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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 21, 1932. PAGE THREE TREMBLING ON THE VERGE. The United States is a famous trembler. There has never been a time in its history when some one was not ready to announce that it was "trembling on the verge." Washington despaired of it. Lin coln despaired of it. Many present day prophets assure us that it pass ed over the peak in 1929, and is now definitely on the way down. Yet within the past few months I have enjoyed some interesting ex periences. I have attended the an nual sales conventions of a number of major Industries. Their business, when I visited them, was terrible. But what took place at the conven tions? In one of them, an electrical in dustry, the head of the research de partment revealed plana for a new household utility which promises to banish one disagreeable feature of housework. It is certain to have a tremendous sale. In a furniture company, the "planning department" displayed a whole new line of improved floor coverings. In a third, an optical concern, the scientists told us of work now go ing on which may give all of us better eyesight. Everywhere I found men's backs turned upon present discourage ments, and minds busy with better goods, better methods, better ideas, better living. I spoke to the head of one com pany about it He said he had re cently been holding a meeting of their English representatives. He told them casually that the com pany had hired an engineer and as signed him the task of making a world, survey of their sources of raw materials for the next twenty five years. One of the Englishmen exclaim ed: "Confound you Yankees! What English company would ever think of hiring a man to look ahead twenty-five years?" Coming to the end of all these meetings, I concluded that it is a waste of time to worry about the future of American business. We have an asset more funda mental than gold supply, or raw materials, or electric power, or cli mate. That asset is a restless dis satsifaction with the past, a spirit of continuous improvement. As long as we are inspired by that spirit I believe that our future is secure. We shall not go down to destruction. No matter how often we may tremble on the verge. FRANKLIN Sears light- Because a man named proved that he could sell weight clothing by mail, a manu facturer -of summer clothes named Julius Rosenwald invested $40,000 in the firm of Sears Roebuck and Company. Mr. Rosenwald died a few days ago, leaving an estate which may run to a hundred mil lion dollars. . A number of years ago Mr. Ros enwald personally took me on a tour of inspection of the great mail order house of which he was the head, and which now sells nearly ruj . -v mndred million dollars worth uuaue uy uregun company Washington for more than fifty years, since my parents took me there to live in the spring of 1881. It was a straggly, muddy, down-at-the-heels sort of place, surrounded by malarial swamps, fifty years ago. The swamps have been filled in, made into parks and beautiful boul evards. The streets are the most perfectly paved of any city in the world. The buildings which house the government's activities are among the most stately and beau tiful edifices on the face of the earth. Instead of being one of the most unattractive of cities, Wash ington today is beyond any doubt the most beautiful city in America. CORRECTION By one of those slips of the pen to which every writer is liable I "made Miss Mary Emma Woolley president of Wellesley College, in speaking of her appointment to the International Disarmament Confer ence. Miss Woolley used to teach at Wellesley, but she is president of Mount Holyoke, that highly es teemed college for women founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon. Educational Movies to Be two hundred of merchandise a year. He asked me to guess what particular line they sold most of. He knew I would guess wrong, as everybody does. The largest single item of Scars Roebuck sales is shoes or was then. Mr. Rosenwald was a great mer chant, but he was more than that, he was a great man. He had the feeling that he was not the actual owner of the profits from his bus iness, but a trustee whose duty it was to return that money to the public from which it came, in the form of schools, hospitals and other philanthropic endowments. ROSENWALD f got a letter the other day from an organization which calls Itself "The Benjamin Franklins." Printed on the letterhead were the names of a hundred or so members, every one of whom has the letters "B. F." as his first Initials. Benjamin Franklin has been dead 142 years, but parents still name their sons after him, and in America they probably will continue to do so till the end of time. If I were asked to name the one man whoso work, teachings and ex ample have. exercised the most en during influence on the people of the United States of America, I would have no hesitation-in naming Benjamin Franklin. AIR A firm of household furnace man ufacturers has put on the market an air-conditioning system for use in Individual homes. If it works as promised, the home of the fu ture will never have any open win dows, but the air will always be fresh, properly humidified and at a comfortable temperature the year round. I fully expect that the replace ment of present heating and venti lating methods by one or another of the new alr-oonditionlng systems will be one of the biggest indus tries in the United States within two or three years. EXHIBITIONS Next year Chicago will have a World's Fair, the first in that city for forty years, the first in Ameri ca since the rather Inadequate Ses quicentennial at Philadelphia in 1926. In Europe the tendency Is toward permanent exhibitions of industries, science and art and, be. ginning this year, the city of Bcr lin is Inaugurating a succession of exhibitions which are expected to draw hundreds of thousands of vis itors from all parts of the world. The modern Idea of an exhibition is to show how things are made, with the machinery actually in mo tlon. Few permanent museums can keep that sort pf an exhibit up to date. That is why everybody who can possibly do so ought to begin planning now to go to Chica go next year, to see what promises to be the most complete and inter esting exhibition that has ever been held. WASHINGTON Every time I go to Washington I get a new thrill. I have known Oregon is to be the home of a new motion picture company which will start production in the near future of educational and industrial films, some of them produced in collaboration with scientists at Or egon State college. The company, known as Oregon State Visual Arts, Inc., will build studios at Corvallis where U. S. Burt, now extension specialist in visual education, is president of the new concern. Those sponsoring the plan say the company is a closed corporation with no stock for sale and is made up of Portland men experienced In the business. Mr. Burt says the company plana to establish rela tions with the state college simi lar to