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j I j L \ a A A O bserver uro ra AURORA Published Every Thursday VOL. XXV. SUBSCRIPTION, 50c PER YEAR AURORA, MARION COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1936 No. 9 he thinks Alice has the wit of Kind of President that Will Rogers and will take his place. even suggests the republicans her for president. Ac United States Needs He nominate cording to our notion, if there is Oregon AAA Con tracts to Be Paid anyone Alice’s writing is not like it Passage by congress of an appropria is Will Rogers. Alice’s wit is sharp tion bill providing close to $300.000,000 and perfect as to grammar, while for use by the AAA in winding up its half of Will Rogers humor lay in crop control programs invalidated by his utter disregard for grammar the supreme .court, removes all doubt and conventional rules. No one CROSS TAPERED that Oregon contract holders will be will take his place. As for being SQUARRY EDGES fully compensated for compliance al president, we have had enough of ready performed prior to the rendering the Roosevelt dynasty. of the court decision January 6. Another correspondent pays her Estimates vary as to the amount due the male compliment supieme: “She thinks and writes like a man.” Oregon farmers nnder these contracts, but officials of the Oregon State college What everyone knows, except a extension service believe the figure for few college professors, is this: when old contracts alone will be around money is searce prices are low, as $1,340,000. Some estimates have been they should be to encourage buy even higher. ing. When money eirculates freely To this total may also be added pay prices are high, for they dare be. ments for compliance by wheat growers Everyone will buy regardless of on the new program contracts, appli prices. The professors wanted high cations for which had been signed and prices when money was scarce compliance made by winter wheat They ignored the good old law of growers. Nothing definite has been suppy and demand. Congress did announced as to this group, however, h&MSROSTHt FLYTHWID not pass this law and the supreme and further word is awaited. Copyright. Union court can’t declare it unconstitU' In preparation for cleaning up the tional. You needn’t write to your past obligations of the government un Eleanor and Alice der the arop control program, Oregon congressman about it for he has no officials have been notified from Wash What is in a name? Plenty if it more control over it than he has Albert Kraus Injured While Aurora Woman’s Club Had ington to return records and materials over the weather, happens to be Roosevelt. Eleanor Chinese Speaker Tuesday to county control associations and have Crossing Highway In Aurora these proceed with the work much as Roosevelt, the president’s wife, and they had been doing under past regula Russell Croco Dies Alice Roosevelt Longworth, an ex Mrs. B. F. Giesy and Mrs. P. J. Albert Kraus, one of Aurora’s tions. president’s daughter, are writing Russell Croco, Butteville, age 82, pioneer citizens, was badly injured Hunt were hostesses for the Wo Meanwhile congress is working on for the big metropolitian dailies, died the Emanuel hospital in Port while crossing the highway in Au man’s club Tuesday afternoon. new agricultural adjustment legisla and have sjtirred up some comment. land at February 17. He had been ill for rora Friday e v e n a b o u t 8 :80. He The meeting was held on Tuesday tion built around federal aid in a soil We haven’t taken time to read several months. He is survived by his was program which is expected struck by an auto driven by instead of Wednesday as the conservation to accomplish some of the purposes of “Eleanor’s “My Day,” but we read widow, Mrs. Matilda Croco, and two McKinley speaker, Mrs. Stanley Chin, was Aldridge, 730 Northwest children. the AAA erop control programs. It what Alice has to say, so noticed Funeral services will be held in the 16th street, Portland. Aldridge unable to come on regular club contains many features, in fact, toward these criticisms sent in by cores Miller chapel at 1:30 Friday afternoon was not placed under arrest by the day. which the AAA was gradually working pondents from about the state. with interment in the Riverview ceme officers who investigated. After the regular business meet- in the transition from the emergency From Gresham a man writes tery. to a permanent policy of agricultural Two state police were following, ing the time was turned over to adjustment cooperation. close behind Aldridge and were on Mrs. Chin, who took the members A financial and report just been YO U PAY A TAX the scene of the accident practic- on an imaginary cruise to the Or issued showing total has expenditures of ally as soon as it happened. They |ient. She described the entrance the AAA since its inception m May 1933 When you light the evening lamp; you pay a tax. picked Kraus up from the highway! into Shanghai, which instead of be- to the end of 1935. The total amounted When you buy a postage stamp; you pay a tax. and carried to a doctor, where!ing a Chinese settlement is very to $1,480,057,513.25. Of tbe total ap Whep you buy the baby clothes; when you read the morning news, it was found him 1100 million dollars was he had sustained ser- [modern. With so many ships com- proximately When you buy a pair of shoes; you pay a tax. \ paid to farmers and benefit ious abdomenal cuts and was also Ing each day, all nationalities are payments. About for 75 rental million was used When you buy an ice cream cone; you pay a tax. cut about tbe head. Kraus was seen at all times. She told of the for removal and conservation of sur For tbe water that you drink; you pay a tax. soon taken to an Oregon City hos improved water fronts, that are plus, and 157 million for drouth relief, When you buy a loaf of bread; when the doctor says you’re dead, pital, and is reported as recovering terraced and look like parks. She food conservation and disease eradica tion operations. About 78 million was When the final prayers are said, you pay a tax.—Ex. told of the new order of education used satisfactorily. 