4 Heppner Gazette Times, April 22, 1943
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THE CROSS ON THE HILL
Written by Venerable Eric O. Robathan
It stands, a lonely sentinel,
And from its height surveys
The going to and fro of men
Intent upon their ways.
Sometimes 'tis hidden from the sight
In shroud of mist and haze;
And those below lift up their eyes
With searching,, anxious gaze.
The storms arise; the rain descends;
The wind around1 it plays;
But stronger than the storm, the rock
On which the Cross is raised.
Comes then the sun; the Cross appears
All silvered in its rays;
The mists dissolve: the Cross still stands:
And hearts are filled with praise.
Not always lonely is this Cross,
Though, lonely most its days;
There comes some sad and burdened soul
Who kneels, looks up and prays! ,
EVERYTHING OR NOTHING
In this titanic struggle enveloping
the major portion of the globe the
answer appears to be "everything or
nothing." Meaning, of course, that an
alied victory means everything to the
cause of freedom and democracy,
whereas, an axis victory will remove
every vestige of those principles for
which we stand. It also means that be
fore this war goes much farther the
American people will have to invest
every dollar not absolutely needed for
living and operational expenses in war
bonds. If that is, not clone and done
soon, this struggle for world freedom
will last much longer than most of us
want it to.
The allies seized the initiative sever
al months ago. Since then telling blows
have been inflicted upon the enemy.
But that enemy is still powerful, dan
gerously so, and unless our forces are
supplied with the equipment to con
tinue striking the first and the hardest
blow, the initiative may be lost or at
the best the war reach a stalemate.
Supplies and more supplies, men and
more men women, also will have
to be kept moving up to the front. To
do this takes a lot of money. The gov
ernment is asking you to loan your
surplus funds. Remember, THEY are
giving their lives you are asked to
LOAN your money
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ANXIOUS TO DO THEIR PART
In this all-out war it must not be for
gotten that the teen-age folk have a
part to play and they are eager to
take their place in the sun. Today
many of the young people, those m
high school, are worried about the in
crease in juvenile delinquency and they
would do something to curb this men
ace to the future of our country. But
the young people are looking to their
elders for guidance and the pity of it
is that most of us are so engrossed in
business affairs and activities result
ing from stress of the war that we
have not the time to give issues affect
ing the moral status of our country
any thought.
In recent meetings of the luncheon
forum of Heppner business and pro
fessional men both the young people's
viewpoint and iwhat may be deemed a
direct answer to their challenge have
been presented. In the first instance,
Loma Jones, high school student, stat
ed the case of the young people, point-
j il i? -J. il- i. 1 i.1 1.fi
ing to me iact uiai 11 uiey are uui, lu
their own devices they are apt to take
the easy way, which, in effect, is the
harmful way. However, she contended
that youth is not afraid, that they will
work for the good things in life, and
that all they ask is the opportunity
and the proper guidance. It Was a chal
lenge to an older generation to point
the way.
The answer was furnished Monday
by Mrs. B. C.'Forsythe of Ashland,
member of the executive committee of
the Oregon council of parents , and
teachers, who told the forum of the
program of the Parent-Teacher assoc
iation Mrs. Forsythe had just come
from a meeting of the committee in
Portland and her talk was highly in
formative. The P-TA is vitally inter
ested in the problem of juvenile delin
quency and proposes to do something
about it. Clean minds and healthy bod
ies are vital in the development of the
youth of today who will be the leaders
of tomorrow. That calls for a thorough
and vigorous recreational program.
Dancing is one of the items on the P-TA
program rhythmical, graceful danc
ing. Therefore the tango and boogie
woogie are ruled out, as are all other
types, of recreation that are not con
sidered proper for development of
mind and body. In brief, the program
calls for training of our youth in a
manner to carry on the principles up
on which our government was. found
ed, to meet new conditions arising as
a result of the war. To do this will re
quire keen minds and strong bodies.
The. question' is, will we get behind
this educational movement and help our
young people to help themselves, or
wiil we just drift along and let them
work out their own philosophy of life.
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THE BATTLE OF THE PINES
When the word battle is mentioned
one naturally thinks of planes, guns,
tanks, and kindred weapons, but there
has been a real war going on right in
our own back yard which merits the
praise of every loyal American. It may
not have the glamour of the battle
field, indeed there is little opportunity
for heroic sacrifice, but the fact re
mains that the men who have carried
on in the forests the past seven or eight
months have put up a magnificent
battle against the forces of nature in
an effort to keep timber products roll
ing to the front or wherever they are
sorely needed in sustaining the allied
war effort.
The past season has been about the
worst imaginable from the logger's
standpoint From the Pine Log, house
organ of Kinzua Pine Mills it is learn
ed that "weather conditions provided
one of the worst problems. Rain, rain,
rain was the refrain. No one liked it
but not a man let it get him down. The
rains never stopped during, the sum
mer and fall of 1942. Ground condi
tions in the woods were never worse.
Had not Uncle Sam needed timber so
desperately in the war program it would
not have been commercially sound log
ging practice to have logged during
the heavy rains and snows of the past
few months."
Thus we learn that non-combatant
forces too are putting up an heroic
struggle to claim raw materials so vi
tal to the promotion of the war. As in
the case of the timbermen, it is seldom
without risk to life and limb.
Founded First Tin
Hardware Shop Here
The Gazette Times is in receipt
of a letter from Mrs. Mabel Leezer
Bascom of 1235 E 74th St. Los An
geles, which reveals the origination
of one of Heppner's earliest busi
ness enterprises. The letter is self
explanatory and is as follows:
Heppner, Gazette Times:
Congratuations on your 60th an
niversary. I was only a small child
when the first paper was issued so
I do not remember Mr. Keyte, but
I do remember Patterson, Michel,
Redington, Warnock, Shutt and of
course Mr. Vawter Crawford and
brothers and sons.
My father, W. J. Leezer, had the
first tinware and hardware store in
Heppner. He and Mr. Briggs were
associated together. I hope Mr.
Briggs is still living.
Last week I called on an old
classmate of mine, Lillian Bisbee
Wentworth, at Altadena Calif. We
had a grand visit talking over our
school days. They have a lovely
home. You will always find Lillian
in her flower garden and it is
beautiful.
I always enjoy getting your paper
and while a great .many of the
names are strange to me, there are
a few old friends left I would love
to be able to come back to the old
home town for a visit, but I do not
know as that will ever be, so I
say greetings to each and every
person I ever knew.
Sincerely,
Mabel Leezer Bascom.
HENRY SCHWARZ HOME
Leonard Schwarz drove to The
Dalles Sunday and brought his fa
ther ,Henry Schwarz home from
the hospital. Mr. Schwarz is recov
ering from the effects of an ampu
tation in which he suffered the loss
of one leg, but will be invalided
several weeks.
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