HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOV. 28, 1929. PAGE FIVE THANKSGIVING PROCLAIMED BY THE FIRST PRESIDENT 4 ji.nta. V 6mcs SArrf &J -S KB yya jy V W & y y - - S ' ' 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 s f Jl4 - - " ' 1 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 Thnnkficrlvlnsr dav wn nnnnnllv nh. 1 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. Alfalfa Lawn Dairy WIG HTM AN BROS, Props. 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