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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THUR SDAY, SEPT. 3, 1931. PAGE THREE GOOD NEWS Last summer I went to a white church In a New England town. The preacher for the day was a famous man from a big city, who happened to have a summer home near-by. The church was only about one tenth filled. Even this famous name was not enough to pull peo ple away from the cool woods and beaches. When the preacher arose to an nounce his text, I thought: "Now we'll catch it. We shall be told that these empty pews mean that the world is going to the dogs. We shall hear a half-hour of lament about human wickedness. We few, who have come to church, shall be crucified for the sins of those who have stayed away." I have listened to many church sermons and I am sick of them. But I was due for a pleasant sur prise. He announced a text from Paul's letter to the Corinthians. He explained that in this passage Paul was really making a plea for a gen erous collection from the Corin thians for the struggling churches elsewhere. He had an ulterior mo tive, but that does not change the fact that the whole chapter is full of praise for the Corinthians. Having told them how kind they are, how courageous, how faithful, Paul concludes by saying. In ef fect: "Since you have all these many good qualities, I ask you to have also this grace 'which was in Christ Jesus, who being rich be came poor for our Bakes'." In other words, you are great folks; come on, now, and be gen erous also. The preacher then proceeded to tell us what a grand thing it is to belong to the human race how good people are, how courteous to each other, how brave under their sufferings, how hopeful in the face of an inscrutable Fate. He said that God created men and women because He wanted companions, and that He was pleas ed with His creation. He made us all proud of our humanity, and sent us out more cheerful and better able to fight the week. I wondered why there are not more such sermons. Jesus did very little denouncing and hardly any "viewing with alarm." He came with a joyful message. "You are sons of God," He said, "destined for eternal happiness." People liked that sort of talk. They called it "gospel," which is to say, "good news." CUBA We have learned a few things about Cuba and the Cuban people since we went to war with Spain, 33 years ago, to set Cuba free. The Cuban people are about as badly off under self-government, so-called, as they were under Weyler. When sugar and tobacco sell at high prices they are happy; when these commodities are cheap, as they have been for some years, there is revolution. We gave them political freedom but we did not give them the more important ec onomic freedom. Nobody today wants to annex Cuba to the United States, least of all the American speculators who have built race-tracks, hotels and gambling houses there to attract Americans who want to carouse and waste their money. Under Am erican rule Cuba would have to be officially "dry," and that would start another revolution. ICE Greenland the latest scientific ex plorers tell us, is a great bowl of ice several thousand feet deep, sur rounded by high mountains. This ice has been gradually melting since the last Ice Age, some 20,000 years ago. As it melts, the land . below it will rise and the tropical vegetation which once flourished near the North Pole, and of which traces are still found, will grow there again. By that time all of the white races of man will have moved much farther North than they live now. Then will come another Ice Age and population will be driven back toward the Equator. That is what has happened at least three times in the earth's recent history, and there is no reason to doubt it will happen again. Explorers from the universities of Nova Zembla and Spitsbergen will find traces of hu man handicraft in the tropical Jun gle growing where Chicago now stands, and will wonder what gods these primitive people worshipped. AGE I got a bill the other day from the Commonwealth of Massachu setts, where I vote, for $1, with the information that this was my an nual "Old Age Assistance" tax. It seems to me like a good way of creating a fund for the care of aged persons. The direct tax which every Individual has to pay has the effect of bringing government and Its activities more closely to the CE Made from PURE Artesian Water Morrow County Creamery Co. attention fo everybody who pays it Massachusetts voters are going to watch the Old Age Assistance pro gram more closely than they would if it were merely a matter of pay ing for this sort of relief out of the general funds. BRAINS Reading Mrs. Mary Roberts Rineheart's fascinating autobiogra phy, "My Story," I was struck by one phrase she uses, "the physical lethargy of the brain worker." I have never known a great athlete Save the Little Pigs Spend a little time and give the sow a clean place in far row in. Sprinkle pens and runs with a one per cent tar dip solution. Use clean dry straw for bedding, not too much nor too long. DONT use dusty bedding; it causes pigs to cough. See that sow's teats, sides and legs are clean before pigs are born so they will not have sore mouths, bull nose, sniffles and worms. PURINA PIG and HOG CHOW fed to sows before farrowing will assure you fully devel oped and healthy pigs. Heppner Trading Co. Inc. PHONE H82 HEPPNER REAL ESTATE jfj wil WSHBUhimEBSsimsisi, With