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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 13, 1932.
Democracy . not a failure
I have a good many well meaning
friends who declare that democracy
is a failure. We don't get things
done, they say, and they point to
Mussolini and Soviet Russia as ex
amples of orderly, disciplined gov
ernment. I talked with a competent news
paper man who has been In Russia
for several years. "What they are
doing there is to regiment the en
tire population so that everybody
lives by rule and discipline," he
said. "It is tough on the common
people, but fine for the officers, just
like life in the army.
I have a friend who has spent
many winters in Italy. "The Italian
people take what the government
gives them and pretend to like it,
because if they didn't pretend to
like it they would quickly be de
ported," he told me.
The most highly organized and
disciplined life that we know any
thing about is that of the ants. In
the anthill and the beehive the life
of every individual is subordinated
to the welfare of the group, and
particularly to the welfare of the
queen. I think I prefer a system
under which individuals are free to
"get things done," to any system
which puts human beings on the
same plane as ants.
Automobiles of the future
William B. Stout, eminent aero
nautical engineer, has turned to the
study of automobiles and predicts
that the car of the future will be as
different from the cars of today as
those of today are from those of
twenty years ago.
The ideal motor car, Mr. Stout
says, will have more and more com
fortable interior space for the same
wheelbase than the present cars.
It will weigh less and have more
power in the motor. It will have
ten-inch tires, which will wrap
themselves around bumps and ab
sorb all road shocks, but which will
steer without effort The wheels
will be enclosed and the windows
will be fixed in place, but it will
have a ventilation system providing
cool air for summer touring. It
will travel thirty miles on a gallon
of gasoline and cost less than $2,000.
Age and the nation '
The world is getting older. There
are fewer children and more elder
ly people living today than there
were proportionately ten years ago;
an immensely greater proportion of
older people than there was fifty
years ago. Between the ages of
twenty and forty-five are found 38
per cent of all the inhabitants of
the United States, and that per
centage is just about the same as it
was a dozen years ago. But where
the census of 1920 showed a little
over 40 per cent of the population
under twenty, that of 1930 shows a
little over 38 per cent are under
twenty years old. This is compen
sated for by an increase of 2 per
cent in the number of people over
forty-five.
If, with an increasing proportion
of the elderly, we develop a nation
al tendency toward conservatism, it
fa mum
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JOHN JOSEPH GAjNES,M.O
A Talk With Teachers
It is a long time now that I was
a teacher in rural schools. I can
look back and see my unfitness for
such responsible position, but my
standing then was "average or
above. My license was based on
qualifications. Standards are high
er today.
If I were a teacher today, I would
spend much time in trying to bring
about "health habits" in the chil
dren. It can be done without books.
Habits of eating, drinking, postur.,
and study; the proper use of the
eyes with regard to light; proper
forms of exercise, with caution for
the growing organism not to over
tax in eagerness to break records,
Children should be taught less of
vitamins than of breakfast values
begin no day's work without a good
breakfast. End no hard day's work
with a heavy meal. A quart of
wholesome water dally for second
or third grades. Bad practice to
wash down solid foods with gulps
of water; masticate the food better
never swallow coarse, hard fibers
that have to be washed down. Sit
and stand erect do not "slouch" in
the living room, at dinlng-table, or
when walking. No hard exercise
immediately after eating, nor with
the stomach empty. Don't go to
work hungry. Children should be
able to Bleep on either side; I should
be suspicious of the little fellow
who only sleeps on the back.
Class pride in the school-room
may be Increased by "every pupil
erect." Children love a degree of
parade. An upright battalion may
be organized, to overcome slouch
ine. A better, sturdier array of
bodies will be the reward. Breath
ing exercises pay wonderfully, and
may be practiced in concert drills.
Talk to the children about the
lungs and their Importance; start
an "anti-cough" campaign, with
more handkerchiefs and cougn
dodglng. God bless our teachers!
is easy to predict that our ultimate
social and economic organization
will more closely resemble that of
France, the perfect example of an
extremely conservative, tightly knit
nation in which everything is com
pletely under the control of the
elders.
Psittacosis "parrot fever"
The serious illness of Senator
Borah's wife from psittacosis, or
'parrot fever, has focused atten
tion again upon this disease which
was epidemic three years ago.
Now the medical authorities who
have studied it say that It comes
not only from parrots, but from ca
naries and other kinds of climbing
birds. The symptoms are chills,
fever, and headache, sometimes ac
companied by nose bleeding and
chest pains, and it is frquently mis
taken for influenza or a severe cold.
