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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1932. PAGE THREE CHURCH Years ago an eminent economist had an idea. Selecting one protestant denom ination whose records had been kept carefully, he set down the number of new members added each year. Opposite this, in an other column, he classified each year from an economic standpoint as prosperous or bad. . The year 1865 was an Inflation year; nineteen thousand people joined this particular church. In 1866 came panic, and new members jumped to thirty thousand. Then years of "good" times, but bad times for the church, until the panic of 1873, when up shot the membership, reaching a "new high" in 1877, when prosperity registered a "new low." Panic in 1893 was followed by a church gain in 1894; the pinch of 1907 by a boost in membership in 1908. And so on. I fancy the same thing is hap pening today; at least our church has been full recently. Last Sun day the pastor chose this unusual text: "And when David inquired of Jehovah (as to whether he should attack the Philistines) Jehovah said: And it shall be when thou hearest the Bound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees that SOUSA ' When I was a young fellow in Washington the girl I used to call on (and whom I afterwards mar ried) lived two doors from the Sou sa family, and I used to see a lot of "Old Man Sousa, a fat old gen tleman of Spanish-German stock, whose customary remark after breakfast was: "Veil, der night vas made for sleep and der day for rest I guess I go back to bed." He pronounced the family name as if it were spelled Sowsa, but his son Johnny gave it a European twist and called it "Sooea." Johnny Sousa died the other day at the age of 77, the most famous band leader and composer of marches the world has ever known. He began playing violin when he was seven; he was a cornetist in the U. S. Marine Band, where his father also played, when he was still a boy, and was only 26 when he was made the leader of that great band, which furnishes the music for the White House and for all other great occasions In Wash ington. As a boy in the Washing ton High School cadet corps I re member marching behind the Ma rine Band on our annual parade up Pennsylvania Avenue, while the musicians played Sousa's latest composition, his still-popular "High School Cadets March." I have heard all of the great bands and have known many great bandmasters, Gilmore, Innes, Seidl, Creatore and a dozen more, but I never expect to hear anyone pro duce such authentic thrills from brass and drums as could John Philip Sousa. TELEVISION There has been a lot said and printed about television seeing things at a distance. Many people are expecting that before long they Will be able to Install television re ceivers and watch baseball games and other events without leaving their own firesides. I have been trying to find out, from engineers and others1 in the radio Industry, what the real prospects of prac tical television are, and I do not get much encouragement for the belief that it is "just around the coiner." Many of my technical friends say that the experiments so far are barking up the wrong tree, and that some entirely new method will have to be discovered or Invented. It Is possible today, with a good deal of expense and trouble, to send a motion picture by radio over a short distance, so that it will ap pear, somewhat flickery, on a very small screen. But that is quite different thing from long-distance transmission of a view of some thing which is actually occurring. I would not advise anybody to buy stock in any television outfit just yet. BEAUTY I attended another exhibition of "rv,,Wn art" the other dav. The pictures and statues were mostly terrible. They did not look like anything ever seen by human eye onH thpv decldedlv were not beau tiful. But that, I was told, was the secret. Boauty is out of date, and tviinn-s a not what they seem. True art must show the ugly side of life! of that attitude on tha part of aspiring young artists is pose and how much real I cannot determine. I think it is a passing phase, and that tne ena or an ai ,o. win hn as It alwavs has been to achieve the beautiful. Nor will the standards of beauty change In , a thousand years any more than they have changed in the past two thousand years. What was beau then thou shalt bestir thyself; for then is Jehovah gone out before thee." The preacher said that religion consists in being able to recognize the extraordinary in the ordinary things of life. Many people hear the wind in the trees, and say: "It is the wind In the trees." Now and then comes one who says: "It is the footsteps of Jehovah." Many people see the turmoil of the present, and say: "It is con fusion; it is anarchy; It is hope less." But those who are wiser say: "It is God remoulding His world into a new and better image. Let us bestir ourselves and go for ward." The sermon lifted us. It was a clear prophetic voice announcing that the Power which made the