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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, Nov. 23, 1939
Heppner
Gazette Times
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THE HEPPNER TIMES,
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Offiolal Paper for Morrow County
When It's Blackest
FJEPRESSION days evpked from
economists the theory that people
should save in times of prosperity;
spend in times of adversity. That
policy generally followed, would
keep business or a more even keel
at all times.
The theory is really not new. Poor
Richard taught the lesson of thrift,
recognizing many years before the
brain trust came on the scene that
it is wise "to save against a rainy
day."
In the field of economics it is here
recognized the law of compensa
tory forces at work everywhere in
nature. In the exact sciences, those
in which all elements can be meas
ured to mathematical precision, man
has learned after the physicist that
"for every action there is an equal
and opposite reaction."
Man has not learned to gauge the
pendulum's swing of compensation
so accurately in all of nature's
workings. Bound by the theories of
the chemist that "matter is never
destroyed, merely transformed in
appearance" in the chemical pro
cesses, and of the physicist that "en
ergy is ever transmitted, never lost"
in processes of motivation, man can
everywhere see symptoms of the
processes at work, yet in nature at
large he has not been able to harness
them and control them to anything
like the degree of efficiency he has
attained in the laboratory.
The foregoing is not meant as a
scholarly treatise on the law of com
pensation. It is intended, rather, as
the basis for a truism in which hope
may be found when prospects ap
pear specially adverse.
Morrow county has been going
through its driest fall season of rec
ord, from all accounts. The imme
diate prospect for the growing wheat
crop is bleak, indeed. It has led some
to conjecture as to whether the
great eastern Oregon empire is not
being stricken by one of those cli
matic changes as recorded in eras
of geological transformation, that
may eventually leave it another Sa
hara desert. That is a matter which
should not greatly concern inhabi
tants of the region at this time, for
transformation of a country such
as this into a complete desert is a
matter of a million or so years. A
more encouraging and more proba
ble theory now, as measured from
past experience, is that the drouth
pendulum's swing is about to re
verse its course. Good crop years
have at times followed dry falls in
Morrow county. So far, general re
ports say, seed that has been put in
the ground is not greatly injured;
will come through with favorable
winter and spring growing condi
tions. When the night is darkest, the
earth turns toward the dawn of a
new day.
Railroads operating in Oregon suf
fered a loss in revenue during 1938,
as compared with the previous year
while at the same time experiencing
a substantial increase in their tax
levies, according to a report filed
with Governor Sprague this week
by O. R. Bean, state public utilities
commissioner. Freight tonnage drop
ped 2,680,199 while the 1,161,400 pas
sengers carried during the year was
236,005 under the 1937 record. Net
revenue of the railroads was $5,565,
049, a decrease of $107,765, while
taxes paid totalling $3,190,380 rep
resents an increase of $240,049 over
the 1937 figure.
River Development
To be Stressed at
Hood River Meet
The chamber of commerce and
civic groups of this community will
be invited by W. S. Nelson, manager
of The Dalles chamber of commerce
and secretary of the Mid-Columbia
chamber, to attend the annual meet
ing and banquet of the regional
group at the Columbia Gorge hotel,
Hood River, December 14.
Mr. Nelson, well known in this
area as an authority on Columbia
river development, says that the
1939 session will be turned into an
intercommunity forum, in order that
frank discussion may be secured
toward directing the trend of future
action along the lines of best policy
for cashing in on the Columbia riv
er's navigation and Bonneville low
cost power. Thomas W. Nordby,
Bingen lumberman and president of
the organization, says the time has
been reached again when all Mid
Columbia and contiguous Inland Em
pire organizations should engage in
a coordinated program, such as char
acterized their activities in the pro
motional campaigns, which have
been successful in attaining physical
facilities. A similar coordination will
be asked of public agencies, state,
regional and federal.
