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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1931, PAGE THREE Plenty of Knowledge but No Education A man asked me the other day what courses I had studied in col lege had been most helpful. I answered, "Greek and mathe matics." He said it sounded like a silly an swer. "You are in the advertising business. What do Greek and math ematics have to do with advertis ing?" Of course they have nothing to do directly with advertising, or with modern banking or the law, or any of the other occupations by which I might have chosen to earn a liv ing. Yet Greek and mathematics have this one thing ia common each of them compels the mind to attack a difficult problem and to think its way through to a solution. That is mental discipline; that is develop ment, in the same sense that hard physical exercise develops the mus cles. That, in a large degree, is ed ucation. There is more false and fuzzy thinking about education than about almost any other important subject. We have been in an age when the whole emphasis of school MONEY There is a little more than forty three million dollars in the Com monwealth Fund, established a few years ago by Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness. Nobody knew there was anything like that much money in the Harkness -family until she cas ually announced one day that she had placed sbmewhat more than $30,000,000 in a fund to be used for humanitarian work in relieving dis tress and discovering means of pre venting human misery. The Harkness fortune is only one of many huge ones made by the original associates of John D. Rockefeller in the Standard Oil Company. Almost all of these great accumulations have been used, in large part, for the benefit of hu manity. There are those who will always contend that something is wrong with the social order that permits any one man to accumulate so much more than his fellows. But it is a safe venture that more of the Standard Oil profits have gone back to the public in philantrophy than would have been the case had these profits been spread among several million individuals as they were earned. LIGHT Bright colors make people health ier and happer, says Dr. M. Luc keish, who is a well-known author ity on light. The present tendency toward brilliant colors In every thing will some day be reflected in men's clothes and other articles which are now conventionally dull. Most interesting of Dr. Duckeish's predictions is that before long peo ple who want to be healthy will not waste daylight hours seeking sun shine but will sleep under artificial ultra-violet rays which will give them a coat of tan while they sleep and fill the system with health-giving vitamins. It is as certain as anything In the future can be that the time is com M EASURED by what it does for you what, in home or office, costs so little as your telephone? THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE and college has been placed on "learning things," on "practical training, "on giving the boys and girls equipment for daily life." The result of this program, in many instances, is not encouraging. Young people graduate into life with a mass of unassimilated and more or less inaccurate facts, but with no real mental drill, and no philosophy. In one of his finest passages Car dinal Newman describes an educat ed man as one who "has the repose of mind which lives in itself, while it lives in the world, and which has resources for its happiness at home when it cannot go abroad. He hag a gift which serves him In public and supports him in retirement, without which good fortune is but vulgar and with which failure and disappointment have a charm." And in another place he defines education as "the preparation for knowledge." If all educators could agree upon that definition, it would mean much progress. Then we should have col lege graduates whose minds are prepared, rather than graduates whose minds are merely stuffed. Too many students at present have plenty of knowledge but no education. ing when all human activities will be independent of the weather. WORDS Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly, who knows more words than anyone else in America, since he is the editor of the largest dictionary, has begun to teach the proper pronunciation of common words to the men and women who use those words over the radio. That is an excellent thing to do, especially when the teacher is as broadminded as Dr. Vizetelly. He does not .wish to mold everybody's tongue to some self-selected pro vincial standard. To the New York er It is as, natural to speak with a Southern accent as it is for a Middle Westerner to avoid rolling his r's. But there are certain standards of good taste in the placing of the ac cent, and in clear enunciation of the essential syllables, which can be spread to everybody more quickly and easily over the radio than in any other way. Americans generally speak their own language more clearly than do the people of any other togue, he says. It Is certainly true that any American can understand the ordi nary speech of any other American, which is more than can be said of the English people. ROOT Elihu Root celebrated his 86th birthday the other day. A few days before he had been arguing with a Senate Committee in Washington on behalf of the "Root formula" under which the entry of the Uni ted States in the World Court of International Justice would not be held as binding this country to take part in any of Europe's quarrels. It is hardly likely that Mr. Root will be able to perform any more Important services for his country. He has been doing little else, how ever, for more than thirty years. Since 1899, when he became a mem ber of McKinlcy's famous "One-syllable Cabinet," which included Day, Hay, Gage, Root, Knox, Smith, Long and Bliss, he has been in the very first rank of American statesmen. Literally born in Hamilton college, where his father was professor of mathematics, Mr. Root got his col lege degree in 1864. He earned enough money in the next thirty years as a lawyer to