The Beaverton review., January 24, 1936, Image 2

Th« tfeavftHon Review
THE
BEAVERTON
ployees and at the same time with There I warn assigned to u desk
a hunch of Indians more or less and was told In go to wollt. I was
Inclined to gang up on Hour In­ In Ihe Treasury department III <>u '
structors and co-workens, well such of Uie now most Important divis­
fellows
were certainly cut't'cil ti ions which wus Just then gut till!
•mo cousiiK ration.
organised.
Our work ronslsted of audit III«
The
Civil
Service
Conirolisloil
were dally In need o f help Kvuu n Ihe personal Income tax returns,
atloiis were scheduled al iosi every the "m ill's " we mm / ii came to cull
month for Some desirable ¡Hc.ltton, them, a« distinguished from th**
so I took on a e»upic. On
lor number ou (lie blanks that corpor­
clerk in tlie department!,' service, ations and other taxable Incomes
and one for scientific assistant In were required to file.
the Deiutrlment of Agriculture.
I wish I could tell you the won
While still at Dulee I had accu­ dors iff Unit grout rlty. Washing
mulated the Idea Ui.it I might get ton, the eapltul of our great conn
Into tlie department of Agriculture. try. I'll try to tell something of it
Several of the agricultural colleges luit ttie years have dimmed mv me
w ere offering extension courses; morios, und then In the year i.inl u
they
called them correspondence half I hut I stayed (here I did inn
courses then. I enrolled with the get around to fee all there was of
College of Agriculture of Ihe Penn interest.
sylvania iuntltuUon and was study
My wmk was uot very Interesllnu
lug considerable of the theory of Perhaps it would lw today, hut III
Agriculture. T ib draining was one that time there was only a muss
course, forage and fibre crops wa* of figures, some I could read un I
another. Cereals constItuted a Uilnl. some I luid to guess ut
farm management a fourth, and I
One morning after I'd beeu ther*»
think there were some more Quite about a week there appi.f t d lit
an extensive course but I got along our midst it slim, lanky indiv dual,
iery nicely.
getting
good grades youth and Inexperience written all
on tuy papers.
over his whole helng. He stood a
Along in Uie fall of 19:3 I took a w iwt window looking down at
11m Departmental examination and Ihe White House grounds hut I
got a high rating, was placed we knew he did not see it thlug. A
eond on the list for appolntnirn* little soli got up In the neighbor­
But rlerklug never did appeal to hood of his Adam's apple at.d he
me very much. However along ear swallowed hard, too
hard for com-
ly in 1914 I got my rating on the fort. I went over to whera he was
IVpartment of Agriculture exnmln standing and spoke to him. told
| ill ion and the standing was worn"
him my nume and asked ItH. II"
| sixteen down on Uie list. 1 thought
was llaniiaril llluke . Just
off an
that not at all bad and had hope <
Indiana farm, and wa« he I ouchoiii "
of getting an appointment from th.
and homesick. I'll liet I could him*
department.
bought his Job for a pewter spoon.
About the first of March In 191'
Ilul I remembered how dlfilrult the
I got a wire
from the Treason
first few days
had been
fot mu
Department that I had been up
and inude him see that I « ante I
pointed
a clerk
at a salary of
to he tils friend. We hid many
$ 1.000 per year with the usual ae-
Jolly days together after that I'll«
cessorios, thirty duys leave, tin ad
last I heard of him he was still
ditlonul thirly days wick leave and
in the Personal Income lax l»tv!
i Instructions that I was to report
slon of the Bureau of lntcrni.1 Re­
at Washington at my very earliest
venue. iu the Treasury Deaprtment.
convenience. That appointment cairn
An old fellow
|>y the name
of
jiwit about the time Major 1 admit!
1 ler called me into his office and Pepper t ik i made up v> lllakc.
went out home with
told me be was going to put me and Blake
one
Saturday
afternoon.
III charge o f the went end o f the Pepper
Siam Biuike announced thul he had
i reservation.
When he broke the news to me rented a house out near Pepper. In
! I did not know what to tel! him llarcroft. Virginia. He took mt out
but finally | mustered up courage to see the house he trod renli d. In
to tell him that I was leaving, g o ­ a f»-w iiHmths he brought his bride
to live there. I think that Inter he
ing to Washington to work in the
bought
the house. If not that one
Treasury Department.
