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Page Four Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon Thursday, November 9, 1939 Heppner Gazette Times THE HEPPNER GAZETTE, Established March 30, 1883; THE HEPPNER TIMES, Established November 18. 1897; CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1913 Published every Thursday morning by CBAWFOED PUBLISHING COMPANY and entered at the Post Office at Hepp ner, Oregon, as second-class matter. JASPER V. CRAWFORD. Editor SPENCER CRAWFORD. Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year Three Years .... Six Months Three Months Single Copies S2.00 6.00 1.00 .75 .05 Official Paper for Morrow County President Roosevelt's Education Week Message T ET us take note, as we again ob- serve American Education Week throughout our Nation, that educa tion in our democracy teaches the practice of reason- in human affairs. I refer not only to education that may come from books. I include ed ucation in fair play on the athletic field and on the debating platform; I include education for tolerance through participation in full, free discussion in the classroom. Practice in the scientific method by our young people may be more import ant than learning the facts of sci ence. From kindergarten through college our schools train us to use the machinery of reason; parliamen tary practice; the techniques of co operation; how to accept with good grace the will of a majority; how to defend by logic and facts our deep convictions. This is education for the American way of life. Our schools also bring us face to face with men and women with whom we shall share life's strug gles. In their lives and ours, struggle will never be absent; the struggle of every individual against the stream of life; the struggle and competition among individuals, groups, institu tions, states, and nations. To the resolution of conflicts and struggles of Me, democracy supplies no easy answer. The easy answer, the quick but incomplete answer, is force tanks and torpedoes, guns and bombs. Democracy calls instead for the application of the rule of reason to solve conflicts. It calls for fair play in canvassing facts, for dis cussion, and for calm and orderly handling of difficult problems. These vital skills we Americans must a quire in our schools. In our schools our coming gener ation must learn the most difficult art in the worldthe successful management of democracy. Let us think of our schools during this American Education Week not only as buildings of stone and wood and steel; not only as places to learn how to use hand and brain; but as training centers in the use and an plication of the rule of reason in the affairs of men. And let us hope that out of our schools may come a gen ration which can persuade a bleed ing world to supplant force with reason. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, was doubly celebrated, so should this twenty-first anniversary bring double cause for gratitude in Amer ica. There should be gratitude that no more boys in khaki were sacri ficed in the first great war, and there should be gratitude that America has escaped being drawn into the present European conflict. While we in America should not be ashamed to uphold the high principles for which many fine boys in khaki found premature resting places in Flanders fields, there should, this Armistice day, be a firm resolve that no such sacrifice again be made beyond the seas, only as the very last measure of uphold ing what may be determined to be America's just responsibility to posterity. Armistice XjTHEN news was received, first inadvertantly, November 10, 1918, then authentically the next day, that combatants in the great World war had agreed to an armis tice, the world staged a double cele bration. Most gladly received was the news in America, for it meant that Uncle Sam's army of a million men, or so many thereof as had es caped war's inevitable end, were removed from further danger of bursting bomb or flying shell; that soon the flower of American man hood would be home. Saturday, America will again voice its gratitude for that armistice; will again echo the feelings of emo tion that swept the land on that eventful day in 1918, though the echo be faded by intervening years that have witnessed thinning in the ranks of the World war veterans. Those who have passed before, on field of battle or since the war's end, will be honored. As signing of the first armistice Six Oregon 4-H Champions Win Trips to Chicago Fresh from competing with 4-H club teams from the entire country at the National Dairy show in San Francisco, Oregon leaders in 4-H club activities have now turned their attention toward the next big event in the club world, the Na tional 4-H club congress in Chica go, December 1 to 9. Free trips to this congress have been won by six Oregon club mem bers by becoming state champions in their respective projects. Four others have been chosen to compete in regional or national contests. winners of which will be sent to the Chicago conference, held annually in connection with the International Livestock exposition. Following are the six winners already assured of trips, who will compete for nationa! honors at Chicago: Charles Kik, Hermiston, state champion in rural electrification projects; Geraldine DeLancey, Cor vallis, state champion in' national 4-H girls' record contest in home economics; Patsy Chalker, Portland state champion in national canning contest; Orr-Lyda Brown, Eugene, state champion in national 4-H food preparation contest; Mary Pa tricia Clark. Russellville. state champion in 4-H style review; Paul