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Pag Eight
HENRYFORDWILL
BE 70 YEARS OLD
SUNDAY, JULY 30
' lly Willis Tbornton
NBA Service Writer
: nir-rnrTT .Tnlv Qfl Henrv Ford
; will be 70 years old on July 30. But
today Henry Ford reveais en ngiutj
ot body, an elasticity oJ mind, nnd
n eagerness to lace the future lack
ing In many men who have not even
approached their allotted three score
and ten.
Changing times, an uncharted fu
ture, the beginning of ft new era,
abandonment of the gold standard, a
new deal for capital and labor these
worry him not at all. The sugges
tion that many people are confused
and shaken by an unstable present
and an uncertain future brought a
quick reaction from Ford.
"Afraid?" he asks. "What aro they
alrald of?"
He dropped the foot he had prop
pee) against the edge of a desk In
an office In his Dearborn plant and
leaned eagerly forward In his chair.
Opportunity
"What )s anybody afraid of? Of
course we are now at the end of
an era," he went. "But what Is
thero about that to be afraid of?
There la a place In the world for
everybody. That's basic under any
system. Why, the changes that are
taking place make today evon bet
ter as a time of opportunity. Op
portunity Is always the same, ex
cept that It becomes more numerous.
"This talk about the end of In
dividualism is nonsense. You'll no
tlco that only the strongest kind
of Individualists talk that way. Thore
will always be opportunity for the
Individualist. :
"Some things are being destroyed
today, but there are some things that
ought to be destroyed. The wrecker
and the builder both have their
place. Sometimes It takes a wrecker
to make a place Where the builder
can build. But thero Is a placo for
everybody In any scheme of things
we might adopt."
i Money
" Many people are worried. I sug
gested, because of the world-wide
confusion over money.
, '.'Suppose we come to an entlroly
nan, mnpMiHnn nf lYintlftV. and Of
banking? Something all new. with
out any connection with gold? What
of It?". Ford's quiet voice became
more emphatic. "What of It? Nine
tenths of all business is carried on
by check, anyway, and what Is a,
check? The oredlt of somebody who
has produced something! I've no
objection to letting anybody who
wants gold, have It. The rest of us
can get along without it."
It became clear that Ford regards
money not as a solid something to
be put away In a sock, touohed,
hoarded, handled, but as a sort of
llfo-blood flowing through produc
tive Industry. I recalled how the net
worth of the Ford Motor Co. had
dropped more than 57,0OO,00O last
year. Money Ford had had, and
which was gone.
I asked how It felt to lose 57,000,
000 In a year. , HIb unusual view of
money came Immediately to the sur
face. " We didn't lose a cent," ho
said quietly. "Wo Just spent that
much more than we took In. The
money wasn't lost. It wbb spent.
In wages, In material, In useful work.
It's still In productive use somewhere
In the country. That's not losing
monoyl"
Employment
Signs of the upturn that Is quick
ening throughout the Industrial
world wore discussed. Ford agrcod
that they appear most promising.
"But evon If Industry gets back
to normal produotlon again," I asked,
"suppose It Is unable to reabsorb a
groat many of the people It once
had Jobs for? What will become of
them?"
"Industry novor has been ablo to
absorb all the people who wanted
to enter It," Ford shot back. "It
Is a fallacy to assume that indus
try can, or should, support all or
most of tho people. The purpose ot
Industry is to work for tho people,
not to have all tho people working
for It.
"Yet because Industry has causod
so many pooplo to leave tholr homes
nnd find thcinsolvos strandod In the
city. It Is up to Industry to help
thorn solvo tholr problem.
Iluck to Ijmil
"I am doing this by decentraliz
ing . . . spreading small Industries
throughout tho country, so that pco
plo may havo a double security, one
In tho land), another in their Jobs.
People aro leaving the cities to go
back to the land. Tho tidal wavo
that swept them thore is receding.
But as thoy go, thoy toko with them
not only tho same abilities thoy hud
when they camo to the cities, but new
abilities acquired there. Thoy nrc
bettor trained, better thinkers,
' "A Industry decentralizes, which
wo havo alroady begun to do, iwople
will find a new way of combining
native abilities brought from the
country with new skills learned In
the cities. Then they won't go
around demanding thnt somebody
give them a Job. They will make
their own Jobs. They will bo (roe of
the payroll habit. Just because
man Is off the payroll, ho needn't
bo out ot a Job."
