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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1938)
s-V, ’TT' 7 i ' '.f ^L . r TBB SPBRMXN COUNTY JOURNAL, serfs catata {Çenalç be bettered by revision or* amend* men! by membeis of the senate Sherman County Observer and house. One wonders how .he Established Nov. 2, 1888 achieved his position in a democ Grass Valley Journal racy where majority opinions are Established Oct. 14, 1897 considered to he supreme to those CONSOLIDATED March 6, 1931 o f one man. That there is not mere resentment indicates, per Wasco News-Enterprise haps, that the love of liberty under Established Nov. 1891 CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932 democracy is not ss ardent as it was a fejsr generations agb *nd that in itself* is «omething for the Published Every Friday at younger folks to notice <rld efbrrect Mom, Oregon Editor v ; « y so ’P dug H?^ Giles L. m rtti Statehouse Gossip • Continued from page ona) * * » >' - , ?-*» ■ - »* / * w* Lemonade Stand Up to D ate Natuàdi ci CfedicsUtizn'Vastly - U h a n ^ & l ' F s o n i ‘F e c i Report that a $2,OOQrOOO (Jfcgon o* Trail museum of history, science and art was in store for Oregon D e v e lo p m e n t o f N ew P r o d u c ts an d R aw M a te r ia ls A d d e d without coat to the taxpayers came as a au prise to state officials nonaJ to P rice R iv a lry . of whom, apparently, have foeO T r~r~ consulted on the project. Plans Washingt’oa— Are our “g ian t” cor miea and promote efficiency, the for the museum as outlined in a porations bolding down living stand study found. This is in contrast to Salem newspaper would require ards by bolding tqp prices, in an the aim of combinations of a gen that the state donate only the site effort to make exorbitant profits? eration ago, which waa chiefly to for the structure. Financing of Has com petition declined so |bat the control markets, suppress competi the project was to - be financed production and d Lpj$bu|io^ of good« tion and raise, prices. Some of these Entered as second-class matter at ; Up in Wallt Walla,county a dis through ,A PWA grant of $900,000 needed for higher living standards older combinations were able to Is being hindered? thfe Postoffice at Moro, Oregon pute is raging that may have an with donations from foundations, hold up prices for a time, but even A study which has Just been com tually such attempts broke down or under Act of Congress of March effect on this county at some fu institutes and historical societies making up the balance. ‘ pleted at the^Brookings institution aroused so much resentment that .3, 1879. tu c time. . Farmers have built » found that competition is us real as the combinations were dissolved by grain elevator and the railroad M em ber in form er days— perhaps more real. governmental actions. Suits fried in the circuit court But it operates in a different way. T he study did not find th a t the ipaperJ?ubJt{Kers company objected unless g hear here this week by J. A. Moore, ing was held before a state com of Brooks, strike at the validity of W eekly Wages au<l Wholesale Prices of M anufactured Products mission. ¡sociati the Carney and Martin bills of T h e harvest season has come and INDEM NU IN B i NS INDEM NUH8ENS the 1937 session outlawing slot to o to o re.irly gone and still no permis- machines, pin hull games and other OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER Ision tq pross tfoe tracks haa b^en games qf chance. The complaint s 11 owed and the farpiers afer ;to filed by Moore alleges that the ISO ISO >OUCTs! rav tlx le»»t, in very bad humor procedure attending the passage of * SUBSCRIPTION RATES na uu n m c TUNEO NNC 1 r a n ctif, a .:S :f> y a b l^ 4 ||. the two measures was faulty. The to o Complete with cash register ia the lemonade stand opened on a St to o built along the Uttluntria » ONE TEAR •••</**** suits, it is understood, are designe«! 1j ■* Louis street corner by Dickie Bradley, left, twelve years old. Constantine , MM BES cccnfy^there.W l f e e s iim flat to keep thelfwfe measures off'the . ) 1 .-1 Deminas, six years old, hands over a penny for a felaas, after a sample sip. X humor if it is found that trfbiks November ballot so that attention SO so A U G U S T 19, 193Ò Dickie says business is booming. ............... ¿arrving wheat can not crosk^he of the voters might be. centered on track. deal of newspaper (publicity by epitomized the spirit of the New Ute so-called ‘fUtade stimulator” ISTO IOBO •a s o 1 9 00 I9 IO I9 to 1 9 30 1940 Of coirse, in the long run the measure sponsored by the Oregon RURAL TIRE DISTRICTS' th eatening the banks for being too Deal, not alone in this but in most raHroad officials will have to pull Merchants Legislative Council. tight, tfoe Federal Deposit Corpor- matters. Anyone who shows an in-, The Am ount That Cook! Be Bought W ith a W eek’s Wage Discussion of the propriety of in 1 heir horns and permit the cross * ■ u V ation, also a New Deal agency, tere9t in making a profit is