HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOV. 28, 1929.
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THANKSGIVING PROCLAIMED
BY THE FIRST PRESIDENT
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WHEKEAS, tt Is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the provi
dence of Almighty God, to obey Hl will, to be grateful for Hie
benefits, and humbly to implore Hie protection and favor; and Whereai.
both Houses of Congress have, by their Joint committee, requested ins
"to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanks
giving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful
hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by of
ferine; them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government
for their safety and happiness:"
Now, therefore, t do recommend and assign Thursday, the twenty
sixth day of November next, to be devoted by tba people of these 8tate
to the service of tiiat great and glorious Being who is the beneficent
author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may
then all unite In rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for
His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to
their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the
favorable Interpositions of His providence In the course and conclusion
of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty
, which we have enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which
we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our
safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately in
stituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed,
and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and,
In general, for all the great and various favors which He has been
pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite In most humbly offering our pray
ers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and be
seech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us
all, whether in publlo or private stations, to perform our several and rel
ative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government
a blessing to sll the people by constantly being a Government of wise,
)ust and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and
obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such
as have shown kindness .to us) and to bless them with good govern
ments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of
true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and
us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of tem
poral prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand, at the city of New Tork, the third day of
October, A. D. 1789.
O. WASHINGTON.
Goodly Heritage
That Is America's
Thanksgiving day Is different
from other holidays. It has Its own
'meaning. It meets a definite human
need. That Is why It has survived
through the centuries since the Pil
grims landed on the stern and roek
botind coast of New England.
It Is pre-emlneutly a day of home
life, of family gatherings and re
unions. Naturally It becomes a day
when people look backward and
forward; when they take stock of
what has been accomplished and
. consider what the future holds out
;to them; when parents consider
with thankfulness the happiness
; they have in their children and
i when they consider what their chll
'dren have In store In opportunities
I In the years to coine.
I A stimulating book that has
bearing on Thanksgiving day reflec
tions has the title "Whither Man
I kind; a Panorama of Modern Civ
ilization." The editor, Charles A.
Beard, a specialist on American
history, has obtained the co-opera-tlon
of scholars who have contrlb
; uted chapters on all the great fields
of human activity,
s The opening chapter we would
stress today. It Is by a Chinese,
iBu Shlh, who discusses the clvlll
'ration of the East and West
Contrasting Civilizations.
We Invite attention to the views
of this cultivated oriental because
;he Is In a position to take a de
tached and fairly Impartial view
of western civilization In contrast
ing 1t with the civilization of Asia.
Often such a view helps us to a
better understanding and apprecia
tion of things whose outlines are
blurred because we are so familiar
with them.
Many good people are disturbed
over the present outlook. They
see about them a world full of self
ishness; a world In which smart
nnscrupulousncss too often Is re
warded with success; a world In
which modern science and Inven
tion are at the service of devastat
ing wars, or cater to triviality and
crudeness.
Of what use Is It, they Inquire,
to be able to talk over the tele
phone to some one a thousand
miles nwny, If we have nothing to
say? If what advantage Is the
possibility of hurrying around In
motor cars If we have nothing to
do when we arrive?
Are not the luxuries we are pro
ducing wholesale simply demoral
izing our young people? Uas the
present generation the moral fiber
of the forefathers? Have we not,
as Disraeli said, discovered com
fort and thought It civilization?
A German savant remarked to
Hu Shlh that western civilization
had failed. In contrast the civili
zation of the West was based on
"spiritual principles."
Is this gloomy view, evidently
the product of the war and of post
war hnppenlngs, the view of things
as they renlly are? Is our Thanks
giving joy simply the superficial
Joy of a comfortable holiday?
Spirituality and Poverty.
To such gloomy forebodings the
words of this Chinese writer are a
refreshing antidote. He knows the
civilization of the Orient and he
knows from observation and expe
rience the effect on spiritual values
,of the abject poverty that results
from the failure to master the
(forces of nature.
