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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1931. PAGE THREE SIX DAY SALE w . AM' Too Much Bellyaching I shall be criticized for the title of this editorial, but It is a good old Elizabethan phrase and there is no other which expresses so for cibly the thing I have In mind. Let me illustrate with a story. I stood in line one night at the ticket window in Providence wait ing to take up the lower berth which I had reserved to New York. In front of me was a man who had come up from Chatham on Cape Cod, having telegraphed for a re servation from there. Through a mistake on the part of the Chatham operator the telegram had gone to Boston Instead of to Providence. If the man waited for the train to come through from Boston he would not get to bed until about two o'clock in the morning. If he got on a Providence car he would have to sleep in an upper berth because all the lowers were sold. He bought an upper, but not without a great deal of grumbling. "This is atrocious," he exclaimed. "Give me a telegraph blank. I am going to wire that operator in Chat ham and tell him what I think of him." To which the station agent ans wered very sanely: "What good will that do? You're mad already. What's the use of getting two men mad?" Every hour of every day a cer tain number of things happen which just should not happen, but do. To err is human. When I became a magazine editor yars ago a.very wise editor said to me: "You are about to make a sad discovery. You are about to learn that there are no efficient people in the world." He went on to prophesy that writ ers would consistently misinterpret my instructions about articles and that artists would Insist on draw ing their pictures all wrong. To a certain extent the prophecy was fulfilled; but, having been warned in advance, I managed to get along without losing my tem per often or Increasing my blood pressure much. If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumbling and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient crea tures which they' are, you are fre quently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped. Too many of us are like that man in Providence, who probably "belly ached" to everybody he met the next day, saying that he was tired because a fool operator in Chatham had caused him to sleep in an up per berth. Doubtless he went home and "bellyached" to his wife; and he may still be telling the sad story for all I know. What's the use of it all? ELECTRICITY The late Charles P. Steinmetz, the most original thinker in the field of applied science that we have ever had in America, once said that the time would come when electric cur rent would be so cheap that It would not pay to read meters. A flat rate of a trifle per month, the way water is paid for now, will be all that dom estic current will cost, beyond doubt, some day. The latest Invention for reducing the cost of generating electricity is the mercury boiler. The liquid met al, mercury, is used instead of wa ter to drive the first of a series of turbines; the rest of the series are driven by steam generated by the cooling of the mercury. W. L. R. Emmett, a General Electric com pany engineer, has been working away at the mercury boiler for twenty years In his Hartford lab oratory. Already he has proved that it can be operated for a small frac tion of the cost of steam. That is only one of the many economies which will eventually make electric current literally as cheap as water. VITAMINS Nobody knows yet precisely what vitamins are, but new facts about where they come from and what they do are being discovered al most every day. The latest discov ery is that common colds are more likely to attack persons who do not get enough of Vitamin A In their diet. This is the vitamin which is found in whole milk, certain fruits and in the green vegetables. It, in turn, is directly traceable to the ef fects of sunlight on growing things. Vitamin D, another of the essen tials for a balanced diet, and with out which perfect health is not at tained, is the subject of a business deal involving a million dollars. Scientists at the University of Tor onto discovered a way of irradiat ing wheat flour so that ordinary bread made from it would contain more of this vitamin. A bakery con cern in the United States has offer ed a million dollars for the right to use this process In making bread commercially. The knowledge even of the exist ence of vitamins is only ten years old. Much Is yet to be learned about them, but what has been learned go far points to a revolution in our eating habits In the course of an other generation or two, and to the control of diseases which still baf fle the doctors. MANGANESE The most curious discovery which modern medical research has made is that unless a mother's food con tains a trifling percentage of the metal manganese she has no Inter