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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1930)
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 1930. PAGE THREE DULL MEN I am getting old enough now so that some of the little acorns which I saw planted are beginning to show up as quite sizeable oaks. For example, there was an office boy In the place where I worked after leaving college. He was not a bright offlce boy. We did not think that he would ever amount to very much. He did not think so himself. He just kept on keeping on. Well, the other day I picked up a trade paper, and there was a big photograph of our ex-office boy, and the announcement that he had just been elected president of a rather important company. - As years go on, and the business of the country expands, his com pany will expand with it, for he will be a careful administrator. And some day his associates will give him a dinner and hail him as a great leader, and his picture will be hung in the Board Room. Perhaps you have read Mr. Wood ward's biography of General Grant If so, you remember that he stood low In his classes at West Point, and was later discharged from the army. When the Civil War broke out he was such a failure that his letter offering his services to his country was not even answered by the War Department. The army was full of more bril liant men. Halleck, for instance, knew all about tactics. In any cri sis he could tell just what Napoleon would have done. McClellan had a touch of genius. What did Grant have? He had a superstition. When he started out on anything he hated to turn back. It applied even to small things. If, when he left the house in the mornings, he found he had forgotten something he never re traced his steps. Always he went forward. And when he came to com mand armies he did the same thing. Doggedly, ploddingly, but inexora bly he pushed ahead. When I was in college, the Pres ident said, "Henry Ward Beecher, when a student in Amherst College, stood at, or near, the foot of his class. Nearly a hundred years have passed, and AmherBt College has produced no second Henry Ward Beecher, though many men have stood at, or near, the foot of their class." Just being dull, or standing at the foot of the class, Is no assurance of success, of course. On the other hand, it is nothing to be discour aged about a fact of which I see more evidence almost every day. acter and reputation that his friends did as he asked them. He bought I the Winton car, drove it back to Oelwein and took his young wife for a ride, then proceeded to take the car apart He took it down and put it together again eight times before he was satisfied that he knew all about automobiles. Then he got himself a job in an automobile fac tory. His name was and Is Walter P. Chrysler, and the tallest building in the world stands at Forty second Street and Lexington Avenue, New York, a monument to his success in designing and building automo biles. Chrysler knew what he wanted and had the courage to go after it, and that is two-thirds of the secret of success. SIMPLIFICATION California announces that 112 state bureaus, commissions and de partments have been consolidated into eleven. New York recently merged 180 different departments in 18. Maryland has reduced the number of state departments from 85 to 9. One cause of high taxes is the multiplicity of government bureaus and the difficulty of fixing responsi bility for the expenditure of public funds. No nation has yet found out how to run a government efficiently and economically. We probably come nearer to it, as a whole, than any other great nation. SILVER With the decline in the use of silver for money, all over the world, the price of the metal is lower than at any other time in history, mea sured by the gold standard. The silver dollar, once cherished in the West and South above all forms of currency, has almost passed out of circulation. Senator Oddie of Nevada, the principal silver-producing state, now proposes the coinage of a silver dollar which would have no special intrinsic value but be a "token" like the half-dollar, quarter-dollar and dime, all of which are worth less metnl thnn thplr stamned value. One good reason for restoring the silver dollar to circulation is the fact that it costs the Government nhont two cents a vear to replace each dollar bill with a new one as the old ones wear out. COMPETITION Thomas A. Campbell, Montana farmer who has been showing the Russian Government how to apply American Agricultural methods, has returned and says that Russia will be a strong competitor in the world's agricultural markets in a few years, but merely because of her size. In other respects we have little to fear from Russia or any other European nation. While they are trying to introduce American manufacturing methods, the people as a whole move too slowly to ac complish as much in a given time as we do. That is quite natural, when you consider that everybody in Amer i ta hafa honmiRp he or his ances tors had more than the average ofj initiative, courage ana enterprise common to the people of the land from which they came. The dull, unimaginative ploaaers were leu behind. If there is anything in heredity, we have a decided edge upon all the peoples of the Old World. POPULATION The village of Whitehall, Owen County, Indiana, a town so small that it hasn't a newspaper, comes into the news again for the first time in ten years. Whitehall is al most the exact center of population of the United States. The United States is getting set tled. In 1790 the center of popula tion was 32 miles east of Baltimore, in 1800, it was 18 miles west of Bal timore. In the course of the next hundred years the population center moved westward at the