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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1931)
german (Dmmty Jmtntai Grass Valley 8HERMAN COUNTY 0B8ERVBR, Eatoblfabed Now. 1, ISM GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, EatabitolM Oct. 14, 1897 CONSOLIDATED, MARCH A 1981 Published Every Friday at Maro, Orafo«, By ( GILES L. FRENCH Managing Editor Entered sa Mcond-claas matter at the ’oetofllca, at Moro, Oregoo, under Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. OS« Y«ar......... ................................................................................................. Six Month« .................... s....r.............. ê.............. FRIDAY, JU£Y A li so l oo IMI. —— TAX REDUCTION Now comes the matter of tax reducting to intrigue the atten- . lion of the governor. It is within bis power to do something tore- duce the taxes levied by the state, but be wiahea to stretch his pow- er to include reduction of county and school levies for which most ‘ * of the taxes are raiaed. He has appointed a state wide committee , . . ¿¿Jr . toinvetHi^ate theae taxes. — It la t^e belief of this paper that he will be auceesaful only in at- taching his name to a movement that he did not starVand cannot “ * help to any great extent except to give bia moral support. It is moat certain that taxee will be cutin eve<y county in the state for the people are demanding that it be done. In Sherman county we have already reduced taxes by S63?000 and will cut them atiil more this year. Other counties will follow our lead. There is no need of berating county courts and accusing them, as some do, of “incompetency or worse” because they have 4. a . a. x , .... * spent money that is hard for the taxpayer to raiae. In this county we know that the county court a few years ago epent a lot of mon- Mias Gladys Perry entered The Dalles hospital last Thursday for treatment. Mrs. Pike and daughter, Vere, returned from a visit in Bend Sunday. Grass Valley Library will be °Pen 00 Friday. July 3rd, instead of Saturday July 4tb Millard Eakin, of Portland, vi- aited over the week end with his parents Mr. and Mrs. ,V. B. Eakin. Elmer Whitlock and family have moved to Tygh Valley from the Leonard ranch where ih h*** been for several years. The prizes at the hard time dance fortbe ra^gedest couple” was won by Mra. Helen Bruck- blrt and Vernon Bolenbaugh. D . .. Carson von Borstel and family, of Port|and, who have been vis- jtjng their children here for the past week left Tuesday for their home. Mrs Waylaid ** Weld and children returned to their home ’n Wasco Sunday after her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. b „ «y for road, and we know that they eould not do otberwue for of Port|andi returned home Sht ur(jay after several weeks visit with her sons, Bert and Fred, and families. J E. Brown and son, Jim, of Redmond, were here the first of the week on a business trip con Now conditions have changed. People are not spending mon nected with J. E ’s property in ey to improve their own conditions and ask the county court to re- Sherman couhty frain from »pending for county betterment, County court», a» Bob Burna and wife and C|„ the people clambored for improvement« and would not have been satisfied without them. They asked the county to spend money for betterments in the same style as they themselves spent money to improve their living conditions. There should be no criticism of county officers for doing the bidding of their constituents. before, will obey the injunction. * - • * . ence Rutledge left Tuesday for It makes no difference who is in the governor’s chair, taxes Gresham where the men will will be reduced in times like these. Meier is playing the part of work for George Lee. Mrs. Burns an opportuniat politician in timea like theae. The people vote the ’n * iew daye. taxes and they pay them and tax reduction muat come from their Mrs. Roth and younger children ' presence at budget meetinga and their talks with county and school returned from Bend Tuesday, where they have been visiting officers. t . .. o . for several days Mr Roth and son, Henry are working in Fres . NOTES. no, Calif. in imitation of a contemporary I take my battered and mia- spelling typewriter on my knees, to tell of a trip to Salem to see how the state’s editors look and act It is a pleasant stage journ ’ ey down the gbrge at night with the beacon« perpetually turning . . . - I- I_. u u. u: U around and throwing streama of light—other lights on high pinna- cies combine to give the rough, rocky gorge an appearance of dom. inalion by man. Rain —city quiet-men «till tearing up the down town streets. Up the valley —more industry than in years ago-Btill lots of timbered spots —more thickly settled. Stages have all the passen- ger business and the atage drivera have become less polite with Mr. and Mrs E M. Alley and Mr. and Mrs. Dell Olds were ir the mountains north of Steven 80n’ Wash., from Friday to Sur day of last week picking black xerrieg Mrs Rob’t Johnson entertain ed the local Bridge club and p few guests at her home Wedne-- day afternoon Mrn. C L Poles winning high score and Mrs R J. Baker the consolation having the business come to them —will coon be as independent as Miss Myrtle Johnson was here a few days on her way to the the old time railroader. Have seen New Era and am discouraged—valley towns stretch BapttHt aRsetubly which he I , , . . . , , . . .. ii. two weeks meeting at Plnesor- out without beginning or end—lot« of berne. on the vme.