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\ .....\ / J PACE 1 SHERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL. MORO. OREGON 9^muui 9w»nu4 ~ FRIDAY. MAY 9, 1941 JO E PETERS’ ARM The county, especially its farm Sherman County Observer ers, has one asset th a t receives Established Nov. 2, 1888 little recognition. Yet, it has often Grass Valley Journal ^accounted for as much as 25 pei Established Oct. 14, 1897 CONSOLIDATED March 6, 1931 centum of the wheat income of the county. Wasco News-Enterprise We refer .to Joe P eters’ rig h t Established Nov. 1891 arm CONSOLIDATED March 4. 1932 Hours on end Joe Peters sits Published Eveiy Friday at at a desk and, with fine good Moro. Oregon humor, swings his arm in wide Piles 1» French Editor circles as he pens his name on lass~m pages already properly Entered as seeon < ------ — atter ---- at numerous _ the Postofiiee at Moro, Oregon niled . with the figures and dates under Act of Congress of March that s.gn.fy comphance to the ag- ricultural powers th a t be. From 8, 1879. oflice ; in Corvallis and W ashington OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER D. C., where the winds do not blow, nor the frosts penetrate, the machines send out the checks. Joe Peters is a healthy looking 1 id who, barring accidents, should be aide to go on for years bring SUBSCRIPTION RATES ing j ayments into the county with Payable in Advance »veeps of his good right arm . ONE YEAR ............... .. ....... * L5t) Yet. with money coming in on nearly every mail, this seems an MAY 9, 1941 - appropriate time to recognize the valut' of that arm to the county. THE DICTATORSHIP IDEA Pe haps this may seem to cer The idea of dictatorship is tain outlanders an odd way for a spreading over the world. In a l l CCUnty to obtain so goodly a p art countries, regardless r of their his- of jt -. sustenance. There is plenty t tr y of democratic piocesses, the justi.ication for it. All over the people are worshiping a leader. ]antj people are being fed and From this grows dictatorship. clothed and entertained through Hitler, himself, was not a dicta- thp services of good right arms. U r at the time he took over the p nation we go for th at stuff, reins from Hindenlberg. .He re- f t w, or a good many, dollars modeled the state, provided jobs from the great white father in for all workers and told the then W ashington D. C. makes us realize downtrodden Germans th at they we art? citizens of a magnanimous w e n the salt of the earth. He governm ent as the payment of preached that he was their only taxes to the government made our hope of the German people and by forelathers realize their civic an excess of emotional language, duties. made them believe it. When he Cynics say thero may be taxes hud the power he became a dicta- connected with the funds th at come tor. from Joe P eters arm. Perish the If the Tdealism 'of the two fight- thought. Happy Days Are Here ir.g factions of the world can be Again. We have Joe Peters arm. scried out from the commercial, the racial, the religious background th at divides the contestants it would divide the dictators and their enemies on the basis-of th eir attitude toward the indiriduala of O om the Obwrver. May 2. 1902 t a t state. L^Hey was in from his The dictators elevate th e ’ state Mt.rich farm this week« Proud of above the people; in a dictatorship Heef displayed m the City the people live for the state. The M arket Monday, a. grass fed heifer nations fighting the dictators are, month» old, raised 'by him, that in general, followers of the theory diw sed nearly 1000 pounds, that the individual is superior to The coming Sherman county the state in th a t governm ent is borhv f*’r » booked for July 4-5 will made by and for the peaple. * be ,benefit t0 everybody. R. G. It is not necessarily democracy, C®’*» Wasco is secretary, although that term is often usee The south .bound Columbia to express the idea. C ertainly not Southern train rar. * -r a man all the nations opposing H itler between the rails about a are democracies. Few of them are, miie north of Kent Monday. No under the stress of war. Their identification was made. D .. Marie Goffin and Miss Ella ru itrs rule by decree, but th a t pow Anderson leave for W ashington er will lapse with the declaration of peace. In a dictatorship th a t • » th« 12th gone » kout th re t pewer will never cease. weeks. All this Is fundam ental. Yet, F r? n‘ ,t he £‘b « rv e r, May 10. 