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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 12, 1931. PAGE THREE X PLEASANT PLACES When he was hardly more than a boy my friend Jim Derleux, one of the editors of the American Maga zine, was secretary to the governor of South Carolina. There was a brilliant young chap in the state administration who at the age of twenty-six held the office of assistant comptroller. He had not intended to run for the comp trollership, but a political faction organized to head him off. This made him mad, so he did run and was elected. After holding office for only six months he asked for an interview with the governor. "What's on your mind?" asked Jim. "I am going to resign." "Why?" "I'll tell you presently." They went in to the governors private room, and the young official tendered his resignation. The gov ernor was amazed. "Whats the matter? he exclaimed. "I thought you were sitting pretty." "I am," said the young man. "That is just the trouble." "But I don't understand." "Well, Governor, you know this office that I hold is a mighty pleas ant place. I'm twenty-seven years old, and it's a very pleasant place indeed. I am afraid of it" He was afraid he would settle down and become too contented. Afraid that, without hard problems to tackle and stern duties to con quer, he would get flabby and soft. Afraid that at forty he would wake up to find himself a lazy office hold er with no ambition and no hope. Nobody under fifty should be in too pleasant a place. Robert Updegraff, the writer of business articles, uttered a profound business truth when he counseled: "Never complain about your troub les. They are responsible for the greater part of your income." Almost any one can hold a job which presents no difficulties; hence such jobs pay small salaries. Men at the top are paid for their willing ness to accept responsibility; for the problems that they tackle and the difficulties they lick. King David wrote: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pas tures; He leadeth me beside the still waters." But when David wrote that he was a fugitive from Saul. He was fighting through the wilderness, pursued by enemies and wild beasts. The green pastures and still waters were all in his mind. He never did reach an entirely pleasant place. Even when he be came king his life was full of prob lems, disappointments and hard work. But his soul gave birth to songs that are among the finest of all the ages. Should Start Irrigating Early; Reserve Said Low In announcing the result of snow surveys just completed near Ar buckle mountain and at North Jones prairie, J. M. Spencer, state watermaster of Pendleton, advises irrigators to be ready to use all available water as it comes, espec ially on the lower reaches of Willow and Butter creeks. Snow to the depth of 22.2 inches with a water content of 6.1 inches was found in the priarie, as com pared to 15.5 inches of snow with water content of 6.4 inches at the same station and on the same date in 1930. While the snow is well packed and frozen, Indications point to another low water year in Willow and Butter creeks, Mr. Spencer re ports. He expects that early warm weather will start the water early this year. FOR SALE Purebred Plymouth Rock and R. I. Red hatching eggs, 50c per setting; also female canary birds $1 each. Mrs. Eph Eskelson, Heppner. 47-4 Tine new Fordl is sum economical cai ito own and drive Low first cost, low cost of oper ation and up'licepf and low yearly depreciation mean a distinct saving to every purchaser THE NEW FORD is a splendid car to own and drive , because of its attractive lines and colors, safety, com" fort, speed, reliability and long life. There arc, in addition, three other features of importance to every far-seeing automobile owner . . low first cost, low cost of operation and up-kecp, and low yearly depreciation. During the life of the car, the day-by-day economy of owning a Ford will amount to considerably more than the saving on the first cost. You save when you buy the Ford and you save every mile you drive. - The reasons for this economy are simplicity of design, high quality of materials and care in manu facturing and assembling. Many vital parts are made to limits of one one-thousandth of an inch. Some to three ten-thousandths of an inch. Throughout, the new Ford is an outstanding example of lino crafts manship in automobile engineering. The more you see of the new Ford the more you talk to Ford owners and experienced mechanics