HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1931.
PAGE THREE
GREED
If any writer were big enough to
gather up all the thousands of stor
ies of the stock market crash, he
would have material for the Great
American Novel.
For the bull market, and the cat
astrophe which ended it, represent
ed all that is best and worst in the
American character: our optimism,
which is at once our strength and
our weakness; our restless desire
to better our condition by any
available means; our worthy ambi
tion and cur unworthy greed.
One of the best of the market
stories was told me by a celebrated
surgeon whose name I can not re
veal. "I work hard for my money," he
said, "and have never speculated.
However, the fever got me Anally,
like everybody else. There was one
particular stock which was a favor
ite in my city. Bank presidents
and boot-blacks were in it together;
it went up by leaps and bounds.
"Against all my traditions, I
bought several hundred shares. It
continued to climb; I had profit of
many thousand dollars.
"One night my wife saw me mak
ing penciled calculations on the
margin of the newspaper. She said
I ought not to be worrying about
stocks, and she urged me to sell out
and never think about the market
again.
"I argued that by holding on for
another ten points we could pay
for the wing which she wanted to
build on the house.
"While we were still talking, my
little girl came in to ask my help
on her Latin lesson for the next
day. It was the translation of Ae
sop's fable of the dog and the bone.
The dog, you remember, saw his re
flection in the water and, thinking
it was another dog whose bone he
would steal, reached down with
open jaws and lost his own bone.
"The moral of the fable was,
Giwd usually results In the loss of
everything.'
"That night when I went to bed
I could not sleep. The fable kept
running through my mind. First
thing next morning I telephoned
my broker to sell me out It hap
pened that the stock went up a few
more points, but a couple of weeks
later it dropped like a shot. I was
very lucky, and had sense enough
not to think I had been smart. You
can bet that I am done with specu
lating forever."
I hope that when this editorial
is printed we may be in the midst
of good times, with increasing bus
iness and a rising market. In that
case, some young man may see it
and appreciate the reminder that
"greed usually results in the loss of
everything."
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FRANK PARK!
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KENTUCKY
I motored across the state of Ken
tucky from Louisville southward in
to Tennessee a few days ago. The
Dixie Highway, short route from
Chicago to Florida, runs through
the country of Abraham Lincoln's
forebears. I spent a night at Eliza
bethtown, county seat of Hardin
county, just a few miles from
HodgenVille, Lincoln's birthplace.
Twenty-two years ago I went to
Hodgenville on the one hundredth
anniversary of Lincoln's birth, Feb
ruary 12, 1909, in company with
Theodore Roosevelt, whose last of
ficial trip as President of the United
States was to lay the cornerstone
of the Lincoln Memorial. Even as
recently as that there was not a
single automobile in Hardin county,
and no roads that a car could nego
tiate, if there had been any.
To judge by the brisk trade In the
attractive shops of Elizabethtown
and the patronage of its modern
hotel, Hardin county today, like the
rest of Kentucky, is immensely
more prosperous than In 1909, In
spite of drought and hard times.
The automobile has done more for
rural America in twenty years than
any other single agency in a hun
dred years.
CAVES
Southward from Hardin county
the Dixie Highway runs through
the great limestone ridge where
water-holes and ponds drain thru
They call us "Elgins"
We work every
second.
rVKRY employe of this
bunk Is told In no unmis
takable language to "put his
Job FIRST or ho won't
LAST."
This strong bank was found
ed on character and built on
service.
A modern bank.
Farmers
and Stockgrowers
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Diiere Is No Substitute for
Safety
the earth into buried caverns. Mam
moth Cave, largest of them all, in
whose subterranean river swim fish
without eyes, has been taken over
by the Federal Government as a
national park. There are hundreds
of similar caverns, competing for
tourist trade by signs along the
highway. A surprisingly large num
ber of people pay admission to get
the eerie sensation of descending
Into the earth's interior.
BEAUTY
Dr. Henry H. Cherry, president
of the Western Kentucky State
Teachers College at Bowling Green,
spent years persuading the state au
thorities that beautiful surround
ings In a school had a definite cul
tural value for the students. He has
built on top of a hill, overlooking
a wide, lovely valley, a group of
buildings, including gymnasium and
stadium, which are the most perfect
examples of classic Greek architec
ture I have ever seen.
The pure beauty of line which
these buildings and the colonnade
above the field exhibit stir the deep
est artistic sensibilities. Around
each of the buildings flanking the
stadium is a deep frieze in the
Greek manner, depicting athletes in
action. These bas-relief figures are
colored, the way the ancient Greeks
used to paint their statues. We see
statuary in museums in pure white
marble but do not realize that the
originals were painted over the
stone in natural colors.
Dr. Cherry has created a thing of
beauty which will be a joy forever
to the youth of Western Kentucky.
TOBACCO
All the way across the state I
passed through the burley tobacco
country, the tobacco fields plowed
and harrowed and almost ready for
transplanting the plants from the
canvas-covered seed-beds. Cigarette
manufacturers are responsible for
the increased prosperity of the bur
ley tobacco growers. Up to a few
years ago only the Virginia bright
tobacco was used in cigarettes.
