BUILDING COST NOT TO
DROP SAY EXECUTIVES
BUILD
NOW—KEEP INDUSTRY
MOVING IS SLOGAN
Governors and Mayors Get Behind
Campaign to Stimulate Business
Through Buildnig and Con
struction Work
The governors and mayors in at-
tendance on the recent Washington
conferenca appear to have been con
vinced pretty generally of two
things: There is to be no immediate
or marked reduction in the price of
building macerials and labor wages,
and an imme '¡ate resumption of
building ano construction activities
throughout the country, more than
any one other thing, is essential if
business is to get back io the “as us-
ual” basis of peace, er the “better
than usual’ possiti!, its of the pres-
ent and future.
Some went to the „inference
lieving
materiaaly lower
prices
might be had if the federal govern
ment would “just do something.”
Others were convinced that the sit
uation would take care of itself if
the government would do nothing
but keep its hands off business and
let the law of supply and demand
run its course. These later were
disposed to believe prices in thebuild-
Ing and construction industries were
too high.
For this reason 1 statement by
Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale Univer
sity, an acknowledged authority on
price and market conditions, in
which he says the United States has
reached a new price level and it is
doubtful If prices ever again will go
back to the pre-war level, was read
with interest. Prof. Fisher says that
one certain way to bring about busi
ness stagnation is for everybody to
wait for business to get better. Prof.
Fisher states it this way:
"The fundamental practical ques
tion confronting business men is
whether the general level of prices is
going to fall. In my opinion, it is
not going to fall much, if at all. We
are on a permanently higher price
level and the sooner the business
men of the country take this view
und adjust themselves to it. the soon
er will they save themselves and tl •
nation from the misfortune which
will come, if We persist in our pres
ent false hope.
This international authority on
prices shows there have been times
in history when new price levels
were established. He says:
"The general level of prices d
pends upon the volume and rapidity
of turning over the cerculating me
dium in relation to the business to'b '
transacted thereby. If the number
of dollars circulated by cash and by
check doubles, while the number >f
goods and services exchanged there
by remain constant, prices will doub
le.
"The great price changes in his
tory have come about in Just this
manner. The ‘price revolution’ of
the sixteenth century came upon
Europe ad a result of the great in
flux of gold and silver from the
mines of the new world. Europe
was flooded with new money. More
counters were used than before In
effecting exchanges and prices be
came high. People talked then if
temporary ‘inflation’ just as they
talk of it now. But it was not tem-
porary.
Similar Increase In prices all over
world occurred between 1896 ana
1914 following the discovery of tie
fields of gold of South Africa. Crip
pie Creek and Alaska, the invention
of the cyanide process In mining, and
the vast extension of the use of bank
credit.”
After analyzing our gold supply
nnd eredita and pointing out that I
prices in Europe are higher than In I
Amerlet. Prof. Fisher arrvies at thia
is low compared with food, clo
thing and commodities in gen-
eral. Although some readjust-
ments in the wages of individual
trades and in the prices of indi
vidual classes of building mater-
ials may take place, the cost of
construction will not come down
to such an extent as to endanger
a judicious Investment made to-
day in the erection of a new
building.”
THE PEOPLE’S HOUR
By Daniel Henderson
It is the people’s hour, and kings
Are strangling in the web they spun.
No more the thirsting bayonet springs!
The last red drop has run!
The Washington conference was X
called to discuss ways and means of y
stimulating business and providing •
buffer employment for labor during ”
the period necessary for industrial I ,
readjustment. It was submitted that i $
building and construction work serv- I w
ed hese two purposes more complete- »
ly and directly than any other Indus- ■
try. It was brought out that the I
country is short between 500,000 J
and a million homes. Therefore •
while public officials are going in *
for public improvements, many com-11
munities are organizing “Own Your | 9
Home” campaigns. These serve sev- I
eral important and desirable ends. | A
Home owning means home building. | y
home building means labor and stim- | :
ulated business In every locality 2
where a dwelling is built, the home %
own.r is a better citizen because his ,/
very ownership makes him responsi- | a
ble and immediately interested in the I "
social and political welfare of his | '
community. Further, the home own- | *
er does not take up quickly with rad- M
leal movements such as now are
threatening the security of gorern
ments in Europe.
! CLOTHING
The Department of abor, through I
War flees ns with his hideous train
Of woe and pestilence and dearth.
The priest rebuilds the ruined fane—
Christ’s peace returns to earth!
