HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES,
HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1932.
PAGE THREE
Faster Than Radio
An unpleasant rumor began to
circulate about a certain man.
Such stories are an unsolved
mystery. How do they start? What
ia the magic which spreads them,
magic more deadly than lightning,
faster than radio.
You hear the tale in New York;
you climb into an airplane and as
you climb down in San Francisco
you hear a voice exclaim: "What
do you know about So and So?"
If the victim is famous and of
enviable reputation, the broadcast
ing is twice as rapid. In the in
stance referred to this was the
case. Here are the comments of
the first three men who hastened
to tell me the story:
Number One: "It Just shows that
you never can tell. Who'd think
that old X would be up to such
tricks?"
Number Two: "I was terribly
shocked. What in the world could
he have been thinking about?"
Both these broadcasters, you see,
assumed at once that the man was
guilty.
Number Three spoke with hon
est indignation. "I've known X for
years. You can't make me believe
COMMODITIES
A hundred and fifty years ago a
store in Albany advertised that it
had for sale, "Tammies, half-thicks,
Persians and pelongs, blue sagatha
and red bunts, tickleburghs and
black everlastings, and handker
chiefs known under the names of
bandanoe, lungee, romals, culgee,
puttical and silk setetersoy."
Who today knows what any of
these commodities was?
I wonder if historians 150 years
from now, looking over such of our
newspaper files as have not been de
stroyed by time, will wonder what
sort of things Americans of 1932
wore, which we advertise as step
ins, three-in-ones, celanese, panties,
and woolies. Those are just a few
words I happen to catoh in looking
over advertisements in today's pa
per. SALARIES
Senators and members of Con
gress who have been making a gal
lant fight against government sal
ary reductions which would reduce
their own $10,000-a-year stipends,
might be interested in reading the
newspapers of the year 1789, the
year when our present form of gov
ernment began and George Wash
ington was first Inaugurated Pres
ident A Boston newspaper started a
loud cry of protest against the sal
aries paid to members of Congress.
They received the enormous stipend
of $6 a day, and the Speaker of the
House got $12. That according to
the public opinion of the time, was
twice as much as they were worth.
Comparing anybody's expendi
tures of today with those of even
forty years ago, they seem wildly
extravagant, but that is because the
value of the dollar has changed ma
terially in forty years, with the
enormous additions to the world's
gold supply that have been made
in that time.
GOLD
Just as news comes that the gold
deposits In the Witwatersrand in
In South Africa, which in recent
years has produced more than half
of the world's annual supply of yel
low metal, are beginning to "peter
out," as miners picturesquely ex
press it, comes the news of the dls-
National Political
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Above is the interior of th
Chicago Stadkau, scene of the
Republican and Democratic par
ties national conventions. Insert,
right, is of James R. Garfield,
too of the former president, and
chairman of the powerful Re
publican Platform Committee;
and left. Senator Dickinson of
Iowa, "Keynoter" who opened
the Q. O. P. convention.
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that he ever did anything crooked.
I don't care what the story is. I
simply will not believe it"
The full facts came out a few
weeks later and proved X an inno
cent victim. But the damage had
been done.
There was a wise preacher in my
boyhood who would say to the Sun
day school: "Never believe what
you hear and only half of what you
see."
Much of what our eyes tell us is
untrue. I see the sun move every
day around the earth but, it does
not move. I see that my cane, when
I thrust it into the water, is crook
ed. But it is not crooked.
Eyes are notorious deceivers. And
as for the ears, they need to be po
liced every minute by tolerance and
sympathy and common sense.
Mr. X, of whom I have spoken,
had lived an upright life for forty
years. Surely, this should have
counted in his favor. Srrely, the
answer of all his acquaintances
should have been: "He's all right.
He cannot have done it. We deny
this libel."
The discouraging thing was that
two out of three seemed to be se
cretly pleased that another good
man had gone wrong.
covery of what may turn out to be
the world's greatest bonanza dis
trict in northern Manchuria.
O. L. Cranfelt, a mining engineer,
reports that he found an area 350
miles long and nearly as wide in
whioh all the indications are that
there is more gold readily and
cheaply obtainable than in any
mining district that has ever been
developed In the world's history.
If this proves true and it is found
feasible for foreigners to develop
this new gold field, the inevitable
result will be a great enlargement
of the world's money supply with
consequent increase of commodity
prices and a new spurt of prosper
ity. That is exactly what has fol
lowed every great gold strike in the
past.
One of the important underlying
causes of the present world-wide
economic distress is the failure of
the gold supply to keep pace with
the increasing demand for money
and credits based upon gold.
HORSES
Horses are coming back into use
more rapidly than at any time since
to war. Farmers are not return
ing to the old horse and buggy, or
using horses to haul commodities
to distant markets, but they are
finding, this year, that the good old
reliable horse is a more economi
cal source of power for plowing and
general farm work than the mo
torized tractor. It takes money to
buy gasoline and almost any farm
can raise enough fodder for the
necessary horses.
