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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1930. PAGE THKKK 0$ BRUG mat's It All About? I have a friend who, after many years of hard work in subordinate positions, found himself suddenly near the top of a big business. To his own surprise his Income jumped to more than a hundred thousand dollars a year. A whole new world opened out before him. As if by magic all his dreams began to come true. Did it change him? I cannot see that in any essential characteristic it changed him at all. Not long ago when we were alone he opened his heart "Here I am with a new house, and money in the bank, and all my Ave children in college, and three auto mobiles. And down underneath I am the same simple guy that used to get eighteen dollars a week, and took three years to pay for the pi uno. Somehow it doesn't seem real. I have to get myself off in a corner once in a while and ask, what's it all about?" I know some other things about him that he did not tell me. I know that he is supporting fifteen or twenty people who haven't had such good luck. I know that he is taking lessons on the fiddle, which has been a secret ambition for years. And I know that on Thanks giving Day he marshals his whole family and marches them down to church. Sinclair Lewis named him, and others like him, Mr. Babbitt They are more like Jim Bludsoe, the Mis sissippi River engineer. Bludsoe didn't know what it was all about either. He just did the day's work, running the steamboat back and forth, raising his family, and living his life. One day when a fire broke out he did the simple normal thing of sticking to his post "I'l hold her nozzle against the bank 'Till the last galoot's ashore." He was not a deep thinker, nor very religious, often profane. But John Hay ventured the guess that "The Lord ain't going to be too hard on a man That gave his life for men." My friend is rough like Bludsoe, and by no means a saint "What's it all about?" he asks, and he will never know the answer any more than the rest of us. But he has done his job with courage; he stayed sim ple. He gives freely. He has a hum ble sense of gratitude, and he has kept his heart young. Those qualities have been enough for this world. Somehow I think they'll be enough for whatever other worlds may be. J FRANK PARKER ington as something between a saint and a demi-god, so long perpetuated in the name of patriotism, will be replaced in the public mind by the Impression of him as a very human sort of person, but I am afraid not SMITHSONIAN More than 100 years ago James Smlthson, a wealthy Englishman who was the illegitimate son of a British nobleman, left his entire for tune to the United States of Amer ica to found "an institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." Congress just before adjournment this year appropriated $6,500,000 to add to previous appro priations for the enlargement of the Smtihsonlan Institution and its Na tional Museum. Smithson's bequest and the pur pose to which it has been put have been worth uncountable millions to America. Research in pure science conducted by the men in charge of the Institution has done more to ward the development of our na tional resources than any other one cause, so those familiar with the matter say. It is the center to which everybody who wants to know any thing about American soils, rocks, fishes, plants, trees, insects or ani mals goes for precise information. It is also the greatest source of in formation on applied science in the form of invention. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stevens and daughter Lois spent a few hours at Heppner on Monday, coming in from Parkers Mill. They are now located on the ranch of W. B. Bar ratt and Son at that point, where water is plentiful and the summer range not so bad. It is a very dry season throughout the mountain country, they state, and many springs have entirely disappeared. Sub-normal winter snowfall over a period of several years has been re sponsible for this condition. Wm. Penland Is visiting with his mother, Mrs. Shelly Baldwin, arriv ing here on Sunday from Raymond, Wash., where he has been residing for the past several years. Local ads in the Gazette Times bring results. 'TIM for th 1 1 mm bu Nancu hart RASPBERRIES Raspberries are here or coming. Red raspberries. That seems to be what everybody means when we say raspberries. If we mean black rasp berries, why we say black raspberries. And now that they are here or coming it is a very good plan to take advantage of them in planning and making delicious desserts. Of course they are delicious alone served with or without cream. But they are capable of being used In so many other ways that it is a good plan to know about them and make use of them. Here are some of the good ways for preparing them: Jellied Raspberries Rub raspberries through a sieve, sweeten heavily, and let stand until the sugar is dissolved. Add a pack age of soaked and dissolved gelatine to a quart of the fruit, mould, chill, and serve with whipped cream. Rice and Fruit Pudding Fill