The civilization of a race, he
igays, Is simply the sum total of Its
lachlavajnents In adjusting Itself to
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Its environment. Our ancestors of
the Stone age who were constantly
fighting their environment In order
to bold soul and body together had
no chance to make progress. It
was only after they had discovered
hovr to deal with their surround
ings that they began to forge ahead.
Hu Shlh finds that the difference
between the eastern and western
civilization Is primarily a differ
ence In the tools used. In the
dawn of history Asia and Europe
both had the samerlmltlve tools
and the same sort of civilization.
In the last few hundred years the
West hag been able to devise new
tools for the mastery of nature,
and so has built a new civilization,
while the East, still using the an
cient tools, has stood still.
Held Back by Poverty.
It Is only when men have
reached a stage of material ad
vancement that they can paint
Slstlne Madonnas or compose hero
ic symphonies.
Twenty-six centuries ago a Chi
nese statesman said: "When food
and clothing are sufficiently pro
vided for, honor and disgrace can
be distinguished; and when gran
aries are full people will know
good manners."
Benjamin Franklin had the same
Idea when he remarked: "It Is
hard for an empty sack to stand
upright."
Asia reached a certain stage In
the Invention of tools to help mas
ter nature, and then gave up baf
fled. The West fortunately learned
from the Greeks the restless curi
osity that constantly pushes for
ward Its Inquiries. One rested sat
isfied with the wheelbarrow, the
other went on to the Bteam engine,
the motor car and the airplane.
Where millions of people are only
a short jump ahead of the wolf of
starvation, where It Is Inevitable
that other millions die every year
from Insufficient food, there is no
chance for an elljrhtened democrat
ic government, to develop. Ninety
per cent of tbe Chinese are Illit
erate. Greek Goal In Sight.
It requires an accumulation of
property that permits general edu
cation for a government to exist
that makes human welfare Its aim.
Imagine a Chinese mandarin or
an Indian prince talking to his peo
ple about governmental policies
that will liberate the energies of
men and result In happier homes
as our statesmen talk to American
audiences I
So what Is the conclusion of the
whole mntter at this time of
thanksgiving? Certainly not that
we have reached our goal ; not that
we have done away with the evils
of our social order, and abolished
the great terrors of unemployment
and poverty; not that we have at
tained the fullness of life that Is
open to us.
But we may reasonably feel that
we ore In sight of the abolition of
acute misery and are on the thresh
old of a great advance. Kansas
City Star.
Revived by Washington
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served by proclamation of the Con
tinental congress during the Revo
lution, but after peace wag signed
with Great Britain It was discon
tinued until 1780, when V Washing
ton sot the example of Appointing
a special time for unanimity In na
tional celebration of the kind. That
course became an official action of
the United States government In
1804.
SSI?
FRANK PARKER
STOCKBR1ME
DOCTORS
Good doctors are scarce every
where. Country doctors are under
paid and overworked. Peeksklll,
N. Y., physicians have agreed to
charge $1 for telephone consulta
tions. If advice on how to treat a
cold Is worth telephoning for it Is
certainly worth a dollar. In Eng
land the fees of rural physicians are
fixed by the Government We may
come to that In America. The fees
must be high enough, however, to
encourage well trained young doc
tors to settle in small towns and t
stay there.
Several English towns where doc
tors have failed to make a living
have agreed to pay a salary out of
public funds to a good doctor, for
public health work, which still
leaves him time to engage in gen
eral practice. That way of insur
ing a doctor a living and at the
same time safeguarding the public
health is a sound, American method
and should be more generally ad
opted, as it will be.
ENGINES
The next big Improvement in au
tomobiles will be an engine that
uses crude oil or distillate Instead
of gasoline.
Heavy-oil engines use cheaper
fuel, get two or three times as much
power out of a gallon of it, require
no complicated electrical sparking
apparatus, and have no valves to be
reground. The motor car of the fu
ture will have an engine of that
type, driving the front wheels In
stead of the rear wheels, and will
have no gears to shift
Airplanes will use the cheaper
fuel, too. A Diesel type engine flew
a plane from Detroit to Washington
recently. Elmer Sperry announces
that he has perfected such an en
gine for air use on which he has
been working for years. A com--pany
has been formed in England
to manufacture a heavy-oil automo
bile engine invented by a Swede,
Hesselman.
