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PAGE FOUR HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGQN, THURSDAY, DEC. 26, 1935. TODAY and svn IU iiimimiiiiiiniiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiinii STOCKBRIDeElgk( j Squirrels . . westward ho The gray squirrels are migrating again from New England. Nobody has yet found out the real reason why so many thousands, perhaps millions, of these little animals go westward in the early Winter. They have lately been crossing the Hud son River on the bridges, on the ferry boats and some of them even swimming across. The latest theory is that they are driven out of their old homes by the smaller but more pugnacious red squirrels. Farmers and hunters have been encouraged to kill hawks. because hawks kill game birds; but hawks also are fond of baby red squirrels, and a possible explana tion is that the red squirrels have multiplied, as the hawks have dim inished In number, and there isn't room in the woods for both the red and the gray squirrels. It is just one of those interesting phenomena illustrating the constant effort of nature to maintain the bal ance between all the various forms of life. Taxes plain figures At Heppner CHURCHES CHURCH OF CHRIST. ALVIN KLEINFELXiT, Pastor Bible School 9:45 a. m. Mornine services - 11 a. m. C. E. Society 6:30 p. ni. Evening services . - 7:30 p. m. Choir rehearsal. Wednesday. 7:30 p. m. Widweek service, Thursday, 7:30 p. m. METHODIST CHURCH. JOSEPH POPE. Pastor. Sunday school, 9:45. Public worship, 11. Solo, "The Birthday of the King," Neidlinger, by Billy Cochell. Sermon, "Will it be a New Year or Just Another Year?" Epworth League, 6:30. Evening worship, 7:30. A service of song and sermon. Prayer meeting, Thursday eve ning, 7:30. You are always welcome at all the services of our church. PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE. ALFREB K..WOI1ACK, PaaWr. Sunday: Sunday Schol J0:0A A. M. After Service 11:00 A. 1l. Evening Servic 7.80 P. M. Tuesday night, prayer meeting only, 7:30. Thursday evangelistic service 7:30 "WE WELCOME ALL" Bruce-Barton Sail I asked five intelligent people at a social gathering the other night if they knew how much they paid in taxes to the Federal Government on each package of cigarettes. No body knew the answer. The rev enue stamp on the cigarette pack simply says "20 cigarettes" and does not disclose the fact that the man ufacturer pays six cents for each stamp and adds it to the price of the ciragettes. I think it would be a very useful law, if Congress could be induced to enact it, to require that every tax stamp tells the buyer of the taxed article just how much tax he is pay ing. We will never get real econ omy in Government until the "man in the street" realizes that he, too, is paying a share of the cost of the Government. Quality pays One of the wealthiest men I know is Herbert L. Satterlee, brother-in-law of J. P. Morgan. Mr. Satterlee is still using an automobile which was built for him in 1915. The 20-year-old car has gone over 300,- 000 miles and is capable of 60 miles an hour in a pinch. Mr. Satterlee tried one or two high-priced mod ern cars and discarded them be cause they were not as comfortable to ride in as the old machine that he sticks to. Wealthy people can afford to be unfashionable. They can also afford to buy the highest quality of goods in the first place. I know one mil lionaire who has worn the same overcoat for 20 Winters, but he paid $300 for it when it was new. 1 have spent more than that for a succession of overcoats in the same period. In the long run, it always pays to buy the highest quality of any commodity, if you can afford to tie up enough of your capital in the initial purchase. Fingerprints . . accurate One of the reasons why there is a popular prejudice against being fingerprinted was disclosed the oth er day when the Bureau of Crimm al Investigation, in Washington re ported that several hundred former criminals had been detected by a comparison of the fingerprints, tak en when they applied for jobs, with the fingerprint records of convicted criminals on file in Washington. Many business concerns and some municipalities and states now re quire a fingerprint record of every applicant for a job, and send these records down to the Department of Justice. I have long believed that the time would come when everybody's fin gerprints would be recorded in in fancy as a matter of course and kept available for identification at any time in later life. There is no good reason why this should not be done. Longevity .... but why? An eminent scientist, Dr. Wil liam Marias Malisoff, predicted the other day that scientific research would find ways of lengthening hu man life until men might ordinarily live for possibly hundreds of years. In view of what has already been achieved in this direction, that does not seem to me at all impossible. Mere longevity, however, does not seem to me of any great value, either to the individual or to so ciety, unless some way is found at the same time of utilizing intelli gently the experience which only the passage of years enables one to accumulate. It is interesting to im agine a world in which the major ity of inhabitants were centenar ians. It would, at least, be a world in which fewer futile social experi ments were undertaken. years the state board of agriculture decided at its meeting here Satur day. Increase in the admission price was justified on the ground that the lower admission did not provide sufficient revenue to sup port the kind of a fair the people expect and are entitled to. Since the next fair will mark the Diamond Jubilee of the state's big agricul tural and industrial exhibition it is proposed to make it the best in the history of the institution with a large number of high class vaude ville acts afternoon and night free to those who pay their way through the turnstiles. The board decided to open the fair on Labor day, Monday, September 7, and to close the show on the following Sunday. With a steady reduction in state levies against property Governor