the more certain you become of this fact. ... It brings you everything you want or need in a motor car at an unusually low price. Tire New Ford Tudor Sedan Id hOW PRICES OF FOItD CAHS $430 TO $630 W.0.B. Detroit, plut freight and delivery. Bumpart and apart ttra axtra at tmatt roil. You eon buy a Ford for a imafl down payment en a convaniant financing plan Saa your Ford daalar or datail$ f FRANK PARKER 1 CROWELL Production of munitions of war in the United States did not get organ ized and under way until Benedict Crowell, a young engineer of Cleve land, was placed in charge. I saw a lot of Crowell during the war. He was a human dynamo, never resting, ceaselessly driving the hugest industrial organization ever assembled, but making every body like it After the war, when politicians were doing everything possible to discredit everybody who had served his country, Benedict Crowell was indicted as a criminal because he had ordered war supplies without waiting for the slow action of Congress to authorize the expen diture. The indictments were thrown out of court as entirely un warranted, and Crowell went back to his engineering work in Cleve land. Now President Hoover has nom inated Crowell to be a brigadier general of the Reserve Corps, with a reference to his distinguished ser vice during the war and to indicate "my own feeling over what we al ways considered was a grave injus tice." Even professional mudslingers who infest the Senate will hardly try to make political capital out of this belated tribute to Benedict Crowell. SUCCESS "Never call a man successful un til! after he is dead," said an old friend to me the other day. He was worth a million and a half twt years ago. That classed him as a "suc cessful" man. Today he has nothing left but his salary. He did not get out of the stock market in time. People now speak of him as unsuc cessful, but after he is dead I am confident that he will be eulogized as a great success, not because he made money at one time but be cause of the work he did in a life time planning and building great enterprises. He has already lived long enough to get something en during accomplished, which few men ever achieve before they are past middle life. "In all the more difficult callings, the things in which sheer luck and low cunning are of the least impor tance," said George Luks, the paint er, not iong ago, "man is just out of school at sixty. All the solid and enduring work is done by men who have lived long enough to have mas tered their calling and life itself." Real success is measured by achievement, never by money. FAILURES New York City is crowded with failures. They are the young men and young women who came from the small towns with an ambition to become painters, musicians, sculp tors, authors or dramatists, and have neither the moral courage to go back home and admit to their families and neighbors that they have failed, nor the good sense or ability to get a job at something which they can really do. One of the most popular plays in New York theaters just now tells what happens to both kinds of am bitious youngsters. "Philip Goes Forth" ought to be shown in every community where' there are young people imagining that they can be come rich and famous overnight merely by going to New York and writing or painting. CHARITY In a small New England village where I frequently visit live two old people whose lives were ruined in childhood because they were taught to look down upon their neighbors. Their family was then wealthy. To day the old man and his old maid sister have not a penny left in the world except the old house which is slowly falling into ruin.- But the neighbors, poor people mostly, have kept this old man and woman alive for years and still do. They are too proud to accept food or clothing offered to them, brindling indignantly when anyone suggests they may be in need. So the kindly neighbors leave baskets of provis ions on the front stoop, ring the bell and run away! Other neigh bors leave firewood in the back yard, drop around after dark and shovel a path through the snow from the gate to the front door. That is real charity. It is the sort of charity that "vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up," as the stout Apostle Paul puts it in the King James translation of the Bible. And it is probably commoner among the poor than among the rich. Only those who have known the pinch of need know what it means to those who feel it. FLYING The airplane business is one which did not feel the business de pression in 1930. More planes were made and sold than in any previous year, and the principal companies making them report more unfilled orders on hand than ever before. The impetus given to flying by Lindbergh's spectacular feat has not Our Valentine's Day greeting to you is to "have a heart-y meal" one that you will enjoy to the full est. And that's where we can be of service ! A wide variety of seasonable foods that are both fresh and of fine quality are in our stores on Val entine's Day and every day for your selection. Saturday & Monday Specials COFFEE MacMarr, over 100 pounds of this coffee sold in Heppner last Saturday. 