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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 19, 1931.
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DIFFICULTIES
My little tailor came to the office
to measure me for a new suit of
clothes.
He looked tired. It had not been
such a good winter. The American
people are either away up or away
down in their thinking and their
spending. While the stock market
was boiling they bought lots of clo
thes. But they stopped very sudden
ly, so the little tailor said.
I wondered what a tailor thinks
about. It must be monotonous life,
going around and measuring men,
sewing up suits and trying them on,
and fixing them over, and listening
to a good deal of grumbling.
"Do you find life worth living?" I
asked him.
His face brightened. "It keeps me
interested."
"But what are your pleasures?"
I persisted. "What gives you a
thrill?"
"Well, for one thing I get quite a
lot of excitement in overcoming dif
ficulties." He went on to tell me about his
dilliculties, and as he talked I felt
a reverence for that little tailor
and a certain amount of shame for
myself. How much less he has than
I have. But no complaining, no self-
pity, no temptation to surrender.
He is playing a game in which dif
ficulties are his opponents, and
every day, in his modest fashion, he
wins some victory.
When I was in Chicago a couple
of years ago they told me about the
late T. F. Merseles who left the
presidency of Montgomery Ward
and Company to become the presi
dent of Johns Manville. Why did
he do it? He had all the money he
could possibly use. Why should a
man of sixty give up something
which was going smoothly to tackle
a new situation.
"Money had nothing to do with
it," one of his former associates
told me. "He called us in one day
and said: 'Boys, I think I have this
job licked. So I'll Just say good-bye.
I'm going where there are some
problems'."
Many a man makes himself un
happy, I think, because he regards
his difficulties as some special af
fliction for which Fate has singled
him out.
Difficulties are as much a part
of the program of life as the plea
sures. You're certain to have them.
The only question is, how will you
regard them? As afflictions?
Or as a part of the game like
Merseles and the little tailor?
CHESTERTON
Gilbert K. Chesterton, the bril
liant English essayist now visiting
America, confesses that he has been
surprised to discover that the Amer
ican people are quite different and
much more likeable than he had
expected to find them. There is
nothing the matter with the Amer
ican people, he conceded, but our
ideals are all wrong.
Mr. Chesterton suffers from the
false impression which most Euro
peans get from reading and hearing
about things American which make
no real impression upon our lives.
Because we build skyscrapers 80
stories high, for economic reasons,
he thinks that every American
wants to work and live in a sky
scraper, whereas most of us prefer
to work and live anywhere else. The
average height of buildings in New
York City, including the skyscrap
ers, is only five stories, but Europe
thinks of us as devoted to the sky
scraper ideal, not alone in buildings
but in everything else.
As a matter of fact, the American
ideal standard of life seems to me
to be something which Mr. Ches
terton has entirely overlooked. If
he had said that we, as a people,
are striving toward an ideal social
order in which everybody shall be
independent economically and so
cially and all get the most possible
enjoyment out of life, each in his
own way, he would have come near
er the mark. But that Is not the
ideal we advertise.
SOCIALISM
Timorous critics of social pro
gress view every extension of gov
ernmental authority over property's
rights and privileges as a step to
ward Socialism. In a sense they
are right. Of the three forms of
government, first defined by Aris
totle, the ancient Greek philosoph
er, the first, monarchy, or govern
ment by one man, exists today only
theoretically in a few countries, in
practice only in Italy among the
larger nations. Aristotle's second
form, aristocracy, or government by
a selected few, is still, in effect, the
government of most of the world's
peoples.
In every part of the world, how
ever, the movement toward Aris
totle's ideal third form, the Com
monwealth (of which he regarded
Democracy as a degraded form) is
going on with more or less rapid
ity. The British government today
is franklv Socialistic: ro is that of
Germany. In America we reject the
name but accept the substance more
and more liberally every year.
The greatest danger in Socialism
lies in having it imposed upon or
achieved by a people before they
are ready for it Its successful op
eration presupposes qualities In hu
man nature which the great major
ity still do not possess. If every
body were intelligent, industrious
and inherently just in all his rela
tions with others no government at
all would be needed. As we are con
stituted, we seem to be working out
an aristo-democracy in America
which comes closer to our national
concepts and needs than any form
of government yefl devised any
where else.
COMMUNISM
Few persons today realize that
the first form of government adopt
ed by the Pilgrim Fathers in Ply
mouth Colony was precisely what
today we call Communism. Every
thing was held in common, land,
houses, food, property of all kinds.
But even under the most primitive
conditions, the experiment did not
work, though it was tried for sev
eral years.
"This communitie," writes Wil
liam Bradford, the first governor of
Plymouth, "was found to breed
much confusion and discontent
The young men that were most able
and fitte for labour did repine that
they should spend their time &
streingth to worke for other mens
wives . . . this was thought injus
tice . . . And for mens wives to be
commanded to do servise for other
men, as dressing their meate, wash
ing their cloaths, &c, they deemd it
a kind of slaverie. . . . Let none
objecte this is mens corruption
I answer, seeing all men have this
corruption in them, God in his wis
dom saw another course flter for
them."
The spelling is Governor Brad
ford's; the philosophy is ingrained
in the American tradition. Until
Communism was abandoned the
Plymouth Colony languished; as
soon as each man began to enjoy
all the benefits of his own labor the
foundation was laid for the Ameri
can ideal which found expression
150 years later in our Declaration
of Independence and our Constitu
tion. DO-X
By completing without mishap the
first two legs of its flight from Ger
many to America the largest air
plane yet built, the DO-X, has re
vived interest in the competition be
tween planes and dirigibles. The
DO-X has reached the Canary Is
lands, in the Atlantic Ocean, as I
write. By the time this is printed
it may have reached America, the
arst airplane to transport a "pay
load" across the ocean.
Builders of dirigibles are confi
dent that they will establish regular
freight and passenger routes be
tween the continents in the course
of a year or two. So are the build
ers of airplanes. Perhaps both will
succeed, but it seems more likely
that the transatlantic flights of fifty
years from now, when nobody will
go by boat except those who are
compelled to travel cheaply, will be
made by aircraft which will com
bine the safety of the dirigible with
the speed of the airplane.
IRRIGON
The 4H club work Is now well or
ganized for this year. The local
leaders are Mrs. O. Coryell, inter
ior decorating; Mrs. Fred Markham,
cooking, div. II and in, and Mrs.
W. C. Isom, handiwork, with two
individual projects In sewing, div.
II and III. These clubs are com
prised of eighteen girls between the
ages of 10 and 18, who are taking
a very active interest in the club
work.
George Bleakman and W. L. Mc
Caleb of Heppner were in this vicin
ity Tuesday looking over the roads.
The regular meetings that have
been carried on at the community
church the past week with a large
attendance every night, culminated
in the baptism of several converts
in the Columbia river Sunday after
noon. Both the morning and after
noon services were attended by
large crowds, many coming from
Stanfleld, Umatilla and Boardman.
The services closed Sunday night,
the evangelists going from here to
Umatilla.
Mac McCoy and Ira Grabiel vis
ited relatives at Imbler Saturday
and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshal Markham
were Sunday visitors at the Emmett
McCoy home.
Mrs. Hallet of Goldendale, Wash.,
visited her daughter, Mrs. Jess Oli
ver, several days this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Vern Jones enter
tained at four tables of five hun
dred Saturday night The guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Bert Dexter and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Jene Dexter
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
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