THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18. 1922.
PAGE SIX
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r4. He Now Trarhr Arrirttltsr In
Hih School tt 1ifton. Mtnn.
Written Pfxriaiv for Tht Cacette-Timc-f
by KCBFKT FVIXKR.
Wrren W. Simpson lived witV his
widowed mother on a forty acre farm
at NortiifuU. Mh:iieoia.
A cripi'le from infertile paralysis,
he entered the corn club in 112. and
by he-r willpower and determination
completed hi? rro.iect bT ctul.y
crauiinfr throne" the corn on his
hand and knees in order to cultivate
it.
He not only Mirceeded in obtain
ing a yield of M5 bushels per acre,
but at the Fame tirre hi? health im
rroved go that he became able to walk.
With hi? pri2e money and larper re
urns from the little forty acre farm.
bochUf-e of his increased knowiedpe of
crop production, he went on through
hijrh school and Ust year finished an
aprirultural course at the University
of Minnesota.
He is now teaching agriculture in
the Lewiston, Minnesota High School
and doing club work by cooperating
with the county agent and acting as
local leader.
Hi? team was the champion Junior
Livestock Judpirg team in the State
of Minnesota in 1122 and represented
that state in the Non-Collegiate
Livestock Judging contest at the
International Livestock Exposition,
just closed, winning fourth in com
petition with twenty states.
"When I was a club boy." said Mr
Simpson, while he was in Chicago,
"I determined then and there to be
come a club leader or agricultural
teacher, in order that I might do for
other boys and girls what was done
for me in Boys' and Girls Club Work.
It may be said that this case is ex
ceptional, but "Truth is stranger than
fiction." Hundreds of club boys and
girls are now acting as local leaders
in their various communities and
carrying on the work in just as re
markable a way as in the case of
Warren Simpson.
Author Chose Barry
For Role of Penrod
Booik Trlinro Dlar4 Boy Star
tlit Lifelike Imprroonattoa of
Hia Popular Character.
In "Freckles" Barry the screen ha
found the ideal impersonation of
'Tenrod. the boy character immor
talized in Booth Tarkinton' stories.
The opinion comes, not from Mar
shall Neilan. who has made the film
version of "Penrod" that will be
shown at the Star Theatre Wednes
day and Thursday, Jan. 24 and 25, but
from Booth Tarkinpton himself. The
Indiana author was largely responsi
ble for the selection of "Freckles"
hnrry for the title role.
"1 submitted a list of netrly forty
boy actors and other child players
to 'Mr. Tarkington." said Mr. Neilan,
"and from the photographs attached
to the list Mr. Tarkington made his
hoice. Mr. Tarkinpton was familiar
with the scren work of "Freckles"
Barry. Marjorie Paw and Lena Bas
fcette, the 'vamplet' in 'Penrod,' and
chose them at once for the leading
child roles.
"'Per.rod'." Mr. Neilan pointed out.
s not merely the story of the coun
try boy or the tale of the city boy
he is every boy. In creating the
character of 'Penrod' Mr. Tarkington
has not. as so many others have done,
portrayed a certain type or class of
boy. He has reached down into the
fundamentals of every boy and has
pictured characteristics that are im
mediately evident in all American
youths. The story might have taken
place in a large city or a small town.
It will therefore be appreciated by
those who have always lived in the
citv as well as those who have never
left the country town.
"In portraying Tarkington's story
on the screen I have not attempted
to detract or improve upon it. To
attempt to out-Tarkington iarknlg-
ton would be just as foolish as to try
to out-Shakespeare Shakespeare.
Booth Tarkington is undoubtedly
the greatest painter of American boy
hood, as indicated by the triumph of
his 'Penrod' stories. It has been my
ambition to picturize these charac
ters as this author has so success
fully visualized them with his pen."
HOOSIERLAXD VS.
YANKEELAXD
THE HEARTLESS
STEAM ROLLER
t Oregon ianl
These be sud days for the uplift.
Even the most excited schemes of
service, the most phiuintriroptc plan
for the common weal, run into hard
edding, if they cost anything.
Take the case of Brother William
Woodward. A member of the school
board, he came face to face with the
defects of the system, its failures to
do for the comirg generation what
it should do. So he got himself elect
ed to the legislature. th the noble
1 unselfish idea of curing various
ills: and he prepared a bunch of bills
in the confident opinion that the leg
islature would be glad to hear and
to heed. Several bills excellent
bills, too he introduced on the very
first day.
One of themto prevent the wear
ing of sectarian garb by teachers in
the public schools the house prompt
ly passed. It was in accord both with
correct policy and with public opin
ion. Besides, it did not cost the tax
payrs anything. There is a different
tale to tell about subsequent events.