as- INDEM NUM3ENS taking the city ftre truck to a ing but as is their regular proce INDEM N U H IE N S warned the banks against being sailed as greedy by those in the For the first time on record the ISO, -------T- -------------\!SO wheat fire several miles from town dure they will engender as much too generous with loans. New Deal who never overlook a official voters’ pamphlet this year may result in the development of ill tfeill as possible before doing it. “Bank supervision is concerned single opporutnity for private gain, will include poetry among the ar 100 a rural fire protection district that Such alienation of public , esteem lOO primarily with the protection of Much is said about morality in guments used in support of the w ill‘be of aid to all (the county. haL hurt the railroads more than several measures on the Novem depositors,” said the F. D. I. C. private and public life, yet the Three such districts In the coun a .couple extra c^nta op the freight ber ballot. One of ithe poems is SO — “As in any other type of business, White House sec ebarial offices are SO ty would be assurance that ho rate. bankers, if they are to perform turned over to a young man whose the ‘‘Beautiful Willamette” by I 1 wheat fire or fire in farm buildings their function, must be prepared to income comes chiefly from prem- Samuel L. Simpson, in which the would be very destructive If /dis » a C onvert H 7O 1900 e je s o t !9OO I9 IO ■ /9 to I9 S 0 1940 assume some risk. But when thesei iums on insurance sold to corpor- sparkling waters of the Willamette The sudden cop version of Henry river are pictured as “waltzing, covered early. They would be risks become excessive in terms’ alions doing 'business with t>he These charts indicate in general how living standards have risen since inexpensive because the valuation Wallace to the principle of export flashing, tinkling," splashing” on 1870, during which years there have occurred the greatest development of of the amount of capital of the Federal Government. . of such districts wtrnW be around debentures or governmentally aid th er way to the sea. The other machine production and the growth of large corporations. The upper bank or when a bank is othe wisc * Worthless convention books are $3,000,000 apiece. Equipment pur ed export of wheat is the out poem by Dean Collins and pic chart shows th at, although the wholesale prices of manufactured goods mismanaged, it is the duty of the autographed by the President and chased for the district would be standing agricultural news of the tures the same river as an open were about 9 per cent lower in 1937 than in 1370, the weekly wage had bank supervisor to step in to seek sold to corporations—in large able to efficiently fight rural fires. week. For years the fanners of sewer carrying the waste from increased more than 150 per cent. The low er chart shows how much a correction.” quantities to some—for $250 each - AH equipment for cities is design the northwest have urged that mills and industries until even w orker could purchase w ith his weekly wage, assuming th a t re ta il prices Be Cautious, Says Crowley 1 to supply the party with funds. kept in step w ith wholesale figures; in 1937 it was nearly three tim es as ed for available hydrants, hose is something be done to aid the ex “the fishes hold their noses and no Leo T. Crowley, chairman of the Federal workers are shamelessly much as in 1870. This increase cams in spits of the fact th a t the length of standard 21 inch and the water port of wheat. The thirty percent longer leap and frisk.” F.D.I.C., went on to point out that shaken down for the benefit of the The the working week wieo reduced by approxim ately one-third during thia carrying capacity is small. of tariff receipts has been avail poems are used as arguments in “loans and securities will foe criti- party wa- chest. period. * LA chemical outfit with a tank able for years but the Secretary the support of the stream purifi I cizerl on the basis of judgment as “I dont want people to do as 1 Alanutacturers today compete not percentage of the nation's business for high presure, small bore hose of Agriculture would not permit cation measure sponsored by the to the ability of the bbligor or do, but as I tell them to do”—those oply in the pricing of their products, done by “g ia n t” corporations has , . • • ' Stream Purification League of mounted on a good truck could get its use.. debtor to repay the obligation.” words deserve to foe painted across but also In the development of new been Increasing. Production by such Now since the 1938 program has Oregon. - to all most any place in the coun And some people wonder why the New Deal banner. products and new uses for raw mate large enterprises comprises about 40 * • • ty in a short time and control built up a huge surplus he Js business is confused and uncer rials. T h e result mafe foe even more per cent of the total, which ia about fcureka Lodge No. 121 A-F A-M suddenly converted to the idea that r