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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1930. PAGE THREE FIGHTERS The officers of a great chain of stores were sitting at lunch, and making good progress with their business discussion when somebody mentioned a forthcoming prize fight Instantly all business ceased; ev ery man leaned forward eagerly to present his view on the more en grossing subject. On another occasion I stopped at the offices of J. P. Morgan and Company to see one of the partners. His secretary apologized. "You will have to wait a few minutes," he said. "They will be down from lunch a little late today. They are entertaining Gene Tunney." One could write several different kinds of comments on these inci dents. One might, if piously inclined, view with alarm the absorption of the best business minds in a low and brutal form of sport. One might point out the interest ing fact that at the top all winners meet. Be the best in your line, whether your line be prize-fighting or banking, motion-picture acting or preaching, and you may lunch with Mr. Morgan. "Seest thou a man diligent" (a top-notcher) "in his business? He shall stand be fore kings." I prefer, however, to point a dif ferent moral. Men attend prize fights and entertain champions be cause all the world loves a fighter. People ask sometimes: "Why do the richest men In the country keep on working? Why don't they take their millions and retire?" Because the decision to keep on working is not a decision of intel lect. It lies much deeper than that. Man was made for struggle. He was cast by Providence into a hard, unfriendly universe. The earth was his enemy, and would give him no food until he had scarred its face with the undercuts of the plow, and beaten it to helplessness with the barrage of the harrow. "Fight, and you shall live," says Nature. "Quit and no matter how well you have surrounded yourself with comfort, you will soften and die." I once made a visit with the late George W. Perkins to a certain for eign city. Nature has so favored it that people can live with very little effort and be in the sunshine all the year round. "How do you like this city?" I asked him. He answered: "It's full of men who have run away from the game." "When death come to me," said old Stephen Girard, who was more than eighty, "It will find me busy unless I am asleep. If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree to day." Planting a tree on the very last day launching a new bit of life a splendid last punch at the old enemy, Death. Penney Store Manager To Attend Convention J. D. Cash, Heppner manager of J. C. Penney company, will leave Sunday to attend the spring con vention of the organization to be held In Portland at the Multnomah hotel. The conclave will be In ses sion for a week. Special interest Is being paid to the convention meetings this year because of the attendance of George H. Bushnell, former first vice pres ident, who resigned his position late in February in order that he might be relieved of the responsibilities of the office which has has occupied for the last ten years. He continues as a director. Mr. Bushnell first became" identified wtih the organiza tion in 1911, when the general offices were located in Salt Lake City. He is considered one of the outstand ing financial organizers of the mer cantile world. Lew V. Day, first vice president, will be chairman of the convention, which will be the fourth In a series of 16, covering the eastern, central and western sections of the United States. Five meetings are to be held in the west Attending the 16 meetings will be 1396 managers, an increase of more than 400 over the number attending the spring sessions in 1929. The first day will be devoted to presentation of policies of the or ganization, a general discussion of future plans and a resume of the past year. The remainder of the week will be devoted to buying in the various departments, represent atives of the New York and St. Louis general offices being present to exhibit the various lines of mer chandise. A banquet will be given Monday evening, opening day, at the Multnomah hotel, with Mr. Bushnell as a guest of honor. ( FRANK PARKER 1 STOCKBR1P6E FLASHES How to produce a light which air men could see through fog has puz zled electrical experts ever since the problem of lighting flying fields at night became important. "Lindy," flying across country, noticed that the flashes of the electric arc pro duced when a trolley pole slips off the wire could be seen from the air when no other light was visible. He reported that to the General Electric Company and the result is a new flashing arc beacon, the safest guide to night flyers yet evolved. Great inventions come often from close observation of little things. Col. Lindbergh is what he Is because he notices little things. PROMISES Politicians deal in promises. Econ omists deal In facts. Nobody loves facts. Everybody loves promises. That is why we listen to the poli ticians and turn a deaf ear to the economists. And because the poli ticians seldom are able to make good on their promises, we throw them out and elect another set who make even more attractive prom ises. For ten years economists have been trying to get Europe's finances straightened out, following the war Into which the nations went because of what their politicians promised them. The principal obstacle to se: tlement of the war bills was the promises of politicians made after the Armistice. As Owen D. Young pointed out the other