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S I U S C K IIM IO N
KATES
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DEMOCRACY
OH
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K E P I Hi.lt
In these days we hear a lot a-
bout our Democratic form of gov -
ernnent. Perhapa it may be m or­
der to inquire just what constitutes
a democracy and a republic.
In the days when we went to
the little old log school house they
taught civil government as one of
the branches that were necessary
to have some knowledge o f be­
No matter how good a likeness a picture may be,"sparkle" adds charm.
fore one could become a good cit­
There is life in the left hand picture with the light streaming down over
izen.
That civil government
con­
the boy’s shoulder; the light in the other picture is "flat" and uninterssting
tained the Constitution o f »he U-
nited States
of
America w;ih a
I f you have ever made snap­
shots have life and sparkle, while
few questions .and answers. There
shots. and puttied over the
others do not?
were no long theses of the growth
sheer magic of rArw —
Disregarding, tor the moment, the
of government or o f the reiatiou
I f you're ever said. “ What a
influence of over- or under-exposure
of the citizen
to his government
picture that icould make/'’ and
(the new dime take care of much of
but there was the Declaration of
then neglected to take if—
that, anyway). It simmers down t o t
Independence and The Constitution.
I f you've discovered that pic­
matter of lighting, particularly the
ture making is one of the most
One
o f the first
requirements
angle and direction of the light.
satisfying
hobbies—
when we took
up the study
of
It’s still a pretty good rule to shoot
civil government was to repeat the
HEN you are a member, auto­ with the sun over your shoulder,
Preamble o f the Constitution. "V\ e
matically, of the Snapshot Guild. but—for more striking results—try
the
People of the United States,
Never heard of the Snapshot working at angles, shooting across
in order to form a more pettect
Guild? Well, maybe, but the Guild the light.
union,
establish
justice,
insure
has existed, without a name, for a
For example. In the later after­
domestic tranquility, provide for the
long time. You can spot Its mem­ noon w hen, of course, light Is com­
common defence, promote the gen­
bers by their alert eyes — eyes ing from the west, try aiming st your
eral welfare and secure the bless­
which see striking pictures where subject from the north or south. In
ings o f liberty to ourselves and our
ordinary folks see nothing of inter­ this way you get strong lighting on
posterity, do ordain and establish
est—their cameras and their frank the side toward the sun plus definite
this Constitution
for
the United
impatience while they wait for the shadows on the other side.
States o f America. '
delivery of a new batch of finished
It's the play of strong light with
Then
in studying
Article
LV,
films and prints.
good shadow that gives you a lively,
Section 4, we learned
that “ The
Chances are. you've been a mem­ pleasing picture.
United States shall guarantee to
ber for some time.
Look over some of your prints.
every State in this 'Union a Repub­
This is the first time we of the
lican form of government.” Not a
Snapshot Guild, as such, have ever See if the best of them don't have
word about a democratic form of
attempted to gossip, in print, about this characteristic; tome bite of
government. Had the framers of
our mutual pleasures and problems. pure white, some of deep black and
the Constitution
meant
a demo­
Oh. yes. there are—and have been— a lot of Intermediate tones. The
cratic form
of government
they
plenty of magazines and books and prints that are all gray will be the
quite likely had the vocabulary to
scientific articles about photogra­ unsatisfactory ones. Right?
Experiment with light angles.
have said what they meant and
phy, but they are pretty much con­
You
may even find that you can
put right there *'a Democratic form
cerned with deep technicalities.
o f government.”
With that sort of thing we do not shoot straight into the light. If you
need to bother too much, because shade the lens from the sun. In this
Having studied through the Con­
we can get along without most of It, way. you'll get strong highlights
stitution we were asked suen ques­
and very deep shadows. If that’s
and, with a little attention to simple
tions as,
"W hat is a Republican
what you want—try it.
suggestions,
get
w
hat
we
all
want—
form of government” , and the an­
See you here next week. Mean­
letter, more plcasir.g pictures.
swer was, ” A government where
This time, for a starter, let's con­ time, happy hunting!
there are representatives elected to
sider ’.'iis p^int. Why do some snap-1
JOHN VAN GUILDER.
make the laws.”
