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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1932. PAGE THREE UNKNOWN Buried in the middle of the sec second volume of Lincoln Steffens' autobiography are some paragraphs on education for which I extend my thanks. "Thinking back over my school and college courses," he says, "I could see that one trouble with our education was that it did not teach us what was not known, not enough of the unsolved problems of the sciences, of the arts, and of life. "It gave Ma positive knowledge where there was no certain know ledge, and worst of all, when we did not particularly want it. We were not curious as students, and we are not curious enough now as men and women. "It seemed to me . . . that curi osity was the beginning and end of education." If a copy of this paper happens to fall into the hands of a college president, I should like to suggest to him the establishment in his col lege of a lecture course on The Unknown. The first lecture might be by a professor of physics. He would doubtless start by dropping a pa per weight on the desk, saying, "That is something which no hu man being understands. We call it 'gravitation,' but no man in the world knows what gravitation is." The second lecturer might well be a professor of economics. He would have to say something like this: "We do not know why good times come or why they leave. We have many impressive phrases In our business. We speak of 'gold supply' and 'commodity prices' and 'speculation,' and so forth. We make many charts. These charts only tend to show that what goes up must come down and that his tory has a way of repeating Itself. But why it repeats itself, we really do not know." The third lecturer, of course, should be a philosopher or a the ologian. He would say: "No one knows how the universe started or what is its object. Some men call themselves philosophical pessimists and pretend to know that it has no meaning. Some of us prefer to believe that it has a Maker and a meaning. We feel that this positive faith gives life more significance, more cheer." Such a lecture course would cure the colleges of afflicting the world with wise young men. The grad uates would be humble, curious, thrilled by the challenge of so much to learn, so many things to try. Also, they would understand why no man needs to be ashamed to say: "I do not know, but I believe." LAND The movement to tie Industrial workers to the land is spreading. Mr. Ford anounces that 20,000 ac res in and around Dearborn is un der cultivation by men who work for him. The International Har vester Company has begun to pro vide "miniature" farms for its em ployees who have been laid off on account of the depression. I heard again from one of my cor respondents in Czechoslovakia, who write me that the government pro gram of requiring every Industrial worker to live on enough land to support his family in case of a shut down is working out well. In the- old days in England it was an expression of the deepest contempt to refer to anyone as a "landless man." The man who held no land, by ownership or lease, was a drag on society. That is still measurably true. The huge sums that are being raised for unem ployment relief are not going to men who hold land. The time will come when every body will realize the folly of trying to -separate human activity from the soil. MUSKRATS . Somebody had the bright idea a few years ago of introducing the American muskrat into England. They were intended to be bred in captivity for their furs, but as any one who knows anything about muskrats might have anticipated, some of them got away. Now the muskrat has become a MAGIC, MUSIC, FUN AND FROLIC ON SECOND DAY CHAUTAUQUA George Staples Company Provides Rollicking Entertainment The best natured, fastest talk ing, cleverest working magician in America is coming to Chautauqua. That sounds like a large order, but George Staples is used to large orders in his entertainment work. He is a magician, cartoonist, and ventriloquist all in one, and he car ries with him a delightful assis tant who furnishes a musical back ground and part of the time a musical foreground for his work. Stnples is far different from the ordinary nmgiciun. Hia aim is not only to mystify but to keep his audience in a good humor all of the time. 'He conjures up goblins and witches and ghosts and ogres nil the time he's poking fun at them and keeping his audience fifat- .liifriliiniT the pdnrsi nf t.Vipir chairs and then convulsed with laughter. He is a real radiator of enthus iasm and good cheer to all around him at all times. The Staples Magical musical cartooning ventriloquist combination is some thing new in the Chautauqua world and provides a happy combination of entertainment for those who want good entertainment and don't mnnt. nnvthinir else to co with it. His coming is a real highlight in Chautauqua history. BABY SLEEPS By DR. A. B. GRAY, Heppner, Ore. While nation mourns and skys are dark Our fears at last come true. A sweet, fair haired, blue eyed tot has passed ; Clean little soul of days in numbers few- Now some hawk-taloned hands reach out for more. Peace to the minds of parents stunned by deeds so bold. May they weather through the grief of this repugnant crime. We dare not guess just how they feel ; accepting lies for gold, Gold now tainted by these smirching hands of grime. Fond, saddened parents your loss we too shall share. We know more than a hero's card you hold; Withstanding all and grief like this to bear, Inside a heart of gold. Endearment in the minds of all advance From day to day these trying hours to wait. Hope, then fear, then hope again perchance. But lo! Sad news; and death has been the fate. A sickening pang now grasps the world in awe. More than two parents have some haunting fear Of this black and blood-besmirching claw Of HELL'S most vile crime so near. Well planned and organized; the deed was done. One head contrived while daring dupes marked rime, This blue-print