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About The Willamina times. (Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon) 1909-1972 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1930)
C l| r IP i 11K nt t ti « Cime« Page 2 Friday. February 21 Interesting Trips To Other Lands (Prepares by th* National Oeo»rephle Society. Waehingtoa. D. O > MERIUA'S farthest northw««t and Asia's furthest northeast mark the Icy region where air planes of the United States and Soviet Russia have been seeking to (Ind Lieut. Ben Elelson who disap peared while trying to curry aid by air to a marooned ship. The region In which search was made embraces Bering strait, a portion of the Arctic [ sea to the north, and Bering sea to the south. While whaling ships pass through these waters at intervals, much of the region is far from being a frequented Entered at the post office at Willamina. Oregon, as second class one. Less than Suu years ago Bering matter. August 24. 1909, under act of Congress ot March 3, 1879. strait had not been crossed bv a I. ■ it with a civilized navigator In command, but since then, whalers, Arctic explor G. G arland S ittser , E ditor and P ublisher ers, and adventurers have passed through and across the strait. About twenty years after the Pil Published on Friday. Subscription price $1.50 a year in advance. grims landed on Plymouth Rock, two Russian expeditions sailed along the i western bank of Bering strait without seeing the American side. Later a trading station was established on the Russian bank, but It was nearly a < en ! tury later that Alaska was explored | from the west Rumors were current at the Russian trading station that th-re was an Is land In the strait, hidden by tho fog that enve)<>i>es the region, und that America lay to the east The "Island" proved to be two Islands now known as Diomedes. Today one of the Di omede« belongs to Russia, the other to the United States; for the Interuathm al boundary line runs between them They are Inhabited by Eskimos who make their living chiefly as “go be tween«” for American and Russian traders. Named for Vitus Bering. Bering strait and Bering sea take ' their names from Vitus Bering, a Dan ish navigator who enlisted In the Rus sian navy in 1703. Peter the Great ordered him to the east coast of Si beria In 172.5, He went overland to Okhotsk and then to Kamchatka, where he built a ship for his explora tions. He sailed up the Bering sea coast but America was hidden in the fog. On a subsequent voyage. In 17-11, he saw th« American continent for the first time. On his way back to Si beria, Bering's ship was wrecked on what Is now known as Bering Island In the Commander group. Sailors who j reached the mainland carried the story of the fur trade possibilities in Alaska and soon Russian trap|>ers and traders moved to the new continent. If the international boundary line J continued north and south as It does | through the strait, half of the Alen- I tluns would belong to Russia. But at J the south end of the strait It veers southwestward, ndssing the western end of the Aleutian chain by about 150 miles. The Commander Islands form the i mly group on the Russian side of the line while the United States acquire«) the St. Lawrence, St. Matthew, Nunl- vak and the Prlbllof islands when Seward paid Russia $7,000,000 for the famous "Seward Ice Box,” as Alaska was called by the critics of the pur chase. Perhaps the most Important and best known of the American Islands are the Pribllofs, where the United States bu reau of fisheries maintains a sealing station and fox ranch. The Pribllofs consists of 3 Islands, lying In the Ber ing sea, about 2(X) miles north of the Aleutian chain. St. Pauls and St. Georges Islands, the largest and only ones of the group that are Inhabited, are each slightly more than 30 square miles In area. The other three are merely Jutting rocks with a combined area no larger than a fair-sized east- i ern farm. Willamina Cimes are often called upon to answer a question from W E strangers who visit our city. We must always hang our head in embarrassment and disgust when we give our answer, “no,” in a very small voice. The nature of our work is such—newspaper work—that we cannot evade the questioner; for we are supposed to know and we do know, and in knowing, we blush. Some of these questioners are men who are looking for business locations, and others are men who want good mill and factory sites. They have money to invest and they would be valuable ad ditions to our city. Others are those who wish to locate here and build homes to become valuable residents in our town. They say, “We like this part of the country,” and they are in a mood to be influenced to make the right kind of a decision, had we an organization to work with such individuals. And they ask this very question: “Have you a chamber of commerce in Willamina?” This is the first thing that comes to the mind of a person who comes to our city to give us the “onceover.” Today, every city, town and hamlet, nearly, has its commercial organization, and the average