Following that
found a question
something like J
this, “ What is a democratic form
oi government?’’
government:
anu
me au=**ci
became ..no -o sj l up tutntd up, they extended above the
of
and the
answer j
was
“ A government
where
the
. ere was a!wa>'3 mu<* ex- top so that long »ticks could be
people
meet together
and make
™
"
“ rou" d
the » “ * " ° “ mP ‘"«erted and some one Hike hold
the laws that govern them.”
thf " ,
J“
must ** washed of each end and carry the pan.
v*
v, a f -tiroi or
Kiirnc u ^
redoubled
caution.
A thin But a long shallow pan like
that
Now,
these definitions are
borne sheet of metal three feet wide and with hot liquid »lopping from end
out
by the modern dictionaries.
SIX or eight feet
long soon becomta ^ end pregentg s,)mfc
bl
in
These dictionaries however gay that deeper jn the middlt.t the bottom itself. Skids were
placed at
the
there never was a true democracy, sag8 3Q that it is not flat across. side 0f the arch and the
tly
but that republics have been es- o f course, this is due to its hav- raised and slid to one sid^ 0?t the
tablished from time to time in dif- mg been suspended by its sides, Ere. As I think of it now ,t would
ferent parts of the world, notably alone. Some few purchased
iron seem that a lot o f trouble was
in Italy, Greece, France, Switzer- bars to place across their arch but enjoyed for why not just take that
land,
United States
of America, these, even though «s thick as rail Pan up and carry it endwise right
etc.
road rails would sag in time and o ff the arch, tu t we did not do it
Is it that our Democratic friends afford little relief,
that way. We always took it o ff
have stolen a march on us and re-
Consequently as the amount of to tfle side. Perhaps it was the
named this country a "Democracy” liquid in the pan grew less and danger of slopping, perhaps the lit­
or why do we hear spoken of so less, the bottom of the pan showed tle matter of having a place to
often and read so frequently of our more and more. Right around this set it down when o ff the fire for
“ Democratic” institutions* govern- edge where the syrup got thin there on that slope that in itself would
ment, ideals?
was continual danger o f burning have necessitated an elaborate ar­
When we hear such remarks we tbe sugar. The means used to keep rangement to set the pan down
feel like raring up on our hind f b‘s from happening was a long level.
Anyway, we usually got it o ff
legs and shouting that ‘ -This is a handled dipper which was kept con-
Republic, our institutions are Re- tinualiy in motion from the time the fire and then dipped the scald­
publican and we are Republicans, tbe
bit of pan ^jottom snowed ing syrup out into pails to r>e car-
up through the syrup until the j ried to the house about a quarter
whether we like it or not.
pan was removed from the fire. 1 o f a mile away. Often the syrup
Imagine standing over that roar- ' was hot enough to scald the skin
ing furnace and keeping a six or o ff one’s hand when we arrived
-tel
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eight foot pan o f syrup continu- at the house with it.
Hot syrup
Our arch faced the north, the di-
ally moving so that there was li- has a way o f sticking on and burn-
T
used. Often it was made a sort of
party mid the young folks would
i vie with each other
to set who
could eat the most. Frequently this
| frolic ended In one or more get
ting deadly sick for maple sugar
taken into the human system in
too huge quantities operates much
like any
other delicacy
that Is
eaten too heuvily, the eater gets
sick. But unlike the usual pr< gram
where the one amount gets stalled
or cloyed (w e used to say •Vlyde”
and I wondered how it was spelled!)
the person getting sick from eat
ing maple sugar never get* stalled.
As soon ns the temporary sickness
has passed
«nd the system
has
been cleared o f the excess sugar
the victim can eat more maple
sugar next time than ever before
and like it much better. No mat
ter how sick
one
got he never
died, though he may have wished
to, the next party found him ready
to eat more of the sweet stuff.
The making of maple sugar was
practiced at the parties.
A pan
was filled with ice or well-packed
snow and the boiling hot sugnr
spread thinly
over
the
surface.
This quickly cools
and
makes a
substance which no one ever has
found anything
at all resembling
There ja no grain to it and when
you set your jaws firm ly into the
wax there is no prying them loose
until the stuff melts. Try as you
will, you can’t open your mouth
It used to be considered
grea*
sport to get a big lump of the
wax and having plaeed It in som •
dog's mouth force his iaws tight
on the confection Nothing in my
experience has ever produced quite
the same effect and there ia no
permanent injury done, only « lit­
tle sugar wasted.