-look on Me(o|jua Deaton like holly with their red and green. Russell attended from here. State house —high .nd impreoiv.-built by convict tabor- w g Ho|mps haa having slurring talk by the governor— announcea bargain, rates on gov- ernment for next four years—state has good office buildings--- beautiful grounds-trees of every kind adapted to the climate*» state employees all upset by upset— may be way to run state, but won’t work with harvest crew. . t Editors meet and talk—not as well as they write - only one fat and he doesn’t edit for a living---little bags of cherries for ....... .... j ... . * - . . K eve1 yone.- politicians milling around talking to everybody - not too long-- just a minute—so glad to meet you, haven’t we met before? Should think of something new. State institutions- -prison—pullifig flax—valuable to develop gome troub|e wjth an tooth and has been to to have it treated. He home Monday evening again Tuesday as he is der the doctor’s care. infected Portland returned but left still un B°h Burns and Cap Rutledge returned Sunday from Nevada an j Hull|(jrr |)am where they were ¡n 8earch of employment, They worked one day on the dam and report it very danger- new industry—silent prisoners—wide expanse of state grounds--* Willamette valley will be pretty when they get the brush off it. Editors family party—exerclae family privilege of talking about their neighbors--witty Hal Hose looks more like Lincoln than another state officer who has been self-compared to the Em ou8. Joe Fdlda and wife and Mrs. Folds’s sister are here from Des Moines, Iowa* to visit with Mr. Folda’a sister, Mrs. Herman Be ters. They lived here several ancipator years ago and have many friends Bortland again--window shopping on quiet Sunday morning- to greet them. cheap goods in windows at cheap prices—like everything else, gov J. W. Hays and wife accom ernment included. panied by their daughter Mrs. Roaring up Columbia Gorge—more exilarating than valley trip, Gue Smith and Mr. and Mrs. more picturesque scenery—more variety»-more interesting---East- Arch Zehner left Wednesday morning for a trip to the berry- ern Oregon —fewer people-Sfewer tree«—more room—skies bare ing grounds around Government wider, freer atmosphere—home. Springs. Wash , . . , . . . . . , . It is the duty of every one Intereeted in anyway in ahippmg wheat to attend the meeting scheduled for Tuesday night, July 7th at the courthouse in Moro. If the farmer must raise wheat for less than forty cents per bushel it Js his duty to himself to see that other agencies handling that crop do not take too large a share of the all too meager receipts. BUSINESS PITFALLS IN FARM DISTRICTS Bankers Point Out Hazard« of Unsound Practices and Help Farmers to Avoid Them. VUAYS In which bankers diacour- ” age unsound farm practices are de scribed by President F. D. Farrell of the Kansas State Agricultural College in the American Bankers Association Journal. Ha says: “In Kansas In connection with the importation of dairy cattle, a large shipment of very inferior animals came Into a county to be sold at auction to local farmers. The county agricultur al agent inform d the bankers that the cattle would be a detriment to the community. The bankers refused to finance the purchase of the cattle and the sale was abandoned. The cattle were shipped to another county. The county agent and the bankers there did as was dcno in the first Instance and the second county escaped. "A year ago creamery promoters be gan trying to capitalize the Kansas farmers’ desire to improve his markets by Inducing communities of farmers to purchase creamery plants before production and local conditions Justi fied them. Informed of this by the State Agricultural College, the bank- e« association sent warnings to every bank in the state, leading many to re fuse to support the creamery promot ers until the college approved the plant for the community concerned. This saved many communities loss from the premature establishment of plants. “A third way bankers can discourage unsound practices is to refuse to fin ance farmers who wish to pyramid their enterprises, a temptation difficult to re sist. This Is illustrated among farm ers who buy ca'tle for feeding pur- -poses.' A farmer feeds two or three cars of cattle one year and makes a good profit. This Induces him to buy twice or three times as many the sec ond year, still more the third and so on until he finally loses more by having too many cattle on toed In a year of bad prices than ho made in several previous years with smaller numbers and better prices. When bankers dis courage bad practices their action is a fibsltive