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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 27, 1932. PAGE THREE Rattlesnakes ... at Home "Rattlesnake Pete" Gruber died the other day at 75. I knew him many years ago in Rochester, N. Y., whence he used to sally forth into the haunts of rattlesnakes and cap ture the reptiles for the sake of their venom which, well diluted of course, is used for several medical purpose! Pete Gruber used to say that he had been bitten by rattlers more than 500 times. He knew how to treat a snake-bite, however, and he contributed much valuable know ledge to the medical profession. One of his favorite hunting grounds for rattlers used to be in the limestone cliffs on both sides of the Niagara canyon. I don't know whether there are any rattlers there now, or not, but there are few places In America where some va riety of this serpent cannot be found. In my New England boy hood we used to have a saying that wherever you found huckleberries you'd find rattlers. That was be cause huckleberries grow best on limestone hills where the under brush has been burnt over, and that is just the sort of country rattle snakes like best. Pensions . . for Old Folks Eighteen states now provide cash pensions for the aged poor, instead of penning them up in almshouses, at the mercy of politically-appoint ed poor-masters. New Jersey is the latest to join the movement, providing pensions up to $30 a month for persons past 70 years old. In the whole United States there are now more than 90,000 old folk getting pensions, and the move ment is spreading. A national old age pension system Is proposed, and its discussion will be one of the im portant things before Congress next Winter. It is estimated that there are more than six million Ameri cans over 65 years old, of whom a third are not able to support them selves. The Association for Old Age Se curity, with headquarters in New York, is back of this movement, and Is doing a good job. Anyone Who wants to know more about it ought to write them for informa tion. Mother .... by Whistler One of the world's most famous paintings, James McNeill Whistler's portrait of hia mother, is being loaned by the great French museum of The Louvre for exhibition in New York, at the Museum of Mod ern Art This is the first painting by an American artist ever to be hung in the Louvre, but although its paint er was an American by birth, he lived most of his life in Europe and this canvas has never been seen on this side of the Atlantic. Every body, however, is familiar with the millions of colored copies of it which have been made and sold all over the world. The old lady with gray hair and a widow's cap, seated primly in a straight-backed chair, has become the symbol of mother of all ages and in all lands. If Whistler had never painted anything else his rep utation would live forever for this work. AVheat Foods Economical Says College Specialist Use plain, boiled or steamed whole or cracked wheat as a des sert or as a breakfast cereal with dried fruits added the last half hour of cooking if you want to cut food costs, is the recommendation of Lucy A. Case, nutrition special ist in extension, who has prepared a leaflet suggesting many and va ried uses of whole wheat in the home. Use whole wheat in place of rice or barley in soups and stews; use it as a side dinner dish with butter and jam, jelly or honey; use it in place of rolled oats in cookies and bread, these and other ideas are proposed for utilizing this Ore gon product. Whole wheat products have a higher nutritive value than white flour or refined cereals. Whole wheat contains more than twice as much vitamin B as white flour, and so contributes valuable protection from certain forms of neuritis, poor digestion, lack of appetite and poor growth, Miss Case points out. It contains four times as much Iron and phosphorus, and more valuable proteins and a much larger amount of roughage, than white flour. Miss Case cautions against eat ing large quantities of whole wheat products on any one day since they have a laxative effect. She speci fies that they are not recommend ed for young children or for adults suffering from digestive disturb ances. Since whole wheat products mill ed at home contain the entire grain and the germ of the grain contains considerable fat and for that rea son does not keep for many weeks, a large quantity of the products should not be prepared at a time In order to obtain a balanced diet, nutritionists explain, wheat products must be supplemented by an adequate supply of milk, vege tables, fruit, and eggs, meat or fish. Foods that may be replaced by whole wheat products are commer cially prepared breakfast foods, rice, macaroni, spaghetti, white flour, and such prdoucts as white bread and crackers. The leaflet HE 407, "Uses of whole wheat in the home" gives directions for cleaning, grinding and cooking whole wheat. It in cludes also twelve basic recipes for its use and may be obtained from any county extension worker or by writing the Home Economics Ex tension Service at Corvallis. 