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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, July 11, 1940
IPSE NEWS
Hclikcrs Return
From Eastern Trip
By MRS. ELMER GRIFFITH
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Heliker re
turned on Friday from a trip to
the east. They made the trip back
through the middle west, visiting in
Salt Lake City and other points of
interest They visited relatives in
Michigan and returned by the nor
thern route, stopping in Idaho to
visit relatives and in Montana at
the Henry Krebs sheep camp. While
in Michigan the Helikers went to
Dearborn and visited Greenwich
Village and spent some time in De
troit at the Ford plants.
Mrs. Vera Gordon became the
bride of James Warfield at a cere
mony performed in Walla Walla,
Wash., on July 2. On July 4 they
motored to Pasco, Wash., to attend
the wedding of her brother. Mrs.
Warfield's niece returned with them.
Miss Mary Barnett has gone to
Portland to visit her grandmother,
Mrs. Charles Nord.
Charles Griffin, who is in the navy
has been visiting his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Botts, and
other relatives. Upon leaving here
he is to go to Honolulu.
Mr. and Mrs. Erling Thompson
returned on Wednesday from a trip
to Detroit. On the way east they
stopped at Salt Lake City and Chi
cago. On their return they visited
many spots of interest including the
Bad Lands of South Dakota and
Yellowstone national park.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Pettyjohn are
moving into the Louy house next
to the Congregational church.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Roundy of
Condon are visiting a few days at
the home of her father, Louis Pad
berg. Mr. and Mrs. Erret Hummel and.
young son returned from La Grande I
on Wednesday. Mr. Hummel has
been attending a short summer
school session at Eastern Oregon
College of Education.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Essenpries of
Hoquiam, Wash., are visiting her
brother and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Gorger.
Mrs. Wallace Matthew of Rose
burg arrived on Sunday to visit her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Ely,
who met her in Arlington. She will
remain through harvest.
Miss Guyla May and Robert Cason
of Portland are here visiting their
grandmother, Mrs. Lana Padberg.
Joel Engelman spent the Fourth
of July in Baker at the home of
his sister and brother-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. John Turner.
Louis Padberg returned from a
trip to Portland on Saturday.
Mrs. Ernest Heliker, Mrs. James
Lindsay, Mrs. Matthew Gordon, Mrs.
Oscar Lundell, and Kenneth Lun
dell attended Pomona grange at Ir
rigon on Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J.' Blake spent
the Fourth of July at the William
Padberg home at Lexington where
a family dinner was held. Mrs. Mary
Blake of Kinzua returned with them
and spent the night here.
Miss Irene Tompkins of King Hill,
Calif., is a guest of her aunt, Mrs.
Ernest Heliker.
People from lone spent the Fourth
of July at various places. The moun
tains, Hidaway and Lehman Springs,
and Hermiston seemed to be the
most popular places.
Finalists in Range
Contest Announced
The five lucky people whose en
tries won for each of them a $150
electric range in the electric range
essay contest sponsored recently by
electric range dealers and Pacific
Power & Light company are: Reeve
Claxton, Hood River; Mrs. Guy E.
Powell, 840 East Third St., Prine
ville; Mrs. Edmund C. Marks, 403
South Ninth Avenue, Yakima, Wn.;
Mrs. Rose Cheney, Enterprise, and
Mrs. Clifford Bromling, Cowiche,
Wash.
Judges of the finals were Mrs. C.
W. Wall, president of the Oregon
Parent-Teacher's association; Miss
Elizabeth Prior, principal, Yakima
Valley Junior college, and Professor
F. F. Santler of Whitman college.
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Make Monroe Doctrine Consistent
Says Vorld Traveler in Letter
(Editor's Note This is the second J the inevitable plan would be for the
part of an open letter written to
Senator Rufus C. Holman by Marvin
Klemme, ex-grazier for this region.
This week Klemme tells of subver
sive influences at work drawing
Uncle Sam into the dragnet of Eu
rope's war. His information is taken
from personal observations while on
a world tour last year.)
