HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 11, 1932.
PAGE THREE
MORALITY
In Mary Roberts Rinehart's auto
biography, "My Story," occurs this
reference to petticoats:
"They had to be made, two or
three, very full . . . and generally
a short flannel one to the knees....
"Not long ago a young girl of
my acquaintance was going through
an old trunk of her mother's and
came across a brief bit of embroid
ered flannel.
"'What on earth is this?' she de
manded, i
"'That? That was my flannel
petticoat for my wedding."
"Whereupon the girl burst into
shrieks of delighted laughter. I
smiled when I heard the story,"
says Mrs. Rinehart. "I too have
somewhere just such a garment. I
scalloped and embroidered it my
self for my wedding, and I should
have felt a shameless woman with
out it."
Julia Ward Howe, when a little
girl, grew weary from a long ride
in the family coach, and allowed
her knees to drop apart childwise.
Instantly her father reproved her:
"My daughter, if you cannot sit
like a lady we will stop at the next
tailors and have you measured for
a pari of pantaloons."
The characteristics which dis
tinguish a "lady" and comprise her
moral code have differed widely in
different generations.
I remember the first girl I ever
saw who had cut off her hair. She
worked in my office. The president
of the company called me on the
carpet and wanted me to fire the
young lady, which I declined to do.
To his way of thinking, bobbed
hair was a sure sign of an aban
doned woman.
I recalled the first lady whom I
ever saw lighting a cigarette. All
of us who witnessed the perform
ance were sure that she was no
better than she ought to be.
Only recently I ran across an old
copy of the "Book of Rules" issued
by a coeducational college a quar
ter of a century ago. It consisted
of thirty pages of "Thou shalt
nots" and, having prohibited al
most everything it wound up with
this blanket injunction:
"In addition to the foregoing
rules, students are expected to re
frain from card playing, dancing
and theatre-attendance, and to ob
serve the other common rules of
morality."
The Old Testament contains
many precepts, but in the book of
Micah there is one verse which is
a summary of them all. It reads:
"He hath showed thee, O man,
what is good; and what doth the
Lord require of thee, but to do. just
ly, and to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with thy God?"
This is the basis of ail morality.
This is fundamental and unchang
ing. But whether hair or petticoats
are long or short is nothing to
worry about.
STAMPS
It is less than a hundred years
since the first postage stamps were
issued, but stamp collecting has be
come one of the most widespread
of all hobbies. Rare issues of early
postage stamps command fabulous
prices. If I had today one set of
stamps which I owned as a boy
and which I traded for a squirrel
rifle, I could sell them for many
thousands of dollars. That was a
complete set of uncancelled United
States departmental stamps.
A few years ago my wife came
into possession of a trunk full of
old letters, which had accumulated
for more than a century in a New
England farmhouse. Somebody
else had cut the most valuable
stamps from the envelopes, but
there were numerous stamps left
for which she got more than $10
apiece.
The most valuable stamps of all
are some of those issued privately
by postmasters before the govern
ment began to print stamps, in 1847.
If you can find, for example, a
stamp issued by the Postmaster of
Alexandria, Vriginla, in 1845, or one
by the postmaster of Boscawen,
New Hampshire, in 1846, you have
found a fortune. Single copies of
each of these stamps have lately
sold for $15,000 each!
AGE
The State of New York granted
pensions to 51,188 old people in
1931, the first year of the operation
of the State Old Age Security Law.
The average pension was $26.92 a
month. Any person over seventy
years old who is unable to support
himself or herself Is eligible for a
pension In New York.
Massachusetts gave relief to 10,
000 old people in the first six
months of its Old Age Assistance
Law, for which every voter in the
State Is taxed $1 a year. It cost
an average of $5.85 a week for each
pensioner.
Delaware, California and Minne
sota have State old age pension
systems. In Canada 63,285 old peo
ple are on the pension rolls.
The time is coming soon, I be
lieve, when nobody in any civilized
part of the world will need fear
destitution in old age.
CALENDAR
The Intrenational Conference on
Calendar Reform seems to be mak
ing some headway. There is still a
bitter dispute between the people
who would like to change our meth
od, of computing time from a
twelve-month year to a thirteen
month year, but on one point al
most everybody has come to an
agreement That is to make Eas
ter fall at the same time every year.
Under our present calendar Eas
ter is the Sunday after the first full
moon which follows the twenty
first of March. That may be any
time from March 22nd to April 25.
