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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 193L PAGE THREE Off The Front Page I wag talking recently to Ted Clark who was secretary to Mr. Coolldge at the White House. He told me about one of the famous Gridiron dinners, at which a char acter was made up to represent the "Front Page." The poor fellow was emaciated and despondent; he com plained that Coolidge had ruined him by making so little news. Ted said: "I think that one of the best and thuest tributes that could be paid to Coolidge would be to say: 'He took the government of the United States off the front page'." He went on to tell half a dozen dramatic incidents which might easily have become national issues if Coolidge had been minded to make a fuss about them. But he handled them so quietly that the public knew nothing about them. The newspapers are the greatest single educational influence in our lives. By throwing the fierce glare of their search-light in all direc tions they have been a powerful aid in abolishing secret diplomacy. They have encouraged business to come out into the open, and they are a constant and tremendous de terrent to crime. But under our system of govern ment they put an unwilling pre mium upon the performance of the self-advertiser and the demagogue. Our Senators are no longer chos en, as they used to be, by responsi ble party organizations in the state legislature. They are nominated in popular primaries. The easy way for the Senator to keep his voters from forgetting his name is to make them think he is important in Washington. And the easy way to achieve this seeming importance is to attack something, or investigate something, or become otherwise noisy and conspicuous. But be not discouraged. I have stood in the laboratory where Edison worked so many years to give the world electric light. I have seen the old shed where Kettering first began the ex periment which culminated in the self-starter for automobiles. I have visited the tiny village where, in a modest house, Charles Darwin wrote the book that changed the trend of scientific thought. On the gate post is a tablet with this in scription: "Here Darwin lived and thought for forty years, and here on April 19, 1382, he died." We can put up patiently with quite a lot of Senators, so long as we know that, back in ten thousand quiet homes and shops and offices, there are Edisons and Ketterings and Darwins. HEREDITY Talent runs in families, says Ar thur D. Howden-Smith, who has written the biographies of several famous Americans. He points to the Adams family, which has given the country two presidents, one or two famous diplomats and the pres ent Secretary of the Navy, as well as one great philosopher and sever al bankers. Another talented family is that of Roosevelt, with one Pres ident to its credit and three mem bers now in public service, one as Governor of New York, another as Governor of Porto Rico and a third as Ambassador to Austria. The Du Ponta of Delaware have an un broken record of high ability both in business and statesmanship, as the Morgans have in banking through four generations. The first Cornelius Vanderbilt seems to have transmitted his driving energy and much of his engineering talent as well as his business ability to all of his eleven children and most of their descendants. The La Folettes as a family have made a great start toward establishing a "dynasty." In Europe families like those would constitute the ruling class. But for every representative of a talented family in active public life here, we have a thousand who came up by their own unaided efforts, in cluding such outstanding examples as Chief Justice Hughes, Alfred E. Smith and Herbert Hoover. Council of Churches of Christ in America in declaring that there is nothing incompatible with the Christian religion in birth control, brings out sharply the contrast be tween Protestant and Catholic teachings about marriage and its concomitants. The Catholic church teaches that marriage is a sacrament and that to interfere with any of the natural consequences of marriage Is against the will of God. The Protestant sects uniformly deny that. The Plymouth colonists, to whom almost all American Protestantism traces, had no minister at all for several years, but even after they had one they decided that the church had nothing to do with mar riage, which was purely a civil con tract, and it was not until 60 years or so after the settlement of New England that any marriage was per formed in the colony by a minister. These two divergent differences of view account for the differences of opinion in respect to divorce, also. If marriage is regarded as a civil contract it can be dissolved by the civil power; if it is a God-given sac rament only God can dissolve it. So long as there are two opposing opinions on the subject, held by sucn large numbers on both sides, marriage, birth