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1 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1932. PAGE THREE WHY MEN DIE. Among the men whose friend ship I enjoyed was the late C. W. Barron, owner of the Wall Street Journal. One day in Boston I received a message that he was sick in New York and wished to see me before he died. I hurried home by the fastest train, but when I reached hia hotel I discovered that he had given up all Idea of dying. He was in bed, but he was telephoning, dictating, receiving visitors, and having a glorious time. He had been close enough to eter nity, however, so that the experi ence left a deep impression. When his secretary went out of the room, we talked about Death. He told me two stories. The first was about a man who accumulated a large fortune, built a house on Fifth Avenue, put his feet on the window-sill, and said: "Now, I am going to enjoy myself." But he was like a watch spring which has been wound up tight for a long time, and, being suddenly released, snaps in pieces. After only a few months of idleness he died. The second story had been told to Barron by a noted surgeon. A woman, taken to the hospital for a slight operation, died almost before the anesthetic was applied. The surgeon could not understand it On looking into her history, he dis covered that from the minute the operation was decided upon she had begun to prepare for the worst. She had made her will, given away her jewels, and divided her personal property. The surgeon said: "That taught me a lesson. I shall never again operate until I find out what prep arations the patient has made. If any person cares so little about holding on to life that he makes all preparations to let go, then some other surgeon can have the job." Barron said that by the degree of their courage and faith men them selves determine how long they will live. I believe that is true that those live who want to live; that when interest ceases, the heart Btops. Montesquieu remarked that "the love of study is almost the sole pas sion that is eternal in us; all the others fail as this miserable ma chine which sustains them falls more and more into decay." None of us can escape the process of decay, but there are many things I want to learn, so many places I want to see, that I hope to fool the old heart and kidneys for quite a while. And so, I trust, will you. I STOCRBffiDgE I FOOD I am glad to pay my respects to Gus Waser, the Los Angeles hotel chef, who won first prize in a na tional contest for the best dinner menu by offering a list of comesti bles without a single French name among them. Here is the purely American dinner which Gus sub mitted: Grapefruit and orange cocktail; cream of tomato soup with crack ers; roast chicken with dressing; new peas and mashed potatoes; butter biscuits, salad of lettuce and asparagus tips; pumpkin pie and coffee. It would be hard to beat that, either for its Americanism or for its appeal to the appetite. It makes me hungry to write it down ANALOSTAN Opposite Washington, in the Po tomac River, is an island of a hun dred acres or so which was the pop ular playground of the boys with whom I went to school in my 'teens. Fifty years ago Analostan Island was a deserted waste, covered with second-growth timber and under brush which almost hid the ruins of the mansion which George Ma son of Gunston Hall built there be fore the Revolution. You got to the island from the Virginia side of the river over a crumbling causeway which was submerged at high tide. The short, easy way was to swim across the Potomac from Little field's wharf, carrying one's clothes out of water with one hand. A boy who couldn't do that couldn't trav el with our gang. When we got there there wasn't anything to do but play pirates. Now, the Roosevelt Memorial As sociation has bought Analostan Is land and given it to the United States. It will be known as Roos evelt Island and become a public park, to which no automobiles will be admitted. I am glad to learn that it will be kept in the wild state in which I knew it and that birds and rabbits will still find it a ref uge. GOLD One way of putting the unem ployed at productive work is to set them prospecting for gold. That is not so fantastic as it may sound. There are gold deposits in many places which easily yield enough to pay good wages to people who know how to get the gold out. In Denver and other Colorado cities schools for gold diggers have been started. Half a dozen exper ienced placer miners are showing the unemployed how to wash the sands of the South Platte river for gold. Here, inside the city limits of Denver, every Spring and Sum mer since gold was first discovered there in 1858, miners have been panning out $1.50 to $2 a day of gold per man. In the Republic of Bolivia, where there is probably more undeveloped mineral wealth than anywhere else in the world, the government is al lotting five acres of mineral land to any unemployed Bolivian who wants to work it Activities like those