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
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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
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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
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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. Experience unnecessary.
We finance you if required. Write
today Mr. Thomas, Superinten
dent. 426 Third St., Oakland, Calif.
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