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Action Demanded
The Veterans of Foreign Wars,
along with other veteran and patri­
otic organizations, have called up­
on the government for quick action
on the charges against Harry
Bridges, the alien radical, who has
been largely responsible for stirring
up costly labor troubles on the
coast in recent years.
The Veterans also demand im­
prisonment or deportation of men
banded together in military fashion
for the purpose of overthrowing
the American government. A drive
seems necessary againt un-Ameri­
can organizations, using the Amer­
ican guarantee of freedom of speech
and action as a blind for their sub­
versive activities, and there can be
no better leadership than that to
be obtained through veterans’ or­
ganizations, whose love of country
has been proven.
Harmony Desired
The getting together recently of
business men and union heads in
Portland with the view of reaching
accord is encouraging. Under ordi­
nary conditions and with the spirit
of fairness in the minds and hearts
of all, difficulties, which seem un-
surmountable, can usually be iron­
ed out.
Harmonious relations between
business and labor are necessary to
the welfare of both sides and the
nation as a whole. All parts are
clearly complementary and the
rabble rouser, who is continually
preaching hatred, is performing a
disservice to those whom he is giv­
ing lip service.
Bon R. Mathis of the A. F. of L.
building trade council is to be com­
mended for calling the meeting. We
can all hope that this gathering will
bear fruit and result in industrial
peace in this state.
Superintendent of Portland
Schools Dugdale at the peace meet-
ing aptly said: “We shouldn’t
waste time in fighting each other.”
Harmonious relations cannot be
brought over night. It will need
hard and conscientious effort on
the part of the leaders.
Alien to Campaign
Harold Pritchett, radical Canadi-
a n, president of International
Woodworkers of America, is going
to stage a four-week campaign in
behalf of new deal candidates. He
should, as the new deal labor de­
partment has been particularly kind
to him in allowing him to enter this
country over the protests of many
patriotic organizations. His cam­
paign will not increase the love of
a lot of people for the new deal.
The following editorial in the
Astoria Astorian-Budget is appro-
po:
IT HAPPENS
In the name of God. amen! What are
we coming to in this land of the free
and the home of the brave? Harold
Pritchett is going to make a four weeks'
campaign in the Columbia valley in be­
half of new deal candidates.
Mr. Pritchett, be it remembered, is
president of the CIO International Wood­
workers of America. He is a resident of
British Columbia. He is an alien. He has
to secure a permit to come into this coun-
liy to carry on his union activities. He
has been repeatedly charged with being
an active communist. And he is coming
into our area to tell American citizens
how to vote.
It is a spectacle without much prece­
dent. It is a phenomenon significant of
the times. It is a piece of brazen effront­
ery. It is one of those things that "can’t
happen" but it does.—Astoria Astorian-
Budget.
When young Mr. Corrigan of Irish
descent crossed the Atlantic in a
$900 plane of 1929 vintage he laid
a nice prob’em in the lap of the
bureau of air commerce. He made
the trip without permit and was
plenty lucky to get across. If some
reprimand is not given by the gov­
ernment the ocean is liable to be
filled with dare-devil boys seeking
fame.
The plan for a harvest queen and
court to rule over the annual coun­
ty fair should add still further in­
terest to this worthwhile event.
Deadline for applications under
the lending - spending program is
fast approaching. -Umh‘r.tlu> pro­
gram the government is determined
to hand out large sums for prefects
to prime the pump and lot al people
will have to pax their share of the
resultant Lill, whether they get an.»
of the benefits or not.
Consequently, officials of t h e
county, city and school districts
should be on their toes to see to t
that projects of local value are sub­
mitted. There are many things
which will benefit such a grow­
ing and important community as
this — among them an improved
school plant, greater water supply,
a swimming pool, tennis courts, etc.
As for the swimming pool, other
cities have successfully financed
and operated them and on a health­
ful basis as urged by the state board
of health, so why cannot an enter
prising community like Hillsboro'.’
Under PWA an outright grant of
45 per cent is made by the federal
government and the local govern­
mental subdivision must finance the
other 55 per cent. If the local unit
is unable to finance its share appli­
cations may be made for loans on
the balance.
Let's give the community the im­
provements that will make it more
attractive from a residential stand­
point by taking advantage of the
lending - spending program, for
which we must pay whether we like
it or not.
