dunes are born. Others are vexed and on their sides sand cherries and stunted pines strug gle for existence. Indians have come and gone; pioneer scouts have given place to adventuresome settlers and they in turn have made way for the teeming city bred; but the dunes have remained. Over them the great invention of the age had a cradle and a culmination. Here Octave Chanute made experiments with gliders, giving his information to the Wright Brothers later on. And here day and night great roaring planes fly overhead carrying the mails from Cleveland and Chicago. The dunes have outlived the wilderness; they continue un tamed in the heart of civilization. In their enduring ruggedness there is a message of inspira tion that helps one who feels it to "hold on" in the trials of life. The face of the dunes is like the face of the common people. It is grim, determined, enduring. " It possesses neither the kingly grandeur of the towering mountains nor the abject serfdom of impotent deserts. Through the passing chiliads it has remained, remained in spite of wind and wave, remained one of the enigmas of geo logical endurance. Buffeted, driven about, torn asunder, the particles yet re main, and remaining, combine in lines that alter day by day, that move, that retreat, that advance; but lines that lie in the shadows of evening, gray, gaunt, beaten and deformed but sublimely everlasting. x In the face of the dunes there is seen this example of end less endurance. In its barren beauty there speaks a message of grim courage and indomitable, lasting power. "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. A UNIFYING FORCE HE history of the last three hundred years is not just a tale of more population or more territory. Rather it is a story of hundreds and thousands of newwants.new hopes, new experiences among the people of the earth, especially of the Amer ican reoDle. The averace man does live a few M years longer than his ancestor or the sixteen hundreds; if his life be measured by the manifold variety of his new experiences, by the multiplication of his new relation ships, he lives literally hundreds of years more than people did then. In this evolution of mankind America especially offers a fascinating study; complex, intertwined, many-sided, even confused; its more than one hundred million human units possessed with big and little inter ests that dart in every direction athwart those of their neighbors, now waxing now waning, each proud of his personal independence, freedom to choose, to make his own way, to get ahead. To a visitor from Mars a vision like this, if he saw us all only as individuals, could mean only conflict, contradiction, disorganization, eventual destruction. Kaleidoscopic as it appears to be, our civilization is a stable civiliza tion, nevertheless. How can stability exist amid so much diversity? Certainly it is secured by no natural law; it is not even compelled by a superior force, since ours is a government which promotes stability largely because everybody may share in it. It could be destroyed if any large part of the American people were to become deliberatelyperverse. For example, if all the farmers refused to cultivate, the carriers to transport, the workers to produce, the salesmen to sell, or the investors to lend, progress would stop. No one worries about such a possibility any more than he questions whether the sun will rise on the morrow. Why? Be cause we Americans have faith in our so cial organization, in our government, most of all, in ourselves. We know we shall co operate to keep things going, and if here and there disturbance occurs, we draw the more closely together. It Is the Amer ican way. This faith is not an accident; it comes of a long line of causes. Ordinarily, a popula tion like ours, extending over a irreat con tinent, would have difficulty in holding to- getner as it does, out in the beginning, we Bad certain traditions of government. We havo had common language. As terri tory expanded we have developed rail roads and telegraphs, telephones, radios and even airplanes for closer communica tion; we have utilized waterways; we have established great system of common schools. Yet not all of these would have sufficed. One thing more was needed to ensure social and economic unity, and that too, we have developed the American newspaper. during his regime that organiza tion in this state made its great est growth. He is active and en ergetic and possesses the qualities of a good legislator. We could say nothing against his opponent, Uncle Henry Taylor of Pendleton. He is a mighty fine old gentleman, a pioneer of Umatilla county and owner of a large wheat farm there though retired for a number of years from active work after ac quiring a competency. We are sure that no citizen of this county, having formed the acquaintance of Mr. Taylor, would have any but the highest personal regards for him as a man of fine qualities and likeable withal. He is a democrat and we are sure no member of his