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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1932. PAGE THREE HUMAN NATURE Some nights I go home emotion ally tired out. Not by work, but by repeated rev elations of the meaner side of hu man nature. All sorts of unpleasant charac teristics come to the surface under the stress of hard times. Partners quarrel; husbands and wives snarl at each other; companies throw their "code of ethics" into the dis card; bluffers and cheaters, who have "got away with it" for years, are shown up in their true colors. All this is depressing. BUT . . . When In human history has there ever been a time when so many million people were acting gener ously and sympathetically as nowT I can name dozens of concerns that have continued to operate at a loss because their owners felt a responsibility to their employes, and other dozens that have fought off any reduction in salaries to the last possible minute and then made the heaviest cut at the top. I know one large city where twenty - five hundred volunteers have each adopted an equal num ber of destitute families and are oarrying their members through the winter. I can name a strug gling little college whose under paid teachers voluntarily asked a ten per cent reduction in salaries in order that certain poor students might not be compelled to leave school. The action of the railroad men and executives gave me cheer. It brought back a vivid memory of a certain Sunday morning when I was seven years old. My father, a clergyman, had never purchased a Sunday news paper. On this particular morning he came down to breakfast looking deeply concerned, and said to Moth er; "I feel today that I must know the news before I go into the pul pit" The news that he felt he must know was about the railroad strike in Chicago, where men were killing each other, and Grover Cleveland had ordered out the Federal troops. We have made a lot of progress in the intervening years. A wise old professor in my col lege used to quote the following verse from the Psalms: "What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou vislt est him?" Most people, he said, interpret that to mean: "What does petty, futile man amount to, that you (God) should give him any thought?" A better interpretation, the pro fessor argued, is this: "what a wonderful creature man must be that even God is mindful of him and likes to visit him." We can get almost any view we choose of human nature. Man is either Just "a little lower than the angels" or just a little higher than the beasts. ' According to where and how we look. enforcement by encouraging offi cials, rallying citizens or shaping remedial legislation. Its obvious purpose is to thrill readers with portrayals of illicit liquor opera tions, highway robberies, bank ban ditry, blackmailing wealthy bacn- clors, marriages for alimony, Kid napping for ransoia, race track killines." sjang wars, racketeer ing and such plots as enable the writers to shoot up the Ten Com mandments, lure readers and sell the magazines. He says these magazines play up the criminal activities or young college students, who are made out to be heroes in the realms of crime. The title pages of these magazines are calculated to appeal to the im mature and susceptible persons and tend to inspire imitative conduct. The courts are constantly disclos ing that adults as well as juveniles are influenced to crime by these lurid stories. The effect of uch lit erature is so manifest that some states have forbidden the publica tion of such matter. 1 He finds that it is evident that the publishers of these magazines of deeds of iniquity, brutality, kna very, proliflgaey, deparvity, malev olence,- vice, lawlessness, scandal and corruption ignore the public welfare and consider only how they may draw the curious, weak, ab normal and degenerate to the cash registers and coin boxes of the news stands which sell such trash. When, says Mr. Pringle, an offi cer was seen in charge of a school mental relaxation and momentary forgetfulness of one's personal wor- ries, Is important in exact propor tion to its triviality. If there is any thing more trivial than watching frogs jump, I don t know what It is. We would all be better off if we would ease up every little while from the pursuit of the elusive dol lar and just sit around and watch the frogs jump DOLLAR Captain Robert Dollar, who died at the age of 88 the other day, was 1 nnp nf thp p-rent men of the world. STf A poor Scotch boy, he came to -'' . ... ,- i America, wonted in armuiaii ium- I heard a new definition of "sin," her camps, came to the United h. iw nlirM With mv w fe. 1 stales ai me neau ui ma uw.i mm ry,tnrA ber business, needed ships to carry went to a meeting of the Oxford Group Movement, which is better learned to operate them himself. Known in mci im d-j tie was tne largest maiviauai snip ism,' from the name of the Rev. owner n the world when he died, Dr. Buchman, one or lis leaaers. and n8 gnips were , on tne 0$ An audience that packed the ban- ahlnnaH Rvstpm under which, if room of one of New York's largest nnhoriv -iS(, had a return careo for fashionable hotels came to hear nne of them) the captain would buy what many recent converts had to a ship0ad of merchandise on the say. owner s account. It was an amazing meeting in "Never come home in ballast," many ways, particularly because ot waa one of njs ruleg for his cap the total