A t Witt time of which 1 write,
mapie sugar brought lu ll« on toe
market and the pioneers consider­
ed inemselves
lortunaie
if they
could u s pose oi their surplus at
all. A t times some merchant would
trade white sugar fqr it at the
rate of one pound of the granu
lated for two pounds o f maple su­
gar. Perhaps he used it in his own
family or perhaps he sent it to
his former home. There was no
established price and no one would
pay money for what they could
make for themselves.
Finally Father got able to se­
cure jobs in the winter and thus
earn money enough to put chase
while sugar
for
the use of the
family. But with the coming on
of the second generation the mak
ing of maple sugar was revived
and so long as I lived at home
every spring we got out the buck­
ets and tapped
the trees
though
some o f the operations were var­
ied. But we always used the same
arch though it had to be rebuilt
every spring, we never put up a
permanent camp but alwuys stored
the buckets "overhead” in the old
log house.
One of the deviations
was the
use of an auger to make the in­
cision in the tree
and
the pur­
chase of patented spiles which were
driven into the auget to hold the
sap.
The tin buckets were sus­
pended from this patented spile but
we always had to set the wooden
pails on the ground, blocking them
up to make them sit level.
What havoc even a small herd
o f cattle could make in a sugar
bush! Not a bucket in place after
they had gone through. This forced
the fencing
o f the sugar
bush!
Stealing the barrels used for stor­
age became quite a pastime too. The
logging road ran through the su­
gar bush
and the wooden
pails
would make quite handy things to
have around the farm so they dis
appeared, one by one until we had
barely fift y left the last lime 1
tapped the bush. So to those in
the timber, the coming of c iv ili­
zation took its toll even though
it brought compensations along In
its wake.
One of the conveniences was th.V
wind0” -er° m . k"efvCht
™
^
™
**
I «"* V » » V
. «5 « n ™ ^
3
^ °. . .,
a ,
. tom all the time. Boys hold oi the | who has helped in the sugar bush. with thicker population you could
° h th je a r‘
“
6
dipper usually slopped the syrhp
The process of getting the syrup rent your sugar bush and get a
ertiin Vi t S„fanc „ o l stove ovtr th*
of the pan ana thus thick enough so that it breaks and third, or perhaps a half of the run
fo r your share, depending on who
it
and how,
when
and
oven. This cast from iron had a
T u H wn.dd “ br* k ” >U‘ 8 > rupi" * d™ " ” When the syrup rented
lining in it when the
stove was Un^ th* hilUid would
reak '
1 ** Put
in*«
another pan,
much where you took your rent.
used for cooking but this lining-
* or the syruP to break meant smaller but built
along the same
It was always a sort of sad
had been removed and the box-like that instead
of its
dropping
in pattern, and it is again heated un- time when the sap got buddy, or
affa ir had been set up clo^e to spherical form
from
the dipper til it grains,
then they say they the wind dried up the run and
the back end of the pan. On the whc« poured out slowly, that there “ sugar o ff.”
This
latter process we went about gathering the buck­
oven was a short stove pipe which would be a long, flat chunk drop, takes place once
a week
on an ets dipping
them
in syrup
and
seemed to help the arch to draw. When it would break to the sat- average though with a big run of storing them away fo r the season.
Those who build a fire out in the ¡»faction of the one stirring, pie- . ap ¡t may come oftener and with Perhaps it was that it marked the
open know the beauty of having P«rations were made to remove that a freeze intervening it may be two end o f a jolly season, full of work,
the draft always in the right dir- biK Pan from the fire'
or more weeks between times when action, sport and general good times.
Perhaps the gathering together is
ection. This was made possible in On the pan were handles placed they sugar off.
our sugar
bush by means of this near the top of the pan, and when
To sugar o ff, the cook
stove was j harder than the scattering. A t any
oven and
stove-pipe perched on _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
the back end of the arch.
•M1CKY” A N D HIS G A N G
But one year the wind persisted1
in blowing
from the south.
The
clearing was much closer the arch
than when it had been first built
there and we were under the ne­
cessity of carrying
boards from
the house and building up a tem­
porary
wind break
so the
arch
could draw.
Those
of
our neighbors
who
rolled two logs
near each other,
placed their pan on the logs and
built their fire between the logs
had the laugh on us that ycar, :
but not often.
