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,
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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.
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Think of having loads of hot water all the time . . .
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One check that can
always be cashed
is a check on your
expenditures
Men, like machines, wear out
These are Goldne Hours for
the accumulation of money to
lift the load from tired shoul
ders In old age.
Bank on thrift and you'll
check out joy.
We invite your account large
or small.
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. Farnsworth, water master,
who has been 111 at his home for
several months, is improving and
hopes to be out and at work by
summer. J. H. Ryan, assistant to
the state engineer, was In the
county last week and he stopped to
see Mr. Farnsworth, and give him
a word of encouragement Mrs.
Farnsworth and their son, Willis,
have been making many of the
stream measurements during the
year.
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