Bathing Dangers
(By Oregon State Board of Health)
Oregon, like most of the other western
states, has gone in heavily for swimming
pools largely because most of its streams are
polluted and unfit for bathing purposes.
Many persons still bathe in the rivers and
creeks and they are often the people who
add to the number of typhoid cases. When
the sun is hot and the water looks cool and
refreshing, little thought is given to posable
pollution and on a day’s outmg the tempta­
tion is usually too great to be resisted.
Swimming is a healthful exercise if indulg­
ed in properly. From a safe standpoint the
old swimming hole is gone: today we de­
pend on the artificial swimming pool to fur­
nish lifeguards and safe water, continually
purified to give the greatest amount o f
health protection.
Swimming instructions should be i n-
cluded in the curriculum of every school
and should be encouraged as a healthful
and invigorating exercise. It must be re­
membered. however, that man is not physi­
cally equipped for aquatic life and there
are certain precautions that should be taken
by all those who engage in this sport. Here
are a few don’ts that every swimmer should
know:
Don’t go in swimming for at least one
hour after meals.
Don’t swim alone except under obser­
vation of experienced swimmers.
Don’t try deep water until you have
mastered the art of swimming.
Don't swim too far out until you have
tested your endurance in the water.
Don't swim in pools in which the bot­
tom is not clearly visible.
Don't dive unless you know the water
depth is safe.
Don't stay in too long.
Remember too. that even a swimming
pool unless it is equipped with recirculation,
filtration and chlorination equipment may
soon become unfit for its intended purpose.
Proper maintenance of recirculation and
purification equipment is as important as
proper equipment.
Middle ear infections
leading to mastoid trouble often are trace­
able to insanitary pools. If sinus infection
is already present, excessive swimming and
diving may cause purulent material to be
carried from the nasal cavity to the middle
ear. Virulent germs in a pool improperly
constructed or operated may reach the mid­
dle ear and set up infection so persons with
head colds should stay away from pools, and
swimmers who are subject to colds should
avoid underwater swimming and diving
when there is any doubt as to the purity
of the water.
Our Yesterdays
Fifteen Years Ago
Argus, July 19. 1923—Harvest of grain
begins in county. Winter wheat and oats
promise good yield in all sections.
Butler Raffety and Martha Toelle of
Mountaindale married July 14.
Frank Schneider of Lelsyville suffers
dislocated shoulder while stopping runaway
team.
State encampment of United Spanish War
Veterans endorses Dr. L. W. Hyde of Hills­
boro for senior vice-commander of the na­
tional organization.
R. T. Bennett installed as noble grand
of I. O. O. F. lodge and Ina Bowman as
noble grand of Rebekahs.
New county hospital at Newton nearing
completion.
Thirty Years Ago
Argus, July 16, 1908—Roy Schulmerich
breaks arm in fall from tree.
M. N. Bonham builds new house at
Fifth and Jackson.
"Warming Up Races" scheduled for
Hillsboro July 31 and August 1 by I. D.
Chappelle, who has old fair grounds leased.
William Harms, Mountaindale, breaks
arm when accidentally thrown from load of
hay.
Daniel Herron, aged pioneer, dies at
Sherwood Saturday.
United Railways starts construction
work near Linnton. Right of way said to
have been secured through Cornelius Pass.
Herman Schulmerich installed as chan­
cellor commander Knights of Pythias.
Last bridge on Oregon Electric between
Hillsboro and Garden Home will be com­
pleted this week. Rails laid as far west as
Beaverton. Hope to have line completed
between Forest Grove and Garden Home
by state fair time.
P. R. & N. extension may begin soon.
Management waiting for $20,000,000 in cash
from bondholders, expected any time.
Eff Schieffelin. prominent farmer of near
Centerville, injured in runaway near Moun­
taindale Monday.
Church Ser vices’
All ropy for this column must
be in the office not Later than
Monday evening.