The Roman and Greek Catholic
churches, the Church of England,
the Lutheran church and all the
important Protestant denomina
tions have agreed that there is no
reason why Easter should not be
fixed for the Sunday following the
second Saturday in April, and au
thoritative action may be looked
for within the "next year or. two,
insuring that Easter in all parts of
the northern hemisphere will al
ways occur after spring has got
well under way, Instead of falling,
it now often does in northern
climates, while the world is still
in the grip of winter.
Champion Fancy Skater
Sonja Henle, the world' champion
figure skater who haiti from Nor
way, will take part in the Ukt
COLLARS
In times like these it is the "white
collar" workers who get the worst
of it They are the first to be fired
or to have their salaries reduced.
They are the last to be taken back
when business picks up again. They
are office workers or store clerks
mainly. Because their training and
inclinations make them more fas
tidious than the general run of
wage earners, most of them are
paying higher rents and habitually
spending more on living than ar
tisans and their families do.
As a white collar worker myself
I have a grievance which I share
with all of them. Every commod
ity that I know of has come down
in price, except white collars. Be
fore the war we could buy white
cotton collars two for a quarter.
We now have to pay a quarter for
the cotton collars and .forty cents
for the linen ones.
I think I will go back to farm
ing! NECKTIES
Is there anything more foolish
than a man's necktie? If you wear
a collar you have to wear a tie. It
is a perfectly useless adornment,
serving no real purpose except to
gratify the wearer's vanity. A man
never Bees his own necktie when he
is wearing it, so he must wear it to
please other people's eyes. . I think
there is a good deal to be said for
the costume which used to be so
popular in the movies, the rolled
collat shirt worn open half way
down the chest
Men are such slavish followers of
fa&hions, however, that they will
never dress sensibly until a few
bank presidents and others who
make a business of being dignified
set the" style of dressing comfortably.
University Alaska Cruise
Drawing Wide Interest
University of Oregon, Eugene,
Feb. 12. Marked enthusiasm for
the University of Oregon Yukon
summer session cruise is already
being shown, and indications are
that more than 30, the number nec
essary to insure the trip, will be
signed up within the next few
weeks. Inquiries have already come
in from every section of the state
and from other states, and the ven
ture is already recognized as one
of the most outstanding education
projects of this year by leading ed
ucators, it is stated by Alfred Pow
ers, director of the extension divis
ion, who is in charge of the sum
mer sessions.
The 30 or more members of the
cruise will leave Seattle July 20,
and after spending two weeks in
various parts of Alaska, will board
a river steamer at Tanana, August
4. The next seven days will be spent
cruising the Yukon river, through
matchless scenery, in the gold fields
made famous in '98, and through
many historic spots. The party will
join the regular Alaska summer
cruise at Whitehorse, and will re
turn by rail to Skagway, and from
there back to Seattle by vessel.
The regular cruise of two weeks,
starting August 11, after 10 days
preparatory work on the campus
at Eugene, is also attracting a great
deal of attention, and this summer
is expected to enjoy the greatest
success since the project was first
launched four years ago. The usual
enrollment of 150 may be exceeded
this year, and prepaartions are be
ing made to take care of more
should an excess of this number
register.
The regular cruise will be headed
by David E. Faville, dean of the
school of business administration,
while Mr. Powers may personally
conduct the Yukon extension trip.
Cartoonist Honored
HHP
Texan Gets Big Job
Jesie Holman Jones, Houston lum
berman and banker, a Democrat, hat
been named -pn the Reconstruction
Finance Board. He was active in the
Red Crois during the War.
BICENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION
OPENS FEB. 22
Albert T. Reid, one of the coun
try's outstanding artists, has been
elected vice-president of the Profes
sional .Artists'."' League, which is
opposing the employment of foreign
artists for American official portrait!.
President Hoover will officially
open the nine-months, nation-wide
George Washington Bicentennial
celebration at noon (Eastern Stan
dard time) February 22, when he
will deliver his George Washington
address before a joint meeting of
Congress, assembled in the House
of Representatives in the Capitol.
The Judges of the Supreme Court,
members of the Cabinet, foreign
diplomats and . many other distin
guished visitors also will be present,
and the address will be carried to
every corner of America over a nation-wide
hook-up.
