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
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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. Where poultry constitutes
the principal farm income a flock
of not less than 1000 hens is essen
tial. Small flock owners are Just
"out of luck" during such times of
stress, he says.
Lunn believes that the lowest lev
els of egg and poultry prices have
been reached that may be expected
for at least a couple of years, and
that with fewer eggs in storage and
fewer birds being raised, the price
of eggs this year will be an im
provement over last. This, however,
depends somewhat on general busi
ness conditions, he savs.
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Prices Effective SAT. & MON, July 18-20
Salad (Oil 'Ler ca,,on
$11 .to
For salads and all fine cooking. Fresh
shipment just arrived. Note the saving.
White,, fluffy and always fresh. Note the saving.
Gneese 1 99c
Oregon full cream loaf. Special
SUGAR
The sugar market has advanc
ed lately.
PURE CANE
100 LBS. ..
85.49
OATS
Sperry's full cream Rolled
Oats.
9-Lb. Bag
45c
COFFEE
is any and bet-
$1.00
65c
BROOMS
$1.00 Brooms 69c
75c Brooms 49c
MacMarr, good as any and bet
ter than many.
3 LBS
Also
Economy, 3 lbs.
CORN
Tested Golden Sweet delicious
stL 39c
Per Case, No. 2's $2.95
BEANS
Mexican Reds.
All Recleaned.
10 Lbs ItJC
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America's finest concentrated
Large Package 39c
Macaroni
Fresh elbo cut. AA.
5 Pounds H&K,
MALT
Rainier Brand.
Large Tins.
3 for
$1.00
String Beans
Green cut stringlcss. A
3 Tins OtlC
Per Case, No. 2's $2.95
Peanut Butter
Hoody's
It's delicious,
2 Full Pound
,. 33c
BANANAS
Fancy, golden rlpo
fruit
ALBS.
29c
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