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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 29, 1931. PAGE THREE pp If NEEDED! I left my family in Prance and started back across the ocean, alone. There was none of the thrill that usually comes with heading toward America, none of th'e'joy of coming home. For a couple of days I was de pressed. Everything I cared for was behind me; I was sailing into silence. Then one day the wireless spoke. "Have arranged the following ap pointments for you," my partner wired. "Tuesday after your arrival, Baltimore. Wednesday, Pittsburgh, Thursday, Friday, Chicago. Best wishea Please confirm." ' Immediatetly came a feeling of relief and cheer. "I have work to go back to," I excliamed. "Duties are waiting to keep me alert and a little worried and on my toes." I was relating the incident to the chairman of the board of a large corporation. "I know just how you felt," he said. "I've organized our company so well that I've almost organized myself out of a job. But every now and then a really big problem comes along, and the boys have to send for me. A hurry call came to EDISON Twenty-three years ago, when Thomas A. Edison was seriously ill I prepared an account of his life, for publication in case of his death. I found in the reference room of the New York Herald an article several columns long which had been written about Edison in 1879. What man ever lived whose life was a matter of public interest for so many years? I can think of none. As far back as 1879, fifty two years ago, Edison's name was known all over the world. Great men have sprung into the limelight, lived their full careers and gone to their graves since that time. Theo dore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wil son were just finishing college in 1879, Willaim J. Bryan had not been heard of, Grover Cleveland was an obscure lawyer In Buffalo. Each of these and many others who have long since passed from earth left his mark on human af fairs, but none so completely revo lutionized the world as Edison. Very few men live to see the full fruition of their lifes' work. Thom as A. Edison was one of the for tunate few. DECENCY Librarians report that there is a revival of interest among young folks in the sound, decent literature of the days before the war. Young folks of both sexes who were too young to be nfluenced by the war are reading the great books of Dick ens, Thackeray and Scott in pref erence to the modern sex novels. From a famous sociologist I learn that the wave of sexy literature is waning, and that books whose chief claim to interest is their Indecency are no longer being widely read. This friend attributes the let down in moral standards, which was so noticeable for a few years after the war among young people, to the desire for thrills on the part of those who were just too young to have any part In the war but who were emotionally stirred up by it They have now had their fling and are largely settling down to decen cy, while the younger ones, who were infants in wartime, have no such emotional disturbance to be compensated for. Whatever there Is in that theory, The tce Is m With all its pleasures and sorrows, the race Is run. To the living remains the task of fitting observance. Expert assistance is needed. Not only a faithful adherence to the best practices but a sympa thetic consideration for one's feeling should follow. May peace attend. "Phelps Funeral Home Telephone 1332 Ileppner : :: Oregon ETON my home from Chicago last Sun day, and I had to leave on an hour's notice. My wife thought it was a hardship, and of, course I let her believe that we men lead terrible lives. But all the way out on the train my spirit was singing: "Some body wants me, I have work to do'." Joseph Medill was asked: "What is the greatest pleasure of your life?" "To feel that I am at play when I am at work," he answered. The book of Genesis presents work as a curse inflicted on human ity for its sins. We know in these times of unemployment how faulty that conception is. To wake up in the morning and wonder: "Where shall I go today? What shall I do? That is the curse. America's most Important prob lem is not education, not the gov ernment regulation of business, not even prohibition. Our real task is to work out some economic Bystem by which we can provide honest jobs for all the people all the time. Every man and woman is entitled to the glorious self-respect which comes from being able to say: "Thank God, I have a place. I am needed." it is gratifying to feel that the age of indecency is approaching an end. It was bound to end some time, as such manifestations always do, in time. HOOVER Most of the criticism of President Hoover is based upon his inability to stir the emotions of the crowd. He never "makes the eagle scream" and he does not like to quarrel in public with his political opponents. But when he can get a group of men around a table to discuss any question of public importance, he usifally gets what he goes after. That is what Mr. Hoover has been doing in the matetr of the war-debt moratorium, the new plan for cred it relief, and other measures of great public importance. It Is a new method in American statecraft, but it seems to work. It takes lead ership to work it, and those who have been saying that Mr. Hoover is not a