1912. G. A. Ramsey and daughter our decision as to w hether we will fight in this war or not, m ust be v e ie planting corn early last based on our belief in the theory Monday morning for future roast of the individual to be an individ ing ears. Neri Moffitt has sown 300 acres ual and not a pawn of the govern to Kaffir corn, Milo Maize, lima ment. The people of this nation are ill® beans and field corn on the point prepared to make such a decision. “ " d “ any other crops are being To as large an extent as has been there. ptsaible they have given their Mor° farm er» »re now shipping right® as individuals over to their’ 125 gallons „ of cream to Portland gevernm ent, have asked th a t the PC1 week which brings in $600 governm ent take more of their I,tr month- rights ¡n exchange for a promised ^ roro the Observer, May 12, 1922 Last Tuesday oftem oon while security. We have, in recent years, come to lean on the golden prom calling around town 'Rev. H. G. ises of one man until we are weak Tlai.son lost a watch charm en- girved with the letters C. E. * | ened. Now, and partly because of this, is anxious to recover same. Moro will put on a race meet we are confronted with a momen tous decision: one th at means life dune 2 and If under the auspices of or death to many and financial American Legion. There will difficulties for all. * ” al*° be a celebration on the Fourth a decision because they do not a decision ' becausethey do not L ast Sunday the two churches have the information on which to exchanged audiences for the day properly base a decision. Those of the usual exchange of in authority withhold th at informa- ministers. tion, an act th at in itself is an act Mrs. T. C. Lee gave an at home of dictatorship. for 41 babies on the cradle roll last The American people are not Friday. afraid to fight. They have been in Moro Lodge No. 113, I.O . O. F. many serious wars. They are not Moro, Oregon afraid to face the problem of go Meets 1st and 3rd ing to war. They are not afraid Tuesdays in th« to work for their ideals. I.O..O.F. hall Trai If there is danger th at the aient and visiting tin o rf of individual rights is in brothers are cordi danger of being crowded off the ally invited to meet earth we will go to defend it, any with us. where*any time. Tie want to know Joe Ritner N.G. • l.OUt it. Vtiiion Millet. Sec. Fine sounding words from our leaders about defending democracy Lupine Rebekah Lodge No. 116 Moto. Oregon is not convincing. If we conclude we are in danger let us have an Meets 2d & 4th Tues ei d to strikes and look outs that day of each month. block defense, let us have an end Visiting member» wel to profits, let us put aside laws come. thM were designed to reform long ^ e*en M artin N. G. established practices until we can Florence Johnston, Sell be normal again. Those who in sist on forcing new theories onto Eureka Lodge No. 121 A-F & A-M Meets on the 1st and th< people are doing as much to 3rd Thursday eve- block our war effort as any one nings of each month. else. Visiting members cor Unless we are to follow the gov dially invited to meet ernm ental doctrine we are oppos . with us. ing the people m ust have complete inform ation, come to a decision Wendell Balsiger W.M. C. V. Belknap, Secy. ard let nothing stand in the way of its fulfillment. Bethlehem Chapter, No. 78.O.E.S, ------------------------ $ i Moro, Oregon No one in the county has a bet Meets Evri-y Second and ter opportunity to display a flower Fourth Thursdays in each garden and surely, no one, has a Month. Visiting members more colorful one to display than Invited Trum an Strong, whose tulip beds Patricia Woods Sec. ju st northeast of town a ttra c t n „ rotha Moore, W.M. m any visitors. ... I ’ Olti M ills In Other Days • - Moro Couple Flying East For New Vehicles Williams C'authers und wife are leaving soon to begin work with a state road oiling crew th at will be in many parts of the state throughout the summer months. George Updegraff has bought the May Belshe house in town and expects to remodel it to suit his needs and move into it this sum mer. He will also have some work done on his office building down town. The L. L. Peetz house is getting a new coat of paint this week. Last Saturday the school band members were driven to Condon by parents and friends to enter the ’ ii t-Colurclbia band contest. Play ing was not competitive. The Moro band played in the forenoon and Ictei participated in the mass band num bers. A picture show and dunce ended the day. Marion McKee returned Wed nesday evening from an inspection trip around the northw estern p a rt of the state for the drug 'board. E. A. Amidon was over from hi? farm near Goldendale the first of the week. \Fred Beardsley was home for the first of the week, well pleased with life in the army. The N ation al Guard boys were given a three ‘day furlough. Lloyd Henrichs, now a lieutenant in the arm y lias been