PAGE FOUR
THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1925.
IlLIUi
MACHINE IN HARVEST
Fun Bo.rd of Hf!th.
Hiring ht'p it nir thn k"jmg
It to ttt t.d of hsrvest! Brfskirr ,n
nw orlr u'e ti tin of the
inrmmn and uiutur involves ttpen?
for transportation from the railway
It lo down the output srd often
eo,ti tht lost of a part of the scrv
aff. Th Stat Board of Health wr,U
tha followirr mtr"tiOn w.th thf
hop that Ortfoti' farmfra may aefp
tbtir harvffUra at 1(0 per cent ef
flcimty. and that they may aave the
tate tht eipenee of stamping out epi
demic! which frequently arise in tem
porary campn. The Board will issue
a bulletin toon with aucftestions for
the workers themselves which may
be posted in camps.
LOCATION OF CAMPS Should be
on well-drained pround. and should
be chosen after consultation with
county health officer.
PURE WATER SU PPLY Before
water is to be used for drinking pur
poses it should be analyied to deter
mine its freedom from disease pro
ducing germs. Vpon request the lab
oratory of the Stat Board of Health
will send a sterile bottle and full
directions for the collection and ship
ment of the water sample. There is
no charge attached to this service;
the only requirement being that the
bottle must be obtained from the
State. Laboratory. Address all in
quiries regarding the examination of
water to the Director of the Labora
tory, Stat Board of Health. SOI Fiti-
patrick Bide- Portland, Oregon. If
the water comes from a well be sure
there is no drainage back into the
well from water used in washing
hands, dishes and similar purposes.
Drinking water should be supplied
within 300 feet of each camp. All
privy vaults and cesspools should be
at least 200 feet from the water sup
ply and so located that pollution is
impossible.
PERSONAL CLEANLINESS Make
it easy for the workers to wash their
hands often, and always before eat
ing. A wash basin chained to the
wall near a faucet, and the provision
of soap will encourage cleanliness
and may prevent the loss of many
workers til rough illness. A camp
sanitation eipert says, "The chief
cause of disease in camp is eating
with unwashed hands."
WASTE DISPOSAL Garbage of
food leftovers should be placed in
tightly covered recpetacies and re
moved daily, and either buried or
burned. Fly tig-tit privies or water
fiushed toilets should be maintained
in a clean and sanitary condition.
Toilets for women should be provided
in the fields. At least one caretnW
should be employed by the manage
ment to keep the grounds in sanitary
condition.
FIRST AID SUPPLIES Increase
the probability of healdth among
your harvester! by getting from your
local druggist a supply of bandages
and simple remedies which he will
suggest
RAPIDS PROJECT
NEED NOT WAIT
(Pendleton East Oregonian.)
The report upon the Columbia ba
sin project by Commissioner Elwood
Mead and others is that the project
is feasible but that it should wait for
future development. The report points
out the large acreage involved, the
cost per acre and the very large sum
needed to develop the project. The
report offers no hope for immediate
action upon the project
Such being the ease, the attention
of the northwest may now properly
be centered upon the Umatilla rapids
project An economic report upon
this project has been promised by
Commissioner Mead and it is under
stood this will be made in the near
future.
What the report will reveal remains
to be seen. The project has obvious
advantages over the larger Columbia
basin project The sum of money
called for ia much smaller, the pro
ject will cover land in both states, it
will provide river improvement, which
will serve Idaho as well as Oregon
and Washington, and it calls for a
giant power development. The power
feature is a truly vita! thing about
the project because additional power
is needed and here 420,000 horsepow
er may be provided at a remarkably
low cost In the meeting at Portland
Dr. Mead expressed much interest in
the power subject and the possibility
that power development might be
used to help make the project feasible
from an agricultural standpoint.
There are three or four large federal
reclamation projects where much of
the success is due to the fact that
power is developed and the surplus
power sold.
Most practical men have long for
seen that the Columbia basin project
must wait for future development
But there seems no occasion for de
laying the rapids project If the peo
ple of Oregon and Washington, and
Idaho also, would pull together and
exert in favor of this project one
tenth the energy and money that has
been placed behind the Columbia ba
sin we would be assured of results.
It is time to get busy.
Pork and Vegetable
Staple Chine Food$
Pork la the chief meat of the Chi
ne. It ! nsex by practically all
rlaswa of people In all parti of
China. A meal without pork la con
siiVred to t unusually simp!, acd
with the nrentlon of vegetarians
! used by slaves or very poor peo
ple only, the North China News
say a
Fresh pork It mob a common
fiod that wealthy people will not
even touch it. puring Sew Tear
festivals and birthday or wedding
oelehmtlona a whole dressed hog or
a half of It It often purchased and
consumed by the family and their
guest a,
Lsnih, however, may be substl
luted for pork, hut beef la consid
ered more or less sacred and la very
seldom used for food. The quan
tity of meat eateu Is small ; It Is
usually served cm Into small piece
and mixed with vegetable In a
great variety of way.
