HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1932. PAGE THREE Uncle Sam's Wheat for Needy kA I A fi I PHONE 1082 iviaciviarr stores, inc. Free Delivery " s t "'-u:';- 11 . ' f,rr Err m LOSSES On a gloomy day I met a New York man who seemed almost hap- py. A friend asked him: "How's the market?" "Haven't the slightest Idea." The questioner was astonished. "Don't you own stocks ad bonds?" "Sure I do," my man replied. "But I know the things I own can't disappear. I know, also, that I have no chance of selling them at a decent price in this market. Therefore, why should I torture myself by watching them every day and figuring out how much they have depreciated?" The other looked at him as if he were a traitor to the serious ideals of American finance. Whereupon my friend uttered an important truth. The trouble with these fellows 1n Wall Street is that they have taken their losses fifteen times a day for two years." he said. "Think of it, fifteen times seven hundred. What a loss that makes. Nobody can stand a loss like that. If they'd put away their lead pencils; if they'd quit figuring on the backs of envelopes and the margins of news papers, and forget the whole thing, they would be much better off. Tak ing your loss fifteen times a day doesn't get you anywhere. It uses up brain cells and nervous energy that might be used for progress." Every one of us who has any heart at all has had his heart wrung in the past few months. We help as far as we can, but there are so many that we can not help. So many men who want to work for whom there is no work! To these victims of the depres sion and especially to the old who have been wiped out and lack the strength or the time to make a fresh start, our deepest sympathy goes out. But there has been a lot of whin ing on the part of men who have no excuse to whine. I have been reading Emerson's diaries. His railroad bonds went sour in the panic of 1857. He re fers to his losses just once. His house burned down, and his diary records: "House burned," and goes on to more important things. Such men give us renewed re spect for the human race, and Am erica has her full share of them. But I am weary of the boys who tell me how, much they would have had if they had sold everything in the summer of 1929 the back-of-the-envelope lads who take their losses fifteen times a day. MINING There Is still money in mining, for tho man who has the know ledge, the strength and the courage to tackle it single-handed. For that matter, there has always been money in mining and always will be whenever the cost of labor and supplies is less than the value of the ore. Loelller Palmer is running the "Rube" gold mine single-handed in Utah. He bought a compressor, a tractor to run it, and some com pressed air drills and started alone to operate this abandoned working. From a depth of 180 feet he got out three cars of ore in four months last year and shipped them to the smelter, netting him $13,431.29 for his work. There are plenty of other one man mines in the West, too small for the big companies to bother with, but capable of earning good pay for the men who work them. "Big Business" hasn't gobbled all the opportunities yet! QUICKSILVER The metal which everybody now calls mercury was generally spoken of in my youth as "quicksilver." Remembering that "quick" in old fashioned English meant "alive" and not, as it means now, "speedy," it is quite easy to see how this mys terious liquid metal, heavier than lead, was regarded as "live silver." Man has used mercury for cen turies for the backs of mirrors, a shorter time for the "stuffing" of thermometers and barometers, for recovering gold from Its ore and for "silver" fillings in teeth. Its newest use, instead of water In steam boilers, promises to create an unheard of demand for mercury. Experiments with a 6,000-horse-power mercury vapor boiler and turbine made by W. L. R. Emmett demonstrated a saving of about $1, 000 a day over the use of water. Now a plant twice as large Is being built, in which 125 tons of mercury will be vaporized to produce "steam," then vaporized and used over and over again. One result has been to raise the price of mercury from $1 a pound to $2; another, to start a "mercury rush" In Arkansas, where beds of cinnabar, the ore from which mer cury Is refined, have been discov ered. There may not be enough mercury in the world to enable ev erybody who wants to use it In engines to do so. The largest pro duction in a single year In the whole world was In 1929 when less than 6,000 tons were