HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 22, 1931. PAGE THREE "See How Wrong You've Been" In England I talked with some celebrated economists, who were very gloomy. They said the funda mental trouble with the world goes deeper than war debts or unemploy ment. It is the shortage of gold. . Gold is the measure of all values. When the gold dollars are few each dollar buys more wheat and copper and cotton and labor. So the price of all these commodities goes down, ruining the producers in the pro cess. If the shortage becomes much more acute, so these wise men ar gued, it will overturn all wage scales and debt settlements, and result in economic chaos. As I know nothing about econom ics (and, between ourselves, I often wonder whether the economists know very much), this scared me. The next day I was talking with Ambassador Dwlght W. Morrow, who was in London as one of the delegates to the Naval Conference. I told him what I had heard. In stead of replying directly, he took down from the mantlepiece a copy of the autobiography of Lord Comer, and turned to a passage which read something like this: "When I was a young man I pro posed to keep a diary, but wise old uncle advised against it. Instead of recording what had happened, he said, I could employ my time more profitable by writing down on a piece of paper what I felt sure was going to happen. Then, he said, 'Put those notes away, and a year or five years later get them out and read them over, and see how wrong you have been. This will teach you to be cautious.' " What shrewd advice that is! All of us could profit by it. I know that if I had written down my own private forecast at the beginning of each year and filed it away it would have saved me from making a num ber of costly mistakes. Also, the record would make ra ther encouraging reading. It would show that a considerable amount of unanticipated good luck has come into my life. And that many of the bad things which I predicted for myself and the country have never actually happened. EDUCATION The National Education Associa tion, composed of school-teachers of the entire country, has started a vigorous campaign for the improve ment of country schools. The first and most important step to be tak en in this direction is to find some way of paying better salaries to country school teachers. On the question whether country schools, especially rural high schools, ought to give more atten tion to so-called "vocational" edu cation, there is room for a sharp difference of opinion. Most of the teachers think that arming, car pentering, sewing, cooking and the like should be taught in the schools. A few maintain that the place to learn any trade is "on the job," that the elements of education do not consist in acquiring skill, but in acquiring knowledge and under standing. It must be admitted that the old fashioned country schools which were limited, almost, to the Three R's laid a pretty sound foundation of culture among those pupils who were able to absorb it. PROHIBITION Stanley High, the editor of the Christian Herald, says it is time that the leadership of those who wish to retain Prohibition in th Constitution and the law of the land was taken over by somebody be sides the church people and minis ters. Mr. High is right. One of the rea sons why so many people who re gard themselves as moral Christians are opposed to Prohibition is that they do not believe that it is a ques tion of morals or religion. They re sent the effort to make it appear Her whistle makes a loud noise but her propeller pushes a steamer to port. The above Is worth a littlo study. Many of lis make a big noise, but we don't DO anything. Many nlr-f astles are dreamed, but few want to carry the bricks for real construction. Your ability and this bank Is a tough combination to beat The DOER finds warm sup port at The Farmers. IQNAL that drinking is sinful. So far as our Government and the law are concerned, the question of whether it is sinful to drink does not enter into the question: at all. Prohibition Is an economic move ment, not a moral one. If it is to have anything like whole-hearted support from the people of the Uni ted States, that support must be sought on economic and social grounds and not on grounds with which probably the majority of tru ly religious people cannot agree. ORGANIZATION Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union Telegraph Com pany, thinks that our whole system of government needs reorganizing. The country has become too big, its problems too complex, to admit of efficient administration by a single President and a Congress as now organized. Mr. Carlton is himself probably the nation's greatest organizer. There is less lost motion in the man agement of the Western Union than in any other concern of which I have any knowledge. Whatever Mr. Carlton has to say about organiza tion, therefore, must be listened to respectfully. There is certainly food for thought in what he says about the inadequacy of our present Constitu tional set-up of government The difficulty would be in1 changing it effectively. Authority must be cen tered somewhere, and most people would rather have one individual in the White House on whom to lay the blame whenever anything goes wrong, than to have to divide their ammunition among several heads of government. CREATION Professor Robert Millikan, one of the three or four greatest scient ists of our time, declares that the deeper he delves into the secrets of nature, the more convincing is the evidence of "a Creator continually on the job." Creation is not