Martin predicts that within a few years property win pay no tax at all for state purposes within the six percent constitutional limit. This year's property levy for state purposes other than to meet special millages, he points out, are less than $900,000 whereas only a few years ago they totalled $3,500,000, Governor Martin is expected to announce the appointment of a new game commissioner this week to fill the vacancy caused by the resig nation of Lew Wallace who wanted to regain his seat in the House and lost out by only one vote. The new bakery control board which met in Salem to organize this week will make no attempt to dic tate minimum prices but will con fine its efforts to other regulations such as size of the loaf, sanitation, etc. Earl Hill, Lane county legislator, while in Salem this week an nounced that he would use his in fluence to exempt farm trucks of the pick-up type and light delivery cars used exclusively on city streets from the additional $5 license tax tacked on by the special session. Hill says this move wa3 a mistake and owners of the cars who are paying the extra tax are not in clined to argue with him over it. Prospect of a contest over the right of the state to regulate trucks and busses engaged in in terstate service looms with two big truck lines resisting the state's authority. Arrests will be made soon, according to Frank J. Mc- Culloch, state utilities commission er, and the matter taken into the courts for decision. Success of the referendum against senate bill 43 the old age pension bill of the special session will tie up the $1,000,000 state ap propriation without providing any means for taking advantage of fed eral match money for pensions in the opinion of attorneys here. Only 10,232 signatures of bona fide voters are needed to put the bill on the regular election ballot and sponsors of the referendum are confident they can complete their petition easily before the last day, Febru ary 7. ' Can't Evade Problems A man has just been in to worry me about the children. He points out that taxes are getting worse and I am getting older, and that if I set up annuities and insurance trusts and do a lot of other things, my children may perhaps be better off. As far as insurance is concerned, I have been a booster for it all my life. My father, who was a preach er with a large family, and a small salary, used to remark that he had "kept himself poor paying insur ance premiums." But the insurance premiums enabled him to sleep peacefully at night and, having seen us all through college, he pro ceeded to cash his insurance, and he and Mother had a good time on it during their last years. How completely they might have spoiled their days and nights if they could have looked forward in to the future. Suppose they had known, in 1900, that this country was going to do a nose dive in 1929 which would be followed by the worst depression in history. Sup pose they had said to themselves: "What a terrible ordeal that may be for our children and grandchil dren. We ought to do something about it." Well, they couldnt have done any thing about it. And, as things have turned out, we are still eating reg ularly; we have a dry place to sleep, and so far have neither ap plied for a dole or sought admis sion to a nudist camp. The changes that are going to come in these United States are beyond the imagination of any one of us to forecast. Our children and grandchildren will have to meet them, as we have had to meet the problems in our own lives. What we can do for them beyond health and education is not much. Self Reliant Are Educated President James A. Garfield was asked: "What is your definition of a college?" To which he replied: "Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other." Not luxurious dormitories or Gothic recitation halls; not rich en dowments or mammoth football bowls, but a great teacher in per sonal contact with his pupils, stirr ing their imaginations, stimulating ther minds. Mark Hopkins had the teaching genius in the top degree. What was the secret of his success? An swering that question in his auto biography, Bliss Perry quotes his pwn father, who had been one of Hopkins' pupils: "After beginning by asking the pupil what the text book said about this and that, the Doctor would invariably inquire, 'What do you think about it?' It stole the hearts of young men to hear such a man as he was plump ing down upon them from his desk, as if it were a matter of much im portance, such a question as that. It suddenly increased their own self-respect" And Bliss Perry adds: "To dis cover that you had a mind nar row, commonplace, or ill-trained, perhaps but a mind of your own, was a thrilling experience." Many students graduate from col lege without ever making that dis covery. For them education has been twenty years of mental mas sage. They come into the world with no plan except to find a boss who will keep on telling them what to think and do. You can go twenty miles from a raiiroaa into almost any cross roads town and find men and wo men who have self-formed convic tions and operate their minds un der their own steam. Such folks, however ignorant of books, are ed ucated. Copyright. 