3 Lbs. $1.00 CRISCO A purely veget able shortening. 6-LB. TIN $1.49 COFFEE Economy brand, this coffee is In creasing in sales every day. 3 Lbs... 69c CORN MEAL white meal. 9-Lb. SACK 39c CHOCOLATE FLOUR Ghirai-delli's, the quality sweet- MacMarr Quality, excelled by end drink for any meal. none. 3 LB. Aftn 49-LB. SACK .... $1.23 TIN U tlC I PER BARREL .. $4.89 Cg A n Crystal White, the nation's QQs &Jfr favorite. 10 BARS Off I DRIED FRUITS BUCKWHEAT All fancy quality. pure Eastern Buckwheat flour Black FigS, 3 lbs. .. 29C for delicious pancakes. Apricots, 2 lbs 35c (VLB- 70o Peaches, 3 lbs 39c V. BAGS I tfX, RFAMC fancY smaU Calif or- rjt Pt.lMJ nia white navy. iQ y)S. I 'jj, Pow.Sugar A real cooking necessity. S LBS. 45c MALT Puritan brand one of America's favorites. Per Tin 49c RICE Fancy Head Rice. 10 LBS. 69c MAYONNAISE rJttLb35c PHONE 1082 ALL ORDERS OF $3.00 OH OVER DELIVERED FREE. Heppner Hotel Bldg. Pancake Flour Wonderful MacMarr quality. 22-lb. Pks 19c No. 10 Bag 59c died down. Ambitious boys look forward now to learning to fly and eventually having their own planes, as they did a few years ago in re spect to automobiles. A twelve-year-old boy made a solo flight recently after only two hours or so of instruction. The youngsters who start at that age or thereabouts will, of course, be the best pilots of the future, better flyers than any now in the air. SON ARRIVES AT BAKER. Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Neill are the parents of a son born at Baker Feb ruary 6, at the Protestant hospital, weighing 7'4 pounds. He has been named Edward O. Neill, Jr. For Rent 420 acres summer graz ing land. South Jones Prairie. Mrs. Henry Jones, 399 E. 16th St. N., Portland, Ore. 47tf. FOMER EDITOR CITED. A. J. Hicks, veteran publisher and one-time editor of the Heppner Times, was recently honored by presentation with a life member ship in the Washington Press asso ciation. Mr. Hicks, who now makes his home at Ridgefield, Wash., where his son J. R. Hicks is co-editor of the Ridgefield Reflector, has retired from the printing business after engaging in it for 45 years. DON'T MISS THIS. Potatoes for Sale. Very good Netted Gems, 85c sack. Richard Bros., mouth of Butter creek oni Butter creek highway, 5 ml. south of Hermiston. 45-47-p. FOR SALE 10 cords creek wood, 16-inch. Inquire Ferguson Motor Co or Johr Henderson city. 46-8 LINCOLN SAID . . . www "I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." This is especially true regard ing finance. A wooden head is a greater handicap than a wooden leg. Are you sure you are giving the WORLD a square deal? The successful are doing their share of the world's work thru energy and THRIFT. There Is No Substitute for Safety n y 1EZ ATIC V 7ATER under pressure water that is always available at the turn of a faucet. This is possible if you have a 2 Automatic Water System installed in your home. And you not only have the many conveniences of water under pressure you eliminate the back breaking tasks of pumping and carrying water for your every need. No need to pump water by hand at the close of a busy day in the field ; simply turn a faucet and the dependable t2 Water System pumps for you. Let us send you a folder showing the new low priced 12 Models, deep well and shallow well, for city or country homes. W. F. MAHRT Phone 1133 Heppner, Oregon ifrimi Water Systems Wade and Guaranteed bit DEICO LIGHT COMPANY- Dayton-Ohio Jubsiiianj of General Motors Corporation New Low Price INTERNATIONAL iy2 TON SIX SPEED SPECIAL FACTORY Increased Power - Increased Capacity I Yi Ton Rating Smoother Operation and Handling Greater Comfort Longer Wheelbase Six Speeds Forward - Auxiliary Springs Full Pressure Lubricated Motor SEE YOUR NEAREST DEALER FOR DEMONSTRATION Write for the "Six-Speed Special" Folder International Harvester Company of America 314 Oregon St. Portland, Ore.
