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The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1919-05-08

Julius H. Barnes, newly appointed
u. S. wheat administrator, says the
five-cent loaf of bread not only will
not come back this year, but it prob
arly will never come back. When
asked if there was any chance of the
fve-cent loaf returning, he said
Flour is As per cent of the cost Of
the completed loaf, so you see it
would take a considerable fall in the
price of wheat to bring down bread
even one cent a loaf. When you talk
of cutting the price of bread in two
you see you would have to reduce
wheat to rs per cent of its presen
figure. That seems out of the ques
ton see little hopes of getting the
fve-cent loaf of bread back if wage
and other expenses are to stay where
they are. am not even convinced
it would be desirable, if all the othe
living levels would have to follow il
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1919-05-08

Fifteen mil&on, five hundred thou
sand women will vote in the next
presidential election. Iowa is the
last state to grant presidential sui
frage, the eighth state in the last
three months,-Indiana, Maine,
Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin,
Tennessee and Vermont. Only one
state remains west Of the Mississippi,
New Mexico, where women may
not vote for president. Women
have a considerable form Of suffrage
in 20 states, equal suffrage in fifteen,
presidential suffrage in twelve and
primary suffrage in two. The num-
Der of states in which women have
presidential suffrage have a total
electoral vote Of 302. The Penn
sylvania House has passed resolu-
tion to submit suffrage to the voters
of the state in 1921. The Florida
legislature has defeated suffrage.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1919-05-08
THoUGHTLEss TAXATION.

1t is as easy to develop spirit of
recklessneSS in taxation as it is in
spending money. In the latter case
the reckless spender pays the price
of his own extravaganza,
Spending tax money is now a
mania and it is time to look toward
more economic taxation methods
and also spending of taxes.
There is entirely too much feeling
that Congress can plaster on taxes
and that there is nothing left to do
but pay,
1t is easily possible to tax an in
ius:ry and those dependent on it,
clear out of business. Take for eX-
ample the extra FIVE per cent excise
TAX on candy and confectionery.
To the thoughtless legislator, ii is
4 simple thing to raise large sum
by a special tax on candy makers.
AS candy manufacturers cannot
stand any such tax out of their
profits, it must be added to selling
price or taken out Of quality.
If the former, consumption is cut,
thus adversely affecting western
sugar beet growing and manufacture
and reducing amount the consumers
of this country get for their money.
If manufacturers try to absorb the
tax by making an inferior product
at the former price, the people pay
in quality and the sugar industry
suffers.
This is a good illustration of
special or class taxation and there
is altogether too much of it in this
country today. 1t is high time to
start on getting back to the true
American principle of equal taxation
for all, not only in candy manu-
facture but other lines of industry.
The candy industry is the 35th
largest in the United States. 1t
employs hundreds and hundreds of
thousands of people, mostly women.
1t supplies food product which is
the great joy and pleasure of child.
hood and is wholesome, nourish-
ing food, supplying the system with
an essential requirement. Is it
right or just to burden this or any
other great industry with a special
tax which it can obviously not stand.
1t is the height of folly in these
times to handicap any industry by
killing taxation, when employment
is needed as the one sure counter
active in Bolshevism,-The Manu-,
facturer.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1919-05-08
POOR BUSINESS TO WAIT.

Farm products have a greater pur-
chasing power today than ever be-
fore in the country's history.
This may explain why rural dis
tricts of the country are rapidly get
ing under way with building and
construction work.
II is obvious, since building and
construction work have such an I'M
portant bearing at this time on
stimulating general business, the
farmer may serve both his own and
national interest by at once making
needed improvements on his proper
| ty.
Many farmers have been unable
to get materials and labor for barns,
silos, houses and other improve
ments during the war
The farmer who at once avallS ol
the labor supply and gets his i'm
provement work under way, in the
long run, may prove to be the
prudent business man, for there il
reason to believe that farmers whit
delay in the hope Of materially re
duced construction costs will hav'
been deprived of the use of the i'm
provements and in the end be force
: to pay approximately the buildin
prices now prevailing.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1919-05-08
THOSE FARM COSTS.

