HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOV. 6, 1930.
PAGE THREE
ASH TRAYS AND
BUZZERS.
Years ago I had an appointment
with a corporation president. The
secretaries, door men, and general
factotums in the great man's outer
oftice made it clear that their boss
was Some Pumpkins and that I was
assuming a great deal in saking to
see him.
When I finally worked my way
through the last of them and stood
in the president's private office, I
saw in the corner a red-faced, bald
headed man seated at a plain wood
en desk. His coat was off and his
sleeves were rolled up to reveal a
pair of solid, hairy arms.
"Ah, Mr. Barton," he said, "would
you mind standing on guard beside
that door? My tailor has just sent
me over a pair of cooler pants, and
I want to put them on."
So I stood guard while he stepped
out of one pair of pants and into
another, chatting sociably all the
time.
I was reminded of this Incident
by the remark of a friend who was
recently transferred from the
branch office to the New York head
quarters of a certain business.
Some f the men In the organi
zation were jealous of his promo
tion, and he has carefully watched
his step. "The president gave me
my choice of two offices," he told
me. "One was a grand room on the
executive floor. The other a queer
little dump two floors below. I took
the little office. It will be perfectly
all right until I show that I need
something better. I have enough
problems at the beginning without
the additional handicap of a luxur
ious office."
An office manager who has watch
ed men come and go in a big cor
poration tells me that he can pre
dict just about how long a new man
will last. "If his first requisition is
for a lead pencil and a blotter and
some ink, I put him down as per
manent, But when a man sends me
an Initial requisition for an ash
tray and an electric buzzer I notice
he never stays over a year."
Napoleon was quite a trial to his
courtiers because he did not pay
more attention to the trappings of
his office. When Bourrienne was
telling him that he must dd so and
so or the older reigning families in
Europe would not recognize him, he
had the sure answer of a man who
knows his strength.
"If It comes to that I will destroy
them all," he exclaimed. "Then I
shall be the oldest sovereign among
them."
Generally speaking, those who
like lots of fuss are light weights.
The surer a man is of his own ca
pacity, the less he cares for exter
nalsincluding all fancy trappings
and the criticism of the uninformed.
HELP
Out of a fund of $30,000 estab
lished by former Senator Joseph
Frelinghuyscn of New Jersey, more
than $77,000 has been loaned to
boys and girls on New Jersey farms
to enable them to purchase pure
bred cows, swine or poultry. More
than 1,000 boys and girls have been
helped in this way to get a start
in producing better dairy products,
pork and poultry, and the effect up
on farmers generally in showing
them the advantages of pure-bred
stock have been incalculable.
That sort of help for the farmer
is decidedly practical. There is al
ways a market for first-grade prod
ucts of the sort which New Jersey
thus encourages, especially in the
vicinity of great terminal markets
like New York and Philadelphia.
SPEED
Thirty-five minutes from the time
he left the William Penn Airport in
Philadelphia with photographs of
the World's Series baseball game,
Captain Frank Hawks delivered the
pictures in a New York newspaper
office. It took him 20 minutes, fly
ing at 270 miles an hour, to cover
the 90 miles between Philadelphia
and the Queens Borough Airport in
New York. Then fifteen minutes in
a speed-boat took him to Manhat
tan. This was faster than the pictures
could have been sent by telegraph.
Telegraphing photographs is now
being done every day, but it takes
half an hour or so for the details
of a picture to be transmitted over
the wire. Over long distances, of
course, the airplane could not com
pete, but In this case it was the
swifter method.
BLIND
The most terrible affliction which
can come to a human being, in all
probability, is blindness. The prob
lem of helping the blind to become
self-supporting is finding new solu
tions constantly. The latest is the
discovery that blind girls, because
of their keen sense of touch, are
very useful In offices .where there
is a large amount of mailing to be
done.
The Brooklyn Bureau of Charities
has set up a mailing business em
ploying only blind girls for this sort
of work. All sorts of quantity mail
ing Is done for business houses.
