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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1930
COUNTING UNCLE
SAMUEL'S FAMILY
This Is the Year When the Census
Man Makes His Rounds; Ques
tions He Will Ask and Why.
By CALEB JOHNSON
Uncle Sam will begin to count his
nephews and nieces on the first of
April, 1930, and this year he is go
ing to find out a lot more about
them than has been known before.
Some time during the month of
April an enumerator of the United
States Census Bureau will call at
every dwelling in the nation and
ask the head of the family twenty
four questions. Some of them might
be considered impertinent if asked
by a stranger, or even by a neigh
bor, but the Census enumerators
are under oath not to disclose any
facts learned by them except in
their official reports. And those re
ports are not open anywhere to pub
lic inspection. Like the figures in
your income-tax return, they are
official secrets which prying gos
sips have no access to. Uncle Sam
is concerned, for census purposes,
only with totals and averages and
not at all with individuals. But a
clear picture of the people of the
United States as a whole can be ob
tained only by getting the facts
about each individual inhabitant, to
start with.
For example, one of the things
which it is important to know, be
sides the number of persons in the
United States, is the average age of
our people. Is it higher or lower
than it was when the last census
was taken, ten years ago, and how
much? This average age has been
increasing steadily. But if the cen
sus of 1930 should show a decline in
the average age, it would be a dan
ger signal, a warning to speed up
public health measures, a call to
investigate the cause and apply all
of the resources of sanitary science
toward improving and guarding the
general health.
So dont think it is impertinence
when the census-taker asks your
age! Uncle Sam wants to know,
not your individual age but the av
erage of all of the people.
Another question the enumera
tors will ask is "Who is the head
of the family?" That doesn't mean
what it sounds like. Uncle . Sam
isn't interested as to whether the
wife wears the brecehes or not, but
does want to know how many men
are dependent upon the earnings
of their children, how many women
are self-supporting. The head of
the family, from the census point of
view, is the one who earns the
money.
Whether you live on a farm or
in a town, whether you are white,
black, red or yellow, male or female
married or unmarried, able to read
and write, where you were born
and where your parents were born
when you came to America if you
are an immigrant, what your native
language was and whether you can
speak English are questions the rea-
sons for which are clear enough,
On the totals compiled from these
answers depends, among other
things, the number of persons from
your native country who can be ad
mitted to the United States in the
next ten years.
Everybody who is employed will
be asked to give his trade or occu
pation and the particular industry
in which he or she works, or if
working on his own account or as
an emplyer, to say so. But a ques
tion on that line this year will be:
''Are you employed now?" That
is as of the first of April. There
will be for the first time an accurate
record of unemployment, figures on
which heretofore have been largely
estimates.
Another new question will be
whether you own your home. In a
general way the proportion of
home-owners has been estimated in
the past, but nobody has ever had
exact figures. The figures have a
decided bearing on the important
subject of our national prosperity.
And if you do not own your home,
the census man will ask you how
much rent you pay. That is anoth
er useful index of the size of the
national bankroll. Taking the two
together, the Government will be
able to tell us whether home owner
ship is on the increase, whether
there is a demand for more individually-owned
dwellings, and those
facts have a bearing on the lumber
industry and the production of all
other building supplies, as well as
on the market for all sorts of house
hold equipment and furnishings.
Another new census question is
whether you own a radio set. Noth
ing could better illustrate the speed
with which new inventions take
hold, once they strike the public
fancy. Ten years ago, when the
census of 1920 was taken, there
wasn't a radio set in the world ex
cept experimental ones; there was
no such thing as broadcasting; no
body but a few experts knew the
difference between a heterodyne
and a screen-grid, if any. Now look
at the blamed thing! There are so
many receiving sets that Uncle Sam
is going to count 'em, to find out
how many of his family he can talk
to at once.
For the first time, the census
taker will ask how old you were at
your first marriage. The informa
tion will be more important ten
years from now than it is now, be
cause the second set of answers to
it, in 1940, will disclose whether the
average age of marriage is getting
older or younger. Our grandparents
married in their teens, as a rule; to
day 25 is nearer the average age, in
all probability. Will the young
folks of the next ten years continue
to postpone marriage or will they
revert to the youthful marriages of
their ancestors.