Vegetable are used much more
freely by the Chinese people than
by Americans. In addition to the
common ones, such as potatoes,
spinach, cabbage, radishes and the
like, many plants and weeds are
eaten which are not usually con
sidered as food In America. Thus
radleli leaves, shepherd's purse,
bamboo sprouts and a large num
ber of sea weeds are used aa food.
Hay
maws
AFTER
EVERY
MEAL
anorai
benefit ai well
as pleasure.
Healthful exxreise for the teeth
end a spur to digestion. A kmg
leafing refreshment, soothing to
serve and stomach.
The Great American
Sweetmeat, untouched
by hands, full of
Believed Evil Spirit
Lurked in Watch Case
Until comparatively modern times
the wearing of a watch was con
sidered a proof of the owner" gen
tility, though the Invention can be
traced back to the Fourteenth cen
tury. Watches were worn attached
to a chain suspended around the
neck, a fashion which still survives
with women.
From the following story of on
Mr. Allen, s reputed sorcerer, who
died In 1830. watches must have
been very uncommon in his day.
Being at Holme Lacey, In Here
fordshire, Allen happened to leave
his watch in the chamber window.
The maids entered his room to
make the bed, and, bearing a cari
ous ticking sound coming from
case, concluded that It wa their
master's devil. One of them took
it up with tongs and threw It out
of the window into the moat
The string attached to the case
caught on the sprig of an elder that
grew out of the moat, and this con
firmed their belief that the case
contained an evil spirit
Over-Long Sentence
Edgar A. Bancroft the famous
Chicago lawyer who has been ap
pointed ambassador to Japan, said
at a Blackstone luncheon:
"A good diplomat can coach the
truth, even the most unpleasant
truth. In diplomatic language. He
Is like the young beauty.
"1 told Gobs Golde,' said the
young beauty, that, despite hi
great wealth, he was too old for
me, and so I wouldn't marry him.'
" hat I said her mother. 'Yon
told him to his face he wa too
old? My, but he must have been
mad.'
" "Oh, no," said the young beauty,
lie wasn't mad. Ton see, I used
diplomatic language. He said be'd
love and cherish me till death, and
I told him he wa too young.' "
Had Little Part
in Puritan Training
"It Is not Inconsistent even with
the American mind that myths
should flourish among us." says
Caroline E. MacUill in Scribner's
ilugailne. "Perhaps the subtlest
and most widespread of all our
myths Is that myths cannot exist In
the freedom and vigor of the "great
open spacea' It Is a peculiarly
dangerous myth, because of Its
mind-closing tendencies, blinding us
to the better concealed of the popu
lar falaclea.
"Many of our myth center
around liberty and freedom, until
one would suppose that they were
something indigenous to the soli of
this western world. Yet we know
thst "freedom,' except for the few,
was about the last thing the original
settlers wanted. An examination
of the records of the northern
colonies will show how exceedingly
little freedom there was of any kind
from the ordinances of Plymouth
to the famous statute of 1638,
which removed the last vestige of
freedom from children above six.
compelling them to be employed,
even doubly employed, after that
age. It la very well to talk about
the stern economic conditions which
made It necessary for each child to
be so far, as possible self-supporting,
but the statute ttself. alas I
make It quite clear that the real
thorn wa the sight of children pre
suming to play. Such lasclvlousnes
on the part of the Innocents was ut
terly at variance with the puritan
temper."
told treasures fts saltiness has
caused much Inconvenience, for
ninny, as Coleridi:e"s Ancient Mari
ner, hsve had parched throats with
Water, water everywhere, nor any
drop to drink." Although appar
ently a nuisance and worthless, sea
salt Is Nature" storehouse of treaa
tires to the chemist, for It contains
all the valuable constituents of the
earth's crust that have been leached
out by the countless rains of former
years.
Hum of Telephone Wire
The humming noise made by
telephone and telegraph wires Is
caused by vibrations of the wire
set in motion by the wind and other
air current! The Intensity of the
humming is determined to some ex
tent by the tightness of the wires
and the distance between the pole
The greatest noise I heard at the
poles, the wood being set In vibra
tion by the wire.
Baby Uielett Gift
"Tee, Rupert," said mother, "the
baby was a Christmas present from
the angel."
"Well, mamma. If we lay him
away carefully and dont use him,
can't we give him to somebody else
next Christmas?"
Her Memory Revered
Lady Arabella wa the daughter
of Thorns, earl of Lincoln. She
married Isaac Johnson, who left his
native land for New England from
religious motives. Lady Arabella
cheerfully accompanied him,- and
tbey arrived at Salem, Mass., In
April, 1630. Her exalted character
and gentleness gained ber univer
sal esteem, but she died In the Sep
tember following her arrival. Mr.
