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Official Paper for Morrow County
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It Can Be Done
A LITTLE cooperation can go a
long way in bringing fulfill
ment of desires. That has been shown
conclusively in the progress of bring
ing the new swimming pool into be
ing. When city dads took the lead they
found the CCC camp, soil conserva
tion service and forest service all
ready to lend a hand. Enough peo
ple to provide the necessary work
ing capital came to the front nobly.
And now Pacific Power & Light
company has contributed the con
crete building that once housed the
old power house, on top of additional
ground given by Harold Hill to com
plete the groundwork. ,
This is really evidence of more
than a little cooperation. It is, in
deed, sufficient to show that prac
tically a unanimous conviction ex
ists in Heppner of the necessity of
swimming facilities in the hot sum
mer season. But the pool is not yet.
One hot day after another will
pass when citizens will bemoan the
need for a swim before the pool is
ready. True, the CCC's and soil con
servation staff are doing all they
can to huny the work along. But
others in town want just as avidly
to swim as do the camp boys. These
other folk should realize that the
camp boys are building the tank on
their own time, at considerable sac
rifice to themselves, and should help
shoulder the burden of clearing the
ground and constructing the tank.
In fact, local residents should be
more interested because the tank
will be here for their use probably
many years after the camp boys
have departed.
There is need for more coopera
tion. Cooperation from those who
wish to swim and so far have been
unable to help in other ways can be
given by helping with the work. Su
perintendent Rodman says he will
find a job for everybody who is will
ing to work. Work starts at 4:30 each
evening.
The call comes as a challenge to
sportsmanship of the entire commu
nity, and it shows the way to ac
complishment and progress. When
ever enough people want a thing to
the point where they feel they can
not do without it, they will strive
diligently together until that thing is
obtained. It is a matter of pooling
talents and resources and, as has
been shown many times, the accom
plishment may be obtained without
money and in the face of contrary
man-made regulations.
Let's build the pool.
Another Fourth
Another Fire?
T"OURTH OF JULY and fire have
JP been nearly synonymous in
Heppner for the last twenty years.
It was just twenty years ago the
coming Fourth that Heppner's most
disastrous fire happened, and since
that time whenever mention is made
of the Fourth, the first association
to reach the focal center of attention
in the mind is fire.
Fire danger was first Jn the minds
of city dads when they warned that
any shooting of fireworks within the
city limits is taboo. Mayor Tom Bar
nett of Lexington has also cautioned
residents of his town. But these civic
leaders should not be alone in
awareness to the threatening situa
tion.
While dry grass within the towns
serves as tinder for smoldering fire
works or live cigarette ash, there lies
a more imminent threat of property
loss in ripening wheat fields and
timbered lands. Too, what appears
to be dried up rangeland at this sea
son may sustain immense damage if
a careless spark is permitted, as the
new crop of grass seed would be de
stroyed. , .
There should be little need to long
argue the case. Setting off fireworks
any place is likely to release the fire
demon, to say nothing of the threat
to life. Every Fourth of July reaps
its toll of burned, mangled bodies,
its tetanus victims, from the shoot
ing of fireworks.
These are thoughts to keep in
mind wherever we go to celebrate
the Fourth. And go, most Morrow
county people will, with no celebra
tions slated at home. Through wheat
lands, across grazing lands, into tim
bered lands. Everywhere a tinder
bed awaits the carelessly thrown
lighted cigarette, the smoldering
firecracker shell.
And the highways will be crowded
with cars. A carload of happy cele
brants one moment may the next
moment be a mass of twisted iron,
broken glass and mangled bodies.
These are not nice thoughts. But
each Fourth they happen somewhere.
Let them not happen this Fourth in
Morrow county.
THE HOTEL RULE
"Say, Pete, we ought to have a
suitcase when we go on a trip."
"What fur?"
"To put our clothes in, man."
"En git pinched by a cop!"
o LOOKING
p FORWARD
By FRANKLYN WALTMAN,
Publicity Director, Republican
National Committee
We all know that "Dear Alben"
Barkley, the Democratic leader of
the Senate, is in a state of jitters
over his prospects for renomination
in Kentucky. But Senator Barkley
should' not talk nonsense not even
under provocation of "Happy" Chan
dler's jibes. Such nonsense as Sen
ator Barkley uttered in opening his
campaign may mislead many peo
ple who have not the facilities to
check up on the accuracy of what he
said.
As quoted by the Associated Press,
Senator Barkley said President Hoo
ver in four years "increased the
debt from $16,000,000,000 to $23,
000,000,000." President Roosevelt, he
said, has "increased the debt from
$23,000,000,000 to $38,000,000,000, but
$10,000,000,000 will be repaid and is
being repaid." Thus, he put the net
increase of the national debt under
Roosevelt at $5,000,000,000.