leader need to revise their views. Leaders do not always wave their swords and parade with a brass band. SIGNS Down in New England, rural weather sharps are predicting a hard winter. The squirrels are lay. ing in supplies of nuts with greater Industry than for years. To the simple mind which attributes to animals the powers of foresight which humans do not possess, this is held a sure sign of long-continued cold. Science knocks this theory into a cocked hat. One reason why the squirrels are hoarding more nuts than usual is that there are more squirrels. Last winter was a mild one and fewer squirrels froze or starved to death than ordinarily. All summer I have observed more squirrels around my own farm than in several years. Not only the com mon red squirrel, but the rarer pine squirrel with spectacled eyes, the still rarer pure gray Bquirrel, and the reddish-gray fox squirrel, as well as the little striped ground squirrel or chipmunk, have never been so numerous. Another rea son for the "sign" is that there are more nuts than usual. Last year there were few butternutst, fewer hickory nuts or as my Yankee STAGTA SAVINGS ACCOUNT EARLY AND WATCH IT GROW "It takes a heap o' pennies in the bank to make it count.", But while the kiddles are ac cumulating all those coins from various sources, they are being trained In forming a habit that Is worth far more to them than cash. Rich or poor, as a parent you should appreciate the idea. Get them a Home Bank and GIVE THEM A FAIR CHANCE. Farmers and Slockgrowers National Bank There Is No Substitute for Safety m neighbors call them, walnuts. This year the trees are loaded with squir rel food. And a third reason is that it has been a mild, open Fall so far, giving the squirrels fine weather in which to gather and store the nuts. There is just as much basis for most of the so-called "signs" attrib uted to animals as there was for the old "Indian signs." My grand mother used to tell of an old In dian who said he knew a sure sign of rain. "When I see it coming down," he said. Eggs, Hops, Onions Stage Price Come-back This Fall Oregon State College, Corvallis, Oct 26. Relatively favorable prices for eggs in comparison with most other farm products is noted in the October report on the agricultural situation and outlook just released by the agricultural extension serv ice. The College index of Oregon farm prices shows an advance in egg prices from 53 per cent of the 1926-1930 average in May to 70 in Ootober. This is the greatest im provement registered by any of the major farm industries. Other commodities for which current farm prices are relatively good are butterfat, hops and onions. A temporary shortage in milk pro duction was cuased by poor pasture conditions during the summer, but this situation is expected to change during the winter and spring. The hop crop is below average and car ryover stocks are much less than a year ago. Production of late onions is expected to be 41 per cent less than last year and 26 per cent be low average, which has greatly im proved the market situation for this crop over last year. One of the most unsatisfactory conditions is the potato situation. Nature stepped in to curtail yields substantially this summer, but the acreage was larger. Production of late potatoes is estimated at 22, 000,000 bushels more than in 1930. Some fields may not be harvested, however, because of low prices. says the report Prices are down to less than half the average. An extremely short crop of honey is expected, but demand from large domestic and foreign buyers, al though improved, is still inactive and beemen will try to expand local markets. The report also contained an an alysis of the strawberry situation and outlook which shows that a general increase in strawberry acreage is expected for picking next year. The combined acreage of Oregon and Washington, where most of the cold-packed strawber ries are produced, will be 13 per cent greater next year than in 1931, but only slightly more than in 1928, according to data given. "Have you heard that Goldrocks, the millionaire, is dead?" "Yes. I'm very sorry." "Why, he's no relative of yours, ts ner "No: that's why I'm sorry." Run a G.-T. Want Ad. NFWC.I onttswqAii . t t w Knees dtiu uecimmq Quality remaina the same. "My," says Mrs. Jonas, "isn't that wonderful u) ril tell my neighbor and we will go to MAO MASK'S for oar gro ceries today, for they always give real service, food quality, and we sure ajaveionethere Saturday & Monday Savings BACON Fancy eastern corn fed bacon, medium weight, well streaked. COFFEE Economy brand, without question the very best in cheaper Coffees. 3 LBS. 63c FREE One S6c package Pearls of Wheat with every pur. ohaae of Carna tion Wheat. Both For 32c SUGAR SHr COCOA A very fine qual ity, sold in bulk at a real saving. 3 LBS. 25c LARD Pure Lard fresh stock at a real saving, No. 10 Pail $1.09 SHORTENING The increase in our sales proves the quality of this ar- RICE Genuine long grain head of real superior quality. Note the saving. 10 LBS. 63c Pancrust The wonderful sealed shortening, purely vegetable, use the some as Snowdrift. 