actually add to the world's wealth, and they em phasize the lesson many of us had forgotten, that all wealth comes from the soil and it isn't safe to get too far away from Mother Earth. FIRES The city of Berkeley, California, has adopted an innovation in charg ing for the services of its fire fight ing department when the fire to which it Is called resulted from a violation of the fire code or the pro tective orders of the department That is sound common sense, and It ought to help make people more careful about taking chances with the fire laws. More than half of the fires In the past year in America, a recent re port to the National Board of Un derwriters stated, were of Incen diary origin. Landlords and ten ants, hard pressed for money, set lire to their premises to cheat the insurance companies. A general tightening up of the laws against arson and of the penalties for this form of fraud has been going on In many states. We have more fires than any oth er nation because so many of our buildings are still of wooden con struction. It will take us another four or five hundred years to be come as nearly fireproof as France or Germany. SPELLING The other night I took part, with my farm and village neighbors, in an old fashioned "spelling bee" held in the old Congregational church at West Stockbridge Center, Mass achusetts, where services have been held continuously since 1788. I was surprised, not only at the popular interest, which crowded the-church to the doors, but at the proficiency in spelling displayed by most of the participants. Poor spelling results from inabil ity to remember how words look. On the whole, I believe, country people are better spellers than the products of the city schools; they have learned from infancy to ob serve, to note and remember slight differences in objects around them. Printers are good spellers because they have to be, and such ability as I have in spelling I attribute largely to my apprenticeship as a boy to the printing trade, followed by employment as a proofreader on a city daily. It is a mistake to brand anyone as Ignorant because he or she is not a good speller. George Washing ton was far from ignorant but he spelled the same word three differ ent ways in one letter! In his day the rules of spelling had not been fixed, as they have been since Noah Webster published his famous old "Blue-back Speller" and followed it with his dictionary. I almost forgot to say that the team I was on won the spelling match! WATCH FOB OUR JUNE FUR NITURE SALE. Will include values in staple and new items such as we never before could think of offering. A Jenny Lind Bed FREE with each new Sealey Air-vented Spring-filled mat tress with many staple pieces at one half the cost of same a year ago is but a suggestion. Case Furniture Co. For Rent 402 acres summer grazing land known as South Jones prairie. Mrs. Henry Jones, 399 E. lGth St N., Portland, Ore. 6tf. NEW HAY GRADES TO BE IN FORCE Depression Comedy at Chautauqua "Watts Family Depression" an Antidote for the Blues cAm t M. oak,.- or It it always a good sign when people ean begin to laufch at their troubles. Driig the World War when the 'Doughboys - began to laugh the omi of the tror was ap proaching. During the past winter season several plays have been produced In New York, notably, "Of Thee I Sing," and "Face the Music," which ridicule the present day difficulties. The coming Chautauqua is being planned aa an antidote for the blues, worries and troubles, which have beset practically every man and woman in every city, town, or county in the United States. Included in its bill of fare this year are two sparkling comedies which have a direct bearing on present day problem. The second play of the week Is entitled the "Watts Family De pression" and tells the story of an ordinary American family in the grip of the great financial diffi culties of the past three years. The situation is familiar to millions of other American families and the misfortunes which one after an other befall the Watts family, bring chuckles and familiar nudges all over the audience. The family savings are lost in a bad Investment and various mem bers lose their jobs, brother and sister argue and quarrel as broth ers and sisters sometimes do; the mother and father have their mis understanding, and all in all, it is a situation understood and ap pealing to American families everywhere. It is a dynamic, red-blooded comedy, full of life and with a plot that keeps every listener on the alert from start to finish. The play is presented by an able, pro fessional cast headed by Ernest Misner. Other members of the cast are Lucile Mitchell, Clarice Olson, Harold Sappenfield and Bonnie Knapp. The cast which is known to hun dreds of theatre lovers all over the United States, and the play which tells the story of 1930 and 1931 and 1932, make a combination that will be remembered for, years to come and will in many commun ities change the entire attitude to wards "The Great Depression." High Quality