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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1931. PAGE THREE LITTLE THINGS Nothing is more interesting than to hear successful men reminisce about their careers. Recently, af ter a golf game, I had such an op portunity. My companions were well-known lawyers. One of them said: "I wasn't much of a student' in college. I played on both the football and baseball teams, and I managed to graduate and go on through law school. "My first Job was In the office of a country lawyer in a small city In Pennsylvania. There I really did work, preparing cases and trying them, and doing my best to mas ter the profession. "I could look forward to earning enough to marry on, but could see no chance of ever escaping from that small town. "One Christmas I visited my folks in Boston, and while I was there a friend told me that a certain lawyer would like to meet me. I called at his office the next morn ing. We chatted for about an hour and then, out of a clear sky, he of fered me a partnership. I was flabbergasted, but I managed to stutter an acceptance. I started in with him a month later. In that firm I spent ten very happy and profitable years. "One day I summoned up cour age to ask him how he ever hap pened to make me such an offer on so short an acquaintanceship. "His answer was surprising. He FOOD Henry Ford's order that every married man employed in his Iron Mountain plant must plant a veget able garden next year is an Inter esting experiment which will be criticized by several different kinds of . people. ' Commission men and dealers in garden priduce will see in it a possible loss of good mar kets. And the people who think that an employer has no right to dictate to his employees about anything ex cept their actual work in the fac tory will regard this order as an invasion of the individual worker's rights. My own view is that the results of the Iron Mountain experiment, if records are carefully kept as I as sume they will be, may prove to be the most powerful stimulus to the general movement away from the cities and back to the economic in dependence of the small landholder who raises most of what he and his family consume. WORK In my home county, Berkshire, Massachusetts, there are three im portant Industries. One of the General Electrlc's manufacturing plants is at Plttsfteld, the county seat or as the oldtlmers call it the "shire town." Nearly all the writ ing paper used in America is made in the mills along the Housatonlc river, Including the paper on which the Federal Government prints money and bonds. And the lime stone quarries of Lee, Adams and West Stockbridge in good years pay the New Haven railroad a quarter of a million dollars in freight charges on building and agricul tural lime. None of these industries is run ning on full time these days, but we see and hear little evidence of anything approaching real distress. One of my nearest neighbors has eleven children at home, three more married. He works in a paper mill when it Is running, sells the milk from ten cows through the local branch of the Dairymen's League, grows feed for the cows and a pen of pigs on his hundred acres, be sides cutting enough cordwood ev ery winter to keep his house warm, He is a lot better off than the city worker who has nothing to fall back on. ENGLAND The fall of the Labor Govern ment in England and the desertion of the Labor Party by Ramsay MacDonald and other leaders does not necessarily mean the end of the Socialist movement In Great Brit aln, but it does mean that the ef fort to force social and economic Changes faster than they can be paid for has failed. The trouble with almost every movement for social reform is that Its proponents . want to change everything in. stantly. Great Britain's new Government is pledged to balance the budget- that is, to cut down governmental expenses to a point where the in come from all forms of taxation will meet them. That will slow up such reforms as employment in surance and the national housing , program, but it will keep England out of bankruptcy and help restore world trade, which In the long run probably will be Just as beneficial for the workers. It takes more . than one generation to change the course of social progress. THRIFT rirfJlri said that for years he had been able to secure more business than he could properly handle. As a business getter he was a star; as an organizer of an efficient force he was a failure. He .had hired bril liant woung chaps out of law school