These girls formerly had no other
occupation than weaving coarse
rugs, at which they could earn only
from $6 to $8 a week. In the mail
ing work they earn from $15 to $20
a week. And for addressing mail,
crippled girls, who cannot work at
occupations requiring physical ex
ertion, are employed.
That is the most practical sort of
charity.
COTTON
More than 45,000,000 acres of land
was devoted to growing cotton in
the United States this year. That is
five million acres too much, in the
opinion of Carl Williams, the cot
ton expert of the Federal Farm
Board.
R. & K. PRODUCE CO.
(12 years on Front Street)
Owners of Portland and Salem
Pigg-ly-Wiggly Market!.
SHir US YOUR TURKEYS
Ducks, Gwwe, Capons, Hons,
RoaNtrrs, Etc.
Write us for prices and other
Information.
References:
U. S. National Bank
First National Bank
Salem U. S. National Bank
Bank by Mail
yHE bank is just as close to
you as your mall box.
United States Mail is the lust
word In reliability and It is
maintained for your conveni
ence. All Items received by mull nre
given prompt and careful at
tention. Banklg by mail is safe, speedy
and convenient.
NATIONAL BANK
There Is No Substitute for
Safety
WE TAKE OUR LOSS
To meet the conditions that exist in
our community, we are -making a dis
count of 25 on all monuments and
markers purchased during October
and November. Our prices were al
ready lower than elsewhere. You pay
no commissions for agents.
Write for Samples and Prices
Pendleton Marble & Granite Works
T. I REEDY, Prop.
What is needed in the South, says
Mr. Williams, is the production of
more food which the South itself
consumes. He says there are single
cities in the South where the con
sumption of meat and dairy prod
ucts is more than the production of
those commodities in the entire
state. The cotton farmer who cuts
down his cotton acreage and uses
the land thereby released for live
stock and dairying or the growing
of other foodstuffs, will be serving
himself, his community, the cotton
industry and the entire South.
It will take time, but eventually
a high percentage of the land now
devoted to staple crops all over the
country will be used for other pur
poses. LIFE
Our bodies live longer than those
of our grandparents did, Dr.
Charles H. Mayo, famous physician
of Rochester, Minn., tells us, but our
brains die just as young. What Is
the use, Dr. Mayo asks, of living to
90 if the brain begins to decay at
70? He is optimistic about it, how
ever; he thinks that medical re
search will find means of prolong
ing mental life as well as physical
life.
In the matter of length of life we
have made great progress in a short
time. The normal age to which each
newborn child can expect to live in
America is 50; in India it is only 20.
In Colonial days in America, in the
1600's, the average age in this coun
try was only 21, because so many
children died in infancy, and their
elders succumbed early to the hard
ships of pioneer life.
The time will come when nobody
will die, except from accident, un
der 70, -and many will live, and be
physically and mentally active, to
100.
Non-Resident License
Void on Oregon Cars
The Oregon law which extends a
welcome to visiting motor tourists
by granting them a permit to drive
for 90 days within our state with
out the payment of any fee, is often
misunderstood by Oregon motorists
themselves. It is generally known
that the secretary of state may is
sue a visitor's permit to bona fide
tourists without cost to the appli
cant, which is valid for a ninety
day period, not to extend beyond"
the current year, to any nonresi
dent owner of a motor vehicle upon
proper application to the secretary
of state or any agency which may
have been designated by him. This
section of the law does not, how
ever, pertain, to Oregon residents
who may acquire a motor vehicle
which happens to be licensed in
some other state, country or terri
tory at the time of purchase. In
such cases, the foreign license im
mediately becomes void and the
owner is required to register the
vehicle in the regular manner pro
vided by law for vehicles owned by
residents of this state. In other
words it becomes mandatory upon
an Oregon resident that an Oregon
license be provided in order to legal
ly operate the vehicle in this state.
A similar occasion arises when a
resident of this state purchases and
licenses a car in another state and
then returns to Oregon with the
expectancy of securing a nonresi
dential permit. The secretary of
THERE are two kinds of inter-city
calls : person-to-person when you ask
the operator to summon a specific per
son to the telephone; and station-to-station
when you will talk with any
one who answers. The charge for station-to-station
calls is usually lower by
day, still lower in the evening.
