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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1932. PAGE THREE U. O. Ceremony Will Honor Mothers ODD BUT TRUE llilll BARTON - - When We Come to Restock. I had occasion recently to visit an Ohio city of thirty thousand people. Its industries are running only half time, and everybody is hard up, but cheerful. Funds have been raised to take care of those who must have fin ancial help. And on the second floor of the city hall I saw an exhi bit that gave me something to think about. The women of that city have ransacked its homes, from cellar to attic. Literally They have requi sitioned every old suit, overcoat, dress, hat and pair of shoes. Not a single garment has escaped them. The second floor of the city hall looks like the basement of a de partment store, and the plies of goods are melting away very fast The closets of the community are bare. Yesterday my wife received a note from our daughter, who is In a girls' school in New England, saying: "Send up all the old clothes you have. We are gathering them for the people in this neighborhood who need them." I said: "That's a fine spirit for the youngsters to have. You must send up a good big bundle right away." "But I can't," she protested. "Why not?" "I have already sent out every single scrap of used clothing we had in the house. As for shoes, you'll find when you look in your closet that you will have to buy some. I looked over your collection and took them all. Speaking the other day to a group of bankers about the motor industry, my friend R. H. Grant of General Motors pointed out that fewer automobiles were sold in 1931 than went to the scrap heap, and that every month of subnormal pro duction is merely piling higher the total future demand. A leader of the tire industry told me their surveys indicate that there are more badly worn tires on cars today than ever before. The railroads are having to use much equipment that ought to be junked, or extensively repaired. All this means a type of "con sumption" which is very different from that of the years 1924-1929. In that period we thought of a "con sumer" as one who used an article until it was a little shabby and then traded It In. The dictionary definition of "con sumer" is "one who . . . destroys, one who uses up an article." We are destroying things now, using them up completely. There certainly is going to be a whale of a lot of business in this country some day When we come to restock. JEFFERSON It seems to me a pity that the name and fame of Thomas Jeffer son should have been claimed for so long by one political party that his statesmanship and wisdom are ob scured by being viewed through partisan spectacles. Of course, the Democratic party has no more right to claim descent from Jefferson than have the So cialists. There is no political party In America today which embodies any of the essentials of Jefferson's doctrines in its party principles. He was absolutely opposed to govern mental interference with prlvlate business or attempt by government to regulate the lives and conduct of individuals. He believed that mankind' got along best when ev erybody was free to work out his own destiny and to reap the re wards of his own intelligence and industry. It seems to me that all political parties today would do well to swing back to Jefferson's stand ards. They won't do it, of course. Some wiser man than I once said that a political party is an organ ization which exists for the purpose of putting its members on the pub lic payroll. We are suffering now from too many tax-eaters, but the politicians keep making new jobs for their followers. INCOME The difference between the In vestr and the speculator is that the Investor thinks in terms of Income and the speculator thinks In the terms of price. I lunched the other day with a real Investor. He hasn't a very large surplus, but every time he can get $100 together he buys some dividend paying stocks, usually sev eral shares for his $100. He showed me the list of his recent purchases the solldest business and indus trial Institutions in America. And even though some of them have re duced their dividends, he can count on better than ten per cent a year on his Investments. "They may go lower," he said. "I don't care. They may go higher. I know that If these companies fall everything is sunk, and I am con fident that isn't going to happen. I'll be enjoying a good income in my old age and my heirs will have something to cash in on, and that's all I am concerned about" I think one of the