Wanes
With the government now seeking
to enforce as port ot the "New Deal"
minimum wage codes In all lending
Industries, any conversation with
Ford must naturally turn to his own
pioneering along minimum wnfic
lines. Many hnvo seen a prophvtlr
touch In the "revolutionary" Htroke
of a fow yoarB ago when Ford ad
opted a 95 minimum wage In his
' plants, nnd later raised this to fl and
7. But Ford declaims the role of
prophet, and gives a simple, concrete
example of how minimum wanes at-
Sash, Windows, Screens I
and Doors Made
to Order
Window and Car CHiuu
Carpenter & Cnblnct
Shop
1406 Jcfforaon D. D. Miller, Prop
Three-Yolk Egg
Weighs One-Half
Pound H en Sick
FuawiNOTON, N. J July 2 m
A White Leghorn hen owned by
W, P. Forner laid an egg with
thre yolks, two contained within
an outer shell and one In an egg
within the egg. Tho egg weighed
eight ouncea.
But the task of producing an egg
of this size, woa too much for the
hen and she was sick throe days,
Forner reports she Is now on the
road to recovery.
footed his own workers.
"X did It because It was good busi
ness," he explained, "It Is Just as
good business for everybody."
There have been times when
high wages at the Ford plant sim
ply enabled our workers to go out
and! buy the curs of some other
maker who was perhaps paying poor
wages, while his workers couldn't
afford to buy either his car or ours.
That Is the sort of thing that can't
happen under the Industrial Recovery
Act, Good minimum -wages all
around will mean good business for
everybody. And I think tho govern
ment Intends to make It stick,"
Technocracy ,
You can't pin labels on Henry
Ford. But he Is at least a little
bit of a technocrat. He doesn't be
lieve In technocracy as a ruling caste
system or as a plan of government,
but 'they had one Idea, at least,"
he admits. "The Idea of production
for use. That Is absolutely sound.
A business ought to make money,
yes, but not for tho sake of the
money. To put back Into expanding, '
bundling up, research, and the safe
guarding of the business Itself."
Ford still retains an evident life
time respect for the skilled mechanic, i
his love for machinery and those ;
who design It. "The best work to- I
day," he explains with enthusiasm,
Is being done on the machinery to
make the machinery to make goods.
Thoso are the fellows, the leaders,
who are showing the real skill these
... : ,
The Future
But aren't those very men by their
Ingenuity and skill the ones who are
cutting down the opportunity to
work, the number of Jobs, and creat
ing technological , unemployment?
Ford shook his head emphatically.
'So-called technological unemploy
ment is largely , a myth," he said.
"There aro more men at work build
ing automobiles than there over were
carriage -makers. Thore are more
typists writing letters today than
there were writing therm by hand
before the typewriter was Invented.
There are more men at sea In steam
ships than there ever were under I
sail. Those inventions enabled more:
people to use transportation, more '
letters to be written, more commerce :
to be carried at sea. Eventually there
Is a net gain."
Thus hopefully Henry Ford speaks
at 70, after 30 years In the very vor
tex of industrial competition. They
are the words of a man who has done
much to change the world, and who
has an evident eagerness to do still
more.
Stock Exchange To
Resume Long Hours
NEW YORK, July 38 fl) The
govorntng . commlttco of tho New
York stock exchange announced to
day that the regular hours of busi
ness I ram 10 a. m. to 3 p. m.
would bo resumed beginning next
Monday. Tho exchange- will be closod
on all Saturdays up ta and Including
Sep torn be r 2, - , ., 1 ' i
I'OltlXANI) PROIHICK
PORTLAND, July 28 (!') Butter
Prints, extras, 25c; standards 24c.
Butterfat Portland delivery: A
grade, 23c lb.; farmer's" door dellvory,
21c lb.; sweet cream, 6c higher.
Eggs Pacific Poultry producers'
selling price: ovarslKO, 24c; extras 22c;
standards 20c; mediums 20c; pullets
16c do?-en. Buying prico by whole
salers: fresh current receipts, 66 lbs.
and up, 16(M0o cioKon.