party should turn him down. We say, however, that Fred Kiddle is a republican, a young man of parts, and we are aware of no rea son why any member of his party should not support him. As a man of experience in the legislative halls at Salem, Roy Rit ner of Pendleton stands up with the best of them. He has served Bank of the A single newspaper in one small mm- munity is not so much an activity of that community as it is the community itself imorming its memDers ot its economic and social needs, discovering to itself its own conceptions and ambitions, voicing its punuuiia wiuic it is listening to tne na tion and to the world. In the lanw pn there is no single newspaper. Each shares in the great total of nearly 14,000 dailies, tri-weeklies, semUweeklies and weeklies. In this larger sense the American news paper constitutes the nerves of our entire social system. The news that shoots through these nerves in every direction contributes to national consciousness that emancipates each one of us from the limitations of a narrow provincialism. This common sharing in the thoughts. nopes, rears and ambitions ot our fellows makes us kin. It is not that we all think the same way, but that we have the sany things to think about. It may be the news of some recent discovery in medicine, a recent experiment in education, an im proved kind of automobile paint, a change in wireless communication, or even a new Umatilla county some fourteen years as representative and sena tor, and this year he is making the race as joint representative of Umatilla and Morrow counties. Mr. Ritner was pretty well pre sented to the people of this coun ty in the May primaries, and hav ing received the nomination over one of the strongest men of his own county, the late Judge Gilli land of Pilot Rock, stands forth as a strong contender at the polls on November 2nd against his democratic opponent, Joseph N. Scott of Pendleton. The exper ience of Mr. Ritner would seem to highly recommend him for the place and makes a strong appeal for his election as joint represen tative. His opponent, Mr. Scott, is not so well known in Morrow county as he is at home, but we can say for him that he is an ex cellent citizen and stands high among the people of his home county where he is engaged quite extensively in wheat raising. Mr. Scott is also a land owner in Mor row county. Governor on Rack. THE announcement of Govern or Pierce comes forth in which he flat footedly denounces the hydro-electric bill, promoted by the Housewives' Council, Irfb. This bill would load on the state an additional bonded indebtedness of $50,000,000 for state develop ment of hyrdo-electric power, and the governor seems to have dis covered that the measure is ex tremely unpopular, and tho strong ly backed by the State Grange, it is not proving to be a vote getter for his honor, hence he goes into reverse on the proposition and decided that it will not be a good policy to stand pat. This was sup posed to be a pet measure of the governor's, and it is claimed that it was originally his measure. In his statement he says now that the bill would be a business killer in the state, a tax-raiser and would drive new capital away as it would discourage the development of pri vate nidustry; also he senses a scheme to rehabilitate defunct ir rigation district bonds at the ex pense of the taxpayers. Because of his stand on this measure, the governor now comes in for a little panning by the lead ing promoters of the measure and it will doubtless turn many a vote from the governor, who is accused of double-crossing his friends and disowning his political offspring. This should be of little concern, however, to the average republi can voter of this county and of the state at large. The republicans have a candidate in the person of I. L. Patterson who is sound and reliable, and will give the state a business administration. He is not seeking election on a lot of in sincere promises, and he will be a genuine tax reducer because of the 10 Manhattan Co., N. T. The American newspaper is a vital constructive force in the economic progress of the nation kind of radio, but whether it comes through special dispatches, the SDort Dane or the advertising column, this common ucruage 01 news is tne tnmg tnat manes for unity of understanding. Ve are not, as some seem to tear, a ma terial people. We are a practical folk who recognize frankly the profound desirabil. f i Ji 1 uy ui u generous aistnuution or material well-being among all the people. To that well-being the American newspaper con tributes, as a market place, as a source of information, as a stimulus to production and commerce. , So much we know, yet we do not fail to recognize that the contribution of the American newspaper is civic, educational, moral and inspirational as well as eco nomic. Moreover, it is the great force that binds America together. In its columns news, editorial, advertising may be dis covered its essential function to inte grate the one hundred and seventeen