HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1932.
PAGE THREE
IT MAKES THE WORLD
GO ROUND.
A young man burst violently Into
my office.
His face was somewhat haggard,
and his clothes disheveled, as tho
he had been up al night, which, in
fact, he had.
But there was electricity in his
walk, and sunshine in his eyes.
"Have you heard the wonderful
news?" he cried.
I told him I had not heard any
wonderful news since 1929.
"Well, you're going to hear some
now," he exclaimed. "I have a boy.
Yes, sir, seven and a half pounds,
born at five-thirty this morning.
Think of it ... me ... a son."
Whereupon he became almost in
articulate, waving his arms and
emitting sounds that were half
laughter and half tears.
At length he gained sufficient
self-conrtol to Impart the informa
tion that the baby had blue eyes.
(I hadn't the heart to say that all
babies have blue eyes. He wouldn't
have heard me anyway.) When I
looked down at him the first time,
the little rascal looked up and smil
ed. And he reached out and grab
bed my finger, and, say . . . well, I
don't know how to express it, but
when I felt him grip my finger, so
trusting and everything . . , well,
say, if I were worth five thousand
dollars to my boss yesterday, I'm
worth ten thousand today."
Did I treat his enthusiasm ser
iously? You bet I did. Any man
who himself has passed through
that experience and does not feel a
reverent sympathy for a younger
brother in the same situation has
some serious lack in his soul.
One night in 1856, Thomas Hux
ley, the great scientist, sat alone in
a quiet room awaiting the birth of
his first child. His spirit was on
fire with great new resolves:
"In 1860 I may fairly look for
ward to fifteen or twenty years,"
he wrote in his diary, "and with
the comprehensive views my train
ing will have given me, I think it
will be possible in that time to give
a new and healthier direction to all
Biological Science.
"To smite all humbugs, however
big; to give a nobler tone to sci
ence; to set an example of abstin
ence from petty personal contro
versies, and of toleration for ev
erything but lying; to be Indiffer
ent as to whether the work is rec
ognized as mine or not, so long as
it is done are these my aims?
1860 will show.
"Half past ten at night.
"Waiting for my child. I seem to
fancy it the pledge that all these
things shall be.
"Born five minutes after twelve.
Thank God."
Every night, somewhere in the
world, hundreds of thousands of
men sit waiting for their children.
Thoughts come into their young
minds, which never were there be
fore. New purposes; new earnest
ness. Not all of this impulse is perma
nent, of course, but a part at least
remains of the urge to do some
thing and be something worthy of
these children.
It is a greater force than personal
ambition. It makes the world go
round.
SCHOOLS
J wish every teacher and every
parent could read and ponder upon
the remarks of Dr. William J. O'-,
Shea, New York Superintendent of
Schools, who said the other day
that the efforts of the schools must
be directed toward defining what is
success In life.
"Too often the unthinking iden
tify success in life with wealth, and
judge human achievement in terms
of material acquisitions," he said.
I have long felt that our school
systems started off on a false trail
when they began to try to teach
children to earn money. That in
evitably results In setting up ac
quisitiveness as the chief virtue,
and money-getting as the principal
pursuit in life.
CONFIDENCE
The other day a banker said to
me: "We've got more money to
lend than we've had at any time in
two years, and I think that is true
of most other banks, but we are not
lending it, because the people who
ought to be borrowing it have lost
conlidence in themselves and their
businesses."
I asked him to explain. He point
ed out that In normal times sound
banking consists in making loans
for productive purposes. It Is not
sound banking to lend money to
someone who cannot use it to make
more money in order to pay It back.
Most of the would-be borrowers to
day, my banker friend said, are
trying to get money to save some
thing that Is Irretrievably lost.
I am inclined to think there is
plenty of bank credit for every legi
timate purpose, and that the rea
son it is not being used more free
ly is that business men are afraid
to try anything new.
BEAUTY
Three or four years ago an artist
moved Into the little New England
village where I vote and trade my
farm produce. He bought the tumble-down
but picturesque old stone
mill and made a studio of it. He
was a pleasant, unassuming fellow
who quickly got acquainted with
the village people and won their
confidence and respect.