RIELSFORO, GREGOR
The Indian Scare at Scholls Ferry
dan They were going to Fort Yam­
hill. the site ql wlpch is now
mat ked bi a brunre tablet on a
First Church of Christ. Scientist
large boulder along the coast high-
' Truth is the subject i f the les-
i oi hear (frand Ronde
son ermon in all Churches o f
When they arrived livre Elian-
Christ Scientist on Sunday Tim
del < garage now is it w is del
gulden text i
‘ Text h Me T: >
imleli decided to take the mure di •
Wai. O Lord i W l \\ alk in Th ■
reel route to the south b> wa> id
Truth Unite My He..it to fem Thy
I’eter Scholls' fvnv. and it is
Name <Ps 86 11'
Services held
quite possible they had c.imped tor
every Sunday at II a tn : Wednes­
the
night near here a. Sheridan,
day evening services at 8 o'clock,
in his memoirs, says that it re­
Sunday school at 11 a tn Pupils up
quited four days to make the trip
to 20 y isars are welcomed
Free
from Vancouver to Fort Yamhill
reading r ■ >m open on Wednesdavs
Wo might Imagine how this lit­
g until 4
tle procession look' d Ahead of the
main
body would be the scouts,
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
hat di hunters and trappers, pet
Serv.ces ate held each Sabbath
haps friendb Indians umong them
(Saturday) as follows
Sabbath
Out w here the orchard is in front
on the lookout lest there be am
school. 9 45 a. tn : preaching ser-
bu«hes or unexpected surprises,
i ices .it 11. young people's meet­ of the Gotter house stood the log
house of Zaba Rowell
then would come t h e soldiers
ing at 2 30 p. m. Pray er meeting
Down near A Weller's and Mar­ mounted on the best Indian ponies
Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Vis­
tin Bonfigt's was the clearing and
to be had for Sheridan was a
itors are welcome at any service.
cabin of Philip Swank, where the cavalry leader, and in his memoirs
Dr. Walter Huntington. pastor.
fir gnwe now i- which Martin
speaks of ' his little company of
Bonfigt is sawing into lumber, a dragoons It was hero In Oregon
M E. Church i Bethany)
crop of w hi at was harvested in
On Germantown road. Sunday
that he had the training that made
1836. the last before it was allow­ him so successful in the Civil war
service c. ery Sunday at 10 a m.
ed to grow up again into forest.
Sunday school at 11 a. m —John
a few years later.
Place, pastor.
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On the north side of the river
Then came the supply train haul­
was the house of Peter Scholl, who ing provisions for the forts to the
Tualatin Plains Presbyterian
had settled there in 1847. and hud south, with antes and plenty of
Church
built and opetatixi a furry across ammunition to be used If needed I
You are cordially invited to at­
the Tualatin river so that the travel am tlnnking that these supplies
tend these services Sabbath preach­
to the south might have a more were hauled in army wagons by six
ing services. 11 a m : Sunday school.
direct route than by going around
mules each, us was the custom of
10 a. m : C E . 8 p. m : Missionary
by Hillsboro and Gaston. At that
those days, the drive: riding the
society last Wednesday of each
time the ferry was only a raft of near wheel mule and driving with
month at 2 p m J F Gibson, min-
cedar logs, and was operated by a jerk line These days army trucks
isttr.
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man power, being pulled across the are not propelled by mule power,
river by a rope.
neither does the driver steer them
Methodist Episcopal Church
We may well imagine that when
with a jerk line
Sunday school. 9'45 a in. C. C.
these few pioneers heard the
A-: Peter Scholl’s ferry was small,
Weber superintendent; morning
reveille that morning they were barely large enough for a single
worship. 11: Epworth Leagues. 7
alarmed, as their first thought was
wagon, it must have required much
P m : evening worst
I 13 o'clock
because of the danger of Indians
work and many trips to get this
—Alexander Hawthorne, pastor, tf
Their parents, early settlers in company across that day The old
eastern states, had told them of the road leading down to the ferry
Ml Saints Episcopal Church
terrible struggles with Indians in could be seen many year«, all
Services for the sivth Sunday
New England ur states further west,
grown up with brush. The present
after Trinity: Holy communion. 7:30
perhaps in Ohio. Illinois or Indiana.
bridge <1938' stands where t h e
a m ; morning prayer at 10 o'clock
The tales of the cruelties of the ferry then was.
The bishop will be here for con­
French and Indian war of a hun­
The road from the ferry led to
firmation July 31 at 7 30 a m —Reg­
dred years before had been p issed
inald Hicks, vicar.
along. If Indian fighting should be­ the south of the old Rowell house,
gin in this densely timbered re­ thence followed laiurel Ridge to
the top of Chehalem mountain and
Beaverton Christian Church
gion it would be frightful, but no
Bible school. 9:45 a. m. Commun­ more than might be expected, as down the old Springbrook road in­
to
Chehalem valley.
ion and preaching at 11 a m. Song
there were Indians here.