DeCourcey, Maupin, state champion in national health contest. DeCour cey's trip is made possible through the assistance of Wasco county 4-H club supporters. In addition to those six winners. Robert Zielinski, Salem, has been entered in the national Moses trophy leadershp contest, and Jacqueline Morton, Cottage Grove, is repre senting Oregon in. the national achievement contest for girls. Wil bur Burkhart, Albany, will repre sent Oregon in the regional semi finals of the national 4-H meat ani mal production contest, and Allen Parker will be Oregon's entrant in the western states semi-finals in the national home beautification contest. The winner of each of these will go to Chicago. At the National Dairy show in San Francisco, Oregon's 4-H cattle judging team from Blachly, was sec ond in judging Ayrshire cattle in competition with teams from 16 oth er states. Oregon's production dem onstration team from Hermiston was third among all western states and the dairy consumption team from Cottage Grove placed in the blue award group. FORMER LEXINGTON GIRL EXPERIENCES WAR TIME YACHTING THRILLS To the Editor: Shortly will begin the advertising campaign for the senior play, "The House of Horrors." Everyone in school will be bother' ing the merchants and townspeople by asking them to buy tickets for the play. It is true that the mer chants help the high school a great deal in sponsoring advertisements of games and in subscribing to ad vertising in school publications. But some people think that it is very in convenient to be bothered by stu dents selling tickets to school pro ductions. This writer would like to disprove this belief. The only reason that high school productions must have advance ticket sales is to obtain the money to pay for books, props, and royalty for the play. For this reason the high school students are urged to sell tickets. Ticket sales should be regarded as a convenience to prospective buyers, rather than an inconvenience. D. J. W. Togo Ericson in a series of articles published in the Brainerd (Minn.) Tribune tells of a thrilling yacht trip on which he and Mrs. Ericson, formerly Miss Wilma Leach of Lexington, sailed with a party from Norfolk, Va., to Bermuda and return. James Leach of Lexington, brother of Mrs. Ericson, has copies of the articles from which informa tion of the trip is gleaned. The Ericsons were guests of Mr. Ericson's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon MacLean of Chicago, on the MacLean yacht, Starling. How the European war upst plans of the yachting party and gave them some thrills is told in excerpts from Mr. Ericson's articles. Writing from Glen Cove, New York, on Sept. 22, Mr. Ericson, for mer associate editor of the Brain erd Tribune, wrote: "We arrived safely at New Port, R. I., after a hazardous return trip from Ber muda on September 16. "Gordon MacLean, our host and owner of the Yacht Starling, had planned a six months' cruise through the Panama Canal, then the South Seas, but when we landed at our first stop at Bermuda, an English possession, we knew that England had declared war on Germany and all the inhabitants of the many is lands were occupied in preparation for war, and as we had to be sub jected to all kinds of inspection we all decided to return to the States. "The admiralty men of war came on board the yacht; checked the crew as well as the passengers; seal ed our radio so no calls could be made or radio used in any way; the authorities also ran up three red balls on the yard which closed the port; all letters and cables were censored; if some words were inserted in the letters that the war authorities ob jected to, they did not just block it out but they put a large X on the letter and sent one a notice to ap pear before them" . . . Mr. Ericson relates in another place where he had this experience himself. "The first day out of Bermuda we saw a submarine on the surface some distance ahead. Before we were close enough to discover whether it was English or German it disap peared from the surface." Early in the second day out from Berumda a storm of hurricane pro portions overtook the yacht, says Ericson's report. Waves swept the focsil head, necessitating battening down by all hands, removed a search light and stove in the bow of a life boat which was saved just in the nick of time by two sailors who threw lines around the davits. Water that broke through the hatch doused generators and put the ship in dark ness. Yacht Starling had as skipper the helmsman of Seven Seas, winner of a New York-Bermuda race, who said the Starling was the fastest sailing ship he had ever been on, substantiated, Ericson said, by the distance of 274 miles clipped off in one day on the return. He cited the record for New Port to Berumda as 3 days ,and a few hours, reporting the Starling's time as 3 days and 19 hours. "It is nice to be back in the U. Sji with no subs to worry about or re porting to the war admiralty," Eric son concluded his articles. five months of the contest, May thru September, with a clean record so far as traffic injuries and fatalities are concerned, Earl Snell, secretary of state and sponsor of the contest, declared today. For the May-September period of 1939 and 1938 these towns have reported no injuries or accidents to the secretary of state's office. There are 21 towns in this division of the contest. The good old American name of Jones seems to be losing out at O. S. C. where, among more than 4600 students names in this years' di rectory, there are only eight Joneses compared with 55 Smiths, 44 John sons and 36 Millers. 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