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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1931. PAGE THREE NAZARETHS I was at Deerfleld Academy vis iting my boy, and on the way back I had an hour between trains at Northampton. It was Sunday eve ning. The main street was almost deserted. I walked Into a side street and past the little two-family house where Calvin Coolidge lived until a few weeks ago. I went around to the old build ing in which he and his law part ner used to have their modest offi ces, I stood In front of the square town hall. It was interesting to think of the days when he was mayor. One could picture him com ing slowly up the street after break fast " 'Morning, Cal," people would say. " 'Morning," he would answer. And a stranger in the town Would probably have exclaimed: "Is that your mayor, that quiet little fellow? He doesn't look like much." , If any one had suggested that the quiet little fellow might one day be President of the United States, the laughter would have echoed from one end of Main Street to the other. A few years later, when Coolidge had become governor of Massachu setts, a merchant in Boston named Frank Stearns began to make the presidential suggestion. He came to New York and persuaded a few of us Amherst graduates that the thing was not impossible. Even then the idea was usually greeted with smiles, especially by folks in Massachusetts. "That's all right for you fellows in New York," they said. "But distance lends en chantment. We are his neighbors; we know him." And some of the wisest men in the Commonwealth remarked to the son of Frank Stearns: "Calvin Cool idge is nothing but a figment of your father's imagination." Nazareth is the immortal Illustra tion of the attitude of the home town. After Jesus had gone out in to the world and become famous; after He had performed His mira cles in Capernaeum and even in Jerusalem, He went bapk home. A crowd of His old neighbors greeted Him in the synagogue, but there was no pride or confidence in their attitude. Their skeptical ex pressions spoke louder than words. "You may have fooled them in those other towns, but we know you. You are only the boy who used to work in the carpenter shop." And the record says sadly: "He could do there no mighty work, because of their unbelief." It's a wonderful thing to realize that Greatness is growing up some where around us all the time that the most unprepossessing freckled boy may be a future conqueror. Un fortunately most of us can never be lieve that the home town could pos sibly produce anything better than ourselves. WEATHER Drenching rains or heavy snows in almost every part of the country In the past few weeks give promise that we shall not go through an other drought season, such as the past two years have been in many sections and last year was over a very large area. Conditions are similar in other parts of the world, also. The weather experts who have been studying the subject for sixty years, since the first scientific at tempt to forecast weather was be' gun, say that the eleven-year cycle of sun-spots has a definite effect upon the weather. .The sun-spot Influence is not yet fully understood, but there is ground for belief that we shall not have any more general droughts before 1940, and that for a year or two we may look for un usually heavy rains to make up the water losses of the past two years. HOLMES Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States Supreme Court celebrated his ninetieth birthday on March 8. A few days before he had delivered one of the most liberal and progressive opinions ever hand ed down by a judge on the bench. He is still young in mind and heart, though old in years. To realize how the world has moved since Justice Holmes was born In 1841, we need only recall that railroads were still more of a novelty than the airplane is today, that Texas was an independent re public, that Chicago was a village of 4,500 people, the electric tele graph was only six yaers old and friction matches had been invented only five years before, while the sewing machine had not been heard of! Justice Holmes In his own per son is the greatest link our nation has with iU own past DAM Work on the Hoover Dam across the Colorado River will begin with in a few weeks. This Is the largest ontrinpprlne' Droiect the United States or any other government has ever undertaken. The dam will be 730 feet high, 1,100 feet long, and will impound a lake 100 miles long. A canal 20 feet deep and 200 miles long will carry water from this lake 265 miles across the desert of Southern California, Irrigating arid lands on which nobody can live now but which will produce nomes ana for five million people. The surplus water, not needed for irrigation, will be used for power development under lease to a pri vate power company. This in one case in which the Government is Justified in investing huge capital, since the problem of controlling the floods of the Colo rado River and irrigating the desert la inn Inrcp fnr flnv staple state to undertake and too unprofitable for private enterprise. EDUCATION