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.
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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. If the wets can not
obtain the support of two thirds of
the legislatures in applying for
such an amendment there is no use
in submitting it for it requires
three fourths of the states to ratify
an amendment
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