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.
Where the tallest skyscraper
is.
The origin of "I should worry."
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