most Ares. tain! In this case the banker is Word from Washington that the useful to tile people t»9 « whole than the same p e^eu tag e as obtained a Meets on the 1st and ha» been Urged on him so long. in the delnnma of being told" by Public1 Works Administration has A rural fire protection district in tile days when tha prices of near generation ago. 3rd Thursday eve Even if 100,000,090 bushels of Mr. Jones that if he does not lib approved a grant o f $56,361 toward may be formed upon an election ly ail gauds were fixed by direct nings of each month. Big and L ittle Companies W ork eralize bis judgment on loans the by the residents thereof rfhd such wheat were sold to foreign nations construction of a new heating plant bargaining in the uijfii.et. Visiting members cor there would still be too much Together government will go into competi to serve the caprtol group o f election shall be called by the coun Tko malting or prl<*4* over a large dially invited to meet wheat left in the United States, tion with him—’ w hile Mr. Crowley, The study shows how big and lit buildings is expected to spur action ty court after a petition for it is part of industry is vasjly changed with us. but it will help. tolls him that if be does and any from what it used to I»«. The pro tle « ompaniea work together to the on that project. Total cost of the presented to it and a hearing is S?aral Sea cy, W. M If the proposal had been accept^ of his loans go sour he will foe held ducer estimates in advance a price ubvuntaga of both. Large corpora plant ia estimated at $110,000 with held. C. V. Belknap, Secy. ed by the secretary last year the the state’s share to come out of to strict accountability. at which an a rticle can be bought by tions are generally able to spend It is possible for a rural dis farmers would not now be forced the $1,000,000 appropriation auth- an expanding nunfber p( people and But, of course, the most signifi trict to contrine • with ' an incor more freely to m aintain competent to accept fifty cents for » their orited by the last legislature for then tinds a way to turn ou» a prod- 1 technical cant aspect of this whole business Moro Lodge No. 113, I. O. O. F. porated town but in this county and management staffs, Moro, Oregon uct within that pi ice. wh(\at or pledge their wheat to the construction of a new library and was the disclosure that the private the farm valuations are so high and Meet« 1st and 3rd Almost everyoué fk^ba^are th at aud these companies have usually government for a loan of that heating plant. The state board of bank in Housfton, Texas which Mr. the buildings to be protected so Tuesdays in the this is the way automobnfe. prices beeu in the front of price reduction. Jones controls, hgs been more than few that it might be more desir amount. It must be a bit painful control ia expected to act at once But s m a lle r concerns also benefit I.O..O.F. hall Tran are sex. and the study found that the for Wallace to accept the policy in purchasing a site for the new usually cautious in its loan policy. able for the districts to be separ three largest concerns in this indus from tli is large-scale production. sient and visiting Banker Jones, it seems, does not W ith larger concerns purchasing ate. Major equipment would be of aiding exports because it wfes plant which will probably be lo try have set the high w ater mark or brothers are cordi entertain the same ideas about this* their supplies in large quautities different in character as well. Co a part of the 'McNary-Haugen cated on Tweith street on property competition thus far. ally invited to meet nrograuvAnd because the adminis matter as does R.F.C. Chairman adjoining that already owned by operation between the districts Today, it is alm ost impossible for and planning production fa r in ad with us. Jones. ~l would be natural and probable, of tration has . so often declared it the state. so-called monopolies to keep prices vance, sm aller companies which sell Ralph E. Eakin, N. G. impossible. The Jones’ bank in its June 30 coprse. unduly high In orderflto tnake big them supplies and raw m aterials are Joe Truitt, Secretary. statement revealed that its loans- / Not only do the salmon adorning profits. «Advances in physics, chem in turn able to plan production on fiherman County was particular Without «being acquainted with the new capitol swim down stream and discounts amounted only to the most economical basis. Many istry, and en g in e e rlp ^ h a v e been so ly fortunate in 1967 in its losses the details of the deal it appears 16 per cent of its total assets. Re Lupine Rebekah Lodge No. 116 great in recent years th«f, whenever Small concerns also find it easier to by ftre as less than $400 worth of that if Cascade Locks purchases Contrary tb all précèdent, as point- cent figures for the 503 Federal ......