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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, rlp,1QQ1 PAGE THREE TAKE TIME TO THINK IT OVER. There is a man, now old in years but still very vigorous, who built up the largest company of its kind in this country. One of his younger associates was recently giving me some sidelights on his character and methods. "Whenever we had some especial ly big problem on hand the same thing invariably happened," he said. "It might be a building program involving the investment of millions, or the launching of a new product, or a plan for extending our opera tions into a foreign country. "Always, in the midst of our dis cussions, the Old Man would bring his fist down on the desk with a bang. " 'We will stop right here,' he would say. 'We will not decide a single thing. I am going away to the country for two weeks to rest and fish. When I come back I will tell you how to run this company'." My informant said that the Old Man invariably returned with a bet ter perspective, clearer vision and fresh courage. Years ago I read a biography of Benjamin Disraeli who began life, as you will recall, as a writer with publishing ambitions. He conceived the idea of a magazine, and was bold enough to hope that he might persuade Sir Walter Scott to be its editor. He took the train to the city where Scott lived and arrived late in the afternoon. Instead of making his call at once, he registered at the hotel, ordered a comfortable room, and went to bed. In recording the experience, he said that he had made up his mind even in those early days, never to attempt a difficult interview when he was tired. Two men of my acquaintance were thrown out of employment by a merger. They were men of ability for whom opportunities were sure to open sooner or later. The first man proceeded to worry himself into a state of nervous in efilciency. He hurried around among his friends; he let fear show in his eyes and face. The other man went away. When I met him last he was sun-browned and rested; he had purchased some new clothes, and was starting out serenely to conquer the world. Most of us have to take our vaca tions at stated intervals, which are fixed by the routine of business rather than by our personal desires. But it is possible for even the hum blest of us to avoid the mistake of making important decisions when our minds are weary or worried. Lots of times the best thing we can do is to say; "I shall now turn my back on this desk and leave the office, and I will not think about this thing again tonight. "Tomorrow will be a new day and, if I am rested, a day full of much more courage and wisdom. So my decision will be sounder and braver than it can possibly be today." LONGWORTII A great gentleman whom I am proud to have known as a friend passed when Nicholas Longworth died. Politically we often disagreed. Personally Nick Longworth had the happy facility of making and keep ing friends, regardless of their polit ical or other beliefs. Born to the purple, he was never a snob. At his home, "Rockwood," the stately mansion built by his grand father on the banks of the Ohio river near Cincinnati, he had one of the largest collections of letters and documents relating to the early his tory and settlement of the North west Territory. The first Nicholas Longworth had the idea of estab lishing great vlnyards along the Ohio, which reminded him of the Rhine. He brought German grape culturlsts and wine-makers from the Rhenish Palatinate, and so es tablished the first German colony in what was then the West. He pro duced a wine from scuppernong grapes which was the subject of one of Longfellow's best poems. The poet often visited him. Once, Nick told me, his grandfather comment ed on the similarity of the names "Longworth" and "Longfellow," to which the poet replied with a line from one of Pope's poems: "Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow." RUSSIA Nobody but a Russian can under stand the Russians. Hence, nobody in this countiy really understands what the Soviet government is try ing to do and how it hopes to ac complish it. William C. White, who learned Russian and lived four years among the Russian people in cities and villages, comes nearest to it in his book, "These Russians." Two or three things seem clear after reading this book. One is that the Russian people, much more akin to the Chinese than to any Europeans, place a trifling value on human life. Another is that the rulers who are promoting the "Five-Year-Plan" are trying to make Rus sia as much like the United States as they can, so far as material progress goes. And another unes capable conclusion is that, unless something happens, all of the peo ple of Russia will become slaves un der military discipline. Well, Army life isn't so bad for the officers. EMPLOYMENT Edward A. Fllene, famous Boston merchant who has long been active in mnnv nrncrams of social welfare, says that the problem of unemploy ment, because or