3-LB. PAH. 59c 6-LB. FAIL $1.15 PINEAPPLE Phone 1082 Hotel Meppner Bldg. We Deliver WOOL PROMOTION AIM-WEEK NOV. 9-1 4 National Observance Expected to Benefit Northwest States; Would Perpetuate Production Rate. Boston, Mass., Oct 28. Wool producers in the Pacific Northwest states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho will share in all benefits re sulting from "National Wool Week" November 9 to 14 and oher wool promotion activities now underway in the principal markets of the na tion. This year, for the first time in history, all agencies interested in wool, have been brought togeth er on common ground to promote the use of wool in this country. Arthur C. Hyde, secretary of ag riculture, and Jamf.s C. Stone, chairman of the federal farm board will address the inaugural dinner of National Wool week at the hotel Waldorf-Astoria in New York City the evening of November 7, Colonel Charles F. H. Johnson, chairman of Wool week, has announced. That domestic wool production be maintained at the highest possible level is a matter of great Import ance to Pacific Northwest wool growers. Like all other parts of the country, the Northwest has been expanding its wool production at a steady rate. In 1922 the three states produced 31,971,000 pounds of wool, divided as follows: Ore gon, 15,355,000 pounds; Idaho, 13, 704,000 pounds, and Washington, 3,612,000 pounds. The 1931 clip was 48,542,000 pounds, divided as fol lows: Oregon, 22,914,000 pounds; Idaho, 19,909,000 pounds, and Wash ington, 5,719,000 pounds. Thus the increase in 10 years is about 50 per cent For the last several years wool production and consumption totals have been moving in opposite di rections in this country. Produc tion has been mounting steadily since the low of 1922 until it reach ed a new all-time high in 1931. Since the first of January, 1931, con sumption has made some sharp re gains and present indications are that this year will see more than 500,000,000 pounds of wool taken for clothing purposes. The aim of the promotional activity is to per petuate the demand for wool at the new high levels established so far this year. Although the main work will be done in the larger buying centers of the nation the committee in charge of National Wool week is urging that western communities observe the period in fitting fashion. Re ports to national headquarters from the West indicate that commercial and business interests are alert to the opportunity to boost an all western product Nine men from the Pacific North west occupy positions on the gen eral committee. Frank J. Hagen- barth, Spencer, Idaho, president of the National Wool Growers asso Per lb. 23C Soap Harmony. This soap went over so big last week we offer it again. America's finest "It floats." 10 BARS 39c 100 lbs. $5.29 Macaroni An Oregon pro duct, fresh stock Buy a supply today. 5 LBS. 29c SYRUP Pure cane and maple, the well known Maxi mum brand. 5-LB. TIN 69c 10-LB. Tin $1.29 81bs.89C St. Beans Princess Brand, new puck. No. 2 Tins 4 TINS 45c re Case $2.59 Fancy broken slices. 2 '-J Tin Very excellent qual- ity. Otfl ciation, is a member of the execu tive committee. Others who are serving on committees include T. C. Bacon, Twin Falls, vice-president, Western Idaho Wool Marketing as sociation; O. A. Fitzgerald, univer sity editor. University of Idaho; Worth S. Lee, Mountain Home, di rector, National Wool Marketing corporation; J. F. Sears, Yakima, secretary, Washington Wool Grow ers association; R. A. Ward, Port land, general manager, Pacific Co operative Wool Growers; Wm. L. Crowe, Portland, president Port land Wool Trade association; J. W. Hoech, The Dalles, Oregon, direct or, National Wool Marketing cor poration. Cover Crop for Lawn Soil In New Fertilizer Scheme If you notice a heavy crop of vetch, field peas or other legume growing where your neighbor's lawn is supposed to be, don't accuse him of laziness, for perhaps he is just following out the recommenda tion fo C. V. Ruzek, soil specialist at Oregon State college, as to prep aration of new ground for lawns. More time is lost in getting a good lawn established by being in too much of a hurry than in any other way, says Professor Ruzek. Rushing to get the seed planted be fore the soil is well fertilized and supplied with organic matter for the future is poor practice, he says. Of course persons are familiar 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 Ton; Your Patronage Will Please Us" IT'S SAFER, WISER, better to keep your ready cash in the banks... a reasonable sum in a savings account and a good part of your money in other safe, productive investments. Even safely hidden dollars should be put to work for you. 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Well rotted manure worked into the low er soil layers is ideal, but it is be coming increasingly difficult to get this type of fertilizer. As a substi tute Professor Ruzek suggests tak ing a tip from the orchardlst and growing a heavy green manure crop of some legume planted in the fall, which can be spaded under next spring before the lawn is seed ed, thus fortifying the soil for many years to come. This matter of organic matter Is also important for the shrubbery and perennial beds, he points out One way to help matters is to put lawn clippings over the beds around the plants, which can thus accu mulate through the summer and fall and be spaded in the spring. A soluable nitrate fertilizer added to 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. 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