day, politi cians of France, England and Italy promised they would make Ger many pay $33,000,000,000. Now the economists have got the war debts finally settled. The most Germany can pay Is $9,000,000,000. Her cred itors have agreed to accept that sum. Now the same politicians are making other promises and their peoples are believing them, in the same old way. ZEPPELINS The airship Is coming into Its own. Half a dozen great American manufacturing industries, backed by the National City Bank, have arranged to manufacture commer cial dirigibles of huge size, on the successful Zeppelin design, in both Germany and the United States. It will be a year or more before the first of these is ready for service, but within five years we may look to sec an immense volume of freight and passenger traffic carried by air In these huge ships. Meantime, other Americans are experimenting with allmetul dirigibles on a small er scale, and those look promising, cially young folk, who think there is some short cut to fame and for tune. They try to write stories and poems, paint pictures, carve statues, act leading roles on the stage or make their fortunes in business, without serving the long and pain ful apprenticeship which always precedes real success. It can't be done. Just now two young men who broadcast a Negro comedy feature every night are attracting world wide attention. "Amos 'n Andy" are reported to be drawing a salary of $100,000 a year, so thousands of young men who think that is easy money are trying to break into the same game. The young men who are earning a fortune for their ability as enter tainers went through years of ill paid, long-hour drudgery before they became masters of their art. So did every other great artist in any line. So did every man or wo man who has made a success in business or industry. Young people don't believe that. It was true when the pyramids were built; it will still be true when they have crumbled into dust. PRIZES AWARDED BUTTER SLOGANS Health, Wealth, and Vitamins are Featured by Winners; High School Girl is First Political Announcements FOR COUNTY JUDGE. To the Republican- Voters of Mor row County: I hereby announce myself a can didate for the office of County Judge of Morrow County, subject to your I will as expressed at the primaries on May 16, 1930. C. W. McNAMER, (Paid Adv.) Heppner, Ore. county on the Democratic ticket. If nominated and elected, I will, to the best of my ability, endeavor to carry out the program of the past five years. (Paid Adv.) R. L. BENGE. FOB COUNTY COMMISSIONER. To the Republican Voters of Mor row County: I hereby announce yself as a can didate for the office of county com missioner at the May primaries; If nominated and elected, I promise to serve the people of Morrow county to the very best of my ability. (Paid Adv.) JOE DEVINE. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce myself a can didate for the office of Commission er for Morrow county, subject to the will of the Republican voters, ex pressed at the May primaries. (Paid Adv.) GEO. N. PECK. FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Assessor ef Morrow County, subject to the will of the Democratic voters at .the May primaries. (Paid Adv.) JESSE J. WELLS. FOR COUNTY JUDGE. To the Voters of Morrow County: I hereby announce myself as a candidate at the coming primaries for the office of County Judge of Morrow County on the Republican ticket. If nominated and elected, I pledge the same faithful and sincere service that has characterized my long term with the County Court as commissioner. G. A. BLEAKMAN. (Paid Ad.) FOR COUNTY TREASURER. This is to announce that I will be a candidate for the office of County Treasurer, subject to the will of the voters of Morrow County, at the Primary elections, May 16th, 1930. I wish to thank my friends, both republican and democratic, for their generous support in the past, and hope I have proved worthy of their confidence. LEON W. BRIGGS, (Paid Adv.) present incumbent FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. To the Democratic Voters of Mor row county: I will be a candidate for County Commissioner at the May Primary Nominating Election, May 16, 1930, subject to your will. (Paid Adv.) SAM J. TURNER. FOR COUNTY JUDGE. At the coming May primary elec tion I will be a candidate for the office of County Judge of Morrow FOR COUNTY JUDGE. To the voters of Morrow County, I wish to announce that I will Be a candidate for the nomination of County Judge on the Democratic ticket at the next primary election, and if nominated and elected, I will perform the duties of such office to the best of my ability. (Paid Adv.) G. L. BENNETT. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. I hereby announce myself for the office of County Commissioner of Morrow County, subject to the will of the voters of the Republican party at the May Primaries. GEORGE W. DYKSTRA, (Paid Adv.) Heppner, Ore. EUROPA The fastest passenger ship in the world is the new German kuropa, which crossed from Cherbourg to New York in four days, 17 hours and six minutes. The next fastest is the Bremen, also a German ship, whlrh did the trip in only 17 min utes slower time. There are only three shins In the world larger than the Europa and the Bremen. They lsn were built in Germnny. They are the Majestic, originally the Bis marck, seized during the war Dy r.rent Britain, the Leviathan, or iginally the Vaterland, seized by the United States, and tno ucrengiirm, nrlu-lnnllv the Imnerator. Commercially speaking, these