HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 28, 1926.
PAGE FIVE
Hi NEAR EAST
SMITTEN BY QUAK
E
Relief Work Upset, Caus
ing Urgent Need for
More Funds,
"We are reminded of the part that
Oregonians have had in the Near East
the laat few years by the dispatches
just coming from Armenia regarding
the earthquake which has rendered
'.housands of people ho'neless be
sides killing many hundreds and
driving 9,000 children from the or
phanages into the open," states J, J.
Handsaker, Northwest Regional Di
rector of Near East Relief.
"At Batoum, Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Rambo rescued 63,000 Greek refugees
receiving the official thanks of the
Queen of Greece for their heroism.
"It was at Kara Kala that Ethel
Long Newman, O. A. C. '20, and her
husband, Sam Newman, worked for
four years on the vast orphanage
farm and now they have been suc
ceeded by Paul Phillips, W. S. C. '23.
"KarakalisBe is where Mrs. Amy
Burt of Bend was stationed while
she extended relief over a territory
75 miles square. During this time she
nursed her sister through a severe at
tack of typhus.
"To Alexandropol Mrs. Burt brought
on two special trains 1,000 orphans
whom British sailors had been feed
ing until they sailed from Baku on
the Caspian Sea. Alexandropol seems
to be the center of the earthquake
and is the site of the largest orphan
age in the world. It was built by the
czar as his last outpost against Tur
key and he must have spent millions
of dollars on its 300 huge stone build
ings. There have been as many as
18,000 children in this one orphanage.
"I saw great suffering five yeras
ego but since that time the people
against unbelievable odds had largely
come back to self support and our
chief care was for the orphan chil
dren for whom we could find no re
rponsible relatives. The earthquake
has made thousands homeless and
will further delay the completion of
our orphanage program as we had
confidently looked for places for
thousands among the peasants who
now must give all their energies to
rebuilding their homes. Contribu
tions for the earthquake sufferers
should reach the Near East Relief,
613 Stock Exchange Bldg., Portland,
at the earliest possible moment.
Reports yesterday from New York
indicate more extreme conditions
than was at first thought. Yesterday's
dispatch says:
Rural districts of Armenia terribly
damaged and delayed reports now
reaching us from peasant villages in
dicate increasing loss of life and
enormous number homeless who face
arrival of winter with prospect of in
evitable severest suffering. In Len
inakan district twelve villages totally
destroyed, twenty-three partially. In
Leninakan six hundred houses are
completely ruined. Near East work
ers yesterday visited six villages
wherein no single house inhabitable.
In four of these villages hundred
fifty-two dead, hundred eighty-five
seriously injured, all peasants. Food
supplies and possessions buried under
tons debris, also heavy casualties of
livestock. Dead and injured in vil
lages include many Near East Relief
orphans who have been outplaced in
native families past two years. In
same four villages fifty-five hundred
inhabitants now camping on bleak
hillsides anlously watching skies for
first winter snow, which is due within
a week. Villagers without bedding or
sufficient clothing.
Majority Near East buildings in
great orphanage plant at Leninakan
severly damaged by quake and must
have extensive repairs before can
again be used to house children and
personnel, who now sleep outdoors.
Utmost relief measures will be nec
essary immediately to mitigate ter
lible winter sufferings. Temperature
layt year was below zero before end
November and reached twenty-five be
low, on December 6th. Snow begins
falling before November 1st and
whole country is under five to ten
feet of snow by end month. American
and native surgeons operating night
and day on quake injured of whom
hundreds being brought to Near East
Relief hospital which fortunately es
caped serious damage and entire six
hundred beds occupied by quake in
jured. Government Hospital . Lenin
akan destroyed and Americans taken
over work. Entire population Lenin
akan sleeping in fields. Minimum
five hundred thousand dollars re
quired to care for nine thousand or
phans winter months exclusive of rs
pairs damaged buildings or provisions
for emergency relief to wrecked
cities and villages.
BARCLAY ACHESON.
Handsaker Makes Appeal.