You will be asked whether you
have attended school or college
t;uice last September. The figures
for education have been climbing
ijtcadily ever since the first census
was taken. Beyond question they
are still climbing, but how fast?
And as a final question every one
of Uncle Sam's nephews will be
asked whether be has served as a
soldier, sailor or marine in any war
in which his country was involved.
We will know for the first time Just
how many veterans of each war are
still living. And that will help to
estimate future demands on tax
payers for pensions.
The census is the oldest of all our
Federal bureaus, as old as Congress
and the Presidential office and the
judiciary, for it was set up in the
Constitution itself, which requires
that the inhabitants be counted
every ten years. The orginal pur
pose was to find out how many
lived in each state in order to appor
tion members of Congress among
the states. That is still one of the
purposes, though Congress itself has
been dilatory in reapportioning its
membership in proportion to population.
The first census, taken in 1790,
showed fewer than four million in
habitants in the new nation; 3,-
929,214, to be exact. We passed the
25 million mark between 1850 and
1860; by 1880 we had almost exactly
50 million, and forty years later, in
1920, we had doubled that figure
with 105,710,620 persons living in
Continental United States. The
Census Bureau experts have made
estimates from year to year of the
increase since that time, and give it
as their belief that enumeration of
1930 will show between 121 and 122
million nephews and nieces of Un
cle Sam.
HARDMAN.
Mis. Harvey Harshman and fam
ily were visiting friends and rela
tives in town Sunday.
Victor and Alfred Lovgren were
visiting in town Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. McDaniel
spent the Christmas vacation vis
iting their daughter, Mrs. Bud Fisk,
at Arlington.
Miss Cecil Stevens spent the holi
days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Wes Stevens.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Buschke are
visiting Mrs. Buschke's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Dick Steers.
Lloyd and Everett Harshman and
Miss Edna Lovgren spent Sunday
visiting at the home of Mrs. Walter
Farrens.
Mrs. Tyndal Robison was calling
on friends here Saturday.
Osel Inskeep of lone is visiting
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Add In
skeep, this week.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon in the I. O. O. F. hall
for the late Henry Cramer.
Mrs. Ethel McDaniel took her lit
tle son to Hppner Monday to con
sult a doctor for some trouble he
has been having with his ears.
Victr Johnson is quite sick at the
home of G. A. Farrens, suffering a
severe attack of the flu.
FARM POINTERS.
(O. S. A. C. Experiment Station.)
Generally speaking, is requires
from 15 to 20 pounds of garbage to
produce one pound of pork.
There is no known . method of
keeping strawberries bearing year
after year without resetting. Two
or three years is the average prof
itable period. The producing lite
of commercial plantings is discuss
ed in an Oregon Experiment station
bulletin entitled, "Cost and Prac
tices in Strawberry Production in
the Willamette Valley."
Oak is the best wood available in
Oregon for the smoke house fire,
but willow, or any of the fruit tree
woods are good. As it is best to
keep the temperature below 120 de
grees Fahrenheit, is has been found
a good practice to use some hard
wood saw dust on the fire, says the
experiment station. This will cause
it to burn more slowly.
A common way to store cured
pork is to wrap it in paper and put
it in a bin of oats, says the Oregon
Experiment station. It may also
be wrapped in paper and hung in
muslin sacks in a cool room.
A low bacterial count of milk is
practically impossible unless all the
equipment used in handling the
milk, including the milk bottles,
pails, strainers, coolers, and every
thing else is regularly sterilized with
steam or something equally good,
says the Oregn Experiment station
A large boiler with a false bottom
will serve where other equipment is
not available.
IONE.
(Continued from Pint Page)
No show at Star Theater next
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
See ad.
ALPINE
Miss Gertrude Tichenor, a stu
dent of La Grande Normal school,
13 home during vacation visiting
friends and relatives of Alpine.
Miss Helen Doherty of Blackhorse
has been visiting Miss Ruth Bennett
over the week end.
Everyone enjoyed the dance Fri
day night at Doherty's.
Mrs. George Lambirth was a
guest of Mrs. G. L. Bennett Thurs
day. The Melville, Bennett and Lam
birth families were Christmas din
ner guests of Mrs. Anna Schmidt.
Claude Wade was a business vis
itor at the G. L. Bennett ranch on
Monday.