world has not deserted it, Is still wtorklng in it It made us feel that we ought to lift our eyes and be active, lest these great and far reaching changes come to pass without our recognizing them. I advise all preachers these days to preach a positive faith. To put aside any sermons that criticize people or discourage them, and preach confidence, and courage and hope. Men need this now. If the church can provide it, the church will make great gains. Bad times have always been its best times. tiful when built or carved or paint ed by an artist of ancient Greece is still beautiful and always will be. MANPOWER With all of the unemployment, good men, really first-rate men who know their work and can be relied upon to "deliver the goods," are as hard to find as ever. I was in the office of a New York business man the other day when his telephone rang. I could not help hearing his end of the conversation. There'll be no trouble getting the capital," I heard him say, "if the man you speak of is as good as you say he is. Capital's easy enough to get but manpower is not. I wouldn't put a cent into anything that hasn't the right sort of man power behind It" That has always been true. First- rate manpower is scarce In every line of effort. The world is full of second-raters, often holding down first-rate jobs for a while. During the boom a great many second-rate and third-rate men tried to fill first rate jobs, and that was one of the causes of the economic crash. There never has been enough first- rate manpower to do the world's work as well as it ought to be done. TASTE Ladies in limousines, dressed for parties, wear French heels and dec ollete gowns. Therefore, every ig norant girl who wants to be taken for what she is not thinks she must wear high heels and low-necked dresses to her work. They never ralize that persons of real taste al so have common sense, and don t wear such garb except on formal occasions. Perhaps the example which Mrs. Hoover set, of wearing a cotton gown to a formal party, will help dispel the idea that to be taken for a lady a girl must always wear silk. Cotton fabrics today are as beau tiful and tasteful as anything the silkworm ever produced, and it would be a good thing for the pock etbooks of the wage-earners and for the growers and fabricators of cotton if fashionable people should set the style of dressing in cotton. W00LMEN TO GET PAY FROM CO-OP. Will Not Withhold Money for 1930 Over-Advances; Pre-Shearing Loans Now Doing Made. That no part of the proceeds from the sale of 1931 or 1932 wool shipments to the National Wool Marketing corporation will be with held to cover over-advances on 1930 shipments, is announced by J. By ron Wilson, general manager of the corporation. This announcement definitely sets at rest all rumors to the effect that growers might be called upon to repay over-advances resulting from the drastic market docline in 1930. Operating costs, Wilson stated, have been greatly reduced to cor respond with modern tendencies. without in the least interfering with the most efficient handling of wool In fact, the service will be much Improved, he stated. "While the sheep Industry has suffered from the world-wide de pression during the past two years, in common with everything else. and while no Immediate return to profitable operations can be ex pected," said Wilson, "we certainly will see the day when mutton lambs and wool will again bring cost of production and some profit in addition." Pre-shearlng loans on a large scale are now being made by the National, thus helping to tide over the difficulties which low returns, droughts and severe winter weath er have placed In the growers' paths. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their as sistance and kindness after our re cent loss by fire. Mr. and Mrs. W. D, Nelll and Family. 3 years for $5 where can you get more lor your money t roe u, t MILK FOUND BEST EMERGENCY FOOD Minimum Diet Requirements Are Listed in Order of Value and Minimum Cost Modern science has come to the aid of welfare workers and families faced with the problem of main taining life and health on the bar est minimum of food purchases by pointing out those foods that com bine the moat needed elements at least cost, says Mrs. Jessamine Wil liams, professor of foods and nu trition at Oregon State college. In an address on this subject to the Oregon conference for the study of home interests, Mrs. Williams said milk stands at the head of the list of these "emergency rations." Placed In order of their necessity and economy, these foods were named by Mrs. Williams: milk, whole grain cereals, potatoes, car rots, tomatoes, eggs. These foods will maintain growth, provide fuel, furnish regulating material the three food needs of the human body which must be met If health is maintained. Milk is the most nearly all-purpose food on the list, and a quart of it per day is almost a guarantee of no deficiency in vitamin A and B, Mr3. Williams explained, though few persons consume that much. Carrots