benefit to the farmers con cerned.” they will help the overproduction of cropa by using tbs land for |ey accompanied him visiting something else. with Mrs. Cassie Heath for the evening. Poor Jules Verne. His imaginings gave him the reputation of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Olds spent being an impossible liar when he was but fifty ysars befors his Sunday evening in Moro visiting M T at the L. H. Nahouse home, time. Only a few hours after Post and Gatty hopped off, Otto Hlllig and Hol ger Holrlis started frorfi Harbor Grhcc in a big, heavily loaded Bellancn plane with the hope of making a nonstop flight to Copenhagen, Denmark. But they loot their way and lauded at Krefeld, Germany. Ruth Nichols, flying frum New York on the first leg of her projected trip across the Atlantic, landed at SU John, N. B., and ran her plane Into a rock near the airfield. She was painfully Injured and the plane was so badly damaged that it was necessary to postpone her flight indefinitely. James (“Jimmy") Doolittle, one of America’s most daring and most ex pert flyers, bad another narrow es cape from death when his new speed plane started falling apart while he was traveling 250 miles an hour only 100 feet up, near St Louis, Mo. He came down safely in a parachute and the plane was demolished. THANKS The Grass Valley Base Ball Club take» this means of expressing their appreciation of the support liven them by the »portimen the county, and to in publically thank Gus Smith for his care of the diamond during the season Grass Valley Base Ball Club A CREED FOR 1931 Reprinnted for “The Sun Dial” by H. I. Phillipa, in the New York Sun, May 20, 1931. I believe in the United States of America. I believe in the American abili ty to beat any beatable set of circumstances and come up smil- inK- I believe itt the ability of the American citizen to swim up stream, hit fast ball pitching, break out of a half-nelson and have a pretty good timd in the bargain. I believe that-nr the long run fair weather overbalances the bad, that all "breaks” are subject to the law of average, that the ex pression "Good old days” is rela tive and that everything comes out all right in the wash. I believe a little optimism never hurt any body and can be taken straight. I believe in the capacity of the American industrial leader and in the common sense of the American workingman. I believe that Uncle Sam is still at the old stand with a brave heart and a clear head and I do not believe be is in any danger of losing his pants, coat, vest or shirt. I believe in the total inability of Russia to change the course of the stars, to rearrange the general appearance of the heavens,, to eliminate the constellations, to discontinue the daily rising of the sun, to subject the rain bow to a five-year plan to make the American of* normal backbone jump into a hole and pull it in after him. I believe that American rail- roads are worth considerable more thaq,a dime a dozen. , - believe the I nited States ^teel Corporation, the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, r a a * • the General Electric! Corporation and other big industrial institi!- tions will stay in business and that none of them is in any danger of | having to take on a side line of lead pencils or apples. I do not believe there is any danger of seeing John Pierpont Morgan, Owen I). Young, General Atterbury, Charlie Schwab or. James A. Ferrell throwing their jobs overboard and deciding to make a living as ferryboat musi cians. I believe that what the country needs more than any thing else is a restoration of the ducking stdol for professional pessimists, squawkers, calamity howlers and confirmed grouches. I believe in the ability, instinct, average capacity and power American to fight his way out of any difficulty, to scale any reason able heights, to make the final payment on the automobile, to put something in the bank and to look adversity in the face and tell it to go to hell. I believe the American people will continue to own and operate automobiles and that there is not a Chinaman’s chance that condi tions will arise which will make them decide it is a good idea to go- back to the bicycle and the buggy. 1 believe the American house wife will continue to have an elec- ¿rjc jce anj never again be sati3fied to spend a half day niopping up tjie kitchen aftter the visit of the old-fashioned iceman. I believe the old fashioned wash tub has gone for good and that anybody who thinks the American wife is going back to the old days of drudgery and inconveniences is two-thirds cookoo and one-third army mule. I believe three square meals a day will always be the American standard, but that even if we miss one or two it won’t hurt us. I believe in common sense and natural vision as opposed to the “fidgets” and the use of smoked g]HSSeg. when anything goes wrong, j believe in the silver lining, the rainbow al after the olvl storm, xdlliovjw LCL IIIV lli| the lllv plunge through the center, the infallibility of the slogan “never |eaj with your chin," and the po- tency of the cries’ ‘Block