Cheese, milk, country moats, mo-,
hair, cascara bark hops, live poultry,
onions, new onions, potatoes, new po
tatoes, strawberries, wool and hay,
unchanged.
HS!(1AR AND FLOUR
PORTLAND, July 28 (! Sugar
cane, granulated. $4.85; fruit or oorry,
$5; beet sugar, $4.75 100 lbs,
Domestic flour - Selling price, mill
delivery 26 bbl lots: patent, 49s, $7.80
(fi $8.60; do O&h, $4.00(ji $7.80; bnkers'
bluostem, $0.76. $0.85; bakers' blend
ed Hour, $6,05 r $U,40; sort white pas
try patent, $0.75 $7.50; Montana
hard wheat, $5.06; rye, $4 .00 r $6.30;
whole wheat, $6.15; graham, $5.90 (i
$8.30 bbl.
Ground has boon broken on the
slopo of Mount Hollywood In Ciillf
ornla for a pluncttirium unci astro
nomical obNcrvutory,
M H .-MM
Hed Cross Draff Slore
1
A Good
3 Cross Bar
Galvanized Wire
Cedar Screen
Door
Only $2.50
Home Lumber
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'.Phone: Main 17
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: MARKET NEWS
CMC AO O WHEAT
Open High Low Close
Jlllv l.OU',4 1.03', .110 .1111
sept, l,mm i.oni4 1.0am " l.wn
Kee. 1 .0410.07 l.0K l.0!i l.n
May - I.IU',.V 1.13 1.00ft 1.01)74
CHICAGO CORN
July - M .015 .(1.14 'M'X
Hept. M .17 .57
Deo. ..... .03.oai4 . mi M .IU
May - .... .799.70! . , .71 Mi , .0H'
PORTLAND WHEAT :
Open High Low ' Close
July .8(1 .87 ' .85 .85
Hept (MM .87 M M
Pro - M'A f Mj MM MV,
TRADING DULL IN
EXCHANGE TODAY
NEW YORK, July 28 VP) Tho
stock market almost wont to sleep
today In ono of the lightest trading
sessions since the start of the 1033
bull market. Prices showed a tend
ency to drift irregularly lower from
the opening as commodities turned
soft and tho dollar gyrated uncertain
ty in foreign exchange dealings. The
close was moderately heavy. Trans
fers approximated 1,400,000 shares.
Closing figures Included:
Air Heduo 91
Al. Chem. and Dye , .. 117
American Can 85
American T. and T 123
Bethlehem Steel 4014
J. I. Caso 70
Col. Q. and B 2014
Continental Can TO
General Motors 30,
Johns Manvllle 46
Ubbey-O.-Ford 27
Liggett and Myers B 88
Montgomery Ward - 21
National Distill 76 14
J. O. Penney 41 'A
Pub. Scr. of N. J 46V4
Southern Pacific 2b
St. Oil of Cal - 38i4
St. Oil of N. J. 36
Union Pacific 114
United Aircraft 3214
United Corporation 10
V. S, Indus. Alcohol 5814
U. 8. Steel 54
PORTLAND LIVESTOCK
PORTLAND, July 28 ffl Cattle:
9, calves 67; quiet.
Steers, best, $4.76$5.50; common
and medium, $3.00 & $4.50; heifers,
best, $4.00 $4.25; medium, $3.26
$3.75; cows, best, $3.00$3.26; com
mon and medium, $1,75 $2.76; can
ners, $1.00$2.0O; bulls, best, $3.00
$3.25; medium, $2.76 dp $3.00; calves,
best, $0.00(3 $0.25; good, $6.00$5.50;
ordinary $4.00$4.50.
Hogs: 160; steady. Top light
butchers, $5.60 (to $5.75; heavy
butchers, $5.00 ( $5,25; sows, $3.00
3$3,60; slaughter pigs 6-1. 75., $5.00;
feeder pigs, $4.76c$5.0O.
Sheep: 479; fairly steady. Lambs $5;
yearling wethers, $3.50(1 $4.00; ewes,
$1.00() $2.00.
