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.
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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
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"Guess I'm like most Americans who travel
a lot, I take many of my hobbies with me.
Chesterfields, for instance. I've smoked 'em
for years.
"They're not only made good, but they're
made to keep good, and that's why they hold
old customers like me.
"Take the tobaccos. 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
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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.
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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. Tin 37c
3- Lb. Tin 53c
6-Lb. Tin $1.04
SOUP
Van Camp's Tomato
1 TINS 25c
BANANAS
takes me
the world
Wrapped In Du PONT
Number 300 Moisture
proof Cellophane the
best and most expen
sive made.