HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 12, 1931.
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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
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The more you see of the new Ford the more you
talk to Ford owners and experienced mechanics the
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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
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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,
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A real cooking
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S LBS.
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MALT
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Per Tin 49c
RICE
Fancy Head
Rice.
10 LBS.
69c
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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 . . .
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"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.
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The successful are doing their
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