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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1935)
LUE HHKMMAN UUCNTY JOURNAL, MORO, OREGON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1935 w Vi T §1] email (County Journal COUNTY OBSERVER. Established Nov. 2, 1888 GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct- 14, 1897 CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6, 1931 WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, Established 1891 CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4. 1932 quprm AN Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By GILES L. FRENCH ____ ________ Managing Edito. M E M F t k ì n< oí ei 1 c I ON STATEHOUSE GOSSIP Continued from page one. cork bobbing up and down, but he prefer* the fishing in Oregon even if it is a little more strenuous and requires more exertion than did the “nigger fishin’ ” of his youth. Ore gon's wild life, the governor de clare*. is one of the state'* great est assets and contributes largely to the maintenance and increase of tourist travel to the Pacific North west. Thirty seven Lives have been lost and 81 persons have been in Entered a* second-class matter st the Postoffice, at Moro, Oregon, jured in fire* in Oregon during the nine month period ending Septem under Act of Congress of March 3. 1879- ’ T _ ber 30, according to a report by SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Hugh C. Earle, state Are marshal, One Year .......... ....... ........... ...................... ;---- ——1——--------- - [hiring the nine month period DECEMBER 13, 19x5 were 3403 fires in the state with losses aggregating $1,780.493. The report covers only fires on proper THE WHEAT LEAGUE’S MISTAKE ty covered by insurance. The Eastern Oregon Wheat League was asked as plain as a government official can ask to offer criticism of the AAA at the session just concluded in Pendleton. Mr. Conser, ef sistant in the wheat section, stated that there are 25 million farmers who like the AAA and that there are 100 million people who apparently do not like it. He said that thia 100 million people could not be entirely wrong. No public criticism was given Mr. Conser. He left with the understanding, undoubtedly, that the faimers o eastern Oregon had nothing to offer the administration to change or better the AAA. We think this an unfortunate decision on the part of the wheat league. It boasts that it is a forward looking body, capable of thinking through a farm situation. A great number of its members have criticized and do criti cise the allotment program from various standpoints when in private conversation. The wheat section of the AAA is vulnerable because it is still a temporary plan. It cannot be otherwise unless it is changed. No farmer can be expected to permanently take from production a single acre of wheat land as long as he is being paid for keeping it in wheat or in contractée acreage for which he is paid. As lopg as this condition exists there will be no lasting reduction of the wheat acre age which is the desired end and the solution of the whebt surplus problem. Anyone acquainted with the conditions in nearly every wheat county admits that land normally produces less 8 or 10 bushels per acre had better be used for some other pur pose than wheat production. Yet, there is no provision to permanently retire this type of land from wheat productior. under the present act and it will continue as long as an allotment is paid on it. , . . - Little if any changes have been made to give the farm- er or his agents greater control of the local administration of the act than at first. Red tape still encumbers the allot ment plan, If it is to be a permanent plan of farm control this condition should not be allowed to continue. As fast as it is possible for the farmers to handle the details of the work it should be given to them. There is now doubt as to the legality of the farm ad" justment act and A. R. Shumway asked, “What is the farm er going to do if it is declared unconstitutional?’’ Wheth er or not it is upheld by the supreme court in January it ill behooves the farmers to cease to struggle for perman ence in the farm act. This plan is temporary and has been so called by both its friends and enemies. It is a function of the farmers, themselves, to propose a plan that will be permanent or as near so as any new plan can be made. This is no time to sit idly by and make faces at the critics of the AAA behind the temporary security of a wheat allotment check. Farms in the United States must be put and kept on an economic basis that will return a profit to the owner. If the theory of processing taxes is to be definitely established it will require work, not inaction. If the theory of reduction in acreage is correct, plans that will take out of production the least valuable acres must be enaoted. The eventual solution for the problem of farm prices is an organization of producers of each commodity strong enough to control the production, the marketing and the price of that commodity. That is the system that has made the corporations successful; the farmers can profit by their example. The AAA has been and is a breathing spell for American farmers. During its existence a perm anent plan must be worked out that will