seasonal or gener al huslness denresslons. can be solv- ed by State legislation, requiring all industries to set aside a given per centage of their payrolls for a fund to carry their employees over in dull times. The state would not go into the Job Insurance business under Mr. Fllene's plan, but doubtless insur ance companies would, and every employer of labor would have to carry It. One result, its author thinks, would be no more business depressions, because the buying power of the mass would never be diminished by reason of unemploy ment MAYORS Anton Joseph' Ccrmak, the new Mayor of Chicago, was elected not because he is a Democrat but be cause the people of Chicago were disgusted with the rule of the politi cal gang which calls itself Repub lican, and its Mayor, the blatant William Hale Thompson. James Joseph Walker, the suave and personally popular Mayor of New York, Is under fire because of revelations of grave corruption in the citys police department and minor courts. Back of Walker is a political gang which calls itself Democratic. Mr. Walker has not yet shown signs of renouncing Tam many Hall and leading the move ment to clean up the city. Foolish partisans support incom petent local officials because of the party names attached to the polit ical gangs which control them. Al most the only cities in which there is anything like honest and efficient administration of the people's gov ernment are those in which the ad ministrative machinery has been turned over to a non-partisan com mission and a City Manager. New York and Chicago will come to that in time. WAR Twenty years ago presumably in telligent Americans were assuring each other than there would never be another great war. Intelligent Europeans never shared American optimism about war's impossibility. They smile at the thought that the "last" war was a "war to end war." They set up the League of Nations, which will act as a deterrent of war until some powerful nation decides to ignore it And they laugh in their sleeves when everybody suggests that the era of permanent peace has arrived. France is critlcizea for maintain ing an army twice as large as any other in the world. France is build ing a great wall of fortifications along the German border. Why not? French territory has been invaded by enemies from the North many times in 120 years. . If anything like that had happened to us. we would have a thousand forts and a million soldiers along the Canadian border. IRRIGON MRS. W. C. ISOM. Mrs. Frank Brace had another at tack of flu and was taken to the Hermiston hospital Tuesday. She returned home Friday. William Grabiel, Mrs. Doc McCoy and Mrs. Chas. McFall, all of Im bler, Ore., were visiting the John Grabiel and Emmett McCoy fam ilies this week. A little son was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Connell Monday. Moth er and baby doing well. Miss Edith Stallard, county health nurse of Heppner, visited the school Wednesday. An examination was given of the eyes and ears of a num ber of the grade and high school students. Mrs. A. C. Houghton and Mrs. Roscoe Williams were Umatilla vis itors Saturday. Mrs. Frank Fredrickson, Mrs. Sam Smith and Mrs. A. C. Hough ton spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Roscoe Williams. Mrs. Chas. Stewart gave a party at her home for her Sunday school class Saturday which was enjoyed by all the little folks. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Isom were Umatilla visitors Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Scarlet and family were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leicht and family Sunday. Earl Isom made a trip to Hermis ton Wednesday and returned with a used Ford coupe which he pur chased there. Mr. and Mrs. Batie Rand are the proud parents of a baby boy born Monday, April 27. Mrs. Rand is in the Pendleton hospital. Wesley Chaney was in Hermiston on business Monday. Mrs. Jess Oliver and son Floyd and Donald Isom attended the dance at Echo Saturday night. Fred Markham and Jess Oliver left Friday for different points in Oregon, Idaho and Montana where they will shear sheep. Harry Davis of The Dalels is vis iting the Coryells. The severe wind of last week did a great deal of damage to outbuild ings, gardens and fruit in this vicin ity. A number of beds of new set tings of strawberries were entirely blown out. Mrs. Harvey Warner entertained a number of the girls of her Sunday school class Sunday afternoon. SPRAYING WEEDS FOUND EFFECTIVE Mrs. Newlywed We hadn't been married a week when he hit me with a piece of sponge cake. Judge Disorderly Conduct Five dollars and costs. Mrs. Newlywed (sobbing) And I'd made the cake with my own hands. Judge Assault with a deadly weapon one year. Tom: "I'd like to give my fiancee a surprise for her anniversary present." Jerry: "Why not tell her what your income really is?" Hutsinpiller But why did you buy a dachshund for the children? Haasenpfeffer So that they can all pet him at once. Mayme Luke declares