—-..................... Moro, Oregon.... a corporation tries to tfo thls/tonae borrow money from local banks and fed out by a fisherman, but the ox- property was destroyed. This may the West Coast Power, company Reserve member banks of Texas ___ Meets 2d and 4th T oue comas along w ith a sathfuctory other sources when they have con not always ba the case and if a lines and equipment for $44,000 drawn coypred wagon on the state tracts with large corporations. disclosed that loans and discounts esday of each month substitute at a low er price. seal In the capitol rotunda ia head- small tax of half a mill or less will there is little justification for is Operation of industrial enter represent 28 per cent of their as- Visiting members we Previous studies made’r at the prevent disastrous fires it would suing- bonds for $90,000 to pay for fed back eaht. ’ Thia latter fact was prises at their practical capacity is Brookings Institution Abdicated that sets, while for the nation the com come. discovered thia week by an “oldL be well spent. the best method of parsing on to the necessary if the nation is to have parable figure is 29 per cent. it. Thqre may be need for some timer” who explained that he had ^ -I m a Miller N.G. public the benefits of improved PTOr maximum production of goods, the The Spirit of the New Deal extensions slid improvements but come weatjn a covered wagon him- Florence Johnston, Sc dtrrtfve çfîîi'léncy Ja giving the report of the study says. Forward- At a recent press conferenco to double.the indebtedness-hardly s e lf but “Had never heered.of one THE P R W D E N ’S PURGE looking price policies, constantly consumer lower p r ic e s Mr. Jones was requested to recon Bethlehem Chapter, No. 78.O.E.S. looks like sound financing. En o’ them traveling east before.” aim ing toward giving the consumer The president is definitely nt the thusiasm. not under control, is one Policies of M any Corporations cile his demands that the banks Moro, Oregon more for his money, were found to peck as far as the reelection fof of the dangers public ownership loosen up and the cautious policy Are Examined Meets Every Second and be the most im portant factor in senators who have opposed his must combat if it is to be success Hprece W, Strong has sold his of his own bank. In the latest study/ entitled “ In bringing about capacity operation. Fourth Thursdays in each wheat for^Tc., to be delivered for plans are concerned. Best, and in ful. dustrial Price P olieljy and Eco — The high level of em ploym ent “I don’t want people to do as I Month. Visiting members m fact only, reason given for his in iWn£ as soofi aa threshed. Io. but as I tell them to do,” the nomic P fo ire s s ,” specific inquiries which would come with such capaci Invited terference with state primaries is were made into thé doîiiffes of many ty operation would have fa r greater M w jA . S . , Johnson has return- R.F.C. Chairman replied. This is the time to save a Kerrone Christianson W. M. m an u facfh ring ¿o'tfCbrnr/d jïn d out that he wishes men of hm own 6f wheat to ‘display at ther T h e re , concisely and c le a rly was ’’ Pendleton, bringing with effect in raising living standards Ruth S p a rlin g , S e c re ta ry . * w hether ffiey'fcëî'd 'af'fàeffltfth is di than any em ploym ent which the views to fee named so that his pro QMH County Fair. /»erg. prettv. 4>abv bOy^ h e r rection. T i e t a f ? w a l made by'D r. gram, which he feels has been ac governm ent could provjde. Edw in O. Nourse, director of eco cepted fcg the people, will he con Since 1870, while our large cor . , , - Partners are flnish- nomic research, and Dr. Horace B. porations have been developing, tinued in< jffieir harvesting, -, D rury, a member of the staff. It was the am ount of manufactured goods Hia reaeon in thia regard will Thè temperature thia week on financed under a grant by the Mau which the average w orker’s weekly bear examination. He was not Monday was 92 degrees • and on rice and Laura F alk Foundation of wage would buy was m ultiplied by elected nor rs alerted because of Tuesday 96 degrees. Pitt -liu r& i. two and a half. At the same tim e, the his program because of his From (he Observer August 18, 1899 From the Observer August 22, 1919 B g corporations since the World working week was reduced by about personality and the unpopularity W ar have sought to effect econo one-third. of his opposition. . The 1982 plat One of Elwood Thompson’s The L. L. Peetz tractor pulled form of his party had much of horses stepped on a atone in the combine and the Roy Powell self- merit in it—and it has been dis road Saturday causing it to fall regarded. Court packing and re flat. In its struggle it broke the propelled combine were in the C. G. . Silver wheat field this week, while organisation, such as proposed, carriage pole. across the road .the tractor pulled were not in the 1936 platform on This is "a busy y e a r f o r M o r o combine of J, N. Landry was buay which he was elected and those with much building going on. The' who opposed these measures may court house, S. S. Hayes new home, harvesting •• the ' BuHiet*’ wheat. By Frankíyn Wattman «these two