plot to slay this only son. May their wretched hearts more wretched be for such a wretched crime. Are we to sit thus idly by with all this bloody thrall, While they build up a dire domain 'midst our fair land; While "bootleg racketeering" makes it's daily call And crumples every pride there is in man? VILE RACKETEERING .GUILT Speak up; don't lie: Whence came the stones of your foundation? Then with a snarl and bloodshot evil eye, Responds: '"Tis built on prohibition." "Our trade in rum has made us strong, Defense well groomed by clever minds. It's bread and butter for our throng, ' Our lives and work 'round it entwines. "Well organized we stand, and armed To mock your laws, and tender New babes and mothers yet unharmed To us may soon surrender. "We breed no conscience guide nor moral code We do not love nor fear our fellow tribe. Torture, bruise and kill is still our mode; We thirst for blood; for big and better bribe." Stop! You say: "Too hot to handle." Wretched fool, Why juggle this clean baseball phrase? Where were your brains when you were cool Not to forsee this bad and complicated phase? Alas! Vile racketeer! This blemished cash And all your rash, inhuman blackened heart may gain Forever doomed to take a fatal crash Then flounder in despair and want again. Your sacrifice, Oh, fair haired baby boy, Made so Christ-like in it's teaching, May put from man such sad unjust decoy With truth and faith and hope beseeching. national pest. Most of England is none too high above sea level, and for a couole of thousand years its people have been building dams and ikes to keep the surlace water un er control. The muskrats are playing hob with these embank ments and great farm areas have been flooded. Parliament has pass ed a law making muskrats outlaws, to be shot on sight, but who ever saw a muskrat in the daytime wltn in rifle range? Somedav we'll learn the foolisn- ness of moving animals from their native lands. The English spar row and the starllne have become pests in Eastern North America. The water hyancinth, imported from Australia, blocks navigation in our southern rivers. And in Aus tralia the English rabbit years ago became tne most pestuerous ana prolific of vermin. CANDLES Arabella Brideeman died the oth er day in England at the age of 106. She had lived her last 100 years in one house, in which there was nei ther gas nor electricity. Candles alone served her need of light. Sometimes I think most of us would be better off if we left the bright lights for the playhouses and public places and contented our selves In the home with candles and lamps. There wouldn't be so much temptation to sit up late, for one thing. We might not do as much reading, but we might live longer. VETERAN William Creamer the other day celebrated the seventieth anniver sary of his service In the employ of a single New York store. He is nearly 81, and he went to work for Arnold, Constable & Co., when he was ten, and is still working there. Famous men and women of what seems a distant past were among the customers whom this veteran of commerce has served. Mrs. Ab raham Lincoln, Mrs. U. S. Grant, Mrs. Cleveland were among the lad ies who bought things at his coun ter; he remembers a lady named Roosevelt who had as her son, a chubby little boy, with her when she came to shop, and the store clerk has lived a dozen years and more since that little boy passed on after having been President of the United States. I often envy the man who has the patience to stick to one Job, to live simply and within his means and take life as it comes, but I have always commiserated them because their lives seemed to me to lack the essential elements of romance and adventure. But William Crea times when brewing was allowed, but the brewing industry- employed only 78 men for each $1,000,000 in vested. These are the figures for 1914. The latest wet claim put forth in congress as to the revenue to be derived from beer is that the beer tax would amount to only $375,000, 000 instead of the boasted $500,000, 000 claimed a short time ago. It would be necessary for the beer drinkers to drink over $2,000,000, 000 worth of beer in order that the revenue might reach the above fig ures. Now, if a beer drinker should have an income of $150 per month and spent enough out of that to buy only two pints a day, he would be buying less of milk, meat, fruit, dry goods, and household goods. How would that result in any in creased prosperity for the dairy man, the butcher, the fruit raiser, the dry goods merchant, or the seller of household goods? And this does not take into account the fact that the drinker would be low ering his efficiency. The persons who put up such arguments for beer as a revenue producer must think that the dealers in milk, meat, fruit, dry goods and house hold goods would rather have a smaller trade in order to give the beer vendors a chance to collect the revenue. The number of persons engaged in the automobile industry increas ed from 1914 to 1919, a five-year period, 346 per cent, and reached the number of 703,580. During the next five years the number increas ed to 3,119,563, and in 1930 had reached the significant number of 5,056,000. The increase con not all be attributed to prohibition, but if the liquor business had absorbed the amount of money it did prior to 1919, there would have been thousands upon thousands fewer automobiles made and the number employed in the industry would have been much smaller. No econ omic study can justify the claims of the wets. EIGHT MILE FOLKS TO PICNIC. A school picnic is annonunced for next Sunday at the Akers grove on Eight Mile. This grove is situated a mile north of Eight Mile postof fice and a big basket dinner will be one of the features. In the af ternoon a ball game is scheduled between Dry Fork and Eight Mile teams, and this promises to make a lot of entertainment. Mrs. Chas. Furlong, who was in town Tuesday, states that there will also be plenty of ice cream and cold drinks avail able at the