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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1931. PAGE THREE What Does It Matter? Last summer there was a water shortage in a town where I was vis iting. I happened to be chatting with my host, who is a noted man, while he was shaving, and I noticed how careful he was to use .very little water. "It seems sort of silly for you to be so conscientious," I remarked. "After all, the few drops that you conserve won't make any differ ence." "They don't make any difference in the final result," he said, "but they make a lot of difference to me." When he saw from my expression that I did not quite get his mean ing, he proceeded to give me his philosophy of life. He said that when he graduated from college, a quarter of a century ago, there was a great deal of pop ular emphasis upon so-called "social service." Science had begun to introduce wonderful new inventions for in creasing human happiness. Men were stirred by the hope of a quick millennium. Young people gradua ted with the notion that a few years of earnest effort would transform the world. My friend was one of the most eager of the reformers. He organ ized, and voted, and agitated, and did all the things that he should. But nothing happened. The good candidates for whom he cast his vote were defeated. The good causes made slow progress. Human na ture showed a discouraging unwill ingness to change. "I went through a period of deep disillusionment," he said. "I thought to myself, what's the use of doing anything when one.'s single effort seems so futile? "One day while I was in this mood I discovered these words of Socrates: 'I, therefore, . . . consider how I may exhibit my soul before the judge in a healthy condition. Wherefore, disregarding the hon ors that most men value, and looking to the truth, I shall en deavor in reality to live as virtu ously as I can; and when I die, to die so. And I invite all other men, to the utmost of my power; . . . to this contest, which, I affirm, surpasses all contests here.' "That flashed across my mind like a bolt of lightning," my friend con tinued. "It clarified everything. "I realized that I am not respon sible for the success or failure of any good cause. All that I am re sponsible for is my own best effort in that cause. Whether my vote be effective or not; whether the am ount of water I can save will make any difference these are not the questions. "The only question is: Am I doing my best? "That discovery gave me great comfort," he concluded. "Maybe you could use it in one of your ed itorials?" "Many thanks," I answered. "I can." MIGRATION There is a "back-to-the-land" movement actively In progress in the East Within the past three months sixteen farms within five miles of my own have been sold to people who have been working in the factories in the industrial cities of Massachusetts. I talked with one of these new comers the other day. "I'm an elec trician," he said. "When times are good I have a job in an electrical equipment factory. When times are bad I'm out of a job. We have been saving, my wife and I, to buy a house in town. Then we began to consider what good a town house would be to us if I didn t have a Job. On the farm we can at least feed ourselves and our three chil dren, and we're near enough to town so that when things pick up I can go back to my Job and come home every night I'm not a farm er, but my wife is country bred and I'm not afraid of work." We are going to hear more of this sort of thing. In the old days the "landless man" was regarded as a social outcast. The only really Inde pendent man today is the one who can get his own living, in a pinch, from his own land. HOUSES I saw the beginning of a revolu tion the other day In Wilmington, Delaware. It is a house, a small, one-family house, the frame of which is made of pressed steel shapes. Two young men put the frame of the house together with bolts in a couple of days' time. It was as easy as a boy playing with one of the popular structural toys. These amateur builders are using only materials which call for no skilled labor in completing their house. Factory-made roofing, sid ing, insulating material, wall-board and flooring, will give them, they say, a more substantial house than most, and at much lower cost than a house built In the usual manner. I heard of other experiments In factory-built homes. Engineers, ar chitects and manufacturers are about ready to offer better homes at less money. WORK The five-day week for factory workers Is already established in many large Industries and In some of the building trades. It will not be long before nobody works on Saturday. The eight-hour working day, for which the labor unions fought for so many years, seems about to be shortened. The Kellogg Company of Battle Creek is the first large concern to try the six-hour day. The factory runs twelve hours, in two shifts. There Is no time out for meals. The company reports that even with an Increase of one- eighth In the basic wage rate the overhead and operating cost per unit of production Is lower than under the eight-hour plan. Watch for the shortening of the working day by other industries. laboratories and now in use by some 70-odd shoe factories, fastens the sole to the upper without the use of tacks, pegs or stitches. It is said to be waterproof, flexible and permanent There will always be a few peo ple who will pay fancy prices for hand-made goods, but the big mon ey is made by those who find a bet ter way to make things cheaper. FISH Fish ought to be the cheapest of all foods, instead of being one of the most expensive, as it is in all large cities and in towns away from the commercial fisheries. It is one TRAVELERS SHOES Shoes are cheaper than ever be fore, and the tendency is still down- wn rd. At the same time, a fashionable Fifth Avenuo custom shoemaker has recently raised his minimum price for a pair of ladles' shoes from S75 to $100 a pair! The latest thing to make shoes ohnnner Is the e ued-on sole. A new adhesive, developed in the DuPont On your vacation what will you use for MONEY? How alxmt travelers' checks? Eagerly accepted In all parts of the world safe and Inex pensive. We'll make hay while the sun shines and you con make hey! hey! while the moon shine. Farmers and Stockgrowers National Bank There is No Substitute for Safety CE Made from PURE Artesian Water Morrow County Creamery Co. food crop which requires no plantr ing or cultivation. The reason for the high cost is the perishable nature of fish and the expense of keeping it iced. Ex periments with the quick freezing of fish in carbon dioxide snow or "dry ice" indicate that the flavor can be preserved and deterioration prevented in a way which makes the cost of handling and shipping much lower than previously. Before long fresh fish of the most popular food varieties will be avail able everywhere at a cost to com pete with melt But no fish ever bought in a market tastes half so good as the ones you catch yourself! 0. S. C. Says Poultry Production Holding Own In spite of the fact that poultry prices seem to have hit rock bottom during the past year, poultry pro duction on the whole is more than holding its own with other Oregon farm enterprises, according to A. G. Lunn, chief of the poultry depart ment of the Oregon Experiment station. "I do not know of any major branch of agriculture today that is paying the producer as well as the poultry business," Lunn said. "The poultryman who has good stock and enough of it can more than pay his basic cost of production, even though he may not get interest on investment" The situation during the past year has emphasized more strong ly than ever, Lunn believes, the im portance of the size of the poultry flock. 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