benefit the farm- and the country at large. The wheat league as the self appointed spokesman for the wheat farmers of Oregon should have realized this fact and been ready with sugges tions and constructive criticism when it was asked by the wheat section itself. We used to hear that nobody loved a fat man, but until the New York school board ruled against obesity in teachers we didn’t know that school boards felt that way about women. When we go to paying football flayers openly there will still be a fear that the richer colleges are giving a bonus on the side. If all the various organizations collecting clothes for the poor are successful a lot of us are going to have to stay home until Santa Claus calls. Poor Haile Selassie seems fairly able to handle his enemies, the Italians, but he will have trouble handling his friends, the French and British who would have him give up a part of his territory. The Portland police any they are not guilty of giving a prisoner a black eye. Maybe he ran into a door. Except for March, April, May and October, tourist travel this year has been heavier, month by month, than during 1934, accord ing to a report by Secretary of Stat« Snell. Registration for for eign cars for the 11 month* to November 30 this year total 96.883, or a gain of more than 4,600 over the registration totals for the en tire 12 month* of 1934 In both years tourist travel was heaviest during the months of July and August. b* e .M n rcli i ox In their K o. T. C. uniforms ns n gesture In support of military preparedness ns beat insurance ngalnst war. P ip simhMit soldiers of Boston university made a drnncilic appearance nt the mall, nt an anti-war mwtln;» dimouncrd as communistic by police. War Veterans Given Chance A total of 496 motorist* were convicted in Oregon court* during November for violation« of traffic laws. Of this number 37 had their driver’s license revoked and 16 others had their license suspend ed. Thirty-four of the revocations were for drunken driving, two for । hit-and-run driving and one for Interested Men Will Write , driving while his license wa* re । voked. Four of those whose right Veteran’s Bureau Wash. D. C. . to drive cars over Oregon high I ways was revoked were non-resi dents of the state. Proverbial swords will be beat en into plowshares for war veter State employees were warned ans with farming experience who by the board of control thia week yearn to till the soil, through a against the use of state cars for plan worked out between the re other than public business. Viola settlement administration and the tions of this rule, the board de veteran’s administration to provide creed. will result in summary dis farm units for a selected number. missal. The order followed defeat A number of suitable farm by the legislature of a measure tracts with adequate school, road, providing for pooling of all state marketing and other public serv owned cars in an effort to regulate ices are now being listed by the their use. Abuse of the use of resettlement administration in Ore state owned cars, once very com- gon. Washington and Idaho, says mon on the part of officials as well Walter A. Duffy, regional director as employees, is now believed to be Although partially developed very rare but still of sufficient tracts of land with productive soil gravity to require an occasional and adequate moisture reserves admonition such as that issued by are being given preference some the board this week. already improved farms are being considered. Gasoline taxes collected by the Lands qualifying for resettle state this year will set a new all- ment of farm families will be de time high record in the opinion veloped for selected veterans, ten of Secretary of State Snell. For the ten month period ending Oc ant farmers, young farm couples, tober 31 taxes on motor vehicle rehabilitation clients and families fuel totalled $7,721.438 compared from established conservation ar- to $8,298.923 for the entire 12 eas. Veterans receiving compen sation or pension frojn the gov months of 1934. ernment will be given preference as resettlement client*. Plarft provide for establishment of qualified families on units, where with an improved farm plan, they will be assured of a livelihood and From the Observer Dec. 15, 1916 be able to carry a reasonable debt Pres Boice and wife returned burden. If the resettlement clients from their wedding trip. The equity is insufficient to establish young couple were married at Van him on the farm, he may purchase couver, Washington, November 29, the farm on an amortized basis. Interested veterans are advised che former home of th« bride who i* a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. to write to Dr. E. G. Dexter, Vet- I erans Administration, Washing Grant Morgan. Harvesting of wheat is still un ton D. C., for proper application ! derway in the section south of blanks. After the 'blanks have1 carefully executed and re- I Kent and near Shaniko. Snow has been turned to the veterans office, they ■topped several machines and oth are studied in connection with ap- I ers are trying to save crops. plicant’s case folder and jf approv The ladies of Moro who are dev ed, forwarded to the resettlement i otees of th« terpsichoerean art en- administration for further action. • .tertained Wednesday evening at the hall with a leap year dance The freight agent on one of the । Mayor Freeman has issued a Western roads received a shipment proclamation declaring Friday, on which was a donkey, describeo December 15 a holiday so that all on the freight bill as "one burro.” After checking his goods care members of the Moro Rod and Gun club can take part in the annual fully. the agent made his report: “Short, one bureau; over, one rabbit drive and hunt contest. Jackass.” From the Observer Dec. 8, 1906. ‘‘So the doctor’s trial marriage Boardman school, Miss Sadie Pickard, closed last Friday with a has been found out?” "Yes. and he’s been arrested! program of music, recitations, etc. ‘‘What’s the charge?