Johnson survived her little more
than a month. Be I regarded as
the founder of Boston, and though
his time was brief, yet the good
work be accomplished win never be
forgotten by the people of New Eng
land. But dearest still Is the mem
ory of Lady Arabella. Denver
New.
"City" of El Dorado
Nothing But a Myth
Some time ago, when the ruins of
an Aztec city were discovered In
the Amaxonian forest they were
popularly supposed to be those of
El Dorado, the golden city to which
Raleigh and many other adventur
ers were said to have been lured,
some to their death, and a few to
fortune. In Elizabethan times, wben
the wildest stories of the New
world found credence.
El Dorado sounds like the fanci
ful name which the Spaniard and
Portuguese gave to the cities they
established, such as Buenos Aire,
Santiago, Los Angeles, and so on.
But the fact Is that El Dorado 1
not a city at all, and never was, al
though It would make a fine sound
ing name for some new capital.
The story goes that Orellana, the
lieutenant o; the great Pizarro, pre
tended he had discovered a land of
gold between the Orinoco and the
Amazon, but when these high hopes
proved delusive, the ruler was
smeared with oil and rolled In gold
dust, and dubbed El Dorado, the
gilded man. Whether there Is truth
In the story Is difficult to determine
Had Wrong Willie
If sometimes startling to be
called to the telephone by an un
known person. A youth In a down
town office was called to the 'phone
recently. "Are you William Q.
Smith?" a voice asked. "Yes, sir,"
replied meek Willie, who is Just
sixteen and Is not at all sure of
himself. "Well, this Is Mr. Buzs
wuzz, lawyer. Don't you know that
you owe your wife ten months' ali
mony? When are you going to pay
ltf "But I ain't married," plead
ed Willie. "What' that lying out
of It? We'll send some one to ar
rest you right away." "Mister,"
Willie almost cried, "honest, I
ain't married. I'm only sixteen,
and my mother wouldn't let me."
"Only sixteen? I guess I must have
the wrong number," the lawyer de
clared. "There are too many
Smiths In tjie world." Philadelphia
Record.
Cuffing the "Cordian Knot"
This expression has Its origin In
the tale of Gonlius, a Phrygian
peasant, owner of a yoke of oxen,
who became king. He dedicated his
car and men to Zeus, anil the knot
of the yoke was tied so skillfully
that an oracle declared that whom
soever should unloose It would he
ruler of Asia. When Alexander the
Great came to Gordium he cut the
knot In two with his sword and up
plleil the prophecy to himself.
It Origin Uncertain
The phrase "Lynch law" has
been variously traced to a Virginia
soldier and to a Virginia farmer of
that name, to one Lynch, who was
sent out from Kngluud about ltWt
to suppress piracy, while yet an
other tradition refers It to Lynch
creek. In North Carolina, where
the forms of a court-martial and
execution were gone through ovet
the lifeless body of a Tory, who
had already been precipltatelj
hanged to prevent a rescue.
Chamber' Encyclopedia.
" Waited" Medicine
The particularly well-known man
entered the doctor' consulting
room and took a cbalr.
'Well, what can I do for your
asked the doctor.
"I don't think much of that cough
medicine of yours," nswered the
man.
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that," w
the reply. "What Is the reason?"
"Why," said the other. "There'
so much dead waste In It. I hadn't
taken more than a quarter oT bot
tle when my cold disappeared, and
there Is the other three-quarters
Just thrown away."
Mataryk Diligent Reader
President Masaryk of Czechoslo
vakia I an Industrious reader. His
reading room Is piled with hooka
newsnaners and periodicals of
which he reads regularly nearly
Ave hundred. These Include the
Prmriie newspapers, many Checho
slovakian newspapers, several
newspapers from neighboring coun
tries, including Russia, also Eng
llsh and American dallies. Thus
the Czech President keeps Informed
of world events. Despite bis
seventy-five years, he ride two
hours nearly every dny.
Loat Lady's' small cloaed ease El
gin gold watch, with crack in dial;
shield engraved on back of case. Val
uable aa keepsake. $10 reward. In
quire at this office.
High grade piano near Heppner
will b aold to a reliable party at a
big saving, f 10 monthly will h.ndle,
a anap. write at once to Taltmaa
Piano Store, Salem, Oregon.
Mrs. Andrew Olson of Heppner is
the guest of Mrs. B. J. Wilton of this
city this week. Mr. Olson ia manager
of the Union Oil plant at Heppner.
Condon Globe-Times.
I NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY YOUR
I LUMBER I
Pyramid Uied at Gauge
The pyramids and the sphynx
were more Important a timepiece
than a tombs, declare some scien
tist. Originally, it 1 maintained
the rphynx sat far below the level
of the desert sand. By sighting
across the asp on the bead of the
sphynx and the use of the notched
stick to get the angle the season of
the year could be told, from the
relation of the stick to the sun.