Grover Sibley, Ruth Bennett, Hel
en Doherty were in Pendleton Sun
day evening.
G. L. Bennett and Arthur Schmidt
were Heppner visitors Monday.
Mrs. Schmidt and son Alfred and
daughter Mildred were guests at
the Bennett home Sunday evening.
Mrs. G. W. Lambirth and daugh
ter Celatha were in Pendleton from
Sunday to Tuesday.
Miss Gertrude Tichenor and Wil
lard Hawley were visiting Alpine
school Friday.
Mrs. Dan Doherty, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Doherty, died
Saturday at St. Anthony's hospital
in Pendleton. She leaves her bus
band and two children.
Miss Celatha Lambirth is visiting
with friends in Pendleton.
Charles Hiatt and Miss Leone
Hiatt of Echo are visiting the Lam
birth children, Doris and Lester.
Lawrence and Dorothy Doherty
were absent part of this week be
cause of the death of their sister.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cunha, Sr.,
of Echo were visiting at the Ben
nett home last Sunday.
HUMORETTES.
Chaplain: Didn't you consider
your future, young man, when you
embezzled that money?
Convict: Yes, sir. I put it straight
into the savings bank.
'Why are you looking so fed-up?
'I bought a book called 'How to
Make Love,' and now I don't know
what to do."
"Why?"
"Well, it says you take the girl's
hand, look into her eyes, and say:
"I love you, Beatrice'."
'What's wrong with that?"
"My girl's name is Lizzie."
Registrar: But, madam, the law
requires that I shall record all pre
vious marriages before issuing a
new license.
Film Star: Good gracious! And
I've got a taxi waiting outside!
Broker: I have bought you 500
shares of common stock, madam.
Mrs. Witzwalter: Well, I don't
want them. What on earth would
my friends say if they knew I'd got
anything common?
Husband: You accuse me of reck
less extravagance. When did I ever
make a useless purchase?
Wife: What about that fire ex
tinguisher you bought a year ago?
We've never used it once.
Clergyman (at the dairy): "Re-
garding the milk you deliver here '
Milkman (uneasily): "Yes, sir?
I just wanted to say that I use
the milk for drinking and not for
christening."
Gerald : "Jane's very romantic,
isn't she?"
Gregory: "Yes, she wants every
declaration of love to have a ring in
it."
They will return for the opening of
school. t
Harry Yarnall, who is one of our
winter trappers, reports that he has
sixty-four animals to his credit
Thus far he has not made many
sales, not being satisfied with the
prices offered.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harbison of
Eugene visited from Thursday night
until Saturday with the former s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Harbi
son at their home in Morgan.
Mr. and Mrs. Hal Ely and two
daughters from Monmouth, spent
the holiday vacation with their son
and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Elvin Ely, on the ranch near Mor
gan. George Ely and son Francis
of lone were invited guests at the
Christmas dinner.
J. H. Young of Hood River was a
dinner guest at the J. W. Howk
home Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Swenson and
two children and Roland Wade, all
of Walla Walla, arrived the first of
last week to help the E. J. Bristow
family eat the Christmas turkey.
Mrs. Wrex Hicock of .Portland
spent last week with her parents,
Mr. and Mis. S. E. Moore.
The Lexington town basketball
team met the lone team on the local
floor Saturday evening. The final
score was 22-16 in favor of Lexington.
Christmas guests at the Blain
Blackwell home were Mr. and Mrs.
Brose Ford of Pendleton. When Mr.
and Mrs. Ford returned to their
home they were accompanied by
Mr. and Mrs. Blackwell who re
mained in the Umatilla county seat
for a few days' visit.
Mrs. Rosa Jackson informs us
that on December 15 there was born
to her son and daughter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. La Vern Jackson of Oak
land, Calif., a baby son, weighing
six pounds and ten ounces. The lit
tle fellow has been given the name
of Clinton Grover. Mr. and Mrs.
Jackson are well known here.
Mrs. Earl Wright and children of
Baker arrived Friday for a visit
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.
E. Grabill.
Mrs. Zelma Kennedy is a house
guest in the C. W. Swanson home.
Mrs. Kennedy was a teacher in the
lone school last year and this year
is teaching in Aberdeen, Washing-
ton. She came here from Helix
where she had spent Christmas with
her sister.