SUPPLIES
AND
Typewriter Ribbons ...65c & $1.00
Typewriter Ribbons for Portables 50c & 75c
Fountain Pen Ink 15c, 25c, 55c, 90c, $1.50
Dennison's Gummed Labels 10c & 20c
Dic-A-Doo Paint Cleaners 20c & 40c
Paper Clips, per hundred 10c
Show Card Color ... 20c, 25c, 65c, $1.20
Boston Pencil Sharpener $1.00
Metal Bond Boxes , $1.50 to $3.45
Office World Globes 85c & $3.95
Photo Paste 10c, 45c, 75c
Typewriting Paper, Packet of 100 Sheets 25c
Typewriting Paper, per ream ....60c, $1.50, $1.85
Toy Muffin Tins 10c
Receipt Books 5c, 10c, 15c, 20c and $1.00
La Grande Book & Stationery Co.
La Grande, Oregon
FEGMT
PECTUJEES
BAER SCHMELING
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TODAY and SATURDAY
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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, tX GRANDE, ORE.
OF THE DAY
EGG PRICES ARE
ADVANCED TODAY
PORTLAND, July 28 Late
advance In thei price of eggs was not
being fully maintained here although
prices were fairly well held by lead
ing distributors. Some of the smaller
units were shading values to force a
movement which was proving more or
less unwilling.
Trade In eggs during the last 24
hours suggosted that there was again
a slight surplus of Iresh offerings and
especially as regards everything ex
cept extreme top quality and Blzo, .
The market was hurt most how
ever, by the open selling of short held
storage stock as fresh.
Market for butter continued, to re
flect weakness but this appeared
chiefly sentimental rather than any
change In the situation. Storage op
erations havo practically ceased and
this has thrown the held back stock
for the open market.
Wheat Stocks In
Interior Mills,
Elevators Given
PORTLAND, Ore. (Special) An in
crease of 19,030,000 bushels, or nearly
48 per cent, in the July 1 carryover
of old wheat in Interior mills and ele
vators of the United States, compared
with the revised estimate of stocks
on hand July 1, 1932, Is reported by
the United States department of agri
culture. The current estimate of 61,
524,000 bushels compares with the re
vised estimate for July 1, 1932, of
41,586,000 bushels.
For the- four Paciflo northwest
states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and
Montana, tho estimated carry-over on
July 1 , Is estimated at 29,150,000
bushels, which Is almost three hun
dred per cent of the July 1, 1032, esti
mate of! 10.000,000 bushels.
Stocks of wheat on farms In the
United States on July 1 this year aro
estimated at 79.005,000 bushels, or
only 88 per cent of the revised esti
mate of 90,284,000 bushels remaining
on farms on July 1, 1932. The revised
estimate of wheat stocks on farms in
the United States for July 1, 1931, Is
37.331,000 bushels, and the five-year
average carry-over (1926-1030) is 32,
912,000 bushels.
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HOME
UNION MAN HURT
IN CAR ACCIDENT
THURSDAY NIGHT
J. E. Allen, of Union, sustained a
ruptured Intestine last night when
tho' automobile he was driving col
lided with another car near La
Grande. He was rushed to the
Grande Rondo hospital where he un
derwent an operation this morning.
Mr. Allen was driving the car and
believes he was thrown against the
steering wheel. Other occupants of
the car received only minor bruises.
They were passing an oil truck
when another car swung out from
behind the large machine to pass
and collided head on with Mr. Allen's
machine. Identity of the driver of
the other car could not be learned.
Lumber Output At
120,512,503 Feet
During the Week
SEATTLE, July 28 P) Produc
tion of 120,512,603 board feet of lum
ber by 264 down and operating mills
In this area Xor the week ending July
2 was reported today by the West
Coast Lumbermen's association, an
increase of .8 per cent over tho pre
vious week. '
The average week's production of
this group in 1033 has been 72,004,600
feet; In 1032 the weekly average for
the same period was 63.169.466 feet.
- Shipments were 8.54 per cent under
production and sales 28.8 per cent
under production. Orders booked 16.4
per cent under! those of the previous
week.
PORTLAND, Ore., July 28 P) An
Increase of about 9 per cent In orders
received by member mills of tho
Western Pine association for the year
to date, as compared with, the same
period In 1932, was reported by the
association here today. Shipments
were about 1 per cent above last year,
and produotlon decreased 1 per, cent,
Gold Production
Declines in June
NEW YORK, July 28 (VP) Gold
produotlon In tho United States In
June declined to the lowest level
since February. Output totaled 142,
000 fine ounces compared with, 185,
000 ouncea In May and 188,000 In
June last year, according to the Am
erican bureau of motal statistics. : ,
The figures; cover production which
passed directly to the mint for re
fining. The California state park commis
sion has ordered entrance fees
charged at all state parks.