In his memoirs Sheridan tells of
serv ice and evangelistic sermon at
John Rowell told me that when
8 pm B ble study and prayer meet­ they first came there in 1853. In­ erecting buildings at Fort Yum-
ing at 8 p. m. Wednesday.
liill. then going on und building a
dians would camp each full on the
blockhouse at Yaquina and another
Rowell land along the Tualatin river
Methodist Episcopal Church
and fish. ai«d hunt m the sur­ at Siletz.
Girls chorus, directed by Phoebe rounding hills.
The blockhouse built by Sheridan
J. Hawthorne, with Mrs. Rose
long stood where lie placed it near
Len W. Guild tells me that the
Howell, pianist, will sing the church
same stories have come down to Grand Ronde, but a few years ago
worship hour at 11 a m. Sunday.
in 1911. it was removed to the city
him from his ancestors, and that
Sertjwn by the pastor will be on the annual "potlatch” was held on
park at Dayton. where it now
"Big Values in Little Tilings"
stands.
It is 22 feet square, with
his farm. This "potlatch” was at­
Linfield College's Number One tended by Indians from a large the upper story built corner-wise
Men's quartet will sing at the region round about, and at which on the lower part Openings are
specially-planned Sunday evening they spent the time in feasting,
cut in the logs so that rifles could
services, beginning at 7:45. Mem­ trading, playing games and gam­ be turned at angles to meet In­
bers of the quartet, which has bling. There was an Indian burial dians who might be coming from
drawn praise wherever it has made place on his land.
any direction. This blockhouse is
an appearance, are Charles Mac-
While these* natives had always built of logs, and is very well pre­
Kenzie and Clyde Martin, tenors, been peaceful, still it was certain
served fur a log house built 82
and Alfred Painter and Milton
years ago. As it is located in the
Hay. basses. "America Whither that they were Indians and could
Dayton city park, only twenty odd
Bound'' will be the subject of the and would go to war with t h e miles from here, it forms a very
hites if they wire stirred up to
evening talk to be given by Pro­ w
attractive place fur day excursion-;
it.
fessor Jonas A. Jonassen. The
f >r individuals or forschoolswho.se
On second thought came t h e
speaker is a product of the north-
teachers know the value of such
west and is a graduate of Linfield comforting knowledge that Uncle object lessons in the teaching of
college. He received his doctor of Sam's soldiers, knowing of the history.
philosophy degree from Stanford dangers, were here and making
It is by such object lessons that
preparations to protect them.
University. The public is invited.-
wo learn of the hazards and hard­
T>* < detachment of the army ha I
Rev. Alexander Hawthorne.
camped for the night near by. per­ ships the pioneers in this Oregon
haps on the north side of the river country went through that we. their
Christian Church
successors, might enjoy this garden
Lord's day unified study-worship among the oak trees on Peter spot of the world in jieaee.
service 9 45-11 45 a. m. Church Scholls’ land These oak trees he
As one looks at this massive
later left standing as he cleared
school 9 45-10:45. Music by choir.
building, so built as to protect the
his fields because they reminded
Sermon by pastor. Unified service
defenders from Indian bullets, it
7-8:30 p. m. Song seivice assisted him of Indiana, his native state.
The soldiers had started from seems natural to examine the walls
by young people's choir. Christian
to find bullets t tubeddixl in the
Fort Vancouver on April 21. had
Endeavor topic with youth leader
logs during fierce attacks of the
and open forum. Bible study by gone to Oregon City, crossed the
red men. but there are none there.
Willamette there, and had started
pastor. Study Heb. 8. Bring your
along the pioneer road leading to- These bkx-khoicses never saw In-
Bibles Thursday. 8 p m Mid-week
fighting. The Indian scare at
service. Tonight: Topic. “The wards Hillsboro and which may dian
Scholls ferry was only a scare In­
be located in places to this day.
<
This road crossed the present deed, as far as I can learn there
Welfare Agencies " Leader. W. E
was no general Indian war in the
Lewis. Young people leading in at­ Scholls road at Progress, where
Willamette valley
tendance each week. Thursday. Eliander's garage now stands.