to Ot Recognition On Market Says O. S. C. Man; Harvest Hints Given. Extra care in handling alfalfa hay this year will probably pay good returns to Oregon farmers this year in view of the recently adopted United States hay grades in Oregon for alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures, timothy, and clover, and mixtures of these with various grass hays, says D. D. Hill, asso ciate agronomist at the Oregon State college experiment station. Under a plan adopted by the state department of agriculture in coop eration with the federal hay Inspec tion service, terminal grading and inspection will be provided this year at Portland and shipping point inspection in the Klamath Falls and Hermiston regions, and probably elsewhere If enough de mand for It develops. "Hay grades as they are applied now are entirely workable and In dicate feeding quality remarkably well," says Hill. "The feeder who buys hay on standard contract grade can be assured of uniform quality, something that coast dairy feeders especially have long been seeking. As soon as buyers become familiar with the different grades the better types are almost certain to command a premium." Color and leafiness are the two chief characteristics of high grade alfalfa hay, says Hill, for the rea son that good color nearly always indicates cutting at the proper time and other good harvesting methods, while leafiness means that the hay is carrying a high per centage of protein for which alfal fa hay is widely sought. The first step in the production of alfalfa hay with good color and good leaves is to cut early," Hill continued. "Hay cut any time from the bud stage to one-tenth to one quarter bloom will usually have good color. Continued cutting in the bud stage will usually weaken the stand, so it is best to allow at least one cutting per year to reach a stage corresponding to one-tenth to one-quarter bloom. "A number of other practices in curing and stacking or baling are important in maintaining high feeding quality and consequently high grades. A series of meetings to acquaint hay growers, feeders and dealers with the new grades is planned through the state in the next week or so." ON OREGON FARMS Dallas Three trial plantings of Redheart strawberry have been startetd on the farms of W. V. Sam ple, Falls City; C. H. Mode of In dependence, and W. D. Henry of Zena, reports County Agent J. R. Beck, who obtained the plants for the men. The Redheart strawber ry, Mr. Beck says, has come into considerable prominence in eastern United States, and is highly recom mended by Dr. George Darrow, In charge of small fruit investigation al work in the Pacific Northwest for the U. S. department of agri culture. Roseburg A unified premium list for all community fairs of the county is being worked out by the Douglas county fair board, accord Ing to County Agent J. C. Leedy, who has been cooperating with a committee composed of Willard Smith, Glide; A. W. Caswell, Myr tle Creek; C. C. Hill, Days Creak, and Wesley Meredith, Looking Glass, in making up such a booklet. LaGrande N. K. West of La Grande recently disposed of 30 tons of certified Markton seed oats to the Equity Cooperative associa tion of Malta, Mont, at a price of $30 per ton. The sale was arranged through County Agent H. G. Avery, and was a follow-up order on six cars of Marktnn oats from Union county sold to this concern in 1931. The Markton variety originated at the Moro branch experiment sta tion. Sheridan Through the use of Ir rigated Lad i no clover pasture, O. F. Daniels of this community was able to cut the feed cost per pound of butterfat to 16 cents a pound last year. During the summer when the cows were on the clover the cost was as low as 8 cents a pound. This was raised during the winter when the cows were fed in the barn. kA Wi I PHONE 1082 MacMarr btores, Inc. we Deliver PINEAPPLE Large cans broken slices. Fancy quality. 8 Large O-i AA 22 Tins5J.UU Catsup Van Camp's, large bottle 7r 81.00 Prices Effective Friday-Saturday-Monday, June 3-4-6 Cl . White, fresh ohortemng andfufy Macaroni Atsshpastf Oregon full cream CHEESE SALMON Alaska pink OYSTERS Fine quality Eastern 10 ST 81.00 MAYONNAISE Match 11 u $1.00 20 lbs 81.00 6 LBS 81.00 10 S 81.00 P. N. BUTTER Maximum Brand 2 LBS 23c CRACKERS Snowflakes . 2 Cdy., 2 lbs. each 55c BERRIES Canning berries now at their peak and the prices lowest in years. Come in for your sup ply today. and RELISH SPREADS Best Foods products COFFEE MAC MARR Quality 3 LBS 89c . AIRWAY BRAND 3 LBS. 59c Dependable Vaccum Packed 2 LBS .: - 63c Per Qfc. 49c PAR America's finest concentrated soap. 2 LG. PKGS 75c SOAP Large bars asst. toilet soap 10 BARS 55c The famous ff O QS Highway brand CTNS. .. O VX D Eastern corn fed PER Del COD Sweet and delicious POUND BEANS Red rwMte 10 17c lbs. 39c Morrow County FREE Oia't Heppner jyne 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 Ad mission 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 to Heppner for Four Days of Fine Entertainment