The science was so accurate that
the exact dsy of the year could be
told. Similarly by studying the
length of shadow cast by the vari
ous pyramids other Important sea
sonal facts could be ascertained.
Rough lumber, at mill
Shiplap, at mill
No. 1 Rustic, at mill .
No. 2 Rustic, at mill .
No. 1 Finish, at mill .
No. 2 Finish, at mill .
Flooring, at mill ....
. $15.00 per M
. $19.00 per M
.$30.00 per M
.$25.00 per M
.$35.00 per M
. $30.00 per M
. $35.00 per M
Will deliver in truck-load lots of 1500 feet or
more at Heppner for $6.00 per M.
1 6-Inch Pine. Wood, at mill, $4.00 Cord
Pyle& Grimes
Parkers Mill, Oregon 5
IlllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllM
Outclatted Solomon
Solomon has generally been re
garded as the world's mo9t married
man, but King Tchrimekundan, who
lived thousands of years before Sol
omon's time, had him beaten. He
ruled over the land of Bhela, had
3.000 ministers and ruled over 60
little kings. In addition he bad 500
wive of noble lineage, 500 wives
endowed with great rlche and
other 500 perfectly beautiful wives.
This Inventory Is given In one of
hree Tibetan 'Mysteries" trans
lated from the French of Jacques
Bacot. These dramas are played In
the Tibetan monasteries during the
cooler weather of the sixth moon
and the costumes and wigs are very
accurate. There Is not much "ac
tion" In the plays, but the dialogue
Is Interesting. Family Herald.
Treature in Ocean
-The ocean appears to the trav
eler to be a vast expanse of salty
water valued chiefly for transporta
tion and source of rainfall. Yet It
Is veritably teeming with plant and
animal llfet and Its dppth, hold nn-
When you are ready to seed, don't
forget the new
SUPERIOR DRILL
WITH THE ALEMITE OILING SYSTEM
We have both the Superior and Kentucky
Drills in both disc and hoe, also the Rotary
Rod Weeder, which is sure to get all the
weeds.
You will surely save money by buying
a new drill instead of using an old one that
does poor work, and you know it does not
pay to plant yur seed on weedy ground.
Gilliam & Bisbee
HARVEST
SPECIALS
Bring in a list of sup
plies needed for
HARVEST
and get our prices.
Let us have a chance
to figure with you.
Maybe we can save
you money.
We have a good line
of Harvest SHOES
for men and boys.
Leather and Canvas
Gloves, Oshkosh
Overalls and Coveralls.
t
?
?
y
r
?
?
y
t
y
y
?
y
y
t
t
?
y
y
y
?
?
y
t
?
?
y
y
?
?
y
?
?
?
?
t
Vanity Cases
Used 3000 B. C.
Scientific excavations in the ancient city of Kish, so
we are told by a news dispatch, shows that women car
ried vanity cases forty-nine centuries ago. Why did not
the luxuries of that old civilization spread to the rest of
the world? Why were the delicate and pleasure-giving
things of' life buried and hidden away for so many ages? ,
Without the printed word, information could hardly
be spread to other countries and the knowledge of events
and things could scarcely be preserved. Today, if a bet
ter rug is produced in Kurdistan, it is sono advertised for
sale in American newspapers. If a better necklace is
made in China, a printed advertisement will shortly de
scribe it and quote the price on the other side of the
globe.
Advertising publishes the secrets of good things from
one end of America to the other. The newest and best
products of forty-eight states are told about, fully and
truthfully, wherever the public press is read.
Read the advertisements and you keep from being
buried like Kish.
f
t
y
?
t
y
y
t
y
y
?
?
y
y
y
f
?
t
?
y
y
?
?
y
ADVERTISEMENTS TELL YOU WHAT IS BEST
TO BUY WHERE TO GET IT AND
WHAT TO PAY FOR IT
f
y
y
y
y
?
?
?
y
t
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Announcing Important
Changes in Bodies
and Chassis
Added Beauty and Utility
Closed Cars in Color
No Increase in Prices
All-steel bodies on Tudor Sedan, Coupe
and open cars. Bodies and chassis both
lowered. Larger, more attractive fenders,
affording greater protection. New im
proved transmission and rear axle
brakes on all types. One-piece ventilat
ing windshield on closed cars; double
ventilating type on open cars. Curtains
opening with all doors on Touring car
and Runabout. Closed cars in colors,
with upholstery of finer quality to har
monize; and nicklcd radiator shells.
Many other refinements now add to the
beauty and quality of these cars. See
LATOURELL AUTO CO. today for com
plete details.
I m
f
i?
Malcolm D.Clark
Detroit, Michigan ,