During the fighting cast of the
The leader of this little troop of
July 28 the mid-week service will
mountains and in the Hogue river
be held at Shute park following soldiers was Lieutenant Phil Sheri-
valley, many young men from the
a picnic pot-luck dinner. Members
valley volunteered to go and help
and friend- urged to keep this in
fifth after Trinity; commemoration and did so A son of Zaba Rowell
mind. - R. L. Ihitnam. minister.
of sailing of Pilgrim Fathers for so volunteered from our Scholls
new world. July 22. 1620. from neighborhrxxi, going to southern
Whosoever Will
Delfshaven, The Netherlands: com­ Oregon. He never came back. It is
(Above North Plains)
memoration of St. Christopher, quite possible that if it had not
July 24: Sunday school. 10 a. m.,
patron of all travelers July 25: St. been for this volunteer help from
clas • s for all; sermon. 11 o'clock,
Jamis the Greater Apostle. July the Willamette valley the settlers
on "Secret Prayer and Manifest
26: St. Anne, grandmother of Our in eastern Oregon would have been
Power;” song service. 8 p. m . with
Lord. Sunday morning worship defeated, in which case the hos-
sermon. “Smoke and Steam.” Tues­
w ill be continued at the same hour tiles would have come into our val­
day, 8 p. m. evangelistic meeting,
throughout the summer months.— ley. and. with the few men here,
the pastor will speak on the sub­ Henry S. Haller, pastor.
the scattered settlements might
ject "Muddy Channels." Prayer
easily have been cleaned out.
throughout the day.—M. E. James,
5Vhoso«ver-WilL
Hillsboro
Mrs. Iowa Taylor, who lived in
pastor.
Today «Thursdayi Evangelist En- Scholls neighborhoxi nearly 80
years,
is my authority for saying
dersby will speak, 8 p. m Saturday,
Pilgrim House
street meeting Sunday. 3 p m . "Ac­ that at the time of this Indian
July 24: Chapel service of public
cepting the Challenge,” subject of scare, the house of Philip Harris
worship. 10:30 a. m.. with liturgy
at Farmingtun was surrounded by
sermon -Melvin James, pastor.
for sixth Sunday after Pentecost.
(Bv W. W. .Uqulthi
It «11 April. 1856’ when one
tm rnitig through the dense fir tim­
ber which then covered the whole
of oeu Skin'll« t.e »hborliooJ came
the sound of a title shot followed
lw the reveille et the I’r.t.d Stat,
arm)
Vei \ few and . littered were the
log cabins of the ettlir- who were
hete then Aftei the loi X journey
akioss the pint - ending with the
dangerous trip through ti e Colum­
bia Gorge or Old the Bat low road,
their surroundim;-- were poor and
scanty.
On the donation land claim on
which the Grange* hall stands now
was the log hou > of James Rowell
a stockade limit of log«. )x*rhap«
twelve feet high. 'end« r m
the ground as i protection against
an attack
.
, .
.
It Is an Interesting bit of lo> <t
history, that !■
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MitcluH *’•
Hillsboro who now owns the lanu
whole the Hartls house doo.) in
building a new house tin« 'eat to
replace the one that burned I i t
winter, has built the new I' ..........
the exact sde ot the fn<* 'ut> cabin
built be Philip Jlatris and Who h
was surrounded b* a stockade m
1856
A similar stoc kade w a ; built n
the north plains about the «anio
time but neither wa ever need' I
It is quite interesting the ques­
tion of why the Willamette \ ailes
was immune trom Indian warlate
It may be that the natives here
were nil quiet and ix-ai'eabb in­
clined Our neighbors of Indian
descent an* we know, verv peace-
able
In Samuel Lanea-tci's book. I
find the following statement ’In
1827. about the tune of the found­
ing of Vancouver
the Indian
tribes here wet»* v<i> nunuivu
The chief whose territorv was the
urea when* Portland now- -taiid.
could assemble a thou .mJ war-
rlors at short notice: but brtwwn
this date mid 1853. when the heavy
immigration into the valley began
nine-tenths of the e Indians had
died, leaving the country with but
a ¿parce scattering of them One
account tells of the Indians dying
of their treatment for met l<-
which consisted of a hot Meam
bath followed by a plunge into odd
water w hich last dro\e the invade
in and killed the patient Another
story is that they were attacked by
a disease they cal list 'colsu-k
which was very fatal This inay
have been an epidemic of influen­
za.” similar to that here in 1918
At any nite they died The few
remaining did not go on the war­
path so our antecedents here weie
spared the heart-lending horrors
of savage cruelty, for which all
may be thankful.