citizen always thinks of these associations when he desires to obtain help in locating a business or in dustry. The well established organizations over the state headed by the State Chamber, have educated him in this line. These organizations are helpful and in turn, they are the means of bringing much help to a town that wish es to go ahead. Willamina needs just such an organiza tion. In fact, she will never go ahead with Oregon until she does take steps in this line. Somebody must act. Someone must lead out in organizing a commercial body. But the state of mind in Willamina has been such that no person has had the courage to undertake such a work. The chances are that he would be thought of as one who was not attending to his own business. There is also a spirit present that drives our business men away from each other instead of leading them together. Each one seems to feel that anything in the way of an organization would be too apt to give too much help to the other fellow. This spirit of selfishness must be laid aside if we ever ex pect to get anywhere as a town or city. We must realize that to organize for the betterment of all will mean that we all will be benefitted individually. What do you say, men, shall we go ahead with Oregon, or shall we stay be hind to soon be forgotten as other live towns grow into cities all around us? There are big problems that Willa mina should be working out at this time, and we need a good live chamber of commerce organization above every thing else, and we need it now. What shall we do about it? ___________ Their burren, volcanic peaks ami and If successful in Ids fight with the rocky shorea ure hostile to vegetation. bull, he takes «way a cow or two. In the winter they ar« covered with As cold weather approach««, tho Ice und snow, und whipped by the cows nnd newborn puj>s leuv« tiie Is frigid Arctic galea, while during lit« lands and go south, followed shortly summer months, tl.ut fog that emel afterward by the bulla They m-ver opes tiie whole urea Is so dense that touch land until thirty return t» th« the sun's ruys rarely touch Hie earth Pribllofs In tiie spring. Tho two to As a result the climate is uncomfurt three-montha'-oid pups, who imv« twen able, cold and damp. Toward autumn subsisting on milk and hnnlly know the wind clears the atmosphere uno 1 how to "navigate," nr« force«) to make here und there grass ami mosses make their own way without assistant*« from the Iwst of the short fogies« and !■ e the rest of tho family. As a re- tlr. It less season. Only a few years ugo Is estlmat«*«) thnt 60 per «-ent of them the Inhabitant« of the Islam!« were en die before the next season. tlrely Isolated from lb« rest of tie- How th« Hards Ar« Protected. world for six mouths of th« yenr, but the radio has changed that condition. Tho Real herd« of tho Prlbllof« de- •rensed from hetween MOO.OoO nnd 4.* When Prlbllof, the Russian navi Ot>),lMX> when the Islnnds wore ti. <n gator, whose nume the Isluuds hour, over by tho United States In P A, to landed there In 1780, after three years* 150,000 In WIL Although the g«»vern- search for the breeding grounds of the m«mt placed restrlmlons on killing them seals that frequent«-d the north Pn on tiie Islands, the Io«» was largely ciflc and Bering seas waters, he found duo to the killing uf cows while they no human life, but millions of ««mis. He was follow«.-«! by Russians und later swam about In (Im water In tin- sum by natives from the Aleutian Dhim'«, mer. perhnps seeking squid and tlah Russians and a few Americans make j nr the non rest food source, n hundred miles south, or during the winter while up the present population. u» st of In the Pacific. Th« death of a row In whom are connect«-»! with the govern ment sealing and fox raising Indus- tiie winter means Hie loss of a pup to be born the following summer, »bile tries. a similar killing In th« summer would While seals are sometimes known as perhaps be* more dlsairtrous. for the sea bears, their names peculiarly fol new-born pup left at th« rookery would low those of cattle and dogs, and even die of starvation nnd an unborn pep humnn beings. Th« adult male Is would a Io- bo lost, Laws and treaties calle«l a “bull” nnd the femnle, a now prutc<-t seals while at sen. "cow." Insteud of referring either to Scientific propagation la allowing Its bears or cattle by calling the b.h) favorable effect upon the herds annu seals “cubs" or "calves," man call» ally. Only surplus mules are kllletl them “pups." The young males fun- for their pelts. Tho best furs are tak better by annexing a name of human en from souls under five years old. origin—bachelors. Those thnt nre to be killed are rc|e The more rocky the shore, the more arat«*d from the herd, struck on the the seals like It during the breeding head with a large club, and then seasons, for the harems (seal fnmlli—•) struck through the heart with a knife. forsake the few smooth spots on t! • After the killing uu expert skinner islands nnd establish their rookeries can remove the pelt of a seal In two (breeding