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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 18, 1932. PAGE THREE The Forgotten Ananias Some years ago a chicken-thief committed a series of robberies on big estates outside New York. He got away with some very fancy stock. Finally, one of the gentlemen farmers, whom we shall call Van Norton, hired a private detective and caught the miscreant Sitting in a New York club a few nights later, Van Norton re ceived the congratulations of his neighbors, "You did a fine thing," they said. "Now we hope you'll send the rascal over the road for a good long stretch." "What do you mean, send him over the road?" Van Norton asked. "Why, prosecute him. Send him to jail." "Prosecute him? I don't Intend to prosecute him." They were incredulous. "Surely you're going to see that he is pun ished for all the loss and worry he has caused us." "Just a minute," Van Norton re sponded quietly. "Suppose I do prosecute him. Suppose I get a conviction and a Jail sentence. What will happen? Ten years from now my name will be mentioned In a gathering such as this, and some body will say vaguely, 'Van Norton? Van Norton? Let's see. Wasn't he mixed up in some chicken stealing business a little while ago?'" It is a curious fact of human na ture that we forget the best in our fellow men, while a single stain of scandal clings to our memories for ever. If I were to mention to any read er of this newspaper the. name Ju das, he would tell me immediately who Judas was, "He was the trea cherous apostle, the betrayer of the Lord." If I were to mention the name of Ananias, I should get a response aMmost as prompt. "Ananias? Why Ananias was the man who claimed to have sold all his property and turned the proceeds over to the ap ostles. But he held -some of it back, and for telling that lie he was struck dead. He was the prince of liars." But how many readers remember this story? When the apostle Paul saw the vision by which he was converted, he was divinely guided into Dam ascus to the house of a faithful disciple. What was the disciple's name? Judas. Another disciple was sent to Paul to minister to his needs. What was his name? Ananias. Everybody remembers Judas the betrayer and Ananias the liar. No body remembers the other Judas and the other Ananias quiet, un selfish men who aided Paul in his hour of need and helped to start him on his great career. A very wise and good friend of mine had a motto. Said he: "Every man has a right to be judged by his best." Will some psychologist explain why it is so hard for us to remem ber the best? And so easy to remember the worst? GOLD Not long ago I told in this column of a foolish millionaire who'put a million dollars in gold into a safe deposit box. Several persons have written to me saying my figures were wrong as to the size of the box it would take to hold so much gold. My banker friend who told me the story said that a box 17 1-2 inches square and 13 1-2 inches deep would hold a million in gold. The superintendent of the U. S. Assay Ofiice In New York gave me some corroborative figures. "A mil lion dollars in gold bullion would occupy a space of 4,752 cubic inches or 2 3-4 cubic feet," he said, "and would weigh 3,316 pounds avoirdu pois, or 1.88 tons. We weigh gold bars by grains, and an ounce of gold Is a troy ounce, which contains 480 grains; but when we ship gold bars we weigh' them, for freight purposes, in avoirdupois pounds, of 7,000 grains to the pound. It takes 25 8-10 grains of coin gold to make a dollar, so the $20 goldpiece, or double eagle, contains a little more than an ounce of coin gold and a little less than a troy ounce of pure gold." BOOKS This year there will be fewer books published, but they will be better books, the publishers say. For several years it has been pos sible for almost anybody to get a book published, whether the author knew how to write and had some thing to say, or not The country was flooded with volumes from the pens of young writers whose ambi tions outran their abilities, who had never taken the trouble to learn how to write and who, quite gen erally, were interested in nothing but indecency. The reading public is getting dis gusted with books which reflect no emotolns above the level of animal ism, recognize no spiritual forces or values In life. Readers are turn ing back to the sound old classics. More young folk are reading Rob inson Crusoe than have for years turned to that great book, which ranks next to the Bible and Shakes neare in its enduring value as a source at once of entertainment and inspiration. . ABILITY I think we are coming toward the end of the time when incompetence could "put itself over" by blatant advertising of interior products. People are not buying poor quality nroHnrtji now. and rae not so ready to believe what plausible promoters tell them. It IS going lo oe narum, for a few years, at any rate, for swindlers to sell worthless stocks unit hnnds and for self-styled art ists to palm off their so-called "modern" paintings and sculptures am real works of art. Ability Is going to come Into its own again. The principal trouble with the nation ana trie worm w toir la thnf prnnd-rftte and third' rata man have been ballvhooed as first-raters and getting away with It. HOUSING T.AW H Mumford. distinguished NTow York architect says that the home has again become the family recreational center, ana mat the future must be much more comfortable and beautiful. At the Museum of Modern Art many nthr amhltncta have shown that they agree with him, exhibiting pic tures and moaeis oi nouses aesign ed to meet modern conditions, some of which are actually built or building. Glass is used liberally, both for outer walls and partitions, giving every room ample air and sunlight Homes built in rows, if properly planned, are now held to give more privacy than detached houses, and they cost less to build. Soundproof walls are insisted upon. Large liv ing rooms facing gardens, and kit chens built to save labor are re garded as essential. Roofs will be utilized for recreation in the cities and towns of the future, and all homes will have ample balconies besides. Some of the plans and pictures of these modern homes look odd to eyes accustomed to conventional forms, but I find young minds ac cepting them enthusiastically. This first international exhibition of modern architecture is to be shown in Philadelphia, Hartford, Los An geles, Buffalo, Cleveland, Milwau kee, Cincinnati, Toledo, Rochester, Worcester and Cambridge, after it closes In New York on March 23, and it will be worth making a trip to see. MORTGAGES The safest