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., $15.00 at
GILLIAM & BISBEE
Go to Gilliam & Bis-
bee's for your FRUIT
PRESSES and JEL
LY GLASSES.
West Bend Alumin
um Ware the brand
that stands the test.
FLEX and QUICK
STEP Varnish none
better for floors or re
touching up furni
ture and bric-a-brac.
GILLIAM
&.
BISBEE
We have it, will get it
or it is not made.
Graft . . a Training School
Waiting with a friend for the
trafllc to change at a Fifth Avenue
corner a well-dressed young man
addressed ua Hia manner and tone
were those of a cultivated, educat
ed person.
"I'm ashamed of this, gentlemen,"
he said, "but I'm actually starving.
I know I don't look it; I've been
trying to keep my self-respect by
dressing as well as I can but I'm
hungry."
He was so convincing that my
friend handed him half a dollar.
The young man slipped around the
corner and we followed him. In
front of the Rltz-Carlton we saw
him address another man, the oth
er man's hand go to his pocket.
"Don't give that man a cent!"
my friend exclaimed. Then to the
beggar, "Give me back my half dol
lar!" The young man pulled out a
handful of silver and bills, and
calmly gave up the coin. "It's a
good graft, anyway," he said, as he
walked away.
One of the worst effects of the
depression has been to get tens of
thousands of men Into the habit of
grafting on the generosity of oth
ers.
Local ads lp the Gazette Times
bring results.
Try a Gazette Times Want Ad. 5SS$o$$$S Jk
leads all candidate!
by Millions of Sales!
The public votes Goodyear
Tires the best aftain In 1932
ns it has every year since 1916.
That's a record you can bank
on. The public KNOWS tire
values by experience. Last
month, Goodyear built its
200 millionth tire.
Why buy any second-choice
tire when GOODYEARS cost
no more?
Heppner Garage
VAUGHN & GOODMAN
Heppner, Oregon
That's the Sensational
Price Today on a New
Save Money! Save Time!
Save Clothes! Buy Now I
iliUi
pBS
IT IS
SMART
To be well dressed.
To plan and to buy your year's ward
robe with one basic color in mind.
To wear only those colors that harmon
ize with your complexion and your per
sonality. To have carefully selected garments
and accessories that may be used in dif
ferent combinations for various occa
sions. To recognize wearing quality in ma
terials then buy for long or short time
use.
To take advantage of sales when you
know what you want and can recognize
a bargain when you see it.
AND IT IS THRIFTY
Fir& National Bank
HEPPNER, OREGON
JJT Corn Meal 9B 9Qf
rfV FLOUR ?-'! QQ I
McMarr,bthardwht ?CK U 0J
f Cheaper Floiir at 87C
Supreme in
Quality
I
JO lbs.
85c
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Honey
Butter creek pure
strained
5-lb. Pail .. 45c
10-lb. Pail. 79c
Lard
Pure, fresh hog
lard
No. 10
Pail ..
Syrup
Maximum Cane and
Maple.
5-lb. Tin .... 59c
10-lb. Tin $1.19
Cauliflower, lge. heads, 8c lb.
Cabbage, cannon ball, Vt lb.
Lettuce, large heads 5c
COFFEE, Airway (
3 LBS OcJl
Corn, String Beans, best Qa
standard qual. No. 2 tins &
Rice
Extra fancy Blue
Rose head rice
2 49c
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SHRIMP
Fancy dry pack, 5-oz.
tins.
PER
TIN
10c
Macaroni KKp
or Spaghetti, fraih lbo cut
CM.ESE - 16c
OYSTERS
Eastern fancy 5-oz. tins
PER
TIN
9c
Hallowe'en Specials Prices Effective Fri.-Sat.-Mon., Oct. 28-29-31
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