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
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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"
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OREGON, FOR APRIL 1, 1931.
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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
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the publisher, editor, managing editor,
and business managers are:
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