mil ion Americans into one American people. Voluntary co-operation is the American plan and the American newspaper is its chief instrument. strict business administration of affairs. He is not spectacular; he is not an orator or anything of this sort, but his knowledge of affairs ot state has been obtained thru years of experience and he can be relied upon. As we see it there is nothing to recommend the re-elec tion of Governor Pierce to repub licans of this county and we should rally to the support of our own candidate, who was so strongly ea dorsed for the position at the May primaries. Silver Spoons vs. Tin. THE morning papers the other day carried dispatches telling how busy Queen Mane, of Roa mania, was over in Paris getting her fifty trunks packed and buying a few extra gewgaws to bring along on her visit to America. Now we haven't anything against the Queen. In fact, we don't know her at all. And it is news, we grant, when a Queen is busy. But that same morning, per haps, if the immigration quota is n't full, some other Roumanian women were busy getting ready to come to America to stay. They probably didn't have any trunks to pack. They couldn't buy any trinkets, even the cheapest ones, because all their money was to be spent on their tickets. And they aren't queens, except possi bly of their men's homes. So no newspaper space is wasted on them. Here in America, some millions of women were busy seeing that Dad's eggs were fried just right, that Mary's tears didn't drop on the dishes she was wiping, and that Johnny washed behind his ears before he started to school. Maybe some of these women stopped working long enough to read the papers, and to lament be cause they were wearing calico aprons instead of ermine robes. But unless we know less about our community than we do about Roumania, 99 out of every 100 women here wouldn't trade their trials, including Johnny's troubles, Mary's tears, and Dad's com plaints, for all Roumania if it meant being separated from John ny, Mary and Dad. They may have been born with tin spoons instead of spoons of silver in their mouths, but by a process far subtler than any al chemist of ola knew, their tin spoons turn to gold when the day's trials are done. Emotionalism. APPEAL to voters has been made by the housewives' council on a basis of emotional ism. "Keep natural resources tor the people" was a Roosevelt ideal. But with that ideal the great Am erican combined practical sugges tions for conservation of forests, water-powers, playgrounds and all the vast resources over and under the ground. Broad minds in national affairs provided the federal power com mission, the forest service of the Department of Agriculture and many other mediums of controll ing, supervising, protecting and conserving state and national re sources on a basis fair to those who would develop them and just to all who benefit by them. The power of mental imagery and the appeal to prejudice, how ever, would picture the destruction of all national resources and cre ate the impression that the "rights of the people " are being invaded, their water powers being monopo lized, their foresst cut down, their lands neglected and their freedom endangered. All this is emotionalism under influence of which the voter is asked to bestow supreme powers upon a tate board, who shall ad minister a vast fund to be raised by further bonding the State of Oregon forjjurposes already cov ered by wise national legislation. It is a political appeal to voters who earnestly wish for preserva tion of our natural resources, as most of us do. This very desire is back of the laws by which federal control of forest and stream was instituted. These laws have been extended, broadened and made more widely comprehensive to in clude large part of the undeeded lands in many states (in Oregon 85 per cent of such resources are under federal control), and pub lic interests are. safeguarded to that extent. Those who have inspired the constitutional amendment to be voted upon November 2, using the "housewives' council" as part of their emotional appeal, doubtless are fully informed of the rigid requirements as to permit, license, prompt construction, check on op eration, rates, profits and sums in vested in all hydro-electric pro jects under the Federal Power Commission. But some who have not investigated fall under the mental control of these skillful political propagandists. Albeit the informed and thinking housewife is not deceived and knows the measure for what it is the aspir ing ambition of a few to gain ex traordinary political power and in: fluence. One woman, a home maker, puts it thus: "What we have, we know; what we may have we aon t Know I am opposed to the housewives' council amend ment. This woman is not af fected by emotionalism. Opposed to this constitutional change are listed the most progres sive ousmess men, manufacturers, tradesmen, professional and com mercial leaders of Oregon. The measure will be defeated by votine oo a inu! at the