HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 25, 1930.
PAGE THREE
"A Form of Suicide"
A certain friend of mine prosper
ed mightily h his business and in
vestments. I used to see him often,
and it distressed me to observe that
his increase In wealth had appar
ently added nothing to his peace of
mind. He had seemed to be always
worried. His health was not too
good. With each added million he
developed a new complaint
The other day I saw him again
for the first time in nearly a year.
His eyes shone. He was full of
pep and plans a wonderful trans
formation. "You know, I used to talk about
retiring," he said, "and I had just
about made up my mind to do It
when the stock market crashed.
Then I discovered that I couldn't
afford to retire.
"I've gone back to work, and it's
the greatest tonic I ever had. I
doubt now if I'll ever retire. When
you come to think of it," he added,
"idleness is just a form of suicide."
The phrase is striking, but the
thought which it expresses is not
new. Many men have made the
same discovery, and usually at the
price of unhappiness.
Charles Lamb, when released at
last from his drudgery of desk work
at the India ollice, cried out that
he would not go back to his "pris
on for ten thousand pounds."
"I am free! Free as air!" he wrote
ecstatically to a friend. "I will live
another fifty years. Positively the
best thing a man can do is nothing."
Two years passed. Idleness lost
its charm. Time, which had seemed
to pais slowly when he was chained
to a job, now hung around his neck
like a millstone. With his days free
for writing he actually wrote less
than in the years when, with all
their dull routine, he had been stim
ulated by daily contact with the
active world.
"I assure you no work at all Is
worse than overwork; the mind
preys on itself the most unwhole
some of food." So he wrote to the
same friend. "I have ceased to care
for almost anything. Never did the
waters of heaven pour down on a
forlorner head. What I can do,
and overdo, is to walk. I am a
sanguinary murderer of time. But
the oracle is silent."
Henry Thoreau, who saw many
things clearly, looked forward to a
time when every man's life would
be reasonably divided between hard
work and happy leisure.
"Why should the hen set all day?"
he asked. "She can lay but one egg,
and besides, she will not have pick
ed up materials for a new one.
Those who work much do not work
hard."
Both idleness and unrelieved
drudgery are forms of suicide.
Somewhere between them is a hap
py medium which is really living.
BLASPHEMY
The Lord Chamberlain of Eng
land, who has the final say whether
any play may be shown In English
theaters, has banned "The Green
Pasture," the play which received
the Pulitzer Prize when it was pro
duced in New York, where it Is
still running.
The ground of the objection is
that in the play one character rep
resents God, and that is forbidden
on the English stage. True, the char
acter is merely an ignorant Negro's
conception of God as "somebody
that looks like the Reverend Mr.
Dubois," and the whole play reflects
the simple literal interpretation of
the Bible story in terms of their
own race and experience, by the
primitive Negroes of the lower Mis
sissippi Valley. But that makes no
difference In England; "The Green
Pastures" can't be shown there.
The reasoning back of that seems
as wrong-headed as most of the
reasoning, or lack of it, back of
some efforts In America to keep re
ligion from being taken lightly. Any
religion which can't stand up under
caricature or parody must be pretty
weak stuff.
WAR
The movie magnates are fallling
over themselves to produce films
showing war scenes. That is quite
all right war Is mankind's greatest
adventure always has been and al
ways will be. But when they talk,
as some of them do, about such
111ms as "All Quiet on the Western
Front" and "Hell's Angels" as be
ing calculated to turn the minds of
youth away from war and toward
peace, they are, speaking in the ver
nacular, all wet.
Youth doesn't mind dirt and blood
and (lunger and horrors, if there is
TASTY,
FRESH
Shell
FISH
Eat them here now. Pre
pared to your order.
FOB A
GOOD MEAL
ANY TIME
or Just
A LIGHT LUNCH OB
FOUNTAIN
REFRESHMENTS
ELKHORN
RESTAURANT
ED CHINN, Prop.
the thrill of action attached to
them. Youth cannot visualize the
social and economic losses caused
by war if it could, it wouldn't be
youth. As well try to talk girls out
of loving as to talk boys out of
fighting. And the more war pic
tures are shown on: the screen, the
more eager will the generation
which was too young to fight In the
last war be for a new war in which
they, too, can share in the excite
ment of battle.
AUSTRALIA
Australia has made one more step,
and a long one, toward complete
Independence of the British Em
pire. The King of England has ap
pointed a native Australian, Sir Is
aac Alfred Isaacs, as Governor Gen
eral of the Commonwealth.