SATURDAY
KITE IS
Admission Effective Saturday Only
Adults . . . 15c Until 8 and 25c Until 6
Kiddies . . . 5c Until 3 nnd 10c Thereafter
Saturday Matinee Only
Chapter 8 'THE WHISPERING SHADOW
At Arlington
Miss Erla Clark and Miss Ruth Har
lan, both of La Orande, were recent
visitors at Arlington at the home of
Herb C. Clark. They were en route
to La Grande from Condon.
From tontine .
Mrs. E. L. Rucker and brother, L.
V. Lath rope, and children, of Lcs
tlne, vistied at- the home of their
niece, Mrs. O. H. Youngton, Wednes
day and Thursday.
Visits at Pondurta
Mrs. Emmett Strlngham was a re
cent visitor at Pondosa at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Emmett Smith.
County Nurse Here
Mrs. Margaret, Huffman, county
nurse of Wallowa county, and her
two daughters, Beverly and Nadlne,
all of Enterprise, were visitors in La
Grande yesterday.
ChurUw Heard Visits !
Charles Heard, of Pendleton, was
a visitor In La Orande last night and
today. He Is a former student at
the Eastern Oregon Normal school
and was visiting friends.
Visiting Here
Robert "Boots" Rode, of Union,
and Richard ' Rode, of Portland, are
visiting their grandmother, Mrs. J. D.
Rode, of Adams avenue, for several
days.
From Portland '
Mrs. Martha McCulley has as her
guest this week Mrs. W. H. Balllnger,
of Portland.
CARL POSEY
IN CAR WRECK
Carl Posey, employe of tho Safeway
organization in La Orande, has been
working at Joseph this week while
Prank Keener, manager, has been on
his vacation. Sunday night as he
and Carlyle Rounciy were returning
from the Safeway picnic at Cove an
other machine ran into Mr. Posey's
car Just the other side of the bridge
across Prairie creek. His machine
was badly damaged and the other car
was almost completely wrecked., .
OMAHA SHEEP .
OMAHA, July 28 VP) - (U. S. D. A.)
Sheep: 8,500; steady;, feeders strong
to 10c or -more higher; range lambs
$7.36 $7.60; native lambs $7.75; fed
clipped lambs $7.00; ewes up to $2.75;
range feeding lambs $8.85 g $6.95. .
Calf Has Two Faces
; WATSON VILLE, Cal. (P) Three
months after a two-faced calf was
born near here the freak animal was
still alive. It has two distinct. Jaws,
two throats, two tongues, two normal
eyes and two imperfect ones.
RACE NITE!
125 C.C.C. Youths
Of New York Quit
California Camp
SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 88 (P)
Reminders that the sidewalks of
New York are a long, long way off
Ira. t.hA rarsuasion used by army of
ficers today In an attempt to halt
the first large group desertion irom
a civilian conservation corps comp
In. California. ' . .
Rides back to camD were offered
stragglers from the defiant band of
125, most of them from New York
oitv. who deserted the Bear River
camp In the Sierra Nevada mountains
above Jackson.
MT. Uhtirt 1'liHSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Alorisso Gllllham and
family spent Sunday at the Luther
Hayes, home in Pleasant Grove, j
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Struck and
daughter, E.'iii'e, of La Grande, visited
here Sunday.
Clarence Terry returned Sunday
from a week's fishing trip ou '.he
Minam.
Mr. and Mis. Vernon Walte have
moved to their 'home hero.
Most of the hay crop has be m
harvested. It Is reported in Pome
cases thai the yield Is better then
fur a 1 ri-l:ei' of years.
Harvest has begun on the fall
grain, with Del McCoy being the first
in tlie immediate neighborhood to
start cutting wheat.
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Friday, July 28, 1933
The huokloberry crop In tho near,
by hills 1 very light. Tho scores of
pickers who go hopefully to their fa
vorlte patched return in most cases
disappointed and find ' thoy must
search elsewhere for their winter's
Bupply of this fruit. . . j
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