fields are finished easily have more people on their and E. E. Peoples also is building When t Hp a El n» uri 11 IK « RuOut thru 4. U — win oe Pprh»p, no Objective t a i r « e iv . ,* T side than has the president. a home. Geo. P. Higginbotham in this section. L i ' I T . “*> b W sX ’ ^ ‘ rth” rtod^ X ti,at Very likely the real reason for is building a massive warehouse money The Grass Valley Journal says tlM“ ° f coordi,nit^ Pl«>- for loans now usually interference is a desire to be the and J. B. Mowry a large barn. made by that there will be a bank at Kent nmg and governmental efficiency. finnn/.o big shot in the entire country and J .W . Ertberg is using his com this fall. A bank was contem Certainly there is «one towa d “nce comP«n,e. with fttockhold- slap down those who dare oppose. bine this being the third year he plated earlier this year but a per which less actual p ro cess has been *th^t ^ P X e 3’’6' ' ^ Y ”Ut UP *“* (i If this smacks of a desire for dic has run i t .' , purpose. mit from the State Bank exami made. tatorship the voters—those who are Monklend will have good schools ne- could not be had. The'fact of the matter is that Mr. Roosevelt aiwayw is talking in a position to express a free and for nine months. Sam Ramsey Two combines figured in runa- most of the bankers feel they independent Opinion—will defeat has been employed as teacher. way accidents in the Grass Valley ÎÎ!" ? the. .n" e’?ity *1 P,an"in* - have beeb making all the sound v him. There Are now many voters ni M*"8 A i F. W. Silvertooth/ one o f the d atrict, last week. L. D. May’s i loans possible within the limits of connected in one way and another fair directors at , Antelope was machine on tlie Ellard farm andi Ä ‘ D“ ’ aft.enc,Je’ - good banking management. -They „ with :the government that it is down to Moro this .’ltank* trying to a , de Smiths on his place were' gr° PeS *'Ong “ “ de- are as anxious to make money as difficult to obtain an Independent get reduced pasfengfes rates for fch<C owners of the Iifitle damaged airi purposes of others. Not to 1 let any one else, but they remember machines. only too well that the banks that t t a t i S r t brf 'con-' H. n . Moore and wife returned ia>enu ind s ' 1« ™ » >'«•- County Agent Calkins left on k f t rh i ^ t i.h^ . i ! r ow wl? 1 K?ur to thq-citfevem Wind River on the Wednesday evening for Union i^ w a ± , * Sl'em8 8 P0* * “ Pri°» t0 th' fir” If the citizens of Georgia and 14th. tyra. Smith and Mrs. Bolton county for the purpose of arrang •* pression were among the banks Maryland want a man who will have also returned. The balance ing for a Shorthorn Breeders sale This lack of coordination among which did not reopen in 1933. oont*”t- of of cattle cattle at at_the C o u i i y fair*.’ The th* New DeaI leading to But that is not the point at which , represent FDR there should be . i . € _ ^ [? _ ° 0l0n^ ,ap? *7/ ear vvwwuv- t some constitutional provision per ed to remain a while longer az the gaIe will entirely under the wWe«Pre»< confusion fen the part we are driving. The point is that m itting them to give him a proxy trout are now eager to be caught. aaSp&*a «f the No "thwest Short- of busibe«s—“ well illustrated by after Mr. Jones harvested a great aqd save the $10,000. I f they wish From t*e,O taerv.r 1H> a w t e r , ^Association, who ” .r -C~ J'»«; J»"'»,’ “■*- a senator to represent the people will be béM responsible for the campaign to bafferthe banks of Georgia and Maryland they will Hon. R. Ginn worked himself grade of Shorthorn offered at the of .the county lo<»en their purse * - — -- * have to elect their own indepen out of a job, finished his harvest, sale. | strings end be more generous with dent senator^ ' and returned to the noise and Prof. H. B. Blough and wife, ,oans- • - I Them much of conceit J • frQ* Pte<Ü>n<l visitors at the Be Generóos, says, J^pes k i lime POnfidenrO tf >0# prele hafey f c ^ y hors e Howard Conlee home east of Moro. Mr, Jones became quite bellicose term in the action o f the preai s (Hnfipfoay gelding,*fend there Is a IwrfL Blough has charge of one about it. He warned that if the &.• jM W® Ixcgc Portland schools and banks did not liberalize their lend- dent. He- recognises no potofcility $26 ifeWafeffXor M o ro a n d W i jtcfek. to A thfe Seat- if son of Prof. Blough formerly ing policies, it might become neces- that he may he wrong, that: hie (W littat ytews m lrbt tie fair Ms - the Moro schools. i sary for an extension of govern- economic dffift poll 4 i Bands will Play Flags will Wave In Other Day; tat L o c k in g F o rw a rd Horses will Prance e will Cheer Sherman County P September 23-24-25 Old Friends Will Visit »«injrn d u rin g th is m eeting o f 'th e c o u n ty ’s citizens, past and present, and there will -be laughter, gaiety, joy, and good fellow ship for all w he com e. b GEORGE G. UPDEGRAFF Attorney At Law V t life to the u tm o s t a t the FAIR. Every Day Is Sherman County D ay A I Be am o n g those w h o will enjoy < I . , - ■ ' ' T - .