60 per cent of Aldridge was driving a car regis in China, also of the prominent whieh in was administration, spent in the field and 40 per tered to the Standard Oil company places being filled by women there. cent in Washington. of California. He claimed he was About the most interesting point The report for Oregon shows benefit driving about 25 miles an hour. was the description of the great and rental payments in the state to $7,808,769.08 under the Since we did not witness the acci wall of China and, the thrill one amounting wheat ($6,807,716.29) hog ($1,001,- dent we have no reason to question gets from walking on it, also the 052.79) programs. and Marian county sight seen from it. the speed, but most autos travel farmers received during that , period a through Aurora at a greater speed. Mrs. Chin is an American Chin total of $175,993.41, divided as follows: ese and conducts tours through the wheat, $80,141.09; corn-hogs, $95,852.32. The following eastern Oregon coun Orient. Herman L. Gill, Former Editor After the speaking dainty re ties received the largest amounts: of Woodburn Independent, Dies By Wheat Corn-Hogs County freshments were served by the Umatilla .. ...$2,441,150.03 $42,916.64 © Western Newspaper Union Woodburn, Feb. 17—Herbert L. Gill, hastesses. Sherman ._ ... 903,052.99 19,681.77 well-known veteran newspaper man dent on the ticket headed by Herbert Morrow__ 671,136.80 9,563.92 Death of Charles Curtis, and editor of the Woodburn Independent The price of the subscription for the Grant____ Hoover, and was renominated for that for .. 627,638.73 • 5,784.73 32 years, died at his home here Former Vice President position in 1932. Aurora Observer. 50c a year, is a rare Wasco___ .. 499,442.66 44,0?5.65 We need a president who doesn’t think the U. S. treasury is a gold mine, to be dug out with a foun tain pen and checkbook. Ex-president Hoover advises us to vote for the measure; not the man. That is what we have been doing. President Roosevelt was elected on the strength of his plat form. Its strongest plank was economy. Looking back we re member this slogan: “He kept us out of war.” Of course that slogan did not promise to continue to do so, but we interpreted it that way. Both of these presidents went into reverse. The promise of economy has piled up the biggest debt ever, and “he kept us out of war” plunged us into a war which was fought to satisfy greed and graft We are still paying for it, but no amount of money will bring back the boys lost or crippled. T H E DANISH E N S IG N IS S W A LLO W -T A ILE D ,A N D THE W H ITE 15 NO T O U T INTO A POINT BUT ENDS TH E INNER OF THE RED TAILS LEADING OFF FROM THE UPPER AND L O W EDGES OF THE BAR. THIS I5TH ED ANN EBRO G * ONE OF TH E OLDEST NATIONAL F L A G S IN CO N T INU O U S U S E . IN T H tY E A R UI5.KINS«fflU)6MW! OF DENMARK INA CRITICAL MOMENT OF H15 510RM Y CAREER,SAW , O ft THOUGHT H E SAW A WHITE CROSS tN THE REO SW . HEVWS THEN 16ADINS HIS TROOPS TO BATTLE AGAINST THE PUSAN LIVONIANS, AND G la d l y v / eugomed a n assurance O F CE-LESTIAL AID IN ANSWER TO P R A Y E R S, ANO AS SOON AS COULD GE. ADOPTED IT AS H>5 COUNTPtfS FLAG UNDER *" WELL* KNOWN NAME WHICH SIGNIFIES THE STRENGTH OF, DENMARK. [TH6 DANISH MERCHANT HAS 15 RtCDWGUtAR.WITW THE IßAROF THE Ö»SS IDNQtft IW R D S THE HOIST. W e ste rn New spaper Ed war Pickard CURTIS, former Vice Mr. Curtis was greatly liked by his Saturday night. C HARLES President of the United States and associates in Washington and Ills death He was born September 4, 1857, at bargain. before that representative and sena caused genuine grief. President Roose tor from Kansas, died suddenly of heart disease at the Washington home of his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Gann. He was seventy-six years old, and was the first man of Indian blood ever to preside over the senate. He was one-quarter Kaw In dian, his grandmother having been Princess Julie of that tribe who married a French voy- ageur. In his boyhood * Curtis was a jockey, and later a reporter. Having studied law, he became a prosecutor at the age of twenty-four in Shawnee county, Kansas, and was elected to congress in 1892. He was made sen ator In 1907, was defeated In 1912, and two years later was again elected senator. He was elected Vice Presi-, Duffryn Mawr, Pa., where he published his first paper in 1878. He married Corinne E. Barton of Washington, D. c | September 21, 1886, came west 1883 and published papers in the Roeky mountain, Colorado, Kansas and Puget sound districts. In 1885 he was elected as member of the Kansas legis lature. Mr. Gill settled in Woodburn in 1898 and bought an interest in the Inde pendent. He was also co editor of the Aurora Borealis. His interest was sold six years ago to Rodney Alden. Since then he has engaged in the real estate business. Besides his widow, he is survived by Long Newspaper Tax Is two children, Wayne B. Gill and Mrs. Held Unconstitutional Virginia Austin, both of Woodburn. again the Supreme court of Funeral services were held Tuesday O NCE the United States comes to the at 2:30 o’clock in Woodburn. with Rev. rescue of a free press. Unanimously George Herbert Swift of Salem offi 'Concluded on page four) ciating. velt said: “I am deeply distressed to learn of the sudden passing of my old friend, Charles Curtis. Whether they knew him as a senator, as the Vice Presi dent of the United States, or as the man. he was in his own right, his le gion of friends will remember him, always affectionately, and will mourn his passing.” Vice President Garner said: “I was always fond of him. I was associated with him in the house and senate. He was a fine man and a good friend.” Funeral services for Mr. Curtis and the interment were in Topeka, Kan. Union____ .. 412,737.01 64,610.13 The Purpose of Deposit Insurance When Congress created the Federal Deposit In surance Corporation its primary objective was the protection of depositors. This Corporation began insuring deposits January 1,1934. It is a permanent organization. It now insures deposits in a great majority of the banks, including this institution. As a result, mil lions of depositors enjoy a degree of financial secur ity heretofore unknown. 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