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-
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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
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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.
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Montreal under the government
control system. And it may be said
that the Bratt system is adminis
tered by high class men.
Coast Wheat Under East;
Freight Rates Have Effect
Pacific coast markets were a lit
tle weaker than eastern wheat mar
kets during the past week, due
mainly to the unfavorable situation
in China, says the Portland Grain
Exchange report for week ending
January 30. 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
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JCiRST THING SoaU
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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.
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