4 Heppner Gazette Times, January 13, 1945
EDITORIAL . . .
Food for Thought
Most of us are too busy to give any real study
to government problems, resorting to the common
practice of "it ought to be this way, or that." We
ride along, as it were, in our groove until some
thing comes along to divert our course, and then
we say to ourselves, "we'll have to do something
about it."
It remained for two high school youths to jar
us from our lethargy, governmentally speaking,
by introducing a bit of their class work at the
Chamber of Commerce luncheon forum. These
students represent a class at present engaged in
studying international problems and it must be
confessed that the young people are better post
ed on these matters than many of their elders.
They showed unusual insight relative to the po
litical designs of the several nations and what the
probable outcome of the present struggle for fa
vorable positions among the Allied nations will
be. At least, their discussion provokes the thought
that it might not be impertinent for the older boys
and girls to make themselves better informed on
matters pertaining to the future peace and secur
ity of the world.
Bread Upon the Waters
In the early days of our nation's history, city,
state and federal governments, on numerous oc
casions, subscribed money and took stock in some
of our pioneer railroad ventures in order to en-
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courage their development. When public money
was subscribed to railroads, it was done as a com- Of the Legislature
munity investment in industry, with the hope of
earning the same return as other investors in a
property which was privately owned and operated.
There was no thought of socializing the railroad
industry. Community credit was merely used to
help build up private enterprise and taxpaying
assets.
As a result of such a helpful government policy
there developed in our country the greatest rail
road system in the world which, since Pearl Har
bor, has turned into the United States treasury the
tremendous sum of $3,250,000,000 in taxes. To
day the railroads are paying some $4,250,000 in
federal taxes every 24 hours, in addition to paying
state and local taxes at the rate of $800,000 per
day. Bread cast upon the waters in the shape of
encouragment to railroads, has returned a thous
andfold to government.
But today there is a political drive in the Unit
ed States for government ownership of industry
father than encouragement of private enterprise.
This policy is just the reverse and limits individ
ual opportunity and destroys taxable assets.
The only way war taxes will will ever be low
ered is by more private business to pay taxes, in
stead of more government business to be exempt
ed from taxes. The railroad tax payments to gov
ernment offer graphic proof of this fact. Exchange.
VISITED IN VALLEY
Mr and Mrs. R. K. Drake return
ed the past week from a visit of
several weeks in valley points. They
spent Christmas with Mrs. Drake's
mother and sister, and their daugh
ter Claudine, in Silverton, visited
their son Raymond in Corvallis and
a daughter-in-law, Donald's wife in
Portland. The morning they were
leaving for home, Mrs. Donald
received seven letters from her
husband. The last one was written
in a fox hole where he said it was
wet and cold and he had no
blanket. Otherwise he was well.
NEXT CONCERT IN PENDLETON
SCHEDULED FOR JAN. 25
Mario Berini, tenor, will appear
on the Civic Music association pro
gram at the Vert auditorium next
Thursday evening. Jan. 25. This is
the third artist to appear in the
concerts scheduled for the winter
months. Several music lovers from
Heppner hold tickets for the series.
Marter & company, is spending the
week in Portland.
FOOD SALE
The Women's auxiliary of the
Episcopal church will hold a food
sale at 1:30 p. m. Saturday, Jan. 20,
in the Red Cross room in the Odd
fellows building. A wide variety of
home cooked delicacies will be
offered.
The dim out is over for Oscar
and in the dark dawn of wr time
mornings he stands over the capitol
illuminated for all the city to see
and honor as a symbol. It has been
years since men took axe and gun
and set forth on their own to con
quor a new world. It has been some
years since there was much praise
given the spirit of the men who did
that thing.
Underneath the dome lesser men
are hacking away at the pioneer
spirit by constantly giving more
less responsibility on the individual
authority to the state and leaving
citizen. The people, nowadays, like
it that way. Takin gaxe and gun is
more difficult than ballot and pe
tition, j
Not a great deal has been done
during this session but the lines are
being drawn that will determine
what will be done. Like many an
other legislature composed of men
of conservative and cautious back
ground, this one may do some
things that are neither. Labor, ap
parently thinks so, for a little WagT
ner act has been introduced which,
if enacted, would further bind em
ployees to the unions and further
bind employers to the hard hand of
bureaucracy. Mebbe so, mebbe not,
if a lawyer can never tell what a
jury will do, neither can a citizen
tell what a legislature will do. But
if a guess might be made the little
Wagner act will undergo consider
able change from the ideal of the
unions before it becomes law.
PROFESSIONAL
DIRECTORY
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A. D. McMurdo, M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Trained Nurse Assistant
Office in Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregoh
Dr. W. H Rockwell
NATUROPATHIC
Physician & Surgeon
227 North Main St.
Office hours: 1 p. m, to 7:30 p. m.