Following his address, President
Hoover will be escorted to the East
steps of the Capitol, and will give
the signal for the singing of "Amer
ica" by a chorus of ten thousand
voices. It is expected that millions
of people will join in this "sing" as
it comes over the air. ,
The great chorus gathered at the
Capitol will be conducted by Wal
ter Damros'ch and will be accom
panied by the United States Army,
Navy and Marine bands which will
play as a unit under the direction
of John Philip Sousa. An "inaug
ural" crowd is expected to be on
hand for these ceremonies.
After luncheon, President Hoo
ver, accompanied by the members
of the United States George Wash
ington Bicentennial Commission
and the District of Columbia
George Washington Bicentennial
Commission will go to Mount Ver
non to lay a wreath on the tomb of
the Father of His Country in the
name of a united nation.
At 3 p. m., there will be exercises
at the Washington Monument un
der the auspices of the various pa.
triotic societies in the District of
Columbia.
In the evening the George Wash
ington Colonial Costume Ball will
be held at the Mayflower Hotel un
der the auspices of the United
States George Washington Bicen
tennial Commission and the Dis
trict of Columbia commission. No
effort is being spared to reproduce
the Colonial atmosphere for this
occasion. The affair is being man
aged by experts and every State
will be represented by especially in
vited guests.
While the celebration officially
opens on February 22, Sunday, Feb
ruary 21, will be an active day in
the District of Columbia as well as
in every city in America. The Uni
ted States George Washington Bi
centennial Commission has suggest
ed special religious services for
George Washington to be held
wherever people gather to worship.
Response from the various church
organizations to this project has
been remarkable. It is probabe
that all of the 232,000 churches will
hold special services honoring the
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First President on this day.
A folk-masque written especially
for the United States George Wash
ington Bicentennial Commission by
Percy MacKaye will be presented
at Constitution Hall, Washington,
D. C, on the evening of February
21. This masque is being produced
under the auspices of the United
States George Washington Bicen
tennial Commission and the Dis
trict of Columbia commission.
The masque is entitled "Wake
field," named after the birthplace
of George Washington, and por
trays in symbolic form the story of
George Washington. Five hundred
adults and children are being re
hearsed for this production and the
music will be furnished by the Uni
ted States Marine band. The folk
masque is being printed by the Uni
ted States George Washington Bi
centennial Commission for use in
other cities. It is expected that this
masque will be produced in all the
large cities of the United States
during the Bicentennial celebration.
During the week of February 22,
motion pictures depicting principal
events in the life of George Wash
ington entitled "Washington, the
Man and the Capitol" and produced
by Warner Bros., will be shown in
the theaters of America as a fea
ture of the Bicentennial celebration.
Hundrds of theaters have already
arranged for such a showing, and,
undoubtedly, practically every mo
tion picture theater in America will
be booked to show the life of
George Washington on the screen.
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Raspberry Growers Are
Threatened by Disease
Oregon raspqerry growers will
need to take every precaution to
avoid introduction in this state of
the raspberry mosaic, the most ser
ious disease at present attacking
western plantings. This is the
warning sounded by H. P. Barss,
plant pathologist at the Oregon Ex
periment station following a con
ference with pathologists familiar
with conditions in western Wash
ington where the disease has gain
ed a strong foothold, especially In
the Puyallup district
"When our first raspberry stocks
were introduced in. western Oregon
they were free from this mosaic
disease and they have remained
free from it," says Professor .Barss.
"The disease has become establish
ed in western Washington, howev
er, and there is danger it will
spread southward.
"Spread of the disease over long
distances is accomplished mostly
through introduction of sets from
a locality where the mosaic is pres
ent Once it is introduced in this
manner it is spread by insects from
plant to plant and brings disaster
to a succesesful region in a few
years."
Professor Barss recently discuss
ed the problem with Dr. L. K.
Jones, plant pathologist of the
Washington Experiment station,
who is familiar with the disease in
New York state where he said it
has wiped out raspberry growing
in whole districts.
Canyon City Sulfur used on al
falfa on the Edgar Deardorff ranch
at Prairie City gave an increase of
3100 pounds of hay the first cutting
and a like amount the second cut
ting.. Similar benefits can be ex
pected from the same application
for two more years, according to
County Agent R. G. Johnson, mak
ing a total increase of nine tons at
at initial cost of $2.45 per acre. The
average increase for the first year
was more than enough to repay the
cost of the sulfur application.
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Half Gallons . 69C
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