4 Heppner Gazette Times, July 1, 1943
Heppner Gazette Times
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The following article came to the editorial desk
as prepared advertising copy. The subject matter
is so timely that we have decided to use it as an
editorial.
Trouble is you can't wrap barbed wire and the
Declaration of Independence up in the same pack
age. Tom Jefferson could have told you that, and
he wrote the second and almost invented the first.
Tom Jefferson was no shrewd Yankee from up
Massachusetts way; just a level-headed fellow
who worked a Virginia farm between inventing
gadgets and being President of the United States.
He liked to go stand on a green hilltop and smell
things growing. He liked to look at the blue moun
tains and figure how there was room beyond them
for almost every man on earth in those days to be
his own boss.
Tom Jefferson would have known you could not
put folks behind barbed wire and have the Declar
ation mean anything at all.
Of course, Tom was wrong about some things,
too. He lived to see the first locomotive and had
his doubts. He never thought the Declaration of
Independence would work with railroads tearing
across the country and banks and stores and fac
tories in almost every town. He had an idea a
man could be free only on his own farm.
But he wasn't atogether wrong; not by a sight.
He knew that if a body could invent a better gun
to shoot gophers with, somebody else might come
along and tinker with the idea and end up with a
gun that would kill more people. He could have
almost told Orville Wright that a crackpot named
Hitler would take that , little man-carrying box
kite at Kittyhawk and try to turn it into something
to conquer the world.
Folks in America had a priority on the Declar
ation of Independence, but Jefferson would be the
first today to agree that they can no longer have
excusive right to it. The immortal truths in it are
either self-evident for all people or for none. It
has taken a lot of teaching to convince us that Li
Hoy Foo has got to be secure on his Yangtze
farm if there is to be an end to air raid drills in
Seattle and Palm Beach. To some the lesson may
not even yet be clear.
Tom Jefferson lived to be an old man. He in
vented a lot of things. Had he lived longer, he
might have invented the telegraph, the electric
light, maybe even the radio and the airplane. Any
way, he could have guessed they were coming,
that the world would grow smaller, that in time the
validity of the Declaration would be challenged
not only by Tidewater Tories but by men and ideas
across the whole world.
He would have known there could be no com
promise. He would have known that you cannot
wrap barbed wire and the Declaration of Independ
ence up in the same package. He would have
known that the world cannot exist half-slave and
half-free.
Looked at Tom's way, our war aims are not
hard to figure out. They are as simple as his
Declaration of Independence. And as moving and
majestic.
We trust this is the last Fourth of July it will
ever be necessary to have to point them out.
O
Hazardous Season Here
Right at present there is as fine a prospect for
a bumper wheat crop in Morrow county as can be
recalled by the best informed observers. Our
wheatraisers are fully justified in the feeling of
optimism which pervades the country side, for
nothing short of a disaster can prevent the har
vesting of another big crop this season. The out
look is good from the lower reaches of the Cecil
area to the higher foothills region next to the tim
ber line field after field of waving grain now
mostly fully headed and ripening. It is an inspir
ing sight to the passerby. It is a source of great
satisfaction to the producers.
There are forces that delight not in such inspir
ing sights. They delight ever in racing over these
beautiful fields, leaving in their wake nothing but
ruin. Those forces may be created by nature or
they may be the result of carelessness on the part
of human beings. In either event the loss is a
means of lending comfort to our enemies. They
are exponents of the doctrine of waste wherein
their enemies are concerned, and no matter how
small the loss they count it as so much gain to
their cause.
It appears timely to call attention to the forth
coming holiday week-end. Celebrations will he
few and probably the usual flow of holiday travel
will be markedly smaller. Nevertheless, there is a
tendency to grow a bit careless on such occasions
and out of such carelessness spring some of the
most damaging conflagrations. Each of us must
realize the urgency of the situation regarding pro
tection of grain fields and forests. The season thus
far has been favorable to the grower, yet by the
same token it may be disastrous if great care is
not exercised. So, if you are inclined to toss light
ed cigarette butts out of the car window, don't do
it. Use eveiy precaution ever advocated. When you
have done that you have acted the part of a good
citizen and will have no regrets.
Saottij f, extends q cordiQ wel
come to all Service Men in our midst.
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We know you will enjoy the Fourth better
if you drink one of our Extra Thick Milk
Shakes.
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When it became necessary to ration fuej and
motor oils, people of the west accepted the dictum
with the minimum of complaining. It was evident
that transportation had much to do with the prob
lem and there was a desire to be helpful. As the
program has worked out it appears that no one has
suffered unnecessary discomfort, either at home
or through lack of travel privileges.
Now comes the announcement that the north
western states are to be put on a wood fuel ration
basis. To those of us who are familiar with the tim
bered areas of Oregon and Washington, this ap
pears a bit peculiar and the only reason that may
be accepted as plausible is the shortage of man
power and transportation. Let us hope that is the
motive back of the order and not the suggestion
that the west has too many favorable conditions
and in order to make us appreciate the fact that
a war is going on it must be made difficult for us
to obtain wood for fuel. There are other things
to remind us that the world is at war and this lat
est order (not officially issued) is but one more
of the worries a harried public must endure until
this whole issue is straightened up. None of these
measures are pleasant to contemplate but neither
is it pleasant to contemplate an uncertain outcome
of the war, or at least an indefinite extension of
hostilities. Looking at the situation from that an
gle it will be best to accept the edict and try to
worry along.
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