Thursday, June 27, 1940
AT :fTHE
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Washington, D C, June 26. When
President Roosevelt followed public
opinion and was giving war mater
ials to France and England, people
urged him to give more and more.
When France folded up, England's
prospects were dark and the public
discovered that almost everything
had been disposed of until the army
has only broomsticks to use in na
tional defense. In response to the
new public sentiment, congress in
serted in the new defense bill that
no more supplies can be sent unless
the chief of naval operations or chief
of staff notifies the senate commit
tee on military affairs that the mat
erial is not required by army or
navy.
Public sentiment shifts like the
wind. People who have written
members of the Oregon and Wash
ington delegations to give all as
sistance to the allies short of war,
are now expressing their fear that
the United States will become in
volved. They are taking up the cry
that the president is the head of a
war party a charge first made by
Democrats, by the way, in the sen
ate. With the intention of showing un
ity in national defense, the president
appointed two leading Republicans
to his cabinet, Henry L. Stimson,
secretary of war, and CoL Frank
Knox, secretary of navy. These ap
pointments pleased neither Demo
ocrats nor Republicans and increas
ed the fear that the administration
is a war party because Knox and
Stimson are avowed interventionists.
Two days before his appointment
Stimson made a radio speech de
manding that the neutrality act be
repealed and supplies be sent to
England in American vessels con
voyed by the United States navy.
Under international law, that would
be the act of a belligerent and Ger
man submarines would be perfectly
justified in sinking the merchant
vessels and warships.
Because of their attiture on inter
vention, the selection of Knox and
Stimson has resulted in an unfavor
able reaction against the president.
Another angle is that Harry Wood
ring is believed to have been kicked
out as secretary of war because he
opposed robbing the army of equip
ment to aid the allies. It is a fact
that Woodring was told to obey the
orders of the commander-in-chief,
the president, and withdraw his ob
jections. This he did with reluctance.
Woodring's letter of resignation was
so hot that the White House refused
to make it public.
Before this appears in print the
president may have asked for the
resignation of Frances Perkins (Mrs.
Paul Wilson) as secretary of labor,
for he contemplates other changes
in his cabinet. Labor, in the pre
parations for national defense, will
play an important role, and Madam
Perkins' handling of labor and her
condoning the sit-down strikes are
said to make her unfit for dealing
with the problem when so much is
at stake for the nation. As a matter
of fact the whole labor supply prob
lem has been placed in the hands of
Sidney Hillman, CIO vice-president,
as a member of the national defense
advisory commission. Hillman was
born in Russia. He has refused to
join John L. Lewis, CIO chief, in
opposing Mr. Roosevelt for a third
term.
It adds up to this: The president
is gradually being placed in the atti
tude of heading a war party. Half
a dozen Democratic senators are
preparing to bolt their party on that
excuse Washington's Bone being
among them and the senate cham
ber is a sounding board enabling
them to get their views before the
public. Unless there is a change, it
is a safe prediction that the accusa
tion that the administration is a war
party will be the major issue in the
presidential campaign. If the charge
can be made to stick it will mater
ically affect chances of Mr. Roose
velt to be re-elected in November.
Proposition has been made that
airplanes be built in Oregon and
Washington (there is a factory at
Seattle now), using spruce and the
fusilage fabricated in plywood plants,
of which there are a number in the
Pacific northwest. . . . War depart
ment has a report showing that war
munitions plants manufacturing ex
plosives should be advantageously
placed in the vicinity of Grand Cou
lee There is a prospect of the
ship building industry being revived
on the Columbia where the smaller
navy craft could be constructed. . . .
There is a movement on foot to have
one of the major airplane engine
companies in Connecticut establish a
branch in the northwest. . . . Next
Monday, July 1, everyone will begin
paying the new taxes levied to meet
the bill for ntional defense. While
the taxes may be stiff, remember
that next year they will be upped
still higher; government taxes will
never be lower in your lifetime. . .
Compulsory training, predicted in
this column some time ago, will take
legislative form next month.
G. T. Want Ads bring results.
WILLOWS GRANGE NEWS
Granges Prepare
For Pomona Meet
By MARY LUNDELL
A meeting of outstanding interest
was held at the grange hall last
Saturday evening. The meeting was
enlivened with some wide awake
discussion in which the membership
took part.
Markham Baker, master of the
grange, was receiving congratula
tions on the arrival of little Miss
Mardene May.
Rev. and Mrs. Moffat Dennis made
a short visit to Willows grange Sat
urday evening. All enjoyed the re-
Page Three
marks of the minister and widi to
take this opportunity of thanking
Mr. Dennis for telling us about his
plans for a community church. No
doubt many will avail themselves
of the opportunity of joining with
the group for services.