he'll go crazy if I don't marry him. Lucy Ah! Then there's no hope for him either way. P ure CE Made from Heppner's Artesian Water Leaves no sediment when it melts. DELIVERED ANYWHERE IN TOWN. Regular Delivery. Morrow County Creamery Company Phone 872 HOT LAKE SANATORIUM HOT LAKE, OREGON Will continue to operate as formerly. A fully equipped clinic to handle all medical and surgical cases. Laboratory, X-ray and radium equipment Hot springs, a valuable adjunct in the treatment of all forms of Rheumatism. An Obstetrical Department has been added and obstetrical cases will be given the best of care both before and after delivery. Literature will be gent on roqucst. ADDRKSS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO DR. MARK T. PHY (Successor to Dr. W. T. I'hy) Chlorates Cued to Clean I'p Areas Inaccessible to Cultivation. With the effectiveness of chlorate sprays and dusts -in controlling weeds practically established, Ore gon farmers are now in a position to clean up fence rows and eradi cate small patches of weeds that formerly made field cultivation for weed control a rather hopeless task, says E. R. Jackman, farm crops specialist of the Oregon State col lege Extension Service. Interest in the use of these chem icals has increased rapidly through out the state recently as a result of a campaign carried on during the past three years by county agents. More than 300,000 pounds of chemi cals approximately one-third of which was sodium chlorate and the rest calcium chlorate were used in Oregon last year, Jackman reports. Observations made to date show so dium chlorate to be more effective than calcium chlorate, he says. These chemicals are too expen sive for use on a large scale, Jack man says, and the chief value of their discovery lies in the fact that farmers are now able to clean up small patches of weeds such as quack grass, Canada thistle, morn ing glory and others in their fields and along fence rows and roadsides, thus making it possible to clean cultivated fields without having them immediately reinfested from adjacent areas where cultivation is impossible. Fall or late summer has been found the best time for application, and weeds seem to be killed more easily on land unplowed for several years. Much of the killing of the roots apparently does not take place until the spring following ap plication. Spraying has been found more effective than dusting for summer use. Hints on Camping Food And Equipment Offered Another Oregon spring has sent out its "call to the wild" and people everywhere are responding to the urge to get out and "rough it" for awhile. For some this means merely an occasional afternoon picnic in the woods, while others prefer a more extended camping trip. The for mer can take as much equipment as they can pack in the car and still have room for the children, but the latter group will do well to keep in in mind the slogan of the true woodsmen, "Travel light but travel right." A few suggestions as to how this maxim can be followed in the mat ter of food and cooking equipment are offered by Miss Willetta Moore, who has taught classes in camp cookery for men at Oregon State college for a number of years. It is best, she says, to select foods that are high in nutritional value, small in bulk and light in weight. Ener gy foods are essential because of the great amount of energy expend ed on such trips. For that reason, sugar is better than saccharine as a sweetening agent in spite of its greater bulk because of its high en ergy value. It is well to avoid canned foods as much as possible, with the ex ception of tomatoes, which have a place in the camp supplies because of their vitamin and mineral con tent. Dehydrated vegetables offer variety as well as food value. Cloth bags are much better than cans or boxes for packing groceries, Miss Moore says. They are less bulky on the return trip, and if dipped in paraffin, will keep sand wiches and other foods fresh. 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Come in today and let us fit you. Many charming patterns just the shoes you want, in your size and your width. $395 $595 Tune in at 6:15 on Columbia Broadcasting: System. Gonty's Shoe Store SHOES REBUILT son needs a canteen, a water proof match box, a compass, a first aid kit and a combination mess kit, says Miss Moore. It is always a good idea to make a list of all sup plies and equipment needed and check off the items as they are packed. First Shark: "What's that funny looking two-legged thing that just fell into the water?" Second Shark: "Dunno, but I'll bite." The teacher was putting ques tions to the class. "What do we call a man," he asked, "who keeps on talking and talking when people are no longer interested?" "Please, sir," replied a boy, "a teacher." Irate Golfer You must be the worst caddies in the world. Caddie Hardly. That would be too much of a coincidence. German Police doge Pups for sale, $25 each. See E. E. 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