The house yesterday with great unan-
mity, squashed two others of Repre
sentative oodward s admirable
measures. One of them to add den
tal clinics to the public schools
would have increased the tax burden,
and the other letting everybody (if
citizen) vote at school elections
had a special bearing on the tax
problem.
In freer and more prosperous days
legislature would doubtless have
passed both the Woodward bills. But
not now. It is the day of restriction,
not expansion, of belt-tightening,
not over-feeding. The state proposes
to get along without some things,
even desirable ones. It could get
Senator "Jim" Watson, of Indiana,
recently found the following article
in an old scrap book that had been
stored in an attic of an Indiana homa
for more than a generation:
We were greatly amused, not long
ago, at a dialogue we heard between
Down-Easter and Hoosier. They were
respectively cracking up their own
localities and running down their op
ponents. At length say the Hoosier:
"Why, our land is so rich, why ye
never seed anything so tarnal rich in
all your born days; why. how d'ye
suppose we make our candies, hey?"'
"Donl know," says the Yankee.
'We dip em in the mud puddles,"
says the Hoosier.
"Yes," replied the Yankee, "and I
guess there's so much mud in your
diggins that there isn't many places
where a man could not dip candles in
the mud puddies. I heard of a man
traveling in your country all day long
in the road, where the mud was so
deep you couldn't diskiver a glimpse
of his legs for hours at a time."
"Well, now jest te;l us. Mr. Yan
kee, if it's a fact what they do say
about the roughness of the roads
down east. They do say there are so
many stones in the roads, and the
wagons do joit up and down so all
firdly, that the only way the people
ever grind out our plaster of Paris
is by loading the big pieces in a wag
on and just driving at a moderate
trot over one of your roads; and half
a mile's driving will make it all into
powder.
"There's no doubt but that we can
touch dry land occasionally on our
roads. But then if there are some
stuns in the roads, the traveler is
never waylaid and his blood taken by
mosquitoes as big as oysters."
"I'll tell you what, stranger, they
do say there are hull counties down
east where the stones are so thick
that they have to sharpen the sheeps
noses so that they can get them be
tween the rocks to eat grass. Indeed,
I heard one say, who once traveled
through your country, that he once
saw a whole held of m?n and boys
standing on the rocks, each of 'em
letting a sheep down by the legs in
among the rocks to feed. And in an
other p;ace he said he saw- a lot of
farmers shooting the grain in among
the rocks o that it would take root
and grow."
"Wall, now. stranger, suppose you
tell us something about your own
country; you're the only man I ever
saw from the west that didn't die of
fever 'n' agur; let's see if you know
at much about the wet as you think
you do about the eat."
"Well, old Yankee, I'll jest tell you
all about it. If a farmer in our coun
try plants land with com, ar.d taies
first-rate care of it, he'll get a hun
dred bushels to the acre; and if he
takes middiin' care of it he'll get seventy-five
bushels to the acre; and if
he don't plant at all he'll get fifty.
"The trees grow so large that I
once knew a man who commenced cut
ting one down, and when he had cut
away on one side for about ten days,
tie thought he'd jest tnke a . look
'round the tree, and when he got
'round t'other side he found a roan
there who had been cutting at it for
three week, and they'd never heard
otie another's axes.
"1 have heard tc!It yet I some
times doubt that story, that the Ohio
parsnips have sometimes grown clean
through the earth and been pulled
up by the people on t'other side."
"Wall, now," pays the Yankee, "I
rather f uec as how you've told
enough, stranger, for the present.
Huw'd you like to trade for some
clocks to sell out weft?"
"Never um 'em. We keep time al
tcgelhr with pumpkin vines. You
know, they grow jest five feet an
hour, and that's an Inch a minute.
Iton't ue clocks at all. It's no use.
old Yankee, we can't trade nohow."
along without others. If it know
whero to begin.
There is no monopoly of tax re
form purposes and policy in the ex
ecutive office at Salem. The legisla
tive steam-roller ia also in action.
It can do yoeman service, to long as
economy is its engineer.
Will Attend Shrine.
Ceremonial at Portland
A large number of members of Al
Kader Temple, Mystic Shrine, who
live in this section are planning to
attend a Ceremonial to be held in
Portland on Saturday, January 27th.
This ceremonial will be the first to
be given under the direction of Hal
T. Hutchinson, Illustrious Potentate,
who took office last month.
The ceremonial will be held in the
large Public Auditorium in Portland,
and will be preceeded by a banquet
to be served in the auditorium of the
building. . A concert by Al Kader's
Band and Chanters will open the pro
gram, with the various sections of
the ceremonial following.
