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FALK S S B ijr r m tm HHWiMAN ( O t ’N T Ï C o u n ty J o u rn a l t i le s i; F ren d i KHTûr PubliiJIird K very Friday nt Muro, Oregon Catarad M M *»n 4 f l a u m attar al tb« (*a *l« ffir« at M era, O r « f* a , aadar A d • I ( «ngraaa a f March >, 117*. l o i 'RN. V L , M o l t o , O R E G O N F R IO VV, M in n i bloody would hardly suffice. Thi men who come to power in revolution are usually greatly in ferior to those they succeed an I it lakes generations ixifore the cultural and gracious accomplish ments of the people catch up and w hat is lost is gone forever. The civilization that succeeds is <l;f tioni'i Fr iser '(nth Mexico Interesting, Mexican} Courteous; Education Helpful the sincerity of the declaration. • This Is your house”. The people were not hesitant to show by words and actions m at they ’iked s .meone. How refreshing this ferent. M IW IP A P It r U B L IS H III XflOCIATION lit ) H I M A young attorney who was el ected from W ashington county, John Mosser by name, a Rep ublican, has introduced a bill to change Oregon’s congressional districts. We do not suppose it w in pass, nor do we intend to f inte lose hair or sleep if it does. In fact, we have decided to OFFICIAL COUNTY FAPICK rainfall to his presumed infor- the period of national decay while HUHM R1PTION KATKH the children of the new’ deal m at ONK YKAR ..............-........... M-<M) fa: ure or die and we sus|iect th e latter will lx? first MARCH 29, IMU The scheme of Mi' Mosser i - mathem atically sound; he has FARMS FOR KK4 RKATIO.X found a livlsion that creates fou^ districts with almost equal pop The public prints have been ulations. In this day of excessive occupied rath er interestingly democracy when everything pos with the idea of Secretary Orville sible is to lx* determ ined by no Freem an who would like to see thing but numtiers we presume farm ers establish recreation cen that is w orthy of note. ters w here city folks could en He adds the counties of lack joy them selves in the fresh air son, Josephine, ( ’oos and Curry ■med while rehabilitating the incomes to the eastern Oregon district final of the ru ra l population. 11 I »n i Problems of Interest have lieen Althoi'gh Mr Free.nan has not blandly waived aside and the con given credit or blame to any gressm an from the high country H arvard professor for the idea, would need to add knowledge of it certainly sounds like it came daniK fir tlmlsT, oceun shipping from some ivied hall. We think rainfall to his presumed Infor statistics would show that more mution aliout wheat, stock anil lecreation places go broke than pine N either area, however, has farm ers. a congressman of such political F u rtn en n o re, we do not full magnitude that losing him would I H't for Mr Freem an’s sad tale that lx» a blow to jnide or efficiency. farm ers are going to the city be Perhaps all that is old fash cause they are broke. H ereabouts ioned and people are all alike in they go to the city liecause they w anting nothing from govern are rich. And even of they do ment hut paym ents of one kind LEGAL N C TIC j leave the farm, th at is an indi or another anil It makes no dif M l IK I. O K I IS . X I, l i K IN G cation oi strength and efficiency ference how much a congressman lotice of American agriculture. The knows about Industry, agricul led F Esta! average farm er in this country ture or m ining as long as he Willi. feeds m ere other persons than knows his way to the nation's filed ever before in history, in this co cash box. Tapping the till may untry or any other. W hat kind I h 1 the only congressional virtue.. nt y of secretary of agriculture have If that Is* so it might even nmt, we who considers that weakness. help If a congressman had > Figures abound to show the ef much variation in his district ficiency of o u r agriculture, which district that he could assume an lour i with its machines, and its chem interest in all give away hills. omit' istry and applied intelligence That way he could l»ecome an .Moi produces abundantly. expert at political shop