Up in my country where a great
many of my farmer neighbors have
not owned a horse for years, there
is an active horse market. Horses
which could have been bought for
$100 or less a couple of years ago
now sell from $150 to $200 each.
FLAG
Historians have finally decided
that Betsy Ross did not design the
flag of the United States. The thir
teen horizontal stripes, according
to the latest researches, was de
signed by Washington himself,
when he took command of the Co
lonial troops at Cambridge in July,
1775, although it was not raised
over his headquarters until Janu
ary 3, 1776. It was called the
"Grand Union' and was the English
flag with the crosses of St George
and St Andrew, and thirteen
strlpe9 representing the thirteen
colonies.
That flag was used a good deal in
the Revolution, and there was an
other flag that had no stripes at all
but thirteen red stars in a circle on
a white field.
Historians are casting doubt up
on the supposed resolution of the
Continental Congress of June 14,
1777, adopting the Stars and
Stripes, because they cannot find
any records of the Stars and Stripes
in use before "May 1, 1795. If his
tory Is so confused about things
Pot Boils Again
Succeeds McGraw,
Below "Memphis Bill Terry,
brilliant first baseman who now man
ages the N. Y. Giants. He was named
by John j. McGraw (above), who
lead the Giants for 30 years.
that happened in our own nation's
early days, how much reliance can
we place on the recorded details of
the history of ancient Greece and
Rome?
BIG ENDOWMENTS
MADE UNIVERSITY
Gifts Received Through Various
Sources Last Year Total $145,
000, Says Barker.
University of Oregon, Eugene,
June 22.-rCitizens of Oregon, educa
tional foundations in the East and
various organizations during the
past year made gifts to the Univer
sity of Oregon totalling approxi
mately $145,000, it was announced
here this week by Burt Brown Bar
ker, vice-president of the univer
sity. Substantial cash amounts, as well
as objects of art, books and other
material that is hard to estimate in
actual cash were included in the
list. One of the most noteworthy
was the presentation to the campus
by Mr. Barker of the statue, 'Pio
neer Mother," which now rests in
the beautiful woman's quadrangle
between Susan Campbell and Hen
dricks halls. The masterpiece of
A. Phimister Proctor, noted sculp
tor of New York, depicts the pio
neer mother sitting at rest, in a
contemplative mood, in the sunset
of her life. It Is of bronze, heroic
in size.
Sums totaling nearly $20,000 in
cash were given to the university
during1 the year by Mrs. Gertrude
Bass Warner, donor and director of
the Murray Warner museum of Or
iental arts. This fund was used for
museum cases, salaries and travel
study scholarships during the year.
The oriental art collections, regard
ed as one of the finest in the United
States, will soon be housed in the
Prince L. Campbell memorial mu
seum, which was completed and
dedicated at commencement The
memorial museum, erected at a cost
of $200,000 was the gift of friends
of the university.
Two important gifts, one of $7,000
for the purpose of developing re
liable measures of art appreciation,
and the other $7,500 to finance the
summer session art center here,
were made by the Carnegie corpor
ation of New York.
Another gift of $5,000 was made
by the Carnegie Foundation for
the advancement of Teaching for
the purpose of seeking methods to
improve teaching in the field of nat
ural science. The Carnegie Endow
ment for International Peace also
contributed $2,500 to finance the
Third Bicennial Session of the Pa
cific Institute of International Rela
tions, which will be held in Port
land this summer in connection
with the summer school and in co
operation with Reed college and
other organizations.
Various agencies and individuals
contributed approximately $5,000 to
the university school of applied so
cial science, to aid the staff mem
bers in social work and community
organization projects.
Funds from various endowments
the university holds amounts to
$10,844 during the year. The student
loan funds were swelled by a total
of $1,104.46.
Other gifts of note Include the
following: Dr. John Henry Nash,
San Francisco, services in printing
booklet, $1500; governor's commit
tee for unemployment relief and
faculty and staff of university for
student unemployment relief, $2,
388.20; National Research council
for geologic studies of Mount Hood,
$750, and for studies of pre-Colum
bian culture in Oregon $500; Fleish
man Yeast company, yeast research
$900; Associated Women students
for foreign scholarship, $750; from
various donors for research pro
jects, $1,545.
Several gifts for various purposes
were also made to the medical
school and the Doernbecher hos
pital In Portland.
It Is expected that a majority of
the 445 families enrolled in the year
round garden project will take ad
vantage of this portable cannery to
preserve their garden produce, A
charge of a few cents per can will
be made to cover cost of operation
and supplies, to be paid in cash or
In produce. Directing this program
are Mts. Sara Wertz, home demon
stration agent; H, B. Howell, coun
ty agent; and a Pomona grange
committee composed of George
Wertz, Ernest Calhoun, Ben Cou-
Charts Picture World Wheat
Movement In Two Periods
WORLD WHEAT INTERNATIONAL SHIPMENTS
ORIGIN
Yearly Average
1908-13 1926-31
MILLIONS
WORLD WHEAT PRODUCTION,
UHfs II II M
I I ANNUAL WOULD I I 3
E SHIPMENTS II it
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w-ui Mil av. II
MILLION BUSHELS (lotarlthmk: Verticil Sc.Hl CEN TS
r i i n j buImel
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700 "Nl.S. farm Prc . it0
-'Sfockt ...
