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DAIRYMEN FACING
SURPLUS PROBLEM
crews. At the same time these
roads and trails open up the na
tional forests for public use and en
joyment Roseburg Lambing Is under way
in Douglas county. L. E. Thmop
son reports that from the first 50 of
his Shropshire ewes he got 63
young black faced lambs, including
15 pairs of twins. Mr. Thompson
starts creep feeding his lambs at
two weeks of age. He plans on
marketing individual lambs and
weighing them separately at close
intervals to determine the rate of
gain as well as total gajn in weight
An accurate account of all feed
consumed will also be kept reports
County Agent J. O. Leedy.
A Star Is Gone
For Sate R. I. Red eggs from
selected hens, 50c per setting. Mis.
Eph Eskelson. 48-3
frRRI If
Oregon In Favored Position Now
to Develop Cattle Market
Say O.S.C. Observers.
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1932.
Brothers Christopher.
I spent the week-end with my
friend Bill Brown, whose famous
health farm is just across the river
from West Point On Sunday morn
ing we went to mass at Father
Paul's and afterwards the good
father came to the farm for dinner.
He told me how he had started
his church and boys' school twenty
years ago with little backing, and
how, though the bills sometimes
mount to terrifying heights, the
money has always come from some
where at the critical times.
. "We live by faith," he said, and
his face was a benediction.
"This year has been harder," he
continued, "because we have had so
many more Brothers Christopher."
"Brothers Christopher," I re
peated. "That is an order with
which I am not familiar. Who are
the Brothers Christopher?"
"Some call them tramps," he an
swered, and smiled at my look 'of
surprise.
"We are on the Albany Post
Road," he explained, "and all sorts
of men pass by. Some have left
their Jobs; some have quarreled
with their wives; some are life-long
victims of the wanderlust.- We
have a house for them in which
they may sleep, and no questions
asked. They may come to the kti-
chen for their meals, and if they
know any trade they may help us
with their building operations.
When they have stayed with us as
long as they want, they move on.
"We took our motto from the
words of the Lord, 'Inasmuch as ye
have done it unto one of the least
of these my brethren, ye have done
it unto me.' In that spirit we re
gard them not as tramps but as
brothers of our Lord, Brothers
Christopher."
Listening to his gentle accents,
watching the light of benevolence
in his fine eyes, I felt encouraged. I
reminded myself that we are often
misled by the facts that sin gets
most of the advertising.
Sin is dramatic, so are warfare
and crime. They are not common
place; they are news. They occupy
a prominent place on almost every
front page, while a million quiet
acts of human kindness are not and
can be reported.
Life itself is the Albany Post
Road. People hear of It only as a
highway of business and pleasure,
made occasionally notorious by a
ghastly accident
Yet quietly, by the side of the
road, is Bill Brown with his farm,
where tired men lose their tired
ness; and Father Paul with his
friendly hand and cheering word
for the Brothers Christopher.
MOVIES
Some small European nations
have prohibited the showing of
"Mickey Mouse" in movie theaters
on the ground that this animated
cartoon is "mentally unwholesome."
Few intelligent people will agree
with that. On the contrary, I think
such amusing productions as Mick
ey Mouse and Silly Symphonies are
not only the best sort of comedy
entertainment but they are almost
the only original form of art which
the movies have developed.
In such pictures as those, and Iff
newsreels and travel pictures, the
movies give something which the
stage cannot offer. Much of the
other stun shown on the screen
these days consists of poor substi
tutes for real plays presented by
real actors. They do bring the
drama of a sort within the reach
of everybody, but that is not to say
that every type of drama is whole
some for everybody.
I sympathize with the effort of
Mr. Will Hays to "clean up the
movies," but I don't think he Is
making very much headway, to
judge by some of the talkies I have
seen lately. There Is some excuse
for a play which deals with more
or less delicacy with Illicit sex re
lations, when it is confined to a sin
gle theater and audiences of pre
sumably sophisticated adults. There
is no excuse for vulgarizing the
same play until even a child can
sense its rawest Implications and
then showing It to audiences of mil
lions of children In the movies.
WIVES
Not many years ago a wife was
the property of her husband, not
only in Turkey but elsewhere In
the world, especially In England.
The other day in London a man
sued a doctor for enticing his wife
to leave him. The judge decided
against the plaintiff. He said a wife
had a right to leave her husband
whenever she desired, that she had
the right to decide whether to bear
children and when, that she was
an independent individual and could
decide her own course of life with
out consulting her husband.
Not all of our states go as far as
that, but it was pointed out in court
that in England women today also
have the best of it In other ways.
If a married woman driving her car
Injures somebody else her husband
can be sued Jointly with her and
made to pay the entire damages.
If she gives her husband any mon
ey It is a loan in law, but anything
he gives her is a gift No action
can be taken against a wife for de
serting her husband, but she can
have her husband arrested If he
deserts her. A husband must pay
the income tax on his wife's Income
if she fails to do so, and if she owed
him money before they were mar
ried he cannot collect it after marriage.
Who said this was a man s
world?
IRON
A hundred years ago New Eng
land mines and furnaces were pro
ducing pig iron and getting a cent
a pound for It Seventy-five years
ago Pittsburgh began to be the Iron
center, selling castings for three
cents a pound. Fifty years ago
New England found a way of get
ting ten cents a pound for iron,
making it into machinery. Iron
masters of today get fifty cents a
pound for their watchsprings and
pressed steel alloys.