Coffee made from the sap us th'
maple was one of the luxuries o f
those days for few people had the
means of buying white su <xr an 1
also few had the ability to ma'-e
and
keep the maple sugar
from
year to year so that there v.-’ s
enough o f the sweet stuff to meet
all requirements.
DADS STORY
>»;y
*•»>.**»«-»»-<=•»«■<
rate, we felt just a little aad for
with all the hard work there was
a rich reward m good tunes and good
things to eat. We went about tho
gathering soberly,
and there was
none o f the enthusiasm shown that
had beon so evident when we were
scattering the same buckets.
G O V E R N M E N T W IS H E S
TO C U T HOG C L A IM S
By
Wm.
F. Cyrus, Co.
Agent
be no one can foretell at this time.
If contract signers are forced to
lake the proposed cut in their
claims, « s it would seem that they
may huvv to do, there will lie a lot
of
Washington
County
farmers
who made application» who would
be unai le to comply ns tiiev made
their original reduction based upon
the i hunt «> submitted and with a
reduced
quota
they would find
themsulves
confronted
with
the
problem of getting rid of, without
marseling, pigs that had been far
rowed or are about tu farrow on
these farms. As things n<>w siund
I hex« people are insisting Hint the
claims bo cut a» much as 20 per
cent even in those instances where
such claims are supported by high
class evidence including receipts of
purchases. Some claims would lie
cut even more and some eliminated.
The Washington County committee,
as well as the State committee,
feel that claims as submitted by
farmers are generally just and re­
present
hog production
of this
county. They feel that slight dis
crepancicg may exist and are n»t
unwilling to make reasonable a d ­
justments.
l’eople
in
Washington
County
concerned with the h‘>g reduction
program feel that the whole situa­
tion ia brought up or caused by
misunderstanding
on the |«trt of
minor
bureau officials
regarding
production conditions In the Paci­
fic Northwest.
Hog contract signers oi Wush
ington County
have been «th in g
and wondering why they have lieuro
no more a bout t»e application they
signed som« few months ago. The
delay has been due to inobility t«
get a satisfactory quota
set for
the State. I f the state of Oregon
had acceped the origin«! quota pro­
posed by officials who had author­
ity to #et the stale quota, then
Washington County farmeru would
have had their claims, as to the
number of hogs produced, cut some
where ground 60%, maybe more.
The State i oard of Review refused
to accept this figure feeling that
the supporting evidence luriuu in
by farmer applicants warranted the
claims in most instances, anu that
their stand
for
a higher
*'«U-
quota was justified.
Various conferences
have
been
held with representatives sent here
from other states to look into the
situation. To date nothing dciimte
has
been
accomplished
although
headway has been made. A little
more than two weeks ago, repre
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sentatives of the Bureau, having
Miss Dauline Shaver accompanied
in charge this question of quotas,
Harold Casto
and
visited Washington County fot one Mr. and Mrs.
afternoon «nd looked over a few family to l-ake Samamish m ar Se­
contracts. The people in charge oi attle, Wash., Thursday, where they
this group displayed a very appar­ will attend the annual Bible con­
ent lack of understanding of local ference for the next ten da>«.
conditions. Apparently, the special
Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Wood »pent
investigators work on the assump­ the week-end visiting with their
tion that every farmer puihicd his son ami daughter-in law, Dr. sml
claim and that their function here Mrs. Robert Wood, at Milton, Ore­
ia to cut every contract unlc..» the gon. They were accompanied home
evidence is of such a nature that by their son, Billy, who had been
it absolutely could not !>e shaken visiting up there the past two weeks.
in any respect The fact that these
Mrs. F. J Felsher entertained «
contracts were gone over by lo ­
cal committeemen, neighbors of th'' group of little girls at het hum'-
in honor of
contract signers, that the produc­ Thursday afternoon,
daughter,
Janet's,
fith
tion figures were published m the her little
newspapers,
and that
the claims birthday. Games and refreshments
were finally approved by the allot­ with a birthday cake delighted the
ment committee of three farmers little folk# present, who wet*- a»
liOia and Shirley
Wl»«n,
o f this county, bears no wnght. follows,
and Jean Hnnaon,
Val
Undoubtedly, the situation wilt be Margaret
Patsy
Miller,
(dn
settled one way or the other very Jean Madsen,
soon. Just what the outcome may and Janet Felsher.
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