but somehow they never developed as he hoped. Being brilliant, they expected to get results easily, and if they were whipped a couple of times in court it broke their spirit "One night he went home and sat down before the fire to analyze his situation. He decided to look for an entirely different type of man; he listed the qualifications: "1. The man must not be too smart. He must have the habit of working hard for his results. "2. He must have been in college athletics, trained to fight for vic tory, and to keep up his chin in de feat "Having made this list, the law yer asked his friends to recommend men who met the qualifications. One of them named me, and the lawyer remembered that he had once seen a football game in which I was badly smashed up but still was able to carry the ball across the line for a touchdown. "So you see," my friend conclud ed, "it was that one little thing, to which I never attached the slight est Importance, that made my whole career." .When you hear stories like this, and I have heard many of them, it makes you think that there are no little things. No operation is so insignificant that a man can refuse to give it less than his best ings bank in America is advising his 240,000 depositors to stop hoard ing up their money, to draw it out and spend it for things which they will need later and Which they can buy cheaper now than at any time since the war. That is good ad vice. True thrift consists not in hoarding cash but in spending wise ly. There never was, and probably will not again be for a long time, a better opportunity to buy a home, for example, or the equipment and furnishings of a home, or any of the other necessary things which do not lose their value with the passage of time. And every dollar spent now hastens the day when the dollars will again circulate freely. AGE The average American Is older than he used to be. Twenty years ago our average national age was about twenty-three; now it is about twenty-seven. Not so many chil dren, grown-ups living longer. This change is bound to be re flected in every phase of life. We will tend to take a more reasoned, les3 emotional view of social, polit ical and economic matters, for ex ample. We probably will lose as a nation some of the pioneering, ad venturous spirit of youth. We will grow to value security more than excitement There were boys of twenty-one among the leaders of our Revolution, the signers of our Declaration of Independence, the drafters of our Constitution. Today we look on a man of thirty as rath er too young for the serious respon sibilities of government We are in danger of becoming stodgy and conservative as a nation, unless more young men forge their way to the front as political leaders. "Pop, did the cavemen have to milk the dinosaurs?" I don't know. Why?" Well, if they didn't have canned milk in those days what did they put in their coffee?" The man with a crooked streak can't think straight. There is more crime in Chi cagoone American city than In all of Europe. The person with valuables Is a standing Invitation to thugs and thieves. Are your valuables and Im portant papers SAFE? Our Safe Deposit Boxes ARE SAFE; the cost very low. , Farmers and Stockgrowers National Bank There Is No Substitute for Safety OREGON FARMS IN GOOD CONDITION Census Figures Show Increased Valuation; Debt Proportion Lower Than in 1925. A prelmilnary announcement of the 1930 farm census for Oregon just released by the bureau of cen sus, U. S. Department of Commerce, indicates nothing very alarming in the farm situation for the state as a whole. Figures are given for the years 1925 and 1920, from which comparisons may be made. The number of farms in 1930 was less than in 1925, though greater than in 1920. The total value of all farms increased in 1930 over 1925, but decreased from the 1920 figure which was affected by war-time In flation values. The number of farms and valuation for each year is: 1930, 55,163 farms, $755,896,689; 1929, 55,911 farms, $714,410,119; 1920, 50,206 farms, $818,559,751. The value of land and buildings was greater in 1930 than in either of the other years reported, while there was a decrease in the mort gaged debt in 1930 from that of 1925, though an Increase over 1920. Total value of land and buildings for 1930 is given as $186,174,373 against which there was a mort gaged debt of $64,116,798, or a ra tio of 34.44 per cent. The ratio for 1925 is 37.65 per cent, and for 1920, 31.20 per cent The amount paid for farm labor, exclusive of housework, shows an increase