The Pacific Telephone And Telegraph Company
Instant
and Constant
Service
A hand-sized cloud is seen on the horizon . . .
a storm threatens . . , mid-afternoon bright
ness changes to shadowy grey . . . lights twin
kle hours earlier than normally.
A sudden weather change can increase elec
trical uses many times in a short period. Yet
invariably, service is there when you snap the
switch ! Foresighted organization must meet
the changing demand of the day, the week,
the month, the year Back of the button that
responds so instantly to your every touch
there is a far-flung organization that antici
pates every use you make of its all-doing ser
vice. Pacific Power and
Light Company
"Always at your Service"
state is continually confronted with
problems of this kind and in most
instances it is probably due to a
lack of familiarity with the provi
sions of the law governing this procedure.
Weather Man: "Put down rain for
a certainty this afternoon."
Assistant: "Are you positive,
sir?"
Weather Man: "Yes, indeed. I've
lost my umbrella, I'm planning to
play golf, and my wife's going to a
lawn party."
TASTY,
FRESH
Shell
FISH
Eat them here now. Pre
pared to your order.
FOR A
GOOD MEAL
ANY TIME
or just
A LIGHT LUNCH OE
FOUNTAIN
REFRESHMENTS
ELKHORN
RESTAURANT
ED CHINN, Prop.
THERE ARE SMILES
THAT MAKE US HAPP
It I IB.
LEE S. ROBERTS
COMPOSER OF "SMILES"
will play melodies from his own scrap
book and tell of little human incidents
in the lives of musical celebrities he has
known.
These programs, featuring Lee S. Rob
erts are known as "Sperry Smiles" and
come to you at 8:45 each Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday evening over
the stations of the National Broadcast
ing Company.
KFSD ' KECA - KGO ' KGW
KOMO ' KHQ
SPERRY-FLOUR -CO
MILLERS OF SPERRY DRIFTED SNOW FLOUR
With Armistice Day drawing near, why not make PEACE with your purse? It is quite disturbing
to have your purse meet your eye with a rather neglected look but you can easily change that Try
buying foods at our complete food stores and you will note with satisfaction that the savings left
In your purse give you pleasure as well as peace of mind!
SATURDAY & MONDAY SPECIALS
MATCHES
Good quality, every one a
real light
12 Boxes . 34c
CORN
Delicious Golden Yellow
2 Cans 25c
Per Case $2.74
FLY SPRAY
Oronite, the best of all
Pts. 45c Qts. 85c
Gallons $1.89
MILK
Darlgold, a western prod
uct
11 Tins . . 98c
RAISINS
Market Day Special, In 4
lb. Packages
Per Pkg. . . 27C
CODFISH
Boneless Codfish of real
delicious quality
2 Lbs. ... 49c
MINCE MEAT
Kerr's Best in Bulk. "It is just
delicious"
2 Lbs
29c
COFFEE
MacMarr's Blend Best by Test
in the West
3 Lbs. . . . $1.00
Flour
The wonderful Mac
Marr, growing every
day in popularity.
49-lb. Bag $1.39
Per Bbl $5.48
NUCOA
An economical spread for
bread
Per Lb. ... 21C
CHEESE
Armour's loaf, a delicious
mild cure
2 Lbs. . . . 55c
KRAUT
Llbbey's Wonderful Kraut, sold
in bulk and just look at the price
2 Quarts 25C
SHORTENING
Armour's Pennant Brand, fluffy
and white like snow. Fine for
frying and baking.
No. 10 Pail . 1.29
FRUIT PEEL
For that fruit cake
Citron, Lb 39c
Orange, Lemon 33c
CRISCO
The Ideal shortening for
all purposes
6-lb. Tin $1.55
CURRANTS
New Crop
MacMarr Brand
2 Lg. Pkgs. 39c
BANANAS
Golden, Ripe, Delicious
3 Lbs
Fruit
25c
BACON, Armour's Fancy, Med. Wt. Back Bacon . . Per Lb. 29c
Phone 1082
STONE'S DIVISION Hotel Heppner Bid.