HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1936.
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Palaces . . at Washington
The only word to describe the
magnificent public buildings In
which the Government of the Uni
ted States is administered at Wash
ington is "palatial." Nowhere else
in the world are government offices
housed in such spacious and mag
nificent structures. Only in the
ruins of ancient Rome is there any
thing approaching their magnifi
cence. Washington Is still building pal
aces. Work was just beginning
when I was there a couple of weeks
ago, on the new Interior Depart
ment Building, which will be the
very last word in comfort, conve
nience and spaciousness. By con
trast the government offices of the
British Empire seem like crowded,
dingy hovels.
This is a great country and
Washington Is symbolic of our na
tional greatness.
Administration . . big job
More important than the build
ings in Washington is what goes
on inside of them. It is a gigantic
job to run the whole United States
from an isolated spot off the South
east corner. I have been watching
the gradual concentration of au
thority in Washington for more
than fifty years. The older I get
the more I am impressed with the
feeling that It is practically impos
sible to administer the affairs of the
United States from any single cen
ter. Washington will doubtless always
be the national capital. If we were
starting today from scratch, how
ever, we would set up the nation's
capital somewhere between Chicago
and Denver, nearer the center of
things. Geographically, Washing
ton is anachronism. I think some
day we will have to set up district
or provincial capitals in six or seven
different parts of the country.
Provinces . . maybe here
I have no idea whether the Amer
ican people, if they could all vote
on the question, would prefer a cen
tralized national government to our
present Federal form in which tb.3
states still retain a large measure
of independence. The tendency for
fifty years has been toward nation
alism. It would take a drastic re
vision of the Constitution to make
a straight-out national government
effective.
I think it more probable, if a
change is ever made which will de
stroy the present independence of
the states, that it will ts by com
binations of states into regional
groups or provinces.
Considering our diversity of cli
matic and economic conditions, it u
becoming more and more difficult
to lay down rules and laws of na
tional application which do not bear
unfairly upon one region or another
Yet the Interests of numerous
groups of states are so identical that
it is quite possible their Interests
would be better served if they couli
be united in self-governing units.
Relief
weakness
A good example of the difficulty
of running a country as big as this
from any central point is found in
the administration of relief by the
Federal Government. There is no
possible way by which Washisgton
can be sure that its relief disburse
ments reach only those who are ac
tually in need.
I talked .with Harry Hopkins
Federal Relief Administrator, not
long ago. Mr. Hopkins is a hard
working, earnest public servant. He
was surprised and resentful at the
suggestion that the local adminis
tration of Federal relief was ineffi
cient and wasteful in many cases.
The trouble, as In many other
Federal activities, Is that no general
rule can be devised which will apply
with equal fairness to all kinds of
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Red Cross Wars on Carelessness
In Home or While at Work on Farm
Left Farm Implements, carelessly placed, cripple thousands each year. Upper Right Pressing irons left on
cloth or paper are a dangerous fire hazard. Lower Incorrect handling of a knife may mean serious injury.
THE American Red Cross is throw
ing the weight of its entire or
ganization behind a continuing cam
paign to combat the negligence and
lack of knowledge in the home and
on the farm which last yeifr claimed
nearly 40,000 lives and injured mil
lions. According to safety experts most
accidents can be prevented. Every
Red Cross Chapter and Branch will
play a part in this large-scale hu
manitarian operation, and have
mobilized ' to meet the challenge
flung by negligence, according to
Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Red Cross
chairman.
Through an intensive educational
program, the Red Cross will seek to
explode the fallacy that the home is
safe. Common and uncommon haz
ards will be pointed out; individual
families will be shown how these
hazards may be eliminated and in
struction will be given in the avoid
ance of unsafe habits and practices
apt to cause accidents.
Preparations have been made to
inspect more than 30,000,000 homes,
the inspection to be conducted by
home dwellers themselves. Through
the cooperation of r educational
groups, the school child will take a
specially p'repared inspection form
into the home and Burvey it for haz
ards with the help of parent or rela
tive. Accidents in the homes of America
kill more than 80 persons an hour
each day, and run up a medical, nurs
ing and insurance bill exceeding
$1,000 per minute. Farm work acci
dents last year took more than 4,000
lives and maimed many perma
nently. ,
Accident prevention is a natural
outgrowth of Red Cross instruction
in first aid, a service initiated 25
years ago and responsible annually
for saving many lives and prevent
ing minor accidents from having
major consequences.
people and every locality. That is
true whether the attempt is to es
tablish commodity prices, wages,
hours of labor, housing conditions,
or even taxation on a national scale.
And it's just as true no matter what
political party or group controls the
Government.
Contacts .... impossible
One of the greatest handicaps,
under which any government cen
tered in Washington labors, is that
its responsible leaders are nearly
always out of contact with the peo
ple whose affairs they try to ad-
minister. That is as true of Sena
tors and members of Congress as
it is of administrative officials. The,
are too far away from the centers
of human activity. They cannot
move back to their states and dis
tricts over the weekends and mix
with people who can tell them what
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the public is thinking.