finished, Dr. Mil likan believes. The universe is con stantly being rebuilt Evolution is going on as it has gone on for tens of millions of years. Both in ani mal life and in the case of the inert elements, growth and development continue. Dogmatic religionists, who believe that everything was finished when, as the Book of Genesis tells us, God rested on the Seventh Day, will dis agree with Dr. Millikan. He believes in a God who works through meth ods of which science has gained a few glimpses and is steadily learn ing more. In a time and place where men were burned at the stake for hold ing beliefs not taught by the priests of religion, Millikan would have risked his life by such utterances. That cannot happen in1 America to day, but if the Bolshevists of Rus sia had their way he would be con demned for believing in any sort of a God or religion at all. MOVIES Two hundred million dollars, or very close to it, was spent In the manufacture of motion pictures last year, according to the Census Bu reau. There were 2,543 different motion pictures produced, of which 1,510 were "silent" films, and 689 were "talkies," the others being silent pic tures with sound accompaniments. One great advantage of living in a small town is that it is still possi ble to go to the movies without hav ing to listen. In the big cities no theater is regarded as any good un less it is equipped to produce "talk ies," which instead of being an im provement on the silent drama are mostly rather inferior stage productions. A keen angler took a friend for a day's sport. The friend knew noth ing of fishing, but decided to" try his luck. After a long silence by the banks of a stream the novice said, "I say, how much do those little red things cost?" "You mean the floats? Oh, they're cheap. Why?" "I owe you for one. Mine's just sunk." "When is your wife coming back?" "I don't know. She is taking part in a vacation marathon." When Minutes Mean Dollars lOU are out on the road your oil gauge shows low your hear a slight tap in the motor just a few miles, it becomes perceptibly louder clack, clank, knock bead's of perspiration rise as you realize it Is 50 miles to the next serv ice station. Just a little forethought forestalls an overhaul. GEMMELL'S Service Station P. M. GEMMELL, Prop. "Our Service Will Please Yon; Your Patronage Will Please W There Is No Substitute for Safoty LIGHT Cheaper Even than Matches A box of safety matches costs but One Cent. Each single match lights for Venty seconds at most the sixty matches of the box represent ing wenty minutes of the faintes1 ligh. A Kilowatt of Electricity keeps a 25-Wa't Electric Lamp burning for 40 hours. ALL THIS lighting ser vice for little more than a nickel, on the average! Your cent in safety matches wass away in twenty minutes!! Your penny in power lights a lamp four or five times longer ! ! What gives greater value than lhe . small sum you invest in the Electric Service of Pacific Power and Light Company "Always at your Service" Stockmen Have Part In Improving Range By F. F. WEHMEYER. Forest Ranger. The Forest Service extended co operation in the development of eight watering systems on the sheep allotments of this district the past summer. Stockmen have construct ed 29 others in past seasons to im prove their ranges. The value of these improvements can be best il lustrated by citipg the Divide Water development on the Silver Creek al lotment owned by John Brosnan of Lena. Mr. Brosnan in cooperation with the government sunk a nine foot well, eight feet in diameter. This was rocked up and a concrete crib placed around the top. Twelve two-inch plank troughs were built with an estimated capacity of 75 gallons each. The well was planked over, vermin proof, and a pitcher pump installed. It takes just five minutes to fill a trough and an hour's pumping will give a band of sheep a good drink. This improvement cost in the neighborhood of $300 and allows for the- full use of approximately six sections of land that was previously without stock water and conse quently of impaired value as range. The two main cattle allotments are the Five Mile with a carrying capacity of 600 head and where 50 acres per head is figured as a basis for summer pasturage the range has approximately 30,000 acres and nearly 32 miles of boundary and the Tamarack-Hardman-Monument allotment carrying 1100 head of stock for summer pasture and hav ing an allowance of 60 acres per head. Approximately 66,000 acres lays in this unit and it has 55 miles of boundary. Stockmen, through assessing themselves so much per head have practically fenced these ranges. When one stops to think that such fencing runs in cost from $100 to $200 per mile, depending on1 topo graphy, accessibility, etc., and that these fences have to be repaired an nually and that they need rebuild ing at least every ten years, it can be seen that the cattlemen have no small investment in the develop ment of their ranges. Many range improvements are on the program for the Heppner dis trict and they will be carried out as fast as funds become available. The Heppner-Spray highway cut off a corner containing about 4,000 acres of the cattle allotment and a new drift fence had to be built. The government built five and a half This Fine ALLHWfOt f LOUR improves gl home haling Not just your cakes, or your crullers, your pies or your popovers but everything you bake I And no wonder I The unvarying quality of Sperry Drifted Snow Flour gives richest flavor, most delicate texture, airy lightness, snowy whiteness every time. 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