1935. K.F.S. committees in permanent form for distribution, says Charles W. Smith, O.S.C., secretary. E. Harvey Mil ler of Lexington is the new presi dent of the league, and Charles A. Nish, Mikkalo, is vice-president Heppner will be the next meeting place. Four issues dominated the con vention at Pendleton, although scores of others were considered during the two days of the meeting attended by close to 400 persons. These issues were agricultural ad justment, transportation problems, taxation and the general subject of production methods. The AAA in principal and as ap plied specifically to the wheat grow ers was given enthusiastic and de termined support which bordered on belligerency toward those who would now deprive the grower of what he feels is the first real, ef fective solution of his surplus prob lems. The convention resented at tempts to make the AAA a parti san issue. In the matter of transportation, the convention approved a series of resolutions aimed towards better development of Columbia river nav igation immediately, opposition to extension of railway control over truck lines, and opposing repeal of the long and short haul clause in the Interstate Commerce Commis sion regulations. Every effort was made in passing on taxation matters to see that no further burden was laid on proper ty in the form of direct taxes. Con sequently the sales tax plan for raising money for Oregon's share of the old-age pensions was ap proved and further bonding for any purpose where repayment would come from direct property taxes was opposed. The general revamp ing of assessment and collection laws, which were declared to be in a bad jumble in Oregon, was rec ommended. The delegates paid close attention to new production methods and ideas and to the report of the weed control committee which held that this problem is a critical one in Oregon and should be linked with soil erosion as worthy of a long time federal program. County executive committeemen to serve through the coming year are: Wasco, L. J. Kelly; Sherman, Harry Proudfoot; Gilliam, Lloyd Smith; Morrow, Henry W. Smouse; Wheeler, Jim Putnam; Umatilla, James K. Hill; Union, E. H. De Long; Wallowa, Hugh Wilson; Ba ker, N. E. Dodd. tored to the Willamette valley to spend Christmas with relatives. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned were duly appointed by the County Court of the State of Oregon for Morrow County, joint executors of the last will and testament of W. R. Munkers, deceased, and all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased, are hereby required to present the same to the undersigned executors with proper vouciiers. at the law oillce of Jos. J. Nys. at Heppner, Oregon, within six months from the date hereof. Dated and first published this 26th day of December. 1935. FRANK MUNKERS, HARRY MUNKERS, Executors. Dr. and Mrs. L. B. Tibbies mo- LAURENCE CASE MORTUARY "Just the service wanted when you want it most" Part-Time Farms Supply Homes, But Little Cash Part-time farming in Oregon has served to furnish rural residences to thousands of families, and has provided them with a part of their food supply, but in most cases it has yielded little in the way of cash crops. This is among 50 pages of hitherto uncollected information now published for the first time in an O. S. C. experiment station bul letin, entitled, "Part-Time Farming n Oregon." In the detailed study if 2110 such small farms, it was found that the average family among those sur veyed received only $117 a year from the sale of farm products. Farm produce used by the family STATE CAPITAL NEWS (Oontlnuad from Wrgt Pe) citizens but to the rest of th world, "Oregon has been a dumping ground for the surrounding states long enough much too long, in fact. As for myself I propose to use what influence I have in devel oping the wonderful resources God has given to us and I'm going to start In by doing what I can to give state business to Oregon merchants and manufacturers whose payrolls support Oregon families and whose taxes support the state and its nu merous subdivisions." Patrons if the 1936 State Fair will pay "four bits" to get Into the grounds instead of "two bits' as h hiin the case the past few Speakers Announced for State Dairy Convention A number of out-of-state speak ers, as well as Oregon leaders, will be on the program for the forty third annual convention of the Ore gon Dairymen's association at Til lamook, January 6 and 7, says Rog er W. Morse of O. S. C, secretary, One of these speakers is R. C Jones, extension dairyman for the 11 western states, who has been de voting much time to improved breeding programs. He will speak on "Taking the Gamble Out of the Selection of Dairy Sires. Dr. James D. Brew, a represen tative of the American Jersey Cat tie club, is coming from New York to take part In the convention, and will speak on "Improving the yual Ity of Dairy Products." Dr. S. B, Foster, in charge of the federal bureau of animal husbandry of this state, will discuss "The Federal Bangs Disease Program." Oregon farmers and other dairy leaders will discuss the situation and outlook for the dairy industry, legislative affairs and other matters of current Interest. Time will be allowed on the program to visit some of Tillamook's famous cheese factories and some of the outstand Ing dairy farms. This is the first time that the dairymen's conven tlln has been held in Tillamook in many years. , Willows grange will hold its reg ular business meeting, Saturday, December 28. was valued at $173 a year. The typical part-time farm in Oregon averages 9.7 acres, although a part-time farm is not classified as such on the basis of acreage on ly. They uaried in size from less than half an acre to 220 acres. The average amount of cultivated land for all part-time units studied was 3.9 acres. Copies of the bulletin may be had free at extension of fices or direct from the college. EOW League Committee Reports Being Printed Officers of the Eastern Oregon Wheat league are preparing to car ry out immediately the instructions of the ninth annual convention and to publish all reports of the various Holiday Taut to oM parts of the United States lnCOACHES,TOURIST& STANDARD SLEEPING CARS to January 1,1936, inclusive. Return January 31,1936. Sfopovers permitted. The PORTLAND ROSE The PACIFIC LIMITED LOW PRICED MEALS in Coaches anrf fn Tourist Sleeping Car Breakfast 25c Luncheon 30c Dinner 3V : Free Pillows and Portr Service In Coaches For detailed Information inquire of LOCAL AGENT UNION PACIFIC New Year's PAN Elks Hall, Heppner TUES., DEC. 31 Music by Bud's Jazz Band SPECBAEL FOR ALL THE FAMILY! Clear the track I The throttle is wide open and we are bearing down on you with two big money-saving magazine offers that break all transcontinental records for value. STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! Don't miss out on these "limited" offers. YOU GET THIS NEWSPAPER (i fuuyr.) 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