extracted. Here's a chance for adventure and wealth. Hustle around the odd corners of the world and find a clnnebar mine! SUICIDE Within the past few weeks the world has been shocked by the sui cides of two outstanding figures, George Eastman and Ivor Kruger. Only two or three years ago Alfred Lowenstein, another great finan cier, jumped out of his airplane as it was crossing the British Channel. Literally thousands of other men who had been more or less promin ent In business and industrial af fairs have killed themselves In the past few years because they were not equipped with the resources within themselves to enable them to face tho world without money. They knew no other way of life ex cept by buying whatever they thought might contribute to their luinninpHft. In Mr. Eastman's case It was not lack of money but the feeling that he had finished his life's work and would be happier dead than 111, but In almost every other recent suicide tho reason has been fear of pover Id has lareelv discard eternal damnation has undoubtedly been a deterrent of suicide In the past. Fear of the world's opinion has become a stimulus to suicide. The happiest man is the one who lives so that he does not care what other people think about him, MOVIES "Thrillers," mystery plays, news reels, travel films, slapstick come dies and animated cartoons are preferred by the majority of a group of prominent people recent ly asked to express their motion picture preferences. College pro fessors, bank presidents, editors, merchants, authors and scientists were among those who expressed themselves. There aren't enough of that sort of minds, however, to provide the audiences necessary to the success of the motion picture industry. Dr. Hendrik Willom Van Loon put his finger on the spot when he wrote: "Ninety per cent of all people ev erywhere and at all times will nev er grow older, mentally speaking, than twelve years, and will never be able to appreciate what the oth er ten per cent will like." It's the child-minded ninety per cent for whom most of the world's commodities, as well as its enter tainment, are produced, after all, SUGAR If you want to lay up your foun dations, walls and chimneys in a mortar that will stand forever and get stronger with age, mix a little sugar with the lime and sand. That's what Dr. Gerald J. Cox of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research told the American Chem ical Society the other day. The secret of the durability of the od Roman walls and aqueducts which have stood for more than two thousand years, is that they put sugar Into their sand-lime mor tar, making it 60 percent stronger than "unsweetened" mortar, becom ing harder with time. Five or six pounds of granulated cane sugar to 100 pounds of lime does the trick, and the result Is a mortar that is easier to work than cement or gyp sum plaster and stronger than either. ON OREGON FARMS y V f 1 If k 7 ' It ' ' - - ' 5-'.' '' ' : , - i nor TO M Sot, V PAS "Stabilization" wheat bought by the Federal Farm Board is being milled into flour for distribution by the Red Cross to feed the hungry. LASTING FLOWERS URGED AS TRIBUTE Canyon City A pool of nearly 4000 pounds of Grimm alfalfa seed was made up and ordered for 84 Grant county farmers during the past month by County Agent R. G. Johnson. The amounts ordered by individuals ranged from 10 to 300 pounds. An order was also includ ed for 174 pounds of South Dakota No. 12 alfalfa for T. Kennedy and L. V. Stewart. Dallas Here Is a case where de termination and perseverance were not regarded as virtues. When W. Frank Crawford of Zona plowed under his strawberry planting and set out gooseberries in their place, the strawberry root weevils, depriv ed of their natural feed, promptly attacked the gooseberries. The pest was identified by J. R. Beck, county agent, and a spray of lead arsenate and the standard apple poison bait were recommended for its control. Klamath Falls Many dairy far mers have not yet learned the val ue of a dairy herd improvement as sociation, but there are some who have. A number of the members of the Klamath association have found themselves unable to con tinue testing this year. The 11 dairymen left after reorganization found they had only enough work to keep a tester busy half time, so in order to keep the association going they have arranged to em ploy him on their farms at regular farm wages during the other two weeks of each month. Roseburg C r e e p feeding of lambs has proved very successful this spring on the farm of L. E Thompson