We rear the roof and drive the plow
Among the Wreckage war has left;
All blighted things will quicken now—
Except the hearts bereft.
And staunch hearts that were our shields—
Our dead yet deathless warrior throng—
Mav sleep in peace in Flanders’ fields:—
We made no truce with Wrong!
It is the people’s hour!
We leap
To seize the sceptre and the crown!
That freedom won with blood we keep.
And naught shall tread us down!
And yet—the Liberty we gain
May set more than we reckon free!
Lo, strains forever at his chain
Our arch foe. Anarchy!
It is the people’s hour so long
As justice rules the heart of man!
So long as Brotherhood is strong,
And law controls the plan!
Not ours the strength to shape, Lord God,
The goal and glory of our race!
We sunder the oppressor’s rod—
Keep thou the pilot’s place!
IS WAR SUFFERERS
GREATEST XEED
CLEAN UP WAR DEBRIS
of Section 28 in Township 5 N. R. 28
E. W. M.; thence running along the
west line of said Section 28 in a
northerly direction 5175.7 feet more
or less to the south boundary of the
right of way of the main canal of
the West Extension of the Umatilla
Project as now permanently survey
ed and constructed by the U.
Rec
lamation Service; thence running in
a northerly and westerly direction
along said boundary line of the right
of way of the said main canal a dis
tance ot 26.16 miles more or less to
the west line of the E. % of Section
23 in Township 4 N. R. 24 E. W.’M.
at a point distant 2840 feet more or
less and in a southerly direction
from the N. W. corner of the N. E.
% of said Section 23; thence north
erly along the west line of the E. 12
of said Section 23. 2840 feet more or
less to the N. W. corner of the N. E.
% of said Section 23; thence contin
uing in a northerly direction along
the west line of the E. % of Section
14 in Township 4 N. R. 24 E. W. M.,
5280 feet more or less to the N. W.
corner of the N. E. 14 of said Sec-
tion 14; thence easterly one and one-
half miles along the north boundary
line of Sections 14 and 13 to the N.
E. corner of Section 13 in Township
4 N. R. 24 E. W. M.; thence contin
uing easterly along the north boun
dary line of Section 18 in Township
4, N. R. 25 E. W. M. a distance of
5807 feet more or less to the N. E.
corner of said Section 18; thence
northerly along the west line of Sec
tion 8 in Township 4 N. R. 25 E. W.
M. 3797 feet more or less to a point
on the south bank of the Columbia
river; thence in an easterly direction
along the south bank of the Colum
bia river 21 miles, more or less, to
the west bank of the Umatilla river;
thence along the west bank of the
Umatilla river in a southeasterly di
rection 4 miles, more or less to the
south boundary line of Section 28 in
Township 5 N. R. 28 E. W. M., at a
point easterly and distant 1094.4
feet more or less from the S. W. cor
ner of the said Section 28; thence
westerly along the south boundary
line of said Section 28 1094.4 feet
more or less to the S. W. corner of
said Section 28, the place of begin
ning.
EXCEPTIONS:
Saving and excepting the follow
ing described tracts of land in the
County of Morrow, State of Oregon,
lying within the above described
boundaries, to-wit:
and there are 1203 acre,
right landa yet to come
notice; and this totals 7
which are now entitled t"
That It is the intention %
ers to elect the first board
ors from the district at lar
That duplicate copies
tition are to be circulate
purpose of securing the
number of signatures by R.
and the said duplicates ar
tached together and treat
petition for the purpose of
tion to the above entitled
Wherefore, your petit
that all of said lands ine
in the limits ot the pro,
darles as described afores
eluding the exceptions
herein, be organized into
tion district to be known/
Extension Irrigation Dis
the provisions of the Cha
the General Laws of (
1917.
Dated this 12th day
1919.
Adolf Skoubo, 0. B.
H. Hoskie, E. K. Mulkey,
mer, C. C. CbyKendall, i
Grim, Pyrom Powell, F. H
Nancy J. Rieks, Geo. Rand,)
vis, J. E. McCoy, J. w. Brat
V. Loomis, L. B. Smith. C.
H. C. Wolfe, M. F. Caldwe
Caldwell, D. R. Bronnell, £
Farland, Frank V. Carell
Burchett, C. H. Dillabough,
Nizer, L. H. Carpenter, 3. ]
man, F. L. Brown, T. E. 1
H. J. Cason, Thos. Brew, D.
nell, Effie Bullack, R. p.
A. Ford, J. G. Camp, A.
Leslie Packard, Claude Wk
Cohoon, Ray L. Brown, J.
er, C. H. Atteberry, A.
