HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1931. PAGE THREE DON'T SEND IT. Some years ago I met a man who spoke as follows: "The boss issued a memorandum today with a lot of new instructions. Some of them were all wet, and I didn't hesitate to tell him so. I shot a memo right back at him, and, be lieve me, it was a hot one." Said another man: "I received my first business training under a wise old bank of ficial. One day a letter came in from a customer who made unreas onable complaints arid asked for an unwarranted favor. "I sat up almost all night drafting an answer to that letter. It was a beauty, and I took it in to the old man next morning with pride. His head nodded approvingly as he read it " 'You've put the case just right,' he said. 'The position you have tak en is based on sound banking prin ciples; it states our attitude with dignity and force. All in all, it's a very fine letter, and I congratulate you on it. Only, for Heaven's sake, don't send it'." Afterwards, I learned that the man I first quoted was paid $4,000 a year; the other is paid $40,000. Like every other man In business, I receive a certain number of com munications which are both unkind and unfair. Having red hair and a naturally quick temper, I used to let such letters hoist my tempera ture considerably. Sometimes I car ried them around in my mind for several days, forming red hot phrases In rely. Nnw I rl v a. much meaner trick on the writers. I do not answer them at all. I can imagine one of my critics going down to the front gate every morning to meet the postman, looking eagerly for my an swer, thinking up what he will say in his next outburst. Day after day goes by, and no answer comes. The fire that was to burn me up, burns him up instead. This method of dealing with one's enemies is certainly not spectacu lar and maybe it is unmanly. If so, I can reply only that as I grow old er the glory of being spectacular appeals to me less and less in com parison with the comfortable joys of peace. Life seems somehow too short for controversy, and much of my in come in these days is received not so much for what I do as for what I have learned not to do. Patience, I have learned, ia al most as Important as work; while judgment uniformly commands a much higher rate than well inten tioned activity. What is judgment? you ask. Well, it's the little voice that whispers: "That would be brilliant, but don't do it" Or, "That's a smart one; very smart, Indeed. But, for Heav en's sake, don't send it." r FRANK PARKER 1 WHEAT Ray Long, editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine, who has just returned from Russia, in a speech the other day predicted that we would never see wheat again at as high as a dollar a bushel. Wheat's Importance In the econ omic scheme of things is due to the fact that it is cheaply stored and shipped and can be kept over from season to season. When the United States was still a pioneer nation and the great wheat areas of Rus sia, South America and Australia were still undeveloped, wheat was a profitable crop in this country. To day it is far from being our most important crop. Minnesota, the greatest flour milling state, and once the foremost wheat producer, raised $21,000,000 worth of wheat in 1929, a fairly normal year, but sold $125,000,000 worth of butter. The demand for dairy, hog and poultry products is growing; that for wheat is diminishing. If I were a wheat farmer I would put my land into some other kind of crops or sell it and pocket the loss. MOVIES All of the protests against the representations of crime and vice in the movies seem to have had no ap preciable effect. "Two Gun" Crowley, New York's latest "cop killer," an undersized, undeveloped boy of twenty, has ad mitted that he got the idea of being a "bad man" from the movies. "Gangster" films are worse than crime stories In the newspapers, be cause they reach tho immature mind that docs not read the papers. Children ennnot discriminate be tween right and wrong, and the gunman, even though shown as a criminal meeting a bad end, seems like a hero to many of them. ELECTRIFICATION One of my farmer neighbors In the Berkshire Hills of Massachu setts, Major Hugh Smiley of Great Barrington, is making a test of all of the possibilities of electricity on the farm. Major Smiley's hens work as long hours in winter as they do in sum mer, because the hen-houses are lighted by electricity. Now he has installed electric sun lamps in the concrete barn where his prize herd of Holateins Is housed in order to give the cattle the benefit of the ultra-violet rays in the winter, as well as in the summer. It may take several years of ex perience before the exact value of farm electrification is determined, but it is Major Smiley's belief that electric power is not only cheaper than man power but more efficient, and that the use of electric lights of various types makes his hens lay better, his cows produce more milk and keeps his live stock in better health. MOLASSES When I was a boy in New Eng land it was still the custom in al most all rural families, and proba bly in the cities as well, to dose all the children for days every spring with liberal tablespoonfuls of a mixture of sulphur and mo lasses. For a generation or so medical men have laughed at the old "spring tonic" idea. Now medical science has discovered that this Is another of the so-called folk myths that has a solid basis of truth back of it. Our grandparents were wrong in thinking that sulphur was the essential part of the mixture, but they were right in the idea that "brimstone and treacle" had a tonic effect. It was the Iron In the mo lasses that did it according to Dr. Walter H. Eddy. Now we keep our children out-of-doors in the sunshine as much as possible, winter and summer, and those who can afford it expose them to ultra-violet rays generated by electricity, so that the need of a PERSONAL SERVICE- Years of experience together with a modern funeral home and equipment permit us to handle quietly, with decorum and dependability, every detail. Every effort is made to provide satis factory service. TELEPHONE 1832 Phelps Funeral Home HEPPNER, OREGON Exclusive apenta In Heppner for Peacock Floral Co. of Tho Dalle 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 spring tonic is not as great as it was. And we have developed pleas anter ways of taking iron into the system when we do need it GRAFT According to the trade paper, "Highway Engineer and Contract or," millions of dollars are expend ed annually by companies manufac turing