Mrs. W. E. Bullard enjoyed an
over-Christmas visit, with her brother-in-law
and sister, Mr. and Mrs,
T. G. Frohn, and their daughter Al
berta, from Hood River.
Through relatives of the bride we
learn of the marriage on December
14 of Mrs. Mary Barlow and Mr.
Harris Sowers of Clearmont, Mo
They were married at the home of
Mrs. Sowers' niece, Mrs. P. O.
Grieve at Clarinda, Iowa, and will
make their horns at Clearmont Mrs.
Sowers is well known here, having
been a resident of Morrow county
for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Sow
ers have the best wishes of a host
of friends in Oregon.
Work was resumed last week on
the Ione-Boardman road.
Last week Louis Balsiger, wheat
buyer for Balfour, Guthrie company,
contracted for 2500 bushels of Hen-
The
ry Gorger's next year's crop.
price paid was $1.10.
Mrs. Chas. Battersby has as
guests her mother, Mrs. Chas. An
derson, and her sister. Miss Mildred
Anderson, whose home is in Portland.
HOME POINTERS.
Home Economics Department, O S.A.C.
Baking powder biscuits, if placed
in a cool place and covered with a
very thin wet cloth to prevent a
crust forming, can be allowed to
stand an hour or two before baking
without Injury.
Too much beating is one of the
most common causes of poor muf
fins. Baking powder biscuits, on
the other hand, are often not mixed
as much as would be desirable for
the best texture.
A perfect fudge frosting is us
ually considered as one that is just
stiff enough to stay where it Is
spread, is not sticky to handle, and
cuts easily without cracking. The
texture is smooth and creamy like
the center in a good grade of choco
late cream, and the flavor is well
blended.
Most frostlngs have a smoother
grain If allowed to cool before beat
ing. Those in which brown sugar
and a large amount of butter and
cream are used may be beaten while
hot, without spoiling the texture.
No show at Star Theater next
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
See ad.
Charles Klinger of Lexington
came to Heppner today to attend to
business matters.
C. Melville, Alpine ranchman, is
looking after business here today.
WANTS
Beautiful two-tone and velvet
rugs made from your old rug ma
terial. Call rug man, Heppner Ho
tel. A new and modern way to
make rugs.
For Sate Guernsey bull, from
Wightman herd. E. A. Kelley, Lex
ington. 39-41p.
Is your hot water HOT? If not
call Gibb the plumber, Peoples
Hardware Co., phone 702, residence
phone 1412. No job too big or too
small. Prompt attention to all calls.
LOST One young roan cow.
Three heifers, branded F (back
wards) W connected on hip. Crop
o ffleft ear. One heifer might not
be branded. Suitable reward offer
ed. Frank Wilkinson, Heppner. tf.
For Sate Creek ranch of 810 ac
res, fine for dairying or sheep. 300
acres fenced sheep-tight, balance
fairly well fenced with sheep wire;
private Irrigating ditch; 30 acres
set to alfalfa; few fruit trees; good
barn, 4-room dwelling with running
water in house, out buildings; situ
ated on Rhea creek, on good road,
13 miles from town. Address Box
43, Heppner. 28tf.
For Sale Milk cows and bred
heifers. R. B. Wilcox, Lexington,
Oregon. 31tf.
Orders for flowers direct from the
growers at figures less than you can
buy direct Case Furniture Com
pany, gcowers agent Btf.
For Sale Second hand heating
stove, wood burner, good condition.
Inquire at Patterson & Son. 36tf.
WANTED !
Experienced Sales
Person
(Man or Woman)
Pleasant and dignified work
exceptional remunera-
with
tion.
Warde Johnson
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opportunity
to thank our
many cus
tomers for
their patron
age during
the past year
and wish for
them much
happiness
during the
New Year.
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THE BATES CRAWLER TRACTOR
30, 40 and 80 H. P. Models
PAUL G. BALSIGER, lone, Oregon
Agent for Morrow County
See the new Ford
bodies at our
showrooms
From the new deep radiator to
the curving tip of the rear fender
there is an unbroken sweep of
line a flowing grace of contour
heretofore thought possible only
in an expensive automobile. Now,
more than ever, the new Ford is
a "value far above the price."
Chas H. Latourell
Heppner, Oregon
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