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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. , 1932. PAGE THREE WHEN TO BE BLIND. A young mother who is a friend of our family entered her daughter in a girl's school. She said to the head-mistress: "Mary is not much of a student. She likes history and does fairly well in French, but in arithmetic I think she is almost a total loss." Amazement appeared on the face of the head-mistress. "Do you mean to tell me," she exclaimed, "that you have brought us a child who has faults! After sitting here for years and listening to mothers whose daughters were paragons of virtue and intelligence, this is in deed a novel experience!" Most of us are constitutionally unable to se and defect in those we love. It might be better sometimes of we could. Perhaps if we could analyze our children cold-bloodedly we might be able to bolster them with added strength. On the other hand, what a bless ing it is that we do not always see too well. In cleaning out my desk one day I ran across a photograph of our first baby, taken when he was about six weeks old. I remember how proudly we sent it to all our rela tives at Christmas time; how posi tive we were that there had never been in all history so beautiful a child. Today the picture gives me a fit. It must be my youngster, for my wife is holding it But instead of the beuatiful cherub I remember, what is she holding? Something that looks . exactly like a summer squash. Without that blessed blindness of women it is difficult to see how any marriage could be a sustained suc cess. We men know each other that no one of us is very good. Yet our wives have the silly notion that we are great stuff. And by their faith they keep us going. Centuries ago a city was attacked by the armies of Syria. A prophet lived in that city. A- messenger rushed to him in great alarm: "Alas my master! how shall we do?" To which the prophet replied calmly: "Fear not; for they that be with us are mote than they that be with them.".. . . "And the eyes of the young man were opened, and be hold the mountain was full of horses and chariots round about Elisha." There are forces of goodness in people that are visible only to the eyes of love. There ar forces of power that can be estimated only by the eyes of faith. The important thing is to be in telligently blind to the surface de fects, and to be able to see and ap preciated the things that can not be seen. HOUSING The latest scheme to symbolize the anti-war movement is for ev erybody who is opposed to war to wear a green shirt Mussolini and his followers wear a black shirt, the symbol of an organized dicta torship. Garibaldi, the Italian lib erator, and his followers, wore red shirts, now the symbol of the Rus sian Communists. I have had an invitation from an organization called the "New History Society" to buy a green shirt and become an Internationalist Personally, I don't think I shall put on a green shirt. The implica tion is that the wearer is not only opposed to war on general princi ples, but opposed to any kind of preparation for war and is, there fore, willing to hand his country over to anybody else who wants to take it. I think I will order a red-white-and-blue shirt with a star-spangled collar! SHIRTS I look for another big building boom very soon after the loosening up of bank credits and frozen as sets makes money available for housing purposes. I think we are going to see some Innovations in home construction methods in the next few years, which will make It possible for a larger percentage of people to be come home owners. I know of sev eral groups of home planners who think they are going to be able to build houses to sell for $5,000 which will be better in every way than houses which now sell for from $10,000 to $15,000. That Is only one of the big changes that are coming, and com ing soon. GOLD The head of a big New York bank told me this story the other night: "One of our large depositors came Into the bank this morning and asked if we had a safe deposit box big enough to hold a million dol- Noted Banker at Play ' If 1 f I Otto II. Kahn, Wall Street financial man and International hanker, is spending the winter in Palm Beach. lars in gold. I told him we had plenty of boxes of that size, which surprised him. We sat down and figured out how much space a mil lion dollars' worth of pure gold would occupy. It worked out to a box seventeen and one-half inches square and thirteen and one-half inches high. That would hold four thousand and thirty -two pounds of gold, which is a little more than a million dollars. "I asked him what he wanted to know for, and he said that he was going to put a million dollars into gold coin and take it out of circu lation. I told him he was crazy, be cause if everybody did that his gold wouldn't be worth anything, but he insisted, so. we got him the gold ror his million-dollar check, and there it is down in our safe deposit vault, doing nobody any good, not even the owner, because he has to pay rent for the box and is getting no interest." Which proves, if it proves any thing, that all the fools aren't dead yet. MONEY The actual money In the posses sion of all of the people in the United States, Including the banks and the Treasury, at the beginning of this year was nine billion four hundred twenty-two million five hundred twelve thousand dollars. Not quite half of that is in gold, and more than half of the rest of it is in Federal Reserve notes. The amount of actual money In circu lation is about $45 per person. This is the highest that has ever been in our history, with the exception of the year 1920, when it reached $51 per head. The idea that the larger the vol ume of money In circulation the more prosperous we are is not borne out by a study of these mon ey figures. When business is active and public confidence in the banks is not shaken, people use compara tively little actual money and Fed eral Reserve notes and Treasury notes are retired from circulation. TRADITION Local traditions are often incor rect Some years ago, in Cincin nati, I was told by local historians that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her famous book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," while her husband was a professor at Lane Theologi cal Seminary in that city. A few years later I was shown a house at Mandarin, Florida, which was pointed out with pride as the place where Mrs. Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The other day I was a guest at the home of Lyman Beecher Stowe, Mrs. Stowe's grandson, who has in his study the walnut table on which his grandmother's famous book was written and many of her per sonal mementos. He said that the famous book was begun at Bruns wick, Maine, where her husband was a professor in Bowdoin College and finished at Andover, Massachu setts, where he taught at the The ological Seminary. W. C. T. U. NOTES. MARY A. NOTSON. Reporter. So much information as to the working of the government con trol of liquor in Canada has been published, showing that the system is not working as well as our wet advocates represent it, that now many wets are talking up the Bratt system of Sweden. In Sweden under the Bratt sys tem the sale of whiskey and bran dy, with 40 to 50 per cent alcoholic content, is made by the liquor stores. The light wines and beer are Bold in all places where meals are served. The restaurants may serve beer and light wine to any one over 18 years old. The beer is usually of low alcoholic content, but the wines contain from 12 to 18 per cent alcohol. The liquor stores are allowing 5 per cent prof it, the remainder going to the State. Those who buy the "hard liquors" must obtain a "motbook," which contains coupons which are good for a certain quantity of liq uor. This varies with individuals, but the largest amount anyone can buy is a little over lour quarts per month. There is no limit on beer and wine. Restaurants may serve to a patron three small glasses of strong liquor. The government is, as may be easily discerned, directly concerned in the liquor business. The restau rants sell to women as well as to men. They even have tables on the sdiewalk where people may sit and drink where the public may observe them. This encourages the sale. R. O. Miller, who is superintendent of the New York Civic League, spent last summer in Sweden. He and his wife both say they saw more drinking among women than in any other country. The officials are trying to make as good a showing as possible for the law, hence ar rests are made for drunkenness only when a person is very disor derly. The showing then is not such as to commend the Bystem. Bishop R. J. Wade says that he fre quently had seen more drunken ness in one day in Stockholm, on Saturday or Sunday, then he had seen in seven months after his re turn to this country. An article in Current Tlistory gives the following figures on ar rests for drunkenness per 10,000 population of the following cities: Stockholm, 182; Glasgow, 169; Liv erpool, 55; London, 50; Paris, 47; Toronto, 85; Montreal, 63, New York, 18. Toronto and Montreal are under the so-called government control law of Canada. The Bratt system does not make quite the showing that Congressman Hull tried to claim for it Note that even New York, where the "failure" of prohibition is con stantly heralded, makes a better showing than Stockholm under the Bratt system and Toronto and U. O. Debaters See War in China I V If Hi ; i nt4'K 17X1 LI - These pictures, brought back from their 85,000-mile Pacific basin tour by David G. Wilson, Portland; Roger Pfaff, Eugene; and Robert r. Miller, Pendleton, University of Oregon students, show something of how Japanese protect their "interests" In China. Upper At Tientsin, showing Japanese flag flying over Chinese territory. Arrow points to sandbag machine gun nest on top the shipping company building. Lower How the Japanese wharfs at Tientsin were fortified as soon as fighting between Japanese concession and the Chinese city broke out. The three debaters visited eight coy tries on their tour, lasting from June until January, debating and speaking hundreds of times. They were the official good-will ambassadors of Oregon, having been given this appointment by Governor Meier. ODD BUT TRUE BACK'S O? 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The interior offered more wheat than for some time, on the asumption that the higher fregiht rate schedule would be in effect by February 20th, but it Is also observed that most shippers desire to move wheat to terminals on consignment, if possible. There was one sale reported to a California mill, consisting of 500 tons of high quality white wheat but otherwise there was no outside interest in local wheat. Reports of sub-zer weather in the winter wheat areas where pro tection is scant, may have some effect in view of the small winter acreage this year; but on the other hand, with no export outlets, our carryover may be very burdensome. The Southern hemisphere export business continues to supply the importing countries, low exchange being a large factor. There is more interest in futures TREE AIR Mjytt JCiRST THING SoaU TffoUCS ASK WtitM THfY Do GET A Jo6 IS WHEN C4N THEY TAKE A VACAVON than for some time. With some outside interest returning and the movement to terminals under way, there is expected to be considerable hedging. Portland Futures show net de clines for the week as follows: May 1 l-4c; July lc and September 1 3-8c per bushel. Want 10 or 15 head of cattle to put in feed lot 30 to 40 days at 6c per day. B. H. Peck, 4 miles south of Lexington. 46tf. Club Members to Observe Washington Bicentennial Much may be added to the fu ture beauty of Oregon roadways, streets, parks, schools and other public buildings as the result of activity of 4-H club forestry mem tiers of the state who will plant trees furnished them by the state forestry nursery at Corvallis in ob servation of the Washington Bicen tennial February 22. Other ways in which 4-H club members of the state can pay suit able tribute to the memory of George Washington have also been suggested by R. J. Maaske of the state education department, and Charles Weber, city club agent of Portland, who constitute a commit tee appointed to draw up such sug gestions and recommendations for the clubbers. These include pag eants and playlets depicting the value of Washington's life to boys and girls of today, and the study of the life and customs of the peo ple of that day. Home economics clubs will make a special study of the costumes and furniture of Col onial times. "Win as Washington Would" is the motto which will be featured by the club members in the programs to be put on before clubs, granges, parent-teacher bodies and schools in practically every community of Oregon in observation of the bicentennial. MacMarr Stores Phone 1082 Free Delivery fir immmmmM-' An Miortment of beana limas gmall white navies red Mexicans every kind of bean yon want is gathered here for your selection. 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