highway machinery and ma terials to Influence county commis sioners and others having control of highway work to select certain types of roads and pavements for construction or maintenance ma chinery and materials. Such payments to public officials are regarded in some business cir cles as "lawful graft" They are dishonest because such bribes are added to the cost of the. job and come out of the pocket of the tax payers, and also because they may and often do result in a poor job, which will soon have to be dona over again again at the txapayers' expense. It would be interesting if some live newspaper in every county in the United States should start an inquiry as to how much "lawful graft" its local officials have re ceived from paving contractors. State Department of Agriculture Explained By SEYMOUR JONES, State Market Agent. The new State Department of Ag riculture will succeed to and be in vested with the powers and duties of the state board of horticulture, pure seed board, state livestock san itary board, state veterinarian, state dairy and food commissioner, state chemist, state bacteriologist, advis ory livestock branding board, state market agent, state lime board and committee on agricultural lime. County bee inspectors, fruit in spectors, meat and herd inspectors and veterinarians will be appointed by the county courts as now provid ed by law but these appointments will be subject to the approval of the director of agriculture. County stock inspectors will be appointed by the director upon recommenda tions of the cattle and horse raisers association of Oregon. County fair boards and county grazing boards will make annual reports to this department upon blanks furnished by the director. Butter Grading. Under the provisions of senate bill No. 165 sponsored by the agri cultural committee and passed by the recent legislature, all creamery butter manufactured or sold in Ore gon must after July 5. be graded upon a 100 point basis. (1) Flavor 45; (2) body and texture 25; (3) color 15; (4) salt 10; (5) package 5. The grades used shall conform to those of the United States de partment of agriculture. It is the duty of the state dairy and food commissioner to make rules and regulations for and to have charge of the enforcement of this act Grading must be done and the product plainly labeled prior to sale whether at the creamery or else where. The purpose of this law as set forth by its sponsors is to better quality and improve markets for this dairy product Jersey Show Scheduled. The annual spring show sponsor ed by the Marion County Jersey Cattle club will be held at the state fair grounds Tuesday, June 2. Two special trophies will be awarded this year to 4-H club members, one for the best calf under one year and the other for the best calf over a year old. State Grain Inspection. The State Market Agent's depart ment offers the following brief his tory of Its grain inspection unit as a matter of interest to those per sons desiring information of state activities. Prior to 1917, there were no fed eral standards for grain. The sampling and weighing was done by employees of the grain firms. The sampler at the dock 'or mill used a test kettle and beam to take the test. If wheat weighed sixty or more pounds per bushel it was called "No. 1." If there was a sprinkling of red wheat or of oats in the white wheat samples they would be designated "No. 1, some red." If the mixture ran high in red, 25 percent for example, it was graded "No. 1 white wheat rejected on account of red." In 1917 the federal government established definite grades for sev eral kinds of grain and the Oregon grain inspection department was organized in June of that year un der rules and regulations set forth in chapter 333 general laws of this state. The purposes of the department "I personally choose my own foods and make selections from shelves and displays filled with hundreds of rood things to eat. I have the privilege of examining each article of food carefully. I inspect it for quality and compare it for price. It's then I realize fully what a saving I make." You, too, can have the pleasure of personal selection. Start today 1 Choose your foods from oar stores ana tako advantage of the savings we offer. Saturday & Monday Specials PEACHES Fancy pack in large 2'i tins. 2 TINS 35c 6 TINS $1.00 3 TOMATOES Large Tins Solid Pack 2 TINS 29c 6 TINS 85c MAYONNAISE Best Foods brand, made with pTG! 9 fresh eggs. Best money Afi can buy. QTS. 49C SUGAR C. & H. PURE CANE 100-lb. 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HOTEL HEPFNEB BLSO. include: (1) the prevention of frauds in the trade in grains, grain products, rice, beans and other sim ilar commodities, bay, potatoes, fer tilizers and chemicals used In agri culture; the establishment and pres ervation of standards for grain, grain products, hay and other com modities; (2) regulation of ware houses, milling, shipping and buy ing grain, grain products, hay and other articles of commerce noted above. With a half dozen employes the department of grain inspection was started off under the state public service commission, but in 1923 it was included in the state market agent's office then created. Inspec tions were then made only upon re quest and the state appropriated funds with which to carry on the work. In 1919, the legislature made compulsory the inspection and weighing of all grains delivered Don't just float you might sink, www Make your will now don't put It off. 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OVERPRODICTIOX WARNING. The warning to curtail produc tion is not for the wheat farmers alone. The Agricultural Review, official bulletin of the North Caro lina department of agriculture, is sues the same warning to cotton and tobacco growers of the south. Elsie My grandpa has reached the age of 96. Isn't that wonderful? Bobby Wonderful nothln'! Look .at the time it's taken him to do it. The Kilowatt Kiddies ARE GLAD IRONERS The "sad iron" of years past has given way to the GLAD one with self-contained Electric Heat provided by the Kilowatt Kiddies. Clothes almost iron themselves under the smooth, even heat of Charlie and Clara's Elec tric Iron. So automatic is their service that the most modern irons have automatic devices for shutting off the current when a set tem perature is reached. Others adjust their tem peratures to particular fabrics, at a finger touch. THE KILOWATT IRONERS smooth 'way the wrinkles in a deft manner that makes this age-old job a joy! 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