** Three prizes were awarded for “Practicing without a- license. punctuality to Herman, Ruth and Arthur Christensen. J. Fred James and wife are tem Tureks Lodge No. 121 A^F & A M Moro, Oregon porarily located at Gras* Valley Meets the l*t and 3rd Fred is shoving gold into the peo Thursday evenings of ple's mouths and likewise into his > each month. Visiting own pocket. members cordially in Miss Vie teaching the vited to meet with us. Spaulding chapel school. C. Spacing, W. M. The world famous Umatilla C- V. Belknap. Secy. house at The Dalles has passed in I am I rc N o . 113, I. O. O. F. to the hands of T. N. Crofton of Centerville. It has been in the Moro, Qregoq hands of the Sinnot family for 43 Meets 1st And 3rd Tuesdays in the I O.O.F. hall- Tran Judge Hull of Grant, this county, si ent and visiting was run oyer and instantly killed brothers are cordi by the yard engine in Dalles eUy ally invited to meet >ast Tuesday. He was on« of the with us. foremost citizens of Sherman coun O Rice N. G. ty. Joe Trait, S«<cret R. G. Judkin, who has ianthfully served Erskineville a* U. S. mail Lupine Rebecca Lodge No H6 carrier for more than five years, Moro, Oegon has tendered hi* resignation and will go to Philomath to live with Meets 2d and 4th Tu his sister. esdays of each month Visiting mem be F1 at ter y is soft soap, and soft come. soap is 90 per cent lye.—Gilbert Florence Martin. N. G. K. Cheaterton. Lila Bull, Secretar At Resettlement In Other Days Hi ■ W ay / t <H ealth E OREGON ÍAIRY COUNCIL Do you have in mind a gift basket of food for someone less fortunate than yourself this Chris- mas time? In arranging for such a basket besure and plan the con- tents very carefully before the food is bought. Don’t give just a ‘basket of food’. Make it a basket of food with an idea in it. Make it a well balanced food supply for the Christ mas week end and choose th? of milk - fresh whole milk, for every child in the family and a pint for each adult. Next, a half pound of Cheddar cheese. This is our plain American cheese made from whole milk and having the food values of milk. Then the vegetable* First of all remember potatoes - three pound* of white or sweet potatoes; a head of green cabbage, the green er the better because the green leaves have the best vitamin and mineral values; two pound* «f car- rots, two pounds of onions, a No. 2i can of tomatoes, and here you have wholesome food B tuffi, god flavors, and many poss ibilltiea for attractive dishes. For fruit* include two pounds of apples and a half dozen or more oranges, a pound of raisins, for their iron and vitamin* and al so because they give pudding* and cakes a more fe»tive air. - And then peanuts. They may not seem important, but they have sev eral kind* of food value in their small kernel* and are good in sal ads. in cookie*, in escalloped dish es and, of course, in peanut brittle. For the ever important meat, why not include a pot roast of beef. Select a three or four pound roast of chuck rib*, cross arm, clod, round or rump. In some local ities chicken or duck or even turk ey may be cheap enough to come within the cose limits you have set. And where there are children put into the basket at least a half a dozen eggs We have included the protective foods but we must add more in the way of energy foods, A package of wholewheat cereal. two loaves of bread, pound of butter. two pounds of sugar, coffee or tea as the family prefers will complete the basket. But if you can. tuck in a few spires of parsley or a pound nf cranberries just because it is Christmas. foods so care you udì know that the family getting the basket will get the most food value to he had for the money spent. Particularly for the needy fam ily it is important to supply the right kinds of foods. It’s a pretty safe guess that such a family is not apt to have milk, vegetables Wife (at head of stairs): “la and fruits—and without these pro that you, John?” tective foods no family can thrive. Heavy Voice from Dark: ‘‘Who So begin your list with one quart wai you expectin’?’* FOR EARLY SHOPPERS The world’s finest whis- you can afford. Do your Schcnlcy shopping early. SCHENLEYS MAYFLOWER STRAIGHT X YI WHISK* Y The mildett taMing RYE— yet so full-bodied, mellow and rich! Makes a fine gift. OQc PINT Ne. 143C $1.75 QUART n . uu SCHENLEY’S ECHO SPRING KENTXX KY STRAIGHT WHISKEY 2 year* 6 month* old. Say” Merry Christmas” with this favorite. PINT $1 No. 184C ■ •VW $X65 QUART no . ima SCHINLEY’S RED LABEL *1.00 ÜÏÏ $1.60 FIFTH h - » m Schetdey Dmiibwtor». lac. AVAILABLE IN OREGON