provide much vitamin A which builds up resistance to in fections. Whole grain cereals fur nish vitamin B. Tomatoes retain the elusive vitamin C no matter how they are cooked or processed. All vegetables contribute certain, body minerals and bulk. "Vegetables provide the cheapest form of laxative to combat the 'fa tal American diet? of concentrated foods," Mrs. Williams pointed out. "The more restricted the diet, however, the more necessary to in clude, cod liver oil for young chil dren. Only oil labeled as contain ing vitamin D is of value." Where money is too little to buy all the diet constituents, it is best to select those that combine the most body needs at the least cost, Mrs. Williams continued. With milk heading the list the others may well be added in the order named, i The home Interests conference drew more than 150 homemakers and women's leaders from over the state for a consideration of state wide progress toward home better ment and child health and protec tion. Try a Gazette Times Want Ad. io- Q ii w iZJb f3" liBEratf 8B t3 mVf (33135)16) & m am m mmS$toz4P f W.C.T.U. NOTES MARY A. NOTRON, Reporter. The Right Hon. Philip Snowdon, Member of Parliament says: "There is no waste like the waste on intoxicating liquor. We spend annually on liquor over three hun dred million pounds (nearly one and a half billion dollars U. S. money), and that sum is approximately equal to the yield of the income tax and the supertax. It is a wasteful and unnecessary expendi ture. Nothing depresses me more in connection with the many dis cussions on national economy than the way in which this colossal na tional waste is always totally ig nored. National expenditure is not going down. It Is going up, and I am afraid it will continue to do so unless we get down and grapple with the chief causes of national waste. And somewhat comparable to it la the enormous sum spent on betting." In the state of New York, insan ity among women has been cut in half and reduced nearly one third among men since prohibition was adopted. The forty second annual report of the New York Depart ment of Mental Hygiene shows that the rate per hundred thousapd of new cases (first admissions) of alcoholic psychosis in New York State in the saloon era was 8.33 for men and 2.6 for women. Since wartime prohibition, beginning in 1918, the average new oases of al coholic insanity have numbered 5.28 per one hundred thousand for men and 1.26 for women. Remem bering that New York has no pro hibition enforcement law, it is cer tainly a showing that prohibition is making progress even in this wet center. Just now the advocates of beer are parading the figures showing the possibilities of revenue from a beer tax, thus appealing to the meanest, lowest, basest motive for support. Back in 1914, the Federal income from liquor taxes totalled 245 million dollars. State and local governments received another 80 million dollars, making a total of $325,000,000. This was certainly a huge sum to be cut off. Who paid it? The wets would have you be lieve the distillers, brewers, wine growers and saloon keepers paid this tax. True, they wrote the checks for it, but from whom did they get the money with which to make the payment? From the in dividual drinker. Most of it from poor men who could ill afford to pay it. Moreover, the wets howl about the cost of enforcing prohi bition. Why pays for that? The total cost of prohibition enforce ment for the first nine years was the large sum of $213,179,485. But the fines, penalties and revenue from liquor totalled the greater sum of $460,502,792.76, leaving a net balance of $247,323,307.76. If it is urged that this ultimately Ml l acMarr Onr BULK COFFEES have nol only the largest sale of any Coffee in Hepp ner, but we claim and guarantee that no finer Coffee can he bought any where even at much higher prices. Sat. Cr Mon. Specials, March 19 & 2i SUGAR C. & H. 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That fragrant Turkish tobacco your taste gets that, all right And the whole blend say, there's nothing like it for milder, better taste. "But my point is, Chesterfields are just the same wherever I buy them Argentina, India, New Zealand. The package is 0. K. moisture tight, clean-looking keeps the aroma in. "Even the paper comes into it. As far off as Shanghai I've noticed how pure and white and fresh it is. "I've never yet found a town where Chest erfields couldn't be had! And no matter where I've bought 'em, they've always been just exactly right!" UWidd 7 fW. v. $S MILDER PURE TASTE BETTER 19J2, Liggett It Myeri Tobacco Co, account the increase In population. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bartholomew of Pine City were visitors In thl city Tuesday. Coff MAC MARK The very best in high grade blends. 3 lbs. 89c ECONOMY Not a cheap coffee, just a mild blend, as good as some coffee in the can. 3 lbs. 59c Formay The perfected shortetning, abso lutely pure and fresh. 1- Lb. Tin 19c 2- Lb. 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