post office store and in reach of the picnic grounds. For Rent 402 acres summer grazing land known as South Jones prairie. Mrs. Henry Jones, 399 E. 16th St. N Portland, Ore. 6tf. Local ads ir the Gazette Times bring results. POLITICAL Announcements mer seems to be one of those rare souls who can find romance wher ever he may be, and in his mem ories of the famous folk of old days he has something to enjoy in his old age that is more precious than anything money could buy. UTILITY I take my hat off to the Hartford Electric Light Company. This Con necticut concern has the right idea of what a public utility could and ought to be. It has never merged or sold control to any power com bination or holding company. It has stuck to its business for which it was chartered, that of supplying electric light and power to the peo ple of Hartford. It has earned good profits and paid good divi dends, but it hasn't had to pay in terest on inflated capitalization. So when the hard times hit Hart ford, the company was able to say to its customers: "You're having trouble meeting your bills; we'll give you three months credit, if you need It" If every local lighting company were as independent as that one, nobody would be shouting now about the "power trust." W. C.T.U. NOTES MARY A. NOTSON. Reporter. Of all the nonsensical wet talk which is being broadcasted that ut tered by one of the labor leaders to the effect that an armed revolu tion may occur If "something is not done about reestablishing the sale of liquor" Is about the limit. He goes on to say that the wets have no way in which to give expression to their wishes. This is an abso lute falsehood. The wets have the same way open to them, which the drys had in securing the adoption of the 18th amendment. The con stltution provides tha method for Its amendment; that method was followed by the drys. The talk of armed revolution, or rebellion, need not surprise anyone who is familiar with the methods of the liquor crowd. The first armed re bellion in this country occurred during the time Washington was president and wes staged by the whisky distillers of Western Perm sylvanla. Hence, you might expect some wet to threaten a rebellion The wets, In the main, have not maintained a very high standard as law-abiding citizens. Another piece of nonsense Is the claim that restoration of beer will restore prosperity. The cold facts are that the brewing Industry was a very poor employer of labor. The average number of men employed for each $1,000,000 capital invested In Industry was 308, during the FOR REPRESENTATIVE, 22ND DISTRICT. I am a candidate for the nomin ation for Representative, 22nd Rep resentative District, comprising Gilliam, Morrow, Sherman and Wheeler counties, subject to the will of the Repubican voters at the Primary Nominating Election, May 20, 1932. EDWARD E. RUGG, (Paid Adv.) Heppner. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. To the voters of the Republican Party: I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of County Commissioner at the Primary Nom inating Election to be held May 20th, 1932. FRANK S. PARKER. (Paid Advertisement) FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. To the Republican Voters of Mor row County: I hereby announce that I will be a candidate for the nomination to the office of County Commissioner at the Primary Nom inating Election, May 20. I prom ise, if I am elected, I will do all in my power to cut the expenses of the county and carry on the work to the best of my ability and for the benefit of the taxpayers. CREED OWEN. (Paid Advertisement) FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. To the Republican Voters of Mor row County: I hereby announce that I will be a candidate for the nomination to the office of County Commissioner at the Primary Nom inating Election to be held May 20, 1932. ARNOLD PIEPER. (Paid Advertisement) FOR COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERIN TENDENT. I hereby announce that I will be a candidate for the nomination to the office of County School Super intendent at the May Republican Primary Nominating Election to be held May 20, 1932. MRS. LUCY E. RODGERS. (Piid Advertisement) FOR SHERIFF. To the Republican Voters of Mor row County: I hereby announce that I will be a candidate at the Primary Election, May 20, 1932, for the office of Sheriff of Morrow County to succeed myself. C. J. D. BAUMAN. (Paid Advertisement) FOR COUNTY CLERK. To the Republican Voters of Mor row County: I hereby announce psMwasima in mMmsmtn Henry J. Bean Present Chief Justice of the Su preme Court Formerly circuit judge and district attorney in Pma tilla and Morrow counties. Candidate for reelection as jus tice of the Supreme Court, Position No. 2 on the nonpartisan judiciary ballot. Election May 20, 1932. Re publicans, Democrats and others all vote together for supreme court judges. Asks the support of old and new friends of all parties in Morrow County. (Paid Advertisement) that I will be a candidate for nom ination to the ofilce of Clerk of Morrow County at the Primary Election to be held May 20, 1932. PAUL M. GEMMELL. (Paid Advertisement) FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. To the Republican Voters of Morrow County: I hereby announce that I will be a candidate to suc ceed myself for the office of coun ty commissioner at the primary election to be held May 20, 1932. G. A. B LEA KM AN. (Paid Advertisement) FOR COUNTY CLERK. I hereby announce to the voters of Morrow county that I will be a candidate for the office of County Clerk on the Republican ticket at the Primary Nominating Election to be held May 20th, 1932. GAY M. ANDERSON. (Paid Advertisement) FOR SHERIFF. I wish to announce to the voters of Morrow County that I am a can didate for Sheriff on the Republi can ticket I was born in Morrow county and expect to die in Morrow county. But while I live I wish to mingle with, and serve Morrow county peo ple. 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