at Umpqua, where per iodic weightings of the lambs are recorded and an accurate cost of feed purchased kept, reports J. C. Leedy, county agent. A wether lamb weighing 46 pounds March 4 weighed 61 pounds March 25, a gain of 14 V4 pounds In 21 days. A ewe lamb gained 11 pounds in the same period. Total feed cost for 73 lambs creep fed up to March 31 was $6.38. Feeding was stnrted with a few of the early lambs Jan uary 15. Washington Bicentennial Commis sion Gives Pointers on Varieties In Flanting Gardens. Schools and garden clubs all ov er the country are joining enthus iastically in a movement to plant flower gardens this Spring as part of the celebration in honor of the George Washington Bicentennial. This is being done in several ways, according to the Information.Divis ion of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commis sion which is sponsoring the ac tivity. Many gardeners will plant flow ers which will bloom year after year to remind future generations of this great patriotic, nation-wide celebration. Back yards and small garden plots will bloom with Colon ial flowers as an outdoor manifes tation of what this year means to Americans. The Department of Agriculture is cooperating whole heartedly in this movement by pre paring lists of flowers and shrubs which were familiar in Colonial Days. It is possible to plant Ivy at your own home from slips taken at Mount Vernon. Tourists and vis itors to this national shrine avail themselves of the opportunity to purchase little pots of Ivy at the entrance gate. To insure the amateur gardener of the most attractive results, cer tain seeds may be planted in the open ground where the plants are to grow. Among those that SHOULD BE PLANTED EARLY in that way are alyssum, California-poppy, can dytuft, cornflower, forget-me-not, migonette, nemophila, Drummond phlox, sunflower, poppy, and sweet alyssum. Among those that SHOULD BE SOWN LATE in this summer af ter the ground is warm are the castor-bean, sorghum, milo, feteri ta, Indian corn, garden balsam, portulaca, and four-o'clock. The experts of the Bicentennial Commission have worked out a series of color combinations some of which follow: Flowers that are white or with pure white varieties: 4 feet, cos mos; 3 feet, dahlia and sweet-sultan; 2 feet, clarkia, cornflower, larkspur, and scabiosa; 2 feet, ba bysbreath, China-aster, summer chrysanthemum, lupine, bjalloon flower, snapdragon, garden balsam, and poppy; 1 feet, godetia, four o'clock, rose everlasting, and stock; 1 foot, candytuft, Iceland poppy, petunia, ageratum, obelia, portula ca, sweet alyssum, and verbena. Flowers having varieties MIXED WITH WHITE: 3 feet, dahlia; 2 feet, salpiglossi3; 1 foot, nemoph ila, pansy, petunia, and pink. FLOWERS YELLOW, or with yellow varieties: 4 feet, sunflower, feather cockscomb, and dahlia; 2 feet, strawflower, sunflower, and zinnia; 2 feet, calliopsis, sum mer chrysanthemum, Aztec mari gold, snapdragon, and four o'clock; 1 foot, calendula, Cape-marigold, French marigold, Iceland poppy; California poppy, dwarf marigold, and portulaca. Flowers having varieties mixed with yellow: 4 feet, dahlia; 2 feet, calliopsis, rudbeckia, salpiglossis, and summer chrysanthemum; l1 feet, four o'clock; 1 foot, dwarf nas turtium, and pansy. Further color combinations will be sent free upon request to anyone writing to the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commis sion, Washington Building, Wash ington, D. C. DEAN STRAUB PAST 79 MARK. University of Oregon, Eugene, April 12. Oregon's "Grand Old Man," Dean John Straub, dean emeritus of men at the University of Oregon, celebrated his seventy ninth birthday on April 6. The day was spent quietly at his home, but many students and ether friends called to wish him many happy re turns. He has been continuously at the University of Oregon since 1878, retiring from active work last year. "No matter how old I get," he said on his birthday this year, "my love for the boys and girls wili never be diminished. I hope to be strong next fall so that when the tug-of-war comes off at the mill race, I expect to take hold of the rope and pull the sophomores in. Or a least see that the freshmen get a square deal!" ISAVE jr I sW Aim mm t -it M m OYSTERS 5-oz. tins Eastern pack. 10 TINS .... SI SALMON Fancy Alaskan Pinks A TALL XU tins ... BJL AS YOU SPEND SHRIMP It takes money to live, money to buy eat, and If yon purchase your eat at MacMarr' it will inrprise yon what yon can save while you spend. 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