Almost the orUy contact Wash
ington has with the rest of the na
tion is with people who go there
with an axe to grind. Most of the
mistakes that every administration
and every Congress make are, I be
lieve, traceable to the detachment
of those who occupy the high seats
of Government rom the practical,
everyday affairs of the people.
"State Farmer" Martin,
New Title Given by FFA
Corvallis A gold key, emblem
atic of honorary membership in the
select group of "State Farmers,"
was awarded Governor Charles H.
Martin at the annual banquet cli
maxing the eighth annual conven
tion of the Future Farmers of
America just held on the Oregon
State college campus. Rapid growth
and increasing activities of the
state organization were reported
at the three-day meeting.
Twelve boys making the most out
standing records for the past year
were chosen to receive the coveted
degree of "State Farmer." They
were George Justice and Leslie
Marks, Enterprise; Verlin Hermann
and Earl Hoover, Myrtle Point;
Jack Whitby and Harold Nash, Cor
vallis; Arthur Brown, Ontario; Rob
ert Berger, Molalla; Robert M.
Stults, Cloverdale; Ralph Wiley,
Redmond; Harvey Kelly, Cottage
Grove, and Lawrence Rawie, Al
bany. Six of the Future Farmer chap
ters out of the 43 now active In
Oregon were designated as "key
stone" chapters because of excep
tional accomplishment through the
past year. Those so designated
were Canby, Enterprise, Forest
Grove, Gresham, Imbler and Myrtle
Point
Representatives of the Grants
Pass chapter topped the state In
the public speaking and parliamen
tary contests. Dewayne Dahl of
Grants Pass, with an address en
titled, "New Things About Corn
and Wheat," won the decision of
five Judges in the state public speak
ing finals. George Racette of
Woodburn was second and Ronald
Willett of The Dalles, third.
The Grants Pass team of five boys
and the instructor also took first
place in the contest in conducting
a meeting under parliamentary
procedure. Redmond was second,
and Enterprise, Corvallis and Clo
verdale were the other district contestants.
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REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
For State Senator, 19th Dist.
fmatilla, Union and Morrow Counties
PLATFORM
TOWNSEND PLAN
Today we are faced with a necessary social and tax read
justment. The steam shovel has replaced the spade. The
tractor the ox team, the Heven-ton truck, the wheelbarrow,
and electricity with education and the ingenuity of man have
created labor-saving devices that have forced millions of man
out of employment. The results are that the purchasing power
of the nation is far below normal.
The ranch and the home is now carrying a tax harden that
almost amounts to confiscation, yet we are called upon to
raise more taxes that the unemployed do not starve. The
social welfare of the nation has not kept In stride with in
dustrial advances.
I believe, before we can have have "permanent" recovery, we
must change to a plan along the same lines outlined In the
Townsend plan.
JUNIOR COLLEGE
I favor two-year junior college in the high schooL By the
students paying a tuition the same as they do in the Univer
sities, this tuition would make these Junior Colleges SELF
SUPPORTING and make a college education possible for
many a boy and girl who could not afford to go away from
home to a school of higher learning.
DEFICIENCY JUDGMENTS
I do not believe that a mortgage or loan company after they
foreclose a mortgage on a farm or home should be allowed
to take a deficiency judgment against the home owner or far
mer. I would advocate a bill to that effect.
ANTI-PEDDLING AND SMALL TRUCK LAW
There is a law upon the statute books that prohibits fruit
farmers from trading produce with their neighbor, so that
they can better balance their load for market. I will do my
port to repeal laws of this kind and introduce legislation that
would be helpful in disposing of the crops.
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lectric ulanges take the
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O Soil and toil will scurry out of your
kitchen door when a new electric range
comes in. For electric cooking is clean
cooking. Your pans stay bright without
scouring. Your walls and curtains stay
fresh far longer.
Electric cooking is easy cooking.
You have glowing, intense heat that
starts food cooking promptly. Without
any effort, you always have all the fuel
you need. An oven temperature control
does your oven watching for you
assures uniform results every time.
Electric cooking is economical cook
ing. Low electric rates, the elimination
of cooking failures and savings in
cleaning and decoration bring real
economies.
Don't be a kitchen drudge any longer.
Discover at any dealer's or our nearest
office the reasonable prices and conven
ient terms now placed on electric
ranges. Inspect the other electric equip
ment on display, too, particularly re
frigerators and automatic water heat
ers. For once you know the delights of
electric cooking, you'll want an all
electric kitchen.
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Tastier Meals
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an electric range. You get the same perfect results
every time because of controlled "cook book"
temperatures. Your cakes are moist and of tven
texture. Without searing, your roasts are the way
you like them all the way through rare, medium
or well-done. Your vegetables can be cooked the
waterless way to retain food values
and color. Why tolerate an old-fashioned
cooking method any longer?
Change to electric cooking which it
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