SOO w.-' 120
production 800 - ' - 100
4000 400 ,--. X, " 80
... I I I I I J 1 AO
3000 300 9 2 5.28 ,8 27-28 1929-30 1831-32
Spokane, Wash., June 22. A gra
phic picture of the world wheat
movement for the five years as com
pared with a similar period imme
diately preceding the World War is
presented in the accompanying
charts. The charts are being dis
tributed by North Pacific Grain
Growers Inc. to point out that un
less international trade in wheat in
creases rapidly, it would seem ob
vious that American growers must
either continue to accept world
prices for all their wheat, or re
duce acreage and surpluses, or per
fect a plan for obtaining a higher-than-world
price for wheat con
sumed within the United States.
The "origin" side of Chart "A"
indicates the extent to which other
countries have gained on the Uni
ted States in the wheat exporting
field. While wheat shipments from
the United States have increased 3.2
per cent, shipments from Canada
have jumped 21.3 per cent, from
Agentina 7 per cent, and from Aus-
WEBF00T STATE IS
DRY SUMMER AREA
Weather Records Show Growing
Season Lacks Rainfall, so
Irrigation Fays Big.
Many persons are convinced that
the weather in Oregon is changing,
and that the summers are getting
drier than they used to be. Official
weather figures checked by Arthur
King, soils specialist at the Oregon
State college extension service, do
not bear this out, however. In fact,
he has found that in the 60 years
that records have been kept at
Portland, only two "wet" summers
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DESTINATION
Yearly Aversgs
1926-31 1908-13
Of autHIL
STOCKS, AND U. S. FARM PRICE
tralia 4.6 per cent
The United States and Canada
now contribute more than one-half
the total world shipments, Argen
tina, about one-fifth; Australia,
about one-seventh, and the remain
der comes from all other exporting
countries, including Russia. The
extent to which Russia regains her
pre-war Importance as a wheat ex
porter will determine the adjust
ments other exporting countries
will be forced to make, unless the
total international trade in wheat
is increased appreciably.
The "destination" side of Chart
"A" indicates the rising import
ance of importing countries, other
than European countries. These
include China, Japan, Brazil, Cen
tral American nations and Egypt.
They appear to offer a potential
source of future increases in wheat
importation, with price an import
ant element. It is interesting to
note practically all of the countries
named are so-called "silver coun
tries." occurred in the first 30 years while
there were six in the last 30.
"It seems that our 'unusually dry
summers' occurred just as often in
the past as they do now, which
means about every year, and there
is every reason to believe they will
continue that way," says Mr. King.
He has been using these rainfall
records to show that irrigation in
the Willamette valley need to be
considered no more unusual than in
many other sections of the state
where it is taken as an accepted
farm practice.
"The average rainfall for the
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"The irrigated Milton-Freewater
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this four-montha period. Baker,
where irrigation is an accepted
practice, gets only three quarters
of an inch less summer rain. At
La Grande where irrigation is com
mon, the summer rainfall is a half
inch more than the Willamette val
ley average, while at Joseph in the
irrigated Wallowa valley, summer
rainfall is Vh inches greater.
"It is interesting to compare the
Willamette valley summer rainfall
with that of the great drouth area
in the middle west," King adds.
"Arkansas was the driest state dur
ing the drouth of 1930, records
show. Yet the rainfall there for
June, July and August 1930 was
just over five inches, or a half inch
greater than the average for four
months in Oregon. Because of our
soil we can raise excellent crops
despite dry summers, but it is not
to be wondered at that supplemen
tal irrigation even in the so-called
wet Willamette valley gives such
profitable returns."
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New Potato Variety Grown.
Oregon City The Katahdln po
tato, hailed in a recent issue of the
Country Gentleman aa a new va
riety of exceptional promise, is not
entirely new to Oregon as already
W. H. Zivney, president of the Ore
gon Potato Growers association,
has grown this sort for a year and
is planting the increase again this
year. A start of this seed was ob
tained last year through County
Agent J. J. Inskeep from the Ore
gon Experiment station. It has
been found to be resistant to both
mild and rugose mosaic, two of the
worst virus diseases of potatoes,
and is an excellent cooking potato.
The Katahdin potato is round
short, the tubers smooth and with
shallow eyes.
NOTICE OF FIHA1 ACCOUNT.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned, Administrator of the Part
nership Estate of Harry Rood and A.
C. Ruby; Harry Rood, deceased, has
filed his final account with the County
Court of the State of Oregon for Mor
row County, and that said Court has
set as the time and place for settle
ment of said account, Monday, the
First day of August 1932, at the hour
of Two o'clock P. M. in the court room
of said court in Heppner, Oregon.
All persons having objections to said
final account must file the same on or
before said date.
A. C. RUBY,
Administrator of the Partnership
Estate of Harry Rood and A. C.
Ruby; Harry Rood, deceased.
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