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 Knowi" The Physician Jesus One day, as Jesus walked in crowd, a woman pushed forward and touched his garment; and by that single touch was cured. The witnesses acclaimed it a miracle and so it was; but we need some definition of that word. He himself was very reticent about his "mir acles." It was perfectly clear that he did not interpret them in the same way that his followers did, nor attach the same imporance to them. He was often reluctant to perform them, and frequently in sisted that the individual who had been healed should "go and tell no man." And on one celebrated oc casionhis visit to his home town, Nazareth the narrative tells us clearly that the miraculous power was powerless, and for a very in teresting and impressive reason. The people of Nazareth were his boyhood acquaintances and they were skeptical; they had heard with cynical score the stories of the won ders he had performed in other towns ; they were determined not to be fooled; he might decieve the world, which knew him only as a teacher; but they knew him better he was just Jesus, their old neigh bor, the son of the local carpenter. So of that visit the gospel writers set down one of the most tragic sentences in literature. "He could do there no mighty work," they tell us, "because of their unbelief." Women Move Up One of the things Europeans can't understand about America is the Important part which women play in our national life. It was a shock to the other diplomats in the Swcd lsh capital when Miss Frances Ell zabeth Willis, third secretary of the American Legation at Stockholm, took full charge as U. S. Minister to Sweden when all of her super iors in the office happened to be out of the country temporarily. I don't expect to live to see a woman president of the United States, but that is not at all Impos sible, with women increasing in numbers in both Houses of Con gress. I am not at all sure that the country would not be better off with Its affairs under the management of a group of intelligent grandmothers than it is under the management of professional politicians. Careful Egg Handling Pays 20 Percent Bonus Visitors at the state fair poultry booth prepared by the poultry de partment of Oregon State college had presented a graphic example of the money value in caring for eggs once they are produced. Two cases of eggs were taken from actual receipts at a large egg receiving station and without any juggling were graded out as they must be to be marketed. These two 30-dozen cases were found to vary so much in quality that on a basis of 20c per dozen for extras, the crate shipped by the one man was worth only $4.57 while the other was worth $5.58, or a premium amounting to more than 20 per cent The first crate was found to con tain 19 dozen extras at 20c; 7 dozen standards at 18c, and 4 dozen me diums at 13c. The second crate, which doubtless cost just as much to produce and certainly represent ed just as much feed cost, only had 2 dozen extras, 8 dozen standards, 11 dozen firsts at 15c, 6 dozen me diums and 3 dozen undergrades worth only 10c per dozen. The one factor of storing in a cool place before shipment has been found to account for much of this gain in quality, while other ordin ary management details were re sponsible for the rest in this and other instances. Whatever the explanation of Je sus' miraculous power may be, it is clear that something big was re quired of the recipient as well as the giver. Without a belief in health on the part of the sick man, no health was forthcoming. Men followed Jesus, and the lead ers of men have very often been physically strong. But women wor shipped him. This is signicant The names of women constitute a very large proportion of the list of his close friends. They were wo men from widely varying stations in life, headed by his mother. Per haps she never fully appreciated his genius; certainly she was not with out her periods of serious, doubts as we shall discover later on; yet her loyalty to his best interests re mained true. There were Mary and Martha, two gentle maiden ladies who lived outside Jerusalem and in whose home with Lazarus, their brother, he enjoyed frequent hos pitality; there was Joanna, a rich woman, the wife of one of Herod's stewards these, and many others of the type which we are accustom ed to designate as "good" women, followed him with a devotion. The important, and too often for gotten, fact in these relationships is this that women are not drawn by weakness. Since the world be gan no power has fastened the af fection of women upon a man like manliness. Next Week: Passing Judgment Corvallis That the success of Ir rigation in the Willamette valley is having lt3 effects on many farmers these days is evidenced by the fact that County Agent Averill had 18 calls in the month of September from farmers wanting assistance in laying out either Irrigation or drainage systems. Two irrigation projects are among the largest yet started in this region, involving about 6 acres each. Most of the irrigation planned now is for pas ture purposes. W. C. T. U. NOTES j MART A. NOTSON. Reporter. Writing in reference to the prop osition of the wets to modify the Volstead act at the first session of the new congress, a member of the American Bar Association says: "The propostion to modify the Volstead act so as to legalize four per cent beer is untenable. Four per cent beer, and the same may be said of the so-called 2.75 per cent-by-weight beer, is intoxicating, as a matter of fact, and no act of con gress declaring that beer contain ing not more than four per cent by volume or 2.75 per cent by weight can make such beer non-intoxicat ing. Such an act would be a plain attempt at nullification of the Con stitution Itself. "No member of congress can vote for such a proposition without vio lating hsi oath to support the Con stitution. No officer, from the