Jas. W. Long, Ernest Brov
Partlow, Glen Brown, Ji
gard, J. C. Ballenger, Jesse
er, Alta Howard, M. Man
Wasmer, J. R. Johnson. G«.
ford, F. E. Burns, S. Attebe
Partlow, John S. Crooks, M.
lams, Chas. Hango, W. 0.1
N. Hatch, J. A. Lytle, Joe C
H. Weston, Frank Otto,
Cummins, C. E. Hein, John
H. C. Harrison, Harmon 1
ery, Ray L. Brown, M. K.
er. Royal Rands, Ingvard
Ira A. Berger, Paul Smit
Brungard.
the division of public works and con-
Many of the war posters were
struction, is co-operating with many
Officials of the Morrow County stuck on walls, fences and poste;
communities in the “Own Your
Chapter American Red Cross report they have now been removed; leav
Home” movement.
to the Herald that this chapter has ing all sorts of specks and marks
been called upon to make 6,000 -ar- | on the structures to which they were
IT ISN'T YOUR TOWN—IT'S YOU I ments for French and Belgian ref attached. Start a elean-up campaign
ugees and have leen forced to ask and get rid of this debris ot war.
If you want to live in the kind of a to have that number reduced because | which spoils the appearance of the
town.
of the scarcity of workers in the lo- | communty.
Like the kind of a town you like, cal sewing rooms. In the face of i
A clean city really reflects the
You needn't slip your clothes in a terrible need for clothing ove: there habits of its people, and in the final
grip
brought out by the recent report analysis the people themselves- are
And start on a long, long hike.
made by fifty Red Cross inv: tigat- the ones who can get the right r*
You'll only find what you left behind ors working in and around Paris, the suits by simply giving thought and
For there’s nothing that’s really local officials urge that Heppner I refraining from contributing to mu-
new.
workers shall continue to do their nicipal disorder so far as streets are
It’s a knock at yourself when you
bit in helping 19 clothe these unfor- concerne®. The cleanliness must be
knock your town.
a daily habit. Annual clean-ups will
túnate people.
It isn’t the town—it’s you.
not save the day. For years the
The report eays in part:
“Most of the refugee families n in- American Civic Association which
Real towns are not made by men
NOTICE
- age to nourish themselves on tue has been such a useful agency in
afraid
their
I
government allowance and I
arousing and aiding cities to their
In Township 5 N. R. 27 E. W. M:
Lest somebody else gets ahead.
In the County Court of
All Sections 29, 30 and 31 lying
When everyone works and nobody | small wages, but they are by no i finest physical development, has
of Oregon for Morrow C om
been
sending
out
the
message
of
means
able
to
clothe
themselves,
•north
of
the
north
boundary
of
the
As
shirks.
In the matter of the or
“year round” cleanliness as a sub right of way of the Main Canal of
You can raise a town from the the present prices of clothing
of West Extension Irrigation
France
are
prohibitive,
the
need
stitute
for
any
prodigious
effort
for
the
West
Extension
Project,
except
dead.
in Morrow and Umatilla |
And If while you make your person- this kind of assistance is obvious Ac once or twice a year, at what has the N. W. % of the N. W. % of said
State of Oregon:
ai stake •
cordingly, we derided togizjfc.l been called a municipal “clean up" Section 30.
. Township B N. R. 26 E. W. M:
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY a
Your neighbors can make one. too only when spezmn nourishment was season.—Portland Commerce.
— will
--------
All of Sections 16, 17, 18 and 19
You are hereby notified
Your Town
be what you want ordered by A pavsician, D': to con-
tinue to look after the clothing need
American over-seas veterans re- lying south of the south bank of the undersigned, petitioners ii
to see.
as imperative. *
cently were asked to don German uni Columbia river. All of Section 20 and foregoing petition for t
It isn’t the town—It's you.
It is estimated that the German in- forms for making a motion picture and W. %. Lots 2, 5, and 6, and W. ization of an irrigation diet
| vaston of France and Belgiura made —and of course they refused. "How * of S. E. % of Section 21, and the known and styled as West
TWO TYPES OF CRUSADERS
wanderers of 1.:50,000 formerly hap to be a German” was not a part of S. * of Section 26 and the S. % of Irrigation District, under •
N. E. %. N. W. % and S. % of Sec ant to Chapter 357 of the
py country peon • of these countries. their military training.
tion 27. All of Sections 28, 29, 30, Laws of the State of Oi
Now that the conflict sa ovar an I
Plans are under way to make Ore 31, 32, 33, 34, and N. % and S. W. 1917, will present the a
the occupied territories of Fiance
and Belgium have been liberated, gon first Is the fifth Liberty Loan. % and W. * of S. E. % of Section foregoing petition to the
these refugees are hastening back to But why plan—that’s Oregon’s nat 35 and the N. % of Section 36.