The British ruling class has always
been very clever in maneuvering
developing of such potentially rich,
but backward parts of the world,
such as China, Africa and South
America. This possible, and even
probable, situation leaves us in a
very embarrassing if not downright
dangerous position. Anyway, re
gardless of how the war turns out,
or what the line-up will be after it
is over, our prestige is due for a
"tailspin" throughout most of Eu
rope if not the whole world. We
out of trouble, and thev still have
several "tricks up their sleeve." Thei are SomS accusea oi aoing a
lot oi taixmg ana tnen rerusing 10
back it up. We are also going to be
first of these is to get the United
States to come to their aid with all
the resources at our command. They
will insist upon a declaration of war
on our part because of the "moral
effect upon the Germans and the
rest of the world." However, this
is only another of their clever
schemes, because they know that if
we once get in the war we will have
to fight in order to retain what lit
tle prestige we may still have. Inci
dentally, they fail to mention the
fact that we are already defending
well over half of their empire for
them already. Without the Amer
ican fleet in the Pacific, the Jap
anese would long ago have taken
over their possessions in China, and
would right now be engaged in
"gobbling up" New Zealand, Aus
tralia and possibly India. By the way,
when I vas in Japan I saw several
delegations of Indians brought in by
the Japanese to be advised of what
"the new order in eastern Asia"
means to them.
One of the schemes that will be
used in fact it is probably being
used at the present time is a sort
of leagalized blackmail. They will
tell us that unless we come to their
aid with all the resources at
our
command that it will be necessary
for them to surrender their entire
fleet to the Germans. They figure
that when that idea finally soaks
through the minds of most Ameri
cans that we will become so hys
terical that a declaration ol war
will be immediate. Then, of course,
they are sponsoring, or at least ad
vocating, the idea that Roosevelt
should be given unlimited authority
to handle the situation during "these
awful times." An English lady nov
elist, on the ship that I returned
home on last fall, openly stated that
anyone who opposed President
Roosevelt in these times was not
a good American."
Then, if by some chance, all of
these plans should fail and the Uni
ted States should be so ungrateful
as not to come to her aid, England
would not overlook the opportunity
of working out a "deal" with the
enemy. An alliance with Britain has
always been popular with the rank
and file of the German people. Many
Germans said to me only last July,
"If the British would only treat us
as equals, we would prefer an al
liance with them to anyone else."
The British have turned down the
alliance idea time and again because
they felt that they were so strong
that they didn't need it. Since Brit
ain is no longer so strong, she may
be glad to take advantage of such
an offer. The question is, whether
or not Hitler feels that such an al
liance could be useful to him, pro
vided that he sort of kept the upper
hand. He may feel that such an
alliance is preferable, for the time
being at least, to continued warfare.
Of course, he hates the present Brit
ish government, especially Chamber
lain, Churchill and Halifax, but then
it only takes twenty-four hours for
the British to take out one crew
and put in another. The British aris
tocracy never has liked this country
anyway, because of our progress and
"impractical democratic ideas," and
might welcome such opportunity as
a chance to get even. In riding on
many different ships and in travel
ing through many different coun
tries, I heard more criticism of the
United States from Englishmen
than from all the other nationalities
put together, so you can feel sure
that they have little love for us. I
do not believe, however, that this
feeling is held by the great mass of
the common people in Britain. But,
unfortunately, the common people
do not govern the country.
Should such an alliance take place,
accused of doing a lot of meddling
without offering a plan or solution
of their many complicated problems.
So far as I am aware, the President
has never offered a single construc
tive idea for solving the complicated
mess that Europe has found itself
in ever since the self-styled "sav
iors of the world" gathered around
the Versailles peace table.