Morrow County Pomona grange
will meet at Irrigon on Saturday,
July 6, in an all day meeting. There
will be picnic meals both at noon
and at the supper hour.
Watch for further notice of the
Pomona meeting.
Willows grange will dance Satur
day night, June 29, to Merrill's mu
sic. Everyone come out and have
a good time.
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The following article, pre
sented in co-operation with
the Oregon State Motor asso
ciation, is one of a series de
signed to promote travel in
the Pacific northwest. Today's
article has been condensed
from a motorlog appearing
in The Sunday Oregonian
June 23.
BY LEE BOSTWICK
Staff Writer, The Oregonian
IN THIS YEAR when Amer
icans are traveling America in
greater numbers than never be
fore, the Black Hills and Bad
Lands of South Dakota are rap
idly gaining in popularity as
tourist attractions.
Here in Oregon this may ap
pear on the surface to have
little meaning since the Black
Hills are approximately 1500
miles away. However, the
popularity of the Black Hills
and Bad Lands is of consider
able significance to the Pacific
northwest. This scenic section
with its wealth of historical
background is on the shortest
route between the densely
populated centers to the east
and Yellowstone National park
and the Pacific northwest.
. Oregon and the Pacific
northwest will share in the in
creased tourist crop of the
Black Hills section. From the
Black Hills westward all the
states are linked together in
the growing tourist industry
with each section co-operating
with the other sections in ad
vertising tourist attractions and
developing a business that
reaches to practically every
individual.
"Get acquainted with your
neighbor, see what he has to
offer, then help him sell it to
the traveling public and he. will
help you in turn." Such was
the theme of a travel develop
ment caravan which left Port
land recently to tour the Black
Hills region. Northern Califor
nia, Oregon, Washington and
British Colombia were repre
sented. There are numerous routes
that can be taken from Port
land to the Black Hills. The
. motorist has the choice of the
Evergreen highway in Wash-
ii meota's siiB imm good!"
One of the principal sights in the Black Hills country is the Mount Rushmore national monu
ment where the faces of Washington. Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln are
being carved into the granite of a mountain.
ington and the Columbia high
way in Oregon in goinft
through the Columbia river
gorge. The Washington route
can be followed through Yak
ima to U. S. highway 10 with
a side trip to Grand Coulee
dam, then on through Spokane.
Wallace, Missoula, Butte and on
into Yellowstone National park.
From Yellowstone one has the
choice of U. S. 14, 16 and 20
through the Wyoming country
to Rapid City, which is the hub
for tours through the Black
Hills and Bad Lands.
The Oregon route along the
Columbia offers two choices,
one over U. S. highway 395 to
Spokane to U. S. 10 and the
other over U. S. 30 to Pocatello
and then on U. S. 191 to Yel
lowstone. Each route has plenty to of
fer in the way of attractions
during the three days required
to reach the Black Hills. The
northwest caravan followed
the first-named route with
overnight stops in Spokane,
Butte, Yellowstone and Casper.
However, the more direct route
from Cody. Wyoming, is along
U. S. 14 to Sheridan and U. S.
16 to the Black Hills.
At Rapid City the Pacific
northwest caravan was wel
comed by Jarvis D. Davenport,
president, and R. L. Bronson,
executive secretary, and other
members of the Black Hills and
Bad Lands association.
The climax of any visit to the
Black Hills is a trip to Mount
Rushmore National monument,
the shrine of democracy, where
the noted sculptor, Gutzon
Borglum, has carved in the
6000-foot granite mountain the
faces of George Washington.
Thomas Jefferson, Abraham
Lincoln and Theodore Roose
velt. Thirteen years in the mak
ing, there are still two years of
labor remaining before this
great memorial is completed.
These colossal ' carvings are
all the more remarkable be
cause the only trained men
working on the project have
been Sculptor Borglum and his
son, Lincoln Borglum. The
others have been local miners.
There are good highways
leading to the memorial and
where tunnels have been neces
sary they have been constructed
so as to form a frame for the
four faces in shining granite.
Nearest viewpoint is 1500 feet
from the carvings.
In addition to Rushmore
monument there is much more
to be seen in the Black Hills, a
region with a fascinating story
of earth making. This story
ranges from the ancient fossil
beds of Bad Lands National
monument where prehistoric
alligators, rhinoceroses, three
toed horses and other long
extinct animals once roamed,
to the lofty "needle" formations
which erosion has sculptured in
the granite high up the pine
clad slopes of the Black Hills.
In the southern Black Hills
region is Wind Cave National
park, between Custer and Mot
Springs. Wind cave lies in the
great Pahaspa limestone forma
tion which also contains sev
eral other large subterranean
caverns. Wind cave was dis
covered in 1881 when a hunter
was attracted by a strange
whistling caused by wind es
caping through a small hole in
some rocks.
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