lifting. Many of the problems of Am So. go ahead, Mr Mosser. And for erican agriculture could lie cor if you should Is* successful we rected by a change in statistics. will welcome southern Oregon to If a man keeps a oow on three o u r district for it has a histori acres he is a fan n er even If he eal background of independence ink works In a factory and keeps the that might come to the fore in a cow for his own milk Nonsense! succeeding generation and he use 1 »min The departm ent if agriculture fill in the nation’s revival should come to realize that not every man who owns three acres Columnist w rites from Wash 22, 2!t April 5,12, I • »G I is a farmer. ington (hat the decisions of tin If u farm er— a real one— suprem e court in the m atter of M U it F I () ( R i. K t l u l l s lives in an area where he has apjMirtionmcnt of legislatures are A ll i n trout stream o r a suitable wood breaking down the old, tradition lot for camping, o r range land of the protection of mlnoritic t 'liristi for hunting, he might add to his That has liven apparent for sonic Income by taking in city folks years. There is nothing more during the summer. Now they oppressive than a majority. And use his acres for vothing; hut if worse, m ajorities are often led by Freeman will arrange a method rabble rousers who are more ad of payment the farm er might ept at talking than thinking. The utilize it. But as a general idea voice of the mob is a majority It Isn’t much good voice Until the memlM,r hip of Match 2: ». 1963. the court Is changed, or liettcr, 1 rances K em m e </liristi ecut ri until the trend away from indh H K V O L l'T IO N H idualism Is halted this will not a Diek & 1)¡vk A woman has w ritten a ixxik country for the kind of men who 1 e 1 lai Ii1 i, Orcgoi A » tornes < for the Estât about revolutions which we have made it gieat. not read, but the fact that such a tiook is now toeing reviewed causes us to think ultout revolu tions became the world is In a revolution that probably Inclu des more persons than any pre vious revolution. The big revolutions were those of France and of Russia; in fact the Russian one was two or three T h e re i i bound to be a in ... p ie - The American revolution was b a ttle in th is session o f C o iig more a revolt against England ress o v e r c o n tin u a tio n fo r tin than a classical revolution which fo re ig n g iv e n w a ys which ha\. IS by the people against a ruling cost the A m e ric a n ta x p u y c i class. som e >HX) b illio n , o r ro u g h b •s o f the p re s e n t n a tio n a l h bt Revolutions come when the iMtlitlcal o r economic bosses of a F a r s o in e nation oppress the people usually in e x p lic a b le over long periods of time and the e a x e n , (he B r a n I i n g of |>eop|e find leaders to follow It b f u r e ig n ahi They are often bloody. When the m irr e 1 ha» d e g e n e r es Ih people come out nf their gutters a t e d in to a •ut r i " ri they are mad enough to kill fn rm o f In te r- w ti « o Revolutions result in redistri n a t I o n a I b la c k m a il. A bution of wealth, often laud, and f o lc ig li gov usually the destruction of the e rn m e n t, in form er ruling class The people r lT e it . t.lls who do the dying as likely as th è U .8 . uni lla th r • lilis not wind up with a new bunch x b r l'« o u i (h o ir <••>u n try eri« a ti e pi . 'ite m of kisses and a new bunch of com « r it i p r o t i « l i l y , , n ttim u itis l. m in Ii tin« im p o rta tt- vn • • • plaints, but the old ones aie oc- n lo i’ lc • fr o m the id T h ia lin e o f re a s n i.in ( o- • a. b u t 1 : th calsonallv relieved. w e a rin g q u ite tin 1 in 1 p 1 ’ ’ t il 0 o( |j , , 1 . After a revolution the nation reaa. I f tiie r e is to be w til Ii K ru p p , id Ii«-, 1 ÌO ll can settle down for generations ta n ce t i c o m m u n is m , it h as to h a i e ft.>ui i -• « . while the people boast of their con c fr o m th e *1 . r lt o f a imlepen lence and gradually grow p ie w ho w a n t to be f ie e. I t I t is «uute 1.