big fast ships are not profitable, hpeea costs too much. But us advertise nmnta nf their respective nations thnv tiav larce dividends in good will. Just now Germnny seems to be getting most of It DRUDGERY The world is full of peoplo, espo- "Let butter be the only spread For your hard earned daily bread." This slogan, submitted by Miss V. Bunten, Portland high school girl, took the first prize- of $10 In the contest just conducted by the Ore gon Buttermaker's association, at tracting entries from all parts of the state. Winners were announced by Dr. G. Wilster of Oregon State college, secretary of the association Second prize went to Paul H. Lohr, Corvallis, for "To better tomorrow eat butter today." Mrs. T. J. Butler of Riddle was awarded third place with "Health for wealth, butter for health," and George Jacobsen of Portland won fourth with "For perfect health, without, within; eat plenty of but ter and you'll win." Two other slogans entered late by Ella Day, student at Oregon State college, but considered wor thy of cash prizes by the judges are "Get your vitamin A In a pleas- ng way eat butter, and "Butter the golden road to health." Judges were four members of the executive committee of the associ ation. These selected other slogans from those submitted which will be used with the prize winners for printing on parchment slips to be nsorted with each package of but ter put out by creameries cooper ating in the plan. Some of the bet ter slogans chosen follow: "Live Better on Butter. "Butter Builds Better Bodies." "Oregon Butter is Healthful be Healthy." "Buy butter It pays two ways: health to you, wealth to your state" You mny not own a dairy, nor milk a single cow, but you do love your children, so you give them butter now." SYNOPSIS OF THE ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE WESTERN STATES LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY of San Francisco, in the Start of California, on the 31 at day of December. 1929, made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Oregon, pursuant to law: CAPITAL Amount of capital stock paid up. 1,000,000.00 INCOMB Total premium income for the rear $ 4,746 .360'' Interest, dividends and rente received during the rear ',Ji'!4?'i3 Income from other sources received during the jear 70?, 426. 47 Total income 6,675,136.50 DISBURSEMENTS Paid for losses, endowments, annuities and surrender values $ 1,669.533.07 Coupons paid to policyholders during the year ??!'?5 i Dividends paid on capital stock during the year iiS'Iii' SS Commissions and salaries paid during the rear 1.087 ,66 4 .27 Taxes, licenses and fees paid during the year 11 Amount of all other expenditure 857.684. il Total expenditure. 4.J2J.176.09 ASSETS Value of real estate owned (market value) f J-'fJ'''' 'J Value of stocks snd bonds owned (market or amortixed value) 7, ''J-', t'. Loans on mortgagee and collateral, etc I'iii'iii'io Premium notes and policy loans J'2'oJa'm Cash in bank, and on hand 115'.0, l Net uncollected and deferred premiums ?;'7,n7 Interest snd rents due and accrued .;;:,,. Other asset, (net) 8?, 141. 9? Total admitted easel. - 122,525,791.21 LIABILITIES Net reserve, ,. ..19,424,237. 7 Gross claims for loesee unpaid ,T?'.aA i All other UabiUdes 1.212.848.45 Total liabilities, exclusive of capital stock of 1,000.000 20,725,791.22 BUSINESS IN OREGON FOR THE YEAR Gross premium, received during the year r jl 'Jif ' oj Coupon, left and used iifcoo 88 Losses paid during the year - - - - 1,D P WESTERN STATES LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY T. G. Crothers, President . D. A. Dickie, Secretary Statutory resident attorney for service: Insurance Commissioner. Junior Symphony Group Giving Chain Broadcast The Portland Junior Symphony orchestra of Portland, comprised of 100 young people from 12 to 19 years of age, under the direction or Jac ques Gershkovitch, will broadcast a program during the symphony hour of the Standard Oil company, Thursday evening, April 24, 7:30 to 8:30 o'clock. The program will or iginate at KGW, Portland, and go over the Pacific coast network. Since the Los Angeles Philharm onic orchestra nnd the San Fran cisco Symphony orchestra have giv en alternate programs during the season, the Junior symphony or chestra considers it a signal honor to be choson to give the closing per formance of the season. "Mother Machree," Star theater, Sunday and Monday. DELIVERED ON TIME "On Time" delivery means much to the busy housewife who must plan to have her dinner promptly. As a test of our "On Time" service, phone us your'order today. Phelps Grocery Co. FOR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Justice of the Peace for the 6th district of Morrow County, subject to the will of the democratic voters of said district as expressed at the May primaries. (Paid Adv.) E. R. HUSTON. FOB COITNTY COMMISSIONER. At the next Primary election I will be a candidate for the office of County Commissioner on the Re publican ticket If nominated and elected I will carry out the duties of such office to the best of my ability. (Paid Adv.) CREED OWEN. FOR CO I NT Y JUDGE. At the next primary election I will be a candidate for the office of County Judge for Morrow Coun ty on the Republican ticket, and if nominated and elected I will carry out the duties of such office to the best of my ability. (Adv.) WM. T. CAMPBELL. illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!! O "P SIIDDnSC YmiD UIKRAkln J SHOULD READ THIS ADL A asP. 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