Roy
ROY—George Pujck. who has
been ill at his home in Roy wa>
taken to the St Vincent's h spitul
Friday, where Ite i under medical
care
Dance Draws Many
The dance, which w as ■ pons, red
bv the Sodality In the Roy hall.
Thursday evening, was well at­
tended Music was fuinl h< d by
Vandehcvs urchestra.
Wedding Flans Told
An announcement was made
Sunday for the marriage of M
Rena Hertel daughter of Mi und
Mrs Frank H' rtel of Roy and
Daniel Herb, son of Mr and Mis
Charles Herb, also of Roy
The
marriage will take place week aft­
er next
Mr and Mrs Floyd Spooner f
McMinnville -pent the wek id
at the home of Mr. and M; Wil­
liam Susbuuer
Charles K.ulnb who
empl. *•
ed m Seattle, Wa-h
spent the
week-end with his wife and chil­
dren at the home of Mr. and Mis.
P J Vnnderzanden
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Van
Dyke Mrs J A Moore. Mrs. Liz­
zie Van Dyke. Josephine Wagmr
and Helen Van Dyke, left Sunday
to spend a few days at Rockaway.
Rqv Father J • • i h B Saal , • । ■
a few days the past week at Rocka­
way.
SKA Isl.AMM
i Ur Vuriio Url«hil
The«« i-lsn.l. know th« l>««utr . f th« -rs
HArahlDE with aihvr him th«
»Hilda
Uhwc »¡iin palms «way in lanyfiiid
•ymmWry
And ar«l«*fil »tara l«M>k d>>an < ii al t n
Unda.
Th«*« island» knew
thr Splendor of
the
Yrar-lumr yielding to hi« h«*t rare»»
¡D th»*« briyh’ hlan-N Junr U • . ,.t | । v
And auaunar Unirvra in a L i.< dur»*«
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news and not just a mere dav's visi­
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Our Recovery to Head Off ICorld Depression
(By Roger W. Babson)
ST. LOUIS. Mo - It seem.* strange
to be writing out here on European
conditions, but I am moved to do
so by the peculiar attitude of my
friends in the central west. There
are facts about
the foreign situa-
tion which must
be recognized. We
are now buying
abroad only half
the goods we were
last year. In turn,
foregin buying of
our goods has dip­
ped 20 per cent
under the highs of
six monhts ago.
This means that
Reger W. Babson the recession, at
first confined to
the Uniter State-*. has been spread­
ing over the world.
The "turn” for the better in
American business, however, has
now come. With the United States
.such a powerful factor in world
business, this means that there is
a good chance of preventing anoth­
er depression from sweeping the
entire globe. A period of bad busi­
ness in Europe at this time might
easily touch off a new World war.
Belgium is already recovering after
her spectacular slump of last sum­
mer; but France. The Nethe-land. .
England, and Italy are suffering
from dull busine . Czucho lovakm
and Poland are feeling the Europe­
an recession, while the break in
commodity prices has been raising
havoc with the more primitive coun­
tries.
Austria First Strp
Germany, however, is apparent­
ly holding her own. Austria, since
her seizure by the Nazis, Is rapidly
throwing off a severe business set­
back and solving unemployment.
The annexation of Austria was a
master-stroke for Hitler. Germany
has strengthened her economic re­
serves. both of raw materials and
foreign exchange. Moreover, I am
convinced that the taking over of
Austria was just the first step in
Germany’s planned march toward
the Black sea. The factories of Bo­
hemia. the grain fields of Hungary,
and the oil wells of Rumania beck­
on Hitler on to the East. The
Kai er’s old "Berlin to Bagdad"
dream may yet materialize under
Nazi leadership.
The principal weapons in this
German drive down the Danube
will not be tanks, airplanes, and
bayonets. The campaigns will be
wor in the fields o f commerce
rather than on the fields of battle.
Take Czechoslovakia, for instance.