President down to the lowliest of ficer whose duty is to enforce the laws of the land, could live up to the oath of office which he must take and which binds him to sup port and defend the Constitution without insisting that such a law should be tested in the courts. "All good American citizens of the United States, whether they be lieve in prohibition or not, will dis approve any such an attempt to nul lify the Constitution. They will In sist that the Eighteenth Amend ment be repealed or modified be fore any law is enacted, which will legalize beer. If one plain provis ion of the Constitution may be ig nored, disregarded, or flaunted by the congress or by the other officers whose most solemn oath binds them to support and defend the Consti tution, then we are at the end of our boasted democracy, which means orderly government under the Constitution." If the United States undertakes to raise $500,000,000 by a tax on beer at the rata of 3 cents per pint, as proposed by some of the wets, it would be necessary for the Amer ican people to drink on an average 17 gallons for each man, woman, boy and girl in the country. If the proposition made by the brewers who expect to again go into busi ness, in the event beer is legalized, that they would pay a tax of $6.00 a barrel on beer, is accepted, ft would be necessary for the Ameri can people to drink an average of two-thirds of a barrel a year, pro vided all states repealed their pro hibition laws and permitted the sale of beer. This tax would be passed on to the drinker. The poor er classes, largely laborers, con sumed most of the beer before pro hibition was adopted. In order to furnish the government with this $500,000,000 In taxes, the people would need to drink from four bil lion to five billion dollars worth ofl beer, according to the above esti mates. There would be that much less money to be spent with the grocer, the clothier, the butcher, the milkman, and other legitimate tradesmen. Millions of little chil dren, as In the good old days, would eat no candy or ice cream cones, and many a mother would again bend over the wash-tub to meet family expenses because "dad" would be spending his pay check over the bar for beer. HELP WANTED Oregon citizens are on the brink of ruin, facing the bitter pros pect of losing properties by tax confiscation. With a high-powered taxing machine, designed for more than the traffic will stand, the tax boosters have speeded along, without ef fective control. They are now on the edge of the ditch. Talk of tax strikes is heard, but far more serious is the utter in ability of property owners to pay their taxes. Many governmental units, by reason of tax delinquencies, are on the vergs of bankruptcy. Fortunately the opportunity is at hand for clear thinking citizens to take control and direct a safer course. Two constructive measures now on the ballot will insure efficient driving of the tax machine and a slower gait. These measures embody the improved OREGON PLAN ot tax and debt supervision and control the best plan ever presented in any state. They will secure very substantial reductions in the property tax load and thereby promote better government. They will definitely separate tax levying from tax spending pow ers. Thev will provide effective limitations and control of taxes and indebtedness, but positively will not disturb the existing 6 limita tion nor lift the lid of any debt restriction now fixed by constitutional provision. They will preserve the true substance ot home rule in taxation, distinguished from the empty form of that great principle as it has been perverted by tax boosters to their own selfish purposes. Voters, the appeal is to you to help yourselves and your tellow citizens to save Oregon property owners from impending ruin and your governments from fiscal chaos by voting: Tax and Debt Control Constitutional Amendment 318 X Yes Tax Supervising and Conservation Bill 320 X Yes OREGON TAXPAYERS EQUALIZATION and CONSERVATION LEAGUE, JAMES D. BURDETT, President R. C. FLANDERS, Secretary (Paid Ad.) 604 Woodlark Building. Portland, Oregon Put up your fruit with a NATIONAL STEAM COOKER 18-qt., $15.00 at GILLIAM & BISBEE Go to Gilliam & Bis- bee's for your FRUIT PRESSES and JEL LY GLASSES. West Bend Alumin um Ware the brand that stands the test. FLEX and QUICK STEP Varnish none better for floors or re touching up furni ture and bric-a-brac. GILLIAM &. BISBEE We have it, will get it or it is not made. Graft . . a Training School Waiting with a friend for the trafllc to change at a Fifth Avenue corner a well-dressed young man addressed ua Hia manner and tone were those of a cultivated, educat ed person. "I'm ashamed of this, gentlemen," he said, "but I'm actually starving. I know I don't look it; I've been trying to keep my self-respect by dressing as well as I can but I'm hungry." He was so convincing that my friend handed him half a dollar. The young man slipped around the corner and we followed him. In front of the Rltz-Carlton we saw him address another man, the oth er man's hand go to his pocket. "Don't give that man a cent!" my friend exclaimed. Then to the beggar, "Give me back my half dol lar!" The young man pulled out a handful of silver and bills, and calmly gave up the coin. "It's a good graft, anyway," he said, as he walked away. One of the worst effects of the depression has been to get tens of thousands of men Into the habit of grafting on the generosity of oth ers. 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