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!
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Today's housekeeper is no longer home-bound.
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servants. These are instantly punctual, de
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"Always at your Service"
OUR BIG FALL CANNED FOODS EVENT is in progress, bigger val-
i j i i j.1 u: i c i ju
lies tnan ever, Deuer prices man ever, a uig vaiieiy ui caiuieu iwus, ueii
ciniit: Viio-ri mm litv nrralnrts from the world's finest nrodurin? renters
VIVUO J F M. O
meets your eyes in every one of our completetly stocked stores. Come in,
buy your canned toods now.
REMEMBER THE DATES
From Friday, October 24, up to and including
triday, October 61
CORN
Twin Peaks Brand
Yellow Bantam
M Cans 25c
6 Cans 72C
Case $2.69
Tomatoes
Twin Peaks Brand, No. 2
Tins, Standard Pack.
M TINS.. 25c
6 tins. 69c
PER J9 IQ
CASE 94.1 tl
MILK
Darigold Brand A west
ern product Wins, its
favor through its flavor.
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
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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
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MacMARR STORES, HEPPNER