The artist's eye was offended ev
ery day by the unartistic appear
ance of Main Street There are, per
haps, thirty houses and stores be
tween the crossroads and the
bridge, and no two of them were
the same color. Some of them look
ed as If they had never been paint
ed at all. Quietly, without adver
tising his purpose, tho artist per
suaded one of the store owners to
paint his building white. It looked
so clean and fresh that the owner
of the adjoining property felt
obliged to paint his also, and he put
on a coat of white paint. Then a
lady across the street decided that
this white paint made her old yel
low house look dingy, so she paint
ed that white.
Now ever house on Main Street
is painted white, which is the best
color of all for buildings set among
green trees, as these are, and 'tour
ists driving through, instead of
hurrying on to get past an ugly and
unattractive spot, slow down and
admire the trim looking village.
And the village folk are proud of
their town now all because one
man succeeded in selling beauty to
his neighbors.
POTATOES
Botanists from the Department
of Agriculture are exploring the
mountains of Bolivia In search of
new varieties of potatoes. Potatoes
came originally from the high An
des, where more than 150 varieties
are known. The natives preserve
them In the ice water of the moun
tain streams, and "cook" them by
freezing. They were taken to Spain
by the early conquerors, but did
not spread over Europe for more
than 200 years, when a Yankee ad
visor of the King of Bavaria intro
duced them Into Germany and
taught the people how to grow and
cook them. They were introduced
into Scotland as a substitute for
turnips about 1790, and into Ireland
some years later.
In communities where the potato
will grow It Is the safest reliance
against famine that has yet been
found. When all other crops fail
the potato can be relied upon to
keep a nation alive. The end of the
recurrent famines in Ireland came
when the people began to cultivate
potatoes. If they would grow In
China and India we would probably
Plan to Reduce Ravages
Caused by Tuberculosis
TUBERCULOSIS
causes -tuberculosis
Ever? case comes
Jrom another
A POWERFUL attack U to be dl-
rected against tuberculosis be
ginning April 1 and continuing dur
ing the rest of this year, when
tuberculosis associations from coast
to coast join In a determined effort
to further reduce the ravages of the
disease. Practically all" the 2,084
associations and committees will
participate, using part of the funds
raised by the Christmas seal sale
last year. This Is expected to be
the most productive campaign In
the history of mankind's fight
against the scourge.
Under the slogan, "Find the
Other Case," these organizations
plan to enlist the aid of health
officers, physicians, nurses, and so
cial workers persons most likely
to have knowledge of active cases
to find the unknown case from
which these active cases got tuber
culosis. For It Is known to scien
tific leaders that nothing but tuber
culosis causes tuberculosis; that
every case comes from another, and
that this other case often is an un
suspected member of the family
thought to have merely chronic
bronchitis, or some other affliction
far different from tuberculosis.
Until this unknown case U
found, he remains a menace to
other persona. The contact must
be broken. ThU is the vital point
in tuberculosis prevention, and
greater progress can be made along
this line than In any other way.
Newspapers, magazines, the
radio, speakers, motion pictures,
posters, and literature will carry
to the public the message that
"Tuberculosis Causes Tuberculosis.
Every Case Comes From Another,"
and It will be explained that every
member of a family in which there
is a case of tuberculosis should
have an examination to be sure no
one else has contracted the disease.
hear no more of famines in those
countries.
SPELLING
How do you spell analogous?
Correct.
I spelled it with three "a's" and
had to step down, in the return
match of our Stockbridge versus
West Stockbridge spelling tourna
ment. I had the satisfaction, how
ever, of lasting a lot longer than
the principal of the high school
did. The winner, now hailed as the
spelling champion of Berkshire
County, Massachusetts, was the
wife of one of my farmer neighbors.
I don t know that spelling bees
prove anything, except that the
ability to spell is more of a gift
than something that can be ac
quired by study, and that a rural
spelling bee is a lot of fun.
Oregon U. Students High
In Time Given to Studies
University of Oregon, Eugene
June 8. Students at the University
of Oregon spend an average of 3.91
hours a day on their studies, a sur
vey just completed by Virgil D.
