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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1931. PAGE THREE SUNKEN PILLARS. I went to a function where a bril liant young man received a distin guished honor. Fine speeches about him were made, and the mayor of the city presented a gold medal. Back near the door sat a demure old couple who seemed ill at ease. Their faces were lined; their hands showed the marks of hard labor. They alone of all the guests did not wear evening clothes. But when the young man came down from the platform he strode quickly across the room and, reach ing the old couple, put his arms around them. The audience cheered. I thought of Thomas Carlyle who, when fame came to him, looked back from the fashionable society of London to the rugged farm where he had grown up, and the humble parents whose self-sacrlflce had made his career possible. Said he: "I feel to my father, so great though so neglected, so generous al ways toward me, a strange tender ness peculiar to the case, infinitely soft and near my heart. Was he not a sacrifice to me?" And he added: "I can see his life in some measure as the sunken pil lar on which mine was to be built Had I stood in his place, could he not have stood in mine and more?" I thought of the father of Robert Burns and the "pains he took to get proper schooling for his boys, and when that was no longer possible, the sense and resolution with which he set himself to supply the defi ciency by his own influence. For many years he was their chief com panion; he spoke to them seriously on all subjects as if they were grown men; at night, when work was over, he taught them arithme tic; he borrowed books for them on history, science, and theology. , . . He would go to his daughter as she stayed afield herding cattle, to teach her the names of the grasses and wild flowers, or to sit by her side when it thundered." I thought of the father of John Stuart Mill, neglecting his own in terests in order to work patiently at the education of his boy; of Thomas Lincoln, struggling to keep his poverty-stricken family together of all the unncounted hosts of hidden fathers . . . "sunken pillars" . . . who suffered oblivion cheerfully in order that their sins might rise. It would be fairer if every life could be measured by a double stan dard first, by its own achievement second, by the careers of its chil dren. On this basis many obscure lives become glorious. And many a medal, placed in the strong, achieving hands of brilliant youth, should be passed back to the gnarled hands of the little old cou ple sitting shyly by the door. Don't just float you might sink. Make your will now don't put it off. It Ik a cureless person Indeed who dixwn't attend to this im portant detail of his life. This bank will gladly advise and HMHlHt you. It Is a simple mutter but there Is none morn Important. TIiIh Is a good time to men tion a little more Insurance for those loved ones. Farmers and Stockgrowers National Bank Diiore la No Substitute for Safety were totally dry before 1919, and practically all of the others, under county and township local option, were preponderantly dry. I am reminded of this by the cel ebration on May 1st in Kansas, of the fiftieth anniversary of prohibi tion In that state. Kansas, the U. S. Prohibition Enforcement Officials report, is still dry. It has a few wet spots, but on the whole Is the dry est of all the states. Three genera tions of young people grew up in Kansas without ever seeing a sa loon, or a liquor advertisement, or seeing anybody take a drink. We were making faster progress toward temperance under the old system than we are making now. STEFFENS Lincoln Steffens, born in Califor nia, made himself one of the two or three greatest reporters in the world more than thirty years ago. He was the first popular writer to expose political corruption and graft in American cities and else where. He has just written his autobi ography. In it he not only tells the fascinating story of his own life and experiences, but brings a wise and matured judgment to bear up on social and economic conditions. I have read no book in years which was so stimulating. Every body who is in the least concerned with the future of himself, his chil dren, or his country, ought to read "The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens." TRAVEL The United States Lines, running passenger ships to Europe, has an nounced a special summer travel rate for school boys and girls, trav eling in parties of ten or more with a responsible adult leader. Any youngster who can dig up $122 can go to Europe and back on the Le viathan; $114 on other ships. This is another long step toward bringing education within the reach of everyone. Nobody can truly claim to be educated who has not trav elled around the world enough to understand how other kinds of people than those he grew up with live, talk and think. Everybody does some travelling in these days. The automobile turned out to be one of the most valuable education al influences. Everybody in Ameri ca knows more about America to day than any but a very few knew twenty-five years ago. Many times more Americans know and under stand Europe than there are Euro peans who know America. We are the world's greatest travellers. And that means that we are literally, as a people, the best educated people in the world. POSSESSIONS The wisest man I know sold his steam yacht recently. "So you're broke, too?" jeered one of his friends at the luncheon table, where he told us about getting rid of the boat "No," he replied, "I am trying to MONEY A little boy of ten, on a visit to his grandparents, noticed that his Uncle John never did any work. The boy had never met any grown ups who didn't work, and his uncle's inactivity puzzled him. He asked questions and learned that Uncle John didn't have to work because he had money that was working for him. That appealed to the boy. He decided to get money and make it work for him. He got his first money that year, $7 for picking cranberries, and he set that money to work In a savings bank. That was in 1850. The boy's name was George Baker. At twen ty one he was already prominent in banking circles. He was twenty three when he founded the First National Bank of New York. He never did anything all his life but deal in money. He died the other day at the age of 91, sincerely mourned by every leader In busi ness and finance. He was a great banker and a great man. The great est thing about him, as I see it, was his singleness of purpose. The trouble with most of us is that we don't stick. PROHIBITION Many old people forget, and most young people never knew, that nearly all of the United States had prohibition laws long before the Eighteenth Amendment. I was born in the first of the dry states, Maine, More than thirty states, I believe, mm 7 TTiO YOURSELF THIS ON FOODS We only ask you to prove it to your own satisfaction, this saving' on foods at our stores. Prove It by comparison of prices and prove it by com parison of quality. Make it a daily habit to shop at our clean, modern food stores and note our uniform, every day low prices. Remember, it's the saving on every item that counts. Saturday & Monday Specials Mayonnaise Best Food made with fresh eggs... Note the saving. Pt.25C;Qt.49c COFFEE MAC MARK QUALITY, 3 LBS. ECONOMY 3 LBS 95c 59c PAR Finest washing powder known to day. Extra large packages. 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It has always been a mystery to me why people often in sist on purgative medicines that do more to Irritate the dige-jtive tract than they do to restore a deranged function; there are folks who want their lives "shaken up," and will bear with a night of griping pain, in the belief that they need a good stirring up. Last week an elderly woman came into my office for advice about a pain near the point of the right shoulder-blade; her home physi cian had given her some pills for it, but he had told her to take them only once a week. She showed me the box that held her supply it was labelled "Compound Cathartic." I agreed that the pills were good, but I told her I would take them only once every four or six weeks! Here was a pill made out of col- ocynth, podophyllin, calomel, aloes, jalap and one or two minor ingre dients that would have "shaken up" an eight-cylinder automobile! 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