est In her babies. Fortunately there Is manganese In Infinitesimal amounts in almost every item of dally food, but in the rare instances where maternal af fection is absent doctors now know what to do for It; they simply can make sure that the mother is get ting a proper ration of manganese and assimilating It. It has long been known that ev PT'V element In Nature Is present In h nnrmnl human bodv. Since the human body Is the product of Its environment, It is natural 10 sup pose that It must partake In some Hnirroe of evervthlne else on earth. The oxygen In the air Is not put there because humans neea 11 10 breathe, as the old philosophers tnncrht hut our bodies are organiz ed to breathe oxygen because that Is the active element of the air In which we have developed. And we are finding out that a large propor tion of human ills are due to some bodily defect which prevents the full utilization of the elements which are taken into the body, or t othe absence of some essential elements in the usual diet. EXPLORERS In the heart of the South Amer ican jungle rises Mount Roraima, in Venezuela. The high plateau from which this mountain springs has never been visited by white men. Three great scientific institutions, the American Museum of Natural History, the American Geographical Society and the New York Botanic al Gardens are sending a joint ex pedition into this region next Sum mer to find what? Gold, which was the object of the early Spanish explorers of South America? Oil? Rubber? Dia monds? Not any of those is the purpose of this quest. Merely knowledge. Scientists are con cerned only with discovering facts. It Is up to engineers and business men to make use of the facts after they have been found. It is hardly likely that these ex plorers will find in this region, popularly known as the "Lost World," any living examples of prehistoric monsters, such as the late Conan Doyle imagined might still survive in the South American fastnesses. But they may And the true answers to many questions affecting the everyday life of ev erybody. It is even possible they will find a territory in which great numbers of civilized people could subsist with less effort than most of us have to put forth, once it were made accessible. Nobody knows. LEARNING Rabbi Naftali Fried, a Bohem ian Jew, has been appointed li brarian of the Pope's Hebrew li brary in the Vatican. He will live in the papal palace, but under the strictest rules of the orthodox Jew ish religion; he will not work on Saturdays, his food will be prepar ed according to the Mosaic law, and he will have special religious services for a small Jewish congre gation in a synagogue set up In the headquarters of the Roman Catholic church. Learning knows no religious or racial distinctions. Truth is truth, In whatever tongue It speaks. Men of real learning have no prejudices against any other man of learning merely because he speaks a differ ent language, dresses differently or worships his God by a different ritual. When Dr. Einstein, one of the world's most learned men, vis ited America, how many people thought of him as a Jew? All uni ted to welcome and honor him be cause of his learning; his religion and race did not matter. INVESTIGATION STARTED. Salem, Ore. (Special) Investi gation of the rates and practices of the Pacific Power and Light com pany which operates in Morrow, Gilliam, Umatilla, Wasco and other eastern Oregon counties, has been ordered by Chas. M. Thomas, public utilities commissioner. This is one of several Investgiations into util ity rates which have been instituted by the new commissioner in the past two weeks, Including the Mountain States Power company, California-Oregon Power company and the Pacific Telephone & Tele graph company. IN TUB DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DIS TRICT OF OREGON. In the mutter of E. H. Turner, Bank rupt. IN BANKRUPTCY No. B-15954. To the creditors of E. It. Turner of lone, Morrow County, Oregon, bank rupt. Notice Is hereby given that on the 6th rtny of April. HIM. the siikl E. H. Tur ner whs duly adjudicated a bankrupt and till the llrst meeting of his credi tors will be held in Hie ntttce of Ihe referee In bankruptcy of tills court in Pendleton, Oregon, at one o'clock in the afternoon of the 2:2nd day of April, HIM, ut which time and place the mild creditors may land the paid bankrupt MUST) attend, prove their claims, ap point a trustee, examine the bankrupt and transact such other business as may properly bo brought before snld meeting. Done and dated at Pendleton, Oregon, the 8th day of April, 19H1. C. K. CRANSTON. Referee In Bankruptcy. I I Beginning FRIDAY, APRIL 17; lasting for six days Including THCRSDAY, APRIL 23; MacMarr is featuring a. Nation Wide Canned Food Sale. This gigantic sale is backed with thousands ' and thousands of dollars in new, fresh merchandise. 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