a baking-dish nearly full of raspberries, sweeten to taste, and cover with rice boiled in milk and sweetened. Bake until the rice is brown and serve hot in the same dish. Raspberry Pudding Cream one-fourth cup of butter with one cup of sugar. Add one cup of crushed and sweetened raspber ries and four eggs beaten separate ly. Beat to a stiff paste and fill a buttered baking-dish in alternate TEMPERATURE An Italian inventor has developed a heat-cooling furnace for dome3tlc use. The same apparatus which keeps the house warm in Winter will draw the heat from the air In Summer and keep It cool. Scientists have known for eighty years that this could be done, but the cost has made it impracticable. Now Professor E. Guarlni, of Milan, claims to have found a practical method of making such a refrigerator-heater. The use of such a means of artifi cial cooling requires all windows to be tightly closed. Outside of the United States, however, few people ever open their windows; and it should not be hard to provide for artificial ventilation to take the place of direct fresh air from out side. MOUNTAINS The highest peak east of the Miss issippi isn't as high as had been thought. The United States Geolo gical Survey has made a new survey of Mount Mitchell, in North Caro lina, and finds that it is 6,684 feet above sea level, or 24 feet lower than former figures. Only a few mountains in the East approximate a mile in height Cling man's Dome, Tennessee, is 6,644 feet, only 40 feet lower than Mount Mitchell. Mount Washington, in New Hampshire, is 6,288; Mount Rogers, Virginia, 5,719 feet; Mount Katahdin, Maine, 5,268 feet, or 12 feet less than a mile. The highest American mountain Is Mount Mc Kinley, Alaska, 20,300 feet high, with Mount Whitney, California, next at 14,501 feet All the highest mountains are sinking. In a million years even the Rockies may be merely hills, end the Appalachian range a fiat plain. SHERLOCK The death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at 71 removes from the earth ly scene the creator of one of the enduring characters in fiction and the father of a new school of story writing. Educated as a physician, Conan Doyle early turned to literature, and while he wrote several historical novels of great merit his Immense success was with his stories of the super-detective, Sherlock Holmes. Literally millions of copies of his books about Sherlock Holmes have been sold, and the name is amlllar wherever English is spoken. No real detective ever did things the way Sherlock Holmes did, but that makes no difference. What readers of detective stories want is not fact but Illusion. WASHINGTON In 1932 the United States of Amer ica will celebrate the 200th birthday of George Washington. He was born on February 11, 1732, and the 11th was the day which was celebrated as his birthday for many years. But the change In the calendar In 1764, by which 11 days were dropped out of the month of September In that year, made this anniversary, by an exact calculation, rail on me zzna, The national celebration of 1932, for which Congress has appropria ted $4,500,000, will last from Febru ary 22 to Thanksgiving. The Pres ident Is chairman of the wasning- ton Bicentennial Commission, and each State Is to appoint a similar commission. Local committees will be formed to see to it that every child and every citizen has an op portunity to take part In some form of local celebration. I hope that the picture of Wash- the Meeifs of IMLilli&ws of IPeople layers with fresh bread-crumbs. Cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake for an hour in a moderate oven. Serve with any preferred sauce. Raspberry Blanc-Mange Thicken two cups of milk with two level teaspoons of cornstarch rubbed Bmooth with a little cold milk, add a pinch of salt and two eggs beaten with three tablespoons of sugar. Cook in a double boiler until tmooth and thick, stirring con stantly, and pnur over ciushed and sweetened raspberries. Chill and serve with cream. Raspberry Cake Make any good layer cake and bake in two layers. Make a white icing, coloring slightly with the juice from a little raspberry jam. Put the two layers of the cake to gether with a spreading of raspber ry jam and frost the whole with the raspberry flavored icing. Raspberry Whip Simplest of all raspberry desserts is raspberry whip. This calls for Save 30 Miles When Traveling to Yakima Valley CROSS ON THE Alderdale Ferry . Landing located four miles east of Heppner Junction. Recent road Improvements make this the Ideal Route the white of eggs beaten very light flavored to the taste with powdered sugar and flavored with the fresh juice of crushed raspberries. It should be mixed just before serving. Berry Tarts There are delicious tarts made of berries. The pie crust is baked to a light golden brown and cooled. Then the berries, lightly crushed and sweetened, are added. Over the top is piled whipped cream. Or else you may use a meringue to top the ber ries, or a chilled soft custard may be poured over them. Dr. McMurdo reports Mr. and Mrs. Homer Green of Eight Mils as being the