The theory of the British govern
ment of its colonies in the past has
been that while the people might
elect their own legislative bodies the j
head of the Government must be
somebody sent out from "home." j
No Canadian has ever been the '
Governor-General of Canada, no In
dian Governor-General of India.
Great Britain is having plenty of i
trouble keeping what it has, and
rather than risk a revolt which
would set up Australia as a com
pletely independent nation all pre
cedents have been broken.
POSTAGE
The Postmaster General wants to
increase the rate of postage on let
ters from two cents to cents
each. Probably nobody would mind
it very much. Nobody made a great
fuss when we went to three-cent
postage during the war. The main
difficulty would be in making
change.
The Post Office cost the taxpayers
of the United States nearly one hun
dred million dollars last year. That
is what we paid over and above
postage stamp payments. More than
half of the loss comes from carry
ing free mail matter for members
of Congress and Government de
partments. The cost of postal service ought to
be paid by the people who use It
The business house that has a
stamp bill of thousands of dollars
a week is getting something for
nothing from the taxpayer who
writes only one letter a month.
Moreover, the business house is us
ing the mail for purposes of busi
ness that is, to make money.
AGE
There has been a great deal of
talk spilled loosely about the inca
pacity of men over 40 to do their
share of the day's work.
At the New York State Industrial
Safety congress the other day one
of the industrial leaders said: "It is
the old, trained employee who mak
es us our money. They are the ones
it is hard to replace. The time
when a man begins to be worth
something is around 45."
Anybody who will think the mat
ter over will realize that this is true
If business consisted in playing ten
nis or golf, or prize-fighting, no
doubt young men would easily
crowd out the old ones. But the
"leg-work" which most jobs require
is no strain, upon the heart and
muscles of men of sixty, while the
intelligence and fidelity which are
acquired only through experience
both on the job and in the art of
getting along in the world, are qual
ities that youth seldom possess.
HUMORETTES
Windjammer I graduated in
playing the saxophone from a cor
respondence school.
Bamboozle Well, you sure lost
lots of your mail.
Cordelia Engaged to two men
at once? Does breach of promise
mean nothing to you?
Cornelia I'll say it does. I'm
trying to figure out how I can sue
them both for it
Mrs. Watt Has Mrs. Bjones for
given her daughter for eloping with
that actor?
Mrs. Howe I don't think so
she's gone to live with them.
qAs
nineteen-thirty prospered,
Then so will thirty-one,
We hope to keep your
custom,
Success has justbegun'.t
F.W.
TURNER
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COMB
Let's forget our cares
and sorrows
It's Christmas!
owes
CHRISTMAS awakens
fond memories and
proves that there is lasting
joy In providing pleasure for
our loved ones, friends and
fellow men.
FEACE ON EAKTH GOOD
WILL TOWARD MEN.
May that sentiment ever grow
stronger, and may Christmas
bring to you, one and all,
much happiness.
There is No Substitute for
Safety
Records Eight Heppner
Students at U. 0. Cited
University of Oregon, Eugene
(Special) There are eight students
from Heppner registered in the Un
iversity of Oregon fall term. They
are:
Merle Becket, a sophomore In the
school of business administration,
graduated from the Heppner high,
and this year a member of the uni
versity band.
Katherine Bisbee, a freshman in
physical education. She played
freshman hockey and volley ball.
Glen Wedell Castcel, a freshman
in the English department, gradua
ted from the Oregon State school
for the blind.
Marjorie Barton Clark, a junior
in the English department She is
a member of Chi Omega, and gen
eral chairman of the women's rally
committee this year.
Claud C. Conder, a sophomore in
political science. He was a member
of the rifle team last year, and is
one of the university band.
Jon Conder, a junior in the school
of music, graduated from the Hepp
ner high school. He received the
Phi Mu Alpha piano scholarship for
1928.
Patricia Eileen Mahoney, a soph
omore in the school of music, a
member of Chi Omega, and a grad
uate of Heppner high in 1929.
John G. Parker, a freshman in
the school of business administra
tion, graduated from Heppner high
school.
"Why do you go out on the front
porch whenever I sing? Don't you
like to hear me?
"It isn't that I want the neigh
bors to see that I'm not beating my
wife.
Slowboy If I knew you better I'd
kiss you.
Miss Pepp If you'd kiss me you'd
know me better.