-M e s i m o n e y is tin* o n ly tim tiv a tm e biIIi«m s to h e lp e« > so lethargic they lose what has fo rc e it w o u ld h a ve beei l*en gained The able slowly a. |Mis«ible fo r W a sh in g to n to a d h e re n ts e f f i . • « nl quire tl»e property again although h e ld to g e th e r an a rm y di • • * they have different names than w in te r o f V a lie v F »1 ge Vs It lx n o n . a lo rg • • « those the people learned to hate the till,io n « xp« nt 1 Thu« is 1% in te re s tin g to note l i i e a w a y« h u e n«i b< That makes the people happy w h a t a fo r m e r p re « t-le ii t of m e e t the lo n t ran-:-* B e c a u s e th e United States came ( ’oxta K it a c a m e up w ith J ox,. the p e a pie. b u t m * 1« Into lietng during a time of revo > ElBUeres, eon«i«lereil to be b o la te r and fu r th e r b lutionary thought the forefathers « n m e w h a t on the le ft, c a m e up opotlea. T hu«, In the 1 w rote a constitution (hat perm it « I t h » b ra n d new Id i .1 Xml I yxis, a« fa r as the m ted revolution by ballot which t« In te l e a tin g hecauae of the xtre«-t 1« « on, r r n «I. I h . tw l« l o i m in d in v o lv e d . has worked so far. The people p e rh a p x lit t le d iffe re n c e a a a r c o iio m y of hlx « o u n l r y • a re able by th eir votes to obtain H is idea Is th a t the best w ay Iro lle d hy a h t iin r g r o u n n the nation’s wealth which is tv h g b t e o m m iim a m in I .a tm n ly o r hy thè m o n o iw l V o í what they would get by means A m e ric a is fo r tiie Am« r Ira n n in n is i c o n tro l In d i of a revolution •»«'U.-ewife to be require« ! to tton. he ha« lit t le « li m e r I •t *.ay ( M m 10 to IS re n ts D iere is some evidence that the te r hi« « o n ililh 'ii. I l i « i«>ond m o re fo r rofTee F a r d o ahi «p«ndin< world may lie starling on a per a a a w h a t aViu lo thè «tlu.i (i.M m anent revolution so many of S i« n < 4 ln y |n Hi»»«. ( ««Irn w o u h l b a ve re*ulte,« i. a d the have-not p e o p le of the world iw.where the th re a t to l b s ¿ m i barn l in i o 'n h n .in c e j being so discontented that one revolution h o w e v e r b i g and « ih e o w n e rs to buy m a re « ta re s. ? 11 loil le rien- have uiture amine M 1 e, and orizon I live ith a ho. I i a girl wonder- re, help- is w arm for us. Señora, •n, ages Lreatt Ii oi Mex- t »rtunuie icluucu in ul engage- nldren we ith many as invalu- > exchange th e W A ft t, 01 ,LF WAN I c o lle g e fa c e ts One of the first ngs which deeply impressed me was the ex tent of the U S. influence in Mex ico. All of our family (except the Senor) and many of th eir friends spoke English fluently. When I realize how favorably impressed I was by tiie am ount of English .«l*oken in Mexico and the un ceasing extension of warm hos pitality tc Jo and me, I more fully com prehend the importance working for good international relations. I saw many “Ugly Americans” in Mexico and heard about many more and now it is ea<y to understand how quickly ( ne ca n convey either positive or negative im pressions to people in a foreign culture. The person who tries to learn the language of the pc pie ami to understand and ac- c it their custom s can do many v. nderful things for the name of tin U S , but it takes much tim e and effort to erase the memory ( I just one Ugly A merican”, i¡-eye 's ample evidence of the II native effects of such unthink- ng Americans in the many i ■' CutTO si!” and A ankee, hands off Cuba!” signs I observed. I been ex- The worn out statem ent that the differ ‘Mexico is a land of contrasts” is um nrac- ( < rtainly one of truth. For me tin m >st marked contrasts were found in the living conditions of tiie people. We lived in Lomas, 1 tl ives. one of the two nicest residential the areas in Mexica. The homes were int; ?xic; ality large, elaborate and very a ttra c m gh t s e. Nearly every one had one or two maids plus a gardener or gardeners. Maids are not ex tra vagant luxuries in the upper mid dle class because they w’ork for A llis room and board plus 150-200 pesos a m onth <$12-$16). These 22p ¡muses usually had a spacious yearling yard, always enclosed in a high, Iron and fo, bidding fence or thick