HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1931. PAGE THREE SCRUBWOMEN One hot day, when the business depression was worst, I visited two of the largest corporations in the world. I talked with the treasurer of one and with the chairman of the finance committee of the other and these are men, I may tell you, in whose make-up sentimentality plays very little part They had been1 looking at red fig ures until their eye-balls burned. They were entirely unwilling to pre dict when their industries would improve. But each of them uttered the same fervent exclamation: "If only we can pull through without having to cut wages!" When you stop to think about it, that is an astonishing phenomenon. Twenty-five years ago men in sim ilar positions would have said im mediately: "Business if off ten per cent; slash wages twenty per cent." The same sort of executives who used to assume that the way to cure depression was by cutting wages, are now convinced that the way to cure it is not to cut That is one pnincipal fact which makes the current depression differ ent from its predecessors. That is setting contemporary judgments. Many of the events which seem im portant to men and women while they are living, prove insignificant in the eyes of the ages. And some very little things later loom large. Who was king of Spain in 1666? I do not remember. But I do re call that in 1666 an apple fell and hit Isaac Newton. What was Warren Harding? Who were Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover? Some future school-by may be puzzled by those inquiries. But unless I am very much mis taken every future history book will lay emphasis on two developments which have takeov place under our very eyes. They will tell that a boy named Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic Ocean. And that a man named Ford an nounced that he would pay all workers, even scrubwomen, a mini mum of five dollars a day. The idea that high wages makes prosperity, that the key to good business lies not in the safe deposit boxes of millionaires, but is carried in the pocket of every worker this is something entirely new. It holds the hope of the future. Whatever else may have to be dis carded, American business must not surrended that American idea! Frauds like these are prohibited by law in most states, but the radio cuts across state lines. Reputable newspapers do not permit palpable fakes to advertise, but the radio seems to be running wild in the per petration of fraud. DEPRESSION -How serious has the much-talked- of business depression actually been? Not nearly as serious nor as far-reaching to its effects, I believe, as the drought about which much less has been said and written. According to one authority, busi ness as a whole is only about 9 per cent off the normal for this time of year, employment is 95 per cent of normal, retail sales are only off about 3 per cent, taking the coun try as a whole, grocery Bales are about the same as last year, regular interest and dividends are being paid as usual and thirty million fam ilies are living on almost the same scale of expenditure as they were in the height of "flush times." It is the fashion to "talk poor." Cash is not circultaing as rapidly as it was, but credit for those en titled to it is easier than for years. The chief sufferers are the victims of over-production, who are mainly the farmers. DOWSERS That certain men can find under ground water by means of a forked twig, preferably of witchhazel, is a belief which is held so persistently by 'So many people that scientists unable to explain it, are investigat ing it in the hope of discovering the principle back of "dowsing." That dowsers do succeed oftener than they fall is certain, whatever the reason. A scientist of the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture, who recently witnessed an exhibition of water finding by a German dowser, has re vived interest in the subject The explanation which he suggests, and which some other scientific men be lieve is possible, is that the radium emanations or rays, which are con stantly coming out of the earth, have a definite effect upon the ner vous systems of certain persons who ore highly sensitive to them, and that when the direct path of these rays is obstructed by water the result is a contraction of the dowser's muscles and a movement of the forked twig or "diving rod." Other suggested explanations are that a good dowser is sensitive to the faint vibrations caused by run ning water: another that the minute trace of dampness in the earth im mediately over a subterranean stream affects him. Whatever the answer, it seems as if there is some thing in the ancient belief. VILLAGES A Yale professor recently re marked that there was no reason whatever for the existence of most small towns. The editor of the New Milford, Conn.v Times has "called" the professor, pointing out that it Is only in the villages that people live a community life which is at once comfortable and free from the annoyances of life in the cities. Small towns today offer every- thing of real importance that any city offers to Its inhabitants, and a great deal that the city cannot give. One can buy in the village stores everything that the great city de partment stores offer, except, per haps, the flashy jewelry and extrav agant furs which the city stores are always tempting people who cannot afford them to buy. In the village movie theater the same pic tures are shown that are seen on Broadway, and usually before Broadway sees them. Nobody but the very wealthy can afford to keep an automobile in