troubles in this country today is that too many peo ple think they have lost money be cause they can't cash In today, for as much as they paid for their in vestments, and too few are think ing of secure income for the fu ture instead of big profits for tomorrow. ANTIQUES I went the other night to the an nual national exhibition of an tiques. I saw some beautiful things, but also a lot of junk that gave me a pain In the neck.' Apparently, anything that dates from before 1900 Is an antique nowadays. Am azing prices were asked by dealers for cobblers' benches, horse-shoers' kits, wooden churns, tin dippers and other every-day things that are still to be found In more or less profusion around almost every farm and village. One dealer boasted to me that he could prove that some very cheap glassware, such as I always saw on the table at home, was mado as far back as 1882. And he wanted sev eral dollars apiece for Items that used to cost a quarter, merely be cause they were "antiques." My wife and I have bought a lot of antiques. Our old farmhouse is nearly a hundred and fifty years old, and it pleases us to furnish it with old pieces, when we can buy them cheaper than we could buy equally good new stuff, and if they are still useful. But we never buy anything merely because it is old. CONTENTMENT I had a letter the other day from my old friend, Walter Scott Merri weather, whom I hadn't seen since he was ship news reporter on the old New York Herald, fifteen or twenty years ago, and everybody called him "Skipper." Instead of sticking around in the big city af ter the old Herald was sold, he went down to Charleston, Missis sippi, and bought a country news paper. The Mississippi Sun is one of the best local weeklies that I see, and "Skipper" Merriweather is one of the most contented men I know. I don't know how old he is, but forty seven years ago he was a sailor in the United States Navy and served on the old freighter Constitution. He went to see the Constitution when she was tied up at Gulfport recently, and wrote a mighty inter esting article about it for his paper. I know a lot of city newspaper men who have no jobs and no in come for their old age. I don't know of a single country newspa per editor who is actually in want. COLOR One of the next big revolution ary Inventions will be a hand cam era which will take snapshots of moving objects in the actual colors of nature. And that is going to be followed by new printing inventions which will enable newspapers to print pictures in their natural col ors as readily as they do now in black and white. I don't know how soon It will come, but I know several people who are working on it and who think they are pretty close to it. The world that our grandchildren will inhabit will be far more bril liantly colored than the one we are living In now, just as ours is more brilliant than that of our grandparents. I II PER MILE ROUND TRIP Between points In Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, California, Mon tana (wet of and Including Billing, Havre, Roundup), Wyoming (west of and Including Green River), and point on Great Northern In British Columbia. Mini, mum adult fare SO cents. Children half fare. GOING APR. 28, 29, 30, MAY 1 RETURNING: MAY 10 (Home by midnight that date) Approximate ROUND TRIP FARES TO DESTINATIONS 100 aoo aoo iooo MILES MILES MILES MILES AWAY AWAY AWAY AWAY 2.16 1 4.32 1 1 0.80 1 21.60 Baggage Checked Ticket good on all train and In all car. In Standard and Toarlst Sleeper, add regular sleeping car cnarges. Ask local agent for details union pacific apWHk mm few rwj Mothers of University of Oregon students will be honored May 6, 7, and 8 by one of the most Impressive events held in recent years. Be low is the statue of the "Pioneer Mother" which will be unveiled at that time. The committee in charge is shown above, left to right, top Sam Rotenburg, Portland; Marjorie Swafford, Oregon City; Esther Heyden, Toledo; bottom Helen Raitanen, Astoria; Marian Chapman, Eugene; and Aimee sten, St. Helens. University of Oregon, Eugene- Pioneers of Oregon, mothers of students and all students them selves will unite on the campus of the University of Oregon May 6, 7 and 8 to take pare in the ceremony of unveiling the statue of the "Pio neer Mother," to be presented to the University by Burt Brown Barker, vice-president. The occasion is deemed as an es pecially fitting time to honor mothers of students, since the statue is that of an Oregon pioneer mother. Special events are being planned for the mothers, and they will have places of honor