Considering that It Is only a few hundred years since education, has been available to anybody except the very wealthy or those designed for the service of the Church, a good deal of progress has been made, though the proportion of eally educated persons to the whole number is still extremely small. So much progress has been made in teaching the elementary subjects to everybody that many teachers as sume that education is an exact science, that the perfect formula has been discovered. Robert M. Hutcshins, the young new president of Chicago Univer sity, thinks otherwise. Beginning next Fall class attendance and the following out of rigid programs by the students will be abolished. Each student will be free to follow such lines of study as he feels himself best fitted for, and can present him self for examination at any time he thinks he can make the grade. He may receive his certificate that he has a good general education after only one year In college, or he may take ten years. That is returning, in some re spects, to the original idea of a university, where eager young men met with those who knew more than they did at Paris and Oxford and Salamanca, and absorbed learning according to their respective abili ties. It is an interesting develop ment and one which should have a great influence upon college life everywhere. INCENTIVE Nobody does the best he can without an incentive. Charles M. Schwab the other day told of a workman at one of his steel plants who declared he could not do an other stroke more of work than he was doing every day. He was shoeling twelve tons of clay daily. Mr. Schwab arranged that the man should get a bonus of a small amount for every ton shoveled, and within a week or two the same man was moving thirty tons a day and making no complaint of feeling tired. It works that way all up and down the line of human endeavor. Not one person in a thousand ever does all that he or she can do, phy sically or mentally. Give him a definite incentive more money for more work, or shorter hours or something else that is greatly de sired and the average man will surprise himself and his friends by the Increased amount of work he can accomplish. Every scheme for limiting the amount of a day's work is unsound and unfair to worker and employer alike. The only perfectly fair sys tem of compensation is one based upon actual production, with the worker given the freest possible op portunity to do all that he has the capacity for doing. KOAC OFFERS GARDEN TALKS. Beginning early in April, a new series of talks on vegetable garden ing will be included in the regular noon programs over KOAC, the state college radio station, at 12:20 Tuesdays and Fridays. These dis cussions, to be given by A. G. B. Bouquet professor of vegetable gardening, OSC, will include such subjects as "Unusual but Valuable Home Garden Vegetables," "Pro tection of Early Vegetables from Insects" and "Vegetables that Sup ply Greens for the Gardening Year." For Sale or Trade Good milk cows and heifers, fresh and coming fresh; one new International cream separator, No. 2. Will sell for cash or trade for stock cattle. S. Fryrear, Heppner. l-3p. OSC Lists New Topic for Homemakers' Radio Hour The addition of three new topics to the original schedule of 14 lec tures Just completed on parent child relationships has been an nounced by W. L. Kadderly, pro gram director of KOAC, the radio station of Oregon State college. These will be "Does Your Child Play Enough," April 7; "Punish ments and Rewards," April 21, and "Why Children Quarrel and Tease," May 5. This addition has been made in compliance with popular demand from the women enrolled in the KOAC Homemaker Radio clubs, which have sprung up over the state in increasing numbers since the be ginning of this program last fall. The lectures, prepared by Mrs. AS CONVENIENT AS ELECTRIC LIGHT fas rantf muBra nir uhie nMJCEir Think of having loads of hot water all the time . . . without starting the kitchen fire . . . without building a furnace fire . . . without even starting a heater tor the hot water tank. 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Sara Watt Prentiss, professor of child development at the college, are broadcast on alternate Tuesday afternoons at 3 o'clock. Groups regularly enrolled In the radio clubs are provided by the home economics extension service with program outlines of the lecture sub ject to aid in the conduct of discus sions before and after the lecture. Fourteen clubs representing eight counties, and including nearly 150 homemakers are now regularly en rolled in the course. In addition there are numerous groups over the state who make a practice of tun ing in on these programs but have never enrolled for the supplemen tary material, according to Miss Claribel Nye, director of the home economics division of the extension service. Counties in which regular ly enrolled groups have been or ganized are Clackamas, Lincoln, Lane, Marion, Multnomah. Jackson, Umatilla and Josephine. MR. FARNSWORTH EWPROVINO Enterprise Record-Chieftain. K. W. 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