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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1932. PAGE THREE A Rock in A Weary Land When I was fifteen years old my father took me into his study, and gave me a talk about life insur ance. He was a preacher, with a large family and a small salary. "Paying my premiums has kept me poor, and often in debt," he said, "but I am well rewarded. I can lie down and selep soundly at night." In order to bring the lesson home, he applied for $3,000 of life insurance on the twenty payment plan for me, saying that he would carry it until I had graduated from college and I could go on with it from there. Twenty years seemed longer at that time than a hundred years seem now. I wondered if I would ever live to the ripe old age of thirty-five, when the policies would be paid in full. Well, I have lived that long, and these policies, and some others, are all paid up. Father himself lived long and, having educated his chil dren and seen them all started, he cashed in his insurance and was comfortable in his old age. Remembering this lesson, I have signed my checks for premiums very cheerfully, but never with so much satisfaction as during the past two years. In a period when almost every thing one owns is tumbling it is great to know that one investment, at least, is just as good as it prom ised to be. Nothing has happened to any of the big insurance com panies, and nothing will. I was reminded of this the other day when I attended a convention of insurance salesmen. They were full of human interest stories. Said one: "A business man walk ed into my office and asked for an application blank. He said that two years ago he Was worth $200,000, and thought that he and his family were safe from financial worries forever. Now the $200,000 is less than $50,000. His only hope of in dependence is through systematic savings as represented by payments of life insurance premiums." Another told of a man who ask ed: "I am thirty-five and have to start all over again. What kind of a policy can you offer me that will insure me a competence at sixty?" We were all carried off our feet by the new theory of investments in 1929. Bonds and insurance were out of date. Common stocks were the one sure way to fortune. Now the pendulum has swung back. The old-fashioned ideas are in style again. It is a time when insurance companies ought to dou ble their advertising, and insurance salesmen their efforts. When we were prosperous we sometimes regarded these salesmen as a nuisance. Today their wares are "as rivers of water in a dry place; as the shadow of a rock in a weary land." ADVENTURE To the young man who wants to go adventuring I recommend the Canadian Northwest. The proces sion of explorers and prospectors into the northern part of British Columbia has begun, and wonderful tales are being brought back of the mineral richness of the region lying from 500 to 1,000 miles north from Vancouver. , I have heard of gold outcroppings which indicate deposits of the yel low metal exceeding anything yet discovered on earth and veins where silver Is to be found in pure blocks of huge size. From up north in the Great Bear Lake country there was brought down not long ago twenty tons of radium-bearing pitchblende ore which assayed above $8,000 a ton. I wish I were forty years young er. VOTERS Last week I expressed the hope that at the elections of 1932 more of the voters of America would go to the polls. Nearly half of those eligible to vote in 1928 did not do so. Now I learn that the United States Junior Chamber of Com merce has taken this up in a ser ious way and is starting a campaign now to try to get at, least fifty mil lion votes out on November 8th next. That Is a live organization of young business men and I think they will get somewhere. It looks as if we might have an interesting and exciting Presiden tial campaign after all. UNEMPLOYMENT Two hundred and fifty thousand men a quarter of a million have been put back to work In a month since the American Legion began Its drive against unemployment. That is a big help, but there are still probably four or five million men normally employed who have no work to do now. There are hundreds of communi ties, whole counties, in fact, in which there is no unemployment. But there are thousands in which unemployment has gone on so long that actual suffering is beginning. Governors of thirty states reported last week to Washington that there was no actual starvation in their states, but there must be many families perilously close to it. When this depression is over and we are rolling along on the wave of the next boom, will we do any thing to prevent a recurrence of this sort of distress? If past his tory is any guide, J'm afraid not. EDUCATION When I was a boy getting on toward college age people did not think of a college education as a direct help to earning a living. Young men went to college because they had a thirst for education and culture for their own sakes. In the past thirty years or so