We rather think that Secretary of
Agriculture Huston has the right
of it when he says that there are no
figures on which to base definite con-
clusions as to the cost of raising
crops, stock, or produce,
How can you decide what, for ex-
ample, is legitimate cost to raise
bushel of potatoes?
We spent an hour figuring the
other evening and discovered that if
you figured your time at 80 cents an
hour, day laborerS wages, it costs
about $2.35 for a good husky city
gardener to grow bushel of potato
es in his back yard.
We can present detailed figures if
desired.
But big corporation that prepares
the seed bed with tractors, that
plants with machinery, that cultivates
with motors, that harvests with more
machinery, that grades and packs
with machinery, and that has its own
storage houses and trucks for trans
portation, can probably grow potato
es for dimes where yours would cost
you dollars.
Somewhere between is the average
American potato field on the farn..
But just exactly whereabouts no
man knows.
What is going to be the basis for
just estimate?
1t you force the average farmer
to compete, either with corporate
capital and management, or oriental
truck growers you drive him out of
business; and if you take the cost
sheet of the one-horse farmer for
your price basis you rob the con-
sumer.
Probably every farm in the coun-
try can prove that it costs it a dis
tinctly different price to produce any
given thing it does produce, than
any other farm would show.
Some men have capital and know
how to make it work for them.
Some are worth a tractor in them
selves.
Most farmers are like most other
businessmen and workers, just
fairly capable, industrious and long
headed.
But where secure your cost
fguers2
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1919-05-08
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER
SABBATH PATRIOTISM.

Justly may the G. A. R. Memorial
Day Committee register protest
against the present non-obsevancs
of Memorial Day, May 50th.
In a timely article from the "Na-
tional Tribune attention is directed
to the growing tendency of the
American people to substitute fol
this National Sabbath of Patriotism,
a day of sports, recreation and
leisure.
This same protest has elsewhere
been voiced in the lack of a proper
observance of Thanksgiving Day,
when prayers of thanksgiving are
too often drowned out by the cheers
of football games.
This reversion to the holiday spirit
on Memorial Day can be traced IN a
large measure to the thinning ranks
of the veterans of the Civil War, who
but a few short years ago were con-
slant reminders of the sacredness
of the occasion.
Memorial Day was established by
the Grand Army of the Republic,
May 80, 1868, for the purpose of
commemorating the ideals of the
dead of the Union Army, day that
has been laid in such tender respect
that forty of the greatest states Of
the Union have gravely incorporated
it into their laws-not for day of
sports, but that the people might
pause and think of their mighty dead.
Possibly with the return these days
Of our heroes from the World War,
more respect and true observance of
this Memorial Day may be in evil
dence. For our soldier boys of TO-
day can more clearly sympathize
with and sorrow for their brothers
Of the days Of '6l, who received
little from the Government on their
return. Those soldiers of our faith
ers were greeted with no triumphal
arches, no pensions commensurate
with the perils endured, no waiting
jobs, no soft berths, Those armies
passed in review in ragged regi-
frlentals, an army Of tramps in ap-
pearance, bound for home or what
remained Of the home, The fires
were dead in the forge, the farms
had grown to weeds, the tools were
rusty, the boys were 100 old to return
again to their interrupted schooling
There were no vocational schools
no schools for blinded soldiers. Th'
shell shocked and injured went Of
in that condition or died in insan
asylumS.
Let's try to modify some of tn
sporting program" for next Memol
ial Day and pause for few moment
at least, in true sympathy and respet
for our heroes.-Oregon Voter.
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cutes the country in 50 many ways,
there will be little disposition to give
it credit for sincerity when it attacks
the particular prosecutor from whose
act it SufferS.-Pendleton Tribune.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-14
1T NEVER FAILS

The Interested Listencr-It was
lucky for you tho wind sprang up
when II did after you had been be
Gained 40 long.
Tho Ancient Marincr-No luck
about H. When seen tho wind
wasn't goin' 10 come OF itself | fills
my pipe an takes out my last match
an 1iRhts IL on my pants. an mp
comes tho wind an blows II out an
starts tho ship.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-14
POOR JUDGMENT