over both preceding years, $18,256,718 for 1930, as compared with $14,990,831 for 1925 and $17, 161,595 for 1920. A steady increase in the growth of cooperative marketing Is indicat ed with $11,366,895 in products sold cooperatively in 1930, $8,061,728 In 1925, and $7,746,624 in 1920. Goods purchased cooperatively show a cor responding increase. Large increase in the prdouction of hops, walnuts, grapes and straw berries is shown for 1930 over eith er preceding year, while a large de cline is noted in the apple produc tion. Total number of sheep in 1930, 3,319,271, compared to 1,775.093 . in 1925 and 2,002,378 in 1920. Milk production Increased in 1929, the reporting year, over pre vious years, showing a total pro duction of 135,376,656 gallons as compared with 112,218,008 in 1924 and 92,844,946 in 1919. The number of automobiles on farms in 1930 was nearly double the 1920 figure, or 47,440 as against 22, 223. Motor trucks showed a still greater Increase, or 9,741 in 1930 compared with 1,819 in 1920. Trac tors increased to 9,838 from 5,768 in 1925, and 3,070 in 1920. Farms having water piped to dwellings totalled 24,265 in 1930. There were 12,914 in 1920. Dwell ings lighted by electricity showed 18,397 for 1930, as against 5,463 lighted by either gas or electricity in 1920. SET YOUft. DINNERJABLE with The health and happiness of your family rests larj.ly in the hands of the home maker. Realizing this, we know that you will want to set your table witn neaiuuui, invigorating, quality uiue ai oar stores mac u is irniy economical to ony uie very nest, way not start shopping here today? Enjoy these duality foods and brlnir a gleam of satisfaction to every meal. EXTRA VALUES FOR SAT. AND HON. SUGAR 100 lbs. $5.24 Pur Cane Fin Granulated " SALMON Per tall tin (TJ)C Alaska Pink Good Quality " Beans Mexican Reds, reclamed and delicious 10 LBS. . 45C Crackers Tru Blu in salted or plain, as you choose 8-LB. CADDY 39c PINEAPPLE Large Fancy Broken Slices SHORTENING 1 !..Li 1 pi.fr. rnin, kignt na riurry Baking Powder Royal Brand, highest quality IVa-LB. 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Good people, who complacently say that the eighteenth amendment can not be repealed because thir teen states can defeat the repeal and that it is not at all likely that by any sort of political upheaval, the number of states resisting the repeal can be reduced below thir teen, should bear in mind that it is possible for a majority in congress to nullify the amendment What else does Mr. Pabst expect when, as was reported last week, he is pur chasing large Btorage facilities in anticipation of the legalizing of beer. The news reports from Washing ton indicate that there will be tre mendous pressure brought to bear upon the new congress to legalize beer and to resubmit the prohibi tory amendment If the dry forces sit idly by, they may awake to the fact that they have lost out. Ths wets are relying upon the depres sion to aid them. They undertake to blame the depression upon prohi bition, reasoning that the surplus of grain is due to the fact that It is not used largely in making li quor. They wlil fool some people by that argument But it has been shown again and again by figures 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 You; Your Patronage Will Please W looos. Ttien, too, quality loo as oost so T Honey New crop strained honey 5-Lb. Fall 65c 10-11). Pall 98c 2 1-2 ' 2 tins 34C sue 8 IDS. 94C mm w m BANANAS Ripe, lucious gulden fruit 4 LBS. 29C c Mm, which are beyond dispute that the grain used in producing the increas ed use of milk per capita is very much greater than the amount of grain used per capita in the manu facture of liquors during the saloon days. Moreover, rest assured that if beer is legalized there will be less milk consumed and less of other useful commodities bought, for the money spent for beer can not be used to buy other things. The utter folly of the argument that the depression is due to pro hibition is apparent when it is con sidered that many of the countries which are suffering more from the depression than this country Is, are not dry. You can't make a country prosperous by decreajSing the effi ciency of its people, and no person Who is at all informed will deny that beer drinking and the use of alcohol decrease the efficiency of the pepole. The wets assert that It is impos sible to enforce unpopular laws, and that prohibition Is the most unpopular law on the statute books. If prohibition is so unpopular, why do they not undertake to