New York; few village families are without One. It is only in small towns that most people can afford to own and live in their own homes. And nowhere but in the small town can one have neighbors who are really neighbors in the old, friendly sense of the word. STIMULANTS Alcohol, morphine, cocaine, all of the habit-forming drugs, owe their popularity to the iact that, for a short time, they enable their users to do things which they otherwise would not have the energy or the courage to do. Coffee and tea are stimulants of less powerful effect. Every race of people has developed some sort of stimulant which speeds up certain physiological processes for the time being. In the light of this world-wide hu man demand for additional sources of bodily energy, scientists have been working for years in the ef fort to discover some substance which will accomplish the desired purpose without the disastrous men tal and physical reactions which fol low the use of the ordinary sum ulants whero the first effect has worn off. During the war a German chem ist found that small doses of acid sodium phosphate increased bodily energy without apparent ill effects, and this drug was used to enable workers in German coal mines to do extra labor. Research since the war has failed to disclose any ser ious bad effects from the use of this drug, and there is ground for the belief that this or something simi lar may become as popular as tea and coffee and much more useful than alcohol. 0. S. C. Band to Appear At Arlington March 27 The Oregon State college military band which will appear in Arling ton in a concert Friday night, March 27, has played at every world fair on the Pacific coast since 1900. Organized in 1892 by Colonel J. D. Letcher, then head of the military department of the college, the band has grown to its present proportions of from 75 to 85 members. It has won the name of being one of the best college bands on the Pacific coast. Captain H. L. Beard, nationally known veteran band master, and a former student of Herbert L. Clarke world famous cornetist, has direct ed the band since 1905, with the ex ception of last year when he was on sabbatical leave in the east Some of the events and festivit ies played for by the band were the Lewis and Clark World fair in 1905, the Portland rose festival in 1907, 1908, 1909, the World fair in Seattle in 1919, the strawberry carnivals in Roseburg in 1910, 1911, 1912, the Panama Pacific exposition at San Francisco in 1915, and a number of - " ... . BAND FEATURES I I HI - .1 h: Lk2rV Two colorful figures with the Ore gon State college band soon to tour northern and eastern Oregon. Above Wesley Heise, one-armed trom bone player who appeared recently in Ripley's "Believe It or Not." Be low Tom Stevenson, drum major, as h will appear leading the street parades. state and county fairs in Oregon. In addition to these trips, the band has always taken an annual con cert tour during spring vacations, through the state or adjoining states, each averaging 1,200 miles. Last fall the band accompanied the Oregon State football team to Chicago where it took an active part in parades and formation marching at the Oregon State-West Virginia game Thanksgiving day. Totalling its appearance, it is esti- FRAUDS The Federal Radio Commission has refused to renew the broadcast ing licenses of certain stations which have been used lo perpetuate palpable frauds upon the public. There is still too much of that sort of thing going out "on the air, however. I listened the other night to a broadcaster describing a wonderful electrical machine which would cure almost everything, according to him. Of course, he was lying, deliberate ly trying to get ignorant people to spend money for a worthless device. I heard another broadcast, an as trologer inviting people to send her money to have their fortunes told. She was lying, also. There is no pos sible basis of truth in the claim of amy person to be able to read the future, whether by consulting the stars or the tea-leaves In the cup. jlaiiflairl 9 asoim Pus The best we've ever done" means much to us, and, we hope, to the motorists of the Pacific West. It is true of "Standard" Gasoline, our newest product a premium motor fuel at no increase in price. Its new name is well merited by its superior quality, its skillful refining and its fine performance In any motor car. STANDARD OILCOMPANY OF CALIFORNIA ON SALE NOW (At Stononi Stations. Inc. tutd Mfd yvhit W Slut Dtlrt E- rj "V c -J UUlUSVX N'T III it i am j mmum mum lEiiYii: emu irirnr mvw u hnh IlisatilslTO! Pood baying ii at its very best In our bright, friendly food stores. If yon will visit onr nearest store, yon will rarely agree. 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Last year this contest was recog nized as a national high school con test for the state of Oregon by the headquarters at New York City. Rev. and Mrs. O. W. Payne and a delegation of young people plan to attend the Mid-Year Epworth League Institute to be held in Hepp ner Friday at the Methodist church. This meeting comprises the whole of the Cascade district and Mr. Payne is to act as one of the Insti tute teachers. Those going are: Where you can trust the Trustee www A CORPORATE trustee like ours, never exceeds its authority, never plays favor ites and never dies. Make us your executor or trustee and leave all the tech nicalities and intricacies of law and execution, together with all worry, in our hands. Your will will be carried out in every detail and your trust will be held sacred. 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