investment in the world, according to Joe Day, is a first mortgage up to not over 60 per cent of its actual value, on an owner-occupied dwelling house any where in the United States. Joseph P. Day has sold more real estate than any other man ever sold, and he is also a director of the largest money-lending institution in the world, the Metropolitan Life Insur ance Company. The cities and towns of the na tion are over-built with business and apartment structures built to rent, says Joe Day, but there is a crying need for several million modern one-family homes. There is, plenty of money available to build them, but the need is for better ways of making that money avail able to the home owner at reason able cost That is coming, invest ors think, and soon. DEAD SOIL CAUSE BELIEVED FOUND Roseburg With the objective of finishing at least 80 per cent of the Douglas county lambs previous to July 15 for shipment to Portland and San Francisco markets, a ser ies of meetings has been scheduled throughout Douglas county by County Agent J. C. Leedy. Disease control, management problems and marketing of lambs will be dis cussed with the sheepmen by Mr Leedy, H. A. Lindgren, extension specialist in livestock from Oregon Stata college, and Dr. Robert Jay, federal veterinarian. Too Much Rare Element Reported in "Serpentine Land" by O.S.C. Specialist That areas of infertile so-called "serpentine land" found in various sections of the state aie rendered sterile by an excess of one of the rarer elements found in soil is In dicated by analysis of samples of this soil obtained near Kerby in Josephine county. Tests at the Or egon experiment station and at the federal bureau of soils show pres ence of ferrous chromite in quan tities believed by Dr. W. L. Powers, head of the soils department at O S. C, to be sufficient to cause the trouble. If this is in reality the cause of the trouble it is quite likely that the condition may be corrected, partially at least through applica tion of lime and other soil amend ments which would remove the harmful effects of the chromite, says Dr. Powers. Except for this trouble the "serpentine sou" is bet ter than average in fertility and general characteristics. Study of these rarer elements in soils is showing that scarcity or abundance of the three main plant nutrients nitrogen, potash and phosphorus does not tell the whole story of soil fertility by any means, Work at the Oregon Experiment station and elsewhere with the rar er elements such as manganese, copper, zinc, aluminum and iodine indicates that one or two parts to the million of these may cause an increase in growth, but that in larg er amounts they may poison the soil. Most of the normal soils con tain enough of these for ordinary crops. Tests with peat soils in this state, however, show that they respond well to limited applications of man ganese, Manganese sulfate applied to Lake Labish peat land at the rate of 40 pounds per acre gave an increase of 86 per cent in tomato production The same treatment to muck land at Clatskanie increased the yield 111 per cent With field Washington Still Lives in the Hearts of His Countrymen fj ' ' Ji I Mpjf V'w J i-illl lit 1 All America is celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of George Washington's birth this month. Above is shown the new national Masonic memorial named in his honor; his birthplace, which was recently re stored; his tomb, built according to plans laid down in his will, and Gilbert Stuart's famous portrait of the First President ODD-BUT TRUE m WV0UJT0NST, fWROHCHSD r ItntR Of WCOhWNDWlON TO THE MAtRCM PtOPll. WttHlNCWN . NH0 FELT TUM THE fRINCHfAM WO QMUTMS fcOIH FOR MS MI Hw. WROTE ami inr' v"3f ' if wm linn it 'i WD SLEEPS Nun NO OMlGtK OP TWH Vw NtQn Or H ftODV KEE? ttl VM403 CLOSED , OOfclNO THE WW ClNfTUftV MTER. CMRT THE UTW ?0lT hWTM. WUHE 0 MM TEETH Ml& -ov me mtxm mukmnsiikvi v.MUi. Nwft onm hot The Guiding Beacon for 200 Years peas the manganese treatment gave a 10 per cent increase at Lake La bish and 30 per cent at Clatskanie. Despite these developments, Dr. Powers does not recommend con sideration of these rarer elements in ordinary fertilizer purchasing, nor does he advise buying high priced patent fertilizer of unstated composition without careful inves tigation. Oat Growers Get Chance To Supply Milling Needs If western Oregon oat growers will discard about 25 of the pres ent 26 varieties of spring oats be ing grown and concentrate on pro duction of the Victory variety, they will have opportunity of supplying some of the grain for breakfast food used by northwest mills, be lieves D. D. Hill, associate profess or of farm crops at Oregon State college, who recently studied the oat production situation in this re gion. Most of the fall oats grown are the standard, high yielding Gray Winter variety, he found, but most farmers pay litlte attention to va rieties of spring oats, lumping them all under the general name, "white spring." Spring varieties vary greatly in yield and quality, he says and of all of them Victory is the best yielding, is high in nutrients ItOTS o'foLKS THAT P Or-lit ill fUCin MONEY to GET 4 WAY f Rom THfi FARM ARE WISH IN MOW THEY HAD ENOUGH To GET BACK and is satisfactory for milling into breakfast foods. For the lack of a steady supply of oats of the right quality, northwest millers are now forced frequently to import oats from the middle west into one of the best oat growing regions in the United States. For Sale R. I. Red eggs from selected hens, 50c per setting. Mrs. Eph Eskelson. 48-3 Conference on Homes to Be Held at O.S.C. Soon An Oregon conference for the study of home interests has been called to meet at Oregon State col lege March 9 to 11 under the aus pices of the school of home econ omics. This conference will be a follow-up of a similar one held a year ago which was confined large ly to study of child development and parent education problems arising out of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. The general public is invited to this year's conference and special Invitations have been sent out to such interested groups as Parent Teacher organizations, home study and radio study clubs and teachers of home economics in high schools. The program this year will in clude reports of progress since last year's conference, and will cover the general field of home interests A staff of 21 speakers has been ar ranged by Acting Dean A. Grace Johnson of the school of home economics. GOOD PAY STEADY WORK. Several choice openings in cities and towns "for ambitious men and women. 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