Bess---Shs uses such poor judg.
ment In her charities. sho will buy
some poor. freezing wretch an over
coat
June-Yes7
Besp-Whcn ehe msrrc expenditure
would buy him crash suit and a
ticket 20 Palm Beach.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-14
PREPARING FOR
EMERGENCIES

Friend Husband--Why do you
have 10 flx up your hair and com
plexion now7 It's almost bedtime.
Mrs. DoiIup--T know It Is. But a
burglar might break In any time,
and want 10 look prcsentable.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-14
AN EVEN RET

Gcrald---I am going 10 kiss you.
Geraidine-I'n bot You don't
0orald-what win you bet7
GornidIno---A kiss,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-14

The Guest--See herel shot
nickel In one o. them slots for
pair o. sinkers an nothin' come out.
The Automat Attendant-Oh. 1
see. You put II in one OF our tip
slots. Thank you. sir.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-13
A Novel by Harold MacGrath

hatpins. If any ono so much as
touched her, she would strike to kill.
If only her body would cease it's
idiotic trembling! They! Who
were they who would come for her?
Her hell began about the same time
as Williams, and there was but little
difference in character. The sum was
terror and suspense
Not in the slightest way did Ruth
associate Camden with her dreadful
plight. She was positive that even
now he was sending out alarms. Nor
did Colburton enter her thoughts.
She had reached the opinion that, SEN
sibly recognizing the uselessness Of
pursuing her, he had gone back to
New York.
She had often heard and read of the
moral lawlessness OF white men in the
far east. Some vile scoundrel had no.
ticed her in the streets. Well, she
could die.
4 After a while she slid to her knees
and prayed
The prayer was interrupted by the
door opening again. She sprang up
Extensively. But the newcomer was
only pretty little Japanese girl
with a tray upon which lay toast,
fruit and tea. She set the tray down
on the center table and curtesied
cheerfully.
Il spig you Zig English" she said,
which Ruth readily interpreted as II
speak English like you"
DO you like money!" asked Ruth.
"Umhm. l lig make mo-nee."
will you go to the American con-
sulate and tell them Miss Warren
is here? They will make you rich"
The Japanese girl laid her finger on
her lips and nodded toward the door
This gesture conveyed to Ruth that
some one was on guard outside in the
hall. the blond woman probably.
mo can do. She keel me 1 spig
outside. No can do. l lig you. You
no same's 9th women" Saki San ap-
preached Ruth and inspected her with
that frank and childish curiosity Of
the Japanese. She giggled. "Velly
nice. l come topside two time day.
Tea? Coffee?"
AS Ruth did not answer, she bobbed
up and down several times. Then she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-13

side. There was no inside bolt. She
could not get out, but any one could
get In.
She returned to the side window
BY pressing her cheek closely to the
left wall she was able to secure a
glimpse of the street in which the
house stood. Across the way she saw
a huge Chinese lantern swaying in
the mild night wind. Upon this Ian
tern was a rudely painted number.
She heard footsteps in the hall, and
she stepped back behind the bed. into
the corner. The door opened and a
gross woman, with thick, dry. blond
hair and deeply rouged cheeks, en-
tered with an oil lamp. She peered
around the room until she discovered
Ruth. Then she set the lamp on
stand in the far corner.
'Nobody's going to hurt you" said
the woman, indifferently. Have you
any idea where you are?"
yes"
"Oh. Well, it's Malay street, all
right. Now, don't waste your breath
calling out. When there's no tour
lists in town. the Sikh police don't
bother to watch us carefully. And IL
they do hear you they'll think it's
the usual racket. If you're sensible
you'll be allowed the freedom OF this
bedroom. If you kick up, why, I'll
have to tie you. You needn't look so
scared. You won't see any men, II
that's worrying YOU"
Are you an American"
There's no nationality in this bust
ness" said the woman, Struggling.
"And don't waste your breath asking
questions. They won't be answered."
How how long are you go
ing to keep me here? have no
money"
Il don't know how long. That de-
Ponds upon you. When they come
for you you'll find out what you want
to know. I'll send food up to you
But no nonsense. 1t won't do you
bit of good"
DO you want money!"
you've just told me you hadn't
any"
The woman went out, shut the door
and locked it. Ruth sat down on the
bed, lingering the glass heads Of her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-13