that kick!” and “Hold ’em, Yale!” I believe that much of the world depression is “done by mirrors.” I believe the worst is over and that it never was as bad as it was advertised. H. I. Phillips. MORO STATE BANK WHAT A KEY BANKER DID FOR HIS COUNTY The farmers of one county In Ten nessee are receiving 1400,000 addi tional annual income from new farm enterprises started since 1926 through the efforts of a “key banker” and the county agent, according to estimates | from the Tennessee College of Agri- I culture. A "key banker” is a part of the state bankora’ association voluntary field force cooperating with the Ainerl- - can Bankers Association in its nation wide plan for bringing about better agricultural conditions through com- I blned banker-farmer effort. New pro- jects started in ibis particular county ’ iro tobacco, Irisa potato and cabbage i production for c ish crops, and dairy ing and poultry raising for livestock. Tho key banker, looking for some thing to do to batter his community, first attempted to procure a county agent but was unable to get tho county to make the net «sary appropriation, so ho and other leading citizens made up the requisite lands through private subscription among farmers and busi ness meh and an agent was employed. Up until 1926 grain was the prin cipal farm production In the county. The banker recognized the disadvant ages of this. It afforded a low cash income, and the 1 md was too hilly and rough for profitable grain raising. His idea was to Introduce cash crops that offered more return per acre and were better fitted to the county. It was de cided that the county should stand ardize on the Green Mountain potato and to market it in carload lots. Through his bank he sponsored the buying of a car of certified seed potatoes. He likewise bought some high quality tobacco seed and several hundred settings of purebred eggs. These supplies were distributed at cost through the banks to the fanners. After considerable effort a market for dairy products was assured the farmers when in 1928 a national cheese company located a factory there. A county appropriation -was secured for county agent work in 1928. In 1929 the cash crop program re sulted in farmers selling 145,000 worth of milk, >150,000 worth of tobacco and fifty-five carloads of potatoes and cab bage, mostly through cooperative sales. "This was some step from the 125,000 i In 1928,” the worth of 'and Indications county aßent are that this amount will be doubled.1 Banks Favor Diversification Emphasls was placed on the strategic position the banker holds through the uso of directed’eredit at a recent meet* Ing of the Alabama bankers’ agricultu ral committee. Alabama Is confronted Roy Feely and family and L with the problem of over-production of A 0)da and wjfe |eft Tuesday cotton. The committee recommended to banks that credit be extended on morning for Government Springs the basis of a twenty-five per cent re Wash., where they will garner duction in cotton acreage. The value of growing other crops than cotton >ome of the blackberry crop of was strongly stressed and county out section against the winter। look meetings are being planned with the thought of bringing about a moro need for tasty pie. balanced agricultural program In the R°y J- Baker attended the ban- various communities. ___ A.. i Scientific research goeabllthley on even in depression period— q“®1 ®’ven by the Bar Asaocia- n I » f «« k.. k—r. 'Tk- * ^on Wasco snd Sherman coun- Pau Bunvans frog has been sighted near The Dalles. ., . „ .... ties, at The Dalles hotel last ,, _ . Wednesday. -Mrs. Baker and If landing fields and golf courae« eontlnoe to grow in number ,on D,|e and Mra Arle|( Lem. hoard from only once on the way across, ths liner Druttningholm pick ing up their radio call. Post and Gatty set out to make the circuit of the globe tn ten days. They remained at Cheater only long enough to refuel •nd eat lunch, and then flew to Ber- lin and thence onward toward Mos- cow. The Umatilla county Pomona grange at a meeting In the Fruitvale grange indorsed the Charl«« Cook plan of marketing wheat for domestic and for eign trade. The group «lao passed a resolution favoring a |3 per year auto license fee. Transient laborer« whose 90 day per mit has expired mutt equip their auto mobiles with Oregon license plates. Secretary of State Host has directed Max Flanery» acting chief of the stat« traffic squad, to tak« Immediate- step« in this direction. WhatisitWorth OW much is it worth to you to have a customer come into your ptore? It is hard to tell, but it is worth while to have people to look over your stock, meet you and see what you have to sell. It is also worth while to have readers see your name in the weekly paper where it is identified with the goods you sell. It is worth a Jot to be able to tell your customers every week what you are selling, that your goods are responsible merchandise and that your prices are reasonable or cheap. It is the man who doesn’t advertise who pays advertising bills. Let us help you with your advertising SHERflAN COUNTY JOURNAL
