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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 1928. PAGE FIVE for the by Nancu tiart Good picture-framing is a new art which has much to do with the in creased popular appreciation of pic tures, and the fact that pictures seem to have a new beauty in our eyes. It has been discovered that the best way to bring out all that is lovely in a picture is to have tt properly framed. One that seems dull may only need the right frame to bring it back to favor perhaps a lighter, more colorful frame, ton ed to its colors, instead of the old, dull, heavy frame. Before discard ing a picture that seems to have no charm, "try on" a more becoming frame, and see what a difference there will be. Makes Draperies Hang Straight Sew taped weights across the bot tom of draperies on the inside of hem and they will always hang trim and straight. Freshens Withered Apples Wash and clean withered apples and place in a stone crock filled with salt brine one handful of salt to every three gallon of water. Change water every six hours until apples appear fresh. Keep Old Potatoes White To prevent old potatoes from tur ning dark when cooked, add a tea spoon of vinegar to the water when it starts to boil. This will keep po tatoes white and leaves no taste of vinegar afterward. Removes White Spots on Furniture Dip a cloth in scalding water, place on spot, remove quickly and rub over spot with a dry cloth. Re peat, if necessary, and finish with a brisk rub with linseed oil. Salt K1U Plant Pests If you will work a little salt around the inside of flower pots, baskets or boxes, it will kill any bugs that may be at the roots, and also act as a fertilizer. Easy Ice-Box Meals If the ice-box meal is well plan fled and balanced, almost any fam ily will welcome it once or twice a week and 'tis a splendid change for the cook. One good menu is Iced cream of beet soup, stuffed pork tenderloin (sliced cold), potato chips, salad in lemon-flavored gela tin, grape Ice-box pudding, iced drink. First Salesman: "Didn't the flies bother you up in your room last night?" 2nd Ditto: "No, I put a piece of limburger cheese in the corner and parked them there all night" Beats "Trudy" Miss F.thel Hrrtle of New York won the Wrigley ten mile swim for f women on Lake Ontario, compel- ing with the famous Gertrude Is .Jilt II lUlll.t.1 a Jl i.v v f,iv,vwv aw. her victory. HOOVER AND WHEAT. (Portland Oregonlan.) A perturbed citizen informs this newspaper that some of the farm organizations of the Pacific north west are giving sympathetic ear to the political charge that Herbert Hoover, durfhg the war, manipu lated the prices of wheat to the grave detriment of the producer. The citizen is justified in his per turbation, if the report Is true. But its truth' we unhesitatingly reject The war is not so long in the past that we have forgotten the state papers and the warnings of the high counsellors of government that food was as essential to vic tory over the enemy as were man power, munitions and the varied paraphernalia of war. It is not so long in the past that the posters of of the time carrying the vivid slo gan, "Food Will Win the War" are blotted from our memory. It was a period in which sacrifice was nec essary. Our people were encouraged to exercise restraint in the use of breadstuffs and even regulated in their consumption. It was likewise essential that the production of breadstuffs should be stimulated by reasonable prices, but that prices should not be so unreasonable that they would be reflected In a great advance in the cost of living, with Its never-ending cycle of Industrial unrest, strikes for higher wages and unbearable cost of war enter prises. The attitude of agricultural Am erica in the emergency was truth fully set forth by President Wilson in a message to congress, July 12, 1918, vetoing an attempt by con gress to raise the minimum price of wheat to $2.40. Said the president: "By an overwhelming majority of the farmers of the United States the price administratively fixed has been regarded as fair and liberal," they had exerted themselves "to an extraordinary degree to produce the best crop possible," and "their patriotic spirit in this matter has been worthy of all praise." In our own Pacific northwest far mers, spurred by deep loyalty and enthusiastic patriotism, went out even upon the dry lands and the semi-scab lands and with no thought of pecuniary profit put them into wheat, with the thought that crops, though they might necessarily be meager, would add to the vitally needed supply. To say now that the farmers of this country were deprived of just prices for their wheat is to say either that the war-time directors of the destinies of this country, headed by a democratic president, deceived them unduly to patriotic exertions and sacrifice, or that, while these directors spoke the truth, the farmers were neverthe less entitled to big profits at the cost of prolonging the welter of death in Europe and of burdening their country and their posterity with a greater Indebtedness. We say again that we do not believe that the farmers of this country regret that they played, as President Wilson expressed it "a most gratifying and admirable part in the full mobilization of the re sources of this country," or that they are repining because high UNION PACIFIC STAGES INC. operating deluxe Stages between PORTLAND THE DALLES PENDLETON WALLA milX LEWISTON d all INTERMEDIATE POINTS StaRei leave from ARLINGTON HOTEL Iiprw Packages Carria4 NOW! Only 2 Weeks