Every advance in the art of fab
ricating iron yields a higher price
for the finished product. The new
alloys, stainless steel, chrome-plat
ed sheets, are being made into new
art forms which bring the price of
Iron to the user up to a dollar or
more a pound.
Every step away from the raw
materials of existence raises the
economic standard of living. The
more labor goes into the Iron, the
more persons are employed; the
higher the price of the finished pro
duct, the more that labor can earn.
The most backward nations are
those which use chiefly unfabrlcat
ed natural products. The most ad
vanced ones are those which put
the most labor into the goods they
consume.
Knows Politics
Homer S. Cummlngs, former
Chairman of the Democratic Nation
al Committee, ii organizing the
Roosevelt f or President campaign.
He's a Connecticut Yankee from
Stamford.
JEWS
The Jewish Agricultural Society
has been engaged for years In the
effort to induce Jewish families to
become farmers. Today there are
100,000 of them In America, living
solely or chiefly on the land.
Most of these Jewish farmers
live in colonies of their own people.
They are a clannish race and they
cooperate well. They are also good
business men, as a rule, and make
a living and more when their non
Jewish neighbors are running be
hind.
The latest development of this
sort is the establishment of "agro
industrial" communities, near
enough to large cities to enable
some of the family to work In town
while others cultivate the land. I
think this solution of the Industrial
problem Is one that Is worth developing.
COLONELS
A humorist In the Kentucky leg.
islature has introduced a bill tax
ing each Kentucky "Colonel" 1100
a year. Another humorist moved
that the bill be referred to the Fish
and Game committee, which was
done.
Being myself one of the latest
batch of "colonels" I am concerned
about this. I hope the Fish and
Game Committee will not report a
bill creating an open season for
colonels.
Oregon dairymen are faced with
the necessity of planning opera
tions on the supposition that there
will probably be a surplus of dairy
products for the next several years,
says P M. Brandt and Roger W.
Morse, dairy specialists at O. S. C.
in commenting on this year's out
look report prepared by the exten
sion service.
Despite this fact, dairymen who
keep production and general over
head costs to a minimum, control
disease, keep quality high to en
courage consumption, and take ad
vantage of prospective cattle mar
kets for surplus stock, may show
as good or "better profits than is
possible in most other enterprises,
say the dairy leaders.
Ways suggested for reducing pro
duction costs are first of all to in
crease average production per cow
by culling out low poducers and dis
eased animals, they point out This
is no time to bang on to poor cows
regardless of past performance or
theoretical value, they add.
Increase In good forage produc
tion, such as alfalfa hay and suc
culents, and greater development
of pastures, which afford the cheap
est source of dairy feed, are major
steps in practical reduction of
costs. Finally it la recommended
that best sires be used but that
fewer replacements be raised unless
for a definite outside market
In this connection it is pointed
out that 10 counties in California
have recently started campaigns
for elimination of tuberculosis
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FARM POINTERS.
Corvallls One more illustration
of what the famous Bortfleld tur
nips, introduced by the Astoria Ex
periment station, are doing for
coast dairymen. Chester and Ira
Walker planted about two-thirds
of an acre of these turnips on their
farm near Alsea early last July.
They started feeding the crop to
their dairy herd of 10 cows on Sep
tember 1 and continued for four
months, during which time they es
timate that they fed close to 35 tons
of turnips. The herd maintained a
heavy flow of milk through the fall
months when production ordinarily
drops off.
Enterprise The promotion of co
operative marketing, swine ' sanita
tion, weed control, dairying, and
boys' and girls' 41H club work con
stituted the program adopted at a
recent county-wide conference of
Wallowa county grange agricultur
al committee, called by County Ag
ent IN. c. Donaldson. Each subor
dinate group will sponsor one live
stock and one home economics 4-H
club during the year.
Ben Swaggart was spending some
time in the city on Saturday from
Eastern Oregon Stock farm. The
winter has been just right, and the
snow went off so gradually that the
soil took up the greater portion of
the moisture. Mr. Swaggart pre
dicts a fine yield of grain for the
coming season.
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Minnie Maddern Fiske, America's
most famous actress, died of heart
disease at 67 She had been on the
stage since she was three.
which will require replacement of
a large number of animals. In the
past the California buyers have
been none too particular about
quality, it is said, but from now on
the demand will be for well bred
animals, disease free and with good
producing ability. This market if
well cutivated may last till the en
tire state Is free of disease.
Oregon is in an excellent position
to take advantage of this market
as disease control work is farther
advanced In this state in many re
spects than any place else in the
country.
Forest Service Builds
Roads and Trails
A record year in the building and
maintenance of minor forest roads,
motorways and trails is shown in
the report for the calendar year
1931, just issued by the regional
forester, Portland, Oregon. Low
unit cost and a satsifactorily high
total mileage characterize the re
port Activities within the state of Or
egon include the building of 545
miles of forest motorways and
roads at a cost of 454,843. Total
mileage built to date is 3,369 miles.
In addition 155 miles of motorways
and roads were bettered, at a cost
of $115,619; and 5,908 miles were
maintained at a cost of $115,619.
Report on the forest trails and
trailways program shows: Con
struction, 540 miles, cost, $67,292;
betterment 10 miles, cost $1,556;
maintenance, 11,810 miles, cost
$107,584.
Protection of the national forests
is the primary purpose of the minor
roads and trail program, according
to the forest service, location being
planned with a view to possible use
by patrolmen and fire fighting
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