at all junior week-end events, as well as at the unveiling ceremony. s Pioneers will be honored at the ceremony Saturday afternoon, and will be special guests at all the week-end activities. The statue, a masterpiece by the noted sculptor, A. Phimister Proctor, will have a place of honor near Gerlinger Hall. Slow Dairy Pastures Keep Production Down Most backward early spring pas tures in eight years, taking the country as a whole, served to keep butter production early in April below the volume Indicated by the greater number of. cows being milked, says the Oregon State col lege extension service in the week ly market review. Storing of but ter is below normal for the season with operators uncertain what course to take. Pacific coast production is down about 10 per cent and eastern pro duction about 4 per cent as a result of the slow-starting pastures add ed to curtailment of supplementary feeding caused by financial consid erations, says the report. The con dition of pastures in states where cows are normally on pasture by April 1 Is substantially below that In any of the previous eight years for which records are available. Although Oregon dairy pastures are slower than average, future prospects are favorable because of a plentiful moisture supply. The condition throughout the country is most serious in those areas af fected by drouth last summer. Milk production per cow in the United States on April 1 was about 5 per cent lower than on that date in any of the last four years, and some lower than in any April since 1925. Milk production per cow nor mally increases 5 to 8 per cent be tween March 1 and April 1, but this year only 1 per cent increase has been shown. April storage holdings in the Uni ted States indicate a reduction of 50 per cent from a year ago, and about 25 per cent from the flve-year average for April 1. The general attitude of receivers for the past 10 Vote for J. O. BAILEY (Sttta Senator) FOR Supreme Court Judge Poiition No. 3 QualifiedVigorous Progressive He It conscientious and has the confidence and reipect of all the people. Pld Adv. because . . . Motorists who have long used Zerolene continue to use it. 'Motorists who "try" Zerolene become regular patrons. Fleet owners and all large buyers of Zerolene prove constantly by actual test its superior elii ciency and economy. In a won! "Money Cannot Buy a Better Oil." 1 V- OF MUM Tttl 6lrM 0 WfxCH fVJU. GROWTH fU& TttP. DEVELOPMENT , TrEN THE SmE OF THE MOMENT Is. P Iks. mmmm -m Y THE fvCMAA W Tl SWSMERH PftRT 0? 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Free Delivery SKIED 1FRUITS For seven kuuu leauuns yoa should make a purchase of some of these prunes 1, they are healthful; 2, they are appetising-; 3, they are nutritious; t, they are strength. building and make rich blood; 5, they are strictly clean; 6, they are Oregron grown and packed, and 7, they are economical. This should should be proof sumcient. P runes PEUNES PRUNES PRUNES 1000 lbs. large 40-60 size fresh packed Oregon prunes, ship ment Just arrived, at untold of prices heretofore) 5 lbs 29c 10 Lbs 49c 9r $-1.09 MO LBS. X Also dried Peaches, Apples, Ap ricots, Figs, priced to suit the modest pocket book. NOTE: These prunes we offer are not processed but strictly fresh Oregon pack and will keep for a long time. Mgr. Prices Effective Fri.-Sat.-Mon.-Tue., Apr. 22-26, Inc. 49-lb. Sk. FLOUR lacMai-r highest quality hard wheat ' $1.00 jbi. $3-94 SHORTENING Swift Jewell, always fresh 1 Lbs. 39c 8 us 77c COCOA 25c COFFEE SsS -now 3 lbs. 85c Also AIRWAY Brand ""-' 3 lbs. 59c rnCCCC EDWARD'S ori-ti; v.. P.M .U. Tin...33c P r C LEi Cottee. Every can is dated O I L T ti showing just when roasted and sealed. Z-LD. I in..OJC TIGER LILLY, finest quality blended 49-LB. SACK 95c; Per BBL. $3.74 A delicious, appetizing drink, new shipment Just in 3 LBS. SUGAR Pure Cane C. & H. Menu 100-LB. BAG BACON Lb. 18c HAMS.....LL 19c Eastern corn fed, med. weight and very lean Armour's Star, real fixed flavor. P.N. Butter 25c RICE 10 lbs.59c Pancake Flour MacMarr in No. 10 Bags M BAGS . 81.00 SYRUP Maximum brand, pure cane and maple 5-lb. tin 65c; 10-lb. tin $1.25 CHEESE Brookfield. an Oreg'n product sr i8c Macaroni Fresh supply fancy elbo cut 10 u 53c Fresh supply in bulk. Blue Rose head. BEANS 25 ibs.I.OO Red or white Pow.Sugar 5 lbs.39c To finish that delicious cake Fresh Peas, String Beans, Aspara gus, Onions, Radishes, Spin ach and everything to make the meal enjoyable. BANANAS Lucious, ripe golden OQafa fruit. 3LBS.tC GRAPEFRUIT Large size, Arizona seed- OGsn less. 5 FOR a tC