Her strength lite in the groat fac­
tory section of Bohemia. Yet, she
is completely landlocked. Her chief
outlets to the sea are through Ger­
man or Polish ports. Germany can
ea ily block the movement of
Czech goods across German soil.
She can ruin Czechoslovakia’s vital
export business and force her into
the German sphere. Sho can do
the same with all the small, back­
ward countries of Inner Europe. As
she penetrates Eastward, she will
weave th' ie countries into tier own
economy by improving transporta­
tion, mechanizing industry, and
modernizing agriculture.
Rome-Berlin to Split
Sometime during the course of
this German march toward the
Black i a a new alignment of the
Powers will take place. Italy and
Germany are not natural allies.
They have always been on the op­
posite side of the fence in the long
list of European wars. The present
"Rome-Berlin axis" Is unnatural
Frightened by Germany’s growing
power. Italy will, in the end, re­
ally herself with England and
France. But Germany has a great
genius for organization and effi­
ciency. With control over the
Danube, over the Hungarian plains,
and over Central European sources
of raw materials, she may be a
match for any combination of Old
World Powers that can be arrayed
against her.
To stay on top, England will
have to pull out of the bag all the
tricks she has learned through
centuries of diplomatic trading.
One reef on which this new Ger­
man drive may be wrecked in in­
ternal strife in the Fatherland All
sections of Germany are not mili­
taristic. The big state of Prussia is
the one that loves the saber-rattling.
The question is:
Will the other
parts of Germany continue to goose-
step for the Prussians? Internal
trouble, however, could bring on a
terrible war. In a desperate effort
to hold all factions together, the
Nazis might provoke a World war
rather than be kicked out of Ber­
lin.
What W<* Can Do
Such an outlook for Europe is
not pleasing to us, hating as we do
both war and tyranny. As a peo­
ple, the best contribution we can
make to the anti-Nazi movement is
to promote the prosperity of Eng­
land and France Along this line,
the New Deal’s trade treaties have
done more for world peace than
any other major policy of the ,ast
twenty years. Secretary Hulls
agreements have not only helped
business abroad, but they have a! o
boosted our own .i' t vilv. In 1937,
exports to countries with whom w
have trade agreement: iumixd II
per cent, while our bu im .s with
non-treaty countries
u p
only 33 per cent.
If the economic res nnves of Eng­
land and Franco are now drain» I
by a long ami deep depre oon, Hu y
cannot hold out alone against a
determined Nazi drive. London ami
Paris are the last outposts of dem­
ocracy in Europe. They stand a ; a
buffer between Nazism and m
In Ilic final analysis, however the
best way to slow up the German
advance 1« to promote the prosper­
ity of the entire world. Aggie ion
thrives on business depressions
Economics an* still more powerful
than politics or diplomatics. Oui
reciprocal trade policies are help­
ing to improve foreign condition-
while the eml of our severe rece
sion should give world-wide busi­
ness a boost at this critical time.
I am especially driven to em­
phasize all this in view of my pa t
four weeks in the Central We I
The echoes of th»' current foreign
conflicts fall on deaf » us here
Living in what they feel i »b --
lute security, too many people in
this section are "isolationists." Nat­
urally. I believe in jx*ace. and, if
possible, hi keeping out of wm
but shortsighh-dm ,s on our put
will not do so. We an- all broflu ,
whether Frem'hnu-n, (JiTman m
Englishmen. What harms om nil,
mately harms all. Remember, too
that In these days of airplanes St
Louis could be bombed from any
enemy base in Mexico as well ।
could New York City or San Fran-
S\I FM What p it1 will Governor M u
HU play U. th" fo.theummg .umpa.gn '
That is a qu««*ti*ai winch leadvra UiUut'
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cumiidalijz «« Ivel, i
an endormaient
his patty, urging the vot«'i • to (vl
bittmnes of ' thr prhnai) canipeigii
united fnml in nuirpurt <4
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ho|xng lie will do
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o just a i
which the republi« ■>» lead»'1
y Imping he will not
uther lumi
kick in
other national leudci« to wm«.n. m
lUtt he attribute» III» defeat, thcr«* is a <
und course op«n to hhn That euut "
volvei* a public end ! ■< tmmt of the i. p
,an nominee*, an action which could be d>
wnded upon t» carry with H thuu.aml
conservative democratu into th«* ii publi i
uimp for the duration of lh<* fall campulgi
the govern
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of
That inst
silently in hl* tent
butti«* frulli afar, gi
tmr so much u« Im i»tmg to hl
with which faction I'1* "inpatii
k
ha
1er« in the
Both of the c incidents i
of demon ill
I of
ed by these national Ie
Join
On«* wa. an invitation
Roosevelt’« partv in Callfiunu
was an invitation to break H
Puatmaster General Jun Farlrv
uf the governor an
public business as
cepting. but it dix-s
e a prvfr
»•per than this »up« rficul allb
ith poll!