County Court of Morrow C
Township 5 N. R. 25 E. W. M:
their former homes in large num- ural position.
egon, at the chambers of
bers. They have no though: of
All of Sections 25, 35 and 36 lying in the court house of said
Oregon’s quota for 1919 War Sav
ruins, the cold weather, or their con- ing Stamps to <10,000,000—a mere south of the south bank of the Col Heppner, Oregon, on Mo
| dltion as regard 1 sufficient elotning, basatile.
umbia river.
5th day of May, 1919, at t
< nly the longing to get back to their
Township 4 N R. 26 E. W. M:
10 o'clock of said day, that
“homes occupy their minas.,
In Section 2 the following describ special meeting of said cor
PETITION
ed area: Beginning at the N. W. for the purpose of hearing
I In passing their ruinel villages
and towns, they can be sin stan!-
la the County Court of the State corner of Section 2; thence easterly sidering th« said petition;
2647.26 feet; thence S. 0 deg. 09 are further notified that f
■ Ing in the doorway of houses which of Oregon for Morrow County.
have lor their oofs nothi । g but a
In the matter of the organisation mln. 30 sec. W. 105.6 feet; thence S and foregoing petition top
sheet of canvas w hlch sags under the of West Extension Irrigation District 63 deg. 24 min. 30 sec. W. 1483.0 a plat showing generally t
weight of the i now. Smoke curling in Morrow and Umatilla Counties, in feet; thence S. 72 deg. 47 min. 30 ed boundary of the irrigati
*
sec. W. 1188.0 feet; thence S. 28 proposed to be formed in
up from a hole in the ground and the State of Oregon.
investigation of the source discloses
To the Honorable County Court of deg. 04 min. W. 412.5 feet; tihenee tion and the lands includ
%
N. 0 deg. 18 min. 30 sec. E. 1485.66 said boundary will be filed
a family of four huddled about a Morrow County, Oregon:
: fire in the cellar of a completely
County Clerk of Morrow C
The undersigned petitioners re feet to place of beginning.
i wrecked home. The children wear spectfully show:
In Section 3: The N. W. % and Heppner, Oregon, on and
old blankets and the parents work
That petitioners are more than fif the following described area:
Be- 1st day of April, 1919.
and sleep in a ragged patch-word of ty or a majority of the owners of ginning at the N. E. corner of Sec-
Dated this 12 th day of
costume. To the Red Cross man, land irrigated or susceptible of irri tion 3; thence S. 0 deg. 18 min. 30 1919.
who visits them the mother says:
gation within the boundaries herein- sec. W. 1485.66 feet; thence 9. 82
Adolf Skcubo, O. B. 01
“We would not mind if we only after described and desire to provide deg. 51 mln. W. 710.4 feet; thence H. Hoskie, E. K. Mulke
had a few clothes to keep us warm for the construction of works for the 9. 67 deg. 15 min. W. 1685.5 feet; Cramer, C. C. Coy Kendall,
A doughboy of the First division while we work. My boy lias not irrigation of the same and to provide thence N. 82 deg. 58 min. W. 386.3 Grim, Geo. Rand, L. M. 1
conclusion :
American army of occupation. Is left the fire for three days. It's too for the reconstruction, betterment, feet to a point on the west boundary rom Powell, Frank V. Car
"'Business men should
the
shown standing t>< xt to the armor of cold outside and he has nothing but extension, purchase, operation or of the N. E. ‘ of Section 3 and dis McCoy. J. W. Brackenburp
To talk reverently of 1913-14
a feudal
a blanket to put around him.”