assigned to a Field A rtillery company for perm anent service. Raymond Henrichs and wife w e n down from Sisters last week end to see Mrs. Jessie Henrichs who came home from the hospital last week feeling much better. The M issionary Society will meet Wednesday, May 1’4, a t the home of Mr. and Mrs. Russel Hollins- hcao. This will be the M other’s Day memorial offering, with Mrs. L alpha Ramsey as leader. Visfi * ton welcome. Mr. and Mrs. J. K. McKean le*t T hun lay night from Pendleton on th • eastern plane for Chicago on th t.r way to D etroit where they will take delivery on a new car. From there they will go down in to Ohio and get a new truck and ccme home taking time out for a little sight seeing. M n . Roy Belshee will spend M c th ir’s Day in Yakima with her daugh.er, Mrs. W. H. Williams and h r family. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Powell, Charles Powell, Mrs. Lena Searcy, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Johnson, Mrs. L. L. Peetz, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bai nu n and Roy Powell weie in The L ilies last Saturday to attend the V, isco County Pioneer’s asso- ci.it ion picnic. Roy Powell was e’.et te 1 to be second vice-president of the association for the coming y«ar, at the annual meeting he'd Mr> 1 th. B. 11. Thompson of Pasadena Califo/nia, is here to visit with relatives in this county. He if a brother of A. C. and N. W. Thomp son. LeRoy W right left Wednesday night l o r Spokane to be gone sev- . era I days. Shei man county teachers met Mondi y night at the M. E. church in Wasco and held a social evening, celebrating, in a way, the ap proaching end of school. The government parity checks began coming in to the county this week with the receipt of $21,900 out of the total of nearly $170,000. xmxxxi .¿.l .,u .4 ..r iu i» iu i u n n n > n n i •------- tcxmiinueu from page one) counties the state tax commission started the work of appraising in dividual properties in 1929. So fa r these appraisers have “sam pled” practically every county in the state. During 1939 and 1940 these appraisers covered approxi mately 25,000 properties ranging from as few as 20 in some of the sm aller counties up to as many as 5000 in the larger counties. Some opposition on the p art of county assessors was experienced by the commission in the early y« ars of this work but now the cooperation of the commission is welcomed by the assessors with more_requests for the state ap The increased demand for skill-, ed workers in Industry is making it easier to place parolees from the state prison in good jobs, accord ing to Fred FinsJey, state parole director. W hereas previously place ment of parolees was confined laigely to farm jobs now many jobs are opening up for men with experience Finsley said. • * • A sharp increase in traffic fata l ities during April all but wiped out the gains previously recorded this year in the traffic safety cam paign. D eaths due to traffic ac cidents last month were up 36.6 percent over the fata lity record for A pril, 1939, according to re ports compiled by S ecretary of State Snell. E very V t Second Someone S a y s .. G ift S pecials i . ■¡p VA z e> W h e th e r Sh owers for the blushing - There is a reason why Blitz-Wcinhard bride or gifts for is the largest selling beer in Oregon! d the w edding. It ’s brewed the way you like i t ! . . . You can’t describe its unique taste W e h a v e ii n e p r e s e n t s satisfaction. . .but you can enjoy it! f o r a ll o c c a s io n ^ . Do so, today! At your nearest dealer! m U X.l l a U XXtl 6 PONTIAC 8 < Statehouse Gossip praisers coming in than the com mission is able to meet with its small force now numbering nine full tim e appraisers. 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S unny B rook KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY This whiskey is 4 YEARS OLD • 93 Proof National Distillers Products Corporation, N. Y. ......... S unny b » x * , MOTHER'S DAY S E LE C TIO N Dent your budget gently, for May 1 1 th . G iv e m o th e r a c h a rm in g GEORGIANA half size which means fit without alteration. W ashable Glovetone rayon crepe sprayed with blossoms. G re e n , g ra y , n av y , copen blue. Half sizes, 14’/a to 24'/z. «st f t Ci BLITZ «EINHARD CO PoriliU. Oreq»« $4.M to 7.’5 T he Paris DONKEY Softball and Polo The Dalles, Oregon Guaranteed Satisfying Something to Crow About ____ Z T o p P r ic e s F o r CATTLE SHEEP HOGS FRIDAY, MAY 9 ‘ I « W h e n y o u sh ip to Immediately after Track Meet * • ' t'r Sherman County Fair Grounds Admission 4 0 - 2 0 - IO UNION STOCK YARDS Portland, Oregon DAY PHONES NIGHT UN. 1661 BE. 6311 UN. 1511 LA. 2663 I1 ' 'DEED B C C II