The annual Potentate's Ball, which
is attended by member, of the order
and their ladies, will be held in the
Auditorium in Portland on Wednes
cl'iy night. January 81st. This is the
big social event in Portland and at
tract, a large attendance from every
part of the state.
He Wasn't Anxious to Go.
Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com
merce, on one of his many ocean trips
experienced a terrific storm. Many of
the passengers were much exercised
over the possibility of the boat going
to the bottom. This was particular
ly true of a young man who had but
recently been received into the min
istry. He earnestly inquired of one
of the crew if he thought there was
any danger. "Why," replied the sail
or, "if this keeps up a few hours
longer we will all be in heaven before
sun-up." The chaplain, horrified,
cried out, "The Lord forbid!"
J. O. Kincaid, extensive farmer of
lone, is in the city today to attend
a meeting of the executive committee
of the Morrow County Farm Bureau.
He states that in his neighborhood
the grain is all coming along well,
and never looked better for the time
of year. Mr. Kincaid looks forward
to a fine harvest the coming season
and feels that the outlook for the
farmers of Morrow county is bright.
KEEP IN MIND the Tea at Mrs
Livingstone's on Tuesday afternoon,
January 23, from 4 to 8 o'clock. You
are cordially invited. Price 25 cents.
Benefit of new church fund.
Wool to be Exploited.
The agricultural committee of the
Portland Chamber of Commerce,
through a special wool committee,
plans on making an extensive
hibit showing Portland's advantages
as a wool center, at the national
wool growers' convention in Spokane
January 24, 25 and 26. The special
committee, composed of R. A. ward
C. J. Smith, Victor T. Johnson, Far
mer Smith and W. A. Munsell, has
prepared a leaflet setting forth Port
land s many advantages as a wool
center which will be handed to all
attending the convention.
E. A. Ward and Edward N. Wein
baum, with the co-operation of the
woolen and worsted manufacturers
of the city, are assembling a display
of manufactured products for which
Portland is famous. This exhibit,
together with scoured and grease
wool, and photographs of the port,
mills and warehouses, will be in the
Davenport hotel during the conven
tion. It will show all the steps in
the process of converting wool to
cloth.
STAR THEATER
Friday, January 1 9th
Corf JJjemmle jwnhr
HOOT
GIBSON
Supported by Lillian Rich,
frwncJvWilUari Bucly
5J
FARM FOR SALE
847 Acres
750 ACRES WHEAT LAND
20 ACRES ALFALFA
Location U miles west of Lexington, Ore.
This farm is well balanced, and has always
been a producer. It adjoins highway.
SALE PRICE $25,000. Includes Equipment.
A BARGAIN IN EVERY WAY
See
L. VAN MARTER
Heppner
Heppner Hotel Building Phone 352
Publicity Bill Is Drawn
Measure Would Substitute Publica
tion In Newspapers For
Voters' Pamphlets.
Salem, Ore., Jan. 17. Publication
in every qualified newspaper in Ore
gon for two. issues of all constitu
tional amendments and measures to
be voted on at elections held in this
state is proposed in a bill intro
ducd by Senator Tooze of Clackamas
county.
First publication of the measures
and constitutional amendments would i
be made not more than 30 days prior
to the election and the second pub
lication not more than four days
preceding the election. Printing and
circulation of the voters' pamphlet,
under the proposed law, would be
eliminated.
The rate for the publication of the
constitutional amendments and meas
ures is fixed in the bill as follows:
For newspapers of less than 500
circulation, 20 cents a single column
inch; up to 1000 circulation, 25 cents
an inch; up to 2000 circulation, 30
) cents an inch; up to 3000 circulation,
35 cents an inch; up to 7000 circula
tion, 40 cents an inch; up to 15,000
circulation, 45 cents an inch, and for
papers having more than 15,000 cir
culation, 3& cents an inch per 1000
circulation.
A rfp. roaring story of
the Jolly old wet Into
which came inln'i
hoatia' hid who let tho
whole world haow that
he wu a 'bad nyta"!
that he could hi die
two raaa better taaa
oao and oae bettor thaa
star other man's two. A
pair of blue eres took
aim at hi heart and the
whAlo town laughed.
Also "In the Days of
Buffalo Bill"
Tommy'a Inquires.
Tommy had received strict instruc
tion to ask no queations, and Tommy
tried hard to obey. But childish cu
riosity won, and he suddenly and
loudly inquired:
"Mamma, do Mr. and Mrs. Brown
still play in the band? Will they
play something when tea is over?"