Either Senator Barkley is ignorant
of the details of the Federal budget
or he is lending himself to the con
stant New Deal campaign of seeking
to keep the country confused about
the affairs of the Treasury a cam
paign which has been successfully,
if deceitfully, carried on during the
last five years. One is inclined to
suspect that New Deal mis-statements
in fiscal matters are more
than a congenital failing.
So, first, let us get our figures
correct. The national debt in 1929
when Hoover entered office was ap
proximately $17,000,000,000. It was
$21,400,000,000 when he went out of
office in March, 1933. Thus the debt
under Hoover increased $4,400,000,
000, which is $2,600,000,000 less than
the figures given by Senator Bark
ley indicate.
The debt in March, 1933 when
Roosevelt assumed office was $21,
400,000,000. It is now approximately
$37,300,000,000. Thus the debt so far
under Roosevelt increased in round
figures $16,000,000,000. But that is
not the whole picture. Under the
New Deal the Treasury has guaran
teed the interest and principal of ap
proximately $4,700,000,000 of secur
ities issued by the New Deal agen
cies. These are called contingent li
abilities of the Treasury. They are
as much a part of th.i national debt
as are Treasury securities. So actu
ally the national debt under Roose
velt has been increased by more
than $20,000,000,000. "
The heart of Senator Barkley's
contention, however, was that of the
money expended by the New Deal,
the Treasury will be repaid $10,-
000,000,000. But the Treasury does
not claim that Senator Barkley in
his usual fumbling way has taken a
figure which the Treasury claims is
the total of recoverable assets for all
New Deal credit agencies and has
undertaken to off -set it against the
debt increase, thus getting the ri
diculous figure of $5,000,000,000 as
the net increase.
Actually all the Treasury claims
as the net value to it of recoverable
assets is slightly more than $4,500,
000,000. Thus looked at in the most
favorable light, through the eyes of
the treasury, the net increase in the
debt so far under Roosevelt is at
least $11,500,000,000 and not $5,000,-
000,000 as Senator Barkley says. But
what is $6,500,000,000, one way or
the other, to a New Dealer!
Of course it is very doubtful that
the Treasury will ever salvage $4,
000,000,000, or anything like it, out
of the loans the New Deal has made.
For instance, included. in those so
called assets is sorn $447,000,000
owed by the railroads, many of them
already in receivership with others
headed there. If this Administration
lets the railroads "go through the
wringer," as it now proposes to do,
does anyone in his right mind sup
pose that all of this $447,000,000 will
ever be recovered?
Still another aspect of the matter
is that the New Deal has dissipated
its so-called recoverable assets as
fast as they have been realized. As
loans have been repaid, the Treasury
uses this money not for debt re
tirementbut for .current expenses,
including boondoggling projects. Ac
tually many millions of dollars loan
ed by the R.F.C. during the Hoover
days have been repaid and spent by
the New Deal. Thus a part of the in
crease in the debt under Hoover ac
tually has been spent beyond re
covery by the New Deal. Yet by
tricky bookkeeping it is charged
to him.
The President at Alanta, Ga., in
December, 1935, spoke about the
nearly iY2 billion dollars of recover
able assets which the Government is
going to get back over a period of
years, and as we get it back we are
going to retire the national debt
with it.
Of course the New Deal has not
used such funds or, for that mat
ter, any funds for retiring any
part of the national debt. Senator
Barkley only echoes his master's
voice but, in his zeal to be a "yes
man" to the White House, he more
than doubles the figure named by
the President.
"Dear Alben" in his speech said he
was out of sympathy with those peo
ple who constantly harp on the in
creasing debt. We are not surprised.
He never has shown any sympathy
for the men and women who have
contributed toward paying for New
Deal extravagances through taxes
on the necessities of life. Senator
Barkley apparently thinks anyone
Thursday, June 30, 1938
who talks about debts or taxes is a
reactionary, an old fogey. New Deal
ers are above such things!
EIGHT CARS CATTLE SHIPPED
Eight carloads of cattle were
shipped from the local yards Satur
day night billed for Portland. Six of
the carloads were brought over from
the John Day country by Mr. and
Mrs. Chance Wilson, and were in
prime condition.
IONE POST SENDS BOY
Raymond Turner. Jr., has been
named by lone post, American Le
gion, to attend Beaver Boy State
camp under its sponsorship.
It is highly important that drivers
look around before leaving parking
places, and signal if necessary to
warn oncoming traffic, Secretary of
State Earl Snell says. Last year 2576
automobiles pulling out from the
curb were involved in accidents in
this state.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sauter were
preparing to leave today for their
new location at Burns where Mr.
Sauter will be connected with the
range conservation service. He has
been state game patrolman in this
district for several months.
Mrs. John J. Wightman is quite
ill at home suffering from influenza
on top of injuries she received when
her hand was caught in the clothes
wringer last Thursday morning.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT
I hereby announce myself as an
independent candidate for the office
of county assessor at the General
Election to be held Noember 8, 1938.
(Paid adv.) A. J. CHAFFEE.
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