went to the door in that slipshod man.
ner which is charming in the orient
and slovenly elsewhere.
Ruth sat up in a chair all night, and
toward morning she fell asleep from
exhaustion. So long as she remained
prisoner in this room she was de.
termined not to sleep at night or to
undress. She was not wholly igno-
rant of this phase OF life, and re-
solved to steal what sleep she could
during the day. There was always
something in the newspapers; and she
recalled that life among these out
casts began at shutdown and ended at
sunrise.
The first day was very hot and very
quiet. 1t rained a little. 1t is all
ways raining little in Singapore.
There We're combs and brushes on
the bureau, but she did not touch
them, much as she longed to.
Her breakfast consisted Of eggs, tea
and toast. She was not hungry but
she knew that only by eating could
she keep her strength.
The little Japanese girl. who was
really as pretty as doll. noticed the
SHdiieu anu tuiipIeu mar VI tHe pIis-
oner When she came in with the
evening meal she carried new brush
and comb.
These new. Chinaman buy 'em
shop over town. Belong you. Me
Saki San. Me comb hair?"
Ruth could not help smiling. Inn
pulsively she gave the brush and
comb to Saki San and sat down in a
chair The Japanese girl fused over
her for an hour, and somehow her
touch soothed the raw nerves. But
Saki San would not talk. She never
brought into this room any of the
secrets of the house.
(To be Continued Next Sunday)
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Yes. yes" said the officer, glancing
over the poor things tossed at his
feet. "he is robber. Wen have to
shoot him. Do you hear that, you
scoundrel? We're going to shoot you.
Without ceasing to mop his face tho
old man shrugged his shoulders and
answered.
Shoot me. I shall be only the
twelfth in the village to be shot, and
l shall die honorably, like the others"
The feldwebel gave him blow
on the head.
silence when an officer speaks"
But the lieutenant who was in a
highly accommodating humor that
day. merely smiled
Let him alone. Let him alone!
He amuses me. this old rascal. who
robs and wants to pose as brave and
honest"
The man Strengthened up and be-
came very pale. There was some
thing terrifying in his look. with his
beard, in which little clots Of blood
slistened his hair disorder-d and his
eyes glarns.
II am not robber I protest against
being treated as a robber IL there is
robber in this house | am not he.
You can be brutal to me. But that
doesn't alter anything. The house is
mine, The furnishings are mine And
] have the right, I think. to carry
away something in order to keep from
dying from the cold. and souvenirs
which have no value for any one but
myself"
Very amusing" said the officer.
Not bad invention. hut should
like to have some proofs"
The man united the portfolio ana
drew from IL bundle of papers
you want proofs? Here they are
Here are my voters card. my marriage
certificate, my deed recciptsd bills for
work which have had don. for me"
The lieutenant examined them all
back on the table
ION my word. it's true You are an
honest man. Take back III. papers.
You may keep your bundles You are
free. Pns,i < We him all his things"
Almost siraneling with wrath ard
tears. the Old man Lrowl.d in part
Ing:
Bunch OF hsndils' Bunch of BAN
dts"
But the lieutenant. fstcning not to
hear him. burst OUT into laughter ard
addcd
"As 10 IN. not &c IN III" hrllwaN, -.
cuse us " Il failed to reach Your adj
dress, Rut II shows. at amy Iat" mat
IN your nhs.ure your hous. ras L..n
W. c1r.U TO-"
Nci.r srt, u -
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THE ROBBER
BY MAURICE LEVEL,

