Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, July 31, 1941
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Washington, D. C, July 31. This
town, the heart of America, is prac
tically in the hands of the British
and royal refugees. They have mov
ed in bag and baggage and are el
bowing the natives to one side.. The
government is occupying all of its
own buildings and is renting 201
other structures, paying rent at the
rate of $5,054,000 a year. Govern
ment within the District of Col
umbia is bursting its bounds and
government agencies are spilling
over into adjacent Virginia and
Maryland. Accommodations for fed
eral workers . are difficult to find.
Girl clerks are living four and six
to a room in the boarding houses.
There are 11,500 workers in the
old navy buildings on Constitution
avenue and there is a cafeteria
which can feed 2,500. The other
thousands must bring their lunch
or go without food, for in the short
time permitted for lunch they can
not walk to a drug store or cafe
teria almost two miles away and
return. In the old days some enter
prising woman would drive up in a
dilapidated car and sell sandwiches
to the hungry, but this is verboten
now there is no place for such an
itinerant merchant to park her car.
The vast green sward at the foot
of Washington monument could ac
commodate several thousand autos.
The navy department has requested
the secretary of the interior to per
mit parking, but the secretary (who
has charge of all parks) absolutely
refuses; he doesn't want the grass
destroyed. Nor will the secretary
permit the navy to use the army's
polo grounds nearby. There are no
underground garages in the new
buildings and in these days of the
automobile clerks must park their
cars miles from where they work.
BRITISH agents of all sorts fill
the cocktail lounges and criticise the
United States for not "going in,"
They are demanding that an AEF
be dispatched and quote some of
the British generals that America
must send manpower. At present
Britain is said to be receiving 75
percent of the munitions produced
in the United States the British
are receiving so much that at the
army maneuvers in September
(500,000 men) stovepipes and sticks
of wood will be used for cannon and
machine guns.
The agents of Britain have taken
so many offices (ousted government
bureaus)) that the government has
to rent any old mansion that it can
find. The British also insist on air
conditioned quarters, which are
needed in this climate, and it is as
serted that this air-conditioning is
paid for from the lend-lease act.
The British embassy has had to
build two new wings and is still
crowded.
Under the lend-lease act British
ships are now being repaired in navy
yards on the Atlantic coast. In one
yard 1,500 American mechanics are
tinkering with a battleship whose
name is never mentioned. These
mechanics are taken away from their
work of constructing destroyers and
submarines.
FOOD is the first line of defense,
writes an Oregon farmer to Sec
retary of Agriculture Claude Wick
ard, and Oregon dairymen are com
plying with the secretary's request
to speed up production of milk by
increasing their herds. While the
dairymen are doing this, however,
they are unable to obtain the right
kind of farm labor. All that many
dairymen have been able to hire are
inexperienced older men and young
boys and with such help it is diffi
cult to operate a farm. The dairy
business, writes this Oregon farmer,
is an all year proposition, with work
required seven days a week, and
experience is essential. A similar
situation confronts the poultry grow
er. Secretary Wickard sympathizes
and admits that a farmer cannot
compete with the wages paid in de
fense industry, and there is the se
lective service. Local boards, says
the secretary, are misinformed on
the law and have taken farm boys
when these should be deferred as
long as possible.
NATIONAL Youth Administration
had an idea. It would teach boys
welding, and Portland would be a
good place; probably 2,000 young
sters could be taught the trade. NYA
arranged for renting a building and
began to talk about machinery. At
this point they ran up against an
Oregon offciial in Washington. This
official asked, "Why don't you make
use of existing facilities and expand
them instead of starting new and
buying machinery which is needed
for other purposes?" NYA hadn't
thought of that.
Machinery for a quicksilver mine
is rusting on the floor of a dealer
in the midwest. It is wanted by an
Oregon mine operator, but he has
been unable to obtain a priority li
cense. A G-T want ad will do wonders
if you have anything to sell, trade
or exchange. Results every time.
How to Conserve
Rank Stubble is.
Oregon Problem
The heaviest grain stubble Ore
gon or the Pacific northwest has
seen in a decade or more may still
be handled and returned to the soil I
with a bit of advance planning, ac-
cording to O. S. C. extension and
Soil Conseration men who are fam
iliar with western tillage methods.
Burning is unnecessary and costly
in soil losses, they say.
The rank straw growth resulted
from abnormal rainfall during May
and Juno, and early planting of win-
ter wheat last fall. Wet weather i
and winds have caused much of the 1
grain to go down, making it dif-
ficult to harvest. The net result,
it was pointed out, is the heaviest
winter wheat stubble in many areas
since northwest farmers began
turning away from stubble burning
and took to using straw scatterers,
on their combines and tillage meth-!
ods that conserve the straw for soil
protection and improvement.
Forecasts that many farmers will
consider it impossible to utilize the j
large amount of straw on the
ground, and will either burn or be
tempted to burn, the tillage men
emphasized that the extra work
required to handle the greater am-
ount of straw this year will be well
worth the effort. Here :s what they
recommend:
On land to be summer fallowed
Fall disking, as soon as possible af
ter harvest while the stubble is dry,
getting the equipment ready now.
The disking, with sharp disks, breaks
up the straw and stirs the ground
just enough to bring a large per
centage of the straw in contact
with the soil, so that it will de
compose enough during the winter
to enable the farmer to make good
use of it in next season's summer
fallow. An additional disking be
fore plowing might be necessary,
even, if the straw still is quite
heavy rwort spring.
On land that is to be planted to
peas next springs Disking imme
diately after harvest, likewise, with
rough plowinv later in the season
to cover part of the straw and leave
part of it on the surface as a pro
tective mulch. The tillage is done
effectively with either short mold
boards or with the heaviest types
of one-w?.y disks.
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to thank the many neigh
bors and friends who assisted ir.
putting out the fire at my place last
week end.
Fred Mankin.
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