there has grown up a theory of college education based upon the better earning power of the col lege graduate. That has led to an entire change in the curriculum and the point of view of the col leges. It no longer sets a man apart from his fellows to be known as a college graduate. Any smart boy can get a degree of some sort or other, and he doesn't have to be so smart, at that. Of real educa tion, in the old cultural sense, there Is little to be obtained in most of the colleges. I agree with Dr. Harvey N. Dav is, president of Stevens Institute of Technology, who said the other day that the result of this overproduc tion of college graduates is bound to be a reduction In the cash value of a college education and a return to the state of mind In which young folk went to college for the sake of learning how to get the most satisfaction out of life, rather than how to get the largest number of dollars. HOTELS One by one the great hotels of Brazil's Loveliest 1 j T N ' sin 1 t I. 1 nidi Caillct. elected "Queen of Students" of Brazil, in New York are going Into the hands of receivers. There are not half a dozen hostelries of the first order left that are not bankrupt, and hundreds of second rate and third rate hotels are in the same fix. New York went crazy over hotel building a few years ago. People were going to give up their homes and live In hotels; New York's three hundred thousand daily strangers would increase to a mil lion, and all would want ten-dol-lar-a-day rooms. So hotels were promoted by speculators, who got theirs, and left the buyers of sec ond mortgage bonds holding the bag. These credulous "investors" are losing all they put in, and hotel rates are (coming down to some thing near what people are willing to pay. One man I know came to New York recently and looked at a suite of Jour roms in one of the largest and most fashionable hotels. "Twelve thousand dollars a year," said the manager. "I'll give you $250 a month," said my friend. His offer was accepted! ON OREGON FARMS Hillsboro Poison is the most ec onomical and satisfactory means of controlling gray diggers or ground squirrels and March and April is the best time to put out the poison, says W. S. Averill, assistant county agent. Nineteen stores in Wash ington county are cooperating in distributing the poison mixed by Mr. Averill to farmers. Dallas Applying rock sulphate, sometimes sold as Tri Calcium Phosphate, to crops, is like trying to grow plants on concrete pave ment, Arthur King, soils specialist of the Oregon Extension service, advised Polk county farmers re cently. While rock phosphate has a high chemical analysis, the plant food is not available. Farmers planning to use this particular plant food would do best to apply super phosphate, King says. Oregon City One thousand boys and girls enrolled in 4-H club work in Clackamas county during the past year carried projects with a gross value of $24,348.26, reports LeRoy G. Wright, county club ag bor, feed and other materials, esti mated at $14,276.79, the youngsters ent After deducting costs of la had a net profit of $9,376.79. Try a Gazette Times Want Ad. MEDICAG0 SATIVA GREAT FARM CROP Forage Plant Given High Praise by O. S. C. Specialist; Is Good for Large Area. Oregon has had its share of "won der plants," seeds of which came from an Egyptian tomb or perhaps the craw of a wild goose," says E. R. Jackman, extension farm crops specialist at Oregon State college, and many in this state have got ex cited over magazine stories of world beating crops that later prov ed failures here. Occasionally, however, a wonder ful crop does show up, such as Fed eration wheat in "eastern Oregon, sweet clover in the middle west and lespediza in the south. And right now there Is a crop for western Or egon of truly marvelous properties, says Jackman. It is Medicago sat iva, "It is the best hay crop in exist ence," Jackman says positively. "It stays green and succulent throughout the driest summer, is economical to grow and is high in both protein and minerals, so that animals fed on it stay in good con dition. This forage plant can be pastured, fed green or used for hay, producing the latter at the rate of three to five tons per acre year af ter year without reseeding. The hay is suitable for cows, horses or sheep and even hogs clean it up to the last straw. "When fields that have grown Medicago sativa are finally plowed up it is found that the crop has en riched the soil beyond belief," Jack man continues. "Fields which for merly produced 20-bushel grain yields jump to 40 bushels, and the beneficial effects last many years. "One would think that seed of such a plant would be extremely high in price, as a salesman might easily convince one that it would be worth $50 a pound, but fortun ately the seed is plentiful and a field may be planted for only $2.50 an acre not much more than for a grain crop." . Mr. Jackman estimates that at least 500,000 acres in western Ore gon are adapted to this crop. 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