selves as we'll as to make some light,
they burned a few chairs which the
feldwebel had put aside as of no
value.
"Now," declared the officer, stamp
ing his heel on the foot of a chair
which was still unconsumed. "1et no.
body touch anything else. Those are
my orders"
Night arrived. The men stood around
in silence. The rain had begun to fall
and they were waiting till the show
err was over.
"On my word" said the officer,
that we weren't going to start until
morning ! should gladly pass the
night under this roof. There are still
enough chairs to make good fire
and in the servants quarters up
stairs there are probably some blank
cts. Go and see what's there. | am
very tired"
The subofficer saluted and went
away with two men. Their boots re-
sounded on the staircase. Then sud-
denly cry, oaths, the noise of a
SUI uSSi were HtdTU, anu 'tne InFe6
returned. pushing poor devil be-
fore them. Very old. bent. stupefied
by surprise and the blows dealt him.
he looked anything but dangerous
How ever. the feldwebel never ceased
abusing him except to threaten him
with revolver.
who's this?" asked the lieu,euant
"A man whom we found up there
in the act of forcing wardrobe"
"A civilian" said the officer
He ordered a lantern to be lighted.
Well Well. SO there are robbers
here. They break into houses and
plumber them"
the old man made gesture of
protestation. But the feldw ebel
closed his mouth with blow from
the revolver butt
Don't strike him until tell you
to- the lieutenant growled The
devil We aren't savages. We must
let people eNplai first. We can beat
them up afterward VIVA; were you
going to say. old rascal"
But the old man. tottering under
the blow. stanched the blood which
flowed from his mouth. The feldwe.
bel spoke for him
Ne is a robber Mr. Lieutenant.
He crawled under the bed when he
saw us. Hut we made him come out.
While he h,sitated tried to per
suade him with two or three kicks
Afterward We searched him. and this
is what I found on him: Three mani
kerchiefs IA watch. some photographs
in frames. "a portfolio. carefully tied.
and ina corner. n packag. Of shc,ts
aud napkins aud an Old SUE az Of
which he was prept, irx 10 carry or"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-13
is cap over his ear Gin the
manner of the crown prince),
a cigarette of yellowish to-

bacco between his lips, a
monocle in his eye and his hands
on his hips. Lieut.. Won Hinck Of the
LIST Regiment Of Foot Artillery cast
satisfied look about him.
The salon in which ne stood was
stripped to the walls, from which all
the pictures which they held had
been carefully removed. There re-
manned only a tall mirror split down
the middle and spattered with star
shaped punctures all the way to the
edges of the frame; some torn car
pet and the debris Of pieces Of fur
niture. judged too cumbersome to be
carried away. The lieutenants task
had been accomplished with expe-
dition.
I'VE never have done a job so we'll
in so short time" he said. AT
Peronne the cleaning up of the req
de-chausse. where the general lodged.
took us at least an hour longer.
Then, It is true, I had only landsturm
men to help me, and they were very
old and clumsy. But to work with
these young fellows OF the class Of
1919 is a real pleasure"
TOO bad, Too bad" sighed Field
webel Pinsel (who in civil life had
been an antiQuary at Paris) as he
gathered together the fragments OF a
vase. IAN old piece of Rouen ware.
The colonel was looking for another
to match the one he took away from
Noyon.'
"It is shame" agreed the lieu
tenant.
Then ne added by way of conclu-
sion:
ut would have been heartbreaking
II this evening or tomorrow a shell
should have destroyed all these beau
tiful things. which now, in our coun-
try, will give pleasure to so many
persons OF quality. Let us respect
private property as II II were our
own. Everything which is taken away
must be taken away in proper order.
not in the crude fashion of plumber
ers W no break into houses under the
cover of night or in the confusion of
retreat. Pinsel. make out II list OF our
seizures and paste 1t up in the hall
way. so that the owner may see that
everything has been done here with
absolute regularity"
Having said this. he mounted the
stairs and continued the disman,ling
process The feldwebei accompanied
him. guiding him in his selections
They empticd three bedrooms and a
little salon on the second floor; three
other bedrooms and Il library on the
third floor. Then they stopped. since
IL WAS getting dark. And as the chin
Of evening came on. to warm them
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Advice to Strikers.

HENRY FORD said at a Dearborn
dinner:
1.-The shirker in plant is bound
to be one of that plants hardest
workers. Sinking, let me tell you,
isn't easy.
"A typical shrker was the fellow
who thought he was fooling his boss
by carrying the same hodful of NOR
tar up and down the ladder all day"