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Peace On Earth
If it were posMble to accomplish a thing of
such magnitude by making a simple wish, we
would importune the Almighty to hanish all self
ishness and greed, so purify the hearts of mankind
that there would he lasting peace on earth. That
1 a mighty older and we know that the chances
for realization are slim unless the peoples of the
earth take more heed of the teachings of Him who
came to set the pattern of 'Teace on earth, good
will towards all men."
There is another rule by which peace and hap
piness could become universal, a rule that most
of us can understand, but unfortunately a rule
that has been twisted to meet each individual's
selfish requirements. That rult alone, if prac
ticed zealously, would eventually eliminate much
of the greed and selfishness, poverty and crime
that spoil the real beauty of this world of ours.
It, too, was a principle for right thinking and right
doing laid down by the lowly Nazarene: "Do unto
others as ye would have them do unto you."
Practiced daily, and not just merely during the
Yuletide season, it will bring gladness to others
and great joy to yourself.
After Ten Years
When, ten years ago this December, business
and professional men and public officials banded
together and formed the Heppner Chamber of
Commerce, there were those among our citizens
who gave the organization as much as three years
of existence. There were some who limited the
time to six months. These dire predictions, it is
pertinent to remark, proved false, for today, after
ten years of life the Chamber of Commerce is a
healthy and active child almost grown up.
Every town needs an organized group of its
citizens to plan and carry out projects for the ben.
efit of the community to seek to broaden the
trading area, develop better roads into the areas
it serves, or would serve, and aid in whatever way
possible the carrying out of the town's civic pro
grams. The local group has not been over zeal
ous in its programs, and in this has probably fol
lowed a wiser course than had it been more
aggressive. The policy has been to do those
things that will be of benefit to the community as
a w hole and not overdo at any time. Its programs
may not have been as broad as its membership
would have desired, yet the Chamber of Commerce
has kept in touch with affairs concerning the wel
fare of the town and surrounding territory and
has made its influence felt in numerous instances
where the benefits were of direct as well as of
indirect nature.
Two important projects taken up shortly after
organization of the Chamber of Commerce were
reestablishing the mail route to Lena from Hepp
ner and completion of the Condon-Heppner high
way and surfacing eight miles of the Heppner
Lena section of the Oregon-Washington highway.
The C-C has kept in touch with the county court
and the highway commission relative to other
The American Way
road developments on a continuing program
basis and will follow that course until some of the
projects are completed.
The destiny of the Chamber of Commerce is in
new hands and will continue along lines of serv
ice, perhaps to a greater degree than in the past,
and we bespeak for President Henry Tetz and his
official board a highly successful year.
Self-Government At Stake
One piece of deliberate misinformation that is
constantly being reiterated by some public offi
cials is that the government must go whole hog
into the electric business, through valley author
ities and similar schemes, in order to assure the
people an adequate supply of "cheap" electric
power.
The fallacy of that is shown by an offer which
the utility industry made to the government in
connection with the river development programs.
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"ACADEMIC FREEDOM"
ALFRED P. HAAKE .embassy in Canada to Moscow.
By DR
Most of us belive in 'Academic
Freedom," the right of educators
to free and open research and the
no less important right to speak
their peace when they see fit or
find it necessary. But, it centainly
does not include the right to de
termine the foreign policy of our
country, or to decide for millions
of citizens what is best for them.
When that happens, "freedom"
becomes "phobia."
"Academic freedom" helped
give us the atomic bomb, and it
soems to be "academic phobia"
that may have given it away to
Russia; thereby taking away from
the American people their prin
cipal guarantee for peace.
Let's name names. Professor
Philip D. Morrison, Physicist at
Cornell University, one of our
great schools, is alleged to have
stated in a public meeting that
he was glad Russia had the atom
ic bomb, for possession of the
atomic bomb hv Russia would
We should not tolerate that
kind of disloyalty, in academic
or any other high place, any more
than we should stand for it in
the smoke-filled rooms of under
ground conspirators. Both lead
to the same result; both should
be discouraged effectively and
early. Professor Morrison could
well receive the active and earn
est attention of the F. B. I. In the
judgment of this writer, it would
be energy well expended in be
half of our country.
Cornell University authorities
might well take steps against the
possibility of undue encourag
ment for the friends of Russia
who are enemies of the United
States, using their own judgment
as to what measuies should be
taken.
Professor Morrison has made
no secret of his interest in and
friendship for Russia. It is re
portedhe is connected with a
Born Sunday, December 21, In
this city, a daughter to Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Young.
A new market road is being
proposed by farmers residing in
Cooseberry and Dry Fork dis
tricts that will shorten the haul
to market from five to 15 miles.
The days for taking the 1920
census are at hand. The Bureau
of the Census back in Washing
ton has sent out an appeal to
every citizen of the land to co
operate with the enumerators.