rate of about 4,83 miles a year. From the center of population there are just as many people to the north as there are to the south, as many to the West as to the East, as many in any direction as in the opposite direction. CHRYSLER A Kansas boy who had a job and J700 in the bank in Oelwein, Iowa, went to an automobile show in Chicago twenty years ago. He wanted to see what the insides of one of those new-fangled machines looked like, how it worked. He could not find out all he wanted to know, so he asked the price of one of the cars. It was $5000. "I'll buy it," he said. He tele graphed back to Oelwein, to his bank to send on his $700, to several friends to indorse his note for $4,300. It was a tribute to his char- EXPANDS MARKET NEWS. Sections of the state marketing large volumes of any particular crop at certain seasons may now receive special direct market re ports each day through an arrange ment with the county agent and the Oregon Extension service. A new automatic telegraph printer has been installed in the market news office on the campus which enables L. R. Breithaupt, extension special ist, to relay spot news to the coun ties as soon as it is received in the office over the leased government wire. Klamath county producers are using this service in their pota- to marketing this year. A Scotchman found it necessary to notify his wife that he might be home late that evening, in which case he would phone her. This is what he told her: "I'll ring ye at 6 o'clock. When ye hear the bell ye'll know it's me. Dinna answer it, and I'll get ma nickel back." Has Tuberculosis m si Phvsinans have diacnosed the ail- of Hprhfri Hoover. lr.. the President's oldest son, as tuberculosis of the lung, but believe they nave on- covered it in time tor a cure. Make Uncle Sam your Errand Boy W, iifm vnur tlmn Is limit ed, and every daylight hour must He usoa on ino irm, Just drop your hanking trans actions In an envelope and address It to us. Your letter will receive the same careful-attention that you would If you came In per son. Ranking; by mall saves you time for Important work you'll like It! FARMERS & STQCKGRQWERS NATIONAL BANK There Is No Substitute for Safety Housekeeping Has Become Homemaking jyjODERN, up-to-date Electrical Appliances are almost human in their operation. They make EVERY household "job" a joy quickly, cleanly, conveniently. Today's housekeeper is no longer home-bound. 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Per Case 95c 83.89 KRAUT I PUMPKIN I CATSUP Fine Shredded, extra quality. 2 Large 2!2 Tins 29c 6 Large Tins 84c r Extra Quality, No. 2 Tins 2 TINS 25c 6 TINS 69c Extra Fine Quality Per Gallon 64c 2 Gallons $1.24 New 1930 Packed CANNED GOODS All of the canned goods fea tured here at these very low prices are all new pack and guaranteed to be of the very finest quality. We would like to call to your attention that MacMarrs are the first In the city to offer new packed mer chandise at new adjusted prices. The reason for this is that MacMarrs buy for cash as well as do they sell for cash. In so doing it is possi ble for us to get into the field ahead of all others de manding QUALITY, PRICE and SERVICE which has again placed MacMarrs ahead in the race for new merchan dise. Hundreds of Car Loads It would surprise you to know; the vast purchasing power of MacMarrs two thousand stores hundreds and hun dreds of car loads of canned goods are rolling into the field to make this big organ izational sale a success. The prices that are quoted to you on this high quality merchan dise will make you think that it would naturally take a good many hundred car loads of this-merchandise to serve such a sale. FLOUR PINEAPPLE STRING BEANS Fancy Broken Slice A Truly Wonderful Quality at this Price. The Wonderful MacMarr Quality. q Large Q 22 0fc 2 No. 2 QQp 6 No. 2 7Qp Per 49-lb. it 11 Orf & Tins OSJC Tins .. Tins .. sack 11.39 6SeNo:.$L35 ETR.tSE $2,89 PEAS COFFEE POTATOES An Extra Quality No. 5 Sieve MacMarr, the most popular coffee in Fancy Graded Netted Gems. 2No.2flQ0 6No.2l7Ap Hner ffA AQ Tins.. 4tf' Tins.. It!' O t - ff LBS uLVe LETRiStSE $2.95 3 Lbs $1.00 top LBS $1.89 Salad pressing Dried Priines SUGAR SandWiCll Spread I 8 Pmen PureCane,we sell no other kind. Full Pint, Packed by Nalles &LBS fftf C 100-LB. t P" OA pint 25c 1 10 ,s 95c bag fr5.za (Dleoimargarine A Product of Swift & Company 3 DlbS. 44C PUMPKIN Large tins. No. 2V4 size, Extra fancy new pack. 2 TINS 29c 6 TINS 84c 12 TINS $1.59 Cooked on the cob and sliced off free from hard particles. 2 TINS 35c 6 TINS 98c 12 TINS $1.89 PEAS No. 2 sieve, small me, sweet as sugar, tender and delicious 2 NO. 2 TINS 43c 6 NO. 2 TINS $1.19 TER CASE $4.59 ST. BEANS Extra Standard Cut Beans of superior quality. 2 NO. 2 TINS 35c 6 NO. 2 TINS 98c FER CASE $3.79 SALMON Alaska Pink, A product of Libbys delicious hot or cold. 4 TINS 49c 12 TINS $1.45 SOAP Crystal White, the world's most pop ular laundry soap today. 10 BARS 39c 26 BARS $1.00 ST. BEANS Asparagus style String Beans, the very finest string beans grown and packed. 2 NO. 2 TINS 45c 6 NO. 2 TINS $1.29 TO THE TRADE : "We want to say we have sampled every kind of canned article mentioned in this advertisement and can say without contradiction that we have absolutely never seen anything to sur pass them in quality, even at a much higher price." Manager. CORN Famous MacMarr Del Maize Yellow. 35c 98c 2 No. 2 Tins . a No. 2 Tins , Tomato's No. 2Vt Sizo Solid Pack Tomatoes. 2 Tins . 6 Tins . 35c 99c PEAS No. 4 Sieve, very tender and sweet 2 Tins . 6 Tins 35c 99c E CORN No. 1 Tins MacMarr Del Maize corn, ideal for small families. 2 Tins 23c 6 Tins 72c Tomato's No. 24 Size Stand ard pack Tomatoes. 2 Tins 28c 6 Tins 79c Per Case $2.93 t MacMARR STORES, HEPPNER