"You'll not like It there," was x- I hen on« near by. The last I heard
ts>ut all the comment he made. We lie was raising a family and eli
joying life.
i talked about the school and I made
Jerry Sullivan was another one
■ arrangements for Mrs. Hulett to
• 40 on with the teaching Job, u uev I will remember for u long time,
farmer was coming and iierhap-. lie had eotne Into the Dtvlsb n qul-
his wife
would take
the house- * 11 y ; the first I n iw of him he was
keeper Job. Mrs. Hulett look the busy at his desk He hud come in
. position of teacher and at iyed sev­ a transfer from the Federal Pris­
He bad been
eral months, until Just before school on at Atlanta. Ga.
closed for the summer. Then a man working ut tlie prison and hud
came on from Oklahoma, part In­ heurd of the wonderful opportuni­
dian, part Negro, and part white, ties that would soon present them
in the big. new peimonul
tattle
Jimmy Flynn about cried selves
bis eyes out when ho found tha*
Mrs. Hulett was going to leave.
On the way
to Washington
I
stopped
in Michigan.
at Detroit
and Hastings.
at Cassopolis an,l
several other places, one of them
Wyandotte where my chemist friend
Floyd Ia*e, had gone to take n Job
with tlie Pennsylvania Salt Works.
He was still on the name Job when
I was In Michigan in 1933.
I looked up Ihe Treasury I »-part
ment, inquired of the man at the
employees' door where to go and STUDIO B A R B E R SHOP
lie directed me to the Chief Clerk
FIR S T CLASS W ORK
of the Treasury De|»artnieiit who
shoved a paper at me and pointed
A T REASON AHLE PRICES
to a line. ‘‘Sign here," was about
K. I». Van METER. Prop.
all he said. Then an orderly direc­
ted me to the chief Clerk of the
Bureau of Internal Revenue, lie
v,as just a little more 'oqi.aoiouh
but not much. After a few routii."
W. E. PEOCi
matters had been gone into he
called an orderly and dir-ctid b in
U N D E R T A K E R AND KMDALMEH
to show me to the Income Tax Di­
vision,
Personal
Income section.
Grange B u ild in g.............. Beaverton
R E V IE W
Entered u second-cl&M mail mat­
ter December 9. 1932. at the postofftce
at Beaverton. Oregon, under the act of
March 8 , 1879.
ISSUED E V E R T F R ID A Y A T BEA­
VERTON. OREOON
J. H. Hulett .......
Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Per year (in advance) . . . . $1.00
Not in advance ....................
1.60
a
D A D S STO RY
-a
£-
S. Toledo Sherry was quiie an
institution. He held the position of
Day School Inspector and i’ liuci-
pal of the Poplar boarding -ohool.
To me he seemed much mere in
Urested in day .school work than
he did in boarding schools.
One of his pet theories was a
model farm. He would have the In­
dian boys given a plot of ground
at the school
and they were to
lay the little piece off into fields
Pictures, such as this one, are not difficult to make so 1st your camsra
and plant crops, in ather words,
furnish you with "Memory Insurance."
play at farming. Some of hi* stu­
dents. or rather the day school stu­
kO YOU remember 'way back room to be pictured. To begin with,
dents, got a big kick out of their
when grandmother's "parlor" never point your camera directly at
little farms, built model bou?es for
was furnished with the very latest the window or door through which
them, and barns, tilled the «round
horsehair furniture, the lovely the great st amount of light is com­
and really grew crops. Sherrv’s idea
round "center table" with its marble ing. Keep the light behind or to the
was that the teacher should give
side of the camera. If, as sometimes
top. the huge portraits with their
happens, a sunny window is in a
them instruction in this line, and
deep, heavy gilded frames and the
particular part of the house you
allow them to put in their indus­
always present "what not” with its
want to take, you can eliminate
trial work on such projects. Per­
assorted display of "bric-a-brac? sun-glare by a very alinple trick. Pull
haps that is where some of the
Wouldn't you like to have a picture the shade of that particular window
New Deal ideas came from playing
of it to help recall fond memories of clear down and keep It down for
at different projects.
days gone by?
an exposure long enough to give you
We
held several dances ai the
Believe it or not but it will not be the other features and details. Then,
day school. People came from all
many years until you will be trying close the shutter and run the shad«
around, miles and miles. They would
to picture in your mind some ot the up to its normal position. Now, g<
dance all night and go home after
furniture and furnishings you had back to the camera and. without
day light
the next day. Some of
in your home when you were a child changing the film or the camera's
them even came for supper anc
or perhaps when you were first mar­ position, open the shutter again fot
stayed for breakfast. Even those
ried. Interior snapshots will serve as a half second longer.
who went home
before breakfast
It's a good idea to use a very small
"memory insurance."
never got away until after daylight.