J. J. Handsaker, Northwest Region
al Director, is sending out the fol-
lowing letter to people of Oregon
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America is busy entertaining "company", Queen Marie of Rou
mania accompanied by her youngest son and daughter, Prince Nicholas
and Princess Ileana are visiting America and are being "royally"
received at every point of their tour. Left to right Queen Marie,
Prince Nicholas and Princess Ileana.
asking their aid: -
You have often come to the rescue
of the Near East Relief and have fre
quently and generously shared your
income with the homeless children
whose care and training is both our
task and happy privilege.
The inclosed urgent cable with news
of the earthquake in Armenia conies
with its own appeal. I am sure that
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Banks, Oregon
Every Forward Looking Citizen Should
Fight For Oregon and Its Development
By BRUCE DENNIS
Author of the. Dennis Resolution.
When the people of Oregon enacted a state income tax in
1923 they did so because they believed it was just and right.
They believed it would reduce taxes. At that time they had
plenty of theory and few facts to guide
them.
They repealed that law in 1924 because
it" was a proved hard times breeder. It
cost the people of Oregon the staggering
total of $40,000,000 to learn that economic
conditions absolutely beyond their control
are such in Oregon that a state income tax
drives out industries, keeps others from
coming in, reduces payrolls, makes it hard
er to obtain farm loans, and strikes at ev
ery home in country, village, town and
city.
But our state is agani in turmoil because a determined ef
fort is being made to forcepractically this same law upon the
state this year. Our people are being asked to ignore plain
fundamental economic facts. They are being asked to enact
a law on a "guess" that it will bring good times now, when
painstaking, honest investigation proved that the former tax
did drive out industries, capital, jobs, and millions of taxable
wealth from Oregon, and a new state income tax will do it
again.
Oregon is full of meritorious projects that should be de
veloped. Big public improvements are necessary to open up
our state, to bring the farms closer to their markets and cities
closer to their bases of supplies. Wealth untold lies idle in
natural resources awaiting the magic touch of development
capital to bring it to the tax rolls, to create new payrolls, new
activities a-id better livlihood for our people.
Since the last income tax law was repealed millions of
dollars have been loaned in Oregon by outside financial con
cerns, at low rates, on long time, and with repayment privileges
never known to Oregon before. If a new income tax law is
enacted, and this discrimination aimed directly at these in
vestors, rates will go up, much of the unloaned funds will be
withdrawn, and our people will again face the inescapable fact
Oregon needs capital, but capital does not need Oregon.
This is no time for prattle. It is high time for plain speak
ing, straight thinking and recognition of the hard economic
fact that Oregon's farms, her industries, and her citizens
desperately need capital, and that the only place we can get
it is from outside the state.
We can drive capital out, but we cannot force it to come
in unless we make it advantageous for it to do so. Oregon,
ninth state in area, is relatively insignificant economically.
1 19,000,000 of America's 120,000,000 people reside outside of
Oregon. Let us remember the industrial city of Detroit has
over 100,000 more people than the state of Oregon, with its
96,000 square miles. Let us remember that 782,256 people
here didn't make enough to file income tax returns, and that
only 311 people in the entire state had earnings in excess of
$10,000; that of Oregon's 5000 corporations only 1073 made
enough profit to file taxable reports, that 478 made less than
$5,000 and only 183 over $20,000, including all public utilities,
lumber mills, flour mills, factories, railroads, and other indus
tries. We have 55,157 farms, one to every 15 persons, 2500 in
dustries, one to each 330 persons. What would one industrial
center like Detroit mean to our farms, our home owners, our
workers, out state? Oregon wants them, Oregon wants capi
tal and wants to go ahead. Oregon wants to avert economic
disaster, and instead wants to offer capital, new people, new
industry, opportunity to help us grow.
That is what the Dennis Resolution is for. It guarantees
that no state income tax can be enacted to discriminate against
development and progress before 1940. It guarantees to every
Oregon family that the state will not tax its accumulations
when the bread winner dies. As a prosperity making measure
it deserves the support of every forward looking citizen.
Vote 306 X YES Dennis Resolution
Vote 335 X NO Grange Income Tax Bill
Vote 329 X NO Offset Income Tax Bill
Paid Advertisement
Greater Oregon Assn.
J. O. Elrod, Chairman
M. S. Hirsch H. J. Frank
Ira F. Powers G. G. Guild fM, Y U4C
K, u Macieay J. a. xeon
J. H. Burgard W. S. Bnbson
419 Oregon, Bldg., Portland, Or.
you are grateful, as I am, that ths
new crisis if but temporary Bid not
due to a repetition of human cruelty.
