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About Heppner herald. (Heppner, Or.) 1914-1924 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1914)
HEPPNER HERALD AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published Thursdays by G. Harlan and L. K. Harlan A First-Class Newspaper, entered as second-class matter May 16, 1914, at the post office at Heppner, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. L. K. Harlan, Manager E. G. Harlan, Editor Subscriptions, $1.00 a year. Advertising rates made application. known on Thursday, July 9, 1914. "When Duty Calls." "The ship is sinking," was the cry sounded on a great ocean liner a short time ago. There was mad scramble for seats in the lifeboat and many were pushed aside, crushed, lost. One man, however, stood quiet, un moved, and sized up the situa tion. He grasped the telegraph key and sent out the S. 0. S. call. Out it went in every direction. Miles away a tired operator sud denly sprang to his seat and made reply. Assistance was on its way. The boats were full and no help was yet at hand. Many hugged the decks as they lurched and leaped forward. Up the water came, deck after deck was engulfed and the helpless passengers went into the dark, cold, silent unknown. When the icy water closed over that ill fated ship it silenced the hand and the call for help. A short time ago a cry was heard in a Pullman car, "We are held up." Many women were in the car, some frightened, some excited, all very much alarmed. In a few seconds the robbers ap peared. Quietly yet firmly they demanded the valuables of the passengers. There was one man in the car that was cool, collected and calm. Not because he had taken an oath to uphold the law did he do his duty, but because within his power was a chance to do the right. It was all the work of an instant and the question comes to us now, "How could he do it?" It is true that he is naturally quick and his decisions are gen erally right. But it lies behind that. From early boyhood we are told he had a keen sense for the right. Well has it been said that the characteristics of the boy become the habit of the man. When opportunity afforded an expression of this appreciation for the right it came automati cally. Such men reflect credit upon the ofiice which they hold. They instill a deeper respect for honest toil. They tend to arouse a wholesome foar of men who nre commissioned to uphold the weuare oi society. iney are making the undesirable profes sions a minus quantity and hast ening the day when all such will exist only as material for the fiction writer. Society needs producers not barnacles, men who thrive as parasites are sc he- barons of the Blue Ridge and evidently did not understand social contract that provides that we all shall abondon a certain part of our natural rights for the good of society. One day a Baptist preacher came to Hills ville and when he said a few things about no rich man being able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, the Aliens forthwith drove him out. Some of the citizens, however, sided with the preacher. The Aliens had dominated the country long enough. Things finally culminat ed in the famous court house scene with which every one is familiar. Thus we see men liv ing in one of the most Nature favored places in the world, with pedigree, broad acres, family pride, freedom of religion, abused their privileges and brought themselves down to ignominy and disgrace. Huerta and Villa are types of men who awoke and found themselves in possession of power, it would be unfair to expect more of them than they have already shown. Villa was merely a holdup man a few months ago and took to syste matic plundering and murdering under the rebel mask, for war is nothing but legalized murder in its last analysis. The British Admiralty allow a man to lose one ship and they never wink an eyebrow. But when he loses two, it is assumed he is getting the habit and they relieve him. A few days ago many people in this community and nearby communities were shocked to hear of the tragic death of a Gilliam County boy. There was nothing particularly different in this boy than in many others. He went to the city where he met a wealthy young lady, married her and started to do the town. Pros perity came unexpectedly upon this man. He was just like many of the rest of us, he meant to do well but he hadn't acquired the technique. There are sev eral sorrowful hearts now that might be rejoicing. Just where the blame attaches we don't know. It seems to be one of those tragedies that Nature keeps always upon her stage, the failure and ruin of lives that might have been. Position, and power gravitates to those who can use it, if you can't exercise it, you will not be handicapped with it long. Education and Opportunity. One of the ghastly chapters of history is that in which is re lated the stories of what men have suffered in the pursuit of hidden gold. The mythical ar gonauts of Greece, risking their all for the recovery of the golden fleece, were but the prototypes of American argonauts risking the hell of sun-parched deserts that they might gather a little of the gold of California. The treasure-hungry hoardes of Europe, toiling to their destruc tion in the wilds of the new found Americas, were no more eager in their quest than was the gold-mad multitude that duled to an early dismissal and ! wrole uIHm lne frozon Klondyke oblivion. Such incidents as theita rm,rd of niiseIy aml disP happoning on last Thursday ,ointnicnt- The lure of gold has morning are full of significance ev'r rrovHl an irresistible mag if we read them right. ; not tl tht Mry of man. To it he responds with an enthusiasm Concerning Handicaps j that takes no account of cost. History abounds in examples' The world owes a great deal of men who were given more the daring gold seekers whose than they could fletcherize. The craving drove them across ami famous Greek, Solan, is credited beyond the frontiers. For the with the statement, "The place 'eker as a rule has been showeth the man." Bacon said followed by the trapper, the that all rising to great places is farmer, the manufacturer and by winding stairs and those who tne tacher. New states have sit calm and serene at the top )0t,n created, new governments are those who have struggled farmed and new and better and fought their way up. civilizations erected because the In Ilillsville, Virginia, some Kold hunger of men has impelled time ago, there lived a family of them to challenge the wilder Aliens. They were men of prop- ness. Only a fraction of the erty. Sidna Allen lived in a multitude, however, belong to house that cost twenty thousand the company of free