Don't put off taking these pictures lens stop in taking Indoor pictures,
One Clyde Patton was carried on
any longer for making them is not at because you want detail. Focus on a
the pay roll as a farmer, but in
all
difficult; in fact you will enjoy It. point about half-way between the
leality he was sort of a sub-agent.
Here are a few pointers that may camera and the far side of the room;
He had charge of the wes’ end ot
help you in making your first shots. then, when the lens is stopped down
the reservation in a sort of straw
If you take your interior pictures you will find that practically every
toss manner, if you know what I
in the daytime the chances are that thing is in sharp fonts.
mean.
He had charge of getting
Avoid including large pieces of
you will have to take a time exposure
supplies
from the agency to the
unless your camera is equipped with furniture in the foreground, lest they
school, looked after the irrigation
a very fast lens, say /.3.5 or faster. take up more space in the uict ire
ditches, got out the threshing out­
I f a time exposure is necessary you than they deserve.
fits. and had a general supervision
Exposure time will vary, of oo irae,
will have to use a tripod or else place
over the whole governmenta" ac­
the camera on some solid support with the brilliance of the daylight
tivity where he was in charge.
such as a table. Even with an /.3.5 and the degree to which the walls
Well, we got along fine until one
lens you should have some substan­ reflect light. On a bright day. pic­
time he sent some spoiled beef to
tial support for your camera for you tures in a predominantly light col­
be served the children at our school.
will probably find it necessary to ored room can be taken with an ex
I called up Major Lohmiller and
take your shot at 1/5 or 1/10 of a poeure of flve or teu seconds. On dull
second, and at speeds slower than days, in dark rooms having only one
inquired what we should do and
1/25 of a second it Is extremely dif­ window you will need as much as
ht told me to send the stuff back
ficult to hold the camera steady. Any flve minutes, with the lens at /.16.
just as soon as we could get it
"Memory Insurance" costs but
movement of the camera will cause
back. We did. Patton sent on some
little; so load your camera today for
a blurred picture.
good meat but be sort of resenteo
The secret of success In Indoor interior pictures that lu later years
the affair. We were having a dance
pictures
lies in controlling the light will be worth a lot.
at the school just a little while j
reaching
the various parts of the
JOH.V VAN GUILDER
after the affair about the beef, and
the Pattons were there, seeming to
enjoy the sociability, but after the4’
on the ground gome time after we mildly informed them that the heat­
got home Clyde sent a letter to
had been duly installed into the er was up and invited them to
Major Lohmiller
charging that I
take a look. They looked a.id in­
day school duties.
was using school supplies, school
It lay in the store room for some formed me that the thing was set
time, and school property in pro­
up all wrong, that it had to be
moting dancing and that the prac­ time but the boys and I got cur­
taken out and put up right. I went
tice was not for the best interest ious about the thing and broke in­
to it and got the thing out, set up. cut and hotfooted it for the tele­
o f the Indian Service.
and working. We bitched .t to the phone which, by the way, wa* in
W ell, tlie Major wrote me a nice
the store. I called the Agency, got
letter inquiring whether we were chimney, got the ventilating sys­
Mr. Lohmiller
on the wire
and
tem
that
had
been
installed
when
holding dances at the school and
house
was
built to asked him to issue instruct'd!« to
far a full report on the whole mat­ the school
his workmen to come back to the
ter. In reply I called the V ajor’s working and set the heater to
Then afternoons
some of Agency. He told me to bear them
attention to hts letter he had ad­ work.
that message after he Lad been
dressed to me soon after my ar­ the big boys and I would take th.-
told that we had already used the
team,
drive
along
the
railroad
rival and rather pertinently inquired
baid heater they were going to set
whether he wished to institute o- track and pick up the coal tha‘
up, had used it for almost a year.
had
fallen
from
the
tenders
and
ther regulations.