absence of self-conscious- tains. Another was "Never beat a ness on the part of those who told chinaman." That last gave him how they had found new happiness preference n ail Chinese ports over in the full acceptance of old teach- all other shiPping lines. He orig- ings. But the definition which in- lnate(i the idea of around-the-world terested me was this: tours and every two weeks one of "Sin is whatever comes between Btarts out for a voyage yourself ana uoa, or oeiweeu around the world. self and others. Rigid honesty and minute atten I've been ruminating that ever tlnn tn detail of his own bus! since, and It stands up. It widens ncsg were we keynotes of Captain the category of sin, as usually ac- Dollar's success. Nobody has yet cepted, considerably; but 11 sets I discovered any better way of get- standard which, li uvea up 10 uy ting ahead in the world everybody, would ceriainiy umno the world a lot happier place to live In. Think it over. iULI-Wl MARY A. NOTSON. Reporter. The dishonest wets think they l don-t oiame u xu... sensible people Into much for declining to let h s friends th w that a the Increase In use his name as a cand Wte tor the hibitlon Some Democratic Presidential nomina- f i,u. iii tion. Mr Young would make a good th,nk them. president Everybody who knows most of them knQW him or anything about him agrees & practicing deception. They to that. But why should anybody V P whatever that their want to be President, when he has correct. a8ser. W.C.T.U. NOTES a reputation to lose Under our peculiar American po litical conditions. It Is safe to say tion gets nowhere with people who use their gray matter. H. N. Pringle, Law Enforcement that no man ever ran tor toe Pr Director of International Re- idency wiuioui "-"5 form Kederation, puts his finger up- falsely accused and "belled "n"' on one of the causes of increase in most people are reauy w crime. He calls attention to th worst of him. We are still pretty childish in politics. Probably abuse fact that of about 1300 periodical i. r-rooau.y "" -,, nll,llBhed In the United never defeated a single candidate .nedalize in crime or are entirely devoted to It This crlm Inal fiction Is not Issued to aid law boy of nine, under arrest for a suc cessful highway robbery with a re volver, he asked the principal of the high school In the town, "How do they get that way?" He replied, "Gangster films in the theaters and crime magazines on the news stands are the usual causes.' Education for crime brings results. And here la one of the principal causes of In crease in crime, especially juvenile crime. IN MEMORIAM Nearly two thousand years ago the Soldier of the Cross established the necessity for memorials when He instituted the Great Memorial by braking bread and pouring wine in commemoration of His sacrifices for the salvation of the world. In the 20th century we are following in His train in this commemoration, and we believe that we have right eous cause to commemorate the sacrifices of the defenders of the rights of humanity in the 20th cen tury by another symbol made sac red by blood, shed for the peace of the world We commemorate this service with the little red poppy of the bat tlefronts this modern Holy Grain, KOCH SOLVED GREAT PROBLEM 'A tmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmti which caught the sacrificial blood of our men In 1914-1918. Wearing the poppy-symbol pays tribute to those who gave their all to bring peace to the world. Wear ing the poppy reminds our own hearts, and the heart of the world, that we must keep faith with the pledge they sealed by their sacri fices, that other generations might have a richer heritage of happiness. Robert Koch, the German Doctor Who Discovered ths Tubercle Bacillus ROBERT KOCH, a German coun try doctor, startled the world fifty years ago with absolute proof that tuberculosis Is caused by tiny germs so small that thousands can ride on a speck of dust. And after some of the moat celebrated sclen tlsts of the world had sought un successfully to find the germ of tuberculosis and many had denied the disease could be spread by a germ he devised methods whereby It could be cultivated and studied through a microscope. It was known at that time that many varieties of inflnitestlmal liv ing organisms had their abode In the body of man. But that some ot them caused disease, while others helped man to live, was largely a matter of conjecture. For the first time, he showed the whole scientific world how to separate one of these tiny mites from others not of the same family, and how to grow them In incubators. He proved that cer tain rod-like creatures only one eight-thousandth of an Inch long caused tuberculosis. When injected into the bodies ot healthy animals, tuberculosis always resulted. Without Koch's discovery, an nounced March 24, 1882, mankind would be without a sure footing In its battle against the unseen en emy. Koch made it possible to test sputum to learn if a person had tuberculosis; he proved that each case must come from another case, that tuberculosis doesn't just happen. Today, 60 years after Koch's dis covery, tuberculosis association! from coast to coast are engaged In a campaign to find the unknown case which has Infected the known case; to teach the sick the simple rules of hygiene which prevent In fection In others, as well as to help the patients themselves get well. RESTFUL SLEEP for FRETFUL, FEVERISH CHILD With Castoria't regulation When your child tosses and cries out in his sleep, it means he is not eomfortable. Very often the trouble is that poisonous waste matter is not being carried off as it should be. Bowels need neip mild, gentle help but effective. Just the kind Cas toria gives. Castorla is a pure vege table preparation made specially Tor children's ailments.