E. C. Heliker, lone farmer, has
been a busy man the past two
weeks. He and Ralph Marlatt
have been going almost day and
night for two weeks to feed a
oand of L. V. Gentry's sheep
in Eight Mile canyon this side of
Olex when they were caught in
the snow storm.
prevent America from attacking as Progressive Citizens of
National Council of Arts, Sciences
in the holiday problem are heav
ier vehicle and pedestrian traffic,
bad weather, and more wide
spread drinking. ,
"We can overcome these haz
ards by determining not to en
danger ourselves or others by our
actions in traffic," the secretary
emphasized. "I know of no finer
demonstration of the Christmas
spirit."
December of 19-16, when 56 per
sons were killed, was the worst
single month ever experienced
in Oregon. Fatalities In October
and November of this year exceed
ed those recorded in the same two
months of 1918.
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distribute it to consumers over their own lines
and to build any new lines which are needed
and, finally, pass all savings on to the public,
under government regulation.
Of this, Edwin Vennard of the Middle West
Service Company said. "What more is there to
offer? When, in view of this offer, the government
goes directly into the power business in competi
tion with its citizens, the principles of our free
enterprise system are violently broken down."
The point, of course, is that "cheap" power is
only a bait. Our private untility industry is the
model of the world. It is engaged now in a
$6,000,000,000 expansion program which will en
large its plant by about 40 per cent. In 1918 it
paid out $713,000,000 in taxes. It doesn't get a
penny's worth of government aid or tax subsidies.
It sells its power, not at rates which it determines
for itself, but at rates which are established by
public service commissions whose duty it is to
protect the public interest. Its margin of capacity
over demand is steadily growing.
Why. then, is there a campaign to waste bil
lions of tax money on tax-exempt valley "author
ities" and other instruments of socialism? The
answer is that these super-governments represent
the perfect instruments for establishing monop
olstic, centralized political control over the na
tion's economic resources. its land and its indus.
tries, no less than electricity. And once such con
trol was established, individual liberties would be
reduced, and local government would be restricted.
The Wisconsin State Journal recently said that
the valley authority philosophy, "if carried to the
extreme to which we are certain it would be car
ried, would set self-government back a half-century."
The only thing wrong with that statement
is that it is too moderate for the valley authority
philosophy, carried to its logical end, would mean
the death of self-government. In its place we
would have government by fiat and decree from
Washington.
lieves, now that Russia has the
bomb, we will be afriad to start
war against Russia.
The record shows that the
United States has been among the
best behaved of nations in inter
national relations. We don't start
world wars. We wait until we are
attacked, even though so waiting
greatly increases the cost of the
war and actully jeopardizes our
chances of winning. We could
have acted more wisely with re
spect to Japan by attacking her
a few years ago, just as Japan
had earlier attacked Russia with
out warning and destroyed the
Russian navy before the country
knew that there was a war. But,
we don't fight that way, and Pro.
fessor Morrison ought to have
learned that fact along with his
phyiscs.
Another physicist who believed
that Russia should have the
atomic bomb was Dr. Alan Munn
May, now in a British prison for
having stolen atomic secrets and
deliverd them to the Russian
government. Dr. May was sent by
the British government to Canada
He did atomic work there and
also at the University of Chicago.
He was apperantly secretly a
communist and stole some of the
precious Uranium, which was
and Professions, and National
Non-Partisan Committee to De
fend the 12 Communist Leaders,
who were forced to overthrow
our govenment.
This writer has said frequently
and publicly, that the real men
ace to America is not nearly so
much the open and avowed com
munist, as are the apparently
resectable people who, innocently
or otherwise, espouse movements
and supports measures which
must ultimately lead this country
into collectivism and destroy our
freedom. The cloak of human
itarianism, culture, education
and even religion is used freely
by the communist and his
sympathizers to lead the emotion
ally sympathetic American public
down the by-ways of "sympathy
for the down-trodden" toward
measures that would destroy the
"down-trodden" along with the
rest of us.
The fifth column thrives in
America, and its votaries, in
cluding those ignorant of the uses
to which they are put, makes
progess steadily. That is another
reason why the protective cloak
be ripped from the shoulders of
professors and others who, by
utterance or act or both, give
comfort and assistance to our
Traffic Safety Urged
On Motorists During
Christmas Holidays
The theme of "peace on earth,
good will toward men" must be
applied to driving and walking
if we are to avoid traffic tragedy
during the coming Christmas
holidays, Secretary of State Earl
T. Newbry declard today.
He said disregard for the wel- '
fare of others is largely respon-
sible for the 305 lives lost in
Oregon traffic during the first !
11 months of 1919, and that past
records show December consis- 1
tently isoneof the most hazardous
months of the entire year. ,
Newbry said the emajor factors ,
A REPEAT FROM LAST YEAR!
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30 YEARS AGO
December 25, 1919 IfTom a trip to Missouri and other
Miss Lola Matteson and Edgar! middle western states. They were
Bennett were married at tne home I accompanied by Mr. Turner s lit-
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eu
gene Matteson, Saturday evening,
December 20.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Turner of
tie daughter Ruth who has been
living with her grandparents.
Miss Ruby Engelman of lone
has been here the past week tak.
Christmas
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May it bring you
blessings and Joy
Deep and abiding
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have been praying for my recov
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fraternal orders and friends who
friends I have.
Thank you, one and all.
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