I have never been quite able to
understand the desire of so many
people to keep animals and birds
in cages, but if one must keep
caged birds, it seems to me highly
important to maintain their cages
in perfectly hygienic condition.
Mohican ... the very last
The last of the Mohicans has just
been awarded an old age pension
by a county judge in Wisconsin.
His name is Maq-wau-pey, in the In
dian tongue, but he is known as
William Dick, and he claims to be
the only person now living who can
speak the ancient language of the
Mohican Indians.
This particular tribe was made
famous by J. Fenimore Cooper
whose novel "The Last of the Mo
hicans" Is still widely read. The
Mohicans, when the white men
came to America, ocupied the coun
try lying between the Hudson and
the Connecticut Rivers. They mov
ed northward and westward as the
white settlements advanced land
gradually merged with the other
Indian races of the East, of whom
only a few still survive on reserva
tions in New York State and Can
ada. One little group of them, known
as the Stockbridge Indians, re
mained a unit at Stockbridge, Mass
achusetts, where the deed to my
farm traces back to one of the In
dian land owners. They moved to
a reservation in New York and,
about a hundred years ago, were
transferred to a reservation in cen
tral Wisconsin, where a few sur-
vivors still linger.
Bruce Barton
writes of .
"The Master Executive"
Supplying a week-to-week inspiration
for the heavy -burdened who will find
every human trial paralleled In the ex
perience of "The Man Nobody Xnowe"
A Career Opens Up
Is it not high time for a larger
reverence to be given to that quiet
unassuming Joseph the Father of
Jesus? To Mary, his wife, the
church has assigned a place of eter
nal glory; and no thoughtful man
can fail to be thankful for it But
with the glorification of Mary, there
has been an almost complete ne
glect of Joseph. This is partly be
cause Mary lived to be known and
remembered by the disciples, while
nobody remembered Joseph.
Was he just an untutored peas
ant married to a superior woman,
and baffled by the genius of a son
whom he could never understand?
Or was there, underneath his self
effacement a vigor and faith that
molded the boy's plastic years? Was
he a happy companion to the young,
sters? Did he carry the youngest,
laughing and crowing on his shoul
ders from the shop? To these ques
tions the narrative gives no answer.
And since this Is so we have a
right to form our own conception
of the character of this vastly sig
nificant and wholly unknown man,
and to be guided by the one momen
tous fact which we do know.
It is this. He must have been
friendly and patient and fine; he
must have seemed to his children
to be an almost ideal parent for
when Jesus sought to give mankind
a new conception of the character
of God, he could find no more ex
alted term for his meaning than the
one word "Father."
Thirty years went by. Jesus had
discharged his duty; the younger
children were big enough for self
support The strange stirrings that
had gone on inside him for years
were crystallized by the reports of
John's success. The hour of the
great decision arrived; he hung up
his tools and walked out of town.
What sort of looking man was he
that day when he appeared on the
banks of the Jordan and applied to
John for baptism? Unfortunately
the Gospel narratives supply no
satisfying answer to these ques
tions; and the only passage In an
cient literature which purports to
be a description of him has been
proved a forgery. Nevertheless it re
quires only a little reading between
the lines to be sure that almost all
the painters have misled us. They
have shown us a frail man, under
muscled, with a soft face a wo
man's face covered by a beard
and a benign but baffled look, as
though the problems of living were
so grievous that death would be a
welcome release.
This is not the Jesus at whose
word the disciples left their busi
ness to enlist in an unknown cause.
And for proof of that assertion
consider only four aspects of his ex
perience: the health that flowed out
of him to create health in others;
the appeal of his personality to wo
men weakness does not appeal to
them; his lifetime of outdoor liv
ing; and the steel-like hardness of
his nerves.
Next Week: A Strong Man Speaks
Sunday Schoo
Lesson
Blessed them, announcing that only
those may enter the Realm of the
Eternal who cultivate the upward
looking, open-hearted child-like
spirit
Now this atmosphere of perfect
sympathy and trust the Master
breathed upon children is one we
cherish for the Christian home. Un
fortunately the modern family too
often reveals a disturbing inner
conflict and strain.
Furthermore, modern life is so
fashioned that parents are largely
separated from their offspring. The
tendency is to farm them out to the
school, the Church, the camp, or the
Scout troop. A real divorce between
the interests of the older and young
er generations is thereby encourag
ed. There is great need for a revival
of the family circle, with parents
and children creatively working to
gether in education, the fine arts,
politics, and religion. Let me sug
gest definite religious practices.
