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
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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
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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-
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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. Woodrow Wilson.
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