Sayn, Germany.
maintenance of works already con tant 453.8 feet, N. 0 deg. 13 min. E. is, L. B. Smith, C. W. Gr
prices is to spell a dead language
The gift of a pair of socks by a structed and for the assumption as from center of Section 3; thence Wolfe, M. F. Caldwell, C
today. The buve
of the country,
Real Art.
passing dough-boy to an old peasant principal or guarantor of indebted northerly 2186.2 feet to the N. W. well, F. H. Rieks, Nanc
since
arm
, have made an
Arthur was proud of his fox tome at Conflans brought tears of joy. The ness on account of district lands to corner of N. E. % of Section
3; I D. R. Bronnell, A. E. McF
n prices through dog which he had taught to do a num
old fellow talks about his socks un the United States under the Federal thence easterly-2640 feet more or I C. Burchett, C. H. Dillabo
their
ber of trieks. Ills neighboring play
J. Nizer, L. H. Carpen«
recessions have been insignificant mate wanted a pet and was finally sent ceasingly. Another wears a pair of Reclamation laws, and petitioners do less to the place of beginning.
All of Sections 4 and 9 lying north | Boardman, F. L. Brown, 1
The reason Is that we are on a new .i bantam chicken in a box and prompt overalls that were presented to him now propose the organization of an
by an American as proudly as if it j irrigation district to be known as of the north boundary of the right drick. H. J. Cason. Thos
Price level. which will be found a
called Arthur to view It.
the
R. Bronnell, Effie Br"
stubborn reality. Business men are two stood looking at It Arthur asked: were a dress suit. Of food they have West Extension Irrigation District, of way of the Main Canal.
little, but of clothes they have prac within said counties and state under
All of Sections 5 and 6 and the
going to find out that the clever man ‘What can It do?"
Pike, W. A. Ford, J. G.
“Oh,” replied his companion, “It will tically none.
the provisions of Chapter 357 of the W. % of Section 7.
is not the man who waits, but the
Cobb, Leslie Packard, C
General Laws of Oregon for 1917.
i
Township 4 N. R. 25 E. W. M:
one who finds out the new price facts
Ray L. Brown, W. G. C
"Huh," replied Arthur, “every old
A press rumor has it that Jonath-
That rhe lands of your petitioners |
and acta accordingly.”
Section 1, E. 12 Section 2. S. 12 Walker, C. H. Atteber
chicken does that," and turning to his an Bourne, Jr., is to run for senator
are included within what is known as and S. * N. * Section 9. 8. % Sec Long. Ernest Brown. I
At the same time Prof. Fisher'a dog he called: “Sit up. Fox.” to which
Even though Oregon the West Extension of the Umatilla I tion 10. N. % Section 12, N. % of
conclusions were made known ther< the dog promptly responded. Point- In Oregon.
Frank Partlow, John Bi
came from the division of public Ing to his dog with pride he exclaim- has committed some pretty foolisn Project built by the United States I N. * Section 16, E. % Section 17, Ballenger, Jesse O. Low—
works and construction developmented: "Now every dog can’t do that. political blunders In the past It can Reclamation Service and are suscep- ’ all E. * Section 20 lying north of ard, M. C. Marshall. A
hardly be expected that she will tibie of irrigation from the waters or | the north boundary line of the right Frank Otto, R. Wasmer,"
of the United States Department of That’s art!
"pull a boner” like that
the I matilla river as a common of way of the Main Canal and all of son, Geo. E. Mefford, F
abor a resume । of the work of ten or I
source and the major portion of said | the S. E. % of .Section 14 lying 9. Atteberry, Paul Parti
twelve experts on price and market
Klamath county wants to secede
Mary had a litttle lamb
lands are included within the boun- j north of the north boundary line of Crooks, M. L. Williams,
conditions. He
again It was made [ from Oregon and become a part
That used to make things hum. darles of Morrow County and a small
plain that ther la no evidence jus- California. Klamathites should
the right of way of the Main Canal.
go, W. O. King, Ben At!
It tried to stop a car one day
tifying a general mate ial reductionmember that California will be Just
portion thereof are included within
The boundary description of said Hatch, J. A. Lytle, J
And
now
the
lamb
to
on
the
bur
In the price level This report makes I as dry aa Oregon after July first
the boundaries of Umatilla County, proposed district, excluding the ex John McHugh. H. H. V
these statements:
in the State of Oregon.
ceptions mentioned above, covers an Harrison, Harmon Mol
Even the American Indians have
That the boundaries of said pro- area of 14.000 acres of which C460 K. Fleskinger, Ray E. -
voiced their approval of the League posed Irrigation district are describ
| Mayor Ole Hanson of Seatile such
acres are now under public notice Rands, Ingvard Skoubo,
»f Nations. Which puts Senator ed as follows:
(
It
J fighter
He has ten children.
Borah tn a class by himself.
Beginning at the southwest corner for water with 106 acres of vested ger. Paul 9mith, John I
right land atoo under public notice; E. Hein.