hedge. ict Frank Just three blocks from where we lived, one could pass by the homes of the lower middle class. These were usually built side by loro 1 Bit house, side and were gaily painted with lit mg room has h: ight red, yellow, blue or green. ; kitchen, base- No yards w ere seen from the ’. Call John A. front of these dwellings. There Wasco 17-10 c were no fences or hedges as the ’AIN’T CO. com- doorways opened directly onto and decorating the sidewalk. The third type of ur 1 rush. Phone housing was found on the out- i 6-5293, 1206 E . xi ; of the city and in the small i Campbell and vilh.gt throughout the country. Dalles, Or.I 1- Moro, -i B.It Lull Gl 2-5216.11 p: Interior and ding — Spray i job bookkeeping or if work. Also babysit- 1 JO 5-3293. titfn ¡MAK INC and m inor alter- 47c-tfn CON state approved nne located in beau- I River \ alley, w ith red grounds. We ac- P» s of elderly cases rt 'u .ml board care. .Al C llT E R IN C five *ek. Custom curing, ng, w rapping, sh aip liny's M aiket. Grasr 1 ED 3-2315 for a*> 23t i Buying An insurance Stock? These were usually drab, one- room huts or hovels which typi cally had dirt or cobblestone floors. The 1939 census revealed of the dwellings in Mexico to be of this type. There is no stove for cooking, and the food i> prepared over an open fire in side the house, winch lacks a flue or windows for ventilation. N O T IC E We are opening a Branch Office for Zeo Rain Water Conditioning April 1, 1963 in The Dalles. Oregon For Free Water Analysis Contact Write: ZE(I RAX ( ’( i.XDITh )XIX(1 SERVICE.. 4766 Portland Rd- N. E., Salem, Oregon or Box G4 Sherman County Journal i a — w Si ki gn < - ; tzaeje w ■•*»’- • 1. Reconditioned Lindsay Automatic Water Soften er w-fiberglass tank- Guaranteed. One-half price. 1. Reconditioned Culligan Automatic Water Soft ener. Guaranteed, one-half price. Also a lull line of Zeo Rain Automatic Fiber- Al-o a full line of Zeo Rain Automatic Fiber-.... glass Water Conditione» 3. Writ«»; ZEO RAX ( ’O.XOITloXIXO SERVICE 4766 Portland Rd. N. E., Salem. Oregon or Box 64 Sherman County Journal will be profitable? M any lo n g e s ta b lis h e d p r o v e n in s u r a n c e c o n c e rn s a re 1» • ' i » i ’. u p in *•' i ash d i i id J e n d s . A n d x c i« -c a l . lie s« *|lin g | at a r TRADE-INS FOR SALE W hy w a it 5-14) y e a rs , o n th e « b a ile e a new u n t r ie d eonip.my IIA It I.A \ I) VIRW GRAXGR Meets first and third Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Max Belshe, M aster Ellen Frieilline, Secretary Uurrlui Ixxlge No. 121, A.F.AA.M. Meets the 1st and 3rd •Thursday evenings each month. Visiting m em bers fordially invited to meet with us Don King, W. .M. Irvin g H art, Secretary it would necessitate much more space and time for me to lie able I b - llil- !i. in i h ■ >.{< i \ , 7s i i | Meets every second Thurs- to record all of my thoughts and -J®» «lay each m onth. Visiti.:«’ im pressions as I lived and studied v mem bers invited. Moro, O r in Mexico. However, because i Linda Reed, W. M. Gwen Ross, Secretary would like to be able to share my experiences with many jieo- M O I.( I I . O I X . E No. I ’ IO .O .F . 1st and bid Tues- ple, I wanted to try to answ er ^ ^ d a Meets . \ 8 in I.O.O.F. hall. Tran- your question as briefly as pos sient and v isiting bfotherg sible. indeed, I feel that I have cordially u n ite d been extrem ely fortunate to have Floyd Haines, N G. l^eo Watkins,- Secietary had this opportunity and I hope that other Sherm an county s tu I \ \ I.O R I.O IM .E A . F . & A M . dents will avail ihtinselxcs of IVASUO, Meets the first A opportunities to study in foreign Tuesday of each month. lands. fisiting brethern welcome John H ikierbrand, W M. Ronda Fraser Vernon Root, Secretary d iscount o f w o r th . C u rre n t lis t s tr u e EEP T IL L A G E book fre e SH A LL O W PL O W IN G Write, or phone collect J. W DODD Tygh Valley. Ore. Phone 611 Mgr. W. J. Collins & Co. F A L L O W IN ! VOICE OUT OF BLUE S U B -T IL L E R P L O W ! Models to Fit Your Power 6 ’ to 35’ wide. 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