HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 7, 1932.
PAGE THREE
LITTLE PEN-O-GRAMS
WHO ARE THEY?
A man stopped me on the street
to say that he had some Important
information. "They are going to
put the market up in the next few
weeks," he said.
"Who are they?" I asked him.
He looked at me scornfully, as
though I ought to he ashamed to
confess such ignorance. "Why
they," he answered, "are the big
shots, the insiders, the internation
al bankers, the interests."
"Oh," I said, and thanked him
and went on my way.
When I graduated from college
I had a great deal of awe of the
Interests, and at that period they
were Indeed pretty powerful. Im
portant corporations were compar
atively few, and those few were
small in comparison with today.
Their stock was controlled by a
compact group of men who, by act
ing together, could often make or
break the market. Morgan could
get them all in a room and tell
them what to do.
But times have changed. Corpor
ations are enormous; shares are
scattered among millions. They,
the interests, are not what they
used to be.
One time I served on a civic com
mittee, most of whose members
were bankers. The executive sec
retary was a bright young college
graduate. He said to me: "I don't
have to worry; when this job is
over these big bankers will take
care of me."
Well, the Job was over, and I told
him: "You are going to have a
great shock as to the power of the
International Bankers. They may
control millions, but one thing they
can't do is to get you a job. They
may send you to the heads of a cer
tain corporations with letters of
Introduction, but they can't insist
that you be hired. Those corpor
ation managers will reply to the
bankers, 'You hold us responsible;
you must let us alone'."
It turned out as I predicted. The
young man finally secured a job,
but not by any help of the Inter
ests. I have seen several national elec
tions, but never one in which the
partners of any of the big interna
tional banking houses were agreed
upon a candidate.
Two partners, sitting side by
side, would offset each other's
votes.
In the last analysis, who are
they? .
I'll tell you. You and I are they.
We run things. A business may
have millions of capital, big plants,
and huge sales forces. But if you
and I do not like its product, all
these huge assets are merely liabil
ities. Talleyrand said a shrewd thing
when he remarked, "There is one
person wiser than anybody, and
that Is everybody." You and I are
everybody, and we decide.
Mr. Morgan does not awe me.
Even the editor of this paper, who
is my boss, does not fill me with
any great alarm. But believe me,
I care about you, gentle reader.
When you turn your thumbs
down I'm through.
TOMATOES
When I was a boy my grand
mother told me that in her girlhood
in the 1820's, people grew tomatoes
in their flower gardens for their
beauty. They called them "love
apples" and thought they were poi
sonous. To the end of her days
and she lived to be over ninety
grandmother was always a little
suspicious of tomatoes.
Now we eat tomatoes in every
thing, even in clam chowder, where
they have no business to be.
I saw some figures the other day
about the latest development of
the tomato business, the canned
and bottled tomato juice. More than
700,000 cans and nearly a half a
million bottles were sold last year.
People drink tomato juice because
they think it is good for them.
The world has changed a lot in
a hundred years.
BUYING
Everybody isn't broke, and not
all industries are on the verge of
bankruptcy. I talked the other
night with the New York distribu
tor of one of the popular makes of
electric refrigerators. He told me
that his company had just complet
ed a nation-wide selling competi
tion, in whjch every distributor was
given a certain quota of sales as
the goal to aim at, and that every
one of them had sold more refrig
erators than he had been asked to
sell. My New York friend's organ
ization disposed of more than 20
thousand refrigerators in 21 days.
Since the cheapest of these re
frigerators Bells for $250, and the
average is about $350, that means
that the people of this one locality
spent around $7,000,000 for refrig
rerators in these so-called hard
times.
The truth seems to be that peo
ple are buying things that they
really feel the need of, when they
can get them at a fair price and
on easy terms.