Then the American Tobacco Com
pany developed and promoted a cig
arette made of the burley leaf. And
now many of the popular brands
are made of this Kentucky-grown
tobacco.
HORSES
Approaching the Tennessee bor
der there were more horses and
fewer motor cars. South of the
ridge the country resembles the
blue grass region of eastern Ken
tucky. It is wonderful pasture and
hay land, in which live stock flour
ishes. There are no pines in the
region around Gallatin, Tennessee,
where Opie Read grew up. Cedars
are the only native evergreens. It
is ideal horse country, and a group
of wealthy men have established an
estate of twenty-eight square miles
on the north bank of the Cumber
land River, where they keep their
saddle horses and a fine pack of
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W. C. T. U. NOTES.
MARY A. NOTSON. Reporter.
An application has been filed- with
the secretary of state for a ballot
title for an initiative measure to
repeal the law which provides for
the enforcement of the prohibition
amendment to the state constitu
tion, the purpose being, as stated
by the applicant, to leave the en
forcement of prohibition to the fed
eral authorities. This measure is
not intended to repeal the law to
enforce the Volstead Act, which was
passed by congress to make the 18th
amendment effective, because Ore
gon has not enacted a law for the
enforcement of that act. The pur
pose of this proposed measure is to
nullify the state prohibition amend
ment. It can have no other purpose.
If the proponent of this measure
had the fairness which should char
acterize a good citizen, he would not
put forward such a measure, but
would propose a clear-cut amend
ment to repeal the prohibition
amendment to the state constitution
instead of simply nullifying it He
puts forth the argument that cer
tain features would remain, but the
remaining features would simply
produce confusion, and that is the
exact intent of the whole proposi
tion. The people will not vote for
i an amendment which declares one
thing and for a law which declares
another, if they understand what
they are doing. The measure is in
tended to make it easier to get
booze. It is intended to help along
the only argument which has been
produced against the 18th amend
ment, to-wit: That it can't be en
froced. It is a trick of the wets
simply a trick.
The proponent of this measure
says that if the people will vote as
they drink the measure will carry.
He insults the good people of Ore
gon by intimating that they are a
lot of hypocrites. He intimates that
that a majority of the people of this
great commonwealth are encourag
ing moonshiners, bootleggers, and
home-brewers in the violation of the
constitution and the laws. He may
believe this. He is a young man.
He must have been a mere boy
when the state voted dry, and he
probably does not know the condi
tions which then prevailed. He may
be swallowing the lies circulated by
John Barleycorn's henchmen. How
ever, it is probably true that some
people will "drink wet and vote
dry." There are men whose appe
tites for liquor lead them to hunt
up the boootlegger and buy moon
shine from him, but who know the
awful effects of drinking alcohol
and who would do what they can to
save the rising generation from the
curse which has befallen them.
Such men will vote dry. But the
wets try to bully them into voting
as they drink.
If this measure is backed by the
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necessary number of petitioners, we
will have the whole fight for a dry
state fought over again. It Is time
that we begin the counter-attack.
No time is to be lost "The battle is
not to the strong alone. It is to the
vigilant, the active, the brave," as
was well said by that old Revolu
tionary patriot, Patrick Henry.
Farm Acreage, Values
Reported for Oregon
There are 55,153 farms in Oregon
having a total acreage of 16,548,678,
and a total value, including land,
buildings, and implements and ma
chinery, of $673,413,678, according to
a bulletin recently Issued by the
Bureau of the Census. These fig
ures are given in detail for each
county and minor civil division
within the state. This is the first
federal census report to show these
figures by minor civil divisions.
Of the total farm acreage 17.6 per
cent, or 2,906, 324 acres, was crop
land on which crops were harvested
in 1929; 7 per cent, or 1, 154,744 ac
res, was crop land which lay idle
or fallow; and 0.7 per cent or 111,
451 acres, was land on which the
crops failed to mature or were not
harvested for any cause. Pasture
land with a total of 11378.824 acres,
representing 68.8 per cent of the
total farm acreage of the state. In
cluded 816.803 acres of plowable
land, 2,619.478 acres of woodland,
and 7,942,543 acres of other land. In
addition to the land cropped and
pastured, the total land in farms
included 502,737 acres of woodland
not used for pasture, and 494,598
acres not in forest, pasture, or
crops, including the land occupied
by house yards, barnyards, feed
lots, lanes, roads, etc.
The total value of farm land and
buildnigs was $630,827,927, of which
$128,881,093 represented the value of
all farm buildings, including the far
mers' dwellings, which were val
ued at $72,627,906. The value of
farm implements and machinery, in
cluding farmers' automobiles, was
$42,585,751.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shively and
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bowker re
turned home Sunday evening from
a trip to Portland. They returned
around the Mount Hood loop high
way and reported the mountain
road very beautiful with rhododen
drons and apple blossoms In great
profusion.
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