Sweden, by the way, produces
more first-rate engineering ability
in proportion to population than
any other country except, perhaps,
Italy. Ericsson, inventor of the
screw propeller and builder of the
Monitor, was a Swede. So were
Alfred Nobel, Inventor of dynamite,
and De Laval, inventor of the steam
turbine and the cream separator.
EDUCATION
The best American I ever knew
died the other day. I shall not print
his name; he would not have liked
the publicity. He probably had nev
er earned as much as $100 a month,
but he sent his four children thru
college. A Cape Cod fisherman's
son, he was a schooner captain in
the West Indies trade at eighteen.
At seventy-five he was hauling mail
and baggage in his old Ford truck,
preferring independence to retire
ment
Unlettered himself, one of his
sons is a professor in a western
university, one is on the Harvard
faculty; a daughter is superintend
ent of a great training school for
nurses.
"Sorrel and Son," one of the most
popular English novels of recent
years, has for Its theme the sacri
fices of a father for his son's edu
cation. A new theme in England,
but one of the oldest in America.
CLIMATE
Chicago may rival Florida as a
winter resort when the new power
plant of the Commonwealth Edison
company is completed at State line
on Lake Michigan. More steam pow
er will be generated there than on
any other square mile in the world.
To cool the huge condensers of the
compound engines, four hundred
thousand gallons of Lake Michigan
water will be pumped up every min
ute and will now back with Its tem
perature nearly a hundred degrees
higher.
In New York the average temper
ature of the whole Upper East Side
of the city has been appreciably in
creased by the condenser water
from the New York Edison Com
pany's plants, flowing into the East
River. The southern end of Lake
Michigan and all the towns that
border it will have a perceptibly
warmer climate when the new State
Line plant gets Into full operation.
MOUNTAINS
Motorists driving from Harris
burg (spelled without the final "h")
to Pittsburgh (with the final "h")
are Interested in the signboards on
the peaks of the Alleghany Moun
tains (spelled with an "a" after the
h") as they cross into the valley
of the Allegheny River (spelled with
an ' e Instead of an a.")
Differences of spelling aside, the
signs tells the height above sea
level of each high spot on the road.
That is something we all like to
know. It is surprising that the
idea of marking the high places has
not spread farther.
ACCIDENTS
Automobile accident cases cost
the hospitals of the United States
more than $15,000,000 last year, for
the care of the Injured. More than
one-third-of this was never collect
ed, because the persons responsible
for the accidents could not be com.
polled to pay for the damage they
had done,
Next to industrial accidents, auto
mobiles send more individuals to the
hospitals than any other one cause,
The care of the victims is a charge
on all the rest of us, to the extent
that the deficit In hospital expenses
has to be made up out of taxes.
Almost every state makes insur
ance against industrial accidents
compulsory on employers. Only
Massachusetts requires automobile
owners to carry liability Insurance.
If you are injured by a car with a
Massachusetts license, the insurance
company pays. If a car from any
other state hits you, you can usual
ly whistle for your hospital bill, or
start a tedious and expensive law
suit Eventually every progressive state
will adopt the Massachusetts sys
tem or something like it
Thriftier calves generally result
if they are fed wholemilk for at
least the first two weeks, it has been
found. The practice at the Oregon
Experiment station is to feed the
calves whole milk up to about three
weeks of age, and then gradually
change them to either calf meal or
skimmilk. The calf meal is fed dry,
and animals receiving it have been
noticeably lacking In Intestinal dis
orders. It is essential, however, that
young calves receiving dry calf meal
DRINK MORE MILK
Wise old Mother Nature made milk
for children. Into It she put every
thing needed for sustenance, and In
the most easily assimilated form.
So, Drink More Milk. Let the
children have plenty. It It. the
cheapest food you can buy.
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and plenty of freeh water.
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He reports that Mrs. Ward, who Is
still in Portland where she has
been receiving medical treatment
for some time past, is improving.
He expects that she will remain in
the city for the winter.
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