Earl, dean of men, shows. Mr. Earl
made the survey as part of his the
sis for a degree of master of science.
At only one other university in
the entire United States where sim
ilar studies have been made is this
record exceeded, Mr. Earl's survey
shows. This Is at Northwestern
University, where the average Is
4.2 hours. Back in 1915, however,
the university here nearly equalled
this, when students devoted an av
erage of four hours per day to their
studies.
Time devoted daily to studies in
other institutions was found to be
as follows: Yale, 2.94 hours; Var
sar 3.31; Mount Holyoke, 3.20; Uni
versity of Idaho, 3.00; Ohio Wesley-
an, 2.30; Cornell, 3.02; University of
Chicago, boys 3.36 and girls 3.23;
University of Iowa, 3.23.
This high record has been made
at Oregon In spite of the fact that
the institution does not have the
library facilities of many others,
and is also somewhat handicapped
by lack of research and other study
facilities. "These figures demon
strate clearly, I believe, that stu
dents come to the University of
Oregon determined to get the most
out of their courses," Dean Earl
says. "The high standing of our
graduates who go to other institu
ttons to do further study, and the
success that they make in their
chosen fields also bears this out."
For Rent 402 acres summer
grazing land known as South Jones
prairie. Mrs. Henry Jones, 399 E.
16th St. N., Portland, Ore. 6tf.
Dedication of Campbell Memorial Fine Arts Museum to Mark
( Commencement at University of 'Oregon
Commencement exercises at the University this year will Include
tho dedication ceremony for the Prince L. Campbell Fine Arts Museum
building and tho Camplwll memorial court. This will bo held on Sat
urday, Juno 11. Baccalaureate service, with President Arnold Bennett
Haifa speaker, will bo held Sunday morning and graduation exercise,
at which Italibl Stephen B. Wise of New York will deliver the address,
will take place Monday. Above a view of the Campbell memorial
museum. At right Dr. Campbell, beloved president of the Unlversltj
until the time of hit death In 1925, from the bust by A. l'hlmlster
Farm Prices Sink Lower;
Outlook Reports Coming
Price levels for farm products
on Oregon farms average scarce
ly half as high as at this season of
the year from 1926 to 1930, accord
ing to data just released by the
Oregon State college extension ser
vice.
The general level of farm prices
for eggs on April 15 was 51 per cent
of that average on that date from
1926 to 1930, the report said. The
Oregon butterfat price index stood
at 38, hogs 39, wool 34, beef cattle
52, wheat 44 and hay 84. The gen
eral level of farm prices in the
whole country is also low.
The exchange value of farm pro
ducts for commodities usually pur
chased by farmers now averages
about one-half as much as before
the war, according to the circular.
Factory payrolls in the United
States are listed as a measure of
the strength of demand for farm
products were reported as 50 per
cent of the average at the same
season from 1923 to 1925.
A number of summer and early
fall outlook reports are scheduled
to be released from August to Oc
tober. These reports are intended
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to assist farmers in planning their
production operations in the future
as Indicated by prospective supply
and demand conditions.
Ten years ago the basic data nec
essary for practical outlook reports
were not available, but through the
work of economists in the United
States department of agriculture
and the state agricultural colleges
this difficulty is' being gradually
overcome.
The cotton acreage reduction act
of the state of Texas has been de
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peals. In the meantime slow but
steady progress is being made by
the agricultural extension service
in helping cotton farmers adjust
their acreage according to the mar
ket outlook from year to year.
Medford Fruit thinning results
in better and more uniform size
fruit, better quality and smaller per
cent of culls, according to County
Agent L. P. Wilcox, who has been
holding demonstration meetings on
various farms throughout the coun
ty to show the best method of thin
ning. Better distribution of fruit
also makes for better control of
codling moth worms, Mr. Wilcox
says.
Canyon City An alkali grass
nursery has been seeded by John
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operation with County Agent R. O.
Johnson, on a piece of bad alkali
land, which is sub-Irrigated. The
varieties planted include Zwadi al
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ian Salt bush, Salt sage, and a mix
ture of meadow fescue and Black
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