proud parents of an 8 pound son, born at their home on Monday, July 28. Mother and child are doing well. For Sale 3 head of work horses and 2 sets of buck chain harness with collars. See Lee Slocum, Hepp ner. 19-20p. Here it is! A new Frigidaire only! 1 50 Beautiful Powerful Quiet This Frigidaire has the famous "Cold Control." The mechanism is completely enclosed in the bottom of the cabinet. Food shelves axe elevated to a convenient height and afford 4 H square feet of food storage space. The cabinet is a beautiful glacier-gray Porcelain-on-steel inside and out combining the beauty of porcelain with the strength of steel. Call and see a complete demon stration at your first opportunity. PEOPLES HARDWARE COMPANY Heppner, Oregon The low-priced automobile has brought greater opportunity and added hours of recreation to millions of men and women. BECAUSE the automobile is such an im portant factor in the lives and pros perity of so many people, the purpose of the Ford Motor Company is something more than the mere manufacture of a motor car. There is no service in simply setting up a machine or a plant and letting it turn out goods. The service extends into every detail of the business design, production, the wages paid and the sell ing price. All are a part of the plan. The Ford Motor Company looks upon itself as charged with making an auto mobile that will meet the needs of millions of people and to provide it at a low price. That is its mission. That is its duty and its obligation to the public. The search for better ways of doing things is never-ending. There is cease less, untiring effort to find new methods and new machines that will save steps and time in manufacturing. The Ford plants are, in reality, a great mechanical uni versity, dedicated to the advancement of industry. Many manufacturers come to see and share the progress made. The greatest progress comes by never standing still. Today's methods, however successful, can never be taken as wholly right. They represent simply the best efforts of the moment. To morrow must bring an improve ment in the methods of the day before. Hard work usually finds the way. Once it was thought impossible to cast gray iron by the endless chain method. All precedent was against it and every previous experiment had failed. But fair prices to the public demanded that waste ful methods be eliminated. Finally the way was found. Abetter way of making axle shafts saved thirty-six million dollars in four years. A new method of cutting crankcases re duced the cost by $500,000 a year. The perfection of a new machine saved a similar amount on such a little thing as one bolt. Then electric welding was de veloped to make many bolts unnecessary and to increase structural strength. Just a little while ago, an endless chain conveyor almost four miles long was in stalled at the Rouge plant. This conveyor has a daily capacity of 300,000 parts weighing more than 2,000,000 pounds. By substituting the tireless, unvarying machine for tasks formerly done by hand, it lias made the day's work easier for thousands of workers and saved time and money in the manufacture of the car. All of these things are done in the interest of the public so that the benefits of reliable, erononiicol transportation moy be placed within the means of every one. FOIiH M OTOIl IIOMI'AS'V THE CLEVER COOK. . . THE CHARMING HOSTESS. Erf tte wags " v st; mm w The charming hostess carefully plans the meals for her guests. She has learned by experience that their pleasure depends largely upon the foods she serves. Because she is a clever cook, she realizes that freshness and quality deserve first consideration in foods so she goes PERSONALLY to our stores to select her foods where she can depend upon getting both. Friday, Saturday, Monday Specials COFFEE MAC MARK QUALITY BLEND 3 LBS $1.05 ECONOMY BLEND 5 LBS 90c RAISINS MARKET DAY Seedless, for de licious pies. 4-LB. 9Qp BAG .iVK PEPPER Large 4-oz Tin Black Pepper, New Stock. 19c 4-OZ. TIN . SUGAR PURE CANE Buy Now Before the Market Advances 100-LB. BAG $5.49 PICKLES KERR'S Sweet Pickles In Gal lon Tins. GAL. GAL. $1.35 MALT American Brand A Real Good Quality 2 Large 7ff TINS ... I OK HONEY NEW CROP Strained Honey 5-LB. PAIL 59c 10-LB. PAIL $1.15 BACON ARMOUR'S STAR Brand Quality Bacon, Med. Wt PER POUND... 35c Macaroni IN BULK Fresh Stock 6 lbs. 49c CHEESE Armour's Best Cream Loaf of High Quality POUND .... 29c Milk FEDERAL BRAND A Real Good Quality and a Western Product. PER .tfQ QQ CASE$.t0 FLOUR Better lay in your supply now while you can get the old wheat PER SACK $1.49 PER BBL $5.89 MATCH'S Buffalo Brand, a Fine Quality 35c TWO CTNS. PRUNES Large size, good quality, in bulk. 49c FIVE LBS. LARD ARMOUR'S STAR BRAND A very fine quality, always fresh NO. 10 .. PAIL ... $139 TEA Tree Tea, Green or Black, for Iced Tea TER FOUND 69c SOAP Feet's Granulated for washing nuu chines. 1 small ft 1 large package Both 39c SOAP CRYSTAL WHITE LAUNDRY The Nation's Favorite 10 BARS 39c Open Evenings Till 9:00 o'Clock for Your Convenience v Phone 1082 STONE'S DIVISION Hotel Heppner Bid.