lances that dollars, owned a grist mill and became gold-seeking pioneers; ran a general itore. They were the majority of the people are restrained by circumstances, hindered by disposition or bound by duty. To these people it should be a welcome truth that more great fortunes are dug out of heads than out of mines. In a forceful editorial in the Saturday Evening Post, George Horace Lonmer said: "Within ten years a thousand million tons of coal have been added to the coal supply of the United States. Of course the coal was there all along and its existence was long known; but its steam producing power was so low that it waws considered practically worthless. It was added to our fuel supply by a number of scientific men who kept on experimenting until they dscovered that if burned under a gas producer this low grade coal would yield more power, ton for ton, than the best steam coal burned under a boiler. This fuel supply was created so to speak, by the hard thinking.! comparatively few men in a back room. Opportunity is what everv man, who isn't a loafer wants a store to run, a coal mine to operate. This is merely a Christmas suggestion, that he will find the coal mine in his head if he will look diligently for it. A coal mine is an extremelv valuable thing if the man who owns it has the tools with which to work it. The mines of wealth stored away in the brain, are valuable if the individual has the proper tools to work them. The most important tools with which we can extract from the mind the wealth that it contains are education and opportunity. The great problem of the age is to give to more human beings the tools with which to extract the wealth from their own minds. Distribution of education is the great work. It does a man no good to look diligently for a coal mine or a gold mine in hia brain if he can't do anything with it after he has found it. There aie those who tell you that if a man has it in him it will come out but it won't. A man with the imagination of a great poet will never be a great poet if he can not read or write. Gray musing at sunset in a humble village churchyard two hundred years ago, wove into beautiful verse the suggestion that among the slowly sleepers at his feet were Hampde-ns t whom realization never came Cromwells in everything but consciousness of their power. It is ono of the tragedies that Nature keeps always on r.er stage the failure and ruin o! lives that might have boeu. Columbus was ridiculed by half of the forgotten fools of Europe. Lincoln was sneered at until hard-e.'on education uncovered th" unsearchable treasures of hi r.iii.'l. Genius doea not always shine in a countenance nor ri;.;; through a voice. There was once a man who I gave it as nis opinion that op , portunity knocked but once and lany people have been foolish t enough to think that he had some divine communication that imparted the idea to him. Oppor tunity and education beckon on every side, an eager ear or a i watchful eye is nil that you need I furnsh. Take heed to whatever will develope your gray cells and you will be surprised how oppor. , tunity will bump into you. Be Worldly Wise. !t was once thought necessary to sprinkle a little Latin or I French into y ur conversation in order to convey the impression jthat you were vlucated. The ol,l j story of tlie y,ui.g man who, jwhen he came home from .lege called every thing about the .place by its latin or Gernia? name, was greatly shocked whe I hit father siud rftor he hal emitted several strong words i when ti e cow overturned the bucket,"Son, those are the firsr real words you have spoken since you came home, I know you're one of us sure," is true today. Most of us now think that an educated person is one who can handle himself well in what ever position he is placed. No man is educated that can not carry on an intelligent conversation with the man who is painting his house. There are many highly edu cated people with college degrees who do not know how many of our popular expressions got started. "Got his goat," and "We should worry" do not at tract our attention because of the alliteration but for their psychic import. Slang has been called a certain kind of vaga bond language always hanging on the outskirts of legitimate speech. The Engrish language is the strongest language used and this is" due to its ability to take up slang. Slang enables us to better express ourselves ;;nd when used by prominent people is classed as standard bred. "We should worry" started in St. Louis, Missouri. A car toonist of that city first employ ed it and it spread over the en tire country in a few days. "Got his goat" started in New York statf. This fine literary phrase was first uttered by Ed. Geers. In the stable of Ed. Geers was a very fast horse known as Prince Regent. This horse was of a very nervous dis position and when alone, es pecially in a new stable, fretted and suffered with homesickness. Geers bought a goat as a com panion for the horse. When he would take the horse out on the track to trot, he would seeming ly look forward to the time when he could return and tell his ex periences to the sympathic goat. The night before the great Futurity Race in Buffalo, some one got into the barn and stole the goat. The horse so pined for his mate that he seem ed to lose heart and by the time that the race was announced in the afternoon, Prince Regent lost his nerve. Some one notic ing his drooping ears asked Geers what was the matter with the horse. "Why some one got his goat," replied Geers. And so the phrase has gone clatter ing down the centuries like a tin kettle tied to a dog's tail. It has been fixed in the current coin of speech. I happened to be in the Hepp ner post office the other day when a smart looking young lady came in and asked Mr. Richardson to see that her letter got off on the first train, it was really important. Now Mr. Richardson is a very kind man, he also knows the little details of the business. He stopped the young lady and said, "You young ladies who want your leters to go through the mails in a hurry, should always write "In Haste" in the lower left hand corner. hen every one connected with the Postal Service jumps around lively. Jim Howell whips his horses into a brisk trot, the post master dances a jig, and Will Gregg pushes forward and tells Harry Launtz to pull the throt tle wide open and let her go. It is all very simple if you under stand the regulations. i An Educated Man knows Where Styria is. i The oldest man in Morrow County. Who William Butler Yeatts is. The pres. of the Steel Trust. His Congressman's name. The leader of Tammany Hall. Who Hugo Munsterburg is. 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