permit him, at the age when most men think of re tiring, to throw himself into public service without regard to compen sation. And he says he is going to keep on working! ANDTELEGRAPH COMPANY CIRCUS All over the civilized world there is mourning for Lillian Lietzel. When the news came from Copen hagen that the beautiful little tra peze performer had died from a fall in the circus ring, the big city newspapers gave columns to the story. Millions who had never seen her under the "big top" shared the universal regret at her untimely passing. There is a glamor about the cir cus which clothes all of its people with a tinge of romance. Perhaps it is because most of us had our first experience with the world of entertainment at the circus. At any rate, circus performers always seem to most people to be more interest ing than mere movie actors and the atrical stars. Lillian Leitzel, like most other circus people, had been in the show business from infancy. She was probably the most skilful, as well as the most graceful and personally attractive young woman ever to perform the dangerous "stunts" which she did with such apparent ease. Her fearlessness caused her death; she never would perform over a net, and when a trapeze ring broke and she fell fifty feet to the floor it cost her her life. Prevention Is Surest Cure For Hog Worms Says OSC The old saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure js especially applicable in the treatment of the worm problem in the pig crop, said H. A. Lindgren, livestock specialist of the Oregon Extension service, in addressing a group of farmers attending the an nual pig feeders' day at the college last week. Strict sanitation is the best means of prevention, Lindgren said. Among the important factors in this respect are the use of clean farrow ing pens, having the sow thorough ly washed before farrowing, and putting her and her litter on clean pastures. Very little can be accom plished once the pigs are infested with worms. Wormy pigs are causing consider able loss to many Oregon pig feed ers, and the extension service is at tempting to help eradicate the pest through advocation and demonstra tion of strict sanitary methods, Lindgren said. mm Appetite appeal I That'i what every menu needs to make your family rush eagerly to the table at mealtime. Yon can easily add this much-desired quality to your meals If yon oombine your fine ability as a cook with the fresh, wholesome foods yon can bny so economically at our complete food stores. Saturday & Monday Specials HONEY Pure strained honey. 5-LB. FAIL 69c 10-LB. FAIL $1.29 SOAP A real toilet soap in assorted colors and extra larpe bars. 12 BABS 55c DAICIMC Thompson Seedless, in 4-lb. f)Qs ftiUOlllt) Packages. PER PKG. Ot CORN MEAL Spcrry's Eastern white or yellow. 9 -LB BAG 39c COFFEE Economy Blend, a real econ- f omical drink. 3 LBS. U 7C CORN MacMurr Del Maiz no better corn at any price. O TINS . 49c MILK BEST THAT IS THE WEST. OATS WHEAT Sperry's Pre. brund they are delicious 2 LO. PKGB. 75c ORANGES Medium size. Sweet and Juicy a soz. 39c MAYONNAISE PHONE 1082 ALL ORDERS OF $3.00 OR OVER DELIVERED FREE. Heppner Hotel Bldg. BANKERS STUDY FARM PROBLEMS Short Course at O. S. C. Affords Better Initight into Needs of Rural Enterprise. Oregon bankers gained a clearer understanding of at least three phases of Oregon agriculture In their fourth annual short course held at Oregon State college under the joint sponsorship of the bank ers association and the Oregon Ex tension service. Representative bankers from many parts of the state spent two days on the campus considering the problems of irrigated pastures, the poultry industry, and better use of trees and forestry products on the farm. More pastures as a means of in creasing feed resources was pointed out as the key to the expansion of the present livestock industry, or even maintenance of its present status, in a paper prepared by E. R. Jackman, farm crops specialist of the extension service. More watered pastures and more alfalfa were rec ommended as the best method of decreasing the cost of butterfat production in the Willamette valley, which is now 12 cents higher than in irrigated regions. Cooperation of the bankers in fi nancing baby chick purchases this spring will determine to a large ex tent the ability of the Oregon poul try industry to reap the benefit of the inevitable upward turn of the egg market, said E. J. Dixon, mana ger of the Pacific Cooperative Poul try producers, who dsicussed mar keting of poultry products during one session of the short course. Mr. Dixon urged the bankers to encour age sound development in the poul try Industry this year, stating that he was certain prices would be fa vorable late this year when a short age of pullets is bound to occur be cause of the curtailment in produc tion of baby chicks now. The use of more trees for farm woodlots and shelter belts was also brought out as an opportunity for banker-farmer cooperation, and the plan by which trees from the state nursery of the college are distrib uted to farmers of the state was ex plained by George W. Peavy, dean of the school of forestry at the col lege. 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Skirts are about the same length, or perhaps half an inch longer, she says. About nine inches from the floor seems to be preferred foe af ternoon or informal evening wear, and 10 to 12 inches for ordinary daytime use. Sports clothes may be whatever length is most suitable to the wearer, although the middle calf length is recommended. Skirts are rather tightly fitted over the hips, giving a molded effect Necklines, Miss Brew observes, are a little higher, but soft lines pre vail here as last year, and the cowl effect is still good. Sleeves are im portant, with many types shown. These include the flared sleeve, the capelet sleeve, the dolman, the puff ed, the three-quarter length sleeve. The latter are used in coats with the long sleeve of the dress show ing beneath to match the part showj ing below the hem of the coat. 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