In all fairness to the people of
Europe, we should apologize for our
meddling in their affairs in the past
and let them know once and for all
that it will never happen again. We
should give them to understand that
while we hope to continue to deal
with all of them as friends, that it is
strictly up to them to settle their
own quarrels and solve their own
problems in their own way. Had
we taken this stand seven years ago
and stuck with it, we would today
have a united nation at home and
the respect of all people abroad. We
hear quite a lot about nazi and fas
cist agents in this country and in the
countries to the south of us. Well,
we can handle those boys very nice
ly without fighting a bloody war in
Europe. Whenever we catch such
I fellows up, to devilment, let's take
them by the "seats of their pants"
and toss them out into the Atlantic
ocean. Then on top of that, let's
round up and send home a few of
these "British lords" that are over
here trying to remind us of what a
great "Englishman" George Wash
ington was. We know that without
them telling us, and we also know
that he was a whole lot better Am
erican than he was an Englishman.
Whenever we take that stand and
not until we do take it will we have
a united nation.
Furthermore, it is time that .we
became realists instead of a group
of soft-headed idealists. This nation
was built up by realists and made
great by realists and it's high time
that we took things over again. We
want a great and powerful nation,
that is working for the interests of
Americans, first, last and always, and
not one controlled by an administra
tion that is either "hanging to the
coat tail" or "running interference"
for a worn out, snobbish aristocracy.
If the different South or Central
American countries can't, or won't,
keep out undesirable elements or
protect our interests, let's follow the
example of Andrew Jackson and
Sam Houston a hundred years ago.
These are the kind of people that
made America great and not the
kind that is now living in the White
House.
We should be realists and remem
ber that those are all very rich coun
tries, potentially, and acocrding to
all the laws of God and man were
meant to be exploited and develop
ed. I don't mean that the people
should be exploited, but rather that
the country should be exploited for
the benefit of the people. Those peo
ple down there are not capable of
doing that and unless we are willing
to do so, we have no right, morally
or legally, to tell Germany, Italy or
England that they must keep out.
We should put a ban on money
earned in this country being invested
in Europe, Asia or Africa. It should
be invested only in this hemisphere
where we can look after it and give
it the necessary protection. For
years millions of dollars of hard
earned American money has been
invested in far away countries for
no other purpose than to utilize
cheap labor to compete with the
industries in this country.
To defend this hemisphere we
should acquire air and naval bases
all along the coast of South America
and the West Indies. The British
and French have a number of is
lands that they don't need anyway
and our need offers them the op
portunity to pay up part of their
long overdue war debts. We should
train every able-bodied man in this
country to use a rifle, pistol, and
machine gun. We should bring our
marines and naval draft, now serv
ing in China, back home where they
belong they never did have any
business there in the first place.
That makes our "Monroe Doctrine"
look awfully weak when we tell the
rest of the world to keep out of this
hemisphere and then turn right
around and station our marines
right under the noses of people who
live six or seven thousand miles
away.
When we do all this, and, in ad
dition, put about ten million of our
unemployed people back on the
payroll, we won't have to worry
very much about this largely imag
inary "Fifth Column" that we are
beginning to hear so much about
My observation is that this group
of people are not, as a whole, dis
loyal to the country at all, but are
merely violently opposed to the for
eign policy of the present adminis
tration. Furthermore, when we fol
low this course we are going to have
in fact, as well as in theory, a uni
ted nation at home and we won't
need to fear any nation or combina
tion of nations that Europe might
rig up. Europe always has respected
force, and nothing else, and when
we present a front like that they.
are going to put their "shooting
irons" back in their holsters, and
offer to be friends.
CRESTED WHEAT GRASS
CLEANING
Cleaning rate 3Ac per pound, including
hammering out and cleaning the dou
bles, purity and germination tests by
the Federal Laboratory at Corvallis. This
does not include special seed sacks. We
will put the seed back in the original
sacks unless instructed to do otherwise.
We also clean other grasses besides
Creted Wheat. . . Most modern grass
cleaner in the Columbia Basin, removes
all tarweed seed by using a Carter disc
separator.
Agents for Blue Mountain Seed
Growers' Assn. of La Grande
Co-operative
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We are proud of this rating, proud to be able to give our
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we eat?
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