We cannot say the word we would
Of deep appreciation;
Wt tae this Way of wishing you
A happy celebration!
Pacific Power & Light
Company
HEPPNER, OREGON
Christmas greetings!
Happy greetings!
We have tried to serve you well;
Frost bells ring you,
New Year bring you,
All the joys your heart can tell!
Elkhorn
Restaurant
EDWARD CHINN
Proprietor
The gay eat thing we have to aay
To "friend and" patron too,
Is Merry, Merry Chrijtmaj Day,
And glad New Year to you!
Heppner Planing Mill
and
Lumber Yard
Transforming
Tedious Tasks
into Self-Done Service
QUICKLY the kitchen is transformed into a
light, clean-aired room by the use of Electric
Cookery . . . basements become added livable
rooms by Electric Hot-water heaters and fur
nace tenders. . . into every room of the home
electric, white magic flows to make it more
cozily comfortable.
Transformation of the home is bus one of Elec
tricity's accomplishments. In industry it has
made factories more efficient, increased pro
duction and decreased costs. It has banished
drudgery by dividing working hours nearly in
half while multiplying productive effort and
leisure.
Pacific Power and
Light Company
"Alivays at your Service"
Visitor I believe your village is
very healthy, is it not?
Inhabitant It is tile healthiest
spot on earth.
Visitor And yet your cemetery
is pretty full.
Inhabitant Yes, but they are the
graves of doctors and undertakers
who have died with broken hearts.
NOTICE OP PiNAL SETTLEMENT.
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed has filed her final account s
admnistratrix of the estate of Millard
F. Parker, deceased, and that the Coun
ty Court of the State of Origin for
Morrow County ha.- appointed Mondav.
the 2nd day of February. H:i. at the
hour of lu o'chnk in the foremjon of
said day. as the time, and the county
court room in the court hnuw at Hepp
ner. Oregon, as the place of hearing
ancj settlement of said final account.
Objections to .-aid final account must be
filed on or before sitM date.
TKANME B. PARKER.
41-45. Administratrix.
We cannot see you each alone,
And that's the very reason,
We come in print to wish you all
Good wishes for the season! !
Peterson's
Jewelry
Store
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Christmas and tit e New Year-,
A gay old comhinatioru,
And so this card of greeting, friends.
Sincere congratulations!
Humphreys Drug
Company
REAL PRE-IHVEHTORY SPECIALS
If you wish to please the mealtime appetite of your family or
guests, come to our stores and choose PERSONALLY the foods
that grace your table. Nationally-known and advertised brands of
quality foods, excelelnt varieties of seasonable fruits and vegetables
verythlng is here to make your meals more inviting.
Friday, Saturday and Monday Specials
SOAP
Crystal White
laundry soap:
the nation's fa
vorite. 12 BARS
49c
SALMON
Alaska pink, de
licious in many
ways, especially
as a loaf.
2 TALL TIS
25c
SUGAR
Pure Cane, ac
cording to the
present market
this is a real
saving.
PER 100 LBS.
$5.59
COFFEE, MacMarr, more
popular every day, 3 LBS.
COFFEE, Economy, well fJQr
worth the price, 3 LBS. 51
MILK
Darigold brand
A real western
product
11 TALL TINS
99c
HONEY fi
Pure Strained
5-LB. TINS
64c
10-LB. TINS
$1.24
PRUNES
Medium Size
and Juicy
10 LBS.
73c
25 LBS.
$1.73
SHORTENING
No. 10 Pails
$1.25
CRISCO
6-lb. Pails
S1.55
SPUDS
Govt inspect
ed Netted
Gems.
50 LBS.
99c
100 LBS.
$1.75
PANCAKE
FLOUR
MacMarr Brand,
the very latest
In flour mixtures
2!a-LB. rKG.
19c
10-LB. BAGS
59c
SOAP
Oxoydal Pow- h
der, the very
latest for fan
cy silks and
woolens.
2 LG. PKGS.
43c
KRAUT, Llbby's
sold in bulk. 2 QCARTS
best, OCl
(OCOAMT, sweet and )Qf
moist, sold in bulk, LB. avv
CORN
FLAKES
Jersey Brand,
large flakes
and crisp.
6 LG. PKGS
49c
Spaghetti
New shipment,
cull, fine quality,
sold In bulk.
3 LBS.
29c
COD
FISH
Roflco Brand
Boneless
2 LBS.
45c
Happy New Year
A. R. REID, Proprietor
to One and All
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