those maintained by private picture producers with Yale and Harvard. He says construction of studios will start at once as a num ber of subjects have been contract ed for already. National distribu tion is planned through both sale and rental of the educational, in dustrial and teaching films. NEW ACCOUNTS Life is a gamble but we all play our own cards. This bank Is a Financial Sorvlce Station for you and all the people of this com munity. Our officers are eager to ad vise with you on money mat ters or business problems. If time is money many are rich and don't know It Don't put your problems off put 'em OVER. Farmers and Stockgrowers National Bank There Is No Substitute for Safety PRESS PROBLEMS TO BE DISCUSSED Spring Conference Set for Eugene Jan. 21-23; Gazette Times to Get Certificate, University of Oregon, Eugene, Jan. 13. An analysis of the news paper industry of today and its need for reduced expenses without affecting the qualtiy of publication and without loss of prestige will form the basis of discussion for the fourteenth annual Oregon Press Conference, to be held at the Uni versiy of Oregon January 21, 22 and 23. Experts in all phases of newspaper work will be on hand to present papers and take part in the discussions, according to the tentative program released by Arne G. Rae, field manager of the state editorial association and chairman of the. program committee. . Ben R. Litfln, publisher of The Dalles Chronicle, president of the Oregon Press Conference, will pre sde at the meetings which will be held in the school of journalism. One of the outstanding features will be the awarding of the Sigma Delta Chi cup to the best weekly newspaper In Oregon, an annual event sponsored by the journalism honorary. The Heppner Gazette Times is the present holder, and it will receive a certificate of merit, when the cup Is presented to the new winner. There will also be a short but Important businesB meeting of the State Editorial Association, the pub lishers' business organization, at which Ralph R. Croni.se, co-pub lisher of the Albany Democrat Herald, will preside as president This meeting will be held Saturday morning, January 23. The annual banquet, which has become a traditional and popular event of the conference, is sched uled for Friday evening, January 22, at the Osburn hotel at which Eric W. Allen, dean of the school of journalism, will be toastmaster. Tom Russell, president of the Eu gene chamber of commerce, will speak, and Qunicy Scott, cartoon ist of the Portland Oregonian, will give a cartoon talk, predicted to be one of the most entertaining fea tures of the session. Newspapers will not give up their supremacy in the advertising field to other media believes Clarence R. Lindner, general manager of the San Francisco Examiner, who will tell Oregon newspapermen some of his opinions on this subject. The reappearance on the pro gram of David Faulkes, veteran mechanical superintendent of the Morning Oregonian for the past forty-five years, will be welcomed by the delegates. This year he will tell Oregon editors his observations on their publications' typography, noting changes since he last spoke at the conference in 1928. The conference will officially op en Thursday evening with a no host dinner at the Eugene hotel, with Merle R. Chessman, editor of the Astorian-Budget presiding at an informal round table. Follow ing Mr. Faulkes on Friday morn ing, will be Henry N. Fowler, of the Bend Bulletin, and Earle Richard son, editor of the Dallas Itemizer Observer. Friday afternoon will be devoted to separate meetings for weekly and daily editors. At the daily ses sion, William M. Tugman, manag ing editor of the Eugene Regsiter Guard, Sheldon F. Sackett co-publisher of the Salem Statesman and Marshfield Coos Bay Times, and Charles F. Bollinger, Oregon City Enterprise, all will speak. Possibility of group buying, cir culation audits and editorials will be discussed at the weekly session with the following speakers: Jack B 1 a d I n e, publisher McMinnville Telephone-Register; Lawrence E. Spraker, Condon Globe-Times; Max Schafer, Seaside Signal, and Giles L. French, Moro Journal. Carlton E. Spencer, professor of law at the university, who has been advising the editorial association office on legal problems, will have a number of interesting things to tell the delegates. Mr. Spencer is assisting the association in the re compilation of the newspaper and publication code for Oregon. Ma Aren't we going to let John ny take saxophone lessons? Pa Not while I own the adjoin ing houses. W. C. T. U. NOTES. MART A NOTSON, Reporter. The wet block in congress has decided to bark an amendment to the 18th amendment, which will provide that the control of the liquor business be returned to the states. This amendment has this merit that we now know what to debate. This proposed amendment would virtually repeal the 18th amend ment for the states had control of the liquor business before the 18th amendment was adopted except as to inter-state shipments. Nothing is said in the proposed amendment about the saloon. Where is all the loud-mouthed argument to the ef fect that the saloon must not come back; that the law should be mod fled so as to allow liquor to be sold, but that there must be no saloons? No one who had any insight into the program of the wets ever ex pected that any such a provision would or could be written into an amendment to the national consti tution unless the federal govern ment assumed the full control of the manufacture and sale of liquor. Why do not the wets make the pro posed amendment a straight out repeal of the 18th amendment? However, it is a long road for this proposed amendment to travel before it is adopted, but unless the people who are opposed to the re turn of the liquor traffic stand guard, it will come along before they are aware. And because It Is a long road to travel, the nulllflca tionists are trying to wrok over some of their schemes. The only purpose the proposed amendment can serve now is to give the wets an argument that congress has In dicated that it regards trie 18th amendment as a failure. Do not be deceived by the argument of the weak-kneed member of congress who says that he will vote for the proposed amendment simply to give the people a chance to vote on the question again. The proper way for an amendment repealing a part of the constitution to come up, if its proponents are desirous of being at all fair, is to use the meth od provided for in the constitution of the legislatures of two thirds of the states to make application for an amendment So, when a spine less member of congress under takes to get away from the respon sibility of taking a stand, the peo ple should point out to him that he may insist that the wets proceed under the other method. That would put the matter up to the states and it could be done without much delay. There would then be no weakening of the enforcement of the present laws because of the argument that congress deemed the law a failure. 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