control and divorce will be debatable subjects. GRAFT Whether there is any more graft and corruption on the part of poli ticians In the big cities, in propor tion to population, than there is in many smaller communities, is a question to which nobody can give a satisfactory answer. It does not always take the same fornj, but it is curious how prosperous many rural sheriffs, supervisors and se lectmen become. Several cities which have abol Ished the old system of electing MARRIAGE The action of the Federated their administrative officials, em- ploying a city manager instead, re port that not only is the expense to the taxpayers much lower but that public money does not flow nearly so rapidly into private pockets. This is a good time for taxpayers to be inquisitive about how their tax money is spent HARVESTER Just one hundred years ago, in 1831, the first harvester was demon strated by Cyrus Hall McCormick before a group of farmers of Rock- ledge County, Virginia, McCormick's invention has been called the pivot on which the indus trial revolution turned. By making it possible for fewer people working on the farms to feed more people in the towns, it released labor from agriculture to work in the engineer ing industries. Where it took three-quarters of the population, a century ago, to feed themselves and the other one- quarter, now all of the people can be fed by the labor of only one tenth of their number. The overproduction of agricultur al commodities, from which the whole world is suffering today, is due to failure to control the agri cultural machine's output. Many remedies are proposed. The one which seems most likely to cure the situation, if it can be applied, is the Farm Board's program of limitation of acreage in the staple crops. Today, the more all of the farm ers grow the less each of them makes. It is a curious paradox that there is more profit in less produc tion. FLYING More air-miles of travel were paid for by the people of the United States in the past year than in any previous twelve-month. Business men and others are getting the hab it of flying from city to city to save time. Between Washington and New York, for example, the fastest trains take five hours. The airplane does it in two. A New York busi ness man, having to see the Income Tax Unit of the Treasury, for in stance, can leave the city at half past seven in the morning, be at the Treasury before ten, and if he is not detained can take a plane back at twelve, arriving at his office a little after two, with a lot of time left in the business day. The combined rail-and-air routes between East and West are growing in popularity. The plane flies you as far as it can go in a day. Then you take the train for a night's sleep in a Pullman, pick up another plane in the morning for another day's flying. It costs more to ny than to travel by rail, but the cosfis coming down and the safety of flying is increas ing. LYNCH TO REMAIN. M. A. Lynch, whose term as state highway commissioner expired on March 31, will continue, it Is be lieved, with announcement by Gov ernor Meier that he had no one else in mind for the position. Mr. Lynch is the eastern Oregon member of the commission, living at Redmond. Dinah: Is you made all yo' 'range- ments foh yo' weddin'? Mandy; Not quite. I's got to buy a trooso, an' rent a house an' get my husband a job, an' get some reg ular washin' work to do. An' when them's done Ah kin name the happy day. Customer: "What does this mean in your advertisement "Btg sts'?" Clerk: "Bathing suits, madam. They are abbreviated this season." Only 18 of mankind are independent at the age of sixty TlIE other 82 would adopt some system of saving If they could do It all over again. Our savings plan will help you enter the class of 18. The man who won't stop goes farther than the man who won't start Farmers and Stockgrowers National Bank Dhere Is No Substitute for Safety The Kilowatt Kiddies Bring CLEAN, QUICK COOKING THE KILOWATT KIDDIES are symbols of service . . . ELECTRIC service that converts thousands of tasks into self-doing services. Invisible as they are, countless Kilowatt Kid dies spring to your service the instant you summon them. Command Charlie and Clara at any time the cost is little . . . their service limitless. BE MILES away at the bridge party, the Club Meeting, anywhere . . . confident that the Kilowatt Kiddies will attend to the cooking in your absence. Charlie and Clara Kilowatt are real economists, too . . . The ELECTRIC range they symbolize actually saves food by reducing cooking shrinkage. Your meals just about "cook themselves" through the time and tem perature controls the Kilowatt Kiddies can be depended upon to watch whether you. are there or not ! ELECTRIC Cooking is as modern as the 'morrow ... as convenient a change over other methods as the ordinary stove was over the caveman's fire ... as economical as only Elec tric