- It contains no harsh, harmful drugs, no narcotics. Don't let your child i rest and your own be interrupted. A prompt dose of Castorla will urge stubborn little bowels to act. Then relaxed comfort Sid restful sleep I Genuine Castorla ways has the name: CAS TORI A I II J Bend Spartan barley, a new va riety for Centra Oregon, is being tried out on the Herman Rasch ranch at Terrybonne this year, us ing seed obtained from Michigan through the office of County Agent Gus Hagglur.d. This barley is said to be of special value as a nurse crop for clover. It has exception ally stiff straw, thus reducing the amount of lodging, and yields well. For Rent 402 acres summer grazing land known as South Jones prairie. Mrs. Henry Jones, 399 El 16th St N, Portland, Ore. 6tf. Threshing outfit tor sale Ford son, separator, header and boxes. Alex Green, Heppner. 10-11 13-Year Old Girl Shows Improvement Cincinnati, O. Mrs. W. B. Logan, Cincinnati, Ohio, recently said: "My little 13-year-old granddaughter was nothing but skin and bones. She would go to the table and never eat a mouthful. We simply could not make her eat I started giving her a teaspoonful of Sargon, three times a day before meals. Now she's simply eating her head off and doesn't look like the same child." PATTERSON & SON. Li La fi I PHONE 1082 MacMarr Stores, Inc. we Deliver SET YOUIV a. MILK Jjt mt pii mf V ' 11 JWmmml' Federal Brand, tall tins -W. FORM AY EjWJ Pb'f Th6 pT!ect shortening gliilltX 2-1H. Tin 39c - 6-1H. Tin S1.1S Prices Effective Frid'y-Saturd'y-Tuesd'y May 27-28-3 1 iliiiliilii.HsBliis.i.i.iiliiMliiMiMMIiis.iHil SUGAR PURE FINE CANE S4.75 100 LBS. FLOUR :.rrr. 49-lb- Sack l.09 Also Soft Wheat Flour Per Barrel . 4.25 Fine for rolls, biscuits, pancakes Per 49-lb. Sack 95c HONEY ErW 10 lbs. 85c Corn Meal Eastern white or ' yellow. Fresh supply. 9 cks 29c Canned Goods SALE No. 8 ST. BEANS, COBN, TOMA TOES, PEAS, KRAUT 10t.nsS1.00 Fresh Strawberries Peas, New Potatoes, AIRWAy runups, tanuis, xvau ishes, Onions, Peppers, Tomatoes, Cucumbers everything to complete your menu Wm I Wm Edwardi Dcptndal 111 mm mm mm mm very exceptional vacuui packed dated coffi Store Closed All Day Monday MEMORIAL DAY Stop and Shop SATURDAY COFFEE MAC MASS, the very best in bulk coffee. 3 LBS 89c 3 lbs. 59c :-2lbs.63c BACON 17c 14c Eastern corn fed, very lean, sweet PER POUND .... Extra Lean Back PER POUND SOAP Harmony or P. & G. Laundry 20 BARS : 75c LARD 1 PURE HOG LARD NO. 10 7Qn PAIL I Vm or elected his opponent, but it la still the favorite weapon or politl paI orators. It is small wonder that many hon orable men who value their repu tations do not care to go Into pol itics. WILBUR Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary f thn Interior. Is a "real" doctor; w In to sav. he Is a Doctor of Mncilclne. Consequently his diag- what's the matter with t, ufnrlil in worth listening to with reanect. This is what he told a Philadelphia audience the other nloHt- Mv rilRsnosls Is that our present .luiiiraitinn Is broken out with hives. Thev Irritate and bother us; they show us that we need some oxdu In our Dhvslcal organiza tion, but they are not evidence of fatal or fundamental weaknesses." The people who think that the world is on its last legs ought to be told different. Dr. Wilbur is rigm. FROG The most famous frog In the world was the "Jumping Prog of rninvnras." hero of one of MarK Twain's early stories. That frog's nimn was Daniel. His successor, the winner of the annual Calaveras County, California, frog-jumping contest, both last year and this, Is named Budwelscr. Budwelser Jumped 13 feet 5 Inches this year . .nn ln rtf Vi I a flurnor. Mr.xqGO TO STANDARD worrying about how to pay meir ctn the contrary, entertain ment, anything which brings about Are you getting Octane EFFICIENCY? It Means Full Gasoline Power! Go to Standard for extra boost uphill for every last spurt of power for . high Octane Efficiency pushing your engine every second! See for yourself just fry "Standard" or standard Mhyl Uasoline. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA 1 1 MORI FOR YOUR MOMIY-AT STANDARD STATIONS. INC., AND RED WHITE BLUE DEALERS Morrow County it nrCIC mm Hepp"er June 1 wm t Reserved Seats for Sponsors Members of the Chautauqua As sociation, those who contribute toward its support, are given re served seats, one reserved seat for each $2.50 contributed. About twenty reserved seats are available to those who desire to take them. Reserved seat checks will be ob tained at Gordon's confectionery store after SATURDAY, MAY 28, at noon, in exchange for the official receipt. Receipts should be presented in person or by a friend, as the ticket committee will not make selections. A glowing array of talent to be presented in one of the liveliest entertainments ever to come under the big tent a real "gloom-dispelling" festival. No Charge For Admission The Chautauqua is sposored by public spirited citi zens of the county who pay for the entertainment outright, throwing the tent open to everyone free of charge. Come Days o f or hour to Heppner f Fine Entertainment