Away! Seventh Annual Seppner RODEO Morrow County's Own Wild West Show September 27-28-29 Morrow County Wool and Grain Show Last Two Days Bucking -Races -Roping DAILY EVENTS Saddle Horse Race, Pony Express, Calf Roping, Boys' Pony Race, Bulldogging, Bareback Riding, Bucking Contest, Relay Race, Special Race, Cowboy Race, Chariot Race. ROMAN RACE LAST TWO DAYS ONLY. MORROW COUNTY DERBY SATURDAY, $1 75 in Prizes Hildebrand's United Shows With many rides for the kiddies. Fletcher's Round-Up Band DANCING EACH EVENING. OPEN AIR PAVILION profits were renounced In order to perpetuate their country. In view of this opinion it would be some what beside the point to refute the statements that have been made as to Mr. Hoover's part in fixing the war-time price of wheat, but for the extravagances of the charges. The farmers have been told that Mr. Hoover favored a basic price of $1.50 for wheat; that be 8xcd the $2.20 minimum him self and that he sold in Europe for as high as $4 American-grown wheat bought at $2.20. Every one of these statements is disproved by official documents. Early in 1917 the allied powers which had been bidding against each other for wheat supplies crea ted a centralized purchasing board for the purpose of driving down the price of wheat In a letter to President Wilson setting forth the wheat situation, dated July 10, 1917, Mr. Hoover said: I am informed that most of the allied countries have fixed the price of wheat to the farmer at $1.80 per bushel and many of their producers believe that aa allies it is our duty to furnish wheat at a price which delivered to them will not exceed their domestic price, in other words about 1.50 per bushel Chicago. Neither the responsible officials nor I hold this view, because I consider stim ulation to production, if no other rea son, is in the long run in the interest of the allies. The government purchase price of wheat fixed in 1917 at $2.20 was unanimously recommended by a fair price committee appointed by the president and consisting of six persons representing the agricul tural interests, two representing la- Just Like Daddy Hnhh v. - - ' ' -ft D I. nnt milt tnrw v.in , 1 " J V'Vi, shown lighting up his cigar. The bigger and blacker they come, the better Bobbie like 'em. bor, two representing business and two who were economists. Mr. Hoover was not a member. In accepting the recommenda tions of the committee, President Wilson on August 30, 1917, issued a public statement declaring that "the price now recommended by that committee, $2.20 per bushel at Chicago for the basic grade, will be rigidly adhered to by the food ad ministration." He closed with this paragraph : Mr. Hoover at his express wish, has taken no part in the deliberations of the committee on whose recommendations I determine the government's fair price, nor has he In any way intimated an opinion regarding the price. In disposing of grain purchased by the government grain corpora tion, the grain was sold for domes tic use at government cost On surplus sold to the allies a percent age for actual overhead costs of handling, storage, etc. was added, and a further margin of 1 per cent "to cover unforseen costs." On sur plus sold to neutrals, a profit of 20 per cent was charged which was turned into the United States treas ury to compensate In very small part for the high cost of chartering neutral grain carriers, neutral char ters having advanced several hun dred per cent It will not be denied here that there was dissatisfaction in the Pacific northwest for a time over the low price of wheat at Portland, as compared with Chicago prices. This spread was due to freight rates. But so soon a shipping board vessels constructed on the Pacific coast were available, Mr. Hoover was one of those who personally, and persistently, urged upon the shipping board that shipping board vessels carry flour from the coast at a rate of $6 a ton as against the current rate of $11.50 a ton, and wheat at $3.50 a ton as against the current rate of $9.50. The shipping board finally agreed and Portland prices were thereafter based on Baltimore. How this effort of Mr. Hoover was treated at the time is shown by these headlines of a first-page article in the Portland Journal, a democratic newspaper, of February 25, 1918: $9,000,000 IS SAVED NORTHWEST WHEATMEN THROUGH EFFORTS OF FOOD ADMINISTRATOR HOOVER GROWERS WILL GET 15c A BUSHEL MORE THAN THEY DID LAST YEAR. There wr.s supplemented to the main article another article from the Journal's Washington news bu reau, headed: HOOVER. HURLEY AND M'NARY RESPONSIBLE IN MAIN FOR VIC TORY. These articles discuss the lower shipping board rate and represent the saving to northwest wheat growers as amounting to $9,000,000. The actual effect of this plan was an increase of 15 cents a bushel on wheat at Portland. Thus we find Mr. Hoover, not only In the document quoted but in others, urging congress to set up a measure of control that would cir cumvent the purpose of the combin ed allies to keep the price of wheat at $1.50. We find him taking no part In recommending the price at which the government would buy. We find him actively interesting himself in the situation created in the northwest by the freight dif ferentials and find him obtaining a government concession which saved the farmers of this territory $9,000, 000. And we find virtually every un truth directed against him in this connection by democratic politi cians as in fact directed against a democratic president of the United States. 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