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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 9, 1930. PAGE THREE i I WIVES One could draw many interesting lessons from the recent biography of the great English barrister, Sir Edward Marshall Hall. For instance, it furnishes a strik ing commentary on the difference between our method and the Eng lish method of administering jus tice. Sir Edward appeared in most of the celebrated trials of his time. Any one of them would have drag ged on for weeks over here. The longest of them lasted only eleven days in England. A majority were wound up in less than a week.' We are ahead of the English in most departments of modern busi ness. We are even with them in medicine, in science, and, perhaps, in literature. In the law we are woefully, shamfully and inexcus ably behind. But at the moment I am more in terested in one very human little in cident in Sir Edward's life which occupies only a paragraph, and was perhaps overlooked by most read ers. He had just been elected to Par liament and had prepared a speech with which he hoped to dazzle the House and make his reputation. 'Again and again during the long night session he tried to catch the Speaker's eye, but each time he was overlooked in favor of some older member. So he went home with the speech still undelivered, its ringing sentences still ringing in his head. There in bed lay his little wife, who had been asleep for hours. But Sir Edward, 80 much disappointed and so on fire with his own oratory, could not let her sleep. Forthwith he woke her up and insisted that she listen to the whole long speech. Is there any wife in the world, to whom something of the same sort has not happened? I knew personally one of the lead ing men of the last generation. For years he had gone home every eve ning and detail by detail told his wife the whole story of the day's proceedings: what he did what he said and what other men had done and said to him. When she died at a ripe old age, the husband seemed organically sound and good for an other ten years at least Yet he followed her to the grave within a few months. Life had no more zest for him. He had lost his audience. Go into a restaurant and watch the couples at their meal. See the man expanding under the encourag ing smile of a girl, talking along, showing what a great fellow he is. And she, asking questions which are much dumber than they need be, deliberately concealing her own wis dom in order to make him appear the wiser. They are a great invention, these women, and particularly those of them who do us the honor to be come our wives. Whenever any one tells me that, with the increasing wealth of the country, the wives are growing more idle, I contend that they still earn their living handsomely. And would continue to earn it even if they had to do nothing but listen to us talk. ( FRANK PARKER S VATICAN Few people realize that the Vati can, the residence of the Pope at Rome, is the largest and richest palace in the world. It contains 11, 000 rooms of all sizes, including halls, chapels and living apart ments. There are 80 grand stair cases and 200 smaller ones. No body can estimate the value of the treasures stored in this building, but they Include all of the gifts of jewels and precious metals which have been' made to the successive Popes by devout Catholics for the past 1,500 years. There are tens of thousands of paintings and art ob jects each worth a fortune. "Rockefeller himself could hard ly pay for the tapestries and paint ings In the Vatican and Henry Ford would be bankrupt before he had half finished, if he started to pur chase these treasures at their ac tual value," says James T. Nichols, who recently returned from Rome. GRENFELL The young college men who have been assisting Dr. Grenfell in his medical mission work among the deep-sea fishermen of Labrador are on their way "out." The ice is clos ing in behind them and for the next nine months the man who has given his life to helping others will be iso lated from the world, aa he has been every winter for nearly forty years. Grenfell was a young doctor in London. Dwight L. Moody, the famous American evangelist, was speaking there. Happening to pass the hall, Grenfell dropped in, heard Moody's message, stayed to talk, de cided that from that night on he must devote his life to the service of others. The medical mission to the fisher folk is the result Great Britain has honored her native son by conferring knight hood upon him. He is Sir Wilfred Grenfell now in his old age. Amer ica has given liberally of money and man-power to aid in the work. The example which this self-sacrificing doctor has set has had and still has a quiet but powerful influence on thousands of other young men who are trying, in their own selected sphere, to emulate Grenfell. CHINA Civil war in China is not so ser ious as newspaper dispatches sug gest. China is a huge country, cov ering almost half as much ground as the United States and having three times our population. Dis turbances in one region have little effect on distant parts. r It is surprising nevertheless, to read in the U. S. Commerce reports that new apartment houses from 7 to 20 stories high are being built in Shanghai, that a commercial broad casting station is under construc tion and another by the Nanking government, and that other enter prises are being undertaken. China is far from being paralyzed by its internal wars, and may come out of them stronger than before they began. ROADS The newest thing in road con struction is to build them of iron. The first iron highway of import ance is under construction in San gamon county, Illinois, near Spring field. An iron trough is laid on the flattened highway surface, the cor rugated sheets of the bottom of the roadway being welded to the iron curbing at either side. The trough is partly filled with a layer of sand mixed with a mastic binder, to form a cushion for the surface, which may be concrete, brick or some oth er paving material. Road building in America is still a new art Old methods useful in horse-and-wagon days are useless for motor roads. In time the ideal road will be discovered and used everywhere. Meantime, every new idea is worth trying out. GAMES Human nature demands play. In time of stress and worry, play is the best relief from nervous strain. 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