THIEVES
A boy in the Navy who swipes a
bottle of milk or a piece of pie in
the cook's galley when he is hun
gry, or who casually helps himself
to a pack of cigarettes from a
messmate's locker, is not to be
branded as a thief, the Secretary
of the Navy was ordered. I think
Mr. Adams is right
The Navy takes boys at the age
of seventeen, most of them from
homes where such things as pie are
more or less common property, and
it is the most natural thing in the
world for a hungry boy to help
himself to something to eat, with
out the slightest suspicion in his
own mind that he is committing
an offense. And the boys are al
ways hungry.
Discipline In the Navy and the
Army Is of course, essential. There
is a big difference, however, be
tween treating enlisted men "as if
they were the officers' slaves and
treating them as what they are, de
cent American boys.
WOOLLEY
In appointing Miss Mary Emma
Woolley, President of Wellesley
College, as one of the American
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armament Conference, Mr. Hoover
has not only recognized that women
have a very vital interest in the
subject of war and its prevention,
but he has paid a merited compli
ment to a great teacher and a life
long worker in the cause of peace.
Miss Woolley will be the first wo
man in history to be an official
representative of a government in
an international conference. Every
one who knows her, or who knows
anything about her thirty years
career as president of Wellesley,
will agree that her part in the con
ference will be an active one and
that whatever she has to say there
will be listened to with respect
ECKER
Frederick Ecker, President of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, gave a Senate . Committee
some - interesting facts. His com
pany is perhaps the largest finan
cial institution in the world.
Mr. Ecker said that he thought
that we are now very close to the
condition of business and industry
which we must for a long time to
come regard as normal. He thinks
it is foolish to look for a return to
the boom times we had in 1924 to
1928. And at the very height of the
boom, he pointed out there were a
million and a half unemployed.
How heavily the public has had
to draw on its reserves to pay off
obligations Incurred in boom times
is suggested by Mr. Ecker's state
ment that 32 percent of all , the
loans made by the Metropolitan in
the past year were made to policy
holders, who had to draw on that
accumulated surplus.
HUCKLEBERRY USE
SOUGHT BY 0. S. C.
Pacific Coast Fruit Believed to be
Valuable for Development;
Best Recipes Wanted.
Have you a favorite huckleberry
recipe in your home? If so the
Oregon State college would like to
know it Not just any huckleberry
recipe will do, however, as the
home economics extension workers
there and the horticultural depart
ment are just now particularly in
terested in the uses of the Pacific
Coast huckleberry which Is found in
such abundance throughout the
coast range mountains and is fa
miliar to all who have sojourned
along the Oregon coast in late sum
mer. This Pacific Coast huckleberry
is distinctive in the United States,
says Dr. George M. Darrow, head
of small fruits investigational work
for the United States department
of agriculture, who is now stationed
at the Oregon Experiment station
carrying out extensive breeding
work with many kinds of berries.
This species is an evergreen, val
uable as an ornamental as well as
for its fruit, and it produces fruit
in great abundance over a long sea
son from July until nearly Christ
mas unless heavy freezes cut the
season short In some sections of
the west It is already gathered by
the hundreds of tons for canning,
but many more could be gathered
if a market were available. What
is more Important, Dr. Darrow sees
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vated fruit if the best strains could
be developed and adapted to cultivation.
Just now, however, few uses for
these huckleberries are generally
known except for pie making, and
observation is that these pies vary
greatly in quality. Hence, Miss
Claribel Nye, head of home econ
omics extension, comes forth with
the offer, to test out any and all
different recipes that may be sent
in by those who have used the coast
huckleberry In cooking. She will
then compile the best of them and
will send a free set to every person
sending in one or more recipes to
be tested.
Favorite recipes for huckleberry
pie will be .welcomed as well as
recipes for use of these berries in
jelly, preserves, or any other form.
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go many have tried to Imitate. And, topped with our best in syrups,
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HAMS
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BEANS
G. N. fancy white
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COFFEE 3 lbs. 89c
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LARD
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Note the saving.
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SOAP
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10 LARGE BARS
29c
CORN
Fancy Golden Bantam,
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Extra fine golden
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