The return mail
I was sort of wrathy. something
the
gondola«
as
they
oaxsed
to
brought back a reply and an apol­
the
mechanics had said had gotten
and
fro
through
that
vast
prairie-
ogy, assuring me that he had been
misinformed as to the nature of country. Only for a short distance under my hide, and I informed Ihe
the dances, that when he learned at Frazer was there any fence along Major that he could issue the In­
the truth lie was wholly in accord the track. And as to roads, we structions just as I voiced them o-
over the prairies send some one up to take charge
with my practices and that hrs for­ just, drove out
wherever
we
took
a notion. We got of the school. I ’ll bet he got a
mer instructions still held good
and that I
was to go on doing the heater working all right, had big laugh out of the whole matter
coal gathered
to r.m us but he never mentioned it to me.
just as I had been. That settled enough
Mr. Patton but he soon asked to through the winter, and when ou* Anyway, as seated above, he said i ■
be relieved o f jurisdiction over the fuel supply finally arrived we kept he wanted me to take ovei the ■
extreme wewt end of the reserve, It on hand and thus had dry wood running of that end of the reser­
vation.
to have that part turned over to on hand for the next winter.
I never could figure out just the
Great Newspaper ef the
The other plans were something
some one else.
Northwest
While down at the Agencv one why and wherefore of many ot the else. I had gone into tl«e Indian
day the Major called me into the practices used in Government ser­ Service to see the country. I had
I
ARTHUR MULHOLLAND
j
of it
hut not
office and told me all about his vice. We got that heater up so it seen considerable
J
Auto Route and Agency
,
plans for that locality and reques­ was ready for the severe cold of nearly enough. Then, day school
j Beaverton
Oregon|
ted me to take charge of some of the first winter. We used il ai 1 that teachers were not getting ahead
I
For Information
1
the work Patton had been doing winter, and along In November of a? I thought they should. The
I regarding service or subscription»*
the
second
year
two
mechanics
hoarding school principals »oomel
for that location.
I told him I
Phone Beaverton 7303
,
would if I stayed on but that I blew in from the Agency and an­ to be preferred to the other em­ j Residence and office:
(
nounced
that
at
last
they
had
come
ployees.
Perhaps
it
was
because
was considering other matters. He
Corner, Second and Hall
I
did not press the matter, bu* told \ to set up our heater! To say the anyone who could gel along wltn
a
hunch
of
boarding
school
em­
least,
we
were
flabbergasted.
We
me that
when
the new farmer
came on that he should report to
me, and that I should direct the
activities
in that section.
I was
much flattered
and
I ’ll tell you
why.
The matter of the dances and
the beef were not the only things:
that brought
the employees from
other sections of the reserve Into
contact (sometimes just a little vi-
olent)
with the teacher
a* Dav
•school No. 3.
When we arrived at Frazer th e !
heating facilities consisted of a box
stove, rather tocr small to supply
heat when extreme cold weathet
prevailed. But I can claim no credit
for getting better heating facilities
allowed,
for the requisition
had
gone in the previous winter, been
urgently recommended by S Toledo
Sherry, and
by Major Lohmiller.
The Indian office had allvwed the
expenditure
and th« new Water {
bury school heating plan* arrived
Dc
Qlhp (DrpQmtiau
AFTER THE HONEYMOON
Incorna T e i
Divistoti. Ile wne noi
al all bashful, uot u hit llke lllaks,
but li jolly Irlshtiiuu easy to inetti,
w ho luid oli joy ed more mlvoiitures
tliali usisi meli would limi III teli
lui* . Ile fought w Itti lite Boera Iti
South Africa, hud heeti esptured.
tlicii Joliicd up wltli thè llrltlsh,
Iteeu III utiy mini ber of sklt iiilshes
wltti thè hlucks lu thè Itark Coti
tillent, luid hecti lil'oke In I «indoli,
sud llk<d to he kuowu us u soldini
of fortune.
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course s e rv ir e ,
deatgiied to uffor I
co ll»! rudi ve educational opportuni! /
for anyone wlshlug to reni Intuii
a lv e i) oli solile irne «ubjet I,
T h e»« courses aro populur un I
beneficiai.
To dille,
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Jecls.
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pi Ics Iloti hliink unii more detulled
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