places) among the broken or three minutes. rocks along the shore, or on the aides The government also successfully of rocky hills. From tiie rim the rook maintains and propogates blue and eries appear to the eye ns collections white foxes on the Pribllofs, which of black splotches continually mo ing. ndd to the revenue already received while to the ear comes a blend of loud from tiie »«-tiling Industry. Nearly grunts and barks. Each of these 1,000 pelts are shipped to this country splotches repres«-nts a harem of 50 or annually. Unlike tiie fox farms on ip) cows and, perhaps, twice ns many the Aleutian bland» where tiie little pnps, which are protected by a bull. animals are Inclosed In chicken-wire The bachelors are not allowed to cams cages, the Prlbllof packs are allowed near the harems but occupy “hauling to run wild. They are the most suc- grounds,” on smooth rocks or sundy cesful pucks in the world. beaches, outside the family circles. Seals on th« Pribllofs. Most of the pelts of both the seals . The islands ar« bleak and desolate. Sometimes a bachelor raids a harem and foxes are auctioned off in the SL study groups are fostered with cor Ix>uls fur market. respondence aid. Bering s«-n Is 38 times larger than it has been said that the A. I. B., as l.nke Michigan. The Gulf of Mexico It Is familiarly known throughout tho could be swallowed up In its area. If banking field, is the greatest adult ed- the Bering sou were placed on a map Through the American Institute of | ucational organization In the world of the United States with its northern Banking, which Is the American Bank ! and Is supplying the banking business most point at Chicago, the Aleutian ers Association's educational section, with the largest supply of trained islands, which form its southern hound* the banking profession is educating workers each year that any compar ary, would dot the northern shore of 35,000 bank men and women in the able line of business is rece'ivlng, Tho the Gulf of Mexico. technical and scientlflc departments • • • organization holds an annual conven ot their work. These students are en tion attended by hundreds of young From the standpoint of feed pro abled by this Institute, which Is entire bank workers as well as senior bank duction, the pasture is commonly the ly non commercial 1n its operations, to officers actively Interested In further most Important field on the farm. obtan a grasp of the finer points ot ing the Institute’s educational work, Don’t overlook the permanent pasture banking without interrupting their at which numerous technical subjects when applying this winter's manure. employment or interterIng with their • • • of practical banking application are earnings, in their bank jobs. presented and discussed. This year's Soy beans are recommended by spe The courses given, including bank convention will be held at Denver, cialists ns on excellent emergency hay ing economics and law and bank ad Colorado, June 16 to 20. crop. The soy bean Is tolerant of ministration In all the departments, acid noils and produces a (my of high have been worked out under the di When tiie «oil has plenty of bumus protein content nnd feeding value com rection of senior college educators It plows np better and cun he reduced parable to alfalfa. and the lectures are always given by to the proper fineness much more • • • practical men, such as lawyers in the quickly nnd with less power. Plows scour moat easily tn soils that • • • legal courses, experts in banking oper have plenty of humus. A starch con ations and college professors in th« Soy beans do not make an Heal dition of aolls ran be corrected by economics courses. There are chap forage crop because they do not pro bringing the percentage of organic ters with meeting rooms in over 200 duce new growth when eaten off and material up to 4 per cent using cal- cities and also a number of smaller consequently their season Is short. rium carbonate for soil acidity. IT seems that Oregon may have its share of rain this year after all, providing, of course, it keeps on sprinkling. HELPING YOUNG FOLK TO BECOME BANKERS UPHOLD RESPECT FOR LAW By CHARLES H. TUTTLE, United Sute. Attorney, New York. Today the danger which confronts our flag and country is not from •without but from within. The time, therefore, has come for a thoughtful consideration of the strength and durability of the foundation beneath this fast superstructure and for the American people, by a qualitative analysis of their own democracy, to heed the recent warning of our Presi dent that there is occurring a subsidence of our foundations. Stated in another way this means that the foremost problem before the American people today is the problem of their relation to the law and of the law’s relation to them and that their foremost task is to preserve the dignity of the law. One is appalled by the consequence to the vast and delicate structure of the American state if this keystone of reverence and respect for Inv ahould ever be shaken by the ceaseless attacks upon it. •«ala on Ono of the Prlbllof (alando.