"Why, Tommy, Mr. and Mrs. Brown
don't play in the band. Why do you
a&k such a question?"
"Because," said the terror, in dis
appointed tones, "I heard you tell
papa that Mr. Brown played second
fidd'e to Mb wife."
There was music after tea, and i
Tommy was the drum.
A New I'se for Puppies.
A younir supply prrachtr stopped
in the middle of hi sermon with the
statement, "Where 1 am staying they
have a litter of puppies. One of them
yot hold of the rest of my sermon and
chewed it up. I mu.t therefore stop
her. Rim and receive the benedic
tion." After the service a stranger
offend the young man a 10 bill, say
ing, "I want one of those pups for
our minister at home."
Good eating apples for sale at J1.60
per box and up. Heppner Bakery.
E. L. Padberg, who was in attend
ance at the installation ceremonies
of Willow Lodge, I. O. O. F. last eve
ning, stated that It was the intention
of Laxton McMurray to begin at once
the construction of a new brick build
ing at lone, on the lots recently pur
chased from the C. B. Sperry estate.
The building will be two stories, and
the upper floor will be arranged prop
erly for the holding of lodge metings
and will furnish a suitable place for
the various lodges of lone. The low
er floor will be used as store rooms
and the new building will add much
to the appearance of the business
portion of the city.
J. H. Frad came In from Portland
last evening and will spend a short
time at Heppner, looking after busi
ness affairs. He states that his part
of Oregon has had just a lot more
rain of late than is needed, and for
a time the flood conditions at Port
land became quite serious. Home
Eastern Oregon sunshine would be
tpprciated down that way, according
to Mr. Frad.
Shell Fish!
Fordsorv
THE UNIVERSAL TRACTOR
DO YOU ENJOY S1WLL
FISH!.
Oysters
Clams
Crab
ei ved in any sAyle
your order.
lo
Our Sunday dinners are an
attraction and should appeal
to you. Save the wife extra
work Sundays by taking din
ner with us just bring the
whole family along.
Elkhorn Restaurant
Heppner
I OK SALE Two brood sows, wt.
nearly 400 lbs., with I pigs each; $40
apiece. Inquire of Louis Balsiger,
lone, Ore,
Cut your
farm
cot in
half with
the Fordaon
Save
money
on every acre
plowed
with the
Fordson
Multiply
the work of
your farm
tool
four to six
timet
with the
Fordson
Cut your honra
in the field
over half
with
the Fordson
V
F.O.B. DETROIT ffiffimEfe
Give yourself
an 8-hour
day
you can with
the
Fordson
II
This Value
Has Never
Been
Duplicated
It takes something besides
engineering to furnish a
tractor like the Fordson
to sell at this astonish
ingly low price.
That something is owner
confidence built on permanent satisfac
tion. There are 170,000 Fordson tractors
in use wherever Power Farming is being
done Fordson is showing superior service.
If you are not using a Fordson now, start right.
The working ability of this remarkable power
plant is cutting farming costs in half in almost
every kind of work done, at the draw bar
or from the belt .
Ask OS Cor all the details call, write or phone.
Latourell Auto Co.
Authorized Ford, Fordson and Lincoln
Sales and Service
HEPPNER -
Come in and see our fine assortment of these
Palmer Coats
THOMSON BROTHERS
Main Street
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DIAMONDS -: WATCHES -: JEWELRY -: PIANOS
PHONOGRAPHS -:- RECORDS -:- SHEET MUSIC
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STARTHEATER
Saturday, January 20th
In Spain lliev j'lay
the game of love
for keeps
Pit ttUM.tti L LtVINVUJS
PHESfiTAnON OF
MAE
MURRAY
FASCINATION
concerns what happened to
a girl who didn't fully
realize that
Wmm by Edmund Goulding
A TIFFANY PRODUCTION
Sunday and Monday,
Jan. 2 1 st and 2nd
SI W
m
H- m.
'Into the clock wid yezl'
Sure, they'll niver catch the
loikes of yez while Conn's on the
job. Faith, it's a long way from
catched yez are and it's had luck
to the day they catch yez again.
"My Wild Irish Rose"
A big special production adapt
ed from Dion Boucicault's fa
mous play, "The Sliaunhraun."
Wednesday and Thurs
day Jan. 24th and 25th
It
PWiiih toy:-
Penrod, Herman Vennan
Swnrny Williams
CTrechJes Parry in J
Marshall Neili Va "i . 1
Hail! Hail!
The Gang's All Here!
Herman and Verman,
Sammy Williams and
Penrod to the final
So look out for trouble,
Marshall Neilan
presents
Booth Tarkington's
'PENROD'
with
Freckles
Barry