unwilling t>
hypixracy and d«'
terite the "gnme
Dm»
that
to complete his term of office
thcr mtcrf’-reiH c and then to
numerous
’ough more
make
allow
that
Seven women were among th«- loo la v
school graduates who took the bar «•* in.n u-
lion here this wx-k Sixty- । <■ <>( the up-
pluanls for admission to the Ong u Lar
are raaidents of Portland. 17 are ft nf Sa­
lem. six from Eugem- and 16 frmn iui." i*
other Oregon communities. F urtcen la .
school« were represented among the appli­
cants Including the Univei iti ■ f Loud on.
England.
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Ri olutions .xlopted bv Die Vi'trians uf
Foreign Wais at their annual cm impmvlit
here this week call ui*on th«* !<-gi Mature to
establish and maintain a Stat«* Home tu.
the care of aged needy veterans
The action b reminder of the fact that
up until May H. 1933. Oregon maintain« 1
such an uutitutl -n at It > eburg, when? vet­
erans Were being eared for at a < o-.t to tl ■
state of approximately JAhnoo a year.
At that time the f'xkial government
took over the institution with the under­
standing that it would estaldbh a National
Home on the site when* Oregon Vetelans
would continue to r«*ceive as good, if not
better. Care than the State h id been all! •
to provid«
Only rvci ntly the federal gov-
«'rnment hw; converted the Koseburg in '.,-
tution into a h'-spital for thr treatment of
mental ca es ami veterans coinplain that n >
provision has been mad«- for the cur« of
aged veterans in need of n home.
State Treasurer Hulmnn has a |x-ifectly
good office safe which he is willing to trade
for a smaller on«*. The »afe. which ha.i
done duty in the treasury department fur
many years, is too big for the new capitol.
No door into the treasury department will
admit the heavy piece of office equipment
and careful measurements have i«-veale<i
that it will not even go through a window
ns had been planned. Although Holman's
department is equipped with th«* very latest
m modern fire-proof, burglar-proof vaults
inaurance companiea still insist that Hm
state's millions In securities mu t lie stored
In a fire-proof safe to be installed Insid.■
the fire-proof vault Just one of tho '
things. Holman .says, which bear no explain­
ing.
Earl H. Fihl. former county Judge "t
Jaiksun county, lost his iipixal to the su­
preme Court The «tute s hign tribunal has
ruled that his committment to the hospital
for Insnm- Wus entirely regular. His ulti­
mate release, according to the court.will be
up to the aupeiintendent of tin* Institution.
All of the slate departments assigned to
space in the new capitol are now at home
in their m-w quarters Tim fust floor con-
t-mis the state und treasury departments,
the budget department, board of control and
purcha. lng departments and the state land
boai»t |)|,. executive department occupies
a nite of offices on the second floor. A
»0 te of room« in the south wing of t h <•
thir, floor s occupied by the division of
‘Ulte Just under the rmf
> the fourth floor. While
there «re two
While there
public elevators in Ihn buiLi,..., (m|y om*
causing "»msideralile
fusion to visitors since the two elevnlois
are situated som< 50 feet apart and one
gm-.is is as good a another us to which om*
is in use.
Owm rs of the Elk*; building in Port-
lami n
r 'L'™,
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to the
offici* Mn l"Wl- i'< ino<l''l"d for use ns an
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bul d ug
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asking
for mo
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hniid-
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” •« «• no
ing rpi
the Piui' w !,r1. n' lud,"i a ho,el adjacent to
the Elks building which would h»* razerl
and
ami the ground used for
The board of control has iinnoum-cd that it
would pass on the offer nt a meillng sched-
Uled for next Munday.