election next month. Guilty in the Public Mind. XX7HY the jury in the Daugher- ' ty-Miller case disagreed may never be revealed to the public. But the public will never be sat isfied with the outcome. The jury sensed that a crime had been committed. This seem ed pretty clear. However, the lengthy wranglings in the "jury room and the repeated appeals to the court for explanations. showed that a minority of the jurors could not tie up in the minds the wrong- doings with the intricacies of the indictment. Harry M. Daugherty and Thorn as W. Miller may consider them selves lucky that the jurors didn't comprehend all the ramifications of the law. The story uncovered in the trial was distressing. The evidence for the most part was deadly, un contradicted. District Attorney tsuckner presented his case with damning facts. However, the de fendants escaped a verdict of guil ty chiefly through the fact that they could not be tried directly tor bribery but had to be tried un der a conspiracy sltatute which raises much greater legal difficul ties. Technically, Daugherty and Mil ler are not guilty. But they stand convicted before the bar of public opinion, no matter what a few jurymen may have decided. Nor will the public ever forget this hu miliating chapter in the history of Federal administration, nor should it lose any time in demanding a new and decisive trial. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned has been appointed by the County Court of the State'of Oregon for Morrow County administrator of the estate of Louis Paldanius. de ceased, and that all persons having claims against the said estate must present the same, duly verified ac cording to law, to me at my office in Heppner, Oregon, within six months from the date of the first publication of this notice, which date of first publication is September 23, 1926. S. E. NOTSON. Administrator. NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE. Notice is hereby given that by vir tue of an execution and order of sale issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for Morrow County, dated the 21st day of Sep. tember, 1926, to me directed, in that certain suit wherein The Federal land Bank of Spokane, a corporation secured a judgment against Charles L. Ashbaugh and Rose A. Ashbaugh, husband and wife, and the Hardman National Farm Loan Association, a corporation, defendants, for the sum of $81.25 with interest at 8 from December 3, 1925; the further sum of $2,325.10 with interest at 5tt from December 3, 1925; the further sum of $177.26 with interest at 8 from May 26, 1926; the further sum of $7.60 with interest at 8 from May 11, 1926; less $125.00 stock sub scription; $200 attorney's fee and the further sum of $20.80 costs and dis bursements, which judgment was dat ed the 16th day of September, 1926. I will on the 23d day of October, 1926, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock A. M. in the forenoon of said day, at the front door of the County Court House in Heppner, Morrow County, Oregon, offer for sale at public auc tion and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand all of the following described real property in Morrow County, State of Oregon, to wit: ' North Half of the Norhtwest Quar ter, the Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter and the Northeast Quarter of Section 14 and the South vest Quarter of the Northwest Quar ter of Section 13, ' in Township 4 South, Range 24, E. W. M., contain ing 320 acres, more or less, in Mor row County, State of Oregon; or so much of said real property as may be necessary to satisfy the plaintiff's judgment, costs, attorney's fee and accruing cost of sale. Dated this 22nd day of September, 1!'26. Date of first publication, Septem ber 23, 1926. GEORGE McDUFFEE, Sheriff of Morrow County, State of Oregon. NOTICE OF SALE OF ANIMALS. Notice is hereby given that by vir tue of the laws of the State of Ore gon the undersigned has taken up the hereinafter described animals found running at large on his premises in Morrow County, Oregon, and that he will on Saturday, October 30, 1926, M the hour of 10 o'clock in the fore noon of said day at his place on Eight Mile, known as the Jenkins place, 14 iriles southwest of Heppner, Oregon, offer for sale and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand the said ani mals. Said animals are described as follows: One black mare, age 8 years, no visible brand, weight 1200 pounds. One black mare, age about 8 years, no marks or brands, weight 1200 pounds. ' One black mare, age about 6 years, no marks or brands, weight 1500. One bay horse, age 2 years, circle J brand on left front leg, weight about 800 pounds. One black mare mule, age 5 years, no brand, slit in left ear, weight about 1000 pounds. One bay mare, age about 10 years, branded H on right hip, weight 1100 pounds. Unless the same shall have Leen redeemed by the owner or owners thereof. FRANCIS GRIFFIN, Eight Mile, Oregon, NOTICE OF DISTRICT ROAD MEETING. Notice is hereby given, pursuant