Consider daily prayer. There is
no reason why the members of the
family, young and old, should not
join in prayer together every day,
even if they but repeat the Lord's
Prayer. Grace should also always
be said at the table. Again, Bible
stories can be read to the children
in the home. Above all, every par
ent should strive to keep the atmos
phere of the family group true to
the light of the Christian ideal.
By Rev. Charlei E. Bonn, S. D.
The Home and the Coming
Generation.
Lesson for Oct 16 Mark 10:13-18.
Golden Text: Proverbs 22:6.
At the height of His reputation
people came to Jesus in large num
bers for help, comfort, and inspira
tion. Some brought their sick to
be healed. Others, as our lesson
tells us, presented their children for
His gracious touch.
The shortsighted disciples object
ed, glaringly failing to appreciate
their Master's mind. They felt He
must not be bothered by the noisy
attentions of small tots. How stu
pid! The Master was angered over
this lack of insight He felt perfect
ly at home with children. Who un
derstood them better? And who
understood Him better?
How receptive are children! Sim
ple and confiding, they possess to
the full God's Kingdom in their
hearts. They are the meek who in
herit the earth. They live in the
great realities. No wonder Jesus
LOCAL NEWS
Walter Rietmann, with several of
his neighbors from the lone section,
passed through Heppner Tuesday.
These men have been busy for some
time getting out wood at Jones
prairie, and this week they will pro
ceed farther into the mountains on
a hunt for deer. Mr. Rietmann also
stated to the editor that regardless
of the extremely dry season, there
was moisture in the summrfallow
out north of Lexington and lone,
and grain that has been seeded this
fall is coming up, this condition be
ing quite noticeable at present as
one passes along the roads.
Merle Cumimings weighed in a
buck at the Peoples Hardware com
pany the first of the week at 213
pounds. It was a fine big fellow,
and having been killed Thursday
last, had shrunk several pounds by
the time it was weighed in, other
wise it might have made a strong
bid for the prize In the hardware
company's big buck contest
Mrs. Frank Anderson is moving
this week to her farm at the head
of Jack Rabbit canyon, and plans
making her home there in the fu
ture. Her residence property has
been rented to Mr. and Mrs. H. T.
O'Donnell. Mr. O'Donnell has re
cently taken over the pastime busi
ness formerly owned by Art Bibby.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Jamieson and
Tom Craig were people in the city
Tuesday afternoon from the north
lone country. Mr. and Mrs. Jamie-
son departetd Tuesday night for
Caldwell, Kanses, where they ex
pect to make their home In the future.
Jas. Murtha, flockmaster of Gil
liam county, was a Heppner visitor
on Tuesday from the Rock creek
ranch. It is exceedingly dry on the
range, and rain is the best thing
that could happen at this time ac
cording to Mr. Murtha.
Wednesday being a legal holiday
Columbus Day the banks of the
city and the county offices were not
open for business. The day was not
further observed in Heppner, how-
ever.
Gerald Booher and Billy Cox re
turned Sunday from a hunt between
Skookum and Brown creeks, bring
ing in a pretty little four point
buck, killed by Mr. Booher.
Mrs. Rhea Luper came up from
Portland Monday, being accompan.
ied by Jas. Luper, who was called
to Heppner on matters of business,
S. E. Graves, one of the younger
generation of wheatgrowers of the
Lexington district, was transacting
business in the city yesterday.
F. W. Turner made a trip to
Portland the end of the week, be
ing accompanied by a number of
teachers in the local schools.
Wm. Kappel who visitetd here
for several days last week from his
home at Goldendale, Wash., re
turned home Friday evening.
David Hynd was in from Rose
Lawn ranch, Sand Hollow, Tuesday,
having matters of business to look
after at the county seat
Wm. Instone, Butter creek ranch
man, was In town" Tuesday from
the Jones ranch to look after some
business affairs.
J. D. French and son Jack were
Butter creek ranchmen looking af
ter business in this city Tuesday.
Alfred Nelson of Lexineton was
attending to affairs of business in
Heppner Tuesday afternoon.
Wanted Wood and coal range.
Phone or see F. B. Nickerson, city.
The experience of tire-users
is that Goodyear Tires give
greatestvalueat every price
every year the public buys
MILLIONS more Goodyears
than any other make. That's
a pretty definite indication of
superior value.
Sept. Uh Goodyea r Built
lit 200 Millionth Tire
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