get two thirds of the states to request con gress to call a convention to pro pose a repeal amendment They know they can not do it The things the wets complain about are not due to prohibition. They are due to booze, and people who stop to think know that that is the case. But the wets are banking upon put ting the thing over with a bluff. The drys must wake up, and, as Petroleum V. Naseby used to say: "Pulverize the Rum Power." Born to Mr. and Mrs. Crockett Sprouls at the Heppner hospital last Thursday evening, an 8-pound daughter. Made from PURE Artesian Water Morrow County Creamery Co. n u nn X CI At the FRED LUCAS Farm LEXINGTON, OREGON Beginning at 10 o'clock a. m. Fri ! Weight 1100 I 10 HEAD COWS and HEIFERS, I All fresh in December. ! 1 CASE COMBINE. j i 14-ft Mccormick header. j 6 WAGONS. I 2 3-Bottom, 16-inch, OLIVER GANG PLOWS. 1 2-bottom, 16-inch GANG PLOW. 1 2 SUPERIOR GRAIN DRILLS. m Terms to be FREE LUNCH AT NOON FRED LUCAS, Owner G. L. BENNETT E. D. HALLOCK Auctioneer Chore Routes on Poultry Farm Too Long, Says OSC If all the trips the average Ore gon poultryman makes between his own dwelling and the brooder house, the pullet range and the lay ing house each day were placed side by side, how far would that reach? Too far, say poultry and farm management specialists at Oregon State college. The length of the chore route traveled by the aver age poultryman in feeding and car ing for his flock is one of the great est factors in reducing the efficien cy of management and labor and thus increasing production costs, it was found in a recent survey made by the college on the cost and effi ciency of commercial egg produc tion in Oregon. From the dwelling house to the laying house alone, the survey shows, the distance ranges from 70 feet to 996 feet and averages 338 feet Poultrymen with the least distance to travel between these two points walk an average of 62 miles per year, which at the normal rate of 15 miles per 9-hour day, re quires 37 hours a year. Those with an average of 650 feet between the dwelling and the laying house trav el 450 miles a year, requiring 270 hours. Even greater contrasts were found in the chore routes to the brooder house and to the pullet range. The long-distance men on these different routes travel from 7 Taps There is a lot to be done. Exacting details, hosts of them, but naturally every thing is disorganized. Out of chaos comes experienced direction, quiet, unobtrusive, effective. Nothing is done mechanically, yet all expertly. The feeling of sympathetic helpfulness soothes and heals. Taps may now be sounded. Vhdps Funeral Home Telephone 1338 Heppner : :: Oregon np 28 HEAD OF HORSES to 1900 lbs.! Many Good OLIVER announced at to 14 times as far as the short-distance men, with correspondingly greater expenditure of time and la bor. "It is obvious, of course, that the increased distance traveled on the chore route does not Increase the egg production," says the report "Unnecessary labor is drudgery, when it is remembered that the poultryman does most chore-route travel early in the morning before breakfast in the heat of the day at noon, or when tired at night day In and day out through all kinds of weather, often with bad underfoot ing, and usually while carrying some burden, unnecessary chore route travel becomes double drud gery. Naturally, it lowers the effi ciency and increases the cost of production. Paul and Nat Webb and Harlan Vail were in the county over the week end looking after farming in terests. Mr. and Mrs. Nat Webb recently removed their residence to Walla Walla after living on the farm near Hardman for the sum mer. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Stone of Bak er, and Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Farrlor of Pendleton, former Heppner res idents, were visiting friends here Sunday. L. D. Neill, Pine City farmer in town Monday, was anxious to see a good rain. A hen has fourteen days to make a yolk and only ONE day to make the shell and white. She must have the right feed each day or there will be no egg. Give your hens all the help you can by feeding PURINA LAY CHOW Heppner Trading Co. Inc. ' PHONE 1482 HEPPNEB Work Horses. yjiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiii MOWER and RAKE. HITCHES, SINGLETREES and DOUBLETREES, HARROWS, PACKERS, CULTIVATORS and SMALL TOOLS. 15 SETS HARNESS, SADDLE. CIDER MILL. BLACKSMITH TOOLS. OTHER ARTICLES TOO NU MEROUS TO MENTION. time of sale TrtnttnnTrurrrrrftn ittttttH-t-BXltltel Clerk The president of the largest sav- v