to a petition of the requisite number of legal voters of Road Dis trict No. 14 of Morrow County, State of Oregon, and an order of the Coun ty Court of the State of Oregon for Morrow County, made and entered on the 1st day of September, 1926, meeting of the legal voters of said Road District Number 14 of Morrow County, State of Oregon, will be held at the Henry Peterson house, Morrow County, Oregon, in the said Road Dis trict Number 14, November 1st. 1926, at the hour of 2 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon of said day, for the nur- pose of voting an additional tax for Road purposes upon all the taxable property in said Road District to the amount of 10 Mills on the dollar, said tax to be expended as follows:. For grading and rocking the road known as the Victor L. Carlson road R. L. BENGE, County Judge. Attest: GAY M. ANDERSON, County Clerk. NOTICE OF DISTRICT ROAD MEETING. Notice is hereby given, pursuant to a petition of the requisite number of legal voters of Road Dis trict No. 2 of Morrow County, State of Oregon, and an order of the Coun ty Court of the State of Oregon for Morrow County, made and entered on the 6th day of September, 1926, a meeting of the legal voters of said Road District Number 2 of Morrow County, State of Oregon, will be held at the Boardman public school build ing, at Boardman, Morrow County, Oregon, in the said Road District Number 2, November 6th. 1926. at the hour of i to 6 o clock in the afternoon of said day, for the purpose of voting an additional tax for Koad purposes upon all the taxable property in said Koad District to the amount of 5 Mills on the dollar, said tax to be expended as follows: For general building and maintain ing in said Dist. 2. R. L. BENGE, County Judire. Attest: GAY M. ANDERSON, County Clerk. NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE. Notice is hereby given that by vir tue of an execution and order of Bale issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Morrow County, dated the 7th day of October, 1926, to me directed, in that certain suit wherein R. W. Beardon, plain tiff, secured judgment against Mary Johnson and Allan Johnson, defend ants, for the sum of $400.00, with In- ttrest thereon at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum from the 18th day or August, the further sum of 70.00 attorney's fees, and the sum of $301.44 on account of taxes, penal- y and interest, and $15.40 costs and disbursements, which Judgment was dated September 28, 1926. I will on Saturday, the 13th dav of November, 1920, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at the front door of the County Court House in Heppner, Morrow County, Oregon, offer for sale at public auc tion and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand all of the following described real property situated in Morrow County, Stato of Oregon, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy plaintiff's judgment, costs, attorney's fees, and accruing costs of sale, to-wit: Lot I, Block 1, Ayers' Third Addition to the town (now city) of Heppner, Oregon. Dated this 7th day of October, 1926. Date of first publication, October 14, 1926. GEORGE McDUFFEE, Sheriff of Morrow County, State of Oregon. E. H. BUHN Expert Watchmaker and Jewelry Repairer Heppnar, Ore. DR. A. H. JOHNSTON Physician and Surgeon Graduate Nurse Assistant L 0. O. F. Building Phones: Office, Main 933; Res. 492 i Heppner, Oregon A. M. EDWARDS I DRILL WELLS I also handle Casing, Windmills and Supplies, do fishing and clean out old wells. Box 14, Lexington, Ore. DR. F. E. FARRIOR DENTIST X-Ray Diagnosis I. 0. 0. F. Bnilding Heppner, Oregon Frank A. McMenamin f LAWYER Phone ATwater 6515 1014 Northwestern Bank Bldg. PORTLAND, OREGON Res. GArfield 1949 A. D. McMURDO, M. D. PHYSICIAN A SURGEON Trained Nurse Assistant Office in Masonic Building Heppner, Oregon C. L. SWEEK AT TORNEY-AT-LAW Offices in First National Bank Bnilding Heppner, Oregon MORROW GENERAL HOSPITAL Surgical, Medical, Maternity Cases Wards, and private rooms. Rates Reasonable. Mrs. Zena Westfall, Graduate Nurse, Superintendent. A. H. Johnston, M. D. Physl-eian-in-Charge. Phone Main 822 Heppner, Ore. S. E. NOTSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office In Court ouse Heppner, Oregon MATERNITY HOME MRS. G. C. AIKEN Private Rooms. Special Car. Same Price to All. Phone 976 Heppner, Ore. AUCTIONEER Farm and Personal Property Sales a Specialty. "The Man Who Talks to Beat the Band" G. L. BENNETT, Lexington, Ore. ) DR. C. C. CHICK PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Office in Brosius Block Hood Rivi. Oregon C.J.WALKER LAWYER and Notary Public Odd Fellows Building Heppner Oregon Maternity Hospital Wards 'and Private Rooms. Rates Reasonable. Mrs. Zena Westfall, Graduate Nurse Phone Main 822 Heppner, Ore. C. A. MINOR FIRE, AUTO AND LIFE INSURANCE Old Line Companies. Real Estate. Heppner, Oregon JOS.J.NYS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Roberta Building, Willow Street Heppner, Oregon