But the crisis must be met.
You remember how, following the
Smyrna disaster in the fall of 19?2,
tne Near East Relief came to the res
cue with money and stores collected
to meet the winter needs of orphon
children. The earthquake has come
even later in the year and finds us
without funds with which to meet a
crisis. We cannot deplete too much
the reserves of food for the winter.
$40,000 is needed at once, how much
more no one at this time knows.
We come to you again because we
do not know where else to go, and
because we remember with gratitude
as well as with pleasure your com
radeship in a common cause.
Please mark your check for the
Earthquake Fund.
Cook Wanted Middle aged, for the
winter; state wages expected. F. E.
Mason, lone, Ore.
HOME POINTERS.
O. A. C. Home Ecomomics Department
To clean stoves, a common black
board eraser is excellent. It will dust
and keep the stove in fine shape. A
high polish will result by first apply
ing ordinary blacking and then rub
bing the entire surface with the eras
er. Peeling potatoes can often be elim
inated by first washing them, cutting
them in halves, and boiling them.
They are placed cut-side down in an
ordinary potato ricer and mashed. The
skins remain in the ricer and the po
tato goes through.
Lime is a necessary requirement for
bone and body building. Everyone
needs a certain amount of lime daily.
One-fourth cup of milk contains as
much lime as five-eighths of a loaf
of bread, or as 1 pounds of lean
meat. One would need to eat six
loaves of bread, or twelve pounds of
f
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meat to get as much lime as is in
114 pints of milk.
Griddle cakes are made much light
er and more tender by adding one
fourth cup of cornmeal to each pint
of flour in the recipe used.
Carpets are brightened in color by
rubbing them with a coarse cloth
wrung from a solution of four ounces
of alum dissolved in about one gallon
of water.
Spots in calico or cloth produced by
acid are restored by touching with
spirits of ammonia. Spots from alkali
are removed by moistening with vine
gar or tartaric acid.
Ink stains on the hands are re
moved by rubbing the spots vigorous
ly with vaseline, then with soft pa
per and finally washing with soap anil
water.
RHEA CREEK GRANGE.
The regular meetings of the Rhea
Creek Grange will be on the first Sun
day and third Saturday of each month
during the summer. The Friday meet
ings as held heretofore are now
changed to Saturday.
John Byland this week disposed of
his land holdings near Hardman to
Ernest Cannon, who is enlarging his
possessions in keeping with the
growth of his business. Mr. Cannon
is one of the successful rancher of
the Rock creek section south of
Hardman.
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Farmers & Stockgrowers National
Heppner Bank Oregon
Read this proposed
AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION
OF YOUR STATE
BALLOT TITLE
Initiative Measure Proposed by Initiative Petition
Initiated by Housewives' Councli, Inc. : Josephine M. Othus,- Mary
A. Dean, Clara M. Simonton-OREGON WATER AND POW
ER BOARD DEVELOPMENT MEASURE Creating the Ore
gon Water and Power Board of five elective members ; appoint
ing first members, board filling vacancies; giving said board full
authority for conservation, development, storage, distribution
of electric energy and water for irrigation and domestic pur
poses; authorizing state bonds issued not exceeding five per
centum of assessed state valuation ; bonds issued to pay interest
or principal of outstanding bonds ; issuance of interest bearing
state public utility certificates ; paying principal or interest of
bonds from state general fund with repayment from bond fund ;
taxes levied to provide such moneys; appropriating $250,000
from general fund returnable from water and power revolving
fund. Vote YES or NO
336 Yes. I vote for the foregoing measure.
337 No. I vote against the foregoing measure.
This means fifty-three millions of new bonds.
This names five inexperienced people to spend your money.
This mortgages all your property to politics.
This leaves the taxpayer to foot the bills.
This would ALL go into the Constitution of Oregon.
The Constitution would protect these Tax-Spenders
But what about the Tax-Payers?
Your only protection is to
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Paid Adv. by Oregon Pubic Utility Committee Opposed to the Housewives' Council "Water and Power" Bonding Amendment 424 Pacifier
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