Speakers at the banquet this year
will include Dr. Paul J. Rover, ad
ministrator of the Bonneville proj
ect; Colonel John O. M. Lee, Port
land division engineer of the Uni
ted States engineers; Capt. Robert
H. Elliott, Bonneville district en
gineer; Charles Baker, president of
the Inland Empire Waterways asso
ciation, and Ray Conway, manager
of the Oregon State Motor associa
tion. Mr. Nelson will contact Harry D.
Proudfoot, president of the Eastern
Oregon Wheat league, and endeavor
to secure a full representation of
this influential organization at the
coming chamber session. He says the
wheat league will discuss at its an
nual meeting at Condon the week
before the regional session, in an in
tensive way the development of the
Columbia and Snake rivers as ad
vantageous factors for eastern Ore
gon agriculture. Mr. Nelson says
the conclusions reached by the
wheat ranchers, and their views on
policy will be invaluable for the
Hood River discussions.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT
"God knows the way, He holds the
key,
He guideth with unerring hand;
Educational Forum
Contributed articles from county
school leaders telling the pur
poses of education.
Why Public Speaking Should Be
Required in High School
Whatever one plans to do after
he finishes school, he will do it bet
ter if he possesses the ability to
speak well. By learning to speak well,
one can expect to be a better clerk,
a more efficient stenographer, a
more useful farmer, a better nurse,
a more capable teacher, a more val
uable physician, a more worth
while citizen.
One certainly does not need to
wait two or three years to discover
how useful public speaking training
is. The football captain will make
use of his new knowledge when talk
ing to the pep rally before the big
game, the class president will ac
quire new confidence and poise in
presiding over his class, the indi
vidual club or class member will
find himself participating in the
business of the group, the wallflow
er will blossom, yes, even the his
tory, the algebra, the chemistry, the
agriculture student will become in
creasingly aware of the fact that the
public speaking class has given him
new and valuable tools to use in the
class recitation period. Proficiency
in speech surely need not be con
fined wholly to the public speaking
class the majority of our daily re
lationships involve the use of speech.
As Americans we should be very
thankful that we have the oppor
tunity to express ourselves. What
use would there be in a public
speaking class in the schools of dic
tator controlled countries?
Some time with tearless eye we'll
see,
And there, up there, we'll under
stand." In memory of Brother John O.
Kincaid, lone, Oregon, who died
November 3, 1939.
They are not lost in the distant
worlds above.
They are our dearest link in God's
own love.
The Angel of Death has entered
our midst and we are called to
mourn the loss of a faithful friend
and co-worker.
Our tears are mingled with yours,
your sorrows are ours. .May the
gloom of the sorrowing ones be dis
pelled by the promise,
"I am the Resurrection and the
Life, sayeth the Lord; he that be
lieveth in Me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live, and he that liveth
and believeth in Me shall never die."
Resolved that Bunch Grass Re
bekah Lodge No. 91, I. O. O. F., of
lone, in testimony of our loss, be
draped in mourning for the allotted
time and that we tender the family
our deepest sympathy in the afflic
tion, and that a copy of these reso
lutions be sent to the family.
ELAINE RIETMANN,
AR VILLA SWANSON,
MARY L. SWANSON,'
Committee.
CARD OF THANKS
Our sincere thanks and apprecia
tion are extended to the many kind
neighbors and friends for their help
and expressions of sympathy at the
time of bereavement of our mother,
Alice Cochran.
The Family.
APPRECIATION
My sincere thanks and apprecia-
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned administrators of the
estate of Dan C. Doherty, deceased,
have filed their final account with
the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Morrow County of their
administration of the estate of said
deceased, and that said Court has
set, Saturday, December 23rd, 1939,
at the hour of 10:00 o'clock in the
forenoon of said day in the County
Court room at the Court House at
Heppner, Oregon, as the time and
place for hearing objections to said
final account and the settlement of
said estate, and all persons having
objections thereto are hereby re
quired to file the same with said
court on or before the time set for
said hearing.
Dated and first published this 23rd
day of November, 1939.
W. T. DOHERTY,
BERNARD F. DOHERTY,
Administrators.
tion are extended to the friends for
the radio recently placed in my
room.
W. K. CORSON.
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