Service can be through special low rates for cooking provided by the Pacific Power & Light Company "Always at Your Service" AMERICAN LIVING MODES CHANGE More Than 100 Per Ont Increase Found in Past Century, Says State College Profsseor. Human nature never changes, so they say, but human likes and dis likes seem to have changed consid erably during the past century, at least in the United States. General standards of living for all classes In this Country have increased more than 100 per cent during that per iod, according to N. H. Comish, pro fessor of economics and sociology at Oregon State college. Among the significant changes during this progress has been the increased use of some goods and the decrease in others. In foods, for in stance, Dr. Comish points out that the per capita consumption of flour has fallen in the past 30 years from 224 to 176 pounds. Corn has de creased from 120 to 46 pounds, beef from 67 to 62 pounds, and rye flour from 7 pounds to 2.6 pounds. The consumption of sugar, on the other hand, has grown in 30 years from 68 pounds to 109 pounds per capita. In the same time, the use of fruits has increased from 173 to 178 pounds. Tobacco consumption has risen from 5.8 pounds to 7.3 pounds per capita, and approximately 12 per cent more milk Is being used now than 30 years ago. Most notice able of all has been the increased consumption of vegetable oils, which in 1930 was 61 percent great er than in 1920. The quality of many of these com modities has also changed for the better. Dr. Comish says. Better quality fruits and vegetables are coming to the American dining ta ble now than in 1830, and more first-class eggs, butter, nuts and sim ilar foods are consumed. The higher living standards are also manifested in cloths, houses, and house furnishings, vehicles and entertainments, Dr. Comish points out. Mrs. Styles The Crumbys have some china that has been in the family for more than a hundred years. Mrs. Newrich That just shows that they were never able to afford servants, poor things. Pasturing Detrimental to Seed Crops, Says 0. S. C, While the actual need of feed for livestock will usually determine whether or not the seed crop shall be pastured back in the spring, this practice is almost invariably detri mental to most seed crops, with the exception of red clover, believes G. R. Hyslop, chief in farm crops at Oregon State college. In the case of red clover, Profes sor Hyslop says, it Is customary to pasture the crop back extensively in the spring to delay the blooming period to such an extent that the flowers will not be injured by the midges or charcids tiny insects that bore into the flower head and destroy it Delayed blooming also gives the red clover the advantage of a greater abundance of polleniz ing insects, such as the bumblebee. It is important, Hyslop points out, that the red clover crop be pas tured back close to the ground bo that it will not break into bloom as soon as the livestock is taken off. With the other seed crops in Ore gon, however, such as alsike clover, bent grass, rye grass, vetches and grains, no such protection is neces sary, and any amount of pasturing is likely to result in a reduction of the seed crop, Hyslop says. With this in mind, the question for the grower to decide is whether or not the gain in livestock feed will be enough to offset this reduction. "Love-making is just like it al ways was." "How do you know?" "I've been reading about a Greek maiden who sat up and listened to a lyre all night" STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CtBCU LATIOH, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 84, 1913, OF HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, PUB LISHED WEEKLY AT HEPPNER, OREGON, FOR APRIL 1, 1931. State of Oregon, County of Morrow, ss. Before me, a Notary Public in and for thft stfttA and rnuntv aforesaid. Derson- ally appeared Vawter Crawford, who, naving Deen auiy sworn according io law. demises and says that he is the publisher of the Heppner Gazette Times ana mai me ionuwiug m, ui uiw ucai ui his knowledge and belief, a true state ment of the ownership, management (and If a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, re quired by the Act of August 24, 191S, embodied in section 411, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit: 1. 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If owned by a firm, company, or other unincorporated eoncem, its name and address, as well as those of each Individual member, must be given.) Vawter Crawford and Spencer Craw ford, Heppner, Oregon. 3. That the known bondholders, mort gagees, and other security holders own ing or holding 1 per cent or more of to tal amount of bonds, mortgages, or oth er securities are: Eph Eskelson. Heppner, Oregon. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners. stockholders, and security holders. 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