your friends you're an Ass or an Asset. When he pitHHew out the man without Insurance Is spoken nf In more kindly terms by friends and family, but has he given the latter a square cIimU? If yours Is a hard lot build a houso on It Then have it Insured and shako hands with happiness. Farmers and Stockgrowers National Bank There Is No Substitute for Safety who was at the same time a great thinker, nor a person with a crea tive mind who excelled in any form of sport. The two attributes do not go together. Charles P. Steinmetz, perhaps the greatest scientific mind we have ever known in America, was a tu bercular hunchback. Einstein gets his exercise by playing the violin! Edison, mentally keen at 84, never took any form of exercise in his life. Charles Dickens died compar atively young because of his notion that he could keep his brain in con dition by vigorous daily physical exertion. Persons of average abil ity can combine physical develop ment with enough mental develop ment to "get by" in their Jobs. But the person who would excel in ei ther field must concentrate solely on the one or the other. Perhaps the best method is Mrs. Rineheart's own. She drops all mental work for long vacations on her western ranch, living and riding in the open until her bodily vigor is restored, then returning to her writing. TAXES The Government deficit and the question of how we are to pay for the great public works program in augurated largely to provide em ployment, have combined to revive interest in the subject of taxation. Two major proposals are being strongly advocated. One is an in crease in inheritance taxes, the other a general sales tax. We have sales taxes now, Federal and State, on automobile sales, on gasoline, on theater tickets, on cosmetics, cig ars and cigarettes and many other commodities. Why not extend the principle to everything anybody buys? Inheritance taxes are low, DON'T FORGET We can give you a real grease job or fix that blowout in a hurry. Have You Tried the New Standard Gas? GEMMELL'S Service Station P. M. GEMMELL, Prop. "Our Service Will Please Tou; Your Patronage Will Please Vn especially on large estates. Inherit ance is a privilege bestowed by law, not an inherent human right. Who would be injured by a law which provided that nobody might inherit more than a million dollars, or en ough to care for a dependent widow and children comfortably? I fully expect to see much higher inheritance taxes and a more wide ly spread system of sales taxes gen erally adopted before many years. W. C. T. U. NOTES. MART A. NOTSON, Reporter. Some time ago, Dan Beard, foun der of the Boy Scouts of America, was Interviewed in regard to his views on prohibition. He said: "Prohbiition? Yes, sir, I'm for it Finest thing that ever happened to us. No, I haven't always been a prohibitionist, or even a teetotaller. But I have never cared for the stuff. I've always been interested in the building of fine minds in sound bodies and that stuff doesn't help it a bit "But I'm a prohibitionist now, all right I think most folks are, at heart. My work has taken me a great deal into the club life of the country, speaking at banquets, be ing entertainer and all that. A prominent club-man said to me once at a dinner: Uncle Dan, I take a drink occasionally. But I know and you know that prohibl- The LaSt Port When the ship of life sails into port, responsibilities arise. They must be met at once in a fitting manner. 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Youngsters drank then as they'll never drink again. And this wild party business; how many have you seen in the last year? I went up to visit my son last winter at Syra cuse University. We went to a party at one of the big hotels In town, and the place was packed, jammed to the doors with stud- WHEN BABIES Fn C f THERE are times K C I when a baby b too fretful or feverish to be sung to sleep. There are some pains a mother cannot pat away. Bat there's quick comfort in Castorial For diarrhea, and other infantile ills, give this pure vegetable prepara tion. Whenever coated tongues tell of constipation; whenever there's any sign of sluggishness. Castoria has a good taste; children love to take it. Buy the genuine with Chas. H. Fletcher's signature on wrapper. enta. All evening long, in all that crowd, I saw but one boy who gave evidence that he had been drink ing. The rest of the crowd seemed ashamed of him; kept trying to hide him, or apologize for him. The wets have played up this wild par ty idea to a fare-you-well. But its a false alarm. It isn't so. It is a false conception that will pass with all the rest of this post-war up heaval." Mr. Beard is eighty years old, so he has had some opportunity to ob serve conditions in America. MacStingy I never deny my wife a single wish. O'Donough That's mighty gen erous of you, old man. MacStingy Oh, you misunder stand me. It don't cost nothin' to wish, does it? Doremifa Was it successful en gaging that ex-burglar as your chauffeur? Solasido Rather! I've never found a finger mark on the car yet! Try a G. T. Want Ad. The Heppner Gazette Times ANNOUNCES FREE Exchange and Employment: Service to the People of Morrow County Reader Advertisements offering commodities in exchange for commodities, will be run free of charge for two insertions and if require ments not then satisfied, will be rein serted on notice from advertiser. 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