Exam. Free. Ph. 522, Heppner. Ore.
DR. L. D. TIBBLES
OSTEOPATHIC
Physician & Surgeon
First National Bank Building
Res. Ph. 1162 Office Ph. 492
JOS. J. NYS
ATTORNEP AT LAW
Peters Building, Willow Street
Heppner, Oregon
J. O. TURNER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 173
Hotel Heppner Building
Heppner, Oregon
P. W. MAHONEY
Attorney at Law
GENERAL INSURANCE
MRS "SCOTTY" ILL
Due to the llness of Mrs. James
Hall, Scotty's ice cream emporium
has been closed for a few days this
week. With help so scarce Scotty
is unable to carry on alone so he
is resting up. What a pity it isn't
fishing season if Mrs. Hall had to
get herself a flu germ.
GUESTS AT THOMPSONS
S. Sgt L. E. Evans and wife and
Mrs. Emma A. Evans of Spokane
have been guests at the Steven
Thompson home this week. Sgt
Evans is on furlough from the air
corps after having spent about a
year overseas during which time he
flew 65 missions. The party left to
day for Seattle. Mrs. Evans, who
has .been here since before Christ
mas, and Sgt Evans are mother and
brother respectively of Mrs. Thompson.
ONE COMES ONE GOES
A big moving van from Walla
Walla brought the household goods
of Mr. and Mrs. John Saager Tues
day and after unloading turned
around and loaded up the household
goods of the Blaine Elliott family
and hauled them to Milton. The
Saagers are domiciled in the apart
ment formerly occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Gordon.
HERE FROM TEXAS
Sgt and Mrs. Ronnie Oscarson
have arrived from Laredo, Tex.,
and are visiting at the home of her
parents, the Jesse Or wicks. Mrs.
Oscarson plans to remain here as
her husand has been transferred to
a training base in Nebraska.
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ON BOOT LEAVE
Howard Pettyjohn is home on
boot leave from Farragut, having
completed his initial training in the
navy.
LEAVE FOR CORVALLIS
Members of the Morrow county
Tiiple-A committee are in Corval
lis this week attending the annual
meeting of the state AAA organiza
tion. Leaving Heppner Wednesday
morning were Henry Baker and
Ted Smith of the local AAA office
and Frank Anderson and Frank
Saling, members of the committee.
Clyde Denney, fifth member of the
group was in the valley and was
expected to be on hand.
La Verne Van Marter, junior
partner in the firm of Turner, Van
Harry E. Hearne, assistant dis-,
trict board executive of the OPA,
paid Morrow county rationing
board an official visit this week,
coming from Pendleton Wednesday
with Mrs. Frances Dobyns.
FOR SALE Well broke saddle
horse and a stock trailer. Ralph
Beamer. 43-44p
FOR RENT Cabins and rooms.
Wilson Cabins. Mrs. Charley Fra-
ters. Phone 1172. 43c
ESTRAYEEt 2 yearling heulers
and one cow, branded. FA on left
rib. earmarked under slope of
right ear, upper bit on left.
Frank Anderson," Heppner. 43-54p
The bill or rather, resolution,
that made most of the news the first
week of the session is now takin?
a little rest. It is the resolution that
would create an investigating com- J Q PETERSON!
mittee to peer into the deeo dark siwvm
secret of the state's liquor deal. The
senate, by a purely partisan vote,
gave its OK to the measure. In the
house it went to the alcoholic con
trol where it can be examined
thoroughly and where the heat of
its sudden passage into headlines
can be dissipated. There will be
time for cold calm action on it later.
Heppner Hotel Building
Willow St. Entrance
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Will remove tarnish from crevices and around
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does not clean ut remains and is almost impos
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Buy More Buy BIGGER War Bonds!!
PETERSON'S
Some education bills have been
introduced already and there is talk
of others. One bill would change
the term of a .school clerk to three
years, one would create some new
words of enforcement for the phy
sical education part of the public
schools and spike those words with
a smatter of $26,000.Another would
put a minimum in the number of
pupils that may create a high
school. Bills on the same subject
providing more state chool money
under different terms are expected
There are many divergent interests
on all school bills, the teachers with
their OSTA lobby, the city superin
tendents, the county superinten
dents, the labor unions, the persons
who always seem to want a spec
. ial attachment applied to the school
system and last the pupils themsel
ves who are most concerned and
who never appear.
Members seem older than the av
erage of other sessions, tireder. and
less spontaneous. Perhaps the war
weighs on them, and war time liv
ing and the work all are doing,
slows them up and causes greater
pre-occupation with other affairs
than the so-far only mildly inter
esting bills of early sessions.
JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE -Winter
coats V off; winter hats
y-t off. Curran's Ready-to-Wear.
42-44c
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